Lethal Misconceptions

Not wasting anytime, I refilled Snow Drop’s grave making it appear as if nopony had tampered the soil in the first place. I turned and began on my way; I had pleasant company of course….

“So… you’re an assassin huh?” I turned to look at Snow Drop who was now a bright turquoise with a violet mane to match her eyes.

“Uh-huh.”

“Do you even have a name, or should I call you Whiskey Dick for the remainder of our time together?” I let out a small laugh at the thought.

“Where are my manners, my name is Subtle Shift. But please call me Shift; I hate formalities.” She let out a small chuckle of her own.

“Okay then Shift, where are we headed?”

“We are on our way to Detrot; any objections?” I looked at her and noticed she was daydreaming. “Equestria to Snow Drop; are you there?”

She shook her head a little before answering. “I’m quite sorry, there was a rather nice flank distracting me. What did you ask?” I genuinely laughed at that answer.

“I asked if you see anything else you like.” I flashed a grin her way as she returned the gesture.

“Maybe… Anyways you said we’re going to Detrot?” I gave her a slight nod.

“Yeah, and you’re going to meet the two loves of my life… My Daughter and Booze.”

“Who was the lucky mare?”

“There wasn’t a lucky mare, I adopted her.” I look back to notice she made a slight grin at the words.

“Really? Have your eye on anypony?” I reached into a saddle bag to retrieve a canteen. Said canteen turned out to be empty. Luckily we were already at a stream I came across on my way to Moosden. I trotted to the stream and refilled the small container before answering her question.

“Wow you're actually flirting with the pony that was sent to kill you. Anyway theres nopony in particular…well maybe… no…that part of my life is over and I doubt she would take me back… At any rate there is nopony in particular.” She then joined me by the stream and looked herself over in the water.

“I wasnt flirting," she says with a pout before glancing at me. "Were you ever a stylist? You did pretty well with dyeing my coat and mane.” She gave a turn as she looked at her reflection, when her rear came in to view she wiggled it a small amount.

“No but when ever you practice my trade for as long as I have, you learn how to stay hidden by any means necessary.”

“Think I’d be any good at assassin work?” I stopped in my tracks and turned to face her.

“That depends… can you live with yourself doing it? Can you live with seeing the bodies of those you kill every time you close your eyes? Can you live with killing your targets with no complaints? How about foals? Could you kill them too? I don’t do this for shits and giggles Snow, I do it because it’s the only thing I’m good at… and I can barely look at myself in the mirror every morning. It’s driving me insane Snow, my mind has literally split from years of this work… I wouldn’t wish it on anypony.”

She just sat there speechless before wrapping me in a hug.

“Don’t worry; you had to deal with it alone for years… but I’m here now Shift… I’m here for you…” She then leaned her muzzle towards my own…

“Hey there!” We both look behind us to find a, familiar to me, brown earth pony. “Shift is that you?”

“Cabbage Patch? What are you doing here still? I thought you’d be in Detrot by now.” He took the liberty to join us by the stream.

“Yeah I decided to wait in the cave so I could thank you properly on your way back.”

“How did you know I was coming back this way? Or at all for that matter?”

“Well after seeing what you did to that changeling, I knew that what ever you were going to Moosden to accomplish would be easy for somepony such as yourself.” He then noticed I wasn’t alone…

“Well now who’s your marefriend Shift?” I now realized Snow was still clutching me in a hug.

“Well this is Sugar Song, I met her in Moosden. Sugar, this is Cabbage Patch I saved his ass from a changeling yesterday.” She looked at me for a moment giving me a glare; probably for the name I gave her.

“Nice to meet you ma’am.”

“Like wise, Cabbage.”

Cabbage then pulled up to my ear and whispered. “Nice catch.” I gave a small nod. “Anyways I’m still headed to Detrot, if you ponies want to come along, the more the merrier.” Snow gave me a shrug before trotting to the cart. With that we were on our way again.

Cabbage Patch has impeccable timing…

Indeed… that was definitely a cock block…

***

Perspective: Star Shine

I flew through the streets of Detrot; dodging ponies and trash cans as I went. The last thing I wanted to do was be late for when daddy came home. I seems like it’s been forever since I saw him last! I can’t wait! I blew the door open to my home and dropped the bags off before I flew straight for Ms. Colgate.

“Ms. Colgate! Daddy’s on his way home!” I burst through to the bedroom to find Ms. Colgate doing something between her legs. She stared at me for a moment before turning a bright red.

“Ms. Colgate what were you doing?” She was breathing a lot for somepony who was just lying there…

“I was….uh…was…stretching! Yeah! I just did some exercises to warm up my muscles!”

“Can I do stretches too?”

Her eyes bulged slightly before she nearly shouted, “NO! I mean these are grown up exercises ehehe.” Whatever I just shrug at her before remebering what I ran in here for.

“Anyway... Daddy’s on his way home! When I was getting the fruits you wanted, I decided to see how high I could fly up and I almost made it to the clouds! When I was starting to come down I saw three ponies with a cart. One of them was Daddy!” I started to jump around the beds.

“That’s…nice to hear star.” I looked at her once more. I noticed that the bed was soaked with sweat…I think?

“Ms. Colgate… What were you really doing?” She looks nervous and is about to reply when I hear the doorknob so of course I left her there, not before hearing.

“Oh thank Celestia.”

So I raced through the house and jumped just as the door opened.

***

Perspective: Snow Drop

While Shift and Cabbage talked about Celestia knows what, I was going to make myself at home in his apartment. I had heard him talk about an extensive collection of wine that I was quite eager to taste. I opened the door and was met with a blow to the chest from a small filly. We were both sent rolling into the street, where Shift and Cabbage happened to be standing.

“You okay Sugar?” I shook my head to try and settle my vision.

“First off, OW… secondly, yeah but who is the pony who rammed into me?” Shift started to laugh a little as I eyed the filly on top of me.

“You have had the pleasure of meeting my daughter, Star Shine. Also I think she meant to do that to me.”

The filly launched through the air tackling Shift to the ground while screaming “DADDY! YOU’RE BACK!”

I decided to head inside and brush off my mane, when I came muzzle to muzzle with another mare. We both stared at each other before asking the same question.

"SHIFT! WHO IS THIS?”

AN: So the Prologue is over... Now the REAL story begins...