Blood Brothers

The team was back in the hotel room Gold got them. Nopony said a word. Sparky got off the coach and went to get him a beer from the fridge, Big Mac noticed that Sparky walks with a limp. Sparky saw that he was staring at him and glared at Big Mac.

Gold was standing in the doorway looking at his team, the mission was a failure but he saw that his team is strong and can work together. "You all did good out there." he told them.

"Good, all we did was piss 'ehm off," Big Mac said, clearly mad about not finding AppleJack.

"Ahh, come on old timer. What's the fun in fighting a calm bull?" Sparky said in his normal jack ass attitude.

"Ya don't die fightin' a calm bull."

"What's the fun in life if you don't risk it?"

"Ah aint lookin' to have fun, ah just want to save ma daughter."

"Well you can't expected it to be easy and you can expected it to have disappointments, so you just have trust us!"

"Ah don't even know who ya are!"

"My name is Sparky, nice to meet you jack ass!"

"All right both of you shut up. Yes we're all stressed, yes we have no idea who one another is. We can work as a team if we don't know one another, so let's just tell a little about our selfs." Gold intervened. "Armor you first."

Shinning Armor was at the coach surprised by the idea but he talk anyway, "What's there to say I have a normal life, got a job as a guard, eventually got promoted to head of the royal guard, some how got a princess to fall in love with me, had a crazy wedding."

"I can tell you right now the bachelor party was crazier." Sparky said.

"Shut up. Anyway, blah blah blah, Cadence was ponynapped and here I am." Shinning finished.

"Yeah, Sparky is right though, that party was crazy." Gold said, "Big Mac, your turn."

"Ah lived life on the farm workin', fell in love, got drunk at a party, the mare ah love was also drunk, things happened...., AppleJack was born, ah gave her to ma pa to raise her 'cause ah didn't now any thing on raisin' a foal, for years ah lied to her sayin' ah was her brother, when AppleJack was on a trip my wife gave birth to another little filly, her name was Applebloom," the thought of Applebloom made tears roll down his face, "ah lied to her too, eventually ah told 'ehm the truth, a year later ma granny and Applebloom went to Appleloosa to see family, ma granny got sick and died there, Applebloom committed suicide." By the end of his story, tears were rolling down his face, Gold and Shinning looked at Big Mac sympathetically, Sparky looked at Big Mac with something he never looked at anypony with, respected. "Ah never killed a pony before in ma life, but ah'll do anything if it means saving AppleJack."

"Well, sad story old timer. Don't worry we'll get her back." Sparky said. meaning every word, "I suppose I'll go next. My father was a drinker and was once Celestia's private guard, tell he was injured and had to retire. Who knows who my mother is. I had four friends growing up Twilight, Shinning, Cadence, and Gold. I got my cutie mark when I was sing in music class and electricity arced between me and the mic, breaking it," he said this as he juggled electricity between his hoofs, "I have no idea where these powers come from. Anyway later one Gold decided to travel around Equestria, I decided to join him. Gold the rest of the story you can tell."

"Well when I was five my family was murdered in front of me, I was sent to an orphanage and it was Hell on Equestria, I escaped, some how made my way to Canterlot and got adopted by a good home," Gold said as Sparky stopped him.

"Yeah, a real good home. Your Highness." Sparky said, causing the three of them to laugh, But Big Mac looked at Gold confused.

"What?" He asked.

"Ok, by good home, I mean Princess Celestia found me and took me in and raised me as her own." Gold's answer caused Big Mac's jaw to drop.

"Ya're a prince?" Big Maced asked stunned.

"Well not by blood, like my cousin BlueBlood. Anyway back to my story. Nopony knew I was Celestia's son except Sparky, Shinning, Cadence, and Twilight. I got my cutie mark when some bullies from school were beating the crap out of me and a knife fell off one of them and I lost control and stabbed one in the side of the head. I ran home before the guards came, once I was home I noticed my cutie mark and freaked the buck out, I mean come on try being ten and learning your destiny is killing. Over the years I only had four friends, but mares did tind to throw themselves at me. I decided to travel and Sparky traveled with me. After seeing what the world is really like, Sparky and I became Celestia's private assassins, we had a team, The Blood Brothers, that's what the called us and we decided keep the name, but that broke up. We got word of a terroristic group and we needed a team, thus you two." Gold finished.

"What about the powers you used to kill that spy?" Shinning asked.

"No idea." Gold answered and left it at that. They then shared random stories they heard. Sparky got a kick out of that Hearts and Hooves Day were Big Mac was given a love poison.

"How did you explain that to your wife?" He asked.

"She was out of town." Big Mac answered. They all laughed, "No seriously, it took a lot of explaining."

It was going well tell Shinning brought up a certain story. "Do you guy know the story of the Flower Kingdom?" Gold went pale when he heard that.

"Nope, how does it go?" Big Mac asked.

"It was a Kingdom that was completely destroyed in a matter of hours, everypony there was slaughtered." Gold was getting twitchy as Shinning continued, "They say it happened on the young princess's wedding day, but there was no groom found. Ponies say the groom did it, but nopony has an explanation on how."

That part sent Gold over the edge, his good eye went red and bloodshot, he punched Shinning upside the head, "You now nothing of what happened," his voice was raspy and dark, "Nopony nows anything of that day. I didn't mean to, I lost control, I loved her and I never wanted to hurt her." Tears stared down Gold's face, "I... I don't know what happened to me that day." Gold walked away as Big Mac helped Shinning up. "The stories are true. I was the groom, I was the one who killed them, I was the one who killed her. These powers took control, I couldn't stop my self, I... I..." Gold wasn't able to talk. Sparky put a hoof on Golds shoulder.

"You don't have to say any more Gold," Sparky said.

"Then you tell them, they deserve to know."

Sparky started the story, " On our travels we stopped by the Flower Kingdom, Gold and Princess RoseBud fell in love. On their wedding day, Gold's powers took control of him and he started killing and destroying. I tried fighting him an got my ass beat and a limp. Celestia was there and she fought Gold. She nearly lost, if she hadn't of given Gold that scar on his eye, he'd still be crazy, but it was to late he all ready killed everypony, including RoseBud. Celestia and I woke up in a cart Gold was dragging back to Canterlot."

Shinning and Big Mac stared at Gold. Even though his back was turned to them he could fell their stares. "Gold, I'm sorry, I didn't know." Shinning said.

"It's fine." Gold said. It was quite for hours. Gold started looking through the files they got from the base. "Boys, I found out where their main base is and that's where they're keeping Cadence and AppleJack."