The Bounty Hunter In Equestria

"Discord?" Twilight asks in confusion, "Well he tried to take over Equestria." Twilight looks at the floor in realization. "Did he want you to kill me?" Hank looks at the pony. Then takes the sack of coins off his belt, and shows it to Twilight.

"He paid me to kill you and six others," Hank explains, "But seeing as how you're not showing threat to me, I'm starting to have ideas on the real criminal." Hank lowers the bag to his side. Twilight looks at Hank, and gets closer to him.

"So... does this mean you're going to kill Discord?" Twilight asks, stopping in front of the assassin. Hank says nothing pulls out the list with the six targets names. He looks at the bag of money on his other hand.

"I'm not going to kill you." Hank tells Twilight, filling her up with relief. "But the snake thing must go." Hank says with a scowl. Twilight's relieved smile fades quickly.

"Oh please don't" Twilight protests. Hank looks at her with a puzzled face. "I know Discord is evil, but violence is never the answer." Twilight says.

"That thing brought me here out of my home, lies to me about you, and wants me to kill you. And you're telling me you don't want me to kill him?" Hank says. Twilight nods in agreement.

"We can just try to talk some sense into him, and tell him that he doesn't need to hurt anypony." Twilight says, raising a hoof. Hank keeps his eyes on Twilight, but eventually agrees.

"Ok fine, I'll talk to him, but there is only one problem." Hank says, "I do not know where he is, or any idea of where to look."Twilight thinks for a while, and comes up with a plan.

"Well, after his reformation, he went to go live with Celestia, in one of her castle's room." Twilight tells Hank.

"Ok then that's where we will go, but where is this castle?" Hank asks Twilight, raising a brow.

"I will take you." Twilight says to the human. Hank nods and heads out the door, crouching to get out. Hank looks around to see a lot of ponies walking around. Twilight comes out right after Hank does. Hank realizes that some of the ponies are looking at him with puzzled and suspicious looks, but they continue their path. Twilight tries to start a conversation by trying to ask Hank questions on him.

“By the way.” Twilight says as Hank looks at her, but still walking forward. “I didn’t really get your name.” Hank looks forward.

“It’s David,” Hank says, keeping his identity hidden from the pony. Twilight takes note of that and continues forward.

“Well what do you do?” Twilight asks, trying to keep the conversation going.

“I take criminals off the streets.” Hank says. That was actually true. Hank killed criminals in order to make a living. He wouldn’t kill anyone unless a crime was being committed.

“Do you arrest them?” Twilight asks already halfway knowing what the answer was.

“No,” Hank says looking a little lower than he was, “I kill them.” With that, Twilight decides to end the conversation where it was, because she knew that this subject bothered Hank.

A couple minutes later, Twilight speaks again.

"I think it would be best to get the Elements of Harmony to come with us just in case Discord tries something." Twilight says holding her chin. Hank looks down at the pony.

"Elements of what?" Hank asks, wanting more information on said subject. Twilight looks up at Hank and begins explaining.

"The Elements of Harmony are the only ponies that could stop Discord. They are within six ponies, including me. The Elements are, loyalty, kindness, laughter, generosity, honesty, and magic." Hank looks at Twilight a bit puzzled, but processes it thoroughly through his mind.

"And where are these 'Elements of Harmony'?" Hank asks, crossing his arms.

"Come with me. I'll take you." Twilight says as she starts walking. Hank follows her without question.

About a couple minutes later they reach a strange bakery looking place with a banner on top labeled 'SugarCube Corner'. Hank looks at the building, and proceeds inside, Twilight following. Hank is greeted by a blue pony with a swirled mane.

"Why hello there! What can I do for you?" It said with a gentle smile.

"Hello Mrs. Cake is Pinkie Pie here?" Twilight asks. The blue pony's suddenly went from gleeful to concerned.

"Oh uhm, yes she is upstairs in her room." Mrs. Cake replies. "Do you know anything about her being a little upset?" She says worryingly. Twilight remembers the 'incident' between Pinkie and Hank back at the library.

"Yes, but I think that can be resolved." Twilight tells Cake, and looking over at Hank, who is looking at his knife. Mrs. Cake looks at Hank then back at Twilight, and nods. Twilight goes upstairs, followed by Hank putting his knife back in his coat.

When Twilight reaches Pinkies room she knocks and walks inside. Pinkie was laying on her stomach facing a window in her room. Her hair wasn’t poofy anymore, it was flat, and she was seemingly darker than average. She looks over at the two that walked in the room, then looks away and lets out a sigh.

“Pinkie?” Twilight begins, “This man here has something to say.” Pinkie looks up at Hank, as he looks at Twilight confused.

“I do?” Hank says, Twilight responds by tilting her head at Pinkie. Hank looks over at Pinkie and realizes what Twilight meant.

“Listen Blinkie, I-”

“Pinkie” Twilight interrupts.

“Listen Pinkie, I shouldn’t have called you what i did. I know now that you aren’t the bad guys, and I need your help.” Hank apologizes, and Pinkie keeps her eyes on Hank for a while. Then, her hair suddenly poofed back out and she rushes over to hug Hank. She was too quick, so Hank didn’t realize she was coming until she was already on him.

“I accept your apology!” Pinkie screams as she squeezes the life out of Hank. Hank tries to break free from the deathlock of death, but his strength was no match for such tight holds. Pinkie lets go of Hank, and he breathes for air.

“So what are you guys doing here?” Pinkie asks gleefully. Twilight helps Hank get up from his near death experience and tells Pinkie everything from when Hank was going to kill her, to how Discord isn’t really reformed.

“Oooooh, is that why you had this?” Pinkie asks Hank as she pulls out a silent Bareta from out of nowhere. Hank looks at the gun wide-eyed and checks all over himself for his gun. Hank looks over at Pinkie and extends his arm toward the gun.

“Pinkie, hand over the gun.” Hank says slowly, to try to avoid anymore problems. Pinkie happily trots over to Hank and gives him the gun. Hank takes the firearm and puts it in his coat.

“Good. Anyways yes, that is why I had the gun.” Hank says keeping his eye on Pinkie.

“I’m going to see if Celestia can get David and I to talk to Discord, but we also need you and the rest of the girls just in case Discord tries to go against us.” Twilight tells Pinkie.

“Oh! Ok.” Pinkie yells out in joy. Hank looks over at Twilight, as she nods in satisfaction.

“Ok now we’ll go get Rar-” Suddenly Hank doesn’t find himself in Pinkies room anymore. Hank looks at his surroundings. This seems to be the place he first got to, the forest.

Hank pulls out his Beretta just in case something bad was amongst the trees. Then, a mysterious figure appears out of nowhere. Hank points the gun at the figure.

“Woah there, sharpshooter.” it says, “I’m the one that gave you your assignment.” Hank lowers his weapon, and sure enough, it was Discord.

“What do you want?” Hank says raising his weapon at Discord.

“Well aren’t we a little edgy?” Discord says crossing his arms, “Killing these ponies may have taken some calmness out of you.”

“I didn’t kill them.” Hank says keeping his gun trained on Discord. Discord closes in on Hank with an angry expression shown on his face.

“I thought I told you to kill them!... Unless you don’t want to take the gold.” Discord says as he walks away, hands behind his back. Hank lowers his firearm, and reaches for the bag. Discord looks at his presumed ‘cold killer’. Hank then grabs the money bag and tosses it at him. The bag lands in front of Discord. Hank then resumes pointing the gun at him. Discord looks at Hank.

“You will regret this decision, mark my words.” Discord disappears along with the bag. Hank puts his gun back in his coat. He looks around to see if he can find his way back to town, but nothing seemed like a familiar landmark. He decides to walk around the forest in attempt to spot anything that could lead to the little town.

Just then Hank gets hungry. He hasn’t eaten since yesterday. He decides that food will come first before the town. It can’t be too hard finding food in an unknown forest. Hank pulls out his hunting knife,because he wants to save ammunition, considering he only brought the one clip with him, and uses the hunting knife for just that, hunting. Unfortunately, Hank hadn’t found food in the last ten minutes. Fortunately, he spotted a weird looking animal. He thought this was his window of opportunity, so he tightly grasped the knife in his hand, and closed in for the kill.

He quietly crawled behind a tree and waited for it to come to him. The creature perks up its ears as if it had heard him. He crouches down and freezes, thinking that if he moved anymore, he would scare it away. The creature looked around, and positions itself for a getaway. Hank stares at the creature, not moving a muscle. The creature walks towards Hank. This was his chance. Hank jumped out of the tree and tackles the creature down to ground, and yanked his knife in the creature's neck. He takes the knife out and watches the thing squirm on the ground. To Hanks surprise, the creature was made entirely out of wood. Hank was disappointed that he would have to hold off his hunger a bit longer.Hank continues to find some other animal to feast upon. He walked for hours, trying to find food and that town he wants to get back, with no such luck on either.

Hank looks up at the sky, it’s getting dark. He’ll have to find somewhere to stay for the night. He continue walking until he coincidentally finds a cave. He walks over to the cave, pulls out his gun. He looks in for any threat. After seeing that nothing is around, he puts the gun back and sits down on a rock inside the cave. He pulls out his knife and takes off his hat. He jams the knife into the dirt next to him, placing the hat on the knife. He takes the gun out of his coat and places it next to the knife. He looks out the cave, and it is dark. He wonders if he will find the town, and if Discord was the one hurting the ponies. Starting tomorrow, he will look for the town and won’t stop until he found it. And with that, Hank fell asleep.