I'm happy that I finally got a comment from my man 'a space marine brony' about this story. Yeah I'm calling you out! Thank you! Anyways I am really getting tired of all this spring break shit. All of my fucking friends left me here and didn't fucking offer me a fucking ride! But now I get to write so... that's something.

I went outside to talk with Static after I dropped off Silver Sage. She went inside to talk about Twilight.

"What do you need?" I asked Static.

"I need to know who to thank for saving Twilight. I did nothing about it man!"

"Aw Don't say that! You gave her your support and love. Doesn't that sound corny?"

"It does." You don't have to agree with me dick!

"What did Celestia say?"

"She said that she wouldn't reveal Shadow's true identity."

"Why the fuck not?" I asked him.

"She said that the assassin who failed yesterday is going after him. We don't want to get this guy killed."

"Well I know him Static. I won't tell you who it is but I will tell him you said thank you."

"Alright. Thanks Dustin. How do you know him?"

"Uh... I'm Celestia's guard remember. Now that I think about it I haven't seen much of Luna."

"She's been busy. Had to travel all over during her Night Sessions in court. She's more of a warrior princess than a diplomatic one."

"Alright Cool! Have you seen Kay?"

"She went with Rarity to the fashion show. Photo Shoot wanted her back."

"Alright then. I need to go see the princess." I told him

"Alright be careful. If someone tried to kill Twilight then they might try to kill the human who gave us life."

"I'll watch out Static. Don't worry. Your kid needs you to be strong for your wife."

"And you have a kid on the way. I'm serious be careful."

"Alright. Brohoof?" I offered my hoof.

"Brohoof!" he accepted it. BECAZ WE AWESOME! Alright... that was so not lame!

I went to the castle and met with Dawn at the door. We knew that this would cause a diplomatic incident.

"How bad is it?" We both walked to the throne room.

"Terrible. Their trying to throw Celestia under the royal chariot."

"Why?"

"Because she has a too advanced fighter. You."

"But that's just street fighting." I told him.

"Well you stopped Singing Blade. They don't know it's you either so keep you cover."

"Alright." I walked into the throne room. Their was a bunch of diplomats yelling at each other and I took my seat on the left with the other guards.

"This SHADOW is too advanced for someone as powerful as you too keep to your self Celestia." yelled Prince Bloodmane.

"Shadow only fought to protect. Their is nothing advanced with him. He's just a good fighter." She told him.

"I agree. We can't get jealous because we don't have as good spies." said Princess Sundance. "Our spies our fine. We always need them. They don't have to be blood thirsty warriors Bloodmane." she said.

"I disagree. I want to meet this pony and find out how he got so good." He gave me a look. "You! Where were you earlier when the fight happened?"

"I was delivering a message for the Princess."

"Did you not protect her?"

"She wasn't in danger. Now back down please." He got out of his seat and walked right up to me. He was fairly large for a griffon. "Do you dare?"

"I dare you to stand your ground and get out of my face!" I yelled for everyone to here. "How dare you accuse me of something that I haven't done! You have no fucking right to come over here and point fingers for no reason!"

"Are you this Shadow we all have heard off?" He asked. I looked over in the crowd and saw a large pony with a hood over his head. Singing Blade...

"Me? Shadow? Hahaha! I'm still in training!" Everyone laughed at the griffon.

"Fine then. What is your name?"

"I'm Shafer. Nice to meet you."

"Not so nice to meet you. Head my words Shafer. You have a sharp tongue. Be mindful of who you cut with it." That's actually a pretty wise thing to say. I saluted him. "YES SIR!"

After the whole meeting, I waited for everyone to leave. I only had the princesses to talk to.

"So Celestia why did he just take offense towards me?" I asked her.

"Bloodmane is jealous that I have a far more powerful pony than his entire army." I see.

"Luna did you see the pony in the back with the hood?"

"I did. He was giving off mixed feelings."

"It was Singing Blade."

"How do you know?" asked Luna.

"I saw his face. There was a cut from when we fought last time."

"Understood. Be careful."

"Alright. Do you have anything you want me to do?" I asked them.

"We want you to spy on the griffon prince." asked Celestia.

"And if you can find out his plans. I feel like he wants to overthrow us." added in Luna.

"Mission Accepted." I went to the armory and changed. Dawn got in his office and started using his magic to lift up maps and notes.

"Get moving Dustin!" he said. I began my silent flying towards the Griffon Mountains. When I got to the bottom I began my conversation.

"Alright Dawn. What's the quickest way?"

"Fly over the south mountain. It has the least guards."

"Makes sense. South faces the sea."

"And who brings a boat to fight a bunch of flying birds." I flew over the mountain and quietly I walked around the guards. I made my way into town. Not a single pony in sight. Meaning... No allies.

"WATCHER I'm in." I told Watcher Dawn.

"Alright SHADOW. Stay in the alleys and don't fly. Too much air traffic." He was right. Every spot was covered by a griffon. Glad I'm better on the ground anyways. I made my way to the castle which was a simple climb. A bunch of poles and shimmies and BOOM here I am!

"We're in." I told Dawn. My mask didn't allow any noise to leave. So I could talk quietly and not be heard. They can still here me scream though.

"Alright. Their should be a war room on your left. Get in and get to the files." I made my way around like Naked Snake. Not Solid Snake. I mean Big Boss. The greatest one of the many Snakes. Also I don't have a mullet so that's that. I ducked behind plants and dodged around flashlights and search teams. I made my way to the War room and almost woke up the general.

"*Snore* Got to... *Snore* Deliver plans..." How sweet. That's right. Tell me what you need. I went to the file cabinets and inside was everything we needed.

"Alright. Grab the files that say 'Princess Problem.' 'Equestria Reformation.' and that one! The one that says 'Shadow Threat.'' I grabbed everything then made my way back out. I cut on my thermal vision and saw that all the guards were in the west wing of the castle. Great! I made my way out quietly and got back to the window. I climbed down and stayed in the shadows till I got over the mountain.

"Great job SHADOW! Take it home!"

"Roger that. Stand by." I quickly made my way back. No one followed me and I didn't leave any signs that I was there. When I got back I gave Dawn the documents and began to read them with him.

"Alright Dawn. I'll take Shadow Treat."

"I'll take Equestria Reformation. Celestia wants to read this one herself." He gave her the document saying 'Princess Problem' to the princess when she walked in. She closed the door and put a magic barrier around us. So no one could hear us or attack of course.

"Let's see here..." I opened mine. "We have a situation. Celestia has a new spy. This one means business. I'm afraid we don't know who it is but all we know is that it's a tall male and a pegasus. He goes by Shadow. I don't think that's his name. He also managed to beat Singing Blade who went to assassinate Twilight Sparkle. Our plan has been ruined. Never should have trusted Trixie. We were going to kill Twilight and while Celestia was weak kill her too. Now we have this Shadow threat and we can't take any chances. Celestia also got a new personal guard recently. His name is Shafer. I know that's not his first name but he didn't tell us. Instead he made a fool out of Bloodmane in public so even if he's not Shadow the Prince still wants him dead. No mistakes." I closed it and laid it down on the desk. "Well... shit."

"Alright..." Dawn opened his. "The plans for Equestrian Reformation have been postponed. We can't get a conference with the Princess by herself to kill her then so we need to come up with something. Once we remove the ponies we can go back to our average day lives. It's not that we want to kill them all, some of us do, It's just that we're scared of the ponies. They have far better technology and Celestia's army has improved it's game since that Human Incident 2 years back. Why couldn't he help us. We don't even have any info on the humans. Only that he died and gave us all his humanity. This human spirit is what makes us fight. For domination over others. Griffons for eternity!"

"Sounds like this is going to bite me in the ass." I told them.

"Now we can back up the conspiracy theory." said Dawn.

"Ahem..." said Celestia opening the last document. "The princesses need to be overthrown. We believe their is a way to kill them and take their magic. If we do we can control the sun and moon making the world bend to our will. But we have some minor issues.
1. We can't get close enough to them.
2. They know something's up with us and we can't trick them either.
3. It appears the princess have a new tool up their flanks." "How rude." added in Celestia. "Ahem.... They have a new spy who is a master on the battlefield. He stopped Singing Blade and has stopped the Prince from getting any proper answers. This 'Shadow' needs to be eliminated. Any means necessary. We think it's her new personal guard but the pony is still in training. He didn't look like he was lieing either. No one is that good at telling a lie."

"We need to think about this." said Dawn.

"I agree. Celestia do you have any thoughts on this?" I asked her.

"We send you in to tell the Prince about what wrongs he is doing." she told me.

"You want me to beat him diplomatically?"

"Yes. You have to sneak in again. I'm sure their guard is up if they noticed we took some files from them."

"How do they know it was us?" I asked her again.

"Griffon's aren't that sneaky and dragons aren't that small."

"Alright then. When do I leave?"

"Tomaro. Be ready."

"Yes ma'am." I left through the window after I changed back to my normal clothes.

"Oh wait Dustin!" said Celestia.

"Yes?"

"We got your payment." She levitated a sack of money towards me. "4,000." she said.

"Wow! Really?"

"No it's actually 3,987,"

"Close enough." I took it and after a few 'Thank yous." I went home.

"Their you are!" said Kay when I walked in. She was wearing a tight green dress that Fluttershy helped Rarity come up with. It really spoke to Nature. Oh she was amazing in it! Damn you pony hormones!

"What do you think?" she asked.

"You l-look amazing!" I stuttered. I only do that when I'm nervous. I'm only nervous around people I find attractive. She knew that.

"Thank you sweetie. What's in the sack?"

"Almost 4,000 bits."

"Wow! How did you get that much?"

"Just working." I told her getting a kiss in return. "What did you and Rarity do today?"

"Well I did everything she asked for and Photo Shoot loved it so Rarity is making new dresses. It's a lot of fun actually. Except the paparazzi." She whispered the last part in a cold dead serious tone. "I'm also helping Fluttershy with her animals."

"Great! What time is it?" I asked her.

"It's about 7:30."

"I'm starving." When was the last time I ate? I can't remember that's how bad it was. After a half hour of waiting and talking to my friends we all sat down at the table and ate a large buffet of soups, salads, and sandwiches.

"So who's ready for a game?" asked Static. I raised my hoof because I don't want to talk with a mouth full of food.

"I do." said Sky.

"Me!" said Forest. The kids raised their hooves and then the girls did. We spent the next hour playing ponyfied versions of Clue, Twister, and even Scrabble which I lose every fucking time!

"Aw! Dang it!" I put my hoof on the table. "How do you get Pie out of Mediocrity?" I asked Static.

"Dude you don't use definitions. You spell out the words."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"Well now I know. And Knowing is half the battle!" then we all heard a large ruckus of noise from outside. We all went outside and saw as Colgate was going to jump off a building.

"I'm tired off this life!" she cried. I quickly went around when no one was looking and made my way around the building edge. When she saw me she hung on to the building. "Don't come any closer!" she yelled at me.

"Hey hey hey! Take it easy! No one's going to hurt you." I told her. I looked down to see her best friend Berry Punch crying.

"I have to do this!"

"No you don't." I looked at Vinyl Scratch and mouthed 'Disappoint' to her. (The song lyrics come from 'Disappoint.' by Assemblage 23.) Colgate looked at me and asked

"Do you believe in the nobility of suicide?"

"No." I told her. When the music started I sang with the beat.

Just one more time
For the sake of sanity
Tell me why
Explain the gravity
That drove you to this
That brought you to this place
That pushed you down
Into the soil's embrace

I moved closer to her

Give me the chance
I was denied
To sit and talk with you
For one last time

She got away from the edge

Did I disappoint you?
Did I let you down?
Did I stand on the shore
And watch you as you drowned?
Can you forgive me?
I never knew
The pain you carried
Deep inside of you.

She began to cry some more and hug the wall. She was too scared to move.

I can't forget
Having to see
The words that knocked the wind
Right out of me
It's not enough
I've come undone
Trying to find sense
Where there is none

I stopped singing when I was close enough to grab her. When I did grab her I jumped and slowly glided back down. Getting everybody's cheer. The police wrapped a blanket around her and I heard Berry Punch say 'I'm Sorry!' multiple times.

"That was great Dustin!" said Twilight.

"Didn't know you could sing darling." said Rarity.

"Your words sound painful." said Fluttershy. I loved how she was so quiet and was the one to ask that. She might understand me since she is the sweet quiet pony.

"They're words from a song but I know the pain of suicide as well." Kay nodded and didn't say anything.

"What do you mean?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"Remember when I said my mom died of a weak heart?" they all nodded. "She jumped. Couldn't take the pain of my dad's death. That's why I don't believe in the nobility of suicide." I held my tears in. I noticed the kids weren't out here. Guess they were sleeping. I need to get to bed. A good night with Kay will make me feel so much better. I need to sleep well. Tomaro is going to be hell. Hah! I just rhymed again! I'm getting good at that! Thanks Zecora!