I awoke to find myself in a grey jacket with a saddle bag on my back along with my satchel, why am I clothed? I looked around to see that I was on a train with CC sitting across from me and Hammer next to me in our own private room in the train. Hammer is sprawled out over his half of the bench,snoring lightly as he sleeps as CC is laying with her legs tucked under her. I rubbed the back of my head while staring at CC.

"Why did they knock me out?" I ask as I remove the jacket, laying it on Hammer as he sleeps.

"Your still new so you can't be shown the location of HQ yet."

"Well that sucks, how long till I get to know?"

"Probably after you've proven yourself to the society or wait long enough."

"Okay.... that kinda sucks, well whats the mission?"

"Shouldn't we wait for Hammer?" She asks as she brushes her mane out of her face with her wing.

"Nah, his backpack will probably fill him in on it."

"Okay... well, anyways, it seems a demon is running around with an artifact that has the ability to freeze anything it's aimed at."

"Aimed at? like a bow?" I ask as I raise an eyebrow.

"Kinda, more like a beam of magic."

"Okay, an artifact can be imbued with spiritual power?"

"Yea, there are a lot of weapons from lore that exist and practical magic is not the reason behind them." CC explains as she looks out the window, not really caring about the subject.

"Alright, little odd but makes sense I guess, so where's Patches?" I ask as I look for him.

"He's in a storage car in case he explodes."

"Will everypony else be okay?" I ask nervously as I glance around. I suddenly don't feel so safe in here.

"We have made sure he is all the way in the back in his own car and you can actually walk about three cars ahead and find no pony."

"Oh alright, where is the demon?"

"The last town he was terrorizing was Leafton, our information tells us that some of the residents survived and are hiding, so part of our mission is to rescue the citizens."

"OK.... aren't we supposed to be like some kind of huge secret and people aren't supposed to know about us?"

"Well yea, that's why we need to be fast, plus I know you had stealth training for a reason." She says flatly as she shoots me a look.

"Yea, but that covers only so much, how the hell are we supposed to keep what attacked these people a secret?"

"After we move them, we tell them it was a tornado."

"Why the hell would they believe that?"

"Ever had that feeling of deja vu?" She asks as she gives me a smug look.

"Well yea, but what does that.."

"That would be Statera, we have a very old spell that is able to replace portions of a pony's memory." She says matter of factly.

"So your telling me our group is known for erasing pony's minds?"

"Damian don't look at it that way."

"How can I not?!" I stood up looking her in the eyes. "How can you expect me to just allow the society to run around messing with pony's minds?"

"BECAUSE IT"S BETTER THEN THE ALTERNATIVE!" She stood up making me sit back down. "It is far better then letting innocent defenseless ponies find out about the horror that plagues our planet. Would you want every pony in every town huddled in their homes due to fear of things that they can not see?"

"... I didn't think of that..."

"I know you didn't, just try to remember the big picture before you mouth off Statera Damian." She sat back down and gave a sigh of relief. "You should rest up, we have about a week's trip to Leafton." I sighed and relaxed back into my seat. She is right, I might as well rest up while I can.

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I stretched out across my seat waking up. I looked across to see CC in the seat next to me. She was still asleep, laying across the seat. Her wings covered her like a blanket, wrapping around her body tightly. *Sigh* I wish I could get close to her. That reminds me, I turn my head to see Hammer in the seat across the aisle from me. I get up and punch him in the shoulder. Hammer jolts awake "What was that for?"

"Fix it, tell her I'm straight." I say as I poke his ribs.

"Eh, I'll do it later, I'm tired." He says as he swats my hoof away and gets comfortable on the bench. I sighed and punched him in the leg. "What?"

"Fix. Now." He leaned over to look at her then sighed looking up at me.

"But she's asleep." He whines as he rolls over.

"I don't care fix it." I say as I continue to poke him.

"But... *sigh* you're not going to stop pestering me are you?"

"Nope, now fix it. NOW." I say firmly as I glare at him.

"Fiiiiine. Just let me go bathroom first."He says as he gets up and starts to leave. As he began to walk towards the restroom the train came to a stop, causing Hammer to roll down the hall until he hit the door. "Ow, that suuuucked, why didn't they warn us they were going to stop?" He yells from down the hall.

I point my hoof at Hammer with a small smirk on my face "Karma bitch!" I yell, waking CC up. DAW! Cute sleepy face! DAH, MEUM COR!

"Hey Damian, we there yet?" She asks sleepily as she stretches out.l

"Yeah, the train just stopped."

"Alright, lets grab Patches and go."

"OK, by the way, how did we get a train to go to Leafton if it was destroyed for the most part?"

"We didn't, we just took a train to a station a few hours outside of Leafton."

"Oh, ok, Hammer go get Patches, I'll be outside with our luggage." Hammer nods and gets up heading to the back of the train. I picked up everyone's stuff and got off. I set our stuff down next to me and stared up at the sky while taking in a deep breath. Ahhh, it feels good to be outside again. I looked to the sun to see it was about five, or at least I think it was five, I spent far too long in that compound. I noticed some black smoke rise in the distance, I followed the trail to see it wasn't that far off. CC got off the train and stood next to me while picking up her stuff.

"That would be Leafton, you best prepare yourself for seeing the worst. Demons are rarely kind, and those that are tend to be the ones who only kill."

"Only kill?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Let's just say you don't want to watch a cult of ponies that worship a pain demon summon one. They like to drag out their victims torment. They feed off of the pain people experience and gain power from it."

"That's horrible, we can't allow that to happen to any pony."

"That's why we exist Damian. It's why we do what we do." She walked up beside me and rubbed my back to help comfort me. I sighed, relaxing a bit until Patches and Hammer walked off the train and picked their stuff up. Everypony checked their gear then we started to head off towards Leafton. As we got closer to the town the cloud of smoke got larger. After a few hours we walked up a hill where we were able to see the town from. Most of the buildings were either destroyed or had giant holes in them. A few of the buildings are on fire but there's something really odd about it all. There were giant spikes of ice sticking out of the ground and buildings.

"CC, why are there icicles?" I point out to the large piles of ice.

"The artifact shoots out ice in various forms. It's been noted that some ponies have even gotten it to shoot ice in the shape of objects."

"Oh, that would have been nice to know so I could have prepared for that when I packed" I stare at her a little annoyed.

"Damian, we didn't pack" Hammer chimes in.

"..... Who's side are you on?"

"Backpack's" He says with a smile on his face.

"*Sigh* whatever, lets just go and find the guy that did this." We moved quickly down the hill staying low hoping the demon isn't expecting us. We heard some dark laughter so we decided to sneak behind a house to get a good look. I leaned my head out to look. There was this figure with small spikes along its form. It was bipedal with an all black figure that had spikes along it. It had two large lumps where I assume it's chest is, and its face curved upwards ending in large curved horns. The face of it had a small nose and mouth that show dagger like teeth. It had hair coming out of the horns that was a dark red. It's arms went down to about it's waist that then turned into claws. Just above one of the claws was a silver bracelet that seemed to be having frost falling from it. I tilted my head and raised an eyebrow and whispered out "Is that what a small demon looks like? And whats with the lumps?"

CC sighed quietly "That's a lesser demon Damian, and those are her breasts" she said in a hushed tone.

I turned to her slightly confused "There are female demons?"

Thwack

I mouthed ow while staring at her "The hell?"

"Everything has gender's Damian, spirits, angels, demons, especially demons and we are lucky she's not a succubus or else Patches would be out of this fight."

"Ok, two things, whats a succubus, and why would he be out of this fight?"

"Well a succubus is a demon temptress, basically she seduces men then steals their soul during intercourse. And they only go after straight men, and lesbian women, so she'd work her magic on Patches and he wouldn't be able to resist it."

"Well if that's the case then I would be useless in the fight too."

"No if it was an Incubus then yes, because those are the ones that go after women and gay men."

"CC I'm not g"

KRA-BOOM!

My sentence was interrupted by the house we were hiding behind exploding. We jumped around to face the demon, she was smirking at us while pointing the bracelet at us. "You Statera should know that if your going to sneak up on someone, especially a demon you do it quietly."

"Well there goes the element of surprise, thanks Damian." Patches says as he glares the demon down.

"Wait how is this my fault?"

CC smacked me upside the head again "You were the one that had to ask question, now take your stances as if your not newbies and have had proper training." She says as she read up and made her bow appear and lowered her goggles over her eyes. Hammer did the same only making a very large hammer appear in his hooves. I looked to patches who just put a monocle over his eye.... seriously? He's going to get all fancy on us for a fight?

"DAMIAN MOVE!" CC yelled out as she tackled me to the side. The demon had shot a beam of ice straight at me while I was distracted. It flew past me and exploded against the hill sending ice shads everywhere. "Stop being distracted, I will not save you a second time today!" I nod at her and get up then make my sword appear before me.

"HAMMER! GO HIGH!" I yell out as I begin to run towards her focusing my energy into my body so I can move faster. As I get closer to her she shoots a beam after beam at me, so I dodge to my left then right. Once I get about two yards from her I jump high into the air. She looks up at me then looks around trying to find Hammer. Her eyes widened as she got hit in the stomach with an arrow from CC. She looked down just in time to see Hammer get up to her and smack her up into the air towards me. I slashed down at her cutting her from shoulder to hip. I then kicked her down towards Patches who jumped on top of her as soon as she hit the floor. I landed with a roll to get away from patches as he exploded himself on her trying to focus his blast downward. Once he pulled himself back together I walked up to the now small smoldering crater to see the bracelet with a pile of ashes around it. "Patches, remind me to never let you sit on me.... or near me, that's scary dude."

"It only looks that bad because she was a lesser demon, the only reason she did this much damage was because of the bracelet." He picked it up, but as soon as it was in his hoof it attached itself to him. CC walked up and hit him upside the head causing one of his eyes to pop out... ewwwwwwww.

"You idiot, it binds on contact, now it will never come off."

"You say that now but you forget who I am CC" Hammer sticks his leg out and blows it apart around the bracelet. His arm comes back together with the bracelet still attached. ".... seriously?"

"It's a cursed object idiot, it stays till death, think of it like your first form of marriage."

"Awww I wanted to have it, ice powers are awesome." Hammer says as he walks up to us.

"Part of the mission was for us to bring it back without it getting attached to us, the boss isn't going to be happy about this."

"I'm sure he'll be fine" Hammer said with a small smile.

"Your only saying that because he is your older brother, he still has to view this as a partially failed mission so someone is going to be punished."

"Well that sucks" I said while looking to Hammer "By the way, since when did you get buff enough to knock someone that high? I was just expecting you to hit her over or something like that, not send her flying."

"Vlad, it was part of his training, he made me buffer then most members due to his special work out."

"Cool, after spending my time with that prick I don't think I even want to sign up for it."

"Don't hate too much man, he was just doing his job, yea he enjoys it too much but it's still his job." I shrugged at him.

"Well let's try to find the survivor's and take them over the hill, by the way boys, be nice." We all nod to her then the three of them begin to walk off into various buildings calling out to anypony still alive. I looked back down to the ash pile and stared at it for a second or two.

Bitch was fucking weak, she deserved to die

The hell was that? I looked around to see the empty town. That was weird.... I better not be going insane, I swear if I do before we get CC to know I'm not gay I'm going to kick Hammer's flank from here to the pit. I entered the closest house to me and started calling out like the others.

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Well we were able to gather about twenty ponies outside of town. CC and Hammer were both able to calm them all down and focus on CC. She smiled softly at everypony and spoke gently "Now if you all could focus on me I will begin to help explain everything that just happened." She rose her hoof and made a fairly large ball of energy appear and begin to float up into the air above her. Once it reached about three feet above everypony it shot out small darts that hit them all. Their pupils got large then went back to normal as they looked around in confusion. "Hello mares and stallions of Leafton, I am sorry to inform you a wild tornado ran through your town destroying it. We are very sorry for your loss and will pay for your passage to your new homes, along with the shipping of your possessions, now if you will kindly follow me to the train station you can be on your way." She turned around and we began to lead them back to the train station. During the walk back plenty of ponies began to figure out who was lost and many of them just swore at CC for not doing her job as a pegasus. I glared at a few of the stallions that did it getting them to tighten their lips. Once we got to the station the entire town boarded the next train that came shortly after CC gave them instructions on what to do once they reach their destination.

Author's Note: Well sorry for taking so long with this one. I actually wanted to be faster with this but my doc's office took about three month's to prep me for surgery which I then had. Funny thing about recovering from testicular surgery, you don't want to do anything cause sitting hurts like hell. Well regardless May The Cheese be with you!