I woke up on my couch at 9 A.M. Later then usual granted, but it was a long nights work. Hearing a knock at the door, I jumped up and hovered over to the door to see who it was. Upon opening the door, I was greeted by a distressed mare.

"Now, tell me what THIS means to you!" Twilight said, shoving a newspaper in my face.

'Ponyville times: Special addition. Massacre continues, newest victim is Mayor Mare, alongside her security detail. She was found impaled in the woods by a led pipe, autopsy says it wasn't self inflicted. The hunt for this monster continues'

"Sounds fun, oh by the way I wasn't originally going to do that. I sort of had a urge because I found a random pipe on the way into the forest."

"Well listen, you're being hunted. If they find you, they find me! Do you know what happens if they find me?"

"Execution?"

"Worse, now listen: So far this is just Ponyville local news. Since they don't think it's you, I believe I may be able to get you out of the city and into Canterlot with a fake ID."

"When'd you think of that?"

"This morning, here you're leaving NOW!" she handed me a fake ID, but she also placed something else in my hoof. This was a small gemstone.

"What's this?"

"Use it at any time to contact me, it's sort of like a automatic letter delivery system. Just don't let anypony find it."

Smart enough, as soon as she said that she was off. She actually teleported to parts unknown. So I immediately grabbed my bags, filled it with all I'd need. Which would be a lighter, a deck of cards, the gem, and my weapons plus the handheld sharpener. She was right, I couldn't stay here long anyway. Putting my money clip in my pocket, I had a full stash of 500 bits left. It'd do me well for a bit.

I opened my fake ID to see who it said I was. "Stargazed Sky". Well, I can't say I didn't notice the pun. Another money clip fell out, and then broke on the floor. It was the post payment she owed me. 25,000 fresh printed bits. Then looking over at my nightstand, I noticed that I had forgotten another important item: the 5,000 from last night.

I shoved all the money in my pockets (of course the 25,000 was in hundreds, but my breast pocket was deep enough). As soon as I was out the door, nopony would know me. I waltzed my way on down to the train station, picked the first one moving to Canterlot (which was a coal train, they told me not to board it but they don't tell me what to do), and boarded it. Away I was. Hunting Fancy Pants wouldn't be a challenge. The buck probably lives in the same five story mansion he did three years ago. His son is probably 17 now, just about ready to leave the house.

'You ready for this?' I thought to myself, as the train began pushing off the loading dock. It steamed and hissed as the smoke built up from the rear. This wasn't one of those cute and cuddly trains either, this was a cold boxcar. Wooden interior with metal floor. To be fair it was first class compared to the coal and stone cars that were behind it. On it were other freeloaders.

'Yea, it's showtime as soon as I'm there.'

Well that'd be a while, looking at my watch I could see that it was 10:30 AM already, time really flies when you're running from the pigs. No offense to pigs, just that these cops really are nosy sometimes. Guess that's what it's like, it feels like I have Bin Laden on my ass already. Hell I haven't even gotten into a real confrontation with them yet.

"Hey! Ponyville PD! Stop the train! We gotta search warrant from Mayor Fillion himself to search this train!"

Just my luck.

They opened the car before mine first, I was the second boxcar after all. I heard the heavy footprints, the crying of babies, but then I heard the freeloaders inside it get thrown out the door. Up next was this car. I hushed everyone around, drawing the twelve gauge. It was still loaded with flachette. I pulled it up to the door. This door didn't open like the last, must've been a older car.

Rather then just slide like a normal boxcar, it just swung backwards towards me. I was out of sight from the police. I heard them throw everyone off quickly. This wasn't a search at all. If it was they just sucked at doing it.

"All clear!" The officer said.

The door slammed shut, I was the last pony inside. Then the train started back up and I was on my way to Canterlot.

It took about two hours to get hauled to Canterlot. I spent the whole time reviewing my fake ID.

'What's you're new name?'

"I'm Stargazed Sky"

'Where were you born?'

"Manehattan, I was part of a family of six but then was orphaned and sold from Canterlot to Ponyville."

'Why are you coming back in a boxcar?'

"Had to visit a friend and didn't have any money."

I was ready.

The train had screeched to a halt at the background station, time to get validated. Or at least time to find a way around getting validated... There were plenty of ponies there. There were mares, fillies, colts, donkeys, and even cows coming through. One buck caught my eye, and I knew that was the one I needed to get to.

I pushed and pulled through the crowd as soon as he got validated. He looked exactly like me, just a different eye color. I was maybe twenty feet away from him when he stopped. Now's my only chance at getting this right. I pulled my revolver out from under my jacket and put it to his side, it was out of sight of everypony else, so I didn't need to worry about witnesses. He shivered a bit and I whispered in his ear.

"Listen kid, if you want to get out of here alive you'll do exactly what I say. Don't turn around, don't look at me, just drop that card."

He did exactly what he was told. Then he bolted to the guards room. I picked his validation card up and scurried all the way over to the train I was on, it was already moving. Flying all the way to it, it was already picking up it's 30 mile an hour pace, soon I wouldn't be able to catch it. I pushed harder, and harder, and harder. Then I was level with my stop. I lunged forward and right, which landed me in with a roll all the way into the car. I was on my way into Canterlot.

It wasn't much longer until I was at the main perimeter guard station. They let the train through with no search. Something struck me as odd as soon as I was off the train. I didn't get that 'super secure' background check, so I just dashed to the nearest empty loading hangar and exited the Canterlot Train Station.

As soon as I was out of the general vicinity, I noticed exactly what was wrong: I dropped the fake ID and the other bucks ID whilst trying to catch the train again. Well I didn't need it anyway, the validation process was already completed (sort of) and now all I needed to do was not get thrown in jail. Considering the vastly superior police force in Canterlot, that might be an issue.

I hunted down a place to stay in the city, it had been a while since I was here. I found another apartment complex, this one was a full condominium and it wasn't half bad. But they asked too much, there was no way I'd spend 500 for a each night for a room here! Going to the downtown Warren district of the city gave me another hope. The Ghetto wasn't patrolled by police as frequently, and better yet there were cheap places to stay. For 15 bits a week I could rent a one room hotel in the Warren. I wasn't going to be here long, but I don't plan on wasting my money on a fucking condo. I payed the mare at the front, opened the door, and lied down for a rest. I had set my watch's timer to go off at 11:10. Fair enough.

Author's Notes:

yep, another chapter on personal life. I'm going to crack down on how often I do these, just that I knew I wouldn't be here this weekend and I just had to add something.