I woke up as the sun rose over the horizon, I stretched and threw my legs off the bed. I walked over to a desk that had my gear laid out, I checked my ammo and reloaded the Lancelot, I sharpened my throwing knives and polished my sword. I placed my gauntlet on my hand and shook Mothy. "Come on Mothy, we need to get going." He cringed before stretching and opened his eyes.

He got up and wiped the sleep from his eyes. He gathered his gear before we exited the room to find Celestia waiting for us. "Good morning you two, I trust you are ready for the journey?"

"All we need is Cadence, the map and supplies then we are good to go." She nodded and floated a dark blue backpack to me and a light blue saddlebag to Mothball.

"These bags are enchanted to be bigger on the inside, all of your supplies and tools are in them." We nodded and Celestia walked into Cadences room. After a few minutes they both emerged from the room and Cadence greeted us, she came to my side and we turned to face Celestia. "I will teleport you to the outskirts of the city, I'm trusting you two to take good care of her." We gave a salute before her horn glowed and we appeared just outside of the city, in front of us was a barren wasteland.

"Well, here we go." With that we set off, we started a slow jog as we made our way through the wastelands.

After a few hours of jogging we reached a small wooded area. "Alright, we'll rest here for an hour or so then we're moving on." I tossed Mothy a bottle of water and offered a sandwich to Cadence. I took a sip of my water and a bite of an apple, I looked at the trees and noticed that some had a few dark figures in them. I set down my snack and punched a tree with my gauntlet. A changeling drone fell from the branch it was sitting on and I brought my fist down onto it. "Mothball, Changelings!" He nodded and took Cadence out of the area.

I turned to see more changelings coming out of hiding. "This does not concern you mercenary, we are here for our prince, the queen demands he ret..." I punched him sending him flying.

"I don't give a fuck what your queen wants, Mothball is a member of Lone Wolf Mercenary Services now, he's not going anywhere as long as there is life in my body." They all growled and charged me, I sent a few knives into the crowd causing many of them to drop dead. I dashed to one of the drones and kneed him it in the stomach then sent him crashing into the ground. One of the drones kicked my leg causing me to stagger, a few knocked me down and pounced on me.

I grabbed my gun and shot them with enchanted ammo. Once I shoved their corpses off me I grabbed the last drone by the neck and held him in the air. "Here's a message for your queen. Mothball isn't going anywhere, so if you ever try to get him back again I will kill you. But if you are so confident that you can beat me. Come at me bitch!" I knew that the queen could see though her spawn, then I crushed the drones neck sending green goo everywhere.

I walked out of the wood to see Mothball guarding Cadence who was hiding in a log. "You take care of things boss?"

"Yeah, but they weren't here for Cadence, they were here for you." He frowned and growled. I placed a hand on his shoulder and he looked up at me. "Hey, I'm not letting that bitch take you from us, we're brothers. So don't worry about it." He smiled and nodded. "Alright, let's get going, there's a mountain range a bit up the route, there should be a cave that we can rest in." He nodded and Cadence emerged from the log.

As we set off we failed to notice the dark figure watching us. "They're that loyal to each other, this gets better and better."

Meanwhile at the wolf den

Clawback was relaxing in the living room when the phone rang in the office. He rushed in and answered it. "Lone Wolf Mercenary Services, how can we help you?"

"Hello, who am I speaking to?"

"My name is Clawback ma'am."

"Ah, alright. I need some assistance, I am trying to track down somepony who has stollen something from me and I need some muscle, don't worry, this job won't require any killing, I can pay handsomely."

"Well then you called the right place madam, I'll just need some details then I will be down as soon as I can."

"Oh wonderful, what details do you need darling?" After Clawback got the necessary information from the caller he got ready for job.

"Hey Pyro, I'm going on a job, will be back when it's done!"

"Ok Claw, I'll watch the place!"

"Just don't burn it down!"

"BUCK YOU!!!" Clawback laughed and began flying towards his destination...

Ponyville.

We reached the mountains and found a suitable cave that could house us for the night. I swept the area and Mothy placed some movement spells around the entrance. Our cave went deep underground but cut off about one hundred feet down where there was a large open area. There was three tents, one green, one blac and the other pink.

Mothball and Cadence were sitting by the campfire, Mothy holding a stick with a marshmallow in his hooves. I sat down and took inventory on our supplies, we were good on food and water, there was even a few sweets and bits of meat for me. I hid the meat from Cadence and walked over with two sticks and a bag of marshmallows for her and I. She thanked me and stabbed her fluffy treat as did I, there was a nice silence between us as we roasted our sweets, I decided we were too quiet.

"You should see our friend Pyro try to roast a marshmallow, he lets the thing catch on fire on purpose." This got a smile from Mothball and a giggle from Cadence. "Then he eats it while it's on fire." I chuckled at the memory of our first campaign trip, I then started telling Cadence about it.

"Um, Pyro, you sure you should be waving that around?"

"It's fine Mothball, what's the worst that can happen?"

"Hey guys, I kinda spilled some oil on my feathers, I'm going to go clean up."

"What?" Pyro turned around to quickly and the fire caught the oil on Clawback sending him in flames.

"FIIIIIIIIRRRREEE!!!" He started running around like a madman setting fire to our tents while we chased him.

"No, Clawback calm down!"

"Stop drop and roll, stop drop and roll!"

"Oh, that's gonna leave a burn."

"YOU THINK?!?"

We all laughed. "And to this day Clawback will not go anywhere near a marshmallow without a bucket of water." We all burst out laughing.

"You should see my fiancé on camping trips. He always tries to set everything up by hoof because he's to stubborn to use his horn, saying it the traditional way of doing things. Long story short, he gets tangled in the tent and I have to bail him out." We all shared some more stories until we started to get tired.

"Alright you two, it's time to get some rest, got a lot of walking to do." They nodded and entered they're tents, I lay down on my sleeping bag and closed my eyes, letting sleep take me.