A few hours have passed since the interrogation. Don't worry, I slipped the authorities a note as to where I left the mare. Anyway, I was overlooking a small building that was bare while kneeling on a three story building. The mare had said that the main holding and indoctrination building was this one, in the business district.

The group was called the Order of Placement. Odd name, but okay. Basically, what they did was take stallions and mares, break their minds, and give them to mares or stallions who had been "wronged" by the former. One of the most popular breaking methods was rape. Reeeallllly wish I had a tank. And a rocket launcher. And a minigun with infinite ammo. And a nuke. Yeah, I really hate people like this, and will take great pleasure in killing them.

Are you sure you can get all of them out without knowing? Harmony asked.

Depends, I replied. If you mean get them out without the main assholes knowing, then to begin with, yes. Will they find out? Well duh, they will, but they won't be able to act on it, because I'm coming for them next. With that, I got up, and stepped off the building, using my double jump to land safely before sprinting towards the building as i drew my bow and nocking an arrow. Once i made it to the building, I turned and put my back on the brick wall. Really wish I knew what was inside. Still, no plan survives contact and all that. Still, I went with the most cliched thing I could think of. I knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" a guard asked.

Okay, mlp names? Got it. "Lone Shadow. I'm a new guy, and the boss sent me here to choose who I wanted first." If it follows the cliche, then three, two, one.

The door opened, and I drove an arrow through the guard's neck, the arrow being from the mare, before I fired the one nocked into his skull to make sure he was dead, and blood seeped through the wounds as I pulled the arrows out, cleaned them as best I could, and renocked the one I fired, keeping the other in hand for quick reload. With that, I moved into the building as quick and silently as I could, always scanning a room as I entered it, encountering only one guard, who took an arrow to the head, which I then retrieved. Want to leave as little clues as possible as to who did this.

It wasn't until ten minutes after that I had cleared the entire main floor. "Must be in a basement," I muttered, and began looking for one. After a few minutes, I found an entrance under a table, and opened it. "Hi," I said before unloading a clip of Lato, the pistol, into a group of guards. They fell down the stairs, me following as I reloaded my gun, put it on my thigh, and drew my sword. As soon as i reached the bottom, I entered a room filled with empty cages, but with three guards.

"Halt," one yelled before they charged with swords of their own. Under my helmet, I rolled my eyes. The first to reach me, a Minotaur, swung downward, which I easily avoided before stabbing his spine, paralyzing him, but not killing him. The next, an Earth pony stallion, tried to slice me horizontally with his sword, but I jumped over it, and sliced his head off. As I landed, I spun, and sliced the last guard in half at the waist before stabbing his heart as his upper half lay on the floor. All of that in less than five seconds. That's why you never mess with a ninja.

Anyway, I walked over to the one I had paralyzed. "Those you were keeping prisoner. Where are they?" I asked, holding the sword to his throat. When he didn't answer, I drew a bit of blood. "Unless you wish to see Tartarus with your own eyes, I suggest you answer."

"Go to tartarus," the Minotaur replied before I rolled my eyes, released my grip on him, and then stomped on one of his horns, breaking it off, and drew my Lato before leveling it at his head.

"Don't test me," I said. "Really, if I wasn't here to rescue your captives, I would have killed you already, because I despise slavers. Now, tell me why they are, or I will make you wish I had killed, if not give you to the princesses. I may not be on the best terms with them, but I am quite sure that we are in the same boat when it comes to slavery. Now, where. Are. The. Captives?"

He was silent for a time before saying, "And if I told you, what would become of me?"

"I will do everything I can to let you walk again. You have my word."

"In that case," he said, "go to room 2A. You'll find them there. That is, if you can get past the others."

"Oh, I will," I said before slitting his throat. "May you walk in Tartarus."

With that, I swung my sword to get the blood off before putting it on my back, and drawing my bow. I then moved deeper into the basement, if that still applied, with each group of guards, anywhere from three to five and a mix of ponies and Minotaurs, each male, tried to stop me, only to get an arrow through the skull, or a broken skull with the bow before being finished with a pistol shot. Eventually, I found the door, and, with my Skana in the right hand, Lato in left, I opened the door to 2A, with some difficulty, and found mares and stallions chained to the wall or in cages. They looked up at me with fear. Understandable, I guess. "Are each of you able to walk?"

"Why?" a stallion asked. "So you can take us to your boss?"

"No," I replied. "So you all can escape. Now, are all of you able to walk?"

"Most of us," a mare replied. "Some of us are new, and they love to break us in." Yeah, with what I know, I don't need anything further.

I nodded. "Right," I said. From there, I proceeded to cut the chains holding them to the wall, or the doors to the cages, just barely large enough to be comfortable to a pony on their knees. "Can any of you carry them out?"

"Yeah," a stallion replied.

"Then those that can, carry them. All of you, stay behind me." With that, I took up a position outside the room, just at the door frame.

"We're ready," I heard from behind me after about ten seconds.

"Follow, and stay quiet," I said before slowly advancing back the way I had come. With that way, we didn't encounter any, as I had cleared that way out. When we got out is when things got. . . interesting. We had just exited the building when I saw a group of stallions and minotaurs, weapons ready.

"Lay your weapons down, and surrender yourself and the slaves," a stallion said. "And we'll give you a reward."

"How about no," I said as the ex-prisoners came up behind me. "All of you, go. I'll hold them off."

"How?" a stallion asked.

"By doing what I do best," I said before putting the arrow I had drawn in the quiver and the bow over my shoulder. "Being a goddamned ninja," I said before i began to walk over to face the large group. "How about this: the princesses want me captured, and I'm sure that they'll be a large bounty. If you all can take me down, you can take me there, and claim the reward. In return, you let them go," I offered, pointing towards those i saved.

One scoffed. "I don't see why not. We could use some fun. You know, other than the fun we have back at the main building."

"I'll be the one to have fun here," I said before placing my hands together, each clenched into a fist.

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I pulled my hands apart, a green glow coming from the gap and brightening, with the glow from my right hand extending into a sort of hilt. Once my hands were the length of a Skana blade apart, I opened my left hand, and twirled my Exalted Blade around in a figure eight in front of me before resting it to my right, the blade emitting a green glow. "Let's dance."

"GET HIM!" one yelled, and they all charged at me. Time to go to work.

As the first few reached me, I delivered a quick slice in the air, a diagonal form where the blade was to above my left shoulder, cutting one at the waist, another in the chest, and another in the neck, killing each. "Next," I said before taking a two handed grip with my sword. As they came at me, I went to town on them, easily cutting through them, regardless of where I struck. Not even their blades could survive, and the contact point was vaporized as it touched my Exalted Blade, allowing to to just swing, as my shields were able to take the few hits they landed.

Once they were all dead, I slammed my hands together, the blade not harming my left hand, which caused the blade to vanish.

That was overly bloody, Harmony said. Celestia will most certainly hear of this now.

Right now, I don't care, I replied. Now, I finish this group off.