I had been in Manehattan for a week now and I was broke, I had to sleep in the sewers, which wasn’t as bad as It sounded as I found an old listening post while exploring during my first and second day in this city which was a lucky find and the smell wasn’t as bad as I expected for being a sewer, the listening post was about the size of a one-room apartment which meant I could use it a temporary base but I would need to find something more permanent. The third day was spent scouting for nearby craft stores, while the fourth day was spent robbing the said craft stores, which while not getting me a lot was enough to get me somewhere. The fifth day was spent both remaking the Azula mask as I thought it was shoddy craftsmanship and spent making a Puppet while the paint dried on the remade Azula mask and finally the sixth day was spent scouting a major bank.

I had to say that the security around the bank was severely lacking, If I were to do half the stuff what I was doing at a bank on earth they would have called the cops on me rather quickly. It actually reminded me of a time I was waiting for a someone near a bank and they called the cops on me for pacing. Luckily I was able to get out of being arrested was that the person I was waiting for came to confirm my story.

Anyway today I was going to rob a bank. I was honestly nervous as a lot of things could go wrong, The puppet might not work, the bank might be more secure than I thought, remaking the Aulza mask might have screwed it up, or some unseen problem might happen. I decided once I got out of the sewers I would take a moment to take a deep breath of fresh air to clear my head of these worries, I’m guessing it's because I’m still new to being evil I’ll probably get better in the future.

As I made it to the surface and took a look around to see that there was nobody in the alleyway before I got out and took five minutes to breathe and clear my head. As I placed the manhole cover or whatever the pony name was, I began to walk towards the Bank.

When I got to the bank I noticed it wasn’t as crowded as it was yesterday, ‘Maybe it's a holiday?’ I asked myself as I walked to the center of the room and brought out the Puppet...well I call it a puppet but in reality, it's more of a carving. But nonetheless, I brought it out and cast the spell that was In my spell book. “Shim Sham Shalam” I muttered as the puppet floated in the air and transformed into Vile from Megaman X. As the ponies that were here looked in confusion at what just happened I handed Vile the bag and told him to hold it while I put on the Azula mask.

After I put the mask on I saw that the Ponies were still confused. I smirked as Vile fired his shoulder cannon into the air scaring the Ponies. Before I made an announcement “To the Ponies of the First National Bank of Equestria I am the Puppet Master!” I started as I walked over to the teller “Nobody does anything rash and you’ll all leave here alive.” I finished.

“W-what do you want?” the teller asked frightened.

“Simple take this bag to the Bank Vault and fill I-” I started as Vile began shooting at a pony trying to leave startling me.

“No leaving till we’re done or nobodies leaving at all.” Vile threatened as I had a bad feeling in my gut, it was telling me not to do this, but I’m supposed to return balance to the world, I have to do this no matter what my gut tells me is right or wrong.

“R-right, now as I was saying fill the bag with bits or you all die.” I said as the mare looked terrified as she took the bag and ran off to the vault in the back.

A few moments later she came back with the Bag full of Bits “H-here you go.” she said as I was about to leave Vile spoke.

“Master what about the Hostages? “ He asked.

“We keep them alive as promised.” I said as I could feel like he was looking at me in disgust.

But before I could tell them why I spotted some guards talking and walking towards the bank “I’m sure it's nothing, probably a foal playing with sparklers or-” he paused as he noticed us staring at him “Can we help you?” He asked.

“No...” I said as we just walked passed them “We were just leaving.” I said as I grabbed Viles hand and made him walk past the guards.

“-Anyway like I said it's probably some foal playing with stuff they're not supposed to have.” The guard said as we just away. As we walked away I quickly removed my Azula mask and went into the alleyway where I came from.

Two days have passed since the Puppet Master and their accomplice was seen exiting the bank with stolen bits. Every guard in Manehattan was on the lookout for the purple armored goon that the Puppet Master had. “I don’t understand.” A scribe said going over the report of the theft. “How is this Puppet Master able to use that level of spell so effortlessly?” She asked

Another scribe sighed as he said “For the fifth time I don’t know, and a more important question is how did this Puppet Master keep it running at the level he did.” The second Scribe said.

“Right,” The first scribe said before asking “Also how have we not seen or heard of this Puppet Master before?”

“Right, somepony whose talent is creating puppets and bringing them to life, we should have records of them somewhere but nopony shows up.” The second scribe said as Celestia came in “Princess.” the scribes said as they bowed.

“No need to bow, have we figured out who this Puppet Master is?” Celestia asked.

The scribes looked down at the floor as they both said “No, sorry Princess.”

The Princess smiled and said “No need to apologize, perhaps there is nothing to find.”

The Scribes looked confused and the female one asked “What do you mean?”

“Simple perhaps there is simply no record of this Masked Puppeteer due to them using either a fake name or not being Equestrian? To be honest, nopony has seen their Cutie Mark” Celestia said.

“So you're implying that this Puppet Master might be a non-equestrian?” The male Scribe asked.

“Possibly, we would need to see their real face to confirm it however.” Celestia said.

“But that raises the question how they can use high-level spells.” The female scribe said.

“You two switch your focus from who Masked Puppeteer is and search for Artifacts and other objects that generate magic.” Celestia said as the two Scribes nodded and began getting to work. As they began Celestia left and headed to Luna’s quarters.

As Celestia went to knock on Luna’s door as a sleepy Luna opened the door “Oh hello *yawn* sister” Luna said.

“Hello, Luna.” Celestia said.

Luna yawned as she asked “Did you require something sister?”

“Yes, I assume you’ve heard of the Puppet Master?” Celestia asked.

“Yes I’ve heard of them, what about them?” Luna asked.

“I need you to scan the dream waves-” Celestia started.

“That's not how that works, I’ll skip the hundredth explanation and just assume you want me to find this Puppet Master so you can send guards to catch them.” Luna said.

“Yes, thank you.” Celestia said.

“Did you need anything else?” Luna asked.

“Not really, the chef is making your favorite meal for dinner tonight.” Celestia said.

“That's good to know if I decided to go down tonight.” Luna said.

“Is something-” Celestia asked.

“Nothing is wrong sister, I’ve just had things on the mind.” Luna said

“Alright sister.” Celestia said leaving.

Later that night Luna entered the dream realm to search for the Puppet Master, it took a few hours of searching Manehattan before she encountered a strange dream.

I know I said this chapter would be out two weeks from the last one but I got bored and decided to write this chapter. Anyway, the Bank robbery was supposed to be a little stupid as the Bank teller wasn't supposed to realize it was a bank robbery till the Puppet Master told her it was which then caused confusion due to Equestria never really having one before and she wouldn't know how to react till he explained what was going on.