Author's Note

I have found something that sounds like Drew's voice, it sounds like in between Sandman's voice from MW3, and Alex Mason's voice from Black Ops.

Ponyville
Drew
Took place within the span of two weeks

Well, I'm fucked. Celestia's after my ass, and she's my cousin for god's sake. Next thing you know she'll send the Delta Force after me, and she will if I know her correctly. I've been on the run for a few hours now, and I'm exhausted as fuck. I can't turn to the Crew, because Princess Celestia ordered them to turn me in or be hanged with me. I can't go to Dimension 12, I'm too tired to craft a portal. There is only one pony who would actually believe me, Applejack.

"How do I know you're not lying to me?" She was to the part where she didn't trust me anymore. I had that saddened expression on my face.

"Applejack, you're the Element of Honesty. You can tell if someone is lying. Do I look like I'm lying to you?" She put her hoof to her chin, and nodded solemnly.

"Fine, you can stay here for today, but you have to be out by midnight." I paid her a gold bit, and she smiled. I chuckled and went inside the barn, and of course, it was dark inside. I heard whispers coming from the darkness, I don't think this is normal. Every time I've been in Applejack's barn, nothing like this happened to me, this is a first I have to admit.

"Hello? Is somepony there?" A shadow figure of me appeared, I took a ready stance, just in case it were to attack. It laughed evilly at me, probably for some unknown reason.

"Hello Drew, I've been watching you and your descendants for some time now." Wow, some stalker he is. This just went from creepy to down right scary. My guess is that someone's been stealing my identity while I was gone, and it can control darkness itself.

"Who are you and what do you want from me?"

"All I want, is your life." Oh great, I didn't know what he meant by that.

"You mean like kill me? Or impersonate me? I'm not understanding your logic, and I apologize." Shadow me facepalmed. I then saw a blinding light and shadow me was gone, and somepony I knew very well was in it's place.

"Drew! Thank goodness you're alright! It didn't hurt you did it?"

"Cadence? Why are you here? Shouldn't you be trying to hunt me down with the others?" She shook her head.

"No, because I know the real culprit behind this. I know you're innocent, and I want to help you find evidence that you didn't do anything." I let out a heavy sigh, I gestured towards a hay bale to sit down. I didn't defend myself in court, and I just ran, because back at home treason means death. I don't think I'm going to give up my 39 years of life for nothing, I'm still too young to die. She then threw me a book of Legends and Prophecies, and this was a different copy, the cover is black instead of brown. I opened it up and went to the page bookmarked, it read about a mysterious hero putting an end to the tyrannical acts of somepony named King Sombra.

"You don't mean?"

"Yes Drew, you're that mysterious assassin. Your descendants knew that this day would come, and I found these in your room's closet compartment." An old wooden box, I opened it, and I had that sadistic smile. It had Assassin Robes in there, they were a lot like Connor's clothes, except they were black, and a blue shirt underneath. The box only had the Assassin robes in it, I guess I was going to use my own stuff. All I had on me were flashbangs, Rusty, C-5, Goldie, and my M1911 on me.

"You look like you were born for those." Best compliment coming from her in a while, I thanked her and I headed out to clear my name.

"You'll need to come to the Crystal Empire with me, that's where he's holed up. Turn into an Alicorn and keep your hood up so nopony recognizes you." I swear somewhere I heard that notification noise when on Notoriety level 1. There were guards all over the train station, but luckily my disguise was working.

"Halt! Who is your companion and your destination?" I guess they really wanted me captured, I didn't even do anything wrong either! If I didn't have Cadence I don't think I would be alive anymore, I need to thank her later once this predicament is over.

"Princess Cadence, and this is my body guard. We're going to the Crystal Empire, if you would." He gestured us through, but he gave me the evil eye when I walked in. There were no guards on the train, so we were free to talk and plan our attack.

"Alright, the castle is heavily guarded, so you're going to have to sneak through the roof."

"But what about you?" I thought her kingdom was taken over by that tyrant. That's what it said in the book of Legends and Prophecies, I worried about my cousin, and family looks out for each other.

"I'll be fine, now go!" She pushed me off of the train before they arrived on the train station, and I saw her get captured right in front of my own two eyes.

"Don't worry, I'll be back for you." I said to myself, I climbed up towards the throne room. He looked very similar to the picture in the book, King Sombra looks like he's seen his fair share of fights. I readied Goldie and Rusty as a tactical knife, he had Unicorn magic. I saw Cadence being held hostage, and I jumped down to get the jump on the executor, he died instantly, but it alerted everypony in the whole castle. They took Cadence away, and I was surrounded, enclosed in a fight circle. A path was formed to let their notorious leader inside of that circle, and he had that grin on his face, the grin of true evil.

"Ahh, so you're the one from the prophecy, yes? Nevermind that, now I have a question for you." Oh great, questions, my favorite part of the day.

"Why is it that you try to overthrow me? I thought you were overthrowing Celestia." My eyes widened.

"How did you know about that?"

"Oh, silly human, do you really not know my plan was this whole time?" I shook my head no, he chuckled.

"Well, while you were out, I impersonated your shadow form, and have been killing royal guards during the night. And they only have you to blame."

"So it's true then..." He turned into a shadow version of me, he was the same one from the barn! He did the 'Come at me Bro,' pose. This is it, I'm going to incapacitate this motherfucker, and then I'm going to let Cadence deal out the punishment. I doubt she'll do anything drastic, because she loves almost everypony, but this guy took her whole kingdom away from her.
(Fight Music)

"I'm going to enjoy this." I held my knife with the blade pointing down to the ground. He then attacked me first, because I can anticipate his movements using the Hiten Mitsurugi. I dodged it and took a stab at his shoulder, he instantly vanished. He appeared behind me and kicked me to the ground.

"I thought I would see better out of you." I rolled over and sweep kicked him, he fell to the ground, and I pinned him down. He vanished again, this time above me, he stabbed me with a conjured up sword, I'm getting tired of his vanishing.

'Come on CQC! Why you no put in work like you're meant to?' He then cast a spell on me, getting into my mind. A headache showed up out of nowhere so painful, it was more pain than being burned alive. I was on my knees, and he was trying to take control of my body, I had an idea to end this. He walked me to the dungeon, where Cadence was no less, she had a look of sorrow on her face.

"Princess, why it's so good to see you." He couldn't read my thoughts, he was merely controlling my physical body.

"King Sombra! I should've known! Drew would never bow down to the likes of you!" He unsheathed Rusty, and nopony but me touches Rusty. Well, I AM touching Rusty, King Sombra was controlling me so in a way he's touching Rusty. I lipped to Cadence to play along, and I winked, but he instantly got back into control of my body. Sombra raised the knife to her head, but before he could execute her I plunged the knife into my thigh. I heard when he controls your physical body he feels the pain the body is taking on, and I incapacitated his own form.

"B-but how?" He was on the ground, and bleeding severely. I raised Rusty to his head, and threatened him.
(End Music)

"As former leader of the Delta Force, and cousin of the Royal Sisters, I hereby banish you from the Crystal Empire, and Equestria. If I am to see your face anywhere near here, I won't hesitate to kill you. Do you get me?" He nodded, he was on the verge of tears, and he had his minions carry him to the carriage. I went over to release Cadence from her jail cell, she hugged me, and I returned the embrace.

"Well, how am I going to clear your name?" I tapped on a little camera I was wearing this whole time, it recorded everything. I patched up any cuts or bruises done to Cadence, and she was as good as new. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for me, I looked down to my bloody bandage barely covering my right thigh. I think Cadence went on ahead without me to deliver the evidence, leaving me in the infirmary cart of the train.

"The Crystal Empire, Liberated." I said, taking note of that accomplishment before I blacked out. I think my name's been finally cleared, after two weeks. Two weeks of being hunted, being in hiding, being disowned, is now over, and I can return to my friends and family.

Canterlot
Drew, Royal Sisters
A few days later

"Again Drew, I am very sorry for everything. I've just been so insecure ever since the Changelings invaded the wedding." Since Celestia's my cousin, I would probably always forgive her, unless she sent me to the moon or something.

"It's okay princess, I'm used to being chased, hunted, and almost killed." To make the mood more fitting I was an Alicorn as well, just to be like family. We went into the ball room, where there was a ceremony being conducted, for me saving Cadence's empire I guess. They all clapped as I went down the aisle with Luna and Celestia, and I sat down pony style on a royal chair.

"Reserved for Commander Drew Goulding. Hmm, interesting." I looked over to everypony else and they all smiled. We all quieted down to let cousin Celestia talk.

"My little ponies, I have gathered this lot here today to perform an apology ceremony for Commander Drew C. Goulding. For he has not only cleared his own name with the help of our beloved Princess Cadence, but helped her liberate the Crystal Empire from King Sombra's occupation." I blushed, I was only being a badass doing badass things at the time, it's nothing special. I think heat season was coming around again, because the things I heard come from Pinkie's mouth utterly shocked me.

"You know what this calls for? A party in the sex dungeon!" The Crew and I all looked at Pinkie funny, but the girls seemed to like the idea. Considering the fact that it's the middle of February, I think it IS heat season! Luckily, I'm safe from my cousins, they have restrictions too y'know, but I can't say the same for my Crew. All the mares looked at us seductively, and we were getting that feeling of uneasiness.

"Uhmm, it's great that I'm innocent and all, but IReallyGotToGoNowBaiBai!" I threw a smoke bomb on the floor, and The Crew and I disappeared into thin air, otherwise known as teleporting. We locked ourselves in our own house, and nopony could get in without the keys, but I forgot Rainbow had a key to the house. Rainbow came within the next few hours or so, and we were scared as fuck.

"Yeah, Rainbow, I'm sorry, but I want to keep my Ponyginity for right now, so maybe later alright?" I'm not in the mood to get anypony pregnant right now, but since she's my wife I would definitely tap that, just not during heat season. Twilight eventually came by our house, I guess Jhon gave her a key too.

"Oh guys~. I have something for you~." She shot me with a spell, and I turned into an Alicorn unwillingly. Oh god why.

"Guys! Run away!" I said, trotting out of the house and into the Everfree Forest nearby. I'm going to hide out here until the week passes by, I don't know about the others though, we got separated. Even though I'm an Alicorn, I almost never used my flying capabilities for some reason. As a matter of fact I almost never turned into an Alicorn in a fight either, and now I'm stuck as one for a week.