A/N: hey guys, I've had this idea floating around in my head for some time now, and I finally decided to write it and see how it turns out, I'll let you readers decide if you like it or not, enjoy.

A Light in the Darkness: prologue

(Unknown location)

A young male earth pony walked down the hall of an abandoned building, he looked at the two guards escorting him, as they continued walking down the lite hallway, they turned to the door on their left which had two other guards standing in front, the earth pony watched as the other guards opened the door and they stepped inside, where there was a large map spread across the table, with one pony looking over, his back facing them, one of the guards cleared his throat as the pony turned around, revealing to be a unicorn, but that was not the most interesting feature on his face, he had a long jagged scar running down his left cheek, through his eye, which was clouded.

As they walked in, the unicorn smiled, "ah, I'm glad your finally here, I hope my guards weren't too rough with you" he said as he walked around the table, the earth pony took a step forward, "well, when I got your letter, saying you had a job to be done, with that amount of caps, I couldn't refuse" he said, the unicorn smiled, "excellent, I sent the letter to you and your friends because, your team has a particular skill that I need, a skill in assassination" he said with an amused look.

The earth pony cleared his throat, "yes we do, what's the job, who's the target?" he asked, the unicorn placed a two folders on the table and slid them forward, "not target, targets, I want to test your abilities" he said, the earth pony flipped each folder open and looked at the pictures of the targets, as soon as he did his eyes widened in shock, and he placed the pictures down, "you must be crazy, nopony can pull off a job like this, this is too big" he said, the unicorn just smiled, "really, if you succeed, I'll pay you double, all the information is right here, all the planning has been done for you, all you have to do is go there, kill the targets and return to me, simple as that" he said with a sinister smile.

The earth pony looked over all the information again, checking everything, and making sure it was all right, the entire thing had been planned out, just like he said, he looked up at the unicorn and swallowed, and then did his best to smile, "alright, I'll get my best guys together, but you had better have our money waiting" he said as he was escorted out of the room, the unicorn looked down at the folders and pulled them back in front of him, as another pony, a Pegasus, walked into the room.

"boss, are you sure it's really necessary paying them that much, you know they'll fail, in fact you've planned for them to fail, so why go through all this, just to get to them, when you could take care of them yourself?" he asked, the unicorn sighed and looked up at him, his scar making the Pegasus uneasy.

"your my most trusted lieutenant, but there are something's you shouldn't know, yes I know they'll fail, that's why I have offered so much money, to convince them to do the job, but they'll fail, this whole thing is just a setup" he said opening the folders and looking at the two pictures, the Pegasus took a step forward, "a set up for what sir?" he asked, the unicorn smiled, "the game of course, this is merely the setup, before every game, the pieces must be set into place, and this is my first move" he said standing up and looking at the pictures.

"I've waited over twenty years for this, planning, planning my revenge, and now…it's time I take it" he said placing the pictures of the map, and walking past the Pegasus, who just watched him go for a minute, and then turned to the map and walked over, he slowly picked up the pictures, and looked at them, his eyes widened as too who the targets were, in his hooves, was none other than a picture of the newly crowned Princess Twilight Sparkle, and her older brother, Prince Shining Armor, the Pegasus put the pictures down and calmly walked out of the room.

A/N: well that's it for now my friends, like I said this will be a bit of test run for this story, and if you all like it, then I shall continue, if not…we'll get to that later, hope you enjoyed, peace.