*A/N* Hello loyal readers and welcome to this new chapter of my newest story, The Thieve's Call. In this chapter it's all explaining how Colt-Fortune made it to the party for those of you wondering "How the hell did he get there out of nowhere?" or something along those lines. Nothing new for Swift here. Again Thanks for the OC submission, I'm still looking for at least one more for the story. So thanks for reading and be sure to look out for new chapters coming soon!

Colt's POV

The mare walked off to her bedroll.

"Guess I should follow her. Luna knows she's gonna get caught." I thought to myself. "Now how am I gonna blend in...?"

An idea came to my head. I jumped off the ledge and started to fly towards the Canterlot Castle.

"Hey Fortune!" A mysterious voice called out.

I look around and saw a shadowed figure a few houses down. I readjusted my position and flew towards the voice.

"Huh? Who are you?" I questioned.

"Someone who's been wanting to meet you for awhile now."

I landed on the floor and walked towards the shadow. Every step the figure getting more clear.

"Oh a fan of my infamy?"

"I suppose you could say that."

I raised an eyebrow at the remark and then noticed a shine from the moonlight on the stallion's armor. I rose an eyebrow and grinned devilishly.

"Okay so tell me what's your purpose here?"

He walked out of the shadows and there he was, a Pegasus in golden armor.

"To take you down."

I laugh a little and then simply smile at him.

"Oh really? I would've never guessed. Typical bounty hunters. You never know how to blend in. Now tell me did you recently get your armor polished, or do you always look like a pansy?"

He seemed shocked at the remark. Then he pulled out a bowie knife from his armor.

"A knife? Really? You don't think I could just fly away?"

"Oh I know you can, but you see. We aren't alone here."

I look behind me and see three more guards behind me. The smile on my face only grew.

"So time to dance huh? Okay come on then."

Two of the guards from behind me grab my hooves and restrain me from behind. Granted I'm not the strongest here, but I have enough luck to get me out of this mess. After a moment the first guard approaches me, but I notice a trip in one of the restraining guards step and buck him at the loosened grip. The other one drops me and I shake free quickly.

"Okay boys, now it's fun!"

I run at the knife holder and slide under him. Behind the guard I sweep him off his feet, and as he get's up buck him in the head just enough to knock him out.

"Oh, big guard's not so tough now. C'mere guys I have a secret to tell you."

The two guards charge at me. I fly up above them and as one is right under me I whisper,

"No one's caught me, and no one will."

Then watch them slide while trying to stop themselves.

"Hahaha, it's like you're not even trying!"

They stare at me and notice my grin.

"Okay, okay, I'll make this fair. I'll stay on the ground."

I then fly down right in front of them.

"Go on, take a shot. It's free!"

The guards growl and begin to try and buck, or punch me. Each hit I dodge and as one of them tires out I take the advantage and buck back.

"Ow! Get him, make him pay!" The guard screeched in pain from the hit.

"That armor doesn't seem very effective. Maybe you should think of making it full body."

"Err..." The guard growled.

"No? Okay have it your way, let's make this a fair fight. One on one. No magic, no wi-"

The guard socked me in the face. I open my jaw to see if it's okay.

"Okay then maybe not..."

Backing off from the guard I return to the already unconscious one sleeping on the floor. I take his helmet off and place it on my head.

"How do I look? Intimidating? I've a question for you. Are my jests getting old?"

I then run towards the guard and he cowers back. After seeing his surrender I stop myself and return back to the unconscious guard.

"Hey bud, how's it going? I think I'll be taking this armor if you don't mind. What am I saying? Of course you don't you're not conscious."

I unbuckle the armor and equip it on myself.

"Hmm this is a nice look. Maybe I'll keep this armor." I think to myself.

Then a thought occurs to me. "Swift!" I hurry towards the manor.

As I'm running I forgot I have wings. I start to fly and as I approach the manor I land and act like a normal patrol guard.

"Hello guardspony." An uptight voice calls. "May I trouble you for a minute."

"Of course, it's no trouble." I reply.

"Well if you haven't heard, I'm having a party as of now and need some guards to patrol the perimeter as on of the guests has already lost her way to the cellar."

"Swift... Wow if this guy thought she was a lost guest, maybe she does have a chance." I think to myself.

"Of course, my patrol just ended for tonight anyways."

"I'll pay of course. It's just there's a certain... treasure that I need to make sure no one takes."

I nod at him in understanding.

"Just point me to my patrol area and I'll head there immediately."

"Apparently I'm a believable guard." I think to myself.

"Just follow me now."

He guides me into his manor and leads me through the crowd into a hallway towards the back of the main room.

"Just walk the hallways and keep an eye out for anything suspicious."

"Will do."

"Thank you sir, now to re-attend my party."

"What an airhead, haha!" I thought to myself.

I do as I'm told for a few moments but can't help but get off course and look around for Swift. After about 10 minutes of useless wondering around I hear some pony having a hissy fit.

"Yes, I'm positive. I saw a suspicious looking mare sneaking out of the main room and into the halls!"

I look around the corner and see a pony reporting to a guard. After that I notice the guard walks into an empty room and looks around for a few minutes. After that I see him mumble a prayer or something to himself. Then I see a very familiar mare come running out of the room.

"Don't worry I'll catch her!"

I yell at the guard paralyzed in shock laying on the floor. I chase behind as she runs into the main room I follow her. I run towards the front of the room to see Fancy Pants at the door.

"You, I need you to stand here and guard the door with this man right here."

I nod and stand at the doors and notice that the Wonderbolts are standing right there looking off into the distance. After a few minutes I start to doze off a bit and then am woken up by hearing Fancy Pants yell.

"Miss. Swift! Or is that really your name?"

I see him staring her down.

"I-I-I... I um, you see, there's a very good explanation for this." Swift says.

"I see, I guess you'll have your chance to tell it in court. Guards, seize her saddle-pack!"

She kneels down on the ground and surrenders and kneel, lowering her saddle-pack to the ground.

"Okay, go ahead and take me in." I see her let out a tear.

I go over to her and take her saddle-pack and see another holding her down.

"First off boss, this girl was holding several plastic... um sticks. And this metal...ish one. Besides that just a few bits, and Ohhh you're gonna love this." I say and see a small chest in the bottom of the pack.

"It's a small chest" I tell Fancy Pants

"Bring it here! That's... that's the nevermind hand it over." Fancy Pants orders me.

"Of course sir, although I could always just y'know... do this!" I smack him over the head with the chest, knocking him out. Then taking the guard by surprise I knock him out too.

I throw the chest back in Swift's saddle-pack and pull her up from the ground.

"FLY!"

We run outside and fly towards the slums after she regains her composure. I remove my helmet, and unbuckle the armor, allowing it to fall to wherever it may fall.

"Lucky?!" She yelled.

"Damn it! I said don't call me that! Just fly and try to keep up we gotta get to the slums quick!" I yelled back irritated at the name.

We get to the slums not saying a word to each other after that. We land in the slums and I take her to her bedroll.

"Okay now sit down, stay quiet, and I'll handle this!" I order her.

The two guards that followed us came up to me asking me questions. I answered them all trying not to arouse suspicion but they kept pestering and pestering, it began to irritate me a bit too much. I snapped.

"Okay I'm done answering questions go back to licking Celestia's boots, or whatever you guards do."

"Sir, insulting a guard is against the law."

"Pissing me off is against my laws."

I punched the one guard right in the face, quickly knocking him to the floor. The other looks shocked at me and tries to get a blow in at me. I duck 360 and uppercut him into an unconscious state. Then roll the unconscious bodies off the ledge.

"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger I suppose."

I approach Swift's bedroll, and whisper.

"Hey princess, you still there? Or am I talking to shadows?"

She looks at me in shock.

"Y-yeah, I'm here."

"Good stay there till morning, I have to make sure that they don't keep coming after me. I have a heist in the morning and won't be back for weeks. I need to assemb... gather some things together."

I walk off heading to the tavern a few streets down.

"Okay boys, now... who wants to play some blackjack?"

I see a mare, and two stallions getting out of their chairs. We walk towards the table and sit down.

"Okay dealer, set us up."

The dealer nods at me. He shuffles the cards, and lays em out to us. I see a pony pulling a card from under the desk and replacing it with one on the table. I glance over at him, and he returns it with a sly grin.

"Ha blackjack!" Me and the cheating pony yell simultaneously.

We continue to play the game both of us exceeding each other back to back. After about 10 minutes of it happening I decide to cash out and take my winnings. I head over to the bar and order a drink.

"Make that two, on me." Says the cheater pony looking at me with his Forest Green eyes.

He's a Light Tan Earth Pony. He has a long Red Tail with grayish white streaks running through it. He's wearing a black pinstriped vest with a watch and glasses to go with it, his mane covering his left eye.

"So what's your secret? Hidden cards, collaborating with the others?

"Luck." I say pointing at my cutie mark that show's a #7 on a 4-leaf clover. "It's my special talent."

"Hmm, interesting."

"Hey I have a job and could use your quick wit for it, would you be interested?"

-Flashback-

"Fortune, either you take the job or you don't! Which is it?" A pony yells at me.

"I don't know, you're asking a lot for such a... yes, I'll do it." I reply.

He slides the plans of the job across the table to me. I read over the plans, and give the other pony a small nod.

"I'll get this key for you, but I swear if she get's hurt...!"

"She'll be fine, just do your job, and we'll do ours."

The job reads:

Here's the job details:

First I need you to head into the Everfree Forests where there's an entrance to underground ruins. We'll draw you a map to them on the back of these details. After that we need you to get through them and find a key in the chest that should lay in the very bottom level of these ruins. There are only two keys but we only know of the location for this one. Under the almost non-existent circumstances of someone else looking for this same key: kill them. After you retrieve the key, come back to us, and we'll give you further details on the job. Now get to work, if you finish within two weeks your precious friend won't be hurt.

"You underground bastards are going to pay!"

"I doubt that Mister Fortune, now if that is all get out, and don't come back until you have the key."

-End Flashback—

I proceed to explain the job further to the stallion.

"Hey so if we're gonna work together, then what's your name?"

"They call me Gambit. What's yours?"

"Colt-Fortune Treasure-Hunter and Thief extraordinaire at your service!"

"Hmm before I officially accept this job, tell me."

"Yeah?"

"Have you ever lost a game of Blackjack before?" He said with a joking grin.

"Not once."

"Alright, I accept."

"Welcome to the team, I'll try to keep you alive."

Our drinks arrive and we enjoy the night... while we can.

*A/N* Another Chapter done, and another question raised. Who is this new person partnering up with Colt? What's this key to? And probably easy to answer but who are the underground threatening? Find out all these questions and more in Chapter 4! (P.S. Chapter 4's probably going to raise even MORE questions!) *Commence troll face*