Banishment

by Brony of the Year

As Trickster, a fierce earth pony with a temper to match, enters the land of the banished, she meets an odd group of ponies. A group that could be used to her advantage...

1. Enter the Land

Chapter 1

She looked over the browning hill at the city below, giving a long sigh at the rustic look, as if the city hadn't been touched in hundreds of years. The mare would have much rather just gotten banished to the moon, but she knew the strength she needed was in this crappy little city. At this happy thought, she trotted along, straight to the City of Banishment.

When she got into the city, Trickster noticed one big difference between the city and Las Pegasus, her home. The weather in this place was much darker, and filled with many more storm clouds than she had ever seen in one place.

Trickster is a dark-green earth pony always wearing a black overcoat with a matching hat. As she was walking, two pegasi ponies, a mare and a stallion, flew right past her at top speed, almost making her giant hat fly clean off her head.

"Watch where you're going, you reckless ponies!" Trickster yelled at the top of her lungs, despite the fact that she knew the ponies were too far away to hear her anyway. She didn't have much time to think about those ponies, when another one, this time a unicorn the color of dark blood, burst out of the house right next to her.

"Bruteforce! StormLane! You know better than to crash near my house!" The unicorn yelled, obviously at the pegasi, "Get back here and fix this giant hole! You might let my client out!" The mare Pegasus flew back, with a very malicious grin on her face. "If you ask me, I did her a favor!" She yelled with a furious tone in her voice, as if the other pony would cower from her reply. It didn't make her scared, but made her even angrier than before. But before Trickster could hear the questionable response given back to the Pegasus, she started back on the move, trying to locate a place to stay while banished.

"Well, this house is one bedroom, one bath, and I'd take it if I didn't already have the most expensive house!" said the realtor, pointing at a quaint little house. "It's only one million bits, all given to me, not my company." Trickster would have argued the price, but she didn't seem to have much time left to find a house, since the sun was already beginning to get lowered by the princess. "Fine, I'll take it," Trickster said, obviously very annoyed at the pestering unicorn next to her. After giving her the bits, Trickster walked into her new house, knowing that she wasted her money, since she knew it was only temporary.