Chapter Seven: Retaliation

Death's P.O.V.

Caspian kissed Rainbow Dash because it was the only thing he could do.

Looking upon the expression Rainbow Dash held lead Caspian to give an explaination, "you kissed me, it is only polite that I kiss you back."

Rainbow Dash smiled, "it isn't your place to decide what's polite." She then kissed Caspian.

They descend down the road bags of egg nog in arms and hand in hand.

They hadn't walked anymore than half a mile when trouble reared it's ugly head:

There was three guys, all engaged in an older women. I never really thought of the area in which Caspian lived to be bad. But it wasn't the paragon of social living. They told us to mind our own business. But I knew Caspian just couldn't do that.

He told Rainbow Dash to stay where they were standing. "I can't just stand here. This society is broken already broken enough."

Caspian walked up to them, the first guy a not so stalky white guy was the first to strike. His stance was bad. Caspian stopped his fist like a girl stops a pillow, then he kicked his shin, the guy who retired to the ground from the last hit stirred enough trouble to heed attention to the new threat. Another guy, tougher in appearence was almost on top of Caspian, he landed a strike upon the right side of Caspian's face.

The pain was there, but the disorientation was only momentary before Caspian regained control of the situation, landing a kick to the torso, elbow to the bottom of the face, then another kick planted in his solar plexus. I'm surprised the adversary resisted the need to spit up blood.

All in all the facts were there, Caspian wasn't a super human, just a regular human. He couldn't take on all those men by himself, he put on a killer fight for not actually killing any of them. Caspian was only hit a few times, the major factor that threatened Caspian's resolve was the one who flanked him, the one who had a hand taser, who applied ot to Caspian. This rendered Caspian temporary paralysed.

Luckly in this case it wasn't really done as an act of aggresstion as much to open an escape route. Abandoning the older women and the distorted Caspian attempting to get back on his feet.

Caspian isn't in extreme agony, not in comparison of what he's been put through with the whole meet-me experience; but his arms are still shaking as he sits up. "Bloody wankers," Caspian mutters under his breath as Rainbow Dash rushes to his side, she woud have been there sooner but she was preoccupied with throwing a surprisingly large stone at one of the adversary.

"Are you alright," is the only thing that her mouth can form. Caspian begins to nod-

"I am so sorry," the voice belonged to the older women who was the victim of the mugging, "do you want me to call an ambulance?"

Caspian greets her with soft eyes, "no. No, I'll be fine. There are easier ways to get electrocuted." The tips of his mouth knotted in his dry laugh, the two people with him didn't share the same level of humour, "are you alright? The didn't take anything too important, did they?"

The older woman shakes her head, "some money, no more than fifteen dollars. Nothing to worry about. I just know not to walk these streets at this time ever again."

Caspian appeared to be in silent agreement with her as he nodded his head at the the end of her statement. "Who are you?" Rainbow Dash interjects, eyes glaring daggers at the older woman.

"Teresa."

Eyes glaring daggers at Teresa. If Teresa noticed this then she didn't mind it much attention, maybe she was use to having eyes want to throw small medieval weaponry at her.

Caspian was now on his feet, though his body was shaky. Rainbow Dash's hands were upon Caspian at his upper back and and abdomen, keeping him perpendicular to the ground. Caspian give a suave smile, "do you want us to be gentlemen and escort you home?"

Teresa looks at them, "no no no. I'm fine, I'm fine. I just leave a few blocks that way, she points with her index finger in some direction.

Caspian's right eyebow raises ever so slightly, it wasn't inquisitive or odd. "Are you sure? That is still a few hundred metres that way," Caspian points in the same direction Teresa previously did.

Teresa nods her head, "I'm fine. I was about to pull out my mace when you showed up," she pulls out a small pressurised can to make her point.

"Very well," Caspian's expression doesn't change, he reaches into one of the bags and pulls out a receipt, "if there is anything you need," Caspian wrote ten numbers on the blank side and handed it to Teresa, "don't hesitate. My name is Caspian, and her name is Katherine." Caspian places his hand on Rainbow Dash's shoulder, her smile is slight.

Teresa looks down upon the paper, eyes scaning over the digits like they unlocked the puzzle box of the universe, her eyes dart up at us as she says thank you. "I'll be off."

Her words were soft, though Caspian smiled there wasn't much emotion on his face, "quite alright, now I mean it. Don't hesitate."

Teresa tries to smile nicely, but her face couldn't come up with that level of sincerity, "I won't when the moment arises." She begins to head off to the direction they came from, her feet barely making a tap sound on the pavement.

We gather our bags and head in the direction the house is, Rainbow Dash being the first one to speak, "I wish she pulled at that mace before you got two thousand volts stuck to your neck.

"It wasn't quite two thousand volts," Caspian said, "and her "mace" wouldn't have done her much good."

"Why is that?"

"It wasn't really mace." Caspian said in monotone, sounding like that detail was obvious, "it was a can of perfume. To my belief strawberries."

Rainbow Dash looks at him, "and you just let her walk away with no protection?"

"No no, she has protection," Caspian stops at the edge of the vacant road, he hunches over and spits up a red liquid. Blood. Rainbow Dash gives him a fearfull look, "I'm fine," he saids, "this is to be expected after two hundred volts charge through my nervous system."

Under any other situations a statement like that would be returned with a chuckle or at least a slight grin or a smile, but Rainbow Dash didn't find it to be funny.

"As I was saying before my body so rudely rejected a major part of my circulartory system," still nothing, his eyes hardened, "as for the protection of Teresa; the can she was carrying was not mace, but if she were to spray that into someone's eyes the it will have, a slightly less dramatised effect, but will still prove quite useful. Plus you just have to have awful luck to get mugged twice in one night."

Rainbow Dash's face absorbed the information. "I guess she could be okay." That was the conclusion to their conversation.

II

Caspian's P.O.V.

My body was still in agony when Rainbow Dash and I reached the porch. My back was stiff and my movements had an unnatural feel to them. Still we made it to the kitchen before anyone raised any questions.

Of course, Pinkie Pie was the first one to inquire, "whatcha get?"

"Egg nog."

Twilight was next, "what happened? Why are you so stiff?"

At that I smiled slightly as I went through a recollection of the evening, "well we met a friend, drank some egg nog, got into a mugging, I kissed Rainbow Dash, oh, and yes, I got electrocuted."

Each one had their own rate of compiling the information.

"You guys got into a mugging?!" Twilight's eyes layered with shock.

"You kissed Rainbow Dash?" Apple Jack put a level of inflection when she said 'you'.

Pinkie Pie giggled, "that's probably why you got electrocuted." At that remark Rainbow Dash's cheecks began to flush.

Besides the three of them the questions seemed to not exist, I told them what happened anyway:

"The trip up to the market that Rainbow Dash and I took was uneventful. Nothing happened. It was boring. Then once inside of the market we bought the amount of goods required, and egg nog," I raised the carton in my hand to prove that I wasn't lying, "then we left, walking down the same unused road that took us to the market, half-way there I decided to take a seat on one of the benches. At this point I confirmed that this would be one of the most accurate times that I could seize the moment. So I kissed Rainbow Dash."

Their faces lit up as the noticed that my tangent was gaining a logical point, my relationship with Rainbow Dash, however Pink Pie said, "blah blah blah, when do you get tased?" Ignore her and go on with my tale.

"Of course their was that moment of tension when neither of us really knew what was going on. But I'll spare you the details-"

"-Spare us the details?" Apple Jack retorted.

Man, she was sassy. "Yes, unless you want to hear about-"

"-No, no, no. No. I think we can use our imaginations," Twilight kept me from continuing, she then gave Apple Jack a side ways glance. Rainbow Dash's face began to colour.

My mouth was open in a smirk, "only if you have a good imagination."

Rainbow Dash gave me a look, "Caspian, can you, umm, continue the story."

I took her que to continue, "after we left the bench and headed the second half there, we eventually reached at point where there was a mugging. I couldn't just stand there and let it happen. I intervened, even took at a few guys. Then one of them pulled out a taser. I'll let you all use your imagination."

Pinkie Pie's eyebrows leveled, "oh, well that's boring." Twilight now gives Pinkie Pie a glance.

"The girl I helped save was named Teresa. We talked for a few minutes then she went her way, and we went ours, to here." There was my conclusion, sadly, I didn't get a round of applause.

"Well, that's it. Close the curtains. I am sitting down." I walk out of the kitchen and plump myself on to the sofa. "Questions?"

"Why didn't the taser kill you, or at least paralysed you by like shutting down your nervous system?" Twilight did have questions.

So was right, even though the taser was a high grade illegal one the was lethal enough to kill an oxe, the guy weilding it was a moron, hit my neck too. It should have done more damage than it did.

My eyes glanced at Death, he who was standing in the back corner of the living room, when his eyes meet mime he smile, and not one of those "I'm so happy you looked me in the eyes" looks, more of a "I just saved your sorry ass, now you owe me" looks.

I chose this moment to answer, "perhaps. I think I might have some protection from someone powerful. Plus the guy with the taser was a moron. Still, I'm lucky."

If the room wasn't as silent as it was then I don't think that we could have heard the next voice, "does this mean, that you, and Rainbow Dash are to-togather?" The voice belonged to the softest spoken person in the room. Fluttershy.

My eyes glance over to Rainbow Dash, who was in par, looking at me. I rose my eyebrow ever so lightly. Seductive, I know. I can't tell if she thinks so. The pigmentation of her cheecks returned to their natural tone. She nods her head softly, the softest I've seen her since our first introduction. This is new to her, as much as it is to me.

"Yeah. Something like that."

Hello. Tis the author; my hiatus should be over with this. It's been a while since updates, I cannot garentee the constistancy of my updates, but I will try to resume them here. I also tried to not end it in such a cliffhanger like last time so if I was in consistant. Alas! The story retaliates! More shall come, but I can't say when.

~Leon P.