Rachel made her way down to the boiler room about fifteen minutes early and took a deep breath when she stopped at the door. She closed her eyes and clenched her fists. Taking further deep breaths, Rachel proceeded to open the door and ventured down the stairs.
The door behind her slammed shut unexpectedly, causing her to jump. "That didn't happen last time…" she muttered softly. Rachel grunted before going to the door and tried to open it again; however, this time it didn't
"Okay...door won't open...that is a pure sign that I need to get the fuck out," Rachel said to herself.
Rachel then had an idea to go and call the twins to get them to open the door. She pulled out her cellphone and goes to call them up. Pressing the phone up to her ear, she hears a flatline noise and hissed. "Again, another sign to get out." She then started banging on the door. "Hello? Can anyone hear me? The door is stuck and I can't get out." She called out.
But after a few minutes of silence, no one could hear her.
"Not good too…"
Door closes all of the sudden, no one hears Rachel, and now no cell signal. This was freaking her out.
A loud clutter caused her to jump and shout. "Whoa!" She looked over her shoulder and gazed down the dark stairwell. "Hello?" Rachel then started to hear a eerie hum. "Okay, time to get the fuck out." She tries to open the door but then quickly reminded that the door was glued shut. "Fucking hell…" she groaned. "I'm stuck in a horror flick...so cliche…" Rachel sighed. She turned on the flashlight on her phone and peered down the stairwell. "Okay, do the dumb blonde bit and investigate the creepy noises...or stay up here and be eaten by zombies….Okay, no more staying up late to watch scary movies...and I need to stop talking to myself and move."
And with that, she moved down the stairs, using the light on her phone to light the way.
She got to the bottom, the area was lit up by the furnace. Rachel saw a dark figure standing in front of the fire, humming softly.
"Spike?" Rachel called out for him, really hoping it was him….
And kinda not...more murdering girlfriend in a dark spooky basement slasher horror flick flashing in her- okay she really has a problem when this is the worst situation to a guy she really likes a lot.
Mental note: STOP WATCHING SCARY SLASHER MOVIES, RACHEL!
When she gotten closer, she noticed that the dark figure was shorter than Spike...and has pony ears and tail.
"Sorry babe, not him…" Bouncer reveals himself, turning around. "Though, it would be sweeter if that lizard was here."
Surprisingly, the burning furnace wasn't going out by how cold this just got.
Rachel immediately starts backing away when she felt arms wrapping around her waist and hoisted her up, causing her to drop the phone.
"HEY! LET ME GO!" Rachel screamed loudly, kicking the air freely.
"Wow, she's squirmy!" one of the goons, the Scrawny one, commented.
Bouncer chuckled softly. "Oh I've been waiting to do this for a while." he said, popping his knuckles.
"Just a sec." A new familiar voice came from the steps.
All of them looked up and horns lit up.
It was Rarity.
"Rarity!? What the fuck is going on?" Rachel snapped, struggling in the pony's grip.
"Hmm, let's just call it justice." Rarity said, glaring at Rachel as she walked down the steps.
"Justice? For what? I thought we were good on Spike?!"
Rarity pushed her hair aside and show off the bandaid on her head from the can hitting her. "We were...till your friends attacked me."
"But it wasn't my fault!" Rachel stated. "I didn't know they were going to do it. I told them to back off but they didn't listen apparently."
"You ruined my reputation! The videos and pictures taken were posted online! Everypony can now see that I'm the laughing stalk of the fashion world!" Rarity roared at her.
"I didn't!"
Rarity humphed. "Well, I did hire these nice gents who wanted their...pound of flesh, originally for Spike but now it's just personal with my fashion. Might as well get what I paid for." She turns to Bouncer. "You may continue."
Bouncer chuckled darkly before turning to Rachel, and roughly punched her right in the gut.
Rachel gasped, the wind knocking out of her and she slumped over, wheezing.
Bouncer chuckled softly as he leaned down, grabbing her chin and jerked her face up and was close to her face. "That was for the other day." He tells her before reaching over with his free hand and grabbing her hair and jerked it back.
She shouted and snarled, looking up at him.
"Give it to her more, I want a turn, Bounce." The Scrawny one cackled. The fat one agreed with a chuckle.
"Oh i plan on it!" He said shouted before the unicorn lets go of her face and his fist made it contact so hard, it knocked Rachel out of the Scrawny one's hold, knocking her to the ground. Her arm making contact with the shelf next to it.
Bouncer came over to her and starts kicking . His goons came around and started kicking her as well. Rachel had herself in a tight ball as they kick the crap out of her.
Rarity hummed softly, taking a seat on the stairwell and watched them. "So this what it feels like to be on this side...repulsive...but so...divine." she giggled darkly. She watched the pounding for a moment before her stomach started to ache funny. "Ooh, that's strange…" She muttered, hearing her tummy making strange noises and getting upset.
The drink Rachel made for her was coming back… and what was worst was the human tried to warn her about it.
Rarity groans before whistling loudly to the boys. "Alright, alright, let her up." She really needs to go, but she wants to stop and watch this...hopefully she could hold it in.
After one more swift kick to the side, Bouncer and his boys backed away. He turned to Rarity and growled. "What now?" Clearly, Bouncer was far from done with Rachel.
Rachel coughed loudly, her sides were were screaming in pain. But the pain was familiar to her and she knows how to move around it. She slowly got to her knees, using the shelf next to her to help her up. Her jaw was cut and bleeding from the punch. She turned to the shelf and eyes at it and saw a wrench. She looked back towards the furnace and saw a lever there next to it that said "Unless emergency, do not pull"
From when she came here yesterday, she remembered that they also used the boiler room for extra storage.
She spat some excess blood to the ground and glared at all of them.
"They won't touch you anymore, darling." Rarity told Rachel. "If you renounce your relationship from Spike and the girls and I never see you again, or else these boys will continue. And judging by darling Bouncer here, he wants some more."
Surprised to all of them, her response… Rachel started chuckling.
"Huh?" both Rarity and Bouncer said in unison.
"You guys…" Rachel said, looking at them with a smirk, a hand reaching over the shelf and grabbing the wrench.
She quickly swung the wrench at the fat pony. Slamming it on his foot, causing him to yell out in pain. She used the butt end and ramming it against the Scrawny one's balls. She stood up, surprising Bouncer and slammed the flat head of the wrench across his muzzle.
The fat one hopped around, no doubt his foot broken, the Scrawny one was on his knees, his hands over his crotch moaning and Bouncer was on the ground, rubbing his muzzle. Blood in his eyes.
Rarity jumped at Rachel's surprise attack, standing up and leaning against the railing.
Both she and Bouncer looked at Rachel.
"-have no idea who the fuck you're messing with!" Rachel shouted at them.
Spike had made his way to the upper cabins. He saw the twins outside of their room, the maintenance pony was examining the broken door. Rachel's scent, it was all over the place. She was just here.
"Oh shit." Gemcity commented, seeing Spike first approaching them.
Ruby straightened up and grunted, seeing him.
Spike took one look at the maintenance pony and he got the heck out of there. Intimidated by the purple dragon.
"We need to talk." Spike told them.
"Yeah...we do." Ruby said softly. Gem using her twin as a meat shield against him.
Spike was still mad, still angry for what happened. But right now, he was mad at the situation, mad at him. On the way up here, he recollected on what happened, going by scene by scene. He yelled at Rachel for something that it wasn't her fault…
Something her father would've done…. Damn he feels like a total ass…
"Why…?" Spike said simply. And that one tiny word was all it took.
"It was meant to be a harmless prank." Ruby said, standing to him. "Rachel had nothing to do with it."
"That mare of yours really stir us up when we spoke to her the other day." Gem said, rubbing her arm. "All we wanted to do was to protect our baby sister."
"We didn't exactly think things through...especially on the account you coming up and….scaring us…" Ruby said, remember the can knocking over.
Spike sighed, wanting to kick himself in the ass for doing that. "Yeah...both of us didn't think. Still...you two have to talk to Rarity and apologize."
Both of the twins looked at each other. "Wow...Rachel must've calmed your ass down." Gem said.
Spike then looked confused. "Uh, Rachel did what now?" He asked.
"Rachel? You texted her earlier saying you two need to talk." Ruby said.
Spike was baffled. "Text? What text?" he asked. The three of them looked at each other. Both of their eyes widened.
All three of them were duped.
"Where is she?" Spike asked loudly.
"You bitch!" Bouncer snarled, scrambling up on his his feet, his horn sparked it's usual cobalt blue. He engulfed Rachel in it, lifting her body into the air. She struggled before Bouncer threw her across room.
Rachel hit the back wall with a shout and fell to the ground, she lost the wrench along the way. She looked up and saw Bouncer and the Scrawny pony coming after her.
Gritting her teeth, she quickly got back up her feet and took off.
Bouncer quickly grabbed her, wrapping his arms around her arms with a humorless laugh. "Slippery, aren't ya!" He snarled.
Rachel snarled before she stomped his right hoof as hard with her shoe. Bouncer winced at the pain but not before she elbowed him painfully right in the gut and slipped away.
She sees the Scrawny goon running towards her; she then slides to the ground, her legs sweeping right under the pony's legs, knocking him unbalanced and collided somewhere else. As she got up, Bouncer tackles her back to the ground.
The two wrestled on the ground before Bouncer straddles on Rachel, he lifts his fist up and slams it down. Rachel managed to move her head to the side just in time as her attacker's fist collided with ground.
"Fuck!" Bouncer cursed loudly.
Rachel's hands extend out, feeling the ground to find something to use as a weapon. But when she didn't, she bundled up some dirt in her hands and threw it directly into the pony's eyes.
Bouncer shouted, his eyes watered and he shut them, trying to dig the dirt out. Rachel uses that as a distraction to throw her body weight around, rolling on top of him. Rachel balled her hands together and hits him hard across the muzzle.
Bouncer growled, his magic lit up and flung her across the room again.
Rachel let out a shout when she made contact with a pile of boxes stacked in a corner. They fell the same time she collapsed onto the floor. A few of the boxes came apart and scattered it's contents all along the floor and on her.
One of them being a bow and arrow - mostly likely left over from the last cruise judging the aging and the fact the arrow looked dull despite having its usual jagged teeth-like sides.
But Rachel didn't care. She grabbed the two items, she kneeled up before wincing in pain, wrapping an arm around her stomach. "Not fond of this pain coming back…"
She looks back up and saw the fat pony waddling up to her. If she had to guess if she had time to analyze this - he was going to crush her.
Taking deep breaths, she forced herself up to her feet and meet him head on. She took the bow and jabbed the end of it into the fat pony's stomach, hearing him shout before hearing Scrawny running up behind her.
Rachel whirls around with the bow, sliding it over the pony's neck, the string on the back of his neck. She held onto the handle part, pulling it back and lets go, it snapped back hard, hitting him squarely on the muzzle.
"Mother fucker!" Scrawny cried out before Rachel spun around and kicked him in the gut.
Bouncer comes after her just as she spun, grabbing hold of her right arm. He hits her shoulder with all of the force he could muster.
A loud popping sound and this sheer pain coursed through her body. She let out a scream before Bouncer punched Rachel squarely in the face. He busted her bottom lip before throwing her to the ground with his hands around her neck and began choking her.
Rachel gasped loudly, feeling the pony crushing her windpipe. She held the arrow in her hand. She quickly forced the arrow into his side.
Bouncer screamed loudly with the sudden piercing pain. He rolled off of her and held his now bleeding side.
"You cunt!" He snarled.
Rachel coughed haphazardly, her free hand went behind her head, reaching for her dislocated. She them made a reach for her other hand, she felt her shoulder popping back into place. She let out a scream following a sudden relief from pain.
"Mother fucker!" She cried out. "I certainly don't welcome this bitch of a pain-oh fuck!" She groaned loudly.
Rachel, as fast as she could, rolling up to her feet and then raced to the lever, her bad arm pinned to her chest.
Rarity couldn't believe what she was human girl...just took these gents on! "Just what are you?!" She called out, on the verge of actually crapping on herself. Both by fear and that drink coming back and biting her in the ass.
Rachel turns to Rarity just as she grabbed hold of the lever. "Just a girl using the bat signal." she said before pulling the lever down.
The whole ship started groaning, the machinery stopped…
And the whole zeppelin began falling.
Just as Spike asked the twins about the whereabouts of Rachel, the ship began falling. Him and the twins were flung to the wall.
Those who weren't so fortunate to have a wall, fell from the skies.
Twilight, Starlight, RD, Fluttershy and other pegasi grabbed those who do not have wings or have the spell to levitate and all of them holding up as much as they could as the ship plummet.
There was so much screaming from the passengers and the wind whistling in the air.
The zeppelin fell several thousand feet from the sky when all of the sudden the ship's machinery started to turn. The machines moaned and groaned before the ship starts back up. Halting the freefall.
"WHOA!" those who were stuck to the wall fell flat on the hallway.
The ship then was raisen back up to the correct height and started to make its way towards it's objective course.
The twins groaned in unison, peeling themselves up on the ground and looked at each other. "What the fuck was that?" they asked in unison.
Spike grunted, shaking his head before placing a hand on his snout, rubbing it. "I would I like to know."
Him and the twins collected themselves up on the ground and takes off to the main deck. The pegasi, Twilight and Starlight lowered to the ground with the non flyers.
"What the hell was that?!" Applejack shouted out loud as RD lowered her to the ground.
"The cruise ship fall a few thousand feet and it restarted itself back up." Pinkie pie giggled as Starlight put her and few dozen of the humans down.
Spike and the twins ran up to the girls. "Are you guys alright?" Spike asked them.
"We're fine, but that was super, duper scary!" Fluttershy whimpered. Angel Bunny clung to her arm for dear life. His life flashing before his tiny black eyes.
"Are you okay?" Twilight asked him.
"Got a wicked crick in my neck but other than that, I'm fine." He then looked towards the crowd. Trying to find the one human in the crowd. Hoping she was okay.
"Do you see her?" Gemcity asked Ruby, both of them craning their necks up to find Rachel.
"No, I don't." Ruby groaned. Both of them were worried sick and it was easily shown on their faces.
Spike then turned towards the Captain and his First Mate. They both talked and going down the list of passengers, what they said got his blood going.
"What exactly happened?" Sea Sun asked his first mate.
"The- the emergency lever was turned on sir." the unicorn said, holding up the list of passengers in his hand. "It has a ten second kill switch before the ship restarts itself and put itself back on course."
"Good thing." The cap said, though is fearing that his butt is gonna get sued. "Do we have all passengers at present?"
The first mate shook his head. "Negative. We have all account but four. A Ms. Rarity, A-a Rachel Lockhart, Bouncer, Sticks and Bob. They are not all accounted for."
Bouncer…
At that moment, Spike thought that pony and his goons had taken Rachel and Rarity there to get to him… he and Bouncer have bad blood during this cruise… at that moment, that's what Spike figured.
Spike started snarling deeply before turning towards the twins. "Did Rach mentioned anything about where she'd be?"
"T-the boiler room. Spike, what's going on?" Ruby then asked.
"I don't know….but I'm gonna find out what." He said before taking off.
"Spike!" Twilight called out, flying right in front of him. "Spike, what's going on? Where are you going?"
"Twilight, find security, now, take them to the boiler room and they better be fucking fast." Spike hissed, pushing the princess aside and stormed away towards the room.
The security ponies better be fast….
Or else Spike is going to fucking kill Bouncer.
"Ow…." Rarity groans. She lifted her head up from the ground. She felt really, really sore all over. As if she actually fell off of something.
She then realized that she fell off of the railing of the steps. "That damned human could've killed us."
Rarity look up and saw a pair of converse right at her eyesight. She followed to where the shoes belonged to and froze in sight.
"Oh trust me, Raribitch, if I wanted to kill you, it won't be in a dusty old basement you stupid cunt." Rachel growled. She had a gash over her left eye from hitting her head sometime after pulling the lever. Blood seemed to pour over it, causing her eye to shut to block the blood. She still pinned her wounded arm to her chest, her shoulder was screaming in pain but it wasn't dislocated again.
Rarity yelped before scrambling up to her hooves, backing up to the stairwell. "S-stay away from me! Y-you're not even human!"
Rachel rolled her good eye from that comment. "I know how to handle myself, basic self defence. I'm not special." She stepped towards Rarity. "Rarity, listen to me, you haven't physically done anything towards me….yet. We can still get out of this as friends."
Rarity looked at her with a confused look. "What?"
Rachel took another step. "We'll say that Bouncer and his goons kidnapped up, Three against two, kinda unfair odds, especially with us being females. We can say we fought them off and pulled the lever to use for someone to come down to our rescue."
"Why are you saying all that?! I set them up for you!" Rarity shouted.
Another step Rachel took, she lifted up a good hand out to the mare.
"As fucked up as it sounds, I want to be your friend still. You haven't actually attacked me, Bouncer and his boys did. Not you. There is still a chance to redeem yourself. But if you do take a swing, one: it better be a fucking good one. Two: I will break your horn when you do take a swing - and trust me, I have done it before. It was actually during me breaking a bar fight up and I accidently snapped a unicorn's horn off, - ANYWAY! We can get out of this without anymore violence and bloodshed, We'll keep this to ourselves…"
Rarity didn't really understood this. Why would Rachel would want to be friends after all of this. "Are you insane?" She asked her.
Rachel shrugged. "Maybe, weird? Abso-fucking-lutely." She smiled softly, still holding her hand out. "Take my hand, Rarity...We can get out of here, together."
Rarity groans softly as she slowly got up to her hooves. Her heels clicked together and she helped herself up. She looked at the wounded girl and bit her lips. Even after everything… Rachel still wanted to be her friend…
Another realization hit her, this was what she and the other girls do with villians...forgiving them and giving them a second chance...like Rachel was…
The unicorn looked at her hand and looked back at the human. Her body shaken after whatever she just went through wore off. She looked at Rachel, thinking what she just said.
Just as she thought of what to do, Rachel was consumed in the cobalt blue aura. She looked at Rarity with wide eyes before she was flung to the ground.
Rarity let out a shout before seeing Bouncer rolled out, he straddled on top of Rachel and put his hands over her neck and squeezed hard.
Rachel tried to fight him off, even digging into the arrow in his side. Bouncer grunted loudly in pain but he didn't move. His eyes bloodshot and his adrenaline was all over the place. Bouncer tightened his grip on her.
She gasped and choked out, Rachel tried to hit Bouncer, do anything she could to try and get him off of her. But there was nothing. Bouncer choked her till her eyes rolled the back of her head and her hands hit the ground.
Bouncer lets go of her and sit up, breathing heavily. His horn was chipped from that her little stunt with the ship and it sparked mostly out of anger and pain.
Rarity whimpered, her hands to her chest as she inched over to them. Scrawny pony - Sticks - helped his fat friend over to them.
"Is...is she dead?" Rarity asked quietly, her heart beating out of her chest.
"No, she's alive...for now." Bouncer grunted, glaring down at the human girl underneath him.
"Bounce, we gotta go, Bob here can barely walk." Sticks told him. "I think his foot is broken."
"You're hurt too." Bob - fat pony - said to him.
Bouncer didn't say anything at that. Though his side was bleeding, he wasn't moving. He kept staring down at Rachel. There was something about her like this… something that was drawing him to her. His eyes lowered down, looking at her breasts.
Rarity coughed loudly to get his attention. "Bouncer, Darling, I think your services are no longer required." She said before meeting with Bouncer's glare. "N-now, I already deposited the bits into your account….L-let's get out of here, shall we?" Her voice shook with each syllable coming out of her mouth.
"Naw…" Bouncer said, his voice dark. "I'm not finished with this one yet.."
"What are you…" Rarity trailed off when she saw Bouncer began to rip the unconscious human's clothes.
"Dude, you can fuck the hairless ape later, we gotta go!" Sticks shouted at him. "Security will be here any moment now!"
"No one can get in. That door is magically shut. It always has been since this bitch here - " the unicorn in question glared at Rarity, "- shut the door. Quite a spell isn't it."
Judging by the tone of his voice… this wasn't his first time using this spell…
Rarity couldn't believe what she was seeing and hearing this. She was appalled by this. "Bouncer, this is enough, please stop." Her voice grew louder.
But Bouncer didn't listen to her pleas and continued to grope Rachel, going lower to touch her other sacred parts.
Rarity shuddered in memory, her mind taken back to that human a year ago. She was in the same position as Rachel was… him all over her…
Gritting her teeth, Rarity ran over to Bouncer and tried to push him off of Rachel. "That's enough! I won't have it, you hear me!" She screamed at him.
"Fuck off!" Bouncer roughly pushes her back.
Rarity stumbles back, running into a pile of rubble. Rarity shook her head before looking up and saw Bouncer was proceeding his plan, ripping Rachel's shorts to try and get them off!
Rarity has to stop this. Her horn glowed - now returned to her vibrant blue - picks up an object, the wrench Rachel dropped earlier. She held the wrench in the air as she stood up.
"GET OFF OF HER!" Rarity shouted before using her magic and threw the wrench right at him with all of her might.
The wrench spun in the air before colliding into the stallion. Hitting him right on his horn.
Pegasi have their sensitive wings, unicorns have their sensitive horns. They can cause pleasure if used right...but hitting it as hard as Rarity did, causing it to crack.
Bouncer was knocked off of Rachel and was on the ground, the wind knocked out of him. His ears starts ringing. His horn where the wrench hit him had a nasty looking crack right where his horn was chipped. His magic sparked out of the crack.
The room became silent. Even the frightened rats in the boiler room was quiet.
Rarity ran over to Rachel and tried to shake her to wake up. "Darling, sweetie, I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry, please wake up, wake up!" Rarity frantically shook her shoulders Already, she regrets this decision. "Rachel, wake up, wake up!"
Rarity wasn't paying attention when Bouncer came back up. He grabbed her by her neck out of surprise and lifted her up.
Now Bouncer's attention was on the mare. "Now...you're next…" Bouncer hissed, seeing Rarity kicking and grabbing his hand, trying to have him let go but she felt her airways being crushed.
Just as Rarity was about to lose her consciousness, there was a sudden loud bang coming from the top of the stairs.
At first it made all of them jump. Bouncer drops Rarity as a second bang occured. Rarity fell to the ground, coughing haphazardly, holding her neck.
Bouncer, Sticks and Bob look right up at the stairwell. The metal door was turning molting red before it flew off its hinges, bouncing down the steps and then crashed somewhere in the boiler room.
A roar was heard from up above. Bouncer looked up to see what it was. A shadow charged towards him, a ball of fire shot straight towards him.
Bouncer gasped loudly before jumping out of the fire's path. The fire hit a pile of fallen debris and briefly ignited in a bright green brazier.
The source of it landed in front of the burning pile. Casting an eerie green shadow, Spike slowly stood tall, a deep predatorial growl came out of his snout.
Sticks and Bob yelp out of fright seeing the dragon. As fast as they could, they backed away from him.
Spike turned to the ground to see the girls and his eyes at Rachel. Seeing her in the state she was in. Her blood pouring from various places, bruises already taken form where it looked like she was repeatedly kicked, her clothes ripped. If it wasn't for Rarity draping herself over her body, Rachel's body would be utterly exposed.
Rarity whimpered loudly, her make-up was running down her face from crying, a hand over her neck.
Both girls had bruises around their necks… Spike growled loudly before turning towards Bouncer. Bouncer chuckled, wiping his mouth.
"Oh the party now starts." He laughs.
Spike wasn't in a party mood. His friend was hurt; the one he love lying in a bloody mess. Whatever leash he had to control his anger; the suppressed anger he had since this whole cruise, the times he snapped at Rarity was him holding back.
Whatever force that had held Spike back just disappeared. Spike's pupils shrunk to thin slits as he stared at Bouncer.
Bouncer chuckled, though Rachel had done a number on him. His side still bleeding from the arrow but he was confident and cocky enough to take on Spike.
Spike let out a roar before running off towards Bouncer and threw the first punch. His fist swung towards Bouncer's jaw.
Bouncer ducked down just in time before repeatedly punched the dragon's right side and cococked his face.
Spike stumbled back but was back in. All bets were off. He charged back, throwing punches left and right.
Bouncer tries deflect the blows but he was struck on his stomach, the chest, jaw. Spike wasn't giving the pony a chance to fight back.
Spike was out for blood and was determined to kill Bouncer. Repeatedly punching Bouncer's arrow wound. Making it much much worse.
Bouncer yelled out, blood drenched his shirt. He managed to duck down from the final blow before bring sharp blows to Spike's ribs. Bringing his left hoof down onto Spike's knee with a glass shattering kick.
Spike roared out in pain as he was brought to the ground. Bouncer uses that to throw an uppercut, sending Spike down to the ground.
Bouncer chuckled, seeing Spike slowly collecting himself off the ground. "This is much anticipated." He said, getting ready to use his magic on the dragon, intent of causing much pain. There was something in his eyes, he was enjoying this.
Spike snarled, feeling the twing of sulfur dancing along his tastebuds. He whipped towards Bouncer and without hesitation, opened his mouth and breathed out green flames at him. Shooting at him.
Bouncer shouted as he flung his arms up to protect himself. He was flung back by the blast, his arms horribly burned. He growled before he starts using his magic. It pained him due to the horrible crack on his horn but he choose to ignore the pain.
From what he could pick up from the debris in the boiler room and flung it at Spike with a shout.
Spike wraps his wings around him to use as a shield to protect him from most of the flying objects. Gritting his teeth when feeling his wings getting damaged. When there was no more being flung at him, he unfurls his wings and charged at the pony. His claws extended out.
Just as he was being tackled to the ground, Bouncer's hands found a rather sharp pointy object. When Spike pounced on him and goes to slash him, Bouncer takes the object and stabs the dragon deeply into his chest.
Rarity screamed as soon as she saw that. "SPIKEY!" she covered her mouth and quivers. That scream alone had the two injured stallions looked at their friend and had Rachel stirring.
Spike gasped loudly, the wound started bleeding dragon blood. Bouncer used that element of surprise to kick him off.
"Bounce! This as gone far enough." Bob shouted at him. "Big bro, c'mon, please!"
"Dude, listen to your baby brother, we need to fucking go!" Sticks told Bouncer.
"Relax guys, I got where I want with this pussy!" Bouncer laughed, giving Spike a strong kick in the face, sending him back. Spike groans as he slowly tried to stand up.
"Stop this, please stop!" Rarity cried out. "Don't hurt him!"
Spike spatted the blood from his snout as he slowly grabbed the object and with a pull and a shout, he rips the sharp thing out of his chest and heaves heavily. Blood seeping through his white shirt, staining it as it grew. He gets down to his hands and knees and growled deeply, closing his eyes.
Bouncer began to advance towards him once more before he heard Spike shouted out.
Steam starts to visibility rise from his shoulders, his bloody shirt started to project burning holes, especially around where he was stabbed. Beside the burning sensation smell from Bouncer's arms, there was a strong burning of flesh coming from Spike. Upon closer inspection, one would see that where he was stabbed was being cauterized, being set on fire from within Spike.
Something Scalder actually shown him how a few years back. Who knew he'd actually used it on himself.
Bouncer staggers back, seeing Spike actually healing himself and gotten up and lunged at him like a raging beast coming from the depths of Tartarus.
The look at Spike's …. Bouncer might be a monster to some… but this guy was a true creature...
Spike uses everything he has from his claws, tail, even snapping at him with his monstrous teeth and breathing quick bursts of flames.
Bouncer realized now that he may be in trouble. He kept sending magical objects at Spike but nothing was working. His horn sparked more and more through the crack and it was slowly growing. He turns to his friend and sibling.
"Help!" Bouncer pleaded at them as he tries to not let Spike connected at him.
Bob and Sticks were paled by the dragon. The two looked at each other and slowly backed away from the scene out of fright.
"GUYS!" Bouncer shouted before feeling Spike wrapping his hand over the pony's neck and lifts him up high and then throws him to the ground.
"Some friends you got…" Spike hissed softly to Bouncer before grabbing the unicorn's horn.
With a sharp twist and a blood curdling scream, Spike snapped Bouncer's horn off. He goes to thrust the broken horn into Bouncer before he heard new voices.
"RACHEL! Oh my Celestia, no!"
Spike snapped around to see who it was before gasping. He sees Ruby and Gemcity over to a now dazed Rachel.
Ruby had pulled Rachel to her lap and held her close and Gem hugged them both. The two sexlings were in tears. Security ponies stormed down, looking at the scene.
"Oh baby, no." Gem cried, kissing Rachel's forehead. "Everything is gonna be fine, it's gotta be…"
"G-guys…?" Rachel muttered, looking confused.
Gem peeled off a coat Ruby was wearing before throwing it over Rachel's body.
The security sees the three ponies and Spike. Their lights flashed at Spike. His eyes widened….
He slowly dropped the broken horn as the security ponies scattered inside, shouting at Spike to get down to the floor.
And he did.
Hours later after sorting things out, Spike was in the infirmary, icing his ugly bruised knee, having his minor cuts taken care of and bandaged his chest wound. It was healed now but the medics on the ship just wanted to make sure.
Twilight and the others stuck around, all of them were worried about Spike and Rarity. Rarity was lucky enough to suffer just a bruised neck and minor cuts.
Rachel though, she fought back hard against Bouncer and his asshole associations, Spike hasn't heard anything back.
After they saw Bouncer and others taken to the brig where they'll be taken to actual prison once they'll docked, Spike tried to get to Rachel but there was just too much chaos.
Spike believed what Rarity said what happened. That she and Rachel met up to talk when Bouncer and his guys kidnapped them to bring him out. Though he had many questions, Spike's just glad they're okay…
He hoped….from what he saw from Rachel, she looked horrible. Bouncer was about to… Spike shuddered in thought of that bastard all over her.
But since he couldn't see her, he turned to Rarity who was in the bed next to him. With Pinkie and Starlight sitting on the bed.
"Are you alright?" Spike asked the primadonna pony.
Rarity sipped on a drink of water and nodded. "I'm fine...considering what happened." she said softly. "I want this cruise to end…"
"This hasn't been a fun vacation," Rainbow Dash commented.
"It's been a scary one all week." Fluttershy said, Angel bunny nodded to that.
"I'm sorry guys," Starlight sighed heavily. "I thought a cruise would be a nice getaway. But with everypony getting hurt, you Spike especially,"
"You didn't know." Twilight commented. "Those three stallions will get what's coming to them."
They have no idea… Spike darkly thought.
Later, Spike was given the Okay to leave the infirmary and head back to his cabin. Might as well pack up, they'll be docking soon.
Spike made sure he had everything in check, but something was bothering him. The conversation he and the twins had were replaying. A text message… He doesn't remember sending one to Rachel…
To check, Spike took his phone out of his pocket. It was badly damaged with spider-webbing cracks on the screen. Must've gotten damaged from the fight. But it was able to light up so that was fortunate. Spike goes towards his messages and scrolled down and down.
He felt his heart stopped when he saw the messages between him and Rachel. The ones Spike never typed…
"Who had my phone?" Spike asked to himself. He thought back where he could've left his phone. He doesn't remember leaving it to where Bouncer could get his hands on it.
This...this slow realization began creeping up to him. A chill down his spine.
No...No, it was impossible. She couldn't...she could've done it. Spike paced around, getting his head assorted as the clock strikes twelve, transiting to the midnight hour. Towards the seventh day…
The more he thought about it, the more Spike believed it. His hands crushed the phone and threw it across the cabin. It flew to the open bathroom and collided with the mirror and shattered it.
A gentle knock came to the door...
