Hey guys!
I wouldn't talk about you know what, but I will say that I'm sorry this didn't come out yesterday, wanted to take a little break and write out something for MLP that was in my head for some time.
But now that I'm back to this, lets continue!
Unlikely Partners Part 4
Back with Jewel, the auction has just began, with the first item up for bidding, which were not the museum artifacts. Jewel became impatient as the bidding started.
"Okay, we got an original painting by Leonardo da Vinci up, how about we start the bidding at 50,000 dollars." The auctioneer shouted as he turned to the painting on display for sale.
And at that, most of the room held up their name plates, the auctioneer then continuing to raise up the price higher and higher until there was only one animal who held his name plate.
And so on and on with the many different priceless paintings, artifacts and such until finally the animals bringing out the different items came out with a bunch of ancient looking pottery.
"That's it, that's the museum artifacts." Jewel said quietly to Bia as she then spoke into her earpiece. "Bingo, turn off the lights."
"Right away." Shadow replied through the earpiece as she switched off all the electricity in the mansion.
And what was once a bright and large room for the auction turned into darkness as the only light was the moonlight shining through the windows. Everyone was beginning to panic as they thought it was heist or something, everyone except for Jewel and Bia. Jewel, quickly took off her author's outfit to reveal she has been wearing her adventurer's outfit underneath, turning into Daring Jewel as she took out her whip. Using it she lassoed the pieces of pottery and brought them to her, lightning fast that no one really noticed her.
"You got them?" Bia asked Jewel as the adventurer got the pieces back.
"Yes, come on, we got to get out of here before they figure out what's wrong." Jewel told Bia as the two made their escape along the other animals running in panic.
Before leaving, Jewel quickly put the pottery in her adventurer's bag before holding onto Bia's wing, the two running out of the room and into the dark hallways. The private security team assigned for the night already were running through the hallways with flashlights and guns out, alert as they searched everywhere for the trouble. Jewel and Bia had to be careful as they ran down hallways and stairs, avoiding the security guards and finally making it out of the mansion.
"Shadow, it's Jewel, where are you?" Jewel asked through her earpiece.
"We just left the electricity room, barely managed to get out, we're going back to our hiding spot, meet us there." Shadow responded.
After more sneaking around through the outside of the mansion through the security net, Jewel made her way to the hiding spot, which was behind a brick wall opposite from the front of the mansion that had a brick took out by them to look through. As Jewel arrived, she saw Shadow and the two girls there, breathing a sigh of relief as she put down her adventurer's bag.
"So, you got it?" Shadow asked.
"Yes, I did, barely got out." Jewel answered.
"Where's Bia?" Marion asked, noticing Bia was not with Jewel.
"What are you talking about, she's right behind…" And Jewel stopped as she realized Bia wasn't behind her at all. "Oh no…" Jewel said as she looked back at the mansion.
Meanwhile Mr. Big was trying his best to calm down his guests as the security team got things back under control, restoring the electricity and freeing the two tied up guards they found as well. Mr. Big was talking to those two guards as they were brought before him in his meeting room.
"So, let me get this straight, you got bested by two girls and a woman that were unarmed?" Mr. Big asked.
"Yes, they overpowered us by surprise, and turned off the electricity." One of the guards answered.
"It's true." The other guard explained as a knock on the door sounded.
"Come in." Mr. Big called out.
It was the auctioneer, an otter, coming in with a concerned look on his face.
"Mr. Otterton, anything got stolen?" Mr. Big asked.
"Everything is still in the mansion, except for the recent pottery we got from the museum in Rio de Janeiro, it's missing." Mr. Otterton reported.
"I see…" Mr. Big got to thinking.
However, he couldn't really get to any thinking because another knock came on his door.
"Sure is a busy night…" Mr. Big complained. "Come in."
Now it was one of the security guards who opened the door, with another guard and Bia… Her wings were tied up as she was pushed inside by the guard behind her. Bia was running away with Jewel, but she slipped and fell, completely unnoticed by Jewel, as Bia got up, she found she hurt her leg as she found it hard to walk. And that was when the security guards found her, struggling to still escape, the guards getting her up and captured her.
"And who are you young lady?" Mr. Big asked Bia, who didn't reply.
"She wouldn't talk, we tried everything to make her reveal why she is here." One of the guards answered.
"Not everything…" Mr. Big had an idea. "Bring her to the pool."
Bia became scared as the guards forced her up and brought her to the swimming pool outside the mansion, Mr. Big coming too. As the guards brought Bia to the edge of the pool, Mr. Big asked the same question from before.
"Now I'm going to ask one more time or else my guards wouldn't be as nice as I am being." Mr. Big spoke to Bia. "Why are you here?"
Bia still didn't talk, not believing that Mr. Big would really do something like this to her.
"Very well, it's your choice, dump her." Mr. Big told one of his polar bears, who picked up Bia with one of his paws and held her over the water.
Now Bia was really frightened, even thought she made a word to herself that she would never tell the truth about why she was here, she had to.
"Alright, I'll tell you, just put me back down on the ground!" Bia shouted.
"Works every time." Mr. Big smiled as he was thankful he was going to get to the bottom of this.
Meanwhile Jewel, back with Shadow and the other two girls, was angry at herself for not watching Bia closely.
"How could I be so stupid, I should have made sure she right behind me." Jewel said with tears in her eyes and holding her head with her wings.
"It's not your fault Jewel, you were trying to get away, you has no time to be too careful." Mikka comforted Jewel.
"Yeah and Bia's a smart girl, I bet she's just taking a longer time figuring a way, she'll be here sooner or later." Marion smiled, keeping up hope.
However hope would be over in a second as Shadow called the girls over.
"Girls, I think we have a problem…" Shadow said as she looked through the brick wall opening.
The four females looked through the hole in the wall to see Mr. Big, Bia, and a couple of polar bears standing on a balcony on the mansion's front. Mr. Big had a microphone as he then spoke.
"To those of you who have the pottery I acquired, I would like them back and in exchange I will give back your partner, you have only 24 hours to decide, come to the front of the mansion where I will be waiting." Mr. Big announced.
Shadow and the two teenage girls looked at Jewel.
"We're getting Bia back." Jewel answered their silent question.
"But, we can't just return the pottery to them." Mikka noted.
"We also can't just leave France without Bia." Marion reminded Mikka.
"I think I have an idea where we can get both." Shadow suggested as she had a smug smile on.
So what's the idea that Shadow has?
You have to wait until next part to find out! See you than!
