Crackle rushed through the town proper at a good clip, before going up a side street that snaked upwards. She was probably the strongest one out of the entire group. Not to mention fastest and the only girl. She looked around trying to find some kind of familiar landmark, they had decided to meet back up somewhere... now if only she could remember where.
She sighed angrily and wrapped the slip that she had stolen from the store around her shoulders. Sure they had initially gone there to mess the place up, maybe frighten the family that lived there, maybe go a little further...but only if Garble said so!
Anyway she knew him, he wouldn't do something like that. He was better than that. He wouldn't purposefully hurt anyone, he wasn't like Clunk and Grunt, those two were sadists. And he certainly was much more loyal than Spike.
The little jerk had all of this coming, if he had just stayed on board, or at least not have screwed all of them over as horribly as he did...
But she shouldn't waste brain power thinking about him. She had more important things to worry about.
Like where the heck was the landmark that they were supposed to meet up under? She took a deep breath and paused just outside of a apartment building, she had somehow gotten on top of a small hill, she had a decent view of the entire town. She looked up and slowly mouthed out the words on the sign.
C-L-O-U-D-S-D-A-L-E B-L-U-F-F-S
Cloudsdale Bluffs.
Weird name. She had spent about two minutes actually reading it, it wasn't like she was slow or nothing, she just didn't get the whole grasp on reading, or writing, or mathematics. Still she could take three big dogs in a fight so how much book learning did she honestly need?
She turned away from the apartment and looked out over the town. There were some sirens and flashing lights, but they were so far away that she couldn't even make out where they were. She forced her eyes to face the same way for once and gritted her teeth. She had to concentrate now, she had to remember where exactly they were supposed to meet up...and what it looked like.
A girl with crazy straw colored hair and cross eyes walked past her, she had a mailbag over one shoulder. She smiled and waved. Crackle glowered down at her. The girl quickly skittered past.
"Excuse me." The girl said as she ducked into the building and pushed past some other girl who was rushing out. The girl had rainbow colored hair and half of a jacket on, she had a bag of coffee clamped firmly in her mouth. She got out and looked around the streets and foliage, as if she intended to bushwhack down to town. It would probably be much faster than taking the roads anyway.
The two girls stood beside each other for a moment just staring out at the town. The rainbow colored girl stiffened and looked at her out of the corner of her eye before turning to face her entirely.
"That's a really nice wrap." Rainbow Dash said carefully to the big girl. Crackle did not respond except to let out a little moan. IT was nice, would probably get them fifty bucks, eighty if they threatened. Hopefully the others had stolen stuff to pawn too. They needed the money.
"In fact it looks just like something my good friend made. She made it special like you see. There's only one in existence. And she cares about it a ton. She even embroidered her name into it." Rainbow Dash began to approach the larger girl aggressively. She didn't see size, nor did she she knew was that some folks had broken into Rarity's house and messed it up. She said one was a huge girl.
Crackle looked down at the wrap. There was writing on it, she couldn't read it upside down though.
"Her name is Rarity." Rainbow Dash hissed out. Crackle didn't wait, she spun on her heel and sprinted.
"HEY!" Rainbow shouted and gave chase. The girl was big, but she was fast, not especially crafty though, she ran the same way and when she turned it was in big loops. Rainbow could follow her, she was just concerned about keeping up with her. She had longer legs so she pumped hers twice as fast.
Crackle quickly left the road and began to spring through the forest. Unconcerned with the branches racking her face and ripping her hair in clumps. Rainbow Dash jumped over a log that this bigger girl had stepped over. She thought she knew where they were headed, she just hopped she was still awake.
Crackle ran into a clearing, a smaller street, the houses further apart, and they looked more like cottages. Like something out of those fairytale books they read before they needed to turn them into firewood. It had been a rough winter. She slowed a little and looked around in awe.
She was cutting across a yard when a whooshing sound came from her left. A frying pan hit her square in the jaw. She groaned and slowly spun a little. She still stood and she glowered at the frightened girl in the doorway. She had dropped the pan and held her hands in pain.
"Flutters!" Rainbow Dash gasped as she caught up "Stop-huff-HER!"
Crackle did not wait, she picked up the pan and whipped it at the approaching girl with all her strength. She didn't stop to see if it hit, she just turned and ran.
Rainbow dove to the ground and the pan went whistling over her head. She looked up but the girl had disappeared. She was too exhausted to go after her anyway.
"DANG IT!"
"I'm sorry Rainbow." Fluttershy said softly as she kneeled beside the panting girl.
"Is-fine-get-text?" She panted out. Fluttershy nodded.
"Eyup. Rarity texted me and anything. We should get down there...who was that?" Rainbow Dash shakily got to her feet, her knees felt week, she had pushed herself too much.
"Tell you later. Got your bike?" Fluttershy quickly ran behind her house and pushed it out. Rainbow nodded appreciatively, she then sat down onto the handlebars. They had done this a few times with Fluttershy normally in Rainbows spot, but she felt too weak to actually peddle.
"You got this?" She asked concerned.
Fluttershy smiled in response and began to languidly peddle the bike down the silent nighttime street. Rainbow Dash sat as still as she could, she could smell Fluttershy just inches behind her. She smelt...soft.
