Melinda Ramos, preferred a simple life. She was shy and introverted as a child, still is but she's managed. She had all she'd wanted, a nice family, friends. It was all good, except for one little thing that has plagued her all her life.

Which we'll get too later.

"FREEZE!" Meli froze at the command, just docking and she was already caught. Bright lights cascaded her from behind, "Step away from the boat with your hands behind your head." she gulped before stepping away from the boat, hands behind her head.

"I be-be-be-beg of you...… go away." she begged while shivering.

At the end of the dock, the owner of the voice made their way down. "Listen ma'am, I'm not gonna hurt you." they said in the most comforting tone they can make, "But I'm gonna have to take you in, on the charges of breaking n entering, grand theft speedboat, and kidnapping. So just turn around quietly and we can make it through without any casualties."

Meli heard the steps stop, but her heart rate just kept beating like a jackhammer on freshly dried cement. She gulped before slowing turning her body, eyes clenched shut as she showed her face to the voice's visor covered face. She heard the officer gasp, she slowly opened one to see the person remove his helmet.

"Meli?" spoke a man with short black hair, wearing a padded dark blue suit, with an AK-47 in his right hand. Her anxiety spiking seeing his face, someone very familiar to her.

"Please leave Arman." she pleaded as she lowered her head.

"Is this... is this what you've been doing since we broke up?" Arman questioned, after a rocky 1st grade field trip to Dairy Land thanks to some not so helpful tips from her childhood friend Lola, the two bonded over their love of ponies. The rest was history.

Meli just took a few breathes before exclaimed, "Just leave already! I'm on a deadline here, I have to bring these two to Stella pronto." she gestured to her unconscious hostages.

"I can't allow that Meli." he shook his head, "Stella is not someone to trust, she won't help you with your problem."

"YES SHE WILL! She's my last hope, I can't live with this curse anymore!" Meli yelled in anguish mixed with fury.

"I could have helped if you had ever just told me." Arman said hurtfully, "Instead of keeping this a secret from me, I gave you my ponies and my heart. But you ran away without ever telling me what has been happening with you." Meli bit her lips, nearly drawing blood when the sharp tips started to puncture her flesh.

"Just go Arman, I've got a job to do." she turned her back to him and went to get the tied up forms of Lincoln and Ronnie Anne.

Arman watched in sadness before talking into a headset, "She's not budging, what now?"

"Just stall her, I'll send the hounds in to contain her. Just keep her occupied for the time being."

"Okay, but don't kill her." he sighed before turning around to see Meli dump Lincoln off the boat.

"Ow!" this caused him to stir, "What the?" his eyes glazed as he fluttered his eyes opened. "Where am I-" just then he was struck with a tranq dart by Stella, knocking him out again.

"Meli-"

"I won't tell you again Arman, leave me. Trust me the last thing I want to do is hurt you, but if you love me as much as you say then get away from me!" she demanded as she hauled the still out cold Ronnie Anne out of the boat. She then hoisted the tied up hostages on her shoulders and carried them off the deck, passed Arman who watched on.

From afar, the Casagrande bros and Christina watched on. Carl then went "Oooo, drama."

She carried the bodies up the hill and to a parking lot, where a camo jeep was waiting for her. She tossed the bodies into the trunk and shut the lid, as she made her way to the driver seat she was grabbed from behind "HEY!"

"I can't let you do this Meli." Arman stated as she kept her locked in his arms.

"We'll just see about that." Meli lowly stated.

Just then she kicked off the jeep and out of the man's hold, Arman turned around and saw her getting into a fighting stance. The man just sighed as he got into a stance as well, "If the only way to get through to you is with violence, then so be it."

FIGHT

Arman shouted a battle cry before charging at her, but she countered his punch with a flying knee that rocked him. She then nailed three quick strikes to his chest before giving him a monkey flip away from the jeep.

Arman quickly got back up as Meli charged at him with a flying kick, but he caught her and slammed her down. She sat up painfully and ducked a kick before kipping up and nailing a spinning back kick that dazed him, she followed it up by driving him shoulder first into a nearby car door. She then ran into a back elbow from her ex-boyfriend, who leaped off the car and into like a clothesline to Meli.

Arman rolled through the move and up to his feet, he then caught her with a headlock as she got to her knees. "We don't have to do this Meli, we can find another way. Please I don't want to hurt you!"

"Do you EVER stop talking?!" she exclaimed before lifting him up and slamming him down. She then mounted him and started to rain punches, Arman did his best to block some of them. But luckily he was able to slid right from under her and step away from the girl, she growled lowly before turning to him with the eyes of a raging bull looking at a matador. Before she can attack he pulled out his AK-47 at her, shaky hands as his finger teased the trigger.

"Give up Meli, don't make me shoot." Arman told her as he aimed straight at her.

Meli just glared at him as she kept shaking, fear had been long replaced with anger. Anger at herself, anger at her curse, anger at the world. "You wouldn't."

"Don't tempt me!"

The two stared each other down, daring the other to make a move. Glares firing back on both ends, neither of them backing down from the challenge. They were once the most intimate of lovers, now on the field of battle. On opposing sides, not like their arguments about ponies or Dogs n Detectives, but actual battles with blood and weapons.

Just then the two were surrounded by motorcycles, six bikes each with a rider armed with a pistol aimed at Meli. She scouted the playing field, one of the riders removed their helmets to reveal a tanned skin man with black hair tied in a pony tail "You took your sweet ass time, Sebastian." Arman groaned.

"Sorry we're late, one of the hounds thought to stop for donuts." Sebastian replied.

"I missed dinner!"

Seb rolled his eyes before turning to Meli, who glared at the intrusion of her fight with Arman. "Melinda Ramos, surrender the hostages and maybe we'll let you off easy. You're clearly outnumbered."

Meli just puffed with rage, watching from afar were Christina and the Casagrande boys each with a pair of binoculars. "She can't really take them all on herself, can she?" CJ asked.

"Even after all her training and her curse, she can't possibly take them all out." Christina replied.

"Not without a little assistance." Carl said as he pulled out a boomerang, with two pouches attached to each end. "This is where 2 years of boomerang classes finally pays off." he reared his arm back, and with all his might sent it flying. It soared through the night sky.

Meli growled, the odds were not in her favor. But the a speck of light caught her eye, coming towards her was...… a boomerang? She then caught what was attached to the boomerang, and let out a little smirk.

"So what will it be? Either a) you come with us peacefully, or b) forcefully."

"I pick... C." she answered while raising her gun.

"Don't you dare!" Sebastian ordered.

A bang rang out, just then Meli was covered in a heavy cloud of smoke. This confused everyone around, she let out a little giggle before she was completely unseeable through the smoke.

"Well, this might be more difficult than I thought."

(Sid and Adelaide)

The Chang sisters just reached what looked like some kind of lab.

"Nope, this one's empty too." Addie groaned.

"Look around, maybe someone left a clue." Sid suggested as the sisters looked around the lab. Old sticky notes littered desks, splotches of dried up chemicals on parts of the floor and walls, and one of those chairs you'd find in a doctor's office. "Hello, what's this?" Sid picked up an folder labeled "Subject Somar?"

"Somar? What's that?" Addie asked as she tossed a torn up lab coat away before stepping near her sister.

Sid opened the folder and pulled out a paper, "I don't know, but I think whatever Stella had in mind for this involved some girl from Royal Woods, these medical records are all from a friend of one of Lincoln's sisters."

Addie took out what looked like a newspaper, headlined 'Pony Con Shooting of 28'. "Left, 12 dead and at least 50 injured. What could this have to do with anything?" she questioned while scratching her head.

"Maybe this could explain?" Sid pulled out a DVD from the folder, she went up to one of the computers that were still operational and inserted the disk.

(BRRR)

Shows Meli in a medical gown.

"Um, hey. Too any one who is watching this... line?"

"Just introduce yourself and talk about your problem."

"I-I-I can't, it's to-to-too-"

"Say it or Lola gets it!"

"(Gulp) Ok, (sigh) too anyone who finds this... my name is Melinda Felisha Ramos...…..and... I-I-I've been living with... Leukemia for 13 years. And unfortunately its back. I was first diagnosed at age 5, I was able to get it in remission before I moved to Royal Woods. After that, things were looking up. That was until it came back, about two days earlier I was attending a Pony Convention with my boyfriend Arman. Why I brought that up, well let's just say one of the workers there was a wanted terrorist."

"Show the scar."

"No! It's too embarrassing!"

"DO IT!"

"Meep! Oh fine." Meli gripped the hem of her gown and lifted it up, showing a nasty looking scar on the lower left side of her abdomen. Thankfully she wore shorts underneath the gown, "Yep, pretty bad. I caught a bullet right there, left my immune system totaled. When I woke up I was informed that my Leukemia was back, with the damage to my body done by the injury, it would take a miracle if I were to survive."

"Afterwards I had to let Arman go, I didn't want him to bare the burden of a dying woman. I had nothing now, I was all alone. I had nothing, that's when Stella found me. She'd promised to help me get fully cured of my Leukemia for good, if I do everything I was told."

"So what was this video for again?"

"Oh just a distraction."

"For who?"

(BRR)

Just then Sid and Addie felt a little mist on the back of their necks, they turned around to find... "You!"

"Hey." Stella stood there with a smug face, holding some kind of spray bottle. "Did you miss me Sid, cause I certainly missed you."

Sid stepped up to Stella, "Listen up Stella, I don't know why you brought that girl into this but let me tell you that you won't get away wi-" just then Sid collapsed into Stella's arms while Addie plopped to the ground. "What the?"

"Why can't I move?" Addie exclaimed.

"Yep, that's the flabber gas." Stella chuckled as she hoisted Sid over her shoulder, she tossed the can she had up and caught "One spritz and all the muscles in your body are as flabby as uncooked dough, the effects are temporary of course when taken in small doses." Stella carried the now flabbified Sid out of the lab, finding Paige on a portable game cube "Take little Addie to Cell 4."

"Whatever." Paige said before putting away her game and retrieving the younger Chang.

Stella took Sid down the hall, "What did you do to her? That Meli girl." she asked.

"Hmm, I think added a little something that increases her speed, strength, agility, and durability. It halts her condition, but doesn't fully cure it. That's for when she brings Lincoln and Ronnie Anne to me." Stella explained.

"You won't get away with this." Sid stated, she would be pounding away on Stella's back if she can move her arms right now.

"Oh Chang, what you, your sister, and the readers should know by now...

I already have."

(with Meli)

As the smoke cleared, we see Meli standing tall over six bodies. She patted the dust off her suit before turning to a stirring Arman, right next to her jeep. With the trunk opened?

"Oh no." she moaned before running over and seeing, "They escaped." she turned hatefully to Arman, who just got up on his feet before he got tackled to the ground. She growled as she gripped his shirt, before tossing him in the trunk and slamming it shut. She stomped to the driver seat and drove off in a huff.

The bodies left behind groaned and stirred.

"Dang it, she got away." one of them groaned.

"At least they escaped, though for how long?" another said.

"Why did I sign up for this again?"

"She broke my leg!"

"I swear you boys can't do anything without me!" the fifth unmasked one threw her helmet away, revealing themselves as the girl Fox quint.

"I'll make a call." Sebastion sighed.