Chapter 18- Prison Break
Yes, now some action! Okay so first I'd like to say thanks to everyone for reading and reviewing up to this point.
I'd also like to thank TV addict for his review, especially because some it inspired the idea of anarchist gangs rising up all over the world.
As usual, I only own my OC characters.
And let me know if anything is confusing or if I ever contradict what I wrote earlier.
Street- Night
Just outside of Wilmont a long line of Humvees and other green military vehicles began to make its way into downtown Wilmont. The moonlight and fire created the only source of light as the line of trucks, guns loaded and soldiers ready to fight against the anarchist army, was closer and closer to the burning city as the sound of the Latin chant of the movement began to reach the soldiers' ears. They show no fear, however, as they have dealt with much worse in other parts of the world. To them, this is just another day at battle. Their view of the world is already hardened, as it had to be in order to fight against such evil forces as Al-Qaeda and other terrorist forces that they had to deal with before Wilmont was even a speck on their radar of potential warzones.
"We're approaching the city, keep your guns loaded and prepare for a hell-storm." Came the voice of the general over the radio of each vehicle, as the soldiers did not remove their eyes from the road.
*******Flashback- Canterlot *******
"Come on crescent! You can do it!" shouted Bright Illusion as he tried to encourage the small colt to perform a levitation spell. Bright looked to be about the same age as Applebloom and her friends, as did Crescent Light, who was straining, eyes shut tight and his teeth clenched as he tried to get a small rock to levitate over to him.
Crescent was a small, black colt with a silver mane and eyes. His still did not have his cutie mark yet, and Bright Illusion was doing everything in his power to help him acquire it. He also wanted to get into the Princess' Academy, which Bright was already the star student of. This meant long afternoons in the open area of the quad that was part of the academy working on magic in an attempt to master spells such as levitation, teleportation, and more.
"I…" Crescent started to say before he let out a groans and fell to the ground in exhaustion. He sighed, "I can't."
"Yes you can." Bright said with a reassuring smile before he trotted over to help Crescent up off of the ground. "You just need to have some faith in yourself. Come on, get up." He used his own magic to lift Crescent off of the ground and onto his hooves.
"You see?" Crescent said with disappointment as Bright help him get to his hooves, "I can't ever do what you do, Bright. You're amazing at magic."
"Crescent, you have more potential than you think." Bright said with an encouraging tone, "you just need to learn how to harness it."
Crescent pouted and looked away, "Easy for you to say, you're the Princess' star student. All I am is the "blank flank" of Canterlot, the one who's mocked, the one who isn't good enough to get into the Academy." His ears went down as he finished the sad statement.
"Yeah well," Bright said as he put his hoof onto Crescent's shoulder and patted it, which led to Crescent lifting his eyes up to meet Bright's, "that's why we're here, to prove everypony wrong."
Crescent smiled at Bright, who just gave his trademark smile that always managed to make Crescent feel better about himself. "Thanks Bright."
"No problem, ready to give it another go Crescent?"
Crescent nodded excitedly, "You bet!"
Bright stood back as Crescent got into a position that looked like he was bracing himself. Like he knew that he was going to be hit by something, and wanted to make sure he wouldn't get pushed too far back.
"Go for it dude!"
Crescent smiled as he closed his eyes and his horn began to glow.
Reality-Wilmont City- Hall Night
Obscure eyes shot open as he woke from the extremely vivid dream. His black coat was soaked in sweat and his silver eyes were filled with tears, showing his stress that the dream had caused him. He looked around and realized that he had fallen asleep at his post without meaning to, something that he hadn't done in years. After all, he had usually been so vigilant and strong-willed that he had always managed to keep himself awake, even when he felt as if he was too tired to carry on, and that was a feeling that he had quite often. He groaned and sat back up and put his hoof to his head, "What's going on, why do I keep seeing that colt…Crescent?"
"You mean why do you keep seeing yourself?" came another, younger voice. Obscure jumped in fright as he looked to his right to see the same small, black colt that he had seen in the street earlier, and the same black colt that was in his dream.
"What are you talking about, you aren't me." Obscure growled.
"We used to be the same," said the colt, or Crescent Light, "until you let yourself fall victim to Discord's spell, and changed your name to Obscure Darkness. And, as a colt, even I think that name's generic."
"I didn't need to fall victim to anything," Obscure growled, "I made a choice of my own free will, this is who I am now. This is who I've always been."
"You really believe that?" Crescent said with a harsh tone, even though his eyes showed worry for his adult self, "you…you hardly remember the unicorn that you used to be, you won't let yourself."
Obscure laughed, "What, you mean when I was you? Please, I'm way past that. The "blank flank" that was picked on before his time in the Academy is now the most powerful unicorn in Equestria! And now Earth!" Obscure laughed haughtily as he said this, making Crescent step back a bit in fright, "and after being screwed over by the Princess, he's the most feared." He chuckled with a sadistic delight that made Crescent shudder for a second before he spoke up again
"And how did you get there?" Crescent said as he managed to re-gain his stern attitude that he had before Obscure went on his laughing-spree, "killing the only friend you had when you were just the "failure" of Canterlot? When you were the only one your age without a cutie mark? A cutie mark that Bright helped you get?"
"I got it MYSELF!" Obscure growled as he lunged at Crescent, only to see that he was no longer frightened, but just stood stoically. "Bright didn't get it for me, Bright didn't help me, I did it!"
"So his inspirational words and the friendship that he showed you had nothing to do with it?" Crescent said with a serious and disbelieving look, like he knew Obscure was lying to himself. "You really let yourself believe that?"
Obscure smiled, "Yes. Now please leave me be."
"I can't, as long as your conscience continues to scream out in agony, you'll be seeing me."
Obscure turned around to scream at the imaginary colt, only to see that he was gone. He suddenly felt worried and looked around, trying his best to find the little unicorn that had just talked him down. But when he couldn't see him, he shook his head and teleported up to the office of the mayor, where Discord was laying back in a hammock that he had magically made appear in his office, wearing sunglasses and looking almost identical to the way he did in the show.
"Sir?"
He looked over at Obscure and pushed the sunglasses to the bridge of his muzzle and smiled, "Obscure, where have you been?"
"A bizarre trip down memory lane." Obscure said, rubbing his horn with one of his hooves, "Through a weird dream."
"Ah, well come over here and look outside!" Discord said, gesturing to the window, "Things are just starting to hear up. We even have the United States military down there right now!"
Obscure walked over to the window and looked out at the city, watching as Humvees and tanks began to drive through the city, firing rounds at the protesters, who now numbered in the thousands. Obscure watched as one protester threw a Molotov cocktail at one of the front Hummers, setting it ablaze. The soldiers ditched the truck just before it exploded in flames. The protesters then began to shoot at the soldiers, who fired back. One soldier was hit in the head, while one of the protesters was shot in the jugular, falling to the street and writhing around for a few moments before he passed out, soon to succumb to the darkness of death. A tank rolled up and fired at a large mass of the protesters, blowing several of them up before others swarmed over to the tank and began to break in and pull the soldiers controlling it out. Once out of the tank, the soldiers were thrown to the ground and shot, blood splattering the pavement of the street.
Obscure couldn't help but smile at how hectic things had gotten, "Holy Celestia this is amazing."
"Beautiful isn't it?" Discord said before he lay back in his hammock and put his sunglasses back on over his eyes. He put his hands behind his head and let out a sigh, "truly beautiful. I told you, from envy arises chaos. Remember that Obscure, it's valuable advice."
"I will sir." Obscure said with a smile before he looked back at Discord, only to freeze when he saw Crescent standing in the doorway of the office, looking at him with disappointed eyes, some tears forming in them. Obscure shook his head and muttered, "Get out of my head."
He looked up to see that he was gone, but then heard the young colt's voice inside his mind, "Just because you don't see me doesn't mean I'm not here. Until you face what you've done I won't abandon you."
Jail Cell- Guys
There were two guards on duty watching the cell that held Louis, Carl and James. They were both relaxing, one reading a magazine and the other watching a small television that was way to filled with static to watch anything clearly. The officer watching the television hit the box a few times before grumbling, "You know just because Discord loves chaos doesn't mean he has the right to wreck our means of entertainment. I'm getting cabin fever in this joint!"
As the two moronic officers did their thing, Carl was sitting against the wall inside of the cell, listening to the chanting and seeing the orange tint to the night sky through the barred window. His mind fell on Twilight and the others, but especially her. Were they seeing this destruction or hearing this ominous chant? If so, how would it affect them when they come from a world that's worst problems were from dragons, manticores and other creatures that could causes havoc, but oftentimes were able to be tamed or reasoned with.
Now she was in this world, where she faced people that often could not be tamed or reasoned with, people who were desperate.
James kept staring at the ceiling, not sleeping a wink the entire night, his eyes had heavy bags under them but they lacked the appearance of someone who was deprived of rest. His mind was solely on Fluttershy and how he almost let those bastards kill her. He also didn't notice that a small amount of yellow aura seemed to be forming on his fingers, but it only lasted a short while before it went away, as if something was preventing his magic from working to its full potential.
Like the cell was blocking him from embracing his element.
Like it had with Twilight.
But not only was the image of Fluttershy's horrified eyes burned into his memory, but also the faces of all three men who had threatened her. Brett, Officer Cantor and that other officer that held onto the defenseless Fluttershy's foreleg as Brett approached her with his hoof, covered in a deathly aura, and ready to take her life just to get information from James.
And now James wanted to cause them all of the pain that they threatened to cause Fluttershy.
He wanted them dead.
And he wanted to be the one to make that wish happen.
Finally, Louis was pacing back and forth in his cell, eyes glued to the grimy ground and his hands on the back of his head. He looked just as restless as the other two, even though he did manage to get a small amount of sleep. And by small, it was a VERY small amount; he only slept for about two hours before he woke up from a nightmare. But it wasn't a nightmare involving the city; it involved himself in the center of media frenzy after winning the Barclay's Cup playing for Manchester United, his favorite soccer club, and the team that he wanted to play for if he did, in fact, get to play in the English Premier League.
That is, if he even wanted to do it for his profession.
This may seem like a pleasant dream, but when he looked to his left and saw his beautiful, blonde supermodel wife, he suddenly remembered Rarity and a pain of sadness shot through him like a bullet. He wanted Rarity instead of the beautiful woman that he managed to pick up after a Victoria Secret shooting in London, and who only liked him for his cash and fame. To make matters worse, James' comment on his love of Rarity being like every soccer player who wanted a European beauty as their wife, was compounded when he heard his "wife's" British accent.
Though her voice was different from Rarity's, it did make him think more about her and how he wished that she was the one with him in the spotlight; a spotlight that he didn't really enjoy, and only endured to bring pride to those who knew him, and to bring pride to his deceased parents.
After waking up, Louis immediately began to pace and think over his feelings towards Rarity.
He stopped in front of Carl, "Hey Carl; could I ask you a question?"
Carl looked up at Louis and gave him a small nod. Louis sighed, "Okay, now please don't judge me. But I was wondering…what does it mean if I can't stop thinking about Rarity?"
Carl looked at Louis with an are you kidding me look before he shook his head, "Dude, are you oblivious? It means that you like her. "
"Is that weird?"
Carl shrugged, "A little maybe, but I like Twilight and Ryan likes Rainbow Dash and Alex likes Applejack so…I guess we're all a little weird like that." Carl then gave Louis a small smile, which made Louis chuckle a little.
"That's interesting, so you're whole rant against that Ryan kid was you…"
"Yes I was just being mad at myself." Carl said with a rolling of his eyes, "Me and Twilight already went over this. But Ryan still shouldn't have come to the mall when people were following him."
Louis nodded and he looked up at James, who was still staring at the ceiling muttering with his eyes wide open, unblinking, and his hands clasped over each other.
Outside of Station
Two officers stood outside of the station, talking to each other as they continue to keep vigilant for any movement that could be a potential threat to the station. After a while, they hear what sound like footsteps coming closer to them. They both look out into the dark and hold their hands out, ready to use their magic if need be.
"Who's there?" One of the officers called out into the darkness.
There is a silence until three figures come out of the darkness. Two look to be members of Milites Chaos, dressed in black and wearing bandanas over their faces so only their eyes were shown, well, except for one who was wearing green-tinted sunglasses. The taller one had an orange and red bandana on, as well as a black headband on. The shorter anarchist had a simple red and black bandana and the green-tinted sunglasses covering his eyes. In-between the two was Pete, whose arms were held in place by the two others that had him.
And yes, the taller one with the skull bandana was Alex, and the one with the red and black bandana was Ryan.
Pete put on his best hopeless and weak act that he could, making himself look tired and quiet, something that he had a lot of experience with over the years being the wall-flower who was afraid to speak his mind.
"I'm sorry for the inconvenience," Alex muttered, "but we found this piece of shit running from the hotel with his little pony friend."
"Ah," said one of the officers, "and where's the pony he was with?"
"She got away," Ryan said.
"How?" asked the other officer with a raised eyebrow to show his curious attitude towards the story.
"We aren't sure," Alex, said, "but she was odd, it was like physics didn't apply to her."
The two officers shrugged and opened the door, "Go on in."
Alex and Ryan then dragged Pete inside as the door shut behind them and the two officers went back to keeping guard.
Outside, behind a police cruiser, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie Pie watched everything as they were hidden from sight.
"Well that looked easy." Rainbow Dash said, "What is the collective IQ of these guys 20?"
"This comin' from the mare that didn't finish flight school?" Applejack asked with a smirk.
"Shut up AJ."
"Hey, AJ? Dashie?" Pinkie asked with a perplexed look.
Rainbow Dash sighed and put her hoof to her face, "Ugh, what Pinkie?"
"What did he mean physics don't apply to me?"
Rainbow Dash raised her face and looked at Pinkie with a raised eyebrow, "Really?"
"Are ya kiddin' me Pinkie Pie?" Applejack asked with a look that was just as disbelieving as Rainbow Dash's.
Meanwhile, back in the hall where the three teens were walking, they approached another door with two officers. The hall was dimly lit and the walls were grey, almost creating an ominous feeling.
Once they reached the door and were standing in front of the two officers, they looked directly up at them with great attention, except for Pete, who continued to play the victim role and looked right at the ground.
"Is this another element?" asked one of the officers.
"Yes sir." Ryan said as he stared at the man.
"All right, show us your allegiance and we'll let you in." said the officer.
Ryan and Alex looked at each other, confused as to what they meant by "allegiance". Alex looked back at the officers.
"Allegiance?"
"Your tattoo." Said the officer as he held his hand out to show the Draconequus tattoo that was on his hand, which he pointed to, "We need to see it to make sure you aren't imposters, and that you are actual agents of chaos for Discord."
Alex gulped nervously, "Well you see…our tattoo."
With that, Alex whipped out a shotgun that was hidden behind his back in his belt-loop and pointed it at the officer while Ryan pulled out a revolver. The two officers did not flinch and instead just smiled at the boys.
The one that was right in front of Alex shook his head and laughed, "Son, don't you know it's unwise to bring a gun to a magic fight?" he asked as he lifted his hand, now a hoof, which was in the magic aura that was all too familiar to the boys at this point.
"That's why we have both." Ryan muttered before his hand became covered in cyan aura and he grabbed the officer that was in front of him by the face and slammed his head into the wall, which cracked as the man's skull made contact.
Alex was next, as he took the opportunity that he had when the officer in front of him was distracted by Ryan's actions, to use his aura to lift the officer into the air and slam him into the ceiling before he turned and threw his arm behind his so the officer flew through the air and smashed into the door that led outside. Alex had so much force in his magic that the officer broke the door down and went flying through it. The two officers that were guarding outside, the two that Ryan, Alex and Pete ran into first, saw the officer fly past them as the door in-between them burst open. As the officer hit the ground hard and lay on the ground, the two officers looked at each other before they turned and ran into the hallway- only to be frozen by Pete, whose pink aura surrounded the two officers. He lifted them up into the air as they looked down at him with horrified looks on their faces.
"I guess physics doesn't apply to me either." Pete said with a smirk, the pink aura that covered his eyes hid the extent of joy he had in them at making that snarky statement. He then used his magic to slam the two officers into each other and pushed them out of the building through the same doorway that the other officer had gone through.
As his aura disappeared, Pete smiled and turned to see Ryan lift the last officer up and grab his keys that were for the building. He then threw him into the opposite wall near the entrance. He chuckled, "Eat wall bitch."
Ryan and Alex both pulled down their bandanas so their faces were revealed, and they could get some fresh air without having to breath through a bandana that some anarchist scum had worn near his mouth for hours.
Ryan then turned to the door and, having the keys in his hand, opened the door to see that they were in the office area of the station. Cubical offices and desks filled the large room that's only source of light came from a couple of lamps that had been left on after all of the other officers had left.
Pete ran back to the entrance door and whistled for the girls to come out of from behind the car that they were using to hide. They trotted over to Pete and entered the hallway.
Ryan and Alex, meanwhile, slowly began to walk into the station, looking around in case anyone decided to jump out.
"Where do you think they're being kept?" Ryan asked.
"Depends where the cells are, because I assume that's where they are." Alex answered back when suddenly a black beam of energy smashed into the cubical to the right of Alex, making both boys jump to the ground in cover as another energy blast smashed into the cubical directly behind them, destroying the computer and sending sparks into the air and landing onto the ground around the two boys.
"Where is that coming from?" Alex asked, but Ryan was already on it, as he leapt to his feet and shot a blast of his own aura at the cubical that he knew they were firing from. The officer that was behind the wall of that cubical went flying into the wall behind him before slowly falling to the ground in a heap of debris. Ryan didn't hesitate to run over to the officer and use his magic to lift him into the air. Alex ran over to join him, as did Pete, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie Pie.
"Whoa!" Pete said as his jaw dropped at the sight.
"Oh my gosh Ryan how are you doing that?" Pinkie Pie asked with a big grin, showing her amazement.
Ryan turned to them and smirked, "Magic of course." He turned back to the officer and his smile disappeared, "Where are you holding our friends?"
"You think I'd tell a punk like you?" the officer asked and Ryan just chuckled in response before turning the officer around so his back was facing the other wall of the room, which was about forty feet away.
"Yes, I do."
"Well I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not saying a word." The officer said angrily, though he was clearly frightened.
Ryan shrugged, "Okay I'm not even going to ask if you want it the easy way, or the way that involved me beating the shit out of you, because I prefer the latter."
With that, Ryan pushed his hand forward and sent the officer flying towards the back wall of the room at a rapid rate. The officer screamed the entire way until he slammed into the white wall, at which point Ryan pulled him back to him, almost like a human yoyo. The officer screamed until he stopped directly in front of Ryan, who just shook his head in a mocking way.
"Maybe a more authoritative voice can get you to talk?" Ryan asked before he looked over at Rainbow Dash and motioned for her to come over. Rainbow Dash smirked and ran over to Ryan's side and looked up at the officer with an evil grin, "Let him have it Dashie."
"Okay bud listen up," Rainbow Dash said as she glared up at the officer, putting on her attitude that she used when coaching the Pegasi to get ready to make the tornado, "right now my colt-friend here has you trapped in his magic and we are going to get you to speak if it's the last thing we do. If you refuse to speak, Ryan here will play ping-pong with you as the ball and the wall as the other paddle until you spill the beans. Or, if you feel really tough where that doesn't get you to speak…" Rainbow Dash got onto her hind legs and put her hooves up into a boxing position., "…you'll have to deal with me."
"And me." Applejack said walking over, "and ya don't want ta know how hard ah can buck ya. Yer nose will be in the back of yer head and yer eyes will be crossed."
The officer now looked extremely nervous and Ryan shrugged, "One more time perhaps?"
And, as he did before, he sent the officer flying back into the wall and pulled him back right after he hit it, the man screaming the entire way. Once he got back, Ryan lowered him so he was down to Rainbow Dash's eye-level.
"Okay, are you gonna talk, or are AJ and I gonna have to kick your flank while Ryan holds you down?" Rainbow Dash asked as she pulled the officer's face right into her own so her rose-colored eyes could stare into his very soul. "Well?"
"Okay!" shouted the police officer, "The boys are in the second floor cell and the ponies are on the third floor! They're in the prison cells," he then looked up at Ryan, "just don't let this dyke pony beat me up!"
Rainbow Dash smirked, "So I like mares now, huh?" She then looked up at Ryan. "Ryan, please show this jerk what you do to people who call me a lesbian."
Ryan nodded and then pushed the officer into the same wall that he had before, but with much more force so that when he hit, he was knocked out cold. The officer slid to the ground, eyes closed and mouth open.
Ryan sighed and let his aura disappear before he stuck his fist out to Rainbow Dash, who returned it with her hoof in a "pound it" fashion.
Or bro-hoof, whichever term you prefer.
"Good job Dashie."
"Right back at you Ryan."
"Okay guys, how are we going to do this?" Pete asked.
Everyone turned to him, realizing that they were going to have to split up.
"Okay, Pete, you Pinkie and AJ go get the girls on the third floor." Alex said, which led to an annoyed look from Applejack.
"Wha…Alex why can't ah go with ya?"
"Because right now one of us has to split up from our partner," Alex muttered, "and since Rainbow Dash can't fly Ryan and I will keep an eye on her as we go get the guys on the second."
"Hey! Why is everyone acting like my lack of flying is such a disability?" Rainbow Dash complained, "I can still kick serious flank without them!"
Ryan smiled, "Well then, maybe I just want to return the favor for all of support that you've given me by keeping an eye on you?"
Rainbow Dash looked at Ryan with an annoyed glare, "What are you my foal-sitter?"
Ryan just crossed his arms and looked down at Rainbow Dash with a look that showed how uncompromising he was about the matter, and Rainbow Dash couldn't argue her way out of it. She roller her eyes, "Fine, but don't expect me to just hide behind you and Alex, I'm going to fight."
"Well I know I can't talk you out of that." Ryan said with a brash smile that made Rainbow Dash give her own cocky grin that Ryan loved.
"Okay, there are two staircases, one there," he pointed to one end of the room where there was clearly a door that led to a flight of stairs, "and one there." He said pointing to another, closer set of stairs.
"We'll split up so if they get one group, they have a harder time getting both. All right? Let's do this." Alex muttered as he, Ryan and Rainbow Dash headed off in one direction, to one of the staircases, while the other three went off to another set of stairs.
With: Ryan, Alex and Rainbow Dash
Once the three reached the staircase and started to run up, the flight of stairs to get to the second floor. Once there, they stopped and Alex slowly pushed the door open, looking both ways to make sure the coast was clear before he slowly crept into the dark corridor, followed by Rainbow Dash and Ryan.
"Where are the guards?" Ryan whispered.
"Beats me, maybe we most of them out already." Alex answered.
"Hey!" came a voice from behind them.
They all turned to see a police officer standing while pointing his finger at the trio, "Freeze!" he shouted.
Ryan and Alex looked at each other, smiled, and turned to the man before they both raised their hands up and shot two beams of light directly into the officer's chest, sending him flying into the window, which broke as his body made contact with it. He didn't, however, go through, as there were bars on the outside. So he just fell to the floor as the officer on the first floor had.
"Pfft…is this really the best Discord could do?" Rainbow Dash scoffed, "They're like rag-dolls."
"Don't complain about it Dashie," Ryan said as he lowered his hand, the aura still circulating around it. "Thank Celestia for it. After all it makes it that much easier to reach our friends."
Alex did the same as Ryan and lowered his hand, which was still glowing orange. "Let's move."
Third Floor Hallway Outside of Cell Room: Pete, Pinkie Pie and Applejack
"Well this is wonderful." Pete muttered as he, Applejack and Pinkie Pie all peeked around a corner to see four guards outside of the room where Twilight, Fluttershy and Rarity were being held. "How are we supposed to get by?"
"Use yer magic, and ah'll buck." Applejack said with a grin.
Pete nodded before Applejack and him ran out, followed by Pinkie Pie, and began their assault.
Pete managed to throw one of the men into the wall, but the other three were using their own magic to block his abilities to freeze them, as well as prevent Applejack from reaching them to buck them, as she kept getting shot at. She would take a few steps before one of the men saw her and hurled a spell at her, hitting the ground near her and causing her to jump back in fright.
"Shit, there are too many!" Pete screamed as he realized his magic wasn't working.
"Now what?" Applejack asked as the Police officers began to walk closer to the group, taking advantage of Pete being the only one in the group that could do magic.
"Allow me to handle it the Pinkie Pie way." Pinkie Pie said with a smile before she pulled her party cannon….
…Yes, you read correctly, out from behind the corner that they had been hiding only moments before…where no cannon existed, and pointed it at the men. Pete and Applejack just stared as Pinkie Pie shot the ammo of confetti and balloons, and…everything needed for a party, at the men. The ammo of party supplies, coupled with the shock wave, sent the remaining three officers into the wall, knocking them out. Pinkie Pie grinned, pulled the cannon up so the smoking barrel was near her face, and blew on it like an outlaw would blow on the smoking barrel of a gun. She turned to the two others, who just stared at her in confusion.
"What? Don't you know I always have my party cannon on me. I always need to be ready to throw a party, no matter the circumstance!"
Pete pointed to the cannon and back to the corner, confused about where the cannon had come from.
"Um, Pinkie how did you…" Pete started before Pete stopped himself and shook his head, "you know what, never-mind. Trying to understand you is like trying to understand the plot of Tree of Life."
Pinkie just grinned and trotted over to the door, followed by Pete and Applejack. As they reached the door, Applejack grabbed the ring of keys off of one of the unconscious guards, "Sorry, partner. Hope ya don't mind that we borrow this." She said before snagging the ring in her mouth.
She tossed them up to Pete, who snatched them in mid-air and opened the door to the cell room, where two other officers were sitting at a desk in front of the cell where Twilight, Fluttershy and Rarity were. And from what could be seen, only Twilight was awake.
Twilight's eyes widened and she grinned excitedly as she saw the who had come to rescue them.
The guards' jaws dropped when they saw Pete, Applejack and Pinkie Pie stand in the doorway.
"Allow me ta handle this." Applejack said as she ran up and head-butted one guard before, in one fluid motion, turning around and bucking the other in the jaw. Both hit the ground and stayed there.
Twilight just giggled at the sight as Fluttershy and Rarity both slowly began to wake up.
"Wow, impressive bucking there Applejack." Twilight said with a smile.
"Ah shucks Twi, that was nothin'. Trees are a lot harder to rattle than these guys. He-he." Applejack said with a blush and giggle.
Pete walked over and unlocked the door with a set of keys that he still had from the knocked out officer.
Rarity and Fluttershy both slowly started to wake up, Rarity let out a big yawn, "Oh what is going on that I can't even get my proper beauty sleep?" she then saw Pete, Pinkie Pie and Applejack, as well as the open door, and her eyes lit up. "Oh my we're free…YES! OUT OF MY WAY!"
With that, she bolted out of the cell, leaving a dust cloud behind her, before she fell to the floor and kissing it, "Oh thanks Celestia I…" she stopped kissing the floor when she realized what she was doing in disgust, "why am I kissing this filthy floor?" she began to spit and rub her tongue and mouth on her wrist, trying to rid it of all possible germs and grime that she had picked up on her lips.
Fluttershy slowly made her way to the open door and looked up at Pete, Pinkie Pie and Applejack and smiled, "Thank you for saving us." She then looked behind Pete and her expression fell from excitement and joy to one of confusion, "Oh my, where's James?"
Rarity then looked up, her eyes wide as she looked around frantically, "And where is Louis?"
"Ryan, Alex and Rainbow Dash went to go get them downstairs." Pinkie Pie said happily, "So all we have to do now is go meet them!"
Twilight closed her eyes and tried her magic out, now that she was no longer in the cell. Once she saw that it worked, she grinned, "My magic is working again! I can help you guys out now."
"Then what are we waiting for?" Applejack said happily, "Let's get goin'."
Second Floor- Hall outside Cell With Ryan, Alex and Rainbow Dash
Four officers stood in front of the door that led to the cell holding Carl, Louis and James. They were talking among themselves when Alex and Ryan started to walk down the hall, their hands and eyes glowing in their aura. Before the officers could react, Ryan used his magic to freeze them in place and lifted them up off of the ground ever so slightly.
Rainbow Dash walked out from behind them and looked up at Ryan, "Ryan, can I please take care of these bozos?"
Ryan nodded and Rainbow Dash grinned evilly before turning to the four men and lunging at one of them, punching him like mad before leaping to another one and beating him up. After a very short amount of time, again God bless cartoon physics, she managed to beat the snot out of all four men so that when Ryan released them, and they all fell to the floor unconscious.
Rainbow Dash turned to Alex and Ryan, brushed her hooves against each other as if she was cleaning them off after a long day at work. She also closed her eyes and crossing her forelegs before nodding, "Done."
Ryan chuckled and shook his head, "You're too awesome for words."
Ryan opened her eyes and blushed, "Ryan I appreciate your comment, but right now we have some friends to save."
Ryan nodded and he, joined by Alex, both walked over to the door that led to the cell room.
Ryan took the keys off of one of the officers and opened the door. Inside, just like upstairs, there were two officers, but these two were oblivious to everything that was happening. Once was watching a television with way too much static, and the other were sleeping in his chair.
All three of them raised their eyebrows and looked at each other.
"They really didn't' hear any of that?" Rainbow Dash asked.
Alex shrugged, "Like Ryan said, don't complain about their incompetence." He then used his power to lift the two officers up into the air. They suddenly took notice of the three of them and started to scream and flail around.
"Ryan, the cell?" Alex said as he gestured to the cell that Carl, Louis and James were in.
Ryan nodded and ran over to the cell, to see Carl and Louis at the door waiting for him to open the door.
"Ryan, how did you take down all of those guards?"
"Well me and Alex have magic," Ryan said with a chuckle as he opened the door, "and I have a mare-friend who makes beating people up twenty-percent cooler."
"Oh ha-ha! Very funny Ryan." he heard Rainbow Dash shout from where she was, which was still next to Alex has he held the two officer up in the air.
James was still lying on the bed when Louis and Carl walked out of the cell.
"James, what are you doing? Come on let's go before more officers come!" Ryan shouted.
James didn't respond as he kept staring up at the ceiling with anger filling his eyes. He didn't even seem to notice Ryan calling out to him.
"James!" Louis shouted out, finally making James close his eyes and slowly sit up in his bed before walking out of the cell to join the others. Once everyone was out, Ryan turned to Alex and nodded. Alex then levitated the two officers into the cell and dropped them as Ryan slammed it shut and luckily locked it before the officers could reach the door.
The officers were angry and tried to use their magic to get out, only to find that their auras disappeared almost as soon as it started to appear. They both looked at their hands in horror before looking up at the group of kids and Rainbow Dash who were just smiling at them, as if taunting them.
They were trapped in the magic-proof cell.
Ryan smiled and pressed both of his hands to his lips and blew a kiss, which went into a double-middle finger to the officers as he grinned.
"Let us out of here!" shouted one of the officers as he slammed his fists into the bars.
Everyone just started to head out, leaving the two pissed off officers in the cell. They exited the room and started walking down the hall that they came down, passing the four officers knocked out on the floor. Louis and Carl saw them and their eyes widened.
"What the hell happened out here?" Carl asked in shock.
"Rainbow Dash. I held them in place and she beat them up, it was a combo attack." Ryan said as he and Alex continued walking forward. James didn't even seem to notice the four officers that lay on the ground, and followed Ryan, Alex and Rainbow Dash further down the hall while Louis and Carl continued to gawk at the scene. Louis held out his hand to the others.
"Wait!" Louis shouted, "Rainbow Dash did all of this!"
They all stopped and turned around.
"Yeah I did." Rainbow Dash said with a big smile. "Are you surprised?"
"But…she's so small…and her wings are bandaged." Carl added, just then taking notice of her clearly injured wings.
Alex shrugged, "She's Rainbow Dash."
"And you don't fuck with Rainbow Dash." Ryan added, having always wanted to say that at an opportune moment like this.
"Besides," Rainbow Dash added, "I can take down opponents that are tougher than these weaklings in ten seconds flat, this was like a flight in Ponyville Park on a summer day."
Carl and Louis decided to drop the matter and follow the others.
"All right whatever, let's just get going."
They started forward and but then stopped once they entered the office floor with the cubical offices for the second floor. They saw two shadowy figures standing in front of them. The other four turned around to see the two officers standing behind them. Once was Officer Cantor and the other was the second officer that had helped him hold down Fluttershy.
Officer Cantor smiled, "I see we have a bit of a jail break going on here?"
Alex hurled a spell at Officer Cantor and the other officer to freeze them in place, only to have Cantor block it. Alex's expression fell into shock as Officer Cantor just chuckled while his little assistant just stood and smiled smugly. Officer Cantor lifted his hand and wagged his pointer finger in a "no-no" fashion before it began to turn into a hoof. The other officer's hand changed as well, both men emitting their aura.
"I think we need to teach you al little lesson in humility." Officer Cantor said.
"Excuse me," came a female voice that caused both officers to turn around to the source only to see Twilight standing in front of the other five with a relaxed, confident smile on her face, "but how can you teach humility when you don't understand it yourself?" she asked smugly.
Officer Cantor fired a beam of his magic at her, only to have her create a shield that blocked it, sending his spell into the roof and away from the group. Her horn then glowed and she fired an energy blast at the two men, sending them through one of the nearby offices' windows. Twilight put such force behind her spell that the office that the two men landed in was destroyed.
Everyone ran into the destroyed office to see Officer Cantor just before he teleported away. Unfortunately for his friend, he was still knocked out.
"Take him into the interrogation room." Carl muttered. Alex and Ryan both carried him off as Carl looked over to see Twilight looking at him. He didn't think a second more before he ran over to her, as she ran to him at the same time, and they hugged each other. They then looked each other in the eyes.
"Twi, are you okay? They didn't hurt you did they?"
"No Carl I'm fine." She answered back with a smile. "Thanks for asking. What about you, are you all right?"
Carl nodded, "Yeah."
"Good." Twilight said with a smile.
He also sighed in relief but then he heard something next to him. He turned to his right to see Louis and Rarity holding each other, kissing as if they had been separated for years by war, which meant it was quite a show for Carl and Twilight to watch. The big, bad athlete making out with Rarity was interesting, to say the least.
As they broke the kiss, Rarity nuzzled against Louis' chest, "Oh Louis, you have no idea how horrible it was being in that cell."
"How dirty was it?" Louis asked with a slight teasing tone.
Rarity just looked up at him and shook her head, "You have no idea."
Louis chuckled as Rarity smiled back at him before the kissed.
James, meanwhile, slowly walked up to Fluttershy, who still looked scared and looked down at her.
Fluttershy looked up at James with her large fright-filled eyes that were still moist with her tears. As they looked at each other, James just collapsed into her and hugged her close to him as she hugged him back. James's eyes were still red with the mix of sorrow and anger that he had for the night, but he felt better knowing that Fluttershy was all right. She was just glad to see James after being frightened ever since Brett almost killed her.
"Yo Carl how did you do that with your magic?" Louis asked as he stood back up after his reunion with Rarity.
"I thought about Twilight." Carl answered before Twilight looked up at him with a smile, "and everything she means to me. It worked before so I thought it'd work again."
"Princess Celestia told me how you did that to teleport somepony that was chasing you." Twilight said with a blush.
"So you knew?" Carl asked, "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
"It slipped my mind." Twilight shrugged with a small chuckle, "Besides she told me that when you were in denial about your crush on me, and I didn't want to push you into telling me until you were ready."
"So you knew that I loved you and that love powered my magic...the whole time?"
Twilight laughed, "Of course Carl, I'm smarter than you give me credit for."
Carl nodded, "Valid point."
After another quick hug, Carl and Twilight stood up and started off to join the others, along with Louis, Rarity, Fluttershy and James.
Once they joined the others in the interrogation room, while the officer was being tied down to the chair, they received a quick briefing about the situation from the others who had helped rescue them. This conversation included how their magic was controlled by their love for their partners, and how seeing them in danger resulted in their magic coming out.
Carl and Twilight were the only one in the group of people or ponies that had known this, and that was only due to Carl remembering how his love of Twilight, and how he associated her with magic, helped him teleport the police truck. Therefore, he figured it out before the others told him. Louis, Rarity, James and Fluttershy, however, were baffled. James, however, was also angry at himself after hearing about this revelation.
"Wait!" James said sadly, "then why didn't it work when Fluttershy was in danger?"
Twilight, who was helping Alex, Ryan and Applejack restrain the officer to the chair that James had been in earlier, leaned into the led and pressed her horn against it. She then looked up at James, "James, were you in this chair when Fluttershy was being threatened?" James slowly nodded, as if he were sad that he couldn't help Fluttershy out when she needed him like Ryan had with Rainbow Dash, and Alex had with Applejack.
"Well there's a magic-canceling spell on it, in fact it seems like the same spell that was used on our cells." she said.
James didn't seem to be relieved at all with this revelation, as if he still though he should have been capable of helping Fluttershy out some way, and now he glared angrily at the unconscious officer that had helped in Fluttershy's torture with a new rage.
"Oh Twilight, is that why you couldn't use your magic? I mean…I don't mean you aren't powerful enough…" Fluttershy began to say when Twilight raised her hoof.
"It's okay Fluttershy, and yes that's why we couldn't escape."
"Do ya think the spell is still in affect?" Applejack asked as she motioned to the chair.
Twilight nodded, "It is."
"Well then I believe it's time for some answers courtesy of mister unicorn police man here." Alex muttered as he finished restraining the officer to the chair, "as soon as he wakes up that is."
"I've got it." Ryan muttered as he reared his arm back and slapped the officer across the jaw, hard. His eyes shot open and he slowly looked up at his captors. Carl and Twilight were right in front of him, while Ryan and Alex were at his sides. He tried to move, but, as James had hours before, realized that he was stuck in place. He also tried his magic, only to realize it petered out and failed. He groaned and continued to struggle.
"Don't even try to escape mister." Pinkie Pie said with a very stern, un-Pinkie Pie like face, "you aren't going anywhere. And if you try…" she pulled her canon out from behind another corner. She rolled it in front of her and slowly pointed down at it threateningly with a scowl on her face.
The officer just laughed as if to show his annoyance with the situation that he found himself in, "Oh you've got to be kidding me. I've been taken prisoner by six teenage boys and their little mare-friends?"
"Damn straight." Louis growled from near the doorway, where he stood with Pete and a still angry looking James.
The officer looked down at Carl and Twilight, "You expect me to speak, don't you?"
Carl and Twilight look at each other and then back at the officer before both giving a simultaneous, "Yes."
"And if I stay silent on the matter?"
Pete said, "Well then, you'll have to contend with us. Six boys and two unicorn that can do magic, two ponies that can kick your ass, a pony that's a "stare master"…" and then he pointed at Pinkie Pie, "and a pony that destroys logic and reason with her antics."
"And you've managed to piss off of every last one of us." Ryan hissed.
"And what then?" the officer asked, "I have an army of unicorns and anarchists on my side."
Carl pointed to the large cannon that was still in front of an angry-looking Pinkie Pie.
"We have a party cannon." He said as he looked back at the officer.
(Yes I stole that from "The Avengers", great movie by the way).
"Okay," the officer laughed and looked up at Carl with contempt, "okay, I'll play along. What do you want me to tell you?"
"Discord's plan. What is it?" Carl asked.
"Like I'd tell you that." The officer muttered, "it's a surprise. And besides, who'd stop my from lying about it anyway?"
"Ahem." Applejack cleared her throat before stepping out in front of the restrained officer, "ah'm the element of honesty. Ah think ah can tell if yer lying."
"Just tell us, otherwise we'll unleash our wrath on you." Carl said, "and trust me when I say that we won't hold anything back. And in the situation that you're in, being tied down to a magic-proof chair, I'd say it's probably wise to just tell us what you know."
The officer roller his eyes, "Fine, Discord plans to take over both…"
"…Equestria and Earth, yes we know that." Rainbow Dash said with annoyance, "tell us how he plans to do it?"
"Did you even see downtown?" The officer asked, "It's a war-zone. Discord has anarchists that will rise up, but not just here. All over the world his power is working its way into the minds of the desperate…much like the doubt that you six had in your elements allowed Discord to take control over you and reverse your traits. Soon he will have anarchist armies rising up in every corner of the globe."
"How is he going to accomplish this?" Carl asked.
"Some are swayed by his words and their own bad economic situations," the officer said with a smile, "but others need a little help. Oh they're desperate, they lost a job, they lost faith in the system and society, and it doesn't take much more effort for Discord to work his magic on them and manipulate their thinking and behavior."
"So what you're saying is that a lot of the anarchists are not doing their actions within their own free will, but they are being controlled?"
The officer chuckled and gave a small nod, "You're done. There's no stopping it now. The world's economy is in the toilet and people all over the world are listening to what's happening to Wilmont, and are becoming inspired, falling under Discord's control. Soon the entire world will fall to a chaos that it has never known…and with all of the world wars and other tragedies, that's saying something."
Carl sighed and looked at Twilight before Pete stepped forward, "How do we unfreeze our parents?"
The officer raised an eyebrow, "I'm sorry, I won't tell you that."
Carl smiled, "That's cool," he then turned to Twilight, "Fluttershy, he's all yours."
Fluttershy nodded and walked up to the officer with a scowl on her face, deciding to put her fear aside for the time being. She placed her hooves onto the officer's thighs and stared him straight in the eyes giving him…the stare.
"Listen here, what you and Discord are going is really mean and I usually am kind to everypony, but not when my friends' need my help. Tell them how to unfreeze their parents."
The officer was squirming and tried to close his eyes, but the stare was so intense that he couldn't. He was pulling back away from Fluttershy, but she would press her face right up to his. The officer couldn't take her teal eyes that bore into his soul anymore before he snapped, "Okay! Okay! You can use a normal unfreezing spell to free them." He said looking down at Twilight, "it isn't brain surgery I'm sure you could've figured it out."
"We just wanted to make sure. After all some spells have protective traps within them that could cause my spell to make things worse." Twilight said before nodding to Fluttershy, letting her know that she could get down from her position.
With that Carl chuckled, "Thank you for your cooperation, you've been such a wonderful help."
"Burn in the chaos of this reality you twelve ass-holes." The officer spat before looking away from Carl with an angry scowl. "None of you will walk out of this with your innocence. None!"
Twilight cringed at that as she remembered the chant from the night before, the chant that had horrified her. She shook off the thought and returned to Carl.
Carl stood up, as did Twilight. "Guys, let's leave this ass-hole to the chair." He added before starting out with Twilight, Alex, Ryan, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Applejack right on his heels. They all turned to leave the station, except James, who did not take his eyes off of the officer that was stuck in the chair; the officer that held one of Fluttershy's hooves as Brett neared her with his spell of doom. He slowly made his way into the interrogation room as everyone else was leaving.
Alex turned when he saw James walk by him, "James?"
James walked over to the officer and reached his hand out. Except his hand was now completely engulfed in his own, yellow, magical aura, which he then used to telepathically grab the officer's throat and begin to choke him. His angry eyes were now covered in a yellow glow and his mouth was grimacing as he clenched his teeth together as the police officer squirmed in the chair, his eyes bulging as he tried desperately to get air.
"James!" Carl shouted, "What are you doing!"
"What I should have done when Fluttershy was being threatened." He answered in a hate-filled, angry tone that even made Pinkie Pie shudder.
Everyone went in to grab James, only to gave James turn his head around to face them and hold out his other, free hand towards them, threatening them with more of his magic.
"Jesus Christ James!" shouted Alex, "are you insane?"
"I'm not insane, I just want to get even with this piece of trash."
Fluttershy, who was watching the entire scene play out, shook her head in disbelief at what James was doing and began to shake in fear.
"Fluttershy are you okay?" Rarity asked as she noticed the horrified look in her eyes.
"James…why is he doing this." She whimpered as tears began to fall from her eyes.
James kept staring right into Carl and Louis' eyes, as they were the ones at the front.
"James this isn't you." Carl muttered, but James kept staring at him, as the officer kept making small, gurgling noises. James was too busy to be choking him completely, but that didn't mean the feeling of invisible hands on his throat were any more comfortable.
Ryan took a step forward and walked over to James with a stern look on his face. "James…"
James quickly moved his hand to Ryan, so that the yellow was directly in his face, dancing around his desperate eyes. Ryan flinched for a second before he took a step closer to James' glowing hand and stared his friend directly in his aura-covered eyes.
"…James if you do this they win." Ryan muttered, "You are in chaos with yourself now and that's what Discord wants. You're supposed to be the Element of Kindness and you're choking someone who is completely powerless to defend himself. That's the complete opposite of kindness."
"You always say an eye for an eye," James spat, "Isn't that your conservative mantra?"
"Only when it needs to be done in self-defense," Ryan answered, "or when it's a serial killer on death row after a trial. This officer gave us the information we needed and that's it. Let's leave him."
James shook his head, "He threatened Fluttershy and I was too weak to do anything."
"It was the chair, James!" Ryan shouted.
"Do you have any idea what it's like to see the one you love…" James started only to have Ryan explode in rage.
"My parents were killed and Rainbow Dash almost was as well! I was in the same situation as you and I could have killed Lawrence in the hospital for what he did, but I didn't!" Ryan shouted before calming down, his eyes now slightly tear filled again, "James I held back from the man who killed my parents and threatened Dashie, you can restrain yourself from this."
"He deserves to die." James muttered.
"Yes he does," Ryan answered, "but he's not a threat while he's in that chair."
James turned and looked at the officer who was still struggling in his grip, eyes wide and pleading for mercy. Ryan looked back to see Fluttershy's head on the ground, her hooves over her ears and her eyes closed, as if she was hoping to somehow teleport out of the jail and not realize what James was doing.
"Look at what you're doing to Fluttershy." Ryan muttered.
James slowly turned around to see Fluttershy on the ground, crying in fright. James' expression softened and the magic slowly disappeared, his eyes now full of worry as he saw the innocent pony on the ground crying, the pony that he had professed his love for only a short time before. James finally calmed himself down so that all of his anger was gone and replaced by guilt. Guilt for how he frightened Fluttershy to the point of tears, something that he was about to kill this police officer for doing only a few hours before.
"James, we can't be violent in front of the girls," Ryan muttered, "they're too innocent for that and if we kill anyone when it isn't necessary, we'll corrupt them faster than they'll be from what they're going to see in the city."
James didn't respond to Ryan, instead he slowly walked over to Fluttershy and got onto his knee. He placed his hand onto her head so she looked up at him.
"Fluttershy I'm sorry." He muttered sadly.
Fluttershy lifted her head up and then proceeded to jump up to hug James. James was shaking and muttered, "I'm sorry" over and over again as his face was buried in Fluttershy's pink mane. Fluttershy tried to comfort him even though she, too, was upset.
Ryan closed his eyes and turned to the others, tears clearly shining.
"Come on let's go unfreeze your parents." He muttered before heading out. Everyone else, though taken aback by the sudden outburst of rage from James, followed. Pete and Pinkie Pie both helped James and Fluttershy up and out of the station, leaving an exhausted looking police officer in the chair, blood dripping from his mouth and his eyes half-closed in the exhaustion that the struggle had caused him.
Once the group of twelve got outside, they started towards Alex's SUV only to have Louis stop. "Wait! Not everyone can fit into your car!"
Alex pulled out a ring of keys that he managed to snag off of the restrained officer, "No worries, you can take a cruiser." He then tossed Louis the keys and got into his truck. After splitting up so six of them were in the SUV and six were crammed into the police cruiser, they headed off to the hotel to free Pete's parents and Carl's family.
Little did they know that a certain green chest was waiting for them to get back to the hotel. It was now open and revealing a small scroll that was hidden within it.
Okay I hope you enjoyed that Chapter. Please let me know what you think of it.
Again, any issues please let me know. Thanks to leeroc101 for bringing the whole James issue to my attention. I planned on a way to explain it, but after I already posted the chapter on the interrogation scene with James and Fluttershy, I realized I needed an explanation. So thank you for reminding me.
Thanks for reading and, as always...
Go Giants! Go Rainbow Dash!