Rover and fifteen of Boss Hogg's soldiers with rifles with the darts which had silencers on the barrels, they were walking through the streets of Rio quietly which was still busy even if it was nighttime, ponies were partying, eating out and drinking, the soldiers were following a device that blinks yellow when a powerful energy signal is near, it was leading to the edge of town.

Then some soldiers went to a set of stairs to cover a perimeter and the device blinked slightly faster, then a rattle was heard they turned and shot at a mouse which they missed the dart stuck in a trash can.

In Spike's apartment he was getting some sleep on a soft warm bed, it was a busy last three days Spike had helped Stix start to move to another warehouse 7 blocks away when his ears picked up a silenced gunshot 5 blocks away, Spike's eyes opened and switched to alert. He got a bucket and with a claw cut it in two and placed the halves under the sheets and covered them, then snapped off a mop head with hand and spray painted it purple and green at the top and placed it on the pillows and pulled the blanket over the broken end, he put on a pair of jeans and blackboots to his upper shins and a black sweatshirt under a black leather jacket. Then opened the window and jumped out landed on a flight of metal stairs lightly and jumped landed on the ground and rolled in an allay to stay hidden, he sniffed and smelled 15.

The soldiers were getting closer since the device blinked faster and more steady, the closer they got to their target the more anxious they got they arrived at the door guns ready the device stopped blinking and turned to solid yellow, some new arrivals started to sweat, one put a tiny and thin camera under the door and it saw Spike's room with him in it

"Take him now" General Boss Hogg ordered

Rover kicked down the door and fired a tranquilizer dart first, then two more shot at Spike the dart stuck to the target and Rover pulled back the sheets to reveal to their surprise a two halves of a bucket and a mop head painted green and purple, you could almost feel the look of disbelief on Boss Hoggs face.

"Where is he?" The General demanded in frustration, Rover looked to a cracked window and opened it and looked at the streets and figured Spike was on the streets.

"He's on the streets" Rover spoke and the soldiers ran out following Rover who had run out first. They went past the allay as the last one went past he was pulled into the allay and the sound of a fist hitting something was heard, Spike walked out and creep ed to another and jumped on to a roof silently and dropped down on the other side to it and put his hood on and tossed a stone at trash can and hid and the soldiers turned as he hid and three walked over.

Spike pressed against a wall of a building and two went past followed by the third which Spike grabbed in a chokehold and covering the soldiers mouth and squeezed tight and the soldier fell slack and Spike lowered him on the ground and jumped to the second and slammed the side of his fist on the back of his neck knocking him out and the first one turned only to see a fist flying to his face and everything went black as it struck his jawline.

Spike then walked silently through the streets and he walked out of a allay an 20 yards infront of the rest, Rover looked tilting his head and Spike turned his back to him.

"there he is!" Rover called and they ran after him as Spike took off, he was running in an allay and Spike jumped at a wall and sprang off of it with a foot to the other side and grabbed the side of a metal staircase and stood on the side's top and coiled his legs and jumped over a building and onto the roof of another and started running across rooftops some started climbing up the stairs, he then jumped over a 10 foot gap with ease. Spike then saw getting on the roof running after him, then then three turned on a jetpack and landed infront of him but Spike didn't stop and ran harder and then jumped over some darts and rolled under some more by rolling to the side, then jumped high and a inch from them and grabbed a rifle and slammed the butt of the rifle in one's head hard knocking him out, then jumped and kneed another in the face and roundhouse him in the head knocking him out and spun and outside crescentkick to the thirds head knocking him on the ground picked him up by the uniform and turned and threw the soldier across the roof at a soldier who had come up and sent both falling down a 8 foot drop on the ground.

Spike then jumped to the next roof and went into the streets three blocks in 3 seconds with his dragonspeed, then hid in a allay behind a barrel and a dumpster and looked at his cardio monitor which the bulb was blinking. He looked and it was 175, he remembered his teaching from Stix and breathed in and out repeatedly and the monitor went down to 145.

Spike then stepped out and went back to running, he then walked into a crowded street and then walked on four limbs keeping his head down blending in with the ponies better since he towered over alot of the ponies, he then saw a tall wall 8 feet away and coiled on four limbs and vaulted over it and landed on the street on the other side 8 feet away.

He walked and saw two soldiers on the streets looking he then walked between ponies and carts walking into an allay when they turned their backs he climbed up the side of the wall and walked across a roof and walking to the position the soldiers were and dropped behind them with no sound and when they turned the first received a righthook to the jaw and a sidekick to the chest knocking him back and stepped in and grabbed the rifle of the second pulling it to the side and rammed a elbow to the back of the head knocking him out and took off down the street.

Then Spike saw Rover again who who was 30 yards away, who now was pointing a rifle at him but Spike picked up a table and threw it at the Diamond dog who dropped to the ground in time but when he got up Spike was already running 60 yards away and pulling away, Rover gave chase the other four soldiers followed.

Back at a movable enclosed base parked along side the street five blocks away, General Hogg was watching the feed through the cameras on the soldiers trying to find and capture Spike but the only thing he was seeing was Spike taking down his soldiers and he could barely see Spike when he was on the move or moving stealthy.

"How hard is it to capture one dragon?" Boss Hogg fumed.

"Well General he is a soldier to" a mare coordinating the positions and angles through the mission.

"A soldier doesn't turn into a monstrous beast" Boss Hogg frowned "Get this thing moving the target is on the move" he barked.

"No disrespect, but Are you that desperate to have the dragon's powers you want to force him" The mare said.

"I don't want that dragon, I want whats inside of him even if i have to dissect it from him" Boss Hogg gritted.

"You mean Drakezilla" The mare said "sir thats why Spike doesn't want you to have him, because your trying to make his monster side a weapon" she told him, Spike was listening to the conversation from 5 blocks away with his hearing and stopped listening.

"Not going to happen" Spike frowned clenching his fists and heading off into the dark streets.