Part 3: Chapter 2: I Spy With My Little Eye…
Once Alpha knew Nightmare Moon could not see him, he teleported to Manehatten.
It was empty. Beer and Cider bottles littered the roads and papers were flying in the wind. It reminded Alpha of a ghost town, except there weren't any ghosts. His ears twitched to the left as they picked up the sound of a pony walking. He heard sniffling and what sounded like a pony doing her best not to cry and deactivated his suit to not freak out the mare. He turned left and walked down an alley, looking for the source of the sound. The alley turned out to be a dead end and the sound of the crying mare stopped.
"What do we got here?"
Alpha looked behind him to see a scrawny pony with a switch blade hovering behind him, blocking his way out.
"Looks like we got us ah colt." Said a stallion behind him; his features blocked out from the light behind him.
"Watcha got ahn ya, colt?" The unicorn with the blade spoke. Alpha saw shadows appear behind him; friends of the unicorn.
"Looks like some metal."
"Ooh, shiny."
"Dat will fetch a pretty price."
The unicorn snickered. "Well den, we gots us deal. You give us the metal suit, and we don't need to hurt ya."
Alpha turned around and watched as the unicorn walked towards him, backing him up against the wall. Just a little closer…
The shadow of the unicorn covered Alpha, muzzle touching metallic muzzle, and the knife lunged towards his neck.
Alpha activated the suit's lights and increased its brightness to maximum, temporarily blinding the thieves. The mutant sidestepped and reached for the horn. He wrapped his hoof around it and with a firm yank, ripped it off. The unicorn screeched as his friends pushed him aside as they tried to get land a punch on the pony that hurt their friend.
A pegasi lurched for the suit and was introduced to his buddy's horn as it slammed into the back of his neck. The horn was ripped out as another attacked, this time however, the suit did not stop him.
He did. The earth pony rose in the air and cried in agony as his skin began to peel clean off. The cries echoed the city as the stallion was brutally killed.
The body fell to the ground with a plop, and Alpha walked passed the passed out unicorn, leaving the alley and walked into the light from a nearby street pole. Blood was dripping from the suit.
"What the fuck are you doing here?"
Alpha turned around to see an old acquaintance. The unicorn wasn't smiling like she used too the last time he saw her and she was missing her iconic purple shades and blue headphones, and she was crying.
"What happened?" Alpha replied, lowering the brightness of the lights.
"Celestia found out and decided to punish me for it by killing her."
"How long ago?"
"A week? A month? After her death, time seemed to fly by."
Alpha removed the bloodied helmet and frowned.
"So I ask again: What the fuck are you doing here?"
Alpha looked her over and noticed several bruises including a black eye. "I can't imagine how you are feeling right now. That's a living nightmare to me, considering what I've been through."
"How the fuck do you know?"
"I have a colt-friend."
"Gay, huh?" Vinyl teased Alpha. "What if I called the royal guard?"
"It wouldn't really matter."
"Why not?"
"Because A, they are all at the castle and B, you aren't the pony to ask the Alicorn that brutally tortured and killed your mare-friend for help."
Vinyl glanced away. "What do you want?"
"We are attacking Celestia. We have an army and were wondering-"
"No." Vinyl interrupted as she began to choke up on tears again. "I'm not like that; she wouldn't want me to kill."
"I need your help."
"I don't care."
"Do you have your cannon?"
"I HAD my cannon. It's gone now. I used it to defend Octi from the guards."
"Where is it now?"
"In Manehattan's armory vault."
"Which is where?"
"Why?"
"Do you want your cannon back?"
"More than anything."
"124 S Broadway."
Vinyl looked at Alpha.
"That wasn't me." Beta replied.
The gray ghost appeared next to Vinyl. It was a mare, with a music note as a cutie mark. "Miss me, Vinyl?" Octavia asked.
Vinyl froze at the sound of her voice.
"You are a mutant?" Beta asked in disbelief.
"Yup."
"What is your ability?"
She glared at Beta, who had un-bonded with Alpha and appeared next to him.
"How do you think I stay in a good mood after my concerts?" Vinyl asked, a smiling slowly forming on her muzzle.
Beta stepped back in disgust.
Octavia facehoofed as Vinyl chuckled softly.
"Seriously? How the fuck do you even know that Lesbian mares do that?" Octavia asked Alpha.
"I don't."
Octavia looked at Beta.
"Hey, I died as an 18 year old earth pony and was still in puberty. When I came back as a ghost, I had a list of things to do."
Vinyl was now laughing out loud. "You pervert."
"I was, no longer now."
"You sure about that?"
"Vinyl, if we get your cannon back, can you help us?" Alpha asked, ignoring Octavia.
"That depends, what do you want me to do?" Vinyl replied as soon as she could breathe, wiping away the tears of laughter.
"We need you to blow off the top of a mountain."
Both Octavia and Vinyl turned to look at Alpha. Octavia was shaking her head, while Vinyl was prancing around, her head nodding up and down.
"I spy with my little eye….something green."
"Grass." Nightmare and Charlie replied nearly instantaneously
"Dammit. Your turn, Nightmare." Chrysalis growled.
"I spy with my little eye….someth-" Nightmare Moon was cut off as the sound of Rock echoed throughout the valley, followed by the sound of an avalanche. Everypony, both inside and outside the castle looked up at the mountain and watched in horror or amazement as the top of it was blown to giant chunks of rock that began to roll towards the mountain. If the three on the cloud listened closely, they could hear distinctively a mare maniacally laughing behind the thunderous sound.
"That fucker…" Celestia replied with a smirk as she watched the rock roll, assaulting her castle.