(Side Chapter) Chapter 4.5 – In the Big City

It was early morning as the sun shined through the blinds in Sanosuke’s room and landed on his face causing the brawler to stir. Sanosuke lay in bed trying to block out the sun by pulling a pillow over his head only to realize how futile it was. As he got up he began to get dressed in his signature attire that he was well known for back in Tokyo. He pressed both hands to his lower back and leaned backwards causing it to emit a series of loud cracks as he stretched. As he finished stretching he took a moment to inspect his right hand.

As he gazed upon the heavily bandaged limb he couldn’t help but marvel at how Discord managed to heal it completely with just a simple snap of his fingers. The only reason why he still even kept the bandages on was due to the fact that he had grown accustomed to wearing them all the time after so many years. Sanosuke turned his attention to the window as he looked at how the sun was shining ever so beautifully through the windows.

“Damn sun, almost as fucking annoying as Saito.” Sanosuke muttered to himself as he made his way to the kitchen and poured himself a bowl of cereal. Sanosuke couldn’t help but remember how much he hated the ex-shinsengumi captain and how annoying he found him.

“Oh well, at least I’ll never have to deal with that bastard again. The chances of me ever seeing him again are as likely as someone being able to raise and lower the sun and moon.” He said to himself with a laugh as he walked into the kitchen.

It had been almost a week since the bar fight and Cheerilee and Vinyl had been kind enough to let Sanosuke stay with them as a way of saying thank you for saving them. Sanosuke was more than happy to help them out by giving them the money that he took from Blue Blaze; it wasn’t his money anyway so he figured it was no skin off his nose. He figured that they didn’t need to know the details on how he acquired the money. Despite just meeting each other five days ago, the three managed to become fast friends. He told them about how he was trying to make his way to ponyville in order to find an ‘old friend’ as he put it and they agreed to help him get to ponyville.

As he sat at the kitchen table of the small city apartment that Vinyl used whenever she was performing in Manehattan, he poured himself a bowl of cereal. As he sat there eating his bowl of frosted oats he could only think of one thing.

“Damn… I’m eating food that’s meant for a pony and it’s still a million times better than Kaoru’s cooking. That’s just messed up.” Sanosuke thought as he quietly laughed to himself. He remembered how she would always call him a bum and a good for nothing moocher. It was all true of course. But he still couldn’t help but laugh at it, but never the less he knew that she was a good woman and a good friend.

He was soon brought out of his thoughts as he saw Miss Cheerilee walk into the kitchen

“Good morning Cheerilee.” The young fighter greeted her.

“Good morning Sanosuke.” The young teacher said with a slight blush as she gazed at the former gangster that was in front of her.

“Sanosuke, I think we need to talk about your behavior.” Cheerilee said as she sat across from the street fighter at the kitchen table who was eating a bowl of cereal.

“Did I do something wrong?” Sanosuke asked with a raised eyebrow as he took another bite of his cereal.

“No no, it’s just that I’m a little concerned with your attitude towards authority figures. Mainly towards the police and other law enforcement officials.” Cheerilee said in a way that she would address her young students with when she was trying to get them to open up to her about their problems.

“What do you mean?” Sanosuke asked with a look of confusion that was evident on his face.

“I’m referring to how you made us out run the guards the night that you saved us.” She replied with a deadpan expression.

“Oh that!” Sanosuke said as a smile spread across his face as the memory began to play in his head.

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*Flashback Start*

“STOP!!!” Screamed the guards as they chased the two mares and human who dashed down the alley way at full speed.

Vinyl and Sanosuke were running as fast as they could while trying to lose the guards. Despite the fact that he was carrying the young teacher, Sanosuke was still able to keep up a pretty good pace and stay ahead of the guards without too much trouble. They kept turning down alleyways and side streets, trying to lose their pursuers. Vinyl was able to keep up with Sanosuke without too much trouble. She told Sanosuke that she use to run track and field in high school, he didn’t know what she meant by that but as long as she was keeping up he was happy.

As they ran down the alley way they eventually ran into another group of guards. As they stood there with nowhere else to go as the rest of the guards began to catch up.

“Sanosuke, I thought you said you had a plan to get the guards off our tails!” Vinyl said in a panic.

“I do!” Sanosuke shouted to the white unicorn with the electric blue mane as his cloaked flapped in the wind.

Just as the guards were closing in on the trapped trio Sanosuke heard the voice of Discord in his head.

“Well well, it seems that you have caused quite a bit of commotion, and it hasn’t even been an hour! Good work my violent friend!” Discord’s voice echoed in Sanosuke’s head.

“The hell! Who’s there?” Sanosuke said in surprise.

“Oh calm down you ninny. It’s me Discord and I’m talking to you telepathically.” Discord said.

“Tele what?” The brawler replied.

“…I’m talking with you through our minds, and I must say yours has a lot of empty space.” Discord said.

“You can do that…hey wait a minute are you calling me stupid!” Sanosuke replied with anger.

“Never mind that my human friend, right now it seems that you are in quite the predicament, which I am more than happy to help you out of.” Discord said mischievously.

“What’s the catch Discord?” Sanosuke asked with caution.

“Oh nothing much, besides it’s not like you can fight against all these guards in your current state while carrying a mare and defending your friends all at the same time. So you really don’t have any other options” Discord said mockingly.

“Fine, what do you want this time!” Sanosuke said with anger.

“I want you to… Humiliate the guards.” Discord said with a huge grin.

“Wait…what? Let me get this straight. You want me to humiliate the police and you are going to help me?” Sanosuke asked with confusion.

”Yep, pretty much!” Discord said laughing.

“Well what are we waiting for!?” Sanosuke said with a demented grin.

“Wow, I’m guessing you really don’t care much for law enforcement officials do you?” Discord asked while cocking his head to the side.

“Not really. Any requests?” Sanosuke asked.

“Just do what feels natural, but there are two things I would like you to say to them.” Discord said as he told the street fighter what it was he wanted him to say.

“Alright. It is part of our other deal after all, but you better help us out of this!” The brawler said threateningly.

“Don’t worry I’ll be sure to provide a distraction for you guys to escape.” The spirit of chaos said as the guards surrounded the three.

“Sanosuke, would you quit standing there and do something!” Vinyl said in a panic.

“Sanosuke… maybe we should just give ourselves up.” Cheerilee said timidly to Sanosuke who in turn looked around for anything that he could use until his gaze landed upon an old dumpster that was sitting just a few feet away from him.

“Don’t worry I got an idea!” The young man said with a smirk.

One of the guards stepped forward out of the group that had them surrounded.

“Just give up, there’s no escape!” The guard barked at the cloaked warrior.

At that moment the young brawler threw the young school teacher high into the air above himself causing her to scream in terror. While Cheerilee was still in the air Sanosuke quickly picked up the old rusty dumpster with little effort and quickly flung it at the guards. As the dumpster flew full speed at the lead guard it slammed into him and three other guards sending them flying backwards and to the ground in extreme pain but with no serious injuries. As Sanosuke smiled at his achievement he saw the lead guard’s radio lying on the ground with someone asking for a status report. Sanosuke had heard about radios but didn’t know much about them. But never has he heard of a two way radio. He saw the guard use it as they chased him and got the general idea of how to use it. Sanosuke quickly picked up the radio and remembered what Discord wanted him to say and screamed into it.

“MAN WHORE DOWN, MAN WHORE DOWN!!!”

He then tossed the radio to the side and held out his arms and caught the screaming mare as she landed safely in his arms.

Vinyl along with the rest of the Royal Guards just stood there in shock and awe at the street fighter’s strength. But all of them came out of their states of shock. As the rest of the guards began to charge towards the three there was a loud noise that echoed throughout the alleyway that sounded as if someone had snapped their fingers followed by a loud explosion. The guards were sent flying back by a large torrent of water that shot out of a man hole that was underneath them. As the rushing water came shooting out of the ground and sending the guards flying back and landing flat on the ground.

With their way now clear, Vinyl and Sanosuke while still carrying Cheerilee took off in a full on sprint as the lead guard screamed out to them.

“HALT!!!”

As Sanosuke followed the white unicorn while carrying the injured teacher in his arms, he remembered the second thing that Discord wanted him to say.

“RUN, RUN, RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN, YOU CAN’T CATCH ME BITCH’S I’M THE MOTHER FUCKING GINGER BREAD MAN!!!” Sanosuke couldn’t help but come to the conclusion that Discord was a complete whack job.

The three kept running as they made their escape.

*End of Flashback*

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“Yeah… well you do have to admit that it was funny.” The human said with a grin.

“Sanosuke, have you ever had run in’s with the police in your past.” Cheerilee asked with slight concern and sympathy.

“Yeah… But to be honest I’ve had run in’s with psychopaths, serial killers, and an insane man who wanted to take over Japan but that’s a whole another story there on its own.”

“S-s-serial killers!” Cheerilee said as her face turned pale from what she heard.

“Well to be honest that was Kenshin who took down that psycho, but when I struck out on my own I had to deal with a few of them.” The human said as he finished his cereal and cleaned his bowl in the sink.

“How can you act so calm about fighting somepony that kills for fun!? You could have been killed!?” The young school teacher shrieked.

“Simple, stay calm and don’t let them land a hit on you. When you get them down on the ground, kick the ever loving shit out of them. Besides, you eventually get used to it anyway” Sanosuke said with a sly grin. As Cheerilee was about to state her protest Vinyl walked into the room.

“Good morning guys!” Vinyl said with a grin.

“Good morning.” The brawler and teacher replied.

“What are you guys talking about?” The white unicorn asked.

“We were just discussing Sanosuke’s behavior towards law enforcement officials.” Cheerilee said in a serious matter-of-fact tone. This caused Vinyl to go wide eyed.

“Dude! That was awesome how you threw that giant dumpster like was nothing!” The DJ said as she plopped down onto the couch and turned on the TV.

“Vinyl!” Cheerilee said in a shocked tone.

“What, it’s true.” Vinyl replied as she switched the channel to the news.

“On today’s top story a UFO was seen flying past Canterlot castle. Guards say that it was moving at a high rate of speed and were not able to identify it. According to the guards that were on duty at the time it said only one thing as it flew past. What it said was this and I quote ‘I’m Winnie the Pooh, bitches’. This UFO was seen flying towards the direction of Manehatten.

As he heard this the young human couldn’t help but burst out laughing which confused the maroon colored mare.

“And what is so funny?” Cheerilee asked with a little annoyance.

“Nothing, nothing.” The brawler said in between laughs as he put on his cloak and made his way towards the door.

“Where are you going?” Vinyl asked the young man as he opened the door.

“Just for a little walk.” He replied.

“Wait! Sanosuke, this conversation is not over! Get back here this instance!” Cheerilee said as the fighter closed the door behind himself and made his way out into the big city.

“You do realize that we are currently housing a mythical creature that has the strength of an Ursa Major, right?” Vinyl asked with a smirk.

“Yeah, why?” The young teacher answered as she began to rub her eyes in fustration.

“Just wanting to make sure. I can’t wait to see the look on Octavia’s face! Oh, especially Lyra’s! She will go nuts when she sees a real life human face-to-face!” Vinyl said with a huge smirk.

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*15 minutes later*

Sanosuke always enjoyed walking through the city back home. The city of Manehatten was a lot bigger than anything he has ever seen before in his life. Despite being the rowdy and loud tough guy that he was, he always enjoyed the time that he had alone. He always loved being surrounded by friends and loved ones. It’s just that sometimes a man needed time to think and figure things out.

As the young man walked throughout the city he couldn’t help but marvel at how the buildings looked like they were made in a western style. As he walked he couldn’t help but think about how weird things have been ever since he arrived. He arrived in a strange new world with talking pony like creatures, got into the bar fight of the century, and now he was staying with two ladies that were ponies themselves.

“This week couldn’t get any weirder.” Sanosuke said to himself as he watched the hustling and bustling of the city. He watched as a young filly kept begging her mother to for ice cream to which the mother gave into with a smile. The little filly’s face lit up with joy as her mother led her to an ice cream shop. The street fighter couldn’t help but smile at this.

As he made his way deeper into the city where things were livelier he couldn’t help but think about Cheerilee. Ever since she and Vinyl offered him a place to stay she has been spending a lot of time around him. Not that he minded, Sanosuke found her to be a very likeable mare mainly due to the fact that she was down to earth. Vinyl was fun to hang around with her laid back attitude and energy. But something about Cheerilee just stood out to the young brawler.

She would always try to correct him on his manners and behavior. Cheerilee told the human that she was an elementary school teacher which explained why she was always correcting him. He didn’t mind though, in fact he thought that it was very noble that she dedicated her life to helping young children obtain an education and achieve their goals and dreams.

One thing that caught Sanosuke’s attention was the fact that she kept blushing around him for some reason. Vinyl’s face did have a red hue to it whenever he caught her staring at him as well as he began to think about it. But all these thoughts were immediately cast aside as soon as the young fighter saw a group of young teenagers doing some strange yet very impressive form of what he thought was some form of martial arts in an alley way.

As the young stallions and mares finished break dancing they all turned their attention to the young human who was watching them.

“That was pretty impressive, what do you call that thing you were doing just now?” He asked.

“It’s called break dancing, what of it?” A neon blue unicorn stallion with a jet black mane that was dressed in cargo pants and a sleeveless hoody stood there while eyeing Sanosuke up and down. On both of his shoulders were cutie marks of bandaged fists. From the looks of things, the young brawler could easily tell that he was the leader of the group.

“Nothing, I think it’s pretty cool.” Sanosuke said as he pulled back the hood of his cloak, revealing his face which caused everypony to gasp in shock. Many were just staring at him in amazement.

“You’re that guy who kicked the shit out of Blaze and his gang like they were nothing.” The leader said.

“Yeah, what if I did?” Sanosuke said in a calm but cocky tone while flashing a slight grin.

“Anypony who can stand up to that piece of shit and his crew must be a decent enough fighter.” The stallion said with a cocky grin.

As the stallion walked up to the human and glared at him, both of them sizing each other up. The neon blue unicorn stared at him for a few moments as the human brawler showed no fear at all before he laughed and said.

“Anypony who would stand up to that scum bag is alright by me. Name’s Quick Strike.” Quick Strike said as he held out his hand.

“Sanosuke, Sanosuke Sagara.” The street fighter said as he shook the stallion’s hand.

“Where’d you learn how to fight like that?” Quick Strike asked.

“Part of it I learned from others that I’ve met and fought, but most of it came from the streets.” The human replied.

“Same here, that’s how I learned. You said you liked our break dancing?” Quick Strike asked

“Yeah, think you could show me how to do some of those tricks?” Sanosuke asked.

“That depends.” Quick Strike answered.

“Depends on what?” The brawler asked.

“Depends on if you can beat me in a little sparring match. I hardly ever find a good fight anymore.You don’t have to if you don’t want to.” The stallion said with a cocky smile.

“Sure, I could use a little workout. But what do you get out of this if you win?” Sanosuke said as he popped his neck and threw his cloak to the side.

“If I win you have to teach me some of those tricks you did to Blaze and his gang.” Quick Strike said with a grin as he took his stance and his friends backed up so the two could have enough room to fight.

“Sure, works for me.” Sanosuke said as he took his stance.

One of the mares of the group stood to the side with her hand raised in the air. As she looked at both of the fighters to make sure that they were ready she quickly threw her hand down.

“FIGHT!” The mare shouted as the two began the match.

(Start Song)

Quick Strike took the initiative and charged at Sanosuke with blinding speed. Sanosuke barely had enough time to see the giant fist coming at him. The young brawler swatted the strike away and threw an uppercut to the young stallion’s chin which connected. Sanosuke could have sworn that he heard one of the young mares say “Toasty” when the strike hit. The strike sent the young stallion flying backwards threw the air. Before he could hit the ground he shifted the wait in his body and performed a backflip and landed on his hoofs in a crouching position.

Quick Strike pushed off with all his might and leapt threw the air and threw five rapid kicks. Three of the kicks struck Sanosuke in the chest and the last two struck him in the face. The human’s vision went blurry from the pain as he was sent stumbling backwards. As his sight returned back to normal he noticed that the stallion was gone. The young brawler felt an arm rap around his neck from behind him and pulled him into a headlock.

“Never let your opponent get behind you.” Quick Strike said as he tightens his grip on the human.

“I was about to say the same thing to you!” Sanosuke said as he ran three steps up the alleyway wall, escaping the headlock and landing behind the blue unicorn. As the brawler landed behind Quick Strike he quickly landed two kidney punches and three rapid kicks to the unicorn’s ribs. This caused Quick Strike grunt in pain.

As the two fighters now faced each other once again they began to circle each other.

“You know, most people aren’t able to take even a single punch from me without passing out.” Sanosuke said with a toothy grin as he and the stallion continued to circle each other.

“Yeah, I have the same problem.” Quick Strike said as he charged at the human and threw a punch to the human’s face. Sanosuke caught the punch with his left hand as he threw a right hook at the stallion’s jaw and flipped him over his shoulder. As the stallion was thrown to the ground he felt the air rush out of his lungs.

Sanosuke took advantage of the situation and grabbed the stallion by one of his hoofs and started to spin him around for a few seconds. As the human was picking up speed the stallion new he was about to be in for a world of pain if he didn’t think of something. As the human brawler let go he sent Quick Strike flying through the air and straight towards a brick wall.

Once again the unicorn rights himself while in midair and plants booth of his hoofs into the wall and launches himself at the human, landing a flying kick to the brawler’s chest. As the stallion lands on the ground he begins to unleash a flurry of punches on the brawler. Sanosuke manages to block most of the strikes except for the last one which is a right hook to the jaw. At this moment the stallion jumped up and rapped both legs around Sanosuke’s neck and dragging him to the ground.

The street fighter managed to bring his hand up just in time to keep the sleeper hold from cutting off his air way. He realized that he was in a bad situation so he did the only thing that came to mind. He bit the stallion’s leg. The stallion screamed as his legs released the human’s neck as the brawler flings himself back up into a standing position.

Quick Strike opened his eyes despite the pain, as he does he sees Sanosuke jump into the air and slam his fist down straight towards his face. The unicorn manages to roll out of the way just in time. As the brawler’s fist hits the ground, all the concrete within a ten-foot radius explodes around him.

Quick Strike sat on the ground wide eyed while the other ponies that were watching all stood there with their jaws hitting the ground.

(End Song)

As Sanosuke stood back up and slowly started to walk towards the shocked stallion that clenched his eyes shut, awaiting the strike that would never come. When he opened his eyes he saw the human offering his hand. Quick Strike took the brawlers hand as he was helped up.

“Well Quick Strike, you sure do live up to your name.” The human said with a friendly smile.

“Why didn’t you do that glowing thing with you horn in the fight?” The brawler asked.

“You mean my magic? The main reason I didn’t use it was because that it wouldn’t be honorable. Also, it seems that magic doesn’t have any effect on you.” Quick Strike said with a laugh.

“How do you know about that?” The human asked

“One of my buddies saw the fight at the bar and told me about it.” The stallion replied.

“Well a deal is a deal. Meet me here tomorrow and I’ll teach you my tricks.” The stallion said as he turned and walked off with his friends.

Sanosuke couldn’t help but laugh at how the stallion reminded him of himself when he was much younger. Sanosuke picked up his cloak and wrapped it around himself and pulled his hood back over his face. He knew that Cheerilee and Vinyl were going to be pissed at the fact that he was covered in cuts in bruises, especially Cheerilee. But he would cross that bridge when he got to it. As Sanosuke made his way back to Cheerilee’s and Vinyl, he couldn’t help but wonder what Kenshin was up to as he walked back to the apartment.

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*Meanwhile in Ponyville*

“Doesn’t this mare ever get tired?” Kenshin screamed as he and the Cutie Mark Crusaders ran from the mint green unicorn that chased after them.

“Come back Mr. Human! I want to touch you!” Lyra shouted as she chased Kenshin through Ponyville.

“Run girls! Run!” Kenshin screamed to the Cutie Mark Crusaders as they ran for their lives from the crazy mare.

Little did they know that there was something else following them. Off in the distance was a samurai that was dressed in a plain black kimono that stood at the edge of the Everfree Forest. He had a scarf that wrapped around his face and head that completely hid his face except for his cold lifeless eyes and wore a Japanese sun hat. At his side he wore a katana and wakazashi. But what stood out the most was the fact that he reeked of pure death and bloodlust.

“This should be fun.” The murderous samurai said as he walked in the direction of the small town that was called Ponyville.

(Start Song)

Author's Note

Hello everyone! Sorry for the long wait, my internets currently down at the moment. But don't worry this won't stop me from updating regularly. I SHALL NOT BE SILENCED!!! Also today is my birthday!

P.S.

Why does no one do a Weiss Kreuz, or Nabari No Ou, or especially a Maximum Ride crossover.

P.S.S.

The next chapter will have some action in it!