Mare-Do-Well vs Doctor Griffinclaw

Another night, another lot of criminals to put in jail. Lightning Dust flew over Manehatten in her Mare-Do-Well costume, scanning the city for any crimes about to go down. With the wind under her wings and clear skies, she was actually enjoying herself. 'I need a sidekick,' she thought 'someone to tell me where a crime is instead of me flying all over the city for nothing.' Suddenly, she heard an explosion down at the financial district. Springing into action she retracted her wings like a bird of prey and dived at extreme speed down toward the city. If her hat wasn't attached to her mask it would have flown away at the sped she was going.  About 20 meters above the ground, she sprung her wings out, pulling upward sharply and skimming just above the cars on the street. She flew toward the building were the explosion had gone off and landed on the sidewalk outside the building. The building in question was the Manehatten federal reserve. 'A bank robbery? Do they really think they can actually pull this off!?' She thought, obviously befuddled by their stupidity. 'Going through the front door is going to get me shot and take away the element of surprise,' she thought, trying to form a plan. 'I'm going to need to find another way in.' She took off and flew to the top of the four storey building and noted possible entrances. 'Door to the stair well: would be just like the front door. Ventilation unit: bingo!' She trotted up the vent and, with some force, pried off the grate. Lightning looked down the vent to check for fans, running into one of those wouldn't be fun. Satisfied that the vent was safe, she slipped into the vent head first and made her slow decent down to the first floor.

Snooping around the vent she overheard three stallions and a mare, via a grating in the vent,  convieniently conversing plans. 'This is just too easy!' she thought. The stallions' features were covered by belaclavas and full body jumpsuits, the mare however wasn't wearing anything that could conceal her identity. She was a unicorn with a deep, dark blue mane and a sky blue coat.

"Ok here's the plan," the mare said. "One and Two, go and make sure the hostages don't try anything funny." She told the two stallions to her left. "And you, Three," she gestured to the remaining stallion, unlike the other stallions he was a pegasus. "You crack the safe open and get the loot." The stallion headed in the direction of the banks safes, leaving the mare alone. The mare pulled out a pistol and cocked it. "I'll wait for the target" the mare said to herself in a threatening tone.

Lightning thought this was as good a time as any to make her move, she smashed a grate onto the floor below the ventilation shaft and flipped out to engage the mare.

"Oh crap! Already?!" The mare shouted.

"What's wrong?" Lightning asked, a strong hint of sarcasm in her voice. "You were looking for 'the target'. And now that she's here you go all chicken."

"You weren't supposed to get here this early!" The mare said in a panicked, shaking voice.

"I was in the neighbourhood." Mare-Do-Well said nonchalantly. "Now, I'm going to stop this robbery whether you give up or not, the latter will result in a lot more broken bones. So, you gonna give up or are you going to make it fun for me?"

The mare answered by firing off two quick shots at Mare-Do-Well... Both missed. Not wanting to find out if the third time is lucky, Mare-Do-Well charged at the mare and tackled her to the ground. The mare tried to shoot her again, but lightning knocked the hoof holding the gun away resulting in the wall next to them recieving three bullets. The mare head butted her, and lightning head butted her right back with twice the force, knocking the mare out cold. Picking herself up, Mare-Do-Well went in the direction of the two stallions who were holding the hostages. 'Get them out of danger, then stop the safe-cracker.' She thought. About halfway to the lobby where the hostages were, she had a thought 'if they see me then they're gonna shoot the hostages, can't let that happen.' She trotted back to the unconscious mare and picked up her gun. "I'm gonna need this more than you." She told the unconscious mare. She stopped just outside the lobby and fired the gun into the roof, "I got her!" She called, trying her best to imitate the mare.

"Keep an eye on the hostages, I'm going to go see the corpse of Mare-Do-Well." One of the stallions told his partner. The stallion exited the lobby and turned the corner into the hallway. "Hey! Where are you?!" He called.

"Here." The stallion looked up to see Mare-Do-Well suspended from the ceiling. She dropped and both were sent to the floor. To stop him from making noise, she slammed his head against the floor to knock him out. Luckily, it worked and the stallion went limp. Lightning took his gun and headed back to the lobby.

She opened the door to the lobby and before the second stallion could react, Lightning used the other stallions pistol to shoot the gun out of the stallions hooves. The stallion rushed for the front door and burst through it in order to escape from Mare-Do-Well, he had forgotten however, about the royal guards who had set up in front of the bank.

Mare-Do-Well was heading toward the safes when she passed the place she had fought the mare she had encountered before. She was gone. "Buck!" She exclaimed rage. She started to canter towards the safes, in fear that the mare had warned the safe-cracker and escaped. She got to the safes and saw that all of them had been picked clean, but she also noticed that the back door was open. 'They must've gone this way!' She thought. She galloped out the back door of the bank and spotted the stallion and mare turn out the alley they were in and into the street. She sped after them and took to the skies to try and catch up. They were almost in Mare-Do-Well's reach when they turned a sharp corner and got a little further ahead. When she had re-gained her tragectory, she continued to chase them.

The mare and her partner entered a subway just as a train stopped to pick up passengers, hopping on the train just as the door was shutting. Mare-Do-Well Didn't give up however, she pulled out her grappel gun and shot it at the end of the train, getting yanked behind it when the grappel guns wire went taught. She was dragged on the tracks behind the train until she spread her wings and was lifted off the tracks. She retracted the wire on the grappel gun and was winched inch by inch towards the back of the train. When she reached the back of the train she balanced on the small step outside the door and pulled a small disk out of a hidden pocket in her suit, the disk was shaped like a hockey puck, only it was metallic with a red button in the center of it. She pressed the disk against the rear door of the train and it held in place, she pressed the big red button and it started to blink. She climbed around the side of train and waited. After hearing the quite loud boom, Mare-Do-Well climbed back to the rear of the train and climbed through the door shaped hole in the back of the train.

Mare-Do-Well scanned the inside of the train for the two criminals, finding nothing, she moved to the next car. This process continued for quite a while, Mare-Do-Well had gone through the entire train except the very front of the train, where the driver normally was. The criminals couldn't be anywhere else, so Mare-Do-Well casually knocked on the door to the control room. There was no answer. She pulled out one of the criminals' guns and aimed it at the handle of the door. Firing of two shots, the passengers took cover under their seats thinking Mare-Do-Well was going to shoot them, the door handle fell off and she kicked the door open to find the two escapees driving the train and the real train driver unconscious on the floor. She imediatly pulled out the other confiscated pistol and, now standing on her hind legs, aimed them at the criminals.

"Give up." She said in her best threatening voice. The criminals put up their forehooves as a sign of surrender. "Good," she said, "now, you," she gestured to the stallion, "Three, Was it?" The stallion nodded. "Stop the train." With that, Three turned around and activated the trains brakes and after a few seconds the train had come to a complete stop. Mare-Do-Well Prompted for Three and the mare, which she had dubbed 'Four', to exit the train, they were walking down the tunnel with Three and Four ahead of Mare-Do-Well, so she could make sure they didn't do anything funny. After a few minutes, they had reached the nearest station along the tracks where the royal guards were waiting for them.

"Apprehend them," comanded a white coated unicorn stallion, he had a blue mane with a slightly lighter blue streak down the middle. "All of them." The guards apprehended Three, but as they advanced on Four, her horn lit up in the same shade of blue as her mane and in an instant, she had vanished. The guards then focused their attentions on Mare-Do-Well, she tucked her confiscated guns into her belt and pulled out a tiny pellet, throwing it on the ground, a massive cloud of smoke quickly spread and filled the tunnel, leaving the guards and their captain coughing and stumbling around blind. Mare-Do-Well had swiftly exited the subway and flown off into the night.