Near the end of Cupcakes.
"Dash. Daaash. Wake up." Rainbow Dash moaned and Pinkie took that as a modicum of weak acknowledgement.
Pinkie reached into the medicine bag and produced a large syringe. "Alright, time for the last round."
Dash looked at the needle and Pinkie took that as a question as to what it was.
"Just a little something to take the pain away." She informed her as she walked around to her victim’s ruined back side. She stuck the needle into her lower part of her spine. Dash flinched.
Coming back around to the front, she told her friend, "In a few minutes, you won't be able to feel anything below your rib cage. Then you'll be able to stay awake to watch the harvest."
Dash started to cry again. "Pinkie?" She trembled out.
"Yeah?"
"I want to go home." Dash openly sobbed.
"Yeah, I can see wanting to do that." The party pony replied. "Sometimes, I just wanna give up, say "I 'm done with this mess" and go to bed. But you know what; you can't shrug off your responsibilities. You got to pull yourself up and meet the challenges had on. That's the only way you're going to get ahead in life."
Dash just cried.
Minutes passed and the drug slowly took effect. Dash was numb from her chest to her flank. Aware of this, Pinkie approached her with a scalpel. With only a smiling glance too Dash, Pinkie raised the scalpel. Then the door to the basement busted open. Pinkie turned to see two humans named Stones and Tyrock, bursting through the doorway with guns drawled.
20 minutes earlier.
"Any sign of her yet?" I asked Jane looking at the clock. Jane is our Artificial intelligence (A.I. for short). We received her a few years ago. We got her as a one year anniversary gift for being a protector the element of harmony.
"No, I have checked all the other elements and the princesses; no one has seen her since around five." She said in an annoyed tone as she walked back and forth across the table. "I have told you that for the past thirty minutes." The clocked read 7:00pm I turned to look at the holographic table. In the middle was a projection of a light blue mare walking around a projection of the town of ponyville. As I watched Jane walk back and forth across the table checking all the cameras that we have put up over the years. I looked at the projection and tried to figure out where rainbow dash could've gone. When you've been a protector of someone for almost four whole years you can start predicting what they would do before they do it but at the moment I was stumped. Then I heard the sound of the door opening behind me. I turned to see my cousin and our dog hunter walked in. They were the only ones that have been with me since we been transported here by a unicorn mare named Lyra Heartstrings. I and my cousin are practically identical, we look alike, act alike, we even fight alike but he's about a year younger than me. We have both been in this world for about four years. Two of those we spent in hiding thinking that if we were found we'll be killed but we still watching over the elements. We would have stayed that way for the rest of our time if it wasn't for the changeling attack.
"Find anything?" He asked. I shook my head.
"Jane and I can't find any trace of her, her tracker has gone dead about two hours ago and the last place she was at was sugar cube corner. I asked Pinkie Pie if she has seen her. She just told me that rainbow left around five-o-clock. That is also when her tracker went dead." I said pointing to the hologram of sugar cube corner. He walked over to the table and gave it a good hard look.
"Did any of the cameras catch her when she left?" He asked Jane.
"I'm going to tell you the same thing I told him, no." She said still slightly annoyed.
"What about the Ziggy camera?" He asked leaning up against the table. The Ziggy camera is a small camera that we created a little while before we were brought here. It's pretty much a camera that looked and moves like a spider, at the full length it was about the size of a pea. We designed it for the army but when we were brought here we used it to keep track of the girls.
"That's a good idea; Jane is Ziggy camera number 5 still working?" I asked walking over to the wall on my right.
"Yes but I'm having a hard time getting a signal. She must be under ground or in a prison cell. Both one will make it hard to get a good image or sound and we already check the police so she has to be under ground." She said pulling up a small screen to work on.
"Right now I'll take a hoof written message delivered by tank without his helicopter if it means she was all right." I said opening the cover to a key pad. After putting in the code, a section of the wall moved out of the way opening to the armory. I walked in and grabbed a vest that was hanging on the rack but when I put it on then the vest dug in to my wing, I got the wings by accident when princess celestia use her magic to save my life a few years ago after I was attacked by a changeling during princess cadences wedding. I took the vest off to see that it was one of my old ones that didn't have the slits in the back for my wings to slide in. I walked over and pulled off one that did then I grabbed a pistol and holstered it to the vest. I heard Tyrock walk in behind me and grabbed a vest and pistol.
"Have a bad feeling to?" I asked. He nodded then grabbed two stun grenades. When he turned he caught my questioning look.
"You never know if you might need them." He said attaching them to the back of his vest.
"Come on let's see if Jane has found out where she is yet." I said walking out in to the control room.
When I walked out of the armory I could tell that something was very wrong. Jane was standing on the table looking at the screen that was the wall above the desk on the other side of the room and she had a look that I'm sure she wasn't programmed with, fear.
"Jane, what is it?" I asked walking over to the table. “Did you find where dash is?"
"Yes, but I can come up with about 156 different reasons for why this can't be happening." She said still looking at the screen.
"Where is she Jane!?"I yelled turning to look at the screen. When I did I saw something that would make a Griffin lose its lunch. I saw Pinkie Pie standing over a battery that was connected to a controller with two cables coming out of it that were connected to the back hooves of rainbow dash, rainbow was strapped to a table and there was electricity all around her and there was a scary looking pool of blood underneath her, what scared me the most was Pinkie was just dancing like she wasn't killing her best friend almost like she was playing a party game. As I looked at the screen I could already see that wasn't the only thing that Pinkie has done to rainbow dash. I could see a bucket of red hot nails sitting on the table and sitting next to it was rainbows wings and cutie mark. There was also a bunch of surgical equipment sitting next to the bucket along with a medicine bag. There were also three empty syringes sitting on the table.
"Tyrock get to the truck now! “I yelled when I saw Pinkie Pie turn up the electricity.
"What's going on?" He asked as I ran past him to the stairs that lead to the ground floor of our house.
"Pinkie is killing rainbow dash" I yelled running through the living room heading for the garage door along the way I put in the ear piece of the radio that we used when we were in the field. "Jane start vehicle two." I said heading for the garage.
"I'm trying but it won't turn over." She said as I ran out into the garage. There were three vehicles sitting side by side. The first two were the ones we used for our job. The last one was a little project between me and Tyrock. The vehicles were brought here the same way we were but we are stuck here for another two years. Vehicle number two was a 2014 dodge ram 3500. I went over to it and had Jane pop the hood. When I opened it I looked around the engine to see if I could find out what is wrong with it. What I saw was an empty rectangular space where the battery is supposed to be.
"Shit the battery is gone, Jane what about vehicle one?" I said slamming the hood down and walked over to the car on the right of the truck.
"You two destroyed it when you went after the timber wolves two days ago." She said
"Damit!" I yelled kicking the car when I saw how bad we have destroyed the 2015 Toyota TRD Pro Series. It was bad enough that it will be in the repair shop for about a month and that is with Jane working on it twenty-four/seven, it's not my fault the dam thing desired to be jumped across the raven. I stood there trying to figure out how we are going to stop Pinkie Pie if we can't get to her. The problem is we are about twenty minutes out of ponyville in the everfree forest, and that's when we walk there. By the time we get there rainbow will either be dead from blood loss or from Pinkie finishing her off. As I stood there wondering what to do I spotted the tarp covered car sitting on the other side of the truck.
"Jane is vehicle three in working condition?" I asked walking over and pulled the tarp off revealing the 1969 dodge charger with a hemi big block motor with a blower on it. It was a car me and Tyrock have been working on for the last three years.
"Yes but I haven't been able to put in the computer system or the..." She said.
"It will have to work for now; we need to get to sugar cube corner to stop Pinkie Pie." I said opening the driver side door. "Let’s just hope that the car can handle this."
"Stones we have about eight minutes until Pinkie Pie starts something she called the harvest and from what I can tell it means she is going to harvest rainbows organs." Tyrock said as he ran over to the passenger side door opening it. Then I heard a bark. I turned to see Hunter our German shepherd sitting next to my door waiting to be let in.
"Sorry Hunter but you need to stay here." I said. He whined then turned to go inside. After I watched him run into the house I reach down for the keys. I slipped them in and turned them. I heard the motor sputtering and then finally start without much of a hassle. I grabbed the shifter and shifted into first gear.
"Let’s hope this handles like it's supposed to." I said to Tyrock as Jane opened the big iron door that keeps the everfree from getting inside the house. I then heard the sound of a seat belt clicking into place. I smiled then floored it. I heard the sound of tires burning and squealing. I also heard Tyrock say a few choice words that I haven't heard for a long time, then the car caught grip and shot out the door to the fence in yard. As soon as we were out past the large chain link fence I shifted in to second and pushed down on the gas pedal when I did the front-end lifted off the ground holding us in a wheelie, it lasted until I let off so we could make the turns. As we raced through the everfree, Jane updated us on rainbows... "Condition."
"Right now Pinkie just injected rainbow dash with some kind of pain medication." She said. "I estimated that in about five minutes she'll be numb from the chest down and when that happens Pinkie Pie will start to harvest her organs. Stones you need to hurry." I didn't need to respond, all I did was shift to third and push down on the accelerator making the car roar and gain speed. As we raced along the trail I was mentally counting down the seconds. I could tell that Tyrock was doing the same. A few minutes we came to the out skirts of ponyville.
"Jane what is the fastest way to sugar cube corner?" Tyrock asked as soon as I hit the streets of the small town. There were a few ponies walking around the town that saw us drive by but no one gave us a second thought.
"Just keep heading for the town hall then make a left and hurry, Pinkie is getting ready to start." Jane said though my head set. When I turned the corner I slammed on the brakes stopping right at the door of sugar cube corner. Me and Tyrock jumped out and ran for the front door. We ran through the door way heading for the kitchen. As we ran in I spotted a small brown bottle of some kind of sleep medicine sitting on the counter. I grabbed it without a second thought. I went over and grabbed the rug sitting in the middle of the floor and through it out of the way to revel the trap door to the basement/storage room. We pulled out our pistols and then Tyrock lifted up the door exposing the dark abyss to the basement. We headed down being as quiet as possible, then we came upon a door way. I could tell rainbow dash and Pinkie Pie were on the other side. I turned to Tyrock and pointed to my ear saying that I can hear them; he nodded and then went and stood on one side of the door while I stood on the other side. I then counted down from three on my fingers. When I hit zero I stepped in front of the door and kicked it in. As soon as the door was out of the way we ran through with our guns out and ready. What we saw was something that I could only described as a retirement party for the grim reaper. There were organs, blood, bones, and flesh everywhere and in the center of it all was Pinkie Pie standing over rainbow dash with a scalpel in hoof. As soon as we were in the room Pinkie took the scalpel and stabbed it into rainbows shoulder causing her to scream in pain.
"Stay back or I'll kill her." She said pulling the scalpel out. Me and Tyrock slowly lowered our weapons.
"Now put them on the ground and kick them away." Pinkie said holding the scalpel to rainbows neck. Rainbow sat there with a look of so much fear that I had no other choice but to listen. Me and Tyrock slowly put our pistols on the floor and kicked them to the center of the room half way between us and Pinkie Pie. When we were standing back up I put a fist behind my back then held out to fingers. I then heard the slight sound of someone putting their fingers in to the loop of a grenade pin. Then I looked at Pinkie.
"Pinkie listen to me, you don't have to do this, just put down the knife and come with me. If you do I can help you but if you don't, it's not going to be fun for anyone." I said holding my hands up like you would if you came across a small frighten child. All I got was a look like you just received a death sentence from the pink party pony.
"STAY BACK!" She screamed at me. I could see rainbow dash flinch from the sound.
I shrugged. "I tried. I'm sorry Pinkie." I then snapped my fingers. I then saw two stun grenades now missing their pins go flying towards Pinkie. Before they got to her she dropped the scalpel and caught them. I heard the scalpel hit the ground as she looked down at the grenades. She looked at them for about a second, and then looked up at us with a smile that said nice try. She then brought them back to throw them but at that point the timer ran out. There was a blinding flash of white light and a high pitch sound. Me and Tyrock were barely in the blast zone and thankfully we were the first to recover from the blast and when we were able to see again we ran forward grabbing our guns.
"Tyrock get Pinkie, I got rainbow dash." I yelled throwing him the bottle of sleep medicine. "Drown her with it!" I said when he looked at it in surprise. I ran over to rainbow dash putting away my pistol pulled out my combat knife. I used it to cut throughout the straps. When rainbow was free I grabbed the bucket of nails and dumped them out onto the floor. When the bucket was empty I grabbed her cutie marks and her wings and stuffed them in to the bucket. I turned and looked at Tyrock seeing that Pinkie was now in a deep sleep with the empty bottle lying next to her she also had hoof cuffs attached to her all of her legs and she had a piece of cloth tied around her mouth. I then grabbed the bucket and rainbow dash heading for the door. As I raced through I heard Tyrock pick up Pinkie and follow. Along the way I pulled out the keys and pop the trunk. When we got out there Tyrock ran past me and put Pinkie in the trunk slamming it shut. When he made sure the trunk was shut tight he ran and got in the passenger side of the car. (He never was the best at driving fast.) I then handed him rainbow dash.
"See if you can patch her up along the way." I said running to the other side. I got in and grabbed the keys and turned. All I got was a cough and a sputter.
"No no no, not now," I said trying again. "Come on baby, come on." I got a little bit more but it still didn't start so I tried again. This time the car roared to life. I grabbed the shifter and slammed it in to first. "Hang on!" I said stomping on the gas. As soon as the tires started spinning I spun the wheel to the left spinning us completely around heading for the hospital.
"Jane, directions." I said straightening the car out.
"Turn right." She said I yanked the wheel and spun us around the turn. As soon as the car straightened out I shifted into second.
"Don't worry rainbow we're taking you to the hospital, you're going to be fine." I said.
"St... Stones... I'm... sorry." She said then she went silent.
"We're losing her. Rainbow, come on stay with me rainbow." Tyrock said trying to keep her awake.
"Celestia Damit." I said grabbing the shifter and slammed it into third gear. As soon as I hit the gas the front of the car started to rise.
"Stones the turn." Tyrock shouted as we came across the town square with the front tires still off the ground. I slammed on the brakes slamming the front back down and through it sideways drifting around the turn. Tyrock grabbed the dashboard pinning himself and dash to the seat. As we came around the turn I saw the Red Cross for the ponyville hospital in the distance. As we raced along the road we saw a construction site on the left side of the road. As we headed for it I saw a small spark near the bottom of a stack of pipes, at first I thought it was the lights but then the bottom pipe fell out of the pile making the whole stack fall in the process. As they fell they started to cover the road.
"Oh shit!" I heard Tyrock yell as we headed straight for them. I knew that if I stopped to find another rout rainbow dash wouldn't make it. So I did the first thing that came to mind, Shift in to fourth. Lucky for me the car’s front end lifted off the ground and one of the pipe hit the skid plate causing us to land onto the pipe so now we were grind on it like a state board. As we grind on it, I could hear the pipe scraping the drive line and the baseboards. I tried to keep us balance on the center but the tires kept hitting the pipes next to us causing us to start turning. When we reached the end of the pipe the car was almost completely turned around. Thankfully after we past the half-way point I put the car into reverse trying to turn us back around. So when we landed we were facing the wrong way making us have to drive backwards down the street but I have trained myself to drive any vehicle forward and backwards. As soon as we were out of range of the rolling pipes I grabbed the e-brake and spun us back around and floored it heading in to the hospital parking lot. As we pulled up to the hospital, well we didn't exactly pull up more like we came up and slammed on the brakes and barely stopped in time to avoid hitting the side walk. I jumped out and ran to the passenger side door yanking it open. Tyrock passed me rainbow dash and then he grabbed the bucket following me as I ran inside nearly braking the door off its hinges. When I was inside I saw nurse red heart sitting behind the reception desk. When we burst in she turned to us and smiled then her eyes landed on rainbow dash in my arms who was bleeding bad enough that it started to fall on the floor, when she saw rainbow dash her eyes went as big as dinner plates.
"I need a doctor now. I yelled. She quickly went off and grabbed a doctor and a gurney. I then gently placed rainbow on it and they wheeled her off to the E.R., Tyrock passed the bucket to the doctor who took it in his magic.
"What happen, a flight accident?" Nurse Redheart asked as they took her to the emergency room.
"Someone tried to commit murder through cutting off her wings and cutie mark. They also electrocuted her for about five minutes and then gave her about fifty cc of pain medication so right now she is numb from the chest down. She also has about one hundred and fifth cc of adrenalin in her system. That's all I know for now." I told her. The reason I left out that it was Pinkie Pie was the one trying to commit murder was the less people know the better. After nurse Redheart left to go help the doctors with rainbow I went back to the waiting room. When I got in there I saw Tyrock place a clip board on to the reception desk. I walked over and looked at the paper on it. It was the usual information fill out sheet that they use in the hospital. As I looked at it all that has happened tonight finally caught up with me. We just stopped a murder. A murder that would put all of equestrian in danger if it was successful. Not to mention that it was one of the most known ponies in Ponyville.
"What the hell just happened Tyrock, one minute we're sitting in our home enjoying our day then dash just disappeared and then we found her strapped to a table in the basement of sugar cube corner bleeding to death with Pinkie Pie standing over her and she has a scalpel in her hoof and what is really strange is she was her normal happy self until we showed up." I said waving my hands around emphasizing my point and all my cousin did was stand there and acted like I wasn't even there. "Tyrock, hello." I took my hand and waved it in front of his face. He blinked and looked around like he was confused about something. Then he turned to me. When his eyes fell on me he smiled. Some people would say what's so bad about a smile. This smile was one like you'll see on a cold blooded murderer. I have never seen that look on his face. It was so out to the ordinary I slowly reached for my pistol but just before my hand touched the handle, he stopped smiling. Then he looked around the room.
"Stones, why am I in the hospital?" He asked as he looked around trying to figure out why he could be here. I looked at him like you would a hard math problem. "What?" He said when he finally stopped looking around.
"Your joking, right?" I said walking over to the door.
"No why are we here?" He asked when I walked over to the car and put my head on the trunk of the car. What I heard was the sound of a pony waking up. I knew that I had about five minutes before Pinkie was fully awake.
"Look I tell you later just stay here and if any pony comes close to rainbow dash that is not supposed to be just hold them tell I get back. Okay?" I said as I walked over to the driver side door. He nodded then went back inside. I got in and started the car. After making sure the car could move I started to head for the local police station.
When I pulled up I saw a few police ponies heading for their homes thinking that the day was a quiet peaceful one. Little did they know that I held a pony being accused of murder? The reason she isn't guilty of murder is back on earth if police see you commit a crime then you are charged with it. Here in Equestrian you have to deal with stuff like magic and mind control. Also you have to put discord in to consideration. Also you have to put what time of the year it is. A few months ago me and Tyrock had to lock ourselves in our house because of heat season. When you have a town that is mostly full of mares that are sex crazy, you kind of have to run like crazy. Anyway after I stop I walked to the back of the car and popped open the trunk. What I saw staring back at me was almost as bad as starring back at fluttershy's stare for the first time, but watching her over the years I've built up a tolerance for it.
"Comfortable?" I asked looking down on the pink party pony with four pairs of hoof cuffs and a mussel. She just looked at me with this look that was full of so much hate. "Come on you big pile of candy." I said picking her up and heading for the door. When I walked in I saw an officer sitting behind the desk. He was a unicorn with light gray color coat with a light blue color mane. His cutie mark was a pistol in a holster. Also when I walked in I saw a unicorn mare with a white coat and a two tone mane of white and neon blue. She was sitting on one of the benches with a pair of cuffs on and a female officer was standing next to her.
"Let me guess..." I said getting her the unicorn’s attention. "You played your bass to loud again vinyl scratch." She looked at me and smiled.
"You know I have to." She said lifting her front hooves holding them out to me for a hoof bump. I made a fist and returned the hoof bump. Then I turned to the officer standing next to her.
"Hey silver star, let her go this once. She could use a break." I said getting a smile from vinyl. Silver Star nodded then pulled out the keys and unlocked the cuffs. Vinyl rubbed where the cuffs scratched her arms and smiled. Just at that point Octavia walked in. When she saw vinyl she walked over.
"Vinyl how many times do I have to tell you not to play so loud? We can't afford to keep bailing you out every time you have one of you "creative monuments" and another thing... She tried to said before vinyl put her hoof on her mouth.
"Tavi you don't have to pay anything this time Stones let me go." Vinyl said with a smug look. Octavia looked over at me with a questioning look. As she looked at me I saw her eyes drift to Pinkie Pie then they went as wide as dinner plates.
"Why is Pinkie Pie like... that." She said pointing. Vinyl also turned to look at the pony that I had sitting on my shoulder. I turned to have her face in mine and she didn't look happy.
"Trust me you don't want to know." I said walking over to the front desk the pony sitting behind it was reading a magazine. "Excuse me but I need the keys for room 342." I said placing Pinkie Pie on the desk. The stallion looked up at me and his eyes went wide. I guess I was the first human that he has ever seen before. As he sat there with his look of surprise Pinkie tried to get his attention by trying to talk thought her muzzle. When he turn and saw Pinkie, I don't know how it was possible but his eyes went even wider. I could tell I wasn't going to get any were with him.
"Never mind I'll get them myself." I said grabbing the keys that were sitting on the desk. After I picked up Pinkie Pie I went over to the door but before I could put the keys in the door the officer spoke.
"Wait a minute, why is Pinkie Pie cuffed and muzzle?" He asked turning to me. "And who are you?"
"My name is Stones and Pinkie Pie is under arrest." I said putting the keys in the lock.
"You are not allowed back there. I'm going to have to ask you to step away from the door and release Pinkie Pie this instant." He said stepping down from the chair.
"Look I need to get Pinkie in a cell before she's fully awake. I said reaching for the door handle. The second my hand touched the handle I heard the sound of a gun being drawn and the trigger being pulled. In a split second I jumped back and saw a hole form where I was standing, I then heard the slide move back in to place causing another bullet to go in the chamber before he could try again I dropped Pinkie Pie and grabbed the gun in his magic pushing it up causing the trigger to be pulled again causing one to go flying into the ceiling. When I had the gun in my hand I could feel the slide moving back to allow the empty casing to drop out at that point I flicked the slide lock in to place causing the slide to stop I then hit the small button near the trigger causing it to dropped the clip out. I then shoved the stallion against the wall grabbed my knife and brought it to his throat. I then stopped, never have I ever seen someone pull a gun that fast before and no one on this planet has ever had one before. At that point I heard the sound of the door to the cells open. I turned to see captain Goldstar step out.
"What the bloody tartars is going on here!?" He said stepping out. Then he saw me. "Stones, what are you doing here? Quick draw what's going on?"
"Sir this demon came in and it had Pinkie Pie chained up. He also took the keys from the desk." Quickdraw said trying not to get cut.
"Stones put him down." Goldstar said. I looked back at the stallion in my hands. He looked back at me with hate and distrust.
"You’re lucky he walked in." I said just barely a whisper then I dropped him putting away my knife. I then turned to Goldstar. "Sorry about the door and the ceiling, I'll pay for the damages." I said walking over to get Pinkie Pie.
"Don't worry about it Stones. What happened in here?" Goldstar asked. Before I could answer Quickdraw spoke up.
"Sir you know this... abomination?" He said before Goldstar could say anything I pulled out my knife and through it at the stallion. The knife hit the wall just between his ear and his horn. He looked up at it then back at me.
"Listen to me you little shit. I have been through too much tonight to deal with you so just shut the hell up." I said walking over and grabbing my knife. I then walked over and grabbed Pinkie Pie and walked in to the cell room. Behind me I heard the sound of water running. I also heard the sound of someone following me, I turned to see Goldstar.
"Stones I'm sorry about him, he is a new guy, just got him from trottingham." He said. "I still have to ask what did Pinkie Pie do?"
"She has been seen committing treason and attempted murder. I don't know if she was herself or if she was being controlled. That was what I was doing before he stepped in." I said jerking a thumb back at the door we stepped through. Goldstar looked at me with surprise then he looked at Pinkie Pie. I could tell she was looking at him with a look I could only described as one of a master mind plotting and it wasn't parties, she was plotting his death if she could get the chance.
"I'm going to guess that you need room 342?" He said pointing to it. I nodded and pulled out the keys and put them into the lock. As I opened the door I saw the room was covered in white foam padding. There was also a small camera in the corner near the ceiling. After I placed Pinkie Pie in the center and removing the Muzzle I walked out of the room locking the door and turned to the monitor sitting on a table next to the wall. I then pulled up the camera that was inside and spoke in to the microphone during next to the monitor.
"Pinkie Pie if you are you then answer me this where we're you born?" I asked knowing that only her best friends knew the answer. When she answer it wasn't even I her voice it was in one that I have only heard once and that was almost four years ago.
"You think you have stopped me. You have stopped nothing. I hope you enjoy the sun today because soon the night will last forever!"
