Pony of Interest

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1 Year earlier

"Rainbow .S Dash you have been found guilty and as part of your punishment you will be under constant surveillance under officers Lin and Keen"

Present Day

Rainbow Dash woke up in the alley way wakened by a dream she had when she first heard her overwatchers names in court one year ago. She looked around and saw that she wasn't alone. All around her she saw homeless ponies each with a different story to tell, once rich investors who lost it all, a gang member who ran away from the police, runaway soldiers from the Equestrian guard, even criminals who seemed innocent were sent out of jail only to end up in an even worse place. She heard shouts of authorities coming, but she wasn't immediately alarmed until she noticed she was the only pony standing in the middle of the alley. Then five earth ponies, six pegasi, and two unicorns rushed into the alleyway, the pegasi landing on the rooftops. No matter where the ponies were they all had their eyes fixed on one thing. Rainbow Dash.

"Don't move!" shouted one of the unicorns. Dash didn't really have any options. She could attempt to fly, but that idea was dropped when another squad of pegasi flew over preventing any ways of escape by land or air. "Rainbow S. Dash you are under questioning for the murders of officers Keen and Lin." The unicorn said. He had a cross hair for a cutie mark and he was clearly the leader of the group.

Rainbow Dash thought this over for a minute. She could surrender to them and probably be charged with murder and hope that the letter was fake and Luna could hopefully bail her out or she could attempt to escape and meet with Luna. She had her blades behind a dumpster, if she could maybe grab them and put try to fly past the pegasi and put them on in mid flight she could have a chance and taking risks was one of the few things about her personality that has stayed with her throughout her entire life.

"Come and get me" Rainbow Dash calmly said. At first the lead unicorn was stunned by the calmness in Dash's voice and that single moment was all that Rainbow needed to fly past him holding her wingblades trying to put them on while flying.

"After her! Don't let her escape!" Yelled the leader. The pegasi flew off one by one locating their new target. They flew in a rugged, but steady formation trying to catch up to Rainbow Dash, but they had a slight advantage over her. Dash was still attaching her blades to her wings, slowing her down, well at least that's what the officers thought. Rainbow Dash still flew faster than them and time was running out for the police, she only had to strap the weapon to her left wing until they would be completely on her.

(Chase, this is Scope. You have permission to use deadly force.) Scope finished his psychic communication spell. He was frustrated that he let Rainbow Dash escape, but he knew that it wasn't the first time a criminal pegasus tried to outrun him and his squad.

Chase and his squad trailed Rainbow Dash for another five minutes until he ordered the rest of his squad to continue following her as he broke off from the main group. Chase was smart and he knew exactly where he was in the city. He landed on the roof of a large office building and trotted over to an air conditioning pipe. That's what it was supposed to look like anyway. He removed the pipe and took out his crossbow along with a bolt tied with string attached to the crossbow. The string was about thirty feet long and the reason it was there was incase he missed he could easily recover it and so it won't fly off and possibly injure an innocent pony. He flew off trying to intercept Rainbow Dash. After four minutes Chase caught up with his squad and he took the first shot. WHOOSH

The bolt grazed Rainbow Dash's right wing. She made a 90 degree turn to the right then looped around hopping that she could evade a second shot. WHOOSH

She heard the bolt being shot again, but it completely missed. It was then when she turned around and saw that the bolt was tied to a piece of string so her persusers could easily reload shot after shot. Then an idea came to her. Dash dive bombed towards the bolt, snatching it with her mouth. She then grabbed it with her front hooves and yanked the crossbow out of the hooves of the lead pegasus. She then dove down almost right underneath Chase and grabbed the weapon.

She flew down on a rooftop and loaded the weapon. She ducked down under a vent and looked towards the sky. THUMP Chase landed on the other side of the rooftop, panting, but she cloud still tell he was determined to kill. He drew out his knife and spread out his wings ready to charge. Dash heard him land and quickly found him. The problem was that he was one foot away from cutting her throat. Dash quickly made a 360 degree turn opening her wings deflecting the attack, but not without consequences. She lost a few feathers and she was cut badly on her right side. She looked over and saw Chase four meters away with a couple cuts made from the wingblades, the injuries weren't major, but they were enough to put him on the ground for a minute. Chase stood up realizing that his initial attack failed. He prepared for a second attack, but he realized that he didn't recover as fast as he hoped. Rainbow Dash stood up and took aim at Chase. Chase knew he made a mistake by leaving his squad. He saw them in the distance.

I'm not going to make it, but at least Scope will find her..... eventually..... hopefully WHOOSH

Rainbow Dash shot her enemy and then limped towards a vent and sat down trying to regain her focus and look at her wounds. She was already injured from the fight last night and she ditched the first aid kit so she didn't have any resources. She then looked at Chase. He had an arrow going through his head, but she then looked at his chest. Chase was wearing a standard Manehattan Police uniform.

"It won't be a bandage, but it'll do" Dash talked to herself. For most ponies talking to yourself meant that you were going crazy, but for Rainbow Dash, talking to herself kept her sanity in situations like this. She knew that she had killed three ponies within twenty four hours, but she's done worse in the past.