Railtown, Canadian border, 9 years ago...
Matt's POV - 2nd person
"Alright, people, you know how this goes, put your hands on the back of your head and stand in a row." You say as you aim at them with your rifle, as ponies and human workers alike do as they we're told to.
"Don't even think about it!" Came the distorted voice of your partner-in-crime, Stars Within, as she yelled at a scared guard that was trying to unholsters his gun.
Stars is a strange mare to say the least, she was always around you in a full-covered black suit, you could only see the online of her mouth, but can't make the colors of her coat, even still, she had a voice distorter, you indeed think she is weird, but she still participated is a good friend to you, you remembered when both of you were sharing jokes and laughing, she is also a good marksman indeed, if someone should ask you, you'd say there is no mare like her, her height is tall for an average pony, only just being shorter than Celestia, but you don't mind, there are also 8 foot tall men in humans too.
Stars punches with a hoof the scared guard to the ground and with her magic from her horn, puts the gun away from him.
"Gamma, put these guys in the closet." You say to a hired-gun, in wich his name is actually Phil, but in order to keep anonymousness, you call yourselves by the NATO phonetic letters, You are Alpha, Stars is Bravo, and Phil is Gamma.
"On it," Came the response from him "Come on! Move!" he yells at the customers and bank workers.
"You! Hold on a second!" You say to the manager "Give me the keys!"
The manager is scared but still looks around and says "What keys?"
"Dont go playing stupid on me! Shove them now or you will not get just hurt!" You yell while waving your gun menacingly to him, finally, he gave up and throw the keys to the floor.
"Bravo, get the keys and open the door, then blast the vault." You tell your comrade.
"With pleasure." Came the response as she went through the other room and the 2 of you waited.
After 5 minutes, she came back and said "Done, do it."
You search into your pocket, and take an old Nokia 1100, go to contacts, then call Detonate, a heartbeat later, you hear a thump as the vault blasted open. "Woohoohoohoo!" Phil yelled in excitement.
You lock the closet door, then both Stars and you go through the small hallway and inside the vault.
Some money fell from the blast as you two pick them up along with the others.
You calculate that all the money you got would value like 600,000 currency in total, 300,000 bits and 300,000 dollars. "Hohoho! Jackpot!" You mutter in excitement.
"You ready?" Asked Star, motioning you to go.
"Yeah, let's go." You reply as both of you walk off.
Just then you get grabbed from behind and your mask is thrown, then you feel a gun agains't your head. "I saw your face! I'll remember you!" Said a scared voice from behind you, perhaps a guard.
Stars turned around and pointed with her magic the gun at the guard. "I'll make sure you don't." She said rather cold.
Just then you realize what she is going to do when she fires her gun with impressive accuracy at the guard's head. Throwing everywhere parts of meat flesh and brain matter, because somehow the head exploded.
"Gah! Fuck!" You scream in frustation as you turn around and see the dead body of the guard. "You didn't had to do it!" You say to Stars as you pick up your mask again.
"Let's keep moving," She says like nothing happened. "Gamma! Get over here!"
The three of you keep moving foward to the back area of the bank where trucks are loaded.
As you near through a green door you slam your foot in it and it throws open. Allowing the three of you to another small room in wich there is a garage door.
You slam your fist to the "OPEN" button and the garage door slowly goes up. Letting you sight the snow of the winter.
You get out, just then when you hear sirens. "Fuck. Police!" you tell to the others.
A police car aproaches and stops behind it comes another one, the policemen get out of their cars and starts shooting you.
You all three get to cover.
"More like the local militia." Phil states with a hint of humor.
"Come on!" Yells Stars as she shoot back.
You sigh and start shooting too.
After a firefight, the three of you get to a van which you get in and start driving.
"Woo, baby! Look at all this money!" Says Phil as he takes his mask of in the back and looks at the bags of money.
"It's got enough to do us all joy..." You say excitedly while you keep driving.
"We're near the chopper." Stars says as you park the van, and all of you get out.
You can see the chopper, conveniently hided well, you take off the sheet that covers it mostly.
You get in the pilot seat, start it, and see as Stars and Phil are taking their time towards the helicopter.
Stars loads the bags of the money just as a rifle is heard that wen't off before Phil falls to the floor screaming in pain.
"Bucking hay! Sniper!" Yells Stars as she runs to cover and tries to check on Phil.
"Go!" Says Phil "Give my part to my family!"
Suddenly, Stars gets hit too, in the leg however.
"Shit! Phil! Stars!" You yell as you watch your partners on the floor.
"Go, now!" Yells Stars
"I'm not leaving you here!" You yell back as you try to unstrap yourself.
"No! Forget about me! I'll find a way off! This is out of discussion, go now!" You can hear the sirens of aproaching police as you try to hold back your tears to the fear loosing your friend here, your just 17, but you trust in her, somehow, she always escapes this bad things, you hope this is not an exeption.
"This will not be the last time i'll see you!" You yell back as a goodbye and start taking off just in time.
Manehattan, Equestria, Present
Matt's POV - 2nd person
You walk down the streets of Manehatten, the pony equivalent to New York city, it is really like New York, how it looks like in night, guess there are two cities in the world that does not sleep.
You open your way through the endless people of prostitues, hobos, business men/stallions and gangsters, both human and pony alike.
Most pony fillies think Manehattan is a high-wealth city, in wich all the most high-class ponies live in there, but us humans know very perfectly that it's no different from New York, sure, perhaps there is indeed rich men, but that does not mean there aren't the lower poor wealthed districts, fourtenetly, you did not live here, you were just passing by.
After some minutes of walking you finally got to the center of the city, where the park is located, just like New York indeed.
You sat on a bench and look at your surroundings.
Human and pony couples walking in the park romantically...
Late-night guy sitting playing his guitar...
Just normal people/pony enjoying the simple threats of life.
Perhaps you should too.
You stretch, sit back, and relax, looking at the night sky.
Due for the city's brightlight, you can't see much stars.
But you can still spot some.
Thinking of stars...
You wonder where is Stars Within.
You hope she'll be alright.
You get up and start walking back to your car to go back to your home.
