The Road Lonesome

"Okay I know it seems like this one's going to be tough, but we can get at least three hostages and a hell-ton of cash off of the stolen goods were going to get from this job, plus we can sell the hostages off for more cash," A gingerbread brown pony said.

Five others sat around the room, they were planning to steal artifacts from the Canterlot Museum and sell them off.

It would be a sinch with the crew, but none of them were really feeling this job, it was too easy.

The first of the six of them Lollipop, a lilac colored Earth pony with a pure white mane, sat with her hind legs atop the table and her front legs behind her head. She was a smoker, her eyes were mismatched, green and orange. She was the group's map head. Every possible exit, entrance, movement plan, escapes all that.

She had a clean record, only once ever was she charged with criminal activity, but all evidence was lost shortly after.

The second was known only as 'Face,' he was pale white with a green mane, both dyed. A mastermind criminal with absolute zero tolerance for failure. He was able to change his appearance like magic, even though he was just a pegasi he could make it seem like he was a unicorn with zero effort.

He was convicted of seven murders, seven thefts, seven rapes, seven kidnappings, and seven impersonations of law officers. All charges were dropped when he turned up dead in saddle lake.

The third and fourth were known as Cherry and Berry, both were opposite colors to each other, Cherry was black Berry was white, Berry had a black mane Cherry a white mane, Their names made them sound like girls but they were both male, and they were both bad-asses. They didn't have much in brains but being the muscle of the group was all brawn.

They had both been convicted of assault and sentenced to three years in prison.

The fifth was the one who had spoken, His name was Co, nothing long just Co, Sometimes his crew would refer to him as Cocoa, as a means to he was brown like it. He was a professional fence. He could move anything without making a sound.

He had been charged with embezzlement but was let off after he bribed the judge.

The sixth was a seemingly innocent pony salmon pink with a white mane, one that wouldn't be expected of anything. She had a clean record and was only known as Filly, She was a master safe cracker who was soon to leave the business as the mean of family.

She wanted a family ever since she was little.

Co slammed his milk colored hoof down on the table.

"Damn it, this could be out big break!" He shouted.

Lollipop blew a bubble with her gum. Cherry looked to Berry, they were playing cards, and all of them were ignoring Co.

"Come on asses, we could move nearly fifty million bits per on this job!"

"Per what?" Face asked, blankly.

"Per Pony!"

Face yawned.

"Oh come on dimwits!"

Filly looked at Co, with a bored expression, "Listen honey, we're in, we're just not feeling it, I'd rather go off and drink cement than do this job."

Co sighed and put his head on the table. Filly was almost immediately next to him Berry and Cherry were at the other end of the table, Face and Lollipop were in the middle.

Filly stroked Co's mane sympathetically. She was like a mother sometimes, comforting like she was a mother to all.

Her face had kept it's youth, she'd be able to pass as a mare just entering adult hood and not a mid-life aged mare.

"This is just so hard," Co muttered.

"I know, i know," Filly soothed.

Co sat back up.

"So crew, you want this to be dangerous like the last ones?"

Face looked at Co and smiled. "What the hell have you been smoking man?"

"How about just before we start the job we inform the uniforms, tell 'em that we got guns, and hostages before we actually do."

Cherry and Berry looked over at Co.

"Sounds fun boss."

"Real fun boss."

"Yeah but who are we gonna get to do that, none of us are fast enough."

"Face is," Filly pointed out.

Face smiled and flapped his wings. "So we doing this today or what?"

"Hells yeah," Co replied.

"Okay, Every-pony stay together when we arrive at the Museum, stay in the group and have fun," Cherliee announced as the bus took off.

Quickly she sat down in her seat. Hopefully, in Celestia's name this field trip would go off without a hitch. The school couldn't afford another lawsuit.

Slowly the bus chugged along towards the City known as Canterlot. It was a pristine place that looked to be made of gold from far away.

It was massive, built partly into a mountain, it was truly, truly the capitol city. The Museum there was a massive monolithic place filled with artifacts made of pure diamond and pure gold. Some were worth more than the building itself.

Some of the filly's' and colts' spoke with each other, some played. But not much noise was made, only the engine was loud enough to hear over the little ones'. Cherilee Smiled and sat looking forward out the front screen. She lifted up her clipboard with all he lesson information a name chart for role-call and a picture of the class.

The bus driver was a grey pony with a black mane, and a permanent bored expression. He shifted gears and steered without even trying.

Cherilee looked out the window next to her, trees and buildings passed by. Like a man running nude down the street, Anon had said that in a drunken slur when he had fallen off the schoolhouse.

He actually fell off a lot of things he got on top of somehow whilst drunk out of his mind. He usually slurred a saying or phrase after falling off said place and then fell asleep. It was nearly a weekly occurrence.

And sometimes it was actually quiet fun to try and guess what building he'd fall off next. Some of the older ponies had made a game of it actually. Anon fall bingo some were calling it. Every time you guessed the right building you'd get every bit that was bet. You guessed wrong along with every-pony else, the cash stay's in the pot.

Once Cherilee had done a bet, it was after six weeks, and the pot was quiet big. She guessed that the next building he'd fall off was the water tower and he did.

Twenty seven fractures, three limbs out of their sockets, twelve broken teeth, two missing teeth, eight broken fingers and a dislocated wrist later, Cherilee was seven thousand bits' richer.

It was a fun but sort of cruel game. Getting the poor sod drunk and leaving him in the street. Sometimes he'd get up there and sleep the beer off, then wake up and fall off the building half drunk still. Somehow he managed to be drunk from the night before.

Though Anon was pretty durable. The only reason he had gotten hurt from falling off the water tower was because he hit every cross beam rock and tree on his way down the hill. He usually could fall off anything without even a bruise.

Cherilee sighed and looked back at the little filly's' and colts' playing games such as tic tac toe or naughts and crosses, The three Cutie Mark Crusaders sitting on the back bench seat making plans for some inane activity when they got back.

The five were in position with clothing to cover their guns and equipment for cutting the cases, Face had managed to find out that there was a school field trip from Ponyville coming in so he'd decided to wait on the alarm.

The field trip would arrive at 12:30 P.M. if the driver was good. The six were planning on using the sewers to haul the loot and little filly's' and colts' before they sold all of it to the right people. The stuff mattered the ponies didn't. They could sell them however they pleased.

Lollipop was outside on the comms making sure to get everyone out when the shit hit the fan.

Cherry and Berry were sitting at the front entrance with their ski masks, they were both smoking in perfect sync. With every movement the two were the same big dumb synchronized brutish pony.

Filly and Co were inside posing as staff, it wasn't that hard seeings as the Museum was barely monitored, only one CCTV camera in each room.

Co checked his watch, 10:10 AM. Two hours and twenty minutes to go.

The time was a breeze, only a very small number of ponies came and went. Soon the two hours turned to ten minutes.

The sound of the bus was heard, chugging up the hill. The engine sounded as though it would blow out.

"Okay every-pony," Lollipop said over the earpiece comms, "We have at least thirty eight brats entering the building."

"Hey," Filly snapped through the earpiece, "They're not brats, all of them are wonderful."

"Yeah whatever."

Co and Filly walked into the designated washrooms, each had their equipment in a designated stall. Co walked into his and put on his gear. Filly likewise.

"Face break the news to the Po-Po."

"Roger."

Ten minutes.

Cherry and Berry both had sawn-off shotguns loaded with the exact same number of rounds, the exact same caliber and the exact same fire rate.

The Fillys' and Colts' entered through the front entrance, Cherry and Berry were at the side. They both slipped on their ski masks.

"Okay now Cher and Ber, your going to go in and on of you is going right to the front entrance to fire off a few rounds, remember do it at the roof not the hostages."

"Roger boss," The two replied in sync.

Filly and Co exited the washrooms and moved into position, there was only the desk clerk and a couple tour guides in the building today. Field trips a usually slow days. No pony real anxious to get into the building.

Ber had the side door down, while Cher moved to the front door, it was easy with half of the buildings light's down.

The little filly's and colts were all in the center of the room behind what seemed to be their teacher. Cher slid out from behind a pillar and in front of the front door.

"Get on the floor now!" He shouted, firing a round to the roof.

There was a few screams but it seemed that they complied.

"Okay the cops are en-route, you have five minutes to get the loot and get out. Face will be here in a few seconds."

"Now," Cherry began, "It isn't everyday i have to rob a Museum, but you see, this one has a field trip of little hostages i can use."

Co and Filly came out of the shadows, Face came in through the side door.

"Now i want all of you to stay calm, the police are on the way here right now, So we're going to be out of your hair in about three minutes."

Face and Co quickly went to work breaking the cases and moving the loot into their bags, after they had filled their bags they swapped positions with Cherry and Berry. It had taken less than a minute to fill the first two bags, it took two minutes to fill the second ones.

"Okay guys, i can see some of the cops at the end of the road, you need to get outta there."

"Yup," Co said through the comm.

Cherry, Berry and face each grabbed a filly, One was orange with a purple mane and tail, and by goodness she was a fighter.

The second was a very lightly colored unicorn that seemed to be frozen still with fear.

The third was a simple Earth-pony filly, red hair with a bow in it, and a yellow coat, she bit Berry but a quick smack to the head stopped her.

The five left the building through the side entrance with their hostages, Lollipop had left her perch on the building across the street. She was heading down to the sewer junction to help the team get out of the city before 'rush hour'.

She opened the door and moved to the manhole that was in the little alleyway just outside in the alleyway. She opened it and slid down the ladder, she put her equipment down then went up and closed the manhole over.

Meanwhile the five with the hostages were already at the junction. They only had five minutes before the afternoon surge. The sewers of Canterlot were massive yes, but every week on Monday to be exact, around twelve forty a massive surge of sewage spewed through the sewers and washed away any blockages.

It was the most vile way of cleaning a sewer.

Lollipop came up from the left side tunnel.

"Come on we only have nine minutes to clear a half mile!" she urged beginning to run.

The five followed her. She was the getaway, the crew's safe way out.

It wouldn't take long for the cops to find out they took the sewers out. It only took a few seconds in reality.

"Stop right there!" One of the few that got down in the sewers shouted.

Face looked back and smiled, "Catch us if you can coppers, because as soon as we're out of sight we're gone!"

It wasn't much use for any of the officers to chase after them, they were to far off.