Everyone needs a Payday

Dash swung the wheel of the van swinging the huge metal behemoth into a ninety degree turn onto the streets.

“YEAHAHA!!!” Rainbow screamed while the engine roared

Sonata dug through her bag and brought out a box of Hello Kitty Band-Aids “I got some Band-Aids Aria!”

Aria grit her teeth a glared at Sonata with fire in her eyes “You honestly think a stupid, tiny Band-Aid is going to stop a bullet wound?!?”

“I don't know! Maybe?” Sonata sulked

Adagio cut a piece of long cloth from her coat and began tying it around Aria's leg. “The bullet hit the bone. We'll have to surgically remove it later.”

“We have to cut her leg off?!?” Sonata gasped

Aria groaned “ The bullet you idiot!”

“Guess we don't have our invulnerability anymore...” Adagio sighed

“I figured.” Aria leaned back in the seat.

“But I used to get cuts all the time! Even when we had our gems!”

“Because you weren't in any severe bodily harm Sonata, your gem never needed to exert itself to protect you.” Adagio explained

“They've got snipers lined up all along the rooftops!” Luna warned

Rainbow pressed the gas harder “Then let's make us hard to hit! Buckle up everyone!!!”

The van swayed before another loud crack whizzed past the vehicle. Red lines streaked through the windshield. Few shots hit the van, leaving a crack in the windshield while others pierced the body.

“Almost to the escape route.” Rainbow swerved around a corner after hearing sirens in the distance.

“Cops on your tail. You gotta deal with them girls.”

“Got it.” Adagio kicked the doors open to see two police cruisers tailing behind them.

One of the policemen inside shouted into their loudspeaker “PULL OVER!”

“Like hell we will!” Aria shot a round out of her rifle, passing through the windshield and splattering the officer's skull inside the car, causing it to swerve into a flower shop.

The other cruiser started returning fire.

Adagio began firing back, blowing the tires in the front.

Rainbow swung the van into another sharp turn “Awww yeah! We're in the clear!”

Aria sighed and leaned against the chair “I just want to go home...”

Adagio pulled the doors closed “It won't be much longer.”

The van swerved, slamming Adagio into her seat.

“GAH!” A bullet pierced through Rainbow's arm, she jerked the wheel to the left. She slammed on the brakes and tried to turn the wheel right again. The car's weight shifted to the front right tire, breaking it's suspension and dropping the van onto it's side. It began to roll, tossing the girls around the cargo space.

Rainbow held her pounding head “GOD DAMMIT! I've never crashed in my life!”

Adagio peeled her eyes open and gripped her bruised arm “What happened?!?”

“Damn sniper hit me!” Rainbow stuffed a rag into the hole on her arm

Aria rolled onto her back “We're so fucking dead...”

“You'll be fine! I'm on the way, just hold out for five minutes!” Luna slammed her headset into the table.

Adagio kicked the doors off their broken hinges and crawled out “We have to get to cover.” She pulled Aria to her feet “Take the bags to that park across the street.”

Rainbow climbed to her feet “You're still concerned with the stupid money?!?”

Sonata pulled a bag up “This is ours now! They can't take it away!”

Aria tossed a bag at her “Yeah, now get moving or we'll leave you here.”

She reluctantly caught the bag “Fine. Give me your gun then!”

Aria glared at her “No! This one's mine!”

Adagio sighed “Just take this one.”

Police sirens began to creep echo around the dead silent streets.

Adagio supported Aria as they hobbled their way to the park across the street. Dash dropped the bag near the base. Sonata dropped the two she was carrying and rubbed the pain from her shoulder.

Adagio dropped her sister underneath a stone statue of a man “Watch these bags.”

Aria clicked the safety off “Got it.”

The swat parked their vans on every street surrounding them from all sides. Officers swarmed to cover and began firing on the girls.

An officer sprinted ahead of them then shouted “DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE!!!”

Aria sent a bullet through his skull, signaling the fire to divert onto her location. She rolled onto her stomach and began to fire at the units approaching the sidewalk.

Dash climbed the steps with a a bag in toe “We're surrounded!”

“Yeah, we got that.” Adagio threw her bag at the statue base.

“We can't waste any more time.” Adagio pointed her pistol to the street, and dropped a unit charging into the park “Let's get those last three bags

Sonata pumped her fist “Okay!!!”

Dash's face filled with horror “Why are you so eager to get shot?!?”

Aria tossed a spent magazine at the police “We've been living off that disgusting slop, you people call food.

Dash laughed awkwardly “Uh, I guess.”

Adagio pushed past Rainbow, advancing in cover back to the crashed truck. Sonata followed after while laying down more suppressing fire with her shotgun.

“They're going to try to repossess the bags.” Adagio ducked under a barrage of rounds

Rainbow cowered behind the stone walls “I don't wanna get shot again.”

The lead siren jumped out of cover, and took down five units with clean head shots in quick succession “Sonata let's go!”

Sonata nodded then cocked her weapon.

Adagio ran down the steps, taking cover behind an abandoned squad car. She turned to the blue girls and beckoned them to follow.

Sonata leaped down the stone stairs and scampered out to the street. “Gah!” Sonata's toes kicked the curb sending her flying onto the cold asphalt. The gun slammed onto the floor, setting it off and shooting the officer whom was hiding on the other side of the squad car. The officer fell to the ground screaming while trying to push the few strips of flesh holding his foot onto his body.

“How many times are you going to do that?” Adagio sighed

Sonata brushed off her suit pouting at her “It's not my fault!”

“Let's hurry this up already!” Rainbow leaned herself on the squad car behind Sonata.

Adagio picked up a discarded clip and tossed it into the street, bullets instantly showered down upon it. She released a long sigh and spun around, grounding her pistol on top of the car's hood, She pulled the trigger, accurately dispatching several officers. Adagio dropped the spent clip to the ground, and reached for the last one on her waist.

Adagio yanked the slide backwards “I'm running dry, has anyone heard back from Luna yet?”

Sonata quietly shook her head “Have you tried taking the ammo from the dead ones?”

Adagio grimaced “I'm not touching a dead human, let alone a live one.”

She pulled the fallen officer's pistol and handed Adagio a cartridge happily.

Adagio groaned and slapped the clip from her hand “It's not the same type of gun either Sonata!”

“O-oh...” Her smile faded away

“I'm on my way!” Luna's voice returned to the radio, partially obscured by a loud chopping sound.

Adagio pressed the button to respond “Luna? Where are you?”

A few seconds passed before the radio cracked back on again “I got a chopper. I'll be on you in five minutes.”

Sonata gasp “A chopper!?! I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO FLY IN ONE!!!”

“Yeah, a chopper is cool. Let's focus on not getting shot.” Rainbow rolled her eyes

The lead siren looked over the squad car again “We're clear.” She ducked her head and ran to the tipped vehicle. Adagio pulled a lightly torn bag from the wreckage and tossed it to her accomplices.

Another laser trailed through the street, landing on her head.

Sonata sprang her feet as hard as she could, sending her flying through the air “LOOK OUT!”

The rifle cracked, sending metal flying through the air. Sonata slammed into Adagio, sending them flying into the truck.

Sonata placed her hand over her chest and sighed “That was too close!”

Adagio pushed herself to her knees “Ahem, thanks.” she turned around and faced Sonata “Y-your hair Sonata.”

“What's wrong with it?” She brushed her hands over her hair. Her stomach dropped while her lungs failed her as she tried to scream. She picked up her severed ponytail and hugged it while tears began streaming down her face. She dropped her hair and wiped the tears from her face. She breathed in deeply and closed her eyes. Her eyes shot open with fire burning inside them.

She jumped out of the van with her Shotgun readied “I'LL KILL YOU ALL!!!”

She slowly walked towards the police and began unloading an endless stream of shells onto them. The red laser shinned over her head, drawing her attention to the rooftop. It cracked again towards Sonata, but she jerked her head to the left dodging it at the last second. She aimed her weapon back at the sniper and sent multiple waves of shells towards him.

The body fell from the roof and onto the cold concrete. The impact sent blood flying in every direction, splattering onto the officers nearby. A dark laughter boiled inside her causing the police to begin fleeing from the sadistic girl.

Adagio broke her focus “Sonata. Move bags. Now.”

She spun around smiling again “Kay!” she ran to the van and pulled a bag over her shoulder

Adagio tossed a bag over to Rainbow Dash, who was frozen in shock.

Sonata heaved the full bag up the steps and dropped it next to Aria.

“Nice haircut!” Aria managed to choke out between her laughter.

Sonata knelt down and lightly pressed her bullet wound with her thumb, instantly coaxing a wail of pain from her. She glared into her eyes “Don't.”

Rainbow and Adagio climb the steps, pulling the last three bags to the statue.

“I'm over you now! Get ready!” Luna radioed them

The chopper slowly descended over the staircase, perfectly allowing them to board.

“Let's go!” Luna threw the door open

Adagio helped her wounded ally to her feet and to the chopper, while Sonata and Dash stuffed the bags into the chopper.

Luna pushed the throttle up sending the plane into the skies “I saw no police choppers in the sky, so we can head straight to the safe house.”

Dash climbed into the cockpit and eyed over every dial and switch inside it while beginning to drool from awe “Where'd you get a Chopper from?”

“I had a long discussion with the man at the aircraft graveyard.”

“How much?”

Luna coughed “He was very stubborn about not selling it. So I, ahem, stole it.”

“Won't that draw more attention to us?” Adagio stuffed her mask into her bag.

Luna began the chopper's decent “Don't worry, I have connections.”

Sonata threw her mask onto the floor and glared out the window.

“Take me to a hospital already...” Aria pulled the ends of her makeshift bandage tighter.

Adagio sighed “We can't. They'd figure out you were part of the bank heist.”

“Well then what am I supposed to do?” Aria motioned to her leg

Luna touched down in the tight open ally behind the building. She threw the door open and grabbed Aria under her arm “The emergency doors are deactivated. Adagio, help me get her inside.” Luna headed towards the slightly rusted door.

They traveled down a flight of stairs down into the safe house.

Luna dropped Aria on the table and began fishing out equipment from the nearby drawers. She pulled a glass bottle of whiskey out and dropped it on the table next to Aria with a glass “Drink up.”

She cringed “You humans drink pure poison you know.”

“Drink it or don't. We don't have any real anesthetics here.” Luna splashed alcohol on a pair of forceps.

She sighed and poured the tiny glass with the brown liquid. She raised it to her eyes and inspected it. She pressed it to her lips and chugged it down in two gulps “Ugh god that's horrible.” Luna filled the glass again, and prompted to her finish the second glass.

She cut the bandage off and carefully pulled it away from the tender tissue underneath. “Bite down on this.” Luna handed her a spoon wrapped in a towel.

Aria placed it in her mouth, and shut her eyes for the trauma she was about to endure.

Luna readied her forceps over the hole, while gripping Aria's leg tightly “Don't move.”

“FUCK, FUCK, FUCK FUCK!!!” she failed to hold back tears while Luna dug into her flesh.

“I almost got it. Breathe or you'll pass out.” blood welled out of the hole. She gripped the foreign metal and yanked it out causing another array of profanity from Aria. Luna splashed more alcohol onto the wound generating more howls of agony from her.

Aria's breath became shallow as Luna soaked the blood with a clean towel. She poured the glass again and slid it to Aria “Drink.” she quickly downed the liquor without complaint. Luna reached for a the needle and metallic wire. She stabbed it into her skin and began threading her skin closed.

She tied the ends closed and patted Aria on the shoulder “ Good to go.”

Aria threw herself back onto the table trying to calm her breathing back to normal, with her elbow over her eyes.

Sonata and Rainbow carried the last two bags inside, Dash pumped her fist “WE JUST GOT AWAY WITH THEFT! THAT'S SO AWESOME!!!”

Luna washed the blood from her hands “Yes we did. You can all have two bags now.”

Dash scuttled her feet and pulled a bundle out to count it.

“What about you?” Adagio questioned

“I can't take any. It'll draw suspicion.” Luna wiped her hands off.

She walked across the room, and placed Aria's bags onto the table beside her. She looked at the exhausted group and smiled. “Just don't go thinking this is your first Pay Day though.”

“You mean we're going to have to go back?” Adagio gasped

“Lots of people are going to see what you did, and some might just like it.” Luna smiled

“I'm totally in!” Dash puffed her chest out confidently

Sonata still sulked on the couch “I guess...”

Aria remained silent on the table.

Adagio looked Luna in the eyes smiling “We're in.”