Author's Note

Tried something new tell how you like it please.

a genius and misfortune(old)

“Achoo! Achoo!”

Twilight dropped her rocket bat as her latest sneezing fit started. She shouldn't be up and about right now, but her self built silent alarm system had gone off. So she grab one of harder hitting gadgets and snuck up to the attic. Then she’d waited till the intruder had dropped his guard and struck! Unfortunately this caused dust to rise resulting in her current sneezing fit.

“Next time I’m putting on a doctors mask. Now let’s see who we got here…”

Picking up your bat you first poke the guy before flipping him over and-

“Whoa, hot guy. Wait, no getting distracted Twilight. Got to find some rope and tie them up for the cops, or Shining. He should be here soon right?”

Taking your glasses out of your pocket and putting them on, you than flip a small switch to turn on the mini HUD you’d attached to it and checked the current time.

“12:48. Yeah, he’s going to be here soon. Now where did I leave that rope last time?”

Plodding back down to your room you open your closet, and move aside as your closet disgorges its contents to the floor. Digging through the heap of failed or incomplete gadgets, gizmos, and various tools you search for your rope.

After ten minutes of searching you find it after tripping and seeing it under your bed, embarrassed at your mistake you re stuff your closet and head back to your attic.

Tying up the guy’s and girl’s arms behind their backs and then together you were pretty sure they couldn't escape…. Easily.

That’s when you notice one of the packs with the sun motif had fallen over, moving to put away the stuff you freeze. Were those money stacks?

Picking one up you see a hundred dollar bill staring back at you before slowly moving each bill aside to find more.

In a panic you upturn the bag and see a large mountain of gems, gold and silver bars, and around fifty more money stacks fall out. Your mind blanks, and you slowly turn to see the two still out apparent thieves? Bank robbers? Gangsters? We’ll whoever they are they’re obviously dangerous if they had this much loot. You definitely got lucky with your sneak attack, but now you had bigger problems.

Reaching over to the other bag and opening it you freeze as a gun barrel points out at you, you carefully remove it and continue to look through the bag. Finding a couple jars of dried fruit, some books in a language you couldn’t read but seemed to glow in a soft light, some tranq ammo, and a pen drive?

Heading back to your room you boot up one of the old laptops you hadn’t taken apart for parts, you weren’t gonna put an unknown drive in one of your personal computers. Making sure it couldn’t connect to the net, you inserted the drive and ran a basic virus scan. Coming up empty you open the drive see you’d avoided a trap on the drive, if you’d had been connected to the net your location and the drives would be known by whoever was looking for it.

You spent a bit of time disabling that and then set it to reveal hidden files, when over fifty password locked files appeared you gave of a small grin. A challenge!

You open your desk drawer and retrieved one of your hacking devices and connected it the laptop and got drawn into breaking the security.

Sunset groaned as she awoke, she was aching and still felt the damage from whatever hit her. Trying to move her arm and finding herself unable to do so, she snapped to full awareness.

“Okay, where am I? How’d I get here?”

Then her eyes landed on her upturned bags…

“If anypon-body took something I’m gonna set them on fire. Wait ….MY RINGS!”

Sending magic into her finger she felt her rings respond before letting out a sigh of relief.

“Good, now lets get free.”

A bit of concentration and a small flame started burning whatever restraints were holding her while using her telekinetic ring to repack her bags. No sense leaving it all out on the floor when she could secure her stuff and escape at the same time.

Of course that’s when an exposed pipe above you bursts and drenches you completely, at the same time whatever you were backed up against shifted and fell over taking you with it and putting your face directly under the watery deluge.

The next few seconds were spent by you panicking then remembering you had a shield ring and activating it. You were so glad there was no one around to witness that…

A feeling of dread fills as you instinctively turn your head and see Ranma lying next to you and grinning and slowly pointing up at the pipe than at you. Yep she saw that and was apparently what you were tied to. Yep you were gonna burn the person who’d caused this humiliation, you swear to yourself.