PAYDAY: Equestrian Heists

Twilight put her ear close to the radio as the van traveled the streets, these roads didn't look like the ones to Twilight's home, a mare on the radio was naming off the names of the deceased stallions. It had been exactly an hour and a half sense the alicorn left the nightclub and they were already talking about it. The reporter spoke about how one of the employees went into the back storage area and spotted a body bag and signs of a robbery. Twilight nodded and slipped back to her friends once again and the van pulled up into a garage of a laundry mat. Rarity let out a little sneeze as an overpowering smell of laundry detergent reached outside into the garage. Twilight exited the van and pulled one of the money backs out with her, taking a look around she raises a brow wondering where she was. Sunset hops out after Twilight carrying two bags of money.

"Hey gang! Welcome to the safehouse, I would like you to head right inside" Bain spoke in their earpieces and gave a chuckle, right after he spoke another vehicle pulled up in the parking lot and Vlad stepped with a smile on his face as he  walked into the laundry mat. Rarity smiled and headed to the entrance of the building following Vlad. Twilight pulled the bag of money more on her back so it wouldn't fall on the wet ground. It had been raining on the ride to this place. Twilight pushed open the front door and followed Vlad to the back area, music was playing and a statue that resembles the tree of harmony sat in the center of the room. The site of the statue caused the alicorn to drop her bag and reach out to it with a smile on her face.  "I see you gang, smile for the camera. I see you have a liking for my ornament Twilight. It's special to me and I hope it becomes special for you! Lets get down to bushiness, go over to the table and set a bag of money on it" Vlad sat on the coach by the table taking a sip of liquor and counting a stack of cash looking over at Twilight as she walked over setting the bag on the table.

"Alright, that is done. Now what?" Twilight sat down and placed her hoof on the bag of money. Sunset walked over with her two bags. Pinkie Pie was behind her carrying a bag as well, a camera stared down at them with a red light flashing.

"Alright, open it up and lay out the stacks! Lets see that green" Bain spoke before going silent again. Sunset tossed down her bags and used her magic to unzip the bag Twilight set on the table. Twilight used her hooves to pull out the bills laying them out on the table, "Alright! Now take a couple stacks! Set the money in the center of the tree, give it a little of your earning!" Pinkie Pie then leaped picking up four stacks in her mouth before she began to hop over to the tree statue. Placing the stacks in the center the floor immediately started to tick. Rarity watched as dust flew into the air and the floor began to lower making a staircase down to a basement. the stairs started next to the tree and Twilight quickly got up and stared startled by the sudden change. "Alright girls, welcome to your safehouse! Down there is were all the magic happens, you will keep your weapons, money, and more down there. I expect you will be spending most of your time here now"

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Twilight placed the last small stack of money on the table of the vault, she smiled this was allot of money. The cash was almost covering the entire table, one layer of cash. Rarity was shuffling through a pile of scrap and plastic. She grunted and wiped her forehead with her hoof shaking her head, this place was dirty and needed a makeover if it was going to house four mares. Sunset was sitting in front of the only laptop downstairs starring at the screen, it was a map of the city. Pinkie Pie was in a room full of doors and a table. She managed to find herself lost in the room. Sitting next to one of the doors she sighed and thought to herself on what to do, this place was darker than upstairs and was mostly metal and solid concrete. Twilight steps out of the vault and walks over to Sunset who is the first she sees.

"So..Bain...what do you think of" Twilight stops still uncertain on who or what Bain is. He was a mystery and seemed to know allot about all of them. It was uneasy but Bain seemed to know best and seemed to care in a way that was all his own. Sunset pulled her eyes away from the screen of the computer and nodded at Twilight.

"Bain seems alright, I like how Bain was there for us while we were in the nightclub. Even though not in the building, Bain felt closer than apples in a pie!" Sunset giggled as she looked to the ceiling as the thought of Applejack crossed her mind, she then frowned at the thought. Twilight nodded and looked back quickly at the vault. Pinkie Pie ran past them and up the stairs out of nowhere as Rarity walk around pulling garbage around and arranging everything in the safehouse. Twilight smiled seeing everypony getting used to this new area, this new life, the new way, everything. The alicorn was sure now, sure this is what she wanted to do.

"I think I am going to except Bain, except his offer, I think I want to be apart of something big" Twilight said as she moved her attention to Sunset. Sunset looks back and stood up quickly.

"Are you sure? This will be a dangerous life and you could go to prison for a long time, Twilight"

"Prison would be worth it if I went with my friends, so, are you in?" The alicorn held out her hoof and Rarity's hoof comes from behind and lands on Twilight.

"I'm with you, always" Rarity says from behind, Sunset smiles and nods placing her hoof on theirs now.

"I'm with you too, Twilight, forever" Sunset said causing Twilight to giggle with a blush spreading across the alicorns face. Pinkie runs down to the bottom of the steps before stopping seeing the circle, the earth pony gasps and starts panting pointing up.

"We have a costumer, she seems confused by me being up there! What do we do!" Pinkie bites her lower lip and begins to vibrate like a phone, "Oh cupcakes! I would love to join your circle of crime and I will but we should deal with this" Twilight breaks from the circle and moves to Pinkie Pie. "This way follow me!" Twilight does that and stops when she sees the mare. It was a white mare, she had piercings  lining her rim of her left ear, a blue shirt with a brown jacket over top. The jacket was dark brown on the body but the sleeves were light brown. She look impatient but was not speaking, the mares name was Vinyl Scratch. She was well known in the past for her music but she mostly disappeared and was rarely seen or talked about. Twilight slowly stepped out from the back with a smile, Vinyl stared as she walked up and didn't speak, she just stared awkwardly and began to tap her hoof waiting for the alicorn to speak.

"Hello! How can I help you? Your jacket seems pretty clean to me and can I also add you look great today?" Twilight said nervously having not worked a laundry joint before, Vinyl raised a brow and stared a bit more before picking up her saddle back and turning away heading for the door. Twilight gasped and moved forward lunging over the counter hitting face first on the floor. Before hitting Twilight yelled for Vinyl. "Wait!!" Vinyl stopped and looked back at the fallen mare.  Vlad then stepped out and Vinyl immediately reacted and tossed her bag way stepping closer to the door, a grin on his face the stallion slowly walks out.

"Hello Vinyl, or should I call you by your criminal name....Jacket" Vlad pulled out a gun and held it at his side. "My friend here wants you to wait, don't you have a pair of working ears? Or do you choose to not hear like you choose to not talk...with your own voice?" Vinyl put her hands up and smiled at Vlad, Twilight pulled herself up on her hooves and took a couple steps back.

"What! You know each other? Put the gun down Vlad" Twilight said and quickly uses her magic to move Vinyls bag back over to her. Vinyl watched and smiled as her bag returned to her, she was beginning to regret throwing it to begin with "Listen, if I am to work in this group of yours...your going to have to make sacrifices for me too. Overwise the friendship is one sided and ends" Vlad looked over to Twilight and raised a brow.

"What does friendship have to do with this?" Vlad turned to Twilight and Vinyl lowered her hooves with a grin on her face. The mares lips had a glow to them from her reddish brown lipstick. Twilight smiles warmly at Vlad and spoke softly.

"It has to do with everything, Friendship is everywhere, even here in the darkest parts of life" Twilight nodded taking control as this situation was getting bad, Vlad slowly put his gun away and cleared his throat nodding.

"Fine! You deal with the mute chicken, I will go back to my bottle and cash" Vlad looked at Vinyl and she looked back still grinning. She seemed cocky and full of her self and she was just standing there currently. Vlad turned away and walked off, Twilight looked over to Vinyl and the unicorn quickly hid her grin and looked innocent. Twilight didn't say anything , instead she pointed to the doors that lead to the back area as if giving an order to go back there. Vinyl picked up her back and headed back now levitating a large chicken mask next to her, it had fallen out of the bag and she didn't feel like taking the time to stuff it back in her bag. Rarity stood at the doorway and looked at the mask and a look on her face showed that she had an idea from it. Twilight walked by after Vinyl and she gave a long sigh, it seemed that every time things were calm that something new would come up. At least this incident was easy to solve and gave incite that Twilight and her friends were not alone. That even the ones who were rich in the past can fall into the arms of crime.