BZZZT BZZZT.....BZZZT BZZZT.....BZZ- "Ok ok!" Applejack groaned, rolling over and picking up her phone, squinting as the bright light of the screen hit her face in the dark room, placing the phone to her ear and sitting up in bed, slowly rest her orange back against the headboard. "Y-yeah boss...? ....Are you serious? Again?? Ugh...Boss, those cells need reinforcing to accomodate Augs...Alright alright, we'll get on it." She groaned, ending the call and setting it down on the bedside table, stretching her arms "Come on now Rainbow, he got out again...." She said, patting the thigh of her lover next to her.
"What? Again?? This is the 5th time in two months..." The blue mare groaned, squirming under the covers. "Do we have to?"
"If we wanna get paid, then yes." The orange mare chuckled, standing up slowly and stretching once more, her back clicking. "Aah...." She slowly flipped the light on, eliciting a loud groan from Dash, diving under the covers
"Aj!! A little warning next time please!" The blue mare whined, applejack smirking as she pulled some underwear out from her bedside draw, getting dressed.
"Yeah yeah, come on Iron Pony. Get that blue ass of yours out of bed and get dressed." She chuckled, pulling on her black pant's and dark blue jacket, Dash slowly getting out of bed and getting dressed as well. Tying her shoe laces, both of them clasping their bullet proof vests and pads on, slipping their handguns onto their hips.
"Applejack...He is just a petty criminal, it is 2AM in the morning...Can't they get someone else to do this?" The blue mare muttered as she hugged the post farm pony from behind, lightly kissing her neck.
"No Dash, with all the Riots going on right now, most of the force are busy dealing with that. Come on, it won't take us long to get him back in custody, it never does." She chuckled, kissing the pegasus back lovingly. "We just catch him, then we can come back and spend the rest of the night together ok?" She smiled softly, the blue mare nodding in agreement as they left the apartment, locking the door and getting into their car on the street.
"Do we know his location?" Dash asked as she stretched, sitting in the passenger seat, neon lights shining through the windshield as they drove, Applejack looking at her phone in its holder.
"Yeah, apparently he is holed up in an old warehouse on 52nd street. It's an old storage building..." She replied as she drove, tapping her phone screen, causing a small blue hologram to be projected from the screen. "According to the Schematics the boss sent me...there are two ways to go once we enter, upstairs and downstairs, you take downstairs, I'll head upstairs ok?"
"Got it." Rainbow nodded as the car slowly came to a halt, the two mare's stepping out of the police cruiser, pulling out their handguns and running to the door, bracing on each side of the door. Rainbow Dash slowly turned the door knob, pushing the door two and looking into the darkness, flicking on the flashlight under her gun, shining it into the pitch blackness. "......Very welcoming place isn't it?" The pegasus asked, looking inside, slowly moving in, Applejack staying right on her rear. As they entered they slowly scanned the room with their flashlights, cobwebs and dust everywhere along the walls and piping, Applejack found her staircase by sheer luck, stumbling onto it.
"F-fuck...it's really dark...Ok, you check downstairs, I'll check up here. I didn't expect it to be anywhere near as dark as this, so just be careful ok Blue?" She said, her voice a little shaky as she looked back at Rainbow, shining her light at her so she could actually see her.
"Sure thing, you be careful as well Farm Girl." She smirked, chuckling as she turned away, slowly making her way through a door to start sweeping the building, Applejack slowly ascending the staircase, keeping her gun raised as she walked through the pitch black corridor, scanning around it with her flashlight.
"Fucking great idea this was..." She muttered to herself, approaching a door and trying to open it, the door rattling against the frame. She slowly placed her ear to the door and listened, a quiet voice being heard on the other side. She quickly slammed her foot against the door and shattered it from it's hinges with her powerful legs, running in with her gun ready. "Freeze!!" She said, looking around, there was no one there, instead, on her left was a laptop with a brown stallion with a blue mane on the screen.
"Hello Applejack." He smirked "How nice of you to join me, shame it was for nothing" He chuckled.
"Azor." She sighed. "Seriously? We have caught you four times so far, why give us the run around huh? All you are doing is wasting time, we both know you'll be behind bars by the morning." She chuckled.
"Yes, that is how it used to be, but not anymore. It's time to stop playing with you all... This building is lined with explosives, and is about to go up in smoke right now." He smirked
"Yeah yeah Azor, you tried this las-!" She cut herself off as her eyes widen, seeing a red light start blinking under the table.
"Sorry Applejack, but this is where we say goodbye...To you, and your little Rainbow." He laughed, Applejack's eyes widening more.
"RAINB-!" She was cut off as she crossed her arms over her chest, hit full force of a blast as the room filled with flames, sending the orange mare sailing out the window, falling, as she did the world seemed to slow down, her body burned and bleeding, as she fell only one word left her lips... "Dash...." She gasped out as her body crashed into the roof of her police cruiser.
Applejack groaned, shielding her eyes as a bright, orange light hit her face. But as she shielded her eyes she saw her hands...they weren't her hand's, they were heavy...and cybernetic, she sat up quickly, the monitor next to her starting to beep rapidly as he chest started heaving, loud breathing escaping her as nurses restrained her. "W-What the fuck is going on!? Where is Rainbow? RAINBOW!??" She yelled out as she was pinned to the bed. A tall, slender purple unicorn walked into the room, approaching Applejack's bed, sitting next to her. "B-Boss...w-where is Rainbow Dash? There was an explosion...W-Why am I not dead?" Applejack stammered out her questions between sharp breaths. The purple unicorn pulled her glasses off and looked at the orange mare.
"I'm so sorry Applejack...but we couldn't find Rainbow's body...She Was destroyed in the blast..." The purple mare choked out, hugging Applejack tightly.
"T-Twilight...Y-You're telling me s-she...." Applejack broke down, burying her face in Twilight's neck, sobbing uncontrollably, almost digging her nails in. Twilight couldn't not cry either, one of her most dear friends was gone forever. "A-And my augments? These are why I'm still breathing?"
"Yes AJ...In your contract you signed when you joined the force it stated that if you were going to die from injuries sustained on the job, then we are allowed to augment you in order for you to survive." Twilight replied to the orange mare, Applejack's leg's and arms were completely replaced with black, metal limbs, disks and artificial muscles moving and working as she flexed them, the left half of her upper torso was now machine merged with flesh, one of her breasts having to be replaced by a metal one for appearances, the right half of her torso and lower left torso was alright, though covered in bandages. Her face was more or less normal, besides her eyes being replaced with cybernetic cameras.
"Technically AJ, only one of your eyes needed replacing, but the fake vision mixing with your real vision, and your brain trying to process both at once would have caused extreme headaches... So we had to replace both." The purple police chief added.
"D-Don't worry Twi..." Applejack sniffled, wiping her eyes as it seemed her tear ducts still worked. "I-I'm alive...And I WILL make Azor pay for taking Dash from me." She growled, vemon in every word she spoke. The orange mare slowly sat up on her bed, looking at her arms, moving them in front of her face, vital signs and information bombarding her eyes. "....This will take some serious getting used to..." She muttered, taking a while for her visual sensors to clear up before she slowly climbed out of the bed, stumbling against a wall. Twilight quickly grabbed her to steady her. "M-My....My feet aren't real...I can't feel the floor under my feet..." She said, looking down at her feet, rubbing her waist. "Its ok...I just need to work on feeling the pressure here..." She said, steadying herself, walking around the room slowly, like a toddler learning to walk for the first time.
"Applejack, are you sure you are ready to get back on the job? You should take a day or two to get used to your new enhancements." Twilight remarked as she watched her friend, ready to catch her if she fell. The orange mare's steps slowly became more deliberate and confident.
"Sure." She replied quickly. "Just give me a rundown on a list of what my new enhancements actually are..." She added, hugging Twilight, the mare gasping for air.
"Applejack! C-Can't breath! Back pain!" The purple mare gasped, Applejack quickly loosening her grip.
"S-Sorry Twilight! I guess I'm way stronger now...I need to really get used to this..." She sighed, looking at her synthetic hands, Twilight smiling as she caught her breath, she leaned down and picked up some of applejack's clothing.
"Here AJ, I brought you some of your clothes, and your favourite jacket." Twilight smiled, handing her a small pile of clothing. The orange mare in mint green scrubs took them and smiled, drawing the curtains and attempting to get dressed, soon a loud rip was heard.
"FOR FUCK SAKE!" Came the mare's voice as she tossed a shirt out from behind the curtains, ripped in two "Can you get me another?" She asked after calming down.
"I don't think they have any shirts on hand here AJ.." Twilight replied quietly.
"Fine, fuck it." Applejack sighed, soon walking out, wearing jeans on her lower half, to solve her shirt problem she had her black leather jacket on partially zipped up, her bra visible on the inside to show off her half natural, half cybernetic cleavage, eliciting a small blush from her boss. "There. Can you take me home Twilight? I don't trust myself right now, I'll probably end up ripping the steering wheel off." She sighed.
"Of course Applejack don't worry." Twilight replied, leading her friend out to the car to drive her back to her apartment. Upon entering the apartment, Applejack began to choke up again as she was greeted with pictures of her and Rainbow, and other items that did nothing but remind her of her lover, she whimpered, sitting at her desk chair and looking at a photo of her and Dash. "Applejack...Are you....Are you going to be ok on your own?" Twilight asked sorrowfully, her heart wrenching to see her friend in a state like this.
"W-What huh? Oh...Y-Yeah...I'll be fine Twilight, don't worry about me." The mare sniffled, looking at the photo.
"O-Ok...Just don't do anything rash ok Applejack?" Twilight said, sighing lightly as she closed the door. Applejack teared up at the picture, the small, salty orbs of water rolling down her cheeks as she poured some whisky into a crystal glass on her table, gulping it down in one, repeating the process for hours.
"W-Why Dashie....W-Why did you have to leave...I can't imagine a world without you....Well...I can....But it isn't one I want to live in..." The mare sniffled, whimpering as she opened a draw of the desk, pulling out a shining silver 9mm pistol, examining it in her hand. "I know...I know this isn't what you would want Dash...B-But I need you...I-I cant just carry on without you." She sniffled, placing the gun to her head and closing her eyes. "I-I'm coming Blue...Just don't hate m-" BZZZT BZZZT....BZZZT BZZZT....BZZZ- "yes....?" She sniffed, wiping her nose as she miraculously didn't shatter her phone in her grip. "Boss? Y-Yeah I'm ok Twilight, it's only been 6 hours..." She replied, looking at her clock, it was 3AM in the morning. "A...A Jumper? Really?....Fine, I'm on my way." She replied, putting the phones down and looking at the gun she just had to her head.....after a few moments of thought she sighed, placing it on the table and getting up. "Talking down a suicide jumper after all of this? Huh? Would I like some irony on the side? Fuck it, why not?" She sighed and slammed her door upon exiting, heading for her car.
