MareDoWell

It was time, finally time for my debut performance. I was so excited that I almost forgot half of my weapons and appliances as I was leaving. I decided I should just take two dual glock-17s' for my firearms of choice, knowing that I probably wouldn't need much more fire power than that. I chose to teleport to a random edge of the Everfree forest, preferably near downtown Ponyville, to begin my patrol.

When I got there, I cast a fog spell over the general area. The weather team would probably hate me, but it was just a minor spell. I stuck to the shadows and used what I had learned from my multiple disappearing acts to blend in with my environment and virtually disappear.

It was actually quite fun to sneak up behind ponies walking the streets at night and whisper something, only for them to turn around and see nothing, absolutely priceless.

I thought that maybe tonight was going to be a dud at first, with nothing happening for hours on end, until I came across an unusual sight; four grown stallions following three young fillies down a vacant street. One filly was dressed in overalls while another was wearing a standard t-shirt and blue jean shorts, the last wearing an obviously hand crafted dress.

Curious as to what was going on and why, I followed close and listened.

"Belle, are you sure these guys know a shortcut back to our area?" says one of the fillies.  I recognized her voice instantly as Applebloom, Applejack's younger sister. With her must've been her friends Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo.

"Well they seemed nice enough when they offered to get us home, and our sisters are probably super mad at us for being out so late! So these guys are kind of our only option." Sweetie Belle says, looking anxious, obviously just wanting to get home.

"Well I think you all are worrying too much, I mean, just look at this place! I had no idea It was so cool looking at night!" Scootaloo exclaims.

"And plus, these guys even said they'd walk behind us to make sure nothing bad happens! So they seem nice enough."

"Hmm, seems legit." Sweetie says, half joking half serious.

"I guess ya'll have a point there scoots, ah jus-" Applebloom tried to say before getting interrupted by one of the stallions behind them.

"Hey girls! Could you come here for a minute." He asks. The girls complied and walked over to him and his friends.

"Yeah Danny, what is it?"

The stallion had one of the more traditional names that were coming into style nowadays. Him and his friends glanced over to each other in a… suspicious manner, as if telling each other 'get ready' with their eyes. It was unsettling enough for me to prepare to intervene, switching on my voice modification spell in order to hide my identity.

"Me and my friends don't actually know a way to your area." He says, a sly smile crossing his face.

"What!" Sweetie yells. "So you've just been lying this entire time!"

"Yup!" Danny says, his face still covered in a huge smile.

"But we did bring you here for a reason, a very… special reason."

"What reason!"  Applebloom screams. "What other reason could y'all possibly have ta-!"

"What would the Elements of Harmony do if anything happened to you three?" Danny asks. The fillies froze, as did I. I knew this was going someplace bad.

There was silence for three minutes, no one moving, speaking, or perhaps even breathing.

"…What?" Sweetie whimpers. I had seen the look on all their faces on other fillies before when I did my Halloween shows… they were frightened.

"I mean, Rainbow Dash is pretty close with Scootaloo isn't she, and you two are the sisters of two Elements!" he states in a disturbingly casual manner.

"So we were thinking the Elements would pay what, two, three million bits to see you safe again?" Danny says.

"I'd push fer 4 mil!" one of the nameless stallions blurts out.

"Whoa Bruiser!" another one shouts.  "That may be a little much for these three trouble makers!"

"What!?" Scootaloo shouts, unsure of what to make of the situation.

"Here's our proposition; you come with us and we hold you for ransom. Now if the Elements pay us, you go free, we get paid, everybody wins. But if they don't pay..." Him and the other stallions exchange awkward glances between each other.

"Well… lets not think about that right know." Danny finishes. I'd heard enough and was moving into position, waiting for a chance to strike.

"And what makes you think we'll go with you, huh?" Scootaloo yells.

"What do you have that could possibly make us go with you?"

Danny looked at his friends with a big smile, which they returned. Standing upright, they all pulled silenced .22s' out of there coats.

"Oh, these can be very persuasive!" Danny said, smiling so wide that he would make pinkie blush.

The three fillies feeze again for another minute until Sweetie tries to blind them with a magic flash, but it's too dim. The stallions come up behind them and within seconds, have their hands on the fillies mouths, and their guns to their temples.

The fillies cries for help are muffled by the strong grips of the stallions, and they froze at the feeling of a gun held to their heads. All of a sudden, one of the stallions screams. As I look toward him, my plan already in motion, I see Applebloom running from her captor, only to be caught again by him seconds later.

"She bit me! Little cunt bit me!" the stallion yells

"Well quit complaining and punish her!" Danny yells back.

"Damn right I'll punish her!" the colt takes his pistol and points it at Applebloom's right ear. "Lets see how you like being deaf on one side, bitch!"

Applebloom closes her eyes as the stallion squeezes the trigger, and then…

*click*

Bloom's eyes open fast, trying to figure out what happened and what they had done, but when she surveys her body, nothing is wrong. Her ear was still there, they hadn't shot her anywhere else… she was fine.

"What the fuck?" Blooms' captor says, shocked. He attempts to fire five more times at Bloom's ear, only to get five more clicks.

"Oh for the love of… you're jammed! I'll do it!" Danny yells, taking Bloom, aiming at her ear, and pulling the trigger.

*click*

*click*

*click*

Danny looks to his gun in disbelief, wondering what's happening.

"Okay, what the fuck!" Danny swore. He then turned to face his fellow fillynappers.

"Unload you clips, NOW!" He yells. The stallions follow their orders and fire into the air.

*click*

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*click*

                    *click*

*click*

                    *click*

*click*

"What in the bloody TARTARUS is going on!?" That was my signal.

"Now, now… that's no way to treat a filly, is it?" I say. My voice comes from seemingly everywhere as I make the fog thicken around them.

"Who is that? Who's out there!?"

"I'll be taking them from you now." I rose the fog to the point where nothing was visible, and when the fog cleared, the fillies were no longer with them, but behind me.

All three stare up at me, gazing in awe. I even earn a long, drawn out 'whoa' from Scootaloo. I look down at them with a soft smile, invisible to them due to the mask..

"Stay behind me." I whisper.

I turn my attention to the foalnappers, and speak.

"If you surrender peacefully, I promise not to hurt you."

Then they laughed at me.

Yes, they laughed, and for a good two minutes, too. When their laughter dies down, Danny gives them one simple order.

"…Ah ha ha kill her."

They aim at me, trying to fire, but all they got was… well… you know.

"Do you like it? It's a weapon disabling spell created by the royal military." I say, an obvious smile in my voice.

"It takes just enough water from the air, and teleports it into the gun. Now there are ways to defend against it, but, I doubt you know any of those." I finish.

It was at this moment that who looked to be the weakest of them rushes me, attempting to use his pistol as a club. It took one quick punch to knock him out.

As he lay on the floor unconscious, the other three reach into their coats and take out pocketknives of different shapes and sizes.

I gasp dramatically, as if imitating Rarity. "Oh my Celestia! Four stallions with mediocre fighting capability and pocketknives! My only weakness! How did you know!"

Another stallion charges me, his blade raised.

"Oh yeah, well lets see how you like this, whore!" He plunges the knife into my shoulder, causing me to fake scream for a few seconds until shifting to a joyous laugh. I took the knife out of my shoulder and looked at it, twirling it in my hands.

"This is reinforced nylon, Teflon, Kevlar, carbon fibers and microfibers you just stabbed. Please," I said as I plunge the knife into his shoulder "try again."

He screamed for a moment before I chopped him in the neck, knocking him unconscious. I gave a few more amused giggles before turning my attention to Danny and Bruiser. They looked absolutely terrified, having dropped their knives while starring at me.

"So what will it be boys?" I asked, spreading my cape and preparing to charge.

"Fight or flight?"

They looked at each other, shaking with fear, and promptly… ran away. I expected as much actually, I mean it's not like they could've actually beat me at that point anyway.

I decided it was time to finish this, and gave chase. I hit Bruiser with a tranquilizer, deciding he probably wasn't worth the energy it would take to fight him. But Danny, he was a different story.

"Where do you think you're going!" I say, teleporting in front of him, standing bipedal. I used the fog to cover up the fact I could teleport, though. Didn't want people thinking I was Twilight after all.

"But… you said fight or flight. I chose flight!" he screams, his voice breaking. I laughed heartily at this for a few seconds then shook my head and 'tsked'.

"I did give you the option to run… but I never said I would let you go." I responded, a sly smile under my mask.

His expression turned from one of fear to one of anger, and the he charged me.

"Fine, have it your way, bitch!" He began to through punches, even landing a few on me. My armor was so thick though; I didn't even feel it when he made contact with me.

After a few minutes into are physical exchange, I grew bored, so I decided to put an end to this charade… quickly.

When he tried to throw his next punch, I took the opportunity to punch him three times in the ribs, breaking five of them. He fell onto his knees, clutching his chest in pain. When he looked up, I jabbed him in the throat; not hard enough to break his windpipe, but hard enough to make it a chore to breath. He grabbed his throat and immediately started to gasp for air. Finally, when his breathing started to come back, I delivered a roundhouse buck to his face, causing blood to fly from his mouth, and he, like the rest of his friends, to fall unconscious

I called the police and told them were to find these filthy animals, as well as chaining them up and leaving them there. I also retrieved the video camera I had set up on a nearby lamppost, taking out the tape and leaving it with them.

After I was done, I stood triumphantly over the scene before me, smiling with glee. I went over every thing in my head.'Ahhh, this is great. I came in, kicked bad guy flank, and saved the fo-.'

"The foals!" I screamed, realizing that I'd completely forgotten about them during the fight! I turned around in panic, hoping to find them soon before they got lost. Of course, when I turned around, they tackled me.

"That… was… AWSOME!" Scootaloo shouts.

"I mean, they were like 'We're gonna take you hostage.' and you were all like 'No you're not.' and they were all like 'DIIIIEEE!' and then you were all like 'NNNNNOOPE' and then they were like 'what the hay?' and then you were like 'YEAH, GET PWNED!'. That was so freakin' AW-" Scootaloo was cut off by Applebloom's hand being shoved in her mouth.

"What Scoots is tryin' ta say," Bloom says, glaring at Scoots, making her blush "is thank you miss… um… uh."

"Who are you anyway?" Sweetie asks, tilting her head in curiosity. I got up and giggled, ruffling the fillies manes, and shook myself off.

"Sorry, but I can't tell you." I told them, earning a collective 'awww' from all three of them.

"However," I continued "I'm pretty sure you could ask some of the Elements about me and get your answer from them."

"What! Our sisters and the rest of the girls know you!" Sweetie asks, smiling with glee, her eyes growing wide.

"Even Rainbow Dash!" Scoots added.

I scratched the back of my head and reply.

"Well… they don't know me personally… but they know of me." I tried to explain.

All this did unfortunately was get me confused looks from all three of them, and i face-palmed.

"Look, just ask them about me when I get you home, and I'll make sure you get you're answer, okay?" They shook their heads so fast you'd think they were bobble-head replicas of themselves.

I smiled at their overwhelmingly adorable nature, and then placed my hoof upon Applebloom's forehead.

"Join hooves with Bloom and close your eyes, please." I said. "I'm going to use a bloodline tracking spell."

"A bloodline what?" Sweetie asked.

"It's a spell that will send a magic pulse through you that will go across Ponyville and inform me if it scans across anything that shares your lineage." I explained.

"Cool… " Scoots said, her eyes wide with interest.

After they joined hooves with Bloom, and closed their eyes, I fired the spell. A surge of magical energy washed over the multiple areas of Ponyville, revealing, at first, nothing but small whispers from the minds of ponies.

But, after a lot of searching, the Carousel Boutique lit up bright red, signifying the location of one or more blood relatives. As I focused all of the resonating magic on the boutique, I discovered who the relatives are; Rarity and Applejack.

Searching further, it is revealed that there is a third pony with them with no blood relation to any of the fillies. Curious as to who it was I summoned a room sized eavesdrop spell, so that I may listen to their conversation.

"Fur the love of all that's good and decent, Rarity! Why in Celestia's name would ya let'em go out to there tree house ALONE!" Applejack screams through tears.

"B-but AJ, you don't understand. Two weeks ago, when that baby manticore attacked them, Sweetie Belle used all the magic training I've been giving her to summon plasma bolts to fight it off! I thought they would be alright!" Rarity sobs.

The third pony slammed their hoof on a nearby table, obviously angrier then sad.

"Yelling at each other isn't going to help!" a frustrated Rainbow Dash yells.

"We need to go into the Everfree forest and look until we find them! Cause if we don't soon then they might…" Rainbow pauses.

"L-let's just find them, alright!" Dash finishes, a single tear escaping her eye. I figured she was there because of Scootaloo, basically being her surrogate sister after all.

I almost started to weep with them, but I snapped myself out of it, in order to focus on the task at hand. I concentrate all of the magic I need on their location and, with the fillies, teleport to the location of the three mares.

As we appeared outside of the boutique, the fillies' eyes flew open, obviously weary from their first teleport ever.

"We feel… kinda… dizzy." Applebloom points out. I shook my head and laughed a little, succumbing to the rambunctious charm these fillies are said to have. I led them up to the door as their dizziness fades. When they realize where we are, tears start to form in their eyes.

"There are three mares in their that are really worried about you, why don't you go cheer them up, hmm?" I whispered to them in a caring manner. I didn't have to ask it twice; they sped to the door so fast, that it would've made Dash blush.

Sweetie Belle knocks first, it being her home after all. She knocks rapidly and frantically, and eventually gets a response.

"We're closed… " said a cold yet elegant voice from inside the building. Sweetie, to distraught to speak, merely knocks faster.

After three minutes of knocking, the door finally opens, revealing three teary eyed mares.

"I said we're-!" Rarity tried to say before realizing who was at the door.

Nothing happened for a good five minutes, the mares and fillies just starred at each other quietly. At the end of the silent five minutes, the mares took the fillies in an extra tight hug, as if never wanting to let go. The fillies returned the hug and cried over the mares' shoulders, the mares doing the same.

"Where in tartarus have ya'll been!" Applejack yelled, letting go of Applebloom and facing her.

"I concur! We demand to know what happened and… why are you all crying?" Rarity asks.

"We tried to take a shortcut, but we got lost." Applebloom said.

"Yeah! Sweetie and I started to fight about which direction to go, and then these five stallions walked up and offered to show us a shortcut. We were really lost, so we accepted the offer." Scootaloo continued.

"Uh-hu, but when we got to this weird, empty place, they said that they didn't know a shortcut after all and that they wanted to… wanted to… " Sweetie Belle tried to finish.

Rarity and Applejack were completely silent, unable to comprehend what they just heard. Dash however, had taken Scootaloo by her shoulders and was looking directly into her eyes.

"Did they touch you!?" Dash demanded. Scootaloo tries to say 'what?' but her face says it for her.

"Did they do things to you that you didn't like? Touch you in a bad place!?" She shouts frantically. The other mares were now sobbing, and Scootaloo still seemed confused.

"Oh my… did they molest any of you Scootaloo!" Dash yells, frustrated. Scootaloo's eyes widened in realization, finally figuring out what Dash meant.

"No, they didn't!" Scootaloo responded, calming all three mares, and earning herself a nice, long hug from Dash.

"They did say they were gunna foalnap us and use us to get ransom from you guys though… and they threatened us with guns." Bloom added, sniffling.

All the mares' eyes shot open, no longer sad… but angry.

"They did WHAT!" Applejack nearly screamed.

"Jack, Rares, you stay here. I'll head to Sweet Apple Acres and get AJs' sawed-off!" Dash said, filled with rage. If Scootaloo hadn't stopped them with her next words, they probably would've have found those guys chained up and… done something brash.

"No, it's alright!" Scootaloo screamed, causing everypony to look over at her.

"We're here now, she saved us!" Scootaloo screamed again, not wanting her idol to leave her side. The mares were calmer now, but confused.

"Who is 'she' darling?" Rarity asked. The fillies looked at each other with confused faces.

"She told us ya'll 'knew ah her' or sumthin'." Applebloom stated, sending the mares into an even more confused state.

"Well… what did she look like?" Rarity asked.

"Well actually she wore this really cool suit, so we didn't get to see her face, but she was really cool! I mean she just came in and wreaked all five of those creeps like it was nothing, I mean, she was just so… freaking… AWESOME!!" Scootaloo said with a smile, the very memory of what I did cheering her up instantly.

"Well, I can't say I know'er, but if she saved ya'll then she's okay n' mah book!" Applejack said, her voice cheerful and joyous.

"Yeah! Where is she, anyway?" Dash chimed in. "I want to meet the mare that saved my number one fan!"

I decided It was time to make my appearance, so I stepped into a streetlight and called out to them.

"You really haven't noticed me yet?" I said, saying something theatrical to get their attention. They looked over to me, as if to thank me, but before they could… they realized what I was wearing.

"What's wrong, sis?" Bloom asked.

"Ah thought ya'll wanted to meet'er?"

There was silence for a good few minutes, the looks on the faces of the three Elements never changing from one of surprise and disbelief.

"T-that's impossible!" Applejack blurts out, finally breaking the silence. I grin with delight at her outburst, having a reply already prepared.

"Oh Applejack, it's the first time we've met, and you decide to tell a lie." I joked.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk… that's not a very good first impression, now is it?" I said, smiling at my own cleverness.

It's at this moment that AJ decides to faint, which even I know she doesn't do lightly. Seeing this, I decide to make my exit.

"Well I've got to go. You know; bad guys to punish, people to save." I said, turning around and taking off, my cape becoming a makeshift pair of wings.

As I flew off though, I heard one more vocal exchange that made me grin.

"Rarity… wasn't that just… I mean… wasn't that… "

"Yes… yes Dash, I… I think it was."