Pinkie Pie: Saint of Manehattanby Thunder ChaserChaptersBlood Manes BeginningChapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 1Blood Manes BeginningThe package arrived at Pinkies Door in a fashionable white box with Raritys trademark signature on the lid. Pinkie had had some second thoughts about her idea, but they were swept away as she tried on the midnight black latex suit in front of the mirror. The latex was so black and shiny it was reflective and contrasted with Pinkies pink skin and newly Red Mane. Zippers lined the suit and Pinkie began loading some of her weapons, one stiletto knife, pepperspray, brass hooves and finally 9 ninja stars, into the multiple pockets on her body. Finally her plain deep red mask finished the look, making her a fierce looking crime fighting machine. She had to admit, she looked pretty tough and the latex allowed her curves to show through. She said "I look good!" excitedly as she snuck out of her apartment through the fire escape and slinked as subtly as the wacky pony could to The Lamplight, a seedy bar on the southeast side of Manehattan. Once she was outside the establishment, nervousness filled her body as the winos left the bar. One pony, Lucky was trying to pick a fight with her when she simply said "Sorry I dont have the time" and kicked open the door of the bar. The crowd of drug addicts, dealers, loan sharks and other scum looked at the strange pony and stared in silence. She announced "Im here to find my freind Derpy Hooves. If you can give me any tips at all you might make it out of here without being carried home in a bucket!" One nasty smelling Stallion said "She came in a latex suit, I came in my shorts!" and began laughing horribly. Bloodmane stormed towards the chuckling perverted excuse for a Stallion and punched him square in the snout. "Ladies and Gentleponies, I have just broken this Stallions snout." she than held him up by his neck and yelled "Where is she!" "I dont know, honestly!" she angrily slammed his body onto a table, breaking it in half. "We can go all night everyone!" she said The night continued until the bartender said "Look here uuuuhh...Blood Mane. I heard some gossip from a few customers that she was bing held in the old Gem Warehouse, now will you please stop needlessly hurting my customers and get out of here!" Bloodmane dropped a wino onto the floor, and said "Alright weve made some progress, Ill leave you human cockroaches while I go out an actually positively help the community." Bloodmane said leaving the place in a huger mess than it was before. She felt mildly guilty for needlessly injuring seven men in the bar, but was more overcome by excitement by the new information. She quickly ran 4 blocks until she reached the warehouse. Four gangsters surrounded the front, walking around with baseball bats and 2x4s in a menacing fashion. Pinkie Pie began to feel weak but pulled a cupcake out of one of her zippers and began munching it down, feeling stronger much like Popeye eating a can of spinach. She stealthily climbed on top of a nearby fence, rousing noponies suspicions. One guard said to the other"Dude did you see the season 2 finale" "Yeah dude it was frickin amazing!" he said filled with passion. Dude whats that!" Pinkie Pie leaped down from the fence, Party cannon in tow stating "I never leave home without my party cannon!" She blasted it at the two guards, the pieces of confetti obtaining enough force from the blast to knock them back and puncture the skin causing horrific damage as the flaming pieces melted onto their fresh cuts. The other two guards rushed towards Bloodmane. The first attempted to strike Bloodmanes skull with a bat but she crawled between his legs before crazily leaping behind him and punching the back of his head with her brass hooves, knocking him out. The second struck her in the kneecaps when she was distracted, producing a sickening "Craaack" as she fell to the ground, the guard stomping on her skull with her boots, her mind fading out as the blood from her head began to mat her red mane. A voice in her head said "So this is how it ends huh Pinkie, you on your knees while your friend Derpy gets killed, huh some pony you are!" "It wont end this way!" Bloodmane screeched as she bounded up, the pain in her knees soaring as she reached in one of her pockets for a stiletto knife, she galloped backwards, whipping her knife sideways through the air into the stomach, causing him to kneel over in both pain and fear for his life, He began sputtering blood and screaming "Please,Please dont kill me, ill change my ways, ill start going to church, Ill pay you, just please, please dont kill me!" "Pathetic, you can beat me within an inch of my life but once your fate is closed you begin crying. You disgust me, I should feed you to my pet alligator!" "Oh god no please, please, I am so sorry!" he said, his crying reaching a whole new level of embarassing. Apparently he didn't know that Bloodmanes pet gator was a baby and toothless. "Look here, your going to tell me where their holding Derpy, and afterwards we will see how you fare." She picked him up off the ground and with her knife at his throat, he led the way inside the labyrinth of the warehouse. Curiously there were no guards throughout their walk. Suddenly she was led through a door marked "Danger Biohazard!" It led onto a large balcony above a floor which Derpy was seated upon, her trademark eyes looking more sad and confused than ever before. A huge Unicorn was punching Derpy in the face, screaming "Where is it!, you better talk or ill have to punish you the long, hard way again" Bloodmane winced while Derpy said "Look here Muscles, im done delivering drugs for the Trixie Mob Family, im looking for a new job now. I have no idea what the source of steroid-900 is!" "Well you were always the one who delivered my Juice, when a Unicorn loses his magic what choice does he have other than to start doing steroids and beating anyone who opposes you and your gang to hell!" he yelled with both anger and a tinge of sadness. Bloodmane said, "I dont want you to try spoiling my plan now so im going to put you into this here freezer until I finish up." He nodded fearfully as she threw the bleeding stallion into a tall meat freezer,to sit among-st the cow heads. Bloodmane put the silencer on her pistol and shot out the hanging light. "Hey who turned out the lights?!" Muscles asked into the air stupidly. A voice emanated seemingly from nowhere "This is your singing telegram, I hope I find you well, because im beating you straight to hell!" Muscles turned around in fear to see Bloodmanes evilly smiling face, before her brass hooves rocked both his right jaw, dislocating it immediately and knocking out some teeth. He lunged back saying "Mmmm,mmm,mmm do you smell what im cooking" bursting into a rather fast sprint for his size, seizing her by her arms and whipping her through the air,slamming her into a support beam. Excruciating pain filled her chest and head as her ears rang from the impact. She quickly got up, running away from Muscles for a little bit as she walked off the pain. She leaped onto a nearby crate full of meat products and bounced onto the light fixture. "Come on down from there you freak!" Muscles screamed Bloodmane tossed tow of her stars at Muscles, The first missed, the second found its place in his arm. "Ouch!" he yelled as he ripped the star out of his arm before placing it in his mouth and biting it. He picked up a near by sledge hammer and with eagle eyed precision, knocked her off of the fixture, the hammer cracking her ribs before she fell face first onto the meat crate, breaking the whole crate, leaving a mess of timber and splattered meat. She slowly tried to recover only to have Muscles pick her up off the ground over his head, preparing the slam her onto the ground, as she was held tight in his arms he began saying "How dare you come onto MUSCLESES turf, kill MUSCLESES men and try to kill MUSCLES without getting destroyed? I run everything here on the Lower East Manehattan and soon ill run it all. Your just another tallymark on my board!!!!!!!" he yelled, feeling so awesome he forgot how close he was to where Derpy was tied up. With every ounce of strength Derpy kicked Muscles straight into the crotch, forcing him to drop Bloodmane onto the ground as he turned away and slapped Derpy in the face in his stupid, impassioned fashion giving Bloodmane the time to reach for her pistol and shoot Muscles's knee caps, forcing him to fall to the floor, biting his lower lip. "This is what happens when you hurt my freinds!!!" she yelled forcing her her knife through his crotch, eliciting another scream before slitting his jugular with a ninja star, the blood splattering onto her face. She cut Derpys ropes free and said "Come on!" racing out of the building. The two finally got out and Derpy turned to Bloodmane. "Thank you" Derpy said, her voice filled with joy "Its my duty, now stop delivering drugs for the mob and get a better job" Bloodmane said authoritatively "I know its just, I moved here with no money it seeded like the only way. But after this im going on the straight and narrow, im going to apply for a job in the Manehattan Postal Service. I did a great job back in Ponyville!" Bloodmane hugged Derpy and said "Now let me take you home." The two ponies walked together in silence, both stunned by the surreal night and wanting little more that to be at home in their safe beds, away from the scum of Manehattan. Yes Manehattan was a nasty, gritty, Dirty city but that night it was a little safer and a little cleaner. Chapter 3Pinkie awoke from her slumber drenched in sweat, vaguely remembering the violent night she had the night before. The blood, the sweat, the knives, the thugs, it all rang in her mind. She especially remembered slitting Muscle's throat, his blood splattering her suit in an intense cannon-like blast. She arose from her bed and looked out her window ponderously "I cant believe I did that" she said horrified. She felt vague happiness at saving Derpys life but was still terrified at the possibility of being arrested "Hey mom and dad, I get arrested for second degree murder!" does not look good in a letter sent to your parents. Her pink glittery phone began to ring in the corner, breaking her concentration, she groggily sauntered over to the phone. "Hello" she answered unexcitedly "Hey Pinkie, this is Rainbow Dash" the voice said "Rainbow Dash!, boy am I glad to see you!" Pinkie shouted into the phone "I see you found out about that weirdo rescuing Derpy. Were going to Cafe Amore to celebrate, are you coming?" "Of course, Pinkie loves to celebrate!" Reeling from her ringing eardrums, Rainbow Dash simply said "Great...bye" Glad that a fun day with her freinds was waiting at the Cafe Amore to distract her from her hazy memories of the previous night, she ran to get her purse, suddenly receiving a massive wave of pain throughout her body. The previous nights injuries were not so easy to "sleep off" as it seemed and suddenly she realized just how intense the previous night was before, the pain in her ribs bringing back a vivid memory of a thug slamming her into a column. She walked slower out of her building before hailing a carriage to take her to the Cafe Amore. Her freinds sat at a table in the middle of the cafe, the rest of the mane 6, Derpy and Twilights husband Thunder Chaser. She smiled at them all and waved,clutching her arm in pain right afterward. The group waved back excitedly, Derpy looking a bit awkward, as though she got the same vibe from Pinky as Bloodmane the previous night. "Hi guys!" Pinkie shouted happily, hugging Derpy with the force of a bear grabbing a fish, despite the pain throughout Pinkies body." "Hey Pinkie!" the team shouted excitedly. Over drinks and meals of varying fancieness the group of freinds discussed multitudes of things, but the main topic was the previous night. "Il tell you what, whoever this BloodMane feller is, she sure did a good job cleaning up our streets and did more than we cops ever could." Police Commisioner Applejack said chuckling,shoving her apple fritters into her mouth. "Applejack, shes a dangerous vigilante who broke the law,killed someoneand needs to be punished!"Mayor Twilight Sparkle said condescendingly to Applejack. "She was just protecting herself and me, I see no harm in killing that monster. Plus she got me to quit running drugs for Trixies mob and join the Manehattan Postal Service!" Derpy said defensively, small dandelion seed pieces falling onto the table. "Yeah Twilight, this city needs a crime fighter that is'nt tied down by a whole bunch of comitees and investigations and the mayors bureaucracy!" Applejack said derisveley at Mayor Twilight A rather large political argument grabbed the twos attention long enough to distarct them from the overhead televisions news report about the mysterious vigilante.They didnt notice Rarity's horrified expression when she saw the news's surveillance footage of a Red Maned figure, her mane matching Pinkies that morning, exiting a bar with the suit that Rarity had made the previous week. Rarity simply said "Pinkie would you care to meet me outside, I need to talk to you about something." "Okie-Dokie Lokie" Pinky replied happily, somehow unaware of Rarity's seething rage or making any connection between the Rarity and viewing her suit on TV. That walked out together and into a nearby alley. Rarity pressed Pinky up against a nearby wally, covered in graffiti. "How could you make me complicit in your crime!"slapping her once "Im sorry"Pinkie said tearfully, heartbroken by the fact that she had made her freind so unhappy "Sorry, you killed someone!, while wearing my suit. The police are looking for murder suspects! I could report you to the MPD!" Pinkie burst into a sobbing fit at the thought of that, "Please no Rarity, im sorry I used your suit for my crime but I had to save Derpy, I was willing to kill for my friends. Do you know how many pony's id fight and kill to save your life?!" Rarity's eyes watered a little bit at this heartwarming, yet surprisingly violent sentiment. "Look Pinkie, im sorry I screamed at you and hit you, its just I like you too much and worry about your safety. I dont care about the clothes and your secret is safe with me. Please dont do this anymore though, I dont need my friend dying on me" she said smiling lightly at her friend. They both hugged each other deeply before making their way toward the door. Pinkie said "By the way Rarity, did you know your hooves look and feel like marshmallows?" "Marshamallows, why I never!?" Rarity said looking at her hooves with a shocked expression as she trotted in. The rest of the dinner went fairly normally. Applejack and Twilight had both apoligized to eachother for their enraged debate about Manehattan politics and the rest of the night was spent talking about Derpys career and the wonderful work that thw Wonderbolts were doing with Rainbow Dash. Everyone left, exchanged hugs and goodbyes and went about with their lives. Two weeks later Applejack showed up at Pinkies rather unannounced. Pinkie was cleaning up her home after another rather messy party. "Some party huh?" Applejack asked looking down at some broken beer bottles and various messiness. "Oh yes, I invited you but your deputy said you were busy"Pinkie said, looking up from the floor "Oh yes, triple homicide on the lower east end" Applejack said sighing, her shiny badge glinting in the sun against her darkly colored brown leather trench coat. "Oh my gosh, thats awful." Pinkie said looking down at her clean up work sadly. Manehattan is such a sad town she thought. Ity was like Cranky Donkey Doodle built a city and this was it. She remebered singing her smile song at Central Park and noone singing along, before being told to "Shut the hell up!" by a tourist from Fillydephia. "Look Sugarcubes, I know it was you who saved Derpy and I want you to know im not angry about it. You saved Derpy and you knocked out the boss of Trixies Loan Shark operations. Crime has gone down quite markedly in the area of assault thanks to you.Now Trixies gang cant extort a lollipop out of a filly!" "Well thank you Applejack but how in Celestia did you find out!" "I have my ways and honestly Rarity cant keep a secret for nothing we all know it except Twilight, because you know how she would react."Applejack said Pinkie shuddered at the thought of her friend diapproving face, condemning her saving Derpy made Pinky shudder. "Can you keep a secret" Applejack asked quietly "Of course I can, Cross my heart and hope to die, stick a cupcake in my eye!" she shouted "Pinkie, I dont think I approve of Twilight as our cities mayor." Applejack said guiltily "Applejack how could you say that?! Hasnt Twilight gotten rid of alot of the corruption that you are so against. "I know, I know Sugarcubes but all her 'crusade' has done has eliminated her own political enemies on the city council and made our job harder. Everyday, one of my partners is replaced because of bad cirvcumstantial evidence tying him to some small crime but you know what, the mob is still getting its money out and the bags of cocaine in the evidence room are still lighter than when they come in!" Applejack said, beginning to scream with rage before slamming her hoof onto a table, knocking over some stale cupcakes. "Thats terrible Applejack, there nothing you care about more than the safety of this community, and with your honesty im sure your feelings are sincere" Pinkie said "Look Sugarcubes, dont let nobody tell you what you did was wrong. You saved far more lives than you took. Ive put out the word to my police to make arresting you a last priority. Twi thinks were after you but really we like what you do and I plan on working with under wraps." "Well thanks Applejack but I really dont think this is what I should do, I mean its not my role" "Pinkie, you wiped out Trixies loanshark operation in one night. You were born to do this unlike any of the heads up their ass politicians or that 'Legal Vigilante" Thunderchaser and his shiny brass suit, what a joke." "Ill consider it" Pinkie said smiling as Apple Jack walked out Chapter 4Shortly after Applejacks leaving, Pinkie stopped cleaning to ponder the situation. First, most of her friends knew that she had killed someone the previous night, which made her nervous. Second, Applejack was encouraging her crime fighting and had insulted Twilights incumbency. This information made her both nervous, excited and confused and the mix of emotions were swelling within her, ready to burst. She began cleaning so fast, that the apartment looked as clean as Rarity's mane at the end. She went to her bathroom and tried on her suit once again. Just wearing the suit brought with it a wave of emotion as it was a visible record of that crazy first adventure. She began to scrub out the blood stains on the leather garb and squeezed the red sponge into the nearby sink. She felt as though she could take on Discord in her new suit, knowing she had taken on the mob with it on. She looked outside her window at the street below. Although the apartments and office buildings were al glittery, homeless ponies still huddled in the alleys around fires, a beggar sitting next to Hoity Toity's boutique made her shudder. She knew she wanted to keep the city safe, but this meant more than putting criminals in jail. Suddenly two Discord Minion gangsters, a streetgang known for its black and yellow clothing and relation to Trixies crime family began assaulting the beggar, tearing up his sign and dumping his cup of Bits into the dumpster. Pinkie seethed with rage at the image but kept telling herself "Dont get involved Pinkie, just dont." Than the gang began to truly treat the homeless stallion viciously, pushing him onto the street, one holding him up by his collar and punching his face, the other kicking his shins. Pinkie rufoshed out the door, her suit only halfway on as she rushed out and hit the puchnig gangster with her brass hoove, producing a loud "Crrraaacck" before he simply slumped over and said "owww" before running away. The other one tried to run away,colliding with a wall in his panic. Pinkie picked up the stupid looking gangster and began snarling "Who are you!" "My names Papercut, please dont kill me!" he said sobbing "If you want to leave with your neck unsnapped I suggest you empty your wallet and give that man everything you have."Pinkie said quietly "Fine" the gangster said, putting 20 bits into the poor stallions hand, whimpering "Now go!, and tell your freinds that if they pull anything Bloodman brings the pain!" shouted Bloodmane at the running gangster. The homeless stallion simply said "Thank you" and quietly trotted away. Bloodmane smiled at her act and began to trot home, preparing for more "community activism." The fundraising gala for Twilights reelection was packed,with all of her friends, Princess Cadence and every rmover and shaker in Manehattan all attended this huge party in Central Park. Vinyl Scratch was up front DJing with Pinkie, both improvising and making songs with each others beats. For Pinkie it was a welcome distraction from all her thoughts of saving Manehattan and was alot of fun. It seemed as though everyone was having a great time at this party even Applejack, who still thought Twilight was a better mayor than any other candidate. Plus the party distracted her from her thoughts of her family. Life was hard after Sweet Apple Acres got shut down. While Applejack got a good job, Big Mac was a janitor and they together had to pay for Granny Smiths nursing home and for Appleblooms bills at Manehattan College. This was a good way to forget that for the night and sip an Appletini. Thunder Chaser was demonstrating the powers of his suit, his brass unicorn horn on his helmet could shoot gamma rays and he could at twice the speed of sound with his suit on and produce massive sonic rainbooms. Yet when he demonstrated this ability it still didn't seem as cool as when Rainbow Dash did it, as she was the only pony still who could naturally produce a sonic rain boom. The party was getting wilder into the night when three hummers barraged through the gala, running over fleeing ponies and stopping at Vinyl Scratches booth, Pinkie cartwheeled away in a terrified mania before changing into her suit inside of a nearby hedge. Jumping out to see the park filled with men in suits firing their weapons at fleeing passerby. Applejack had her pistol whipped out and was firing at several f the mobsters, her mane whipping in the wind. Bloodmane ran out and knocked Twilight to the ground, a bullet whipping right over head afterward. Twilight asked "who are you?" "A dangerous vigilante who must be stopped" Bloodmane responded sarcastically before whipping out her own pistol. "Pow, pow, pow!" the gun went as she took out a nearby purple suited pony carrying a submachine gun. Still guarding Twilight, Bloodmane gestured towards Applejack. Applejack, still holding her gun and firing at mobsters ran to behind the DJ mixing desk where they knelt. "Whats going on?" asked Bloodmane, throwing a ninja star into a nearby ponies eye, his scream in pain ringing vaguely over the gunshots. "Its lookin like an assassination attempt, the mob wants to eliminate their most ardent enemy and put fear back into the city is whats a goin on!" Applejack said shooting at the inside of a Jeep. "Applejack duck!" Bloodmane shouted in horror Applejack ducked, the bullet going straight through her hat. "Well shoot, she saved my life and yours. How do you feel about this hero now!" Applejack said looking derisively in Twilights direction. "Look Bloodmane, thank you and im sorry that I condemned what you do. I will tell police not to arrest you and open communication with you as an entity and I will pour money into your defense should you be arressted!" Twilight yelled shamefully. "Wait, what the hell is going on?" Vinyl Scratch asked suddenly The group laughed heartily before running out and backwards and getting into Twilights mayoral carriage, where Thunder Chaser sat inside waiting. "Why werent you fighting those guys with your suit" Twilight screamed, exasperated "One was holding up a remote and my suit stopped working!" Thunder Chaser said defensively "Well were lucky Bloodmane was here to save us!" Twilight added Bloodmane blushed and said "Please just call me Pinkie!" removing her mask Twilight was shocked at this new discovery and quickly hugged her freind The carriage was than stopped by a nearby carriage attempting to run over their carriage. Bloodmane leaped out of her window into the neighboring carriage and pushed the driver off, forcing the carriage to come to a stop after slamming the passenger against a nearby light pole, his ribs breaking in an intense "Craack!" Blood Mane stepped out of the carriage and began a long walk home, thinking of another wild day. Chapter 5What happened at the gala was big news in all of Equestria as journalists swarmed central park. Diamon Tiara, editor of The Manehattan Post isolated commisioner AppleJack and asked "Who was responsible?" "Most likely Manehattan area crime families, MPD is looking further into the issue."Applejack said unemotionally "What about that Bloodmane, what kind of an administration is it when the mayor relies on crazy men in black suits to protect them?'" Applejack, deeply hure by Taras insult to her friend, herself and the MPD. She ripped the tape recorder out of Diamond Tiaras hand, breaking it under her hoodves before looking into her face angrily. "Nuthins wrong with this city, except that mud hurlin, mafia money acceptin muckrackers like yourself trying to ruin this city!, now do you want to go away or do you want me to investigate all that money that you dont register with the Equestrian Revenue Bureau!?" smiling meanly "Well, i better get going" Diamond Tirara said nervously, trotting away "The nerve!" Applejack said walking away angrily back to the police station, before getting back she ran into Bloodmane. "I got another assighnment for you."Applejack said plainly "What is it?" asked Bloodmane "Theres some very suspicous activity on 456 Lotus Avenue, big house with people coming in and out of" Applejack said disgustedly "Alrighty than" Bloodmane ran excitedly towards the trashy ghetto that was wear Gaylord commons once stood. When she got there, the sight both was beautiful and sad. A huge victorian mansion, now crumbling atop a cinderblock foundation. The lawn was choked with weeds, tal grasses, a husk of a car, a tattered Equestrian flag and some old golf clubs. Bloodmane leaped into the first floor window, knife in hand finding noone. an old televison set, some R34 mags and a filthy couch were all in the bare room. She looked around disgustedly and went into the basement to peek down there. Snips was laboring over a large chemistry set, prodcing a crystalline substance "Its a meth lab!"thought Bloodmane Snails was smoking a huge quanity, now skinnier and dumber than ever. Suddenly Snails shouted "Hey its that spider woman!" sprinting towards her and tackling her down, attempting to claw her ees out. Even in his drug induced fury, Snails was a weak target and was quickly knocked off to the side, knocking over several flammable substances and some test tubes on the table. Snips ripped out his gun and began firing shots at Bloodmane shouting "No way, your stopping Daddy Snips and his Crystal Train!", a shot ripped through her afro, prompting a scream from Bloodmane before jumping onto the table and kicking Snips's gun out of his hand, it ricocheting and misfiring into Snip's shin. He yelped and went down without a fight, taking several punches before being picked up by Bloodmane and carried outside. She than called Applejack and said "I got your guy right here" "Great ill pick him up" Bloodmane than walked into the houses and began knocking over the various chemicals and tubes onto the floor, making sure no methhead could scavenge anything. She left the house tossing a match onto the floor. Right as Applejack pulled up, the house exploded in an awesome red blast like a grim, monochromatic sonic rainboom. Bloodmane said "He lit his place on fire before we left, probably to dispose of a body or something"Boodmane lied "Well naturally, this guys wanted for murder, skipping bail and now producing drugs. mmmmm I smell the elctric shair for you!"Applejack lauhghed as she took Snips's away into the car. Six months later Snip's would be sentenced to the death penalty, wanted for two murders:One a rival dealer and for Snail's whos charred body was discovered at the scene of the cd=rime Chapter 6Pinkie Pie was pretty regularly becoming Bloodmane at least twice a week. She had taken no lives and began simply arresting her criminals, becoming less of a controversial figure by the day. A few weeks after the meth lab incident, she was was baking a rather large batch of chocolate cupcakes when she heard a rapping on her window to the tune of a recently written Octavia symphony. She trotted nervously towards the window only to see a brass owl tapping on her window, its blue lights for eyes flashing in the dark frighteningly. Pinkie of course, had no fear and opened her window only for the owl to open its mouth and reveal a computer screen which began playing a message. The screen showed Thunder Chaser, the cities biggest hero bedecked in his brass mask and helmet, the artificial horn capable of shooting gamma rays and his thick brass armor. He said "Hello Bloodmane, dont concern yourself with how I found your adress, that unimportant. As you know, I am Twilight Sparkles husband and as I know, you are her friend. I ave been rather impressed by your progress in taking down this cities crime and have a rather big operation that I need your help in. Meet me at Twilights mansion, ill be in the basement." Pinkie excitedly rushed to put on her costume, feeling her being change with her clothing. She leaped out of her window through the sunroof of her new car, an all black Mustang that she had been using lately. She began quickly driving through the city, looking out for crime. The dealers were mildly paranoid after the meth lab fire which combined with the lack of drug supply had made the streets calmer than average. She finally pulled into the large Victorian mansions driveway quietly, the time being 1 Am. She clopped lightly into the house and trotted down the stairs into the basement. The basement was cramped with strange devices, a virtual jungle of brass, gears and pipes. A tesla coil was sparking in the corner of the room. Suddenly Autospike said to Bloodmane "Oh your here now, Thunders in the other room" Autospike said, his brain pulsing inside its glass case. "Thanks Spike, heres a gem" Bloodmane said, offering Spike a gem "No thanks, I run on steam now," Autospike said sadly "Oh...sorry."Bloodmane said walking off to meet up with Thunder Chaser, trying to shake off the sadness from seeing Spikes shell of himself. Spike was "killed" by a large fire that destroyed half of Ponyville ten years earlier, his brain preserved by Twilight Sparkle before being able to be brought to life in a brass body designed by Thunder Chaser. While the suit did look like Spike, the fact that his brain was visible and its radar pulsing eyes gave the "Autospike" a very un-kosher vibe. Bloodmane walked calmly into the office section to see Thunder chaser preoccupied with ataching light weight, ultra thin but strong titanium wing for a butterfly. "Oh hello Bloodmane!"Thunderchaser said pleasantly, looking up from his work. "Hi Thunder!, what do you need me for" Bloodmane responded happily, acting more like Pinkie than Bloodmane. "Well grab a piece of cornbread and ill tell you" Thunderchaser said, beckoning towards a plate of cornbread. Bloodmane annoyedly grabbed a small piece and began munching, impatiently saying "Now what!?" "Calm down Blood, im explaining!" he said impatiently "There is a huge ware house out on the dock with very intense security from the mob. My sources suggest that a huge deal of some sort is going to happen there between the Almighty Lords of Discord (A street gang that receives money from Trixies corporation/front Manehattan Conglomerated) and some cartel from a weird zebra country. I estimate 50-100 armed scumbags are there in addition to Badseed, the head of the gang and one of the most important men in Trixies circle. This will be a huge blow to their cash flow "What are they dealing, cocaine?" Bloodmane asked "Thats where it gets weird, everypony ive interrogated talks vaguely of a huge plot, crying all the while. Something fishys going down." "Lets go" Bloodmane said simply running out the door to her Black Mustang "What do you think your doing" asked Thunder Chaser bemusedly "Well, I was getting into my car" Bloodmane said, annoyed "Lets take my car" Thunder Chaser said,leading Bloodmane to a huge helicopter on the roof. The helicopter had several machine guns on its sides, was beautifully painted on its thick armor with designs of elephants from far away lands. They got in, Bloodmane trying not to look too impressed. The helicopter took off with an awesome woosh, taking to the sky surprisingly quickly. In the sky Manehattan seemed like a genuinely beautiful place, the image that probably attracted the tourists and immigrants to this crime ridden city. Slowly they began rushing over the crime ridden lower east side until finnally arriving at the dock, hovering 100 yards away from the warehouse. "Whats this big red button do!" Bloodmane yalled, pushing the button excitedly. "Oh Goddammit!" yelled Thunderchaser as the missile screamed from the bottom of the chopper through the roof "Alright, change in plans- you hop out with this parachute and sneak in through the back door while I make a big entrance and tear shit up inside, they only expect me!" Bloodmane, stealthily leaped out into a dumpster while Thunderchaser set his chopper to Auto-Park and hopped out straight through the hole, blasting gangsters with his awesome horn. Bloodmane quickly ran in through the back door, wielding her pistol and began popping off shots at random cartel members, taking 2 out. "Hey its that freak who killed brutha Snips!" shouted a Gangbanger, pointing his uzi at Bloodmane and beginning to fire. Bloodmane leaped dramatically from the pile of boxes onto a large shelf containing boxes of carrot peelers. She whipped out a ninja star and whipped it at the enemy, tearing through his nose, one edge hitting his brain. Thunderchaser was machine gunning his gamma horn through several cartel men, not noticing a machete wielding zebra about to slit his throat. Bloodmane leapt down onto his back and slit his throat with her stiletto knife, his blood gurgling out wildly, staining the floor. "Thanks" said Thunderchaser before ripping another gangster off the ground and using the gamma horn to melt the skin off his face, saying simply "Science is Magic!" Suddenly Badseed was running out of the building with his suitcase, leaping into the back of his jeep. The two heroes quickly grabbed onto a rope extending from the helicopter through the hole in the ceiling. The two sat inside of the helicopter, following the speeding jeep. The two kept their hooves on the firing stick, not firing the gun out of fear of hitting passerby, their hooves touching all the while. They finally managed to force Badseed to crash his jeep into a wall of a nearby haberdasheries. They than landed the chopper next to his smoldering vehicle. Bloodmane ripped out through his unbroken window, shattering it into millions of cutting shards accross his face and throwing him down onto the ground. "Whats in here?" said Thunder Chaser sarcastically, opening the case to find something he didnt expect. Inside the case was several gallon bags of pure black market allicorn dust, estimated to be around 50 million dollars in value. "What were you planning on doing with this!?"hissed Bloodmane "None of your business thats what, go aheahd take it, its just back up for our plan!"He replied in tears "What plan!" Bloodmane snarled, pressing her knife against his neck "whoah, take it easy Bloodmane" Thunderchaser began saying nervously "Look, Trixies got some crazy plan cooked up, I just know shes got lots more of that stuff and shes planning on bringing this city down. Otherwise, im out of the loop...honest!" he said, sobbingly "Hmm, I doubt but ill leave you be, for now."Bloodmane said walking away with Thunder chaser chuckling at the tracking device that Thunder Chaser had implanted on the gangster Chapter 1It was a dreary day in Manehattan, the sky gray and the streets dirty. Pinkie Pie was manically writing songs for her next big tour when the phone began to ring. "A call for me, gosh I wonder who its from?!" she said excitedly, trotting past the previous nights old beer bottles and confetti to pick up the phone, "Hello" she said in a sing-song voice. "Hi Pinkie, its Twilight. Ive got some bad news" Twilights voice said worriedly. "Oh dear, why Twilight?!" Pinkie shouted fearfully, her Mane collapsing a little bit. "Derpy is missing, no ones seen her in a week and we are meeting down at the Cafe Amore to talk about what we can do, are you coming?" "Of course Twilight, ill be right over faster than confetti hits the floor" Pinkie said, dropping the phone on the floor and beginning a brisk run to the Cafe Amore, not even bothering to step into her Mustang, which she said would be "too slow". The Cafe Amore was a rather expensive place to buy coffee, named after the beloved Princess Cadence. It was filled with expensive artifacts from Canterlot. Only Manehattans elite got to eat here. Around the table sat Rarity, CEO of Rarity Threads, Twilight Sparkle, mayor of Manehattan, Commissioner Applejack of the Manehattan Police Department, Fluttershy, who had overcome her social anxiety to become an actress at the Celestia Theatre, Rainbow Dash who was the newest Wonderbolt and Pinkie Pie who was Manehattans biggest musician, known for the lavish parties thrown at her penthouse apartment at River Point Drive. Mayor Twilight opened up the conversation with stating "OK, our good friend is missing. I have set up a local find Derpy fund which is pouring money into the police department to find her. What are you all doing?" "Im donating 32,000 Bits to the Find Derpy Fund" said Rarity, annoyedly cleaning a coffee stain off of her white dress. "Me and the MPD are doing all we can Sugarcubes." Applejack said sadly, privately worrying that Derpy had been murdered and had become another statistic in Manehattans alarmingly high crime rate "At our next show im going to do a Sonic Rainboom and write with my Rainbow streak, "Have you seen Derpy?" in the sky! " Rainbow Dash interjected excitedly. The team applauded her original, if somewhat show offish plan. Suddenly everyone turned to Pinkie, who was sadly munching a bear claw. Her friends didn't let her drink coffee because of its astronomical effects on her craziness. Applejack turned to Pinkie and placed a hoof on her shoulder, asking "Hey Sugarcubes, why so glum?" "Im just sad because you are all doing good things to help out Derpy and I dont know what to do." she said, tears flowing from her eyes while her mane hung down from her head in a sad mess. Her friends surrounded her attempting to console their worrried friend when Twilight said, go home, eat some jellybeans and think of what you can do. Your a good pony and a smart one to, you'll think of something. Pinkie nodded slowly and began a slow walk back to her apartment. Her thoughts turned to Derpys fate, as the yellow taxis sped by. "Where was she, has she been kidnapped and if so who could do such a thing." she turned a corner in an alley only to be accosted by a rather homely Stallion who asked in a whedling voice "Spare some change" Pinkie said "Okie Dokie Lokie!" handing 5 Bits to the beggar. "5 Bits!, I want more than that" said the beggar as he unfurled a pistol from his coat, licking his lips in excitement in both lust and power hunger in dominating this lovely filly. Pinkie Pie instinctively grabbed the Stallions hoof with surprising speed, ripped out the gun from his hand and broke his arm by bending it too far, before knocking him onto the litter filled ground and ghetto stomping him into the ground, laughing hysterically in both fear and excitement. She slowed down and picked up the stallion, dragging him to the local police department. He asked "What the hells so funny, why the hell are you laughing?!" Pinkie began singing the "Giggle at The Ghosties song" to explain why she laughed for the rest of the walk, aggravating the already hurt mugger, and creating a humorous scene for passerby, the cheerful pony escorting a Manehattan scum bag to the jail, singing at the top of her lungs, much to the muggers irritation. When they arrive at the station Pinkie Pie said "Here we are, the garbage dump" in a tauntingly cheerful voice. When she got in Applejack was on duty at the desk and said, "Hey Pinkie what have you got here" "This mean pony tried to mug me, luckily I got him and decided to bring him to Justice, whoever she is." Pinkie said "Well he looks like an apple who just got made into cobbler, ill tell you what sugarcube you could hogtie Discord if you wanted to!" Pinkie Pie nodded modestly and yelled out to the mugger as he was whisked away to a cell "Dont drop the soap!" Applejack looked at he bemusedly with a smirk and Pinkie said "What, I dont want him to slip in the shower!" unaware of the double entendre. Her walk was almost compete as she neared the house as her thoughts turned to Twilights husband Thunder Chaser. Commonly referred to as the "Steampunk Superman" Thunderchaser was Manehattans only legal vigilante. He wore a metal suit of brass that could shoot gamma rays out of its artificial horn and enabled him to fly. What if she were to do the same as Thunder Chaser and devote her time to finding Derpy. Her mind raced as the wild notion took over her thoughts. Unlike Thunder Chaser, noone would know who she was. Even though she would have loved a suit bedazzled with confetti, baloons and rhinestones. She knew this was strategically stupid and decided she would have an all black latex suit adorned with zipper which could hide weapons. Plus such a frilly suit would only prove to herself what a bubble headed filly she really was. When she got to her apartment, she scrubbed blood red hair dye into her mane while she called Rarity, placing an order for one latex suit, adorned with zippers. Rarity asked over the phone "Why, are you becoming a dominatrix!" Disgustedly "No silly its my new stage get-up" Pinkie lied. "Oh alright It will be done in one week." "Thank Rarity, your the bees knees! Wait do bees have knees?" Rarity hung up to avoid answering the question. Pinkie finished up rinsing out the red hair dye and put on a mask she cut out of some red felt and looked into the mirror and said in an awesome tone "I AM BLOOD MANE!" and began planning her rescue of Derpy
Blood Manes BeginningThe package arrived at Pinkies Door in a fashionable white box with Raritys trademark signature on the lid. Pinkie had had some second thoughts about her idea, but they were swept away as she tried on the midnight black latex suit in front of the mirror. The latex was so black and shiny it was reflective and contrasted with Pinkies pink skin and newly Red Mane. Zippers lined the suit and Pinkie began loading some of her weapons, one stiletto knife, pepperspray, brass hooves and finally 9 ninja stars, into the multiple pockets on her body. Finally her plain deep red mask finished the look, making her a fierce looking crime fighting machine. She had to admit, she looked pretty tough and the latex allowed her curves to show through. She said "I look good!" excitedly as she snuck out of her apartment through the fire escape and slinked as subtly as the wacky pony could to The Lamplight, a seedy bar on the southeast side of Manehattan. Once she was outside the establishment, nervousness filled her body as the winos left the bar. One pony, Lucky was trying to pick a fight with her when she simply said "Sorry I dont have the time" and kicked open the door of the bar. The crowd of drug addicts, dealers, loan sharks and other scum looked at the strange pony and stared in silence. She announced "Im here to find my freind Derpy Hooves. If you can give me any tips at all you might make it out of here without being carried home in a bucket!" One nasty smelling Stallion said "She came in a latex suit, I came in my shorts!" and began laughing horribly. Bloodmane stormed towards the chuckling perverted excuse for a Stallion and punched him square in the snout. "Ladies and Gentleponies, I have just broken this Stallions snout." she than held him up by his neck and yelled "Where is she!" "I dont know, honestly!" she angrily slammed his body onto a table, breaking it in half. "We can go all night everyone!" she said The night continued until the bartender said "Look here uuuuhh...Blood Mane. I heard some gossip from a few customers that she was bing held in the old Gem Warehouse, now will you please stop needlessly hurting my customers and get out of here!" Bloodmane dropped a wino onto the floor, and said "Alright weve made some progress, Ill leave you human cockroaches while I go out an actually positively help the community." Bloodmane said leaving the place in a huger mess than it was before. She felt mildly guilty for needlessly injuring seven men in the bar, but was more overcome by excitement by the new information. She quickly ran 4 blocks until she reached the warehouse. Four gangsters surrounded the front, walking around with baseball bats and 2x4s in a menacing fashion. Pinkie Pie began to feel weak but pulled a cupcake out of one of her zippers and began munching it down, feeling stronger much like Popeye eating a can of spinach. She stealthily climbed on top of a nearby fence, rousing noponies suspicions. One guard said to the other"Dude did you see the season 2 finale" "Yeah dude it was frickin amazing!" he said filled with passion. Dude whats that!" Pinkie Pie leaped down from the fence, Party cannon in tow stating "I never leave home without my party cannon!" She blasted it at the two guards, the pieces of confetti obtaining enough force from the blast to knock them back and puncture the skin causing horrific damage as the flaming pieces melted onto their fresh cuts. The other two guards rushed towards Bloodmane. The first attempted to strike Bloodmanes skull with a bat but she crawled between his legs before crazily leaping behind him and punching the back of his head with her brass hooves, knocking him out. The second struck her in the kneecaps when she was distracted, producing a sickening "Craaack" as she fell to the ground, the guard stomping on her skull with her boots, her mind fading out as the blood from her head began to mat her red mane. A voice in her head said "So this is how it ends huh Pinkie, you on your knees while your friend Derpy gets killed, huh some pony you are!" "It wont end this way!" Bloodmane screeched as she bounded up, the pain in her knees soaring as she reached in one of her pockets for a stiletto knife, she galloped backwards, whipping her knife sideways through the air into the stomach, causing him to kneel over in both pain and fear for his life, He began sputtering blood and screaming "Please,Please dont kill me, ill change my ways, ill start going to church, Ill pay you, just please, please dont kill me!" "Pathetic, you can beat me within an inch of my life but once your fate is closed you begin crying. You disgust me, I should feed you to my pet alligator!" "Oh god no please, please, I am so sorry!" he said, his crying reaching a whole new level of embarassing. Apparently he didn't know that Bloodmanes pet gator was a baby and toothless. "Look here, your going to tell me where their holding Derpy, and afterwards we will see how you fare." She picked him up off the ground and with her knife at his throat, he led the way inside the labyrinth of the warehouse. Curiously there were no guards throughout their walk. Suddenly she was led through a door marked "Danger Biohazard!" It led onto a large balcony above a floor which Derpy was seated upon, her trademark eyes looking more sad and confused than ever before. A huge Unicorn was punching Derpy in the face, screaming "Where is it!, you better talk or ill have to punish you the long, hard way again" Bloodmane winced while Derpy said "Look here Muscles, im done delivering drugs for the Trixie Mob Family, im looking for a new job now. I have no idea what the source of steroid-900 is!" "Well you were always the one who delivered my Juice, when a Unicorn loses his magic what choice does he have other than to start doing steroids and beating anyone who opposes you and your gang to hell!" he yelled with both anger and a tinge of sadness. Bloodmane said, "I dont want you to try spoiling my plan now so im going to put you into this here freezer until I finish up." He nodded fearfully as she threw the bleeding stallion into a tall meat freezer,to sit among-st the cow heads. Bloodmane put the silencer on her pistol and shot out the hanging light. "Hey who turned out the lights?!" Muscles asked into the air stupidly. A voice emanated seemingly from nowhere "This is your singing telegram, I hope I find you well, because im beating you straight to hell!" Muscles turned around in fear to see Bloodmanes evilly smiling face, before her brass hooves rocked both his right jaw, dislocating it immediately and knocking out some teeth. He lunged back saying "Mmmm,mmm,mmm do you smell what im cooking" bursting into a rather fast sprint for his size, seizing her by her arms and whipping her through the air,slamming her into a support beam. Excruciating pain filled her chest and head as her ears rang from the impact. She quickly got up, running away from Muscles for a little bit as she walked off the pain. She leaped onto a nearby crate full of meat products and bounced onto the light fixture. "Come on down from there you freak!" Muscles screamed Bloodmane tossed tow of her stars at Muscles, The first missed, the second found its place in his arm. "Ouch!" he yelled as he ripped the star out of his arm before placing it in his mouth and biting it. He picked up a near by sledge hammer and with eagle eyed precision, knocked her off of the fixture, the hammer cracking her ribs before she fell face first onto the meat crate, breaking the whole crate, leaving a mess of timber and splattered meat. She slowly tried to recover only to have Muscles pick her up off the ground over his head, preparing the slam her onto the ground, as she was held tight in his arms he began saying "How dare you come onto MUSCLESES turf, kill MUSCLESES men and try to kill MUSCLES without getting destroyed? I run everything here on the Lower East Manehattan and soon ill run it all. Your just another tallymark on my board!!!!!!!" he yelled, feeling so awesome he forgot how close he was to where Derpy was tied up. With every ounce of strength Derpy kicked Muscles straight into the crotch, forcing him to drop Bloodmane onto the ground as he turned away and slapped Derpy in the face in his stupid, impassioned fashion giving Bloodmane the time to reach for her pistol and shoot Muscles's knee caps, forcing him to fall to the floor, biting his lower lip. "This is what happens when you hurt my freinds!!!" she yelled forcing her her knife through his crotch, eliciting another scream before slitting his jugular with a ninja star, the blood splattering onto her face. She cut Derpys ropes free and said "Come on!" racing out of the building. The two finally got out and Derpy turned to Bloodmane. "Thank you" Derpy said, her voice filled with joy "Its my duty, now stop delivering drugs for the mob and get a better job" Bloodmane said authoritatively "I know its just, I moved here with no money it seeded like the only way. But after this im going on the straight and narrow, im going to apply for a job in the Manehattan Postal Service. I did a great job back in Ponyville!" Bloodmane hugged Derpy and said "Now let me take you home." The two ponies walked together in silence, both stunned by the surreal night and wanting little more that to be at home in their safe beds, away from the scum of Manehattan. Yes Manehattan was a nasty, gritty, Dirty city but that night it was a little safer and a little cleaner.
Chapter 3Pinkie awoke from her slumber drenched in sweat, vaguely remembering the violent night she had the night before. The blood, the sweat, the knives, the thugs, it all rang in her mind. She especially remembered slitting Muscle's throat, his blood splattering her suit in an intense cannon-like blast. She arose from her bed and looked out her window ponderously "I cant believe I did that" she said horrified. She felt vague happiness at saving Derpys life but was still terrified at the possibility of being arrested "Hey mom and dad, I get arrested for second degree murder!" does not look good in a letter sent to your parents. Her pink glittery phone began to ring in the corner, breaking her concentration, she groggily sauntered over to the phone. "Hello" she answered unexcitedly "Hey Pinkie, this is Rainbow Dash" the voice said "Rainbow Dash!, boy am I glad to see you!" Pinkie shouted into the phone "I see you found out about that weirdo rescuing Derpy. Were going to Cafe Amore to celebrate, are you coming?" "Of course, Pinkie loves to celebrate!" Reeling from her ringing eardrums, Rainbow Dash simply said "Great...bye" Glad that a fun day with her freinds was waiting at the Cafe Amore to distract her from her hazy memories of the previous night, she ran to get her purse, suddenly receiving a massive wave of pain throughout her body. The previous nights injuries were not so easy to "sleep off" as it seemed and suddenly she realized just how intense the previous night was before, the pain in her ribs bringing back a vivid memory of a thug slamming her into a column. She walked slower out of her building before hailing a carriage to take her to the Cafe Amore. Her freinds sat at a table in the middle of the cafe, the rest of the mane 6, Derpy and Twilights husband Thunder Chaser. She smiled at them all and waved,clutching her arm in pain right afterward. The group waved back excitedly, Derpy looking a bit awkward, as though she got the same vibe from Pinky as Bloodmane the previous night. "Hi guys!" Pinkie shouted happily, hugging Derpy with the force of a bear grabbing a fish, despite the pain throughout Pinkies body." "Hey Pinkie!" the team shouted excitedly. Over drinks and meals of varying fancieness the group of freinds discussed multitudes of things, but the main topic was the previous night. "Il tell you what, whoever this BloodMane feller is, she sure did a good job cleaning up our streets and did more than we cops ever could." Police Commisioner Applejack said chuckling,shoving her apple fritters into her mouth. "Applejack, shes a dangerous vigilante who broke the law,killed someoneand needs to be punished!"Mayor Twilight Sparkle said condescendingly to Applejack. "She was just protecting herself and me, I see no harm in killing that monster. Plus she got me to quit running drugs for Trixies mob and join the Manehattan Postal Service!" Derpy said defensively, small dandelion seed pieces falling onto the table. "Yeah Twilight, this city needs a crime fighter that is'nt tied down by a whole bunch of comitees and investigations and the mayors bureaucracy!" Applejack said derisveley at Mayor Twilight A rather large political argument grabbed the twos attention long enough to distarct them from the overhead televisions news report about the mysterious vigilante.They didnt notice Rarity's horrified expression when she saw the news's surveillance footage of a Red Maned figure, her mane matching Pinkies that morning, exiting a bar with the suit that Rarity had made the previous week. Rarity simply said "Pinkie would you care to meet me outside, I need to talk to you about something." "Okie-Dokie Lokie" Pinky replied happily, somehow unaware of Rarity's seething rage or making any connection between the Rarity and viewing her suit on TV. That walked out together and into a nearby alley. Rarity pressed Pinky up against a nearby wally, covered in graffiti. "How could you make me complicit in your crime!"slapping her once "Im sorry"Pinkie said tearfully, heartbroken by the fact that she had made her freind so unhappy "Sorry, you killed someone!, while wearing my suit. The police are looking for murder suspects! I could report you to the MPD!" Pinkie burst into a sobbing fit at the thought of that, "Please no Rarity, im sorry I used your suit for my crime but I had to save Derpy, I was willing to kill for my friends. Do you know how many pony's id fight and kill to save your life?!" Rarity's eyes watered a little bit at this heartwarming, yet surprisingly violent sentiment. "Look Pinkie, im sorry I screamed at you and hit you, its just I like you too much and worry about your safety. I dont care about the clothes and your secret is safe with me. Please dont do this anymore though, I dont need my friend dying on me" she said smiling lightly at her friend. They both hugged each other deeply before making their way toward the door. Pinkie said "By the way Rarity, did you know your hooves look and feel like marshmallows?" "Marshamallows, why I never!?" Rarity said looking at her hooves with a shocked expression as she trotted in. The rest of the dinner went fairly normally. Applejack and Twilight had both apoligized to eachother for their enraged debate about Manehattan politics and the rest of the night was spent talking about Derpys career and the wonderful work that thw Wonderbolts were doing with Rainbow Dash. Everyone left, exchanged hugs and goodbyes and went about with their lives. Two weeks later Applejack showed up at Pinkies rather unannounced. Pinkie was cleaning up her home after another rather messy party. "Some party huh?" Applejack asked looking down at some broken beer bottles and various messiness. "Oh yes, I invited you but your deputy said you were busy"Pinkie said, looking up from the floor "Oh yes, triple homicide on the lower east end" Applejack said sighing, her shiny badge glinting in the sun against her darkly colored brown leather trench coat. "Oh my gosh, thats awful." Pinkie said looking down at her clean up work sadly. Manehattan is such a sad town she thought. Ity was like Cranky Donkey Doodle built a city and this was it. She remebered singing her smile song at Central Park and noone singing along, before being told to "Shut the hell up!" by a tourist from Fillydephia. "Look Sugarcubes, I know it was you who saved Derpy and I want you to know im not angry about it. You saved Derpy and you knocked out the boss of Trixies Loan Shark operations. Crime has gone down quite markedly in the area of assault thanks to you.Now Trixies gang cant extort a lollipop out of a filly!" "Well thank you Applejack but how in Celestia did you find out!" "I have my ways and honestly Rarity cant keep a secret for nothing we all know it except Twilight, because you know how she would react."Applejack said Pinkie shuddered at the thought of her friend diapproving face, condemning her saving Derpy made Pinky shudder. "Can you keep a secret" Applejack asked quietly "Of course I can, Cross my heart and hope to die, stick a cupcake in my eye!" she shouted "Pinkie, I dont think I approve of Twilight as our cities mayor." Applejack said guiltily "Applejack how could you say that?! Hasnt Twilight gotten rid of alot of the corruption that you are so against. "I know, I know Sugarcubes but all her 'crusade' has done has eliminated her own political enemies on the city council and made our job harder. Everyday, one of my partners is replaced because of bad cirvcumstantial evidence tying him to some small crime but you know what, the mob is still getting its money out and the bags of cocaine in the evidence room are still lighter than when they come in!" Applejack said, beginning to scream with rage before slamming her hoof onto a table, knocking over some stale cupcakes. "Thats terrible Applejack, there nothing you care about more than the safety of this community, and with your honesty im sure your feelings are sincere" Pinkie said "Look Sugarcubes, dont let nobody tell you what you did was wrong. You saved far more lives than you took. Ive put out the word to my police to make arresting you a last priority. Twi thinks were after you but really we like what you do and I plan on working with under wraps." "Well thanks Applejack but I really dont think this is what I should do, I mean its not my role" "Pinkie, you wiped out Trixies loanshark operation in one night. You were born to do this unlike any of the heads up their ass politicians or that 'Legal Vigilante" Thunderchaser and his shiny brass suit, what a joke." "Ill consider it" Pinkie said smiling as Apple Jack walked out
Chapter 4Shortly after Applejacks leaving, Pinkie stopped cleaning to ponder the situation. First, most of her friends knew that she had killed someone the previous night, which made her nervous. Second, Applejack was encouraging her crime fighting and had insulted Twilights incumbency. This information made her both nervous, excited and confused and the mix of emotions were swelling within her, ready to burst. She began cleaning so fast, that the apartment looked as clean as Rarity's mane at the end. She went to her bathroom and tried on her suit once again. Just wearing the suit brought with it a wave of emotion as it was a visible record of that crazy first adventure. She began to scrub out the blood stains on the leather garb and squeezed the red sponge into the nearby sink. She felt as though she could take on Discord in her new suit, knowing she had taken on the mob with it on. She looked outside her window at the street below. Although the apartments and office buildings were al glittery, homeless ponies still huddled in the alleys around fires, a beggar sitting next to Hoity Toity's boutique made her shudder. She knew she wanted to keep the city safe, but this meant more than putting criminals in jail. Suddenly two Discord Minion gangsters, a streetgang known for its black and yellow clothing and relation to Trixies crime family began assaulting the beggar, tearing up his sign and dumping his cup of Bits into the dumpster. Pinkie seethed with rage at the image but kept telling herself "Dont get involved Pinkie, just dont." Than the gang began to truly treat the homeless stallion viciously, pushing him onto the street, one holding him up by his collar and punching his face, the other kicking his shins. Pinkie rufoshed out the door, her suit only halfway on as she rushed out and hit the puchnig gangster with her brass hoove, producing a loud "Crrraaacck" before he simply slumped over and said "owww" before running away. The other one tried to run away,colliding with a wall in his panic. Pinkie picked up the stupid looking gangster and began snarling "Who are you!" "My names Papercut, please dont kill me!" he said sobbing "If you want to leave with your neck unsnapped I suggest you empty your wallet and give that man everything you have."Pinkie said quietly "Fine" the gangster said, putting 20 bits into the poor stallions hand, whimpering "Now go!, and tell your freinds that if they pull anything Bloodman brings the pain!" shouted Bloodmane at the running gangster. The homeless stallion simply said "Thank you" and quietly trotted away. Bloodmane smiled at her act and began to trot home, preparing for more "community activism." The fundraising gala for Twilights reelection was packed,with all of her friends, Princess Cadence and every rmover and shaker in Manehattan all attended this huge party in Central Park. Vinyl Scratch was up front DJing with Pinkie, both improvising and making songs with each others beats. For Pinkie it was a welcome distraction from all her thoughts of saving Manehattan and was alot of fun. It seemed as though everyone was having a great time at this party even Applejack, who still thought Twilight was a better mayor than any other candidate. Plus the party distracted her from her thoughts of her family. Life was hard after Sweet Apple Acres got shut down. While Applejack got a good job, Big Mac was a janitor and they together had to pay for Granny Smiths nursing home and for Appleblooms bills at Manehattan College. This was a good way to forget that for the night and sip an Appletini. Thunder Chaser was demonstrating the powers of his suit, his brass unicorn horn on his helmet could shoot gamma rays and he could at twice the speed of sound with his suit on and produce massive sonic rainbooms. Yet when he demonstrated this ability it still didn't seem as cool as when Rainbow Dash did it, as she was the only pony still who could naturally produce a sonic rain boom. The party was getting wilder into the night when three hummers barraged through the gala, running over fleeing ponies and stopping at Vinyl Scratches booth, Pinkie cartwheeled away in a terrified mania before changing into her suit inside of a nearby hedge. Jumping out to see the park filled with men in suits firing their weapons at fleeing passerby. Applejack had her pistol whipped out and was firing at several f the mobsters, her mane whipping in the wind. Bloodmane ran out and knocked Twilight to the ground, a bullet whipping right over head afterward. Twilight asked "who are you?" "A dangerous vigilante who must be stopped" Bloodmane responded sarcastically before whipping out her own pistol. "Pow, pow, pow!" the gun went as she took out a nearby purple suited pony carrying a submachine gun. Still guarding Twilight, Bloodmane gestured towards Applejack. Applejack, still holding her gun and firing at mobsters ran to behind the DJ mixing desk where they knelt. "Whats going on?" asked Bloodmane, throwing a ninja star into a nearby ponies eye, his scream in pain ringing vaguely over the gunshots. "Its lookin like an assassination attempt, the mob wants to eliminate their most ardent enemy and put fear back into the city is whats a goin on!" Applejack said shooting at the inside of a Jeep. "Applejack duck!" Bloodmane shouted in horror Applejack ducked, the bullet going straight through her hat. "Well shoot, she saved my life and yours. How do you feel about this hero now!" Applejack said looking derisively in Twilights direction. "Look Bloodmane, thank you and im sorry that I condemned what you do. I will tell police not to arrest you and open communication with you as an entity and I will pour money into your defense should you be arressted!" Twilight yelled shamefully. "Wait, what the hell is going on?" Vinyl Scratch asked suddenly The group laughed heartily before running out and backwards and getting into Twilights mayoral carriage, where Thunder Chaser sat inside waiting. "Why werent you fighting those guys with your suit" Twilight screamed, exasperated "One was holding up a remote and my suit stopped working!" Thunder Chaser said defensively "Well were lucky Bloodmane was here to save us!" Twilight added Bloodmane blushed and said "Please just call me Pinkie!" removing her mask Twilight was shocked at this new discovery and quickly hugged her freind The carriage was than stopped by a nearby carriage attempting to run over their carriage. Bloodmane leaped out of her window into the neighboring carriage and pushed the driver off, forcing the carriage to come to a stop after slamming the passenger against a nearby light pole, his ribs breaking in an intense "Craack!" Blood Mane stepped out of the carriage and began a long walk home, thinking of another wild day.
Chapter 5What happened at the gala was big news in all of Equestria as journalists swarmed central park. Diamon Tiara, editor of The Manehattan Post isolated commisioner AppleJack and asked "Who was responsible?" "Most likely Manehattan area crime families, MPD is looking further into the issue."Applejack said unemotionally "What about that Bloodmane, what kind of an administration is it when the mayor relies on crazy men in black suits to protect them?'" Applejack, deeply hure by Taras insult to her friend, herself and the MPD. She ripped the tape recorder out of Diamond Tiaras hand, breaking it under her hoodves before looking into her face angrily. "Nuthins wrong with this city, except that mud hurlin, mafia money acceptin muckrackers like yourself trying to ruin this city!, now do you want to go away or do you want me to investigate all that money that you dont register with the Equestrian Revenue Bureau!?" smiling meanly "Well, i better get going" Diamond Tirara said nervously, trotting away "The nerve!" Applejack said walking away angrily back to the police station, before getting back she ran into Bloodmane. "I got another assighnment for you."Applejack said plainly "What is it?" asked Bloodmane "Theres some very suspicous activity on 456 Lotus Avenue, big house with people coming in and out of" Applejack said disgustedly "Alrighty than" Bloodmane ran excitedly towards the trashy ghetto that was wear Gaylord commons once stood. When she got there, the sight both was beautiful and sad. A huge victorian mansion, now crumbling atop a cinderblock foundation. The lawn was choked with weeds, tal grasses, a husk of a car, a tattered Equestrian flag and some old golf clubs. Bloodmane leaped into the first floor window, knife in hand finding noone. an old televison set, some R34 mags and a filthy couch were all in the bare room. She looked around disgustedly and went into the basement to peek down there. Snips was laboring over a large chemistry set, prodcing a crystalline substance "Its a meth lab!"thought Bloodmane Snails was smoking a huge quanity, now skinnier and dumber than ever. Suddenly Snails shouted "Hey its that spider woman!" sprinting towards her and tackling her down, attempting to claw her ees out. Even in his drug induced fury, Snails was a weak target and was quickly knocked off to the side, knocking over several flammable substances and some test tubes on the table. Snips ripped out his gun and began firing shots at Bloodmane shouting "No way, your stopping Daddy Snips and his Crystal Train!", a shot ripped through her afro, prompting a scream from Bloodmane before jumping onto the table and kicking Snips's gun out of his hand, it ricocheting and misfiring into Snip's shin. He yelped and went down without a fight, taking several punches before being picked up by Bloodmane and carried outside. She than called Applejack and said "I got your guy right here" "Great ill pick him up" Bloodmane than walked into the houses and began knocking over the various chemicals and tubes onto the floor, making sure no methhead could scavenge anything. She left the house tossing a match onto the floor. Right as Applejack pulled up, the house exploded in an awesome red blast like a grim, monochromatic sonic rainboom. Bloodmane said "He lit his place on fire before we left, probably to dispose of a body or something"Boodmane lied "Well naturally, this guys wanted for murder, skipping bail and now producing drugs. mmmmm I smell the elctric shair for you!"Applejack lauhghed as she took Snips's away into the car. Six months later Snip's would be sentenced to the death penalty, wanted for two murders:One a rival dealer and for Snail's whos charred body was discovered at the scene of the cd=rime
Chapter 6Pinkie Pie was pretty regularly becoming Bloodmane at least twice a week. She had taken no lives and began simply arresting her criminals, becoming less of a controversial figure by the day. A few weeks after the meth lab incident, she was was baking a rather large batch of chocolate cupcakes when she heard a rapping on her window to the tune of a recently written Octavia symphony. She trotted nervously towards the window only to see a brass owl tapping on her window, its blue lights for eyes flashing in the dark frighteningly. Pinkie of course, had no fear and opened her window only for the owl to open its mouth and reveal a computer screen which began playing a message. The screen showed Thunder Chaser, the cities biggest hero bedecked in his brass mask and helmet, the artificial horn capable of shooting gamma rays and his thick brass armor. He said "Hello Bloodmane, dont concern yourself with how I found your adress, that unimportant. As you know, I am Twilight Sparkles husband and as I know, you are her friend. I ave been rather impressed by your progress in taking down this cities crime and have a rather big operation that I need your help in. Meet me at Twilights mansion, ill be in the basement." Pinkie excitedly rushed to put on her costume, feeling her being change with her clothing. She leaped out of her window through the sunroof of her new car, an all black Mustang that she had been using lately. She began quickly driving through the city, looking out for crime. The dealers were mildly paranoid after the meth lab fire which combined with the lack of drug supply had made the streets calmer than average. She finally pulled into the large Victorian mansions driveway quietly, the time being 1 Am. She clopped lightly into the house and trotted down the stairs into the basement. The basement was cramped with strange devices, a virtual jungle of brass, gears and pipes. A tesla coil was sparking in the corner of the room. Suddenly Autospike said to Bloodmane "Oh your here now, Thunders in the other room" Autospike said, his brain pulsing inside its glass case. "Thanks Spike, heres a gem" Bloodmane said, offering Spike a gem "No thanks, I run on steam now," Autospike said sadly "Oh...sorry."Bloodmane said walking off to meet up with Thunder Chaser, trying to shake off the sadness from seeing Spikes shell of himself. Spike was "killed" by a large fire that destroyed half of Ponyville ten years earlier, his brain preserved by Twilight Sparkle before being able to be brought to life in a brass body designed by Thunder Chaser. While the suit did look like Spike, the fact that his brain was visible and its radar pulsing eyes gave the "Autospike" a very un-kosher vibe. Bloodmane walked calmly into the office section to see Thunder chaser preoccupied with ataching light weight, ultra thin but strong titanium wing for a butterfly. "Oh hello Bloodmane!"Thunderchaser said pleasantly, looking up from his work. "Hi Thunder!, what do you need me for" Bloodmane responded happily, acting more like Pinkie than Bloodmane. "Well grab a piece of cornbread and ill tell you" Thunderchaser said, beckoning towards a plate of cornbread. Bloodmane annoyedly grabbed a small piece and began munching, impatiently saying "Now what!?" "Calm down Blood, im explaining!" he said impatiently "There is a huge ware house out on the dock with very intense security from the mob. My sources suggest that a huge deal of some sort is going to happen there between the Almighty Lords of Discord (A street gang that receives money from Trixies corporation/front Manehattan Conglomerated) and some cartel from a weird zebra country. I estimate 50-100 armed scumbags are there in addition to Badseed, the head of the gang and one of the most important men in Trixies circle. This will be a huge blow to their cash flow "What are they dealing, cocaine?" Bloodmane asked "Thats where it gets weird, everypony ive interrogated talks vaguely of a huge plot, crying all the while. Something fishys going down." "Lets go" Bloodmane said simply running out the door to her Black Mustang "What do you think your doing" asked Thunder Chaser bemusedly "Well, I was getting into my car" Bloodmane said, annoyed "Lets take my car" Thunder Chaser said,leading Bloodmane to a huge helicopter on the roof. The helicopter had several machine guns on its sides, was beautifully painted on its thick armor with designs of elephants from far away lands. They got in, Bloodmane trying not to look too impressed. The helicopter took off with an awesome woosh, taking to the sky surprisingly quickly. In the sky Manehattan seemed like a genuinely beautiful place, the image that probably attracted the tourists and immigrants to this crime ridden city. Slowly they began rushing over the crime ridden lower east side until finnally arriving at the dock, hovering 100 yards away from the warehouse. "Whats this big red button do!" Bloodmane yalled, pushing the button excitedly. "Oh Goddammit!" yelled Thunderchaser as the missile screamed from the bottom of the chopper through the roof "Alright, change in plans- you hop out with this parachute and sneak in through the back door while I make a big entrance and tear shit up inside, they only expect me!" Bloodmane, stealthily leaped out into a dumpster while Thunderchaser set his chopper to Auto-Park and hopped out straight through the hole, blasting gangsters with his awesome horn. Bloodmane quickly ran in through the back door, wielding her pistol and began popping off shots at random cartel members, taking 2 out. "Hey its that freak who killed brutha Snips!" shouted a Gangbanger, pointing his uzi at Bloodmane and beginning to fire. Bloodmane leaped dramatically from the pile of boxes onto a large shelf containing boxes of carrot peelers. She whipped out a ninja star and whipped it at the enemy, tearing through his nose, one edge hitting his brain. Thunderchaser was machine gunning his gamma horn through several cartel men, not noticing a machete wielding zebra about to slit his throat. Bloodmane leapt down onto his back and slit his throat with her stiletto knife, his blood gurgling out wildly, staining the floor. "Thanks" said Thunderchaser before ripping another gangster off the ground and using the gamma horn to melt the skin off his face, saying simply "Science is Magic!" Suddenly Badseed was running out of the building with his suitcase, leaping into the back of his jeep. The two heroes quickly grabbed onto a rope extending from the helicopter through the hole in the ceiling. The two sat inside of the helicopter, following the speeding jeep. The two kept their hooves on the firing stick, not firing the gun out of fear of hitting passerby, their hooves touching all the while. They finally managed to force Badseed to crash his jeep into a wall of a nearby haberdasheries. They than landed the chopper next to his smoldering vehicle. Bloodmane ripped out through his unbroken window, shattering it into millions of cutting shards accross his face and throwing him down onto the ground. "Whats in here?" said Thunder Chaser sarcastically, opening the case to find something he didnt expect. Inside the case was several gallon bags of pure black market allicorn dust, estimated to be around 50 million dollars in value. "What were you planning on doing with this!?"hissed Bloodmane "None of your business thats what, go aheahd take it, its just back up for our plan!"He replied in tears "What plan!" Bloodmane snarled, pressing her knife against his neck "whoah, take it easy Bloodmane" Thunderchaser began saying nervously "Look, Trixies got some crazy plan cooked up, I just know shes got lots more of that stuff and shes planning on bringing this city down. Otherwise, im out of the loop...honest!" he said, sobbingly "Hmm, I doubt but ill leave you be, for now."Bloodmane said walking away with Thunder chaser chuckling at the tracking device that Thunder Chaser had implanted on the gangster
Chapter 1It was a dreary day in Manehattan, the sky gray and the streets dirty. Pinkie Pie was manically writing songs for her next big tour when the phone began to ring. "A call for me, gosh I wonder who its from?!" she said excitedly, trotting past the previous nights old beer bottles and confetti to pick up the phone, "Hello" she said in a sing-song voice. "Hi Pinkie, its Twilight. Ive got some bad news" Twilights voice said worriedly. "Oh dear, why Twilight?!" Pinkie shouted fearfully, her Mane collapsing a little bit. "Derpy is missing, no ones seen her in a week and we are meeting down at the Cafe Amore to talk about what we can do, are you coming?" "Of course Twilight, ill be right over faster than confetti hits the floor" Pinkie said, dropping the phone on the floor and beginning a brisk run to the Cafe Amore, not even bothering to step into her Mustang, which she said would be "too slow". The Cafe Amore was a rather expensive place to buy coffee, named after the beloved Princess Cadence. It was filled with expensive artifacts from Canterlot. Only Manehattans elite got to eat here. Around the table sat Rarity, CEO of Rarity Threads, Twilight Sparkle, mayor of Manehattan, Commissioner Applejack of the Manehattan Police Department, Fluttershy, who had overcome her social anxiety to become an actress at the Celestia Theatre, Rainbow Dash who was the newest Wonderbolt and Pinkie Pie who was Manehattans biggest musician, known for the lavish parties thrown at her penthouse apartment at River Point Drive. Mayor Twilight opened up the conversation with stating "OK, our good friend is missing. I have set up a local find Derpy fund which is pouring money into the police department to find her. What are you all doing?" "Im donating 32,000 Bits to the Find Derpy Fund" said Rarity, annoyedly cleaning a coffee stain off of her white dress. "Me and the MPD are doing all we can Sugarcubes." Applejack said sadly, privately worrying that Derpy had been murdered and had become another statistic in Manehattans alarmingly high crime rate "At our next show im going to do a Sonic Rainboom and write with my Rainbow streak, "Have you seen Derpy?" in the sky! " Rainbow Dash interjected excitedly. The team applauded her original, if somewhat show offish plan. Suddenly everyone turned to Pinkie, who was sadly munching a bear claw. Her friends didn't let her drink coffee because of its astronomical effects on her craziness. Applejack turned to Pinkie and placed a hoof on her shoulder, asking "Hey Sugarcubes, why so glum?" "Im just sad because you are all doing good things to help out Derpy and I dont know what to do." she said, tears flowing from her eyes while her mane hung down from her head in a sad mess. Her friends surrounded her attempting to console their worrried friend when Twilight said, go home, eat some jellybeans and think of what you can do. Your a good pony and a smart one to, you'll think of something. Pinkie nodded slowly and began a slow walk back to her apartment. Her thoughts turned to Derpys fate, as the yellow taxis sped by. "Where was she, has she been kidnapped and if so who could do such a thing." she turned a corner in an alley only to be accosted by a rather homely Stallion who asked in a whedling voice "Spare some change" Pinkie said "Okie Dokie Lokie!" handing 5 Bits to the beggar. "5 Bits!, I want more than that" said the beggar as he unfurled a pistol from his coat, licking his lips in excitement in both lust and power hunger in dominating this lovely filly. Pinkie Pie instinctively grabbed the Stallions hoof with surprising speed, ripped out the gun from his hand and broke his arm by bending it too far, before knocking him onto the litter filled ground and ghetto stomping him into the ground, laughing hysterically in both fear and excitement. She slowed down and picked up the stallion, dragging him to the local police department. He asked "What the hells so funny, why the hell are you laughing?!" Pinkie began singing the "Giggle at The Ghosties song" to explain why she laughed for the rest of the walk, aggravating the already hurt mugger, and creating a humorous scene for passerby, the cheerful pony escorting a Manehattan scum bag to the jail, singing at the top of her lungs, much to the muggers irritation. When they arrive at the station Pinkie Pie said "Here we are, the garbage dump" in a tauntingly cheerful voice. When she got in Applejack was on duty at the desk and said, "Hey Pinkie what have you got here" "This mean pony tried to mug me, luckily I got him and decided to bring him to Justice, whoever she is." Pinkie said "Well he looks like an apple who just got made into cobbler, ill tell you what sugarcube you could hogtie Discord if you wanted to!" Pinkie Pie nodded modestly and yelled out to the mugger as he was whisked away to a cell "Dont drop the soap!" Applejack looked at he bemusedly with a smirk and Pinkie said "What, I dont want him to slip in the shower!" unaware of the double entendre. Her walk was almost compete as she neared the house as her thoughts turned to Twilights husband Thunder Chaser. Commonly referred to as the "Steampunk Superman" Thunderchaser was Manehattans only legal vigilante. He wore a metal suit of brass that could shoot gamma rays out of its artificial horn and enabled him to fly. What if she were to do the same as Thunder Chaser and devote her time to finding Derpy. Her mind raced as the wild notion took over her thoughts. Unlike Thunder Chaser, noone would know who she was. Even though she would have loved a suit bedazzled with confetti, baloons and rhinestones. She knew this was strategically stupid and decided she would have an all black latex suit adorned with zipper which could hide weapons. Plus such a frilly suit would only prove to herself what a bubble headed filly she really was. When she got to her apartment, she scrubbed blood red hair dye into her mane while she called Rarity, placing an order for one latex suit, adorned with zippers. Rarity asked over the phone "Why, are you becoming a dominatrix!" Disgustedly "No silly its my new stage get-up" Pinkie lied. "Oh alright It will be done in one week." "Thank Rarity, your the bees knees! Wait do bees have knees?" Rarity hung up to avoid answering the question. Pinkie finished up rinsing out the red hair dye and put on a mask she cut out of some red felt and looked into the mirror and said in an awesome tone "I AM BLOOD MANE!" and began planning her rescue of Derpy
