Hours have passed since the tournament started and now the finals have began with Speedy going against High Rise for the win. Most were shocked on how well both players have advanced through the rounds and how dedicated they were to winning. So far Speedy has earned almost ten million while High Rise has nine and a half million. Now it has came down to the final battle of the reigning champ versus the contender.

The pony running the table set down a set of cards at each player and set some flipped at his side. “Mr. Silverstreak. Your bet.” the pony said as Speedy placed a stack of one million on the table. “Mr. Rise. Your bet.” said the pony as High Rise put down the same amount. “Good. Let us begin.” he said as he flipped Speedy's cards. “Mr. Silverstreak. Fifteen. Hit or Stick?”

“Hit”

“Nineteen”

“Stick”

The pony then waved his hand over Speedy's cards then flipped High Rise’s cards. “Mr. Rise. Fourteen. Hit or stick?”

“Hit”

“Eighteen.”

“Hit.”

“Twenty two. Sorry sir but Mr. Silverstreak wins this round.” the pony said as the crowd applauded. “Place your bets gentlecolts.” he said as Speedy added another million to his pile while High Rise placed a half million. “Good. Let us begin the next round.” the pony said as he placed down cards and flipped Speedy's. “Nineteen. Hit or stick?”

“Stick.”

The pony flipped High Rise’s cards “Mr. Rise. Fifteen. Hit or stick?”

“Hit.”

“Twenty one you win.” the pony said as the crowd applauded again. High Rise pulled the pile to him as Speedy looked with a smile. “Place your bets geltlecolts.” the table pony said as the two grabbed their chips. Speedy placed five million down as High Rise added his to six. The pony placed down new cards while Speedy and High Rise exchanged confident looks. “Mr. Silverstreak. Eighteen. Hit or stick?”

“Hit.”

“Twenty. Hit or stick?”

“Stick.”

“Mr. Rise. Thirteen. Hit or stick?”

“Hit”

“Twenty. Hit or stick?”

“Stick.”

“Draw. No one wins.” The pony said as the crowd cheered. This went on for hours until both players have placed all their winnings for the final round. “Mr. Rise. Ten. Hit or stick?”

“Hit.”

“Thirteen. Hit or stick?”

“Hit.”

“Twenty. Hit or stick?”

“Stick.”

“Mr. Silverstreak. Eight. Hit or stick?”

Speedy looked at his five and three cards before making his decision. “Hit.”

The pony placed a seven down “Fifteen. Hit or stick?”

“Hit.”

The pony placed a four down. “Nineteen. Hit or stick?”

“Hit.”

The pony looked at him oddly. “Is this your final decision Mr. Silverstreak? This card may either make or break you sir.” Speedy nodded with a confident and determined smile. “Very well.” The pony placed a three card down and his eyes widen at the five card hand. “Twenty one……. BLACKJACK!” The pony said as the crowd cheered and clapped at Speedy's win. A five card win is rare with blackjack and mixed with the high number on the cards this was a good amount of luck.

The owner of the casino stepped out and shook Speedy's hand “Congratulations Mr. Silverstreak! You have won the Blackjack tournament and kept your title and record! We congratulate you sir!” he said as Speedy nodded. After the owner and most of the crowd left High Rise walked up to Speedy “Congratulations on winning the tournament. I've never seen anypony with that much dedication to this sport.”

Speedy gave a light hearted chuckle at High Rise’s comment. “Well it wasn't really hard to me. Plus…..” he said as he rolled up his shirt sleeve revealing his tattoo. The tattoo was a five gold playing cards numbering five, eight, four, two, and a ace. “Luck of the champ I guess. I actually came to Vanhoover looking for you good sir. I heard you have a…….. unique taste in young mares yes?” Speedy said whispering the last part. High Rise was confused until he thought what Speedy said through and smiled.

“Well Mr. Silverstreak. If you just follow me to my home I think I can show you what I have in stock.” High Rise said as he walked towards the main entrance with Speedy behind him. Both left the casino to see both the green Porsche and black Plymouth waiting for them. “Just follow me and we'll be there in no time.” High Rise said as he entered his sports car. Speedy got in his Roadrunner and followed High Rise out of the casino's parking lot but was unaware of a silver Renault watching nearby.

The drive was short to High Rise’s mansion but once they were there Speedy knew what had to be done to get Applebloom. The two walked in the main entrance to see a young filly waiting for them. “Ah my young daughter Ruby. Please lead this nice stallion to my office while I go get something.” High Rise said as Ruby nodded. While High Rise left into another room Ruby waved for Speedy to follow her upstairs. “I take it you are here to buy one of my fathers fillies sir?” Ruby said to Speedy which surprised him.

“In a ways young one. What makes you think I want a filly? Is he giving a daughter up for adoption?” Speedy said trying to give off a dumbfounded expression. Ruby looked up to give Speedy a deadpan look and spoke seriously to him.

“You can't fool me. I know you want a filly here. Plus that's the only reason anypony comes here. I just wonder how long it takes before he decides to sell me for loose change.” Ruby said as her serious expression soften to a saddened one. Speedy felt sad for the young girl and placed his hand on her shoulder as she looked up at him.

“Hey. In any case. I'm gonna be doing something that will solve all of this. Just if you hear a commotion coming from your father's office just go wait in the main area for me. Will you do that?” Speedy said with a reassuring smile. Ruby looked at him and nodded as they reached High Rise’s office. Speedy walked in as Ruby waited by the door until a knock from it came through. Ruby opened the door to have High Rise and a naked young filly with a bag over her head and her wrists tied in front of her by a rope.

“Thank you Ruby. Now go wait outside the office till we are done. I might need you after we are done here.” High Rise said as Ruby nodded and left. “Now Mr. Silverstreak. This here is my finest and best filly yet. She's from Ponyville and has a decent amount of meat and good curves to her.” he said as he grabbed the fillys right breast making her grunt. “She's also a relative to the Element of Honesty as well.” he said as he pulled off the bag revealing Appleblooms face. Speedy looked at Applebloom with surprise and walked towards her pretending to be curious. “Now normally I would be saying a hundred thousand but granted you beat me today I'll lower it to seventy five thousand. What do you say?”

Speedy walked up to Applebloom and noticed all the bruises and cuts on her face and body and rubbed her cheek. “I say this.” Speedy said as he pulled out his Colt and quickly fired at High Rise hitting him between the eyes. The force from the bullet pushed High Rises body towards and out the window with a crash. Speedy looked out the window shards to see High Rises body on the ground with a pool of blood around him. Speedy grinned as he turned around and walked to a shocked Applebloom and undid her bindings. “I'm getting you out of here Applebloom. I've been traveling Equestria to find you and your friends. I so far have Scootaloo and I'm here to save you and Ruby.”

Applebloom looked at Speedy with wide eyes then at the window and passed out in Speedy's arms. Speedy quickly caught her and sat her in a chair as he pulled out his phone and called Fynn. After a few minutes Fynn and his men arrived as Celestia's sun peeked over the horizon and enters the house. “Well……” Fynn said looking down at High Rises body from his office “That's one way to solve this I guess.”

“I had to do it. The poor bastard was even planning to rape his own daughter.” Speedy said as he watched Fynns men carry a clothed and unconscious Applebloom out of the office. “How many fillies and mare did he have Fynn?”

Fynn sighed and muttered something in Germane. “Maybe a dozen or two. But the arschloch got what he deserved in the end. For Celestia sake Speedy this is arschloch had his men watch his daughters every move.” Fynn looked back at High Rise’s body as he started seeing flies from around him.

“Selbst im Tod wirst du nicht gesegnet sein”

“What does that mean Fynn?” Speedy said to his Germane friend.

“I'll tell you later. But now I want to get young Apfelbloom back home. Say where is young Ruby?” Fynn said as he looked around. True enough both Speedy and Fynn haven't heard from Ruby yet. A commotion from downstairs got the two's attention and they ran down to see Fynns men on the floor as the silver Renault sped away with Ruby inside.

“Shit! I got her!” Speedy said as he got in the Roadrunner and chased after them. He soon caught up with the silver race car as it weaved through traffic but the Plymouth’s speed and power had it keep up with it. Soon the race car sped around a group of stopped cars and entered a underpass while blocking off Speedy. The earth pony slammed the brakes and drove around the cars to enter the underpass hoping to not lose the car. As he drove down he stopped to see the car aimed towards him with a familiar zebra looking at him. “Xander…..” Speedy muttered as he revved the car's engine.

Xander looked back and revved his cars engine as well. Speedy put the car in gear and did a burnout as Xander revved his car louder. Soon both cars took off towards each other at high speed hoping to wreck and kill the other driver. As they got close though Speedy remembered Ruby in the car and swerved at the last second. Unfortunately he couldn't move fast enough and crashed into the drivers side of the front of Xanders car totaling both cars at once. Xander groaned and cracked his neck to see Speedy lying over his steering wheel and got out of his car. As he got out Speedy regained consciousness and crawled out the passenger door coughing. As he stood up Speedy looked at the zebra and spat blood “Xander……. Thought you were dead.”

“I thought the same for you Speedy. But clearly were both full of surprises.”

Speedy looked at the wreaks and saw the chassis of the once Renault “Reinforced your chassis. Like going into a ring with weighted gloves.” Xander scoffed and pulled out his gun.

“Yeah but it only takes a bullet to kill a pony.” but just as ye was about to fire two SUVs pulled up and armed ponies came out firing rifles towards Xander who fired back. As Xander ran off Fynn arrived and walked passed Speedy and checked in the cars to see Ruby unconscious with some blood coming out of her nose. Fynn muttered and looked back at Speedy “Who the fuck was that?!”

“An old enemy of mine…..”

Author's Note

Told you it would be within a week. Also one Blackjack is my favorite card game and please Bromycommander don't translate what I wrote in German in the comments.