Bank of Equestria: Canterlot Branch

Bank of Equestria: Canterlot Branch

Chapter Two: The Part Where Everything Goes Wrong

By: TheCrazyAsian A.K.A. Feasttalon

If you want to know what I thought his laugh should sound like click here, and skip to 0:47.

"Shit! Broken bucking Glass. What the hell happened," Rapid Fire shouted. He then saw a police officer above Glass pointing a gun at his head.

The officer was shouting something along the lines of "Get out of here," while also talking into a radio on his right shoulder. The civilians who, had been under the injured robber's control, were now streaming out of the front entrance of the building at the urging of the police officer. The officer seemed completely oblivious to the fact that one of Glass' accomplices was looking right at him, with an intent to murder him.

Rapid fire took his SMG and flicked a switch on the side to switch the gun to semi-automatic mode. His usual tactics of just spraying a large volume of bullets on his assailants wouldn't work here, as it would have just a good a chance of killing Glass as killing the officer. He brought up the gun, he then did the best he could to aim at the officer, aiming for center mass instead of the head. After that three shots rang out in quick succession.

The bullets sailed through the air, with one of them striking the officer in the chest and a second one hitting him in the neck due to recoil. The first shot lodged somewhere in the body, while the second exited his neck pulling a mixture of blood and bones with it, before lodging somewhere in the wall. The third bullet went wild and somehow broke a glass panel on the skylight.

Rapid Fire shouted "Get back down on the floor or, I swear to Celestia and all that is holy, I will drop all of you one by one! Am I understood?!" The remaining hostages in the bank immediately dropped to the floor, afraid that they were going to themselves die, like the police officer and the numerous security guards.

He walked up to Broken Glass, went on his knees, and said "Don't worry you're going to live. We'll get you out of here with all the bits and get you patched up." Broken Glass just mumbled something unintelligible, and curled up in a ball around his wound. Rapid Fire then took off his jacket and gave it to Glass, instructing him to keep it pressed against the wound and to stay there.

Rapid Fire stood up, and looked around the room and saw that about three-quarters of the original hostages were gone. He thought to himself "Good job Glass." He remembered that the police officer was talking on his radio, most likely calling for reinforcements. In a matter of minutes the area around the bank could be swarming with police officers trying to apprehend them and rescue the civilians. He thought to himself "I hope Fuse and Long Shot can hurry up because we can't stay here much longer."

Downstairs in the vault Short Fuse was beginning to place his explosive package on the hinges of the vault door while Long Shot went through the bodies of the guards, trying to salvage some ammo. Short Fuse was taking his time fiddling with wires and timers and the such, unaware of the situation upstairs that had just put the group on the police's radar. "So, how big is the blast going to be, are we going to have to go back upstairs or what?" Long shot asked.

"Based on the amount of explosive I'm using we'll have to go upstairs, that is if you feel like staying alive today," Fuse responded, laughing after he finished speaking. Long Shot just kind of rolled his eyes and went back to collecting ammo.

After about half a minute Fuse finished planting the explosives and said "Everything is in place, it's time to move back upstairs." Long Shot just silently got up and went to go back up the stairs, with Fuse following behind. As they went up Fuse armed his detonator and Long Shot reloaded his weapons.

When they got to the point where they came out of the stairwell Long Shot began to command the hostages, using a rather condescending voice "Ladies and Gentlecolts, we will be detonating explosives in the vault, do not be afraid you will not be h-." He stopped talking and stopped in his tracks when he saw Glass on the floor bleeding and the body of a dead police officer next to him.

Fuse tapped him on the shoulder and said "Hey boss, what's wrong". Long Shot didn't respond, he just stood there looking in utter shock at the scene before him. At this point he noticed that a significant number of the hostages were missing.

The next things to come out of Long Shot's mouth was "What the buck happened, why is there a dead cop, why is Glass shot, and why are a bunch of people missing!" At this point Fuse takes a peak at what's in front of Long Shot and sees the scene just as his boss described it.

"I don't know what happened, what I do know is that Glass is shot and the cops are coming," Rapid Fire replies in a worried voice. Long Shot's jaw drops, not because Glass is hurt, he could care less about him, but because he was incapacitated, and couldn't carry an money. They had pulled off all their past robberies without one of them getting injured, at least not this badly. This screwed up his plans, not only would Glass be unable to carry money but he would also require somepony else to carry him out, this would halve their haul.

"Shit, Fuse I don't give a buck, blow the vault open now," Long Shot commanded. In his mind he was rethinking his master plan of how to rob the bank, now having to account for a limited time span. After a few seconds there was a sound of a large boom, then smoke started to pour out of the stairwell. "Rapid Fire, you stay here, you'll have to carry Glass out when we leave. Fuse, you go down to the vault and fill two of the bags, I'll stay here.

Fuse turned around and ran into the vault as fast as he could, almost tripping on a few stairs on the way down. He galloped forwards to where the vault door was. He couldn't see anything through the smoke so he just kept running, hoping he wouldn't hit a wall. He ran face first into the vault door, the explosives had done nothing to dislodge it from its post. He then dropped to the floor, like a dead fly, knocked out by the force of running into a giant piece of steel.

Back above Rapid Fire kept his watch over the civilians while Long Shot waited nervously for Fuse to come back up with the money bags. After a few minutes he became worried and ran down the stairs, looking for Fuse and the sacks of money. With the smoke now clearing he was able to see Fuse's unconscious body when he got to the bottom of the stairs.

He looked around expecting that somehow one of the dead security guards had reanimated, to him it seemed the only explanation to why he was knocked out. Drawing his weapon he slowly moved down the hall, moving his weapon left and right , trying to find an enemy that didn't exist. He eventually reached Fuse's body and shook it a few times and yelled "Fuse, Fuse, Fuse! Wake up you lazy piece of shit!"

To Long Shot Fuse was disposable, so if he wasn't getting up he could just leave him here, though that would mean having to get someone to take his place. He looked up, as if to debate whether to take the money or Fuse by staring at the vault full of bits. His jaw dropped to the floor for the second time today, the vault door was still there and there would be no getting into the vault. Long Shot punched Fuse in the face and shouted "You incompetent piece of shit, why the buck did I ever trust you!"

"You know what you aren't even worth saving, you screwed this all up" Long Shot continued. His red eyes shrunk to the size of peas. It seemed that Fuse's failure had driven him insane, he was what you might call a perfectionist. He had to have everything just so, and having someone screw it up for him, as Fuse had done on multiple occasions, was something he couldn't tolerate. His red eyes were shrunken to the side of a peas.

Long Shot loaded a solid slug, and stood back. He raised his shotgun and aimed it at Fuse's head. "You're just a parasprite, so close your eyes and say good night" Long Shot said, then he pulled the trigger. Bang. A hole was formed in the side of Fuse's head.

Out of the hole came bits of brain and blood, with a few pieces of skull mixed in. Despite his distance away, Long Shot still got a healthy coating of blood. He then dropped his gun on the ground and sat there. Staring at the Fuse's dead body, and the blood pouring out of the wound, forming a nice red oil slick on the ground. He then let out a laugh that could only be described as psychotic.

At this moment Rapid Fire ran in from upstairs, he shouted to Long Shot "SWAT's upstairs, they got Glass! What the buck are we supposed to do!" in a worried tone. Rapid Fire gasped as he saw Long Shot turn around, not only did he see the the entire front of his body was covered in blood, but also the corpse of their former teammate.

Long Shot said, in a very screechy voice, "Everything is going to be alright! Because we can't die, you know why? Because we are too good to die," he turned back around, and resumed staring at the ground. At that moment a small object tumbled into the room, after a few seconds it started letting out blinding smoke.

Rapid Fire began to cough and before he knew it a few ponies in black body armor began rushing down the stairs, with the first one having a riot shield. They were shouting "Police! get on the ground!" Of course Rapid Fire didn't have much of a choice and he hit the deck and put his hooves behind his head. He was then dragged to the side by one of the officers and hoofcuffed.

Long Shot on the other hoof raised his shotgun and attempted to aim through the smoke at one of the SWAT officers. Of course he couldn't see them but fired anyway, the shot went wild and hit somewhere on the concrete ceiling. Then a group of four officers rushed forwards, hiding behind a riot shield, one of them hit him in the left leg with a shot and he collapsed to the ground, blood pouring from the wound like a faucet.

Then one of the officer kicked the gun out of Long Shot's reach and pushed him onto his back. With Long Shot trying to squirm and crawl away he was still able to get a pair of hoofcuffs onto him. Then the two of them were led from the building at put into the back of a SWAT truck. Glass had already been loaded into an ambulance headed for Canterlot General, and Fuse was loaded into the back of the medical examiner's van.

Short Fuse was buried in a nameless grave in Canterlot, as no one was came forward to identify him and claim the body. To this day no one knows where exactly his final resting place is.

Broken Glass survived his wounds and was eventually found guilty of Robbery with a deadly weapon and murder in the first degree, he is currently on death row in Canterlot's maximum security prison, Riverside Penitentiary. It is rumored that Celestia herself is going to witness the execution, along with the families of the deceased and those held hostage.

Rapid Fire cooperated with the police and eventually plead guilty to murder in the second degree, and in exchange for testimony against his co-conspirators, he was given a sentence of 40 years, he is eligible for parole in 2035. He will be 68 when he is released in 2052.

Long Shot also survived and was deemed mentally incompetent and never stood trial. He now spends his days in Canterlot's Hospital for the Mentally Deranged.

End Chapter Two
Thank you for reading this story this is the last chapter.
I made one reference to the Andrew WK song, Ready to Die, can you find it?
Other songs listened to while writing:
The World by Nightmare AKA the theme song to Death Note
Nice Guys Finish Last by Green Day