Chapters Two Years Later......Caleb's Offer
After two years of watching the Purge from the widescreen broadcast at Ponyville, Twilight could not help but feel sorry when seeing all those poor little fillies and colts get slaughtered during those horrible nights. To make matters worse, every pony in Ponyville, including her friends, were all terrified to see those hateful crooks at Manehattan kill innocent civilians during the Purge Night. Pinkie didn't wish to hone any parties revolving around the annual purge. Some of the ponies in Ponyville were glaring at Twilight out of disgust and disappointment for letting the Purge occur at Manehattan, including Twilight's friends. Every time Twilight's friends and subjects were forced to see the Purge on broadcast on screen above the Ponyville's City Hall, they were all terrified in not doing anything to stop it from spreading at Manehattan. Instead, most of the fillies, mares, and colts were praying that their loved ones will survive the purge night. Twilight Sparkle, her friends, her family, and her brother Shinning Armor were feeling helpless and devastated about not being able to do anything to save the ponies from the Purge at Manehattan.
At the start of every Purge, the ponies were forced to watch the citizens and criminals butcher each other up in the most gruesome, violent ways possible. Some were plunged into various gang wars. Purgers were walking around the street hunting down innocent fillies left and right. Others were walking in groups, capturing and publicly executing ponies on sight. What's even more terrifying is that, many of the pony purgers were wearing all sorts of scary looking masks filled with bloodstains on the ponies that they have killed. Many of the purgers were armed with all sorts of brutal melee weapons and firearms. Purgers that were walking alone started hollering at the sidewalks. Buildings were caught on fire and squads of paramilitary soldiers, hitmen, and street gangs were storming through various areas in Manehattan, hunting down and kidnapping people for money. In some extravagant places, the rich ponies were making bets on those purgers who can kill the most out of kidnapped bunch. In Twilight's point of view, it was like she was watching a movie filled with real life horror and psychological thriller.
During the time Twilight went to get some sleep in her Castle, the purple alicorn started tossing and turning, while sweating underneath her bed covers.......
In the middle of the Purge night, Twilight slowly opens up her eyes only to find herself in the middle of the alleyways in Manehattan. As soon as she got up, Twilight hears some blood-curdling screams echoing throughout her surroundings. The moment Twilight turned around, she sees a terrified earth stallion trying to make a run for it. Before he could beg help from Princess Twilight, he was silenced by a loud bang that pierced his skull in the back of his head, with blood squirting out of it. In an instant, the stallion fell onto his stomach dead, with his hooves spread out wide. Upon seeing the stallion die in front of her, Twilight's eyes widened with fear that some pony else is lurking in the shadows behind its recently killed victim and is demanding blood. As Twilight narrowed her eyes and stared at the darkness behind the stallion corpse, she sees five purgers appeared before her. Four of them are wearing bloodstained, smiley masks and the 5th one was wearing a Grim Reaper Mask. Two of the smiley purgers are armed with hunting rifles, one Smiley pony is armed with a baseball bat wrapped around with sharp wires, and one is armed with a flail. The Grim Reaper Purger was armed with a Reaper's Scythe. Upon seeing the Purple Alicorn, the Grim Pony makes the call as he took out a bounty poster from his backpack.
"Hey! Look! It's that Purple Alicorn Princess. Let's see, any pony purger that hunts down an alicorn, dead or alive, will be rewarded a bounty of 20,000 bits by the NFFE. Let's see if she's worth it shall we, boys??"
Upon hearing what the Grim purger just said, his group came charging straight at Twilight Sparkle, readying their weapons and aiming their rifles directly at her. Not wanting to die, Twilight casted a shockwave spell that sent all five purgers flying back into the darkness from whence they came and made a run for it out of the alleyways and into the streets. As soon as Twilight arrived at the streets, several bullets came whizzing past her face from behind. The Purgers are opening fire at the purple alicorn with their rifles. However, Twilight casted a shield barrier to ward off enemy fire from below as she unfurled her wings and took to the skies. Before they could chase after Twilight, she teleported herself away from the murderous bunch and reappeared at Manehattan's Market Place. While Twilight was trying to take a breather, she hears another group of purgers coming out of a nearby grocery store that was already looted. The moment the purgers came out of the store, Twilight was hiding behind one of the food stands, several feet away from where they are while holding her breath with her hooves. After several minutes of hiding, the looters disappear and Twilight flew to her apartment complex near Rarity's Manehattan Boutique. The moment Twilight reached the Boutique, it was already dark inside. As soon as Twilight went inside Rarity's Boutique, she used her magic to shut the doors behind her and closed all the drapes, making sure that no purger will see her from the outside. Unfortunately, after Twilight secured the main entrance of the Boutique, the moment she flipped on the switch on her left, to turn on the lights, her eyes widened with horror, leaving behind a terrified gasp.
When the lights turned on, Twilight made a muffled scream while covering up her mouth with her hooves. All around her, she sees fresh bloodstains all over the floor and the walls of the Boutique. On the ceilings, Twilight sees fresh corpses of her friends hanging above several feet off the floor. On the Purple Alicorn's right, she sees the corpses of Rainbow Dash and Applejack showing their loose entrails, gutted out from their bodies and a bit of their bony ribs showing. On Twilight's left, she sees Flutteshy corpse dangling upside down with her throat slit and her eyes glazed over her. As for Rarity, Twilight sees the poor unicorn fashionista skinned alive and her mane and tail completely cut off from her body. In the middle, Twilight sees Pinkie dangling from above like a puppet, with nails lodged into the pink pony's body and strings attached to it. Before Twilight could come any closer, she sees the pink pony's corpse moving around like a rag doll. As Twilight looked up above Pinkie's corpse, she lights up her horn only to see an earth pony purger wearing a Jigsaw Mask lifting the puppet strings up and down with his hooves from the balcony. The moment the purger sees the purple alicorn down below the balcony, he started laughing and mocking at her in a manical tone. Twilight screamed in terror as she fired a magic beam at the Purger our of anger in the face. Upon impact, the purger fell on his back, letting go of Pinkie's corpse as it fell on the ground floor.
"HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO MY FRIENDS, YOU PSYCHOTIC MONSTER!!!!" Twilight roared in a Canterlot voice.
As Twilight unfurled her wings and flew up to the balcony to confront the Jigsaw Purger, she landed on all four hooves only to find that the purger is no where in sight. Instead, Twilight could hear the evil cackling from within the shadows at the second floor of Rarity's Boutique.
"SHOW YOURSELF, YOU COWARDLY FIEND!!!" Twilight snarled as she lit up her horn with her magic, while making her way through the hallway from the balcony of the 2nd floor.
During her trek down the hallway, Twilight sees broken ceiling lamps flashing on and off, shattered windows, more bloodstains on the walls, and severed, bloodied pony limbs lying on the floor. After seeing the demise of her friends, Twilight couldn't even think about what would happen if her parents and her brother get involved in the annual purge. In her mind, Twilight finds the Purge too horrible to bear and that she wished that they hadn't forced her to enact this cruel decree upon her fellow ponykind. As Twilight made her way towards the room at her right in the end of the hallway, she turns around only to see her parents and her brother tied up and gagged, making muffled screams while being strapped to their chairs. Before Twilight could enter the room to free them, her mother and father were both freaking out even more as they see something bad right behind their purple alicorn daughter. In an instant, Twilight was met with a hoof reaching out from the shadows behind her, grabbing her by the mouth with her hoof. The next thing that happened is when the stalker pulled out a knife and slit Twilight's throat with ease. As Twilight made a deathly gurgle, with blood coming out of her throat, she collapsed onto the floor on her stomach. Upon seeing their daughter get killed by the stalker, Twilight's parents and brother started screaming even louder while being gagged.
"EEEEEEEEEYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Twilight screamed as she got up out of bed, covered up in sweat.
As Twilight turned around, she realizes that it was all just another bad dream about the purge that she was forced to carry out by the order of the NFFE. After taking a few deep breaths, Twilight came out of her bed and landed on all fours before making her way to the fillies restroom.
"Damn, those nightmares are driving me crazy," Twilight muttered to herself in a scared tone. "I just wish there was another way to resolve the political unrest and the economy without making such violent decrees like the purge."
Inside the restroom, Twilight went up to the sink and used her magic to turn on the faucets. As she used her hooves to collect the running water, Twilight washed her face several times before looking at her reflection in the mirror. Just when she lifted her head to face the mirror in front of her, Twilight sees another pony from behind wearing a Scream Mask on her head. Upon seeing this, Twilight started screaming again in total fright as she turned white. The next thing that happened is when Twilight fell on the restroom floor on her back, completely paralyzed in fear. After a few seconds, the pony wearing the Scream Mask came up to check on Twilight before taking her mask off with her hoof. The pony reveals herself to be none other than Pinkie Pie, staring at Twilight with a huge, happy grin.
"Tee Hee!! You should see the look on your face, Twilight!!" Pinkie cackled in a sheepish tone. "How'd you sleep last night?!"
"Not good, Pinkie Pie. And don't ever scare me like that," Twilight hissed as she got back up on her hooves again. "It's bad enough that I was forced to sign in the contract to enact the purge at Manehattan by the New Founding Fathers of Equestria two years ago."
"Oh, I get it. You had another bad dream about the purge, didn't you?!" Pinkie said as she guessed Twilight's theory. "I see now, you're not proud of yourself when doing this, are you?!"
"DAMN RIGHT I'M NOT!!!!" Twilight shouted as she glared at the pink pony before taking a few more deep breaths. "Sorry Pinkie, but seriously, I'm still not convinced that the purge will do any good in keeping the overcrowding under control. As a matter of fact, I'm still starting to suspect that Caleb and the NFFE are up to something that's even more grim than just carrying out the purge in Equestria."
Before Twilight or Pinkie could say anymore, Spike appeared outside of the fillies restroom.
"Good morning, ladies," Spike said, followed by a yawn coming out of his mouth. "Twilight, are you feeling okay?"
"I don't know, Spike," Twilight said anxiously. "I'm still thinking that the Purge will be our undoing."
"I know where you're getting at, Twilight. If only we were able to do something about it," Spike told the purple alicorn.
"Enough of all that, I made pancakes for breakfast down at the dinning hall," Pinkie said trying to enlighten a dismayed Twilight Sparkle. "Let's go before all of the pancakes are gone."
As the two ponies and the little dragon made their way downstairs and to the dinning hall, they were met by the rest of the Element Bearers of Harmony, Applejack the orange farm earth pony, Rainbow Dash the light-blue pegasus, Rarity the white unicorn fashionista, and Fluttershy the soft-spoken yellow pegasus. They all turned their attention towards a half-asleep Twilight Sparkle, with Pinkie Pie and Spike following her from behind.
"Hey der, sleeping beauty. How are ya feelin' today, ah?" Applejack asked in a happy tone.
"I'm a little shaken from my recent sleep earlier," Twilight said, while feeling groggy as she went up to the table to eat some pancakes. "I had another bad dream about the purge last night. This time, when I went to the Boutique to check up on you guys, you were all dead and your bodies were hanging off the ground. Just when I was about to go after the pony that killed you all, I saw my parents and my brother tied up and gagged. They were all scared shitless and the next thing that happened is when that killer slit my throat in cold-blood."
Upon hearing Twilight's recent nightmare, the entire Mane 5 gasped in horror, almost losing their appetite. After several seconds of utter silence, Rarity stepped in and comforted Twilight after she finished with her pancake breakfast.
"Now look darling, we don't really know how we're going to deal with that terrifying turn of events." Rarity said while trying to make a point towards the purple alicorn. "Even though it's better than stressing ourselves in dealing with all those murderous ruffians, I don't know if we can do anything about it."
"But Rarity, we need to find a way to get to Manehattan and save our loved ones there before it gets worse," Twilight protested after leaving a half-eaten pancake on top of her plate. "I just end up killing all those poor fillies at Manehattan over those two years."
"I'm with Twilight on this one, guys," Fluttershy said in a nervous tone. "I couldn't imagine what would happen if any of our friends at Manehattan get involved in the purge. There's a strong chance that if we start purging too, we will not be any different from them. In fact, judging from what Twilight is trying to say, I think the NFFE is just using her to achieve their political dreams."
"Or maybe they're trying to set us up for a really grim reason," Twilight added in.
Before any pony could say anymore, they heard knocking coming from the main entrance of the Twilight's Castle. As Twilight got out of her seat, she makes her way to the door before opening it with her magic. As soon as the doors were wide open, Twilight sees Caleb Warren, the leader of the NFFE, appear before her.
"What do you want, Caleb?" Twilight said as she sneered at the NFFE learned, narrowing her eyes at him.
"Hello Princess, how's it going with your break, ah?!" Caleb asked as he gave Twilight as sly smirk on his face.
"Not bad, I've seen worse," Twilight grunted in dismay.
"I'm sure you were pretty bored in not doing anything to help your people, right?!" Caleb said as he made a small grin. "Over the past two years, our reports were showing that the Purge is still not dealing with the overcrowded populace at Manehattan yet. Everytime we moved two steps forward, they push us three steps back. So, after our recent meeting, we made another decision. Ever since you and the Element Bearers of Harmony became the number one heroes of your own hometown and all of Equestria, I'd say it's time for you and your friends to get off your couch and take some more real action; it'll be as if you're all movie actors shown on TV."
"Are you trying to get us involved in the Purge, Caleb?" Twilight Sparkle said, feeling a bit offended by what Caleb is getting at. "The last thing I would ever wanted right now is to put my friends in danger of themselves when dealing with such grim events as this."
"Twilight, it's just how we do our business," Caleb said summarizing their nature. "We do believe that we made need the best warriors to cleanse Manehattan of all of its sins. You do want to save your people from the other purgers, right? In fact, if you and your friends do this, you will still be able to live up to your name preserving our beloved nation, as well as earning making money to support the rest of your family. And for that, we'll keep the death count contained in only one area. What do you say, huh?"
Upon hearing what Caleb is offering, Twilight still feels a bit distrustful in accepting all of this. Before she knew it, Twilight was pacing left and right not knowing if Caleb's offer is a good thing or a bad thing. Just when Twilight was about to say "no," Rainbow Dash intervened.
"Come on Twi, this maybe our chance to prove ourselves that we can save Manehattan from the purge," Rainbow Dash said trying to push the purple alicorn into acceptance. "Please, just this once?"
"Rainbow, we have may been able to save Equestria more than once," Twilight said as she dragged the light-blue pegasus into a private conversation, along with the rest of the Mane 6. "But I still don't trust that guy. He might be just using us in order to maintain their political campaign in the NFFE."
"Well, it maybe the time where we Element Bearers of Harmony will try to take a stand against the purgers," Rainbow said in a excited, hushed tone. "It'll be just like surviving on the battlefield and saving lives, just like what you're brother did when he was in the Equestrian Army."
"Yes, but we're not going to be in a battlefield; we're going to be inside a slaughter house!!!" Twilight exclaimed in a serious tone.
"Now that ya mention it, I'm still worried about ma cousin Babs Seeds and ma relatives at Manehattan," Applejack said in the group. "Apple Bloom is worried sick about her as well. If we find Babs Seed, y'all, we may need to escort her to safety out of the city during the annual purge."
"I do want to see if Coco Pommel is doing okay at Manehattan too," Rarity added. "It's been two years since I heard from her and ever since the Purge was enacted, she hasn't spoke to me for a very long time. I'm also worried about my Fashion Boutique at Manehattan."
"Well, we're going to have to write down a list of all the ponies that we need to find and make sure that we can find a safe place for them to stay at until the Purge is over," Twilight suggested to the group. "I already ordered some of the citizens who didn't want to purge to stay inside their homes and make no physical contact with the purgers. However, I can't say for sure if any pony was able to survive the purge over the past two years."
"Then, we y'all might as well take our chances then," Applejack told Twilight. "It's better than just sitting around not doing anything at least."
"Pinkie! Fluttershy! What do you guys think?" Twilight asked the two other ponies in the group.
"Um, I'm still a bit anxious for where this is heading," Fluttershy said nervously. "But if we're to save those poor fillies at Manehattan, I might as well pray for our success and our survival."
"Me?? Well, I'd do anything to save Cheese Sandwich," Pinkie Pie chirped in eagerness. "Speaking of Cheese, I haven't heard from him ever since that Purgy-urgy came into play."
After disengaging from their private conversation, Twilight Sparkle leaves the group and approaches Caleb before making her decision. As soon as Twilight takes a deep breath, putting her hoof to her chest, and stretch it towards her front, she makes her verdict in front of the leader of the NFFE.
"Okay sir, we accept your challenge at the annual Purge in Manehattan," Twilight said in a calm tone of voice.
"Very well, your highness," Caleb said as he gave an sinister smile towards Twilight Sparkle. "Just remember all the guidelines during the Annual Purge. Once you reach Manehattan, you will not be granted immunity from the purge, even as a government official. You and your friends are to start at the Manehattan Police Station where they'll be dishing out some weapons for you to use at the start of the Purge. As soon as the horns blare out, you and your friends do whatever it takes to survive during the purge night. You all have four days to rendezvous at the Manehattan Police Station before 7pm at the 4th night, in which the Commencement of the Annual Purge will begin. Are we clear?!"
"Yes sir, whatever you say," Twilight said acknowledging Caleb's offer.
"Good. Blessed be our New Founding Fathers and Equestria. A Nation Reborn. May Faust be with you all," Caleb spoke as he waved his hoof goodbye before disappearing into the crowd.
"Ya feeling okay in doing this, ah?" Applejack asked the nervous purple alicorn.
"Maybe, Applejack," Twilight said as she turned to face her friends, while sweating in fear. "Though, I still don't trust those guys. I just hope we can find our friends in Manehattan before they do."
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Preparation; Meeting New Enemies and Old Rivals
After Twilight's friends packed up their bags for to trip to Manhattan, she and the Mane 5 show up at the train station in Ponyville several hours later to bid farewell to their loved ones. Before she went on board the train, Spike and Starlight Glimmer show up to bid farewell to Twilight Sparkle and pray that she and her friends will save as many ponies as they can during the 3rd year's annual Purge.
"Okay guys, I'll leave all of Ponyville under your care you two." Twilight told Spike and Starlight. "If I don't come back after the Purge, my Castle is all yours."
"I wish I could come too, Twilight." Spike said as he looked down at his claws out of disappointment.
"Sorry Spike, but it's just too dangerous to get involved in the Purge." Twilight said in denial. "Besides it's no place for a little filly or a little dragon."
"What are we going to tell Shinning Armor and your parents if something happens to you during the Purge at Manehattan?!" Starlight asked out of concern for the safety of her mentor and friend. "You said that we cannot get involved in it because of how dangerous the Purge is."
"Yeah well, since they told us that we have opportunity to save lives during the Purge, this may be our only chance to make it up for all the mistakes I made, two years ago," Twilight spoke with determination. "With that said, may have to fight for our lives in order to rescue our friends there. And one of these days, we need to take a stand against the NFFE to show them the error of their ways."
"What about me, Twilight?" Starlight asked in a worried tone. "I want to help save the ponies during the Purge as well."
"Sorry Starlight, but you have stay in Ponyville for your own safety." Twilight Sparkle said denying her prized pupil's request. "Remember how you made things worse when you threatened to manipulate time, starting when me and my friends first got our cutie marks? Not to be offensive, though."
After thinking about the what she did in the past, Starlight could not help but stand there totally paralyzed in fear of herself. She was told by Twilight that when turning back time using StarSwirl the Bearded's spell, Twilight gets caught up in rebellions and wars that were declared against King Sombra in one time loop and Queen Chrysalis in another. Upon learning of all of these terrible revelations, Starlight froze in fear, thinking that the NFFE has made people go to war against each other during the annual Purge. Before she could say anymore, Twilight Sparkle continues her conversation with Starlight Glimmer.
"There will be another time, Starlight." Twilight said. "For now remain here and wait in my Castle until we return. And as for my parents and Shinning Armor, please take care of them for me while I'm gone."
After seeing Twilight get on board the train, Spike and Starlight waved goodbye to their purple alicorn friend. At the same time, Twilight appeared from a window in one of the train cars and waved goodbye to her student and her number one dragon assistant. As soon as the train disappeared from sight along with Twilight, Spike could not help but cry in silence into believing that he will not see his purple alicorn friend again. Upon seeing Spike in distress, Starlight came up to the little dragon and embraced him in her hooves.
"It'll be alright, Spike." Starlight told the green dragon in a sympathizing tone. "If any pony could survive the Purge, it'll be Twilight and her friends."
Back at Canterlot, in Caleb's new office inside the palace, Caleb Warrens comes inside makes a call to one of his associates from a magical mirror on the wall. Caleb closes all drapes and windows, and then lights his horn up to activate the mirror. In just seconds, a blue fire appeared inside the mirror, revealing a shadowy pony figure in the middle.
"Greetings, Mr. Warrens, did Princess Twilight Sparkle accept our offer?" The shadowy figure spoke in an ominous tone.
"Despite the Princess' denial, her friends voted for our offer, yes." Caleb said as he made an evil smirk while looking over his shoulder for a moment. "I can't wait to see how will they fare against the purgers in Manehattan this year. They'll be arriving at the killing floor in just a few days before the beginning of the 3rd Year's Purge."
"Good work, sir. Now that they have taken the bait, we'll be ready for them once the Purge commences." The shadowy figure said, acknowledging Caleb's good progress. "As soon as the siren blares out at the start of the Purge, the Mane 6 will be in for a big surprise. Carry on, sir."
After the blue flame dissipated from the magic mirror, Caleb turns towards the window, opening up the drapes and looking out towards the city of Canterlot from his office. As he looked down to the ponies walking around the city square, Caleb started making a sinister laugh to himself before muttering his speech in silent.
"Just you wait, every pony. Once we get rid of Twilight and the Element Bearers of Harmony, we'll move in and take over the entire country, governing it under our totalitarian rule. Don't you agree, Queen Chrysalis?!"
"Why yes indeed, my dear!!" Chrysalis cackled as she appeared from the shadowy corners of Caleb's office. "Since we were able to capture and replace all three princesses of Equestria once again, I am finally going to get my wish of conquering all of Equestria, criminalizing every pony to fight each other during the purge; So that there will be less heroes for us to deal with other than the Mane 6 alone."
"I hope you're right about that, Chrysalis," Caleb said as he turned to face the Changeling Queen. "How are the Royal Sisters and Princess Cadence doing?"
"They're all sleeping like babies in their cocoons!!" Chysalis cackled.
"Remember our deal, I won't accept any payment from you until all of the Element Bearers are eliminated from the Purge," Caleb said reminding the Chrysalis.
"You can count you me, Mr. Warren!!!" Chrysalis cackled as she transformed herself into Princess Celestia. "That foolish Princess of Friendship will never know what will hit her."
After his conversation with the Changeling Queen, Caleb sees a disguised Chrysalis leave his office as she closed the doors behind him. For Caleb's point of view it is been clear to him that the Purge is all part of their plan to defeat the Mane 6 in a criminalizing death match, starting two years ago.
Two days later, 48 hours before the Purge, the train reached the station at Manehattan. As soon as Twilight got off the train, she was met by a crowd of ponies protesting against her in enacting the purge 2 years ago. Before they got any closer to the purple alicorn, a private security force of Royal Guard intervened and drove the protesting crowd away from Twilight Sparkle. In the midst of their uproar, one protestor was shouting at Twilight about his children being murdered in last year's purge. Another protestor was throwing rocks at Twilight out of anger for letting her daughter burn her brother alive during the annual purge. As more protestors started shouting out similar rantings, the guards used flash bangs and water cannons to disperse the rioting crowd, while Twilight's friends helped escort her to a nearby stagecoach. As soon as they all got inside the stagecoach, the driver moves away from the rioting crowd.
"Sweet Celestia, that was a close one," Twilight said trying to take a breather from all of that protesting at the Manehattan Train Station. "Though, I wish I can take back that Purge decree away from the citizens of Manehattan when I had the chance."
"Darling, this wasn't your fault." Rarity said trying to comfort the scared alicorn princess. "We were getting pretty tired of dealing with those ruffians ourselves over the past several years before the Purge came into play. After all, even heroes like us needed a break once and awhile."
"Rarity, it's been two years since I helped the NFFE enact the Purge against my own will. And what did they all experience during the Purge?!" Twilight said asked the fashionista while trembling in fear. "Let's face it, guys. We have just unleashed death upon their doorsteps. So right now, we have to make it up all those poor ponies that were killed during this crossfire because we owe them all. As soon as the Purge commences, we all have to do whatever it takes to stay alive in Manehattan and only kill out of self-defense while rescuing whatever is left of our friends in this war-torn city. Is that clear??"
After hearing what Twilight said, most of the Mane 5 nodded in agreement. After one hour later, the Mane 6 finally arrived at the Manehattan Police Station. The moment they got off, the Mane 6 were greeting by Chief Stablemaker.
"Greetings, your Royal Highness." Stablemaker said as he bowed down at Twilight Sparkle. "I'm sure you and your friends know why you're all here right?!"
"Yes, Chief." Twilight said acknowledging Stablemaker's question. "Caleb Warrens gave us an offer to prove our bravery and heroism for the annual purge in starting in 48 hours."
"And he did tell you that you will not be granted any immunity, despite being an Equestrian Government Official, right?" Stablemaker asked further.
"Exactly. Well, if you're not going to help us, what are you and your police unit going to do instead?" Twilight asked the Police Chief.
"We'll have this entire area completely sealed off from all pony access. We are not to let any pony in or out until the Purge ends at 7 am. Any pony caught sneaking into the precinct or any police officer caught deserting his or her post inside the station will be killed on sight." Stablemaker said explaining his role in the Purge. "Once the sirens blare at the start of the purge, we'll close the doors behind you; from that point on, you are on your own. So, stock up at our armory while you and your friends still can."
"Thank you, Chief." Twilight said as she sees Stablemaker salute her before moving on. At the same time, Twilight turns her head to face her friends at the Station Lobby. "All right girls, time to gear up in the Police Armory. When you're all done, meet me at the Manefair Hotel. We'll setup base there so that we can go over what we need to rescue during the annual purge."
After heeding Twilight's orders, the Mane 5 went on ahead to get their weapons for the annual purge. As for Twilight, she was led by the police chief to his panic room in his office. Before Twilight knew what was going on, Stablemaker uncovered a wall keypad on his right, which was next to a bookshelf near his desk. After he punched out the code, the bookshelf slid to the right, revealing a metal door with the wheel in the middle. As Stablemaker turned the wheel clockwise, the door's locks unclasped and opened up leading to the panic room. The moment Twilight and Stablemaker entered stablemaker, the purple alicorn's eyes widened with surprise. In the panic room, Twilight sees several AA-12s stored inside a gun cabinet across from where she was standing, a broadsword on her right, and a box full of canned food and a duffle bag on her left on top of a counter. Upon seeing all of this, Twilight was shocked that the chief was able to grant her a full set of weapons and food to survive the 3rd year's purge.
"Princess, if you have any questions, feel free to ask." Stablemaker told Twilight. "And if you're looking for more weapons to use during the purge, you know where the armory is right? Just remember to use them wisely."
After seeing the Police Chief leave her to continue with his paperwork, Twilight turns back to face the panic room. Upon using her magic, she grabbed an AA-12 and loaded it up with a drum magazine full of 32 shotgun shells. At the same time, Twilight took out 5 more drum magazines filled with ammunition from the gun cabinet and loaded it up into her dufflebag, along with 12 cans of food. Next, she used her magic to retrieve the broadsword, while still in its scabbard and strapped it onto her back. As soon as Twilight is done gearing up for the Purge, she teleported herself outside of the station before taking a detour around the city of Manehattan.
All around the city, Twilight sees ponies trading hostile glares at her. Some where intimidating Twilight with nasty body gestures, while others were selling all sorts of scary masks at their vendors. Upon seeing some of the masks they're selling, Twilight couldn't help but remember seeing them in her nightmares. At the Manehattan Park, Twilight sees some ponies ululating in the middle of the area. They were all wearing hoods and covering up their faces with insanity masks. Before she knew it, some huge, bulky dark-brown earth stallion with the reddish, brown mane came up to Twilight and gave her a frightening look from his face, nearly startling her. The stallion had blue stripes painted on his face, vertically, and bears the cutie mark of a Scottish Claymore.
"Hey, little princess!!" The huge earth stallion spoke in a burly tone. "I bet you wouldn't survive the 3rd year's purge. So, how about you and I go on a date first tonight before we attempt to kill each other in the night after, huh?!"
"Don't get fresh with me, punk!!!" Twilight said getting offended by what the stallion is asking for. "I'm not really proud of myself when they made me do this."
"It's okay, darling. I always wanted to have some fun first when laying waste to those purging pipsqueaks." The Earth Stallion spoke. "I'm grateful that you were able to let us wreak havoc on those weaklings for one night. And in return, I wanted to know if you're up for the challenge when the time comes. I supposed you know who am I, right?!"
"I take it that you must be Yeo Scotland." Twilight spoke in a intense tone. "A wanted fugitive who's convicted for multiple counts of homicide and rape in Manehattan and in Fillydelphia. Received a bounty of 15 thousand bits, dead or alive."
"Yeah, that's right!! You're in Tartartus, little princess. For I am the devil!!!" Yeo smirked at Twilight Sparkle. "If you don't want to go out with me, then be my guest. But be warned Twilight Sparkle, if we ever meet again, you better brace yourself, girly."
As soon as Yeo Scotland left Twilight alone, he made a loud burst of laughter before disappearing into the crowd. Despite that she was feeling a little shaken from what Yeo just said to her, Twilight moved on and took another detour at the "Rarity for You" Boutique in Saddle Row Street. As she looked throw the windows of Rarity's Manehattan Boutique, Twilight sees some of the dresses missing from the display cases. It's been too long since Rarity set up this Fashion Boutique in Manehattan. Ever since the Annual Purge, Rarity could not help but worry how it would affect her fashion business in Manehattan. After those two years, Twilight did notice that Rarity was half-freaked out when she learns that most of her dresses were stolen by a group of jealous unicorns who weren't able to raise enough bits to afford any of Rarity's dresses. As a result, the "Rarity for You" Boutique has suffered 5 thousand bits worth of damages caused by the purgers over the past two years. Upon seeing Rarity crying that her fashion business is heading rock bottom, Twilight could not help but feel bad for her fashionista friend in Ponyville.
Before Twilight could leave, she was met by Rarity's nemesis, Suri Polomare a.k.a Buttonbelle. This time, Suri has a gang of 5 accomplices who were offended by Rarity's generosity, who happen to female unicorns and earth ponies. Before Twilight could say anything, Suri stepped forward grinning at the purple alicorn in a malicious facial expression.
"Well, if isn't one of Rarity's closest friends, Princess Twilight Sparkle," Suri sneered in a sly tone. "How's Rarity doing? Is she here in Manehattan right now?"
"Yes, well if you think you're going after Rarity during the Purge night, I'm not going to let you do it," Twilight snarled at Suri. "Not on my watch!!!"
"You better believe it, Princess!!" Suri hissed in a hostile tone. "When I heard that Coco Pommel told the truth to Rarity about how she actually won the Fashion Week, it didn't take me that long to figure out that Coco betrayed me, OUT OF THE BLUE!!!"
"Yeah well, it was worth it. Besides, you're the real reason why we almost left Rarity behind after believing that she had lost in the Fashion Week, even though it was a BIG FAT LIE!!!" Twilight shouted aggravating the enraged earth pony mare. "Well, not that it matters anymore, we already forgave her for taking advantage of our friendship back then when Rarity was desperate in winning that contest, as well as Coco explaining everything revolving around Rarity's success."
"Just because she won the Fashion Week, that doesn't mean I'm going to give up in making the best dresses in Manehattan, apart from what Rarity made," Suri sneered. "You might as well tell her this: As soon as the annual Purge starts this year, I'll hunt Rarity down and beat her up so bad, that she'll never make another dress again."
"I'd like to see you try, because I'll fight Rarity's enemies too during the purge even its the last thing I'll do," Twilight snarled as she lit up her horn, while glaring at Suri.
"Come on girls, we've got two days left before the Annual Purge starts." Suri ordered her gang as they walked away from Twilight Sparkle.
As soon as Suri and her gang left Twilight alone at Rarity's Manehattan Boutique, she took out another sheet of paper and wrote down a list of enemies that she and her friends needed to watch out for during the Annual Purge. First, Twilight wrote down Yeo at the top of her list, and now she wrote down Suri Polomare. After writing down their names, Twilight put away her list before making her way down to the blocks one her way to the apart that she and her friends are holding up. Along the way back, Twilight sees various earth ponies sharpening their bladed weapons outside of their homes, unicorns loading up their rifles and other firearms, and the pegasi were sparring with each other in vigorous close combat training. Upon seeing every pony busy, Twilight made a theory that every pony is getting ready for the Purge in Manehattan. As for the shop owners, they were selling security installations, food supplies, weapons, and ammunition at a lower price. Twilight also saw other ponies setting up barricades all over their houses, in hopes of preventing any purgers from attacking them inside their property.
Just when she was about to enter the Manefair hotel that Twilight and her friends are staying at, she heard some immediate footsteps coming closer from behind. Out of reaction, Twilight casted a shield spell to protect her only to see a gang banger pony slam straight into her shield in an instant. Despite not slamming into Twilight, the gangster pony started laughing his head off out of amusement, leaving the purple alicorn grunting in anger.
"You almost got me there, didn't you?" The gangster spoke in a cackling tone. "Well, you're going to have to do better than that because there will be a load of us against only 6 of you. So, you better watch yourself Princess, or we'll have your head served on a plate!!! BON VOYAGE, CROUTON. MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
The moment the gangster turned his back on Twilight, she sees a street gang of 25 ponies all staring and taunting at her from the other side of the street across from her apartment. After a few minutes of staring at them, they all left Twilight a small white emblem patch on the street for her to look at before disappearing into the city streets. As Twilight used her magic to pick up the emblem patch, she sees that it had a pony skull with two swords crossing over each other. On the top of the skull's forehead, there is a black cross with a small writing below the skull; in which the writing says "Black Death" on the patch's label. Upon seeing a full view of the emblem, Twilight concluded that the gang that taunted her called themselves the Black Death Ponies. After she wrote their Gang name on her list, Twilight went back inside the hotel to meet up with the rest of the Mane 5. As soon as she entered the room that they're staying in, Twilight was able to greet them calmly.
"So Twi, do you have any idea who we're up against?" Applejack said in a worried tone.
"Well, according to this list that I have in my hooves, I did ran into some ponies that might try to have a piece of us during the annual purge," Twilight explained to the Mane 5 as she took out the list that had all the names of their enemies and rivals that will show up in Manehattan during the purge.
Upon reading the list, Rarity almost fainted out of fright, believing that Suri is bent on getting revenge for winning against her during the Fashion Week contest in Manehattan. As for Yeo Scotland and the Black Death gang, Twilight's friends could not help but feel a frightening chill crawling up their spines.
"Yeo Scotland, ah?!" Applejack muttered in a wary tone. "Ah heard rumors that he used to be in the Equestria Army until he went rogue during this one military campaign and was, therefore, dishonorably discharged from the Army for violent misconduct."
"Well, for the Black Death Gang, I heard rumors that they happened to be a group of hired mercenaries that get paid by higher class ponies just to do their dirty work on the streets," Rainbow Dash explained in a ominous tone.
"Well, enough of all that guys," Twilight spoke before getting to the point. "Right now, we're going to have to draw straws on who's going to defend the base and who's going to help me find our missing friends during the Purge Night."
"Well, I want to help rescue Rara and Babs Seed. " Applejack said with determination.
"Awesome, if Applejack is going, then I'm going too, Twi." Rainbow Dash spoke with eagerness.
"Excellent! Any pony else??" Twilight said as she asked Rarity, Pinkie, and Fluttershy.
"Um, I don't think can handle the Purge," Fluttershy said as she lowered her head down to the floor of the apartment. "I'd rather stay and defend our base."
"It's alright darling, I'll help you hold the fort here," Rarity said as she comforted the yellow pegasus mare in her hooves.
"Pinkie, what's your plan of action?" Twilight asked the pink party pony.
"I'll do some undercover recon, to see if I can get any information on where our missing friends might be hiding at!!!" Pinkie said as she put on a moustache while making a big smirk on her face. "This is going to be the most thrilling, search and rescue mission that we had ever experienced."
"Very well, every pony," Twilight said acknowledging all of her friends' roles in the 3rd Year's Annual Purge. "Any questions?!"
After a few minutes of silence, Twilight issues the following order to her friends before the Purge Night. "All right every pony, I want you all to rest up until tomorrow's purge. Applejack! I need you both to help me with the barricades around the hotel complex."
"Understood, Twi," Applejack said in eagerness to survive the annual purge.
As Applejack helped Twilight setup the security installations that she purchased from a nearby vendor, Pinkie took off to the streets to do some recon all over Manehattan.
Meanwhile, on the other side of Manehattan, a little dark-brown filly appeared from shadows of the alleyway, exhausted and hungry. She happens to be none other than Babs Seed who has a red mane and bears the cutie mark of a pair of scissors. Despite her living in Manehattan, some unidentified intruders bursted through the house of her family residence and brutally murdered all of Babs' parents in cold-blood two years ago and is now living with Aunt and Uncle Orange, for whom they both now live in a country house a few miles away from Manehattan. Ever since the Purge has been established in Manehattan, most of the Apple Family residing there have no choice but to evacuate the area in fear of getting killed during this gruesome tradition. As of right now, Babs Seed was accidentally stranded, unable to find her Orange relatives, in an abandoned area in Manehattan. To make matters worse Babs Seed is on the run from a group of purgers that are threatening to fillynap her at the start of 3rd Year's Purge.
"Oh Applejack!! Apple Bloom!!!" Babs muttered to herself while being scared shitless. "Please come and find me, I don't want to die!!!"
Author's Note
I understand that most of you pony fans are having hard time to believe that the Royal Sisters would let the NFFE carry out as something as cruel as the Purge too easily. So, I decided to edit this chapter by putting in a plot twist behind Caleb's scheming, having Chrysalis get involved in helping him enact the Purge by first impersonating Princess Celestia.
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The Commencement; The few hours of Bloody Tartarus
After 36 hours, Twilight and Applejack were able to finish setting up the barricades around their hotel, while the rest of the Mane 5 spent their time following up on the current news headlines from the Foal Free Press. Inside their hotel room, Rainbow, Rarity, Pinkie, and Applejack armed themselves with the weapons that they obtain from the Manehattan Police station. Rarity used her magic to retrieve a dual set of Blackhawk revolvers, a sniper rifle, and a rapier from the closet. Rainbow Dash picked up a long bow with a quiver of arrows to use for self-defense and a fire Axe. Applejack grabbed a heavy flail and a riot shield for close combat. Pinkie picked up a invisibility cloak from the closet to use while sneaking around during the Purge and a hand-held radio to communicate with her friends. As a matter of fact, the Mane 6 have 4 radios to use in order to stay in touch with each other.
As soon as the Mane 6 went down to the hotel Lobby to get ready for the purge night, the entire hotel staff evacuated the area, leaving Twilight and her friends taking care of the place while they're gone. When she barricaded the hotel with Applejack's help at lobby, Twilight uses her magic to shut the windows closed, covering it up with bullet-proof metal plates. As for the main entrance of the hotel, Applejack installed some automatic shutters to prevent the purgers from breaking into the front. At the lobby desk, they installed a control panel to open and close the shutters.
At the security room behind the lobby desk, they gave Twilight permission to have Fluttershy watch over the security cameras at the main entrance and the emergency exit in case the purgers attempted to break in. As soon as Twilight and Applejack are done with installing the shutters at the main entrance, they barricaded the emergency exit with wooden boards and metal crates stacked on top of each other. After every the barricading is done, Twilight gave Rarity, Pinkie, and Fluttershy radios to use while she takes the fourth one to use when communicating with each other out there.
With just 12 hours left before the start of the Purge, Twilight and the Mane 5 rest up in the lobby and watched TV for a few minutes before they had several hours of sleep.
6:50pm......
As soon as they woke up 10 minutes before the commencement of the Annual Purge, Pinkie Pie and Twilight's team left the hotel, leaving Fluttershy and Rarity holding down the fort. Even though everything in the hotel is all setup and good to go, Fluttershy still couldn't stop thinking that she wouldn't survive the Purge when rescuing their friends in Manhattan.
"Rarity, I'm scared," Fluttershy said while freaking out in silence.
"I'm scared too darling," Rarity told Fluttershy while embracing the frightened pegasus in her hooves. "But we all have to stay strong for our friends in Manhattan, do whatever it takes to protect our friends during the Purge. It'll be okay, Fluttershy."
"Nothing is ever going to be okay!!!" Fluttershy whimpered in fear. "I-I want my Mommy!!!!"
Before Fluttershy could say anymore, the TV started make noises that scared the living Tatarus out of her. As the unicorn fashionista and the yellow pegasus turned around to face the TV, they see a female earth pony news reporter discuss the annual Purge on broadcast.
"Greetings, every pony!" The Foal Free Press reporter spoke on broadcast. "This is the Foal Free Press. Those who are not participating in this year's purge a safe evening. And those who are releasing the beast, a successful cleanse. Good Luck, everypony."
After the reporter disappeared from the public broadcast, Rarity releases Fluttershy from her embrace and activates the console, closing all shutters around the front of the hotel at the first floor. As soon as the shutters sealed off the main entrance, Rarity remembers that Twilight and her team will be using the fire escape in the alleyway behind the hotel to help their rescued friends get inside the hotel. Rarity can only pray that they'll find Coco Pommel, Babs Seed, Rara, and Cheese Sandwich before the purgers could get to them. As for Fluttershy, she went into the security room to watch the surveliance cameras leading outside of the hotel.
"Rarity, if you need me for anything, I'll be in the Security room." Flutteshy said in a hushed frightened tone.
"Of course, darling," Rarity acknowledged. "I'll be on the lookout from up on the second floor."
Just when Fluttershy and Rarity took their positions, the P.A speaker makes its announcement over the broadcast wide screen.
7:00pm........
"This is not a test. This is your Emergency Broadcast System announcing the commencement of the Annual Purge, sanctioned by the Equestrian Government. Weapons of Class 4 or lower have been authorized for use during the purge. All other weapons are restricted. Not pony will be granted immunity from the Purge. Any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 consecutive hours. Royal Guard and Police, Fire Teams, and Medical Staff will be unavailable until tomorrow morning at 7am, when the Purge concludes. Blessed be our Founding Fathers and Equestria, a nation reborn."
After the P.A makes its announcement, the entire city of Manehattan started blaring out the sirens all over the area. As for Twilight's team, they found themselves in the western section of the city when the sirens blarred. Without hesitation, Twilight, Rainbow, and Applejack drew out their weapons before proceeding further downtown. As for Pinkie Pie, she puts on her invisibility cloak and takes out her radio while she makes her way through the alleyways, avoiding as much traps as possible thanks to her Pinkie sense.
"All right, girls," Twilight spoke to Applejack and Rainbow. "Remember, we have to stick together to survive during the night, while escorting our friends off the street. Soon, they will be merciless gangsters, deranged psychopaths, and paramilitary groups attempted to ambush us around ever corner. So, be on our guard, everypony."
"Ya can count on us, Twi!!!" Applejack exclaimed in a fearless tone.
"Bring it on, ya motherfuckers!!!" Rainbow Dash in a excited tone.
"And you, Rainbow Dash, don't try to fly around too much!!" Twilight warned her pegasus friend. "There could be snipers hiding in various tall buildings. Last thing we need right now is to draw unwanted attention. Now let's go, we got some ponies to save and no time to lose."
7:05pm.......
Somewhere on the other side of Manehattan, a scruffy looking unicorn with the big beard came up to the balcony with a 6-pack of cider in his left hoof and a sniper rifle being carried by his magic, along with an ammo bag. As soon as he reached to the edge of the balcony, the unicorn took out a bottle of cider and popped open the cap. After he placed the bottle a few feet next to him on his left, the unicorn took out his sniper rifle and aimed it at the streets down below him, with his ammo bag on his right.
In another suburban area of Manehattan, an earth pony stallion walks down the sidewalk carrying an executioner axe on his shoulders with his left hoof. He was wearing a black executioner's mask over his head and is showing skull tattoos all over his fur coat.
In eastern part of Manehattan, a group of unicorns and pegasi are walking down the city streets all armed with hunting rifles, flamethrowers, fishhooks, spears, and harpoon guns. While they're making their trek towards the waterways, the group was accompanied by a couple of hunting dogs, all barking and snarling at their surroundings. As for the group themselves, they're all making a lot of "Wooing" and "Grunting" noises while smoking their cigarettes.
At the waterways of Manehattan, a pirate ship sets off towards the pier; It happens to be a large galleon without any cannons mounted out on deck. Out on deck, there were Minotaur and Griffon pirates all armed with musket rifles, cutlasses, double-bladed axes, and blunderbusses. Most of the pirates were all shouting in gibberish tones, while some were cheering and saying "Yo! Ho! Yo! Ho! A pirate's life for me!!!" in the middle of the group. As for their pirate captain, he happens to be a huge minotaur with an eye patch. The captain happens to be armed with a long hunting rifle that is equipped with a scope and a sling, in which was hung from his left shoulder all the way to his lower right hip. As the captain steered the ship close to the docks, he spotted two unicorns wandering around the pier, armed with assault rifles.
"Ah, fresh meat, boyz!!" The Captain hissed in excitement. "Time for blood, ya scallywags!!!"
As the two unicorns spotted the Pirate Captain's ship close in on them, they attempted to aimed their rifles at the pirates, only to be shot down by an overwhelming fire from the pirate's blunderbusses. After firing several shots at the unicorns, the pirates see their bodies fall off the pier and plummeted straight into the ocean, leaving behind a spot of water filled with their blood. Upon seeing the unicorn corpses appear floating in the water, the captain ordered his crew members to collect their corpses and hung them onto the main mast of their galleon before proceeding down the pier.
7:15pm......
The moment Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash ventured through the city during the Purge night, they started hearing all sorts of distant screams and gunfire echoing throughout Manehattan, freaking the living vibes out of them from the inside. After several minutes of surveillance around the neighborhood, in Manehattan, Pinkie was able to inform Twilight's team that Babs Seed was last seen in the alleyways of suburban area west of Manefair Hotel. As soon as they take point, Twilight reminded Pinkie to warn them if there is any traps or groups of purgers nearby. Upon heeding Twilight's advice, Pinkie makes contact from her radio while hiding in the shadows inside a nearby trashcan.
"Twilight, there is several houses being barricaded with wooden planks and several net traps being placed in the back of the suburban houses," Pinkie informed the purple alicorn.
"Pinkie, did you find any purgers that we need to watch out for?" Twilight asked while holding the radio with her magic.
"Not yet, Twilight," Pinkie responded as she shook her head. "I'll keep in touch if there are!!!"
"Good," Twilight said as she acknowledged Pinkie's response. "Rainbow, keep on a lookout from behind and remember to fly low, so that the snipers do not see you."
"Understood, Twi!!" Rainbow said as she took to the skies while hiding behind the trees in the suburban area.
7:26pm.....
"All guys, remember what Caleb wants us to do," The unidentified pony said as he turned towards a group of unicorn purgers. "We are to lure Princess Twilight out in the open using some bait. As soon as we have her in our sights, light her up!!!"
As his purger group spread out, the unidentified pony happens to be a Red unicorn with a green mane and tail who is wearing a black hood with a psycho mask covering up his face. He was armed with a sawn-off shotgun and has old scratch marks all over his body. The unicorn and his comrades are all dressed up in black and red paramilitary uniforms wearing black-armored helmets and gas masks on their faces. The unidentified unicorn went to observe his surroundings when all of a sudden, he spots a little brown earth filly wandering around the streets in distress. As he used his magic to take out his hit list, the unicorn recognizes the filly as Babs Seed, who one of Applejack's younger cousins. Since he heard that Applejack is one of Twilight's friends, it gave the unicorn a grim idea.
In the same suburban area, Babs Seed was desperately trying to find another safe place to hide during the 3rd year's Annual Purge. After several minutes of struggling to do so, Babs failed to get the residents inside their barricaded houses her attention. Before she was able to leave the area, Babs was suddenly grabbed by a nearby purger from behind. The next thing she knew is that they covered up her face with a brown bag before dragging her to their gang leader. As soon as Babs was presented before the unidentified unicorn, he took off his mask revealing that he had a big scar on his right eye and a "X" mark on his left check. His mane was cut into a short stack of hair. Upon seeing the unicorn in person, Babs started freaking out while being tied up by one of his comrades.
"Hello little filly," The unicorn grinned in a evil look. "Nice night for a walk, eh?!"
"W-Who are you?? What do you want??" Babs Seed shrieked in terror.
"You are going to help me complete our killing contract!!" The unicorn spoke in a hostile tone. "The NFFE is offering a contract of 25 million bits for taking out Princess Twilight and her friends during the Purge Night."
Before Babs could say anymore, she was met with a gag over her mouth and was taken to a hangman's noose in the middle of the suburb area. As they prepare to hang the poor little filly by her hooves, the purging unicorn ordered his men to spread out and hide in the shadows next to the suburb houses while waiting to ambush the purple alicorn. Just when they setup their ambush points, the purging unicorn gets a call on the radio.
"Who's this??" The purging unicorn spoke while on the radio.
"Scorpion, this is Caleb Warren!" The voice from the radio spoke. "Are you there?!"
"Yes, I am sir," Scorpion said while responding to his radio. "We're preparing to ambush the princess out in the open."
"Good. If you take her down, hold out until the end of the purge before you're rewarded," Caleb said through Scorpion's radio.
"Understood, sir!!" Scorpion exclaimed in silence before turning off his radio.
Unbeknownst to Scorpion and his paramilitary group, Pinkie was watching their leader from behind a picket fence, while under her stealth cloak.
8:06pm.......
After slowly disarming every trap that Applejack came across, Twilight received a call from the her radio.
"Twilight, this is Pinkie Pie," The pink pony whispered in a hushed tone. "You've got a group of freaks waiting to ambush you at suburban area. They're all hiding within the shadows of the suburban houses surrounding Babs Seed and they have her tied up to a post with her arms stretch out wide."
"Pinkie," Twilight said as she responded to the pink pony on the radio. "I need you to bring out a decoy to put out in the open."
"Roger that!!" Pinkie whispered while under her stealth cloak.
As Twilight's team approached to a nearby house facing south of where Babs Seed is held, they hid behind a trash dumpster while a cloaked Pinkie took out a controller and directed a Twilight dummy with a remote toy car attached to its left, front hoof. Upon seeing Twilight Sparkle appear heading directly towards Babs Seed, Scorpion's minions opened fire with their assault rifles and with their magic upon the alicorn, unaware that it was just a decoy. After a few minutes later, Scorpion's minions came up from their hiding spots and went over to investigate the the dead alicorn. As soon as they got closer, they didn't see any blood come out of it. When Scorpion got closer to inspect the situation. Upon seeing their target, Scorpion's eyes widened with confusion.
"What the nelly??" Scorpion spoke in a questioned tone of voice. "It's just a dummy made out of plastic foam!!!"
Before any of Scorpion's minions could do anything else, one of purging unicorns was met with a sharp arrow piercing the back of his skull with the arrowhead coming out and puncturing his left eye. The next thing that happened is when the unicorn fell to his side dead on the street, with blood coming out of his head. The moment Scorpion and his men turned around, they see Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash opening fire at them in a heartbeat.
"Gotcha, losers!!!" Rainbow Dash cackled as she shot out more arrows at the purgers.
"TAKE COVER!!!" Scorpion barked as he shouted out orders to his men.
One of the paramilitary ponies drew out an axe and attempted to hack Applejack with it. However, Applejack grabbed thug's hoof that had the axe and kicked him in the stomach with her left hind legs, making him stumble backwards. Before the thug was able to get back at them, Applejack slammed the axe across his chest, making him bleed as let out a loud "DAH!!" at the top of his lungs. As the thug hit the ground, Rainbow Dash came up to him and kicked him in the chin, making the thug fall onto back before she finished him off with several poundings from her front hooves right on top of his head. During the time Rainbow beaten the thug to death, Applejack hurled the axe that she grabbed from one of the thugs earlier and threw it at one of Scorpion's men up front. Upon impact, the hurling axe slammed into the chest of one of Scorpion's men before he fell to side, groaning in pain as blood leaked from his wound.
When Twilight came right next to Applejack, she opened fire with her AA-12 automatic shotgun. Every Twilight's gun started blazing, it showered Scorpion's men with a powerful burst of shots. Upon impact, several of Scorpion's men fell dead on the streets after they were met with bloody wounds puncturing all over their bodies by Twilight's AA-12. As soon as Twilight was done emptying her magazine onto Scorpion's men, one of them drew out a sword and started swinging at the purple alicorn out of fury. Unfortunately, Twilight casted her shield barrier, blocking the thug's sword strikes before drawing out her broadsword from her scabbard. As soon as her shields dissipated, Twilight stabbed the thug squarely in the chest with her sword. As a result, the thug screamed in pain before he was met with a hoofpunch to the face by Twilight Sparkle.
Rainbow Dash unfurled her wings and flew straight into one of Scorpion's men in the chest, pinning him to the ground. Before he had a chance to react, the purging thug was met with both of his hooves being pulled towards his back by Rainbow Dash and received a strong kick in the back. Upon receiving such damage, Rainbow broke his spine before the thug fell flat on his stomach and passes out during the fight. As for Applejack, after she hurled the axe at one of Scorpion's thugs, the earth farm pony took out her riot shield and slammed it straight into the 2nd thug before he had a chance to fire his rifle at her. Upon impact, the thug's rifle fired a shot up into the sky unwillingly as his face got smashed in by Applejack's riot shield. After the thug fell onto his right, Applejack drew out her heavy flail and started swinging at one of Scorpion's men, smashing her third target in the face before he collapsed onto the street, followed by a "BLURGH!!!" noise.
As soon as Rainbow finished off 3rd thug, she sees another of Scorpion's men charging straight at her two a two-handed axe. Before he had a chance to strike, however, Rainbow grabbed the thug's axe with both hooves and threw a very hard punch at his face, knocking him out as he fell to his right side. When Rainbow moved forward, she picked up a nearby sword from one of the thugs that Twilight killed and made a diagonal slash from the ground all the way to up to her right at the 4th thug.
After shooting down 5 more of Scorpion's men with her AA-12, Scorpion ordered his paramilitary group to fall back and regroup at the other side of the Suburban. As soon as Twilight and two of her friends finished off the remaining stragglers, Applejack came up to Babs Seed and untied her from the post. Upon being released, Babs immediately hugged Applejack as she started wailing after being scared of getting purged by the criminals in Manehattan.
"Are you okay, Babs Seed?" Applejack asked her little filly cousin while embracing the terrified filly.
"Oh Applejack! I was so scared; you've had no idea!!!" Babs whimpered during her cousin's embrace. "The last time I was with the Orange relatives is when I went to a nearby arcade to have some fun. They said that they'll be in the next store, but when I got there after I had fun, the Oranges were nowhere to be seen."
"I'm so sorry, sugarcube," Applejack said as she apologized to her cousin. "But don't worry, Babs. We found another place where we can hold up until the purge ends."
As soon as Babs let go of Applejack, she sees Twilight appear right behind her. Enraged at what the purple alicorn did two years ago, Babs was about to charge straight at Twilight out of retribution. However, Applejack grabbed the angry little filly by the hooves before she could even lay a hoof on Twilight Sparkle.
"YOU INSENSITIVE, BUCKING IDIOT!!!" Babs yelled at Twilight while being held by Applejack. "Ah can't bucking believe you. Ma parents are both dead because of dat damn purge you enacted two years ago!!!!"
"Babs, she's not worth it anymore," Applejack said trying to calm the angry little filly down. "We all hated her for doing dat. However, we blamed the NFFE more than we blamed Twi because they threatened her earlier that if she doesn't have Manehattan purged, they'll insist on purging Ponyville and the other cities outside of Manehattan."
"But my most my friends, my family, and my teacher are all dead because of her," Babs snarled as she pointed her hoof at Twilight Sparkle. "Why can't we teach that imbecile a lesson when we had the chance, ah?"
"Because Babs, we won't be any different from the purgers in Manehattan or any different from the NFFE!!!" Applejack answered in a sharp voice. "Dis is exactly what dey wanted us to do; their main purpose of enacting the purge is to vent out all anger and aggression all in one night every year. But since we're supposed to be de heroes of Equestria, we have ta do our best not to let de purity of dis bucking purge git de best out of us, y'all!!!"
After a few minutes of silence from hearing Applejack's reasoning, Babs stared at the two elder ponies in shock and fear, while being carried on top of Applejack's back.
"Let's go guys, before more purgers show up," Twilight told the group as they escorted Babs Seed out of the suburban area.
9:15pm.......
Meanwhile, back at the Manefair Hotel, Rarity was camping out on the balcony of the second floor when all of a sudden, a small gang of ponies appeared from her left and they were all glaring at her in extreme prejudice. They were wearing white scary-looking pony masks that have razor sharp teeth, with fresh bloodstains on their fur coats. Amongst them, was another female earth pony that Rarity finds very familiar. The moment Rarity took a closer look at the earth pony, she takes off her mask, revealing herself to be none other than Suri Polomare!!! Upon seeing her nemesis again, Rarity's eyes widened with horror, while sweating underneath her mane, in fear that Suri is preparing to get revenge on her for winning against her at the Fashion Week contest in Manehattan. Before Rarity could say anymore, Suri stepped forward and looked up towards Rarity while still on the balcony of the hotel's second floor.
"Hello, Rarity!!!" Suri snarled in fury. "DID YOU MISS ME????"
"As a matter of fact, I do not!!!" Rarity exclaimed in horror. "Twilight already told me that you're going to purge us tonight. Well, don't even try!!!"
"WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT, YOU BITCH!!!!" Suri shouted in anger.
The Wrath of the Scotland; Suri's Vendetta
9:15pm......
"Well guess what, Suri?" Rarity snarled as she lifted her sniper rifle up to her right shoulder with her right hoof. "If it's the dresses you want, you'll never find any of mine here or at my Fashion Boutique in Manehattan because I already ordered the staff there to ship them out away from this city and put them all into storage!!!"
"It's not about the dresses anymore, Rarity!!" Suri snarled as she pointed her chainsaw at the unicorn fashionista. "The only thing I want right now is YOUR BLOOD!!!"
"Like that's ever going to happen," Rarity said defending as she pointed her sniper rifle at the raging female earth pony. "If you don't leave right now, I'll blast your face off with this badass babe right here. We already have this entire hotel secured for tonight's purge. So, what are you going to do about it now, huh?!"
"Don't get cocky, Rarity!!!" Suri snarled. "As soon as I break through your flimsy barricades, I'll........."
*BANG!!!*
In an instant, Suri's speech was interrupted when Rarity fired a warning shot with her sniper rifle. The bullet only hit the pavement a feet feet away from where Suri is standing at. Despite hearing such a loud noise coming from Rarity's rifle, it made Suri even more madder than ever.
"You know what?!" Suri shrieked. "Scratch that!!! I'll be back with more support later on and as soon as I'm ready, I'll take you down before the rest of your friends will show up, ensuring that there will be no pony for them left to save!!!!"
After Suri is done shouting at Rarity, she and her gang left the area, leaving Rarity standing there speechless for a few minutes. Right after Rarity took a few deep breaths, she used her magic to grab her radio and switched it to Twilight's channel.
"Twilight darling, I've got trouble that needs to be dealt with in a hour or two back at the Manefair Hotel!!!" Rarity spoke as she held the radio up to her face.
9:27pm........
After hearing what Rarity just said through her radio, Twilight ordered her team to head back to base to drop off Babs Seed. As Twilight, her team, and Babs Seed make their way out of the Suburban Area, Babs could not help but still feel disappointed when Twilight made the most biggest mistake during her Royal Duties at Canterlot. Despite realizing how Babs hated Twilight for enacting the purge, Babs feel into utter silence for awhile, until Applejack makes a statement towards her little cousin.
"We're sorry if the purge ended up ruining your family life in Manehattan, Babs Seed," Applejack said with sympathy. "Since the Royal Sisters don't have any other options to take control of the poverty and unemployment in one of Equestria's huge metropolises, we will have no choice but to fight and defend ourselves until we can find a way to end the Purge."
"So tell me, Applejack," Babs Seed said in a depressing tone. "How's Apple Bloom doing?"
"Well sugarcube, she was worried sick about you too when the purge was enacted in Manehattan," Applejack answered. "Once this Purge night is over, we'll have you stay with us at Ponyville, along with the Orange Family until the Purge is abolished from our country."
"Ever pony quiet!!!" Twilight said while whispering orders to Applejack, Babs Seed, and Rainbow Dash. "I hear another group of purgers from around the corner."
As Twilight and her team put their backs behind a nearby building in the city streets, Twilight turned her face around the corner to see an innocent pony mare get her head beheaded on a chopping block by an executioner pony in a distance. After seeing the mare's head come off, Twilight held her hoof over her mouth to avoid vomiting on the street pavement. As she turned towards the corner, Twilight sees the purgers leave the chopping block the headed up north away from where she and her team are hiding.
"What was dat ya just saw, Twi??" Applejack asked out of curiosity.
"Let's just say that the purgers claimed another victim," Twilight explained briefly.
Along the way back to the hotel while walking down the street next to the buildings, Twilight, her team, and Babs Seed see purged victims hanged, cremated, and strapped onto walls all dead. The ponies in Twilight's team all did their best to stay quiet and not to draw any attention from the purgers that are wreaking havoc from a distance. Upon seeing all of those ponies get purged in such gruesome ways, Rainbow, Babs Seed, and Applejack all realized that they can't save every pony during the night. So, they did their best not to get involved with any pony's business for it may invoke more life-threatening risks that may spiral out of control.
Later on, Twilight and her team came across a looted grocery store that had several broken windows and a door appear before them while walking on the sidewalk. As they all hurdled up to the wall next to the store, Twilight peek around the broken window. From inside the store, Twilight sees a familiar looter trying to raid the freezer of the store's ice cream and fruit. As Twilight turned around to order her friends to keep quiet, she turned her back towards the same window that she was standing next to, only to see some that was unexpected. When Twilight turned to face the window that she peeked around at, the same looter appeared right in front of her and drew out a Barbarian Two-handed Claymore. It was Yeo Scotland and this time, he was wearing a barbute helmet on his head and raider armor covering up his chest and left shoulder. The armor was made up of metal scraps that Yeo collected when he looted several stores years earlier. Now that Yeo saw Twilight in his sights, he raised his Claymore with both of his hooves and attempted to slam his sword right on top of the purple alicorn's head. In a nick of time, Twilight unfurled her wings and flew backward, evading Yeo's sword mere inches from her muzzle. As Twilight disengaged from her flight and landed on all four hooves, she drew out her broadsword.
"Time to say your prayers, girl!!!" Yeo growled as he raised his Claymore up to the side of his face before continuing with his attacks on Twilight. "In the Purge, we can't have heroes all the time. There's always going to be devils amongst us you and I"
"You're not the devil, Yeo!!" Twilight hissed. "You're just practice!!!"
"We'll just see about that, young lady!!!" Yeo grunted as he charged forward, with his sword pointing straight at Twilight while roaring in fury. "GRRRRRRAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGH!!!"
At the same time, Twilight charged forward and clashed her sword with Yeo's blade, with Applejack helping the purple alicorn gang up on the huge earth stallion. Upon seeing Applejack attack from his side and attempted to slam her heavy flail on top of his head, Yeo jumped away from the orange earth pony, evading the flail as it slammed into the pavement inches away from where he was standing. In retaliation, Yeo swung his blade at Applejack with his sword in his mouth. Reacting quickly, Applejack lifted her riot shield up to block Yeo's blade. However, the moment the blade hit her tower shield, Applejack yelped in shock. Upon impact, the farm pony slammed the top right corner of her riot shield right into her left eye damaging it temporarily. At the same time, Applejack was flipped over to her right side on the pavement. As soon as Applejack landed on her head onto the pavement, she was groaning in pain as blood came down her skull and from her damaged eye before she fell unconscious. After witnessing such strength from a wanted earth stallion fugitive, Twilight had just realized that Yeo cannot be beaten that easily even in a team with brute strength. So, Twilight teleported Applejack away from the fight and turned her over to Rainbow Dash and Babs Seed. After that Yeo continued attacking Twilight repeatedly with his Claymore, while raising her magic shield up front.
"Rainbow!! Get Applejack and Babs Seed to the Manefair Hotel!!!" Twilight ordered her pegasus friend.
"But Twilight........" Rainbow protested in fear for the safety of Twilight.
"He's too strong for you to deal with!!!" Twilight said while persisting the light-blue pegasus to move on. "I'll be right behind you!!! JUST GO!!!!"
Not saying another word, Rainbow picked up a wounded Applejack and Babs Seed with both of her hooves as she flew as fast as a speeding bullet, leaving Twilight dealing with Yeo Scotland alone.
"HA! HA!!" Yeo cackled in a malicious tone. "So, you'd actually sacrifice yourself to save your friends, huh?! Well, too bad no pony is going to hear you out anymore, since you did sent your own people to their deaths!!!"
"I may not be perfect as a Royal Alicorn, but that doesn't mean that I can learn from my mistakes!!!" Twilight said as she raised her sword with her hoof and pointed it towards Yeo, who is 15 feet away from her. "They may have threatened me to do it and get away with it, but I swear to the name of Faust that someday, I will find a way to defeat them, undo the annual Purge and turn the tables around against them at their own political campaign."
"I could've let you die in this city and all of my problems will be over," Yeo said in a hostile tone.
"Well, that makes you ugly and stupid!!!" Twilight said as she spat on the wanted fugitive.
"Let's end this!!!" Yeo said as he glared at Twilight with hostility.
"LADIES FIRST!!!" Twilight snarled as she glared back at Yeo.
The moment they both hear the bell ring in their heads, Twilight and Yeo charged forward and unleashed various strikes and parrying against each other with their blades. However, every time Twilight blocks Yeo's Claymore with her broadsword, she could feel herself slowly losing her ground in just several minutes later. Before she knew it, Twilight was met with a strong punch in muzzle, sending her falling to her side as she dropped her sword. When Yeo grabbed her by the neck with her hoof, Twilight was met with a hard kick in the head by the raging stallion, sending her flying into a nearby brick wall of the the building behind the purple alicorn, hitting the back of her head in the process. As soon as she landed on the ground and out cold, Yeo stepped closer to Twilight readying to finish her off. However, just when he raised his sword up above Twilight's neck, something caught Yeo off guard. It turns out that Twilight's eyes turned white and before Yeo knew what was going on, he was met with a very powerful beam of energy coming out from her horn, blasting him upon impact and was sent straight into the ground. After plummeting to the ground, Yeo fell on his back on the sidewalk. The moment Yeo struggled to get up, he sees Twilight get up first and launched a sleeping spell on the earth stallion, putting him into suspended animation. After getting struck by the Twilight's spell, Yeo closed his eyes and collapsed onto his stomach while catching some Z's.
"You may be physically strong, Yeo Scotland," Twilight said as she rubbed the bruise on her face with her hoof. "But not for resisting magic!!! Despite your defeat, I'm not going to kill you; I intend to collect the bounty once I bring you into the Police station after the Purge. When I do, I'll use the collected payment to cover up all the damages done on Rarity's boutique in Manhattan."
Right after Twilight summoned some rope to tie up an unconscious Yeo and gagged him with a white fabric covering up his mouth, the purple alicorn hears her radio beeping. The moment she used her magic to take out the radio before responding, she hears Pinkie speaking from her channel.
"Twilight, you've got the Black Death gang's attention!!! They're coming to get you!!!!"
Upon hearing what Pinkie just said, Twilight hears hoof steps marching towards her position. The moment she sees the Black Death gang in her sights, Twilight grabbed the unconscious Yep with her magic and teleports herself away from the encroaching purgers.
"Damn, she got away!!!" One of the BD gangsters complained.
"DON'T JUST STAND THERE YOU FOOLS!!!" The BD gang leader roared at the top of his lungs. "Find that alicorn princess and bring her to me!!!"
"Yes sir!!!" The gangsters acknowledged as they spread out to search for Twilight Sparkle.
10:07pm.......
Somewhere in the slums of Manehattan, Twilight reappeared in between the buildings in the alleyways, along with an unconscious Yeo Scotland. As soon as she got up on her hooves, she felt head hurting a bit and her nose is bleeding from her nostrils. Before she knew it, there was blood coming down from the right side of Twilight's head and dripping down onto her neck. After realizing how much damage she received during her fight with Yeo, Twilight figured that she needs medical attention very soon back at their hotel. However, Twilight finds herself still in the middle of nowhere, with just seven hours left before the 3rd year's Purge ends.
"That crazy bucker!!!!" Twilight muttered to herself in anger as she mentioned Yeo Scotland to herself, while ignoring the pain and blood coming out from her wounds. "Looks like they didn't call him the most dangerous, wanted psychopath for nothing. I better find a way to get to the Manefair Hotel before they find me."
As she picked up an unconscious Yeo Scotland with her magic, Twilight takes out her radio with her hoof to contact Pinkie Pie.
"Pinkie, this is Twilight," the purple alicorn spoke on the radio. "I need you down here so that you can help me get Yeo to the Manefair Hotel!"
"Roger that!!!" Pinkie said through the radio with determination.
10:50pm.....
Back at the Manefair Hotel, Rarity warned Fluttershy through the radio that Suri and her gang are preparing to attack their fort during the purge. Upon hearing what Rarity just said through her radio, Fluttershy grabbed a sledgehammer and went up to the main entrance, in case Suri and her gang breached the hotel.
"Fluttershy, this is Rarity!!!" The fashionista spoke through the radio. "How are you holding up?"
"I'm shaking in fear that this may be the end for both of us!!!" Fluttershy whimpered in terror. "What if Twilight and the others don't come back for us??"
"Don't lose faith in them, Fluttershy!!!" Rarity said trying to keep the yellow pegasus' morale in check. "We'll get through this together, I promise!!!"
Before Rarity could say anymore, she sees a stagecoach being pulled by more purgers. As soon as they stopped 10 feet away from the Manefair Hotel, 7 purgers came out. When Suri came out last, she was pulling out another pony by the chains. The moment Rarity took a closer look at the pony that Suri is pulling with her hoof, her eyes widened with shock for seeing the very same earth pony that was one of her friends in Manehattan. It was Coco Pommel.
As Suri dragged Coco out into the opened, the poor earth pony mare was covered in blood and has flesh wounds on all four of her legs. Without saying another word, Coco started sniveling with tears coming out of her eyes out of fear and in pain as Suri forced her on her knees before staring up towards Rarity at the balcony of the hotel.
"Coco!!!" Rarity shrieked after seeing her earth pony friend in such a horrid state. "What in the name of Celestia happened to you??"
"RARITY, HELP ME PLEASE!!! I-I DON'T WANT TO DIE!!!" Coco wailed before she was met with a punch in the head by an angry Suri.
"SHUT THE BUCK UP YOU LITTLE WHORE!!!" Suri roared while restraining Coco against her own will.
As Coco was sobbing on the ground while Suri looked up towards Rarity before continuing her speech.
"Okay Rarity, the time has come!! You come out so that you can face me one-on-one or you can say goodbye to your friend Coco Pommel as I cut her head off with this!!!"
Before Rarity could see what was Suri talking about, the furious earth pony mare drew out a huge machete from her back and held it up to Coco's throat. Upon realizing what Suri is about to do to Coco, Rarity no long as any other choice to make.
"Okay, I'm coming out!!!" Rarity shouted out loud. "Just please, don't hurt Coco."
After Rarity left the balcony, she went down to the lobby to deactivate the security shutters in the hotel. As soon as the shutters opened up, Rarity came out of the Hotel, with Fluttershy right behind her only to see Suri's hence ponies aimed their rifles and spears directly at the unicorn fashionista and the yellow pegasus up front. Before they could come any closer, Suri ordered to them to stand down and stay right where they are.
"Now Rarity, it's time to be purged in order to fulfill my VENGEANCE!!!" Suri screeched out loud in a malicious tone.
"I know I didn't want to do this, Suri," Rarity said as she threw her sniper rifle and her Blackhawks to the ground. "But since you way to far in hurting my best friends in Manehattan, I'll have no choice but to settle this the hard way."
As Rarity approached Suri for a duel, Suri lets go of Coco while still in chains before she approached Rarity as she drew out her rapier. At the same time, Rarity drew out her rapier from her scabbard before starting their fencing duels. After few seconds at staring at each other, Suri made her first move at Rarity. As Suri jabbed her rapier at the fashionista, Rarity responded by lifter her rapier to redirect Suri's jab attack away from her face. In an instant Rarity tried to shove the tip of her rapier at Suri only for her to dodge it by an inch to her right. In retaliation, Suri swiped her Rapier at Rarity in a horizontal slash only for the unicorn to jump away from her attack. As soon as Suri made another horizontal sweep with her rapier, Rarity swung her rapier from her left, with their blades clanging into each other. After parrying against their rapiers for more than 10 times, Suri thrusted her rapier directly to Rarity's throat only for her to dodge Suri's blade mere inches from where her purple mane is at.
On the other side of the street, Rainbow Dash was carrying an unconscious, wounded Applejack towards the Manefair Hotel, with Babs Seed walking right next to her. As they got closer, Rainbow's eyes widened with shock as she sees Rarity having a fencing duel with her nemesis Suri Polomare. The next thing that the light-blue pegasus saw was Coco Pommel all covered in blood and bruises and wrapped around in chains, with Suri's minions standing by in front of their stagecoach. After looking at both the purgers and the stagecoach, Rainbow had an idea as she dropped Applejack right next to Babs Seed.
As the duel continued between Rarity and Suri, Suri was finally able to pry Rarity's rapier right out of her hooves, sending the blade up into the air and hitting the ground a few feet behind the fashionista. Before Rarity could see what was coming, Suri kicked her in the stomach, making her fall on her back. Frightened due to her defeat, Rarity tried to back away while crawling backwards from Suri. However, Rarity did not get very far because she sees Suri's rapier pointing straight at her face. The moment Rarity stared at Suri in defeat, her nemesis couldn't stop laughing after beating Rarity in a duel.
"What a pathetic display of rapier dueling," Suri said taunting the white unicorn fashionista. "It's been fun purging the night away, but it always has to end somewhere, Rarity. Now say your prayers!!!"
Before Suri was able to finish off Rarity, however, a blue bundle of swift energy came flying right past Suri in a heartbeat and slammed straight into their stagecoach. Just when Suri turned around to see what was going on, the stagecoach tipped over. As the group turned around, they all screamed in terror. In less than a second, the falling stagecoach slammed right on top of Suri's group, crushing three of them into a bloody pulp, much to the horror and confusion of Suri herself. As for the other four, Rainbow flew around them so fast, that she conjured a huge Rainbow Tornado that sent the four ponies flying into the Manehattan waterways as they screamed their heads off from a distance. While Suri was startled by the sudden defeat of her gang, Rarity swiped the rapier away from her hoof and tackled the stunned earth pony mare, pinning her to the ground. As Suri got pinned onto the pavement, she was met by multiple hoof punches to the face by Rarity, while screaming in pain. After taking several more blows to the face, Suri's face was covered up in bruises and black eyes before she collapsed. Before Rarity could do any more damage while Suri is out cold, Fluttershy and Rainbow ordered the raging fashionista to stop at once as they both held her against her own will.
"Rarity, please calm down," Fluttershy ordered the white unicorn while holding her by the hooves with Rainbow Dash's help. "We don't want to cause anymore excessive damage on our enemies like that!!!"
"Sorry about that Fluttershy," Rarity said while trying to take a breather. "Well, I'm glad that you were able to help me deal with Suri and her gang just in time, Rainbow Dash."
"Yeah, sorry were late Rarity," Rainbow Dash apologized in a sheepish tone as she and Fluttershy let go of the fashionista.
"Hold up there, darling. Where's Twilight??" Rarity asked out of concern for the safety of her purple alicorn friend. "I thought she was with you!!!"
"We ran into one of those tough-looking purgers on the way here," Rainbow Dash explained to Rarity. "Twi stayed behind to........."
"I'm right here!!!" Twilight said exhaustedly as she and Pinkie appeared on the right side of the three ponies.
Behind the alicorn and the pink earth pony, they were hauling a wagon that is carrying a sleeping Yeo Scotland, much to Rainbow's shock. As soon as Rarity and Rainbow got closer to the two ponies, they both gasped in horror upon seeing Twilight battered and bloodied from her fight with Yeo Scotland. Before Twilight could walk anymore, she felt dizzy from suffering severe blood loss and collapsed onto the pavement, much to Pinkie and Fluttershy's horror.
"OH MY FAUST, TWILIGHT!!!" Fluttershy shrieked. "Pinkie, what happened to her??"
"She almost lost to that Yeo Brute pony, after helping Rainbow and a wounded Applejack get away!!!" Pinkie explained briefly, in a horrified tone. "She and Applejack both need immediate medical attention!!!"
As Rainbow and Rarity helped Pinkie carry a wounded Applejack and a wounded Twilight inside the Manefair Hotel, Babs Seed was able to release Coco Pommel from her chains before they all headed inside to recover from the three hour fiasco. When all eight ponies went inside with two of their prisoners, Rarity reactivated the security shutters to seal off the hotel's main entrance once again.
11:46pm.....
Meanwhile, on the other side of the suburban, Scorpion and his remaining paramilitary soldiers rearmed themselves before they continued to pursue Princess Twilight and her friends in the city of Manehattan. Unfortunately, due to their humiliation defeat when trying to bait them into rescuing Babs Seed went sour, Scorpion got scolded by an angry Caleb Williams for his failures while being spoken on his radio. So, he ordered Scorpion to hunt down the alicorn princess instead of trapping her during the Purge night.
"Man, that politician is such a pain in the flank," Scorpion muttered to himself as he and his men scoured the city to search for Princess Twilight. "All right men, sweep the area. As soon as you find the whereabouts of Twilight Sparkle, do not engage until I give the word."
"YES SIR!!!" Scorpion's men shouted as they acknowledged his orders before moving on.
Pirate Attack at the Manehattan Docks
From 11:45pm........
After the security shutters closed again, sealing the Manefair Hotel off, Fluttershy and Rainbow took Applejack and Twilight Sparkle to the medical room in the first floor of the hotel, along with Coco Pommel, to be treated of their injuries. As for Babs Seed, she helped Rarity and Pinkie Pie take their prisoners to the storage area and lock them up there until the Purge ends. Before they left, Suri wakes up only to find herself and Yeo's front hooves tied behind their backs and their hind legs tied up in a criss-cross. As Rarity stared at her earth pony nemesis again, Suri makes her speech in front of the fashionista.
"So Rarity, now that you took me and that brute prisoner, what are you guys going to do to us now??"
"That will be Twilight's decision to make," Rarity grunted while giving Suri a stern look on her face.
"Why's that?? Why won't you guys kill us already???" Suri asked, not even thinking clearly about herself anymore. "We've got nothing left to live for other than Purging on the streets and putting ponies out of their misery!!!"
"Because my dear, we don't want to earn a bad reputation among all Equestrian ponies," Rarity answered in a calm voice. "It's bad enough that one of our friends was forced by the NFFE to enact the Purge just to keep the overpopulation in Manhattan to a minimum."
"Well what about Twilight??" Suri asked offending Rarity further. "Why didn't you rebel against her even though she carried out the Purge?"
"Did Twilight really want to carryout something as despicable as this?? IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK?!!!" Rarity snapped at Suri. "At first, I didn't believed that she did the right thing to control the poverty and unemployment at Manehattan. Twilight was about to convince the delegates at Canterlot that the Purge isn't going to work well later on. However, the decision of enacting the Purge was already done because Twilight wasn't the only one being forced to do this by the NFFE; the Royal Sisters were forced to do it as well in exchange for the lives in Canterlot. Our anger over Twilight's erroneous decision isn't going to solve anything. We knew that she needed help in standing up against the NFFE in future someday. We are daughters of Equestria and Equestria's pony folk. So I can assure you that Equestria deserves a more better future than being put in a murderous death match to boost the country's economy. Therefore, it won't matter what kind of political hardships Twilight is forced to put up with, she'll always be our friend and our leader because we still have faith in her as the Mane 5."
Upon hearing what Rarity just said at the top of her lungs, Suri was left speechless. As it turns out, the Mane 6 refuses to give their country up to a group of cruel politicians that don't care about the lives of innocent ponies. Before Suri could say anymore, Rarity headed out the door leading outside of the storage room.
"Just think about the consequences of what the purge do to ponies in Manhattan and how it would affect your entire life," Rarity suggested before she closed the doors in front of Suri and Yeo.
12:05am.......
In the hotel's medical room, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash helped treat an unconscious Applejack and Twilight of their severe head injuries. Thanks to the medical training that she received from Nurse Redheart and from Zecora, Fluttershy was able to apply some first aid spray on Twilight and Applejack before using medicinal herbs to relieve the pain. As for Rainbow Dash, after Fluttershy did her work, she took out a roll of dress wrapping from a medical kit, inside a nearby cabinet, and wrapped around the wounds that all three ponies have received over the past 5 hours.
At 2:35am, Twilight and Applejack finally woke up from the medical beds feeling a bit groggy and dizzy from their last fight against the purgers. At the same time, Fluttershy started hugging Twilight, relived that she is okay, the same goes for Rainbow Dash hugging Applejack. After being embraced by their friends for a few minutes, both the earth pony and alicorn princess looked at the mirror adjacent to their left side. Twilight sees herself having a white dress wound wrapped around her head, a square bandage covering up her bruise on her right cheek, and a small bandage on top of her nose. As for Applejack, she had a white dress wound covering up her left eye and half of her head at the same time.
"Twilight. Applejack. How are you both feeling?" Fluttershy asked out of concern.
"My head is still pounding a bit," Twilight grunted as she got off of her medical bed. "How's everypony doing?"
"Well, it felt like ah got slammed by ah heavy tree branch in da noggin," Applejack groaned in pain. "What happened to ma eye, ah?"
"Sorry, but it got hit in the eye by your own riot shield," Fluttershy explained.
"Where's Yeo?!" Twilight asked as she remembered bringing in her prisoner earlier before she collapsed from her injuries.
"Rarity and Pinkie took them both in and locked them up in the storage room," Fluttershy told Twilight.
"That's good to hear," Twilight said to herself.
"By the way Twi, why did ya capture that bucker for?" Applejack asked the injured alicorn. "He tried to kill both of us ya know!!!"
"I need to bring him into the police station alive so that I can collect his bounty to cover up Rarity's insurance in her Manehattan boutique," Twilight explained.
After she told Applejack on what she's planning to do with Yeo after the Purge, Twilight turns around to see Coco Pommel resting on her medical bed. After Coco was treated of her injuries, she had bandages wrapped around all four of her hooves and a white patch covering up her left cheek. However, Coco's injuries weren't as bad what both Twilight and Applejack had received after their fight with one of the purgers in Manehattan.
"Fluttershy, when did she get here?" Twilight asked the yellow female pegasus.
"Coco was being used as bait by Suri to have Rarity come out and face her in the open in order to be purged," Fluttershy said while still shaking in fear for the safety of her fashionista friend. "If it hadn't been for Rainbow Dash, we probably will never be seeing Rarity again."
"What did ya do, ah?!" Applejack asked as her eyes widened.
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Rainbow laughed her head off. "You guys should've seen it, AJ. I knocked their stagecoach right on top of Suri's thugs, crushing several of them while all in one go and sent the rest of them flying into the city's waterways, distracting her from her duel with Rarity. THAT WAS SO AWESOME!!!!"
"Thank you, Rainbow Dash," Applejack muttered in a positive tone. "What happened to that rogue snake, ah?!"
"We locked her up in the storage room along with Yeo," Fluttershy added.
As Applejack got out of her medical bed, she and Twilight made their way out the door, only to see Rarity appear before them. Upon seeing the alicorn and the earth pony mare in an injured state, Rarity almost fainted and fell on her back.
"Geez Rarity, git a hold of yerself!!!" Rainbow grunted out of annoyance as she grabbed Rarity by the shoulders. "Our work during the Purge is still far from over."
"So Pinkie, who else needs to be rescued out there during the Purge night?" Twilight asked the Pink pony.
"Let's see here.....mmmm," Pinkie said to herself as she pulled out a list from her curly pink mane for her to look at. "Cheese Sandwich and Rara are still out there and it's 3:00am. We have like 4 hours left before the purgy-urgy concludes. Those two ponies are last seen at the docks."
"We're going to be making a change of plans here," Applejack suggested to the group. "Sorry Twi, but yet going to have ta hold er fort now since yer in critical condition; Rarity will be takin yer place now."
"Thanks, Applejack," Twilight sighed as she touched her bruise with her left hoof, grunting in pain. "I guess I should've thought twice before dealing with Yeo alone."
"It's alright, sugarcube," Applejack replied. "Ya did save me life back there; if not, ah would've received more than just dis temporary eye injury."
"Yeah, that Yeo prick scared the living vibes out of me too when he ambushed on the way back to our base," Rainbow Dash added.
"Don't worry darling," Rarity said trying to relieve Twilight of her few hours of life-threatening stress. "We'll be back before you know it."
"Good luck guys," Twilight said to four of her friends before they went to the fire escape behind the hotel. "Just don't let those purgers see you."
As Twilight see the four ponies leave the hallway before heading down the fire escape from the second floor behind the hotel, the purple alicorn went down to the lobby to stay on guard with Babs Seed watching through the surveillance cameras in the security room. At the Lobby, Twilight sees Fluttershy at the lounge area while watching the Purge on TV. As Twilight went up to the yellow pegasus, Fluttershy turned around to see the injured alicorn appear before her.
"So Twilight, what are we going to do once this Purge night is over?" Fluttershy asked in a terrified voice. "When I saw your head bleeding while you're unconscious, you almost gave me a heart attack. I mean, you don't really need to risk your life for us just because of what you did two years ago. We could still find a way to resolve this together than rather do it in a reckless method."
"The important things that a princess can do is realizes when she's made a mistake and fix it," Twilight said to Fluttershy as she explained her entire Royal background. "So as soon as I finish what needs to be done here after the purge, I'll find some pony that'll serve under me as my chancellor to help me abolish the Purge someday; likely towards an election event. I hope the other princesses will soon realize the error of their ways before its too late."
Upon hearing Twilight's determination to fix up the mess, Fluttershy couldn't believe that Twilight refuses to give up on her country and her fellow princesses. With that said, Fluttershy can only pray that Twilight will find enough political power to put an end to the purge in years to come. As for Babs Seed and Coco Pommel, they were able to hear Twilight's vow while they were sitting at the dinning area across from the hotel lobby. From what Twilight just said, Babs made a mistake in not thinking clearly about how bad Twilight felt when she enacted the purge against her own will. In her mind, it turns out that Applejack was right, the NFFE was just making ponies vent out anger and aggression in which will damage their reputation as heroes Equestria and the Element Bearers of Harmony. Despite Babs' anger towards Twilight Sparkle, she may need to find a way to forgive the ungrateful alicorn once the purge is completely over. As for Coco Pommel, she could only hope that Rarity will help save the other ponies from the purge before they get caught up in this violent madness.
3:41pm......
On their way to the Manehattan docks, Pinkie Pie put on her stealth cloak once again before scouting ahead. As for Rainbow, Applejack, and Rarity, they made their way down the stairs and into a basketball court only to see several ponies dangling from the windows from an apartment across from where the three ponies are at. As they got closer, Rarity almost freaked out after seeing those poor ponies get hanged on their necks, with the ropes dangling from the window sills. On their right, Applejack sees a huge bloody writing on the brick wall that says, "PURGE!!!" on it, much to Rarity's horror. On Rarity's left, she sees severe pony heads mounted on top of the court fence with blood coming down to the court floor.
"Oh Celestia, I can't stand such indecent horror unfold before my very eyes!!!" Rarity complained as she started to freak out.
"Quit being ah drama queen Rarity," Applejack said as she gave the fashionista a stern, annoyed look from her face. "Unless we can find any pony else ta replace yer sorry flank, der cannot be any holdin back from such violent terror. We are doing dis for Twi because she needs us to help rebel against the purge that they forced her to unleash. Do ya understand me??"
Unable to say anymore, Rarity felt paralyzed with the horrors that the purge has unleashed upon her and her friends. But in just a few minutes, Applejack gave Rarity her comeuppance to make her snap out of her fears.
"LOOK AT ME!!!" Applejack shouted as she slapped at Rarity across the face with her hoof, making the fashionista snap back into reality. "Twi needs us and we need her. Twi did told us dat the NFFE is up to something that may put her and the princesses in danger. We'll do whatever it takes to find ah way to expose da truth behind der scheming."
"Okay! Okay!" Rarity said trying to respond to Applejack before she gets worse. "I'm just afraid of what they'll do to my parents and my little sister if they were to get caught up in the purge too. Your right AJ, we need to find a way to expose the NFFE's evil scheming throughout the entire country before its too late."
After finishing her conversation with Applejack, Rarity leads the way for the earth pony mare and Rainbow Dash as they left the basketball court. As soon as they made their way to the Manehattan docks, Pinkie Pie appeared in front of them before making her latest report to the group.
"According to my Pinkie sense, there is a pirate galleon on the prowl all over the Manehattan waterways. The pirate crew commandeering it are mostly Minotaurs and griffins all armed with blunderbusses, musket rifles, cultasses, and hunting spears, all out on deck. They ambush and attack their prey from various docks. After that, they haul their purged victims and hanged them up onto their masts, taken in as trophies during their purge night. Rara and Cheese are last seen hiding inside a dock warehouse one hour ago."
"I'd say that we keep those pirates distracted while one of us find Rara and Cheese before getting them back to our hotel," Rainbow suggested to the group.
"Now dat ya mentioned it, there is a huge Flamethrower cannon mounted on an abandoned Dragon longboat inside one of da dock warehouses," Rarity informed the group. "It hasn't been used for more than 12 years straight!!"
"I'll go manned it, while you and Rainbow go rescue the two ponies." Applejack told the group.
As they made their way to the docks, the three ponies came across a couple of deserted dock warehouses. While Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow searched for Cheese and Rara inside the warehouses, Pinkie Pie bounced her tail up all the way to the top of one of the warehouses from above their position. Up there, Pinkie did her best to keep on a lookout for any purgers nearby while hiding underneath her stealth cloak. Inside the warehouses, there was darkness all over inside the building. Above them, Rarity could see that the lamps are all broken and for that, she was unable to turn on the lights inside the warehouse. So, the fashionista had no choice but to light up her horn to illuminate the darkness inside the warehouse, with Applejack and Rainbow stick close to each other while holding onto their weapons with their hooves or with their teeth. After searching through every crate and every abandoned ship in the warehouses, the three ponies weren't able to find what they're looking for until, one scared earth pony busted her way through the warehouse's front door and slamming it right behind her. Upon hearing the doors slam shut, the three ponies almost freaked out thinking that a purger has entered the building. As they raised their weapons up high, the earth pony that is lurking in the shadows stood there a couple of feet away from them.
"Applejack, is that you??" The pony in the shadows spoke.
"S-Stay back, ya varmit. We won't hesitate to hurt ya!!!" Applejack said giving the would-be killer a fair warning as she raised her heavy flail with her left hoof and her riot shield up in front of her.
Behind Applejack, Rainbow took out her bow and arrow and aimed at the pony inside the shadows within the warehouse. As for Rarity, she used her magic to take out one of her Blackhawk Revolvers and pointed it at the pony in the shadows, in fearing for her life. After a few minutes of aiming their weapons at the pony stalker inside the warehouse, the pony continued to speak to the group while they're trembling in fear. However, the pony did not make any sudden movements and stepped forward as she took out and dropped her fish hook right in front of the trio. As soon as Rarity shinned the light from her horn at the pony in the shadows, her eyes widened with shock, along with Rainbow and Applejack. The pony came out of the shadows only to reveal herself as Colortura a.k.a Rara. Only this time, despite wearing her clothes for composing her songs at the stage, Rara was now seeing covered up in blood that's not even hers and that her mane was a total mess. What's worse is that her dress was ripped to shreds after getting attacked during the purge night.
"RARA!!!" Applejack cried in surprise. "Oh neilly, I'm so glad yer okay!!!!"
Without giving it another thought, Applejack ran up to Rara and hugged her in her hooves out of relief. In return, Rara hugged Applejack backed during their embrace. After a few seconds, Rara pushed Applejack in an alarming rate before telling her about her warning.
"Please Applejack, you've got to save me!!!" Rara spoke in a panicked tone.
"Calm down sugarcube," Applejack said trying to sympathize the her frightened earth pony friend. "Just tell us, what is going on?!"
"I'm being chased by a group of pirates who were onboard a ship nearby!!!" Rara said in a panic. "I was able to escape from them but not before they took out some of my fans earlier. Please, you have to help me!!! I don't want to die!!!!"
Before Applejack could say another word, she and the entire group could hear some pirates cackling very loudly from the waterways outside of the abandoned dock warehouse. As Applejack looked outside the window of the warehouse, she sees a pirate galleon shooting innocent civilians at the docks a couple of meters away from their position. Without hesitation, Applejack took out the radio with her hoof and turned the channel to contact Pinkie Pie.
"Pinkie, are ya seeing this?!!" Applejack asked the pink pony through the radio.
"Yes indeedy!!!" Pinkie squeaked in fright. "Take cover everypony!!!"
4:19am.....
On board the pirate galleon, the pirate Minotaur Captain steered his ship past several more dock warehouses shooting down various ponies that are trying to make a run for it. As the innocent ponies attempted to flee for their lives, some were shoot in the back by the pirate's musket fire while others were impaled by the harpoon cannons mounted on the ship's starboard deck. Upon getting impaled to death, the pirates pulled their victims away from the docks and dragged their corpses out on deck.
"EEYYYAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!" The Minotaur Captain screeched as he took out his hunting rifle and shot at one of the fleeing ponies in the head, making her head explode into a million bloody pieces before she collapsed onto the pier outside of one of the dock warhouses. "Shiver me timbers, ye hearties!!! There is no escape from the err Pirates of Feral HornClaw!!!"
As the Feral Hornclaw galleon reached the dock Warhouse that Applejack and her group was in, they all went behind the metal crates as the pirates opened fire with their blunderbusses and musket rifles.
"APPLEJACK!!! GET ON THAT BUCKING FLAME CANNON!!!" Rarity ordered the farm pony at the top of her lungs.
Without saying another word, Applejack jumped out from one of the crates and climbed on top of the dragon longboat, in which was right next to Rarity and the group. The moment Applejack went on board the dragon longboat, she sees the flamethrower cannon at the bow of the ship, already loaded with flame canisters. Without further a due, Applejack ran up to the flamethrower cannon, aimed it at the galleon's starboard deck, and spray jets of flame at the ship, reaching out 30 feet from where the longboat is at. As for Rarity, she took out her sniper rifle and started shooting at the pirates while on board their galleon from her hiding place inside the crates. Rainbow Dash went out the side exit of the dock warehouse and flew above the galleon as she started shooting arrows at the pirates while hovering in the night sky. As Rainbow made a strafing fire with her bow and arrows, several of the griffon and minotaur pirates were trying to take cover as they attempted to return fire with their firearms. Unfortunately, because of how distracted they were when shooting at the light-blue pegasus from above, they were also shoot in the head by Rarity's sniper rifle while others were scorched with fire from Applejack's flamethrower cannon. It wasn't long before the Minotaur Captain activated a shield barrier from his steering wheel, warding off the flames, sniper bullets, and arrows that are heading straight for them. While the pirates are distracted by the three ponies, Pinkie helped escort Rara to a safer place behind the dock warehouse.
"Prepare to board, ya laddies!!!" The Minotaur captain announced as he steered the ship directly towards the dock warehouse that the three ponies are in. "We err gonna to plunder derr BLOOD!!!!"
"Heads up every pony!!!" Applejack exclaimed while warning the rest of her friends. "Here dey come, y'all!!!!"
As soon as the BloodClaw pirates rammed their ship into the dock warehouse, Rarity left her post to get away from the ship's mass before she leaped forward over another stack of crates behind her. When the galleon stopped moving, remaining pirates jumped off the ship, drew out their cutlasses and double-bladed axes and charged forward at Rarity. Then again, the pirates were met with another torrent of flame gouging out from Applejack's flamethrower cannon. As a result, the pirates were screaming in pain as the fire continued to burn their flesh while several of them jumped into the sea. Applejack kept spewing out flames at the pirates until their pirate captain took out his hunting rifle and aimed it at Applejack's face. Just when the minotaur captain was about to take the shot, a yellow blur appeared from Applejack's left and shoved her to the deck of the dragon longboat, evading the bullet mere inches from the earth pony's face. As Applejack hit the deck, she turned around to see a familiar yellow earth pony right on top of her, smiling as if he doesn't fear anything. It was Cheese Sandwich!!!
"What in da hay just happened, ah?" Applejack shrieked while asking Cheese as she was about to get up on her hooves.
"You almost got shot by their minotaur pirate captain!!!" Cheese explained as he let go of Applejack. "Don't thank me yet, we have to get out of here before more of those merciless pirates show up at the docks!!!"
When Applejack and Cheese looked down to see the pirates charging through the warehouse, they see Rarity and Rainbow Dash fending them off with their weapons. As soon as the Pirates closed in on Rarity, she put her rifle away and drew out her revolvers before shooting at them 15 feet away from where she was standing at. Rarity took down one Griffon pirate with two bullets in the stomach and a Minotaur pirate with a shot in the head. As the third pirate approached Rarity, she shot her one of her revolvers in the pirate's shoulder blade making him fall on his back while screaming in pain. On Rarity's right, she spots a Griffin pirate attempting to leap on her from a nearby shipping crate while holding a pirate Axe with its right claw. In less than a second, however, Rarity aimed her left revolver at the leaping Griffin and shot at his heart in point blank range. As soon as the Griffin's heart made a bloody explosion, he collapsed onto the wooden floors on his stomach before succumbing to his fatal wounds.
On Rarity's left, Rainbow flew straight into a Minotaur pirate and slammed both of her front hooves into his face. Upon impact, Rainbow smashed the pirate in the nose and mouth, with blood squirting from his nostrils and breaking his jaw in a heartbeat. After the pirate collapsed onto the wooden floor of the dock warehouse, Rainbow grabbed his Cutlass with her mouth and sprang at another Minotaur pirate over his head. Just when the 2nd Minotaur was about to swing his battle axe at Rainbow, the light-blue pegasus pounced on top of his head with all four of her hooves, slamming him into the wooden floors head first and knocking him out cold. Behind Rainbow, a griffin pirate took out his musket rifle and aimed at the light-blue pegasus. However, before he could fire at the pegasus, Applejack jumped off the dragon long boat and smashed the griffin from above with her riot shield. After breaking the griffin's skull with her shield, Applejack slammed the riot shield at a nearby pirate minotaur across the face, making him fall backwards and plummeted into the wooden floors. Before the minotaur could get up, Applejack finished him off with a heavy flail bashing him on the head making his head bleed to death.
Unfortunately, despite the three ponies fighting valiantly against the Feral HornClaw Pirates, they slowly started to getting overwhelmed by their numbers.
"Der's too many of those buggers, guys!!!" Applejack complained as she swung her flail at another griffin, breaking his wings as he squirmed on the ground in pain. "We need to git out of here, y'all!!!"
"I'll take care of that!!!" Pinkie Pie snickered as she took out a knife and ripped the fuel tanks with it.
As Rainbow, Applejack, and Rarity helped Cheese, and Rara escape the dock warehouse, Pinkie threw the leaking fuel tanks at the encroaching pirates,the fuel spilled all over the wooden floors. The next thing that happened is when the pink pony threw a flaming barrel into the warehouse.
"Every pony!!! HIT THE DECK!!!" Pinkie yelled as she ducked undercover behind a pile of rocks.
As soon as the flame barrel touched the leaking fuel, the entire warehouse exploded into a huge, living inferno. At the same time, the flamethrower cannons also exploded when Rainbow Dash aimed and shot one of her arrows at its fuel tanks attached to it. As a result, more flaming explosions erupted and destroyed the entire Manehattan pier, taking all of the pirates with it. When most of the pirates got caught into the massive fiery explosions, they all screamed in terror before they're all sent flying while aflame. Even the Pirate Captain didn't have a chance, for he got too close to the flame barrel when he stepped onto the leaking fuel, unaware of its stench.
When the flames ignited from the leaking fuel, it started a combustion that covered up the captain's face as he started screaming in terror, silencing him forever as the flames consumed him before the warehouse exploded while he was inside.
4:55am......
Back at the Hotel, Twilight and Fluttershy grabbed some canned food from their room to munch on at the lobby, when all of a sudden, Babs Seed spotted a gang of purgers show up outside of the Manefair Hotel at the front. Upon seeing this, Babs busted to the lobby in a panic.
"Twilight!! Fluttershy!!!" Babs spoke out loud, alarming the two flying ponies. "There is a gang of purgers outside of the Hotel. What do we do?"
Upon hearing what Babs just said, Twilight immediately went to the security room to check on the surveillance cameras. When she saw what was on the cameras, Twilight's eyes widened with shock that the Black Death Gang has finally come for her during the purge night. Even though she has two hours left before the purge ends, Twilight doesn't know if she'll survive the night since her friends went on ahead to rescue Rara and Cheese Sandwich.
"Twilight!!! We know you're in there, Princess!!!" The Black Death Gang Leader. "Since we have wasted enough time during the purge night. Your time has come to be purged and to be free from all of your sins and corruption!!! Men, prepare to attack!!!"
After hearing what the gang leader said, Twilight took out her radio with her magic to contact her friends outside of the hotel.
"Guys!!! It's the Black Death Gang," Twilight spoke to her radio. "They're going to attack our base to come after me. I need your help, now!!!!"
4:54am......
As the dock warehouse exploded behind the six ponies, they all jumped off the pier and took cover while underwater. In impeding explosion, flaming wooden debris came flying all over the pier, setting a few dock houses on fire. Furthermore, several of the homeless ponies hiding in the dock houses started fleeing for their lives as several of them were caught on fire and fell into the waters below the docks. After the explosions stopped, the ponies in Applejack's team came out of the water and climbed up to a nearby pier as they shook off all the wetness from their fur coats.
When the ponies turned around to see the warehouse burning after they dried themselves up, a flaming severed head came crashing down straight into the pavement behind the pier. It was the head of the Minotaur Pirate Captain. As his head was covered in flames, his mouth was wide open with an "O" and one of his horns was missing. Upon seeing this, Rarity almost freaked out while Rainbow Dash started cackling like a maniac.
"OH YEAH!!! THAT WAS AWESOME!!!" Rainbow cheered wildly as she thumped on her chest with her hooves while in mid-air. "IT FEELS LIKE I'M ON FIRE!!!!!!!"
"Calm down Rainbow Dash," Rarity told the excited light-blue pegasus. "We still have 2 hours left before we blow this Purge over!!!"
"Rarity is right, Dashie," Pinkie added. "There's no time to celebrate any parties yet; not until we take Cheese and Rara to our fort."
As the ponies made their way up the stairs and left the pier, Rarity hears a beeping noise coming from her radio. The moment the fashionista stopped in front of the group, Rarity used her magic to take out her radio.
"Greetings darling what is it?" Rarity said as she responded through her radio. In just seconds, Rarity's eyes widened with shock, while sweating underneath her white fur coat.
"WHAT?? REALLY??!!! Okay I understand. Please hang in there, darling. We're on our way right now!!!"
"Rarity what is it, ah??" Applejack asked as her eyes widened with concern for her fashionista friend.
"Applejack, it's Twilight!!!" Rarity spoke to the group. "She said that the Black Death Gang is preparing to attack the Manefair Hotel while she is still in there!!!"
Upon hearing what Rarity just said, the entire group all gasped in horror, fearing for the safety of their purple alicorn friend who is still badly injured several hours ago.
"Let's not stand around any longer!!!" Rainbow Dash told the group before she flew ahead of the group. "Let's get those ruffians before they get Twilight!!"
As Rainbow lead the way, Rarity and Applejack ran ahead while Pinkie escorted Rara and Cheese all the way to the hotel.
5:09am......
After Twilight told Rarity what was going on back at the Manefair Hotel, she took out her AA-12 automatic shotgun and reloaded it with another drum magazine. As soon as the alicorn went back to the hotel lobby, she drew out her broadsword with her hoof and used her magic to move the couch up in front of the main entrance to use as cover.
"Fluttershy, get Coco and Babs up to our room," Twilight ordered the yellow pegasus, starling her. "If you don't hear from me in the next hour, don't come out of that room until the sirens start blaring at the end of the purge."
"O-Okay!!" Fluttershy whimpered as she lead the two earth ponies up the elevator. "Twilight, please be careful!!!"
After Fluttershy, Coco, and Babs Seed went into the elevator, its doors closed as they all went up to their floor. As for Twilight, she could hear evil cackling coming from outside of the hotel's main entrance. The moment Twilight went to the security office, she sees some of the BD gang members haul in a ballista aiming at the security shutters at the main entrance. It was a giant crossbow-like artillery weapon that is moving on four wooden wheels. They loaded the ballista up with a Missile that happens to be a huge arrow that is attached to a metal chain coming from the back of the siege weapon. The Missile had four hooks sticking in the back of its huge arrowhead. Behind the ballista, one of the gangsters is hold onto the level that'll be used to fire the siege weapon. Upon seeing this, Twilight's eyes widened in terror, assuming that their ballista will be used to take down the security shutters in a matter of minutes. As Twilight looked closer at the cameras showing the BD Ballista, she also sees the gangsters readying their weapons as they formed up in a line formation behind their missile siege weapon. Not wanting to stand around any longer, Twilight teleported herself back to the hotel lobby and aimed her AA-12 at the main entrance with her magic.
Outside of the hotel, the Black Death Gang Leader shows up right next to the ballista; he was a black unicorn dressed up in a green, grotesque-like suit, wearing a sickly, green gas mask on his face with a red cape and hood covering most of it up. Both his suit and his gas mask had disease-like features all over it and it was covered up in blood and light-green goo. Despite how disgusting their leader is while wearing that nasty costume, the rest of his fellow gang members did their best not to gross out, for it will disrespect the pride of their gang leader and his ambitions. Before the artillery crews could fire their ballista, the gang leader decided to make his announcement first before breaching the Manefair hotel and attempting to purge to purple alicorn of her sins.
"All right every pony, this is it," The BD Gang Leader announced as he spoke out loud to the group. "The end of the 3rd Year's Annual Purge is nigh!!! But despite that we have captured 35 homeless ponies to be purged by our contractors, we all still have one trick up on our sleeves before the purge concludes. Once we pull down those shutters from the entrance of the Manefair Hotel, we are to secure the place, loot the entire area, capture Princess Twilight for ransom, and kill any other pony that's not one of us in the area. Are you all with me?!!!"
Upon hearing their leader's speech, the entire Black Death Gang have all cheered in agreement as they stood by and getting ready to strike.
5:23am......
Behind the Manefair Hotel, Applejack and her group were able to reach the fire escape in the alleyways. Above the fire escape, they see one of the windows opened with a crack in its sills. As soon as they got closer, Rarity and Pinkie helped get Rara up the fire escape first, with Rainbow Dash flying up to the balcony of where the fire escape ladder is and helped pulled both earth ponies up to the window behind her. When Rara went up the fire escape, Rainbow lifted the open window up with her hooves, letting the frightened earth pony get inside the Manefair Hotel. As for Pinkie and Cheese, the two party ponies both walked up the wall with crawling spiders, without using the fire ladder, before they went into the window behind Rainbow Dash. As for Rarity, after she helped Applejack climb up the fire escape and into the hotel, she teleported herself right next to Rainbow Dash. Once every pony was inside the hotel, Rainbow closed the windows behind her before heading back to the hotel lobby, praying that Twilight will still be there.
From outside of the hotel, the BD leader gave the word to fire the ballista at the security shutters barricading the main entrance. The moment they fired their ballista, it shot out the missile and upon impact, the missile's arrowhead penetrated the shutters, with the huge arrow appearing behind the shutters with its grapples latched onto the surrounding the gaping hole that the missile just made. As soon as she sees it, Twilight started to pour all of her concentration at the main entrance, preparing to fire at will. In just seconds, Twilight sees the ballista's missile pulling the shutters away from the hotel's main entrance, making very loud, crumpling noises. From outside of the hotel, the ballista crew members were turning the crank, hauling the chain attached to the missile back to where they are standing at.
"Okay, guys!!!" Twilight shouted in a Royal Canterlot voice. "If it's me you want, come and eat my shitty lead!!!!"
Just before the shutters came down, Twilight's friends appeared right beside her. Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash took their positions all over the hotel lobby, concentrating their weapons directly at the main entrance, while Cheese and Rara went up the elevator recover.
"Are you all ready to finish this?!!" Twilight asked as she turned to face her friends before meeting the BD gang head on.
"Yeah!!! Bring it on, you wretched buckers!!!" Rainbow hissed as she aimed her bow and arrow at the entrance.
"Time ta slam those purgers up der flanks in ta next week, y'all!!!" Applejack sneered as she raised her riot shield and flail with her hooves.
"It's time to teach those ruffians not to mess with my dresses!!!" Rarity cackled as she aimed her sniper rifle at the main entrance.
"All right guys, we are to hold them off here until the clock strikes 7:00am!!!" Twilight told her friends as she sees the shutters come down completely when the ballista crew pulled it down with their chain-attached missile.
As soon as the shutters tore apart, taking down the main entrance with it, the Black Death Gang came charging through the hotel like a never-ending tide. The moment the Mane 5 sees the purgers in their sights, they all shouted as Twilight, Rarity, and Rainbow opened fire with their ranged weapons while Applejack slammed her riot shield into several of the gangsters and bashed them aggressively with her flail.
In an instant, Twilight blasted 4 gangsters with her AA-12, delivering shots that made their heads explode into a bloody mess. After Twilight ran out of ammo from her automatic shotgun, she flew up into the air and raised her magic shields to ward off returning fire from the gang's combat rifles, their hurling spears, and from their magic. In retaliation, Twilight shot out a huge ray of magic that disintegrated several more gangsters in one go. As soon as she landed on her hooves, Twilight drew out her broadsword and swiped at them up front. However, despite her fighting valiantly, Twilight could still feel a bit of pain and blood coming out from her head, hindering a bit of her concentration. It did not change the fact that Twilight's crippled state could hinder her ability to fight back right now. As she blocked one of the gang's sword with her blade, Twilight was met with a hoof grip on top of her head, making the pain from her wound swell up again and her blood flowing down to her right eye, ruining her eye contact. But before the gangster was able to finish Twilight off, Rainbow slammed into him with the shaft of her fire axe before she hacked his head off with it.
As soon as Rainbow chopped the gangster's head off with her axe, she swung it from underneath and slammed it into the groin of another BD gang member. Just when the gangster started screaming in pain, he was met with a strong hoof punch to the face by the female light-blue pegasus, knocking him over on his back before passing out. The moment Rainbow turned around, another gangster shows up and attempted to chop her up with her sword. However, Rainbow reacted quickly enough to slam both of her hind legs into the gangster's stomach, sending him flying as he tumbled over the reception before blacking out.
When Applejack slammed her riot shield into the BD gang members, she swung it at three of them and sent them flying out of the main entrance like they were rag dolls being hurled in different directions. As soon as one BD member attempted to thrust his spear at Applejack, the farm pony responded by slamming her flail at the side of his head, making him collapse on the floor with blood gushing out of it. As three more BD members charged forward at the farm pony, Applejack hit her front hoof to the floor and did a 360 degree spin with both of her hind legs, kicking them all in the face and knocking them all out cold with blood spilling from their mouths. As Applejack got up on all fours, she jumped up in mid-air and kicked one pegasus gangster in the stomach with her left hind leg, sending him flying straight up to the ceiling above the hotel lobby. By the time Applejack hit the floor again, she pounced onto a earth pony gangster with both of her front hooves, slamming him to the floor and leaving behind a big crack on the ground.
As Twilight disengaged from her last fight with the same gangster that almost finished her off, she teleported herself behind another couch, right where Rarity is, and hid behind cover while the fashionista fired several more shots with her sniper rifle. When Rarity opened fire with her sniper rifle, she made sure to make every shot count. After blasting 5 gangster ponies with her rifle, Rarity ran out of ammo for it and tossed it away. However, before any of the Black Death members are able to close in on Rarity, she drew out both of her blackhawk revolvers and blasted them with it as she unloaded a dozen bullets in close proximity.
Pinkie Pie took out a box full of cupcakes and hurled it at the oncoming purgers from the reception desk. Despite the cupcakes made for dessert, one of the purgers lost concentration towards the pink pony as he was met with barrage of pastries that covered up his face before he collapsed onto the ground. As for the other purgers, after getting pelted by Pinkie's cupcakes, they all fled like frightened little rats, dropping all their weapons and screaming like little girls!!!
"Bet you can't purge my cupcakes, losers!!!!" Pinkie laughed hysterically as she continued to hurl more cupcakes at the purgers. Before she knew it, Pinkie started looking up to the ceiling sideways, made a rooster face and started making a very loud, screeching crow that caused an ear-rape effect. "COCKA-DOODLE-DOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
Upon seeing the pink pony causing such comedic, mischief with her party pastries, the gang leader marched forward towards where Pinkie Pie is, unaware of his presence, while raising his scythe with his magic and attempting to chop the pink pony's head off from her pink body.
"I hate parties!!!" The gang leader mumbled to himself as he prepared to attack Pinkie head on.
But before he could attack Pinkie while she wasn't looking, the gang leader was met with something that was randomly unpredictable. The moment the gang leader was 10 feet closer to Pinkie Pie, he felt a pressure plate coming from his front hooves, which is underneath the hotel carpet. As the pressure plate started making a creaking noise in the middle of the battlefield inside the hotel, a big spring appeared, sending the gang leader straight up to the ceiling. As he took flight upwards, the gang leader started screaming like as he hit his head on the ceiling before he crashed into the floor completely dazed. While incapacitated on the ground, the gang leader started seeing pink ponies running across his head endlessly. The next thing he knew is when Pinkie appeared right above his face, smiling in a exaggerating facial expression
"Hey purgy-gangy!!!" Pinkie Pie said as she stared at the dazed gang leader while unable to do anything. "How did you like my pressure spring contraption??!!!"
As Pinkie started laughing at the dazed gang leader, she was suddenly met with two hooves gripping onto her neck and the next thing she knew was that the pink pony was thrown into a nearby couch where Twilight and Rarity are taking cover at. Upon impact, the pink pony slammed her back into the furniture, making it tumble over in front of the purple alicorn and the unicorn fashionista. As a result, both ponies yelped as they see Pinkie hit the ground hard before she was unconscious. At the same time, the couch flipped over upside down with the unconscious party pony underneath it and its mass hitting Pinkie in the back. Upon seeing this, Rarity and Twilight both screamed as they see Pinkie Pie hurt her back while she blacked out.
"NO!!! PINKIE PIE!!!!" The two ponies shrieked as they went to Pinkie's side while under a state of panic.
"I always find most of her parties quite annoying to begin with," The BD gang leader smirked as he circled around the Rarity and Twilight. "Are you two ready to get purged??"
"I wish!!!" Rarity said as she was taken back by what the gang leader just said.
"Rarity, we only got 15 minutes left, let's end this once and for all!!!" Twilight told Rarity as she drew out her broadsword.
"Darling, you're too injured to be fighting anymore," Rarity complained, concerning for the health of her purple alicorn friend. "I'll take care of him."
"No, Rarity," Twilight protested against Rarity's suggestions. "I'm the one who started this foolish bloodbath. I'll be on the one to end it!!!"
"I like to see you try, Princess!!!!" The Black Death Gang Leader hissed as he charged forward at the two ponies.
Before Rarity could see what was going on, Twilight started lashing out her broadsword at the gang leader as he tried to raise his scythe up high to hold his ground against the alicorn princess. In an instant, Twilight made her move against the gang leader as she swung her sword at his head only to parry it with the scythe's shaft underneath its blade. Out of response, the gang leader made a sweeping horizontal arc at the purple alicorn only for her to teleport herself out of his range. As soon as Twilight appeared behind the gang leader, she lunged her sword at his face only for him to dodge it by an inch of his red hood. In less than a second, the gang leader swung his scythe in a vertical low-to-high strike from underneath Twilight's belly. Upon barely seeing it, Twilight lifted her left front and hind legs off the ground and flipped over to her right, just missing the scythe's blade by mere inches from where she was standing.
Suddenly without warning, the gang leader smirked at the purple alicorn. At the same time, Twilight's eyes widened with shock at seeing something that is not what she was expecting. The gang leader's scythe rotated its blade towards Twilight's exposed back while it was in mid-air thanks to his magic. In less than a second, the scythe slammed its blade right on top of Twilight's back piercing her exposed flesh and missing her spine inches from where it struck. Upon feeling the blade ramming into her back, the purple alicorn screamed as blood came out from her newly fresh wound and from her mouth. As the rest of her friends turned around to see Twilight in a more critical condition, their eyes widened with horror as they witness their purple alicorn friend collapsed onto the hotel floor onto her stomach.
"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! TWILIGHT!!!!!!" The Mane 5 cried in fear for Twilight.
"YES!!! Capture or not, you should be grateful that you'll be free from your tainted soul, Princess," The Gang Leader cackled. "Thanks for letting us purge in this year's tradition. Blessed be our founding father's and Equestria. A nation reborn."
As Twilight was struggling on the ground while trying to maintain her consciousness while being critically injured in the back and from her severe head injuries, she looked up only to see the gang leader take out a handgun with his magic and pointed it directly at her face. However, before he could finish Twilight Sparkle off, he was met with a very loud "Bang" that came echoing throughout the entire hotel lobby. It came from the direction of where Rarity was standing at. In such a surprising display, the Mane 4 and the remaining Black Death gang see Rarity aiming a revolver at the gang leader. It turns out that Rarity shot the gang leader in the head without hesitation. As a result, a splotch of blood came out of the gang leader's forehead before he fell to his left side. After seeing their leader die before their very eyes, the rest of the gangsters attempted to go after Rarity only to hear the sirens blare out all over the area. This can only mean one thing: The 3rd Year's Purge has concluded at 7:00am.
Upon hearing the sirens that concluded the Purge, the remaining Black Death Gang Members carried all of their wounded out as they leave the hotel altogether. As for the Mane 5, Rarity issued the following orders to the rest of the group.
"Rainbow Dash, get Pinkie and Twilight to the hospital!!!" Rarity told the light-blue pegasus. "They both need immediate medical attention."
"I'm on it!!!" Rainbow acknowledged as she unfurled her wings and zoomed straight out of the hotel entrance, grabbing both the critically injured purple alicorn and the unconscious pink earth pony with her to the hospital.
As they see Rainbow leave the hotel with Twilight and Pinkie in tow, Fluttershy came out from the elevator with Coco, Babs, Rara, and Cheese Sandwich following her from behind.
"Um Rarity?" Fluttershy asked in a scared tone. "Is it all over?!"
"Yes my darling," Rarity told the yellow pegasus. "We're safe from the purge, for now."
"I wish I hadn't came here in Manehattan," Fluttershy muttered to herself in fear. "Even if we did, I hope we can find a way to end this nightmare before it gets worse."
"Don't worry darling," Rarity replied as she comforted the frightened pegasus. "We'll work something out; I'm sure of it."
"Hey, y'all!!" Applejack shouted at the fashionista and Fluttershy while off screen. "Help me git the prisoners to the police station, y'all."
"I'm on it Applejack!!!" Rarity acknowledged as she head down to the storage room with Applejack.
Back in the storage room, Yeo finally woke up from his beauty sleep, feeling totally groggy and disoriented. The next thing Yeo saw was that he finds himself inside a storage room tied up in chains with a white gag covering up his mouth. Across from where he was, Yeo sees Suri Polomare muttering to herself in self-pity and misunderstood while being tied up as well. Before he struggled to ask what is going on here, the doors open before Yeo and Suri. Just when Yeo could see what was happening, he was immediately dragged by Applejack, Rara, and Cheese. As for Suri, she was escorted by Coco, Fluttershy, and Rarity out of the hotel to send her away from the place for good.
"Don't tell me, the purge is over already??!!!" Suri complained towards Rarity in anger that she could not get her revenge over the fashionista.
"Sorry darling, but now that the purge is over, there will be no more killing!!!" Rarity snapped as she glared at Suri with extreme prejudice. "Now get the buck out of my sight!!!"
After shouting at Suri, Rarity pointed her hoof towards the shattered main entrance of the hotel, ordering the hostile earth mare to leave at once. As soon as Suri disappeared into the sunlight, Rarity turned around and helped Applejack and the others escort an incapacitated Yeo Scotland to the police station to collect the bounty.
Meanwhile back at Canterlot inside Caleb's office, Caleb Warrens received word that Scorpion failed to kill Twilight Sparkle and her friends during the 3rd Year's Purge Night. As a result, Caleb pulled out a revolver from his fur coat with his magic and shot one of Scorpion's men in the head, ending his life out of anger and disappointment due to Scorpion's incompetence.
"I am very disgusted that you failed to kill that Princess during the Purge night, Scorpion!!!" Caleb snarled as he glared at the mercenary sergeant in a hostile tone. "What do you got to say for yourself???"
Despite Scorpion's stammering, Caleb raised his right hoof up and demanded silence.
"I don't want to hear your excuses mister," Caleb hissed as he slammed his hoof onto his desk. "You either hunt down and kill Twilight Sparkle during the next purge night or I find someone who will. Do you understand me?!!"
"Y-Yes sir!!!" Caleb stammered as he saluted Caleb before leaving his office, along with 3 of his remaining soldiers.
After Scorpion left Caleb's office, Caleb turned towards the window to gaze at the area outside of his office.
"That purple alicorn is even more better at saving lives from the purge that I thought she'd be," Caleb muttered to himself. "But no matter, I will try to plan better next year. In fact, I'll make it even more foolproof than ever. Not to mention that another political candidate is planning to save Equestria from us NFFE members as well. As soon as the next purge night begins, I'll sent all of my best hitmen and assassins to eliminate those two government officials in one strike."
"Caleb my dear," Chrysalis spoke in a soothing tone as she appeared from behind the corner in Caleb's office. "It seems that one of our guests wanted to speak with you through the magic mirror."
"Chrysalis, don't scare me like that!!" Caleb said taken back by the Changeling Queen's sudden reappearance. "Anyway, put e'm on screen."
As the curtains near Caleb's windows closed up, covering his entire office with darkness, the mirror lit up again revealing an angry Princess Celestia who is wrapped around in chains behind a stretcher. The moment Caleb got closer to look at the real sun princess, he started cackled and gloating at her, making Celestia even more infuriated than ever.
"So Princess Celestia," Caleb smirked as he gave out an evil smile on his face. "What did you think about the purge that we forced your dear prized pupil to enact against her will, huh?!"
"IT'S DISGUSTING!!!!" Celestia shouted in an angry Royal Canterlot voice. "You are never going to get away with this, Caleb Warrens. If I ever break free from this, I'm going to roast your flank up into the next millennium!!!! I mean, it's bad enough that you and your foul NFFE kidnapped me, Luna, and Cadence at Manehattan without Twilight attending there during our delegating meeting, much to instigating Queen Chrysalis' revenge. But to have the her changelings impersonate us before having Twilight enacted that despicable, decree at Canterlot two years ago??!!! YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS!!!! Because of that filthy purge, Manehattan has suffered from the deaths of more than 500 citizens!!!"
"My apologizes, your highness!!" Caleb sneered at Celestia. "But this is how we do our work to rule over Equestria while under a totalitarian court of government officials to keep all economy intact and to reduce the overpopulation of homeless fools. Since your foolish acts of kindness is costing us a fortune, we can't let you and Luna take advantage of us any longer and Twilight's Royal duties of Friendship is forcing us to dish out too much expenses to support those orphaned fillies at Ponyville and at Manehattan. So, it's my job to show that foolish purple alicorn the error of her ways for relying too much on her friends than rather just for herself. Farewell, Princess Celestia, it's been nice talking to you."
As Celestia's image disappears from the mirror, Caleb started laughing like an evil maniac before turning around to face Queen Chrysalis again.
"Chrysalis, at the start of the next purge, you go help out Scorpion dealing with Twilight Sparkle!!" Caleb told the Changeling Queen. "Don't fail me."
"Hey, this isn't about you either Caleb," Chrysalis sneered. "The only reason why I'm helping you out is because you promised me that I will have Manehattan turned into a Changeling Fortress once most of the homeless ponies are all eliminated there."
After Chrysalis makes her speech infront of Caleb, she enraptures herself in a green magical surge and teleported herself out of Caleb's office, disappearing from plain view.
Twilight's Dark Discovery
At the Hospital in Manhattan, the moment they brought Twilight in, the staff brought in a stretcher before taking the purple alicorn to the emergency room. As for Pinkie Pie, they took her to the one of the rooms at the 4th floor inside the hospital. As for Applejack, they performed a bit of medical treatment for her injured eye and skull. After that, the farm pony received an eye patch so that she'll recover from her eye injury in a few days. For Twilight, they performed several counts of brain surgery and wrapped a bandage around her back. After being treated, Twilight was sent to another room at the same floor where Pinkie is to rest after this night's Purge. After several weeks of recovery, Pinkie and Twilight we're both able to leave the hospital and met up with the rest of their friends at the train station before heading back home. Unfortunately, because of their terrifying experience from the 3rd year's Purge, Pinkie Pie didn't hone any victory parties until one month later after being traumatized when facing against one of the purgers. At the same time, Twilight had episodes of brain damage, memory loss, and lack of speech that lasted until her head injuries finally disappeared.
Upon hearing all this, Pinkie's family and Twilight's parents couldn't help but worry about the situation both of their daughters are in. In fact, Shinning Armor was feeling very concerned about both his wife and Twilight Sparkle for letting the criminals in Manehattan take advantage of the Annual Purge. But what's even more disturbing is that Shinning could hear his wife cackling in a evil tone from an isolated room inside the Palace back at the Crystal Empire. At first, Shinning didn't want to think that there is something wrong with Princess Cadence. However, after those two years, Shinning is starting to suspect that his wife is up to something that may put their country in danger if they keep continuing with the Purge. So during that time, Shinning ordered his servants to take his daughter Flurry Heart to a daycare center in Ponyville to insure her safety. For Night Light and Twilight Velvet, they were hearing a lot of angry protesting that is aiming towards their daughter every week. They could not help but feel sorry for Twilight Sparkle for being forced to commit such bad decisions against their own will. Despite all this, the Sparkle Family can only pray that Twilight will do the right thing for their beloved country someday.
As promised, Twilight and Rarity are both able to collect the bounty for Yeo's capture and this time, they relocated Rarity's Manehattan boutique several miles west outside of the city. Shortly after Yeo was detained at the Manehattan Police Station, they sent him to another prison area in Saddle Arabia to serve his life sentence. For Suri Polomare, she took off to the South of Manehattan to start a new fashion career to parts unknown and was never seen again. Rumor has it that Suri proceeded to participate in other fashion designer contests with the other fashionistas apart from Rarity so that she doesn't feel outsmarted again. After they got Rara, Cheese, and Coco out of Manehattan, they were able to seek vacancy in Twilight's Castle back at Ponyville. For Babs Seed, after she was reunited with her Orange relatives, they decided to leave their country house and move to Sweet Apple Acres and live in another house that is next to where Applejack's family lives in order to avoid putting their family in danger when it comes to the purge commencement.
After going over the death count in Manehattan, Twilight discovered that 250 ponies have been killed during the 3rd annual purge. Outraged by such horror, may ponies were making angry protesting against Twilight and her fellow princesses all over Equestria like a huge tidal wave of hated. Desperate to make it up for all the ponies that were suffering under the hands of the Purge and the NFFE, Twilight immediately requested help from her brother, Shinning Armor, her personal bodyguard, Flash Sentry, and from her student, Starlight Glimmer, to find another political group that can help her abolish the purge before it starts again and to deal with the overpopulation in a more civilized and nonviolent way. Sadly, after 9 months of searching for suitable candidates, no pony was brave enough to help abolish the purge for they feared that the NFFE would come after them by sending their assassins to do them in. For the rest of the Mane 6, they had nightmares of them getting slaughtered by the purgers for almost every month. For Fluttershy, she suffered the worst nightmares out of the Mane 6 claiming that she has seen her animal friends getting butchered up for food for the griffins and Minotaurs before they stabbed the yellow pegasus from behind, while Pinkie Pie gets stalked by a serial killer during each party that she hons for her friends and for her fellow ponies. Upon learning that her friends' nightmares are getting worse every month, Twilight is starting to lose hope of finding a suitable candidate to help her end the purge in Equestria.
One day later, somewhere on the 10th month of the 4th year, as the sun sets from the sky, Twilight was about to take a rest from her stressful day of Royal Duties in Ponyville. When she enters the Main Foyer inside her Castle, Twilight meets up with Applejack who is sitting on a bench to her right. As she looked closer to Applejack, Twilight notices that the farm pony isn't wearing her eye patch anymore. However, Applejack's injured eye has changed color from green to red in which is the result of recovering from her facial bruises after the 3rd Year's purge. For Twilight, even though she is no longer wearing a dress wound covering up her head or a patch covering up her cheek , she still has a square patch covering up her back. So, every time she moves around while wearing that patch, Twilight could feel a small burning sensation coming from her back which makes a small painful swelling that lasts for only a few minutes; during that time, Twilight starts making small panting and grunting coming out of her lips. Before Twilight could say anything to Applejack, the farm pony makes her speech first.
"Hey Twi," Applejack asked as she see the purple alicorn sit beside her. "Are ya feeling okay??"
"I don't think I am Applejack!!" Twilight answered in a depressing tone. "It's been 10 months since I ordered my friends and subjects to find a suitable candidate to help me abolish the purge. I don't know if I can continue this any longer even after three years. I mean, this enactment is affecting us Element Bearers of Harmony all at once. I mean, we almost got killed out there during that night and......"
"It doesn't matter Twi," Applejack replied while trying to talk some sense into her purple alicorn friend. "You already told us that ya promised yerself ta find some pony else to help ya abolish this err purge as yer one and only chancellor, right?!"
"Yes, but it may be easier said than done!!!" Twilight explained to the farm pony mare. "If we don't find some pony to run for chancellor in order to do this, more ponies will die because of me. I just everypony down and this maybe the end of my friendship as we all know it."
Before Applejack knew it, Twilight started breaking down in tears as she covered up her face with her front hooves. After seeing Twilight cry for several minutes the farm pony embraced the alicorn in her hooves.
"There. There. It's alright sugarcube. We'll git through this together, even if dis is the last thing dat we ever do!!!" Applejack said as she held onto Twilight while still sobbing.
After embracing each other for a few hours, Applejack slowly let go of Twilight before she headed out the doors.
"Look, we'll work something out tomorrow hon okay?" Applejack suggested to Twilight before leaving her. "For now, just git some rest, ya. We still have a big day tomorrow."
After seeing Applejack disappear out the doors of her castle, Twilight walks up the stairs and into her bedroom with tears coming down from her eyes. During her trek through her castle hallway, Twilight felt depressingly traumatized after all of that killing that she and her friends caused during the 3rd year's purge. As a result, their actions during the purge almost costed them entirely, despite how they saved most of their loved ones from getting killed by the purgers. Not wanting to think about the negativity revolving around the purge, Twilight gets on top of her bed before she slowly closes her eyes and goes to sleep.
In the morning, as soon as Twilight wakes up from her beauty sleep, she gets up from her bed only to spot a letter on top of her dresser across from her bed. As soon as she approached the dresser, Twilight used her magic to levitate the letter off from the top of the furniture before reading the its contents. When she read the letter from top to bottom, Twilight eyes widened with shock and surprise. After reading the letter, Twilight has just discovered a clue that explains a dark conspiracy that is unfolding before her very eyes, which was done by both the NFFE and Queen Chrysalis, her old nemesis that almost took over Canterlot during her brother's wedding.
"Those dirty bastards!!! I should never have trusted them!!!" Twilight snarled to herself as she packed up her bags before heading out of her bedroom. "I need to show this to Shinning Armor immediately."
As Twilight dashed out of her bedroom, along with the letter, she went down the stairs and head out to the Castle's main entrance. In an instant, Twilight went out the castle doors, unfurled her wings, took off to the skies, and flew to the Crystal Empire. Unbeknownst to her, two ponies appeared from the shadowy corners of Twilight's Castle foyer while wearing brown cloaks. The moment they looked at Twilight before the purple alicorn disappeared into the sky, the two cloaked ponies stared at each other before they could say anything.
"So Charlie, are you sure she can be trusted after she helped the NFFE enacted the purge??" The male cloaked pony asked the mare on his left.
"Yes Leo, because I knew that Princess Twilight needed help to restore her friendship and harmony," The cloaked mare answered while wearing her hood. "It's also because I planned to help Princess Twilight save the real princesses from their captivity first before we conduct our operation to go after the NFFE and stop the purge in Manehattan!!"
"Well, we might as pray that she'll be able to make it up to all the ponies that she did wrong, as well as dealing with those false princesses!!!" The cloaked stallion acknowledged.
After they're done with their conversation, the two cloaked ponies took off to the river outside of Ponyville and went on their getaway boat before heading out into the daylight.
During her flight, Twilight could not help that her fellow princesses are in danger not from just the purge but also from getting captured and forced to watch ponies hurt and kill each other unwillingly. Also, Twilight couldn't stop thinking about the words that she read on the letter:
"Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle,
We heard that you're trying to get rid of something that you were forced to carry out. But there is something far worse going on here than just the purge occurring at Manehattan. Also, your fellow princesses aren't what they seem two years ago. Meet us at the Manehattan City Hall and we'll explain everything there revolving around Queen Chrysalis, the NFFE, and Caleb Warrens, as well as their dark conspiracy against the Equestrian crown. But don't tell any pony else other than your brother about it."
From Charlie Roan
To Be Continued........
Author's Note
I'll end this story as a cliff hanger for now. The next story will continue somewhere on 2018. So stay tuned, MLP fans.
The Beginning of the Nightmare
In the city of Canterlot, a delegation has been held in the ballroom of the Palace. There most of the representatives were making rumblings over the extreme poverty, unemployment, and high crime ratings occurring at the streets of Manehattan. After several minutes of arguing over the delegation, the trumpet blared up high. As the representatives and the delegates of Equestria fell into utter silence, the Royal Guards form up in a defensive line all around the stage. Behind the guard platoon, four alicorn princesses of Equestria have appeared before the crowd, Princess Celestia of the Sun, Princess Luna of the Moon, Princess Cadence of Love, and Princess Twilight Sparkle of Friendship. Before any pony could say anything, Princess Celestia makes her speech in front of the crowd at the start of the delegation.
"Fillies and Gentlecolts, we are gathered here today to help resolve the problems that are spreading in Manehattan," Princess Celestia announced to the public. "It's my understanding that we were facing an economic and security crisis in that metropolis. Also, we have received reports of civil unrest that was resulted in the overpopulation of both citizens, minorities, and criminals alike. But no matter, Princess Luna has called forth an new totalitarian government to help us dealing with this political chaos, since all of our options have failed."
After Celestia makes her speech, Princess Luna steps forward onto the stage to continue their delegation. "Everypony, I present to you the New Founding Fathers of Equestria lead by their head, Caleb Warrens."
As the leader of the New Founding Fathers of Equestria make his appearance, Caleb happens to be a silver old stallion with the white mane who bears the cutie mark of a blue eagle with shield in the middle, with its right claw holding a rifle and its left claw holding a sword. Before any pony could say anything, Caleb raises his hoof as he makes his speech in front of the public.
"Greetings fillies and gentlecolts, I am Caleb Warrens, the chief representative of the NFFE," The old stallion spoke in a intense tone. "I have been in politics for over 25 years and have done every step of the way to preserve of future and our security over the nation of Equestria. I do wish to help the Princesses of Equestria reform their beloved land with a reborn nation in our midst, for it is our primary goal to cleanse ourselves of all sins and impurities. It's also where we eliminate all homeless, poor citizens and to have all criminal groups kill each other out onto the streets. But first, I wished to have all four princesses stand down from their Royal duties before we can continue this operation."
Upon hearing what Caleb said, the entire crowd fell under total silence for several minutes, with their eyes widened with shock. No pony was able to come up with anything to say, until Caleb continue his speech. "However, I still need half of their support to carry out "The Purge" in Equestria, as well as their guidance in establishing our government committee in this country."
Before any pony could ask anymore questions, Caleb uses his magic to pull out a huge scroll from his duffle bag and posted it up onto the walls behind the four alicorns to present it to the rest of the public. As they all started at the huge scroll, Caleb starts reading it through his presentation. "At the end of every year, "The Purge" will commence at the start of the sirens; It's when any and all crime, including murder, is legal for 12 consecutive hours. Any emergency services, such as the Royal Guard platoons, the weather and fire team ponies, and the Medical Staff ponies will be unavailable until tomorrow morning. Government Officials of Ranking 10 or higher will be granted immunity from the Purge and shall not be harmed, such as the Princesses of Equestria, the Highly Ranked Commanding Officers of the Equestrian Military, and us."
After hearing all of this, the delegates started murmuring to themselves out of anxiety and fear. As for the four princesses, they all stared at Caleb under a state of shock. As they got it all down in their heads, Twilight feared that the purge might affect her friends' lives and lives of their families out there. In her own point of view, it's bad enough that she and her friends had to deal with various monsters and tyrants over the past few years, but now this. The purple alicorn believed that "The Purge" maybe a little too excessive to deal with the civil unrest and the economic downfall in Manehattan. Before Twilight could come up with anything to say, Caleb gave a contract for her to fill up.
"Princess Twilight, before we can establish the Annual Purge in Manehattan, I need your approval and your signature first," Caleb said, giving the purple alicorn a sinister smirk on his face.
"I don't know if I can do this. It won't just affect our crime rates, it'll also put millions of innocent children and their families in imminent danger," Twilight said protesting against the purge. "This isn't the way to spread friendship, this is going to become a mass murder, all reported on the news of the Foal Free Press."
Upon hearing Twilight's protests, most of the Pony, Griffon, Yak, and Changeling Representatives were all clamoring in agreement with the purple alicorn's groundings. For Caleb, unfortunately, he gave Twilight a hostile glare, looking at her straight in the eyes. Before it could get any worse, Princess Celestia ordered them all complete silence before speaking to Twilight. "I'm sorry, my dear Twilight. But you have to sign in the papers towards Caleb or else he's going to enact the Purge at Ponyville."
After listening to what Celestia just said, Twilight's eyes widened with horror, leaving behind a terrified gasp. Twilight was getting even more afraid of what the purge will do to her friends and her family, if it was enacted in front of her. Just when Twilight tried to reason with the sun princess, Celestia continues with her speech towards Twilight. "I know. I know. We were all against it too but Caleb said that the Purge will only occur at Manehattan as its testing grounds, since its crime rates and overpopulation is taking place there right now. He did threatened us earlier that if we don't let them commence the Purge at Manehattan, he'll enact the Purge worldwide, letting Canterlot, Baltimare, Fillydelphia, Ponyville, and Cloudsdale get involved in it. It's the only way to protect all of our families from our sins."
"Twilight Sparkle, you have 10 seconds to sign in this contract or I'll enact the Purge at Ponyville." Caleb hissed as he started the countdown. "1......2.....3.....4......"
During the countdown, Twilight started sweating in fear about the consequences for denying the purge at Manehattan.
"5.....6.....7.....8....9......"
"Okay!!! Okay!!! I'll do it!!!" Twilight shrieked as she used her magic to grab the ink quill and wrote her signature on the purge contract. "Just leave my friends and my family out of this."
"You've got nothing to worry about, your highness," Caleb acknowledged Twilight's response as he smiled in a sly tone. "All families of Equestria's Government Officials will be under the protection of our political group. Also, the purge will be meant to vent out all anger and aggression towards each other. You have my word."
"Now that all of this is done, the delegation is now over," Celestia announced ending the meeting in the Canterlot Palace. "You are all dismissed."
Before Caleb Warrens left the Palace, he gave Twilight a smirk on his face as making his last speech in front of her and the Princesses of Equestria. "Blessed be our New Founding Fathers and Equestria, a nation reborn. May Faust be with you all."
"Princess!! Something tells me that this so-called Purge is going to be our undoing," Twilight said to Princess Celestia.
"That's what I though too, Twilight," Princess Luna said in a calm tone. "However, I think we all agreed that we've been too stressed out in dealing with all of those political problems over the past 1,000 years. So, we might as well let them handle the situation themselves while we go on our breaks from our overwhelming Royal Duties in Equestia. I know that's what you wanted too, right? Even though you not ready for any breaks from your Royal Duties, we still need to let another group of politicians do their job in preserving Equestria, Twilight."
After hearing Luna's speech, Twilight sees the three princesses leave the Palace ballroom without saying another word. Feeling defeated and speechless, Twilight Sparkle can only pray that the Purge will not ruin her everyday life.
"I hope your right about that, Luna," Twilight muttered to herself as she went up to the Palace Balcony and looked up to the sky.
Author's Note
Any pony who wants to know what the Purge really meant, it goes like this:
First known in the 14th Century:
To be Clear of Guilt
Cause Evacuation From
Rid as a Nation or Party; Eliminate Members of a Political Party violently
To be free of something nopony wants or to remove a pony's impurities by cleansing.
