Ninjas Are Awesome

by NightwatchTheRogue

Scroll 2 Chapter 2: Misunderstanding

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It was Sunset's second time waking up today. First was in her comfortable bed and this time she's cramped inside of a van or in a large vehicle. Luckily, her appendages weren't bound, forced down on the ground, or had a gag in her mouth. It seems her captors were concerned for her safety for she had a seatbelt on, although she still had a sack on her head that she knew she shouldn't remove if she valued her life.

She could only hear the muffled noises of cars driving through the pavement, rapid foot tapping on the van's metal floor surface, and a bunch of men inside the van having quiet conversations with each other. She can't quite distinguish what they were saying or which voice was Griff's but she knew him enough to know that he is an impatient and talkative guy who would jump into any conversation in any given chance to quell his boredom.

Since she's going to be sent over to THAT place, she decided that she should at least get herself comfortable.

"Gah!" She quietly groaned in pain, her body instinctively recoiled forward.

Sunset felt a strong stinging sensation on her upper back when she tried to make herself comfortable. She found this strange considering she had been tasered on the lower side and even then, it shouldn't have cause nerve damage that would leave a long painful effect.

Now that she thinks about it, she has felt this sensation for the past weekend. It felt like the reverse feeling of receiving her demon wings. Instead of being quick and euphoric, this feeling is now slow and quite painful.

After a few seconds of processing her thoughts, she made a realization that it might be one of the side effects of bringing in Equestrian magic into a foreign world and corrupting it with her selfish intentions.

"Hehehe." She chuckled in her thoughts at her misfortunes.

She now realized how unorganized and ridiculous her past goals were and that she didn't devise any plans on "if" she did achieve her goals.

In her defense, her logic was corrupted and made her thoughts scramble into the nonsense that only an insane person can understand. This corruption was fueled with the desire of proving her former mentor that she has the capabilities to rule everyone and be the most powerful being in all existence.

Well, look at those desires and emotions got her now. She has to reprimand the school for a whole week by picking up the debris and do some repairs. She was also now enemy number one to all CHS students, especially to Twilight's friends.

... Well, some good things happen that night as well. She befriended two students; Laura and Bonnibel, which were genuine as they approach towards her by their own accord, not by someone's pitiful request.

She could put a little trust on the two girls who offered their friendship to her without being given requests from the Twilight, healed her wounds and let her sleep in their home. However, she couldn't say the same thing for the five girls considering they were the first victims of her schemes. She believes that they would never keep their word to Twilight as she caused serious damage to their friendship.

With that in mind, she decided to get out of their way and, instead, find the true Magic of Friendship with the people who called her friend first.

Her depressing thoughts have come to a stop when she felt her transport stopped and she could hear the metal doors open. The bag was taken off and the first person she saw was Griff with an anxious expression.

"Hey, Sunny." He sheepishly said, rubbing the back of his head as he felt awkward towards the redhead. "Are you okay?"

"W-why are you asking?" She meekly asked, attempting to make eye contact but her sight immediately went to the vehicle's strangely clean carpet floor.

Sunset was too anxious to gain any confidence to see an old acquaintance. Instead, she shyly muttered. "You shocked me."

"Okay, that wasn't my fault." He instantly objected, he got out of the van and offered a hand to assist Sunset's exit out of the vehicle. "One of my men was a newbie and he thought you were just an ordinary pick up. He thought he could take care of you by snatching Zeus from me and shocking you." He bowed his upper torso to apologize. "I'm so sorry for my subordinate's mistake. Please forgive me."

Sunset was surprised by the boy's gesture. "Oh no, it's fine as long as you explained why I got tased." She reassured in a half-sarcastic and half-nervous tone. She wanted to give Griff a piece of her mind but for some reason, she thought it would be too rude. She decided to ask an important question.

"Ahem... So... Ummm, Griff."

"Yeah?" He said, feeling more unease.

"I'm not trying to make you irritated or anything but... why did you abduct me?"

Griff did a double-take flinch. It was not due to the absurd question but rather the redheaded girl's uncharacteristic statement. It sounded like she was genuinely worried that she might make him mad or something. He just shook his head furiously to remove that thought before it clumsily comes out of his mouth and might receive a straight right to the face by the said redhead as a response.

Griff put his hands on his pockets and strayed his eyes to the left, looking ashamed. "Yeah, I'm sorry about that. I didn't want to do it but..."


(A Few Hours Ago- 10 minutes before Sunset woke up)

Location: A Parking Lot near Sunset's Apartment Complex


"I hope she's still up there."

Griff got out of his van with both of his gigantic and muscular subordinates following him in a feet away distance. The goons had stoic composures and appeared to be expressionless due to their sunglasses and neutral faces. They wore typical black business suits and sunglasses that resemble them like cliche government agents or mafia goons

Nevertheless, Griff seemed to be the exact opposite. His entire body kept trembling, head visibly dripping sweat and had black bags around his eyes after a couple of sleepless nights waiting for an opportunity to introduce himself to Sunset and silently and discreetly seize her, however...

His eyes shifting everywhere yet doesn't seem to be focusing or even noticing his surroundings. That was until...

"Are you fucking serious?!" He exclaimed in utter shock and anger as he bit his lower lip to not bring any attention to the horrifying scene that he is witnessing now.

He saw that the problem was still there and appeared to have intensified even more.

"Yeah, so after that debacle at the Fall Formal, a crowd of bloodthirsty teens camping outside your apartment block before I could even get there."

"Get the fucking away from the door, you bitch!" One of the jock-looking teenagers who were pounding at the front door shouted.

"Yeah, get that whore of a demon down here to get what she deserves." A girl wearing expensive clothes and accessories added to the angry demands.

"Ho boy, they looked pissed as hell and tried to force their way through the door. I thought it would take me a day to just wait for the crowd to lessen but that wasn't the case."

Griff's two subordinates immediately formed themselves into a human wall in front of their leader to prevent stray teens from harming him while they reach the front door.

The delinquent young man gripped tightly on Zeus, a custom cattle prod that holds enough energy to power an entire block of apartments. It was a shining silver rod with a switch on its bottom red hilt that starts from off to dangerous: high. It is his favored tool for abduction and crowd control, which the second purpose was quite necessary for the upcoming disaster that will befall on him and his subordinates.

"I told you fucking kids for the last fiftieth fucking time that you're not allowed to enter the apartment if you aren't a resident here."

A loud booming voice angrily responded.

The owner of the voice appeared to be an attractive middle-aged woman, who was standing on top of the apartment's rooftop with a bullhorn on her right hand and a picket sign that says "fuck off, you kids!" on the other.

She had long and slightly curvy platinum blonde hair and complexion. She also wore a sundress with a flowery pattern, even though it was in the middle of a chilly Fall season.

Yup, that's Sonia Shine or "Sonny" to those who are close to her.

At first sight, people might think they saw the human personification of sunshine over a flower field but after focusing on her burning crimson red eyes and angry expression that came with it, they might think she was a demon, which seemed reasonable as her loud threatening voice that sounded like the Devil appeared... and they tried to shout at kids to get out of their lawn with little to no success.

"Oh hey, Sonny is here. Maybe she'll let me in." Griff said to himself, feeling a bit relieved to see a familiar face.

"You think she'll let me in as well?" A young man's voice asked.

"Gah!" Griff shrieked when he heard the question and a small tap on his shoulder. He prepared his cattle prod and attempted a swing at the person but instantly halted his counter-attack when he saw who it was.

"Goddammit, Flash!" He shouted at the culprit who was a teenage boy with cobalt blue short hair. "Don't do that right here. I almost shocked you."

Both of his subordinates glanced behind them and tried to remove Flash from their boss's personal space, however, Griff raised his right hand to signal them that it was fine and continue pushing away waves of angry teens.

"Yeah, sorry." The boy named Flash sincerely apologized while rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. He saw what Griff's bodyguards were going to do but was saved by the said young man. As soon as the white-haired boy resume his walk, Flash followed a foot distance behind him.

"Wait..." Griff said, feeling a bit suspicious for the boy's presence in this location. "Are you part of this angry mob?"

"What!? No." He objected. "I came here to see if I can help Sunset...'

"Why? Didn't she broke up with you last month?" Griff bluntly stated. "Are you sure that..."

"Yes." Flash interrupted, sounding a bit irritated that someone is questioning his intentions. "Even though she is my ex, that doesn't mean I hate her guts. I still care about her."

"Man, you still love that psycho."

"I'm going to tell Sunset about what you said." Flash bluffed with a sly grin on his face.

"Please don't." Griff pleaded as he was afraid of the outcome of the tattling.

"Haha, no need to cry about it, dude." The blue-haired boy politely jeered at Griff. Their conversation seemed innocent and a great distraction from the mass of hatred and other negative emotions.

However...

"Hey, these assholes are trying to get inside before us!" A teen boy shouted at his classmates. One of the teens noticed Griff and his group approaching the building's front door and decided to signal the rest to...

"Get them!"

To assault them for cutting in line on their Sunset Witch Hunt.

"Haaa..." Griff sighed. Not of annoyance or of irritation but a sigh of relief and joy as now...

"GRAHHHHH!"

A wild jock with Goliath-like physique and behavior of a hungry wild lion emitted a thunderous warcry, he leaped out of the crowd and immediately charged towards Flash, the least threatening individual of Griff's group, unfortunately...

"GAHHHHHH!"

He didn't account on Zeus and his 10,000-volt touch on the jock's right cheek. Steam and the smell of burnt flesh was flowing on the tip of the cattle prod.

"Ahh, gross." Griff retched at what happened to his weapon. Some bits of said flesh has melted on its tip. "You how hard it is to clean this crap off."

All of the normal teens tried to prevent themselves from vomiting at the sight they just witnessed. Some were able to hold it in but had to use all of their willpower to keep it in, while the others... weren't so lucky as they proceed to either expel the contents of their stomachs, running away towards their homes or both.

Flash just stared at Griff with a half-disgusted and half-disappointed expression, which the delinquent can tell.

"Dude, don't even say one word, let's just go," Griff said while he looked up at the apartment's rooftop where Sonny noticed what occurred and had a huge smug grin at the results.

"Oh my god, I'm calling the cops." A girl's voice yelled.

"I already did that six fucking times." Sonny roared back with her megaphone. "You told them to fuck off, arrested most of your buddies' ass and yet there's still a lot of you in my property, you fucking dumbasses."

She then proceeded to excitedly wave towards Griff and his group. "Yo Griff, Flash and... you guys. Make some room before I let you in. These fucking kids are pissing me off."

"Got it, Sonny," Griff replied as he set his cattle prod's setting from medium strength to dangerous: high. He proceeds to aim it towards the crowd and casually wave it. The weapon made a threatening unstable static noise and sparks flying fiercely.

"Okay now, you heard the lady. Piss off or I'll make you do it. And if you think you can jump at me if Zeus runs out of batteries..." He lifts the left side of his jacket, revealing a holstered pistol. "Then you guys are special kinds of dumbasses."

As soon as Griff unveiled his second hidden weapon, the crowd quickly dispersed away from Griff's group and left a wide-open space on the apartment's front door.

Griff, Flash and the two large henchmen finally reached the door. The delinquent young man was about to ring the door when immediately, the door opened up and Sonny's head poked out.

"Hey guys, thanks for that." She appreciated the young man with a gleeful grin. "They have been there since Saturday. I have no idea why they want Sunset but I'm not going to toss her to that crowd of crazy teens, no matter what the reason was."

"I know, I know," Griff replied, feeling a bit concern as well. "I'm here to grab Sunset to bring her to Boss."

"Ah," Sonny said, deadpan. "I'm not sure if she's in trouble or..."

"Yeah, it's private."

"Fine fine. I'm not gonna pry anymore." She shrugged her curiosity. "As long as Sunset is safe."

"The guys and I were lucky to get inside at all. You got to thank Sonny, your landlord for letting us in."

"But how are you guys going to Sunset?" Flash asked the important question. "You can't just escort her out here, even with so much protection."

Griff snapped his fingers. "You're right." He agreed with the boy's question. So his answer was to unholstered his gun and hand it over to Flash, who in obvious reaction was surprised and freaking out when he received it.

"You guard our exit while I 'kidnap' Sunset."

"Wha- wait... isn't this..." Flash stuttered in a panic.

"Dude, we don't have time for this. I'm already late. Boss is going to kill me.

"Oh yeah, she will," Sonny admitted with a smug demeanor. She shook her head. "Don't worry, dude. I'll help dreamboat over here if anyone tries to barge in." She took Griff's gun out of Flash's anxious hands.

"Thanks, Sonny. I owe you one."

"You owe me dinner." She demanded, which earned a quick chuckle from the delinquent.

"Sure sure. Come on, boys. Let's get the girl." He ordered his two still silent grunts as they use the elevator and head towards Sunset's apartment room.


"So yeah, after a few minutes after in the elevator, We met, one of my boys shocked you, then I kidnapped you and here we are."

"I see," Sunset muttered, believing Griff's explanation to be the truth. "Bonnibel did mention something about that."

The redheaded girl didn't notice that disaster when she got back at her apartment yesterday since she slept through the ride back in Bonnibel's car. Fortunately, last night, her new friend texted her that she noticed an angry crowd of teens waiting for her arrival. She had to carry Sunset and climb the back alley fire escape to get inside her home.

Sunset was a bit skeptical of the girl's statement from their text chat because some of the sentences sounded like they were either illegal, might have been phrased wrongly, humanly impossible or just a lie. The information that she could believe wholehearted was the angry mob of vindictive teens waiting by her doorstep.

She had hoped that the teens would give up their pursuit in an hour but Griff's statement proved her wrong.

Griff continued. "... I had to use Zeus to control the crowd that tried to come with us. Some might have gone to the hospital." He shook his head disapprovingly and shrugged the thought. "Who cares. Anyway, I had to make your escort look like an abduction or you will be taken away by those angry teens. "

"I've been meaning to ask you this," Sunset said. "But where are you escorting me to exactly and why?"

He replied, the atmosphere shifting further into an ominous feeling.

"Oh yeah, that. It seems that you've done a lot of damage at CHS that Big G couldn't ignore"

As soon as Sunset heard the name "Big G", she took a nervous gulp and shiver.

"It looks like she wants to see you."

As soon as Griff said that, a slim physique individual revealed their hazy form from behind of one of the underground concrete pillars. They wearing a dark purple body suit from head to toe, their right hand clutching tightly on a sharp hunter's knife that has a purple scorpion tail as the hilt and was glaring towards the two teens, mostly on Sunset with a murderous glare.

"This might make things more difficult than I thought."