The enemy had traversed quite some distance before Applejack started the truck, but she and Pinkie Pie soon took after their foe. Since Pinkie Pie could hardly do something from inside, she crouched down on the cargo area.

This being a quiet sunday morning, right at the start of summer vacation turned out to be a blessing in disguise. There were no cars on the road. Everybody wanted to sleep in and there would even still be a couple of hours until the church-goers would get up. It was easy travel throughout. Which has a necessity, for standing on the back of a pick up truck driving 50 mph.

"We'll have to get her quickly", Applejack yelled from upfront. "If she gets to the inner city, we'll lose her for sure."

Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie rummaged through her hair with one hand and holding on for dear life with the other. What she was looking for was something sugary. Cupcakes would be best", she thought. Something that would let her use her amulet's power. Something that wouldn't be deterred by air currents.

"Got something", she proclaimed and pulled out a bag of marshmallows. These would have to do.

Their enemy, of course, was aware of the pursuit. "[Birdemic] could easily leave those two dweebs in the dust. But I think I'm gonna toy with them a little. Maybe I can swipe puff ball's necklace too.

Looking down onto the truck, the enemy noticed that Pinkie Pie had acquired a slingshot and was aiming directly at her. With nothing to hold onto and the wind blowing into her face, the marshmallow lit up and the party girl fired.

Unfortunately, she missed. She tried again. And again and again, but considering her situation, she just couldn't aim properly.

I don't know if their magic works on Stands, but it seems I'm in little trouble", [Birdemic] thought. Suddenly, it heard the sound of sirens. The ambulance was around the next corner, probably heading for the school. "Two birds with one stone."

Applejack and Pinkie Pie stared in shock at the next action their enemy took. Nosediving from above, the one they chased raced towards the ambulance and, using its razor-sharp claws, tore up the tires and side.

The rescue vehicle spiraled out of control, until it finally flipped over.

Applejack could just barely dodge the debris, but a few scraps still made cracks in her windshield.

"Stop the car!" Unable to look away, Pinkie Pinkie Pie wanted to check on the medics, but Applejack said otherwise.

"We need to focus on our enemy. This leaves a bad taste in my mouth as well, but if we can somehow get Fluttershy's Stand back, she can fix them and Silver."

Another person was close to the area of the accident at the time. The man who was searching for the heroes of Canterlot City, the one simply called the Doctor.

He was riding along in a cab in the adjacent side street as [Birdemic] attacked the ambulance. Not that the noticed the enemy fly by or the girls that were perusing it. Shocked, he forgot about his case and told the cabby to park there.

The man ran up to the toppled vehicle and quickly pulled the driver and his colleague out.

"Are you all right?"

"We're gonna be fine", he answered. "But we were headed somewhere. Someone's been shot at Canterlot High", he forced out through the pain.

Without a second thought, he rushed back to the cab and ordered the cabby to hurry to the school. "I'll pay you double to ignore every traffic law and go as fast as you can."

The driver didn't need to be told twice, as he caused a burnout. It didn't take long until they were going well over 80 mph in this relatively rural area.

With this kind of driving, it was only a matter of minutes, until Sunset and Twilight could hear the approaching sound of the taxi's motor.

The two of them had stopped the bleeding for the most part and bandaged the now unconscious boy with bandages Sunset stole got by breaking one of the school's windows.

Their hopes of an ambulance were dashed as they saw the speeding, yellow car, but were equally surprised by the helpful individual inside.

"Get him in the cab", he commanded. His concern for the boy was briefly put aside by him trying to remember if he had seen them somewhere before, but he shoved those thoughts to the back of his head. "The ambulance had an accident, now get him in."

While the girls were carrying Silver Screen inside, the cab driver complained about the blood stains he was gonna have to clean up, but was quickly silenced by the Doctor offering him 3000 dollars if the boy made it to the hospital before it was too late.

Meanwhile, back with Pinkie Pie amd Applejack, Pinkie was slowly but surely running low on marshmallows. The fiend had managed to dodge every single one of her bombs.

But that wasn't the only thing running low. Believe it or not, Pinkie was running low on energy herself. Creating those explosions was pretty exhausting, when she had no time to replenish.

"How many marshmallows do ya got left?", Applejack asked.

"About a dozen, but that's not the real problem. I don't think my sugar bombs even do anything."

"Well, you better think of somethin'."

Pinkie started to panic a bit. Not only would their necklaces be list, but who knows what they'd do to Fluttershy?

But suddenly she got an idea. As if her Pinkie Sense was telling her how to win this. Was it also a Stand ability she was born with? No time to think about that. She had a plan.

Both sides waited a while to do their next move. [Birdemic] waited simply because the Stand was curious what they were gonna do next, but eventually it got uneasy.

"Why are they just following me? They don't think I'm going to my user, do they?"

Just as she was looking back down, she noticed another bomb coming her way. She was easily dodging it, but failed to see the next. And the next. And the next ones.

Pinkie pie used her remaining marshmallows to barrage [Birdemic]. They did nothing, however. "She has to realize this, right?"

"What's the bis idea, Pop Tart? Only Stands can even touch other Stands.[Birdemic] isn't even fazed by that", the Stand shouted.

"You're right. Stands just phase through stuff like that." Suddenly, a traffic sign appeard before their enemy. She didn't see it because of the cloud of sugar surrounding her. Out of reflex, [Birdemic] phased through it, as if it weren't there. "But our amulets can't do that." As the necklaces hit the sign, the armoured bird had no choice, but to let them go.

Panicked, it swooped down and grabbed as many as it could with its two claws, releasing [Farthing Wood] as well, which returned to its mistress immediately.

The remaining amulets dropped onto the truck. Pinkie Pie cheered excitedly that they got their job partly done. They gotRainbow's, Rarity's and Fluttershy's necklaces back and Applejack made a quick U-Turn to get back to the school as fast as possible.

That was the good news. The bad news was that [Birdemic] was now angry and about to attack.

End of Chapter

Author's Note

*[Holy Grail] Stand Graph coming soon*

Next time: [Smokey & Ol' Bandit]