MAFIA: Manticore Prime City

[A Few Seconds Later] Sugarcube Café

Spike, Rainbow, and Applejack all walked downstairs after talking to the sisters. All of them being concerned with what they just told them. They all sat down at a booth, Rainbow sitting next to Spike and Applejack sitting in front of them alone, and asked The Cakes for some breakfast, to which they humbly agreed.

"So what's gonna happen now that Hotel Crystal has been attacked?" asked Spike, looking at his partners.

"Well Ah'm not shur…" AJ replied, looking down at the table. "Ah guess since the territory is still ours, it's best if we jus' leave it alone..."

"I get that...but what about that hooded pony Luna warned us about?"

"We should keep our eyes out for that one..." Rainbow replied, looking at Spike. "I mean there's not much we can do about all of this...all we could do now is just wait..."

The Cakes arrived with 3 plates of breakfast for the 3 partners. Rainbow Dash got some pancakes with bacon, Applejack got an omelet with toast, and Spike got scrambled eggs with a side of gems.

"Ya know guys...I gotta tell you something...I remember I saw a cloaked figure at the end of the race but I don't know who it is..." Spike explained, taking a bite out of his eggs.

"You think it's the hooded pony the bosses were talking about?" asked Rainbow, cutting her pancakes.

"Maybe...but you're right...we should keep our eyes open..."

[Meanwhile] Out in the Streets of Manticore

The hooded pony walked along the streets of Manticore thinking. "Sometimes I wonder if we're even able to go through with this...I mean...ponies might end up getting killed...but when did I ever care about other ponies' lives? All the lives I care about are both my own and ponies who are like family to me..."

The pony stopped and looked up, seeing a sign that said 'Sugarcube Café' on it, he shrugged his shoulders. "Eh...might not be a smart idea but I could use something to drink..."

The stallion opened the door to the café and looked around, seeing that it was just a normal establishment ponies came to eat at, he sat down on a stool in front of the bar and Carrot Cake walked over to him. "Can I get you anything, sir?"

"Yeah... a mug of hot cocoa please..." The stallion placed some bits on the table and the bartender got to work, quickly making him a mug of cocoa in no time at all. "Thanks..." He then took a sip as his hearing began to wonder, wondering how other creatures were living their lives.

“I’m just saying AJ, maybe one day you could try Spike out, he’s amazing in bed.” He heard someone say, he snickered a bit as he continued to hear the conversation.

“Yeah, you should’ve heard Rainbow moan, I thought the entire town could hear us."

The hooded pony blinked when he heard that name....'Rainbow'. He looked at the creature who just said that it was the guy who won the race yesterday. Spike Dragan. He saw that two mares were sitting with him too, one was someone he didn't know, but the other was someone he knew all too well.

The hooded pony got up from the bar and walked over to where they were sitting.

Spike, Rainbow, and Applejack all chuckled till it was stopped when they heard someone walking over to their table, they looked at the pony standing before them but the thing is, they couldn't see his face. He wore a brown hooded cloak, black dress pants, and black loafers.

"Excuse me..." The cloaked pony asked. "I'm sorry to but in, but when you said 'Rainbow'....do you mean 'Rainbow Dash', young drake?"

Spike looked at him with an arched eyebrow, he looks a little like the hooded pony he saw at the race track but what was he doing here?

The drake decided to humor him. “Yeah...this is the mare right here...” He pointed to Rainbow Dash who was right next to him.

Something clicked in the pony's head and without thinking, along with a snarl, he picked up Spike by his blazer and kicked the drake hard in the face. Sending him backward onto the floor, He then unfurled his wings and flew a bit, landing gently on the other side of the drake.

Customers that saw this got up and ran out of the front door, The Cakes taking out guns and aiming them at The mysterious pony.

Spike wiped his nose from the bloody nose he just got from that kick. “What the fuck, man?!”

A.J. realized something. “Spike!! Ah, think that’s the hooded pony Luna warned us about!”

The hooded pony blinked and looked back at the southern mare. "W-Wait you know-" He began to say before he dodged an incoming tail swipe from Spike, flying back a bit.

Spike looks at AJ, RD, and The Cakes, holding his hand out. “Stay back, I got this guy!”

“SPIKE! Luna said to not engage him, we gotta get out of here!” Rainbow yelled, but Spike shook his head.

“Don't worry, I'll be fine! I can take him!” Spike readies and throws a punch, hitting the hooded pony’s face who grunts and backs up, smiling a bit.

"Hmm...not bad for a dragon runt. You got potential kid, but a word of advice?" The stallion grabbed Spike's arm and pulls him in close, thrusting a palm into his face.

As the dragon groaned in pain, The stallion began to flap his wings and drop-kick his chest, knocking the drake back down onto the floor. "Always keep yourself out of a pony's reach, you keep in close so they have a smaller advantage."

Spike coughed and looked at him with a growl. 'Who the hell is this guy??'

The drake then threw roundhouse kick at the pony, hitting his side, before grabbing his head and thrusting his knee up. The hooded pony grinned and grabbed Spike's leg, beginning to chuckle menacingly as he pulled down his scarf, he then opened his mouth showing razor-sharp teeth and bites down hard with a crunch on Spike's leg.

Spike screamed in pure pain as the pony ripped a small chunk of skin off of the dragon and tossed him back onto the floor, The drake had some tears in his eyes as he looked at the damage, the bite wound bleeding immensely along with the fabric of his suit pants being ripped.

The hooded pony held the small chunk of scale, flesh, and blood he ripped off of the drake before spitting it out onto the floor. "Bleh too bland..." He looked at the drake again. "Kid you need more meat and spices in your diet...you can't just eat gems."

Spike growled with pure anger and grabbed a nearby bottle that was sitting on the table, he then threw it at his attacker but the hooded pony caught it in one hand with a smirk.

He proceeded to open the bottle and chugged the entire drink down in one go. "Hm...Apple family cider...my favorite..." He put the bottle down on the bar and put down some bits on the table, basically paying for the drink.

As soon as he put the bottle down, Spike jumped and tackled him, slamming his head into the counter, he then grabbed the bottle he put down and hit it over his head with it which made bottle shards fly every which way. The drake then hit his head on the counter with a hard thud and pulled his head back with the broken bottle held high, preparing to stab him with it.

When Spike stabbed him with the broken bottle, more shards flew everywhere, and instead of the sound of a bottle hitting flesh, it sounded like the bottle hit a stone or something. Spike backed up slowly and watched as the hooded pony looks at him with a smirk, he then pointed to the part on his chest that Spike tried to stab and saw that a small gash was made into his hood but not his skin, his skin looked like it was made of stone before it slowly turned back into regular fur that was red.

The hooded pony chuckled a bit. "Not bad kid...not bad at all...but next time think about your actions." He then headbutts the drake and tosses him into Rainbow and Applejack, knocking them down like bowling pins with Spike as the ball.

The hooded pony then started picking up the larger shards of glass from the bottle and grinding the smaller ones to dust before putting it in a trash bin. "Have you forgotten this is a family establishment? What if after our fight, a foal runs through and cut themselves on the glass?" He looked at RD and AJ with a piercing gaze, the one eye that he revealed to them had multiple colors of red, blue, green, and gold. "You two should show him some restraint with actions like that and Dash...you should know better..."

Sounds of sirens could then be heard outside of the café, the hooded pony looked outside at the cars and saw it was the solar guards. "Shit..." But the stallion then calmed down when he saw a specific dark green car was with them too.

A guard that was a turquoise blue stallion with a spikey black mane, with brown eyes and eyeglasses along with a black female wolf with light gray wavy hair and tail along with red eyes came out of a black squad car. The stallion wore a black 4-layer MPSG jacket, a dark blue tactical vest with a white shirt underneath, beige suit pants, and black shoes. The wolf wore a tight black buttoned-up dress shirt under a dark blue tactical vest, blue suit pants, and brown shoes.

"SPIKE DRAGAN AND HIS LITTLE FIGHTING PAL, THIS IS CHIEF DUAL BLADE AND DEPUTY-CHIEF VIRTUS DARKPAW FROM THE MANTICORE PRIME SOLAR GUARDS...COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!!!!"

The hooded pony went down and grabbed Spike, picking him up and taking him outside. Guards all had guns pointed at them as the stallion handed him over to Virtus who began to cuff him. "Spike Dragan, you're under arrest for murder, vandalism, public disturbance, and assault."

"But he attacked me first!!" Spike cried out, getting pushed into the black squad car by the wolf.

Dual Blade walked over to The hooded pony but then a female changeling came up and put her hand in front of him, stopping him. The female changeling had a dark green mane and wore an open black blazer with a white dress shirt underneath, an office skirt, and black high-heels. She also had a scar over her right eye.

"Zero...Private Investigator...this stallion is apart of my case Chief."

Dual nodded. "Alright..." He walked away and got into his car with Virtus, driving back to the station with Spike in the backseat.

The changeling smirked at the hooded pony. "You always know how to stir shit up, don't cha?"

The hooded pony shrugged his shoulders. "You always know how to get me out of it, Zero..."

They both started to walk over to the changeling's car as she spoke. "I keep telling you to not get used to it...I've been dealing with you and your sister the past 13 years..."

The pony got into the passenger seat and the female changeling got behind the wheel. "And yet you're still worried about us, our little mommy-figure."

"Shut it..." Zero chuckled, starting the car.

"Hey...you think we could stop by the MPSG station?"

"Oh, you want to be arrested now?"

"No, I need to talk to that kid about something important..."

"You always say when you talk to ponies it's important..." The hooded pony pulled his hood back and showed his face to the changeling. "Red..."

Red was the hooded pony, he was a pegasus with a blue and green mane and red fur, one of his eyes was demonic but the other was normal. "But I'm serious, it's about somepony I feel like he should be warned about..."

"Alright if you think it's sooo important..."

Rainbow and Applejack ran out of the café and when Rainbow saw the pony sitting in shotgun of the changeling's car, she looked at him with a shocked expression.

Red looked at Rainbow with a small smile and shouted. "Been awhile hasn't it sis? We'll catch up later!"

Zero's car then drove away from the café and AJ looked at Rainbow with an arched eyebrow. "Who was that and what did he mean by 'sis'?"

Rainbow looked down at the road, she couldn't believe it after all these years, she finally saw him again, she slowly turned to Applejack and sighed.

"The hooded pony...his name is Red...." Rainbow said softly. "Red is my older brother..."