[3 days later] Streets of Manticore

Spike's job was now a rinse and repeat for him, drove his passengers where they needed to go, he goes on his break after dropping off 5 of them, then an hour later he gets back on the road and ends his day at 6:00.

It was going pretty slow today but he finally dropped off his final passenger, an orange pegasus mare, in front of a small diner, The mare gave him the fare and got out of the cab, but when Spike looked at the diner and the color of her fur, he had the same flashback every time, reminding him that Aj was still waiting on his answer back at The Sugarcube Cafe.

He shook his head quickly and put his right hand on his face, the whole thing was killing him. He had lots of recurring nightmares of the explosion at night and echoes of gunfire in his head when he's awake. Spike looked up back at the road and decided to go on his break a little early, calling Yellow Cab on the radio to notify her.

Spike parked his car and got out of it, approaching a nearby Coffee shop, He was gonna get himself some caffeine just to help him relax a little from all the stress.

Once he got his coffee with a corn muffin, he went back outside and sat down at a nearby table the shop provided in front, and drank it while looking at his taxi. This was gonna be his life from now on, just driving creatures around Manticore and him taking long breaks to gather his thoughts.

As soon as Spike took a sip of his drink, he saw a red Bolt-Thrower pull up in front of the shop, there were 2 mares inside of it. The mare sitting in the driver seat was a mint green unicorn with a mane that was a mixture of lighter mint color and white, in the passenger seat was a gray-ish yellow earth pony with a mane that was navy blue with pink.

The unicorn wore a closed black blazer that had a white button-down shirt with a black necktie, along with a black skirt that stopped near her ankles and strapped high heals, along with a dark green fedora on her head. The earth pony just wore a black dress shirt with a red necktie, black dress pants, and black monk shoes. They both had the same hourglass figure but the earth pony had larger breasts than the unicorn who was smaller, but the mint pony made up for it by being slightly muscular than the other mare.

Both mares looked at Spike's taxi and then looked in his direction, after a minute of staring, they got out of their car. The mint green unicorn went to the trunk and opened it while the yellow earth pony walked up to the sitting dragon. Just the clean sound of dress shoes walking on the solid ground towards him was enough to make Spike tense up.

The mare put one hand on her hip and gestured to the cab with her head. "Is that yours?"

Spike took a second to answer. "Y-Yeah, you need to go somewhere?"

The mare gave a slight smirk. "No...but somepony by the name of Don Sombra wants you to go somewhere...where no one will find you..."

Spike's pupils shrank, he finally realized what the mares were doing, they knew the license plate on his cab! One of the stallions must've sent their leader the info before Rainbow got the chance to kill them, he was an accomplice to their escape and now the other mob boss wants to waste him.

When Spike looked behind the earth pony he saw that the mint green unicorn took out a Thompson M1928 submachine gun from the trunk, along with a 50 round drum mag, his suspicions were correct!

"Light 'em up, Lyra!" The earth pony said moving out of the way, as Lyra clicked the mag into the gun, but before she could pull the hammer back, Spike took a chance.

He grabbed his coffee and threw it at the earth pony when the cup hit her, the cover came off and splashed steaming hot coffee all over her face! The earth pony screamed of bloody murder and dropped to the floor covering her face, Spike could hear the steam sizzling off of her and saw some tears coming down from her hands.

Lyra had the look of kill on her face and aimed at Spike ready to raise hell. With no other object left, Spike decided to throw his un-eaten muffin at her and surprisingly it hit her square in the face. Lyra grunted from the suddenness and turned her gun away from Spike, this gave him the opportunity and he made a break for it down a nearby alleyway. The mint unicorn saw this and fired her Thompson at the dragon but the bullets just hit the wall he just turned with a few ricochet sounds.

The sound of the gunfire caused the customers in the coffee shop to run out the backdoor, Spike used this as an advantage also and ran into the crowd, running with them so he can blend in. Lucky for him Lyra didn't see him enter the crowd when she looked into the alleyway with her gun at the ready. She didn't want to end innocent lives for no reason so she didn't fire at the crowd, but she was pissed that Spike got away so easily.

"DAMN IT! He got away!" Lyra yelled, throwing her Tommy gun to the ground out of anger. She looked behind her and saw the earth pony still sitting down crying while her face continued to burn. Lyra ran to her and took off her fedora while grabbing the earth pony by her cheeks.

"Bon-Bon! Are you OK?" Lyra asked Bon-Bon looked at her with closed teary eyes.

"I have steaming hot coffee practically boiling my face off...DO I LOOK LIKE I'M FUCKING OK?!?!"

"OK...OK, look he managed to get away..."

"I know...and I couldn't believe he made you get bested by a stupid bread product..."

Lyra blushed of embarrassment. "Y-Yeah...it just happened so fast..."

"What are we gonna tell the boss?" Bon-Bon asked as Lyra helped her get on her feet.

"Not sure...but we should get out of here before the Solar Guards get here..." Lyra helped Bon-Bon into the car and the two mares rode away from the scene.

Just then a particular gray pegasus mare with a yellow mane and walleyes was walking by the coffee shop wearing a mail carrier uniform. She stopped in front of the shop and looked around at the ruckus Lyra, Bon-Bon, and Spike caused, She even saw Lyra's discarded Thompson near the alleyway entrance. But she wasn't interested in that, what she was interested in was the muffin Spike threw at Lyra. It just sat upright in the middle of the sidewalk...all alone.

The pegasus sighed. "Waste of a delicious muffin..."

She was about to walk away but then something popped in her head. She turned her head left and right to see if anyone was watching, seeing the coast was clear, she bent down quickly and took the muffin from the sidewalk. Still looking around, she stuffed it in her mailbag and walked away as casually as she could away from the scene while whistling a little tune.

Author's Note

Classic Derpy