Rebellious Spirit

The family arrives home safely. Everypony wakes up except Clash who is still sleeping soundly.

Pierce sighs and smiles, “I’ll take her. You boys bring these.” Pierce carries Clash then fire teleport to her bedroom.

Meanwhile, as Sling, Dikarb, and Darah carries the groceries Pierce bought, Darah becomes curious.

“So, what are we gonna do next?”

“I don’t know. Practice with your Stand again or whatever you’d like to. Anyway, we’re going to Almania at this Friday at noon.”

Dikarb half smiles, “Oh yeah.”

After carrying the groceries, Darah changes his clothes into his track clothes, “Dad, I’m going to take a walk at the park. See you!”

“Careful, son!” Sling watches Darah trots to the city, going to the park.

While trotting into the city, Darah enjoys the view of the coast and the farms on the hills in the distance. Before he arrives in the city, Darah puts his mask on. He doesn’t like smoke. Upon arriving at the park, Darah takes his mask off and continues trotting.

In the park, Darah sees a gray pony smoking and throws the cigarette to the grass. Nopony stops or warns him from smoking and littering. Darah asks one of the local about the smoking pony.

“Excuse me, sir. Why’s nopony stops him from smoking?”

“He’ll beat you like a crusher, and also toasts you. That’s why.” The pony sighs. “Sorry, I can’t help you in any way. He’ll beat anypony.”

“Thanks,” Darah says as heads to the smoking pony.

“Excuse me, would you please to not smoke and litter? It bothers a lot of ponies.”

The pony stops smoking and throws the cigarette to the grass, slowly walks to Darah, “What’s your problem? The junk boys will clean them, anyway.”

The look on the pony’s face is menacing, he stops in front of Darah.

“Please, do-”

Suddenly, he delivers his hoof to Darah’s face but Darah quickly blocks it. He immediately does a spin kick and kicks Darah on his stomach. Darah flies a little before landing on the ground in such pain. Darah knows he has to react fast or he will gets beaten by the pony.

The pony jumps to Darah to perform a fatal blow. Suddenly, what appears to be a knight-like pony with swords as its front limbs blocks his attack.

“What the...?” The pony whispers, surprised.

His face turns into anger as he unleashes his Stand, Storm Rider. A blue cheetah made purely from lightning, electric currents spreads near it. It swings its claw to the right front leg of Darah’s Stand, Sweet Death. The electricity Storm produces electrify Sweet, the damage that Sweet receives transfers into Darah.

“Gah!” Darah holds his right leg as it has been electrified.

“Stand user too? Your Stand won’t survive against me. Tsk, we will surely electrify you.”

“He’s right. Sweet Death is protected with iron armor. Obviously, we’ll be electrify by him.” Darah thoughts. “But…, when it landed its claw on Sweet, it felt solid. So, that means...sure!” Sweet Death quickly charges its left sword to Storm.

This surprises the pony, Storm immediately blocks the attack. Unfortunately, its action resulted on having its front legs pierced. This makes the exact same wounds on the pony’s front legs. Laying down with pierced wound, he is incapacitated, yet Storm is still standing from the pony’s strength. It then continues to attack

As the pony breathes angrily, more scars are added onto him. While Darah gets electrify more and more. They are dying by each other’s attack.

“This is not good. Even if Storm Rider electrifies him, his Stand is able to pierce me again. I have to flee.” The pony thoughts as he tries hardly to stand up.

As its last attack before fleeing, Storm jumps at Sweet and spins very fast. Electric current forms near Storm as it gets closer to Sweet.

“Not good! If I don’t block, I’ll be dead. But then again….” Before Darah could finishes his words, Storm is already in front of him. Still spinning very fast.

Having no more choice, Sweet thrusts its sword into still-spinning Storm. Resulting of the sword successfully pierces Storm and the pony. But, this also electrifies Darah very badly that his legs starts to turn black and roasted. The battle is finished.

Darah drops and nearly black out. One of the pony that witnessed the fight calls ambulance. He runs to Darah and the pony, trying perform first aid on them despite having low experience on medic.

“Help these ponies, please!” The pony shouts at the crowd. Some more come to help, they bring Darah and the pony outside the park and wait for the ambulance to arrive.

Due to blood loss, the pony blacks out. Luckily, the ambulance arrived. Two unicorns heal the pony and Darah, they lift the two dying ponies and bring them to the hospital.

Meanwhile in Darah’s house, Sling wonders why Darah is not home yet.

“He never runs for this long. Is it traffic jam or it could be….”

Sling’s drives his motorcycle to the park, only to find the aftermath of the fight.

“No...it could be another victim but not my son. But...gah. I want to check it but the police.”

Sling steps back, a dark purple kukri appears on his hoof. He then throws it to the blood and grasses.

“No, no! No! Darah!”

Sling panics and immediately head to the hospital where Darah is taken to. Arriving at the hospital, Sling parks his motorcycle then rushes to the hospital. He tries to keep calm and ask the receptionist.

“Excuse me, ma’am. Do you know Darah?”

“Yes, sir. Hold on.” The receptionist searches Darah on her computer. “He’s in the ICU room, sir.” As the receptionist about to say the reason, Sling asks another question.

“Where is it? Where’s the ICU?” Sling starts to breathes heavily.

“Over there, sir.” The receptionist gently points to the left.

“Thank you.” Sling runs to the ICU room.

When he arrives at the ICU room, he realizes that he’s not allowed to go in. Being powerless, he can only wishes on the doctors and Princess Cadance to save Darah. Twenty five minutes later, Darah is out from the ICU, he’s being taken to a room. Bandages cover his entire front legs.

“Excuse me, doctor. I’m the father of this patient. Is he going to be fine?”

“Don’t worry, sir. He’ll be fine. He only needs to recover from being electrified too much on his front legs. For now he’s unable to walk properly.”

Sling relieves, “Thank you, Princess Cadance. Where is his room?”

“Please follow me, sir.”

The doctor leads Sling to Darah’s room. Along the way, Sling is thinking what happened to Darah.

“Doc, what happened to him?”

“He got electrified. Witnesses said he was fighting somepony. I don’t know who that pony is and how your son got electrify. His front legs-”

“Okay, I got it. When I was in the park, I saw some blood.” Sling realizes something. “Oh wait, never mind. Should asked that to the police.”

The doctor reads the paper, “I think...the pony he was fighting is also here. If this is the pony you’re wondering, he has at least three pierced wounds and has blacked out due to blood loss.”

“Pierced wounds, let’s see. Sweet has two sword legs and protected by iron armor.” Sling thinks. “Doc, do the wounds are caused by sword?”

“How did you know that?” The doctor looks at Sling in confused-and-surprised face.

Sling giggles, tapping his head, “I’m right, nopony would use sword to fight in here, especially with all the guns Equestria now has. No wonder now, it’s definitely Sweet.” Sling whispers.

“Sir, here’s your son’s room. I’m sorry but he’s shocked and have to stay for at least a week.”

Hearing the doctor’s words, Sling becomes restless as he gets more worried and he may have to cancel their trip to Almania. After thanking the doctor, Sling calls Pierce and tells her that Darah is in a hospital. After hearing what Sling says, Pierce immediately becomes anxious for Darah. She quickly put on her dress and fire teleport downstairs.

“Dikarb! Dikarb!”

“Yeah, mom?” Dikarb peeks from the kitchen.

Pierce runs to Dikarb and speak quickly, “Dikarb, please take care of your sister. I have to go to the hospital.”

“What, why?”

“It’s Darah, he’s in the hospital.”

Dikarb feels his heart rots by itself, he breathes to calm down, “Well then, should I take you there?”

“Stahl can take me, right?”

“No, Stahl can only go to ten meters from me. The streets are dangerous and I’m having trust issues with the taxi drivers.” Dikarb turns off the stove before putting on his jacket. “Beside, Stahl is too big on the road. I’ll take you there.”

“No, you stay here and take care of your sister.”

“She’s eighteen, mom. She’s not gonna wander off.”

Pierce sighs, “You’re right. Don’t drive too fast then.”

“And try to be careful, will do.”

Dikarb and Pierce heads to the hospital carefully.

“Seeing royal guards everywhere makes me wanna leave this city. If I can go to where Kirin lives, or Mt. Eris.”

When Dikarb and Pierce stop at a traffic light. A blue car suddenly drifts ahead of them with a police car chasing behind it, right after the chase gunfire can be heard.

“Considering buying an armoured car?”

“In this case, maybe.”

After the chase, Batalyon Bravo 1 vans and trucks arrived at the traffic light where Dikarb and Pierce are at. The personnels start to place blockades while letting civilians pass before the road is closed. As Dikarb drives, he can hear the conversation on one of the personnel speaks on his radio, the vehicles sound disturb Dikarb’s hearing.

“...Over.”

“R…. Section Four is has been locked down. Over.” The personnel turns left.

“...The...re. Ove….”

Dikarb and Pierce drive out from the short traffic jam and continue their way to the hospital. Along the way, they see more Batalyon Bravo 1 personnels guarding the streets. As Dikarb drops Pierce on the sideway, one of the personnel comes to them.

“Excuse me, sir and ma’am. What is your destination this afternoon?”

“The hospital, sir. Our son just got in here.”

“Alright, but be aware. The streets is going on a lock down until 03:15 PM. I advise you to park inside and don’t go out until further notice from us.”

“Will do, sir.” Dikarb parks his motorcycle inside the hospital parking site.

As Dikarb is about to turn, he sees Sling’s motorcycle being moved by one of the personnel into the parking site. Dikarb tells Pierce about it and Pierce tells Sling via phone.

“C1, alright.” Sling closes the call. “Dear Princess Celestia and Cadance, I’m so tired of this gangster and criminals.”

While Dikarb and Pierce search Darah’s room, they hear a personnel speaking via microphone from outside. Minutes after it, the streets become very quiet. They finally find Darah’s room and go in.

“Oh, Darah, sweetie.” Pierce bursts into tears as she sees Darah. She hugs Sling who’s gently tapping her to calm her down.

“At least he’s still alive and….” Dikarb looks at the life support device. “Even at condition like this, he’s quite stable. That’s kind of bright side if you think about it, mom.”

Pierce stays quiet while still mourning about Darah.

[End of Chapter 2]