The symbols of Anarchy

Applejack woke up in a hospital bed to the beeping sound of the patient monitor. As she looked to the right she saw all of her friends and famliy stood by, all except one. Applebloom. As Applejack remembered what happened, she tried to get up from the bed, but she was stopped by Twilight.

"The kids!" Applejack shouted in terror, "Twilight the kids are missing1!"

"We know Applejack," Twilight sighed in sorrow, "It's been weeks since we saw the kids."

"No, ah mean, the kids are kidnapped!" Applejack said in frustration, "After Discord's funeral, ah saw Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Scotaloo and the rest of the colts and fillies walking into The Everfree forest, following a Kirin. When I found the Kirin, she was controlling the plants and put the kids in cacoons."

Everyone was shocked but according to the last weeks and after what happened to Cadence, Starlight, Luna, and Discord, it wasn't surprising anymore. What happened to Equestria, Twilight thought, not so long ago the most dangerous thing was a changeling threat of Chrysalis or a monster from Tartarus. Now there a psychoapaths and murderers, kidnapping and torturing. It is like the world has gone mad. And all of the attacks were happening only to those she and her friends... That it!!

"I don't think these things were random," Twilight suddenly said, answering a question that no one asked.

"What do you mean?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"Think about that. The first attack was on my brother's wife. then, three of our friends. And now our children and siblings are kidnapped. They want our attention, they want something from us." There was silence in the room, everyone took their time to think about what the lavender alicorn just said and then the penny dropped.

" Very impressive Twilight," a feminine voice said behind Twilight, the young alicorn turned around to see two ponies. One was a white alicorn with beautiful hair in the color of the rainbow that never stopped moving and the sun was her cutie mark. The other pony was a blue pegasus mare with blond mane and lightning as a cutie mark.

"Lightning Dust?" Rainbow Dash was surprised to see her old rival here, standing next to Princess Celestia herself.

"If you please come with me." The group did as Celestia told them. Applejack leaped the hospital bed and went with the others.

The main 6 followed Celestia and Lightning Dust to the throne room. The guards locked the doors and stood there, guarding the doors. "What is going on?" Applejack asked Celestia, " Why are those maniacs attacking us, what do they want from us?"

"That I could not answer," Celestia sighed, "But maybe, we can stop them before they will finish whatever their plan is." Celestia looked at Lightning Dust and the blue mare started to explain.

"After my job as a washout was destroyed," Lightning Dust glanced at Rainbow with anger, "I was looking for a job. No one wanted to hire me, I was hopeless. One day, a pegasus who saw me at the academy told me about a business griffon that she could help his 'Delivery occupation'. The griffon's name is Oswald Cobblepot, but he goes by 'Penguin'."

"A year ago I hired Lightning Dust to spy on Penguin," Celestia said, "Penguin has strong power in our government and he control crime in Equestria, I could not arrest him without proofs." Celestia finished and nodded to Lightning Dust to continue.

"Last week, a Kirin appeared at his club in the unguard area of Canterlot. She was a green Kirin with a red mane and behind her were thousands of cacoons. The Kirin told Penguin that the kids are ready to be sent for Dr. Crane. When I heard it, I told Celestia immediately."

"So what you need from us?" Rainbow asked, " You have the Proof you need, why not arrest Penguin?"

"Cobblepot is the only one who knows where Crane resides, If he would see my guards coming he could warn Crane and the kids could be in danger. I need you to go to Penguin's club the 'Iceberg lounge' and to find any clue that will lead to the location of Crane and perhaps the other criminals."

"And how will we get in?" Twilight asked, "Penguin will never let heroes and friends of the princesses enter his club."

"Leave that to me." Lightning Dust smiled.

The unguarded area of Canterlot was the place to find the best kind of criminals, mercenaries, smugglers, and death. The royal guards never patroled there, the streets were full of garbage, blood and, corpses. It was no pony land. The only beautiful thing in this hell was the 'Iceberg lounge'. Only the most dangerous and wanted criminals would enter the club. And those who are not invited, well, they would never leave. A group of 7 interesting looking ponies went towards the big club who looked like a picture from a magazine.

"This is not going to work," Twilight insisted as she tried to hide her horn behind a big black top hat.

"A little faith Twi," Pinkie told Twilight while she is fixing her mustache, "I'm sure that no one would even know that we are ourselves." As the girls stood in front a big door, with a sign said 'Do not enter, unless you are stupid'. The girls were confused, why there was no guard.

"Before we go in," Lightning Dust told the main 6 and gave them instructions "Do not be yourself. Do not try to make friends do not try to solve the ponies' problem and do not-" Rainbow Dash ran towards the door and to her surprise it was unlocked, leaving a dust cloud and the group followed her inside leaving Lightning Dust alone "- Enter without me."

"What kind of a crime boss leave the door unlocked and unguarded?" Twilight asked her friends as they walked in the dark room.

"The crime boss who knows that no one is dumb enough to enter without an invitation," a voice echoed in the room. The light was turned on and the group found themselves surrounded from every corner by griffons, diamond dogs, dragons and stallions. Inside the circle with them, the group of frightened mares saw a small griffon, with black and white feathers and small wings. The griffon was wearing a monocle on his right eye, a black top hat and he smoked a brown cigar. Lightning Dust ran towards the griffon in panic.

"Mr. Cobblepot!" Lightning Dust smiled, "I see you already met my new crew." The griffon looked at Lightning Dust was trying to keep her nerves down and he laughed. Lightning Dust sighed in relief as the group of criminals broke their circle. The main 6 walked towards the mare and the griffon and Lightning Dust introduced them to her boss.

"This lavender pegasus," Lightning Dust pointed her hoof at Twilight that was disguised by a black top hat and green coat covering her cutie mark, "Is Professor Jenna Moriarty, one of the best heist planners in Equestria, she once planned a heist of Queen Chrysalis' crown." Cobblepot shook Twilight's hoof. Next, There was Fluttershy who was disguised in a hockey mask and wore a stained apron and blue, buttoned shirt, "This is Blood Lecter. She killed her own brother in the age of 6 and since then she never said any word," Lightning Dust looked at Fluttershy, "Not.. a single word."

"Kassidy would like her," Cobblepot said as Lightning Dust brought Rarity who wore a black dress with black feather scarf.

"You know Selina Kyle, right? So This mare is her cousin, and she goes by the name of The purple raven. She once fought an army of diamond dogs just for their diamonds." Cobblepot looked close at Rarity, something looked familiar about the white unicorn.

"Why does she looked like the designer from Ponyville Rarity?" Cobblepot asked as he took a newspaper with the news on her new boutique on it.

"Well..." Lightning Dust mumbled and took her time to answer, "It is because her last theft was of Rarity's diamonds, she had to go through plastic surgery just so she could have the snob mare's diamonds." Offended Rarity walked away towards the bar. " This orange mare is Mrs Clyde," Applejack, wearing a disguise of an eye patch and she wore a blue dress and her cowboy hat, "She robbed the colonies in the desert with 1 knife." Applejack smiled and walked towards Rarity.

"This one is Penny wase," Pinkie came wearing nothing but a fake mustache, "She is the lawbreaker, she doesn't even obey the laws of nature." Cobblepot looked confused at Pinkie who took a box of cupcakes from her hair and ate them.

"And the last one is Sarah Bolton" Lightning took Rainbow Dash, who was wearing black tuxedo and red rose was inside her vest pocket, "Not a lot of brain, but she is one tough cookie." Rainbow Dash frowned to Dust's words.

"Well welcome to the Iceberg lounge, and please call me Penguin." Penguin greeted his guests as a big stallion unicorn whispered something to the griffon's ear. "Excuse me," Penguin said, "I have a business to attend, please have fun." Penguin left with the stallion to a room guarded by two minotaurs.

"Okay," Twilight gathered the group, "Applejack, Fluttershy and I would search the club for anything that would lead us to the children. Rarity, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust, you need to make a distraction so we could sneak in." Lightning Dust looked at Rainbow Dash and she had an idea.

Rainbow Dash was thrown to the bar table, breaking bottles and glasses as Lightning Dust flew to her, ready to beat the life out of her. "What the hell!" Rainbow Dash shouted in rage as Lightning Dust landed on the bar table.

"Do you really think you can steal from me and get away Ramsay?" Lightning shouted as all the criminals were looking at them, leaving their tables, to look at the fight between the two mares.

"FIGHT, FIght, fight!" The crowd cheered as the two pegasi punched and kicked each other. The minotaur guards saw the fight. Usually, they would do nothing and let the criminals kill each other, but Mr. Cobblepot asked that the place would be clean for his special guests tomorrow. As the guards went to stop the fight, Twilight, Applejack, and Fluttershy sneaked to the hall and ran to the darkness. The guards stopped the fight and the guests of the club returned to their drinks and games.

"The plan worked," Lightning Dust smirked as Rainbow Dash took an ice bag from Pinkie's hair and looked at her with hatred. Lightning Dust smiled to Rainbow and she took a coin with Celestia's head on both sides, "Next time pick heads."

"Very funny," Rainbow Dash said and rolled her eyes, "Where the coin from?"

"My brother, he is actually the reason I tried to become a wonderbolt. He always was better than me, always said 'everything is about luck." Lightning Dust looked at Rainbow and she smiled "Drinks on me."

Twilight, Fluttershy, and Applejack removed their disguises and walked down the hall. The hall had red walls covered in red valet, and on the walls, there were pictures and painting of famous artists. there the screaming mare, the mona Celestia and there was a picture of Penguin with a weird group. to Penguin's right, there was a stallion, who wore brown ripped clothes with a straw poking out of them and he wore a mask of a scarecrow and brown witch hat. To Penguin's left, there was a unicorn stallion, wearing a green suit with a purple tie and a green bowler. On the right side of the picture, there was the Kirin Applejack and Lightning Dust talked about. In the middle of the picture, there was a white stallion with green hair. The stallion was wearing a purple suit and a green vest, but the thing the mares noticed about was his smile. Under the picture, there was a golden line that a name was curved. The symbols of Anarchy.

"These weirdoes give me the creeps," Applejack told Fluttershy, but the yellow pegasus didn't listen, she was focused on the scarecrow-like figure. The girls left the picture, trying to find something that would help them. Finally, Twilight found something.

"Hey over here!" Twilight called for her friends and the three mares entered an office. On the desk, there was a big, brown book that was titled The secret of Anarchy. Twilight opened the book and she found a list of cities and names of ponies, yaks, dragons, griffons, and changelings. Applejack noticed the name of her sister on the list. twilight used her horn to cast a shrinking spell on the book and she gave this to Applejack to keep under her hat. "Let's go, we have what we need," Twilight said with a hopeful smile.

"Leaving so soon?" A familiar voice asked behind The mares. It was Penguin. The mares gasped in terror as two diamond dogs knocked them out.

"I don't know who is more foolish," Penguin laughed, "Celestia, who thinks I didn't know there was a mole under my beak. Or you, Lightning, to think that Celestia would protect you."

The main 6 were tied to a chair as Lightning Dust was beaten by the two minotaurs. The Griffon snapped his fingers and the minotaurs stopped and a red unicorn with a green mohawk and his cutie mark was a flame. "Let's show you what's happening to moles here." The stallion's horn glows in red and he aimed at the blond mare. The main 6 wanted to keep their eyes shut but the guards didn't let them. Lightning Dust got up on her legs, spat blood and smiled to Cobblepot.

"I thought you are a penguin, not a chicken!" Lightning Dust smirked.

The unicorn blasts a flaming ball to her face. Lightning tried to dodge the attack, but half of her face was harmed.

"HAAAAA!" Dust screamed in pain. The Penguin smiled as an earth pony without hair and was covered in scars whispered something in his ear.

"What?!!!" Penguin shouted in rage as the club's door was blasted away and 100 royal guards led by Shining Armor. The guards surrounded the criminals, freed the main 6, and took the wounded pegasus.

"Oswald Cobblepot, you are under arrest!" Shining Armor shouted as two guards took the small griffon. As the guards took the criminals away, Twilight hugged her brother. Rainbow Dash walked to where Dust was burned and she took the coin that fell from her.