Waters: Part 2 - Dark May

A Fort in Manehattan. May 2nd: Evening.

A car arrives at the infamous fort in Manehattan where Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie are retained. Three men get out of the car: Grey Blackle is the first one to come out while being handled by Lucas Plegovich with a leash on his neck. A minute later, a hoary, robust man comes out. Kobolov, who is watching the scenario since the Fort's door, shouts:

"HOLY!"

The hoary man smiles. "Did you miss me?" he says. That hoary man is none other than Colonel Karzov, who was Kobolov's colonel during his militia years. However, Karzov was not only an Equestrian Sargeant but also one of the oldest and most loyal workers (and friends too) of Mr Public Property and his sons. Besides, Karzov was the one who introduced Kobolov to the mafia.

"Where were you all this time, Mr Karzov?" says a joyful Kobolov to Karzov. Both men handshake while Ragamuffin comes out and looks at what's happening right now. He doesn't recognize both Karzov and Grey Blackle and decide to get inside again.

"I was busy doing what Plegovich told me to do," answers Karzov. "I was on the retirement home when he called me months ago, and I collaborated him with the plan to destroy Strict Proclamation's kingdom. Now I am a man of gold in the new Equestrian Republic, living in the last room of the Golden Horse Hotel of Manehattan... and yeah, Lucas passed by and... I wanted to see you, man."

"Oh..." says Kobolov, chuckling. "Thank you, man... and you have the penthouse? It's pure beauty..."

"The nicer, the better, they say," says Karzov while Lucas enters the fort with Grey Blackle on a leash. "Whoops, sorry for distracting you from the main point of this... guess who arrived..."

"Grey Blackle?" says Kobolov. "Here?"

"Yeah," says Lucas. "You told me you wanted a third man to take care of those girls."

Grey Blackle looks at Kobolov and slowly waves his hand, whispering: "H-H-Hey..."

"Shut up," says Kobolov. "I wanted a sane third man... not this!"

"Sorry," says Lucas, smiling. "This is what we have."

"Are you kidding?" says Kobolov. "Plegovich has a zillion of men working for him! And you bring me Grey fucking Blackle?"

"All those zillions of men are busy doing specific jobs," says Lucas, whose smile has faded into seriousness. "Such as Garry's workers with that shit he thought, about a harbour in Saik City... and well, etcetera."

"I can be that third man," says Karzov, raising his shoulders. "I have no problem with staying for a while... maybe until tomorrow afternoon."

Kobolov does a sigh of relief and touches his fellow colonel's shoulder. "Uhh... thank you, Karzov, for existing. You can take him away, Lucas."

"No," says Lucas, angry. "I don't want him on the House again."

"Really?" says Kobolov. "Why?"

"I don't wanna have a psychopath in my land!"

"Psy-cho?..." says Grey Blackle, looking at Lucas with his frightening eyes and his shrunk right pupil.

"Shut up!" says Kobolov, and then he sighs and looks at Karzov. The veteran colonel only rises his shoulders. "Plegovich doesn't want him, does he?" asks the soldier. Lucas nods with his head and he closes his eyes, nodding his head. "Ok," says Kobolov. "Give me Blackle and go away."

Lucas smiles and nods his head, letting Blackle go. However, the psychopath doesn't move and is only looking at the sky. "Hey, you idiot!" shouts Lucas. "Move." Blackle raises an eyebrow and his right pupil shrinks more than before. He fastly turns around and punches Lucas in the face, breaking his nose and making him fall. "YOU MOTHERFUCKER!" shouts Plegovich's nephew while getting up and kicking him in his chest. Kobolov starts kicking Blackle's back while Karzov is just watching.

"Hey! Kid! Ragamuffin!" shouts Kobolov. "Ragamuffin!"

Ragamuffin comes out, shocked. "W... What?"

"Bring me the baton!"

"Ba-ba-baton..." says Grey Blackle, surprised, and Kobolov sticks him to the floor using his powers, leaving him with no escape.

"Why?" asks Ragamuffin. Lucas Plegovich looks at him.

"Are you kidding me, kid? Are you watching what we are doing?" shouts Plegovich's nephew. "Bring me that baton right now!"

Ragamuffin runs away and comes back with a black baton seconds later. "Um... I'll go?" he asks. Karzov, Lucas and Kobolov look at him.

"Stay," says Karzov. "Looking deep into your eyes I see you never watched someone getting his ass kicked."

"What? But..." says the blonde kid, worried about the psychopath.

"Stay," says the Colonel with an eye wink. "You should."

Ragamuffin slowly walks and stands next to Karzov while watching Lucas Plegovich beating Grey Blackle up by hurting him with a baton.

An hour later, the small room where Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie Pie are retained is silent. Nobody is talking, although all of them are completely awake. Suddenly, they hear someone coming near and unlocking the door. The four girls get up, surprised, and Pinkie Pie's hair turns poofy. However, their hope breaks when the one who opens the door is Ragamuffin. Pinkie's hair is smooth again, but Rarity and Rainbow Dash get up to go for Ragamuffin and escape.

"COME HERE!" shouts the fashionista, but Ragamuffin pushes her away while Rainbow Dash gets him inside the room. Applejack enters the fight too and gets out of the room.

"Girls!" shouts Applejack. "We haven't got enough time! It's time to..."

Applejack is interrupted when Kobolov's powers get him back to the room. She also hits her head with the metallic door and is knocked out.

Rarity and Rainbow Dash try to get out but they are easily thrown away by Kobolov's powers. Karzov, who is behind his fellow pupil, looks at the scenario. Ragamuffin gets out of the room, running away, and Kobolov shouts:

"BRING HIM! THROW HIM HERE, KARZOV!"

Karzov, who's holding Grey Blackle through the leash, throws him to the room and Kobolov fastly closes before getting grabbed by Rarity and Rainbow Dash again.

"NO!" shouts Rarity. "LET US OUT! LET US OUT!"

"I won't let you out, ladies!" shouts Kobolov. "Shut the hell up!"

"Why are they here?" asks Karzov. "Four innocent girls?"

Kobolov and Karzov leave the room while looking at Rarity crying. "These girls?" says Kobolov. "They are anything but innocent... they are the Rainbooms."

"Rainbooms?" says Karzov.

"The girls who saved the world from Vignette Valencia, Midnight Sparkle, Gaea Everfree... do you watch the news?"

"Yes, but... why are they trapped there?"

"Plegovich ordered me not to kill them, but retain them... only to know that they are suffering. It's something that came out from the boss' crazy mind..."

Ragamuffin is outside the Fort, gasping while lying on the ground. Kobolov and Karzov laugh out loud.

"What happened, boy?" shouts Kobolov. "Did they kick your ass? Hahahaha!"

Ragamuffin doesn't answer, and Karzov takes advantage of this to ask Kobolov something: "Are you sure you don't want to kill Blackle? It seems that nobody wants him..."

"Nah..." says Kobolov. "He can be useful. Besides, now I want to see Rainbooms' reactions when they find out who is him..."

Rainbow Dash punches the window in a desperate try to escape, but nothing happens. Meanwhile, Applejack and Rarity try to find out who is the new man with them. Grey Blackle is knocked out and still has his neck trapped by the notorious leash. This is the first thing Rarity focuses on.

"Look at the leash," she says.

"You think they been treating him as a slave?" says Applejack, while touching the leash. Suddenly, Pinkie Pie slowly approaches them with her smooth, uncoloured, flat hair and looks at the knocked out man on the floor.

"I do think, Applejack," says Pinkie in a grave voice. "We will have those leashes in the future, we may be slaves too..."

"Don't say that, Pinkie!" says Rarity, while having her eyes full of tears. "We will escape, find Twilight, Fluttershy and Sunset Shimmer and get rid of all those men that did bring the president Strict Proclamation down!"

"If only we had our powers..." says Rainbow Dash. "Whoever Plegovich is, he will pay soon!"

Grey Blackle suddenly gets up and tackles Rainbow Dash, falling over her. Pinkie's hair turns poofy again because of her jumpscare, and Rarity and Applejack try to get Blackle over her and calm him down. Eventually, he ends up punching the metallic door with his fists.

"LET ME OUT!" shouts Grey Blackle. "LET ME OUT! LETMEOUTLETMEOUTLETMEOUT!"

"Calm down!" says Rarity. "They won't hear you! Even that freaking betrayer!"

Blackle keeps smashing the door, but this time with his head. He does it several times until he falls to the room's floor, almost knocked out. "Hey, hey!" shouts Rainbow Dash, while trying to wake Blackle up again. "Hey, you!"

"I... am... n-n-not... an... a-a-a-a-anomaly..." says Grey Blackle, and then passes out while closing his eyes.