Author's Note

Sorry! I published the chapter but it seemed that nothing happened! That's why I published it again.

Oh boy, here we come... chapters with more than 5000 words are coming!

I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 17: The Battle of Saik City

Saik City

Saik City is, in fact, a small city. It only has four streets and one avenue: Locke Street. Between the intersections of the streets and this avenue, there are several houses and stores which are now empty. Most citizens of Saik City have been moved from their original houses due to Garry's new project in mind: he is thinking about turning his hometown, Saik City, into a harbour. According to Plegovich's words and Public Property's secret project, there are only three harbours in Equestria: one in Baltimare, another one in Everfree, and the last one in Fillydelphia. However, Fillydelphia's harbour stopped working four years ago due to a decree made by Strict Proclamation and the other two harbours have been qualified as old platforms with outdated machinery. Meanwhile, Saik City is the northernmost city of all Equestria, and there are only two miles between the city and the North Equestrian Sea.

Garry told Plegovich the idea, and the mad boss agreed with him although he didn't like it so much. Over the past few weeks, Garry's thoughts about Plegovich have been fading to disgust. The madman orders him to take the power pills every day and hates his boss' selfishness. The bounty hunter always listens to his boss' advice, but Plegovich never listens to his thoughts and words. He knows he is not the only one that thinks the same because plenty of gangsters that work for Plegovich share the same ideas, but didn't want to do anything due to their fear of Plegovich's cruelty. Moreover, he sometimes thinks it could be a good idea to fight against him, but he also knows that having Plegovich against his side would be a fatal mistake. That's why he is still working under Plegovich's shadow but doing projects with his Garry style.

Right now, it's raining on Saik City, and there is only one place in the city with the lights on, a small canteen. It has only three tables, another room with a locked door and a bar filled with alcohol. There are a couple of workers there, that are helping Garry with the harbour's project. Those men not only have Garry as their leader but also they have an administrator who controls them: that man is called Stinky Herb, a giant, fat, bald man with dirty clothes and a hideous smell. He is Garry's best friend from the city, who is a rookie gangster and is always with his son, Stinky Herbie Junior, which is shorter, smaller and thinner than him, has hair but has the same smell as his father.

It is almost 1:30 A.M. and Garry enters the canteen along with several men that went with him to Petko's cabaret.

"So...?" says Stinky Herb, while drinking a whole bottle of whisky. "What happened with the raid of the ghost?"

Everyone laughs, but Garry and his men don't. That's when Stinky Herbie Jr. finds out. "Hey, Garry!" says Herbie with an acute voice. "Why the long face?"

"Something happened," answers Garry while grabbing Stinky Herb's bottle of whisky.

"Did the ghost scare you, pal?" says Stinky Herb. Everyone laughs.

"No," says Garry. "Petko's dead."

Now the canteen is pure silence. No one dares to talk after Garry's words, and that's the moment when Stinky Herb talks: "How?" he says. "How... did that happen?"

"Seductive and her adopted daughters have escaped... and Wilbur Waters was free until I killed him."

"What about Chalk?" says Stinky Herb.

"My men also found him dead, upstairs."

"Oh, shit..." says Stinky Herb. "Do you think this was related to the brainy?"

"No, that's impossible..." says Garry. "By the way, how's the brainy doing? Is she hungry? I need her for tomorrow... we still need to know what kind of machinery we should buy for the harbour."

"I think..." says Stinky Herb, and then he asks his son: "Did you give food to the brainy today?"

"The little brain... No! I forgot to do it!"

Stinky Herb slaps his son's face. "You stupid!" he shouts. "We need her safe and sound! Hey, someone, give me a sandwich!" Two workers of Stinky Herb get up and make a sandwich. They give it to Stinky Herb and he stands up. "And what about the other thing?"

"What thing?" says Herb's son.

"She told me you touched her... several times yesterday."

"...So?" he says.

Herb slaps his son's face again. "Don't you touch her! I told you we need her safe and sound!"

"I don't understand why touching her would be bad!" he says. Herb looks at Garry and the bounty hunter raises his shoulders, letting him go. Then, Herb enters the locked room. It's a small, dirty bathroom with a broken toilet and a rusty bathroom sink. A girl is sitting in the toilet, whose left arm is chained to the bathroom sink. She is Twilight Sparkle, a.k.a. The Brainy.

"Hey," says Stinky Herb. "Wake up. Time for dinner."

Twilight Sparkle opens her eyes and coughs because of Stinky Herb's indescribable smell. She grabs the sandwich and asks: "Did... Did you wash your hands?"

"Of course," says Stinky Herb. However, Twilight looks at how dirty are his hands. "Just eat the sandwich, for god's sake."

Twilight grabs the sandwich and bites a small portion of it. Stinky Herb opens the door and Gail Garry comes in. "Hello, Brainy... how was your day?"

She looks around her and raises his eyebrows: "Pretty good."

"You are so funny, brainy," says Stinky Herb, laughing.

"Well," says Garry. "Tomorrow won't be time for jokes. You will have to help us with the harbour's machinery, and now that I remember... you recommended me buying three Limestone LR-5250 cranes for the coast... but you never told us how much it was."

Twilight Sparkle raises her shoulders. "I have no idea."

"Are you sure? I hope you are not lying to us, girl, because we are being pretty good to you. Your rainboom friends may be suffering worse consequences than you."

"You should feel lucky," says Stinky Herb. "You even have that... thing near you."

Garry chuckles. "Oh, thank you for reminding me of that thing, Herb... I'll come back."

Garry comes out of the room and returns with Twilight's geode on his hands. "Last time we gave you this thing... you threw all of us far away from you. That's why I decided not to give it to you until you reconsidered your stupid behaviour... and well, these past few weeks you behaved... really well."

"Yeah, I agree," says Stinky Herb. "I agree, Garry."

"I was thinking, you know, I thought about... giving it to you again... only to help us with carrying the machinery with your magic. However, if I see you doing something else with your magic that it's outside my authorization... even if you use it only to tie your shoes... I'll fucking shoot you in the head, got it?"

Twilight Sparkle nods her head, with no gestures at all. However, she can't stop thinking about her friends' fate, because she is the only one around Saik City... and maybe this whole zone... and maybe all of Equestria. Once Garry and Herb get out of there, Herb receives a phone call. PLEGOVICH.

5 Minutes Ago

There is a car on the dark route. It is now 1:25 A.M. and W is driving a stolen car that was in Minerva's mansion while having Adagio Dazzle next to him and Sonata Dusk and Aria Blaze in the backseats. There is only silence in the car, making this an awkward, uncomfortable moment that doesn't demonstrate happiness at all. Suddenly, thunder is heard and Sonata looks through the window.

"It started to rain," says Sonata, almost whispering. Aria Blaze also looks at the window which is being touched by those raindrops.

"Where the hell is the wiper washer?" whispers W while trying to find where he can switch on the wiper arm. He is now driving slower and looks at Adagio Dazzle while looking for the switch. She is lying against the window, rubbing her head and crying. "Hey..."

Adagio stops rubbing her head and looks at W with her bloodshot eyes. "Now what?" she whispers.

"Um..." says W. "You... all of you... you will get your revenge."

The Dazzlings look at the Bedmaker now. "You called me only for that?" says Adagio.

W is driving slower than before while trying to find the wiper switch. "Well... this was an awkward situation so..."

Aria sighs. "Fuck you."

"No... he is right, indeed," whispers Sonata Dusk. "We will get our revenge."

"You always agree with the stupid people, Sonata," says Aria. "Typical."

"Oh, come on, Aria..." says Sonata. "He was right..."

"Hey!" says W. "I finally found the wiper washer." However, the Dazzlings are not listening to him now. Aria and Sonata start arguing and Adagio stops it.

"STOP!" shouts Adagio. "PLEASE, STOP! ENOUGH!"

"But..." says Sonata, about to cry. "B-but..."

"BUT WHAT, SONATA? SHUT UP!" says Adagio, and then she crawls in her seat. "Oh gosh... Why am I here, why? Why am I going to Saik City with you two and this dude? Oh my god... oh my... go..."

Adagio starts crying again while W switches on the wiper washer and drives faster without saying anything. Silence, along with the thunderstorm, invades the place again, until W looks at a sign outside. "WELCOME TO SAIK CITY"

Minutes later, W looks at a sentry box with its lights on. He is now driving slower because of the rain, which has turned into a war of raindrops and thunder.

"Hey!" says Sonata Dusk, near W's ear. "Look at the sentry box."

"Yes," answers W. "We will pass it by, don't worry."

W is about to accelerate, but then he hears a shout: "HEY! WAIT!"

W stops and the Dazzlings look at him. Adagio Dazzle sighs while cleaning his face with tears and touches her throat, about to sing. However, W tells her not to sing by now. The mysterious voice appears and stands in front of W's window with jeans, black leather shoes and a hoodie. He has red skin and orange hair. "Hey," says W while slowly touching his pocket, which has a gun.

The mysterious man looks inside. "What... what... wait," he says. "The Dazzlings."

"The what?" says Adagio Dazzle. "He knows us. We gotta kill him..."

The mysterious man gets scared but W saves his life. "No," says the Bedmaker, while looking at the man. Suddenly, he turns on the car's inner light and the man's face is illuminated. "Your face seems familiar to me, dude."

"Every face seems familiar to you, come on," says Adagio Dazzle, while trying to grab W's gun.

W grabs Adagio's hands and slowly put them away, later, he looks at the man again. "What's your name?"

"Um... what?"

"What's your name, man? It's a simple question."

"Um... Big Macintosh."

"Big Macintosh..." says W. "Um... I don't remember your name but your face... I do."

"Wait..." says Big Mac, while approaching W's face. "You were in that chaotic night... against Blueblood... you may know Applejack then."

W sighs. "Don't remind me of that night, please... and yes, I know Applejack. Wasn't her the lady with the hat?"

"I am her brother."

"Oh," says W. The Dazzlings are now looking at him, surprised. "And why are you here? On Saik City?"

"Long story... they grabbed me and said I had a kind of folk face, I don't know... and because of that, they sent me here, to work on that sentry box and to administrate the workers' assistance..."

"Workers? Of what?" says the Bedmaker. Adagio is not trying to grab W's gun now, but she is looking at her sisters. Sonata is focused on Big Mac and W's conversation, while Aria is just looking at the thunderstorm through the window, angrily.

"They want to build a harbour here... that guy... that speedy folk..."

"Gail Garry," says W. "Is he here?"

"Yeah," says Big Mac. "He is here with his workers."

"Ok... Big Macintosh, right?"

"Eeyup."

"Can I call you Big Mac?"

"Sure. Everyone calls me by that."

"I want you to do me a favour."

Big Mac rises his eyebrows. "What kind of favour?"

"An easy one."

"What are you trying to do?" interrupts Aria Blaze. "A favour?"

"Aria!" shouts Sonata. "Let him talk."

"Thanks, Sonata," says W while looking at the innocent siren, who's smiling for the first time on this night. "Mac, I want you to stay there, inside that sentry box, until I come back... got it?"

"Uh... that's what I do every night but... sure."

"But tonight will be a special night, remember," says W. "Do not move." The Bedmaker is about to accelerate but the car sound fades into pure silence. The Dazzlings and Mac stop moving, turning into statues. "Oh fuck," he whispers. "What do you want now? Where are you?"

"I've heard you insulted me," says Event, while lying on the backseat in between Aria and Sonata.

"Excuse me! I didn't insult you!" says W, turning around. "I only said... oh, fuck!"

"Which is a swear word."

"Come on... what do you want?"

"I'm here to tell you how do you have to kill Garry if you want to win."

"Sure... what should I do? Kill him while singing Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees?"

"You may think this is a joke, but if you want to kill Garry... you will have to use something you wanted to do since you joined Plegovich."

"Don't say that name again, please. Besides, what kind of thing I always wanted to do?"

"This," says Event while giving W a small box. W opens it and feels goosebumps by just looking at what's inside. There are magical pills. The ones that Garry, Kobolov and Doom Kid take to gain powers.

"Holy... holy shit," says W. "Where did you get them from?"

"I robbed some," says Event. "But you don't have to take them now. I'll tell you when you have to do it. On the other hand, I need to tell you that Sergei is alive and called Plegovich, telling him that you are alive."

"What?" says W, shocked. "Sergei's alive? How?"

"He had not only one, but two tactical vests."

"Son of a bitch..." says W, while slowly punching the steering wheel. "I should have shot him in the head."

"Don't worry," says Event. "He is not your main problem right now. Plegovich has just called one of Garry's workers and told him you and the sirens were going for them. That means you will have lots of cars filled with gangsters coming at you in... now."

"Now?"

"Now. You should tell the Dazzlings to use their pendants... it will be convenient for you."

"I have a question," says W. "Can I just kill Garry with your help? You stop time like the way you are doing it right now, I shot him in the head and you turn time back to normal life."

"No."

"Why?"

"That would mean I will constantly play with time and will eventually destroy this reality's time and space. I recommend you to keep time straight and to do the things the way I tell you to do."

W sighs. "Fuck you."

Event takes off his sunglasses. "You shouldn't insult to a god that is your main help during these days and eventually will be the only one that will take you to the win. Think about it, Bedmaker."

W doesn't answer and the time comes back to normal life, leading to Event's disappearance. The rain keeps falling while W is taking a breath. Big Mac runs away and enters the sentry box. "The pendants," says W.

"What?" says Adagio. "What's the matter?"

W hears the sound of a car near them. Then, he looks at two lights illuminating him. Then four. Six. Eight. Ten. Five cars have stopped in front of them. Big Mac instantly switches off the sentry box's lights. "This is the matter," says W. "Start singing."

The gangsters come out of the cars and the Dazzlings start singing while crouching inside the car. Gangsters start firing against the stolen car, breaking the front window and the hood, but suddenly the Dazzlings and W hear shouts and Sonata slowly moves her head to look. The gangsters are killing themselves again, the pendants worked. Minutes later, W gets out of the car with a handgun and looks that there are two gangsters still alive, fighting. He is now getting wet because of the rain while looking at the two men fighting. There is also an awful smell that mixes the wet grass next to the route with gunpowder's odour. W silently enters the sentry box while holding a small box on his hand: the pills.

"No, please! I have a family!"

"It's me, Big Mac," says W, closing the door. "Where are the lights? I wanted to check if you were OK."

"Uh... uh... to your right."

W finds the switch and turns on the lights. It is a small, white room with only a desk and a chair. Big Mac, who was taking cover under the desk and covering his ears, gets up and takes a breath. "May I know what happened outside? I've heard gunshots and..."

The sirens stop singing and W goes outside. Sonata raises his thumb, smiling. There is only one gangster alive, lying on the floor and coughing. W shoots him on his chest with the handgun he robbed before and steals the few ammo left from the gangster's handguns. Big Mac takes a look outside while turning off the lights.

"Stay inside, Mac," says W. "We'll enter. Garry's on a canteen now, right?"

"...Wait," says Big Mac, trying to figure out if those dead gangsters are actually dead. "Why did you come here? What are you trying to do?"

W points at the dead gangsters. "What do you think?"

Big Mac raises his eyebrows. "Oh... oh my... you came here to... kill Garry?"

"No, we came here to dance some jams... of course, Mac! Do you think why those guys came here? They were trying to kill us..."

"Oh my..." says Big Mac. "You are not going to kill me... right?"

"If you keep asking me stupid questions, maybe. Now go inside and stay there until we come back."

"Why? Will you... pick me up?"

"Pick him up?" says Aria Blaze. "Someone else inside this car? No, thanks!"

"Shut up, Aria!" says Sonata. "Mr Bedmaker is right, we can't leave him alone!"

"Girls, no time for fights," says W. "We need to go to that canteen now."

"Oh, come on!" says Aria. "Do you think I will come out of the car to get wet with this thunderstorm and the cold night? I only have an orange dress, I will die of hypothermia!"

"I agree with Aria," says Adagio. "Why don't we destroy the canteen's door with the car and we enter like that?"

"That may be a good idea," says W. "But Garry may run away. I want to look at him, face to face."

Big Mac goes inside, without saying anything, and Adagio sighs. "Do you think I'm going to fight gangsters in the middle of this cold rain?"

W gets inside the car. "Yes," he says. "Because you decided to come here."

"I decided?" says Adagio, angrily. "You told us you needed our help!"

"But you were the one that said yes, neither me nor your sisters."

"Excuse me, Adagio said yes but... did you see your freaking doggy face when you said that?" interrupts Aria. "You looked like a puppy that didn't get his meal. That's why she said yes."

Adagio chuckles. "This is the first time I completely agree with you this time, Aria."

"Alright," says W, while opening the car door again. "If you don't want to avenge your adoptive mother, I'll go alone, then."

Adagio and Aria don't answer and the smiles they had seconds before have disappeared. On the other hand, Sonata also opens the car's back door and he tries to cover his head from the rain. "Sonata!" shouts Adagio. "What are you doing?"

"I'll go avenge mom!" shouts Sonata. "Wait for me, Mr Bedmaker!"

W listens to Sonata's voice and sees she is cold. W immediately unbuttons his trenchcoat and gives it to her, but before doing that he grabs the pills' box that was in his pocket and keeps it in his jeans. "Take my trenchcoat, Sonata," he says. "You may not catch a cold with it."

Sonata smiles and blushes while grabbing the trenchcoat and she puts it on. "What about you, Mr Bedmaker?" she asks.

"I don't care if I catch a cold, Sonata... I want to catch that speedy son of a bitch now."

"Wait!" shouts someone else. Sonata Dusk and W look behind them and see Adagio and Aria are trying to get out of the car, but they don't want to get wet. W sighs and looks at Sonata.

"You are the only good one of them all," he says, and carries a smiling Sonata inside the car again and he starts driving. All in all, W and the three Dazzlings are entering to Saik Harbour to look for Gail Garry.

Garry, Stinky Herb and his son Junior are the only ones, along with other two gangsters, who are still inside the canteen.

"They haven't come back yet," says Stinky Herbie Jr. while looking at his father and his boss, Garry, with a worrying sight. Garry is on a table, thinking about his pills. Suddenly, he gets up and opens the door. The thunderstorm is more aggressive at the moment.

"What are you going to do?" says Herb, confused. "Are you going to the entrance to know what happened?"

"I'll go for my pills," says Garry. "Just in case."

"But... how far is your house from the canteen?"

"Not too much," says Garry. "I'll go on foot."

"Wait!" shouts Stinky Herb. "I can carry you."

"No," says Garry. "I want you two and Herbie to stay here... Come with me, dude."

One of the henchmen walks away with Garry going to the right, leaving Stinky Herb, Stinky Herbie Junior and another gangster inside the canteen. Stinky Herb takes advantage of this moment to open Twilight Sparkle's door. She still has the sandwich on his hands. "You didn't eat the meal yet?" says Herb, angrily. "I prepared it specifically for you..."

"Sorry," she says. "I'm not hungry."

"Why are you not hungry?" says Stinky Herb. "You didn't eat anything today."

"I'm just... not hungry. Thank you."

"Ok, if you say..." says Stinky Herb before closing Twilight's door again. "Any news of the guys that went to the entrance?" he asks, but neither his son nor the gangster answers him, they only shake their heads.

Meanwhile, on the left corner of the street. There is a car with three sirens and a man looking at the canteen. Suddenly, they look at Garry walking away with another gangster.

"That's the motherfucker," says W. "The guy with orange hair and lime skin."

He is about to accelerate, turn to the left and run over him, but suddenly time is stopped again. "Fuck!" he shouts. "What do you want now?"

"Calm down," says Event, while staying in the backseat. "You will have to let Garry go by now,"

"WHAT?" says W. "Didn't you tell me that I had to come here to kill Garry?"

"Yes, but Garry must be the last man you will kill here. You need to get rid of three men who are inside the canteen and save one person."

"Save someone?" says W. "Who?"

"Her name is Twilight Sparkle."

"What?" says W, turning around his head to look at Event. "Twilight Sparkle? Why is she here?"

"They have been using her as an assistant for the harbour thing. She is so clever that perfectly knows how to create a specific harbour on this place."

"Alright," says W while taking a breath. "Shall I use...?"

"Don't use the pills for this. I'll tell you when is the right moment to consume them."

The time comes back to normal and the Dazzlings are looking at him. "So..." says Adagio. "Will you accelerate or not?"

"Wait..." says W while drawing his gun. "We have to enter the canteen first."

"That canteen?" asks Aria. "Why?"

"Rumour has it there is a girl that needs to be saved inside," says W. "We should take a look."

"And what about the guys that walked away?" says Adagio.

"They will come back," says the Bedmaker while opening the car's door.

"Really? Are you going to come out?" says Adagio. "It looks like the sky will fall and eventually will lead to a global flood."

"Yep," says W. "Someone has to enter that canteen."

The Dazzlings look at each other and sigh. Sonata Dusk nods with her head and comes out of the car with W's trenchcoat and standing behind him.

"I don't want to catch the flu," says Aria.

"Oh, come on, Aria!" shouts Sonata. "You are a freaking siren! Besides... Ms Mommy would be very proud..." Aria and Adagio look at each other again. Sonata keeps begging them to help her and W. "We will enter the canteen. We'll only stay for a few seconds in the rain..."

"Oh, come on, Sonata... Ok..." says Adagio. "If you shut up, I'll get out!"

"YES!" says Sonata, while hugging W. The Bedmaker looks at her, strangely. Aria growls while getting out of the car and now the three Dazzlings are outside. W wants to walk but Sonata keeps hugging him.

"Um, Sonata..."

"I don't want you to catch the flu, Mr Bedmaker," she answers.

"If you don't want me to catch a cold, stay behind me and both of us will walk faster. I'll be the first one to enter."

Stinky Herbie Jr. is sleeping on the table while his father Herb and the other gangster are only drinking. Suddenly, he listens to someone shouting and gets up.

"Did you hear that?" says Herbie Jr. Herb and the gangster look at him, confused. "It sounded like a girl shouting."

Herb looks at the door where Twilight is kept. He opens it and he looks that she is there, sleeping. "You think she called her friends?"

"That's impossible," says Stinky Herbie Jr. "The remaining Rainbooms were kept in Manehattan, I don't think they drove all the way here."

"What about Seductive and the Sirens? Petko's death?" says Stinky Herb. "They may have died because she told them to do it!"

Twilight Sparkle slowly opens her eyes... she wasn't sleeping. Suddenly, Stinky Herb starts looking for something inside his dirty jeans... a gun.

"What?" asks Twilight Sparkle. The unnamed gangster is looking at her while Stinky Herb is looking for his gun. Stinky Herbie Jr. is about to open the door, but suddenly someone opens it and shoots to the unnamed gangster's head, killing him. Stinky Herb tries to go after the mysterious man but suddenly, three other girls enter the canteen and one of them with orange poofy hair fires him three times on his chest. Stinky Herbie Jr. gets shot in his shoulder and falls to the floor, agonizing.

"Oh my!" says Sonata. "The girl! We have to let her go!"

From Stinky Herb's chest comes out a grey key, which Aria slowly grabs while covering her nose from Herb's nasty smell. Adagio also carefully touches the key while trying not to throw up because of its smell, and unlocks Twilight's chain. She instantly comes out and grabs something which is inside a bottle under the canteen's bar.

"You.. son of a..." whispers Stinky Herb, only to be riddled by Aria Blaze with a shot on his head. The siren jumps of shock after firing the gun.

"That felt... wow and not wow at the same time..." whispers Aria and Adagio touches her shoulder at the same time.

"Welcome to Ms Seductive's old world, Aria," she says.

"ARGH! YOU FUCK!" shouts Stinky Herbie Jr. while trying to find his gun. He gets out something from his pocket but it isn't a gun, but a white cloth. He is about to be shot in the head by W, the man who entered, but a purple aura appears around the guy's head and breaks his neck. W turns around and looks at Twilight with her geode.

"Oh..." says W while looking at her. "Thank you, Twilight."

"Long time no see... W, right?" she says while taking off her glasses. "They didn't hurt me but, to be honest, he... that guy deserved it."

"Wait!" shouts Aria. "Aren't you... yes!"

"It's she!" says Adagio. "Twilight Sparkle... from the Battle of the Bands!"

"What?" says Twilight, confused. W keeps looking at something next to Stinky Herbie's body... the white cloth. However, he turns around and tries to calm down the sirens and Twilight.

"Ok..." says W. "Twilight, if you ask why we saved you and why are we here, I'll answer you later, this is a long story... Now we have to look for Garry... and Twilight, I can't believe you, as a Rainboom that always forgives her enemies, actually killed someone... that was surprising."

Twilight opens her eyes and rubs her head, taking off her glasses. She has realized she killed somebody. "Oh my God... oh my God! I... I killed someone!"

Twilight is about to pass out but the sirens try to calm her down, telling her that he murdered a bad man. She lies against the canteen's bar, only to look at Stinky Herb's body with a hole on his head and the unnamed gangster lying dead on a table with a big red stain. She immediately throws up while Sonata tries to calm her down by singing a lullaby.

Meanwhile, W can't stop looking at the white cloth that was inside Stinky Herbie's pocket. He slowly grabs it and analyzes it... he suddenly realizes it is underwear. Women's underwear. It is white and has a small, dark yellow bowtie. The Bedmaker's arms start shaking while looking at the underwear. He tries to get up but eventually falls to the floor and hits his back with a table. The Dazzlings and Twilight look at him... his skin is almost white. He has just remembered something.

November 5th (Last Year)

Canterlot Mall

The news channels are still going nuts about Governor Blueblood's death and his dark side that was inside the mafia. One week and a half have passed since that tragic Fall Formal which ended up with Blueblood's mysterious death caused by an unknown man with a sniper rifle, and on the other hand, three men (Jack, Abe and W) were declared as unknown heroes. The only time they appeared was in the new Fall Formal that happened a week later, where Plegovich was, and after that moment, all of them disappeared and returned to Los Mantos... except for W.

W decided to be with Trixie for a while. He knew she was crazy, but he liked her. He wasn't in love with her, like Trixie with him, but felt she was a pretty girl. He is now in a clothing store in Canterlot Mall, wearing jeans, a black hoodie, a grey beanie and round sunglasses. He decided not to use his trenchcoat nor showing his bare face in the mall in case somebody recognized him. He looks at himself in a mirror that it's inside the clothing store while hearing a TV channel talking about Mayor Mare, the new Canterlot's Governor, and her last speech against gang wars and Blueblood. She also talked about Jack, Abe and him but not too much. She only referred them as mysterious figures who fought against the enemy. He is a lot calmer because people are slowly forgetting about them, not only because they think they were only three brave cops who helped the Rainbooms to stop the man, but also because there is a bigger and darker enigma inside this thing: Who killed Blueblood? W knows who killed him, Sergei, the toughest henchman who works for Plegovich, with a sniper rifle. However, the only ones who know Sergei was the killer are Jack, Abe and him. Nobody else, even the Rainbooms, knows who was, and the news channels and even the new Government are trying to figure out that man's name, something that W knows they will never find.

W turns around to watch the clothing store's TV. A journalist has just announced Strict Proclamation, Equestria's President will make a live speech on a couple of minutes. Two shop assistants are watching the TV while W tries not to call their attention by looking at some trousers.

"Shall I switch over the channel?" says one of the shop assistants.

"No," answers the other one. "I wanna see what Proclamation thinks about this."

Meanwhile, W gets into a section that calls his attention: there are trenchcoats on sale. He looks at a neat black leather trenchcoat, but once he looks at its high price he turns around and sighs. Minutes later, Trixie comes out of the dressing room with a purple jacket and talks with a shop assistant. At the same time, Strict Proclamation, a tall, hoary, older adult with a smart suit, beige hair and beige skin appears on TV. He's ready to say some words:

"I, Strict Proclamation, as Equestria's President, am extremely concerned about what's been happening on Canterlot over the past few days. Blueblood's dark side, a second face, has truly disappointed every citizen of this beautiful country and me, and this crime that will remain in history for eternity it's only a part of the problem... and sorry for my informal words, but I would say this is only a small cherry of the cake. Gangs, organized crime and mafia have been one of the biggest problems of Equestria since the last few decades. Groups of several gangsters, like the infamous Clock of Canterlot in 1978, the Benvenuto in 1985, the Red Beast in 1994, the Canterlotian Gang War in 1998, and the Ashton Family in 2005... are only a small part of our problem. Those gangs I mentioned before may have disappeared, found by the government and all of their capos may have been arrested and died in jail... but that doesn't mean the problem is over. It keeps going, and I am completely sure it is worse, a lot worse than the eighties, the nineties, and the '00s... because we are talking about a governor, a man who was supposed to bring peace to his city... was a part of this. I'll do my best to annihilate this poison that stays in Equestria's veins, and I will give you a safe land for all of you, with no mafia, no gangsters and no organized crime. I'll say one more time... I am extremely disappointed with Blueblood's behaviour. Thank you."

W raises his eyebrows surprised. "That speech was... wow," says Trixie, who is now next to W. "Did you buy something? You told me you wanted to buy a trenchcoat."

"No," answers. "Prices here are... kind of expensive."

"Yeah..." says Trixie, chuckling. "But Trixie couldn't let this beautiful purple jacket go. Besides, Trixie bought also new underwear," she says, winking an eye to W and nudging him. W smiles. "Oh gosh..." she says. "Nobody may recognize you now, so you can take off that beanie, although Trixie likes those sunglasses... they make you great like me."

"No, it's OK, Trix," answers W. At the same time, they come out of the shop while Trixie is carrying a bag with the jacket and the underwear.

"What do you think?" she says. "I didn't show you what I bought."

"Don't take the underwear here, Trixie," says W, smiling. "We are in public."

"Of course not, dummy!" she says, laughing. "Take a look."

W takes a look inside the bag. There are a purple jacket and underwear, he looks at some white panties with a small yellow bowtie and chuckles. "What the hell... with that yellow bowtie?" he says.

November 17th

Trixie is looking for something in her bedroom, desperately. Suddenly, W enters the bedroom and asks what's the matter.

"Trixie lost her favourite panties!"

"Um... which one?" he asks.

"Those white panties with a small yellow bowtie. Trixie liked them."

W keeps holding the panties on his hands. How did the panties end up here? On a gangster's pocket on Saik? Did they break in her house and robbed it? Did they find it the day they killed her? How could this happen?"

"Panties?" says Adagio. "That guy had panties on his pocket? Ugh... pervert."

W gets up and leaves the panties on a table, he rubs his head and opens the bar's door.

"Wait!" says Aria. "Where are you going?"

"Girls," says W. "I want you to come back to the city's entrance and wait for me."

"What?" says Adagio. "You are going to fight two guys alone? What if they are armed?"

"I don't care, girls," says W. "I want to talk Garry face to face, alone. I don't want you behind my back, please. Wait for me at the entrance."

"But..." says Sonata.

"Please," answers W and comes out, while taking a breath in the middle of the rain. The sirens and Twilight slowly get out. "Do anyone of you know how to drive? I forgot to say that."

The Dazzlings look at Adagio. "Well, I know how but I haven't driven a car since I was captured by fucking Plegovich."

"Oh gosh!" says Twilight. "I'm freaking tired of hearing that surname! Who's that guy? Can anybody explain to me? Everyone here talked about him!"

"I can explain it to you," says Sonata. "But first, you will have to answer my question... are you sure you don't hate us for being sirens?"

Twilight raises an eyebrow. "Um... I've read something about you on the Canterlot's Gazette but..."

"Girls," says W. "You should go.."

"Didn't you call us to help you against that man?" says Aria. "Why don't you need us now?"

"Because I changed my plan, Aria," says W. "I want you to go to the entrance. Only this time."

Aria shuts her mouth and growls while running away with the sirens and Twilight. W walks and stands in the middle of the street while being completely wet because of the thunderstorm. Sonata takes off W's trenchcoat and gives it to him.

"Good luck," says the siren with a smile before running away with Twilight. Then, Adagio turns on the car and leaves, leaving W alone. A minute later, The gangster looks at his left and somebody is standing on the canteen door.

"This is the moment where you take the pills, Waters," says Event while looking at Garry and his partner approaching W.

"And will I have the same powers as Garry?"

"If I tell you, you will lose," replies the God and disappears. Garry finally appears with his partner and stands in front of him.

"Who in the fuck are you?" says Garry. He hasn't recognized him yet. His partner aims his gun to W but the Bedmaker kills him with two shots on his chest. Garry immediately grabs W's neck through his power speed and finds out who is that man. He fastly lets him go while thinking about how could he survive. W falls to the floor and grabs his wet trenchcoat while holding the pills' box. "You..." says Garry. "You did... you did survive."

"Shit yeah," says W. "And I'll kill you all... starting with you."

"Wait!" says Garry. "Wait, wait! We... we can..."

"We can what?" says W. "We can shit... I came here to kill you, and now that I saw Trixie's panties on your fucking city I'll fucking crucify you."

"Oh," says Garry, laughing. "You found the white panties?" he says while laughing out loud. "Fucking Herbie Junior said they smelled good..."

But eventually Garry's smile disappears. "Herbie..." he whispers, and takes a look inside the canteen, coming across Stinky Herb and his son's corpses. W aims his pistol at Garry's head but the bounty hunter beats him up with his speed and takes the gun out of his hand. "YOU SON OF A BITCH!" says Garry. "I thought Plegovich was a motherfucker... but you... you killed Herb and Herbie... they didn't deserve to die... you... you motherfucker!"

W smashes his head against Garry's and he is free. He tries to grab his gun again but Garry grabs the pistol with his super-speed and throws it away. Seconds later, he enters the canteen and grabs from the bar a machete. W is unarmed, and Garry is now holding a machete in the middle of the rain. "You know what I wanted to tell you?" says Garry. "I thought about... allying, you know... because I realized Plegovich is motherfucking Satan. I knew Herb, my best friend, and me alone couldn't do anything... but if we had you... I still think that if we had you on our side, Plegovich' ass cheeks would be contracted because of his fear... but now that you killed my best friend of life, Herb... I'll fucking kill you."

"Wait," says W. "Two things before killing me."

"What?" says Garry.

"Two things. Will you let me talk for the last time at least?"

Garry approaches W with his speed and touches the Bedmaker's neck with the machete. "Do it."

"Firstly, I didn't kill that fat, stinky dude, although he deserved to die only because of its smell. How can you be friends with that fucking human broccoli?"

Garry makes a small cut on W's neck with the machete. It is very sharp. "You know what... only because I'm a good guy and not a fucking Plegovich... I'll let you talk for the last time."

"Thank you," says W, smiling. "Secondly..."

W spits at Garry's face and pushes him away to run. He realizes he has lost the box with the pills and starts looking for it until he finds it. Suddenly, Garry gets up and approaches him, but sees he has a pill on his hands, which W gets in his mouth.

Garry laughs and lets him go. "Oh, man... I truly admit I didn't expect you taking a power pill," he says and kicks W away. "Let's see what kind of power you've got."

W suddenly starts suffering the secondary effects of the magic pill's first time: he starts coughing and throws up in the middle of the street. He lies on the wet floor but seconds later he gets up. He extends his hand, trying to figure out what power does he have, but it doesn't do anything. Garry starts laughing. W keeps trying to find out what is his power by extending his hands, ankles and legs. "Nice show," says Garry. "But maybe you don't find your power because the pill didn't take effect on you... so, where were we, then?" he says. "On the white panties?"

Garry laughs again and W runs to him shouting: "SON OF A BITCH!" However, Garry, using his super-speed, stretches his hand and approaches W, about to cut him in half with the machete. However, he trips over and gets pushed away by something. Once Garry gets up, he looks at W standing up in front of him, stretching his hand. He slowly moves and feels the arm's movements are the same that all his body is doing: He fell in the trap.

The bounty hunter starts laughing when he finds out what is happening. "You haven't understood your thing yet?" he shouts while chuckling. Nevertheless, W uses his brand-new telekinesis to throw Garry inside the canteen with an incredible force, breaking the door. "No way, no way..." says Garry, and he fastly gets out with a gun on his hand; the gun that Herb was looking for, which was in his left pocket. W gets the gun from him and looks at Garry while grabbing his head and gasping. "Welcome to my world, sunshine," says Garry. W points at Garry's head Herb's gun while having him on the floor. He traps him by stepping on his chest.

Garry looks at W, smiling. "Well... now I need to know I lost."

W keeps gasping and starts touching his chest. "Dead... dead man," he whispers.

"At least I was right, bitch..." says Garry. "You can bring Plegovich down, W... you have the best power the pill could have given to you..."

However, W doesn't feel too well. He feels cold, under the weather, like if he was trapped under ice or inside a bottle. He barely hears Garry's voice now and seconds later, he looks at Garry laughing and shoots him in the head.

GAIL GARRY

After killing Gail Garry, W gets out of the canteen and takes a long, long breath in the rain. He looks at the gun and then at his reflection on the water. Seconds later, he throws the gun away, takes another breath and slowly levitates it by stretching his arm. His nose starts bleeding and he fastly falls to the floor and gets up with a headache and with difficulties to breath.

"Do you like your secret power?" says Event, next to W who is sitting on the wet floor. "Don't worry. You're feeling under the weather because your brain is slowly processing how could you do this kind of thing. Last time I checked the future I saw you learning super-speed through the pill, and then you killed Garry in a speed battle. However, Verminium's magic is so unpredictable that anything you can imagine may happen when you take that pill... and guess what, it gave you one of the best powers it could have given to you."

"T... Telekinesis?" says W, while standing up.

"Of course, it is better than others."

"But... is this...?"

"Sadly, it is limited. You can't ask anybody for unlimited telekinesis, Bedmaker. It is one of the best powers you may have, but you need to know when you have to use the remaining pills."

"But... can you get me more pills?"

"Yes, you can have all the pills you want, but you need to know, Waters... that you can only take a pill per day... and you only have that power for ten minutes," says Event, while W tries to bring himself the gun by using his telekinesis, so he stretches his hand... But nothing happens. The pill's power has finished. "Your next objective is Doom Kid, which is staying in La Lima. However, don't go to La Lima now, not tomorrow... I'll tell you when you have to go... it is unsafe now."

"Unsafe? La Lima has been always unsafe. Why don't you want me to go now?"

"If I tell you, you will lose."

"Oh, come on, why?"

"Trust me," says Event. "You wouldn't like to go to La Lima until I tell you when. Now, remember, Waters... one per day, for ten minutes."

Event gives W the box that W lost in the fight against Garry, which has all the pills inside and also gives him the brown trenchcoat, which W puts on.

5 Minutes Ago

The Dazzlings and Twilight arrive at the city's entrance and wait there. Twilight looks at the dead gangsters in the middle of the entrance street and opens her mouth. "Ok... can you tell me what has been happening here?" she says. "One day, I was at school... and the next day, I was locked in a bathroom and two guys told me I had to create a secret project. And now, W and you three kill all of these guys and save me? What on Celestia's words is happening right now?"

"Equestria has turned into a meltdown," answers Adagio. "That happened."

"Meltdown? What do you mean with a meltdown? Does this Plegovich something to do with this?"

"Plegovich is the meltdown, girl," says Aria. "He brought down that guy... um, what was his name? Um..."

"Oh, I know!" says Sonata. "Doctor Whooves?"

"No, you stupid," interrupts Adagio. "That guy Aria is talking about is Strict Proclamation, Twilight Sparkle."

"What... Strict Proclamation? Equestria's President?"

"Yes," says Adagio.

"You still haven't answered my question, Ms Sparkle," says Sonata. "Honestly, I am going to say I am sorry for making such big trouble in your school..."

"Um..." says Twilight. "I wasn't at Canterlot High when you did that."

"Um..." says Aria, confused. However, then she looks at an old, rusty car stopping in the middle of the entrance.

"Holy shit!" says Rushy, while stopping the car and looking at the dead gangsters. "Are we in Saik City or Saik fucking Slaughter?"

Jack, Abe and Spike get out while Rushy looks at the sentry box. "A sentry box?" he says. "What the hell is going on here?"

Spike starts barking. "I smell Twilight!" he shouts. "I smell her perfume!"

Meanwhile, inside the car, Twilight listens to Spike and gets out of the car.

"Wait!" shouts Adagio. "Where are you going?"

Twilight gets in the middle of both cars and Spike looks at her. Both of them look at themselves and hug, after a long time without seeing each other. Jack and Abe realize there is a car in front of Twilight and Spike, and the three Dazzlings come out. Adagio draws a gun and points at them.

"Woah, Woah, Woah!" says Rushy, after looking at the situation. "What the..." he says while chuckling. "Oh man, this makes me laugh... what the fuck is going on here?"

"Wait..." says Jack, after looking at the sirens in front of him. "They are... They are the Sirens!"

"The Sirens of Ashton?" says Abe.

"Aren't you..." says Adagio. "The guys who saved us from Ashton?"

"Oh my god!" shouts Rushy. "Holly molly! We found sirens on Saik Slaughter, Jacko!"

"What were you doing with the Dazzlings, Twi?" asks Spike, confused.

"They saved me, Spike," she answers while holding her dog with her arms. "They saved me with that boy... you remember him?"

"Which boy?" asks Spike, confused.

"Um... what was his name... um, W."

Jack and Abe raise an eyebrow, together. "What?" asks Jack. "What did you say?"

"W and the Dazzlings saved me."

"W?" says Abe. "It can't be, girl... W is dead."

"He is not," says Adagio. "I had to put up with him all this night... a night that I will remember... for my entire life..." she says while having tears on her eyes. "Miss Seductive..."

The Dazzlings hug each other while Jack, Abe and Rushy look at each other. "Ms Seductive..." says Abe. "Ms Seductive what?"

Aria and Sonata keep hugging while Adagio cleans her face with the raindrops. "Ms Seductive is dead," she says. "She was killed by Plegovich's workers."

Silence, until Jack whispers: "Fucking Plegovich..."

"HEY!" shouts Rushy. "Who's that son of a bitch?" he says, pointing at a figure approaching them. Jack, Abe, Adagio and Rushy point their guns at the figure while Sonata gets behind Adagio and Aria and Twilight holding Spike stay in the middle.

"Don't shoot," says the figure, who suddenly reveals his face while passing by the car who was driven by Adagio to the entrance. Jack and Abe slowly throw the guns to the floor while looking at his face. Spike stops breathing and Rushy hasn't recognized him yet. W is standing in front of everyone while buttoning his wet brown trenchcoat.

"Um..." says Rushy, confused. "Hey, Jacko, Abrahamo, why did you throw the guns... do you know this guy?"

W laughs while looking at Jack and Abe's faces, and starts singing the chorus of Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees.