Author's Note

FUN FACT: This was meant to be the end of Part 1 back when I planned to publish the first part of this fic all at once.

Rotating Tables

The Next Day...

Riot cleared her throat before she dialed a number into her phone. She then held the phone to her ear. “Blossom? It’s me, Fluffy. I was wondering if you could introduce me to your space friends? Maybe I could even take one for a spin.”

Blossom giggled. “That’s what they’re for. But, sure. Come on down.”

“Great,” Riot cooed. “See ya soon, baby.”

“Can’t wait, sexy.”

Riot hung up and leaned back, letting the griffin finish licking her wet pussy clean. “Mmm… It’s on. I show up, nab the hyena, and then we get out of there.”

The griffin smiled and flicked the mare's clit with her tongue. "Seems too easy."

"I hope not, Shroud," Riot moaned. "That wouldn't be fun."

That Night

Rain poured as Shroud looked down at the dimly lit street to see a figure in a cloak moving down the sidewalk. She pulled out her phone and dialed Riot’s number. She watched the cloaked figure answer her phone. “Ready to go?”

“Ready,” Riot replied.

Copper sat down in her surveillance van and picked up the headphones. She put them on and started working the device. “The mare Blossom told us to watch out for might be here. Everyone get ready.” Copper listened closely as the static in the headphones dissipated. “Got a lock,” she confirmed.

“Do you see anythin’?” Came Riot’s voice.

“Nothing,” the gruffer voice replied. “Just empty rooftops.”

“There’s two voices,” Copper acknowledged. “One’s a little familiar but the other I haven’t heard before. One’s definitely our target.” She pushed a button in her desk microphone. “Careful up there. Enemy has a sniper, too.”

“What’s going on, boss?” Asked a stallion.

Blossom, Kris, Luster, and Elza all stood outside under the hotel’s awning, waiting.

“Are you sure about this?” Kris asked. “This could be the dumbest thing you’ve ever done.”

~~~~~

Earlier…

Fluffy waved, too. When the door was closed, Blossom started off walking in place before tiptoeing to give the auditory impression that she had walked away. Instead, she crept up to the door and listened.

“So, Fluffy, huh?” She heard a gruff voice ask.

The next voice was Fluffy’s. “Just a cover name. Though, I don’t think she bought it. I’ll need to act fast. If I set up a meet in a public area with her and her friends, you could snipe them. But, they aren’t alone, either.”

Blossom let out a soft gasp. “Why, Fluffy, why?”

~~~~~

“I just wanna help keep Elza safe,” Blossom replied before she spotted Riot approaching them in the distance. “Here comes Fluffy.”

Kris and the others looked down the sidewalk, too. They had fought against Copper and survived. This mare couldn’t be that much harder, right?

Shroud’s eyes scanned the rooftops before she spotted the head of the FUFF’s sniper. “Gotcha.” She pulled the trigger. Blood squirted from the head as the sniper fell. “One down,” she whispered. “I don’t see any more.”

“Keep looking,” Riot whispered into her earpiece. “There can’t be just one.”

Blossom suddenly felt like something was off. “Something doesn’t feel right.”

“No shit,” Kris muttered. “We’re part of a sting operation.”

“You’d probably impress Copper if we pull this off.”

The purple mare blushed. “Y-You really think so?”

Copper set her headphones down. “Got a location,” she said to her crew before she grabbed her gun and left the van.

Kris looked around before she looked at Blossom. “Where’s Bubbles?”

“Inside,” Blossom sighed. “Probably having fun with Aloe again.”

The door to the roof burst open and Copper aimed her gun at the back of Shroud's head. "Don't move!"

The griffin growled and let go of her gun before raising her hands. "How?"

"That sniper you shot?" Copper asked. "It wasn't a sniper. You shot a watermelon."

"A water..." Shroud muttered.

"The real agent was on his back and used the splatter of the juice and a compass to find what direction you were in. I simply kept an eye out for the barrel of your gun."

"Oh, you think you're so clever, do you?"

"Not my idea," Copper cooed.

Blossom and friends watched as agents left the surveillance van and swarmed the cloaked figure, who simply raised her hands. The white mare shook her head. "Too easy." One of the FUFF agents grabbed the hood and pulled it down, revealing a mare who wasn't Riot. Blossom went wide-eyed. "Uh..."

~~~~~

Earlier…

Riot hung up and leaned back, letting the griffin finish licking her wet pussy clean. “Mmm… It’s on. I show up, nab the hyena, and then we get out of there.”

The griffin smiled and flicked the mare's clit with her tongue. "Seems too easy."

"I hope not, Shroud," Riot moaned. "That wouldn't be fun."

“You know Blossom probably knows something’s up,” Shroud pointed out as she sat up and locked her beak clean.

“Oh, I don’t doubt it,” Riot agreed. “I saw it in her eyes. She’s more clever than she lets on.”

“So, what’s the new plan?”

Riot smirked. “Decoy.”

~~~~~

Blossom let out a yell of pain as a gunshot went off. She dropped to the floor with blood leaking from her leg. Kris spun around before getting a hard blow directly to the stomach. As she dropped, Blossom looked over at the hyena. “Run!”

Elza growled and took off running as Riot chased after her.

"Shit," Blossom muttered. "They bluffed our bluff." The FUFF agents also took chase. Riot aimed her gun at the hyena and fired. She ducked and one raised his rifle. "No!" Blossom yelled. "You'll shoot the wrong one!"

Copper looked up at the gunshots and Shroud smirked before kicking the mare's legs out from under her. The griffin then slid off the roof and landed on the fire escape.

"Fuck!" Copper yelled, rushing to the roof's edge and firing her gun downwards. The bullets hit the metal of the stairs as the griffin quickly ran down to the ground. She then grabbed her walkie. "The sniper's on the loose. I'm in pursuit, but be careful." She then dropped down onto the fire escape and chased after the griffin.

When Elza rounded a corner and was about to bolt across a crosswalk, a black van pulled up and the windows rolled down. A stallion held a gun on her as another two vans pulled up on either side.

“We got her, ma’am!” One stallion yelled as Elza looked over her shoulder to see Riot walking towards them.

“That’s not the hyena,” Riot said as she raised her gun and fired.

Elza raised her hand to try and block but her magic didn’t work. The bullet pierced her leg, causing her to yell in pain and change back into Bubbles. She then dropped to her knees as Riot slipped a ring onto her horn.

“Nice trick,” the masked mare cooed. "But, not unexpected."

Shroud came running out of a nearby alley and made her way over to the vans. "Oh, good. You got her. We gotta move, though. Copper's coming."

"Hmm..." Riot thought aloud, before Shroud looked behind the mare.

The griffin pushed the mare aside before standing in her place and firing her handgun at the approaching FUFF agents. She hit four in the head before the remaining three took cover behind a car. Riot moved behind the griffin and growled before looking at the alley Shroud came out of. She narrowed her eyes before she grabbed Bubbles by the shoulder and forced her to her feet.

"Get in," she ordered, thrusting Bubbles against one of the vans. The changeling let out a pained grunt as she hit the vehicle. The door slid open and one of Riot's crew pulled her in. "And, get out of here," Riot cooed as she turned to head towards the alley just as Copper ran out. "This one and I have stuff to discuss."

The brown mare saw the van with Bubbles drive away as the other two vans stayed behind while the drivers fired at the other FUFF agents. She also saw Riot approaching her. "You die here."

"Really?" Asked the masked mare. "Funny. That isn't how I see this going at all."

"Well, it must be pretty hard to see with that fucking mask on your face!"

Riot chuckled and stopped two feet away. "I don't think I need it anymore, to be perfectly honest. But, it sure came in handy, dontcha know."

Copper tilted her head. "That accent."

"Ooo, piecing it together, are we?" Riot teased. "You may remember me with different color hair. I dyed it. This is my natural color."

"You think I give a shit about your hair?" Asked Copper. "This is over for you."

"Over?" Asked the cyan earth pony with a chuckle. "I have been one step ahead the whole time. Your stakeout? I knew you were listening. Major victory for group calls. All the decoy had to do was stay silent. And, it wasn't hard to deduce that you'd use the changeling to pose as the hyena. Bet you didn't count on us having myrite weapons, didya?"

"You done bragging?" Copper growled. "You still haven't taken that damn mask off."

"Oh, right," the mare sighed, reaching her hand up. "It has been a while since I last saw you eye to eye." Riot removed her mask and held it by her side.

Copper's eyes went wide as she slightly lowered her fists. "What the... Kerfuffle?"

The cyan mare looked down at her mask before eying the brown mare. "Surprised?"

Copper started to feel weak in the legs. "W... W-We all thought you were..."

"Dead?" Asked the cyan mare, her eyes narrowing. "That what you all thought when you abandoned me?!"

Shroud eyed them before she saw more FUFF cars approaching. She let out a growl and raised her gun at Copper. She shot the mare in the leg, making Copper yell in pain while dropping to the sidewalk and Kerfuffle spin around to see who fired their gun. "We gotta go!" Shroud yelled. "More are coming!"

"Shit," Kerfuffle muttered, before she ran towards her vans. "I'll catch you later, Copper!" She called back before she and the griffin boarded a van.

Copper got to her knees with a groan and watched the vans speed away. As the first FUFF car started to get close, the door of the van at the back slid open and a stallion leaned out with a grenade launcher. He fired at the car, causing it to explode in a fireball and block the road for the other cars. Kerfuffle and her vans managed to get away, leaving Copper with her thoughts.

"What the fuck?" Copper shuddered, unable to not feel responsible for all of this.