After Playa, Pinkamena, and a dust-influenced Treehugger left the meat packing plant where the voodoo-charged mare cremated Sunshine and cast his soul to the mercy of the Loa, Marinette, Playa called in some Saints to secure The Mills for the gang.

At this point, the only neighborhood under the influence of the Sons of Samedi was Prawn Court. However, taking that place wouldn’t do much good since The General was always mobile in his car and could be anywhere in Stilwater right now. Of course, his elusiveness and his few bodyguards were the only things protecting him from the Saints at this point.

The only problem was finding him.

Pinkamena was growing concerned about Treehugger because there was no telling how long the mare was going to last if her new form was sapping her strength. She seemed quite adamant about wanting to finish the Sons of Samedi today. She was going to need to find The General fast before Treehugger lost too much strength from maintaining that form.

Playa had no idea how he was going to find the Samedi leader in the city since that would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. He decided to call Shaundi to see if she had any ideas. The lieutenant told him to meet her at the gym. After giving the address she hung up.

The drive to the gym lasted a few minutes before the trio entered the gym to talk to Shaundi who was running on a treadmill.

“You three gonna stand there, or you gonna work out?” Shaundi said after the trio was staring at her for ten seconds.

“I get enough cardio running from the cops,” Playa commented.

“Suit yourself.”

“I’m surprised you can run five minutes without coughing up a lung, let alone five miles.”

“I’m full of surprises.”

Pinkamena decided to interrupt the banter to get the group back on topic. “Look, we need to find The General and take him out fast. No telling if Treehugger’s form is hazardous to her health and I’d rather not find out. You know a fast way we can find him?”

“Well, if he’s still riding around in that limo of his, we can tap into the traffic cameras at the police station.”

“Are you sure that’ll work?” Playa asked.

“Probably.”

“Shaundi…”

“You got any better ideas? Besides, we still get to have fun raiding a police station.”

“What do you mean ‘we’?”

“So I take it one of you has some skill in hacking traffic cameras?” Shaundi’s question was answered by a silent admission of her point. “Yeah, that’s what I thought...let’s go.” After walking out of the gym, Shaundi called Pierce to request some electronic equipment to be delivered to the hideout.

On the way to the Saints Row district where the police station was located, Shaundi commented that they would need disguises to infiltrate the police station. Treehugger was dropped off at the hideout on the way to the station since she was not interested in killing police at the moment. Shaundi also commented that Pinkamena would need to find an alternate way into the station since she was suspicious no matter what disguise she wore since she was a pony. Pinkamena conceded that fact and made sure her grappling gun was ready to use.

Shaundi pointed out a commercial van advertising Stilwater Video Repair which they were going to hijack after disposing of the driver.

After the hijacking, Playa and Shaundi each put on a jumpsuit that were conveniently in the van. Shaundi complimented Playa about his appearance while he was embarrassed to be walking around in a jumpsuit.

Once the van was parked outside the police station, Playa and Shaundi walked up to the front door while Pinkamena got out of the vehicle last and rose to the top of the building with her grappling gun.

While the two humans were making their way to the monitoring station, Pinkamena decided to snoop around the building and find her own way to the monitoring station.

While wandering around, Pinkamena came across Troy’s office and decided to see what was inside. She didn’t notice anything noteworthy about the office interior but she did notice something on Troy’s desk.

What she saw were three devices, each one was stick shaped and each one was colored: two blue and one yellow.

“Hey!” Pinkie spoke, “Aren’t these set up kinda like my cutie mark?”

Now that she noticed it, the three devices were set up in a sort of triangle position with the ends pointed at the chair and toward her. The blue ones were closer to her while the yellow one was closer to the chair. One last thing they noticed was a folder that the devices were on.

“Could this be the clue about the boat explosion?” Pinkamena thought.

“Of course, let’s take them with us,” Pinkie said.

Just as she grabbed the devices and the folder and stored them in her mane, the station alarm went off. Pinkamena noticed a number of cops that were on their floor moving downstairs.

“It’s a trap!” Pinkie shouted.

“No, that was most likely Playa and Shaundi making their move to hack into the monitoring station.”

Pinkamena rushed out of the office and cut down every cop that got in her way to get to the other Saints. Once she made it to the fourth floor, she spotted Playa and Shaundi nearby. She then proceeded to guard the stairs while Playa guarded the door outside that led to a helipad.

After several agonizing minutes of minimal resistance, Shaundi was finally finished hacking into the traffic cameras and the three hijacked a chopper to make a quick escape back to the hideout.

Pierce arrived at the hideout shortly after with a truck full of electronic equipment.

Playa walked down the steps into the hideout and addressed the Saints in the lobby, “Alright people, here’s the deal. We got a truck full of electronic shit that I don’t know how to use...I want you guys to help unload the truck and set up shop here. Once we’re up and running I want someone watching these monitors 24-7; the moment someone sees that fucking limo I wanna know about it...let’s get to work.”

The Saints scrambled to get the electronic equipment set up like a security station. Once Shaundi’s laptop was hooked up and the equipment installed, the Saints began vigilantly monitoring the screens for any sign of The General’s Hounfor.

It took a few hours of careful monitoring but the Saint put in charge of the cameras had finally found the limo. After informing Playa of his finding, he alerted Shaundi and Pinkamena who informed Treehugger that The General had been found.

The General was located heading in the general direction of the Rounds Square Shopping Mall so playa ordered a crew of Saints to set up an ambush at the entrance to the mall.

Once Playa, Shaundi and the ponies were gathered, they quickly headed for the ambush location to prepare for the final showdown with the leader of the Sons of Samedi.

The quartet quickly made their way to the location and got into position. Once the limo was spotted, Shaundi radioed the ambushers to get ready.

The next few seconds were deadly silence as the limo got into position. Suddenly, the limo was hit by a large bus driven by a Saint. This impact was the signal to a large battle between the Saints and the Sons of Samedi. Pinkamena moved in and started making a mess of the area by scattering blood and viscera everywhere with her kitchen knife. Treehugger had only one objective as she advanced on the wrecked limousine, cutting down the Samedi thugs in her way with a spectral machete.

Knowing that his guards were losing, The General made a break for the shopping mall and ran inside. Treehugger gave chase while the others were finishing up the bodyguards.

The voodoo-powered mare carved a path through the mall with the bodies of the Samedi that arrived to protect their leader.

By the time Treehugger caught up with The General, he was already in his customized Bulldog vehicle and trying to run her over. Treehugger manifested a pair of spectral talons at her forehooves as she dodged the vehicle and slashed into the hull. The slash left a molten gash on the vehicle as it drove off in an attempt to get away.

Treehugger manifested a pair of spectral wings and flew after The General. The mare managed to dodge the gunfire from the Bulldog while getting close to leave more molten marks on the vehicle. The attacks continued until the vehicle overheated and The General jumped out of the car.

The General got up to face the pony that was giving him such a hard time but her appearance was quite surprising. “Who or what are you?” he asked.

“Greetings, Champion of Baron Samedi, I am the avatar of the Loa that your Baron has wronged. This pony allows me to use her body to exact my vengeance upon the Baron.”

“What are you talking about?”

“You are the one who ordered the slaughter of the followers of Marinette by the order of Baron Samedi. He has invoked a blood debt that shall be repaid this day with your life.”

That was when The General realized that his past had come back to bite him. He knew he had ordered the mass slaughter of those who followed Marinette of the Dry Arms but he never knew that someone would rise to become the avatar of her vengeance. Without the magical support of Mr. Sunshine and no skill of his own in the voodoo arts, he knew that the sins of his past were staring him in the face and he was not walking away without paying with his life.

The pony wasted no more time talking and charged the Samedi leader with blinding speed and began slashing at his flesh, leaving cauterized wounds with each scratch and filling his mind with information of numerous burn marks that were agonizing.

Treehugger’s spectral machete cut a gash into The General’s thigh that did not cauterize. The mare captured the blood and used it to create the voodoo ritual circle she needed to finish him. Her victim collapsed onto one knee and the mare stood in the circle and raised her machete to her own neck. She then proceeded to cut deeply into her own neck but her neck didn’t cut. Instead, a gushing wound appeared on The General’s neck and he gagged and choked as blood poured from his wound.

His death came when Treehugger ignited his blood from the outside in. The burning blood roasted the Samedi leader from the inside out until his soul was freed from his body and into the embrace of the vengeful Loa.

Once the chaos died down, Treehugger took a deep, calming breath and looked upward with a distant look in her eyes as she spoke, “At last, the blood debt has been paid and my followers may now rest in peace. Oh equine child of the earth, if ever mine, or my Zebrican counterpart’s powers are truly needed again, you shall be able to wield our might once more. Until then, rest and gather your strength; for she who shall conquer and rule the darkness of the equine world shall need you to fulfill her destiny.”

With that, the powers that took Treehugger over dissipated. Her coat returned to its lime green color and her crimson mane and tail returned to its red and orange state. Her energy spent, Treehugger’s hold on the conscious world was lost.

The last thing she saw before she blacked out was a pink mare running to her.

Author's Note

This concludes the Sons of Samedi arc.

Marinette's favored bird was the screech owl so that gave me a reason to give Avatar Treehugger wings and talons.

The next gang arc starts in 2 chapters, in the meantime, someone needs to be taught why blowing up boats and putting people into comas is a bad idea.