The Saints were in eager anticipation for what was to come. With the leaders gone, the lieutenants and remnants of the Syndicate were all that was left. The gang was pretty much finished. Any remaining Morningstar, Deckers or Luchadores would likely scramble for the empty leadership spots and launch one last attack on STAG or the Saints before they went out in a blaze of glory.

The only real threat remaining was STAG. Without the added distraction of the Syndicate, the paramilitary group would be turning their full attention upon the Saints once the Syndicate remnants were taken out.

STAG had their own problems though. The Saints kidnapped Josh Birk, and cleaned up the zombie gas mess that the paramilitary group not only failed to clean up but caused the mess in the first place when they brought those canisters to Steelport, even if Playa was partly responsible too since he blew up the plane carrying the gas. Adding to the destruction of their aircraft carrier, Senator Monica Hughes was likely losing faith in them as well as her patience. If STAG was zealous about dealing with gangs, they would likely end up getting desperate at this point.

After Pinkamena killed Eddie “Killbane” Pryor, Angel de LaMuerte had decided to move on and resume his career as a professional masked wrestler.

Pinkamena was watching the television which was displaying the highlights of yesterday’s Murderbrawl XXXI. Zach and Bobby were delivering the post-commentary of the event. There was less mention of what happened inside the ring than what happened outside of it. The duo was especially excited about what Playa did to a number of Luchadores with a chainsaw before he took Angel’s place in the ring and beat Killbane into submission.

What happened afterward had the two really excited when Pinkamena came in and removed his mask before having it destroyed. The level of excitement from the two only increased as the madmare literally destroyed him from the inside out through internal injuries and broken bones. She broke his spirit before she broke his body. Zach and Bobby were so excited about the finale with the chainsaw finisher that Pinkamena could almost swear that the two had an orgasm on national television.

As Pinkamena turned off the television, she saw Moondancer in a reflection of the device. The unicorn was behaving suspiciously as she looked around with what appeared to be a DVD held in her magic. When she teleported away, Pinkamena decided to check the unicorn’s room. Listening for anything happening on the other side of the door, Pinkamena confirmed that the oddly behaving unicorn was in her room.

Feeling curious, the madmare decided to listen to what was going on. She soon heard what sounded like the events of yesterday’s Muderbrawl. However, the playback stopped for a minute before it resumed at the part where Zach and Bobby were excitedly discussing what happened after Playa spared Killbane’s mask.

However, the interesting part was what else she was hearing while the madmare was hearing the sounds of her torturing of Eddie. She could hear Moondancer moaning and gasping. Pinkamena easily pieced together what was going on in there.

“Is she getting off on me torturing someone?” Pinkamena thought. Now that she thought about it, she did remember seeing the nerdy mare looking up BDSM on the internet. She also realized that she had no idea what prompted her to even look up the Genki website when she mentioned seeing her older projects. She smirked as she thought, “I think it’s time to take Moondancer out of the closet.”

Pinkamena’s knock on the door was received with the expected reaction of a shout of surprise followed by a frantic deactivating of her television. There was also some awkward crashing and banging along with the hum of a unicorn’s magic doing what the madmare believed was an attempted fixing of a mess caused by said crashing and banging. Pinkamena suppressed a giggle as she thought about how cute Moondancer’s reaction was.

Moondancer finally opened her door a couple of minutes later to greet Pinkamena. “Uh, hey. You didn’t...hear anything, did you?”

Pinkamena didn’t try to suppress her giggling this time, ending with a devious smirk. “I think we both know the answer to that.” Moondancer’s face soon matched her mane color.

The unicorn’s expression turned to a scandalized look, “You were eavesdropping, weren’t you?”

“See above.”

Moondancer broke into a fit of incomprehensible stuttering. Pinkamena put a hoof to her mouth before moving to the television to turn it back on to display Pinkamena’s carnage. “Cutting people up with a chainsaw. Last time I had that kind of fun was during an episode of FUZZ. I took part in a few episodes, they let me keep a copy of them. You can borrow those if you want.”

Moondancer smiled. “I...I’d like that.”

“So, how long have you been into this?” Pinkamena asked.

“Umm…”

“Be honest, I’m not gonna judge you. Not like I could anyway, given my sadistic streak.”

Moondancer’s blush deepened. “Since I was in my first year at Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns.”

“Really? Huh, I guess you hid it pretty well.”

“Not really, I was...interested...when I saw somepony bullying another violently, I guess that was the first time I felt aroused. Though I didn’t realize it at the time because of how young I was. I was like that for the first two years. Sometimes I would trick some pony into beating another just so I could feel that feeling again.

“Eventually, the staff caught on to my antics and threatened to expel me if I didn’t stop inciting violence. Since then I’ve been trying to distract myself with my studies. I met Minuette, Lemon Hearts, Twinkleshine, Lyra and...Twilight. Occasionally, I would fantasize them getting into an argument that would turn violent, not that I could share that information given that I was living in Canterlot.”

Pinkamena snorted amusedly, “Yeah, the capital city of prudes.” The two shared a laugh together.

Moondancer calmed down and continued. “After we graduated school, I couldn’t find a career that interested me. Plus, fighting my baser urges had only made me more irritable to the point that I may have overreacted when Twilight rejected my invitation to that birthday party years ago. It still hurt, but I probably could have taken it better, since the fate of Equestria was at stake at the time.”

“So the fact that you admire my personality and confidence while you clearly have a fetish for murder and torture, and the fact that you clearly skipped the video to the part where I tortured Killbane, I might think you have a crush on me.”

Moondancer’s silence was all the madmare needed to know. Pinkamena arched an eyebrow.

“You have to be pretty fucked up to be into a psychopath like me.” Seeing Moondancer becoming crestfallen, Pinkemena let out a sigh. “But if you’re serious about your feelings toward me, I’m willing to give a relationship a shot.” Moondancer quickly perked up, her heart filled with hope. “Don’t make me regret this, you know how I am.”

Moondancer quickly rushed forward and pulled the madmare into a hug. Pinkamena was surprised at first but soon returned the hug.

Several passionate hours passed in Moondancer’s room.

The two mares emerged from Moondancer’s room a few hours later and returned to the lobby of the penthouse HQ. It didn’t take long for the other Equestrians to find out what transpired based on the scent. Octavia rolled her eyes and silently gave five grand to her victoriously smirking DJ marefriend. Treehugger simply smiled, feeling happy for the new couple. Gilda did feel happy for the two but did her best not to show it; she still had her pride to think of.

Pierce was once again playing chess with Oleg. During the game he called Playa, who had just finished the last of the challenges offered to him, and had him come back to the hideout.

Playa returned to hear what Pierce wanted to tell him, which was that the screening for ‘Gangstas in Space’ was going to continue under a different director. Playa would only agree to it if everyone else was on board though. Pinkamena, however, would not take part in that movie because she was not the type of pony to follow the script of others. Though she did encourage Playa to take part in it if the human Saints agreed to it.

That was when the explosions happened.

A STAG VTOL crashed in the pool of the penthouse and alerted the Saints that the city was in chaos. Kinzie called Playa and Pinkamena to let them know that the last of the Syndicate were fighting STAG all over Steelport.

Everyone was deployed to suppress the widespread chaos. Pinkamena’s group worked together to suppress the areas of heaviest fighting. They split up into groups of two to handle the more chaotic areas.

In one area, Vinyl turned several STAG vehicles against the gangs and STAG with her Possessor, but that wasn’t the most dangerous weapon she had with her.

After buying the best turntable she could find in Steelport, Vinyl Scratch was ready to complete the next step in the development of her sonic based weapon. Combining the technology she found in the turntable and Zimos’ autotune microphone, she created a weapon that unleashed sonic pulses in tune to the rhythm of the tracks that she programmed into the weapon. She felt like she could go further with the weapon but there was nothing else that she could use from Steelport or STAG that could help with that so she would have to be satisfied with her new Dubstep Gun for the time being.

Vinyl unleashed musical mayhem as rhythmic sonic waves were unleashed upon the enemy combatants and tearing flesh from the inside out while the vibrations were too much for the vehicles to endure as they exploded. Octavia sniped enemies that got too close to Vinyl while, after considering what happened while the Saints were experiencing Jimmy’s fanfic, she had decided to invest in an AT Rifle to handle armored vehicles.

In another part of the city, Gilda and Treehugger worked together where the griffon would demolish vehicles from above while the pony would roast the gang members and soldiers alive.

In yet another part of the city, Pinkamena butchered every human in the area while Moondancer stole grenade launchers from Luchador specialists and unleashed enough explosive fury that would make Michael Bay weep with joy.

Once the Equestrians were back together, Pinkamena received a call from Playa. “Mena, STAG’s taken Shaundi, Viola and Mayor Reynolds hostage at the Magarac Statue, meet me there right away.”

“STAG’s walking a fine line between gang suppression and domestic terrorism,” Pinkamena stated. “Can they not see that in their zeal that they are becoming hypocrites? Also, please tell me you recorded your conversation with them.”

“Sure, I record all my conversations in case I forget that I need to help one of my crew. Why?”

“After we save Magarac, let me borrow your phone.”

On the way to the statue, Pinkamena asked Moondancer if she knew any good illusion spells. When the unicorn affirmed that she did, the madmare told her new marefriend her latest plan. This plan got Moondancer feeling excited.

At the Magarac Statue, the Saints killed every STAG troop that got in the way while Gilda grabbed the bombs that would be used to demolish the statue and tossed them far away. Vinyl assisted with short bursts from her Dubstep Gun.

Once the bombs were removed, the Saints neared the top of the scaffolding where Kia was holding Shaundi hostage.

“I’m getting deja vu vibes,” Pinkamena commented before looking at Treehugger. “No repeating what happened with Veteran Child.” Treehugger nodded. “Ready Moondancer?”

“Yeah, you want me to do the full illusion, voice and all?”

“Yeah, I’ll make this quick.”

Moondancer lit her horn and Pinkamena’s appearance changed to that of Cyrus Temple. Pinkamena had everyone stay at the bottom of the ramp while she reached the top alone. Kia quickly took notice of the newest company. “C-Commander, sir! Wait, how do I know you’re not a Saint in disguise.”

“It’s over Kia, stand down. Monica Hughes somehow found out what we were attempting. She’ll be here any minute to declare the disbandment of our organization,” Pinkamena said in Temple’s voice.

“What? No! We can’t just give up, Commander. We’re so close to bringing down the Syndicate and the Saints will fall in line soon.”

“Even if we do finish what we started, the Saints would be set free anyway and we will be charged with treason.”

Kia let Shaundi go and fell to her knees while Shaundi ran down the ramp where her fellow Saints waited for her. Pinkamena approached Kia and knelt down in front of her. The two were silent for a moment before the disguised mare spoke in a reassuring tone.

“There is at least one good thing that will come of this.”

“What’s that, sir?”

That was when Kia felt a sharp pressure in her chest. She looked down to see the infamous Vorpal Blade stuck in her chest. The STAG second in command gasped in shock and horror as she realized that was being stabbed in the heart by the psychotic pink pony while she was wearing the face of the man she trusted dearly.

With one last gasp, Kia collapsed onto the floor, never to get up again.

With the task done, Pinkamena broke the illusion and slaughtered the remaining STAG who were on the same floor with her.

Once the Saints reached the bottom of the statue, they were greeted by the real Cyrus Temple and his troops. Before they could arrest them however, Monica Hughes showed up to declare the Saints heroes as that had become public opinion. Temple was outraged with the turn of events but made one last threat in passing before he attempted to leave.

That was when Pinkamena took out Playa’s phone and played back a recent call. Hughes recognized Kia’s voice and while Temple said that he had no involvement with the matter, Pinkamena had other ideas.

:”I studied your lieutenant’s behavior, Cyrus. She seemed surprised to see you on the statue but not about what she was doing to the statue. Funny, it almost seemed as if she knew that you knew. Even if you didn’t know, why didn’t you just radio her to stand down?”

“I wasn’t the one who planted the bombs or kidnapped those two Saints and the mayor.”

“Funny again, I never mentioned any kidnappings.”

Monica Hughes sighed. Now that the proof had been filmed on live television, there was no going back now. She put on an outraged expression before she prepared to deliver the final blow to STAG. “You and your men attempted domestic terrorism in your zeal to take out the Saints? Is this what Capital Hill squandered billions in the most advanced military equipment for? This has gone too far. I’m calling another emergency session to order the disbandment of STAG. We did not give you that funding so you could terrorize our beloved nation.” Monica Hughes walked away with the media in tow.

Temple growled as he glowered at the Saints with pure hatred in his eyes. “This isn’t over…” He then walked away.

A few days after the incident on Magarac Island, the human Saints had just finished filming the sci-fi movie, “Gangsta’s in Space” where they acted out a poorly scripted movie where Playa ultimately “killed” Killbane, or at least the actor posing as him.

The Saints considered sticking around Steelport and making the most of the action in the city before Playa and Pinkamena received a phone call from Mayor Reynolds. This time he sounded concerned.

“Hey, you remember that Cyrus guy who you humiliated on national television? Well Senator Hughes just called to tell me to be on the lookout for a massive flying fortress. Apparently, Cyrus and his men went rogue and are on their way to Steelport to occupy the city. Think you guys can handle it?”

After Reynolds said that, a huge shadow passed over them. Everyone in the area of the city looked up to find the massive flying fortress of a ship hovering over the city. Shortly after making its presence known, the ship opened fire on the city, indiscriminately destroying everything around it. STAG VTOLs deployed and added to the destruction.

Pinkamena needed to find a way to take out that ship. For now she gave her orders, “Vinyl and Moondancer, work with Kinzie and see if you can take that ship out from the inside. Gilda, Playa will likely be looking for a helicopter to take out some of those cannons. Work with him and see if you two can cause some damage together. Octavia and Treehugger, you’re with me.”

“Pinkie, do you have more of those bombs you used to blow up our old room?”

“Yuppers Mena, I got a bunch of them in case I needed to move often. A nice short guy with a funny moustache and a funny looking arm also gave me a few flamethrower turrets.”

“Okay, later we really need to take inventory of what’s in our mane.”

Pinkamena’s group followed Playa to the HQ helipad which conveniently had two helicopters parked on it. Pinkie took the pilot’s seat of one and flew the group to the deck of the Daedalus while Playa took the other helicopter and flew in the same direction with Gilda flying beside him.

While Playa and Gilda were trashing the cannons, Pinkamena, Treehugger and Octavia fought their way through a number of STAG troops. At each location where STAG stored their heavy munitions, Pinkamena placed one of her bombs. Given the effectiveness of the explosives, she only needed to plant two: one for each side of the ship. To defend the bombs from potential de-fusers, Pinkamena also placed two flame turrets to defend the bombs.

Once the bombs were planted, the ponies boarded a VTOL and escaped. During their escape, the group noticed that the STAG VTOLs were starting to act on their own and opened fire on the Daedalus. They also noticed that the ship was starting to rise higher before an intercom announcement had declared that the ship’s self-destruct feature had been activated.

In only a couple of minutes, Pinkamena’s bombs went off and tore the ship in half and the entire ship exploded a minute after that. Debris rained on the city but thankfully the area had been cleared out so only property damage with a margin for a few civilian casualties was expected.

Before the Saints could celebrate their victory, Pinkamena heard a transmission from her VTOL’s radio from Cyrus Temple.

“You think you’ve beaten me? I may have lost the Daedalus but I’ll find a way to bring you and your street thugs down, even if I have to burn down America to do it. Mark my words.”

The transmission ended and Cyrus Temple fled the city in his personal VTOL.

“Just to be sure, we can still kill him, right?” Pinkamena asked Pinkie.

“Yep, but not yet. We still need him for one last thing before you kill him. It might take a while and we will need help from Britain’s MI6 to find him.”

“As long as we kill him in the end, I can wait a little longer.”

Meanwhile in Equestria…

There was no end to Princess Celestia’s stress. The Royal Guard was having troubles containing the gangs in Detrot and there were reports that some members had somehow snuck into other cities and had started recruiting more into their number. The Guard had been doing their best to contain the gangs but they were now being stretched thin.

Another headache was that while Discord admitted to displacing three more ponies in addition to the griffon and Fluttershy’s old friend, there was a report that three more ponies had gone missing and the draconequus denied any involvement in their disappearance. The only clue to the identities of the abducted was that they were important ponies in Pinkie Pie’s life.

In reaction to the latest disappearances, Discord, aided by Celestia and Luna, used every ounce of magic they could muster to transport the Equus system into a pocket dimension to prevent future abductions.

Worse news was that there had been reports from the Tartarus guardians that Tirek was acting up and had begun plotting his escape from the realm.

There was simply no end in sight for Celestia’s woes.

Author's Note

Yes, I did decide on a MoonPie ship. Let Playa have his romance and bromance with the other human Saints but Moondancer and Pinkamena are going together for this fic.

I am going straight into SR4 without an interlude this time because I couldn't think about enough important details going on in Equestria to justify making a chapter about it.