Galloping through the streets of manehattan, a blue earth pony stallion in a black trenchcoat, wearing red goggles, and face mask knocked ponies out of his way as he hauled a large chariot behind him.

"No sign of trouble, Vex!" The stallion shouted at the chariot,

Standing inside holding their prize, covered in a tarp, a unicorn, wearing all black armor, keeping their identity secrete stood looking out the sides, he looked down at his accomplices, three stallions lay on the floor of the chariot, two were shot with magic bolts and died from their wounds, one was crouched playing lookout in the sky incase of any airborn company. Unlike their driver, the rest of Vex's team were unicorns. But only Vex kept their identity masked.

"Their dead, Vex." The stallion said. "What do we do with em?"

"They'll serve us still. Even in death they are loyal to me." Vex said, his voice masked by a vocoder.

"VEX!" The driver shouted. "We got company!"

Vex looked up. seeing the police chariot, a brown Unicorn driver and earth pony officer in the chariot.

Vex's goggles almost narrowed at the sight, but never the less he nodded. "Then lets give them a welcome." He looked down to his accomplice. "Let's send our friends down to meet them."

Said pony tilted his head, shocked to hear what he was about to have to do with his fallen comrads.

In the police chariot we continued to chase down the suspects. We noticed they began to move around the chariot, the pony in black armor looked to us as they lowered the Chariot's ramp.

"The hay are they doing?" Dragnet asked, though we got our answer fast before I could answer.

Rolling out the back and flying towards us two pony bodies flew out of the back, both unicorns, One missed my head by an inch the second it hit the front of the police chariot's front guard.

"BY THE STARS!" I yelped, nearly loosing my eye to the dead pony's horn.

Dragnet wasn't so lucky, the second body rolled and collided with her legs, tripping her and forcing her to fall into the pavement. At least she wasn't shredded by the asphalt, She was lucky to have grabbed the body to keep her face from getting torn off by the pavement.

Once we came to a full stop I looked up, they stopped long enough to look at us.

"I admire your tenacity and integrety." The armored pony said. their voice was masked somehow. "But I warn you, do not persue us, or you will end up like your friends, the royal guards at the museum and the police I had to put down like dogs."

At that they sped off. Dragnet slowly got to her hooves, her legs shook and I could tell they hurt. "Wa-was that who I think that was?"

I stared at the chariot as it turned a corner, disappearing behind a warehouse. we had them pegged, but if we didn't do anything now....

I looked to our chariot, the second body was wedged into the chariots axel and it would take too long to lodge him out.

"Dragnet, can you walk?"

The unicorn looked up at me and nodded. "Legs are a little shaky from that trip, but I'll be fine. You?"

"Call in backup." I said as I hopped out of the chariot.

Dragnet looked at me, blinking a couple times before the dots were put together. "No... nonono. We can't go after them!" She said as she unhitched herself and ran infront of me. "Did that pony in armor sound at all like he was kidding around!?"

I stopped and look into my partner's eyes, I never saw fear in them before, but all I could do was smile. "Call in backup. We're not going in alone, I'm not the smartest pony, but I have some sense."

"Not much anyways." Dragnet said with a sigh, her horn glowed. "Dispatch, this is Chariot 354, we tracked our perps to a warehouse district, they disabled the chariot and we're proceeding on foot. Be advised, Our subjects may be with the crime lord Vector Sigma, Request backup."

I stood their waiting for the reply.

"Dispatch to 354, Orders are to stay put and wait til backup arives. T-Minus, five minutes."

"Negative Dispatch!" I replied with a snort. "Suspects are aware we're close on their lair, we wait they could run."

"354, this is Dispatch, if you don't like orders, you can just turn in your badge!"

With that reply I growled, grabbing my helmet and tossing it to the ground. "Fine."

Its then I felt a hoof on my withers. "Blue, stop." I looked over to Dragnet and saw resolve in her eyes, but mixed with the reassurance of a mother who would root her foal on at practice. those eyes that you could fall in love with... "Your not turning in your badge. Your a good cop. We can either wait, or go in and at least slow them down."

Looking at my helmet on the ground I huffed. Slowly I picked the stupid thing up and put it on. "Dispatch." I said with a slow even voice. "354, Going in to at least see if we can keep an eye on the perps, will report their movements until backup arrives.... Over."

"Rodger that, 354, and.... I'm sorry. Good luck." Dispatch's responce was genuine and sensere. "Please don't get killed, Blue.... your a pain in the ass but your still one of us.... over and out."

Meanwhile, At Cyber-Technologies....

A pony overlooked the city of manehattan, his steel grey mane swept back against his head, The cloak on his back and shoulders shifted as he lifted a glass and brought it to his lips, the glint of metal revealed his foreleg to be metalic, in fact it was a prosthetic.

"Mr Fetlock," A Unicorn Pony mare spoke behind him. she was slinder, with long spendly legs, like a model from the pony magazines. "The ponies in the lab have annouced the project is ready."

"Excelent." Iron Fetlock said as he turned around. "Is all in order?"

The mare nodded. "All we need now is a... 'Candidate', for the project." She said as she approached, sliding a folder of papers to the much taller stallion. She sat on his desk and pointed to the papers.

"The only places we could find suitable bodies would be the police departments, their ponies are more than suitable for the project."

"It's not their bodies we need though." Iron Fetlock said as he looked to the mare and smiled. "Find the first... 'Fresh' Pony available. Make sure the proper proceedures are in place. I want no legal matters in the way. Make sure we get them fresh."

"Yes, Mr. Fetlock." The mare chirped with a smile.

"Thank you for your service, Aurora Lights." He said as he turned back to the window. "We'll bring you down yet, Vector Sigma. Even the ponies you brought to the grave will help us do it."

Upon searching for a while, we found the chariot, the cargo it held was gone as well as the suspects, We decided to split up as I went through the lower levels of what we found out was an old steel mill.

Dragnet went to the upper level of the Mill as I began searching the second level....

Silently trotting through the second level, Dragnet's horn glowed, pulling out her pistol, before her, with his back turned as he urinated on a piece of machinery, was one of the perpetrators, she shook her head as she got close enough.

"Put your hooves up, Neighagra Falls..." She said as she pointed the gun at him, pulling out the hoofcuffs and magic surpressing ring.

The pony finished his business and turned his head. "Well, thats not my name, but if you insist." He said.

Just as Dragnet moved to cuff the pony, however, the stallion suddenly shot out his rear hooves, bucking her in the face several times before shoving her over the railing.

Dragnet's head hit a pipe, knocking her out as she landed in a pile of carpets, seemingly dead.

Looking down the stallion shook his head. "Damn, pretty gal too."

On the First level I made my way to a secluded spot, looking through a grate at the perpetrators.

The Unicorn pulled off his goggles and mask, revealing a stallion with blond mane, light red coat, and yellow eyes.

"Ugh, I tell you, Twig, Vex keeps steeling this stuff, but I swear, it has no value on the market." the Unicorn said as he turned on the TV.

"Well," The stallion said as he returned from the second level. Dragnet must be doing well to keep out of sight. "He keeps saying its going to pay off with his contractor over seas when he gets the last thing on his list."

I activated my comlink again and wispered. "Dispatch, this is 354, where the hay's that damn backup? it's been thirty minutes!?" I said through my teeth.

"Sorry, 354." Dispatch replied. "Backup's unavailable. we can't send anyone close enough, hold tight and----

Its then my radio squeeled in my ear as it was shot off by a magic bullet. I screamed out in pain as I stumbled out of my hiding spot, completely in pain but from the pain and blood running down the side of my head, plus the fact my ear was in my hoof now I guessed it was shot off.

The two stallions quickly jumped up, "Now boys, don't make this hard on yourselves!" I said, sadly they went for their guns. "Let's play rough then!" I was with it enough that I quickly shot a round from my rifle, killing the masked pony. Leaving the one stallion and my rear attacker, but I knew who it no doubt was.

"Your brave, I give you that." A augmented voice said as a magic aura ripped my rifle from my hooves before I can fire the next shot off. "Brave, but stupid."

"Yeah...." I said nodding, trying to ignore the pain. "Stupid for sure."

Slowly I turned around, the pony in armor stood before me, his red goggles seemed to glow as the beams shrunk as they focused on me.

"No, not stupid. I admire tenacity." He said as he walked around me, throwing the rifle to his ally. "Do you know who I am?"

"Vector...." I grunted from the sudden ringing pain in my ear. or lack there-of. "Sigma."

The pony nodded as more ponies entered. "In a way your correct, I am Vex, head of the Vector Sigma corporation."

Looking around several ponies in armor similar to Vex's surrounded me, but where Vex's wore black armor, their's were sage. Some had rifles, others were Unicorns.

"F-Firing squad, For me? bit-ah,"I paused my quip from a ringing in my head. "Bit much for one pony, isn't it?"

Vex stared at me for a time, the red beams in his goggles dialated, as though he was contiplating, he turned his head to his ponies and with a single gesture all of them left.

"I don't believe in overkill." the pony finally said. he slowly aproached me and held my head with his hoof. "Your partner was too, too easy to deal with. Your no doubt be a waist of energy and ammo."

When I heard those words the world stopped.

Dragnet.

Dead.

"No."

Vex lowered his head. "I am sorry. but it looked painless. Give us that much at the least." he turned towards me and I could feel a sick grin coming from him. "I'll deal with you myself, instead."

At that moment in a flash a bolt shot from his horn, ripping my right foreleg and rear leg off, causing me to fall, the shock of it was enough for me to scream.

"Your a good cop, I hope you know." He said with that voice. "But, I must leave a... message." he looked down at me as he fired again, the next shot ripping my other rear leg off. causing me to scream again.

Vex was patient in his work, he waited until I was done screaming in shock from the blasts to kneel down to me. "I am so sorry. but you must be my messenger."

I groaned at the irony. the old saying, don't shoot the messenger. only now I'm being shot to send the messege. never the less, I was hoping backup would arrive, save me, maybe they could save my legs, but Vex kept shooting, the pain was rediculess and I felt my insides be ripped to pieces, the hell kind of spell is that!?

I stopped screaming at some point and just began to wimper, I saw from behind the cover Dragnet, holding her hoof over her mouth, I wanted to guester her to be quiet, but having no hooves made it difficult, during Vex's shooting, my last leg flew right off.

Where did he learn these spells!?

With one last shot, I screamed one last pathetic cry. I wimpered as i looked up, little was left of my torso, he was sure not to do anything to kill me immediantly.

"Your unusually strong, but my entertainment has ended. Goodbye young pony, Sleep now in Sigma's embrace."

As I looked into Dragnet's eyes I felt the final shot but all went black.

Author's Note

Villains in black armor are awesome!