Chapters Dodger trudged in the snow, her crew that she had worked with all ended up in jail and she got away......again. Hearth's Warming Eve was drawing nigh and she hated the holiday. She saw Rarity and her group of friends again and this time she left them alone. She noted that the crazy pink one waved to her. Awkwardly she waved back and ducked out of sight and hid in a door way as to cops strode by her.
Dodger sighed as she took out a locket that held three pictures in it's case. "Mom.....dad.......I know you raised me to be better than a common street thief and all round criminal! I swore to to protect Lilac but I am ashamed to to say that she and I are part of a shady operation here in Canterlot, I steal stuff and Lilac had taken a job giving ponies a good time for a fee. I swear I'll get us out soon......I hope."
Lilac
Lilac was a lot like her older sister but the only difference was her lilac colored body with its light rose red mane. Lilac failed as a thief in the operation she and Dodger worked for, but she managed to do well as a girl-for-hire on weekends and one night stands. At this present time she arrived at the lair of debauchery and she saw Dodger look at her and could tell that she was burdened. "How many this week did you service?" Dodger asked with a hint of sadness.
Lilac saw her matted mane and the fur of her face. "Last night alone it was seven stallions....bachelor party and seven two nights ago..... bachelorette party. I swear Dodger!" Lilac downed a pill, "one day we're gonna fly this hell hole and be free again! You almost get killed regularly because of close scrapes and I have a 'wonderful time being intimate with anyone who pays a decent fee and tips well."
Dodger had to leave her sister as she herself was summoned to the office. Lilac hummed as she cleaned the now dried but once sticky fluid of the seven stallions the night before. She still had the Celestia damned taste in her mouth.
Meanwhile
"Dodger you dumb cunt! You almost got caught again! Lucky for you Rarity of Ponyville didn't see you when the cops walked by this afternoon."
"You sir give me targets that are to attentive! Talon here almost killed me when your favorite enforcer pounded into me."
Talon was a massive gryphon with a dirty mind. "Wish I pounded hole or two in ya, I hadn't pounded any whores in awhile. Might do Lilac tonight."
"Talon! Touch her and I'll blast you! Even if the Ministry of Magic takes my power from me!" Dodger looked at her sleaze bag of a boss and she felt sick. "did you guys?" Dodger didn't want to finish her sentence fearing the worst.
"We did.....every single dude here did her! Should've seen her throat bulge I shoved into her mouth." The conversation lasted a few hours and when Dodger saw her sister she asked for the verifying of what she had been told.
"It's true......it happened the day the Element Bearers chased you. I had to give my consent because they threatened to hire rival gangs to hurt you." Dodger figured that the only way to save themselves was to go Twilight Sparkle herself and beg for a pardon and beg for help to get out the mess they were in.
Hearth's Warming Eve was supposed to be a time of celebration, but for Dodger and her sister it was a reminder of the day their parents died. Dodger at this moment was with her boss and Lilac had left to work the bustling streets. "Talon.....boss....you both have your word of honor not to touch my sister!" Dodger hissed in anger as she saw her smug boss smirking.
Talon spoke up now and commented how there was no honor amongst thieves. "Talon.....you and our boss know she's only fifteen! When this operation goes down in flames I'd make sure they know that you are nothing but filly foolers!"
"Dodger you've done your share of crimes as well."
"I'm a thief nothing more!" Dodger stormed from the office and went to the streets to clear her head at her favorite sweet shop.
When she arrived there, she saw her sister which saddened her more and she froze as she saw who her patron was! It was the captain of the Royal Guard, Shining Armor. She knew who he was married to, but seeing him be unfaithful was sickening. Then she saw her sister slide a folder over, was Lilac the snitch of the gang? Shining Armor looked at her and froze as did Lilac. The pair soon walked over to her.
"Lilac are you the snitch?"
"I am and Shining Armor isn't doing anything to me. He is trying to sway the royals to slam down on our boss and his gang of thugs."
"What Lilac says is true.....I need you to do me a favor however; I need you to get your boss Kraven's book of records from his office."
"Are you fucking insane!! If he catches me in there stealing his records he'd kill me! Hell he'd kill me after he forces me to have sex with him and every other dude in the gang. I may be the best thief, at least here in Canterlot."
"I'll protect your sister and I will do my best to get you a pardon for your thefts."
"I'll do the job......if I don't make it.....find her a good home. Furthermore, I want you to give these bits back to one called Rarity; I stole them a few months ago."
Hearth's Warming Eve
Dodger crept into the dimly lit office of Kraven and was just opening the safe when she heard Talon hiss behind her, "You're the fucking snitch! Once I'm done with you I'll turn you in!" Dodger stuffed the booked into her saddlebag and spun around as a claw barely missed her throat. Using her weight to push the gryphon to the floor she ran like a crazy mare for the nearest exit. "All creatures on deck! Dodger is the snitch!"
Dodger bailed through a window and ran! Angry voices swore and threatened to do horrible things to her when she was caught. She hit a dead end alley and she froze when a cyan pegasus dropped beside her, the messy rainbow mane was disheveled. "Hey kid give me the book and give me your forelegs I'll get you outta here!"
"Take the book and give your Daring Do one instead! I'll fight the bastards!" The pegasus took flight and leaving a rainbow trail. Dodger turned to face her fate.
Meanwhile
"Dodger is a thief not a fighter!"
"Look Lilac I'll send Rainbow Dash to get her." Shining Armor turned toward Zipp and Hitch, "You two head toward the docks that'll be where Dodger will hide out if she evades Dashie, Lilac says there's a burger joint there where she likes to hide during rough times. Pharynx you and Chrysalis scower the skies and see if you can find Dodger!"
Canterlot Central Station
Twilight and her friends disembarked their train, shortly followed by Sunny Starscout and her commrades. In the bustling station Rarity and Pipp both hollered, "keep wary of the roaming thieves who'd rob you blind!"
Dodger, a local thief and very good at what she did brushed by Rarity while levitating map and lifted a small coin purse full of bits. "Eh it's only about hundred bits." Dodger thought to herself as she had recently stole about a bank book with about a million bits worth of traveling bank notes already signed.
"Thief!" Rarity screeched and the nearest police ponies gave chase. Dodger dropped and slid on her side under a cart full of produce. Dodger deftly swiped an apple from the load. She easily out of the range of the police. She stopped to combine her stolen bits. Dodger felt the scars on her face from a gryphon who had attacked and tried to kill her for her swiped bits from three days prior. Dodger wasn't a killer and she easily could've killed the gryphon, but she rather be arrest for theft alone and not have murder on her list of crimes.
3 hours Later
"Dodger! This is the third time you almost got caught! Why the hell are you taking such chances?" A charcoal black pegasus asked with a tone of malice on his voice and by his side was a gryphon who sneered.
"To keep proving I am the best on the streets! Our rivals think they can beat us! If I had known who I was robbing I wouldn't have risked that opportunity." The gryphon lunged and slammed Dodger to the wall.
"Listen here dip shit! We lost three commrades and the boss an' I think there is a rat amongst us!"
"It ain't me fucking whore! Stormcloud basically raised me and why would I turn on him? Besides Skimmer, I wouldn't want to run the damned risk of having you tear me apart!" The heated discussion continued for hours and Dodger pilfered a cigar and lit it. "Might I remind you Skimmer, if it hadn't been for you finding me and bringing me here I'd be dead."
Meanwhile
"Yes officer the mare in question was dark grey and a black mane and cyan or mint green eyes I think. The mare also possessed a bar piercing in her left ear and several studs and I believe she also had a hoop earring as well. She was very clever and she managed to get away from Rainbow...."
"Yo' chief! Dodger struck again for the second time today!" The element bearers an their friends from Maritime Bay were educated on the young Dodger. "You see, Dodger is an orphan and she's only sixteen and has never been caught to serve time. She changes her haunts and dwelling places frequently and for a fucking unicorn bitch of a whore she doesn't seem to know how to effectively use her magic . Twilight Sparkle had been on the phone at this point and interjected.
"According to Neighsay and the Ministry of Magic, for a unicorn to use their magic on another pony would most likely end with the offender losing their power.....I suspect that Dodger knows this and why she resorted to shield spells and teleportation spells. Some reason though she acted as if she somehow knew you Izzy."
"Impossible! Unless.......Gloomy Sonnet had a twin sister! That can't be!" Little did anypony know that Dodger would cross their path multiple times.
Dodger fled the alley and ran to a favorite place she liked to go; it was a late night burger joint and bar and the owner knew her well. She arrived and went to the owner, "Hey Lucky Charm....got that box I gave to you a few years ago?"
"Yeah it's in my office safe, here's the code for it. Are ya in trouble?" Dodger gave a simple nod and went into the office and retrieved her box. Opening it up was a semiautomatic pistol and holster. Strapping it to her hind leg and the extra clips she stuffed into her satchel. At that moment she heard Stormcloud and Talon cursing and she knew the only way out was the fire exit in the hallway. She just reached the aforementioned exit when she heard gun fire. Begining to sob she knew her old friend was dead and the continued gunshots told her that the patrons had been gunned down.
She was still running when a shadow overhead told her that a someone above her was following her. Looking up she saw Talon who tackled her as she drew her gun. In a blinding blur she and Talon rolled along the cobblestone and she soon was being pummeled. Through a swelling eye and the blows to her face she aimed her gun and fired and the shot killed Stormcloud easily enough; she double tapped a unicorn mare who dropped with two holes where her eyes had been.
Talon grabbed Dodger's horn and jerked her head to the left which caused her pain and the dropping of her pistol. Fearfully she watched as another gryphon who had joined the fray lifted a pry bar and slammed it into her ribs and barrel.
Dodger barely stood up and raised her gun as Talon stabbed her with a large knife. "Talon.....you dumb fuck! You should've never touched my kid sister! Now die you fucking asshole." She fired a whole flip of ammo into Talon's head through the brain stem and spine. The other gryphon saw that he he was next took flight only to be shot down and the beat by the saw pry bar he had used. The others soon turned to run but we're stopped by the Royal Guard with their rifles.
Dodger woke up in a hospital and she knew that if she could just recover then she'd sign herself out and run! She'd leave her sister with Shining Armor of course to keep her safe and voiced as much to the captain; she told him that it'll be safer for her sister with them being distanced for a time. The request had been accepted and Dodger in a span of two months tearfully left her sister behind as she hit the streets again.
