Canterlot Academy Trials

With Nebula…

The stallion continued to make more music from his recorder, summoning notes into the air that kept the diamond dog woman at bay. Ultimately, his plan worked and he had managed to tire her out. Now on the ground, she was too winded to fight back as Nebula trotted up to her.

“Why don’t we stop all this, hm?” he asked politely, “It’s only gonna get worse the more you resist. You don’t need to continue this train of petty theft, miss.”

But the canine lady was stubborn. She grit her teeth, then came up with an idea on the spot. If she couldn’t beat him in a fight…

“Well…maybe we can make a deal?”

Nebula raised an eyebrow. “Hm?”

The dog woman unzipped, and pulled down the pants to her leather bodysuit. She then got on all fours and shook her large, furry behind at the stallion as a way to entice him with her tail wagging.

“Maybe…let me go in exchange for a bit of--?”

Nebula simply responded with a sigh as he looked down at the sand. “...You’re such disgusting trash.”

“...what?” she muttered with a sense of emptiness in her voice as she gazed at him with wide eyes. That was the last thing she had expected to hear. Despite that, she desperately tried to appeal to what she thought were basic instincts. “...Come now. You’re a healthy young man, aren’t you? I bet you haven’t even had time with a--!”

But Nebula cut her off by binding her arms and legs together with cuffs that looked to be made out of musical bars. “...You really think you’re going to tempt me with sex in order to get out of a crime you’re committing? Are you serious?” He stomped around until he was standing in front of her. “...I’m disappointed, honestly. You should have more respect for yourself.”

“Oh quit the act!” she yelped back, “You’re just like every young man! The blood rushing to your penis will overtake you as soon as you see an attractive woman! Don’t act like you’re any better than the rest of them!”

With a flash of magic, Nebula levitated the dog woman up to him so that he could look her in the eyes. “I’ve got my own little desires and kinks, sure. But drowning in a selfish act like prostitution to weasel out of criminal acts is utterly horrid. I’ve seen this happen before and destroy healthy lives. You don’t deserve any sympathy.”

The fact that he had apparently witnessed similar accounts in the past caused the dog woman to look at the ground in shame. “...Is that so?”

“Shut your mouth,” Nebula grumbled as he bound her maw shut with another music bar. “You need serious help.” With that, he carried her in his magical aura back to the entrance of the town…

Where he would find that Grimrose had already subdued the pony that had decided to fight her.

“Hmph,” she muttered as she tilted her head, looking at the stallion whose mouth had become frothy and eyes blank as he lied on the ground. “I guess I overdid it with the stun curse. Oh well. He’ll live.”

“Good job, Rose,” Nebula replied with a happy smile on his face. “These guys are gonna learn not to disturb the good folks of this town anymore.”

“I see you took her down nicely,” Rose replied as she noted the diamond dog woman in his magical grip that he had set down nearby. “Think I have time to examine her?”

Nebula shook his head. “Nah. We need to make sure we round up the rest. Where’s Blue and Mei?”

“All done,” the kirin mare in question casually quipped as she trotted out to them.

“Present and accounted for!” Blue called out as he placed down the other two pony bandits near the rest of the criminals. “This one was hella easy! But I suppose that’s how it goes for your first mission, huh?”

“I’ll say,” Nebula agreed, then took a look around when he realized that someone was missing. “Hm? Where’s Teach?”

POOF!

As if on cue, Cayenne teleported back to them with their leader, York, caught in her magical grip with his hooves tied around each other as if he was a balloon animal.

“There we are. That’s done and done,” she commented as she set him down and looked at her students. “And I see you all have managed to complete your mission with ease.”

“Yup,” Blue replied as he folded his arms, “Buuuut I think we should have a talk with the local ruler of this place. They need to start hiring more security if they don’t want this to keep happening.”

“Very true,” Cayenne replied, “But it’s likely that they wanted outside help to give them a second opinion on how bad it really is.”

“I can see that,” Nebula added, “Sometimes you don’t really know how big of a problem something is until you get an outsider’s perspective.”

Mei let out a relieved exhale. “Yeah. I know that feeling all too well. Trust me.”

As everyone was chatting though, the body bag started to rustle and stir! Whatever was inside of it wasn’t dead after all!

Grimrose was the first to notice this as she put her book away. “...there’s a life signature coming from that body bag. Whoever’s in there isn’t dead.”

Everyone whipped their heads in the direction of the moving bag and hurried over to it. Sure enough, there was movement that became more violent and restless with each passing second as if something was trying to break out of it!

Cayenne stood in front of her students and cast a shield spell. “Hang on, kiddos. This might be dangerous…”

Blue eyed up the bandits and shouted, “Hey, assholes! What’s the deal with this?!”

“W-we thought it was dead!” one of the bandits answered, “That’s all we was told!”

Before long, someone emerged out of the bag, ripping it open with what looked like a primate’s hand…

“Ack! Augh!” a female voice cried out, coughing as she exited the bag. As it turned out…it was a monkey woman from the Far East beyond Saddle Arabia. She had light brown fur, blue eyes, and a red and gold crop-top vest that barely covered her rather well-endowed chest along with nothing on her bottom half. Her prehensile tail was exposed alongside her .

“...What is that?” Blue asked as Cayenne lowered her shield.

“...A gizmonk, I believe,” the teacher mare answered as she took a step towards the primate. “They’re from the Far East and speak a different language. Hopefully I can communicate with her.” She cleared her throat and spoke to the monkey lady, “...hello?”

As soon as she laid eyes on the ponies and dragon, her face lit up as she leapt over to them. “Westerners!” she squealed with a thick Eastern accent. “You all so cool for save me! Thank you!” She went around and grabbed ahold of their hooves and claws to shake them as a sign of gratitude, leaving everyone with confused expressions on their faces…

Until she laid eyes on the kirin. As soon as she did, the monkey lady’s face dropped as she glared at her with hatred in her eyes. “Nǐ...it's you...”

Likewise, Mei returned the gesture. Although her eyes weren’t visible due to her foggy glasses, her tone indicated displeasure upon seeing the primate. “O joh-eun…of all the people we could’ve saved. It had to be one of them.”

Nebula, Grimrose, Blue, and Cayenne simply paused and glanced at each other once more while the kirin and monk glared daggers at each other.

Bad blood from the East?