Violet

Rainbow slowly drove through the city with Twilight in the passenger seat, ready to jump out if needed. "See anything?" Dash asked.

Twilight shook her head. "Not really. Maybe there's no crime tonight?"

"It's Manehattan. There's always crime."

They drove around a little longer before Twilight saw a man mugging a woman in alley. "Right there. Stop the car."

Rainbow slowed to a stop so Twilight could get out. "Alright, Twilight. You got this. Still, though... be careful."

Twilight left the car and made her way into the alley, where the man was pulling on the woman's purse. "Give it here, bitch! Unless you wanna get shot!"

"Someone help!" The woman screamed.

"Help is here," Twilight said as she stood at the entrance to the alley.

The two stopped struggling and looked over at her. "The fuck you want?" The man asked.

"What I want is... for you to let her go. Asshole."

The man was about to say something when the woman pulled her purse back. The mugger then knocked her over on her ass before he pulled his gun. When he went to shoot her, Twilight gasped and flung her hand up, a long purple beam slashing upwards and cutting his hand off. Blood sprayed from the wound as he screamed in pain.

"Oh, shit," Twilight muttered. "Uh..."

"What the fuck?!" The man yelled. "You some kind of freak?!"

He then dove for his gun and grabbed it with his other hand. When he stood up, Twilight thrust her hand out as a magic blast hit him in the chest and blew a giant hole open in his body. Guts splattered the wall behind him as he dropped dead. Twilight stared at the mess before she looked at the frightened woman.

"Well... You're safe now."

The woman kept staring at her.

"So... Um..." Twilight muttered as she looked around at all the blood. "I have to be honest, I... wasn't expecting the mess." The woman quickly got to her feet before she ran past Twilight. "You're... welcome?" Twilight then looked at Rainbow and shrugged as she returned to the car. She opened the door and sat down with a sigh. "I still feel good about that."

Rainbow looked past Twilight at the blood and guts. "Did you have to... paint the walls red?"

"I guess my powers are... powerful. I need to be really careful how I use them. Otherwise..."

"People might think you're a monster?"

"Yeah..."

Rainbow chuckled and put the car in drive. "Come on. Let's get some sleep."

Trixie lay in her bed as she stared up at the ceiling where she had created a swinging pendulum. The blade kept barely missing her face as it swung back and forth. She let out a sigh and reached up to pinch the large blade with her index finger and thumb, stopping its movement. She then converted the large blade into a knife that she held in her hand. With a flick of her hand, she threw the knife and made it hover a few feet from her. It then duplicated as it became a swirling group of eight blades.

"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages... the show is about to begin."

The Next day, Twilight returned to Comix with Rainbow Dash, just narrowly beating Lightning Dust again. "Hey, you're back!" Lightning chuckled as she playfully punched Twilight in the shoulder. Twilight, surprisingly, felt nothing.

"Yeah, I... needed to get out of the hotel, ya know?"

Lightning nodded and went to go stock shelves. Rainbow walked up to Twilight and leaned in. "You sure you don't wanna tell her? Or Pinkie?"

Twilight nodded. "Not yet."

"Aw, shit!" Lightning chuckled as she was looking at her phone. "You bitches see the news?"

"The... news?" Twilight asked.

Lightning nodded. "Some woman was saved from a mugger by a woman with weird powers. Says her savior made the mane explode all over the walls."

Twilight went wide-eyed. "You don't say. Did she give a description of her savior?"

Lightning shook her head. "No. Just that it was a woman." She put her phone away. "Can you believe that? Powers. Like a real life superhero. Maybe this mysterious woman can help with the bank heists."

"Bank heists?" Twilight asked as Pinkamena looked up from the box she was opening up.

"Yeah. There's been a few heists recently where the cops have no idea who did it. No camera footage. No fingerprints, No nothin'. A total mystery."

"Can we discuss current events while we work?" Pinkie asked. "Store opens in fifty."

Twilight and Rainbow Dash eyed each other before they got back to work.

That night, Snips opened his eyes to find himself strapped down to a long, glowing blue table. "What the fuck?" He asked, trying to free his wrists. "What the fuck?!"

Trixie approached the table with a smirk. "Comfy?"

"You?!"

"Yes, me. I suppose you're wondering why you're here."

“I don’t care! Get me the fuck outta here!”

“Tsk tsk tsk,” Trixie teased. “Language. You’re here to take part in my very first large-scale magic show!”

Snips looked around as best he could. “This place is a dump.”

“To the unimaginative, perhaps.” Trixie then took a couple steps back. “Now, for my first trick,” she announced as she raised her right hand and snapped her fingers. The large pendulum blade appeared over the man, magically suspending from the ceiling as its blue glow lit the area around them. “I’m gonna cut this little shit down to size!”

“What the fuck?!” Snips shouted as the pendulum blade swung and dropped a foot lower. “What the hell are you?!”

“Someone you shouldn’t have fucked with.”

The pendulum dropped another foot as it continued to swing.

“You’re gonna regret this!”

Trixie placed her hands on the table. “Hmm… No, I don’t think I will.” She looked up as the blade dropped again, now only a few feet away from her head. “Besides, you won’t be living long enough to care.”

“You won’t get away with this.”

Trixie smirked. “Really? What evidence would tie this back to me? The table? The blade? Both will no longer exist after the show. And you won’t find my fingerprints on your filthy body, I assure you.” The blade dropped again, now narrowly missing Trixie’s head by centimeters. “As far as the cops will be concerned, a ghost killed you.”

Tears started to fill Snips eyes as he struggled to pull himself free. “The others will…”

“Die, too, yes. Next is your brother. Then, that piece of shit Garble.”

The blade dropped once more, creating a shallow cut in Snips’ midsection. He winced in pain as he tried to flatten himself against the table.

“That won’t work,” Trixie cooed as she smiled down at him. “Just… accept it.”

Snips’ lips trembled like he wanted to say something. When he was about to, the blade dropped and sliced into his body. He screamed in pain as blood splattered Trixie’s face. She sighed happily as she felt the warm liquid on her skin. She leaned in just as the man coughed up blood, hitting her right in the face. She just chuckled and wiped it away from her eyes. The blade dropped one last time, cutting Snips in half completely as blood poured across the magical table and onto the floor.

Trixie smirked and snapped her fingers, the pendulum disappearing. She then stepped back and made the table split down the middle and pull apart. As it did, it also separated both halves of the man as even more blood and guts and even organs spilled onto the floor. The table then vanished and the corpse fell to the floor.

Trixie took a few minutes to take in this moment, including deeply through her nose as she smeared the blood over her face with her hands. She felt like nobody could fuck with her anymore. She felt free.