Author's Note

Hey, guess what. I’m back, and I have a brand new chapter for you guys. Hope it was worth the wait.

Hands down to earth

Chapter 3: Hands down to earth

It’s been a while since I’ve been to the United States, but it looks like I don’t have much of a choice. Located in New Jersey is Le Paraclock’s arms. One swipe of those arms and you’re dead meat.

While we were able to find the location of the arms, taking them back was going to be a challenge. Turns out that the arms were being used at a local night club as part of a statue.

Luckily me and my gang have magic on our side, and we have been through worse. Besides, the only thing we have to worry about is the guy who bought the arms. Still, it’s nothing we can’t handle.

The Cooper gang and the mane six established the hideout in New Jersey, where they discussed the plan to take back the Le Paraclock arms.

“Okay, here’s what we know so far,” began Bentley. “A mysterious buyer has bought the Le Paraclock arms and welded them onto the statue at the nightclub. In order to steal them back, we’ll need to get them sawed off of the statue without anyone noticing.”

“Question, how do we get inside without anyone noticing?” asked Rarity.

“That’s where we all come in. Four of us will distract the guards and guests by going out on the dance floor, while the rest of us will get the arms while everyone is busy,” said Bentley. “Any volunteers for the distraction?”

“I’ll volunteer,” said Rarity.

“Same here,” said Rainbow Dash.

“Count me in,” said Sly.

“I guess I’ll help,” said Fluttershy.

“Great, the rest of us will get the arms while everyone else is distracted,” said Bentley. “Places everyone, let’s get this plan into motion.”
Later that evening…

Everyone was getting ready for the big heist. Rarity made fancy outfits for the ones that volunteered for the distraction, while Bentley led everyone else to the Le Paraclock arms. Once Sly and the other volunteers made it inside, they kept looking around the nightclub for ways to distract the crowd.

“How are we going to distract a crowd this big?” said Rainbow Dash. Suddenly, Sly saw Carmelita down on the dance floor.

“I think I might have found our way to victory,” said Sly, as he walked towards Carmelita. Luckily, the suit he was wearing made him unrecognizable. “Greetings, Miss Fox.”

“Hello, do I know you? You look familiar,” said Carmelita, who clearly needs to get her eyes checked.

“That depends, do you dabble with police work out of your jurisdiction,” said Sly, who knows how to handle a situation like this.

“I often do,” said Carmelita. “Would you care to dance?”

“Sure thing, ma lady,” said Sly. At that moment, the two opposing sides of the law were hitting the dance floor with all they had.

“Goodness, Sly is quite the accomplished dancer,” said Rarity, amazed at the sight of the two on again off again lovers dancing together.

“Okay Bentley, the distraction is in motion,” said Rainbow Dash, through her ear piece.

“Roger that, Rainbow Dash,” said Bentley, who was with the rest of the mane six as well as Murray. “Okay Murray, you’ll have to saw off the arms carefully.”

“Don’t worry, Bentley. With magic on his side, anything is possible for The Murray,” said Murray. He then carefully sawed off the arms off the statue, and then carried them away. “Okay, get the others out of here.”

“Way ahead of you, Murray,” said Bentley, as he prepared for the ultimate distraction. He then pressed a button on his remote, setting off an explosion in the distance, which caused the party guests to scream in shock. “Hurry, let’s get out of here!”

Back on the dance floor, Sly immediately saw the explosion, and figured out a way to make his exit. “Did you hear that? I guess someone set off the fireworks early,” said Sly, which managed to get Carmelita’s attention away from him. Sly then turned to his pony companions. “Come on, let’s get out of here.”

“You don’t have to tell us twice,” said Rainbow Dash, as they all made their daring escape from the party.

Once they were gone, Carmelita looked behind her, only to see that her dancing partner was gone. “That’s odd, where’d he go?” she asked in confusion. She then found a rose in her hair, which had a familiar looking calling card. “What?! Cooper!”

Back on the outside of the night club, Murray was carrying the Le Paraclock arms over his head while running as fast as possible. As he was running, some of the guards had noticed him, and started chasing him.

“Guys, I could use some help here!” said Murray, speaking in his earpiece.

“Don’t worry, I’m sending out the RC Chopper,” said Twilight, as she sent her own RC Chopper to take out the guards.

Once Twilight managed to figure out how to pilot the RC Chopper, she dropped tiny bombs filled with knockout gas, which managed to take out all of the guards.

“Okay Murray, the cost is clear,” said Twilight, as Murray made his way to the safe house. Once he was inside, Twilight called everyone else through the earpiece. “Okay everyone, we have the Le Paraclock arms with us, report back to the safe house.”

“Roger that, Twilight,” said Sly, as he and the others avoided making contact with the police, who were arresting some of the criminals who were at the party.

Suddenly, Sly heard something in a nearby alley that sounded familiar to him. It was a female voice that the cooper gang knew well, but it was especially familiar to Bentley.

“I keep telling you that putting too much pressure on the capacitor is dangerous,” said the female voice, who was wearing a cloak over her head. “If I had been here earlier, then maybe you idiots wouldn’t have lost the Le Paraclock arms. But at least we have the rest of those parts for my master plan.”

The female then took off her cloak, revealing herself to be… “Penelope?” whispered Sly and Bentley, who were shocked to see Bentley’s ex-girlfriend in the flesh, since the last time they saw her was in medieval England.

As for the ponies, they were confused by how the two knew the pink mouse.

Once the drama was over, Penelope continued her phone conversation. “If you want a raise, then figure out how to find the arms and tail of Le Paraclock, or else your body will be put into the shredder,” said Penelope, who ended the call shortly after. “Ugh, men. You can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them. Let alone make them serve you.”

Once she was gone, Sly and Bentley were already back in the safe house with the others. “There you are! What took you so long?!” asked Twilight.

“Let’s just say, we ran into an old ‘friend’,” said Bentley, who began to tell the ponies about Penelope.

Saying we were shocked to see Penelope after she worked with Le Paradox would be an understatement. Is it inappropriate to call her a complete psychopath? No, no even close. And yet, here she was, still alive, and collecting the Le Paraclock parts for herself. The only question is why is she collecting them?

We explained to our equestrian friends that Penelope was once an ally of the group, and even had a relationship with Bentley. However, once Le Paradox approached her about making millions, she immediately switched to being an evil genius.

The last time we saw her was when we time traveled to medieval Europe, where she was disguised as the Black Knight, and even used her knowledge on time travel to help Le Paradox erase my family history. Needless to say, she was a real loose cannon. We had to watch our backs if we were going to stop her, and make sure that Le Paraclock never sees the light of day again.