Finally A Day Off

"So did you really do all those things?" Deviree asked.

"Look, I know it's confusing... But this 'body' did those things. It wasn't me, I swear." Trebass frantically tried to explain the misunderstanding.

Deviree put her hoof to his lips, "Okay, I believe you."

The white mare standing awkwardly behind them interrupted, "If you two are done, I think your friend over there is using that broken glass as a backscratcher.

"Wait what?" Trebass asked, as he turned around.

The blue pegasus that was under custody was attempting to cut the ropes that tied his wings together with the sharp pieces of of glass from the broken window behind the desk. He moved his wings up and down on the shattered glass, and eventually cut through the rope.

"HEY! Don't move!" Deviree shouted, as she pulled her revolver out of it's holster.

"Sorry, but I got a train to catch." Shock Bolt said before he flew off. His wings flapped and carried his body and constricted legs up over the tall buildings adjacent to the one everypony else was in.

Deviree let out six shots, all missing, until she ran out of ammunition, "Tch. He got away."

"We have to after him!" Trebass shouted.

Notelie galloped up behind him, "I'm all out of 'Storm of Hearts' jars. Any other ideas?"

Trebass scratched his mane in thought, and then a bright idea struck him, "I got it! We'll use this!" The unicorn shouted, as he raised his hoof.

"Isn't that your M.a.s.t?" Deviree asked.

Trebass replied, "Yup! We'll use this to send a signal to Alex and he can bring us a hovercraft or something!"

The white unicorn mare spoke up, "You know your friend has wings right? And I'm sure your teleportation magic isn't that rusty."

Trebass' head dropped as he sighed, "Right. I knew that"

Deviree lept from the shattered window and dove face down into the streets of downtown Haywaii. She extended her wings to soften the landing on the cement sidewalk. Two flashes of light revealed two white unicorns meeting their mint green pegasus friend.

"We'll just borrow this cab here..." Trebass said, as he surveyed the area around him, to make sure nopony else was around to see him committing grand theft auto.

"Trebass!" Notelie shouted, "Petty theft is not very prince-like!"

Deviree chuckled, but then she asked, "Wait, prince?"

"It's a long..."

*SMASH*

"Story." Trebass finished his sentence as he jabbed his elbow into the window of the four-wheeled yellow gas-powered cab.

After Trebass unlocked the doors of the cab, Notelie hopped into the passenger seat in the front. Deviree climbed into the back seat. With the white stallion in the drivers seat noticed that some poor pony had left the keys in the ignition.

"Well, it's his fault for leaving the keys in." Trebass said sarcastically, as he twisted the key.

A loud rumbling purr came from the front of the cab.

"Where do you think he went?" Deviree asked, as she slowly reloaded six (6) bullets into her revolver.

Thoughts began to swirl around in Trebass' mind, "He might have fled back to the hotel to find Royal Flush, or perhaps he wants to get out of the city and he's taking a ship out of Haywaii... Or maybe..."

"The train? He did say something about a train to catch didn't he?" The white mare beside Trebass pointed out.

"That must be it. Nice job!" Trebass complimented her, while Deviree seemed a bit annoyed in the back of the cab.

The unicorn punched the gas pedal with his back leg, and they drove through the empty streets of downtown Haywaii. They passed the very few vehicles that stood in their way, Trebass swayed left and right to avoid any collisions. They finally emerged from the dark shadows the the tall buildings around them, as began to drive out of the downtown area and onto the black paved highway running through a barren wasteland. Bits of tumble weed and dead shrubs rolled past the yellow cab speedily.

"I can see the train rails running over the ocean there! But it'll take us hours to get to the station if we follow the highway!" Deviree shouted over the extremely loud roaring engine.

Trebass realized that, and he noticed that the train was already leaving the station, "Looks like we're gonna take a detour!"

Notelie spoke up again, "Wait, a detour--"

*SCREECH*

Trebass had sharply turned clockwise, and had the hood of the cab facing the elevated train rail tracks about a quarter of a mile away from them. He punched the gas pedal again with his back leg, and started speedily driving down the rocky basalt wasteland.

The bumpiness of the unpaved basalt nearly made Notelie throw up, while Deviree held herself together by shutting her eyes.

They were nearing the railroad tracks, and luckily the train had been approaching the spot where Trebass had stopped the cab.

"So here's the gameplan, I'll drive beside the train. Deviree, you take Notelie onto the train and I'll follow you after." Trebass explained.

"Why don't we just--" Notelie never finished her sentence; after Trebass had, yet again, punched the gas pedal with his hoof.

The cab swayed left and right as the unicorn driving tried to align the cab parallel to the train that he was currently racing. Deviree opened the sunroof of the cab and grabbed Notelie from the front passenger seat.

"Ah! What are you doing?!" The white mare shouted.

Deviree replied with a, "Sorry sweety, big stallion's orders!" before she flew out the sun roof with the white mare in her arms.

Trebass saw the green pegasus flying onto the top of one of the train cars, while Notelie flailed her arms in a fashion that looked cute to him. They opened a hatch and then disappeared into the train car.

"Well, time to do something stupid again." The unicorn said to himself.

He pulled out a jar that contained a Storm of Hearts. His M.a.s.t. was flickering with static.

"Let's hope I'm not too rusty." He said, as his horn began to glow a bright pink.

He concentrated as hard as he could, his horn's glow gradually grew brighter and brighter. The glass jar in his hand began to crack, until it finally shattered. A swirl of grey clouds and small bolts of lightning began to chase each other around Trebass.

He began to chant, "With the power of two hearts aligned, I control even the fabric of space and time."

He glanced at the speeding train to his left. A bright white light engulfed him and blinded him momentarily. Suddenly, he found himself on the top of one of the train cars. Unfortunately, he was still in the yellow cab!

"Crap!" Was all he could shout, as he frantically tried to balance the cab on the train car. It was no use, he tried to eject himself from his seatbelt. A quiet 'click' was all it took for Trebass to know he was free. He lunged for the door handle, but the cab had already began to roll on its side.

He managed to open the door, as he fell into one of the gaps between train cars. He could see the cab falling into the blue ocean behind him.

"Well no amount of insurance can cover that damage." Trebass said to himself, as he entered the train car in front of him.

His first priority was to meet up with Deviree and Notelie. The first train cart was completely empty, which He thought was strange since it was the second cart closest to the driver's cab. He slowly trotted through eerily empty train cab and into to the next gap between cabs.

He came out from the cab doorway, as a strong wind blew across his face. He covered his face with his right hoof, and entered the next train cab. Like the previous cab, this one was eerily empty as well.

"I suppose ponies wouldn't want to leave this resort in the middle of summer." Trebass said to himself.

He proceeded halfway through the cab until he was stopped by a voice that was muffled by electrical static, "H..Hello... Tre..bass." The voice cracked.

The white unicorn stopped and shouted, "Shock Bolt! Come out and fight me like a stallion!"

The crackled intercom voice echoed through the cab again, "How about a little game instead? You see, I've got seven (7) objects that you would probably be interested in. There are three (3) on this train, two (2) in the driver's cab and one (1) at the back of the train. One (1) on the train tracks, about three (3) minutes ahead of us. One (1) is tied to the very front of the train. I'm tying the last one down on the top of cab three, which is currently the cab behind you. The last one is me, if you wish to take your revenge... Oh, and if you're wondering what each of these objects are, there's a map of the train and the tracks on the door at the end of the cab. You can only take one object, so which will you take?" The intercom voice stopped, and so did the background static.

Trebass proceeded to the end of the train, and like Shock Bolt said, there was a piece of paper taped to the window of the exit door. The unicorn inspected the crude drawing of a train riding on what looked like tracks.

"No..." Trebass said. The cutie mark of Deviree was drawn on the driver's cab section of the map.

Notelie's cutie mark was at the back of the train, and Aromé's was on the top of the train behind him. A badly drawn picture of a bomb was printed on the train tracks, and a line was drawn between the bomb and the words 'defuse' that floated above a dark blue skull on top of the driver's cab.

He assumed that the blue skull was Shock Bolt, and that he had the means of defusing the bomb. Finally, he saw four (4) card suits on the front of the train.

"He's going to ram Royal Flush into something!" He said as he punched the door in anger.

He ran his other hoof over the Rose, Dove, Harp and Card Suit cutie marks on the piece of paper. Worst case scenarios filled his mind. He knew that somepony was going to die, and it was inevitable, but who was going to meet death, and who would live among the living?

Trebass tried to think of a solution that would save everypony, but not one crossed his mind,"Even if I defuse the bomb, it'll still derail train. But even with a large explosion, the rear cabs would probably survive. Tch, that insane psycho is gonna get the punishment he deserves. One way or another..."