Episode 2: Handle With Care Part 2

“What are we looking at here?”  John asked.

“Hopefully a sight caused by a spiked drink.”  I said.

“This is what we’re delivering?”  Kim asked.  “Christ, what the fuck?”

“We aren’t too pleased either.”  Said one of the... I guess I’ll have to call them ponies.

The voice reflected that of a female.  The one who has done all the talking so far was a large white horse, or pony.  Her hair and tail were of multiple colors and seemed to be constantly moving.  From what I’ve heard from her, she spoke with authority, but sounded battered, and looked battered too.

“This is too far out.”  Lilly said.  “I’ve always wanted a pony.”

“We are not mere ponies you monkey!”  Said another figure, that seemed to be hidden in the shadows.

“Who are you calling a monkey, you oversize pony freak?”  Said Lilly.

“Don’t berate the package.”  I said.  “Wait, this is still a package right?  Are we really going to fucking deliver this?”

“I say we fucking bail man.  This shit is too fucking weird.”  John said.

“I’m sorry, when did we become fucking amateurs?”  Kim asked, clearly pissed.  “I don’t remember ever backing down from a job, and I’m not starting now.

“Now seems like a good time to start though.”  John said.  “Do you even see what the fuck is going on!  A talking fucking horse, that is multicolored, oh and did I fucking mention that it talks!”

I sat on the floor and put my head back against the nearest wall.  They might be worried about the ponies, but I’m more worried about the fact that we have seen something that we weren’t supposed to see.  Kim and John were still arguing and Lilly was listening and probably thinking about the situation.

“Human.”  Said the white horse.

Oh God it’s talking to me.  “Uh... yeah?”

“Do you know where we are, or where we are headed?”  It asked.  “We must really be getting back to home.”  Her voice seemed to be lacking the power it had once had.  I get the feeling this pony wants to return to where it belongs.  Sadly where it’s going to end up is someplace completely different.

“Okay, that settles it.”  Kim said.  “You two... things, back in the box.  If you make one single threatening move I’m going to put a fucking bullet in you.  John, Lilly, Davis, you’re on guard duty, I have some calls to make.”

The pony in the shadows suddenly emerged from it’s hiding place.  It was dark blue, with the same weird moving hair, but it’s hair was of a different color.  Blue.

“We are not to be ordered around like lowly commoners!”  It shouted.

“Sadly you are.”  Said Kim.  “But if you still think otherwise.”  She said, pulling her gun out of it’s holster.  “You can discuss it with my little friend here.”

“Sister!  Remember we are powerless now.  We can barely stand, let alone fight.  Do what they say.  We need to bide our time until our powers return.”  The white pony said.

The Blue one did as instructed, and climbed back into the box, followed by the white one.  John put the top back on, while Lilly nailed it back shut.  I was still leaning against the wall searching for my pack of cigarettes.  Lilly handed me one of hers, and then handed me her lighter.

“I’ve got to say... I’m impressed.”  Lilly said as I lit up.

“About what exactly?”  John asked.  “I’m fucking freaking out here.”

Kim had already went to call whoever she decided to call.  Well tonight could have went better.

“Come on John, think about it.  Two ponies that clearly aren’t from this world.  They look and sound like royalty.  Fucking gold mine right!?  Come on, we should find out where they came from, and sell them back, they’ve got to be worth a pretty penny, or whatever currency they use in the world they came from.”  Lilly ended.

“Royal ponies?”  I asked.  “What the fuck have you been smoking?”  I asked again after taking another drag from my cigarette.

“Same thing you are smoking asshole.”  She said crouching down next to me.  “Come on, I say we get the information, and find out how to return them.  That has got to be worth something right?!”

“You’re out of your fucking mind.”  I said, taking yet another drag.  “That would mean whoever we are suppose to deliver them to will get mad, and according to Gus we don’t want to piss them off.”  I finished.

“Yeah, I agree with Dave.  Fuck getting cut up into little pieces.”  John said.

“I recall them also saying that if we happened to see what’s in the package, then we would be fish food.  So either way we’re fucked.  Actually we are more fucked with the current plan anyway.”  Lilly said.

“Who's to say they are royalty?  What if they’re just a normal fucking pony?  Well not normal in our standards, but you know what I’m saying!”  John said.

“The vulgar one is correct.”  A voice said from the box.  I believed it came from the blue pony.  “We are considered what you humans would call Gods.”

“I don’t think Gods would get locked up in a fucking box.”  John said.

“We don’t have our powers now, but when we get them, we are all powerful.”  Said what sounded like the white one.

“Okay, let’s say you are Gods.”  I began.  “Let’s say you have all the power in the world.  Why do you need us to save you?  Whenever your power comes back, you can just teleport back to your world or something, right?”

“Somehow whoever has kidnapped us has gotten hold of an ancient relic from our world that when in the wrong hands, would allow for us to be controlled.”  The blue pony said.  “If you were to get that back, we could get back to our world.”

“And if we did help you get back to your world, what do you think our reward would be?”  Lilly asked, now with a sly smile forming on her lips.

There was a pause.

“The reward for saving Gods?  I’m not sure you could even begin to imagine it.”  The white one said.

My cigarette burned out, and I dropped it.  “How do we know we can trust you?”  I asked.

“You clearly can’t even trust the people you’re in business with now.”  The white one said.  “I think you know who you would be better off with.”

Lilly and I both smiled and looked at each other.

“Aw shit.  You both have that look on your face.”  John said.

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        “Gus says what?!”  One of the man said at the drop zone.  “Well how the fuck does he even know?  What is he some sort of fucking psychic, or does he have that boat rigged?”

        “What the fuck is he going on about?”  One of the pickup men asked the other.

        “Something apparently went wrong, it always goes wrong.”  Said the other.

        “Good, I haven’t killed someone in a few days.  I’m starting to get bored.”  The first man said.

        “Okay, change of plans.”  The leader said.  “Somehow they’ve seen what’s inside the package, and now we are to make sure they never tell a soul.”

        “I’m assuming you mean we aren’t going to ask them nicely right?”  One of the men asked.

        “Yeah, we aren’t going to fucking ask nicely.”

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        Kim came back to our position after our discussion had ended, and she still didn’t look very pleased.

        “John, why do Lilly and Dave have that one look in their eye?”  She asked.

        “I think they’re about to tell you.”  John said.

        “So...” Lilly started.  “Turns out these guests just aren’t any guests.  They are actually royal guests.”

        “What the Hell are you talking about?”  Kim asked her.

        “They are considered royalty where they come from.”  I said.  “Hell Gods, if we are to take what they said as true.”

“Again, what the hell are you talking about?”  Kim repeated.

“They are Gods.  Royalty.  We get them back to where they belong, we get a profit.”  Lilly said matter of factly.

“We are already getting a profit.  A pretty nice one too.  Besides, I can barely believe that these... ponies are even real.  Much less that they are Gods.”  Kim said.

“Okay, I’ll give you that it might be difficult to believe.”  I said.  “But think about it.  We have seen the package, and didn’t Gus say that we shouldn’t see the package?”  I asked.

“He said not to ask question, nothing about if we saw it by accident.”  Kim said.

“Come on, you must have already did the math.  We are fucked if they find out, right?  And who’s to say they haven’t found out?”  Lilly asked.

“They won’t find out, but if they do, I have our asses covered.”  Kim said.

“Oh, do tell us the plan captain.”  I said.

“Not really a plan, just a contingency plan.  I called Gus.  He will have our ass incase shit goes south.”  Kim explained.

“I have a feeling Gus is pretty buddy buddy with this organization.”  I said.  “Who’s to say he won’t sell our asses out?”  I asked.

“Gus wouldn’t dare fuck us over.”  Kim said.

“If you say so.”  John said.

Lilly looked a little disappointed.  That is until a few shots rang out.

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        “No survivors right?”  The man asked their leader while popping shots off at the boat in front of them.

        “Of course.  What’s a job if you don’t finish it right?”  He said as he laughed.

        “They will wish they had never opened.”  Another man said while laughing.

        The shots were destroying the boats new paint job, and the people and ponies inside the boat were less than pleased.

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        “Goddammit!”  Kim screamed, getting her guns ready.

        “Yeah, I think we’re going to need something a little bigger than a 9mm.”  John said.

        “I’ll get the grenade launcher.”  Lilly said nonchalantly.

        I was already getting an assault rifle from the box next to me.  Always keeping guns around seems to work out better than it may seem.  We ran to the top of the boat, while still in the cabin safe from most of the gunfire.

        “How many targets?”  Kim asked.

        “One boat, looks like six men, heavily armed.”  John said.

        “That’s it?  Jesus, and I thought this might actually be a challenge.”  Lilly said.

        “I’m sure they’re sorry to disappoint you.”  I said loading a magazine into the rifle.

        “They aren’t yet, but they will be.”  Lilly said, aiming the grenade launcher at a group of three me.

        She shot off a highly explosive round in the direction of the three men.  It hit, and didn’t do too much damage to the ship, but the men that were there were just body parts now.  A red mist seem to float through the air after the shot hit.  The ship leaned close to ours for a moment, and Lilly threw the dangerous weapon down, and jumped onto the attacking ship.  I took this opportunity to squeeze off a  few shots.  The men’s attention shifted to me for a moment, and Lilly took out her custom Beretta 9mm pistols.  She shot off three rounds into the chest of one man taking cover in the cabin.  Blood coated the wall behind him.  He had to have been dead before he even hit the ground.  A man appeared behind her ready to grab her.  I lined up the iron sights with his head and gently squeezed the trigger.  A loud bang rang out and the shot hit him directly in the side of the head.  Blood splashed out onto Lilly and the walls near them, but she was in too much of a blood lust to even notice.  She quickly kicked the last remaining man in the face.  She tossed him to our boat seeing as they were still close.  We all seemed to immediately point our guns at his face.  Lilly grabbed the grenade launcher and found another shell to put in it.  She aimed it at an unknown location and shot it.  Wherever it landed, it did massive damage.  Their entire ship formed into a large explosion.

        “Good show.”  Kim said.  “They barely lasted five minutes.  Pitiful if you ask me.”

        “Damn shame.”  John said.

        “Well, well, well.”  Kim said.  “And who might you be?”  She asked the man on the ground.

        “I’m no one!  Please man, let me go, please!  I didn’t fucking want this.  You gotta understand, we were only supposed to accept the package.  I didn’t know that we were going to have to kill you!  Honest to God man!  Fucking... ah... please!”  He said.

        “Now now.”  Lilly said.  “You have no reason to cry... yet.”

        “Just tell us what you know.”  Kim said, in a cool, and calm voice.

        “I... I... I guess our leader got a call or something.”  The man said, his voice shaking as he did so.

        “Say who called him?”  John asked.

        “Something about a guy named Gus, or some shit.  I don’t know man.  I just know they said something about you knowing too much or some shit.”  He said.

        “So Gus fucked us.”  I said.  “Can’t say I didn’t see that one coming.”

        “Please just don’t tell me you told me so.”  Kim said.  “Okay now what?”  She asked.

        Lilly put a gun to the mans head and before he could get out a scream she pulled the trigger, and tossed him overboard.  “Well before we kill Gus, we should probably do something about our package.”

        “Yeah, you’re right.”  Kim said.

        “They ain’t worth shit unless they get delivered.”  I said.

        “They ain’t worth shit now.”  Kim said.

        “Now that isn’t true, we could still help them get back home.”  Lilly said.

        “Yeah, wherever the fuck that is.”  John said.

        “I’m sure they would be more than glad to tell us.”  Lilly said.  “I don’t see why they wouldn’t want to.”

        “But they need their powers, and they said something about some asshole having some ancient relic stopping them from using their powers.”  I said.

        “An ancient relic?  Are you fucking kidding me?  What is this, some shitty movie from Hollywood?”  Kim asked.

        “Sounds more like a fanfic to me.”  John said.

        “You would know about that wouldn’t you?”  I said.

        “Okay, okay.  An ancient relic.  And some guy has it?  Probably the guy we are supposed to deliver them to.”  Kim said.

        “Hey, you know.”  Lilly said.  “Looks to me like this guy is missing some delivery boys.  I’m sure we could take their place, right?”

        “Sounds better than just dumping them in the ocean.”  John said.

        “I need to make some more calls.”  Kim said.