“Yeah, I’ve got some other things planned.” He said as he waved goodbye before heading out. Flash smiled as he walked onto the streets. It was nice, taking care of animals. He thought before a man in all black grabbed him and pushed against the wall of the building.
“Your money, now!” He yelled before Flash froze… before chuckling. “What the hell? You think this is funny?” He said as he pulled out a knife. "You're about to get gutted, you idiot!"
"I-I'm sorry." He slowly stopped laughing as he grinned and held a hand towards him. “You just have really bad luck.”
Only for the mugger to knock his hand away and shove him harder face first against the wall. Flash groaned as he was hurt once more.
“What the fuck was that supposed to do?” He asked angrily as he held the knife to his back.
“I honestly thought it would be cool.” He said as the pain made him wince. Suddenly, he felt the pain go away. Slowly, he turned around to a costumed figure in black blue standing over the unconscious body of the mugger,
“…What the-“
The Adventures of the Equestria Girls
Flash grinned widely in a form of shock as he recounted the events to the police as he was checked over while Fluttershy listened in. For someone who’s just gotten attacked, nearly mugged, and nearly killed, he was surprisingly happy.
Of course, he had also just been saved by a hero so there was also that.
It was Twilights night out and her costume didn’t have a hint of blue on it. For that matter, the only one of them who had a costume with blue in it was Rainbow and Pinkie. And both of them had colors to accompany that. So there was only one explanation left.
There was another hero.
It was a hectic day at Canterlot High. Well, more hectic than usual. There was a very logical explanation for that. The trip that was taking them to Japan, the one that most would kill to go on, was leaving that day.
Good byes were being said, wishes of good fortune were being chanted, and for a very special group of friends…
“So you both are sure you can handle this, right?” Sunset assured the two staying behind to watch over the city. Under normal conditions they all would’ve gone. But their lives were anything but normal.
Scootaloo needed that magical heart, the only problem with that was that it was believed to currently be in a museum. Meaning that should it be the actual one they would have to steal it.
This combined with the other self imposed task they had with protecting the city made things a bit difficult.
Fortunately for all of them, since they would be stealing the heart from a museum, the answer as to what to do was simple. Just leave the ones least suited for stealth behind to hold down the fort.
Rainbow and Pinkie weren’t exactly happy to be chosen stay behind, especially since the one they were getting the heart for was her little sister, but everyone knew about their failed attempt to spy on Crystal Prep.
Though on a separate note, they were arguably the most powerful of the seven girls, though Pinkie was a more than a bit reluctant to use her power on her body, which was understandable.
Rainbow could probably keep the whole city safe on her own. There was no one who could escape her. And what she lacked in actual attack power against opponents could be made up for by Pinkie.
“Of course we can handle this!” Rainbow said as she leaned on Pinkies shoulder. “You go get the… experience of a life time.” She said with a grin as she realized they were out in the open.
“Yeah!” Pinkie said excitedly as Rainbow winced before she started hugging everyone. “You guys go have the time of your lives and when we get back together we’ll have the biggest party ever! And after that we can-“ Rainbow put her hand on the girls mouth as she rolled her eyes with a smile on her face.
Fluttershy then pulled her off to the side and whispered to her. “Now you’ve been helping out in the shop and Flash can help with the animals, but are you sure you won’t do anything drastic?” She said as she pulled her into the bathroom and her ears twitched, probably checking that there wasn’t anyone in the bathroom.
Rainbow sighed as she went for the door to leave. “Don’t worry, I’ve got this.” She said before hearing Fluttershy groan.
“People are dead! This isn’t a game!” She yelled, causing Rainbow to pause before turning around slowly to see Fluttershy with both hands covering her mouth.
The blue skinned girl sighed before clasping both her hands and looking at her genuinely. “I promise you I won’t do anything drastic.” She said earnestly, causing the usually shy girl to smile before hugging and heading towards the bathroom door.
As this happened, Rainbow bit her lip before asking her something. “Hey, when you get back, you wanna go on an actual for real date?” She asked eagerly, only for the door to close right in her face.
…Not a no.
“Okay Pinkie, you make sure to call if anything comes up okay?” Sunset asked the pink skinned girl as she nodded properly with grin her face.
“You’ve got it! Something comes up, I’ll call you so fast you’ll have to pick up the phone five seconds earlier to pick up on time!” She said before Sunset put a finger to her mouth to shush her as her flame haired friend chuckled.
“I get the point.” Sunset said with a smile as she hugged Pinkie, who squealed and hugged back tightly. As she heard Sunset gasp for air, she let go before facing her breathing heavily before shakily smiling at her.
“Stay safe, okay?” She asked earnestly, causing Pinkie to look back with an equally sincere smile.
“You’ve got it Sunset.” Pinkie replied before the students were all called to board the bus, signaling every one of the seven girls to do a group hug before they all separated. Pinkie noticed Sunset looking at her, as if she wanted to say something, before shaking her head and going to the bus.
Pinkie tilted her head to the left, right, back, then forward before she put her hand to her chin.
“So after that, I started wondering if she wanted to tell me something, and if she did, was it something big ? What if it’s something small? Or short? Or tall? Or wide? Or thin? Or fast? Or slow? Or smart?”
“Pinkie…”
“Or dumb? Or up? Or down? Or blue? Or red? Or sideways? Or horizontal?”
“Pinkie…”
“Or liquid? Or yellow? Or black? Or solid? Or manageable? Or magenta? Or gaseous?” She said before she was interrupted.
“Pinkie!”
She paused as she pouted and sat up from hanging from the student desk by her legs as if it were monkey bars on the playground that she used to play on and maybe still did from time to time.
As she faced Mr. Doodle in his classroom she finished with a frown on her face. “Or what if it’s bad?”
As she spoke this, Mr. Doodle went from annoyed to lightly annoyed, which was better because of the lightly, which was one letter off from slightly.
“Tell me, what is our relationship?” He asked as he leaned on his teachers desk.
She shot up and grinned as she started talking. “Oh that’s easy peasy peachy keeny! We’re best friends who always have each other’s-“
“Okay I’m gonna stop you right there.” He stopped her as she turned upside to listen to him.
“You are a student, I am a teacher, that is our relationship. Friends would go out and see the movies. If you and I did that, your parents would have full rights to call the cops and I would be fired unless I had full permission from your parents and there was some educational benefit from it and the school approved it. We are not friends.” Pinkie pouted at that as he continued.
“When I first moved here, you wouldn’t stop bugging me and had you not been a child I would’ve called the cops. Fortunately, I knew you weren’t anything worth doing that so I called your parents. The next day you came back with another woman, and one month later she moved in with me.” He smiled fondly as he looked at the picture on his desk of him and Matilda before he turned back to her.
“That was because you were someone who wanted the best for everyone, saw the best in everyone, and didn’t stop until you saw people smile.” He then looked at her from across his desk.
“I promise you this, whatever Sunset wanted to say to you, it won’t be anything bad.” Pinkie smiled at that.
“Awwwww…” She said, causing Mr. Doodle to groan and sigh.
“Now school has been out for an hour. If you don’t have anything to do regarding your studies, leave.” He said as he stood up and walked towards the door before opening it and pointing to the hallway.
“…if I have twleve cakes and-“
“OUT!”
Rainbow dashed around the animal hospital, feeding the animals, putting them away, letting some out to exercise as she groaned and talked to the pets.
“So maybe I could’ve said yes instead of springing it on her, that parts on me.” She said as she threw some food into the dog cage.
“But that doesn’t change the fact that there were only a few answers to the question.” She said as she unlocked the cages.
“Yes.” Unlock the lizard cage.
“No.” Another unlcok, this time a bird.
“And ‘I’ll think about it.’” She said in a sing song high pitched voice as she picked up a koala and put in on a branch of the tree inside the play area. “And that’s basically a no.” She said before she ran over to fill the bowls with water.
“And she didn’t tell me any of them! What does that mean?!” She yelled as the animals widened their eyes at the water bowls over flowing.
“Does that mean no? Why would she say no?! I’m likeable right?!” She frantically yelled as she looked at the animals. “I asked you a question!” This caused the animals to start growling, chittering, and squawking, causing Rainbow to literally slip up on the water of the overflowed water bowls which had spilled onto the floor under her feet.
She groaned as she fell on her ass. “Ouch.” She said as she realized the animals were probably answering her. Only she couldn’t talk to animals.
“Ugh, I hate this.” She said as she laid sprawled in the puddle of her own making. She stared up at the ceiling before a face blocked it out, causing her to squint as she made out Flash’s face. Looking down at her in amusement, and questioning.
“…How much of that did you see?” She asked dryly as she felt everything she wore get wet as it soaked up the water she lay in like a sponge.
He looked at her sheepishly as he scratched the back of his head.
“The entire time?”
“The entire time.”
Pinkie sighed as she bounced from tree to tree, picking all the apples for the day. She and Rainbow had decided to split their friends tasks into three tasks.
While Pinkie was sure she’d be able to do at least all of them, she was happy to have help from Rainbow by her doing the other two. Hopping from tree to tree was hard! Though she’d do it for her friends family that might be her family!
As she hit tree after tree with her hip, collecting the apples as they all fell, she pondered what Sunset could’ve been wanting to say.
“Pinkie, wanna make a cake with me?”
No, Sunset likes cakes but she doesn’t like making them.
“Pinkie, I wanna help you make a party cave like in your dreams!”
No, she doesn’t know I’ve had that dream, and no one knows how caves are made.
“Pinkie, help me replace my hair with sparklers!”
…Well there isn’t a ZERO percent chance of that… NO! Sunset wouldn’t want that! As fun it sounds!
As she cycled through possibilities she gathered apple after apple for her friends family that might be her actual family.
Two security officers were watching the cameras and footage of the city prison as they monitored the criminals.
One of them was eating a sandwich as he chatted. “So my kids birthday is coming up, any ideas on what I should get her?” He asked his friend, who hummed in thought as they both stood up.
“Maybe get her one of those stuffed animals?” He asked as he started shimmering and glowing green.
“Good idea.” The first officer said as the illusions faded out of existence. Back on the ground next where the officers had been sitting originally in chairs were the two officers dead bodies sliced into chunks. And in the chair one of them sat in was a figure with a black cloak.
“Hmmm.” A distorted voice hummed. “Given who stayed, these two should be more than enough for my little demonstration of power.” It said before it pressed a button, allowing the figure to talk to the two prisoners that had been selected.
“I am Jokai. The guard that was once here talked of getting a present. I can think of no better present for a seething soul than revenge.”
“So… who’s in?”
Under the Hiruko mask, Jokai smiled as confirmation was given by the two prisoners.
“This is gonna be fun.” Jokai said as their foot stepped down on a chunk of flesh.
“So what’s new with you?” Rainbow asked Flash as she wrung out her clothes in a separate room. The boy hummed as he looked at his wrist.
“Well aside from the run in with the one who saved me, nothing. Got some new bracelets so that’s fun.“ Rainbow widened her eyes at that. She had heard from Fluttershy but…
“Yeah, you think it’s one of those Equestria Girls?” She asked, trying to sound disinterested.
“Given how it was definitely a guy? Nah, I don’t really think so.” As he mopped up her mess, she clenched her fist. “He handled it pretty quickly too.” Fist clenching harder. “Like one second he was on me with a knife to my back and the next moment that guy was on the floor.” He said in awe as Rainbow grinded her teeth together before she took a deep breath in before slowly breathing outwards.
“I’m gonna go do the deliveries for Rarity.” She said calmly as she got up and headed to the door with her freshly wrung clothes on.
Flash saw this and held his keys up. “You need a ride? It’s a while to go to her house and then the shop.” She scoffed as she exited through the door.
“It’s fine, I’m captain of every sports team for a reason.” She said before the door closed and Flash was left to put away the cleaning supplies.
“Yep.” He said looked around. “She is definitely not fine.”
“I am totally fine!” Rainbow yelled as she waved the dresses around in the air in front of Tank. “Do I LOOK like someone who isn’t FINE!!!???” She asked angrily as Tank slowly widened his eyes as he started moving his head towards her. Rainbow sighed before she sped off.
Forty-five seconds later, as Tanks head finally got to where her body was, Rainbow sped back into position to allow him to nuzzle her, having dropped off the dresses.
She sighed as she calmed down as her pet tried his best to calm him down. She sat down and held him in her arms as she sat down in a criss-cross. “Thanks Tank. I guess combined with Fluttershy not answering me back, this new guy’s just got me in a cyclone of anger. I mean, who does he think he is?” She asked rhetorically.
“I do my work in the dead of night and he just gloriously takes down the bad guy and lets someone see him in the evening! …Alright they sound similar, but it took me weeks to get in the news, and this guy’s probably gonna be a hot topic for a week because of one fight. And what’s the big fuss over that ‘fight’?” She said mockingly as she rolled her eyes. “Flash said he took out the guy by surprise.” She scoffed at that.
“I bet I could beat him easily.” She mocked confidently before she widened her eyes and stopped talking. This caused Tank to pale as he assumed the worst and tried to do something before he was suddenly on the bed and the door slammed shut.
It was times like this he hated being slow.
“So uh, why did you want all the information on where I saw the new hero?” Flash asked over the phone as Rainbow got dressed on the rooftops, obviously making sure no one could see her.
“No reason.” She said as she slid the pants up, grateful Rarity had accounted for her muscles in making their superhero costumes/ disguises. Usually she would just snap her fingers and magic magic magic… suit on! Unfortunately, magic suits didn’t wash themselves.
Even more unfortunately was that Rainbow discovered this after she ran into several trash cans, causing her to slip and fall into a garbage truck. Which she was able to be let out of… by the garbage truck dumping off everything at the landfill. She was able to get back home easily enough, detransform, and begin the long long long process of cleaning herself. The worst part was she had just cleaned the last of the smell off her when she suited up and the smell returned with a vengeance.
The only bit of good news was now all Rainbow had to do was put it on. As she stood in her outfit, she looked to the phone with the face mask pulled down so she could talk normally. “Thanks for the help Flash.” She said before she hung up and put the mask back on.
This new hero thought he could muscle in on her turf? Thought he was better than her? Well she had news for him.
“Spectrum Streak doesn’t take lightly to stuff like that.” She said as she pulled her hood up and dashed off into the city.
Jokai in all her disguise marveled at the work they had done on the two prisoners. Honestly? He could count on these two to make a mess of things while they were away. “Now remember boys.” It said as headed out. “Just do as much damage PoSsIbLe.” The distorted voice said before continuing.
“I’m going to take a vacation in jAPAN.”