The Rainboom Thieves

by KingJoltik


The Ruby of the Dark Eagle (Part 1 of 3)

Trixie sat in her office once again. She sat at her office and began typing on her typewriter yet again.

Journal over the Rainbooms:

The Rainbooms have struck again. Yesterday they stole from Rotten Cable. He had the diamond known as the Diamond of Chi. The police soon arrived at the scene of the crime along with myself after the alarms in his house went off. We found evidence that both safes in his house were open and thanks to a warrant we were able to obtain the papers left in Rotten Cable's safe. There it revealed evdience and records of the bribing and crimes Rotten had committed. It gave us evidence to arrest multiple big wigs in Manehatten as well. Because of this, the Rainbooms have gotten even more support in the public's eyes. Over half the police force now support these criminals. I believe that if the Rainbooms keep committing these crimes and they keep doing it to high profile corrupt ponies in Manehatten, soon the police will stop hunting for them altogether. Perhaps this was their plan all along. I refuse to believe such a thing though, if this is what the Rainbooms really want...They would have been just vigilantes, not thieves. The Rainbooms are thieves. Just thieves. Nothing more, nothing less. If only I had a clue of some sort.

Trixie stopped typing. She didn't even feel like talking to herself. She just sat there in a puddle of anger. She couldn't think of anything but wanting to catch the Rainbooms.

“Trixie needs a drink...” she said to herself as she got up and left her apartment.

One week later...

Twilight had found a buyer for the diamond very quickly. The following days past by during that week. Scootaloo continued her studies with Twilight and Rainbow Dash. Rarity, wanting to make sure she doesn’t lose her fashion touch, started to use Scootaloo for her filly fashion designs. Scootaloo found them boring but did them anyways just to be around the ponies that were now her family. Applejack continued to send money to her family while Fluttershy sent money to animal organizations. Soon the week that passed turned into a month. Manehatten's media continued to cover the Rainbooms so much that other cities were starting to support them. However, once that month had passed, a new plan had formed in Twilight's head....

Trixie walked down another alleyway. She had went down alleyway after alleyway, abandoned factory after abandoned factory. She had been investigating there for over a month now with no new leads. Trixie sat down on an abandoned bench in the north east part of Manehatten. She pulled out a map and marked another part of the map. She then began to narrate herself, “Trixie can not believe it, over a month now and still nothing... Maybe Trixie is just wasting time...Trixie has investigated almost half of this part of Manehatten now and has not found anything suspicious at all. Maybe this is hopeless...”

Trixie slumped down on the bench, completely depressed. She just didn't know what to do, she couldn't find any clues whatsoever. She scratched her head with her hoof as she sat there. Trixie got up and began walking back to her apartment. As she was walking back to her apartment when she accidently bumped into a little colt.

“Ow!” said the little colt.

“Oh, um, sorry.” said Trixie, absentminded.

“It's okay, just watch where you're going lady.” said the little colt.

“Um...yes, sorry.”

“You don't have to keep saying sorry...say, you look really depressed.”

“Yes...you could say that...” she said to the little colt.

“What's your name lady?”

“Um...Trixie is my name little one.”

“I'm Rumble! Nice to meet you Trixie!”

“Um, Trixie is sorry she bumped into you Rumble.”

“Don't worry about it, say, why are you depressed?”

“...”

“C'mon, it's okay to tell me, I won't tell anypony!”

“Trixie...has lost her way, she doesn't know what to do right now.”

“Oh okay, well....If you have lost your way, just make a new path.”

“A new path?”

“Yeah, a new path! Just do something else for a while then figure out what you need to do later.”

Trixie stopped for a while and thought about what the colt had said. Then the colt spoke up again, “Well, I gotta go. Maybe we will meet again Miss Trixie!”

“Oh, um, thank you Rumble.”

“No problem.” then Rumble ran off in the direction Trixie was headed to. Trixie, seeing this, slowly followed the colt and noticed he went to same building as her apartment. Trixie's eyes widened as she said to herself, “That nice little colt lives at the same building Trixie lives at?”

Trixie stood there for a second and thought about what the colt said. As she kept thinking, she started to believe in what the colt had said. She then said to herself, “Hmmm...Perhaps Trixie needs to try something different for a bit...Maybe that could help...”

Meanwhile....

It was a rainy night in Manehatten when Twilight had formed her plan, or rather her new target to steal. For the past month, she had found that thanks to Rotten's arrest, multiple corrupt rich ponies in Manehatten had been arrested as well. She always made it important that they steal from criminals. She had sat there for days on end, trying to find a new plan, a new heist...

Then Twilight left for a week. She told the others she would be back later and before they knew it, she was back. Twilight immediately called a meeting and all the Rainbooms gathered in the meeting room. Twilight then spread out multiple papers, disguise rings, and other devices. The other six looked over what she had put on the table with an expectant look on their faces.

“Alright, what's the plan Twilight?” said Rainbow with big grin on her face.

“Yeah pardner, what's the plan this time?” asked Applejack.

“Well first, this is our target.” said Twilight as she pointed to a paper on the table. It was a picture of a fiery red ruby with a black center.

“Ah, this is...” said Rarity with a surprised look.

“Yes Rarity, this is the Ruby of the Dark Eagle. It is worth thirty-five million bits.”

“Nice. That's a good amount.” said Rainbow.

“Twilight, not to be a bother, but last I heard, that ruby is not in Manehatten.” said Rarity. The other six then looked at Twilight in confusion.

“You're right Rarity, the ruby is in Baltimare.”

“We're going to Baltimare?” asked Fluttershy.

“Yes, you see this heist is a bit different compared to our other heists. This heist will happen while we are attending a certain event.”

“Event?”

“The ruby is being presented at a wedding in Baltimare and while that wedding is happening, we're going to steal the ruby.”