404: Signal not found

by Royale With Cheese


Before midnight

-10:15AM-

Josh has just received news that the ponies have been seen in New York City

"I'll leave midnight" Josh pacing back and forth then stopped "Because I could run and plan everything ahead"

"Ok, I'll drive you to downtown that time, in the meantime, stay touch with the news" O'Connell said as he walked away

-In New York City, in some area

The ponies appeared out of nowhere

"Where are we?" Fluttershy asked

"We're in New York City, at Ground Zero" Celestia said "Alright, we need to get this hunt started, look all around the city as best as we can, we will stop hunting at 10:30PM and we will continue in the morning. This area will be our base camp, I have put a force field, where us ponies could only get through around this area so we won't have any unwanted guests, you will have walkie talkies strapped to you" she then used magic to put a walkie talkie on everypony. "Let's get started, everypony take your positions and go!"

All the ponies then scattered off, air and ground

-12:30PM

"Any news yet?" O'Connell asked

"They set base camp at Ground Zero" Josh replied ..."They said, the only thing to fix this problem is that I need some super technological computer to fix the website, and those computers are hard to find"

"Oh wow, want to go to the cafe area and get some lunch, my treat" O'Connell said

"Sure" Josh replied

They got to the cafe and Josh got a ham and Swiss sandwich with chocolate milk

"You know, you might need a thousand of those cartons of chocolate milk, that stuff could get more energy than a red bull" O'Connell told him

"Yep, I'll be running like a pony with six legs" Josh jokingly said

"Heheh... Holy shit! Look!" O'Connell said as he was caught in surprise

Just outside the window, three Pegasi ponies were slowly flying past the windows

"Oh... My... Goodness... Those bastards" Josh said as he looked on

"You'll be fine, just stay away from open areas and Ground Zero, we can't keep you for more than 24 hours" O'Connell said

"I'm always fine" Josh replied

-10:00PM at Ground Zero-

All the ponies came back to base camp

"Any luck?" Celestia asked

"No, but I took a look around at the fashion items, they looked fabulous but the looks I was getting from others..." Rarity said

"Ah almost got mugged" Applejack worriedly said

"I saw an old lady get robbed..." Spitfire said

"And you didn't save her or anything?!..." Soarin yelled

"The guy had a gun! I didn't wanna get shot!" Spitfire shot back

Then all the ponies all started talking at once

"Stop talking!" Twilight shouted and everypony stopped "Just what Celestia said before we got here, it's not as peaceful as it is back home, guess what, we are in the same place a tragedy happened here 14 years ago... There used to be two towers here, a terrorist attack happened here, they crashed planes in the towers. Do the people of New York City still complain about this? No, they couldn't do anything about it back then but a new tower is being built, old problems build new solutions, think about it, go to sleep, we'll continue our hunt in the morning"

-11:55PM-

O'Connell woke up Josh from the couch he was sleeping in and they got in his car, then O'Connell dropped him off in the heart of Times Square

"Stay safe, try to walk over to ground zero, to take a peak at the group, if you need anything, just text me" O'Connell said

Josh nodded and took off, it was time to get started.