//------------------------------// // After midnight // Story: 404: Signal not found // by Royale With Cheese //------------------------------// -12:01AM- Josh was walking to the bike rental store, you couldn't usually rent a bike at this time, but with the FBI service card that O'Connell gave him, you can. Josh put the barcode on the bike scanner and it gave him a maximum of ten hours to rent the bike, no money spent. Josh pulled out the GPS in his phone and put in the directions to Ground Zero He rode on the usual busy streets of downtown New York As soon as he got there, he stopped and got off his bike around the corner. Then he took a peak around the corner, and there they were, all sound asleep. "All this for hacking a stupid website, the other two got fixed fine, but for this one, it won't be" He whispered to himself. He stayed peaking for a few moments then went back to his bike, took out his phone and texted O'Connell "Hey it's Josh, I counted 66 ponies" he texted He then rode off and looked for destinations like lookouts, hideouts, restaurants and motels that he thinks that the ponies won't find him there. He wanted to go to his house but it was too far and confusing to get there from Times Square. It was 4 o'clock in the morning and he was pretty much done everything that he was supposed to do, and it was a lot for one early morning. He decided to take the bike back and headed to one of the motels on his list. -10:00AM All the ponies woke up "Day two, let's get huntin!" Applejack said and they all went off Josh went out of the motel, being aware of his surroundings, looking up in the sky for the flying ponies, and looking back and forth for the ponies who are on the ground. He was going for a private interview with a reporter at an IHOP, O'Connell texted him to get ready. As soon as he got there, he looked around before going in, then a brunette woman waved to him. He then walked over "Hi, I'm Bethany Laing, I'm a writer and news reporter for the New York Times, we're going to the restaurants break room just for you to be safe and sound from the windows" Then he followed Bethany to the break room and put a tape recorder on the table and turned it on. "Bethany Laing here, doing an interview and a report with Joshua Budd." As she said on the tape recorder. "First question, what did you ever do, to ever make this happen?" Josh replied "If I had a dollar, every time someone asked me that, I would probably be rich and have enough money to buy that pony franchise. All I did was hack the Equestria Daily website, and this happened." "And why did you hack the website?" Bethany asked "It was just fun and games, it doesn't feel that way anymore" He replied "Right, next question, are you scared?" She asked Josh leaned in closer and said "Scared? Why would I be scared of colourful small horses? If was scared of them, my name would be 'Scaredy cat' or 'Chicken'... But it's not" "Next question" Bethany said and then asked "What would you do if you get caught? I mean there's like 20 poni..." "66... I counted them ten hours ago" Josh interrupted "Right..." Bethany continued "There's like 66 ponies against one" Josh replied "Gee... Remember the 2012 NHL playoffs? Everybody said that the Chicago Blackhawks would dominate the Phoenix Coyotes in the first round... The Coyotes won that series in six games and went all the way to the third round of those playoffs and lost in that round, right now, there is no third round, it's only two rounds. There's always room for the underdogs" "Well... That's all I have to ask you, you pretty much put that in good context, thanks" she said "Always a pleasure" he replied Then Bethany turned the recorder off and she went out of the restaurant, Josh stayed to have breakfast After breakfast, Josh went back out, and everybody was looking up, he decided to check it out and it was two Pegasi flying, he decided to walk away the different direction He was walking on Broadway, turned the corner and met eyes with a familiar orange cowpony within a few feet, turned around and ran as fast as he can. Then Applejack turned on her Walkie talkie and ran after him "Ah got contact with him! We're on Broadway! We're on Broadway!"