Breakout (11)
Breakout
"Hey Gilda, I noticed something about the map. The further south we go, the hotter it gets, with the volcano's and jungle at the very bottom. Shouldn't there be more? I mean, it SHOULD get colder again, and eventually turn back into an arctic like area again."
"Well, nobody really knows what's down there, because nobody has ever gone there. I mean, I presume there's something down there, Ahuitzotl had to come from somewhere. but it hasn't been explored by any Equestrians. It's too far from home. Nobody's explored the southern hemisphere. You're not thinking of going there are you?" Gilda explained.
"Oh heck no, I've already got my plate full planning a rebellion and slave revolution, let's just leave the exploring to Daring Do."
"I was wondering, why is it you can talk so calmly about upsetting the balance of power of this entire planet?" She asked.
"Humans. There is never less than 4 wars happening at any time, between various countries, for various reasons. Most are actually rebellions, civil wars, that sort of thing. Hear about them all the time, kind of makes you numb to the idea. The fact that I'm actually going to be leading one however, has me scared shitless, but, we can worry about that when we get there."
"Well, here's Stalliongrad. It's the size of Manehatten, but more low key, and has a bit more crime." Gilda stated as we approached the city. It had ramshackle wooden buildings, as well as some factories and such. The entire city was built on a small island.....or maybe it was normal land that had a moat dug around it? There was a heavily guarded bridge where they had some kind of toll system set up. Probably to charge everyone coming in. The entire thing reminded me of Riften from Skyrim, and just like the city that housed the thieves guild, the visitor's toll would obviously be a shakedown, especially for non ponies.
"So, the toll booth....." Gilda asked.
"Fuck that. We're flying in."
"My thoughts exactly."
"Well this is right up our alley isn't it? We just gotta watch out for guards, since security will be tighter, but this place could probably be a haven for us. Let's go see what kind of trouble we can get into." Stalliongrad was like a tossed salad of ethnicity. There were unicorns, earth ponies, pegasi, diamond dogs, and griffins. Wherever you get a mix like that, there was sure to be some racial differences, resulting in violence. Guards would be on top of things. This also meant there was a huge opportunity.
"Hey Gilda, see that food stall? Go make a scene. 'Accidently' bump into it, then apologize and help to clean up. While you're doing that, I'll start a minor scuffle to draw attention, and you swipe some stuff."
"I'm all over that." She said with a smile.
"Oof. Oh no! I'm so sorry, let me help you clean that up." Gilda played the role perfectly.
"Oh um, okay? You don't have to do that." The earth pony mare said, beginning to pick up some of the fallen fruit.
"Oh, but I must. I knocked it over, I have to help clean up." She replied.
"You know, some ponies say that griffins are mean, I don't see where they get it from." The middle aged mare said with a smile. Gilda started feeling guilty for what she was about to do.
"It's just so hard to make a living nowadays, it's nice to see the young folk helping out. Gives ya faith in the world again." Gild gulped.
"Hey! Watch where you're going buddy!"
"You watch it, ya no good bird brain!"
"You wanna say that to my face?"
"Whats da matter? Your ears to full of feathers ta hear straight?"
"What's going on here!" A guard came to deal with the commotion. Gilda was still cleaning up.
"Ohh, um, nothing sir. Nothing at all."
"This stupid bird bumped into me. Now apologize before I break your beak!"
"Whoa, hold on, we don't want to have a problem that this nice guard will have to deal with." I said, throwing on the charm.
"What's a griffin doin with a weapon anyways? You know they're banned in the city." The pegasus I had bumped into said.
"Weapons banned in the city? I see plenty of ponies with em."
"That's because only griffins are banned from having weapons in the city." The guard said matter of factly.
"Racist."
"Hey, you're lucky we don't declaw you before you come in. Now give it here." The guard said as the pegasus left.
"I don't think so. I'll be needing this when I hit the jungle in three days, and I went through hell to get it. I'm just getting some supplies, then you won't see hide or hair, or feather, of me again."
'Shit not good not good.'
"It's too late for that. You can check it in at the jailhouse, then come and get it when your chores are done. Now come along peacefully, you don't want to make any troubles for this nice guard to have to deal with." The armored pegasus said with an evil smile, repeating what I had said to the pegasus.
"Alright, I'll buy 10 bananas. Here you go. Have a nice day, I gotta go make sure my partner isn't in any trouble." Gilda said, glancing over to where I was. Apparently, she had felt guilty about stealing from that pony, because she already had a hard time so she decided not to. Fate smiled it seems, because if she had, we would have both been in jail for theft.
"Oh, Gilda, you're done? Well then Mr. Guard, we'll just be leaving your fair city and be on our way."
"Sure you're free to go, just leave that here with me." He replied.
"Can't do that. As I told you, I need it. We're headed to the jungle next, and I'm gonna be hacking through vines and saber tooth tigers, something I can't very well do without it."
"Too bad, no griffins can carry weapons in the city. Since you brought that incredibly valuable looking thing here, I'm afraid I'm going to have to confiscate it. Sucks to be you."
'Damn guard. He's confiscating it so he can sell it and make a load of bits, not because I'm dangerous. I can't let that happen. Looks like I'm about to become a criminal.'
"Well then, it seems we have reached an impasse. I can't leave here without it, and you won't let me leave with it. I'm sure we can work out some sort of deal. There must be a legal method of resolving this. Perhaps some bits to handle the proper paperwork?" I knew how to handle these kinds of situations.
"Oh of course, now if you'll excuse me, I have to go get the 'paperwork'." The guard headed into the back room, leaving my weapon with me. There was of course, no paperwork. It was a bribe. One I didn't intend to actually pay. I was just buying time for me and Gilda to figure things out.
"Hey hotshot, we got trouble?" And stupid question of the year award goes to....
"They're not gonna let me leave with it, and there's no way I'm leaving without it. Right now he's in the back, discussing my bribe with his boss. Soon as he comes out, I'll knock him out, you get the next one. Then we take anything valuable and get out. Damn, I didn't think the guards would be corrupt."
"So, we're gonna have bounties after this aren't we?" She asked.
"Unless they forget what we look like, yes."
"You are planning to escape? Allow the Great and Powerful Trixie to accompany you." Said a voice from one of the cells.
'Aww HEELLLLL no.'
"And why would we do that?" I turned to the blue unicorn.
"Trixie has amazing magic the likes of which you peons have never seen! She could be of use to you in your travels." Trixie replied. Gilda's eye began to twitch.
"Is that so, if you're so amazing, why don't you just let yourself out of that cell then?"
"Erhm, um." Trixie shy'd away.
"How did someone so 'great and powerful' get in jail anyways?"
"Trixie has, well, she was shown up in Ponyville by another unicorn after she made a boast and.... failed to prove it when the opportunity arose. She lost all she had in an attack by an ursa minor, and now she has taken to..... stealing in order to eat." She explained. I began whispering to Gilda.
"Okay, so, plus side, she's a unicorn, and judging by her boasting, she's an illusion caster. Could be useful. Down side, her attitude. If she got caught stealing, then she's probably got nothing on the side of subtlety, which is a fact backed up by her bragging. She's probably useless, dead weight. If we bring her with, she'll take the first opportunity she gets to stab us in the back. We'll have bounties after this, and she'll turn us in for a pardon and some quick bits. That and we can't stand her attitude. Your call."
"Isn't it obvious? We leave her to rot." Gilda replied. "She's useless, obnoxious, she can't fly so she'll just slow us down, and she'll just turn us in. By the way, I'm glad you're letting me make so many decisions."
"Agreed on all counts. If you're gonna be queen one day, ya gotta know what's best." Gilda blushed. If I was gonna be king, and she was gonna be queen, did that mean we would be a couple?
"Silly pony, Trix are for kids! Hope you like prison food. Hey, it's better than starving, and it's much better than what we're going to do. Come with us and a talentless hack like you will just end up dead. That and I don't feel like carrying your fat ass all over the planet. Besides, you'll be out soon anyway. Stealing food isn't that serious of a crime."
"Well, um, Trixie didn't steal food." She looked at me wondering what the hell I meant by 'Trix are for kids'. Gilda just chalked it up to being 'A human thing'. "I stole... jewelry. How was I supposed to know the lock box was enchanted to track the magic of whoever last used it? I'm afraid I'm in here for at least the next ten years. If you don't take me with you, I'll just have to tell the guards who you are so they can hunt you down."
"And we are? I don't recall giving you our names, and our descriptions are pretty basic as far as griffins go. The only identifier is this thing, and we won't even be in Equestria that much longer. No, I'm afraid that you have no leverage on us. What's more, now I know for a fact that you'd sell us out first chance you got. Enjoy life in prison, TGPT. By the way, speaking in the third person is stupid, and Twilight says hi." I smiled evilly.
"Ready? I'm gonna have Hades at the ready. You knock on the door, then move out of the way, and I'll hit him over the head with the flat. Then you pounce the guy in the back and knock him out. We'll grab anything we think we can use, then bolt. I was really hoping we wouldn't have to do this, but It looks like we've got no choice."
"Yeah, there's no way we're giving up Hades, not after you were such a badass and killed a dragon to get it." Gilda remarked. Trixie's eyes went wide.
"Killed a... a.... a DRAGON?" She shouted.
"Yeah, in the badlands. This thing is made from one of it's scales. Can cut diamond if I swing it hard enough. Now be quiet."
*Knock knock knock.*
"Yeah, what is..." *DOOOOOONNNNNGGGG* The guard fell over unconscious as the flat of the scale made a ringing sound on his helmet. Gilda dove through the door, pinning the head guard, pulling his helmet off, and giving him a face full of fist.
"Oh hey, look. Bow's and arrows. Looks like they do have them here. Makes sense, pegasi don't have magic, and flying means they need to be able to do some ranged stuff. Gilda, take three of them, and as many quivers of arrows you can carry. I'll take more arrows as well. The front is guarded, so we fly out the back, and we don't stop till we're in the jungle."
"Please, take me with you! I'm begging you! You can't just leave me here!" Trixie started to cry.
"Why?"
"Because you're strong. Unbelievably strong. You killed a dragon. You just knocked out two high ranking guards like it was nothing. You're headed to the jungle, and you aren't afraid at all. Trixie is.... I am.... weak. I call myself great and powerful, but it's a lie! It's a lie to cover up my weakness! You two are so strong, you work so well together! Maybe if I stayed with you..... maybe I could....."
"Not suck so much?" Gilda spat. I freaking love that griffin. Trixie just nodded.
"You said it was my call, right Grif?" I already knew where this was going.
"That I did." Gilda picked up the keys and threw them at Trixie's hooves.
"Let yourself out, and then shut the hell up. If we get caught because of you, you're tonight's dinner, got it?" Trixie gulped as she opened the magic proof lock with the key, not saying a word.
"Oh, and ditch the duds. We're going incognito, and you'll stick out like a sore thumb."
"Thumb?" She asked inquisitively.
"Never mind. You wouldn't happen to know any invisibility spells would you? Don't say anything, just shake your head."
Trixie nodded.
"Good, make us invisible. Gilda's carrying most of the gear, so I guess I get you. We're flying out of here. Don't scream, and don't lose concentration on the spell, or I'll get really pissed off. When I get pissed off, I kill things. Like dragons."
We threw as much stuff as we could on us, and I grabbed Trixie just as her horn began to glow. With a shimmer, all three of us blinked out of existence, unable to be seen, yet able to see each other.
"Now, don't touch anything, or the illusion shatters." She said.
"Great, so how the hell do we get out of here then?" Gilda asked.
"Stand by the door, and be ready to fly out as soon as it opens." Gilda stood to one side of the prison door, and I with Trixie now on my back, as it was easier, on the other. I cleared my throat, and lowered my voice to mimic that of the guard.
"What? The unicorn has escaped! Guards! Get in here!" I bellowed. The two guarding the front door opened it, and Trixie held it open with her magic. The guards walked in to the cell to investigate. With a slight magic push, they fell on their faces inside, and the cell door closed on them. We flew out the open door and into the sky.
"Just close your eyes Trix, it'll be better if you DON'T look down." Trixie, riding on my back, had a death grip around my neck, squishing herself into my feathers, trying desperately to keep her mouth shut. We flew as fast as we could with our burdens, making it out of the city. We flew for about a half a day before night fell, and we decided to have a rest.
"Alright, you can turn off the spell."
We all shuddered back into view, myself and Gilda fine, but Trixie looking like she had seen a ghost, but also exhausted at the same time.
"Well well well, the misfit magician was actually useful. Well, sorry Gilda, looks like we won't be eating her tonight. Ya did good Trix. You kept up the spell the whole time, and you didn't scream when we flew. Looks like you CAN be quiet if you try."
"What can I say? Trixie has many talents." She bragged.
"Okay, rule number one, drop the attitude. Stop boasting, and stop talking in the third person. Griffin the griffin thinks it's annoying, and Gilda the Rageful will probably strangle you if you do it again. Rule two, we're in charge. Remember, WE bailed YOU out. Rule three, you do NOTHING unless we discuss it first. As you may have noticed, I let her make the call on whether or not we'd let you out. We share decision making. You're the newbie, you haven't earned it yet. I'm unofficially the leader, because I'm a FREAKING GENIUS, and I know what I'm doing. If I say to do something, go right ahead and question it, you may very well have some useful input. If we're in deep shit, don't question it. I may not have a cutie mark, but my special talent is thinking fast and kicking ass."
'That sounded so freaking cool!'
"We keep up a pretty fast pace, and we can handle ourselves in a fight. Before we came here, Grif killed a dragon by ripping off one of it's scales, slicing his own claws up in the process, then letting himself get swallowed so he could stab it in the throat. When push comes to shove, he's a damn psychopath, and a good one at that. I'm here to keep his head on straight, and back him up when he's being a dumbass. You move too slow, you get left behind. You can't take care of yourself? You'll die. He had his ass kicked his entire life till he got sick of it, and I was a runaway slave. The only way you get any stronger is by writhing in pain under oppression. We've both done plenty of that, and are set to do a whole lot more. You stick with us and you really will be great and powerful in no time, if you survive that is." Gilda was totally in on the 'Scare the shit out of Trixie' plan.
"What are you two?" Trixie asked nervously.
"We're badasses. Specifically, she's a bitchy griffin, and I'm an interdimensional alien in disguise. I'd ask who you are, but I already know. You're a braggart who's only skill is illusion magic. That skill is exactly the one we need for what we're planning."
"And what are you planning?" She asked nervously. Together, with a smile, we replied.
"We're going to take over the world."
Stay tuned for Trixie's reaction. Remember, she's off her rocker right now in fear, so she's not questioning the ones who just busted her out. Also, find out why Gilda decided to save Trixie. Silly rabbit! Trix are for kids!
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This is gonna be awesome! But no prank letter to the princesses this time?
im getting an Pinkie and The Brain reference
No letter to the princess?
This story just keeps getting more and more awesome.
OF COURSE
this all makes sense to me. thank Luna i'm completely batshit insane.
also, no trolling th' princesses? fo shame my good man, fo shame.
I am EXTREMELY dissappointed in this chapter.
GRIFFIN FORGOT TO TROLL THE PRINCESS!!!
Whats todays plan Brain?
Like it always is Pinky, to take over the world!
I like the "Scare the shit outta Trixie" Plan.
yay the Trinity has been completed, Griffin the Tank, Gilda the Ranger and Trixie the Illusionist
This is very quickly becoming my favourite fic
This is seriously one of my favorite fics right now.
U MAD CELESTIA ?images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120106052215/villains/images/c/c4/TrollFaceDancing.gif
this made my day thank you
Every court needs a mage.
now I gotta take over something digitally or not see ya wait no plans changed so I'm gonna read also MOAR!
YES!! This story keeps getting better and better!!
And Trixie's in on this now, too? I like.
At times like this I think a Gilda emoticon would be good...Oh well. Some day.
This fic looks GOOD. The only thing it needs is MOAR chapters :).
325076 Nope, it's way after Gilda shows up in Ponyville, notably, Flim and Flam. This story happens at a much later time, after Discord is turned back to stone, timeline wise it's entirely possible.
"What are we doin' tonight, Brain?"
"Same thing we do every night, Pinky... TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"
Ha! Couldn't resist.
I like this. A bit of a "revenge on everything" shtick but satisfying regardless.
325231 O.K.. Thanks for clearing that up.
Funny with a bit of pinch of epicness.
"E-Gads Brain!"
"Zoit!"
"Poink!"
"Naaarrrrrrrrf!"
I like Griffin He kinda reminds me of the Illusive man. Plans on world Domination. This is one of the best fics ever
Waiting eagerly for more Chapters!
he now only needs a Nikolai Tesla kind of guy to build crazy world domination style weapons.
great fic
Gee brain whatda ya want to do tonight.
The same thing we do every night pinkie. Try to take over the world.
Im slightly hoping there will be a threesome with trix, gilda and grif
I LOVE THIS FIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ambitious aren't we?
Btw it is i who shall rule the world !
suuure rust, like taking over the world isnt the first thing echo thought about when he recovered his senses
"Silly pony, Trix are for kids!"
Is that a EPRBOE reference?
This is going to be an interesting ride.
318250
dont you mean: Gilda the Rager??
HEY-OOOO
We're going to take over the world? Sounds like something the Brain would say...
317987 YUP.
When did they enter the police station?
Ooo, throwing Trixie in. Things could get interesting.
What is TGPT?
The thought just occurred to me, but why do I think those two would make excellent Team Rocket members, just because of that last line.
O.o GRIF DIDN"T COMPOSE A LETTER THIS CHAPTER?! *Le Gasp!*
Dear Princess Celestia,
Now, Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, but Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. If Fuzzy Wuzzy isn't Fuzzy, then Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't really Fuzzy, was he? Please let me know ASAP!
~ Griffin the Griffin
Silly Rabbi! Kicks are for Trids!
FUCKIN EPIC! (I never caps anything I type. That is how much this is blowing my mind straight into OBLIVION!!) But seriously I have no fingernails left, I've been on the edge of my seat for 5 hours straight, gone through 8 bottles of snapple(kiwi/strawberry of course) and 2 Dr. Peppers, haven't pissed at all, am literally trembling with anticipation, and my mind is swirling with ... I don't even know what my brain is doing. It melted somewhere around chapter 2. That's what happened: my mind is suffering a nuclear meltdown. I'm flustered as hell, and it's all thanks to you. You did this to me and I cannot thank you enough!
Also I never say: "but seriously"
325231 This comment doesn't even do a sixteenth justice to how I'm feeling right now.
I nearly came. you sir are fucking awesome!
keep up the good work!!!
Oh god... Griffin is SUCH a prick! It's a good story and he's a realistic character, but god... can I'm really hoping to see him get tossed about by someone... hopefully by some pony. His pride needs to be knocked down a bit I feel... but still a good story
And then season 3 came along and fucked over the time line.
1742340 alternate dimension?
353318, 325482, and 318076
wait, what is Pinkie Pie doing with the Brain.(just had to say that)
any way great story.
317963
I'll do it! *Ahem*
Dear princess Cadence: Are you pink because you're still a virgin?
-sincerely, Griffin the Griffon
*Feels slightly ashamed*
959782 The Great and Powerful..... Trixieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! *pant* *pant*
Well, Gilda has a heart.
NARF!