"...And this is where the 'Magic' ends." Said the Guard that was giving Hoxton a guided tour of the huge laboratory, built underground. Its walls were white as the snow, and seemed to be made out of a mix of steel and tin, and perfectly reflected anything it was fired with. That's what Hoxton learned, as in one of the testing areas, they were directly shooting to the walls, and every shot was perfectly reflected. They stopped in front of a metallic door, with the words 'Security Coordinations'. "And this is the last stop. You'll head in, and say 'Hello' to the boss."
The Guard opened the door, and pushed Hoxton inside. The door closed behind him, as he observed the office.
Its interior was the same of the Laboratory. White walls, made out of metal. Tall ceiling, easily thirty feet from the ground to the roof. The office itself wasn't big, compared to previous rooms Hoxton saw. There was only a large crystal table, with two armchairs in its front, and a black executive chair on the other side of the table. There was a large monitor in the end of the office, and at the sides, there were two spheres attached to the walls.
When the executive chair spinned, a dark-gray Stallion with dark-green mane was sitting there. It had its hooves crossed, and he was looking at Hoxton with one dark-green eye. Wait, what? -The other one was covered under a black eyepatch.
Hoxton remained silent, so did what was his 'boss'. He smiled, and pressed a button under the table.
The spheres in the walls opened by their halfs, and turned into turrets. Also, a part of the ceiling opened, and another circular turret came out of it, and all of them aimed at Hoxton's head, with red laser pointers.
...Shiiiiiiet...
"...Two Bits, please."
"Here y'go. Thanks for the muffin'." Replied Chains.
"Anytime, good sir!" Said a gray Pegasus Mare, and her yellow eyes were pointing at two completely different directions. This made Chains get a lot of confusion trying to follow her eyes, and back to reality, he was buying two muffins.
The Mare placed the muffins inside a bag, and placed it in the counter. Chains placed two Bits there, and grabbed the bag. Once Chains was at a certain distance from the stand, he ate them both in one bite. He checked his clock, and remembered another thing.
Aw, shiet. Gotta go back to the Safehouse before they're there first.
Chains limped the fastest his four legs left him, straight to the Safehouse. Enough fun for a day.
"...Come on, Applejack. You will be safer in my library."
"...Ah don't think so, Twi... What if they know ah'm there?"
"Don't worry, they won't. I'll make sure that you are safe." Said Twilight, placing the piece of paper in her pocket, and guided Applejack outside the house.
A quick trip later, they were in Twilight's library. Applejack would sleep in the sofa downstairs, while Spike mounted guard, if anything strange happens in the surroundings...
"...Hoxton, right?"
"...How do you..."
"You guys should get a safer radio signal." Said the one-eyed Stallion at the other side of the table. "But, I'm interested in what you are going to do."
Hoxton remained silent. Not really knowing what to do.
"...So, I'm intended to help Overkill. You see, we share a common enemy. You will go back to your group with this message." He got up from the table with a piece of paper in his hoof, and slipped it in Hoxton's pocket. He couldn't really react, as he had both his hooves high in the air, at the menace of turning him into swiss cheese. "...And tell Bain that Alex's waiting."
Hoxton's face changed. If he knew Bain, that means he's part of the CrimeNet.
"...How do you..."
He sitted back in his chair. "Oh, almost forgot. This is what you are looking for." He pressed another button under his table, and a small plate in the center of the room opened, and the Magic Inhibitor lifted out of it. "Instructions: Press the button, and nothing magical in a mile will work. Notice that it also affects radio transmissions."
The three turrets stopped aiming at Hoxton's head, and retracted back to their sphere position. Hoxton trotted close to it, and grabbed the small machine, that could easily fit inside his suit. "Um... Thanks for not killing me?"
"Anytime. Oh, one last gift." The mysterious one-eyed Stallion opened a drawer in the table and took out a steel ring, and tossed it to Hoxton.
"What is this?" Asked Hoxton, after catching the ring.
"One of my personal prototypes. You put that in an Unicorn's horn, and it will supress its function." He said, like if wasn't anything of importance.
"...You're saying that you created two different devices to counter magic?"
"You can say that, yes. Now, if you mind, we both have work to do." He turned his chair back to the screen at his back, and Hoxton left the office with the two prototypes hidden in his Guard suit.
Another quick travel, but returning on his steps to the elevator, and from there, to the upper floors. Another walk in the maze, and he found the exit. Somehow, nopony asked where he was going, or what he had in his suit. Once outside, he went to the carriage.
"...My good sir, this isn't a parking lot." Mocked Hoxton, still wearing the guard uniform, popping his head inside the carriage.
"What the hell, Hox. You got it?" Asked Dallas.
"Even better. Some cyclops there says 'Hello' to Bain." Replied Hoxton.
"Bain, you heard that?"
The voice in the radio started to speak again. "Hm. Who says 'Hi'?"
"No idea. He just gave me a note, and said... 'Alex is waiting', or something."
The voice in the radio remained silent for a while. "...No shit. He's still alive?"
"Baign, Wgho aghe we talking abghout...?" Barely said Wolf.
"Alexander Dragunovv." Replied Bain's voice. "He's the guy that designed Chain's armour, and most of the guns you guys are using right now."
Hoxton hopped inside the carriage, and dropped both inventions. "He seemed to know you already."
"Yeah, he made most of the stuff I used, back in the good ol' days." Replied the voice in the radio.
"Hm. Is he related to Vlad?" Asked Twitch, while she guided the Twins to the Library.
"Nope. And he probably doesn't even know he exists. He's not in that business. But well, back to something more important. Guys, you're now heading to the Princess' library. Make it stealthy, we don't want anypony knowing... That."
"Got it. Hox, you're the one that knows how this works. You'll come in with me. I'll sedate anypony around, while you put that to capture Twilight. Wolf, can you hold anything yet?"
"Da." He was so much alcohol poisoned that he even lost his accent.
"...That means no. Twitch, sweety. Do you have any toy guns here?"
"Nope. Why don't you just give him an empty one?" Replied Twitch.
"Good idea. Well then, y'all know what to do. Make Chains proud."
The carriage stopped behind the library, barely making any sound, and covered in the night. This was an almost military-grade perfect operation, if it wasn't by the fact that they were criminals one step of ponynapping a princess, and that one of the members was drunk to the bone. But well...
Hoxton deployed the Inhibitor behind the huge tree. "You know what happens when this is activated." He said the the radio. "I'll wait for your signal. Then, just bring her to the carriage, and we'll leave this place in no-time."
"Allright. Wolf, keep your mouth shut, we're slipping in on this window." Dallas picklocked the window at the side of the tree, that leaded right into the library. Apparently, nopony was there, and it was too dark to actually tell. How wrong he was.
"Aaaahhh!!" Shouted Applejack, the strongest her lungs could. Dallas just landed on her, once he crossed the window. Spike, that was guarding the door, turned on the lights, and saw the clown-masked suited Stallion on top of Applejack.
Dallas first reaction was to pull out his M308, aimed at Spike's neck, and press the trigger. The energy used to launch the tranquilizer dart was enought to pierce the strong baby dragon scales, and reach his blood torrent. He instantly felt to the ground, uncontious. Dallas jumped off AJ', loaded another dart, and signaled Wolf to jump in. Same process, Wolf felt on Applejack, that was still in the sofa, pretty much scared to the bone.
Then, the reason on why they were there, walked down the stairs. Twilight just woke up from her light dream, and was ready to blast out anypony holding a weapon.
"Hox, do it!" Shouted Dallas to his incorporated radio.
Outside of the treehouse, Hoxton hitted the button on top of the Inhibitor, as it started to glow in an eerie green, and the radio on his mask started to burst interferenes. This forced him to turn it off.
Back inside the treehouse, Twilight was charging a perfect burst. Her eyes were even glowing in white. "Get out, and never come back!" She shouted.
"Not without you, Madame." Mocked Dallas, aiming to her. The smile in his mask made this mock look even better.
Twilight finnaly decided to release the blast. A very strong light came out of her horn, and it was directed at Dallas. The light lost all its strenght at the first two feets of travel distance, from the stairs to halfways the library.
"What...?" Twilight charged another blast. Same result.
Wolf started to clap his hooves, to pick back his 'Betsy' and aim at Applejack's head. Dallas simply shooted another dart at Twilight, that tried to take off and fly, but she got hitted in her right side, and felt to the ground in a matter of seconds. Applejack was now scared to the soul. "P... Please... D... Don't Kill Me..." The barely understandable worlds that came out of her mouth.
"Shudggt Up!" Shouted Wolf, hitting her neck with the back of his 'Betsy'. This knocked AJ out.
Dallas trotted to the window. "Hox, we've got them. Get over here and help us out!"
"Allright." Replied Hoxton's voice from a distance. He slipped inside from the window, tied Applejack, and carried her to the carriage, with the help of Wolf. Dallas applied the Inhibitor Ring that Hoxton gave him to Twilight, and tied her wings together. Then, he tied her hooves. Once the group was back, Dallas and Hoxton carried Twilight out, while Wolf turned off the lights, and carried Spike to the carriage too.
Hoxton pressed the button on the Inhibitor again, and its eerie green turned off, and they could turn their radios back on. The first voice to be heard through was Bain's one.
"Succes?" He asked.
"Yup. We've got the Princess. And some extra hostages too." Replied Dallas.
"Exellent. Bring them to the Safehouse. I'll interrogate her. In private."
"...If ghou say so..." Said Wolf, in his gibberish.
"Allright Sweetie, straight to the Safehouse." Said Dallas to Twitch, that ordered the same to the Twins, that started to trot straight to the HQ's direction...
................ sorry but bullshit. slightly because, well, have reasons to doubt the needle could pierce his scales. but mostly because, even if she is terrified, Aj is not gonna sit back when her friend is in danger. and pretty sure she would be able to do some irreparable harm to the intruders while they are focusing on tiwlight.
maybe if it was rarity or pinkie pie, then we would ahve them too scared to act. but the other three are not so likely........... Especially fltutershy. the best way to see violence is to hurt oneo f her friends when she is right there.
still don't get the logic of basically committing an attack on the government though. Celestia and luna are gonna find out soon enough. aka, the resources of an entire government, and that includes two ponies that are basically iving weapons, an entire organization of unicorns trained to defend equistria, an army, a strong possiblity of secret agents sent out to fight the lesser evils...................
yeah these guys are screwed.
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I knew that you would say that. And actually, I was waiting for that...
*Aherm*.
Baby dragon scales. If he was an adult, I would say "Okay, I'll aim for his eye, and probably end killing him if the sedative reaches his brain.", But since he's not, Dallas would aim for the weakspot of all the living creatures: the Neck.
Applejack. Despite being completely terrorized by a group of masked, professional Heisters, yeah, she would jump in front of a shotgun and get killed for her friends. But, since she had Wolf over her, and since he actually weight a bunch, and his mask looks like this:
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-Imagine that, but Ponified.
...Goverment attack... This is my response:
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...My bad, it was This one:
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-Get it? Get it???? They WORK for luna!
(Wait. I just spewed out my entire plot... NOOOO!!!!!)
((Nope. I didn't. It's just pure hilarity there.))
3776633 we are talking about a Competent government to begin with, for the msot part; when you have immortals who earned their wings and wavvey manes in charge thre is benefits. not to mention they took the newest princess/daughter i nall but blood of celestia.
changleings probablyl ook along the lines of this http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/120/2/1/chrysalis_the_dark_queen_by_ziom05-d4y2gye.jpg
and applejack is easily able to lift the likes of this http://www.google.com/imgres?biw=1600&bih=746&tbm=isch&tbnid=bAJoenwY_iiHSM%3A&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.equestriadaily.com%2F2014%2F01%2Frarity-takes-manehatten-episode-followup.html&docid=dafoKv8bnAD_lM&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-gaLwW4PHIt8%2FUsh4q4xuYDI%2FAAAAAAAAME4%2Fpe9IcXJZxr0%2Fs640%2FCapture.PNG&w=640&h=347&ei=EwLTUoigMtPOyAHM2YGIBA&zoom=1&ved=0CGwQhBwwCA&iact=rc&dur=494&page=1&start=0&ndsp=16
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...You know that there's a button to insert pictures up there, right?
...But still, okay, I get it. Applejack's nerves couldn't hold so much pressure to think straight. Better?
3776730 ............ not really? in that case the question is which is more likely to happen; Applejack panicking or applejack flying into a violent fear induced rage? either seem likely; if it was dashie, she would have tackled them the moment she saw them.
still feeling that a lot of the premise is somewhat shaky. i mean, seriously, what woudl these guys ACTUALLY do if applejack went straight for celestia? how do you kil the snitch when you are but a small cirminal organization facing the entirety of a governments not only pollitical and military power, but the rulers of said government a immortal just beings who earned their wavy manes and wings and have lived almost literally ten times longer than you?
coudl easily suspect Celestia toying with them. perhaps leaving a message at one of their hide outs going like
Dear Abductors
If you are reading this, then i have guessed your movements fairly well. It reminds me almost fondly of the time about forty years ago when some terrorists abducted the strongest teachers at my Magic School. it took me about two hours to figure out wehre they were, and a day to figure out the nine most likely places they would flee too. Unfortunately one such place was, in fact, this area. A fair location to hide in and try to avoid detection; useless when you are dealing with a being who has lived for over a millennium and has seen this place used about forty times already.
It would be in your best interests to leave you weaponry and equipment here, along with your hsotages. While it is possibly futile that you try to escape, i am not above giving you the chance if it will ensure the safety of the hostages. As you may have experienced already, your attempts to ransom the hsotages have been ignored and, sicne you are in fact alive and not butchered, you have realized by the near mind destroyingly horrific nightmares that we are capable of harming you even in secret and dare not directly harm my student, applejack, or the baby dragon.
I leave the option to abandon and leave only now. You do have a chance of escaping punishment if you leave the hsotages and equipment. They would slow you down and we will be focused on ensuring the hostages are returned home, giving you the opportunity to escape. Even i am not able to predict how you will leave the country; the methods go around nine hundred and sixty two, albeit four hundred and nine of them Intel magical dismemberment or transmogrification into inanimate objects. too many for me ensure detection of, and all of them, hwoever, only if you leave the hsotages and equipment.
If you fail to do so, know that i have predicted the next twenty five most likely locations you are to go to. i will have the best of the best waiting; ponies so skilled that they managed to evacuate fifty percent of my little ponies during the changeling invasion while only ten directly fought the mosnters. amongst these facilities, i, luna, or Cadance will be waiting. while you have about a forty percent chance of survival in all the situations without us, your deaths are imminent. and i do primise, by oath as the REgent of the Sun, that if you bring harm to any of the hsotages, not only will there be no pit dark enough to hide you, your punishments will harken back to the darker days before the rule of the regal ones. oh, you won't die.......... no matter how much you beg, you will live your full lifespans. i have tolerated your wickedness long enough, and shall do so no more if you push beyond that last point.
your Ruler/Executioner
Celestia.
ps. if you are curuios about how Chrysalis managed to infiltrate equistria, know she hd been making that plan for fifty years, and it nearly failed if not for her gluttony. and i doubt any of you have the time to think up a plan.
.........what can i say? how do you outsmart someone who has probably gone through this kind of stuff dozens of times long before you were in diapers?
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*Aherm*
How long have they've been planning a full-scale Heist on Canterlot? Five years. Five, freaking, Years planning every milimeter of a perfect Heist in the nose of Celestia herself.
...But well, i'll let that go. This time.
...Just wait what does my dear Bain has ready for you, Trollestia...
3776904 that was basically a scenario wehre celestia predicted wehre they were giong and left a note for them to find threatening them with horrific torment should they hurt the hostages in any way, and basically saying she knew where they were giong because they are FAR from the first ponies to use that hiding place and try and fuck with her.
that and luna had been torturing them with nightmares.
oh they can get away with a heist......... they jsut can get away after the heist. think of it. a thousand years and no one has pulled off anything like this? this kind of mundane attack would be easy for Celestia to deal with after the fact. she might even leave them a nice cake when they get back to theri hide out even.
let us put this as celestia saying it.
"I have dealt with bandits, thieves, assassins, terrorists, and more. All these mundane invaders time and again ahve come. While more often than is comfortable to admit they have succeeded in some way, for the last few centuries few if none have escaped. You see, i have had to deal with them os many times that i have figured out how they aer likely to move. Where a criminal might find him or herself most comfortable to hide or retreat to. It is not perfect; last decade i had to leave about four cakes after some strange group kidnapped a gryphon dignitary's daughter. But do not think that, short of them being changelings or wielding powerful illusionary magic, that i cannot predict where they are most likely to go. Since they have kidnapped twilight and applejack, and threatened a foal as well, do not expect them to find a mocking cake. Expect to find the best of my agents. if you think the guards that protect the streets of equistria are the true face of my military.......... Well, do not expect to live more than a breath's span."
they only had to deal with the normal policign force. i doubt they will last when the demigoddesses themselves take part of the search.
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Yet again.
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Allright, let's see...
Wait. There's nothing to see. You just spilled over the whole plot of this.
...But again, you'll have to wait...
...For what my mind has ready...
TUN DUUN!
-Now, if you excuse me, my brain has ran out of fuel for today. Expect more stuff... Tomorrow.
3776904 its less i am saying, oh celestis is so super duper smart....... because she is wise not omnsicient.
saying that short of her being brain damaged she would probably have gotten familiar with where a criminal is most likely to go. and this is from experience of being the leader of a nation that has lots of resources and enemies, and living for a thosuand years. knowledge earned, not given or forced.
3777019 ........saying celestia has probably been to this rodeo before. and has experienced dealing with such elements more times than any mortal could.
saying she would probably be able to figure out how they will move and react. becaue she has had todeal with this shit for a millenium.
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I know. That's why Bain's planning it, on every single milimeter...
...Just wiat and read...
...Wait and read.
3777033 a guy with only a few cneutries of life vs a enduring being that has experienced similar attempts for over a millenium, and him lacking any magic to use............
and as i said. he might succeed in the heist, but he has to somehow find a hiding place that a thosuand yar old mare is not aware of. and osmehow make sure their movements are not detected.
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...Out of fuel. See you tomorrow!
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...Wait and read.