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Twisted Gears


‘Tis I, a writer, togetherslapper of words.

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I'll say it again. Crossover between MLP, and Payday (2), but with a little more 'Touch'.


...It has been five years since a crew of four Stallions wrecked havoc across Manehattan, Fillydephia, Baltimare, and VanHoover, robbing, murdering, and taking everything by the force. Countless Royal Guards have fallen on their hooves, as they Heisted for an underground organization, simply known as CrimeNet.

Five years without any shots fired, no alarms tripped...

...This is going to change when the group is called back to action by Bain, the mysterious figure behind these crimes...

Chapters (11)
Comments ( 188 )

3717957

...How did...

Well, I think that iv'e hit some kind of mysterious jackpot with this... :pinkiegasp:

...That means i'll have to continue! :pinkiehappy:

3718012

If you're willing to lend 'A helping hoof', i'd say yes.

...Yay! :pinkiehappy:

3718037

One thing.I've got no idea on what's going on. That's why i'm so amuzed!! :pinkiehappy:

3718050

No promises made there. I'm in an island, in the middle of the pacific, in a little village, where no-one really speaks fluid english. So...

...But that's what makes this a challenge! :rainbowdetermined2:

.............really?
Tell and we will mruder you.
applejack jumps into the middle of town shouting into a speaker.

"Some awnree bastards just robbed my farm! An' if any of them are in the crowd.............. I'm the gawd damn element of Honesty. I am under the protection of the princesses themselves and all. Mess wi me and they kick yer keesters across the horizon!"

also.............. they are seriuosly trying to hold an alicorn hostage? try that and the first thing they will say is "Say a single..........why did my gun turn into chocolate?" soon to be folowed by, "OH CELESTIA MAKE THE SHOCKING STOOOP!~"

3734075

*Aherm*, wait till' the next one, and all your questions will be answered, my dear!

(Hoh, I like to make y'all wait, eh? :rainbowkiss: )

...But that was a good idea, actually... If she's in the middle, she's a perfect target practice for Bruce! :pinkiecrazy:

possibly followed by a
"OH GOD THIS IGUANA IS EATING MY NON CHOCOLATE GUN!"
"I'm a dragon."
"Well i guess that explains why the bullets bounced off youoAAAAAAAAH IT BURNS!"
"It still stung you idiot."

3734090 and then he will be hunted down by two fucking demigoddesses that likely a bullet will not take down to begin with.....................

"See the princess, taking the shot....................... D............... did my bullet turn into a gumdrop?"
"Did you really think that we would not have created some method todefend ourselves from bullets? Though it was Celestia who decided the bullets should be turned into gumdrops," luna gulps down gumdrop, "A most delightful treat. Shall you make me more, or should i simply break you limbs for harming one of those pure hearted mares that saved me from myself? Decisions, decisions."

...................

3734125

Hm. I tought that only Discord could do that.

...But. Demigod doesn't mean being a god. If Hercules could be beaten to death, Celestia (AND Luna) can be mowed down too!

...Wait. I think that iv'e just startled both NLR and SE... Shiiiiet....

One last thing before my corpse is found in a river. Why are you being such as contradicting to my poor, little crossover? :rainbowhuh:

3734090 ............. think my largest problem is hamfisting projectile weapons into equistria. while i do liek the writing, guns just........ don't fit. less the whole weapons or hooves thing, i mean they ahve swords and such and all. the hwole MAGIC thing. not only the fact they shoot energy and such, but also anything they would make for explosives and such would have a mystical origin too.

not to mention with magic it is possible to compeltely and totally eliminate the threat that is the bullet............... via gumdrops.

3734158

I get your point. Well, what if we say, that any kind of gun and explosive was illegalized by Equestria, only limiting it's use for certain groups (Explanation on why the Bulldozers wear shotuns), limiting it for the only way that theese violent criminal activities can go on. And since we're at this, CrimeNet goes waaay more deeper than what you'd think...

...Overall, that was the only way to let Earth Ponies and Pegasus ones to actually deal some damage in the battlefield. Think of it...

3734140 as said with that other comment, the whole hamfisting guns into the mix. they do not fit into equistria. not because weapons or hooves, but because, well, WHY would they develop them? one reason we developed porjectiles like that is to kill othes and or prey........... unless they had to deal with a sudden attack of feral potatoes, which is unnervingly likely, guns are not gonna happen.

...............no discord is not the only one able to alter things. he is the only one that can do it on a major scale with little effort, being a chaos beast and all............. just ask the orangefrog species that twilight accidentally created.
the whole gumdrop is for the whole moral breaking effect. one thing to see the bullets stoped ro reflected, another to further emphasis the humiliating futility by making the bullets turn into a snack.

3734196

...Again, think. If somepony's twisted enought to start thinking as we, humans, do, it would start to make theese little monstruosities... And of course, any criminal net would happily say "Oh y'course, i'll buy them.". And, iv'e expect them to develop guns sooner or later, the Everfree holds a bunch of feral creatures...

...Now, to deal with magic. If you're good enought to actually cast a spell, in the time that a bullet, that travels faster than the sound hits you, then congratulations. You'll only have to do it about 100 times per minute to get away harmelss from a STYK.

...And, if it's already hard to see a sniper round getting close, it would be even harder to cast the same spell on time...

3734180 it is less legalizing and more why would they be d eveloped? if you haven't noticed, technology is acletic at most in equistria. they have steam trains, yet more advanced technology in the same area, and their cabs are fucking wagons...............

................. earth ponies have the brute force to charge down enemies and break through ranks. pegasus can send the very weather against the eneny, and could carry around small thunderheads to use as powerful ranged weapons.............

i ask again, why would a gun be invented?

the only time i have never equstioned guns in an mlp fiction was in Starlight over Detrot. and that is because the guns have a magical nature and they had to develop something to fight against organized dragon armies, and the guns have a highly magical background; even the shotguns have a tendency to become 'vindictive' over mistreatment. that and the author developed that the guns are easily stoped by magic anyway, if the right magic is used, and the guns use a complex harness.

3734236

:facehoof:

...Then, we're now talking on Equestria's miss-technological advancement...

Oh, another little detail. It's called 'Fanfic' for something, right? Alternative Univere? Hmmmm?

3734253 ...let us just say ti seems the only create what is needed. guns are not needed when you can throw tornados and lightning at your enemy and your ground troops are living battering rams.
also i never think of ponies as being pacifists. largely think that while they will not kill first, they will kill if pushed to that extreme........... and have lots nd lots of attributes to help them in that regard.

largely think you could ahve been more creative than guns and such. like having that sniper using specialized magic rather than actually having a gun............... and the likelyhood that the moment guns were invented celestia owuld ahve come up with a defense against them. criminals or not, Celestia owuld realize their danger and create some kind of magic to defend against them...................
also she is powerful enough to dessimate an entire castle........... pretty sure that it is hard to aim a gun when someone is releasing raw magic beams able to puncture through castle walls at you.

3734310

:facehoof::facehoof:

...Almost everypony in CrimeNet is an Earth pony, Ergo they have no such special powers, so, they need to get a way to earn their power, so they get guns for that.

...But. I'll give you a point on the Sniper.

...And... I see that you're a very Magic-Based one, eh? Technology will win!

Since we're at this, I'd suggest you join this group. Maybe you could give some good discussion there.

...But not on my poor Crossover!

3734335 ........... the idea technology would overcome magic is stupid by this sole factor; magic is not limited to what you can build. not to mention magic could directly affected the devices. hard to nukers to launch when the uranium has been turned into rock candy................. or even worse, a clever magician creates a small mystical effect inside of the missile and causes it to explode.
see? tech is far too limited, and the technology of the enemy can be stolen and then amplified with magical techniques. though it does depend on wht the magic is. the magic from the original MLP would not cut this factor............ the magic in fim, put simply, is capable of making soldiers cry bitter tears.
kinda a good thing magic is not real..............

shrugs. fanfics is fanfcis but that does not excuse odd decisions............. definitely far from the worse fanfic though. once read one where someone murdered twilight, and for some reason despite the murderer somehow suffocating her to death with magic and being in the same god damn building, not to mention having a questionable past............ not a fucking soul suspected him.
hell so long as you do not have a scenario where for some reason a panicking, fighting for her life tiwlight is not releasing magic to free herself i will be fine..................... had major issues with that story.

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:facehoof::facehoof::facehoof: -I'll keep facehooving for a while.

...Now, Tech. Ah, technology... Let's see, Magic consumes energy from the user, right? TEchonlogy, if it has it's propper energy source, can be limitless. Nukes? They explode over the place thay're planned to bomb. Overall, if you do this at midnight, when everypony's sleeping, and with a silent plane (Developed with techonlogy, why not. No pegasus can carry a 10-ton bomb.), boom. Good-bye Equestria, Good-bye Canterlot, Good-bye Celestia.

...Now, if you got some kind of spell against radioactivity, nor the bomb's blast itself, then, welcome to Overpowered Oc's club.

...And, iv'e noticed your patriotism, talking b'out imaginary Enemies.

...What if, thoose Enemies were your own people, developing that tech? Hmmmmmm?

...Now, back to Twilight's Kidnap. Just wait till next chapt's released... Bwhahahahhaa!!!!

3734438 ................. that is sitll relying entirely on a device. technology cannot stand when ir is e facing a force that can turn its most important parts into something else............ hell all they would need is a thin barrier around equistria to deal with a stealth plane coming in. if you disrupt a plane in a significant enough way it completely lose control and crash. planes are very delicate, even the most advanced of plans.
also, considering they could theoretically shoot fire, heat, lightning, and other forms of energy............. exposing ponies to the existence of radiation would suddenly have ponies developing lethal radiation beams to shoot at enemies. it is still a form of natural energy, radiation.
that and nukes cannot explode if its uranium is turned into lead............... or rock candey for the sake of humiliation.

hope these batards are willing to accept the consequences of holding hostage the practical daughter of one of the most powerful beings in equstria and her sister. not to mention a unicorn able to create a field large enough to encompass an entire castle and another alicorn that can potential get you into a homoerotic hallucination if you pissed her off.

3734504

:facehoof::facehoof::facehoof::facehoof::facehoof::facehoof::facehoof::facehoof:

...Gesh. You're planning to keep giving battle, eh?

Fine. Talk abbout the Radiation effects with the creator of Fallout: Equestria, and everyone that made their own part of that. Huge ammount of people? -Of course.

Now, I just saw there that you don't like, or what I'm doing here, or Payday itself...

Hm. Relying in one device... Hm... Tactical Nukes... Firebombs... Misslies themselves... Inside jobs... And the list continues...

...But well. I'd like to end this pointless discussion over what I did here, if you're kind enought. Well, just wait till' I'm done with this. Now, I'm more aware on Twilight's abilities... So is the crew. :pinkiecrazy:

3734533 don't hate it, just find a bit of it a little hamfisted.
and i will finish with this....... ALL of those are devices. they rely on all their parts remaining their parts and not something else.............. tech has no way of dealing with magic if magic is already on guard. all i will say.


/...................how do you prepare to deal with a fire breathing, bullet proof (kid resisted lava and is disturbingly durable for a creature his size), who could probably eat your gun, and also deal with a super mage capable of turing your guns into something else and electrocuting you in an instant? not to mention having the baggage of 'if you kill me the fucking demigoddesses and their entire army will hunt you down' on her.........
they are sooooo gonna get it. iuf they kidnap her, they are screwed. if they hurt or even kill her........... well be go from emrely screwed ro being ass fucked to death with a flaming spear basically.
would be somewhat interesting to see them fall.

3734648

Aherm, let me do this:
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...This is going to continue untill Technology kills you, or Magic kills me, right?

3734673 ........dude i just made one final statement and went to the subject of how you do all of that with twilight, possible consequences of what is technically a direct attack on the government............... also how they aer gonna pull this off when her home is in the middle of ponyville........................ went off that previous subject alerady dud.e

3734708 actual seeing, or the population of equistria losing brain cells for nine minutes to allow this to happen seeing?............ sitll government attakc.

3734741
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This reached it's limit, mate. Well, i'm gonig till' tomorrow. Baiiii...

ponynapping princess rule1- don't bother to try it.
seriously, the last pricness that got kidnapped her captor could only manage to trap her in a cave rather than actually keep her hostage. and that captor was a damn changeling queen. only thing that has ever restrained a princess was a bunch of demonic vines that had stolen the energy of a tree that oculd restrain the ENTIRE everfree forst.

ponynapping princess rule 2- if by some dumb luck you actually MANAGE to overpower a demigod horse and tie her up, make damn sure no one of the more megalomaniac persuasion. if changeling queens or dark mages or enemies of foreign lands learn of your possession of an alicorn, you will be put into the very awkward situation of relying on our captive to keep you alive.

3740212

Aw, sh- :yay:, I completely forgot abbout you! :pinkiegasp:

Sorry, but I'm a bit brain-dead today, so don't expect a fair discussion today...

...But, WTF... Just flow with the history... It'll have sence... Sometime.

...And again...

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...Just wait...

3740230 was mostly making a joke there. thoguh it is not an unlikely sitution if you are holding a god damn alicorn captive and someone with big ambitions or grudges hears about it.
never understand magic surpessor tech thingies to begin with. by default it HAS to be a magical device to do it. so what prevents the magic used to power it from be suppressed?

3740245

Ahaha! that's the secret!

...But just because you completely hitted me with that joke, I'll reveal in in the next chapter!

*Insert kitty face here*

................ 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.

3776574

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.))

3776703

...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... :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.

3777002
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.

................ they made it seem like they killed spike.................... You do remember the time when she was a filly and she had a panic attack, hatched that damn dragon, and nearly destroy a section of the castle?
try to imagine that when she is an adult mare, and alicorn, and is also gonna be craving blood for her little brother dying in front of her............... limiters have a tendency to break if under far too much strain you know............ also why would she comply with them if she thinks they are dead anyway? they would have no leverage.
sorry for the crticisms but that is the most likely outcome in that situation. she would react with rage if her friends were hurt, let alone killed. not to mention she would not comply and would threaten them if she believed they were both dead. if not have a mental breakdown and cause a magical fueled mini disaster.
besides, all it would take in a gun to the head of either to make her comply. all that theatrics would have backfired completely.

..........I can only imagine celestia getting that letter. enter luna
Luna- what is in that letter?
Celestia-..... some fool has kidnapped Twilight, Spike, and Applejack. They want the golden mirror in exchange.
Luna- shall we unleash the elite guard?
"Celestia-.... no, no, but tell them to at the ready if we must. we will 'comply' to their wishes, for now........ considering the aptitude of twilight and applejack, they likely have them drugged to ensure they do not escape or fight back. Luna, if you would pleae find them and talk to them in the dreamscape. ASsure them that we will save them.
Luna- I shall dear sister. though I have never been able to find location through the dreamscape. its strange sometimes; one dreamer may be as close to another as two lovers, but be oceans apart physically.
Celestia- understood............. also, dear sister, if you discover the identity of anyone responsible....... well you know what to do.
Luna and celestia exchange a rather evil little grin.

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First part: Aw, thankies. I made my best to build up that 'theather' just for Twilight.

No worries, CrimeNet ain't that kind of organization.
...Even tho they actually kill one or two ponies...

*Aherm* Disabled horn. Long live science! (Nah.). Oh, and I must say that you're my best source for movements in this story! :rainbowkiss:

...But, good point. I'll have to study more how Twilight (And company) would react in thoose situations...

...Actually, i'll ask you for that.

And, since i'm starting to like ye, i'll Pm you some advancements on what i've got planned, so we get this long-term conversation into something more... "Private", if you don't mind, because at this rythm, comments will reach views in no-time.

dammit! I was gonna do a Payday/MLP crossover! Ya beat me to it, man... Ah, whatever. You'll probably write it better than me anyways.

3792363

I personally don't believe so. Still, DO IT! WRITE IT!

...At least, give it a try. I would read it, and the many other people that readed this would! :twilightsmile:
...If not, iv'e got a pretty STYK here...

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