Opening Theme:
The mare's eyes widen at your declaration as she says in terror,
"In...interrogation! What the buck is going on!?!"
You grin evilly under your mask as you say,
"Exactly what it sounds like little miss pony, or should I say...CHANGELING!"
The mare's eyes widen in shock and terror before she says,
"Wha-what! How did you know!? This is a brand new disguise!"
You just smirk before saying,
"Oh... I didn't know for sure. Thanks for confirming that by the way."
The mare just stares at you before she says in defeat,
"Oh you have got to be bucking kidding me."
"Well you hear about a messenger that's always changing appearance, race, and gender carrying the same lollipop, you get suspicious," you point out.
"Oh son of a- Who talked?!"
"That's for me to know, and you to never find out," you declare as she looks shocked. She eventually starts grumbling to herself. Though she doesn't take her disguise off for some reason.
You can't help but think at this,
Huh...that was easier then I thought. Still, shouldn't be surprised that the Knights have employed another unbound changeling. Now...
You shake your head before saying,
"Now with that little fact is out of the way, why don't you tell me everything you know about Kersey?"
The messenger looks around nervously as she says,
Kichi's Comment
"I... Uhhh... Don't know any Kersey... Nope, not at all, no Kersey at all, I don't work for any Crimson Knight named Kersey" she says with shifty eyes.
And I was thought Applejack was a bad liar
Sighing you say,
"Of course you don't. Why don't you just cut the bullspit..." you walk into her field of view showing your features to which she gasps at, "And answer the question."
"N-N-NO! I won't!"
"Come on, you're already going to be put away in some deep dark hole for being a changeling, what does it matter if you rat out some guy?"
"I don't care, I'm not giving you anything!"
You sigh before saying,
"And why, exactly, won't you tell us anything?"
The mare gives you a stubborn look before she says,
Kersey's Comment
"Because my employer pays me alot of bits for my job. Even if I'm going away, I'm not about to throw all that away, plus I'd never hear the end of it. I'm especially not going to give up any info for some two-bit pony wearing a ridiculous costume. Seriously do you even know what matching means?"
Your eye twitches in annoyance, but you hold back the angry rant about how your clothes are totally awesome. Instead you take a deep breath and say,
The Rutherford's Comment
"You vill tell me vat I vant to know. Zee question, is vill you tell be before zee pain? Or After?!!"
Did I mention you said it in the worse Germane accent ever heard? No, well now you know. Anyway, this only gets Aqua to facehoof and say,
"What are you doing?"
You turn to the darkness and say, "Being menacing, no shush, my associates."
"Now Zen, Vill-*cough* I mean, will you tell me or do I have to get serious?"
"You'll never get me to talk. You hear me? NEVER!"
You give her a glare before you say,
"Fine, then I'll just have to take it up a notch."
The messenger gulps at this as she asks,
"Uh...what do you mean by that?"
You don't answer, but instead stare at her menacingly as you think,
Erised the ink-moth's Comment
Interrogation... It's nasty business no matter which movie it's in.
You don't want to get too brutal on this mare, she's only a minor henchman, and not even a fighting mook. Although, there might be a way to make her talk without actually having to hurt her. You've just got to be as intimidating as possible to make her crack.
Yesss. Allow fear to be your instrument. Insert it into her soul. Insert it hard!
Did you really have to word it like that?
Stuff her mind with fear like you would stuff a turkey... which you would then proceed to make out with. Yessss... make out with that fear turkey like it's a lonely Thanksgiving night!
"Right then! Let's stop wasting time with the drugged voices in our heads and just do this thing!" you shout aloud, seeing as how Selena's still too upset with you even to make Crazy King stop talking.
"Drugged vou-What are you talking about?" the "mare" asks.
Intimidating. You need to make this feel intimidating.
"Guys... would you mind giving me a bit of elbow room? You don't want to be in the splash zone," you mutter darkly looking to the darkness behind the spotlight. The Changeling doesn't need to know there's only Aqua in there with you, and it will scare her more.
You pull over a nearby end table and start dramatically assembling random items on top of it, looking over them thoughtfully and casting wayward glances back to the tied up mare before moving onto the next.
The first is a roll of duct tape, then your last molotov cocktail, then The Boomstick and your Power Glove. At that point you realize you don't have that many threatening weapons on you, so you search the room for additional items. You come up with a cheap coffee maker, a lamp, a set of kitchen utensils, and a copy of the Daylight (Twilight) saga on DVD.
She seems nervous at all these random items, but she doesn't say anything.
"Now, tell me where Kersey is so we won't have to use these bad boys."
"You're bluffing! I ain't telling you anything!"
"Oh really?" you say as you lean towards her face.
Kichi's Comment
BrownDog's Comment
"Then it's time for... Torture" you smirk as you bear your teeth.
"Wh-what?!" she squeeks out.
"You heard me bug. I need you to be focused. Are you focused yet?" you jaunt.
Unfortunately, that little threat kind of makes her start hyperventilating.
You react to this in the most reasonable of ways,
“Huh?”
“I wasn’t gonnna…I…”
“What? Oh Luna no! What are you…?”
“For the love of all that is good, NO! Sweet Luna, what’s the matter with you?”
“Well I don’t know, how about the fact that you just said you'd torture me, and that’s what you speciest ponies display in your films? You’ve got me, a changeling tied to a chair in a sound proof room and want me to spill on a terrorist? I mean, look at your face for the Queen’s sake. You’re always snarling.”
“It looks awesome! And look I'm not gonna-"
"Aha! I called your bluff. You ain't got the stones. And as if torture would make me give him up. You have no idea how annoying it is to be complained at by that weasel!"
Yeesh, how bad is this guy that she’d rather have…all of that happen?
...
Nothing?
...
Oh come on, you're still mad?
...
Ugh! Fine.
“Oh really? Well we’ll just see about that,” you growl at the messenger.
ErisedTheInkMoth's Comment
You get right in her face, making her stare at the teeth, and with your modified voice you snarl, "Now then, let it never be said that I'm unreasonable. I'll give you this one chance before things get gruesome. Where... is Kersey?"
"Hah!" the mare laughs in your face. "I ain't telling ya nothin'! You hear me? Nothin'!"
You can't tell if she's serious or just trying to put on a brave face, but you'll soon find out.
"Are you afraid?" you ask, not moving an inch from her face.
"Pft, no. Of course not. I ain't scared of you. You...bluffer"
"GOOD!" you say happily, "Good. After all, now is not the time for fear. That comes later."
You walk over to the table and pick up the kitchen utensils, a knife and fork. You roll up your sleeves and walk over to her, holding the knife between the two of you. "Where's that darn Kersey?"
Her facade slips away. "But wait, I thought you weren't,"
"Well I wasn't, but you did give some good ideas..." you say menacingly.
"W-what are you gonna do? What are you going to do?" she stammers.
"Whatever I have to too get some answers." you say in a sinister voice... before bringing the knife and fork down on a clean plate! It makes the most ear-splitting, brain-grating, irritating sound next to claws on a chalkboard.
The messenger squirms in place, cringing and wishing... wishing she could cover her ears! "Stop that!" she pleas.
"You'd like me to stop it wouldn't you?" you say with a smirk.
Suddenly you're slapped from behind. When you look you see Aqua with her ears pinned against her skull and looking very annoyed with you.
"You idiot!" Aqua scolds, "It's not as bad for you 'cause you're the one doing it. And besides, it's not working. She already called your bluff. Stand aside." she says and pushes past you with a towel. "Watch and learn. This is how you get information out of a terrorist, just ask the guys at Guacamole Bay."
She drapes the towel over the mare's head, leans her back and- OH SWEET LUNA, that looks unpleasant!
"Tell us where your boss is!" Aqua yells and gets ready for another round of waterboarding, but you rush forward and grab her before she can.
"What are you doing?! I wasn't actually going to hurt her, we just need to know where Kersey is!"
"She'll be fine! This will make her tell us!" Aqua snaps.
"You'll... *cough* never get me to talk... *sputter*" the changeling mare declares from under the wet towel.
"No Aqua, this is messed up! We gotta do this another way!"
"Oh, and what would you suggest?" she humphs.
"Well..." you trail off as you think.
The Rutherford's Comment
Kichi's Comment
"I'm not sure. Nothing physical, but even then...I mean, she is almost as stubborn...as...*ding*"
Aqua looks at you in confusion before she asks,
"Stubborn as who?"
You shake your head before saying,
"That doesn't matter. I know what to do."
You take the wet towel off of the messenger's face.
"Oh I just knew you had it in you jerk! What's next? The magic battery to my horn?"
"Oh no. Something much much more effective..." you trail off as you walk Aqua off into the darkness.
"What are we...?" Aqua starts, but you ignore her and stick your head into you inventory.
"Nightshade, my dear, I need you to ask the messenger where the mean Crimson Knight is."
"Really? she asks in excitement, before jumping out. Luckily, she's still in her disguised form.
"Alright, walk with me..."
All three of you then walk back into the messenger's vision, and she looks confused.
"Behold, our ultimate weapon!"
"Hello!" Nightshade calls out.
The messenger just looks at this confused.
"A kid? Really? Is he even sane?" she asks to Aqua.
"I sincerely doubt there is anyone in this room that is sane anymore" Aqua sighs
"Hey! I'm sane" you say before looking to Nightshade "Right, Honey?"
"Uhhhh..." Nightshade doesn’t answer, because on one hand she loves her daddy, but on the other, she knows lying to him is wrong.
"Oh gee, thanks for the vote of confidence," you say depressed.
"Well it ain't gonna work, all of you insane bucks had better just kill me. It's not like my fate is gonna turn out any better," she moans.
You lean over to Nightshade and whisper to her,
Make the cutest puppy dog pout you can."
Nightshade gets a determined look before she salutes you and says,
"Okie Dokie."
Nightshade walks up to the tied up messenger and says in the most adorable voice she could muster,
"Can you please tell us where to find that bad guy? We really need to stop him from hurting any more innocent ponies like me. Please?"
Nightshade's eyes get huge, tears start to form. She then grabs Mangle out of her Inventory and both look at her with the saddest expression they can muster, making all the hearts of all who see it melt. Mangle starts playing a sad violin piece through her speakers. The messenger is on the verge of tears before she says,
"Alright, I will talk! Just no more sad filly please! I can't stand seeing fillies cry!"
You look at her in confusion before thinking,
Huh...interesting.
...
Really? No comment on that?
...
*sigh* Fine fine, whatever
With that onesided conversation out of the way you ask her,
"Now tell me everything you know about Kersey."
She nods her head before saying,
Kersey's Comment
BrownDog's Comment
"I'm just a messenger, all I'm supposed to do is pick up and drop off anything that's given to me. And before you ask, no I don't know what I deliver, or where most of the time. The guys is freaking paranoid, and genre-savvy, so he only gives me the bare bones information in order to complete my tasks."
"Look, we can't judge you any further, just give us the address."
"I do know it, but even then, it wouldn't do you any good. This guy is paranoid to the extreme. His door is booby trapped, he's always talking about "secret passwords" and he’s got all kinds of experimental dohickeys there.”
“Experimental Doohickeys?” you ask.
“Yeah, he’s big into purchasing or stealing scientific stuff. I’m not supposed to be nosey, but some of this stuff is downright dangerous to anyling that would use them.”
“Well hopefully it won’t come to that, anything else about the guy?” you reply.
"Yeah, he's a gluttonous, movie-obsessed, control freak that hates all sentient life forms," she says rather quickly.
"Yeesh, sounds like you were holding that one in," you say.
"Well he is! The only reason I worked for him was because the pay was good. Event then, it didn't feel worth it sometimes, right now being a case in point. I mean, he says he's genre savvy and keeps sending out messengers to do his work, but unless it's food, movies, or money, he won't leave his little booby trapped apartment."
"Yeesh, sounds like a major nutjob," Aqua deadpans.
"Oh, and also, I don't know if this helps, but he's been doing some really shady stuff recently. More so than usual."
"Really? Like what?"
"He's been transferring a lot of bits, and shutting down a bunch of accounts all over the city's banks. The weird thing is, these accounts are the funds that are normally for his Crimson Knight buddies."
"He's stealing money from his own crew?" you say aloud.
"I don't know. Noling knows what his endgame is. All I know is he's got that money in one location, and no one know where that is aside from himself. I do know his bank personal information, just not the bank itself."
"You have his info?"
"Who the heck do you think was closing his accounts? As I said, he'd give me only some of the info, not all of it. Having a key isn't so good when you don't know where the door is."
"Hmm, good point, so would you be willing to write down this info?"
"Ummm..." she starts before Nightshade gets in her face with a pout.
"Yes, yes, yeesh!"
After getting this information, you ask her,
"So, is there really nothing else?"
"Alright then, thanks for the info," you say.
You then use the last of the Luna charges for the day to knock her out and put her back into the Prison Bags.
You then look to Aqua and say,
"OK, now we know that this guy is paranoid with his hoof on the trigger," you say.
"Yeah, I'd rather not fight him on his turf. I say we should draw him out somehow."
"Exactly. But how? Should we line up a bunch of free pizzas and lead him to a trap?"
"I don't think so, as paranoid as this guy is, I'd say he would only leave for an emergency. And after that little stunt you pulled tonight, people might be a little more suspicious looking for Knights."
You chuckle and rub the back of your neck.
"But there might be another way..." she says as she pulls out a map of Vanhoover and puts it on the desk.
"What, what is it?"
"If we can find that bank the messenger was talking about, we can drain his funds and draw him out," she explains.
"That could work, except that we don't know which bank to go to. There's like a zillion banks in a big city like this."
"I can narrow it down. He's more than likely using a Swish Bank."
"A Swish Bank account?" you ask.
"Yes. These Knights hit the stock market remember? Well Swish Bank Accounts aren't connected. He'd want the money in a safe spot."
"Oh yeah, you're right. So how many Swish Banks are there?"
"In Vanhoover? About 20," she answers.
"Yeesh..." you mumble.
"But I think I know which one," she says with a smirk and points to a spot on the map.
You see the different locations around the bank she's pointing at, and you see that there are a lot of fast food joints, a movie theaters, and apartment buildings in relatively close proximity.
"Oh wow, everything this guy likes in one convenient location," you say with a smile.
"It's our best shot, otherwise we'll have to risk a building blowing up if we try to enter his home."
"Yeah, I'd rather not deal with bombs again any time soon," you say lowly.
"Anyway, let's get to it then."
"Get to what?" Aqua asks.
"Get to the bank?"
"It's Friday Night, the Bank won't be open till Monday," she points out.
"Oh...good point. I guess let's just lay low till then," you say as you start moving all your interrogation pieces around.
"What the heck are we going to do in Vanhoover for two days?" asks Nightshade.
"Watch TV?" you say.
Aqua and Nightshade just shrug as they have no better ideas.
Elsewhere During The Two Day Wait
Prince Blueblood, sporting a black eye and a missing tooth, is talking to a scowling unicorn guard.
“And that brute hit me into a speaker and I missed the whole show! I never got an autograph!”
“That stinks boss, but you’re sure it was him?”
“I’ll never forget those eyes. I’m positive,” he says rubbing his injured body. “Did you bring it?”
“Of course I did, the minute I received your letter I jumped at the chance to take that flankhole down. I lost a lot of favor after he and those mutts ruined everything. Knowing I have to work with that worthless Sentry is even worse.”
“Well there was nothing I could do on that part, though I tried. Armor has his favorites.”
“Yeah I know. But still, if the Offender is still around, it’ll be ready. I mean, right now it’s only bare bones, nowhere near finished, but it should still work. The tech guys don’t know I took it though.”
“That shouldn’t be a problem Strong, and from what Sapphire Shores has been singing about, he’s out looking for his little cultist friends in the city.”
“Hmmph, sounds like fun,” the Unicorn smirks.
Also Elsewhere During The Two Days
The Brown Dog and Snap Drake sit in a wagon on the side of a road while a stallion and mare have a table set up selling products. Both of the knight’s eyes are kind of red.
“Dude, where in the heck are we?” asks the Diamond Dog.
“I don’t know. After the last check bounced, and after the last bar that threw us out, I think we met some mares?” replies Snap.
“Did we?” The Brown Dog asks as he looks around the wagon interior. There are a bunch of tye dye wearing ponies with dreads and beads sitting around giggling. Some of them are actually pretty cute mares. Two are currently sleeping on with their heads on the Knights' chests.
“Whoah, I don’t remember any of that…my head feels funny…” the Diamond Dog says.
“I know right? It think it’s the brownies they keep giving us…but I can’t stop eating them, I’m too hungry,” Snap says dazed.
“Oy…ponies. Where are we?”
“Where is anypony man? The world just kind of flows beneath our feet…” one of the mares says.
“Whoah…I never thought of it like that,” he responds.
“Hey, what’s this?” asks Snap as he pulls out a piece of paper.
“You wrote that a few days ago man, you keep forgetting to mail it,” replies a mare in bell bottom jeans.
“A few days…I don’t even remember them,” Snap says as he looks at the paper again.
The note says,
Dear Chump Lord,
Brown Dog and I are out of money again because of bounced check. Kind of need it for stuff. Last job was supposed to give us bonus, but it didn’t you lying buck. Currently in traveling band of hippies. Wire money through them at Goops and Stuff Inc.
K Thanks Bye,
SD
P.S. Lose some weight fatty
“Huh…guess that can only mean Kersey,” Snap says as he looks out the wagon.
“Hey, can somepony take this to a mail box please?”
“Well you’re in luck Snap, one of the customers in line is a pegasus from Pony Express," says a the crazy haired red eyed stallion.
“Heh, awesome. Any more brownies?”
“Oh my gosh! My paws are so soft…” Brown Dog warbles.
“Heck yeah they are,” says two of the mares.
“Heh heh heh…like marshmallows...”
BACK WITH YOU 2 DAYS LATER
You and Aqua sit inside on a the bank's bench waiting your turn. Aqua turns to you to talk.
"So, you still have that Changeling in your bag right?"
"Uh-huh. Keeping her knocked out," you respond.
"Why haven't we turned her in yet?"
"Because if we turn in a changeling Crimson Knight now, we'll be letting the cops know our plan, and then they'll follow us and try to take Kersey down before we can. And if that happens, no money," you respond.
"Oh...makes sense. Still, kind of seems messed up keeping her drugged constantly."
"Meh, it's probably better than whatever the princesses do with all the changeling prisoners they have," you mutter.
Fireheart 1945'a Comment
Elsewhere Today
Kersey reads an opinion piece in the local paper.
Where Are the Changelings, and Should They Have Trials?
The article is all about how Changeling sightings have been seen randomly all over the kingdom, but not in large quantities. The article also calls into question remarks made by Twilight Sparkle. After defeating the Queen and her Horde a second time last year, The Elements of Harmony in collusion with the Princesses have imprisoned them all in some unknown location. When asked about the conditions Twilight said,
While it's true there have been outcries to their imprisonment, and even a few failed revolts, I believe the conditions they are in are of their own making. After two near successful invasions on Canterlot and Ponyville, they are deemed dangerous, and no trials are planned at this time.
The article then shows the Princesses' support for this statement, but have claimed that conditions have been taken to make sure their incarceration is not torturous. The opinion piece goes on asking whether this decision is unfair or not.
"Eh, Buck Em All! Changelings are mouth breathers just like the rest of the world! All too stupid to live, just like my "Fellow Generals." Also that stupid Sapphire Shores hack, making a media stunt with a fake Offender and making the Royal Guard watch my city! Her music sucks! Luckily, I'm far superior to any living thing. I was smart enough to keep my money safe," he smirks to himself.
BACK WITH YOU
You and Aqua walk out of the bank with three brand new debit cards, all linked into Kersey's account.
"Wow, I know my kind is good at it, but I thought Identity Theft would be a lot harder than that," you say.
"I know, the bank runners are either incredibly stupid, or they just don't care," Aqua says.
"Yeah, I didn't think I'd get the super-duper-secret code word right on the first guess. I mean 'Royale with Cheese'? He couldn't even come up with a less famous movie-food quote?" you comment as you take Nightshade out of the Inventory.
"Here you go honey." You say as you hoof her the debit card.
"What's this?" she asks as she examines the laminated card.
"That, is a platinum, no-limits debit card directly tied into Kersey's rather huge accounts."
2 "Platinum Debit Cards (tied to a vast Crimson Knight account)" added to Inventory
"Wow thanks daddy. What are we going to do with these?"
You smirk as you look up.
"We're going to spend a terrorist out of his hole."
You hold up the credit card as it glistens in the sun.
"YAY!!!" Nightshade cheers.
"Spending Spree GO!"
Nightshade and Aqua nod and are about to head out when you remember something from that episode of White Band that inspired this spending spree idea.
"Wait!" you say causing the two to pause.
"There are some ground rules for this plan we should probably go over." you say, "Number 1; We set up the accounts so Kersey can still see what's going on with his money, but will be utterly helpless to do anything about it so we need our purchases to be extravagantly huge to show this guy we're not just some two-bit thieves. We can and will drain every last bit unless he comes out himself, in pony, to the bank to change it."
"Oh, I think I can do extravagantly huge..." Aqua smirks.
"Number 2; The Royal Guard is probably going to want those account Bits as evidence against Kersey and the Crimson Knights so we'll most likely have to return everything we bought during this spending spree when this is all over."
Aqua and Nightshade groan begrudgingly at this.
"And Number 3; Kersey and the main account are both still in Vanhoover so we can't leave this city. Everypony got that?"
Aqua and Nightshade nod an affirmative.
"Okay, ahem- SPENDING SPREE GO!!!"
What do you do?
Outro:
This news sparks a massive rebellion in the facility where the captured changelings have been held the largest revolt yet, along with a promise by the rebels to not obey anything the Princesses or Guards order them to do until they have their trials or freedom, whichever comes first (and it makes front headlines; everyone, including Bugze, hears of it).There is evidence of outside assistance (most likely from the group Bugze met that kidnapped Nightshade in the previous season), though the reporter seems to miss this information. This time, Celestia is the one who responds in the news, to both the rebels promises not to obey or be taken alive as well as to their treatment and Equestria's response to the revolts and future treatment of captured changelings, among other statements she makes.
Buy all the games in the Red Alert (or whatever passes for it) series, start a Steam account, and spend tons of money on online games and their DLC. Also, Bugze fails horribly in EVE Online due to being suicide-ganked (essentially, due to the fact that attacking players in a hi-security zone brings the NPC police down to murder the offender, one player comes in with high damage weapons in order to kill the target before being taken down, after which his friends steal the loot from the target player, who is presumably dead by now) repeatedly. And even after this, fail to make a dent in the budget of the crimson knights.
And another question which I don't have an answer to, at least not immediately. Maybe if I remember one I'll post it here when I remember it.
I suppose that with this stories rating, that's the closest it'll get.
Kinda reminds me of SCP-682.
I'm going to have to say that the best spending spree is in Futurama, where Fry spends four billion dollars on a can of anchovies, which had been extinct for hundreds of years.
I haven't seen many spending sprees...
As they continue the shopping spree, they end in a music store, just in there, they can see a poster of Nightshade. As Bugzee, Aqua and even Nightshade look surprised, they go to the shop manager to ask about the poster.
"Oh, her? It's a strange legend, two day ago she appeared in a concert of Da Colts, she only sang one song before she dissapeared leaving a clone that didn't have talent for songs, but the song hit the number 1 in little time, all copies of the song are sold, I hear that many are searching for her"
Bugzee looked to the poster and to Nightshade, as the manager looked at her.
"You know? She is very similar to her, but it's not possible that is her" The shop manager laugh and Bugzee laugh with him a little uncomfortable
"Sugoooi" Shout Nightshade with star in her eyes looking at the merchandising
"Is that a plushie?" Ask Aqua looking behind the manager to a plushie very similar to Nightshade
"Yep, they even sell things like that around here... They are calling her the best alicorn" Say the manager
Meanwhile in Canterlot Castle
"Sigh, One thousand years of peace, and they put somepony that just appeared as best alicorn... When we know that it only exist 3, Me, You and Cadance... Even if that filly is very familiar, I can't really remember from where and... Luna, are you hearing me?" Ask Celestia looking to Luna
Meanwhile Luna was wearing headphones and a mp3 listening to a song. Celestia groaned and used her magic to take out the headphones
"I was talking with you" Say Celestia
"Uh, really? It's only that you like sometimes to rant too much, and the song is very good... I wonder who is the strange alicorn" Mutter Luna
"If it's a alicorn, maybe it's a montage, sometimes ponies do everything to get publicity" Comment Celestia
"Oh, yeah... Ummm... What do we do about the protests?" Ask Luna looking from the window
In the garden, many ponies, wearing signs with hearts and images of changelings were sitting angry
"Not all changelings are evil..." Shout one pony
"They deserve rights" Say another pony
"The only evil changeling is Chrysalis, let the others free! My husband was a changeling and was jailed because the royal guards are speciesist" Shout a third pony
It's then that another group begin to appear.
"The only good changeling is a dead changeling" Shout one pony from the other group
"Changelings don't deserve to live with ponies" Shout another pony
As that, a fight begin to happen
"Do you think we should do something?" Ask Luna
"I'm getting popcorn ready" Say Celestia
Returning with Bugzee
Bugzee decides to leave and take Nightshade with him, not before she managed to take the plushie as a souvenir when the manager was not looking. After that he walked in a comic store and begin to buy comics, mainly to have something to read, is there when he find for his surprise, another number of the dark offender, with a changeling in
"what?" Ask Bugzee surprised
As he opened the comic he could see him meeting the strange 'Flash Sunshine' and about the voices in his head, as he read that, suddenly a tought come to his head.
"Crap,,, I'm becoming a parody of Deadpool with the crazy voices in my head"
"We are not crazy" Answered the voices in his head.
After Bugzee took almost half of the comics of the shop they decided to do the same in some junk food stores and normal food, to put in the inventory.
"Better get ready for when we can't have food around" Comment Bugzee
After that Nightshade and Bugzee decided to buy presents for their friends.
Nightshade begin, as she buy the new Mega Scooter 3000, with rockets integrated that can even be turned in a little cube that you can put in the mane so that it go with you everywhere. It's rumored to have enough speed to make three sonic booms and of course is enchanted so that no debris disturb the people and are protected.
After that she continued with a hundred bows made of adamantium, one of the most expensives metals know by ponykind. And the new Gadgetron V 5.0, a toolbox that is supossed to have a million of tools, and trillions of materials all stored in subspace pocket. Of course by doing that, and because the materials the price is so very expensive that is supossed to only be used for royal workers. It was perfect for Apple Bloom
After that there was a microphone that could change the voice to many ponies that are stored, between the supossed elements of harmony, to the princesses, the terrible Nightmare Moon, Discord and even the hooded offender. To sing in many voices. And the best of all is that it can summon any sound for anyone that want to sing so they have their own group with instruments backing them.
Meanwhile Bugzee begin to think of a good gift for Cadance and as he was thinking managed to buy something for the Elements of harmony, mainly to waste more money.
For the Rainbow filly fooler he managed to buy a year supply of wonderbolts items and tickets for all the year in the V.I.P zone.
For Rarity, there was many rare fabrics, made of spider silk, giant snake skin, and other materials of very high price.
For Applejack and her family as thanks for helping him, decided to buy a super medicine that could repair any problem for any ancient problem so that they can move like if they were a filly and a couple of magical seeds for many different apple trees that grow in less of a day with the help of earth pony magic and the best is that the trees don't need to be bucked because the magic store them together.
For Pinkie Pie, a supply of cooking ingredients that could last all Equestria for years stored in a specal box enchanted so that the ingredients don't rotten.
For Fluttershy the thing was hard but Bugzee decided to buy eggs of animals from far away and a automatic feeder for the many animals.
For Twilight, he decided to buy a book called the "Celestia Apocalypse" a book written by Starswirl the bearded after he smooked weed and begin to think that Celestia was going to bring the apocalypse.
He even bought for Spike, some saphires, ruby, and other gems the size of his head and some cauldron of gold, silver, and other materials with also many expensive ingredients and a ticket in Celestia Airlines for a vacation week in Zebrafica.
After that, he decided to buy many collections of romance novels for Cadance and a book called. 'I married a guard, how to be happy with him'
Finally, the last present was a package that was supossed to explode when open, for Flash Sentry. Just as he was about to buy the final item, he looked again at the package.
"Wait, why I'm sending him that? I don't really hate him that much to do that" Asked Bugzee to himself
Meanwhile some strange voices in his head tried to convince Bugzee to send the bomb package.
Time Skip
After the time skip you send to Canterlot Castle with triple of the reward that got 'The Hooded Offender' and 'The Burning Avenger' and any alias they could have for you. With a message telling them that if they could retire the reward it could be good.
After that Bugzee decides to look at the news, after he skip news about the new popular filly alicorn, and how many ponies pay many bits for information about her. He begin to read about how Queen Chrysalis was arrested a second time and many changelings are not going to be judged.
Somehow, he begin to feel guilt. It was true that no many lings treated him good, but the queen was his first crush and the lings deserved to be judged, as many they were neutral or innocents, so he decided to make a good action and contacted some of the most expensive lawyers and send them so that they could represent the changelings, so that they could be defended or at last not be tortured, as he knew the feeling of don't have enough food.
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Can't remember a good spending scene, sorry
I tought about buy a present for "The Doctor" but really, he have a time machine so who knows when is he going to be back. And he could get anything he want.
We find the three of you at a luxury airship place being guided by a salespony in a suit.
"What are we doing here Daddy?" Nightshade asks.
"Well, for our first purchase, we need to send a loud-and-clear message to Kersey written in his Bits." you reply.
"The Fancy-ius 9001 -- She's the limo of the sky." he says gesturing to an airship the size of a yacht, "Each one comes with it's own rentable crew, full-pleather and Neighponese silk interiors, a fully stocked kitchen and chef, and a Jacuzzi."
"Let's talk cost." you say.
"Fully decked, around 20 million." he says
"Oh." Aqua comments.
"That'snot really what we had in mind." you reply.
"We do have some more economical alternative-" the salespony tries to offer, but you interrupt
"The problem is volume." you smirk, "We'll need three... With each one plated in gold, diamond studs, and silver separately..."
AIRSHIP RACE/BUMPER BLIMPS OVER VANHOOVER!!!
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You go into a restaurant named "Eggsy's Exorbance". It's a super fancy establishment who's decor just screams "excess" (even the "disposable" napkins are made out of fine Neighponese silk). The greeter tries to turn you away because of your clothes at first, but a flash for your Platinum cards get you a table.
You're all chowing on the complementary bread and butter (a Trottingham-made loaf of sourdough made with 23-carat gold and champagne and Echiré butter made from 66 different Prench cows) when a snooty waiter reads you the menu,
"For the appetizer, we have the Westin Bagel. A bagel baked with the finest grains in-house with a white truffle cream cheese, goji berry-infused Riesling jelly, and gold leaf. 1,000 Bits each."
"For the entree of the day, we have the Pizza Royale; A personal-sized thin-crust wood-fire baked open sandwich with a sauce made of the finest pedigree heirloom tomatoes, white alba truffle paste, shredded aged Caciocavallo and Pule Cheeses made from a tiny sect of donkeys in Stalliongrad, Matsutake mushrooms, lobster marinated in cognac, caviar soaked in champagne, and gold shavings. 5,500 Bits. With a side of Red Bird's Nest Soup made from swiftlets in south-east Neighpon at an additional 2,500 Bits."
"If you're looking for fruit, we have a whole Densuke Watermelon. An ultra-rare, perfectly-spherical, pitch-black skinned specimen of Neighponese watermelons. 6,100 Bits each."
"For beverages we have the standard selection of centuries old wine along with a 8,000 Bit antique bottle of Swish Apple Juice for the young madam."
"And finally for dessert we have the Frrrozen Haute Chocolate; An ice cream sundae containing a blend of 28 cocoas, including 14 of the most expensive in the world. It is decorated with edible gold and served in a goblet lined with edible gold with an 18 karat gold bracelet with 1 carat of diamonds in the bottom of the sundae, served with a golden spoon decorated in white and chocolate diamonds, both of which go home with the diner. 25,000 Bits."
"Hmmm..." The three of you ponder.
"If you want something more... economical, you do have tap water from the bathroom si-" the waiter scoffs snootly.
"We'll take a dozen of each!" Nightshade says, causing the waiter's eyes to bulge out before fainting.
"And get me 2 bottles of that fancy expensive beer made from actual ice by penguins." Aqua says to the downed waiter.
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Donate a huge amount of Bits to Seth MacFarlame. When Nightshade points out that you hate his shows, you reply that after this is all over, the Bits will be returned and Seth will go bankrupt. Que evil laugh.
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At the priciest tailor in the city, while Aqua and Nightshade are engaged in some uncharacteristically girly (for them) dress-trying, you try on a 5,000 Bit bespoke black two button notch lapel two piece suit made with hoof-crafted Hoovestralian wool and Neighponese silk linings, a white Prench cuff shirt made with Saddle Arabian cotton, and a red tie made from Neighponese silk with a Bowler Hat. For some reason, you feel like another changeling is currently wearing the exact same type of clothing.
You have the "El Hunko suit" repaired
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Buy the most expensive penthouse (complete with three stories and beds made of diamond beams) in the city and fill the outside pool (overlooking the city) with gold coins.
"We already have the platinum cards." Aqua asks, "I now we're drawing that Kersey guy out of hiding, but what's with the pool of gold?"
"Simple, I'm gonna swim in it like Scrooge McGoose!"
"Uh, CK gold doesn't work lik-"
"CANNONBALL!" Nightshade declares as she rushes past you two and dives in, splashing the two of you with gold coins.
As Aqua can only stand there shocked, you give her a smug look before diving in too.
"GERONI-*crunch* SON OF A-!!!"
It turns out that Nightshade was unconsciously earthbending the gold so the collection of gold coins would part way easily like water instead of staying a massive solid mass.
Later, you put a few bouncehouses in the penthouse, and then the three of you have a watergun battle with your soaker filled with champagne (while you're wearing a white tuxedo with a red flower), Nightshade's filled with Zafiro Añejo tequila (which you STRICTLY told her NOT to drink), and Aqua just having several bottles of fine wine strapped to a super-fancy silk prom dress as she uses waterbending to splash the wine at you two.
After the watergun fight (and accidentally being set on fire a few times due to Nightshade's tequila) you, Nightshade, and Aqua have a bonding moment while you're all resting on either the diamond and silk bed or the pool of gold coins.
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Best spending spree is the one that inspired this arc;
Season 3, Episode 7 "Taking Account" of the show White Collar where lovable conman protagonist Neal Caffery takes the identity of the bad guy of the week (an expert hacker who drained a bank) and starts draining his account with an extravagant spending spree/date to force the hacker into the open.
Now Nightshade goes to a food court. Rip money.
You and Nightshade enter a place which pumps out pretty much every food ever and is forever open.
...'nuff said.
As you and your group proceed to buy up the city, you see a stallion's luxury suits shop.
QUE KERSEY's COMMENT ABOUT THE SHOP
After you get your El Hunko suit repaired, you then notice that the shop makes custom suits. You end up getting a tailor made pinstripe suit, with a (proper) fedora (think http://theredlist.fr/media/database/muses/icon/iconic_men/1930/al_capone%20/009_al_capone_theredlist.jpg) You decide to name this your "Scarface Outfit."
LATER
You wind up in a weapons shop. As you browse around, you see many new "toys" you could use, all non-lethal of course. The one that captures you interest the most is a crossbow (disguised as a guitar case) with sleep bolts (a bit extra, but you don't care) ( http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d9/18/b1/d918b1344256181deb4b37e6206b7433.jpg ) and an umbrella with a penguin handle, that has about a dozen sleep gas canisters ( http://conceptartworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Batman_Arkham_Origins_Concept_Art_MH_penguin_umbrella1.jpg )
Best spending spree i can think of was in Batman And Robin when they start bidding on how much to get Poison Ivy and batman pulls out the bat credit card (never leaves the cave without it) for $7 million.
You find a bizzare little shop placed in between two skyscrapers. "Gear Box's Invention Emporium?" you read, walking towards the large windows out front. Suddenly, a balsa wood timberwolf stalks by before being tagged by a laughing colt and chasing after him. Paper cranes flutter around the shelves and, was that a clockwork changeling running the register?
Walking inside, you find the one actually managing the store and walk up to him. "Hay, can you tell me- YOU!!"
The strange creature from Applewood blinks for a second before recognizing you. "Oh, hai there buddy. Haven't seen you since the movie."
"I-bu-now wait just a second! You work for the Crimson Knights! Why are you here?"
"Umm, because they only paid me for one gig?" he replies as he stares at you with confusion. "Oh yeah, sorry about biting you by the way. If it helps, you taste terrible."
By this point Druggie Sombrero was laughing his tail off. You on the other hoof are completely flabbergasted. He reaches up and pulls down a pocket watch. "Here, this should make up for it."
"Umm... Thanks?" You pay for a set of magic erasable paints (for the extortionate price of one thousand bits) for Nightshade and Mangle before you leave. "Huh, I guess he wasn't so bad after all."
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The unusual canid walks to he back room where Gear Box is bound and gagged. The poor unicorn runs out immediately to call for the guards. "I tell you that clockwork's a powerful thing," he sings as he picks up a book, knocking down the rest of the shelf to draw less attention. "There's a terrible strength in those tightly wound springs." He flips to an apparently random page with a sigil covering it. "And a gentlecolt's pocket watch sits by his heart." It glows as he touches the page. "And that's where the damage can start. Hahahahahaha" His maniacal laughter fills the room even after he is sucked into the book.
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Any kind of food in particular?
Remember, these need to be BIG purchases to draw Kersey out of hiding.
http://www.mostluxuriouslist.com/list-of-top-10-most-expensive-foods-in-the-world/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/12531/15-world%E2%80%99s-most-expensive-foods
I would say making a movie would be a great waste of bits. Average A list movie will cost an upwards of 100 million dollars, or whatever dollar to bit conversion you have set up. Give a bunch of undergraduate art and theater students pro cameras and an extravagant budget, all to be used and a movie filmed in a day.
It's not really an extravagant spending but more huge movie budget. Do you remember the scene from blues brothers where all those Monaco cruisers were pursuing them and end in the big crash scene? That was over 60 cars bought for 700$ apiece in 1980 money. In today's money that's 129,500$ for 3 scenes and 5 minutes of film.
Everytime you buy something new with "your" money, you always swore you could hear faint yelling of pain. Either behind you or right in front of your face. But everytime you looked there was nothing there. Nightshade asked you what was happening but you told her that it was nothing.
After you and the others can't decide on what to buy next, you knew what to do.
Buy useless things!
You went out and bought overpriced televisions. (even if you didnt have electricity anywhere), furnature that you just threw away in the dumpsters right after, and even a trampoline, which you will never put together unless it would be in the inventory since you're not about carrying that thing everywhere.
Meanwhile, Changer is trying to find Kersey his own way. He was currently in an alleyway, with Saphire Shores pinned against the wall. Stop thinking like that! As she struggled and tried to get her way out Changer just kept her there with his magic.
"What do you want!" She yelled.
Changer went straight to the point. "What did you and The Offender talk about?"
"What? I didn't ta-"
"Don't lie! It was pretty obvious that you faked him kidnapping you. But what you didn't expect is that I could tell it was him by the way he acted."
"Alright... so you know..."
"No tell me, does he know where Kersey is."
"Kersey? Who's-" The magic holding her slightly tightend its grip."He said something about looking for one of the Crimson Knights in the city! I don't know anything about a Kersey!" She said quickly.
"Hmph..." He let go of Saphire Shores and walked away, leaving her confused and worried of what was to happen next.
He has a lead on Kersey. He smirked. Then I'll follow him until he finds him.
From the descriptions of Kersey, use his funds to order work out equipment, health food, and sugarless/butterless snacks that will be delivered to him.
Use his money to tinker with his cable subscription to where he only gets to watch Mexicoltan Soap Operas.
During your spree, you come across a few strange looking ponies with wide smiles on their faces.
“Hello sir, how are you doing this day?”
“Um…fine?”
“Oh wonderful, just wonderful,” he says with his unnatural smile. “So, do you have a few moments to talk about Absolute Equality?”
“Uuhhh…” you look around at all the smiling ponies behind their booth. They all have the same cutie mark, an equal sign.
Whoa that’s creepy.
“Why do you all have the same cutie marks? I thought each one was supposed to be unique.”
“Well that’s the beauty of it sir. With Absolute Equality, nopony is greater than the other. Our wise founder Starlight Glimmer’s message of peace and unity is unmatched,” says a pegasus mare with, you guessed it, another creepy smile.
“I see…well I probably should be going…” you say as you try to walk away.
“But sir, don’t you want to hear about our cause?”
“No thanks, I’ve dealt with too many cults to last me a lifetime, besides I got a spending spree to get back to.”
“A spending spree, then might you be willing to donate to our cause?” asks the stallion.
You stop and turn back around.
“Donate? For what?”
“Well sir, we are trying to raise funds for materials that we might build our own little community, away from unequal civilization,” he says handing you a flier.
Help Us Build Our Town
You smirk at this.
“Tell you what buddy, how about you take this card, and fund the whole thing,” you say handing him the card.
His eyes widen.
“Are you sure sir?”
“Oh yeah definitely. But buy the materials like right now, because I doubt that card is going to be working past today.”
“Oh thank you sir, you have no idea how happy you’ve made us.”
With those creepy smiles, you would never have guessed.
“No problem. Just remember, I Kersey have funded your little happy kool aid cult.”
“Thank you Kersey! We have to get to Starlight immediately. Equality is at hand!”
“And just like that, Kersey has funded an entire town. Explain that to the IRS,” you smirk.
After many long hours of buying the most ridiculous things, you finally catch a glimpse of Kersey. And the legends were not exaggerated.
“Dear Luna, how does he even walk?!” you shout.
Unfortunately this causes him to see you, and he tries to run off. Keyword, try.
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Luna spiked Celestia's cake earlier that day as a sisterly revenge-prank affecting her behavior a bit.
Also, Bugze can't buy gifts for the others since he will need to return/refund everything as outlined at the end of this comment below.
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Before that scene;
In a nightclub, we see a scene that can only be described as the aftermath of a brawl as Sapphire Shores's suit and sunglasses-wearing bouncers/bodyguards are just beaten and unconscious all around the room, broken bottles and smashed furniture everywhere as even the DJ booth is on fire. We then go into the back alley of the club where we see...
Also don't forget everyone;
Perhaps some of the items you bought can be used/returned/destroyed during the inevitable fight with the current Crimson Knight(s?) of the arc...
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That was really great what you added there, thanks.
7390535 1123 pounds of caviar.