//------------------------------// // The search party (my attempt at a fight scene) // Story: Boris's Bed and Breakfast: All are Welcome // by AShadyDetective //------------------------------// It was a normal day at the B&B, Boris was at the counter cleaning glasses while Home Brew was in his room taking a nap. Trixie had left around five days ago and nothing of note had really happened since then. Boris had managed to finish an additional room stemming off the first floor the day before but that was it. As Boris finished his fifth glass there was a knock at the door and a company of seven ponies walked in. The two leading were both well groomed unicorns dressed in cloaks that looked to be made out of an expensive silk that were obscuring their cutie marks, both were colored a slate blue, one female and one male, the females mane was a dark blue with a white stripe while the males mane was rust red with a black stripe. Following behind the two was a company of five ponies consisting of two more unicorns both teenage colts, they walked with the same swagger as the leading two and bore resemblance to both, they wore no cloak and as such their cutie marks, the red one had what surprisingly looked like the euro symbol while the blue one had a dollar sign. Behind them were two thuggish looking pegasi contrasting the regal look of the unicorns, both seemed rather generic with nothing to note on their all navy blue bodies, their cutie marks were a crowbar and a lock pick. Finally stumbling behind in back was a single young earth pony which seemed to have been made the pack mule as he had a mountain of bags on his back, he was a dark brown with a light brown mane, his body was rather thin but lean, his cutie mark consisted of a bunch of grapes. The two unicorns froze for awhile when they caught sight of him but as their eyes drifted to his clothes and noted the fact that he was behind the counter they deduced that he was at least sentient and probably working there. Both walked up to the counter while pegasi stood there dumbly and the earth pony collapsed to the ground panting from exertion. The male cleared his throat and from the amount on condescension in their eyes Boris already knew that they thought Boris was below them. In a voice that reminded Boris of Sinclair back in rapture he started "excuse me sir, me and my comrades are looking for a young stallion that used to work for me and my sister, he stole something very valuable from us and all we wish is for it back and to turn the thief into the proper authorities ourselves" at this point Boris sure he didn't like this stallion, the whole time he was talking it was like he was looking down on Boris, it infuriated him, but if they were telling the truth and there was a thief on the lose it was his duty to help them. "What's this thief look like" he grunted with a slight frown on his face. "The scoundrel has a brown coat with a darker brown mane, his cutie mark will consist of a wooden mug with froth on top, he will likely go by the name Home Brew" he spat like the name was dirt on his tongue. At this point Boris was glaring none to subtlety, he has known Home Brew for loots a month now and he likes to think he knows the stallions, Home Brew doesn't have the guts to go trick or treating with out giving the candy back after, much less steal something valuable enough to warrant a search party, clearly these ponies wanted Home Brew for some less than nice reasons. But he needed to play it cool to give Home Brew time to get out so he didn't get hurt after he taught theses fellas a lesson in good old Rapture hospitality. Finally after a minute of thinking he shook his head and tried to appear neutral "I haven't seen anypony matching that description but let me head upstairs nod ask my guests if they've seen anything" the male nodded and trotted back to talk with his group while Boris steadily walked toward the stair case. When he made it to Brews room the pony was already opening the door before he even reached for the handle. "I didn't steal anything" Home Brew said simply with no stuttering and opened his mouth to say more before Boris cut him off. "I know" Boris replied quickly, speaking faster than he has in his entire life "but you need to get out of here for a bit, come back at noon and I'll take care of these guys" "And leave you to deal with this on your own, n-no way we c-c-can take em together, r-right" he said seeming to grow more nervous as he realized just what he was saying. Boris leveled a flat look at Home Brew before activating his incinerate plasmid, Home Brew grew a look of understanding and nodded, just as he was about to spring into action they heard a gasp coming from the door. They both turned to see the male unicorn standing there staring at Boris's flaming arm, then his eyes turned to Home Brew and his horn flashed and a bolt flew and hit Home Brew who slumped to the ground. The unicorn then called down the stairs to the rest of his group "Em we found him get up here and help me ca-" he started before Boris tackled him into the hallway. While he was dazed Boris twisted around and slammed Brews door shut, welding the lock shut with his still flaming hand ensuring that the door wouldn't be opened anytime soon. He then felt a force hit his back, a sudden feeling of heaviness over came him but he shook it off in moment, he turned around and saw the unicorn had her horn glowing and was staring at him in shock, "b-but that spell was strong enough to take down a dragon" he stuttered before being kicked down the stairs into the unicorns and pegasi who were rushing up it. Boris rushed down after them and while they were untangling themselves from the pile Boris cycled through his arsenal for a non-lethal solution, he found the two plasmids he was looking for before grinning. He turned on the advancing ponies who had untangled themselves and were looking quite angry. As one Pegasus charged him Boris delivered a devastating bug filled uppercut leaving the pony not only dazed but also harassed by a number of biting and stinging insects/arachnids. One of the younger unicorns charged him from behind horn not glowing but instead pointed at him revealing that it had been sharpened to a deadly point, he sidestepped grabbed the horn in a telekinesis charged grip and swung him around in a half circle slamming the young stallion into the older female who appeared to be charging a sickly green green spell that was interrupted by Boris's impromptu club. As the two flew back Boris quickly cycled swarm and froze the two with winter blast after which he was impacted from behind with surprising force, it caused him to fly back and hit the counter rattle into the glasses that Boris spent all day cleaning. Boris rolled over and saw that it was the second Pegasus with the crowbar cutie mark, thinking quickly he grabbed the two frozen unicorns with telekinesis and chucked them at the crowbar adorned pony, the three went flying out the still open door from the force. "And then there was two" he thought with a grimace rolling his left shoulder, the tackle had caused it to hit the edge of the counter rather hard. He and the two male unicorns were staring at each other, the two had hung back to observe the brawl and his abilities. Boris braced himself for another fight, prepared for this one to be tougher than before due to the fact that they knew (most of) his abilities. Instead they started doing what Boris thought was the dumbest thing he had ever seen, they were monologuing about why they were better than him and that he should give up. It was surprisingly irritating until one sentence gave him a pause. "-and that is why you should give up, you are nothing more than a bug under our hooves" the younger one went on before Boris started to grin, this gave him a pause before he nervously asked, eyeing Boris as he raise both his arms. "Bug huh" he chuckled, suddenly both his arms filled with holes, becoming the homes to multiple small beings. "Allow me to show you what bugs really look like" he finished before he raised his arms and unleashed the mother of all swarms, there were all manner of spiders, beetles and ants of all sizes and types, and finally wasps that sizes ranged the size of kiwi's to the normal brand. They all moved directly towards both unicorns who threw up separate shields which seemed to work before something that terrified them happened, the non-winged bugs started seemingly eating the magic before multiplying. The sheer amount of bugs eating at the shields caused both unicorns to soon run out of magic to maintain them, they both ran out the door with the pegasus that was taken out earlier hot on their tails. Boris stuck his head out the door to see that the car was speeding away leaving a dust cloud behind, for good measure and to make himself feel good Boris called out after them while waving a flame covered fist "and if you come back i wont be so nice". Feeling he did a good job he headed upstairs to check on Home Brew. As he headed up the stairs he rolled his shoulders, that hurt more than it should, he was going to have to start his workout routine again. When he got to the door he discovered it had been bashed open. Worried that one of them had snuck up and kid napped Home Brew while he wasn't open he busted in to discover Brew and the unknown earth pony he had forgot about were both sitting across from each other chatting like old friends. They stopped their conversation when he busted in, each turning to face him, seeing that Brew was fine with this unknown pony he rubbed his nose and sighed, plopping down on a nearby chair he turned to the two and said on word that would explain this entire fiasco. "Talk"