Normally, Sunset would quickly finish her homework and join her father to watch television or help her mother cook, depending how much of a "superwoman" Hazel felt. Those days, however, was dwindling. Her parents were with the fertility specialist, again. It left Sunset to either have a prepared dinner waiting for her, or a fruit cup that told Sunset they were going to go out to eat when they got home. She came home to a fruit cup, so Sunset smiled when she knew she was going to have fast food in a few hours.
She took the cup and walked over to the couch. She turned on the television and prepared for an afternoon of channel surfing.
It was short lived.
The local channel broke into a cartoon for a special report. As the minutes went buy, Sunset was given the low down: another child kidnapped. The photo of the child was there. her orange hair and green skin made her cute as a button. Almost immediately, they went to a press conference with her father leading it. He seemed a bit winded, probably yanked from his appointment to handle this mess. As he explained the situation, he looked extremely angry, having to deal with another kidnapped child. It turned out she was the daughter of a millionaire living in the Trotsville section of town.
"And due to a ransom note and how the girl was taken, we believe the motive is, in fact, a ransom"
While that was going on, the flashback with Risky Line came back to her. Her emotions, her fear, her anger. The fact that Fluttershy and she made it out mostly unscathed was nothing less than a miracle. She stopped thinking after the conference and resorted to instinct.
"GLADIS!" she hollered out loud.
In her earpiece, she heard the sounds of the program wake up.
Hello Sunset, are we going to have fun tonight?
"You bet! I need you to pull up the file of this case."
It took GLADIS a few minutes to gather the data and its interpretation, sunset went into the kitchen for a cold water bottle from the fridge, thinking on where he could possibly be. She knew it where he was, people are not but predictable.
"Okay, GLADIS, which warehouse?"
They are not at the docks.
"Do they have a phone number?"
Yes, but they are trying to get a warrant to find the location.
"Do I look like the law?"
Sunset, this is illegal. Unusual search and seizure. They finally installed the ethics and law code in my programming.
"I am a private citizen, in fact, I'm not officially a citizen anyway!"
Touche…… Okay the location is in your HUD
Sunset didn't waste any time. she had all the doors locked, ran out to her backyard, transformed into The She-Demon once more and took flight towards the city.
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Sunset usually avoided the neighborhood the kidnapper's cell phone was pinging, She would usually take a pop shot in her general direction or two, either from people on drugs or trying to start a fight. She would feel sorry for the person who taught them to aim and flew on. That night, she had no incidents. The beauty of townhouses was that they were connected together in a large row, so she landed on top of the house at the beginning of the row and began to run to the house, dodging air conditioning units and chimneys as she went along the way. The entire neighborhood was abandoned, save for a few bums taking over the houses. With her magic, she saw what was going on in the house
The child was bound to a chair in the living room, gagged as well. She had been crying for hours, hoping that the nightmare would be over. The kidnapper was in the kitchen, taking a nap using two chairs. His hat was over his face and his high powered rifle resting next to him.
The ringing of his cell phone woke him up. He checked the messages and sighed.
"Nope! Haven't got any response! Looks like a finger has to go!"
The girl starting struggling, even if it was in vain. He left the gun there but pulled out his machete.
Sunset returned as the She-Demon and started to fly straight up.
Sunset?
"I still have the element of surprise! I think I can take him out in one go!"
As soon as she was high enough, she stopped flying and dove head first into the house. He was right behind the child when sunset impacted the house. Both floors gave way as she reached the dining room, knocking the man back against a plaster wall.
As soon as she landed, and the child safe, she was ready to fight, only to see the child more afraid of her than her situation, which guilted Sunset to turn back to human and fight that way. It was more fun for Sunset to fight as a human anyway. She immediately pulled out her machete and went to work cutting the rope that was used to tie the girl. She saw the man wake up and get his machete. She only had a few seconds before she had to prepare for the machete fight, but was still cutting off the rope. With one last slice, the child was free and hopped off the chair, letting Sunset use the chair as a shield from the machete attacks. She tossed the chair at him which gave her a chance to ready herself. He kept his attack, each attack being met with Sunsets blade.
"GLADIS, would love to do your end of the plan!" sunset said as she continued.
Doing it now.
"What plan!" man hollered
"Check your phone!" he stopped, and slowly walked backward to the kitchen, not letting her leave his sight. When he checked, he hollered in anger.
"What?!"
"Your encryption is gone, the police is on their way!"
"You stupid bitch!" he cried as he picked up his rifle. Sunset grabbed the girl and ran upstairs, dodging the hail of gunfire that exploded the drywall behind her. The sirens were blaring as Sunset stopped in the empty main bedroom, the hole from her dive gave the child her first look at the night sky.
"They are not going to take me alive!" he hollered as he pulled out a device from his jacket.
"Aw crap!" Sunset said as she transformed back to the She-Demon. The child was freaking out when Sunset transformed, but Sunset knew what she had to do, grabbing the child and flying out of the hole she created.
What is he doing?
"Don't know, all I know is red button equals-"
It was then that the entire building exploded, sending brick and wood all over the neighborhood. The police used the lee of their cars to shield themselves from the debris.
"That."
She was still in the air after the blast looking at the police until she saw her father. She simply glided down until she was floating over her father. She dropped the unharmed child for him to catch and flew off into the night