ACT ELEVEN
The final part was of a song Garfield jotted down of how much he hated the way things were and how nothing had changed, “A Song for the Hopeless!”
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There was nothing more to be read. The friends were just… stunned!
“Whoa…” Vic sighed ever so softly “I can’t believe all that.”
Fluttershy could hardly hold back her tears, “That’s… just so… so…”
“IT’S JUST SO SAD!!!” Pinkie squealed, and she blubbered so heavily others had to move away from her so as not to be hit by the cascades of tears.
“Poor Garfield…” said Sunset “No wonder he doesn’t believe in friendship; he’s never really experienced it, nor has he ever had a real happy ending before.”
Twilight hung her head low, removed her glasses and rubbed her eyes. She began to see Garfield and life in a whole new way. Some people had it better than others, but others had it worse… far worse! Garfield was only seventeen now, but anyone who lived like he had all those years; anyone would have surely snapped and turned as bitter and as cold-hearted as he was.
Everyone remembered the look in his burning eyes they saw, and the way he fought off the wolves the other night. It was like he was fighting not to defend, but like a madman fighting for revenge; revenge on the world for having wronged him so many times!
Though it was highly understandable now why Garfield was the way he acted, Rainbow Dash bolted upright and yelled “That still doesn’t justify it! He doesn’t have the right to talk down to us, insult us, or make anyone feel worse than he does!”
“She’s right…” Dick said calmly “Garfield can’t go on like this. He’s just as much making things worse for himself than others have.”
Dick wasn’t pretending to be concerned, he really meant it. He was freaked out by all this, fearing that if things got any worse, it was possible Garfield would completely snap and maybe take his anger out on other people the way he did the wolves!
Everyone else began to fear the same thing.
“I guess it’s settled then…” said Twilight “The first thing we have to do is get Garfield out of that dark place. He’ll never have a chance to get well if he stays there. We’ll take him by force if we have to.”
This sparked some worry from the Murakamis, “I thought you guys were all for friendship and caring?” asked Terra. “We are…” replied Sunset “But sometimes we have to get a little tough to make it work right. Garfield can’t be allowed to stay in that place any longer.”
“Besides, there’s twelve of us and only one of him. It’s not like he can take us all on.” said Rainbow.
“Well, what are waitn’ for?” Applejack said as she grabbed her rope, “Let’s go catch us the kid!”
Everyone agreed, but Spike groaned as he held his head in frustration, “We have to go back… AGAIN?! I can’t stand that place!” but Twilight stuffed him into her bag anyway, ignoring his whining.
Meanwhile, in a seemingly dark room, Flash Sentry and Principal Celestia were blindfolded and bound with strong ropes to chairs, the both of them felt really woozy as they slowly began to awaken.
“Oh, my head!” groaned Flash.
“Who’s there?” asked Celestia.
They suddenly became aware of each other, but still wondered where they were and how they even got there.
Suddenly, their blindfolds were removed by two people hidden in the darkness. The two prisoners could see the shadowy silhouettes of the people-- four of them, two men and two women-- but couldn’t actually make out whom they were.
“There is nothing to worry about.” one of the men said “You will not be harmed, unless you refuse to cooperate.”
“Just who are you?” Celestia asked.
“That is none of your concern… Yet.” the man’s wife hissed “And we’ll be asking the questions around here. There are things that we want, and you can give them to us.”
“What are you talking about?” snapped Flash.
Ignoring his outburst, the other two adults moved in closer, but they were still hidden by the shadows. “Tell us…” the man asked “Is there really something magical at Canterlot High?”
Celestia and Flash felt chills run down their spines. Whoever these people were, they were obviously insane and unscrupulous, wanting to find power and magic for themselves-- and obviously for wicked treachery no doubt.
“Answer us!” snapped the man’s wife.
The prisoners decided to play it cool.
“What makes you think we know anything about magic?” asked Flash. Celestia nodded, “Our school teaches children to understand practicality. There is no room for such nonsensical beliefs.”
The other four adults were not convinced. “Your lies will not serve you here.” The first man said “We have ways of finding things out, and you will tell us!”
He nodded to his wife, and she nodded to him. Then she silently moved her foot and pressed a secret switch on the floor, which activated some kind of machine, which Celestia and Flash completely unaware of.
“Now then…” the other man asked “We ask you again: Is there some sort of magic that occurs around your school?”
“I already told you; there is no such thing as magic. Our school doesn’t believe in such stuff.” replied Celestia, but little did she realize that her lie was being seen through by a mind-probing machine, which had the power to read her brain-patterns and relay any truth she was trying to conceal to the computer monitors as images which were being viewed and recorded in another room.
The four adults seemed undiscouraged, and the other man’s wife asked to flash, “Do any of your fellow school mates know of the magic we seek?”
Flash tried to lie as best as he possibly could. He didn’t sweat, he didn’t twitch, and he just acted cool and calm. “What are you, hard of hearing? There’s no such thing as magic.”
Unfortunately, his brainwaves were recorded, revealing images of Sunset, and the other Equestria Girls, even Spike and Twilight were in the images, each one exhibiting their own special powers from the past, including Sunset’s evil demon form and Twilight, or rather Midnight Sparkle.
Still the four adults seemed unmoved. The first man’s wife then asked, “Is there some original source in which this power came from?”
“For the last time, won’t you listen to reason!” snarled Celestia “We have no idea what you insisting upon, but we know no such things!”
Once again, her lies were cast aside thanks to the machine, which relayed images of the broken statue, which still held the magical portal to Equestria! There were also images of Princess Twilight Sparkle and how she was the one who gave everyone all their powers.
The four adults snickered softly, feeling they had gotten what they wanted anyway, and they all turned to leave.
“Hey, wait! Where are you going?” Celestia demanded to know, “You can’t leave us here!” snapped Flash, but suddenly he and Celestia were both hit by a blast of sleeping gas, and they both fell unconscious in their seats.
“They may still be of some use to us.” the first man said.
“Agreed…” said his wife “And now we must prepare for the final phase.”
The adults entered the recording room where Jackie and Jillian-- their agents-- had viewed everything. “Are you girls ready?” the other man asked.
“We’re ready.” the girls responded.
The other man’s wife pressed a switch, which opened a small panel revealing two small devices-- exact duplicates of the magical-locket that Twilight had once built that not only detect but absorb the magic!
“That foolish girl didn’t believe she was the only one capable of building such devices.” The lady hissed, and she handed the girls each one of the devices. “You know what to do with them?”
“No sweat…” replied Jackie “There’s just one problem though; school’s been canceled.”
“She right…” agreed Jillian “Tracking down those girls and getting their magic won’t be as easy.”
The first man snickered, “I wouldn’t worry about that? I’ve already made special arrangements. They should be getting the message any moment. The trap is already baited. By sundown the city will be ours, and tomorrow… the world!”
All six of them began to laugh wickedly at the thought of their victory!
Meanwhile, the gang was all ready to pull out; the girls on their motorbikes, Dick on his motorcycle, and the other Murakamis crammed into Vic’s car.
“Okay, are we ready?” Dick asked, and everyone shot him a high thumb, “Let’s pull out.”
Just as they were about to start their engines, the mailman came along. “Special delivery for Pinkie Pie!” he called.
Pinkie excitedly hopped off her bike, “That’s me, Pinkie Pie!” she squealed with joy, as she loved getting special deliveries.
“Here you are. I don’t know who sent them though.” The mailman said as he handed her four black and dusty balloons and he ran off.
Everyone looked at the balloons, and some of them gagged, “How wretched!” groaned Rarity.
“I don’t know… I think they’re just fine.” said Kato. “Me too.” agreed Raven. Everyone just ignored their gothic tastes. “Who would send you these?” asked Kori, and before anyone could answer…!
POW! POW! The balloons began to burst from small caps placed inside them, blowing confetti all over, frightening everyone! Fluttershy even jumped high off her motorbike and held onto the eaves trough.
Applejack had to lasso her rope over the trough for Fluttershy to grab and slide down. “That was really scary!” she whimpered.
The others agreed, but then Sunset saw a note lying on the ground which had come out of one of the balloons. She picked it up and read it:
“If you ever want to see your friends again, come to the School by Ten AM.”
Everyone expressions turned into worry. “Principal, Celestia…?” cried Rarity.
“The Js?” added Terra.
“FLASH…?!” cried Twilight and Sunset.
“What are we going to do? What are we going to do?! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?!!” shouted Pinkie.
Applejack re-adjusted her hat, “Calm down, sugar-cube, we’ll figure this out… I hope.”
It was decided for the teams to split up. The Equestrians would go to the school, while the Murakamis headed back for Jump City and then into the outback to try and confront Garfield.
…and it was already ten to Ten.
“Good luck, girls.” said Dick.
“You too.” said Sunset “Alright… let’s go!” and everyone was off.
The school wasn’t very far, so the girls got there in pretty much no time. The place was still completely evacuated; Vice Prinicpal Luna had gone home as promised, and all the students and staff were informed of cancelation of classes.
Spike felt most relieved, “Thank goodness we didn’t have to go back to that awful place again.”
No one took any notice of him though, but Fluttershy suddenly began to have a sickly feeling in her stomach; the kind she only got when something really wrong was about to happen, and she wasn’t the only one…
Even though she wasn’t the same spieces as her pony-counterpart, Pinkie Pie still had her own way of Pinkie Sense… and her hair was twitching madly. “Uh, oh!” she cried “Twitch-a-Twitch! Twitch-A-Twitch!! Something’s about to fall from the sky…!”
Something did indeed fall from above; two bright beams that came from above and struck the statue where the portal to Equestria was.
“The portal!” cried Sunset, and Twilight gawked at the two beams that enveloped it, “Those beams, it can’t be…!” she muttered, and before she or the others could do say or do anything else…
ZAP!! ZAP!! ZAP!! All seven of them got struck in their necks by small tranquilizer-darts. All at once the girls flopped to the ground completely unconscious.
Spike was the only one not to get hit by a dart, but he looked above and saw two figures standing on the roof of the school holding guns-- the shooters! “Uh, oh!” he cried, and he slipped deeply into Twilight’s knapsack in attempt to learn more of what was about to happen.
He heard two soft crashing sounds as if two people people had just leapt down from high up; obviously it was the shooters, and he heard them speaking.
“Out like babies.”
“They’re as pathetic as they are brainless.”
Spike recoginzed their voices, “That sounds like the Js...!” he said silently. The he heard the girls calling for transport.
Soon, Spike heard loud noises, like a pair of helicopters settling into the school yard, and suddenly, Spike felt himself being rocked about in the backpack as Twilight and the girls were picked up by a squad of men and taken onboard, but where were they going? He didn’t dare look… not just yet, but he had a really bad feeling about this!