//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 // Story: Pinkie Pie: Saint of Manehattan // by Thunder Chaser //------------------------------// Shortly after Applejacks leaving, Pinkie stopped cleaning to ponder the situation. First, most of her friends knew that she had killed someone the previous night, which made her nervous. Second, Applejack was encouraging her crime fighting and had insulted Twilights incumbency. This information made her both nervous, excited and confused and the mix of emotions were swelling within her, ready to burst. She began cleaning so fast, that the apartment looked as clean as Rarity's mane at the end. She went to her bathroom and tried on her suit once again. Just wearing the suit brought with it a wave of emotion as it was a visible record of that crazy first adventure. She began to scrub out the blood stains on the leather garb and squeezed the red sponge into the nearby sink. She felt as though she could take on Discord in her new suit, knowing she had taken on the mob with it on. She looked outside her window at the street below. Although the apartments and office buildings were al glittery, homeless ponies still huddled in the alleys around fires, a beggar sitting next to Hoity Toity's boutique made her shudder. She knew she wanted to keep the city safe, but this meant more than putting criminals in jail. Suddenly two Discord Minion gangsters, a streetgang known for its black and yellow clothing and relation to Trixies crime family began assaulting the beggar, tearing up his sign and dumping his cup of Bits into the dumpster. Pinkie seethed with rage at the image but kept telling herself "Dont get involved Pinkie, just dont." Than the gang began to truly treat the homeless stallion viciously, pushing him onto the street, one holding him up by his collar and punching his face, the other kicking his shins. Pinkie rufoshed out the door, her suit only halfway on as she rushed out and hit the puchnig gangster with her brass hoove, producing a loud "Crrraaacck" before he simply slumped over and said "owww" before running away. The other one tried to run away,colliding with a wall in his panic. Pinkie picked up the stupid looking gangster and began snarling "Who are you!" "My names Papercut, please dont kill me!" he said sobbing "If you want to leave with your neck unsnapped I suggest you empty your wallet and give that man everything you have."Pinkie said quietly "Fine" the gangster said, putting 20 bits into the poor stallions hand, whimpering "Now go!, and tell your freinds that if they pull anything Bloodman brings the pain!" shouted Bloodmane at the running gangster. The homeless stallion simply said "Thank you" and quietly trotted away. Bloodmane smiled at her act and began to trot home, preparing for more "community activism." The fundraising gala for Twilights reelection was packed,with all of her friends, Princess Cadence and every rmover and shaker in Manehattan all attended this huge party in Central Park. Vinyl Scratch was up front DJing with Pinkie, both improvising and making songs with each others beats. For Pinkie it was a welcome distraction from all her thoughts of saving Manehattan and was alot of fun. It seemed as though everyone was having a great time at this party even Applejack, who still thought Twilight was a better mayor than any other candidate. Plus the party distracted her from her thoughts of her family. Life was hard after Sweet Apple Acres got shut down. While Applejack got a good job, Big Mac was a janitor and they together had to pay for Granny Smiths nursing home and for Appleblooms bills at Manehattan College. This was a good way to forget that for the night and sip an Appletini. Thunder Chaser was demonstrating the powers of his suit, his brass unicorn horn on his helmet could shoot gamma rays and he could at twice the speed of sound with his suit on and produce massive sonic rainbooms. Yet when he demonstrated this ability it still didn't seem as cool as when Rainbow Dash did it, as she was the only pony still who could naturally produce a sonic rain boom. The party was getting wilder into the night when three hummers barraged through the gala, running over fleeing ponies and stopping at Vinyl Scratches booth, Pinkie cartwheeled away in a terrified mania before changing into her suit inside of a nearby hedge. Jumping out to see the park filled with men in suits firing their weapons at fleeing passerby. Applejack had her pistol whipped out and was firing at several f the mobsters, her mane whipping in the wind. Bloodmane ran out and knocked Twilight to the ground, a bullet whipping right over head afterward. Twilight asked "who are you?" "A dangerous vigilante who must be stopped" Bloodmane responded sarcastically before whipping out her own pistol. "Pow, pow, pow!" the gun went as she took out a nearby purple suited pony carrying a submachine gun. Still guarding Twilight, Bloodmane gestured towards Applejack. Applejack, still holding her gun and firing at mobsters ran to behind the DJ mixing desk where they knelt. "Whats going on?" asked Bloodmane, throwing a ninja star into a nearby ponies eye, his scream in pain ringing vaguely over the gunshots. "Its lookin like an assassination attempt, the mob wants to eliminate their most ardent enemy and put fear back into the city is whats a goin on!" Applejack said shooting at the inside of a Jeep. "Applejack duck!" Bloodmane shouted in horror Applejack ducked, the bullet going straight through her hat. "Well shoot, she saved my life and yours. How do you feel about this hero now!" Applejack said looking derisively in Twilights direction. "Look Bloodmane, thank you and im sorry that I condemned what you do. I will tell police not to arrest you and open communication with you as an entity and I will pour money into your defense should you be arressted!" Twilight yelled shamefully. "Wait, what the hell is going on?" Vinyl Scratch asked suddenly The group laughed heartily before running out and backwards and getting into Twilights mayoral carriage, where Thunder Chaser sat inside waiting. "Why werent you fighting those guys with your suit" Twilight screamed, exasperated "One was holding up a remote and my suit stopped working!" Thunder Chaser said defensively "Well were lucky Bloodmane was here to save us!" Twilight added Bloodmane blushed and said "Please just call me Pinkie!" removing her mask Twilight was shocked at this new discovery and quickly hugged her freind The carriage was than stopped by a nearby carriage attempting to run over their carriage. Bloodmane leaped out of her window into the neighboring carriage and pushed the driver off, forcing the carriage to come to a stop after slamming the passenger against a nearby light pole, his ribs breaking in an intense "Craack!" Blood Mane stepped out of the carriage and began a long walk home, thinking of another wild day.