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// Chapter 2 - A Normal Day at School. 
// Story: The Brother's Adventure 2 
// by lightningman 
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The next morning, I woke up early before school. I stretch and grab a change of clothes and a towel. I enter the changing room and start to take a shower. This was part of my daily routine. Wake up early, take a shower, get dressed, wait outside at the statue, (My least favourite part of the day.) Walk into the school with my friends, Go to my classes. Then hang out with my friends after school. Finally, finish it up with a patrol of the town. It was simple enough, anything else that needed to happen would happen after school. I finish up my shower and pull on my new clothes. I grab the old ones and head on over to the teacher's lounge. Amazingly, they had a washer and dryer in there. Apparently, it was for any accidents happened with the broken water fountain that was near the library. If anyone tried to use it, the water pressure would shoot up through the roof and spray the entire upper part of their body. I use a minor windblast on the door lock to pressure it open. That was a little trick that I learned I could do instead of just breaking the door. I enter and turn on the washer and put my clothes inside. I go to the front door and use shadow walk to get under the door. If I used Windblast, then the security system would go off. I go and climb up onto the statue and lay down. I close my eyes and start to take a small nap. A while later I was awoken by someone shaking me, as usual. I open my eyes and look down a Pinkie beaming at me.
"Hey, Xavy!"
"Hey Pinkie." I jump down.
"How was your patrol?" She asks me quietly.
"Boring honestly. All I did was take a kid named Ben back to his house, Got some food out of the deal though, so I can't complain."
"But isn't it complaining when you said it was boring?" Pinkie tilted her head and smiled. I chuckled a little bit.
"Yeah, I guess it is at that. Anyway. You up for class?" She nods. My schedule was rather easy.
1st Period - Science
2nd Period - Math
Lunch
3rd Period - Free Period
4th Period - Gym
Pinkie shared all of my classes with me. Which was a pleasant surprise for both of us. We went into the Science Room and our teacher began to talk about his favourite Theory. Chaos Theory. You can probably guess who it was. Discord. He still looked as abnormal here like in the show. He stuck out like a person among ducks. After about an hour and a half, the bell rang. I gathered up my stuff and Pinkie and I left for Ms. Cheerilee's math class. Math was not my favourite class, But the teacher was nice and I was rather good at it. Pinkie originally said that was because I knew the future, so I knew what she was going to ask before she even asked it. But I corrected her in saying that I only knew what happened in the movies. I was just good at it. Today was Pythagorean Theory. You know, the A squared plus B squared equals C squared stuff? Yeah, that. Honestly, I'm surprised people don't get it. It's rather straightforward. After Math, Pinkie and I joined the others at our usual lunch table. Pinkie sat down beside me and we began to eat. Some people compared our eating habits to that of a tornado. Namely, Rarity and Applejack. I know, I was surprised Applejack said that too. After I ate and the rest of the girls went to their classes, Pinkie and I would relax at my base. I had a few electronics there that Pinkie and I either shared or played co-op. About 5 minuted before the final bell, we would leave and go to Sombra's Gym class. I was a local celebrity there. I was the only one with the balls to repeatedly stand up to him. Which is why a lot of people wanted to be paired with me, But I always chose Pinkie to be my partner, and Pinkie always chose me to be her partner. No matter how the teams were split, we always got together on the same team. It had gotten to the point where we were so in sync with each other, we didn't even need to communicate in order to win. This came in handy during Dodgeball. Sombra had gotten so mad at me, He put us two against the rest of the class. Pinkie's natural hyperactiveness came in handy during her dodging, she even grabbed the ball and threw it at the opposing team sometimes, knocking them out of the game. But at all of the other times of the game, she just ran around grabbing the balls on our side and passing them to me and I threw them at the team. We won. Sombra was pissed. We left for Sombra to come up with something that would make me lose, I wish him luck.
"Pinkie! Xayvier!" Rainbow Dash yelled as we came out of the school. She ran up to us.
"Hey, Dash. What's going on?"
"Well... I was kinda wondering if I could go out on patrol with you tonight." She rubbed the back of her neck and smiled sheepishly. I blink a few times and groan.
"I keep telling you and Pinkie. NO!" I yell in exasperation. "It's too dangerous for you guys. You don't have powers, and even if you did get powers right now, you would be too inexperienced in using them to do anything. One day you'll be able to join me. I promise, but that day isn't today." I place my hand on her shoulder as she slumped. "Trust me. You'll go patrolling with me one day. But tonight might be dangerous."
"That's what you say about every night."
"Yes, Because it is. I haven't told you what I've been doing have I?"
"No." Both of them shake their heads.
"There's someone organizing the crime here," I whisper to them as the rest of the girls caught up with us.
"What?" Sunset asked me.
"That was my reaction as well, But there's no doubt about it. Somehow there's a connection between all of those crimes, But I don't know how. I don't even know who's involved in it."
"Oh," Fluttershy asked a bit scared.
"Don't worry Fluttershy, nobody will hurt you guys as long as I'm here. I don't even think they reached this place yet...." I suddenly get a brainstorm. "I need a map," I say.
"For What?"
"I think I finally figured out the connection." We run to Sugarcube Corner and Pinkie brings down a map of the town for us. I begin to mark down the locations of all the crimes that I stopped within the past 2 weeks.
"I knew it. They form a border." I put a line connecting all of the locations. "You see? The entire northwest side of the town is bordered by these crimes. There must be a gang located there." I smile triumphantly.
"Now we need to come up with a name for them." Pinkie Pie bounced around saying this so that only we could hear us.
"Don't get too attached to them. As soon as I find their headquarters, They're going down."
"Hmm... Have you noticed any sort of clothing that seemed to connect the criminals?" Rarity asked me.
".....Now that I think about it, They always seemed to wear a red bandana around their head. And there was a scorpion on most of them, with a different amount of scorpions. The more scorpions there were on the bandanas, the harder they were to fight."
"So the bandanas might show rank?" Fluttershy asked quietly.
"Possibly."
"I got it." Rarity snapped her fingers. "The Red Scorpions." The other girls nodded and said in agreement that they liked that name.
"Alright." I look up. "I'm going out on an early patrol. You girls stick here and see if you can see any more connections about where their headquarters might be." I run out of the shop and after a while, I jumped out of the Gym window, once again dressed as Voidic. I smile and run to the northwest of town. Just as I suspected, as soon as I got there, I spotted a crime in progress. It seemed that the criminals had associated me with night, so they were getting more crimes done during the day to fill their quota or something. I jump down behind him silently. And the man that he was robbing widens his eyes. I tap the criminal on the shoulder. He turns around and I punch him in the face. He collapses. I kneel down and rip his bandana off his head and I see one scorpion on it. I had seen bandanas like this with no scorpions. Those guys must be grunts or something. I decided to make a ranking ladder for them. 
No Scorpions - Grunt
1 Scorpion - Lietenant
2 Scorpions - General
3 Scorpions -  Leader
From What I recalled, I had turned in about 8 or 9 grunts. With this knockout, I would turn into 3 lieutenants. and I had done 1 general. I stand up and look at the man.
"You're safe now. Turn this man in. Also, tell the police their's a new gang that's trying to make it into town. They operate in the Northwest part of town. I've taken to calling them The Red Scorpions." The man nods and takes out his phone. I leave and continue my patrol. After a while, I began to notice the crimes getting more frequent and with larger intensity the deeper I got into the gang's territory. I began to use this to my advantage and spotted a building where the criminals were constantly coming in and out of. I decided to make this a place I would stakeout. but not today. I left and ran to Sugarcube corner. After putting my costume back up, I entered the building to see the girls still there. They seemed to be the only ones there. It was getting late. I went to them.
"Have you figured out anything?"
"Nothing you didn't already know. Did you find anything else out?" Asked Sunset Shimmer.
"I pinpointed a place that seemed to be a hotspot for the criminals." I mark it on the map. I then notice something. "Hold on... This isn't anywhere close to the centre of the northwest part of town."
"Maybe you found a spot where the criminals go to stash stuff?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Maybe." I nod and look at the map. "But I have a theory."
"What is it?"
"They follow the rules of three." I point to the map. "If I'm correct. There's a leader for every stash. There would be three generals per leader. Three lieutenants per general. And 3 grunts per lieutenant."
"Hmm... If that's so, there must be someone commanding the leaders." Sunset says as I nod. I put down my ranking system along with one more.
4 Scorpions - King.