//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 No Help // Story: Pinkie Flash A Flash Of Hope // by Firestarter Dazzle //------------------------------// Pinkie and her new friend Kassidy Black headed out to a local Target to pick out some new clothes since her current ones look like she was ripped apart by a wild animal but got away before the animal could finish her off. They looked around the ladies section where Pinkie picked out a red and gray shirt with a saying Welcome To The Jungle with the Guns and Roses logo on the front. "Really?" Kassidy questioned, crossing her arms. "Yes, this looks really cool" Pinkie said smiling. Kassidy was already regretting this partnership but she did need some new clothes anyway, she wasn't like her other symbiote counterpart so she grabbed the shirt from Pinkie and walked into the changing room to change while Pinkie stood watch. A store associate placed a single but firm hand behind her and as if on influence, Pinkie dashed behind her and performed a straight right punch to her back, sending her into 3 dressed mannequins. The person hissed at Pinkie, revealing that she was a changeling. "Your a changeling" Pinkie said, taking a defensive stance. "Your quite persistent Flash, our queen will love to see you and your little friend" the changeling hissed. Kassidy walked out with the shirt and noticed the store associate/changeling down on the ground and Pinkie standing over her. It didn't take a rocket scientist to understand that she was a changeling in the face, which caused the human disguise to disappear and reveal it in full view. "Yep that's a changeling alright, how the hell did it find us?" Kassidy asked quizzically. "Changelings have specific set of skills, one of those skills is scent" Pinkie explained. "So they picked up your scent" Kassidy assumed. Pinkie nodded and out of nowhere she pulled Kassidy out of machine gun fire, they took cover behind the dressing room counter as 6 firing squads fired their weapons. "So you have a plan Pinkie? I don't think you can go hero" Kassidy said. "No need, I came prepared" Pinkie said, tapping on her watch. The watch beeped once and transformed Pinkie into the speedster Pink Flash with one thing different: her mask was pink neon lights and looked cool around Pinkie's eyes so now she felt like a real superheroine. Kassidy let her symbiote engulf her to turn her into Scream, both girl jumped off the counter and attacked. Blasts came from the guns but Pinkie was able to dodge them easily and lightning punch one officer that had enough force to send him flying into a bunch of DVDs, Kassidy on the other hand grabbed an officer's gun and impaled him with a spike, killing him instantly. "We forgot how fun this is" Kassidy said, licking her sharp teeth. Pinkie ran around in a circle that created a sort of mini tornado that the last 2 officers airborne before her and Kassidy dual punched those officers. The symbiote returned back into Kassidy's skin, Pinkie looked over at the knocked out officers. She noticed bright green veins all around the officer's face and arms. "Looks like they were being controlled or infected for lack of a better term" Pinkie stated. "Classic Chrysalis, sending her minions to do her dirty work instead of doing it herself" Kassidy said dryly. "She smart but even she knows her hive can't stop us" Pinkie said, reverting back to her civilian clothes. Both girls left the Target without anyone noticing they left, they were too busy hiding from the changeling controlled firing squad. "Damn them, they busted my firing squad like they were noticing but paper" Chrysalis cursed. She turned off her TV camera. got up from her throne and walked over to a bunch of files tilted Midnight at Dawn which maybe had clues to a summoning spell, called one of her associates and handed it to him. "Send this to Starlight" she said to him. He nodded and left. Chrysalis smirked in pleasure at the thought of what Starlight Glimmer was going to do with that file. "Those heroes may have bested my generals but I have more in my arsenal" Chrysalis said, sitting back down on her throne. Back at the apartment, Kassidy looked over at the green blood that was on her hand until she used a pocket knife to put it into a glass jar, Pinkie closed it up and placed the jar through a scanner that Twilight gave her as a Christmas gift. The scans indicate the green blood was definitely that of a changeling but also used as a hypnotic device for lack of better term. "So she uses it for a hypnotic infection?" Kassidy questioned. "Or maybe they sink their fangs into someone thus injecting the poison inside their bodies, like those green veins pulsating when I knocked them out" Pinkie explained, pacing back and forth. "That's so weird" Kassidy said. "That's how changelings are" Pinkie said. Kassidy pondered how this green blood had some type of mind altering possibility. "It's still weird to think about but I think we need to find Chrysalis and end this storm" Kassidy suggested. "I agree" Pinkie said.