Panama was a very tropical and hot country. The temperature was around 110 degrees Fahrenheit upon Octavia and Vinyl's arrival. Vinyl knew it would be hot, so she installed an air conditioning system to the Interceptor.
"So, I'm guessing we just go where the tracker tells us to?" said Octavia as she drove along the old paved jungle road.
"I guess so." said Vinyl in response. She spoke in short sentences, as she was eating a Philly cheese steak grinder she got at a restaurant in Panama City.
As the OV-15 Interceptor drove its way further out of town, the jungle became incredibly dense. Monkeys swung from the trees above and seagulls chirped from above.
Eventually, they came close enough to the tracker's location that they could see where they needed to head.
There was a massive space launch facility hidden behind the thick vegetation. In the middle of a clearing stood a four story building with five massive launch pads outside. Four of the launch pads were all occupied by rockets carrying satellites. The fifth one was occupied by a unique rocket that looked as if it were fit for ponies to ride in.
"I'll bet those are the satellites he's gonna destroy the planet with." said Octavia. "And that rocket must be the getaway vehicle he and his guys will take to Mars."
Vinyl began to study the facility from their position. But before she could truly study it, she was caught off guard by a bullet.
Octavia gunned the engine of the Interceptor just as a hail storm of bullets began to rain down upon them. five massive helicopters, each geared to the teeth in high-tech weaponry. Missiles and bombs littered the ground where Octavia drove furiously, hoping to avoid death. As Vinyl began to activate the weapon system, even more rockets and shells pelted at the ground around them.
"Sir, they're here!" shouted one of Kaacha Later's men.
"Oh, shit... they've found me. Come on! Launch the satellites immediately and get us to the Mars rocket!!!" he demanded.
That's when a gigantic explosion threw him back. He stood up to see that a helicopter had been shot down by the Interceptor and had crashed into the building, killing the man who had just warned him of Octavia and Vinyl's presence.
He ran out of the room and ran into the room which housed the controls to the space launch platforms. He immediately ordered the scientists working to fire the satellites into space and to prepare the escape rocket for launch.
Octavia's eardrums were pounded by a tremendous blast unlike any blast she'd ever heard before. Her eyeballs adjusted to the chaos to see all four satellite rockets being launched.
"HELL NO, IT'S TOO LATE!" Octavia shouted.
"No it's not! I'll settle this!" shouted Vinyl as she punched in a button combination.
Just as she pressed the last button, four anti-air missiles launched from the Interceptor's roof. All four satellite rockets were blasted by the missile fire, and each of them came crashing back down to Earth. One of them fell on a direct course for the Mars rocket, destroying it completely. Kaacha Later could only watch as his creations were obliterated before his very eyes.
"No...…." he muttered.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
""My dreams! My utopia! They've ruined it ALL!!!!!! EVERYTHING I HAD!!!!! EVERYTHING I COULD HAVE DONE!!!! IT'S RUINED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Octavia and Vinyl crashed the Interceptor through the front doors of the building. "Time's up, Kaacha!" said Octavia.
Octavia got out of the Interceptor. "It's over." she said. "You can come with us or let Vinyl, who's currently in the driver's seat of that car she built, shoot you to bits."
Kaacha ran. He darted up the stairs of the building. Octavia ran after him, Vinyl waiting in the Interceptor.
Octavia stopped at the meeting hall in the top floor. She was certain that he had run into there. However, the room seemed extremely quiet and still. It was a large room, a long wooden meeting table in its center. There were three ceiling fans on the ceiling of the room. But as she noticed the fans, she also noticed Kaacha, who was hiding from her by latching himself to the ceiling. He dropped down onto Octavia and grabbed onto the poor mare, and this was a serious attack, for he weighed 220 pounds! Octavia, however, seemed entirely unfazed by this, and threw him onto the table, which was crushed upon contact.
Kaacha jumped up, ready to strike again. He charged at Octavia at full speed, but Octavia grabbed the man by the sides of his face and threw him against the window. The window shattered upon contact, and he found himself hanging on for dear life from the shattered top floor window. Octavia stood over him with a look of rage and fury, and found herself about to kick him from his grasp on the window when she heard him begin to beg for mercy.
"No! I'm sorry!!!" he shouted over the wind. "Remember, Octavia! I only wanted to do good for pony kind! That's all I ever wanted!!! I promise!!!!! Just PLEASE, spare me!! I promise, I'll spare you, I will!!"
Octavia's expression began to change slowly.
She had never wanted to kill anypony in her life, and even though Kaacha had committed enough crimes that most ponies would consider it okay kill him, Octavia's beating heart began to get the better of her.
Octavia reached out and grabbed the aging stallion's hoof. With her strength, she pulled him back up.
"Come with me, we're going to the authorities." said Octavia.
However, the second Octavia turned her back to walk out of the room, she felt a tremendous stinging pain in the back of her left shoulder. She screamed in agony as loud as her powerful voice could carry, which was loud indeed, as blood began to run down her shoulder.
Kaacha had - quite literally - stabbed her in the back.
Kaacha was just about to deliver his knife into Octavia's heart, when a gust of wind from the broken window caused him to drop his knife and lose his balance. He fell over backwards, his scream of pure terror echoing through the jungle as his body fell over the side of the building and out of sight.
The screams stopped with a soft "thud" from outside.
Vinyl burst in the door to see her best friend bleeding. She immediately ran over and did what she could to treat Octavia's wound.
As Vinyl wrapped a string of bandages around Octavia's shoulder, she asked a question.
"Where did Kaacha Later go?"
Octavia gave a satisfied smile. "He's no more. He fell out that window to his death shortly after stabbing me."
With Octavia's wound patched up, the two musicians made their way back to the Interceptor, and drove away, leaving the smoldering ruins behind as just another memory.