Bounty Hunters 3: Genesis
An MLP FanFic
The dark blue stallion shouldered his way through the crowd of ponies, attracting annoyed glances and surprised yelps as he knocked over drinks and plates of food. The restaurant was buzzing with activity, ponies here and there, chatting away eagerly. Waiter ponies were dressed in black suits, holding trays of delicacies- but the blue stallion wasn't here for any of that.
The crowd was good for cover, but it was one heck of a headache to find the right table. It didn't take long though.
A dull grey stallion sat with his hind legs on the table, front hooves folded behind his head as he sat back into the chair, leaning on its two back legs. A distinct scar ran across his face, and his piercing blue eyes spotted him the moment he emerged from the crowd.
"Late." the grey stallion said, dropping his back legs from the table and taking a more normal sitting position.
"I had to lose the damn bastards." the dark blue stallion said, irritated.
"You got the money?" the grey stallion asked. The blue stallion had told him on the phone about a high-paying contract- to assassinate another assassin.
"Takes money to hire the best assassins- but I can't pay right now. You need to take care of the bastards chasing me first." the blue stallion said, taking a seat.
"Why now?" scar-face asked.
"Because they're after me right now! They were on me a second ago- but I think I lost them in the crowd." the blue stallion said.
"Who is it? And you better pay up afterwards." scar-face said.
"Rainbow Dash and her goddamn partner. The bastards are working for the military now- taking bribes from the royal guards and hunting us down." the blue stallion said anxiously, casting a gaze around them and scanning the coast.
"Would you like to place your order, sir?" a waitress asked, handing the blue stallion a menu.
"I don't want to order! Go away." the blue stallion said irritably without looking at the waitress, waving the menu away. "Anyway- I'll pay you double if you take care of both of them."
"Order, sir?" the waitress asked scar-face.
"Goddamnit! We don't want to order! Would just go the buck awa-" the blue stallion looked up. "Oh shuck."
"One serving of punches, coming up." Rainbow Dash threw down the menu, cracked her hooves loudly, and grinned. Her dark clothing had made her look like one of those waitresses earlier.
"Son-of-a-" scar-face kicked his chair away as he stood up, his hooves a flash as he drew the pistol hidden under his jacket.
Rainbow hit the gun on the side, knocking him off aim. She then hit a specific spot on top of the pistol, causing the mechanics inside to fail their job. The clip fell out and clattered to the floor, some bullets scattering out of it.
There was still one bullet locked inside the chamber of the gun though, and scar-face aimed it up.
With a light blue blur, Rainbow hit the back of the gun and snapped the hammer- now there was no way the bullet could be fired.
She launched a downward kick into the side of scar-face's left leg. Her hoof impacted his kneecap with a crack, and he groaned and fell down into a kneeling position, what little remained of his broken pistol clattering to the floor.
Scar-face was at the perfect height right now, and Rainbow brought a knee up and aimed for his face.
He managed to block the strike with a hoof, but the impact caused him to fall over. He quickly scrambled up, but Rainbow wasn't far away. He threw a punch aimed at the side of the blue pegasus's face, his hoof a blur.
Rainbow leaned to the side, the punch gliding past her nose. She grabbed his wrist with her left hoof, then took hold of his elbow with her right. She twisted, bringing scar-face's own arm around his neck in a painful lock.
Scar-face kicked back, hitting Rainbow in the leg. This turned out to be a dumb idea as Rainbow was annoyed at that, and decided to slam his head against a table.
His head slammed into the wood, splintering the smooth surface and cracking the small table almost in half.
The crowd around them was screaming now, running off and out in all directions and avoiding them. It was chaos as ponies were knocked over, all scrambling for the exits.
Scar-face rolled, breaking himself out of the lock. He had his back on the table, and launched both back hooves into Rainbow's chest.
Rainbow grunted, stumbling back. Scar-face rolled backwards and landed on the other side of the table.
Rainbow spun and kicked the table, sending it flipping up. The table spun into the air, the edge slamming scar-face on the chin. He fell backwards and cracked his back against the floor, temporarily winded. The table kept on going, flipping over him and smashing itself to pieces on the other side of the room.
He coughed, scrambling to his hooves. He blinked, and saw a purple iris looking him straight in the eye before taking a hoof to the face which sent him tumbling sideways. He hit his back on the wooden handrails of the stairs leading to the second floor, coughing uncontrollably.
Rainbow grabbed his head, and slammed it through the handrails. Finally, he was knocked unconscious.
She looked around her- the blue stallion had gotten away. Ah well.
"One down. Can you see the other?" Rainbow tapped her ear, activating the mic.
"Second floor lobby, heading for the roof. Using the crowd as cover." a filly's voice said.
"Good job Dainty." Rainbow grinned.
"Thanks." Dainty chuckled.
"Eyes on the monitors. Send the spy plane into the air- let's keep our eyes on this bastard." Rainbow said, slinging the unconscious scar-face over her shoulder.
*
"Will do." Dainty grinned. She was inside a car, a wall of monitors in front of her.
Magnum had taught her how to hack some security systems so she could help with the job- and her role was certainly coming in handy. She scanned through all the screens on the monitors, and located the blue stallion again. She had tapped into the restaurant's security cameras.
She took out a metal case, inside a small RC helicopter with a mounted camera. She carefully removed it from the foam cushioning, reaching out and setting it down on the roof of the black car. She took the remote control, and started flying the spy plane.
"Eagle eye's in the air." she reported with a grin.
*
"I'm on the roof now. Where is he?" Rainbow looked around at the concrete emptiness around her, scar-face snoring on her shoulder.
"He took the fire exit stairs and went down into an alley way, turning onto the street. I'm following him now." Dainty said.
"I'll let you guys take care of him while I dump this guy down before he starts drooling into my coat." Rainbow said, walking in a different direction.
*
The blue stallion stopped to catch his breath, breathing hard. He clutching his chest, trying to regulate his breathing. He looked up, and saw the grey stallion leaning on a wall.
"Shuck- there you are! Did you take care of her?" the blue stallion walked up to him, looking around anxiously.
"Yeah, I did." the grey stallion said, pushing off the wall.
"I'll pay you once you take care of that other one as well-" the blue stallion raised an eyebrow. "And where's your scar?"
Scar-face looked down, and frowned.
"Oh yeah. Whoops, forgot about that." he wiped a hoof on his face, causing it to glow a bright white. Pixels appeared out of nowhere and attached them to his face, and when the glow faded his scar was there. "Better?"
"What the bu-" the blue stallion exclaimed, stumbling back in shock.
Val removed her disguise, the fake grey skin fading away into shining pixels and revealing her robotic half underneath. She had a mischievous grin on her face as she narrowed her eyes, both organic and robotic.
"Val!? What are you doing here? You're supposed to be in prison!" the blue stallion exclaimed.
"I'm just here to shorten my prison term by doing some 'community service', which turned out to be cleaning up the science faction." Val shrugged.
She had robotic hands implanted into her hooves, and she was about to swing a punch at the blue stallion when she felt something puncture the skin on her neck.
She tilted her head to one side, robotics churning; and raised an eyebrow at the tranquilizer dart stuck in her neck.
"Whoops- sorry." Magnum said through the mic. "But just then you looked exactly the same as the other guy."
"But Rainbow already took care of the other guy!" Val said angrily, the strength fading from her body. "You bucking dumb.... arse...." she managed to say, before collapsing to the floor, snoring.
The blue stallion yelled something, and immediately started running down the street at full speed.
"I'd like to make a point of saying I still didn't miss." Magnum said to Val's snoring.
"You're still a dumb-arse." Rainbow said through the mic.
"Whatever." Magnum said. "Oop. Can't fire now. Got a huge crowd crossing the road."
"Don't worry- all taken care of." Rainbow said.
*
The blue stallion looked around him anxiously, not knowing where the sniper is. He slipped into the crowd, now much more comfortable, surrounded by meat shields.
Then he felt gentle taps across his body as his pressure points were strategically hit, and he gasped. He tried to move, but was frozen in place- not even his eyeballs budged.
"Got him." a grey earth pony with a dark mane and purple eyes said, dressed in the same dark clothes as the rainbow maned pegasus.
Octavia jammed a tranquilizer dart into his neck, and unlocked him from his frozen state. He collapsed into her arms, already snoring as the tranquilizer settled into his blood.
"Pick up please." Octavia said, hoisting him over her shoulder and drawing suspicious gazes from the crowd.