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// Reinforcements  
// Story: When I Cry 
// by Brony Hectic 
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The medium sized rock flew through the air and finally landed in the bush, hitting the pony inside it. 

"Owww!" shouted Silver Spoon leaping out of the bush, with a camera around her neck.

"I knew it," Dim said with a smile, but then he noticed something else on the ground next to Silver Spoon a piece of paper. Dim looked at it for a second then noticed it was what he was looking for. The page. Dim shoved Diamond Tiara out of his way and bolted to the page.

"Silver, look out!" Diamond shouted, warning her friend.

Silver scrambled to her hooves and jumped on the page. She picked it up and turned just before Dim could grab it. She ran back to her friend. Dim followed, but Diamond Tiara stood between between the two.

"Move now or I will shove you to the ground. You have 5 seconds." Dim began to count down.

"You wouldn't dare!" Diamond shouted in Dim's face. Nopony in the right mind would do that to her.

"Yes I would." And he did. Dim, without any hesitation, shoved Diamond right to the dirt filled ground and tried to snatch the page from Silver Spoon but she then started to run off. And again, Dim followed. 

"Oh my Celestia he didn't!" Diamond began to chance after Dim Shadow now, with revenge in her mind.
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"Stop running Silver!" Dim shouted at Silver Spoon. Dim could easily catch up to her any second, but he chose not to. He wanted to see if it was possible to negotiate with Silver, or get her to hand it over on her own, without needed force. "I'm giving you a chance, if you give it to me now I might forget this ever happened." Dim kept chasing her for few more seconds. He sighed, "Okay then, have it your way." 

Dim picked up his speed and was now right next to Silver Spoon, who now looked like she'd seen a ghost. She didn't think that he could be that fast, or pick up that much speed in such little time. "Hey," he said before throwing a hoof in front oh her. Silver fell to the ground and rolled.

"Okay, now again give me the page." Dim crouched next to Silver Spoon. "Come on now." Silver Spoon went into fetal position with the page. 

"No!" she shouted.

Dim sighed again, "You brought this upon yourself, remember that." (Get ready for the Waterfall of Forgiveness.) Dim began to pry Silver's front and back legs apart. revealing the now crumbled up page. Dim pulled together enough strength for one more powerful pull, which worked. In the second of time he got to snatch the page, he did. "Yoink!" He held it up in the sun light for a moment honoring his own victory. "Don't do anything else like that again got it-?" Dim was tackled to the ground by an angry Diamond Tiara.

"Oh, hello there," Dim smiled.

"Shut up! You can't push me around like that!"

"Yes I can. I just did."

"You really know how to make a pony made don't you?!"

"You don't know the half of it," Now Dim was just trying to screw with her. "So how about that kiss?"

Diamond Tiara tried to punch Dim but missed; Dim turned his head away just in time.

"Okay now get off of me. I wanna go home and let my leg heal."

"Oh, your leg hurts? Let me fix that." Diamond guessed what leg was hurting and punched it hard. She guessed right.

Dim screamed. "Ow! Why would you do that? You're so mean!" Dim, not wanting to get hurt anymore threw Diamond Tiara off and tried to get away, he couldn't run, after what just happened to his leg.

"Oh what, does your leg hurt?" Diamond Tiara began to walk toward Dim with a malicious grin, Silver then followed with the same facial expression.

"Okay now, we don't have to resort to this now. There's nothing to gain if try to hurt me."

The two fillies kept slowly walking towards Dim. "Girls... come on." they almost reached him. "Key word was tried." Dim wasn't in the mood to fight anypony. He didn't know how he would have to fight girls, he though of just blocking what ever they would throw at him. Dim did took a stance but it hurt his back leg, he lowered to the ground in pain. The two fillies were now looking over him, with evil smiles, like when a predator is about to pounce. Dim was still paying all attention to his leg. Dim was ready for what ever other pain was going to be inflicted to him and he was ready to try and block it. Just then a shadow came over Dim Shadow. He looked up to see a pony riding a scooter land next to him. The scooter came to a screeching halt, as if it was going extremely fast, rushing to him.

"Back off!" Scootaloo yelled, now standing between the two fillies and Dim. 

"Yeah, back off!" Apple Bloom yelled as she came running to aid Dim also. She too now stood between the two fillies and Dim.  

Reinforcements have arrived, Dim thought. Dim knew he could probably take on both Diamond and Silver, so long as they didn't only target his leg. Wait, where's Sweetie Belle? Dim thought. As if on cue, Sweetie came running down the hill. Dim could guess that she was the more mellow one of the group so he was curious how she would handle the situation. She, like her friends, now stood between Diamond & Sliver and Dim. However, she didn't say anything, rather she just stood there with an angry facial expression. Dim wondered why she wasn't as assertive as her friends. You'd think that if your special some pony was in danger you'd be the most concerned. Strange, Dim thought. 

"And what are you three blank flanks here for?" Diamond laughed, "Oh what? Is Dumb Shadow too weak to fend for himself? And to think he made such a big deal about himself."

Dim got up and walked through the Crusaders. "Okay first off all, I could take both of you with three hurt legs and blind folded. Second, I didn't make a big deal about myself. Now, I recommend you back off before I let these three stoop to your level." Dim said, with a smug look. 

"Whatever, we don't have time for ponies of the likes of you anyway. Come on Silver, lets go to my house." Diamond hissed, then proceeded to trot off with her friend but not before each of them could give him a death glare. Dim just rolled his eyes in retaliation then turned his attention to the Crusaders. 

"So, uh... thanks," he said, rubbing the back of his head and blushing. "I guess I owe three one. I could have gotten hurt by those two."

"No problem," Scootaloo said, taking off her helmet and placing it on the ground. 

"Yeah, don't mention it." Apple Bloom said. They were lying. Before they came down there, they were scared out of their minds to stand up to Diamond and Silver in the manor at which they did. They were honestly considering not doing it before Sweetie Belle gave them those puppy dog eyes. They gathered enough courage to do so. Sweetie Belle, after what had happened earlier that day didn't want to deal with Diamond and Silver, she had more than her fair share. That's mainly why she was the last to arrive. She also guessed that Dim would be able to handle himself against those two, considering he could handle Rider and Heavy Weight. 

Dim began to try to walk but his leg quickly got a jolt of pain. Dim, yet again, was forced to crouch down on one leg. He was pretty much limping.

"Do you think you need help getting home?" Scootaloo asked, walking over to him.

"Y'all could stay in the club house if ya want," Apple Bloom offered.

Dim thought about it. He had sprinted and ran almost all day, half the time on a pain filled back leg. And now after it was just hurt again and considering the distance between his house and the time it would take to get there he agreed. After all he still had about three hours to kill.

"Yes, please."