After eavesdropping on the conversation beyond the last door, the Elements bearer decided not to go through it. They continued down the dark hallway, still searching for an exit, but as they venture down the hallway, whispers and faint sounds of music surrounded the ponies.
You are all weak! You are all bleeders! You are nothing but a bunch of cowards!
....Pity the downtrodden landlord, and his back that is burden and bent....
Ma'h Ma always said life is like a box of chocolate....
....Keep a knockin' but you can't come in.....
Yesterday, seven December nineteen forty-one......
Those words and many others were heard by the six ponies within the hallways, the noises didn't harm them, but enough to make them anxious, they can hear the noises, but what makes them scared is that it has no clear origin like it just came out of the walls beside them. After awhile, the mares reached the end of the hallway, at that end there was another door with a metal plaque of a palm tree. Rainbow Dash was the first one to approach, as she near it, she felt warmth and heard water splashing accompanied by the smell of salt, it almost felt they were on a beach. Then came a ringing from beyond the door, then music, along with voices.
"Hello Sonny," a voice said with a flat tone
"You better be kidding me Tommy, tell me you still got the money?" a different voice said with an angry tone.
"No Sonny, I don't have the money," answered the previous voice.
"That was my money Tommy! My money!" the other voice shouted.
"This is a disaster, we are so screwed man!" said a new voice, with a trembling tone.
"Shut up, sit down, relax, we're gonna find who took our cocaine.. and then kill 'em." answered the first voice.
The voices suddenly became faint and inaudible due to the music covering it, but one made itself audible.
"I run this town now! Me! Vercetti remember the name!"
Rainbow Dash retracted her hooves from the doorknob, she face her friend and said, "Uhm.... should we go back?"
Her question immediately replied by silent nods by all the mares. Before all of them could turn around, came a whisper.
The time is almost over, open one or stay where you are forever
As the whisper disappear, the hallway was suddenly began to shake violently. Twilight looked back the way they came from, and saw that the floor and walls start collapsing, she tried twisting the doorknob but it won't open.
"A little help here!" Twilight called.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash, came to her aid, then followed by the rest of them, they kept bucking and pushing the door. As the hallway collapse closing in, the mares tried harder, and harder opening the door, with a hard buck from the farm mare and the Wonderbolt trainee, the door fell off it hinges, a bright light blinded them and unconsciousness took over.
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Rainbow Dash was the first one to regain consciousness, she got up on four hooves to help her friend to get up. As she helped, the multicolored maned pegasus look around her surrounding, she noted that she was standing on a paved surface now, and on some kind of port, to her front and right was a long building painted white and lined with blue, to her left was a series of garage door, on her rear was the sea.
"Where are we now?" exclaimed the cyan pegasus.
"I can ask you the same question." replied the lavender princess.
"Well at least we are out of that hallway," said Rarity while mending her mane.
"Uhm... maybe we should find somepony and ask where we are?" suggest Fluttershy.
"Twi, Shy right we oughta find somepony tha tell where we are," reinforced Applejack, " I reckon we ain't in Canterlot anymore."
Before Twilight can answer, she was interrupted by a loud roar, she looked to her left to see garage doors opening, revealing numerous yellow carriages, but her mind was boggled by how the carriages move on their own with nopony pulling it and the carriages had odd design, some was very symmetrical and the other ones was a bit curvy. Twilight recognize the carriages as taxis. Some of them even had the firm names written on them, the name was Kaufman Cab.
The taxis moved in a three line formation, there were thirty cabs in the formation, they moved and stopped, blocking the view to the ocean and faced the six mares in front.
"Did you ordered a cab?" asked Pinkie, pointing her hoof to Rarity
"N-no," she answered.
"Did you?" Pinkie asked again, this time to Applejack.
"Nope," replied the farm mare.
"Then who did?" exclaimed Pinkie. There were no answer from the rest, "Well if none of you did I guess I'll pick one then," Pinkie then starts bouncing towards the lines of taxis waiting twenty feet in front of them.
VROOOMMM!!!
Pinkie stopped at mid-air, as another taxi joined the formation, but this taxi was different from the others. The new cab was those who has the curvy design, but it has a paint of black and yellow stripes, resembling to those of a zebra. The Zebra Cab stopped in front of the rows of the other taxis and came silence, the only sound can be heard were thirty-one engine beneath those yellow bonnets. For a minute the mares just stare at the cab and the cabs faced the mares, then thirty one yellow vehicle slowly advance on the ponies in front.
Pinkie continued her bouncing towards the taxis, "Hmmm... which one should I take?"
Suddenly, the Zebra Cab lunged forward and hit the pink pony right on her face. Pinkie went limp and disappear beneath the cab as the pack of taxi kept forward in speed.
"PINKIE!!!" four mares shouted, as they witness the element of laughter disappear, while Fluttershy fainted.
After the display, Twilight eyes darted left and right, frantically looking for an exit. She found a gate adjacent to the building on their right.
"Over there!" Twilight shouted.
"What about Fluttershy?!" Applejack cried.
"Carry her!" the lavender princess answered.
As soon as they gallop to the gate, a taxi blocked their path and were forced to separate. Applejack, with Fluttershy on her back went right, the rest went left. The farm mare gallop as fast as she can, pushing her body to the limit, she eventually slowed down due to the extra weight she carried. She saw her friends move left and right avoiding the murderous pack of taxis that were after them, some missed her friends by inches and ending up crashing into each other.
The orange pony then start to gallop again, unknown to her three taxi was approaching from different direction to where she was, finally those three cabs met and the timid mare, along with the farm mare disappear between the wreckage. Twilight turn her head around to see that another two of her friend had disappear, tears start filling her eyes, but the feeling of sadness was replaced by vengeance. She stopped an turned around.
"Twilight, what are you doing?!" Rainbow Dash shouted in question.
"I'm going to slow them down," Twilight stated," Just keep running!"
Rainbow Dash complied, she and Rarity continue to gallop to the gate. Twilight took a defensive stance, she took aim with horn glowing, then she releases a bolt of magic. Her shot hit a cab on the front causing the engine to caught fire, the said cab swerved right and hit another cab, causing it to loose control and flip over. The burning and overturned cabs slowed down the other taxis, Twilight use this moment to rejoined with her friend.
Rainbow Dash and Rarity kept galloping for the gate, hearing a crash, they we're satisfied that Twilight able to took down one of the yellow menace. But their gallop was cut short, as another cab appear in front, they were forced to separate again. Rarity made her way left, away from the exit, unfortunately her escape was cut short as she was hit by another cab by from her side, she didn't saw it coming.
It was only Rainbow Dash and Twilight now, they kept on going, they tried to keep a straight course to the gate, but that was impossible, because cab after cab kept blocking their path.
"Use your wings!" the prismatic mare said.
"What?" Twilight asked.
"Flap your wings!" Rainbow Dash commanded.
Twilight complied and start to move her new appendages, a few seconds later she was on the air. The alicorn and the pegasus was now flying, but only mere inches off the ground, and still vulnerable to pack of cabs. Twilight arrived at the gate, but she was alone.
"Where's Rainbow?" Twilight thought.
Twilight looked back, to see that the taxis were closing in on Rainbow Dash. She took aim at the cabs chasing the pegasus. Before she let out a shot, another vehicle arrived on the other side of the closed gate. The vehicle was white in color, unlike the taxis it has a more sleek and aerodynamic look to it. Twilight ignored it and focus on shooting the cabs that were chasing her friend, she hit one, but only deflates it's front tire. Then there was a gruff voice coming from the new vehicle.
Get in quick!
She kept shooting bolts of magic onto any taxi that came close to Rainbow Dash, but her attempt was in vain, more of the pack of cabs descended on the cyan pegasus. Twilight was now in the verge of crying as she about to witness her friend demise. Before she did she was pulled backward into the white vehicle. The last thing she saw was the bearer of the element of loyalty, pinched between to two yellow vehicle before darkness took over.
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Ken Rosenberg was running into the estate, only to found his client sitting on the carpeted stairs, surrounded by bodies,"Tommy! Oh my god, Tommy! What happened?" he asked
"What does it look like?" Tommy answered.
"It looks like you ruined your shirt," Ken continued, " And Tommy, that was a beautiful shirt! Tommy, what on earth happened ?"
"I had a disagreement with a business associate," said Tommy with a calm tone, "You know how it is."
"Tommy, I had disagreement, I send them an angry letter," Ken explained, "Maybe I pee in their mailbox, not start World War three!" Ken continue on, "Maybe you should see my shrink."
"That stupid prick Lance..." muttered Tommy.
"I never liked the guy, okay?" Ken said,"He's neurotic, he's insecure, he's self-centered - the guys an asshole! I'm glad you took him out."
"I don't think we're gonna be getting more heat from up north," Tommy said, " 'Cause there ain't no 'up north' anymore, it's all down south now."
With a smile and widen eye Ken asked his client, "Wait, does that mean what I think it means? Oh Tommy baby!"
"What do you think it means?" Tommy asked.
"That we're in charge - I mean you're in charge, Oh Tommy!"
` They both start walking to the door of the mansion, heading outside of the building.
"You know this could be the beginning of a beautiful business relationship," Tommy stated, "After all, you're a conniving, backstabbing, two-bit thief, and I'm a convicted psychotic killer and a drug dealer."
"I know." Ken said, "Ain't it beautiful?"
Before they stepped outside the lights on the mansion suddenly flickered, both Tommy and Ken glanced around.
"Must be the power box," Tommy concluded.
Then a power explosion rocked the whole mansion. Both Tommy and Ken ran outside to see what was going on, they were met by one of the guard that usually hang outside the mansion.
"Mr. V something exploded on the maze," said the guard.
Now Ken,Tommy and the guard ran to the epicenter of the explosion, what they found only was out of their world.