//------------------------------// // Chase to Descent // Story: Jinxed // by Killabyte //------------------------------// I was running after her as fast as I could, explosions were going on all around me, curse that Jinx and her weapons, if it hadn’t been for the war she wouldn’t have them. Everything was peaceful in Equestria, Princess Twilight Sparkle had just been crowned and everypony was happy and excited about the upcoming Equestria Games to be held in the Crystal Empire. Not everypony was happy though, some sought power, others sought fame and fortune and together they created new technology, technology that everypony would want leading to an industrial revolution making Equestria boom into a new age, but this was all part of their plan. Shortly after the industrial revolution, the group of ponies who formed it revealed their true form and intentions as changelings working with the griffon empire to start a war and bring Equestria to its knees. The war sought the invention of guns and other firearms, which would keep been developed after the war had ended. The war lasted for a good two years before the Elements of Harmony were used to take down the Griffon and Changeling leaders. Peace reigned once more. The Enforcers were created and I was born ten years later. Huffing and puffing I skidded to a halt in front of a mirror after losing her somewhere in this forsaken bank. Stopping I examined my reflection, I was a mid height solidly built pony with a pink mane and blue eyes with a light cashmere coat. I snapped out my state as I heard “You gonna chase me, fat hooves?" before Jinx took of running again with me close at her heels. I chased her for what felt like hours all through the bank, smashing through walls with constant explosions, every now and then I would have to dive for cover as she would suddenly turn around and whip out her minigun and start shooting at me. Eventually Jinx got cornered in the vault with me at it’s entrance but instead of surrendering she just started cackling lifting her rocket launcher up and fired it. When I woke up the dust was only just settling, she had brought down half the building if not more and had gotten away. Again. To add more to the insult of getting away she had not taken a single bit from the bank. Getting up, I heard her laughing and taunting me with her sing song voice, groaning I made my way outside when a hexplosion went off taking down parts of the six largest buildings that were in the city. Making my way through the chaos that was now Ponyville I stopped by my office only to find a recording on my desk, without a doubt I knew who it was from. I put it on and listed to it only to be taunted through the song, time and time again. Ponyville was her playground and I was the only one who could stop her but that would mean I have to step up my game. The news spread quickly of my failure no doubt who helped to do that but it eventually reached the ears of the Royal Princesses. Two days after the incident at the bank I received a letter from Princess Celestia saying she wanted to meet with me and to discuss what had happened. Three days from the bank incident and I was on long term suspension without pay. Been forced into unpaid suspension made me even more determined to catch Jinx. Jinx soon spread chaos all over Ponyville while all the time always taunting me to come and play, to catch her if I could. She knew I was suspended, so why did she still want me to play the game and that kept eating at my conscience, it just didn’t add up. Why was it me she wanted to chase her when anypony would clearly be more suited to the job than me. Hearing my letter box shut I snapped out of my thought and went and fetched the mail and low and behold another recording for me. Sighing I put it on wondering what she could want from me this time and as the song started I was pulled into my train of thoughts, this menace caused citywide chaos and lost me my job, now wanted to be my friend. Nothing added up, nothing made sense. Curse that Celestia damned loose cannon. She still doesn’t get it, how can she not realise we’re related yet? I asked aloud talking to myself as I placed my weapons away for the night. It’s not like I wasn’t been obvious about, or maybe she just didn’t remember because I was the older sister. Sighing I sat down on my mattress and got lost in my memories. Our mother had died during childbirth and our father had only survived till we were old enough to start school, then the accident happened, a piano fell and hit our dad as he dived to push Vi out of the way, she still got hit on the head with some debris, causing her to enter a coma for a week, when she woke she had no memory of who I was or what had happened, all she knew was her own name. After the accident we got placed in an orphanage but I ran away because I got hit repeatedly for asking for my daddy. Good four-shoes Vi got adopted a day later and we never saw each other again. Well not until recently. Sighing I made my way to the kitchen and poured myself a drink and looked at the photo on the fridge, it was when we still young and part of a happy family with dad still alive. If only that bucking mare wasn’t so clumsy nothing would have happened and we would still be a happy family. Looking up at my reflection in the window I knew what had to be done, I had to kill that bucking mare and reunite our family, I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face if I tried.