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// Bar Room Brawl! 
// Story: Family Relics: Adventures of the Past and Present 
// by Paradise Oasis 
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Bar Room Brawl!

"So, ladies and vermin..." The stallion looked back and forth between the two mares, then narrowed his eyes at the ratling. "What is it going to be?"

"I dunno, Cabellerion, maybe we could talk about this?" A.K. quipped, moving very slowly to wrap her wings around the empty chair sitting beside her. "So why don't you just take a SEAT!"

Moving quickly, she hurled the chair at the shady stallion, breaking it over his head. Moving quickly, Cabellerion's two goons jumped at Rainbow Dash and Omar, only to meet a back hoof kick, and a claw scratch. Seeing the commotion coming from their table, an eager grin spread across the face of the griffin with an eye patch, and he suddely stood up.

"HEY, EVERYPONY!" He yelled enthusiastically, glad his boredom was over. "BAR FIGHT!"

The room suddenly exploded, and every creature was tearing into every other creature. Minotaurs punched diamond dogs, ponies, kicked minotaurs, and tables, chairs and glasses went flying all over the place. The chaos was so widespread, that no one could tell anything that was going on. 

"Hurry, you two!" Yearling exclaimed, motioning towards the door with her hoof. "We gotta get outta here!"

The two ponies and one ratling ran out the door, and Cabelleron screamed at his hechponies.

"AFTER THEM! DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY!"

The three ponies  chased out after them, only to find the two Pegasus airborne, the ratling riding on Dash's back. Narrowing his eyes, Cabellerion motioned for his goons to follow him to a nearby building.

"I think we lost em'!" Dash gasped out, flying alongside A.K.. "Good thing earth ponies can't fly!"

"All right, Omar!" Yearling snorted, looking over at the shifty ratling. "We saved your miserable hide, now tell us where you hid the map!"

"Ahh, not to worry, my good Daring!" The ratling replied, pulling a rolled up scroll out of his cloak. "I had it on me the whole time!"

"Why, you little rodent!" Dash said with a laugh. "Well, at least that's half the problem out of the way! Now we just gotta follow the map, and get to the necklace before those goons do!"

"Yeah, we can't let the necklace fall into there hooves, Dash-" Yearling told her. "You see-"

Save the exposition, Daring. Twilight already filled me in on everything." The other mare told her. "So we'd better high tail it blarkland, before those creeps catch up with us!"

"Ummm, rainbow Dash?" Yearling replied in a panicked voice, looking back over her shoulder. "I think they did just catch up with us!" 

Up from beneath the clouds, the nose of a massive black airship rose, cannons sticking out of every side. In the gondola at the bottom, Rainbow Dash caught a glimpse of Cabelleron and his henchponies, one of whom was working the controls to the weapons.

"Shoot them down!" The stallion bellowed harshly. "But don't harm the rat!" 

KABOOM! a loud volley of cannon fire shot at the two ponies, causing them to dodge this way and that. But one of the shots actually managed to graze Rainbow Dash, sending her into a tailspin, and sending Omar plummeting downward.

"Aieeeeeeeeee!" THUD! The ratling screamed, before hitting the deck of the pursuing airship. The two hechponies ran out of the gondola, grabbed the ratling, and dragged him back inside.

"Omar, no!" Dash turned back, zipping down towards the airship. "We gotta go rescue him!" 

"No way, Rainbow! Its too dangerous!" The Pegasus flew in front of her. "Omar knew the risks! Besides, we already have the map." Yearling flew off in the opposite direction. "C'mon, let's get going!"

Rainbow looked back at the airship, which had stopped it's pursuit, and then reluctantly turned to follow her friend. 

The two flew on for several minutes, before looking back and seeing the airship has stopped chasing them. 

"Okay, we're in the clear now." The older mare slow down, gasping for breath. "Whew, I really can do this like I used to anymore."

"I can't believe you just did that!" Rainbow Dash gasped, not in much better shape herself, having just outrun a mechanized airship at full speed for several miles. "How could Daring Do just leave a friend behind like that?"

"Look Dash... Omar was nopony's friend, he was just an informant that got paid." Yearling snorted defensively. "And I've told you a thousand times already, I am not Daring Do."

The blue Pegasus glared at her for several minutes, before closing her eyes, and looking away. "You're right, Amy, you're not the Daring Do I used to love reading about." Rainbow Dash flew ahead of her in disgust. "I'm really sorry I didn't notice that before." 
The two mares were silent for the rest of the journey.
...

Back aboard the airship, preparations were being made by the crew to stealthily follow the two mare's trail. Down in the vessel's gondola, an interesting conversation between a stallion and the ratling was talking place.

"Everything went according to plan?" Cabelleron asked, dusting the rodent off with his hoof. "You got the map to her?"

"Yep, and she didn't suspect a thing." Omar replied, holding out his claw for his expected reward. "You're goons didn't have to cut those shots so close, though."

"We had to make it look real, if we were going to get the great Daring Do to buy it." He handed the ratling a bag of jewels. "Now, all we have to do is follow those to mares, and they'll lead us right to the treasure..."