Author's Note: Nothing really huge in this note except that I made a vlog giving a bunch of shout outs to people on the site. You can click here to go see it. Even if you weren't mentioned, it's worth viewing if you wanna see what I look and sound like. Now, on with the story.
"Well, isn't this something, folks?" Albert asks the crowd. "We have Dark Lightning, one of the ponies who recently saved Ponyville from the monsters of the Everfree Forest, versus our up and coming rookie, his friend who fought alongside him during the invasion of monsters, Drax!"
The crowd goes wild in applause at getting the chance to see such an amazing fight take place.
Drax and Dark look around at the crowd for a moment before looking at each other in confusion. "Drax, what the hay are you doing here?!"
"I came here the other night with that Albert guy who's doing the announcing. I won a fight and he's been keeping me and Spitfire hostage here ever since."
"Ha! Idiot."
"Oh, yeah? Then what are you doing here?"
"*sigh* Ice and I got drunk, started a bar fight, got thrown in jail, and two huards took us out and brought us here."
"Oh, and I'm the idiot?" Drax asks smugly.
"Shut up!" Dark yells threateningly.
"Wait, you said both you AND Ice were brought here?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Where is he?"
Dark looks back and sees Ice sitting in the audience between the two guards. "He's over there." he says, pinting out.
Drax walks over and looks at Ice. Ice gives an inncocent smile at him. "Well, that's just great."
"Hey, get back in your spots!" Albert calls. With a growl, Dark and Drax follow his orders. "Now, is everypony ready for this!" the crowd cheers violently. "THEN FIGHT!"
Dark and Drax look at each other, just standing there, neither of them wanting to fight their friend.
"Hey, I said FIGHT!"
"I refuse fight Dark."
"And no way am I listening to junk from a shrimpy jackpony like you."
"Why you little... Fight, or your little friends' blood is gonna be on your hooves!"
Dark and Drax look behind each of them to see several ponies holding knives positioned by both Ice and Spitfire.
"Drax..." Spitfire says.
"Dark..." Ice says.
"So, what'll it be?"
Dark and Drax look at each other with worried faces before lowering their heads and looking back at each other in anger.
"Sorry about this, Dark." Drax says bitterly.
"WAIT! I have an idea!" Dark says quickly, trying to keep Drax from making him nothing more than a bloody stain on the mat.
"What?"
"You see this collar around my neck." he puts a hoof on the piece of thin metal.
"Yeah. What about it?"
"It's restricting my powers. Ice has one too."
"Really?"
"Yeah. If you can break it off of me, I can use my powers to get us out of this mess."
"Yeah, that's a great idea."
"If you two are done blabbing, FIGHT!" Albert demands.
Drax gets ready to charge Dark. "You ready?"
"Yeah, just make sure you actually aim for the collar."
Drax nods before the two of them each take off after each other. Dark slows his flight, allowing Drax to catch him by the neck and slam him down, making sure to make most of the impact hit the collar.
Drax picks Dark up and starts repeatedly slamming his hoof into the collar in an attempt to wear it down, but also making it look like he's hitting Dark instead as to not draw suspicion to them.
He takes Dark with both hooves and throws up against the side of the cage. Drax starts running on his hindlegs, still holding tightly to Dark. As they run along, the collar continues to wear down.
"Dang, Drax is tearing Dark a new one." Ice says. His eyes open a bit as he starts noticing sparks flying from Dark's neck. "Of course. He's not hitting Dark, he's hitting the collar. Good thinking."
"Shut up, you." a guard tells him.
Ice snarls at him before turning his attention back to the fight. 'I hope they can do this.'
Back in front of the hotel
The four us of walk up to the front of the hotel to see everypony but Vine, Fleur, and Fern waiting in discouragement.
"Didn't find anything?" I ask.
"Nope." they all reply sadly before sighing.
Hail picks her head up and raises an eyebrow. "Hey, where's Dark and Ice."
"Believe it or not, the guard said they were nowhere to be found."
"What?!"
"I know, can you believe that garbage?"
"Well, it wasn't a total loss, we at least got their bail paid off." Twilight says.
"*sigh* I guess. I wonder how Vine, Fern, and Fleur are doing."
Let's go check, shall we?
At the club, Vine and Fleur sit bored at the benches while Fern makes and serves drinks.
"If it weren't for the show, I'd have given up on this a while ago." Vine says.
"I know this isn't very exciting, but we need to do this to find Drax." Fleur says.
"Yeah, I guess you're right."
Fern comes by and uses her magic to set down some drinks. "Cheer up, guys. This could be worse."
"How so?"
"You could be serving drinks to these drunken pigs like me."
"Oh, yeah."
A few feet away from them, two stallions sit and talk to each other. "Did you hear about that new guy at the fight club?"
"You mean the black pegasus with thr gold and red mane? Yea, I heard he's really cleanin' up."
"Yeah, he's taken down both Steel Hoof and Roid Rage."
"Yeah, dude's a freakin' beast."
The three ponies look at each other. "Did you guys hear them? That's gotta be Drax." Vine says excitedy.
"Yeah, and I think I know where they're talking about." Fern says.
"Then let's quickly get the others and head over there." Fleur says.
The three of them get up to leave, when suddenly, a large stallion that looks similar to VIne bursts through the doors.
"What the buck is this?!" he shouts.
"Oh buck." Vine says silently.
"I go out on vacation for one week, just to come back and hear some flankhole came and took over my club!"
"Boss?!" one of the orkers shout.
"Of course it's me! You idiots are in big trouble for this!" he turns towards Vine. "YOU! You're gonna pay for this, or my name isnt Pussy Willow-I mean Big Wood!" he shouts, trying to cover for his mistake.
"Pussy Willow? That's your real name?" Fern asks. The three of them giggle at his obviously emasculine name.
"SHUT UP! You're all gonna pay for this!"
"I don't think so." Vine says. Her hooves glow before making vines wrap him and his guards up.
"Hey, what the buck is this?!"
"Just something to make sure you stay put." Vine turns to the others. "Let's go!"
They start running out before Fern stops at her soon to be former boss. "Fern! I knew you wouldn't backstab me."
"Actually, I just came to say..." she starts saying before turning and bucking him in the balls. "I QUIT!"
She quickly runs out, laughing to herself. "You stuid slut... You're gonna pay for this." he says weakly.
How do I know he plans on keeping his word on that?