//------------------------------// // Ponies and Motorcycles. // Story: Bucking Bronies // by Kiwi-Brony //------------------------------// The streets of Ney York flew by. People were shocked to see a motorbike fly past other cars at such speeds. Tom for one didn't care about that, all he wanted was to stay the hell on the bike, and he tightened his grip around Alex's waist. Alex however just concentrated on what was ahead of her; ideas of living or dying were far from her mind, her heart pounded in her chest. The feeling of the chase made her breaths shallow; her brain stopped accepting oxygen and started to let adrenalin take its grip. “Tom, I see the Limo.” Alex said. Tom cautioned a peek over Alex's shoulder. “How do you know it’s the right one?” “The big trail of rainbow is a bit of a clue.” Alex replied. Tom looked up and sure enough Rainbow Dash was flying above the limo. “Huh, so it is.” Alex locked on to her target and did not slow for any reason. As the approached the limo they noticed a bike, the symbol of the New York police force branded on its side. Soon after that another, it quickly became four. They kept a square formation around the limo; it was an escort. Undaunted Alex kept her speed and closed the gap; she hung back and trailed one of the police bikes. These bikes didn’t look like they did in the movies, they looked sleek and modern and the sun reflected off of the polished black paint. The riders were also weird, their uniform was black but their helmets were the type a civilian would wear, a sort of dirt racer look with their faces covered. “How are you going to deal with this?” Tom asked. “You have feet . . . kick’em” “What?” Alex didn’t answer as she pulled up against the right side of the bike on the bottom left corner of the formation. The driver looked at both Tom and Alex before reacting, pulling a gun out of a sheath, he pointed it at the two. Before he could pull the trigger, however, he was sent flying off his bike by a powerful kick from Tom. The driver rolled against the road before coming to a stop. The bike was sent into the back of a parked car causing the cars alarm to blare. “Oh jeez I think I killed the poor bastard.” Tom said looking back. “So? They have been trying to kill us . . . fair’s fair.” “I gues- Oop, no he’s moving.” Alex sighed, she almost sounded disappointed. They continued their pursuit, but they hadn’t evaded the notice of the other bikers. Quickly breaking the two in the front let the limo go ahead of them and dropped behind Alex. Tom looked at the trio of bikes now behind them. “Well fuck. . .” Tom watched as they brought out their guns and aimed at them. “Double fuck.” Alex glanced at a mirror, before it was shot off. “Fickt.” “So on a scale of one to ten . . . how boned are we?” Tom asked sarcastically. “Twelve.” Alex replied. “We are pretty boned.” They both laughed darkly before a shot rang out, it grazed Alex’s right arm. The resulting shock and pain made her swerve left and right, she tried to correct herself but the bike was already in the air, both Tom and Alex flew off the bike and hit the road. Tom rolled when he had hit the ground. He shook of the daze and tried to move but pain shot through his left leg and he looked down to find some bone had pieced his skin. The police bikes had stopped and the riders got off. By now Tom had realised that these were obviously not cops, but Pervus guards. “Heh, and they say bad guys are horrible shots.” Tom laughed a little, but stopped when it hurt. Two had come up to Tom and pointed their weapons at him. The other went to look for Alex; she had landed close to where their bike crashed. Alex began to stir as she became conscious. Unlike Tom she wasn’t seriously harmed by the crash which was a blessing. The third guard had pulled out his weapon and pointed it at Alex. “We aRe to KeEp thE MalE aliVe.” One of the guards spoke, with a monotone akin to a robot. “And tHe FeMalE?” The one closest to Alex asked. “KilL HeR.” “What!? NO!” Tom cried out. Alex had heard the exchange; she knew she couldn’t run, they would cut her down. She lay there with tears welling up in her eyes, so this is how it ends for her. At least she would re-join her mother. “Not on my watch!” A distinct female voice rang out, followed by a rainbow trail as the rider was thrown back with a massive amount of force as Rainbow Dash tackled him, the speed at which she connected with the rider was so intense he had let go of his gun and flew for a few feet landing in a car windscreen. Rainbow Dash flared her wings as she came down to land. She placed herself between Alex and the other two riders. One pointed his gun at RD, Alex blinked and slowly raised herself up. “Rainbow, get Alex out of here now!” Tom shouted. “Not without you!” RD shouted back. Tom stared at the Pegasus, a bit pissed that she wasn’t doing what he asked but also a little bit happy that she would stay. “PoNy. PeGaSUs, OrdErs?” One of the riders spoke out. “PegAsUS . . . ExPenDablE.” Tom could not believe what was going on, he looked over at Rainbow Dash and started to shout. “FLY, YOU HAVE TO FLY NOW!” Rainbow Dash didn’t even question, she shot off into the air as second rider started to fire at her. She speed straight up then started to weave. She had no idea what she was dodging but if it got Tom riled up, it had to be bad. Tom sighed in relief as Rainbow Dash disappeared behind some buildings; she was obviously as fast as she thinks she is. Alex slowly stood from where she lay, which caught both Tom’s attention but also that of the riders. “Alex what are you doing?” Tom asked, concerned that she was now a bigger target. “Making things even.” Alex said through gritted teeth. Before Tom could even respond Alex started running. She ran directly at the Rider who started to fire at Rainbow Dash,. In a moment of confidence the Rider had forgotten to reload his weapon and before he had attempted too Alex jammed the gun the third rider had dropped and started to fire point blank, screaming in a rage. Three shots left the weapon and the casing fell to the ground, before the rider collapsed in a heap. The last rider aimed his weapon at Alex and fired. He scored a hit to the shoulder but that didn’t stop her. Fuelled by rage and adrenalin Alex lifted the weapon and started to fire hitting the rider in the left arm and chest. The rider landed on his knees before he fell face first onto the road. Anybody that had been watching the exchange was gone. The streets were abandoned and cars were left vacant. Tom stared at Alex and she stared at where the rider had stood. Rainbow Dash returned from her flight and landed beside Alex. “What happened?” Rainbow asked looking over the scene in disbelief. “Alex happened.” Tom said, holding his stare at the woman. “Will they be okay?” Rainbow asked again, obviously she wasn’t used to the idea of weapons and death. “N-No. . .” Alex replied; she started to shake. “What’s wrong with them?” Dash said looking at the body in front of her. “I. . .killed them.” Tears started to well up in Alex’s eyes again. “Killed? You mean . . . dead?” Rainbow looked shocked; the concepts were not foreign but obviously held some kind of taboo. “Alex?” Tom said trying to get her attention. “Alex . . . you did the right thing. If you hadn’t stopped them, they would have killed you.” “B-But they are. . .were human beings.” Tom snorted. “Take of his helmet.” “What?” Both Alex and Rainbow exclaimed. “Take of the helmet.” Tom said gesturing at the rider with three holes in his face. Alex looked down at the corpse and the bent over, it took a bit of twisting and pulling but the managed to get the helmet off. “Mein Gott!” Alex shouted. “What the buck!?” Rainbow yelled. The ‘face’ of the rider was distorted, but it looked like several faces had been stapled together, there was the lips and chin of a dark skinned woman and the eyes were different colours. The left cheek and side of the face was grafted from a man of Asian descent and the right side was Caucasian. The nose was off an old man and the ears off some kind of animal. “If pixie was a picture of what Pervus does to other people . . . well here we have the gallery.” Tom looked away. “We have to get out of here.” Rainbow Dash said trying to look away from the grotesque picture of humanity. “I’m not in any position to move anywhere.” Tom said gesturing to his leg. Alex stepped forward putting the gun into the back of her trousers. She moved toward Tom and then tried to stand him up. “OW! Fuck.” “Sorry!” “J-Just be more careful.” Tom gritted his teeth. Eventually they managed to get him up and he leaned on Alex. Rainbow hovered beside them as they started to move. --- Aside from crashing, breaking my leg and then witnessing what Pervus does with people, I was feeling good. Of course those three things happened so I wasn’t showing it. We walked in silence, well I hopped, for half an hour and found our way in an ally way. To be honest we had no idea what we were doing any more. Rainbow had lost the limo because of our crash, I had broken my leg and Alex was still scared by what she had done. “What’s the plan then?” I asked out loud. “We find you a hospital.” Alex replied. “What? But what about the others?” I said looking at Alex. “We can’t do anything, especially you.” She looked at my leg, the bone was still sticking out of it. I couldn’t believe I was still conscious, I mean seriously it hurt like a bastard and I had lost a bit of blood because of the wound. “It’s only a flesh wound.” I replied with a chuckle. Alex didn’t smile or do anything other than help me move forward, Rainbow was also dead silent. “Stupid question; is everyone okay?” “What do you think?” Alex asked. “No?” “Oh look at that. . .you win.” “You never came across as the sarcastic type Alex.” “I bet you thought I wasn’t a killer either” “Considering what that thing was. . .” “IT WAS A HUMAN BEING!” Alex screamed, dropping me. Rainbow turned around. “Ow. . .” I shook my head and gritted my teeth as a fresh river of pain flushed across my body. “Alex calm down.” Rainbow said. “Calm down!? We are alone in the biggest city on Earth with no help and no hope of finding our friends, being chased by a giant corporation that turn people into monsters.” “We will find them Alex . . . and we will beat Malik.” I said looking at her. “Yeah of course we will! We will kick butt!” Rainbow Dash grinned. Alex looked at both us. “B-But. . .” “Alex, look at me.” I waited till she looked at me before I continued. “I for one have nothing to lose, my family hates me and those who do care about me are prisoners. If I die trying to save them . . . well my life wouldn’t of been a waste.” Alex looked down and started to think, Rainbow just landed and sat next to me. “I knew this would have been the biggest thing that has ever happened to me, but it is too late to quit, I am going to see this through to the end! But I need your help Alex, yours too Rainbow Dash.” Rainbow chuckled. “You know I’ll always have your back.” Alex remained silent for a few more seconds. “Forgive me . . . Papa.” She took a breath. “So how do we find Pervus then?” I smiled at Alex. “Well we coul-” I stopped talking when I noticed someone at the end of the Ally way looking at us. Rainbow flared her wings and stood in an attack position. Alex turned around and saw the man. He started to approach us and we were in no way prepared for any attack. Alex put her hand on the gun and held it there while the man came towards us. “Who are you?” I asked. “A friend.” He replied. A well groomed business man stood there, slick black hair and a grey suit made him look way out of place in the filthy Ally way. “A friend?” I asked “Well the brother of a friend . . . I am John Lovestone.” A sly grin appeared on his face. “I’ve been looking for you.” I laughed nervously. “Found us. . .” The others were still on alert and frankly I was too. “Quite, I have heard that my sister and your friends have been captured by Malik . . . tut tut, father won’t be pleased.” “You don’t say . . . I must admit that I was not the most pleased either.” I responded. John started to laugh. “Oh my I see why father likes you.” He cleared his throat. “First things first, we got to get you some medical attention.” Rainbow, Alex and I looked at each other and then John. “How can we trust you?” Alex asked. “Because you have no one else to trust.” He replied. “He’s right you know.” I said. “Still doesn’t mean you can’t keep an eye on him.” Rainbow Dash added. “True. Okay we’ll go with you . . . but first.” I looked at Alex. “Can I have some help please?” --- John had a car nearby and so stashed me in the back, Rainbow sat on the floor next to me while Alex took the front seat. “When we heard that Pervus framed you as terrorists, my father called in a few favours and managed to stall the process.” John said as he drove. “But Malik didn’t need to wait. He knew you guys would try and do something.” “We were trying to find his goddamn building.” I said. “Indeed, and you failed twice.” We were all silent. “Good thing you seem to have luck on your side.” John said shaking his head. “We were at least doing something, unlike you or your father. We are not all equipped to take on powerful corporations and insane evil arseholes.” I said. John looked back at me a smile on his face. “Sorry.” I saw an apology in his eyes and looked away. “Not your fault.” I sighed. “I’m just frustrated, twice now we have been attacked by Pervus and twice we have barely escaped.” “Well that will soon be over. I have a few friends that would like to see the ponies free.” John said with chuckle. “What?” Rainbow Dash said looking up. “Malik foolishly believes that you are not a threat, that the Lovestones are not a threat.” John looked at Alex then at me. “We will prove him wrong.” A dark grin started to form on my face“I can’t wait.” --- Chris slowly walked across the cell, his thoughts on Tom and the others. Micheal and Sarah were holding each other in the corner; Sarah had run out energy to cry a while back and had fallen into an uneasy sleep. It wasn’t pleasant being captured by Pixie and Mr.Suit but it was even more unpleasant to hear that Twilight and the others were capture. When they started to hear screams coming from a laboratory across from where they were imprisoned it just became a nightmare. Chris kept pacing, fear and worry gripped his chest. Micheal cleared his throat. “Dude, sit down. You’re going to wear a hole in the floor. . .unless that’s your plan to escape?” Chris turned around. “Was that a joke?” He grimaced. “Now is not the time for jokes!” “SH! Yes that was a joke. . .a bad one but something to try and lighten the mood.” Micheal slowly stroked Sarah’s hair. Chris couldn’t say anything, what he wouldn’t do for Pinkie Pie’s jokes, Applejacks strength, Rainbow Dash’s confidence, Twilight’s intelligence or even Tom’s smile. Chris shook his head and then leant against a wall. “Sorry. . .” Chris said looking over at Micheal. Micheal just gave a shrug. “It’s nothing mate.” They sat there in silence, thinking, for a little before Sarah started to wake up. “Hey there hun.” Micheal said with a smile. “H-Hey . . . has Tom come for us yet?” “No not yet.” Chris said. “He may not even be coming . . .” “He’ll rescue us.” Micheal said trying to ignore Chris’ pessimism. “How do you know that!?” Chris shouted. “H-He is probably captured or worse.” “I-I don’t think so.” Sarah said. “Oh, do tell us how you know this.” “They took something precious from him.” She looked at Chris. “His friends . . . his family. He would not give up like that. Besides he has Alex and Rainbow Dash with him.” “Err, hunny didn’t you hear they . . . captured her.” She shook her head. “The others yes but Rainbow is still with Tom, I can feel it.” “Feel it?” Chris asked. She nodded. “This building seems to empower me . . . it enhances my power.” “Power? You mean magic?” Sarah nodded. “Remember my pocket watch.” Micheal nodded. “They took it away.” “No, remember what it did?” “It stored magical energy so that you could use it.” Chris said. “Yes . . . what if this building was like a giant pocket watch?” “They could do that?” Micheal and Chris said at the same time. “With the right material, it is possible.” Sarah said putting a hand to the stone wall behind her. “Could you use it?” Micheal asked. “The energy?” She thought for a moment. “Maybe, but I need to connect to the magic, to let it flow through me.” “Like the force?” Chris said. Sarah chuckled. “Yeah something like that.” She sat up straight and folded her legs. Her arms fell to her side and she started to chant in what sounded like Latin.” “This may take a while.” Micheal said. “So? If she gets this done we will be able to fight back . . . we may be able to level the playing field.” “Heh, and when Tom gets here?” Chris grinned “Well . . . they won’t stand a chance. --- (A/N: Hey guys sorry this took so long, you know how life can be. I cannot apologize enough for the lateness of this chapter and must say sorry if it feels rushed. Hopefully chapter 10 won't take like a solid few months.)