WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS SOME SWEARING AND GORE!
Midnight Blaze’s POV
I checked myself in the mirror. I had smoothed down my hair (it looks like Flash Sentry’s only cooler) and was wearing a white undershirt and blue striped vest over navy blue pants and black boots. I put on my blue tie and checked the clock to see I has 5 minutes to get to Sunset’s house. “Oh crap! I gotta go!” I said to myself as I ran out of the house
“And I gotta stop talking to myself too…”
Sunset Shimmer’s POV
“Thanks for the dress Rarity,” I thanked my friend.
“Oh it’s no problem darling! Go give that boy a night he’ll remember,” Rarity said, winking. I rolled my eyes as I left the boutique. ‘Midnight said to meet him at Canterlot Park. I wonder what he has planned…’ I thought
I found a nice place to sit down under a tree and leaned on a tree behind me. 5 minutes later I heard Midnight calling my name.
“Sunset… sorry…I’m la- late…” he panted as he reached the top of the hill. He looked up and stared at me.
“Um…are you OK?” I asked him.
He shook his head. “Yeah I’m fine. You look beautiful,” he complimented me.
“Oh, thanks. My friend Rarity made the dress,” I said. “So why did you want to meet here?” I asked.
“I thought it would be nice to have a picnic together,” he said taking out food. Pasta, fruit, roast chicken, everything!
“Wow Midnight, this is really nice!” He smiled that cute smile of his and looked over towards the sunset. He had a peaceful expression as the wind blew softly is his blue and black hair.
“Hm, now I know why your name is Sunset.”
“Hmm?”
“You’re just as beautiful as one…if not more…” he flirted, though I could tell he meant it from his expression.
I blushed a little. “Heh. Thanks. You’re pretty cute yourself you know,” I responded. We sat there watching the sunset and ate, making small talk and just enjoying each-other’s company. After a while Midnight lay down on the picnic blanket with his hands behind his head. “What are ya doing?” I asked
“Just looking at the stars,” he said.
I lay down next to him. “It really is nice…what is your favourite constellation?” I asked.
“Hmm…hard choice. I’d probably say either Pegasus or Draco, though I like Leo too. You?”
“Phoenix.”
“…”
“…”
“Come on, I wanna show ya something”
Twilight Sparkle’s POV
Are you sure we should be doing this Rainbow?” I asked my rainbow haired friend
“Don’t worry, we know Sunset likes him, we’re helping her!” Rainbow looked away for a second before looking back into her binoculars. We were hiding behind some bushes looking over towards the hill Sunset and her boyfriend were sitting at. I sighed.
“I still don’t see why I have to be here…” I said sitting next to her.
“You’re here cuz I want ya to be” Rainbow said, nudging me playfully before putting her arm around me, making me blush. It wasn’t really working out with Flash, and since we had both developed crushes on other people we broke it off. We’re still friends though. “Plus, I need help from someone experienced in romance, and since you read so many romance books-
“Then wouldn’t Rarity be a better choice?”
“Yeah, sure, all it would’ve cost me would be my sanity.”
“Good point,” I said, looking back over to the couple, who were admiring the sunset and chatting. “So what exactly are we doing?” I asked.
“Just making sure nothing goes wrong and as comfort if Sunset needs it. Hopefully we won’t be needed at all but I wanna be there to help if it’s needed, “Rainbow explained. That’s my Dash. Always loyal to her friends and putting their needs above hers.
Sunset Shimmer’s POV
“Where are we?” I asked. We were standing in front of a fairly old looking music shop. It was small with white paint on the outside and a neon sign above the entrance with an image of a guitar in top. “Scratch Musical Emporium” I read.
“Come on!” Midnight said, grabbing my arm and pulling me inside. He walked over to the counter and ringed the bell.
“Coming!” We heard from the back of the store. A few seconds later a man came through the door. He had short hair, striped 2 tones of dark blue. His skin was grey and he wore red rectangular sunglasses. “Hey Midnight! Long-time no see buddy!” he said as he gave Midnight a fist bump. “What did ya need?”
“I just wanted to show Sunset here one of my favourite hangouts. Sunset, meet Record Scratch, Record, meet Sunset Shimmer,” he said, putting his arm around me, making me blush as he smiles sweetly at me. “Any chance I got borrow a guitar?”
“Sure thing buddy. Help yourself. Vinyl is upstairs practicing but I’ll see if I can get her to come down later,” the man said before going into the backroom. Midnight walked over and grabbed an orange, red and yellow guitar from the wall and sat down on a stool, signalling for me to do the same. After I sat down he began playing a song.
(Every Time We Touch by Cascada)
I still hear your voice, when you sit next to me.
I still feel your touch in my dreams…
Midnight played the last note and put down the guitar
We looked at and smiled at each-other for a bit before we heard clapping. I turned around to see Vinyl Scratch in the doorway clapping.
“Hey Vinyl, What’s up?” Vinyl gave him a smile and thumbs up. She doesn’t like talking much and normally uses sign language to communicate. Midnight took the guitar over to the counter and Vinyl walked over to the cash register. Midnight said some things to Vinyl for a bit and gave her some money before vinyl took the guitar into the backroom. “Hey Sunset, do you wanna wait outside, I have a surprise for you,” he asked
“Yeah, sure,” I said as I walked inside I could’ve sworn to see a flash of rainbow duck down beneath the window but shrugged it off as me seeing things.
Rainbow Dash’s POV
I landed on my butt as Twilight pulled me down behind the window. “Thanks Twi, I was almost caught there,” I smiled at my friend.
“No problem. But I saw Sunset Shimmer walking out so we should probably get outta here,” she replied
“Right,” I said as we ran off. Well, Twilight ran, I had to jog so she could keep up.
Sunset Shimmer’s POV
I sat on a bench outside Record Scratch’s shop and looked into the sky as the wind blew through my hair. It reminded me of when I did the exact same thing in Equestria with Princess Celestia as she taught me more about the stars and the night sky, though she seemed rather distant, always looking up at the moon. Looking back, she was probably thinking about how she had to banish Luna – sorry, Nightmare Moon – into the moon. ‘I wonder what happened with Nightmare moon .in this world…’ I thought. I was draw form my thought when 2 people stood in front of me. One was a man, with crystal-looking dark green skin and spiked orange hair and a woman with crystal-looking purple skin and long red hair covering one eye. They wore identical clothing, consisting of black pants and boots and a black jacket with a symbol of a black and red crystal on the front pocket. “Um, hi, can I help you?” I asked nervously.
The man leaned down. “Hey there pretty lady, what are you doing here?” he asked.
“Um-“
“Did we say you could talk?” the woman asked.
“But you just-“
“Listen up girly. I don’t have time for this sh*t so just follow us and keep quiet,” he ordered
I stood defiant even though was terrified on the inside. “What if I say no?”
The man smirked and took out a lighter. “I burn this place to the ground.”
I growled but followed him anyway
Rainbow Dash’s POV
“We gotta do something!” I yelled but as I got up I felt something pull on my clothing. I looked back and saw twilight holding my jacket. “Twilight what are you doing?”
“Just trust me,” Twi said as she picked up a rock and threw it at the window, ducking down I saw Midnight walk over to the window and look out to see Sunset getting kidnapped.
Midnight Blaze’s POV
I ran out the door (putting down the guitar) towards the black truck Sunset was being led into. A man was walking in front of her leading the way while a woman stood behind her holding a knife to her back.
“Sunset!” I yelled out as I ran over. Her captors turned to look at me, giving Sunset a chance to run out of the way. I tackled the woman to the ground and punched her jaw, causing a tooth to fall out as well as some blood. She kicked me off her, knocking me back, but quickly recovered but got up quickly and ran towards her. I faked a punch to the face and kicked her in the knees, making her collapsed onto one leg. I was about to knock her out when I was kicked in the stomach and crashed to the ground. I sat up slowly and coughed up some blood and, wiping my mouth, looked up to see the man standing in front of the woman with his fist outstretched. He walked over to me and slammed his foot into my stomach, making me cough up more blood and was about to so again before he was pulled back. I stood up to see Sunset standing on his shoulders and pulling on his collar. He bucked like a horse (ironic really) and Sunset lost balance I caught her and put her down as I ran towards the man and attacked him, and I saw Sunset do the same to the woman. Eventually I got the man pinned and smacked him in the face until he was barely conscious. Yeah, it’s harsh, but otherwise he would’ve gotten back up and attacked me again. I stood up and saw Sunset knocked down as the woman stood in front of her holding the knife. The woman was just about to stab Sunset but I knocked her out of the way. The knife barely missed me and scratched my leg though it wasn’t very deep.
“Midnight, your leg!” Sunset said
“I’m fine!” I yelled as I turned towards the woman and twisted her arm, making her drop the knife before kicking her in the chest and knocking her down. I pinned her down as a precaution and told Sunset to call someone.
“Please…please let me go…”the woman underneath me groaned.
“Why should I? All you did was attack me and my girlfriend!”
“Technically we attacked no-one – you attacked us and we tried to kidnap your girlfriend, not attack her. And for that, I am very sorry.”
“Yeah, cuz that makes everything S MUCH BETTER!”
“Please, just listen to me. I never wanted his, I didn’t want to hurt anyone, I just-“
“Then why did you?” I interrogated.
“Because Master made me,” she said, cowering under me.
“Who is this Master?” I asked.
“I-I can’t tell you, he’d kill me!” She said tucking her head to her chest.
“Actually, you’re definitely going to prison for this, so this ‘Master’ of yours wouldn’t be able to get close to you. So spill, tell me everything you know, and maybe I’ll tell the cops to go easy on you,” I told her. She looked away and closed her eyes. I saw tears squeeze out but it was obvious she’s trying not to cry. I sighed. “Look, if you tell me this, then it’ll be easier to get him behind bars, and he won’t be able to hurt you anymore. Please?”
“OK…my name is Amethyst Hunter, and that over there is my brother Heavy Weight,” she nodded her head towards the unconscious man. “We were kidnapped just like we tried to do with your girlfriend just now and enslaved by this man. He calls himself Sombra. We were forced into slavery and for a while we were used as pack-horses. Eventually he promoted us to what we are now, kidnapping people and making them suffer the same fate we have to…we feel horrible about it, but it’s either that or torture followed immediately by death,” Amethyst looked over to Heavy Weight. “Poor guy. He acts all though but deep down he hates this. He cries himself to sleep almost every night.”
“What does this Sombra guy look like?” I asked.
“Well, he has grey skin and black hair and wears a red and white cape as well as dark grey armour. But his most defining feature are his eyes.”
“His eyes?”
“Yeah. They’re completely green with red cat like pupils. You can’t miss him,”
I froze. ‘This guy completely fits the description of a human version of that unicorn firm my dream…’ “Hey Sunset!”
Sunset poked her head out the doorway. “Yeah?”
“I need you to send a message to Princess Twilight when you get home. Ask her if she knows anything about a guy called Sombra.”
“OK.”
Just then we heard sirens and the police drove up. “Hello, my name is Mike, are these the kidnappers you called us about?” a man with brown hair, blue eyes and pale grey skin asked. I nodded.
“Hey, officer?”
Mike turned around “Yeah?”
“Go easy on them would ya? They weren’t acting on their own, this Sombra guy forced them to do it. Just, asked the woman to tell you about it,” I requested. I saw Amethyst smile at from inside the car.
“Sure thing. Come on boys, let’s move out!” Mike ordered and the car drove away. I saw Amethyst waving from the backseat as best as she could with the handcuffs. I smiled and waved back.
“Ready to go?” I asked Sunset.
“Sure,” she said and I went back and grabbed something and we hopped into my car (I had parked it there in advance) and I drove her home.
“Hey Midnight?” Sunset said
“Yeah?” I asked as I parked next to Sunset’s house
“Despite, what happened, I had fun tonight. Thanks,” she said, and she kissed me on the cheek.
My heart exploded. ‘She kissed me, she kissed me, she f**king kissed me!’ my brain was on overload, I was just staring into space. I snapped out of it when I heard Sunset giggle. I turned towards her and smiled.
“Hey, what were you doing in Vinyl’s shop that I had to leave for?” Sunset asked.
“Oh yeah!” I reached into the backseat and pulled out a guitar case. “Here.”
She opened it and saw the guitar I used earlier, only now with her ‘shirtie mark’ engraved on it. “You got this for me?” she asked. I nodded. She kissed me again (I didn’t freeze this time, I just blushed a lot) and hopped out and waved as I drove home. I received a text message and looked at it when I got a red-light
Sunset Shimmer: And get that leg looked at – I don’t want u getting sick
I smiled.