The Rainboom Thieves

by KingJoltik


The Bright Light Bank (Part 1 of 2)

One week later…

“Seems Smoking Brick is issuing us a challenge girls.” said Twilight as put some papers down on their meeting table.

“He wants us to steal from him again?” asked Rainbow. “That’s a first. Usually they just send goons out to try and kill us. Though they can’t find us anyways.”

“Yeah…seems he has a different idea.” said Twilight as she scratched her head.

“Wait a minute Twi, we’ve never hit a target that knows we’re coming. Is that a good idea?” asked Applejack.

“Yeah…that’s why I was going to ask you girls before I do some recon over the target.” said Twilight, “If we consider going after this, which it will destroy most of Smoking Brick’s money and help this city…however, that means the job is several times more dangerous.”

“Well, is it possible darling?” asked Rarity.

“Well…I don’t know. It seems Smoking Brick as hired some very interesting ponies.” said Twilight as she put out some photos on the table. “They’re called the Flim Flam Brothers.”

“Flim Flam? Sounds familiar…” said Applejack as she glared at the photos. “Really familiar…”

“Don’t worry about that…the point is girls…do you want to try this?” said Twilight as she glanced at the rest of her friends. The other six looked at each other and then nodded their heads.

“If you think we can do it Twilight, we’ll do it.”

“Yeah…I mean, if he wants us to steal from him, let’s do it!”

“Alright…We’ll be stealing from the Bright Light Bank…I’ll start doing some recon…” said Twilight as she rubbed her eyes. “This will be interesting…”

Meanwhile…

Sunset Shimmer and Trixie were sitting in a building a block or two away, looking at the bank that the Flim Flam Brothers had put security all over. Sunset then spoke up, “Geez…looks like Smoking Brick got super paranoid…I’ve never seen such machines around a bank before…”

“Really? Can Trixie look?” asked Trixie with she was eating her lunch.

“Sure.” replied Sunset as she handed the binoculars to Trixie. “It looks like it was made by those two weird looking ponies down there.”

“Two ponies?” asked Trixie as she began to look at the bank. “Hmm…it’s not who Trixie thinks it is, is it? It is!”

“What do you mean?”

“Those two ponies…I know them.” said Trixie as she gave the binoculars back.

“You do?”

“Yes. They’re the Flim Flam Brothers, Trixie met them a few years ago…back when Trixie was just a beat cop.”

“Old criminals?” asked Sunset, now intrigued.

“Yeah. The two are swindlers. They like making huge, over-complicated machines to trick ponies out of their money.”

“Let me guess…they decided to use Smoking Brick as their new client.”

“Probably.” replied Trixie as she took another bite of her lunch. “The two are *munch* *munch* probably trying to hit the big bucks and then leave town as soon as possible.”

“Nopony in town right now has more money than Smoking Brick…though I doubt the bigwigs would fall for their tricks.”

“Trixie must ask you something Sunset.”

“Hmm? What is it?”

“Will that crazy machine of theirs interfere with the plan?”

“Well…” said Sunset as she looked through the binoculars again. “Maybe…I suspect it could interfere with the plan…maybe by five to ten percent…”

“If that’s the case, Trixie suggests we watch the bank for a few nights. At least we’ll know where they’ll be coming too.”

“Keep the plan on hold and watch them instead? Hmm…not a bad idea…”

Meanwhile at the bank…

Flim and Flam are sitting at their now complete machine that covered the building with security equipment. There the two sat and were arguing with each other.

“I can’t believe I let you talk me into this…” said Flam.

“Me?! You’re the one who said this was a brilliant idea and I just had to go along with it!” yelled Flim.

“This was your idea!” yelled Flam.

“No it wasn’t!”

A week ago…

“So let me get this straight…you two have a security system machine that can capture the Rainbooms?” asked Smoking Brick as she blew smoke into the brothers’ faces.

“That’s right!” said Flam with a big smile. “All you have to do is…”

“Pay you?” interrupted Smoking Brick as he looked at his goons in the room. “Boys!”

The goons immediately grab the brothers and glared at the two. The brothers began to sweat waterfalls as Smoking Brick got off his chair and walked up to the brothers. “Let me explain what’s gonna happen here you two…” Smoking Brick says as he blows more smoke in their faces. “I’ll pay you handsomely if you catch the Rainbooms.”

“Really?” squeaked the brothers.

“Oh yes…but if you fail…” said Smoking Brick as he leans his face in front of both of them. “Let’s say…my boys will have some fun beating you…a lot.”

The Present…

“And then we had to make this machine which only we can use…” said Flam while sinking down in his chair. “What a great idea that was!”

“That was your idea.”

“Oh shut up!”

Later…

Twilight spent days observing the bank. She looked at every angle to get into the bank. Before she knew it, she had a plan ready for the heist and called yet another meeting.

“Okay girls…this was interesting to say the least…” said Twilight as she rubbed her eyes.

“You have a plan?” said Rainbow, “It better be something awesome!”

“Yeah…I’m not sure about awesome but…it’s different.” said Twilight as she began to put pictures on the table. “Let me start by saying this, the brothers have made quite a security machine.”

“Very impressive darling?” asked Rarity with a small smile.

“Well…I would be lying if I said it isn’t.” said Twilight with a small frown. “However, I will say the machine does have flaws.”

“Let me guess, we’re blowing that machine bits, aren’t we?” said Rainbow with a huge smile.

“Sorry Rainbow…we’re not going to destroy the machine.”

“Awww…”

“Sorry sis.” said Scootaloo as she patted Rainbow on the back.

“Don’t worry Rainbow, you’re vital to this plan anyways.” said Twilight with a small smile. “Now, let’s go over the plan I’ve made. First off, the machine the two have made have the bank completely covered. The machine basically covers the bank with security cameras, alarms and spotlights. In order to make sure the machine doesn’t have any weaknesses, the brothers have given the machine four different generators located around the bank. As long as one is still running, the machine can keep going. Though regular customers can go through the main entrance, which I did in disguise…the machine has put security everywhere in there too. That means we can’t go through the main entrance or even its side entrances.”

“This is starting to sound a bit complicated for us pardner.” said Applejack with hesitation in her voice.

“I agree Applejack.” said Twilight with a deep breath. “Well, in order to make this work…I made this!”

Twilight then put a big machine on the table. The six then looked at the machine and then asked. “Um…what is this Twilight?”

“I call it a drill.”

“A drill?”

“Yes. In order for this to work, I made this machine.”

“Say…how much money we taking?”

“Oh yeah…um…85 million bits.” said Twilight as she rubbed her eyes again.

“That’s quite a lot…how much money does this guy have?”

“Over 200 million bits.”

“Geez…” said Rainbow as she slumped down in her chair. “So…how we doing this Twilight?”

“We’re going to take the money by making them think we’re outside the bank.”