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// I Fought the Law and We Tied 
// Story: Cause, Effect, and Consequences 
// by Coltsguy 
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Alright, I may have gone a bit overboard when I threw Vlad into the room, but I don't think I deserved to be put into handcuffs and thrown into jail. I'd never been arrested for anything in my life! The one and only reason I didn't just pick up and leave was that I didn't like my chances of being mobile with Applejack. Yes, she was strong and agile, but it's pretty difficult to dodge a gunshot unless you had plot armor. She may be a protagonist back home, but I don't know if that is carried over here. The only good news was that she was being taken to Section 9 headquarters for safety.

The reason I had been taken into custody was for destruction of public property. Basically, I had no authorization to apprehend Vlad so the damages to his building and to the street outside were unlawful. I was told by the Major that they would negotiate trying to get me out. For the time being, I was stuck in what was basically the county lockup. It was a moderately sized area that was a grey colored concrete on three sides and green steel bars on the last side. I think it measured about fifteen feet by thirty five feet and contained two other occupants. Occupant number one was an elderly man with a hunched back sitting on a bench that went along the far wall. He was fully bald with squinty eyes and skinny limbs. He had on a long sleeve, green shirt and some khaki pants that were rolled up past his calves.

Occupant number two was what I assumed was a prostitute. She was dressed in a manner that you could see her bra and panties easily and, well I don't have a clue what the other things were. She basically was wearing pants leggings only they stopped right below her waist and just above her ankles. She also had fine mesh sleeves on her arms that stopped at her shoulders on one end and around her wrists on the other. All of those items were colored pink. Only her high heels were the color red and her short cut hair was a deep black and contrasted quite deeply with her near porcelain skin. I was pretty sure she caught me staring a few times over the course of the almost ninety minutes that I was in there, but she didn't say a word nor did her facial expression ever change. I attributed the latter to the fact that she was probably a cyborg, but I couldn't see her neck to confirm it. I almost broke down and asked her but an officer came to get me at that moment.

"Seth-san! You've been remanded to federal custody."

You could hear the emphasis on the translation despite the fact that it was said in perfect English. Still, I waited until the door to the cell was opened and quietly stepped out.

"Well, it was nice chatting with you both. Any requests for you two before I leave?"

The woman snorted.

"Granting desires is my thing human."

That voice managed to click for me instantly and I spun around just as the door closed and locked up.

"Desiree the wishing ghost?"

Her expression finally changed to one of shock.

"You know who I am?"

"Yeah I do, but what are you doing here?"

"I have no reason to tell you, but I suppose there is no reason not to either. After my last encounter with Section 9 and that annoying Danny Phantom I was left powerless in this form. I simply went to immerse myself in some of the rather basest of desires to recover my strength. Before I could, however, I was arrested for prostitution."

"I see..."

I snapped my fingers and the officer vanished. I made sure to teleport him in front of the Masters building since that was the only place I could easily remember. In his place, I had teleported Desiree from out of the cell.

"Well, well, well. It seems that there is more to you than what your appearance would suggest. May I have your name?"

It was there I managed to come up with a new moniker. Good or bad I'd stick with it.

"I'm Seth, of the Chaos," I spouted.

There was a flicker of something across her face, but it was too quick to know just what it was.

"So, you seemed to have freed me but I know not why."

"Eh," I shrugged, "I'm pretty sure I have this soft spot for pretty women. It's my weakness."

"It is, is it?" she purred as she leaned into me. "Hmmm. Up close like this I can feel the power you have inside you, as well as all those pent up desires that you suppress. Why not let them out?"

It was then that I placed my hands on her shoulders. I ended up channeling a bit of my energy inside of her to help get her strength back. The effect it had was nearly instantaneous. Her black hair grew down past her butt and stopped halfway down her thighs. Her formerly porcelain skin changed hue completely and was now colored a dull neon green. Lastly, her chest had gone from almost flat to double d's.

"Yeees, that's much better. So did you want to sow the seeds of chaos together? I'm sure I can help you greatly."

"I'm afraid I don't have the time. I have to stop the world from ending. Just stop messing with Section 9 and head back to the Ghost Zone. Alright? It's all I'm asking of you."

She let out a small chuckle.

"It seems you are busy. Very well. It is a small price to pay for regaining my power. So you have wished it, so shall it be. Til we meet again Mr. Chaos."

As she said that, her body slowly faded away in green smoke until she was completely gone. Was it a good idea to do what I just did? Probably not. I might truly have a weakness to pretty women. Well, there was also the fact that I had been tossed in jail and was not in the most agreeable mood. Geez I was fixing my mistakes from last time, but I was probably making whole new ones on this go around. I opened the door to the room the cell was met by a plethora of police officers with their guns trained on me. Oh I really was burning all kinds of bridges today wasn't I?

"You really aren't making any friends here are you?"

I looked to where the grizzled voice was coming from and spotted the figure of Chief Aramaki in the crowd. The man was the head of Section 9 and probably my only way out of the building without becoming a fugitive.

"You know I don't think you can lawfully detain a ghost anyway so I think that I was you all a favor."

"This isn't just about the ghost you just let loose. This is about the disappearance of the officer that was in the room with you."

"Oh! Yeah. Okay. He's fine. Here."

I snapped my fingers and the officer from before appeared between me and the armed force.

"See? He's okay. Everything is okay. No need for guns drawn. At least not this many am I right?"

A few of the officers did put away their weapons as they approached the officer in front of me and escorted him away. Only they and one officer put away their weapons. Aramaki then spoke up again.

"It is not so easy to show trust to one who continuously does not show any concerns for his actions."

"I guess I have been kind of spastic in my actions. I'm pretty sure it comes with the territory of being fueled by chaos. It tends to make things complicated and hard to understand."

"Chaos is, by it's very nature, unpredictable. It isn't something that can be controlled by anyone."

"Normally true. I have some measure of control over it, however, but that's not as important as why I'm here."

"It isn't? Well, by all means enlighten me as to the reason you feel is so important that you need to break into a law office, accost a well known philanthropist lawyer, and break out a prisoner while simultaneously traumatizing an officer of the law."

Now when I heard that, I could feel the disdain he had for me in his voice. I had shown up, run his team into a tizzy, nearly let a bad guy they were after get away, broken a prisoner, who was a a ghost no less, out of jail, and he was probably arguing my case to get me out of there and I rpobably just stepped all over his credibility in the process. I wouldn't be too happy either. Then again, I was equally unhappy about having been arrested for what I did. Hell, I could have restored all of those things that I had broken with my magic if anyone was willing to listen to me for one second. Well, they could only listen to me right now so talk I would.

"First off," I said raising my hand, "you all haul me off to jail for destroying property while I was stopping some asshole who had kidnapped and brain jacked innocent people. If any of you had talked to me for more than a few seconds I would have told you that I could repair the damage I did without any problems. Secondly," I said as my things came from nowhere and flew into my hand, "I do not like having my stuff taken from me. Especially my coin."

I pocketed everything else and held up said coin for emphasis.

"This coin is highly intuitive and can have a mind of it's own. As far as I know bad things can happen if I am apart from this coin.

"Thirdly, I sent away that woman in the cell with me because she is a ghost. I don't know how familiar you all are with ghosts but I highly doubt that this place is allowed, let alone qualified, to hold a ghost for any reason. It's a damn ghost so let her head back to the Ghost Zone. Lastly, the reason I'm here in the first place is that I'm trying to save all of your lives from some damn rip in space time that will end up tearing your universe asunder. Now that I've explained things can I please leave before everything and everyone is destroyed?"

When I had finished unloading all of that onto everyone in front of me, I was met with mostly incredulous stares.

"You'll have to excuse us if we don't really believe what you have to day," he said succinctly.

"Well, yeah... I guess, but I do have my companion back at your place who can at least back me up on the last point. Not so much on the other stuff, but at least the last one. I wouldn't have even let myself be captured it I wasn't concerned for her well being. Look, as soon as I'm done here we'll be on our way back home. Hopefully I won't mess up anything else along the way."

The chief looked long and hard at me for quite a bit as the tension in the room grew. No one made a move on either side. Finally, Aramaki broke the silence.

"Do I have your guarantee that you will do whatever we ask without question and will not break anymore laws while you are here?" he asked in a very serious tone. It was so serious that I almost blurted out an affirmative without thinking. Instead I took a deep breath to calm myself down a little.

"Look, my general nature now is chaos. Despite that, I would consider myself chaotic good. That means that I have an established code of right and wrong and will use less than the normal of usual methods to support that code. While I will endeavor to follow your instructions I can't give you a guarantee of that as something might happen that could clash with that code. My plan is to seal the rift I came to seal and then head back. I don't plan on causing any more anarchy. I don't plan on doing what I just did to that officer to anyone else. I do expect a musical number because Rainbow Dash jinxed me in the car during her Wonderbolts rant. If I have my say she's going to be part of it, but that's neither here nor there. I have to do this because it's my responsibility to fix it. Let me do my job."

"Hmph... I suppose that's the most I can expect out of you. We already have the testimony from your partner to confirm that part of your story. It seems we don't have much choice in the matter. Everyone stand down."

The officers all did what they were asked and holstered their weapons. There was a sound of something like pressurized air being released at my sides as well. Suddenly, the Major and Batou appeared where the noises came from and they too holstered their weapons.

"We'll be taking you to Section 9 headquarters while we sort out how to help you leave as soon as possible. Major, Batou, escort him there."

"Right." "Sir."

Yeah, I was getting the feeling that I wouldn't be welcome back here.