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// Ikebukuro  
// Story: Warriors of Ikebukuro 
// by Hidemain 
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Fluttershy opened her eyes and stared at a starless night sky with a full moon. Her ears were filled with loud machine like sounds and ponies talking over one another. She forced herself to sit up and look around. she was in what appeared to be an alleyway similiar to that found in Manehattan. The buildings were decidably grayer than that however. The smell of trash met her nostrals and she waved it away. She attempted to stand only to fall to her stomach. 

She took a look down in a rush thinking she may have been injured. But was shocked that she didn't see her usual butter yellow coat or hooves. She didn't even have wings. In their place were fleshy claw like appendages reminding Fluttershy of an ape or monkey's paw. Her hind legs were much longer than her fore limbs indicating she now walked on two legs like a minotaur. To add to her confusion was she lacked a tail was wearing a green sweater with a long light blue skirt.

Scared of what she might find she shakily moved to a puddle and looked at her reflection. Her snout was gone replaced by a small nose and flat mouth. Her mane and eyes were still the same color but her eyes were much smaller now. Her ears were now round on the side of her head rather than at the top and she could not move them as freely. 

Fluttershy steadily crawled over to the side of the building and pulled her self up trying to get her footing. When she finally had a sense of balance she practiced walking up and down the alleyway. Once she was confident enough she stuck her head out of the alleyway and was stunned by what she saw. Hundreds of ponies walking up and down side walks. And more inside of what she could only describ as mechanical chariots. Immediately frightened by it all she dove back into the alley. 

Unfortunately she had already been seen and a small group of five moved into the alley behind her. "Well what do we have here?" One of them wearing a bandanna round his head moved forward. "You lost little lady? May be we can help? Huh." 

Hearing the voice Fluttershy spun around and backed up. While the words sounded helpful, the lecherous grins and her instincts told her otherwise. She backed further into the alley until her back was against the wall. most of them. The giggled and cackled in a way that reminded her of hyenas. But thing that scared her the most was the feeling she got from their eyes. They weren't they eyes of a predator looking for food, but the eyes of a sadistic madness that showed her they could kill her with smiles on their faces. Fluttershy whimpered and slumped down.  

"How about you boys leave the poor girl alone." 

The group turned and faced the lone man now standing before them. The man was average height wearing a black beanie and dark green jacket. The antagonistic group moved to surround him. "Were busy here so why don't you just turn around and be on your way old man." 

The man blinked and whispered "Old?" The man then shook his head. "Listen punk I'm not going to sit here while you punks hurt bystander." 

"What was that?!" The leader of the group got in close to the man's face. "You wanna die!?" 

Faster than Fluttershy could track the man punched the leader the group. The next moment it was like discord himself descended on them. In a flurry of movement the man started fighting all five at once. The man moved dodging a punch or kick and quickly countered with his own. One of the aggressors got a hit in but it didn't even faze him. Another punch but one was grabbed the man in the beanie and was thrown into the others. 

Fluttershy did her best to make herself as small as possible. Two more people descended the wall she was pressed up against. One had blond hair and a Cheshire grin the other seemed female wearing a black newsboy hat and equally black dress. Fluttershy almost mistook the blond one for a dragon when fire seemed to come out of a small can he sprayed at the assailants. 

The girl took Fluttershy's hand and pulled her around the group to the alley opening where a van was waiting. The girl then pushed the once pegasus in to the metal contraption and signaled to her companions. The two men then hurried inside after them. "Step on it!" 

The van took off down the street throwing the occupants around. Fluttershy settled herself in practically hyperventilating. "OOoo Dotachin acting like a superhero!!" The female said leaning up to the man from hugging him from behind the seat. 

"Hey, you know I hate that name." The man the turned to the fear stricken Fluttershy. "My name's Kadota, the driver is Togusa, they otaku maniac twins are Walker and Erica. We saw those punks follow you into the alley and figured we'd step in." 

When Fluttershy didn't immediately respond Erica turned to her. "Hey, you okay?" Fluttershy just curled in on herself and remained silent. 

"Look we can drop you off somewhere safe, do you have any friends to stay with." Kadota sighed when he didn't get a response. 

"Where ever we take her its going to have to wait we got company." Togusa said while looking in the rear view mirror. 

Kadota turned around to get a look. Behind them was a massive biker gang chasing a woman on a black bike wearing a yellow helmet with cat ears. The woman pulled up to the window. "Hey Celty what's going on?" The rider tossed a small device to Kadota. 

'You tell me, I noticed them chasing you about a mile back. And who's the girl?'

"We're not sure who she is but we stopped a few of them who were about to rape her... or murder her hard to say in this city. We were gona find somewhere to hide until things blow over." 

Fluttershy finally got her nervs under control enough to remember what Twilight had said. "Um... I just to find a safe place for a few hours until my friends come for me... if you don't mind that is." 

"Well she does speak." Kadota smiled at her. Celty tapped again on the device and tossed it to him. 

'Take her to my place, Shizou and Mikato's gang are there I'll take out the bikers for you.' 

"Thanks a lot Celty we owe you." The rider pulled off with a wave of her hand the shadows leaped out into a net blocking the pursuers. With bikers fully entangled Celty U-turned and followed the Van. 

It didn't take long for them to get to a large apartment complex. Once there Celty took her bike into an elevator. Fluttershy could swear she heard it neigh before the door closed. The group then walked into an elevator there own. The group was silent except for Walker and Erika who had continually talked about what Fluttershy assumed was some kind of fantasy novels, until a ding announced their arrival. Celty arrived before them and loaded her bike into a kind of garage. 

Celty turned to Fluttershy and held up the device she saw earlier which read. 'Sorry the apartments going to be kind of packed. You should be fine just don't make Shizuo angry.' Fluttershy nodded wondering why the biker didn't talk but didn't say anything. Celty opened the door and walked into the small apartment with the five guests in tow. 

"CEEELLLLTYYY~" A man with in a lab coat and glasses tackled/hugged the rider knocking off her helmet revealing a headless woman with black smoke rising from her neck. 

Thump.