//------------------------------// // In the Hood // Story: Rainbow Dash makes a Prank Channel // by SaiyanApprentice //------------------------------// Chapter 3: In the hood, Rainbow Dash was in the passenger seat of a car, as it was heading toward downtown Canterlot. She couldn't wait to film this next prank, she's been wanting to do this one for a while but lacked the resources or fanbase. So what better time to do it then now, plus her new camera man would have fun too right? “Thanks for agreeing to be my new cameraman Jake, I really appreciate it. And for the ride of course” said Rainbow. The navy blue haired male, with round glasses and sky blue skin male turned to rainbow dash and smiled. “It's no problem, I should be thanking you for helping me out back there with those guys” Rainbow Dash chuckled. “Well I'm not just gonna let some guys give my new camera man AND friend, a hard time” Jake focused his attention back on the road. “Well that does mean a lot, after all I thou-” “Yeah, yeah don't mention it. Seriously don't ” Rainbow said. “You've done this before right” “What film?” Rainbow signed. “No...play football.” Jake frowned at the Rainbow haired girl. “I thought we were filming a video in downtown Canterlot?” Rainbow faced palmed, It was gonna take some time getting used too since Sunset bailed on her. Then again he had more experience, from what Rainbow heard. “I was being sarcastic Jake….I wasn't being serious” said Rainbow. “Oh, sorry” said Jake. “But yeah I've filmed before, that's why you asked me right?” “Well that and it was either you or Trixie. One of which I can't stand” Rainbow thought. “Even though my videos are a little different then yours, I still enj-” “ALRIGHT, I think we've arrived. Find somewhere to park” said Rainbow. Jake looked at his surroundings before looking back at Dash. “Are you sure? I mean this isn't Exactly the nicest part of town?” Rainbow huffed. “Yes I'm sure, now find someone where to park” she ordered. Jake nodded and turned the street corner to find parking. ~~~~~~~~~~ Rainbow and Jake were now walking down the sidewalk of downtown Canterlot. Or at least a part of it that didn't seem as nice as the rest. “Alright, right here should be a good spot” said Rainbow stopping. “You ready?” Jake then aimed the camera toward Rainbow Dash, turned it on and gave her thumbs up. “Ready here” “Oh wow” said Rainbow. “You sure know you way around a camera better than sunset. Anyways are we recording” Jake pushed a button on the camera and smiled. “We are now” Rainbow then focused her attention on the now recording camera. “What's up my AWESOME viewers, this is Rainbow from Rainboom.TV and today I have another great prank for you guys!” said Rainbow. “But first let's say hi to my new camera man for this prank, say hi Jake” Jake was taken back by this action but complied and turned the camera towards him briefly waving, then turning it back to Rainbow. “Ain't he just the sweetest for helping me? Anyways today we in probably the worst part of my town, not metaphorically but literally. And today we are going to be asking people” Rainbow then pulled out a toy water gun and a nerf gun from behind her back. “if people want to buy some guns off me” Jake frowned at Rainbow. “Not to be a downer, but are you sure this is safe?” Rainbow grunted in annoyance. “Yes Jake. No one down here is my friend nor do I know them personally, I mean what's it gonna hurt if I ask someone if they want to buy a toy gun. Jeez, why does everyone question my pranks” Jake shrugged. “If you say so Dash” Rainbow then took a deep breath and turned back to the camera. “Alright let's do this!” ~~~~~~~~~~ Jake was now on the other end of the street recording Rainbow from a good distance as she started walking up to a sketchy looking group of guys. She had recently gotten enough money to buy a mic she can wear so she didn't have to be within a close distance to the camera to pick up the conversation. It worked wonders in cases like this. “Hey guys” said Rainbow. The group of guys looked over toward Dash and then grinned. “Damn girl you lookin’ fine” Rainbow Dash giggled. “Oh thanks, anyways I was wondering if you guys want to buy some guns” The group of guys expression turned a little more serious but contained their smile. “Yeah sure baby, whatcha got” one of the guys said. Rainbow Dash smiled as she pulled out the nerf gun and water gun from behind her. “Alright you guys are gonna love these, I have special going on right not that's two for the price of one, straight from Family dollar. The onl-” Rainbow stopped as the guys now had a upset look on their face and we're getting closer to Dash. She was now starting to back up, knowing that this wasn't good. “Whatchu tryna pull bitch” said one of them Getting even closer to Dash. Rainbow Dash was now panicking,trying to figure a way to resolve the situation. But their body language seemed like they didn't want to resolve the situation the way she wanted to. “I...uhh” Rainbow Paused before taking off Running, with the group of guys chasing here. “Guys chill it's prank! Stop! It's a prank!” Rainbow then started to head toward Jake. She knew now that they could care less if it was a prank or not, considering they were showing no signs of slowing down or lightening up. “Run for it Jake!” Shouted Rainbow. As the Rainbow got closer,  Jake started taking off in same direction Rainbow Dash was heading toward. He didn't stop recording how ever, the fear of being caught by these guys only made him focus on running away from them. ~~~~~~~~~~ Rainbow was now approaching a single female leaning against the wall of a building. Jake once again was keeping his distance from Rainbow as he focused the camera on her, he was hoping this one didn't turn out like the last group. “Hey there” said Rainbow now in front of the girl. “Ey” she said in response. “I got some guns for sale homie, you lookin to buy” said Rainbow. The girl was now giving Rainbow a more serious look. “What do you mean, buy some Guns?” “I mean do you want to buy some guns?” Rainbow repeated. The girl got off of the wall and was now getting in Rainbows face, staring her down dead in the eye. “You better get your ass outta here” “H-hey now” Rainbow started. “I'm sure we can find something you're looki-” Rainbow was Interrupted by the girl punching her in the face, knocking rainbow to the ground. She then proceeded to tackle her and continuing to throw punches as Rainbow tried to protect herself. “Hey stop! It's a prank, stop!” Exclaimed Rainbow. Jake took the opportunity to get over to rainbow as quickly as possible, feeling like this situation was now way out of control. With Jake heading her way, Rainbow was still getting the crap beat out of her, but she had finally taken enough from this chick. After the girl threw another punch, Rainbow grabbed the girl's shirt collar and punched her back in the face, knocking her on the ground next to her. Rainbow then slowly got up and pounced on he,  punching her back continuously. “It's just a prank bitch! Huh, you like that! It's just a prank!” Who’s laughing now?!” Rainbow exclaimed not lightening up her punches. Jake had finally made it over to Rainbow and pulled her off the girl. “Rainbow! Calm down, let's just go” Rainbow looked over at Jake, took a deep breath and then offered her hand to the girl that was now slowly getting up. “Hey sorry about that, it was just a prank bro. Well, the gun part at least, they're just water guns see” said Rainbow pulling out one of the water guns for the girl to see. The girl studied the gun for a brief moment, before spitting in Rainbows face and walked off. “Stupid bitch, that's one way to get yourself killed” Rainbow wiped her face in disgust and turned to Jake. “Maybe we should try it on one more person, possibly someone that won't attack me the second I offer” ~~~~~~~~~~~ Rainbow Dash slowly, but confidently approached the police officer. Jake knew this couldn't end well, he was a little scared of the outcome. But I'm the end of Rainbow knew what she was doing, then everything should be okay, right? Once the officer noticed her approaching, Rainbow quickly smiled and greeted him. “Hi there” The officer smiled back at her. “Oh hello miss” “Would you like to by some guns?” Rainbow said. The officers smile disappeared. “I'm sorry?” “I said, would you like to buy some guns?” Rainbow repeated. The officer stepped closer to her. “You do realize what you're doing is a federal offense right?” Rainbow looked at the cop a little confused. “What are you talking about? I just wanted to know if you would like to buy a gun, here I'll show you” The cop stayed on guard as Rainbow reached behind her. He didn't know what to expect from her. Once she revealed what was behind her he couldn't help but smile when she pulled out the water gun. “See” said Rainbow. “Brand new, straight from the dollar store” The cop chuckled and patted Rainbow on the shoulder. “Oh wow, you got me there for a second” he said. “I was like, ‘is she really trying to sell me a firearm on the street’” Rainbow laughed with him. “Oh no I’d never do that, this is just a prank that I'm doing” “We'll be careful, because they're are some cops who won't take the joke like I did, so I advise against anyone else if I were you”  the cop said. Rainbow nodded in agreement. “Yes sir, thank you” The cop then started to walk in the other direction, followed by rainbow walking toward Jake. “Did you get that?” ~~~~~~~~~~ Rainbow was now at her computer, watching her latest video in the hood. The video had gone pretty well in her opinion, and it was receiving views. She might as well check the comments since it's only been up for a day or so, the comments were her favorite part of feedback. “Alrighty now, let's see how my viewers liked his episode” said Rainbow Dash scrolling down. She finally reached the comment section and unlike her last video, most of these were positive. “‘Nice video Rainbow, good to see you have…CheckMateJake helping you with your videos?’” said Rainbow reading one of the comments. Rainbow was pondering on what that could have meant, she knew that they meant Jake, but why add the CheckMate part? She continued to scroll down to look at more. “‘Lol at 3:42, who else but Rainbow would fight back XD nice vid!’ Says Pirateking24. ‘OMG you got CheckMateJake to help with your Vids!? Your so lucky!’ Says finalfor-you know what forget this, I wanna know what this whole CheckMateJake thing is” said Rainbow. Rainbow decided to go back to YouTube home page to see if she can find this ‘CheckMateJake’ channel. But before she started typing, she noticed one video near the top of the page that not only had a thumbnail with Rainbows picture on it, but Jake's too. She also noticed that the bottom of the thumbnail labeled in red said ‘#DramaAlert’. Rainbow looked at the video a little confused on what it was about, then clicked on it to see what it was about.“Rainboom.TV and CheckMateJake team up? by Drama Alert? What the hell is this?”   As the video started with it's News like introduction. A bearded man that was wearing a black baseball cap that had some symbol on it she had never really seen before. He was wearing a shirt that said Gfuel as well as having a Gfuel decal and products in front of the camera and on his Laptop in front of him. He had a tall but slender popcorn bucket off to the left and his whole setup looked like a studio of some sort. “Whaaaat iiiss up, Drama Alert nation! I'm your host KillerKeemstar, leeeettts get Rrroooight into the news!” “Why does this guys come off as douche to me?” Rainbow Dash asked herself. “He better not start talking shit” “So apparently new rising prankster Rainbow Dash or Rainboom.TV is appearntly teaming up with the rising YouTube gaming sensation CheckMateJake, for Prank videos. Now we learned this by Rainbows new video titled ‘selling toy guns in hood (gone wrong) (jumped) (almost arrested)” Keemstar said. “In the beginning of the video we see none other than Jake himself waving at the camera as Rainbow directors her audience attention toward him” Rainbow Dash studied the video closer. “Jakes….a rising sensation?” “Despite Rainbow having a YouTube Channel for only roughly a month she's been growing in popularity, thanks to her second video titled ‘Birthday hunting trip Gift Prank (gone wrong) (almost lost friend) (runs away crying) with now more than 10 million views, she has racked around 23,462 subscribers in her total time on YouTube and is only getting higher” “I should really check my Sub count more often, I didn't even know I had 23,462 subs” said Rainbow. “Now we don't know if Jake will have her in a future video or not for another collab of some sort, but him being in one of her videos out of nowhere is kind a shock. So anyways that's i-” Rainbow Dash clicked off the video and back to the YouTube homepage, she didn't know how to process the information she was just given. Jake a sensation, some guy named KillerKeemstar talking about her and Jake. “Why do I have the sudden urge to prank him now, I'm definitely saving one for you Keemstar” she stated at the YouTube home screen. She then typed in the name ‘CheckMateJake’ in the search bar, she had to see this channel of Jakes for herself. Once she pressed Enter, her entire express change from curious to dumbfounded. “What?! He has over 900,000 subscribers?” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “No way!” Rainbow then clicked on his channel, and then on his newest video, which showed that he just uploaded it the day before “How's it hangin guys, this is CheckMateJake here to bring you another video” the small upper right hand corner face cam of Jake said. “And today we are playing this heavily requested game that you all have asked for Called ‘Life is Strange” As Rainbow continued to watch Jake through her computer screen of him playing this video game, her amazement never left her. It was like he was a totally different person. She laughed when he laughed and her expression even followed Jakes throughout the game as he played on. It's no wonder he had so many viewers, he was pretty good at this. But why didn't he mention it before? Was he too shy to say something? Or afraid of what people might think? After the video finished she closed the webpage and turned her computer off. She proceeded to her bed and fell back on it. “It's always the quiet ones” she said to herself. “I need to talk to Jake more about this, but first!” She then sat up quickly as her brilliant mind of pranks started to run its course. “I have a new prank idea, but it might be another week or so before I can make it work and hopefully my dad won't freak...but it will be totally worth it”