//------------------------------// // That Turns A Good Girl // Story: Turn Cruel // by Gpizano //------------------------------// For years now Drivers Seat had been the personal driver of Mr. Filthy Rich and his family. The man himself was fine to work for, perfectly polite and such, really it was just the wife and his brat of a daughter that could be a nightmare. The only thing that made it worth it was the pay check he pulled in to support his family, Filthy did pay a competent employee well. But lately though his boss had been acting strange, asking to be driven to new, odd places and asking that some strange people be picked up. As far as he knew nothing illegal was going on, that was where Seat drew the line. At the moment he had returned from an unusual place his boss had asked to have him dropped off too more often. He had no idea why the man wanted to go there, maybe he liked the scenery and was thinking of buying the place up? Either way Seat followed a policy of not asking questions unless he wanted to get paid. He parked the limo in front of the mega mansion Filthy Rich owned and had made it to the street, dressed in casual street wear as he began the usual journey to the parking lot where his own beat up old car was. Just as he was passing by a narrow alley in between two fancy, high priced apartments, someone grabbed him from behind, placing a hand over his mouth and an arm around his neck before dragging him into the alley. He hit the brick wall hard, momentarily disoriented until he found himself staring at a high school girl with red and yellow hair wearing a leather jacket... and very much fitting the description of the girl who had run from the police and blew up the lobby of Mr. Rich's hotel last night! As he tried to jerk his head to the side and away from her hand, wanting to get his mouth clear so he could scream for help, the effort proved fruitless and her fingers curled over his cheeks, digging in like daggers as they kept a vice-like grip. "Either you stay still and listen or I start breaking your bones." A chill ran down his spine hearing her voice, it was calm, with an underlying dangerous edge... but something sounded off about it. The middle-aged man immediately stopped his struggling and just stared into her teal blue eyes, his own feeling as wide as dinner plates about now. "I know you drive Filthy Rich around... if you know where he is right now, then you tell me. Or else." God this chick was nuts! Filthy Rich had heard about her and told him, she was straight up dangerous! But if he told her where his boss was, who knew what she'd do to him?! Apparently his silence only seemed to be angering her because her gaze became as cold as ice. The hand that had been holding him by the shirt drew back into a fist, a black fire seeming to surround it before it slammed into the wall, causing the brick to explode and a sharp chunk to cut across his cheek. He had looked away when her fist connected with the wall, but when he looked back into her eyes the man knew true terror. The whites had turned black, the pupils were slit and the teal seemed to glow like demonic hellfire. "WHERE IS HE?!!" Seat started to shake, tears starting to stream down his cheeks and it took a moment for him to find his voice once she removed her hand. "I-I took him... I took him to this camp by the Everfree forest! I swear! P-Please don't kill me! I-I got a wife and a l-little girl! Please!" As he blubbered like a baby, Sunset Shimmer watched him quietly, her features turning back to normal as she felt a big weight start to settle in the pit of her stomach. Not a Changeling... just some poor guy caught up in something way beyond him. "... if you call the police, you can consider the life of your wife and daughter forfeit." Turning, she disappeared down the alleyway and left Drivers Seat curled up in a ball on the ground. About an hour later after highjacking a car that wouldn't be immediately reported, Sunset Shimmer managed to make her way out of Canterlot City without being caught and arrived at Camp Everfree. Her school had been planning to go there a month from now as a trip, but at the moment it looked absolutely deserted. Immediately Sunset Shimmer could feel the red flags going up as she exited the car and headed for the buildings. The full moon shed enough light that she could basically see everything that wasn't in the shadows. As she made her way to the center of the camp, Filthy Rich suddenly stepped out from behind a building in front of her. "Not bad, you managed to finally make it here. But sadly, this is as far as you will get." Suddenly they all appeared, from the shadows, from inside the buildings and from around them, they were even on the roof tops, all forming a circle around Sunset Shimmer. At a glance there had to at least be two-hundred non-disguised Changelings around her, all ready to attack at a moment's notice. With her barely keeping a grip on her dark magic and afraid that it would consume her as it had at the Fall Formal, the odds were stacked against her. The fake Filthy Rich knew this too and with but a signal of his hand, they all swarmed towards her. Sunset grit her teeth and focused, taking all of the dark energy that was pent up inside of her and releasing it with a burst that drove the first wave of Changelings back. 'You can't win like this. Let the dark power go! Release it! Let it do as it will!' No! Black, fire-like aura with a blue glow at the center covered her hands as the next wave of Changelings came, a storm of fists and weapons raining down on her that she either managed to dodge or block with the dark magic concentrated in her hands. Yet when she managed to strike one Changeling back, two more seemed to take it's place until finally they had her cornered. One bull rushed her, distracting her from the Changeling that came in from her right and struck her head with a wooden bat. The blows kept coming from there now that they found a chink in her defense until black energy came from her back, a pair of black, bat-like wings forming a shield around her as the Changelings pushed her back to the wall of a nearby cabin. 'You are so weak! Nothing more than a cowering little speck! I will take control when you finally lose the will to hold me back! Then I will make these insects and this whole pathetic world cower before me!' Never! She couldn't let the dark power inside of her run wild! She had to stop being so afraid of it. This was her body, this was her magic! She could control it! 'You won't gain control. If you accept this power and control it, your friends will never understand!' Yes... if her friends saw her wielding dark magic, they might very well reject her. She had been afraid from the start even as she foolishly thought she might only use until they were rescued and then bury it deep within her again, to try and leave it buried once more. But that just wasn't possible. It was a part of her now. She wouldn't let fear hold her back from what needed to be done! An explosion of light rocked the Changelings once more, but this time what they saw after the light faded gave them pause. Sunset Shimmer's form had changed but it was unlike anything that had been seen before. Instead of her hair rising from her head like a flame it instead seemed to swirl and shift around like ash dancing about the embers. Her jacket had become a long, black, leather trench coat with gold buckles that came down to about mid-thigh and was left open, showing off the long sleeved, blood red shirt underneath that had the symbol of her sun cutie mark in the center. She also wore black jeans and red leather boots that came up to the knees that had gold accents as well. When she opened her eyes, the Changelings at the front took a step back, seeing that her eyes had taken on the demonic look she had gotten whenever she used her power. As she looked upon them and saw the fear in their eyes, a smirk came to her lips as she raised her hand, a ball of magic forming in her hands, the same blue aura surrounded by black that moved like flames. "... run."