Chapter 23: A Fly in the Ointment (Die Hard Arc Part 1)
After ronching on another sugercube in thought, you get another plan. You quickly start inspecting the walls of the room until you find...
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The fire alarm.
Horrorshow. Just what I need to call in some backup.
With that you quickly pull down the fire alarm and then use your changeling hooves to walk up the wall and onto a nearby, poorly-lit section of the ceiling near the alarm and activate your hookblade as you lie in wait.
Now even if those thugs send anypony down here to check on the alarm, I can just ambush them from the shadows.
Soon you see firetrucks approaching, but to your confusion you see them suddenly stop and turn around. Before you can ponder this development, you hear the door open and see a diamond dog thug with a spear muttering to himself as he walks in to turn off the alarm.
Okay, now to just ambush, subdue, and interrogate this mutt over why those firetrucks aren't coming.
To your surprise, the dog suddenly stops and start sniffing the air. You're puzzled by this act until you realize,
D'oh! Gorram diamond dog noses! you think in alarm. You quickly Force Pull a nearby bucket to make him whirl around in the direction of the noise as you quickly jump off the ceiling and tackle the dog into a wall and quickly follow-up with Chain Punch. With the mutt briefly stunned by this assault, you jump back with hookblade at the ready and look for something heavy to beat the dog with when he recognizes you,
"C-Captain DeWitt?!"
"Yeah, that's me." you say using your changeling horn magic to open your suit and reveal the Dimondia Star of Zeal Medal as you cautiously keep the hookblade at the ready.
The dog quickly gets up and and salutes,
"Sorry Captain Dewitt, I didn't recognize you."
You pause and gasp, "Private Rufus?!'
I remember this guy! you think, He was the runt of his litter who couldn't keep up so he resigned to find work in Equestria.
"What are you doing with a bunch of thugs?!" You exclaim.
"I was looking for a job at the bodyguard guild when that Griffon in the suit said that he had a job for me that would mean I'd get to see the world." he looks behind himself, "Speaking of which, I gotta get back. Boss is very exact"
"Rufus, these are bad guys." you say with emphasis.
"Really?" he asks in confusion.
"No, they're collecting donations for the widows and orphans fund before going to teach math to impoverished inner-city foals." you snark.
"I thought job was to follow griffin orders and see the world?" he asks in genuine confusion.
I forgot how dumb these dogs are. you think as you facehoof.
"Rufus... they had you all crash a party and round up the partiers at weapon-point. Does that sound like something good guys do?"
Rufus starts to mull over this point as you sigh/think,
One thing about these guys, they take a gorram long time to think...
"I gotya! Yeah! I mean, no! No, I shouldn't do this... right?"
"You shouldn't do this, yes. Now are there any other Diamond Dogs in the group?" you ask hoping for more allies among the thugs.
"A few, but they exiles kicked out of Diamondia. Bad dogs. Not that smart either like you or me."
Smart is debatable... you think to yourself, "What happened to the firetrucks that were supposed to come here?"
"The boss had a pegasus launch the 'false alarm' flare while sending me to turn off the alarm. Then I sniffed you, heard bucket, you tackled me, I know you, you ask me-"
"Okay, I got it." you interrupt, "For now, I want you to tell him that you thought you heard somepony in here, but it was a false alarm. I also need you to keep the hostages safe and don’t do anything against the bad guys unless I get directly involved, Okay?"
“So… you want me to pretend to be bad guy and start hitting real bad guys when you start hitting them first?”
“Uh, pretty much.”
With a salute, Rufus heads out of the room and back up the stairs.
Okay, I have one ally… and he's about as smart as a lobotomized doorknob.
"Hey Rufus, you know where the bathroom is? The boss ordered the bathroom upstairs is only for rotating groups of hostages." you hear another voice say from the stairwell.
"Uh... on the next floor down, take a right, go down the hall, and whatever you do, ignore the pony in a suit." Rufus replies.
You facehoof at this, but fortunately you hear the other voice reply in confusion,
"Uh... thanks."
Getting an idea, you quickly run down the hall into the bathroom Rufus was talking about. You quickly put the bar of soap on the floor in front of the door, pick up a plunger, stand at attention near the door, and wait.
Soon a Griffin thug with a crossbow walks in, put slips on the soap and skids into the wall. You quickly follow this up by breaking the plunger on the Griffin's head and then quickly grabbing the stunned Griffin, smashing his face into the mirror, and then using your weight to smash his head through the porcelain sink. A comical bump grows from the top of the griffin's head as he lays unconscious.
"Like 'Burnt Notice' said, bathrooms have lots hard surfaces." you comment to yourself as you stuff the unconcious griffin into a stall before taking his Crossbow.
"Okay... Now I have a crossbow..." you grin.
"Crossbow" added to Saddlebags
Deciding to add a reference to your victory, you use a urinal cake to write on the griffon's chest,
Now I have a crossbow. Ho-ho-ho.
With that you stuff the urinal cake into the griffin's mouth, shut the stall door, and use the broken plunger and use it to seal the bathroom shut from the inside. With that done, you contemplate your next move...
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Think bug, think. I need to get off this floor and avoid becoming a hostage, but they’ve surely got the elevator and stairs guarded so how else am I going to get out of here… you trail off as you look up and see an air vent.
“Horrorshow…” you say to yourself as you wall-crawl up to the vent, take off the grate, and crawl in.
“Thank you action serials.”
30 MINUTES LATER
“Buck you action serials.” You say to yourself as you realize that you’re now lost. You’re about to punch the wall in frustration when you see a grate leading to a janitor’s closet. Putting on your Multi-Vision Goggles and using the night vision to look into the darkened room, you see some objects that pique your interest and use Force Pull to pull them to you through the grate.
The first object is a wooden broom *crack* that you proceed to break in half with the help of your hookblade.
“Equestria doesn’t pay for dead bounties so I can’t kill any of them, but hopefully this will be enough to immobilize a pursuer if I jam it into their hind joints”
Next you look at a can of hair spray,
“Don’t want to use up my own WD-40 or Fire Extinguisher so hopefully this can serve as impromptu mace or even a flamethrower when combined with my lighter.”
"Sharp Pointy Stick"
"Hair Spray"
Added to Inventory
As you continue squeezing through the ducts, you realize something. These things really aren’t built for ponies to climb in and the vents are getting tighter.
“Ooof,” you breathe out as your belly takes up a bit of room, “Guess this is where the construction budget cuts kick in.” you snark as you try to keep moving forward, but get to an impasse where your flanks get caught.
“Oh to hay with this,” you say as you concentrate and use your changeling disguise spell to shapeshift into a small colt which allows you to fit much better, but now your clothing is a lot looser.
Knowing that you can’t maintain this spell for long, you quickly dash forward through the vent. Just as you feel your control slipping you suddenly fall through an overhead grate and change back to your normal size as you fall hard onto a desk.
“Oh My Goodness! Please don’t hurt me!” yelps a very annoying voice.
You look up and see that annoying overdressed jerk from before.
“Keep your pants on, I ain’t a terrorist.” You say as you get off the table.
He lets out a sigh of relief.
“Oh thank goodness. You’re just that shabby plebian from before,”
You roll your eyes at this. “Uh huh, now what are YOU doing up here… um…”
“Svengallop, Manager Extraordinaire, but of course you already knew that. And I was up here having a smoke break when those brutes burst in down below, I’ve been hiding since.”
“Why haven’t you tried escaping or getting help?”
“What are you crazy? I’m a celebrity! They’d go right for me for my greatness. It’s better to hide.”
“Oh how noble of you…” you snark as you see door leading to another office.
You go over to the door and try to open it, but it’s locked.
“I already tried that, you’d need something blunt and hard to get through,” he says.
“Hmmm…” you muse looking at Svengallop's head.
“What are you thinking?” he demands giving you a look.
“Use your head…”
"W-*wham* Owwww!"
Before he can respond, you slam him face first into the door which cracks, but remains shut.
"You savage stupid brute!” he whines as he clutches his nose, “I'll make sure you get my surgical bills for-"
"If at first you don’t succeed..." you interrupt nonchalantly as you start repeatedly slamming Svengallop's face into the door until it gives in and swings open.
“Hey look, it worked.” you smirk
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“I… wo… count…” he mumbles dizzily with bits fluttering around his head.
Now that you have an exit open, you go about setting up a Home Loner-type trap using office supplies and a little bit of bait as you place the still dizzy Svengallop in a rolling chair underneath a deadfall you set up using rubber bands and a small filing cabinet.
“Now you just stay right here sleeping ugly.” you tell the woozy Svengallop as you get him in position.
“Concert... Autotune…” he responds.
You then go to the nearest smoke alarm, take out your Golden Lighter, and set it alight under the smoke alarm setting it off.
“That ought to get someling’s attention.” you say as you look out towards the city, hoping the fire brigade will show up. To your disappointment, you only see a heavyset earth pony officer walk over and enter the building. Before you could mentally comment on this, you hear steps coming to your floor so you duck into a cubicle.
Right on cue, you see an Earth Pony thug carrying a bag and a Minotaur thug both walk into the room, spears at the ready when they see Svengallop.
“Alright, party’s over. Come with us and you won’t get hurt.” the Minotaur orders, but Svengallop doesn’t seem to acknowledge them in his head-battered state.
Snorting in impatience, the Earth Pony thug walks over to Svengallop.
“You heard the bull fancypants.” He gruffly says as he pushes Svengallop off the chair, “Get up and join the other hostages before-” *WHAM*
Right on cue, the file cabinet falls from the ceiling and slams onto the thug’s head, knocking him out. As the minotaur is stunned by this action, you take the opportunity to charge at the Minotaur and prepare an immobilizing slime attack (1)... only for nothing to happen.
"Buck! Why isn't my changeling slime working?!"
"Ahem."
You look up to use the Minotaur looking down at you with a raised eyebrow and crossed arms.
Kick someone through a window (not from a height where a fall would be fatal) and utilize your new shirt/belly cannon to smash the bandits.
Getting an idea, you reach into your Saddlebags for the Shirt Cannon... Only to remember that you lost the shirt cannon foiling those wannabe airship hijackers.
"Uh... Critical Chi Strike!" you say as you try to concentrate and punch the Minotaur right in the gut as hard as you can.
"OWWW!"
And shake your hoof in pain while the Minotaur is completely unaffected other than the expression on his face turning to bemusement. In one more attempt, you quickly whip out the Crossbow from your saddlebags, only for the minotaur to grab it and crush it in one hand.
"Okay... this was a REALLY stupid ide-urk!"
The Minotaur grabs you by the throat, lifts you up, and then violently throws you through the walls of the cubicle until you slam into the wall, your ribs cracking from the impact,
"Someling get the number of that carriage." you mutter through gritted teeth as you try to get back up only to see the Minotaur coming right at you with a determined stride, spear in hand.
Thinking quickly, you grab the Hair Spray and Golden Lighter out of your Saddlebags and unleash a stream of fire right in the charging Minotaur’s face while declaring,
“Anypony order steak?!”
“GRAHHHHHH!!!” he screams as he flails around on fire while you quickly toss the flaming spray can at him before diving into a cubicle, “WHEN MY BROTHER GETS HIS HANDS ON YOU YOU’RE GOING TO-” *ka-boom*
ON THE GROUND
We see the large earth pony LPPD officer walking away the building with a small pantry’s worth of pastries on his back muttering to himself,
“Great, I’m on the last 15 minutes of my shift when I happen to pass by this building’s SECOND false alarm. On Hearth’s Warming Eve no less! Hopefully now I can go straight home to my pregnant wife without any more incidents-”
*SPLASH*
Suddenly a flaming Minotaur falls from the sky and splashes onto the fountain next to him.
“SWEET CELESTIA!!!” he exclaims as he goes over to the minotaur’s unconscious form when suddenly a repeating crossbow opens up on him from one of the higher floors.
“OFFICER UNDER ATTACK AT TRACKATOMI!” he screams, hightailing it out of their under the barrage of arrows, “I NEED BACKUP NOW! NOW CELESTIA DARN IT, NOW!!!”
BACK WITH YOU
“Welcome to the party, pal!” you exclaim out the shattered window, having just limped over to where the exploding spray can sent the minotaur smashing out the window.
"Crossbow"
"Hair Spray"
lost
Feeling your cracked ribs, you're about to heal yourself when you realize something,
Buck. With all that commotion, some of those thugs are bound to come down here. I can't risk getting caught in mid-heal!
With that in mind, you quickly down a Bottle of Painkillers to help ignore the pain of your cracked ribs before you quickly put Svengallop (his hair singed by the explosion) back on the rolling chair (Chain Punching him to ensure continued wooziness), put the Earth Pony's bag on Svengallop, tie up the unconscious earth pony thug with duct tape, lock him in a nearby closet, put up a "Toxic Waste, Do Not Enter" on the door to make sure nopony opens the door, and then push the rolling chair with Svengallop and the bag out of the room.
Soon you find yourself back in the still-under-construction room with Svengallop and the bag. You concentrate to invoke your healing factor and soon you feel the healing green flame go over your body and heal your cracked ribs. Breathing a sigh of relief, you proceed to consume a snack (5 Granola Bars, 2 Chocolate Bars, and 2 Bottles of Vanilla-Cola) as you rummage through the bag for anything useful. All you find are some detonation wires and a weird-looking small box with a cluster of holes in one end.
You’re about to ponder what these could mean when you suddenly hear,
"THIS IS THE LAS PEGASUS POLICE DEPARTMENT, COME OUT UNARMED WITH YOUR HOOVES UP!"
You go to the window and see that the Las Pegasus Police have blockaded the building.
"About gorram time." you comment when you hear a deep cultured voice come out of the small box you're holding,
"All of you, stay at your posts! We knew that police action was inevitable, In fact, it's necessary. So let them start their feeble efforts; until then, stay calm. Remember that we have the hostages so we are still in charge."
I get it, this must be one of those fancy... what do they call it... Trotty-Talkies. But these things are expensive and rare so these guys must be some serious characters.
Suddenly you hear smashing and angry shouting from the other end.
"Um... boss?" you overhear Rufus ask with fear in his voice.
"Let Károlos get it out of his system." the boss replies calmly, "Once he's a little calmer over his brother's defenestration we will proceed with the plan and then deal with this mystery pest inconveniencing us."
Oh great, that minotaur I threw out the window has a big brother. you think in dread.
Carrying "Terrorist Bag"
"Terrorist Bag" contents
-Detonation Wires
-Trotty-Talky
You then press the button on the Trotty-Talky and are about to interrupt this meeting with a witty one-liner when...
"Why are we in this shabby half-completed room?! I need some water imported from Rainbow Falls with straws right n-" Svengallop whines before you shove a hoof into his mouth to shut him up.
"Károlos, take two of our ponies with you and sweep the rooms still under construction." you hear the cultured voice say much to your dread.
"D'oh!"
"Nopony else kills him." you hear an angry voice growl as you hear a REALLY large ax being drawn, "He's MINE."
A shiver of fear goes down your spine as the Trotty-Talky turns off. You then glare at Svengallop in annoyance as you think,
Someling remind me why I brought this idiot along?
WHAT DO YOU DO?
(1) Changeling slime is a technique used to immobilize targets and make it easier and faster to extract love. While it's faster to cocoon and entrap target in groups, individuals changelings can create small amounts in order to help trip up or slow down targets.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR’S EVERYPONY/LING! Now that the authorities are finally getting involved, things are about to get interesting. And that annoying over-dressed Earth Pony is indeed Svengallop from the Season 5 Episode "The Mane Attraction". He was at the Trackatomi Plaza party to negotiate a Trackatomi Corporation-held Countess Coloratura concert when this takeover happened.
Unfortunately, since this timeline is still in Season 3 (post-Alicorn Princess Twilight), the events of Season 5 have NOT happened yet which means we can NOT kill, maim, discredit, or cripple this annoying jerk (although feel free to hurt and humiliate him 
).
Also remember;
-None of the Mane 6 or any princesses show up
-No exposing Ritz as a changeling
-NO KILLING (yes, even that minotaur set on fire and exploded out a window and long-fell into a fountain IS still alive. Minotaurs are very durable)
-You have an angry vengeful Minotaur named Károlos wielding a giant battle ax and hunting for you.
-Ritz can NOT last that long in straight up combat (one throw by a minotaur cracked his ribs) so use stealth instead.
-This is Equestria so there are NO televisions, phones, or other electrical technology
-The police are in possession of the fallen minotaur's Trotty-Talkie, perhaps a certain earth pony will end up chatting with Ritz...
Today’s Question;
With the exception of the first Die Hard, what is your favorite Die Hard-style movie or TV show episode and why?
For clarification, this means a plot where bad guys have taken over a place/area and the good guy(s) have to fight their way to victory from the inside. Again, you can NOT choose the first Die Hard for your answer.
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Just make sure the cops don't mistake you for one of the terrorists.
Throw a thunderorb and clean out a few of the criminals, with the minotaur being one of those getting zapped.
Ritz try to use his changeling powers to disguise as one of the ponies that work for the griffon in a moment that Svengallop is to busy moaning and don't look, but he can't maintain the disguise more that a couple of seconds and try another plan, as he cough a little, he begin to talk in the Trotty-Talky.
"Intruder, there is a Intruder in the elevator" Say Ritz as he change his voice a little.
Even when it's hard to disguise himself, he can manage to disguise his voice and decide to try to confuse everyling using that.
"I think I see something running to the roof" Comment with another voice
"Blood! Blood everywhere! Somepony is hurt in the bathroom!" Say Ritz in a third voice
"The cops! The cops are coming from the back door!" Shout Ritz again as he change his voice
After a couple of things like that, it seems that the group is confused as they don't know where to go or what to do, is then that Ritz try something else.
"In the name of the moon, thou are going to be punished" Say Ritz with a voice very similar to the one of Luna.
Is then when suddenly the wall is destroyed and you can see the big minotaur looking to you.
"Do you think you can laugh of Karolos team? Karolos is going to show you a world of pain" Shout the minotaur as he try to hit Ritz
Of course Ritz can only do one thing, running to the wall and try to evade the minotaur
"Go down so that I Karolos can get you!" Shout the angry minotaur.
"Uhhh... Maybe you can help us? Whatever the griffon pay, we can pay the double, think about it! They send you to do the dirt work, why obey a stupid griffon?" Ask Ritz
"Karolos is not stupid, you say that but you don't have money!" Say the Minotaur
"I? No, but the hostages, they have tons of money!" Say Ritz
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"Okay, minotaurs are tanks, direct combat is suicide" you glance over Karolos' face, and see he still wants to squish you to a paste, "Come on, there has to be some weakess!"
"Ready to become another for Karolos to slay" he says while grinning sadistically at you.
You gulp, "Cake bomb? No too much prep needed for that, reinforced hat? Doubt it would do anything. Thundercloud orbs are out too because I'd be caught in it to" you quickly think to yourself.
Karolos readies his weapon to come at you.
You take a step back at the sight, "Duct tape, used blanket, WD-40-"
*Cartoonish Ding*
You have a eureka moment, "The WD-40! What did the warning say again, "Keep away from eyes and mouth" maybe if I can get close enough without getting killed I can use it to escape from this lunatic!"
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Well, have fun with this, it's about what I could think of considering his current load-out.
But we can maim, discredit or cripple the others? :o
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NO KILLING of anypony/ling/taur/etc. although comic injuries onto other characters is permitted (and encouraged in the case of the bad guys and protagonist/you/Ritz)
Knock out Svengallop, and duct tape his mouth shut, using the urinal cake from earlier to draw a frowning face on it like from Charlie's Angels.
"Okay, I have one dufus who isn't good for much aside from bait, and a whole army of thugs after me..." You groan and decide to look around, finding nothing of interest.
"Agh... what would Chunk Norris do?"
"Punch out every last thug with killer precision and an impressive mustache-beard combo" Chunk Norris' disembodied, ethereal head says to you.
"Chrysalis' tits!!" you scream, jumping away from the head "Chunk Norris?! You... you're dead?" you ask, your Changeling heart breaking.
"Of course I'm not dead, you moron!" he yells at you "I'm just a figment of your imagination. Nothing kills Chunk Norris! Chunk Norris kills nothing!
You pause "Doesn't that mean that you don't kill at all?"
He scowls at you, and you can tell that he's shaking his ethereal hoof at you "Forget about the syntax goo-brain! Listen, you've seen every single good, bad, and horrible action movie in existence, right?
You nod unsurely.
Then do the things in those movies! Now, what do you have that the thugs don't?"
"... Intellect?"
"Yes, and an imaginary floating Chunk Norris head talking to you. Seriously, you may want to get that checked out."
You grin "Yeah! I can do this! I can win!" You start to take another look around and decide to loot the Earth pony's unconscious body for weapons.
(1 dented paring knife, 3 small smoke bombs, 1 mallet, rope, and a grappling hook gun.)
"Yes!! I can see a plan now..."
[one explanation later]
"What do you think imaginary floating Chunk Norris head?"
"Seeing as how I'm all in your head... it's a good plan, just don't make too many Microphone Bay explosions."
You smile and go to the elevator, dragging Svengallop behind you "Come on Pretty mare, let's get you all ready for your close-up."
Svengallop looks at you nervously "I-I'm not an actor! Please, I'll do anything but not... what you're planning!"
You shush him and pull a mare's fishnet stocking over his head "You just have to say your lines, and run. That's easier than what I have to do."
He swallows and you sigh "You want a last cigarette before you die?"
Svengallop nods and you let him loosen the stocking so that he can smoke "So... why are helping, anyways?"
"Good Samaritan, I suppose. That and I have a thing against thugs with more muscle than wit." you reply, using your lighter to light his cigarette.
He finishes his cigarette and tosses it in the trashcan "Well... here goes..."
You salute him and hide in the air duct above you, pointy stick at ready.
"Greetings gentleshits!" he greets, barging down the door to the hostage room. "I have been charged by Your mothers, were a bunch of hamsters I may add!" he inhales "I blow my nose at you silly little empty-headed food trough water! I fart in your general direction!!" He puts a hoof to his forehead and waves it around, blowing a raspberry at them.
The griffon leader quirks an eyebrow at Svengallop "What a peculiar little stallion... kill him."
Svengallop gulps and runs back into the hallway, a half a dozen following him "Heeeeeelp!!"
You roll your eyes, lower your multi-goggles, and throw one of the smoke bombs on the floor.
The hallway fills with Smoke and you drop down from the ventilation shaft, easily seeing the thugs. You run up to one and chain punch him, knocking him into a large dragon who picks the pony up "Take this you little wimp!"
"Wait! It's-" the pony says, but gets an (un)healthy serving of fist. You wince at the impact but force push a few of the thugs into his side, knocking him through the wall, the six thugs going out after him.
You pause "Wait... that makes seven, not the six that came out of..." you slap your forehead "Horrorshow..."
(Down below)
"Okay, we need to send in a SWAT team to get rid of those thugs!" the round pony says, munching on a donut. "And thanks for the new cart." he says to his deputy out of the corner of his mouth.
He admires the cart's shiny coat "Ain't gonna let nothin' happen to you."
Suddenly the dragon and thugs fall onto the cart, flattening it in front of the officer's eyes.
"..." he stares at what remains of the cart, speechless.
The deputy taps his boss' shoulder "You... you okay boss?"
He whimpers, tears going down his face "All my donuts were in there..." He turns to the building "YOU MANIACS!! YOU CRUSHED THEM!! DAMN YOU!! DAMN YOU ALL TO TARTARUS!!!"
Svengallop groans, the stocking still on his head "Hello you pathetic... ninny-muggins..."
Great chapter.
Afraid I can't remember watching many movies with that plot. The only one that comes to mind is Paul Blart Mall Cop.
Anyway I suggest using Svengallop as bait. When the goon are distracted with him you could surprise them.
Also if it comes to it don't be afraid to use Svengallop as a meat shield. That way he can take any hits meant for you.
You enter into a janitor’s closet, shoving Svengallop’s face through it for good measure, and inside you find extra rolls of duct tape. You tape up his mouth to keep his yap shut.
When one of the terrorists passes your door you quickly open it, slap duct tape on his mouth and pull him into the closet like those creepy trap door spiders.
Inside you knock him out and hide his body in the vent.
Then over the radio you hear a buzzing noise, and a new voice.
“Hello? Hello? Is anypony there? This is the police, what’s going on?”
You get on the walkie talkie and whisper.
“Hello? You that cop I saw running off?”
“Yes, I found this Walkie off that guy that fell in the fountain before Cross Bolts came at me. Apparently it’s tuned to yours. What’s going on?”
“I’m not quite sure, terrorists of all races stormed the building and are holding all the Penthouse people hostage. I got away with a so called “Celebrity” and we’re both trying not to get caught here. I just threw that guy out the window and knocked out his buddy, and they’re searching for us.
“Wait, you threw that big guy down here? The one who was on fire?”
“Yeah, I Rorschached his ass.”
“Dang…who are you?”
“My name is Ritz, you?”
“I’m officer Powell, and good job man, thanks to you we got back up on the way, we’ll get to you in no time.”
“I don’t know about that copper, the Griffon in charge seems to have a plan for that. I’d be careful.”
“Still, you should remain hidden, you don’t need to endanger yourself anymore if there are hostages.”
“No can do Powell, thanks to Twinkle Hooves here, they’re already on our case, and you’re crazy if you think I’m going to let anyone die while I can do something from the shadows. I’m a bounty hunter after all, I got this…”
“*Sigh* Don’t do anything reckless, the negotiators have just arrived…and Ritz, be careful…”
“Yeah, you too man, over and out!”
You then look to Svengallop and give him a glare.
“Alright Mr. Premadona, I’m going to leave you here with this crossbow, don’t get caught, I’m gonna do some reconnaissance ok?”
He tries to say something, but it is muffled by the tape.
“I’m going to assume that was an asinine way of saying yes on your part,” you quip before leaving.
On your radio’s open frequency, you hear the terrorists talking about setting up the trap on the roof, in case the cops send in Pegasi.
“That doesn’t sound good…”
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And the best action movie with a Die Hard type plot is Dredd. That movie was so kickass and awesome that it better get a sequel.