Chase, Recklessness, and Overconfidence
“She's going to turn!” cried Agent Lightning Dust.
“I see her!” said Agent Rain. He slammed on the brakes and spun the wheel, causing the sedan to drift dangerously into oncoming traffic. Dust felt herself leaning in the opposite direction, certain that the car was about to flip over from the sheer force of the turn.
A rainbow streak flashed out of the corner of her eyes as the car straightened out and headed down the road, horns angrily sounding behind them. Dust turned her head and scowled at the smirking face that was keeping pace with them.
“'Sup!” Rainbow Dash chirped. “You know I could easily ditch you guys and be in Manehattan before you even get out of town, right?”
Dust replied by firing a tranquilizer gun at the girl. Rainbow's eyes widened and she began putting distance between herself and the car. Darts flew after her, most bouncing off the road and the buildings on the curb. Metallic pings dopplered away behind the sedan.
Except one.
Rainbow felt a stinging pain in her right leg. She looked down to see a dart sticking out of her inner calf, right above the top of her shoe. She glanced over at the STORM vehicle. Dust grinned and saluted her with the gun.
Shit shit shit shit SHIT! Rainbow thought, her eyes rapidly scanning the road ahead. She didn't know much about tranquilizer darts, but if the movies were anything to go by, it was going to hit her soon and she needed to be somewhere safe before it kicked in.
She took a hard left and wooshed down an alley, then another and another before coming to a stop at a side street. She quickly looked from side to side, then dashed out, not seeing any of the STORM agents. She began running, but staggered as her leg started to go numb. She reached down, yanked out the dart and tossed it aside. She gripped her geode and started running again, but only managed to go a couple of blocks before she tripped over her own feet.
She got back up, ignoring the stares she was getting from the pedestrians. She limped her way along for a few moments, when the agents' car came around the corner. Rainbow cursed under her breath, then got an idea. It was a stupid idea and probably really dangerous, but considering her eyelids were starting to droop and her brain was feeling fuzzy, there didn't seem to be much of a choice.
Rainbow concentrated, ignoring the drowsiness overtaking her, and ponied up. She flexed her wings and shot into the air. She heard a screech and looked down, seeing the car come to a stop. Dust and Rain piled out of the car and were looking up. Rainbow gave them the finger and flew off over the rooftops.
Dust pulled out her phone and called Tempest. “Ma'am, she's... flown off. Yes, ma'am, wings. She's heading east from Berrow Avenue.”
Rainbow shook her head and lightly slapped her face. “Come on, stay awake. You still need to find somewhere to hide.”
The tranquilizer was hitting her hard now. Everything felt heavy. Her head kept sagging as sleep tried to over take her. Her wings were flapping slower and slower. She held them steady, gliding on the air currents as much as she could.
“Somewhere... anywhere...” she murmured. She made a turn, then yelped as the side of a building loomed up in front of her. The surprise jolted her awake enough to regain a little speed and fly up to the top of the building.
And suddenly, her wings gave out. She crashed to the roof and rolled across the hard surface, her wings, ears, and ponytail vanishing. She came to a stop, resting on her back. She pushed herself into a sitting position, despite her body's protests. She got to her knees, then tried to get to her feet. She managed to do so and started running, staggering almost instantly.
She fought to keep herself upright and managed to make her way to the edge of the building. She could see CHS in the distance and she nodded.
Gotta... make it... get help... yeah...
She reached up and tried to grab her geode. It was tough. Her fingers didn't seem to want to stay attached to her hand. Her tongue felt thick and heavy in her mouth. She slapped her hand against her chest a couple of times. Where was that damn rock? She needed to... to...
Her eyes rolled back in her head and she fell forward off the top of the building. It wasn't tall. Only three stories, and fortunately for the unconscious athlete, there was a large awning over the door of the cafe on the ground floor.
She hit the awning, which bounced her a couple of times, before she tore through it and crashed onto a table, rolling off onto the patio. The diners crowded around her. One server knelt down and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the teenager's chest rising and falling.
The server got up and was about to call for her manager, when Tempest arrived with two other agents. The two other suits pushed the crowd back as the Tempest put a couple of fingers to Rainbow's throat and nodded when she felt a pulse. She got up and turned back to her agents.
“She's alive. Get her into the car. We'll check for damage when she's processed.”
Tempest looked around at the startled crowd. She held up her ID.
“We're with the government. This person is under arrest. We apologize for interrupting your meal.”
It took a few minutes of speaking with the manager, but soon Tempest was able to get back to her own car. Lightning Dust and Spring Rain had arrived in the meantime. Rainbow had been put in the back of their car. Tempest pulled out her phone and called Agent Sands.
“Where do we stand?” she demanded.
“From what I can tell, we have five of the seven POIs in custody,” said Dust.
“Right,” Tempest said. “Agent Sands, you're on Fluttershy. Agent Dust, take the POI to the rendezvous point. Don't forget to confiscate that necklace. Then keep looking for Sunset Shimmer. She has to be somewhere in town.”
“Are you sure?” Dust asked. “If I were her, I'd probably be heading out of town by now.”
“Oh, she's still here,” Tempest smirked. “She has her friends to worry about.”
“Roger that,” came Agent Sands' voice. “And you, ma'am?”
Tempest straightened her jacket. “I'll be meeting up with Commander Flint. We still have the cryptid to deal with.”
Dust nodded, then piled back into her car with Agent Rain. Tempest ended the call with Sands and got back into her own vehicle. As she pulled into traffic she allowed herself a smile.
This day was turning out to be better than she had hoped.
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Props to Dash for fighting that hard against a tranq dart.
D:
SUNNY WHATS THE PLAN SIS
And I hope he guts BOTH your sorry asses, you pompous jerk.
Yeah, and thinking stuff like that is usually right before the shit hits the fan, you cold-hearted bitch.
(Speaking of, I think I hear Mr. Murphy getting ready to throw his Law at you and your bunch of idiots.)
I hope when you and your stupid thug-club go down, you all go down HARD.
And permanently.
And I cannot WAIT to see that happen.
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Also the mane 6 are going strictly non-lethal or damaging
I feel sorry for the agent trying to take down fluttershy
They better get karma soon
Man, knowing that she’s my favorite, I was REALLY pulling for Rainbow Dash to escape. But that was just wishful thinking and I knew she’d get caught.
Although if she thought clearly, she could’ve ran fast or ponied up early on(while risking being seen ponied up.) and made it to Manehattan as she bragged.
I was wondering how they’d stop her and it still managed to surprise me. Although while she had help from Tempest, I did call it being Lightning Dust to be the one to stop Dash.
Well, based off my comment from the last chapter, I guess we can cross off scenarios #3(Rainbow Dash escapes while Fluttershy gets arrested) and #4(Both Dash and Shy escape with Sunset) off the list.
That leaves Scenarios #1(Both Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy gets arrested) and #2(Dash gets arrested while Shy escapes) remaining. When you posted that blog stating that we’re at the tail end of Act 2, part of me thought the next chapter would‘ve had both Dash and Shy together.
Speaking of the hiatus from the last chapter to this one, part of me believed that when Tempest found out about the geodes, this chapter would focus on Fluttershy and they’d confiscate her geode so she wouldn’t find out about any information on Frank. That would’ve subverted my expectations believing that she’d be the next one instead of Dash(Who I knew was gonna be next). But I stuck with my gut and said it’d be Dash.
Back to the scenarios left, I thought long and hard since the last chapter on what scenario I think will play out: It was a hard choice, and I’m kinda still debating, but I’m predicting right now that scenario #2 where Fluttershy escapes will happen. If I’m wrong and it turns out to be scenario #1, then call me out on that.
I know it’s a lot of stuff to read and I hope it doesn’t bother anyone, but that’s just me whenever there’s a lot of stuff in my head that I need to say whenever I see or read something.
But anyways, great chapter. And hopefully things go great for the Mane Seven in the end. Excited for the next chapter.
Okay you do realize we've seen her run at Flash level speeds right? If she really wanted to outrun run Tempest's pop gun she could've. If you had caught her blind and she was left staggering around without her bearings after being shot maybe it could've worked but this is just unbelievable.
Seriously Dash, you had to brag in front of your ennemies instead of immediately getting away. No suprise there, I also expected something like that. Althought, she deserves credits for how long she fought off the tranquilizer. Impressive.
I re-read some previous chapters recently and there are two where I got Rarijack romance vibes. I would like to be sure if it was the case or not.
Dammit Dash...
Oy. Once again, RD's overconfidence costs her. I'm disappointed, but not all that surprised.
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That scene will never not be funny.
I think sunset is already at CHS and Getting the student to rally behind her.
I can see a plan already in motion.
Fluttery shy will let herself be arrested but unknown to the agents she's activated a tracking device that will reveal the location.
Wallflower Blush will use her invisibility nature to sneak in and grab the geo. and give them to the girls. While sunset. CHS and CP students cause a massive distraction.
The bear shows up mostly an ursha major and tempest has a flashback. Right in front of the Storm King.
Sunset save tempest but gets captured but the other escape.
Tempest shows up willing to help.
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This story takes place between Mirror Magic and the first season of the Digital Series. Forgotten Friendship hasn't happened yet.
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Well you can use that to an advantage. Sunset could stumble across Wall using it. Or finding it. And remembering an old tale. Makes a deal with wallflower and they erase the agents memeories.
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So the story also takes place during the events of the movie(given how Starlight said that Canterlot was invaded and the Mane Six went missing). So then the next canonical event in Equestria Girls to happen is Spring Breakdown, which takes place in between the beginning of episode one of season eight(after the movie) and when the School of Friendship is built since the school hasn’t been built and Spike still has his wings when Sunset, Sci-Twi and Dash arrive in Equestria. BUT from what I saw online, the three specials(Dance, Movie, and Mirror Magic) takes place during season 7. And then Forgotten Friendship takes place after the season seven finale and before the events of the movie……- I don’t wanna think about it!! There’s probably another solution to this: I’m probably just overthinking things.
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My timeline
I have no interest in making FiM jibe 100% with EG. As I established in Calendars, my personal headcanon is that the two worlds have different methods of measuring time.
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Ok, didn’t see that before. Now after reading that, thanks for clarifying that.
No ! Not Rainbow