Another Day Another Raid
“You had no right to come into my house!” A mare said while trying to fight her way out of Storm’s grip. “I know my rights.” She howled louder than before.
“I knew you do.” Storm replied. “And so do your friends in the carriage.” Storm gesture to the large police carriage. “One more time who is running your operation?”
“Bite me.” She growled.
“Said you and the five in the carriage,” Comet said. “Enjoy your stay at the prison.”
Strom passed the mare off to another officer who escorted her to the carriage.
“Heck of a way to start the week.” Comet sighted. “Raiding a crack house on a Monday.”
“It’s gonna be one of those weeks Comet. I can feel it.” Storm looked around the front yard that is now being invaded by officers. “Hey, where are Star and Clover?”
“I think there still in the basement double checking for any evidence that might be left behind.”
For the past few weeks, Ponyville has been getting a bit out of control. Especially on the east side. Even if that sound like a total stereotype it’s true. East of Ponyville there are two things that worried both the town and the police. That would be the Diamond Dogs and the Everfree Forest.
The Everfree Forest is a scary place with many monsters and the weather is unpredictable. However, the weather, animals, plants or anything from the Everfree Forest have ever attacked the town.
Diamond Dogs, on the other hand, was a bit more violent. They have caused trouble for the town many times and Storm had a few problems with them himself. They always caused trouble with either trying to steal from the town or just causing trouble in general.
Then there was the Purple Aces, a gang that robbed in the west. They only been in town once and were ran out the next day by the police and Batstallion. Even if they're staying out of town they are still outside hanging around. Storm and his team had uncovered a meth lab five miles out of town.
For the past two weeks, this is what every day was like. Harley anyone in town knew what was going on. The east side of town wasn’t really a safe place, to begin with, the Diamond Dogs and the Everfree Forest. Now they had to worry about a gang that is practically invisible to the town.
“Guys, I’m back,” Star called out.
Storm looked at Star and Clover both had white mask now around their necks similar to what doctors wear.
“What’s with the hospital mask?” Comet asked.
“They were cooking a lot of meth in that basement,” Star replied pointing at the house. “The stuff was really unstable and it was really hard to breathe.”
“There was nothing else in there besides a map of the town, a table, and a half-eaten sandwich. Clover added.
“Well.” Storm said stretching his wings. “I think we can call it a day.”
“I think your right.” Star agreed. “I feel like things will get a bit more interesting tomorrow.”
“When you say interesting do you mean thing will be hectic?” Clover asked.
“Yup.” Star smiled.
“Is it because of the final poll for the new Mayor?”
Star’s smile disappeared. “What?”
“Ponyville’s new Mayor was being decided tomorrow.” Storm said. “You didn’t vote did you?”
Tomorrow was the day Ponyville would elect their new Mayor. Even if Mayor Mare had been Mayor for as long as Storm moved to Ponyville her compactor, Skyline a blue pegasus had won the heats of many in Ponyville with promises more jobs and a safer town. He probably meant the time with the Diamond Dog attack the town.
Even if Storm doesn’t know much about politics he didn’t like Skyline. He always had a strange feeling when he saw him around town. This was the same feeling when he saw his new neighbors who ended up being apart of a gang.
“Of course I did.” Star’s outburst put Storm back into reality.” I was just surprised that anyone would think that this would even be close. He lost my vote the second he said was weren't allowed to own weapons. He ain't taken my second amendment right."
Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blow causing everyone to shiver from the cold. This wouldn’t be a problem if it wasn’t for the armored magic vest that everyone wore in case thing had taken a turn for the worst.
“What is with this weather?” Comet asked still shaking. “This is like the second straight week that it’s been this cold. What’s going on?”
“Maybe because we requested a week of sunny skies for the festival remember?” Clover suggested. “It’s near the end of the year we have to make it up somehow.”
“I vote we start leaving now,” Star said looking at the black clouds above. “The last time it was this cold and the clouds were this black it started to rain hail.”
“Yeah, that’s a good idea.” Storm agreed. He flew up high enough to where he can see both the front yard and the backyard “Alright everyone.” Storm shouted trying to get everyone’s attention. “I don’t know about yall but, I wanna get home before the snow starts falling. Ready the carriage, load the evident into the wagon, get information and let’s head back to town.”
Storm flew back to the ground. “Star you're guarding the prisoners, Clover help load wagon and your pulling it. Comet me and you are the lookouts. Everyone nodded and headed to their position.
An hour later the group of officers had arrived at the station. Star help placed the suspects into the cells downstairs, Clover was separating the evidence in the evidence room, Comet got a head start on her two week’s worth of paperwork. Storm headed into the Night’s office to do a follow-up. Storm knocked on the door before opening the door.
“Chief,” Strom said walking into her office.
“Oh, good your back.” Night said closing a filing cabinet. “How did it go?”
“Don’t worry.” Storm smiled. “No one got hurt, nothing was damaged and we found so much crack that everyone in Ponyville could get to the moon and back.”
“Good work. That’s one down one more to go.”
“There’s another one?” Storm asked in disbelief.
“Two.” Night corrected. “One is on the west side near the train station. The other is up north near Cloudsdale. That one isn’t confirmed yet let alone if we even need to get involved.”
“Were raiding the one on the west tomorrow aren’t we?” Storm asked even though he already knows the answer.
“Yup.” Night said. “Also, we believe that the west side train station is what’s causing the problem with that strange smell in the air.”
“Dammit Star.” Storm grumbled in a low voice to himself.
“What was that?”
“Nothing. I’m gonna go give everyone a heads up.” Storm closed Night’s door and immediately spotted Star. “You jinxed us.” He said walking towards Star. “You freaking jinxed us.”
“I can’t believe this,” Clover said looking at the morning paper. “How could he win?”
Storm looked over the paper along with every in the room stared at the front page of the newspaper. SKYLINE WINS BY A LANDSLIDE. Below the bold letters was a picture of Skyline during one of his speeches.
“I heard he won by one vote.” A red unicorn said. “Pretty much half the town is ticked off about the outcome.”
“You know what’s funny? Twenty percent of the town didn’t vote and they're blaming the count.” Star pointed out.
“You're in that twenty percent aren’t you?” Storm asked.
“That’s not important.”
“Alright, everyone.” Night shouted when she entered the room. “I know everyone is either mad, confused or all of the above, about what’s in the paper. I need you all to put that aside because as you know there is another house that needs to be raided today.”
Night once again pulled down a map of Ponyville. This time there were two red circles one just outside the borders on Ponyville on the west said and another on the north side near Cloudsdale.
“Today we will be going to the west to stop an unorganized train from going into the station. A few miles west there is a small train yard that they use to store and ship their produce. We have two targets. The train that’s moving them and the big warehouse.”
“What’s so important about those two,” Comet asked. “Shouldn’t we be more focus on the suspects trying to get away.”
“Normally yes.” Night responded pulled up the map. “Just not this time. We found out that this is one of the Purple Aces major storages. They will most likely try to get away with evidence rather than get away period. One more thing.” Night added. “Since this is a major site for the Aces they will most likely resist be careful.”
After the briefing was over everyone taking part in the raid headed down to the locker room to prepare for the raid. In the locker room, everyone was putting on their vest and readying the wagon and the carriage for the raid.
“You know something I don’t get?” Clover asked placing a set of cuffs in a pocket in her vest. “Why is this gang operating outside of town?”
“Pretty sure that it has something to do with us stopping their ransom act,” Star answered. “They never excited to see Batstallion and a group of officers to stop them.”
“That or they found out the town is filled with a bunch of crazy ponies and decided to dip," Comet said.
“Don’t know don’t care.” Storm answered. “Well, let's go. I want to finish this before lunch.”
A few hours later the squad arrived at the station. Everyone spared around to their post-reading for the attack.
“Alright ie everyone in position?” Storm asked over the radio. Storm was hiding in a cloud directly on top of the trainyard.
Storm spotted the warehouse Night was talking about. It was similar to a barn on the east side of the yard. There also something Storm didn’t expect to see and that would be a train. It arrived just when they were about to move in. To Storm, it looked like they were loading something on the train.
“Northern intercept team is ready to move in,” Star replied. Once again bring Storm back to Equestria.
“Southern intercept team waiting,” Clover answered.
“Pursuit unit on standby in case they try to run,” Comet said.
“Alright everyone remembers. The key objective arrest is to capture or incapacitate all suspects any questions?” There was no answer from anyone. “Good, move in.”
“POLICE, STOP WHERE YOU ARE!”
“You're UNDER ARREST!”
“MOVE AND I’LL BE TASED YOU!”
Those three orders were all Storm heard from officers as they were trying to take down any and all who were trying to get away. From above it looks like a huge game of tag. However, that was till Storm had to come into play. When Storm land on the ground it looked like a Hoofball. Without the ball.
Half an hour later the chaos was over. All suspects were captured, evidence was being loaded on the wagon Star, Clover, and other officers. While Storm and Comet checked if anyone was hiding.
“I can’t believe that all of this was going to Ponyville,” Comet said looking at all of the boxes possible filled with drugs and dirty money. “How long do you think this has been going on?”
“Who knows?” Storm answered looking back up from under a train cart. “Judging by the number of crates and how unprepared they were to see us I’m guessing this has been going on for awhile.”
Storm stopped and sniffed the air. It smelled familiar.
“Do you smell that?”
Comet sniffed the air as well. “Yeah. Is that gas?”
“I think so.” Storm replied looking around searching for the source of the small. Storm stopped in front of a black train cart, the cart of the train. “I think it’s coming from in here.”
Storm pulled opened the train cart door. Inside were three large containers for carrying liquid. The containers wreaked by the strange smell that's been around Ponyville for some time.
Without thinking, Storm hopped in the cart and walked to one of the containers. He tapped it to see how much was in there. Suddenly, there was loud popping coming from inside of the container and it started to produce smoke.
“That can’t be good.” Storm though. Storm turned around, jumped out of the cart and slowly and quickly closed the sliding door. “Go go go.” Storm said pushing Comet away.
Seconds later, an explosion erupted from behind Storm and Comet causing them both falling on the ground. A mixture of heat, rocks, and wood from the train shoot into the air followed by the smoke.
Storm radio begins going off. 10-50, 10-50! Someone call that in.
“Holy shit.” Storm grunted as he picked himself up from the ground. Storm rubbed his head knocking off grass clippings and small rocks off his mane. “What the hell was that?”
Comet grunted as she got up by Storm’s side. “I don’t know. Are you alright?”
“Fine.” Storm answered. “Come on let's go check on everyone else.”
“Well, it was fun while it lasted.” Night sighed. After listening to Storm’s story on the raid and the train expulsion. “Looks like it’s back to zero days without an accident.”
“I know that everyone is going to hate me for saying this but, this could have been hella worst,” Star said.
“Worst how?” Comet asked.
“For one it was only one train cart. Plus, Storm and Comet aren’t hurt. That’s how.”
“Not exactly.” Clover corrected. “When I was questioning one of the traffickers, they admitted they didn’t know what they were doing. This could have been way worse than you think. This stuff wasn’t stable from the beginning. The expulsion could have happened before we arrived, when we arrived, on the way to Ponyville or even at Ponyville’s Train Station.”
“Oh lord.” Night whispered. Shaking her head.
A knock interrupted the silents in the office. A light blue mare opened the door.
“Chief Night.” She begins. “I know you're in a meeting but.” She paused for a moment. The Mayor is here to see you.”
“Great.” Night said getting up. “Put him in my office I’ll be there a minute.” Night turned back to the group. “Do what you all need to do, we will finish this thing first thing tomorrow.”
The group headed for their desk, waiting for Storm and Comet were paperwork for the train expulsion, Star and Clover had to order the evidence. Night would have rather do any of those rather than meeting with the Mayor.
“Well, today could have gone better,” Star remarked when he and Clover arrived back at their desk from the evidence room.
“Define better,” Clover said taking a seat at her desk.
“One, the train thing I can’t stress that enough. Second, our new Mayor, talk to anyone in town only a few have good things to say about him. Last but not lease.” Star levitated a stack of paper. “The paperwork”
“Even if the raid went as planned we would still be doing this Star.” Storm said tossing a file aside and opening another one. “Besides me and Comet got more than you two.”
“The whole reason I transferred to Ponyville was to get away for the drugs and gangs,” Comet said shaking her head. “No offense but I feel that this place got it worst.”
“Does anyone else feel that this town is going downhill?” Strom asked looking up.
“Oh come on.” Star smiled. “So this we had a few back things happened here that don't mean it’s going downhill. Everything will be fine trust me.”
Clover placed a hoof on her face. “Todos ibamos al infrerno.” She said while shaking her head. (We're all going to hell.)
"What did she say?" Star asked.
"Tell you later."