----- As the new year began, the group was coming to terms with what Crim had done, and a return to school approached fast. However, unbeknownst to them, a certain gang was planning to catch a hero on the run...
Undisclosed location. Canterlot, USA 10:30pm It had been some months since the attack upon the Pink Cloud, and many of the members who had fallen victim in the attack was arrested by the police some time later. Merely twenty people had been arrested, taken in custody after police found their bizarre beatdown. Nobody knew who caused such an effortless destruction among their ranks, but whoever it was, it made shockwaves. The Pink Cloud wasn't untouchable. It was impossible to tell the time, but two members held a young teenage boy under guard. In a chair was a young man, possibly in his early 20's at most. The younger boy was extremely nervous, now looking at the leader of the Pink Cloud. "Relax" the man in the chair spoke. "Wha?" The boy said nervously. "...anyway." The leader spoke before thinking about his next words carefully. "It took more then a little while to track you down, but on the night to have some fun., I sent twenty five out to perform some odd jobs, plus gather extortion money. Now....Twenty five. I realise that five of you split apart of the main group to perform additional missions, but you were out on that night with the 25...." "Y~yes sir...." the boy said meekly. "What do y-" "Tell me.....how....on gods green earth....DID I LOSE TWENTY ******* MEN IN TWO MINUTES?" The Leader suddenly roared, causing the boy to whimper like a puppy in fear. The boy didn't know. "We don't know sir! It was only a five man job, the other fifteen were backup and well.... nob-" "Nobody was smart enough to capture footage?" The boss said agitated. "I shouldn't have placed my trust I-" "We didn't personally, but one of us managed to record footage of the ordeal from a distance." The boy said, still shaking. "Just.....there was CCTV footage we managed to steal. Im sure the club has footage of the alleyway. The buildings across the road has the same, it wasn't far from Sugercube Corner." The boy handed a small blue USB over to the boss, to which it seemed to calm his nerves. However, he was charismatically nothing in comparison to his boss. The boss had a grin on his face. "Looks like you did your job. While I'm....more then disappointed, we've got a lead...." The boss rose from his chair and personally helped the other member up from the ground. "Young man....we're going on a witchhunt"
---- Circuit and his friends had been back at school for about a week now, and they seemed to be settling in once again. Their friendships grew closer, and the classes grew harder. Crimson sat down for another period of History, unaware that he was being watched...
Across the carpark were three teenage boys, sitting in an old sedan on the other side of the road. Visible from a distance was the history class on the bottom floor, and given the right sort of equipment, it was easy to see the students inside of the class. "That's the one on the video footage" One of the teenage kids said, looking through a pair of binoculars as the others took down some notes. "Canterlot High School. Current sighting 12:24pm." The driver tapped the gang member watching the student. "That's more then enough info for the boss. We've got a lead and now we know where he goes to school. Given he's on social media, it shouldn't be hard to trace him down now." The other three looked confident as the car started up and slowly began to drive away. Unbeknownst to Crimson, he wasn't even aware that he was ever watched at all.... Moments later, the bell rang for Lunch.
Pinkie Pie began to feel nervous around Crim, as if she sensed something that the others couldn't. "What's wrong, mate?" Crim asked her during lunch, as he took a bite out of the hamburger his mother had packed for him. Pinkie looked around cautiously for a moment. "I think you're being watched..." she whispered.
"What?" Crimson said before turning around in his chair, looking around the cafeteria and seeing nothing but students eating their food. "I don't have senses like yours Pink- Suddenly, a beautiful girl with bright vibrant hair tapped the boy on the shoulder. "Hello...Crimson was it?" The girl introduced herself. "My name is Cinnamon Spice. Could I please talk to you in private?" "Um....sure" Crimson nodded before getting up from his chair and looking at the rest of his friends. "I'll be right back guys" Like that, Crimson and Cinnamon walked out of the cafeteria to discuss something privately, raising some eyebrows among the rest of the girls and Circuit...
"I wonder what this is about..." sighed Circuit. Suddenly, Rainbow Dash remembered something. "Guys..." she whispered, "...that Cinnamon girl looks an awful lot like the girl Crimson saved a while back." Pinkie Pie suddenly put two-and-two together. "Oh my gosh... CRIM!!"
Pinkie suddenly bolted out of the cafeteria, to find Cinnamon looking happy and Crimson with a big grin on his face. Pinkie looked to see the two, and honestly expected the worst to happen, but what she found surprised her instead. "Wha-what?" Pinkie said confused. Crimson spun around as, in his hands and strapped around his torso, was a brand new black electric guitar. "Hey Pinkie! Look what I just got!" He beamed proudly Cinnamon couldn't help but feel happy. "I told my parents what happened that night, and me and my family wanted to repay you after you saved me from those creeps after my gig. So we saved up and we got you a top of the line electric guitar" "I don't know what to say, thanks Cinnamon!" Crimson smiled happily, almost giddy with the super expensive present he just received. Cinnamon smiled. "I'm a musician, primarily a lead and bass guitarist. I don't sing, but I believe that you are into film, right?" The girl told him. "I was wondering if you ever needed someone to score and do music for your films, hit me up. I'll do it for free, it's the least I can do for you saving me" Pinkie took a breath of relief. She shouldn't have gotten so worked up all of a sudden...
Then, the moment Cinnamon left (though not before Crimson said good-bye), Pinkie suddenly began to panic again. "Pinkie... are you alright...?" said Crim. "That's... her..." she said, almost hyper-ventilating. "HOLY CRAP, PINKIE!!" Crim ran over to the pink party girl as she collapsed, unconscious, onto the floor.
Fluttershy was the first to check up onto the pink party girl to check on her and went to immediately check up on her vitals. "She's just in shock. I think we should take her to Nurse Redheart, I'm sure she'd understand" "It wouldn't be the first time this has happened honestly" Rarity said concerned. "I remember this one time, at Camp Everf-" Applejack quickly shut Rarity up but jabbing her in the arm, trying to keep it silent around Crim and Circuit. What they don't know wouldn't hurt them...
"Oh, the girl that I saved wanted to thank me. I got this kick-ass guitar because of it" Crimson showed his new guitar to his friends before seeing Pinkie get lifted up from the ground. "I guess Pinkie went into shock and fainted" Crimson said, watching Fluttershy and Sunset help her up and take her to Nurse Redheart.
"Did she say anything before she passed out?" asked Sunset in concern. "Yeah," Crim replied, "She said she thinks I'm feeling watched."
"Huh...that's strange" Circuit said puzzled before remembering that one time he spoke with his friend on Christmas Day. His words reminding himself of what the others meant. "Oh....." he said quietly to himself. "Crap"
"What? What's wrong?" asked Rarity, concerned. Circuit's eyes widened. "Oh my goodness... they found him. I can't believe it, but they found him. " "Who? Who?!" asked Sunset. "Who do you think?!" said Circuit in fear, "The Pink Cloud!"
"Nothing concrete yet. Just sounds like an empty threat" Crimson said before shaking his head. Not before Circuit suddenly shook him. "Are you kidding!? I told you they would find you, dude!" Circuit grumbled. "What did I tell you?"
"Relax, mate, I remember what you said," said Crimson, with a calm smile. "All you said was that I shouldn't try to hide something like that because someone's eventually gonna find out-" His smile faded as he realized what he had just said. "Oh... piss."
Crimson suddenly looked incredibly worried. "No........not again." He said before starting to pace around the room. "Not like this" While the others were distracted, the bell rang and a surge of people began to leave from the cafeteria. Dozens upon dozens at a time. In the midst of it, something deep was stirring in his heart. "Damnit....."
Circuit's hopes were suddenly lifted. "Yeah! If she's on the case, then ma- "I don't want to put her in danger....." Crimson interrupted sharply. "I did once, and she nearly died because of it. I can't afford to lose her." "We don't have a choice, Crim!" Circuit sharply responded back. "If we don't do anything, you'd be killed!"
