All that night David was unable to sleep. He’d interviewed a woman on the phone a few days who sounded eager to work there and he’d be DARNED if he wasn’t gonna give her an AMAZING first day when she arrived. As soon as his alarm went off, the man hopped out of bed with a smile on his face. As quick as a bunny, David dressed up, showered up, brushed his teeth and hair and saluted his camp flag. He had excited bubbles in his belly and he was eager to share his positivity.
When David saw the car approaching, he clapped his hands and danced on his feet in excitement, biting his lower lip before excitedly waving to Sunset as she got closer.
Sunset let out a sigh as she exited the taxi, stretching her arms in the air, her bones giving sharp pops as she breathed a sigh of relief. Giving the driver what she owed, she took a deep breath of air in, taking in the surroundings. Yep. This was definitely better the being in Canterlot. At let there she won’t have to deal with certain issues.
She rolled her eyes to herself walking out of the car with her bag in tow, and couldn’t help but smile as she saw the counselor she had talk to on the phone waving her over. Man, this was happy. “Hi. I… take it you’re David?” She asked.
Despite the abundance of demons still attacking and everything else going on, the child came rushing toward her and fell to her knees, holding onto the other’s arm and shaking her gently as her eyes filled with tears.
“P-P-Please get up. P-Please g-get up, Shimmer. Y-Y-You’ll be okay. You’ll always b-b-be.. okay. You’re a d-demon too. G-G-Get up. Don’t die. Don’t die. Don’t die…”
She soon gives up on pleading… gives up entirely, and just lays beside Shimmer, cuddling up to her bleeding body and shutting her eyes… trying to distance herself from the fact that anything bad is happening at all.
“I-I-I like.. Shimmer’s hair. I-I-I like deer. I like… deer. I-I like demons, I-I like… I like kitties… I like blood. N-No, no, I don’t like– I like.. the sky…”
She felt like she was floating. There was nothing… just… a void. A void of darkness… no pain… no fear… no Savannah… wait… what…
Shimmer cracked open her good eye, the other on completely missing from her skull, and looked over at the crying girl. No… what was she doing here?! “Sa… Sav… Yo… need… goooo…” she rasped out, a small trail of blood leaking from her mouth. She desperately tried to raise a bloody hand but she could only get it up half way.
It was late in the day, the sun was going down, and the land stretched for what seemed like forever. Hana hadn’t realized how late it was, but all she was doing was working on something in this middle-of-nowhere mechanic shop. She had stopped there working on her bike. She was very familiar with motorcycles and how they worked, but her bike needed some R&R.
Standing up from the side of her bike, Hana wiped her forehead and sat at the nearby table. That was when she saw it: another motorcycle, traveling down the street. Something was off though; it was like the engine was stuttering. Springing up to her feet, Hana walked out to the side of the road, hoping the rider would slow down. She needs to fix up that bike or that rider wouldn’t make it to the next city.
Sunset swore loudly as the she picked herself up off the ground, lifting her fallen bike with ease. Well, that was a good start to the getting. At least almost getting hit by a truck, getting run off the road, and winding up in a ditch woke her up.
Making her way to the side, she checked herself and her bike to make sure she hadn’t lost anything important, and hopped back on, sticking the key in the ignition, pressed down on the clutch and twisted. Only for it not to start. “What?!” She cried. “No! No, no, no, no, no!! Don’t do this to me now baby, please!” She twisted it a few more times before letting out a curse so loud birds flew off of nearby trees.
She gave one last, hard kick to the clutch, and at long last, the engine sputtered to life. She let out a shout of joy, and pulled her slowly back onto the road, sputtering all the way. “Don’t worry baby, I’ll get you all fixed up.” She said, patting her bike. “Somehow…”
Eventually, she spotted a sign directing her to a nearby town, and she internal shouted in joy. Though as she pulled into the next exit to head in, she noticed a small figure in the distance, seemingly waving her down. Curious, she pulled over to the side, not shutting off her bike. If this girl was gonna waste her time, then she didn’t wanna deal with having to struggle to start her bike.
Vinyl recognized her. Sunset Shimmer, the one who tried to take over the school, and then rumors flew and so did she. Frankly, she hadn’t expected to see her anytime soon. She’d simply been going grocery shopping for herself and Neon when she accidentally bumped into Sunset and knocked the other girl’s bag to the floor.
Oh, shit, sorry, she signed before scooping the bag back up. You alright?
Sunset swore loudly as her bag was knocked to the ground. She couldn’t afford to lose any groceries this week since it turned out her boss’s kid went to Canterlot High. Once word spread that it was supposedly Sunset doing everything, he called Sunset into his office and fired her on. the spot.
She reeled on her feet, anger present of her face as she snarled ready to rip a new one into the person who had knocked her stuff down… until she saw Vinyl. Instantly, her anger morphed into a gut wrenching fear as she began hurriedly stuff her fallen goods into her bag and let out a shaky “I-I’m fine!” as she saw Vinyl sign before making a move to leave.
I know Black Mask can genuinely be an intimidating villain (which I hope he is for the Birds of Prey movie) but the #1 version of him that I’ll always love is him in Under the Red Hood when he just has one banger line of dialogue after another. Also his beady little eyes are so fricken funny.
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