The Game
Chapter 17: Chapter 17: Tricks In The Fire
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And so this fight has been done! I hope you enjoyed it, and stay tuned, we're not done yet! We've still got a few more chapters to go!
Hope it was worth the wait!
The fire department, along with police crews and ambulances arrived at the scene. There, they could see the fire breaking out and dressing the entire steel mill. For the safety of the teenagers, they all moved them far away from the fire so that the firemen could pull up and deal with the flames. The hoses were turned on, and so one by one, everyone moved to try and remove the flames that were engulfing the building.
"Officer please, you need to let us in, there are still three girls in there!"
"We have crews stepping in as we speak, but we can't let you through," The officer sternly said.
"Sir, please! They could die in there!"
"Ma'am, I'm just doing my job, but I swear we're going to get them out."
While Adagio was stressing out of her dear life, everyone who was still awake could only look at each other in worry. Hopefully Trixie and Starlight would be okay....
Back inside, the fires spread even more in the big hangar. Starlight and Trixie were struggling to try and find Moon Dancer, wherever she was. She had to be in there somewhere. They beat her to the punch, and they were going to finally take her down! At least they hoped.
"You've got nowhere to run, Moon Dancer! Why don't you come out now, and this won't have to end horribly?"
Moon Dancer's snarl could be heard, even with the intense flames.
"You ruined everything!" Moon Dancer yelled. "Why can't you see that they need to go!?"
"Because killing us and probably them isn't going to solve any of the problems! It may be easy, but it solves nothing!" Starlight yelled.
"Moon Dancer, I know where you're coming from! Yes, what they did was awful, incredibly awful! Heck, you know what? I actually wanted them to go away and never come back to CHS ever again! But that's not going to automatically solve the problem here, especially if they will still live in the same area and find where you live! And for the record, I don't think killing any of us will be pinned on them, its going to lead directly to you!"
"As if! I've got just enough evidence to make them look like the ones at fault... the ones who were always at fault... and if I can't kill them... then I think I'll kill you!"
Trixie's heart dropped. She heard the sound of a loud yell as Moon Dancer came running out of nowhere, ready to stampede Trixie to the ground. Jumping just in time, she watched as Moon Dancer charged into a pile of junk, failing to jump on her.
"Ow!"
Moon Dancer jolted back up, and heaved as she looked at Trixie and Starlight. Trixie braced herself and she flicked out a few magician items she thought could be useful for this situation.
"You really think a few toys are gonna--"
Trixie threw a smoke bomb at her face, making her cough and blinding her vision. Trying to blow the smoke away, she ran forward, hoping she could charge at her oppressor. But when she cleared the smoke bomb, they were out of her way. Whipping around she was met with a punch in the face from Trixie; a hard punch.
"OW!"
Moon Dancer yelped from the punch and nearly fell back, but didn't. She cupped her face and looked into her hand. Blood had come from her nose, which only made her more enraged.
"Didn't take you for a fighter, Trixie!"
Trixie growled and she pulled a magician's wand. Only it wasn't a tiny black and white stick. With one pull, it extended into a full fighting bow, long enough for her to carry in both hands.
"Your broadcast terrorized our city, your mind games scared my friends, your tactics kidnapped my girlfriend, your insanity led you on a downwards spiral, and you hurt my family!"
Trixie's teeth grit together and she held the bow as tight as she could. And by her side, was Starlight Glimmer. She held her staff with a tight grip like Trixie's, and she pointed the prongs at the unstable girl.
"I'm not leaving until I see you defeated, and off to jail!" Trixie yelled.
Both Trixie and Starlight charged at Moon Dancer, and the fight was on. Both of them threw their bows down to smack Moon Dancer, both of them hitting the sides of her face, and her thighs. Moon Dancer growled and she pulled out a knife, a switchblade to be precise.
As she took a few steps back, she found herself backing into something hard. Looking back, she smirked. A few metallic barrels containing gasoline. Just the thing she needed to buy a bit more time. She punctured the knife into the barrel, and yanked it out. A gush of gasoline began to spill from the barrel and onto the ground. Then she punctured another one, allowing more to spill.
Now that she had just enough out, she went back into the fight. She swung her knife at Trixie who tried to get away from every knife slice that had been attempted. No way was she having her skin sliced open! She lost a tooth, she wasn't going to lose any blood!
She swung again, her arms flailing like the inflatable characters you would see outside of car dealership places. She clearly had no control or idea on how to make a proper attack, which only made this fight easy for Trixie and Starlight. For five seconds.
Upset with her lack of progress, Moon Dancer grabbed a blunt piece of steel that she could carry with her hands and began to swing. This time, she swatted Starlight in her back, throwing her onto the ground and on her stomach. Upset to see her friend down, Trixie swung again, this time in a locked position with Moon Dancer. Two pieces of weaponry against each other, neither moving or sliding to make a new attack.
"You know what's funny Trixie? I almost thought about saying hi to you and considered talking to you and your new friends," Moon Dancer chuckled, "But I guess its too late for that now, because you're going to die today!"
Moon Dancer, having her chance, punched Trixie's jaw, and as she was distracted to tend to the punch, she swatted the piece of metal and hit her right in the head. Her head swung to the side, and with it, her body collapsing to the ground. She tried to get herself up, but her eyes slowly closed from the pain, and everything went black.
Moon Dancer's legs were wobbling and shaking from the fight, but she wasn't about to give up so easily. Not when she had the chance.
"And you know what else, Trixie? You're the worst friend that anyone could ever have," Moon Dancer growled, getting ready to swing. But as she was about to throw it down on her body, it was stopped just in time. A long stick of wood coated with protective covering blocked the swing.
The unstable girl was confused. Until she looked back up and realized who had blocked the attack. Still standing, was Starlight. Starlight used her staff to move the steel off and jabbed Moon Dancer in the gut and forced her away from her down friend.
Moon Dancer sneered. "You...", she pointed at Starlight. "How can you still be friends with her? She never called you. She doesn't trust you enough to even tell you that those girls were monsters."
Starlight looked back down at the knocked out Trixie, and then back to Moon Dancer with a straight face.
"Because I know there was a reason she couldn't tell me. And she's still my friend, regardless of what she does or doesn't tell me. Friends don't have to share every single secret. And if there was something big about those girls, then it's fine if I don't know. But what's not fine with me is when their lives are put on the line from a psycho who has no sense of reality anymore!"
Starlight twirled her staff around, and pointed the prongs at Moon.
"Just you and me now," Moon Dancer chuckled. "Well your luck has just run out!"
She was about to point her knife back at Starlight and throw it. She swung her arm back, and she threw it as hard as she could. But it didn't hit her. Instead it just flew under Starlight who ducked from the throw and it hit the ground behind her. Starlight stared back in complete unamusement.
"You're really bad at this."
Moon Dancer went to swing at her again, but Starlight swatted at her fists with the stick. Every punch she tried to swing, she used the staff to either block the punch, or move her hand the other way. Moon Dancer just growled at every failed attempt to take her out.
"Give it up Moon Dancer!"
Starlight swung the staff around and swatted at her foot. Then once she stopped moving and turned to the pain in her leg, she swung the staff again this time hitting her in the gut. One more hit and she'd be done! She swung it again, and smacked her hard in the face, forcing her to drop to the ground on her back.
Starlight tapped the staff onto the ground, as a sign of victory. She panted heavily, looking down at the defeated girl. But Moon Dancer wasn't down for long. She pulled herself up, and stood up on her own two feet. Up above, she watched as one of the support beams fall down and break into pieces on the ground, behind Starlight and Trixie.
"Time for us to part ways, Starlight. Sure I may have failed today, but I can guarantee to you and those girls that I will come back one day, and I will finish you all!"
"That's every cliche in the book, can't you think of something else?" Starlight groaned.
"We're all going to die in five minutes, you pinhead! Later!"
Moon Dancer dashed from Starlight's view, running straight out of the open hangar door. She ran as fast as she could, an expression of anger and revolt on her face. Unfortunately, she didn't think about the police officers ahead who could see her. Even more so with the girl with the prosthetic limb pointing her out.
Just as she was about to charge through, her body was hit with a strings which sent mild electric shocks through her body. The tasers made her jolt and convulse, until she fell to the ground from the shocks.
"Mind if I break her bones?" Limestone asked, raising her prosthetic limb up, showing the sledgehammer now in its place.
"Sure. That is if you want to be arrested with her," The police officer replied sarcastically.
Limestone rolled her eyes. "Buzzkill."
Starlight was about to pick up Trixie until she saw more of the ceiling start to crumble and fall apart around her. Scared out of her mind, she picked up Trixie with all of her might. But as she was about to go, she looked down. Somehow in all of the heat and flames she saw a strange liquid-like substance spilled all over the ground. Her eyes bulged. The gasoline. And worse, it was slowly leaking its way towards the fire.
Now was the time to go. She went to pick up Trixie, grabbing her with all of her might. She swung the staff on the strap on her back, carrying both with her. With the strength of a lion rising inside her, she ran out of the hangar, as fast as she could. She had to run, she had to run now!
Just up ahead, she saw a group of police officers and firemen who were keeping people away from the impending destruction. Just a few more feet and she would be safe.
Inside, the gasoline had moved all its way to the fire. A single touch of the flame, and the flames began to dance on the gasoline, following the single path that it had been streaming. And it would only be a matter of seconds before it would hit the gasoline barrels.
Running harder and harder, Starlight didn't look back. And right at that very moment, the entire building began to be completely engulfed in flames, with the sound of an enormous explosion followed with it. The gasoline tanks exploded, and it began to blow the walls of the hangar away. Walls came tumbling down, steel pieces and parts hailed the skies, and tiny sparks rained down.
As the walls were destroyed from the explosion, the entire room of the hangar began to fall down, and with it, more of the walls until the entire hangar was nothing more than a fallen house. Everything came falling down, nothing was standing anymore. And with it; the rest of the steel mill began to come part of the death. More of the buildings came down, lines and pipes melting away, and smokestacks tumbling down from the weak supports.
By the time the explosion went off, Amethyst and Octavia had been moved into the ambulances.
"Sir, please, you have to let us through! They're still in there!" Adagio pleaded.
"Ma'am, we have search crews already moving in on the double, they'll find those girls, I promise."
"That's what you always say, and then you never do!" Adagio panicked.
"Wait, Adagio, look!"
Just up ahead, in the smoke, they saw a shadow. A shadow of a girl walking towards them. And when the smoke began to clear a bit more, the Dazzlings including the other awake Rainbooms could see it was Starlight Glimmer. And in her hands, was an out cold, and covered in dust, bruises, and cuts; Trixie.
"Oh my goodness, Trixie... what did she do to you..." Adagio whimpered.
Starlight walked towards the group, holding the girl close to her. A scared look was visible on Starlight's face as she brought her out, and everyone else was just as horrified. Jaws were down, eyes glued. And no one said a thing.
"Is... Is she--"
Starlight looked back to the former Siren with a worried look. She wasn't sure. Adagio leaned her head to her chest, listening carefully. A small sigh escaped her breath, but she was still scared.
"Her heart is still beating," Adagio moaned.
"So she's still alive, that's great!"
"Yes, but she's hurt!" Adagio cried. She looked up at Starlight with a whimpering face. "P-Please... m-may I?"
"O-Of course..."
Carefully, Starlight carried her over to Adagio's open arms, allowing her to hold her close. Adagio held her as close as she could, hugging her. The girls could hear her sobbing as she held that unconscious girl close. None of them could even imagine how upset she must be right now.
"I'm so sorry... I should have gone in to help you..." Adagio wailed.
"Miss Adagio?"
She looked up, tears streaming down her face. In front of her was a police officer and two paramedics who had a small flatbed to help put Trixie on.
"We're gonna get her to a hospital. I promise she'll be alright. And for the sake of all of your health, you all are coming with us so the doctors can take a look at you all. One of you said something about being exposed to some fumes?"
Vinyl nodded, "Yes, I did. My friend, Octavia, she was exposed to some flames in the boiler room, and that's when she started to get sick."
"All the more reason for you all to come to the hospital," the officer replied.
"But what about Moon Dancer?" Starlight pointed at the girl in handcuffs, being shoved into the squad car. Moon Dancer glared back at her with a 'your dead to me' look.
"She's going to be going away for quite some time. Kidnapping, hacking into television networks, attempted murder, and the inclusion for what she forced you all to go through," the officer said, staring back at her. "I can guarantee, she's not going to be getting revenge anytime. The judge is going to conflict some pretty heavy punishments for her."
The police car blared its siren as it drove away with the scowling Moon Dancer. Everyone watched as she was taken away from the scene. Hopefully for good.
"Now we better get you all to the hospital, stat."
A crew of paramedics picked up Trixie, moving her onto a medical flatbed and into the ambulance.
"Wait! Please, may I ride with her?"
"You may."
Adagio got into the back of the van, standing close to Trixie with absolute distress. Starlight joined as well, moving in with her. Everyone else who was still stable enough to drive got into their cars, with the inclusion of some police officers joining them.
The sirens of the first police car went off, and he led the group. Soon after, Lyra and Bon Bon followed, with two ambulances behind them. Not too long after, Flash's RV came to follow the group, and the last ambulance and police car. Everyone was off and moving at a fast speed.
Adagio looked down to Trixie, holding her hand. Only the sounds of the sirens were sounds she could hear. Everything else was nothing but deaf to her. Praying she would still be alive, her hand wrapped around Trixie's as tight as possible, unwilling to let go.
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