Ch 8 - The Fateful Accident

----------(3 HOURS AGO, INSIDE TRIXIE'S WAGON DOOR)----------

"GGAAAAHH, we swear! We didn't do anything illegal!! It was an accident!!", shouted the panicking Gallus cowered in fear as he laid on the chair, while holding his bad half of Trixie's check.

"WOAH WOAH WOAH, ease up, partner! It's me, your Professor Applejack!", cried out the cowboy mare who was now wearing a white shirt and a pair of khaki pants.

"Professor Applejack?! You're Gallus' new employer??", questioned the bemused Silverstream as she pointed at Applejack.

"In the flesh, sugarcube!", greeted Professor Applejack as she showed off her left bicep muscle and grin widely. "Your counselor Trixie had convinced the Headmare to give you a place to take shelter during your suspension, in exchange for helping out with the labor back at the farm. If you showed that you could be as hardworking as any other top-aced student at this school, Headmare Starlight may shorten your suspension for three days!"

"WOAAH!" yelled the excited Silverstream. "Hear that, Gallus?? You're going to be back in school much sooner than later!". Then she had a moment of realization.

"Wait, since you're here, that mean he is going to work at that infested area, right?", Silverstream wondered.

"You serious?? You know how much I hate handling these evil-eye looking bats, Professor", protested Gallus as he got out of the swivel seat and threw away his ripped half part of his check.

"Every volunteer out there will be here to help drive out these pesky fruit bats out of our family memorial park! When it comes to working in the real world, you don't always get the luxury of choosing where and how you want to work. All we can do is provide the best working conditions possible without compromising the costs of our business. I thought I already taught you that lesson before, haven't I", replied Professor Applejack as she approached and stared at Gallus with disdain and touched his shoulder. She later continued in a softer but strict tone.

"If you really want to catch up with your studies sooner, you'll have to work hard to earn your trust back at the school. You got that, partner?"

Gallus was at first tense, but then later sighed as he calmed down, before answering "Fiiiineee, just take me where I need to go and I'll follow.....you coming, Silverstream?"

"Naaahh, I'm too hyped up about the weekend to go bowling with Professor Rainbow Dash today! You two have fun working at the park today! Chow!", hollered Silverstream farewell as she exited the wagon and flew off into the sky.

"Don't worry, sugarcube! If it makes you feel any better, your supervisor for this job will be some creature you know well back in school! C'mon, you can take a ride in my rickshaw cart!" offered the content Applejack.

"Wouldn't it be faster to just fly over there?", questioned Gallus with a stern unamused expression on his face.

"I like the offer, but with 5 tons of bagged apple seeds and 3 tons of crated pellet ammo, it'll be a spine breaker for even a strong griffon like you to carry, but a strong mare like me can pull this cart with a vigor of two angry oxen!", Applejack explained as she boasted about her own muscular strength.

"Pellet ammo? What do you need that for?", asked the confused Gallus.

"I'll explain on the way to the farm! Now hop on my cart before any more of these juice-sucking bats take any more of my old folks' favorite orchard!", called out Applejack as she braced herself on the pull bar of her rickshaw.

----------(NEARLY HALF AN HOUR LATER ON THE ROAD, APPROACHING THE APPLE FAMILY MEMORIAL PARK)----------

When it comes down to taking out pests, their own well-being and their welfare comes into mind. Since the School of Friendship also employed Fluttershy who teaches students on maintaining relationships with a wide variety of animals in the fauna, even the pestilent kind, their education courses also included environmental conservation, green agricultural practices and animal control. Thus, in order to reinforce these ideals, most of the pest and animal control involved in the school (or outside school grounds) usually focuses on taking down mice, rats, bugs and other pests with non-lethal methods, such as knocking them out with a depressant gas (e.g. chloroform), using more friendly encasement traps (e.g. no glue traps nor water buckets) or luring them away with attractive stimuli (e.g. leading away parasites with a one-Equestrian band). After all the pests are rounded up, they were all released back into their respective habits in the wild Everfree Forest or teleported into Discord's dimension to be dealt with accordingly, depending on the gravity of the infesting situation.

When it comes to vampire fruit bats, there are a wide variety of methods used by different creatures being employed at the memorial park. For example, winged 'netters' would catch swarms of vampire bats with their nets, though their rushing and hasty presence can alert the colony and spread out as far as they can to avoid being bunched up within the nets. 'Baiters' (usually changedlings) can lure bats into roosting metal cages with fruit hats, artificial bat pheromones or feigned bat cries. The only downside is that if the bats figured out their ruse, they can warn other bats about the new methods used by the pest controllers, and the workers will have to get more creative with their lures. 'Gassers' are usually grounded creatures who wear Hazmat suits and gas cylinders filled with special sleeping gases that can instantly knock out the bats. The major drawback was that some bats had became resistant to the gas and some of the sleeping agents used caused the fruits to ripen too quickly, causing them to fall off from the trees and make them better ground targets for the remaining awoke bats to suck on.

Finally, there are the popular 'slingers' that are lucky enough to fire large pellets made of cellulose gel from heir slingshots. It was thanks to one particularly bright student known as Ocellus that bat snatching had become much more easier and stealthier. Though it was only introduced a few days ago, slinging became the most popular job application at the family memorial park, due to its simplicity and higher effective rate of bat capture. According to Ocellus, these cellulose pellets were hollow to allow injection of a special magically enchanted liquid hypnotic⁴ made from natural valerian, beer hops and kava-kava extracts. When they are fired from a slingshot, the impact force breaks open the pellets, releasing the volatile liquid. Since little noise is made, it made it an ideal tool for taking out colonies without alerting the colony. Even a small whiff of the hypnotic by the bats will knock them out without the other bats knowing and environmental damage is minimized, since the pellets are made from natural ingredients.

Once all the bats have been incapacitated, they were gathered in brown medium-sized canvas bags and taken to the recently built refrigerated bat towers at Fluttershy's animal sanctuary to store those critters under hibernation mode. Once all the orchards at the refugia are restored, the vampire fruit bats are then released into the new refugia, where they will wake up and continue their usual feasting of their fruitful delicacies.

Lucky for Gallus, there was a job spot for a slinger that is needed at the western region of the memorial park. Before he could enter though, he had to wear his special khaki green shirt, pants and camper hat as his uniform to identify himself as a slinger, while the other student volunteers had to wear yellow-brown for netters, red for baiters and white hazmat suits for gassers. After Gallus was given his standard rubber slingshot by Ocellus the supplier at the memorial entry, he was escorted into the western region by the well-known school groundskeeper Mr Greenhooves.

----------(HALF AN HOUR AT THE WESTERN REGION OF APPLE FAMILY MEMORIAL PARK)----------

"You have GOT to be kidding me, Greenhooves! I thought you said I wouldn't have to deal with the students at school!", cried the frustrated Mr. Tang as he yelled at Mr Greenhooves.

"Emphasis on the school, Mister Tang! You STILL have to deal with other creatures, even those who have no attendance at the school there", explained Mr Greenhooves.

"I DEMAND I speak to the boss!! I ain't working next to that gruff!" cried the foul-mouthed Mister Tang as he shook his fist at Mr Greenhooves.

"I already had a talk with Miss Applejack, and she insisted that you need to learn how to get along with other employed creatures, whether they be students or not! Otherwise, she can have you relocated to shoveling manure from the pigsty---with no mask on!", explained Mr Greenhooves as he shook in fear at his rage, but still tried to kept his cool.

As Mr. Tang growled at Mr Greenhooves, Gallus interrupted with this remark as he pointed at Mr. Tang

"Uhhhh, I was told I would be meeting with a supervisor here! Please tell me that old skeleton not going to be the one barking orders at me after you leave me to my own."

"I'll show YOU old man, you ungrateful shitbird", shouted Mr.Tang as he charged his curved unicorn horn.

"THAT'S QUITE ENOUGH, Tang! Don't make living at our new home much harder than it is! Unless you want me to take up ALL of the bats as extra commission pay for myself" interrupted a certain yellow Earth Equestrian who was wearing his green uniform and yielding his standard-issued slingshot.

"Grrrrr!" growled the frustrated Mr. Tang as he tone down his horn. "FINE! Whatever, Zhi! Just tell this pigeon here to mind his own business by that empty tree close to the riverbed!"

"That's not my call, Mr. Tang! Your boss demands that you keep close to your employees, so that they could easily check up on you, in case you get into another heart attack", explained Mr Greenhooves.

"I can rely on my friend to be on my side for that!" remarked the begrudged Mr. Tang as he fired his pellet at the sleeping bat hung upside down on one of the branches.

"OH, I'm sorry, Tang! I was told by my supervisor that I need to keep an eye out for here while she collects the bats with her bag.", explained the apologetic Master Zhi.

"WAIT, you're not the supervisor??! But you look pretty mature for your age to be running this operation!", exclaimed the shocked Gallus as he looked at Master Zhi.

"He may be old, but he no talented like me in supervising!" cried a certain chubby nak girl with a short-stature and saggy D-cup bust. Like all the other slingers, she was also wearing her green uniform and carrying what seemed to be a medium-sized bag with some knocked-out bats.

"YONA??!! YOU'RE my supervisor for today??!" shouted the even more surprised Gallus.

"GALLUS! Long time no see! Professor Jack told me you shoot sleepy balls at bats! Yona no can shoot with thick things good, so Yona help collect nasty bats instead!", explained the excited Yona.

"WELL, I guess that's my cue to leave! You behave yourself, all right?! I don't want you scaring the young ones from their job again!", said Mr Greenhooves as he bid him farewell and walked out into the orchard forest.

"Wow, didn't expect a yak to be running the show here...", said the bewildered Gallus.

"HEY, why you no work?! Yona demands you shoot slingshot at bats with pellets and meet 50 bat quota for pay!", demanded Yona as she pointed her cloven three-fingered hand at Gallus, which caused him to panic and whip out his slingshot to aim at the bats.

"I can't believe we're taking orders from a 牦牛 (máoniú)¹!", protested the grouchy Mr Tang as he fired his shot at an escaping crying bat in the air.

Master Zhi then got very upset and cried, "Wait, did you just fired a stone at a bat in mid-air?! You know our boss doesn't want us taking deadly potshots at flying pests! She said they need to be brought back---!"

"WHAT??! I'm out of pellets now! How else am I going to continue with my job?", cried the uncaring Mr Tang.

"Yona demands you stop hurting bats or me will tell boss Applejack!!", shouted Yona with a harsh low-pitched tone.

"Look, I'll have you take some of mine if you want!", offered Master Zhi as he took out his ammo pouch.

"Why the hell are we even wasting time saving these vermin?! They'll just eat up all the reserve apples much faster than before! Then they'll switch back to sucking our crops dry!", protested the angry Mr Tang.

"That's what the owls, hawks and raccoons at the refugia reserves are for, you idiot! They act as the guards that keep the bats in check! Any excess bats that cannot fit at the refugia will be sent the cold bat towers to be stored under hibernation mode! Didn't she already told you about that during training?", explained the upset berating Master Zhi.

"Will you old farts keep it down already??! You're gonna wake up these dang bats and you're ruining my concentration here", squawked the stressed-out Gallus as he fired a pellet shot and missed the bat by a centimeter below its feet.

"LOOK, I don't want you to get into more trouble like the last time back in our home country! You brought this on yourself with your bad business practices. DON'T make the same mistake like last time. Just remember why we are here in the first place, 你明唔明呀 (Neiy ming hm ming aah)²?? ", reminded Master Zhi as he forcefully slapped an ammo pouch onto his hand.

Mr. Tang then gave out a grunting sigh, begrudgingly took the pouch and stared at his eyes, before saying to Master Zhi

"你爭我嘅 (Neiy juang ngo geh)³. If he doesn't graduate with flying colors, I'm leaving you two all behind", said Mr Tang before resuming his original task as the pest slinger.

"Man, crazy friendship dynamic between you two, eh?", commented the snarky Gallus as he stretched out his slingshot.

"SHUT UP, you damn pigeon!! Nopony asked you!", shouted the upset Mr. Tang before firing a pellet shot above Gallus' head to knock out the bat above his head.

----------(MEANWHILE AT THE HILLTOP GAZEBO ABOVE)----------
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"I'm going to check out who fired that shot!! He or she is a dead creature once they realize who they are messing with!!", shouted Delft Blue as he raged like a madman over his boss being hurt.

"HEY, look down over there! It seems like there's four different assassins by those apple trees over there!", shouted one of the kirin bodyguards who spotted one of Applejack's employees.

Every kirin in the gazebo all stood up and gathered at the railing on the west side of the gazebo, peering over and saw one unicorn, one Earthen stallion and one griffon aiming their slingshots up in the sky, while one fat nak girl waits idly by with a medium-sized canvas bag.

"YOU, Delft Blue!! Go down there and confront these assassins head on!", ordered the bleeding Ginseng Dragon.

"What??! ME??!! But WHY??!", protested Delft Blue who stared at his boss.

"You seriously expect for ME---their target---to come down here to face these assassins??!", angrily berated Ginseng Dragon as he held a napkin over his bleeding forehead.

"All right, FINE!! Every kirin, follow me!!" ordered Delft Blue.

"HEY, don't take ALL of my guard posse, you fool!", bellowed Gingseng Dragon.

"RIGHT, of course!! I almost forgot! My apologies, Dragon Head", shouted the apologizing Delft Blue. He later induce a bright blue glow on his horn, before all four bright wisping streams sprouted out from his horn to summon four more of the Ginseng Triad bodyguards.

"You four, follow me! The other four, protect the Dragon Head!!" ordered the passionately upset Delft Blue before leaving the gazebo with his own posse of four bodyguards.
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"Ooooh, so you think you can suck on these fruits like you own the place, huh? Well, take THIS to the face, you stupid bat!", quietly shouted Gallus as he fired his pellet at the bat, but hit the branch he was standing on. That caused the ambushed bat to fly away out of shock.

"HA, guess that eagle eye wasn't so sharp as it used it be, gruff!", teased Mr Tang.

"C'mon, old geezer! Cut me some slack! I used to do something like that back when I was an orphan, shooting unsuspecting griffons at their bare asses!", bragged Gallus as he picked his next target.

"Sonny, if you're trying to bond with me with childhood memories, you are sadly mistaken", said Mr. Tang as she successfully scored another bat.

"Lighten up, Tang! Give this catbird the benefit of the doubt for once. He is respectfully trying to shoot at his side of the tree, right?", told Master Zhi to Mr Tang as he brought up another pellet to shoot.

"HEY, Yona say no talking! You scare bats by yelling!", ordered Yona as she collected the incapacitated bats on the ground.

"Then shut up already and let us concentrate, you big brute!", snapped back Mr Tang.

"Yeah, out of the four of us here, you're the only loudest one here" replied back Gallus the sassy blue catbird.

Yona then started to pout with embarrassing anger over that true remark. She continued with her job as the bat packer.

"HEY, don't take my sassy jokes from me, gruff boy!", snapped back Mr. Tang as he pointed his finger at Gallus.

"Why? Afraid I might upstage you in the battle of wits?", replied Gallus as he smirked while aiming his slingshot at another bat on a higher branch level.

"HEY, YOU THERE!! ALL OF YOU!! What the hell are you four doing here?!!", shouted the enraged Delft Blue as he approached the four slingers with his four bodyguards.

"AAHH, you scare Yona!!", shouted the frightened supervising nak girl.

"Hey man! You're not supposed to be here!", exclaimed Gallus when he looked behind to see what was going on. "This is a restricted area only accessible to employees of the park!"

"YEAH, we're just shooting a couple of bats by those trees over here!", replied the upset Master Zhi.

"Bats??! Up in the trees??! With slingshots?! What kind of fool do you take me for??! Does MY boss look like a FLYING BAT TO YOU??!!", berated Delft Blue as he makes a flying wing gesture with his arms.

"Why? Is your boss a flying young chicken that had escaped from his pen?" remarked the unamused Mr Tang.

"Oooooaaaaahhhhhhhh!", hollered Gallus as he reacted to that sassy rhetorical question.

Delft Blue was not laughing and smiling at the insult to the top triad boss. Feeling like he had talked enough, he shouted the command at his kirin henchmen, "Kill all of them! Especially the old unicorn over there!"

"Woah woah woah, cool your horn here, kirin! Let's not get into any unnecessary trouble here!" Gallus cried nervously as he tried to calm the situation down.

"Gallus! Yona scared!! Yona no like angry kirins staring badly!", shouted Yona as she ran into Gallus and cowered behind him. Then, Master Zhi went in between Gallus and the kirins, before he spoke out.

"Look, if it's about that flying stone that got fired from Mr Tang's slingshot, we are completely sorry that---!"

"HWWOOOOOOOWAAAHHH!" shouted the bulldozing Mr Tang as he leapt in front of Master Zhi with a fighting crane stance. "You half-assed red-horns⁴ are all trespassing on private family property!! Leave now before I pummel your asses to the ground!!". Shocked by the sudden interference without his knowledge, Master Zhi shouted

"TANG, what the hell??!! It's your fault they were here in the first place!!"

"Which is why I am making up for it by saving your ass! Now GET OUTTA HERE and bring those two critches with you! I don't want to get in trouble from my boss for leaving employees behind!", ordered the furious Mr Tang as he began fighting Delft Blue with a flurry of punching blows, blocks and palm chops.

"HOLY CRAP! That old man's pretty fast for his age!!", shouted the awed Gallus as Mr Tang was blocking every speeding punch doled out by the dashingly deadly Delft Blue.

"HURRY Yona, let's get the freak outta here!!" cried the fleeing Master Zhi as he grabbed Yona by the horns. Yona later protested as she was being dragged by the strong Master Zhi, while holding dear onto the bag of sleepy vampire bats.

"WAIT, we can't leave Gallus---!!"

"NO TIME!! We need to go find Miss Applejack and get her to call all her employees off this park!", yelled Master Zhi as the two creatures continued running for their lives.

Soon enough, the four kirin bodyguards had waited long enough and, using their spiritualistic kirin magic, they cast a spell onto their hands and lower hooves, and used those enhanced powers to dole out a simultaneous quadruple kick to Mr Tang's stomach during the melee. The incredible force caused Mr Tang to fly back violently, before out of instinct, Gallus flew up and caught Mr Tang by his arms. Though the force dealt a painful blow to his chest, Gallus was able to maintain his bearings and proceeded to fly away from the danger as he carried Mr Tang throughout the forest.

"So that's how you want to play it, huh??! Well, let's see if you and your posse can handle my ENTIRE army!" shouted Delft Blue as he concentrated the phase summoning spell from his horn and shot out a plethora of blue wisp streams from his glowing horn. As his eyes started to glow a bright sea blue color, he shouted, "Guards, you have permission to use your deadly spiritual combat energy against these conspirators!"

"YES, Deputy Blue!!", obeyed the kirin bodyguards in unison before chasing after the griffon and the old unicorn.

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As Gallus flew between the orchards (as the vast network of nets above prevented him from flying any higher above the tree line), he found himself being shaken by the old stallion unicorn in his arms.

"HEY, get off me, you damn catbird!!", Mr Tang shouted as he tried to get out of Gallus' grasp.

"You're injured, old man! I just saved you from these crazy fucked-up kirin! You really should've watched where you were shooting!!", cried Gallus as he tried desperately to avoid the standing trees.

"I was JUST about to have them where I wanted!", protested Mr Tang.

"Well, it seemed like you were in need of some rescue, so forgive me for jumping way too far into conclusions!", sarcastically cried Gallus, before Mr Tang spotted a nearby open playground

"There, drop me off here! I think I saw Zhi and our fat yak supervisor being surrounded by more pissed off kirin!", shouted Mr Tang as he pointed in the direction of the playground.

"C'mon, Yona!! Let's break through here!!", shouted Master Zhi as he ad Yona passed through the open playground. It was already being occupied by two pegasi girls who were in their sport tank tops and shorts, exercising on the lifting hoops and the monkey bars of the playground.

"There too many here!! Every creature RUUUNN!!" cried Yona at the two screaming pegasi girls, who later ran out of the playground before it was completely overtaken by tuxedo-wearing kirin bodyguards.

"AAHH, SHIT!! We're surrounded!!", shouted the panicked Master Zhi as he and Yona found themselves trapped by bodyguards with glowing fists and lower hooves.

"Always negative!", shouted out Mr Tang, as he was thrown from the sky by the spinning Gallus towards the ground, before landing a painful bucking kick to one of the kirin.

"Come and get me, you hooligans!", cried out the enraged Mr Tang as he cast an endurance spell across his whole body to make it more resistant to sharp attack blows. Mr Tang then later leapt over Yona and used his special circling roundhouse upper kick ('Rising Star'), to take out the remaining bodyguards around Master Zhi and Yona.

"TANG! Good to see ya still in one piece!! WACCHHHAAAA!!!" cried Master Zhi as he performed a somersault dodge over the crazed kirin fighter as he lunged towards him.

As Master Zhi landed on his lower hooves and braced himself against the small circular orange slide with his arms, he sensed an incoming backstabbing ambush from the charging kirin and leapt upwards to perform another somersault flip!

As the kirin found himself slamming on the side of the curved slide in a lunge position, his spine was immediately slammed downward by the acrobatic landing Master Zhi, causing the kirin to keel over.

"RAGING OX HORN!!" cried Mr Tang as he performed a powerful uppercut punch to the stomach of one kirin fighter, causing him to wallow in pain on the floor.

Suddenly, Yona found herself ganged up again by three more kirin gangsters, but was suddenly saved as Gallus flew in between her and the kirin with ferocious vigor.

"STAY BACK!! All of you!", cried the angry Gallus as he swiped his sharp talons across all three of the kirin's faces, before finishing them off with a roundhouse kick with his lower lion paw.

"HEEYAAAAAAHHHH!!!!", cried the adrenaline-fueled Gallus as he posed in a kung-fu Hang stance.

"Where in the hell did you learn to fight like that?!", asked the combative Mr Tang as he fought back the charging kirin with his spinning and bucking butterfly kicks around the small merry-go-round.

"Professor Dash's self-defense lessons!", shouted Gallus as he used his tail to trip over one kirin and performed a downward chop attack on his carotid artery. "It was part of the Friendship Through Fighting Power elective courses!"

"And I thought this school was for hippies and pansies!", cried Mr Tang as he threw another beaten-up kirin onto the spinning merry-go-round.

"YONA, are you all right??!!" cried Gallus after he pummeled another kirin with a thrusting talon strike to the face. "Don't lose yourself in the ruckus!!"

"Follow wherever Zhi goes!! We'll push these qilin back!!", cried out Mr Tang as he performed another low-bar roundabout kick against his surrounding opponents, knocking them all off their hooves.

"Please wait for Yona!! Yona no catch up fast very well!" cried Yona as jumped onto the chest of a beaten-up kirin laying on the ground, causing him to writhe in even more pain as his ribs became cracked from Yona's immense weight.

"Stop this RIGHT NOW and we might break fewer bones!", ordered one of the kirin martial arts fighter as the rest of the gang continued to rush after the four employees.

Finding himself barely cornered by more kirin reinforcements, Master Zhi performed a quick mid-kick on one kirin to propel himself backwards onto a black vinyl swing seat, and used his remaining momentum to swing backwards against an ambushing kirin charging at him from behind.

"GALLUS, over here!! Pull me up higher!!", cried Master Zhi as he continued using the swing to knock back the kirin back and forth like a pendulum.

"RIGHT!!" shouted Gallus as he catches Zhi as he was swinging back and lifted him up a 120 degree arc from its vertical axial position. "Let's swing you into full gear!", Gallus yelled before he vehemently pushed Master Zhi downwards to bring out the most powerful swing push possible.

"BUCKING BATTERING RAM ATTACK!!", cried Master Zhi as he thrust his lower hooves forward and knocked back a line of five kirin gangsters off their hooves with a single forward-swinging kick, before using the recoiling energy to swing backwards and perform a somersault back flip towards the ground.

"Gallus, Master and Old Tang is super amazing!! Yona so grateful for heroes!!" Yona cheered as she jumped for joy.

"It's not over yet! There's still more thugs coming over to kill our asses!!", panicked Gallus as more kirin surround the playground.

"Yona!! STAY RIGHT HERE and don't move!!" shouted Mr Tang as he grabbed her by the horn, pulled her into position, and started to use her head as a platform to perform his breakdancing head-spinning moves against the kirin gangsters surrounding Yona.

"Rampaging Octopus!!" cried Mr Tang as he performed a series of reciprocating and twirling kicks as he spun around like a frantic octopus on top of Yona's head, being careful as to not be jabbed by Yona's big horns in the process.

"Look, there's an opening!! Let's head for it before more goons show up!" shouted Gallus as he rushed forward towards Master Zhi standing close to the steel yellow trash bin.

After most of the kirin around Yona were knocked out, Yona and Mr Tang ran fast towards Master Zhi and Gallus as fast as their lower hooves can take them. However, Yona became too tired to continue on any further, due to her low stamina.

"Yona--HUFF-no can go further! Yona--WHEEZE-too tired!! Please--HUFF--wait for Yona!!", the nak girl wheezed as her running speed rapidly started to slow down.

"Seriously, lady?? How can you be hired supervisor if you can't catch up well with your employees?!", shouted the impatient Mr Tang.

"We can't leave her behind, Master!!", cried Gallus as he panicked while more kirin came pouring in from the orchard woods.

"You take Tang with you!! I'll deal with Yona here!!", shouted Master Zhi as he emptied the entire cylindrical yellow trash can, before lifting Yona up and shoving her into the empty can.

"What the hell are you doing, man??!!" shouted the hovering Gallus as he grabbed Mr Tang by the arms and lifted him up off the ground.

"Just stay still and hold your breath, Yona!! It's going to be a bumpy ride!" ordered Master Zhi as he tipped over the yellow trash can and started to roll her across the wooden sidewalk. As the trash can began to take speed with Yona inside the trash can, Master Zhi leapt forwards and started running onto the rolling trash can like a Cirque Du Soleil acrobat!

"Yona---feeling----very--very---SIIICCKK!!", cried the nauseous Yona as she continued to roll inside the rumbling trash can

As Gallus and Mr Tang started flying together alongside Master Zhi to catch up with him, Gallus shouted, "You are ONE crazy demented man for putting Yona through this damn nightmare rollercoaster!!"

"You wanna be turned into a spitroast chicken over their fireplace while your fat friend lays buck naked with an apple in her mouth, then be my guest!!", shouted the livid Mr Tang as he held onto dear life within Gallus' arms.

"DUDES, look out!!!" shouted Gallus as the four creatures passed under the wooden sheltered walkway of the park and saw two buff yaks carrying a ladder horizontally along the intersecting point of the sheltered pathway.

Finding himself in the brink of collision with the horizontally orientated ladder, Master Zhi immediately does a frontal somersault flip over the ladder, before landing onto the continuously rolling yellow trash can (with Yona inside)!

"HEY, WATCH LADDER!!" shouted the two angry yaks as they witnessed the acrobatic feat done by Master Zhi.

Miracuously, he was able to land on the rolling trash can with his hands and was now upside down, looking in the opposite direction of the rolling trashcan. As he moved his hands accordingly to keep in motion with the rolling trash can, he saw in his upside-down perspective that the kirin bodyguards were still chasing after him and his friends.

"ZHI, watch out for the bicycle!!!", shouted Mr Tang when he saw the bicycle-riding red-bandana wearing griffon coming straight through from the right side of another intersecting walkway.

With his quick reflexes, Master Zhi pushed his hands forward to perform another frontal flip over the bicyclist, before the yellow trash can crashes into the red bicycle, knocking the griffon onto the wooden sidewalk. Surprisingly, the griffon that Master Zhi had unknowingly knocked out was the Huntress fleeing for her life from the Ginseng Squad.

"HEY, are you fuckin' dweebs both blind AND stupid??!!" insulted the injured Huntress as she got back up on her paws.

"Uggghh, Yona now seeing black all over! Head not so feel well!", the nauseous green-faced nak girl complained as she exited out of the yellow trash can.

"YOU! STOP RIGHT HERE! We're not done with you yet!" yelled one of the pursuing kirin.

As the flustered Master Zhi got back on his hooves after a bad somersault landing, Mr Tang cried out, "Master Zhi, they're still coming this way!! We got to move faster!! Ditch the trash can and take her bike!"

"RIGHT!! Sorry, Missy! We gotta major emergency on our hands! Here, take my lunch money to buy yourself a new bike!" cried Master Zhi as he propped up and threw his bag of 100 bits on the Huntress' lap.

"YOU SERIOUS, RIGHT NOW??! We can't afford to be generous at a time like this!! They're getting way too close on our asses, godamnit!!" shouted the angry Mr Tang as he was still being held by the scared hovering Gallus.

"YONA, grab the bag of bats and hold onto the back basket! We're getting the freak outta here!", ordered Master Zhi.

"Yona got bats! Now lift Yona onto basket!!", shouted Yona before Master Zhi lifted Yona onto the small wicker basket and began pedalling as fast as he could along the intersecting wooden walkway.

"C'mon, old man!! Let's catch up with Yona and your partner-in-crime!" shouted Gallus as he and Mr Tang flew rapidly along the same walkway taken by Master Zhi.

"What the hell is going on here??!!", hollered the confused Huntress as she saw many kirin running into the intersection, before she noticed a live vampire fruit bat crawling out of her canvas bag.

"C'mon, yellow stallion!! Pedal faster!!" shouted the panicked Yona as Master Zhi worked his legs to the fullest max, while trying to navigate the multiple curves of the wooden sidewalk. As Zhi pedalled as fast as he could across the flowery gardens, Yona was having trouble balancing on the small wicker basket on the back of the bicycle.

Then suddenly, Master Zhi had found himself being blocked by nine kirins charging up their red horns as they stand in acrobatic formation. Five were at the bottom with their arms and legs stretched out, and their hands and feets were in contact with each other. Three other kirins were standing on the bottom five kirin with only their legs spread out, while the final last kirin was standing on top of the should of the middle second-level kirin.

With their magical powers in total sync with each other, they were able to form a blue magical barrier within the gaps of their spreaded limbs, and they were now going to use their remaining power to form a single focused disintegration beam from all their nine kirin horns.

Extremely panicked by the sudden barrier now suddenly in front of them, Master Zhi immediately braked the borrowed bicycle so hard with his lower hooves, that it caused the bicycle to suddenly jerk forward. This inadvertently turned the bike into a catapult that flung the heavy flying and screaming Yona towards the acrobatic kirins with such destructive force, that it knocked them all down to the ground like a collasping Jenga tower. They didn't had enough time to even charge their ultimate disintegration ray attack to the fullest max.

"Run, Yona!! RUN!!! Don't stop now!!" shouted Master Zhi before he later continued on with his bicycle pedalling and started running over the multiple injured kirin on the ground. One of the kirin had his testicles ran over by the bike as he was laying on his back, causing him to writhe in even more excruciating pain.

"YONA---can't!! Has trouble---catching up!" cried Yona as she tried to catch up with Master Zhi on the bicycle.

"It's okay, Yona!! I gotcha!" cried Gallus as he lifted Yona up in the air and plopped her onto the small bicycle basket at the back. At the same time, the old Mr Tang was grabbing onto Gallus' lion tail for dear life as Gallus flew across the air.

"The THINGS I had to do it keep myself from dying in vain!", shouted the upset Mr Tang as he was bobbing up and down over the floor.

"Oh COME ON!! Are you freakin' kidding me??!! Did they send the ENTIRE clown circus to come after us??!", shouted Gallus as six more acrobatic kirin are coming towards Master Zhi as they all rode on a single stolen black bicycle, while keeping themselves balanced as they held onto each other.

"QUICK, turn right to the exit over there!!" shouted Mr Tang when he spotted another intersection that led tourists to the exit from the memorial park.

As Master Zhi turned to the right and he finally exited the park, he suddenly found himself losing control, as the bike had inadvertently crashed through a weak wooden fence that was guarding against a very steep hill towards the wide-open dirt road from below.

"AAHHHH, I can't stop rolling!" shouted the panicking Master Zhi as Yona in the basket was holding onto dear life to not fall off as the bicycle accelerates downhill towards the street road.

"YONA NO LONGER CAN HOLD ON MUCH LONGER!!!" shouted the panicking and screaming Yona.

As Young Master Zhi later found himself speeding perpendicularly across the wide yellow dirt road, Starlight and Sunburst were suddenly caught off guard by the speeding bicycle as they were crossing the road. Simultaneously, an Equestrian riding a delivery cart was rushing like a freight train, as the two rushing oxen in front were pulling a cart load of water barrels stacked five meters high, which were strapped with flimsy nylon rope. When the delivery cart rider saw that he was about to run over Master Zhi and Yona, he immediately pulled his reigns to the right to steer the rushing oxen away from the bicycle, but his actions later came to another terrible cost.

As Gallus and Mr Tang had arrived on the scene to see if their friends were okay, what they were about to witness would change their lives forever.

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Seeing the raging pair of oxen galloping towards them at near point-blank range, Sunburst instinctively pushed Starlight away further to the right to avoid the oncoming beasts of burden. He had little time to cast a shielding spell with strong fortitude though. For it to be a strong barrier, it needed 5-10 seconds to gather all the energy it needed to resist the heavy impact, but time would not give that luxury to Sunburst. The rider on top wasn't quick enough to pull back on the reins to stop the oxen from running over Sunburst, so he had to make another quick alternative decision.

As the pair of oxen careened further right as the rider jerked his reins as hard as he could to avoid the couple, the cart and its rider ended up flipping over and unleash a pile of half-ton wooden water barrels towards Sunburst. The flimsy nylon rope wasn't secured tight enough around the barrels as the rope had been fraying from the rough bumpy journey from its starting point. The oxen were unable to stop themselves from tripping over as it started to soon slam into Sunburst. Soon enough, he was caught in the ruckus as the swerving and rolling wooden cart was the next obstacle to barrel right towards him like a tumbling boulder. Everything went black for Sunburst as the chaos slowly continued.

His friend Starlight was only slightly more lucky, though it would still be an overestimation. Thanks to Sunburst's selfless actions, Starlight was able to avoid the oxen in time, but her head was still caught in the pathway of the flying water barrels that were catapulted from the cart. She tried to instantly teleport out of the way, but she was too late as she was struck in the head by the flying water barrel. She immediately lost consciousness afterwards, but luckily, she fell to the ground just in time as the barrelling wooden cart rolled right above her, barely sparing her the same fate of being rolled over like her beloved friend Sunburst.

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"Over there! They exited through here!" cried one of the kirin who was riding alongside his bretheren on a single black bicycle. Soon enough, more kirin on their hooves started to gather around and exit out of the memorial park.

"Uuugghh, geez! That was one heck of a chase scene!" yelled Master Zhi after crashing into a wattle-and-daub wall of a nearby hay-feeding station. "Is every creature in one piece?" he asked.

"GAAAHHH, Headmare Starlight Glimmer!!", bawled Gallus after witnessing the terrible fate that had become onto the unconscious headmare.

After flying down to the wide road and gently dropping Mr Tang on the ground, he quickly rushed on over to check his Headmare's condition.

😭"Oh no no no no no! Headmare! HEADMARE STARLIGHT!!! Please, WAKE UP!!" cried Gallus as tears started to fall from his eyes. As he desparately tried to shake her body to wake her up, a police officer who was on his usual patrols immediately rushed into the crash scene and saw the wreckage that had befallen onto the two victims.

😭"Vice Stallion!! Please be okay!! OH NO!! This no good!! Yona no believe this be happening!", bawled Yona as she kneel down next to the unconscious and badly injured Sunburst, who was trapped underneath the badly damaged wooden cart. Using her super strength, she lifted the cart up with her strong horns, threw it off a few meters from Sunburst and lifted Sunburst with her arms. As she does so, she started to bellow out with emotional anguish as the Vice Stallion lay unresponsive to his surroundings.

As the driver of the cart (who only suffered minor bruises and cuts from the cash) got back on his hooves from within the wreckage, he browse around to assess the damage of the wreckage. He found that his two oxen (still attached to their harness) were laying moaning on their sides, but were otherwise okay. He saw that many barrels of water had been scattered around the road and his cart was splintered from the crashing impact force like frayed matchsticks.

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Meanwhile, the kirin gangsters were looking over the damaged wooden fence from the elevated hill road from above and saw a police officer rushing over to investigate the terrible crash scene. Not wanting to be caught in the middle of the ruckus by law enforcement, one of the kirin had signalled all his comrades, "HOLD, we got a blue helm on the scene! Let's forget about these four and head back to the Dragon Head for our next move!"
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"GODAMIT, you bloody idiot!! You gotta be more careful with where you're driving!" yelled Mr Tang as he scolded the horrified driver.

"I'm so glad you could be here officer!! I need you to rush over to that police box and call on the nearest hospital available!!", shouted Master Zhi as he quickly got him engaged in saving the headmare. Even though she was the very same mare who had rejected him as his new substitute teacher, he still felt like it was his civic duty to protect those who are in dire need, no matter how grave the situation looked.

"You need to tell that ambulance driver to bring in two stretchers, some bracers, a couple casts, a whole ton of bandages and morphine painkillers!! We need to get these two off the street as fast as possible, right now!", continued Master Zhi as he was shouting like he was the lawmen's police chief.

"YES, I understand, sir! Just let me do my job!", shouted the worrisome police officer as he rushed towards the police call-box stationed near the hay-feeding station.

"C'mon!! FASTER!! Quit dickin' around!! These victims aren't getting any younger by the second!" Mr Tang hollered out to the running police officer.

"Everything's going to be all right, okay?! The emergency responders will be on their way soon!", assured Master Zhi as he tried to comfort the tearful Gallus as Starlight Glimmer laid on his lap.

"C'mon, lady! Big girls don't cry, remember?? You gotta make room for the paramedics to do their jobs to save him when they get there, or else they'll be forced to pull you away, ya hear??!", scorned Mr Tang as he gripped hard onto Yona's shoulder and looked sternly onto her crying eyes. As she was staring into space motionlessly, the badly injured Sunburst groaned out a sustained single word from his mouth: "S-s-sss-star---l-l-li--i--"

After the police officer unlocked the call-box, turned the emergency dial to #7 for "Accidents', pulled its side lever to activate the automated telegraph message and proceeded to speak into the carbon transmitter connected to the Ponyville Police Headquarters.

"YES, this is Officer Lookout! Call an ambulance for two accident victims near Apple Memorial Road! One is a mare with possible concussion and the other a stallion with possibly grave injuries! Request that you send backup officers over here too to secure the area!"

Laying in the ditch parallel to the road was a pair of shattered glasses and a wallet with Sunburst's school ID card.

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Author's Notes:

1. Cantonese for "yak"
https://www.bing.com/translator/?ref=TThis&text=%e7%89%a6%e7%89%9b&from=zh-Hans&to=en

2. Cantonese for "Do you understand?"
https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=Do%20you%20understand%3F&from=en&to=yue

3. Cantonese for "You owe me for this"
https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=You%20owe%20me%20for%20this.&from=en&to=yue