Creating A Hive

Dynamite Don't

Both of them only succeeded to knock the ring off the table to the door. They began fighting with each other, throwing so many punches and kicks that dust stirred up around them.

The middle man of this whole mad scheme, Dr Caballeron, stood in the entryway. "Many thanks, Daring Do. As you've probably surmised, our earlier search for this treasure was... unsuccessful. So kind of you to find it for us."

Daring Do had stopped fighting the henchpony. He had her pinned to the ground. He had gotten in a pretty good hit. "Give it back, Caballeron!" Daring demanded.

"That's Doctor Caballeron to you." He corrected her, offended. He glanced over at my sister and myself, then at his crushed henchponies. "Ah. And who might you two be? Associates of the famed Daring Do?"

"Killjoy." My sister grinned. She lifted up one of her knives, twisting it about in her feathers. "I can throw this knife between your eyes before you can even blink."

"She's scary at darts." I commented. Dr Caballeron turned to me. "Princess Raspberry Stardust. I'm the only pony brave enough to play darts with that abomination."

Killjoy kept up her grin. "We're not her associates."

"She couldn't afford us." I finished.

"So let me guess. Ahuizotl has put you up to this?" Daring Do asked Dr Caballeron. "You're stealing the ring to give to him so his hold on the Fortress of Talacon will be good for eight centuries as foretold by prophecy!"

"Close, but... no. I'm going to sell this to him, make a bundle, and retire from archaeology in splendor." Dr Caballeron tossed the ring up, casting it over his neck like a neckalce.

Daring Do tried to stand up, only to fall. "Caballeron, you fool! You're dooming the valley to eight centuries of unrelenting heat!"

"To market, henchponies!" Dr Caballeron called out. The third quickly followed. The other two were...less quick. "Well get up! We don't have time for this! You're ruining our dramatic exit!"

The henchponies got up on their feet, stumbling towards the door. Killjoy held up her two knives in her wings. I just smiled wide, lifting up the books. The henchponies ran out much faster after that.

"Why didn't you stop him?!" Daring Do scolded us.

"You said you do things alone." Killjoy snarked. "Even your own bad version of a splint. That'll last you barely an hour before falling off. Your hoof will be broken because you no doubt plan to go after them."

"Killjoy. You're being...helpful."

"Mom something is wrong with Auntie." Lilac remarked, coming up to my side.

"Sis if I am eventually going to meet her on the field of combat, I need her to be in fighting condition." Killjoy informed me, as if I were stupid for not seeing the point.

"Oh! So you're Strax the Sontaran Nurse now. Great." I remarked.

The rest of the Mane 6 ran inside.

"Dr Caballeron walked in right past you six and none of you did anything?" I scolded them. They all winced.

Well except Rainbow Dash. She went right up to her hero's side. "Are you okay?"

Daring Do knocked Rainbow Dash's hoof away. "I got this."

Rainbow Dash's face fell.

Fluttershy came up next. "Um, she was just trying to help, Ms Do."

"Daring Do doesn't need help." Daring Do spoke about herself in the third person. As a normal pony does. Like Trixie! "She handles her business herself." She put on her pith helmet, then flew away.