The great Canterlot chase

It's nighttime in Canterlot, so it's bat pony royal guards's shift. They fly around the city, looking for crime to stop. One of them, a mare called Air Travel, thinks:"Ugh, I'm flying through Canterlot a 100. time already. I wish something interesting would happen."
Suddenly, she hears flashes and rumbling:"I immediately regret saying that."
She flies to the source of the noise. It's a unicorn that broke into a hat store.
She looks at him through the window angrily. He opens it and shows the oversized hats:"So, what do you think, red or yellow?"
"Exactly what makes you think you can do that?"
"I'm Instant. I can do whatever I want."
He teleports away, but Air Travel follows him:"I can hear where you teleport, you know."
Instant teleports from roof to roof, saying:"I don't. Care how. Fast you. Can fly. You can't. Be faster. Than the. Speed of. Instant. Get it?"
He gets some distance, but Air Travel can still hear him. Luckily, few of her colleagues hear the chase and join her. One of them says:"He's not getting away this time!"
"You chased him before?"
"His name is Instant, and he can make this go on for a very long time."
"He can, but he won't."
Instant thinks:"They can still hear me? Boy, their hearing is good... Wait, I got an idea."
He teleports in a nearby music store, and then on one of the bat pony's backs with a trumpet. He blows loudly and teleports away. All the guards cringe and get deafened for a few moments. As he is teleporting away, he thinks:"The candy store, the hat store, the "Get rid of the guards" store... enough fun for one night."
When the bat ponies recover, they find out that Instant got away.

The next day in Ponyville, a pegasus mare and a unicorn stallion sit of one of the roofs. The mare says:"So, Caution ,what kind of prank did you plan for Cyniquote?"
"Tease Talk, I don't wanna ruin the suprise. It took me quite a while to come up with it. Sorry if I was bragging."
Tease Talk kissed him:"Don't worry. I love a good prankster."
A pegasus stallion carrying groceries approaches. Tease Talk says:"He's here!"
Caution waits until he walks by and levitates a post-it paper on his tail. Unfortunately, Cyniquote notices immediately, picks up the paper and reads it:"I am not very smart."
Tease Talk complains:"That was your prank? You said it took a while to plan it."
"Exactly, I wanted a prank that wasn't too rude."
Tease Talk puts her hoof on her forehead when Cyniquote:"If it makes you feel any better, your pranks are better than Tease Talk's."

Suddenly, they all hear beam noises. Cyniquote says:"Gear's in trouble!", and they all go out of the town, following the noise. They see their earth pony friend and his living first aid kit pet running from a giant floating monster worm. Gear shot beams from his special flashlight, but it wasn't enough. Gear says:"Kit, there's Ponyville. Run to it, I'll distract the monster!", but Kit stays by Gear's side. He tries spitting medicine bottles at the worm, but he can't spit hard enough. Just as the worm floats down and opens it's mouth. Caution gets to Gear and rises a barrier. The monster worm tries to eat the barrier, but it's too big. Caution hides behind Gear and says:"I'll open a hole and you blast that thing in it's mouth! Do it before it get us!"
"But I don't wanna kill it, it's just a wild animal."
"But you gotta do something!"
Cyniquote and Tease Talk watch this and say in unison:"We gotta make a thundercloud!"
Gear pulls a bottle of medicine out of Kit:"I remember really hating this one when I was sick." Caution make a small hole in his barrier and Gear pours it in the monster worm's mouth. It screams and floats away a bit. Cyniquote and Tease Talk blast it with lighting, Gear blasts it with the light punch and Caution throws a bunch of smaller barriers at it. The worm floats away in fear. The four ponies and Kit get back together. Gear says:"Thanks, but you didn't have to risk your lives for me."

Cyniquote says:"Hey, a first aid kit with a mind of a dog and a magic diamond in flashlight can only get you so far. Why were you two chased by that thing, anyway?"
"We were playing fetch out of Ponyville when I accidentally threw a ball behind a sigh that says:"Don't proceed. Tatzlwurm ahead." I though:"Worms eat dirt, and since I'm not a literal earth pony, I should be fine if I don't bother it.".
Tease Talk says:"Maybe you were stepping on it's territory or something. Or maybe there are some things we don't know about earth ponies, heh."
Cyniquote whispers to Caution:"Would I be a jerk if I told him he deserved it?"
Caution whispers back:"I think you would..."
"But ponies need to suffer consequences if they do something stupid... I'm just being honest..."
"You're not being honest, you're being blunt..."
"Pfft, thanks for the example..."
Gear says:"Guys, I can hear you. And don't worry, I can handle a bit of scolding."

Tease Talk says:"Cyniquote, didn't you leave groceries back in Ponyville?"
"Okay, I'm gonna go get them. You guys wanna come, too? Air Travel said she's coming to visit Ponyville again at 5 o'clock, and that's soon."
They all follow Cyniquote, get the groceries and stand in front of his house. When Air Travel arrives, Cyniquote runs to give her a kiss. Tease Talk says:"Heh, you couldn't even say:"Hi.", first?"
Air Travel says:"I'm not complaining."
Cyniquote notices bags under Air Travel's eyes:"Did you get enough sleep today? You don't have to come here if it tires you out, you know."
"Nah, don't worry about me, I just had a rough night of work."
Gear asks:"Is there a villain in Canterlot?"
"Yeah, and a pretty annoying one. Let's go in and I'll tell you."

When they all start to rest in the house, Air Travel starts her story:"We spent all night looking for a thief unicorn that kept teleporting away."
Caution says:"How can a unicorn win by using one spell over and over?"
Everybody gives him weird looks, making him say:"Point taken."
Air Travel continues:"After the night, I asked other guards if they know anything about that thief. They said his name was Instant. When he was younger, he had rich parents that just paid bail every time he committed a crime with his magic. And now, his magic is stronger than ever. He never gets exhausted from all the magic using!"
Cyniquote says:"So, the jerk thinks he can do whatever he wants. Why doesn't Celestia just send a bunch of guards after him?"
"I asked that too, and they told me than Celestia wouldn't send so many guards after just one petty thief."
Cyniquote says:"I'm irritated just by listening to what he did."
Tease Talk comments:"What a surprise."
Gear says:"How about we all go to Canterlot and stop him? We'll be like a superhero team!"
Everybody nods, but Caution says:"Good luck, you guys."
Cynqiuote says:What are you talking about? You're going too."
"Why me? I can't just throw myself in danger like that?"
Gear says:"Well, you did it for me."
"Okay, I'll go too... why is everything I say hypocritical today?"
Air Travel asks:"Just one thing, can we take the train instead of flying?"
Cyniquote said:"Why?"

About an hour later, the six of them sit in the train, and Air Travel sleeps with her head on Cyniquote's lap. Cyniquote says:"Tease Talk, if my leg goes numb, can you take my place?"
Gear asks:"Why specifically her?"
Cyniquote looks angrily at Gear and Caution:"She's not sleeping on another stallion's lap."
Caution cringes a bit while Gear says:"No jealousy, please."
Caution then asks Gear:"Hey, how are you allowed to bring Kit in the train? Dog aren't allowed in, and Kit's pretty close to one."
"I told him to play dead." Gear says as he picks up Kit from the floor:"See? Like Discord never enchanted him."
"Well, as long you're not hurting anypony..."

They eventually got to Canterlot. Air travel said:"I haven't slept that well in forever."
Cyniquote said:"We were in that train for only 2 or 3 hours."
"What can I say? You make a good pillow.", Air Travel says as she nuzzles Cyniquote, who returns it.
Gear says:"Heh, you two are so cute."
"Unless it from Air Travel, I don't like being called cute."
Caution says:"Something just came to my mind. Why didn't we try to convince anypony else to come with us? I could think of a few ponies that would be willing to help us catch a thief."
Tease Talk says:"We didn't have time. We had to spend it on a train ride. It's almost night time now."

They wait for nighttime by sitting in front of a caffe. Cyniquote says:"We need to arm ourselves with knowledge. Caution, what are the weaknesses of unicorns?"
"I'm not telling you."
Tease Talk jokes:"What, afraid we're gonna attack you?"
"No, but what if a villain brainwashes you and makes you attack me?"
Gear says:"He's got a point there, I got brainwashed by a magic mannequin once."
Air Travel comments:"Wow, I missed a lot."
Caution says:"Alright, I'll tell you. Unicorns can't use their horns if something sticks to them..."
Cyniquote returns with:"I appreciate your sacrifice."
Suddenly, a mare passes by :"Hi, Gear."
"Hi, Moondancer."
When she walks away, Caution protests:"Are you pulling a prank on us or something? That was such a coincidence..."
"What? It's not my first time in Canterlot, you know."
"We were here for less that 30 minutes and you already see somepony you know. Do you even know what are the odds for that?"
Air Travel asks:"Isn't nitpicking more of a Cyniquote thing?"
A royal guard walks by, ending his shift. He turns to the group:"Hi, Caution!"
Cauiton says:"Really? Again?", and lowers his head:"I'm just gonna stop talking for a while..."

The night finally falls. Cyniquote, Tease Talk and Air Travel fly on a roof. Caution makes a barrier around himself, Gear and Kit. He lifts the barrier to the roof and makes it disappear. Cyniquote says:"This is the plan: Air Travel will fly to the center of the city. She will hear the teleport flashes and point us to Instant. We fight him one by one. As soon as one of us becomes unable to fight, he or she will shout:"Darn you!" It will be a sign for Air Travel to Open Caution's brightly colored parasol and signal the next pony."
Air Travel asks:"Why should we attack him one by... oh, I get it."
Gear says:"But Kit can't talk."
"He'll go with you."
Air Travel asks:"Who wants to go first?"
Tease Talk says:"You go, Cynqiuote. I think you're the angriest, heh."
Cyniquote calmly says:"Yeah, that's true.", and flies off with Air Travel.

They were flying when Air Travel started to talk:"Heh, this reminds me of the night we first met. Remember how we took down that banshee?"
"Yeah... funny thing, that night I got pinned to the wall and beat up by that witch, but meeting you still makes it the best night of my life."
Air Travel blushes and smiles:"You love me that much?"
"Call me crazy. Now, do you hear flashes yet?"
"Yeah, they're coming from over there.", Air Travel says as she points to a convenience store.
"That jerk is going down.", Cyniquote says as he flies in through the window. He sees the unicorn, eating out of a cereal box:"I don't care what the others think, they're better without milk."
"Hey, Instant! Drop that cereal!"
"Pfft, like I'm gonna take you seriously."
Cyniquote sees coconuts beside him and he starts throwing. Instant teleports a few times:"Aren't you? Supposed to? protect the? property and? Not throw it?"
"There's no way I'll do more damage than you!"
Instant teleports behind Cyniquote and smack him in the back of the head. Cyniquote tries to smack him back, but Instant just teleports:"Wooow, you're so unpredictable..."
Cyniquote flies at him a little to the right, making Instant teleport to the left. Cyniquote, knowing where he is, just flies at him, grabs him and throws him against a wall.
"Oooow... whatever, the store got boring, anyway."
Instant teleports outside, but Cyniquote follows. Three bat pony guards show up. Two of them hold Instant in place when the third one says:"Citizen, stay away. I know you mean well, but let us guards take care of him."
"I'm afraid I can't do that.", Cyniquote says as Instant teleport away and comes back on a guard's back, holding a trumpet. He blows it, making the guards cringe, but Cyniqote plugs the ears of one of them, who immediately punches Instant off. Cynquote says:"There's no way he'll survive the fall!"
The guard tried to catch him, but Instant teleports to safety. The guard tell the other two, who are still rubbing their heads:"Go and get some rest, me and the pegasus will keep looking."
The two of them fly around the city when Cyniquote says:"Instant. No matter how much you teleport, we can still get you!"
The guard says:"Ugh, you're almost as bad as the trumpet."
"Sorry."
Instant teleports behind them and grabs them by the legs:"I can teleport you, too."
He teleports them and gets them stuck in a nearby small window. Cyniquote yells:"Darn you!"
"What did I just say about your voice?"
"Relax, it's all part of the plan."

Air Travel hears Cyniquote and opens the parasol. The rest of the crew sees it. Tease Talk says:"That's not the funny way to annoy my brother.", and flies off.
Gear says to Caution:"So, who's gonna go after her?"
Caution just stands there, making Gear says:"Oh, yeah, you said you wouldn't talk... I'm bored now."
Tease Talk flies after Instant, thinking:"Ok, how to make him teleport too much? Maybe I can get him to chase me"
She notices him in a prank toy store and flies in. She see him trying out a joy buzzer:"Hmm, I always wondered how it felt like."
He electrocutes himself, but just laughs it off:"I could annoy so many ponies with this beauty."
Tease talk thinks:"Okay, maybe my job won't be so easy."
She pretends to sneeze and throws a glob of fake snot at Instant's face. He turns around:"What, another one?" He tries to teleport, but finds out his horn is covered, too.
Tease Talk imitates his voice:"Hi, I'm instant, and I got stopped by a toy!"
"No, I didn't!", Instant says as he tries to scrape off the fake snot."
"Wooow, what a comeback!"
Instant finally gets rid of the stuff and puts on the joy buzzer again. Tease Talk sticks her tongue out and flies away, making Instant chase her. She thinks:"That was easier than I though." and goes:"Stallion-child, stallion-child, stallion-child..."
Instant teleports over and over:"I won't! Let you! Have the! Last laugh!"
Meanwhile, Cyniquote and the guard are still stuck in the window:"Umm... my name is Night Flight, what's yours?"
"I'm Cyniquote."
"Do you live here?"
"No, I'm from Ponyville."
"Good, I hear it's a nice place."

After some time spent chasing Tease Talk, Instant stops:"Ugh, my head..."
Tease Talk notices that Instant stopped chasing her. She sees him teleport in a drugstore. She follows him and catches him swallowing a bunch of aspirins:"C'mon, am I really that annoying?"
"How about I give you a headache?"
Instant grabs a rack and teleports it next to her, but tilts it. Several boxes slide down, hit her on the head and knock her out, but before she passed out, she yelled:"Ow! Darn you!"
Instant notices Air Travel opening a parasol in the direction of the remaining two ponies and Kit. Instant thinks:"What the heck is she doing?"
Some distance away, Gear still stand besides Kit and Caution. He hears Caution's loud heartbeat:"He's just a thief, how threatening could he be? I'll go before you if you want."
Instant teleports right in front of them:"So you're Instant!"
"In the flesh. Is that annoying mare a friend of yours?"
Caution makes a barrier around himself, Gear and Kit. Gear asks:"What did you do to her!?"
"Dropped stuff on her head until she fainted. You should've seen it, it was hilarious."
Caution gasps. He quickly shrinks the barrier so only he's in it, lifts it up and rams into Instant, knocking him off the roof. He teleports on another one, saying:"Lucky shot."
Instant starts teleporting over and over while Caution follows, quickly floating in his barrier. He starts throwing smaller barriers at Instant, who thinks:"Wow, I gotta learn that! In fact..."
He teleports into a sports equipment store. When Caution goes in, he sees Instant wearing a helmet and covered in padding:"Yeah, normally I don't like this, but it's worth outsmarting you."
Caution throws a small barrier at him, but it breaks in contact with the padding:"Best in all of Canterlot... What, not even a grunt of anger? You are no fun."
Caution uses telekinesis to pull and stretch one of the knee pads and let it snap back:"OW!" Instant looks at Caution's cutie mark and thinks:"Should've seen that coming."
Instant teleports inside Caution's barrier and headbutts him with his helmet. The impact makes Caution back off a bit, but he makes a barrier around him head and headbutts him back and lets him go through the barrier, making him fall down:"You are not stopping me from having fun!"
Instant throws a few skateboards and rollerblades at the barrier, giving it few cracks and finally breaking:"Oh, yeah!"
Caution simply makes a new one, making Instant say:"Booo..."
Suddenly, Instant' gets an idea. He approaches with a roller blade and just holds it in the air. Caution refuses to lower his barrier. After a while, the air in the barrier runs out and Caution is forced to lower it and breathe heavily. This give Instant a chance to take a swimming cap out, run to Caution and wraps it around his horn, disabling it. Instant quickly teleports a bunch of stuff on top of his opponent, trapping him and making him yell:"Darn you!"
Instant looks at his padding and says:"I'm keeping this."

Air Travel opens the parasol one last time and Gear and Kit see it:"I guess it's up to us."
Kit jumps on Gear's back as he runs across the roofs, but Instant get on a nearby roof, shortening Gear's travel time.
Gear pulls out the light punch:"You could've gotten a million job with you talent, but no, you just had to be a criminal!"
"Eh, I don't like working, but I do like beating you guys."
"Well, you still didn't finish the job.", Gear says as he tries to blast Instant, but he dodges the beams easily.
Instant gets behind Gear:"I'd attack you, but I like you too much."
Kit tries to tackle Instant, but Gear stops him:"What?"
"Yeah, I've heard about you. You made an engine-powered carriage, got windigo powers for a day, befriended a living first aid kit... you sound like a lot of fun."
"First time I got a compliment from a bad guy... not sure if that's a good thing."
"My point is, let's have fun in this town together."
"You want me to steal with you?"
"Well... yes, but think about it like this: you can do whatever you want and you won't get caught. I can easily teleport us both. What do you say, pal?"
Gear slowly frowns:"Never! You went through your life without consequences and look how you turned out. You're rude, selfish, annoying and you hurt all my friends. Why the heck would I wanna be like you?!"
Kit spits a bottle at Instant's face and while he's busy wiping the liquid off, Gear gives him a light punch blast. Instant teleport back and yells:"Fine! Have it your way!"
His horn shines brighter that ever and he starts rapidly teleporting and throwing everything he can find in houses around him: plates, vases, plastic toys and even some small furniture.
Gear starts smacking them off with the light punch while Kit spits more bottles, stopping the objects from hitting him. Eventually, Gear and Kit both lie down in exhaustion. Instant teleports beside them with ice packs wrapped around his head:"Ugh... I feel like my head is burning... but I beat you all..."

Air Travel arrives, takes a bandage roll from Kit's "mouth" and wraps Instant's legs and horn:"Huh, I completely forgot about the mare that signaled all of you."
Gear gets up, but his knees are still shaky:"Great job... Air Travel."
"You should lie down and rest a bit. I'll go find the others."
She flies around Canterlot and notices Tease Talk flying out of the drugstore:"Tease Talk, you're fine!"
"Yeah, I woke up a few moments ago. Did we take down the thief?"
"He's down. Let's go get the others."
Air Travel hears Caution's yell for her, so the two mares free him. Caution thanks them.
Tease Talk says:"Heh, didn't you say you wouldn't talk?"
"Nah, I'm too grateful for that."
The three ponies struggle to find Cyniquote. Tease Talk says:"Heh, you'd think he'd be the easiest to notice."
They eventually find him, still stuck in the window, still talking with the guard:"My opinion on the "Pie in the eye" movies? Well, the first one was good. A little too silly for my taste, but objectively good. The sequels were where it truly got bad..."
When the three ponies approach him, Air Travel asks:"How do we free these two?"
Caution says:"Why is there a bad smell coming from the house?"
The guard replies with:"Trust me, you don't wanna know."
Cyniquote adds:"Let's just say we were stuck here for quite a while. Do you have sunscreen?"
Caution has some in his saddlebag, so the two ponies get freed:"Let's bring that jerk to justice!"
The guard says:"You guys go, my shift's not done yet."

The six heroes get let in the castle and carry Instant to Celestia. While being carried by Cyniquote, Instant says:"If you think about it, I'm actually the winner here. I beat five of you and you only beat me, one pony, so it's 5:1."
Tease Talk takes some more of the  bandage and covers his mouth. Cyniquote says:"Thank you."
Caution says:"I'm gonna be honest here, I'm a little nervous. I never talked to a princess before."
Cyniquote says:"Don't worry, I thought of the exact things to say to her."
They knock on Celestia's door and she opens. Cyniquote says:"Princess, we caught the guy who was stealing from Canterlot. Your welcome."
Tease Talk says:"Yeah, go ahead and banish him to the moon, heh..."
All of her friends yell:"Tease Talk!"
"What?"
Cyniquote says:"She had to send her own sister to the moon once. You don't joke about something like that!"
"Oh... awkward..."
Celestia tries to change the subject:"So, you said you brought a thief here?"
Instant manages to use his tongue to remove the bandage:"Eh, my parents will pay the bail."
Celestia said:"I'm afraid we don't accept them for you anymore."
"Why not? I'm not a major criminal."
"You dodged the guards for weeks and from the looks of these ponies here, you assaulted them."
Instant tries, while still tied up, to wiggle away, but Celestia just levitates him back, making him say:"I don't know what I expected."
Celestia says:"No offense, but how did you manage to catch a thief so good that even a team of guards couldn't?"
Tese Talk says:"Heh, that's just how we do things. We'll always save the day."
Air Travel adds:"And if you think we can't, we'll always find a way.", and hoof-bumps with Tease Talk.
Cyniquote says:"Actually, this is the first time all six of us teamed up. Before this, it was just two or three.", but Tease Talk tapes his mouth, too. Cyniquote makes a mumble that sounds like:"Not funny..."
Celestia asks:"Can I do something to thank you all?"
Caution says:"Well, a place to sleep and a free trip to the doctor would be nice."

The next day, somewhere around two o'clock, the ponies and Kit walk out of the hospital.
Air Travel says:"Well, those were some injury names I've never heard of."
Caution says:"You know, I was worried we were seriously hurt, but it turns out all the bruises we got should go away in a week or two."
Gear asks:"Why couldn't you ask her for something cool, like turning us into alicorns?"
Cyniquote says:"Don't be greedy. We didn't do this just so we can get rewarded. Besides, I don't even wanna think about what you would do with that much power."
Suddenly, a royal guard runs to them:"The Princess told me you would be here. She asks all of you to come to her castle again."
They all arrive and see music players, a table of food and a lot of visitors."
They rush to Celestia. Air Travel asks:"You threw a party for us? In just half a day?"
Caution blushes:"Do we really deserve this much?"
Celestia chuckles and says:"Go have fun. The store owners want to that you all."
Air Travel starts to try out new kinds of food and Cyiniquote starts solving a crossword from a magazine that he got from the waiting room. A few guests join him. Caution gathers some ponies around and tells them about safety rules for businesses and Kit lets the guests that aren't afraid stroke him. Gear just sits quietly by a table, making Tease talk approach him:"Heh, why are you being metaphorically blue?"
"I'm just thinking, at first I was mad at Instant, but now I just feel bad for him."
"Umm... you do know he's a bad guy, right?"
"Yes, but nopony's born good or evil. Someone or something has to make them that way."
"Think about it like this: he turned bad because he never got punished for anything. Maybe spending some time in the dungeon will teach him a lesson."
"Yeah, it might. C'mon, let's go party."