"I'd say I'm fitting into this job nicely." O'Malley chuckled as he walked out of a store and brushed off some feathers from his back. He looked back into the store and coughed.
"So sorry for the trouble, it won't happen again." An old mare said sincerely.
"If I hear either you or your pillows owe any more taxes it won't just be a pillow fight again, it will be a pillow slaughter!" O'Malley barked.
"Understood." The mare nodded, closing the door behind him.
"I hope this day never ends." O'Malley grunted as he readjusted his backpack which was full of coins. "Though I might have to return this bag before it breaks my back."
O'Malley arrived at town hall several minutes later, taking longer than he normally would have due to his legs and back being sore. He walked up to the door and kicked it, but to his disappointment it didn't fly off it's hinges, instead it simply flew open and slammed into the wall. O'Malley then stumbled in and sat on the floor, letting the backpack slide off of him.
"Ah, you're back!" Gary chuckled, jumping out of his chair to greet him. He saw the bag fall over and watched as bits began pouring out. "Looks like you completed the list in one day."
"Hardly. That's probably only a tenth of the list." O'Malley muttered tiredly.
"I don't recall them owing that much." Gary noted.
"Well they may have given an advance on their next few payments." O'Malley laughed darkly. "There may even be a few bribes in there."
"Ah, a rousing success!"
"Yes, their fear arouses me as well." O'Malley grinned.
"What? I said- never mind that." Gary shook his head, then smiled. "Well it's nice to hear you're doing so well at it."
"Out of curiosity... if I damaged property does the city have to pay for it?" O'Malley asked.
"Yes, but I wouldn't worry about that." Gary said as he dragged the bag into the next room and poured it on the floor to sort trough later. "The shisnos are scared of you so they most likely would not want to upset you."
"Good point." O'Malley said as he got off the floor to stretch his legs.
"Going back out already?" Gary inquired. "But you just got back. Take a break."
"The wicked get no breaks, so according to that logic I get negative breaks, so I must break others to even it out!" O'Malley boomed, then coughed awkwardly as he put on the bag for cover. "In other words I've got other interrogations to attend to."
"Really?" Gary asked contemplatively, watching as O'Malley opened the door. "I thought every shisno you visited in town paid you."
"They did. Do you doubt my tax collecting abilities?" O'Malley growled harshly.
"Not at all." Gary muttered, walking next to him. "But then who are you interrogating?"
"The rainbow fool hired me to talk to the blue fool named Tucker. And as long as I put someone in pain, who am I to judge to what end it achieves?" O'Malley asked.
"Tucker." Gary echoed in anger, instantly recalling Tucker stabbing Wyoming through the back with the key. "Very well. Take the rest of the day off and go with my blessing."
"I wasn't going to ask for it." O'Malley muttered as he walked outside.
"Well tell him Gary says hello." Gary said quietly, then slammed the door shut behind him, much like nearly every pony he collected from did.
O'Malley cleared his throat and yelled a warning as he began walking back to the marketplace, priming himself for the interrogation. As he entered the market, gasps came from the nearby merchants and they shrank down, avoiding O'malley as if he was the black plague. Music to O'Malley's ears. He skipped happily, humming a song of violence and bloodshed until he came saw Rainbow Dash standing edgily in front of the furniture store. O'Malley breathed int his hoof and smelled, making sure his breath was minty and murder fresh. Satisfied, he walked next to Rainbow Dash, who was looking the other way, and coughed, making her jump upwards in surprise.
"Don't sneak up on me like that." Rainbow Dash groaned.
"Sorry. Oh wait, no I'm not." O'Malley chuckled darkly. "Now where is Tucker right now?"
"He's, uh, in that alley." Rainbow Dash coughed before pointing to the gap where he had met Vinyl.
"What's he doing in there?" O'Malley asked dubiously, looking her over.
"I don't know, he just is." Rainbow Dash said testily.
"Very well, no need to be angry." O'Malley said.
"You're one to talk."
O'Malley shrugged and laughed as he walked into the alley. His laughter died when there was no pony in sight. He walked to the middle of the alley, checking behind each box in case he was hiding, but he was nowhere to be found.
"There you are." Sarge muttered, coming into the opposite entrance of the alley.
"What are you doing here?" O'Malley hissed, backing into Big Mac who had blocked the entrance he had come through.
"Luckily this competent Blue told us about you walking around town." Sarge laughed, looking at Rainbow Dash.
"You're still trusting Blues I see." O'Malley scoffed. "Seems my words were correct, hm?"
"She has red in her hair." Sarge corrected him, then glowered at him. "Now where's Caboose?"
"Caboose?"
"Yeah, on my way back to the farm I saw a rocket flying through the air coming out of town and instantly thought of you. Low and behold I went to go talk to see Caboose and he didn't answer. Went around out back and saw that the ground had scorch marks on it and you were nowhere to be found." Sarge said, acting surprised. "Simmons was busy, so I went to Dash here instead."
"Clever. Well you found me, well done. Now what are you going to do?"
"Ask you how you managed to build a rocket in the fifteen seconds after I left."
"You think I made that?" O'Malley chuckled, shaking his head. "Then you are more foolish than I originally believed!"
"Then why were you running away from Dash when she tried to talk to you?" Sarge asked.
"Because I was working."
"You were working?" Sarge asked, entirely unconvinced. "Who would hire you? And to do what? Bore people to death?"
"No, I work for the city collecting taxes from those that are late with their payments." O'Malley smiled, but it fell slightly when he looked at Big Mac. "Turns out your little family owes a tiny sum as well, but I felt being gracious with the ones who are currently housing me. The only reason they haven't been chased before is because those that live here know that Granny Smith is one of the longest living residents of Ponyville, so they give her a bit of leeway. Hypothetically, since I do not consider her a friend, I could seize her property in the name of Ponyville."
"You're lying." Sarge said, but turned to Big Mac and saw a grim look on his face.
"Also, if they didn't pay their fees within a certain amount of time the city would be able to tear down their land and build whatever they want here, so if you wish to insult me, go ahead. Just let it be known that you would be the cause of making your family lose their home." O'Malley couched innocently.
"I'm good." Sarge said quietly, stepping to the side.
"That's good to hear." O'Malley agreed as he walked past Sarge. "Now if you don't mind, since you so willingly wasted my time, I would like to go for a walk. Collected a lot of taxes and broke a lot of woodwork, so now my legs are killing me as much as I'd like to be killing you all right now."
The trio watched as O'Malley walked out of the alley, head smugly lifted from his victory. He then turned the corner, leaving the three alone.
"Why didn't you tell me you owe money?" Sarge asked Big Mac.
"Never came up." Big Mac said truthfully.
"Don't mean to sound inconsiderate or anything, but am I done here? Tucker will be kinda annoyed if I don't show up since he's working both of our shifts right now." Rainbow Dash said sheepishly.
"Yeah, thanks for the help." Sarge muttered.
"No problem." Rainbow Dash smiled as she trotted past him.
When she exited the alley she unfurled her wings and flapped once, when something tapped on her shoulder. She turned to see who did it and saw O'Malley glaring at her, sunglasses behind his ears.
"I won't forget about your little lie anytime soon." O'Malley said quietly as he began walking away, but kept his sight on her. "Don't think that just because you don't owe any money I can't make your life more difficult. You've made an enemy that won't soon forget."
Ah tax collectors. They can turn anyone's life upside down.
OH SHIT
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1244797
YOU SIR, HAVE MADE MY DAY.
shit just got real dash
FIFTH ,omg id like to thank the acadamy for this great accomplishment of reading ,something befor some one else a we all know this make me a better person
Combine two of the greatest things ever created...
SO...
MUCH...
WIN!
Good idea, Rainbow. Let's piss off O'Malley even further, especially since he has access to the debts of Ponyville's residents and businesses.
I'm just curious as to why Gary's holding Wyoming at really high esteem I mean Gary took himself out of Wyoming's brain causing Wyoming mental harm, the only reason that he sided with Wyoming is it worked to his advantage during season 3-5 of Red vs. Blue I mean he does represent Deceit
1245546
Watch the scene where Wyoming dies.
He calls him Reggie.
Not shisno, not anything else demeaning, but Reggie.
That and they shared a skewed sense of humor.
As always you have a way of impressing and writing a good chapter
Pillow fights, cornering some guy in an alley, and a threat about late taxes? All in one chapter? Nice.
1245556 He called Church, Church. and I'm sorry I don't mean to challenge you as an author or even this fic or that section all of my other comments I don't believe have been negative (just some wishes for more characters from the series to appear and kudos for the chapter) I think it works I just am not sure how much respect he does have, another example is in the newest episode where he shows respect to Carolina but he and Sigma are just working on achieving there goal. As to your point I don't think we can be certain as to why he said that perhaps it was just what he refereed to Wyoming as he shared the mind so that could have had an influence as to why he called Wyoming Reggie. It could have easily been linked to the disappointment of their plan potentially failing until Tex stepped in.
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That's the thing though. It's open to interpretation since their relationship has not been explored. Either of us could be correct, but in my eyes I see a mutual respect sort of deal. Just because he's deceit doesn't mean he's incapable of trusting someone or having someone trust him. He's just good at lying. Also remember there were other Wyomings underneath them, and Gary knew this, but he still called out his name when he saw the original die, even though he had other willing copies of him.
And as for Church, he was the Alpha, who he was a fragment of. Obviously there would be some degree of respect there as well.
1245869 but wasn't this all before they thought they were going to do the other seasons I mean I think they intended the Blood Gulch Chronicles to be all they did for RvB, also I apologize for just throwing this out there but as far as the Achievement Hunter fic goes are you planning on making it as long as My Little Caboose?
Shit, did the reds and blues just get fucked over.........again!?
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I'd like to think they believed more season was a possibility seeing as it was the finale of Blood Gulch chronicles...
And for AHiE fuck no, that'll be maybe 50k words.
1245926 Well I guess seeing as how you have changed my thoughts on the Wyoming point I say nothing more to that, but I will say the 50k thing is good I can't imagine keeping up with two fic's of this size for however long you keep it up that would suck, and a final question I have in regards to the fic that I planned to bring up in the original comment but didn't why did you choose to make Gamma yellow (I mean I may assume that like me it was because in the scene with the AI's the weird looking yellow one went well with what Gamma could look like because of his speech, but apart from that I'm not sure)
1245963
That's exactly it.
Also when I think of liars, I think of cowards. When I think of coward, I think of "yellow-belly".
1245982 I hope this isn't offensive to anybody but when I think of cowards I think of retreating, and when I think of retreating I think French, but yeah I believe in that scene they should have had the AI's speak I mean they changed Sigma's voice for season 10 its not as if they would get sued or anything
Thank Celestia someone noticed a freaking rocket shooting up out of town, and actually reacted to it.
1244957 Darkwing will have your head.
just to let it be known... tax collecters aren't allowed to break anything or even take away any of their property... that's the bailiffs job...
1246544
Aye, Gary brought that up in a way when he hired O'Malley. And do you honestly think O'Malley gives a fuck about the law? And who the hell is going to argue with him?
1246551
ME!
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doulifee.com//Storage/aceatt/GyakutenHeroes/1-ani-phoenix-document.gif "Me!" is not a proper response to the former question.
1246568 OKAY THEN... sarge will have a problem with o'malley as well as:
tucker, church, RD, big mac, AJ, me, several store owners and a hell load of tax payers
also i overrule your objection
mwuahahahahaaaaa
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images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080826215447/aceattorney/images/7/75/Objection.gif
court-records.net/animation/phoenix-pointing(b).gif You avoided the first question; do you honestly think O'Malley gives a fuck about the law?
court-records.net/animation/phoenix-zoom(b).gif Overruling denied.
WOW
never thought id see a law debate in the comments section of a fanfic
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Order in the court!!!!! Both of you make excellent points, but either way it's only a matter of time before I kill O'Malley anyway. So quit arguing!!!
Okay, with that out of the way, excellent chapter Dark. Now I'm gonna go play some League of Legends.
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images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080826215447/aceattorney/images/7/75/Objection.gif
court-records.net/animation/phoenix-confident(b).gif You can't kill O'Malley.
1246672
I present to you the fact that O'Malley is now in a mortal, albiet, equine shell. He feels pain, sleeps, breathes, eats just like any of the other AI and thus he can be hurt or even killed. Although I present an alternative punishment for O'Malley:
have him carry around Nick all day. (Nick would be the Necronomicon)
1244797
LOL That is what human o'mally would look like
No Tucker abuse? Son I am disappoint....
So how much you paying wright to work for you anyway?
Does this mean no Tucker x Rainbow Dash?
I am still waiting for the interaction between Grif and Sarge "Right where I want you! Right in face-kicking range."
1246672 OBJECTION YOU CAN DELETE HIM FROM YOUR MIND
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court-records.net/animation/phoenix-confident(b).gif Church is the only one that has the power to truly kill O'Malley, therefor you can't kill him.
1248181 :OBJECTION I AM PINKIE YOUR OBJECTIONS ARE OVERULED
1246590 answer to the first question: no i don't think O'Malley cares for anything except himself and his reputation.
the second has already been answered
object to that biatch!
(P.S. i banish your objection powers... TO THE MOOOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!!) *LE EVIL LAUGH*
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court-records.net/animation/phoenix-thinking(b).gif It's far too late for answering the question now, therefor as author of this story, and moderator of the comments section, you do not have the authority to withhold my attorneying rights.
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1249037 at least you didn't object...
WIN!!!!
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court-records.net/animation/phoenix-zoom(b).gif That's because it wasn't a clear objection, it was merely a fact that I would like to bring up. It would have been an objection had I said you didn't answer the second.
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1249076 BUT YOU COULD HAVE OBJECTED TO MY BANISHMENT OF YOU OBJECTION POWERS AND YOU DIDN'T SOOO....
(p.s. i assume you know law and i also assume that you have a job paralleled to the law business so... what is your job? [e.g. are you a barrister, lawyer, attorney Etc])
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court-records.net/animation/phoenix-handsondesk(b).gif "Hold it!", "Objection" and "Not so fast!" are all interjections, I was just showing you that I could use any of them since they all work in the situation. I was just playing along, showing you that I didn't have to use "Objection!" to disprove your point.
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court-records.net/animation/judge-warning(b).gif DarkWing's attorney Phoenix Wright has proven his point. I will turn to the jury and ask for their opinions on this.
court-records.net/animation/maya-pumped(b).gif Teamsapphire is guilty of everything he's ever done.
court-records.net/animation/edgeworth-shout(b).gif I begrudgingly agree with Mr. Wright on this case.
court-records.net/customs/aido-godot-maskless.gif So do I.
court-records.net/animation/gumshoe-confident(b).gif I think that Dunkin Donut shouldn't be sued because it was her fault she didn't buy a car with a-
static.fimfiction.net/images/avatars/16962_256.jpg Dude, wrong case.
court-records.net/animation/gumshoe-side(b).gif Wassat?
static.fimfiction.net/images/avatars/16962_256.jpg You're saying the wrong thing, this is about me.
court-records.net/animation/gumshoe-headscratch.gif Oh...
court-records.net/animation/gumshoe-pumped(a).gif Guess that teamsapphire guy is guilty then.
1249190 hold it!
the suspect must be told his crimes before being charged (plus you must ask the accused if he pledges guilty or not guilty)
your jury has jumped the gun at this point so their final opinion is overall-ed. plus they are biased against the defendant so therefore are illegible to be used in this case
better luck next time?
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court-records.net/animation/judge-warning(b).gif Already banged the gavel my nigga.
1249268 very well, in that case i can apply for an unfair trial and i can also get a small amount of compensation. i'll even bring in a twilight sparkle to bring the odds over in my favor
twilight sparkle: what!?
me: please
twilight sparkle: uggh! fine... mumble mumble mumble... bribery... mumble mumble mumble
1249268>>1249315 too funny i wonder who wins