Epilogue
A Bit Closer to Heaven
Being carted out of the building, I found myself face-to-face with Shining Armor. He didn’t seem too happy to see me up close.
“Man, have you given us a run, pal. Quite a chase.” He turned to the guards. “Book him!!” I was carted over to a decorated carriage with the letters CRG scrawled on the side, initials of the Canterlot force. Being put inside, I caught a glimpse of Caesar standing amongst the anxious crowd, looking smug. I had done his dirty work, and he had the grin of a winner. That made two of us. He had ended up tipping them off about the tower most surely. Who else knew what was going on here? Could anyone hear shots from down below, snuggled all warm and tight in their houses, shielded from the storm. He’d see to it now that I’d pass through the justice system, make it out of this alive, and send me back home to Sugar Cube Corner. Back to the friends I had left. I felt in all of this the depression wouldn’t get too much better though, now being forced to become the bearer of bad news for Pinkie on the topic of Rainbow Dash.
Maybe we could be depressed together. Maybe that thought was just being selfish. I didn’t see an ambulances or paramedics nearby carting her out, though I saw a few stretchers with Joe’s thugs from inside the building. Maybe they had carted her out already.
Once inside the carriage, the door slammed shut, sealing me in. Slowly I exhaled, and relaxed for the first time in what seemed like years.
“Authorities have now reported the capture and arrest of fugitive Ponyville police officer and baker Carrot Cake tonight, the arrest taking place at the EAS tower in central Canterlot. However his role as a criminal is now already being questioned, though this line of uncertainty of his affiliations was already questioned earlier tonight with the news of of a drug ring that included another Ponyville police officer in its staff list. It also currently believed that former EAS employee Donut Joe was a victim tonight of a terrible explosion that took his private airship to the ground, killing him and all on board. Evidence is being found however within the EAS Tower that Joe and a number of other current and former employees of EAS were also all part of the drug ring. Further evidence points to Joe being the ringleader of the drug trade. The fall of the trade’s leader however according to Shining Armor is that the drug itself is now also terminated.
“And for weather, the sun is up finally, after being an hour late due to an odd freak storm that as of now still has no plausible explanation. The winter storm has now seemed to disperse on its own without any aid from local weather teams. The cause of the storm is still being looked into, the investigation being primarily lead by Princess Luna, being the ruler of the night, and as such that this storm took place during the nighttime moments. The storm has been reported to have flown over the cities of Manehattan, Canterlot, Hoofington, and Ponyville. We will have more coverage on both stories here later today as more information becomes available. This has been the Late-Night Equestrian News Station. Signing off for now, this, is Lyra Heartstrings.”
“I had a dream of my wife. She was still dead, but it was alright.”
- Max Payne, 2003