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// Chapter 1 
// Story: Pony Mansion Mystery 
// by CAPTAIN YOSHI HD 
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			The skies was black with a group of rain clouds, a flock of hawks soared through. A bolt of thunder crashed on a roof of a mansion. It was called "The Mansion of the Strange Ponies", it was abandoned for a thousand years until a group of ponies found it. One of ponies has a secret lair under the house, nothing but dangerous creatures lived in that place. For a while, one of those ponies are planning a secret attack and finding a way to go back to it's real home.

Meanwhile, the Mane Six, the CMC, Starlight Glimmer and Spike were walking to that place for a visit. The cutie marks of the rest of the mane six glowed and told them where they needed to go and they decided to take Spike, Starlight and the CMC with them. They stopped and took a look at the mansion, they weren't sure if they want to go in yet.

"Is it abandoned?", Fluttershy asked. She was too nervous to go into that mansion.

"I don't know, Fluttershy." Twilight said. "I did look at this in a book, I figured we should check it out."

"You seem really confident about this whole adventure." Twilight said. "And I do agree with you we should check it out."

"If there was any danger in that mansion, I'm your pony.", Rainbow Dash. Back in the day, she thought she would act tough when she and her friends were in the abandoned library where Celestia and Luna used to be at.

"I think you should let Fluttershy do the work, Rainbow.", Applejack said. "She could tame them."

"But, if there are zombies in that mansion. They could easily eat her.", Rarity said. She has a big fear of zombies eating her alive. One time, she had a dream where she was in the everfree forest and sees this creepy pony with sharp teeth and black fur preparing to attack her.
"Everypony knows zombies aren't real, Rarity.", Sweetie Belle said. She read a bunch of stories that have to do with zombies and always believes that they are just make-believe.

"Yeah, why are you all into this whole zombie thing?", Scootaloo asked. "Are you trying remind us about that one time when we tried chase that one chicken that wanted to turn us into stone."

"That was a cockatrice, Scootaloo.", Apple Bloom said. "You don't remember what that creature was."

"Of course, I remember what it was." Scootaloo said back. "I just misremembered that."

"Alright, Alright." Twilight said. "Enough with the chit chat, lets go check it out."

"Wait!", Apple Bloom said. "I found something."

"What did you find, Apple Bloom?", Applejack said. Her sister shows her the item she found.

"I found a key.", the little yellow pony said. 

"It's green.", Scootaloo said. "Hmm, wonder why."

"Girls.", Twilight said. "Can we please move on?"

"Oh, right.", Apple Bloom said. "Sorry, Twilight."

They walked around the mansion to find a entrance door. Spike looked at the windows and saw a black suited pony with a giant white pumpkin for a head. The strange pumpkin headed pony looked back at Spike and he gasped. Lightning flashed and the pumpkin head disappeared. Spike rubbed his eyes and checked to see if the strange pony was still there.

"Spike, you alright.", Applejack said. "You seem awfully paranoid."

Spike shook with fear "I saw something or somepony in the window up there.", he said.

Applejack didn't look at the creature when it disappeared from the window. "What did it look like?", Applejack asked.

This made Spike even more afraid. "It was wearing a black suit and it had a white pumpkin around it's head.", he said.

"What?", Spike said. "There's no such thing as white pumpkins."

"Seriously, where's a door.", Apple Bloom said. They looked and looked and the door was nowhere to be found.

An idea flew into Starlight's head. "If we can't find a door, we're going to have to teleport our way in.", she said.

"Seriously, how are we going to do that?", Fluttershy asked. "Not all of us are unicorns."

"Watch me.", Starlight said. "I do it like this." Her horn lit up and they all teleported into a room. 

"Well, that should do the trick.", Rainbow Dash said. "Why haven't I thought of that?"

They all found themselves in kitchen. "Um, is this a kitchen?", Spike asked.

"I think so, Spike.", Scootaloo asked. "How many stoves are there in here?"

"There could cookies laying around.", Sweetie Belle said. "I'm hungry."

"Sweetie Belle, there's no time to start cooking.", Apple Bloom said. "And I'm not eating cookies in here."

Then, they heard two voices arguing from behind a door. The door bashed open and what they saw was two strange ponies. The white pony was a stallion with chin-hair, red and yellow mane and tail, and the cutie mark was a pencil surrounded by a note. The dark blue pony was also a stallion with a green mane shaped like Vinyl's mane and wearing a black jacket.

"I worked real hard on that meal!", the white pony said. "You know it's good!"

"Calm down.", the dark blue pony said. "I know that meal was good, you worked good on that"

The blue pony turned and saw the huge group of ponies and the little dragon. 

"Oh, hello.", the dark blue pony said in a friendly way. "We didn't see you standing there."

"Hello.", Twilight said. "Are the owners of this mansion."

"Of course this our mansion!", the white pony yelled. "Were you all thinking we don't live here?!

"Alex! Easy, I'll do the talking.", the dark blue pony said calmly. "What are your names, strange fellows?"

"I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle.", Twilight said. "This sweet little dragon is Spike, the blue Pegasus with the Rainbow mane is Rainbow Dash, the orange pony with the cowgirl hat is Applejack, the pink pony is Pinkie Pie, the white unicorn is Rarity, the yellow Pegasus is Fluttershy, the yellow pony with the red mane is Apple Bloom, the smaller white unicorn is Sweetie Belle, and the orange Pegasus is Scootaloo."

"Those names sound a little bit moronic.", the white stallion said. "Those names are different than ours."

"Don't make fun of us, alright, pal." Spike said. "It's because we have different names than yours doesn't mean they're morons, moron."

"WHY YOU LITTLE BRAT!", the white stallion yelled. "I'LL BREAK YOUR NECK!"

"Alex! What did I tell you?", the dark blue pony said. "I told you I'll do the talking."

"You're right. You're right.", the white stallion said calmly. "I'm sorry, I'm okay."

"Wait.", Twilight said. "We never got your names."

"Oh yeah, I forgot.", the dark blue pony said. "I am Iron Guitar, a.k.a. THE IRON PONY."

"Wait.", Applejack said. "If your the "Iron Pony", doesn't that make you a competitor?"

"That's how my name works, I'm a rock star.", Iron Guitar said. "And this is my friend Alex Side. He doesn't get along with the others very well."

"Others?", Rarity said. "You mean there's more in this mansion."

"Exactly.", Iron Guitar said. "He always tries to get them into trouble."

"Oh, so that's how you think of me?!", Alex asked. "I thought we were buddies and now you have to tell them I cause them trouble!"

"Alex, I'm only telling them so they would know.", Iron Guitar said. "I'm not doing that just to get on your nerves."

"Whatever.", Alex said fiercely. "Worst day ever, we get guests in this mansion and now this. All I get is ponies spreading rumors about me that aren't true and we lost our portal key and we'll never go to our original home."

Then, all of a sudden, the lights went out. The ponies started bumping into each other and knocking stuff off the table.

"Hey, who turned out the lights?!", Pinkie Pie said "I think I bumped into something!"

"I can't see!" Starlight screamed. "Twilight, light your horn!"

Then, something darted into Alex's body and knocked him out. Everypony stopped moving.

"Alex, are you ok?", Iron Guitar said. "Where are you?"

The lights flashed back on. The ponies looked at the ground and gasped. Alex had a dart in his back and his face was green. Spike ran to Alex and pulled the dart out his back.

"Alex, are you still breathing?", Spike asked. "Say something."

"Spike, come closer.", Alex said. Spike got closer to his face. He spoke one last time. "You have a dog's name." Then, he was gone.

"Alex? Alex?! Oh no!", Iron Guitar said in a horrified tone. "My friend is gone, what am I going to do now?"

"Iron Guitar, I know this is intense.", Twilight said. "But, you have to pull it together."

"She's right, Sugar cube.", Applejack said. "We just need to figure out who did this."

"Right. Of course.", Iron Guitar said calmly. "But, what are we going to do with the body?"

"Calm yourself, Darling." Rarity said softly. "We can leave here, until we find the murderer."

Spike looked at the dart and analyzed it. "Girls, I know what this is.", he said. "This is a poison dart."

"If it's a poison dart, does it mean it's deadly.", Starlight asked. "I'm not good with this deadly stuff."

"I think so, Starlight.", Spike said. "Look like this is a job for 'Detective Spike'."

"Don't worry, Iron.", Twilight said. "We find who ever did this."

"Thank you, Princess.", Iron Guitar said. "Before we do so, I like you to meet my friends."

They all walked out of the kitchen leaving Alex's body laying on the ground.