TMMDW:The Weathermare

by Equinoxx


Episode 2: The Badger

At the moment Rainbow was in a room with Twilight and Pinkie. "Oh, have you fought any villains yet?!" Pinkie asked.

Rainbow sighed. "Pinkie, I've only been doing this for a few days and I've barely even seen the cutie mark crusaders cause trouble." She said, obviously annoyed.

"Do you have any superpowers?" Pinkie continued, she had been asking questions for half an hour. At first they were obvios questions, but now they were just silly. Rainbow just deadpaned.

"I'm pretty sure Rainbow would've told us if she did." Twilight pitched in. "Anyway that seems to be all the questions that make sense, but now I feel the need to tell you something." She said to Rainbow.

"Tell me what?" Rainbow asked.

"Since we've been in Canterlot, there has been a few... Murders." Twilight tried to not choke on the rarely used word.

"What?!" Rainbow and Pinkie yelled at the same time.

"As in, a pony killing another pony?!" Rainbow asked.

"Actually, judging by the victims wounds the murderer is a badger. A honey badger to be specific." Twilight answered. "That or the murderer uses the honey badger as a way to throw the police off their trail."

'Then how are the police gonna track them down?' Rainbow thought, then an idea popped into her mind "Twilight, can you make a map of where the victims lived and make a line going from the first victim to the latest?"

"Why wou- Oh, that's a great idea!" Twilight caught on. "Pinkie, do you have paper and a quill?"

"Yepeerony!" Pinkie confirmed as she grabbed the two items out of nowhere and gave them to Twilight.

Twilight took them then started making a map. After a few minutes she finished. "Rainbow, I think you're right." She said as she gaved the map to Rainbow.

Rainbow looked at the map and just like she expected, it had a pattern. They all led around ponyville. "Wait, all those ponies love animals." Pinkie stated, now suddenly looking over Rainbow's shoulder.

Rainbow looked over the map again. "And if we add that detail to the pattern then that means... Fluttershy's next!" Rainbow immediately left the building and to zoomed towards Fluttershy's cottage.

Once she got there, she saw that the door was open and she could hear a struggle going on inside. Rainbow wasted no more time flying into the cottage and immediately she saw Fluttershy using her right foreleg to stop the Badger from biting and scratching her face. Rainbow didn't know what to do, if she hit the Badger away from Fluttershy, it would tare a part of Fluttershy's leg off with it. Luckily Fluttershy managed to hit the Badger off herself. The second the Badger hit the ground it scampered into the kitchen and Fluttershy followed after it.

"Fluttershy wait!" Rainbow shouted as she followed them into the kitchen. Once there she saw the Badger holding a knife in it's teeth. Fluttershy saw this and in return, grabbed a pan. Seeing that this situation could get out of hoof fast, Rainbow shot forward and bucked the Badger through the wall. Rainbow looked through the hole it made, but saw that the animal was already gone. She looked back and saw Fluttershy fall unconscious from blood loss.

Deciding she could go after the Badger another day, she brought Fluttershy to the hospital.

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