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// First Day Of School 
// Story: The Rider 
// by MorpheustheDream 
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The time was 6:30 in the morning. Officially an hour and a half until I was to take Gabe to school. I was busy cleaning myself off before I attempted to wake my brother up. I had come back to the house late after going on one of my nightly patrols, and I unfortunately had to deal with a group of 3 criminals. I had seen all they had done by looking into their eyes. The three had committed murder, rape, and they stole anything they could get their hands on. Plus whatever group they were with somehow bribed the Police Force to not go after them. So as I normally did with these kind of people, I took them out. Otherwise, they would continue to do whatever they did while going unchecked.

But what confused me the most was the weapons they were carrying. They had an RPG, and several assault rifles. They were military grade weapons, yet how exactly they got them was what my mind kept coming back too. There was just no way that they could have stolen them from the National Guard base several miles outside of Canterlot, so how? I kept going through several theories in my head as I stepped out of the shower and dried myself off.





I had just got a call as soon as I entered my car. "All available units, we have a 1-87 at the corner of West Point Road and Steel Drive. Be noted that the scene is pretty gruesome." I sighed and grabbed the receiver, and spoke into it. Officer Armour, calling in. 10-76 on that 1-87." I let go of the send button, and I got a reply back from dispatch. "Copy that Armour."

I started up my police cruiser, and began to drive over to the crime scene. It was more than likely a gang confrontation gone wrong. Then again, I wouldn't know for sure until I got there. It took several minutes to get there, as traffic was relatively light during the early morning hours. By the time I arrived, I saw that there scene was already being covered by my fellow officers, and that there was a few news stations at the scene, reporting whatever information they have. I stopped my cruiser, and stepped out as I started to make my way towards the person that stood waiting for me to arrive.

I walked over to him, and said "Alright Jason, what do we have here?" He pulled out a notebook he had in his pocket, and led me over to the 3 victims. "From the looks of it, this seems to have had something to do with the local gangs. But what confuses everyone is to why they had military grade weapons. Scar-H's, MP4's, and RPGs." I looked at the weapons, and kneeled down in front of them.

"Is there any security footage from the nearby buildings?" Jason shook his head. "All of the nearby security camera's were shut down during the time the crime happened. But were lucky to report that the Traffic Center's CCTV camera managed to not be shut down, and captured everything." He pulled out a tablet and handed it to me. "They sent it over, and this is what they captured."

I started up the video, and watched as I saw the truck in front of us suddenly stop. The people inside tried turned around, and started to fire upon whatever was coming at them. The I then saw a flaming car drive right into the car, which would explain how the car seemed to bend. As the flaming car stopped, and what stepped out made my heart almost stop. It was the goddamn Ghost Rider. I stopped the video, and handed the tablet back to Jason.

"I know what all happened here." Jason looked at me and took the tablet. "How do you know, sir?" I stood up and brushed my hair. "Because, I had a run in with the Ghost Rider back in Los Angeles when I was visiting the city with my family and to-be wife back then."





School had started, and it was a beautiful Wednesday morning. The sun was shining bright outside, and there's wasn't a cloud to be seen in the sky. Twilight and her friends were speaking in the hallway, and they were talking about the gruesome murder that was reported this morning that happened overnight. Pinkie was especially worried, since the murder took place a block away from Sugarcube Corner, the place where she works at. As the conversation was going on, Twilight got a message from her brother.

She took out her phone, and looked at it and paled considerably. The other girls noticed, and Rarity asked "What's wrong darling? You look like you've seen a ghost." Twilight nodded her head fast and said "You could say that. I just found out that something from my nightmares came back and is here." Rainbow raised an eyebrow, and asked "What could be so scary that it haunted you for years, only too come back?" Twilight kept the pale complexion on her face, and she softly said "The Ghost Rider's here in Canterlot..."