You Have the Right to Remain Silent

by RDDash


7: To Catch a Pervert

Twilight Sparkle had been standing in front of the Sparkle Manor. She felt it's kind of nice to finally be at home, she liked to be here. She had an entire personal library of books on magic which had been specifically collected by her family for generations.

She would have continued to stand right next to the doors if at some point those doors weren't opened

“Oh it's you Lady Sparkle, I am really sorry but we weren't been informed that you would visit your parents today.”

Right in front of her, she found out a butler who just happened to open the door and greet her by the sheer accident. Twilight flinched, she hated formalities, however, she forced a smile onto her face.

“That’s quite alright, I just thought I should make a surprise visit. Please excuse me.”

She then passed him by and then moved on to the hall, where she stopped for a brief moment, her hooves made a distinct sound that hooves made when they strike a wooden surface. A little bit more noise and then she would lose an element of surprise.

With a few flaps of her wings, she managed to fly onto the second floor, effectively bypassing beautiful ornamental stairs.

During their trip home Spike finally tired himself out, and now had been soundly been sleeping on her back. She had kept that in mind when she entered her old room and then put Spike on the bed.

“Here you go, sleep tight sleepy head,” She then shrugged off a mental image of the equine sleeping in bed. It's not that she found it extremely weird, ponies are doing it almost every day, it's not any different from ponies sitting on the chairs.

“Don’t think about, don't think about it, don't think about it. Don’t make it any less weird than that time you slept on the books in a High School Library.”

“Hi sis, how are you’ve been doing?”

Twilight Sparkle wanted to stay alone for a little while longer, However, the sudden intrusion of her brother stopped dead that idea.

“How long have you been standing there?”

“A few minutes actually, you know how I cannot actually surprise you.You always seem to have a really sharp hearing.”

Twilight frowned, “that's just a bat pony stereotype, you know that right?” She said automatically.

“I am sorry!” Her brother blinked.

Twilight quickly blinked herself in return, she realized that she just made a small mistake.

“It's nothing, bat ponies were not integrated into pony society until 2345 when they suddenly started to pop up, their lineage can be traced all the way back to Fluttershy herself, kind of my fault when you think about it.”

Shining Armor carefully nodded, “So it’s true then, you went on a quite an adventure.”

“Yeah, I guess,” Her ears twitched, “Cadence told you about me.”

Shining nodded, “Cadence heard it from Princess Celestia, and well she then told the rest of us, so I guess our parents know about that as well.”

“Family will blub the secret to everypony, eh,”
Twilight said mischievously.

“Basically yeah.”

Twilight suddenly giggled, “Oh sorry, it's nothing, I just remembered something funny.”

“Hm...was it that funny you gotta tell me sometime.”

Twilight laughed again, “I will, but first you gotta make me drunk.”

“I heard a lot worse propositions from my Imperial advisors, but okay I take you up on that offer.”

Twilight smiled, “As if, a puny city with delusions of grandeur.”

“Says the Princess of a small town Ponyville,” Shining quickly shrugged off the insult that was intended for him.

“Touche.”


Twilight Sparkle blinked her eyes she just couldn't believe her own eyes, her own brother actually did exactly what he said he is going to do, he brought her a bottle of alcoholic cider.

“You do realize that I actually was joking, I am not allowed to drink, it's force of habit due to being a pilot.”

“And yet I’ve bought it anyway to celebrate my sister’s return. I guess you don’t want it then?”
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Twilight almost lost it, “I am… I just…” She took few deep breaths, “Never mind, I just give it to the girls or something. Rainbow Dash probably won't refuse the opportunity to get wasted.”

Shining was slightly confused, “Are you sure, what happened to don't drink and fly?”

Twilight shook her head, “I don't think she cares. Do you want to hear the story or not? ”

“I guess,”

“Say do pegasi need a flying license?”

“I don't know, I never asked when I was in EUP, did they do in the future?”

“Yep, so anyway, when I arrived fresh from the training at police academy I have been assigned to the very weird place.”

“Weird, how so?”
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“Turns out that at some point in the future both human and pony worlds had been fused together. They even have their own megacity and for the most part, they don't interfere with our affairs...”

“Huh...and?”

Twilight felt a sudden chill run through her, “I was naive and stupid, and… foolish as well.”

She cringed, “Not sure when it all started, I mean in what year, but...turns out that I was assigned to copper buster unit.”

“I am sorry I don't really understand.”
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“That's alright, I'll explain, there was some kind of tv show host, he was human for some reason, the rest of the crew were ponies, including the bait. It took us several weeks, but once we managed to fish out the perverts, the rest was very easy.

“You wouldn't believe how many people we managed to hook because they just couldn't keep their balls in their pants ”

“Interspecies relationships, was that really that terrible?” Shining Armor asked.

“Like I said, humans preferred to keep it to themselves. Children liked us, some a little bit too much for a pony to feel comfortable with.”

“But weren't you the one...”

“Yes I don't really know what came over me back then, I just, all of that was so out of character for me. ”

“Must be different biology then,” Shining quickly offered.

“No, that not it, I mean we never even met before, it's not like I have a habit of hanging out with every single royal guard just because I am the former student of the Princess and lived in a castle, and…”

‘“Yes.”

“And have been bumping in at least with several of them on daily basis, still I never even met the pony him. He is serving in Crystal Empire remember.”

“Yes, he is,” Shining Armor nodded.

“You are awfully nice to me talking about my colt crushes? I am not really sure if you are who you say you are."

Shining laughed, “Did you expect me to give you or your colt crushes a hard time?”

Twilight nodded, “Yeah, yeah I was.”

“To be fair he is constantly under my nose, it's more than enough punishment for him to know that the big brother is always watching.”

“Uh, now I feel better, speaking about watching I do have a couple of dozen security tapes. although I guess we can't watch them anyway due to we are still very technologically primitive, and... I am rambling again.”

"Yep, I am still very happy to see you sister."

"Yeah okay, I guess," Twilight quickly derailed the conversation in a different direction, visiting family was fun and all, but sometimes there is just nothing to \talk about it