//------------------------------// // MMMMurder on the Friendship Express: Sunset Shimmer edition. // Story: Totally Random! // by Justice3442 //------------------------------// “So!” Her sky-blue eyes shadowed slightly by the small brim of her checkered grey deerstalker hat, Pinkie Pie blew bubbles out of her brown pipe as she regarded her friends, but also suspects… but mostly friends. “We know Prince Blueblood was found in his personal quarters, dead!” “Yeah, I probably killed him,” Sunset Shimmer announced nonchalantly. Everypony in the train car’s eyes widened in surprise and turned towards Sunset’s. “Uh? Probably?” Spike inquired as he looked across the table at Sunset. Sunset shrugged. “Well… I mean, I wasn’t trying to kill him per se, but I can totally see how my direct actions resulted in his death.” “Ah-hah!” Pinkie exclaimed as she leveled an accusatory forehoof at Sunset. “I knew it! How else would Blueblood end up with orange feathers in his mouth unless he tried to fight back by biting his attacker!” “Oh, I stuffed those down his throat,” Sunset said in the same casual tone as before as she took a quick glance at her alicorn wings. “That’s probably how he died.” Applejack raised an eyebrow. “Ya mind walking us through all this?” “Not at all,” Sunset said. “Blueblood asked if he could speak to me alone in his quarters. Said he had something important to tell me… Turns out he just wanted to convince me that I should marry him to create some sort of political base in Equestria’s court, you know how these nobles are…” Twilight leaned over the green-tinted glass of her bench seat. “And you killed him for that? That seems a bit extreme, Sunset.” Sunset’s turquoise eyes made a trip around her eye sockets. “Let me finish, Twilight. I tried to let him down easily, explaining that my position as Celestia’s adopted daughter meant that the personal benefits for myself to marry any Equestrian noble were clearly few and small, if any, and then he exposed himself to me, and asked—” Sunset deepened her voice to mimic Blueblood’s “‘Well, how is this for a personal benefit?’ I repeated that the personal benefits for myself where small. HE got mad and said I was throwing away my biggest opportunity of a lifetime, I pointed out that I had already thrown away much bigger opportunities and added that I was gonna live for a very long time, so that was very unlikely I wouldn’t find bigger opportunities later… this was hard to say because of all the laughing I was doing… Then he got kinda hoofy with me and started saying stuff like, ‘Wealth! Power! My Impressive Membership of the Royal Court! Which made me angry to the point where I pushed him aside. Reminded him I was an alicorn and probably a coronation away from being real royalty, and then plucked out some feathers and shoved them down his throat before I stormed out of the room.” Sunset shrugged. “Guess I stuffed them down a little too far.” “Well, darling,” Rarity began, “I of all ponies know what a royal pain Blueblood can be, but don’t you think you’re taking this situation a bit too… cavalierly?” Sunset let out a good-natured laugh. “Come on, everypony, it’s Blueblood! Who cares? Plus given the circumstances and my position I’m pretty sure the worst that can happen to me is a short, weird, kinda uncomfortable-just-to-think-about conversation with my mom about this before I’m pardoned.” Everypony in the train car looked at each other and shrugged as they let out murmurs of agreement or ones that amounted to lackadaisical and dismissive ‘Watcha gonna do?’ Pinkie giggled to herself. “That was one really long dick joke…” Sunset smiled wryly at her. “It was a lot shorter in person! Hi-OoooooH!” Everypony in the train car erupted in laughter.