Ch.7-Mr. Big Daddy
The ponies, Spike, and Discord headed through a part of Manehattan until they found the Manehattan Limo-Service. Unfortunately, the gate was locked up tight for the night.
“Closed,” Twilight said, looking at the the lock on the gate with a frown. “Great! Just great!”
To make things worse, the gate had a sign that said ‘Anti-Magic’ so they couldn’t use their magic to unlock it.
Discord looked at the alicorn. “And I bet you don’t have a warrant to get in. What a shame.”
“Couldn’t you use your magic to unlock the door?” Apple Bloom asked him.
The draconequus looked at her and said, “Well, first of all, I can’t because of the anti-magic on there. Second, even if it didn’t have anti-magic, I still wouldn’t because Mother always told me not to use my magic for anything illegal.”
“Well, that didn’t stop you from taking over Equestria.” Rainbow Dash replied with a smirk.
“Hey! I thought we were over that!” Discord said before he continued. “You know, we could have been here hours earlier if someone hadn’t told George the sloth draconequus that joke!”
He looked at Pinkie Pie with an annoyed look. “What?” Pinkie Pie asked, raising an eyebrow. “I just wanted to see how he would react.”
“I said, no matter what happens, don’t get him into any conversation. Didn’t I say that?” Discord said with a frown while raising an eyebrow.
“Well, you didn’t tell us that they would get distracted that easily.” Spike said.
“Ooh! Ooh! I got an idea! We’ll blast the gate down with my party cannon!” Pinkie suggested.
“Pinkie, don’t ya remember what Officer Gruff said?” Applejack said, sternly raising an eyebrow.
“That eating police’s doughnuts without asking gets you a citation?”
“No. He said not to use the party cannon after what happened earlier.”
“Awwww…,” Pinkie Pie said. “That Officer Gruff is such a killjoy!”
“Tell me about it,” Rainbow Dash muttered.
“Well,” Discord said. “Since you don’t have a warrant or anypony’s permission, I guess we’re done here?”
“But we haven’t solve the case yet!” Scootaloo protested.
“Well, we can’t enter the gate and since you’re out of options, I suggest you hand over the pen now.”
Starlight Glimmer sighed, defeated. “Fine. We are done.” Fluttershy handed her the pen. “Here’s your pen.”
Discord smiled as he reached for the pen. “Why thank you, I-.”
Suddenly, Starlight used her magic to toss the pen over to the other side of the gate.
“Hey!” Discord said.
The pen landed on the ground into the lot as they watched.
Discord glared at Starlight Glimmer, the unicorn smiling innocently.
“First of all, you throw like a filly. Second, you ponies are sore losers.” Discord said. Then he began to climb over the fence. “See you later, ponies. So sad this is over. I only wish I could have helped more.”
The draconequus jumped down to the other side to get the pen. However, he saw the ponies and baby dragon right beside him, Fluttershy holding the pen. A hole had been dug by Pinkie Pie, who was holding a shovel. Discord’s jaws dropped when he saw them smiling at him.
“The thing is you don’t need a warrant unless you have a probable cause.” Starlight said.
“And I’m pretty sure we saw a draconequus climbing the fence without magic, so you’re helping plenty. Come on.” Twilight said.
As they headed down the parking lot, Discord frowned for a moment before following them.
After a while, they found a car and Twilight checked the plate to see if it was the one they were looking for.
“35NV1L7,” Twilight read. “This is it, guys!”
Discord used his magic to open the two-side doors and they poked their heads inside.
“Um...Twilight?” asked Fluttershy, her tone sounding uncertain. “Are you sure we should be breaking into somepony’s car? Couldn’t we just find whoever owns this car and ask them if we could have a look around?”
“We don’t know who owns this car, and it would take even longer to find the owner.” Twilight said. “We’ll just have a quick look around for clues and leave the car as if it was never touched.”
Fluttershy nodded, although she still didn’t like the idea of breaking and entering someone else's property.
Inside, they began looking around for clues, Twilight, Starlight Glimmer, and Rarity using their horns to light up the place. Just then, Rarity and Applejack noticed something on the floor. Rarity picked it up with her magic and looked at it closely. “Cat hair.”
“Yeah, orange cat hair.” Applejack said while Rarity put the hair in a plastic bag as evidence.
“Whoever owns this car must have a cat.” Fluttershy said as she noticed more orange cat hair on the floor before picking some up. “A tabby cat, by the looks of it.”
Discord nodded before opening a glove compartment. His eyes widened and he gasped. ”OH MY GOODNESS!!”
“What? Did you find something?” Twilight asked as she and her friends turned to see what he had found.
Discord reached in and pulled out several cds. “Dizzy Blue’s Greatest Hits!” He said with a smile as he pointed at the cd cases.
The other ponies rolled their eyes, except for Pinkie. “Ooh! Can we listen to some?”
“No! Put them back!” Twilight said sternly before she and the others went back to collecting real clues.
Discord shrugged. “Classical music. Didn’t know ponies still listened to it.” He said before putting the cds back where he found them.
Pinkie Pie noticed something. Next to her was a compartment. She opened it and gasped. Inside was a vast array of chocolate bon-bons in tin jars. “Chocolate bon-bons!” she whispered in joy as she took one out and prepared to open it.
Applejack, however, intervened and quickly grabbed the jar from Pinkie. “Pinkie!” she whispered angrily. “What th’ hay is wrong with ya?! Ya can’t just go around eatin’ other ponies food!” She put the jar back and closed the compartment.
Pinkie Pie’s lips trembled sadly. “But I like the bon-bons...”
Discord then spotted the back partition and lowered it. He looked inside before his eyebrows shot up. “Guys, if your otter draconequus was here...he had a bad day.” He said in a worried voice.
Spike and the ponies looked at the backseat. As Twilight shined her horn, they saw that it had been shredded everywhere!
“Those look like claw-marks,” Spike said nervously, noticing violent-looking claw marks all around.
“Have you ever seen anything like this?” Twilight asked.
Discord shook his head, actually concerned. “No.”
Just then, Fluttershy spotted something on the floor. “Wait. Look!” She went into the backseat and the others followed her. They watched as she pick it up and saw that it was a wallet.
Fluttershy opened it and inside the wallet was Mr. Otterus’s driver license and beside it was the same picture of the Otterus family that Mrs. Otterus had given her.
Looking at the wallet, Applejack said, “That’s him! Nelson Otterus!”
Twilight nodded and said, “His wallet proves that he’s definitely been here!”
“But what do you suppose happened here?” Fluttershy asked with concern, looking at the claw-marks around them. Discord shook his head, stumped. The others were stumped as well.
“Something really bad I bet,” Sweetie Belle answered, not liking what she was seeing.
Just then, Starlight Glimmer spotted something else on the ground. She picked it up with her magic and saw that it was a fancy cup. She took another look at it and saw that it was etched with the letters B and D styled fancy was well.
“Wait a minute,” said Starlight Glimmer suspiciously. Her friends watched as she began to remember what they found. “Cat fur...Classical music...assorted sweets...fancy cups…” She then realized something as her eyes widened before she gasped. “I know whose car this is! We gotta go!” She immediately put the cup back where it belongs and began sorting all the other cups and bottle in place by using her magic.
“Why? Whose car is it?” Spike asked.
As she rushed to put everything back in order, she said, “One of the most feared crime bosses in all of Equestria! They call him Mr. Big Daddy, and he does not like me!”
Discord’s eyes widened. “Mr. Big Daddy?” He said in surprise. “I’ve heard of him, but I’ve never seen him before.”
“And you don’t want to!” She grabbed a fancy cup from Sweetie Belle and carefully placed it on a shelf. “We can’t leave any evidence that we’ve been here! If he finds us here, he’ll-!”
Just then, there was a munching noise. They all turned to where it was coming from. Pinkie Pie was eating some of the bon-bons and had chocolate all over her lips.
“Pinkie!!” Starlight Glimmer gasped in horror while trying to keep her voice down.
The pink earth pony stopped eating and looked at the others. “Oh. Sorry.” She was silent for a moment before she spoke up. “Did you want some?”
“Pinkie!! What are you doing?!” Starlight Glimmer asked.
Pinkie gulped down the bon-bons and smiled. “You guys should try these bon-bons. They’re delicious!”
“Put those down and let’s get out of here!” Starlight Glimmer said as she reached for the jar.
Pinkie held it back angrily. “No! They’re mine!” She held it tightly as if it were her own precious teddy bear.
“What do you mean they’re yours?! Give me those!”
Starlight and Pinkie Pie began grappling over the jar, arguing, until Starlight finally pried it from Pinkie Pie’s hooves with her magic. She then put the lid back on to make it look like the jar hadn’t been touched and put it back in its place.
“But I haven’t finished it yet!” Pinkie Pie whined before licking the chocolate off her lips.
Starlight turned to Pinkie with a serious look. “Listen to me! Mr. Big Daddy is super sensitive about his stuff, and if he finds out that you’ve eaten some of his precious bon-bons,” She stopped and gulped nervously. “Oh, I shudder to think of it. So we gotta go! Now!”
“We can’t leave.” Rainbow Dash said. “This is a crime scene.”
“Oh, trust me, if Mr. Big Daddy finds me here, it’ll be an even bigger crime scene!” Starlight Glimmer said anxiously while using her magic to lead her friends to one of the doors. “So, we’re leaving right now!” She used her magic to open the door so they could leave.
However, once she opened the door, she stopped and gasped in horror.
Right outside were two tall white identical looking earth pony stallions. They both had brown shaved manes and short mustaches, wore black sunglasses that covered their eyes, and black suits with matching ties.
“Jacques!” Starlight Glimmer said, smiling nervously. “And is that Pierre?”
The two stallions remained silent as statues while they looked at the unicorn and her friends.
“L-long time n-no see,” she stammered. “And, uh...speaking of no see, how about you forget you saw me or my friends? Huh? For old times’ sakes?” She gulped nervously.
Just then, the car door behind them burst open, revealing two unicorn stallions wearing the same uniforms, only they weren't wearing sunglasses, revealing their angry expressions. They both aim their horns at the group, using their magic to capture them all in a magic beam.
“That's a no.” Discord said before they were all pulled out of the limo.
A while later, they all found themselves sitting in a car on its way to this ‘Mr. Big Daddy’. Beside them were Jacques and Pierre, along with some other thugs, to keep them from escaping. Twilight, Starlight, Rarity, Sweetie Belle, and Discord each had an anti-magic collar on so they couldn’t use their magic.
“Who knew these fellas came prepared.” Applejack commented to her friends.
As opera music played through the car speakers, everypony was silent. Pinkie Pie looked up at two thugs sitting next to her and smiled. They just looked at her with blank expressions. Her smile disappeared and she looked away.
Spike, Fluttershy, and the CMC noticed Jacques (or was it Pierre? They both looked alike.) pull out a phone and began looking at some photos until he pulled up one with him and another stallion thug with a skinny pegasus. One of the thug stallions had his arm around the pegasus in a friendly hug, only the pegasus seemed to be squeezed. He chuckled as he continued looking at it
Spike then turned to Starlight, who looked extremely nervous. “So, uh…” He whispered. “What exactly did you do to make Mr. Big Daddy so mad at you?”
Starlight gulped. “I...uh...may or may not have sold him a very expensive wool rug that was made from the fur of a rare and exotic beast’s...butt.”
Fluttershy gasped while Rarity’s jaw dropped. She knew all about rugs. “Oh, sweet Celestia.” She muttered nervously in surprise.
“You gotta be kidding me.” Twilight said with a frown.
Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Spike, and the CMC were snickering to themselves.
Sometime later, the car began to slow down. They saw that they had arrived at the home of Mr. Big Daddy.
Once inside, the gang was led into a room. The lights turned on, and they saw that they were in an office. As they looked around, they saw that the office was lavishly decorated. There were scented candles, fancy drapes, shelves filled important items, and pictures of different ponies.
Rarity looked around and said, “For a mobster, this Mr. Big Daddy certainly has good taste. I must get his decorator.”
Starlight Glimmer, however, shook with fear. She recalled being here and she desperately didn't want to be here now. Of all the cars in Equestria, why did it have belong to Mr. Big Daddy? Why?!
Just then, a door opened. In came a large unicorn with green sideburns that matched his mane. Right behind him were four stallions who wore the same black suits. Some had the same sunglasses, but with different mustaches.
“Is that Mr. Big Daddy?” Apple Bloom whispered, referring to the unicorn.
“No.” Starlight squeaked.
In came an pegasus that was bigger than the unicorn. He had a mustache. Behind him came three more stallion thugs.
“What about him? Is that him?” Sweetie Belle whispered.
“No.” Starlight gulped.
Finally, in came an even large earth pony that would make Bulk Biceps seem like a toddler. He had a beard on his chin and an angry expression. Behind him were two ponies that resembled the same ones that had brought them here.
As they walked into the room, Scootaloo frowned as she looked at the large earth pony. “Okay, that's gotta be him.” she stated in a whisper.
“Stop talking, stop talking, stop talking!” Starlight whispered as the three ponies approached the desk.
The big earth pony stood behind the desk. For a moment, he stood there before stepping aside. The two ponies behind him stepped forward.
There, sitting in the chair behind the desk, was the shortest unicorn Twilight and her friends had ever seen.
He was practically the same size as the Cutie Mark Crusaders. The unicorn had a white coat, a bushy brown mustache that matched his mane and eyebrows, and wore small spectacles over his eyes, which were closed. He wore a black tuxedo and a red beret. In his mouth, he had a cigar holder with a cigar in it and for his cutie mark, it was a cigar.
On his lap, he was stroking a cat. The cat had orange fur and yellow-orange stripes on its back. The hair on its head was neatly combed. Around its neck, it wore a fancy collar that was blue and had rubies on it. Like the unicorn, the cat’s eyes were closed as well. It looked like it was asleep or just resting.
Twilight and the others stood there for a while, silently. Discord raised an eyebrow. He imagined Mr. Big Daddy looking a little more...intimidating. Starlight Glimmer was practically shaking with fear. Even though Mr. Big Daddy was smaller than her, Twilight had a feeling that Mr. Big Daddy was a force to be reckoned with.
Finally, Pinkie Pie broke the silence.
“That’s Mr. Big Daddy?!” She said in surprise, pointing at the short little unicorn while Starlight looked horrified.
“Shhhhh!!!” Starlight Glimmer hushed nervously.
“Wow! You really had me frightened there for a minute, Starlight! I thought that Mr. Big Daddy was going to be a huge, mean, and scary thug with a scar across his eye. Now that you see him, he’s an old little unicorn!”
“Pinkie, be quiet!” Starlight tried to hush up her friend, but Pinkie was on a roll.
“Awww, look at him, guys,” Pinkie Pie walked up to Mr. Big Daddy’s desk, acting all cute with Mr. Big Daddy, who still remained silent. “Look at him in his cute little chair and his cute little outfit and his cute little hat!” She turned to her friends, smiling. “How many small ponies do you know that wear small outfits like that, honestly?”
“Pinkie Pie, no! Stop!” Starlight tried to tell her, but Pinkie wasn’t paying attention.
“Awww, look at him sitting in his little chair. He’s so cute, and small, and-!”
Before Pinkie Pie could finish her sentence, a pony thug grabbed her by her poofy mane and lifted her up to his face. Even though his sunglasses hid his eyes, Pinkie Pie had a feeling that it said, ‘Keep talking. I dare you.’
Pinkie Pie got the message and gulped nervously. “Uhhhhh...did I say cute and small? I meant...uh...very handsome and, uh...larger than life!” She gave a nervous smile with a squeak.
The thug remained silent before he finally let go of her mane and let her fall to the floor. “Whoa!” She landed with a thud.
“Hey, look!” Sweetie Belle said. “He’s got a cat!”
“Well, I guess that explains all the cat hair we found,” Apple Bloom said.
The three fillies walked over to the desk and reached out to pet the orange tabby. Suddenly, the cat sprang to life. Its eyes opened as the Cutie Mark Crusaders got close. The cat hissed angrily at them and gave a vicious swipe. They all gave a yelp before they rushed away and hid behind Fluttershy, who was equally startled by the cat.
The CMC poked their heads out. “Kinda reminds you of Opal, doesn’t it?” Scootaloo said nervously. The cat went back to its original position and closed its eyes.
Finally, Starlight Glimmer spoke up. “Mr. Big Daddy, sir, this is all just a simple-.”
Mr. Big Daddy gave a small sigh and lowered his head. On his horn was a diamond ring.
Starlight knew what it meant. “Oh! Yes! Sorry.” She said nervously as she rushed to the desk. She leaned and kissed the ring on the small unicorn’s horn before stepping back as she continued. “This is all just a simple misunderstanding. I-!”
Mr. Big Daddy waved a hoof for her to be silent and finally spoke up. “Starlight Glimmer.” He said with a puff of smoke. His voice was small and scratchy. Yet, Twilight and the others felt a sense of authority coming from it. “You dare show your face to me? You come here unannounced, on zee day zat my daughter is to betrothed?”
“Actually, we were brought here against our wills.” Spike said. Twilight elbowed him to be quiet, not wanting to get them into anymore trouble.
“Th-the point is, we didn’t know it was your car, and we certainly didn’t know about your daughter’s wedding.” Starlight gave a nervous smile.
Mr. Big Daddy ignored her and sighed sadly. “I trusted you, Starlight Glimmer. I welcomed you into my home. We broke bread, poured zee champagne together. Grand-mama made you her famous ratatouille.”
Mr. Big Daddy gestured to a picture over the fireplace. It showed a white old mare with glasses. She also a white cat on her lap.
“And how did you repay my generosity? With a rug. A rug zat was made from zee butt of a rare and exotic beast. A beast-butt rug.”
Rainbow Dash snickered a little bit, but stopped when two thugs began to glare at her. She gulped nervously.
Pinkie Pie, however, couldn’t hold it in.
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
“Pinkie! Stop!” Starlight said, trying to get the pink earth pony quiet.
“I can’t stop! I’m gonna throw up Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Mr. Big Daddy just looked at her. “You think there’s something funny about a beast-butt rug?”
“Yeah!” Pinkie Pie said, still laughing. “I mean, come on! It’s a rug made from the butt of a rare and exotic beast! It’s hilarious! Ha, ha, ha, ha,-!”
Suddenly, Pinkie Pie stopped laughing and found herself being lifted up again by another pony thug without glasses. He growled angrily. She looked at the thug and then nervously gulped. “I-I mean, there’s nothing funny about a beast-butt rug! Nothing funny at all!” She gave a nervous smile to Mr. Big Daddy.
The small unicorn's expression didn't change, but he said, “You are correct. There's absolutely nothing funny about a beast-butt rug.”
The pony thug released Pinkie Pie, causing her to fall to the floor again. “Waa!” She landed on the floor again with a thud.
Turning to Starlight Glimmer again, Mr. Big Daddy said, “You disrespected me. You disrespected my grand-mama, who I buried in zat beast-butt rug.”
The big earth pony thug bowed his head in respect, trying his best not to cry. The unicorn next to him cried and hugged the pegasus thug, who patted him on the shoulder for support.
“I told you to never to show your face around here again. Yet, here you are, snooping around with this bunch, to which your pink-haired friend ate some of my newly imported chocolate bon-bons.” He was obviously referring to Pinkie Pie, who gave a nervous smile, before he continued. “Not only zat, also this uh…”
He looked at Twilight and raised an eyebrow. “What are you, a performer from a freak show? What’s with zee wings?” He asked, looking at her wings.
Twilight looked at him in surprise. Had this pony never seen an alicorn before? She began to answer. “Sir, I am a-!”
“Mime!” Starlight Glimmer shouted, interrupting Twilight. “She is a mime!”
Her friends looked at her in confusion as she made a gesture with her head. What was she doing? Discord then realized what the unicorn was trying to do. She was trying to get them to play along so they could get out of this situation.
“Uh, yes! Yes, she’s a mime! In fact, they’re all mimes!” He said, playing along with Starlight’s idea, while turning to the others. “These mimes can’t speak! You can’t speak if you’re a mime!” He gave a nervous smile, hoping the small unicorn would believe them.
“I’m not a mime!” Pinkie Pie said, raising an eyebrow. “If I was, I’d be doing this.”
She did a demonstration be pretending that she was trapped in an invisible box while accordion music was playing. The others turned their heads and looked at one of the henchponies, who was playing an accordion until he stopped.
Turning her attention to Mr. Big Daddy, Twilight said, “Actually, I’m Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship!” Discord groaned in frustration while Starlight Glimmer watched with concern as Twilight continued. It wasn’t exactly the wisest choice to go around telling everypony that you’re a princess, especially if that somepony is a well-known crime lord.
“My friends and I are on the Nelson Otterus case and our evidence puts him in your car!” She gestured a hoof at Fluttershy, wanting to her to come up. Fluttershy walked up to the desk with a scared look on her face as she showed the unicorn the picture of the Otterus family, not wanting to invoke the wrath of the small unicorn and his cranky pet feline.
“Yeah,” Rainbow Dash said furiously, placing a hoof on the desk while Mr. Big Daddy’s cat hissed slowly at her. “So intimidate us all you want, bub, ‘cause we’re gonna find out what you did to that otter draconequus if it’s the last thing we do!”
Mr. Big Daddy’s face remain unaltered. Starlight Glimmer watched with a horrified look on her face while Discord just placed his paw on his face in annoyance. They both had a feeling that a kidnapping and a ransom was already in order.
But Mr. Big Daddy didn’t say anything. He then sighed and said, “In zat case, I have only one request.”
Rainbow Dash raised a curious eyebrow. “Really?” she asked, looking at the small unicorn. “What’s that?”
For a moment, Mr. Big Daddy was silent. Then, giving an evil smile, he said, “Say hello to Grand-mama for me.” Turning to his henchponies, he ordered, “Ice zem!”
Just then, a earth pony thug grabbed Rainbow Dash. “Wha?! Hey! Get your hooves off me! Let me go!” She yelled, trying to break free.
Starlight Glimmer went white with horror. “No! Not that! Please! Anything but that! I’m begging you!”
“Too late.” Mr. Big Daddy said.
Twilight got grabbed by an earth pony thug. She turned to Mr. Big Daddy. “Wait a minute! Wait a minute!! Let’s discuss this like reasonable ponies!!”
The unicorn simply stroked his cat and said, “Did I mention zat I’m a reasonable pony?”
Discord got grabbed by two pony thugs. “Hey! Take it easy!”
Pinkie Pie got scared as a pony thug with sunglasses and a beard walked up to her. She clucked like a chicken and began to run. At first, it looked like she was running. But when she turned her head, she saw that she was only running in place and the pony thug was holding her tail. She clucked again and just continued running in place as she yelled, “Faster, guys! They’re gaining on us!”
As a pegasus thug with sideburns grabbed Fluttershy, the shy pegasus gave a terrified squeak as she was picked up.
Just as a unicorn thug with a mustache was about to grab Rarity, the unicorn said “Wait!”
She rushed up to Mr. Big Daddy’s desk, hoping to use a one-last resort to get them out of this. “You wouldn’t ice a beautiful face like this now, would you?”
She looked at the small crime lord and batted her eyelashes, hoping that her good looks and charms would convince him.
Mr. Big Daddy sighed, as if he really was sorry. “I’m sorry, ma petite fleur,” he said. “You are indeed zee loveliest of unicorns I have ever seen. But alas, I cannot leave any witnesses.” He waved his hoof.
“Noooooo!!!!” She wailed as the unicorn thug grabbed her. “Please! Ice is bad for my complexion!!” She desperately held onto the desk until the unicorn thug finally tugged her off of it.
“You can’t ice my sister and her friends! They’re just fillies!” Applejack explained as an earth pony thug grabbed her and picked her up while another pony thug had Spike and the CMC. “Let me go, ya hoodlum!”
“They’re young, cherie. They’ll heal.” Mr. Big Daddy said.
“Wait! We didn’t see any of this! We won’t say anything!” Starlight Glimmer said just as a pegasus thug picked her up.
“And you never will.” replied Mr. Big Daddy.
“No, no, no!” Starlight begged as one of the pony thugs pulled out a rug that was in front of Mr. Big Daddy’s desk, revealing a trapdoor. He opened the trapdoor and inside it was a freezing pit with ice and water.
Starlight Glimmer pleaded, “If you’re mad at me about the rug, I got more rugs!”
They all screamed as they were about to be lowered into the pit.
Just then, the door opened and in came a familiar small unicorn. She was Fifi, the daughter of Mr. Big Daddy. She was the same size as him and was wearing a wedding dress.
“Oh, daddy!” she said as she approached the desk. “It’s time for our dance.”
Then she turned her head and saw the ponies, Spike, and Discord looking at her. Even the thugs were looking at her as well.
There was an awkward pause.
She scoffed and turned to her dad with an annoyed look on her face, saying, “Oh! What did we say? Noicing anypony at my wedding!”
“I have to, babycakes. Daddy has to.” Mr. Big Daddy said with a shrug before turning back to his henchponies. “Ice zem.”
As the pony thugs lowered them down even further into the pit, they all resumed screaming.
Just then, Fifi took one good look at Fluttershy. “Wait. WAIT!” She shouted. The thugs stopped what they were doing before she pointed a hoof at Fluttershy. “I know her. She’s the pegasus who saved my life yesterday! From that giant doughnut.”
Mr. Big Daddy raised an eyebrow while his cat opened its eyes in surprise. “Zis pegasus?” he asked.
“Yeah.” Fifi said before turning back at Fluttershy and waving. “Hi.”
“Oh...hi.” Fluttershy said with a sheepish smile, not knowing what else to say. She was surprised that the pony she had saved was in fact the daughter of a ruthless crime lord.
Rarity noticed her dress and said, “Oohhhhhh! I love your dress.”
“Aw, thank you,” Fifi said, blushing.
Mr. Big Daddy was quiet for a moment as he stroked his mustache. “Hmm…put zem down.”
The thug closed the trapdoor while the other thugs put the gang down. The thug, who had Spike and the CMC, muttered as he put them down. “Aw. I never get to have any fun.”
As for Fluttershy, one of the thugs pulled up a chair in front of the desk while the thug, who had her, placed her on it. She yelped in surprise as she landed on the chair before turning to Mr. Big Daddy. His face still had no emotion in it.
“So, you are zee one who saved my young flower from being squashed by a giant pastry, yes?” Mr. Big Daddy asked.
Fluttershy meekly said, “Um...yes sir.” She was scared of what Mr. Big Daddy might do to her, since he seemed pretty unpredictable.
“Child, you have done me a great service. I will help you find zee otter draconequus.” Mr. Big Daddy said. “I will take your kindness...and pay it in full.”
He smiled as he gestured Fluttershy to come closer. When she did, he kissed her on both cheeks and she blushed. His cat rubbed itself against her and purred while she pet it.
Her friends all watched in surprise as it happened. Discord and Starlight Glimmer's jaws both dropped as they watched in surprise and disbelief.
Spike was absolutely terrified from this experience before he sighed in relief and fainted. “Ahhhhh.” The CMC watched as he fell to the floor with a thud.
A while later, they were all at the wedding party for Fifi and her husband. The thugs had already taken the anti-magic collars off of Twilight, Starlight, Rarity, Discord, and Sweetie Belle.
There was dancing and feasting while accordion music was being played.
At a table, waiters began to bring food. Pinkie Pie was eating cake after cake. There was a whole line of waiters ready to bring her a new slice of cake.
Rarity was being served tea and biscuits. She was enjoying this.
Spike stopped eating for a moment when he saw a diamond right by Mr. Big Daddy's cat, who was now sitting on a pillow. It had been playing with it earlier as a toy. Feeling hungry, Spike began to reach over for the diamond. The cat, however, was not totally asleep. It hissed angrily at Spike before it swiped at him. The baby dragon backed away nervously. Maybe this diamond wasn't worth it after all.
Twilight and Fluttershy were sitting next to Mr. Big Daddy as he was telling them about Nelson Otterus.
“Otterus is my florist. He’s like a part of zee family.” He said. “He said zat he had something important to discuss about. Zat's why I sent zee car to pick him up. But he never arrived.”
“Yes,” Twilight said with a grim look on her face. “Because he was attacked.”
“No, princess. He attacked.”
The alicorn and her friends looked at him with disbelief on their faces when he said that. Even Pinkie Pie heard what he said while her face was covered in frosting.
Finally, Rainbow Dash spoke up. “What?”
“You mean to tell us that Otterus was the one who attacked?” Applejack said.
“Oui,” the small unicorn said, his voice becoming more serious. “He went crazy, ripped up zee car, scared my driver half to death, and disappeared into zee night.”
Fluttershy couldn't believe what she was hearing. “But...he’s a sweet little otter draconequus.”
Mr. Big Daddy sighed and said, “My child, we may be civilized, but deep down, we still have our ancient, primitive animal instincts.”
The ponies, baby dragon, and draconequus all looked at each other in concern and confusion. There was something else going on with this case.
“You want to find Otterus...talk to zee driver of zee car.” Mr. Big Daddy said. “His name is Juan Rico. He lives in zee upper part of Manehattan. Only he can tell you more.”