Ch. 14-The True Mastermind
Inside the Canterlot Museum, the gang ran faster and faster. As they ran, they passed thousands of historical replicas and monuments from long ago. But they didn’t have time to look at stuff now! They had to get this evidence to the princesses and tell them what was really going on!
As they continued running, Twilight saw the exit in front of them and outside was the castle.
“Oh! There it is!” She told her friends.
“We’re almost there!” Rainbow Dash said.
“Twilight!”
Hearing a familiar voice, they all stopped running and turned to where the voice was coming from. Arriving was Mayor Shimmering Beauty and two police ponies with her. The police pony on her right side was an earth pony stallion with a light blue coat, a dark blue mane, and light green eyes. His cutie mark was a 2+2 that equaled a magnet. The other police pony on her left side was another earth pony stallion with an yellow-orangish coat, a light brown mane, orange eyes, and a vacuum cleaner for his cutie mark.
“Girls!” Shimmering Beauty said. Fluttershy smiled when she saw her. She was glad to see a familiar face!
“Mayor Shimmering Beauty!” Twilight said with a smile. She looked at her friends before they approached the unicorn and the cops.
Sighing with relief, Applejack said, “Boy are we glad to see you!”
“Yeah!” Rainbow Dash added. “You won’t believe what we’ve been through today!”
“We found out what’s been happening. Somepony’s darting draconequuses with a serum. That’s what making them go savage,” explained Fluttershy as she showed her the case.
“Oh, I’m so proud of you, girls! You did a super job!” The unicorn said with a smile as she looked at the pegasus. Fluttershy beamed a smile back at her.
“Thank you, ma’am.”
Finally, Starlight Glimmer spoke up. “There’s no time to waste! We have to get this case to the princesses and tell them what’s going on as soon as possible!”
“You’re absolutely right.” Shimmering Beauty said in agreement as she nodded. “Why don’t I take that case for you and deliver it to them myself?”
Fluttershy smiled as she was about to hand Shimmering Beauty the case.
“Why, thank you. We-.” Rarity was beginning to say when she stopped in mid-sentence and realized something. Fluttershy stopped herself from giving Shimmering Beauty the case with the evidence and turned to her friends. Then the pegasus and her friends all looked at each other, getting the same feeling that Rarity did.
“Wait just a doggone minute.” Applejack said. She raised a suspicious eyebrow as she looked at Shimmering Beauty and asked, “How did ya know where to find us?”
The two pony cops looked at each with worried looks while Shimmering Beauty just gave a nervous smile. “I’ll go ahead now and take that case,” she said as she tried to take the case from Fluttershy, but the pegasus backed away from her, holding the case close to her.
“Um...actually, we’ll just take this to the princesses ourselves.” She said.
“Uh, yeah. What she said.” Discord said nervously. The others nodded as well as they backed away and head for the exit. The way Shimmering Beauty was acting right now was making them feel uncomfortable.
But once they turned to head for the exit, they saw something blocking their way. In front of them was an earth pony stallion wearing a police uniform. His coat was gray, dark red for his mane, fiery red eyes, black hooves, and a one-thousand dumbbell for his cutie mark. He was the same size as Big Mac, only his expression was anything far from pleasant.
“Rrrrrrrrr.” He growled as he turned his neck, which made a cracking noise when he did.
At that moment, the ponies, Spike, and Discord realized what was going on. Shimmering Beauty wasn't here to help them! And those ponies that were with her, they weren't really police ponies at all! They were only pretending to be police officers!
As they stood there, they all had the same idea.
“RUN!” They all said in unison. Immediately, they ran through a curtain that led into a corridor while Shimmering Beauty and her cronies watched.
The unicorn just stood there with an angry look on her face. “Get them.” She ordered the two ponies beside her and the two stallions ran after them.
Inside the corridor, the ponies, baby dragon, and draconequus kept on running. As she flew, Fluttershy turned her head to see if they were being followed. However, she didn't notice the statue of a royal guard that was holding a spear in her way until she flew into it.
Once the sharp point of the spear slashed against her wing and one of her legs, the pegasus screamed in pain as she fell to the floor and the case landing beside her. “Ahh! Ahh!”
Hearing her scream, Discord stopped running and saw her in her injured condition.
“Fluttershy,” he said before rushing to her.
The pegasus moaned in pain as she held her wounded leg as the draconequus approached her. “Here, I got you. Come here, come here.” He said as he carefully picked her up while Fluttershy grabbed the case.
He carried her to a pillar where the others were hiding.
“Quick! Over here!” Scootaloo whispered.
Once they reached the pillar and hid with the others, Discord placed Fluttershy down gently. As she groaned in pain, he said, “Okay. Now, just relax.”
He snapped his fingers and a familiar handkerchief appeared. When he opened it, the blueberries fell out of it before he caught one. “Whoops. Uh...blueberry?” He asked, offering a blueberry to the pegasus.
“Pass.” She said, not feeling up for blueberries right now.
Discord ate the blueberry while Pinkie Pie ate one too. Rarity pulled a scarf out of her saddlebag. She had been planning to wear it after they showed the princesses the evidence, but seeing how badly hurt Fluttershy was, she felt that her friend needed it more than she did. She wrapped the scarf around Fluttershy’s wounded leg while Discord wrapped the handkerchief on her wounded wing.
As they did that, Fluttershy tried to endure the pain. Just then, they heard Shimmering Beauty’s voice coming from outside the corridor.
“Come out, girls.” She said in a sing-song voice as her shadow was seen approaching the curtain. “There’s nowhere to hide.”
“She’s coming this way,” Sweetie Belle whispered, her voice sounding rather scared.
Twilight and the others couldn’t believe this. Shimmering Beauty was the real criminal mastermind. All this time they thought that Flashhoof was behind it all, when it was really Shimmering Beauty!
Fluttershy couldn’t believe it, most of all.
Knowing that her injuries would slow down her friends, Fluttershy turned to Discord. “Take the case.” She whispered, passing the case to him. “Get it to the princesses.”
Discord looked at her, not believing what she was doing. “What?! I'm not gonna leave you behind! That's not happening.” He said. He wasn't gonna leave his beloved Fluttershy behind.
“Discord, you have to!” Twilight insisted. “Fluttershy can't fly or walk.”
“Just…we’ll think of something!”
“But what’re we gonna do?” Spike asked with a concerned look. Fluttershy can't keep up with her friends in her injured state, but Discord didn't want to leave her behind so that he can take the case to the princesses. But they had to find a way to get the case to the princesses while avoid being captured by Shimmering Beauty and her henchponies.
Looking at the blueberries on the ground, Fluttershy thought of something. Turning to her friends, she said, “I have an idea!”
“We're on the same team, girls!” They heard Shimmering Beauty say.
The unicorn and her two cronies had already entered the area, the stallions both carrying a flashlight as the unicorn spoke up again. “Underestimated. Underappreciated. Aren’t you sick of it?” She said in an annoyed tone.
She motioned a hoof at the two stallions, telling them to spread out and search for them.
“Draconequuses; They may think they're strong and powerful with their chaos magic.” She said in a sarcastic tone as she was looking at a statue of a draconequus and frowned at it just as the tough earth pony came in before she continued. “But ponies outnumber draconequuses ten to one.”
Turning her head, she saw a shadow of a pegasus peeking from behind a pillar. She gestured a hoof at the blue earth pony and he saw the shadow of the pegasus.
“Think of it,” she said as the blue earth pony nodded, turned off his flashlight, and smiled as he walked towards it. “90% of the pony population, united against a common enemy. With your skills and my brains, we’ll be unstoppable.” She finished with an evil look on her face.
As he was getting closer, the blue earth pony tried to look serious, only he seemed to look more comical. “Aha!” He said as he jumped out, getting ready to pounce on the pegasus. But when he saw the pegasus, he saw that it wasn’t really a pegasus at all. It was actually a mannequin of a pegasus.
He looked at it in a confused look. “Huh?”
“NOW!”
Hearing Twilight’s voice, the blue earth pony turned his head and yelped when he saw the alicorn and her friends jump out from their hiding spot and tackle him. Shimmering Beauty and the other two ponies watched as the good guys were beating up the dim-witted earth pony.
“What are they doing?!” A furious Shimmering Beauty asked.
Just then, a loud clattering noise got their attention. Turning her head, Shimmering Beauty saw Discord running past them, carrying the case in his claw and Fluttershy in his lion paw. Shimmering Beauty realized what was going on! The ponies were trying to distract them so Discord can sneak past them with the case and Fluttershy.
Turning to the tough earth pony, Shimmering Beauty pointed a hoof and said, “Over there!” Immediately, the big earth pony chased after them.
As she was busy helping the others take care of the blue earth pony, Starlight Glimmer lifted her head up and turned to Fluttershy and Discord saying, “Run you two! Run!”
The two rushed out of the corridor and headed for the exit while the earth pony was after them in hot pursuit. Despite being big and all, he could run really fast.
“Oh!” Fluttershy yelped, almost slipping out of Discord’s arm. The draconequus quickly prevented that from happening by lifting her up into his arm again as they continued running.
Unfortunately, the tough earth pony was catching up to them. When he got closer to them, he got ready to charge at them as he said, “Rrrrrrrrrraggh!” With that, he headbutted them really hard. The force of the stallion’s headbutt knocked the case out of Discord’s hand while he and Fluttershy fell into a nearby diorama pit. The pegasus and draconequus landed on the ground. The case slid onto the floor until it came to a complete stop before a shadow of a figure approached it.
As they were getting up, Discord groaned. Looking around, they found themselves trapped in the diorama pit.
Just then, they heard a familiar chuckle. They looked up and saw Shimmering Beauty and her cronies as they stopped at the edge of the pit. The blue earth pony had regrouped with them, only he had a black eye (courtesy of Rainbow Dash).
“Ha, ha, ha, ha. Well, well. Isn’t this sweet? ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Too bad this ending won’t end so happily.” Shimmering Beauty said with a smirk as she looked at the couple.
On the other side of the pit, Twilight and the others appeared. They looked down as they looked at their friends in concern.
“Fluttershy! Discord! Are you okay?” Starlight asked.
“We’re okay,” Discord replied, letting her know that they were fine.
Fluttershy, however, just looked at Shimmering Beauty in disbelief. She didn’t understand why Shimmering Beauty, the pony whom she could relate to herself and thought of as a friend, would do something horrible like this.
“Why?” She asked Shimmering Beauty. “Why are you doing this? What have the draconequuses ever done to you?”
“Oh,” Shimmering Beauty said. “They’ve done absolutely nothing to me. I just don’t want them ruining the perfect Equestria that I’m trying to build using their chaos magic!”
Once she said that, the ponies and baby dragon looked at her in confusion.
Looking at the unicorn, Applejack asked, “What in th’ hay are ya babblin’ about?”
Looking at the western earth pony, Shimmering Beauty continued. “Isn’t it obvious? Ever since Princess Celestia allowed draconequuses to live in Equestria, our perfect harmony has started to become impure. So, it’s up to me to cleanse away that tainted harmony and restore it. To do that, I just have to get rid of draconequuses. Celestia is a fool to let them live among us! Equestria is better off without these freaks!”
The gang looked absolutely horrified when she explained her intentions.
“So you’re darting draconequuses just because they’re an entirely different race?!” Twilight asked in disbelief, glaring at the unicorn.
Shimmering Beauty just gave an evil smile. “You catch on pretty quickly, don’t you princess?”
Then Rainbow Dash realized something else before glaring at the unicorn with an accused hoof. “Then...you framed Flashhoof!”
“Of course.” Shimmering Beauty admitted before she continued. “Did you really think a pompous buffoon like Flashhoof was capable of orchestrating a grand scheme such as this? I had to find some way to throw myself off the trail so that you, or anypony else, wouldn’t know that it was me. Flashhoof’s foolhardy crusade to help those draconequuses was the perfect alibi for it.”
“Very soon, my dream will become a reality! Soon, every draconequus in Equestria will be darted and go completely savage. The damage will be so severe that the princesses will have no choice but to send them all back into the Chaos Realm! Equestria will finally be cleansed of the filth that clots it's gutters! And I have you all to thank. You all played your parts perfectly. None of this wouldn’t have been possible without your help.” She said, grinning evilly.
They all just glared at her in disbelief, barely able to comprehend this pony’s existence.
“You used us to do your dirty work!” Starlight Glimmer angrily said.
“Well, duh. What was I supposed to do? Reveal my plans just so you could tell the princesses and all of Equestria?” Shimmering Beauty asked sarcastically.
“I can’t believe this. We trusted you!” Applejack said.
“You’re nothing but a big, selfish jerk!” Sweetie Belle added.
“Yes,” Rarity said, agreeing with her sister as she frowned at Shimmering Beauty. “You may be beautiful on the outside, but on the inside, you’re a monster!”
“Yeah!” Pinkie Pie said as she glared at the unicorn. “You really are a Shimmering Butt!!”
Hearing that name, Shimmering Beauty’s evil smile disappeared as she made a rather angry face. Evidently, she still didn’t like being called that little nickname.
“Rrrrrrrrr...DON’T CALL ME THAT!!!!” She shouted at the top of her lungs as she glared at them. Their faces didn’t falter as they just continued to glare back at her.
“But...I thought you were my...friend.” Fluttershy said as she looked at her, her eyes filled with concern.
Staring back at the pegasus, Shimmering Beauty looked at Fluttershy, almost pityingly, as if she was disappointed.
“You know, I thought so too. In a way, you were kind of like the little sister I never had.” Her disappointed expression and tone turned to disgust as she continued. “But then you started to hang out with the master of Chaos!”
Then she relaxed herself. “You should have just stayed home tending to the need of your little animal friends. It’s a shame, really. I did like you.”
“What are you gonna do? Kill me?” Fluttershy asked.
“Who, me? Of course not. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.” Shimmering Beauty laughed. Then her horn began glowing as she lifted up the dart gun from the case with her magic and aimed it at Discord. Giving an evil grin, she said, “...He is.”
Using her magic, she pulled the trigger and the dart gun shot out the dart until it hit Discord on the neck, leaving a stain on it.
“Ooff!” Discord said after getting hit by the serum as he laid on the ground. After seeing her beloved Discord get hit by the serum, Fluttershy rushed up to him.
“No! Oh, Discord!” Fluttershy said as Discord started to grunt and groan in pain.
Spike and the ponies were horrified as they watched Discord shake violently.
“Discord’s been hit!” Apple Bloom said in concern.
“We gotta get in there!” Rainbow Dash said, getting ready to fly into the pit and save Fluttershy.
But before she could get in there, Twilight’s voice stopped her. “No, Rainbow Dash! It’s too dangerous!”
“Well, what’re we supposed to do? I can’t just sit here and watch our friend get torn to pieces!” Rainbow Dash asked.
“I know, Rainbow Dash. But we’re no match for a savage draconequus!” Twilight explained.
Just then, they all heard Shimmering Beauty’s voice. “Yes, princesses! Guards! Police!” Turning their heads, they saw the unicorn talking on her cell phone. “There’s a savage draconequus in the Canterlot Museum! Fluttershy is down! Please hurry!”
They all gasped in horror. Not only did she dart Discord on purpose, she was going to have him attack Fluttershy and then frame him for it!
Fluttershy placed a hoof on Discord’s shoulder. “No! Discord, don’t do this! Fight it! Please!” She pleaded as Discord was shaking and panting, the effect of the night howler running its course.
Putting away her cell phone, Shimmering Beauty looked at the pegasus. “Oh, but he can’t help it, can he?” She told Fluttershy mockingly. “After all, draconequuses are just biologically predisposed as savages. Remember?”
Just then, Discord's panting began to change into growling as Fluttershy watched. Opening his eyes, the draconequus looked straight at Fluttershy menacingly, as he fully became savage. Then he let out a roar of a ferocious lion. Fluttershy backed away from him in fear while she yelped in surprise.
Outside the pit, Twilight called out to her friend. “Fluttershy, run!”
Hearing Twilight’s voice, Fluttershy quickly got up and started to limp away while Discord was on all fours, stalking her like a wild animal, while growling and baring his teeth. Finally, Discord chased after her as she tried to run away. But with her wounded leg and wing, she wouldn’t be able to get away in time. Thinking fast, Fluttershy grabbed a pony mannequin and threw it at the draconequus just as he was about to strike, hoping that it would slow him down. The mannequin landed on Discord and held him down as he grunted.
With the pony mannequin holding him down, Fluttershy quickly dove into the grass to hide. Shimmering Beauty just laughed evilly, enjoying every second of what was happening. “Ha, ha, ha, ha. My, my. Just think of the headlines: ‘Element of Kindness Mauled to Death by Savage Draconequus,’” said Shimmering Beauty, pleased with herself. Fluttershy nervously backed up to a wall, gasping in fear as she watched as Discord was snarling as he began tearing the pony mannequin and stuffing started to come out of it. Then, grabbing it with his teeth, the draconequus began to tear the fake pony until it was all in pieces. Discord growled as he stared at Fluttershy, the fake pony still in his teeth.
“So that’s it?” Fluttershy asked, looking straight up at Shimmering Beauty and glaring at her. “Ponies fear draconequuses, and you stay in power?”
“Yep. Pretty much,” she said calmly.
“It won’t work!”
“Fear always works! And I’ll dart every draconequus in Equestria to keep it that way and silence anypony who tries to stop me!” Shimmering Beauty said.
Suddenly, Fluttershy heard Discord growling and gasped as he poked his head through the grass.
“Oh, Discord…” Fluttershy said before he began to slowly close in on her, like a predator does to its prey, as she backed up more against the wall. “No...No...Ohhh.”
As she watched this, Shimmering Beauty chuckled. “Ah, ha, ha, ha.” Then, giving a glare, she added, “Bye bye, little pony.”
When he finally cornered the frightened Fluttershy against the wall, Discord growled at her before lunging at her, biting her on the neck as Fluttershy let out a fearful scream.
“AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!”
“FLUTTERSHY!!!” Her friends shouted from above the pit. Pinkie Pie raised her head into the air, her hooves over her head screaming, “NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!”
Shimmering Beauty just smiled, pleased at her own work while the blue earth pony just placed a hoof over his mouth, horrified at the terrible event that was about to happen.
However, instead of Discord killing Fluttershy like Shimmering Beauty anticipated, something else happened.
“Ohhh…” Fluttershy said in a dramatic voice before Discord let go of her neck and backed away, revealing his normal, mischievous face as the pegasus began to do a familiar act. “Blood, blood, blood!” As Fluttershy pretended that she was being mauled to death, Discord chuckled at her playful act. “And...death!” Fluttershy finished with one hoof on her head and the other in the air before she laid back against the wall, both hooves against it and her tongue sticking out.
“All right, you know you’re milking it,” Discord said with a smile as he started to get back up on his feet. Shimmering Beauty’s evil smile disappeared and a shocked look replaced it while all three of her goons gave equally surprised looks. The others on the other side were all smiling as they watched. “Besides, I think we got it.” Discord said as he stood up. “I think we got it. We got it up there, thank you, pretty pony! You laid it all out quite beautifully.” He gently picked up Fluttershy with his lion paw as they both placed their arms around each other. As their friends came down into the pit, they were laughing before they joined their two friends.
“That was a great performance you two did!” Starlight Glimmer said a smile.
“Yep. It was like watching a play!” Applejack said.
“Quite right,” commented Rarity. “In fact, I would give this act five stars!”
“Yeah! Watching it almost made me think it was all real!” Spike added.
“What?!?!” Shimmering Beauty shrieked in disbelief, looking at the dart gun in confusion and back at them.
Finally, Rainbow Dash couldn’t hold it in any longer as she laughed, along with Spike, Pinkie Pie, and the CMC. “Ha, ha, ha, ha! You should see the look on your face! Priceless! Ha, ha, ha!”
“Yeah!” Pinkie Pie said, agreeing with her friend as she smiled. “It was all like, ‘Huh’ ‘What’ ‘But-but-but-but-but-but’!” She showed different faces that Shimmering Beauty made.
“Wha-? Bu-! How?! But-but-but-but-but-but!” The unicorn stuttered in disbelief.
Pinkie Pie just smiled. “Yeah, just like that!”
“But...but I just-! He...he was-! You were-! How did-?!” Shimmering Beauty said, dumbfounded to what was going on.
“Oh, yeah. Are you looking for the serum?” Discord asked before snapping his fingers and a plastic bag appeared with a ‘Caution’ sign on it. Inside it was the serum. “Well, it’s right here.” He said before snapping his fingers, poofing the plastic bag away.
“What you got in the dart gun there? Those are blueberries. From my place.” Fluttershy said with a smile as Discord held her in his paw.
“WHAT?!” Shimmering Beauty opened the chamber of the dart gun and looked inside of it. Instead of a pellet of night howler serum, there were a couple of blueberries in it.
Discord licked the blueberry he had been hit with earlier with his fingers. “Mwah! They are delicious, you should try some.”
The dim-witted earth pony took a blueberry from the dart gun and ate it. After eating it, he smiled and said, “Hey, he’s right! These are delicious!”
Shimmering Beauty, however, growled furiously as she closed the dart gun. “I framed that idiot, Flashhoof! I can frame you all too! It’s my word against yours,” she said evilly, thinking she still had the upper hoof.
Fluttershy just smiled. “Oh! Actually…” She pulled out a familiar flower pen and pressed a button. It made a rewinding noise before she played it.
“...And I’ll dart every draconequus in Equestria to keep it that way and silence anypony who tries to stop me!” Shimmering Beauty’s voice came out of the pen as it played back what she said earlier.
“Hey, Fluttershy. Can we hear my favorite part again?” Pinkie Pie asked.
“Why not? It’s my favorite part too!” Discord added. With a smile, Fluttershy pressed the button to rewind it and played it once again.
“...And I’ll dart every draconequus in Equestria to keep it that way and silence anypony who tries to stop me!” Shimmering Beauty looked absolutely horrified as she heard what she said come out of the pen. All three of her goons each gave each other worried and nervous glances.
When it stopped playing, Fluttershy looked at the unicorn. “You see, it’s your word against yours.”
Shimmering Beauty’s jaws dropped as she just stood there in shock and disbelief. “Huh?”
As she, Discord, and the rest of their friends smiled at her, Fluttershy said with a friendly smile, “It’s called a hustle, sweetheart.”
“Boom.” Spike added, snapping his claws and pointing at the unicorn with a smug smile.
Shimmering Beauty backed away nervously and tried to make a run for it. However, as she turned around, she found herself being surrounded by Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Cadance, Shining Armor, Officer Gruff, Inspector Fantastic, Number Two, the police, and the royal guards as she gasped before dropping the dart gun. They were all glaring at her.
They had heard everything from Fluttershy’s flower pen and they were not happy with what the unicorn had done. Shimmering Beauty’s henchponies, seeing that they were both outnumbered and outmatched, immediately raised their hooves in the air and surrendered. Inspector Fantastic had his umbrella ready as if he was going to give those criminals a good whacking.
Defeated, Shimmering Beauty slumped to the ground. She groaned and muttered, “Oh no…”
At the Cutie Mark Crusaders clubhouse, the three little fillies were writing another letter to Babs Seed. Only this time, it was good news that they were writing and they were feeling quite cheerful.
Taking the pencil, Apple Bloom wrote in the letter first with a smile on her face.
Dear Babs Seed,
You’ll be happy to hear that we finally found out why draconequuses were going savage. Turns out that they really weren’t reverting back to their primitive, savage ways. They were under the effect of some flowers called midne...mideecap...midda...Night howlers. The same kind of flowers that we use at Sweet Apple Acres.
And the mastermind behind it all was none other than the former mayor of Manehattan, Shimmering Beauty! Because of this, she and her cronies are behind bars today for their crimes against Equestria.
As Apple Bloom wrote that down, the scene shows a police car with reporters outside. Coming out of the car was Shimmering Beauty and all six of her henchponies, including Sniper, Walter, and Jeff, all wearing orange jumpsuits while Shimmering Beauty and Sniper wore anti-magic collars around their necks. Shimmering Beauty just looked angry as cameras were flashing at her. As he was walking, the blue earth pony noticed the camera in front of him. He waved a hoof at the camera and smiled.
The scene changes back to the clubhouse as Apple Bloom handed Scootaloo the pencil. Scootaloo began writing next in the letter.
Her predecessor, Flashhoof, denies any knowledge of her plot. He claimed that he was just trying to protect Equestria. Reports say that once he’s been released from prison, he’ll be reinstated back to being the mayor of Manehattan again. Of course...he has to spend some time in jail, since what he did was still illegal.
Then the scenes shows Flashhoof talking to a pony reporter in jail. “Did I falsely imprison those draconequuses against their will?” Flashhoof said, asking what the reporter asked him. “Well, yes. Yes, I did.” Then flashing one of his charming smiles at the reporter, he said, “It was a classic ‘doing the wrong thing for the right reason kind of a deal’. Know what I mean?”
Back with the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Sweetie Belle wrote next in the letter.
Thanks to some help from Granny Smith, doctors say that the night howler antidote has proven to be a great success in curing all those draconequuses affected by the night howler serum. Including Mr. Otterus!
The scene changes to the Ponyville hospital in a patient's room. Resting in the bed was Nelson Otterus, cured from being darted by night howlers and becoming savage, until he started to come to.
Opening his eyes, the otter draconequus came to his senses. Sitting right beside him was Mrs. Otterus and their children. Seeing her husband waking up, Mrs. Otterus smiled, happy that her husband was back.
“Nelson.” She said as she got out of her seat. “Oh! Nelson!” She then hugged him as the children watched, happy to have their dad back.
“Dad!” the son said as he joined his parents in the hug.
“Daddy!” said the daughter, joining as well.
The family continued hugging, finally glad to be back together again. As she hugged her husband, Mrs. Otterus turned her attention to Fluttershy and her friends.
“Thank you,” she said to them with a smile.
The pegasus and the others smiled as they watched, glad that the Otterus family was finally reunited.
Finally, the scene shows Ponyville as Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle were seen walking, heading to the post office to deliver their letter as Apple Bloom’s voice was heard.
Because we solved the mystery, things are now back the way they were in Ponyville and the rest of Equestria! Ponies and draconequuses are friends once again!
Turning their heads, the three fillies watched as ponies are apologizing to draconequuses for how they had treated them. They also saw a unicorn filly and a draconequus cub running and laughing as they were playing tag together.
As they arrived inside the Ponyville hospital, Scootaloo’s voice was heard next. They watched as Antic was seen unpacking her work supplies and helping a young earth pony colt that had a bruised leg. Using some medicine, she rubbed it on the colt’s leg and wrapped it up as the young colt smiled.
Also, at the Ponyville hospital, Discord’s sister, Antic, no longer has to work downstairs in the records by the boiler anymore. She’s now working back at the hospital, only she’s not working at a desk job. To make up for their mistreatment, the ponies at the hospital apologized and promoted her as a full-fledged doctor!
Finally, Sweetie Belle’s voice talking next as the unicorn and her friends left the hospital.
Singing Diva was right about one thing: Equestria is a unique place! Not only do we celebrate our differences, we also celebrate the magic of friendship!
Hope you’ll write back soon!
As they approached the post office, they put the envelope in the mailbox as all three of their voices were heard together.
Your friends,
The Cutie Mark Crusaders