//------------------------------// // Chapter Three // Story: Will You Stay with Me? // by CrimsonRose97 //------------------------------// The Marshal office was busy as usual, people were running through the halls as they scrambled to their cases. In the Equestrian Magic Task Force department, Marshal Sunset Shimmer had just finished with another case. She placed a long wooden wand inside of a case. Like the other artifacts, equestrian magic has enchanted what seemed like a stick that one can find on the ground. When in actuality, it can turn a simple thing into whatever the user thinks. "I'm not going to be drinking chocolate milk any time soon." Sunset sighed, closing the lid.  " Oh come on, it wasn't that bad!" Marshal Pinkie Pie was heard giggling from the other room. She came rolling in with her chair, drinking a pint of frosty chocolate milk with Cool Whip on top. "Please tell me that wasn't from the river?" Sunset asked, eyeing heavily at that glass. "Noo, I made it before you took the wand away from me." Pinkie giggled. "That was because you tried to throw a party and ended up turning everyone's desks into gingerbread village displays and the offices into Santa's Workshop." Sunset grunted, reminding Pinkie of  what happened just five minutes ago. And how she made Pinkie reverse the damage before taking it away from her partner. "Tis the season Sunny." Pinkie snorted. "Ooh, you won't be so jolly after you receive a bill from my hairdresser!" Rarity cried out from her desk, desperately trying to get the sticky gumdrops and lollipops out of her purple hair. Sunset chuckled. "Okay, RD and AJ are still on their honeymoon. Twilight and Fluttershy are still out in Dodge Junction on a case. Why don't you two girls head on home, I'll finish up." "Thank you, darling." Rarity said, gathering her things and finding something to cover a mess of her hair. "You're sure?" Pinkie asked as she downed the chocolate milk. "Yeah, you girls go on ahead. I'm just going to finish up the paperwork." Sunset said, grabbing the box off the desk and walked over to the evidence vault that was built in the office, punching the code and opening it. "Gnight!" Pinkie said as she bounced out. "Good night, Sunset Shimmer." Rarity said, heading out as well. Sunset waved the girls off before setting the wand up in the vault and closed the door. "Hey Spike, gimme an hour and we'll go on home." The ketchup and mustard haired Marshal turned to the dog who was in his doggy bed tucked up against a wall. The large dog got up and yawned, stretching his back. "Take your time." This world's Spike said, scratching the back of his ears with his back paw and shook his head. When Twilight was away, Spike stayed with Sunset. Sunset chuckled before something started vibrating at her desk. Curiously, the Marshal walked over to it. Opened the bottom drawer and the Equestrian book was glowing. "Hmm, is it from Starlight?" She smiled in thought of her before grabbing the book and opened it up to the new entry. Her face fell instantly. Dear Sunset Shimmer, Though it has been awhile since we talked, and I wish it was under different circumstances, but I request you and your friends' assistance. Hours ago, a fugitive by the name of Trixie Lulumoon had turned Spike into an egg and she is now somewhere in your world with him.  Please do whatever it is that you can to stop Trixie and bring Spike home. Your friend, Princess Twilight Sparkle. "Oh no, Spike..." Sunset whispered. "What's up?" Spike asked, prancing up to her. "Not you, the other you." Sunset said. Spike looked confused but realizing what she meant. "Oh, dragon me." Sunset rolled her eyes before saying, "Up for hunting down an equestrian fugitive?" Spike responded with an excited bark, jumping around three-sixty, his tail wagged in thought of a chase. "Let's go!" The thought of a hunting excited the purple and green dog. Sunset chuckled, reaching over and pets the dog's head. "Let's go save a dragon." She grabs her keys and she and the talking dog took off on the case. Scarlet dragged the wagon across town till she came to what was only explained as the bad part of Canterlot. Multiple rundown buildings surrounded by homeless and questionable people live there. The young girl kept her head down as she dragged it down the street to the place she calls home. For now at least. She pulled into an alleyway, up to a loosely boarded up window. Scarlet dropped the wagon handle before she got to working on removing them. Shifting and sliding the boards away to expose her way inside. Scarlet took off her batty bag and threw it inside. She walked over to grab the other bag and pulled. "Whoa!" She exclaimed. She pulled and the bag barely moved with the weight. Scarlet tugged and tugged. "Man, it's really heavy!" She tugged tugged, bracing the side of the wagon with her feet. She pulled and pulled till the bag tipped over the side. The momentum caused Scarlet to fell backwards on her but. The blue bag fell on her lap. "Owie." Scarlet moans.  It took a moment before the little girl was able to push the bag off of her. She got up and tried to pick it up, but realized that trying to lift it up was a waste of time. Scarlet hummed before thinking of another solution. She began rolling the bag. It was awkward looking but it was better than the ten year old picking it up. She rolled the bag to the window and pushes it in. The bag fell a good drop but landed softly on an old mattress. That acted both a landing pad and Scarlet's bed. Scarlet looked down, making sure she won't land on the bag before dropping down herself. "Phew, home sweet home." Scarlet sighed. She migrated to an outlet on the wall. In the dark room, there wasn't much light from the window, but her eyes had adjusted to the darkness just enough not to bump into the clutter that cascaded on the ground. Once she got to the outlet and plugged the cords in, strings of fairylights lit up around the room, fast food wrappings were on the ground with a single eye burner and a frying pan and a fork. The room was revealed to be the boiler room of some office building. The boiler wasn't on so the room was cold. "Lights on," Scarlet smirks before turning towards the stolen bag. "Now, let's see what you are." She said as she approached it. She got on the bed and crawled up to the bag. She examined the blue bag with yellow and purple stars all over it. Her head tilted curiously before she opened it. "Um… what?" Her red eyes widened when she saw the largest egg she ever lay her eyes on. "An egg?" She placed her hands on the shell, gasping softly on the pulsating heat coming off of it. She then taps it. What she wasn't expecting was the egg to echo her taps. "What the?" She taps again, and again the egg copies the taps from inside. She even did a rhythm tap with the egg finishing off the end.   "What are you?"