//------------------------------// // The code // Story: The Adventures End? // by Dragon Shimmer //------------------------------// Coral Blade sighs as she is investigating a repeat kidnapping case. This case has spread through the Cancerlot to Manehattan. This seems like the criminals do not work in one place but in many cities. Up to now, there are twenty-five ponies that have been kidnapped, all of them are female and she still doesn't know which place to start investigating. Coral Blade looks at the map and doesn't know what to do but this is the guards and police responsible. Swift Blue comes inside and sees a tired captain putting her face on the table. "What's wrong, Captain?" Swift Blue stands in front of his captain and teases, "Somepony sleeps overnight?" "Not funny Swift Blue," Coral Blade complains while her face is still on the table. "I'm investigating a difficult case." "What case?" Swift Blue tilts his head, "And I am surprised that Captain Shining Armor gave you this case. We all know that you are not a good investigating pony." "And I know that," Coral Blade leans on the chair, "I tried to retort but Shining Armor gave me and others this case. And he joins the investigation. I should hire a detective." "And where did you get a detective? No detective in Ponyville you know?" Coral Blade sighs, "I know right?" Then she stands up, "I need to go to the town." Swift Blue nods and he steps aside to let his captain go out to relax her head. Sunset wakes up and sees that Spike is not there. She turns to Twilight, who is hugging her and wakes the purple unicorn up. The purple unicorn groans and slowly opens her eyes. The purple unicorn looks at the dragon and asks, "What's wrong, Sunny?" Sunset gets off the bed and starts stretching her body, "Where's Spike? He is not here." "Oh," Twilight gets up and jumps off the bed, "He has to go to Cancerlot to help Princess Celestia to royal work." "I see," After preparing herself, Sunset goes to the kitchen to cook dinner. Thirty minutes later, the orange dragon puts their breakfast on the table as Twilight goes to the kitchen with a yawning face. Having breakfast done, Sunset puts the dishes on the sink and goes to wash them but a knock on the door interrupts her. Twilight opens the door and sees Coral Blade. Coral Blade asks, "Is the orange dragon here? I need to meet her." Twilight turns inside and yells, "Sunny, you got a guest." "Coming," Sunset goes out and sees Coral Blade is staring at her. Sunset sighs, "What now? Coral. You want me to visit your station again." Coral Blade rubs her head, "Well, just ask you that you have investigated skill or not," "A little." Sunset tilts her head, "What for?" Coral explains, "Well, there is a repeating case that I am dying there, so I need somepony... or some dragon, in this case, help me to solve this." Twilight stares at the captain, "Wait, you mean the repeating kidnapping case that aims at the mare?" Coral nods, Twilight continues, "Hey Sunny, you have to help the captain to do this case," Sunset rubs her head, "But..." Sunset is trying to retort but she encounters Twilight's puppy face, makes her faceclaw, and grunts, "Fine, don't show that creepy face." Twilight jumps up in happiness as Sunset walks to Coral. "Lead the way, Captain. I don't want to stay with this creepy unicorn now." Twilight throws a book at the orange dragon but Sunset closes the door before the book can smack her. Coral nods and she walks with Sunset to the station. Sunset and Coral walk inside the station as everyone inside greets them. Swift Blue sees the dragon and just turns his head away. Coral leads the orange dragon to her personal room. Inside the room, there are many pictures of the mares and a map of Equestria. All of them are connected by the red strings. Sunset looks at the map and admires the way she is investigating this case, it is necessary to investigate a big case like this. "So, this is the case right? I see many cases in here." Then Sunset turns to Coral Blade, "Anyway, how long this case has started?" "Today is the 10th day of the case," Coral points at the Baltimare, "The case starts with Baltimare with three mares lost." Then she points at Filly Depthia, "Filly Depthia with three more mares," Then Coral puts her hoof down and walks to the chair to sit. She pulls out the paper, "Las Pegasus is the most serious place with seven mares lost. Appleloosa, five mares. Cloudale, five mares, and Cancerlot, three mares," Then she pulls out another paper and gives it to the dragon, "Here is the information of the lost mares. The families of the mares panic and they want to see their wives and mothers. Honestly, I am panicking myself because I don't know if they kidnap the mare in Ponyville or not." "Honestly, I don't know though," Sunset reads the information of the victims as she continues talking, "According to you, only Ponyville and Manehattan are still not being attacked." Coral nods, "I know. All of them are young mares, the age is between 30 to 40. I doubt that they are doing pony trafficking. "Your doubt is the good one," Sunset continues to read and tries to find out the same between the mares, "What I see here is they are kidnapped randomly and they are not related to each other. So, revenge is not possible." Sunset flips another page, "While pony trafficking and slavery are possible purposes." Coral drinks the coffee, "Only two of them." Sunset keeps flipping the paper and asks Coral, "So, anything in the case. Only kidnapping or something?" "Oh, right," Coral takes out a bag and shows that there are a lot of pieces of paper, each paper has a number." Each time a mare was kidnapped, a piece of paper appeared but Shining Armor ignored it and said that is the useless number." "Show me," Coral nods and she puts out the paper match with each case. After she does, the numbers are organized following the case. Following that, they have the number sequence is, 20 8 5 / 8 1 18 2 15 18 / 15 6 / 13 1 14 5 8 1 20 20 1 14 / 12 21 14 Sunset looks at it and found this is weird. Sunset asks the captain, "Why does each number have slashes between them?" Coral shakes her head as Sunset sighs, "Anyway, let's see what I can do," Sunset keeps flipping the paper. She sees the first victim named Air Binder, the second victim named Zanny Mane. Finding something weird, she flips to the victim and her name is Beat Drop, and the fourth victim is Yacht Sailer. Something not right here, she flips to the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh victim, all are the same rules. Sunset turns to Coral, who is looking at the map, and shouts at her, "I think I found the rules of these cases," Coral turns to Sunset, "What is it?" The orange dragon flips to the first victim to show Coral Blade, "You see, the first mare is Air Binder with letter 'A' on her name." Then she flips to the second victim, "then we got Zanny Mane with letter 'Z' on her name," Sunset stands up and walks to the board and write the alphabet on it, "If we follow this rule, we got the letter 'A' first, then letter 'Z'," Coral takes the information of missing mares and she finds that it fits the rule. Sunset starts rounding the letter, "Then letter 'B', 'Z' and so on. When Sunset rounds the 25th letter, it leaves the letter 'M', Sunset exclaims, "And the final victim is who has the letter 'M'. " Coral hugs the orange dragon, "Thank you. You save the mares," Sunset pulls her off, "Not yet, all I think is just a hypothesis, we don't know which place they will attack but this is all we got. Can you find a young mare that has a name with the letter 'M'?" Coral walks to the desk and pulls out the information of ponies in Ponyville and she starts to search. After a while, she finally found it. She talks to the orange dragon, "There is a mare named Miner Ore." "What kind of name is so weird? Why is it not Ore Miner?" Coral Blade rolls her eyes, "Ask her parents. You think you are the only one who finds that name weird. Everyone in the town sees that name as weird." Coral sighs, "But anyway, you have to wait until tomorrow because today is a storm day." "Storm?" Sunset looks outside the window and sees the storm is blowing, and turns to Coral, "The storm is the best moment to kidnap someone." Coral wants to retort but Sunset stops her, "To answer the further question, the storm is the moment that you can kidnap someone but no one is going to stop you. Because they are all inside the house, I know this is a risk but we have to go." "If you insist." Then the duo rushes out of the station, ignore the guards are trying to stop her Twilight is having fun with Applejack and Rarity. They have to stay inside the library due to the storm. Rarity looks out of the windows and sighs, hoping that the storm is over. Suddenly, she sees Sunset and Coral are running in the storm, ignoring the risk of the storm. Rarity yells at them, "Hey girls, come out there." Applejack and Twilight walk to Rarity and see Sunset is running in the storm, Twilight asks, "What is she doing there in the storm like this?" Applejack pats her back, "Ah' know ya' are worried about Sunny but ya' can ... accuse her later." Twilight sighs, "You right? I will ask her later when she comes back here." Coral leads the house of Miner Ore but the door has a paper stick on the door. It says, "I'm in the mine and working. Please come back later," Sunset and Coral look at each other as they nod. Sunset uses a shield to prevent the wind and lifts Coral by her claws, then she flies up. Coral Blade is shocked for a while, but she takes a deep breath and starts leading Sunset to the mine. Inside the mine nearby, there is a red mare with a blue mane mining some ores. When she is finished, she goes out of the mine but three stallions are standing her way, make the mare step back and yell, "What do you want?" The stallions run to control her, making her struggle to free. The other stallion takes a towel and puts it on her nose, makes the mare slowly close her eyes and then she sleeps. The stallions laugh as they are just hunting the last prey. "Hah, mare is easy to kidnap." The stallion grabs the fainted mare and goes out of the mine, "With this storm, no one can stop us" "Are you sure about that," The voice comes from in front of the stallion, making them turn to the voice. They see a dragon and a pony with armor. They laugh at them, "Look like we have an extra mare. A dragon, we already have the collar, can resist the fire." They put the mare down and the two stallions surround the dragon while the other one stands in front of Coral Blade. They take the blade out with their horn while Coral Blade takes her long wooden pole by her front hoof. The stallions rush at Sunset as Sunset just stands there without changing the stance. One of the stallions teleports behind the dragon and tries to slash her but Sunset catches the blade without a problem. The second stallion tries to slashes at her but he gets kicked into her chin, then Sunset breaks the blade of the first pony. The stallion glares at her and tries to blast her with magic but Sunset teleports in front of the unicorn, making him surprised. She rounds the stallion's and slams him to the top of the group, making him cough some blood. Then she drops him and kicks the stallion, causing him to slam to the ground. He coughs more blood and can't stand up anymore. The second stallion steps away from the dragon then he tries to run away but Sunset teleports in front of him and slams him into the walls. "You're confident about your fire resistance right? I will show you," Then her claw is on the blue fire, the collar inhales some fire but soon it cracked then broken, making the stallion more afraid to the orange dragon "Please, let me go." The stallion begs, " I promise that I won't kidnap anyone anymore." "Say that to 25 mares who you three have kidnapped." Then Sunset electrocutes him. The stallion is fainted due to the electric Coral blocks the slash of the stallion, then she plugs the pole on the ground then rolls herself, making the back hoof kick into his chin. The unicorn glares at her while Coral stands on two back hoofs with the help of the pole. Coral kicks it into the unicorn. The stallion smirks and teleports behind her but he receives a buck from her, making him grunt. Coral jumps up and body slam at the stallion, the slam is strong enough to make the ground have a hole. The stallion coughs some blood and faints "Wow, I'm impressed." Sunset claps, "You are really a captain." "Thanks," Coral blushes, "I have to climb into this position by myself. You know the military is always looking for the unicorn, an earth pony like me has to step by myself." "This is a thing I want to see." A voice comes from behind me, revealing a black coat pony. The pony says in feminine voices, "I hope those cunts can go to jail." "Just who are you? Their allies?" Coral asks the mare. The pony waves her hoof and gives Coral a piece of paper that has the number '1' in there, "I heard that you collect all of the pieces of the paper. I'm impressed.," Then the pony goes out of the mine. "Help me to destroy those pony trafficking." Coral demands, "Just tell me who are you? You can't give me a paper like that," The mare glances back to the captain and smiles, "A mailmare who gives you codes to see the base of the line of the pony trafficking. Good luck," Then the mare continues to walk and disappears in the storm, leaving the duo confused. Now the code has the extra number '1', and they have to decode it. The code now is, " 20 8 5 / 8 1 18 2 15 18 / 15 6 / 13 1 14 5 8 1 20 20 1 14 / 12 21 14 1 "