Waters: An Equestrian Gangster

by King Genesis


Are you sure you are Swift Arrow?


Celestia's Office

The office doesn't even have its lights on, something really strange for a woman like Celestia. She likes everything in her place to be under the light, shiny, but now she feels so disgusted she doesn't even want to turn the lights on. She's under the weather while hearing Mayor Mare's voice from the other side and sighs, reading in her mind the words of the principal of Everton School on the phone. "Yes, Mayor Mare," she responds. "Thank you for doing this for me. I was confused with my sister and decided to look it up..." a moment of silence. "No, please, let me take charge of this situation... I'd do this right now..." another moment of silence where the Principal approaches her door while turning the lights on. "Please... yes." She smiles while slowly opening the door. "Yes, yes... I strongly appreciate it, Ms Mare... yes... and say hi to all of the staff for me, could you?" she chuckles. "Yes, I'll do it here too, of course... goodbye."

Celestia ends the call and instantly facepalms, clenching the other fist. "When is this going to end... gosh..." she whispers to herself before opening the door, at the same time her sister enters the school along with the mysterious Swift Arrow. He seems to be confused and disoriented, looking at the school's ceiling with shrank eyes. Celestia can't take her eyes off him, feeling blue and, at the same time, tired of this. Her sister Luna looks at her and recognizes that sight, so she begins to walk faster and slowly nudges Swift Arrow's arm. However, when the older sister raises a hand, both of them stop walking. She approaches Luna and looks at the fake kid for a second, forcibly smiling. "Um... Mr Arrow?"

Swift Arrow blinks and fills his chest with air, getting firm. "Yes, miss?"

Celestia looks at a blue chair next to the office's entrance door. "Would you like to have a seat and wait a minute there? I need to solve an issue with my sister before we get into our conversation."

"Yes, of course..." responds the kid and goes to the chair. "I'll wait here."

"Excellent." Celestia smiles. "Just in case something happens and we cannot answer, Preceptor Shining Armor is in the hall. You can ask him anything you need." Both sisters start walking into the office. "We'll go back to our chat in five minutes or less."

"Sure, sure." Swift Arrow didn't even finish his sentence when the door was closed. The fake man crosses his arms, sits on a chair, and looks around. He finds out there is a tall, pale man with dark blue hair looking at him, laying against a wall in the middle of the hall. Is that guy Shining Armor? He also crosses his arms and deviates his sight a second after Swift Arrow looks at him. The fake kid, then, slowly makes a move on his chair and scratches his sweaty neck. His hands are trembling. His whole body feels like an earthquake... he thought this would be easier but things are getting much weirder over time, he thinks. Those strange looks both sisters had between each other... he mistook the Senior transcript with the Junior one also... it's a minor mistake but... no. No. Things are weird and may get worse... he stretches his arms, calling the mystery man's attention again, this time approaching him. Both men look at each other for a couple of seconds until something blocks their sights: Vice-Principal Luna gets out of the office, and this time all of the lights from inside are on. She looks at the blue-haired preceptor for a second and winks an eye, leading him to nod his head. Swift Arrow slowly stands up and Luna looks at him: "Wait a minute, Shining Armor... You can get into the Office... Mr Swift Arrow." She makes a small but fake smile while letting him in... and he takes another look at the preceptor standing in the hall and finds out he is once more laying back against the wall, straight looking at him with judging eyes. He feels a bit intimidated because of this but once he enters the Office he calms down... for a second.

Luna enters after him and closes the door, while Celestia is sitting on her chair with his transcript on the desk and a turned-on computer which makes Swift Arrow tremble. What is she doing with that computer? "Sit down, please," says Celestia, and Swift Arrow sits on a chair in front of the lady. Her perfume blinds him while trying to fight with his sweaty head, which is getting much and much hotter because of the wig. He turns his head back for a second and finds out Luna is right behind him, without saying anything. They are trying to intimidate him, aren't they?

"Um..." Swift Arrow stutters and then looks at the Principal. "Is everything OK?"

Celestia crosses his hands and puts them over the transcript. "Yes," she says, in a serious tone. "I just want to clarify some things before."

"Hm-hmm..." Swift Arrow only makes a small sound with his mouth, not even opening it. He slowly nods his head while Luna gets out of his back, approaching her sister.

"Firstly, I want to say we, as an institution and the main, official authority of it, are on the verge of an... administration issue which involves several things that are not necessary to be explained... so what we don't need now is much more mystery and confusion."

Swift Arrow, despite his confusion and shock, holds his air and keeps his body firm and well-shaped, looking at both women. "Um..." he swallows saliva. "I understand and I'm sorry for that but... you mean I am... mystery and confusion because I arrived late? Um... sorry. I'm deeply sorry because of that."

Swift Arrow finishes his sentence, and Celestia slowly moves his head to the computer. "No. It's not because of that." She intimidates the kid with her eyes again. "There is something in the transcript you gave us that... we don't understand."

The fake kid raises his eyebrows, surprised and concerned while clenching his fists. He doesn't want to let the bag go. "Um... yes? Which thing?"

"No, um... it's not something specific that did call our attention, Mr Arrow," says Celestia, while the situation is getting much tenser. "It's the paper itself."

The kid squints his eyes and clenches his fists much harder. "What... do you mean?"

"Well..." Celestia puts a hand over her chin while analysing the transcript with the other one. "I began to doubt when you told us so many city names... you tried to apply for a Baltimare course but they rejected you, so you came here to Canterlot while trying to look for a job in Manehattan... you also mentioned you had a house here."

"Wait," interrupts Swift Arrow, shocked. "I did mention I have a house?"

Both sisters look at each other. "You did," replies Luna. "You don't live in Canterlot?"

"Uh..." Swift Arrow bites a lip. "Well, I moved from Manehattan a year ago and I'm... yes, I'm currently living here."

Luna raises her eyebrows. "OK..."

"But..." Arrow speaks again. "Yes, I know this city thing is a bit confusing but well, I decided to ask in the Baltimare school at first because an older relative recommended it to me."

Once he finishes speaking, Celestia nods her head while her sister puts her hands over the desk. "And you showed these transcripts to the school principals?" asks Celestia.

Swift Arrow stays frozen for a second, feeling fear inside his stomach, but decides to nod his head. "Yes, I did."

Celestia slowly nods her head while biting her lip. She grabs the transcript and looks at it again. "When you gave me this transcript... I don't know why, but I felt there was something..." she pauses for a second. "strange on it..."

Swift Arrow raises his eyebrow while biting his tongue. "Strange?"

"Yes..." she nods her head. "There's something me and my sister just... didn't understand, so I decided to have another voice next to us to solve this problem..."

Swift Arrow squints his eyes while Celestia is slowly grabbing a landline phone on his desk. "Uh... who?"

Both sisters look at him while Arrow looks at Celestia's hand over the phone. "I called the woman who, supposedly, was your Principal all this time."

And at that moment, the fake kid's pupils completely shrank. His back feels like cold ice, and he feels his lungs stop working for a second until he opens his mouth and widens his eyes. "What?"

"I called Mayor Mare to ask her if she knew about someone called Swift Arrow in her school," Celestia is about to grab the phone while Luna crosses her arms. "Surprisingly, the principal told me there has never been a student named like that on her system."

"No, wait..." Swift Arrow raises a hand. "That's... that's, uh... um... impossible." He begins to calm down. "That can't happen. There must be a mistake..."

"I also said the same," Celestia replies while making a small grin with her mouth. "... but Mayor Mare and the staff reupdated the student registration system this year, which has all of the students in Everton's history listed on it, and looked for your name three times. She couldn't find anyone named like you, Mr Arrow." The kid wants to say something, but he feels his whole mind going blank. "I decided to talk to you here so we can have a serious chat about this, with no one interrupting us. My sister and I want you to tell us why are you here... and I'm afraid that if you don't answer our questions, we'll call the police to solv--."

"Wait..." Luna interrupts her sister and takes a look at the transcript again. "Wait a moment. The sign. Mayor Mare's sign is there... did he fake the sign?"

Celestia pauses for a moment while Swift Arrow is absolutely blank. She looks at the transcript and finds out something she didn't focus on. The sign... "This is Mayor Mare's sign. A perfect copy of it... That's..."

"No..." says Swift Arrow, shaking his head. "No. This is impossible... There must be a mistake! I swear I was in that system. Last time I checked that system my name was there!"

"No. You can't check that system," suddenly interrupts Luna, angrily pointing at him with a finger. "Only the Principal and authorized staff from Everton have access to that system... and besides, you said there was a number limit for Everton's college courses when there is no one."

Swift Arrow's jaw starts trembling. "Wait... what... there..." he whispers. "There isn't?"

"No," replies Celestia. "There are no limits for students to enrol in these courses from Everton..." she blinks. "Are you sure you enrolled in the correct course?" The kid wants to keep talking, but he doesn't know what to say. He has already screwed it up... the limits, the system, the fake transcript... everything is about to fall... or maybe has already fallen. "We're being polite and kind enough to let you talk right now... We want to know who are you and why are you here... if you don't answer, I'll call the poli--"

"I confess." Swift Arrow suddenly raises a hand, without looking at both women in her eyes. He touches the wig but suddenly lets it go. He looks at both sisters, trying to come up with something related to what he's thinking. He swallows saliva one more time while thinking about his partners. Jack is waiting for him... and the lunch he bet for is also doing the same... and what about the Magnus Street house? Will that be true? "I'm... uh, I'm a private investigator."

Now all of them are confused, even the one who said it. "Excuse me?" Celestia raises her eyebrows.

"Private investigator?" also says Luna.

"Yes, um... uh..." he facepalms, putting the bag he's holding on the desk. "I... I don't know where to start." He looks at both sisters, trying not to blink. "My real name is Swift Arrow, yes... but... you... you're right... I wasn't at Everton... I'm actually, uhh... a private investigator who works for the Canterlot Police Department."

Celestia squints her eyes, bizarrely surprised. "A private investigator who uses his real name for a fake identity?"

"Well..." Swift Arrow makes a small smile. "This is... well, was, until I screwed it up like the fool I am, a secret investigation we were working for..." he nods his head. "With my partners from the CPD."

"A secret investigation?" interrupts Luna. "On our school? Made by the police?"

"Uh-huh... like you said it. It's a secret thing we are doing."

Celestia opens her mouth: "By letting fake identities enter our establishment two days prior to the beginning of the school year without letting us know?"

Swift Arrow clenches his teeth. He got literally roasted on that. "Well... it was not the best plan, you know... it is hard to understand."

"I agree," harshly replies the Principal. "I don't understand this... I'm afraid I'll call your partners so they can clarify this situation for m--"

"No!" suddenly shouts Swift Arrow, raising his hand, about to touch her phone. "No... no. You put me in this chair, in this office so we could have a serious chat about this... I swear I will answer all of your questions if we talk together, without calling anyone. If my boss Gallantry finds out I screwed it up... he will kick my ass, please."

Both sisters get surprised and feel a strange relief when the kid says the CPD's commissioner's true name. "Well... we were trying to have a serious chat with you when you were playing a fake kid," says Luna. "You will answer all of our questions, CPD worker, without even showing us a police ID?"

Swift Arrow's back freezes one more time. What can he do to justify that? "Um... I never carry my ID... but..." he looks at the right. "There's a partner who does it for me... he's uh..." He's going to do it. "Um..." He's going to do this! "He's waiting for me outside."

Celestia's pupils shrank. "You mean..."

"He's an old man... he's basically my teacher, a veteran cop... his name is..." Swift Arrow squints his eyes. "Tied Shoe."

"And can we talk with your teacher now about this?"

Swift Arrow is silent for a second until he raises a hand again: "Wait, wait... firstly, I want to do what I promised. I will answer all of your questions."

"Why are you investigating the school without our consent, then?" Both sisters ask the same question and scare Arrow for a second until he puts his fists on the table and takes a long breath.

"Well... I think..." he stutters. "I think we are on this table, trying to fight against the same... administration issue, as you called it before on this chat."

Swift Arrow doesn't say anything until Celestia grabs the phone: "Explain further," orders the Principal.

The bomb is about to be released. Swift Arrow makes a small grin with his mouth: "Cattle Prod..." both sisters widen their eyes and feel goosebumps. "Right? Is that your administration issue?"

Surprisingly, Celestia leaves the phone and starts chuckling. Luna does too, a second later. "Now? You magically appear now after all of our calls?" The principal stops smiling. "We've been calling the police for years and the only answer we got from them was Commissioner Gallantry telling us that Cattle Prod was just a normal kid with troubles at his home, and he even said he wasn't guilty of committing such acts..."

"Looks like somebody forgot the fact that this is a school," adds Luna. "One of the most important learning establishments of the country... not the house of a kid who can do whatever he wants. It's completely unfair and we tried to stop him uncountable times, but people from outside this place do everything to keep him here."

Swift Arrow nods his head, listening to everything she's saying. "Hmmm... I apologize in the name of my partners, especially my boss Gallantry, for taking so long... but it's because we were following the rules of our secret investigation about this kid named Cattle Prod... and now we know that it looks like... he has suspicious contacts."

Celestia and Luna suddenly don't feel so tense anymore. "I agree," Luna nods his head and keeps talking. "Sadly, we came across some of them."

Swift Arrow's eyebrows raise while he feels goosebumps all over his body. He's crossing limits, asking things that only the sisters may know. "You did?"

"Yes," replies Luna. "I could say yes because we only talked to them by phone. We don't know any of their faces. Besides, unknown people often send us threatening letters inside envelopes which are usually left in the school."

The fake man is left open-mouthed, in shock. Looks like Cattle Prod is more than just a spoiled kid. "Um... OK, that is something we didn't know about..." he feels surprised. "That's a huge update in the case," replies Swift Arrow. "May I know, in the name of my department, what do these letters say?"

Out of nowhere, Celestia fastly approaches the fake kid with a furious sight, making him lean back in his seat. She stands up and puts his hands over the bag of fake transcripts. "It's what I already told your commissioner and didn't even listen to. Death threats," replies Celestia, angrily. "Not only warning us with our own deaths, but with the murders of several students of this school... we have already received pictures of our own students walking on the streets, stuck to small papers with information about them... names, the names of their parents, address, ID. Every time we expelled this boy and his group of friends, an envelope appeared the next day on the football pitch, with photos of children with futures, passion for learning and love for life, telling us that if we don't reintegrate him into school again, those pictures would be stained with student's blood." Both Luna and Swift Arrow are now frozen in fear after this big woman's rant. A serious, charming and delightful principal shows his anger about this. He sits back on her chair and sighs, not deviating her sight from Swift Arrow. "Is that a huge update for you, Mr Arrow?"

Nobody says anything after the monologue. Luna only lays against the wall, looking at a fixed point. "Tia..." stutters Luna.

Celestia clears her throat. "I'm deeply sorry. I know I sounded too rude, but I had that message in my throat for a long time, Mr Arrow. Anything that involves my own students in this gruesome way really makes me lose my temper."

Swift Arrow rubs his wig and shakes his head. "Uh... it's OK. I... um... I didn't expect this kind of information at all. This is... completely shocking and disturbing." He takes a look to the right and finds out Luna is holding an opened envelope which she is now reading. The Vice-Principal reads the letter with pure confusion and anger, despite not showing it on the outside.

Written on a typewriter, it seems.

***
TO MY BEAUTIFUL STRAWBERRY PASTRIES CELESTIA AND LUNA

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO

DON'T MAKE ME WRITE AGAIN OR ELSE YOU WILL HAVE ONE OF YOUR STUDENTS WITH ITS TONGUE COMING OUT OF ITS THROAT HANGING OUT AT YOUR DOOR

HERE YOU HAVE THE NEW COMPETITOR FOR THE LOTTERY

RAINBOW DASH

BOW HOTHOOF; WINDY WHISTLES

84 GALLOP STREET

YOU CAN EVADE A HAPPY FAMILY SLAUGHTER IF YOU LET HIM BE

- 💧.

***

"Can I, as a cop, take a look at the envelope?" asks Swift Arrow, which deviates Celestia's sight to her sister. Luna almost takes this as an offence but tries to swallow the anger she had while reading the letter. She looks at the fake kid with angry eyes.

"No. It has information about one of our students. I'm afraid we cannot share it."

"Well, wait... I'm trying to help, along with my partners, in this... I won't share any informat---"

"I can't give all of my confidence to a man who literally faked the sign of a prestigious school's main authority," interrupts Celestia. "Or did your teacher Tied Shoe fake it for you?"

Swift Arrow swallows his words and takes a breath. "A forger from the cops did it for us. I deeply regret that... I also confess I never shared any of these transcripts with authorities from Baltimare nor any other school principals or anything. You are the only ones outside the department who saw this."

Celestia and Luna look at each other again... "I still don't understand if you're trying to help," says Luna. "Do you know the same things we know about Cattle Prod? Do you really think there is a way to bring him down... and you want to do it?"

Swift Arrow maintains a serious gesture. He's about to release his inner speaker. "My boss, my partners and also my teacher Tied Shoe and me know a lot of things about this spoiled, stupid kid and we have been waiting for this moment. Despite the original, pathetic plan ending up horribly wrong... this plan B we are creating right now, out of nowhere, can help both of us... me and my partners, and also you." Swift Arrow, with new air in his lungs, stands up. "I came here, along with my partner Tied Shoe, to act like a newbie student from the outside," he starts walking around the office. "However, on the inside, I'm a spy. I'm an intruder... a subject in black, whose main objective is to recollect all of the possible information about Cattle Prod and his contacts. Get to talk to him, the faster and nearer possible. Learn his acts, his manners, his behaviour... and bring him down, once and for all." He stops speaking, raising a finger and standing next to a wall which has a framed picture hanging on it: It is a big group of people, smiling and looking at the camera. He can easily identify, in a matter of seconds, a young Celestia because of her attractive purple hair. Then he reads a small sentence at the bottom of the picture: "CANTER ZOOM'S ACTING CLASSES. YEAR 1997" The classes. The Acting Classes. That means--

"I would like to speak with your partner, Tied Shoe," interrupts Celestia, bringing Swift Arrow back to reality. "Immediately."

Swift Arrow feels a cold drop of sweat slowly falling from his fake wig. "Um... he dropped me here and left for a couple of minutes... uh..."

"Wasn't he outside waiting for you?" asks Luna.

Swift Arrow nods and leaves the wall. "Yes, but... well... he told me he was going to--"

"Call him," says Celestia, speaking like a rock being thrown at his face. "If you have a phone. If not, tell me his phone number."

"No, no," he says. "I have a phone. I have his number."

"OK," says Celestia, with another fake smile. "Call him." W feels scared of her attitude.


Jack's Car

From: Me
To: Eye Patch, Abe

Looks like W's been planning with Snowblind to get Dream Raider out of jail behind our backs. Answer me once you finish so we can stop him... tell us later about the reunion Patch. - J

He can't believe W is actually doing this behind his back... he, along with Abe and Eye Patch, literally took care of him when his parents weren't there. The three gangsters were, in a way, his parents. Adoptive parents in the gruesome world of the mob. They taught him how to speak, negotiate and behave like a mobster, the only thing they knew how to do... they gave him a home, food, a life out of the horrible destiny of a lonely child in a dirty orphanage... what could have happened if Bloodswan and his family took him out of there and used him as what they call a teddy bear... a cheap dealer and defenceless hitman? How long could have he lived? They literally saved him from being that, and he stabs them on his back with this. No. No. He told him not to mess with that... Dream Raider committed a mistake and now he's paying it in the prison. He's paying his lack of respect to the boss in PRISON. "Stupid kid," he says to himself. "Stupid, stupid kid..."

INCOMING CALL

W

Jack is surprised at seeing this. W? Calling from inside the school? What's going on?

He answers. "We have to talk later, once you come back. What's going on?" Nobody answers back and Jack feels paranoid for a second until a strangely appealing but angelical voice starts talking.

"Principal Celestia talking, Mr Tied Shoe."

Jack instantly gasps and touches his chest with his other hand. His heart starts beating faster. What the fuck has just happened? What the hell is happening? "W... What? Where's my part--"

"Hey, T. Tied Shoe, listen..." A familiar voice speaks. Sounds like a young boy. "It's me, Swift Arrow... I screwed it up... the original plan, man, I'm deeply sorry... please, don't tell Commissioner Gallantry about this, please..."

Jack tries to calm himself down when he opens his car's sun visor. "Uh... um..." He starts looking for a card in the middle of a pile of small papers he gets out from the visor. Suddenly, he finds a small police ID with a young Jack's face on it.

"CANTERLOT POLICE DEPARTMENT - BADGE no. 687

SARGEANT TIED SHOE"

Lucky son of a bitch. He remembered it. That stupid fake name he no longer uses. He still doesn't understand what the hell has just happened there but he won't be taken by his own confusion and anger. He takes a long breath and closes his eyes: "What... what happened? May I know what's going on? Is he OK?"

"He has confessed he works along with you and other partners from the Canterlot Police Department on a secret investigation about our problem with Cattle Prod, mister," replies Celestia. Jack is feeling nervous when hearing her voice, but he's trying his best. "May I know why were you doing this... part of a plan, without letting us know and after all of the phone calls we left to your commissioner asking for help?"

Jack stays in silence for a second and deeply thinks about what he's going to say. "We're sorry, Miss Celestia. We intended to do this without involving innocent people. I recognize the idea I made along with Subcommissioner Blunt Weapon of infiltrating Swift Arrow into the school was fastly planned and not fully checked... but we didn't have much time to begin with what was our main project..."

"Can I talk to him about what you told me about the envelopes?" is heard far from the phone. It's W's voice... and he knows something that he doesn't know. "It's something he needs to know."

"Not now," replies Luna, also on the phone. Jack, confused and still with his other hand in his chest, feeling his heart like a machine gun, recognizes that voice.

"What is that envelope thing? Is something important for the investigation?"

"It is," replies Celestia. "However, I wanted to talk to you because your younger partner explained the whole original plan you had in mind and told us that his plan B, which is letting us in your secret investigation to know the truth about Cattle Prod, could be helpful for both the Police Department and the School itself."

Jack begins to think clearly without letting himself go off his nerves. "Well, in my opinion... if we are looking for the same objective, we should work together to reach for it..." He takes a long breath. "We should let my partner stay in that place as a fake student so he can provide information about this man to both of us." There is a really uncomfortable silence between both. "And of course... keep it silent. Only you and... the Vice-Principal, isn't it? should know about this secret investigation. It's more than enough."

Nobody replies To Jack's words and he feels his heart beating faster. Celestia speaks again: "Could you tell me who you are, Mr Tied Shoe?"

Jack blinks twice and feels his heart stopped beating. Is she talking to Tied Shoe?... or is she talking to someone else? To the real him?... He calms down, reading the fake ID he has on his hands that W luckily remembered: "Canterlot Police Department. Sargeant Tied Shoe. Police Badge No. 687. You want more information?"

"How curious... Your voice reminds me of someone I haven't seen for a long time."

Now Jack's skin gets completely pale while feeling his heart exploding into pieces. Swift Arrow, the fake W, on the other side, gasps while looking at Celestia. He finds out she's looking at the same picture he observed minutes ago. The one from the acting classes. "Hmmm, well... that would be just coincidences, Ms Celestia," replies Jack, talking as Tied Shoe, "because I've never talked to you until now."

"Hm," she makes a small sound. "Maybe it was just a coincidence, you may be right..." She looks at Luna, who slowly nods his head while biting his lips. "I'm looking at my sister right now. We will only grant our full consent to participating in this project if you want to call it like that, if you promise we will have a chat with Commissioner Gallantry about this and if you let me and my sister take charge of your... spy while being on this establishment." Celestia looks at Swift Arrow one more time, with an intimidating sight, which makes him lean back on his seat one more time.

Seconds of silence where Jack thinks about what has Celestia said. He mentally processes it twice and says the first thing that comes into his mind. "Done."

Celestia raises an eyebrow. "Is that a yes?" Swift Arrow widens his eyes.

"That's a yes, Miss Celestia," replies Jack. "I'll now arrange a meeting with Commissioner Gallantry as soon as possible."

"Before Monday."

"Before Monday..." Jack sighs for a moment. He feels his whole body trembling.

"Excellent. We will be looking forward to the reunion, then, where I'll explain to Gallantry the envelope problem he didn't want to hear about. I wish you a nice day, Mr Tied Shoe."

"Wish you a nice day too. Goodbye." Jack fastly ends the call and throws his phone into the passenger seat, putting his head against the wheel. He starts breathing heavily for a couple of seconds until he calms down.


Swift Arrow is now paler than a sheet of paper, looking at both sisters in pure confusion. He feels scared of them now, and Celestia only gives him the phone and stands up. Luna snorts while crossing her arms. "You've got what you were looking for, Mr Arrow," tells the Principal to the kid. "Welcome to Canterlot High."

"Now?" asks Swift Arrow, turning his head around, and looking at Celestia. "I will have to... now?"

"The College Course begins on Monday 30th," she replies to the now new student of Canterlot High. "Remember we are only letting you and your partners play this game on our school because we both want to end with the chaos and fear caused by Cattle Prod and his mysterious contacts. I don't want my students to be in danger one more time. We're doing this not for my sister and me, but for all of them."

Swift Arrow nods his head."Of course... I also don't want them to be in danger, miss Celestia. We also want to end with this Cattle Prod thing."

"I still think your help has arrived a little bit too late," interrupts Luna, "but, what can I say... you and your partners literally tried to do it on your own without even telling us."

"Until I screwed it up." Swift Arrow grabs his head and sighs while Celestia grabs the door handle.

"Do you know this school has dorms, don't you?" asks Celestia, turning around.

Swift Arrow slowly nods his head. "Yes, I know."

"We'll get you in a dorm, then... We will let you do what your original plan was meant to be. A fake student, a spy... but every night, between 10 and 11 PM, I want you in my office to tell us everything you've observed. Is that OK?"

Swift Arrow stands up and takes a long breath. "Yes... can I say something else?"

"Yes?" asks Luna.

"I just wanna say... I've met several guys over the past few years... but none of them manages to be scarier than you two."

Luna chuckles while Celestia makes a small smile which tries to hide. "That's why we are the principals of this school." She, after a long time, opens the office's door and finds out Shining Armor is still standing there, but this time talking to Rainbow Dash. Neither of them is happy while talking. Something has happened... maybe Cattle Prod. Once Celestia opens the door, the preceptor looks at her, surprised, and Rainbow does naturally the same. "Rainbow Dash?"

She raises an eyebrow. "Um... yes, I wanted to talk to you, Principal Celestia, about Cattle Prod..."

Celestia bites her lips while hearing that name. She sighs one more time. "I know what are you going to say. Shining Armor has already told me and we will take charge of that."

"Are you sure about that, Miss Celestia?"

"More than sure, Dash," she replies while calling Swift Arrow with her hand. He immediately stands up from his seat and gets out of the office. "I want you to do something to clear your mind for a second." Swift Arrow looks at the girl and gets surprised by her bizarre rainbow-coloured hair. "He is Swift Arrow. He's your new partner on the College Course... may you show him the dorms and the main classrooms to help him to get introduced to the school system?"

Shining Armor's eyebrows raise in shock. He wasn't expecting that at all... when Luna winked an eye at him, he thought they were going to cut loose ends... what is going on? On the other side, Rainbow Dash only swallows saliva while crossing her arms, but a second later he shows a smile to the new kid in town. "Sure," she replies. "Come on... I'll show you the dorms."