Fortus Vile was currently carrying some bricks for a pony in town. He was nearing his destination. "Here you go, this is the pile of bricks that you ordered." Fortus Vile said.
"That's great. These should help fix up some of the school walls that was damaged when Lord Tirek and that Marina came around." Miss Cheerilee said.
"I'm glad to lend a hoof." Fortus Vile said.
"Oh no, you've done plenty just getting these here. How's the...community service stuff going anyways?" Cheerilee said.
"It's doing fine, actually. Raiden's been organizing all the tasks I'm doing." Fortus Vile said.
Suddenly, Sparky showed up out of nowhere, and was in-between Fortus and Cheerilee.
"Fortus Vile; a colt with a record." Rex was behind the colt suddenly; though in pony form. "Honestly, I'm surprised a criminal like you wasn't given jail time."
"You leave him alone. He's suffered enough from his father." Cheerilee said.
"No. He isn't getting off scott free for his crimes." Rex said. Sparky then grapped Fortus and took him away. Rex followed suit.
However, without warning, Raiden saved Fortus from Sparky's grasp. "Get out of here." Raiden said.
"Got it!" Fortus said before running off.
"You're letting that criminal get away!" Rex said.
"That's a child Rex. You have to punish them differently. Fortus had a very abusive father who had a very twisted view on the world. So, I've sort of taken the boy under my wing. And he's not getting off scott free. I've had him been running some errands around town as a community service gig for the past few weeks." Raiden said. "The hard work will help him gain a better appreciation for the world around him, and teach him how wrong his father was. It's changing his destiny, Rex. Better to help him fix his destiny, then let this thing snowball."
"What? What do you mean?" Rex asked.
"If Fortus Vile isn't given a child's punishment like I have been doing, where he gains a better appreciation for the world at large sot that he'll realize that his father's outlook on the world was wrong, he'll devolop the same mindset as his father, and then the cycle will repeat with Fortus's own child down the line. Do you want that, Rex? Do you want a future child to undergo the same abuse Fortus has? Or did you even read Fortus's file all the way through?" Raiden asked.
"You don't stand a chance against my team." Rex said.
"Maybe. But I'd rather take a stand, then see you cross a line that you can't uncross." Raiden said.
Meanwhile, Lightning was with Twilgiht, Sunset, and Pinkie Pie up north near Yakistan. Though there was one other pony in the group.
"So, this is Cozy Glow?" Twilight asked.
"Yep. Hope you don't mind if she comes along. She's a bit of a...special case I'm working with." Lightning said. "Figured teaching her about delegation would be something she could find herself wanting to put her super intellect to good use in managing as a side bit."
"This is meant to be a side bit for her?" Sunset asked.
"Trust me, if she wanted to, she could handle managing delegation stuff, and still do some undercover stuff in order to corner a natorious crime boss in under a day." Lightning said. "So, yeah. Giving her some insight into the wider world at large in order to encourage her to treat delegation as a giant chessboard where one has to be careful what pieces to move when, will be a great side project."
"It's...something I figured I'd be interested in, the moment Lightning made it sound like this is a chess game where losing is defined by all the pieces turning on each other." Cozy Glow said. "...And that's how I prefer to play chess. Even the pieces I lose, I still treat as more than just pieces. Even the pawns. Every piece has its part to play. This delegation stuff is just much bigger pieces that need to be handled delicately. Otherwise, it's a powder keg waiting to explode. Lightning made it very clear that letting that powder keg explode would be a bad thing."
"Don't worry, I didn't get physical with the example." Lightning said. "...Just very methodical."
"...Remind me never to play chess with you." Pinkie Pie said to Lightning.
"You have no idea." Cozy Glow said. "He actually got me in a clever trap when he played me. A trap I didn't even see coming. And it was a rather quick win on his end. No one's ever beaten me before, let alone that fast."
"...Woof..." Was all Twilight said to that.
Thankfully, with Cozy Glow there, things were rather smooth; the pegasus really proving herself a great delegator without question.
Some time later, in Ponyville, the group was coming in.
"It's nice Cozy Glow has found something she can have as a side gig, but I think she needs some actual friends." Twilight said.
"Way ahead of you. I was planning on introducing her to the Cutie Mark Crusaders tomorrow. Sure, they may not be super intelligent like she is, but I think she'd appreciate the company." Lightning said.
"Well, it'd be boring if they were as intelligent as me. Besides, Lightning and Raiden are totally different mentally, and they are best friends. I'd like some best friends even if I'm totally different from them mentally." Cozy Glow said.
"It's not just a mental difference; Raiden's one of the strongest mons I know. He could rival the power of some legendaries." Lightning said.
"...Dang. that's some physical power." Cozy Glow said.
"I don't think there's many who can serously damage--" Lightning began but soon found Raiden face down in the ground; bruised all over. "Raiden?!" Lightning helped his best friend to his feet. "What happened to you? Who did this?"
"It...it was Sparky..." Raiden said. "I...I managed to get through Rex's five pure normal types...when he used a terra orb on his father."
"B-but that would mean...that Rex can use Sparky as a pure normal type if that means what I think it means..." Lightning said.
"It does..." Raiden said.
"Great. Just great. We already have trouble with his five other normal types. But from what I understand, Sparky is in a league of his own." Sunset said.
"That's an understatement." Raiden said. "Twilight...we need to tell everypony about this as soon as possible. If Rex pulls that out in an effort to upend the governments across the globe, you and your friends need to be ready to defend against it." He said.
"U-understood." Twilight said, and ran off with Sunset to grab everypony else. Pinkie Pie went her own way.
"Why did you and Rex even get into a fight?" Lightning said.
"Rex wanted to hurt Fortus Vile. And even though I got him to back off, despite the disadvantage I was at, he did admit that perhaps ther was some merit to the way I was handling Fortus Vile's punishment." Raiden said.
Meanwhile...
Rex was currently with Soarin while the former was in Pony form again while looking at a rather large file. "What...what am I looking at?" Rex asked.
"The hidden atrocities of the Horris family lineage. Seems that there's a precedent of a lot of female Mawile being born. Each one, has kept hidden a stash of bodies from the world at large. The only time a male was born into the family; which had managed to keep its atrocities hidden from the world at large to the point where they looked like saints so males that married into the family would often choose to have their last name replaced instead of it being the female's last name replaced; was of course Milissa's father, Victus Horris. He is currently the family's second known biological masculine heir to the name, with his daughter Milissa going back to being a female heir to the name." Soarin explained.
"...But there was one other male heir." Rex noted.
"Yeah. The brother to Marina the Merciless: Holden Horris." Soarin said.
"...So, Marina's real biological name is Marina Horris. I can see why the family chose to disown her of her biological name." Rex said. "...But this would mean, that if something isn't done, then even getting rid of Marina's possession over Milissa won't save her..."
"That's the way the wheel of fate turns sometimes." Soarin said.
"Leave. I have much to think about." Rex said. Soarin left. "...Changing a child's destiny...huh..." Rex said to himself as he looked at one of Milissa's drawings. "...Perhaps Raiden's way, isn't the only way. Better to nip destiny in the bud now, then let it snowball...right?" He asked no pony in particular. Rex was eyeing the one part of Milissa's drawing in particular: The one that had labeled what was obviously Flamer Jackson as "New Daddy".