//------------------------------// // Unloved // Story: A Sky Too Big // by TripleStripes //------------------------------// After dropping her stuff off back at her house, Fluttershy flew over to the town police office. She was well acquainted with Chief Golden Justice, and Officer Copper Badge. After one of her animals escaped, they helped her investigate where he'd run off to. She opened the double doors into the busy office. Phones rang, hooves clicked, and mugs were sipped. Fluttershy timidly crawled through the mess of mares and colts, making her way to the Chief's office without causing trouble. She opened the door, and was greeted with a booming voice that scared her straight. "DAMMIT, BRONZE, I TOLD YOU I'D GET TO IT!!" Barked Golden, soon after realizing it was not his coworker, but his old pink-maned friend he remembered from a while back. "Oh dear," he whispered, "Please forgive me, I though you were somepony else," "Oh, er... yes. So, um, hello," the yellow mare whimpered,"Chief, one of my friends has gone m-missing," this got his attention. Her Majesty Celestia had informed him long ago that, as the highest authority figure in Ponyville, he had to have the keepers of the Elements of Harmony protected in times of disaster. Things have been calm since they had returned from the Crystal Empire a few weeks ago, so how has one of them gone missing? "What? We need to file a Missing Ponies Report immediately! We'll ask ponies around the area and then surrounding villages. I'll have a team of my best pegasi search the skies, and have some unicorns see if they can track her," "Really?" said Fluttershy, her hopes rising high, "You'll do all that just so you can find her?" "Of course, dear," said Golden, trying to comfort the flustered mare,"Now, which friend did you say it was again?" "Derpy Hooves, sir," the Chief almost spat out his coffee at her saying this. "Derpy? That retarded little thing?" Golden Justice was laughing now, "Who cares if she's missing! She's such a pain and the ass 24-7! Screwin' up mail deliveries, crashin' into houses... Hell, we're still patching up a hole she caused not even a week ago! And if she is gone, she's probably just being a freaky little weirdo again. We have her on about 4 counts of trespassing and 9 on suspected stalking! She's wormed her way into the Royal Wedding, pony's private properties, even on trains without a pass! We don't know how she does it, but the only place that thing belongs is the Everfree Forest," Fluttershy stumbles back at what she just heard. Did she just hear that? No, nopony in all of Equestria was that mean, but then why did he just say all that nasty stuff about her best friend? Does everypony feel this way about Derpy? Obviously not, right? She'd just go ask her friends... they'll know what to do.