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// Du, Du Hast, Du Hast Mich. 
// Story: An Introduction To Madness 
// by Mynameistank 
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As Thomas awoke he found a red set of headphones on his head while a French song played “Non, rien de rien. Non, je ne regrette rien. Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait. Ni le mal; tout ça m'est bien égal!” he sang along in the language, he looked over at a table with files on it, he opened the paper folders and found a form for him to fill in. He continued with filling the form out, he read a part which read ‘side comments’ “We need to go deeper” he said as he wrote it.
He slid his Beats down and rested them on his neck, “Oh good, you’ve done it” he looked back and saw Twilight, she sighed “Celestia is making Dash fill one out too, but I don’t think even Celestia would be able to convince Rainbow to remember back to something so horrible. It would be scarring for her, I don’t know that I’d be able to do that myself”
Thomas nodded and walked over, he placed his right hand on Twilight’s head “She’ll be fine. You’ll all be fine under my eye” and with that said he left the room.





He picked up the books he borrowed from the library “Better take these back” he noticed Applejack drinking coffee and having breakfast “Morning Agent Orange” he said
She looked over, seeming more tired than normal “Thomas, ain’t ya gonna have yur breakfast?” she asked him,
He shook his head “Nah, not hungry...and if you’ll remember I told you I can’t eat hay or grass or flowers” he moved to the door “Anything you wanted while I was down the street?” she shook her head and went back to her food, he walked outside.





He reached the library and rang the bell and the same pony from before was there “Are you here to borrow or return?”
He handed the stack of books over “They helped” he said to her,
She put them under the counter “May I ask what the favour that you did the city was?”
He weighed the scales about telling her “I was investigating the set of ritualistic murders”
The pony seemed unsurprised “Oh, a lot of ponies have been looking into that. I suppose that you gave up then?”
Thomas laughed “Give up? Quit? I was here on orders from Celestia herself, I was only allowed to leave if I solved it”
The pony changed her mood as if she was talking to a celebrity “Wow! Celestia? I guess I’ll see you around town then”
Once again Thomas laughed “You would...if I had failed. No, they took Ms. Rainbow Dash, she went outside because I asked her to do something, during that time she was kidnapped. Once she was gone...well, lets put it that from then on, failure was not an option”
The librarian had that face again “You know Ms. Rainbow Dash? Wow, you must know a lot of famous ponies then”
Thomas was intrigued but saw the time “As much as I’d like to continue this conversation I gotta go”
She called out as he left “Wait, what is your name?”
He shouted back “Thomas” she realised that he was the one Faulty Mask was demonising all the time.





In Canterlot Celestia was startled as a letter came from above and disturbed her nap, “What could this be?” she read over Thomas’ file taking it very seriously, she gasped as she read a line “Faulty?” she grabbed one of her guards’ attention “Run to Princess Luna and tell her I demand an audience with her” she read over Thomas’ report a few more times.
Luna arrived “Sister, why hast thou summoned us?” the night princess asked,
Celestia passed the form to her sister “Thomas reported on the kidnapping of Ms. Rainbow Dash and the sacrificial murders of ponies in Neigh Zealand. Would you care to read out the shock?” asked the older white Alicorn,
The blue one read aloud “From words spoken, I can assume that the one responsible for these attacks is Faulty Mask. It also seems that he and his underlings have plans for me, they seemingly knew nothing about me as I appeared and the one on the screen who tormented Dash, seemed to wear a bull skull as a mask. With your permission I wish to start a personal eradication of all those in ‘The Army of Freedom’ and destroy this Stalin. I will not allow Ms. Dash’s suffering to go unavenged” Luna’s mouth gaped open “Surely you jest sister. Thou hast not called us to be a second opinion on giving him this right?”
Celestia looked at her sister “You know as well as I do that this is a necessity. For him to be able to take the lives of high ranking officers of Faulty’s order without being held down by our legal system, would no doubt be beneficial to both parties by Thomas paying back the debt and by our opposition being reduced. But your input remains vital, you need to agree with me too for this to be passed”
Princess Luna shook her head “Nopony should have their life taken, no matter what the reason. That was one of the things thou has taught us upon our return from the moon”
Celestia tried to reason with her sister “That referred to other ponies, our citizens, technically Thomas isn’t a citizen of Equestria”
Luna understood finally, but she didn’t like it “Even if he obtained the right to do so, what could we even call it that wouldn’t make us appear corrupt or make him appear like a criminal?” Celestia showed her sister the document outline titled ‘The Right for Safety Under The Sun and Moon’ it said restrictions Thomas would have such as having to be attacked before he can retaliate and how he can only fight those who have attacked or attempted to attack him. Luna read over the document as she asked her sister for clarifications and suggestions.





Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie discussed how they’d get Rainbow into the chariot “How could we get her into it? She isn’t strong enough to move on her own”
Thomas waltzed into the place, merry for one reason or another “What’s this?” he asked as he joined them,
Twilight informed “How we’ll get Rainbow into the chariot”
Thomas looked at them as if they missed the most obvious option “I can carry her, I did it before” they all realised it was a sound option {Jeez, Darwin would be baffled about how these ponies survived. I reckon if I die all hope will be lost} he played an air guitar as he walked into the building and as he approached the bed he was nearly scared to death as he realised that he slept outside and woke up back inside “Yo, sleepyhead” he said to Dash, no response, he continued “Fine, I’ll carry you downstairs” he walked over to her and picked her up and wrapped the bed sheet around her “Ugh, I guess being a lazy bones is why you’re this heavy” he said to her on the stairs. He stopped at the door “Now listen Dash, this secret must remain ours. That means only you and I know it, okay? I don’t give two damns what Celestia and Luna say in the end, I’m gonna kill every last one of those arseholes that tried to hurt us, and I will not stop until I personally oversee Faulty Mask’s death, I will make him whimper and squirm and plead for me to stop killing him for a whole week. I promise you” he opened the door and walked to the cart, he placed her down with a gentleness unseen before by the group, he smiled and then turned to the group with grimace and tire of the place “Alright, let’s just hurry up and leave this place. I just...never mind” he sighed and climbed in himself {So long Kiwi-land, but we both know I’ll be back} he thought in despair.