Three days after the gala.
In a dark, and rather unpleasant, lab underground a unicorn mare with blue fur, blue eyes, and a pink mane walked down a room where large strange capsules that were filled with bubbling water sat beside other tubes of bubbling water. The mare wore a white nurse outfit along with a white cap with a Red Cross on it. A clipboard was levitated in front of the mare by a pink aura, as she was reading the paper attached to the clipboard her hoof stepped in something cold and wet. The startled mare moved the clipboard away from her face and looked down to see she had stepped in a puddle.
The mare looked forward to see a trail of water leading somewhere. Confused and curious the mare followed the water, rounding a corner the mare saw that the water ended in front of a large capsule. But there was one major thing that separated the large capsule from the others.
It was broken.
The front of the capsule had been shattered, almost as if something had forced its way out of the tube. The mare's ears folded down and her pupils shrank in fright as she knew that the worst had come. There was no time to lose, the mare had to warn the others before it was to late. But before she ran, the mare heard something dash behind her. The hair on the back of her neck stood on end as she was frozen with fright.
She tried very desperately to fight the urge of turning around, knowing very well the horror of what was behind her. But despite her will she could not quench her curiosity as her head began to slowly turn around. She wanted to shut her eyes, to scream for help, anything. But her mind refused to. The mare had finally turned around and looked behind and saw...
Nothing. There was nothing there, no horror, no monster, no threat. Just an empty hallway, nothing more. The mare sighed in relief as she turned back around and came muzzle to muzzle with something hanging upside down in front of her. She couldn't tell what the creature was but all she could see were two red eyes staring at her. The eyes expressed one thing and one thing only. Hunger.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" A shrill scream came from the laboratory. Startling two stallions, one an earth pony the other a unicorn. The earth pony had red fur, orange eyes, and a short orange mane. The unicorn had green fur, blue eyes, and a light blue blown back mane. Both wore white lab coats.
"What was that?" The unicorn asked with concern.
The earth pony didn't reply, instead he ran off towards the scream. The unicorn soon followed after, the two walked past row after row of large capsules. Until they stopped at the one with a collapsed mare. The two ran towards the down mare in a rush, the earth pony slowly and carefully examined the mare's injuries while the unicorn stared at the capsule.
"*gasp*" The mare gasped as she weakly pointed to the capsule. "...escape..." She managed to choke out.
"I know." The unicorn said, not looking at the mare.
The earth pony lifted the mare onto his back and tapped the unicorns shoulder. The earth pony made some hoof motions towards the unicorn.
"You're right, we need to sound the alarm. Get her to the medical center, I'll deal with the alarm." The unicorn said. The earth pony was about to make another hoof motion but the unicorn stopped him. "There's no time to argue, we have to stop it before it reaches the inmates. Now go!" He shouted at the earth pony. The earth pony nodded his head and ran off.
The double doors burst open as the earth pony ran inside, the mare at the desk was about to tell him to wait but the earth pony paid no attention and raced through. The earth pony ran down a hallway where multiple rooms that had curtains instead of doors. The earth pony continued to run until he stopped at a room that didn't have a closed curtain. The room had a neatly made hospital bed in the center back of the room, two chairs were to the far left of the bed, a sink with a waste bin underneath it on the far right of the room, a machine was hooked up right next to the bed along with a long metal pole were a bag of water remained hooked on it. The earth pony walked up to the bed and gently placed the mare on it.
A while later a light brown fur Pegasus with a dark brown mane and green eyes wearing a white Doctor suit walked into the room, an unhappy scowl on his face.
"Sir, I'm afraid I must ask you to leave. No matter your friends injuries, you still can't just barge your way in here." The Doctor said.
The earth pony's response was his hoof pointing to the mare's neck. The doctor approached the bedside and looked at what the earth pony was pointing to. His eyes widened and his ears folded at what he saw.
"Good lord." The doctor gasped in terror. "Nurse bring me my equipment. Quickly!" The doctor shouted.
Then all of a sudden there was a blaring alarm and purple lights began to light up.
Two days later."
Canterlot was beginning to become a pain in the neck for Nightwing. He sighed in frustration as he rested his cheek against his hoof, his eyes stared down at the two pieces of paper in front of him. Him, three griffons, and three yaks all sat at a round table. The griffon that sat in the center of the three had red feathers on his body while the feathers on his head were white and he had gold eyes. The two griffons both had black feathers on their bodies and grey feathers on their heads. The yaks sat opposite of the three griffons, the yak in the center had brown fur that covered his body and the top of his face, the two yaks next to him had black fur that covered the top of their faces.
"Okay...let's try this again shall we?" Nightwing sighed in disbelief. "According to this here letter from the griffons." Nightwing paused as he read the piece of paper in front of him. "Dear, Royal Princesses I wish to inform you that the insufferable yaks have taken a piece of land that we were about to claim, we planted our proud nations flag in the ground first therefore by the fifty-fourth law we own the land." Nightwing read the paper.
"Objection!" The center yak stomped his hoof against the table. "These griffons are nothing but liar's!"
"You dare call us by such a down grading name?!" The center griffon stomped his two eagle claws against the table in anger.
"I don't know how it could be down grading to you if you've hit rock bottom." The yak smirked.
"How dare you." The griffon clenched his claws and growled. "You will pay for such an insult!"
"Bring it feather brain!" The yak yelled.
The two glared at each other, both knowing full well if they fought it would start a war. But they shoved that thought to the back of their minds and only focused on each other. There was always bad blood between griffons and yaks, both races saw each other as threatening and powerful foes. But in fact the real reason that griffons and yaks had bad blood between the two was because the only reason they had wars against one another was to see who was the most powerful warrior race. Only problem was they both equaled each other out, griffons speed and air superiority was countered by yaks mighty strength. And so the struggled never ended, wait wasn't there something important going on?
Oh right, the griffon and yak continued to glare at each other. The two griffons readied themselves to fight against the two yaks. The center griffons red wings began to unfold and stretch outward, showing off his strength.
*crack*
Both the griffons and the yaks turned their a attention away from each other and towards Nightwing. Who had punched the table leaving a large and physical mark on the table. Both the yaks and the griffons stared in astonishment as the strength displayed. Nightwing pulled back his hoof away from the mark.
"First, sit down before I do something I'm gonna regret!" Nightwing groaned as he clenched his foreleg, and the griffons and yaks sat down. "Second, griffons your race isn't mighty any more. Deal with it!" Nightwing shouted at the griffons, causing the yaks to smile. "And as for you yaks." Nightwing turned to face the yaks. "Your race isn't in to much good shape as well is it?"
"What?! Our race, weakened?! I will not listen to such blasphemy!" The yak turned his head.
"Really? Well this says otherwise." Nightwing said picking up the other piece of paper and turning it over he spoke, "I did some study work on the village your kingdom comprises of and I found out that you are suffering from a depression, is that correct?" Nightwing raised an eyebrow.
"Pft." The yak scoffed. "We might be in a rut, but we yaks will endure it no matter the cost."
"You clearly don't know what a depression is. So I'm going to explain it to you, a depression is what happens when a country has no money. It has no way of allowing its citizens to collect enough money to let them survive at all. In short it's a country killer." Nightwing explained.
"Seems that you aren't as strong as before yaks." The center griffon sneered.
"Don't talk so high and mighty you." Nightwing glared. "Your country is facing a depression as well." The center griffon turned his head away from Nightwing. "Which brings me to the yaks reason they should own the land." Nightwing said, turning over the other piece of paper. "According to the yaks the land was owned by them about two-hundred years ago, but had to give it up when a presumed extinct species was discovered on the land. But the species is no longer extinct nor is it endangered anymore." Nightwing read out-loud. "But I don't really care about any of that." Nightwing set the piece of paper down. "What I want to know is why you two want this land so badly, in fact let's find out. Silver platter." Nightwing called into his crystal.
In a flash Silver appeared next to Nightwing. "You called Captain." Silver said.
"Bring me a map of Equestria please." Nightwing requested.
"At once sir." Silver vanished and reappeared with a map of Equestria and laid it out on the table.
"Thank you Silver, your dismissed." Nightwing said, Silver bowed and vanished. "Now then, please point to where this piece of land that you guys want so badly." Nightwing said.
Both the center griffon and yak stared at the map with concerned looks on their faces. Both sighed in defeat as the both pointed to a piece of land between the griffon country and the yak country. Nightwing stood up from his chair and looked at the land the two were pointing at. A puzzled look appeared on his face.
"There?" Nightwing asked, pointing at the land. Both the yak and griffon nodded. "Why the heck do you want that land so badly? There's nothing there but fields, and you won't be able to grow many crops what with winter coming." Nightwing said, clearly there was something else on the land that made it so important. "Talk, what's so important about the land?" Nightwing demanded.
The center yak sighed. "Two-hundred years ago, before my ancestors gave up the land they planted broadwood trees in the land before leaving, now in our desperate times if we cut down the broadwood trees we could sell them and help end our depression. But then the griffons were going to take the wood for themselves." The yak glared at the griffons.
Nightwing pondered that thought, it was true that broadwood was very rare, strong, and good for making money. Broadwood was stronger than steel, it had strange magical properties that made it so strong. As for who should get the land, the answer was pretty obvious.
"Okay, here's what we're going to do. Yaks because the land belonged to your ancestors long ago you will draw the line that will divide the land. But because the griffons were the first to claim the land during this time, they will choose which side of the land they want. If any of you refuse to cooperate with this plan I will see to it that I burn down every last broadwood tree on that land until it's nothing but an ash pit. Sounds good?"
Both the griffon and yak nodded quickly in fear.
"Great, have fun you guys. And if you break anything I will break every bone in your body's." Nightwing threatened, closing the door.
Nightwing walked along the hallway, rubbing his forehead in hopes to remove his infuriating headache. He never understood why that was thee most frustrating thing he had ever done. In the amount of time wasted on that meeting he could've worked on why the summoning scroll was taken or why his Teach acted so bizarre at the gala or he could've figured out where the Order was hiding. But noooo! Instead he had to waste his time on a stupid meeting like that.
"Uggh." Nightwing groaned as the mere thought of the meeting increased his painful headache. 'Speaking of Teach though, I should probably check on her to see if she's okay.' Nightwing thought, then remembered the time his Teach kissed him. 'On second thought, I should probably keep a twenty feet radius away from her just to be safe.' Nightwing shivered at the thought.
Nightwing had walked for a while until he entered the royal throne room. Inside was his Teach Luna, along with a large white fur Alicorn with a mane that had a light blue stripe, light green stripe, dark blue stripe, and a pink stripe, and pink eyes. Nightwing knew the alicorn all too well. Her name was Celestia and Nightwing despised, no, hated, no, really disliked her with all of his dislikes. But what caught Nightwing's attention were three ponies that were normal size wearing some kind of black armor that covered all of their body, legs, hooves, and neck. A black helmet that covered their face, muzzle, mane, and ears covered their head, along with two red eye pieces for the ponies to look out of. The three ponies, Luna, and Celestia seemed to be having a conversation until Nightwing walked into the room.
One of the black armored ponies noticed Nightwing and approached him. And with just five words the pony was able to turn today into one very craptastic day.
"Captain Nightwing, your under arrest." The pony said.
"... What?!?!"
Of course today was going to be a horrible day, Nightwing knew that it was from the very start. He grimaced as he examined his surroundings, he was in a small room with nothing but a table with two chairs and a light hanging above him. Looking to his right was a mirror where he saw his reflection, but knew full well that someone was watching him. In front of him was a steel door that couldn't be penetrated. Whoever these poines were they were not taking any chances with Nightwing, they had chained him up to the chair with a pair of steel chains, a pair of gold chains, and pair of silver chains. A leather strap thing of some kind was attached over his muzzle, allowing him to talk but not to bite. The door across from him opened up and a pony in black armor stepped inside.
The pony had no helmet on so Nightwing could see that the pony was a unicorn stallion with red fur, a blue mane, and blue eyes. And he meant business. The unicorn stallion closed the door and approached the table, pulling up the other chair the stallion took a seat. He then levitated a folder out of his suit and sat it on the table.
"Tell me..." The stallion paused opening up the folder and looked at the first page. "Captain Nightwing." The stallion looked back at Nightwing. "Do you know why your here?"
Nightwing rolled his eyes. "Who knows why I'm here, for all we know I could be here because of something I didn't do." Nightwing said through the leather strap thing. "So how about you answer my questions first and then I'll answer yours. First, who are you?"
The stallion saw no harm in saying who he was so he answered, "My name is 34. I was ordered to capture you and interrogate you by orders of the Grand Senate." The stallion answered.
"Ah the Grand Senate, the brains of Equestria. Everyone claims that they exist but very few believe in it." Nightwing said. "Which means your one of their pit bulls. Which would explain why you have a number instead of a name. A Pit bull abandons everything about him/her, they abandon their family, their name, everything. It sickens me to admit how effective it is. But on to my second question, why am I here?"
"You are being accused of nearly killing innocent lives." 34 answered.
Nightwing raised an eyebrow. "Please tell me you have some kind of proof." Nightwing sighed.
"As a matter of fact we do." 34 said simply, opening up the folder once more and levitating three pictures he sat the three in front of him. One was a picture of a cow lying on her side looking very ill. The middle picture was a picture of a pony looking very ill and sick. And the third picture was a picture of three dead bunny's. All three pictures had one thing in common, there were bite marks on their necks. Or rather two fang bite marks.
"As you can see they all suffered from blood loss, something assaulted them and drained them. And according to our Intel, you are the only vampire Batpony and you drink blood to survive." 34 said to Nightwing who continued to stare at the three pictures.
"First off, I don't need blood to live. I can eat fruit and still live. Second, there's no proof that I'm the only vampire Batpony in existence. For all you know there could be hundreds of vampire Batponies that you just don't about." Nightwing said.
"I will admit that the evidence isn't as solid as it should be, but the Grand Senate demands that you stay here until further proof is established." 34 explained.
"Uggh, fine. But I want to send a letter to someone first."
In a small, and rather remote, town Flash, Lightning, and Ranger walked along the dirt road. Flash held a letter in his hoof.
'Hello dear friends. So I'm gonna be blunt, I'm in prison. Wipe that smirk off your face it isn't that funny. Anywhoo, I'm in prison because of a cow, an earth pony, and some bunny's suffered from blood lose. Now you might be wondering why I'm jail because of this, the answer is that the 'Grand Senate' think I might not be able to control my blood lust and think I might kill someone. So I need you guys to head to the town where the incident occurred and figure out what's going on. No pressure.
Nightwing'
"So what are supposed to look for again?" Ranger asked.
"We start by trying to figure out what happened to the victims." Lightning Strike answered.
"But where do we start?" Flash rubbed his chin. "Obviously we can't ask the bunny's what happened." Flash stated.
"But maybe the owner knows what happened?" Ranger suggested.
"I think we should split up." Lightning suggested, turning to face Ranger. "Ranger you go check out the owner of the bunny's. Bro, you should go check on the cow. And I'll go check on the pony."
"Sounds good to me. The pony is in the hospital and the bunny's owner is at a house address 5643." Flash read on the back side of the paper.
"Okay, let's go." Lightning said as the three split up.
Flash never told the other's about where the cow was, mostly because there was no need. The cow had been moved to a different hospital instead of the one the pony was in. It wasn't out of the ordinary for a cow to be located at a different hospital. The average hospital was made for ponies, but there were few that were built for other creatures. Flash had thought the cow would be in quite a mood due to her blood lose. Flash walked into the hospital and approached the desk.
A kind gentle mare with yellow fur, pink eyes, and a pink mane with the top curled, sat at the desk with a warm smile. Flash asked the mare if there was a cow that suffered from blood loss. Coincidently there was, and the mare allowed Flash to visit. Flash followed the mare down the hall and entered the room. Inside was a cow with white fur and some black spots. She was hooked up to the medical equipment next to her as she stared at the door with hollow eyes.
The mare smiled one last time at Flash before leaving the room. Flash approached the cow quietly until he was right beside her.
"Um...hello." Flash greeted in a awkward manner.
"Hello?" The cow responded with a question as she continued to stare at the door blankly. "Is that you fellow?"
"No...my name is Flash, Flash Sentry." Flash introduced himself. "I'm here to ask you a few questions when you were assaulted."
"Oh, mud pies." The cow grumbled. "Not another one, I've told you everything I know."
"Im not someone you've met." Flash reassured. "I just need to ask you some questions regarding your assault."
"Why? So you can prance back to your boss with a hot juicy story?" The cow huffed.
Now it made sense to Flash, the reason the cow didn't want to talk to him was because she thought he was a reporter. "Look I'm not here for a story, I need your help. My friend Nightwing is being accused of something I know he didn't do. And I need your help."
"Okay, I'll tell you."
"But I...did you say yes?" Flash asked confused.
"Of course, I know what it's like to have a friend accused for something he didn't do. Now then where do I begin?" The cow pondered. "Ah yes, now I remember. I was going on one of my evening strolls when all of a sudden something hissed at me and startled me. On instinct I was frightened and tried to run away. But whatever attacked me had gripped itself onto my legs, holding my legs together I tripped and fell, I tried to yell for help but then I felt a pinch in my neck and I began to feel very cold. I screamed for help and some ponies came to rescue me. But by the time my rescuers got to me the culprits had vanished." The cow explained.
"Hmmm." Flash pondered as he thought carefully about what to say about this. Then, two questions popped into his head. "Could you have identified whoever attacked you?" Flash asked.
"Oh dear. How forgetful I am." The cow chuckled. "I remember that those news men asked me the same question. But the truth is I couldn't see them, it's quite embarrassing, but I'm blind dear."
"Oh...my apologies." Flash rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"It's quite alright."
Now it was time for Flash's next question. "When you were attacked, you said that something had gripped onto your back legs and then bit your neck?" Flash asked.
"Actually...now, when I began to feel cold something still gripped at my legs when I felt the pinch." The cow corrected.
"But that means...thank you for your time miss. But I need to tell my friend what you just said ASAP." Flash said as he ran out the door.
"Good luck dearie." The cow said as the door shut.
Flash ran furiously down the dirt road, he was so concentrated on running he wasn't aware that he could've gone much faster if he had flown. But he didn't, and it was because of this that he failed to notice the pony running around the corner. The two crashed into each other causing both to fall.
"Owww." Both Flash and the pony groaned. Sitting up Flash saw that the pony he had bumped into was Lightning Strike.
"Oh shoot, you okay bro?" Flash asked, standing up.
"Yeah...I'm fine." Lightning sighed standing up, only to then realize his mission. "We got no time to waste, I've got something important to tell Nightwing." Lightning said hastily.
"I do as well." Flash said. "What did you find out?"
"Your never gonna believe this but...the thing that attacked the pony in the hospital, it can't be Nightwing." Lightning Strike started.
"Whys that?" Flash asked.
"Because the thing that attacked the pony...was a mare."
Back in the interrogation room.
"Hmmm." 34 pondered as he examined the paper hovering in front of him. Sighing he sat the paper back on the table. "If this evidence is true then we have no choice but to release you Captain Nightwing."
"Wait for it." Nightwing mumbled.
"However." 34 paused staring back at Nightwing. "This isn't concrete evidence, but it is enough to allow you a three day freedom if no other evidence is presented."
"There it is." Nightwing sighed. "So can you let me out of these chains?"
34 levitated four keys into the lock on the steel chain, the silver chain, the gold chain, and the muzzle strap thing. Once free Nightwing asked for his crystal back which was given back to him. And then he used Shadow stalking.
Back in the small town.
"Hello again guys." Nightwing said as he appeared next to Ranger, startling both Lightning and Flash.
"...You really need to warn us before you do that." Lightning sighed.
"Hush you. Now then, can someone please direct me to one of the locations where an attack occurred?" Nightwing asked.
"Umm...sure thing." Ranger answered.
"Sounds great, let's go." Nightwing said placing his foreleg around Flash's neck, on Lightning's shoulder, and on Ranger's. And then the four vanished.
The four reappeared in a backyard with a multiple fences that kept in certain animals like bunny's and chickens along with a forest in front of them.
"Where...are we?" Flash asked.
"I dunno, where ever Ranger thought." Nightwing answered. "So Ranger, where are we?"
"Where back at the her house...I mean the bunny's owner house." Ranger corrected.
"Excellent." Nightwing smiled. "Look for tracks coming out of the forest. We need clues guys."
"Okay, stop." Flash made Nightwing halt. "What is up with you?" Flash asked.
"Flash, I just found out that there might be a small chance that my race isn't extinct. I'm pretty happy right right now." Nightwing smiled. "Now let's-"
"Found some tracks!" Lightning yelled.
Both Flash, Nightwing, and Ranger turned their heads to the forest and saw Lightning Strike pointing at some tracks in the ground. The group looked at one another and nodded as all of them silently agreed to follow the tracks.
The group followed the tracks through the woods for a while until eventually they came to an end. The group stopped and looked around, the tracks had ended in a open area with no trees but a cliff in front of them.
"The tracks end here." Flash stated.
"No duh Sherlock. Now come on let's look around, there's got to be a secret building around here somewhere." Nightwing said as he began to examine the wall. "Please let there be a secret passage, please let there be a secret passage, please let there be a secret passage."
*click* Nightwing pressed down a certain spot on the cliff and a secret passage opened in front of them. Looking inside Nightwing and saw nothing but darkness and a ramp heading downwards.
"Okay, Ranger and Lightning, you two will guard the door while Flash and I go down there and investigate. Nightwing said, turning to Ranger and Lightning.
"Wait, why do we have stand guard?" Lightning asked.
"By all means head down into this dark building with who knows what is down there." Nightwing suggested. "No? Nothing? Good, then shut up and don't leave." Nightwing said as he walked into the dark and unknown place.
Darkness seemed to be the main theme of today, because it was pretty much pitch black for both Flash and Nightwing. The two couldn't see nor tell where they were going, all that they knew was that they were heading downwards.
"Colt, I can't see anything in here." Flash groaned in frustration. "Isn't there any way we can let some light in here so we can see?"
"Your a lightning caster aren't you?" Nightwing asked back. "Just create a lightning ball so we can see."
"Well you have a..." Flash paused as he thought about what Nightwing's crystal was called. "You have a...crystal thingy that can use magic. Why don't you just cast a light spell to help us see?"
"One, it's called a complex crystal not 'crystal thingy'." Nightwing quoted. "Two, you can just as easily create a lightning ball, I don't see why I have to cast a light spell."
The two stood in silence as they stared at total blackness. Then the darkness was filled with laughter as both Nightwing and Flash chuckled. The two sighed when their chuckle had ended. Then Nightwing used his crystal to cast a light spell which lit up the hallway, along with Flash raising his hoof and creating a lightning ball on top of it. Both the light of the lightning ball and the light of Nightwing's crystal combined and allowed the two to see where they where. Looking around the two saw that they were still on the ramp heading downwards.
"How deep is this place?" Flash asked, folding his ears and his pupils shrank.
"Good question." Nightwing paused as he walked up to the wall next of them and tapped his crystal against it. A ding echoed through the hallway for thirty seconds before ending. "Well, I'd say this tunnel is about one mile deep." Nightwing concluded.
"Are you serious?" Flash groaned.
"Relax. I'm just messing with you." Nightwing admitted to his small joke. "It's actually about a few feet ahead. Come on."
The two walked along the down going hallway for about three minutes before coming to a stop. In front of our two adventurers stood a metal door about a few feet bigger than them. Nightwing gripped the doors handle and tried to open the door, not surprised that it was locked. Nightwing lifted his crystal and casted a spell that was known as the key spell. Instantly the sound of locks moving came from inside the door. Once the door became unlocked Nightwing opened the door, allowing a low blue light to leak into the hallway. Both Flash and Nightwing stared at one another. Flash nodded as his lightning ball disappeared, and the light from Nightwing's crystal vanished as well as both him and Flash stepped cautiously in through the door.
Stepping inside Flash and Nightwing were met with dim looking blue lights. Almost instantly an earth pony stallion with light blue fur, a crazy looking black mane, and black eyes ran up to them and shouted, "You! Are! A! Popsicle!" He shouted and then ran away.
Both Flash and Nightwing stared in disbelief at what they just saw. Their pupils had shrunk as they looked at each other.
"O...kay?" Nightwing said very confused.
Getting a better look Nightwing and Flash saw that there were many other ponies talking and mumbling something gibberish at others. Some were beating up on another and others were just running around like crazy. Flash and Nightwing eyed a door on the other side of the room from what seemed about a mile away. Flash and Nightwing looked at the other and nodded in agreement as they tiptoed towards the other door.
Almost a few feet away Nightwing and Flash were so close to the door they could almost grab it, but then a voice asked, "Excuse me?" Flash and Nightwing froze, almost afraid to look at where the voice came from. But their curiosity got the better of them as they turned their heads to meet a Pegasus mare with golden fur, green eyes, and a short dark purple mane. She was sitting against the wall, her forelegs wrapped around her hind legs as she slowly rocked back and forth, continuing to stare at the two.
"Do you know the muffin mare?" She asked in a crazy voice.
Flash and Nightwing remained silent and frozen, unsure whether they should speak or not.
"Umm...yes?" Flash finally answered unsure.
"Can you tell her she owes me twenty thousand bits in child support?" She asked, continuing to slowly rock herself.
"...umm...sure." Nightwing grinned falsely as he gently tried to open the door. But it wouldn't budge because it was locked like the last one. So Nightwing began to cast the key spell to unlock the door. "You can count on us to tell her. So don't worry." Nightwing lied as had unlocked the door and threw it open. He grabbed Flash and threw him into the other room. Nightwing leaped into the other room and slammed the door behind him.
Flash landed flat on his stomach, groaning as he sat up he rubbed the back of his head. Looking back he saw Nightwing was bracing against the door and locking it back up, making sure no one could get out.
"What the hay was that all about?!" Flash shrieked.
"I'm not sure." Nightwing answered. "But to be honest, I've seen enough crazy to know that what we just saw weren't crazy ponies. They were on the insanity level."
"Well no duh." Flash rolled his eyes.
"Yeah I kinda figured you'd know that." Nightwing said stepping away from the door.
And the saw the multiple hallways with light blue water filled capsules on each side of the individual hallways.
"... How the hay did we miss that?" Flash asked as he looked down one of the hallways.
"Not sure." Nightwing admitted, then used his crystal to create a blur aura stick. "But I want to poke it with a stick." Nightwing smiled as he did the most unpredictable thing and skipped down the hallway in front of him while Flash stared at his friend in confusion.
"I think your friend Nightwing might be slowly losing mind." Shadow suggested.
"Yeah...I think so too." Flash sighed before chasing after Nightwing.
"Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope," Nightwing continued to say as he skipped pass capsule after capsule. "Nope, nope, nope, nope." Nightwing paused as he skidded to halt and turned to face the capsule in front of him. "Yes." Nightwing said as he stared at the fogged capsule in front of him. Placing a hoof on the capsule he swiped away part of the fog. His eyes widened the second he saw what was inside, the aura stick vanished as he stumbled back. His began breathing very fast as he hyperventilated, his lungs going into overdrive so they could keep up with the racing heartbeat.
"Nightwing!" The faded and null sound of Flash fell on Nightwing's almost deaf ears. His legs buckled as they gave under and he sat on his flank. His whole mind went blank as he tried to demand his eyes to look away but they remained glued on the capsule. His whole body went numb, for an instant he felt nothing. He knew nothing. For an instant he felt nothing, all he knew is that he was falling. Falling into nothing.
And then Flash caught him.
"Nightwing!" Flash's voice was powerful enough to bring Nightwing back. He blinked a few times as he tried to regain his focus. He looked up and met Flash's concerned face.
"Um...you can put me down now." Nightwing said as he stood up.
"What happened?" He asked worried. "I saw you staring at the tube thing and then you began to fall."
"One, it's called a capsule." Nightwing corrected. "And two, you need to see this." Nightwing said as he looked back at the capsule. Or rather, what was inside it. Flash walked up and looked inside as well. The instant he saw what Nightwing saw he wore a look of shock.
"Nightwing." Flash paused as he continued to stare inside the capsule. "Is that-"
"Yeah...it is." Nightwing confirmed.
Inside the capsule was a mare with dark grey fur, a long red mane that seemed to flow upwards inside the water. Her eyes were closed as she breathed into a plastic mask that was connected to a plastic tube which pumped oxygen into the mares muzzle. But what shocked both Flash and Nightwing was that she was a vampire batpony.