Dashie Wright: Competent Co-Counsel

by Terabyte West

Rainbow's first investigation

When Rainbow found herself in Phoenix's apartment, she couldn't remember anything about herself. She didn't know why either, but going down to the detention center to tell Maya that Marvin wouldn't defend her was much harder than she expected. After realizing that she didn't like to be the bearer of bad news, she decided to tough it out and proceeded to fly to the Detention Center while Phoenix stayed behind and worked on their case.

Rainbow also had Phoenix's phone with him, if she decided to go the Police Offices and ask Gumshoe what that little black box was.

After successfully convincing the guards that she was working with Phoenix, the filly flew onto the counter, waiting for Maya. Eventually, Maya walked in, looking pretty chipper. Rainbow found it hard for her to tell her what happened, but she had to.

"Maya, I've got some bad news. Mr. Grossberg refused our case." Those few words were able to kill her mood. Rainbow decided that the silver lining should be addressed. "But don't worry, Daddy's gonna take over for us!"

"I'm honestly not surprised our case was refused." Maya said, not making eye contact.

"So you've known about Redd White?"

"Yeah. Oh!" Maya exclaimed, snapping her fingers, as if just figuring something out.

"What is it?" Rainbow asked, hoping for information.

"I want to get my phone back from the detective; I'm pretty sure he's still at the police department." Maya walked to the back of the room and snagged a paper and pen, quickly jotting down something. "Rainbow, can you go back to the detective and get my phone back?"

Rainbow retrieved the slip from Maya through the door under the window. "I was on my way there anyway."

Due to the fact that the Police Department was open to the public, Rainbow was able to get in, no hassle. Finding the detective was also no hassle, as he seemed to be working on something alongside some-gray-haired character in red.

"Mr. Scruffy Detective!" Rainbow hollered, snagging both their attentions.

"Hey, you're that cute pony I saw last night alongside Mr. Wright!" Gumshoe noted, beaming.

"The one and only Rainbow Dash!" she confirmed.

"Detective!" The red-suited person barked.

"Yessir?" The detective stammered.

"We have a case to be working on, and I would thank you to stay focused." The prosecutor (Rainbow was sure of it) dropped the serious tone after catching sight of Rainbow.

"Don't be angry, Mister. This should barely take two minutes." Rainbow said, trying to compromise with the prosecutor.

"Alright." He sighed, waving his hand to signal Gumshoe to take five.

"What did you want to talk about?" Gumshoe asked, bending down to reach Rainbow's eye level.

"Two things." Rainbow pulled out the paper Maya gave her and showed it to Gumshoe. "Can you return Maya's phone to us? There's something on it she wants to show us that's relevant to this case."

"That recorded call? Yeah, we didn't think it was relevant, so I had a little fun and hid it somewhere." Gumshoe elaborated, chuckling sheepishly to himself.

"I'll keep an eye out for it." Rainbow decided. "Also," she grabbed Phoenix's phone and accessed the photo roll, finding the black box. "Do you know what this is?"

The detective's eyes widened at what he was looking at. "That's a wiretap! Where was this?"

"The lady who called about the murder had it in her hotel room." Gumshoe looked ready to about explode in Rainbow's face.

"Gotta Dash!" She joked in an attempt to calm him down as she bolted out the door.

Lunch.

That was the one thing on Rainbow's mind. Lacking any money to purchase foodstuffs, she decided to head back to the Firm and raid the cupboard for some food. She also decided to keep an eye out for a phone aside from the one she had with the band wrapped around her neck.

Walking in and giving a mocking salutation to Charley, she noticed a pink band sticking out of the side of it. Flying up to get a better view of what it was attached to, she found a pink phone. I think this is Maya's phone. Attempting to confirm her suspicions, she turned on the phone and tried to access the call history. One call, dated yesterday, caught her interest.

"Hey, sis!" Rainbow heard in Maya's voice.

"Okay, let's get down to business. I need you to come over here- sometime around 9:00 PM?- and hold onto some evidence for me. It's a statue of The Thinker, but that's not the important part." Mia's voice said.

"Well, what is?"

"The contents of the statue's base. It used to be a clock, but I removed the clockwork and stuffed the real evidence within."

"Okay..."

"Hey, don't be like that. We'll get some burgers when you get here, okay?"

"Alright, love you." They finished in tandem.

I think I may have done just about everything. Rainbow decided. She decided to see if Maya's phone had any games on it, but the only thing she found was a custom ringtone with a strangely familiar melody.

Doo-do, dooo, do-dit, dah-doot-doot-dah... beep beep beep... Rainbow realized that it must have been the Steel Samurai theme. After poking about the app and figuring out how to make that ringtone, she hoped she had enough time on her hooves.