Letters from an Evil Empress

by zackepic22

Bonus: I was Untouchable, Your Majesty

Dear Empress Daybreaker,

I am writing back to you after finally managing to deal with the Capony situation. Although, actually, it took barely a few days at all.

After I received your most recent letter, my contacts in the city and I quickly got to work not only researching, but spying on criminal activity in the city that didn’t belong to any of my operations. We looked to the best of our ability. I had your agents do their best to interrogate Capony’s men, but, we weren’t able to turn up anything concrete, no matter how much squealing the less loyal did.

So, I decided we should start getting more organized, checking out some suspect warehouses. Oh, the organized agents and my people found plenty of goons, no doubt about that, but still no concrete links. Then, we checked the docks. Then the boats themselves, a few restaurants that ponies believed that Al Capony ate at frequently.

I was starting to lose hope. But, then, I found out that the catering company that Mosely owned was one frequently hired by Al Capony for big events. And, it was at that very moment that I heard opportunity knocking.

That very next night, at some big party that Capony himself was at, I chatted him up, flattered him. He was actually a fairly charming pony. A real gentlecolt. At least, to some degree. I couldn’t tell how much of it was real though. But, it didn’t really matter. He had no idea what kind of pony I really was. He probably thought I was just another high class mare. He thought wrong

Despite how secretive he could be, the foal actually lowered his guard. I had a couple of your agents and my boys sneak into one of his places, and, guess what they found?

The idiot never paid his taxes! And, so, as it turned out, the one he had reason to fear the most all along, was the IRS.

I’m assuming you know by the time you receive this letter that he was arrested the very next morning. And, so, our own operations remain, without any real contest. Oh, sure, his lieutenants are probably attempting to make it big themselves, but, they’re too scattered, small and disorganized. We’ll take them out easily. Manehatten is ours’ once again, my Empress. No one has a snowflake’s chance in Tartarus of ever opposing us again.

Cheers,

Mrs. Clementine Orange.

Author's Note:

Alright, so, consider this the last of the double bonus letters each day for now.

I'm going to be publishing two episode chapters tomorrow, one for Griffon the Brush-Off, and one for Boast Busters. The former will be published at 11 AM/12 PM CDT/EST, and the latter at 2:00 PM CDT/EST.

Won't be publishing any chapters Friday.

Expect at least one episode chapter on Saturday, and one on Sunday.

Comments

[Nightingalehound]

Ah... the IRS, everyone forgets they have agents as well.. Seriously,never forget your taxes.

[redmar]

Interesting to see that Empress Daybreaker exerts control over some criminal organisations as well. I am eager to see more episode chapters soon.

[zackepic22]

Alright, so, uhhhhh, actually, expect the first of today's episode chapters to be released sometime between 12-12:30 PM CDT/EST.

[Vaguely Demented]

Interestingly enough, getting Al Capone on tax dodging was an uphill struggle. At that point people in the judicial system argued that by taxing ill gotten gains then it would be dirty money regardless and balked at the concept. Some of the people who protested were later found to be taking bribes they didn’t want to have to worry about suddenly being taxable, and it didn’t help that the woman who did it all was the only female prosecutor of her district and also black during an era where racism was very much the norm.