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Addition

“Believe it or not, you're already destined to serve and avenge me”

Night has engulfed the streets of Richville, and the residents have all went back to their homes, sleeping, and dreaming, but three suspicious ponies outside the hospital are an exception.

Silver, Summer, and Luna stared at the huge structure, examining every window and the entrance. Silver and Luna are still up and awake, but for Summer, this was not her case. She let out a yawn, her eyes half-open, showing nothing but the look of a tired unicorn who just wanted to go to bed. Silver actually has to meet her first, while Luna only have to go there easily, perks of being a night guard earning no suspicion from a few wandering ponies who decided to stay up at night.

“Okay, this is how we get the documents: Summer, you will have to conjure a teleportation spell on me and Luna. Luna, you have to help me find a way to the autopsy documents. I don't know much about the hospital, so expect that it will take us some time to get out of here. Any questions?"

“Yes, I do have one question, Silver” Summer spoke up, “Once I teleported you guys inside the hospital, can I go home and reunite with my bed?” Silver rolled his eyes.

“Yes, you CAN leave after you took me and Luna inside the building" he turned to Luna, “Are you ready?”

“Yes,” She nodded. Silver looks back at Summer, who let out a long yawn.

“Do it”

Summer lit up her horn, shining brightly it could probably be seen by those who happened to be looking out from the window, yellow aura encasing Silver and Luna. Summer asked Silver one last time.

“What floor?”

The room is dark, all its occupied have fallen asleep, including one nurse sleeping on the floor, his tongue out and legs splayed out.

Suddenly, the room exploded with a bright light, a loud poof that could wake up any pony nearby is heard, yet the occupants of the dark room are still taking their naps. After the flash dissipated, two ponies appeared in the room.

Silver and Luna looked around. They froze when they spot their occupants, one of them squirming on the floor “Let's go!" silver whispered to Luna, and both of them quickly went out of the room, the sound of the door closing waking up the nurse, whose peaceful sleep is interrupted by the infiltration.

“Ugh... Pill, I told you to shut the door quietly..” the nurse moaned, rubbing his eyes before laying his head back on the floor.

...

Silver and Luna looked around as they stood in the hallway of the hospital “We have to be careful not to get caught by the staff, or we have to give them and the mayor an explaination why we are sneaking into the building like spies” he told her. Luna simply sighed and whimpered in silent distress, looking back and forth around them before jabbing Silver's shoulder and glared at him “Yeah, I know your mad” Silver casually spoke in response, “Now, can you stop moving around? You're going to knowck something down, and make noises” Silver began cautiously walking, followed by Luna making faces at him from behind. If they were to be seen by a pony, they are certainly doomed, especially they don't wear anything to hide their identity. Silver would lead the way, hiding behind walls if they went into an intersection, they even once had to hide behind a door when a nurse went out of a patient's room, narrowly being spotted by the lone staff.

As they went deeper into the hospital, their energies started to deplete, eyes began to close, their bodies becoming heavy, and their legs wanting to gave out, the duo did all their best to fight off their own bodies.

Silver, however, was glad when a familiar sign on top of a two-door entrance is seen, saying 'office'. He almost chuckled in delight, if it were not for a high suddenly come crashing into him. He gasped and looked behind to see what kind of sack fell on him.

“Shh, Luna, don't sleep!” Luna's semi-unconscious body leaned against his rear, snoring softly. He grumbled in frustration and tried to set his partner's head on the ground so he could move, unfortunately, Luna's head slip off his back and fell and hit the floor with a thud, the impact of her jaw hitting solid ground caused to walkke her up.

“Ouch!” Silver's eyes widened. Luna's shriek was loud enough to get attention of those nearby, he panickly glanced behind him and his partner, then at the other side of the hallway. He shut his eyes and prayed that no one would find them, all while putting a hoof on Luna's mouth, whose eyes widened in realization of what she just did.

It took them for a few seconds, maybe several minutes to realize no one is coming to investigate, which made them both wonder where the staff are.

But they had no time to voice their curiosity. Silver dragged Luna into the office section of the hospital, closing the two doors loudly. They went inside an office, lucky for them, it was not locked. He pinned his back against the door, then looked at Luna.

“Are you okay?”

Luna nodded “Yeah, I'm fine” she stood up, her tail tucked to her flank but she kept her mouth shut and soke no more, her expression the only hint to Silver of what she felt.

“I will find some painkillers for you along the way” hearing a pained chuckle from his partner, he went back to focus on the door in front of him and put his door against it, listening for any voices to hear just in case they did alert some of the staff. Hearing nothing, he cautiosly opens the door, instally regretting his actions when it made a creak and making a loud bang when he shut the door out of instinct. He yelled to his partner.

“Quick, hide behind that desk!” Luna turned and immediately went behind a desk followed by Silver. He felt something made impact to his head before landing on the floor, spilling black liquid “Can this get any worse?” he muttered to himself as he stared at the small pool of ink while Luna whimpered quietly. In their minds, this was it, they will be found, taken to the mayor and be punished for their actions.

They heard the door open, Luna shut her eyes, but Silver put on a forced determined look, ready to knock unconscious whoever entered the office. They could hear hoofsteps, becoming closer and closer, making their bodies more tense as it become louder and louder than before. Silver shut his eyes and revealed himself.

Only to find no one was in the office other than him and Luna.

He was not convinced yet, and went to check on the door. It was still closed, then he slightly opens the door and took a peek. There is no sign of anybody recently passing walking nearby.

“I swore I've heard somepony enter the room" he glanced at Luna, who already got out of her hiding place, starting at him “You heard it too right?"

Luna lifted an eyebrow “What? I didn't hear anything, except for you urging me to hide”

“What are you talking about?” Silver was confused. The hoofsteps he heard just seconds earlier are obviously loud, not to mention the door being opened bedore that. Was his mind playing a trick on him? He did not let this strange incident linger into his mind, he had no reason to be confused. In fact, he should be grateful the sounds If hooves he heard did not manifest in reality.

“Stay here, and find anything related to the autopsy report. I'll go and check if the coast is clear” he told Luna before going outside. Nothing has changed, the hallway is dark, no new changes, and all the doors he have seen so far are closed, including the double-doors where he and Luna used to go inside the office section of the hospital. He went back to the office “Did you find anything?”

“No, but I do find a diary of this office's occupant containing good news” she showed him a pink book. He took the book and read what it seems to be the latest record. One paragraph got his attention.

“...Finally, something to do other than lazing around in my office. The administrator finally called a meeting later at midnight, something about the results of the autopsies for New Miles, Sugar Pastel, Serene Spring, and Breze Fondl (I do not know If i got that right). It is strange why they have to go back to thet subject. If this meeting is because of the investigation of whether these young grown-ups die from illness or murder, I won't complain then.” he closed the book and looks at the cover, seeing the name of the owner written in the left part “Major Probe. This pony is definitely a stallion, but why did he chose a pink book to write a diary? Doesn't matter, I don't have anything against pink” he muttered this to himself before tossing the diary back to Luna, who caught it with her magic “Put it back where you found it in the same position”

“...What about the ink?” Luna pointed at the splattered ink hiding behind the desk.

“Just leave it. I don't think Major would find it suspicious, just look at the state of his desk, his stuff are just a pile of mess" he said, pointing out the organized mess of books, papers, and other items sitting on the table of the desk.

“It's an organized mess, Silver” she corrected him.

“Organized mess or not, it's still a mess”, Silver let out a sigh, “Look, let's not argue about this small mess. We have to keep moving”

The two left the room, alerted and vigilant. They glance around the hallway from left to right before making their to another office room. Inside this room, everything inside is organized from the previous one. From the clean and spacious desk, to the neatly stacked medical books in the bookshelf. Silver and Luna began their search with Luna taking care with the bookshelf, while Silver goes for the desk.

“So, are we going to the meeting?” Luna asked while putting back a book, not even looking at Silver.

“No, the more we're near populated areas of the hospital, the more we increase the risk of getting caught. I'm not a professional spy” he told her, as he inspects a stack of documents on the desk. He read paper after paper, but found nothing important. He sighed “I guess this room has nothing useful. Let's go”

They left the room and went to the other room, which was next to the room they first went to. This office was also clean and tidy, but there are no papers on the desk, except for a pen, a parchment, and a small box. Silver took the paper and read what it says.

“Dear, Swift Postage

Put the food on the desk.

Sincerely, Rosy Aegis”

Silver turn his attention at the box with curiosity. What kind of food is resting inside the food? Probably Velvet cake or strawberries. He stared at the box, but the box moved away him, covered in white magic. He turned and see Luna, frowning.

“I know I'm also tempted to open that box, but I'm not dumb enough to do that” he groaned in defeat, knowing what Luna said is right. Ponies can have their mistakes whether they are. He backs away from the but continued their search. Like the previous one, they only found a diary with the last entry being about going to the conference room for a meeting for the Happy Grapes Harvest Biting Incident, which left the intruders puzzled.

“Happy Grapes Harvest Biting Incident? I never heard that case before” Silver mused to himself before glancing at Luna, then at the diary.

“There's definitely something important going on in the meeting”

“But we can't go. There's more ponies than there are in any parts of the hospital” Silver countered. Luna opened her mouth to speak, but quickly gave up and groaned in frustration.

Two went to a few more offices, finding nothing other than a diary and even a man excuse letter for not attending the meeting. Every now and then, Silver or Luna would flick their tail, dishearten by their lack of finding any important document. Little do they know they are getting deeper and deeper into the office section of the hospital.

After a failed an attempt to open an office door, which turns out to be broken as revealed by a note in the office next door, they come across a door with a room label which says ‘document storage room'. If all the documents regarding to all details of a patient are here, maybe the whole components about the deaths of Serene and his friends are stored here as well. Silver smiled at this, knowing he won't have to go down to the morgue.

“Wait, ” he told Luna bedore reaching at the door as if expecting to electricity him, but when his hoof are just inches away from the handle of the door, he relaxed and breathe out a sigh of relief. He opened the door and let Luna inside first before went in and closed the door.

All around them, shelves stood in rows or even formed a wall, files of some sort placed in shelves in rows, some in stacks. Books and parchment are separated from each other, some are hidden in drawers, which are quite a few. There was no light in the room other than the white light from Luna's horn.

White approached one the shelves and found out the documents are sorted alphabetically. He went from K until he went to the P section and searched until he found a shelf named ‘patient records'. He opened the draw and began sorting through documents, even finding Earnest and Summer's medical record. He stopped when he finally found what he's looking for.

“I found Breeze Frond's document” he look and smiled at Luna.

However, success turned to another side when they heard faint footsteps approaching. Luna and Silver's eyes widened in alert, but it was too late.

They were just able to react when they heard the door open. Silver immediately put the document back into the drawer, and hid behind a bookshelf along with Luna just in time for a doctor to arrive in the scene.

The doctor went for the same drawr and picked up several files, muttering unintelligibly to himself before leaving the room without incident.

Silver and Luna looked at each other before he went back to picking up what he assumed to be Pastel's file. “Now, can we go?” Luna's voice was shaky and at this point, her question sounds more like pleading.

Silver sighed “Yeah. Even if we didn't get the other documents we need, atleast we got one which could give us the information of the autopsy report”

“That's good” Luna said, “But we almost got caught. What would you do if somepony found us?”

“That's simple: We surrender" came Silver's reluctant reply, turning his back on Luna as she tried to protest, but what came out is only a incomplete form of words before it came to a brief end. “Ugh, you're making me scared. Let's just get out of here”

In the dead of the night, a stallion galloped in the darkness, sweat covered his body despite the cold air, and tears on his face. He let out audible breathes as he approaches the hospital with desperation, a limp body of a pegasus mare lay on his back, her hooves on his wings, yet has become unconscious, her body giving freezingcold to his own body.

He already lost his son, he can't accept to lose his wife.

Surprisingly, presence of the hospital staff are as low as when they arrived. Silver and Luna are now near the entrance, avoiding a nurse who was counting while starting at the wall devoid of any emotion. They were able to pass her easily as she paid no attention to them.

“Help! Help us!”

“Horseapples!” Silver exclaimed and without any question, he went into a full-blown gallop, followed by Luna, who's more concerned by the scream than being caught.

As they reach the lobby, they saw a stallion laying by the entrance, holding on the handle of the door. Laying next to him was a mare, laying on her side, unmoving.

“We need heeeeeeeelp!”

This tearful yell broke Luna and Silver out of their daze and both abandoned their thoughts of going out of the hospital, though Silver put the 'stoleno document behind a plant nearby while Luna went to help the help the couple. When she approached, she immediately recognized the stallion and the mare.

“You are Serene's father!" She said as she helped him back to his hooves before going to the mare.

“Please, you need to help her. She- She's sick!” Luna used her magic on the mare to carry her up to her back before glancing at Silver “Silver, call the doctors, immediately!”

When the sun rises, so everybody, but for that day, one doesn't.

Despite the efforts of the doctors and nurses, Serene's mother died. Her cause of her death was labeled as Hypothermia due to long exposure to low temperature.

And at the scene of his death was Serene's father, Silver, and Luna.

And even though everyone called these two as heroes by coincidence, one mare knew this did not happen by chance.

Sipping her morning hot cocoa, Sparkle Guide stood up, her face crunched up with anger. She muttered one name in indignation and frustration.

“Silver...”

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