> TMMDW:The Mysterious Mare do Well > by Equinoxx > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Every story needs a prologue > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Right so, where do I start. Oh of course, introductions. My name is, or was, Todd Shome and I was just a normal human being. This is how that changed. Basic setup, i know. So I was at home, making a Mare do Well costume. See, I was going to dress up as her for Bronycon, but all I was missing was the hat. Luckily all I had to do was go on E-bay and try to find one. And yes, I'm a boy, but it doesn't mean I can't dress up as her. To my surprise I found an exact replica and guess what! It was only $15! So I bought it and waited. Skip foward a few minutes and it arrived. Scarily fast if I may add. In retrospect I probably should've been more suspicious, but I was too excited. I decided that it would be a good idea to try it on, and so I did... And then everything went dark... For a matter of five seconds. Once I could open my eyes again, I looked around. I was now in a large damp cave, that had a giant computer in it! The first thing to come to mind was the Batcave, but how or why would I suddenly be there? I stood up, or I would have if I didn't immediately fall back down on my face. I sat up and looked down only to see that I now had hooves. I also still had the Mare do Well costume on for some reason. I went into a bit of a panick, but that stopped when I noticed my voice. It sounded different, like a... Female's? 'But that's not right, I'm a male!' I thought, going back into panick mode. I decided that before I did anything else, I should check. So I take off the MDW costume and after a few awkward moments of checking, I start panicking again. Mature, aren't I? So I'll skip to after I calmed down, I'll be honest, I may have passed out at some point. After getting a hold of myself I figured that I should probably know where I was, but how would I do that? Then I get an idea. "C-computer?" I asked slowly, making sure my language didn't somehow change, thankfully it hadn't. With a sudden blinding light, the computer turned on. I stare at it for a few seconds then ask. "Could you tell me where I am?" "You are in 'The Well'." It responded. 'The Well? What's that?' I asked myself like an idiot. "Where is The Well located?" I continued. "In Equestria." And that's where my brain shut down...Well, more like it started processing what that meant. If I was in Equestria then that meant I wasn't on earth anymore. But... Was that really a bad thing? The reason I wasn't really upset about not being on earth anymore was simple; I literally had no one who'd miss me. That and life on earth was progressively getting worse. You know that's somehow more depressing, isn't it? But now arises the question of what do I do? Well first I wanted to see what I looked like, but how would I do that? Then I got an idea. "Computer, pull up my bio." I told it, more confidently this time and it did so. Apparently I'm a unicorn female with a teal mane and a dark blue coat, along with green eyes. My cutiemark is a flask with... Water? And a starfish in it. It also showed my name as Seastar. I shrugged and supposed I should just roll with it. So now what? Well I made list. I had a MDW costume, a batcave ripoff, aaaand I'm good at karate... Of course the only logical conclusion was to be The Mysterious Mare do Well! It's times like these that I wonder how I'm still alive. So after an hour of getting used to my new body, get your mind out of the gutter, I decided to explore The Well. In short I found a training room, a bedroom, a pantry stockfull of food and, a room full of bit's and jewls. Eventually I came across the exit, which had a great view of Ponyville. I assumed I was in Canterlot mountain, which I later found out that I was correct. The computer is really useful. Well with that done the only thing left to do was go to Ponyville!.. I honestly have no idea how I came to that conclusion. Roll credits > Episode 1: The universe has great timing > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was a surprisingly easy walk to Ponyville, but I'm not complaining. As I enter I notice that a group ponies are cheering and as I walk closer, I see that the're cheering for no other than Rainbow Dash. By the looks of it, I was dropped in the middle of the Mare do Well episode. Talk about timing. Hmm, this gives me an idea. [Third person pov.] In Suger Cube Corner a group of five ponies are discussing how to put a stop to a certain rainbow maned pegasus' ego. "How about we bake her a cake?!" Pinkie suggested, to which everypony in the room gave her a deadpan expression. "I'll take that as a no." She shrugged. "We have to come up with a way of teaching her a lesson." Twilight stated, to which the other ponies nodded. "I can help with that." Said a new voice from the door. Everypony turned to see the perpetrator. "What?! Who are you? How did you get in, I put a lock spell on the door?" Twilight asked, though she had a lot more questions than those. "And what'ya mean you can help?" Applejack pitched in. "Relax everypony, I just mean I can help you make Rainbow Dash's ego problem go away." The costumed pony told them. "And how could you do that?" Rarity asked. "And why are the lights off?" Everypony gave Pinkie a raised eyebrow. "What?" In the southern end of Ponyville everything was quiet aside from a few conversations and the clopping of hooves on dirt. Emphasis on 'was'. Suddenly a loud pop was heard, the sound came from the sky. Naturally everypony looked up, but instead of seeing clear skies, they spotted a hot air balloon with a pony inside plummeting to the ground. Out of the literal blue a rainbow trail was then seen rocketing towards the balloon... And it missed the basket in spectacular fashion, instead only hitting the balloon part off. The pony, still in the basket despite gravity, was about to be squashed into glue upon hitting the ground. Luckily for her the basket was suddenly levitated to a stop and set gently onto the ground. Everypony was amazed, they tried to spot who saved the pony, but nopony could see them. Rainbow, on the other hoof, was annoyed. She was shown up by somepony who didn't even care enough to be seen. But if she was gonna have competition, then she would win. She never loses... Okay she rarely loses, but she wasn't gonna lose this time! Twilight was watching the whole thing unfold. She was rather impressed by how the self-dubbed 'Mare do Well' was with magic. Only powerful unicorns could catch a rapidly descending large wooden basket with a pony inside by only using levitation. "Hello." Said pony greeted from behind her, making her jump and release something resembling an 'EEEK!' Twilight quickly spund around with a cutely scrunched, annoyed looking muzzle. She also wore a embarrassed pink tint to her cheeks. "Don't do that!" She yelled. "It's not my fault that you're oblivious." Mare do Well remarked with a chuckle. "I'm not oblivious! You're just very good at sneaking up on ponies. Which is not a good thing!" Twilight continued to be flustered. Mare do Well swore that Twilight was trying to give her a heart attack by being cute. "Noted. In any case, I'll be around." Mare do Well said as she vanished in a puff of smoke. Leaving Twilight to angrily mumble some not so nice things. [First person pov.] Now obviously I didn't just learn magic on the spot. I used a levitation dart on the basket and as for the disappearing in a cloud of smoke thing, that was just a smoke bomb and me jumping out of Twilight's sight. How did I get these things? The armory and it nether seems to run out, trust me I've tried. Speaking of Twilight, I now regard her as the cutest pony to ever step hoof on Equestria's soil. Roll credits > Episode 2: Didn't see that coming > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was just another peaceful day in Ponyville... Of course that had to change as a wagon full of ponies came at full speed down a hiil and towards a cliff. The cart was nearing the cliff when a costumed pony jumped in the way and used her two hind legs to press against the cart, while digging her forehooves into the ground. After three seconds the wagon came to a full stop. Everypony cheered for the hero and the ponies in the cart thanked her. The masked pony nodded, then spoke. "Everypony, you may call me The Mysterious Mare do Well" She told them with a salute. "Please do be more careful next time though." She then disappeared in a cloud of smoke. [First person pov.] So... as you probably noticed, Rainbow didn't show up like she was supposed to. It honestly concerned me and I wanted to keep my eyes peeled. Oh yeah, you probably wanted to know how I stopped the cart. So basically since the air balloon incident I've been practicing magic. So far I only know levitation and because I wanted to be ready for anything; a temporary strength spell. You probably want to know how magic works and my answer to that would be 'why are you asking me?' I do know a little though. I simply and calmly think of bringing light to my horn and it happens, but if I try to hard, it feels like I'm straining the base of my horn. Imagine it like exercising. If you try too hard and don't practice your muscles steadily, then your muscles will tense up and cause you pain. Now imagine your horn as a muscle. If you try to use a spell without having a steady mind, then the spell will just fail and you'll be exhausted. Whoops. I may have gotten carried away. Anyway now to get ready for the most difficult disaster. [Third person pov.] At a construction site, everything was going well. The crane worker, while trying to work the controls, accidentally gets one of the levers stuck. He tried to fix it, but all that did was break the controls completely, sending the crane out of control. The rope that the crane was using to hold a support beam started to snap. The second it did the support beam was sent flying at the construction site. Just then it was caught in somepony's magic and set gently onto the ground. Everypony gave a sigh of relief, then saw The Mysterious Mare do Well from before standing atop the scaffolding. She waved a salute, then disappeared in a cloud of smoke. [First person pov.] That was very damn difficult. Seriously! I had to stop a support beam at full speed! That's not easy! Y'know how I said that trying too hard strains your magic? Well using spells that strain your magic is possible, but it hurts! A lot! In saying that, next I checked the dam. It didn't seem to be too 'dam'aged at the moment, sorry for the pun, but according to the computer's calculations, it would collapse the next day. So the next day I simply put cement in the crack. Easy enough. Or it would've been if I wasn't hit by a lightning bolt! After getting to my hooves, thank god for the suit being resistant to electricity, I looked up to see the cloud that hit me. To my utter surprise the culprit seemed to be Rainbow in a shadowbolts outfit. Yeah, I really didn't see that coming... Somehow. Rainbow smirked at me. "So you can take a hit? Well then I'll just hit harder!" She said as she zoomed at me with her two forehooves aimed at my face. I easily sidestepped it then kicked her in the side... What? Well if she wanted a fight then she's gonna get one! She gets back up and starts flying around me, creating a mini tornado. I start to get lifted into the air, which felt kinda weird, so I stuck my left forehoof into the winds of the tornado and close-line Rainbow in the face. I meant to hit her in the stomach, but ah'well. The tornado dissipated, but not before throwing me into a tree. Ow. Both me and Rainbow get up, I could tell she was getting tired. I lifted a branch from behind her using my magic and sweep her legs with it, making her hit the ground, hard. Ow. She tried to get back up, but I gently placed the branch, which was quite heavy, on her side, making it so she'd be stuck. I trotted up to her. "Why did you attack me?" I ask her in my Mare do Well voice, probably not the best time to bring that up. She tried to get the rock off of her and after four second, gives up. "Because you stole my spotlight and you didn't even take the praise! You just stand in one place, salute, then teleport away!" She yelled at me, anger thickly coating her voice. "I do take the praise, I just don't let it get to my head." I told her calm and quietly. "I don't let it get to my head either!" She complained, trying her hoof at escaping again. "Yes, you do. You were acting like no one could be better than you, at anything. That's called being narcissistic." I kneeled down next to her. "Yeah and why should I believe you?! If you do take the praise then how do I know you don't want to replace me!" She questioned, venom still toxic. "Rainbow if I wanted to replace or get rid of you, why wouldn't I do it now? I could leave you for dead. You'd starve and no one would ever know until they'd find your body." I explained darkly. "..." She looked away, or at least tried to. "Do you think I'd be trying to talk you down if I wanted you out of my way?" I asked, back to talking softer. "W- I-i... I guess not..." Rainbow admitted. "Listen, you can still be a hero, but know that you're not the best at absolutely everything." I said as I lifted the branch off of her. She got up and silently flew away. I later heard from Twilight that Rainbow apologized and they forgave her. I'm was happy for her, I got to make her learn her lesson without her feeling like her friends betrayed her. I consider this one of the better days. Roll credits > Episode 3: The little bang > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- So you may be asking, now what? Well the answer to that is; I'm going to Canterlot. Simply put, I don't want to steal Rainbow's thunder, plus there's bound to be more crimes in Canterlot than Ponyville. In my admittedly short time in Ponyville, the Canterlot noble's didn't even bat an eye. But now that I'll be operating right below the princesses noses, I doubt it'd be hard to notice. Also I recently found out that The Well has an elevator that goes right into Canterlot's clock tower. That's pretty useful! So with nothing better to do, time to go batmaning around Canterlot. [Third person pov.] Mare do Well watched over the city from the clock tower, ready to stop any crime or disaster in Canterlot. Just on cue there was a sudden loud boom that was heard throughout the whole city. In a matter of seconds Mare do Well leapt off the clock tower and glided down towards where the sound resignated from. MDW ended up at a wall, but not just any wall, this was Canterlot's outer wall. The one that wrapped around the entire city. Just by looking at it, anypony could tell that it was going to fall. And even worse was that, it was going to fall inwards, taking some of Canterlot with it. MDW quickly hopped to action, there was no way she'd be able to stop the wall from falling over, but she could at least save the ponies in the vicinity. Quickly going to each house MDW told the ponies to evacuate away from the wall. Some were more 'difficult' than others, but after a few less than friendly words from MDW they would no longer argue. MDW got everypony out of the area and as expected the wall came crashing down. That was until Celestia flew into sight and used her magic to halt the rubble and lay it into a pile.. Ponies simply looked up in awe, while MDW decided to disappear. [First person pov.] Believe me when I say this, I was just as surprised as you. Celestia? Doing something?! Holy cheese and crackers! Though after a bit of thought, it makes sense. Celestia wouldn't just let half of Canterlot be destroyed. Also I had no doubt that because of me getting ponies out of the danger area; word of a costumed vigilante would spread like a wildfire. That was fine though. I just hoped that Celestia was gonna be reasonable about it. I'll be honest though, I wanted to be hidden for at least three more days, but I guess the world just doesn't like me. Why three more days? I dunno, seemed like a good amount of time. But... Something was bothering me about the wall situation. Why did it suddenly crumble and what was that 'boom' sound? I knew that with a wall that size, maintenance would be mandatory. So if it was by natural wear-and-tear, Celestia would no doubt see it coming. But that means it could only be foul play. That leads to the the question of who'd want to break the wall, but let's not get ahead of ourselves, I decided to anylize the crime scene and see if my theory was correct. So I travel back to a building adjacent of the wall. The broken part of the wall now had police tape blocking it off and a couple guards. I drop down behind the guards, then smack their heads together, incapacitating them. Celestia really needs some better guards. I go past the police tape. Now it was time to look for clues. The first thing out of place that I immediately noticed was a feather. It wasn't Celestia's or the guards, because they were white. This feather was a dark green. So already I know that a Pegasus is, or could be involved. I put the feather in my utility belt, yes I have one, then continued searching. Seeing as there was nothing visible to the naked eye, I decided to use a material detector spell to see if there was anything that it could sense. It took only three seconds to pick up traces of an explosion. seemingly not a large one though. It was just big enough to make the wall fall under it's own weight. The explosive seemed to have been placed inside of the wall. The strange thing is that you'd need a spark spell to ignite the bomb since it was, y'know, inside the wall. Don't even get me started on the fact that the perpetrator would have to know a replacement spell. Not to mention I found a feather!.. But then a thought came to me. What if multiple ponies were involved!? And that's if the green Pegasus had a part in this. Seeing as I couldn't find anymore clues, I decided to head back to The Well. So once I got back I tell the computer to anylize the feather and see who it belongs to, I also ask it to search for any demolition experts in Canterlot. "It will take a day at most." The computer responded. "Well then I'm havin' a nap." I declared as I walked to my bedroom. If I was gonna have to fight soon, then I wanted to be well rested. Roll credits > Episode 4: An "explosive" night > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- So after a good night's sleep, I got up and went to the computer to see what information it gathered. "Computer, what'ya got?" I asked, grogginess still sluring my words.. "The feather belongs to a pegasus named Airhead." The computer responded. "Are sure you don't need more rest?" It asked me, seemingly concerned. "I'm fine 'mom'." I say with a chuckle and rolling my eyes. "Did you find any demolition experts?" I asked, back to being serious.Ish. "Yes, in fact, only one. His name is Big Boom, a unicorn convicted of several explosion related crimes. Goes by the alias Tick-Tock." The computer explained. "He is most known in Vanhoover, where he blew up a school... It was a school day. There were over a hundred deaths and there were even more injured" The computer showed the reords on-screen as it told me. "...So we have two leads. Where does Airhead live?" I didn't want to think about children dying. "Downtown near west street." The computer also seemed to not want to speak about it. "Thanks." I said simply. And with that, I had a quick, if somewhat depressing breakfast, then costumed up and headed out. It didn't take long to get to my destination and now I was looking right at Airhead's house. Unluckily for him, he lives in the slums, so his 'house' is more-so an apartment. Anyway a quick bound and I'm in. He should really have closed his windows. The place was a complete mess. pizza everywhere. Chinese food and unclean carpets... Nevertheless I ventured forth. Eventually I came into the living room, if you could even call it that. In the middle, on a chair and surrounded by beer, sat a sleeping green Pegasus, Airhead. I lifted an empty bottle of beer in my magic, then dropped it to the floor, shattering the glass and waking Airhead. He awoke with a start and quickly found his eyes on me. "Who are you and how'd ya get in here!?" He asked angrily, getting out of his chair. "I'm somepony who you don't want to mess with. Not unless you want to lose a wing." I warned. Luckily my mask had a voice modifier, that way I can hide my true identity. It also sounds pretty threatening. He didn't seem to think so, because he let out a hardy laugh. "Oh really? Y'see, I don't take likely to pitiful threats." He mocked as he got into a fighting stance. "That wasn't a threat, it was a warning. I know you were involved with the explosion at Canterlot's outer wall. Tell me where to find the rest of your friends and maybe I won't break too many bones." I bluffed about knowing, hoping I was right I got in a similar stance. "Like Tartarus I'd tell'ya!" He yelled, then charged at me. I simply spun on my forehooves and bucked him in the face, knocking him into the chair and dizzying him. I tackled him onto the ground, breaking the chair in the process, then held my foreleg to his throat. "Tell me, or you'll be eating out of a straw." I warned, putting more pressure on his throat. "I-i'll talk I swear!" He panicked. "Y'see, w-we were plannin' to blow up the castles left wing! We were gonna meet at the garden tomorrow at 10:00 p.m! P-please jus' don't hurt me!" He pleaded, it was actually quite funny. "Thanks for the info." I then knocked him out cold by thrusting my right forehoof at the side of his head. After that I had the computer send an anonymous note to the police, telling them that one of the ponies responsible for the outer wall explosion was apprehended. If you're wondering how I told the computer to do that, then it's simple. Technology exists in Equestria, but normal ponies aren't that advanced. My computer on the other hoof, does. I basically have an earpiece, comunication device. Anyway now I had a time and place, I just had to be patient. Eventually the time to stage the steak out was at hoof. I quickly made my way to the castle garden and waited. Soon enough, a group of three ponies arrived, all masked. "Hey, where's Airhead?" One of them asked looking around himself. "Pfftt who cares? We don't need him anyway. We still get to blow something up!" Another said excitedly. "No you don't." I said from atop a tree branch. They all turned their heads to me with wide eyes, except for the excited one, he still looked crazed, even with a mask on. "W-what?! How'd we get found out?!" Asked a very skinny one. "What does it matter?! We can't have any witnesses!" The hyper one said, sounding a little too happy, then threw a bomb at me. Needless to say, I was caught off guard. Luckily it only hit the tree branch that I was standing on. The downside was that it hit the branch that I was standing on, sending me falling into a bush. One of the thugs stupidly went to investigate, whom of which I pull into the bush and knocked out. I teleport behind the other unarmed thug and silently strangled him to sleep. I was about to do the same to the one with bombs, but he turned around just then and the second he saw me, he threw a bomb at our hooves, knocking both of us back. I got back up only to see two more bombs being hurled at me. I caught them in my magic, then threw them into the air, where they safely exploded. I charged at the stallion, dodging a few more bombs while doing so. Once I got to him I delivered a hard uppercut to his jaw. I followed that up with a left hook, then a gut punch sending him to the floor and knocking him out. I got the knocked out criminals into a pile, then with the help of my magic, tied them up. I informed the police, then headed back to The Well to get some 'Well' deserved rest. I hate explosions. Roll credits > Episode 5: Heroes and delicious delicious filler > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- So a new hero had recently appeared in Ponyville and she goes by the name: The Weathermare. That was certainly interesting. In other news, it seemed that Canterlot had began to notice Mare do Well's presence, meaning that Celestia probably noticed too. So that's exciting and all, but I wasn't really concerned. In fact I was more interested in this new hero. Well I think you know where I wanted to go. So I went down to Ponyville and observed atop town hall, obviously in my Mare do Well outfit. I noticed that the schoolhouse was on fire so I was about to go and put it out when suddenly a white blue whizzed past me and towards the the school. I'm assuming that was Weathermare. I follow behind her and watched as she flew into the sky, grabbed a cloud, then brung it above the flaming building. She then hopped on it, makeing it rain, putting out the flames. She then zoomed into the schoolhouse and I followed her in. Once we were inside we found that the building still had a lot of smoke. I decided to make my presence known by pushing the smoke out of the building with my magic. Weathermare was startled, I'm assuming she didn't see me earlier, but she instantly got back to work by ushering the kids and Cheerilie outside. I followed her out. I made sure to get a good look at her costume, stop that, so I'll tell you what it looks like. Most of her costume was white with a dark blue thunder pattern on it. She had a bunch of flasks filled with clouds around her waist and she had a thin layer of clouds covering her mane. Her mask had yellow eyes and an opening for her mouth, which was the only part of her actual body you could see. That one detail made it obvious who she was, her coat was cyan. Once outside she double checked to make sure everypony was okay, then turned to me. "What are you doing here?" She asked quietly. So she knows who Mare do Well is, now I definitely knew who she was. "Well I heard there was a new hero, I simply wanted to skope things out." I explained with an obvious smirk that must've been visible through my mask. "Why's that" She asked with a frown, annoyed tone of voice, and probably rolling her eyes. "To make sure your not some idiot trying to be a hero." I stated calmly. "Hey! I'm no idiot!" She yelled, getting the attention of the fillies and Cheerilie. "I never said you were. In fact I think you handled the fire situation pretty well. The anger situation on the other hoof." I chuckled. She was vibrating with anger. "Anyway, I bid you good luck and farewell." I then teleported in a puff of smoke. Sorry Dashie, but you and Twilight are too easy to piss off, but you're not as adorable as Twilight. Anyway I decided to explore Canterlot, as Seastar instead of Mare do Well. I started roaming around Canterlot and don't worry, I did make myself presentable. I got some strange looks, probably because I was new, but I really didn't care. I came across some restaurants and stores, I even pass by Fancypants and unlike others, he didn't even bat an eye at me. That's a good thing by the way. Anyway the whole thing was rather uneventful. I would've much preferred if I came across something interesting, but this just proved that life hates me. Afterwards I decided to wander around Ponyville and boy, oh boy, do I wish I didn't. Guess who spotted me in the first few minutes... Pinkie Pie. She zipped over to me and- "Oh hi I'm Pinkie Pie are you new you must be new because I haven't seen you before and if I haven't seen you before that means I don't know you and that means I should throw you a Welcome to Ponyville New Friend party!!!" Dear god no. She can interrupt the narration!? "Umm, hi? I'm Seastar and no I don't want a party." I said, hoping that aft- "What?! Why wouldn't you want a party?" Gah! Y'know what I'll just say what we said. "I'm just not very social." "But that doesn't mean you can't have a party! I'll throw you a smaller one if you'd like." I honestly couldn't deny her. "Ugh fine." "Yay! Come to Suger Cube Corner at 3:00 p.m!" She then zoomed off... Thankfully. Well at least Pinkie's good at throwing parties. So I wandered around Ponyville until it was time for the party and when the time did roll around, I was already about to enter the bakery. The cakes were at the counter so I asked them if they knew about the party and they told me Pinkie was upstairs in her room . I went to her room and went in. As expected the lights were off, at least until they suddenly turned on and several ponies shouted "Surprise!" It seemed only Rainbow, Twilight and Applejack showed up. I guess that the others were busy. "Hello everypony." I simply greeted. "Howdy." "Hey." "Hello" Applejack, Rainbow and Twilight greeted back. Pinkie then suddenly popped up out of nowhere, startling me. "So what do you think?" She asked me. "I'm glad you didn't invite all of Ponyville." I remarked. "Well you wanted a small party, so I just invited all my close friends." She pointed to the other three ponies in the room. "I invited more, but they said they were busy." She said, slightly downtrotten. I pat Pinkie's shoulder. "It's okay, I'm sure I'll meet them another time." I assure her. I then walk over to Twilight. "My name is Seastar." I stretched my hoof out for a hoofshake. She accepted the hoofshake and said. "I'm Twilight Sparkle." She then let go of my hoof and pointed to Rainbow. "She's Rainbow Dash." She finally pointed to AJ. "And she's Applejack." Both ponies mentioned waved and I waved back. "Well with the 'hello's' out of the way, how about we get this party started!" Rainbow suggested with a hoofpump. "Ah think that's a mighty fine idea RD." AJ agreed. "Don'you Pinkie?" Pinkie perked up. "Of course it is!" Pinkie practically exploded with excitement. And with that, the party officially started. Roll credits > Episode 6: Party crasher > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- So a few days after the party I found out that Fancypants was hosting a garden party at the castle garden. Now, if I was a betting mare, I'd bet that this was taking place in the episode: Sweet and Elite. I figured that meant I just didn't see Rarity when she was in Canterlot. It also explained why she couldn't attend my 'welcome to Ponyville' party. It raised the question though, 'would anything happen tonight?' Well I hoped the answer was no. I JUST HAD TO JINX IT!!! I had been keeping an eye on the party when something that I didn't expect at all happened! Prince Blueblood crashed the party with a group of ten unicorn soldiers behind him! Everypony was so surprised that they all were easily captured captured, even then mane six. "This is all your fault Rarity. You decided to throw cake at me, then proceeded to threaten me! You didn't even get a punishment! You showed me that there's no order under my aunt's rule. Thus I must be king so that there will be order and ponies like you will get your proper punishments!" He monologued. During that monologue I silently took down five of the Unicorns from behind. Blueblood finally turned around and screams at the sight of me, then hid in a bush. The remaining five unicorns started shooting magic beams at me, which I easily avoided. I gallop up to one and kick him in the jaw, knocking him out. Just then another tried stabbing me with his horn, which I sidestepped then bucked him in the side, knocking him away from me. One of them throws a rock at me. I catch the rock in my magic then use it to block two magic beams and finally, throw it at his legs, breaking one and making him fall over. I then teleport behind two who are next to each other and smash their heads together, knocking them both out. The ond that I kicked in the side got up and charged at me. I dodged and he ran straight into a tree, knocking himself out. After that I went to where Blueblood hid, only to find nothing. I head back to where everypony was and make sure they are all okay, Rarity seemed upset, but otherwise completely fine. Some ponies went to inform the guard, while others consoled one another. I saw Pinkie lie down next to Rainbow, who looked very sad for some reason. I wanted to help, but I had to track down Blueblood. I was about to leave, but was halted by Twilight. "Do you have any idea as to why Blueblood did that?" She asked me. I turn around to face her. "I don't know, but I intend to find out." "Hm. Also, how are you?" What? Really Twilight? "I'm fine, I've just been watching over Canterlot." She seemed disappointed, sad maybe? By my answer. "Um, if you don't mind me asking, why Canterlot?" She questioned. "It was for Rainbow Dash's sake. I didn't want to steal her thunder." I explained. Twilight seemed to glare back at Rainbow for a split second, then became calm again. "Speaking of which, isn't The Weathermare doing that?" "You're very smart, I'm sure you can figure out why Rainbow Dash hasn't complained." I said, then as I was casting a teleport spell I saw Rainbow start flying away from the garden. After that I went back to The Well to think about where Blueblood could have gone, unfortunately I couldn't think of anywhere, mostly thanks to Twilight's odd behavior being on my mind. As well as why Rainbow flew away. Luckily I can think of somepony who may know where Blueblood could've hidden... I think it may be time to visit the Princess. Roll credits > Episode 7: A royal pain and some loyal assistance > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On my way back to the castle, I saw Rainbow sitting atop a building. Now I had to make a choice. Do I see what's bothering Rainbow, or do I go to Princess Celestia if she knows where Blueblood could be hiding? Well I figured I could do both. I jumped onto the building she was on and sat down next to her. "What's the matter?" I asked, making her jump into the air and hover. "What does it matter to you?" She asked bitterly as she landed and sat back down, looking away from me. "It doesn't, but whatever it is, it matters to you." I stated matter of factly. "Yeah well I ain't telling you anything." She huffed. "I never said you had to." I then got a decent idea. "But I would like your help." "Wait what now?" She looked at me with wide eyes. "You need my help?" I swear I could hear 'Rainbow.E.X.E has stopped working.' I nodded in confirmation. "With what?" I could nearly feel the eagerness in her voice. "Well you see, Blueblood has escaped and I'm assuming that Celestia may know where find him. Obviously, the guards probably won't let me in, because I'm just some vigilante, but they'd have to let you in since you're a national hero." I explained. "So do you understand what I'm asking of you?" "You want me to help you get in so that you can talk to the princess?" Rainbow summarized. I nodded. "Are you up for it?" I asked. She shrugged. "Eh, why not?" Pretending not to be eager to help, are you Rainbow? Anyway we went to the castle. Once at the front gate, two guards blocked our path with their spears. Both looking right at me. "Relax, she's with me." Rainbow told them. The two guards looked at each other, nodded, looked back at us and lowered their spears, letting us pass. We soon made our way to the throne room and I pushed the doors open with my magic. If Celestia was surprised to see me, she didn't show it. We went on until we were roughly eight feet from the throne. To my slight surprise, Rainbow bowed and I decided to be polite and bow as well. "Hello Rainbow Dash." Celestia greeted. "I don't believe I know your name." She directed that at me. "I go by 'The Mysterious Mare do Well', your highness." I responded. "I'm here because, as you know, your nephew, Prince Blueblood, recently set up and executed an attack at the garden party that was hosted tonight. Assumingly to get revenge on Rarity and appearently otherthrow you. Unfortunately for him I was there just in time, but he escaped. I wanted to know if you have any idea as to where to find him." I explained. "Hmm and why would I tell you where my nephew could be? For all I know, you intend to hurt him." Celestia asked to which I was about to respond to but... "Oh come on!" Rainbow yelled. "After what he did?! Your worried that he may get some bruises!? He deserves a-" I cut off Rainbow's outburst by tapping her on the shoulder. She looked at me and I gave her my best 'I'll handle this' look from behind my mask. I then looked back to the princess. "I promise I will not harm Prince Blueblood, unless I have to." Celestia looked as if she was contemplating it for a moment then said. "Well then I'll tell you." Celestia informed us that Blueblood was most likely in the museum, since he owns, or owned it. So me and Rainbow get there, then she asks. "So how are we gonna get in?" "Well he probably has guards at the front door, so you go in through the skylight." I told her. "What about you?" Rainbow asked. "I'm going through the front door and distracting them. I'll need you to get behind them and take them out as quickly, but as quietly, as possible." I told her. "Do you even have to ask if I'm quick enough?" Rainbow scoffed. "No, not really." I then jumped to the front door, which was made out of glass, so naturally, I break it. The second I stepped into the room it was lit up by concussion spells, all going straight at me. I quickly cast a shield spell, but it quickly started to crack, so I dived for cover. I then saw Rainbow come in through the skylight and I started to hear less and less spells being cast. I decided that I waited long enough so I peaked out from my cover, which was a stone flower bed, and sa2 that the rest were now focused on Rainbow. I jumped out from cover and quickly started knocking out some more Unicorns. After under a minute all of them were down for the count. "They're all down." I call out, to which Rainbow comes to a stop right in front of me. "That was awesome!" She cheered. "Maybe so, but we're not done here yet. Let's get moving." I said as I did just that, Rainbow following. We then entered the art room. In said room were two very muscular earthponies and four unicorns. I looked around the room and noticed that there is a chandelier. I motioned with my head to tell Rainbow to make it fall on them. She subtly nodded her head then got into a flight stance. I saw the unicorns aiming their horns at her and charging their magic. My answer to that was throwing down a smoke bomb, which Rainbow used as concealment to get to the chandelier. I heard a loud crash and when the smoke cleared, I saw that they were knocked out underneath the chandelier. "Good job. Now let's check the room." I told Rainbow as I started to search. A few minutes pass as we search for Blueblood. I heared a series of grunts and noises and I quickly go to investigate, only to find Rainbow held at knife-point by Blueblood. "Come any c-closer and I'll do it!" He yelled at me. I could tell that he didn't want to do it, but it didn't matter since Rainbow easily got out of his grasp and knocked him flat out. "Well that went well." I said with a chuckle. "Well he wasn't exactly strong, he just got lucky." Rainbow stated and also started laughing at Blueblood's expense. I picked up Blueblood. "Well we should head back to the castle." "I'm down with that." Rainbow agreed. So once we got back to the castle and hoof over Blueblood, we were told that celestia would like to speak with us. We entered the throne room, walk up to Princess Celestia and both me and Rainbow bow. "I thank you both for apprehending Blueblood and achieving so without doing too much damage." Celestia thanked us. "No problem Princess." Rainbow said, while I simply nodded. "Rainbow, I believe your friends were worried about you." Celestia told her. I heard Rainbow release a sad sigh. "Yeah, I'm gonna go apologize to them for up and leaving like that." Rainbow admitted. "Good idea." And with that Rainbow left the throne room, leaving only me and Celestia. There was a long silence before Celestia spoke again. "Why are you taking it into your own hooves to protect Canterlot?" She asked me. "Because crime is getting worse and no offence, but I don't think the police or the royal guard can do it alone." I answered. "And you're fine with putting your own life in danger?" Celestia narrowed her eyes. I nod. "Then I see no reason to halt you, but please do be less brutal." Celestia said with a light hearted giggle. "I don't make promises I can't keep." I continued to stay serious. "I see, well good luck then. You may now leave." She smiled kindly. I bow one last time before teleporting out in a puff of smoke. I may take a lot from the Batman textbook, but I know one thing better than him. It's okay to have help. Roll credits > Episode 8: Spikezilla > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- So I was patrolling Canterlot as usual, then suddenly a loud roar is heard from Ponyville. The culprit of said roar was Spike, or rather Spikezilla. I felt no need to help since I knew Rarity accidentally fixes the problem anyway. I then saw the Wonderbolts flying to Ponyville. It's at that moment that I realized, The Weathermare would surely try and stop Spikezilla. So now I had to go stop her from messing with the timeline of events, one problem though, Canterlot is too far for me to run there, the train takes two hours and if I tried to teleport there then I'd be too exhausted to move and that's if I managed to teleport there. So basically I had to hope that Rainbow didn't mess things up too badly. I then remembered that The Well could have something to get me there faster. So I went to the clock tower, went down the elevator, then ran up to the computor. "Computor, do we have anything that could be used for quick transportation?" I asked. "No" I gave it a blank stare. "But we have a springpad." I raised an eyebrow. "A springpad?" "Yes. It is on the balcony, have you not noticed it?" It asked me quizzically. "How could you expect me to notice one of those?" I yelled. The computor then put up a sprite of a digital pony shrugging. "Well now I know." I mumbled as I walked to the balcony and this time, saw the springpad. "This is not gonna be fun." I said sarcastically. I stepped onto the springpad and pulled the lever... But nothing happened... Just when I was about to step off, it suddenly launched me towards Ponyville. Hmm, we haven't had a third person scene in a while, have we? Well then let's change that. [Third person pov.] The Weathermare was fighting Spikezilla and the dragon was about to attack again, when suddenly The Mysterious Mare do Well rocketed right onto the beasts snout. MWD then threw two smoke bombs into his eyes, blinding him and making him drop Rarity. MWD jumped off of Spikezilla, but was whacked by his tail, sending her crashing into the roof of a house. After shaking the dust off of herself, Mare do Well exited the building through a window. Spkezilla then noticed that he no longer had Rarity in his grasp and roared. Mare do Well ran over to Twilight Sparkle who was watching the scene unfold. "Twilight what happened?" MWD asked even though she already knew. Twilight looked at MWD with a sad expression. "Appearantly we're witnessing dragon greed. It makes dragons grow faster, but I can't think of a way to stop it." She said, hanging her head. Mare do Well studied the dragon, trying to think up any way to stop it. "I think I know what to do." She suddenly exclaimed. "Tell Rarity that the dragon is Spike, then have The Weathermare take Rarity into the air. Hopefully we can use Rarity to calm Spike down, maybe even reverse him to normal." "How do you know if that would work?" Twilight asked. "I don't!" Mare do Well said as she ran towards Spikezilla. MDW went to the dragon's toe and bucked it. The dragon simply looked down and tried to step on MDW, but she already had moved. Spikezilla, now annoyed, continued to try stomping on the caped crusader, but she kept jumping out of the way. The dragon finally got lucky and crushed Mare do Well... Or so he thought, his foot started to be lifted. He moved it himself as to not fall over, but now he could see that Mare do Well was completely fine. Mare do Well then pointed up, the dragon's gaze followed where she was pointing and saw The Weathermare holding Rarity level to his head. Mare do Well couldn't hear what Rarity was saying, but by the fact that Spikezilla wasn't trying to attack made her sure that it was working. [First person pov.] With that obligatory third person scene out of the way; Spikezilla then turned back into Spike and began falling. I easily caught him with my magic then set him on the ground, The Weathermare and Rarity landed soon afterwards. Twilight also ran over to us. Spike and Rarity started talking, with Twilight joining into the conversation soon afterwards, but I paid no attention, I simply prepared to teleport out of sight, but of course I was held back by Weathermare. "Thanks for the help, to be honest I don't think I could've figured that out." Weathermare thanked me with a smile. "I was mostly just a distraction, you did most of the work." I shot back at her. "But it was your plan." She insisted. "Yes, but that's all it was, a plan. A plan is useless if nopony follows it." I explained. "... I guess you're right. Still, thank you." She thanked me. "No problem." I said as I disappeared in a puff of smoke. To be honest nothing much is happening in Canterlot, but that just puts me on edge even more. Roll credits > Episode 9: A great buckin' day > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- So I was out of the loop. I had recently visited Ponyville and learned about a few things from Pinkie. First off, I learned that Fluttershy had been released from the hospital. Appearantly the reason why she was in the hospital was because she was attacked by a honey badger. That was another thing, The Badger was a murderer who was going after ponies whom of which liked animals. That, alongside with other things such as Prince Blueblood wanting to rule Equestria, had led me to believe that this is an alternate timeline from the show. Meaning that some, or in this case a lot, of things were going to be different. That didn't really matter, for now. Also I had recently got the computer to start making some devices, but I'll get into that once they're done. Question was though, 'what now?' Well luckily I had my trusty computer to help me. I go over to the computer. "Computer, has there been any crimes lately?" I asked. "No." It responded. I sighed. "Are you sure?" "Yes." I huff then slump to the ground, completely bored. "You could go on patrol." the computer told me. "I guess." I say as I lazily got off the the floor. I get my costume on and go up the elevator, taking me to the top of the clock tower so I could observe the city... Seeing nothing, I decided to go along the rooftops and search... And still nothing. At this point I realized that I really need friends so that I wouldn't be so bored when there's nothing else to do. With that in mind I go back to The Well and start brainstorming how to make friends. Well I'm pretty much already friends with Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Twilight. Mare do Well is friends with Twilight, but I think it'd be weird for Mare do Well to show up at Twilight's just for tea. I could try to be friends with Fluttershy or Rarity, but I don't really care much for them. Maybe I could try to hang out with Twilight or Rainbow as Seastar. Yeah that sounds good. Onwards! So the first stop is the Golden Oaks library. The second I enter I could smell the great smell of books and there's a lot of 'em. I also immediately saw the tiny drake that is Spike, who now had his attention turned to me. "Hello, welcome to the Golden Oaks library." Spike greeted. "Hi, I'm just here to look at some books, maybe check one out." I tell him. He gives me a questioning look then asks. "Are you new here, I haven't seen you before?" "Yes I am, but I don't live in Ponyville I just like the place." I smile. "Oh, okay." An awkward silence followed. I go to a bookshelf and start looking through it. I had to think of a way to talk to Twilight, but how? "So, do you know about dragons?" My thoughts would have to wait because Spike asked me another question. I turn around. "What do you mean?" I asked. "Well you weren't scared of me and you didn't even look surprised about seeing me." He explained. "Oh that." I took a moment to think, then said. "I'm just not scared of much." Which was true, I was never really scared of anything. "I do have a question though." "What's that?" He perked up. "Do you work here, or are you the owner?" I asked, hoping I could draw out Twilight. "Neither actually. Twilight is technically the owner, but I'm her assistant." He explained. "Oh, I've met Twilight before." I continue to lead the conversation. His eyes widened. "You have?" "Yeah, when I first came to town I ran into Pinkie. She threw me a welcome party and one of the ponies I met there was Twilight." I elaborated. "Well I hear somepony familiar." A new voice said, coming down the stairs. Said voice belonged to Twilight. "Hello Seastar, haven't seen you since the party." I nod. "Hello to you too, I was just looking for a good book, but I don't know what to choose." I chickened out. "Oh, well I suggest the first Daring Doo book, but that's just what I think is best." Twilight smiled. "Hmm? Well I like a lot of book types, so sure." It took me everything to keep my own smile from faulting. Spike had already got the book from the shelf it was on and handed it to me, then he ran over to a scroll and wrote down what I presume was the check out information. "Thank you." I said as I headed for the door. "It was no problem. Have a good day!" Said Twilight as I left. I put the book in my saddlebag and sighed. I guess if there was one thing I was scared of, it was apparently talking to Twilight... I found that as odd. Anyway next stop is Sweet Apple Acres. It wasn't a very long walk before I arrived at the farm and to my surprise, Applejack was bucking trees near the barn. Why was I surprised by something so common you may ask? Because of my bad luck. "Hey!" I shouted while trotting to her. She turned to me and raised an eyebrow. Once I got close enough I spoke again. "Hello Applejack, you remember me right?" "Yes, but why're ya here?" She asked. "To be honest, I'm bored." I stated simply. Applejack's eyebrow continued to stay up. "I was gonna ask if I could help you on your farm, seeing as it's productive and would give me something to do." I explained. I really wasn't planning on going to Sweet Apple Acres, but something drew me to it... Probably the apples. She scrutinized me for a few seconds then softened her expression. "Kay then, well ah don't see why not. Ah only have a small segment left ta' do, so you can do the back half and ah'll do the front." "On it!" I give a salute then run towards the back half. "But don' expect a reward!" I heard AJ shout from behind me. An hour later and I met back up with AJ, with only ten trees left to buck. "Well howdy there." I say to her right before I buck a tree. She rolls her eyes and continues bucking as well. After a few more minutes we get all the apples off of the trees. "Nice job. Ah'll admit, ah had mah doubts." She chuckled. "Heh, thanks for the vote of confidence." I joked. "Ya're welcome." She grinned. "Well with those done, I suppose I should get going." I said, ready to leave. "Oh no ya don't." Applejack said, stepping in front of me. "Ah told ya not ta' expect a reward, not that ya wouldn't get one. Follow me." She said as she walked towards the farmhouse. Her wording needed a lot of work. So I followed her and the first pony we see when we stepped in was Granny Smith, who just came out of the kitchen. "Howdy Granny. Hope ya don't mind if mah friend Seastar joins us for lunch. She helped me out in the field." Granny Smith looked at me for a moment. "Why it's fine, she can join us!" She said, walking back into the kitchen. I have to admit, I was not expecting this much kindness, but I'm okay with it. I followed Applejack into the dining room, where we see Big Machintosh setting up plates and cutlery. "Howdy Big Mac. A new friend o' mine will be joinin' us for dinner." AJ said, pointing to me. I wave at him with a nervous smile. He was much taller in person. He nodded then went into the kitchen, probably to help Granny Smith. I noted that Applebloom wasn't there, but then I remembered it was a Wednesday. She was probably at school. Applejack pointed me to a chair to sit on while she got onto one herself. A moment passed before Big Mac came into the room with several plates of hayburgers and apple fritters. Yeah I kinda forgot about the whole pony food thing, but I could only hope I had new taste buds. Big Mac hooved the food out and sat down, Granny Smith sat down at the table soon after. "Dig in." Granny Smith said happily and everypony started eating. I hesitated to take a bite of the hayburger, but eventually I gave in. Thank goodness it didn't taste bad! In fact, it tasted quite good, I definitely dug in! After the meal I stood up. "I just want to say thank you for letting me have lunch with you all." I thanked them. "T'was no problem." Granny Smith said. "'Sides, ya helped me on tha farm. You deserved it." AJ pitched in. "Eeeyup!" I bet you could guess who said that. "Well I gotta get going, but I hope to see you all again." I waved and began to head for the exit. "Eeeyup." They all said which made me chuckle as I left. Well that was fun, really it was! The Apple family really is nice. So I definitely made some friends and had a lot of fun. Not everyday has to be full of action, sometimes it's nice to just take a break. Roll credits > Episode 10: A very magical day > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It had been three days since I helped Applejack on her farm, there hadn't been much going on, well not until one day. On said day I was patrolling Canterlot as usual when I heard a heated argument somewhere on the streets. I saw a crowd of ponies around a dark blue pegasus, but there was something that made me a lot more wary, his cutiemark. It was a magic wand, that was covered in blood. Now that I was closer I could hear the crowd laughing and saying some not so nice things to him. I was about to jump down until a filly walked up to the young stallion, the whole crowd went silent. I was now more wary, but I didn't move yet... I wish I did. "Mister, you're a pegasus, you can't use magic." She told him. The stallion took a moment to look at the filly, smiled, then swiftly moved and... Slit the filly's throat with a knife that somehow appeared in his mouth. The filly tumbled back, gasping for air, then hit the ground. Lifeless. The whole crowd stayed silent, too scared and shocked to even make a sound. As for me I was too shocked as well. That stallion just killed a filly, for what reason, because she said he couldn't use magic!? At this point my shock was replaced with anger. I jumped down and punched the pegasus hard, sending him sliding against the ground. He slowly got back up, but by the time he did my hoof was an inch from his face. My hoof made contact, giving him a bloody nose and probably some chipped teeth. I used my other hoof to punch him in the chest, almost definitely cracking a rib and making him spit out blood. Finally I spun on my front hooves then bucked him in the chest. I definitely heard a crack that time. The buck also sent him flying through a wall. I made my way to where he landed, only to find that he had somehow disappeared. I went back to crowd and now saw a mare holding the dead filly in her arms. She was probably the filly's mother... I felt terrible. A lot of the crowd was crying, others were throwing up, and some just looked sad. I for one, now knew that I had to find this monster for killing an innocent filly. I teleported away, not even bothering with the whole smoke thing. I had to find out where he went. "Computer! Get me a database file on a pony with dark blue fur, forest green mane and tail, pegasus and has a bloody wand for a cutiemark." I ordered. "Right away." The computer said as it got to work. "If I may ask, what's wrong?" It asked with a surprisingly worried tone. At that moment I was still angry. "Some bastard killed an innocent filly just for stating a fact!" I said angrily. "And he smiled... HE SMILED BEFORE HE ENDED AN INNOCENT FILLY'S life!!!" I stomped my hooves onto the ground, cracking the stone beneath me. The computer was silent for a moment then pulled up the data it gathered. "Lamented Goal lives in the poorer side of Canterlot." "Good, I'm going there." I was about to storm off, but the computer suddenly spoke. "Don't let your anger get the better of you and be careful." It told me. I look back at it... Her and nod. "I will be." Then left. [Third person pov.] Mare do well jumped through a window and into the apartment where Lamented Goal lived, but upon looking around she saw that it was empty. She explored the apartment eventually getting to the bedroom, fortunately that room was full. The caped hero searched the room top to bottom until she came across a drawer, inside was a letter. The letter said. "Dear mister Lamented Goal, we here at the canterlot entertainment theater would like you to perform an act for tomorrow at 12:00 a.m." Mare do well looked at the date the letter was sent and saw that it was delivered yesterday, meaning that Lamented Goal's performance was tonight, or more specifically in five minutes. Mare do Well quickly left the building and made her way to the theater. Inside the theater Lamented Goal introduced himself. "Hello everypony! I am Caster, the greatest magician in all of Equestria!" He shouted, to which the crowd booed. "Well it seems some ponies don't believe me." He then stomped the ground and the exits disappeared. "How's that for you?!" The crowd was in silent schock, then the room irrupted in applause and cheers. "Thank you, thank you, now can I have a volunteer?" He said with a demented smile. Many ponies raised their hooves and after a moment Caster picked one. "You, grey pony, come here." The earthpony mare looked around, then came up to the stage. "Please tell me your name dear." He asked the mare, putting the mic closer to her. "Octavia." She replied with a bored tone. "Very nice name. Now," He turned to the audience. "Who wants to see Ms. Octavia disappear?" The crowd cheered. Caster turned back to Octavia. "It won't hurt a bit." He assured her. "Are you ready!?" He asked Octavia, but before she could respond somepony crashed through a wall and that somepony was Mare do Well. "No no no! I cannot have any interruptions!!!" Sparks flew from Caster and shot out around the room, thankfully the electricity wasn't enough to kill anypony it hit, Mare do Well however, dodged. While that happened, Octavia got off the stage and ducked behind a chair. "This show is over, Caster." Said Mare do Well. "Oh really? I thought it only just began!" Caster replied, shooting a fire ball at Mare do Well. The hero used her cape to block the ball of flame, then galloped forward. Caster threw three metal playing cards at Mare do Well in response. [First person pov.] I jump-roll over the playing cards and spring up into a kick, but Caster seemed one step ahead of me, stopping my hoof with an invisible wall. The wall pushed me back until I jumped over it. I levitated off my hat then blasted a concussion spell at him, but he countered by disappearing without a trace. I had a very important question though, how did he have magic? He's a pegasus not a unicorn, he shouldn't be able to use this much magic. My train of thought was interrupted when I heard a sharp object whirling through the air. I moved my head just in time to avoid a butchers knife, then turned around to see my would-be killer. Caster quickly realized that he missed and so he stomped the floor, making the roof start crumbling. I avoided the debris, but was struck in the side by a spear, which hurt alot by the way. Luckily enough it didn't go deep too, thus not doing too much damage, but it had me writhing in pain. "Aww, the audience is gone. Oh well, this'll just be a private show." Caster said, laughing maniacally afterwards. I used my magic, backed up by my anger, to pull the unfortunately tipped spear out of my side and stand up. "I'm... Cancelling this... Show." I said, voice riddled with pain. Caster laughed harder. "Oh, but you deserve a very long rest." He summoned and shot six knives at me, in return I used a shield spell to block them. I charged up a spell and he turned around, expecting me to teleport behind him, but he was incorrect. I teleported to his side and bucked him into a pile of rubble. I jumped on top of him and started beating him violently, using all of my anger. I won't go into the gritty details, but let's just say that he won't be showing his face for a while. After that was done I made my way out of the building and to The Well. I was sure that somepony would get the authorities. I nursed my wounds, but while I was doing that, two things came to mind. How was Caster able to move so well even though I broke at least one of his ribs. And Celestia was going to be mad at me for screwing up his face... And as for the rest of the day... I went to bed, I was exhausted and emotionally drained... To be honest part of me wanted to kill him, but... I'm not a killer. I couldn't bring myself to kill anyone, but... If I did... He would've deserved it, right? Never mind that. It was over... for the time being. Roll credits > Episode 11: The feeling of being watched > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Winter was rolling around the corner and I could already see Cloudsdale in the distance. I'm honestly just happy for it, I'm hoping to just take a break and relax. But how would I go about that? Well let's see; Pinkie will most definitely be hosting several parties throughout the winter, I could learn more about pony culture and I could just simply have fun. But I still had to wait until Winter to do all that. Bored, I walked over to the computer. 'I really should give her a name.' I figured. "Hi computer... I'm bored." I stated, getting into and slumping on the chair in front of her. "I'm afraid I cannot help you with that, but I have some news from Fillydelphia" She responded. Oh no, news normally means something bad. "What's the news?" "There has been a string of murders there. i've already looked up who the victims are and they all are mares who are in a relationship." That was... odd. "Do you have any clue as to why?" "No." The computer really liked giving me one worded answers. "Okay then, looks like I'm going to Fillydelphia." I got in my suit, went to the springpad and launched towards Fillydelphia. After a minute of flying through the air, I saw Fillydelphia in the distance. A moment later and I was heading right towards a building. I teleported on top of it right before I went splat, It still hurt though. After I got up I decided to patrol Fillydelphia, I didn't know much about the place, but I was sure that may not be a problem. What I didn't expect to see on the sidewalks below were dragons! But I noticed that the area looked very... Chinese? I jumped across a few buildings, not wanting to jump to conclusions, and then looked back down at the streets again. This time seeing ponies, and the place looked more like Manehatten. So... were the dragons supposed to be there? If so then I didn't want to bother them. I never read the MLP comics, so if that's were it's from, I didn't know. I continued my patrol, but little did I know I was being watched... Spooky. After about half an hour I finished going around Fillydelphia, finding nothing. As I check my surroundings, I noticed a pony watching me from another rooftop. The pony realized that their cover was blown, so they took off. I chased after the pony, now getting a good look at them, unfortunately they were wearing armor, so no clues there. The armored pony jumped off a building and into an alleyway. Seeing no other way down, I teleport in front of them. "Listen, I'm not here to fight, but could you tell me why you wer- Oh god!" I yelled that last part as I dodged a slash from the sword I didn't know the armored pony had. "Okay, then we're doing this the hard way." I got into a readied stance. The armored pony charged at me and swung their sword, which I jumped over then hit them in the head with my front hooves. It's then that I notice the sword didn't have a magic aura around it, but that didn't make sense. I had no more time to ponder that as I was struck in the side, sending me into a dumpster. I peeked out of the dumpster, seeing that I was hit by a hammer. Ow, I had no idea where that came from. I jumped out of the trash and shot some concussion spells at the armored pony. The spells just reflected off of their armor. The hammer morphed into a second sword and they both were pointed at me. "Why are you here?" A robotic voice asked from inside the armor, but I knew it wasn't a robot. It sounded like a voice changer. "I had a similar question, why don't you answer mine first?" I retorted. The armor looked like it was giving me a glare. "Fine. I was making sure you weren't going to cause trouble. Now your turn to answer." "I came here because there has been a string of murders. I just finished patrolling and was about to investigate the latest crime scene." I explained. "Also for the record, you attacked me first." "Sorry, I just don't like being followed." 'What' Was my valid reaction. "So you kill ponies who follow you?!" I asked in disbelief. "... You seemed like you would survive and you did." Was their response. 'Cause that's reasonable. "... anyway, I need to go to the crime scene." I said as my horn started to glow and I turned away, preparing to teleport. "Actually I was already there." I heard the armored pony say from behind me. I turned around and tilted my head in a questioning manner. "I already investigated the crime scene." "What did you find?" I asked. "Follow." They told me as the two swords morphed into a metal platform and the pony stepped onto it. I took a few seconds to blink out of my surprise, then followed them onto the platform. The platform lifted into the air and started flying out of Fillydelphia. "Woah! I uhh, have a question." I said. "What is it?" They asked simply. "How do you control the metal with no magic?" The pony looked at me for a second, then put their focus back on controlling the platform. I guess they don't want to tell me. "We're here." The platform came to a sudden stop, sending me off it and onto the ground face first. I looked up and around and noticed a bunker-like entrance. The armored pony opened the door without touching it and walked in. I followed. Inside was a stairway leading down. I followed the armored pony down and entered into a large room with a lot of equipment. The pony led me to a table which had some items on it. I noticed a piece of paper with a picture of a hoofprint on it. "I found hoofprints, a lock of hair, and signs of a struggle, as well as magical residue." The armored pony told me. "What color is the magical residue and the lock of hair?" I asked. "The magical residue is green and the hair is teal. I haven't had the chance of scanning the hoofprint yet though." The armored pony explained. "Hmm. If you don't mind, could I teleport the evidence somewhere?" I ask. "Why?" They turned to me suspiciously. "Because I have a trusted friend who could use the evidence to find out who the murderer is." I elaborated. They looked like they were thinking for a few seconds, then said. "Fine, but don't make me regret trusting you." I nod, then teleport the evidence to The Well for the computer to scan. "It should take until morning." I told the armored pony. "There's a room here, you can rest in it," The armored pony said as they started to leave. "Hey!" I called out before they left. "Is there something I could call you by?" The armored pony turned to me and said one word. "Alloy." They then disappeared up the stairs. That left me to do some thinking. Alloy seemed trustworthy at least, but I still wanted to keep my guard up. Knowing that we'd continue the investigation tomorrow, I headed to bed. Roll credits > Episode 12: Ocean > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- So it was promptly the next day. I had woken up and was ready for anything. And yes, I slept in my costume... I was being cautious! I decided to check the lab to see if the computer sent back the evidence and to my glee, she did. I got to work looking over the files. From what it said, the prime suspect was a mare named Ocean Star. Mainly because of her magic colour, which is green, as well as her magic pool. The teal hair was actually just long strands of fur, but the DNA still matched ms. Star. Finally was the hoofprint and once again, it matched Ocean Star's to a near tee. With all the evidence pointing to Ocean Star, I knew exactly who to visit next. "So I guess we're going to pay a little visit to Ocean Star?" I heard from behind me, making me instinctively spin around and crouch into a defensive stance. Realizing it was just Alloy, I brought myself out of my defense. "So you were just behind me reading it over my shoulder?" I asked, annoyance clear in my tone. "Yes." Alloy replied simply. Not one of many words are they? "Okay then. Anyway, to answer your question, yes. We're going to confront Ocean Star." I explained. "Then let's go." Alloy said as they began for the stairs. "Right." I followed. A short flight on Alloy's... Slab of metal? Point is we arrived at Ocean's house. I told Alloy to wait outside so we could know what's going on at all times. I on the other hoof, snuck into her house through the unnaturally large chimney, just like Santa Claus. And yes, I checked for fire before jumping down. Once inside I waited, I'd rather not have to find her. It took quite a while before the mare of suspicion finally showed up. Upon seeing me she stopped moving instantly, jjust like a dear in headlights. "W-wait. Are you th-the mysterious mare do well?" She asked either timidly, or nervously. Or both. "Yes. I'm here because there has been a string of murders, primarily consisting of the victim being a mare who's in a relationship." I explained. Ocean shrank down. "What d-does that have to do w-with me?" "All of the evidence points to you being there at some point this weak." My voice took on a kinder tone. "I'm not here to hurt or arrest you, I just want to ask questions." "O-okay..." Ocean paused. "Umm, w-would you like to take a seat?" She offered, pointing to a blue couch. "No thank you, but you can if you want." "R-right." She slowly moved to the couch and got onto it. "My first question is, were you at the crime scene at any point this week and did you use magic in that area?" "...y-yes..." She answered quietly. "Why?" "... I-i don't w-want to tell you." She said sadly. "Why not." I continued using a kind voice. "I-it's embarrassing." She tried hiding into the couch. "I'm not here to criticise you, I'm here to solve a murder. I won't care what you were doing as long as it didn't hurt anypony." I assured her. "... Okay I... I'm a Geological Oceanographer. I-i study how the ocean floor is... Modeled, I guess you could s-say." "Am I right to assume that it is the reason for why you were there?" Ocean nodded. "I cast a spell as a daily check to see if the geological surface of the ocean has changed. Though, n-now that a murder has occured there..." She trailed off. "You're scared?" I assumed, to which she answered with another nod. "When you were going to do your daily check on the day of the murder, did you see anypony other than the victim?" Ocean stared at me blankly for a couple seconds, then began tearing up. "I-i..." She shut her eyes and turned her head down. "I saw it." She said that so quietly that I could barely hear it. She then broke out into surprisingly loud sobs. That little sentence told me all I needed. I walked over to Ocean and tried to comfort her. Ocean fell asleep at some point while I stroked her head, so I just left. I wanted to ask her more, but... She was stressed enough. Once out I saw Alloy just sitting on the roof and I suddenly realized how long I made them wait. "Sorry for taking so long, Ocean got pretty emotional." I apologized. "What did you discover?" Alloy asked, still turned away from me. "I discovered that Ocean Star is most likely not the 'Drowning Mare' as the public has dubbed the murderer." I explained. "I also found out that Ocean witnessed at least part of the murder and was the one who informed the authorities." "What did shw say about the murder?" "... I couldn't ask her... She's already traumatized and she doesn't need to remember it again." Alloy stood up and turned around, towering above me. "She does need to so that we can find the murderer." They began for the chimney. I jumped back in front of Alloy. "No she doesn't! She most likely told the police what happened when she told them about the murder. We could ask them." I insisted. Alloy glared, or at least I think she did, down at me. "The police and I don't have the best relationship." "So then I'll talk to them, but we're leaving Ocean alone." Alloy was silent for a while, then brought the metal slab level with the roof. "Fine." She said as she began to walk to it. I followed. "But if the police don't know anything, then we're coming back here, alright?" "Alright." I agreed. Roll credits > Episode 13: Star > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We arrive at the police station and I decide to be smart and use a spell to send in a projection of myself. Basically a hologram, but with magic. It's in the illusion section of magic. Anyways, fake me went in through the front door and up to a counter. The mare at the counter looked at 'me' with an incredulous expression. "Sorry, who are you and why are you wearing a costume?" She asked 'me', obviously struggling to keep a straight face. I guess she hasn't seen many superheros. I was about to answer until somepony came into the front room. The pony had blue fur, red mane and tail, and red eyes. He was also a Pegasus. "Quick Support, I need you t-..." The stallion was addressing the mare at the counter until he noticed 'me'. "Oh my Celestia... You're Mare do Well!!!" He exclaimed. Immediately after, he ran up to 'me' and shook 'my' hoof. Or at least tried to before his hooves fazed right through 'mine'. I decided that I probably didn't need the projection spell anymore, so I teleported in it's place. "Sorry for that. I just didn't know how this place would react to me." I explained, then stretched my hoof out for a hoofshake. He happily accepted the hoofshake with a good-hearted chuckle. "Right, right. It's a pleasure to meet you Mare do Well." He stopped shaking my hoof. "My name's Crimson Cold, the commissioner of the F.P.D, Filliedelphia Police Department." "Good to meet you too, but how do you know who I am?" I asked. I could only smile at how carefree he seemed. "Well all of the P.D's are connected when it comes to information. I read from the commissioner in Canterlot's report about ya. I had a real hard time believing somepony as awesome as you existed." I couldn't help but blush at the praise, luckily I had a mask on. "Thank's, but enough about me. I'm here because I've been investigating the Drowning Mare murders." The atmosphere in the room suddenly got darker. "I'm not surprised. Have ya already talked to Ocean Star? I hope you didn't give her too hard of a time." Crimson said, still holding his lighthearted demeanor. "I tried my best not to." "Good, good. Come with me, she gave us some mighty fine details." He said as he began for the door he initially came through. I followed and had to restrain a giggle as I passed the baffled mare at the counter. "So what did you find at the crime scene?" I asked, just in case Alloy missed something. "Nothing but a flask. It showed signs of recently containing fluid, most likely water. It also had magic residue on it, but we couldn't decipher from who or even what color it was." He explained. "Interesting." Finally we arrive at what I assumed to be Crimson's office. We walked up to his desk and on it were documents. "These documents are direct notes taken during Ocean Star's interrogation. You can read 'em if ya want." And so I did. The notes basically noted each point of interest about the interrogation. To put it simply; Ocean Star claimed that she was going to do her daily check of the ocean. When she arrived she saw a blue stallion using magic to take water out of a flask to drown somepony. She immediately ran and told the authorities. The only other things she claimed to remember was that the stallion was a Pegasus and that he had devil-like red eyes. Now I had several problems with that story. First and most obvious: There is a huge contradiction! First she said the stallion used MAGIC to to take water out of the flask to drown the victim. That implied that the culprit was a Unicorn, but later she said that the stallion was a Pegasus! Second: That description sounds exactly like Crimson Cold, who I assumed was the one who interrogated her. With somepony in front of you, you can easily describe what they look like, right? And that seems exactly like what Ocean Star did... I believed her, but once again it seemed like everything was pointing against her. Not to mention controlling water or any type of liquid on it's own is difficult. But Ocean worked with water everyday, she'd have to be able to at least cause small ripples by now, and that's stretching it. "I think I know who's responsible for the murders." I said in an agitated tone. "You do?" Crimson asked with a tilt of his head. "Yes. And I'm paying her a visit. Have your troops wait outside Ocean Star's house." I began for the door. "But didn't we already confirmed Ocean's innocence?" Crimson asked. "Look at the description of the 'culprit'. Remind you of anypony?" I then teleported to the roof of the FPD. "Alloy-..." And noticed that Alloy had disappeared. I decided that I couldn't wait, so I teleported to and inside Ocean's house. "Ocean!?" I called out. "She's not here." I spun around and prepared to fight, only to see that Alloy was the one who spoke. "Can you stop sneaking up on me?" I growled. I simply got a shrug as an answer. "Do you know where she went?" I asked. "No." "... So we lost her?" My eye twitched. Alloy nodded a yes. "Damnit!!!" I yelled. As you can tell, I was pretty pissed. All in all, Ocean Star completely disappeared. We had no trace of her and she didn't seem to want us to. This was the first time a criminal escaped me... I failed. I said my goodbye's to Alloy and Crimson, then left Filliedelphia to go home. I was hoping that the computer or as I finally came up of a name for her, Shelly, had some good news. "Hey, computer?" I asked. "Yes?" Shelly asked. "Is it okay if I call you Shelly?" "You can call me whatever you like." "Okay, but do you like it?" "... I do. From now on I'll be called Shelly." Shelly declared. "Great." I smiled. "Is there any recent news?" "... Not good news." My smile instantly fell. I breathed a deap sigh. "How so?" "Lamented Goal, A.K.A Caster has escaped prison." Shelly answered solemnly. "God fu-!" Again, I was pretty pissed. Roll credits > Episode 14: A surprisingly fun fight. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- So recently a giant electric explosion occurred in the weather factory. It was apparently set off by a Mare name Puffy Smoke, or as she called herself; Misty Storm. From what I heard though it seemed like the Weathermare put a stop to Misty's plan, permanently... I don't have full details so I'm not going to be accusing anypony, but I hope Rainbow didn't actually... Anyways, I was decorating The Well with Hearts Warming decorations. Y'know, holiday spirit and all. But Shelly suddenly reported a distress flare went off in the open plains between Canterlot and Ponyville. It could've been a basic bandit raid, but the explosion I heard as I was getting my costume on said otherwise. I ran to the springpad, readjusted it to shoot me to the plains, then got on and fired away! Now I may not be a Pegasus, but I love flying! As I was getting closer to my landing point I saw exactly who was behind the explosion; My good old pal, Tick-Tock. I landed a few feet away from him and the thing he was blowing up. By the look of it I figured it was some kind of wagon. To my left I saw a fairly burnt body. I decided that possibly dead pony comes first, Tick-Tock get's a hoof to the face later, and the definitely destroyed wagon comes never. I ran to the pony and saw that she was breathing, quite well I may add. Next I saw Tick-Tock continuing to explode the terrain of where the wagon once was. I swear he has some sort of fetish for explosions. I trotted up to him before he lit the next fuse and tapped him on the shoulder. "Wha!-" He was asking as he was turning his head to me, but I politely interrupted him with a hoof to the face; Knocking him back and giving him a nosebleed. "Well isn't this a nice reunion. I've gotta ask though, why did you blow that wagon into oblivion?" I asked with a slight chuckle. "That's none of your beeswax! But hey, at least we get a rematch." Tick-Tock said as he got into a fighting stance. He hopped up and threw a bomb at me which I easily kicked into the air. As Tick-Tock landed back on the ground I was already there to send a punch his way. Surprisingly he was able to just barely dodge my hoof. It seemed to surprise him too. I wasn't surprised enough to stop however, so I gave him a hard buck to the side, sending him away and onto the ground. He rolled over onto his hooves and sent a bomb at me like a bowling ball. I easily jumped over it and sent a concussion blast at him which he interrupted midair with another bomb. He tossed three smaller bombs at me which I blocked with a shield spell. But instead of an explosion, now there was smoke, not toxic, but hard to see through. I heard Tick-Tock galloping towards me, so I waited for the right time, then ducked under a punch of his and sprung up, delivering a mean uppercut to his jaw. He staggered back then turned and tried to buck me only for me to grab his legs, spin him around, then let him fly for a short while. After his flight he got a face-full of dirt. As he was getting up and shoveling dirt out of his mouth I asked him another question. "So how'd you get out of jail?" Tick-Tock finished spitting out dirt then turned to me. "Wouldn't you like to know." He laughed. "That's kind of the point of asking." I said calmly. "Well I ain't gonna tell you!" He replied in defiance. I shrugged. "Okay then, well it's time for you to go back anyway." I began walking towards him. "Not if-!" I cut him off with a concussion blast. I tied him up and teleported him to the police station then teleported the comedically burnt mare to the Ponyville hospital. As for me, I barely had enough energy to teleport back to The Well, but I did. Immediately afterwards I fell unconscious. That was honestly more fun than a chore. Nopony was really hurt, Tick-Tock wasn't annoying, and the poor wagon got absolutely rekt. Yay for comedy being there to lighten a mood! Though I did wonder what was in that wagon. [Omnipotent perspective] A powerful flow of magic found itself drawn to the Everfree Forest, and smaller portions spread out across Equestria and through time. Roll Credits > Episode 15: L'hiver arrive -part 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Winter had now began to roll over Ponyville, giving a new cheeriness to everything around me. To be honest, it was kinda overwhelming. Even Canterlot was preparing for Winter and setting up lights. Of course with Winter comes the petty robbers who steal from small stores, trying to get a quick buck. Or bit in this case. So unfortunately, I had to patrol even more. Of course it wasn't all bad, I got to see ponies filled with joy, and even the most 'noble' of ponies being filled with the holiday spirit. So I was patrolling Canterlot, when I suddenly heard a elderly pony yell. "Help! He stole my bag!" Obviously I looked and saw a earth pony running with a bag in his mouth. How petty do you have to be to do something like that. I jumped in front of the stallion's escape route. He tried skidding to a halt but he had to much momentum. I stretched out my forehoof, stopping him pretty easily. I took the bag into my magic then levitated it back to it's original owner. The crook was now cowering at my hooves. I decided to say five simple words. "Think about your life choices." Then I teleported away. It was Hearths Warming, I didn't feel like beating ponies up. After that incident I finished my patrol for the night. I was about to get some shuteye when Shelly decided to speak very loudly. "There have been reports of an unscheduled snow storm in Fillydelphia." The sudden noise made me fall out of bed. The news Shelly delivered wasn't that great either. "That seems like a job for the Weathermare." I grumbled out, still lying on the floor. It was surprisingly comfy. "Reports have said that she's already on the scene, unfortunately she seems to be having difficulty." I grumbled again, all I wanted was some sleep! I got up and walked to the armory to get my costume on. After that I trotted over to the launchpad. "Well it's a good thing I like snow." I smiled then stepped onto the launchpad. I pulled the lever then went flying. Believe it or not, flying through the air at high speeds was much more relaxing than you might think. As I was approaching Fillydelphia I was suddenly spoken to, which wasn't loud, I just didn't expect it. Luckily I stayed stable in the air. "Seastar, do you read me?" "Shelly!? How're you speaking to me?" I asked in utter confusion. "I simply installed the upgrades in your suit that you asked for." "Oooh. Thanks." Remember that time when I asked Shelly to make upgrades to my suit, and I said I'd talk about them once they were ready? Well that time comes now; I basically asked for a transmitter device to be installed in my suit so I could communicate with Shelly whenever I need/want to. Oh yeah, my cape is now 'cape'able of making me glide now. Hurray for breaking the laws of physics! Speaking of being able to glide, I noticed I was losing speed, so I decided to try out my new ability... Let's just say that I needed some practice. Nevertheless I was able to make it to Fillydelphia. "Seastar, the blizzard appears to be coming from the police department." Shelly informed me, though I don't think she needed to, there was a huge stream of clouds going up to the blizzard cloud. I continued to glide, this time towards the police department. I was starting to feel very cold and I wasn't even that close to the FPD yet. I landed at the front door, unfortunately it was completely iced over. My hope for any survivors was quickly dying. I used a strength spell, then bucked the ice into nothing but shards. I also managed to buck the door down. "Hold up!" I heard a familiar voice say from behind me. I turned around, seeing the Weathermare hovering slightly above ground. "Why are you here? How'd you get here?" She asked me. I rolled my eyes. "I'd ask the same thing, but I'm pretty busy at the moment." I told her as I turned to enter the building. "Hold on! I'm going too." I saw her hover alongside me from my peripheral vision. "Good, I may need assistance." After I said that I heard her breathing become uneven for a couple of seconds and she left my sight. She was most likely expecting me to tell her no. I was having a bit of trouble with walking on the icy floor. We continued through the halls, passing by several frozen corpses. I could tell that Rainbow was getting uneasy, even I was slightly unnerved by seeing their frozen, terrified faces. Eventually we came across a spot where there were two ways to go. "So who goes which way?" Weathermare asked. I would've gone by handedness, but that doesn't really apply to hooves. I still chose left though. "I'll go left, you go right." "What!? Do I not get a say in this? One of us is going to find whoever did this!" Weathermare worried. I obviously had to find a way to stop her worrying. Thankfully I had just the tool. I took out a spare communicator that I had Shelly make, then held it out for Weathermare to take. "Take this, it'll allow us to communicate from wherever we are in a one thousand mile radius." She took the communicator into her hooves and stared at it. "Put it in your ear and press the button on it to speak to me. If I come across the pony who did this then I'll tell you on the device. The same goes for you." "Okay? I think I get it." Weathermare said with a bit of confusion. She then put the communicator in her ear. I then remembered something that would probably be useful. "Also if you flip a switch on it then you'll be able to speak to a friend of mine. She can assist you with bio's and information in general." "Wait, you have friends." She joked... Nice. "Very original." I said sarcastically as I began walking through the hallway. "Good luck." After that I heard a sigh as I was trotting away. I had a feeling I knew why just by looking around the cold and death filled hallway. To be continued... > Episode 16: L'hiver arrive -part 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I continued on down the hallway and passed by more frozen corpses, I began to feel just how cold the environment was. Thank goodness my suit protects me from quite a bit. As I was walking past another frozen door, I heard scuffling from behind it. Now curiosity may have killed the cat, but caution kept the klipspringer alive. I examined the door and noticed that it could be easily opened. I open the door slightly and peeked inside. The whole room was frozen over and I felt a sharp breeze blow past me. I recognised the room almost immediately, it was Crimson Cold's office. I leaned more into the room, now being able to see nearly the full office. There was a pillar of ice in the middle of the room, reaching from the floor to the roof. I slowly trotted towards the desk and as I got closer I noticed that the ice pillar went through the roof... Like the ice was blasted through it. I searched the whole room, but to no avail. Everything was frozen and the cold was starting to seep into my suit. I quickly left the room and continued down the hall. Eventually I came across a flight of stairs leading up. I steadily climbed up the steps, making sure not to slip. After some time I reached the second floor, which had another hallway to go down. I began my trek with a sharp breathe and trotting forward. After passing by two doors, a door to my left began to open. I spun around and saw a... Ice hand wrap around the door frame. The next thing I knew the creature who the hand belonged to came out of the room. It looked like some sort of ice golem, baring a sharp set of teeth at me. It was about the size of the door it came through, meaning it was a fair bit taller than me. I crouched down, ready to leap out of the way or fire a beam. The golem raised a claw then swung it down at me. I jumped back but I hit something, the thing that I jumped into wrapped it's arms around me and began squeezing. I pointed my horn at where I assumed the golem's head was, then fired a heat beam straight through it. The entire golem melted into a puddle instantly, dropping me to the floor. I landed on my feet and immediately jumped to the right, avoiding the claw of the first golem. I ran and slid under the golem, then stood up and bucked it in the leg. The leg shattered and the entire golem came crumbling down as a pile of ice shards. I scanned over the hallway, making sure that there was not going to be anymore surprises. Once I figured I was safe I let out a sigh. I decided to investigate the room that the first ice golem came out of, but it was just an interrogation room. I went back into the hall with a new line of thought in my mind; where the hell did the ice golems come from? I pondered that as I continued down the hall. 'They must have come from the same thing as whatever... Or whoever made the blizzard.' I thought as I checked another unfrozen room. Suddenly I heard a scream from the end of the hall; it sounded like a male. 'Of course it's at the end of the hall. How original. I mused sarcastically as I galloped through the hall. I got to the final door and kicked it down. I was ready to start fighting, but then I processed what was in the room. In the middle of the room was Crimson Cold, seemingly being infested by a aura of cold wind... At least that's what it looked like. Four more ice golems formed out of the ice and two charged at me. I ducked under them, letting them run out of the room. I then closed the door, locking them out. Another one breathed in the cold air, then blew it out at me. I jumped to the side, feeling the cold air slightly breeze past me. I looked back at where I was only to see a frozen block of ice. Yeah, dodging was a good call. I ran to the other side of the room as I turned on my communicator. "Weathermare, do you read me!?" I called as I avoided the ice block that one of the golems tried to throw at me. I ducked down, narrowly sliding under a falling icicle. "I hear ya." Weathermare responded. I heard some rustling in the background, but I paid it no mind. "What's going on?" She asked. I leapt onto one of the last two golems and pushed it face first into the ground, shattering it. I landed with a huff, then I dodged the claw of the last one as I said. "Just taking care of some ice golems! I also found the source of the blizzard." I ran up to the golem, then turned and bucked my hind legs straight through it's chest. It fell into a puddle form right after that. "At least I think I did." I admitted with a sigh, finally able to get a breather. "How 'bout you?" "I fought off some ice wolves, then found some survivors. I'm gonna head out of the building now. Think you can handle things in here?" She asked. "Probably. Still, you should come back as soon as you can." I answered honestly. "Got it." Then silence. I trotted over next to Crimson. He was shaking violently and seemed to be mumbling something. I reached my hoof out to touch him, but when I did I felt a sharp chill run through me. I flinched back, then checked over myself to make sure I was not effected. Suddenly Crimson's eyes shot open, then he skittered to the back of the room. I slowly and cautiously approached him as he stared at me like a deer caught in headlights. "Crimson?" I tested. "Are you okay?" I asked as softly as I could. He looked terrified. I tried taking another step forward, but I quickly realized I was now frozen to the floor. "I-i don't k-know what's going on!" Crimson panicked. As he said that the ice began climbing up my body. That's when I realized what was going on. Crimson was somehow controlling the weather, though obviously not intentionally. "Crimson, I need you to calm down." I said cautiously. "B-b-but i don't-.... Why is this happening?!" He screamed. "I don't know, bu-" "A-am I c-c-causing this?" He said, eyes now wide. "I-i-i didn't mean too, I-i don't-... How did-..." The more he freaked out the more the ice crept up my body. I now only had my head not concealed in ice. He realized this too and thus freaked out even more, this time making all of the ice in the room expand. In fact now it was even snowing. I could hardly breath, and I would have been completely sealed up if Alloy didn't come crashing through the door. It startled Crimson to the point where all the ice in the room suddenly melted. Though now Crimson began panicking again because of what the situation looked like, then, just like that, he turned into a gust of visible cold wind and flew around Alloy and out the door. I took in several deep breathes so I could breath normally again, then turned to Alloy. "What took you so long?" I asked with a chuckle and a cough interrupting said chuckle. "I was dealing with a gang that resided out of town. I would have been here sooner, but the leader just didn't stay down." Alloy responded. "Ah, got it." I nodded in understanding. "And thanks for the save, but Crimson ran away." I sighed depressingly. Alloy nodded a confirmation. "I'll keep an eye out for him, for now we have a-" Suddenly Weathermare flew into the room. "Guess what. The blizzard stopped on it's own." She announced. Judging by how neither Alloy nor Weathermare were confused as to who the other was, I assumed they met each other outside. Both Alloy and I stared at Weathermare in shock. "Well that's... Good." I said, rather dumbfounded. Afterwards we cleared out the rest of the building, then went our separate ways. I gave Alloy a communicator, which she somehow fazed through her armour. Oh yeah, I found out Alloy's a female when she used the communicator. She didn't seem to care that much. Weathermare told me that she'll keep her communicator on whenever she's in the field. After they both left to do their own things, I left Fillydelphia and headed home. To be honest I was pretty upset about the whole situation. Crimson was now missing with new powers that he somehow got and can't control, and most of the FPD was in shambles... I wished I could've done more. Roll credits > Cancellation? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Okay, so... I don't really know how to go about this... Basically I will be cancelling The Mysterious Mare Do Well and it's sister stories, but not forever! And by not forever, I mean that I'll be making a reboot at some point. Now obviously you may have some questions why and I've already came prepared with two. 1: I have a lot of things to deal with right now and a lot to write. If you'd like to ask for more details then go ahead, but I won't answer personal questions. 2: The first few chapters of this story were honestly pretty bad and beyond my ability to fix them. Not just that but for some unimaginable reason I decided to split the story into three. I should have just had one and switch perspectives accordingly to each chapter. Most of these are my own fault and I understand that, but I can't keep myself between everything. Once again I'd like to mention that I won't leave this story to be forgotten, I will make a reboot in the future and it'll be much better than how this started. I've learned many things while making this story and I hope to use them in the remake of it. But quality takes time and I still have things in real life I have to deal with, so it may be a while before I get working on it. But I will, and I hope you'll be there to read it. Until then, keep a balanced mind and thanks for reading!