Ever since helping prove Dash's innocence back in Canterlot, Rarity has clearly allowed to let her detective fantasies and love of Shadow Spade get to her head. Now, she's on the hunt for notorious gangster and baker Al Ca-Scone, at the expense of Carousel Boutique and her family, and it's up to her friends to try and talk her back into reality.

All it takes was one decision to throw an entire world into disorder.

When Twilight Sparkle decided to go to Moondancer's party instead of the Summer Sun Celebration and try to catch a late train into Ponyville later, Celestia found herself completely unprepared for Nightmare Moon's return. Unbeknownst to her, one of Twilight's friends, Lyra Heartstrings, did go to Ponyville. There, Lyra tries to fit in, and is thrown headfirst into a world full of new friends, secret agents, prejudice, unrequited love, very requited love, conspiracy, bitterness, regret and the end of all of Equestria.

You’ve heard this story before, haven’t you?

Just about every pony in Equestria has. The first ever National Dash Parade Day, 104 years ago. The day that The Dash, one of our greatest national heroes, broke into the Cloudsdale Weather Factory, and almost met her end at the hands of a monstrous villain with a terrible plan to turn all of Equestria to glass. It's a story of bravery, of danger, of good and evil, and of a Princess' fight for freedom.

And of course, it's all true... isn't it?

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Written for EqD Writer Training Grounds Tanks for the Memories event. Also, first fic on this site, so feel free to applaud me as the best debut writer ever and tell me how I have no faults.

Rated Teen for a little bit of blood. It's not a Saw movie, but can't be too safe.