Join Twilight Sparkle as she reads an old tale written almost one thousand years ago of the war between Celestia and Nightmare Moon.
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This is just a one shot.

NOTE: The story is written in a way of old legend as if Twilight was reading a really old book.

Snips was just your average Canterlot teenager who liked pizza and hoofboard tricks but then he made the mistake of meeting Time Turner and stepping into his "time elevator".

Now he has to visit Ponyville, the town of his childhood, literally during his childhood. Can he keep the secrets of the future from the many "to be famous" ponies living there? Probably not, and things don't get any easier when the time machine has a very affectionate AI.

Sure he was never in time for his classes
and he was never in time for work.
But then one day...
he wasn't in his time at all!

Hold on to your space time continuums!

A private detective. A town full of colorful and suspicious ponies. A crime.

(1st person story of gumshoes and suspicious dames.)

See how much cheesy noire monolgue you can take, before you start wearing a hardboiled hat and drink unhealthy amounts of coffee.

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So here I was again. Sitting in my office of a private eye. New town, old moves. But who could blame me? They called me Hawkshaw, the stallion cursed with the special talent of solving crimes. The talent that would forever tie me to the underbelly of society.

The office was quiet. For a moment I hoped that it would stay that way. That I had finally found the one place on this world that was free of crime. All those hopes were shattered however, when she knocked on my door

Twilight Sparkle has been captured to the Lazarus tower, an ancient research facility located in the center of an remote island.
Built by Nightmare Moon over a thousand years ago the tower was created to research resurrection using dark magic.

Now it falls to the hooves of Rainbow Dash and Applejack to travel across the island ravaged by dark magic and enter the tower in secrecy to save Twilight all the while avoiding the gaze of a mysterious villain who has taken control over the island.