An Odd Little Town, Called Gravity Foals...

by Commander Jenna Cipher

Wax sculptures can be murdered... Who knew?

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Chapter 2: Wax sculptures can be murdered... Who knew it was possible.

"I'm afraid you're services won't be required here sir, I've examined the evidence and this clearly, an accident."

Twilight and Pinkie Pie were currently sitting in the Mystery Shack's living room, watching a show called 'Goose Detective' on television.

On television, a completely brown, blue eyed colt in a Hoofdon cop uniform was standing next to a goose in a Sherlock Hooves costume that was WAY too big, behind them was a wax statue crushed under a blue police box from the 960's. The goose honked, the subtitles translating into "Was it an accident constable? Or was it... murder!" The cop gasps dramatically and the TV is switched off.

Pinkie Pie was grinning widely, as usual, as she commented "He must be some kind of super-goose! SUPER GOOSE, HE SAVES THE DA-"

Twiligh cut her off by putting her hoof in Pinkie's mouth "Actually Pinkie, he finds clues so easily because he's closer to the ground, it's only natural he'd notice small details we couldn't."

Pinkie pouted as they left the room and walked down the hall. After about fifty seconds, they found Big Mac staring a spot where the wallpaper had been stripped away, revealing a door. Pinkie smiled and asked "Watch'ya doing staring at that door Big Mac!"

Big Mac nodded towards the door and answered "Ah was clean'n up, and found this here door." He pushed it open, revealing a large dusty room filled with wax sculptures, the only source of light a small window on the far wall "Seem's like one of them places in horror movies where the side character dies in the first five minutes."

They went inside the room, Twilight lighting her horn so they could see better, and began looking around "What's with all the wax statue's, it's really creepy..." The alicorn mumbled to herself.

Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie was poking all the statues "They all seem so life like! Hmm... Well, except that one." This time, the statue she poked actually moved "EEK!"

Twilight aimed her horn into the corner Pinkie was in, revealing Trixie was standing there.

"How did you get in here!?"

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Trixie smirked, holding back a small laugh and said "Behold, the Gravity Foals wax muesem! It was one of our biggest attractions, until Trixie forgot all about it... It's got everypony! General Hurricane, Firefly, Surprise, Sherlock Hooves..." Trixie pointed out the statues as she listed them all, finally stopping on a pile of melted wax under the opened window "...And over here, Trixie's personal favorite, Wax Polkadotis!" She stared at the pile of waxs, stunned, before shaking it off and facehoofing, while a small frown forming on her face "Who left the blinds open!?

Pinkie smiled, running over to Trixie and patting her on the head, she told her "Aww, don't worry! Just to make you smile, I'll make a new statue out of all this old, melted, wax!"

Trixie raised a non-existent eyebrow and replied "You can actually do that? Trixie thought you were a baker..."

The pink earth pony gasped and said "I'm not just a baker Trixie! I have to make EVERY pony smile! So I have to be good at everything! That makes sense right?"

Trixie smiled and replied "I like you're gumption, sis!"

"I don't know what that word means, but thank you!"

Later, in their room Pinkie was working on idea's. She shoved a drawing in Twilight's face and asked "Twilight! Look at this, my sculpture idea! It's part flutterpony princess, and part cyborg prince!"

Twilight pushed the drawing away, saying "Pinkie... Maybe you should carve something from REAL life! Like a friend, a pet, someone from you're family?"

At that moment, Trixie's voice echoed through the shack "HAS ANYONE SEEN MY HAT?"

Pinkie's eyes gre wide, and she could've sworn she heard singing. So over the next five hours, and one montage later, she built an exact wax duplicate of... Trixie. When it was done, she, Twilight, and Big Mac were standing in front of it. Pinkie commented "I think... It needs more glitter!"

Big Mac nodded, handing her a bucket of white glitter, which she thre onto the statue. Trixie came in, her hat found one more, saying "I found my hat but now my capes gone..." She stood in front of the statue, gawking at the amazing wax duplicate of her, hat, cape, and all, smothered in white glitter.

Pinkie grinned nervously asking "Sooo.... What do you think? DO YOU LIKE IT?"

When Trixie regained her bearings, she grinned widely and said "Trixie thinks, It's the most beautiful thing Trixie has ever seen!"

The next day, a stage was set up outside the mystery shack, Trixie had managed to somehow get everyone in town to come to the event, she even bribed Twilight and Flash. When the crowd was full, Trixie walked out on stage, with a new hat and cape, both silver with gold stars, and said "Ponies of Gravity Foals, surely you all remember the Great and Mysterious Trixie! Town mare of mystery, colts mare, please, stallions, contorl yourselves, Trixie knows you admire her beauty and power! But enough about Trixie, behold, THE GREAT AND GLITTERFUL TRIXIE!"

As the statue was wheeled out on stage, there was murming in the crowd, an old changeling stallion covered in wrinkles, with a white cast around his left hoof and a white mane and beard stood up, raising his bad hoof. Trixie pointed at him and he introduced himself "Old Colt Macbucket, former warrior in the Gravity Foals Changeling Swarm and local cook. Are the wax figures alive, and follow up question, can I survive the wax colt uprising!?"

Trixie had a 'u serious?' look on her face, so she chose the easy way out and said "Yes... Trixie thinks you would be able to survive such an event... Next question please!"

The next hoof that went up belonged to a young cream colored pegasus mare with brown eyes, a lime green mane and a newspaper cutie mark who was holding a microphone, Trixie pointed to her for the question and the pegasus asked "Yes, I'm Maretha Jane, you're flyers promised free haycon with admission to this event, is this true?"

Trixie froze up, stuttering for a few minutes before nervously chuckling and saying "That was a typo. Thank's for coming everyone, BYE!!" She teleported off stage, taking the scuplture and the jar of bits from the admission table with her, as a riot erupted over the lack of free haycon.

LATER...

A scream echoed through the shack, and everyone rushed to he living room, only to find Trixie standing over the now headless body of her wax duplicate "Wax Trixie... SHE'S BEEN MURDERED!!"

The town cops, a a black pegasus colt with a white mane, and a police badge cutie mark wearing dark sunglasses and a police hat, and... Derpy Hooves in a police uniform, as Trixie told that she had gotten up to use the bathroom, and come back to find the statue decapitated, the colt nodded, taking notes on a pieace of paper he had pulled from nowhere. The colt pulled a coffee from nowhere, and began sipping it after saying "I hate to break it too you, but this case is just unsolvable."

Twilight protested "But there has to be evidence! No case if unsolvable, and sculptures don't just decapitate themselves... Unless it's Discord, and I still don't know how he did it that one time!"

After several insults one the part of the pegasus colt, and Derpy mindlessly commenting that she sneezed like a kitten, Twilight was more determinated to solve that case than ever... After some investigating, and finding an axe behind the couch in the living room, Twilight and Pinkie thought they had found the culprit. They rushed out of the Mystery Shack, telling Trixie where they were going, who only replied "Sounds like something a responsible parent wouldn't want you doing. Good thing Trixie is you're sister! Go and avenge Trixie's beauty!"

As the sun went down, they arrived at a biker club in downtown Gravity Foals. Where a large brown stallion that had apparentally shaved his mane off, had just rejected a gold miner entrey saying "Sorry, we don't serve miners."... And he immediatly fell for their fake ID's.

While Pinkie got caught up reading somepony's hoof, Twilight managed to locate the town lumberjack, a large buff white pegasus stallion with nearly microscopic wings, who was currently beating up a machine. When Twilight confronted him about it, he stopped his beating on the machine and replied "Listen giant talking purple grape!"

"Actually i'm-"

"I wouldn't pick my teeth with that axe! It's left hoofed, I use my right hoof. The TOUGH hoof!"

A little later, after reviewing suspects to see if they were left hoofed, al but one was a dead end...

They were currently outside the office of the Gravity Foals Whisperer, the police were with them, and the rude pegasus colt said "You'd better be right about this, or else..."

Derpy giggled and said "I get to use my muffin stick!" She then pulled a nightstick with blueberry muffins stuck to it.

They entered the building, and jumped out at a nerdy brown earth pony colt with a blue mane and grey eyes and a camera cutie mark, who was wearing glasses too big for his face. Twilight pointed a hoof and said "Moby Determinated, you're under arrest for the murder of Wax Trixie!"

The colt stutered "I- I don't understand!"

Twilight grinned and said "Allow me to explain... You were hoping Trixie's new attraction would be a story capable of saving you're newspaper, so you went out and made yourself a new storyline. But you were sloppy, and you got yourself caught, left-hoofed!"

Moby chuckled "I had notihng to do with that murder!"

Twilight stuttered "Wait what?"

The police colt asked "Then where were you the night of the break in?"

Moby proceeded to show them a horrifying video of him dancing, with a cardboard cut out of female news report Maretha Jane...

The police colt nodded saying "The timeframe checks out, you freak of nature..."

Twiligh frantically levitated to the axe up to him and siad "Check for hoofprints, there's gotta be something!"

It was later revealed the axe was free of hoofprints... And Twilight and Pinkie went home very shortly after being insulted by the cops once more.

Later, in the Mystery Shack parlor, the sculptures had been put into seats and everyone was standing in front a coffin, containing the body of Trixie's wax sculpture. Trixie was giving her speech, finishing up with "Trixie will miss you Wax Trixie, she hope's you're showing off in wax heaven!"

Twilight sighed as Trixie and Big Mac left "Those cops were right about me..."

Pinkie Pie put a hoof on her shoulder and said "Twilight! We've already gotten so far! We can't stop now!"

Twilight sighed, before she noticed something "Wax Trixie's front hooves have holes in them..."

Pinkie giggled "Yea, all wax ponies have that that way the can go on the stand-thingies!"

Twilight thought for a moment and gasped suddenly, looking directly into Pinkie's eyes "Wait... What has holes in it's front hooves, and NO hoof prints! Pinkie, I don't know how it's possible, but the murderers are - "

Suddenly, the wax Sherlock Hooves stood up and said "Right behind you..." He walked torwards them "Congratulations, my amature slueths, you've unburried the truth. And now were going to bury you..." He said, the other wax sculptures getting up and standing behind him as he spoke.

"Bravo, Twilight Sparkle. You've discovered our little secret. Applaud everypony. Applaud." The figures began clapping "No, do it sarcastically, that sounds too sincere, do it slower, slow clap." The scupltures obeyed.

Pinkie raised a non-existent eyebrow asking "Are you some kind of magic-y thingy?"

Wax Sherlock Hooves laughed saying "Magic? She wants to - HAHAHA - know if were magic.." he lunged and pinned both mares down "Yes! In fact were cursed. Cursed to come to life when to moon is waxing... You're sister bought us when she first came to Gravity Foals, at a haunted garage sale..."

*FLASHBACK*

A rich stallion with a white coat and blonde mane with a gold coin cutie mark, wearing a suit said "I must warn you, these statue's come with a terrible price!"

Trixe gasped looking at the price tag "20 bits!? Nevermind, Trixie will take them when you aren't looking."

"What?"

"Trixe said she was going to rob you."

*END FLASHBACK*

"And the Gravity Foals wax collection was started, by day, we were the play things of ponies. But when the sun set, we ruled the night! It was a charmed life for us cursed beings, that is... Until Trixie closed up shop... We've waited an entire year to get back at that con-mare unicorn for locking us away!... But we got the wrong filly..."

*FLASHBACK*

Sherlock cuts the head off Wax Trixie, dropping his axe and running off with his prize when he hears the real Trixie coming back.

*END FLAHSBACK*

Twilight gasped and said "You mean... You were trying to murder our sister for REAL!?"

Pinkie gulped and repled "You were right, wax people ARE creepy..."

Wax Sherlock said "Enough! Now that you know our secret, you. Must. Die!"

Panicking, Twilight threw a cup of coffee from a nearby table onto the nearest statue, flinching when it melted.

Pinkie gasped saying "That's it! we can melt them with hotty melty things!"

Pinkie grabbed a candle and Twilight lit her horn saying "One step closer and we'll melt you into candles!"

"Decorative candles!" Pinkie followed up.

Wax Sherlock Hooves got out his magnifying glass and said "You really thing you can defeat us!?"

The two mares looked at each other and said at the same time "Yea... I guess, maybe?"

Wax Sherlock Hooves chuckled and replied "So be it. ATTACK!"

And the epic Battle of Wax began. Twilight use a candle made up of magic to decapitate Perry King, melt several wax figures, and Pinkie used her candle like a light-saber to completely destroy the sculptures in her path. Twilight eventually led Wax Sherlock Hooves onto the roof.

"You really think you can defeat me? I'm Sherlock blazing Hooves! Look at my magnifying glass, it's freaking huge!!" He said holding up said item... And allowing the sun to come through it, and begin melting his hooves. "What?  Outmsarted by a teenager who looks like a giant purple grape! No... Noooo!!"

Twilight grinned "Letting me lead you outside probably wasn't the best idea." She told him, sneezing as some wax got into her noze

The melting head of Wax Sherlock Hooves said "Those cops were right, you sneeze like a kitten! You're adorable, ADORABLE..." And with that, the leader of the wax sculptures was done.

Back in the parlor, Pinkie Pie was throwing Wax Lakespere's head into the fireplace.

Twilight came in aksing "Did we get all of them?"

Pinkie nodded "I am 99% sure!"

Twilight nodded "Good enough for me!"

At that moment, Trixie came in, gasped, and yelled out "MY PARLOR!"

Pinkie, smiling as always told her "Guess what, you're wax figures turned out to be evil so we fought them to death!"

Twilight nodded "I decapitated Perry King."

Twixie chuckled and grinned "You and you're imaginations..."

Pinkie then remembered "Oh, and look what we found!" she said, throwing the head of Wax Trixie to the real Trixie.

Trixie stood shocked, before hugging the wax head "My head! I've missed this filly... You've done good girls... Okay, line up for some affectionate noogieing!!"

Just then the cops showed up at the window the colt saying "Well, grape-filly, did you solve that case yet? And I'm so confident you're gonna say no, I'm just gonna take a long, slow sip of my coffee." He pulled a coffee out of hise saddlebag and slowly drank it.

Twilight smirked "Actually, yes!"

After several spit-takes, and some stuttering, the cops finally left.

THE NEXT DAY...

Pinkie was looking at mane styles in a fasion magazine at the kitchen table and yelled out the door "Hey Twilight, for the party tomorrow should I style my mane in Llama Style, or Saddle Arabian casual?"

The head of Wax Perry King, somehow survivng, hopped past in the air vent behind her, taking time to stop and say "Llama Style. Llama's are natures greatest warriors." And the head hopped away.

Pinkie nodded and yelled "Thank's Twilight!"

NEXT TIME: Return of a stuck-up ex-prince.