The Enigma

Prologue:

Two ponies stood glaring at each other in an underground laboratory. Their manes are identical, and their cutie marks similar. The pony on the right is a pegasus with dark orange skin, brown eyes, a dark brown mane, and his cutie mark is an open book, representing his creativity. The one on the left is a unicorn with dark green skin, red eyes, a dark blue mane, and a piece of paper on a clipboard filled with scientific information his cutie mark, representing his love for science.
"Give it to me. NOW." The unicorn speaks with anger in his voice.
"No!" The pegasus speaks sternly, and almost drops a scientific formula he's hold in his mouth. "It's too dangerous to let fall into the wrong hands! I won't give it to a mad pony like you!"
"Well, you're not going to use it, so why did you make it? We both know the answer..." He smirked. "You made it... For me. I told you to make it, and you did. You work for me. Now if you could hand it over, please."
"NO! I won't! In fact, I'm quitting, and taking this home with me to destroy! Nopony should ever have this, and I should've quit the second you told me to make this! I DON'T KNOW WHY I EVER DECIDED TO WORK WITH YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE, SO BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME!" The pegasus turned and headed for the stairs to the surface, but was stopped in his tracks when he heard the unicorn laughing.
"Haha! Oh, Fox Shine! Here I thought you had learned all of my tricks, but I guess not!" The unicorn burst into laughter again. It took him a while to calm down before he could more seriously say, "I knew you wouldn't give it to me. It was obvious."
"And?" Fox Shine talked angrily, but he was more confused then angry. "So? What are YOU going to do? If you set up some sort of trap to capture me and take it from me, then I can try to avoid it now. So if that's what you did, then you're a fool."
"A trap? No, no! Nothing like that! It's more of, well, it COMPLETELY is, blackmail."
The unicorn began to laugh again, but as he laughed, his laugh began to sound creepy, and demented.
"Blackmail? N-no! You don't-... You wouldn't-" Fox Shine turned around. He was suddenly more angry than ever. "Don't hurt her."
"Oh, I won't hurt your precious daughter. Unless you don't give that to me." He stepped toward Fox Shine. "She's in the holding cell. Oh, yes, and her fillysitter is in there too. You should have chosen a fillysitter who wasn't so easy to tie up. I mean, seriously. She thinks I can be stopped if she STARES at me."
"HOLDING CELL?! Since when did this place have a HOLDING CELL?!"
"Oh, it's always had one. I made sure it was hidden from you though. If you found out, you could've seen this coming."
"W-wait... You mean... You planned this since the beginning?"
"Of course I did! I do that with everypony I work with!"
"You mean you've done this to other ponies? But... Why?"
"I've already told you too much! I can't tell you my master plan! I shouldn't even have just told you that I have one!"
"Something tells me you'll be making sure I don't tell the royal guard, too."
"Of course. A pony did that once. They aren't a pony anymore."
"Wait, W-WHAT?! You- but- I- HUH?"
"I turned him into a Timberwolf. That way, there was no way he could talk, everypony would run from him, and there was no body of any sort, so nopony really knew what happened to him. Genius, is it not?"
"You... You're not mad... You're more than that... You're-"
"Enough chitchat! Give me the formula, and tell nopony. Your daughter and friend already no not to tell anypony as well, so I'll let them go as soon as you give that to me."
"But... How do I know I can trust you to let them out?"
"I told you enough chitchat. Put it down, and wait outside."
Sighing, Fox Shine dropped the formula and walked up to the surface. He better let them go, or he'll pay! Fox Shine sat at the top of the stairs and waited for them to come up the stairs. I'll give him five minutes.