The First Murder

Twilight and Rarity had gotten Applejack after she gave a temporary farewell speech to her family. They were going to get the rest of the mane six. They were a former police force, but...things happened. In a friendship, there will be disputes. For some, these disputes are minor, and quickly reach compromise. Yet, for some, it happens to become a grudge. For these six friends, it was a bit more complex. A mass apple stealing case had happened, and the pony never got caught. They all blamed each other for it, on the exception of Twilight and Rarity. This separated them. They eventually got back together, but the police group itself was forever disbanded, leaving only Twi and Rarity.

Applejack grouped back up with Twilight and Rarity with some gear on. She had a vest on, with various observation tools. Magnifying glass, syringe, and other tools of such.

"I'm ready." AJ said. "We gonna get the rest of the ponies?" She looked at Twilight and Rarity. They both nodded. "A'itey then, lets get goin'!"

The three made their way up a dirt road leading to a cottage surrounded by bird houses, picnic tables, and an overwhelming amount of living creatures. It was beside the Everfree Forest, and it was a perfect environment for about every known animal. Including marine life. The pony that lived here was an expert on maintaining biological organisms in every way. Her kindness was so persuasive it could change the darkest of hearts.

Twilight made her way up to the door, Rarity and Applejack trailed behind. She knocked on it twice. A yellow pony with a pink mane opened the door.

"Hello?" she said. Her voice was soft, so soft it seemed to be able to soothe minds of stress. Just the comforting sound of her voice was enough to make somepony feel peace inside. She looked up at Twilight. "Oh! Twilight, come in, Rarity and Applejack, you can come too." The three made their way into the yellow ponies house. "What brings you all here?" she asked.

"Fluttershy..." Twilight said slowly. "we are here with urgent news." She slowly pulled out the papers. "A pony by the name of Tulip Top was murdered yesterday...brutally." Twilight held the same picture and ID to Fluttershy as she did to Applejack. The image struck pure horror into Fluttershy's face. "She was stabbed multiple times in the chest, autopsy reports say that her limbs were severed with blunt knives or saws, while she was alive. A note was left by the killer saying that he or she will be back." Fluttershy's eyes dilated in fright. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. Her eyes started to tear up.

"Wh-why would somepony do this?" she asked, tears falling from her eyes. She started to cry, but Twilight stopped her.

"Fluttershy, don't cry. That's what we are going to find out. All of us, and without somepony with a gift of kindness such as yours, we couldn't. We are getting the group back together, despite what happened three years ago." Twilight said. Fluttershy looked up.

"R-really?" she stuttered softly.

"Yes, really." Twilight replied with a smile. Fluttershy smiled.

"Well, what are you waiting for?" she asked. "Let's get the others!"

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The four ponies now made their way to a poofy cloud house. The pony that lived there, was the most loyal in Equestria, and she was best with the Special Weapons And Tactics, otherwise known as S.W.A.T. She was the pony to handle combat, and assault operations. Most importantly, she put everypony above herself. If in a burning building, she would get everypony out, before herself. Nopony left behind.

Twilight asked Fluttershy to fly up and get her. Fluttershy proceeded to fly up, and she knocked on the door. There was some talking, a sigh, and the two came down. The mare that came out, had a rainbow mane, and a teal coat.

"What is it Twilight?" She asked with a dull tone.

"We need you to come back to the team." Twilight said. "It's urgent and---" Twilight was interrupted.

"You want me to join that pile of bull-crap team?" the mare asked.

"Rainbow Dash, let me finish---"

"No, that's it no, you know what happened and I---"

"There has been a murder!" Twilight shouted in fury. Rainbow Dash stopped talking.

"Is this some kind of cruel joke?" she asked.

"No, Dash." Twilight said. She held up the picture and ID. "Subject's name was Tulip Top, she was brutally murdered yesterday night, her body shows signs of multiple stab wounds to the chest. Her limbs were severed while she was alive. Do you think this was a bucking joke? No! This happened! And if you're going to be as good as you think our team is, then this murderer might as well rape and mutilate everypony, all because Rainbow Dash thought the solution was a pile of bull-crap!" Sweat was coming from Twi's mane as she breathed heavily from all the anger she had just expressed.

"Murder...In Ponyville...in Equestria?" Dash asked. Her eyes went wide. "I apologize, just tell me where I need to go and what I need to do, forget what I said about the team, if anymore murder happens in this town, it's going to be me killing this guy or girl or whatever it is!"

"Dash, calm down, we can have Pinkie take care of that." Twilight said. Everypony went silent.

"Pinkie...are you sure we should have Pinkie?" Applejack asked. Everypony else looked at each other and back to Twilight. Pinkie was different than all of the other ponies. She was a happy-go-lucky, Pink pony who always loved to have fun. But when she was in the police force, she knew how to take care of ponies. How to get them to talk. Just with stealing apples, she thought of some pretty cruel things. Nopony could imagine what she would do with a murder like this.

"Pinkie will ensure a correct punishment for this miserable ass." Twilight said. "I believe we couldn't do the interrogation without her."

"Well, I guess you c'd say that." Applejack said slowly. She looked at all the other ponies, who all nodded in agreement.

"Well, let's go get her." Twilight said.

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They approached Sugarcube Corner. It wasn't very crowded, just a couple of ponies there. They were all eating cupcakes and sweets of sorts. Pinkie was hopping around serving everypony with a big smile on her face. Her smile slowly faded when the five of the mane six came into the shop.

"Hi guys." she said. "What brings you here?" In order to avoid another reaction like Rainbow Dash's, Twilight held up the picture and ID and said bluntly,

"This, and we need your help." Pinkie stared at the picture. What was left of the smile on her face, disappeared as it was replaced with a furious expression.

"Who did this..." she asked. "Who did this?!" She had a glass cup in her hoof. She threw it down, shattering it and capturing everypony's attention. "I swear I'll make this pony die slowly and painfully and---" Pinkie stopped when she saw all of the frightened expressions. "Finish you're food people! You heard me! This place is closing down!" Everypony got their food and left as Pinkie switched the sign to 'closed.'

"Where do we start?" Pinkie asked.