Chapters He felt his vision slowly fade, he was hardly able to breath from all the pain. Right when the pain peaked, he heard an evil cackle and then felt nothing.
It was an average day in Ponyville, for everypony just shopping and trying to stay out of the burning heat. Roaring Fire was just flying around at his top speeds. He was much faster then he was last week, maybe he could finally catch up to the other ponies in Ponyville. When suddenly, duty calls and he gets a ringing in his ear from getting passed by a cart being pulled by two guards. In the back was Vexing Echo, she has been friends with him since he first moved here. Any time he needed help she was here for him, Vexing was let into a secret organization that stops crime in Equestria. Roaring liked Vexing's dark violet coat and he liked that she was different like him, she was a bat pony.
“Roaring, we need you to study something going on in the town, ponies mysteriously disappearing.” Vexing glared, with a demanding look about her.
“Okay, you told me that last week and the week before but it never happens.” Roaring stated, slightly confused on why Vexing would bother with him instead of a guard. He knew that Vexing usually tells the truth, he just couldn't believe that crime is happening in Ponyville. It has always been such a calm town, he just was confused.
"It was a statement." Vexing glared at him, no form of happiness about her. Roaring was confused because Vexing usually loved this kind of stuff. He just stared back for a couple of seconds and nodded in acceptance.
"I need you to go and interrogate Rainbow Dash, she has some form of connection to this" Vexing said, she looked a bit better now that Roaring wasn't being so oblivious to what was happening. Roaring was confused, he always looked at Rainbow Dash as some form of inspiration. She was always so much faster, and in flight school she was always more popular. Roaring flew off to Rainbow Dash's cloud house.
Roaring flew as quickly as possible, he was going to be late! He saw a yellow mare trotting in, he recognized her from flight school a few years ago. He felt his fur go from it's regular orange to a slight red on his cheeks, he had a slight crush on Fluttershy in flight school. He liked the way she squeaked at every question asked to her, his memories were quickly interrupted by a blood curdling scream. How long had he had been day dreaming? He quickly leapt down, he didn't see anything. The ponies were gone, as he turned around he was knocked unconscious by a swift hoof to the face. He was suddenly home again, flying free in the skies. No pony to tell him what to do, no Vexing. He was completely free! To make it even better he heard Fluttershy's sweet voice calling out to him, what was she saying? Wake up? He wasn't asleep though was he? He opened his eyes and saw Fluttershy standing above him, he wasn't sure what happened. Did she maybe knock him out?
“What happened?!” Roaring jumped up but his mouth was quickly covered by Fluttershy.
“Shhh, just listen to me...if you want...we were having a meeting about who we thought was the killer and suddenly we were like this.” Fluttershy whispered in her sweet voice.
“Like what? You seem fine to me..” Roaring looked at Fluttershy, observing to see any changes.
Fluttershy helped Roaring up and he looks around, he couldn't believe his eyes. He was in the library, and everything grew around him. Or maybe he just shrunk. He looked over to see something that spiked his curiosity.
He looked at Fluttershy and saw behind her were the other 4 ponies who were meeting. He saw the familiar lavender mare, yelling at a bug. It couldn't be a bug could if she was yelling, maybe it was another pony. Roaring lept off the table and quickly glided down to a height where he wouldn't be noticed. The lavender mare was HUGE compared to him, her wing could fit 30 of him. He looked down to see a Grey pegasus on the ground, the target of Twilight's yelling. When suddenly, he was crushed under her house sized hoof. Roaring for the first time in his life was mortally terrified, Twilight was the pony behind the killings? She trotted past Roaring and looked at the 5 ponies, who were now awake.
“Trying to stop me are we girls? What happened to friendship, supporting a friend?!” She yelled at them.
“T-twi, we can't support you when you are killing off ponies...” A orange mare with a cowboy hat spoke out.
“Don't make accusations yet Applejack, I'm not killing ponies. Merely shrinking them down to this size and forcing them to sort my library and clean for all of eternity.” Twilight said, while she had a devilish grin on her face.
"That's not fun though Twilight, we should just do something else. Maybe a party? Yay, I'll get the cake!" A pink mare happily jumped about, Roaring remembered this mare.
"Pinkie Pie darling, I'm sure Twilight is too busy for a party. But she might let us go for free?" A white mare, probably the most elegant mare Roaring had laid eyes on spoke. She had a begging look in her eyes.
"There is no release, I didn't want to have to take you girls here. But you were getting so suspicious, I couldn't help myself." Twilight had less of a grin, but she still had that look about her.
“What happened to not telling anypony?!” Roaring realized he spoke out.
Twilight turned around and leaned down, her steaming breath was sending chills up his spine. She looked him directly in the eyes with her eye. Roaring noticed a familiar aura from her horn, it's black magic. He only knew one pony who could cast black magic, he couldn't remember who it was though.
“I didn't tell anypony, I just took the information to mind and used it to my advantage.” Twilight smiled at him.
“You won't get away with this, I'll-” Roaring was interrupted mid sentence.
“You'll what? Get squashed? Make threats you can actually keep.” Twilight snarled back to him.
“It's time for bed for me, try to escape overnight and I will kill you.” Twilight grinned and trotted upstairs.
Roaring flew back up onto the table, it was obvious that the 5 ponies were going to try and escape. They each flew down, carried by Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. Roaring didn't want to be part of their plan. He figured since more ponies have disappeared, then there must be more of them in the library. He flew down and started looking in every spot he could find, until he reached a huge bug jar. He saw in it a red stallion, he was with a small filly who had a red bow. He saw the apple on his flank and realized he is probably related to Applejack. Roaring lifted off the lid and placed it down, he then flew them up and placed them down.
"Twilight got you too?" Roaring whispered to the stallion.
"Eeyup, thank you for saving me. My name is Big Macintosh, what's yours?" The stallion whispered back, looking around for Twilight.
"Don't mention it." Roaring flew them even further down, right to the ground. The filly who was in the jar rode on his back, they ran off to escape the library. Roaring forgot where he was and walked directly into the lid, knocking it on the floor with a large banging noise. He heard silence to his relief, but his heart stopped when he heard trotting down the stairs. He didn't know where to hide, he wasn't familiar with the house. But suddenly he heard a hissing sound sound coming from behind a book on the shelf. He flew behind it and saw a familiar baby dragon, he was shrunken too. The dragon peeked around the corner, everything looked good until suddenly the book was lifted into the air with a purple aura. Twilight quickly dropped the book, but the baby dragon jumped forwards and tackled Roaring away. As Roaring turned he noticed the bottom of the book, now being lifted.
Covered in blood, Roaring wouldn't forget this. He quickly flew away hoping to draw attention away from the 5 mares. He felt himself get slammed by the book, he landed on a chair. Luckily Twilight didn't see him hit the chair, she noticed Big Mac running on the ground. Roaring's heart sank as he noticed Twilight's plot heading right down towards him. Twilight sat right down on Roaring, and looked at Big Mac. Roaring was luckily in a good position so he wasn't instantly squashed, could Roaring hold his breath long enough? About 30 seconds later she got off of the almost unconscious Roaring Fire. To Roaring's fear she looks down and see's the small Roaring. She grinned, she then picked up the chair with a magenta aura and threw it across the room. Roaring saw the leg of the chair crushing a small Big Mac. She teleports forwards barely missing the small filly on the way. Roaring flies quickly to the door, where the 5 mares are bashing against it. Twilight quickly approaches, him and Rainbow Dash flew up to Twilight's face to start distracting. She caught Rainbow in her mouth by the wing, she flailed her around like a dog. Roaring rammed her cheek, she let go and used her magical aura to throw Roaring at Rainbow Dash who then both rolled to the door.
“You all go...I'll distract her....if that's okay with you.” Fluttershy whispered nervously.
“No, Fluttershy you deserve to live. I'll do it.” Rainbow confidently said.
Twilight's hoof came down right above Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, they didn't see it. When they thought they were just merely going to be mush on the bottom of her hoof. Roaring caught the hoof mid air and tried to lift it.
“They...got the door open...you go...” Roaring weakly said.
Roaring bit Twilight's hoof making her stumble backwards, as Roaring landed he was surprised by the yellow mare planting a kiss on his cheek.
“Thank you...Roaring...” Fluttershy ran out with Rainbow Dash and the other mares.
Roaring's heart grew warm, the pony he had liked since he was a child had finally kissed him. He loved her voice as she said thank you. But soon again his heart was cold when he felt himself get launched by a hoof into a wall. He landed on the ground and tried to get up, he felt a hoof pressing down rather lightly on him. He looked up to see Twilight grinning at him, she opened her mouth one last time.
“As I said, make a threat you can keep.” Twilight said smiling at him, he wasn't afraid. More relieved that he was able to save the others.
He felt his vision slowly fade, he was hardly able to breath from all the pain. Right when the pain peaked, he heard an evil cackle and then felt nothing...he was now just residue on her hoof. Twilight forgot about the other ponies, satisfied that she had at least squashed little Roaring. Twilight collapsed to the ground, she opened her eyes to realize what she had done. Twilight personally ran outside to grow her friends, she explained what happened. Her friends wondered why they would do such a thing to Twilight, they informed Celestia and they started the nation wide search. Meanwhile somewhere, some pony was satisfied.
"Good, Twilight dealt with Roaring. Wonder who I'll curse next, I think next I deal with Menace..." Vexing said, satisfied with her deeds.
THE END
He trotted to the door and knocked loudly, no answer. He yet again knocked, but again no answer. He looked to the side to see a window, he opened it quietly and snuck in. He looked around, of course his stomach growled. He couldn't solve crimes on an empty stomach, he opens the fridge and took some hay fries. He looks at the nearby counter to see her To Do Schedule, he of course thought “Why would a pony so awesome have a To Do List?”. Like the stalker he is, he opened it and to his surprise it was written on recently. He see's a note telling her to visit with “AJ”, Roaring was new to ponyville so sadly he didn't know many names. It says R, FS and PP will be meeting with them. Roaring was getting more and more confused, he flew to the smartest pony he knew. He landed in front of the library and knocked on the door, a baby dragon opened the door. He looked puzzled at the dragon, he wondered if this was the right place.
“Uh, may I speak to Twilight Sparkle please?” Roaring asked confusedly.
“Twilight! You have a visitor, it's a stallion!” The little dragon yelled.
The lavender mare trotted down the stairs with her eyes glued to a book, Roaring had never noticed she had wings before. She sent the dragon away and let Roaring in, she signalled for him to sit down so he did.
“Roaring, what is it you would like to speak to me about?” Twilight asked, seeming a little grumpy.
“I was wondering if you could tell me who these ponies are, I was only given initials.” Roaring replied, a little nervous from her tone. She took the paper and examined the names, she looked back up at Roaring who was now behind her reading the page as well.
“I've come to conclude these ponies are: Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie, what is this about?” Twilight questioned.
“Okay first promise you won't tell anypony Twilight, this is an important mission” Roaring said, meaningfully.
“I promise, now please tell me.” Twilight said, curiously.
“I've been sent on a secret mission, somepony has been killing everypony around ponyville.” Roaring whispered.
“How do my friends relate to this?” Twilight asked.
“They are meeting at the farm, I don't know why they wouldn't invite you.” Roaring said confused.
“Okay, you'd better be going if you want to make it there in time.” Twilight shooed him out the door and closed it.
