Sparkswirl's empire

Cadence and Twilight are standing in front of an old building.

"Well, there's no going back" says Cadence. Twilight puts on her porkpie hat. They both walk in slowly. Two ponies check their pockets upon entry. All they find is a bag full of a bit clear crystals.

"It's the stuff" says Twilight. The ponies give Twilight the bag pack and let both of them enter a door, which leads to stairs. Twilight and Cadence walk up the stairs and into a room. They see Bulk Biceps sitting in front of them Snips on one side and Snails on the other. Snips walks up to Twilight, takes the bag of crystals and throws it to Bulk. Bulk takes a look and says "It's the purest I've seen"

Twilight says, "Yeah, it's 78% pure. It's not the type of garbage your usual street guy cooks, this is pure chemistry."

Bulk looks at Twilight and asks, "Hey, purple one! What's your name?"

Twilight looks at Bulk with a self-assured face "Sparkswirl. My name is Sparkswirl."

Bulk looks at Twilight and says "Okay then, Sparkswirl, we're in business!"

When Twilight and Cadence walk out of the building, Cadence finally turns to Twilight "Wow, Twilight, that was some confidence back there."

Twilight stops and stares at Cadence "Yes, cause that's how the game works, right? The weak get crushed and the strong survive? Well, I'll have you know, I'm the dtrong one."

Then Twilight walks off, leaving confused Cadence behind her.

As soon as Twilight opens the door Trixie runs to her and asks "Where have you been? You do remember Dash is coming over for dinner?"

"Yes, I remember completely," answers Twilight, throwing the porkpie hat onto the coat rack.

"And what's that?" asks Trixie pointing at the porkpie hat.

Twilight puts her jacket on the coat rack aswell, "It's a porkpie hat. A gift from a work associate."

"Another teacher?" doesn't Trixie stop bugging Twilight with questions.

Twilight slowly nods.

"What's been up with you lately?" Trixie pauses for a moment, " You show up late, you always have those places to be, you have those bandages on two of your hooves and now you show up home with a pork hat?"

"It's a porkpie hat," corrects Twilight Trixie's word.

Trixie brings the subject back to Twilight, "It doesn't matter what hat it is. What I want to know is what you've been doing lately?"

"I've been, uh, helping Applejack out on the farm. I found that with our current financial situation, we'd need more money and this would be the best way to earn it," Twilight realised she had lied and was now waiting for the result. She was eager to see if Trixie had bought her lie or not.

"You know, I could start doing presentations again for the---"

"No!" shouts Twilight, "I've got it all under control, you don't need to go back to that old job, just let me handle the situation. I promise, I can handle the money."

"Listen," holds Trixie up Twilight's front hoof, "just remember, I can always help out."

"There's no need,---"

Knock, knock.

Twilight turns her head around and asks "Who's the one who knocks?"

"Hey, Twilight! It's me, Rainbow Dash! Could you open the door, buddy?"

"Right away, just wait a bit!" Twilight runs to the door and opens it up. While Trixie runs to the kitchen.

"Hey, so what've you been up to?" asks Dash upon entry.

"Eh, nothing much. I visited Cadence awhile back," starts Twilight talking to Dash.

"And she's been helping Applejack out on the farm for money!" shouts Trixie from the kitchen.

"Really?" looks Dash at Twilight with a surprised face, "You know, it's good to know you're helping AJ out, but if you're in financial trouble, you should've said it to me. Y'know, I'd be always willing to help you out."

"As I said already to Trixie, there is no need," says Twilight with a determined face.

"So, how's the investegation coming along?" asks Twilight from Dash, trying to change the subject and maybe get some information as well.

"Eh, it's basically a dead end, seems like this guy just disappeared off the planet," says Dash with a worried face.

"So, you got nothing? Don't know any connections he might've had or anything about the past?" asks Twilight.

"Well, we know something about his past, but not much helpful. Nothing suspicious has come up yet," Rainbow Dash pauses for a moment, "I think somepony just cleared him out of the way. Probably somepony who knew we were tracing him."

"What makes you think he's dead. Maybe he's just in hiding?" starts Twilight to feel shivers going down her spine.

"I've been on this job long enough, my gut tells me it. Somepony had done a sweep on his home. A criminal who escapes usually doesn't bother to do that."

Twilight gets confused,"A sweep? Are you sure?"

"Yeah, everything was clean, too clean, not the style of a probabal criminal like that."

"Hey you two, come and eat the legendary food cooked by the great and powerful Trixie!" shouts Trixie from the other room.

"Is this going to be a regular thing now?" asks Cadence from Twilight.

"What?" asks Twilight slowly taking off her jacket.

"You know, wounding one of your hooves every time you kill someone."

"No," says Twilight, walking up to a locker, "This, the street level, making deals with bulk or anypony else, is your end of the business. I'm the cook, the silent partner. I'm never going to hurt another pony again."

A few days later, Twilight shows up at the lab, with no signs of Cadence. Twilight looks around the lab thinking that usually Cadence shows up early before her. Twilight waited for a few hours, until she realised, if she doesn't start now, the patch will go to waste. She started slowly the cooking process in the hopes that she can handle it alone. After a long cooking process, she tests the purity.

"71%, damn it. Cadence better have a good excuse!" Mumbled Twilight to herself.

She could hear her phone start ringing. All of the memories, killing the first pony, dissolving him later and doing it with the other pony too, all flashed through her head. "I'd really need to switch my ringtone after all of this." She picked up the phone answering, "Yes, this is Twilight Sparkle. How may I help you?"

"Hey, Twi, I've got some really bad news," could Twilight hear Rainbow Dash's voice "I'm currently on the corner of ponyville and well...I can't even..."

"Calm down Dash, what happened?" asks Twilight with a shiver going down her spine.

"Cadence, Cadence is, is, is dead," trembles Rainbow Dash.

Twilight drops her phone onto the lab floor.