It was Saturday evening, and all he could think about was the claims the obviously distraught young man made that had come in this morning. Despite the absurdity of it, it was their obligation to look into the claims and yet their chief of police brushed it off saying it was nothing. It didn’t feel like nothing to Shining Armor which is the reason he followed the young man out of the precinct. Getting the ring from Big Mac, Shining Armor decided he would look into this himself. It was the reason he was wearing a suit and praying that if this was all a wild goose chase that his wife didn’t find out about it.

“Good evening, Sir.” The bouncer said, a large man in a suit with a name tag reading, ‘Tank.’

“Good evening.” Shining Armor said greeting him, going through the door when the man opened it for him. He wasn’t sure what he was expecting, but an extravagant room with several tables and booths lined with velvet and silk curtains hanging around the room. It was rather expensive, a somewhat romantic setting. The young women walking around the room in varying types of lingerie. Blushing, he tried not to look too closely at them as he took a seat at a table wondering how bad Cadence was going to kill him for coming here.

“H-Hello honey.” A familiar voice said, the voice cracking a little drawing his attention up to see something that made his jaw drop. There standing in a dark lacy bra and panties covered with a matching colored sheer robe was his little sister making anger flow through him. Not only did he know she was too young to be at a place like this, if they were doing anything wrong or not, he knew that she should be out of the city at their grandmother’s for the next two weeks.

“Hey.” Shining Armor said weakly, looking for any signs that Twilight recognized him. Looking to her neck he found the golden circlet that Big Mac had described making him realize that there was more to the young man’s claims than anyone in charge at the precinct wanted to believe. Or refused to believe as there had been quiet murmurings of the chief being crooked for awhile. “Twily, what are you doing here?”

“Sir, my name is Violet.” The girl said, an unsettled look flashing through her eyes.

“Does this mean anything to you?” Shining Armor asked, seeing the girl’s eyes go wide.

“Do you require extra service?” The girl asked nervously, shaking a little as she looked down at the table making Shining Armor shake for another reason.

“Yes. Yes I do.” Shining Armor said, the girl letting out a shuddering sigh before turning around.

“This way please, Sir.” The girl said leading Shining Armor across the room to another door where another large man was standing.

“You okay there, Violet?” The man asked, actually sounding a little worried as he looked between Shining Armor and who he was sure was his little sister.

“I’m fine, Iron Will.” The girl said softly, the man shaking his head slowly.

“I’m really sorry kid.” The man said, truly looking as if he was regretting what was going on. Shining Armor made sure to memorize his face to see if he could look into who it was in order to get more information about him or to remember who to push to see if they could get someone to testify against whoever was behind this place.

“It’s not your fault.” The girl said, though the look she gave him showed how angry she was at him despite her words.

Shining Armor saw him lower his head in shame as the girl pushed past him, almost leaving him behind. Quickly catching up to her he whispered to her, “Is there a place we can talk privately without anyone listening in?”

“My room, our rooms aren’t bugged so you don’t have to worry about your privacy, Sir.” The girl said, making Shining Armor desperately pray that this wasn’t Twilight yet he wasn’t blind. She looked and sounded exactly like Twilight, though unlike Twilight she wore some makeup which did make her look a little older and enhanced her natural beauty that she often denied having.

“That’s good.” Shining Armor sighed, keeping a close eye out for anything that could pose a threat and saw blonde girl seeing another man out of a room, noticing him fixing his tie as he brushed past him.

“We’re here, though I have to ask, do you have the money?” Twilight asked, a nervous twitch that Shining Armor recognized as the one she used when not completely sure if she was doing something right. Sister or not, Shining Armor was going to bring this place down just for the fact that he was now positive it was a brothel and not just some fetish cafe or bar, or whatever it was masquerading as.

“What money?” Shining Armor asked as he gave the girl a stern look, almost pleading her not to say it. For this all to be some huge mistake.

“its a thousand bits, I mean dollars, Sir.” The girl said, leaning back against the door making him blush. He couldn’t stand seeing her like this, it was tearing him up inside. Fishing out his wallet, he checked to see if he had enough to cover it which he barely did. Cadence was going to kill him as this was money he had saved for their anniversary next week.

“Here, it’s all there.” Shining Armor said handing the money over to the girl who nervously took it. She looked at the twelve bills, nine one hundred dollar bills and two fifties as if she was trying to figure out what they were.

“It’s really parchment?” The girl asked, staring at one of the bills as she flipped it over again and again as she studied it.

“Yes, it’s all there, now can we please go inside?” Shining Armor asked, rolling his eyes at her antics before he realized something. She was acting as if she had never seen bills before which was crazy. And what did she call it at first, bits?

“Sure.” The girl sighed, turning and pushing the door open, Shining Armor following her, closing the door after himself.

“First off, put this on.” Shining Armor said as he slipped his dress jacket off and put it over her shoulders as she looked down at it curiously.

“I don’t understand, why put something like this on if we are going to just get undressed anyways?” The girl asked making Shining Armor clench his fist.

“Sit down, I want to know exactly what is going on here, Twilight.” Shining Armor said, seeing the girl’s eyes widen in recognition.

“Shining Armor?” The girl who Shining Armor was now completely convinced was his sister asked in shock. As shocked as she seemed at first, it didn’t compare to his shock when she launched herself at him and started hitting him in the chest over and over while sobbing. “I hate you! This is your fault! I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!”

“Twily, please stop it. We need to keep it down so I can figure out how to get you out of here.” Shining Armor said, trying to fight back the tears as his little sister was breaking before his very eyes, forced to be in a place like this. He had no idea how this happened, but somebody was going to pay.

“If you just believed me when I warned you she was evil none of this would have happened.” Twilight sobbed into his chest, her anger finally spent as she collapsed against him. He helped her over to the bed helping her sit in it, keeping his jacket around her. He had no idea what she was talking about.

“Twilight, what is this place? What is going on?” Shining Armor asked.

“They put this thing on me and if I try to leave it will shock me, Shiny.” Twilight whimpered as she played with the gold band around her neck. “All the girls are forced to wear them. They’re making us mate with guys for money and there’s only one person here who even cares about me and I caused her to get hurt.”

“How did she get hurt?” Shining asked softly, “Is she okay?”

“They punished her because I freaked out when I learned that they were feeding us chicken and beef.” Twilight whimpered confusing Shining Armor even more. This was a lot worse than he thought possible, yet it was becoming more and more confusing. Why would Twily freak over that, she loved chicken and beef. Hell, if dinner didn’t have some kind of meat then it wasn’t considered dinner to her. “I want to go home, Shiny. Please, just take me home.”

“I’m going to, I promise.” Shining Armor said as he kissed the top of her head. “Twily, can you stay safe until tomorrow? I’m going to go get help and I promise we will get all of you out of here. Will you be okay?”

“Yes, Sunset Shimmer has been watching over me trying to keep me safe.” Twilight said, her voice cracking. “Please don’t leave us here, Shiny. Please!”

“I’m so sorry.” Shining Armor cried as he hugged her tightly, “I promise I’ll be back as soon as I get help.”

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Twilight was finding it hard to compose herself as her brother left her here, but she knew deep down that there was nothing he could do by himself. With their magic sealed away there was no way Shining Armor could face the men here who had hurt Sunset. With a group of guards though she was positive they could easily take them out and free them from this forsaken place.

She also knew that if the noticed him leaving she would only have a few minutes to get cleaned up and get back up there. If she didn’t go they may come looking for her and if that happened they may decide that Sunset needed punished again and she couldn’t handle that. Her only friend here was hurt, despite the girl claiming she hardly feels anything, and it was her fault. She couldn’t let it happen again no matter how much she wanted to just stay in her room and hide until her brother came back.

Taking the money to deposit with Sombra, Twilight stopped when she noticed the blonde maned girl she was sure went by Daisy with a bigger man about to step into the room across the hall. His eyes widened as he gave her a toothy smile, the slightly frightened look in Daisy’s eyes slowly disappearing as hope filled them.

“Have you met the new girl, Sir?” Daisy asked, the man’s grip on her upper arm releasing as his full attention was turned to Twilight making the darker haired girl start.

“No, I haven’t. She’s new you say?” The man asked, licking his lips as his eyes traveled up and down Twilight’s body. “Is she available?”

“Of course, Sir. Maybe you should try her out.” Daisy said smirking, her smile vanishing as he backhanded her.

“Don’t tell me what to do you little slut.” The man growled out, his angry eyes leaving the whimpering form of Daisy before grabbing Twilight roughly by the arm and shoved her back into her room. “Though I think I will try her out.”

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“Cadence, honey, I need you to listen to me and not hang up no matter how mad you get. This is very important.” Shining Armor said as he sat in his car, phone to his ear. He was afraid if he just came out and said he went to the Lotus Blossom that she would hang up on him.

“Hon, you know I wouldn’t do that. Well, unless you went to one of those places.” Cadence said, her voice taking on a bit of an edge. Cadence was very easy going and trusted Shining Armor to do anything he wanted, or need to do. She did have limits though and those were the thought of him going to a place that Cadence believed objectified women such as the restaurants that had the waitresses clad in tight clothing or strip bars. It wasn’t because she didn’t trust him though; it was because she felt that it was degrading to the women there to have to work at a place like this because they likely didn’t have any other options they felt they could follow. Shining knew she was a little too obsessive on the subject as he knew a waitress from one of the more normal restaurants and she enjoyed the work most of the time. On the other hand, he agreed with her when it came to the strip bars. “You went to one of those places, didn’t you?”

“A young man came to the precinct with a story the chief wouldn’t even humor. When I talked to him I didn’t want to believe him either, but you know I had to check it out. And it was true, they’re keeping the girls as slaves there Cadence. And they have Twily.” Shining Armor said, rubbing his eyes. He couldn’t stand the thought of his little sister being in there for a minute longer, but knew better than go in by himself. Plus this needed done in a way that the person in charge couldn’t weasel their way out of it.

“I don’t know what kind of joke you are playing Shining Armor, but this isn’t funny.” Cadence snapped angrily over the phone shocking Shining Armor as she never hardly snapped out like that and she sounded truly pissed off.

“Do you honestly think I would joke about something like this?” Shining Armor asked defensively, unsure of the reason Cadence could be reacting like this. Sure he expected worried and maybe upset that she was there, but it sounded like she didn’t even believe him in the least.

“You tell me, I just got off of Skype with Twily and your Grams before you called.” Cadence huffed out making Shining Armor’s fingers go slack as shock and disbelief filled him. It was impossible, the girl looked just like Twilight, sounded just like Twilight and even knew him it seemed. Still, something was a little off about her that he put off as her just being scared.

“Honey, I met a girl there who begged me not to leave her. She just wanted to go home and she knew me when I told her I was Shining Armor. She looked confused at first, as if I looked familiar, but until I told her my name she seemed unsure.” Shining Armor sighed, “Cadence, honey, she could be Twilight’s twin. She sounds just like her and looks exactly like her.”

“What do you want me to do?” Cadence sighed.

“I can’t trust the police with this, as I have a bad feeling the chief may be mixed up in this somehow. And I don’t want you going to the normal judge you go to since I saw him going in as I came out. You need to get warrants or whatever we need signed and get a hold of your contacts in the FBI.” Shining Armor said, “And fast, I don’t want Twily in there any longer than she needs to be.”

“I still don’t know who she is, Shining, but she isn’t Twily. She still doesn’t deserve to be in there like that though so give me a few minutes and I’ll do my best.” Cadence said before hanging up. Shining slammed his hands on the steering wheel as he felt so helpless and now very confused. It didn’t matter, that girl looked just like Twilight and Shining Armor wasn’t going to let her stay in that place any longer than she needed.

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Sunset was slowly walking down the hall, trying to hide the pain she felt from what Silver Shot and Knives had done to her. She couldn’t afford to show weakness to the other girls as they all had it out for her and would use anything they could against her. It was getting late though, the club upstairs closing up its doors and she wanted to check in on Twilight. She really hoped that her friend just ended up as someone’s dinner guest upstairs for some lonely guy who just wanted to talk. After all Twilight had only been with Mac so far, and she wasn’t too sure if they even did anything. He wasn’t here for long and Twilight had absolutely refused to talk about it.

“I can’t believe you gave up a client without a fight.” Lily’s voice giggled, coming from Ivy’s room. The fact that any of the girls did that was surprising as they would fight tooth and nail to keep a client to themselves usually.

“You would have to, it was that freak.” Daisy said, her voice serious for once. The only freak though that Sunset could think of that none of the girls liked being with was that supposed judge. He took rough to a whole other level making them count themselves lucky when they got away from a session with him with only a little pain. Even Rose who was the most effected from the drugs could hardly deal with him on a bad night.

“Oh damn your lucky you got out of having to do him.” Ivy giggled, “So who’s the lucky lady who got to be with him?”

“He saw the new girl Violet and he couldn’t wait to get her. Bastard hit me hard though when I suggested he go with her.” Daisy whined making Sunset’s blood turn to ice. She couldn’t help praying to whoever would listen that Twilight didn’t have to be with him as she hurried down the hall. She winced as she saw him disappear up the stairs as she passed them. Shoving the door open she found Twilight in a fetal position sobbing loudly while clutching the sheets around her.

“Twilight!” Sunset sobbed as she went to try and comfort her friend who just laid there sobbing as she stared off into space. She was sporting several bruises that the bastard would get away with as he always paid extra when it happened as he didn’t care. “I’m here honey. Twilight, it’s Sunset, I’m here for you.”

Sunset couldn’t help crying along with Twilight as she pulled the slightly smaller girl into her lap and stroked her hair. It broke Sunset’s heart as Twilight let out a wail before clutching onto Sunset.

Author's Note

Some changes were made to chapter 3, with one of the scenes having some major change to the end and has been extended if anyone is interested in going back and checking it out. Thanks BiomasterM2 for the suggestions.