One By One

Sweetie Belle sat in a chair with a police officer across from her, only a gray table between them, Sweetie Belle was consistently staring at the ground, trying to process recent events.

Sweetie Belle wished that these emotional and physical scars would go away, as if they never happened, but, unlike the physical scars, the emotional scars couldn't be stitched up by a doctor.

Because of the reason for the emotional scars, Sweetie Belle was taken to the police station to be questioned, Sweetie hated this, she felt as if she was being treated like a criminal!

"So, um..." the officer paused and gave a quick glance examined a clipboard. "Sweetie Belle."

Sweetie Belle looked up at the police officer, giving him her attention.

The police officer was a fit white pony with a gray mane and tail that looked as if it had no tangles at all.

"Can you tell me what transpired to you and your sister?" the officer asked.

"Something came into my room and scratched my face, so my sister tried to find the thing that did it..." Sweetie paused, sniffling back her tears. "Then... I waited for her to come, but... but..."

Sweetie Belle commenced to sob, unable to finish her sentence.

"It's okay, Sweetie Belle," the white stallion verbalized, attempting to comfort the sobbing filly. "We can stop if you need to."

"No..." Sweetie Belle retaliated, sniffing up the rest of her tears. "I can do this."

The officer nodded, this was always the most difficult part of his job.

"I heard a familiar scream so I ran down to see if Rarity was in trouble and if I could help... I was too late..." Sweetie Belle paused again, waiting for a replication.

"Did you see the pony that assailed her?" the gray-maned-pony asked.

"Not really, no." Sweetie answered. "I'm sorry I couldn't help more."

"It's okay, Sweetie Belle, you can leave now," the officer said, as Sweetie Belle left the room.

The officer placed his face in his hooves in frustration. He then looked down at the clipboard again, this time, optically canvass the malefaction scene pictures of Infrequency's dead corpse.

When he did this, he descried a kindred attribute between Derpy's case and Infrequency's case: the "X" on their cutie marks.

...

Rainbow Dash flew over the infamous, creepy Everfree Forest, endeavoring to clear her head, along with endeavoring not to cry.

She had lost one of her best friends, not to mention one of her co-workers!

Yesterday was a very difficult day to stay strong, but Rainbow Dash had a record for not crying and she didn't plan on breaking it now, even if Rarity and Derpy died.

Flying was a good way to keep these bad thoughts away for Rainbow Dash, just looking down at the beautiful scenery, feeling the wind against her wings, and the feeling of being free made her feel better already.

"Dashie..." an unfamiliar voice called.

The voice snapped Rainbow Dash out of her thoughts.

"Huh?" Rainbow Dash asked, ceasing in her tracks and turning her head in every possible direction. "Who's there?!"

"Dashie..."

Rainbow Dash flew down into the Everfree, following the voice, landing almost seconds after.

"Hello?!" Rainbow called. "If this is some joke, it's not funny at all!"

If Rainbow said she wasn't scared she would be lying, the Everfree wasn't a pleasant place at all, even for a thrill-seeker like Rainbow Dash. Then again, Rainbow Dash's way of thrill-seeking was doing different tricks that only an "expert" could do. Rainbow Dash never signed up for creepy places such as the Everfree Forest.

"Dashie!"

That was the last thing that the cyan pegasus heard before the attacker kicked her onto a tree.

Rainbow gave a shout in pain, but the pain wasn't enough to kill her or knocked he down. She got back up and charged whoever kicked her, but before she reached the attacker, he flew up and dodged Rainbow Dash, making her hit another tree.

Rainbow Dash felt as if she was being assaulted by millions of pegasai, whoever this guy was, he was fast, way too fast.

"Get back here!" Rainbow shouted, flying up to the attacker, but he must of left her, thinking she died. "What the heck?!"

Before she could fly away, though, the assailant kicked her down to the ground, her falling face first.

Rainbow Dash screamed at the top of her lungs, hoping that somepony, anypony, would hear her and come to her rescue, but it was all for naught.

CRUNCH!

Rainbow Dash, the infamous cyan, rainbow-maned, pegasus fell to her death.

...

Zecora trotted blissfully throughout the Everfree, on her way home from a shop that sold a gamut of various ingredients for potions, the perfect place for crafty zebras like Zecora.

Unlike most ponies, Zecora loved the Everfree and she loved getting out of the hustle and bustle of Ponyville to come to her peaceful cottage home in the Everfree. Though, Zecora would admit, it does get a little creepy at times.

Even with this fact, Zecora would have never expected to stumble upon the dead body of cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane.

Zecora gasped and dropped all of her ingredients onto the ground and ran towards the pegasus.

"Rainbow Dash?!" Zecora gasped, holding back her gag reflex as she examined the dead, bloody pegasus. "What has caused you to have this immense gash?!"

Zecora, reluctantly, turned Rainbow Dash to her back and saw, not only the pointy rock that had penetrated Rainbow's torso and all the blood, but her intestine had fallen out as well, covering the rock and ground.

Squish.

Maggots and other scavenger insects had already endeavored to take Rainbow's corpse as a buffet and their new home.

The zebra stepped back from Rainbow's body and held back her lunch once again, trying to breathe through he mouth to avoid the retched stench.

"I must go to the police!" Zecora exclaimed, bolting to the most proximate police station, hoping that she wasn't too late to find the criminal who do such a thing to the innocent pegasus.