The wrench chronicles (bioshock)

Well isn't that just peachy, meh whatever, I got a job to do. "Jack I got an assignment for you!" Oh ok then, guess we are doing that today. I Turned round to see the chief stood behind me, wonder what her name is. All I know her as is, the chief.

"Yes chief, if I may ask, what's your name?" she just gave me a smile and handed over a file, I opened it. Seemed there have been a lot of problems at local businesses, items going missing, things moving. "Hmm strange, so got a list of the businesses affected?"

"What a great detective you are." I turned the page of the file and saw a list, I grinned at her and she returned it. The list consisted of a few places I hadn't heard of but, a few I had heard of.

"Ok boss I'll have a look about." it was probably rats or something but it could be something bigger. I said goodbye and left the police station, first on the list was the spa. Hmm I think it's near the centre of town, as I walked there I saw many ponies along the way, seems they aren't scared of me anymore. I waved at them as I passed most of them waved back, a couple jumped, hmm maybe some are still scared, I saw the spa ahead I saw a light blue head pop from the window, sigh they are expecting me.

I knocked on the door, a pink pony with blue hair, this wasn't the one I saw from the window, "hello" a blue pony with pink her had popped out of nowhere. Wow they look exactly the same but their colour schemes are different "you are the police man who is here to ... Help with the strange things going on."

"yes I am, may I ask your names, mine is Jack?" they both giggled, oh god please no.

"My name is Lotus and this is Aloe, and are you the muscly man who is here to investigate?" oh god they are! They are coming on to me! What is about the women in this world? "Would you like something to drink? Or maybe a quick massage?" oh god could you be more obvious?

"Err no thank you, where did the objects move from?" they both looked at each other, it was a concerned look. I wonder what that looks about.

"Follow me" I couldn't remember which one was which, but I followed them into the basement all the same, they pointed me towards a corner, things had definitely been taken there was patches of clean surrounded by dust. They must not come down here often.

"Yes things have either been moved or taken" I searched the rest of the basement, the only thing that was out of place was a scratched floor in a circle shape but half of it was in the wall and a crack in the wall. "How long has this crack been here?" they both shrugged their shoulders, amazing just amazing.

I reached into the crack and felt about, bingo! I pulled down and heard a clunking sound then as the wall scraped me also heard the gasps from both of the girls; well then these two officially freak me out. "Jack May we come with you?" well at least they aren't completely scared of a secret passage way under their store.

"err I guess so" they both ran over to me and all of a sudden I had one latched on each arm, as I walked down the tunnel I noticed there was no branching paths yet, we walked down the tunnel for about five minutes, it would have taken me only one minute but I had two ponies to drag along. I saw the end of the tunnel loom towards us, I investigated the dead end for a good ten minutes but nothing was obvious at the moment, everything seemed to be normal. "I think the tunnel carries on but I don't know how to open it up."

We walked back in the same fashion, when we got back I asked what it was that was moved. "A box of makeup jewels, they are used for special occasions." huh ok wonder why somebody would steal that, it's a box of cheap plastic shapes.

"Well I have a few more shops to go visit, I might be back later to investigate those caves a bit more" they both thanked me, and as I was leaving I saw them both look out of the window at me, oh dear me. I continued walking to my next destination, the antiques shop. It wasn't too far away only down the road, the shop was old and dusty, the windows had cobwebs in and they were grimy. I entered the shop and was instantly greeted by a green Pegasus mare; she was probably the same age as Twi, that's strange I expected her to be a bit older.

"Hello, my grandmother will be here soon, she is busy in the store room at the moment." well that would explain it, while I waited I looked around, they had paintings, furniture and old jewellery.

"Oh hello deary, you here to buy something, or just looking" this mare was a lot older she looked like the younger mare but she had wrinkles and moved a lot slower.

"Err no, I'm here for the thefts?" she motioned towards the door, I opened it and realised it was a set of stairs down to the basement. I wondered if the old mare would follow me down, I got my answer when in fact I saw the younger mare walk down the stairs after me. "Hello there my name is Jack"

"my name is Arc, it's nice to meet you Jack" Arc? Wonder what that stands for; probably short for something ... Archaeologist? Probably, if the other names are anything to go by I am probably right. "A crown was stolen from over there, and a bangle from over there" she pointed into two corners of the room.

I walked over to where the crown used to be; it used to be on a pony shaped manikin, or is that a ponykin? Whatever, I looked around and could find no evidence whatsoever of an intruder. I looked at the floor and saw the dust that layered it and something else, a trail of footprints, at first I thought they were mine but I soon realised they weren't. These prints were like none that I had seen, I followed the trail over to where the bangle should have been and there was a trail leading away from there as well.

I followed the trail strait into a wall; I hit my head and fell backwards. Arc ran over and was next to me "oh are you alright? Do you need anything? A drink? A bandage?" I sat up and shook my head, I wasn't walking that fast.

"I'm fine, thank you" I stood up and looked at the wall and the floor it looked like a normal wall but I could see the heel of a footprint on one side of the wall the rest intersecting the wall. Someone can walk through a wall or this is a secret door, I started to pat it down it was a flag stone wall and I'm guessing one of them is a button. After a couple minutes of looking stupid I felt a stone sink into the wall.

"Wah" she was surprised when the whole wall sunk downwards into the ground, "how did you find that?" I thought it was really obvious, but apparently she didn't.

"Well there is a footprint that intersects the wall and the fact that there was a theft at the spa and there was a secret door there as well." she looked at me awestruck, it wasn't that impressive. We walked through the door and started to walk down the tunnel, it was strange in the other one there were torches, in this one there were none. The door rumbled shut, we were plunged into darkness. Arc was screaming as she clamped onto my side, we had no way to create light and I doubt I can find the doors secret switch.

Oh wait I'm an idiot, I lit my hand on fire in the flickering light I saw Arc jump back in shock. "How can you do that?" err how do I explain the idea behind genetic engineering? I know!

"Well I have a magic off my own" if I ever find it difficult to explain something I can pass it off as magic, I like that idea. "Are you ok though? Are you frightened?"

"I'm fine and I'm not frightened with you here." oh god she isn't going to let go, it isn't as bad as Lotus and Aloe because there was two of them. We continued to walk down the tunnel my fist lighting the way, I saw the end looming towards us. Once we got there I started to look around I couldn't find the secret mechanism to open the door, it might open from the other side.

"I can't seem to find the mechanism to open the door." she walked over and had a look herself, she shook her head she obviously couldn't find it either. Defeated we began the walk back, once we got to the other end of the tunnel we encountered a major problem, how do we open the door from this side. If we can't find how to we will be stuck I don't have a plasmid strong enough to break the door down either, I searched for something that looked out of place and that's when I saw it, it wasn't out of place as such it's just I had seen it twice before, a pile of rocks with one sticking out further than the others. The part that stood out was as big as a stool and it blended in perfectly, but when I pushed down on the rock it sunk into the ground.

The door started to sink into the ground "oh well done, you managed to open it!" she was bouncing with joy, "I don't suppose you would like to help me with a couple of expeditions I am running in the future?" I was right she is an archaeologist, but she is afraid of the dark? I voiced my question to her and she nodded her head while looking at her feet and shuffling slightly.

"there is no need to be embarrassed I have a fear of something as well, do you want to know what it is?" she nodded her head slowly "losing those close to me." she looked at me, her face was hard to read.

"Mine seems even sillier compared to yours" she didn't understand.

"Well no, both of our fears are rational, when you are in the dark you can't see what is around you, anything could be waiting to attack you. Losing those that are close to us is the worst thing I can think of. Without dying you that is." she nodded her head. "Anyway Arc I have one more shop to visit before the day is out, it was nice meeting you." she waved and showed me the way out, the basement was a maze of cardboard boxes and old furniture. As I was leaving a thought ran through my head, "what did the crown and bangle look like?"

"oh, if I remember correctly the bangle was gold with a sapphire on it, and the crown was also gold and had three rubies in it" I thanked her and walked down the street, I was looking for the jewellery shop but I had no idea where it was.

I saw AJ over by an apple stall, maybe she knew where the jewellery store was. "Hi AJ, how are you?" she looked over and saw me.

"Oh hi there Jack, it's nice to see ya, do ya want to have an apple?" I reached over and picked an apple up and began to munch on it.

"Thanks AJ don't suppose you have any idea where the jewellery shop is? I need to investigate some robberies." she looked slightly surprised at this.

"Robberies, who in Ponyville would commit a robbery?" I shrugged my shoulders "the jewellery store is down that road and on your right." I thanked her, said and walked down the street; it was obvious which one was the shop, mainly because it had a ruby ring on the sign above the door. I walked through the door and saw a blue unicorn asleep on the table, err ok then should I wake her up?

"Huh who's there?" whoa she woke up quickly, she looked at me "oh ... Err ... Hi" she was nervous, guess this was the first time she has seen me.

"Don’t worry, I'm here to investigate the theft from your shop" she dramatically calmed down after this, she didn't seem like the talking type. She pointed towards a door; I opened it and walked down the stairs on the other side. I didn't bother investigating what was stolen I already knew what I was looking for, one secret passage is a coincidence but two? There had to be a third one here.

I searched for a good five minutes and was giving up hope, maybe there isn't a secret passage here ... Wow. The opposite wall opened, turns out I was searching along the wrong wall, a creature walked into the dark basement, I couldn't see what had come out of the tunnel, it was hunched over and sniffing around. The wall slid back behind him closing the secret exit, it was at that moment, the creature jumped up and ran back towards the secret door, and it had smelt me or something. I saw him pull a torch bracket and the door opened.

I ran through the secret door and down the tunnel, it was lit with torches, the creature managed to keep ahead somehow. I finally reached the end of the tunnel; the end of the tunnel was the same as the last two. I pushed the rock down and the wall sunk down into the ground, on the other side was the weird creature I had ever seen. "turn round creature these are my shinies." ok and it wasn't smart either, I looked at what was around me, by my feet was a burlap sack, and over on the table was the box of makeup jewels, the bracelet, the crown, and a box of goodness knows what.

I had an idea, but I depended on how the creature would react, meh I always have plasmids if this goes wrong. I bent down to pick up the sack and as expected the thing jumped towards me, I opened the bag and the creature flew strait into it. I put the makeup jewels in my pocket and I put the crown and bracelet on, I thought it was more of an arm guard; I then grabbed the box and held it with my other hand, all of this I did without letting go of the burlap sack.

sorry for the wait between chapters, been busy recently and i will probably be busy for a while but i will try to keep the updates coming.