Agent Palmer: The case of the equestrian terrorist

Location: Everfree Forest

POV: Twilight Sparkle

We were in the Everfree forest looking for a monster. Or at least that's what Fluttershy's pet rabbit Angel had told Fluttershy that he saw on one of his walks through the forest. Whether or not he actually saw a monster I didn't know but it seemed to scare Fluttershy that there is a new monster in the everfree forest so to calm her down I gathered up the girls and we went to look for the monster in the forest which we had done for half an hour before deciding that splitting into two groups would make the search faster. After a half an hour more we heard Fluttershy scream and me, Rarity,Pinkie Pie, and Spike ran towards the sound. We reached the clearing we first saw A large black bipedal creature standing in the clearing with a shiny stick in one hand and a shiny can in the other.

When we finally got our eyes off the creature and looked around the clearing we saw one of the most horrific sights. We saw a manticore and Applejack lying motionless on the floor, we saw Rainbow Dash leaning up against a tree motionless as well, and the worst thing we saw was Fluttershy rolling on the ground as she cried and rubbed her eyes. Immediately and before I could stop him I saw spike run straight at the creature before seeing the creature punt Spike like a hoofball straight over our heads and into the forest. Before I could tell my friends to calm down and think of a plan I saw Pinkie Pie attempt to take down the creature, she pulled out her party cannon and fired a large cake straight at the creature but when the cake hit the creature in the face all it did was put its stick and can away before wiping the cake off its face and than pulling out a strange black  device.

The creature than began to run at pinkie with the device in its hand and than I saw something that truly surprised me, the creatures device started to generate its own lightning before the creature shoved it into Pinkies side, shocking her and causing her to pass out. I turned to Rarity and said " Rarity I need you to back me up if this plan doesn't work, got it "Got it she responded. I than ran at the creature and began to lift it up with my telekinesis spell but for some reason it was almost like his body was resilient to my magic. It took all my strength to lift the creature up but just as soon as I had gotten the creature off the floor he was already beginning to break free of my grip.

Just when I thought he was going to break free I felt some of the pressure ease off me before I turned my and saw Rarity helping me lift the creature. Knowing that Rarity knew what we had to next I began to count down. "Alright on the count of three" I said before I began the countdown "1..2..3" and just as I said three I heard the creature yell something before me and Rarity threw the creature with our magic at a nearby boulder. When the creature hit the boulder with a thud me and Rarity stood there waiting to see if the creature would stand back up but when it didn't get up after a full minute me and Rarity thought that it was safe enough to check on our friends. First we began with Fluttershy since she was still on the ground sobbing.

When she heard me coming and she looked at me I saw her eyes had become bright red "Oh Twilight" she said "you have to help me, after I saw the monster kill that poor manticore I tried to give it the stare but it was somehow able to resist it". "Resist it" I exclaimed "but how? No animal has been able to resist your stare". "I know Twilight, I was surprised too and than he pulled out this small spray that when he sprayed it into my eyes made it feel like they were on fire" she said". " Do they still burn" I asked.

"A little" she said wiping her running nose. "Okay, well when we get home well just make sure to help you rinse your eyes out and than I'll make sure to make you a nice daisy sandwich, does that sound good" I asked. "Yes" was her only reply. "Okay than now lets go check on the others" I said.

When we got to Pinkie Pie we found her on the floor with a burn mark on her coat where the creature had stuck his device. After pulling out a cupcake from Pinkies bag we waved it in front of her nose which caused her jump up and shout "WOW, did you guys feel that shock, man that was intense". After realizing that Pinkie was alright we moved on to Applejack who was lying on the floor with a large mark on her back but she appeared to still be conscious but with some back pain. After helping her up we moved on to Rainbow Dash who was lying next to a tree that she appeared to have collided with.

"Rainbow Dash are you okay" I asked. "Yeah I am just help me up " she responded. After helping her up I did a head count and than realized that Spike was still missing, "Wheres Spike" I exclaimed. "Don't worry about me I'm okay" said Spike as he walked out of the treeline and it was than that we noticed the giant purple bruise that practically covered his chest.

"OH, my little spikey-wikey what did that mean old monster do to you" said Rarity as she ran up and hugged him A hug that seemed to cause him pain but at the same time happiness. "Well now that everyone is accounted for there is still one thing left to talk about" I said as we all turned our heads towered the creature who was still slumped over unconscious next to the boulder. "I say we drag it to canterlot and throw it into the dungeons" said Rainbow Dash " I agree" than said Applejack "I don't think I would be able to sleep knowing that such a dangerous creature was still around and could still hurt the ponies I care about". "Well I think that we should just leave it in the Everfree forest, for all we know it was just some wild animal defending its territory even if it did do terrible things" said Rarity as she squeezed Spike harder when she was finishing her sentence.

"But Rarity that thing couldn't possibly be a wild animal, wild animals don't use equipment or wear clothes" said Fluttershy. "Fluttershy's right, whatever it is cant possibly be from Equestria, and now that I think about it, the creature sort of looks like a human from the other side of the mirror where Sunset Shimmer lives" I said. "So your saying that he came from the mirror" asked Applejack. "Maybe, he looks human but something about him is different from the humans from the portal, I can feel it, I will have to take him back to my castle and perform some research on the creature to make sure" I said

After taking the creature back to my castle, I placed him on my research table and made sure to place a sleeping spell on him hoping that it would keep him asleep while I do my research. I first started by examining his outfit and devices. "Alright spike write this down, creature appears to wearing some sort of vest that has multiple pockets and writing on it, I will begin my research by removing the vest and examining it". I undid the straps on the vest and slowly slid it off the creature and placed it on a nearby table, the vest was heavier than expected.

I began to to exam the vest it was black and had some sort of round patch on the front, the patch was blue and white and appeared to have a eagle on it. "U.S. Department of Homeland Security, I wonder if that means he's some sort of guard" I thought out loud. "If he's a guard than why is he out here and not back home protecting his princess" asked Rainbow Dash. "I don't know but I intend to find out" I answered .

I than flipped the heavy vest over and read a large black patch on the back that read in bold white letters " U.S. Federal Agent" and under that it said in smaller letters "U.S. Department of Homeland Security". "Hmm, these letters U and S seem to pop up a lot on his equipment, this might be were hes from" I said to no one in particular. I flipped the vest over and noticed that there was another patch on the front that I didn't notice possibly because it blended in. It was a rectangle with thirteen horizontal stripes that changed from black to white and in the upper left hand corner of the rectangle was a smaller back rectangle with multiple white stars, "What could this mean" I wondered.

I checked all the pockets on the vest and all I found was a pack of gum, a pair of black sunglasses, some white plastic straps, a strange back device that made strange noises when you twisted a knob and a large black rectangle with long copper colored tubes that shifted to a more darker color when it got to the tip "I will have to make sure to run more test on these items" I wrote down on my notepad and it was than that I noticed that my friends were still in my home doing whatever else since I told them not to touch the creature. "Girls, these test could take all night if you want to go home that would be all right" I said but than Rainbow Dash responded "And leave you here alone with this creature I don't think so, he could wake up and try and hurt you". "Alright suit yourself" I responded before I turned my attention back to the still heavy vest, this wasn't right I had emptied out all the pockets and it still weighed a couple pounds and than I noticed a flap on the inside that when opened revealed a large heavy square plate. After taking it out and placing it with the other vest items I than realized that I had finished my examination with the vest and that the next  thing I had to turn my attention on was the black belt with even more pouches but it seemed to have similar items only that it had two smaller versions of the black rectangle box with both filled with smaller versions of the copper tubes that had more rounded ends, a small foldable dagger, a flashlight, a smaller version of the large black cannon that he took down the manticore with, the small metal container that he sprayed Fluttershy with, the collapsible metal stick he hit Rainbow Dash and Applejack with, there was also a pouch that was in my best guess was suppose to hold the lightning generating device that he was holding in his hand before we took him down, and attached to the belt was a small gold shield with a eagle on top of it and in the middle of the shield it had the same symbol as the patch.

After examining the belt I made my way to the pants pockets that only holded three things. The first was a small metal device that could generate fire and had a symbol of a eagle sitting on top of a planet with a anchor passing through. The next was a small rectangle with a piece of glass that would light up when you pressed a small button and show a screen with multiple numbers and in the background it showed a red bird (which Fluttershy identified as a cardinal) sitting on top of a wooden stick and next to the cardinal were the letters L and S intersecting. After that I found another item that seemed to be used to hold currency. Inside the item were multiple green rectangle papers that each had a different face and number on them (I believe them to be his currency) and a small plastic rectangle with small numbers on them.

But there were two things that caught my eye. The first was some sort of ID that showed everything from his name, to his gender, and even his height. But the next one seemed more sentimental, it was a picture of the creature sitting at a table at what appeared to be some sort of party "Won't pinkie be happy to know that his creatures still have parties" I thought before returning my attention to the picture. The creature was sitting next to another creature that was similar to him except it seemed to be smaller, had darker hair and skin, and its chest appeared to be larger before I realized that it must be a female and sitting in between them was a smaller female wearing a party hat. It didn't take me long to realize that the smaller one must be a child which means that this must be a picture of his family, yes it must be the taller female must be his wife and the smaller one must be his daug.... my thoughts stopped as I realized that this wasn't just some monster, it was a living being that could show care and love it must have just been scared when it was in the forest.

I made sure to put the picture back in the pouch carefully before realizing that I must now move on to the biological examination of the creature. Up until this point I had just focused on the items and not the actual creature. I made sure to call over Fluttershy since she dealt with animals and could tell a lot about it from its physical appearance and Rarity since she could also examine the outfit he was wearing. The first thing we removed was a dark blue long sleeve shirt that on the front had a picture of the small gold shield and on both shoulders had the same rectangle with stripes except this time one of the stripes was red, the corner box was blue, and the remaining stripes and stars were a brighter white.

"Well the first thing I can tell you Twilight is that the shirt was obliviously not made for style but rather for comfort and maneuverability, since it is very thin it was possibly made for hotter environments" said Rarity upon finishing her examination of the shirt before we finally removed it and revealed the creatures chest which shocked everybody in the room. The creature was obliviously well built since it had biceps like Bulk Bicep, but what most shocked us was that its skin unlike the rest of its body where it was a peach color was covered in different colored images. The images showed everything from L and S intersecting again on his shoulder to a large picture of a bird (which Fluttershy identified as a eagle this time) opening its wings on his chest and in its claws it holds a banner similar to the rectangle with the red and white stripes which leads me to believe that its some sort of flag of the area its from. Another thing that shocked us was that its body was covered in scars and burn marks.

We than realized we forgot to exam his head which was important since we did knock him out with a rock. Its face looked while it was asleep. It appeared to a short brown black mane with small single grey hairs popping up every now and than and than using my magic I opened his eyelids ( causing the other ponies to step back since they didn't know he would still be asleep if I did this) which caused his pupils to dilate and revealed that he had brown eyes. We than opened up his mouth were Fluttershy immediately began her examination.

"He appears to be a omnivore since his teeth seemed to be made for both grinding and tearing" Fluttershy said. "So your saying that the creature could have eaten us if he wanted to" Asked Applejack. "Only if were in its diet" responded Fluttershy whose response didn't seem to calm down Applejack not that Fluttershy noticed as she was still examining the creature. We than removed the creatures pants and undergarments but decided to put the undergarments back on after it reveled that his manhood was bigger than an average stallions and next came his boots, after we removed them we handed them over to Rarity who immediately began to examine them.

"Again the boot is obviously not made for style but rather comfort and is made of tough material" she said after examining them. "I could of told you that" said Spike rubbing his stomach were the bruise previously was but now disappeared after we had used a healing spell. " Well I guess the only thing left to do is wake the creature up and ask him some questions" I said. "Are you nuts Twilight, you want to wake this monster up even after it beat us two ways from Sunday, and even after it almost broke out of your magical grip even though your a alicorn" responded Applejack

"I had underestimated my opponent and I wanted to capture the creature alive so I had to withhold my magic since I didn't know what could hurt him" I said "How much did you withhold" asked Rainbow Dash with a raised eyebrow. "Enough to know that an average unicorn will only be able to hold him for a few seconds, less or maybe even not get a grip on the creature if the unicorn is not using its full magical strength" I responded "Again, And you want to wake it up" responded Applejack. "Yes, we can only learn why the creature is here if we ask the creature itself and besides we wont be doing the interrogation here and by ourselves, girls pack your things we are going to Canterlot.