A Bitter End

(Ponyville, 7:32AM, Ponyville Hospital)

Royal Guard were investigating a rather unusual crime. It was the hospital room of a young fill who had part of her face bitten off by the stationary animatronics at The Equestrian Diner a month ago, Star Burst, and when the nurse had came to check on her at around 5 AM, she found the door broken down, the bed in shreds, blood, that was confirmed with a DNA test that it was indeed Star Burst's, stained the floors and walls, and a shattered window. And yet, despite all that mayhem and destruction, not a single pony saw anything; camerapony fell asleep at around 11 PM, no nurses were making rounds in that wing, no security guards had been anywhere here at the suspected time of the incident.

It was all to convenient, anypony who had taken one look at a case like this would that this had to have been personal and with a lot of forethought. And that begs the question; just who wanted a already traumatized foal like Star Burst to die in such a horrific way this badly.

"Captain." Princess Celestia voice shook Cpt. Peace Keeper out of his internal monologue.

"Uhm, yes Princess." Peace Keeper immediately snapped to attention.

"At ease Captain, I just wanted to know how this case was going, and if you had found any leads yet." Princess Celestia said.

"I'm afraid not, your highness, there has been neither a body found nor a ransom call yet, and the only evidence that we got is the blood." Cpt. Peace Keeper shook his head, not used to being this dumbfounded on a case.

"It's alright Captain, I may have a lead for you, but it's shaky and has a low possibility for it to be even possible." Princess Celestia said as she laid her wing over the back of the guard, hoping to calm him enough to hear her out.

"Any lead is better than no lead, ma'am." Cpt. Peace Keeper said, a glimmer of hope had sprouted in his chest, thinking that this may give them the break they needed on this case.

"The filly, Starburst, is not what she seems." Princess Celestia looked down at her hooves as she spoke. "Her real name is Twilight Sparkle, former princess of Equestria."

Peace Keeper was stunned, he thought he was looking for a foal, instead he is searching for a Princess of Equestria. Peace Keeper looked up at Princess Celestia and said. "You don't suppose that she did all this herself, right?"

"No." That single word carried more weight than it sounded, the reason why Twilight considered delusional and insane was because she believed somepony was using her friends to try and kill her, it was absurd and crazy. But now, in the room that the mare turned filly was put into until she was recovered enough to go home, torn up and stained with blood and looked like a wild animal had rampaged through, Captain Peace Keeper and Princess Celestia both started to contemplate whether or not Twilight was telling the truth and wasn't insane.

"Captain!" A yell jolted both the Captain and Princess out of their inner turmoil.

"Yes Corporal?" Cpt. Peace Keeper asks the out breath guard.

"We found something, you're going to want to see it." The guard managed to get out.

"Well then, lead the way." Peace Keeper nodded to the guard, before turning back to Princess Celestia.

"I shall be accompanying you as well, I wish to she what has transpired." Princess Celestia answered the unasked question.

The trek through the hospital wasn't a very long one, but when they arrived, what they saw had frightened even Princess Celestia. It was a broom closet, but it seemed that it had been used for something much darker, as the broken down door, stained in blood, blood streaks on the floor and walls, but had been the most frightening was inside the closet. It was purple, a tad larger than the average pony, it had navy blue mane with a violet streak and a pink streak through it, violet eyes: it was a Twilight Sparkle animatronic, with a smile on its face that would have been innocent and disarming if blood had not been leaking out from her mouth, eyes, and joints.

"No." Princess Celestia said, shaking her head, she refused to believe it, but it seemed clear to all present; who ever was in the suit, was dead and probably died pretty horribly.

"Get the suit off her." Princess Celestia said as a shadow covered her eyes, her entire body was trembling. "Send whatever you find to castle."

Peace Keeper wanted to stop the princess, but had thought better of it, it was better to let the Princess deal with this in her own way. He looked back to the Animatronic and thought just what kind of horrible, monstrous, demon would do something as grotesque as this.

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(Ponyville, 7:40 A.M., The Friendship Castle)

"AHH!" A scream tore throughout the castle, the princesses and the elements along with a contingent of guards were rushing towards the source. They burst through the door leading to the room the Animatronics and Twily were staying at. They came through expecting a gruesome horrifying scene that would haunt them for years to come, what they got instead was...

"No Starlight, it's not fair to use magic." Twily laughed as she tried to escape the animatronic magic field.

"All is fair in a TICKLE FIGHT!" Starlight Glimmer launched herself at the filly and started to profusely tickle her.

"Just what kind of monsters have I let into my home?" Twilight asked herself.