The Muffin Mare

Derpy knew that they had learned their lesson and wouldn't bully anypony at the school for a while, which meant her mission for Dinky was accomplished, and with that in mind she slowly released her grip from them and let them slide to the ground, and turned to walk away. Everything went as planned, and she knew that after this, Dinky would never come home crying again, and if she did, she would make sure that the pony responsible would pay for it. As she walked farther away she could see that the stallions were attempting to continue the game they were playing before she interrupted. Though, they were too scared to even concentrate on the game rather than Derpy flying back to get them again.

Suddenly, Derpy could hear a faint shouting in the far streets of the city. It didn’t sound like somepony was screaming in pain or shock, it was more like somepony was screaming at somepony else. Derpy knew she could go try to help, but she didn’t know whether or not she would be safe. She knew that if anything bad happened Dinky would be alone, and it was already bad enough that her parents were gone. Though, after some hesitation, she ended up deciding to go, and flew towards the source of the distress.

When she had made it as close as she could to the situation, she realized that it was a police pony chasing a stallion, who apparently must’ve stolen something because the stallion was holding a bag, full of what looked like bits. The stallion was running faster than Derpy could fly, and was outrunning the police pony at the back who was chasing him. Derpy knew she had to do something, but she couldn't do anything at the speed she was going, she was too far away! With that in mind, she extended her hoof out towards the nearest building in mid flight, and let her body flow with the momentum.

Gently swinging through Ponyville on a strand of sticky muffin mix was fun, but she wasn’t doing this for fun, she needed to be serious. Her hooves were moving back and forth, in swinging patterns, very quickly. Catching up to the thief, Derpy could see that she didn’t recognize the stallion, he probably wasn’t from the town. As a mail mare, she had never seen him before, nonetheless even delivered a single piece of mail to him. Yet, as expected the more closer she got, the more the stallion noticed her and was throwing confused looks with how fast she was flying, not to mention without even using her wings.

Finally, when Derpy had gotten right next to the stallions side, she kicked him and knocked him over. As soon as the stallion flew through the air, about to hit the ground, he winced as if preparing for the shock of the landing that never came. While he was falling, Derpy had thrown some muffin mix to cushion his fall, which apparently worked very well, seeing as how he didn’t even grunt as he hit the mound of mix. It was even better to see that he couldn't even get up after falling due to the stickiness of the substance beneath him.

Derpy could see that her job was done here, and she did it pretty well. As she flew away from the scenario she could hear the assailant cursing at her with obvious hate in his voice, while the police had been praising the mysterious mare that had made their job much easier. The praise was easy to take in, and made her feel great. With a chest full of pride, she started to make her way home. Normally a trip that took a while when she flew, but not anymore. She could swing.

Derpy gently opened the door, getting the usual loud creak along with the loving greeting from Dinky. She had seemed to cool down after the situation when the bullies had gotten to her earlier, Derpy had made her way to her room, it was a long day, she wanted to sleep but couldn't.

“Did they listen?” said Dinky, hoping for a yes.

“Huh? What do you mean? Who’s they?” said Derpy, confused with the abrupt and non-descriptive question.

“Did the mean ponies at school listen to leave me alone? ” said Dinky, clarifying her question a little bit more hoping she could the answer she wanted.

“Oh! Them. Yeah! They won’t be mean to you ever again, or anypony else at the school anymore. If they are though, you tell me, and I’ll make sure they won’t do it ever again. Trust me on this.” Derpy said with a smile of confidence on her face, making Dinky believe her a little bit more.

Derpy turned her head to the clock on the wall. It was pretty late and Dinky also had school tomorrow “Ok my little muffin, time for bed!” She said while nuzzling Dinky softly, and of course Dinky was content with the situation and didn’t even refuse going to bed.

-------------------- In Ponyville State Penitentiary --------------------

“I swear Coin! There’s this gray mare, she was swinging from this sticky stuff man!” said the stallion who had been caught by Derpy earlier “She was faster than that one rainbow pony that did that sonic rainboom! I swear! I could’ve gotten away from the police if she wasn’t there! She kicked me onto the ground and somehow she made me stick there! I could’t even get up! The police had to cut me out! I still smell like blueberries!” he finished off his last statement with another sniff of his hoof. His prison buddies still didn’t believe him, he got stopped right in front of their hideout, causing them all to get caught.

“Still! You just had to run to the house! We told you that if something like this happens to go to the dump spot in the forest and dump the bits there and we would get it later!” said the rough voice from across the room, talking to his criminal partner with an angry tone.

“But Coin! She was completely unexpected! She came out of nowhere! I didn’t even see her coming!” he said, pleading to the others, hoping they would believe him. They heard him out, and listened to the excuse, after the others sniffed his hoof a few times they came to the conclusion that the story couldn't be fake.

“Well, Bit, either way. That mare made us lose almost a thousand bits. She’s going to pay for our loss.” said Coin as if making a point that whatever he had planned was going to happen “and you,” he pointed a hoof at the stallion responsible for putting them in there “are going to be the bait for the operation.”

“W-What do you mean? B-Bait?” said the stallion that was caught, scared that whatever he meant, wasn’t good.

“Exactly what I said. You’re going to be bait. You’re going to be the person who figures out who this mare is, that way we can get back what’s ours.” said Coin, with revenge in his voice.

Bit was confused “How am I going to be bait?” he said, with the confusion plain in his voice.

“When we get out of here, you’re going to get caught again, and make sure she’s nearby.” he said, with a sly grin.

“B-But!” Bit pleaded, not wanting to go through with this ‘operation’ that Coin had come up with.

“No excuses, you’re lucky we aren’t beating you up right now for putting us all in here! It’s the least you could do. Besides, after the operation, if the cops catch you, we’ll bail you out. We need as many people for this operation as we can.” said Coin as he walked toward the jail cell’s entrance, running his hoof up and down along the bars out of boredom.

“This is going to be a long week in here, but when we get out. It’ll all be worth it men.” said Coin, walking around the cell pointlessly, until he looked out the barred window to see the moon lowering on to the horizon, just barely touching it.

As the sun, rose rays of it shown through Derpy’s window and reflected onto her bed, and slowly as time passed, the ray’s made their way to her face. Causing her to wake up. It was a long night, she had so many nightmares and, sadly, not enough good dreams. Things may have not been going her way lately, but at least they were for Dinky. For the past week, Dinky has been coming home happy with a smile, she said those mean ponies don’t even talk to her, let alone make eye contact with her.

All she asked was to be left alone at school, and no one at the school would take any action against the kids. Derpy was glad that she was able to be the one to take care of Dinky’s problems. Dinky was also pretty happy that she was so lucky to have someone that cared for her that much.

The whole week was full though, she had been helping out a whole bunch of ponies who were getting mugged by criminals. She helped out so many people, though she was only known as ‘That Gray Mare’ she really wanted people to call her ‘The Muffin Mare’ but she couldn't just ask people. She knew she would just have to wait for someone to ask, and with that, she walked out the door and was on her way to work.

Work was long, but at last was finally over. She flew through the town in her ‘Muffin Mare’ costume, looking for somepony who was in need of help from some sort of criminal activity.

Bit and Coin were walking down the street, ignoring most of the stuff that was happening in the streets. Then suddenly, Bit pushed Coin to the side and ran in front of him, and started screaming “COIN!!! THAT’S HER!”

Coin had a look of surprise on his face by the sudden push, but was happy about being able to get such an easy opportunity “Well! Quit wasting time! Get over in that alley and start ‘mugging me’!!” he said while running to the alley next to where the mare was flying. Whenever they both made it into the alley Coin started screaming to try to get the mare’s attention. Though it took lots of screaming, Derpy finally turned to them and started to fly to try and help him.

“What’s going on here?!” Derpy said as she flew into the alley closer to the situation.

“He’s mugging me!” said Coin, while Bit was in front of him holding a pipe, trying to threaten Derpy with it as she came closer. Almost immediately she shot Bit with a strand of muffin mix, throwing him back towards the wall. He shouted with anger and attempted to try to get free of the mixture, but to no avail, he found himself stuck.

“Thanks! Mrs… Umm…” said Coin, trying to pry for information about the mystery mare with that ‘saved his life’.

She was ecstatic, she was finally waiting for someone to ask her what she called herself, and she was finally able to say it “You can call me… The Muffin Mare!” she said, quite heroically.

As soon as Coin figured out her name and she gave him his wallet, she was off. Finally when she was out of sight, he walked over to Bit and tore apart the muffin mix from the wall “She got you stuck pretty good…” said Coin, chuckling while he said the remark.

“Shut up, just get me down from here man…” said Bit, being helplessly stuck to the wall that now smelled like muffins.

As they both walked out of the alley, they knew the next step towards their revenge, though Bit really didn’t care about the money or the revenge, it was Coin who was dedicated.

“She’s going to pay soon Bit. Soon.” said Coin.