Strange Voice on the Phone

"I'd know that voice anywhere, but I just can't believe it!" said Cheerilee.

"Who was it!?" asked the guard urgently.

"The voice I heard was the voice of Twilight Sparkle."

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Twilight Sparkle was hanging out with her brother next to the library. Ever since the murder of The Mayor, she had hung around her brother as often as possible. She felt safe around him. She turned to him. "Do you have any leads on the mayor?" she asked.

"Twi, you know I can't talk to even you about that stuff. We'll let the public know about details when we find it necessary. Besides, I have a lot more on my plate now that I have to be the interim mayor for this town." said Armor. "The good news though, is that I think Ponyville had an uneventful night," Almost on cue, the two saw a group of ponies run by excitedly. One turned to Shining Armor and said

"There you are! Did you hear? Cheerilee got attacked last night and she named her attacker!" said the pony.

"WHO!?" asked Twilight and Armor excitedly.

"Well it was..." she realized who she was talking to. She looked at Twilight dead in the eyes and whimpered a bit. To the surprise of both of them, she backed away slowly. Twilight raised an eyebrow.

"Um, is something wrong?" asked Twilight. As the pony continued to back away, she pointed her hoof at Twilight and yelled

"HER! IT WAS HER!" The pony bolted away from the duo as fast as she could. Twilight and Shining Armor looked at each other uneasily.

"Did she just say you were The Killer?" asked Armor confusedly.

"I think so," said Twilight, in a tone as confused as her brother. Armor looked around.

"I'm going to get to the bottom of this. You get into the library and stay there until I can sort this out," Twilight nodded and ran inside her library home and shut the door. Spike was inside organizing books and when she came in, he turned towards her to give a greeting but he noticed her worried expression.

"What's wrong Twilight?" he asked.

"Oh Spike, Cheerilee was attacked last night by The Killer and she pegged me as the attacker!" said Twilight, trying to keep herself from panicking.

"What!?" said Spike, dropping the stack of books in his hands and running towards her. "You didn't do it right?" Twilight glared at him.

"Spike! How can you even ask that!? Of course I didn't!" said Twilight angrily.

"Okay okay," said Spike throwing his hands up. "Sorry."

"It's okay Spike, I just got to calm down. I'm sure it's just a big misunderstanding," said Twilight with a nervous laugh, trying to reassure herself. At that exact moment, Twilight heard a knock on the door. She froze to the spot but slowly gained the courage to inch over to the door and look out the peephole and to her horror, she saw a group of royal guards outside. She hesitated but one of them knocked on the door again this time more angrily. She gingerly opened the door and saw at least a dozen guards and her brother arguing with one of them, his second-in-command, named Battle Charge.

"There is no way that she did it!" said her brother angrily.

"Shining Armor, what's going on?" said Twilight in a tiny voice.

"They're saying that when Cheerilee was attacked, her attacker's voice changer fell out when she slipped down the stairs. She said the unchanged voice was clearly yours, but I'm telling you there is no way that it could be her!" said Armor.

"Look, we have our orders from the Princess herself to take any suspects into custody and right now the schoolteacher's testimony is the best lead that we have!" said Battle Charge defensively.

"But she couldn't have done it! What time was she attacked?" said Armor.

"She came to us at around 3 in the morning telling us she had been attacked. If you or the dragon can vouch for her whereabouts at that time, then of course she will cease to be a suspect and we will have a new angle to take this investigation but if not we have to take her in for questioning, I'm sorry," said Battle Charge. Twilight slowly backed into the library, hardly able to believe what she was hearing.

"I dropped her off here at around 1 in the morning. Spike, did you see Twilight here at three?" said Shining Armor desperately. Spike bit his lip.

"I'm a baby dragon, I fell asleep around 8," said Spike. Shining Armor looked frantic.

"Is there a phone registry, some way we can check calls!?"

"Sorry, the technology hasn't gotten to that point," said Battle Charge. "Miss Twilight, do you have a cellular phone?"

"Yeah, I just got it a week or so ago," she said.

"That would be around the time Pinkie got her call right?" said Charge

"Yeah, the same day," said Twilight, who was growing more and more nervous.

"Do you have it on hand?" Twilight nodded and began looking around for the phone. Spike joined in on the search.

"Look, Battle Charge, we have been friends since we first joined the royal guards, but this is too much. I cannot let you arrest my sister so suspicion of three counts of attempted and one successful murder!" yelled Armor. Battle Charge looked at Shining Armor almost a little helplessly.

"What do you want me to do? I have my orders and I can't let her go even if there is even a one percent chance that she is The Killer!" Shining Armor glared at him. Battle Charge sighed. "Look, we're not gonna hurt her at all, we really just want to ask her some questions." Twilight ran around the library frantically.

"Spike? Where is my phone?" she asked, tearing up her room in a desperate search for her cell phone.

"I don't know Twilight!" said Spike frantically ripping items off of shelves.

"Is this it?" asked one of the other guards. He held up a cellphone. "It was taken from the schoolteacher's house." Twilight looked at it.

"Yes that's it!" she shrank back. "I don't know how it got to her house." The guards nodded to each other.

"There's more," said Battle Charge.

'What now!?" said Shining Armor angrily.

"On the night that The Mayor was killed, one of our men said he saw a pony run away from the crime scene at some point after we arrived. He said that that pony looked suspiciously like Twilight Sparkle," he turned towards Twilight. "Well, was it you?"

"NO! The first I heard of The Mayor's death was when I woke up the morning after it happened. I still don't have the nerve to go near the Town Hall after what happened."

"Very well, the guard could have been mistaken but he saw somepony running away. However, that doesn't change the fact that your cellphone was at the scene of the attack on the schoolteacher so we are going to have to take you into custody, I'm sorry. Don't worry, if you didn't do it I'm sure you'll be cleared of any involvement." Twilight nodded. She couldn't understand how she was now the number one suspect in this case. Shining Armor looked at Battle Charge bitterly. Twilight was escorted away by the guards. "Don't worry, we won't talk to the Princess about this until we really know what is going on," said Battle Charge.

"Battle Charge, why wasn't I told about any of this right away? Why did you wait until now to confront her about this?" asked Shining Armor, who was slowly growing more and more angry with his old friend.

"Well we had to make some necessary precautions. This is a delicate situation, what with her being your sister and all, not to mention the personal protege of Princess Celestia. We waited until now because a few of us felt that she would be less nervous if we took her into custody in the day instead of in the middle of the night. I hope you understand," he said, trying his best to placate his friend. Shining Armor could only glare at him.