Profile Of A Party Pony

Chapter 2- The Hunt Begins

Twilight Sparkle stood by as the BAU ponies exited the train. She picked out the leader at a glance. He stood straight and tall, wearing a no nonsense business suit complete with muted colour tie. He held an air of authority around him, his dark eyes found her. She was alarmed by the inherit lack of humour in them; she’d never known anypony to have so little light.

“Twilight Sparkle?” he approached her. He held out a hoof, all the while maintaining his lack of expression.

“That’s me.” The lavender pony took the agents hoof, “You’d be Agent Hotchner then?”

“That’s right,” he then turned to introduce the members of his team, “these are, agents; Rossi, Morgan, Prentiss, Jareau and Doctor Reid.”

Twilight gave each pony a friendly nod as their name was said, “How’d you like to do this?”

“Agent Jareau and I would like to go and get set up in the library while Morgan and Prentiss do a quick neighbourhood canvas, while Rossi and Reid are going to Dash’s house.”

Twilight turned to Reid and Rossi, “You’ll need my help for that one. Dash’s house is on a cloud. I have a spell that will allow you to walk on them.”

“Sounds good Ms. Sparkle. Thank you.” Rossi gave Twilight a kind smile.

Twilight returned the smile, “Just Twilight please. Okay let’s see if I remember this spell correctly.” She thought hard and as she did her horn began to glow. The light slowly expanded soon engulfing Rossi and Reid. After a moment the light rescinded. Reid was inspecting himself expecting something to have changed.

“Did it work?” he asked.
Twilight grinned, “Yeah it did. Go see Pinkie Pie at Sugarcube Corners, she’ll lend you the hot air balloon to get you to Dash’s house, then once you get on the cloud you’ll be set.”

“Alright everypony, meet back at the library when you’re done.” Hotch gave his team a brisk nod and each pony set off to their tasks.

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Rossi and Reid made their way towards Sugarcube Corners. As they approached the large cupcake resembling building Rossi stopped, “I think I’m becoming diabetic just looking at it.”

Reid pushed the door open and glanced around the shop. It was a homey cozy little place. The agents barely made it through the entrance when they were suddenly accosted by a bouncing pink blur.

“Hey there. Welcome to Sugarcube Corners. I’m Pinkie Pie, what can I get you today?”

Reid blinked in astonishment at the hyperactive pink... thing. She bounded in circles around the room. He’d never heard somepony speak so fast. Even he couldn’t entirely process her entire statement due to the lack of breath she took.

Rossi shook his head to reorganize his thoughts. He was just as taken aback by the overwhelming force that was Ponyville’s number one party pony. “Pinkie Pie? I`m Agent Dave Rossi, this is Doctor Spencer Reid. A miss Twilight Sparkle told us you could...”

The rest of Rossi’s statement was cut off as Pinkie let out a squee of delight, “You’re the FBI guys! You’re the ones that want to help find out Dashie!” She took a few more excited bounds around the room, “Twi told me you’d be coming. I’ll get the balloon in a jiffy. But first have some cupcakes.”

Reid was having a very hard time keeping the bewildered expression off his face, “Well thank you very much for offering but...”

“No no, I insist!” Pinkie bounced into the kitchen just off the main store, she returned with a small tray of cupcakes in her mouth. She set them on a table by the agents, “You’re new to Ponyville. So take these cupcakes as a welcome.”

An idea seemed to strike the pink pony. She let out a melodramatic gasp, her blue eyes went wide and she jumped up with a squee of ecstasy. Reid could have sworn he saw a light bulb go on over her head, “I know what I’ll do! I’ll throw you guys a party, a ‘Welcome to Ponyville, thanks for helping’ party. It’ll be great! We’ll have cake and ice-cream, and punch and play game and...”

“Oh no, no thank you Pinkie Pie.” Rossi said hesitantly, “as lovely as that sounds, we’re here to do a job and that’s got to be our first priority. No time for parties.”

The agents froze in shock as the pink pony’s entire demeanour changed instantly. Her face fell, her eyes watered, her lower lip trembled. Even her poufy pink curls deflated, “n-no time for a party.” She sniffled.

Reid saw the danger and reacted as quickly as possible, “Well of course we have time for a party,” he said awkwardly glancing at Rossi who was staring at the younger stallion as if he’d lost his mind, “but why don’t we hold off on the party until after the case is solved. That way we can celebrate it finishing and you can thank us properly.”

In the blink of an eye Pinkie changed right back to the excitable bouncy thing she had been, “Oooo that’s a great idea! And that way I have more time to plan and get things ready. I can make lots and lots of delicious new cupcakes by then.”
She pushed the forgotten tray towards the agents, “No come on have a cupcake while I go get you that balloon.”

Reid and Rossi looked at the tray. It was filled with blue iced cupcakes covered in rainbow sprinkles. They glanced at each other, the cupcakes did look tempting.

“How can we say no to homemade cupcakes?” Rossi said with a shrug reaching forward and grabbing one. Reid followed suit. The agents each devoured their cupcakes. They really were delicious.