Dream Catcher

by Royale With Cheese

Rating: teen
Tags: Other, Mystery, Princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle, Main 6, Drama, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 2097

Twilight experiments with Lucid Dreaming, and gets accused of murder when someone swaps bodies with her while sleeping.

When Twilight tries to experiment with Lucid Dreaming for the first time, it all goes wrong when someone swaps bodies with her and she gets accused of 2nd degree murder. 

Will Twilight figure out who was really responsible, or will she be stuck serving a sentence she didn't deserve?

Published 2017-04-10 18:50:01 UTC
Last updated 2017-04-10 18:50:01 UTC

Chapter 1

"Have a dream journal next your bed, so when you wake up, you can write your dream down."

"Check!"

Spike puts a checkmark next to the note. "Have a nice and busy day, so you can fall asleep easier."

"Check!"

"Uh, drink a glass of... apple juice?"

Twilight holds up a glass of apple juice with her magic and drinks it. "Check!" She sets the glass on her nightstand.

"Why did you need to drink a glass of apple juice?" Spike asks.

"Apple juice increases the production of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine into the brain." Twilight continues. "Acetylcholine is supposed to give you vivid dreams. It will increase metabolism and stimulate the brain to be more active, resulting in a very animated dream."

"Very interesting!" Spike takes a look back at the notebook. "And that's all, all you have to do now is go to sleep and have an awesome dream that you can control!"

"It's not that simple Spike, I still have to do a few more techniques when I lie down." Twilight says.

Spike yawns and climbs into his bed. "Well, don't forget to write your dream down when you wake up."

"Don't be disappointed when you see a blank page in the journal." Twilight continues as she lays down in her bed. "I'm a first timer at this, so there is a chance that it might not work. Even a unicorn like Starlight or I can't do it for the first time. It takes lots of practice."

"Practice makes perfect, Twilight." Spike says.

"Exactly. Goodnight Spike."

"Goodnight."

Twilight turns off the light with her magic, then continues doing some other techniques that will help her lucid dream.

Twilight wakes up, not in her bed, but floating about 50 feet above Ponyville.

"Wow, it worked!" Twilight gleamed.

She floated around, then landed on the ground, not feeling anything underneath her hooves.

"I'm still technically floating." She said to herself.

After a few minutes of adventuring around, she notices a bright purple light coming from the town water fountain. She walks over to see what it was.

She gets there, and the light is still in it's place. It was bright, but not bright enough to make her squint, but again, it was a dream.

"This is interesting..." Twilight said.

An unfamiliar voice is heard. "It sure is, Twilight."

"What? Who's there?!" Twilight looks around, but her dream was cut short as she gets surrounded by darkness, almost looking like someone put a huge blanket over her.

A blue earth stallion with an orange-red mane sets down an empty box labeled 'miscellaneous items' beside his nightstand.

Tango just moved to Ponyville about three days ago, due to meeting all the ponies, he didn't have much time to unpack all of his items.

This time he had loads of time to unpack, or so he thought too soon, when a knock was heard on his door.

He trots to the door, almost tripping over a box.

He opens the door.

"Hey, its, uh, Twilight!" He said.

"Yep, it's me." She replies.

"Uh, so, what are you doing here at this time of night?" Tango asks.

"Oh, I just needed to talk to you." Twilight said. "May I come in?"

"Oh, ya sure, just make sure to watch out for some boxes." Tango continued with a question. "You want anything to drink?"

Twilight thought for a moment and said. "Sure. I'll have a water."

Tango walks into the kitchen and Twilight follows. "So, what did you want to talk about?" He asks as he grabs glass cup.

"I just want to make this short and sweet. Why did you want to move here?" Twilight asks as she sneakily grasps an object in her hoof.

He fills the glass up with water. "Well, I needed to move away from my parents and wanted to live a new life somewhere else, I picked the perfect town."

"Well, you have wasted your time." Twilight sternly says.

Tango quickly turned to face her. "Excuse m-." Then he is interrupted after Twilight stabs him in the neck, making him drop the glass, shattering it along with a splash of water landing on the floor.

He tries to talk but all he can do is let blood come out of his mouth, and blood squirting out of his neck. He's dead within seconds.

Twilight smiles and takes out the knife which makes more blood come out, and sets the knife down on the floor.

She walks out the door, and closes it.

She floats to her castle, goes through the thick walls to get to Twilight's bedroom, where she sees the real Twilight sleeping in her bed.

She floats down to the real Twilight's body, merges herself with it, and goes back to her own self.

Derpy was on her usual Wednesday morning route.

"Have a nice day, Cheerilee!"

"You too Derpy, thanks again!"

She goes off to the next house, the house that is now on her mailing list.

She knocks, which makes the door slightly open.

"Um, Tango?" She calls out.

No answer.

She opens the door even more. "Tango, you got mail!"

She then sees a pair of orange back legs on the floor.

"Having sink problems already?" She says as she flies towards the kitchen.

She catches the sight of the dead pony surrounded in blood as soon as she walks in.

She drops her mailbag and shrieks in horror.

"Well, I only remember the first part of my dream, I was floating above Ponyville." Twilight continues. "Then I landed on the ground and it felt like I was still floating, and that was it."

"Hey, at least you got a slight feeling of it. I gotta try this out one night." Starlight gleams.

Spike brings a plate with a stack of pancakes on top of it. "Spike's Special Pancakes are now ready to eat!"

"Spike, remember that we don't eat pancakes without syrup?" Starlight giggles.

"Oh, right. I'll get go get it." Spike goes off to the kitchen, get a stool and plops himself onto the counter, and was about to open the pantry where the syrup was, but looks out the window and catches a glimpse of something that was going on far away.

Twilight pours herself some orange juice. "The apple jui-... Spike, Starlight asked for you to get the syrup, not a spyglass."

"I know. I just wanted to see something." Spike said climbing onto the counter once more, now looking through the spyglass.

Starlight looks at Twilight and shrugs.

"Twilight, who was the new pony that moved into the light gray cottage?" Spike asked.

"That was Tango, why?"

"There's a commotion going on at his house..." Spike sternly said.

"Oh, it's probably nothing, townsfolk love new ponies here." Twilight gleamed.

Spike put down the spyglass and looks at Twilight. "If it's nothing, then why is their police and CSI ponies at his house?"

"Holy cow, I think the whole town is here..." Starlight says looking around and catches the sight of a familiar cow pony.

"Applejack!"

Applejack looks around, trying to figure who's calling out her name.

"Applejack!"

"Applejack!"

Applejack looks at who was calling and quickly trots up to Starlight and Spike. "Oh thank Celestia, y'all are here, where's Twilight?"

"Twilight went to talk to the police, what's going on?" Spike asked.

Applejack took off her hat. "The new pony, Tango, he, uh, killed himself..."

Starlight goes wide eyed. "What?!"

"Y-you can't be serious..." Spike said.

"I ain't lyin' also."

Twilight returned from talking with a police pony. "So, I just received some news..."

"Ah told them, Twi, its very sad..."

"Hey Twilight!" Rainbow said, as she walks up with Rarity, and Pinkie Pie who has a saddened look on her face. "I'm guessing that you all heard what happened?"

The two unicorns and dragon nodded.

"Why would anypony do such a thing?" Rarity said.

Pinkie who was on the verge of tears. "I wasted my time making a great welcome party for him." She cries and Rarity comforts her.

Spike looks around. "Where's Fluttershy?"

"She's being substitute teacher for the first hour of class today, since Miss Cheerilee was his next door neighbor, so she's answering questions from the police." Rainbow explained.

"But, shouldn't class be cancelled?" Starlight asked.

"Well, if you think about it, the little fillies and colts have to keep their minds away from something else, instead of thinking of a dead pony." Twilight explained.

"Oh, right."

A soft voice was heard. "H-hey Twilight"

Twilight turns around. "Fluttershy, I'm guessing Miss Cheerilee took back her spot?"

"N-no, a police pony told me that class should be canceled, he said that this crime scene just got a whole lot more serious. But, that was awhile ago." Fluttershy continues. "I was comforting Derpy Hooves, sh-she was the one that found Tango's dead body."

"Poor Derpy Hooves, imagine walking in and seeing a pony in his own pool of blood" Rarity said.

"Oh, a-and girls, I'm trying my best to not think about a dead pony, so keep th-those words on the down low." Fluttershy quietly said.

Rarity nods.

"I just talked to the police, they never said anything about this being more serious." Twilight exclaimed.

Starlight was about to say something but was interrupted by Mayor Mare shouting through a megaphone.

"May everypony please move on to the town hall. We are having an emergency meeting! Move to the town hall now, we are having an emergency meeting!"

Everyone from Ponyville was inside the town hall, added on with additional police police ponies.

Mayor Mare tapped the microphone at the front of the town hall. "Ahem."

Everyone stopped talking.

"This is Sheriff Nightstick, he has additional details to what happened this morning."

A middle aged pony steps up to the podium. "Of course, as you shall know by now, a fellow townspony killed himself, or, that's what we though what happened."

A few murmurs were heard.

"We checked the hoofprints on the object, or a knife, I should say for that matter, didn't match with his own hoofprints."

"So, what does that mean?" Asks Bon Bon.

"It means that Tango got murdered by another pony." Nightstick sternly said.

Gasps and squeals were all heard throughout the town hall.

"But, nothing to worry. Ponyville has the lowest crime rate in Equestria, there's at least a five percent chance that the killer is in this room right now." Nightstick continues. "As far I know, he's a new pony in this town. We're guessing that an old enemy from his old town came down in the middle of the night and killed him."

"But, we all still have to take your hoofprints, I fully know that there is no murderer in this town, but it's our job to do so. This will only take about an hour."

Police and CSI ponies came around and marked everyone's front hooves and upper hooves.

"Heh, I know that you're a princess, Twilight, but I still gotta do your hoof prints." A police pony chuckles.

"No worries."

"Speaking of princesses, you need to contact Princess Celestia about this, I'm pretty sure that there hasn't been a murder in this part of Equestria in a long time."

"I'll get to it." Twilight went around finding a sheet of paper and a quill, then wrote to Celestia about what happened.

Celestia arrived about ten minutes later with a couple of guards.

She talked to Sheriff Nightstick and Mayor Mare, then walks back to Twilight.

"So, what did you hear?" Starlight asks.

"Tango was from Los Pegasus before he moved here, Los Pegasus has sufficiently more crime rate than us, so it may be true that a foe of his came down here." Celestia exclaimed.

Nightstick tapped on the microphone a few times, which made the talking of ponies die down. "Thanks for being so patient with us, now all we have to do is quickly check all the hoofprints, it'll take about a few minutes." He steps off the podium.

Rainbow turns to Celestia "Los Pegasus? You think anyone would come that far to kill a pony?" She asks.

"If they hated him with a passion, yes."

A few minutes later have passed, everyone was getting bored being stuck inside the town hall. Everyone was lying or sitting down, hearing the occasional chatter, but it was still pretty quiet.

The sudden sound of shackles wrapping around a purple ponies' legs was heard.

"Twilight Sparkle, I'm arresting on suspicion for the murder of Tango..."