After making their way to the interrogation room, Shining Armor spent his time trying to solve the mystery of who sent the letter to Spike. He had been inside the room in the past two hours, trying to get information from one of the perpetrators. The frustration he was feeling just made him more determined to see that this pony sees justice.

"Who sent the letter?" Shining Armor said as calmly as he could.

"I don't know who sent it. I was just on my way to the spa with Upper Crust." Jet Set responded with full annoyance.

"You had to have known! Your fingerprints were on one of the letters!" Shining Armor shouted as he slammed the table.

Jet Set jumped back upon hearing Shining Armor yell. Shining Armor was starting to lose his patience the more and more he pressed Jet Set.

"Do you at least have any information on who sent the letter?" Shining Armor asked.

"I have no idea, but I might have a clue on one of the conspirators." Jet Set replied.

"And who is it?"

"Try Zesty Gourmand. She might know something."

After a few minutes of pacing around and thinking it over, Shining Armor said in a threatening tone,

"Okay, but know this. If anything that you did happens to hurt my own brother-in-law, I will do everything within my power to make your life a living hell. Am I clear?"

"As clear as a crystal chalice, commander. Now may I please be on my way?" Jest Set replied in his pompous tone.

Shining Armor looked at the reflective mirror on the right and nodded at the guards to let Jet Set. As they entered and they took him out of the room, he said,

"Make sure that he doesn't do anything funny. The last thing that we need is another goose chase."

"Yessir." the guard said.

After leaving the room, Shining Armor went back to the castle and sat down by the dinner table. He had spent all day trying to get information from the Canterlot Society, but he received seldom results. The frustrating factor of it all was that whenever sompony answered him, he would be given a lazy excuse or they would just lackadaisically blow him off, or try to bribe him. At the same time, he had to do whatever he could to keep Spike safe from the perpetrator. Even if it meant forfeiting his life in the process.

"Honey?" a voice called out.

He turned around and saw Cadence, Flurry Heart, and Twilight. He walked over to speak with them.

"How are you, big brother? Did you find any leads?" Twilight asked.

"So far, I was given a lead to Zesty Gourmand. I was gonna assign some guards to bring her in for some questions. How are Spike and Celestia doing?" Shining Armor asked.

"They're fine. Pretty cooped up in the castle though. She's very protective of him. Even to the point of telling him to stay in her room while she checks to see who the visitor could be." Cadence said as she carried Flurry Heart.

"That bad, huh?"

"Yup. That, and I rarely get to talk to him now thanks to that stupid letter. He doesn't suspect me or anything, but he's too scared to even speak to me about it."

"Guess you're gonna have to what you can to put him at ease when this fiasco is over."

"I hope so. I haven't spoken to him much ever since that letter was delivered to him."

"I know. But the fact that pony written that letter to Spike, threatening his life just because he is a dragon is just sickening."

Just then, they heard Flurry Heart mumble as she started to sleep. Cadence patted her on the back to make sure that she was okay. She turned towards Shining Armor and said,

"I need to go and get Flurry Heart to sleep. Good luck. I hope you find the culprit."

"Me too." Shining Armor replied.

After leaving for her room back at the castle, Twilight stayed behind to talk to Shining Armor.

"Care if I join you?" Twilight asked.

"Sure Twily. Just try not to go overboard on the questions, okay?"

"Trust me. I'm your sister. What could go wrong?"

Just then, a guard arrived and called out Shining Armor. He went over to him and hear what he had to say.

"Did you find anything?" Shining Armor asked.

"We have Zesty Gourmand in our custody. She is currently in the interrogation room." the guard answered.

"I see. I will be with you shortly."

"Yessir."

After the guard left, he turned towards Twilight and said,

"If you're gonna help us, I would need you to check for anything suspicious and and report it to me. These are dangerous times now. We can't allow any mistakes."

"I'll do what I can." Twilight said.

"Great. I'm counting on you, Twily."

Twilight nodded at him and Shining Armor left for the interrogation room. She decided to take a walk around Canterlot to see if there was any suspicious activity lurking about. After having done so for about half an hour, she just spent most of her time back at the castle in her room. It didn't wrap up in her mind on why this pony would do this. She didn't even know what this criminal would have to gain for threatening for Spike's life. It didn't add up for her in the least bit. Just then, she heard a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" Twilight asked.

"Starlight!" the voice called out.

She went towards the door and opened it.

"Did you find anything?" Twilight asked.

"Not really, but Shining Armor is back at the interrogation room if you wanna go." Starlight answered.

"I just don't get it. Why would this pony do this? What is his motive? Just what could he have to gain from threatening Spike?"

"I dunno. But if I had to guess, it would be power."

"Wouldn't be the least bit surprised. Did you speak to Spike?"

"Nope. Not since that letter was written. What about you?"

"Me neither. It really seemed to have shook him."

"Indeed. Wanna talk to him?"

"Don't see why not."

Twilight and Starlight walked out of the former's room to speak to Spike. She has no clue who sent that letter, but the two of them would see to it that justice would be served to the culprit. It would only be a matter of time until the criminal would show himself. Upon making it to the door, Twilight knocked on the door to see if Spike would answer.

Author's Note

Hello friends. How are you all doing this fine evening? Hope you are all doing well? Anyway, as you all can see, I am reaching towards fifty followers and I was thinking if I reached that milestone, I could write a bonus chapter for each of my Spikelestia stories. I also had in mind for another one. I may still be new to this format, but it warms my heart that you are all reading my stories along with leaving comment after comment about it. I really appreciate what you all do for me and I hope I can keep doing what I can to please. Thank you all for sticking with me. See you on the other side.