Ponicide - Pursuit of the Slave Ring

After Sentinel Ward made the promise to get the trapped Mare out of the building, Ward began the search for the main keys to the locks holding her up the wall and her magic suppression device.

There was only one huge problem.

The keys were nowhere to be found. It seems like no matter how hard Ward searched, he couldn't find the unlock keys. Obviously, Notebone either took them with him or gave them to her buyers, but this isn't gonna stop Ward. He had to think really hard on how to undo the locks.

It was suddenly very clear when he found some bobby pins that an escape plan for her is finally possible. Now Ward had never used a lockpick before, so when he attempted to pick the lock from one of the chains, he broke the 1st pin. Frustrated, Ward was determined to get the locks undone before her buyers even arrive.

After a few failed tries, Ward tries one more time with one of the few remaining pins, in a last ditch effort since he only has 2 pins left, he managed to force the locks open at long last. With the Mare finally free, she's able to remove her gag and walk around freely.

"You're feeling alright Miss?"

"Thank you so much for getting me off these chains. Can't believe those bastards locked me down here"

"It's alright, all that matters is that you can..." Ward was cut off when he heard the alarms go off in Notebone's office. Running in to check on the monitoring rooms, he noticed 2 tough looking Pegasi Stallions who appear to be wearing Officer Guard suits. Something didn't seem right as they don't even have proper IDs on their clothing.

"Wait right here in the office, I'm gonna go check outside" Ward goes ahead and grabs the bottle of Chloroform and a rag as he leaves through the hidden bookshelf door.

Heading outside and into the fake studio, he's greeted by the 2 Stallions he seen, One of which was a dark Pegasus, another one was a Yellow Pegasus. The Yellow Pegasus speaks 1st

"So you're the new recruit employee Rake told us about. Allow us to introduce ourselves, I'm Ben and this is my friend Zap. We're here to pick up the hot bitch who I believe is Rosey that Notebone sold us"

"Yea, now give us the fuckin prize!"

Sentinel Ward starts leading the 2 down to the basement as they finally reach the main room. "So Ward, where do we test drive our bitch at"
"She's in the 2nd door to the right" The 2 Pegasus ponies are lead into the Processing room as they step into the dark room. The Pegasi was starting to smell something fishy with Ward, but it was too late as once they turned around, Ward shut the doors on them and barricaded the doors with a piece of heavy wood.

Ward runs over to Rosey and grabs her by the hoof as he points her to the hidden bookshelf door. As she makes her escape, Sentinel Ward barricades the door even more while putting on a Gas Mask as he's planning to cast a very powerful spell on the Chloroform bottle. He sits the bottle right next to the door and proceeds to fire a spell at it once they bust through the door. Busting through the door, Ward immediately cast a spell which blew the entire bottle up, making the entire room smell of Chloroform. One of the pegasi had Ward pinned down as he was about to mount himself on Ward while the other is in front of him choking him to death. The Chloroform effects start taking effect immediately as the Pegasi who was about to crush his testicles passes out. Soon the other pegasi pass out too.

With the 2 rapists knocked out, Ward recovers immediately and grabs the canister with the actual film as he searches the knocked out pegasi. Upon discovery, Ward finds ammunition for the silenced pistol that he found in the cabinet earlier and loads some bullets into the pistol alongside their own pistols.

Stepping out of the building, Sentinel Ward starts to follow his path back to Manehatten as he keeps his weapon concealed. Upon reaching a dirt road, an angry voice is heard from the left as he noticed a 35mm film reel getting thrown at his direction.

"What the fuck is this! This isn't what I shot at all!" Ward sees an extremely pissed off Notebone stomping directly at him. "I should've had made my mind spell lasted longer, I leave you alone and you just send me footage of the lab instead of the porn! and for that, I'm going to fucking...." Notebone's sentence was never finished as Ward punched directly at Notebones face. Notebone was able to counterattack though by kicking Ward, knocking him over to the ground.

Notebone mounted himself on to Ward as he attempted to strangle him. Despite losing some oxygen from the attempted choking, Ward was able to get Notebones hooves off his neck and pushed him off of him. A huge punch to the chest injured Notebone as he falls to the ground. As Notebone got back up, Ward managed to run behind Notebone and pin him down for a while. Ward continuted to beat the everliving shit out of Notebone.

"P...Please stop this.... I'll make i... it up..." Notebone tried to plee to Sentinel Ward as he makes a rant statement. "It's too late for a change. You did this to yourself, now your gonna pay the price, in hell!" Notebone looked up as Ward took out a Silencer Pistol and pointed it at Notebone's head. He tried to beg him for mercy but it was too late, as Ward pulled the trigger, firing into Notebones skull and blowing his brains out.

After this victory, Sentinel Ward proceeded to search the dead corpse of Notebone which turns up a few spare ammunition, some rags and a special business card for the Pony Slave Ring. The 1st thing that striked Ward about the card is that the organization's logo is actually a odd circle which looked exactly like the one on the tag that was found when Diamond Belle disappeared. It was becomming very clear now. Dimaond Belle wasn't just kidnapped a long time ago, but also raped a long time ago and who knows what other things could have happened. Is she still trapped, does she have slave foals now from all the rapes that happened, is she alive still or did they kill her?

Writing the info down on a piece of paper for safe keeping, Ward was quick to flee as he heard hoof tracks approaching soon. Leaving the scene of the crime while covering his tracks and decontaminating all traces of his DNA on his body, Ward started heading back home to his apartment, though not before buring the unprocessed film negative in the woods.

The Next day, Sentinel Ward woke up to watch the morning TV news when he discovered that there's an important news announcement about his killing. An Anchormare was giving the news report as Ward watched.

"Good morning Manehatten, this is WWMH News 18 for a special report. Last night, the body of an underground foal trafficking group member was found dead near what appeared to be a slave market building disguised as a Clop Studio"

"Authorities say that Notebone was shot in the head by a sliencer pistol as traces of bullets was found in Notebone's skull. Unfortunately, the DNA in the bullets has been wiped clean magically leaving no trace to who the killer is. We did however found 2 accomplishes of Notebone, Ben Hoofsteps and Zap McNeal unconscious inside of the building who are still alive. We have also been informed that an anonymous pony claimed to have been assisted by the potential killer in her escape but unfortinally, she refuses to give out a description of the pony. We can, however, inform that every document of every Mare or Foal that was abducted has been found inside of the building. Their families will be notified by phone or mail very shortly "

"In the meantime, the 2 accomplishes Ben Hoofsteps and Zap McNeal are currently set to be serving 10 years in prison for attempted purchace of pony slaves. We will return in a moment where we will discuss the current state of Manehatten's economy"

That night, Sentinel Ward was returning from the grocery store as he walks down one of the less crowded streets walks back to his apartment. As he was about a half a mile away from his apartment, he heard some suspicious chat in one of the alleyways.
"Hurry up, she's regaining consciousness" "I'm Trying!" Sentinel Ward had heard those voice which caused him to approach even closer.
He decides to tiptoe near one alleyway and just before he can find out where's those voices are coming from, he heard a closing crate where he would investigate.

Upon entering the alleyway, Ward finds a group of 3 stallions who were carrying a crate back into a huge cart wagon. The 3 stallions, one of which was a white earth pony with a strong body build, a blue unicorn who appeared to be the leaders of the group, which Ward had recognized seeing before in the bus from 2 days earlier, and finally there was another earth pony who was a grey fat pony and a creepy smile. The unicorn spoke up.

"Hey old man, this is none of your business, leave here before we fuck you up man" Ward starts to approach the blue unicorn as the other 2 start quickly carrying the crate back to the cart parked near them. Ward noticed that the blue unicorn was blowing a noiseless whistle which he paid close attention to. As the leader removed the whistle from his mouth, Ward quickly turned around him and seen 2 huge earth stallions with soaked rags and acting on his instincts, immediately fired upon their heads killing them instantly as their bodies collapse into the ground. Sentinel Ward turns back to see the Blue Unicorn running back to the moving cart and fired 3 times at his back, wounding him while also firing at the 2 other ponies who where running straight at him.

He ran to the spot where the cart was moving at and noticed 2 carts that are heading west towards where Manehatten's train station is at. Ward initially watched to see which ones will be heading towards the train. Looking very closely while blending in with the citizens on the streetwalk, he saw a glow inside of the cart heading towards the train station, indicating that someone used a spell to keep the crate from falling off, potentially revealing a kidnapped filly or stolen items.

Sentinel Ward noticed a very crowded spot and once in that crowd of ponies, jumped onto the wagon with the crate. The driver of the wagon turned around and immediately fired his unsilenced pistol at Ward, which he has missed. Ward fired at the driver's head and leaped off of the wagon and starts to make a run for it.

With the driver dead, the wagon stopped and tipped over a bit and the gravity and soundproofing spell on the crate had expired which meant that the sounds of the crying filly can be heard from inside of the crate now. A couple of Royal Guards approached the scene of the crime to find what seemed like a murdered taxi driver. Upon further investigation, it turned out the driver had a faked illegal license and when the crate was opened, revealed a blue unicorn filly who's been chained up and gagged.

It was a quiet morning of June 12. Sentinel Ward was sitting on the couch, thinking about how many abductors are in Manehatten. At the same time, he was reading an article on how Manehatten is considering placing a temporary ban on guns till the identity of the rapist-killer is found. Apparently, they also arrested a certain guard at the train station for impersonating a ticket sales pony which was discovered just after they identified the body of the dead fake taxi cab pony.

It appears that both the fake taxi cab pony with the filly and the fake ticket sales pony were working together to make sure that the kidnapped filly got sent to someplace in Cantelot. Checking the mobile phone data on the bodies of the 5 dead alleyway ponies also show that they have been sending messages to both the fake ticket pony and the false taxi driver. It was all apparent, all 6 of the deceased ponies along with the arrested ticket pony impersonator were all in on this filly napping.

That night, Sentinel Ward decides to break into the house of Rake Savage in an attempt to find any clues. After picking the lock of his door, he discovered that the living room hasn't changed at all since the last time he was here. In fact, it seems like nobody has been in the house since the last time he was here. Apparently, this was actually an alternate staying house that Rake used for when he was in Manehatten. Looking in his bedroom, he found that Rake actually took all of his computers and servers with him but left the old movie on his bed. Picking the locks on the DVD Cabinet, he reveals nothing but a bunch of typical XXX films. Ward was really hoping to find clues to where Rake could have gone too, but it seems like he took anything that seemed illegal with him to Cantelot. He did, however, find an image of what appeared to be the main office of Rake Savages business. Looking out the windows in the image, it seems like it's in some place in Cantelot and there was a menacing dark gray earth pony in a business suit with the Pony Slave Organization Logo on his Business tag.

Hoping to avoid being eventually tracked, Sentinel Ward prepares as he takes the train from Manehatten to Ponyville to get away for awhile, unaware that he's gonna be getting a new purpose in life. As he reads the local newspaper, he sees a ad listing for intense magic training in the Everfree Forrest. While very fishy looking and suspecious, Ward begans making plans to visit the exact spot at the everfree forrest as soon as he arrives in Ponyville.