Three Days Later...

Three days had passed, and Scootaloo and Rumble were recovering well, despite they were also mildly suffering some trauma from their experience. Lucky they had such caring hospital staff caring for them, and Brief Case, and his family always came to visit them. At least they had friendly faces to see until Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane could get there, and the three children, Shady, Blueberry, and Sweet Stuff were there to visit and keep them company.

It was lunch time, and Scootaloo and Rumble were each eating a bowl of red and green jello with some cream and ice cream, and Magic Star and her three children were watching them. Magic Star smiled at how these two foals were recovering well. To think that two days ago, they were close to death, and now they were eating well, for they would not be if it had not been for her and her family finding them.

"Scootaloo, Rumble."

Scootaloo and Rumble looked up to see Dr Health Wise standing in the doorway of the hospital. Only she was not alone. Standing with her were two familiar pegasi. A cerulean mare with a rainbow mane, and dark grey stallion. Almost instantly, the two foals's eyes began to well up with tears, the stallion and mare did the same.

"Rainbow Dash!"

"Thunderlane!"

Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane quickly rushed over to Scootaloo and Rumble, with Rainbow Dash to Scootaloo, and Thunderlane to Rumble. The through their hooves around each foal, giving them the biggest hug they could each ask for, with them each in tears.

"Oh, little buddy," Rainbow Dash held Scootaloo tightly in her hooves, not wanting to let go.

Thunderlane was doing the same with Rumble, crying almost as much as his little brother he was hugging tightly in his hooves. "Rumble...I...I thought I lost you like we did mom and dad."

For several minutes, Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane held Scootaloo and Rumble tightly, each child crying on the shoulder of their older sibling, and their older sibling crying with them, understanding what had possibly happened to them. Magic Star and her children were happy that their families were there for them now, relieved with the thought that if it was not them, and Brief Case, Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane would most like be seeing the two foals in bags in the morgue.

Magic Star came over to Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane, with her three children. "Excuse me? Rainbow Dash, Thunderlane?"

Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane turned around to face Magic Star and her three children standing behind them. From then Magic Star and her children began to talk to them.

"I'm Magic Star. And these are my children, Shady, Blueberry, and Sweet Stuff. We along with our husband were the ones who found them."

Thunderlane turned around to face Magic Star with grateful smile, and wiping away a few tears. "You save them. Thanks ever so much."

"You're welcome," Magic Star said. "We were the ones who took them to the hospital. My husband stayed behind to wait for the police."

Shady stepped forward closer with Blueberry, and Sweet Stuff. "Those two were in very rough shape when we found them. They were tied-up on the side of the road."

"We thought they were going to die."

"And they had things in them where ponies go wee-wee and poo-poo."

Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane's eyes widened with a look of disgust and disbelief at what Sweet Stuff had just told them.

"They had what?!" Rainbow Dash asked.

"It's all true, Miss."

Everyone turned towards the hospital room door to see Brief Case, and Detectives' Eye Witness and Clear Clue entering into the room. Brief Case turned his attention to Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane.

"Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane?" Brief Case presented his FPI badge with his magic. "Agent Brief Case, FPI. I'm one of the other ones who found your siblings. We need to talk." He turned to Magic Star and her three children. "Magic Star. Would you mind taking the kids out for a while?"

"Of course, Brief." Magic Star turned to her children. "Come on, children. Your father needs to talk with Scootaloo and Rumble's families privately."

Shady nodded. "Sure, mom."

"Okay, mom." Blueberry said.

Sweet Stuff waved at Scootaloo and Rumble. "Bye-bye, Scootaloo and Rumble. We'll be back soon."

Magic Star and her three children walked out of the hospital room, leaving Brief Case and the detectives alone with Scootaloo, Rumble, Rainbow Dash, and Thunderlane.

"Right," Brief Case said. "I think we better tell you the details."

Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane listened as Brief Case told the both of them on everything. The cases of innocent foals being abducted, and everything of what happened to Scootaloo and Rumble, with Scootaloo and Rumble talking to prove their stories were true.

Brief Case finished telling them. "And that's the whole story. These two were victims of a very vicious sexual assault and rape from two griffons."

Both Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane's faces began to show great signs of rage, Rainbow Dash more so. Her teeth gritted, and her face when red with angry rage.

"Those bastards," Rainbow Dash said. "So Celestia, help me, I'll kill the bastards who did this!"

"Miss Dash. I understand your anger, but please settle down. We still have to find and identify them." Brief Case presented a book. "And with this, we hopefully might."

"What is that?" Thunderlane asked.

"This is a book containing photos of every griffon criminal convicted in Equestria. I had the Bureau deliver this to me just today." Brief Case placed the book on Scootaloo's lap. "We need you both to look at all the pictures of the griffon suspects. But the suspects may or may not be in there. So take your time."

Scootaloo opened up the book began to look in it, with Rumble getting out of his bed, and hooped onto Scootaloo's bed to look at the book with her. In the book were many pictures of many different griffons, male and female, young or old, different shapes, colours, sizes, and each convicted for numerous types crimes, ranging from small crimes like petty theft to even serious crimes like murder.

One by one, for several minutes, Scootaloo and Rumble looked at the pictures in the book, and so far had looked at at least over seventy pages worth of pictures. Then when looking at the 87th page, they caught sight of a picture of a griffon. A male griffon that had a light blue coloured body and long, green, head feathers on the top of his head that flowed like hair, and had golden eyes. Both their eyes widen at his features, for they recognised him as one of the griffons that abducted, raped, and tortured them.

"That's..." Rumble said.

Scootaloo pointed to the picture with her hoof. "That's him! That's one of the griffons!"

Everyone came over to take a look at the picture Scootaloo and Rumble had pointed out. Brief Case looked at it, and turned to Scootaloo and Rumble. "Are you both sure this is one of the griffons that raped you?"

"Yes," Rumble said. "It is. I could never forget that face."

Scootaloo nodded. "We're sure it's one of them."

Brief Case nodded understandably at Scootaloo and Rumble, before placing a sticky note on the page with his magic. "Right. Now can you find the other griffon in this book?"

Scootaloo and Rumble continued to look throughout the pages at numerous other griffons for several more minutes, until they came to the end of the book, where they both looked up and shook their head.

"No," Scootaloo said. "The other griffon's not in here."

Eye Witness tilted his head. "Are you certain? Maybe you should look through it again, just to be sure."

Thunderlane nodded. "He's right. Check it again one more time."

Scootaloo and Rumble looked through the book one last time. They looked at each of the griffons in the book, until they came to the last page.

"Still not in here." Scootaloo opened to the 87th page that was marked with a sticky note with the griffon they pointed out the griffon they saw. "This is the only one of them in here."

"I see." Brief Case pondered for a moment. "Well, at least we have one of the suspects in this to look at in this case."

Eye Witness came forward. "That griffons' name is Gibson. The same name as one of the griffons you named. He was arrested for the indecent assault of a foal patient four years ago, while working as a nurse in a hospital in San Franciscolt. He was fired of his job, and sentenced to six months imprisonment. He's not been seen since he was released."

"Although," Clear Clue said. "Despite him being convicted, his DNA was never taken and put on profile."

Brief Case nodded. "True. And the other griffon known as "Glover" is most likely an unknown. If we can at least find Gibson, we'll find Glover. And if their DNA matches the samples we recovered from the contents of the kids stomach, then we've got them. I just hope these are the same ones we're looking for."

"Well, I hope they are the right ones." Rainbow Dash pounded her fists angrily. "Because I can't wait to get my hooves on those bastards!"

"I'm with you." Thunderlane said.

Brief Case look at Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane with an understanding look, for he could understand their great anger at what had happened to Scootaloo and Rumble. A moment later, an pegasus stallion officer came rushing into the room, instantly getting the attention of everyone one in the room.

"Agent, Detectives," The officer said. "Urgent telegram for you. There's been another foalnapping."

Brief Case's eyes widened. "What?! Another one?"

"Yes." The officer pulled out a large envelop, and handed it to Brief Case, where he took it with his magic, and opened it up to read the telegram. "A filly from Ponyville has been abducted about four hours ago."

Everyones' faces lit-up with shock. "WHAT?! Ponyville?!"

The officer nodded. "Yes. A young colt taking pictures secretly witnessed two griffons abducting a filly into a wagon, and flew-away. He even managed to snap some photographs of the event."

The recent information highly intrigued Brief Case. He opened up the large envelop to look for the photographs, where he did managed to find three of them. The first one was of a large, portly, dark pinkish coloured griffon dragging what looked like a pink coloured filly into the back of a wagon with a white cloth over the her mouth. The second one was of the same wagon but closed, and had the dark pinkish coloured griffon with a griffon matching Gibson's description. And final was of the griffons in the air, flying away pulling the wagon.

Brief Case, and Detectives' Eye Witness and Clear Clue looked with shock at the photos and the telegram. It was there that Brief Case knew that this was a huge breakthrough in the case, since their was a witness who took pictures of the event, with clear view of the griffon suspects.

"Right," Brief Case said. "Inform the FPI, and the Royal guards to head to Ponyville! We need to find them, and rescue this filly. And with these photos, it'll make finding and apprehending these perpetrators more easily."

The officer nodded. "Yes, sir. Right away." He rushed out of the room.

Brief Case turned to Detectives' Eye Witness and Clear Clue. "Inform my wife and kids that I have to go. I need to get to Ponyville straight away to get information there, and track them down and save this next victim before it's too late."

"But, Brief Case," Clear Clue said. "It's two days train ride to Ponyville."

Eye Witness nodded. "That's true. By the time you get to Ponyville, you'll be too late."

"Not on our watch!" Brief Case and Detectives' Eye Witness and Clear Clue turned to Rainbow Dash. "Me and Thunderlane can get you there in no time. You're looking at the fastest and one of the strongest pegasus in Equestria."

"It might be a bit unpleasant flying fast with you being carried by both of us," Thunderlane said. "But it's much faster in getting to Ponyville. A few hours at the most."

Brief Case nodded and smiled. "As long as I get to Ponyville in the shortest time possible to investigate, I don't care in the slightest. Thank you both."

"No problem. It's the least we can do." Rainbow Dash glared. "Besides, I'd like to help you get those bastards for what they did to Scootaloo and Rumble."

Thunderlane pounded his fist. "Me too. Nopony harms my little brother, and gets away with it! We'll help you catch those scumbags."

"Thank you," Brief Case said. "Then we need to go. Now!"

Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane turned to Scootaloo and Rumble. "Sorry, little buddy. But we have to go."

"We'll be back as soon as we can, little bro."

Scootaloo raised a reassuring hoof while shaking her head. "It's alright. We'll be alright. You've got some griffon asses to kick."

"Yeah," Rumble said. "Go get'em, Thunderlane."

Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane smiled and nodded to the two children, eager to fulfil their promise to them. They then turned to Brief Case and said in unison, "Let's go!"

With that said, Brief Case rush out of the room with Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane. The reached to elevator and rushed into it as soon as it was open. As they travelled down the elevator something caught Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane's curiosity.

"Brief Case?" Thanderlane asked. "Who's the colt who witnessed this, and took pictures? We know many ponies in town."

Brief Case looked at the telegram. "According to the information, the name of the colt who saw this was Featherweight."

Rainbow Dash tilted her head. "And who was the filly those griffons foalnapped?"

Author's Note

Well, I'll leave this part with a cliff-hanger. But until the next chapter, here's something to think, and guess.
"Who do you think the latest foal victim from Ponyville could be?" Find out in part 3.