Austin drove up to the Blair Research Lab and showed his badge to the guard at the gate. The guard gave Austin a look of uncertainty as he opened the gates and allowed entry to the cop. Austin parked his car near a large white van with the words Blair Lab printed on the side doors in large blue letters. He placed the walkie talkie over his mouth and spoke into it.

"Alright, I've arrived," said Austin.

"Do you notice anything strange?" asked Finn.

"Duke, I've just arrived, I haven't even entered the building yet," said Austin.

"Ok, ok sorry," said Finn. "How does it look though?"

"Like a research laboratory," answered Austin.

"Wow, as if that wasn't obvious," Finn said sarcastically.

"Look, I'm about to head in, just let me know if you've found anything," said Austin.

"Gotcha chief," said Finn. Austin placed the walkie talkie back onto it's hook and exited the vehicle.

"Woo," Austin said sarcastically as he walked towards the entrance. He was just about to enter the building when he heard the bush nearby rustling. Looking over he slowly and cautiously approached the bush. With his hand over his gun pouch he pulled the bush back only to find a unicorn with a slight mixture of pink and purple overcoat. Her mane was a mixture of purple and turquoise and a small glimmer mark on her flank. However she wasn't alone, a small purple dragon with green scales on it's back was also with her. The two stared at Austin with a nervous look. "Oh it's just a pony," sighed Austin. "And a quite unusual one too,"

"Is that a compliment or an insult?" asked the pony.

"Well that's-" Austin stopped. He looked around to see if anybody else was around. "Strange I thought I heard someone talking.

"Um down here," the pony said. Austin looked down at the pony.

"Ha, no way, there's no way a pony could talk, someone must be pulling a prank on me," Austin laughed nervously.

"Nope nobody's pulling a prank," answered the dragon.

"And now I'm really going crazy now that I heard a dragon talk," said Austin.

"Afraid not, we're really talking," said the pony.

"No way, no way am I going to believe it, ponies can't talk, or dragons," said Austin.

"But we're talking to you right now," said the dragon.

"No way, I'm trippin," said Austin.

"You're what?" asked the dragon. Austin pinched himself on the cheek to check he wasn't dreaming.

"Nope not dreaming," said Austin rubbing his cheek.

"Of course not," said the pony. Austin sighed finally giving in.

"Alright you win," sighed Austin. "But aside from the fact that you two can talk, who are you and where did you come from?" The two looked at each other as if they knew he was going to ask them that.

"Alright, so starting from the beginning," started the pony.

Finn flipped through the files while he sipped his cup of coffee.

"Storm Sinks Cargo Ship in the Philippines," Finn read. He looked at the date. "September 3rd, 2025 5:50 P.M.," He flipped to the most recent and the fifth incident. "Wildfire Burns Down Forest and Kills Over 100 in Nearby Village," he looked at the date. "September 8th, 2025 5:55 P.M.," He flipped to the third incident that had taken place on Hawaii. "5 Murders Leaves Hawaii in Terror," he once again looked at the top of the files for the date. "August 29th, 2025," This time however there were five different times. The first murder had taken place 5:25 P.M, the second 5:30 P.M. The third had taken place at 5:35 P.M and the fourth at 5:40 P.M. The fifth and final murder had taken place at 5:45 P.M. The thing that Finn noticed was all of these murders occurred exactly 5 miles from the last murder. He flipped to the 2nd incident. "Tornado Strikes California Town," The date and time read, "August 24th 2025 at 5:20 P.M." Finally, he flipped to the very first incident,"Earthquake Strikes Canadian Neighborhood, Leaves Houses in Ruins," the date and time read,"August 19th 2025 at 5:15 P.M." According to professionals the magnitude of this earthquake was 10, which meant it was strong enough to destroy everything. Suddenly, Finn's walkie talkie went off interrupting his thoughts. He picked it up and spoke into the speaker. "Hello?"

"Finn, glad you came on," said Austin.

"What's up chief?" asked Finn.

"Listen I'm outside the lab right now and talking with a pony and her dragon," answered Austin.

"A pony and her dragon?" Finn asked confused.

"I'm just as dumbfounded as you are, but it seems these two were brought against their own will by some sort of experiment that the lab was performing," answered Austin. "The pony's name is Starlight Glimmer and the dragon is Spike, they claim that their friends had been taken by the lab,"

"Ok?" asked Finn. "What do you plan to do?" asked Finn.

"What do you think?" asked Austin. "I'm planning to see if I can find any clues to what is going on while saving Starlight's friends at the same time,"

"Uh chief not a good idea," said Finn.

"Why not?" asked Austin.

"While I mean just going in and investigating sounds good enough, but it sounds like you're going to pull your gun on somebody," said Finn. "Can we just keep the violence level low for now until we learn more?"

"Fine," Austin grunted disappointed.

"Wait so you WERE going to pull out your gun!?" Finn heard a voice say from the other side.

"Shut up Spike," hissed Austin.

"Oh by the way chief, I think I figured some things out while you were gone," announced Finn.

"Really great for you," said Austin.

"Yeah I'll tell you more once you get back," said Finn. "Until then please go easy on everyone,"

"Yeah, yeah sure whatever," said Austin hanging up.

"I hope he goes easy on everyone," said Finn taking another sip of coffee.

"I'm not going easy on everyone," said Austin walking into the building.

"You pull your gun, then I'll report you to your friend," Starlight said seriously.

"Starlight were you always this cynical?" asked Austin.

"No, and to be perfectly blunt, you're the one being cynical," Starlight bragged.

"Wow Starlight since when did you start becoming a smart ass?" asked Austin.

"My friend is a bookworm," answered Starlight.

"Oh so she's a nerd?" asked Austin.

"Not exactly," answered Starlight.

"She's a student actually," added Spike.

"A student to your friend, I bet she's a great mentor to date ahem hang out with," Austin commented before fixing his vocabulary.

"Um sorry did I just hear-" Starlight began before Austin quickly interrupted.

"Let's just get this over with," Austin said quickly as he walked down the halls of the facility. The three continued to make their way through the building not noticing the figure wearing the black cloak

Author's Note

Chapter 1 complete. Ok so here we're introduced to Starlight and Spike who will soon be joining Austin Hopper and Finn Duke's investigation. Also Austin seems a little more selfish than his father. But wait who's that figure in the black cloak? Keep reading to find out