A lone figure sat at a desk in a small apartment, he was wearing a police uniform, and was typing away at a computer keyboard, whose clicks echoed throughout the room. He growled in anger and grabbed his hat, which let his curly cyan mane spring out. He put his hat on the desk and propped his arms on it. He looked down as shadows covered his eyes, before growling in rage once again.

He went back onto his computer, and pulled up multiple pictures of the one who had been a nuisance to his progress, Andromeda Bender. One was a picture of him inside of a bar, chugging sake at a table surrounded by the element bearers, and another was him in uniform leaving the station.

"I don't get it! It doesn't make any sense! He has no medical history, no job or family background, or even a god damn bank account! He show up at the station, works, and then just vanishes of the face of Equis! It's like he's a god damn ghost!" He almost silently growled, his fingers breaking the keyboard as he squeezed it.

"It always seems like whenever I have an operation for acquiring test subjects, he's somehow there to stop it! I can't afford to keep loosing these targets, especially with them being put into victim protection programs! GAAHH.... This wouldn't nearly as tedious if we could just grab any drug addict off the street, but with the Discord gene being a requirement to even have a chance of surviving.... guh." He said as he put his head in his hands.

Suddenly he received an alert on the screen, which he then opened up to see a photo of the city from an airborne view, many areas of the city were scribbled out, and one was circled by blue.

The photo was attached to a message.

We found the general location of where he lives, and we might be on our way to discovering his hideout

The figure then gained a smile on his muzzle, as he felt like he was a step closer to achieving his goals.

"Good."

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Twilight was sitting in the same bar that she met with Andromeda that one time, where it was quiet, very quiet. She sat over some newspapers, as well as some evidence from her search for the stolen dark matter. To her, not much didn't really seem to add up. The event could easily be written off as one of the gangs being gangs, a usual occurrence, but that didn't seem right, something about it just didn't add up.

The case was almost non-existent, the only evidence of it ever happening, was a single sheet of paper from five months ago, and one from the next day, where numbers didn't add up. She and the station had searched nearly the entire transport and waste company involved to try to find the dark matter, but with no luck. She didn't know why, but she felt like she was on the cusp of finding out what happened that day.

She sighed as she looked up to the newspaper, on which was the usual. The Jokerz were out and about, doing their thing, some rich shmuck getting off a corruption charges on a technicality, and.... what's this?

Twilight saw a small story, to which there was not much, but it held something interesting. It was about multiple sightings of first generation drones, and strange sightings of android like shadows. It seemed like something out of a folktale, but something seemed to be interesting about it, and she realized why.

She looked back to her evidence, the physical evidence was all that they had, the digital records were wiped clean, in an almost machine like manner. These mysterious machines might be responsible for the missing dark matter, Celestia knew it has happened before, with Harmony being a prime example of their failures.

She pulled a map out of her uniform, and looked at where the area of these sightings were located.

The Rust Town.

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I've been quite busy, with what you may ask? A whole fuckin' lot that's what!

Ever since that intruder alert went off I've been working my ass to the bone trying to get everything in order. Apparently the princess of the night Luna can go into peoples dreams, and my cyberspace also apparently counts as a dream, so yeah, I haven't slept in four days.

Not that sleep is entirely necessary, and honestly? I made some mistakes that I need to rectify.

The biggest one is legal recourses, without support from the police force I can't collect information on the Jokerz or any other crime going on. It's true that I can hack the police servers and get what I need from there, but there are some pieces of information that is kept off computers for the sake of privacy, especially with new cases.

I still haven't figured out how to fix that little problem, but that's the worst one.

I did realize though, that overtime my location would be compromised, especially with all the little bots and machines darting around collecting parts from the surrounding factories.

I decided to go through some major remodeling, with soundproof padding on nearly every wall, and building more separated spaces to focus on different projects.

I also made sure to recall the bots, so that nobody could track me, at least, if they did, they would have a much more difficult time doing so.

I then covered the inside of the windows of the building with basically amounts to super tinted windows, where it was impossible to see any sort of light unless you basically put your face to it.

However, it pales in comparison to what I'm researching right now.

I found that, within certain ponies genes, there is a specific line of proteins that somehow creates all sorts of random crazy effects. It's always beneficial to those who have it, but it varies, anywhere from a godly singing voice, to being highly attuned to a particular school of magic. I can't find any studies of this gene, but I decided to give it the name of the Q gene, named after that one guy from Star Trek played by John de Lancie.

Even with all of that, there's still so much that needs to be done, so I'll just do it.

Author's Note

Hey guys! I know this took far to long, and that it isn't really the part of the story you were looking for, but I was gone for a while and I wanted to get back into the swing of things. I will tell you one thing though, Luna will be coming, START THE COUNDOWN!

HAVE A NICE DAY/NIGHT, AND I WILL SEE ALL YOU DUDES... IN THE NEXT CHAPTER!!!!

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