Ch 18 - The Incomprehensible Interrogation

Emerging out from the School of Friendship main entrance and walking along that stone moat bridge to the other grassy side opposite of the premises were the cheerful happy-go-lucky Gallus, Smolder, Sandbar, Yona, Tiny Turnip Head and Young Master Zhi. They were singing a variety of melodious tunes they had heard from the Amity Ball, but the most popular tune that got them most hyped up about humming and singing was Autumn Blaze's musical rendition of "Lemon".

"Man, that was the best school ball we ever had! First time we get to do it inside a royal castle!", happily exclaimed the tuxedo wearing Sandbar as he held Yona's cloven hand.

"It's too bad Mister Tang couldn't be here! He said he got some REALLY important jobs to do that are way more serious than hanging out with 'critches at some drug-fueled rave club'---whatever that means", loudly muttered Tiny Turnip Head as he pondered about his foster grandpa's words.

"WELL, at least now he'll be at the ball cleaning up the party mess---along with the OTHER volunteer creatures! HA!", shortly cackled Master Zhi as he raised his head up in delight.

"Have you ever consider the thought that your old man is an outdated racist, kid?", questioned Gallus and he flew next to the naive white pegasus boy.

"If he's that mean to all creatures great and small, then why would he get a job at this school in the first place?", asked the curious Tiny Turnip Head as he looked at the unamused Gallus.

"Because he really wants to look after you during your stay in school, even if it means getting uncomfortable with the people he despises so much...", answered Master Zhi as he gently places his hand onto his foster son's head. "Just give him time, Tiny. He'll come around, just not that soon..."

Just as they were enjoying their talk with Tiny Turnip Head, a sudden bellowing happy cry rang the ears of the friendly teacher-student posse.

"Yona so happy about lemon dance, she no feel bad about painting anymore!", cried the yellow-dressed nak as her skirt flew graciously in the spring-time wind.

"Speaking of which, I hope Headmare Trixie's guests hadn't caught wind of the damaged painting...", wondered Master Zhi as he thought about the wrecked painting.

"OH, it's all right....Ocellus told me she actually use her transformation powers to disguise herself as the head of that portrait and placed her face through that hole.", answered Sandbar.

"Aw man, I hope she remembered to do the eyes too! She sometimes tend to forget to do the eyes!", said Smolder as she smiled and giggled about the changedling girl's possible goof up.

"MAN, I am SO glad Headmare Trixie gave me this chance to participate in the Amity Ball! It was fun playing with the spotlights with the other stage technicians!", exclaimed the excited Gallus as he interrupted the conversation about the wrecked painting.

"Speaking of stage plays, every creature did so well in that lemon dance choreography, especially you Smolder", complimented Sandbar as she pointed at the yellow-dressed dragon girl.

"It's a good thing I get to be my pretty self with all the other dainty flowery dragon girls! FINALLY, I don't have to feel so bad being so namby-pamby in front of the other male creatures!", happily shouted the yellow-dressed Smolder as she adjusted her lily headband on her head.

"Well, it's been fun chatting with you guys, but---I gotta go to the marketplace to buy Miss Starlight and Headmare Trixie some groceries for dinner", mentioned Gallus.

"HEY, we could come with you to help you with carrying these heavy bags if you like!", offered Sandbar as he ran up to Gallus, before the big blue griffon boy replied,

"I dunno, guys. Usually this is up to me to---"

"Awww, quit being so modest, birdbrain!", scoffed Smolder as she flew up to Gallus. "There is NO way you are cooking up a scrumptious dinner meal without us!"

"I KNEW IT! You're only tagging me along so you could get free food from me!", called out Gallus as he stared at Smolder with an unamused expression.

"THAT NO TRUE------okay, maybe little true...", muttered Yona as she realized her friends could not fool Gallus' intuition.

"Augghh...look, I'll let you tag along to buy some food from the market, but DON'T expect me to cook it all up for you! Miss Starlight still needs my assistance during her memory recovery! If you want to learn how to cook up some delicious meals like me, then go borrow or buy a cookbook for yourselves, all right??!", exclaimed Gallus as he hovered with his talons on his hips.

"OR I could always take you out to some delicious traditional kirin food", suggested Master Zhi.

"OOOH, like Sky Dragon Boat!", exclaimed Tiny Turnip Head.

"You mean the one that sent some of the kirin students to a massive bowel fit?", questioned Sandbar as he titled his head in confusion.

"HEY, I assure you that not ALL Far Eastern Equestrian Dim-sums have terrible health sanitation records! I can show you a BETTER restaurant I've been to that WON'T send you to the toilet!", exclaimed the insulted Master Zhi as he lad his finger onto Sandbar's nose. "C'MON, fellas! After we're done shopping, I'll take you to my favorite kirin hot-spot hot-pot dim-sum in Ponyville!"

"All right! Looks like we're taking a trip down to Kirin Town tonight!", celebrated Sandbar.

"YEEAAHHHHH, HOT POOTTTT!!!", cheered Tiny Turnip Head.

----------(PONYVILLE MAIN ROAD, 5:00 PM)----------

As the small group of students, alongside Young Master Zhi, continue to hum to their heart's content to the romantic tune of "Lemon", Gallus immediately spotted Miss Starlight Glimmer walking briskly fast along the wooden sidewalk.

"HEY, look! Check it out! It's Miss Starlight Glimmer!", hollered Gallus as he used his talons to make a crude scope for him to peek through.

"Miss Starlight??! I wonder what got her into a hurry...", wondered Master Zhi.

"HEY, let's go up and meet her!! HEY, MISS STARLIGHT!!!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he immediately zipped towards the frustrated Headmare, heading into the main road without a thought of consideration for the sedan chairs, large oxen carts and rickshaw taxis crossing the wide pavement.

"HEY, don't cross the street all willy-nilly!", shouted Master Zhi as he and the rest of the students crossed the main road to catch up with the speed-walking Starlight Glimmer, while also hoping Tiny Turnip Head doesn't get hit by the road vehicles.

"HEY, Teacher Starlight! Why walk so fast? Is teacher in hurry?", hollered out Yona as she and her friends followed Miss Starlight on the sidewalk.

"Yeah, Miss Starlight! Wait for us! We're your students!", Smolder hollered.

"Tell that perverted thug in that green steamer to STOP following me!!", harshly yelled Miss Starlight as she looked behind to see her students following her.

As soon as the students and Master Zhi looked behind, they noticed there was a green Stanley Steamer that was quietly rolling along the road. They didn't notice the steam car until now, due to its suspended rubber spoke tires and the muffled steam generator in its car hood.

"HEY, check it out, guys!! It's one of those fancy horseless carriages! I only saw them on Manehattan postcards, but never in real life before!", shouted Gallus as he gaze in awe at the chrome green-painted machine.

"WOAH! Yona no have words on amazing machine! It like train, but at same time---it not! And it very different from blue steam carriages at police place!", exclaimed Yona.

"How in the heck does that thing run on the road without tracks?? I could never figure that out with the recently new self-mobile police wagons!", wondered the bewildered Sandbar.

"Who the Tartaric hell cares?! Whoever is inside that metal casket better not mess with Miss Starlight!", shouted Smolder as she puffed smoke out of her nose in anger. "C'mon, guys! Let's teach this rotten dragon egg a lesson in pain!"

As the rest of the students went up to the green steamer, Master Zhi and Tiny Turnip Head was the first to respond to the short orange-maned, yellow-coated and sunglasses-wearing unicorn driver of that green steam car. As they walked alongside the slow-moving steamer, they noticed that the driver was the same unicorn who played at the Amity Ball at the Crystal Castle of Friendship beforehand.

"HEY, look! It's that dude who danced with Miss Starlight and played soccer with us!", exclaimed Tiny Turnip Head.

"What??! Are you serious??! HE'S creeping after Miss Starlight?!", shouted the enraged Smolder.

"Auugghh! What he doing here? Cause more trouble?!", grumbled the angry Yona as she let out a large snort from her two nostrils.

"Who does he think he is, stalking after her like a hawk?!", squawked the upset Gallus as he flew towards the rolling car.

"I think he must've fell for her during that dance in that 'Lemon' musical performance...", pondered Sandbar as he walked up to the green steam car at its direction.

"HEY, MISTER!! Miss Starlight said you can't follow her anymore!!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he yelled at the driver through the his window.

"YEAH, dude! You're way outta your league! Even after that couple dance, you're still a wannabe street gangster at the end of the day! There's no use getting through to her!", added the yelling Master Zhi as he and Tiny Turnip Head continued to walk alongside the steam car and continuously tapped on the top roof of the stalker's steamer car. It was no use though, as the driver named Sunny Boy constantly kept his eyes on the road as he continued to roll down the street.

Suddenly, Gallus flew himself onto the hood of the steamer to cover the frontal windshield with his body, blocking the driver's view of the road, before squawking

"STTTTOOOOOPPPPPP!!!!"

But it was no use either as Sunny Boy simply used his levitation magic to move the annoying blue griffon boy out of his windshield on the steamer. Then, Yona stood in the middle of the road and charged at the car with her horns.

"RRRRRAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!"

At the last second before potential impact, Sunny Boy used his strong levitation spell to lift the steamer above Yona, avoiding her relentless charge before setting the car back down.

"ALL RIGHT, THAT'S IT!!", shouted the inflamed Smolder. "You wanna do this the hard way??!! We'll do this the HARD way, DRAGON STYLE!!"

Smolder immediately flew up and face towards the front end of the car, before letting out a huge purple flame from her fiery maw, hoping to burn the green steamer into cinders.

Instead, Sunny Boy reacted to the attempted vandalism by casting a turquoise bubble barrier spell around his steamer, which were able to shield out the powerful high-temperature inferno blast. He then proceeded to drive along the road with his shield on, stoically ignoring the students while keeping an eye on his target.

"GREAT, now we can't approach the car at all!", cried Gallus as he looked onto the shielded steamer as its trail of steam slowly built up within the bubble along its journey.

"What are we gonna do now?", asked the worried Sandbar.

"Let's just follow him for now and sees where this leads to", answered Master Zhi before he gestured the students to follow him in his quest to stalk the stalker.

----------(PONYVILLE POLICE STATION, 5:15 PM)----------

As Miss Starlight ran to the open malachite entrance gate, she looked behind her and saw that in spite of the student's efforts, she was still being stalked by the green steamer car, which was now deactivating its shield to dissipate the built-up steamy cloud within its ethereal prison. Wasting no time, she ran up to the single unicorn yellow-vested police officer, who was standing at the middle of the entrance, and quickly asked

"Sir, I would like to make an official report to the station!"

"Reporting room is through that entrance right there on the first floor", answered the unicorn officer mare who pointed wooden door behind her. The station was only 30 m away from the entrance and it was past the small parking lot that stood between the entrance of the station.

After thanking the officer, she quickly picked up her pace to head out to the entrance, nearly getting hit by the incoming police steamer exiting the station along the way.

As soon as she took off, Sunny Boy's green steamer drove up to the entrance, before it was blocked off by the same yellow-vested police guard.

"WOAH WOAH WOAH, stop right over there! What business do you have over there at the station, sir?", sternly yet politely asked the vested officer as he stood in front of the green steamer with his palm out. He quickly walked over to the driver's side of the window to take a better look at the citizen in question.

"S-s-SORRY, Officer! I JUST need to---!"

Before Sunny Boy could finish his sentence, the officer instantly recognized the stallion man from the newspaper about the cart accident as soon as Sunny Boy took off his sunglasses.

"OI! You're that stallion on the paper! I haven't seen you in a long time since that crash! Came to check up on your former students from the academy, are you??", the officer exclaimed with delight.

"Uhhhh.....???", mumbled Sunny Boy as he stared at the officer in confusion as his friendly gesture.

"WELL, go right on ahead, sir! You're welcome to be at this station at any time!", greeted the unicorn officer as he showed him the way to the designated parking lots.

"Uh--THANKS! Thank you so much, officer! Hehe....", nervously chuckled Sunny Boy as he drove his way into the parking lot and searched for a good spot to park his car.

As a police biker entered into the entrance after Sunny Boy's entry, Master Zhi, Tiny Turnip Head and the other students later followed soon afterwards. The uniform officer asked to them

"Good afternoon! What is the nature of your---??"

Before he could finish his question, Master Zhi bowed and quickly replied, "We are here to see an officer at the station! Thank you for your service, good sir!". Master Zhi and Tiny Turnip Head quickly head for the office station's main entrance.

"We're here to see an officer too!", quickly spoke Sandbar.

"Me too!", added Gallus.

"Me three!", added Smolder.

"Yona FOUR!!", added the fat nak girl.

Then they quickly head out to follow Master Zhi and their new school friend to the station, leaving the guard officer feeling very bewildered.

"Wow, busy day today, huh? Every creature here wants to see an officer at the station. Don't they know there's plenty others out there on the streets, not to mention there's call-boxes at every street corner?", the guard officer questioned as he stared at the strange creatures within the police premises.

Meanwhile inside the police station, Miss Starlight was about to head for the reception desk, which had piles of paperwork on one side of the table and a typewriter on the other side. For protection, the desk was blocked by by iron bars to prevent possible assaults and attacks on the police staff and their property. As soon as she approached the police station, she saw a tan brown-coated red bobcut-maned middle age Earthen Equestrian making a fuss over at the reception desk

"What do you MEAN you can't confirm my son is present here in Ponyville?? I got eyewitnesses they saw somepony matching his description! Can't you see what's on the photo??", cried the upset middle-aged mare, who wore a navy blue bare-back top, a pearl necklace, a pair white pants and a pair of black high heels.

"I'm sorry, ma'am! But we can't confirm if he's the real stallion man in question. Maybe the people you're asking might be talking about a different Equestrian.", questioned the male Earthen Equestrian officer secretary behind the protection bars.

"You're just making that excuse, so you won't feel bad about not doing enough for your community!", accused the red-headed mare.

"MA'AM, I understand your plight. But right now, we are dealing with a backlog of police reports from all across the community. We're doing the best we can to solve all missing citizen reports.", assured the officer.

"UGH, I just KNOW he's around here somewhere! In spite of the princess' efforts, somehow nopony seems to care about my missing son! Do you have any idea who I am??", questioned the angry middle-aged mare as she firmly grasped the iron bars.

"UUhhhhhh, sorry to bother you at a time like this! But---!", muttered the interrupting Miss Starlight, who wanted to report an urgent police report fast. Before she could finish, the red-headed mare turned around and hollered

"Starlight Glimmer?? Is that you??!", shouted the shocked and surprised red-headed mare.

"Uhhhhhhh---do I know you??", questioned Starlight Glimmer as she tilted her head.

"It's me, Miss Flare...Stellar Flare?? Sunburst's mother, remember?", asked the red-headed mare lady as she approached Starlight Glimmer, while place her own white-coated glove-like hand on her chest.

"I'm-----sorry....I don't recognize you...", nervously responded Starlight Glimmer as she cocked her head to the other side.

"OOHHH, right! I forgot!", said Stellar Flare as she bopped her forehead with her palm. "Your dad's campaign manager Minty Mocha told me that you lost your memory in the crash!"

"You're---friends with my dad's manager??", Starlight sustained her response as she spoke with a baffling tone.

"Honey, I'm friends WITH your dad! And my son Sunburst is best friends with YOU!", responded Stellar Flare as she touched Starlight's shoulder and stared at her with a smirked smile.

Starlight Glimmer could only stare at Stellar Flare with more depressing confusion.

"Sorry----I kept hearing that name----and yet----somehow...that name never crosses my mind.....he must be really important to me as he was to you, wasn't he?", questioned Starlight Glimmer as she stared at the ground depressingly.

"Awww, looks like that accident really got you forgetting all the wonderful times you had with my son! It's not your fault that you wouldn't remember me anyway, dear...", responded Stellar Flare as she pitifully stared at the sad mare's eyes.

"Ummm....it's all right---Miss Flare, yes?...", said Starlight as she looked up to Stellar Flare.

"Please, call me Stellar!", happily smiled Stellar Flare. "A good friend of Sunburst is a good friend of mine, even if they don't remember it! At least your absent thoughts about my son had a valid excuse!", continued Stellar Flare as she sneered begrudgingly while looking behind at the officer secretary at work.

"WELL, as much as I want to chat longer with you, I must finish my quest on finding my lost son and your best friend as soon as possible. If you see a stallion with a white stripe on his nose and a long curved crescent orange mane, let me know! My son has been missing in this world for TOO long and I'm going to get to the bottom of this matter by marching RIGHT into the mayor's office!", pompously hollered Stellar Flare as she stepped bravely towards the main exit.

"That's right, it's time for some mayor-to-mayor parlay---well, mayoral candidate to mayor...but you get the idea....", mumbled Stellar Flare after she made a powerful pose by the doorway.

"Uhhhhhh, sure! Whatever you say, miss...", nervously mumbled Starlight Glimmer as she looked behind at the determined mother.

"....See you around, Starlight. Get better soon! I hope you'll remember everything in your life, sweetie...", said Stellar Flare as she was exiting the door.

"WAIT!", shouted Starlight Glimmer as she raised her palm towards Stellar Flare. "There's a very persistent stalker that may be prowling around the police station. He looks like a pretty shady unicorn with a short-cut mane and wears a very ragged vinyl jacket! Be careful with him!"

"Don't worry, Starlight! Mama Stellar Flare never leaves home without her pepper spray!", hollered the red-headed mother as she showed off her pepper spray, before exiting out of the main door.

As soon as Starlight Glimmer quickly head towards to the reception desk to finish on what she was doing, she quickly told to the officer secretary, "I would like to make a police report!"

"What report would you like to make, ma'am?", asked the officer secretary.

"I'm being stalked and harassed by a dangerous thug", answered Starlight Glimmer.

"Hmmmm, you sure you're not seeing things, ma'am?", questioned the skeptical secretary.

Suddenly, Starlight Glimmer grabbed the bars in frustration and spoke in a loud demanding voice

"I would like to speak to the police commissioner!"

"Commissioner??", questioned the baffled secretary as she looked up at the steaming Starlight Glimmer, before she nodded 'yes' in response.

Then, one of the officers, a female beige Diamond Dog, walked up to the secretary and told him

"Psst, she's a well-known former student and current associate of the Princess of Friendship! Unless you want the royal ruler coming down on you like a ton of bricks, you better do as she says..."

Meanwhile, outside of the police station, Sunny Boy had just parked his car in an empty parking spot, which there weren't many, considering that automated vehicles are rare in Ponyville and most of them are reserved for police wagons. As he was about to enter the station, he suddenly felt pulled aside by a magical telekinetic force and was forcibly dragged into a small blue-bricked police kiosk, with his mouth sealed shut by the magic. He felt he was being kidnapped and he tried to struggle his way out, only to see that he was being taken in by somepony very familiar.

"SSHHHH! Don't make a sound! Or else she'll hear you!", loudly whispered Captain Shining Armor as he hid beneath the open window of the kiosk. As Captain Shining Armor slowly peeked through the open window without being spotted, she saw the angry red-maned middle aged Stellar Flare walk right passed him.

"Seriously, am I going nuts here? Everypony I talked to said they've seen somepony matching that description! There's literally posters of my son plastered on every building in Equestria!", shouted Stellar Flare as she exited through the open gate.

"Sorry, about this, Sunny B!", apologized Captain Shining Armor as he unleashed his magical grip on Sunny Boy. "I couldn't have everypony, including your close relatives, compromise your duty if they saw you. I had to convince the police department here to keep your whereabouts a secret, so as to not blow your cover"

"LISTEN, sir! I don't know what you're rambling on about, but I haven't done ANYTHING wrong here! I JUST wanted to see somepony VERY special to me, all right?!", shouted the flustered Sunny Boy as he was expressing outrage towards the royal captain guard who had manhandled him without his consent.

"Special somepony?? Oooooooohh, I see...you wanted to check up on your---prime target, riighhtt?", clandestinely questioned Captain Shining Armor as he sustained his words and raised his eyebrows with a quirky smile.

"UGGHH---YES, okay! Just tell the police department about this mare! Help me clear up a few things for me, all right?!", shouted the upset Sunny Boy as he was getting really impatient with the captain. Unbeknownst to Sunny Boy, the captain had a very different idea on what the frustrated Sunny Boy meant by "special somepony".

"Riighht, of course! Just lemme find my call-box key from these drawers first", said Captain Shining Armor as he pulled open one of the drawers. Sunny Boy looked at Captain Shining Armor with a stoic yet disapproving expression, before mentioning to him

"You know, you could just walk right into the station and tell them---"

"NO, this will compromise me AND your chance to catch this 'special somepony' of yours! If we're going to do this right, we have to do this without raising suspicion.", demanded the oblivious royal guard captain as he frantically searched for the call-box key.

After facepalming really hard, Sunny Boy gave out a loud frustrating whinnying groan and shouted

"OKAY, whatever!! Just make it quick, all right??! This is an URGENT matter!"

"Of course! Time IS of the essence!", heroically spoke Captain Shining Armor, before he managed to find the call-box key.

Meanwhile, at the police parking lot, Master Zhi and the rest of the students were about to go around the line of police steamers and wagons, before the tall yellow stallion grabbed Yona by the hair in front of her and shouted, "WAIT, YONA!!"

"OW!!", cried Yona as she rubbed her head. "Why yellow stallion do that??!!". Every creature that was following Master Zhi stopped at their tracks to see what was going on.

"Take a look at THIS, guys!", hollered Master Zhi as he pointed at the license plate on the front end of the green Stanley steamer to the students.

"MM 5883!" read Master Zhi as he looked at the black characters painted onto the white license plate.

"Yeah, so??", questioned Gallus as he stared awkwardly at Master Zhi.

"That's the Headmaster's car! I managed to catch a glimpse of that stalker's license plate number before he got away!", answered Master Zhi as he gleefully snickered softly.

"Wait, if his self-mobile carriage is here, then that means he's right here at this very police station!", notified the intuitive Smolder as she turned her head to the police station.

"GGASSPP! AND he no here to protect his car!", shouted Yona as she realized how unprotected this vehicle is right now.

"And you know what THAT means??!", sinisterly snickered Master Zhi as he maliciously rubbed his hands.

"YEAH, let's teach this creepy fucker a lesson by ruining his mode of transportation! THEN he wouldn't be able to stalk girls more efficiently!", cried out Smolder as she dastardly waved her sharp claws.

"WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH! Hold on a second, you crazy assholes!", interrupted Gallus as he repeatedly shoved his hands towards the empty air. "You're not really suggesting we trash his steam car, are ya??!"

"YEAH, so??!", snarked the undeterred Smolder as she stared at Gallus with half-opened eyes.

"SOOO, it's ILLEGAL!", responded Gallus with anger. "Besides, there is NO way I'm ruining my chance to redeem myself and throw my ticket back to school! Besides, even though Miss Starlight told us to stop that stalker in his tracks, the police wouldn't be amuse seeing us trash a random vehicle."

"GALLUS, I just attempted to burn his entire ride in the middle of the road! What difference does it make??", questioned the upset Smolder.

"The DIFFERENCE is that you're doing in complete view of the police near a police station!", answered the equally disappointed Sandbar as he shoved his face towards Smolder. "Gallus is right! We can't be sure if that's REALLY his car! And even if it is, do you really think the police would believe our story??"

"So WHAT??! You're gonna snitch on us and throw us in jail???!", mockingly questioned Smolder.

"Siiggghhh, look.....", said Gallus after he took a few seconds to calm down before responding. "I'm not gonna stop you right now here.....I understand how you're feeling right now--I get it.....but if you ever get caught by these blue jackets, I'm not going to bail you out, ya hear??"

Gallus immediately took off to the skies to leave for the market to complete his shopping list.

"YEAH, I don't wanna get in trouble with the law! I can't do well in jail and I got a family to take care of! I don't wanna get involved in this mess with you...", said Sandbar before he walked out of the female students, Tiny Turnip Head and Master Zhi near the station.

"...FINE! Suit yourself!", loudly scoffed Master Zhi. "We're gonna dole out some VIGILANTE JUSTICE! That nerdy stinker ain't gonna go around creeping up on poor Miss Starlight Glimmer like a bonafide rapist!"

"We'll turn this car into cinders if we have to!", cackled Smolder as she fired up her flammable breath.

"YEAH! Teach bad boy lesson with SMASHING!!", cheered Yona as she jumped for joy.

"YAAAYYY!!! VIGILANTE!!!", screamed the flying Tiny Turnip Head as he punched the hood of the car, before he ended up hurting his hand.

"YYOOOOWWWW!!!", cried Tiny Turnip Head after his carpal bones snapped under the forceful impact without making a dent.

"Uhhhh, yeaaahh...maybe leave the pro-vigilante stuff to us, kid", stoically told Master Zhi as he stared at the wincing Tiny Turnip Head.

"Watch and learn, squirt!", shouted Smolder as she breathed a scorching stream of purple fire from her breath.

Meanwhile, inside the police interviewing room on the second floor of the police station, Starlight Glimmer sat down on the cushioned ebony chair, which was set at one side of the table facing the entry doors. The room was very elongated, with one side of the wall (opposite to Starlight) had five sets of glass-paned windows letting in the natural light.

At the middle of the wall that was between the glass windows was a walled-in police telephone1. Using the telephone was a dark-gray coated, turquoise-mustached and short-maned police commissioner named Jade Dobbin. He was wearing his light-blue shirt, which was decorated with a few honorary medals on his left breast, as well as a pair of black pants on his person. Speaking into the cone-shaped and holding the reciever into his ear, he grunted out

"Hello? YES?! This is Commissioner Dobbin speaking!"

Seeing how Starlight Glimmer was staring very menacingly at him, he later leaned forward to the transmitter and spoke in a quieter yet gruff tone, hoping the unicorn mare does not eavesdrop on his conversation. After he was done listening, he later continued

"....Yes, YES!! Okay---SLOW DOWN, you're speaking like a madmare!"

"I TOLD you, Commissioner! The mare you are talking to---she's NOT as clean as she seems!", whispered Captain Shining Armor loudly as he spoke into the transmitter, while taking a glimpse at the second floor of the police station.

"HEY, stop treating her like she's a suspect!! It's NOT like that!!", shouted the upset Sunny Boy as he glared disappointingly into Captain Shining Armor.

"RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT!! Sorry!!", apologized Captain Armor before he 'corrected' himself. "I meant to say---she's a person of interest in a very special ongoing investigation"

"UUUGGGHH, just forget it!! I'll handle this myself!", shouted Sunny Boy before he made a quick dash to the police station.

"LOOK, just DO whatever our informant said! It's REALLY important he doesn't blow this case outta the water!", pleaded Shining Armor on the call-box. "Otherwise, my sister's gonna have a REALLY bad mane day with me and I don't wanna be the brother who's responsible for goofing this up!"

"I got it, I got it!", shouted Commissioner Dobbin on the wall telephone. "I don't need some royal guard captain from Canterlot telling me what to do! After we're done with her, I would like you to submit an official fully detailed report on both yesterday's incident in Manehatten AND today's incident here in Ponyville! I really am not sure why I was never notified on this malarkey!"

*KNOCK!* *KNOCK!* goes the black door on the opposite far left side of Commissioner Dobbin.

"YES, who is it??!!", shouted the commissioner as he turned his head around.

Opening the black door was Sunny Boy, who slowly stepped into the interview room before asking

"Uhhhh, is it all right if I come in??"

"Of COURSE, Sunny B!" happily grunted Commissioner Dobbin. "A good friend of the police is a good friend of me! You can come in here as much as you like!"

Shocked by how well Sunny Boy is seemingly well acquainted to the police, she stood up from her seat and loudly protested as she pointed the finger at Sunny Boy

"Commissioner! This man has attempted to grab me inappropriately and had now started to harass me! I want to file a lawsuit against him for sexual misconduct! He kept following me wherever I go and I don't feel very safe being near him!"

"...Hmmmm, is that true??", questioned Commissioner Dobbin as he turned his head to Sunny Boy.

"---WELL.....yeah...and---I just wanna talk things out to her...", nervously muttered Sunny Boy as he sheepishly smiled at the commissioner.

"Listen here, Missy! The reason why he tried to stop you and follow you was because you have been marked as a suspicious person of interest! He has reasons to inspect you for possible wrongdoing!", accused the stern commissioner as he turned his attention to Starlight Glimmer and pointed the finger at her. "So you better explain to yourself why he had tried to pursue you in the first place!"

"WHAT??!!", shouted Starlight Glimmer. "Am I speaking old Ponish here??! Why the hell should I have to explain why I was a target of an attempted rape?!". Starlight was NOT going to have the commissioner talk to her like she's the perpetrator of the stalker's malicious crime.

Frustrated that he may not get through to her, he turned to Sunny Boy and whispered to him

"Uhhhh, are you sure I'm handling this situation correctly?"

"LOOK, you DON'T have to go overboard with this, all right?", replied the assured soft-spoken Sunny Boy. "Just let her say her piece and hear her out..."

Pondering on the informant's advice, he took a glimpse at the red-faced steaming Starlight and felt a bit slightly intimidated. However, knowing the informant's curious grip for vast knowledge, he let him sit at the chair opposite of Starlight's chair, while he sat on the third chair that was left of the informant's chair.

"Commissioner, listen to me! I don't know why you trust this stallion, but he's not as friendly as he looks! You might have to do a thorough search on his profile!", demanded the upset Starlight as she spoke to the commissioner.

Suddenly, the wall telephone's bells began to rang, causing the commissioner to quickly excuse himself, before picking up the receiver, cranking up the dynamo crank and speaking into the transmitter. Out from the receiver was Captain Shining Armor's worried blabbering voice

"Commissioner! I forgot to tell you another important thing! My wizard friend here has a VERY complicated backstory here! If you wanna work with him, you gotta loosen up and go with the flow, all right?!"

Captain Shining Armor was now speaking through another wall telephone in the hallway within the first floor below of the police station.

As soon as the commissioner got off the phone, he briskly walked up to Sunny Boy to his right side, while exclaiming in a confident manner.

"WELL---my lower-rank officer has told me ALL about your case already!"

Laying his hands on one side of the table close to Sunny Boy, he pointed at the informant and said to him,

"Since you are the plaintiff who reported on this mare, you get to ask the questions!"

"HEY! COMMISSIONER!!", vehemently shouted Starlight Glimmer before she toned herself down a bit. "I'm the one who is reporting to the police here, NOT HIM!! Don't I have rights as an Equestrian citizen to be protected by common law?? "

"WELL, that's why I followed you here! Because I wanted to protect you!", exclaimed the flustered Sunny Boy.

"Wait wait wait wait wait! There's something I'm not getting here!", shouted the commissioner as he returned back to his original seat next to Sunny Boy. "Are you actually tracking her or protecting her? Because I feel like I'm getting mixed messages here."

"WELL, why does it even matter to you, sir?", questioned Sunny Boy as he looked at Commissioner Dobbin.

"Right right right, of course...", mumbled the commissioner as he turned away from Sunny Boy and looked down at the table. Sunny Boy then later turned his attention to Starlight Glimmer and said to her

"LOOK, I really wanted to make sure you got to your friend's home safely, okay??"

Starlight Glimmer suddenly slammed her hands on the table and loudly snapped at both Sunny Boy and the commissioner to their faces.

"Well, WHETHER I need protection or not, I DON'T like anypony creepily stalking me both with AND without my knowledge!!"

"But then how is he going to follow your suspicious activities if he can't stalk you?", asked the confused commissioner.

"UUUGGGHHH, you know what??! Don't sweat it! This has NOTHING to do with you right now!", shouted Starlight Glimmer as she exposed her palm to the commissioner to stop interfering with her beef against her alleged stalker.

"Then why come here in the first place?", the commissioner asked once again to the frustrated Starlight Glimmer.

Feeling like she cannot get through the oblivious commissioner's addled brain, she started to rant about how incompetent his police establishment is handling her situation.

"I came here to report on a stalker and you're treating me like I'm the bad guy over here! Apparently, you peppies handle serious crimes and respond to reports WAY differently than I ever imagined!"

"...What's wrong with the way we do things here, exactly??", questioned the commissioner as he tried to wrap his brain around the current situation.

"Uhhh, you're not doing anything particularly wrong, officer", nervously responded Sunny Boy as he turned to the commissioner with a sincere smiling expression. The commissioner then turned his attention to Starlight Glimmer and responded

"LOOK, missy. We're JUST following our usual steps in our police protocol in handling suspected persons of interest here, all right?"

Commissioner Dobbin's tone toward Starlight Glimmer then became slightly more harsher afterwards

"But from the way YOU'RE acting back during the start of this interrogation, you failed to give me a DIRECT answer to our questions! So right now, I'm not feeling any sense of innocence emanating from you!"

"Wha--WHAT??!! Why am I a suspect over here all of a sudden?!", shouted the livid Starlight Glimmer as she cannot believe what she was hearing from the incompetent commissioner. "I DIDN'T do anything wrong!! And if you're digging into my past, I had already been pardoned of my crimes a long time ago by the princess! What kind of current evidence do YOU possibly have to incriminate me in whatever criminal case you're investigating?"

"WELL, that's why I'm asking YOU! So answer away, Missy!", harshly replied the commissioner.

As Starlight was about to protest, Sunny Boy later interfered with the argument and said to Starlight,

"LOOK, I get that you don't trust me on protecting you. I don't fault you for that, all right...?"

Starlight Glimmer ungratefully scoffed at Sunny Boy's empathy, before the commissioner responded, "Wait...REALLY??!"

"Why, of course!", responded the surprised Sunny Boy. "Still, I think everypony here deserves a fair chance to at least prove themselves." Sunny Boy later stretched his hand over the surface of the table towards Starlight.

"So, please tell me....why don't you want to trust me to be by your side?"

"Because you're a rogue, that's why! And even if you DO have a chance to be with me, I myself had already gotten a boyfriend in my life!", responded Starlight Glimmer before she pulled out a key with the chained orange radial sun acrylic decal out from her pocket.

"See this??! This is the key that was given to me by my long-lost boyfriend! I don't know what he actually looks like, but SOMEDAY, he's gonna come back to see me again! You'll see!"

Commissioner Dobbins was now getting REALLY confused about what this 'interrogation' has descended down to.

"WELL, if your 'boyfriend' REALLY captured your heart by giving you a key---!", questioned Sunny Boy as he pulled out a ring of his many iron keys from his hidden pocket in his jacket, "---then how would you know he doesn't have THAT many keys in her person like I do?! You don't think he could possibly have THAT many girlfriends in his harem by giving away ALL of his keys, right??"

"THAT would make him a philandering womanizer!! You think he would REALLY do that to me??!", shouted Starlight Glimmer as she lunged her face towards Sunny Boy in anger.

"Since when did this interrogation devolved into a conversation about romance and keys??! I'm getting the fuck outta here!", mumbled the bamboozled commissioner as he got out of his seat and head for the black door.

As soon as he opened the black door, he saw that Captain Shining Armor was just at the door, listening into the hectic conversation and was ready to barge in case things went haywire. Quickly as the door swung open, Captain Shining Armor rapidly stood up from his crouching spy position and looked straight into the disappointed commissioner's eyes

"YOU! Come in right now!!", shouted Commissioner Dobbins. "I don't know what the hell is going on in here and I don't know how to handle this damn malarkey!!"

"HEY, royal guards! Get over here! The commissioner having trouble with the interrogation right now!", hollered Captain Shining Armor as he called out for his troops.

"---and YOU never care about how others may actually feel, you get me??!", Starlight continuously argued with Sunny Boy as he played around with his ring of keys. "The WHOLE world would be in chaotic disharmony with Equestrians like you laying around in society!"

"Starlight Glimmer??!! YOU'RE the suspect in question!", shouted Captain Shining Armor as he stood surprised at his informant's supposed 'target of interest'. He later turned his attention to Sunny Boy on his seat. "You told me she was the 'special somepony' of interest that you needed catching up with! You SURE this isn't about some ploy to resolve a friendship quarrel without raising suspicion??"

"All right, THAT'S IT!" shouted Starlight Glimmer as she quickly stood up and briskly walked away from the bumbling male fools. "I REALLY don't need this kind of bullshit right now! If you're not going to help me, then I'll protect myself if I have to! I'll be fine on my OWN, thank you very much!"

As she headed for the brown door located on the other far side away from the black door, Sunny Boy immediately got up and chased after her. Both the commissioner and the royal guard captain also quickly gave chase to the highly flustered and uncooperative mare. However, she quickly cast an expanding bubble spell to push Sunny Boy out of the way and a flashbang spell to disorientate her pursuers, before quickly teleporting herself out of the police station. Sunny Boy was left alone with the officers with a sprained back after landing hard on the tiled floor.

Meanwhile at the outside parking space lot adjacent to the police station, Master Zhi, Tiny Turnip Head, Smolder and Yona were wrecking the green steamer car that was believed to be owned by Miss Starlight Glimmer's alleged stalker. Within five minutes of their vandalizing amusement, the green steamer had turned into a crumbled, burning and mangled metal junkyard wreck. Leading the chaotic shenanigans was Master Zhi himself, who was prying, smashing, bending and dismantling every nook and cranny of the vehicle with his crowbar. Yona, the strongest of the vandalizing group, used her own immense weight of her mighty black horns and belly fat to smash every top surface of the steamer into a collapsing mess and ramming onto every side of the steamer to make the biggest dents possible. Finally, Smolder the sizzling saboteur breathed the hottest purple flame onto the engine, causing the steam generator to blow its hot water load and most of the steel tubes, pipes, valves and other machined parts to melt under the extremely high-temperatures and fused with each other into blobbed piles of molten liquid metal. Even the shattered glass from the windows were beginning to melt from the intense radiant heat and the vinyl car cushions were catching on fire. As for the Tiny Turnip Head, he just hovered far away from the car wreckage, cheering on his Master and his new friends to continue with their vengeance.

"YYEEAAHHH, go Friendship Vigilantes!!! You can do it!!", Tiny Turnip Head continued to egg on.

"YONA SMASH!!! YONA FEEL POWERFUL!!!", the adrenaline-fueled nak bellowed as she repeatedly hopped onto her flattened surface area of the wreckage.

"BURN, BABY!! BUURRNN!!!", growled the enraged Smolder as she breathed out all of the belching methane and propane within her gassy stomach, as well as all the potassium salts she had stored in her gall-bladder to make the purplish color of her flame.

After Master Zhi and the two girls were finally exhausted of their pent-up energy, the green steamer, marked with the license plate "MM 5883", had now become an elongated and flattened flaming pile of junk, with various dismantled car parts surrounding the smoking wreckage. As the vigilant vandals looked proudly at their criminal work of art, Master Zhi was the first to speak to the students

"Job well done, ladies! That'll teach that loser creep to not stalk Miss Starlight on OUR watch!"

"Yona very proud of us! Yona feel GOOD! Bad guy will be one scared of students, no back way around!", exclaimed the prideful nak as she posed in a powerful manner, before she spotted something very familiar in her sight.

"HEY, Master!! LOOK!!!", Yona yelled as she pointed at another green steamer in the middle regional area of the parking lot, which was located 5 meters away from the wreck. This green steamer was also a green Model 1922 Stanley Steamer with the exact same license plate of "MM 5883". The only difference was that the second black-painted 'M' had a slight scrape along its right-side vertical stroke line!

"There be MM 5883 too!!", Yona mentioned as she looked at the master.

"WHAT??!! You gotta be kidding me!!! Another car with the EXACT same number marked on the EXACT same green car?!!", shouted Smolder who was in complete shock at the twist of events.

"WHAT---BUT---BUT HOW??!! No two cars are supposed to have the same license plate number!!", shouted Master Zhi as he took a closer look (with his glasses) at the exact same green steamer model.

"Should we go smash that car too?! You know, just to be on the safe side for Miss Starlight!", asked the rough-and-ready Tiny Turnip Head as he flew towards Master Zhi.

"HEY!!! What the hell are you four doing over here??!!", shouted the female Diamond Dog police officer who spotted the vandals and scurried over to examine the wreckage.

"OH SHIT!!! BUSTED!!!!", exclaimed the scare-stiffed Smolder as she immediately saw the officer pointing directly at their paled faces.

As soon as the police officer started howling for backup, Master Zhi and the students were quickly surrounded by police dogs coming out of the station. It was at this moment that they immediately knew---that they had messed up big time!

----------(30 SECONDS LATER IN THE POLICE STATION)----------

"I can't believe you thugs would mess around NEAR a police station!! Just HOW exactly stupid are you??!", shouted the angry female police canine as she escorted all the vandals (including Tiny Turnip Head) throughout the hallway, in multiple steel manacles and chains.

Master Zhi had his hands cuffed from behind and was held at the neck by a chained brace. Yona was heavily chained at the ankles and the wrists with much thicker chrome-steel manacles and chains, in a similar manner the master. Both Smolder and Tiny Turnip Head had their wings pierced with 20-g weights at their wingtips to prevent them form flying off, as well as bulky manacles (though not as heavy as Yona's) around their necks and wrists. The only difference between Smolder and Tiny Turnip Head was that the dragon was also fitted with a tight iron muzzle to stop her from breathing fire in the police station.

"I mean, contributing delinquency to minors, destruction of governmental property, vandalism, damage to possessed property---do you idiots even realize HOW much prison time you'll be facing soon??!!", berated the female Diamond Dog officer as she escorted the group of four felonious friends.

"I can't believe she got away before I could get a chance to apologize to her...", muttered Sunny Boy as he went down the stairs to the reception room, while rubbing his sprained shoulders.

"It's all right, Sunny B! I know it's hard to get close to the ones you love, you know that's not going to last forever...", replied Captain Shining Armor as he rushed down the stairs with the commissioner.

"SO, it was just a ruse for you to get into contact with your close friend, huh??", grunted the grumbling Commissioner Dobbins who gave off a mean expression. "WELL, next time if you wanna arrange a secret meeting without getting your ass beaten, go to some back alleyway or somewhere deep within the Everfree Forest! I don't want to be the one taking flak for inadvertently interfering in some lover's quarrel!"

"I TOLD you, it's not like---!!", shouted the upset Sunny Boy before he suddenly went silent after spotting Master Zhi and the three friendship students in heavily chained thick shackles.

"Uhhhhh, why is there a tall lanky stallion, a fat yak, a lizzy girl and a tiny peggie being chained ALL at once, INSIDE my own police station??! Is there some sort of all-creatures bonanza party disturbance that I wasn't aware about??!!", questioned the bewildered commissioner as he stood on the stairs, looking deeply at the four arrestees.

"I caught these four dunderheads vandalizing YOUR car, commissioner!!", barked the female Diamond Dog officer.

"THEY DID WHHHHAAAATT???!!!!", shouted the suddenly enraged commissioner who was now steaming from his ears and nostrils. "Why the hell did you think wrecking my prized trophy was such a good idea of fun for you sniveling creatures??!!"

"Well...to be fair---that color of choice for your car---did looked pretty criminal", sadly joked the repentant Master Zhi as he tried to lighten up the mood within the police station.

"We REALLY thought it belonged to a bad guy...", whimpered the sad Tiny Turnip Head as he looked down at the ground in emotional shame.

"SO WHAT?!! Just because I'm not much of a luxurious show-off, DOESN'T mean you can destroy it over bad taste in rich car design!! It's NOT your ride to begin with!!", shouted the livid commissioner.

"Blue-shirt pony right...Yona very sorry for destroying metal ride for bad color....no excuse", sighed the depressed nak as she stared down towards the tiled floor.

Realizing at what they had done, Sunny Boy took pity at the four vandals who may end up spending possibly decades in federal prison, over a well-intended act of vigilante heroism in an attempt to protect the mare he was purposefully stalking. His moral conscience within his depressed mind told him that the lives of these three young students would be forever shattered if they ever get convicted and their future would become bleak. Moreover, the tall yellow stallion would never get to see his boy ever again and he'll probably die of old age in prison before he could see his boy grow up into a mature stallion, assuming that the boy would live a life outside of crime for the time being. Sunny Boy turned to the commissioner and told him

"Let them go, officer. They're my friends. It's my fault that your car ended up being wrecked"

"You gotta be kidding me!!?? How was it YOUR fault?! Don't tell me THEY'RE part of your little clandestine troupe too!", shouted the commissioner as he turned his attention to Sunny Boy.

Sunny Boy explained to the commissioner. "I suspected these four would come after me, because they were pretty close to the lovely mare I was pursuing. To them, I was their alleged stalker and thought it would be a good idea to destroy my vehicle in retaliation. I MAY had used my warped ink spell on my license plate number to match the one on YOUR vehicle, sir."

"WELL, whether they were trying to target my car or yours, they STILL have to answer to destroying possessed property and vehicle vandalism, regardless of what their reasonable intentions were!", complained the hot-headed commissioner.

"WELL, in the meantime, you can take MY car instead, marked 'MN 5772'!", insisted Sunny B as he took out one of his car keys and gave it to the commissioner. "The ink spell must've worn off by now, so you'll be able to find it easily. Besides, it IS the only green steamer in the police parking lot, yes?"

"Just take the offer, Commissioner Dobbins", quickly pleaded Captain Shining Armor as he placed his gauntlet hand over the commissioner's shoulder. "He's a very important governmental asset with special status!"

"But what about these hooligans??! They can't just get away with this!", shouted Commissioner Dobbins as he stared at the chained criminals in question.

"Just file a restraining order against them!", suggested the assured Captain Shining Armor. "Besides, these little creatures here are just misguided minors who decided to revel in a little evening mischief. I was young once too, you know?"

Captain Shining Armor then proceeded to walk towards the chained Yona, Smolder and Tiny Turnip Head, before speaking in a very content but authoritative manner

"I'll make sure their Headmare knows exactly about what happened yesterday, FIRST thing in the morning. Then, she'll decide on the proper punishment for ALL of you little rascals! Sounds fair??!"

All the little students nodded in agreement with their sad eyes locked onto the merciful royal guard captain.

"OH, and as for you...uhhhhhh......", mumbled Shining Armor as he turned his attention to the silently sorrowful Master Zhi.

"He's---kinda the boy's father---AND he used to work at the school too...", informed Sunny Boy to the captain.

"Riiiiigghhhhtt...I'll let the Headmare know about what YOU'VE been up to tomorrow as well. In the mean time, I'll let my friend here keep an eye on ALL of you, understand?? BUT if all of you four cause ANY more trouble, we'll have no chance but to stop you!", sternly scolded the captain as he stared madly into Master Zhi's eyes, hoping his presumptuous fortitude will convince the commissioner to be more lenient on Sunny Boy's colleagues.

At this point right now, Commissioner Dobbins had no idea how to react to the new situation right now. He was more than ready to give up interfering with any more shenanigans and let Captain Shining Armor deal with their informant (though he STILL insisted that he file a full report on yesterday's and today's incidents, regardless of how insanely unbelievable they may sound compared to an average police record)

---END

Author's Note

1. 1900s Wall telephone