Chapters Part 1 "Come one come all to this tragic affair"
Doctor Redheart was ready to go home. The day had been long and tedious day of clinic duty, as there were no special cases at the moment that required her attention, her day had been spent looking at rashes, diagnosing sleep aids and checking out kids with the flu, or cold or some other common ailment, as she was doing currently for one Derpy Hooves.
Derpy had been unusually insistent on an immediate checkup. Given the commonality of her daughter, Dinky's symptoms, Redheart found this to be a little irregular. She knew that the filly had had colds before without her mother freaking out, what made this time so special?
Apparently nothing as everything she tested indicated no abnormalities outside the symptoms that would be expected of the average cold.
"here you go Lil miss," she said handing Dinky a lollipop, "just make sure to get plenty of sleep and water when you get home, And you'll be fine"
"yes mam" the filly replied with a cute little salute.
Addressing the concerned mother, Redheart said, "it's just a common cold as far as I can tell, I recommend she stay in bed for the day, and you should probably get some Ibuprofen from the hospital pharmacy on your way out, For her headache"
"Sorry for wasting your time doc," Derpy apologized, "Just wanted to be sure"
"It's no problem Derpy, really I got nothing better going on."
"well thank you very much anyways, Dinky its time to go h..." Derpy began before a sudden intruder cut her off
"Redheart you're needed in the ER" A hospital nurse, Candy her name was, Said as she ran into the room, slamming the door open, Her expression conveyed much urgency.
"What's Happened?" Redheart asked concerned.
Candy looked at Dinky in the room, hiding behind her mother, and chose to whisper the answer into Redhearts ear to not frighten the child anymore. Redheart's expression became grim at whatever she was told. She looked at the Mailmare in the clinic, who in turn gave her a quizzical expression.
"Get the princess and her friends here now"
Rainbow and Applejack were both in the emergency room, and Derpy had to inform The Princess of Friendship and the rest of her Cabinet.
Derpy had left her daughter with the nurse to make the trip. She was relieved Dinky had nothing out of the ordinary. She couldn't tell Redheart this fact... But derpy had recently been to a time where certain Plagues still existed... and Derpy was worried she had somehow given one to her kid. However, being too different times was not a thing the Mailmare believed should be... common knowledge.
As she thought, Derpy Flew as fast as she could to Princess Twilight Sparkle's castle, which fortunately was just around the corner. When Derpy arrived at the front entrance it was locked, fortunately, the Princess had given Derpy a key to the castle, should news of great urgency be in need of her attention. Such as the very message Derpy had been sent to deliver.
She continued her flight through the cold crystal hallways until she reached twilights bedroom. Once arrived she barged in.
CRASH!!!
Derpy had slammed into one of the princess' dressers, A clutz as always. Derpy was shocked that Twilight had not awoken from the sound. She was relieved to not have witness to yet another display of her lack of coordination.
The princesses Dragon assistant, however, did respond to the commotion. In a fight ready stance, he quickly arose and demanded, "who's there". Based on his tone Derpy deduced that the cute baby dragon fancied himself as the Princess' bodyguard.
Derpy put her arms up in mock fear of the brave and loyal dragon, "It's only me Mr. Dragon, please don't roast me with your might flames" Spike instantly dropped his stance and looked down embarrassed.
"so something urgent for Twilight?" he asked after an awkward moment of silence
"yep" the wall-eyed mare replied, "can you help me get her up"
And with that Spike gently shook Twilight with practiced ease. "come on twilight you gotta get up"
Apparently a loud crash couldn't awake the mare but a whisper from spike could. Derpy remembers something similar with her dad, where he would sleep through the sounds of many things derpy had accidentally broke as a filly. But if she or her twin came into his room at night after a nightmare... all they would need to do is gently tap him and he would be up and there for them.
Derpy's nightmares were usually of her breaking important things
"What time is it?" The princess asked groggily.
"very late but you really gotta get up, Derpy says it's urgent." The Dragon replied
Twilight sat up and noticed the mailman in the room.
"did something happen? Is another villain attacking? Do I need to assemble my friends? Is Luna making a surprise visit?" Twilight asked in rapid succession.
"No," derpy said, in a sympathetic tone, the tone of delivering bad news, "two of your friends, Applejack and Rainbow Dash are hurt, They are in the Ponyville Hospital"
Twilights eyes widened, concern conquered her face as Derpy added, "They are in the emergency room."
"Thanks for telling me, I'll get Fluttershy and And also Applejacks family, You don't need to fly that far out, just get Pinkie and Rarity," she said before teleporting away. Leaving Derpy and Spike behind.
"I'm gonna go right to the hospital'" Spike said as he walked alongside Derpy down the hall to the exit. They walked in silence till they exited the castle.
"Is there anything you know about what happened?" Spike then asked before Derpy could fly away.
"No, sorry but you'll have to figure that out when you get there, I didn't have time to ask" Derpy answered. Then she took off in the direction of Sugarcube Corner.
She knew pinkie was the only one there at this time, She had been the one to deliver the invitation the cakes had received to a special baking contest this week. They had brought their kids along and made a whole family trip outta it
When she arrived at the bakery she was instantly on alert, The door had been smashed open and a trail of blood came through the empty doorway... this must have been where the accident occurred...
But how could they be hurt in Sugarcube Corner without Pinkie Pie knowing about it unless...
Derpy considered that if the other 2 were in critical condition, where was Pinkie, why wasn't she at the hospital... maybe she was... no this was Pinkie Pie, she couldn't be dead... she just couldn't.
So derpy followed the blood trail into the building... to find just behind the register an opened cellar entrance. It looked designed to blend in with the floor. Had it not been opened Derpy did not think she would have been able to know a latch was there at all. Derpy felt a creeping sense of dread as she ascended the stairs and was met with a heavy smell of a hospital, Maybe something like Chlorine or bleach in the air... the sort of chemical one would use to mask strong smells
Into the depths, she descended. Before noticing anything else she saw the motionless form of a pink mare, Pinkie Pie. The body was sideways against a wall, surrounded by wooden fragments of a broken table. It looked as tho she had been slammed into it.
Derpy was by her side before she even had a chance to think. She placed her hoof on the body's neck, 'Damn no pulse'. Derpy rolled the body over, intending to begin chest compressions... But this caused her to look at the rest of the body... to really look at it. And what she saw made her blood go cold.
She saw the body in a dress of many colors, almost like patches of fabric sewn together, Each patch had an image on it, images Derpy recognized, the cutie marks of ponies Derpy had known for years, 3 blue and yellow candy wrappers, Bon Bon, 3 carrots, Carrot Top and many others were in the mix.
And the patches... they weren't fabric.
They were fur.
Derpy immediately looked around the room she was in... and was even more horrified. On top of the blood splatter most everywhere there were organs about the room posed to look like party decorations. Intestine Streamers, and balloons from lungs. There were taxidermy heads of ponies on shelves, and a few cleaned shiny skulls, one of a griffin. The centerpiece of the room was a metal surgical table with 4 metal latches the size of legs, it had the most amount of blood anywhere in the room.
The pieces all came together... either Applejack or Rainbow had been on that table and the other one had found her and rescued her... killing Pinkie to do it. Judging by the impact Pinkie must have had against that table, a table Derpy now noticed had to have been holding surgical tools as those also littered the area around the body, Applejack must have been the one doing the rescue, she has the legs to make such a kick.
Derpy at first just froze in terror, well not terror, there was no immediate danger from the room and she knew that the one who it seemed was responsible for the danger was dead behind her. Pinkie. More like she was frozen in horror.
Over the past few years, Derpy had seen her share of horrible things, But she had never seen anything like... like this. Not with this much gore, or to... or by... ponies she knew. She couldn't bring herself to fly back out and alert Rarity to the hospital, How could she just continue on after what she had seen.
She didn't even know what she would do if she got up... fly back to the hospital and bring help here... But surely that would be a waste of time, Pinkie was most definitely dead, and Derpy wasn't sure with what she saw that she wanted even the possibility that paramedics arrive and revive her. So go find Rarity then as she had intended. But how could she look at the mare with what she had seen? how could she look at anyone?" Should she just stay put?"
No, she had to, She wasn't the useless clutz she once was, she had traveled through time, fought Daleks and Cyberponies all and other manners of aliens. She was not a coward. She had a mission and she had to complete it. She'd get Rarity to the hospital and then tell them all that she had seen when they are together. Derpy got back on her hooves and ran back up the stairs. Leaving the lifeless body once again in solitude.
Author's Note
Authors notes: This story is inspired by the fanfic that brought me into this fandom, I don't remember its name but it was an alternate ending to Mile Prowers "A Precious Rainbow" which Itself is an alternate ending to cupcakes. Which I am sure you have heard of. Sadly the story that inspired this world that has plagued my head through my Middle school, high school and now college years no longer seems to exist, The author seems to have deleted his account from fanfiction.com, making it impossible for me to find this fic again. I don't even remember the author's fake online name, some dude online changed my life back in 2013, and he completely erased the thing that did it, makes me sad. Precious Rainbow is still around, Check it out it's written much better than anything I could hope to do. Also a cookie to anyone who notices what the pattern in chapter names is.
This story does have Ocs not created by me. the only one used at this time is the nurse Candy... a minor Character from Kkats Fallout Equestria.
Also, I have my first attempt to realize this story as a canceled project on my pages, Don't read it, not only is it worse written than this (if that's possible) but it also contains, if your interested in where this goes, mild spoilers.
Welp time to make this public and see what happens... if anything.
The End pt. 2 "Wipe off that makeup, what's in is despair"
Rarity had been up all night working on her next line of clothing, she needed to be ready in before spring came with a full new line to sell. Her business depended on it and now that she ran a chain... she had employees counting on her ability to create and sell new ideas. The first few dress designs had come easily and established the theme of her line... but now she was having trouble establishing enough unique designs to fill in the rest of the line. Suffice it to say it was tiring work.
She sat on the floor surrounded by a mess of fabric of many colors, behind her a small pile of scrapped ideas, beside her were the three designs that she did approve of displayed on mannequins.
Her work was interrupted by a knock on her door. Rarity got up and went over to her store's main entrance to answer it. She opened the door to find the local mailmare Derpy.
Derpy's expression was grim and serious. Tho there was something else there as well. She seemed unusually fazed, Fidgety. As tho, she'd just seen something horrible.
"what can I do for you darling" Rarity said cordially.
Derpy just flatly said... with very little emotion, "Applejack and Rainbow Dash are in the Emergency room, I've been sent to inform you.
Rarity immediately understood and went to trot in the hospital's direction. Before she could leave the doorway Derpy stopped her.
"There's something else as well, But I'll tell you when all the others are together."
Rarity began to wonder what this could mean as she ran to the hospital.
Derpy ran to the Ponyville police station to report what she had seen
Twilight popped into existence before an odd lonely white cottage with grass covering its roof. The cottage belonged to her friend and ally Fluttershy. She figured it would be more polite to not magically pop into her house without knocking first.
And so she did just that, and while the door was answered... it was not answered by the pony Twilight was searching for. It was not answered by a pony at all. Rather a very tall mixture of creatures, a draconequus.
His name was Discord. He was an asshole. He was Fluttershy's colt friend. Twilight disliked him greatly.
Of course, her opinion of him was not at all helped by the many MANY times he had intentionally messed with her specifically. Her duties as a princess, which gradually grew in scope every year, were not made any easier or less exhausting by a spirit of chaos showing up unannounced, bending the walls and taunting her.
Needless to say, she did not understand what her friend saw in him And seeing him answer her door... him being in her house, with her... at night... the potential implications brought flashes of images she did not want to conjure of her dear sweet friend.
"You seem shocked to see me your highness" Discord said amused. "I assume it.s not me you're here to see."
"What are you doing here?" Twilight asked flatly.
"what do you think I'm doing here?" he responded.
Twilight's look of disgust gave discord his answer.
"disgusted by the idea of ponies and non-ponies together princess?" he probed.
"what? no, I just..." she mumbled trying to defend herself, Giving Discord the reaction he wanted.
"Sweety who's at the door," a soft voice called from inside the cottage.
"Just a bigoted princess who seems to oppose mating between races." Discord taunted.
Twilight's face flushed white with embarrassment.
Fluttershy strolled over to the door with a sly rebuttal, "I'm sure her opinion has nothing to do with the way you always bother her"
Once again Discord feigned offense "Why I would never"
Twilight interrupted the interaction to address Fluttershy, "I need to speak to you" she paused and glared at Discord as she said, "alone"
Deputy Buckshot was very bored. He was alone in the station covering the night shift, he had drawn the short straw. He enjoyed the extra pay from the overtime, however... he was exhausted, a whole day working on those 15 missing persons cases and still no closer to the answer. Damn it one of them was a kid. Usually, in Equestria, the law enforcement essentially served to enforce minor violations. Serious crimes were not something they were actually handled or experienced to deal with. Even departments in major cities rarely actually had anything to solve. Manehatten apparently had 1 homicide in the last decade. So why did he have to get stuck in small-town with 15 disappearances?.
As he pondered in his boredom he heard the door open. He looked up from his desk to see the towns mailmare Derpy Hooves walk in the door, her expression grim.
"I uh, need you to come down to Sugarcube Corner," she said, trying to keep her composure.
He started to question why but she cut him off.
"I can't ... I can't explain it... in words... you're just gonna have to see for yourself"
Author's Note
A character in this chapter stolen from Owlers fic Dysphoria, well really just the name.
another poorly written chapter... after like a month... Yeah... welp this is just for my own sake anyways... maybe one day I'll come back and fix it up.
Let's hope the next one comes quicker
The End pt. 3 "So throw on the black dress mix in with the lot"
When Rarity made it to the ER waiting room Twilight and Fluttershy were already there. Twilight must have teleported to get her here. the two were sitting next to each other in the chair closest to the door to the ER. Fluttershy and Twilight looked up at her, Twilights facing displaying grim determination while Fluttershy's was nervous.
Rarity took a seat next to Fluttershy and grabbed her hoof to comfort her. She knew Rainbow was her oldest friend.
"So what happened?" Rarity asked, looking at Twilight.
"We don't know yet," Twilight said.
"Your rainbow friend is in critical condition, we are trying to stabilize her. Her bodies pretty tore up." a voice came from behind twilight. Twilight turned her head from Rarity to the door beside her to find it open with Dr. Redheart standing peeking through. "And the other one has a broken leg, Right Hindquarters"
Fluttershy's grip on Rarity's hoof tightened as she heard this. Rarity gasped.
"where were they found?" Twilight asked.
"Here" Redheart answered. Seeing the princess' confused expression she clarified, "Applejack apparently galloped in with Rainbow on her back."
Twilights eyes widened in shock, "with... with a broken leg?"
"It seems that way" Redheart replied, "tho I still can't comprehend how that was possible... the pain alone should have... well it did, I was told the second Rainbow was taken off her back Applejack collapsed."
None of this helped the worry of poor Fluttershy, who was now crushing Rarity's hoof.
"Can we see them?" Twilight asked.
"Once we finish Splinting Applejack, we'll take her to a recovery room and you can visit... but she'll like still be unconscious," Redheart replied.
"And Rainbow?" Twilight pressed.
Redheart looked away from the princess and to the floor and said, "I don't know her injuries are... much more severe... we could be operating for quite a while"
"What are her injuries?" Twilight said her voice rising.
Redheart looked to the increasingly frightened Fluttershy before replying "I'd rather not say right now."
Twilight understood this and said, "ok don't say it here but let me go in and see for myself."
"Absolutely out of the question." Redheart sternly replied.
"And why not?" Twilight yelled, stepping towards Redheart.
"We do not have civilians sit in with operations," Redheart said stepping forward herself.
"Your princess is hardly a civilian," Twilight snapped, to the shock of both her friends in the room, The princess card is not a card Twilight liked to use. "And as your Princess, I order you to..."
"order me? Someone needs to read up on her equestrian law, as far as decisions in this hospital are concerned I outrank even your teacher." Redheart rebuked.
As a tear ran down her cheek, when did she start crying? she hadn't noticed, twilight backed off, embarrassed.
Redheart's face instantly shifted to one of compassion "I know you're angry and that you're scared for your friend, Its only natural. I deal with it all the time, I don't take any of it personally."
"Still I'm... I'm sorry" Twilight said, unable to meet her gaze, Twilight sat back down.
Redheart looked at all 3 and said, "I'll come get you when Applejack is ready to see."
Fluttershy just sat there holding on to rarity for support.
She then left the room leaving the 3 alone in silence.
And they all began to wonder where Pinkie was. Rarity also wondered what Derpy needed to tell them.
About 30 minutes later they heard the sound of a pony trotting.
This noise was followed by a gray pegasus crashing into the room... hitting a line of chairs in the center of the room.
Derpy was here.
Fluttershy got up to help Derpy back to her hooves. Which oddly took her mind off everything, just for a second.
"Thanks, Fluttershy," she said sheepishly.
"No problem"
Derpy took a step back to address all 3. She took a breath and exhaled.
"Ok now that you're all here, I need to tell you something,"
"wait," Rarity interrupted. "Pinkie's not here yet."
Derpy clenched her eyes shut and looked away. "Pinkie... pinkie's not coming."
Derpy knew she would have to clarify by the looks on their faces... but she didn't want to. if she said it, then it was true.
But it was true. And she had to say it.
"Pinkie Pie is Dead"
Author's Note
Welp another awful chapter. This story is my baby and I love it very much... it is a very bright kid. Unfortunately, for it, I am its parent and I am not capable of giving it the support it needs to grow and thrive properly.
The End part 4 "You might wake up and notice your someone your not"
After Derpy finished her explanation the princess and her 2 friends stared slack-jawed at her.
Rarity was the first to speak, "That's not funny derpy, don't joke about things like that, Pinkie would never..."
"What reason would she have to lie?" Twilight Interrupted Rarity.
"I... I don't... know." she said "But I do know its a lie. It has to be. It can't be true."
Derpy just watched patiently as the 2 bickered over her. She wasn't offended by rarity's disbelief. She wished Rarity were right.
"how-how many bodies?" A soft voice mumbled.
Everypony stopped and looked at Fluttershy who sat meekly between the quarreling mares. She hadn't moved the entire time Derpy told her tale.
"I don't know," derpy mumbled. "at least 20."
"Sooo..." Twilight began, realizing something "definitely more than 15?"
Derpy nodded as Twilight ran her hooves through her mane. "the disappearances" she mumbled.
"I already got the police there" Derpy informed.
"Thanks, Derpy, you did a good job today.
Twilight got up and walked towards the way derpy came in.
"Twilight where are you going?" rarity asked.
Twilight ignored her as she exited the room. Derpy answered for her. "she's going to the Sugarcube Corner, to see for herself"
"Then I'm coming too," Rarity said, lifting herself off her chair. Then she stopped and looked back at Fluttershy.
"I... I can't see... that," The yellow pegasus mumbled quietly, then, a little louder and more confidently, "I'm fine, don't worry about me, just go."
"Are you sure your alright" Rarity asked still unsure.
Fluttershy faked a small smile, "I'm telling you the truth, I'm ok, trust me."
"Ok," rarity conceded, tho not fully convinced, then she left the same way Twilight had, Leaving Derpy and Fluttershy alone.
"Hey, I can sit here with you if you need it." the walleye mare said. Taking a seat.
"No it's fine, but thanks, I wouldn't want to make Dinky wait any longer to go home," Fluttershy said, "I imagine this is long after her usual bedtime"
Both mares gave a quiet chuckle. "Alright if you're really ok"
"I am"
And with that Fluttershy was left completely alone. As soon as she no longer heard Derpy's hoof steps she started crying.
When Rarity arrived at Sugarcube Corner the building had already been blocked off with police tape. It's a good thing the Cakes were not here for this.
Rarity found Twilight talking to the Sheriff. He was an older stallion with a strong masculine mustache.
"Alright princess," the stallion gruffly stated, "You can have a look, but don't touch anything it is a crime scene"
"Thank you," Twilight said as she began to approach broken the entrance.
"WAIT" rarity screamed.
Both ponies looked at the interruption surprised.
"Rarity what are you...?" Twilight began.
"What," Rarity stopped to catch her breath, she had run a great deal, "What about... me"
The Sheriff just exhaled in annoyance and Twilight smirked at him and said, "well she did run all this way."
"Fine," the Sheriff exclaimed, "But let me warn you, It ain't pretty"
And with that, both mare's headed into the building as the Sheriff screamed, "Buckshot go with them, make sure they don't touch nothing."
Fluttershy's tears were interrupted by a young male voice, "Hey it's fine the doctors know what they are doing"
Fluttershy looked up to see Spike the baby dragon.
"Oh, hey Spike," Fluttershy said meekly.
Spike sat beside her in the seat Twilight had been in and held her hoof-like Rarity had.
"So where's twilight?, I thought she was getting you," Spike asked.
"She went to Sugarcube," Fluttershy said sadly.
"Ah to get Pinkie?" Spike asked. Fluttershy flinched when pinkie was mentioned but said nothing.
"Anyways sorry it took so long, I actually got here a while ago but Redheart wanted me to send a letter to Celestia."
"What does she need from the princess?" Fluttershy asked concerned.
"Well she uh," spike began sheepishly, "she needed to know if um... Celestia knew of any spell or any physician that could reattach a severed wing," Spike said looking down.
Fluttershy's eyes widened. Had Rainbow Dash... lost her wings?
Spike noticed this change. "Oh god did you not already know? Redheart said she talked to you."
Fluttershy closed her eyes tightly and simply asked, "Did she? Did the princess respond? Can she... do it"
Spike examined his legs as he said, "She said she did not know of any."
Rainbow Dash. No wings. how. Fluttershy felt sick. How could Pinkie, How could that monster? No Pinkie was her friend, she couldn't think that. Something had to have been done to her, she would never. Spike just held her hoof and let her cry. While it hurt to see her cry, he didn't want to stop her, he figured she needed it.
After a while, she had no more tears and just looked sadly forward.
Redheart entered the room to tell the 2 that Applejack was stable and sleeping in a recovery room. They said nothing and left to find it.
As Redheart began to walk to where Rainbow Dash was, she saw one of the surgeons run down the hall.
"Redheart, we managed to stabilize her..."
"Good so she's going to be fine?" Redheart asked.
"Um... her vitals are stable but... Redheart, She went into cardiac arrest again, we saved her but... She's in a coma."
Author's Note
Here is the first major diversion from A Precious Rainbow, RD is alive still... But she ain't waking up just yet.
The Sheriff has a Ron Swanson stash. It is the superior mustache.
anyways another awful chapter. A truly dreadful use of language Again I request any information on how to indent paragraphs here... Tab does not work.
I hope you enjoy but you probably didn't
Feel free to comment and everything. You can insult me and my shit writing all you like, I probably deserve it but don't be mean to anyone else. Not that That has been a problem...
The End pt 5 "If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see"
Twilight, Rarity, and Buckshot slowly stepped down into the basement. The smell of bleach was overwhelming. But not as overwhelming as the site. Even with Derpy's warnings, nothing could have prepared the Princess and her friend for this. The site of pony bodies taxidermied in the corner, skulls aligned on shelves, Innards strewn around the room like horrific party decorations. A blood drawn message on the wall reading "Life is a Party"
Most horrific of all was Pinkie, slumped in the corner on a broken table, wearing a suit that looked made of pony fur, no pony cutie marks, it also had several pegasus wings sewn on and a necklace of Unicorn horns.
Rarity felt like she was going to hurl, She distinctly remembered teaching Pinkie how to sew materials together at her request a month ago. Is this why she'd asked?
"Don't touch anything, This is a crime scene," The cop said redundantly as neither Rarity nor twilight had any plans to touch anything in this room.
"We aren't sure how many, Princess," The cop explained, "However if we assume every victim is in that dress, about 25 victims."
"Thank you," said twilight quietly. She looked like she was fighting to not cry.
There was a long silence as the three just took the horrors in. A silence broken by the cop.
"Princess, I don't blame you, and I doubt anyone who knew Pinkie and how she was will too," Buckshot began apprehensively, "However when this reaches press outside of Ponyville, Ponies that didn't know her, the fact that one of yours did all this, It's gonna be bad, ma'am"
"I know, I'll be ready," Twilight said resolutely.
'Are they really discussing her public image... now?' Rarity thought, a little annoyed, She looked back at pinkie's body and thought 'What happened to you, I'm so sorry I didn't notice, I should have seen something was wrong and gotten you help, something must have done this to you'.
Rarity noticed that Twilight and Buckshot were leaving the room, deep in conversation, and so she swiftly followed, not wanting to be left alone down in that place. And once again the Body of Pinkimina Diane Pie was left alone, in the dark and silence.
Once at the top Rarity saw the Chief walking over to Twilight, where they both sat down at one of the bakery's many vacant tables.
"Alright let's get this over with," The chief said gruffly, "Princess as a close friend of the suspect," The word suspect was clearly just a formality as it was clear guilt, "I need to ask you some questions,"
Twilight nodded and prepared herself.
"Now I understand if you need some time before we do this, this can't be easy to..."
"No!" twilight cut off sharply, "I am fine to do this now"
Rarity assumed her turn would be next as she watched, sitting down at the next table over.
"Now just understand these questions are not trying to trap you and you are not required to answer them if you choose not to, And please don't be offended, I'm not trying to trap you, I just need to cover all my basis." The Sheriff prefaced.
"I understand how this works sir," Twilight replied, Rarity did not know how she was staying so calm.
The sheriff nodded to Buckshot who got out a notepad to transcribe the questioning.
"Okay Princess, Were you aware of the killing performed by miss Pinkimina Diane Pie?" He asked.
"I had no idea this was happening," twilight answered.
"Did you notice anything odd with Pinkimina over the past few months? Anything out of the ordinary?"
"I mean Pinkies always been eccentric, So she has always done odd things, But nothing out of her ordinary, she seemed the same as ever," Twilight Answered again.
"So there was absolutely no signs of her becoming this monster?"
Rarity felt a rise of anger, "She wasn't a monster, obviously, something was done to her you must know that. She would never of her own accord do this. Some villain..." Rarity trailed off at the glare both the Sheriff and Twilight were giving her at her interruption.
Twilight spoke up sternly, "I'm sorry Rarity what was this that you know? Please show me the proof you gathered."
Rarity was taken aback, but she fired back, "We know that she was our friend and a good pony, We know that she was worthy of wielding the elements."
Twilight countered, "WE KNOW THAT 25 PONIES ARE DEAD, INCLUDING A LITTLE FILLY, why don't you go and find her parents and tell them about how innocent you think her killer is."
The Sherriff signaled to Buckshot to stop writing, this didn't need to be in the public record.
"Do you actually believe Pinkie would have done that? That she could have?" Rarity questioned.
"Well, we both just saw the bodies so I'm gonna go with a yes."
The two mares were inches apart, "What are you princess of again, Friendship right? way to live up to it." Rarity scolded.
"Alright say your right, say she was controlled or corrupted or anything else, What difference does it make?" Twilight said
"It makes a world of difference to her"
"SHE'S DEAD RARITY," Twilight screamed.
"I KNOW" rarity responded matching tone, then quieter, "But I don't want her remembered for this, she was a good pony, this shouldn't have to be her legacy."
"I'm sorry Rarity, Your probably right but... Mind control magic, it's cast on the soul, when a pony dies the soul is gone, there is no way to prove she was influenced, or disprove it." Twilight said honestly, "And which conclusion do you think the angry public is gonna take?"
Rarity just looked down, unable to provide the answer.
"This is going to shake Equestria's trust in the government, especially us, the elements, We who protected the nation from most threats. that one of us could do this... we just need to play this safe Rarity, I need to mitigate the damage, and I can't do that if I appear week, and if they think I'm delusional... that I'd refuse to accept the hard truth before me... I'm sorry Rarity but... She's dead ok, I need to protect the living"
Rarity still didn't like it but she couldn't think of anything to rebut in it. "I think I'll head back to the hospital, Officers sorry but I think I'm gonna need some time before questioning,"
"That's fine." The Sheriff said. Rarity left as Twilight sat back down, "now where were we."
Author's Note
The fifth chapter... yeah it sucks as much as the last 4 sorry.
I would really really still love an explanation on how to indent on this site, tho if I don't get one I guess this will just become a running joke with each chapter... which I guess is also fine.
God all this flowed so much better in my head. I hope at least one person enjoys this in the ether. please feel free to comment and like or dislike or whatever you want. Why can't it just jump out from my head into words exactly how I saw it?
I will be going back to change all references to "chief of police" in the last few chapters to "sheriff"
