The SCP Foundation: Field Agent Dash

The recently crowned Princess Twilight Sparkle was happy, ecstatic even.

After weeks of constant tweaking to make sure each part of the spell was correct, she had finished it. She had eagerly cast the spell, on what once was, a pile of the cut up pieces of an ID card and was now a fixed ID card. Said ID card was laying on one of library basements many lab tables.

Twilight grabbed out a brown notebook with her magic. This notebook was meant for one purpose and that was just for writing about the secret Rainbow Dash was hiding. It held all the clues she had found and all the theories she had wrote over the past two years. The notebook itself was in pristine condition untouched by dirt or grime. The inside however was a mess of writing, full of crossed out notes, various clues, drawings and things only Twilight could read.

Twilight had done many things over the two years since she started noticing the small things that made the rainbow pegasus different. It off small, timing coincidences, namely with the weather pegasi and how Rainbow almost never set hoof in the Ponyville headquarters but still did the required work.

Then Twilight noticed that Rainbow spent the most time of all her friends in the Everfree forest, more then Fluttershy who lived next to the forest. Sometimes the pegasus would even be in the dangerous forest for most of the day, not leaving till way past dark. On multiple occasions the, at the time, unicorn had heard a loud banging sound akin to an explosion come from the forest. Twilight had tried following Rainbow Dash in to the forest many different times, each time she got caught by the pegasus or lost her in the thick forest. A few times she had even woken up in the Everfree forest with Rainbow over her looking asking if she was alright.

But finally she had solid evidence. This ID card had to be her best work yet, she had put it back together using a complex spell after she had stolen the chipped up pieces from Rainbow without her knowing. That day had been nerve racking. She was getting flying lessons from Dash as her flying need practice, still did. Then they had stopped in Rainbow’s house for a break.

At some point the pegasus had left the room to go check on something. Twilight had spotted a paper bag labeled Dispose. Being curious she had peaked in the bag and found the aforementioned chipped up ID card. She quickly guessed the weight of all the chips, teleported back to the library with the chips and put them in a box. Then grabbed a mass of paper that weighed the same as the chips and replaced them. Rainbow had walked into the room moments later and took the bag to who knows where.

Looking back at her prize she took out a quill and ink pot and got to trying to decipher what was on the identification card.

“SCP Foundation. Must be the group Rainbow works for and going by the the words Secure, Contain, Protect matching the letters SCP, it must be an acronym.” Twilight bit her lip in thought then continued thinking aloud.

“So the Secure, Contain, Protect Foundation? But what could this group be possibly containing? They also aren’t doing much protecting going by Ponyville’s record of monster attacks.” In the back of Twilight's mind she noted that whenever a monster did attack Ponyville no pony died. Which she had always found strange but never really questioned as it was a good thing.

The roar of thunder shook the tree library. Twilight briefly worried that Spike might have been scared by the thunder considering how loud the sound was. But the alicorn remembered Spike was a dragon and he had slept through much worse. Honestly he would need the lightning to strike right next to him to wake in up, even then she wondered.

Getting back to deciphering the card Twilight continued talking to herself. “Senior Field Agent: Rainbow, HighLight?, Dash. She is a Senior which most likely means she’s been at this for a while. Field Agent most likely means she works on the ground or in the field and going by how secretive she is, Rainbow’s clearly undercover. So maybe a spy? No Rainbow’s too loyal for that, right?” The fact she was questioning Rainbow’s loyalty scared Twilight in a weird way.

“Wait if she’s undercover maybe she has a secret room in her house. That would explain why I never caught her doing anything suspicious and why her cloud house is so big and isolated from the rest of Ponyville. Hmmmm, screw it, I’ll search her house as soon as I can.” It was a necessary evil the alicorn reasoned. She had to get to the bottom of this.

“HighLight must be Rainbow Dash’s code name or something to that effect. Going by the parentheses at least.” After a second Twilight gained a small smirk. She had an idea, she was going to call Rainbow by her code name randomly. The alicorn hoped the pegasus’s reaction would give her a clue, a piece of information. Maybe she would react with shock and end up blowing her cover in the process.

Somewhere along the line of trying to figure out what the rainbow maned pegasus was up to Twilight had ended up developing something akin to a light crush for Rainbow, although Cadence may call it infatuation. For Twilight the mystery of Rainbow Dash as the most interesting and challenging puzzle she had ever undertaken. Every little piece of information she added to her notebook came with a rush of excitement and joy. That she was just a bit closer to the truth.

Like when she realized Rainbow’s morning fight practice took her over the entirety of Ponyville, every street, building and park. She was patrolling, sure her fight pattern looked random but she always covered all of Ponyville. Dash most likely did it to make her patrolling look a lot less obvious, even throwing in crashes and accidents for good measure.

Twilight had figured out other things too. The spot Rainbow napped during her self proclaimed morning and afternoon naps was almost always in line of sight of the street that led from the Schoolhouse to the Ponyville orphanage. But she only stayed there ‘napping’ while Scootaloo was on her way to or from school. Rainbow almost acted like a Silent Sentinel. At one point Twilight had theorized that Rainbow was Scootaloo’s mother. But quickly shot that idea down as Scootaloo is 13 and Rainbow is 24. Which would mean Rainbow had the filly at ten to eleven years old which was impossible.

However the ID card claimed her age was 27, a full three years older than Rainbow said she was. No wait Rainbow had her birthday three days ago but couldn’t be in Ponyville due to ‘Wonderbolt training’. They even had Pinkie’s early birthday party before Rainbow left. Maybe that’s why she was going to throw out the ID card, she was getting a new one. So Rainbow could possibly by a full four years older than the pegasus said she was.

“How deep does this rabbit hole go?” Twilight wondered aloud. If Rainbow was 28 years old that met all of Equestria’s documents about the cyan mare were wrong. Twilight, being a princess now, had secretly asked for all the documents about Rainbow Dash. All of them stated she was born on the date October 25 and the 980th year after banishment (AB). But if this card was correct she was born in the year 976.

This card also said Clearance Level 3 which was pretty self-explanatory. It was her access level, but what did Class C mean? The alicorn wrote that down in her notebook. She then read the next bit of text. “Cognitohazard/ Memetic Resistance level: Immune. What in the world is a Cognitohazard or Memetic?” Twilight immediately started looking in the books she had. After almost an hour of searching through book after book she found, nothing. Absolutely nothing.

In frustration Twilight flipped the card over and read the back “We die in the dark so others may live in the light. Huh” Then she spotted what appeared to be the faded runes of a spell at the bottom of the card. She charged the rune with her magic curious as to what secret it might reveal. As soon as the alicorn refueled the enchantment the spell activated.

Twilight let out a shriek.

The spell was attacking her mind. It was banging it’s way through her magic. Making the sound of a hammer hitting a solid object ring in her head as it did so. Twilight tried to cast a counterspell but the constant banging prevented her from being able to focus in any way. Twilight ended up collapsing to the floor with a thud while clutching her head in pain. She couldn’t think, the ringing hurt to much. If felt like her head was splitting open.

Then She felt the spell search through her memories, each one flashing in front of her eyes. Her being accepted as Princess Celestia’s personal student, tests she had taken throughout the years. Meeting her friends, Nightmare moon, Discord and more. Then it stopped at her coronation a few months ago and examined the memory in detail, like it was searching for a phrase or a specific moment in time. After almost a minute she felt the spell talk to her.

Equestrian, Alicorn ruling class, designation Class A. Memory Removed Function disarming due to Class A designation.

Princess Twilight Sparkle return this document to the nearest SCP Foundation personnel immediately.

This message will repeat.