The Pony Protection Agency

by SapphireRose87

Rating: mature
Tags: Adventure, Violence, Pinkie Pie, Sex, Twilight Sparkle, Profanity, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Death, Human, Romance, Original Character
Length: 67935

The Pony Protection Agency was founded to help ponies to live on Earth peacefully. However, there are rogue ponies that break the rules and need to be brought back to Equestria.

The Pony Protection Agency or The PPA for short was founded when a group of humans stumbled across a portal that linked Earth to Equestria. Seeing that there were ponies that wanted to live on Earth, The PPA made arrangements for this to happen. Just like if people immigrate to another country, there are rules set up for ponies to come live on Earth. However, there are ponies that break the rules and come over to Earth illegally. Agents that work for The PPA are sent to go after what is called a rogue pony aka a pony that breaks the rules and goes to Earth illegally. 

It's Agent Alex Shipman and Violet Client's job to go after rogue ponies and bring them back to Equestria. However, when they are sent to find an Element of Harmony bearer, Pinkie Pie that has broken the rules and went to Earth illegally, they find that she is a very tricky rogue pony to catch. Thankfully, they have help, Princess Luna the ruler of Equestria has sent Princess Twilight to go after Pinkie Pie. She must be brought back to Equestria at all costs and that's what Alex, Violet, and Princess Twilight are determined to do.

Note: Even though the description is told in third person viewpoint, the story itself is told in a first-person viewpoint.

Thank you to those helping me out on this story:

Listener- editor Chapter 1 through Chapter 23

darkbrony666- pre-reader Chapter 1 through Chapter 6

PacifisDoodl3r pre- reader Chapter 6 through Chapter 14

When the chapters for this story are released, you can check this blog to see how many more chapters are left to go on this story and there's another blog connected to that one so you can see the names for the upcoming chapters.

Published 2021-03-19 00:50:01 UTC
Last updated 2023-01-02 05:39:24 UTC

2) The Pink Infiltrator

{Pinkie Pie}

It was early in the morning when I heard a knock on the door. At first, I wanted to ignore it, but then I heard the familiar sound of my friend Bon Bon's voice. Since we were masquerading as human beings, we had cover names just like all the other ponies that would come over here from Equestria. However, I didn't come over in the legal way. I just wanted to come and see what Earth was like. But I didn't want to have to go through the hassle of filling out all of that stupid paperwork. So, I just came on over to Earth. I knew for a fact that the PPA would be sending agents after me because I came over here without filling out the paperwork to be here. I chose my own cover name as Roxy, and my friend Bon Bon's cover name is Sally.

"Roxy! It's Sally!" Bon Bon said, "I need to talk to you about something important. Are you in there?"

"Fine," I said, "I'm coming!"

Now, in order for us ponies to hide in plain sight among the humans, we have to wear a magic necklace that transforms us into humans. Unfortunately, that means we have to wear human clothing. I hate human clothing! But anyway, I grabbed my necklace and put it on so I could answer the door. I let Bon Bon into the apartment where I was staying for the time being. Once I let her in and closed the door, I took my magic necklace off and my human clothing disappeared when I did. Bon Bon did the same thing.

"I hate being turned into a human, don't you?" I growled.

Bon Bon completely overlooked my complaining, because she looked frantic. "I've just received word from our informant in the PPA that they've sent agents after you! And you'll never believe who they sent with them!"

"Who?" I asked.

"They sent Princess Twilight, who is under the codename, Terra." Bon Bon said.

I gasped, "Why would they send Twilight after me?"

"Well for starters, you're an element of harmony bearer, duh!" Bon Bon said.

I rolled my eyes, "Great, now what?"

"Don't know," said Bon Bon, "you might want to consider staying inside your apartment more?"

I looked down at the floor because I knew that might not be possible. "I don't know if I can, because I just found a place that's called a bar. Its name is the Watering Hole."

Bon Bon doubled over in laughter, "Oh Pinkie, do you really think that's a good place to go to at this time? Or are you that much of an alcoholic? I know what bars are and yeah I've been to one of them a couple of times."

"Well, it's just that there's so much to explore here than in Equestria!" I said.

"You really should think about returning so you won't be sitting in an Equestrian dungeon for the rest of your life," Bon Bon said.

I rolled my eyes to show my annoyance. "Yeah, that's not going to happen. Anyway, I'm out of here."

I grabbed my necklace and put it on.

"Where do you think you're going?" Bon Bon said.

"I'm going to the Watering Hole," I said, "You wanna come?"

Bon Bon groaned, "No thanks, I'm good. See ya around. Just don't get caught, okay?"

BonBon put her necklace back on and we parted ways as I went to go to the Watering Hole for some drinks.

* * *

{Alex}

As I looked through the file I had been given on Pinkie Pie, I could tell by the look on Princess Twilight's face that she was very anxious about going to go catch Pinkie Pie.

"So Alex," said Princess Twilight, "how do we go about catching my rule-breaking friend?"

"I don't know yet," I said. I looked through the file one more time and it said where Pinkie Pie's last location was. It was at a bar called the Watering Hole. It also said that it was possible that her other location was at an apartment on the outskirts of the town where the bar was. I looked at Princess Twilight to see that she was giving me funny looks.

I raised an eyebrow, "Why are you giving me that look, Terra?"

"Oh don't mind me," said Princess Twilight, "I'm just doing some research."

"Research on what?" I asked.

"Well you see, Alex," Princess Twilight explained, "I figured since the male part of the human race is so funny looking and different from the female part of the human race, that it's worth observing you in your natural habitat."

I looked over to see Violet was busy stifling a laugh and I knew she put Princess Twilight up to this. I glared at Violet to show my annoyance. I narrowed my eyes at Violet after I glared at her. "What did you say to Terra, Violet?"

"I didn't tell her anything!" Violet said defensively.

"Uh-huh, yeah, well the papers say that Pinkie Pie's last location was at a bar called the Watering Hole," I said.

Princess Twilight tilted her head, "The Watering Hole? That's a bar?"

I nodded, "Yeah."

Princess Twilight giggled, "Well I guess that makes sense, Pinkie Pie is also an alcoholic. Applejack sells a drink called Apple Cider in the Fall season. It's an alcoholic beverage. We have a nonalcoholic version of it for kids."

I bit my tongue to keep myself from laughing at the fact that a famous party planner in Equestria would also be an alcoholic. Princess Twilight smiled, "Yes, yes I know. But to tell the truth, nopony can figure out that nut, Pinkie Pie. I mean, ponies have actually had heart attacks trying to figure her out."

I felt my laughter was going to come out at full speed, so I excused myself so I could get out of the earshot of Princess Twilight and Violet. When I came back, Violet rolled her eyes. "Seriously Alex, you know you can laugh in front of people right?"

I ignored Violet and she continued, "Anyway, let's go get our vehicles."

"Uh, vehicles?" Princess Twilight asked.

"It's individual transportation for people so they can get from place to place easier," Violet explained.

I was curious to see how Princess Twilight would react to seeing our vehicles for the first time. We went to the hanger where the vehicles were at. There was a young man at the desk named Eric, he preferred to go by his nickname, Monkey. It's a long story on how he got it.

"Hey Monkey," I said, "How's it going?"

Eric smiled, "Oh nothing much, just working on updating the vehicles to suit the PPA's needs."

"Okay, what do you have for us today?" I said.

Before Eric went to the vault to get our vehicles, he paused when he spotted Princess Twilight in human form standing next to us. I looked at Princess Twilight to see she was clearly uncomfortable with the look Eric was giving her. "Now who is this pretty lady? Let me guess, another girlfriend for Alex over here?"

I groaned, "You know I already have a girlfriend, and I don't do that type of stuff Monkey! Since you want to know so badly, this is Terra. She'll be helping us capture the pony we're after this time."

Eric started looking at Princess Twilight like he was examining her or something. "I know that type of look when I see it. You're a pony in disguise, aren't you Terra?"

"That's none of your business!" Princess Twilight snapped.

Eric smirked, "Okay fine, I don't want to know who you are anyway. Unless we're dating. It's a custom for those that aren't on the assignment with you to not know who you actually are."

Eric went into the vault and pulled out two boxes with the names Agent Shipman and Agent Client on them. "Here you go, one standard flyer for Alex, and one standard motor for Violet."

Princess Twilight looked at the boxes, "These are your vehicles? Interesting."

"There's more to this Terra," Violet laughed.

"Oh," Princess Twilight responded.

Violet and I put our boxes on the ground and pressed the red button on them. As soon as we did that, the boxes unfolded themselves. What came out of mine was a motorcycle that had wings on it. What came out of Violet's box was a regular motorcycle. Both of our motorcycles had an extra back seat to carry a passenger with us if need be.

"Man, I wish I had a notebook and quill!" Princess Twilight said. She was clearly excited about what she was seeing.

"Why?" I asked.

"Because that's what I use to write down my findings in my observations, duh!" Princess Twilight said.

I couldn't help but think of how cute Princess Twilight's reaction was to our vehicles.

"Well, I guess I'll just have to make mental notes in my head," Princess Twilight said.

Eric looked at me and pointed at Princess Twilight, "She's an interesting one isn't she?"

"Yeah, you know it's not nice to point at someone Monkey," I snapped, "She's not an animal in the zoo."

Princess Twilight tilted her head at Eric, "Um, why do you go by Monkey? You sure don't look like a Monkey."

Eric snorted. "Yeah, I know. Uh, it's a long story."

"Oh, okay," Princess Twilight said.

"So, Terra," I said, "which motorcycle do you want to ride?"

Princess Twilight looked back and forth between mine and Violet's bike. I had a feeling she might want to ride on mine even though she doesn't know mine can fly yet. She pointed at my motorcycle, "Yours has wings on it, Alex, does it fly?"

"Yeah it does," I said, " and I can make it invisible so no one can see it."

"Cool!" Princess Twilight said, with excitement, "Although I know what it's like to fly, I've never ridden on something like that before! So I would like to ride on yours, Alex. If that's okay with Violet."

Violet chuckled, "You don't have to ask for permission on which bike you can ride on Terra. It's fine."

Great, of course, Princess Twilight wants to ride on my motorcycle. I thought.

Violet looked at me and started laughing. I would've told her to stop laughing, but that would just make her laugh even harder. I motioned for Princess Twilight to hop on the backseat of my bike and I got on the driver's seat.

"Make sure you hang on to me so you don't fall off, okay?" I said.

"Sure thing!" Princess Twilight responded.

With that, we left to go start our assignment to catch Pinkie Pie.

* * *

On the way to the Watering Hole, I decided to make a pit stop at a place called 'The Eye', and no it's not an eye doctor's office. It's actually a shop where a Psychic works who can predict the future and sells various other things. I decided to stop there, not because I want her to see the future for me, but because her visions can provide a roadmap to point us in the direction of where Pinkie Pie actually is.

As soon as I landed my bike on the ground in the parking lot, I put the wings on it and turned off invisible mode. Violet pulled up behind me moments later. I loved Princess Twilight's reaction to riding on a motorcycle that could actually fly.

"That was so cool!" Princess Twilight cheered, "Being able to fly without your wings is awesome!"

Princess Twilight paused when she saw where we landed with a puzzled look on her face. We didn't even have to knock on the door when the seer opened it up for us.

"You saw us coming didn't you?" I asked.

The Seer rolled her eyes, "Well duh! It's so nice to see you again."

The Seer looked at Princess Twilight and smiled. "Do you remember meeting me over two hundred and fifty years ago?"

Princess Twilight shook her head, "No, I would've been a filly back then. I don't remember you. Do you know who I am?"

The Seer nodded, "I remember you, you're the one I saw becoming an Alicorn in the future when you were younger. Princess Celestia was the one that brought you to me to see your future. So tell me, are you Princess Twilight?"

Princess Twilight's jaw dropped and she nodded. The Seer laughed as Princess Twilight looked at her in shock.

"Now, I know you're here for me to help you track down Pinkie Pie. But I do believe that Alex here has the tools necessary for that also," The Seer said casually.

This statement startled me, "Excuse… Me?"

The Seer smiled, "Uh-huh, you Alex, are a new upcoming seer. Trust me, I saw it with the last vision I had, so I figured I'd let you know Alex."

"Now that's a load of shit!" I exclaimed.

"A load of shit, huh?" The Seer said. "Have you had any dreams, that when you wake up they come true in a day or two?"

I searched my memory and I remembered having a dream about meeting Princess Luna a day before Violet and I met her. I didn't think anything of it at first. Then the dream came true. My eyes went wide in terror and I guess the look on my face said it all because the Seer started laughing at me.

"I don't see anything funny about this Ms. Seer!" I snapped.

"Oh yeah, it's hilarious actually," the Seer said, "because you know it's true, don't you? I'm getting ready to be two hundred and ninety years old soon. I only have ten more years left in this life. So the torch needs to be passed on. It looks like it's going to be passed on to you."

My jaw dropped, "Why me?"

The Seer shrugged, "I don't know. Alex, that's just the way things are. The Seer before me told me what I was going to become. Just like I'm telling you what you will become."

"Wow, Alex," said Violet, "no wonder why people are attracted to you! Not only are you handsome, but you're also pretty talented too. You're all that and a bag of chips, huh Alex?"

I glared at Violet, "Don't go getting any ideas on who to set me up with. I already have a girlfriend. Thank you very much."

Violet rolled her eyes, "I still have no idea why you're with that witch."

The Seer chuckled, "Speaking of that, I did see something in your future happen between you and Princess Twilight, Alex."

I didn't want to know what she saw in my future, so I didn't say a word. The Seer said, "Pinkie Pie's at the Watering Hole ten miles away from here. Alex, you'll be able to recognize the signs because I know you've already had a vision about it. I saw it in your future, duh!"

"Ah, okay?" I said. Once again, I searched my memory and the seer was absolutely right. I knew what the Watering Hole looked like and where it was.

"Judging by the look on your face, you know what I'm talking about don't you?" The Seer said.

I nodded, "I do, I hate to say this, but you're right."

"Well, since Alex is the new seer now, there's nothing I need to do here," The Seer said, "So long you guys, this is goodbye."

Violet, Princess Twilight, and I said our goodbyes and headed to go catch Pinkie Pie.

3) Power Surge

{Alex}

Just like the seer said, I knew exactly where to go. The first street was Martin Ave. I confirmed that we were on the right track by giving Violet hand signals. Right before we got to the next street I was blinded by a bright flash of light, but it only lasted for a second. I signaled for Violet to pull over once I regained my vision. Once we pulled over, I got off my bike and helped Princess Twilight get off next.

I heard Violet's voice but it sounded muffled because my ears were ringing. "Are you okay Alex?"

The next vision I saw came in a series of images and I couldn't see anything else. From what I could tell, it signaled that Pinkie Pie was no longer at the Watering Hole. I was starting to feel dizzy as I kept seeing the images go through my mind. The last image I saw was Pinkie Pie was at some sort of business in an office. There was a sign on the door that said: AE Corp. This was the last image I saw before everything went dark.

* * *

When the world started to slowly come back into focus, I heard Princess Twilight and Violet talking and from the sound of it, they were very worried. I don't blame them, considering I passed out before we even got to our destination.

"He's been out for a while. What happened to him?" Princess Twilight asked.

"I don't know," said Violet, "it happened shortly after we started traveling. I'm wondering if maybe he had a vision? You know, because he is a new seer now."

I tried to sit up, but the room started to spin, so I laid back down. I heard Princess Twilight say, "Hey look, he's awake!"

The sound of people speaking started to hurt my ears. Not because I didn't like the sound of it or anything. The sound of Violet's voice hurt my ears too. "Ow! Could you guys lower the volume?"

Violet sounded confused, "Alex, we're talking like normal, what's wrong?"

"Hmmm, I think I can help." Princess Twilight said.

Princess Twilight touched a finger to my forehead. I felt a small surge of power go through and instantly my ears stopped hurting and I was able to sit up. I opened my eyes and looked around to see that we were in some sort of hotel room. I looked over to see that sitting on a nearby chair was my jacket folded up neatly, and my shoes were sitting on top of it. My vehicle was folded into a box and sitting on top of my jacket next to my shoes.

I blinked, "What did you just do princess?"

"I did a spell that I've been working on for years now," Princess Twilight answered, "I worked with doctors at the hospitals to perfect it. It helps heal pain and it helps a patient recover faster. The only problem is that I think it could be tweaked some more because it only seems to work for minor injuries."

"Oh," I said.

"So what happened?" Violet asked.

I sighed, "I had a vision, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Pinkie Pie's not at the Watering Hole anymore."

"Where is she?" Princess Twilight asked.

"It's a place called AE Corp. I don't know about you but I say we'd better head out and catch her before I have another vision!" I suggested.

Violet and Princess Twilight nodded and I put my shoes and jacket on. We headed to AE Corp. When we got there, Violet and I folded up our vehicles and went inside. I saw Violet biting her tongue to stop herself from laughing at Princess Twilight looking around the building and I could tell she wanted to examine everything. I found her reaction cute. Wow, she's like a child right now. She is new to Earth, so yeah, I don't blame her for wanting to look around.

"Uh, Terra?" I said, "Try not to examine everything. This is a business, and we're here to find Pinkie Pie, got it?"

I smiled at seeing Princess Twilight's reaction to what I said as she was holding herself back from doing what she wanted to. Violet came up beside me and nudged me on the shoulder, "What?"

"I know you have a hard time laughing in front of people. But I saw that smile Alex," teased Violet, "You like her, don't you?"

"Yeah, no," I said quickly, "as I said before, I already have a girlfriend."

Violet snorted, "Uh-huh, whatever you say, Alex. So what section is Pinkie Pie in?"

I remembered In one of the images I saw, there was a sign on a door and it said: HR Roxy Supero, visits by appointments only.

Another one of the images that I saw before I passed out was Pinkie Pie in the form of Roxy coming down the elevators on the right side of the building. I pointed to the elevators, "She'll be coming down the stairs next to the elevators. She'll be coming really soon. Violet, have your badge out and I'll have mine out too, okay?"

Violet nodded. I looked over at the elevators and right on cue, Pinkie Pie came running down the stairs. She was about to make a beeline for the exit when we stopped her.

"Pinkie Pie!" Princess Twilight growled, "You're coming back to Equestria with us right now! How dare you come here without permission!"

Pinkie Pie paused and smirked when she saw Princess Twilight. "Twilight? Is that you? Because you sound just like her, whoever you are."

"Well duh!" Princess Twilight said, "Who else would they send after you?"

Pinkie Pie rolled her eyes, "What makes you think I'm going back to Equestria willingly?"

"Well you should because you're an element of harmony bearer," Princess Twilight scolded.

Pinkie Pie gave an evil snort, "Yeah, no."

I remembered this part of the vision was when a flash of light happened.

Oh fuck! I thought. I made a hand signal for Violet to pull out her sunglasses and her stunner gun. I did the same thing. The stunner guns we have are a non-lethal way to bring rogue ponies back to HQ so the PPA can send them back to Equestria. The bullets inside the stunner gun have the same effect as a taser would but the voltage is a lot higher because ponies can resist the shock of a normal taser. If needed we can turn the magazine around, the bullets in it turn into regular bullets. We can only use the regular bullets if it's necessary.

After I signaled Violet to pull out her sunglasses and stunner gun and she did. Princess Twilight looked at us, "What's going on?"

"Stay behind me," Violet cautioned.

Princess Twilight nodded and did as she was told.

"Well then," I said, "it looks like we'll just have to take you back by force!"

Pinkie Pie gave me an evil smirk, "Oh really?"

"Yeah! Really!" I snapped.

Pinkie Pie rolled her eyes, "Wow, you agents of the PPA are so dumb!"

Violet and I fired our stunner bullets at her. The bullets didn't harm her at all. They bounced off her as if they hit a wall. Pinkie Pie grinned, "Did you really think it was going to be that easy?"

"How did you-" I asked.

Pinkie Pie rolled her eyes again, "I updated my magic necklace to include a shield on it. So, if you'll excuse me, I'll be taking my leave now."

Pinkie Pie touched the pendant on her necklace, and with a flash of light, she disappeared.

* * *

"Great!" Princess Twilight said after she stepped out from behind Violet, "She got away! Pinkie you rule breaker!"

"Nice, real nice," I growled, "I didn't see that part happening. I just saw a flash of light and that was it. Well, shit!"

Violet smiled after she put her sunglasses and stunner gun away, "It's okay Alex, I'm pretty sure there are loopholes in vision, especially since you're a new seer and all."

I rolled my eyes, "Gee, thanks for the encouragement, but these stupid visions don't make it any easier. I think-"

I stopped myself from what I was getting ready to say next because I realized something. I've actually been having these visions for as long as I can remember. As a matter of fact, I had a vision the day before I followed that rogue pony and landed a job as an agent at PPA. I also had a vision about me and Violet meeting Princess Luna a couple of nights before it happened.

Violet raised an eyebrow, "What's wrong, because you look shocked Alex."

I let out a slow breath, "I just realized something."

"What?" Violet asked.

"I've been having these visions for as long as I can remember. I don't think I'm a new seer," I responded, "I think I was always a seer and I didn't know it!"

"What!" Violet and Princess Twilight gasped.

"What I want to know is, why did the last vision I had hit me harder than the ones I've had before?" I asked. At this point, I felt nothing but confusion.

Princess Twilight looked like she was thinking about something. Then she looked like she remembered something. "I'm not exactly sure why this happened. But I know of someone that can help, he specializes in power surges."

I titled my head, "Huh?"

"Yup, power surges," Princess Twilight explained, "I think that might be what happened to you. The guy's name that I'm talking about is Discord. He's the spirit of chaos and disharmony. He used to be a bad guy, but don't worry, he's a good guy now."

I paused, "O...Kay. Exactly how can Discord help?".

"Well, he can see the future as you can. If you had a power surge as I suspect you did, he can give some pointers on how to control it," Princess Twilight said.

"But we can't go back to Equestria without authorization! How can I-" I panicked.

Princess Twilight rolled her eyes, "I'm a princess, a member of the royal family. I'm pretty sure Princess Luna won't mind if you come back to Equestria with me. It's because we're friends now!"

I paused. "Exactly how are we friends when we just met?"

"Well, we're considered co-workers now right? So I consider any ally of mine to be a friend," Princess Twilight said, "I am the Princess of Friendship, so since you're an ally of mine you're my friend. Unless you give me a reason not to consider you my friend, you're my friend, it's as simple as that."

"Aww, isn't that nice Alex," Violet teased, "you're her friend now. Keep turning on the charm and she'll just want to ride more than your bike!"

"Seriously Violet?" I snapped, "Sex jokes and at a time like this? In case you didn't notice we're on an assignment here!"

Princess Twilight paused and tilted her head, "Uh, sex jokes?"

Violet smirked, "What do you know about mating rituals in Equestria?"

"Oh yes, I've heard stories about that in Equestria. I-" Princess Twilight stopped herself from saying whatever she was going to say. Her face turned red after she realized what Violet was talking about.

"Good job Violet!" I growled, "You just had to embarrass the girl. As I just said, we're on an assignment, we don't have time for this!"

Violet didn't say a word, just standing there as she rolled her eyes.

"Well, it looks like we're headed back to HQ," I said.

* * *

When we got back to HQ, Princess Twilight stepped through the portal without us at first and I'm going to assume that Princess Luna gave us the authorization to come through the portal again without bringing the rogue pony with us.

Violet and I were given the badges that turn us into ponies. We used them and turned into ponies and stepped through the portal with Princess Twilight. Once Princess Luna saw us, she seemed puzzled, "So why did Princess Twilight want me to have you two back so early?"

Before I could say anything, Princess Twilight spoke for me, "Well you see Princess Luna, Alex has become on Earth what's called a 'seer.'"

Princess Luna blinked, "A seer?"

"Um, yes it's someone that can see the future as Discord can," Princess Twilight said, "Alex here had a real doozy of a vision that hit him pretty hard. He passed out because of it. It didn't happen until we went to a place called 'The Eye' and the seer that worked told him that he was a new seer."

For some reason, Princess Luna's jaw dropped, "Wait… Did you say 'The Eye'? If it's who I think it is, that's the same woman who predicted you would become an Alicorn Twilight!"

Princess Twilight tilted her head, "Okay, what's the big deal?"

"The big deal is when something like that gets predicted by an actual legit seer, then it's a very important event!" Princess Luna exclaimed, "Now the seer predicted that Alex is a new seer?"

Princess Twilight nodded, "Yup."

"Actually I don't think I'm a new seer, " I said.

Princess Luna raised an eyebrow, "Oh? How so?"

"Well, I've been having visions for as long as I can remember, " I explained, "For some reason when the seer at 'The Eye' told me I was a seer, that's when the vision I had after that hit me like a ton of bricks."

"That's why I asked you to summon Discord for me, Princess Luna," Princess Twilight said.

"Well, well, well, so we finally meet, Alex?" I heard a voice say. I turned around to see what looked like a creature that was made up of all sorts of animal parts. I wanted to say 'it's alive' because he reminded me of Frankenstein.

"I'mDiscord," The creature said.

"Okay," I said, "Hi, I would say my name but you already know it."

Discord chuckled, "Yes, and I know you're actually a human in pony form! Don't worry, you won't have to stay in pony form for long. You can change back to human once we get to the cottage. I saw in my latest vision that you have a little problem with a power surge."

Princess Twilight smiled, "You know something? I say this very rarely, but boy am I glad to see you!"

Discord rolled his eyes, "Yeah, yeah, anyway, come along with me you three."

When we got to the cottage, Discord opened the door and we were greeted by a pony with yellow fur and light pink hair. Her cutie mark was that of three butterflies. When she saw Discord, she gave him a peck on the cheek.

"HiFluttershy," Discord said, giving the pony a peck on the cheek.

Fluttershy saw us and smiled, "Are these the humans in pony form that you told me were coming today?"

Discord nodded, "Yup!"

He pointed to me, "This is Alex," he then pointed to Violet, "and this is Violet."

Discord turned to me, "It's okay guys, you two can turn back into humans now."

Violet and I nodded and did as we were told. Fluttershy saw us and she beamed with excitement. "Wow! I've never seen a human before! I mean, I've heard so much about them, I never thought I'd actually meet one of them."

Princess Twilight chuckled, "Yeah I know, they're kind of funny looking too. Especially Alex over here."

"Hey!" I said.

"The reason why I brought them here dear Fluttershy," said Discord, "is Alex is a seer like I am! He had a little power surge before he came to see me."

Fluttershy tilted her head and looked like she was examining me just like Princess Twilight did when we first met. Seriously? Does every pony have to do that when I meet them?

"Oh, uh sorry Alex," said Fluttershy, "I was trying to confirm it and you did have a power surge and as I just said, I've never seen a human before."

Discord groaned, "That's just like you Fluttershy, always wanting to confirm things for yourself. Okay Alex and Violet, come over here and sit down on the couch."

Discordsnapped his claw and pulled a couch out of thin air. Violet and I looked at Discord in awe when he did that.

He smiled, "Yes I know, I'm awesome, aren't I?"

He snapped his claw again and this time he pulled a chair out of thin air. He gripped me in his magic and made me sit down, he snapped his claw and pulled a rope out of thin air, and tied me to the chair with it.

"Okay, why did you feel the need to tie me to the chair?" I asked.

"You see Alex, this process is going to be very uncomfortable," explained Discord, "it's necessary for me to see how much your powers have grown. It's going to take a few minutes to do this."

Discord wasn't kidding about the process being uncomfortable because he was staring at me in the eye. There was a blinding flash of light and I kept hearing Discord say, "I see… I see…"

After Discord finished with whatever he did, the flash of light subsided and I opened my eyes. It gave me a splitting headache and the room started to spin.

"I know this whole process takes a lot out of you. I know because my father did it to me all the time growing up," Discord said. It seemed like his voice was off in the distance because of the world spinning, "Your powers are starting to grow alright, although they seem to be growing at a steady pace. Once you gain control of your powers, you'll be able to see your visions more clearly. However, there is a loophole in the visions."

I groaned because of the pain, "What might that be?"

"For starters, you can't see past the end of them," Discord said, "And sometimes, the vision might change course and that can hit pretty hard because it happens in the blink of an eye."

"Is that why I had the power surge?" I groaned.

"Yup!You'll have to stay here for a couple of days so you can recover," Discord said. "Violet, would you like to stay here with Alex instead of going back to the PPA?"

"Sure, I don't mind staying here at all," Violet answered.

"And my dear Twilight, I'm assuming you have work to do at the castle?" Discord asked.

Princess Twilight replied, "Nope. It's because I'm working on tracking that rule breaker Pinkie Pie for going over to Earth without permission. It's ponies like her that make us look bad! I'm staying right here until Alex is nursed back to health!"

I heard Violet snort, "Aww that's so cute Alex! You have a protector now! Yup, pretty soon she's-"

"Don't even finish that sentence, Violet!" I snapped.

I didn't say another word because of the pain. I couldn't do much either, eventually, it was lights out for the moment.

4) Helping Alex Recover

{Hugo}

I'm a god named Hugo, and Alex has no idea that he's one of my half-children, meaning he's half god and half human. I've made sure to stay out of the picture ever since he was born. It's not that I didn't want to stick around, I just couldn't. Let's just say it's complicated. Anyway, I rule over a place called the Underground, it's more of a combined afterlife along with my brother Bear's realm for the Earth.

Unfortunately, my older brother Zane would love to have people believe that I could care less about Earth, or humans for that matter. This is far from the truth! I want to share my talents and abilities with humans more than anything. Zane is the one that could care less about Earth or humans.

Every so often, I go outside of the Underground to date various women and they would agree to bear my children. A tell-tale sign that someone is my half-child is if they can have the ability to see the future. Of course, some people can claim to see the future, but they can't and they rip people off with this false claim.

One advantage of being a half child is that you can live up to three hundred years old. The half child that I am most proud of is Alex. The thing that does baffle me is that his sister, who is a half child, waited until now to tell Alex he was a seer. I don't know what her reasoning was on that one.

I have also seen the important events that are coming up in Alex's life in just a matter of weeks. One of the events has already come true, he meet an Alicorn Princess named Princess Twilight. Three more important events in his life are coming up soon. One of them involves Alex and Princess Twilight, I can't say much of what event that is.

Sometimes I love to sit in my chambers on my days off and open up a portal so I could watch Alex and see how he was doing. I love to smoke a cigar when I'm doing this. There was a knock on the door. I used my magic to open up the door because I really didn't feel like getting up and manually opening it at the moment. I smiled when I looked to see it was one of my Royal Advisors, Jason. I put out the cigar knowing that the smoke would bother Jason. It didn't help much because I put it out at the last second. Jason started to cough because of the smoke. For some reason, it was always amusing to me when Jason coughed because of the cigar smoke. So I would let him for a little bit before I would offer him a drink of water.

I did just that letting him cough for a little bit. "Well, now Jason, what's the word on the street?"

Jason coughed, "Word on the street? Don't you mean- the word around the Underground?"

I laughed, "Sorry about the smoke Jason. I was just watching my favorite half-child, Alex."

"I know you like to," Jason coughed in between his words, "do that your highness, on your days off, so how is he, doing?"

I finally decided to end Jason's torture. "Would you like a glass of water?"

I got up and got a glass of water for Jason. It's too bad I can't give that same torture to my older brother Zane. I handed Jason the glass of water. He took a couple of sips from it. I chuckled, "Now you should be able to talk. Alex is doing fine. But his powers did increase after another half-child of mine told him that he was a seer. I'm not sure why that happened. I guess it was going to happen sooner or later. He passed out when his powers spiked. Alex doesn't know it yet, but he's the most gifted seer ever! That's why he's my favorite half-child!"

Jason paused at that. I'm going to assume that he remembered when I told him about Alex being able to see the future when he was six months old. "Isn't Alex the half-child that has had visions ever since he was a baby?"

I nodded, "Yup, ever since he was six months old! I doubt he remembers that far back of course. Now I sent my cousin Discord to give Alex his exploding star crystal, that should help him control his powers better."

"Uh, exploding star crystal?" Jason asked.

"Yup, it's a crystal that looks like it's being blown up from the inside out," I said, "It helps half children like Alex confirm their visions and helps alert them if the vision changes."

"Huh, interesting," Jason said, "So are you going to bring him here so you can meet him?"

I stared thoughtfully up at the ceiling, "I'm not sure yet. Alex is just now learning how to control his powers. I might just wait until he gets together with Princess Twilight. He's already met her and I think it's funny that she already considers him a friend. Isn't that cute?"

Jason laughed, "Yup, that's cute. They'll make a good couple."

At that moment I had a vision of my brother Zane, who would be popping up any second now. I rolled my eyes and groaned, "Speaking of meeting someone, Zane should be popping up here, right about… now."

I pointed at the doorway and rolled my eyes when I saw Zane standing in the doorway dressed like some badass motorcycle rider. Zane took his sunglasses off and undid the rubber band that tied up his beard. He took off his bandana and put them in his coat pocket. I often wondered if anyone could see right through the stupid front he always put on. Jason gave me a quick bow and left.

As soon as Jason left, Zane smiled at me, "Hugo! My man! How's it going?"

"And what might be the reason for your unannounced visit this time?" I growled back at him.

"Oh come on Hugo," said Zane, "Can't a guy spend time with his younger brother?"

"The only time you come to visit is when Bear keeps his realm locked when he's inside to keep you out!" I snapped, "It's fortunate that I can see the future so that I can see you coming."

"I'm still jealous you can do that. I wonder why me and Bear didn't inherit that ability?" Zane asked.

"I'm surprised because you're the one with the most power out of the three of us," I said.

"Aww, thank you for the compliment," said Zane, "so, what are you up to today?"

I rolled my eyes because I knew what Zane was after, "I was trying to enjoy my day off with a nice cigar and watching my half son Alex!"

I pointed at the ashtray that I had put my cigar out in when Jason came and the portal I had opened so I could watch Alex.

Zane smiled, "Well, he's just sleeping right now, and he looks absolutely adorable!"

I went over and picked up my cigar and lit it again. I decided to take the opportunity to get on Zane's nerves just as he gets on mine. I closed the portal that I was using to watch Alex and got right up in Zane's face and the first puff I took I let it out in his face. Zane waved away the smoke and looked annoyed by this. It's good that he's annoyed because he's annoying me.

I kept blowing puffs of smoke in his face which made him even more annoyed. That worked for me.

"Isn't that bad for your health?" Zane growled.

I rolled my eyes, "As if you really care about that. FYI, I'm a god, I'm immortal, and I can't be killed by something as stupid as cigar smoke. What do you really want from me, Zane? No wait, let me guess, you want to crash on my couch again, right?"

Zane nodded.

"Fine then, just don't sit on my chair, that spot is off-limits," I said, "and it's just for one night and then you get lost. Got it?"

Zane rolled his eyes, "Yes, I got it."

"Now since you've interrupted my day off, I have to go do something that's called my job. You know, ruling over the Underground, the job which you bestowed upon me because you didn't want the responsibility!"

"Hey! We drew straws on that!" Zane snapped.

I grit my teeth, "If I recall correctly, I won that. Since you don't want to work, I still got the job anyway. Now, you're just a lazy one million-year-old man that still lives with his mom and dad! Bear and I seem to be the only ones that can fend for ourselves."

Zane sighed and the guilt on his face told me that he knew I was right. I didn't want to hear whatever else he had to say, so I stormed off after slamming the door in his face. I can't get any peace and quiet around here on my days off, can I?

* * *

{Alex}

When I finally woke up the next day, I rolled over to see Princess Twilight in her pony form, sleeping curled up like a cat. I couldn't help but think how cute and innocent she was asleep.

God, she's cute,I thought. I shook my head trying to get rid of that type of thought. It's just that ever since I met her I couldn't get over how cute and innocent she looks and acts. No, I can't be thinking this right now. I have a girlfriend and a job to do.

I kept trying as hard as I could to get that thought out of my head, but for some reason, I couldn't. She's adorable sleeping soundly like that. I didn't notice Fluttershy was there with a tray that had a cup of tea on it until she put it down on the nightstand next to my bed. I got startled when she did that. I almost fell off the bed but caught myself before I did.

Fluttershy looked at me and then at Princess Twilight and giggled, "Sorry Alex, but I didn't realize Twilight was asleep, and it's about time too. She was up all night worried sick about you."

I raised an eyebrow, "Why would she be worried about me? We only met two days ago."

"Oh Alex, that's just how Twilight is," Fluttershy said, "She considers everyone a friend until you show her you're an enemy. She's the Princess of Friendship, so yeah."

I paused, puzzled by this, "The Princess of Friendship?"

Fluttershy nodded, "Every princess in Equestria has a separate title added to their name. The elements of harmony are all based on different aspects of friendship and Twilight's element is the most powerful, Magic. That means she's the glue that holds a friendship together."

"Oh, I see," I said.

Fluttershy smiled and continued, "Twilight's element of magic is the strongest element of harmony at the moment. It was because she figured out the spark of friendship that Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, me, and of course Twilight became friends."

"But when Princess Celestia opened up a portal to Earth everything changed. I don't have anything against humans because now ponies can go to earth and live there. It's actually helped keep the population down in Equestria. You see Alex, there have been way too many ponies being born lately, so Equestria's becoming a little bit overpopulated. I'm thankful that there's rules for ponies to come to Earth peacefully. It's ponies that break the rules like Pinkie, that make us look bad!"

As I listened to Fluttershy speak, I couldn't keep my eyes off of Princess Twilight sleeping for some reason. Fluttershy stopped speaking and giggled, "You think she's cute sleeping, don't you?"

I looked away. Fluttershy seemed to find my reaction funny. "Don't worry Alex, you're not the first human to think Twilight's cute. There have been many humans before that have tried to date her, but she's too busy reading her books to notice. It wouldn't surprise me if she just goes back to reading her books after you guys catch Pinkie. However, she seems to have taken a liking to you. I agree with Violet on that."

"It's not like I have feelings for her or anything!" I blurted out.

I looked over to see Princess Twilight open her eyes, "You know it's not nice to talk about somepony when they're right in front of you."

"Twilight, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were awake," Fluttershy said.

Princess Twilight smiled, "It's okay Fluttershy. Alex, I think it's cute that you think I'm cute while I'm sleeping."

Fluttershy grinned, "See Alex? I told you she's taken a liking to you!"

Princess Twilight blushed, "Well um, I uh… I didn't think ponies thought I was cute."

"That's because you're too occupied with your snout stuck in a book to notice," Fluttershy teased.

I bit my bottom lip to keep myself from laughing. Princess Twilight smiled, "Yeah I know, you think Fluttershy scolding me is funny, don't you Alex?"

Nope, I'm not laughing. I thought.

"You know it's okay to laugh, right?" Princess Twilight asked.

I cleared my throat and composed myself, "Yeah, no, where I'm from it's impolite to."

"Huh, interesting, exactly where are you from?" Princess Twilight asked.

"I'm from a place that's in a forest that borders the United States of America and Canada," I said, "I lived there alone with my mother and she didn't like me laughing in front of her. Especially if I played a prank. I'm still getting used to how people act around the PPA. But I can't erase what my mother drilled into me. She disciplined me so much growing up, I can't laugh in front of others. I am happy that the last time I talked to her, she's been doing fine. Even though I don't plan on visiting her anytime soon, I kind of miss her."

Right when I said I missed my mother, Fluttershy and Princess Twilight reacted by saying 'awe'. Princess Twilight put a hoof on my hand and I gently pushed it away, "It's okay princess, I'm fine. Really I am."

"That's good to know," said Princess Twilight. She looked over at the tray with the cup of tea on it, "you might want to drink that, Fluttershy made it just for you. It's medicine to help you recover. My spell doesn't work for very long, maybe a minute or two at best. This'll help speed your recovery up."

Princess Twilight floated the cup of tea over to me in her magic. I took a sip of it and gagged because of the bitter taste.

Fluttershy smiled, "It's going to taste bitter. Every time I drink it, I don't like the taste either. I drink it every time I'm sick and it helps me. Everypony is different though. I hope it will help you."

Wanting to get the bitter tea down as fast as I could, I gulped it down and almost threw up because of it.

Fluttershy snorted. "You don't have to drink it that fast."

I looked down at that cup to see that it was almost finished. So I gulped the last bit of it down and threw it up in my mouth. Fluttershy and Princess Twilight started laughing. I saw Discord standing behind them. "Alex gagging at the bitter tea might be funny and all to watch, but I need to talk to him alone if you don't mind."

"Oh, sure dear," Fluttershy said.

After Fluttershy left, Princess Twilight gave Discord a worried look.

"What?" Discord asked.

"You're not going to do anything that makes him sick again are you?" Princess Twilight asked.

"No I'm not, dear Twilight," said Discord.

"Okay then," Princess Twilight said with uncertainty.

I couldn't keep myself from laughing as Princess Twilight walked out the room backward while giving Discord the stink eye. "Sorry about that Discord, I couldn't help it! That was just too funny!"

Discord titled his head, "Okay, why are you apologizing for laughing?"

"It's a long story," I said, "I already told Fluttershy about it."

"Ah, well then I'll ask her about it later," Discord said, "This isn't the right time for that. I wouldn't get out of bed just yet. You're not as recovered as you think you are. I also wanted to give you this."

I looked to see what Discord had in his claw. It was the same type of crystal the seer at 'The Eye' had. "What's this for?"

"This is an exploding star crystal. As you can see it looks like a star that's been blown up from the inside out," Discord explained, "It's to confirm your visions and keep you from passing out when the vision changes. Here, take it."

I took the crystal from Discord, it felt hot to touch and after a while, the burning sensation went away. "Why did it feel hot to the touch?"

"It's connected with your powers. You should be recovered by tomorrow. I would like to see you once a month to see how your powers are growing. Oh, and it's possible you'll be developing other abilities. From what I've seen every seer has this happen to them. I don't know why that is so don't ask. Now once you wake up tomorrow and grab a bite to eat, you should be ready to go back out to catch Pinkie. So with that being said, you should at least try to eat something," Discord said.

I still had the taste of that bitter tea I had just drunk in my mouth. I shook my head, not wanting to eat at the moment, "After drinking that nasty tea, I think I'm good on food for now."

Discord nodded, "I completely understand. Get some rest, and I'll be back to check on you later."

Discord didn't say another word as he walked out of the room and closed the door behind him.

5) A Change of Events

{Princess Twilight}

I felt bad when I found out that Alex couldn't laugh in front of people without feeling bad about it. Laughter is an element of harmony and is a source of joy for people. If Alex can't laugh, there's a good chance he doesn't have joy in his life. As the Princess of Friendship that doesn't sit well with me. So first thing in the morning I went and talked to Violet about it. I was surprised when Violet's jaw dropped when I told her what I wanted to do. "So what you're telling me is that you want to make Alex laugh in front of people and be okay with it?"

I nodded, "Why, yes! What self-respecting friend would I be if I left Alex when he's unable to laugh in front of anyone?"

"I think a lot of the problem lies with Alex's abusive bitch of a mother," Violet growled, "Just don't tell Alex that."

I tilted my head in confusion, "Why not?"

"Because the word bitch is an insult to a woman," Violet explained, "If a woman gets called that to their face, you might get the crap beat out of you, depending on what the word is used for."

Before I met humans for the first time, I had read a book that had a section in it that was titled cuss words. I didn't understand them but it did say those words could be used as insults too. The fact that humans do stuff like that is shocking to me. "I see, I wish Pinkie were here, she's an expert at getting people to laugh. She just had to go and break the rules! Elements of Harmony bearers are supposed to be setting a good example for other ponies as to what friendship is all about."

Violet stared up at the ceiling as if she were trying really hard to figure out how to get Alex to laugh in front of people. She shook her head and I'm going to assume that she came up with nothing. "I don't know princess, I've at least got him to smile lately. Although he's been smiling a lot more ever since you came along."

I paused, I was getting ready to say something about that but I chose not to.

Violet smiled and teased, "Fluttershy told me you seem to have taken a liking to Alex. I wonder if he's smiling because he feels the same way about you?"

I remembered that I had brought a couple of books with me that I checked out of the library in Canterlot. The books I had checked out were on how to make ponies laugh. I showed Violet that book and she cracked up at the title: How to Make a Pony Laugh Vol. 1.

"Before Pinkie left Equestria, I had been learning how to loosen up around ponies myself. Apparently, I was very uptight, probably because I take my job as Princess of Friendship wherever I go," I said, "I didn't know there were books like this until she showed me. She probably chose to use books to teach me this because that's how I learn, by reading books. Although, I'm not sure how Alex learns. Do you know?"

Violet nodded, "He learns mostly through life experience last time I checked. I don't know if it's going to be any different now that he's a seer."

"Hmm," I said. I opened up the book to the first chapter. I read the first part out loud. "It says here that babies laugh when adult ponies make funny faces at them. Huh, come to think of it I did that with Flurry Heart, she's an adult now so I'm not sure if it would work on her anymore. And I don't think that would work on Alex."

I used the skimming spell I use when I'm reading a book and trying to find the information I need quickly. "It's not here, it's not here, no not here either."

I heard Violet laughing as I turned the pages looking for the information I needed and I don't know why that was so funny. Finally, I found what I was looking for, "Ah-ha!"

I saw Violet jumped about a foot in the air because I guess I startled her. "What? What did you find?"

I read what I had found out loud, "It says here that adults respond to practical jokes or pranks. They also respond to certain situations that aren't supposed to be funny, but they find it funny anyway. Hmm, Alex did laugh the other day when I left his room. I wonder if it was because I was giving Discord the stink eye because I was worried about him doing anything to harm Alex?"

Violet snorted. "Did you really do that, Princess?"

"Well yeah, I was worried about Discord making Alex sick again," I responded, "I swear, if Discord does that again, I don't know what I'll do!"

"Aww, that's absolutely adorable!" Violet said.

I ignored what Violet was saying when I remembered a joke that Pinkie told me all the time. It always made me laugh when she told it. "I know what might work! It's a joke Pinkie told that would make me laugh every time she would tell it to me."

"Okay, shoot, show me what you got," Violet said.

"Okay," I said, "why did the chicken cross the road?"

It looked like Violet was going to laugh big time at this joke because she was trying so hard to keep a straight face. "Why princess? Why did the chicken cross the road?"

"To get to the other side!" I cheerfully. I smiled because Violet fell on her back on the bed next to her rolling on her stomach in laughter. "Huh, I guess that worked."

"In a way it did, but it wasn't the joke that was funny," said Violet, "it was the way you said the joke. I think you might want to try a whoopie cushion before he sits down or something like that instead?"

I thought about it and I got an idea. Maybe if I intensify the chance for laughter to occur it's bound to happen.

"Hmm, what if I tell the joke while putting a whoopie cushion underneath him?" I asked.

Violet snorted, "That might work, but there's no manual on this subject since everyone's different. Alex will be a tough nut to crack, so to speak."

This statement made me even more determined to make Alex laugh, "I'll get Alex to laugh in front of people and be okay with it! That's going to happen sooner or later if I have something to say about it. I'm not leaving his side until I do!"

Violet grinned, "Yeah, I'm going to wish you good luck on that. That's going to take you forever."

I didn't care if it would take forever to make Alex laugh, I'm now on a mission to make it happen.

* * *

{Hugo}

I was sitting on my throne doing my normal workday hearing requests and complaints from my subjects. One of my Royal Advisors, Lily, came running up to the throne. She bowed and I motioned for her to stand up.

"What's going on, Lily?" I asked.

Lily took a deep breath to try and calm herself down because she looked frantic. I barely made out what she said because she said it so fast, "Your brother's outside requesting an audience with you!"

I gave Lily a look of disbelief, "Come again?"

"I'm not joking your highness!" Lily croaked, "Your brother's outside, requesting an audience with you!"

I gasped, "What? Why Zane has some nerve showing up here on a workday! Showing up on my days off is bad enough, but here of all places? For the love of god!" I chuckled when I said that, "Well, maybe I should say for the love of myself, you know because I am god. Please tell me you're joking."

Lily shook her head, "I wish I could say I am, but I'm not. Should I turn him away?"

I sighed, "No, let him in. I'm curious to see what my lazy brother wants from me."

When Lily let Zane in he surprised me by bowing to me.

"You've got some nerve showing up here on a workday!" I scolded, "As you can see I'm in the middle of doing, um what's it called? Oh yeah! A job! So what do you want this time?"

"Well, um your highness," Zane stammered, "I'm not trying to pull anything, honest I'm not. I was wondering… Well, this isn't easy to ask. I was thinking, maybe it's time for me to be more serious about life? No, I don't want the job as ruler over something. Could I just… Um… Wow, this is hard… I want a job, can you help me with that?"

My jaw dropped. I was truly stunned by what Zane had just said. "Wait, wait, wait! Back up here! Are you saying you no longer want to be lazy?"

Zane gulped and nodded. "Y-y-yes."

I pinched myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming or anything. Since I could feel the pain from it, I wasn't. "Well now, this is a surprising change of events, Jason, Lily?"

Jason and Lily exchanged a look, "Yes, your highness?"

I chuckled at the fact that Jason and Lily could say a sentence at the same time. It is cute to me. "Since Zanie boy wants a job, starting today he's your assistant. Start him out on doing the paperwork on the souls that come to the Underground for judgment. Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'm going to go turn in for the night."

I saw Jason and Lily leave with Zane and I laughed from the shocked looks on their faces.

* * *

{Alex}

I sat down on the couch at the cottage talking to Violet and Princess Twilight about our game plan on going back out to catch Pinkie Pie. I tell by the look on Princess Twilight's face that she was eager to go catch Pinkie Pie and bring her to justice.

I shook my head, "I know you want to know where to go next to catch Pinkie Pie but I haven't had any visions again. My exploding star crystal didn't confirm anything for me yet either."

Violet raised an eyebrow, "Exploding star crystal?"

I took the crystal Discord gave me out of my pants pocket and showed it to them.

"Wow!" Violet and Princess Twilight said.

"Apparently, it's to help a seer confirm a vision. It also keeps them from passing out when the vision changes," I explained.

"Awesome!" Violet said.

Princess Twilight nodded. I put the crystal back into my pants pocket.

"Hmm, the last place we saw Pinkie Pie was at AE Corp. I doubt she'll be there, knowing that agents of the PPA are after her," Violet said.

I nodded, "I know, I say we go back to HQ so I can run my badge and we can get a ping on her next location."

"Oh yeah, that's right!" Violet said, "I forgot we could do that."

I rolled my eyes and teased, "Of course you did, why am I not surprised? You've been way too busy teasing me and Princess Twilight that you forgot how to do your job."

"Hey!" Violet protested.

I smiled when I saw Princess Twilight looked like she was having a field day with my teasing Violet.

"That's not funny, princess!" Violet growled.

"Anyway," I said, "we should probably head back to HQ."

* * *

When we got back to PPA HQ, I went and ran my badge through the machine that would give us Pinkie Pie's next location. The machine spits out a file of where Pinkie Pie might possibly be next. I took my badge and the file and went back to Violet and Princess Twilight.

"Well? What did you find?" Violet asked.

I nodded, "Yeah, it says on the papers that she's possibly at this address and it says specifically in the basement."

"Basement?" Violet asked, "Now why would she be in the basement?"

I looked over to see that Princess Twilight suddenly had a look of horror on her face. I tilted my head, "What?"

Princess Twilight swallowed, "Well you see, when Pinkie Pie would explore something, she doesn't observe things the way I do."

"What does she do?" I asked.

Princess Twilight gave a nervous laugh, "Well… She tortures her subjects and then kills them."

"What?" Violet and I gasped.

"Even though I've seen her do that plenty of times, I can't prove it," Princess Twilight said, "Every time I went back to the crime scene, the evidence would be destroyed! And since no one had seen it but me, it's just hearsay even if I am a princess!"

"But why didn't you do anything to stop her?" I asked.

"Because Pinkie Pie found these weird magic restraints that would block my magic," Princess Twilight said, "She would tie me up with them and gag me for good measure. I've tried to get out of them several times before, but it was of no use. Now I know how to get out of them with practice and effort. The fact that she might be doing that to humans now, makes my blood boil! I don't understand why her element of harmony still works. The only thing I can figure is she laughs at everything. Even when things aren't funny."

I was stunned by this information. "Okay, that settles it! That crazy pony is going back to Equestria."

Princess Twilight nodded. "And I'll make sure she's brought to justice! Because nopony is above the law, not even an element of harmony bearer."

I smiled and once again, I couldn't get over how cute Princess Twilight is with everything she's done so far.

7) Flush the Turd down the Toilet

Author's Note

Okay, okay chapter 6 has been revised. Even if you've read the old version that I had published before, I strongly recommend that you go back and read the revised version.

I know what you might be thinking about the chapter title. Oh great, this chapter's going to be about an immature bathroom joke! Not really, the title is actually a play on words with something Alex and Violet say concerning Alex's girlfriend Mary. You'll see what I'm talking about when you read it.

7) Flush the Turd down the Toilet

{Alex}

I smiled at Star when she came out of her crystal. The robes she was wearing kind of reminded me of the robes that a judge would wear in court. They were white robes that went down to her ankles and she was wearing brown sandals on her feet. She stretched and sighed as she had just been let out of a confined space. "Finally, over a million years in that stuffy old crystal. It's about time that I was given to someone to help them out."

I snorted. "Yeah, I would get bored too if I had to look at the same four walls everyday."

Star nodded, "Uh-huh, so tell me something Alex, why are you still with that girl that Terra said doesn't care about you?"

I shrugged, "I don't know. I guess I keep hoping that it will get better? She's actually made me quit six jobs before this one because I wasn't at home every minute of day to spend time with her. I think she wants us to be attached at the hip or something. I'm not quitting this job. I actually like this job for a change. I'm actually considering breaking up with her when I get done with this assignment because I'm tired of her temper tantrums."

"Well, how long have you been with her?" Star questioned.

"Two years." I answered.

"Wow, you're pretty forgiving to stay with her for that long. What on earth is that girl thinking? Does she want to stay at home and be a lazy slob or does she want you to work so you can keep a roof over her head?" Star asked.

"I have no idea." I replied.

Star giggled, "Well, it's a good thing you're fully dressed or else you might be excited to see me. I would love to take you away from that crazy woman that you have for a girlfriend. What's her name?"

"First of all, I'm going to pretend you didn't just say what you said,"I said, the thought of someone that's three times my age or more flirting with me was kind of weird, "second, the turd's name is Mary."

Star burst into laughter, "Wow, if that's your pet name for her, then you really need to dump her."

I agreed. "Yeah, Violet tells me that all the time, she tells me to flush her down the toilet. You can thank Violet for the pet name. If I dump her down the toilet, she might clog the pipes! I doubt there's anything that can be done to turn the turd into a human."

I felt that I couldn't hold in my laughter even if I wanted to. I would've excused myself so I could go laugh somewhere else, but I didn't think that was possible.

"Oh boy, I also found out by connecting to your powers that you have a hard time laughing in front of people. I can tell by your emotions that even now that you want to go laugh somewhere else, because you don't want to laugh in front of me. I think you should probably work on getting past that," Star suggested.

I sighed, "That's easier said than done."

Star nodded, "I understand."

She looked over at the nightstand and I looked over to see that the time on the alarm clock was 12:40AM. "If I'm correct, that device is on your table over there, is that the way you guys tell time?"

I nodded. "Yes."

"So what time do those letters, AM, mean?" Star asked.

"It says AM because it's past the official time to start the day. The official start of the day is 12AM but it's called midnight because it's still dark out. Humans don't normally wake up until 5 or 6AM, when the sun comes up. Princess Twilight, Violet, and I agreed to start to head out at 8:30AM this morning," I explained.

Star tilted her head, "Princess Twilight?"

"She's the woman named Terra that's traveling with us. She's actually a pony that lives in Equestria. She's royalty there and the ruler, Princess Luna, sent her with us to help track down Pinkie Pie because she's a close personal friend of hers," I answered.

"I see. Well, I guess I should go back into my crystal and let you get some sleep," Star said.

"Yeah, it was nice to meet you, but yeah I should get some sleep," I yawned. With that, I went back to bed. I was asleep when my head hit the pillow.

* * *

{Hugo}

As I sat down on my favorite chair smoking my cigar, like I like to do on my days off, I opened up a portal to watch Alex. I watched as Star came out of her crystal and when she started explaining things to Alex, she decided to do a little flirting with him. She almost let the cat out the bag that Alex is my half child.

Still it made me smile now that Star had finally met Alex. I knew for a fact that Star would fulfill her end of the contract and help Alex as his powers developed.

I remember the first time I met Star, she was a child, at least in my eyes she was. I could tell by the way she looked up at me with no hint of fear but more of a hint of determination that she was the type of person to get whatever job that was asked of her done. So I figured she was perfect for the job of living in an exploding star crystal so she could help my children that are half god and half human develop their powers.

I rolled my eyes as I watched Star flirting with Alex. "Of course Star would flirt with him. He is pretty handsome because he gets his good looks from me. But you can't blame a one million year old woman for trying. I do wonder why everyone is so eager to have Alex develop his powers early?"

I almost fell out of my chair when I heard Zane's voice, "Uh, Hugo? Who are you talking to?"

"For crying out loud, can't I have a day off without being interrupted for once?" I grumbled.

"Oh, uh, sorry Hugo," said Zane, "I just thought I'd stop by and say hi."

"Okay, well since you're here, why don't you pull up a seat and watch your nephew Alex?" I asked.

"Okay, sure." Zane did as I suggested and I looked over to see how he would react to how Alex is. He had a smile on his face. Of course I always have a smile on my face when I watch Alex.

Alex looked determined and I assume it was to catch Pinkie Pie at all costs. That's because he had a determined look on his face as he went downstairs to the hotel lobby and met up with Princess Twilight and his partner at the PPA, Violet.

"So." Princess Twilight said.

Alex groaned and rolled his eyes, "Let me guess Terra, you want to know if I had another vision about where Pinkie Pie is right? The answer to that question would be a no."

Violet frowned, "I wonder why you haven't had any visions yet?"

"I don't know," Alex answered, "I can't control it when it happens, it just happens. If a vision does change, that's what Star is for."

Violet raised an eyebrow, "Star?"

Alex pointed to the mini exploding star crystal on a necklace around his neck. "Apparently, my crystal decided to change into a necklace to better suit my needs. I guess she thought a necklace would be best for me. Probably because I'm always on the move."

Violet laughed when she heard Alex call his exploding star crystal, by the name of Star. "Okay, you named your exploding star crystal Star and of course it's a she. Are you sure you're not getting lonely because of living at Headquarters away from that turd of a girlfriend you have? You know there's other options besides her right?"

Violet tilted her head towards Princess Twilight. It was so obvious that Violet was trying to point Alex in Princess Twilight's direction. Princess Twilight knew what Violet was trying to do and she looked like she was about ready to slap Violet because of it. "Would you stop doing that? He's obviously not interested at the moment, so stop pushing it! I swear once I get back to Equestria I'm going to have Rainbow Dash develop a special prank just for you. Pranks are her specialty!"

Violet rolled her eyes. "I'm so scared! Somebody help me!"

"Okay that's it!" Princess Twilight growled. She looked like she was about ready to start slapping Violet around. Before she could do that, Alex stepped in between them.

"Knock it off you two," said Alex, "we're on the same team here. We need to work together to track down Pinkie Pie. After that's done, then you can kill each other."

Princess Twilight crossed her arms and scoffed at Violet, "Hmph! But only because Alex wants me to make peace with you Violet."

"Well that goes for me too," Violet scoffed back, "I'll back off, for now."

After watching this scene play out Zane turned to me and raised an eyebrow, "Who's Pinkie Pie?"

"Oh, have you ever heard of a place called the PPA?" I asked.

Zane nodded, "Yeah I do, I've been to that place a couple of times myself. I have a couple of buddies that work there as agents. So is Alex an agent there?"

"Yup!" I said proudly, "He's in the top of his class too. You see, this Pinkie Pie character is the rogue pony he's going after with his partner Violet. That's the one who the other woman with him was getting ready to slap around. The woman that was getting ready to slap Violet is actually an Alicorn princess named Princess Twilight, she lives in Equestria. She's going under the name of Terra while she's helping Alex and Violet track down Pinkie Pie. It's because she's a close personal friend of Pinkie Pie's."

"I see," responded Zane, "so does Alex have the ability to see the future like your other half children do?"

"Uh-huh. Now that Alex knows he's a seer, I'm wondering how well his powers will develop," I said.

Zane smiled, "That makes two of us!"

* * *

{Alex}

We finally got to travel to Pinkie Pie's latest location. We were making some headway in traveling there when Star decided to shout in my head. Alex!

At first I ignored her and thought nothing of it when I heard her again. ALEX!

I hear you already! I thought. In case you didn't notice, I'm flying a motorized vehicle. Even though I have an invisible shield on I still do some damage to whatever I land on. Not to mention I have a passenger with me. So what's the deal?

You might want to pull over and sit down. Star thought. There's an incoming vision that's going to happen soon.

Okay. I thought.

I signaled for Violet to pull over and land at a nearby parking lot.

"What is it?" Violet asked.

I killed the engine on my bike and put down the kickstand. I helped Princess Twilight down and sat down on the ground crossed-legged.

"Alex what are you-" Princess Twilight started.

I put up a hand to silence her and Violet.

I closed my eyes and just as Star said would happen a vision started. I saw two people, a man and a woman dressed in black suits and judging by the type of suits and the rest of the outfit that they were wearing told me that they were some kind of law enforcement agents. I saw they had badges hanging from their necks with a silver chain. From what the letters on the badges were, they were detectives.

One of the people's badges had a name on it, Detective S. Carter. The other person was a woman, her badge said Detective A. Ryker. They were looking down at a bonfire that had been recently put out. Detective S. Carter knelt down and fished out of the ashes what looked like dog tags. They showed that the person whose remains were in the ashes was a military vet. The name on the dog tags was Bob Harper.

Detective A. Ryker growled, "That's the second bonfire this week! It seems the Bonfire Killer has stepped up her number of killings lately."

Detective S. Carter raised an eyebrow, "Her?"

"Well duh," noted Detective A. Ryker, "based on the killings, the evidence we're finding the killings are only men so far. So that tells me that the killer is possibly a woman."

"Oh, that's right, that's been the pattern so far. Well, okay, you know what we need to do, okay?" Detective S. Carter agreed.

Detective A. Ryker facepalmed and groaned, "You know, I really hate it when you say okay twice in the same sentence."

Detective S. Carter raised an eyebrow, "I say 'okay' twice in the same sentence? I didn't know I did that."

Detective A. Ryker rolled her eyes, "You did it twenty seconds ago! 'Well okay, you know what we need to do okay?' Seriously, if I had a dollar for every time you did it, I would be rich by now and I would be able to retire at the age of 24."

"Okay, okay, oops I did it again, didn't I?" Detective S. Carter said.

Detective A. Ryker looked clearly annoyed with Detective S. Carter judging by the look on her face. "Nevermind, it's something you do within your nature. Well, let's go check the missing person's database again."

After Detective A. Ryker said that, the vision stopped and I opened my eyes. I looked down at Star to see she was glowing the color green.

I've decided to stay the course on this one for sure, I thought, I'm thinking if we follow those two detectives, then we'll find Pinkie Pie for sure.

I can't change your mind, but okay, okay Star thought.

I almost laughed at Star's joke but once again I stopped myself. I don't know how I'm going to get past the fact that I can't laugh in front of people and be okay with it. I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.

* * *

I looked to see Princess Twilight and Violet smiling at me. "What?"

"You just had a vision, didn't you?" Princess Twilight asked.

I nodded, "Yeah I did. Thankfully, Star warned me about it. That's why I pulled over. If that hadn't happened we'd be in some serious trouble. Anyway, I saw two detectives looking at the remains of a bonfire that the fire department put out. There were human remains, but at first the detectives couldn't tell if the remains were from a man or a woman. One of the detectives pulled out of the ashes what looked like dog tags from a military vet. Apparently this isn't the first person that's been killed. They've named this killer, the 'Bonfire Killer' and they suspect that since they're finding men that have been killed, then the killer is a woman. I'm gonna guess that the Bonfire Killer is Pinkie Pie."

Upon hearing this information, Princess Twilight's eyes went wide as saucers, the color drained out of her face as if she had seen a ghost and she gulped. "Did you just say bonfire?"

"Uh, yeah, why? Wait a second, don't answer that question just yet. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say it has something to do with Pinkie Pie's research?" I asked.

Princess Twilight nodded, "Yeah, that's exactly why every time I went back to find evidence of Pinkie's research it was all gone. Bonfires in Equestria are lit by magic and once it starts everything that a pony wants to destroy gets destroyed. Since I wouldn't help Pinkie light the bonfires, she would use a special magic device to start it. It's usually used by pegasi and earth ponies because they don't have magic like unicorns do."

"I suspect Pinkie's using the same type of device and since we're not in Equestria, it might not be working as well. It's funny that those detectives have named Pinkie the 'Bonfire Killer.' That's definitely a good name for her research."

At least I can smile. I thought. I smiled at the last sentence that Princess Twilight had said.

Violet smirked and nudged me in the shoulder. "What?"

"As I said, ever since we met the princess, you've been smiling a lot." Violet asserted.

I realized Violet was right, I've been smiling ever since I met Princess Twilight because I can't get over how cute and innocent she looks with everything she does.

Hmmm, I wonder if Princess Twilight is the key to helping you get past not being able to laugh in front of people. Star thought.

I have no idea. I thought.

I must've been smiling at Princess Twilight still when she paused and looked at me. "What's that look for, Alex?"

Violet teased, "I was wondering the same thing myself. Tell me Alex, what is that look for?"

I looked away because I didn't want to answer that question. "There is another thing I think is interesting. Apparently one of the detectives gets annoyed with the other when he says the word 'okay' twice in the same sentence."

Princess Twilight smiled, "I don't see what the problem with that is. Everypony has their quirks when they speak. For example, Pinkie Pie says, 'okey dokey lokey' a lot. Rarity says, 'oh darling' at the start of every sentence."

"Rainbow Dash says, 'awesome' at everything she does even when it's not awesome."

"Applejack is always chasing after bunnies and other critters that steal her apples and every time I come to her farm, I hear her saying, 'get back here yeah thievin' vermonts!'"

"And Fluttershy is the most quiet pony I've ever met. I remember when I met her, I had to ask her what name was at least three or four times. It wasn't until Spike said hi that she perked right up and spoke loud enough so I could hear her."

"Let's see, that's Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Fluttershy… Oh that's right and then there's me, I always get picked on for making a lot of checklists. I do that for a reason though, so I don't miss any of my chores for the week. I even have a checklist to check the checklist."

As Princess Twilight kept explaining things about how her friends are with their quirks they have when speaking or anything else, I felt the urge to laugh and as usual I felt horrified by it. So I figured I had to excuse myself for it.

"Uh, could you excuse me?" I asked.

Princess Twilight stopped her storytelling and nodded. "Sure."

I then went around the corner out of earshot of her and Violet and laughed to my heart's content.

* * *

{Princess Twilight}

After Alex left to go laugh somewhere else he didn't laugh in front of me, I did a sigh of frustration. "Damn it! I almost had him that time too! I know a laugh starting when I see it!"

"I'm sorry princess, but Alex has a way to suppress his laughter that he'll use every chance he gets. Me and his fellow agents at the PPA suspect it has a lot to do with the discipline his mother gave him. To add to that, he has an abusive controlling girlfriend." Violet said.

"Why is Alex's girlfriend considered abusive?" I asked, "I mean controlling, yes, I can see that, but why abusive?"

Violet sighed, "I used to know Alex before he started working for the PPA and I knew his girlfriend before they started dating. I know how Mary is and I told him about that but he still got together with her. Yes she's controlling, because she controls everything that Alex does right down to when to go to sleep. There's been a lot of domestic violence disputes between those two. Most of the time Mary was the one arrested because the police could see the physical injuries from it."

"She made him quit six jobs before this one because of her pushing him around all the time. Alex says he likes working at the PPA and if Mary makes him quit this job, me and some fellow agents of his are going to give Mary a talking to because of it. Now that Alex is a seer she'll probably try to find some way to make him quit that too."

I gasped when I heard this information, "Why is Alex still with such a horrible person? Well I have half a mind to do the talking to with his girlfriend myself."

Violet smiled and looked up at the sky. She looked at me. "I think I can help you with that."

"How?" I asked.

"I actually have the turd Mary's phone number. Maybe if we stop by the PPA to take a break for this assignment again, you could give her a call?" Violet said.

"Really? You would give me her number?" I asked.

Violet nodded. "Unfortunately, I'm the turd's best friend. I'm getting ready to flush her down the toilet myself. So I can give you her phone number, you can call her and make like you're going to take Alex away from her?"

"How would I do that?" I asked.

"You know how you want to say that you want to protect your friends?" Violet questioned.

I nodded, "Yeah, and?"

"Maybe you could say something to the effect of you're his friend and you could tell her that if she doesn't stop being mean to Alex then you'll do everything in your power to take him away from her. You know, get him to see that the grass is greener?" Violet suggested. "I must say something else about that. Mary is a very jealous woman. Mary has even accused Alex and said he was cheating on her with me. I'm not interested in him like that. He's more like a brother to me. But I do my best to look out for him, most of the time he doesn't listen to me much anyway."

"I know after you call her, I'll get an angry phone call first. But before that can happen, I'm going to turn off my phone because I don't want to hear it. Then Alex will get the angry phone call next and hopefully that will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. He'll break up with her and be done with her finally. It's a good thing the PPA isn't common knowledge to everyone."

I tilted my head, "Why's that?"

"I've seen this happen before," Violet informed me, "every time a guy breaks up with Mary, she leaves angry and threatening phone calls and voicemails. Some guys have actually had to change their phone numbers because of her. Sometimes she finds where they're living and goes there and attacks them. She's actually done some jail time because of it."

I gasped, "Really? She would do that? If you ask me, horrible people like that shouldn't be allowed to exist!" I smiled, "You know something, I like this plan. If it'll get Alex to break up with such a horrible person, then I'm game! No one deserves to be treated like that. If this is a good way to protect a friend, then as Celestia is my witness, I will do that!"

Violet and I high fived each other, I'm telling you, I can't wait to put this plan into action.

8) There's a Pony in My Office!

{Hugo}

I don't always just watch Alex, true he is my favorite person to watch, but sometimes I also like to watch Princess Twilight.

I couldn't help but laugh as I watched Princess Twilight and Alex's partner at the PPA, Violet, hatch a plan to help Alex break up with his awful girlfriend.

I grinned. "This is way too funny and cute."

Zane raised an eyebrow, "Huh?"

"Oh, it's funny because I know exactly what's going to happen next."

Zane rolled his eyes, "Let me guess, you had a vision about it didn't you?"

I nodded. "Yup! You guessed it! It's funny because Princess Twilight has made her mission to make Alex laugh in front of people and be okay with it. I think it's absolutely adorable! I can't wait until the vision I saw comes true. Trust me, the girlfriend that Alex has now doesn't deserve him and he doesn't deserve to be treated the way his girlfriend's treating him at the moment."

Zane chuckled, "I agree, Princess Twilight will be a good fit for Alex. A girlfriend and possibly a wife."

"Well, I don't know about a wife, but a girlfriend, yes," I said, "I haven't seen past that in my vision."

"I guess we'll just have to wait and see." Zane said.

I nodded. Princess Twilight will be a good girlfriend for Alex and if she becomes his wife, that's a bonus.

* * *

{Alex}

When we arrived at the scene of the last bonfire location every trace indicating a bonfire had been there was practically gone. Violet and Princess Twilight looked disappointed at what they saw and I don't blame them, I was kind of disappointed at this myself.

Violet frowned, "So what do we do now?"

I looked down at the remaining ashes and something in my brain told me I could do something with them even though there wasn't a lot of ashes. Hmmm, I wonder...

What is it? Star thought.

I don't know but for some reason, I feel something pulling towards those ashes even though there's not a lot. I thought.

Oh. Star thought.

I bent down and touched the ashes with my finger.

"Uh, Alex?" Princess Twilight asked.

I held up a hand to silence her. Violet smiled and nodded. After I touched the ashes a bright light shined and standing before me, or I should say floating before me, was the latest victim of Pinkie Pie's research, Bob Harper.

* * *

I jumped back when I saw him. I blinked. "Okay, how is this happening?"

Bob smiled, "Hi there Alex!"

"How do you know my name?" I asked.

"I know your name because you summoned me by touching my ashes," Bob answered, "It's some sort of energy coming from you and I don't know what it is. I think it's a good thing you summoned me."

I tilted my head, "But why would I summon you?"

Bob shrugged, "I'm going to assume with your energy, it could possibly help me cross over. Most of the time if a ghost hasn't crossed over yet, it's because of unfinished business. But since there's some strong energy coming from you, I think you can help me."

"Oh," I said, "so can you tell me who killed you?"

Bob paused. He seemed like he didn't want to tell me this information at first. I can understand that because he probably died a slow horrible death.

I sighed, "I understand why you might not want to tell me. I don't know how horrible your death was."

Bob exhaled slowly, "I can tell what I saw but I won't tell you anything else. One of my neighbors, she goes by the name Roxy from what I know of. She seemed kind and very polite at first. But the last time I talked to her I got some weird vibes from her. I thought about staying away from her but my curiosity got the better of me. So as I talked to her, she said she had some cool artifacts that she collected online. I was curious enough to see them. I made the dumb mistake of following her back to her apartment complex. I should've seen this coming when we entered through the back door."

It was heartbreaking when I saw Bob shudder a bit as he told his story. He continued, "Once we entered through the back door that's when I knew I made a mistake in trusting her. She tied me up and carried me down a hallway to the basement or at least it looked like a basement. She tied me down and kept wanting me to sing a song about smiling."

This time I shuddered, the very fact that someone wants the person they are killing to sing a smile is not just wrong and it's sick.

Bob frowned, "Yeah I know. This person was weird. Apparently she had no idea that if a human gets tied up and tortured like that, they're going to fight for their life until the very end. I'm an idiot, I shouldn't have trusted her. But… I did…"

I shook my head, "No you're not an idiot. You didn't know what was going to happen. You can't-" I paused. "You know what, nevermind on that last thought because I can."

Bob raised an eyebrow, "Can what?"

"I can see the future," I replied, "But I don't think these stupid visions are helping, considering Pinkie gets away from me every time."

"Did you just say Pinkie?" Bob asked.

I nodded. "Yeah, why?"

"Roxy kept saying something about Pinkie needs to do her research right before she killed me." Bob replied.

"Yeah, I'm going to catch your killer if it's the last thing I do!" I said, "She's sick and twisted, she needs to be brought to justice."

At this point I was livid with rage but I tried my best not to show it.

Bob smiled, "That's another thing I could sense from your energy, I know you will find her. Thanks, Alex, it's time for me to go now."

I stood there and watched as Bob floated up into the sky.

* * *

After Bob left I looked over to see Violet and Princess Twilight staring at me with looks of excitement on their faces.

I groaned, "Why are you two staring at me like that?"

"Sorry Alex," said Princess Twilight, "you were talking to that bright light that came from those ashes but we couldn't hear what you were talking about."

Violet smiled, "It looks like you've developed some sort of new ability."

I shrugged, "I guess so. The bright light you saw me talking to was the ghost of Bob Harper, the latest victim of Pinkie Pie's research. He was glad I summoned him because if didn't he would've been stuck here because of unfinished business."

Upon hearing this Princess Twilight looked down at the ground with tears in her eyes. "Oh."

I gave Princess Twilight a hug. "It's okay Terra, we'll find Pinkie Pie and bring her to justice."

Princess Twilight looked at me, nodded, then blushed and looked away. That made me feel a little weird so I let go of her.

I heard Violet tease, "Aww, you two look adorable together!"

Before I could say something to her I heard Star think, Uh, Alex?

Let me guess, incoming vision? I thought.

Yup! Star thought back.

I closed my eyes. What I saw looked like the inside of a police station. Detective S. Carter was looking at the missing person's database on his computer. He looked frustrated as he came up with nothing on his search. Detective A. Ryker opened the door and came into the room. "Still not finding anything?"

Detective S. Carter shook his head and frowned, "Nope. Zip. Zero. Nothing."

Detective A. Ryker sighed, "It's just like what happened with Luke Red, it's a dead-end so far."

"I still don't think we should think negatively yet," said Detective S. Carter, "I'm not giving up on this until we solve it."

Detective A. Ryker rolled her eyes, "You know there are serial killer cases that go cold right? I saw it happen plenty of times before I became a homicide detective."

"It's not going cold if I got something to say about it!" Detective S. Carter declared, "We'll keep working on it, or if you don't want to look, that's fine. But I'm going to keep looking."

Detective A. Ryker groaned, "It's going to be another long night isn't it?"

Before the end of the vision, I saw a number on the door to the office. The door was already open so it was easy to see.

Did you get that number? I thought.

Yeah. Star thought.

Good, because we're going to need it. We should probably give those detectives a call before we pay them a visit. I thought.

I opened my eyes. The excitement Princess Twilight and Violet would give me every time they thought I had a vision was starting to get annoying. "You know, those excited looks on your faces when I have a vision are starting to get annoying."

"I'm sorry Alex, but my best friend and fellow agent of the PPA is a seer now," Violet responded, "I mean can you blame us for being excited by this?"

"I know," Princess Twilight cheered, "I agree with Violet, this is so cool! So, what did you see?"

"Remember those two detectives that I saw in an earlier vision?" I asked.

Violet tilted her head, "Yeah, so?"

"Well, they're looking at the missing person's database and they're coming up with nothing," I explained, "I think we can help them and they can help us."

"How?" Violet asked.

"They're after the 'Bonfire Killer' right?" I said.

Princess Twilight nodded, "Yeah, oh I see! With your visions we can point them in the right direction to find Pinkie!"

"Maybe they'll be willing to give us information in return. Or if we team up with them, we'll be that much closer to catching Pinkie Pie." Violet suggested.

"I can't wait to bring Pinkie back to Equestria where she will be punished to the fullest extent of the law in Equestria! Or right now I wonder if killing her might be best for both Equestria and Earth." Princess Twilight said.

My jaw dropped at how much anger Princess Twilight was putting out at the moment. "Wow. I don't want you getting angry at me any time soon."

Princess Twilight gasped, "Oh no Alex, I could never be mad at you like that. I only get mad at rule-breakers like Pinkie! Rule breakers like her make us ponies look bad."

Violet grinned.

I rolled my eyes, "Would you stop giving me that look?"

Violet looked away, "What look? I'm not giving you a look."

I narrowed my eyes at her because I knew that she knew she was lying, "You know you're not a very good lair Violet. But okay, whatever. The first thing I need to do is make a phone call to those two detectives."

Princess Twilight tilted her head, "Why?"

"Because we don't just barge into a police station and ask to talk to someone," Violet explained.

"Well then, go make that call." Princess Twilight said.

I walked out of earshot and pulled out my cell phone. This is the phone I use when I'm on assignments. Mary doesn't know about this phone or the number, and with good reason. If she called me while I was on an assignment, that would put me and my partner in danger. Not to mention, she would be calling me every waking moment of the day.

Star relayed the number that we saw on the door to the detectives' office. The phone rang and I was put through to the receptionist. I asked to speak to Detective S. Carter and she put me through to him.

"Hello," I said, "is this Detective S. Carter?"

"Actually, it's Detective Simon Carter." Detective S. Carter said.

"My name is Alex Shipman, I have information on your 'Bonfire Killer'."

"Excuse me?" Detective Simon Carter said. Judging by the sound of his voice he didn't believe me, not one little bit, "What information do you know?"

"I know a little bit, is there a way I can come down to your office and tell you what I know?"

"Well, sure."

"What time?" I asked.

"If you could be here as soon as possible, that would be great." Detective Simon Carter said.

"Good, I can be there in a half-hour."

"Well, thanks Mr. uh…" Detective Simon Carter said.

"Mr. Shipman," I said, "Alex Shipman, see you soon."

I hung up the phone and went back to Violet and Princess Twilight.

"So, did you get an invite?" Violet said.

I nodded, "Yup and we should get a move on. I told him we'd be there in a half-hour."

With that being said, we got on our bikes and headed over to Detective Simon Carter's office.

* * *

When we arrived at Detective Simon Carter's office, he was doing paperwork. He looked up from his paperwork when he saw us. He smiled, "Ah, you would be Mr. Shipman right?"

I nodded, "Yes sir."

"So who are your friends?" Detective Simon Carter asked.

"Oh," I said, pointing to Violet, "this is my friend Violet," I pointed to Princess Twilight, "this is my friend Terra."

Princess Twilight gave Detective Simon Carter a small wave, "Hi there, Mr. Detective sir!"

Detective Simon Carter chuckled, "So, you said you know about our 'Bonfire Killer'. How do you know about it?"

"Because we know who she is!" Princess Twilight said before I could answer. "She's a rule-breaking rogue pony named Pinkie Pie!"

"Uh, Terra, I'm pretty sure he doesn't know about the PPA," I said.

Detective Simon Carter chuckled, "Did you just say rogue pony and the PPA? As in the Pony Protection Agency? We know about that place, it's a running joke around here because it's not real."

"Sorry sir, but we have evidence to prove otherwise," I said. I pointed to Princess Twilight. "Terra here is actually a pony in disguise herself."

Princess Twilight nodded, "Yup!"

Detective Simon Carter laughed, "I should probably call Ryker in here, so we can witness another one of Paul's jokes."

Detective Simon Carter went outside and called his partner Detective A. Ryker into his office.

Detective A. Ryker raised an eyebrow, "What's this all about Carter?"

"We're about to witness another lovely prank from Paul!" Detective Simon Carter laughed. "He's really outdone himself this time!" He pointed to Princess Twilight, "Apparently, this woman is a pony in disguise!"

I guess Princess Twilight had a feeling the two detectives would try to pull more people into the office so they could witness Pauls 'prank'. So she quickly used her magic to close the door, and close the blinds. She then pressed a finger to her forehead and changed into her pony form.

* * *

When Detective Simon Carter and his partner Detective A. Ryker saw Princess Twilight in her pony form their jaws dropped. Detective Simon Carter freaked out the most. The next thing I know he started shouting, "There's a pony in my office! There's a pony in my office! There's a pony in my office!"

Finally, Detective A. Ryker composed herself enough to cover Detective Simon Carter's mouth, "Deep slow breaths Carter, deep slow breaths."

Princess Twilight chuckled, "I figured you two might respond this way. So I shut the door, closed the blinds, and made this room soundproof with my magic."

Detective Simon Carter stopped freaking out and paused, "Soundproof?"

Princess Twilight pointed her hoof at the ceiling. I looked around the room to see a pink shimmering light that covered every wall of the room.

"This is called the Bubble of Silence spell," explained Princess Twilight, "no sound can get out unless I say so."

Detective A. Ryker, looked around the room in disbelief, "Okay then."

Princess Twilight had a look of pride on her face, "Yup! Now I could do a spell that allows me to talk to you through a book but that might freak you out even more."

I rolled my eyes, "No kidding!"

Detective Simon Carter composed himself, "I'm going to assume you guys are agents of the PPA?"

Violet nodded, "Uh-huh."

"So how do you even know about us?" Detective A. Ryker said. She gave us a skeptical look.

"Well you see, Alex is a-" Princess Twilight started.

I nudged her on the shoulder before she could finish her sentence, "Sssh, I think they need to know about that right now."

"Oh." Princess Twilight said.

"Let's just say, I have certain talents that helped me track you guys down." I said.

Detective Simon Carter chuckled, "Yeah, you're not the first guy that's said that to me."

Then I felt an incoming vision and this time, Star didn't even have to tell me about it.

Thanks vision, perfect timing. I thought.

I closed my eyes and I saw Pinkie Pie in human form carrying a lifeless body of a young white woman. The woman was dressed in a grey t-shirt and blue jeans. Pinkie Pie had already dug a small hole big enough to put the woman's body in.

"I'm sorry Cathy," said Pinkie Pie, "I'm done researching you and I've seen those two detectives put out my bonfires. They're definitely party poopers! I wonder what the brain of a detective looks like? I would also like to examine the brains of those two agents of the PPA and maybe I'll examine Twilight this time too. No one will stop my fun if I have anything to say about it!"

I saw Pinkie Pie look over at a nearby red barn. "You know something? I might actually go examine those animals in the barn over there. I can't wait to see what their brains look like! Then you'll have lots and lots of friends!"

After Pinkie Pie buried the body she went inside the barn.

I opened my eyes, I saw Violet and Princess Twilight giving me looks of excitement.

I growled, "Would you two stop giving me those looks every time I have a vision?"

"As I said before, we can't help it," said Violet, "it's just so cool that you can do that now. So, what did you see?"

"Well, I saw Pinkie Pie talking to a dead body. She's upset with you two detectives for putting out her bonfires. She's upset with us for tracking her down. She's upset with you, Princess, for whatever reason. She wants to examine our brains to see what they look like." I answered.

Princess Twilight then did the universal sign as if to say someone's 'crazy'. "Yup she's lost it! Lovely, first she researches the males of a species and then she goes over to the females. So did she kill a male or female this time?"

"It was a female." I answered.

Detective Simon Carter looked confused. "Wait, what? All of the evidence we have says that only men have been killed."

"Nope, Pinkie does this all the time. It probably would be best if she was dead." Princess Twilight explained. "At this point, I wouldn't mind doing the honors of killing her myself!"

Violet and I gasped at this statement.

"But I thought you were all about protecting your friends?" Violet said.

"My friends yes, I'll protect them, " Princess Twilight replied, "enemies no. Right now Pinkie has shown she's an enemy of both Earth and Equestria," She stomped her hoof on the ground in anger, "Pinkie's just about as bad as Alex's controlling girlfriend. But at least with Pinkie I can take her down and bring her to justice."

Detective Simon Carter, Detective A. Ryker, and Violet chortled at this.

"See Alex?" Violet teased, "All you have to do is flush that turd down the toilet and run as far away from her as possible."

"Where are we going to find Pinkie now?" Princess Twilight asked.

I was thinking about something. Star thought.

What? I thought.

Well, you have magic, Princess Twilight has magic. I wonder if you can transfer the location details that you saw in the vision to her. I'm pretty sure she can do a teleportation spell since she's an Alicorn and all. Star thought.

Huh, that's not a bad idea. I thought.

"Alex, you know the details on where the burial site is." Violet said. "What are they? Because we need to get going soon, if we want to catch her."

"Actually," I said, "I have a question for the princess."

"Yes, what is it?" Princess Twilight said.

"Can you do a teleportation spell by chance?" I asked.

Princess Twilight nodded. "Well yes, why?"

I went over to her and whispered into her ear what I was thinking.

"Oh but I don't-" Princess Twilight started.

"You will soon." I put a hand on her forehead and transferred the vision details over to her.

Her ears perked up and she smiled. "Well, that's an interesting way to give information. But information nonetheless."

"Okay," said Detective Simon Carter, "where do we go from here?"

"Well, I have an idea, but first time travelers are bound to be a little queasy." Princess Twilight responded.

"What are you talking about Princess?" Violet asked.

"It's a teleportation spell I can do," Princess Twilight explained, "even though you'll be there in the blink of an eye it tends to make the ones traveling with me a little sick the first time it's done."

Suddenly, I'm not sure if I like the idea of traveling through a teleportation spell. I thought.

I can understand that. Star thought. But we have to get to the burial as fast as we can or we'll lose Pinkie again!

Fine. I thought.

Violet turned to me, "So what do you think Alex?"

"I say we go for it," I said, "it's the fastest way to get there. So yeah."

"Alright then," said Princess Twilight, "let's go! We'll be there in like five seconds tops by my count!"

I braced myself as Princess Twilight charged up her horn. Before I knew it, Detective Simon Carter's office was gone and when I opened up my eyes again, we were at Pinkie's burial site.

9) Let's hope this is the straw that breaks the camel's back.

{Alex}

As soon as we got to Pinkie Pie's soon-to-be burial site of the woman I saw in the vision, everyone except Princess Twilight pretty much lost their lunch.

I puked and groaned, "You weren't kidding about getting queasy."

"Oops, sorry about that guys," said Princess Twilight, "but it's the easiest and fastest way to travel. I practice this spell just about every day! It's actually my favorite spell to do."

Detective Simon Carter, Detective A. Ryker, and Violet were too busy throwing up at a nearby tree to even speak at the moment. Princess Twilight did the healing spell to help everyone to recover from puking. When I finally stopped puking, Princess Twilight said, "So where will Pinkie be coming from this time?"

I pointed in the direction where I saw Pinkie Pie come from in the vision. Princess Twilight stomped a hoof on the ground, she was getting ready to charge in that direction but I stepped in front of her to make her stop. "Why Alex?"

"Due to the fact that Pinkie Pie hasn't come here yet, she's not going to be here for another-" I said.

Princess Twilight pointed behind me, "She's coming from there, and yes, she's talking to a dead body."

"Shit." I turned around to see Pinkie Pie standing there carrying a dead body over her shoulder.

"What the fuck do we have here?" Pinkie Pie laughed wickedly, "All five bitches that I want to examine standing right in front of me. I wonder, how come you haven't tripped my alarms yet?"

It was as if Princess Twilight knew exactly what was going to happen next. "Oh, hell no Pinkie!"

Pinkie Pie's look went from amused to shocked as Princess Twilight picked up me, Detective Simon Carter, Detective A. Ryker, and Violet in her magic. She also picked Pinkie Pie up with whatever spell she was doing. She picked up the dead body Pinkie Pie was carrying off the ground too.

I looked down in horror to see three bear traps along with floor traps and a rope tied up to a nearby tree that Princess Twilight had saved us from. I could tell from the look on Princess Twilight's face that she was having trouble holding the spell.

"Muahaha!" Pinkie Pie laughed, "I know this spell very well Twilight. You only have two more seconds left to hold this spell. It's a shame you were too busy reading books to perfect this spell. This is the hardest spell for an Alicorn to do. I know, I looked it up. Once you let me go, I'll be gone in the blink of an eye with my magic necklace. I'm glad I keep it on me when I'm burning my research subjects. Although I do hate wearing human clothes. Oh well," She then gave us a sinister smile and started singing, "Come on everypony smile, smile! Fill my heart up with sunshine, sunshine! All I really need is a smile, smile, from these happy friends of mine!"

Pinkie Pie was right, Princess Twilight had to let go of us and she dropped everyone but Pinkie Pie away from harm. Laughing like a psycho Pinkie Pie said, "Oh well, I must be going! Too bad I can't give Cathy any more friends. Sorry, Cathy, I'll just have to leave you behind. Goodbye!"

Like Pinkie Pie said she would, she touched her magic necklace and disappeared.

* * *

Once Pinkie Pie left, all of us got to our feet.

"Okay, what was that creepy song about?" I questioned.

Princess Twilight exhaled slowly, "Pinkie calls it 'The Smile Song'. Originally, she would parade around town and sing it just to cheer ponies up. It worked for the most part. Then she started using that song to hide her evil intentions. She was right about the spell I did. I can only hold it for so long and then I have to let go."

When Princess Twilight started to cry I gave her a hug. It seemed to work and she stopped crying. I let go and Princess Twilight wiped away her tears with a hoof. I looked over to see Violet smiling at me. "What's the look for?"

"I finally figured out why you and that turd you have for a girlfriend aren't compatible," Violet remarked.

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"Let's see, for as long as I've known you, you have compassion and can't stand it when people cry in front of you," Violet answered, "Mary could care less about that. If you ask me, I don't think that turd has a soul."

Detective Simon Carter laughed, "That bad huh?"

Violet nodded, "Yup. I've been telling Alex for quite some time to flush the turd down the toilet. You know how it goes."

Violet made a motion as if flushing a handle on a toilet. She added a sound effect to go with. Everyone started laughing except me because I kept telling myself not to laugh.

Princess Twilight looked at me, "You know you can laugh at that, Alex. No one's going to discipline you for laughing."

Detective A. Ryker tilted her head, "Huh? You got disciplined for laughing Alex? By who?"

I sighed, "It's a long story."

"Oh, I see." Detective A. Ryker said.

"Anyway, what do we do now?" Princess Twilight asked.

This whole seer thing is getting more and more complicated by the minute.

Why doesn't a vision come when I need one? I thought.

I don't know, because I don't think it works that way. Unless… Star thought.

I paused and thought, Unless what?

I don't know, I doubt it'll work anyway. We'll just work with what we have to go by for now. Star thought.

Okay, I guess. I thought. I stopped talking to Star and saw everyone looking at me for guidance. I shook my head, "I don't know where we should go next for the time being. I don't get visions every waking moment of the day. I think we should go back to headquarters."

"I guess we should call ahead to give the two detectives access to the PPA before we go," Violet suggested.

I nodded, "That would probably be a good idea."

* * *

{Hugo}

I sat back in my chair watching as Alex and everyone that was with him had an encounter with the 'Bonfire Killer' Pinkie Pie. "So, that's the 'Bonfire Killer' Pinkie Pie?"

"It's funny how Princess Twilight knew exactly what Pinkie Pie was going to do?" Zane inquired.

I sighed, "She's been a victim of Pinkie Pie's research, so of course she would know what was coming."

I looked over at Zane to see he looked like he had a chill down his spine. "And that creepy 'smile song'? Yeah, I agree with Princess Twilight, Pinkie Pie needs to be brought to justice. Can't you help them?"

I shook my head, "Nope, that's not how this works. I have the responsibility to rule over the Underground. I was told I can only go outside when I'm going to give to the human world another half-child."

Zane chuckled, "Yeah, I don't want that job either. I'm a one-woman kind of guy."

I rolled my eyes, "I know, I've heard you say that many times before."

"I wonder, when are you going to send an invitation for Bear to come and watch Alex with us?" Zane asked.

I sighed, "I've tried to invite him, but he's always busy. So it's just you and me for now."

Zane nodded, "I see. I wonder if Princess Twilight and Violet's plan to get Alex to break up with his girlfriend will work?"

I smiled, I didn't want to say anything about what was going to happen next. "Sorry Zane, I can't say a word."

Zane rolled his eyes because he knew that I knew what was coming up next.

* * *

{Alex}

It was nightfall by the time we got back to PPA HQ. Detective Simon Carter and Detective A. Ryker were given access to stay there and they were given room assignments too.

I noticed that Princess Twilight was the most exhausted out of all of us. I had a feeling it was probably because of doing that teleportation spell and the spell that saved us from Pinkie Pie's traps that almost killed us.

I knew Princess Twilight's room was on the other side of HQ, so I pulled her to the side. "You look tired, Princess."

Princess Twilight yawned, "Yeah I am. I'm pretty sure once I get some sleep, I should be fine and ready to go back out and catch Pinkie again."

Once again, I found myself thinking about how cute she is not just in her human form, but in her pony form too. I figured the least I could do was help her out when she's done some much for us lately. "Um, princess?"

"Yes, Alex?" Princess Twilight asked.

"I was thinking, maybe you should stay in my room tonight?" I suggested.

Princess Twilight tilted her head, "Why?"

"Because it's closer to where we are now," I replied. "And it's the least I could do since you've helped us out so much already."

"You don't have to do that for me." Princess Twilight protested.

I smiled. "I know, but I want to do it."

Before we could head over to my room, Violet pulled Princess Twilight off to the side and whispered into her ear. She smiled and nodded, "I know, we can do that tomorrow. No, I won't tell him. No, that's not going to happen tonight. I wish you would stop teasing me about it!"

Violet laughed and I saw she had a mischievous smile on her face when Princess Twilight and I headed over to my room.

The room I live in at the PPA is basically a small apartment. It's furnished, and in each room, I had what one would expect to see in an apartment like a couch and a Tv. In the kitchen I had a table, a fridge, and a sink. I have a full bathroom, which has a shower and a sink, and the room is decorated with tiles on the walls and floors.

Then there's my bedroom which isn't really much to look at. There's a bed and a dresser with my clothes in it. I don't feel the need to decorate everything when I'm always on the move. Especially when I don't sleep in my apartment every night when I'm on an assignment.

Since I'm an agent for the PPA, the rent comes out of my paycheck.

When I opened the door, Princess Twilight looked around the place with awe. I gave her a quick tour of the place. I couldn't get over how adorable she looked when she looked around and examined everything. She was as adorable as she did when she examined my bike.

"Wish I'd brought a notebook and quill with me!" Princess Twilight exclaimed. I guess I was smiling at her again because she looked over at me, "I've noticed you've been smiling at me a lot lately. Now if only you could add a laugh to that, it would be nice."

I felt myself blush, so I looked away. "I, um…"

Princess Twilight snorted, "No matter, one of these days, I'm going to make you laugh. Not just in front of me, but in front of everyone else and be okay with it. I'm going to do something so funny that you won't be able to hide your laughter in front of everyone even if you wanted to."

I raised an eyebrow, "Uh-huh, yeah, sure you are."

"So, where do I sleep?" Princess Twilight asked.

I pointed at my bedroom, "You can sleep in there and I'll just sleep out on the couch."

Princess Twilight shook her head rapidly, "No, that's not going to work Alex! I'm your guest! I can't take over your bed!"

"Okay," I bit the inside of my cheek trying to figure out what to do next. There was an awkward silence between us.

Princess Twilight broke the silence, "I know what might work!"She said as she changed into her pony form. "You can still sleep in your bed, as long as I have enough pillows to sleep on, I can sleep on the floor next to you."

"You sure about that?" I asked.

Princess Twilight nodded. "Yup!"

"Okay then." I grabbed as many pillows that I could find and made a neat pile for her to sleep on. Once she curled up on the pile and went to sleep, I got changed and went to sleep myself.

* * *

When I fell asleep I wasn't sure if I was dreaming or having a vision. But all I saw was Princess Twilight standing in front of me in her human form. She was saying something but what it was, I didn't know because I couldn't hear it. I didn't know why it happened, but for some reason, I kissed Princess Twilight and that was when I opened my eyes.

When I opened my eyes, I heard Star laughing in my head. What is so funny?

I felt your emotions Alex and you like her. Star thought.

Uh, like who? I thought.

Star laughed and thought, I can feel her emotions too and she likes you.

Yeah, no. I thought.

Star snorted and thought, You just had a vision about kissing her. I could tell from your feelings it really turned you on!

Excuse me? I thought. I pulled back the covers and looked to see that my underwear was wet. Great…

I looked down at Star to see that she was glowing green. Then I heard Star laughing and she thought in a sing-song voice, You're going to get a new girlfriend!

Then I realized Star was right about me having feelings for Princess Twilight, because of how cute I thought she was time and time again. The vision that I had just had confirmed my feelings for her.

* * *

{Princess Twilight}

The next day I thankfully woke up before Alex did. I couldn't wait to put the plan Violet and I talked about to get Alex to break up with his awful girlfriend named Mary. I cast the sleeping spell on him to make sure that he would stay asleep at least for another half an hour or so. Once I saw the sleeping spell worked, I headed out the door to meet up with Violet. Before I headed out the door, I changed into my human form.

I saw Violet and she had a smile on her face, "You ready to do this?"

I nodded, "Yup, if it means getting Alex away from that evil woman, I'm ready to do this!"

"Thankfully, I just got another cell phone from the store at headquarters," Violet said, "So once this phone call is done, I'm shutting this one off and Mary's not getting my new phone number that's for sure. I don't feel like getting any more angry phone calls from her ever again. Trust me, there's going to be an angry mob outside her house if she makes him quit his job again."

I nodded, "I agree, and I will go with you on that. What's her full name?"

"Gretter," responded Violet, "Mary Gretter."

Once Violet dialed the number she handed the phone over to me. The phone rang a couple of times and Mary answered it. "Gretter's residence, may I ask who's calling?"

"Yeah, is this Mary Gretter by chance?" I asked.

"Speaking, who is this?" Mary questioned.

"My name is Terra," I said, "I'm a close personal friend of Alex and I have something to say to you."

Mary chuckled, "Oh really? What might that be?"

"I've heard about the mean things you've done to Alex. He's living far away from you because of it." I informed her.

"Is that why he's gone for weeks at a time and not at home spending time on my days off with me?" Mary asked.

"Yup, that's exactly why," I growled, "let me tell you, something lady. Alex doesn't have to be at your house every waking moment of the day."

"Actually he should-" Mary started.

"No, he doesn't!" I snapped, "You should know that Alex can be friends with whoever he wants to."

"Yeah, not with me he can't." Mary snarled.

"What are you?" I bickered, "His mother? In case you didn't notice he's a grown adult! You're so mean and abusive to him, I'm going to do everything in my power to take him away from you. He doesn't need friends like you and if you even try to make him quit his job, I'll come and find you, and I don't care if I get jail time because of it."

"Oh yeah?" Mary sneered.

"Yeah!" I hissed, "So take this threat to heart. Like I said, I don't care if I have to do jail time to get him away from you. Got that?"

"Yeah, whatever, good luck with that! Alex isn't leaving me, so goodbye!" Mary roared.

I smiled as the phone on her end of the conversation went dead.

* * *

When I got off the phone, Violet smiled at me, "How did it go?"

"I think it went fine," I said, "like I told her, I don't care if I do jail time myself if it'll get Alex away from that evil woman!"

I didn't realize that Detective Simon Carter and A. Ryker were standing right behind me and Violet.

"What's up?" Detective Simon Carter asked.

I smiled, "Nothing, I just did something that'll hopefully get Alex to break up with his turd girlfriend."

Violet nodded. "I agree. Let's hope this is the straw that breaks the camel's back."

10) A New Relationship

{Alex}

I woke up and when I saw that Princess Twilight was gone I didn't panic. I assumed she went to go meet up with Violet and the others. So I got dressed and locked the door to my room as I left. Before I could even get to the cafe, I got a notice that I had a phone call from Mary.

"Hello." I said.

"Alex," said Mary. I could tell by the sound of her voice she was very upset about something, "Who's Terra?"

I rolled my eyes because I knew exactly what she was going to accuse me of next. "She's a friend of mine from work."

"Oh really," growled Mary, "a friend of yours? Well she did say that. Now I have evidence you're cheating on me!"

I groaned, "Really Mary! Are you delusional? A phone call is not evidence!"

Mary scoffed, "Fine then, I'm giving you a choice: it's me or the job!"

At hearing Mary's ultimatum my anger hit the roof. "Okay that's it! I've had it with you! You keep making me quit jobs and when I don't have one you nag me about not having one. When that happens, you call me a lazy slob! What the fucking hell do you want from me, huh?"

I took a breath and paused from my ranting. I realized something, I've had enough of this relationship, it's been one problem after another with this woman. Since it was Princess Twilight that made the phone call, I figured I'd use this to get rid of Mary. "You know something Mary?"

"What?" Mary snapped.

I smiled, "You're right, I'm cheating on you."

"For how long?" Mary demanded.

"Oh, for about six months now." I responded.

"I can tell by the sound of your voice you're lying." Mary hissed.

Finally I came clean, "Yup, you're right Mary. This is the last fight we're going to have!"

"You don't mean that!" Mary shrieked.

I smiled knowing that it was Princess Twilight that helped me out. I felt liberated, "Oh yeah, I mean it and I'm picking the job this time! I'm also picking my lover, Terra."

"But-" Mary fake sobbed.

I sneered. "We're done! Goodbye! See you never!"

I hung up the phone before Mary could reply. Once I hung up the phone I looked over to see Lucky Bee raise an eyebrow at me, "Wow, if that wasn't an angry phone call I don't know what is."

"That was an angry phone call alright," I said with a smile, "I just broke up with my turd girlfriend Mary. And I should probably get Princess Twilight a present for helping me do it."

Lucky Bee gave me a flirting smile, "Oh really? So you're available now?"

"Yeah, I'm still not interested Ms. Bee. I have someone else in mind, if she'll have me."

Instead of being disappointed, Lucky Bee looked overjoyed, "Well, go get her!"

"Thanks Ms. Bee." I said.

"Oh, come on Alex," said Lucky Bee, "just call me Lucky already."

"Nope, that's not happening, see you later!" When I arrived at the cafe I saw that Violet, Detective Simon Carter, and Detective A. Ryker were sitting at a table waiting for me. I couldn't stop myself from smiling, I've been smiling ever since I met Princess Twilight.

Violet smiled, "Wow, I can tell by that smile on your face something has you happy. What is it?"

I couldn't help it, I grinned when I looked at Princess Twilight. She raised an eyebrow, "Okay, why are you grinning at me?"

"I just broke up with my turd girlfriend." I replied. "And Princess?"

"What?" Princess Twilight asked.

"Come here." Princess Twilight didn't see what was coming next, I took her by surprise when I pulled her into my arms and kissed her.

Violet chuckled, "Wow Alex, it's about time you saw the light."

I stopped kissing Princess Twilight and looked into her eyes, "Um, princess?"

"Yes, Alex?" Princess Twilight said.

"Would you be my girlfriend?" I asked.

Princess Twilight smiled and nodded. "Yes."

As Violet, Detective Simon Carter, and Detective A. Ryker laughed at this, I heard Star think I told you so about your feelings. You two look so cute together. I wonder when is the wedding going to be?

No comment on that. I thought.

I went to kiss Princess Twilight again when Violet cleared her throat, "While this love fest is nice and all, we really should get going to catch Pinkie Pie don't you think?"

I could tell Princess Twilight didn't want to let go of me, but we forced ourselves to let go of each other.

Wait a second, Star thought, that's it! This just might work after all!

What are you talking about Star? I thought.

Since you and the princess have gotten together now, and I'm sensing from your emotions it's true love- Star thought.

Wait, wait, wait! I thought, We just got together so how can it be true love?

Because I can sense your emotions, you idiot! Star thought, Now, as I was saying, since you guys are together now, if you can zero in on the thing you're looking for, you just might be able to predict the future based on that.

Okay. I thought.

Well let's see, Pinkie Pie is one of the princesses good friends, or at least she was her good friend. But what I'm thinking is that you could possibly zero in on Princess Twilight's memories of Pinkie Pie! That might help you have visions so that should help you track down Pinkie Pie! Star thought.

Okay, I don't think that's going- Before I could finish that thought a vision happened. Pinkie Pie was back at AE Corp. She was in her office talking to a guy that looked like he was about my age and he was dressed in business attire.

"I'm telling you," begged Pinkie Pie, "I need more protection from those agents of the PPA."

"What do you want from me Pinkie?" The guy asked.

"Sssh!" Pinkie Pie said, "Pipsqueak, it's Roxy, do you want those crazy humans to hear us?"

"I can't help you Roxy," responded Pipsqueak, "I'm here legally. I have my work permit too. I have a legal magic necklace. If the PPA finds out I'm helping a rogue pony out, that could mean some serious trouble for me."

"Well, you should help me anyway." Pinkie hissed.

"Uh, no, I won't," snarled Pipsqueak, "and since I'm over here legally and I'm your boss, you're fired! Grab your things and don't let the door hit you on the way out."

"Humph!" Pinkie scoffed. "Fine then, good help is so hard to find these days."

When Pinkie hesitated to leave at first, Pipsqueak got really annoyed and he rolled his eyes. "Get out of here now or I'm calling security!"

"I'm going, I'm going!" Pinkie responded.

That was the end of the vision, when I opened my eyes, my ears were ringing at first but it slowly stopped. Princess Twilight looked at me with concern, "Are you okay Alex?"

"I'm fine," I shook my head to make the room stop spinning.

Princess Twilight frowned, "No, you don't look fine. You should probably sit down."

I sat down, "I had another vision. For some reason it hit kind of hard. But Pinkie was asking for protection from another pony named Pipsqueak. He refused and she didn't look happy about it."

"Where is she now?" Violet asked.

Finally the dizziness went away and I was able to think more clearly. "She's back at AE Corp. And it looks like we're going to have to talk to Monkey for stronger voltage on our stunner bullets."

Detective Simon Carter raised an eyebrow, "Stunner bullets?"

"They're bullets that work a lot like tasers, but they're stronger," Violet explained, "When a bullet hits a pony it stuns them enough so we can bring them back to Equestria. Sometimes it knocks the pony out too. If that happens then it makes it even easier for us to do our jobs. But there are ponies that can resist the stunner bullets no matter how many hit them. That's why we have to ask for stronger voltage."

"Oh," said Detective A. Ryker, "so if you need stronger stunner bullets because a pony can resist the ones you have, I guess it's kind of trying to tase a drunk person or someone that's high on something."

"That's exactly it Detective A. Ryker," I confirmed.

Detective A. Ryker chuckled, "Just call me Abigail, Alex."

"And just call me Simon," Detective Simon Carter said.

I nodded, "Sure. So before we go, we'd better stop by Monkey to get our weapons, ammo, vehicles and then we'll head out from there. The vision won't take place for another twenty minutes. If I'm correct it's give or take. I'm sorry princess but I don't feel like dealing with the side effects of a teleportation spell. No offense."

Princess Twilight laughed, "No offense taken. I understand."

"We have our vehicles outfitted for more than one passenger," I said.

"Yeah," said Princess Twilight with excitement, "Alex has a motorcycle that can fly!"

Simon raised an eyebrow in disbelief, "Really?"

I nodded "Yes, really."

"Well, I would say I don't believe you, but this I gotta see," Simon said.

We headed over to Eric, Violet and I checked in at his desk. Eric smiled when he saw us. "Well hey you two! And hello Terra! I heard you guys have two detectives working with you now," He looked over at Abigail and Simon and smiled, "Judging by your badges I'm going to say you're the two detectives working with Alex and Violet am I right?"

"Yes Monkey," I said, "these are the two detectives."

"My name is Detective S. Carter to you Monkey." Simon snapped.

"It's Detective A. Ryker." Abigail growled.

"Okay, geez, touchy!" Eric said defensively, "I didn't know calling someone by their profession was an insult."

I rolled my eyes, "Well, if you would stop gawking at them, and that includes Terra, then there wouldn't be much of a problem."

Princess Twilight gave Eric a wary look and I could tell that Eric just couldn't help himself. He gave her the same flirting smile that Lucky Bee gives to me a lot.

"Would you stop looking at my new girlfriend like that?" I snapped.

Eric raised an eyebrow, "New girlfriend, huh? This sexy young lady standing beside you named Terra, although I have a feeling she's a pony in disguise, is your girlfriend. Exactly how new?"

"He just got together with her a half hour ago," Violet stated.

Eric smirked. "Oh so very new, huh? That means I still have a chance to get her in my bed so I can stick my dick in her. I wonder, Terra, are you a virgin?"

"Excuse me?" Princess Twilight snapped. She also gagged on what was just said. "You are disgusting! Even if I was single, you're not my type because you're gross! So that would definitely be a big fat NO!"

I bit my bottom lip to keep myself from laughing at Princess Twilight's reaction to Eric flirting with her. But as quickly as the urge to laugh came it disappeared with what Eric said next. He can be such a fat-ass pig sometimes when it comes down to his dirty ideas about women. "Now why would you want to be someone who can't laugh Terra? If you get with me I can make your vagina laugh."

"Now listen here Mister!" Princess Twilight growled, "Yuck, you are gross and I reserve the right to date whoever I want! I'm going to make Alex laugh in front of me if it's the last thing I do!"

Eric snorted. "Well, good luck with that. Anyway, what can I help you guys with today?"

"We need to dial up the voltage on our stunner bullets," Violet mentioned, "The rogue pony we're going after is a tricky one. Somehow, she was able to upgrade her magic necklace to deflect the bullets."

"Oh yeah," noted Eric, "I heard there's an underground market for that. The PPA hasn't been able to find who's doing it yet."

Eric turned around and opened the vault behind him before he brought stunner guns out, they looked a little bit different from the ones we have as of now. The magazine on them is a little bit bigger because the stunner bullets with the higher voltage are bigger than the regular ones. "Here you go, two high voltage stunners with lethal switch bullets in them."

Violet and I exchanged our guns for the ones that Eric had. "Oh, and I need to check your vehicles to make sure everything's working properly."

Violet and I nodded and handed our vehicles over to him.

Simon tilted his head, "Your vehicles are boxes?"

Princess Twilight smiled, "Just wait Simon, you'll see!"

Eric took out his special tool that he uses to examine our vehicles. When he was done he nodded, "Looks like everything is in working order and good to go. And Terra?"

Princess Twilight narrowed her eyes, "Yes, Monkey?"

"If you're ever on the rebound, I'd be more than happy to take Alex's place," Eric smirked.

"Yeah, still a big fat NO!" Princess Twilight replied.

I rolled my eyes, "Anyway, thanks again Monkey."

Eric nodded, "Sure, no problem."

I smiled, wondering how Abigail and Simon were going to react to seeing Violet and mine's vehicles for the first time. Violet and I put our boxes on the floor and pressed the red button on top of them. Our vehicles unfolded into our bikes and when Simon and Abigail saw this, their jaws dropped.

"Okay, now I've seen everything!" Abigail exclaimed.

Simon whistled, "You got that one right, Ryker!"

Abigail looked at my bike and she looked like she had seen a ghost.

"What's wrong?" I queried.

"If I'm correct, Terra said your bike can fly right?" Abigail inquired.

I nodded. "Yeah, so?"

"I'm afraid of heights," responded Abigail, "so if you don't mind I'll ride Violet's regular bike."

Violet smiled, "It's no problem at all. Besides, I haven't had a passenger with me in a while."

Abigail got on the passenger seat of Violet's bike and Violet got on hers and put the kickstand up and started the engine. Princess Twilight got on the passenger seat behind mine and Simon got the passenger seat behind her. I got on the bike and started it. "Ready?"

"Yup!" Princess Twilight declared.

Simon gulped, "I'm not sure if I am, but okay."

"Alright, ready or not, let's go!" I thought it was Princess Twilight screaming when I took off. I didn't realize it was Simon screaming like a girl instead.

* * *

We got to the location where Pinkie was supposed to be at. Princess Twilight got off my bike and she looked puzzled about something. Simon looked like he had been on a rollercoaster for the first time.

"What is it princess?" I asked.

"I heard someone screaming like a girl on the way here." Princess Twilight answered. "I know it wasn't you Alex because you're the one driving. I know it wasn't me because trust me, I know what my screaming sounds like."

Princess Twilight looked at Simon and snorted. I felt an urge to laugh and excused myself to go do it.

* * *

{Princess Twilight}

When I saw Alex excuse himself to go laugh somewhere else, I did a facepalm and groaned, "Damn it! Again?"

Simon tilted his head, "Uh, what's wrong?"

"Well you see, Simon," I explained, "Alex has a hard time laughing in front of people. Getting him to smile is easy, but laughing? That's the hardest thing to do."

Simon raised an eyebrow, "Why?"

"Alex's mother disciplined him every time he laughed in front of her," I replied.

Simon's jaw dropped, "Really?"

I nodded,"Yup."

"Now I can understand playing a prank and being disciplined for that. But every single time you laugh?" Simon gasped, "I know child abuse when I see it and that's child abuse!"

"Wow, if you ask me a mother doing something like that is psycho," I agreed, "Mother's are supposed to protect their children, not harm them!"

Simon nodded. "I know, I agree, but unfortunately, time and time again I've seen child abusers go free. Mostly because no one wants to talk and there's not enough evidence to pin someone down with it."

"That's messed up," I said, "but with my job as the Princess of Friendship it is my duty to protect my friends. I will do that with Alex, even if it means protecting him from a family member."

"Princess of Friendship?" Simon questioned.

I nodded. "Oh yes, where I'm from, I'm called an Alicorn because in my pony form I have wings and a horn. Being an alicorn means I'm royalty, a Princess. My full name is Princess Twilight Sparkle. But I prefer to be called Princess Twilight. I found my calling shortly after becoming a princess, it is to spread friendship wherever I go. And now that I have friends on Earth, it's my duty to protect them too."

Simon whistled, "Wow, you're more noble than I am."

"I don't know about noble," I said with a shrug, "I'm just doing my job, like Alex is."

I looked over to see Violet and Abigail pulling up and once they got off the bike Abigail frowned, "Where's Alex?"

I groaned, "He went to go somewhere out of earshot to laugh by himself."

Simon made a motion for Abigail to follow him and from the looks of it, he explained what I just told him. I saw the look on Abigail's face and it was a look of horror. "What? Seriously?"

"Yup, just don't let him know that we know, okay." Simon instructed.

Abigail nodded, "Sure thing Carter."

It was shortly after that when Alex came back to us.

* * *

{Alex}

When I came back to where Princess Twilight and the others were, I said, "Well, we should go get back to tracking down Pinkie. Although I have a feeling that catching Pinkie might take longer than I thought it would take."

Violet shrugged, "It's all part of the job, it seems Pinkie Pie's giving us a run for our money."

I rolled my eyes, "No duh Violet. Anyway, the twenty minute deadline is up. Pinkie should be coming out right about-"

Princess Twilight pointed behind me, "Uh, Alex? She's right over there."

I turned around and for some reason, my eye twitched when I saw her. Pinkie looked pissed off when she saw us. "Okay, you guys are getting on my last fucking nerve! I don't know how you're able to find me so quickly but it needs to stop! I guess I'll have to take more extreme measures against you."

We stared in horror as Pinkie pulled out a regular gun from her pants pocket. I looked over to see Princess Twilight was pissed when she saw this, "Oh no you don't Pinkie, you fucking bitch!"

Pinkie rolled her eyes, "Wow, you know it's unbecoming of a princess to use cuss words. I wonder, where did you learn them?"

"Well that's personal information!" Princess Twilight snapped, "In case you didn't notice Pinkie but your silly little gun won't work on us."

"What the fuck?" Pinkie gasped, "You just had to use the protection spell didn't you? How did you learn to do that in human form?"

Princess Twilight gave Pinkie a smug smile and I looked to see coming from Princess Twilight's hands was a pink aura that was in the form of a shield protecting us. She laughed wickedly, "You see Pinkie, before I came to Earth, Princess Luna taught me how to use magic in my human form. Since my special talent is magic, I am able to do things that you can only dream of! You're not going to be able to put me in your iron chains anymore bitch!"

"And why not?" Pinkie demanded to know.

"Because I know how to get out of them now." Princess Twilight answered, "You might've been able to take me by surprise by your stupid 'smile song' before, but it's not going to work now."

Pinkie gave a sinister smile, "Oh really?"

Pinkie started to sing her 'smile song' and I could see that Princess Twilight was steaming with anger. "Oh no you don't you stupid BITCH!"

When Princess Twilight shouted the word bitch it was so loud that I could've sworn it sounded like an opera singer hitting the highest note. I looked behind Pinkie to see that the glass doors and windows on the front of AE Corp shattered because of Princess Twilight's shout. Pinkie's gun got knocked out of her hand because of the glass shards and one of them was big enough to get stuck in Pinkie's hand. Blood dripped from her hand when it happened.

Princess Twilight smirked, "Looks like you have a bad wound that needs to be attended to. I can help you with that, if you come back to Equestria with me. Only after you've been thrown in a dungeon for your crimes!"

I winced when I saw Pinkie rip the glass shard out of her hand.

Pinkie laughed, "This is nothing I can't take care of myself. Until next time Twilight."

Like the other times when we were so close to catching Pinkie, she touched the pendant on her magic necklace and disappeared.

11) Dead Ends

{Alex}

We left immediately after Pinkie Pie disappeared. We stopped at a parking lot for a grocery store down the road.

"Well," said Violet, "at least we aren't responsible for any damage that happens while we're on an assignment. Because the PPA is a well guarded secret and a lot of time damage does happen when you're tracking down a rogue pony."

I looked over to see Princess Twilight visibly upset, so upset she was shaking now. I put a hand on her shoulder to get her to look at me. "Please calm down princess, you're scaring me."

"Huh?" Princess Twilight asked. She looked at me and somehow that seemed to be enough to calm her down. "You know something Alex? How a kind person like you got together with an evil woman like Mary is beyond me."

I gave her a smile and Violet chuckled. "You know Alex has been smiling ever since he met you?"

I didn't hear Violet's comment because I was more concerned about Princess Twilight for the moment. She looked at me and grinned. I raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"I didn't really notice your smile much until now. I think it's cute," Princess Twilight commented.

"I uh…" I said. I felt my cheeks turn red so I looked away. Princess Twilight looked into my eyes and kissed me. I broke the kiss after a moment or two. "Okay, what was that for?"

"Because I like your smile," said Princess Twilight, "and not only am I going to keep you smiling, I'm going to make you laugh in front of not just me but everyone around you!"

Aww, you sure found a keeper, Alex! Star thought I think she's going to bring you happiness for a long time to come!

I smiled and thought, Gee, thanks Star.

No problem! Star thought.

The next thing I know is there was a chorus of the 'awe' coming from Violet, Simon, and Abigail.

* * *

Later that night, we figured we should stay at a hotel so we could figure out what to do next. Since Princess Twilight and I were now a couple, we stayed in the same room.

As soon as we got into our room, Princess Twilight changed back into her pony form. She sat down on the couch and made a motion for me to sit next to her. "Alex, there's something I want to talk to you about."

"Okay." I said. I gulped.

Princess Twilight smiled. "I can understand your nervousness, but this is a good thing I think. I have a feeling you might be concerned about our living arrangements and about how this relationship is going to work in general."

I didn't respond because I didn't know what to say. She continued, "Well, I for one hope that we'll be together for a long time. Even if we break up, it would be my hope that we could still remain friends."

I opened my mouth and shut it in surprise.

Princess Twilight giggled. "As far as our living arrangements go, I'm not going to make you quit a job you love to do. I'm pretty sure you don't want me to quit a job I love doing either. So, we have two options. We can live in the castle in Equestria and you would still be able to do your job."

I tilted my head. "But how?"

"It would be a little complicated," said Princess Twilight, "but I'm pretty sure that I could talk to Princess Luna and we can work something out. The other option would be to stay at the PPA HQ and I would be able to do my job also. My job as the Princess of Friendship is to spread friendship everywhere I go. Since I'm on Earth now there's more opportunity for me to do that. According to Fluttershy, all of the elements of harmony have moved on to finding new bearers. So it makes it easier for us to keep going with this relationship. That is, if you want that, I understand if you don't."

I smiled and reached over and kissed her. "You know something Princess? You're a keeper, and that's what I plan to do for as long as I can."

Princess Twilight giggled and kissed me and this time she put her tongue in my mouth. She smiled afterwards. "And Alex? Don't call me Princess anymore."

"Why?" I asked.

"Because you're my special somepony," answered Princess Twilight, "just call me Twilight. But only you can do that. To everyone else it's just Princess Twilight. However, you could use the word princess as a pet name if you want."

"Hmm," I said, "I think I'll have to come up with something better, but okay."

I felt myself getting aroused by the thought of giving Twilight a pet name and I had no idea why. I gave a nervous laugh. "Um, Twilight, I think we should just go to bed and call it a night."

Twilight smiled. "Yeah, sure. I don't think we should share a bed yet."

I nodded. "Sure."

I don't know why, but I felt relieved at the thought of not sharing a bed with Twilight just yet. I agree it's not time for that yet.

* * *

The next morning, everyone met up at the lobby of the hotel we were at. Violet pulled Twilight off to the side. She whispered something into Twilight's ear. I could tell that whatever Violet was telling her, it peaked her interest. I wasn't so sure if I wanted to know what Violet told her. Mostly because of how enthusiastic her response was.

Twilight nodded. "Uh-huh, yeah, I got it."

As Violet continued to whisper into her ear she smiled. "Oh, so that's where you get those from! And a backpack too? That's perfect! Now I can do my research the proper way, unlike Pinkie," Twilight looked into her pants pockets for something, "Good, I should have enough money here, I'll be right back."

My jaw dropped when I saw Twilight disappear in the blink of an eye. I narrowed my eyes at Violet, "What did you tell her?"

Violet smiled and shifted her gaze. "Nothing! I didn't tell her anything that she didn't need to know!"

I gave Violet a wary look, "Uh-huh. I don't want to know."

Violet gave me a mischievous smile. "Actually, I'm curious to see what her reaction to her research will be. She did say she wanted to research you. So I just pointed her in the right direction to do things properly, as she puts it."

I looked over to see Abigail chuckling.

Before I could say anything, I had a vision. Not about Pinkie, but about Twilight. Twilight and I were sitting on the couch in my apartment. She pulled out of her backpack some sort of book. She said something but I didn't hear what it was, and when she handed me the book the title on it was censored. She then reached over and kissed me. That was the end of the vision.

I opened my eyes to see Twilight had reappeared with the backpack I saw that she had had in my vision. She looked at me with excitement. I rolled my eyes, "Yes, I had a vision, but it wasn't about Pinkie."

"Who was it about?" Twilight asked.

I pointed at her. "It was about you. It wasn't very clear, but it's going to happen in a week."

Twilight's jaw dropped, "Whoa, wait, how do you know how much time until the vision happens?"

I thought about it and then paused because I didn't know the answer to that question. "I uh.. I don't know, I just do."

Simon titled his head, "What's this about visions?"

"Can I tell them Alex? Please!" Twilight begged.

I nodded. "Sure Terra, go ahead."

"Well, you see Simon, Alex is someone called a Seer," Twilight explained, "It means he can predict the future. He also has other talents too speaking to the dead. As you saw, he can also know how much time is left until the vision happens."

"He also has an exploding star crystal that's around his neck," Violet added, "It's to help with his visions so he doesn't pass out like he did when it first started happening."

"Interesting," said Abigail, "is that how you tracked us down so easily?"

Twilight smiled and nodded, "Uh-huh and that's how Alex was able to find out that you guys called Pinkie the 'Bonfire Killer'. That's also how he found out that Abigail hates it when Simon says the word okay twice in the same sentence."

Abigail snorted at Twilight's remark, "Yeah Carter, doing that really gets on my nerves."

"And your negative attitude gets on my nerves." Simon snapped.

When Twilight saw me biting my tongue she rolled her eyes when she saw me holding in my laughter, "You know you can laugh, right Alex?"

I sighed, "Sorry Terra, but I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon."

Simon's jaw dropped, "Wow, you weren't kidding when you said Alex couldn't laugh in front of people."

Twilight sighed, "Unfortunately yes."

I wanted to say something about this annoying conversation and I was about to speak up when I had another vision. It involved Pinkie getting into contact with someone. It was a young man that looked like he was possibly younger than me. He had brown and blue eyes and he wore a black t-shirt and tan shorts. He was in a garage working on someone's car. The phone rang and he stopped working on the car to go answer it. The strange thing was the vision faded out and when it faded back it flipped to Pinkie's point of view.

"Yes, is this Dalton?" Pinkie asked, "I need your help once more. I don't know how but those agents of the PPA are able to track me down way too easily. I need a place to stay for a day or two."

Pinkie paused when she listened to Dalton's response and she wasn't happy about it. "What do you mean you can't help me anymore? …. Why you're just being selfish because you're putting your family first... I'm the selfish one? …. Seriously! ... Fine then, you're making a big mistake... You're not afraid of me huh? …. We'll just see about that!"

Pinkie hung up the phone and turned to another pony that was in the room with her. "I don't understand Bon Bon, why is everyone turning on me all of the sudden?"

Bon Bon answered, "Well, usually when the PPA has stepped up on their efforts to track down a rogue pony like you, that's when people and ponies that have helped you start singing a different tune. I don't blame them because if they get caught helping you, then their whole life is turned upside down. It would be all because of helping you out. You're here illegally, so what more can you expect?"

Pinkie went to another room, sulking as she did. The vision faded out again and when it came back into view the vision had flipped over to Bon Bon's point of view. She went over to a nearby phone and picked it up with her hooves before she used a special device to punch some numbers in on it. She then attached a special hearing device to the phone. I'm going to guess that it was so Pinkie couldn't hear her conversation.

"Yes, Lucky," whispered Bon Bon, "can you put me through to Agent Lawrence? I have some more information on the rogue pony she sent Agent Alex Shipman and Agent Violet Client after."

She wrote down an address on notebook paper, I saw the address and thought, Did you get that address Star?

Yup, Star thought, I got it.

The vision continued as Bon Bon nodded and she got through Agent Lawrence. "Yes I know, I can't let Pinkie get wind of the fact I'm the informant that's working with the PPA. If she finds out I might be the next victim of her 'research'. Yes, yes I know, see you soon."

After Bon Bon's phone call to Agent Lawrence happened, the vision ended. I found it funny that all of Pinkie's friends were turning on her now. I didn't realize I let out a small laugh until Twilight said something about it.

I gave her a puzzled look, "What?"

Twilight grinned. "I heard that Alex."

"Uh, heard what?" I asked.

"You laughed." Twilight said.

I raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me?"

Simon smiled. "I heard it."

Abigail also smiled. "That makes three of us."

Violet chuckled, "And that makes four of us. From the looks of it, you laughed because of the vision, so I don't think it counts."

"It counts in my book!" Twilight smiled, "A laugh is a laugh no matter where it comes from or what it's about! Even if you've gone psycho!"

"What was so funny in the vision?" Violet asked.

"Well practically all of Pinkie's 'friends' or 'little helpers' are now turning on her," I answered, "It was a strange vision too. It flipped to different points of view in it."

"Huh, really?" Twilight asked, "Hmm, interesting."

Twilight took out a notebook and a pen from her backpack. She started writing things down. I raised an eyebrow at her. "Okay, anyway, the vision started with some guy named Dalton's view point. When he got a call from Pinkie he told her that wasn't going to help her, which she wasn't too happy about. Then the vision switched to a pony named Bon Bon's point of view. She called our boss Agent Lawrence to give her some information on Pinkie's whereabouts."

Violet paused, "Wait, why would Bon Bon be talking to our boss?"

"Because she's an informant for the PPA," I answered, "from the looks of it, she's getting ready to turn Pinkie in herself. The meeting with Agent Lawrence is going to happen tomorrow. I'm not sure if it's a go."

"Why?" Simon asked while tilting his head.

"Well, if Bon Bon's meeting with my boss," I said, "then it might interfere with the progress of tracking Pinkie down."

I paused and looked down at Star to see she was pitch black. Twilight looked down at Star. "Why is your crystal black?"

I sighed, "It means I've decided not to go along with the vision."

"So what do we do now?" Violet asked. I could tell by the worried look on her face by the corners of her mouth turned into a frown. She looked up at me as if she were looking to me for answers.

"Why am I the leader of the group?" I growled.

"Well, you're the one with the Seer abilities," Violet said, "so it makes sense you should be the leader."

I was annoyed by this, I had half a mind to go my own way, with Twilight of course, and let everyone else figure out how to catch Pinkie on their own. I grit my teeth, "I'm not the leader just because I'm a Seer. Last time I checked, you guys aren't robots and you can think for yourselves!"

Violet looked taken aback by this response. "Wow, you look pissed!"

"Yeah, think?" I snarled. I had never been this angry with Violet before. I was getting ready to wring Violet's neck when Twilight stepped in between us.

"Okay, you two calm down," said Twilight, "Violet, did you really need to do that? Alex is right, just because he has these abilities doesn't mean he has to be the leader. Trust me, I know how it feels. My friends did that to me back in Equestria. It happened because my special talent is magic. I was the one that discovered the elements of harmony. That helped my friends and I defeat Nightmare Moon. I say we all put in suggestions and figure out what to do as a group."

Abigail smiled and nodded. "Terra's right about this. Carter and I might have a boss but it's up to every detective to think for themselves to help solve the case. You don't make top ranks by just following orders."

Simond agreed. "Yup!"

So for thirty minutes we went to the breakfast room to talk about what to do next. In the end all of us finally agreed to go back to the PPA Headquarters.

* * *

{Hugo}

Zane chuckled, "Wow, I'm surprised Alex didn't figure out a way to kill his partner Violet right there on the spot. Good thing Princess Twilight stepped in."

I couldn't help but agree with Zane. Ever since I started watching Alex and he had started working for the PPA, I noticed Violet has a habit of pressing Alex's buttons. I smiled and nodded. "I'm glad Alex and Princess Twilight are together now. She makes a good fit for him. I think those two will be together for a long time."

"Looks like it to me," Zane said thoughtfully, "what I'm wondering is how Alex can tell how much time until a vision comes true."

I shrugged. "I don't know. Alex is one of a kind as far as half children go. From what I know, only I can do that. Most half children can only see the future and not tell how much time until a vision takes place. That's why Alex is my favorite half child!"

Zane whistled. "Wow, I wonder how many other talents he's going to develop."

I shook my head. "I don't know. I guess we'll just have to wait and see."

I didn't know about Zane at this point, but how Alex was able to tell how much time until a vision could come true made another reason for him to be my favorite half child.

* * *

{Alex}

Once we went back to the PPA HQ I paced back and forth in my living room thoroughly frustrated that we had arrived at another dead end. I could tell Twilight was concerned about me because of the look on her face. I sighed. "Sorry Twilight, but this has been the most frustrating assignment I've ever been on! All these dead ends and Pinkie disappearing on us every single time right in front of us? One would think with my stupid abilities the we would've caught her by now! I'm worried about failing this assignment! I don't know what I'll do if that happens!"

"Alex calm down," said Twilight, "just because you fail at an assignment doesn't make you any less of an agent. Believe it or not, I actually failed at a couple of assignments after becoming a princess of Equestria."

The fact that a princess could fail at an assignment surprised me. "So how did you fail at an assignment?"

"Well, the first one I failed was before I became a princess," Twilight explained, "it was from Princess Celestia. I had to write a letter every week about what I learned about friendship. I missed the deadline on one of them and I went completely berserk. It wasn't until my assistant Spike stepped in and told Princess Celestia what happened and it helped calm down all the craziness."

Twilight's story actually gave me some sort of relief and I tried to comfort myself with this. But I was still frustrated about all the dead ends. Without warning, I felt a small surge of power go through my body. The feeling of being frustrated left me.

I knew the power surge came from Twilight because I looked over to see that her horn was lit up. The light from her horn disappeared. "What did you just do, princess?"

Twilight chuckled. "It's called the Calm Down Spell. Before I became a princess, I thought about using my magic to be a doctor to help ponies recover at the hospital. I discovered the calmer ponies are the faster they would recover. I figured since you're so frustrated now this would be a good time to try and see if it works on a human. It did, considering your calm now."

I smiled. "Thanks."

Twilight then put her wing around me after I sat down on the couch next to her. I felt the warmth of it coming from her wing and her body.

"You know Princess Celestia would always do this with me when I was upset," said Twilight, "and I can tell it's helping you."

I didn't say anything. I just sat there, not wanting to move. After a while I started to feel sleepy because of Twilight comforting me.

"You look tired now," Twilight said, "Maybe we should both take a nap?"

I reluctantly nodded, not wanting to move from Twilight's comfort.

Twilight laughed. "Since it looks like you don't want to move, I can help you get to bed."

"Uh, huh?" I asked.

The next thing that happened Twilight gripped me in her magic and floated me over to my bed. I was sound asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

* * *

That night, I thought I was dreaming. I thought this because I found myself on my back on the ceiling in my bedroom. I stared down at my bed in horror when I realized where I was.

Okay, how did I get here? I thought.

I looked to see Twilight looking at me and she looked at me expectantly as if I needed to answer her question that I couldn't hear. Just like the last vision I saw of her, she floated a book over to me. The title of the book was blurred and I couldn't see what it was. I opened the book up and the pages were blurred and I couldn't see what was written in them. I looked down and felt nervous when I saw that I was naked. After that I woke up.

I woke up in a panic because I had a feeling that wasn't a dream but a vision. I knew it was going to happen tomorrow. I looked down at Star and confirmed it because she was glowing green. I agreed with the vision. I heard her laughing inside my head, Wow Alex! It looks like you two are going to start having sex soon. Didn't you two just get together a couple of days ago?"

Yes, this is much quicker than when I started having sex with Mary, I thought, we had sex after two weeks of being together. I hope Twilight doesn't get me drunk for it like Mary did. Although it didn't seem like it in the vision.

Uh, Alex? Star thought.

Yes? I thought.

You know that vision that you had before was going to happen in a week's time right? Star thought.

Yeah. I thought.

Well, it changed course. Star thought.

Lovely, so I'll be hanging from the ceiling tomorrow. I thought.

Oh come on Alex, Star thought, I doubt it's going to be that bad. It's just sex.

I'm not freaking because I think it's going to be bad. I thought. I'm freaked out because of how it's going to happen!

Star chuckled in her thoughts, I think it would be fun if I was on the ceiling to have sex with someone.

I laid down on the bed and took a couple of deep breaths to calm myself down. The more I tried to do that, the more nervous I was because of how this vision was going to play out.

12) The Flames of Love and a Hurtful Argument

{Twilight}

I got up early the next day before Alex. I took out my backpack and put my notebooks, pens, and the three books that Violet suggested in it and went to the café to do my research the proper way. I grabbed some breakfast, which consisted of oatmeal with fruit and a huge plate of vegetables with ranch dressing.

I had also bought a book on mating rituals, as Alex and Violet would called it sex, and I bought another book about how ponies have sex too. The last book I bought I found to be interesting because it talked about human anatomy. All of the books Violet suggested I read were actually good reads to me.

I also found spells in the books that I could use to help the experience along and make it more pleasurable. However, I wasn't sure if the spells would work on Alex because he's a human. But the 'Calm-Down' spell seemed to work with him so it's plausible that it might work.

As I wrote things down in my notebooks and grabbed another vegetable tray with ranch dressing, I noticed that Violet had taken a seat at the same table across from me. I rolled my eyes when I saw her, I felt just as annoyed as Alex did with the way she likes to press his buttons. I went back for thirds on the vegetable plate and the lady at the cash register commented on how much she thought it was good that I ate healthier than most humans.

I asked her why she thought that. She replied by saying it's because most humans like to eat a lot of what's considered unhealthy food and they gain weight because of it. She even mentioned that it surprised her that some agents that work for the PPA can even do their job because sometimes their weight is almost three hundred pounds!

Anyway, as I sat down and rolled my eyes when Violet frowned. I didn't feel like talking to her at the moment.

"Hi Princess," said Violet after she took her seat at the table, "how's it going?"

"It's going fine." I didn't even bother to look up at her. I just kept my nose in my book and kept writing things down.

"You're upset with me now too, huh?" Violet asked.

True, I was upset with her but not bad enough to give her the silent treatment. "You know something Violet? I think you owe Alex an apology. He wasn't just upset yesterday, he was worried that he might fail this assignment. I had to use my 'Calm-Down' spell to help him out."

Violet raised an eyebrow. "Calm-Down spell?"

"It's pretty much self-explanatory," I replied, "I used it a lot back in Equestria for sick ponies at the hospital. I figured out the calmer a pony was, the quicker their recovery would be."

Violet smiled. "That spell is going to come in handy as far as Alex goes. He has a tendency to worry about not completing an assignment. He was in the hospital with a heart attack because of worrying. I suspect that Mary had something to do with it too. Those Mary tantrums she had didn't really help matters at home."

The thought of being reminded of Alex being with such an evil woman like Mary made my blood boil.

"You know, I knew you were a good fit for Alex the very moment I met you." Violet remarked.

Violet giving me a compliment sounded like a way for her to get around apologizing to Alex. Even though I still had questions about the book I bought on humans having sex, I wasn't about to ask her about it anytime soon. "Well, if you want to smooth things over with Alex, I think you should apologize to him."

Violet sighed and then mumbled, "Okay fine, since you insist, I will."

I smiled and nodded, but I wasn't going to be happy with Violet until she actually apologized to Alex.

* * *

{Alex}

When I finally came out of my room, I grabbed some food from my refrigerator. I wasn't sure if I should've shown Twilight the fridge because there were hardly any vegetables in there. I also thought I should probably change my diet out of respect for her. I did that with all of my other girlfriends, so why not her?

When I started living at PPA HQ, I started to eat healthier than what I did when I lived with Mary. Living with Mary felt like a total nightmare. She cared less about what I ate just as long as I drank a lot of alcohol when she wanted to have sex with me. If I didn't know any better, I'd say she wanted me to die a slow painful death.

Now that I'm away from her and no longer dating her, I'm eating things like fish, eggs, and stuff like that. To tell the truth, I wasn't sure what ponies ate other than vegetables.

Today I sat at my kitchen table eating an egg sandwich with cheese and for some reason I felt like having some lettuce on it today. As I ate my breakfast I didn't realize that Twilight was right behind me until she said hi. I spit out the orange juice I had drunk in surprise.

"Oops," said Twilight, "sorry about that Alex. But I didn't see you at the café this morning. Did I miss you when you got your food?"

"Actually no," I said as I cleaned up the mess I made, "there's actually something I want to show you."

I went over to the fridge and opened it. Twilight's jaw dropped when she saw the inside of it. "Woa! Humans are something else. What is this device called?"

"It's called a refrigerator," I explained, "it's how humans store their food so it lasts longer. You don't have this Equestria?"

Twilight shook her head. "Nope, why do you think I'm looking at this in awe? Why are you showing me this now?"

"Well I didn't want to offend you because I didn't know what you eat, so…" I said.

"Why would-" Twilight paused, "Oh I get it. You want to adjust your diet out of respect for me right? You don't have to do that Alex."

"I've done that for all of my other girlfriends, so why wouldn't I do it for you?" I asked.

Twilight smiled. "It's okay Alex. I did a little bit of research, the proper way, and I found out that humans like to eat meat. From the looks of what you have in there you only eat chicken and fish along with some fruit. Although ponies in Equestria don't eat meat, not even fish. That's out of respect for the wildlife in Equestria. We also have some wildlife that can actually talk and are just as intelligent as you and me are."

What Twilight just said peaked my interest, "Really? Now that I would love to see sometime."

Twilight nodded and then looked at me with curiosity. I closed the fridge door and looked at her. "What?"

"I was able to do some research thanks to your friend Violet. I found some things that might help you take your mind off of this assignment for the time being. I don't think you should worry about that stuff at the moment." Twilight said.

It made me nervous because I knew the vision I saw was getting ready to start. "Okay? What do you have in mind?"

"Well," said Twilight, "I found a book of spells that normally would be used for stallions. I'm not sure if they're going to work on you since you're a human."

The next thing I knew, Twilight lit up her horn. I felt like I got sucked into something.

When I opened my eyes again, I looked down to see that somehow whatever that spell Twilight did put me on the ceiling. I looked down to confirm that my clothes were off. "Okay, why am I on the ceiling and why am I naked?"

Twilight answered, "Well stallions don't usually wear clothes. So I figured in order for the spells to work, you shouldn't be wearing clothes either."

I looked at Twilight to see her hanging from the ceiling like a bat. That made my heart race. I wondered if she might do a spell that would make me half aware of what was happening like when Mary would get me drunk just so she could have sex with me.

Twilight tilted her head and frowned. "What's wrong Alex?" She rolled her eyes. "Let me guess, you're worried I'm going to do something similar to what Mary did to you. What did she do?"

"She would get me drunk so she could have sex with me," I responded, "I don't think she put me on the ceiling for it, but I don't know. I'm just scared you'll do something that has a similar effect."

Twilight gasped. "I see, well I'm glad you got away from her! Let me tell you something, I'm nothing like Mary got it? All I want is what's best for you and nothing less."

I smiled and thought, I guess I was just being scared about nothing. She's right that she's not Mary. She never will be.

"Anyway, I have a question for you. I thought humans were just plain weird and this book on their mating rituals confirms it for me."

"Huh?" I replied.

"Well, take a look at it and see," She floated over to me in her magic a book. I snorted when I saw the title: How Humans Have Sex.

I couldn't stop myself from laughing when I opened the book and it showed different sex positions along with other things.

Twilight looked at me clearly confused by my reaction at seeing the book. "What's so funny?"

I laughed so hard it surprised me that I could even speak. "Wow, Violet and her pranks! She told you to… get a book...on how to have sex!"

I couldn't stop laughing because of course Violet just had to use Twilight's curiosity to play a prank on her.

Twilight chuckled. "Well, at least I got you to laugh. Now if only I could get you to do that in front of everyone else and not just me. Anyway, why would Violet tell me to get a book like this?"

I finally caught my breath and stopped laughing. "She probably did it because you're a virgin and curious about things."

Twilight paused. "Uh, virgin?"

"It's someone that hasn't had sex yet," I answered, "It's funny because Violet got you to do that. It's adorable because you felt you needed it for your research."

Twilight blushed and said, "As I was saying before, I found some spells in another book that are normally used for stallions that just might help. If it doesn't work I won't do it. We'll just have to figure something else out."

I smiled. "Yeah I can help you with that. You would have to take me off the ceiling if that happens."

"Okay then, for this spell to work," said Twilight, "the book said I have to do something with my tail."

"Uh, huh?" I felt Twilight's tail brush against my dick. I felt it get hard and it made me wonder what could possibly happen next.

"Hmm," said Twilight, "judging by the way your body is acting, I think it's working."

"Uh-huh." I groaned because I felt what felt like lips around my cock. Okay. There's no way Twilight would know how to give a blowjob because she's a virgin. I mean, she got a book on how people have sex. I looked over to see that Twilight's lips were nowhere near me.

I also saw Twilight's horn glowing. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the feeling of my member being pulled on. The room started to feel like being in a sauna as I felt myself shudder when I came.

When I opened my eyes again I saw Twilight smiling at me. Since her horn still glowed she pulled out of thin air her notebook and pen to write things down. "Hmmm, interesting, want me to do something else?"

I opened my mouth to say something but I closed it because I didn't know what to say. So I just nodded.

"Okay, the book did say that there were spells that would make this experience even better..."

I was on top of Twilight and I started kissing her. When I stopped kissing her, she said. "You know Alex, since I don't really know how this is done I figured it would be best for you to take the lead. Well, the book did say this might happen with ponies on their first time."

I nodded and went back to kissing her. I stuck myself inside her and started thrusting. I could tell she enjoyed herself because of how she moaned as I thrusted into her. She kept moaning as I brushed my fingers through her mane as I kept thrusting.

"Uh yes, this is wonderful, uh, yes please keep going Alex. Don't stop..."

I guess Twilight lost her concentration with whatever spell she was doing because her horn stopped glowing and we came down from the ceiling and landed on the bed. Somehow I managed to keep hold of her by positioning myself on top of her back. I pinned her wings down as I started to thrust into her again. She squirmed a bit and she moaned. "Alex…"

Then she started to call out my name. "Alex! Alex!" It started to sound like a chant after a while. That made me want to thrust faster on her. I thrust on her as fast as I could because all I wanted to do was give her her first orgasm.

She wrapped her tail around my leg and held it there. "Don't stop, please keep going!" She begged, "Keep going! Keep going! Yes! Yes!"

Then it happened, I felt Twilight's body tense up and when it did I saw sparks of light come out of her horn. Eventually, her vagina relaxed enough to let go of my cock and I slipped out of it. I sighed feeling happy that I finally got what I wanted. Finally! It's about time too. Wow, that felt good even if I didn't get off myself.

Twilight collapsed on the bed after I rolled off her. "Wow, that felt good! What just happened?"

"That was your first orgasm," I answered, "since you liked that, you wanna do it again?"

Twilight nodded. "Oh yeah, let's do it!"

I smiled as I pushed her flat on her back and climbed on top of her. "Oh. and this time I don't think you need to cast a spell. Just lay back and enjoy yourself."

* * *

Two hours later, I woke up from a nap with Twilight sleeping peacefully beside me. I looked over at her and smiled. One would think that I would be the one to hold Twilight in my arms while we slept. But Twilight insisted on holding me in her forehooves instead. She must've sensed my movements or something because she opened her eyes and yawned. "Wow, having sex was a lot of fun! I can't wait to do it again!"

I chuckled. "Yeah I feel the same way," I looked over at the clock and sighed, "But unfortunately we have to meet up with Violet and the others soon."

Twilight groaned and then pouted. "Fine."

So we got dressed and after I secured the apartment by making sure it was locked, we went to meet up with Violet and the others.

* * *

When Twilight and I met up with Violet, Simon, and Abigail, Violet had a grin on her face.

"What's that look for Violet?" I asked.

"You and the princess had sex, didn't you?" Violet responded.

"You want to know because?" I said with annoyance.

"Well, I went to your room to talk to you about something but I heard noises, so I figured you were busy." Violet laughed.

The fact that she found the idea of me and Twilight having having sex funny made me even more annoyed. "I would appreciate it if you wouldn't stick your nose into places it doesn't belong just so you can announce it in front of everyone!"

"You know something Violet?" Twilight said as she narrowed her eyes at Violet, "I'm not taking another book suggestion from you ever again. At least Alex got a good laugh at it."

Violet's jaw dropped. "Which book was it?"

"That's none of your business!" Twilight snapped. "Do me a favor, don't get any more ideas when it comes down to my curiosity."

"Hey I was just trying to help!" Violet said defensively.

"I don't need your help," Twilight snarled, "as I said before I was already curious about the subject and seeing that I found a book on how ponies do the same thing right next to the other books, I could've found those books on my own. But thank you for pointing me in that direction, honestly I just wanted to know where you can buy a notebook and pen."

Violet snorted. "Well I did help you get Alex away from Mary."

"You know something, if you knew how awful that woman was," Twilight growled, "then you should've done it yourself! You were just too chicken to stand up to her."

While I rolled my eyes at this conversation, Simon and Abigail seemed to find this conversation funny because I looked over to see them chuckling at it.

"Violet," I snapped, "don't ever meddle in my love life again. As you can see I was already living at headquarters. So it's very possible that I would've broken up with Mary anyway. Terra's right, she stood up to her when you didn't. I can deal with things on my own."

"Okay fine then, I won't do it again," Violet said, "But I do have a question for the princess."

Twilight narrowed her eyes at Violet. "I'm not sure if I want to know."

Violet grinned. "So, how was it?"

"Why you little bitch!" Twilight shouted, I could tell she wanted to kill Violet by the expression of anger on her face. I felt the same way at the moment.

Before we got a chance to kill each other Simon and Abigail stepped in between us. We turned around when we heard someone clear their throat. That's when we saw Agent Lawrence standing there with her hands on her hips and she didn't look happy. "What are you guys fighting about this time?"

Simon tilted his head. "You mean Violet and Alex have fought like this before?"

Agent Lawrence nodded. "Oh yeah, they have. They can be a couple of knuckleheads sometimes."

I gulped when I saw Agent Lawrence and gave Violet a sideways look at the same time.

However, Violet seemed to be more preoccupied with flirting with Agent Lawrence because of the googly eyed look Violet gave her.

Agent Lawrence rolled her eyes. "Honestly you two, how you guys got to be in the top twenty for the rankings at the PPA is beyond me sometimes. But seeing that Agent Shipman has yet to fail an assignment, I can see him making top ranks. Agent Client on the other hand, could care less about failing an assignment. It's a good thing she's paired up with Agent Shipman because that seems to motivate her to do her job. But nevermind that, I hear you two have brought two detectives on broad to help you catch the rogue pony you're after?"

I nodded and pointed at Abigail and Simon. "Yes ma'am. This is Detective A. Ryker and Detective S. Carter. The pony in disguise is actually Princess Twilight."

Twilight groaned as Agent Lawrence gave her a flirting look. "In case you're wondering, I'm already taken. My special somepony is Alex."

Violet grinned. "Oh yeah Alex, is her special somepony alright! He's very special!"

"Don't you dare Violet!" I snapped before she could say anything else.

Agent Lawrence rolled her eyes. "Wow, you two are fighting about a girl?" Then she said with sarcasm, "Nope, never seen that happen before. Anyway, here's some more intel on Pinkie Pie. The rogue pony I sent you two after."

She handed me a file with the new information in it. "It's not an exact address that Pinkie Pie's headed to but it's in the general direction of it."

I quickly handed the file over to Violet hoping she would be motivated enough to actually do something to contribute to this assignment instead of relying on my visions for this one.

Agent Lawrence raised an eyebrow. "Wow, you two are really angry at each other this time. But I know as always, you two will work things out. Agent Shipman never stays mad for long unless Agent Client put on the straw that broke the camel's back this time."

"Hey," protested Violet, "why does it have to be me?"

"I know that it's you because Agent Shipman doesn't start things," Agent Lawrence said pointedly. She looked to see Violet giving her a flirting look and rolled her eyes again, "For the last time Agent Client I'm not interested. Okay guys, I think you should be on your way now, just try not to kill each other before you catch Pinkie Pie."

After Agent Lawrence left, Violet turned to me. "Okay, so what do we do next Mr. Seer?"

"Oh no," I snarled, "in case you didn't notice, I handed-" Right on cue, I had a vision. Pinkie was at a bar called 'The Next' and it was out of state too. I saw a group of motorcycles outside. Somehow I knew exactly what state it was in and what city. It was in Branson, Missouri.

Pinkie was sitting at the bar and looked very depressed. It also looked like she had already gotten herself drunk. The bartender started to speak to her, "You know it's only one 'o'clock in the afternoon and it's not even happy hour yet! I think you need to call someone to take you home."

"Why should I go home?" Pinkie whined, "I'll just have to move places again."

"It doesn't matter," the bartender said, "you're overserved and it's against the law for me to give you any more drinks. If you don't leave, I'll be forced to call the police so they can drag you out. So go home before you cause trouble."

"Fine." Pinkie mumbled. As soon as Pinkie got ready to walk out the door someone called her name.

"Hey Roxy! How's it going?" Pinkie turned around to see a young woman with dark brown hair staring at her.

"Lara?" Pinkie said. After she said hi to Lara the vision stopped.

When I opened my eyes I snarled because of the expectant look that Violet gave me. "Yes, I had a vision and I'm not telling!"

Uh, Alex?

What?

You have to tell someone about the vision.

What? Why?

If you don't it could cause another power surge. I don't think you want to have another one of those. It'll put you out of commission for a while.

"Seriously Alex!" Violet said with an agitated tone to her voice. "You want to track down Pinkie Pie don't you?"

"Yes," I fired back at her, "I want to and I have half a mind to do the assignment on my own because that's what it feels like I'm doing at the moment."

"You know he's right," said Simon, "we've been relying on Alex's visions a lot lately."

Is there any way I can transfer my visions without magic?

I don't know.

"I know!" Twilight said. "Maybe you don't have to tell someone the whole vision."

I raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"

"Maybe you could just write down the address or location and how much time before it happens," Twilight suggested, "I think that's a good compromise."

I smiled and thought. Twilight's the best girlfriend I've ever had. She's so considerate and she's shown that she really does have my best interest at heart.

Awww that's cute!

You know I could use a little bit of privacy so I can think by myself that would be nice.

Oh, sorry.

"Well, what do you think?" Twilight asked.

"I think that's a great idea." I said.

Twilight took out her bag and took out one of her notebooks, tearing off a sheet of a blank piece of notebook paper and gave me one of her pens to write things down. I sat down at a nearby table and wrote down the basics of the vision. When I handed it over to Violet, she frowned, "So how exactly am I supposed to find this place by one o' clock tomorrow?"

"Well gee, I don't know," I snapped, "it's something called GPS! Last time I checked there's one in every single vehicles the PPA has or are you too stupid to remember that? Actually I'm surprised you didn't get fat because of you being lazy, depending on me to complete our assignments!"

"Excuse me?" Violet snarled.

"Uh, Alex?" Twilight said with a nervous laugh. "It's not polite to call a woman fat even if you are mad at her."

"No, I'm not stupid Alex!" Violet hissed. "And I'm not fat either! You're lucky you're my partner!"

"Was that a threat? You know what? If you show me you're not what I just called you then I'll apologize. Last time I checked, you have a responsibility to complete this assignment as much as I do!" At this moment, my annoyance with Violet started starting to turn slowly into anger. I balled my hands fists and even though I've never laid a hand on Violet before, I was getting close to it. I held myself back from doing so. I don't believe in hitting a woman, not even if it's because it's being provoked.

Abigail grabbed me by the shirt and pulled me back to keep me from doing what I wanted to do, holding myself back from wringing Violet's neck.

"I think we should take some time to cool off before we go back out to catch Pinkie Pie." Abigail said.

"And just for that Violet, I think you owe Alex a double apology!" Twilight snapped.

"Well what about him? He's the one that called me fat!" Violet sneered.

"Okay, I get that you're angry," said Twilight, "either way you still owe Alex an apology!"

"And when we head out, I'm taking my bike off of flyer mode!" I roared.

"Good job Violet!" Twilight scowled while glaring at her, "You just had to make him mad didn't you?"

"Yup, we definitely need that cooling off period," said Simon, "and think that should start now and we can meet up in two hours and go back out to catch Pinkie Pie later, sound good?"

"Works for me!" Violet and I replied.

As Twilight and I turned to leave Twilight said. "Yup Violet totally owes you an apology after that shit she just pulled!"

I didn't say anything in response. I just wanted to get away from Violet as fast as I possibly could.

13) My God Pony

{Alex}

We finally headed out to go catch Pinkie. As promised, I turned off flyer mode on my bike. We found the bar that was in my vision and took seats at the counter. Everyone ordered drinks except for Twilight, she didn't like alcoholic drinks so I ordered her a soda. I was still trying to figure out a good pet name for her, but I couldn't come up with anything.

How's about Ms. Innocent? Star thought.

Yeah, no, I don't think that fits her. Even though she does look innocent at everything she does.

Awww.

I looked to see that Pinkie had entered the bar. She sat down and ordered a drink. After she got her drink she looked up and paused when she saw us. "Why you little pain in my ass! That's it, I'm out of here."

Before Pinkie could even come close to exiting the bar we stopped her. She snarled and took out her gun.

"As if you would kill us in a public place," Twilight said, "and with all of these witnesses around."

"Oh yeah I will!" Pinkie snarled.

There was a short silence between us. She looked like she was trying to figure out if she wanted to kill me or Twilight. She made her decision by aiming her gun at me. I saw Pinkie fire her gun at me and I fell backward.

"No!" Twilight shrieked. That was the last thing I heard before I hit the ground and everything went dark.

* * *

{Twilight}

I paced back and forth in the waiting room at the hospital. I was waiting for the doctor to come out and tell me Alex was dead. The wound Alex got, nopony comes back from that, nopony! Finally, the doctor came out with a puzzled look on his face.

"What is it?" I asked.

"It seems Mr. Shipman might have friends in high places," The doctor answered, "Patients with the type of injury he had arrive DOA. But his injury has healed and his heart only stopped for one second and came back beating stronger than ever!"

"What?" Everyone and I gasped.

The doctor nodded. "Uh-huh, he's in the ICU sleeping now. You can go see him any time you like. If he agrees, I would like to do a study on him. It's too bad the person that shot him disappeared before the police could get to her. I'm pretty sure they'll find her."

I sighed, "I doubt that. But okay, I would like to go see Alex now."

The doctor nodded, "He's down the hall in ICU unit 2."

"Thank you."

When Violet, Simon, Abigail, and I arrived at Alex's room, we were stunned to see Alex alive and well. He was just laying there, sound asleep.

"I don't know how this happened. But as long as you're still alive Alex, that's all I care about."

The exploding star crystal that was around Alex's neck lit up and a voice came from it. "Please everyone, I can explain."

The door to Alex's room closed on its own and the curtains were drawn. A bright light flashed and out of Alex's exploding star crystal came a woman in white robes staring at us. "Hi there, my name is Star. I'm the one that's been helping Alex deal with his powers. At first I wasn't sure if he was a half child of a god named Hugo, but given this chain of events, I've confirmed it. He is a half child of a god named Hugo."

"Wait, wait! Time out!" Simon said. He made the timeout sign as if to call a timeout on a buckball game. "You mean to tell us that Alex is-"

Star nodded, "Yup! Alex is half human and half god. There is a long story of how this came to be. It's gonna take a while to explain."

Star wasn't kidding when she said it would take a long time to explain. It took her over an hour to explain everything to us.

"Some half children don't have any abilities at all. The key indicator is the ability to see the future." Star said.

"So is Alex immortal then?" I asked.

Star shook her head, "From what I know of, a half child can live up to three hundred years. But it seems like Alex is one of a kind. So it's possible he might live longer. From what I know, the only thing that can kill a half child is old age."

"Whoa." We said in response to that. I was more amazed by this than anyone else.

"Yup, well, Alex is getting ready to wake up soon. Time for me to go back in," Star said.

She went inside her crystal and that was when Alex started to stir.

* * *

{Alex}

When I opened my eyes, I groaned. My heart was beating like I had just run a marathon. I looked over to see Twilight, Violet, Simon, and Abigail looking at me with relieved looks on their faces. I looked around to see that I was in a hospital room.

I blinked, "Okay, what happened?"

"Do you remember Pinkie shooting you with her gun?" Violet asked.

"Well, yeah, I just fell over backwards and passed out." I replied.

"Well, your exploding star crystal named Star confirmed you are a half child to a god named Hugo," Twilight said, "Which makes sense because the wound you got, nopony can come back from that! You came back from it like it was nothing! The doctors want to keep you for observation just to make sure you're okay."

"Oh." It took me a moment or two to process the information Twilight just told me. At that moment I came up with a pet name for her. It's funny because before I got shot, I didn't think it fit her. Even looking at her now, she just looked so innocent. The way she was smiling at me, happy that I was alive, she looked so innocent just doing that.

Twilight looked at me and tilted her head. "What?"

I shook my head, "It's nothing."

You know, I think you should start calling Twilight by her pet name now. Star thought.

Huh?

Oh I get it, Star teased, You're just chicken. I'm going to take a wild guess and say you've never felt this way about someone before. Although in this case it's somepony.

I guess you could say that. Twilight is different. I can't explain how I feel about her.

Understandable.

Visiting hours were over, Violet, Simon, Abigail, and Twilight got up to leave. Twilight smiled at me, "Don't worry Alex, I'll be here for you first thing in the morning."

"Thanks," I said, "my innocent."

Twilight paused. "Huh, oh that's your-" she giggled, "I see. I have one for you. You're my god pony. See you tomorrow."

As I watched Twilight leave, I couldn't help but smile. She really did look innocent to me in every sense of the word.

* * *

{Hugo}

Although I felt stunned by what just happened with Alex, it made me proud of him at the same time.

"He was going to find out he's a half child sooner or later." Zane said, pointing out the obvious.

"Yeah, but I didn't think it would be by him getting shot through the heart," I said, "I didn't have a vision about that."

Zane titled his head with a puzzled look. "Don't you always have visions?"

I shook my head and explained, "Not every second of the day. A lot of times, they just happen. Other times, I can zero in on what I need to see in the future, since you're my sibling, that's how I'm able to see you coming. I'm going to assume that's what Alex is able to do with Twilight because they love each other now."

"Huh, I see. But you couldn't see what was going to happen with Alex?"

"Not really, I can see the main events as far as Alex goes, but now that the main events have happened, I'm not sure if I'll be able to see anything else in his future," I looked at the time and sighed, "Well, it's time for us to get back to work."

Even though I still had to do my job as ruler of the Underground, I wanted to see how Alex's powers would develop.

* * *

{Alex}

I was still reeling from the information that I've received about being confirmed that I'm a half child of a god named Hugo. I wondered if that's why mom kept saying that she didn't know where my dad was. It's possible that she really didn't know where Hugo lived.

Wow, so I'm a half child and Hugo is my father.

Yeah I know right? But from what I know of, I should've seen this coming because every time an exploding star is given to someone, with a being like me in it, that means the person is a possible half child. The half child often needs help with their developing powers. Which I'm pretty sure, you'll develop more powers other than being able to see the future and talk to the dead.

Lovely. I had no idea why I didn't want to have any more powers at the moment. I guess it was because I already had enough to deal with, people relying on my ability to see the future in order to help catch Pinkie.

I understand not wanting anymore powers. I felt the same way too after I started developing mine as I became of age growing up in the Star Clan.

I laughed at the thought that my exploding crystal had a person in it, named Star and she came from a family called the Star Clan.

Yeah, yeah, I'm named Star and my family is called the Star Clan. Hilarious, I know.

That made me laugh even harder. Star thought, Okay Alex, yeah, might want to stop laughing so the doctors don't think you've gone insane.

Oh. I composed myself just in time, to see that Twilight had just entered the room. It was the next morning and Twilight came back just like she promised. It didn't surprise me because when she says she's going to do something, so far she's kept her word on it.

"Hey Alex," said Twilight. "How's my god pony doing today?"

"I'm fine, my innocent." I replied.

"I heard you laughing as I was coming down the hallway," Twilight smiled, "What were you laughing about?"

I paused, trying to figure out how to explain to Twilight about Star.

"Well you see Terra, um, remember when I said my exploding star crystal was named Star?"

Twilight nodded. "Oh yeah, she talked to us moments before you woke up."

"Ex-" I started to say. That was when Star thought, Yeah , I talked to Twilight. Violet, Simon and Abigail know about me also.

"Well, Star can communicate with me by thought when she's talking to me," I said, turning my attention back to Twilight, "What exactly did Star tell you?"

"Well, she told me that she confirmed that you're a half child," Twilight responded, "You're a half child of a god named Hugo. That's why you're my god pony. Honestly, I don't care how you're still alive. I just care that you're alive, and from now on, not only am I going to get you to laugh and feel okay about it, which you're getting there almost, but I'm going to protect you with everything I got. You might be half god, but that doesn't mean you don't have feelings. It's important to me that you feel good and happy."

Aww, that's so cute! She really is innocent with everything she does! Star teased.

Ha, ha Star. I smiled, "Anyway, Star just told me, her family is called the Star Clan. That's what I was laughing about."

Twilight chuckled, "Yeah that is pretty funny! A woman named Star that comes from a family called the Star Clan. What, did they run out of names for her or something?"

I couldn't hold in my laughter. Trust me, I tried very hard to. Twilight laughed right along with me. I stopped laughing when I heard footsteps coming towards my room. There was a knock on the door and Twilight answered it.

"Hi guys!" Twilight said, "How's it going?"

"We heard Alex laughing as we came around the corner," Violet said, "What was that all about?"

I looked in horror at Twilight and motioned for her not to tell Violet anything. Twilight rolled her eyes when I did that. "Seriously Alex, you really need to get past the laughing thing. As I said before, I'm going to help you with that."

"As I told you before Terra," Violet said, "Good luck with that. Since you've made it your mission to make him laugh, you'll probably be doing that until the day he dies. Which will be three hundred years from now."

"But three hundred years is a long time. I'm plenty sure that I'll find a way to make him laugh." Twilight stated.

I looked over when I heard Simon and Abigail laughing.

"Aww your girlfriend's so cute Alex!" Abigail said. She looked at Violet. "Too bad she's taken. Although…"

I tried not to laugh as Abigail gave Violet a flirting smile. Violet raised her eyebrow. "What?"

Abigail blushed and looked away. "It's nothing, nothing at all."

Simon noticed it too as I saw him chuckle to himself and Twilight was chuckling right along with him.

Violet had a puzzled look on her face. "What's so funny?"

"Oh nothing," I teased, "I think we're just going to wait until you see the light."

At this point Violet seemed confused judging by the look on her face, "Huh? I don't get it."

Wow, looks like someone doesn't know how to pick up on a hint that's been dropped right into her lap. As a matter of fact, maybe Abigail should sit on her lap to make things more clear? Star thought.

"Uh, Ryker?" Simon asked, "Could you come here for a moment?" He motioned for Abigail to follow him.

Abigail nodded. "Sure."

Simon pulled Abigail off to the side and whispered something into her ear. "Seriously Carter?"

"Hey, I'm just saying you probably should be straightforward with her. She clearly doesn't know how to pick up on a hint that you just dropped." Simon laughed.

"Fine." Abigail growled.

Abigail came back into the room, and pulled Violet into her arms and French kissed her right in front of everyone. Violet blushed after the kiss. "Um… Okay."

I literally bit my tongue and thought, Nope, not gonna laugh.

Twilight grinned. "Wow. If that isn't straight forward, I don't know what is."

I felt happy for Violet. I hope this new relationship works out for her.

14) Out of Curiosity

{Alex}

The lights have been flickering off and on in the hospital room that I'm in since yesterday night. Any idea what's going on Star?

Nope, none whatsoever. Star thought.

I heard a knock on the door.

"Hey there God Pony! How's it going?" Twilight asked after she entered the room.

The lights flickered again. Twilight looked up at the ceiling, "Wonder why that’s happening? It's not happening throughout the rest of the hospital."

I shook my head, "I don't know. It's-"

Twilight looked at me with a horrified look on her face, "Uh, Alex? What are you doing?"

I felt static electricity in my right hand. I looked down to see what looked like little sparks of lightning coming from my fingers. "O... Kay. I wonder if this is a new ability?"

I closed my hand into a fist and the sparks of lightning went away. Okay then, this half child stuff is just about as complicated as being a seer.

Uh, actually I don't think you're a seer anymore, Star thought.

How so?

Well, think about it, you're a half child of a god named Hugo so being able to see the future would be considered an ability of you being a half child.

There has to be a way for me to control this. First, I can see the future and pinpoint the exact time a vision is going to happen. Then I can talk to a dead person's soul and now this? I'm not sure I can take anymore of this stuff happening.

I understand how you feel. But since you're a half child, I think there's more to come.

Lovely.

Twilight looked at me with concern, "What's wrong Alex?"

I felt the tingling sensation in my right hand again. I opened my fist and showed Twilight what was happening. Her jaw dropped when she saw it. "That's a new ability, Alex! Makes sense to me, because you know, you're half god and half human."

I groaned, "Lovely, I don't like this at all Innocent."

Twilight giggled, "I do love the pet name you gave me God Pony. But I think that's going to happen more. I'm pretty sure you'll get used to this whole being a half god thing. It took me a while to get used to being an Alicorn and accepting my crown as a princess of Equestria."

I paused. "Wait, you didn't accept your crown or the fact that you were an Alicorn?"

Twilight nodded, "Uh-huh. It wasn't until I became the Princess of Friendship when I finally accepted reality for what it was."

I looked up at the ceiling thoughtfully. "Hmm, interesting."

Wow, Alex, even a princess, had a hard time accepting things! Star thought. It's just like I thought, she might be the key to helping you get past your whole not being able to laugh in front of people.

Yeah, I doubt that. I thought.

Star started laughing inside my head. Twilight smiled at me, "What does Star have to say about this?"

I looked down at Star to see she wasn't glowing green or black, but was glowing white. "I think I should answer for myself, princess. Or should I call you Innocent too?"

Twilight looked at Star in awe, "So now you're able to talk to us without coming out of your crystal?"

"Yes, but only you two will be able to hear me. I won't let anyone else hear me unless it's necessary," Star answered.

"Oh." Twilight said.

Star chuckled, "I know, I'm over a million years old princess. I have about the same amount of power Alex's father Hugo has."

"So do you have any half children?" I asked.

Star laughed, "Oh no, if I did I most certainly wouldn't agree to live in an exploding star crystal for the rest of my life."

"Okay," I said, "now what?"

"Well, I guess with every new ability you get," said Star, "you'll just have to learn to control them. That's what I'm supposed to help you with."

"As long as my God Pony is safe," said Twilight, "I'm fine with that. I want him to be physically safe and emotionally safe. Since he's my special somepony I want nothing but the best for him."

"Awww," said Star, "that's so cute!"

I could feel heat from my cheeks and I looked away. Twilight giggled, "Wow, your face is as red as a tomato!"

"I, uh…" I said. We heard a knock on the door and the doctor came in. He gave me a packet on what to do when I was released from the hospital. The doctor wanted me to take it easy. I declined an offer to participate in a study about how I came back from the severe injury that I got. The doctor said that was fine but he did seem disappointed. Honestly, I don't blame him.

"Well, you're good to go Mr. Shipman," The doctor said, "I hope the police find whoever attacked you."

I nodded, "That makes two of us."

When the doctor left, Twilight stepped outside my room so I could get dressed. The doctor had no idea that I was the one looking for Pinkie and she was the one that attacked me.

* * *

{Twilight}

I had been wondering what it would be like to have sex with Alex in my human form. I know what it feels like to do it in my pony form. We started doing that a couple of weeks ago. I did it out of curiosity and I found that I liked it. It made my connection with him so strong and I made my resolve to do whatever it takes to protect him. Not so much physically, mostly his emotional state. Mostly because of what he went through with Mary and his mother.

When it comes down to sex, there's only so much a book teach you. It's better when you experience it. That's what I experienced with Alex. Of course, I read a book on the female anatomy of the human species. I also read a book on how to take a human's clothes off manually instead of with magic. I figured if I do it manually, that might make the experience that much better, not just for me but for Alex too.

I thought about using my magic to have sex with him at the hospital and make it so no one knows what we're doing, but I figured it would be best to let him rest and recover. Now that he's out of the hospital and we're back at PPA HQ, I thought I should try doing what I was curious about. I did wonder if Alex had a vision about what I was getting ready to do.

Once we got a chance to spend some time alone, I was sitting on the couch with Alex watching Tv. I don't know much about how this device works or why but it was interesting to see what it does. There was a movie on at the time. It was what Alex called a horror movie. I wasn't sure if Alex should be watching something like this given what recently happened. But I wasn't about to stop him from watching it because that's what he wanted to do. I'm not like his ex-girlfriend Mary and I don't intend to be like her either.

There was a part in the horror movie where what Alex explained was called a jump scare. It's what happens when something scary happens out of nowhere. Yeah, the jump scare did scare me silly and I jumped into Alex's lap.

Alex laughed when I did it, "Wow Innocent, you're even adorable when you're scared."

I looked up at him, "Huh?"

Alex nodded and smiled, "Is there some reason why you're not in your pony form? I mean not that I don't mind because you're beautiful in your human form too. It's just that you know you don't have to be human when you're in here with me."

I smiled. "Well, I'm curious about something."

Alex paused. "About what?"

I guess Alex might've had a vision about this happening because his eyes went wide and he gulped.

"What's the matter?" I asked. "Let me guess, you had a vision about this, didn't you?"

Alex nodded. "I uh…"

I didn't give him a chance to react when I kissed him. I was still sitting on his lap when I undid his pants zipper. I straddled him after I took his pants and underwear off. Thankfully a blanket that was laid over the back of the couch. I used that to cover us up because I thought he might get cold after I finished taking the rest of his clothes off. When I took my clothes off, I started to kiss his neck. He groaned when I felt him inside of me. It was surprising to me that I could even think straight enough to do what I wanted to him.

"You like that, don't you Alex?" I whispered into his ear.

Alex didn't do much but groan with pleasure and that answered my question. I wasn't sure what to do next.

"Hmm," said Alex, "so what do you want to do to me next? I'm all yours, I don't know why my visions scare me sometimes. I shouldn't be scared when it comes down to you. I know I'm safe with you."

"Uh-huh, oh." I moaned.

Alex held me as tight as he could and started to thrust into me. I kept moaning as he kept thrusting, as he held my hips down. He started screaming, "Yes, yes, yes!"

Wow, I wish I had done this sooner if I knew it was going to be so much fun! I thought. I mean, using magic to help things along is great and all, but this wow, this is something else! Especially if Alex likes it.

Alex slowed down on his thrusting into me, "Uh, Twilight?"

"Hmm, what is it?" I moaned.

"I'm getting ready to get off, I'm not sure if I should-" He didn't finish his sentence when he climaxed inside of me.

I had to admit, that felt good. Yup, books can only teach you so much about this stuff. I wondered why he was concerned about doing it inside me now. He didn't seem to have a problem with it the first time we did it. Unless…Oh crap, I know exactly what he's worried about. He doesn't want to get me pregnant yet, which is understandable. We haven't caught Pinkie yet! Not to mention we just got together almost a month ago. I wonder if I can find some spells I can use to prevent that from happening? I'll have to check out that bookstore again and see what I can find.

I was snapped out of my thoughts when Alex bit my ear. "Hey, what are you doing?"

"Just enjoying myself, that's all," said Alex, "however, you seem to be worried about something. What is it?"

I stopped straddling Alex and just sat on his lap. He held me in his arms and I put my head on his chest. I debated about if I should tell him what I was worried about.

"You know you can talk to me about whatever you need to talk about right?" Alex said.

"Um, I'm not sure if this is the right time to talk about it."

"I'm going to take a wild guess and say you're worried about me getting you pregnant huh?" Alex asked.

I had no idea how he even knew what I was thinking. "Wow, you hit the nail on the head! How did you know what I might be worried about?"

"Because you looked worried after I got off inside of you." Alex replied. "To tell the truth, I'm kind of worried about that also. Although I'm wondering if that's even possible because you're an Alicorn and I'm human. Maybe it's possible, because of the magic we both have?"

"Huh, I don't know," I said, "I'm not sure if there's any books on this subject at all. I mean, I could go talk to Princess Luna about it I guess."

"I would ask Star about," said Alex, "but right now, this is a personal moment and I don't need her butting in."

I laughed. "Yeah you're right on that."

"If it happens then it happens I guess. Good thing I didn't get Mary pregnant. That would've been a nightmare if we had children together. The nightmare would've been not just for us, but the children also."

"No kidding."

Honestly, I would feel sorry for a child if they had someone like Mary for a mother.

I could tell Alex didn't want to let go of me but then he rolled eyes and I could only assume he had a vision about something.

"What did you see?" I asked.

"Violet's getting ready to knock on the door in three, two, one…" He pointed to the door when someone knocked on it.

Alex got dressed and I covered myself up with the blanket and made sure to stay where I was at so the back of the couch would block me from Violet's sight.

"Wow," said Violet, "you were getting some action from the princess alright. I heard it all the way from the other end of the hallway. I guess it's a good thing you have the only apartment on this floor."

"Ha ha, Violet," Alex snapped, "what do you want?"

"Do you remember what we talked about when we came back to HQ after you got out of the hospital?" Violet asked.

"Yes, I remember and I thought we were meeting up tomorrow morning for that?" Alex said.

As Alex talked to Violet about us meeting up with her, Simon, and Abigail to regroup and figure out where to go next to catch Pinkie; I was still worried about possibly getting pregnant by Alex. We can't have a baby now! We still haven't found Pinkie yet and things are so crazy right now there's no way I could even begin to pay attention to a baby. Besides what would it even look like? Cute? Or maybe even a monster?

Once again, I was lost in my thoughts when Alex closed the door, got undressed again and sat down beside me on the couch. He frowned. "You look very worried right now. Hey don't worry about it, you're gonna stress yourself out more than usual by doing that."

Before I could think of anything else, Alex was on top of me. I guess he's right, there's not much we do about that sort of thing at the moment. As we started to make love again, I put my worries to the back of my mind.

15) Violet's Button Pressing

{Alex}

The next morning I woke up next to Twilight. She was sleeping soundly and she was back in her pony form. Another reason why she just seems so innocent to me because of how she likes to explore every subject she's interested in. She's just adorable at everything she does. Even when it comes down to sex.

Waking up next to Twilight is a breath of fresh air. I'd rather wake up next to her than with a hangover after having sex with Mary. What I don't understand is every time I have a vision concerning Twilight it's censored and I can't make out what I'm supposed to be seeing.

You know what I don't get Star? I thought.

What? Star thought.

Why is it every time I see a vision concerning Twilight, half of it is censored? Not to mention the other visions I keep having are coming more frequently. I can even pin the exact point of time the vision's are going to happen. Like the other day when I saw Violet coming to knock on the door mere seconds before it happened.

Yeah that is interesting, I think you're the most talented half child I've ever seen! I know your father Hugo can do that and from what I was told, no half child has been able to do that.

Huh. I didn't think of anything else, I just laid there staring up at the ceiling.

I felt annoyed with the very fact that I keep getting new abilities by the moment. I looked over at Twilight and smiled. She opened her eyes and yawned. "Good morning Alex."

"Morning Twilight."

She leaned over and kissed me. I loved doing things as simple as that. When I let go of her I tried not to roll my eyes because I saw a vision of Violet, Abigail, and Simon coming towards my room and I could pinpoint that they would be here in a minute or two. I looked over at the time and it confirmed that this was the time we were supposed to be meeting up to regroup. I thought they meant we would meet up at the cafe but I guess there was a change of plans.

Twilight rolled her eyes. She must've sensed I was annoyed about something. "You had another vision didn't you?"

"Yup," I replied, "Violet, Abigail, and Simon are coming and they're going to be here in about a minute or two. We should probably get dressed."

"Weren't we supposed to be meeting up at the café?" Twilight asked.

"That's what I thought, I guess there was a change of plan. That's really annoying, or maybe Violet's hoping that they hear us having sex. I think she lies in wait just to see if she hears us doing it so she can go knock on the door just to be annoying."

"Yeah she's annoying alright, oh well, we need to go back out and catch Pinkie anyway."

I got out of bed and got dressed. Twilight changed into her human form and got dressed. Violet didn't even have to knock on the door this time because I opened the door before she even got to it.

"Weren't we supposed to be meeting up at the café Violet?" I snapped, "Or did you come by with Abigail and Simon hoping that they would hear us having sex?"

Violet looked taken aback by what I just said, "Well, someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."

"Yeah and FYI, I know where the café is and I know how to tell time," I snapped again, "I don't need an escort there."

I was about ready to tell Violet to go to the café like we had discussed before so I could slam the door on her face.

Simon narrowed his eyes at Violet. "Violet, you told us there was a change of plans and we were actually supposed to meet up at Alex's apartment. Why did you feel the need to lie to us?"

Violet looked away, which only confirmed what I thought her true intentions were.

"You know something Violet?" I growled. "Don't ever do this again. As a matter of fact, if you need to get in contact with me, stop popping up at my apartment at random times! You do know that we have a phone number you can use to call the apartment.," I took a deep breath and let it out, "Fine. To save you guys the extra trouble we might as well talk inside my apartment."

After seeing my agitation with Violet, even though Abigail was now dating her, she narrowed her eyes at Violet. "Violet, is there some reason why you just can't help but press Alex's buttons? I mean I know you two are partners and you view him as your brother and all, but you at least show him some respect? I don't do that to Carter and I feel the same way about him."

"I uh…" Violet said. She stood there speechless and it looked like she couldn't believe that her girlfriend was chastising her like this.

"Well, I think you have something you should say to Alex," Abigail said. She crossed her arms and waited to hear what Violet needed to say next.

Violet sighed, "Fine, I'm sorry Alex."

Abigail still had her arms crossed. "And?"

"I won't do this again…" Violet mumbled.

"Anyway," I said, "now that's been dealt with although I doubt Violet's not going to do this anymore. She probably just apologized to save face with her new girlfriend, come inside."

The next time I see a vision about her coming, I think I'll take a different path. But Violet will be Violet, it's not like Abigail can control her. No one can control that crazy woman, not even someone like Mary could control her.

As I sat down at the kitchen table with Violet, Abigail, Simon, while Twilight came outside from the bedroom.

"Are you guys hungry?" I said, "Because Twilight and I haven't eaten breakfast yet."

"We're good Alex," said Violet, "we already ate at my apartment."

"Okay then." I went to the refrigerator and grabbed a plate of vegetables and fruit for Twilight because that's her favorite type of breakfast. I went and made myself a ham sandwich because I didn't feel like cooking anything at the moment.

"Okay," said Twilight after she ate a piece of fruit, "where do we go from here? Honestly, I prefer not to rely on Alex's visions or any other talent he has now that's been confirmed as half god and half human."

"Yeah, she's got a point," said Simon, "as I said before, every detective on the force has to pull their own weight. Ryker and I don't just rely on one of us to get the job done. Each of us contributes to solving a case. Violet, I think you're being a little bit lazy at the moment. If Alex winds up being the main one solving this case in catching this rogue pony, uh what was her name again?"

"Pinkie Pie." Twilight answered.

Simon continued, "Right, as I was saying, if Alex is the main one that solves this case and we catch Pinkie Pie because of it, it wouldn't be fair to take credit for solving the case when Alex was the one that actually did it because of his talents."

"Only problem is," I said, "if I have a vision I have to tell someone about it or it could cause me to have another power surge. That's a possibility until my powers as a half child fully develop. Although sometimes I've been able to tell Star when there's no one around. But that's sometimes not all the time."

Right after I said that, I had a vision. Pinkie was with a woman with brown hair and black eyes. Pinkie was in her human form as Roxy. The woman with her was dressed in casual clothing, a t-shirt with some sort of logo on it. I had no idea what it meant but the logo was three stars that formed a triangle, one star on the left side of the shirt, one star on the right side of the shirt, and one star at the top of the shirt. The stars were close together and inside a circle. The woman was also wearing blue jeans with a black belt on them and silver gym shoes.

Pinkie and the woman were standing outside an apartment complex. The building that they were standing in front of had the number 14 at the top of it. It had the street name beside it, it was Steferson St.

Pinkie looked at the woman standing beside her and smiled. "How on Earth did you find this place Sally?"

"Well, I have connections so it was easy," Sally said, "Let's go inside."

They went upstairs and inside the apartment. When I saw this part of the vision I was stunned by what the apartment looked like. It looked like the inside of a penthouse on the top floor. The view outside the windows was looking down at the street below.

"Whoa!" Pinkie said, looking around the place in awe, "This place is amazing!"

Sally went over to a small refrigerator and opened it. Inside was a case of beers and a couple of bottles of whisky. When Pinkie saw this her jaw dropped. "Now how did you get that? How did you know what my favorite thing to drink was?"

"Let's see, how long have we been friends now?" Sally asked.

"Well, only two years," Pinkie replied, "Hmm, there's got to be some way I can repay you for doing this for me."

Pinkie stood there and looked like she was thinking. She then gave Sally a flirting smile. "I know how I can repay you, how about we go to the bedroom?"

Sally's eyes went wide, "Oh no Roxy, it's no biggie, really it's not. Besides, I don't think Lyra would take too kindly to infidelity. We're not forming a herd and we don't have an open relationship. Nope! No way!"

"Oh come on," Pinkie whined, "I haven't had sex in forever since I came here."

"Well you should've thought about that before you came over here," Sally snapped, "Here's an idea, why don't you rape next one of your research subjects?"

Pinkie shook her head. "Nah, I don't have sex with other species. I have heard of ponies that do stuff like that, but that's not my thing. Yuck!"

Before Pinkie could say another word, Sally tossed her the keys and was out the door quicker than you can count to three. That's when the vision ended.

Of course when I opened my eyes everyone except for Twilight this time were looking at me with excited looks on their faces. Twilight rolled her eyes. "Yeah I'm pretty Alex just had a vision. I know it's cool and all but seriously, my friends did the same thing to me when I first became an Alicorn. It gets old and annoying after a while. I hate to say this, but what did you see Alex?"

That's when I thought of an idea. I remembered when I relayed the details of the location of Pinkie's soon to be burial site for that woman Cathy that I saw in that vision. "Hey Twilight, remember when I relayed to you the information of Pinkie's burial site for Cathy?"

Twilight nodded. I went over to her and put my hand on her forehead. She smiled. "As I said the last time you did that. It's a weird way to convey information, but information nonetheless. Now, how much time is the vision going to take place?"

I whispered into her ear that the vision was going to take place in one hour. She nodded. "Good now, how do we go about getting there?"

Right when Twilight asked that Violet, Abigail and Simon's eyes went wide. Twilight paused. "Oh I get it. You don't want to do another teleportation spell, right?"

Simon gulped. "Yeah I don't feel like losing my breakfast today."

Twilight smiled. "That's okay, oh yeah that's right. Alex, you said guys have GPS on your vehicles?"

I nodded. Twilight went over to her and brought out a small notebook. She wrote down the address that I relayed to her and handed it to Violet.

"Why do I have to plug in the address on GPS?" Violet whined, "Why can't Abigail or Simon do it?"

"Wow," said Abigail, "I had no idea that I got together with someone that does a half-ass job as an agent of the PPA. Wait a minute, aren't you supposed to be one of the top twenty of talented agents here?"

Violet nodded. "Yeah, so?"

"So tell me," said Abigail, "exactly how did you get that rank here?"

Violet groaned. "I worked hard and pulled my weight."

Abigail smiled. "Exactly!"

Simon and Twilight covered their mouths to stifle their laughter at Abigail scolding her new girlfriend Violet. If you ask me, it's about time someone did something like that. I think Violet's ego has been getting the best of her lately. I bit my bottom lip and the urge to laugh faded.

Simon pursed his lips. "Wow, I didn't realize it was that hard for you to laugh at something in front of people Alex."

"Well, he can laugh in front of me but when no one else is around," Twilight said.

Violet smiled. "Oh really? Maybe you should-"

"Seriously Violet!" Abigail snapped, "Honestly, stop pressing Alex's buttons already, sheez."

Simon and Twilight looked like they couldn't hold in their laughter at Abigail scolding Violet even if they wanted to, they almost fell out of their chairs they were laughing so hard. Even though I was amused by it, I didn't get the urge to laugh because I was more annoyed with Violet at the moment.

"Yeah, I'm going to wish you good luck on trying to control Violet, Abigail," I said, "No one can control her. If you can do that, I would be amazed by it."

That statement Simon and Twilight continued their laughter and it didn't seem like they were going to stop laughing anytime soon.

I looked over to see Violet's face turn red and she looked like she wanted to hide underneath the table. It serves her right too! Honestly, I was starting to enjoy seeing Violet embarrassed like this.

"Anyway, I think we should go catch Pinkie before the time limit," I said.

"Wait," said Violet, "what time limit do we have?"

"Oh, sorry about that." Twilight said. She took back her notebook and wrote down the time limit on when we should catch Pinkie.

Violet nodded. "Okay then, let's go!"

16) A New Plan

{Alex}

As we headed towards the address that I saw in the vision I had about Pinkie and her friend Sally, I wondered if I should take a different approach with how to deal with this. Star?

What? Star thought.

I think I've been thinking about these visions all wrong.

What do you mean?

What I mean is, I thought, instead of facing the vision head on, maybe I can use the vision to get around the events that are going to happen?

Again, what do you mean? The vision hasn't changed course, so…

What I mean is, in the vision I saw where Pinkie and Sally were going to enter the building. Maybe I could have half of our group enter the same direction as I saw Pinkie and Sally entering. Then maybe I could have the other half of the group enter into the building in the opposite direction? I thought.

That's an idea, Star responded, I never thought of a half child using their visions that way. As a matter of fact, I've never heard of a half child doing that ever! You would be first the one to do things that way. I wonder if it will work?

Well, it's worth a shot isn't it?

When we landed at the parking lot in the apartment complex, I could tell by the curious look on Twilight's face that she thought I was planning something.

"You have an idea, don't you Alex?" Twilight asked.

I nodded. "Yeah, I was wondering about taking a different approach to my visions."

"Huh?" Twilight asked.

"Well I was thinking instead of facing the vision head on like I've been doing lately, I could use the vision to get around events that are going to happen in it," I explained, "I was thinking, I know where Pinkie and Sally are going to enter into the building. So I think if half of us go in the other direction of where Pinkie and Sally are going to enter and the other half enter into the opposite direction, that might even the odds of being able to catch Pinkie!"

Violet smiled at this idea. "Huh, that's not a bad idea, it's worth a shot."

"Okay, so Violet, you go with Abigail and Simon in the direction that Pinkie and Sally are going to enter the building. Terra, you're coming with me in the opposite direction." I suggested.

Violet and Abigail exchanged a flirting look with each other. Simon groaned, "Are you sure you want me to go with the lovebirds that can't keep their eyes off each other long enough to do a job?"

"Hey!" Violet and Abigail protested.

I smiled, "Yup, that's exactly why I want you to go with them. You should be able to keep their heads out of the gutter long enough for them to do their jobs."

"Fine." Simon grumbled.

Violet rolled her eyes. "Oh come on Simon, we're not that bad."

"Okay, fine," Simon replied, "okay, whatever."

"You know, that's still annoying," Abigail said.

"And you just added another reason on my list of reasons as to why you're annoying!" Simon snapped, "It's a wonder how we solve any cases because of your negative attitude."

Before Abigail and Simon could kill each other, Twilight stepped in between them and then looked back at me, "Uh, Alex? I think I'll go with Violet and Abigail so that Abigail and Simon don't kill each other, if you don't mind?"

Knowing that Twilight's suggestion was probably for the best, I nodded. "Sure, that's fine, Simon you're coming with me in the other direction."

"Works for me!" Simon said.

* * *

{Pinkie Pie}

I'm getting really annoyed with those pesky agents of the PPA being able to track me down so easily. Oh well, at least I'm able to escape just as easily as they're able to track me down. I told my friend Bon Bon that I needed to do some research before we headed over to the new place where I'm going to be living for a short while.

So I kidnapped a woman about my age who lives in the apartment next door. Her name was Isabel. I took down to the basement where my workshop was. This time I didn't bother to gag her, because I wanted back-up vocals on my 'smile song.' I haven't heard anyone do that ever since I got here. I didn't realize how much I've missed ponies doing that when I did it around town back in Equestria. Over here it's different, if you start singing out of nowhere and ask others to jump in and sing with you, they'll just tell you to get lost.

After I put Isabel on the table and tied her down, I changed into my pony form and stood there smiling at her.

"Isabel, do you know how to sing?" I asked.

Isabel shook her head and her eyes were wide as saucers, "No, I don't! I can't even carry a tune! What's going on Roxy? Why am I here? I'm scared!"

"Don't worry Isabel," I said, "I'm just going to do some research on you, that's all."

Isabel paused. "Uh, research?"

I smiled and nodded. "Yup! Research. Now I'll put you through the paces of the song. The song is about smiling!"

"Smiling?" Isabel squeaked.

I nodded. "Uh-huh, smiling!"

So I showed Isabel how to sing the song. I grimaced when I heard her sing because she was right, she couldn't even carry a tune. Yikes! This human can't sing at all! Oh well, it's better than nothing.

I kept Isabel singing right down to the very end. She was singing with her last breath as I drove the tool I use to kill people into her. "Sorry Isabel, it was fun while it lasted. But Pinkie needs to do her research."

I took out my chainsaw in anticipation of what was coming next. I chopped up the body parts. I loved doing my research because it wasn't really research.

I loved the taste of human blood and even though normal ponies don't eat meat, ever since I came here I've been eating meat. Not the flesh of my fellow ponies, I'd never do that. The flesh of humans is what I've been eating after I've drained their blood. I drink their blood too. It's a nice, delicious snack.

* * *

{Hugo}

Well now, I wonder what Alex is planning. I thought. I watched Alex in curiosity as I saw him send his friend Violet, Abigail, and Princess Twilight around one direction of the building they were at. He and his other friend Simon are going around the opposite direction. Zane was working today so I would be able to watch Alex's plan unfold in peace and not interruptions.

Alex stood at the stairway. He smiled at his friend Simon and said, "You might want to put the sunglasses on that the PPA gave you. It will help you record information and protect your eyes from the flash of the stunner bullets."

Simon nodded. "Sure, got it."

"Don't pull out your regular gun unless Pinkie presents her gun like she did last time," Alex instructed.

Simon nodded. Alex nodded too. "Good, now let's go."

Now this is interesting, I wonder if he saw this in one of his visions or something? I thought.

I kept watching and wondering what Alex was getting ready to do.

* * *

{Alex}

I'm not sure if this plan will work Alex, Star thought, Although I never saw a half child do this with their visions, but okay.

Listen, I don't know if this will work either, I thought, But it just might. Discord did say there's loopholes in my visions. We can't see past the end of them. I don't know what's going to happen after the vision ends unless I have another vision after the fact.

Okay then. Star thought. I could tell by the sound of her voice that she seemed really anxious. I don't blame her, this is a pretty risky idea but at this point, I was willing to try anything if it meant catching Pinkie and bringing her back to Equestria.

"So when exactly is Pinkie Pie coming?" Simon asked.

I looked up at the clock and it was at the exact moment that Pinkie would be coming up the steps in the other direction.

That's when I heard Pinkie's voice, "Why you little bitch! I don't know how you're able to find me so easily and it's getting on my nerves!"

"I don't care, you rule breaker! You are an element of harmony bearer!" Twilight shouted, "You should really come back to Equestria, I'm pretty sure if you come back willingly, I can talk to-"

"No Twilight, I'm not going back!" Pinkie sneered.

I saw the flash of a gun firing off and I heard someone shrieking in pain.

"I hope that's Pinkie that got hit!" Simon said.

I ran upstairs as fast as I could and we looked in horror to see that Pinkie wasn't the one that got hit but it was her friend Sally that got hit.

Pinkie snarled, "How dare you hurt my friend!"

"How dare we hurt your friend?" Twilight sneered. "How dare you go running about killing people and ponies just because you feel like it! What about their lives? What gives you the right to-"

"Oh please Twilight," Pinkie snapped, "spare me your lecture! Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!"

"Why Pinkie? Tell me why! I don't understand!" Twilight sobbed. "You were such a kind pony, and now… Now… You're just an evil bastard!"

Pinkie rolled her eyes. "And your whole 'spark of friendship' thing is really getting on my nerves!"

Pinkie looked at her friend Sally and gave her an evil smile. She pulled out her gun and pointed it at Sally. I looked to see that Sally was actually a pony, who she really was. I had no idea.

Pinkie laughed a wicked laugh, "I'll make a deal with you. If you let me go, my friend doesn't need to die. If not, then she will. It's your choice, me or her."

"Pinkie, no!" Twilight cried.

For what seemed like the longest moment of my life as time seemed to slow down, there was a stand still between us and Pinkie. I guess Pinkie got bored with waiting for our answer. She fired her at her pony friend and thankfully Twilight stepped in front of the pony Pinkie just fired her gun at and put up a protection shield. The bullet bounced off the shield and Pinkie touched her pendant on her magic necklace and disappeared.

* * *

Once Pinkie disappeared, all of us stood there in shock at what just happened.

"Well," I said, "didn't see that coming!"

"What!" Everyone else gasped.

"But you can see the future!" Twilight stammered, "How could you have not seen it!"

I sighed, "Discord did say that there were loopholes with the visions. I can't see past the vision unless I get another one. I don't get visions every waking moment of the day. I'm pretty sure my father Hugo doesn't either."

Right on cue, I had a vision, but it wasn't like the others. I was tied down to a chair and Pinkie was standing in front of me with a menacing smile. She started asking me to sing her 'smile song' along with her. I refused to do so and she snarled at me, "There's just no singing with you humans is there?"

"That's because we aren't ponies!" I snapped, "And I'll never sing along with a crazy pony like you, not even if you paid me to!"

I didn't show fear, I showed her annoyance as she took out what looked like a big fishing hook.

"Sorry Alex," said Pinkie, "but Pinkie needs to do her research!"

When she drove the fishing hook into my chest that was when the vision ended.

* * *

I opened my eyes and I tried not to panic. Twilight and everyone else looked at me with concern.

Twilight frowned. "What's wrong Alex? I know you had a vision but this time you look panicked. You don't usually panic when you have a vision!"

I took a deep breath and let it out hoping this would calm me down but it didn't. "It looks like I'm going to be the victim of Pinkie's research."

I looked down at Star to see that she was glowing green. Why I chose to stay the course on this I have no idea.

Everyone else gasped at this information and Twilight looked panicked the most. I don't blame her.

17) Try not to Panic

{Hugo}

I panicked when I heard what Alex said that he had a vision about becoming the next victim of Pinkie's research. No, no Hugo, Alex is a half child. I've never heard of a half child being killed except for natural causes. Yeah, that's right. He's just panicking and I don't blame him. Actually, when I first found out I was a god I ran into that same scenario and I came out of it just fine. Not to mention, Alex is one of a kind as far as my favorite half child goes. Yeah, he'll come out of it just fine. He's not the only one that's run into things like this. Well, when you think of it he survived a fatal wound that Pinkie gave him with a gunshot so he'll pull through with this. He's also got a new ability too. So why should I be worried? There's no need to be worried…

I was snapped out of my panic when Zane tapped me on the shoulder. I smiled because for once in my life I was actually happy to see him. Zane had just gotten off from work and I filled him in on the details of what happened. He looked horrified just like how I was feeling for the time being.

"But didn't Alex survive a fatal gunshot wound to the chest?" Zane asked, "I wonder though, that might be the perfect opportunity to catch Pinkie Pie!"

I sighed and then paused to think about it. "You know something Zane? You just might be right about that. I guess we'll just have to wait and see, huh?"

Zane smiled and nodded. "Yeah, right now that's all we can do."

For some reason, this statement comforted me and I had no idea why.

* * *

{Alex}

We went back to the PPA HQ. We had the pony that got shot by a stunner bullet with us. We took her to the medical area at HQ. Once we got her to a bed, we waited for her to wake up. It wasn't until six hours later that she finally opened her eyes.

"What? Huh?" The Pony said. She groaned, "Where am I?"

"You're at PPA HQ in the medical area," I answered.

"Huh?" The Pony asked. She gave me a bewildered look, "Who are you?"

"My name is Agent Alex Shipman," I said, "Me and my partner Agent Violet Client are the ones that were sent to go find Pinkie Pie and bring her back to Equestria. She keeps escaping capture every single time we even get close to her. That stunner bullet you got hit with was meant for Pinkie and not you. I'm sorry about that."

It was then that I recognized who the pony that I'm talking to is. She's the pony that I saw in the vision I had, talking to my boss Agent Lawrence. Her name is Bon Bon.

"Wait a second!" I exclaimed, "Your name is Bon Bon isn't it?"

Bon Bon raised an eyebrow and nodded. "Yes, how did you know my name?"

I cleared my throat. "Let's just say I have certain talents that helped me track you down."

"Uh-huh." Bon Bon gave me a look of disbelief.

I turned around when I heard Simon laughing. "Yeah I know, when I first met Alex, he told me the same thing and then there was a pony in my office."

I rolled my eyes. "Anyway, I was wondering do you have any idea where Pinkie could be headed next?"

Bon Bon looked like she was racking her brain to remember where Pinkie could possibly be headed to next. Then she looked like she remembered something. "Yes, yes I know where she could be heading. For some reason Pinkie loves to live in apartment complexes that have basements in them. Probably because that's an easy way for her to hide her 'research', but it's not really research. She kills just for the thrill of it. She's been taking a liking to eating human flesh and meat along with drinking their blood."

I threw up in my mouth when I heard that. I swallowed and it kept it down to the best of my ability. Bon Bon sighed, "Yeah, I know. Pinkie becomes more of a nutcase by the day. I don't know but I think she's homesick and she started killing humans because of it."

I looked over at Twilight to see that her eyes were as wide as saucers. Bon Bon looked at Twilight and tilted her head, "Uh, who are you and what's wrong?"

Twilight gulped, "Um, Pinkie isn't killing people for the fun of it. She's killing people because that's what she did back in Equestria. I know because she tied me up and made me watch while she did the research. But every time I went back to the scene of the crime, just about everything was destroyed. There was never enough evidence to prove that there was ever any crime committed."

Bon Bon had a look of horror on her face. "Great, wonderful."

"Yeah, no kidding." I agreed.

I thought about being a victim of Pinkie's research and to tell the truth I really didn't want to find her anytime soon. But unfortunately, my vision told me that it was going to happen and it was going to happen within a week. I was hopeful that maybe I might have another vision that says otherwise.

I know what you're thinking Alex, but think of it this way, Star thought, you survived a fatal gunshot to the chest, maybe since you've decided to stay the course, this might be your opportunity for you to catch Pinkie once and for all!

Yeah, but it still doesn't tell me or Twilight about how catching Pinkie is going to happen. Just because I can recover from a wound it's not fun getting it.

I know, I understand.

As I sat there trying not to panic, I had a vision. It wasn't about Pinkie this time, it was about Twilight. She was sitting on the couch in my apartment smiling at me. Since she was in her pony form, her horn lit up and out of thin air came a small red and white box. I couldn't see what was in it and I saw her lips move and she was asking me something and I couldn't hear what it was. After that happened, the vision ended.

I opened my eyes feeling completely annoyed at the moment because every time I had a vision about Twilight I couldn't see it clearly and I don't know why.

I looked over at Twilight to see her frowning at me. "What's wrong?"

I sighed, "I had another vision but it was about you Terra. I'm annoyed at the moment because every time I have a vision about you I can't see it clearly and I have no idea why."

Bon Bon paused. "Did you say visions?"

I nodded. "Yes, visions. I can see the future and I'm not sure if the stupid visions have been helping at all. Every time we get close to capturing Pinkie, she escapes and we arrive at another dead end. I'm gonna guess because there are loopholes in the whole vision thing. I can't see past the vision unless I have another vision," I pointed at Twilight, "For some reason when I have a vision about my girlfriend here, I can't see it clearly because most of it's censored."

"Censored?" Simon asked, "You mean like when a rated R movie comes on tv and certain parts of it are blurred out because of the content in it?"

"Yup," I nodded, "That's exactly how it is."

Simon looked up at the ceiling thoughtfully and then back at me. "Well, maybe the future doesn't want you to see everything concerning her? But everyone else, the future seems to be fine with it."

"I guess." I sighed. Even with that thought, I was still frustrated by the visions I had about Twilight and I couldn't see them clearly.

"So what was the vision about?" Simon asked.

"Um, can I talk to you privately about that?" I asked.

Simon nodded, "Sure."

I went outside the room and Simon followed me. When I told Simon what the vision was about and that it was going to happen in two days, he laughed. "I think I know what this vision is about Alex. Do you wanna know what I think?"

I shook my head. "Nope. Not one little bit."

Simon chuckled, "Okay then, whatever you say."

I sat down on a chair in the waiting room next to Twilight and I buried my head in my arms. Twilight put a hand on my back and rubbed it gently. I felt a small surge of power go through me and I calmed down after that. I looked up at her and I kissed her. Our kiss turned into a make out session. I had half a mind to unzip her pants so I could have sex with her right in the waiting room and I didn't care who would be watching us at the moment. I was getting ready to do what I was thinking about doing when I heard Violet clear her throat. "You two do realize you're in a hospital waiting room right? Although, I wouldn't mind recording your sex noises."

When Twilight and I stopped making out, Twilight looked like she wanted to wring Violet's neck. This time, I wasn't about to stop her either. Violet backed up and put her hands up as if to say that she surrendered. "Okay, back up, I'm not going to do anything. I was just saying what I thought, honest I was."

"And I'm getting really sick and tired of you teasing us about our relationship!" Twilight snapped, "I have half a mind to go to your apartment stay right outside and wait for you and Abigail to have sex and record it!"

"Violet, seriously!" Abigail growled, "Again with this crap? Boy, you really can't help yourself when it comes down to Alex can you?"

Abigail then grabbed Violet by the ear and dragged her out of the waiting room. I couldn't stop my laughter at the sight even if I wanted to. Twilight was laughing pretty hard too. She stopped laughing and smiled at me. I raised an eyebrow. "Why are you smiling at me?"

"I think she's smiling because you were laughing in front of people." Simon chuckled.

I paused. "Huh?"

"Just look around Alex." Twilight said. She pointed and there were two doctors and a nurse staring at me in surprise and shock because I had laughed in front of them.

"Well I'll be damned, Agent Shipman!" said one of the doctors, "I can't believe I actually saw you laugh in front of someone!"

For some reason I found the doctor's reaction to my laughing in front of him funny. Normally I would excuse myself so I could laugh somewhere else, but Twilight's right it's about time I finally accepted reality for what it is. No one's going to discipline me for laughing in front of people. I don't plan on doing it in front of my mother anytime soon.

I guess Twilight could sense that I was afraid and that I was getting ready to excuse myself so I could laugh somewhere else; so she made me sit down and she sat on my lap.

"What is it Innocent?" I asked.

"It's because My Go Pony isn't going to excuse himself so he could go laugh somewhere else. Nope! Not happening!" Twilight declared.

I put my arms around her waist and smiled. I whispered into her ear. "Thank you Innocent."

"Awww," said Simon, "I love your pet name for Terra, Alex."

The Doctor's jaw dropped when he saw me laughing and said, "I think Terra's pet name for you, Agent Shipman, is adorable also!"

"Um, thanks Dr. Samson." I mumbled.

"So tell me Terra," said Dr. Samson, "where did you come up with Agent Shipman's pet name?"

Twilight paused, she looked unsure if she wanted to tell how she came up with my pet name. "I, um…"

Dr. Samson chuckled, "It's okay Terra, you don't have to tell me, I just think it's cute."

There was a chorus of the word 'awe' that sounded around the waiting room. I felt my cheeks turn red and buried my face in Twilight's back so no one could see or at least I thought no one was able to see it. I heard Violet laughing, "Wow Alex! Your face is red like a tomato!"

"Violet!" Abigail snapped, "Knock it off or no sex tonight!"

I snorted and then went into a fit of laughter. "As I said before, no one can control Violet. If you can Abigail, that would amaze me!"

Dr. Samson laughed at this because for as long as he's known me and Violet, he knew what I said was true.

"Hmm, Alex?" Twilight asked.

"What?" I replied.

"I just want to see something," Twilight said, "Can you show me your left hand?"

I nodded. "Okay."

She grabbed my left hand and squeezed my ring finger. I paused when Twilight did that, "What was that for?"

"Oh nothing," by the sound of Twilight's voice, I could tell she was lying, "nope, nothing at all."

I raised an eyebrow. "Uh-huh, yeah whatever you say Terra."

I looked over to see Simon try to stifle a laugh. I could tell he really wanted to tell me what my vision about Twilight might be about. I wasn't going to let him tell me because I didn't want to know.

18) Twilight's Pledge

{Twilight}

Even though I was panicked about Alex becoming Pinkie's next research victim, I was happy that Alex was finally able to laugh in front of people. I fell for Alex before we got together but I wasn't sure if he had feelings for me until I helped him break up with his awful girlfriend Mary. What I'm even more worried about is his emotional state than anything else.

Knowing how strong my connection is with Alex, it made me want to be with him for as long as possible. When Alex went to sleep for the night, I cast the sleeping spell on him to make sure that he would sleep for a while. I got permission to go back through the portal and talk to Princess Luna about how I was feeling. I knew getting some sort of ring for Alex would be involved. So I got his measurements but I wasn't sure about everything else as far as what I wanted to do goes.

Princess Luna asked me to come to her room and sit down on the couch so I could talk to her.

"So, what is so important about this ring you want to get for Alex?" Princess Luna asked with a smile.

"Well, I know I've had feelings for him ever since I heard about what he went through with his awful ex-girlfriend Mary. I wanted to protect his emotional state more than his physical state," I said.

Princess Luna raised an eyebrow. "Oh? Why not both?"

So I explained to Princess Luna that Alex is half god and half human. When Princess Luna heard this her jaw dropped. "Wow, I sensed a lot of magic coming from him when I first met him, but I didn't think he was that powerful! And yes, I have heard of Hugo, but I thought he was an old ponies tale and nothing more than that. So he's real, huh?"

I nodded. "Yup, he's real and that's why Alex is so talented at being able to see the future. As a matter of fact, he even knows how much time until a vision is going to happen!"

Princess Luna whistled at this, "You know something Twilight?"

"What?" I asked.

"When I first met Alex," Princess Luna said, "I was trying to set him up with you. Of course I did the classic line that you love books so much that you might marry one. But I did see something strange about him."

"Let me guess," I said, "you saw that he couldn't laugh in front of people, right?"

Princess Luna nodded. "Mhm, that's exactly what I noticed. So did you find out why that is?"

So I told her about what Alex has been through most of his life and she was floored about this also.

"Aww, the poor thing," said Princess Luna, shaking her head in dismay. "It's no wonder why you're worried about that with him. Well, I know exactly what you want to do now that you've filled me in on the details. You want to propose marriage to Alex."

I paused and then blinked. "Wait... What?"

Princess Luna giggled, "Oh Twilight, you know you've found the right pony or person in this case for you. That's why you want to buy a ring for him. From what I've been told, when a pony finds their mate they know just by the feel of their bond with them. It's so strong that they desire to give their potential mate a ring pledging their love for them. They don't know why that is but it happens. I have yet to have this feeling myself, but seeing that you want to give Alex a ring to pledge your love to him, it seems you have your mate.”

"Now I have done some research on how humans normally do that type of stuff and it's usually the man that proposes marriage and not the woman. However, there have been cases where a woman has proposed to a man, but it's very rare.”

"Since you are a pony of royalty, it is the duty of the mare to propose marriage whether it be to a stallion or another mare. Honestly, I think he'll say yes. Although knowing that e he's a human, well half human in this case, he'll probably be stunned when you propose. You two have only been together for how long now?"

"Um, a month and a half," I replied.

Princess Luna grinned. "Well, I can help you get the ring and you should probably practice before you propose."

I nodded. "Okay then."

It stunned me that Princess Luna knew exactly the way I felt about Alex.

* * *

{Alex}

To tell the truth, I was feeling nervous because of the vision that I saw about Twilight. I think Simon was trying to drop a big hint about what was coming up. I had a feeling it had something to do with a marriage proposal. I had been thinking of at least giving Twilight a promise ring but I wasn't sure about marriage yet because we've only been together for a month and a half.

I was pacing back and forth in the living room.

Would you stop freaking out Alex? Star thought, Maybe Twilight just wants to give you a gift or something?

Oh, it's going to be ‘or something’, I thought, I was thinking about at least getting her a promise ring but a marriage proposal? I mean I know I want to be with her for as long as possible but…

But what?

That was the moment I knew exactly how I felt about Twilight. I want to be with her for as long as possible. So I guess marriage could possibly be in our future. I snapped out my thoughts when Twilight came back from wherever she was.

"Um, Alex?" Twilight asked, "Can I talk to you about something?"

I nodded. "Sure."

I went and sat down on the couch and Twilight sat down beside me. Twilight took a breath and let it out. "Well, um, I've been thinking about doing this for a little while now. I was going to wait until we caught Pinkie but I really want to do this now. No, I'm not doing this because I think you're going to die by Pinkie's hand. I remember when I realized I had feelings for you."

"When was that?" I asked.

"When I first saw you having that painful power surge. I was up all night worried about you because I wanted to protect you. I knew that even if you didn't have feelings for me, that I would always be there for you," Twilight said, "I'm not worried about your physical state because you're a half god and all. I'm more worried about your emotional state."

I tilted my head. "My emotional state?"

Twilight nodded. "Uh-huh, mostly because of everything you've been through, especially with your awful ex-girlfriend Mary. I was glad when I finally got you away from her. It always feels good when I can help a friend out. Even if you don't accept my pledge, I still want you to have this anyway."

"Um, pledge?" I squeaked.

Twilight floated next to her with her magic a gift bag. She took out the exact same box that I saw in my vision. I gasped when she opened it. In the box was a ring with black edges around the band and a shimmering purple stripe in the middle of the black edges and that color was around the band. It was definitely an engagement ring made for a man.

Twilight seemed really nervous about what she was going to say next and I don't blame her, I would feel the same way if I was the one doing the proposing. "Okay Alex, from what Princess Luna told me it is the duty of the mare if they are part of the royal family, which I am, to purpose marriage. So this is not only a pledge to show my love for you. It's also a question. Will you marry me?"

As soon as Twilight asked the question I was stunned and speechless at first, because usually it's the man's responsibility to propose marriage, at least where I come from. Once I got over my shock, I nodded. "Yes Twilight, yes I'll marry you!"

Twilight smiled and with tears in her eyes she took the ring out of the box and slipped it on my finger. I let out a small chuckle, "You know where I come from, it's usually the man that does the proposing."

Twilight nodded. "Yeah, I know. Did you know Princess Luna tried to set me up with you from the very beginning?"

I chuckled, "Yup, she said something to the effect of you love books so much you marry one. Then she added ‘and oh by the way, she's single!’"

Twilight thought the way Princess Luna tried to set us up was hilarious. She couldn't stop laughing at it. She finally caught her breath when she stopped laughing. "Yeah, it makes sense that Princess Luna would use that line as a way to get my nose out of a book. Now that you think about it, I've heard Fluttershy tell me that Princess Luna has done that before. Well, this time it worked out."

I smiled. "Yeah, it did."

I reached over and kissed her, we started to make out and then soon after that we had sex.

* * *

{Twilight}

I was so happy after Alex said yes to my proposal. Of course like Princess Luna said, he was stunned by it. I still think it's funny that Princess Luna used the whole 'Twilight love books so much she might marry one’ line and then added to that, 'oh and by the way she's single' to try and get me set up with Alex. The funny thing is Alex's partner Violet had been trying to set us up from the very first time we met.

Alex and I were laying in bed after having sex. I smiled at him and at the moment, I couldn't help but smile. "I wonder something Alex."

"What?" Alex asked.

"What parts of my body do you like?" I asked.

"Depends," Alex replied, "your human form or your pony form?"

I thought about it and said, "Both."

"Well in your human form my favorite part would be your boobs and your cute butt," Alex said.

I blushed when Alex said that he laughed, "In your pony form, hmm that's a tough one. I think I like your tail."

I giggled as Alex played with my tail since I was in my pony form at the moment. He reached over and licked my horn for some reason, that made me laugh too.

"I also like your horn," Alex said. He smiled, "So, what part of my body do you like?"

I thought about it and I knew exactly what it was that I liked about him physically. "Your penis."

Alex choked on what I just said. I smiled. "No, you didn't win me over with your dick. I just like the way it looks. Remember, I realized I had feelings for you when you had that power surge. I stayed up all night that day worried sick about you."

Alex scratched me behind the ear and it felt wonderful! Man, something as simple as Alex's touch feels good. Princess Luna was right. I found my mate.

"Hmm, since you like my dick so much," Alex said, "I think I'll stick it inside of you again."

I laughed as he did exactly what he wanted to do.

* * *

{Alex}

I woke up the next morning and smiled when I saw Twilight sleeping soundly beside me. Since I wasn't going anywhere for the time being, I got up and put my boxers on and put a robe on to cover myself up. Once I grabbed breakfast, Twilight woke up and sat down at the kitchen table.

She smiled at me. "Morning dear."

I smiled back. "Good morning Innocent."

I jumped when I heard the phone ring. I answered it and to my surprise it was Violet. "Hey Alex."

"Uh. Hi?" I asked. "What's up?"

"Well, Simon told me and Abigail about your vision and he told me what he thinks it might be about," Violet said, "I was wondering, has it come true yet?"

"Yeah, it has," I replied.

"So what was it?" Violet asked with a curious tone of voice.

"Twilight asked me to marry her," I said.

Violet gasped, "No way! What did you say?"

"I said yes." I responded.

"Wow," said Violet, "that was fast!"

"Yeah, I know," I said, "I made up my mind about it before it happened. Simon was trying to drop me a hint as to what it could possibly be. I didn't want to know but I figured it out."

"Awesome!" Violet cheered, "Since we're not heading out for a couple more days, maybe we should celebrate? In case you're wondering why I'm not outside your door, I figured I need to try and stop pressing your buttons because if I don't, Abigail will get upset. She's got weird ideas that she uses to torture me with, mostly ideas about sex."

I snorted. "Wow, I never thought someone would actually be afraid to have sex with someone!"

"Ha, Ha Alex," Violet growled, "I'm only afraid of that when Abigail's upset with me, trust me, you don't want to know. I still can't believe the princess actually got you to laugh in front of people. The fact that you're laughing at me while you're on the phone with me tells me that her mission to make you do that is complete!"

I paused. "Wait, what?"

"You heard me," Violet said, "The princess made it her mission to make you laugh when she heard that you couldn't laugh in front of anyone and why. She even checked out a book on how to make someone laugh. And she did the classic why did the chicken cross the road joke. It was so funny because she sounded so naïve and innocent when she said it too."

I laughed when I heard that because of course Twilight would do something like that. That's why I gave her the pet name Innocent.

"It makes sense to me because Twilight looks innocent with everything she does," I chimed, "That's where her pet name comes from."

"So that's why you call her Innocent!" Violet laughed. "That's so cute! Now the princess has another mission."

"And what might that be?" I asked.

"To love you and be with you forever and forever," Violet said, "Anyway, I'll tell Simon and Abigail the good news! I'll start planning the celebration party and trust me, you're going to love it!"

"Okay then," I hung up the phone and when I went over to Twilight she was eating a plate of vegetables with ranch dressing.

"So what was that all about?" Twilight asked.

"Apparently Simon knew exactly what my vision was about that I had about you," I said. "He tried to tell me what might happen but I didn't want to know. But the fact that he dropped me a huge hint about it made me think about my answer before you even asked."

Twilight tilted her head. "Really? So you were already going to say yes before I asked?"

I nodded. "Yup. To tell the truth I was going to get you a promise ring after we caught Pinkie. Then I was going to wait until we had been together for a little bit longer to ask you to marry me. But you beat me to it."

The fact that I told Twilight the truth about how I was going to do things made Twilight overjoyed. She had happy tears in her eyes again. Knowing that I was going to be planning a wedding soon helped me take my mind off what was going to happen between me and Pinkie in a few days.

20) Preparing for the Kill

{Alex}

The next day before the time limit was up for the vision I had with that was going to come true, Violet, Abigail, Simon, Twilight, and I met up at the café. Simon smiled when he saw the engagement ring on my finger.

"Well now, I never thought I'd see the day when I saw a man get proposed to instead of a man proposing to a woman," Simon chuckled, "Don't see that everyday. That's not the way it happens in my family."

"If you're in the gay community," said Abigail, "then yeah a woman would propose to their girlfriend. Although I'm one of the first lesbians in my family. A lot of them don't really know I'm gay."

Violet tilted her head, "Wait, not everyone knows you're gay? Interesting, because everyone in my family knows I'm gay and I'm accepted. I came out of the closet the first chance I got."

"Yeah, while some people are confident about that, others aren't," Abigail said.

"Oh," Violet said.

"To be fair, I'm not a human, I'm an Alicorn," Twilight said, "In Equestria, if you're a pony of royalty, then it's the mare's duty to propose and actually according to Princess Luna once a pony has found their mate, the only thing they know is that they want to buy a ring for their love. That's what happened to me. When I talked to Princess Luna about it, she cleared things up because I knew I wanted to be with Alex forever. She told me that I wanted to propose to him. So as you can see, that's what I did."

"The funny thing is," I said, "I was thinking about getting Terra a promise ring after we caught Pinkie. I was going to wait until we had been together a little bit longer for a marriage proposal. But she beat me to it."

"Awww." Violet, Abigail, and Simon said.

"Bon Bon just gave me the address of where she and Pinkie were staying before they went to the apartment complex where we last saw her. I visited her last night at the medical area," Violet said. She pulled out a piece of paper. "Oh yeah, Bon Bon did tell me that Pinkie Pie would probably be in the basement somewhere, unless she hasn't kidnapped her next victim yet."

I deadpanned, "We all know who her next victim is going to be."

Violet looked down at the floor. "Well, let's go get this over with. I really don't want to do it this way. I just hope nobody gets hurt."

"Yeah, let's go." I said.

I could tell nobody wanted to leave PPA Headquarters, but just like me, they knew it needed to be done in order to catch Pinkie.

* * *

{Pinkie Pie}

Normally I don't do this, but this time in preparing for a kill I don't clean my tools for it. But this kill is going to be special, because it's going to be either one of those agents of the PPA chasing me or Twilight or all of them. That will make plenty of meat and blood for me for a while. That should send them a message about not tracking me down. But it could backfire on me too. The PPA might send more agents after me with their determination.

I stood in front of a mirror that was down in the basement in front of the sink. I sighed, "Well Pinkie, you didn't want things to come down to this, but it has to be done. They won't stop chasing after me! Besides, who needs rules anyway? That Twilight just doesn't know when to stop either. I don't know what happened to Bon Bon. She's probably told those agents of the PPA where I am by now."

I looked around at the basement room and nodded as I checked everything off on my list that needed to be cleaned all the way down the table that I would tie my research subjects on. I even placed boobytraps around the entrance of the basement.

I nodded and smiled. "Alrighty then! I'm ready! Let's go kill those stupid agents of the PPA!"

* * *

{Alex}

The closer we got to the apartment complex where Pinkie would be, the more nervous I got. When we finally arrived Violet helped Abigail off her bike and I helped Twilight and Simon off mine.

I paused when I saw the front of the apartment complex.

Twilight frowned. "What is it?"

"I didn't have a vision of how I would wind up being Pinkie's research victim, just that I would," I replied, "I guess that's another loophole in the visions."

Out of nowhere we heard Pinkie's voice. It sounded like she was overly excited to see us this time. "Looking for me?"

"So you're out in the open this time, huh?" Twilight snapped.

Pinkie gave a sinister smile and nodded. "Yes. Yes I am."

"Is that sinister smile supposed to scare us?" Twilight asked.

Pinkie looked like Twilight caught her off guard by saying that. "Oh no, that wasn't supposed to be a sinister smile! It was supposed to be a happy welcoming smile." Pinkie gave a nervous laugh after that.

Twilight raised an eyebrow. "Uh-huh, yeah right, you use smiling as a way to hide your evil intent. I don't trust you anymore Pinkie. You're not pulling the wool over my eyes this time."

Pinkie snapped her fingers. "Damn it! If only I had my welcome wagon with me."

"Why would we care about your stupid little welcome?" Twilight growled. "Do you really think that's going to work?"

It looked like Pinkie was forcing herself to give us a sincere smile. She started to sing, "Come one everypony smile, smile, smile! Fill my heart with-"

"Shut it Pinkie!" Twilight shouted. "Just SHUT-UP!"

"Okay, okay, fine I'll stop singing, shoot," Pinkie said, "I know what you guys want from me but you must know it's not happening."

"Oh really?" Twilight snarled.

Pinkie gave Twilight the stink eye. "Yeah, you stupid bitch!"

Pinkie then touched the pendant to her magic necklace and disappeared.

"Oh hell no!" Twilight said, "More than likely she's probably where Bon Bon said she'd be, come on let's go!"

Great, now would be a good time to have a vision so things can change course. I thought.

That was wishful thinking because Twilight somehow found the entrance to the basement very fast. I looked in horror to see that Twilight was getting ready to run into a trap. It was a rope tied to the banister on the staircase.

"No!" I said. I grabbed Twilight and got her out of the way just in the nick of time. This action set the trap off. The rope wrapped around my ankle and slammed me against the wall it was tied to. That was when the world went dark.

* * *

{Twilight}

I panicked when I saw Alex go into that trap and the trap was tied to a trap door next to the banister to the staircase. "No! Alex! No!"

"It's not okay but we'll figure out a way to save him," Violet said. I could tell by the tone in her voice that she was trying her best to keep me calm enough to think of a way to save Alex.

Think Twilight, think… I thought.

Then I remembered something, when Pinkie would set her traps to capture another research victim her favorite one was the wall that was the secret rotating door. This was because once her victim got trapped, all she would have to do was tie them on her work table. The only problem with this is the trap can only pull in one victim at a time. At least that's the way it works for Pinkie. It's not true for me. I used my magic several times to make the traps that Pinkie set clear to ponies in the hopes that they would stay away. But unfortunately because of the smile song ponies just walked right into them anyway.

"Hmmm," I said to myself.

"What are you thinking about princess?" Violet said.

After I was able to break out of the magic restraints that Pinkie would use on me, I kept trying to think of a way to keep ponies from falling into her traps. Another problem with that was that when Pinkie was done with her research she would use a bonfire that would be started with a magical device to get rid of the evidence so it would just be my word against hers that anything ever happened.

The plan that I thought of was to use my magic to detect the trapdoor and go out the opposite way that I could go get help. But this time I was going to use my magic to go into the trap so that way I could save Alex.

"I have a plan," I said, "but you guys won't be able to come with me on this. Although I bet there's some sort of back door to the basement. Or at least I hope there is."

"So what are you going to do?" Simon asked.

I pointed at the secret rotating door that Alex just went into. "I'm going to use my magic to get into the trap. It's only big enough for one person at a time to go through. I know how this trap works, if you go in the wrong way you'll just get stuck. If my plan works, we'll capture Pinkie and save Alex, hopefully he won't die on us."

"But, Alex can't die!" Violet said, "He's half god and half human."

I sighed, "I don't mean physically, I mean mentally. If Pinkie winds up making Alex pass out by having that fish hook go through his chest, he might never be the same again, especially if we don't capture Pinkie."

Violet nodded. "I understand. Now go, save Alex before that happens and we'll be right behind you!"

With that, I changed into my pony form and started to break into the secret rotating door that Pinkie pulls her victims through.

* * *

{Alex}

The next time I opened I looked around. It looked like I was in a dimly lit room and there were all sorts of tools hanging on the wall in front of me.

"Well, well, well," I heard Pinkie say, "looks like my research subject is finally awake! Now we can have some fun!"

I looked in front of me to see a pink pony with dark pink hair smiling at me. "Let me guess, you're Pinkie Pie."

Pinkie gave a small clap with her hooves. "Bingo! Give the man a prize!"

Great, now what do I do? I thought.

Aren't you the one who always comes up with a plan? Star thought.

Yeah, but this time I'm stumped. I thought.

"Helloooo!" Pinkie shouted, "Anybody home?"

"Huh?" I said. I rolled my eyes because this was the part when Pinkie would start asking me to sing her 'smile song.'

"Hey Alex," said Pinkie, "do you want to do me a favor before you die?"

I groaned, "Does it involve singing?"

"Wow, you're good, how did you know?" Pinkie smiled.

"Because I just do!" I snapped.

"So I was wondering if you would be a dear and sing my smile song with me?" Pinkie asked.

"Hell no! I'm not singing with you even if you paid me to!" I snarled.

"Aw, come on!" Pinkie whined. "Just once, please? You're going to die anyway."

Pinkie whined and paused when she saw the engagement ring on my finger. "Well now, Mr. Agent of the PPA, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you're engaged to my good friend Twilight! She is a pony of royalty and the color that's on the ring matches her fur. Well I would say congrats but you're not going to have a wedding with her, because all of you are going to die."

I raised an eyebrow. "All of us?"

Pinkie nodded. "Oh yes definitely! You're all going to die very soon."

21) The Reason Why

{Alex}

I looked around trying to figure out a way to get out of this situation or once again use my vision in a different way. I looked in horror as I saw the fishing hook hanging on the wall beside me. I could sense that Star was panicking too.

Calm down Star, we'll figure something out, okay? I thought.

Yeah, I doubt that! She's going for the fishing hook! Star thought.

I gulped when I saw Pinkie start to sing her smile song as she grabbed the fishing hook in her mouth.

"Oh come on- uh, who are you again?" Pinkie asked.

"My name is Alex!" I snapped.

"Wow, you're a feisty one aren't you?" Pinkie smirked.

"So what if I am?" I snapped again.

"Well if you were a pony you'd be my kind of guy," Pinkie said, "I like it when they're aggressive."

I gagged. "Yuck! As Twilight said to Eric when he was flirting with her, you’re gross!"

"Awww, oh well," Pinkie said, "Pinkie needs to do her research," She paused and looked in horror at me, "What are you doing?"

I felt a small surge of electricity go through my hand and it felt like I was holding a whole bunch of needles in it. Star seemed to calm down when this started happening.

Alex, it's your lightning power! Star thought with excitement.

Before I could do anything with it I heard Twilight shout, "PINKIIIIE!"

Pinkie looked over to see Twilight charging at her like a bull. I could tell Pinkie was going to escape soon and I wasn't about to let that happen again.

"Oh no you don't Pinkie!" I snarled. A beam of lightning shot out of my hand and hit Pinkie in the chest. She screamed and fell backward.

"No!" Pinkie howled, "Make the pain stop!"

"Make the pain stop!" Twilight mocked her, "Make the pain stop! Hmm, I think we should turn this into a song shall we? Come on everypony, let's kill Pinkie."

I chuckled, "Wow, Innocent I didn't know you had some talent. Now let's take this rogue only back to Equestria shall we?"

"Works for me!" Twilight said, "Oh, and we need to take care of one more thing."

Twilight used her magic and ripped Pinkie's magic necklace off her neck. She then stomped on it with her hoof because she was in pony form at the moment. My jaw dropped as Twilight kept stomping on the necklace until it was in a million pieces or more. When I thought she had done enough, I put my hand on her shoulder and made her stop.

"No more disappearing acts for you Pinkie!" Twilight sneered, "As a matter of fact, just to make sure you don't escape from us, Alex, do you happen to have any magical restraints for her?"

I nodded. Every agent of the PPA always has magical restraints to arrest ponies to bring them back to Equestria. When a pony is in human form restraints look like regular handcuffs. When a pony is in their pony form the restraints look like an iron chain with cuffs for all four hooves.

I took out the restraints and wrapped the iron chain around Pinkie's waist and then I put the cuffs on one hoof after another.

"You'll never get away with this!" Pinkie growled, "You'll never take me alive, I'll come back to Earth and I'll continue my research! I will have the meat and the blood, you'll never-"

Twilight rolled her eyes. "Would you listen to yourself? You're an evil heartless bastard! We'll get away with this alright, you want to know why? Because a pony like you doesn't deserve to see the light of day!" She sighed, "It's too bad though, if you were still my friend you'd be able to come to the wedding."

Pinkie blinked. "Wedding?"

I showed Pinkie the engagement ring on my finger and she gasped. "I knew it! You are engaged to Twilight. So the princess gets what she wants but not me?"

"What are you talking about Pinkie?" Twilight asked, "You had everything back in Equestria, what more could you have wanted by coming here illegally? Why did you have to kill those ponies and humans? What about what they wanted? I'm pretty sure they wanted to live but you took what they wanted away from them. You had a family and just about everypony wanted to be your friend. You even had a boyfriend, don't you remember him? His name is Cheese Sandwich. Get this Pinkie, he was planning to propose to you before you left!

"But no, you were selfish and you continue to be. Please Pinkie, help me understand this! Now, now…" She started to cry, "now you'll have nothing. Your family doesn't love you anymore because you've betrayed them. Your element of harmony has been passed down. Cheese Sandwich has moved on, he's married now and you'll never be able to make anypony smile ever again."

Much to my surprise Pinkie started crying, and to tell the truth I had no idea why.

"No! You're wrong Twilight!" Pinkie cried, "I didn't have anything, everypony looked down on me back in Equestria. I know smiles and those smiles were fake! Ponies were being friendly towards me because they wanted me to throw a big party for them. Because that's what I was famous for back in Equestria right? You know what, now that I think about it, nopony ever once asked me to throw a party because they wanted to get to know me or become my friend. They just wanted to show off the fact that they got a party from the famous Party Planner Pinkie Pie!

"I wanted to be friends with everypony I came across. So I acted silly and I sang songs to cheer ponies up. But I got tired of being looked down on so instead of trying to be everypony’s friend, I started to kill ponies instead. I must say, it was a wonderful feeling. And on top of that, I had so much fun doing it!"

"But why did you want me to watch while you killed them?" Twilight growled.

"Because, because…" Pinkie trailed off on what she was trying to say, "Because I loved you and I wanted to share my new found joy with you. It turned me on when you watched me kill them with horror. I thought about confessing my feelings to you at one point, but I couldn't do it. When you found a way to break out of my restraints to go get help, it made me sad because you rejected me. I felt like I had no pony on my side anymore. I guess you never were on my side. That's why I'm heartbroken that you're engaged to somepony that's not me."

Twilight gasped. "So you're telling me that if I hadn't broken out of your restraints that meant that I loved you?"

Pinkie looked away and nodded. Twilight and I exchanged a look and gagged. We said at the same time. "Yuck! Pinkie, you are gross!"

Pinkie looked at us and she had tears in her eyes. The sad and heartbroken look on her face signaled to me that she had admitted defeat. "I'm done now, I changed my mind. I'll go back to Equestria, but it looks like I have no choice now."

It startled Twilight and I when we heard a door open. Violet breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh good, you guys are okay."

Violet tilted her head when she saw Pinkie crying. "Why is Pinkie Pie crying?"

"Pinkie just confessed her love for Twilight," I said.

Violet gasped. "Seriously?"

Twilight nodded. "Yup, and apparently she was killing ponies and making me watch because she wanted it to be some quality bonding time between us."

I looked over to see Abigail and Simon throw up in their mouths.

Simon swallowed. "Yeah, that's gross."

"No kidding!" Twilight and I said.

When Pinkie started to howl in pain she said, "Make the pain stop, please Twilight! I just said how much I love you, make it stop!"

"STOP TALKING!" Twilight shouted, "Pinkie, I don't care! You killed all those ponies and people, I'm done with you talking, I don't want to hear it anymore. To be honest, I hope Princess Luna kills you, because that's what you deserve!"

Twilight started to cry and I pulled her into my arms. "Shhhh, Twilight, take a deep breath, we got her now. We got her and she's not disappearing on us again."

Twilight stopped crying and kissed me, she turned around and sneered at Pinkie. "You know something, it brings me great pleasure to do this."

"Huh?" Pinkie said. Before she could say another word, Twilight shot a beam of light from her horn at Pinkie's mouth and after the light died down, I stifled a laugh because on Pinkie's face was a zipper that held her mouth closed.

Twilight turned around and smiled. "What? I decided to add my own personal touch as we drag her away to an Equestrian dungeon. Go ahead, you can laugh now."

Violet, Abigail, Simon, Twilight, and I started laughing and we didn't stop laughing for a while.

* * *

After we got back to PPA HQ and Pinkie was sent back to Equestria, Agent Lawrence pulled Simon, Abigail, Twilight, and I into her office.

"Go ahead, take a seat," Agent Lawrence said.

We sat down as Agent Lawrence instructed.

"Don't worry you guys aren't in trouble," said Agent Lawrence, "I just want to commend you guys for a job well done! And Detective S. Carter and Detective A. Ryker, you won't remember this because we've wiped your memory of it but you guys have helped more than one agent of the PPA catch a rogue pony. Even if you don't take this job opportunity, don't worry Abigail, we don't erase memories of agents you've become romantically involved with."

"Wait, wait, wait," said Simon, "you mean to tell me we've helped catch more than one rogue pony and we don't remember it because you've wiped our memories? Why would you do that?"

"Because the PPA is a well kept secret," Agent Lawrence explained, "The last thing we want is for the PPA to be compromised. So it's a common procedure. The funny thing is, Agent Shipman here has helped us catch more than one rogue pony before he started working here."

I tilted my head and blinked. "Excuse me?"

Agent Lawrence nodded. "Mhm, you helped agents catch three rogue ponies. It's common practice to wipe memories of those that have no dealings with the PPA. Agents that have had interactions with you are instructed to stay well away from you. This time we can't wipe your memory because number one you work for the PPA and number two you're getting married to a princess from Equestria. Isn't that right Terra. Or should I say Princess Twilight?"

Twilight's jaw dropped. "How did you know?"

"I'm one of the head agents that works for the PPA, I've talked to Princess Luna at length about stuff like that," Agent Lawrence said, "It is the duty of the mare who is part of the royal family to propose marriage. I bet Agent Shipman was in shock when you did it."

Twilight snorted. "Oh yeah, he was. Too bad I didn't have a camera so I could've seen his reaction. Of course we had sex afterwards."

Agent Lawrence chuckled, "Uh, Princess Twilight, I didn't need to know that, but thanks for the info."

Simon and Abigail seemed to get a kick out of what Twilight said because they laughed at it.

Agent Lawrence turned to them. "So what do you say Detective S. Carter and Detective A. Ryker, do you want to become Agents of the PPA?"

Simon and Abigail looked at each other and smiled.

"I don't know about Ryker," said Simon, "but catching a rogue pony is a lot more fun than doing detective work anyway."

Abigail nodded. "I agree with Carter, I'm taking the job too."

Violet grinned at Abigail and reached over and shoved her tongue down Abigail's throat. I laughed at that and I looked over to see Agent Lawrence with a sad look on her face. Violet saw that and looked confused. "What's the matter, Agent Lawrence? You weren't interested in me so why the sad face?"

Agent Lawrence looked away and sighed, "I was playing hard to get. Oh well, I guess it doesn't matter now."

"But you never flirted with me or anything like that," Violet said.

"Uh, this time I agree with Violet on that one," I said, "you never dropped any hints at all on that."

I guess Agent Lawrence didn't want to talk about it. She cleared her throat and smiled at me and Twilight. "So when are you two going to start planning the wedding?"

Twilight looked at me. "I don't know. Now that Pinkie's been captured, we should start planning it, don't you think Alex?"

I nodded. "Yeah."

Agent Lawrence smiled, "Oh and one more thing Agent Shipman, your father Hugo wants to see you and your new fiancé in the Underground to congratulate you on your engagement. Your Uncle Zane is here to escort you there."

Twilight and I exchanged a look and Agent Lawrence laughed, "Yeah, I know."

There was a knock on the door and Agent Lawrence answered it. Standing in the doorway was an older guy that looked old enough to be someone's grandfather. He also looked like someone that belonged to a biker gang. He had on a leather jacket with denim black pants, black leather boots, a black sports bandanna, and a long white beard that was tied together with a rubber band.

I raised an eyebrow. "Okay, my uncle is part of a biker gang?"

Zane gave a belly laugh, "Oh no, although it used to be my alter ego."

Before Zane could say another word, I had a vision of Twilight, Zane, and I going through a portal and that was it.

I rolled my eyes. "Let me guess, we're going through a portal in two minutes aren't we?"

Zane gave another belly laugh and then whistled. "Wow, you're good. That's why you're Hugo's favorite half child."

"But we've never met before," I said, "so how can I-"

"Because Hugo likes to watch you through a portal. I'd say he's a bit of a stalker doing that. I bet he's going to say something about what I just said because he's probably watching us now. Without further ado, let's go meet your father Alex, and Princess Twilight," Zane said.

Twilight and I nodded. A portal opened up behind Zane and we followed him through it.

22) Alex meets Hugo

{Alex}

Once we got through the portal, I looked in surprise to see what looked like a huge giant of a person standing in front of me. He was wearing some type of blue robes as he stood there smiling at me and Twilight. It was hard to make eye contact with him because he was so tall. He was wearing brown sandals on his feet. It reminded me of some sort of character from a history book about the Romans and their culture.

The man rolled his eyes and gave a belly laugh, "Yes, yes I know I'm tall, right? Let me introduce myself, my name is Hugo."

"So you're my dad then, huh?" I asked. "How come you haven't been in the picture most of my life?"

"Well, it's complicated. Unlike you I have rules that I have to follow," Hugo explained, "I can only go out of my realm to date different women and if they agree to bear my offspring, I get them pregnant and then I have to go back into my realm."

"Okay then," I said, "that's weird."

"Yeah, I know," said Uncle Zane, "that's exactly why I don't want the job of being a ruler over this realm at all. I can't imagine what Bear goes through in ruling his realm. Trust me, I don't want to know."

Uncles Zane and Hugo laughed at this thought but I can't speak for Twilight but I didn't think it was funny. Twilight and I exchanged a look of confusion.

Hugo smiled. "Yeah I know about the confusion, but like I said. It's complicated. That's why I couldn't stop your mother from disciplining you for laughing, in my honest opinion she did it because she was jealous about you being half god and all. I tried to reason with her via writing a letter. But as you can see, it didn't work."

"No kidding!" Twilight said, "But since Uncle Zane said you've been watching us through a portal, you've probably seen how I've gotten Alex to laugh in front of people."

"And you got him to break up with his evil girlfriend Mary too," Hugo chuckled.

"Uh, Mr. Hugo sir, since you're such a stalker as Uncle Zane puts it," I said, "do you watch me and Twilight having sex? Because if you do that means I have a pervert for a father."

While Uncle Zane couldn't stop laughing at this thought, Hugo was speechless. "Ah, ha, ha, but no, those intimate moments are yours to share with your soon to be wife."

I raised an eyebrow. I wasn't quite sure if I believed his answer but I had to take his word for it. "Okay, I guess I'll just have to take your word for it."

"That makes two of us," Twilight agreed.

"So exactly why did you want to see us?" I asked.

"Ah yes," said Hugo, "I wanted to give you a gift, to congratulate you two on your engagement."

Twilight and I exchanged a look. I wondered what Hugo might possibly have in mind to give us. Hugo took out of his pocket a red ruby crystal in the shape of a heart. He split the crystal in two. One half of the crystal turned into a ring and the other half turned into a necklace. Hugo handed the half of the crystal that turned into a ring to me. "Here you go, put this on your ring finger where your engagement ring is."

I nodded and did what Hugo told me too. The ring combined with my engagement ring and it glowed for a bit and the glow disappeared. Hugo then handed the other half of the crystal that turned into a necklace that had a gold chain with a ruby heart on it to Twilight. "Okay, put this around your neck, Princess."

Twilight did as she was told and it glowed for a bit and then the light dimmed, she looked as confused as I was about this gift. "Ah, what's this gift for?"

Hugo smiled. "This is the amulet of true love, it only does what it just did to confirm your love for one another. Your love will stay with you wherever you go. If one of you is in need the two halves will find their way to each other."

I looked over to see Uncle Zane with happy tears in his eyes and it looked like he was getting ready to turn up the waterworks. Hugo looked over at Uncle Zane and raised his eyebrow. "Don't you think you're being a little over dramatic Zane?"

"What?" Uncle Zane sniffled. "It's just that every time I've seen that amulet handed out, it doesn't work."

Hugo rolled his eyes. "Well of course it wouldn't work if it's not true love, duh!"

I titled my head. "Wait a minute! So you're saying the amulet actually hasn't worked before?"

Hugo nodded. "Mhm, unfortunately right when it's thought that a couple has found true love when the amulet was given to them, nothing happened. The fact that this happened with you and Princess Twilight-"

Twilight interrupted, "Oh no, don't call me Princess please. I may be a person of royalty but we're getting ready to be in-laws," I could see she was getting ready to say something else but she stopped herself. "Oh crap!"

I raised an eyebrow, "What is it, Twilight?"

"We're gonna have to meet your mother sooner or later," said Twilight, "That might not be pleasant especially if we laugh in front of her."

"She's not laying a hand on you if I got something to say about it!" I said, "Nope, not happening, I could care less if she approves of our engagement or not!"

Hugo paused when I said that. "Uh, Alex? I hate to break it to you but your mother died last week."

"What?" I gasped, "What did she die of?"

"A heart attack," Hugo sighed, "don't know what caused it but her soul did wind up here in the Underground. I can summon her so you can speak to her if you want?"

I nodded. "Sure, that would be fine."

Hugo summoned my mother's soul to the throne room where Twilight and I were. She smiled when she saw me. Her smile disappeared when she saw Twilight. She narrowed her eyes at Twilight. "Who is this standing next to my son?"

"Excuse me?" I snarled, "She's my finance and her name is Twilight."

"Don't you dare be rude to me, boy!" Mother snapped, She charged at me like a bull and Twilight stepped in front of her and lit up her horn. "Let me through to my son, obviously he needs to learn some manners again."

"What gives you the right to lay a hand on him just because you feel like it?" Twilight growled, "In case you didn't notice, Alex is a grown man and he's getting married soon. Not to mention he's a fully developed half child of Hugo! I think it's you who needs to learn some manners on how you talk to your son."

"Why you little bitch!" Mother shouted, "How dare you!"

Twilight stomped her hoof on the ground. "How dare I? How dare you!"

Before the situation could escalate even further Hugo shouted, "THAT'S ENOUGH!"

He put up a hand shot a beam of light at Mother's soul and it froze her in place. "What are you doing Hugo? Let me go, so I can-"

Hugo snarled at her. "Nope, it's not happening anymore Sasha! I tried to reason with you on your harsh discipline with Alex and it was because of you that he couldn't laugh in front of everyone and be okay with it. Now you're trying to add more trauma to him? What on Earth are you thinking? Are you jealous that Alex is half god and you're just a regular human?"

Mother paused, and from the look on her face, she was just as bad as Mary trying to figure out some sort of excuse to try and make me feel bad about things.

Hugo tapped his foot on the ground and waited for Mother's response, "Well? What do you have to say for yourself, hmm?"

Mother sighed, "Okay, fine, you got me, I'm jealous! There, happy now?"

Hugo nodded. "Why yes, yes I am. Now I think it's time for you to be on your merry way."

Hugo waved Mother away and I just stood there, stunned by what happened. "Well, that solves that issue."

Hugo sighed, "Sorry about that Alex, I guess your mother was too stubborn for her own good. Oh well, I think it's time for you two to go back to the surface to start planning your wedding."

Twilight and I nodded. Hugo opened up a portal and he sent us back to the PPA HQ.

* * *

Once we got back to HQ I saw that Twilight had a twinkle in her eye. I smiled. "You can't wait to get started on planning the wedding can you?"

Twilight nodded. "Yup, and I can't wait for you to meet the rest of my friends! Rarity will be very excited to help make your outfit for the wedding. Of course, she gets overly excited when it comes down to special occasions for me," She sighed, "Although it would've been nice to have Pinkie as one of my bridesmaids, and if only the meeting with your mother would've gone over better."

I looked away. "Yeah I know. It's okay Twilight, keep in mind weddings are happy occasions even if planning for them doesn't turn out the way you hoped it would."

Twilight made me look at her and she kissed me. We heard a chorus of the word 'aw' when we broke the kiss. We looked in surprise to see that somehow, instead of landing in Agent Lawrence's office from where we came from, we had landed up in the café of the PPA HQ.

After we heard the word 'awe' we heard the words 'Surprise Alex and Twilight! Congratulations on your engagement!' Balloons and confetti rained down on us and I couldn't help but laugh because I knew this was Violet's idea of a party. When everyone heard me practically everyone in the room gasped.

"My, my, my, Agent Shipman," said Agent Lawrence, "was that a laugh I just heard coming from you?"

I paused, not knowing what to say. Twilight chuckled, "Yup! That was a laugh! You can thank me for that!"

Twilight stood there and since she was now back in human form, she pointed a finger to herself proudly and puffed out her chest with pride.

I heard Star laughing in my head, Oh yeah, she's innocent alright!

I laughed again at Star's reaction to Twilight's cute declaration of her being able to make me laugh in front of people finally.

"Oh, and guess what?" Violet said.

Twilight turned around and looked at her. "What?"

"Your friends are here from Equestria, don't worry they got clearance to be here," Violet said, "Princess Luna helped with that of course."

Fluttershy was the first one to run up to Twilight and she gave her a big hug. "Twilight! I'm so happy to hear about your engagement to Alex!" She looked at me and smiled, "See? I told you she's taken a liking to you!"

"Ah…" I felt my face turn red.

Then I heard a high-pitched voice from behind Fluttershy, "My, my, Twilight, your soon to be husband that you've picked is one hunk of a human!"

Twilight laughed, "Thanks Rarity!"

Rarity looked like what was classified as a unicorn and she had white fur and purple hair. She had a cutie mark that was of three diamonds. She had the biggest smile on her face and she made me uncomfortable by examining me from head to toe. It reminded me of what happened when I first met Twilight.

Twilight tapped Rarity on the shoulder. "Uh, Rarity? Can you stop looking at my fiancé like that? You're making him uncomfortable."

Rarity stopped looking at me and gave Twilight a sheepish smile. "Oh, sorry Twilight. As I stated when I first saw him, he is one hunk of a human!" Rarity when she saw Twilight was in her human form, "Uh, darling, why are you transformed in your human form?"

"Oh sorry, I guess I just got used to being a human while I'm here helping with the capture of Pinkie," Twilight replied. There was a flash of light and Twilight was back in her pony form.

Lucky Bee came up from behind me and laughed, "It's too bad the princess has claimed you now. That just means I won't be able to hit on you anymore."

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, right Ms. Bee. The fact that I had a girlfriend before didn't stop you from hitting on me."

"Well this time I can't do it anymore, considering you're getting married to somepony of royalty," Lucky Bee said, "It's actually against Equestrian Law because if I do, well you don't want to know. Now it would be different if you were to hit on me. But I doubt that will happen any time soon. Darn, it sucks to be me."

"Yeah, it's against the law because that can be seen as an assault on a person of royalty," Twilight said.

"Seriously?" I gasped, "Something as harmless as flirting can be seen as an assault? Really?"

Twilight nodded. "Yup especially if it's not wanted, because further down the line it can lead to something else more serious. What you just said earlier confirms that you don't want her flirting with you. So I got my eye on you Lucky!"

Lucky Bee gulped, backing away from me and giving a nervous laugh, "Sorry princess, it won't happen again, honest it won't!"

Twilight gave an evil snort and nodded. "Good, see that it doesn't."

I heard Simon clear his throat to get my attention. I looked at him. "What's up?"

"I tried to tell you what that vision meant," Simon said, "but I'm going to take a wild guess and say you figured it out for yourself. Oh and look! I got my badge, I'm officially an agent for the PPA!"

"That makes two of us!" Abigail cheered.

Abigail and Simon showed me their badges that stated they were agents for the PPA. Simon's badge said Agent Simon Carter on it and Abigail's badge said Agent Abigail Ryker on it.

I blinked. "Wow, that was fast! Weren't you two offered the job a few hours ago? It usually takes a couple of days for the paperwork to go through."

Agent Lawrence laughed, "Well yeah, that does happen. True, they are Agents for the PPA, once the paperwork goes through they'll be sent out on assignments just like when it happened with you and Agent Client. Who knows? They might move to top rankings soon."

She looked at Abigail and Violet holding hands now with their fingers laced together and somehow they were already lost in each other's eyes. She sighed, "Too bad I couldn't snag Agent Client before Agent Ryker got to her."

I snorted, "Well I guess that's what you get for playing hard to get and not dropping her hints. Although Violet doesn't know how to pick up on the obvious. I'm not sure if you'd want to be with her anyway because she's not easy to control, even if you're her boss."

"Hey! I heard that Alex!" Violet growled.

"If you must know I have Violet under control just fine," Abigail said defensively.

"Uh, huh?" Agent Lawrence said.

Violet deadpanned, "You don't want to know."

I gave a mischievous smile because I had half a mind to use this as an opportunity for payback on her. Violet picked up on what I wanted to do and her eyes went wide in horror. "Oh no you don't Alex!"

I gave her an innocent look after that. "What? I wasn't going to say anything."

Abigail pulled me off to the side and whispered into my ear about what I could tell Agent Lawrence about how she controls Violet. I snorted and went over and whispered into Agent Lawrence's ear what Abigail told me to tell her.

Agent Lawrence gasped. "Seriously? Yeah, I don't envy her situation."

Violet narrowed her eyes at me. "What did you tell her, Alex?"

I whistled a small tune and shifted my gaze. "Nothing, I didn't tell her anything."

"Uh-huh," said Violet, "sure you didn't."

"Okay guys, that's enough talking," Simon said. "It's time to celebrate!"

"Hurray!" Everyone cheered.

I had to admit, this was the happiest I've ever felt in my life.

23) A Bittersweet Symphony

{Alex}

The next day after the engagement party, I went to Equestria with Twilight to talk about wedding arrangements with Twilight's friend Rarity.

"As I said before Twilight," Rarity gushed, "you have picked one hunk of a human to be your mate."

Twilight giggled, "It's more like we picked each other. See my necklace that Alex's father Hugo gave me?"

Twilight pointed to the necklace around her neck that had the other half of the amulet of true love on it. I didn't realize that her half of the amulet had turned into a red rose.

Rarity gasped when she saw it, "My, my, darling! That has to be… I have no idea how many carats that rose is but it's magnificent!"

Twilight shook her head. "No Rarity, I'm not giving it to you like Spike gave you his ruby crystal."

"I wasn't going to ask for it darling," said Rarity, "I swear I wasn't, I was just admiring it."

Twilight raised an eyebrow, "Uh-huh."

Rarity cleared her throat and gave me a look, the same one that made me uncomfortable when I first met her. Twilight did a facehoof and groaned when she saw that. "Honestly Rarity, I hope I don't have another Lucky Bee situation on my hooves. You know what the law says about that."

"Sorry Twilight I can't help it!" Rarity whined, "He is one hunk of a human." Then she pouted, "I'm the one who should be able to get the hunky men every time I go to Earth to do business there."

I looked over and snorted when I saw Twilight's friend Rainbow Dash, with an unhappy look on her face as she stood there wearing her bridesmaids dress for the wedding.

"This is so not funny Mr. Shipman," Rainbow Dash growled, "Rarity, do I really have to wear this? It doesn't feel like it fits right! Remember the last bridesmaids dress you designed for me? It was so tight, I had to take it off just so I could do my sonic rainboom."

Rarity stopped staring at me and turned her attention to Rainbow Dash's grumbling about her dress. "Hmm, let me see Rainbow."

She lit up her horn and pulled a measuring tape out of thin air. She also picked up in her magic a notepad and jotted some things down on it. “I see darling, well I’ll have to make some adjustments for it. Or maybe I could add a break away skirt so you can do your sonic rainboom.”

“It’s interesting, a sonic rainboom sounds like something out of a fictional story,” I said.

Rainbow Dash agreed with me. “It was considered an old ponies tale until I discovered I could do it.”

“That’s right, Rainbow Dash is the only pony that can do it,” Twilight said. Then she sighed, “It’s too bad Pinkie won’t be there to see it.”

Applejack groaned, “Yeah her stoning ceremony is tomorrow. I just can’t believe somepony like her would do something like that! Not to mention using a silly playful song as a way to bait her victims!”

“I know unfortunately with the evidence we’ve been able to gather, Pinkie is guilty of a crime,” I heard Princess Luna say. When we saw her we bowed to her.

“So you’re saying you actually did find evidence against her?” Twilight asked.

“Well yes,” said Princess Luna, “You know just as well as I do we need more evidence than witness testimony. Of course even if there was no evidence of that crime she would still be sitting in a dungeon for the rest of her life. But we were able to follow up on Pinkie’s workshops and we found exactly what we were looking for. I guess Pinkie was counting on the fact that humans don’t realize ponies are living on Earth now.”

"But she forgot another thing about humans. They have law enforcement also. Honestly unless you’re on a desert island you can’t get away from rules and regulations. No pony is above the law; it doesn’t matter if they’re of royalty."

Twilight sighed, "I know, I just wish Pinkie would've come back willingly instead of taking things this far."

Princess Luna had a sad look on her face. "Although this is a very heartbreaking event, what else is coming up is a happy one. I would call Mr. Shipman, Mr. Shipman still but seeing as we're getting ready to be in-laws, I think I'll just call him Alex."

She turned to me and smiled. "Is that okay with you Alex?"

I nodded. "Sure, that's fine."

"You'll also be the first human ever to be put into the royal family!" Princess Luna said.

"Huh?" I asked, "I'm the first one?"

Princess Luna nodded. "Yup, the first one! Although there have been humans that have married ponies here and the same arrangement applies to them as they live in Equestria like ponies that chose to live on Earth. Humans wear magic necklaces so they can live in Equestria in peace. You might want to think about getting a magic necklace so you can do the same.”

"Your coronation ceremony will be a very private event. Your father Hugo has agreed to be there as your family member. Are you going to invite Agent Client and the rest of your friends to be there?"

Amidst all of the chaos that's been happening with meeting Hugo, catching Pinkie and bringing her back to Equestria, and wedding planning I hadn't thought about who I was going to invite to my coronation ceremony or the wedding.

"Well I hadn't thought about who to invite yet with all of the chaos going on," I said.

"I see," Princess Luna said, "Okay then, well give it some thought and let me know by tomorrow because the wedding is in two weeks from now."

"I can do that," I said.

* * *

After I got done getting measured for my coronation, I went back to the PPA HQ to register for a magic necklace to live in Equestria in peace when I'm there. Twilight and I had decided to live at the PPA HQ in my apartment. We also decided that Twilight would go back and forth through the portal so she could do her job and I would do the same when I got called out on assignments.

As I suspected, I would have royal duties to attend to. But since I was also an agent for the PPA, my royal duties would be on hold when I got called out on an assignment.

So when I got back to the PPA HQ, I talked to Violet, Abigail and Simon about inviting them to the wedding and coronation ceremony.

"Well, I'm going there's no way I'm going to miss my best friend's wedding and coronation ceremony!" Violet said.

Abigail nodded. "Mhm, that goes for me too."

Simon agreed, "Yup same here."

"And since you're still considered new and not getting ready to go on assignments yet," said Agent Lawrence, "Agent Ryker and Agent Carter you two will still have some free time on your hands."

"Well then," I said, "that settles it. Unfortunately there's another ceremony we're going to have to attend tomorrow."

I could tell no one wanted to talk about it much because it was a painful thing to talk about. Pinkie's stoning ceremony was about the same as the death penalty on Earth. From what Princess Luna told me about it, before the stoning spell was placed on the one being punished, an amulet was placed around the neck of the one being punished. This amulet keeps the pony being punished alive while they're in stone the whole entire they're being punished. Once that pony is turned to stone their statue is buried in the ground.

Sometimes, the pony being punished in this fashion is only turned to stone for a few years, and that depends on the crime or for all eternity. Sometimes when a new ruler takes the throne, the punishment for those ponies turned to stone is overturned and they are released from stone and put in a dungeon to be reformed before being released back into society.

I had no idea if somewhere in the future Pinkie would be turned back from stone and reformed so she could be released back into society or not.

"Well," said Simon, "Pinkie Pie was a serial killer and most of the time serial killers can't be reformed. If those types of people are released back into society there's a high chance that they'll kill again. So it's better for Equestria and Earth for this to happen."

I sighed, "I know."

Even still, I didn't want to go to the stoning ceremony.

* * *

{Pinkie Pie}

I sat down on my thin mattress in the dungeon that I was in before I was to face being turned to stone that next day. I thought about taking my own life but I decided against it. I had hope that Princess Luna might just come in and change her mind about this punishment. But I guess being turned to stone for a long time wouldn't be so bad. I wouldn't have to eat anything or go to the bathroom.

There wasn't much light in the dungeon except for the torches that lined the walls outside of it. I saw a shadow walking down the hallway. I recognized the shadow as Princess Luna.

When she entered the dungeon I bowed to her.

"Princess Luna!" I said. "Please tell me you've come here to tell me you've changed your mind about my stoning ceremony and want to keep me in a dungeon instead."

Princess Luna shook her head. "No I'm sorry Pinkie it's out of my hooves. You saw the evidence provided against you in your trail at the Royal Court. Given what you did and how many lives you took, how can you expect me in good conscience to use my power of authority to overturn your punishment? What about the punishment you gave your victims huh? Tell me Pinkie, what do you think about that?"

I sighed, "Yeah I know, Twilight and everyone else has been telling the same thing you told me. The truth is, I don't think about it. It… It… It was fun! What I did was fun! If I could do it all over again, I would."

Princess Luna gave me a look of disgust and contempt. I don't blame her because killing someone or somepony is a serious crime. I don't see why that is though because if you ask me, I'm just helping out natural selection for both Equestria and Earth.

Princess Luna snarled. "I don't know what gives you the right to say who can live and who can't! You killed people and ponies in the name of fun? How dare you! It's ponies like you that are threats to society and need to be kept out of it! Agent Carter was right, once a serial killer, always a serial killer! To think if you had not done this, you would be at the wedding for your friend Twilight and her soon to be husband Alex. But no," she shook her head in sadness. "I don't understand. I don't want to understand. To protect Equestria and Earth you will be turned to stone. And when I finally hand over the throne to Princess Twilight and go into retirement like I was originally planning with Celestia, I doubt she'll overturn your punishment either."

"That's what I was wondering," I said. "Why did you decide to keep the throne and not hand it over to Twilight?"

"Because I felt that she needed more time to learn and grow," Princess Luna said. "From what I can see now, she has grown quite a bit. From where I stand she's ready to start ruling over Equestria and I can finally step down knowing that the right pony has been picked for the job."

"Oh, I see," I said. "Well, I guess there's nothing much I can do at this point then."

"You can say that again!" Princess Luna said, "I'm only here to say my final goodbye to you as it is my custom to do for those that are being turned to stone. I wouldn't bother trying to take your life beforehand if I were you, although it would save us the trouble. But as you can see, we took everything out of your cell and you're chained down your bed. So yeah, good luck trying to figure that out. I hope I never see you again!"

With that last remark, I flinched at how hard Princess Luna slammed the door to the dungeon with her magic in anger. Well, there's nothing else I can do. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted…

* * *

{Alex}

When Twilight and I along with Violet, Abigail, and Simon stood watching as Pinkie was turned to stone and then her statue was buried in the ground, there wasn't a dry eye in the area. I found myself crying along with everyone else. But more importantly, I wasn't just crying for Pinkie, I was crying for those people and ponies that she killed.

Thanks to my abilities I was able to find every single pony and person that Pinkie killed and I gave their names to the PPA. Hugo was able to confirm the dead by looking through the records that his royal advisors keep in the Underground.

Weeks later was the wedding, the coronation ceremony and soon after was the honeymoon.

The first day of the honeymoon Twilight and I were sitting in the hotel room where we decided to stay.

"You know what Alex?" Twilight said.

"What?" I said.

"I can understand why Pinkie was so anxious to come to Earth now," Twilight said. "There is so much to explore and learn here. Hey, I have an idea! Why don't we play a game to keep ourselves from thinking about Pinkie."

"Okay, what is it?" I said.

"I think I'll call it 'Capture the Spouse!" Twilight said. "Kind of like capture the flag but we have to capture each other first."

I tried to keep myself from laughing at Twilight's adorable idea of foreplay because I know how she is by now. She's always coming up with stuff like this to get me interested in sex. Sometimes she wants to try things just to see what happens.

Yup, the pet name Innocent definitely fits her alright. I thought.

Twilight stuck out her tongue playfully. "Yeah, yeah I know, so I was thinking, you hide on one end of the room and I'll hide on the other."

I snorted, "Okay then, sure I'll play your little game. You know what it's going to end up in right?"

"Yeah whatever," said Twilight, "1, 2, 3, go!"

There was a flash of light and Twilight disappeared. I had a feeling where she might be but I didn't check in the most obvious places first. I went to the least obvious instead.

"Oh Twilight," I called out, "come out, come out wherever you are!"

I smiled when I found myself unable to move because I knew this was Twilight's magic being cast on me. Twilight tackled me and rolled me over on my back, she took my pants off and thrust into me.

It seemed like every time we had sex she was becoming a little bit aggressive about it. She would always stop if she thought she was hurting me. If that happened she would cast a healing spell and be very apologetic about it. The thing is she didn't really hurt me and I kept telling her if that was the case, I would've been begging for her to stop.

I think one of Twilight's favorite things to do was to make me climax as many times as possible. She always drove me nuts doing that and that was probably the whole point of it.

After sex, Twilight and I just laid on the floor next to each other. Twilight lit up her horn and floated in her magic a blanket to us and covered us up with it.

I smiled as I rolled over and cuddled with Twilight. I put my head on her shoulder and she just seemed so content and happy to be held by me. When I reached up and bit her ear, she laughed, "I don't know why that always makes me laugh. I bet that's why you do it all the time, huh?"

I laughed, "That's part of the reason why, but most of the time I just do it because I want to."

Twilight sighed a happy and contented sigh, "Yup, Princess Luna was right I have found my Husband."

I chuckled. "And I've found my wife."

At this moment, I felt very happy and content for once in my life. Against all odds I found my wife that just so happens to be an Alicorn princess named Princess Twilight. Although I do have a feeling every single event that led up to now, was already foretold in my future.

1) The Assignment

I smiled as I looked at myself in the mirror. I was wearing the standard PPA, aka Pony Protection Agency, uniform. I had on blue jeans, a white t-shirt, a black jacket, black gym shoes, and I also had sunglasses that I would carry with me in case I needed them. Also, sometimes the sunglasses were to help with gathering information. There is a formal outfit that agents for the PPA can use to wear, but I think that's a bit of overkill.

The Pony Protection Agency was founded ten years ago when the founders came across a place called Equestria. I still don't believe this, but they came across the place via a portal. But it's true because I've had to step through it myself. However, the PPA is aware of the fact that humans might not be receptive to ponies living among them. So, the PPA came up with a plan for that, they made magic necklaces that would help disguise the ponies as humans. The PPA worked with Equestria to set up rules for the ponies to abide by in order for this arrangement to work.

Unfortunately, there are ponies that come over to Earth illegally and break the rules. Those ponies are called rogue ponies. Those are the ones that need to be captured and brought back to Equestria. Equestria takes ponies that break the rules very seriously. They punish the ponies that do that.

There are ponies that decide to live at PPA headquarters. Agents can decide to live at headquarters also, which is where I'm living at the time being.

I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Alex Shipman and my partner at the agency is named Violet Client. We don't have name tags on our uniforms but we do have a pin that has the first letter of our first names and the first letter of our last names on them that's pinned to the right side of our jackets.

In the division of the PPA where I work, my job is to either help ponies come over from Equestria and get them set up safely or track down rogue ponies and bring them back. This day is no different than any other day. After I got dressed in my uniform, I went outside and reported to the main desk. The pony that runs the main desk is a young mare named Lucky Bee. Her fur was yellow and her mane was purple. She's an earth pony. Her cutie mark is a four-leaf clover with the number seven in the middle of it. I don't know if she knows this but those things in her cutie mark are considered lucky to humans.

I know she likes me because she's always flirting with me. I always bite my tongue when it happens, to keep myself from saying some snappy remarks to her. I try not to roll my eyes out of respect for her.

Of course, as soon as I got to the main desk, Lucky Bee started flirting with me as usual.

"Hi Ms. Bee," I mumbled.

As always, Lucky Bee found this introduction funny because she giggled at me, "Oh Alex, you and your formal addresses. You know you can call me Lucky right?"

I groaned, "For the last time Ms. Bee, I'm not interested. I already have a girlfriend. Thank you very much."

I knew for a fact this wouldn't stop her from flirting with me. She must think I'm lying when I'm not. I'm already dating a woman that lives in Crossville, Tennessee. PPA headquarters is located in Ohio. It's a long-distance relationship at the moment because I'm living at headquarters. I'm not sure if marriage will be on the table anytime soon or if I'm going to break up with her. We've hit a bit of a rough patch and it doesn't seem like it's going to end anytime soon. Let's just say she's being controlling at the moment and it's getting on my nerves.

"You know you look handsome in that uniform," Lucky Bee giggled, "come on, go on one date with me at least?"

"I don't think the guy's interested, Lucky." I heard Violet say.

Saved by the bell! Once again, thank you, Violet! I thought.

I guess the look on my face said it all because Violet couldn't stop laughing at my reaction to Lucky Bee.

"Looks like the knight in shining armor needs a woman to rescue him," Violet said in between her laughter.

"Haha, Violet," I growled, "now if Ms. Bee would stop flirting with me and give us our next assignment, that would be great."

With Violet's laughter, I saw Lucky Bee have a sheepish smile on her face. "I'm sorry Alex, you're just so… Nevermind."

She pulled out a file from underneath her desk and passed it to us. She even gave us our badges that had our fake cutie marks on them as it's required for agents of the PPA to be turned into ponies before they step through the portal.

Once Violet and I changed into ponies our clothes disappeared. But we didn't need to worry about bringing an extra set of clothes with us because when we change back into humans, our clothes reappear. Before Violet and I could even look at the assignment Lucky Bee cleared her throat to get our attention.

"What?" Violet and I asked.

"There's a note in that file that I forgot to tell you about," Lucky Bee said.

When Lucky Bee passed us the note, our eyes went wide in shock by what was on it.

It said in capital letters:

PRINCESS LUNA REQUESTS AN AUDIENCE WITH AGENTS ALEX SHIPMAN AND VIOLET CLIENT REGARDING THIS ROGUE PONY IMMEDIATELY!

I rubbed my eyes to see if I had read the note correctly, "Why would Princess Luna want to see us?"

Lucky Bee shrugged, "I don't know. I'm not allowed to know. This type of information you'll just have to find out when you get to Equestria."

Violet and I nodded and went to go through the portal to see what Princess Luna wanted of us.

* * *

When we stepped through the portal, Princess Luna was there to greet us. We bowed to her when we saw her, "You can look me in the eyes now."

"You wanted to see us, your highness?" I asked.

"Yes, as you know, I am the Princess of the Night, because I favor the nighttime. But ever since my sister Princess Celestia stepped down from the throne and I took over, I have to treat the daytime and the nighttime fairly.

"That being said, since I am the ruler of Equestria, it is also my duty to make sure the rules in the relationship with Earth are adhered to. The last thing I want is for Earth to decide that they no longer want to work with ponies because of not punishing those that break the rules," Princess Luna responded.

I looked at Princess Luna in confusion as I had no idea what Princess Luna said that was necessary for the assignment. Princess Luna smiled, "I understand your confusion. The rogue pony you're going after a famous party planner in Equestria. This rogue pony can definitely make you die laughing when you come across her if she wants to make you do that."

I wanted to laugh at that statement but I chose not to.

Princess Luna smiled again. "Yes, yes, I know, funny huh? This rogue pony's name is Pinkie Pie. She is a pink pony with a dark pink mane. Her cutie mark is that of three balloons. Her last known alias was the name Roxy Supro. You'll find where her last known location was in the file. I'm also going to send one of her friends, Princess Twilight, with you to help you track her down. Here she is right now."

"Well hello there agents of the PPA!" I heard a lively voice say. I turned to see a purple pony with wings and a horn just like Princess Luna. Seeing that she had a crown on her to show that she was part of royalty, Violet and I bowed to her.

Princess Twilight giggled. "No need to bow to me. I might be royalty, but I'm not the ruler of Equestria like Princess Luna is."

We stood there in an award silence until Princess Twilight said. "Oh yes, let me change into a human before I step through the portal. I'm so excited to do this! It's my first time you know."

Then there was a flash of light and standing before us was Princess Twilight in human form.

"See?" Princess Twilight asked. She pointed at her forehead. "In order to change back into an Alicorn, all I have to do is touch this red dot on my forehead, and wala! I'm an Alicorn again!"

It was comical how she demonstrated how she did it. She did this several times. Again I wanted to laugh but I chose not to. It's not that I can't laugh, I was trained by my mom not to laugh in front of people even if it's appropriate to do so. I would get spanked by her if I did.

Princess Luna laughed, "I know, she's hilarious, isn't she? You know she's single!"

I choked on that statement and said. "Thanks princess but no thanks. I'm already spoken for."

Princess Luna giggled. "Oh well, it was worth a shot. She's more interested in books at the moment. As a matter of fact, she loves books so much that she might marry one."

I held in my laughter. Nope, not going to laugh. Not happening.

Princess Twilight did her final transformation and gave us a puzzled look, "What are you guys talking about?"

Princess Luna gave a nervous laugh, "It's nothing. Anyway, Princess Twilight, you'll be given the cover name Terra, no princess added to that okay?"

Princess Twilight nodded. Princess Luna continued, "Yes, and you will be posing as Agent Client's best friend."

"Okay," said Princess Twilight. She paused and looked back and forth between me and Violet, "Which one of you is Agent Client?"

Violet smiled, "That would be me. Just call me Violet okay?"

"Okay, sure," Princess Twilight looked at me, "And who's the stallion standing next to you?"

"To correct you, I'm a human right along with Violet. Violet is a woman and I am a man." I said.

"Alright, can I see what you look like as humans?" Princess Twilight asked, "I've never seen a human before!"

"Sure!" Violet and I said. We took off our fake cutie marks and we were turned back into humans.

Princess Twilight clapped her hands as she was now in human form, "Oh, wonderful!"

Oh boy, I thought, trying not to look annoyed at Princess Twilight's excitement. I looked at Princess Twilight to see she was giving me a funny look.

I raised an eyebrow, "What?"

As soon as I said that, I regretted saying it because of Princess Twilight's reaction, "It's just that, I've never seen humans before and while Violet looks just like me in human form, you are funny looking."

Violet snorted and I turned around and glared at her when I heard her. She stopped laughing when she saw me looking at her. Princess Luna giggled at this, "Okay you three. I'll leave Princess Twilight, who is now Terra, in your capable hands."

We all bowed to Princess Luna and she dismissed us. We then went through the portal back to PPA headquarters.

* * *

When we got back to PPA headquarters with Princess Twilight in tow, we reported to the main desk to turn in our badges that changed Violet and me into ponies. We exchanged those badges for the ones that showed we worked for the PPA.

Lucky Bee paused when she saw Princess Twilight in human form standing beside us, "Is that your girlfriend, Alex?"

"No, she's not," I hissed, "and it's Agent Shipman to you!"

"This is Terra," said Violet, "she's assisting us with the rogue pony we're after this time."

"Oh," Lucky Bee said, "well it's nice to meet you, Terra. My name's Lucky Bee. I hand out all of the agent's assignments here. I'm a pony because I actually live here and I don't go outside of Headquarters."

"Oh, well it's nice to meet you, Lucky Bee!" Princess Twilight said, "Is it just me, or do human males look kind of funny?"

Lucky Bee snorted, "Oh yeah they look funny at first to a pony. But once you've been around them long enough, they don't look so weird anymore. You might start thinking one of them looks handsome to you. Take Alex over here for example."

Lucky Bee pointed a hoof in my direction. Princess Twilight tilted her head, "What's so special about him? I mean, he's cute as a stallion, but uh..."

Lucky Bee and Violet went into a fit of laughter at Princess Twilight's assessment of me.

"That's so not funny you two!" I snapped.

Princess Twilight was starting to make me uncomfortable. She started to look at me up and down from head to toe. She smiled and looked away. I glared at Lucky Bee and Violet because it seemed they gave Princess Twilight a different opinion about me.

"Hey, I was just telling Terra how handsome you are," Lucky Bee stated.

I rolled my eyes feeling nothing but annoyance at this situation. Lucky Bee suddenly looked like she remembered something, "Oh yeah, I forgot! Terra, since you've come with Alex and Violet, I'm going to assume you've been granted access to HQ. Can I see your paperwork?"

Violet smiled and passed Lucky Bee, Princess Twilight's file. When she opened it, she gasped at the fact that the file said Terra was actually Princess Twilight.

"Your highness!" Lucky Bee stammered, "I didn't know it was you! I'm sorry!"

Princess Twilight smiled. "Don't worry about it. Lucky is it? I'm on an assignment with Alex and Violet so no biggie. So no bowing and just call me Terra and treat me like a normal human okay?"

I could tell Lucky Bee wanted to say 'yes your highness' but with effort, she restrained herself. She nodded and took a room key and passed it to Princess Twilight. Princess Twilight looked at the key with curiosity.

"Um, T102?" Princess Twilight asked, "What's that for?"

"It's the key to your room, where you'll be staying while you're here," Lucky Bee explained.

"Okay," said Princess Twilight, she turned to Violet and me with the same curious look she had when she looked at her room key, "Do you guys have keys like this too?"

I nodded, "Yeah, but ours looks different since we're agents for the PPA."

Violet and I took our keys out, which were actually the pins we have on our jackets with our entails on them. We showed Princess Twilight how our keys were different to her. She examined them as if she were a scientist or something, "I wish I could be an agent! Your keys look way cooler than mine!"

Lucky Bee rubbed the back of her neck with her hoof and tried to think of how a princess would even begin to become an agent of the PPA, "Well, usually the Recruitment Agents find you and observe before they offer you the job. That's what happened with Alex and Violet."

"Actually, I saw a pony for the first time and at a bar of all places!" I said. "I knew for sure I didn't have that much to drink that day. So I followed them to where they were staying. I had no idea that I was helping out an agent for the PPA to bring the rogue pony back to Equestria."

"A Recruitment Agent found me at the grocery store where I worked. I had no idea that an agent was one of my coworkers. Apparently, they had been watching me for six months before they moved in for the kill," Violet said. "I didn't think getting recruited was a pleasant scenario. They pretty much kidnap you in order to offer you the job. Yup, weirdest job interview ever."

"So if I do well on this assignment and help catch this rough pony, maybe I could be an agent?" Princess Twilight asked.

"I'm not sure about that one your- I mean Terra." Lucky Bee said.

"Either way," said Princess Twilight, "I'm doing everything in my power to bring back my rule-breaking so-called friend Pinkie Pie. She's crossed the line for not coming here with permission first."

Lucky Bee gasped, "What? Pinkie Pie? As in the famous party planner Pinkie Pie?"

Lucky Bee gasped so loud that I wouldn't be surprised that the other end of HQ could hear it.

"Inside voice Ms. Bee!" I snapped, "Honestly now, this is an important assignment and I appreciate it if you would treat it as such."

Lucky Bee calmed herself down, "Oh, sorry Alex. It's not common for a famous pony from Equestria to be a rogue pony and a princess having to come here to track her down."

"Well Terra," said Violet, "I'll show you the ropes on how to assist us. We'll meet up with Alex at another time, okay?"

Princess Twilight nodded, "Sure. Okay."

With that, Violet, Princess Twilight, and I parted ways.

6) Pinkie Pie's Research

{Pinkie Pie}

I smiled as I carried my research subject over my shoulder and down the hallway to the basement in my apartment complex. My research subject that I had grabbed was a young teenage boy by the name of Luke Red. He was white, had red hair, and freckles on his face. He seemed pretty cute to me, mostly because of his bright blue eyes. I didn't see his eyes until I got his attention and he turned around to see me. He was wearing a blue jacket with a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and blue sneakers.

I was able to grab Luke by making casual conversation, just by asking if his favorite color was blue and the answer turned out to be yes. I told him that I had a collection of blue items that he might want to look at and all he had to do was follow me to my apartment. Humans are so dumb. Once we got into my apartment complex by way of the back door it was too late.

The back door of the apartment complex is right where there are no security cameras. It's what humans like to call a blind spot in the building. Luke fought me when I went to tie him up. But I managed to gag him first and tie up his hands and legs to the point where he had no choice but to hang over my shoulder like a rag doll as I carried him down the hallway. That way no one was the wiser. That's because Luke couldn't fight as much while I was carrying him.

There's also a bonus with the hallway I was carrying Luke down was that it's very poorly lit and no one can see no more than maybe twenty feet in front of them. From what I heard, the residents that live in my apartment complex are actually too scared to even go down the hallway because they think it's haunted. I don't blame them for thinking that way because the hallway was in disrepair too. The paint on the walls peeled like no one had painted it in over a decade. The carpet lining the hallway floor looked like it had been ripped up by a bunch of cats.

As I carried Luke down the supposedly haunted hallway, I remembered when I asked my friend Twilight how to research something. I made the mistake of going to one of Twilight's lectures on it at the School of Friendship. I didn't realize I had slept through the lecture until Twilight smacked me on the shoulder with a ruler.

I remembered her shouting, "Wake up silly! You want to learn this, don't you? So pay attention!"

It was from that day forward that I decided to go a different route on researching. To me, it was a fun route! It was just as fun as planning a party. When I explored things in Equestria I wouldn't just observe things, I wanted to see inside of things. It was mostly ponies that I wanted to see inside of.

When I told Twilight what I wanted to do she was mortified by the idea I had. I remember telling her why just sit there and observe things when you just dissect them and see for yourself what things look like on the inside?

I threw all of Twilight's cautioning to not do things the way I wanted to to the wayside and did it anyway.

Back in Equestria, I would use the song that everypony liked when I sang it called the 'Smile Song', to draw my research subjects in. Ponies loved the 'Smile Song' because it would get them to practically jump for joy as they followed me to their doom. The ponies would have a smile on their faces even though they knew they were getting ready to die. Or at least I think they knew that they were getting ready to die. I didn't care if they knew back then and I still don't. Either way, it brings me joy to know that they died with a smile on their faces.

However when it comes down to humans, they don't smile at all when I sing the 'Smile Song', as a matter of fact when I go up to them and start singing the song, they frown and tell me to get lost. So I started to try different tactics to grab my research subjects. The thing that seems to work the most is just casual conversation.

I also discovered that humans don't like to be tied up. But it can't be helped when I'm carrying them down to the basement because it makes it a lot easier to carry them so they don't hurt themselves before I get a chance to look inside of them.

I didn't really sing the 'Smile Song', because humans don't seem to like it as much. So I whistled the song instead. Hey, even I smile when I sing the song myself. I whistled the song as I carried Luke down to the basement.

I kept thinking, Man, I wish humans would find as much joy as I do when it comes down to singing this song. Oh well, good thing I found other ways to get my research subjects. If I couldn't get any, this place would be boring.

When I finally got down to the basement, I quickly took Luke and slammed him down on my research table and tied him down. My research table is actually an old picnic table that I took the seats off of. I had nailed what was left of the table in the ground so it wouldn't move so much when I had research subjects on it.

Once I tied Luke down to the table he really started to fight. I thought I might have to kill him quicker because he was fighting a lot louder now that I had him tied down. But I decided to at least try to calm Luke's nerves and at least get him to smile before he died.

"Come on Luke," I begged after singing the 'Smile Song' for at least the twelfth time, "smile for me? Please?"

I frowned because Luke shook his head and continued to fight. Really? There's just no smiling with these stupid humans!

"Fine," I said, my patience slowly growing thin, "let's try this again." Then I started to sing. "Come on everypony smile, smile, smile…"

Once again Luke didn't smile, he just continued to fight against his restraints.

"Fine then!" I snapped. "It's time for you to die now because Pinkie needs to do her research!"

I smiled as I knew what I had to do next. This part of the research was always my favorite part of the research, the killing part. I grabbed my usual killing device which was a huge fishing hook. When Luke saw the fishing hook he stopped fighting. I'm going to assume that he knew the end was coming for him and this was it. I stabbed Luke in his chest right where his heart was. He resumed his fighting and I don't know why considering he's pretty much dead at this point.

As I watched in anticipation as Luke struggled to try and get free from what I had just stabbed him with. After a while he stopped moving. That gave me the signal that he was probably dead. I checked his pulse to confirm that he was indeed dead.

Proud of myself for grabbing my research subject and successfully getting him to stop moving I said to myself. "A job well done Pinkie! It's too bad Twilight isn't here to praise me! Oh well, I guess I'll just have to praise myself!"

I patted myself on the back and my smile grew wider when I exchanged the fishing hook for a chainsaw. I know that no one would check to see where the noise was coming from because of the haunted hallway. I started up the chainsaw and got to work. Another part of the research that I really love is drinking my victims blood. I also like the smell of it too. To me, doing research is fun but only when you do it my way.

* * *

{Hugo}

I worked myself into a frenzy when I found out what the rogue pony named Pinkie Pie does for her 'research'. I felt sorry for Princess Twilight because she told Alex and Violet why she couldn't do anything to stop Pinkie.

It's okay, I thought, trying to reassure myself, Alex is a half child of mine. His powers will develop soon and he'll have no problem squashing Pinkie Pie like a bug. Right, yup, no biggie.

I leaned back on my chair, still trying to reassure myself and I almost choked on my cigar smoke after taking a puff of it because of my panic about what Pinkie Pie might do to Alex.

But at the same time I can't wait until the vision that I saw of him getting together with Princess Twilight to come true.

As I continued watching Alex, I had a vision of my Royal Advisor Jason coming to knock on my door. Jason didn't even have to knock before I used my powers to unlock the door and open it.

Jason rolled his eyes and smiled, "You saw me coming didn't you, your highness?"

I nodded. "Well duh! Please steer clear of the smoke Jason, I don't feel like putting out my cigar today."

"Yes, your highness," answered Jason, "I'll stay on this side of the room."

I nodded and took another puff of my cigar. "Sure, what news do you have for me today?"

"Well, Zane is doing pretty good for his first week on the job." Jason said. "He's made a couple of mistakes on the paperwork, mostly spelling errors. That's what I came to talk to you about. Isn't Zane supposed to be a god?"

I snorted. "Uh, yeah but that doesn't mean his IQ is going to be super high."

"I thought so," Jason groaned, "most of the grammar mistakes are very simple."

I turned my head around to look at him, "Oh, like what?"

"For example, under the column of what the dead person was connected to when alive, if the information is a pet dog, Zane spells it p-a-e and the word dog as n-o-g. Did his parents teach him how to spell growing up?"

I almost choked on my cigar smoke because I was laughing so hard that Zane would be that stupid. "I thought Zane was the smarter one out of us triplets. But he's not only stupid, he's lazy too. Which is why I don't let him sit on my favorite chair, that is the one I'm sitting on."

Jason chuckled, "Well, I don't blame you for thinking that. At least he doesn't hide behind that biker gang look any more. He looks like he's compensating for something. I can see his fakeness from a mile away."

I smiled, "It's good to know Zane's doing well for actually working now. Just give me reports on how he's doing. No offense, but try not to bother me on my days off that much, okay?"

Jason smiled and I dismissed him.

* * *

{Alex}

Before Violet, Princess Twilight, and I could go back out to track down Pinkie Pie, I got a notice from Lucky Bee that my girlfriend Mary was on the phone. I took the call knowing what Mary wanted to talk to me about. It's going to be another spend time with her on her days off argument. I'm getting sick and tired of this. I don't order her to spend time with me on my days off, what gives her the right to order me to spend time with her on her days off?

"Yes, Mary?" I asked.

I rolled my eyes as Mary proceeded to tell me what she wanted. "When are you coming home Alex? I haven't seen you in almost a week. It's my day off today and you should be here spending time with me!"

I groaned, "This crap again? What is your problem? You do this every single time I have a job. You even did this when I worked at the grocery store down the street!"

Mary snarled, "My problem is you're picking the job over me!"

"So what do you want from me? Do you want me to be a lazy slob so you can nag me about not having a job? Or do you want me to keep a roof over your head? Didn't I just take a vacation with you last week? Do you want me to stay attached to your hip every waking moment?" I said, "I don't think taking vacations with you like every other week and taking as many days off as I can so I can spend time with you is picking the job over you. Let me ask you something, do I demand that you spend my days off with me?"

There was silence on Mary's end of the conversation. I guess she was trying to figure out something to say to that. But she knew that I was right. To me, this was another example of her being selfish and controlling.

"You know something Alex?" Mary growled out. "We'll talk about this later!"

The way Mary abruptly hung up the phone told me that she knew I was right. When I went back to Violet and Princess Twilight, I guess the look on my face said it all.

"Let me guess," said Violet, "another Mary temper tantrum?"

I nodded. "Yup."

Princess Twilight tilted her head, "Who's Mary?"

"She is my girlfriend," I growled, "she always thinks I'm picking the job over her when I've done nothing but show her how important she is to me."

"I know," agreed Violet, "didn't you throw her that surprise birthday party last year?"

I nodded, "Yeah and she's still angry with me and I don't know why."

Princess Twilight gasped. "I think your girlfriend's mental! If somepony throws a surprise party for somepony, especially for a special somepony, one would think that pony would know that pony is important to them. Last year my friends threw a surprise party for me and I loved it!"

"Let's see, this is how many arguments you've had with her this year Alex?" Violet asked.

I sighed, "Twelve."

"And how many compromises have you guys made?" Violet asked.

I sighed, "Zero. I've tried everything I could think of to show her how important she is to me. But no, she has to have the last word on everything, where should I work, where should I sleep! Gee I'm surprised she hasn't tried to have the last word on when I should breathe!"

"Wow," said Princess Twilight, "if it's to the point where you have to put some distance between you and her like that, why are you still with her? She obviously doesn't care about you."

Violet giggled, "Ha! Terra agrees with me, and I've been telling you that for almost two years now!"

"You're pretty forgiving if you're still with someone like that for so long." Princess Twilight said.

Violet giggled again, "I've also told you that for a long time too Alex!"

I rolled my eyes, "Very funny Violet. Anyway, I'm done thinking about Mary for the time being."

"Well, maybe the thirteenth Mary tantrum will finally get you to break up with her?" Violet asked.

I didn't want to think about Mary because I figured I'd think about this more later.

* * *

{Detective Simon Carter}

There's been reports of bonfires being set in different forests in the middle of the night. We've found human remains in them. Since there were no witnesses around that saw it, we have no leads to go on. I couldn't help but think to myself every time this happened, Damn it! Another one? We need to keep looking if we're going to find any good leads.

This was starting to get on my nerves because of that. But at the same time I also kept telling myself to think positive. To me, that's what helped Ryker and I solve seven serial killer cases. So why wouldn't thinking positive help now?

Ryker frowned, "Well, what do you think, Carter?"

I shook my head, "I don't know Ryker. We don't have any leads to go by."

We were standing next to the remains of the latest bonfire that had been put out. I paused when I saw something shine in the sunlight in the extinguished bonfire. I brushed some of the ashes away and I saw a bracelet. The bracelet was a medical ID bracelet and the name on it was Luke Red.

"Now would you look at that!" I exclaimed. I rolled my eyes at the look on Ryker's face because I knew she was thinking negatively lately. Yeah it seems she's lost hope on solving this case already.

"What is it?" Ryker asked.

I showed her the bracelet and she raised an eyebrow, "A bracelet?"

"Well yeah Ryker!" I said. "This could be the first lead in solving this case."

Ryker rolled her eyes, "We've been working on this case for six months now. It's not like it's gone cold or anything, you get excited by the stupidest things sometimes!"

"I think you should have a little bit more positive thinking!" I scolded, "That's what helped us solve our cases so far. Why wouldn't it help us out now?"

Ryker rolled her eyes again, "Yeah, sure, whatever Carter. I guess we should go through the missing person's database around here and see what we come up with."

"Okay, let's go check it out, okay?" I said.

I smiled because Ryker gave me an annoyed look. She always hates it when I say the word 'okay' twice in the same sentence. Either way, I was going to solve this case if it's the last thing I do.

* * *

{Alex}

After Princess Twilight, Violet and I left to go after Pinkie Pie, we stopped at a hotel because it was nighttime. We weren't even close to the last location where Pinkie Pie was spotted.

Princess Twilight and Violet stayed in one room in the hotel and I stayed in another room by myself. The strangest thing happened once I got settled in for the night. I had just fallen asleep and I was snapped out of it quickly.

"Alex…" I heard a voice say. "Alex…"

I looked around to make sure that no one had broken into my room. I didn't find anyone, it made me confused. Okay… I've gone mental and if that's the case, after this assignment I'm gonna take a long vacation away from the PPA and Mary.

I heard the voice again, only this time it laughed and said in a sing-song voice, "If you're awake and you know it, clap your hands!"

Seriously? I thought. Yup, I'm taking a vacation and then after that, I'm checking myself into a mental asylum after this assignment's complete.

The voice chuckled, "No Alex, you're not going mental. I just thought it was time to say hello!"

"Okay." I said, "Hello?"

"Good. I've got your attention now," The voice said, "Allow me to introduce myself, I'm inside your exploding star crystal, my name's Star."

I looked over at my nightstand where I left my exploding star crystal and panicked when I saw it wasn't there.

"Calm down Alex," said Star, "I'm right here, I'm on a necklace around your neck."

"Huh?" I said.

"Go look in the mirror." Star said.

I went over to the mirror in my room and saw a mini exploding star crystal in a necklace around my neck. "When did you shrink?"

"Oh, a lot of us exploding star crystals change to fit the needs of the person we're assigned to. We can change forms and have all sorts of different names. My name is Star." Star answered.

"Alrighty then," I said, "you're an exploding star crystal named Star."

Star laughed, "Oh no, I'm actually an ancient spirit that was created over a million years ago. I was created by the first ancient being that ever came into existence. The first ancient being's name was Loinsoworth, or he goes by L for short. He created a group of people and called them the Star Clan. That's the family I'm in. He gifted us with abilities like being able to see the future among other things. He wanted us to use our powers to make the world a better place."

"But unfortunately, his wife disagreed with him. She used her powers to create a clan called The Destroyer Clan, the name's pretty self-explanatory. She seemed to think that a world that's a safe heaven for everyone would be boring."

I raised an eyebrow, "A world that's a safe haven for everyone would be boring?"

"Yeah I know, she was kind of a psycho," Star said. She continued, "L's wife gave the Destroyer Clan the ability to see the future. There was conflict between the two tribes. War broke out and the universe was almost destroyed by it. Before that could happen, both tribes made a peace treaty and they found a planet called Earth. The Destroyer Clan agreed to live on one side of the planet and The Star Clan agreed to live on the other side. Strangely enough, some of the children from both tribes got together and had descendants. The further the descendants got away from the original ancient beings, the less power they had."

"There were some ancient beings that considered themselves gods and were selfish and not wanting to share their powers with anyone. But there were ancient beings that also called themselves gods, but they viewed themselves as lesser gods. They wanted to share their powers and make the world a better place like L wanted to happen in the first place."

"There was one god by the name of Hugo that wanted to share his powers with as many people as possible. So every once and awhile, he would date different women and they would agree to bear his children. When a child like this is born they are called a half child. Meaning, they're half god because of Hugo being their father and half human because the mother is human."

"Sometimes it's hard to detect when a child is a half child because some half children don't have any abilities at all. A couple of them might have the ability to see the future. A lot of half children live to be about 300 years old. Not all half children do that either."

"So is it possible that I could be a half child because I can see the future?" I asked.

"I don't know about that," said Star, "that remains to be seen. I'm one of the original ancient beings that L created. We agree with Hugo and want to share our talents and abilities with as many people as possible. But instead of getting women pregnant for it, we agree to live in these exploding star crystals. Once a child that might be a half child is detected we are sent out to help that child deal with their abilities. That's my job with you now. The ability to see the future can be triggered pretty hard when another half child tells someone like you, that they can see the future."

"Oh, but I just realized before I even met you that I've been able to see the future even before I was told I was a seer." I said.

"I know that. I saw it when I connected with your powers. It was someone telling you that you were a seer that got you to acknowledge your powers. Shortly after that, Discord came and got me and gave me to you." Star explained.

"Okay, so exactly how am I supposed to use my visions?" I asked.

"Well the visions are a road map so to speak. They point you in the right direction to go for the outcome that you seek to have happen. You can either stay the course of the vision or go a different route. Once this decision is made, you can't take it back."

"How about I do this, if you want to stay the course I will glow green. If you chose to go a different route then I will dim down to pitch black. I have a feeling you'll want to stay the course when it comes down to tracking down that rogue pony named Pinkie Pie?" Star said.

I nodded, "Uh yes, wait, how did you know about that?"

"I have eyes and ears, I can see and hear," said Star, "in case you're wondering I'm a she and not a he."

"Okay." I said.

"Do you want to know what I look like?" Star asked.

"Uh, sure, okay." I said.

"Okay, close your eyes because there'll be a big flash of light when I come out. I'll only come out when it's necessary. Sorry, it's part of my contract with Hugo." Star said.

I closed my eyes and as promised there was a big flash of light. I can see why she wanted me to close my eyes because I would've been blinded by it.

"Okay," said Star, "you can open your eyes now."

I opened my eyes to see a young woman with brown hair and hazel eyes. She was dressed in white robes, and was staring at me.

19) Questions and Another Plan

{Pinkie Pie}

After I left that apartment complex that Bon Bon had taken me to, I went back to the previous apartment complex that I was in before. This time instead of going up to the apartment I decided to stay in the basement away from people. I was still irritated that the stupid agents of the PPA kept finding me so easily.

I thought about doing another killing because of my anger but I decided against it. Those stupid agents of the PPA keep finding me and I've been losing my support group one by one. It's not fair! People are starting to be selfish by not helping me. I gotta think of a plan and fast.

I paced back and forth trying very hard to think of a plan. Then I came up with one. I decided that the next time I see those agents of the PPA, instead of escaping from them, I think I'll just capture one! Then once I have them in my grasp, I can kill them and that will be the end of it. Those agents should stop chasing me after that. Because that will be a warning for them not to come too close to me. But, it might also backfire on me because the agents of the PPA might step up their search, especially if I kidnapped one of them. Especially Twilight, I have no idea why I didn't kill her before but this time, when she goes to rescue one of her friends she'll fall right into my trap.

"Well Pinkie," I said to myself, "this is a good plan. Once I have one of Twilight's friends in my grasp, I'll kill them and when she comes to rescue them, I will kill her next."

* * *

{Alex}

The closer the time for me to go face Pinkie drew near the more nervous I was. Twilight knew this fact because I was having trouble focusing on anything involving planning our wedding. She seemed to understand because we hadn't set a date yet. She agreed with me that we should wait until after my vision of me being Pinkie's research subject came true.

The vision for it to come true was set for tomorrow. I kept thinking why I chose to stay the course on this vision, but like when I decided to use my visions in a different way and it almost worked. So I started thinking maybe I could let Pinkie tie me up and right when she drives the fishing hook into my chest, I'll find some way to break out of the chair and capture her. That is if I don't pass out when that happens. That's because I passed out when I got shot in the chest.

Yeah, know what Star? I thought.

Let me guess, you have a plan to use your vision in a different way again, don't you? Star chuckled.

Yup! I thought. I was thinking that I could let Pinkie tie me to that chair and once she drives the fishing hook into my chest, I can catch her by surprise, rip her magic necklace from her neck and use lightning/electricity to disable her and wala! We got her and she goes back to Equestria, the end. Two problems that could happen with this plan though.

What might those be? Star thought.

First of all, I replied, I could wind up passing out when she drives that fishing hook into my chest like I did when I took that bullet. Second, I could wind up having another vision that changes the course of things and that might complicate the plan, big time.

Yeah, but it might work. You never know until you give it a try. Star thought. Either way you have a plan. Do you wanna get Twilight in on this?

I don't know about that. I thought. But either way, Simon, Abigail, and Violet will be with me when it happens. They want to catch Pinkie just like I do! But with this plan, they might wind up getting captured along with me, and I'm never going to let them die because of me.

Yeah, I agree with you and I know that feeling. I was friends with a human girl before I went inside this crystal. And I protected her with my life. She's dead now. She died of old age. It's sad to me that humans live only to be about 80 to 90 years old. Star thought. No amount of magic can make them live longer.

Oh. I'm sorry to hear that. I thought

It's okay Alex, Star thought, That's the cycle of life for humans. They're born, they live, and then they die.

That's the truth unfortunately. I thought.

Yeah. Star thought with a sigh.

* * *

Later that night, I was laying in bed with Twilight. She chose to be in her human form and I was cuddling with her.

"I know you're nervous, aren't you Alex?" Twilight asked.

I replied with a somber voice, "Yeah, although I know I can recover from the wound Pinkie will give me, I don't like the thought of the pain I'm going to get from it. Maybe I'll pass out like I did with the bullet I took to the chest?"

"Hmm, maybe? Or maybe not?" Twilight pondered, "I know for a fact, if Pinkie's planning something, she's probably prepared for it. I don't know how to prepare, but she'll be prepared. But…"

"But what?" I asked.

"Remember that lightning power you got at the hospital?" Twilight asked.

I nodded. "Yeah, I was thinking about using it to disable her so I can rip her magic necklace off her neck. So, I have some sort of a plan but I don't want to tell you all of it because I don't want you, Violet, Simon, or Abigail to get into trouble or killed because of it."

"I understand," said Twilight, "because when you had that power surge I was worried the Discord might do something else to make you sick again. That's why I kept giving Discord the stink eye when I backed out of the room."

I snorted, "Yeah that was cute and funny at the same time. As a matter of fact when I first met you, I couldn't get over the fact of how adorable you were at everything you did. You still are adorable to me."

Twilight giggled, "You know when I talked to Princess Luna about getting a ring for you, I had no idea why I wanted to do that so much."

"Really?" I said.

Twilight nodded. "Mhm, all I knew was I wanted to get the ring. Princess Luna said that when a pony has found their mate, they just know it. They want to get a ring for their love and give it to them at all costs. Usually when that happens that means they want to propose marriage. I think Princess Luna was a little jealous of me wanting to get a ring for you."

The fact that the ruler of Equestria would be jealous of Twilight wanting to propose marriage to me was interesting.

"Now why would the ruler of Equestria be jealous of you doing that?" I asked.

"Because she's never had that happen to her yet," Twilight explained, "She hasn't found her mate so to speak."

"Oh, I see," I said.

Twilight gave a happy sigh, "I know you can't seem to focus on planning the wedding just yet and I completely understand. To tell the truth, I can't focus enough to do it either. I told Rarity and the others about it via a letter. I asked them not to respond to it yet because I plan on making a visit and hopefully you'll be with me when I go talk to them about it."

"Yeah, I wouldn't mind going with you," I said, "I'm pretty sure the PPA will give me some time off after this is over with. They usually do after I've finished an assignment."

"How much time do they usually give you?" Twilight asked.

"Enough vacation for a week or two," I replied, "And if they're made aware that I'm planning to get married they might give me more time off for that."

"Okay, that would be nice if they did." Twilight said.

I was curious about what Twilight said about the mare's duty as a person of royalty to propose marriage and I wondered if it was the same for a regular pony. "I have a question for you."

"Okay," said Twilight, "what is it?"

"You said that it is the duty of a mare that is a person of royalty to do the proposing to their love," I said, "Is it the same for a regular citizen of Equestria?"

Twilight shook her head, "Nope, it can be either a mare or a stallion. It can also be from both sides of the relationship."

"Uh, both sides?" I asked.

"Yup," Twilight replied, "both sides. With Applejack's brother Big Mac and his wife Sugar Belle they proposed to each other."

"Huh, interesting," I said, "Usually, on Earth it's one or the other but most of the time it's the man that does it. But before it can happen, the man will ask the woman's father if it's okay to ask for his daughter's hand in marriage."

"Now that's interesting," Twilight said, "I'll have to write that down in my research. But in Equestria as you can see it doesn't happen that way. It's because most of the time the parents have already gotten to know a pony's mate. But it's not so with royalty because most of the time, their parents have to schedule a visit at the castle and even still sometimes that doesn't work out."

"Oh I see," I said, "Well that makes sense, because a person of royalty would be very busy dealing with royal duties and what not."

"Exactly!" Twilight said.

I wondered if it would be the same thing for me being married to a person of royalty and if I would have royal duties on top of being an Agent for the PPA.

Twilight seemed to know the answer to my question before I even asked it.

"In case you're wondering," said Twilight, "I'm not sure if a person of royalty's spouse has royal duties also. I'll have to talk to Princess Luna about that."

"Okay." I replied.

After Pinkie was captured I wondered many things; about what it would be like to be married to someone of the royal family. I do know one thing for sure. I didn't love Twilight because she's royalty. I love Twilight because of her personality. She has made me happy ever since the first moment I met her. All I want to do now is be her for as long as I possibly could. Hopefully, forever.

* * *

{Hugo}

I smiled as I watched Princess Twilight propose marriage to Alex.

"Well, I didn't see that coming!" I said.

"No kidding!" Zane agreed, "I think Princess Twilight will make a wonderful wife for Alex and I'm pretty sure he'll make a wonderful husband for her."

I nodded in agreement, "Yup! I wonder if they're going to have children too? I wouldn't mind having a grandchild."

"Okay Hugo," Zane chuckled, "slow your roll, I think you're jumping ahead of yourself here. I mean they have yet to catch Pinkie Pie!"

"Oh, yeah right," I said, trying to keep my excitement down.

Zane snorted. "I can understand your excitement Hugo. But I would keep it down, way down. Like I said, they have yet to catch Pinkie Pie and they haven't even started planning the wedding yet."

I nodded. Even still it was hard for me to wait and see what the future would hold for Alex and Princess Twilight.