The Doctor is in

“You seriously can’t be thinking about going through with this?!” A bewildered Rocky road questioned.

“I know you don’t think this is a good idea Commander road, but it’s the best chance we have of taking down the dark moon legion.” Celestia pushed the door open to the throne.

It had been 5 days since Velvet night had been captured and Celestia hadn’t done anything about him since then. Rocky road and even a couple of guards had tried to convince Celestia to just execute the necromancer, but something about his offer gave Celestia a dilemma.

“I understand with the return of your sister that you are worried that the legion will do something. But you can’t be considering hearing that monster out, I mean, he said that he’s a member.” Rocky road said with desperation in his voice. Celestia stopped in her tracks and turned around to face Rocky road with a sympathetic expression.

“I understand your hatred for his type, especially what happened with your sister.” Celestia looked away when she said that, but turned her gaze back to Rocky road. “I have a good feeling that Velvet night is somehow telling the truth.” Rocky road closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and opened them again.

“All I’m trying to say is…be careful please.” Celestia nodded at Rocky roads advice and continued walking to a door beside her, and now sisters, thrones.

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I sit in my borderline dilapidated cell, water dripping from a crack in the ceiling and rust on about anything you find, I also thought I saw a rat run by my cell door.

“I love Celestia to death…but she really needs to get these cells clean.” I rolled my eyes as my lovely cellmate slammed his…buggy…hooves onto the cell bars.

“Can you SHUT UP! I’m already starving over here, I don’t need a headache to add to my pain!” He then recoiled in pain as an audible rumbling can from his stomach. It had been like this since I got here, I voice a minor complaint and he gets all uppity about it.

“Well being a doctor doesn’t exactly mean I like dirty rooms. Also, can you please drop dead faster so I can examine your body?” I say in the most innocent way I could manage.

This didn’t seem to go over well with my insectoid friend as he gave me the most hilarious glare I’ve ever seen. He was about to attack me when the sound of the dungeon entrance being opened reached our ears. The sound of multiple hooves was approaching us, and when they stopped in front of my cell, I could help but smile in happiness.

“Velvet night, the princess requested your audience. Come quietly and don’t try anything.” The gold cladded gentlecolt ordered. I happily agreed and was let out of my disgusting cell, waving my insect friend goodbye.

It was a long walk but I could appreciate the nice clean walls of the castle interior as I walked down the marble white walls. We soon reached a seemingly random door and opening it up revealed a rather bland grey room with a table and 2 chairs on either side. I was told to sit in one of the chairs and wait for a pony to come and interrogate me, so I sat there bored yet again with nothing to do.

Luckily that boredom was swept away when an absolute beauty stepped through the door, the best looking pegasus stallion I've seen in my life. He was pink colored with a light blue mane, wore a cute little green turtleneck sweater, and had a cutie mark of a notepad and quill.

“You’re a cute little thing.” I used my hoof to prop my head up as I gave the cutie a flirtatious gaze. “Maybe when we’re done here, you can come see me so I can…examine you~” I licked my lips to add emphasis. The stallion looked flustered for a moment before he caught himself and sat down in the empty seat in front of me with a calm expression.

“While I do appreciate the…offer, that isn’t why I am here.” He used his wing to pull out a small rectangular device with buttons on it and press one of them. “This is a royal detective minty breeze. It is currently xx/xx/xx22 with interrogation case number 34.” He stopped talking to the thing and set it aside, then picked up a strange crystal with wires attached and set it on the table.

“What is this strange device?” I asked with a raised eyebrow.

“This is the latest model of lie detecting crystal technology to date. When you answer a question, it scans your brain waves to formulate if it was true or false.” Minty breeze gave a prideful smile that just warmed my heart, even if I didn't have a single clue about what he was talking about.

“Well isn’t that interesting? So do I just stick these to my head?” I ask while pointing to the wires attached to the crystal. I would hold them in my magic, but I would be in trouble if I broke their weak little magic damping ring they stuck to my horn. Minty nodded and helped me stick the wires to my head with tape and then sat back down and pulled out a notepad and pencil.

“Now to make sure the crystal works, are you actually 127 years old?” The stallion asked.

“Yes” I answered as the crystal lit up green. That seemed to make Minty a little shocked, but satisfied as he wrote in his notepad.

“Now that I know that it works, I’m going to be straightforward with you. Are you really an ex member of the dark moon legion?” Minty had some subdued fear in his voice that even an average pony could notice, which made me frown a little.

“No, as I said, I am not affiliated with those idiots anymore.” There was a slight pause, but the crystal lit up green. That made Minty breeze visibly relax as he wrote in his little notepad, the scene making my full smile return. We went back and forth with each other for about an hour as Minty continued to interview me, these questions were starting to bore me to death.

‘If only these stupid questions were over, then I could get a piece of the submissive stallion di-’ My thoughts were interrupted when Minty closed his notepad and removed the tapped wire from my forehead. He somehow stuffed all of his items into a pair of saddle bags he had with him that I didn’t notice.

“Well that concludes our interview-” He picked up the small rectangular device, clicked a button on it, and stuffed it into his saddle bag. “-It was actually nice to talk with you. But you’re going have to stay here, the princess will arrive soon." With that, the cute stallion left the room and also left my poor heart in shambles.

“He was such a nice young lad, the first stallion to peak my interest in decades.” I threw my hooves and shook them in anger as tears ran down my face. “GONE FROM MY HOOOVES!”

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*Few hours later*

"Princess, let me question the Necromancer by myself. You don't need to be in the same room as him." Rocky road pleaded as he and Celestia walked to the interrogation room.

"Commander Rocky road, I appreciate the concern, but I am fully capable of handling myself." Celestia retorted with annoyance in her tone. They reached the interrogation room, but Rocky got in in front of Celestia before she could open the door.

Rocky road gave her a pleading look, but Celestia shook her head as she reluctantly moved Rocky out of the way and opened the door to find a disgruntled Velvet night. The stallion in question noticed them and quickly got back into a proper position, both of his hooves on the table with an innocent smile on his face.

“Uh…Greeting your majesty, I hope you are having a wonderful morning?” Velvet asked with a bead of sweat going down his face.

“Well it’s actually the afternoon.” Celestia walked over and sat in the empty seat.” But yes my day has been fairly decent with the return of my sister and all.” At this, Velvet's eyes seemed to widen a little but otherwise stay calm.

“I…didn’t know your sister returned. I couldn’t imagine what it’s like to have your dear little sister be potentially targeted by a bunch of moon worshiping freaks.” Velvet put a hoof to his chest in an almost mocking way.

“Yes it is difficult to say the least, but that isn’t why I am here.” Celestia gave Velvet an intense stare, which seemed to affect the stallion a bit. “I got the results from Minty breeze and I have to say that you’re more trustworthy now. But I want to hear from your mouth, why do you want my help?”

The room was silent as Velvet seemed to be somewhat upset by something, but was doing a good job of keeping his smile for the most part.

“Ever since I and my brother were young, we’ve been obsessed with anything medical related. He wanted to become a pharmacist and me a surgeon and we studied for years on end. After going through the most prestigious medical schools at the time, we eventually achieved our dreams.” Velvet put his hoofs together and his smile turned into a deep frown.

“Life for us was good until… I found out my brother had ties with the dark moon legion.” Celestia and Rocky road were surprised to hear this, but chose to stay quiet. “He didn’t know, so I chose to not speak about it, then one day-”Tears started to form in the corners of Velvet's eyes. ”I found my brother dead in our own home, slaughtered like some common dog. I never found out why, but I suspected it to be the legions doing it somehow, so I discovered the art of necromancy, got a spot in the legion and quickly rose the ranks.”

“If you were so high up, why turn on them just to get my help?” Celestia interrupted.

“Because the leaders of the legion are well hidden, and if I go snooping around I’ll end up like my brother did.” Velvet's voice held such anger, his hooves started to shake in rage and face contorted into a sadistic grin. “I swear when I get my hooves on them, I’ll strangle the life out of every single one, resurrect them all and inflict every single imaginable way to torture somepony until the day I finally die, then torment their souls in the afterlife. Only then they will feel a fraction of the pain they caused me.”

Celestia and Rocky road looked uncomfortable from Velvet's borderline mental breakdown, with Rocky giving Celestia an uncertain look. The solar princess coughed into her hoof, which snapped the necromancer out of his crazed state and returned him to normal with his signature smile.

“That was certainly an interesting tale, but is there anything you can tell us about the dark moon legion?” Celestia questioned, Rocky read to write info down in his own notepad that he seemingly pulled out of nowhere.

“Nothing specific really, but I knew a mare that knows a pony that knows something about the leaders themselves.” Velvet said with a sly smile at Celestia's subtle shock.

“Can you tell me who this pony is?” Celestia asked, a little desperation in her voice.

“The fake name she had was sea breeze, but her name is actually lyra heartstrings.”

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Luna and her sister were standing outside in the docking area for the royal guards chariots were stationed, Luna gave an annoyed huff as she saw Velvet being escorted into a chariot.

“We do not think this is a good idea sister. Do you think letting a Necromancer run wild in ponyville is a good idea, especially with thy students there.” Luna said with an irritated look.

“Firstly, Velvet night is going to be under observation from undercover ponies while he is there. Secondly I feel more safe if it was twilight watching him, I told him to make sure that my student is safe while he’s in town.” Celestia gave her sister a comforting smile, which only turned Lunas glare into one of confusion.

“Still, thou hasn’t told us why he is going there.” Luna pointed out.

“In his own words ‘you can’t just send a bunch of guards down there to catch her, know the mare, she’ll run off before we even touch the ground’. So I came up with a plan for him to stay with Twilight as he investigates this Lyra heartstrings, and my student already got sent a letter detailing her about the situation.” Celestia looked at the now exiting chariot, Velvet waving Celestia goodbye from the distance.

“We hope that thou judgment is right sister. Because if he does anything to Miss Sparkle, we will personally see that he gets banished to the sun.” Luna gazed at the distant chariot with an angry glare.

Celestia put a wing around Luna and nuzzled her affectionately.

“Don’t worry Luna, I’m sure Velvet night will behave himself.” Celestia said with a slight giggle.