***Manehatten***

The little colt could hear the sound of his own breath coming through his nose as he stared in the darkness of his blindfold. His hooves shaking in the leather straps that was keeping him bound to the hard, wooden chair. Suddenly he let out a sharp muffled grunt as he heard a loud banging noise coming from the direction of the door. His heart was pounding. Despite having been tied up regularly he was still terrified. He had no idea where his so called step father or as he liked to be reffered to as “master”. There was a second banging noise followed by the words “POLICE, OPEN UP”

My heart stopped. Master had always told him that the police were bad ponies and that they would take him and eat him. He silently prayed that they would leave. He struggled against the leather straps that was keeping him strapped down. Then he heard the sound of the door being smashed in.

“Mmmmmmph!” He screamed through the large, rubber, red ballgag as tears started to leak from his blindfolded eyes.

He heard a gasping sound followed by “Oh My Celestia, who did this!”

All of a sudden he was blinded by a bright light as his blindfold was wrenched of. Gaining his bearings he could see that the Police stallions were trying the pull at his bonds. One of them was talking into a black thing that was strapped to his chest “This is unit 248, I need EMS, Detectives and FPS for a foalnapping”

The second officer pulled out a sharp, knife which made the colts eyes turn to pinpricks as he screamed “mmmmmmph! mmmmmmph!” While shaking his head wildly.

The officer said in a soothing tone “hey, hey, im not going to hurt you”. He then looked to the back of my head and shouted to his partner “look for a key!” Before lightly tugging at his bindings, he then began to saw at the leather with his knife a process that was made difficult by the colts shaking.

“I need you to keep still ok. I don’t want to cut you. Can you do that for me?”

“Mmph” he replied weakly before finally reluctantly nodded. He scrunched his eyes close in concentration and trying to quell his fear.

Slowly but surely he had managed to cut him loose. The other officer came back in saying “I couldn’t find the key but i found a bunch of what appears to be torture devices “ the officer who had freed the colt gritted his teeth in anger.

All of a sudden the sounds of sirens started ti fill the air along with the screeching of cart wheels. Seconds later a grey pegasus dressed in a trench coat and a fedora walked in to the room he identified himself as Detective scope. He was followed by two EMT mares. As the officer who went to look for the key started to explain what happened and that this had originally been a raid on Shadow Vector, a notorious mob boss who was a key figure in pony trafficking rings. The officer also explained that they had no idea that a colt would be here.

One of the EMTs then asked if there was anyway to remove the ballgag as the colt tried tugging at it but it wouldn’t budge.

The officer who had freed the colt then said “without bolt cutters we have to cut it of but it could risk cutting his face. The EMT said that hed rather deal with a cut than potentially have the colt suffocate because his airway was blocked.

The officer turned to the colt and told him “Im gonna need to keep your head extremely still, ok?”

The colt started to nod before quickly stopping himself, worried that he was going to get punished for disobeying orders. He clenched his eyes scrunch in preparation for a punch or worse, a whip. However instead of feeling the usual sting of a whip or punch, he felt his gag being slightly tugged before hearing the sound of sawing. He then felt the red ballgag fall out of his open mouth.

Slowly opening and closing his mouth, he felt it move painfully from being kept wide open for a long period of time. “Hello, my name is officer cuffs. Can you tell me your name?”

He was reluctant to give his name but from coaxing from Cuffs he croaked “Skaterloo but master calls me pet” his voice was raspy from lack of use”

“ whose master?” Cuffs said while trying to keep his anger in check.

“My step father” this enraged the young pegasus officer as he thought how a parent could do this to their own foal Step or not. However what Skaterloo said turned Cuffs dark blue fur to deep maroon from anger “ why aren’t you trying to eat me”.

At first this confused him until he added “ Master said that the police hunted foals and cooked them alive” Cuffs eye twitched before he got up and lammed the door which made Skaterloo jump in fright, causing the EMTs to look scornfully at the door which Cuffs had left.

The EMTs had then asked if they could transport Skaterloo to the hospital. Before Detective Scope could give his approval Cuffs walked back into the room saying “the rods have joined the party” he was followed by a blue pegasus who was wearing a black windbreaker with the letters RIS emblazoned on the back and front.

“Special Agent, Void Streak, RIS, Organised Crime Unit” he said while holding out an identification card.

The Royal Investigation Service was Equestria’s most elite law enforcement and investigation agency that was officially owned by the Department of Law Enforcement but answered directly to Princess Celestia herself.

Officer Cuffs merely rolled his eyes “What are you doing here traitor”

Agent streak narrowed his eyes “Im sure that if you were offered a job in the RIS, you would take it” Cuffs merely humphed. Void Streak and Cuffs used to be partners in the MHPD. “Now to answer your question i have been hunting for Shadow Vector since i first joined the RIS. Im here to talk to the kid. he’s the only pony to have direct contact with Shadow and has lived to tell the tale. A tale i want to hear”

Before the officers could continue their conversation the EMTs cut in “ absolutely not. We will be taking this colt to the hospital, if you want to question him then you will need permission from the hospital”

Agent Void Streak did not like this but however before he could say anything. Officer cuffs said “fine” he then turned to his partner and asked “whats the status with FPS?”

His partner replied “They’ll meet us at the hospital.”

Agent Streak then told Cuffs “we’re taking over the investigation.”

Before Cuffs could protest Agent Streak then sighed “I can see how this has affected you, I know that you relate to this kid. I also know you wont tell me even if i asked but I will ket you stay on as an advisor”

He was about to say “How…?”

“Im a rod its my job” he said while starting tk leave the room. However before ultimately leaving he turned and added “but know this if you get in the way of my investigation, I will personally make sure that you get arrested for obstructing a royal investigation”…

Author's Note

Rod is another word for Royal Agent or Royal Guard similar to Fed being another word for Federal agent