Lieutenant Twilight Sparkle let the leaves crunch beneath her hooves.
Fluttershy, the intern, did her best to follow quietly behind.

"Um....

"Um..um...uhhhhhh..."
Fluttershy muttered something incoherent, and then, she dropped the briefcase that she had been holding on the floor.
The briefcase opened as it fell, scattering its contents to the wind.

"The case is glued tight ma'am. I've already had Rainbow check the perimeter. There's no way any pony is getting in or out of that barn. It seems like they've been holed up in there for days."

"I wish the case were glued tight Fluttershy.
If it were glued tight it wouldn't be fluttering all over Sweet Apple Acres."

Twilight looked at the barn.
She gave the door a buck.
Two bucks.
Three bucks.
She bucked until she couldn't give a buck.
After a moment of resting, the door fell open.

Inside the barn, Granny Smith was lying flat on the floor, and she was covered in blood.
Apple Jack was on the couch, also covered in blood.

"It was me; I did it."

Twilight looked at Apple Jack for a moment.

"Why would you just confess like that?
Why didn't you even try to hide?"

"I'm the element of honesty sugarcube. I'm literally the worst criminal possible."

Twilight put handcuffs on Apple Jack.
......

Twilight made her way through the dank prison, and she was being followed by an orange earth pony, with an orange cutie mark.

"We know that you're not the perpetrator Apple Jack.
We picked her up in Canterlot about an hour after you were arrested."

"But I'm not the killer! All the evidence points to Apple Jack. We even have a confe-"

"Quit yer yappin' Orange Jack; we know you done did it."

"But why did you do it Apple Jack? Why did you let me take you in?"

"Because, Twilight, getting sent to prison is the only way I ever get to go on vacation."

Author's Note

Granny Smith died of natural causes.