Finally A Day Off

Two ponies sat across from each other in the hallway. The white unicorn Trebass sat up against the wall, his arm rested the back of his head. The green pegasus Deviree sat opposite to him in the same position.

"You know what?" Trebass asked.

Deviree looked up, "What?"

"I'm not even surprised by this anymore." The unicorn answered.

"I don't get it..." She said, as she tilted her head to the side.

Trebass sighed, and then asked, "It's complicated, but I'd like to know how you got here."

"It's a long story. A strange one too..." She said, twirling her gun on her wing.

She reached into her vest pocket, "Here." She said, as she handed Trebass a folded of piece of paper.

"Sergeant Iron Will said he was cleaning out... Braeburn's things. And he found this." She explained.

The unicorn unfolded the paper, and began to read aloud, "My sweet Deviree. If you're reading this, then the inevitable has gone and happened. I've left you, alone... And I'm sorry. But when I'm gone, you need to leave this time, immediately. Go to our old apartment in Las Pegasus and try to find our unit. If it hasn't been ruined by the Diamond Dogs, there's a cardboard box, with the words 'Storm of Hearts' on it, at the back of the cupboard above the stove. In the box you'll find a jar. Now... Don't freak out when you see what's in the jar okay? Just take it, and get to an open area, and throw it a few feet away from you. Don't question anything, just do it."

He stopped reading, folded the paper into his vest pocket, then spoke up again, "And I can already guess what happens next."

"So you know about all of that stuff? Do you know how it works?" She asked.

He answered, "Yeah, but It'd take too long to explain here. Let's get out of this building, how did you get in here? And please don't say another explosion."

"I rappelled from the roof..." She replied.

"And there's no staircase or elevators leading up to the roof. Besides, the elevator wire was 'mysteriously' cut off." He said, glaring at Deviree.

"Hey, if it wasn't for me cutting that cable, that thug stallion would have given you more trouble in Flam's office." She said, lifting herself from the floor. She stretched, and began trotting away from Trebass and into Flam's office.

Trebass followed, but then remembered that somepony was still in Flam's office. He had completely forgot about the blue pegasus who had served him a drink.

"Hey wait." He said, attempting to stop her, he ran in after the mare.

*click*

True bass stopped in his tracks.

"It seems you've forgotten about one small detail." A Pegasus with a midnight blue coat stepped from behind the open door, "Me."

"Friend of yours?" Deviree asked, her hooves raised in the air.

Trebass raised his hooves in surrender as well, "Kinda. You know me, always picking the strange ones."

"Enough crap out of the two of you. You! Pegasus, go stand by the desk. And the unicorn stays put." He commanded.

Trebass looked at Deviree, and then nodded. She complied, and slowly trotted over to the desk.

"What's the point of holding us hostage? Your boss is dead, there's no one to pay you anymore Shock." Said the unicorn.

"This isn't about the money, this is personal." Shock Bolt replied.

"Do you mind explaining what I did to get you in a bloodthirsty mood?" Trebass asked.

"Cut the smartass remarks. You remember, that day of the Canterlot Orchestra, the day that cab driver was shot in front of your hotel. I saw that with my own two eyes, I saw you kill my brother." Shock Bolt said, his wing was shaking from the weight of the gun.

Trebass' eyes shot open, "Y-Your..."

Deviree stood in front of the desk, motionless. While Shock Bolt looked as if he was going to shoot the unicorn right there on the spot.

"But I didn't kill hi--" Trebass was cut off.

"Bullshit! You may have told the others that he was assassinated by some other pony on the rooftop of your hotel, but I saw you with that gun. I saw the newspaper with the headlines 'Rogue Ponyville Unicorn Killer Escapes Prison'. Nopony ever paid your bail! After you escaped the prison, you hijacked a limousine and held the driver at gunpoint! You blew him up after you reached the Canterlot Concert Hall!" The blue pegasus blew from his nostrils before he continued.

Trebass stood there, remembering all of those acts that his shell committed. But was it really Trebass?

Shock continued, "And worst of all, you got away with it. Nopony ever found your name, and you eventually disappeared from Canterlot and everypony forgot about you. Everypony, except me. I was there in the park where you shot my brother. I was the one who called the police, and I pointed my hoof at YOU! I saw you heading into the Canterlot Concert Hall, I called the cops on you there too! I was the one who threw that exit sign at you too."

Deviree let out a deep sigh, and leaned back on the desk, "I don't know what to say..." She whispered to herself. But Trebass could hear her regardless.

"And now... After all these years... I found you. I joined up with Flim and Flam and their underground society to find you. I asked around, and the only ponies who remembered that incident was Flim and Flam." The blue pegasus' wing regained strength, and he held the gun firmly.

"So you know then." The white unicorn asked.

Shock replied, "Yes. I know that you were part of that organization that cab driver and that limousine driver were talking about. You lied to everypony, including Royal. You were founder of that group. The Caduceus Group."