The Peacemaker

I straightened my nose and made sure it wasn’t broken. “Now yah listen tah me here sonny… ah ain’t gonna try tah kill yah cause ah know as well as yah do that yah could easily out-match me… but ah swear on muh own life that if yah hurt that girl ah’ll fillet yah like a fish” Granny Smith threatened and I curled my lips in anger like a snarling dog.

“I have no intentions of hurting the little one. Do you know where she has gone?” I asked and Smith lowered the broom stick. “If ah had one guess ah’d say tah Fluttershy’s cottage, it’s where all the girls go when they have problems. Seems that mare knows a lot about phycology” Smith informed me and pointed towards the Everfree forest. “Go that way an yah should find a small cottage just before yah enter the Everfree” she informed me and I gave her an acknowledging nod and departed for Fluttershy’s cottage hoping that I could finally have a word with her about some things I was meaning to tell her before.

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Trixie:

“Special agent Trixie, I need to ask you a few questions” I told the mare running Sugarcube Corner. “Oh why hello there Trixie, so good to see you back in town again” replied Mrs. Cake. “That’s special agent Trixie” I scoffed and her face frowned, “Oh alright sorry, special agent Trixie” Mrs. Cake apologized and I smiled.

“Have you seen a human that’s out of the ordinary lately?” I asked making sure I didn’t say he could cast magic. "Well now that you mention it I did see one” Mrs. Cake replied and I levitated out my notebook as she began. “Well it wasn’t something huge but Rainbow Dash got herself a new human just yesterday… would’ve never thought that Rainbow Dash of all ponies would buy a human” Mrs. Cake informed me.

I scrunched my nose at the information, ‘Seriously, that’s what goes for strange around here… Rainbow Dash buying a friggin human. Who cares about that?’ I thought to myself as I put away the notepad and nodded. “Thank you for your time” I told her and nodded then I trotted off, it was like the entire town hadn’t seen anything out of the ordinary, well a few ponies said the same thing Mrs. Cake said ‘Rainbow Dash bought a human, but that had nothing to do with strange’ I thought to myself as I trotted down a dirt path towards the apple family farm. If they had nothing to say than my case would come to a close and I’d just have to write it off as something unexplainable.

I finally arrived at the apple family farm and walked up to the front steps of the house and knocked on the front door. I had seen Applejack and the other red stallion, Big Mac I think his name was, working on the farm but I wanted some-pony like perhaps the little filly to talk to, some-pony who might exaggerate their story a little just so that I could get Hammerhead to believe me.

The elderly mare known as Granny Smith answered the door, ‘Great, this will be an earful’ I thought to myself and wanted to sigh in irritation but held it back. I pulled out my badge “Special agent Trixie, I need to ask you a few questions” I informed her and her eyes grew wide as she grabbed my coat collar and pulled me towards her and whispered in my ear.

“Yer here bout that rascal human ain’t yah… quickly come inside and ah’ll tell yah all yah need tah know tah get the army down here tah get em” Granny Smith replied and my eyes grew wide as I followed her inside.

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Dmitry:

I approached the cottage cautiously, hoping that I wouldn’t scare any-pony since I didn’t have a pony with me to act like my owner. I peeked through a window of the cottage only to see a beautiful yellow furred Pegasus with a rosy pink mane. I swallowed hard as I knocked on the door and waited.

The Pegasus answered the door and looked up to me. “Please don’t scream, I have an owner she’s just run off and I can’t find her, please don’t call the authorities on me I mean you no harm” I blurted out quickly. She simply blinked as she took in the information.

“Oh… I see. Well if you want you can come inside and sit down… I might be able to help you” she offered, ‘Wow, she was so nice to me despite me being a human’ I thought to myself as I entered the cottage.

I sat down and she went into another part of the cottage then came back with a tea set and sat down beside me. “Don’t worry, everything will be fine” she told me with a very soothing voice that was almost creepy due to the fact that she was talking to a human that way. She handed me a cup of tea, “Drink this… if you want, it might sooth your nerves” she suggested and I took a sip of the tea. It wasn’t very hot but it wasn’t warm either, somewhere between warm and hot.

“Okay… if you want you can just start from the beginning” she replied and I nodded. “Are you Ms. Fluttershy?” I asked and she nodded so I extended my hand to greet her. “The name’s Dmitry, nice to meet you” I told her and she shook my hand with her hoof. “Whenever you’re ready” she told me and I took a deep breath.

“My friend Rainbow Dash, she uhm well… we were pranking ponies and we went to this pony named Applejack then she told us that their human was put down and Rainbow Dash just ran out crying and when I spoke with Granny Smith she said she might have come here” I informed her and she nodded. “So Rainbow Dash is your friend or owner?” she asked me and I sighed. “A little bit of both” I informed her and she nodded again, “Do you care for her?” she asked and I looked to her and raised an eyebrow.

“Oh… I didn’t mean any offence, please don’t be mad” she stammered shyly and I quickly shook my head “Oh I’m not mad believe me, the question was just weird was all” I replied and she nodded again. “Well… do you care for her?” she asked and I sighed, “Yes… I care for her like she’s my daughter, I would die for her” I replied and she gasped. “What? Did I say something bad?” I asked and she looked to me intently and asked “Would you really die for her?”.

I nodded like it wasn’t a big deal “Well yah, wouldn’t any human die for their owner?” I asked almost sarcastically then remembered that humans were actually more like slaves. “No, there’s a reason I don’t have a human. They are more like slaves and I could never bear to keep one chained up” she replied then looked to me and blushed “Well unless he was like you, you are very honourable and seem noble” she replied and I sighed and leaned forward.

“Can I tell you a secret just between you and me?” I asked and she nodded and leaned forward to listen. “I’m a wild-man” I informed her and she screamed and lept back in fear. “Please Fluttershy don’t be scarred I’m not going to hurt you” I pleaded but she kept shuffling back but then fell off the couch we were sitting on and landed with a thump.

I raced over to help her up but she attempted to fly away but ended up flying right into the cieling with a loud crash. She lost all her flying momentum and fell back down to the ground but I caught her effortlessly in my arms before she hit the ground. I sat down on the couch with her body in my arms like a new born baby. I caressed her body and began to run my left hand through her silky mane and caressed her body gently.

She shook of the dizziness from the crash and looked up to me with fear in her eyes but soon realized that I wasn’t going to hurt her. “You’re not… hurting me” she said in a voice that was uncertain about what was going on. “I could never hurt such a beautiful and innocent pony” I cooed and she simply just laid there in my arms. “But… you’re wild, don’t you kill ponies?” she asked and I shook my head.

“I want to tell you something but you must promise to let me tell Rainbow Dash myself” I told her and she nodded. “Back in the war days… I was very young, very stupid. I was a mercenary and a man paid me to kill two ponies and I did it for the money, nothing else and I heartlessly killed both my targets… it is an action I regret to this very day of my life, even now their faces are burned into my soul” I began to tell her and she looked into my eyes deeply, almost as if she was looking straight into my soul.

“Before I killed the mare I saw that she had a baby foal but in my emotionless state I simply killed her but I couldn’t bring myself to simply leave the baby to die so I brought it with me” I said as tears began to run down my face as I remembered that tragic day. “As I left the house I realized that the house had been surrounded by pony soldiers led by a mare who executed my friend with a very horrid execution and he didn’t deserve a death like that… no one deserved a death like that. I shot down all the soldiers but the mare and gave her the baby… that mare the executed my friend is the one know today as Granny Smith, I had shot her in the hip and that is why her hip is bad. She agreed to send Rainbow Dash to flight school and give her a good life” I told her and my tears almost filled my vision. I wiped the tears from my face then continued.

“And to this day those faces… the faces of Rainbow Dash’s parents haunt me… I can never live down what I have done and I have not been able to bring myself to tell Rainbow Dash that I am a heartless killer” I informed her and she sat up and gave me a tight hug. “You may have killed… but that was long ago, if you don’t tell Rainbow Dash soon then she may find out from someone else” Fluttershy told me and she pulled back from the hug and looked into my eyes. “Dmitry, you may have killed once but that doesn’t mean you are still a killer. Always remember that you are who you choose to be” Fluttershy told me and I nodded.

“Rainbow Dash did come by and she said she was going to Pinkie Pie’s, she lives at Sugarcube corner” Fluttershy informed me and I stood up and began to leave. “Wait” she called out to me and I stopped and looked back to her. “Yes?” I asked and she trotted up to me, hopped up to her hind legs and looked me in the eyes. Her face blushed and her cheeks turned a light cherry red. “I just wanted to say… uhm, I uhm well you uhm… good luck” she stammered then hopped back down onto all fours. “Uhm yeah thanks… Thank you Fluttershy, you really helped me out” I replied then dashed out of the house, giving her a final wave as I left.

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Trixie:

“I’m telling you sir I have solid evidence” I yelled into the phone. I had come back to Twilight’s library and called the general again but he once again simply laughed at me. “Yeah, some old mare that probably can’t even remember her childhood” Hammerhead laughed and I scowled to myself but made sure he couldn’t hear it over the phone. “Trixie listen, if you can’t handle to report something as simple as a train wreck than I can easily get some-pony else that can finish a report like that in less than an hour” Hammerhead replied.

“Sir, there’s something different about this one. This guy is a menace” I warned him but he simply chuckled. “Yes Trixie he’s a menace please remind me what he’s done that has caused him to be such a threat to Equestria?” he asked like I was some kind of joke. “Sir, he’s wild, he’s got magical powers, he doesn’t have an owner and he… he caused a train wreck” I told him frantically but he chuckled.

“Yes Trixie, he caused a train wreck. A train wreck, I might add, that saved several ponies from guaranteed death” he said casually “Now until you either get more evidence or wrap this report up I’m going to do some more important tasks, like rearranging my sock drawers” he replied and I sighed to myself in failure as the phone line hung up.