The Peacemaker

I knocked on the door and waited for a moment then the small purple dragon known as Spike opened the door to greet me. I levitated out my wallet and showed him my badge “Special agent Trixie, I work for the government. Can I please use your telephone?” I asked, trying to act really sophisticated because I was no longer The Great and Powerful Trixie, I was Special agent Trixie.

“Twilight” Spike called in an uneasy voice and soon my old unicorn rival came to the door. “Oh hey Trixie, the library is closed right now but if you” she began but I stepped into the library anyway. “I need to use your phone” I told her, naturally most ponies never had phones but recently Equestria had invested in them because they looked to be promising. “Well sure, it’s in the kitchen. Spike and I will be upstairs if you need us” Twilight informed me and the two went upstairs.

I led myself into the kitchen and spotted the phone beside a bread box and levitated the phone piece and brought it up to my ear as I dialed the number for Hammerhead’s office but as I looked to the stove clock I realized it was 9:57pm and he’d probably be at home. I hung up the phone the picked it up and dialed his home phone number and the phone begun to ring.

I waited for a few seconds then Hammerhead answered his phone. “Hello?” he asked in a somewhat gruffly voice. “Sir it’s me, I think I’m onto something big” I told him over the phone. “You called me at home for this Trixie?” he asked in an irritated voice and I nodded but then remembered he couldn’t see me over the phone.

“Listen, there’s something big going on, found some LBH guys and they were dead but a train conductor said that some other guy used a form of magic to derail the train so that they wouldn’t hit some explosives” I told him and he chuckled, I could hear his TV playing in the background, he was watching some old cow-pony and buffalo movie again. “Sir, this big” I told him but he simply laughed over the phone.

“So we got some human that was with his unicorn owner and they stopped the train before it hit some explosives” he said casually, “No sir, no owner. This man was wild” I told him with a sort of fake worry in my voice to try and convince him that this was big. “So you’re telling me that this train conductor saw some guy just stop a train and derail it?” he asked with a chuckle, “No, he used a form of levitation magic… sir I think that he’s the one we’ve been looking for” I replied as I bit my hoof in franticness and waited for him to reply.

“Ha that old dragon tale… Trixie you seriously need to get out more” he laughed and I sighed, I was trying to get him to see things my way but apparently he saw things differently.

“Sir… this is big, if that man stays wild than who knows what he could do” I told him but he simply chuckled, I knew that he wasn’t paying attention and was probably just watching his TV movie. “Yes Trixie… I’m sure it’ll all end badly and horribly” he replied carelessly.

“Sir this can’t be taken lightly, I know that you’re thinking it isn’t that bad but he can do some serious damage” I warned him and he yawned. “Sir… he could be really bad, I mean he derailed a train for Celestia’s sake” I told him. “Yes Trixie, he derailed a train that was headed straight for some explosives that would’ve killed every-pony aboard the train” he replied casually. “Well what’re you going to do?” I asked and he chuckled.

“Well right this minute I’m going to watch my TV show and listen to you rant about something that doesn’t really matter” he replied and I scowled to myself. Was he really going to shrug this off like nothing was wrong? “Sir… I got a feeling about this one” I began but he cut me off “Trixie if you can get me some evidence say… an eye witness of this guy I might send down a professional, HELL GET ME A PHOTGRAPH OF THIS GUY DOING MAGIC AND I CAN PROBABLY GET AN ENTIRE COMPANY OF SOLDIERS DOWN THERE, but you say you’ve got a feeling” he laughed.

I scrunched my nose in anger “Fine you want evidence, I’ll get you evidence and when I do I’m gonna want a promotion” I scowled, “That’s nice” he said casually, not really caring. “And on top of that I’m gonna want a memo, AND AN INTERIEW WITH CELESTIA AND…” he hung up the phone and the phone started to hum, signalling that the line was hung up. I let out a depressed sigh and hung up the phone. I looked down to the floor in self disappointment then I heard a small clack sound and looked over to the phone to see that it had fallen off the hooks that held it up.

I reached over and set it gently back on the hooks but it fell off again almost instantly. I sighed and tried to hang up the phone but once again it fell off the hook. I levitated the phone up and placed it on the hook but as soon as I released it from my magic it fell back down, like it was mocking me.

In my anger and frustration I grabbed the phone and began to slam it on the hook multiple times. “WHAT’RE YAH DOING, GET ON THE HOOK ARRRRRRG” I screamed in anger and I finally cooled down and hung up the phone but as I did I realized I was hanging it upside down. I flipped the phone the right way and hung it up and let out a deep exhale.

As I turned to leave I saw Twilight in the kitchen looking at me with a raised eyebrow. I pointed to her with my hoof and winked “Thanks for letting me use your phone” I replied casually and began to trot towards the entrance of the library.

“Well see you around Trixie” Twilight said as I opened the door to leave. “See you later Twi, later Spick” I said, on purposely screwing up his name. “It’s Spike” he replied back in an agitated voice. As I began to trot away from the library I muttered to myself “Spike, who the hell name’s a dragon Spike, I’d name him Blastfire or something”.

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Dmitry:

I had parked the jeep in the garage and was curious about what else I could do with my new found powers. I focused my thoughts on the jeep and tried to levitate it up like I had the train but couldn’t, my hands didn’t even illuminate with a magical aurora.

I cursed to myself as I focused furiously hard but couldn’t seem to generate any sort of magic. “Maybe it was a one-time thing” I thought to myself as I began to walk towards the house. Suddenly I heard a snarl from behind me and as I spun around I was met by the sight of a ghastly timber wolf as it approached me with hunger in its eyes.

“No doggy, bad doggy, I’m not your supper” I yelled but the timber wolf lept on me and tackled me to the ground and began to snap at me with its fangs. I turned my head side to side in an attempt to dodge the wolf’s bites. The wolf kept trying to bite at my face then finally decided it would be too hard to grab my face so it bit lower and bit down on my right arm with its teeth. I screamed out in pain and punched the timber wolf in the head but it didn’t even faze the wolf as it held onto my arm.

“GAHHHHH” I screamed out in horrid pain and due to all the pain that was coursing through me, my left fist unclenched. I still managed to slam my palm into its head but it wasn’t effective at all. Suddenly my palm illuminated in a blue aurora and a beam of energy shot into the wolf and it exploded into forest pieces: branches, twigs etc.

I staggered back to my feet because I knew that it was only a matter of time before it regenerated but as I waited for the timber wolf to regenerate it didn’t. The timber wolf pieces just laid there on the ground. I took a quick glance at my arm and knew I’d have to disinfect it before I wrapped it up but that wasn’t the first thing on my mind. I had just permanently killed a timber wolf with some sort of advanced magic blast, I thought that timber wolf couldn’t be killed unless they were burned but even then their soul just takes the form of some more forest pieces and comes back but this soul never left the body… it just died.