Hello Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to the continuation of my second story ever, if you liked this chapter please leave a positive review if you didn't like it then leave some constructive critism for me to look at, it will only make me better. On a side note I am also currently writing a mass effect story entitled Mass Effect: the lost and forgotten, if you like the games please read what i have of the story so far and review as it will help me write more chapters, thank you.

So far Mr. Carnage has discovered that he is a Pony, has meet a pegasi called Rainbow Dash and is off to investigate a mysterious scream he heard in the town of Ponyville.

Chapter 2: Stand back I'm a Detective!

He ran; he ran as fast as his legs could take him. All he thought about was getting to the source of the scream. He took in all the places he was passing, getting a sense of the geography of the town he was in, in case he got lost and needed to retrace his steps.

He knew he was getting closer to the noise, at the least; all the math's and calculations inside his brain were trying to figure out the exact location of the original scream, from experience, he knew it wasn't a scream of someone (or somepony in this case) that was about to die but rather a scream from something that had been scared by someone, whether this be a killer running away or someone discovering a dead body

God, it's depressing that I can tell all that just from someone's scream he thought to himself.

He entered what seemed to be the town square; to the best of his knowledge, at least, and his eyes were immediately drawn to three ponies: a green pony holding tightly onto a light yellow coloured pony lying on the ground, who seemed to be burying her face into the yellow coloured ponies coat, and another who appeared to be recoiling in fear. He quickly theorized that this was the pony that had screamed earlier, and from experience he already knew that the pony lying on the ground was dead.

He trotted over to the two ponies and the corpse as slowly as he could so he would not frighten them, however the pink pony spotted him and screamed again, this got the green ponies attention as she turned around to face him, Mr. Carnage stood on his two back legs and put his two front hooves out in a none threatening gesture "Please calm down, my name is…"

Before he could speak, he was cut off by the pink mare lying in a cowering position on the ground "Who are you? I've never seen you around here before."

The green mare asked in a threatening tone "Are you the one who did this to Bon-Bon!"

Mr. Carnage knew the situation could quickly turn volatile, and so he quikly took in the two ponies in front of him; the pink mare's mane was pink but also had a shade of light pink going through it, the mark on her flank three flowers.

Might be something to do with gardening, he thought to himself.

The green pony had a silver and white mane and tail which seemed to really suit her, he wondered if the ponies dyed their manes or if it was natural; however, this line of thought was immediately stopped as he remembered the volatile situation that he was in.

"Excuse me, my name is Mr. Carnage, and I am a detective, please forgive my intrusion, but I am presuming that the pony lying there is in fact dead."

The green pony wiped a small tear that was coming down from her eye "Yes, her name is Bon-Bon."

"And may I know both of your names, also?"

Both Ponies looked at each other, the pink pony appeared to be traumatized and so she could not speak anymore so the green pony spoke for the two of them "My name is Lyra and this is Cheerilee."

"Thank you. Now, Miss Lyra, I need to examine the body, so…"

Lyra suddenly became angry "No! You can't touch her, I don't even know if you're telling the truth!"

Mr. Carnage looked around and realized that a lot of the town had been awakened by the noise and were now converging towards them, there were more than he would have previously anticipated, he knew that potential evidence could be destroyed if the townsfolk all convened convereged around the body. He heard the commotion from them knowing that one by one they would all see the body.

"Oh my Celestia."

"Is that Bon-Bon?"

"This is awful!"

"Who is that green Colt?"

Paranoia can set in fast in a small community and hostility can spread even faster to an outside stranger as soon as someone believes that the stranger in question is trouble or has done something wrong.

He knew he had only moments before not only potential evidence would be destroyed, but also he would have a very angry mob on his hands that would most likely direct their anger towards him. Mr. Carnage ran towards the body and stood just next to Lyra, he waved his hooves in the air and called out to the towns people, "Everyone, stand back I'm a detective and I cannot let any of you potentially contaminate any evidence to the murder by walking all over the crime scene."

The towns people started to talk amongst themselves again, "She was murdered!"

"Who could do this?"

"Sweet Celestia, help us!"

Then someone called out from the crowd "Hey! How do we even know if you are really a detective?"

Carnage realized he had no way of proving his credentials; he had nothing on him at all to even prove his identity. Another pony then called out, "I've never seen you here before; how do we know that you weren't the one who killed her!"

Damn it, they're getting violent! he cursed himself in his own head; he looked beneath him and saw Lyra still burying her head into the pony that Mr. Carnage thought must have been her lover, and Cheerilee was now focusing on the crowd, which was steadily getting more and more agitated, and, at this rate, might attack him at any moment. Suddenly his saving grace would come in the form of a voice from above.

"What are you all talking about? Of course he's a detective."

When Mr. Carnage looked up he saw a familiar, beautiful rainbow tail. He was entranced with it as the tail and the pony it was connected to floated down next to him; she stood up against the hastily formed mob and spoke, "Look at his flank! It's a magnifying glass."

The crowed all turned their attention to Mr. Carnage's flank, which was indeed marked with a magnifying glass.

"Why don't you all put 2 and 2 together and realize that he must be a detective because he has a magnifying glass cutie mark?"

Carnage muttered to himself "Cutie mark, so that's what it's called…"

The crowd appeared to calm down significantly as they conversed among themselves.

"Thank you very much, Miss Dash; if you hadn't arrived when you did I would have been in a lot of trouble, I believe I owe you one."

"You're still kind of weird, but I get this feeling from your cutie mark that you can actually help here; besides, I know you're not the killer because you were sleeping in the grass up on the hill just a minute ago."

"Well, there is no way of knowing the exact time of death at this current time, but I see your logic."

Carnage quickly spied the time on a nearby clock: 12:30. He would have to remember that.

"Miss Dash, I must ask one more favour from you."

"Yeah, what?"

"I need you to keep the other ponies from touching the crime scene, they could inadvertently contaminate important evidence."

Dash flew up a foot from the ground "I don't really know what that means, but ok. If you think it's important I trust you."

Trust; it's a hard thing to gain from a complete stranger, but once it is gained, it can indeed become invaluable. Rainbow Dash flew above the crowd issuing orders "Ok everypony back away there is nothing to see here, Hey! That means you too Derpy."

Carnage noted the grey flying pony getting near the crime scene but being turned around by Dash. He also noted the distinction and odd direction of her eyes; she didn't look well.

Carnage turned his attention back to the body; Lyra was now looking up at him and Cheerilee seemed to have regained some composure and was standing up on all fours, "Miss Lyra you have to let me…"

"No! You can't, I told you didn't I? I don't care what Dash says, you still may be lying."

He understood she was distraught but his patience was running thin, "Miss Lyra, if you want the pony who killed your lover to be caught, then you must allow me to examine the body."

Lyra looked up at him surprised, "But how did you…"

It was quite obvious that they were more than close friends but he took this as an opportunity "You can't hide anything from me Miss Lyra, I am a detective after all."

Lyra looked back at the body of the one she loved and then looked back at Mr. Carnage who had a sense of warmth and trust coming from his green eyes; she slowly nodded her head to say that he could and slowly stepped away from her body, Mr. Carnage didn't waste any time in case Lyra suddenly changed her mind.

Both Mares stood quietly to the side while Carnage looked over the body of Bon-Bon, he could now see her mane which was a dark purple with a pink streak going through it; it was the same for her tail also

Seriously, why do all these ponies have such weird manes, and they all seem to really complement their coats… Oh, damn it, I'm losing my train of thought again.

He refocused on the task before him; he spotted her cutie mark, which was three sweets, and guessed that from this and her name she worked in the confectionary business. He immediately spotted the cause of death as being a sliced throat, but at this time he could not tell if it was done by a blade or some other instrument, the most disturbing part, however, was that her front left hoof had been carefully removed, the entire hoof was missing from her leg, he started to talk to himself "the pony behind this certainly wanted to make sure they got the hoof intact, why?"

He quickly scanned the scene around him, but could only find small drops of dry blood from the pool of blood left from Bon-Bon's sliced throat, he looked around and saw Cheerilee and Lyra consoling each other, Cheerilee appeared to be able to talk again which reminded him that he would have to interview the two ponies to see if they saw anything that he missed.

Just then two large ponies appeared behind him, approaching the body. Rainbow Dash saw this, too, and since she had pretty much dispersed the mob, she zoomed next to Mr. Carnage. The two appeared to be guards. One of them spoke "What is happening here!"

Mr. Carnage took a step forward to address them "This pony has been murdered, I need you two to get her to a doctor or coroner and tell me her exact time of death and any other info that I might need."

"Who are you?"

"I am Mr. Carnage and now I'm officially the detective working this case."

"You can't just do that, and who do you think you are, ordering us around? We only take orders from princess Celes…"

"I don't care who you take orders from, if you want this killer to be caught then you will take this body to a doctor and get me the information that I need!"

There was a moment of silence where all the ponies in the area who were all staring at Mr. Carnage; even Rainbow Dash herself couldn't look away. The guards suddenly picked up the body as carefully as they could and carried it off, presumably to a hospital, Dash finally found the right words to say.

"Wow, I'm impressed; you totally told those guards"

Carnage turned to her, "Why thank you, Miss Dash, but this is not the time, I still need to interview Lyra and Cheerilee privately."

Carnage walked over to the two ponies and said "Listen, I know the two of you have had a rough night and it's late, but I need both of your accounts on how you found the bodies, so I will need to interview you both privately."

Cheerilee asked, "But where, though? It's late and our houses aren't safe enough with this killer running about."

Carnage knew that she had a good point. Where could he interview them in a safe location at this time of night? His attention was drawn to Rainbow Dash walking up to him, it appeared she just had a conversation with two ponies, both had odd manes, a white pony with a purple mane and a pink pony with a pink mane, he also noted that the white pony had fainted and the pink one was trying to revive her,

She probably fainted when Dash told her that there had been a murder, he thought.

Dash trotted up to him and said "If you need a place to interview them, you could use Twilights house."

This caught his interest, "Would she mind at all?"

"Probably not, if you tell her the reason you need to use it. It's also a library, so there will definitely be a nice quiet place to talk to them, and she is really good with magic so she can keep the place protected while the three of you talk."

"Well that sounds good to me; can you two meet us there in a minute when you're ready?"

The two mares nodded their heads in agreement.

"Excellent. Then we will meet you there."

Carnage was following Rainbow Dash to the library. The walk was silent at first, but halfway into the journey Rainbow Dash finally spoke up.

"I'm sorry."

Dash's cheeks were a light shade of red when she said this; Carnage knew it must have taken her a lot to swallow her pride and say that, but he was confused to exactly why she was apologizing.

"Sorry what exactly?"

"You know, calling you weird earlier, I mean you are weird but your also kinda cool."

Carnage smiled "Well when I got a compliment like that from the best flyer in all of Equestria, I guess I should feel pretty damn honoured."

Dash's cheeks became a little redder but the two of them were stopped at the front door of Twilight Sparkles library.

The question now is what will they learn from the interviewees and will they actually have a suspect to chase, find out next chapter.

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