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With the number one suspect identified all is left is to find him, how hard can that be?

Chapter 5: The game is a Whoove

He looked over the picture of his prey, Doctor Whooves, for all Mr. Carnage knew this Colt was the killer.

Carnage had woken up early despite getting to sleep vey late the previous night, he was staying at the house of his new beautiful (even thought he had trouble admitting it) acquaintance, he had previously mused over the idea that Rainbow Dash could turn out to be his femme fatale and noted that her whereabouts had not been proven last night so she was still on the suspect list however today he had one particular target and that was Doctor Whooves who as he suspected wasn't even a real doctor.

This Pony made him curious, although he would have no need for her hoof he was still the strongest suspect and the most likely to have killed her after Lyra was cleared of the crime in Mr. Carnage's eyes, he knew Lyra was not the killer because Cheerilee had said she arrived at the crime scene just after she did and when he interviewed her he just knew she wasn't the pony he was looking for, it was funny as he had become a sort of human (now pony) lie detector.

Although he had still not received an autopsy report he had learned about the elements of harmony which had been previously brought up by Rainbow Dash, they seemed to represent the virtues of friendship however they were now inside six ponies and one of these ponies was Rainbow Dash who represents the element of loyalty.

He allowed his thoughts to drift off the subject of the murder case for a moment and reflect on how his story began, he breathed a heavy sigh and began to talk to himself, "I had to accept that deal didn't I, I mean did I really have a choice, I was going to die if…"

He was interrupted from his ramblings by a familiar voice coming from the other room "Hey! If your awake come in here I've made breakfast."

Carnage felt the urge of food too resisting and it took him away from his reminiscing, he trotted into the other room to see a table with two plates of food on either side of them, Rainbow Dash greeted him "Morning."

"Morning."

Rainbow Dash turned to sit down but Mr. Carnage let his natural gentlemen instincts take over and ran to her seat and pulled it out for her, Rainbow Dash was a bit perplexed by this but did not fight the kind gesture "um…thanks."

Carnage then turned his attention to the food and what he saw at the breakfast table made him smile, waffles, it was something familiar to eat even though he did enjoy his daffodil sandwich it was nice to digest something he was used to, he eagerly sat down at the table and wasted no time in digging into the food given to him, he was always partial to the full English or a sausage bagel but the ponies here shared one trait from the ponies in his reality and that they were both vegetarians and he knew it was best not to ask for any meat as this might be seen as monstrous.

He realised that he was practically shoving his face into his food rather than eating like a normal pony, Rainbow Dash was looking at him with a cocked eyebrow, "You really like waffles don't you?"

He regained his composure and smiled a warm smile, "I apologise for my rude behaviour Miss Dash, let us change the subject shall we?"

"OK, I actually have a question for you, how long are you staying?"

Carnage stopped eating, there was a sudden tension in the room that Carnage wanted to get rid of quick, "Well I suppose it depends on how long you will let me stay, ideally I would like to stay till the murder case is solved."

"That's fine, I've lived on my own for quite some time now so I suppose it's nice to have someone to talk to."

A slight blush creped on to Rainbow's face and she tried to conceal the best she could, Carnage thought small talk might help ease any further tension between them, "So did you sleep well last night."

Rainbow couldn't hide the smile that spread on her lips, "Yeah I guess you could say that."

Carnage noted that she was twiddling her waffles with a fork, he realised that she was probably reminiscing about a dream that she had the previous night, "So did you have a good dream last night."

Rainbow looked up at him wide eyed in shock, Carnage looked into her purple eyes and was surprised how well they complemented her hair, Rainbow became more erratic "Uh yeah I did actually."

"What was it about?"

"Oh…it was nothing, it certainly wasn't about you…I mean why would you think that of course it wasn't about you, I mean I don't need to answer your questions Mr. smarty pants detective!"

Rainbow Dash just seemed to bury her face from Mr. Carnage's sight, Carnage was never good with woman or mares for that matter so he didn't think too much into it, he finished off his waffles and his orange juice and was getting ready to leave, "Alright I would appreciate it if you could drop me off into the town of Ponyville Miss Dash, I must find this Doctor Whooves."

Rainbow jumped up in a flash, "Can I come with you…I mean you know I don't have anything to do today so I might as well kill some time."

Carnage just gave her a smile, "I would love you to accompany me today Miss Dash, would you have any idea where I could find Whooves?"

Rainbow shook her head, "Sorry no clue, I would say we could look for his box but it keeps moving all over the place and I don't know how he does it."

Carnage thought for a moment, either Whooves has no idea he's a suspect and they might bump into him in the middle of town or he knows and has done a runner, there was only one option "We will have to go into town and ask around about his location."

Dash replied filled with enthusiasm "Awesome let's do it."

"Oh and Miss Dash."

"Yeah?"

"When you fly me into town today please this time could you not fly so fast, I would rather not end up as a pancake on the ground."

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It appeared that Rainbow Dash didn't listen to Mr. Carnage as she seemed to go faster than the previous night, she flew the two of them to the edge of town just at the entrance, as soon as Rainbow Dash carefully dropped Mr. Carnage on the ground he leapt to the nearest patch of ground and kissed it, thankful that he was not dead.

Rainbow Dash just shook her head, "Come on don't be such a little filly."

Carnage breathed heavily and started to walk into the town "C'mon Miss Dash, the sooner we find Doctor Whooves the better."

Dash flew up next to him and the two started to walk side by side, "Do you think Lyra might have told him that he's a suspect?"

"I doubt it as I never told her he was a suspect, I suppose she might have guessed but she seemed serious that I catch the killer so I don't think she would have tipped him off."

"Unless they're in cahoots."

"I suppose anything's possible."

They got closer to the centre of the town, the streets were generally alive with Ponies all over the place but the stores were not seeing a lot of business today though, especially the stores that were nearer the crime scene, the general goal of the day was to hope the two of them run into Whooves, Rainbow asked why they didn't just ask other ponies for his location but Carnage explained that he didn't know how far this goes and any pony could warn him for whatever reason.

Carnage listened to many of the conversations going on around him, there was a lot of speculation to what was going on with the murder case, some felt that Lyra must have committed the crime while others thought it might be part of some greater conspiracy possibly linked to something called a 'Changeling', it was all just idle gossip to Mr. Carnage and it was something he just could not stand, "Your annoyed about the gossip aren't you?"

Carnage turned to Rainbow Dash, he was a little shocked that she guessed that "And how did you know that?"

"You tend to give off this brooding demeanour when your annoyed, I experienced it first-hand yesterday remember."

"Oh yeah sorry about tha…wait a second I don't brood!"

"Sure you don't, you keep telling yourself that."

"I don't! When have I ever been broody, never that's when and I take offence to such a comment."

"Oh come on I've known you for barely a day now and whenever your cross or thinking your officially the king of all broody ponies, when you have foals they will be the broody princes and princesses of all of Equestria, also your still really weird."

Carnage had officially enough of this being called weird thing, "Right tell me how am I weird! The only reason your calling me weird is because I'm smarter than you and I can think from all possible angles while you are a narrow minded, headstrong fool and guess what sweet cheeks you're not as good of a flyer as you think you are."

Anger was now the only emotion that could be seen on Rainbow Dash's face, Carnage swore that he could see steam coming off the top off her head, the two of them were now butting heads looking deep into each other's eyes, both were also having trouble staying angry now as both thought the other's eyes were beautiful, "Who you calling headstrong chump! You know what makes you weird, when you were checking out my ass when we first met."

"I wasn't checking out your ass I was looking at your cutie mark and I'm not the one who was having dreams about a stranger last night."

Rainbow blushed a little and backed away slightly defeated, "You…you can't prove that."

"Um…excuse me I'm not interrupting anything am I?"

The two of them were interrupted by a tan pony wearing glasses, she had a grey mane and what appeared to be a scroll for a cutie mark, Rainbow Dash identified her "Hello Mayor Mare."

"Ah so you are the mayor of this town am I correct in saying?"

"Yes you are, sorry to interrupt your little…discussion but I wanted to know if you were the detective who was working this case?"

Carnage turned to Rainbow who was now turning her head away from him, "Yes I am, Rainbow here has been a great help."

Rainbow turned to him with a smile on her face, the mayor asked another question "Have you gotten any closer to catching the killer?"

"I'm afraid I cannot divulge that information mam, it is vital this information remain to only select peop...I mean ponies."

"Oh…well please keep it down, I know couples argue but this is still a public area."

"Yes I'm sorry about that I…wait what?"

Carnage froze for a moment, he didn't realise that his relationship status with Rainbow Dash had been misconstrued in this way, it made sense as the ponies in the town last night discovered Rainbow's sexuality and they must of presumed seeing the two of them together made it look like that they were a couple, he was about to deny it but then an idea came to him.

"Wait so you two are not in a relationship?"

Rainbow Dash went to deny it, "Of course n…"

Carnage put his arm around Rainbow Dash and whispered in her ear "Just go with it" he went to explain to the mayor, "Of course we are, I knew Rainbow Dash before I came to Ponyville, we've been together for about a month now, isn't that right sweetheart."

To Carnage this was the perfect opportunity for a cover story, he wasn't from this world and he couldn't tell anypony how he came here, he couldn't even tell people his real name so with this story it could be the perfect way to enforce his original story of being a detective but only if Rainbow Dash played along.

They looked at each other and he gave her a wink, she decided to play along for now "Yeah that's right, we were just arguing over…um…about the case, I'm also like his personal assistant, isn't that right honey?"

"Yes, is that all Mayor Mare?"

"Oh yes I'm sorry to interrupt the two of you, goodbye."

As the mayor began to walk away Rainbow Dash turned to carnage and spoke, he noted that she didn't seem too upset "Why did you say that?"

"You see Miss Dash if I'm to operate in Ponyville I need to keep any further local suspicion off me like you saw at the night of the crime, it helps to have a cover, and you know I didn't do it so all we do is wait for the murder to be solved and when I leave you tell the other ponies that we simply broke up."

Rainbow dash thought about it and realised that this would probably be for the best it made sense to not want a repeat of what happened that night, especially because the reason he was saved was because she happened to be flying by at the time, "OK I have no problem with that but we can't just go around town telling everypony about this I mean…"

"Do you know how fast news travels in a small town? Just watch."

He pointed to the Mayor who had just talked to a random purple pony who was now talking to a white pony with blue hair and unusual sunglasses, Carnage explained "You see I could faintly make out that the mayor mentioned our relationship and the pony she told is now telling the white mare there."

"Wow news really does travel fast, I've never noticed that before."

Carnage didn't hear what Rainbow Dash had said as his eye caught a building, "Is that Bon-Bon's sweet shop?"

Dash turned to the location that was surprisingly close to them, "Yeah that's it, is that Lyra in the shop?"

Carnage approached the shop window, the shop was decorated with all manner of different sweets, some looked familiar while others not so much but unsurprisingly there was a very large collection of Bon-Bon's, he looked at the door and saw a closed sign and watched as Lyra was just sitting in the shop most likely still feeling guilty about her unintentional factor in Bon-Bon's death, he could see a tear starting to roll down her eye and this made him feel guilty that he could not arrive in time to stop the murder, Rainbow dash walked up beside him, "I'm surprised she's so upset, she even admitted that she didn't love her."

"That doesn't mean she didn't care for her."

Carnage was about to enter the shop and try to find a way to console her when he saw the reflection of a pony behind him and it looked awfully familiar, the reflection was from the shop window and this pony was getting close, it appeared to be a colt with a brown coat and a darker brown mane, his cutie mark was that of a hourglass, the pony was Doctor Whooves.

Carnage turned to face Whooves before he could get to the door, "Well hello there Doctor Whooves, I have a few questions for you if you don't mind."

A look of panic could be seen on his face and before either Carnage or dash could react, Whooves sprinted into the shop, jumped over the desk nearly hitting his supposed lover and headed straight out the back door, Dash and Carnage ran after him in hot pursuit but when they got to the back entrance they lost him for a moment until Carnage spotted him trying to get into his box, "Quickly grab him!"

They rushed him as soon as he unlocked the door to the blue box and they all fell inside…

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The three of them wound up in a bundle on the floor, they got off each other quickly but what Rainbow Dash saw literally blew her little mind, the little box had a very large room inside of it "No! You can't be in here, not in my Tardis!"

It all clicked for Mr. Carnage, his favourite TV show back when he was growing up in London was Doctor who, it was filmed near him on occasion and he was always a fan of David Tennant as he remembered fondly when he got his autograph, this was literally the pony version of the 10th doctor, Rainbow Dash was repeatedly slapping and pinching herself to see if she was awake and she then flew around the Tardis and outside to see if it was some kind of trick, but it was not, "So you do have a little secret Whooves, the question is do you have another?"

Whooves stood up to face Carnage and Carnage wasted no time in the interview, "let's cut to the chase, you're an alien I'm guessing and a lonely one at that, this is the Tardis and it allows you to travel through time and space am I correct in saying?"

Doctor Whooves looked bewildered, "Yes how di…"

"That's not important, now did you kill Bon-Bon?"

Whooves looked down "No."

"Rainbow get in here it's just bigger on the inside that the outside it's nothing to get off to."

Rainbow just stood there at the entrance of the Tardis with her mouth hung down and wide open, "Now how did your relationship with Lyra start."

Doctor Whooves walked over to the couch and began to spin his tale, "One day Lyra became curious to why I hung out with this old thing, she followed me to my home here and when she snuck inside I set my Tardis to an alien planet without realising she was in the Tardis, at first she was shocked but we went on a number of adventures and well…you know you said that I was lonely?"

"Yes."

"You were right, I knew she was in a relationship but I'd been alone for a long time and she kept coming back to the Tardis and then one day she told me she loved me."

"Why did you run?"

"I was afraid someone might take the Tardis or Lyra from me, I don't want to be alone again…I just can't be alone again."

Dash at this point was standing outside but was just within earshot of the conversation, Carnage knew he had to take him in for further questioning and couldn't leave this alone, "Listen I need to take you in for further questioning but listen, I promise you one thing, no one will take your Tardis from you."

Doctor Whooves took one last look around the Tardis and breathed a long heavy sigh, he took his key and gave it to Mr. Carnage, Carnage then led him outside and told Rainbow Dash to get some of the royal guards that were placed in Ponyville.

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10 minutes later…

Doctor Whooves was led off by the royal guards while Carnage locked the door to the Tardis behind him, he made a mental note to not lose the key he was given, Rainbow Dash was flying loops around him because she was excited about the blue box in front of her, "Wow you have to let me borrow the key later I have to check this box out some more, oh and Twilight is never going to believe this we have to tell everypony…"

"No! Dash we are not telling anypony, I made a promise to look after this for him and you will not go blabbering about this to everypony."

"But…"

"No but's, were now going to have to explain to Lyra that we just locked up the only pony who could have given her any comfort during this ordeal…fuck I'm not going to enjoy this."

Dash pouted a little, before Carnage was about to leave but he didn't want to upset her again, "Dash I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you twice today it's just I'm stressed, I'm afraid that the only way I will catch this killer is by letting him kill somepony again, I don't think its Whooves and all the signs point to this being a serial killer."

"Hey don't worry about it, if he strikes again we'll catch him together."

She smiled up at him and he smiled back, "Yeah your right…together partner, c'mon were going to have a pretty upset mare in a minute."

The two of them walked towards Lyra who was looking quite upset at Whooves arrest.

Next chapter, Lunch!

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