"Well... better get started I guess. Yeah, nice going genius." I took Fang downstairs to check around the door.

"AHHH! A wolf!" Apple yelled.

"No no! Calm down! This is my pet! His name is Fang. He doesn't hurt... good ponies. Just don't attack me, and you should be fine..." He eyed Fang warily.

"Uhh... if you say so hero..."

"Dammit, I'm not a hero! Just shut up and bathe in the glory."

"The mean guy is right! Isn't it a good thing to be a hero?" I blinked a few times.

"What did he say?" Apple gave me a confused look.

"You can't hear him? He told you to enjoy the glory!"

"In those exact words?"

"... Well, no... He was a bit more rude about it..." I nodded.

"Sounds like him. Well, I'm off! I'll be back with your granddaughter... soon hopefully. Which way did they go when they left?" He poked his head outside the back door. The back door lead to a three-way alley that formed a big 'T'.

"They ran down this path." He pointed down the trail to the left. I nodded.

"Thank you. I'll be back." I ran down the alley, Fang close behind.

"Good luck!" Apple called after me.

"Thanks! Don't need it! Ok Fang, see if you can pick up the scent while we go ok?" He nodded at me again and started sniffing as he ran. We soon reached the end of the alley. It led out into a street, both sides were lined with buildings, all in disrepair. "Ok Fang... left or right?" He sniffed in each direction, then looked at me and shrugged. "Right, still a wolf. Uhh... eenie meenie miney RIGHT!" I took off to my right down the road. I took care to duck behind cover as I went. I definitely didn't want attention right now. Fang took care to sniff at all the houses as we passed them. Soon, the road ended at a little cul-de-sac. "Ok... check for the scent boy." Fang quickly jogged around all the houses, sniffing at all the doors. He rounded the buildings and came back to me. He shook his head no. "Well dang, wrong way. Well, let's try the other direction." Fang nodded and we took off again. We took the other side of the road this time, that way Fang could sniff at the houses on the other side of the road. We followed it for quite a while, until we reached an alley on our right. It was either take the alley, or continue down the road. "If I was a criminal, which I'm the closest thing we got, I'd take the alley. Don't want an innocent bystander to see me..." Fang nodded at me and dashed down the alley. I took off after him. "Hey! What did I say about running off?!" He didn't seem to hear me and he just kept going. The alley led to another street, but this one was lined by houses on one side and it led to a gigantic factory looking building. The building had patterns of pipes lacing around it and vents all over it, just like a human factory. Fang sniffed a few more times then he looked at me and wagged his tail. "You have the scent boy?" He nodded and pointed at the factory with a forepaw. "They in there? Figures those geniuses would hide in a building only three blocks away from the crime. We're either dealing with masterminds, or idiots. Well, that took way less time then I thought it would! Let's go get 'em boy!" He wagged his tail in agreement. We charged towards the factory boldly, not bothering to hide any more. The factory had a barbed wire fence around it, but the gate was wide open. Fang and I ran inside. The pipes we passed on our way to the main building were rusty and unused, and no steam came from the factory. It was abandoned. We were soon at the main building, and I could hear crying from the inside. "Strawberry!" I exclaimed quietly. I pressed my back against the wall of the building and started edging along the side of the factory. I crept in the direction of the crying, and soon I found an open door where the noise was evidently coming from. "Well, they leave all the doors unlocked and don't gag the baby. We're dealing with idiots." The door opened into the factory, so I was able to stick my head around the corner and peer inside.

"Ugh! How do we shut it up?!" There were a total of three ponies in a small office-like room. One was a red earth pony stallion, the one I had gotten the fur from. He was sitting in a chair behind a big wooden desk. In front of him, laying on the desk was a wailing baby with a red mane and a yellow coat. She had a strawberry hairband. Sitting nearest to the door was a dark green earth pony mare with an olive colored mane. She was the one talking.

"Strawberry... Good, she's alive..." I mumbled to myself. I had already thought so, but to be honest the crying could've been anypony. I had only hoped it was Strawberry.

"I don't know! Why don't we just get rid of it?!" The red one asked.

"You mean give it back?" The green one asked.

"No ya fool! I mean kill it!"

"But we promised those ponies that we'd leave her alive iffn' they didn't call the guards on us!"

"Do I look like I care? It's not like we can just go and hand her back! Then they'd call the guards on us fer sure!"

"Well I know this ain't worth the money we got for it. The boss is gonna be awful sore when he sees how little money we got..."

"Well let's just kill the baby then go steal somethin' else!"

"Fine. It don't sit too right with me killin' a babe though..."

"Just get over it ya big baby! We done worse before!"

"Well how we gonna do it?"

"Easy, you just lift your hoof like so..." The red one raised his hoof above Strawberry's head.

"Like fuckin' hell I'm gonna let you do that!" I charged in and rammed the green one so hard that she flew into the nearest wall and collapsed to the ground in a heap. Unconscious or dead, I didn't really care at this point. I turned to dispatch the red one, but he had grabbed Strawberry and was holding her in a choke hold. "Oh, yeah..."

"Yeah! Make another move an' the foal dies hero!" I gave him a small smile.

"Fine, I won't make another move." His gaze turned wary.

"Good... now, no funny buisness or OH MY CELESTIA!" Fang had crept up behind him and slammed himself into the chair. The red pony was so startled that he flung his forelegs out, throwing Strawberry. She flew off to my right, and I jumped and caught her before she hit a wall. Then Fang crept around to the front of the chair and jumped on the red pony directly, growling in his face. I heard a small sound of liquid hitting concrete.

"Did you just piss yourself!? Ha! That's fuckin' hilarious! Oh my gosh, did you just pee? Grow a pair man!" His only response was a fearful whimper. "Fang, go to town. Just don't kill him." Fang yipped in response and started tearing into the red pony. His screams might have effected me more if I wasn't so pissed at him. "Ok Fang, that's enough." Fang pulled away from the pony and jumped out of the chair. The pony was covered in scratches and bite marks, and his fur was matted down where blood covered it. He was still screaming. I walked over, Strawberry safely secured in my left arm, and back-handed him with my right hand. Which gave him another gash across his right cheek. He shut up instantly.

"Please! Don't kill me! I'll be a good pony from now on! I swear!" He begged.

"Don't beg for your life! It's not gonna work! I don't care what you promise! You were going to kill this innocent baby! Get used to gay sex prison bars, because that's what your gonna spend the rest of your life staring at bub!" After that I gave him a hard right cross, knocking him out. I pulled out my phone and called Luna.

"Greetings again Sharky! Doth thou... where did thou procure that foal?"

"Hey Luna... I just busted up a couple of foalnappers. Mind sending a few guards to drag them off to prison?"

"Sharky! Thou hath done what?! That is the job of Royal Guards, not Lunar Knights!"

"The criminals threatened to kill this baby if the Royal Guards got involved. I was asked to help by a desperate mare. I had to do it Luna. It doesn't matter anyway, I've got the baby, and the bad guys are unconscious... One might be dead..." I went over and checked the green one. She was still breathing. "Nevermind, she's fine. Can you just send a few guards?"

"... Sharky... Good job we... I suppose... We... I will send a few guards to thine location immediately."

"Good. Thanks Luna. I'm gonna go deliver this foal... then try and find Rarity..."

"Thou left Rarity alone in Canterlot?!"

"No, I left her in a crowd of screaming fans! Anyway, the baby was more important at the time. Now that she's fine, Rarity is top priority again. Anyway, I've got to go now. It's getting really late, and I want to spend at least a little time with Rarity before I gotta take her home."

"Very well, fare thee well Sharky!"

"Bye Luna." I hung up. Strawberry had stopped crying in my arms. She was staring up at me, tears still fresh in her eyes. Then I noticed the smell. "Whoa! I guess it was too much for them to change a dang diaper huh?" She choked out a small sob. "Well, let's get you home to mama, huh?" I jogged out of the factory, Fang by my side. I walked down the road for a grand total of 30 seconds before somepony saw me.

"Look! It's the hero!"

"Oh dammit. Run Fang!" I increased my pace to a sprint and searched desperately for my escape alley. Then I was grabbed by a silver aura and lifted slightly off the ground. "Oh... well that's just not fair."

"Hero! Hero! Why do you have a foal?!" A blue unicorn with a silvery mane ran up to me. Again, it was a mare.

"Saved her from some foalnappers, now would you mind putting me down so I can return her?" She flinched and dropped the aura.

"Oh, my bad. Wait, you saved another pony?! You are so--" I ran away as she spoke. There was already a crowd growing behind her to chase me, but she stopped it and appeared to be telling them what happened. I ran back down the alley I had come from and into the next street. Then the crowd from the other street poured into the alley as well.

"Oh geez. I really don't need this!" The crowd made no move to surround or catch up to me though, they merely followed me. They were chanting.

"Heeero! Heeero! Heeero!" I sighed.

"This is what you get for helpin'. I'd just let em' suffer." As I ran down the next street, more ponies poured out of the houses and joined the crowd. I groaned and continued down the next street until I found the next alley. I walked past it and walked around to the front of the Cake King. I pushed open the door. "Hey Blueberry! Look who I got!" She had been sitting in a booth next to the door, twiddling her hooves and looking nervous. As soon as I called out, she looked up quickly and squealed.

"You found her! Oh thank you thank you thank you!" She ran at me and I lowered Strawberry so she could grab her. She gingerly picked her up with her forehooves. She stood up on her back legs and hugged Strawberry tightly to her chest. Strawberry smiled and laid her head against her mother contentedly. I smiled. This was what my job was all about, making sure families didn't lose each other. I silently backed out of the building, right into the roaring crowd. I turned to them and held out my arms as if I was about to speak. The crowd quieted down for a moment.

"Great cakes in there." I said simply, gesturing to the Cake King. The crowd cheered and some of them rushed into the building. The rest just kept chanting 'hero'. I really didn't like the attention, but there really wasn't anything I could do. I decided to go look for Rarity now, the crowd following me as I turned to leave.