Applejack ran as fast as she could, swiftly dodging every tree in her way. She had been running for a while now, her white shirt was drenched in sweat, but no matter how fast she ran, he was always there; behind trees, between bushes, on top of boulders, she just couldn't lose him. She tried to avoid him by hiding in a deep cave, but her escape came to an end - a dead end. There were only to exits now: the one she came from and the hole on the cailing of the cave, several feet above her. The cave was pitch black, except for the one spot illuminated by the moonlight coming from the hole above her.

The clack of hoofsteps against solid rock were a guarantee that she wasn't alone in there. He finally revealing himself by stepping into the light, and Applejack was finally able to take a good look of him: his tall, slender body, his suit as dark as that cave, his pale, furless body, and his face - or, in fact, the lack of one. On his flanks there was a mark, a crossed circle, but it looked more like it was carved there than a Cutie Mark that appeared there normally.

Dark tendrils started to stretch from his back, reaching for the mare. She closed her eyes and shouted:

"NOW!"

Above them, right outside the hole in the ceiling, was a pegasus mare wearing an unbuttoned dark magenta suit with a white shirt similar to Applejack's underneath it. She was holding a stake with both hooves - the sleeves of the suit rolled back, allowing her to have a better grip -, which was holding a chain in place which, in turn, was keeping a large cage without a bottom hovering above the hole.

"Took you long enough!" Rainbow Dash said as she pulled the stake, releasing the chain and letting the cage fall, right on top of the faceless stallion, trapping him inside. He tried touching one of the bars, but the electricity coursing through it shocked him, making him pull his hoof back. She flew down right after that and landed beside Applejack. "Alright, we did it!" she said as they shared a hoofbump.

But it wasn't over yet. The pony's black tentacles wrapped themselves around the bars, completely ignoring the hundreds of thousands of volts coursing through his body, and began to easily bend them, slowly creating an exit for him.

"Uh, Twi?" Applejack called. "Ah think it's yer turn now."

From the same entrance Applejack and the now trapped pony emerged, now entered a third pony, Twilight Sparkle, wearing the same suit Rainbow Dash was wearing, only without the rolled back sleeves and buttoned all the way up to her neck. She was levitating a spell book in front of her face and carefully reading every single rune.

"Chop chop, egghead!" Rainbow Dash said. "He'll get away if you keep your muzzle buried in that book!"

"Don't worry, I got this!" Twilight said as she removed a blank page from the book, then proceeded to draw symbols on it. She drew the last symbol at the same time the slender pony bent on the bars an opening large enough for him to go through.

"TWILIGHT!" Applejack and Rainbow Dash shouted at the same time.

The moment the albino pony took his first step outside the cage, Twilight touched his blank face with the slip of paper. It began to stretch until it was completely wrapped around its head. The runes glowed red and the tall pony ceased to move completely.

"There." the unicorn said. "Tame as a kitten!"

"Are you sure?" the pegasus asked as she poked the pony's head, but obtaining no reaction whatsoever.

"That's fancy magics for y'all." the earh pony said with a chuckle.

"Slendermane of the Everfree Forest..." Twilight said. "You're under arrest!"

Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Twilight and the tame Slendermane were waiting by the entrance of the Everfree Forest. Princess Celestia was already raising the sun in the horizon when the ponies they were expecting appeared.

Four pegasi landed not too far from there, two of them pulling a carriage and the other two pulling a cage. From the carriage, emerged a fifth pony, this one a cyan unicorn, wearing the same suit as Twilight.

"Not bad, you three." she complimented them. "You have improved quite a lot since your first mission!"

"Thanks, Trixie!" Twilight said as they watched the four pegasi carrying the white pony to the cage-carriage. "But I guess it's because we're getting used to the job, really."

Trixie levitated a quill and a clipboard from her saddlebags. "Slendermane..." she crossed the empty box next to his name on the list. "...check! And this was the last report of supernatural creature sighting we received. Congratulations, fillies! Our job is officially done!"

"Vacations, here I come!" Rainbow Dash said while pumping her hoof in the air.

"The applebuckin' season is jus' 'round the corner." Applejack said. "Big Mac an' Apple Bloom might need an extra pair of hind legs!"

"Well, there are some books in the HQ library thay I would like to check." Twilight said while rubbing her chin.

But while they were celebrating the start of their time-out, a small cloud of magic smoke appeared in front of Trixie and, with a flash, turned itself into a scroll. She used her magic to unroll it and began to read.

"Uh-oh..." she said.

"I don't like the sound of 'uh-oh's." Rainbow Dash said.

"I'm sorry, but I think our vacations will have to be postponed."

Rainbow Dash groaned. "What is it this time?"

"According to Chief Harshwhinny, a Giant Radscorpion appeared in Canterlot from seemingly out of nowhere."

"A Giant Radscorpion?" Twilight gasped. "That thing's venom is ten times more poisionous than a Manticore's!"

"That is why Chief Harshwhinny is giving the Yellow Code. All personnel must go immediately!"

"Then what the hay are we doin', standin' here an' goofin' off?" Applejack asked, stomping her hoof on the ground. "Let's move out!"

Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Trixie nodded and the four mares sprinted toward the carriage.

I suppose you might be feeling a little lost, not knowing what we're doing or why we're doing, but believe me, being part of the L.R.E. Organization is not only a great honor, but a big responsibility. Oh, you don't know what that is? Well, let me give you the quick explanation: "L.R.E." means "Locate, Restrain or Exterminate". Basically, our job is to fight monsters threatening our peaceful life in the magical land of Equestria. Well, I guess I could give you the long explanation, but no one likes exposition, right? Don't worry, though. You'll understand soon enough!

Author's Notes:

Whoa, it feels so good to finally make this a thing! The story was here on FiMFiction for WEEKS, but only now I decided to write something. Mostly because TM:E's epilogue is approaching and I'm running out of ideas for it but, at the same time, L.R.E. is just starting, and my brain is filled to the brim with ideas! So, now that I think about it, I suppose I just wrote this to relieve some of the pressure in my head. If you're a reader of TM:E, don't worry. Now that L.R.E. is officially alive, I think I can get back to working on it now.
>inb4 L.R.E. is a parody of S.C.P.