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Starlight Over Detrot: A Noir Tale

by Chessie
In the decaying metropolis of Detrot, 60 years and one war after Luna's return, Detective Hard Boiled and friends must solve the mystery behind a unicorn's death in a film noir-inspired tale of ponies, hard cider, conspiracy, and murder.
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Monster attacks. Crime. Illegal hallucinogens made from electric fruit.

They say things didn't use to be like this. They say things were different, before Luna came back 60 years ago, but Detective Hard "Hardy" Boiled of the Detrot Police Department has never known any world other than that demarcated by the seedy streets of his beloved decaying metropolis; a world in which the coroners sing and dance, surveillance bugs have personality disorders, and the Chief of Police is a scarier entity than most of the eldritch things the city attracts.

The grey unicorn who turned up dead outside the posh High Step Hotel seemed like just another case, but her missing horn is the pointy tip of a very large and nasty iceberg. It's up to Hardy and his friends - a rejected monster hunter, a psychic cab driver, and an underground antiques heir - to find out what’s going on in an investigation that promises to stick more than a cupcake into the very eye of Detrot.

Especially if Hardy has anything to say about it.

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Additional editing by coandco Sig_Awesome, Hinds, Clint, and Raccoon!
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Cover art by MisterMech (http://mistermech.deviantart.com/)
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Young Adult
Complete
Adventure
Dark
Mystery

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158 Chapters:

  1. Chapter 1: Welcome To Detrot [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  2. Chapter 2: Your Princess is in Another Castle [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  3. Chapter 3: Griffin the Third Degree [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
    10,540
  4. Chapter 4: Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer, Do [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
    9,760
  5. Chapter 5: The Best Little Whorehouse in Equestria [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  6. Chapter 6: Happiness is a Warm Gun [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  7. Chapter 7: Guesses, Gripes and Grease [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  8. Chapter 8: Morgue Party [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
    10,169
  9. Chapter 9: Not That Kind of Shipping [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  10. Chapter 10: The Spy Who Wubbed Me [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
    10,950
  11. Chapter 11: Ponies Will Pay You to be InhuMane [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
    10,641
  12. Chapter 12: Gentlecolts, You Can't Fight in Here! This is the War Room! [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  13. Chapter 13: Mental Mind Buck Can Be Nice [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  14. Chapter 14: It's a Black Bag Affair [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  15. Chapter 15: Home Is Where The Heart Is [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  16. Chapter 16: But Why Will You Say That I Am Mad? [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  17. Chapter 17: Meet the Gang [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  18. Chapter 18: School Dance [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  19. Chapter 19: The Cruel Tutelage of High Spirits [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  20. Chapter 20: Rolling in the Aisles [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  21. Chapter 21: Can You Tell Me How to Get... [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  22. Chapter 22: So We Come To It [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  23. Act 2, Chapter 1: Wake Up, Detective [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  24. Act 2, Chapter 2: Hush Now, Quiet Now [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  25. Act 2, Chapter 3: Can You Say 'Aaaah?' [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  26. Act 2, Chapter 4: Tell Me, Exactly How Could Things Be Worse? [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  27. Act 2, Chapter 5: Home, Home on the Mange [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  28. Act 2, Chapter 6: All Quiet in the Library [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  29. Act 2, Chapter 7: Executor of the Estate [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  30. Act 2, Chapter 8: If Only You Had Been There [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  31. Act 2, Chapter 9: It's Not Suicide if it Works [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  32. Act 2, Chapter 10: Police Do Too Have Balls [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  33. Act 2, Chapter 11: On With the Show [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  34. Act 2, Chapter 12: Sneaky Sneaky Sneaky [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  35. Act 2, Chapter 13: We're All Ears [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  36. Act 2, Chapter 14: Champion of Right, Swoops out of the Shadows... [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  37. Act 2, Chapter 15: Right to Remain Silent [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  38. Act 2, Chapter 16: Devil's Deal [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  39. Act 2, Chapter 17: Hunka Hunka Burning Love [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  40. Act 2, Chapter 18: Next of Kin [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  41. Act 2, Chapter 19: The Diary of Ruby Blue [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  42. Act 2, Chapter 20: Scary Questions, Scary Answers [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  43. Act 2, Chapter 21: The Big House [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  44. Act 2, Chapter 22: Heartburn [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  45. Act 2, Chapter 23: Flowers that Bloom in Dark Places [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  46. Act 2, Chapter 24: Blood and Family [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  47. Act 2, Chapter 25: Unearthed Facets [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  48. Act 2, Chapter 26: Daddy [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  49. Act 2, Chapter 27: Sweet Shine, My Only Sweet Shine [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  50. Act 2, Chapter 28: Dog Day Afternoon [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  51. Act 2, Chapter 29: Shadows With Teeth [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  52. Act 2, Chapter 30: A Machine for Ponies [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  53. Act 2, Chapter 31: Foal's Play [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  54. Act 2, Chapter 32: For The Good Of All Of Us, Except The Ones Who Are Dead [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  55. Act 2, Chapter 33: "We never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality." [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  56. Act 2, Chapter 34: Temple of Lost Souls [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  57. Act 2, Chapter 35: Up in Holy Smoke [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  58. Act 2, Chapter 36: In The Dark Of The Night [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  59. Act 2, Chapter 37: Benefits Package [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  60. Act 2, Chapter 38: New Boss in Town [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  61. Act 2, Chapter 39: Bringing Up the Rear [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  62. Act 2, Chapter 40: Could be Worse, Could be Raining [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  63. Act 2, Chapter 41: Alcoholism for Fun and Profit [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  64. Act 2, Chapter 42: Steps of Grief [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  65. Act 2, Chapter 43: The Screaming Tells You It's Working [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  66. Act 2, Chapter 44: Crazy Talk [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  67. Act 2, Chapter 45: Going Trench Coat [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  68. Act 2, Chapter 46: I'm Drunk, and Don't Call Me Shirley [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  69. Act 2, Chapter 47: Unauthorized Psychiatric Experimentation Test #1 [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  70. Act 2, Chapter 48: Shotgun Diplomacy [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  71. Act 2, Chapter 49:Doom Doom Doomie Doom Da Doom [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  72. Act 2, Chapter 50: Ring Around the Rosie [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  73. Act 2 Chapter 51: Hanging By A Thread [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  74. Act 2 Chapter 52: Rain, Rain, Go Away [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  75. Act 2 Chapter 53: Ride Into Darkness [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  76. Act 3 Chapter 1: When It All Goes Wrong [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  77. Act 3 Chapter 2: Best Laid Plans Of Stallions And Hamsters [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  78. Act 3 Chapter 3 : A Scientist Should Be The Happiest of Stallions [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  79. Act 3 Chapter 4: Lets Get Ready To Rumble! [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  80. Act 3 Chapter 5: Is Fame To Blame? [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
    9,384
  81. Act 3 Chapter 6 : Two Griffins, One Stone [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  82. Act 3 Chapter 7 : Truth And Justice [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  83. Act 3 Chapter 8 : Weathervane of Doom [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  84. Act 3 Chapter 9: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  85. Act 3 Chapter 10 : This Is How We Run Away [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  86. Act 3 Chapter 11 : Sentient Hyper-Optimized Tourniquet Amusement Network [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  87. Act 3 Chapter 12 : She's Got A Ticket To Ride And She Don't Care [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  88. Act 3 Chapter 13 : Life On Rails [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  89. Act 3 Chapter 14 : A Long Awaited Party [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  90. Act 3 Chapter 15 : Your Princess Is In This Castle [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  91. Act 3 Chapter 16 : Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  92. Act 3 Chapter 17 : In Her Majesty's Equine Service [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  93. Act 3 Chapter 18 : Let's Break It Down [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  94. Act 3 Chapter 19 : Dying To Live [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  95. Act 3 Chapter 20 : They Are Rage, Brutal, Without Mercy, But You Will Be Worse [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  96. Act 3 Chapter 21 : Guess What I Did Today! [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  97. Act 3 Chapter 22 : Detrot Confidential [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  98. Act 3 Chapter 23 : Sit By The Fire And I'll Tell You A Yarn [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  99. Act 3 Chapter 24 : I Love My Computer, You Make Me Feel Alright [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  100. Act 3 Chapter 25 : There's No Need To Fear! [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  101. Act 3 Chapter 26 : Take A Note Please [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  102. Act 3 Chapter 27 : Stormy Weather [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  103. Act 3 Chapter 28 : All's Well As Long As No One's Been Shot [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  104. Act 3 Chapter 29: The Chains of Leadership [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  105. Act 3 Chapter 30 : The Siege [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  106. Act 3 Chapter 31 : The Hangover Won't Kill You, But You'll Wish It Had [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  107. Act 3 Chapter 32 : A Road Trip With Iris Jade [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  108. Act 3 Chapter 33: In The Dead Hours Of The Morning [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  109. Act 3 Chapter 34: Those Are Brave Ponies Knocking At Our Door [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  110. Act 3 Chapter 35: Let's Go Kill Them [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  111. Act 3 Chapter 36 : Dirt On Our Hooves [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  112. Act 3 Chapter 37: Lay It Out For Me Again [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  113. Act 3 Chapter 38 : Instructions Unclear, Detective Caught In Meatgrinder [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  114. Act 3 Chapter 39: Or, How I Learned To Love The Cliffhanger [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  115. Act 3 Chapter 40: 404 Mind Not Found [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  116. Act 3 Chapter 41: Nightmares All The Way Down [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  117. Act 3 Chapter 42: Beer [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  118. Act 3 Chapter 43: Bang, Bang, He Shot Me Down [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  119. Act 3 Chapter 44: See Hardy Run. Run, Hardy, Run! [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  120. Act 3 Chapter 45 : What part of 'Secret' do you not understand? [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  121. Act 3 Chapter 46 : Battlestations! [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  122. Act 3 Chapter 47: The Reasons We Kill [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  123. Act 3 Chapter 48 : Death At Work [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  124. Act 3 Chapter 49: I'm Going To Need You To Come In On Sunday [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  125. Act 3 Chapter 50: Work Is A Real Nightmare [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  126. Act 3 Chapter 51 : Running About With Our Tails On Fire [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  127. Act 3 Chapter 52 : The Dead Working [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  128. Act 3 Chapter 53 : An Excellent Weapon [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  129. Act 3 Chapter 54 : A Moment In The Sun [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  130. Act 3 Chapter 55 : Ride Home, Gentle Son [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  131. Act 3 Chapter 56 : In The Garden, The Snake [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  132. Act 3 Chapter 57 : Sleeping With Monsters [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  133. Act 3 Chapter 58 : Ships Passing In The Night [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  134. Act 3 Chapter 59 : Home Again [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  135. Act 3 Chapter 60 : Death Takes A Coffee Break [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  136. Act 3 Chapter 61: A Grand Trick [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  137. Act 3 Chapter 62 : Live, From The Fortress Everfree [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  138. Act 3 Chapter 63: Detrot Rises [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  139. Act 3 Chapter 64 : At The Gates [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  140. Act 3 Chapter 65 : Below The Murder Hole [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  141. Act 3 Chapter 66 : Open Sesame [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  142. Act 3 Chapter 67 : The Charge [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  143. Act 3 Chapter 68 : Leadership Crisis [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  144. Act 3 Chapter 69: Dog Fight [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  145. Act 3 Chapter 70: Rain of Blood [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  146. Act 3 Chapter 71 : Taxi's Day [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  147. Act 3 Chapter 72 : Taxi's Ride [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  148. Act 3 Chapter 73: Taxi's Battle [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  149. Act 3 Chapter 74 : Taxi's Death [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  150. Act 3 Chapter 75 : Anger Issues [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  151. Act 3 Chapter 76 : Last Orders [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  152. Act 3 Chapter 77 : Last Battle [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  153. Act 3 Chapter 78 : Last Night [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  154. Act 3 Chapter 79 : Last Dream [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  155. Act 3 Chapter 80 : Last Rites [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  156. Starlight Over Detrot Epilogue Part 1 : Rescue Mission [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  157. Starlight Over Detrot Epilogue Part 2 : The Hard Part [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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  158. Starlight Over Detrot Epilogue Part 3 : The Sun Rises [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 26th, 2012
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Published Jun 26th, 2012
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