Igneous Rock Pie had recognized Sunset Shimmer as she came out of the police station with three other girls and a large confused looking boy and approached her. "Miss Shimmer, may I have words with thee?"

Pausing, Sunset turned to the former Amish man who had never judged her, even at her worse. She never found out what had made him lose his faith, but she knew he was a hard but fair man. "Yes Mr. Pie?"

"I wish to inquire of thee knowledge of whom mine wayward daughter did attempt to do harm towards?" Igneous asked. "So that I might implore onto them and their better nature to remove their charges so I might deal out punishment in mine own way instead. I ask not for mine Pinkamena, but for mine Marble whom thy know has been with illness since birth. Despite the vileness that this Anon-a-miss has visited upon us all, mine Pinkamena buries the pain deep inside for her and still strives to gladden her sister's weak heart and bring what few fleeting moments of joyfulment to her between her painful treatments."

Sunset had been about to answer him when Sonata bellowed at the large red skinned, black haired and bearded lawyer coming out of the police station. "HEY TIREK, BACK INSIDE, YOU'RE STILL ON THE CLOCK!!!" Before running over and dragging the much put upon lawyer back inside.

"I believe that should answer your question Mr. Pie." Adagio said as Sunset groaned and face palmed for the umpteenth time since this whole mess started. Igneous had been about to say something when it was like every cop in the police station poured out and scrambled towards their squad cars and tore out of there as if something major had happened.

Gunther cursed his old damn fool heart, but she didn't deserve all of this. Yes, she turned her back on them and betrayed her own blood, but what Gabby and Glenda planned was far worse. Once again looking at the pictures of his smiling grand daughters from when they were younger, Gabriella, Gilda, Glenda, Giselle, Genevieve, and the oldest Gretchen, the last founding member of the Griffonstone Killers wondered were it all went wrong. Gabby and Glenda were psychopaths and the thought of a nation wide Killers under their control scared him worse than the bad end they were headed towards. Giselle had O.D. on some bad crap out of Russia. Genevieve had just left and was now a star in Hollywood and expecting her first baby. Then there was Dr. Gretchen Griffon at Canterlot Medical and the life she had made would all come crashing down when Gabby and Glenda started.

If he just done things differently, but that was the thing about if, once you started thinking about them they never stopped. If he hadn't gone to jail for 38 years, but been in his kids and grand kids lives then things would have been different. If he hadn't started the Griffonstone Killers with his brothers they might have moved away from Griffonstone and lived happier lives. If he had arrived sooner... he could have just packed up Gilda and left, never looking back.

Sitting there, he looked over at Johnny slumped in his chair, a half a bottle of coke in his hand as he slept off what Gunther had slipped him. The kid was way to trusting, but a few years in jail would knock that and all the other bullshit out of him. Then he got up and bolted the door as he heard the first strings of an old familiar song begin to play and sat down next to his grand daughter. Holding her hand with one hand and picking back up Johnny's cell phone with the other and dialing Canterlot Medicals number with the other and asking for Dr. Gretchen Griffon. Gilda needed more than an old gang banger who had picked up a thing or two working in the prison hospital. She needed better, and ignoring the sounds of gun fire and the pounding on the door, he was getting her the best.

"We interrupt your regularly schedule programming to take you live to a developing story near the Rich Industrial Parkway and our action news reporter Windy Whistles to get you more details. Windy?" The reporter in a suit asked.

"Thank you, Anchor Chair." Windy Whistles said as she ducked down behind a dumpster as bullets went over head. "As you can see and hear, a shoot out broke out between the Griffonstone Killers Gang and the Canterlot Police Department when they responded to a call claiming that a teenage girl was being held in a warehouse by members of the Diamond Dawg Boys Gang. What had started out as a patrol responding to investigate has become a building by building battle in and around some old warehouses drawing in CPD, S.W.A.T, the Sheriffs Department, State Police, and Federal Marshals against both the Griffonstone Killers and the Diamond Dawg Boys. Bow, get down before you get shot."

The picture suddenly went black and a man said, "I'm okay, but, eh, they shot the camera."

The boy sat flipping between different security camera feeds, dash cam feeds, and body camera feeds as his creation in the attic recorded everything. In his headphones he could hear from different cell phones what was happening and the panic as Rover, Fido, Spot, Gabby, and Glenda tried to figure out how to escape as the rapidly closing net was punctuated by gun fire and shouts from the police to drop weapons and place hands on heads got ever closer. At one point Fido was wrestled to the ground by a female sheriff's deputy while Spot was being tasered by a federal marshal. In the end the back of Rover's head exploded from a snipers bullet and Gabby and Glenda laid down on the floor with their hands on top of their heads as several S.W.A.T. team members held them at gun point and shouted what to do.

For the first time ever he realized he was going to need to scale up what he had a lot sooner than he planned because he could see how this type of thing would sell like crazy.

"Honey, could you come help me change this light bulb in the pantry please?" A woman asked from the other side of the door.

He started to make an excuse, but his stomach grumbled and the chips were in the pantry, "I'll be right down Mom."

"Oh thank goodness, I can't find the angel hair pasta for supper without it." She said as the boy got up to go help her.

Northern Spy pulled up in front of the farm house at Sweet Apple Acres and seeing Granny waiting for them with Big Mac, Applejack, and several other cousins including Fiddlesticks. As soon as they stopped Fiddlesticks opened the passenger door and said, "Kon'nichiwa Fuji, watashi wa anata no itoko Fiddlesticksdesu. Watashi no otōto wa osoroshī kotode wa nakatta koto o negatte imasu."

Fuji got out of the car and whispered into her cell phone that then said, "Hello cousin Fiddlesticks, he is a psychopath, but I would be dead without him."

"Well if that don't beat all." Granny Smith said from the porch. "Will wonders never cease. Now y'all go in with Applejack here while we deal with that varmit of a grandchild of mine." Granny then laughed as Fuji's phone said, "Mā, soreha subete o uchi makasu koto wa arimasen. Fushigi wa kesshite tomaranaidarou ka? Ima watashitachiha, watashi no mago no kurushimi ni torikunde iru uchi ni, appurujakku to koko ni hairimasu."

As Applejack lead Fuji into the house Northern Spy unlocked the trunk of the caddy as Big Mac and the others step up to help him. "Watch out, even with both her hands and feet zip tied and her mouth duct taped she is still a fighter." Opening the trunk he quickly ducked as she threw the tire iron at him. "Damn, forgot about the tire iron, but I guess it took her awhile to get her hands free." Apple Munchies glared at him with her mouth still duct taped and her feet still zip tied as Big Mac and the others grabbed her and dragged her out of the trunk and into the house.

As soon as they were gone he walked up to Granny as she eyed him before asking, "How much trouble was it get'n her?"

"Do you really want to know or would you rather sleep at night knowing they won't come looking for her?" He asked.

"I reckon a little less sleep ain't going to hurt me North." Granny Smith finally said.

"I tried, I really did try Granny, but some people will not see reason." Northern Spy told her. "44 in the bar and another 6 outside of her apartment building" Sitting down on the snowy steps, he looked out over the farm and said, "I'm just tired of it all. Of cleaning up other peoples mess, of dealing with people who use up other people as if they are nothing until they use the wrong person, but mostly I'm tired of just doing this. As soon as Mutsu and Fuji are together again I'm quitting."

"If you feel it's time then I reckon it's time, but what're you going to do then?" Granny Smith asked as she looked at the one grand child she never could quit understand.

"I kept my teaching license up to date and I'm sure one of the schools could use a math or history teacher, not that I really need it, I have plenty of money, but it would be something to do." He said as he got up and dusted off his pants.

"Well CHS just suddenly had a few openings and I reckon Celestia would give you a chance given everything going on there right now." She said.

"Then I'll have to call her." He said before asking, "Just out of curiosity why did you need Apple Munchies?"

"Because both of your wayward youths have come back to haunt the two of you." Granny Smith said as they started towards the door. "She knows about it and wants to know who she really is and just saying she's an Apple isn't going to cut it."

Gunther walked out of the warehouse next to the gurney that carried Gilda as the cops loaded Gabby and Glenda into a squad car screaming how he was dead. He ignored all of the looks he was getting from what remained of the Griffonstone Killers and the Diamond Dawgs as they were waiting to be taken away. He ignored the cops and EMT's as they ran back and forth dealing with the mess. He even ignored the press yelling out questions from the police line. He only paused once when just before getting in the ambulance he shrugged off his Griffonstone Killers jacket and dropped it into a dumpster next to a broken camera and a man with short rainbow hair with an older camera who took a photo of him as he did it. Bow Hothoof would not know it until later, but the picture of the old grizzled gang member caught at the very moment he dropped the jacket and the red claw marks captured just right, with the same camera that had caught his daughter's first steps, would become his most famous photo of his career 'The End of an Era'.

Gunther sat in the ambulance as it raced towards the hospital, holding Gilda's hand and just as they arrived he felt her give his hand a weak squeeze back. Then she was there, so much like his mother, tall, proud, unstoppable. Dr. Gretchen Griffon rarely graced the E.R., but today the youngest head surgeon ever strode through it on the other side of the gurney like an ancient war goddess ready to battle Death itself as she rattled off questions to the EMT's. Her eyes only catching his once and then both of them were gone as he was stopped at the door to the operating room and lead to a waiting room were he sat and just waited.

Several hours later, after stopping all of the slow leaking internal injuries, Gretchen finally left surgery to tell the man who claimed to be her grand father that her cousin Gilda would survive. She found him in a chair in the waiting room sleeping while holding hers and her cousins photos and the same picture of her Grandma Gina had showed her once when she asked about her Grandfather. It was of her and a young man dancing together and now that she looked she could see the young man in Gunther. Finally she sat down beside him and woke him up and after telling him about Gilda she got to know her grandfather.

Author's Notes:

Thrus ends the Gilda sub plot. She would spend time recovering in the hospital before moving in with Gretchen and having Gunther help her recover further. She also transfered to Whitetail Woods High School. Most of the Griffonstone Killers and Diamond Dawgs went to jail, but Gabby and Glenda were deemed criminally insane and have been sent to Tartarus Maximum Security Mental Institution.

I had always planned to end Gilda's sub plot this way. I'm sorry if you felt she needed worse or jail time, but reality is this was never really her arc in the story but Gabby's and Gunther's arc.

Also the Northern Spy sub plot is what I meant when I said one secret will hit way to close to Anon-a-miss. I hate the whole Applejack/Big Mac incest ideal for Apple Bloom and decided to make her the result of two cousins having a little fun in the hay together. As for the teacher part, many of the smarter actors, singers, artists, and writers keep a back up career just in case things ever go wrong with fame and they lose their fortune and teaching is one that several are known to have due to it's relatively easy with keeping the license current and to remain up to date in it.

Yes, Sonata dropped all the charges. Why? Not for them, but for their families.

Also place your bets on who you think our mystery boy is.