No One's P.O.V

Once again, Celia ran into Glitz who was leaving the castle in a hurry.

"Glitz, please, wait up!" To her surprise, he stopped.

"What's wrong now?"

"I truly want to help Abohaty."

"Well, she's gone." Glitz began walking away.

"Wait, what do you mean?"

"She left," he answered vaguely.

"On her own?!"

"Tried to stop her, but I guess I wasn't trying hard enough." Celia ran in front of Glitz.

"We can go look for her!" she suggested.

"Who's we?"

"Our friend group! And you if you'd like to tag along."

"You should be worried about staying home."

"Well, if you don't care about her, you don't have to go, but I'm going!!" Glitz sighed heavily as she ran off out of sight. It wasn't that he didn't care for her, it was just nothing he could do about it. Going off the hunt her down would be just as bad as her leaving. All the rulers have either disappeared or left, and Springfields needed some pony to help keep the kingdom safely up and running. A guard tapped on his shoulder.

"Glitz, I think you should take a look at this." Glitz began to walk side by side with one of the fellow guards back towards the kingdom. "We couldn't find the princess and the high commission is busy so we thought we'd inform you instead."

"I have a feeling it's not good," he murmured.

"Unfortunately, you're right." The stallions walked until they reached the destination point. To Glitz's surprise, it wasn't too far from the castle.

"So, what's over here?" he asked. The guard nudged his head forward, indicating that Glitz should take a look for himself. And that's what he did. Glitz walked forward and looked behind a large bush. Two stallions lie on the ground covered in their blood. Those two stallions were Crimson and Dapper, the guards he and Abohaty were just looking for. "How did this happen?!" The guard shrugged.

"I just found them here today because I had a gut feeling that what I was smelling was a dead pony." Glitz sighed in defeat and looked back at the guard.

"I might have to go back to the entrance and bring Stormy here to investigate this." Glitz started preparing to run. "Stay here and watch the bodies. Stormy will be here soon.

Celia had gone to Bella's home so it would be easier to call over her friends. She knew Springfields was on lockdown, and possibly the other places too, but it wouldn't hurt to try.

Bella was home chilling with her boyfriend Zephyr on the couch when Celia came. While Zephyr was sleeping, the two girls managed to get in contact with everypony to meet up at the entrance of Springfields and how they all should come together. Friends from Ponyvillle will arrive together, as well as friends from Canterlot. And because there was at least one pony in both places who had a horn, it would be easier to teleport instead. Just inside of Springfields because their magic wouldn't be strong enough to get through Flora's vines.

Celia headed for the door when she felt ready to go back outside. But she looked back to see if Bella and Zephyr were going to come. But they stayed seated in the exact spots.

"Aren't you guys coming?"

"Are you crazy? I heard there's going to be a war. We could get killed, Celia!" Those words made the blue colt pop his head right up.

"War?"

"No baby, go back to sleep."

"I want to help!" He squealed. "I've been training for this my entire life, Bell!"

"Come on Bella, We're just looking for Abohaty anyways. She needs us," Celia insisted. Bella looked at her coltfriend once more with worried eyes.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Both Celia and Zephyr nodded their heads, even though Zephyr barely knew what was happening since he had just woken up.

At the Springfields entrance, Flora was still growing vines to cover the entrance. On the other side, Celia could see all of her friends waiting, including Kelsey. She was a little surprised that she decided to show, but not really because Kelsey wouldn't let something as small as her feelings stop her from helping a friend. She felt bad because she knew she wouldn't be able to do the same. She had regretted turning down Abohaty the other day due to her feelings but if only she had gone, she probably would've spent her last memories with a friend she hardly sees. Celia wasn't sure if she'd even see her friend again.

"Um, excuse me, Ms. Flora, can you please let our friends in" A guard stepped in front of Bella.

"Can't you see that she's trying to concentrate?! You ponies should be inside."

"Onyx," said a voice. The guard put down his sword as the princess' royal guard approached him. "It's okay." He looked over at the mare with black mane growing vines. "Let them in, Flora." Flora sighed and stopped her magic. Glitz walked over to her and handed her a snack. "You need a break anyway."

A group of vines slowly shifted out of place to let in the large group of ponies. One by one, everypony hopped through. Gabe volunteered to be the last pony to go." Celia wanted to ask Glitz what made him change his mind, but now that Kelsey was there, she couldn't even bring herself to talk. "Okay so hi," Glitz greeted. "I'm assuming Celia brought you all here unexpectedly, but I suppose that's okay now." Celia gulped and tried to hide her head a little. "I hate to admit it, but I need your help. At least some of you. Everypony cannot go with me. I need some ponies at the castle and some following me. And since there are ten of us all together, we'll split evenly," Glitz explained. "I need four ponies over here." Zephyr was the first to walk beside Glitz. Bella took a huge deep breath, already thinking about the worst things that could happen to him. "Three," Glitz called out. Written Script and Celia walked over at the same time. "Okay, I need one more."

No pony stepped forward.

"Are you guys telling me that Bella and Celia called us all over here to help Abohaty and we all agreed to come, and now everypony wants to be shy?" Grammar pointed out.

"Okay, so why don't you go up there Grammar! Since we're so shy." Kat shouted.

"I don't think it's because we're shy, it's more so because some ponies just make more sense to leave behind. Like me and Gabe," Bookworm commented, looking up from her book.

"Okay I may not be a smart ass like those two, but the only reason I shouldn't go is that I'm...I'M GLITZ'S BROTHER!!" Grammar yelled. He pushed Kelsey over.

"Hey, I don't-"

"Kelsey, you might as well just go, I feel like us ponies here would help do something useful for this kingdom..." Kat said. "Maybe not Grammar but..."

"Shut up!"

"She's right," said Bella. "Plus, you'd probably distract Grammar too much. He's already goofy enough."

"You guys are talking about me like I'm not even here." Grammar pointed at his older brother. "And you, you're just letting them!" Glitz ignored his brother and looked around at the guards.

"I need four of you guys over here," he called. It didn't take them as long to pick who would take the risk. Glitz smiled. "Now that we have a group, the ponies who are staying, your only job is to help the high commission and ponies around the kingdom.

Flora got up and tapped Glitz to get his attention.

"Which way are you guys heading?"

"Out the back."

"You better hurry before those vines close." Glitz nodded and turned to face the group. It didn't hit him until he saw the guards, so he turned back around and called out Flora's name.

"Where's Stormy?"

"Not sure, she was here and then she left." Glitz took a deep breath, trying not to get upset about something that was out of Flora's control.

"Okay, well when you see Stormy, please tell her she has to report to the back of the kingdom. One of the guards found two dead guards behind a bush. The same guards who were guarding Abohaty's bedroom door yesterday. Flora gasped in shock.

"What happened?!" Glitz shrugged.

"I'm not sure, it looks like the cause of death was them being stabbed multiple times by their swords."

"Holy shit, that's insane."

"Yeah, and I need Stormy to start an investigation on that immediately because what it looks like, is that some pony here isn't telling the full truth. I highly recommend that she brings Gabe and Bookworm to the meeting." Flora nodded and let Glitz go on with what he had to do. Glitz walked over to both Gabe and Bookworm.

"I'm going to assign you two to be a part of the investigation to figure out who murdered two guards. I feel like both of you would be the perfect fit for it."

"You can count on us Glitz," Gabe responded. Glitz walked over to Kat and Bella.

"Both of you will help out Flamora with bringing food and water to ponies' homes because Flamora should be attending the meeting, to be honest."

"That sounds pretty easy," responded Bella. Glitz walked over to his brother.

"And you...you can..." Glitz looked up at the balcony. "You're gonna be the pony to inform one of the high commission if you see something coming. And you'll be on that balcony right there." Glitz pulled out a device and began typing out to members of the high commission who weren't present at the moment. "Cloudy should be returning shortly, so she can show you ponies where to go and I'm sending a message to Stormy right now to get started with this investigation." Glitz looked back at Flora. "All members of the high commission should be there except for you, Flora." She nodded. Glitz faced the rest of the ponies who were supposed to be walking along with him. "You guys ready?" The four ponies nodded and began walking alongside Glitz and the other four guards.

Minutes after the group of ponies took off on their hooves, Stormy showed up along with Cloudy.

"Sorry, I wandered off, Cloudy needed help getting back inside." Flora nodded and paused her magic on the vines.

"Did you get the message Glitz sent out?"

"What message?" Flora sighed heavily.

"They need you to investigate a recent murder that happened with two of the guards, and host a meeting in the meeting room with the rest of the high commission to figure out what's going on."

"What happened to the Princess?" Cloudy asked. Flora shrugged in annoyance.

"Look, I'm just telling you what her royal guard told me. And Cloudy you have to show the Princess' friends around the kingdom. Two of them are supposed to go to the meeting."

"Excuse me?!" Stormy spat. "We're just letting random ponies do whatever now?"

"Stormy I am just telling you what Glitz told me to tell you. He's likely making these decisions because the Princess is no where to be found and Nom Nom is gone."

"They kidnapped Princess Abohaty?!"

"I don't know, just leave me alone!! Can't you see I'm doing something?!" Flora hollered.

"No wonder Abohaty is behind as a princess," Bookworm commented in a low voice. "You'd think she'd be more better than all three princesses combined with four ponies in the high commission and a spell book that comes with a magical guide cat, but no, this is why. These ponies don't even get along with one another. Everypony is angry at one another and I can tell who is and are not friends just from all the reactions. I haven't even been here for thirty minutes yet and I can tell these ponies hate each other."

"But just because they don't get along, doesn't make Abohaty a bad princess..." Grammar chimed in. "I mean, that's just my opinion though."

"Sure, whatever," Bookworm replied. "She's literally supposed to be the princess of happiness and no pony here seems to get along."

"Alright ponies, you all are coming with me except Bookworm and..." Cloudy paused, trying to remember the name. "Uh..."

"Gabe," Gabe said, finally speaking up.

"Yeah! You two go with Stormy. And I'll show the rest of you around the kingdom."

"Why can't we all just walk together and then separate?" Cloudy looked at the gray mare, indicating that she didn't know the answer to that.

"Is the murder scene nearby?" she asked.

"Behind the castle," Flora responded.

When the ponies arrived Bookworm and Gabe inspected the bodies closely unfazed.

"Before we do anything we should probably take a few pictures from different angles," Bookworm suggested.

"Good idea," Gabe said. He looked behind at Stormy. "Do you by any chance have a camera?"

"No?"

"How are you an investigator with no camera?" Bookworm questioned.

"Well technically Crimson was our detective and he just happened to get stabbed multiple times recently. Was pushed behind a bush, and now I am suddenly an investigator replacement today. How fun." Bookworm rolled her eyes and pulled out her own camera. "If you already had one, why'd you ask?"

"It's old." She snapped a few shots of the bodies from different sorts of angles. Both stallions had several stab wounds that was clear where it came from. One sword stuck out of Dapper's neck, and the other was placed on the ground beside Crimson. Both stallions seemed to have been shoved there due two how close the two pushed up against each other. "Do you guys have security cameras?"

"Yeah, we can check them," Stormy replied. "And afterwards it may be a good idea to check Abohaty's room for more clues. This right here doesn't give us anything." Stormy walked away from the scene and Bookworm followed behind. Gabe stayed back to see if he could get something by looking closer. After a few minutes, it hit him. He looked up to see if bookworm and Stormy were in sight, but they had already left. Gabe ran towards the front of castle hoping they didn't go inside yet, because without Stormy, he would likely be pushed back by the guards. Thankfully they were only a few steps away from the door, so he quickly caught up with them. He did not talk about his findings yet, because first he wanted to see what the security camera caught.

The security room was not far from the entrance. No pony was seen inside. You could now hear Stormy's heavy pants.

"Where's Arctic?!" She panicked. "He's supposed to be on duty..." Stormy's worlds trailed off when she looked up at the security camera with the other two. Not one camera showed the castle and its rooms. Every camera displayed Nom Nom and Dusk Shine being held over a large pot of flames. Both dangling from just one single rope. Stormy backed up slowly before running out of the room in panic. Gabe walked up to the controls to see if the screens were allowed to switch. But he swore he tapped every button he saw. Bookworm continued staring at the screens, speechless.

"Wanna try to find the Princess' room?" Gabe spoke. "I think we passed it on the way here." Bookworm nodded and walked out of the room with Gabe. The two ponies walked around the castle until they found Abohaty's room. Bookworm tried to open the door, but it was locked good.

"Dammit," she cursed. Gabe looked on the ground and paces around the door, looking for any signs of struggle.

"A unicorn."

"What?"

"A unicorn had to have killed those guards. There's no sort of evidence over here because unicorns can teleport other ponies. And you can argue that the killer cleaned up after themselves, but look at the security room! How is it possible to show a live video of an event that's happening outside the kingdom."

"Good point. But Abohaty once told me random ponies are not allowed to just teleport into the kingdom. The magic will backfire on them. Only ponies who have access to the kingdom can do that." Gabe looked at Bookworm with seriousness shown on his face.

"Then that means they have a rat walking around these corridors," he said sternly.

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