Batmane sat on top of a building in the freezing rain, watching the Canterlot Prison known as, Steelhoof. It housed most criminals, including Obsidian- the pony that crashed the Charity Event. Batmane saw that he was alone in his cell, now was the time to interrogate him. Batmane had a lot of different gadgets in his arsenal besides his horn and physique. He had bat shaped boomarangs, smoke bombs, a grapple, and a glider he brought out when he needed to cruise the skies of Canterlot. It meshed in with the black skies so he wasn't worried about being spotted. He used that and landed on top of the prison and made his way to Obsidian.

Obsidian was bouncing a ball off the walls of the prison. He was bored, and the room wasn't well lit. He was about to go to sleep when he heard a growl. He turned around to see what delivered it only to find a hoof grabbing him and slamming his head against a wall. He was then lifted by his throat by the figure in front of him- Batmane.

“You've got some questions to answer.” Batmane said with his deep voice. Obsidian felt fear towards this pony- no, this monster. He thought the prisons were safe, but Batmane clearly didn't care about the law getting in the way of his own justice. “Now am I going to have to break anything more than your face?” Obsidian gulped.

“What do you want to know?” he asked.

“Who hired you to hit the party?” No criminal was stupid enough to attack the Princess's party and expect to get away. Obsidian winced at Batmane.

“If I told you, she'd kill me.” Obsidian said with his voice cracking.

“Who? If you don't tell me-” Batmane came face to face with Obsidian, “I'll make you wish you were dead.” Obsidian's eyes widened.

“It was a pony going by the name “Red Mare”. She hired my gang to distract you.” Obsidian was singing a tune Batmane liked. “She's hitting up all these industrial places- chemicals and stuff you know?” Batmane loosened his grip and let Obsidian down. “I-I think she's going to hit up the 'Spade Chemical Building'. She's crazy- just insane.” Batmane saw Obsidian's eyes and knew he was telling the truth.

“I believe you.” Obsidian looked up to Batmane who started to walk away.

“You know, I am sorry for what I did. I haven't been able to feed my family a good meal for a while and when this offer came up-” Obisdian was interrupted by a dart that came from Batmane, he was knocked out cold. Batmane left the cell and went off to inform a friend of his of his new information.

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Twilight was in her office looking over the evidence from the attempted robbery. No signs of robbery of this scale on their records, no signs of actual murder, Twilight concluded that these ponies were extremely desperate.

“But were they threatened? Why would they-?”

“They were paid off Lt. Sparkle.” Twilight was interrupted by a dark figure- the Batmane.

“What are you doing here?!” She screamed. She reached for her gun, which Batmane effectively smacked away.

“I'm here to help you with the case.” Batmane took out a map and laid it down on Twilight's desk. “According to some thugs I've roughed up, many different targets under the name 'Spade Chemicals' have been robbed for the last few days.” Twilight nodded.

“We've had reports of robberies taking place, but we've been distracted by bigger cases. Mainly the attempted robbery of Princess Luna's charity event. But from what you're are saying, that was a distraction.” Batmane took out a list.

“From what I have gathered, the robbers have taken large amounts of money from the safes within the building, as well as gallons of an unknown chemical. Nopony has been able to discern what they've been working on.” Twilight frowned, ever since Celestia died, everypony has been allowed to do what they want in terms of business. Plans for limitations are being planned, but it's moving slowly.

“So who's the head horse behind all of this?” Batmane pulled out a photograph. It had a picture of a light red pony with a big dome shaped red helmet.

“She calls herself, 'Red Mane', she's been buying off all the thugs to commit crimes. And she's going to strike again, tonight.” Just then, an alarm blared throughout the station. The door started to open. Batmane hid within the shadows. A police pony entered the room.

“Ma'am! We've got to get down the Canterlot Bank! It's being robbed!” The police pony left the room and galloped down to the police carts. Twilight cringed at her dilemma and looked towards Batmane.

“It's a hoax and you know it.” Batmane made his way to the window. “Get some ponies you trust and go for the Spade Chemical Building. I'll be there cleaning up some slime.” Batmane jumped out of the window and disappeared. Twilight thought about the repercussions of disobeying orders, but decided it was time to do something that mattered.

“Spike!” She called to her assistant. “Get our squad together, we're going to Spade Chemical Building.”
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“Maybe this will make them see. Maybe this will make the ponies happy again.” The pony in the red costume thought. She looked to her hired thugs, gleefully taking the money from this soulless company and wheeling the barrels of chemicals out. They didn't know what she planned to do with them, but they didn't ask her, nopony did. She informed them of the consequences if they did. “Alright!” she said aloud, “We're getting out of here, get the last barrel and-” She was interrupted when the lights in the building went out. Her thugs gasped.

“What the hell is going on?” one asked.

“Calm down, it's a power-” this one didn't get a chance to finish. He disappeared into the darkness.

“Yo Icicles, where'd you-” the next pony grunted when he was bucked in the face by a dark hoof. Red Mare saw this and ran off.

She found herself on a catwalk on top of tubs of the chemical she was trying to liberate. She looked behind her to see her pursuer- Batmane.

“You big mean jerk- why are you stopping me now!” Red Mare pulled out a scalpel and threw it towards Batmane, he dodged it and lunged towards her. He threw a punch, but she dodged it.

“Damn, she knows how to fight.” Batmane thought to himself. Batmane was caught off guard by a punch from Red Mare. Not a hard punch, but it did it's damage. While the two fought on, Twilight and her squad entered the building and found the two unconscious ponies Batmane had knocked out.

“Looks like he was right Spike. Go through the rest of the building and see what you can find!” Twilight ordered. And with that she went off on her own. She then heard the sounds of grunts coming from a rather large room. She galloped to find Batmane fighting the Red Mare.

Batmane needed to end the fight now, and he knew the best way to defeat a pony like Red Mare, was to knock her mask off. Like him, if some pony is wearing a mask, they have something to hide. He ducked, turned around and bucked Red Mane's mask off. Twilight's eyes widened as she was surprised to learn the identity of the mare behind the mask.

“Pinkie . . .” The once happy friend of Twilight, the murderer of her friend Rainbow Dash, was revealed to her again. So many years of searching and waiting, culminating to this moment. “Pinkie!” Twilight screamed at the top of her lungs, but it appeared that Pinkie didn't hear Twilight.

“You big dumb meany pants! You've ruined the surprise!” Batmane said nothing, he pulled out some hoof cuffs and moved toward Pinkie. She started to back up. “No! You're not going to take me!” she screamed. The two heard a rattling sound. Pinkie looked down to see the metal bridge she was on was giving way. She tried to move but that only caused it to break down. Batmane rushed to Pinkie to try and save her, but it was too late, with a splash, she was down in the vat of chemicals.

“NOO! PINKIE!” Twilight screamed. But it was for nothing, she ran up as fast as she could to Batmane's side, who was trying to fish her out. “She's- she's gone.” Twilight said getting teary eyed. “I wanted to help her- why did she-” Batmane interrupted her and said,

“She's gone from the vat, I'd recommend sending police ponies to search around wherever this vat empties out.” Twilight looked to Batmane who was on his way out. “I just received a report about a gang war breaking out, it must be stopped.” He must have a Smart Papyrus or something like it, Twilight thought. With that, Batmane disappeared again, leaving Twilight alone, with memories that would best be forgotten.

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Meanwhile, on the edge of a lake near the Spade Chemical Building, was a pony that was throwing up contaminated water. She thought about what had transpired all of those years on the run. She had seen the big joke life was, the big dark joke life was. She had heard the tales of sadistic murderers and criminals that would ruin the lives of ponies around them. She had to figure out why, so she took her friend and killed her to see what it was like- nothing special- she figured she'd have to kill more to get that buzz. It slowly dawned on her that these murders did feel good, it felt like she was granting ponies the happiness Princess Celestia must have felt- a relief from responsibility and to go to a place where ponies could play peacefully. She thought she was doing everypony a favor, but instead she was hunted down and made out to be a villain.

That's why she created the Red Mare disguise, so she could remain unhindered. She looked down at her hooves, the hooves she used to kill so many ponies with, but something was different, they were white. Her whole coat was white now. She went to the lake to look at herself. It was a completely different pony altogether. “Hahaha” she started to laugh. Everything was different about her, she looked rather funny in her opinion. “Hahahahaha” Her mane was green, her eyes were red, and her lips had a light tinge of red on them too. “HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” She screamed her laughs out. This wasn't Pinkie Pie anymore, this monster was something different. “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” The screaming continued into the night, and in the water, laid a playing card- a joker.