"*Inhaling air* Another day, another bits." Dark was trotting happily in Ponyville, going to work. Three fillies was going to pass by her but stopped and screamed away from her. Dark was a little annoyed but shook it off. 3 minutes later, she finally made it to the research facility. When she went in, Dark became shocked and terrified. Two mares was pushing a portable hospital bed. On top of the bed is a earth mare that has cuts, lots of bite marks and blood. Lots of blood. She moan in pain and agony. They passed by Dark and left the building.
"What happened?" Dark asked to a stallion.
"The filly... She attacked her." He said, terrified also. Suddenly a loud sound echoed. The stallion and Dark glanced to see where the sound was coming from. It was the filly. The filly was being held down by two stallions. She was trying to budge out and it succeed by one. Dark saw a death glare from the filly. The filly bit a stallion that was still holding her on the ear and used her free hoof to attack him.
"AHHH! GET HER OFF ME!" The stallion pleaded. Dark saw lucky coming close to the filly. He was holding something from his mouth. He took it out from his mouth and held it with his hoof. He stabbed the filly with the item that he was holding from the flank. The filly neighed and stopped attacking the stallion. She turned around and glared at lucky. Lucky moved back. The filly moved up and snarled.
"STOP!" Dark yelled. Lucky and the filly glanced at Dark. Dark was close to the two of them. The filly growled and moved back. She then felt dizzy. She looked around to find an exit. She found it and was going for it but she stumbled and fell to the floor. She looked at the exit and soon, she went to sleep.
"Lucky. What's going on?" Dark asked.
"This filly escape the cell, because a mare opened the cell door!" She got attacked and it was horrible. We then have her roaming around and she tried attacking us." Lucky explained.
"Why did she open the cell door?"
"She was going to feed her. She opened the cell door instead of using the slot."
"Well that's odd."
"How so?"
"There's gotta be a reason why she opened the cell door instead of the slot."
"Well good thinking you got there. I wasn't expecting that. We will go to her and talk about it later. Right now, we have cleaning to do."
Dark looked around the walls and floors to see that there are blood smudges in certain places.
"I'll get the mop." Dark told Lucky.
"But I want the mop." Lucky whined. Lucky noticed that Dark has already left. "Forget it."
After 10 intrusive minutes, Dark finished her cleaning and went in the room where the filly was. She walked towards the front of the cell. The filly was already awoken from her slumber. The filly looked at me with sad eyes. The filly looked different. Her mane and tail is shorter and a little smooth, her coat is shiny except the blood stained that she was attacking the ponies earlier, her teeth is clean and she look like a regular filly. When Dark thought about a regular filly, her mind click.
"What if I teach her? That could change her, if she wants too." Dark thought.
"But before I start, I should gain her trust to me." Dark continued her thoughts. Dark sat down and dug in her saddle bag. She took out a ball. The filly tilted her head and looked at the ball curiously. Dark bounced the ball and rolled it. She stopped and rolled the ball to the filly. The filly stood there, still looking at the ball. The ball stopped in front of her. She moved her right forehoof to push the ball and it rolled. Dark could see the filly becoming interested.
"I knew pinkie pie's ball emergency will come in hoofy (handy)." Dark looked at the filly interacting the ball. The filly picked the ball up and dropped it. The ball bounced. Dark was amazed to see the filly grinning.
Dark cleared her throat. The filly looked up at Dark. Dark pointed her hoof at the ball. Then she pointed at herself. The filly knows what she trying to tell her something but the filly don't understand. Dark did the pointing again. The filly thought. The ball and her. The filly saw Dark doing a move to roll the ball. The filly tried to do the move that Dark was doing. The ball rolled. Dark nodded happily.
"Come on. You got it." Dark happily said. The filly rolled the ball towards dark.
"You having fun Dark?" A male voice said. The filly became scared and saw the stallion. Dark looked at the stallion. "Lucky?" The filly hissed, turned around and buck the ball. The ball went up in the air and went straight towards Dark's face like a bullet. Dark winced and moved back after the ball squeaked between the bars and got stuck. The ball didn't hit her. The filly went to the corner of the cell and hid herself in the shadows.
"Damn Lucky, why you here? I was in the middle of something." Dark exclaimed.
"Well I came here to check on her. It looks like she doing bad, am I correct?" Lucky said.
"No, she's doing fine. You just scared her."
"Well what were you doing before I got here?"
"I was teaching her how to interact with objects. Like this ball that almost killed me."
Lucky chuckled. "That was unexpected."
"Yeah." Dark looked at the filly with concern. "I hope they won't do anything to you bad." Dark thought.
"Dark. I think this is a good time to go and find out why the mare opened the cell door."
"Oh yeah. Let's... go." Dark said while she was struggling to get the ball unstuck. The ball got unstuck and she putted in her bag. Dark got up and started to walked out of the room. She looked over her shoulder and saw the filly sitting down and looking at Dark with sad eyes. The door closed behind Dark. Soon, they left the building and they went ahead to the hospital.
15 minutes later...
*Door opening* Dark and Lucky went inside of the hospital and walked to the desk. "Hello. What can I do for you." A mare said. "Hi, I'm here to check a mare name Puddle Shine." Lucky said.
The mare grabbed the clipboard and flipped the pages. She stopped. "Puddle Shine is available. She is at room 2H in the 2nd floor." The mare said.
"Thanks." Lucky said. He trotted to the stairway. Dark followed.
The two searched the room 2H in the 2nd floor. Lucky found it. "This is it." Lucky said.
"Well let's go." Dark said. Dark hit Lucky's cutie mark area which caused Lucky to jump in front of the door. Lucky glared at her for doing that. Dark grinned. Lucky opened the door and saw a light blue mare that has some bandages on her right hindleg, lots of them on her body area, and some on her forelegs.
"Hello miss Shine, how are you feeling?" Lucky said.
"Oh... hi. I'm feeling horrible right now. The pain never stops. And who are you?" Puddle shyly said.
"Hi I'm Dark, Lucky's assistant." Dark softly said.
"Yes. Anyway, we're here to ask you some questions." Lucky sat down on the floor on his haunches next to puddle. "We were wondering why the filly escaped her cell. Is it because you accidentally opened the cell door?" Lucky asked.
"No I didn't. It wasn't me." Puddle said.
"Well who did?"
"I don't know. I was making a bowl of salad for the filly. Then... I heard something dropped. I... I turned around and saw the filly jumped at me."
"Hm, interesting."
"She's lying." Dark said.
"Lying? I'm not lying." Puddle nervously said.
"Dark, why would you say that?" Lucky asked.
"Because I could tell she's lying." Dark looked at her closely, eyeing on her.
"Dark, you can't tell that she's lying unless we have proof." Lucky explained.
Dark puted pressure on puddle's cut from her right foreleg. "Ah, stop!" Puddle pleaded. She could move, it just that her cuts and bite marks causes lots pain when she is moving.
"Dark stop." Lucky said.
"Tell us the truth." Dark contorted her cut.
"Ah! I already told you. I didn't do it." Puddle clenched her teeth because of pain.
"Dark stop hurting her. This is not an interrogation room, this is a hospital for crying out loud." Lucky said.
Puddle couldn't take it no more of the pain. "Okay, okay. I tell you the truth, just stop." Puddle pleaded again. Dark stopped twisting her cut.
"I-I didn't opened the door but I unlocked it because the stallion said that he was coming back to get the tranquilizer and clean the cell. I heard something fell. So I turned around and saw the filly out of her cage. She then attacked me. I think she took out the lock and got out." Puddle explained.
"But why didn't you tell the truth in the first place." Lucky said.
"I thought I will get in trouble by this. I didn't want to lose this job. This job is the only one that I can get enough bits to take care of my son." Puddle explained.
Dark thought for a moment. "She said a stallion that told her to unlock the cell door. *Gasp* That stallion. The one I told him what's happening." Dark thought.
"Puddle, you won't lose your job by this and I'm very sorry about Dark. She's just like hurting ponies." Lucky told puddle. Dark started to walk out of the room.
"I guess we gotta go. Get well." Lucky left the room and started to catch up with Dark.
"Dark, what the hay was that about? You hurt puddle like she committed a crime." Lucky said, mad.
"I was just trying to make her tell the truth. How I tell she was lying? She had to think of something before she speak and I saw her eyes moved frequently fast when she was talking." Dark explained.
"How do you know all this?"
"My dad used to be a detective. He told me how he know about ponies that are lying."
"Wow. But still, you hurt her and we were here to discuss about the incident and tell the boss about this. Not to interrogate her like she killed somepony."
"I was a little harsh on her... Okay, I'll apologize to her."
"Thank you."
"When she comes back to work." Dark sped her walk into a trot. Lucky got irritated.
...
The filly that is in the cell was banging the cell bars and shaking it, wanting to get out.
"Hello little filly, having fun making noise?" A stallion said, evilly. The filly growled at him.
"No? Well do you like water?" The stallion smiled evilly, holding a water hose from his right foreankle. He cringed the water hose tight so he won't lose it and opened the water pump.
*Pshhhh* Water came out of the water hose fast and the water hit directly to the filly's face.
The filly winced and whined in pain but she was just gurgling. She fell from the cold water but got back up. Her vision was blurry, making her bump into the cell walls. She lifted both of her forelegs to her face to block the water from coming to her face. The stallion closed the water pump and the water slowly started to descend from the water hose. Then it came to a full stop.
"You're clean now pathetic filly." The stallion threw the water hose away from him and walked out of the room.
The filly coughed the water out. Her coat was soaked and her mane and tail was soaked, putting weight on it that puts it down. Her body quivered violently due to the cold water.