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// Premiere: 
// Story: Dissident Corruption 
// by masterchef227 
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	Dissident Corruption "How long does it take for one to lie? Easy, all it takes is one phrase, four words. "I didn't do it." Yet how long does it take for one to tell the truth? A whole investigation and a lot of guilt." Croix Calvert,


Another week had gone by, and Saturday loomed in the distance. And yet was he going to do anything he normally did? Was he going to hang out with friends, talk to people, go visit Ponyville to get a cake at Sugarcube Corner? No, he wouldn't... His sister had just passed away leaving him and his parents. She committed suicide by jumping off one of Canterlot Castle's towers, and they had witnesses that testified of her placing all four of her hooves on the ledge, and jumping off. She was the happiest person in the world, she had friends, family, a future. They lied, they were lying. This wasn't true, yet he could hear his parents arguing and hoofs trotting hard on the floor just below his room.
The CCPD came to the door, their faces solemn. One mare and another colt, the mare was the one to tell his mother about the discovery of what happened to their previously missing child. He didn't hear the news until he heard his parents sobs. Sadness overwhelmed him and so he ran up too where he currently is. His mother couldn't take it and neither could his father. Even the police ponies were crying, and trying to comfort them downstairs. But they have long since left, and they were yelling in vicious agony.
They were screaming at each other again, and he was hiding in his room. Her name was Dustwind Epitaph, and now she was nothing but a memory. No, she wasn't dead, she couldn't be. He reassured himself that she would walk in through the doors any moment now, that she would comfort him and apologize for what she had done too him. Come climb into bed with him and tomorrow everything would be back to normal. The screaming subsided as he instead heard deep mourning coming from both his parents. He turned in the sheets towards the door, hoping that his elder sister would come in through the door. That his parents had started crying with joy because of the return of his sister, but he found that this wouldn't be true.
He thought of bargaining for her back, maybe a plea with death? He would beg Celestia or Luna to help him get his sister back, even they said it wasn't possible he knew they would be lying. Everyone was lying, everyone was telling him that his sister willingly took her own life, but why? Why would she do this? But she wouldn't, it wasn't her. Duskwind wasn't the kind to give up so easily, maybe she wouldn't give up on him. She wouldn't willingly step on the edge of one of Canterlot Castle's towers, and jump off into the grounds below which would have almost meant certain death. She must just be pranking us, maybe if he called for her she would come. But he knew, that she wouldn't, no matter how badly he wanted it to be so.
He buried his head inside his pillow with tears streaming down his eyes, he sobbed. The decor around the room of, "The Wonderbolts", the old action figurines of the princesses and the Elements of harmony was now locked away in the chest. A model of Canterlot Castle which he had built all by himself had been covered up. He was incredibly sad, and now he wanted nothing more then his sister in his arms when only yesterday he had swore at her and told her to leave, and never come back. It was his fault... all his fault that his sister was gone.
Why was he so mean to her, why didn't he show compassion for her? Why did he instead even let her go to visit Canterlot in the middle of the night. She was gone for a whole day after that, and only now did he hear of her fate. Fate was cruel, unforgiving, fate was heartless. Fate is the reason for his sister's demise, not him. He doesn't even remember what they argued about he just wanted all this talk of his dead sister to stop. He got up real quick, and turned towards his replica. He pulled off the cover and found the tower where his sister had jumped off, as the CCPD described it. He took a swipe with his hoof and it broke. It wasn't loud enough to attract the attention of his parents, but loud enough to satisfy his hatred for fate. Then he remembered about that stupid argument they had.
The tears turned hot in a white hot rage. He screamed into his pillow bargaining with death to take him instead. He looked towards the window and saw the full moon's ivory rays penetrate the glass veil. He thought he heard death calling to him, saying that in exchange for his life, death would return his sister safe and sound. He made no thought, no noise, no sound even though tears still swept across his blackened face. He remembered what he wanted more then anything, and now he could get it back. He walked across the carpeted floor and opened the window. He stepped onto the roof, and in relief he thought of how happy his sister would be to see her parents again only at the cost of his life. He climbed up the roof, towards the top of the slanted bricks. Once he reached the top, he peered over. He took no thought where he was, and he looked down below towards the concrete sidewalks and asphalt streets. He closed his eyes and let go of the world behind him, he fell down towards his fate. And as he well knew, fate was cruel.
He awoke with a start, now in his mind racing. He had had nightmares and dreams like that before, but never so intensely. His birthday was today, so he pulled off the sheets and set his hooves onto the cold carpeted floor, like had done so many years ago when he lost his sister.


Episode one premieres December 21st, 2012