An Earth Pony, Pegasus, and Unicorn Walk Into Canterlot Castle

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With that out of the way, let’s begin!

An Earth Pony, Pegasus, and Unicorn Walk Into Canterlot Castle

Prologue:

Of Plans and Angry Mares

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A small room comes to life, very low lighting, enough so that one would have to strain to see anything that was going on. Which was, admittedly not very much. A round table could be seen with three chairs positioned around it. And if one were to look REALLY close, one would be able to see that the chairs were occupied by two ponies, not much else could be taken from the image.

"MOTHERBUCKER! Finally!" A voice was heard close to the camera, decidedly male, and with an accent similar to those from North Trottingham. "I thought I wouldn't be able to record this. An' that would've just been awful wouldn't-"

"Get on with it Tapes! It's way past midnight, and I want some sleep. Script, could you get the lights please?" One of the two ponies shrouded in the darkness said, this voice belonged to a mare, and from the tone she was using, it was clear that she was rather exasperated.

"Right away." A third voice chimed in tiredly whilst stifling a yawn, this one still male, though without the accent the other stallion carried.

"Nonono!" The first voice shouted quickly, scrambling towards the opposite end of the room, while a white aura of magic came to life in frame, bathing everything in a light glow. The caster of the magic, as well as the owner of the third voice was a large, light purple unicorn with a white and purple mane. His cutie mark was of a feather quill writing upon an open book, showing his talent to be of a studious nature. The pony across from him was a much smaller earth pony mare, she appeared to have a pale orange coat, a darker orange pattern similar to paint splatters going up her legs. She had a bright teal mane. A look of pure annoyance was plastered onto her face.

Suddenly, the light in the room became far more intense, but before any more details of the room or the pony’s in it could be revealed, a dark blue hoof was the only thing that could be seen. A second later, the camera was turned off.

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The room was bathed in light from a single incandescent bulb hanging from a wire in the ceiling. With this new light came the features of the room and those within. The table was made of an old worn wood, an heirloom passed down from several generations. The chairs appeared just as old, however, they were clearly scrounged from whatever was available. A large oak chair that was supported by four legs, one of which appeared to be makeshift and fashioned from a two-by-four, held the small earth pony mare. With the new light one could more easily make out her teal mane and orange coat, her cutie mark however was still obscured. An old ashen wood chair supported the large frame of the unicorn, his light lilac colored coat and bi-shaded mane matted from having been in bed prior to this meeting. Hi cutie mark visible on his right flank.

“Why’d ya’ gotta go and do that?” The stallion with the accent said, sighing as he put the expensive looking camera down on the table. “There’s a reason why I wanted to record this! Not to mention I just got it working!" The voice belonged to a dark blue pegasus. He had a light blue mane with a stripe of green going through it. His cutie mark was that of two megaphones crossing each other. Before he could say anything else, the mare of the group spoke out.

“There’s also a reason why I don’t kick your sorry flank back to Trottingham.” She said, rubbing her temples softly with a hoof. “You said this was urgent.” The unicorn nodded, a tired expression, complete with dark bags under his eyes. “I would like to get some sleep.”

The blue stallion, for his part, looked offended at the treatment he was getting from his friends. “Of course this is urgent! When ‘ave I EVER said something was urgent enough for you to come over to my place at... What time is it?” “Twelve thirty.” “Twelve thirty? Blimey... Twelve thirty in the morning to discuss something that needs our utmost and total attention, only for it to be not urgent at all!?” He paused, the other two ponies glanced at each other with a familiar look of mild annoyance splayed across their features. “Recently, at least!”, the Pegasus said, trying to bring the other two around, in vain.

The other two looked incredulous at the blue stallions rant. With a sigh, the heavily freckled earth pony mare stood up, revealing her cutie mark was a light bulb with a paint splatter behind it.

“Sorry Tapes, I need my sleep. I’m out.” She began walking to the door, only for the blue pegasus, now identified as Tapes, to open his wings, blocking her exit.

“I’m not jokin’ around this time!” He said. “There really is something I need to talk to you about.”

The mare stared into the much taller stallion, looking for any reason why she shouldn't just push her way through him. She must have found something in his endearing expression or serious tone of voice because she soon let out a sigh, heading back to her seat with heavy hoof steps.

“Alright .” Tapes said, walking to the table and taking a seat at the empty chair. He smiled and pulled a rather large looking scroll from a pile on a nearby counter. Opening it with a flourish, he presented it to his companions, only for the unicorn to look at it with a confused expression.

“What in Luna’s name is this?” He asked.

"This, Script my friend, is how we’re going to remove Celestia from the throne. Reign in the control Luna has on the courts, and bring Princess Twilight to rightful power.” He smiled and looked at his companions. They both wore looks of complete disbelief on their features, mouths hanging agape as they stared at him.

“So... how do you like it?”

Jovial crossed his forelegs and brought his right hoof to his chin in thought. “What about Princess Cadence?” He asked.

“Ah. Well. I quite like ‘er, to be honest. She seems nice to me... Anyways, all we’ll need to do is get past the Solar Guard, the Night Watch, AND the Love Legion before we can even hope to bring the Tyrant down. But before we can even begin to execute this, we'll need to get into the castle proper. To do this, I suggest we sneak in using the Canterlot caves. Y’know. The ones that Princess Cadence was trapped in during the changeling invasion a few years ago? And in order to do this we’ll need a distraction, and I’m thinking-”

“Are you serious?” The orange mare asked, cutting off the enthusiastic pegasus.

“Well...” He began. “Of course, this is just a BASIC plan, an’ it’ll be fleshed out in better detail... But, yeah...” Tapes brought his hoof to his lips, in a thinking pose. “And I was thinking that ya’ would make a fantastic distraction for any guard... Inky... Ink Blot? Are you okay?”

The mare in questions eye had taken to twitching during his speech. Violently. She allowed herself to take a sharp inhale of breath before yelling at the top of her lungs.

“BUCK YOU, ROLLING TAPE! YOU FAUST DAMNED PSYCHOPATH!"

Needless to say, the rest of the neighborhood was woken up as a result of the diminutive mare shouting, and then proceeding to try to beat the pegasus stallion into last Thursday. The pegasus quickly dashed for the window and jumped to safety, hovering just outside.