Through a Mirror, Darkly

"I'll do it, or my name isn't Fluttershy." Fluttershy grinned as she opened the cell block door. Rarity repeated her stunt with the guard, lifting the keys off of her sleeping form before following the yellow pegasus to one of the cells.

As she inserted key into the lock Fluttershy stopped her with a hoof, "Wait." She stretched a wing between the bars, and tickled the pony shaped lump in the bed, "Time to wake up fatass." she softly crooned through the bars.

Instantly the lump bolted upright and hissed at Fluttershy, "I am not fat." The blanket fell away, revealing the pink mare underneath, her mane and coat in a similar state to Fluttershy's, "so Queen Bitch herself came down to say hello, to what do I owe the pleasure?" Fluttershy smiled at the Pink mare, who paused for a moment before smiling back, Rarity couldn't help but feel like the two were sharing some sick joke as she looked at their smiles, "Oh! why didn't you say so? I'm in, get me out of here."

Once again Fluttershy stopped Rarity before levelling her gaze at the pink mare, "Promise me Pinkemena."

The pink mare huffed before nodding, "You take all the fun out of this, you know that ice bitch?" She sighed, "I promise not to double cross you, Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye."

Nodding in satisfaction Fluttershy released Rarity's hoof, allowing her to unlock the door. Once it was open the pink mare bounced out, somehow making no noise as she hopped across the hard floor. Closing the cell once more, Rarity returned the keys to the guard.

"What was that? Boooo-ring, snap her neck!" the pink mare whispered in Rarity's ear making the white mare stiffen in shock, "Oh you are going to be so much fun..." Pinkemena mouthed at Rarity as she walked out the cell block.

"Ignore her, she likes to mess around with your head." Fluttershy whispered as she passed Rarity causing her to once more tense up in surprise, "Although she is right, you are a lot of fun."

Rarity breathed out before exiting the cell block, finding the other two waiting for her in the corridor. "All right Fluttershy, lead on please." Rarity nodded to the pegasus who merely nodded back and proceeded down the corridor, with Pinkemena bouncing at her side.

After a while the silence is broken by the bouncing pink pony, "So where are we going Flutterbitch? The barracks? Crack open some heads before we leave? How are we leaving anyway?" she looked at Rarity.

"I came in through the vents, I was planning on leaving the same way with Fluttershy, but I'm not so sure about that as an escape plan any more now that there are three of us."

At this Fluttershy stopped dead and eyed Rarity coldly, "You're fucking kidding me, how do you expect us to get out then? Why did you even agree to me getting more ponies?"

"Because it didn't seem like you would co-operate if I didn't let you." Rarity smiled weakly, "and the new plan is to release enough prisoners to start a riot and escape in the confusion?"

Fluttershy shook her head, "Okay, at this point I'm probably only going to meet whatever organisation you're part of just to say thanks for the rescue. The fact that you just walked in is ballsy I'll give you that, but the fact that you've only got some fucking half baked excuse for an escape plan is just fucking retarded." She smiled, "Not that it matters though, you've got me on hoof to drag your sorry flank out of the fire you made for yourself."

Pinkemena looked at Fluttershy carefully, "oooh I've seen that smile, I love it when you think like that." she jumped excitedly on the spot, "the results are usually, fun."

Rarity looked between the two, "What are you on about Pinkemena?"

Pinkemena turned to Rarity and raised a hoof at the white mare, "Okay two things, one: only Flutterbitch and my family call me Pinkemena, everypony else calls me Pinkie, if they know what's good for them. Two: Whenever Bitchshy gets that smile," she indicated Fluttershy, who was still smiling while a cruel light danced in her eyes, "it usually means something very painful, and entertaining, is about to happen to somepony, pray it isn't you."

Fluttershy continued leading the group to their destination, her smile still firmly in place. After a short while she called over to Pinkie, "Who do you reckon is on duty tonight?"

Pinkie moved until she was walking side by side with the yellow mare, "No idea, but it's time to give them a few nightmares, right 'shy?"

"You bet Pinks." Fluttershy looked back at Rarity, who was determinedly keeping her distance from the pair, "You may want to hang back at this next corner, dear rescuer. You might not like how we deal with the guards." Rarity raised an eyebrow but complied with her suggestion, wondering how two unarmed mares would deal with two armed guards.

What she heard next would have caused her white fur to go even whiter if it were possible.

"Wait is that? Oh Celestia above it is."

"Hm? Oh sweet feathery Luna, fucking hell."

"Please tell me this is a nightmare, they can't be here!"

"No! Stay back!"

"Please don't!"

"NO! HELP ME SOMEPONY!"

The shouts rapidly devolved into gurgles of terror followed by the heavy thumps of armoured bodies as they hit the floor.

Rarity peeked around the corner, slumped against the wall were two guards, their armour apparently ineffective versus the two mares who stood over them.

Fluttershy grabbed the face of one with her hoof, before letting it go scowling at the prone body of the guard, "That was barely any fun at all, fucking cowards." she muttered as she retrieved a heavy ring of keys off the belt of the guard and unlocked the door, removing them from the  lock she tossed the keys to Rarity, "hold onto those we're gonna need them."

'What are these two?' Rarity thought as she followed the pair into the secure wing of the prison, wondering why they weren't originally imprisoned in this section. As they walked by each cell Fluttershy checked the occupant, before moving on. Looking at the cells Rarity realised that it would likely take a squad of soldiers to break into one, thick walls made up three parts of the cell, the last wall being made up with enchanted glass, capable of resisting brute force assault for days before even giving an inch. No wonder Fluttershy had her hold onto the keys.

Eventually they stopped outside a cell, the occupant of the cell was restrained by what looked like a suit of armour, which fully obscured any features of the pony within, and was secured to the floor by rigid supports forcing the pony to stand on four legs at all hours. Fluttershy and Pinkie whistled appreciatively. "I knew they locked her up tight, but I never realised they had to use a MSH to contain her."

"An MSH?" Rarity asked Fluttershy.

"A Magical Suspension Harness," Pinkie answered, "unlike an inhibitor ring it actually blocks mana perception, effectively rendering a unicorn 'deaf' to magic, also it's made out of magically condensed, enchanted arcanite, this entire prison could fall on it and that thing would emerge without a scratch, they only use them on the most dangerous of ponies." She looks over at Fluttershy, "Who is this pony anyway?"

Fluttershy spoke, not taking her eyes off the contained unicorn, "Our ticket out of here, Ms. Rescuer, Pinkemena, I give you, Twilight."