Through a Mirror, Darkly

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Twilight looked at Fluttershy, "Why didn't you say so? Even if you didn't want it, I'd still try to help. Those tyrants took everything from my family." The three looked at Rarity expectantly, but were surprised when they realised that the mare was nodding approvingly.

She looked at the three of them "Well darlings it seems are goals are roughly the same," she smiled, "The group I'm with is the Movement Against Royalty in Equestria, our primary goal is to remove Celestia and Luna permanently from power."

Fluttershy stopped in shock, "Are you saying what I think you're saying Greenhorn?" Rarity nodded, "All right then, since all our goals seem to roll neatly together we can stop beating around the bush." She walked in front of the other three ponies and turned to face them, "Step one: get out of here, Twilight Velvet, hope you're up for some magic, Step two: follow the greenhorn to her base, don't fail me Greenhorn, Step three: come up with a plan to strike down the fucking sisters."

"Step four: profit?" Fluttershy looked at Pinkie with a look that could freeze a fireball, causing the Pink mare to smile like she had just won the lottery.

Fluttershy turned to Twilight, "Can you get us out of here?"

Twilight looked thoughtful for a moment, "Theoretically I could teleport myself and one other out, but I've never tried teleporting before, so it's risky." She looked at Rarity, "could you get yourself and one other out?"

"That was the original plan darling, though it will have to be Fluttershy who comes with me."

"Alright, Pinkie, put me on your back." As the pink mare did this Twilight asked Rarity, "Where are we meeting?"

"Room 404, Acre Hotel, my two companions should already be there."

"Alright." with a flash the healthy image that has been covering Twilight disappeared, once more revealing the thin unicorn beneath, "hold on Pinkie this may be a little rough." A sharp twist in space surrounds the pair as the magic Twilight channelled bent and tore reality around them, with a pop they disappeared from the prison in a lavender burst, and reality snapped back to normal, leaving Rarity and Fluttershy alone in the corridor.

Fluttershy advanced on Rarity, "You better get me out of here Greenhorn, if I end up back in a cell, you can bet your sorry plot that I will make this a living hell for you. Are we clear?"

Rarity nodded and began walking back down the corridor, towards the prisoner showers. As they make their way back through the prison they were suddenly deafened by the sound of an alarm. As it wailed up and down the spectrum the two broke into a run.

"That's the breakout alarm! I told you you should have killed the guards!" Fluttershy yelled as the two rounded a corner, coming face to face with a squad of guardsponies.

Reacting swiftly Rarity pulled out a thin canister and tossed it to the floor between her and the guards, using her magic to activate the fuse hidden within. White smoke billowed out of the tiny stick, quickly filling the corridor and obscuring the pair from view, reaching out and grabbing Fluttershy's shoulder Rarity yelled aloud, "Quickly! Back the way we came!" Before pulling the mare with her to one side of the corridor.

The guards heard this and thundered forwards through the smoke, attempting to chase their quarry, once they had passed the escaping duo continued galloping down the corridor, throwing caution to the winds as they drove headlong towards freedom.

Entering the shower room after several near-misses with more guards Rarity lifted the grill down, while Fluttershy took advantage of the momentary pause to quickly shower the blood out of her coat, As Rarity grabbed the rope tucked inside the vent with her telekinesis Fluttershy flew up into the vent system, sliding in smoothly and waiting for Rarity to join her. Moments later Rarity appeared at the vent opening and pulled herself in, levitating the cover back into place behind her once more.

As the pair advanced through the tunnel they heard the entire prison waking up, the guards shouted as they tried to figure out which prisoners were missing and the prisoners cheered as they realised some of their own number were making a strike for freedom.

Using her waypoint spells, Rarity guided herself and Fluttershy back along the metal vents as they crawled in silence the echoing shouts within the prison took on more desperate tones as the guards realised they couldn't find any trace of the missing prisoners.

Approaching the exit Rarity finally broke the silence, "Once outside you'll fly away and draw their attention, while I get out over the wall, good luck." As she finished speaking she removed the outside vent and abseiled out of the opening, Fluttershy followed but immediately took wing flying her way to freedom.

"You aren't so bad Greenhorn, see you on the other side." she shouted at Rarity as quickly vanished into the night sky.

Rarity galloped across the open courtyard, levitating the magi-magnet ahead of her and fixing it to the wall as she went, preparing for her escape. An automation spotted her and gave chase, it's heavy bolts shattering the masonry as they impacted, missing Rarity only by a few inches at most.

Serenely calm, even in the face of such danger, Rarity pulled on the cord as hard as she could, accelerating her towards the wall with unreal speed, the automaton rapidly falling behind. As her acceleration caused her to leave the ground she stretched her legs to form an X shape with her body while casting another spell. Stretching between each of her hooves a blue field flickered into existence, catching the air as it rushed by catapulting her upwards into the air.

As she neared the wall she once more disengaged the magi-magnet and her speed carried her safely beyond the walls of the compound, a few more bolts flying by as she finally flew out of sight of the automaton. As she soared through the air she couldn't help but give an exhilarated laugh, even as guard pegasii took wing in an attempt to catch her.

Smirking as they gave chase she cast the magi-magnet onto a building ahead of her, reeling it in again to increase her speed to levels only matched (and surpassed) by her friend Rainbow Dash, twisting slightly to vary her flight path she led her pursuers on a merry but short dance through the tall buildings of Ponyton, giving them no clear line of sight with which to employ their crossbows, with no hope of catching her the guards soon gave up the chase.

Having lost sight of her pursuers Rarity smoothly glided back down to earth. As she landed she cancelled her spell and magically stripped her bodysuit, packing it into a saddlebag she had on underneath it. She looked back at the prison, now some distance away and lit up like a hearths warming tree. Smiling like the cat burglar she is, Rarity allowed herself to finally relax, "Mission accomplished."

-That Morning-

The Warden was not having a good day, last night at least three high profile criminals had escaped, he massaged a temple with a hoof before continuing to his office. This was not going to look good on his quarterly report.

What really got him though was how they had escaped, nopony was certain what had happened one moment, business as usual the next four guards are unconscious and prisoners are escaping. The real insult was that only one pony had been seriously injured, and apparently that was while two of the escapees were extracting information to help the third.

The warden didn't blame the injured guard for breaking under the tender ministrations of Fluttershy and Pinkemena, either one was bad enough on their own, as a team though... The warden shuddered, 'That poor bastard, he's lucky to be able to even think straight.' He thought to himself as he pushed open his office door.

Walking into his office he sat down and held his head in his hooves, massaging his temples to ease his growing headache. A knock at the door made him sit up, "Enter."

The guard walked in and saluted, "Morning sir."

"At ease, what is it?"

"One of the automatons last night attempted to stop a unicorn who was fleeing the compound, we don't think it was prisoner Five-P-Four-R-K-Thirteen, as she wouldn't have been able to run."

The warden leaned forward, finally some news he could work with, "So they had outside help. Any ideas about who did it?"

"Unfortunately not sir, all we can ascertain from the silhouette is that it was a mare."

Sighing the warden looked down at his desk, finally noticing the note that had been left there.

I had a lot of fun playing in here.

Hopefully next time I can have more.

Lots of Love, Opal x

A resounding crash signalled the wardens desk being flipped on it's side, and was followed by a deafening scream of "DAMN YOU OPALESCENCE!"