the toy maker and the fashionista

~Castle Entrance. 8:30 P.M~

Patchwork watched as the others went into the gala wearing the medallions that he gave Rarity, Twilight was talking to Celestia, Rainbow was talking to the wonder bolts, Fluttershy was playing with the animals in the gardens, Applejack was selling apple family food, Rarity was mingling with the nobles, Pinkie was being Pinkie, the others told him to just leave it at that when she did something... strange, the CMC were walking around looking at the sights, and Spike... spike was trying to eat the jewels in the royal treasury. After presenting his ticket and meeting Celestia, he waited until the party was in full swing, then he walked out onto a balcony removed his medallion and angled it so light would shine onto the thieves, signaling that the time had come to crash the party.

~Point of view of the rest of the thieves~

The second in command of the thieves, Gold Fist, the minotaur, saw the light being reflected off Patchworks medallion and told the others to ready themselves. He walked over to a small siege tower that the unicorns in the group had made invisible to all but the thieves, and cut the rope that had been holding it back from smashing a hole in the castles ballroom wall. "TONIGHT WE ROB THE CASTLE!" CRASH! The siege tower had done its job and there was now a hole in the ballroom wall, and the thieves charged in.

~Back in the ballroom~

The elements, CMC, Spike, and the princesses watched the wall explode and tons of creatures charge in. Three drakes grabbed the jewelry and bits of six noble ponies and jumped on each others shoulders, one drake was red with orange spines and wings, the second was a dark purple and skinny with blond hair and light green wings, the third and final one was big and brown with blue horns and red wings.  when the guards swung at them, the drakes put the jewelry and bits down and drew swords, they then cut the guards weapons in half and knocked them out. Spike saw this and recognized the dragons as the ones who almost made him break a phoenix egg during the great dragon migration. He charged at Garble (red dragon), Fume (purple dragon), and Clump (brown dragon). Garble looked at him, turned to Fume and Clump then said "Take him out! We cant rob him he's wearing one of the kings medals." the other two nodded and ran over to spike, picked him and tied him up with a curtain rope then they dropped him and he couldn't move.

A black Pegasus with a green mane, who's cutie mark was a winged bag of bits, flew over to Soarin, Spitfire and the other Wonder Bolts and took all the jewelry they had as well as all their bits. Dash saw this and flew after the Pegasus only to be blocked by a griffin who had blood red tipped feathers, he grabbed her and tied her wings up with a rope and flew her down to the ground, then he patted her on the head.

An old earth pony with a sword in his mouth, was running at Blueblood, who like a coward just dropped all his valuables and ran away, a zebra stole the bits and jewelry off of Fancy Pants, Fleur De Lis, Jet Set, and Upper Crust, when the guards went after him he simply hit one of the pillars in the room and it fell over blocking the path of the guards.

A changeling in disguise snuck up behind cadence and stole her jewelry, when she turned around to see who had just stolen from her, the changeling changed forms into shining armor which confused cadence because he was fighting with a minotaur at the time when she pieced it together it was to late, the changeling had run off.

Shining Armor was stunned by what the minotaur had just done. He had just cut through his armor like a hot knife through butter, and he hadn't even touched the armor he just made cutting motions with his arm and Armor's armor fell to pieces. The other guard saw this and were stunned as well, one guard, the head of the lunar guard Crescent Moon shouted. "THEY FIGHT LIKE DEMONS!!!!!"

Armor looked at her. "No, worse these are the forty thieves!!!"

Twilight who was under a table along with the other elements, the CMC and Spike looked around. "Forty? I only count thirty-nine." Rarity was torn should she keep the promise she made to Patchwork or tell her friends the truth, she opted for the truth and tapped Twilights shoulder then pointed to Patchwork who was still on the floor and had not hidden under a table.

Rarity sighed. "Twilight, forty Patchwork makes forty, he is their leader, he is the king of thieves."

All of her friends heard this and shouted "WHAT!?"

Patch work heard that and ran at Celestia and Luna catching them off guard and taking their crowns. "So much for secret identities." He turned to the other thieves. "WE HAVE WHAT WE WANT NOW WE GO!!!" They all nodded and ran out the hole in the wall they had created earlier. After the others had gotten out he ran for the exit only to be blocked by Celestia and Luna.

Guards surrounded him and arrested him. Celestia smirked. "Now you see what we do to thieves right sister?"

Luna nodded. "Yes we put them in prison for ten years." Both of their horns lit up, but their magic was pushed away from him.

Celestia looked confused, then she saw something she had hoped to never see again, around patchworks neck was a necklace made of gold with a yellow stone shaped like a coin in the center, what she beheld was one who controlled something dangerous that only the elements of harmony could subdue, one of the things that was part of the opposite of the harmony she strived for, she saw the holder of the chaotic element of greed .