*WARNING* CONTAINS MINOR SQUICK

"Pride goeth before the fall. . ." Tyrannus cackled as he put the card back into the deck.
"And the pieces fall into place"

Canterlot Castle: Tower

Cadence sneaked through the door into the tower. Thankfully, the guards were distracted by the ruckus the intruder had caused and weren't currently patrolling, but at the same time she couldn't afford to leave a trail.

She took a good look around as she closed the door behind her. Two wings; north and south. She remembered all the times she had tried to escape this place, but every time Celestia had caught her. Remembering what she read in the records, Lynchinus's room was in the southern wing. It made sense she kept her students away from the prisoners and experiments. She opened the door with an unlocking spell and opened the door. . . .It lead to a straight drop from about 300 miles above Canterlot. She closed the door, realizing she needed a Celestial Pendant to get through, but she realized that Celestia either had them with her, in a personal pocket dimension, or had destroyed them. Then Cadence remembered, the south wing can be reached from the north wing using the teleportation crystal there.

Cadence opened the door to the north wing and went on through and shut the door behind her. There was a loud click. Crap! One way door! She looked around at the cells, all the doors were either made of cold iron or adamantine. She just needed to make it to the top of the north wing. She looked at each cell, some were empty, in fact; most were. Then Cadence heard a distinct laughing.

"Aw, look who it is! The pretty princess herself! What did you come home for? A 'family' reunion?"

She looked over and saw a yellow pegasus with a pink mane, although pegasus didn't cut it; she had stubs instead of wings due to an incident, and she was most definitely not a full-blood pegasus, maybe half-Thestral? Cadence realized who it was; Butterscotch, Cadence could recognize the steel hiding behind that voice a mile away. "Well. . . Hello, Butterscotch, I thought you killed yourself after the incident with that changeling"

"That wasn't an incident, Celestia dumped queen pheromones on me then let the damn thing into my cell! Ooh, if I could get out of this cell I would strangle you with my bare hooves! It would be more satisfying than making your pretty princess head explode"

Cadence realized she made an error. Butterscotch was a former student of Celestia, which meant that she was dangerous, but second, Butterscotch was Psionic. Cadence hadn't taken the necessary precautions for this!

She tried intimidating her first "Try it bitch, I'll open the door and you'll cower in the corner like the little bitch you are."

"Ha! Remember we shared a cell together! I'm stronger than you, and I can kill you before you enter the cell!"

Time for plan B; Cadence removed a vial from her saddlebag and held it up in the air for a second.

"What the hell is th-that?" Butterscotch stammered in fear.

"Queen pheromone combined with a want-it-need-it spell, I douse you, let Griffith in, and he does the rest for me" Cadence smiled. This was way too easy.

"N-no! Not him, don't let him i-in!" Butterscotch started to curl up in the fetal position. "D-don't l-let him in! I don't want another child f-from that. . .d-damn ch-changeling!"

"Really? His cell is right across from yours, I just open the door, dump the flask on you, then he's on you for the rest of. . ." Cadence thought for a minute "The week most likely. Celestia never comes here anyhow. So I'm the only one keeping you from getting raped for a week by a ruler class changeling."

"F-fine! J-just don't do it!"

"Oh yes, your half-changeling daughter that you declared demon spawn is doing fine, no support from you"

"Don't bring that demon-child into this. . ."

"And better yet, she's the element of kindness, one of the elements YOU tried to destroy. Irony at it's finest" Cadence smirked. Petty revenge was the best kind.

"Shut up you dirty whore! I'll blow your brains from your skull!" The air started crackling with energy as Butterscotch started charging a psionic blast.

Time to act on the threat. Cadence used magic to fling both cells doors open and pulled the cork off the flask "You asked for it!" She poured the entire three pints onto Butterscotch and sidestepped Griffith's door.

"N-no! no no no no NO!" Butterscotch screamed as she saw a large changeling king, at least as tall as Celestia, get up from his cell and walk over to hers. Cadence closed the door behind Griffith "Now who's the dirty whore Butterbitch?"

"You'll pay for this!" There was a loud cha-chunk of Cadence locking the door

"This is what you get, Traitor! And this is also for what you did to me when we shared cells!"

Cadence departed from that section of cells, leaving Butterscotch's screams and the loud squelching noises behind. She had more important things to worry about.

Ponyville: The Carousel Boutique

Sparrow sat next to Sweetie Belle, watching Lost World episode 4. They were at the end of the episode, where Prince Seraphim encounters Rufus, the earthpony dragon-slayer. Seraphim was wearing what was described as 'scale mail' and was a 'bladecaster', but he did look extremely similar to Sparrow. Seraphim protected the downtrodden and tried to stamp out tyranny wherever it may hide. His opponent, Rufus, carried a massive sword-looking weapon called the Dragon Bone Smasher. They clashed blades a few times before they lunged at each other and it cut to a 'To be continued' screen.

"That's it? Only 25 minutes? That's short!" Said Sparrow with a hint of disappointment.

Sweetie Belle smiled "It's meant for fillies and colts to watch before school, not the entire day"

"Oh! I th-think I get it now! Thank you for explaining"

"I have to get ready for school anyways"

"O-okay" Sparrow said as he got out of the way. Rarity tapped him on the shoulder, which made him jump slightly. "I have something I made for you Sparrow, I need you to try it on."

"What is it?"

"Clothing, I just need you to try it on, after that, you'll follow me to take my sister to school, Okay?"

"S-sure, wh-which way to the dressing room?" Sparrow said as he followed Rarity. . .

Author's Note

TAROT SYMBOLISM!
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is where morals become questionable! Have fun figuring out who the good guy is!
I really hope I don't get bumped up to a mature rating because of this. . .

How is it looking so far?