The Elements of Mayhem--Awakening

Where. . . The dark blue earth pony thought to herself, as her vision started to come into focus. Somehow, she knew exactly who she was. Without any prior experiences of the world, she knew. Her name was False Witness. Her purpose: To keep the pony AppleJack away from the other five. . .Of something or other. . .Okay, I don't have perfect knowledge of things, she thought.

She stood and looked around, I seem to be in the pantry. This much food. . .Someplace where a lot of ponies would end up. And the types of food. High-strung ponies.

As Witness looked around, she saw a full section of the pantry dedicated to ingredients for baking cakes. She picked up a box and looked at the underside, reading it aloud, "For Princess Celestia only. I'm in the Canterlot palace, apparently."

The intruder set the box back on the shelf and walked to the door, listening for somepony on the other side.

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Lance trotted down the hallway, the beam from his horn illuminating his path. The white unicorn fought against his urge to yawn. "Come on, Lance, you're on duty," he scolded himself, before hearing something in the pantry. A pony speaking quietly.

"Is somepony in there?" Lance asked, turning the light to the door.

The voice of a mare responded, "Yeah. I'm just trying to get out the ingredients for a cake Princess Celestia asked me to bake. You know how she is."

Lance had the strange feeling that he could have trusted this mare even if she told him she was Princess Luna's pet Ursa Major. He opened the pantry door and spotted a blue earth pony with a dark silver mane, struggling a bit with some ingredients stacked on top of each other.

"Oh, here. Let me help you," the guard said, coming in and taking a portion of the stacked ingredients off of her hooves.

"Thank you," Witness said, "You know how it is, right? The Princess craves some cake, so she asks the new pony to bake one."

Lance nodded and chuckled, "Always getting the short end of the stick for the first few months, yeah?"

The two of them set the ingredients on the counter, quickly getting to baking.

"What's your name, by the way," Lance asked.

"It's Honey Lemon," Witness responded.

Lance nodded a bit, "Pleasure to meet you, Honey Lemon. My name's Lance Charger."

The guard resumed his patrol shortly after, with no idea he'd just helped an intruder bake a cake for the Princess. Witness ducked out of the palace, leaving the undecorated cake on the counter as she made her escape.

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"My name is False Witness," The blue mare said to her own reflection, "I don't know why. I don't know who. But I was created to keep AppleJack, the Element of Honesty, away from the other five Elements of Harmony by my master. And I don't know why, but I need a hat. Badly."