NaNoWriMo2015 Oneshot Colletction

Winter stared down at the desk below her grinning. She turned to look back at the colt currently scrunched up in the air-ducts of Canterlot Palace with her. His look was somewhere between deadpan and nervous. “Are you sure this is a good idea? What if we get caught?”

“Stormy, we will not get caught. I might, but we won’t,” she assured him. “Right?” She gave him a hard glare. The type of glare that the mares and fillies of Equestria seemed to know just to mess with the males of the nation.

Storm responded by nodding rapidly. Winter just grinned once more. “Besides, don’t you want to know what it takes to become a Solar House Guard? Guard the very Princess of Equestria herself?”

He sighed. “Yes, but I also worry that getting caught breaking into the office of a Lieutenant OF said guard will end up in us in jail. Or expelled from the Junior Guardian Academy. Or worse!”

“No, I can’t be expelled. I’m not a Junior Guardian, remember?” she said impishly. Her statement was greeted by a long pause as he just looked at her.

“You get my point,” he grumbled somewhat petulantly.

“You sure? I’m not sure I do,” she shot right back with a grin. Then she dropped out of the airduct into the office below, ignoring the gasp of her friend as she did so. Now… where to find the files on how they chose ponies….

She looked around at the office, frowning somewhat There was a large, nice desk in the centre, just below her hooves. Around her there were bookshelves, locked file cabinets including those massive bars that stopped the drawers from opening…. Those were the same things that stopped her from figuring out what it was her mother was leaving out of her awesome mission stories!

Winter immediately went looking for the easiest to get at files, grinning as she searched. If she could give Stormy the edge in getting into the House Guard then he could be super awesome all that much sooner.

It wasn’t long, though, before she began to hear hoofsteps. Giving a quiet gasp, she immediately colourmatched her surroundings. Winter wasn’t exactly an ordinary filly to begin with, and not just because she was breaking into the office of a Lieutenant of the Solar House Guard for what most would consider nothing more than giggles. No, she also had the ability to alter her appearance, though not her mass, at will. A half-changeling on her father’s side had given her some unique abilities. Most of those being encompassed in the ability to change her appearance at will. And that was what she did now, acting almost like a chameleon as she vanished from the sight of the casual observer, though any real close scrutiny wouldn’t have to work too hard to pick her out.

To combat this, she slipped over to the side of the room, in a relatively shadowy corner, ensuring to be out of easy line of sight. That wouldn’t stop any proper looking from giving her away, but it would at least stop her from being immediately outed after breaking into the office of an officer in the Royal Guard.

The door opened almost as soon as the filly was settled to admit a unicorn with a sunny yellow coat and darker yellow mane. Her eyes were a bright dancing blue, and she was humming something Winter didn’t recognize. She moved around and sat in the desk, seeming not to see Winter, much to the little filly’s relief. Though now came the hard part… Waiting the unicorn out and hoping she wasn’t noticed in the meantime.

Unfortunately, almost as soon as she’d thought it, the unicorn spoke. “Are you just planning on standing there until I leave?” she asked brightly.

Hoping it was just a fluke, or that she had a spell to look at ponies beyond the door, Winter kept quiet. She hadn’t been seen. She couldn’t have been. She was practically invisible!

Once again, she was quickly disabused of that notion as the unicorn turned and looked directly at Winter, an eyebrow raised. Winter squeaked and shut her eyes, as if her not seeing the Guard would mean the Guard couldn’t see her. She could practically feel the amused smile that began to make its way over the Guard’s face. “You know, that logic really doesn’t work in real life, right?” she asked in amusement.

“Yes, but it helps me,” Winter huffed, seeming to forget herself. Almost immediately a forehoof shot to cover her mouth and she realized that even if the logic of I can’t see you then you can’t see me DID work, she’d just let the guard hear her!

The unicorn laughed. “Well then, who am I to stop you? So, would you mind telling me what exactly you’re doing in here?”

“Trying to find out how to make it into the Solar House Guard,” Winter immediately answered, though it wasn’t with the same kind of attitude. She figured that if she was already caught, she might as well cooperate. It would mean that she’d be less angry—hopefully—and maybe not call the guard on Winter! Or… would that be her superiors? Winter decided not to think on it before she ended up on another tangent.

“And you thought looking in my office would help you how?” the unicorn asked. She sounded more curious than angry, and that made Winter open her eyes, the filly looking almost hopeful now. Maybe the Lieutenant wouldn’t be mad?

“Well, I thought that since you ran this section of the guard, you might know what it takes to get into it!” she explained with enthusiasm.

The unicorn nodded, giggling seemingly in spike of herself. “Okay, so if you wanted to know that, why didn’t you just ask one of the recruitment officers?”

Winter shrugged. “This seemed easier,” she said, seeing no flaws in her logic. She heard the sound of face meeting hoof above her and her grin got just a little wider. Stormy did see the light eventually! That’s why he was there with her!

“We come in, see what has gotten the ponies before transferred to the House Guard, then we work on making him the model guard!”

“Uh huh…” the unicorn said, seemingly at a loss for words at the filly’s logic. She continued to grin before the unicorn finally shrugged. “I really don’t know what to say to that. Though, I do have to ask why exactly you are exactly the colours of the wall behind you.”

“Oh, super illusion spell my Uncle’s friend can do! She refused to give me an invisibility spell, but I took this one from her desk… it sorta sucks.”

The unicorn sighed once more, before bringing a hoof up to rub the bridge of her nose. “You know what, I’m just going to let you go,” she finally said. “You’re like a miniature Lovey and one of those is enough.”

Winter giggled, before buzzing back up to the airducts, much to the unicorn’s confusion and beginning to make her way away from the office. Once out of earshot of the officer, she turned to her friend. “Sorry we didn’t get you the info. Maybe we should just talk to a recruiter.” He facehoofed. Heavily.