Back In Time

**PreRead by Subtle Rampage

Sureshot**

Diamond Sparkle had truly screwed up this time. She told our ancestors and didn’t even have the decency to make them believe us.

Inwardly I sighed. Celestia’s Royal Guard caught us thanks to Twilight Sparkle. There is a 60% chance that Celestia will kill us. A 20% chance that she will merely wipe our memories and send us back. The remaining 10% is various methods of torture. Of course these estimates may be off, as I have never met Celestia in person.

The facts here are simple, they are also unsatisfactory. All six of us are Special Ops. We should not have lost to untrained ponies who will likely never kill in their entire lives. But the facts are as such and there is no changing the past without time travel; a currently impossible feat.

I started to make a mental list of the dilemma we were in:

1. We are locked in Celestia’s dungeon at the royal palace.

2. Celestia is likely to come question us soon, she is loved enough by these ponies that Diamond’s illusion is big enough to warrant her attention.

3. Of course I am not complaining about the first two. It HAS gotten us closer to Celestia.

A Royal Guard then walked in, snapping me out of my thoughts.  ‘’Hello, I am Captain Shining

Armour of Equestria’s royal guard.’’ Said Shinning Armour.

I looked at him. ‘’Without any prior knowledge i give it a 70% chance that Shinning Armour isn’t your real name.’’ I said in a monotone.

He glared at me. Apparently i had found an irritant. I continued. ‘’So, Bluemane why does your Princess feel the need to lock my friends and I up. ‘’Her belief that progress is the eighth sin?’’

He walked a few steps closer to me, attempting to intimidate me. ‘’I need answers Earth Pony. You didn’t travel back in time for fun.’’ his voice was anything but friendly. He was annoyed, and he didn’t bother hiding it.

I grinned. ‘’Well, I dunno, maybe I did, maybe I didn’t.’’ I had a reason for my foalish, witty responses; i wanted to get under his skin and it looked like it was working.

‘Shining Armour’ took a deep breath to calm himself. ‘’Listen, I don’t want to hurt you and I won’t if you cooperate.’’ It was an empty statement, we both knew it.  A pony like him, no not like him per se, but a pony with his loyalties would go anywhere, kill anyone for Celestia.

‘’All I want to know is why you would time travel. Surely you know the risks involved?’’  I looked at him appraisingly, he looked like a powerful fighter, but looks aren't everything, yet the markings on his armour indicated high rank, he couldn't have gotten those with out being a competent fighter, and I COULD NOT afford to be injured right now.

I was also bound to the wall with an actual iron chain. That was the difficult part. So, the question is how do I make him undo it for me?

I stood up. ‘’So did the alicorn who uses you, like the rest of the Royal Guard as her whores order you to get this information any way possible?’’ I said in a semi-seductive tone.

Shining Armour reacted as I expected he would. ‘’Princess Celestia would NEVER use the Royal Guard like that! Stop these accusations NOW!’’ He shouted.

I walked forward as far as the chain would allow. ‘’You want answers, Shining Armour?’’ I said his name in the way a pony would say the name of some deadly plague.  ‘’Free me.’’

‘’No!’’ He said instantly and firmly.

I smirked, my every movement designed to annoy and frustrate this stallion, ‘’If you can be Celestia’s whore- a pony several hundred times your age, surely you can do one little thing for me?’’

He looked like he was debating with himself, I gave it an 81% (aprox.) chance that he thought he could overpower me. Apparently he won the argument with himself as he used a key on a string to free me.  I wasted no time in striking my hooves outward at the pressure point at the base of his neck. He stumbled backward looking stunned, but remained conscious. I dropped into a fighting stance. He was no double digit IQ grunt.

Shining Armour was one of the few non-alicorn ponies in this time period that could actually kill me. I narrowed my eyes. Only one of us was walking out of this alive.