During the War: A Secret Mission

As the door opened a wall of sound rushed to greet them, a hodge-podge jumble of talking, typewriters, and ringing telephones. The Princess gracefully lead the ponies beyond the battery of typists clacking away at important communique to be distributed as well as the letters to loved ones of the fallen. They past arrays of odd machinery the likes of which Twilight and Merrifeather had never known were possible, incandescent screens of green and grey illuminating the faces of the operators. Twilight was amazed at these new surroundings and had to quickly regain her place near Celestia as she walked on.

The Princess stopped at a door at the end of a sizeable map room. A wall nearby held glued to it a map of all the known world, several times the height of Princess Celestia. As a few pegasi scrambled overhead rearranging marker pins and adding new ones a group were gathering around the only furnishing in the map room, a large table with chairs in the center.

Celestia spoke “Twilight, What I am about to tell you is strickly confidential. I may only tell it to you and Merrifeather must stay out side. Do you understand?”

Twilight turned ”Merri, you must stay out here,” she said “I do not know how long this will be but I will come for you as soon as I can.”

“I understand Twilight, Go on” Merri said gently nudging Twilight. Merrifeather turned towards the wall and began to study its detail as Celestia and Twilight went through the door.

Beyond the door was a small plain room holding a telephone with scattered blank pages on an average rectangular table with three chairs around two on the far side where Celestia made her way to sit down and one opposite.

“Please sit Twilight” Twilight did so as the Princess Continued “Twilight Sparkle my most faithful student I understand you were trying to reach me to help with plans for the..”

“Yes, Your Highness,”Twilight interjected “I wanted to try and...”

“But I have a much larger call for you. Did you hear my radio address the day before last?”

“Yes I did, It is why I tried to find you to help”

“Good. Then as you know there are two towns in Garland now all but lost. I had sent an agent of mine to a secret rendezvous point in Criniere du Cheval to a collect sensitive information that her network would only trust to her. She was nearly out when the dragons encircled the town and began to reign fare from the skies. We do not know if she is alive or if she made it out. She was set to return yesterday but has not done so. Twilight I need for you as the only pony I believe can do this to accept this mission”

“Of course Your Highness, anything you would need, but how do we know these files, I assume, were not destroyed?”

“At the start of this conflict I distributed special paper to all O.S.P.S. Operatives. They have been enchanted to be indestructible as well as being able to be read by only the ponies I allow.”

A glow overtook the light of the room, Celestia's horn began a spell and surrounded Twilight. Twilight felt a strong pressure against her eyes which quickly went away as she heard a slight click in her ear.

“Which you now are, Twilight” Celestia began as she raise a paper titled in large print “Twilight Sparkle” from the desk.

“Thank you Your Highness. Now, How will I tell this pony when I see her?”

“Twilight, the agent was your good friend AppleJack”