The Voices (In My Head Again)

As the guards fly Sketch to Ponyville he is still out cold in the chariot but the guards fly a bit slower than usual due to the fact that if they flew at top speed he might fall out or hurt himself. As they fly to Ponyville the guards make their way to Twilight Sparkle's castle and this gets the attention of all the ponies in town because it had been a while since a royal chariot had been seen but a few just brush it off as official princess business and go about their day.

"Sir, we have arrived at princess Twilight’s castle.” The left guard announces to no response.”Sir?” As they look back in the chariot Sketch is still asleep as he snores away.

As they prod him with their hooves he doesn’t seem to want to wake up, it was about eight in the morning and he usually doesn’t wake up until five or six in the evening. Well, except for when there’s a convention, in which case he can sacrifice a few hours of sleep to go have fun with friends, who were also usually night owls.

“Excuse me, why are you two here? Does Celestia need me for royal princess duties in Canterlot?” Twilight Sparkle asks.

“No, didn’t you receive a letter this morning about the new arrival?” The guard on the right ponders.

“No, Spike is sick and has been sneezing little bursts of fire every few minutes so I can’t tell if I received a message from the princess or if he is just having a sneezing fit.”

“Well, then could you come over here so you may ‘meet’ your new guest.”

“Where is the said guest?”

“He’s asleep in the chariot curled up in a ball.”

“Oh,” Twilight says as she walks around the chariot so she can see Sketch sleeping there.

”What is he?”

“He isn’t from here and we know very little. The princesses were hoping you could study him and find a way to send him home soon and to figure out how he arrived here.”

“I see, so why is he asleep?” Twilight questions.

“He spent most of the nights in Canterlot talking with princess Luna and got to talk to Celestia for a bit as she was waking up and he was going to bed.”

“How do you know all this?”

“You think we wouldn’t notice another being from Tartarus knows where appearing in the middle of the castle grounds?”

“Good point,” Twilight says sheepishly.

“Ugh no mom, I’m doing fine, you don’t need to call everyday…” Sketch mumbles in his sleep as Twilight watches.

“How much do the princesses know about him?”

“Next to nothing except what he said about dying before he came here.”

“He d-died?” Twilight stammers.

“From what he told the princesses he saved someone and before he could explain his actions he died.”

“That’s horrible!” Twilight exclaims.

“So the princesses are entrusting him to you for study and so on.”

“I won’t let the princesses down!” Twilight promises.

“Alright well back to the castle with us.”

“Okay, thank you for bringing him here.” Twilight thanks the guards.

Back at the castle.

”Celestia! We’re here! Where’s the one who calls himself Sketch? He left before we were ready.”

“What do you mean? I saw him leave with two guards just an hour ago.”

“No, we were knocked out just after we left the barracks.”

“Then who were those guards that took Sketch?”

Back outside Ponyville

The guards leave Twilight alone with Sketch as they fly away, but just as they are halfway to Canterlot out of view from prying eyes the chariot poofs from existence and the two guard ponies merge into one singular being, Discord.

“This will be interesting, haha haha.”