A Coup in Equestria

Starlight Glimmer have been on the run for about week. Right now, shew was sitting on the left furthest left bar stool in Manehattan’s own Wild Hunt Bar, with loud Bebop Jazz playing on stage, and the smell of tobacco permeating the air like a midnights fog in the cities older docks.

“Damn Twilight and her “friends.” Someday I will have my revenge!” She said before downing her eight shot of bourbon that evening, hoping that the alcohol would numb away the stinging pain of defeat of Twilight and her friends defeating her at hometown and kicking her from hometown and the drinks weren’t working.

Just then a white pony wearing a black suit, a black worn-down fedora hat and brown leather suitcase revealed himself from behind the thick fog of tobacco smoke trotting past through the tables to reach the bar and finally sit on the stool to the right of Starlight Glimmer. “You’re Starlight Glimmer, correct?” he asked

“I don’t know how you know my name or what you want pal, but I’m not in the mood of dealing with an arrogant flirt. “ She said before downing her ninth shot of bourbon that evening.

“Sorry to disappoint then. But I’m here under less than social circumstances; you see Miss Glimmer we have intersecting interests.” He said before putting the case down on the table.

Starlight’s attention peaked as she looked and he opens a case to reveal folder on Twilight and her friends with several pictures of them going through their daily lives.

“For professional reasons, I can’t tell you about my employer, and for my safety, I will withdraw my identity from this conversation, but this all the info you need to know about Twilight and her friends.” He said, “But it isn’t enough, we don’t exactly know all of the vulnerabilities of Princess Sparkles little entourage.”

She gave a sardonic smile she looked through the files that laid before her. She then turned her head towards the suited stallion. “And you want me to spy on them? I can sign up for that, but what do I get in turn?” She asked putting down the folder waiting for the suited stallion to reply. “We possess an artifact that my employer would like to see in action, and he believes that you have the right amount of magical moxie to use it.” He told her

“How will—“ She just blinked, only once and noticed the suited stallion was gone.

Twilight and her friends were discussing Starlight’s fate about her recent duel in time with Twilight and Spike and her goal to alter the present in order to get revenge. It was then Spike went out to get her and he was shocked what he saw.

“Uh, girls?”, she said calling them

They went to see where Starlight was, and she was gone, and her place was a letter.

Dear Twilight

By the time you get this letter, I would have long have left Ponyville. I thank you for opening my eyes, but I do need to think this over, and I also need to rethink my life and all that. You guys are truly something special. I will see around.

Yours

Starlight Glimmer”

“I thought she could be my student,” Twilight said in disbelief

“And break into song, lame.” Rainbow Dash said with utmost disapproval.

“I guess she does need some time,” Twilight said looking at the letter. “I just hope she’ll be all right.”

“I am sorry Twilight maybe some ponies are beyond redemption,” Applejack said with an ominous tone. She then decided to leave the castle along with her friends.

Two says later, Starlight arrived in Appleloosa and noticed the suited pony she contacted before waiting for her in the desert and went towards him.

“I did your dirty work,” Starlight Glimmer said with a rising temper. “That spell allowed me to travel through time. I saw what would happen if had I succeeded. So tell me, just who in Tartarus is your employer? Because not just any pony has access to the Starswirl wing of the Royal Canterlot Library, and the fact that I don’t even have a clue of who disturbs me.” She said increasing her tone of voice ever so slightly.

Just then brown duster wearing unicorn stallion raised a gun at her. They were in the middle of the Equestrian Desert, only ten kilometers from Appleloosa. Not that it mattered, only a second after Starlight Glimmer said that a pistol shot rang through the vast Equestrian San Palomino Desert. Leaving a sense of dread that only a few ponies could ever feel without actually being there.

~

Starlight groaned as she woke up to where she was and analyzed her surroundings. She noticed a toilet and sink. Then she looked to left and noticed bars and noticed a dark brown pegasus with a golden mane and book cutie wearing a brown trench coat mark and gray shirt underneath, with a pistol holder around his cutie mark, entire the cell.

“What the hell is happening to me today?”, she asked putting a hoof against on the face

“I'm going, being honest, you’re officially dead to Equestria and that more there enough to pay for the crime for time tempering.”

“So then, why did you save me?”, she asked

“Because we have questions for you Starlight as into why and how you got that damn spell,” the stallion stomped his right hoof on the ground anger. Part of him wanted to just cuff her and send her to her rightful imprisonment. But the are worse scum than her flying around the cosmos.

“We? Who’s “we” ?”, she asked

“Torchwood,” he told her bluntly, “A secret organization that funded by Luna herself and she’s only know outside the organization that knows of its existence. It's purpose to protect Equestria from alien attacks that also now includes protection of time. ”

“So why are you telling this then, I don’t know torturing me?”, she asked

“Simple, the head honcho thinks you can be very usefully allied to all of us,” he said with a blank expression, “But I have wait to see that.”

“What if I prove to be a threat?”, Starlight asked

“Then I the have permission to shoot you,” he said taking out the pistol and aiming at Starlight

Starlight gulped and then proceed to tell the agent everything she could recal.