Choices

Celestia sat upon her throne, the noble before her not aware that his princess had long stopped listening. Two minutes into his request, she had decided to deny what he was asking. But it seemed so important to him that he finish his rant on the implications of the rising non-pony races among upper tier citizens that she didn't have the heart to crush him immediately. She could wait to embarrass him and crush his spirit utterly until he had tired himself out. Honestly, she was curious how much utter and complete horseshit the noble could spew before running out of steam, currently they were working on hour two. Her and Luna had an ongoing bet, and if this bigoted, inbred, ass went on for a full 4 before Celestia lost her patience Luna would have to go out as Nighmare Woona next Nightmare Night, footy pajamas and all. Celestia allowed herself a smirk, she had this in the bag, after the first 100 years of not being able to defenstrate wastes of sperm like this, she had long gained the ability to tune them out. A familiar feeling started at the back of her throat, one she knew from extensive experience. Belching forth Green flame, she smiled as the beloved green flame of her favorite Granddragon formed in front of her. Laughing internally at the noble's look of disgust, her breath caught and her look turned serious as she saw the seal of Twilight's Guard Captain upon the scroll.

Dismissively, she said, "Request Deinied, only return to court when you have something of actual importance instead of the speciesist horsecrap you just wasted my time with."

Turning to Kibbutz she ordered, "Clear the Day Court and have Raven meet me in my private chambers."

Rising amid the gasps of the shocked Nobles, she exited quickly, the scroll clasped tightly in the golden aura of her magic. Tempest Shadow, Fizzlepop Berrytwist when she was off duty, was not a mare to interrupt Day Court without an extremely good reason. Celestia's heart rate skyrocketed as she considered the possibilities of why Tempest would do so. None of them where good.

Arriving in her chambers to find Raven already waiting, Celestia quickly sat and opening the scroll, began reading aloud as Raven took notes.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I would like to complement you on your complete incompetence in managing and training your day guard. Not only did they confront a known Hybrid while completely ignoring protocol, they did so while within my jurisdiction. I was neither notified nor read in on this particular OP, so I can hope to safely assume that you were just to idiotic and/or eating cake to keep track of the models you hire for your guard. Honestly, I completely understand now how I was able to take over Equestria so easily while working under the Storm King. I would recommend they be ejected from the guard for what was basically an assassination attempt and interfering in an ongoing investigation, but the Hybrid, one Jack Trades, successfully defended himself. He left the guardsmen, utterly and completely broken, one of them only answers to the name Toy now, the rest are going to be crippled for the rest of their miserable, worthless, pathetic lives.

Which brings us to another point, you chose to neither inform me nor princess Twilight of a Hybrid with a known past of violence that was living in ponyvile, in violation of every legal procedure. I can only assume, after finding out about the warping of said Hybrid's Cutie Mark and the direct violation of everything we are all supposed to hold dear, that you did so to cover your own prodigious flank. What was done to Trades was disgusting and foul. I will be finding a way to bring you personally up on charges for this. What you did to him when he was a foal because of your own fear and idiocy is unforgivable and I will see you pay for it. You have gotten away with this for far to long. It must be really good to be the queen, huh?

Jack Trades is now in the wind, another of my investigations is shot to horseshit and I have to waste time and resources I don't have cleaning up this mess. I will also be sending a copy of this letter to Princesses Luna and Cadence. I will also have to tell Princess Twilight Sparkle that her mentor is a foul hypocritical pile of horseshit. I sincerely hope you have an answer for all of this. Stay out of Ponyville, Trades is likely to not react well to seeing one of his former abusers and I wish to end this incident as peacefully as possible. I can not do that with you here. Finally, the next time I see you I will be bucking you hard enough in the face to break your jaw and you know I am well able to do so.

Sincerly, Captain of Princess Twilight's Friendship Guard.

Captain Tempest Shadow.

P.S. I hope you are happy, you are forcing me to break the heart of the mare that saved my soul. I will never forgive you for this.

Celestia let the letter fall to the floor. Falling from her chair, the immortal Princess, leader of all Equestria, one half of the twin Diarchs, began to sob.

This the worst of her sins was finally coming to light. It was clear that Tempest only had part of the story, she needed the rest.

Turning to a rather shocked Raven, she uttered what was perhaps the last orders of her rule.

"Raven, send all files we have, pertaining to Jack Trades, Savage Grimm, Back Room Trades, and my personal files on each. I am going to be damned to Tarturus for what I have done, but send it all to The Good Captain Tempest Shadow, she and Twilight need to have everything. Make sure it gets to them immediately. I do not care how much bits it costs."

Raven nodded then ran to fulfill her Princesses demands, soon all the dark things would be brought to light.