Dystopia

I awoke to the sound of rain pattering against the window. I sat up and stared around my room. I saw more than I did yesterday due to the darkness. The room had two pieces of furniture, the bed and a desk, but there were piles of books and papers all around the floor. Someone tapped on my door, so I assumed it was tike to get ready. I walked to the door and opened the door and walked out into the hall. The hall had some paintings in it, some I ignored yesterday due to my current predicament. I walked down the hall, until I heard the sound of metal scraping metal. I broke into a gallop when I heard a scream come from the boardroom. I ran into the boardroom, seeing ponies in full riot gear attacking the rebels.

"Please, help me," I heard Twilight yell out. I was frozen as the rest of the rebels were subdued, and quickly executed. Their heads all rolled about three feet away from them, bleeding from the eyes. "You failed us."

"No, I didn't," I told her, as the sword sliced through her neck muscle. I turned to run, but ran into two ponies. My wife and child. "No, it cam't be."

"You failed me daddy," my daughter told me. I collapsed and started crying. "Why did you fail me daddy?"

"I didn't fail you, I didn't have a choice," I told her, between sobs. I heard a thud, and looked up to see my daughter's body, headless. Her head was on the floor.

"You failed me daddy, don't fail your new family," she told me, as I felt a pony grab me, and quickly slice my head off.

I sat up, coughing as I wiped tears from my face. Rain tapped against the window. I looked around the room once more, seeing the piles of books and papers on the floor. On the desk, I saw a bottle of pills, with a piece of paper on it. I got out of the comfy bed. My legs wobbled slightly, but I held strong.

I made my way over to the pill bottle and read the note, which was written in very fancy handwriting, 'Take these for your flashbacks and nightmares, L'. Who is L, I shook my head as I placed the note next to the bottle. I checked the bottle, and saw no name, just how many I should take. I quickly took two pills, and swallowed it down with saliva.

"Are you okay," Twilight asked me from my door. I walked over and opened it, seeing a bed head Twilight standing before me. "I heard you screaming."

"Yeah, I'm fine," I told her, a smile growing on my face. She nodded, and walked back to her room, and I walked to the boardroom. The halls had the same paintings from my nightmare, so I guess I did pay attention to them. I opened the door to the boardroom, seeing the siblings, and Three Horns, all talking about something.
"Ahh, if it isn't our newest recruit, you're just in time," Three Horns told me, and motioned to a chair. I walked over to the chair and sat down. "So, as you knoe, we're breaking into Twilight's old castle which is currently being ruled over by one of the overlord's selfelected ministers, so they can watch over the town, we're going to be breaking in through the basement, and you're going to be entering the party undercover."

"Okay, so why are we breaking into the basement," I asked. The plan didn't make sense as to why we would be doing.

"We are breaking so we can steal the food and materials in the basement, and we're going to see if we can talk to the minister," he told me. The door opened and Twilight came in wearing a very posh dress, one that would be counted as middle class to a noble, but now the nobles were the middle class. "Perfect timing, you and Twilight will be going in together, here's your outfit."

"Um, thanks I guess," I thanked, as I stared over the suit. It was simple tuxedo, with a gem encrusted in the pocket. "It looks great, how are they so clean?"

"We have our ways, but go get dressed and we'll be getting ready on our end," Three Horns told me. I stood up, placing the outfit over my beg as I went to go get dressed. I made my way out of the boardroom and back to my room. Once in my room, I quickly threw on the dress shirt, finding a note in my pocket. I looked at it and found two tickets to the party. I left my room and my way back to the boardroom. I walked in and saw Twilight sitting at the table. I walked over to her and gave her the ticket. "Okay, so if l everything is in order, it's time for you two to leave."
"Alright, come on Soot," Twilight told me. We walked out of the boardroom and into the hall, turning in an opposite direction of my room. We came out into a giant lobby, a dead pony was draped over a few chairs. We walked out of the hospital and into the rain. Twilight's horn lit up and an umbrella, made of purple magic, covered me and her. We walked down the hill and entered the town, which was less of a town and more like a slave mining camp. Ponies in groups walked together, bound by chains around their necks. Foals cleaned windows and streets, and were mocked by the guards. I watched one pony try and get put of the neck cuff, and was blasted with a bolt of magic and stopped. I spotted a group of three ponies, one had a red mane with an orange coat, a pegasi with a orange coat and a purple mane, and a unicorn with a white coat, were all chained together, and were cleaning the inside of a shop. One spotted Twilight and pointed at her, and Twilight looked down, avoiding eye contact. The three gave pained and angered looks, and went back to work as a whip hit one. Guards stood on the corners of streets, hitting ponies at random. We quickly hurried to the castle, after a pony in fancy clothing was beaten to a pulp. "Do you have your ticket?"
"Yeah, it's right here," I told her as I grabbed the ticket. We approached the castle gate, and handed the entrance pony our tickets, he looked them over and us over and let us pass. We walked slowly on the sidewalk surrounding the carriage drive. We made our way around and hurried up the steps into the castle. The outside of the castle was dark and gloomy, just like everything else, the crystal design had cracked with time, or maybe it was already like that, but the inside of the castle was brightly lit and heavily decorated and it didn't smell of ash and coal, but it smelt of smoke from cigars and weed. I coughed a little when I entered, and Twilight just scrunched her nose a little. She melted the umbrella, and we split up, looking for the entrance to the basement.

"Sir, are you enjoying your time here," a pony asked me, dressed in a waiter's attire. He had a tray on his head that had three wine glasses full of, presumably, wine, a little bowl of some white pills, and a pile of cigars and a box of matches. He lowered his head, presenting the items to me. "Would you be interested in anything, sir?"

"No thank you," I told him. He lifted his head up and continued on. I kept looking around until I saw the food table. I walked over, grabbing a grape and went to eat it, until it was knocked out of my hoof. I looked over and saw Twilight, who shook her head.

"I found it, follow me," she told me. I followed her to the basement. We passed a line that said no unauthorized personnel past this point. "Hurry up."

"Hey, hold on," I heard a voice behind me. I kept going, following Twilight into a room. I heard the pony's hooffalls on the steps. I looked around, grabbing a shovel from a rack of gardening tools and got ready to swing. I closed the door, and got ready to swing. The doorknob rattled and the door opened, I saw a muzzle and I swung. The pony ducked under the shovel, grabbing it and pulling it from my grasp. "What is your problem!"

"Uhh, nothing," I told him. Twilight stood next to me and a smile grew on his face.

"I see what'a going on, sorry for interupting," he told me. He quickly closed the door and left us be. I don't know what he thought was going on.

"Well, that was easier than I thought was going to be," Twilight told me. We waited for a minute, then left the room, and quickly ran farther down the stairs. We finally made it to the basement and ran over to the only window in the basement. I opened it, and held it open. I watched Three Horns climb over the fence surrounding the castle, followed by the siblings. They noticed us and ran over to us.

"Good job you two," Three Horns told us. The three slid down into the window, and landed on their hooves. "Now we wait for a while, at least until the party finishes, then we go have a chat with the minister."

"Why are they ministers," I asked. It was term I had never heard anypony call the overlord's overseer's.

"It's a term that I've always called them, they're actually just minions," he told me. We sat around for a while, I eventually took off my tuxedo as the humid basement was making me sweat and the tuxedo drew attention to this. After a few hours of playing a game of cards, we heard the first waves of ponies leave the castle. We slowly made our way up the stairs, passing by the room full of gardening tools, and up into the main foyer. Three Horns quickly ran ahead, followed by the siblings. I sat and waited, until three guard ponies rolled down the stairs, except their uniforms were missing. Three Horns and the siblings appeared over the lip of the lip of the stairs and were dressed in the guards uniforms. "Come you two, hurry up."

"Alright, calm down," we quickly ran up the stairs, passing by the guards, and making our way with Three Horns. We soon entered a room that appeared to be a boardroom of somesort, but instead of a normal wooden table, a crystal table with a map on it set in the center, surrounded by seven thrones. A green dragon sat in one of the seats. A bucket of gems in one hand, he sat eating away at the gems.

"Sir, we found these two trespassers in the basement," Three Horns told the dragon. The dragon looked up from his meal, dragging his eyes across the five of us. His eyes stopped on Twilight, and he froze. "NOW!"

Twilight, Three Horns, and the siblings immediately jumped to action, going for the guards. I jumped towards the dragon, tackling him from his seat. I pinned him down, knocking his gems from his hands. His tail slashed at my chest, cutting a large gash in it. I bit down on his tail, until I heard a spine tingling crack.

"This is for my daughter you dragon fuck!" I yelled at him, until I was pulled off by Twilight. She looked down at the dragon, who cried silently, holding his tail in his arms. "Let me at him!"

"Calm down, we can't kill him, yet," Twilight told me. She looked at the dragon with a look of disappointment. Three Horns ordered the siblings to kill the guards, which they did quickly. They piled the bodies up, and set them on fire. The room quickly smelled of burning flesh, until the fire died out. All that was left was a pile of burnt ponies. "Three Horns, do you think you can get Spike back to the hospital?"

"Yeah, I can do that," Three Horns told her. "You two, go and get the food from the basement and put it in the back of the loading cart out front."

"Please, Twilight, don't kill me," the dragon, Spike, pleaded. He was picked up and thrown in a cage. Twilight placed a spell over him to make it sounded like he was barking. The siblings left the room, making their way to the basement. Twilight brought a forehoof to her face, wiping away tears.

"Did you know him," she nodded, and pointed at the throne next to the one the dragon was sitting in. It had her cutie mark etched into it. "Do you want to leave?"

"Please," she told me, before walking out of the room. I stayed behind for a second. Her throne's cutie mark glowed slightly, in harmony with the other throne's cutie marks. A rainbow storm cloud, a trio of butterflies, a trio of apples, a trio of dimonds, and a trio of balloons. "Are you coming?"

"Yeah," I told her following out of the castle.