Beneath Canterlot castle exist a dungeon.
A dungeon as some of you might know is where prisoners are kept for questioning.
Why are we starting in a dungeon you may ask?

Well, it's obviously because the story revolves around one of the inmates in this dungeon.

What crime did said Inmate do in order to get locked up.
Well that's simple isn't it? Let us go back to the time at which the crime took place.

It was a beautiful day, The sky was blue, the sun shined bright, the wind was soft, a perfect summer day.

In the gardens of Canterlot castle. A seemingly one sided discussion was going.

"So your plan now is to place a bomb on my statue? That's your plan? Your not going to talk to one of the guards again? warn the princess for the seventh time?" A disembodied voice asked the perpetrator.
The Pony who is currently is in the process of placing a bomb on a statue depicting an abomination against nature.

"Warning the princesses didn't work the past six times, why would it work now? Anyway, Should the bomb manage to destroy your statue before you're released, it should hopefully kill you." The Aquamarine Pegasus told the voice, Placing the active time bomb on the back between the wings of the statue. "And should I get caught leaving the premises, I'll be thrown into an interrogation again. Maybe something will change, hopefully something will change." The Pegasus scratched his scruffy chin.

He really should shave sometime soon.

Eh, it wont matter.

"Now where are they?" The Pegasus looked around until he spotted a pair of guards doing their routine check of the gardens.

"Hello, good soldiers of the castle of Canterlot. It's a nice day were having today isn't it?" The Perpetrator started.
One of the guards looked at him and nodded "Indeed it is, do you need any help finding your way around?" The first guard started,"Wait a minute! The gardens aren't open to the public today, it's a Tuesday! Who are you and what are you doing here?!" The second guard points his spear at the Intruder.

The Pegasus looks around him, "Who, me? Why I'm Zephyr Breeze, And I just placed a bomb on that statue over there." He said, pointing at the statue.

Seeing as the guards aren't doing anything, he gets a bit agitated.
Incompetent guards like him are the reason his in this predicament in the first place.

"Are you going to arrest me or are you just going to stand there?" Zephyr asked the two guards. Did they not hear him perhaps? Are they really so slow as to miss the blatant threat to the security of the nation he just told them he committed?

Looking at each other, the Guards decide to "Yeah um, we're just the garden checkers. We check for threats in the garden,
We are trained at all about what to do in this situation" Guard 1 said.

"Hahahahahaha! These are the royal guards?! It's no wonder I took over the world so easily, They cant even arrest a single pony!" The disembodied voice surrounding Zephyr laughed out loud.

Zephyr chose to ignore the voice, as he knew already only he could hear it.

"Listen, I don't think you understood what I just said." Zephyr began, looking into the eyes of both guards. "I placed a bomb on the castle grounds. Not some bath bomb to add color, not a glitter bomb for parties." He stepped closer to the two untrained guards.
"Not a joke bomb, not a party bomb, not a toy bomb either," another step "Not a bomb for birthdays that explodes into a song" Closer "Not a baby gender reveal bomb, that blows into blue or pink confetti," Now standing with his chest pressed into the muzzles of the now terrified guards.

"A real Bomb! A real bomb that explodes into FIRE and SMOKE! A REAL BOMB THAT DESTROYS EVERYTHING AROUND IT! That is the type of bomb I just currently placed in what should be one of the most secure places in ALL OF EQUESTRIA! Your job is to arrest me and diffuse the bomb! SO WHY AREN'T YOU DOING EITHER OF THOSE!" Zephyr yelled out at the two guards.

Looking at them now, you would think they'd start crying for their mothers.

Once upon a time, Zephyr looked up to these ponies, they stood out like a beacon of hope, with their shiny golden armor and confident gait, you would think they would be the most reliable ponies out there.

Oh how wrong he was.

And then the very air shook.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Everypony in the castle could hear the explosion. From the bottom of the dungeons to the top of the towers.
If you were on the castle, you heard it.
If you were near the gardens, you felt it.
And if you were a statue of a Draconequus, nothing happened to you.

"It seems the bomb didn't work Zephy, What will you do know?" Discords disembodied voice asked the Pegasus who looked at the fire he started, giggling at how the Pony hunched down, another failed plan to add to the list, how many are they on now? thirty one? Thirty two maybe? Who cares. The Despair that Zephyr is showing at his failure is so hilarious.

It was a good plan, he must admit. Destroying the statue that is.
The only problem is that if the statue was so easy to destroy someone would have already tried to do so long ago.
He looked so hopeful, Maybe this time it'll be different, Maybe he wont need to wait for the chaos spirit to escape before he tries to stop it. So much hope, only for his failure to fill him with more despair.

Truly, choosing Zephyr as the one to save the world was both the worst and best idea he had in a very very long time.

"Do you know where you are" The interrogator asked the Pony who planted a bomb in the castle.

Zephyr looked like a mess. he's been crying for four hours straight. Oh, How bad he must feel, Failed to hurt anypony. what kind of monster would plant a bomb in the castle of princess Celestia? Who would dare harm a hair on her mane!?

It was the interrogators job to find out.

Looking the interrogator in the eyes, Zephyr answered. "I am on the third floor below zero in the dungeons of Canterlot castle"

That brought a pause to the interrogator, How could Zephyr know which floor he was on, he was blindfolded before being brought here.

"I am on the fourth jail cell from the right." How could he possibly know?!
Looking at the mirror to his left, Zephyr continued "Behind that mirror, Captain Shining Armor and the new princess Luna are listening in." Zephyr looked back to the shocked interrogator before continuing, "In twelve seconds somebody will come in to bring you coffee, accidentally spilling it on your bag." He said before looking at the small knapsack containing documents the interrogator brought with him.

Now the interrogator was shaking, Did he have an accomplice telling him of the surroundings? How would he know the exact location of his whereabouts otherwise? How will he know that- "Excuse me sir, Your coffee." A guard entered the room holding a plate with two steaming cups of coffee at that moment.

How could he have known? It should be impossible for him to have known that, is that his Talent? His Cutie Mark doesn't match up.

Who are you really Zephyr Breeze?

"please lay them on the table, thank you" The Interrogator told the guard who brought the coffee with her.
Placing one cup in front of him, another in front of the prisoner. Turning around in order to leave, The Mares tail spilled his coffee onto the documents in the bag.

How? How could Zephyr Breeze have known that would happen?! HOW?!

"We have seen enough!" An Alicorn shouted out loud as she walked into the interrogation room, the guard captain following behind her.

"We shall take over the questioning from here on, Door Knocker, you are to leave the interrogation to us." The Princess of the night told the interrogator.

Even with all the questions plaguing his mind, Door Knocker knew not to argue with a princess, especially one whose temper left her on the moon for one thousand years. Taking his now coffee soaked bag and half empty cup of coffee, he turned to leave.

"Oh, and leave that drink you have here, you wouldn't need it we're sure!" The Lunar princess told Door Knocker, Levitating the coffee cup away from him.

As the princess sat down in place of the interrogator, sipping from the half empty cup of spilled coffee, Zephyr fought back on why he's doing all of this.

Each times he's thrown into the dungeon, each times he's questioned about what he tried doing, each time he failed to sneak into the castle, each time he was caught, each time he tried building a bomb, each time that monster sent him back to try again.

"You really should be thinking of other things right now, like how you're going to get out now? You can't tell anybody why you tried, what a genius plan it was. Bravo, you outdid your own stupidity" Discords mocking voice laughed in his ear, Of course Zephyr didn't have a plan. He's not the smartest, He's no secret agent that can figure out in ten seconds how to save the world.

"I never planned on escaping capture" Zephyr told Discord. So what if everyone heard him? would it change anything?

"What do you mean? You broke into the castle carrying a bomb with no plan of escape?" Shining Armor asked Zephyr, who seemed to be ignoring the captain.

"The plan was to blow up your statue, All of this was a test run. We can now check mark breaking the statue off our list." Zephyr explained to Discord.

"Are you even listening to me? Answer our questions!" Shining Armor banged his hoof on the table. Spilling Zephyr's cup of coffee in the process.

Zephyr look at the captain, then at the princess, and then opened his mouth, "In four days Discord will escape his Statue, I know this because every time he escapes, he beats the Elements of Harmony and sends me back in time. Me explaining this will mean nothing to you as I've just broken his first rule, I will know proceed to die a painful death and wake up two weeks bac~CK!" Zephyr then proceeded to cough up blood and die.

"Didn't even wait for my return, You just offed yourself." Discord looked down at Zephyr as he drowned in his own blood and saliva, Looking at the Princess and Guard who stared with hollow, empty eyes at the Pegasus dying in front of them, not reacting to a thing. "Let's see what you do next, Will you try a bigger bomb? Will you ask your sister to gather elements of harmony again? You sad, stupid, pathetic excuse for a hero" And with a snap of his talons, Everything was Reset.

Author's Note

Hello reader, Netap here introducing you to my first MLP based story. This is going to be way different for me, as I usually right shitty self inserts on Wattpad, this will be my first time using an existing character as the MC.

Usually when I write stories I try to use underused characters that barely get enough screen time, give them a chance to shine. And what better example than Zephyr Breeze, a character who only had around 20 minutes of screen time in the whole show. such a letdown for a family member to one of the main cast.

Some of you might have noticed already but this story has taken a lot of inspiration from Re:Zero. and other media of that genre.

Hopefully you'll enjoy this story 😃