Twilight's Espionage Adventure

Being a spy sounded like the sort of thing that would be fun. Images of crawling around in a cardboard box and using an array of impressive gadgets to solve problems while attempting to blend in was cool, at least in the books and novels that Twilight had read, it seemed like something that was very cool.

In the real world, it turned out that being a spy sucked. She didn’t know exactly how long she had been making her way through the snow, but it certainly had been a long time. The purple unicorn had cast a heating spell so that she didn’t end up freezing, but it was still boring, the snow seemed to stretch on forever. Why couldn’t they have sent a guard to do this instead of her?

She didn’t know, but she was Princess Celestia's prized pupil. That was why this mission had been entrusted to her, and she wasn't going to let her down.

Reading all those spy books had prepared her well for a situation like this, and now she finally saw the village off in the distance, looking like something out of a poorly designed and extremely creepy Christmas card.

The houses looked as if they had sprung from the mind of an architect that had drunk one too many pints before drafting the designs, and as of yet she had to see a single pony that actually lived there. Focus. She had to stay focused. Nothing could be allowed to stand in her way.

Blending in wouldn't be that hard, her greatest weakness was the fact she was slightly famous, but that was also the mulberry alicorn's greatest strength. They wouldn't question why she was there if she stated she had been out for an afternoon flight and gotten grounded when the weather had taken a turn for the worst.

After all, she was there to find out if there was anything wrong with this village, not to attack it. It was very unlikely she would get attacked, and what she was expecting to find is some fisherman or miners had set up the village in illicit fashion.

She would report back to Princess Celestia, who would then send out the required forms for their town to get registered.

She reached the town a short time later. It was strangely quite, to the point it quickly became eerie. There were no ponies around, just the strange silence and those houses, which were elongated, their proportions were off and they almost looked like tombstones or coffins in a way as they closed in around her on all sides.

Suddenly her immense confidence was Something about this whole situation seemed off, Twilight could feel it in her bones. This was going to be a problem for her, she could already tell. Her instincts were screaming at her to turn back, telling her that this was not worth giving up her life for.

But Twilight was brave, or foolish. It was always hard to tell those two apart at times, and so she didn’t turn tail and run, instead she pressed forward with all the confidence of somebody that had nothing to lose.

The town was silent, eerily so, a graveyard would have had more life in it then this town currently did, and that was not a statement that she made likely.

She soon came to regret that statement however, when the ground in front of her suddenly exploded apart, chunks of rock and dust raining down upon her as she spread her wings and launched herself backwards, aiming to take to the sky to get out of range of whatever had just blasted apart the road mere metres before her.

It was a moment of blind panic bought about by inexperience, she had only recently learned to fly you see, Princess Celestia giving her the gift of wings, and now she falsely believed that it was possible to fly away from anything.

Unfortunately, if she had been playing closer attention to the scene playing out before her, she would’ve known that it was a magical bolt that had caused the explosion and that taking to the air when you were facing ranged attacks was the worst thing you could possibly do.

She pulled upwards, but taking off and building up speed were quite slow, and before she had time to do either, there was another magical bolt flying right for her.

Now, she could’ve folded away her wings and dropped beneath it, any experienced pegasi would’ve known how to do exactly that, but she was a well trained unicorn by heart, and so her first action was to cast a round shield around herself, followed by realizing that she could simply fold her wings away and attempt to drop out of range of the magic bolt.

The issue was, she had just cast a giant purple orb around herself, and while it would’ve sailed cleanly over her head in normal circumstances, this time it smacked into the top of the shield and exploded.

She hadn’t had much time to strengthen the shield, and the explosion ripped through it as though it were paper. The purple pony princess was propelled sharply downwards towards the ground, a cry of shock tearing from her lips as she tried to focus enough to cast a spell in the hopes of saving herself.

She found one just in time, but it didn’t come from her, it came once again from the ground, a second spell hitting her square in the chest this time, and her falling slowed slightly, bright pink crystals forming around her body rapidly, and by the time she gently touched down against the ground, her entire body was encased from hoof to head in those thick crystals.

She couldn’t move, she couldn’t struggle, and she couldn’t even use magic. In just about every sense of the word, Twilight was well and truly fucked.

Walking towards her with a cocky smile on her face was a pink unicorn with a garish dark purple mane with a cyan streak.

Twilight wasn’t much into fashion herself, but she had a friend called Rarity who was a fashion designer, and right now she would’ve been freaking out. Meanwhile, she was starting to freak out for completely different reasons relating to the fact that she was currently trapped in a giant crystal like some kind of show piece.

This was not going to end well.