“I suppose we can head there by train,” decided Discord, and he opened the door to her cell.

“Where are we?” she asked.

“Canterlot.”

“What!?”

He rolled his eyes at her, “You didn’t think we’d meet up in a shabby place like Ponyville, right? Plus Canterlot is right in the middle of Equestria, so it’s easiest to meet there”

“Hey! Ponyvilles not shabby! It's really nice! Plus there’s daylight which is always a plus.”

“You do realize that most of the land has the usual day and night cycle, right?” he asked.

“Oh! I guess that makes sense.” Twilight had lived in Canterlot for most of her life, so she still considered daylight a blessing instead of the status quo.

“Wait a minute, are you from Canterlot?”

“Huh?” Twilight internally panicked, thinking she would get exposed as Nightmare Moon's student, “Well yes, but, I recently moved to Ponyville.”

“I knew it! You have the face of someone who hasn’t seen the sunlight in days.”

Hearing this, Twilight grumbled, “ugh.”

It seemed that she wouldn’t have to worry much about being discovered.

Upon arriving at the train station, a thought came to Twilight.

“Couldn’t you just teleport us?”

“My goals are beyond your understanding,” he said, and just left it at that.

“Uhm, alright then.”

The two boarded the train and took their seats, as Twilight looked around, she began to wonder what all the other passengers were traveling for. While many traveled to meet family, lately there had been a lot more migration out of Canterlot.

“So… Do you know why so many individuals are moving out of Canterlot?” she asked, figuring she had nothing to lose.

“Same reason you left. Eternal night and all that. If tall, dark and ugly doesn’t fix her place fast, she’ll have no one left to govern. Still, I respect how she lets her people leave when she’d be better off forcing them to stay. ”

“Huh.”

“Huh?”

“I just wasn’t aware of all the differences between you rulers. I just assumed there was some… set of rules you all have to follow when governing”

Discord let out a chuckle, “Rules? Twilight, why would we all have the same rules?”

“Well, I'm sure there are some basic ones.” she argued, “There has to be!”

“Just one. Always listen to the boss.”

“So what keeps you from fighting among each other?”

“Sometimes her eminence does, and sometimes Cozy does. When neither of them stop us, though, we just keep fighting.”

Wait a minute… The boss is a girl? Twilight realized. It definitely would benefit her to learn more about this boss.

“Why doesn’t the boss ever appear in public?” she inquired.

“Too busy I guess? Or maybe because she’s too good for the public.”

“Have you even met her?”

“Of course I have!”

“Really? What does she look like then?”

“Well she has a horn- Wait a minute… You’re just trying to get me to talk!”

“Well you seem to love talking.”

“That's it! I’m ignoring you for the rest of this trip! And if anyone asks, I told you nothing.” he huffed.

“Alright then.” Twilight decided against pushing her luck any further.

Just then, the pony ticket collector entered the coach. When his eyes faced Discord, he gasped, “Oh! So you are here!”

“Ugh, no I’m not,” Discord replied, opening a window and jumping out.

“Why did he do that?” Asked Twilight.

“Why wouldn’t he do that?” he huffed in annoyance.

“Wait, so does everyone but me know all about the personalities of the rulers?” she asked.

“You don’t know the basics? Wow, you must be from Tireks lands, the ponies there face harsh restrictions. I’ve heard they aren’t even brought to schools! How I wish I could help them escape,” He sighed, “Speaking of escape, it looks like King Sombra has blocked your magic, I assume you’re a prisoner, right?”

“Right, I was caught trying to use a spell against Queen Chrysalis, I actually came from Ponyville.” As soon as she said this, Twilight saw out of the corner of her eye a blue pony with a rainbow main perk up.

“Oh my! How could you possibly have expected to succeed with that!”

“Well, my talent is magic. I’m completely confident it would have worked too, if my horn hadn’t decided to just not work. I was even already in the castle!”

“Oh, haven't you heard? Queen Chrysalis has some strange stones that block any magic. I don’t think she’s had time to bring all of them, but it makes sense that inside her castle, she’d block any magic.”

“Oh, I understand now. Wow, I really failed this mission.” a determined expression appeared on her face, “Ok, next time I’ll be completely prepared!”

“You’re still trying to fight her? Well good luck, I probably shouldn’t be talking about this with you, and I still need to check the remaining tickets. See you around, miss.”

“Thanks for everything,” she replied. He nodded in response and left. After the door closed behind him, the blue pony with the rainbow mane came over and sat across from her.

“Uh, hey! I heard that you were trying to rebel against the rulers” the pony said. Twilight noted that she had a raspy voice

“Oh, no! I was just trying to stop Queen Chrysalis from getting too powerful! All the love she’s been consuming is getting to be a problem.”

It was a half truth, since Twilight was trying to stop Queen Chrysalis, but she was pretty sure that doing this would put her out of commission, not just prevent her from getting too powerful.

“Oh, well… still took guts I bet.” the blue pony replied. “Why’d ya do it?”

“I-”

Wait… I can’t just reveal that I did it because Nightmare Moon told me so.

“I was just… so sick of her tyranny, y’know?” she finally responded.

“Yes totally! It’s the same situation in Cloudsdale! That’s why I’m escaping! Queen Chrysalis doesn’t like it when ponies leave, but it’s not like she enforces it enough to stop me!” she beamed, “anyway, I’m Rainbow Dash, and you’re Twilight, right?”

“Yes I am.”

“Well Twilight, I was wondering… Would you like to join my resistance?”

“What?” Twilight was bewildered. She never thought of herself as a pony who would go against the whole government.

“Just imagine! You, working with my gang to free everypony! Imagine all the praise we’d get for being the heroes who took down evil.”

“I don’t know… It would be hard to take down the whole council.”

“Maybe so, but we’re not going to take them all down at once! We’ll pick them off one by one, and then go for the big boss!” she explained, “So are you in?”

Twilight though for a moment. Nightmare moon would definitely be mad at her for conspiring against her, but if she were working in a team, she would definitely be able to take down Queen Chrysalis much easier. Plus it would help to have some allies while she remained without her magic.

“Alright I’m in. So, who are we taking down first?” she asked, hoping it would be the changeling queen.

“Not sure. But we’ll have to be sneaky about it. I’ll break you out of prison later and we can discuss things later.”

“One problem,” Twilight said, remembering her predicament, “My magic isn’t working right now due to the magic rocks on them.”

“Oh, that is a problem. Hmm, see if you can get Discord to remove them.” she said, “Then, when you’ve done that, send a rainbow firework to come get me.”

“Ok, first off, Discord would never do that! Second, a rainbow firework really? That's not very inconspicuous.”

“Look, Discord is kind of a simple minded guy. If he thinks something is fun, he’ll do it without hesitation. Just sweet talk him or something. As for the attention brought by the fireworks, don’t even worry! There are tons of fireworks all the time. Nopony will give it a second thought.”

As she said that, the train began slowing down. It became clear that they were stopping at a passing station to drop off some passengers and pick up others. Their train cart began to flood with passengers and Rainbow Dash returned to her seat saying, “Ok, see you later. Remember the plan!”

Twilight nodded her head and rode the rest of the way in silence.

Author's Note

I'm glad I spell checked this. I also fixed a lot of Rainbow Dash's dialogue because it was initially OOC, but now I think I've got a pretty good feel for her character.