Foot to hoof

'Knock Knock'

This sound reverberated into Rainbow Dash's ear drums.

She wanted to ignore it. She wanted sleep more, hell, atleast just lie in bed a little longer.

As much as she wanted to, she knew she could not.

Today was important.

'Knock Knock'

The sound came again, this time stronger.

    "Yeah, yeah, don't get your mane in a twist, I'm getting up."

Rainbow shouted to who ever was outside.

She arose from the bed and extended all her limbs and yawned. Her wings up high along with her legs, which were

stretched with a few cracking sounds been produced during the process.

She brought them back in and jumped onto her hooves, then walked to the door, again, comepletly

ignoring the items on the table nearby.

She opened the well painted steel door, yawning as she did so. She peered out of the small gap

that she had created.

Infront of her stood a large white stallion covered in gold armour.

     "Miss.Dash."

     "Yeah?"

     "The Princess' are expecting you."

Rainbow Dash let out an exaggerated sigh.

     "Upstairs? Come on...Even with my wings I would still be exhausted."

     "Not upstairs."

The stallion nudged his head in the direction of the door that Celestia said not to open.

     "Oh. Alright."

Rainbow Dash said as she stepped out and closed the door.

The Guard stared at her with a dumbfounded look.

     "Eyes off, bub."

Guard blushed at her response, but also let out a small chuckle.

     "Forgetting something?"

He asked in a mocking tone.

     "Heck no! The Dash is set, primed and ready to go!"

He coughed signifying she was forgetting something.

     "What?!"

She asked, getting frustrated.

He let out a sigh.

     "Did you even read the note?"

     "What note?"

Upon hearing this he let out another sigh and his tone turned to an unamused one.

     "The note Celestia left you, detailing what she needed you to do."

Rainbow Dash stared at him with a blankface.

     "Uhh?"

He let out an angry grunt and decided not to bother.

     "Just...come on."

He said leading her to the door.

Using just the power of his hoof, the guard opened the door. It led into a room with yet another door.

This door was different though.

It had massive locking system, it looked extremely complicated, there was also no handle, no valve, nothing that an earth

or pegasi pony could use to open it.

The door itself was made of a hard metal substance, unseen by Rainbow Dash. It was black with a few silver and copper

bolts protruding from various parts.

The guard approached the door and closed his eyes.

It was not long until his horn began to glow. Rainbow Dash heard him make a few grunts as he did this and soon enough

he had opened his eyes.

As his eyes opened, Rainbow Dash could feel the blood draining from her face. His eyes were glowing, just like when Twilight

used her element.

Rainbow Dash was terrified and did a terrible job of hiding it.

The locks bagan to shift and turn as the sound of moving gears filled the room, Rainbow Dash still feeling terrified.

It was not long until the door had opened fully, Rainbow Dash kept her eyes on the guard's eyes closed and opened again.

Both of them stared at each other as the light in his eyes began to dim, Rainbow still unaware that just passed the door way

stood her friends holding various items and staring at her.

      "C'mon in Dashie!"

Shouted Pinkie Pie.

Rainbow Dash got frightened by this as she was still in her weak, easily excited trance, she jumped and screamed.

Pinkie just giggled.

      "Pinkie Pie! Don't just scare me like that."

Upon hearing this, Pinkie giggled more.

      "Oho, Dashie, Scared you, huh?"

Rainbow dash flushed red.

      "NO!I mean..um..I just.."

      "Will you two please be quiet? We have more important things to deal with right now."

A frustrated Twilight interrupted.

Rainbow Dash & Pinkie Pie each gave a glare that could cut steel before looking at Princess Celestia who was standing

at the end of the room.

      "Thank you Twilight."

Princess Celestia spoke in a calm voice.

      "Miss.Dash, did you bring the cloud?"

      "The Cloud?"

Rainbow Dash replied, tilting her head in confusion.

      "Miss.Dash, I left you various items on your bedroom table, did you not see them?"

      "Uhh....M..May..be?"

All of the ponies let out a sigh, both of anger and dissapointment.

      "Miss.Dash, on your table I left you a bucking bag to practice your kicks, and I also left you a small device. The prime

Pegasi scientists here in the lower levels, designed it. It creates small clouds. We needed you to manipulate a cloud and turn

it into a mini-lightning cloud. Just incase, out guest needed some,light, punishment."

      "Guest?"

Twilight asked.

      "Punishment?"

Rarity followed, agasped.

      "My little ponies, all of your questions are about to be answered. Silver Shine, if you will."

Celestia said, first adressing the ponies infront of her and then the pegasus behind her, he was dressed once again in

golden armour, just like the last one.

The pegasus walked to the open door that Rainbow Dash came in from. He shut it tight usig the valve on the door. It seemed

as if only one side had a locking system that could be used by all kinds of pony.

He then returned to his post at the end of the room and nodded at Celestia, she then nodded back.

      "Okay, everypony, things might get a bit blurry."

Before anypony could ask a question Celestia spread her wings and her horn began to light up.

She stood in the center of the room with her eyes shut tight. With each moment that passed her horn light more and more.

Soon, Applejack noticed a symbol appearing on the floor, it was made of light being emmited from Celestia.

It was in a star shape, with many lines shooting out from the center of it.

Suddenly, everything began rushing past their faces, they felt a stronge breeze, pushing against them from below.

As if they were, falling.

Fluttershy let out many sounds and kept her eyes sealed tight.

Rarity however, kept a hoof on her mane, worried about it being messed up and damaged by what was happening.

As stopped as quickly as it began.

Each pony's vision was hazy and blurred, everything was in blobs of indistingusable colour and shapes.

Twilight's vision was the first to return, she began to examine the room while the others struggled to regain themselves.

She noticed how nothing had changed.

'Nothing has changed. Not a single thing. Except'

She glanced at the door, as she began to contemplate things in her head.

'Except. Except...The door!'

She thought to herself.

Twilight looked at Celestia, who looked as if she had been sleeping for the last one thousand years. Celestia merley smiled.

      "Everypony ready?"

Celestia asked.

Only Twilight heard this because the other pony's ears were ringing and eyes were still not settled.

      "I will take that as a no, then."

Celestia said aloud to herself.

      "Princess. What did you do?"

Twilight questioned, intrigued by the raw amount of magical power that went into the spell she had just cast, and yet, all

Twilight could see to show for it was, a slightly brighter shade of silver on a metallic door.

The other ponies had just managed to regain their composure as Celestia began;

      "Well, you see Twilight, this castle goes deep. Very, Deep, into ground, we are many many miles below sea level right now.

Only magic can get you that low underground. We were at the very lowest you could go without magic a few moments ago. Now, we

are at the very lowest you can go with only magic. This, this is where the class 3 and upwards incidents are dealt with."

      "Class 3?"

Twilight inquired.

      "Yes. Class 3. You see. Crimes, incidents, magic and weather is all recorded in different classes. For instance.

Crimes are measured in serverity. Ranging from class 1, pety theift, to class 3, endangerment of lives. Incidents, the same

depending on how dangerous it is. Magic is measured in the power of the spell. So, class 1 magic is simple tricks, like

levitation, or creating smoke. Class 3 is again endangerment of lives through the power of magic. And finally weather, but

by now I am sure you get the picture. The thing is though. Those are just the public classes. We show them to likes of police

ponies and low ranking government and enforcement ponies. Class 4 to class 6 are milatary and high ranking officials only."

     "W-W-What's class f-f-four upwards?"

To everypony's surprise, Fluttershy had spoken up.

      "Class four upwards in crime, is essentially terrorism, Or endanger of the masses. In Incidents, it can vary.

From confidentiality, government problems to even scientific ones. The incident you will all be seeing and dealing with is

a class 5 incident."

      "And that would be?"

Asked Twilight.

      "Confidentiallity. Which also means we can't talk here, so please, let's go."

With that, Celestia had walked to the door which opened, without any need for magic, it just slide into the wall, as if it detected that she was close.

The young ponies were amazed by the door, but knew they had no time to waste and quickly moved beside the Princess.

They were walking down a long corridor, with doors to each side of them, each door had a serial number carved into the front of it, and each door had warning signs on it.

The area was lit by those same glowing rectangles on the roof. Everything in the corridor seemed metallic and even steampunked.

As they neared the end of the corridor, they began to notice a heavier presence of royal guards.

Each holding weapons.

This shocked them, as guards normally do not hold weapons, not even the pegasi. Just from this, they could tell something big was about to happen.

Celestia stopped, her actions quickly mimicked by the curious ponies beside her.

      "Ready?"

Celestia said to a nearby guard, who seemed to be wearing a different sort of armour to others.

      "Yes, your highness."

He spoke in a clear, tough tone. He came off as a leader kind of pony.

And with that, several guards moved out of Celestia's way, unveiling a large golden door, of which a picture of Celestia and Luna was carved into it.

And there, standing in a corner nearby, was Luna herself.

She looked a bit better than she had the previous day and seemed as if she was wearing a thicker, shinier kind of armour.

Both nodded and approached the door, the 6 ponies still standing in their places.

The two alicorns placed their horns into small holds on the side of the door. By now, the all too familiar sound of turning locks had filled the room.

Anticipation and tension was hard for the young ponies to hide. Everypony could read their faces like books.

This was it....

Some notes; I know, I know, "Cliffhangers blah blah", I have good reason though. School work has been keeping me busy, I also have quite alot to do over the weekend so I am not sure if I will even get a start on the next chapter. I Kind of have OCD when it comes to these things, I like to get atleast 1 chapter a week out. So here you are. Again sorry for the cliffhanger, I promise that you will find out what happens in the next chapter. Pinkie promise, I cannot break that. :D Thanks for reading!