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Today was going to be a good day and Celestia could feel it. 'Not to mention that I'm the princess of an entire kingdom' thought Celestia, 'it was kind of hard to have a bad day.'

Celestia was standing in the Royal Elevator as it headed towards the ground floor. It was a long way down and she couldn't fly right now. Celestia had just recently fallen on her back, breaking her horn along with her left wing in the process.

Suddenly, the elevator stopped, Suspending Celestia half-way down the castle.

"Lousy piece of junk.." Grumbled the princess as she waited for the elevator to get started up again. There was always somepony watching over the royal elevator, to ensure that there wouldn't be any malfunctions while the princess was in it. All Celestia usually had to do was wait for the elevator to start moving and the voice of the maintenance-pony to come over the speakers to tell her that he had fixed the problem.

The voice didn't come now. The elevator didn't move. Instead there were three loud 'Ka-THUMP's on the roof of the suspended room. Celestia held her breath, hoping that it was just the elevator-mechanics or whatever. Being a princess didn't really allow her to learn the actual names of the positions for elevator-fixers.

The roof-escape-hatch received a heavy kick, sending it crashing to the floor of the elevator. Before Celestia could say anything three pistols were in her face through the roof. Celestia was shaking with fear, unsure of what her assaulters wanted with her. Would they kill her? She couldn't see the faces past the guns, not that they were there long enough for her to get a good look anyway. A hand reached downwards and ripped the crown from the princess' head.

"Thanks princess." Said a voice past the guns. "Now in exchange I will give you something you'll need."

Soon after this voice finished it's sentence a small pack was tossed onto the ground of the elevator. The, as soon as they had arrived, the men left. Celestia could hear them climbing out of the shaft and onto what sounded like the roof. Celestia decided to examine her gift.

It was a parachute.

"Oh no." said the princess to herself.

She scrambled to put on the parachute. Then, the elevator began to shake. Celestia had just put on the parachute when the elevator went into a free-fall. The princess was thrown towards the roof of the elevator, smacking into the roof. 'I have to get out of this elevator!' thought the princess as she reached out towards the open hatch. She found it and climbed out, pulling the rip-cord with her teeth. The parachute unfurled inside of the shaft, barely fitting inside the small space.

It was thirty minutes before the princess hit the lobby floor, gently landing on now-decimated elevator. When she climbed out of the shaft one of her assistants told her about the situation going on in the city.

'I was wrong.' Thought the princess. 'Today is going to suck.'

Author's Note

so yeah.