Chapter One
Such havoc was taking place. Something far too extreme had risen within the castle of Canterlot. The walls were currently swarming with guards, who were destined to find the dastardly troublemakers who have sent Canterlot into absolute panic. Several dark blurs raced around the walls as guards gave chase. The commotion had even caused quite a stir with the alicorn princess. She was just prepared to leave her bedroom to see what the racket was about, until two cloaked pegasai burst through the room's doors. Slowly encountering the princess, a shadowed unicorn swooped in from behind, keeping their exit open in case of other guards.
"What is going on here?" she bellowed. "Who are you?"
"That is not of your concern, your majesty," A navy blue pegasus spoke, walking forward. "Just come with us quietly, and you won't have to suffer the consequences..."
Celestia continued to stand her ground.
"I am not going anywhere. If you don't leave I will force you to leave!"
The navy pegasus stepped a hoof backwards, holding a grimace.
"Then you have left me no choice..." He turns over to the lone cloaked unicorn by the door. "Treble! Restrain her!"
A light went off in the white alicorn's head.
"Treble..? Then...then you're..!"
The navy pegasus grinned.
"Treble! What are you waiting for?"
The unicorn stood silently, concealing much hesitation. The navy pegasus was getting impatient.
"...Treble!"
Celestia didn't want to wait for the navy unicorn to do what she was told, so she had to make the first move.
"I'm not going to let you get away with this! I'll put an end to it before you even begin!"
Her horn glows and launches a ray of light towards the cloaked unicorn. The two pegasai ducked, watching the ray brightly shine over them. Within a matter of seconds the unicorn broke her hesitation and jumped out of the way. Her horn glowed, and launched a ray of light at the princess. The beam had hit, but to the alicorn she had believed there was no effect. With little delay the princess attempted to attack again, but no magic could discharge. Baffled, she tries again, and still nothing.
"What…What did you do to me!?" she questioned. The navy unicorn just stood quietly, awaiting her next order. The two pegasai stood up.
"She temporarily neutralized your magic," The navy colt grinned. "To think that the head of our group would know all forms of magic manipulation...It makes this plan even easier to execute."
He turned to the cloaked mare and nodded, causing the unicorn to fire 'Rays of Entrapment', a spell which tires magical binds around the alicorn's legs, wings and mouth. She had also used a levitation spell, which formed around the princess and lifted for easy movement. The remaining pegasus that stood by went behind the princess and stated pushing her towards the door as she continued to struggle. The other pegasus followed behind, walking by Treble.
"...I need to talk to you." he said sounding disappointed. The unicorn complies and slowly followed him out into the corridor. "You were this close from completely sinking this plan..!"
"Well, how do you think I feel?" Treble questioned. "Bass, you know that I never wanted to do this...Why are you still at it?"
"You expect me to do this alone? You're the only unicorn in our group who knows this level of magic...Without help from breaking into the wing of archives of Star Swirl the Bearded, of course."
The cloaked unicorn stared at the floor and sighed. A few seconds later she turned her head to him.
"But I still don't understand..." she says. "What could you possibly have against the Princess?"
"What...you don't remember?"
The navy unicorn looked at him with a confused look.
"I've first told you when we started this group...back when we were just fillies!"
"But we were just fillies, Bass! I never expected this to become reality! You first told me this was going to be a scare mission!"
"Well, let me jog your memory...You do remember the reason why we created this group, right?"
Treble took no time thinking about it and nodded.
"It was because we loved causing trouble with sound..."
The cloaked pegasus nodded.
"Now dig deeper. Why did we start increasing our level of havoc?"
The unicorn spent a few seconds on this one. Even though it was only seconds, the pegasus was already peeved. He groaned waiting, so he had to break her thinking.
"Treble..." he started. "Of all things in Equestria...please don't tell me you've forgotten about Noize!"
The name had instantly clicked in her mind.
"Noize...the discordant colt..?"
"Yes...He is the King of Sound! Or should I say...was..." The colt had paused to regain his composure. "He was the pegasus that both of us looked up to! He was the reason I wanted to create commotion! He was the reason you wanted to take your magic to new heights by teaching yourself how to soar with the rest of us, and you're just a unicorn! Within seconds you could walk all over Cloudsdale without using a single spell!"
"That's because my parents were pegasus and unicorn ponies! That ability was just rubbed off on me..."
"So what? My point is that you're talented in this way."
Their conversation wasn't even to a dull roar anymore. Much to their dismay, they weren't aware of the Princess being within earshot.
"Do you remember the Cacophony Trial?" Bass asked. Treble instantly nodded.
"..He was charged for wreaking many cities with sonic booms...The images are still burned in my mind…"
"Both of us were there, crying our filly eyes out and pleading the Princess not to exile him, but we know what happened instead…"
The cloaked mare looked down without uttering a word.
"He was our greatest idol...And now is the time that I will avenge him!"
Suddenly the navy unicorn shot her eyes at him. Even the white alicorn's eyes had widened.
"So you want her to feel the pain we felt!? Bass, I never agreed to this when you wanted to form this group!"
"So what if you didn't? I thought you had already gotten the memo, but you were too depressed after the trial to realize!"
"But this is too extreme, Bass! She doesn't deserve this!"
"Yes, she does!"
"We created this team to revive Noize's legacy as troublemakers. We're the Treblemakers for Celestia's sake! We were born to cause trouble, not pandemonium for all of Equestria!"
The navy pegasus stopped walking, and the unicorn copied him. He stared at her with garish-looking eyes.
"I've should have known you wouldn't be the right pony for this job," he uttered. "I can't believe I agreed in making you leader, disregarding your blatant opinion up until now. Do you have any idea how much Noize meant to us!?"
"You're making it sound like he meant nothing to me! I cared for him just as much as you did, and you think banishing the princess will make us feel better!?"
They stared at each other for a few seconds.
"I've had enough of this..." Bass spoke. "Your insolence has reached an all-time high for me, and I will no longer tolerate it. If you don't want to help me complete this mission, I'll finish it myself."
The pegasus starts to turn the other way, grabbing and pulling off the mare's signature cloak. Her body was a dark teal had the typical mare's stature. Streaks of forest, gray and navy line her mane and tail, and fuschia eyes reflected in the moonlight, including a blue patch outlining her treble clef cutie mark.
"...We're through." He said.
Treble wasn't going to let him, a mere childhood friend, to kick her out of her own group. She created it to begin with. She began to take immediate action, by going for his cloak.
"I started this group, Bass," she says. "...You're the one who's through!"
With a quick tug the cloak was pulled off of the shady colt, revealing navy colors, pale jade-silver mane and tail with a black, bass clef cutie mark. The pegasus did nothing but glare at her.
"So…that's how you want to be..." He uttered. "Well, I'm not going to have anypony as pathetic as you get in my way. I'm only a few minutes away from everypony in Canterlot to be horrified by what they will soon witness!"
The colt ran off towards the other cloaked pegasus, who had just approached the front door. When the door opened, havoc continued to ransack the castle walls. Several guards were lying about the ground, exhausted from chasing after the other group members; however, their pursuit was still in motion.
"I'm not going to let this happen..!"
The worried unicorn charged after him. She took off into the sky seconds after the two pegasai did, both keeping the captive Princess between each other.
"Put an end to this, Bass!" she bellowed. The navy pegasus turned his head to her. "I'm not going to say this again!"
"You've helped me this far, but you won't slow me down any further!"
Being in a high-speed chase around the castle, Bass had the urge to stop, sending Treble's face into his hind hooves. Getting hit by hooves at a high speed would have knocked her out, but instead left a mild bruise and dizziness. She knew she couldn't take too much time in a daze, so she kept after him despite having minor double vision.
The chase continued till they have reached the top-most tower. Treble finally had the chance to use her magic to pull the princess away from the pegasai's grasp once her focus had returned. The navy colt was just about through with the unicorn now, and began to chase after her.
"Let go of the princess!" he exclaimed, as they both circled the tower.
"Over my dead body!" The mare called back.
They constantly circled the tower, causing the encased alicorn to grow dizzy and faint from the gravitational ride. Smoke had even begun to form in their place, but it wasn't long before the chase ended with Bass's face smashed into a pair of Treble's hooves.
"Now we're even," she said after the smoke clears.
The navy colt shook his head to be rid of the dizziness and double vision. The castle grounds below them was practically a battlefield. Guards lie everywhere and struggle to stand, but the havoc had ceased. Not one group member was found.
...Did they get captured? Or did they escape..? It was so odd...
"You've got some nerve!" Bass yelled.
"I swear I'll put an end to this before you even dare try again!" Treble replied. The pegasus did nothing but grunt.
"Not if I have anything to say about it!"
A voice was heard just below the tower. It sounded regal...like someone of royalty other than Princess Celestia would evoke such a voice…And she was coming this way! Without too much delay, the navy pegasus fled the scene, leaving the unicorn wide open upon meeting...
Princess Luna...
There was no time to escape. The time she had to escape was wasted due to being frozen with fright. Regaining her focus, she stared at the alicorn that had just appeared before her. She appears so sophisticated for Celestia's younger sister: navy blue throughout, with a spatial mane and tail, lunar attire and crescent cutie mark. Let's just say she wasn't very happy with what she saw…
Eyes widened, she glanced over at her captive sister, who remained unconscious.
"Sister!" She had then glared at the weary unicorn. "You! How dare you hold my dear sister captive!"
But to Treble's dismay, she isn't at fault.
"T-This wasn't my idea..!" She started looking around for Bass. "Bass was the one who –"
She continued to search frantically...He was nowhere to be seen.
"B-But he was just here!"
"Silence!"
The navy alicorn's patience was growing thin.
"I will not take your impudent excuses! Your disloyalty has been seen, and will be acknowledged by my sister by the dawn's rise!"
Her guards had been postponed around the weary mare, separating her from the princess.
"No..." she uttered. "Please, Princess Luna...you have to believe me. I wasn't going to harm her!"
"Enough! I have seen plenty to know the outcome. By tomorrow, your captivity will be here...while awaiting your trial!"
Just hearing the word 'trial' had made Treble's heart stop. She was already predicting what her charges were going to be…and her sentence. Being so weary after the ordeal with Bass, the unicorn could hardly keep herself airborne. Just the shock of it all caused her to black out. Luna took no time to catch her from falling.
"Such an insolent mare," she spoke. "Using magic to act like a pegasus...You aren't built for the skies..."
Without much delay, the alicorn had ordered some of her guards to take Treble to the dungeons, while she had the rest of them follow her into Celestia's room, carrying the unconscious princess with them.
Once everything had settled, she signaled the guards to leave and shut the door behind them. She then tended to remove the spells on her sister. She never had removed spells this advanced before. It was like they had a very complex lock...a black magic lock...
Minutes of configuring later the seals were lifted the navy alicorn sat herself next to her, watching her sister rest.
"Still..." she thought. "Her skills are superior...To be this experienced for a mare is astounding. She could even be as powerful as Twilight..."
The navy alicorn continued to keep watch of the night, watching the full moon shine over the sleeping world.