It turned out escaping wouldn't be too hard. In fact it should've been easy, far easier than they'd first imagined. The keys were hanging up in sight of the cell. The hook was close enough they could reach from the cell door, but it was too high for either to reach at their shruken heights, and they couldn't use magic for the obvious reasons. It was proving to be anything but easy.

Currently Celestia was jumping up and down to try and reach it. She'd also tried getting onto her hind legs, but she couldn't do that and lean far enough out between the bars. The jumping wasn't working either. She was high enough at the top of the jump, but she fell back down before she could get her horn in the key chain.

Celestia stopped for a moment to catch her breath.

"Sister, this isn't working," Luna pointed out.

"You're right," Celestia agreed. She smiled in a way that worried Luna. "But there are two of us. Luna?"

She dropped down. Luna sighed. She knew what she had to do. She climbed onto Celestia's back. Celestia stood back up. Luna wobbled as she rose up and Celestia's legs shook under her. The size difference between them wasn't huge after all. Hopefully they didn't need to say in that position to succeed.

Luna leaned forward and Celestia forced herself to put the weight on her front hooves. Luna's horn reached the keys, but she had to get her horn in the middle of the key chain before moving them, at least without magic. She struggled, ducking her head, and trying to feel when she had the keys.

"Luna. . ." Celestia started, her voice a little strained. "Luna . . . I don't think I can. . ."

That was when Celestia's legs caved under her. With a little yell she fell. Luna dropped sideways. She hit her head on a bar of the cell door before falling straight down on top of Celestia. The keys shook from all the banging around.

Good thing no one saw that, Luna thought as she struggled away from Celestia and back on her feet.

It could've been embarassing. Discord especially, would never let it go if he found out.

"Luna . . . are the keys . . . further forward?" Celestia asked as she got up.

Luna looked over and gasped. "You're right."

When the keys shook they'd shifted forward. They were very close to falling off on their own now.

"We have to try and make them tremble again," Luna decided.

She started kicking the wall, but it wasn't enough to shake the keys.

"Luna, kick the bars instead," Celestia suggested. She sounded fairly excited.

Luna kicked the bars. A ringing sound spread through the dungeons and the keys rattled right off the hook. Celestia stuck her head between the bars and the ring of keys fell right on her horn.

"Got them!" Celestia exclaimed. She pulled her head back into the cell. "We really have to remember to do something about this," Celestia said, reffering to how easy it was to escape, "After all this."

"Maybe," Luna said. "But we might need another easy escape, if something like this happens again."

"We'll decide exactly what to do later," Celestia said. "But for now, let's find Twilight and her friends." She spoke with a determined look in her eyes.

Luna nodded, having an almost identical look.

Celestia unlocked the cell door and they went out. The two ran down the hall of the dungeon. Luckily it wasn't a long run to the stairs. They didn't even reach any forks in the hall. But as they reached the end of the stairs Celestia stopped, stepping slightly closer to the center so Luna, a little ways behind her, had to stop.

"Sister?" Luna said.

Celestia looked at the door out of the dungeon nervously.

"It's just we have to be careful. If Millennium catches us before we've warned the ponies he'll make it harder to escape."

Luna tried not to roll her eyes. She might have failed. "I know sister. We'll just have to be quiet and watch for him. The guards won't have turned against us after all."

"Right." Celestia nodded. "Just making sure."

She pushed the door open. So far no one from the hall would be able to see them, if anyone was indeed there. The two did there best to look both ways down the hall without putting themselves in sight. They didn't have to worry, as it turned out. The hall was completely empty of ponies. The two looked at each other and grinned.

"Let's go Luna," Celestia said softly.

The sisters scrambled out of the dungeon and into the castle.