What time is it? ADVENTURE TIME! Nah, JK, it's new chapter time, yay!
As Pinkie and Twilight awaited their fates, at the Canterlot palace, ponies from all over Equestria, dressed in their finest clothes, were arriving to enjoy themselves at the Grand Galloping Gala. As they arrived, Princess Celestia, a white alicorn with a multi-pastel-colored mane and tail, purple eyes, and a cutie mark of the sun, was getting ready for the evening in her bedroom. Next to her was her younger sister, Princess Luna, a dark blue alicorn with a mane and tail like the night sky, turquoise eyes and a cutie mark of a crescent moon in a black patch.
"I can't believe it's already time for the Grand Galloping Gala again," Celestia commented as she put on her gold crown. "It feels like they just had one yesterday."
Luna nodded. "I just love the Gala. I wish it could be every night."
Outside the room, two royal guards stood to insure nothing happened to the princesses. Just then, they were ambushed by Flim and Flam, who took their places. Flim knocked on the door. "Come in," Celestia called.
Flim opened the door as Flam and Gilda wheeled in the wrapped box. "Pardon us, Your Highnesses, but this gift has just arrived for the two of you in honor of tonight's Gala."
"A gift? How very thoughtful," Luna replied as she and her sister walked towards the box. "I wonder who it's from."
"Perhaps it's from Twilight Sparkle, my most faithful student," Celestia guessed. "She should have arrived home from the zebra homeland recently. Maybe this is a gift from there."
"Only one way to find out," Gilda smirked, handing her the card.
Luna blinked. "I don't remember us having a griffon guard, do you, Celestia?"
"No, but I'm sure she's just new," Celestia answered. She read the card out loud. "To our beloved princesses, this gift we send, as their millennium-long reign…comes to an end?"
"Comes to an end?" Luna repeated. "Surely this is some sort of prank, yes?"
Flim and Flam unwrapped the box. Inside were two lifelike models of the two princesses. Celestia looked over hers. "My, this is exquisitely made." Just then, the models came to life and began chasing the princesses around the room. "Good heavens!"
"Amazing likenesses, aren't they, Princesses?" The princesses looked to see Discord standing there. Behind him was Applejack, who was solemnly working the controls of the robots.
"DISCORD!" Celestia spat the draconequus' name. "What are YOU doing here?"
"I'm here to pay my respects to my favorite princesses," Discord replied. "I hope you like my little gifts here."
Luna growled and turned to Gilda and the twins. "Guards, seize this despicable creature!" Gilda simply snickered.
Discord took out a microphone and spoke into it, making his voice sound like Luna's as it came out of the robot's mouth. "Guards, seize these despicable creatures!" The minions immediately grabbed ahold of the princesses, who tried to fight back but were too much. "How DARE you!" Celestia yelled.
Discord took out his bell and rang it. "Take them away." The minions dragged the princesses as they angrily cried out "Let go of us, you traitors!"
Meanwhile, back at Discord's lair, Apple Bloom and Spike were trying to bust out of their cage, Twilight was panicking as the song played on, and Pinkie was too depressed to do anything but lie there. "Pinkie! PINKIE!" Twilight urged her companion.
"Oh, how could I been so blind?" Pinkie asked.
"It's OK, we all make mistakes," Twilight tried to assure her. "But we can't let that stop us! We just have to…"
"Discord's proven that he's smarter than me," Pinkie groaned, not listening to Twilight. "He never would have fallen into this obvious trap!"
"Would you pull yourself together?" Twilight asked. "You can stop Discord! You just have to…" Just then, the record hit a snag in which it just played the same part over and over. Twilight gasped. "Pinkie, the record! This is our chance! We can…"
"Oh, it's finally happened, I've been outwitted!" Pinkie mourned.
"Pinkie, please, this isn't the time!"
"I've been tricked, duped, humiliated, made a fool of, played like a flugelhorn…"
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Twilight yelled angrily. The volume of the unicorn's voice made the record straighten itself out. Twilight flinched, but continued on her tirade. "Darn it, Pinkie Pie, the princesses are in trouble, Apple Bloom and Spike need us, we're about to be horribly mangled in sixty different ways, and all you can do is lie there and feel sorry for yourself! Well, I know that you can save us, but if you've given up then we might as well set the trap off NOW and get it over with!" She fell silent, an angry look on her face.
Pinkie chuckled. "Set it off now." Then, she got an idea. "Set…it off…NOW?" She started giggling like a loon. Twilight looked at her oddly. "Yes…that's what we'll do. We'll set the trap off NOW!"
"Pinkie, wait, no, I wasn't being SERIOUS!" Twilight pleaded. Just then, the song ended. The cord attached to the player tightened and released the ball, which began rolling towards the trigger of the mouse trap that the ponies were strapped to.
Pinkie looked around at the different weapons, spouting some mathematical gibberish. Twilight began freaking out as the ball came closer. "OK, Twilight, exactly at the same time I say so, we hit the trigger to this trap." She waited. "Get ready…c'mon…c'mon…NOW!" She and Twilight hit the trigger, just as the ball hit the trap, keeping it from snapping on them.
The pressure of the ball made the trap lose a screw, which hit the cannon, making it shoot in the direction of the crossbow, which shot off an arrow that broke through the axe's rope. The axe fell and chopped the mouse trap in half, freeing the two ponies, who moved just as the safe fell. The vibrations of the safe hitting the ground bust open the cage, making Apple Bloom and Spike fly through the air.
Twilight hyperventilated, clutching a hoof to her chest, both relieved that they'd managed to escape and scared out of her wits. Pinkie shook off the remainders of her thug costume, her mane and tail re-curling and her color coming back. She smiled triumphantly. "Thank you, Twilight." She grabbed the unicorn with one foreleg and caught the two youngsters with the other. Then, she hugged them close to her. "Smile, everypony!" She grinned as the camera went off, taking a picture of the happy detective and her three shocked companions.
Yay, Pinkie and crew escaped! I have no idea what the math here would be, so I'll leave it to the imagination...I was right in my story "Pinkie Pi," Pinkie is a math GENIUS!
OK, who else wants to brohoof Twilight after her tirade at Pinkie? In the movie, that was always my favorite Dawson moment...so awesome!
Can Pinkie and crew make it to the Canterlot palace before anything happens to the princesses? Tune in next time to find out!
All my best, DiscordantPrincess.