CHAPTER 11: A ROYAL DISASTER
"this is an insult to our kingdom!" snapped king Zeus of the Smokey mountains. His wife, queen briar rose and him had come to canterlot to discuss the wedding, but hearing of princess twilight's running away, had angered them tremendously. "I demand that we cancel the wedding, if princess twilight does not return by the end of today!" demanded king Zeus. the king had sort of an anger problem, so his wife helped manage the kingdom more gently. "I am sure we will find her" princess Celestia replied. flash sentry from the crystal empire had come with princess cadence and shinning armor when they got the news that twilight was missing. "I am as worried as you are your majesty, but my search parties have not found a trace of her" said princess Luna. "I don't see why she would run away, your highness" said flash. "well, see for yourself" princess Luna gave him the letter twilight had written. he read it thoroughly, and sniffed the parchment, it was scented with rose perfume. "rose perfume?" he muttered "where was this found?" he asked. "on princess twilight's desk" Luna replied, flash thought that princess Luna was acting suspicious. "perhaps I should look for the princess with one of your parties your highness" he suggested. "maybe you should stick to guarding the archives" princess Luna snapped. "we will give twilight till the end of the day to return, or the wedding is off!" king Zeus boomed. he and his wife left the throne room and exited the palace. leaving flash to his thoughts, "she never scented her parchments before, why do it now?" he murmured.
flash sentry had caught a train to ponyville a few hours after the discussion with king Zeus and queen briar rose. he needed to speak to somepony very important. he came up to the carousel boutique and knocked on the door. a white mare with a styled violet mane opened the door for him. he recognized her as twilight's friend rarity. "welcome to carousel boutique sir, may you be buying something for a special mare?" rarity asked. "actually no miss rarity, I came to speak to a new seamstress of yours, miss sunset shimmer" flash explained. "oh yes, she is in the work room over there" rarity pointed to a room in the back. "thank you" he said politely. sunset was in the work room sewing rein-stones onto a saddle-bag, which was bright enough to make him blink his eyes. it was odd how much this mare looked like him, they had the exact same coat, and the same look of bravery that his mother told him he had. "sunset shimmer?" he asked. "yah?" she replied, she could tell this was flash, but by the formal way he addressed her, and the royal guard's armor he was wearing, this was the flash sentry from this world. "I doubt that your buying a dress, so, what is it?" she asked. "well, I bring news of princess twilight's journey" he replied. in an instant, sunset shimmer transformed from a serious pony to an excited and beaming filly, "yes! I can't believe it, twilight actually found the spell!" she cheered, "um, actually..." "I have to pack, I have to book a train to the castle..." "I here because..." "I should buy a dress, huh what am I talking about, I make dresses... wait, that is why you're here right?" she bantered. "I am sorry, but no, I came to tell you that princess twilight is missing" flash explained. "what?!" sunset was silenced by flash after she said that. "shhhhhh" he hushed, he didn't want others to know what he was about to say next. "I suspect that princess Luna, has taken the princess off somewhere so that the royal wedding will be canceled" he explained, "why would she do that?" sunset asked. "I don't know, but I need your help" he exclaimed "what can I do?" "pretend to be princess twilight sparkle" "what!" "shhhhhhhh" flash shhhed. "are you crazy!" sunset whispered "if you can be princess twilight, just for a little while, I can trick princess Luna to tell me where princess twilight is" flash explained. "pretend to be royalty, that is insane, I could get thrown in prison, or worse" she hissed, she didn't even want to think of what the guards would do to her if she was caught pretending to be a princess. "as can I, but you are the only pony I could think of who could help" he said "why me?" asked sunset. "you are the only unicorn I know who comes even close to the princess's magical level, it has to be you" sunset's eyes widened, this was crazy, but twilight had journeyed all over equestria for a spell to help sunset that might not even work, and had gotten herself pony-napped in the process! "she's in real trouble isn't she... count me in!"