Eventually I was able to fall asleep that night. When I woke up, the sun was halfway through the sky. I slowly got up and began to walk towards Canterlot. I decided to go to a café and get something to eat while mulling over the idea I had come up with.
On the way there, I saw Skript walking through the streets. He still looked mad, so I hid in the nearest store. I watched through the window as he went past. He had some kind of dog with him, and I could hear snatches of some conversations he had with others. The main thing that I could hear him say was, "Because, biscuits!"
I had no clue what was going on, but I decided that it would be a good idea to stay hidden until he had past. Once he had, I stepped out of the store and began my walk to the café once again.
It didn't take long, and I was eating a muffin and drinking some coffee within a few minutes of getting there. I was just sitting there contemplating my plan, when I could hear a conversation at the table to my right. Two ponies were sitting there with giant smiles on their faces, and they didn't seem to care just who listened to the conversation.
"I can't believe we were able to steal this!" The first pony said.
"To think, that vault was supposed to be a good defense, but it barely even slowed us down!" The other one said.
They continued to go on about this, and I had been interested from the start. After ten minutes, they finished the conversation and got up to walk out. I quickly finished what was left of my coffee and walked out after they did.
It didn't take long, but they led me right back to their hideout. I smiled as I walked away, making sure to keep the location of the place in mind. It was time to switch the old plan for a new one.
I headed over to Parchment and Party Hats to see if Skript had calmed down. When I got there, the door was left open slightly. I peeked through to see what was going on and I could see Skript sitting there reading a book. This book was black and his mane was slowly blowing as though there was wind running through it.
I opened the door all the way and walked in. Skript noticed and quickly closed the book and held it to his chest as though it was something private. I decided to ignore this and walked up to him before saying, "I think I found us a new job."
Later that day Skript and I were hiding in a bush located near the hideout of those other ponies. We were casing out the place to make sure it would be an easy heist.
"Do we really have to do this today?" Skript complained.
"Who knows if this opportunity will still be here tomorrow, we have to do this now." I told him.
So we spent a few hours sitting there watching the building. Night fell by the time that I decided to get in there. Every hour they had the guards that stood outside the building switch posts. For the first few minutes of the switch, the guards that came out never seemed focused. Considering it was only a two guard watch, Skript and I could knock the guards out and steal their outfits and masquerade as them.
When the new guards had stepped out, Skript and I snuck over to the building and got behind them. I could see Skript looking over at me, waiting for the signal. I nodded my head and we each grabbed a head and knocked them together. The ponies slumped onto the ground, knocked out. Skript and I quickly took their outfits and put them on.
In order for this plan to work, we needed to stand out there for the hour, after hiding the bodies of course. It felt like a lifetime, but the hour eventually ended and we swapped positions with other guards. Once inside the building, we began to run through the seemingly endless corridors to try and find whatever it was that was so treasured by these ponies.
It took a bit, but we eventually found a door that was covered by locks. There were two more guards standing in front of it. Skript and I casually walked up to the door and I said, "We're here to relieve you of your post."
"Has it really been an hour already? It feels like it's only been a few minutes." One of the guards said.
"Yeah, time truly flies." Skript said. The guards nodded to us and walked away. When they were out of sight, I started to pick the locks on the door while Skript kept watch. It wasn't too long before I had the locks unlocked and the door open.
We both walked in quickly and found a tiara with a jewel shaped like a sparkle on it. "This is it," I asked, "a tiara?"
"Maybe it's worth something." Skript said.
I shrugged and stashed it into one of the pockets in the outfit before looking for more loot. It was then that I heard Skript say, "Oh no…" It wasn't long after that before I was hit in the back of the head and my eyesight blurred before I was unconscious.
