Prom night!
"Come on girls, hurry up!" Ace yelled into the house, frustrated. "You've been in there for over a half an hour!"
"Yeah, pick up the pace!" Lancer agreed, grumbling. "If you don't, we're gonna be late!"
"Hold on a second, boys!" Celeste yelled down to them, batting her eyelashes flirtatiously. "We're almost ready."
The two colts had arrived at the royal sisters’ home early, and had been waiting outside for the two to finish getting ready. They were about to get up and trot back to the car they had driven here, until the front door suddenly swung open.
"About time!" Ace grumbled. "What took you to so-"
The young colt was struck speechless, as he and Lancer beheld two visions of loveliness descend the stairs. One wore a white satin gown, with her mane up in a bun, and crystal slippers and earrings. The other wore a matching outfit, but in a dark blue hue, with translucent onyx slippers and earrings. Lancer tried to form words, but they seemed to stick in his throat, and the two glittering angels descended the front porch steps.
"Well, knave?" Lunette asked impatiently, after several moments of silence. "Have you nothing to say on mine appearance?"
"I...uhhh..." He muttered, before Ace finally regained his composure.
"You both look wonderful!" The jock pony exclaimed, offering his hoof to Celeste. "It is an honor to escort both of you to the dance!"
"Yeah.... you're totally amazing..." Lancer blurted out, as he and Ace moved to pin the corsages on the two's dresses.
"Why thank you, my good stallions!" Celeste smiled, nodding her head towards the car the two colts had driven there. "Now, shouldn't we be off?"
"My ladies..." Lancer bowed, trotting over and opening the car door for them. "We are at your service!"
...
After a lengthy description of all she had experienced to her teacher, the over-excited finally finished her tale of Equestrian spies and conspiracies.
"And that's the whole truth, Miss Hackney!" Clover exclaimed, flailing her hooves around excitedly. "I don't know what those two alicorns are up to, but we have to stop their evil scheme!"
Miss Hackney sat in silence for a moment, staring at the filly before her in silence, before finally responding.
"I know exactly what you mean, my dear Clover!" The teacher stood up, and trotted over to the doorway. "We need to do something about this whole situation, at once!"
"I'm glad you agree, Miss Hackney!" Clover saluted, ready to do whatever her teacher ask to stop this terrible enemy. "What do you want me to do?"
"Get my jacket out of the back of the storage closet, and meet me out in the hallway." Miss hackney told her. "Then I will head down to gymnasium, to deal with these spies at the dance directly!"
"Right away, Miss Hackney!" Clover replied eagerly, galloping over to the closet, and throwing the door open. As the filly trotted to the back of the closet and rummaged around, the hinged door slowly slid closed again behind her. As the elderly teacher trotted out of the classroom, she turned the lock on the closet with a soft click.
"Miss Hackney? I can't seem to get this door open! I think it's stuck!" A filly's hoof banged on the door from the inside. "Miss Hackney, are you there?"
...
"Girls! I'm so glad you could make it!" Starlight called out to her friends, as she and Slipknot trotted into the room together. "Sorry we're so late, we had trouble finding a parking spot!"
"Starlight!" Sweetheart called out, as she and Teddy trotted over from the punch table. "I was afraid you weren’t going to make it!"
"Yeah, I'm amazed Slipknot didn't drive into a ditch!" Teddy chuckled, earning him a kick from Sweetheart. "Ow! What'd I say?"
"It's good to see you too, Teddy." Slipknot groaned, rolling his eyes. "I was missing your snarky remarks."
The two fillies looked their best, with Starlight in a lovely pink gown, and sweetheart in a blue one. The two colts were dressed in a bland grey coat and tie- not much different from what the other colts at the dance were wearing .
"Hey, where's Bon Bon and Spinner?" Slipknot asked, looking around the room. "Don't tell me those two didn't make it!"
"Where do ya think they are?" Teddy asked, pointing a hoof back towards the buffet table. "Running the catering bill through the roof, as usual!"
"Wow, this potato salad is amazing!" Spinner smiled, stuffing his face greedily.
"And this cake is to die for!" His date exclaimed, eating her third slice.
"Those two... I wonder if they'll even take the time to dance!" Sweetheart said with a sigh.
"Say, have either of you seen Ace?" Starlight asked, looking around for the colt. "I was hoping to get a dance with him, away from Celeste." Starlight was so wrapped up in her hopes, that she failed to noticed Slipknot's sigh and eye rolling at her comments.
"Good luck with that." Teddy Chuckled, pointing towards the center of the room. "Those two haven't been apart all night."
There, in the center of the dance floor, Celeste and Lunette glided across the dace floor with Ace and Lancer, both pairs moving in perfect unison. It seemed like nothing short of a catastrophe could tear the two couples apart.
"Greeeaaat." Starlight grumbled, yanking Slipknot out onto the dance floor. "C'mon, we might as well not waste our time just standing here!"
"O-okay-" The colt replied, as he and his date started moving to the music.
As Sweetheart and Teddy rejoined the dance, Patch trotted into the room unnoticed, and made her way over to the wallflower section. There, she saw Melody and Bright Eyes sitting by themselves, staring glumly at the two sisters dancing with their dates.
"Hey there, girls!" Patch trotted up to her friends. "I see you two decided to come to the dance stag. But why are you both over here?"
"Why should be out there dancing?" Bright Eyes grumbled, nodding towards the happy couples. "There the ones having all the fun."
"Now girls, I've had just about enough of this!" Patch snorted, stamping her hoof. "No matter how much you pretend otherwise, you two are in love with those colts out there!"
The two began to protest, then immediately slumped into their chairs.
"Okay, you got us there. But what can we do about it?" Melody grumbled. "First Ace ditches me for Starlight, and now this foreigner moves in on Ace!"
"Girls, I really shouldn't be telling you this, but... are you two aware that those sisters slunk into the group just to snag the guys?"
"W-what?" Bright Eyes asked. "You're joking, aren't you, Patch?"
"I'm afraid not, Bight Eyes." Patch snorted. "They only became our friends, just to get close to our colts."
"Why those miserable little tramps!" Melody snorted, standing up and scowling. "How dare they!"
"Melody, we can't just sit here and fell sorry for ourselves!" Bright Eyes growled. "We gotta go over and save our boys!"
"That's the spirit, girls!" Patch encouraged them. "If you want those colts, go after them!"
The two ponies galloped over to where the two couples were dancing together, and immediately shoved the sisters away from the two colts.
"Beat it, hussy!" Melody snorted, shoving Celeste aside with her hooves. "This boys mine!"
"Hit the road, tramp!" Bright eyes growled, head butting Lunette away from Lancer.
"Ow!" The white filly yelped.
"Whoah!" Lunette grunted, as she stumbled over.
"Hey! Bright Eyes!" Lancer whinnied in shock. "What the heck are you doing?"
"Melody! Have you gone crazy?!?" Ace snorted, glaring at the filly.
"These two tramps were playing you for fools!" Bright Eyes yelled, as every other pony couple stared at them. "They were using us to get to you!"
"They're gonna go home and break your hearts!" Melody exclaimed. "And there's no way we're going to let that happen!"
"What? That's crazy talk!" Ace snorted, looking at his date. "Isn't it, Celeste?"
"Good Grief, you colts are more gullible that we thought!" Celeste chuckled. "You actually thought we liked you?"
"W-what?" Lancer exclaimed. "But I thought-"
"Thou were goodest for a laugh, fool." Lunette sneered, trotting away from Lancer in disgust. "But this charade doth grow most boring!"
The two colts jaws nearly hit the floor, as every other pony in the gym gave Celeste and Lunette dark looks.
"I can't believe we fell for you two's good looks!" Ace snorted, as Melody trotted over and nuzzled him. "We were such fools!"
"I never shoulda asked a pony like you out, Lancer snorted, going over to Bright Eyes. "I think you two 'false friends' should just get out of here, right now!"
All of the other pony couples piped up in agreement.
"Yeah, get outta here, foreigner!"
"Who needs ya?"
"Well, we certainly don't need to waste any more time with low-class ponies like you!" Celeste snorted angrily. The two fillies trotted out of the gym, heads held high. Behind them, Starlight simply shook her mane in disgust.
"Great, now he's back with Melody again!" She whinnied sadly. "I guess I'll never get the boy of my dreams to like me."
"But I like you, Starlight!" Slipknot blurted out, unable to keep his silence any longer. "Why can't you ever see that?"
"Wait. you like me?" The pony asked in shock, staring at him. Lowering his head, the colt was ready for the rejection from the filly he had long feared, her telling him he wasn't good enough for her. But what he got instead, totally took him by surprise.
"Why the heck didn't you ever say something before?"
...
As the two fillies came trotting out of the school gym, Patch came galloping up behind them.
"That was really good, your highnesses!" The filly exclaimed. "You both played your parts really well!"
"And we fixed everything up nicely before we left!" Celeste agreed, shaking her mane. "All in a day's work!"
"All right, you two! The glow and shows should have are stuff all packed up back at the apartment for us!" Lunette noted, pointing her hoof down the street. "We had best getteth ourselves to the grand stallion hotel, where Princess Rosy's entourage doth wait for us!"
"I'm afraid you won't be going anywhere, your highnesses." A voice called out, as several mares and stallions began to emerge from the shadows. "We really can't let you leave here!"
"It beith the Coltonville townsfolk!" Lunette called out, as she saw the adult ponies formed a circle around them. "But what do they want?"
"We not going to let you carry out whatever scheme you have planned!" A mare's voice called out angrily, as Melody's mother emerged from the mob. "It's a good thing I decided to follow Patch here when she ran from my house! We're not letting you spies get away!"
"Uh oh..." patch exclaimed, and the angry ponies closed in on them. "I think we're in trouble now..."