Distractions
“Partying? No, I don’t have time to think about that right now.” thought Seth. He had to move fast, or his squad could be killed. He looked around the storage room and saw a pitchfork. This will have to do, he thought picking it up.
“What ‘cha doing?” said Pinkie Pie. Darn, he had forgotten about her. Then again maybe he could use her not only to close the portal, but as a distraction.
“Nothing, I have a favor to ask of you,” Seth said.
“Sure! Ask away!” She replied, still twirling the key.
“I need you to cause a distraction in the court, and then meet my squad on the front promenade. Okay?”
“Fine by me! It sounds really fun too!” She looked at Seth confused, “Wait, what’s a distraction?”
“There’s no time for this!” Seth thought, then he remembered something. “Think of it like this: You need to go into the court and try really, really hard to get them to throw a party right now.” He felt like he was speaking to a child “Bloody hell. She acts just like one.”
“Oh! I know what to do! I can put on a fireworks show! And it will all be pretty!” Pinkie Pie squealed.
“Do you even know how to set fireworks up?” Seth asked.
“Yeah, yeah! Of course I do! I will have pink, blue, red, orange, and all sorts of colors!”
“All right but once you make them go off, then grab my team and bring them to the promenade! ok?”
“Okay! I can do that!”
“Alright then,” Seth thought. The last thing to do was get to the court without being caught. He gripped the pitchfork tightly. He knew now more than ever, he had to move fast or Shining Armor would attack, pushing the humans back even farther. If that happened, the EQD would be dissolved, and maybe even killed!
“Alright. Go ahead and get going, and set the fireworks off at-” He trailed off looking at his watch: 1:30. “-2:30 then bring them to the spot.” With that he was off without another word.
He had one hour: one hour to get his team, and one hour to save the EQD. Seth sighed deeply, trying to remember the name of the princess that died. His face scrunched up in annoyance. “Why can’t I remember?” He froze hearing hooves, and cursed at himself for being so stupid. He put his back to the corner and watched the one guard canter past.
Seth silently walked behind him, and with a quick lunge he stabbed the pitch fork through the guard’s neck. The unicorn tensed up, as if to recoil, but fell sideways to the floor. Blood ran over the stones. Seth pulled the pitch fork out and took the guard’s spear in his other hand. He checked his watch again: 2:00. “Shit!” he though. He had to move faster in order to scout out an escape route.
Seth snuck through the palace, picturing a method of escape for his team and reached the Promenade at 2:15 “Okay.” he thought, sighing in relief and hiding in some bushes in the garden. For some reason no guards were present. “Huh, they must be guarding the court. Let’s just hope they don’t find the body of the-”
“There’s an intruder! Find and kill them!” The shouts of guards echoed in the distance.
“Speak of the devil.” thought Seth. He glanced at his watch and frowned. It was now 5 minutes after the appointed time. “Oh well,” he thought. “I shouldn’t have trusted that pony.” Two guards galloped into the gardens and split up to scour the area. “I can take them by surprise.”
He picked up the spear nestled in the bushes and hurled it like a javelin at one of the ponies. He crumpled to the ground, emitting a sharp cry. Seth hit the ground again and waited. The other pony ran over to check on him, and Seth threw the pitch fork, hitting the second unicorn in the side. Seth watched a small grin on his face -- which he didn’t realize was there -- as both ponies slumped over and bled out.
He checked his watch again. “Shit! Where is that pony!” He cursed to himself silently He knew that he shouldn’t of trusted her! Too much time had been wasted, and his team probably compromised.
“The other guards should be coming soon.” thought Seth with a low sigh. He quickly darted out and grabbed the guard’s spears. Then he realized standing there that he didn’t even know if Pinkie Pie had a watch! He cursed to himself and darted across the garden to the palace walls, and tried to remember which princess died again. He just couldn’t remember that detail!
He sighed, and looked at the palace, knowing that by now his friends were dead, Shining Armor was about to attack, and all of humanity would be subdued in a week’s time at the most. He used magic to aid himself in scaling the wall, and looked back at the palace. He knew that, for his comrades’ sake, he needed to end this war somehow.
Suddenly right when he looked away he heard an explosion, and when he turned back, he saw the palace go up in flames as one lone pink streak darted over the palace. He grimaced as the rotten smell of burning flesh hit his nose, and he doubled over barfing up his food. He wiped his mouth looking at the sad sight of the palace. “Quite a distraction.” he thought. I should have known that Pinkie Pie couldn’t have set up fireworks. He turned away and went down the wall. He needed to stop this war somehow, in any way possible. The war had to end!