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// Epilogue- Marching away 
// Story: The Cat in Canterlot Castle 
// by FrostTheWolf 
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Somewhere in Equestria...

“So wait, what’s the problem now?” Tirek then asked as he was with Chrysalis and Cozy Glow. All three of them were far away from Grogar’s lair as the changeling queen was holding the bewitching bell in her magical grasp. An ancient artifact that once belonged to Grogar and was said to hold a vast amount of magical power.

Yet, at the moment, things weren’t entirely going according to plan.

“I’ve been trying to figure out how to use this properly, but nothing I’ve done seems to be working,” Chrysalis replied back to the centaur.

“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”

“Cozy, it’s a bell. I don’t believe it works like that,” Tirek deadpanned.

“Sorry, I’m just trying to stay positive,” Cozy Glow sighed, before an idea began to surface inside of her head, “You know, Twilight Sparkle may be the worst, but she does know a few things. One time on a field trip, she mentioned that the Canterlot Archives had a restricted area.”

The mention of this soon sparked Tirek’s interest as he added on to the conversation, “If there was anything that Celestia and Luna wanted to keep hidden, it might be there. They always seem to have the answers for everything.”

“My triumphant return to Canterlot? I like the sound of that.”

“Road trip!”

Unfortunately for these three, they didn’t quite get too far.

“Uh, is it just me or did I just step on something?”

“I think you did, Tirek,” Cozy added, “Golly, it looks like you stepped on a mushroom.”

“A mushroom?” the changeling asked, “Who in their right mind would go as far as to plant mushrooms on the ground in the middle of nowhere?”

“There’s one under your hoof too, Chryssy.”

“What-?” the changeling queen looked down, before she noticed that she stepped on one. Seconds later, two sudden explosions went off with enough force to send the three of them flying back towards Grogar’s lair as they crashed through the ceiling.

As the smoke cleared, a yordle emerged from behind a fallen tree log as he looked around. “Huh… looks like something did hit my traps. Hope it just scared off whoever tripped them.” When they looked at the ground, the yordle noticed something that was laying there. It looked like a stone bell, but nothing else seemed out of the ordinary.

“Huh. That’s weird. Wonder why they were carrying this,” he said, before placing it in his backpack, “Oh well, better get back to finding the others.”

And with that, Captain Teemo was back on duty. “Hut, two, three, four… Hut, two, three, four… Hut, two, three, four…”