The Sewers Beneath Manehattan: October 30th
“Tomorrow night, my sisters, shall be a most wicked night!”
Crowded into a small room within the city’s underground, a coven of eight hooded unicorn mares had gathered. Their place of meeting was something of a laboratory, with unusual and rare ingredients lining the shelves. Bottles crammed with eyeballs, roots and flowers hanging about, powders and poisons all lay strewn about the room.
And in the center, the mares all gazed into a bubbling cauldron, stewing with a noxious green liquid. One of the mares stepped forward and tossed a live toad into the pot, causing a plume of smoke to rise up and mix with the sickening vapors already swirling about the ceiling. She spoke to the group, “Yes, a most wicked night indeed! Tomorrow, on All Hallows’ Eve, when the veil between worlds wanes thin, we shall return our mistress to this realm! The demon Iratus Malum shall rise again by our fell hooves, and her reign of darkness shall blanket the land once more!”
The coven cheered as one, several of them shaking each other’s hooves in congratulations and breaking out bottles of champagne. Their celebration was cut short by a knock at the door, silencing the group.
“Uh, hello? Delivery from Pony Pizza, anyone home?” Asked an unsure voice from behind the shoddy wooden door to the laboratory.
The gathered cultists looked at each other in confusion, with one of them shrugging. The unicorns lit their horns, preparing the deal with the intruder, when the ceiling suddenly caved in above them, and Princess Twilight Sparkle descended from the hail of rubble. The gathered ponies were shocked at the Princess’ entrance as she gracefully perched herself on the rim of the cauldron.
Only two of the cultists managed to fire off spells, which both harmlessly pinged off of the princess. “Alright, break it up ponies. I’ve got a busy Nightmare Night scheduled, and I don’t want to spend my evening vanquishing anypony.” Finishing her introduction, Twilight lit her horn and cast a quick spell; a corona of pale light burst from her horn, flinging the ponies against the wall and immediately knocking them all unconscious.
One of them had knocked over a shelf, and a caged ferret had broken loose as the result. The Princess hopped from her perch atop the cauldron and helpfully removed the ferret from the witch’s face before it had the chance to bite her an eighth time.
Twilight then unlocked the door, and several police officers, followed by Luster Dawn; who was intently plugging her nose, wormed their way into the cramped laboratory. Passing the ferret off to the officer in charge, Twilight said, “They’re all yours detective. Please ensure that any and all potions, magical items and live animals are dealt with appropriately.
The officers got to work cuffing and removing the cultists from the room as Twilight led Dawn away from the scene, “I suppose that would be lesson two: deal with cultists before they summon anything evil.”