Time passed, and the duo of K and C were lost in the annals of time; their visage, their name and actions forgotten by even the most dedicated of historians.
As the centuries rolled by more pertinent moments of history took Equestria's attention. The most recent of these nation rocking events being the Changeling invasion of Princess Mia More Cadenza's and her groom Captain Shining Armor's wedding and Canterlot at large. While the invasion was repelled, day saved and post wedding party held, even as the good times rolled the Changeling's short lived battle still caused a decent amount of damage to upper Canterlot. While the damage was not the worst Canterlot had ever seen, it was still enough to call for extensive reconstruction and clean up.
As construction ponies worked on patching holes in roads, businesses and homes, even Royal Guards began to pitch in where needed, and where quite a few Guards volunteered was in the gardens. While the main city and roads were covered by average construction workers, one reason after another, whether it be claims of sickness or sudden vacation, only one single pegasus mare was scheduled to fix up the gardens of the palace. Thinking it cruel, a hoof-full of guards decided to help out and take some of the load off her withers.
The mare in question wore a gardening uniform that obscured her dark teal body and cutie mark. She sighed as she shoveled the last clump of dirt into the last hole in her sector of the gardens, a quest that alone took the better part of the week after the wedding to finish. "Gah, why couldn't the changelings land just a little bit softer? Or crash into a snobby nobles home?" She leaned against her shovel, swiping her wing across her brow, wiping sweat and her black and teal mane out of her eyes, that just so happened to match her fur.
She took merely a moment or two to rest her bones before moving over to the statues that still suffered scuffs and burns from the short battle. A hoof-full had even fallen on their sides, which she thanked her blessed stars that she was not expected to set them right.
The mare fluttered lightly as she began to scrub and scrape a statue of an earth pony holding a flag, utilizing the cleaning fluid she kept in her gardening uniform. As she scrubbed the statue she began what had become something of a ritual during her lonely cleaning routine and started to talk to the statue, "Why 'ello there Cavalier. Doesn't seem tah be too bad in terms of damage. Your lovely flag at least didn't sustain any major chips, it would have been obliterated far more easily than anything else in the gardens So... ."
As the sun moved across the sky so did the pegasus across the gardens, from statue to statue with the same routine, some scrubbing, some scraping and some talking to pass the time. She smiled as she went to and fro, that is, until she stood at the base of the twisted form of Discord whom she only held a grimace for. "Hello you barfbag."
Despite her dislike of the Chaotic being she went to work, buffing out any damage, scorch marks, smudge or the like. "I still haven't forgiven you, you know. Then again, I don't think I've been given the opportunity to speak my mind to you. You made my second place summer speedsters camp trophy give me a guided -ponynapped mind you!- tour of half of Equestria... Still have the dang thing locked in a cupboard because of that! And at least I know YOU are listening, compared to all the other statues which honestly felt like better listeners... Ugh, now I don't know what to say you!"
She stayed silent for the rest of Discord's cleaning until she swiped the last bit of grime off Discord's frozen wing. And as she took a step back to admire her work her grimace faded into something of a light frown. "... Why couldn't you have been fun?"
With that said, and finally being free of her duties to fix up Discord, she turned on her hooves and marched away. She let out a sigh as her hooves carried her across the gardens, though a smile affixed itself to her muzzle as a path formed clearly in her mind.
She weaved cleanly through the tall hedges of the gardens, as she opted to walk through the gardens, admiring its beauty in the orange light of the waning sun. In almost no time at all she turned the last corner of rustling leaves to find her favorite statue in the entirety of the gardens. "Hello Mirror Mirror!" She said, as she stepped towards the statue of a kneeling biped that reached towards the clouds, itself divided into two halves of marble and onyx while the mirror standing next to it was held in mere stone.
The mare started to clean the Mirror Mirror statue like every other before it, though one difference in her routine could be heard as the cloth she held glided across the marble. She didn't speak a word as she worked, instead she hummed a tune. While nopony would be able to nail the tune's name, she hummed it from her very heart as not a single note was missed or even all that off key. And as she moved from the kneeling statue to its mirror a few lyrics seeped from her memory to her lips.
♫ "Even as the stars begin to fade,
And we rise from where our heads did lay.
Just remember the lives we've picked,
for we're just a bunch of Lunatics..." ♫
She wiped her cleaning cloth across the mirrors surface, and through the once more clean surface she saw a figure in the sky flying its way towards the gardens. Her face adopted a look of confusion, as it isn't every day you see a pegasus flying around Canterlot when the weather team wasn't in the sky. Even the pegasus guards tended to keep to the ground unless they had somewhere they needed to be fast.
She turned and lifted a wing to shield her eyes and properly see the shadowy speck flying through the sky. As the figure flew closer and became clearer her look of confusion morphed to one of joy as a smile etched itself to her face. As her smile only grew wider she waved her wing in greeting, awaiting the figure to land.
With a light thud the figure could be seen clearly, a light brown hoof brushed blond, silver tinted mane out of amber eyes. Amber eyes that held a bit of worry but majorly showed sparking joy as the pegasus stallion trotted quickly towards the gardening mare. "Prism!"
Prism let out a chuckle at her old friend. "Heya Storm! Whatcha doing here?!"
Storm Watch, an average, if a bit lanky, looking stallion with a somewhat average cutie mark, a dark cloud shooting out two glowing, silver lightning bolts, rushed over to Prism and locked her into a heavy hug. So heavy Prism briefly wondered which would last longer, her lungs or his grip, but she returned the hug all the same.
Luckily for Prism's lungs Storm loosened his grip to look her over. "Are you alright Prism? I heard that the wedding was crashed, that those changelings invaded and- gah! I didn't hear until Rainbow came back and she just said 'I was awesome and everything is fine' and it took me a week before she finally got around to approving my vacation request-"
Prism smiled affectionately at her friends concern before cutting him off, "Heh, you could have just written ya know? I appreciate your concern Storm, but I'm fine. If anything the gardens took more of a beating than I did. Coulda been worse but, ugh, extra work. Especially since Array and Blazy Daisy took off sick. Cowards."
Storm gave a sigh, his face changing to one of slight nervousness. "I know I could have written. It's just... I heard those things could shapeshift and impersonate ponies. And I just wanted to see for myself that you were alright." His eyes suddenly squinted danerously. "What was it that Snowy said to you after getting drunk on Hotcake's signature spicy cider?!"
Prism balked at the sudden shift and awkward memory, though quickly groaned an answer, "Ugh... 'Hey there good cooking, what's looking? Wanna preen?'"
Storm grinned at the answer. "Ah, good! I was worried you were gonna turn out to have been replaced! You know just gotta make sure, I'm sure you understand Pris'."
Prism gave a playful glare towards Storm. "Oh, I'm sure. But, Celestia, that get together was sooo-oh-ho-oh awkward!"
Storm's smile softened and chuckled, "I'm glad you're aright Pris'. Dinner at Hotcake's tonight?"
Prism opened her mouth to give a definite 'yes' before stopping slightly. "Well, I wooould, but I still have like half a dozen things to do before I clock out, and it's gonna be laaate."
Storm chuckled happily, "Well, it just so happens I need to check into a hotel anyway, and besides-" He gave a wink as he turned, "It'll be just like old times!"
Prism scratched her chin with her wing. "Weeeell, alright! You sold me on it! You better be there or I'll kick your plot back to Ponyville myself!"
Storm couldn't help but laugh outright at Prism's playful threat, his laughs fading into a nostalgic sigh. "Ah... It's good to see you again Pris'."
She responded my waving her wing down with a smile. "Ah, get outta here ya big softy and let a gardener garden!"
With that said Storm flew off into what could be considered the Canterlot outskirts and Prism returned to the Mirror Mirror statue to get a move on with her work, a goal planted firmly in her mind to finish her work as efficiently as possible. With that in mind she set about her work.
It wouldn't be until the sun was almost completely swallowed by the horizon and Luna's moon began to replace it in the sky when Prism was finally able to leave. Her work done and uniform replaced with a simple black, pegasus friendly hoodie, she walked down the castle steps. And as her hoof steps echoed through the nearly empty streets of Canterlot a strange silhouette took form in the mirror, seemingly listening to her echoing steps, an eerie and sharp smile upon its shadowy face.
Though that smile wilted slightly as a slightly opaque Discord popped up in front of the mirror with a laugh, "Well, it sure has been awhile since you two showed your ugly mug in that mirror!"
A sigh resonated from the mirror, the silhouette's posture wilting along with the smile. "Thank lord obvious. We've slept the last hundred years or so. Though your little escapade woke us for a bit there. Was fun to watch." The silhouette tilted its head, "Wait. You got stoned, whatcha doing as a milk bottle ghost?"
Discord let out a light chuckle, floating slightly in a reclined position. "What? You think all that wedding business WOULDN'T rack up the chaos? Ha ha. Sadly the Elements little enchantment is still too new, no cracks to riggle out of yet, I'm afraid. So, I'm stuck to minor projections and pranks for now. Like REALLY minor. No chocolate drizzles for even a second sadly."
The silhouette sat there for a moment, un-moving as it spoke, "Either way, it's much better than what we've had. At least your escape and Nightmare Moon's return sure made everything worth watching." The creature's smile returned wider than before at the memories.
Discord returned the smile with yet another chuckle of amusement as he leaned forward, his claw toying with his goatee. "Word through the grapevine says that you two had your mittens in that."
The silhouette gave a chuckle of its own, a darker one, "Only a bit. But, that does remind me that we may very well might be able to get whatever's left of the poison back at this rate."
Discord quirked one of his bushy eyebrows at the silhouette's words. "Hmm, now that sounds downright mysterious, K. Care to let an old friend in on the joke?"
K practically giggled, his plan running through his mind a mile a minute. "Well, I am not sure how we haven't felt it before, but it appears our one way ticket to escape may very well been in plain sight for years. If I have my way, we'll be out in a few months." K closed his eyes and his smile grew, fantasies of the future occupying his mind's eye. "Revenge and destiny will be mine!"
K could almost hear Discord's smile before he even spoke, "Ooh! Can I come along Kwazy? Promise I'll... slightly behave?"
Behind the mirror, K thought it over for a good while before letting out a sigh and an answer, "Fine, but I'll approach her first considering you look disturbing to anyone who knows you."
Discord was silent for a moment to fully absorb K's little jab. "I'll be kind and take that as a compliment for now."
K chuckled once more, turning his gaze to the smooth moon. "Wallow in pride, Dizzy. Cause if I play my cards right, and you and C don't muck things up any, I can set the dominoes in our favor as easy as stealing frosting from the cake pirates."
The two strange comrades suppressed their innate desire to laugh in their sneaky villainy, instead both slowly vanished. K fading from the mirror's view and Discord poofing out of existence. As their quiet chuckles and giggles petered out, no evidence remained that anything out of the ordinary took place in the moonlit garden of K and C.