The sun begun to rise as was bound to happen every day. If it didn’t, Celestia was either:
A) Dead, which is unlikely. Being immortal has nice perks.
B) Being lazy, which was also unlikely, dedicated as she was.
C) A certain dragoonequs kept her from it for a time.
Or my personal favourite, D) Someone dropped the princess a roofie. This only happened once.
But this day all was going swimmingly. Just as it should. Celestia stood by her private quarters balcony, using her magic to do her duty as the Sun Goddess, even though she did not prefer such a pretentious title.
The morning had gone very well, with the exception of the rubber chicken that now seemed permanently stuck on the ceiling. How Discord pulled that off, Celestia could only guess. Bottom line, not even Discord could make it come off. Luckily it was in a spot where it was hardly noticeable, so there was that.
The Princess looked down at the city of Canterlot, as well as the village of Ponyville that stood out in the distance. With a warm smile she wondered how her student was doing this fine morning.
Twilight Sparkle was feeling ill. Not physically, but mentally. Her mind was all fogged up and she felt extremely groggy. This was most likely caused by last night’s study session that went on a bit longer than the measurements of healthy allowed.
In laymans short terms, sleep deprivation.
Lying on your side in bed with only measly three hours of sleep was not the best way to start a morning. The worst part came when you realize that you can’t fall asleep again. You are literally forced to feel like horrible, unable to do anything about it.
So there she lay, only awakened a minute ago. Still motionless, only gazing emptily at the wall. A little bit of shifting took place, making some dust start flying around. Twilight could not help but sneeze as some dust got into her nostrils.
“Bless you.”
“Thanks.”, Twilight grunted.
A minute passed. It took a while, but a pair of eyes widened, what just happened sinking in. Slowly, Twilight turned around. A face of white, bearing a smile with a mustache almost touched the tip of her nose.
The empty looking eye holes stared at her. She stared right back.
“Hi.”
“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!”, Twilight screamed all through the five seconds it took for her to jump out of bed, run out of her bedroom and close the door behind her. She took a brief moment to think lean on the door and think. Thankfully her mind had just been cleaned of all the tardiness.
Something was in her room. In her bed, no less... She hadn’t really got a good look at whatever it was, only what she thought was the face. Had something happened last night that she did not remember.
…
“Spike!”, She called out to her assistant. There was no response. “Spike!”, She called out again.
This time there was a faint answer. “Man, what is it Twi- AAAAAAH!” A scream came from Spike’s room. Twilight quickly rushed over and opened the door.
“Spike, are you ok- AAAAAAAH!”
On the middle of the room was a hogtied timberwolf, lying on it’s back and thrashing around, trying to get it’s legs free. Low growling came from it’s muzzle, but even that was tied shut with rope.
On the bed, trying to get as far from the timberwolf on the floor was Spike, the baby dragon. He saw(and heard) Twilight and looked in her direction. “Twilight, why is the a timberwolf in my room?”, He screamed.
“I don’t know!”, The unicorn responded. “How did it get inside like that?”
“It was a baaaaaaad dog.”
Twilight looked to her left and had to look up. It was a biped with the same face as the one she saw in her bed. It was at least as tall as Celestia, if not a little taller. It looked down on her and waved weakly.
“Hi.”
All the stress that had built up in such a short time just beaked. Twilight fainted.
The baby dragon and the creature looked at the out cold unicorn. Then the creature turned to face the little dragon at the same time as it did the same to it, it’s neck making an odd creaking sound.
“Hi.”
Princess Celestia sighed and breathed in the morning air. Her free time was running out. The Day Court would begin soon, requiring her full attention to things that truly were not that urgent in the first place.
Still, she knew her responsibilities and begun to head towards the throne room. Mentally steeling herself along the way for the, most likely, insufferable day, she calmly blocked out the faint yells of Princess Luna, whom Discord had just woken up with a giant whoopie cushion.
Still, Celestia knew that at least Twilight had a chance to enjoy her morning.
Twilight’s eyes flickered open. She groaned and looked around... Or would have, if it wasn’t so dark. She could not even see her nose. She tried to move, but found the task difficult. She could not move her legs or forearms. The only motion she was capable off was slight jerking from side to side.
A slight panic entered her mind. It was dark. She could not move. Many disturbing thoughts entered her mind.
“Awake, I see.”, A voice spoke as the room was filled with light. Eerie, red light. Twilight blinked as her eyes got used to the sudden, unusual lighting. She looked around. She knew the library basement when she saw it, yet all around her seemed... different.
She saw herself tied down on a table, limbs strapped down with tight knots. The walls of the room were decorated with iron chains, shackles and menacing looking meat hooks. Parts of the walls were covered with dark spots that seemed to be dripping down towards the ground.
All in all, the room looked less like a basement and more like a torture chamber. Twilight was understandably horrified.
A little away from her she saw the creature from before, it’s back facing her. She tried to use her magic to untie the knots, but they proved too well done to be untied so easily. All of them were made with perfection and care.
“No good will that do for you.”, She heard the creature mutter in a crooked way. It turned towards her. In it’s hand she saw a large knife.
She tried to untie the knots again and started thrashing in panic.
“No help, will that do. Little lizard, find out hard way.”, The creature said with eerie calmness and pointed to his left. Upon looking Twilight felt her breath stop and her heart being clenched in her chest. Near one of the walls, hanging from a rope by the leg, was a limp form of her assistant.
Twilight screamed, getting a light chuckle from the creature. “Oh woe is the dark dimention of dastardly depravity. Demonic damnations of devilish demeanor, dawned to downed drenches. Denizens drowned in disparity.”, It said, it’s words making little to no sense for the purple unicorn.
Her screaming seized, her eyes now facing the creature. It’s face was pure white from what she could gather. Completely motionless and stuck in a smile. In her panic, Twilight was able to deduce that it was a mask.
“W-what are you? What do you want from me?!”, The purple unicorn asked in fear, her mind unable to think clearly.
The creature just chuckled with eerie calmness. “What is I? Dost thou mean the visage of which we bear? Or mayhaps thou meant our identity, the name we bear, yes? Well, ‘tis a very important query, one worth some time.”
It walked closer with agonizingly slow pace. “There are many identities with which I could use, but few which are true. So in our time of needs, we must ask ourselves, what is a name? A miserable pile of meaninglessness! Letters on paper. Words in a sentence. Do these bear meaning of slightest significance?”
The knife was twirled in in the creatures hand as it threw it in the air and catching it before repeating the movements all over again. “No, mon. Ah beliave dis has no meaning. Dis is as useless as de Mojo in ya body.”
It now was right by Twilight, standing at the end of the table, laying it’s shadow on her. “But if it eases your nerves, you may call me by a name which represents my ideals. My morals. My true self.” The knife was now raised to it’s eye level, being observed. Then it’s empty eye holes looked directly at Twilight.
“We are Anonymous!”, It said as the knife was brought down towards the table. Twilight passed out before it even hit anything.
“... Do you think we overdid it?”
“Seems like it, yeah. Now help me down! I’m getting dizzy.”