Miles away, in the city of Canterlot, a lone pegasus in a prisoner’s uniform was tapping her hoof against the wall. She stared at the bars of her cell, like she had done for the last nine years after being found guilty for a crime that wasn’t her fault. Nature killed those ponies, not her. There was a difference between actually killing somepony and just being unable to help. So she got a bit drunk and fooled around, it wasn’t her fault that the storm came in early or that she lost her weather duty instructions.
But no, she had been blamed for everything, along with her friends who may or may not have been dead in this forsaken prison. She hoped that they would head to her when she finally got out of here. Life sentence or not, Gale Storm would not spend the another year in this pit if she could help it.
“Hey!”
She looked up and saw one of the guards addressing her, a tray of her evening meal floating next to him. He put it through the slot in her cell and then walked off, whistling a tune. Anticipation grew in Gale Storm’s chest as she walked over to the tray, finding a loaf of bread, water, and soup. Breaking the bread, she grinned when she saw the note and looked around outside her cell to see if she was being watched. Taking the tray, she hid in a corner and read the note:
Gale,
If you're reading this letter it means our bribe worked. You should really thank your lawyer for coming up with this plan. The rest of us that escaped to Eagleland never forgot how you let yourself get captured for us to escape. The gang always sticks together and we’re getting the others who got lighter punishments to help us get you out of Equestria.
Listen, the soup is drugged with a poison that will put you in a death like state for 72 hours, but keeping you alive. After you’re buried in the prison cemetery outside of the walls, we’ll come out and dig you up. Everypony will think you're dead and you can live with us in Eagleland.
Hope to see you soon.
Rigid
Gale chuckled at the fact that her five year long plan was finally coming to fruition. There was only one thing that Rigid got wrong. She was going to go to Eagleland, that much was true, but she wasn’t going there yet.
There was a certain pegasus she had to give payback to for putting in his cell for nine years. The one whose testimony all but made her look guilty to the jury who bought her whole sap story about her stupid brother being killed. Gale drank the soup and began to feel the effects of drowsiness hit her. She stumbled onto her bed and closed her eyes with a grin before the drug kicked in and put her in a deep sleep.
I’m coming for you Rainbow Dash, were her last thoughts before darkness took her.