Epilogue
Trixie had gotten lucky, the Paladins were leaving, she was about to get her big break. She pushed open the window, and quietly climbed out, jumping into the bushes below.
'Ow! Hey!' called out another voice. Trixie froze; she was not alone in the bushes.
'Take it easy would ya?' Spike said as he rubbed the back of his head.
'Spike?' Trixie asked. 'What are you doing here in the bushes?'
'Trixie?' Spike asked as he looked up at the azure unicorn that had landed on top of him. 'I could really ask you the same question'.
'I'm resisting the occupation!' Trixie said proudly. 'Now what are you doing?'
'Spying on them', Spike said with a shrug. 'Keeping track of routines, numbers, that sort of thing, the stuff Twilight will need to know when she comes back with Cultus Mechanius reinforcements'.
'Is that where she is? We'd been wondering', Trixie mused, mostly to herself.
'Yeah, Twilight followed Carrot Top and Caramel to Vermillion Mesa with as many as they could get out, and they're going to bring back help. I stayed behind to keep an eye on things', Spike said as he took a peak out from the bushes checking if the coast was clear. It was.
'Carrot Top and Caramel are alive?' Trixie asked. 'Very good, Lyra and Bon Bon will be glad to hear that, we didn’t see them on the list of the dead, but that didn’t mean that something had not happened to them'.
‘List of the dead?’ Spike asked. ‘Uh... how many are on it?’
Trixie didn’t say anything for a moment, before looking down at the ground solemnly. ‘Twenty six’.
‘Oh...’ Spike said with a frown.
Trixie looked up at him with a smile. ‘Don’t worry; I’ve got a plan to avenge them!’
‘How can I help?!’ Spike asked.
‘Simple, we need Pinkie Pie’s buried dynamite, think you can get that?’ Trixie asked.
Spike nodded in affirmation.
‘Excellent! Let’s go’, Trixie said as she and Spike popped out of the bushes and made a dash for Sugarcube Corner.
‘The two of you! FREEZE! Put your hooves above your head, and get on the ground!’ cried out a voice from a bullhorn somewhere off in the distance.
Trixie and spike looked up and discovered that they were surrounded by Paladins, and Archimedes himself, but Trixie wasn’t interested in them. She noticed that they weren’t alone. Two earth ponies were standing behind Archimedes looking incredibly scared. ‘Lotus? Aloe!?!’ Trixie cried out.
‘We’re sorry!’ Aloe cried out.
‘They threatened us!’ Lotus said as she continued to sob.
Archimedes said nothing, the smirking unicorn approached Trixie, who had since gotten down upon the ground.
‘Fuck you’, Trixie said with a scowl.
‘Yes... fuck me’, Archimedes said as he raised a hoof and bashed Trixie in the face with it. ‘Take them all in; leave this one in a cell by herself. I have something... special for her’.
Archimedes couldn’t help but laugh.
Trixie could only wonder what she had gotten herself into.