//------------------------------// // The Escape // Story: The Battles Of Today, The Wars Of Tomorrow // by Fryguy //------------------------------// Back at Neffison's castle, Twilight and her friend were plotting their escape from the dungeons, but they had coverings on their horns, so they couldn't escape by magic. Or could they? "Let me take that horn covering off Twilight, so you can blast the door." Twilight's friend was waiting for the right moment to take the covering off. Twilight didn't like the idea of blasting the door, the guards would come immediately to find them, and her friend agreed to try Twilight's plan. "Neffison, Neffison, so clueless to put chains on us, he won't even know that we're gone!" Twilight's friend reached towards Twilight's horn, and with her hoofs, was able to lodge the covering enough so Twilight could take it off completely. With her magic back, Twilight could easily take off the covering on her friend's horn. "Now if we can somehow make a guard accidentely unlock our cell door. We could easily knock him out!" Twilight was telling her plan while her friend looked out the cell door. A guard was walking down the corridor. "This is our chance right now Twilight! Here comes a guard!" Twilight turned to look, the guard was only a few cells away, they had only seconds to carry out their plan. "Guard! Guard!" The stallion peered towards the cell door. Twilight was calling for him. "What is it? Unless if it is a absolute emergency, consider your request denied." The guard was about to turn away and leave when Twilight called for him again. "But wait! Me and my friend are almost out of water! Please get us some more." The guard instantly wanted to help, and ran for the water jugs near the dungeon exit, then ran back to the cell. As he opened the cell door, however, Twilight and her friend jumped him, knocking him out. As Twilight and her friend exit their cell, they grabbed the water jugs that the guard was carrying for them. They might need them later on. They needed a way out of the castle avoiding the guards, but unfortianetly, some unicorn guards spotted the duo, and they weren't sure how the prisoners escaped. "Let's check the dungeon to see what happened." says one guard. "Sounds like a good idea!" Says the other. When the guards reach Twilight's and her friend's cell, they notice the door was open, as they move closer, they notice a unconscious guard. "They must have escaped by tricking the guard!" One guard exclaims. "Really? We must not let therm escape! Or Neffison would kill us!" "Right after you!" The unicorn guards followed the escapees, they couldn't be seen, or the prisoners will know that they will have to get out of here faster. But if that does happen, they will have to use transportation spells to catch Twilight and her friend. For they were crafty. "Shhhhhh. Be careful, we don't want to cause attention, but we can maybe get more guards out here you know." "Yeah, that would help a lot!" But as the guard was saying this, he bumped against a wall, causing a vase on a platform to fall to the ground and shatter into a million pieces, the crash was so startling that seven unicorn guards ran up to the shattered piece of art in shock, unaware that Twilight and her friend was waking directly towards them in confusion, what happened? "What was tha........Oh no! We need to get out of here! Now!" Twilight and her friend raced away. The unicorn guards were confused, but realized that their prisoners had escaped their confinement. "What the............................get them!" The unicorn guards' horns begin glowing, and with a flash of light, they were gone. Twilight and her friend raced through the corridors. As they ran, Twilight asked a question to her friend. "I don't think I ever got your name. What is it by the way?" The blue unicorn looks at Twilight, with the facial expression saying, this is a bad time to ask that! But she answers. "My name is Zesponella. But you can call me Zenny." The blue unicorn said. But as they rounded a corner, two guards popped out of nowhere, when they tried to go back, seven more guards had appeared like one of Trixie's magical appearances. Twilight and Zenny were surrounded, they were trapped. "We have you now!" One guard said as he pulled out a sword, he was planning on hitting them with the butt of his sword. But before he could do anything towards his goal, the wall next to them is blasted. "WHAT THE......QUICKLY! GET THE PRISONERS!" The guards were terrified, dust blocked the view through the hole in the wall. When the dust cleared, an alicorn who had landed on the debree had his horn glowing. "Retreat! That alicorn can kill us all! Retreat!" The guards ran through the halls and rounded the corner, and they were gone. Twilight and Zenny quickly turn to their savior. "Thanks so much for helping us! What's your name?" The alicorn just motioned to leave, and said. "The name is Geoffrey, nice to meet you! But we really must go! The guards might be back." The two unicorns smiled and eagerly ran through the hole in the wall, Geoffrey following close behind. Back in Canterlot, Neffison is furious to know that an alicorn had helped Twilight and Zenny escape his dungeons back in Salvania. He fiercely looked at the guards who brought the message. "Who is this alicorn that helped Twilight and her friend named Zenny escape?" The guards shifted uneasily, but finally replied. "The alicorn's name is Geoffrey, sir." Neffison's eyes widened, for Geoffrey was one of his friends, now, he was a traitor! Neffison then yelled at the guards. "FIND GEOFFREY AND BRING HIM HERE AT ONCE! BRING TWILIGHT AND ZENNY IF HE HAS THEM AS WELL! THEY WILL FACE A GREAT PUNISHMENT! MAYBE THEY WILL EVEN MEET THE GALLOWS!" As Neffison finished yelling his order, the guards were already soluting to him and running out the door. Neffison tried to relax as he thought of ways to punish his once close friend. Jail wouldn't do any good, death, maybe, banishment, maybe. Finally, Neffison couldn't take it. "AUGH! Geoffrey dared to betray me! He will face the gallows! Once he is dead, Equestria may not see freedom ever again! OH HO HO! MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAA HA HA HAAAA!" Neffison would soon take care of Geoffrey, and soon, have maybe even more executions! He could hardly wait to see a gallows built! But now, he had to wait for that time to come, the time to see Geoffrey fall from the gallows. But he needed to wait.