Taking place before Twilight’s ascension to the status of alicorn princess, this is the story of an intervention.

An intervention that sets quite a different chain of events into motion. An intervention that sends Twilight and her friends far from home, deep inside a hostile land, with only the agents of a suspicious foreign power to aid them.

Agents executing their final directive.

Sincere thanks to my first editor, who put many hours into getting the first three chapters of this off the ground. Also sincere thanks to my second editor for continuing to serve as a sanity check!

Remember Cupcakes? Remember thinking how funny it would be if someone rewrote it to be completely sanitised and family-friendly? Oh. Well here it is anyway.

Credit to Sergeant Sprinkles for some of the dialogue carried over into this. As well as, of course, for writing this story's inspiration.

19/1/12: Made a tweak to a couple of sentences that felt clumsy. No major changes.