https://eqbeats.org/track/21
 
> You and your herd of horses duck through the hallways looking for a way out.
> More looking…
> and more looking.
> Who the hell built this building?
> Everything looked pretty much the same…
> Rainbow and Twilight both looked pretty spent.
> Rarity held her own, but her hair was slightly disheveled.  
> Rainbow is the first to complain.
> “How much farther?”
> “You are the most athletic pony I know. How can you be tired already?” Twilight retorts.
> Rainbow’s eyes dart around and can’t seem to meet her friend’s.
> “I’m not tired, but, uh, if you are, I won’t mind stopping.”
> “I must admit, darling, I am pretty tired as well.” Rarity turns to you, ”Perhaps we can wait a bit?”
“I don’t even know where we are going, so we might as well.”
> You all sit against one wall.
“So what’s the deal with magic? Where I come from that’s all just fairy tales.”
> “And where, pray tell, are you from?”
“If you ask anyone I know, they will tell you I’m from Minnesota… eh.”
> “Where is that?”
“The United States, but based on the fact you are a bunch of talking horses, I take it you don’t know where that is either.”
> You are met with mutual head shakes.
> “We /ponies/ are from Ponyville, to the southeast of here.”
“So it’s a town run entirely by ponies?”
> Twilight nods.
> “Yes, but we also have sheep, cows, and other creatures help us.”
> Rainbow is next to speak up.
> “That place you mentioned, Kyrgyzstan, what were you doing here?”
“That’s… a little hard to explain.”
> “We have time, Darling.”
“I’m a sort of… troubleshooter for the DXS, the Department of External Services. They sent me there to get a box of data from a wreckage.”
> “That acronym isn’t right,” Twilight speaks up.
“I know, but it sounds better for publicity.”
> “A wreckage? Was anyone hurt?”
“I almost was.”
> There is a moment of awkward silence before you look to Twilight.
“So I know Rainbow is looking to join the Wonderbolts. What about you? What do you do for a living?”
> “I’m a librarian and I study magic. Oh! Yea, you were wondering about that and we got sidetracked!”
> She takes a deep breath while Rainbow rolls her eyes.
> “Here we go.”
> “Magic is a –“
> You suddenly clap your hand over Twilight’s mouth.
“Did you hear that?”
 
> “Mhdhi heaphr phwat?”
 
“Hide!”
> You duck into a passageway, with your band of ponies in toe.
> Sounds like guards.
> You peek around the corner.
> Rainbow does the same.
> Two ponies are talking to each other, wearing grass clothes and carrying spears.
> “Looks like Ahuizotl’s henchmen,” Rainbow whispers
> you can barely hear them, and their voices are barely decipherable.
> [spoiler]“Lol u tk him 2da bar|?”[/spoiler]
> “Ay an he zo gud wid it too.”
> “Man das kray. Whatz up wid tha new pets?”
> “Yea, I don know, da boss just brought in 4 ponies and a monkey ting.”
> “Ponies? Man iz he tryin’ to go down fo’ fillynappin?”
> “Ahuizy? Hez got his five hands on all kinds of messed up shit yo. That yellow pony in room 101 was straight guano.
> “I heard they threw a party las week, and der was some serious, serious drugs.
> “I know I was there...”
> Their voices trail off as they pass you and walk down the hall.
> After you wait a few minutes for them to get out of earshot, you turn to the ponies.
“There’s another pony?”
> They look up at you and shake their heads.
> “What yellow ponies do we know?” Rainbow rubs her head.
> “The couldn’t have gotten Fluttershy could they?”
> “I don’t think so... but if they did find her, she wouldn’t have put up much of a fight.”
“Who’s Fluttershy?”
> Twilight was the first to respond.
> “She’s our friend. She’s great with animals and really friendly, its just…. Shes kind of… you see-“
> “She’s a whimp.” Rainbow interrupts.
> “Yeah.”
“…Ah. She’s in room 101. What do you know about these guards”
> “Not much.”
“Do you think they would notice one more?”
> “I don’t know, they don’t seem to be that organized.”
“I think I have an idea.”
> “You seem to have interesting ideas. What do you have in mind?”
> You look down at the grey dust littering the floor, then to Rarity.
“We get captured.”
> Be one of Ahuizotl’s Henchmen.
> be fuckin pissed.
> He leaves you here to stand guard while he is off doing something interesting.
> You have already counted the ceiling tiles a few times.
> The first time you came up with 120, and the next time you came up with 121.
> You are now counting a third time to see which was right.
> How can you have an odd number of ceiling tiles?
> It doesn’t make sense.
> Suddenly you hear scuffling down the hall.
> Whoo! Action!
> You lower your spear.
> A grey mare comes around the corner, pulling a rope tied around two ponies and a large ape-like creature.
> “Oy! You there! I caught these guys trying to escape.”
> Since when did Ahuizotl start hiring mares?
> Fucking Equine Resources department.
> Wait, wasn’t there another pony?
> You skeptically raise an eyebrow.
“Where’s the other one? The white one?”
> “She got away, but in this building she won’t get far. You want to go find her?”
“My job is to stand here and guard.”
> “Well my job is to get these guys to better containment. Did you see what they did to the last cell? They knocked the whole gate down!”
“Well sorry, but I was told to make sure no one passed.”
>  “Do you want to make the boss mad? Cause I sure don’t.”
> You don’t either.
“Fine. Lets go. But I’m escorting you.”
> “Well, I’ve been told to take these guys up to room 100.”
“Why room 100? Whats wrong with 55?”
> “You see, any room number that’s not divisible by both 2 and 5 throws off the cosmic balance of the universe.”
> Was she fucking serious?
> Whatever.
“Fine, right this way.”
> “Thank you. And send some guards to find that white pony when you get a chance.”
“Whatever,” you say while leading the grey pony down the hall.
 
 
> Be Rarity.
> After walking down a long corridor, the guard reaches room 100.
> You hear scuffling coming from 101, but can’t determine who it is.
> “Here you go miss. Just throw them in here.”
> Mac, Dash, and Twilight walked inside.
> “Alright.”
“Shouldn’t I untie them?”
> “Why? They’re captives… right?”
> He raises and eyebrow at you.
“O… Of Course.”
> “And we need to get back to our post. The ritual is starting soon, and the boss will need us to be there.”
> He closes the door and locks it, putting the key around his neck.
> “Right this way ma’am.”
> He gives a gesture for you to follow.
> You don’t have much of a choice it seems.
> You need to get that key.
> You turn tail and walk with the guard down the hallway, leaving the others locked in the room.
 
> Be Mac again.
> Untie the slipknots around your hands while Twilight and Rainbow undo theirs.
“Alright, lets see what we got.”
> Looks like a storage room.
> Metal bars, wood planks, some old spears, a few barrels.
> “Wow, did they just throw a bunch of random stuff in here?”
> You turn around and take a step to look behind the stack of scrap metal.
> And immediately trip over something and fall on your face.
> The black box, with your backpack next to it.
> Sunavabitch.
> “Well, congratulations. We got ourselves caught. Now what?”
“For starters, we see if our cohort is alright.”
> “Rarity will be fine.”
“I was talking about the one next door.”
> “Oh.”
> The wall between the rooms was pretty thick, but you could hear something moving around on the other side.
> Luckily this room had a window.
> With massive iron bars over it.
> 30 feet above you.
> Rainbow flies up and tries in vain to move the bars.
> You aren’t getting out of there...
 “What’s in these barrels?”
> checking for labels, it seems that one is labeled “sugar.”
> The other is labeled “Stump remover.”
> The barrels look exactly the same.
> The contents look exactly the same.
> You got to wonder whose idea it was to put them together in here.
> OSHA would be pissed.
> Wait, stump remover?
> You grab some wood from the pile.
“Help me make a fire.”
 
> Be Rarity again.
> The guard and you end up in a large antechamber.
> He takes his post on the right of a large pillar.
> What the hell are you supposed to do?
> You stand next to him at attention.
> He looks at you like you’re crazy.
> You meet his gaze until he falters and rolls his eyes.
> For the first time, you get a chance to look around the room.
> Wow, what a sausage fest.
> You are the only female in this entire freaking place.
> It’s like you can smell the Doritos and Mountain Dew.
> One thing at a time.
> Gotta get that key…
 
 
 
> Be Mac again.
> The Equines watch you intently as you work.
> You’ve got a small fire going from some of the wood planks and your handy box of matches.
> You put a sheet of steel scrap on top of the fire to make a sort of makeshift griddle.
> “Why do you always seem to know exactly what to do?” Twilight asks.
“I guess it’s just quick wits.”
> Do these things know nothing of chemistry or physics?
> C’mon.
> You grab a handful of stump remover and another of sugar and throw them both on the griddle.
> Your clothes are still a little damp, and you manage to pull about a cup of water out of them and dump it on the mixture.
> As it caramelizes, you run over and grab one of the metal tubes.
> “I almost hate to ask. What exactly are you doing?”
“Stump remover is made of saltpeter.”
> “That’s Potassium nitrate, right?” Twilight asks, finally catching on.
“Yes and it acts as an oxidizer for the sucrose in sugar.”
> “What, what’s going on? I don’t get it.”
> “He’s making explosives, Rainbow.”
> The pile of sugar and stump remover is slowly turning brown, and you quickly grab it off the fire with a small piece of wood and jam it into one end of a 1 foot long, 3 inch diameter metal tube.
> You use a rock and completely close off the far end of the tube, and then shovel the rest of the mixture in.
> You grab the rope from your backpack and cram it into the canteen of alcohol, then pull it out, securing one end to the mixture on the open end of the tube, then use the rock to close the tube to roughly 1 inch.
> You then slide the tube, which was roughly a foot long, into a larger tube and put it under a heavy pile of sheet metal, aiming it at the wall.
> Rainbow looks down at the small metal canister you’ve scrapped together.
>”You just made a rocket…”
“Yup.”
> “Now what?”
“Now, we stand back”
> “If you light that fuse would it blow?”
> “It would be extremely painful.”
 
 
> Be Rarity again.
> Be bored.
> Be tired.
> Be standing at attention.
> The guard is still looking at you with that weird look.
> Luckily, his concentration was broken by the door opening.
> Ahuizotl walks in, and all the guards around him bow in respect.
> You awkwardly follow their lead.
> Ahuizotl trods past you and takes his place in front of the pillar.
> “Friends, Ponies, countrymen, lead me your ears!”
> They all look up to him.
> “We gather here to bring about the return of our greatest ruler, return glory to the throne, and restore our honor and respect as the greatest band of heroes ever to walk Equestria!”
>They all cheer, and you halfheartly follow suit.
> “We shall blot out the sun and bring about the return of her, Nightmare Moon!”
> What!
> Didn’t we
> “Now, let us partake in the ceremonial [spoiler]Orgy[/spoiler] of the Moon and rejoice!
> Oh geez.
> All of the guards start taking off what little clothing they have.
> Oh Fuck.
> Wait!
> Oh yes!
> The guard you were with takes the key off and places in on the pile of clothes.
> As soon as he walks away, you swoop in and grab the key, putting it around your neck.
> The guards all congregate and start forming a massive twitching pile of flesh like that monster from Slither.
> Ahuizotl looks to you.
> “Won’t you join us, th-“
> He was interrupted by a rumbling explosion.
> “GUARDS! WHO DARES INTERRUPT THE RITUAL. BRING THEM TO ME!”
> The Guards quickly grab their spears and swords and rush down the hallway.
> You manage to blend with the crowd before breaking off.
 
> Be Rainbow Dash.
> Wow.
> You’ve seen fireworks, but that was one hell of an explosion.
> Mac told you to hide behind a pile of scrap metal, but you didn’t expect something of that scale.
> You saw Mac light the fuse and make a dive to join you.
> The inner tube shot out at an alarming rate and punched a hole right through the wall, causing the wall to crumble and opening a 3 foot wide gap in the median wall.
“Fluttershy!”
> You call out to your friend as the dust settles.
> A Flapping of wings is heard and a figure appears in the dust.
> “Hey, what the heck do you think you’re doing?”
> That didn’t sound like fluttershy…
> A yellow pony with black hair, an adventurer’s vest and a pith helmet steps out.
> You recognize her immediately.
“Daring Do!”
> “Oh. Hey, its you again.”
> “You’ve met before?” Mac jumps in.
> “Yeah, we’ve met before.” Daring looks at you with an annoyed look on her face.
> You realize that you are slowly whispering “…ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh…” under your breath and stop.
“Sorry.”
> She looks back to Mac.
> “I’ve met a bunch of creatures in my travels, but you’re a new addition to the menagerie. What are you doing here?”
> Mac waves his hands in a mixture of defeat and ‘I don’t know’.
> “I’m just trying to help. The name’s MacGyver.”
> “Charmed.”
> “And who are you?”
> “As Rainbow just said, I’m Daring.”
> “Ah. I thought it was an activity. I daring. You daring. He, she, it… daring…”
> Daring Deadpans.
> “Well way to freaking go MacGyver, you just told the entire temple we’re here, and we still don’t have a way out. We just when from having 1 locked door to having two locked doors!”
> She gestures to the locked door to her room, then to the locked door of yours.
“Don’t worry, Daring, Mac has a plan to get out,” You retort.
> “I do?”
“You do, don’t you?”
> “Not really.”
”What! B-b-but I though you had a plan!”
> “The tighter a plan you keep, the more likely you are to run into trouble. I just like to wing it.”
> That didn’t sit well with Mrs. plan-everything-out Sparkle.
> “You. Just. WING IT?”
> Mac raises his hands defensively.
> You jump in to his aid.
“But maybe we can make more of those sugar bombs and blow open the door.”
> “I don’t think we have time for that.” He said, pointing to the door.
> You hear scuffling behind the door.
> Daring tenses up and crouches into an offensive position, and you follow suit.
> The door unlatches and swings open.
> Rarity is standing just outside, some of the dust falling off her fur and exposing the white beneath.
> “We have a huge problem!”
 
> Be Ahuizotl.
> Who dares interrupt the ceremony?
> The Dark Shadow of the Night will not be pleased.
> Your faithful guards have run off to discover the reason for the explosion and bring whosoever was involved to your own twisted brand of justice.
> However, you have your own convictions, and you were practically sure you know who was responsible.
> As your army storms off, you silently duck into the shadows.  
 
> Be Rarity.
> You just finished explaining Ahuizotl’s plan to your friends, and had managed to clean enough dirt off your coat and mane that you felt at least somewhat presentable again.
> You still have enough dirt in your coat to cause it to come off as very light gray, as opposed to the white you prefer to put forth, but you can deal with it.  
> After a few shocked glances and explanations to Mac, you all had gotten on roughly the same footing, and we deciding on a plan of action.
> “I just don’t get it,” Rainbow says, “We defeated nightmare moon. Why would Ahuizotl want to bring her back?”
> You shrug.
“Why does Ahuizotl ever do what he does, darling?”
> “Money, power, ‘fun’.” Daring stated, punctuating the last one with large air quotes.  
> Twilight’s the next to jump in.
> “Well we can’t let it happen again. Celestia sent her to the moon once, and we banished the evil from her heart the second time. If he is trying to bring her back, we need stop him before anyone gets hurt, as we may not be able to stop her a third time!”
> “Wait, hold up just a minute.” Mac said, drawing all eyes on him. “I don’t think it’s the best idea to go after Ahuizotl now. It would be best to escape, get rested up and then come back at full strength. Someone could get seriously hurt. I can stay here and get him, but it would be best if you all got out safely.”
> “What! Are you crazy? I say we just run in there and take him out before he does any more damage. This could be really, really bad if it gets out of hand.”
> You jump in to back up Rainbow.
> While you may be one hell of a Seamstress, you are also one hell of a fighter.
“Ahuizotl’s henchmen will be here here any second. We don’t have time to escape, much less get rested and come back. The ritual is happening right now.”
> “And what are you going to do without us? Wander around an ancient temple you know nothing about in a world you don’t understand?”
> “I Sure won’t be able to sleep at night knowing that I put you ladies in danger.”
“Then let’s put it this way: WE’RE going after Ahuizotl. If you /do/ want to protect us, you’ll just have to come along.”
> You hear distant hoofsteps approaching.
> He looks at you for a while, then glances to the others, then back to you, before sighing, defeated.
 “Well, then, let’s get a move on.”
 
 
> Be Ahuizotl’s henchmen.
> You knew something was off about that mare.
> You Knew it.
> You So Fucking Knew it.
[spoiler]>You Knew it in summer! [/spoiler][spoiler] You Knew it in winter! [/spoiler]
> You saw her take the key to the room you had her leave her “captives” in.
> You guess she has already rescued them and taken off.
> Never trust a mare.
> You and an entourage of 5 other guards rush down the hall.
> Room 100.
> The door was wide open.
> Son of a Bitch!
> From the doorway, you can see a huge hole in the wall to room 101, and some scattered debris.
>  You knew it.
> She and her friends are long gone.
“They’re gone! Go guard the exits. They aren’t making it out of here alive!”
> the six of you split off into 2 teams, each heading to a different exit.
> The boss isn’t going to like this…
 
 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o6QYeq7n-o
> Be Mac.
> You listen to the sound of hoofsteps departing before pushing off the large sheet metal plate covering you and the 4 ponies.
> “Well, we aren’t going to make it out the exits.”
> You turn to twilight.  
“We aren’t going for the exit, remember?”
> “Yea, but we will need to leave at some point, right?”
“Don’t worry, I’ve got a plan.”
> “Do you really?” Twilight asks skeptically, raising an eyebrow.
“Kinda.”
> “Kinda…?”
> You turn away from her and stand up, making for the door.
> “Lead the way, Rarity.”
> Rainbow’s interjection was met with immediate haste as the white pony trotted through the door.
> As they leave, a creeping annoyance crawls up on you again.
> Its been bothering you for a while now, but you haven’t really needed to bring it up.
> Until now, with all of Ahuizotl’s guards after your heads.
“Stop, hold on a second.”
> Rarity stops and looks back at you.
> “Whatever’s the matter, darling?”
“Hooves on stone is the polar opposite of stealthy. Is there a way we could be quieter?”
> Daring and Dash start to fly in the air above the ground, but Twilight and Rarity were left without options.
> Hmmm…
> If only you had some bloody duct tape…
> You look around, and your eyes rest on a candle attached to the wall.
> You go over and pull it off its attachment.
> You then start a small fire, and place another bowl-like piece of metal over it, dropping the candle into it.
> Soon enough, you have a bowl of melted wax, and you gesture to Rarity and Twilight.
> Rainbow and Daring were watching intently, dispite not needing to be involved.
“So here’s the idea. If you stick your hooves into this, when the wax cools, it should act as a sort of silencer and dampen the noise.”
> “Wait a minute. You want us to put our hooves into a puddle of molten wax.”
> Damn twilight, what is with you and hating my ideas.
“It’s not that bad, just a little warm.”
> You dip your hand into the wax and pull it out, your hand covered in a thin coating.
“See?”
> You bring your hand to twilight, slowly drifting it towards her face until…
[spoiler] >Boop! [/spoiler]
> Twilight scrunches her face and, without taking her eyes off you, lfts her foreleg and dunks it into the wax.
> She winces a little bit, but troopers though.
> She repeats the action for all of her hooves, and soon steps onto the ground in a much quieter fashion.
> The sounds of dampened thuds replace the clopping of hooves.
 > Rarity is next, and after seeing twilight do it, she manages to get her hooves covered in rapid succession.
> You and your now quiet band of ponies begin the march down the corridors.
 
> “This is it! Right behind this door.”
> After a few minutes of Rarity leading you around and getting lost a few times, you are standing in front of a large stone door.
“This one? Are you sure? They all look pretty similar”
> You look around at the others around you that were very similar.
> “I’m sure of it.”
> “I hope we’re not too late!” Rainbow added, as she steeled herself for combat.
> “Alright everypony, ready?” Twilight asked.
> “Ready!” The ponies all responded in unison.
> “Alright, leeeet’s get him!” Twilight shouts while bucking backwards, knocking the door wide open.
> So much for stealthy.