As I spent most of the night working on my mask I was having a worry in the back of my head that I wasn’t going to make it and would have to wait till another point to reveal myself. But lucky at 2 or 3 am I was finally done I just had to let the paint dry. As I placed the mask down I went to sleep as the stallion at the said check out was at 10, and from what I’ve heard the parade was at 11.

As night gave way to the morning I was awoken by the Stallion form the lobby. “Oi it's 5 to 10,” he said banging on the door.

I quickly put on the Masked Puppeteer mask that was on the nightstand and answered “Thanks.” as I got out of the bed and took off the pony mask as I went to check if the paint was dry on the new mask which luckily it was before I quickly packed everything away and put back on the Pony mask before heading out. As I walked to the front desk the Stallion looked at me as I had an awkward grin on my face as I handed him the key for the room and walked out. I had an hour to kill before my big debut so I wandered the town examining the route the parade will take and which would be the best place to strike.

As the ponies were beginning to gather to watch the Parade I sunk into a nearby alleyway and changed from Masked Puppeteer to my first real mask Azula from Avatar the Last Airbender. After I put the mask on memories flooded into my head of Azula’s childhood, her hunt for the avatar and her defeat at the hand of her brother and Katara, as well as her fighting technique and knowledge on how to bend both fire and lightning. As I looked at my hands and tried to wrap my head around what was happening I could hear the ponies cheering for the Mare-Do-Well. I smirked as I walked out to greet her.

As Pinkie stood on the float going through the town she noticed that her pinkie sense was going off ‘Oh no something bad is going to happen’ she thought to herself as she scanned the area for Rainbow dash she couldn’t see her anywhere. As she was looking around a blue fireball flew passed her startling her.

As Pinkie looked to see where it came from she saw a weird looking Pony standing in front of the float “So you must be the Mare-Do-Well or should I call you Pinkie Pie.” The pony spoke revealing her identity. Pinkie stayed quiet “Oh the silent act .” the ‘pony’ said before launching another fireball which Pinkie dodged. “I’ll just have to make you scream!” she said as she rushed Pinkie as she jumped out of the way of the fire daggers. But as she did so Rainbow dash tackled Pinkie “Thanks.” The warrior said.

“Who are you?” Rainbow asked.

“I’m just here to make a message and you’ll do nicely.” The warrior said as Rainbow was confused for a second before she could only feel pain. She looked down to see a small hole in her chest before she collapsed from the pain.

Before the warrior could speak three more Mare-Do-Well’s came out and looked at their friend and boy were they angry. “Who are you and why did you have to do that.” The first Mare-Do-Well whom I figured was Twilight spoke.

“Simple This form is known as Azula the princess of the Fire-Nation, but my true title is The Puppet Master, as for why I did this well simply put I needed to give Equestria a warning, ‘Balance is returning to this world of order.’” Azula said. Twilight was angry with this Azula or Puppet Master whatever she wanted to call herself but before she could do anything Azula was gone and only fire remained.

“What!” Twilight asked as she and the others removed their hoods showing the town who they were surprising them. Twilight looked at Rainbow and said, “Fluttershy you and Applejack get Rainbow Dash and Pinkie to the hospital.”

“What about you?” Applejack asked.

“I’ll deal with the ponies here, they are going to need an explanation.” She said.

A few days passed since the event of the Mare-Do-Well incident and Rainbow Dash had awoken from her mini coma and was recovering in the hospital. Twilight went to see her. “Hey Rainbow.” Twilight said semi disappointed in herself.

“Twilight or should I say Mare-Do-Well” Rainbow said coldly.

“So you heard.” Twilight said.

“Yeah, I overheard one of the nurse’s talk about it.” Rainbow said.

“We were just-” Twilight started.

“What trying to ruin my reputation, Twilight you're supposed to be smart yet whatever problem that lead you to do this could have probably been solved by just oh I don’t know, talking to me.” She said angrily before saying “Get out and be happy I’m still considering you all as my friends.” As Twilight left Rainbow dropped the thought mare act and started to cry as she knew that if she didn’t save Pinkie from that fire mage she might have died.

As Twilight returned to her treehouse she told Spike to write a letter, In all the chaos she hadn’t told Celestia about the Puppet Master. She called for Spike who was napping sleepily woke up “mmmm, Yes Twilight?” he asked.

“I need you to write a letter to Celestia,” Twilight said. Spike yawned as he took out a piece of paper and started writing down

Dear Princess Celestia

A few days ago we encountered a being called herself the Puppet Master, though she referred to herself a Princess Azula implying that she can change forms. The being attacked Pinkie Pie before hospitalizing Rainbow Dash. We don’t know there goal or what they are planning.

Signed your faithful student
Twilight Sparkle

After Spike sent the letter away he asked “So what now Twilight?” Twilight thought about it and she was unsure.

As the train stopped I grabbed my things and got up luckily for me no one put wanted posters of Azula around which meant I was free to do something. I had two choices and I needed to pick one soon as I was out of money.

I have two ideas for the next chapter, The first is a Bank robbery which ends not how'd you'd expect.

The second is the aftermath of a string of small robberies where James goes through the process of making another mask and his first Puppet.

You have two weeks from when I post this to decide.

Edit Slight change of plans I'm going to do both...Half because I thought it would be interesting and half because I sort-of forgot to tell you that this was a poll