Rainbow Dash exited Cadences room, as she shut the door behind her, she chanced a quick glance back at Daybreak. He was leaning over Twilight's chest from his chair, letting his tears fall onto the burn mark that now scarred her near perfect purple coat. She smiled, despite being about to commit, probably, the highest form of treason Equestria had, she still felt unusually calm. Maybe it was the fact that Daybreak had asked her that made her so happy, it was undeniable proof that he trusted and cared for her enough to share his plan. Daybreak had made it clear to her she did not have to help him and would not stop her from trying to tell Celestia if she thought she should. But despite her deep feelings of loyalty to her friends, to the princess, and to Equestria's laws, she knew that this had to be done to save Twilight.

Celestia wanted to try and find another way to defeat King Sombra, but by the time they succeeded, it would be too late for Twilight. Cadences magic could not hold off Sombra's dark powers forever, maybe not even more than a few days. She had only lasted about a week the last time she needed to constantly maintain a powerful spell like that when protecting the Crystal Empire. Although this was a much smaller figure to protect, the magic fighting against her was also more powerful than Sombra had previously been. Rainbow wasn't exactly a mathematician and neither was Daybreak, but with all those factors combined, they figured Twilight had about a week to live unless they destroyed Sombra.

That did not give them much time, although Daybreak clearly had a pretty good plan, there were still several things that could go wrong. However, starting tomorrow, Daybreak and Rainbow Dash would vanish for the next week, they knew they could not chance involving any of their close friends in what they would do, nor could they be allowed to spot them in any way. Because if their plan failed, they would likely be fugitives or jailed for treason, and they could not allow their friends to become part of that.

Rainbow Dash exited the crystal palace and immediately took to the skies. She might as well get started as they certainly didn't have a lot of time to waste. First she needed to create a huge storm over the Crystal Empire, whatever kind of storm it was did not matter, just so long as it was enough to make everypony seek shelter. Now there were a lot of factors going into just this part of their plan. For one, Rainbow had never put together a whole storm by herself before, although she promised Daybreak she would have it done in under an hour, that would certainly be pushing it. And second, they had never messed with the weather around here before, and so were unaware if it held any special properties that would hamper their progress.

Nevertheless Rainbow knew she had to try if Daybreak was to have any chance of succeeding uninterrupted. So she began gathering clouds into groups and smashing them together like she normally would for Ponyville. She gave each of the clouds a little kick start with her hooves and moved her small groups together so she could start the all at once when she was ready. Within no time Rainbow had already changed the days forecast from sunny to cloudy and began to cover and smoother out any large patches of sunlight.

Back inside Cadences room, Daybreak saw the sun beginning to fade behind clouds and knew Rainbow must be doing well if it was happening so quickly. He sighed in relief, thankful that their were no problems in moving the clouds, darkening the sky was the only way he could perform his duty without being spotted, add to that a huge storm, and there would be no pony outside to watch him. He acknowledged that if he could just change the weather at will like his father this would have saved them a lot of time, but cotton candy clouds would have probably given him away really quick.

As Daybreak stood up he looked down at Twilight, staring at the deep magical burn mark on her chest, this was the reason he would go against Celestia and all of Equestria if he had to. He swore he would save Twilight no matter what the cost, and afterwards, only after she was safe, he would face the consequences for what he was going to do. Daybreak held out his palm and snapped his fingers. With a small "pop" the Smarty Pants doll he had given Twilight so long ago appeared in his hand. He set in down with her and pulled the covers over her comfortably. He propped her wings gently so she would be comfortable. Then he leaned down and kissed her horn, he left a tiny bit of his magical trace on it, to give her pleasant dreams while she slept, hopefully, peacefully. He knew Sombra's dark magic had many ways to causes mental torment, he hoped he had at least spared her some nightmares. Once he was sure she was comfy, he turned and left the room.

Once outside he took to a jog and snapped his fingers again. This time, the magically enhanced fire ruby Cadence had given him appeared around his neck along with his royal necklace that brightly displayed his cutie mark like one of the Elements of Harmony. As he jogged he used his magic to fuse these two objects together. His royal necklace still clung to his neck like an element, but at the center of his cutie mark was the fire ruby. He had shrunk it slightly so it would not bulge or be in his way, but it nevertheless shined brightly around his neck before he dimmed the shine with his magic.

He smiled at his creation and instantly touched his claw to it, as it glowed he transferred some of his own magic into the necklace for storage. He had planned to use his crown/necklace for this purpose for a long time, to just store power inside should he ever need it. He had decided he would do this three times a day, storing small fragments of his power inside it until he would ever need it.

As Daybreak began to walk the streets of the Crystal Empire, he saw the sky blacken as the storm clouds blocked out the sun. He looked around and saw many of the crystal ponies dashing inside their homes already, apparently preparing for the storm. Daybreak smiled, this was going better than he hoped, now all he needed was a secluded alley for his summoning spell.

Luckily for him that did not take long to find, even with the sky nearly pitch black, there were alleys where the mere color of the purple crystals there, created a kind of dark shade to the alley. Not at all evil or shady looking, just pretty in a dark way. Daybreak found one of these alley ways and waited for the light to completely vanish behind the clouds. Once it was dark enough to possibly be confused for night time, he began his spell.

He sat down cross legged and held out his palm, with another small "pop" a tinge of pinkish aura appeared in his palm, floating like a little bubble. He smiled, happy he had held onto bits of her magic, just in case he needed it. The little bubble began to shape itself in the form of a wizard hat. Daybreak almost smirked, even her magic was obsessed with her get up. He pushed the thought away and focused on the aura in his palm, and for the second time, began to track down his Great and Powerful friend.