“Twilight? What’s going on?” I asked while I was trying to stay with said pony, she’s surprisingly a fast runner. And coupled with the fact that I really don’t have being a pony down all too well. It kinda made it hard to keep up without tripping.

“No time to explain!” Was all she said. I decided to just wait until we get to wherever the hell we’re going.

Twilight eventually lead me to some open field barren of any grass or plant life. With small mounds of dirt and holes littering the area.

“Where are we?”

“We are where I get most of my gems.” A frantic Rarity said. I then noticed the girls looking around in each hole with a feverish pace.

“What’s going on?” I asked. And Aj basically gave me the rundown; Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, and Scootaloo were here earlier, it was something about seeing if they could get a cutie mark in gem finding, but whatever. Aj told me that they haven’t been back for hours when they said they’d only be here for a half hour. And the girls think diamond dogs kidnapped them.

“Oh, really?” I felt something in me snap. How dare they take kids for whatever purpose?

“Yeah, so ya mind helpin’ us? You’d be doin’ us a favor.”

“Oh yeah, I’ll help.” I simply state. I then went up to one of the dirt mounds, since Aj told me those mongrels go in and out of those things, push the pile aside, revealing a hole. “I’ll be back.” I say right before I jumped in. *Those dogs are fucking dead if they hurt them.*

“How many people do we have?”

“Sir! Exactly five hundred! Sir!”

“And are we gathering more?”

“Sir! We continue to recruit two to ten a day! Sir!”

“Perfect, return to your duty.” Two-four-seven, or ‘Agent Spaz’ as he likes to call himself, saluted and marched off.

“I have got to say Ember. You are quite the organized one.” Discord complemented.

“Yeah, I pride myself.” I subconsciously puff my chest out. Accepting the ego stroking with grace.

“And it is fortunate this warehouse was previously unoccupied.” Discord muttered.

“This is a bit fortunate.” I agree. “But that doesn’t matter right now. We need to get more followers.”

“Why do we need followers? You make sound like we’re creating a cult.”

“A man has no power if he doesn’t have people behind him.” I answered cryptically.

*I am going to murder them when I find the girls.* I thought darkly. I’ve been wandering around these caves for what felt like hours. Every once in awhile I would hear a little noise here and there, but nothing worth while.

I also don’t know how I was able to see in these pitch-black tunnels. I’m probably just that angry, and magic is helping me.

*Finally I’m fucking somewhere.* I enter I large cavern, it looks like an old mining cave, rails everywhere, carts full of gems sit atop them, a few pickaxes and other mining tool lay strewn about. *Bingo.* I spot a few jail-looking rooms. Bars make up the front walls. As I got closer I saw three diamond dogs; one was short, one was tall and scrawny, and the last was tall and thick. And they were holding crude spears. Without any hesitation, I advance on them.

“Hault! Pony!” The tall skinny one barked. I did so. “How pony down here!? We no let pony in!”

“I made myself an entrance.” I said.

“Leave pony! We no want you here!” Stringbean said.

“As soon as I get those little girls, I'll be on my way.”

“No! We need small ponies! We no let them go!” He said.

“Ember!? Is that you!?” I heard Applebloom shout. I look behind the dogs and stare into the cells. The C.M.C. look worse for wear. I even spy a few bruises among the three of them, Scootaloo has one on one of her eyes. Holy fuck I’m ripping their heads and take nice big shits down their necks.

“Quiet pony!” Scrawny hit Applebloom with the bottom of the spear. Right in her left eye. At that point I snapped. I transformed back to human form and rushed the skinny one. I was thinking on a primal level as I formed a large blade around my hand, and sent it right through Scrawny’s chest. He instantly went down and I then went for dog-hulk. He didn’t stand a chance against my speed as I nearly sliced off his head. His body stood stock still for a few seconds as his head dangled off his neck by a few strands of tendons and muscles, then he fell and met the ground with a meaty thud.

Short shit was petrified until I locked eyes on him. He tried digging into the ground, but I grabbed his tail yanked him out of the divot he made. With a small yelp of surprise from him I slammed his body to the ground a few times. Getting a few more pained yelps and half-howls. The second he stopped making noise I dropped the body and moved to the cages. And pried the bars open. The girls cheered as I grabbed them and teleported all four of us back to the surface.

The girls were pacing around, looking down different holes that were piles of dirt. They all noticed us at once and rushed up to us. Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow all pulled Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, and Scootaloo respectively into their embrace while the rest were hugging them as well. Scootaloo and Applebloom were sporting a swollen eye each. Luckily they weren’t covered in dog blood. I hope they didn’t see what I did down there… Nah, they didn't, it was too dark. Plus they’d be horrified by now if they did.

*If either of them are missing an eye next time I see them they’ll be a massacre under these grounds.*

“Ember? Are you alright?” Twilight noticed I was standing off to the side and walked up to me. “Y-your hand, it’s… it’s.”

“Don’t worry about me Twilight. I’m fine.” She kept staring at the blood splotches that are undoubtedly covering parts of my chest and face. “I need to wash this shit off before it dries up. Let me know what happens after this.” Without waiting for a responce I teleport home and take a long, long shower.

“Anything new Spaz?”

“Sir! We’re at one thousand and counting! Sir!”

“Excellent, return to duty.”

“Sir yes sir!”

“When will the fun staaaaart?” Discord whined.

“Ask that one more time and you’ll wish you never had a mouth. We will start soon, we just need more people. Now help with these plans… We’re gonna have to start making signs and plaques to tell people we exist and what we’re planning.”

“But..?”

“Doesn’t matter if we come off as threatening. People will know what we're doing soon enough.”

“Where are they?” I asked as soon as I entered the waiting area. There were few ponies there. Parents waiting for the kids and shit like that. I spot Twilight just she spots me and we meet halfway to each other.

“They’re in the recovery ward. And before you ask. They’re fine. The worst thing was Scootaloo and Applebloom getting those black eyes.” I clench my fists without realizing it. Twilight stops me in the middle of a hall and puts a hoof on one of my balled hands.

“Ember, they are fine. The fillies didn’t sustain any major injuries. They. Are. Fine.” She said to me. I realized I was fuming over nothing and took a few breaths, then reopened my hands.

“Thank you.” I manage a smile. “I needed that.”

“Don’t mention it.” Twilight smiled back. We shared a moment before we continued our trek to the little girls. The recovery ward was basically made up of beds lining the walls with those curtains you pull for privacy.

“Ember!?” The C.M.C. spot me before I do. I turn to where their voice came from and immediately I felt more calm than before. The three of them were sporting many bandaids and gauze. Applebloom and Scootaloo wearing more around their heads covering their black eyes. Their looks told me a world of hurt, but their bright smiles told me otherwise.

“Hey girls. Feeling better?” I asked as I walked up to them.

“Yeah! We’re feeling great!” Scootaloo answered.

“Ah jus’ wonder when tha doc’s gonna let us go.” Applebloom pouted.

“He said we’re gonna be out today!” Sweetie Belle assured the earth pony. For some reason she noticeably had more bandaids than the other two…

“Well, I’m glad you’re all feeling better. I guess it’s a little redundant to give you three these then.” I snap my fingers and three cards appear in my hand.

“What’s ‘redundant’?” Scoot had a little bit of trouble pronouncing the word. I would’ve given her the definition if Sweetie didn’t beat me to it.

“It means it’s not important anymore.” She said with a scholarly tone.

“Yeah, what she said.” I mutter. “But I made these for you. They’re get well cards.” I hand them each their respective cards. A yellow, dark pink and red one for Applebloom, a white, pink and purple one for Sweetie, and an orange, purple, and light blue one for Scoot. What was in those those cards are for their eyes only. And judging from their expressions, they appreciated the sentiments.

“Awwww.” They said together. “Thank you!”

“Anytime girls. I’ll see ya around ok?” They once again smile brightly and nod.

“You got it!” They kept the saying things in unison thing going as I left with Twilight.

“Ember?”

“Hmm?”

“That was really nice of you to do.” I look over at Twilight, and she’s been holding back tears.

“What can I say? I got a soft spot for kids.” She giggles a bit and we part ways. Since it was still mid afternoon I decided to head over to Applejack’s to kill some time.

“Alright! We’re one million strong!” I cheer!

“Yippie...” Discord said unenthusiastically. “After about, what? Two years? Yes, this is very exciting.”

“Whatever Discord, you just killed the mood.” I grumble. “But still. Ever since I found this site holy shit recruiting people has gotten easy.”

“Pray tell, what is this site again?”

“It’s called ‘FimFiction’, for the hundredth time. Do you even pay attention to shit I say?”

“Hmm?” He never took his eyes off his laptop. I probably never should’ve gotten him one…

“Never mind. Now, we push for phase two...” I go to my Yahoo account and send a message to all my androids telling them instead of gathering more people, they’re now going to start spreading ideas, rumors, and thoughts of revolution. It’s only a matter of time now…

The C.M.C. have only been out of the hospital for two days and they look like nothing nothing happened to them. Wow, they either recover quickly or magic as at play here… Meh, might as well be magic, since it’s basically a part of their biology. Something I learned from Twilight since I started ‘hanging out’ with her more. And holy crap Starlight is absolute shit at hiding. I just wonder why none of the ponies have noticed her spying on Twilight, especially Fluttershy. They must really not give a single shit. Or they really haven’t noticed Starlight and she’s just good at hiding from her own race. But seriously, if you saw someone suspiciously staring at one of the rulers of your country. Wouldn’t you do something about it?

But I seriously can’t tell Twilight about it, it’d cause her to eventually panic. And when I told Celestia she went on this shpiel about ‘letting things happen’. Is she some type of oracle that can predict the future of something? That’s all I can chalk it up too. Plus it makes sense; she controls a star for fuck’s sake. Who knows what kind of power she holds.

Oh, there’s Starlight again… And is she using binoculars? Why? Why would anyone need that when they’re twenty feet away!?

“H-holy crap Discord...” plap, plap, plap “I… needed this.”

Plap, plap, plap Shhhhlcik

“Ooooh~ Gods. If I wasn’t in such bliss, I’d tell you to shut up and rut me more.”

SLAM. My pelvis met his ass with gusto.

“OOaahha! Buck!”

“Heh. Heheh...”

“Ugh… my head...” I sit up and grab my forehead. It was pounding for whatever reason. I force my eyes to open, much to their protest, and find that I sitting in the middle of a tundra. “Where the hell..?” I spot what looks like a city in the distance. Without much thought coupled with the fact I was getting cold fast. I got up and headed towards the city.

...

*What is this place? And why is it so empty?* I think to myself as I walk down a street. It was eerily quiet, not that I could complain since this place was somehow warm all around. The buildings were made of some shiny material, but it all looked kinda crude. *Maybe I can find somebody from up there…* I fly up the tallest building, which vaguely looks like the Eiffel Tower. And land on the nearest balcony to survey the area.

… … …

And there’s nothing. Not a single soul in sight. But there is a black dot off in the distance. Maybe somebody that can help? Meh, like I got any other choices. I take off and head to the black dot.

...

It’s a war zone down there. Ponies against ponies. Well, some are wearing these awesome helmets with green glowing eyes. And the others are from the royal guards. What’s going on?

Ah, there’s Celestia and Luna. Maybe I can ask them what’s going on…

“Hault! Creature!” Before I could even get close enough, Luna teleports to right in front of my face, forcing me to almost painfully flare my wings to stop as soon as I could without ramming into her. And she’s holding a wicked scythe in her magic, cool. “We sense no dark magic within thee. State thy name and business!” Wait, she doesn’t know me? What the hell..?

“My name’s Ember. And I was hoping you or Celestia could tell me what’s going on.”

“Who do thee know our sister’s name?” The scythe edges a little closer to my neck.

“Luna, it’s me, Ember. We’re friends. Remember?”

“We do not remember such things!” The scythe got that much closer to my neck. “Why do thee lie to us!?”

“I’m not lying! I’m telling the truth!”

“Luna?” I heard Celestia call. Luna removed the scythe that threatened to slice my neck and turned to her sister. “Who is this?” Celestia was wearing armor and so is Luna, they both look like complete badasses. And while Luna has a scythe. Celestia has an awesome… I don’t wanna call it a spear, it kinda looks like one, but it’s more of a staff with a blade on its tip.

“This creature tells his name to be Ember. And he claims us to be ‘friends’.” Luna explained. Every once in awhile she would shoot a scrutinizing glance at me.

“Hmm...” I’m willing to bet she's either weighing options or deciding what to do with me. In either case, it might not do well for me. “Prove it."

“What?” Me and Luna asked, flabbergasted.

“If you truly are our friend, then prove it to us by aiding in our efforts against King Sombra.” Sombra? Who..? Oh yeah, that cloudy fucker that Twilight told me about. Huh… So they’re fighting a war with him? I thought he died already…

“Alright, just tell me what to do and what not to do.”

“Good. Firstly, do not kill my little ponies, especially those with the glowing helmets.”

“Why?”

“Those are the brainwashed citizens of the Crystal Empire. I suspect those helmets they wear keeps them that way.”

“Alright, I’ll do you one better then; I’ll try and remove those helmets as I fight them. Sounds fair?” She nodded. “Alright, anything else?”

“Do not face Sombra, he is far too powerful for any single being to fight against.” I nod.

“Got it!” I smirk and turn to head into the fray.

“Wait!” But Celestia stopped.

“What is it?” I asked when I face her again.

“Our subjects need to know you are with us, hold still.” Both Celestia and Luna point their horns at me. Which began to glow as a tingling sensation flared up in my wings. I look behind me and see my right wing and a sun on it, and my left has a moon. I face the diarchs one last time and nod right before I fly into war.

“Yes… yes… more people actually supporting our cause! The world is changing as we speak!” I cackle.

“Yes, how many do we have now?” Discord with mock interest. His attention solely on a loose feather in his arm.

“Only about four point three million.” I answer.

“Really? And how much time has this all taken?” He plucks the loose feather. Letting it float to the floor.

“I think it’s taken about five years?” Discord looked off to the side, as if staring at some unseen audience, and mouths ‘wow’ while shaking his head.

“So, when are you declaring war on every major country?” He asked.

“I don’t need to do that. At least, not yet...” I answer. “And before you ask. The only reason I would declare war is if someone starts shit with me. Which no one has yet.” *I actually hope it doesn’t come to that…*

-Why? So you don’t lose your precious androids?-

*What!? No! I need to keep my peaceful image!

=Even though no one has really seen you yet?=

*Yes!* The voices in my head groan. Idiots.

-We can hear your thoughts fuck face.-

*Screw off Embris.*