Ethesto's note: Sorry the last two chapters were pretty rambunctious and had little to do with the story, I just felt like typing something different. I probably should have just typed one of the many story ideas I've come up with that I'm not motivated to work on.
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"So when are we going to defeat Celestia?" I looked over at Steve in slight confusion. That was a pretty strange question to ask.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, you told that spider that you were going to defeat Celestia." He did have a point.

"I suppose you're right."

"Besides, she also attacked the spy crabs with per ponies. She started it."

"I mean, yeah. I guess if you want to we can go defeat Celestia." I said with a shrug.

"Sweet, let's go do that."

"K." After coming to a conclusion about our next course of action we walked into our nice castle that had been completely cleaned since the party two days ago. It wasn't hard to find Dance Blaster, he was hanging out in his room on the fourth floor like usual. We just walked in without knocking to see him sitting on the floor in a circle of runes talking to some a silver spoon and a diamond tiara.

He jumped up as soon as we entered and looked around frantically. "Uh, hey guys."

I felt that I would get right to the point so I said only one word. "Shvoons." Admittedly, I pronounce 'spoons' pretty weird, but that's just me.

"Hehe." He laughed and refused to make eye contact with me. "I may have put the souls of some little foals who made fun of me once in Ponyville into these things. I talk to them sometimes."

I looked at him for a few seconds as he shifted nervously wondering if I should question further. It didn't take long for me to decide that I just don't care. I really don't give a shit about 95% of stuff that happens. "K. Well we're going to defeat Celestia now. How are the spy crabs doing?"

Now that I had changed the subject he looked less fidgety and was actually able to look at me and Steve (who was chuckling to himself). "Well, they're about eight thousand strong right now and they are reproducing at a steady rate. I got some of them to start making knifes the other day so we have plenty of weapons."

"Well ok."

"So, how are we going to defeat Celestia?"

"Hmmm, I hadn't really thought of that, perhaps we can just storm Canterlot."

"But that is their stronghold (Terra Stronghold), wouldn't it be easier to just attack like, Ponyville or something? That way we could weaken them and get supplies and stuff." Well he has a point there. Ponyville isn't that far away too.

"Well, sure I guess. Supplies are cool and stuff. The only problem is, the second we attack Ponyville the ponies will know that we're waging war on them and then we won't have the element of surprise when we hit Canterlot."

Dance Blaster put a hoof to his chin and thought about it for a while. "Perhaps we can test our troops' stealth capabilities. We get a bunch of them to infiltrate Ponyville, then when the moment is right they take it over in one fell swoop."

"Sure, why not? I honestly don't have a better plan, so we'll go with that." I just shrugged. Waging war isn't serious business. "Tell the spy crabs to make some masks and then we'll head to Ponyville."

Steve chose this time to join in. "This plan sounds horrible. I literally don't see any way that this could possibly work."

"Shut up Steve, this plan is brilliant. What could possibly go wrong?"

Meanwhile in Canterlot, Celestia was plotting (hehe plot) her next move. She'd already declared war against Paul and his army of vile creatures, but now she had to figure out how to defeat her enemy. The zebras and donkeys had agreed to send aid, so she could expect at least a few thousand troops from them and the minotaurs had even agreed to send a few soldiers. There was still no word from the diamond dogs, but that was to be expected. Of course, all she could do right now is just wait for them. It wouldn't be wise to engage the enemy before they got the reinforcements.

She was still pouring over several maps of various areas of Equestria, though. She noted that Paul's castle, which was likely the staging ground for his attack, wasn't very far from Canterlot. Similarly, it was pretty close to Ponyville too. Guessing that Paul would likely target the undefended settlement first, she came up with her next move. She'd need to evacuate Ponyville. At least there would be plenty of room in Canterlot for them for the time.

With her next action planned out she began writing a letter to Twilight Sparkle.

I looked out over the five hundred or so spy crabs as they made paper masks. For some reason, all they need to disguise themselves perfectly as any thing is a mask of it. Thankfully this didn't take long as I didn't feel like sitting there all day watching them do arts and crafts. Once they were done I had Dance Blaster order them to march towards Ponyville. It was only like six miles away so the walk didn't take too long, but I had plenty of time to contemplate what I need to do next.

Unfortunately I couldn't think of anything else that needed to be done as I'd been pretty productive over the last two days. I spent most of my time in the basement forging armor since there wasn't much else to do. My own armor wasn't anything fancy, aside from the gold helmet, studded with a few rubies and crested with a tuft of red feathers, that I had hammered into shape. I suspect that it belonged to one of the guard ponies at some point because of the design. Everything else was just thin pieces of metal that covered parts of my chest, back, shoulders, and the front of my arms and legs. The pieces were connected with thin belts I made out of leather. It really didn't cover everything as there were big gaps in between the armor pieces, but perhaps it would help. In the very least it's not very heavy.

Stephen's armor is pretty much the opposite. I made him a full outfit of plate armor as well as a helmet that covers almost his entire body. It would be much too heavy for anyone else to use, but he's pretty tuff since he's just a big zombie made out of muscles.

As for Dance Blaster's, I just made him armor similar to what I'd seen on Celestia's guards. It was just a few dull metal plates that covered several vital areas without restricting movement or being too heavy. As for the helmet, it covers his whole head and the face mask is a skull design where you can see out the eye holes. I thought he'd appreciate that since he's into necrophelia or whatever he calls it.

I didn't have to build armor for Steve because he's already made of metal and making it for the demon conch would just be worthless, especially since he doesn't seem to break as easily as a normal shell anyways. I also contemplated building some armor for sprinkles, but I figured he wouldn't like that much. Besides, if he is in a battle he'll probably end up carrying someone around. I doubt he'd be able to move at all with armor while also carrying around Stephen's heavy ass.

Dance Blaster had been similarly productive over the past few days, As the spy crabs brought him fresh corpses he reanimated them and now he had a horde of small woodland creatures. I don't really see the point in this, but whatever floats his metaphorical boat. Steve, on the other hand, has done nothing productive whatsoever.

As I continued thinking about that, Dance Blaster informed me that we were close to Ponyville. Now was the time to infiltrate their ranks and claim another victory for our glorious nation! It occurred to me right then that we don't actually have a nation. Oh well, I'll deal with that later.

"Alright, tell them to put on the masks and head into town. The ponies will never know what hit them." As Dance Blaster gave the order all of the spy crabs put on their masks and disappeared only to reappear as teal unicorns. All of them... "What the fuck?! Why do they all look the same?" I looked at Dance Blaster for some kind of explanation.

"What, don't look at me. I don't understand this either." I looked back at the crowd of teal unicorns and inspected them more closely. Yep, they all had the same gold eyes, teal and white hair and tail, and lyre butt tattoo. I took a moment to facepalm as I realized what happened. They had all made masks to look like that one unicorn, I think it was named Lyra, that the spy had lived with when we first crashed here.

"Perhaps we should have them remake the masks." Said Dance Blaster.

"Too late now. We left the arts and crafts supplies back at the castle. Besides, they used up almost all of the paper."

"Then what are we going to do?"

I just smirked. "Go along with the plan. Perhaps the ponies won't notice..." Hey, it's the best plan I had and I was gonna stick to it.

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This is shorter than I thought. Pshhhh what-evs. Next time, the spy crabs assault Ponyville.... Kinda.....