The Alter Accords

Chapter Thirty: You Daring Don’t Say?

The adjustment back home had gone rather well. It had been a surprise to see how much his home had been kept up with Fluttershy and her animal’s help. When he went to go thank her in pony all she could manage was a bashful blush and say it was the least she could do to help him. Regardless he had still given her a present: A solution that was animal friendly and would help clean up various stains and messes. When asked where he got it he explained to the animal loving pegasus that he was the retained all the chemical knowledge that his original self had, though it was shared along with Novo.

The farm mare of Velox’s heart came by one day, finally it seemed that she had a bit of time to sit down and tell him how grateful she was. True while she had said this in their dreams before this time it came with a tour of the new Sweet Apple Acres. S.A.A. had more than a few acres added to it since they all had last seen, it as well as many ponies he had never met before all of whom were new farm hooves to help with the bucking. Her apples were going all over Equestria and with the right spells, some companies had managed to preserve them for longer for travel outside of the pony nation.

Rarity had come to apologize to Lego himself saying she had no right to do many of the things she had done to him nor objectify him as she had done in the past. As such he had a full wardrobe in his house when he had moved in. The only part that was a bit awkward is when she confessed to having some of his ‘magazines’ in her home and offered to give them to him so that he could do with them as he wished. Needless to say he let her keep them.

Ponyville’s resident pink pronking party pony was doing her job and had thrown a heck of a party once things had settled in for him, and as such he had so much left over cake in his home that he wouldn’t need sweets for at least another month. That wasn’t all, Pinkie had revealed that she would like help with something, focusing her Pinkie sense. Normally Lego would have loved to do that but instead just shook his head.

“Why?” The tri-pony’s best friend had asked simply with more than a bit of a pout.

His answer was a simple hug before he started to tell her. “I have no clue how your Pinkie sense works. I could give you lessons on how to focus, but honestly Pinkie. You are the best Pinkie when you are yourself. Its good you wish to improve something but are you sure that focusing too much on your sense might impair it? For all we know your Pinkie Sense runs on instinct and trying to focus and tame it too much might destroy it completely.” Sitting down and offering her a slice of his left over cake, which she destroyed in a horror scene that will not be retold he continued to tell her. “In the end Pinkie, what you want is not focus. Instead what you want is reaction time. You yourself already know all the signs of your sense right?”

“Yepperrooni.” The puffy pink bundle told him. “No pony knows my Pinkie sense like I do.”

Nodding and smiling he booped her nose. “Exactly, you are already the fastest one to recognize things. If something new pops up, then I would say write it down a few times till you memorize it. If you are having problems remembering all your signs maybe keep a book or something. Write them all down, and every so often re-read it so that they are always fresh in your mind.”

The meeting ended with a wonderful hug from her as she smiled a bounced away as well as leaving Lego with a good feeling about that. What wasn’t a good feeling is how Twilight had become a recluse. Celestia had finally sent her a copy of the transcript of the translated journal and suddenly the purple mare felt she had to cross section every mention of Alicorn she could find to see if there were any previous hints of this discovery that could have been available to anypony without the journal. Needless to say this cut down on the times he could enjoy her company and while it let him get back into some of his hobbies it wasn’t the same. Luckily though, it seemed as if Pinkie Pie would be using the library for a party which brought Twilight out of her seclusion as she wanted to be a good host.

Last but not least was Rainbow Dash. For a while after he had come home, she wanted to show him something but sadly schedule conflicts of setting up his home, making time for his marefriend as well as her own work schedule meant there was no time. Correction, there would have been time if she had not gone on a reading binge anticipating the new Daring Do book. Novo didn’t help any as at night during their time together he helped her act out the books in their dreamscapes.

It all came to a head when the party was in full swing and Rainbow Dash had finally made her way to the party. “Haven’t you heard Rainbow Dash?” The cyan mare just had a confused look on her face as her Alicorn friend asked her that. “The book has been delayed another for another two months.”

“Two months!” The speedster just collapsed and covered her head with her wings. “I don’t think I will be able to last another two months.”

“I can vouch for that.” Fluttershy said as she walked over to her friends. “I don’t think Rainbow Dash can wait that long.”

“All things considered, it’s pretty normal for her.” Lego mused out loud, though it seemed as if his friends heard that.

Nodding in agreement Twilight patted her friend sympathetically on the back. “A.K. Yearling has been known to be delayed before. Then again this time the publisher said that it was delayed cause of personal distractions.”

Lego as well as his brothers all laughed, though only the former was heard by his friends whom all looked at him. “Oh sorry didn’t mean to laugh there.”

“Yeah yeah, yuk it up.” Dash lamented to her friends. “While you do, I have to suffer without more Daring Do. I mean if I could I would go help make sure that A.K. Yearling had no distractions so she could work as fast as possible and-” Suddenly her eyes shined brightly and her wings snapped open in excitement as she turned to Twilight. “If a certain somepony knows where she lives I can do just that.”

“I don’t know Rainbow Dash, I mean she might work better if we leave her to her privacy and it would be rude to-” However she was cut off with both puppy dog eyes and a trembling lip.

“Please Twilight.” The multi-hued maned pegasus pleaded. “What if we all go so we can help out together?”

Sighing and giving the pegasus a hug Twilight reached her verdict. “Fine, but if we impact her life we leave right away.”

‘Wait, wait, wait.’ Velox said inside of his brother’s head. ‘They are going to A.K. Yearlings place?’

‘Oh this won’t end well.’ Novo spoke as well to which the earth pony in charge nodded his head.

“Alright everypony we will leave tomorrow, everypony get a good night’s rest and we will all head out to see if we can help the author with her problems.” Twilight’s enthusiasm caught around even as Lego and his brothers were making a mental list.

“Wow the author of those Daring Do books sure lives way out in the middle of nowhere.” The southern accent of the farm pony told the others as they marched through the woods. “Why in the world would anypony want to live way out here?”

Twilight seemed to have the answer to that as she smiled and kept walking even as she spoke. “Well A.K. Yearling is said to value privacy as it lets her write without distraction or complications.”

“I don’t know darlings.” Rarity spoke up with a tone of voice slightly on edge. “But that cottage looks like it has sure seen its fair share of complications to me.”

The girls gasped as Lego narrowed his eyes taking a look at the scene. As they all ran over and inside he heard his friends talking but looked around ignoring them for now in favor of collecting as much information from the crime scene as he could. Well he tried except his friends were all touching and moving things which did ruin the purpose of his analyzing.

“My word.” Everypony turned at the voice and there stood a beige pony wearing thick red glasses a purple shawl as well as a bland matte gray hat with an off white piece of ribbon around it. “What have you ponies done to my home?”

Lego watched as the hermit author looked at each one of them in turn only to dismiss them after she did so and started combing through the remains of her home. ‘I see, though that makes sense that she wouldn’t.’

‘No kidding all things considered.’ The unicorn brother replied with a bit of a sigh. ‘I mean would you?’

‘Good point.’ Velox chimed in there with his own question. ‘Should we tell her then?’

They decided to hold off for now as the dismissive author pulled a golden ring out of the hidden compartment of a book. “Good, it’s safe.” Quickly tucking it under her shawl Yearling was about to say something when the look on Rainbow Dash’s face stopped her.

‘Oh please no My Spectrum. Don’t do it.’ The sound of a face meeting hoof echoed in their head as Novo said that.

“So, now that we have helped you solve that problem, what say we help speed among other things.” The very subtle hint was accompanied with also a very subtle push of a nearby typewriter towards the author. Well subtle if you only shouted it with a megaphone which everypony in the room caught on to. “Hehe, did I mention I am also a huge fan?”

Twilight took that as her queue to drag Dash away as her friends followed. “Yearling.” Lego called to her for her to turn.

“Look just leave with your friends, I don’t need any more distractions.” The tone of her voice left no room for arguments.

Giving a sigh and looking to her he would slowly head out to his friends. As he got to them there was suddenly a disturbance in the house. His friends were all standing around a window all watching what was happening.

It was at this point they got the shock of their lives as the author threw her shawl along with her hat and glasses at her enemies. “A.K. Yearling is DARING DO?!”

Lego watched as they all were taken back by the discovery as well as what was admittedly an awesome fight as the beige archeologist with her dark green shirt and pith hat took on the others. “Shouldn’t we do something?” Sadly alerting his friends was about all he could do, he knew his current self wasn’t up to the task of fighting…maybe a distraction but not fighting. Not anymore.

He had expected his friends to run in there, use magic, flight or something to even the odds, however what he got, besides Pinkie Pie saying ‘weeee’ to some of the action, was. “Daring Do look out!”

The shout from Rainbow Dash was more of a distraction than anything else which of course resulted in the adventurer getting captured. “Caballeron, I should have known.”

The pony she was referring to narrowed his green eyes at her and shouted. “That is DOCTOR Caballeron to you.” The earth pony whose coat looked the color of dried mud smiled. “Many thanks to you my dear Daring Do. As you have no doubt guessed, when we had searched your abode before our search came out rather disappointing.” Caballeron spoke to her in his Sponish. “As such again receive my thanks for finding this lovely ring for us.”

Standing up Daring Do fell right after she got up as in the fight it seemed that one of the henchponies had dislocated her right foreleg. “You won’t get away with this Caballeron.”

The evil doctor’s narrowed as he once more corrected her. “I said that is DOCTOR Caballeron to you.”

As if making a commentary he watched Dash move over to Twilight. “That is Caballeron, he was from Daring Do and the Razor of Dreams. He wanted to partner with Daring Do but she refused as she already had a couple of ponies with her.”

Lego sighed and while his marefriend and the marefriend of his brother gushed over the fact that Daring Do was real he watched the exchange as the Doctor picked up the gold ring and twirled it around his hoof. “Let me guess.” Daring Do spoke up, standing up as best she could. “You are going to give that to Ahuizotl so that his hold on the fortress of Talacon so that he may reign over the valley for eight centuries as foretold by the prophecies.”

‘Doubtful, that has never been Caballeron’s motives.’ Spoke Lego in his mind to his brothers whom both agreed.

“Close.” The Doctor told her. “I plan to sell it to him, and with the money I make I will then go into retirement and live the rest of my days out in luxury.”

“You FOOL!” Daring Do shouted in a dramatic call. “If you do this you are dooming the valley to eight centuries of unrelenting heat!”

Tossing the ring over his head to rest around his neck Caballeron started to prance off. “To market henchponies!”

After the ponies left and Daring Do once more tried to stand and fail it was Fluttershy who spoke up. “Um shouldn’t we go and help her?”

“That was what I said earlier.” However for now it seemed that he was to be ignored as they all headed in to watch the archeologist slam her shoulder into the railing of her stairs to pop it back into place.

“Daring Do are you alright?” The quick to the races pegasus asked as she reached out her hoof to help her hero.

Her hoof was slapped away without regard. “I don’t need your help.”

Flying off everypony watched the great formerly fantasy book heroine fade from sight. “We have to go help her!”

Opening his mouth, he was about to give his opinion when Twilight cut him off. “But you heard her, she said she works alone.”

Giving a face hoof to the situation, he watched as his marefriend started to nerd out, admittedly in an adorable way, with Dash as they spoke of several things and artifacts from the DD books before Dash seemed to win the argument. “You have to admit, Rainbow Dash makes a good point.”

Another face hoof at Pinkie Pie for that one as it only reinforced the mares need to go help her idol. “We have to help Daring Do retrieve the ring for safekeeping before it’s too late!”

‘Brothers, status report, how do you think this is going to end?’ Lego called out to the recesses of his mind.

Novo was the first to respond in this situation. ‘Well if we all go to help, it will put our numbers and strengths much higher than the enemies.’

‘You are both wrong and you know it.’ Velox told them with exasperation. ‘This is Double D we are talking about, how does everything end up with her?’

It seems as if the girls had come to a conclusion only for Dash to fly off quickly with a shout of. “I am coming Daring Do.”

“That is not a plan!” Twilight called after her friends retreating form.

‘Oh right, yeah this is going to end badly, it always does. Admittedly fun, but it always is bad.’ The gray colored earth pony said.

By the time they had caught up to Dash the next day they found her sitting looking dejected with her ears folded back and her wings drooping. “Thank goodness we found you Rainbow Dash. Are you hurt anywhere?”

Seeing her like this broke Novo’s heart. “Right here.” His hurt only increased as she held her hooves over her heart. “Daring Do had the ring and would have gotten away if not for me. I messed everything up and now she and the ring have been taken to the fortress.”

“She wasn’t always like this.” Lego mused to himself as he prepared himself for what was to come not noticing Fluttershy’s ear twitched as he said that. “I wonder what changed her.”

The speedster continued being hard on herself telling everypony that she should have stayed out of it. ‘Lego, I have never asked for anything since we have become trapped but you KNOW my request now.’

Indeed he did and while Rainbow Dash may not have been his love, she was his friend and seeing her hurt like that troubled him. Marching off while everypony was trying to comfort her, he knew they would cheer her up and get her back to her old self; however, he had something to do now.

Twilight watched her fellow Element fly off as she and the girls looked around. “Alright, lets head over to the fortress right away to back her up. She will most likely need a distraction to help her rescue Daring Do.” However of their party something was wrong. “Where is Lego?”

Each of her friends looked around and it seemed as if they had lost track of him just like they had. “Oh no, what if some varmint snatched him up when we weren’t lookin’?”

The Alicorn started to book it towards to fortress in a gallop all of them worried now not only for their fellow Element of Harmony but now their friend as well. The fortress came into view, looking like a massive pyramid connected to other small pyramids all made of a time worn golden brown stone. Normally Twilight would have loved to have examined this modern marvel except she was more concerned with the cloud of smoke by the stairs of the entrance.

“Ok I don’t think that is normal girls.” The smarticorn said as the smoke was clearing and they observed several types of felines ranging from exotic big cats like a cheetah, to a simple house cat all rolling around acting weird.

There was a sound of sniffing in the air as Rarity came closer. “Wait a minute; I know this smell, where have I smelt it before.”

She wasn’t the only one taking a sniff as Fluttershy moved close and watched one of the felines. “Oh, this is catnip.”

Running her hoof over some of the residue, the Element of Magic herself just looked curious. “Wait, so somepony used some kind of smoke screen made of catnip?”

Suddenly Pinkie Pie pronked over excited as could be. “Oh OH, I know this type of powder. It’s the same type Novo used when he used his vanishing act on us when he showed us he was good at transmuting things.”

It snapped into place for Twilight now. “No…you don’t think?”

“Sugarcube think about who we are talking about here.” Applejack told her only for them to all nod and run inside.

Putting his hoof back down he smiled as he watched another group of cats go all loopy to his catnip bomb. “When dealing with Double D, her two biggest problems are always Ahuizotl and Caballeron.”

‘You mean DOCTOR Caballeron.’ Velox mocked inside their head.

“Right right, I honestly never cared.” Lego told his brother though smiled as he went even further into the fortress. With how deep he was in the fortress he could hear many ponies getting closer and closer as he walked, meaning he was near the heart.

‘Huh, there is something I didn’t think we would see again.’ The transmutation specialist said as they stared at Ahuizotl as he held the ring up high.

‘BEHIND US!’ Velox quickly warned hearing a rush of many hooves, prompting Lego to reach into his bag to prepare himself.

“There you are!” Only for him to sigh in relief as it was Twilight and the others. “Where were you and why did you run off?”

“Long story, but short answer is that Novo is more than a bit ticked off at seeing Dash as she was cause of all this.” Turning towards the weird ancient amalgam he pointed to the pedestal. “For now, answers later, right now we have to stop that!”

Everypony nodded at that as they all rushed in. “Hold it right there Awwy-wuddever your name is.”

Ahuizotl looked to his tribal henchponies and told them. “Quickly, place the Ring!”

With that they all rushed in and seeing Pinkie Pie securing the ring Lego went about his business. “Ok you all need to go.”

He told the tribal looking ponies that had been rhythmically beating the end of their spears into the ground until now. While he didn’t attract all of them cause of the others, he did get more than a hoofful of his own as he smiled.

Pulling a small round ball out of his pack he bowed. “Now you see me.” With that he threw it to the ground causing a massive puff of smoke to cover him as well as the other ponies as they ran through it. “Now you're sleepy.”

He told them simply from inside the cloud as there were a few noises of pain before the cloud cleared. Each of the tribal ponies had a small dart sticking from various places on their bodies.

“You really shouldn’t rely just on your eyes when you can’t see, just a bad way to go about things.” The analytical pony told the tranquilized henchponies. “But hopefully your friends will learn from your mistakes.” He told them as another group was rushing him.

“If we can remove the ring at the bottom, the whole fortress will collapse.” She heard Daring Do tell her. Dash and her had escaped and while at the same time she didn’t exactly seem friendly, she wasn’t hostile anymore either.

“Right.” Dash told her seriously, the earlier pep talk from her friends had reminded her just how awesome she was and she would be bucked if she didn’t live up to that. Out of the corner of her eyes though she seen something she didn’t like. “Oh no.”

While lifting up another ring she saw the weird ancient creature run towards Lego. “You will stop disabling my men right this instant.”

The exchange had also seemed to catch the attention of Daring Do as they both struggled to lift the next ring. “Yeah, not going to happen you Chimera Creep.”

Rainbow Dash was looking at Ahuizotl as the exchange happened and seen the look of incredibility on his face. “Only one pony has ever dared to call me that.”

“No way, it couldn’t be.” Came a barely hushed whisper from Dash’s doppelganger.

Pulling out another smoke bomb he threw it to the ground quickly. “As I remember correctly you couldn’t hit me back then either, let’s see if that has changed at all!”

The monkey dog feline creature jumped and rushed through the smoke before roaring out as he felt a weight on his back coming out of the smoke. “Get off me you pathetic pony!”

It was obvious that he was gripping onto the neck and holding onto the back of the strange amalgam with all his might as it bucked around. “You were always one to lose sight of things when you were upset.” Looking over to the pair he shouted. “Anytime now Dash and Double D.”

“It IS you!” The fastest flier in Equestria really wanted to know what Daring Do meant by that, but now was not the time as Daring Do looked over to her and told her. “You can flap too you know.” Beating her wings faster and faster the last ring was coming off now and the fortress started to shake. “My plan was to get captured all this time but I didn’t account for how HEAVY these rings were.” Daring told her as she struggled. “I suppose it’s great to have some help every now and then.”

The smile that Daring Do showed her made her heart flutter with happiness cause her hero had acknowledge her, but right now they had a job to finish. The fortress was shaking more and more as Ahuizotl bucked Lego off his back. “No, STOP HER!”

The henchponies that were still awake found themselves suddenly enveloped in smoke and couldn’t find their way as this bought time for Daring Do and Rainbow Dash to remove the ring and start flying off. “Ponies you need to run, this place is coming down.”

The henchponies gathered up their fallen and asleep comrades and took off quickly as did her friends and all ran out as quickly as possible. Though some ponies as well, as the monstrous villain, stood in the fortress as it was collapsing trying to retrieve the rings. The latter of those gave one last jump to attempt to snatch the base ring from the pegasus before they flew too far way only to come up short.

In the distance as the rubble was setting Dash smiled as she heard the distant call of. “CURSE YOU DARING DO, I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!!!!!”

The sound of the base ring shattering was just as satisfying, though not so much more then the next words Rainbow Dash heard. “I couldn’t have done this without you Rainbow Dash.”

There was a hoof offered for a shake but she wouldn’t miss the opportunity to give her hero a hug, which was returned only after a slight hesitation, there was just one small question on her mind. “How do you know Lego? I mean you acted like you recognized him.”

Pulling away from the hug Daring Do looked at Rainbow Dash before looking to the group heading their way. “I will explain in a moment, first though.” Dash quickly followed after her idol as she landed before the gray earth pony. “Hello Star, didn’t recognize you, new form?”

Everypony gasped at the casual nature that the archeologist just spoke to their friend. “Sorta, long story.”

“Wait a minute.” Came a confused sounding Twilight. “Do you two know each other? Wait that means you knew that A.K. Yearling was Daring Do!”

He would only chuckle at the mare as he simply said. “Would you have believed me if I told you I actually knew a fictional book character?”

Holding up her hoof as if she was going to counter that statement, Twilight instead shook her head and lowered her hoof back down to the ground. “Good point.”

Both ponies just nodded and Dash felt like her mind had just exploded with the information. “Back a few years ago this pony here was one of my partners when I still had a team. His form changing came in real handy in a lot of situations. Though you eventually ran out on the team.”

Rainbow Dash couldn’t believe what she had just heard; she really wanted him to dismiss her claims. “Yeah I did.” His confirmation hurt her a little bit she wouldn’t lie. “But you knew that I wouldn’t be sticking around forever. I told you that I was going to go search for somepony or someone who knew of my past.”

“Well after you left the team broke up, and after that I decided I wouldn’t need a team for my adventures.” Daring Do said with a slight bit of anger in her voice.

“Wait, so the team of five ponies you had in the third book?” Twilight asked looking to Lego.

“Yeah, three of them are based on just me in my different forms. Well more or less. I am still upset you included the scene of you punching me in the face.” Lego glared at her rubbing his cheek.

For her part Daring Do managed to blush and look at him angrily. “You were looking under my tail!”

Lego seemed to get angry as well. “You were switching it back and forth in front of me and since you were leading the way through tall grass where did you expect me to look?!”

“It was hot in the jungle and I was trying to cool myself off.” Suddenly the two were butting heads.

“Yeah it was hot, but that wasn’t why you were swishing your tail.” Growled Lego as he pressed his forehead back against her. “You were in estrus that month and failed to tell anypony till your pheromones were all over the place.”

As they were pushing back and forth the pith helmet fell off of the explorer. “I was not, and that still doesn’t excuse your wing boner or the staring.”

For a moment both ponies growled at each other before suddenly smiling and hugging one another. “It’s good to see you again Double D.”

“You too big guy. So are you going to explain the whole gray pony thing?” She asked as Dash scooted closer to Twilight.

“Um am I missing something?” She asked her smarter friend. “Are Lego and the rest friends with Daring Do and have we been dating ACTUAL Daring Do characters?!”

Twilight nodded a bit stupefied herself. “It seems so.” She said simply as she watched her friend get hugged by a teary eyed Daring Do as it seems she heard what had happened.

As they headed back over the gathered ponies all looked at the two. “Sorry about that everypony. Been holding a bit of a grudge against this guy for a while now.” She said poking a hoof into the side of the earth pony “It’s good to have that resolved, anyways I have a book to finish, I will see you all later.” Daring Do started to fly off but stopped and came back. “Hey, if you ever want to team up again, let me know. You know how to get in touch with me. The next place I am going to is an Ancient Alicorn Temple, and with you being my good luck charm if we team up it should be simple. Anyways think about it.”

With that she flew off and suddenly they all surrounded their friend. “You are going to tell us, EVERYTHING.” Dash told him with bright shiny eyes, as did Twilight who just nodded in excitement.

“Yes Darling, it really shows how little we know about you when things like this turn up suddenly.” Rarity told him as a matter of fact tone.

However it was the freckled face and cowboy hat that made him sweat more than anything. “I just wanna know if anything happened between y’all. I mean it sounds like Velox and her were more familiar with each other cause of that flashing.”

Coughing a bit he smiled. “Nothing happened AJ, even if she kinda did try at some point.”

He realized that was a mistake to say as soon as he said it. “Excuse me.”

“Like I said she was in estrus, she wouldn’t put that in the book of course nor the fact she came to my tent one night. Mine as in when I was one pony mine, not mine as in…you get what I mean.” He said a bit nervously as AJ got a look in her eye. “At that time I was still figuring out some of the finer points of my body in some aspects and with how strong she came on, she frightened me at the time.”

“And if she came to you now?” AJ asked.

“AJ, I am three ponies now. I am happily in love with Twilight, Velox is happily in love with you, and Dash knows how much Novo loves her seeing as what they have done before.” All three mares blushed in happiness though Dash blushed harder than most remembering certain activities.

“Well that is good to know, wouldn’t do to expand your herd out too much too quickly.” The posh voice of the seamstress said making everypony’s eyes pop out. “What? Aren’t you all in a herd? I could have sworn I overheard Applejack and Rainbow Dash talking about it in the past.”

Dash looked towards Twilight, Applejack and the rest before chuckling. “I mean we were discussing it at one point but that was before…” The mood of the group changed as she said that remembering the changes that had happened over the past year.

Suddenly the pegasus felt a hug and she turned to see it was the stallion in question. “Its fine Dash, we all have come to accept how we are now.” He said pulling back and poking his faux eye. “I am just surprised I did so well against all those ponies back there with just smoke bombs and tranq darts. Life has been hard, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t go on and all three of us are trying to live as best we can.” Shaking off the feeling of moroseness that had settled over everypony he smiled. “So I hope you all enjoyed your Daring Do adventure.”

They all smiled with Dash flying up to do flips in the air. “Sure did and I can’t wait to do another when you tell her that we would love to join her.”

“Say what now?” Lego asked as the smile on his face slipped.

Nodding and giving him a hug. “Yes please Lego, I want to see the temple of the Ancient Alicorns.”

Hearing that he suddenly realized he had fallen into a trap with how she was looking at him as well as the others. “I don’t get to say no do I?”

Dash blushed a bit as she seen Twilight press her lips to his. “Nope, but at least you will have fun with all of us while doing it.”

Rainbow Dash then got to see a rather, well she would say gross, fact about Lego. When he rolled his eyes, because of the fake being like it was, it didn’t roll as much creating a very large disconnect.

“Um Lego, your eye.” Fluttershy quietly spoke to him.

Twilight looked over to him as he hummed in curiosity. “Hold still.” As he did so the mage used her magic to slowly turn it back to place where it was looking straight ahead. “There we go. Now, how do we contact Daring Do again?”

Egnach wasn’t happy with this turn of events. He had been called to the throne room to be assigned a special assignment, or so he thought. Rumors had been spreading and from what he had overheard many times among the professors lab, the rumors were actually even more ambitious then many would believe. So imagine his surprise that instead of being offered a position in the operation he was instead delegated to selecting the team himself.

‘This is unfair. I have done so much for this operation while others have done nothing at all.’ The Changeling fumed in his room throwing a few items across the way. ‘Instead they treat me as a clerk, a secretary, a go to ‘ling!’ Growling and hissing as his rage consumed him more and more he started to yell his thoughts instead, though he was thankful later for soundproof rooms cause of that. “I am an infiltrator! A Spy! A master of changing and covert ops. A genius level intellect in both the lab and ideas. Yet I am delegated to a simple paper work DRONE!!!!”

Breathing heavily as his rage was slowly tempering off as he remembered Queen Pupa’s words. “Egnach, we are trusting you with this assignment. We wish you to select the most efficient and talented hunter leader for this mission. We do not wish for this to fail.”

‘That is right, the Queen herself has asked this of me. I shouldn’t look at this as busy work, but an opportunity to grow my status in the hive.’ Standing up and moving out of his room he continued that train of thought picking up the file he had been given and walking out of his room. ‘She needs the most efficient hunter for this job and I know just who to pick. He may be cruel but when it comes to talent for hunting, there is no ‘ling better at setting up traps and ambushes then him.’ Before he went down towards the hunter’s quarters he stopped by one of the food halls to obtain some nectar. Gulping it down with a smile feeling the love infused treat fill him with energy he continued down towards the ‘Nest’ as it was dubbed.

The reason for this was this part of the hive was purposefully constructed for the hunters by request to make it full of traps to help hone the skills of those that came in. True the barracks where he was going had no traps but the further you went in, the more training you got as a hunter. That is why he stood before the door he did. There was only one hunter who could single mindedly obtain his goal and has never failed before.

Knocking loudly he heard a grumble come from inside as the door opened to reveal a huge Changeling standing behind it. “What do you want infiltrator?”

“The Queen has sent me here to inform you, Menad, of your next mission as well as to provide you with information on the targets, the locations, and the tools you are going to be provided with.” Egnach told him.

The Changeling known as Menad opened the door wider. “Come in, what does the Queen wish of me?”

Sliding the folder towards the large ‘ling the small spy simply told him. “Your mission will come in three folds. First off your primary objective is that you are to obtain those six items you see on the first page of your report. Then priority two, you are to capture or convince the targets on the second page through the eight and make them take you to the location on page nine. There you are to obtain all data you can as well as secure the site if possible. If you cannot then you are to take what you can and report back.”

“And these…targets. What can I and can’t I do to them?” Menad asked with almost a cruel sounding voice as he smiled.

“No harm is to befall them that cannot be repaired. That includes mental damage. They will be needed fully intact for the mission.” Egnach slowly covered his mouth as he said the next parts as he didn’t like the taste of what he was about to say. “However after the mission is done, you are to bring back the six items and as for the targets.” Sighing again as he hated what he was about to say. “They are yours to do with as you please.”

The disgusting grin on the large bug ponies face grew more and more revolting as he heard that. “Excellent. I will gather my team at once.”

“Good, remember this is for the Queen. Fail and you will know no end to your suffering.” The infiltrator told him as he stood up and walked off leaving the pictures of the ponies that were his targets to him.

Author's Notes:

Another chapter out quick? You must be thinking EQUINOX YOU MAD MAN/PONY!

I do not think anyone or anypony is thinking that.

SHUT UP BRAIN YOU DOWN OWN ME!

I didn't make any comment about owning-

I cannot be controlled, I am a wild and free spirit of-

*Sighs* Ok everyone and everypony he is going to be like that all day so I would like to thank you for continuing to read this story and hope you enjoy. I did my best to get this out to you as quick as possible despite SOME interference from others. *Glares at his self*

Yeah and then I will make sure everyone knows that I am DOCTOR EQUINOX STARSHIFTER the most brilliant and wait you aren't listening to me anymore are you?