Chapter 5: The Big Day

As the sun rose over the horizon Spike's eyes snapped open. Today was the day. Today he was going to break he friends out of prison and then he was going to help them from the inside. Spike did doubt Applejack's plan, but from what she said, it was probably their best chance at getting out, and it was going to be a all or nothing escape. Either they got out and managed to somehow contact Celestia and Luna, or they would all get thrown into the dungeon again, most likely to rot forever as they would no longer have somepony on the outside to help them since Spike would be in there with them.

"Oh Applejack, your plan had better work..." Spike said hopefully as he picked up a small bag that contained anything he thought might be helpful, along with a sword he had created out of some of his finer gems. He ran a claw along the blade, cutting the end of his finger in the process, allowing a small amount of blood to trickle down it. I hope I won't have to use this damned thing, Spike thought as he put in in a sheath that he had created out of some of his old scales. Spike quickly slipped out of the castle, managing to make it all the way to the dungeon without being scene. If he was going to be forced to use the sword, this was where it would happen.

"Hello Spike" a guard pony said from inside, not noticing the hand of the sword sticking out from Spike's shoulder, "How can I help you?"

"I'm here to see Rarity" Spike grunted, trying to imitate the way he had said it every other time he had gone there.

"Well, have fun down there like you always do" the guard pony said, laughing slightly, "We can hear her moaning all the way up here". Spike grunted at the guard, signalling for him to shut up, which he happily did, now noticing the sword on Spike's back. As much as Spike hated the fact that Rarity had been imprisoned, it allowed them to be together, and something she had begun to ask for more recently was, to put it simply, sex. Spike had asked Fluttershy about it, knowing that she knew Rarity better than anypony, and had told him that it was her time of the year, so she was in heat, and with Spike being the only male around her...

"Hey there Spike, going to have some fun?" one of the guards standing outside the cells asked, laughing as his partner punched him in the shoulder.

"Sorry about that sir, go right on-" the other guard began to say, until he was cut off by Spike's hand chopping him in the back of the head. The other guard attempted to run away, but was whipped by Spike's tail and thrown against the wall, knocking him out. After checking to make sure the first guard was still alive, which he thankfully was, Spike entered the room, knocking on each of the doors.

"Come on, let's get-" Spike began to say before a loud crackling sound could be heard from outside, which sounded oddly like the castle's announcer.

"Hello everypony, today I have a very special announcement for you all" the announce said in a emotionless voice, "Tonight everypony will be allowed to come to the castle at sun down to witness the marriage of King Sombra to Queen Midnight, formerly known as Twilight Sparkle"

"WHAT?!" Spike, along with everypony else, shouted at the end of the announcement. Nopony had time to fully react as Spike quickly pulled open all of the cells with his strength, the eight of them making a break for the exit as soon as they were all free. Spike and Applejack lead the pack, Fluttershy and Rarity were right behind them, Cadance and Shining Armor behind them, and Rainbow and Pinkie were following from the back. Together they charged the guard post at the front, Rarity using a tiny bit of her magic to throw the guard pony aside as the got closer. Using the opportunity she created, Spike charged the door, sending it flying off into the mines, hitting a patrolling guard as he made his rounds along the edge.

"We need to hide until the ceremony" Applejack said quickly, looking around for a place to hide. Just a short distance away from them was one of the tents they had set up for the fair, still standing, but it was on it's last legs now. Everypony followed her as she steered towards the tent, all of them quickly jumping inside as soon as they were close enough.

"This will work for now," Spike said as he looked around the inside of the tent, "But none of you are going to that ceremony"

"Why is that?!" Rainbow asked, flying into Spike's face.

"Because if you do then this will have been for nothing!" Spike said angrily, making everypony shy away from him except for Shining Armor.

"He's right" Shining Armor said, stepping up to stand beside Spike, "If we go now then all of this will have been for nothing and we will never get out of here. Right now we need to rest and prepare ourselves to fight back"

"I'll go to the ceremony, and I'll work on the inside for you guys" Spike said, putting his bag and sword down on the ground, "Use these for now, but now I have to go. Stay in here until I say it's safe". Everypony nodded, and as Spike turned to leave Shining Armor bowed to show his respect for Spike. After pulling Shining Armor up and shaking his hoof Spike left, making his way towards the main castle.

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"I hope I made it in time to watch the entire cere-"

"I now present to you the newleweds King Sombra and Queen Midnight"

"Son of a-" Spike muttered as he looked into the room, seeing Twilight and Sombra standing above everypony in the empire. The two of them kissed, a blinding light quickly coming from the two of them. After a few seconds Spike was able to open his eyes again, and what he say was even more horrifying than the fact that Twilight had married Sombra. Twilight's horn was gone, and Sombra had grown large, menacing black wings, each of them extending fully across the platform they were standing.

"YES! NOW NO ONE CAN DEFEAT ME!" Sombra shouted, laughing loudly as he took off, taking Twilight with him in his magic. Sombra quickly dropped Twilight off, and the proceeded to fly to the top of the tower. After letting out another maniacal laugh Sombra perched himself on the point.

"EQUESTRIA HERE I COME!"