War with a Changeling Part 1: The Beginning

Time: 11:00 AM

Location: Ponyville resistance camp

Earth pony alliance strength: Strong

The leaders left the building cheering and chatting about their next step in the war.

Core, Applejack, Applebloom, and the Doctor stayed behind to discus the plan "Alright, now that you know the locations of enemy bases and battle grounds, whats the plan?" Applejack asked Core.

Core stepped forward pointing at the map "Well our first priority is to regroup with our other forces at the Pegasi air fortress/city, but if your contact there was telling the truth then that war machine will be finished by the time get there..." Core's hoof moved over an area above the everfree forest "...so if we were to take a shortcut through this forest right here, we would arrive there and..."

Applejack cut Core off "Wait, that's the everfree forest, if we send our troops through there, chances are they'll get slaughtered by the wildlife!"

The Doctor then objected "Actually, I know for a fact that there is somepony we can trust in there, all we'd have to do is get to them and we'd have safe passage all the way to the air fortress." he then pointed to a clearing about half a mile into the forest.

"How do you know somepony's in there, Zecora left 5 days into the war to avoid inclusion" Applejack questioned.

"Ah, but she left allot of thing behind if I'm correct, and last time I was there I remember meeting a certain pony who might I ad was very polite" said the Doctor.

"Who was it?" asked Applebloom.

The Doctor turned to the filly "Your going to have to find out for yourself, I've got my own way of getting to the fortress."

Applejack turned back to the map "Everfree forest it is then, what's our plan when we get to the fortress?"

"Stage 1: From what you've told me to what I've heard I think our first priority would be to stop this... ...'Ropony'... ...production, and then go after the war machine, after we've stopped both the pegasi will be forced to retreat, letting us attack the central command and force a peace treaty with there leader." Answered Core.

"Stage 2: After that we move onto manehattan. As you may know manehattan has turned into a battlefield nut that's not why we'll be heading there, The Unicorn Empire have set up some large monuments there. Destroying these monuments will send a message to them letting them know that we're coming..." Core was interrupted.

"Uh... ...isn't that a bad thing?" asked Applebloom.

"That's when stage 3 comes in." Core answered.

"Stage 3: Once the monuments are gone they'll be thrown into panic and will too riled up sending there forces to defend the most noticeable points of entry to there imperial city, that we can begin a counter attack. The only problem is we don't know what the city looks like yet, but we can focus on that when we get there."

Applejack smiled in agreement "Alright, the plan is set, I'll alert the troops to...." Suddenly...

A purple lazer hits the center of the room launching all the pony's back, the table smashes as a purple unicorn floats down to the crater that was made from the impact of the lazer.

Applejack looked up to see the purple unicorn move slowly towards the changeling that was lying in pain "Twi... ...Twilight?"

'Twilight' stopped in her tracks and turned to see, Applejack getting onto her hooves, Applebloom on her back moaning, and the Doctor standing perfectly fine as if he new it was going to happen "I wont hurt you AJ, I'm just her for the changeling." said the unicorn, she pulled out a dagger and pointed it at Core who was now staring up at Twilight, but not with fear or regret, but instead with amazement, a strange feeling went through Core, a feeling he never felt before, he didn't know how to explain it but when he saw the unicorn he saw an beautiful pony with amazing talents. That was until he remembered she was pointing a dagger towards him.

"Well you cant have him!" said Applejack who was charging at her.

"Spike hold the changeling down, i'll hold of Applejack." said Twilight, out of nowhere a baby dragon jumps onto Core and holds him down, Core's gaze still on Twilight.

Applejack was able to knock the dagger out of her hoofs and ended up pushing her into a wall. The Doctor grabbed spike and threw him onto the upper level, he then proceeded to help the changeling up who was still looking at Twilight.

"Whats so important about a changeling that you have to keep him alive" asked Twilight getting back on her hooves.

"He's trying to help us end the war!" yelled Applejack

"Please, one changeling wont make any difference to the war!" Twilight using her magic threw AJ against the wall like a wet paper towel.

"You'd be surprised." Twilight turned around to see the changeling was right behind her. He used his magic push her back against the wall and holding her there.

"LET ME GO!!" yelled Twilight.

"I mean we have a plan and everything" this made twilight think, 'have they really got a plan?'

"If you help us, we'd have a higher chance of succeeding in our mission." Core reasoned.

Twilight looked at the changeling "(sigh) Fine, I would rather see equestria back to the way it used to be than what it will turn into if this keeps up."

Core let go of Twilight and they went to help up Applejack "Twilight?"

"Yes Applejack?" Twilight responded.

"It's good to have a friend back"