The Salvation

by TheGreatAndPowerfulWriter

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Main 6, Romance, Spike, Other, Adventure
Length: 8283

In a world without ruler nor peace, only a few ponies can save it.

Princess Celestia and princess Luna had their time, their dynasty, it was their time to go and so they did. But there hasn't been chosen a rightful successor.

Equestria is falling apart. The Elements of Harmony have tried to reunite the last pieces of Equestria. Right when the world of Equestria needs them the most, they got kidnapped by 'The Rebellion'.

Only a well-trained group of ponies which were loyal to the royal family are now loyal to the Elements of Harmony. Only they can save the Elements and reunite Equestria.

Published 2012-03-17 22:44:03 UTC
Last updated 2012-04-01 10:36:15 UTC

Introduction

The Elite Squad

Princes Celestia and Luna have died, both at desame moment. But they didn't have any children neither was there a rightful successor. Right after that it was the beginning of the end...

Equestria, or what once was a peaceful land, is now divided in dozens and dozens of small groups. Only a few of those groups were still loyal to the royal family. Other groups are willing to make their own land. The strongest group of all is The Rebellion, they are feared by all the others and are conquering more and more. Almost noone can stop them...Almost.

Archive

Elite Squad:

The Elite Squad is a group of special-trained soldiers who do special missions for the princesses. Oftenly missions involving diplomacy or espionage. They are top-secret and have promised to only be loyal to the royal family.

Name: Starfall Night
Codename: Star-2
Age: 21
Status: M.I.A.
Rank: Leader, strategist
Biography: Starfall has been found on school when he was leading a 'rebellion' against bad food at school, not only has he succeeded to make the food at school better, he also made the food at work better (how, we don't know).
He is a good fighter and flyer, one of the greatest leaders of all time, a great strategist. When he completed his training, he was finally able to join a special project named 'Elite Squad'.
When he's not planning an attack, he is drawing.
Personality: Starfall is a tranquil stallion. It rarely happens he gets into panic, one of the reasons he was approved to be leader of Elite Squad. Other than that he is wise and patient.

Name: Thunderbolt Light
Codename: Thunder-6
Age: 20
Status: M.I.A.
Rank: Scout, distractor
Biography: Thunderbolt was found by his special talent: causing storms. He was discovered when he made a destructive storm above Canterlot. He was also difficult to catch and was thereby trained to be scout of the 'Elite Squad'
Personality: He hates to walk or run or stay on the ground and is also rather cocky about his own speed and wings.

Name: Meteor Clash Firestorm
Codename: Fire-3
Age: 20
Status: M.I.A.
Rank: Distractor, group-control
Biography: He was found when he crashed into someone's house completly destroying the house. After that he didn't have a scratch or a concussion. He has always been useful causing chaos among the enemies front lines and was because of that put in the 'Elite Squad' project.
Personality: Meteor Clash oftenly got in a fight with Thunderbolt because of his flying skills. On the battle field he's a killing machine. In real life he is a rather goofy, happy stallion that has been motivating his team ever since.
'I think he crashed to many times with his head.''

Name: Shade (Last name unknown)
Codename: Shadow-5
Age: 22
Status: M.I.A.
Rank: Spy, assasin
Biography: When we've made our HQ in Canterlot noone knew where or who we are, but a dark colt was able to find us and was spying on us, we only noticed it after weeks. It took us desame amount of time to catch him. When we interrogated him he refused to answer, he almost even escaped. But after a long while he told us everything we wanted to know: why he did it and how he did it and who he was.
Apparently he didn't have any family neither did he have friends, he went to school and was able to.. Get his food. He spied on us cause he didn't trust us, wich was true. He also told the technique he used for spying on us, he actualy taught us something. Already when he was noticed we already knew it, he's perfect for the 'Elite Squad'. He also doesn't have his cutiemark (yet).
Personality: He almost never shows himself, only to his friends and even then. He was and probably still is asocial.

Name: Mist Raincloud
Codename: Cloud-13
Age: 23
Status: K.I.A.
Rank: Distractor
Biography: In Everfree Forest there has been a mystical mist. We have send our troops there to discover what causes this mist. We had found it, a filly unicorn. We knew she was perfect for confusion since she kept us busy for 5 days.
Cause of death: We have put her into a battle to cause alot of chaos and confusion, sadly enough before we could help her she was discovered and killed.

Name: Ironhead Metal
Codename: Breach-1
Age: 25
Status: K.I.A.
Rank: Close-combat fighter
Biography: We captured him cause he was causing a 'commotion'. Ironhead and his brother had to be frisked at an airport but they refused and knocked all the guards out, Ironhead with his headbutt, it took us also some time to capture them.
Ironhead has always been useful for making a breach among the enemies.
Cause of death: Ironically when the Elite Squad was stuck in a building surrounded by a hydra, waiting for our help, he simply yelled out his name and charged onto the hydra. He was able to siriously hurt the hydra but got killed before we could help him.

Name: Goodwill Parchment
Codename: Peacemaker-8
Age: 22
Status: M.I.A.
Rank: Diplomat, ground-support
Biography: Compaired to the other members, Goodwill was found not by his REAL special talent but by his second talent: Magic. He saved a group of fillies and colts by making a (powerful) magical shield around them blocking a bus wich was driven by a stallion who didn't have a good eyesight. After we talked to him, we also noticed how clever he was and how good he was at talking. After a small talk we convinced him on going as an intern on a mission wich was supposed to end the war between griffins and pegasi. A month later they came back with a new ally A.K.A the griffins. His training only consisted of diplomacy and self-defense.
Personality: Just like Starfall he is a very tranquil stallion and very clever, tough he is not useful in battle. He often reads a book about magic or just a story. He also plays chess alot with Starfall and wins alot.

Name: Stonehoof Metal
Codename: Hammer-9
Age: 19
Status: M.I.A.
Rank: Close-combat fighter
Biography: He is the brother of Ironhead and swore to defend his honor, he has the same history of Ironhead. The only difference with him and Ironhead were that Ironhead used his headbutt while Stonehoof uses his 'bucking powers'. He is surprisingly agile and a very fast runner.
He is the largest (and strongest) of the Elite Squad.
Personality: He is quiet and is always training when he's not fighting. He can be very focused when necessary.

Name: Moonlight Dream
Codename: Shield-7
Age: 24
Status: K.I.A.
Rank: Magic-defence, supporter, tanker
Biography: Almost desame way Goodwill was discovered, he was found while protecting an elderly couple. Other than Goodwill, his magical powers were almost unlimited, especially his defensive spells. He could keep a city fully protected against any damage for one full day, and even after that he only needs a day rest before he can do it again, wich he ones did.
Cause of death: He sacrificed himself to defend a filly against a powerful dragon, he created a shield around her even tough he was weak because of other battles before that, the filly survived, but he got drained by all of his magic to protect against the dragon, to weak to fight back, he died.

"Okay burn all these archives!" a rather low voice said.
"B-but sir these could b.."
"I SAID BURN THEM!!" the stallion wich was apparently above of him in rank yelled.
The pony did what was asked of him, against his will, he didn't like it to be in war or whatswhoever neither did he like his officer. He threw the papers on the huge pile of burning papers and books getting bigger and bigger.
"Let's get out of here! MOVE IT!" the officer commanded.

Meanwhile nearby Ponyville (or what was left of it).

"UGH Starfall can i go now?!!" an angry pegasus said. He had a yellow coat and white mane and tail, the tip of his nose was also white, and he had a white armor, and surprisingly he has white eyes, his mane was nicely combed and had a demarcation line right in the middle.
"Yes you can if u promise NOT to make a storm 'by accident'." his leader said, a dark blue coated pegasus with his light with dark blue mane combed back, he also had a tail with those two colors mixed, he on the oher hand had gray armor and had more protection on his legs, he had lightblue eyes.
The yellow coated pony looked angry at him.
"I told you so many times it WAS an accident." he grew angrier and angrier.
"Right, just go, Thunderbolt."
The yellow coated wanted to yell at him but afterall he was his leader plus in a verbal fight Starfall would always win. He simply took off.
"Hothead." a red pegasus said lying on the grassy grounds looking at the sky. He had a rather spiky mane wich went into different directions, it was black on the left side and red on the right side, his short tail was black in the middle and red at the edges, his eyes were as red as fire.
Starfall wanted to reply on that but after a small fight with Thunderbolt he doesn't want to fight with Meteor Clash.

"I'M BORED!!" Meteor Clash suddenly yelled. Goodwill was disturbed by this outburst, he was reading a book.
"Okay Goodwill how many times?"
"Hmm okay he said that 3541 times since we left our HQ." a green coated unicorn said. He had his green hair fully combed back, he had a green armor and green eyes.
"BUT I AMM BORED!!" the apparently 'bored' pegasus said.
"3542.." the leader continued. Starfall went back to work and Goodwill continued his book

"Meteor if your so bored why don't you do something useful, like training." a cold voice said without any emotion.
"Like YOU'RE training, you're just in that crazy tree of yours." the bored pegasus replied. Right after he said that, a knife penetrated the ground right between his two legs, it went so deep that you couldn't see the sheath. Meteor Clash was startled.
"I am training." the cold voice said but now angry. A black earthpony was now standing in front of him, picking up his knife. He had a black coat, his mane was combed forward, he had a black armor and his tail was just as short like Meteor's tail, only is it fully black, just like the other stallions his eyes matched his mane and tail.
"Cool down Shade, you know Meteor Clash, right?" a blue coated pony said. He had a (light)blue mane and tail, his mane wasn't combed but it was pointing forward, he had a blue armor and desame eyecolor like Starfall. But compaired to the other members, he was very large and looked stronger. He was 'training' , altough other ponies would call it: bucking a tree.
The black stallion vanished, without making a sound.

"Star-2 do you copy?" the microphone attached on the head of Starfall sounded.
"I hear you loud and clear Thunder-6." Starfall replied.
"Ponyville is in sight, what do you want me to do?" Thunder bolt (or Thunder-6) asked.
"Just fly around and look for anything that might harm us on our mission and look if the objectives are still there, do you read that?"
"Roger that." Thunderbolt cut off the contact.

"Okay everyone get ready to go! Pack everything! Starfall commanded.
"FINALLY!" Meteor Clash exclaimed relieved.
No matter what if the objectives were still there or alive, they were going to attack The Rebellion there.

To the rescue

"I'M BORED!" a familiar purple dragon and a familiar cyan coated pegasus said in unison. Rainbow Dash was running circles in the middle of they're prison with Spike on her back.
"Applejack?" Twilight asked to the orange earthpony.
"3541 stripes.." Applejack replied with her Southern accent. Applejack was putting stripes on the wall or on the ground each time they said they were bored, the wall was full of stripes aswell as for the ceiling...
They were all stuck in a poorly build prison wich was still strong enough to imprison them, if it didn't the guards would hold them. There were only 5 guards, but Rainbow Dash's and Fluttershy's wings were strapped on they're body making them unable to fly, and Twilight's and Rarity's horn had some kind of attachment on they're horn that will shock them everytime they try to use magic.
They were all hopeless.
Pinkie pie was quiet and her mane was flat aswell as her tail.
Fluttershy wasn't even scared and hasn't said anything since they were in that prison, wich is VERY bad.
Twilight didn't care what was happening neither did she make any plans to escape.
Rarity is dirty and has a greasy mane, she also didn't care about it.
Rainbow Dash is so angry she could hit herself instead of the guards.
Applejack on the other hand was just leaning against one of the three walls with her hat on her face.
And Spike, he doesn't even have a crush on Rarity anymore!
Everything changed.
"I'm tired of it, if i'm not flying by the end of the day, i will die!" Rainbow Dash yelled angry.
"Applejack?"
"2574 stripes..."

Meanwhile

"Everybody ready?" Starfall asked in his headmike.
"Fire-3 is ready, over."
"Peacemaker-8 to."
"Thunder-6 is ready to rock!"
"Shade-5 is in position."
"Hammer-9 is ready to buck."
"Alright let's get going!!" Starfall yelled.

"SIRIOUSLY I'M GO..." Rainbow Dash got interrupted by a big explosion right behind her. Everybody woke up out of their 'trance'. Lucky or not the explosion was right in desame direction the only bars were. The guards were startled. They saw it was a pegasus who crashed.
A green unicorn could be seen at the horizon he was yelling something that noone could understand, probably the name of the victim, he went in total panic to the pegasus.
"YOU GOT TO HELP HIM!!" he yelled obviously in panic.
The guards were just looking at eachother and then rapidly put the pegasus on they're back bringing it to the only hospital in Ponyville (with only one doctor and 2 nurses).
As the guards were entering the hospital, the 7 prisoners could barely see a black shadow going in right behind them.
"What's all the fuzz about?" Applejack yelled a little confused.
They heared some galloping coming from another direction and then two stallions appeared, a light/darkblue pegasus and a lightblue earthpony wich was much bigger than the pegasus.
The pegasus tried to open the lock but didn't succeed.
"Can't open it?" the earthpony said with a low voice.
"Agh no, need a k.." he couldn't finish his sentence cause the lightblue earthpony simply bucked the bars, wich scared the 7 prisoners
The pegasus facehoofed.
"What have i told you about bucking in doors?!" he said angry.
"*sigh* Only buck things when i have your permission.." he said trying to match his voice with the one of the pegasus.
Almost noone noticed the 3 ponies coming out of the hospital, the pegasus who crashed, the green unicorn and the black shadow.
Another pegasus landed next to the lightblue earthpony.
All the (ex-) prisoners had a confused look on they're faces and an open mouth.
The 6 stallions who were standing now in front of them were feeling a little unconfortable.
Twilight was the first one to break the silence : "Who.. are you??"
Wich Starfall replied: "We are the Elite Squad and we have come to save you."
"The Elite what?" Rainbow Dash asked rudely. She received an elbow to the shoulder by the orange pony standing next to her.
"The Elite Squad, we were trained to do special missions for the royal family.. Since they are ..dead, we are now loyal to the ponies who are the closest to them, in short, we are now your guards." Starfall said. "Will you accept our protection?" Goodwill continued, The Elite Squad all bow.
"Can we know the names of our.. rescuers?" Rarity asked.
"Oh offcourse. My name is Starfall Night. This here is Stronghoof Metal. And this is Goodwill Parchment, our scout Thunderbolt Light, our spy Shade, and this is Meteor Clash Firestorm." Starfall introduced.
"By the way we already know who you are." Goodwill said.
"YOU DO? SO YOU ARE A SP- Awwww.." Rainbow Dash got hit on the same shoulder again.
"No we're not spies, but we received some intel about you by our ex-boss, so we are not the spies but someone els is." Starfall said.
"Ex-boss?" Twilight's curiousity returning after a whole month of prison.
"I..It's a long story..."
"Oh and i think we should put those attachments on ur head off and cut those ropes on you guys." Goodwill interrupted.
YES." wich was Rainbow Dash of course who said that.
Shade put out his knife and cut of the ropes. Right when he cut the one of Rainbow Dash, Rainbow Dash flew in to the air screaming of happiness.
"WHOOOOOYEAAAHAH FINALY FINALY FINALY YEAAAAH!!" she couldn't express her happiness. It was a little awkward for her friends though, the Elite Squad on the other hand was quit impressed by the happiness and by the speed and rainbow, especially Thunderbolt, he was a little sceptic.
"Okay now the attachments." Starfall said trying to sound louder than Rainbow Dash who was still screaming and flying in the air.
"Hmm i think i know how to remove it." Goodwill said.
"But you will feel a little shock.."
Rarity didn't care she wanted that ugly looking thing off of her horn. Goodwill's horn glowed and touched the attachment. Nothing happened for a few seconds, but then a small shock hit the attachment and it fell apart.
"Oh dear thank you, you don't know how bad i felt with that awfull looking thing on my horn!" Rarity said grateful.
"Now you.. Twilight" Goodwill said while his horn was glowing again. He barely touched the attachment or it blew away, desame happened for Goodwill, he flew a few meter away.
A purple forcefield was surrounding Twilight for a few seconds, she didn't seem to have control of her magic. for a few seconds it looked like she was destroying everything.Luckily after that it simply exploded blowing everyone away. Rainbow Dash had already stopped flying and screaming, she aswell was pushed a few meters away causing her almost to loser her balance.
"Ah dear Celestia.." Twilight said while rubbing her head.
"Wow.." everybody said including Rainbow Dash who landed right next to her friends.
"I.. i haven't seen so much magic since..Moonlight.." Goodwill said bringing bad memories to his friends.
"Ugh thanks i guess." Twilight replied still rubbing her head.
"Um anyways i guess we should.. sleep now.." Starfall said. Twilight finally recovered from her headache.
"You can sle.."
"Rainbow Dash you go to the forests and look for leafs or leather, anything that we could use to make tents." Twilight commanded.
Rainbow Dash only saluted and then took off.
"Fluttershy, go look for branches that can hold the tent okay?"
A short nod came.
"Applejack buck some trees and take everything that we could eat, Spike help Applejack."
"'Kay sugarcube." Applejack said while Spike was hopping on her.
"Rarity, go pluck some berries if you want."
"Okay dear." she replied, while walking gracefully away.
"Pinkie could you prepare us something? You can start making a fire.
"Oky Dokey Lokey!" She said and she hopped to the branches that Fluttershy already brought, noone actualy noticed that her hair was.. Pinkie Pie'ish again.
"Oh um Starfall do you have a map? And if you do can borrow it?" she asked now looking to the 6 stallions.
"..Sure." he gave her his map.
She then put the map on the ground and looked at every single detail, the map was different than the one before Celestia and Luna died, it also has all the areas that were conquered by other groups, half of the map was green wich means that area was conquered by The Rebellion.
The stallions looked at her and were thinking desame thing: "Damn does she remind me of Starfall!"
The stallions just stood there.
"I guess i can look what Pinkie Pie is going to make..." Meteor Clash said while leaving the group.
"Let's uhh just continue what we were doing...Whatever that was.." Starfall said.
Stonehoof went back training against a tree. Shade decided to sharpen his knife, even though he knew wasn't going to use it for a while. Thunderbolt went racing against himself. Goodwill continued on his book. And Starfall went to Twilight to see if she has a plan or something like that.

"Soo.. Have a plan yet?" Starfall asked.
"Mmm no, but i don't have information enough. I mean everything could've happened when we were gone!" Twilight said still staring at the map.
"What do you need to know?"
"Uhh well..How long do you think till The Rebellion will conquer whole Equestria??"
"My guess is over a year." Starfall suggested.
"Mhm....I think.. It's just a suggestion.. How.. about call our allies?" Twilight asked.
"Our allies? Hmm, i haven't tought of that! It might work.. Buuut it's going to be a challenge to do that. Not to mention once The Rebellion have captured Equestria, they will hunger for more power. So IF we are actualy going to do that we have to do it realy fast." Starfall said wisely.
"*sigh* It's a start." Twilight knew that it will be a hit or a miss. If it doesn't work Equestria is lost forever.
"Where we going first then?" Starfall asked.
"Let's go to the griffins first." Twilight said.
"A good plan! You know.. It would've taken me weeks to realy make a plan like this! Eh thanks!"
Twilight began to blush.
"Same would've happened with me." Now Starfall began to blush. They looked in eachothers eyes, they were paralyzed when they saw eachother's eyes. Twilight looked at those lightblue eyes, full of courage, full of wisdom. While Starfall had to look at those purple eyes, it was like he drowned in her eyes, she's a thief! She has stolen his heart.
Starfall was able to look away. "L-let's go tell t-the others." Starfall said. Twilight only nodded. They went to the group, Twilight's friends apparently made they're tents and were sitting around a campfire aswell as Starfall's friends.
They all seemed to laugh, even Shade, except Meteor Clash probably because his tail was on fire.
"AH GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!!" he yelled in panic. The group on laughed more.
"Ok Thunderbolt, what have you done THIS time?" Starfall said angry against the yellow pegasus that rolled on the floor, he could barely breathe by all the laughing.
"I .. did .. nothing." Thunderbolt calmed down.
"He just wanted to warm his butt and.. Well he's Meteor Clash so what do you expect?" Thunderbolt said, he finally stopped laughing aswell as the rest. Meteor Clash was in some sort of way able to extinguish his tail.
"You could've helped me you know?" Meteor Clash said a little angry.
"Why would we?? Els it would be a waste of a good laugh!" Thunderbolt teased him, but most of the time a small fight follows after that. Meteor Clash didn't realy mind though, it was his fault afterall.
"Anyways, me and Twilight have made a simple plan." Starfall said.
"We are going to search our allies and ask help." Twilight continued.
"..That's it? Erh Starfall i don't remember you making such a simple plan!" Goodwill said.
"It's the only plan, or we can of course try to stop this whole war by ourselfs if you want to." Starfall said with an obvious look on his face.
Unsurprisingly everyone liked the simple plan.
"Well it has been a long and tiring day so let's get to bed."

Everyone went to they're bed except Starfall, he just stood there.
"Why did i have to look in her beautifal, purple, ey.. What the hay am i talking about?" Starfall shook his head and went to his tent. Only ponies with a good ear could also hear thuds coming from Twilight's tent.

The past is just a memory.

It was morning, the small group of ponies had already departed. Twilight and Starfall had avoided eye-contact with each other, noone actualy noticed.
At the moment nopony was talking. They were just walking/flying. And then it came
"I'm bored." the cyan coated pony sighed.
Everybody moaned except Pinkie Pie.
"AAH!" "Not again!" "Grmm.."
"Pinkie how do you do that?!!" Meteor Clash exclaimed.
"Well i never lose a game!!" Pinkie was hopping as usual.
"..Neither do you lose any bit.." Meteor Clash said while giving her 5 bits.
"Hey YOU suggested to do bets with bits!" Applejack said giving Pinkie 5 bits aswell, the rest of the group just followed her lead.
"If i keep going like this i won't have enough to buy myself a freakin hayshake!" Thunderbolt groaned. "I quit this game!" the rest of the group agreed.

It was quit for a while, until.. "OKAY!! ONE MORE TIME!" Meteor Clash was desperate to win atleast ONCE against Pinkie Pie.
"What's ur bet then?" Pinkie Pie said a little triumphant.
"less than 20 seconds!"
"Okay it's on!"

21 seconds later

"I'm bored." Rainbow Dash sighed again.
"OH FOR CELESTIA'S SAKE!!" Meteor Clash yelled to the sky. Pinkie Pie only chuckled while recieving another 5 bits. Everyone was getting more and more annoyed by Rainbow Dash, to be honest they were all bored, but hearing it time after time from Rainbow Dash just makes it more ..boring. Rainbow Dash wasn't flying anymore, she was just hanging. She is happy that she's out of that prison but going at this speed, they could've just ripped her wings of instead of going this slow. Atleast that's how she looks at this.
"OKAY ENOUGH! I don't care what you think but i'm SO going to fly!" Rainbow Dash yelled jumping in front of Twilight, Twilight was a little startled, she was thinking about...other things.
"Um okay??" Twilight said a little confused
"Wait so you don't have problems if i fly?"
"No?"
"Not a single problem?"
"Well..just don't get to many attention and you can fly, why would you even think you can't fly high in the sky?"
"..." Rainbow Dash didn't realy know why she was thinking that anyways.
"WAIT! So i can fly to?!!" Thunderbolt jumped in.
"..Yes?" Twilight said getting tired of this.
Rainbow and Thunder looked at eachother then immediatly rocketed into the sky.
Nopony cared what they were doing up there, it wasn't realy that rare that Thunderbolt nor Rainbow Dash simply flew around in the sky doing loops, tricks...

One hour and a half of walking and flying.

Rainbow Dash and Thunderbolt landed right next to eachother.
"Man you realy won't make it easy for me will you?" Thunderbolt said apprently very tired not to mention how much he sweat.
"You really think i would make it easy for anyone?" Rainbow Dash said, she on the other hand was less tired than Thunderbolt.
"Did ah miss somethin'?" Applejack came in between the two pegasi.
"Oh i was just teaching Thunderbolt some tricks, we also raced a few times. I of course won 5 of the 7 times." Rainbow Dash said with her overconfident voice. Somepony apparently found it pretty funny.
"Oh dear Celestia! Thunderbolt, you always said YOU were the best flyer now did you?!" Meteor Clash said trying not to laugh to hard. Thunderbolt looked at him with an evil eye. Unsurprisingly Meteor immediatly calmed down.
"Anyways, we're pretty hungry." Rainbow Dash said.
"Hmm, what? Oh yeah i think it's time to eat..." Twilight said after being interrupted out of her toughts. She wasn't realy focused today, she was constantly thinking about something, or may i say, somepony.
"Uhh yeah let's make our camp and eat something..." Starfall said, he was in the same situation like Twilight. The 13 travellers set up a their camp.
"Ooo!! Let me make the meal, please please please please pleaaaaasee!!" Pinkie Pie said hopping as usually.
"Yea yea but how are you going to do that wiiithh.. 13 apples and 3 berries??" Rainbow Dash said while handing the food.
"I'm Pinkie Pie!! You know i can make anything with anything!"
Rainbow Dash had to admit it, Pinkie Pie knew how to cook but still.. The pink pony hopped with the food into a tent.

Not much later a delicious smell was coming from the tent.
"Wait, how was she able to make a fire in such a little tent without setting it on fire?" Applejack noticed. Everyone looked at her all with the same look on their faces meaning one thing :"It's Pinkie Pie you know?!"

"WHO'S READY TO EAT?!" Pinkie Pie yelled pulling a delicious looking pie out of the tent. Everyone was astonished at the first look and were confused, but after a second tought it wasn't all that surprising, it was Pinkie Pie afterall.
The pie was very big and was white, with a pink frosting on the edges. Put a wedding couple on top of it and it was a weddingpie.
One by one they took a piece of the (delicious) pie. And one by one they enjoyed it.
"Siriously Pinkie how do you do that?!" Rainbow Dash said with a full mouth.
"THAT'S a Pinkie secret! Only me and Meteor here knows it!" Pinkie said with a full mouth aswell.
"Meteor Clash knows your secret?!" Applejack said while choking on a piece of pie.
"Well yeah what's so wrong about it?"
"Darling, you have never told your secret to anyone!" Rarity said, she was the only one eating with a fork.
"I know right?! But i had this weird Pinkie sense that told me to!"
Twilight shuddered a little, the rest of the group just sighed.

Meanwhile at The Rebellion.

"Private Night! What are you doing here?!" the officer yelled to a pegasus wich was standing next to his bed in the barracks. 'Private Night' didn't respond, he just kept staring to his bed.
"I asked you something there private!"
"And it is the last thing that you ask me." he responded. The officer wanted to yell again but got shut by a hoof coming out of nowhere, the officer got bucked in the face and then got strapped around his legs.
"Good work, lieutenant Firestorm." 'private Night' said. Night himself was a darkblue coated pegasus, he had desame mane as Starfall except the colors were darkblue and turquoise, he had green eyes. The pony he was talking to 'lieutenant Firestorm' was a black-coated stallion with a mane combed to the back with spikes, it was black and red, just like his short tail.
"Please Starlight, just call me by name."
"Okay okay Fireblaze. Anyways, how's the situation with you?"
"Well i have gathered 18 other ponies to join us, so we're now with.. 103 ponies."
"Excellent, i think it's almost time we make our strike."
"So where are we going to attack again?"
"At the north, 5 miles of here, close to the border of the Griffin Kingdom."
"Oh, by the way i was wondering why there?"
"Well, it's a weak base and we need our suplies, if we are going to make a rebellion against the .. uhh.. Rebellion than we need alot of weapons, armor,.. Plus we might get some ponies who want to join us."
"Whatever you say Starlight. Now what about those officers, i think this one was the last one." Fireblaze looked at the angry strapped pony trying to free himself.
"Just keep him with the rest in the locker there." Starlight pointed at a door. Fireblaze pulled him to the door and opened it revealing many strapped up ponies, all officers, Fireblaze put the angry stallion in the locker and closed it.
"Honestly these officers are stupid that they notice they are dissapearing one by one." Fireblaze joked.
"I know, i guess The Rebellion choses for quantity instead of quality." Starlight responded.

Back to the travellers.

"Um darling, i was just wondering." Rarity asked. The group had already eaten and was 'full'.
"You told us that, you recieved intel about us?"
"Yeah what about it?" Starfall replied
"Well that intel was from your ex-boss."
"Oh.. yeah... You want to know what happened, do you?"
"Of course if you want to tell us , darling."
Starfall looked to his stallion friends.
"I think we have to tell them, we're stuck with them anyways." Thunderbolt said. The mares didn't feel offended, they knew it was only for teasing.
"Okay then.. It was a normal day at our office in the HQ, our boss wanted us to come to his ... 'office'.

FLASHBACK

"Why do we have to come anyways?" Thunderbolt asked to Starfall.
"I told you already, i don't know." Starfall said while stopping in front of a 2 huge doors, they were closed by a thick and huge wooden plank put horizontaly through 2 short 'tubes' that were attached to each gate so that you can only open it by removing the large wooden plank, the gate was guarded by 2 ponies with a golden armor each one of them standing at a side.
"Starfall Night leader of The Elite Squad. Our boss called us."
The 2 ponies looked at eachother for a second and then nodded, one of them removed the plank and put it aside, the other one opened the door.
Starfall and his friends entered a huge room, it was mainly used to do speeches ..and other stuff , it had a small podium at the far end of the room, other than that it wasn't much special, no windows, only lights, and it had only one way out. The doors closed behind them.

On the small podium a darkred coated earthpony was standing there with a golden armor, he was obviously the boss of the organization. The Elite Squad stopped 5 meters away from him and bowed.
"I have called you here to tell you something very important." the darkred coated pony said, he had a low voice, not as low as the one of Stonehoof. They stopped bowing and were ready to hear it.
"Princess Luna and Celestia are dead." the boss said in short. This was almost a punch to the face for the group of stallions standing in front of him. They were speechless, afterall, they made an oath to be loyal to the royal family.
"I know this is going to change everything including Equestria, it won't take long before Equestria knows." the darkred stallion continued.
"Equestria will fall apart without the princesses. And it is our duty to prevent that. That's why i made a simple plan. WE take over Equestria."
"What?! But that's.. that's not our duty!! Our duty is to protect it, not to rule it!" Starfall said still shocked.
"Because Celestia nor Luna have any sons or daughters, we don't have a choice."
"Yes we do! The Elements of Harmony were the closest to the princesses, the Equestrians would agree with us if we made them the rulers of Equestria!" Goodwill said while standing next to Starfall.
"The Elements are total strangers and don't have any.. experience."
"Who cares about experience?!" Thunderbolt also stood next to Starfall.
"Yeah, for once i agree with Thunderbolt, it would only be right to let them have control over Equestria!" Meteor Clash said following the lead of Goodwill and Thunderbolt.
"I am the boss of you, remember that! Besides, you know how many power and wealth we would have?" the boss said getting angry.
"Boss or not! It's to THEM to choose what happens to Equestria! We don't give anything about money!" Stronghoof said while standing next to Thunderbolt and stomping his hoof to the ground hard.
"YOU DON'T CHOOSE WHAT I WILL DO OR WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO EQUESTRIA!!" the darkredcoated stallion now said angry.
"I HAVE THE MOST CONTROL OF EQUESTRIA RIGHT NOW!!"
"No, you are only boss of our organization, you have no power over Equestria. And if you try to conquer Equestria by force, we quit." Shade said without showing any emotion, he was standing next to Goodwill now.
"Very well. If i can't have you as my allies, then ...you are my enemies." the boss said now cooled down.
"GUARDS!" he said while turning his back to The Elite Squad and walk away through a secret door.
The huge doors opened revealing a whole army of hunderds of pegasi, earthponies and unicorns.
"Son of a..."
"Oh my."
"Grm.."
"Oh no he didn't!"
"..."
"Damn.."
They all had they're own reactions. They all turned to the army standing at the doors, ready to fight, everypony of that army had a golden armor.
"Agh, he expected us to refuse! This was a trap!" Starfall said.
"We... have to fight."
"Fight?!! Okay we have fight worse but if we succeed to defeat them, how are we going to get away?!" Thunderbolt said tensing all his muscles.
"Well we can't stay here, we have to try atleast!" Goodwill said.
"In that case, Starfall, any plans?" Shade asked.
"Uh..Stronghoof you attack the earthponies and unicorns, Goodwill support him with your magic. Meteor Clash just do what your good at. Thunderbolt attack all the pegasi, just buck then retreat do this over and over again, try not to get hit, i will help you with that, and Shade attack them from behind." Starfall said while staring at the huge army standing 50 meters away from them not moving a bit.
"With knife?" Shade asked.
"When necessary." Starfall replied, it rarely happened but it looked like Shade was laughing a little.
"Oh and if anyone gets hurt, tell me, we can make a tactical retreat when necessary." Starfall continued. Everyone nodded, they still didn't lose the army out of their sight.
"Ready?" Starfall said turning his headmike on, he had it on his head all the time.
"Fire-3 is ready!"

"Hammer-9 is ready to buck."

"Peacemaker-8 to!"

"Thunder-6 is ready to rock!"

"Shadow-5 is ready when your ready."

"HEAVEN OR HELL!!" Starfall now yelled. The army and the small group of stallions charged onto eachother.

Stonehoof was the first one to make contact with the enemies, he instantly bucked somepony in the face, he had a small green forcefield surrounding him, obviously from Goodwill. Thunderbolt did the same thing only in mid-air, followed by Starfall. Meteor Clash crashed in the middle of the army hitting a few earth ponies and unicorns, he bucked a few ponies and then took off again. Shade changed almost like a shadow and went through the army without anyone to notice, when he got right at the end, he started bucking them and vanishing again.
They all kept repeating this pattern only to be hit a few times, but they still had their armor so they took less damage.

Headbutt after headbutt, buck after buck, crash after crash,... The fight kept continueing, the army was getting smaller and smaller. Not a single pony got killed actualy, they just got injured by bruises, broken legs. Luckily there wasn't any blood shed, there were only unconscious ponies on the ground, some other ponies were brought back to be taken care of, especially the ones that faced Stonehoof.
For The Elite Squad on the other hand, their endurance was almost unlimited, it might sound weird but they pretty much beated a whole pony army.

Only 30% of the original army was left over, the rest was laying unconscious on the ground. For the 6 stallions the situation wasn't much better.
"Star-2, i don't think i can hold on this longer!" Meteor Clash yelled in his mike while recovering from another buck, in the air.
"Star-2, i know i can do alot but i have my limi- AGH!!" Thunderbolt said, he got hit by someone.
"Star-2, my magic is getting..empty, i'm feeling a little drained at the moment."
"Erhh.. Okay everyone regroup on me!" Starfall said, you could see a small amount of panic in his voice, he was running out of ideas.

Starfall landed on a 'free' spot, the others standed in a circle around him, soon they were surrounded by angry ponies.
"So.. any other plans??" Thunderbolt said focusing on a pegasus, the one that bucked him.
Starfall was thinking, he made a plan in his head and was testing every situation, everything that could happen. No matter what plan it was, it still wasn't easy to escape from this position. Lucky or not, he had a plan.
"I stay here and you guys flee." Starfall said calm.
"Wait, WHAT?!!" Meteor Clash yelled almost hearable for the ponies surrounding them.
"*sigh* Look.. There is no chance we can get out of here all together! Atleast one of us has to stay here and distract them, and it's my job to protect you at all cost, including my life." Starfall said still calm.
"But Starfall.. What would we be without you? You know this isn't the best plan you ever made!" Goodwill said, in panic, just as rare as Shade's laugh.
"Look, i've been many years on this team and i am proud about our achievements, weather you like it or not i shall stay here."
"Starfall you've gone nuts! Without you we would just be 5 random ponies bucking other ponies!" Thunderbolt said a little angry.
"I will stay, you must go now!"
"Starfall, please.." Shade said.
"Go now!"
"Starfall.."
"THAT'S AN ORDER!!!" Starfall commanded.
The group didn't know what to do, leave their friend there and flee or atleast try to survive together with him.
"I SAID THAT'S AN ORDER!!!!!!" Starfall was now angry.
For a second the group looked at eachother, immediatly after that they began to charge through the wall of ponies surrounding them, they were running to the doors, wich were still opened.
Surprisingly noone of the pony army was really bothered by the sudden attack of 5 stallions, as a matter of fact they felt more confident, Starfall was actualy their main target, they all knew what he was capable of.

Tears were forming in Thunderbolts eyes as he flew along his friends, aswell did the rest have tears in their eyes.
But with Thunderbolt, the feeling was the strongest. It might sound strange but Thunderbolt had the best 'relation' with Starfall and vice versa.

Thunderbolt grew up alone, no brothers,no sisters. Only his mother and father, but he had to admit it.. There were better parents in Equestria (it might sound weird). He didn't have alot of friends, instead of have some fun with friends, he was training for pretty much no reason. When he joined Starfall (he was the second one being part of The Elite Squad), he experienced something that he never had before.
Friendship.
He was happy being with Starfall, having fun, hang out together. For the first time in his life he had a friend, a true friend.
Thunderbolt never wanted to admit that but Starfall knew about it and didn't really bother, since then Starfall and Thunderbolt were BFF's. Of course Thunderbolt was still a good friend for the others. Noone knew about this friendship except Starfall and Thunderbolt.
But today he has to see how his friend is going to sacrifice himself just to save the others, and all he can do is flee.

When the group reached the doors they looked back at their leader. With tears in their eyes, they saluted. Starfall saluted aswell. The 'wall' of ponies 'closed', they couldn't see Starfall anymore.

They went through the door. The whole building was one hay of a maze. Luckily they only needed to go through a long hallway of 100 meter to get to the (only) exit. Red lights were flashing all over the building, alarms were ringing. The exit was closing.
Without saying anything, Thunderbolt dashed up there and kept the gate from going down. The others slipped underneath through the gate, Thunderbolt jumped out of it.
They were rolling of a hill, afterall the HQ was placed inside a hill.

Starfall on the meantime took off and flew around, doing manoeuvres, speed up, slow down. Anything that could avoid them to hit him or chase his team. Sometimes he had to buck someone, and sometimes he got hit. Things were going as planned. Then he heard that the door closed.
"Now it's time for my escape..If i'm ever going to escape."
Starfall flew in the highest corner of the whole room. The enemy pegasi did aswell. Immediatly he turned and flew through the army, they were confused, was he really trying to escape now? Yes! Starfall aimed for the doors who were still open. He landed behind the doors and closed them with the wooden plank, right after that he heard a few thuds against the door. They began to buck the door now. At this moment, he had a limited time before they were going to break the door. He will have to destroy the exitdoor. Starfall rested for a second, he was tired as hay.
He looked at the gate, it was around 10 cm thick and made of metal.
"I could try to buck it but i won't have enough time..I will need some more power, like explosives, but where will he get them?" He tought. Where the hay is he going to find explosives in a secret building with special trained ponies?
"..."
He went downstaires, there was a supply room with lots of weapons, explosives,...Starfall opened the door, revealing a huge arsenal of explosives. He picked up 10 bars of sticky explosives. Before he went away, he stopped and looked back.
"He asked for it.."
Starfall picked one of the explosives and put it on 2 minutes.
He went back upstaires to the doors and put all ten explosives on the gate.
"Here goes nothing!" Right after that he activated the explosives while standing behind a wall.

The hallways filled with dust, when the dust was gone Starfall could see the gate, it was almost gone, but still closed. Only now he could notice that the wooden plank was breaking.
Starfall was in panic and started bucking with all his power. One minute passed already. The gate was almost open now.
The plank was almost broken.
"Man how did i get myself into this situation?!"
He had no time anymore to destroy the gates, he is going to take a huge risk now. He walked 10 meters back. 20 seconds. He readied all his muscles, readied his wings, he gathered al his energy. 15 seconds. He took a deep breath. 10 seconds. The plank broke. douzens of ponies were charging onto him. 5 seconds. Starfall ran to the still closed gate. 4 seconds. 5 meters away. 3 seconds. 2 meters. 2 seconds. He rapidly lowered his head, he headbutted the gate. 1 second. He got through the gate, now he was flying into the air. 0.

Starfall was pushed away by a huge explosion behind him. He felt something cut in his right side, around the chest, but it didn't bother. The only thing that mattered now was that he needed to go as far away as possible.
Starfall didn't notice but he started lowering,
the only energy he had was willpower, the will to live. The last thing he wanted is dying when he got so far, most ponies would've given up at the point Starfall was surrounded, well MOST ponies would.
He crashed onto the ground, he could barely move, he could barely think. Last thing he saw was a yellow flash landing next to him and yelling : "STARFALL!!".

"So yeah then i woke up with my friends.. And you know..." Starfall told his past like it was nothing but a memory.
"And you know?!! You tell us how you fought a whole army, destroyed a whole building, like you don't give a damn!" Rainbow Dash yelled angry, lucky for her, she expected a hit on her shoulder and evaded it.
"What? Should i brag about it? Like Thunderbolt?"
"HEY!!" Thunderbolt yelled.
"Besides, i still got this scar." Starfall said ignoring Thunderbolt. Starfall put of his armor revealing a scar, it didn't look serious though, but it surely wasn't small.
"Aw!" the 6 mares said putting their hooves in front of their eyes.
"Coooool!!" Spike had to admire the scar.
Starfall put on his armor again, he was kind of ashamed by the scar.
"Hey wait, if you blew up the whole building, where is your ex-boss now?" Twilight asked.
"We don't know but i think he fled aswell did the rest of the ponies who were working there, right at the moment we had that conversation, how they did that, we have no idea." Goodwill said wisely.
"And guess who's the boss of The Rebellion?" Thunderbolt said.
"OH NO HE DIDN'T!" Pinkie Pie yelled.
"Yes, i know..And that's how we came here!" Starfall said.
"Anyways.. Let's eat, i'm getting hungry."
The group stopped, they made a fire and sat around it, just like camping.

Starfall was relieved, he never EVER told the story whole over to someone els, but he knew he could trust them.
"Especially Twi.. Ah buck! I really need to forget her! No place for romance in battle!" Starfall tought by himself.