Getting Equestria Back: The Rebels

CHAPTER 1

“Dad!” I called out. “Dad!” I heard a soft reply.

“I’m in the shed,” my dad yelled, “I have some breakfast for you.” I galloped down the hall, but I was distracted by the mirror that was leaning against the wall. Dad still needed to put this up, but I couldn’t help look at my self in the mirror. My name is Grease. I had an orange body and a brown mane, and I still don’t have a cutie mark yet. I am hoping it will be something cool.
I ran the rest of the way into the shed. Dad was there like always. He was a unicorn which made fixing stuff easier. I asked him if being a boy unicorn was weird. That was the last time I asked that question. He got really mad at me for asking that. He was saying that just because he was a unicorn didn’t mean he was supposed to be a girl. At least he took me to have ice cream after that. My mom is an earth pony. I am too, but I’m fine with that.

“Hi dad!” I said in a cheerful voice.

“Hey my favorite earth pony, Grease!” he said back in an equally cheerful voice.

“Excuse me?” That was mom. She had an arched eyebrow.

Dad continued cautiously. “This one is 5 years old.” He walked over to my mom, and said, “Good morning dear.” And then my mom and dad did what I hate more than anything. They kissed.

“EWWWW!” I said, sharing my personal distaste in this matter. I backed up, but hit a pole holding the table up.
“Help!” I screamed before the table full of wrenches, wooden planks, gears, and electrical wires. I could hear them trying to dig me out and I saw the light coming from the shed’s shop light blinding my eyes. I was picked up by my dad’s magic and was put next to the pile of the wreckage I made. My dad started picking things up with his levitation spell while my mom was making sure I didn’t have any broken bones.

“By Nightmare Moon’s horn! I am FINE.” I said.

“Hey mister, we don’t use that language.” my mom said in a harsh tone.

“Hey dad, there is a wrench on my rump!” I said excitedly, ignoring my mother.

“That’s my wrench. You’ll get a cutie mark soon enough,” my dad said.
What I said after that was... Let’s just say I got grounded for a week. It was that bad. I think it involved the word, “horseapples.” I don’t remember much of that conversation. Too much crying and pain.
Well, let’s just skip ahead 3 years. When my dad left forever. He said that Princess Celestia had a mission for him. I got my cutie mark two days before he left, it was a wrench. He was gone. For one year. Then another, then three.
2 years after that, I am now 13 years old. He still hasn’t come back. My mom hasn’t really been home much. Before my dad left, he made a club with me. Now that he’s gone, I decided to open it up to my friends. The club is named The Rebels. Let me rephrase that. My one friend. No plural. Nitro ThrustSSC is my only friend. I just call him Nitro Thrust, or Nitro. He’s an earth pony like me. I met him during recess at school in sixth grade one day. I was being bullied. I had been pushed into the mud, and Nitro came to my rescue. He moved away a pretty long time ago.
Nitro has been my best buddy ever since. He is the only other member of the club, and I made a backpack for him. He can’t fly that fast with it, so I basically attached two engines that I decided to call “Nitro Lightning.” Not very clever, but you get the idea. The metal I used to make the engines wasn’t crafted very well, and it threw Nitro’s flying off..
Eventually, I managed to get another friend. The new friend’s name is Hephaestus Forge. I call him Heph. He makes all of my metal that I use for my engineering projects. My cutie mark tells me I’m good at engineering, not metal-working. Heph’s cutie mark is an anvil. After I got him to smooth the metal for me, Nitro could break the sound barrier. So, I needed to work on the desing more to not hurt his ears when he broke the sound barrier,. So after many prototypes, I got it to work.

* * *

“You ready?” I yelled to Nitro.
“I’m firing them up,” He said nodding to me. The back of the Nitro Lightning’s started to glow with a blue tint, which matched his mane color, Orange, with streaks of blue and white in it.
“You’re clear to takeoff!” Yelling over the screaming engines of Nitro Lightning. The engines leapt to life, but Nitro didn’t go anywhere, instead, a hole started to form in the ground. it got bigger until it swallowed Nitro.
“Shut down! I repeat, SHUT DOWN!” I yelled running towards where Nitro was falling.
The hole stopped when it was at least 10 feet in diameter.

“NITRO!” I yelled into the pit, my voice echoing for what seemed like an eternity. I heard some rustling and a response.

“YEAH?” It was Nitro’s voice. “HEY, IT’S PRETTY FAR DOWN!” Suddenly the ground underneath me gave way. I leapt to the more solid ground, pushing off with my back legs as hard as I could, but not in time. My forehooves flailed in a panic, trying to wrap them around something to stop me from falling.
I failed to grab anything, and I was falling very fast, wind whistling past my ears. It was pitch black in this hole, and when I looked up, the light from the surface getting smaller, and smaller. I was so scared I passed out. I woke up being nudged. Nitro was by my side hitting me.

“Come back! Come back Grease!” Nito said tearing up.

“Are you crying?” I said, still weak. “Is this a dream?” I got up and looked around, I could hardly see anything. “I can’t see anything, we need a flashlight.” Suddenly we heard a noise, I was making some sort of machine noise. Something shimmered on my back and then faded into view. It was a backpack, and a flashlight popped out of it. The flashlight illuminated the cave so we could see.

“Nitro, do you see this? I have my own backpack!” I said prancing around delightedly trying not to squee, because that is girly.
“It was invisible this whole time! How long have I had this?
“I think I can see something...” Nitro said not paying attention to me, but something in the distance.
“It’s Midnights prison!”
“Who is Midnight?” I asked inquisitorially.
“You have never heard the legend about Midnight? Man, once upon a time there was an evil pony that tried to take over the universe, so Princess Celestia and Princess Luna banished him down here in an obsidian vault, that only fear could open.” he said.
“It is probably just a myth.”
“Because there are so much random obsidian blocks just everywhere right?” Nitro said sarcastically. We had to get out of here fast, Nitro and I are not the best of friends. So if we stay down here we are going to tear each others throats out, and that won’t be pretty. A faint sound echoed in the distance and fear filled both our minds, which wasn’t good. That noise wasn’t the worst of our problems. I turned around and two green lights appeared on the door about two feet apart. They rose up and then turned ninety degrees toward each other, than met in the middle, forming a door. Nitro and I stood still, frozen in shock. The green lights then faded, and the little outline that they made disappeared and we were able to look inside the room. From deep inside you could hear a chuckle of a grown pony.

“So, how is Equestria?” The silhouette said with a suspicious tone.

* * *

“Oh butler!” Discord said lounging upside down while his little bunny friends took his orders. “Any news on Midnight’s arrival?”

“Yes Discord!” the butler said excitedly! “ He has awoken.”

“Bring in Zecora, tell her the price will go up, 30% if she accept!”

“Will do your majesty!” The butler said as he ran out of the room.

* * *

Nitro coward into the corner and hide his eyes, “Who are you? Well I know who you are, but why are you here?”

“Ok, this is some over the top prank, Midnight is not real, he is just a myth!” I said, not buying any of this.

“Oh, an unbeliever, how,” he paused, “cute. I am the very substance of fear, so if anyone tried to fake me, I would personally hunt them down until they die, a slow, miserable death.” Midnight looked around, “So their little boy, any more questions?” Midnight grinned and revealed green teeth that seemed to glow in the pale light of the hole.

“Yes,” I nobly stood up and looked him right in the eyes, “they say you have magic like no other, prove it, grant me three wishes.”

“Fine, you little pony, what are these three wishes.”

“First off, I wish you would tell me the truth and tell me why you were here and where you are planning to go after this.”

Alright, I was put in here because I tried to over through the whole entire world, and I am probably going to try to over through it again, with one difference,”
“What’s the difference,” I said.
“I am going to win this time.” An evil look passed over his face.