Getting Equestria Back: The Rebels

CHAPTER 2

“PRINCESS!” the Canterlot guard said as he ran up to the princess sleeping in her bed. “Princess I hate to awake you, but there is a great disturbance that Zecora can scense.

“Well, assemble the army and bring Zecora to me, tell no one except the general.” Princess Celestia said now fully awake and getting out of bed. Even though she had been sleeping her rainbow mane still seemed to be glistening and shiny. “We haven’t had something this bad since the rainbow factory incident,” She said mumbling to herself and started to walk out of her room, the sun had almost gotten up, so she might as well also. She stepped out into the long hallway, she turned to the book case right next to the door and with a slight nod it opened, with the help of her horn of course. It revealed a long hallway, she walked into it, looking at the pictures of her dad and mother.

* * *

“So,” I said staring into the monster king that just emerged from an obsidian block cage. “You want to take over Equestria? Well it is not going to work, Princess Celestia is going to stop you.”

“It is so, funny, you have so much faith in your little Princess.” Midnight said as he stared into the eyes of a shaking pony trying to look into the eyes with the most courage that he could manage.

“I have faith in her because my parents told me stories about discord, even though those are just stories-” I was interrupted by Midnight when he said reassuring

“Oh, he is real, your parents have done a good job at blinding you from the world, preparing you to be blindsided by the world,” he bent down until I was practically sitting down, “So I suggest you just sit back and watch the fall of Equestria, and not give me anymore lip, got it” Midnight said and backed away and looked around and started to walk around. My suit started to glow in the back near my rump, the suit almost seemed to react to my emotions.

“Hey guess what,” I said as I stood up again, and as I did, a plasma blaster, with a quiet wiz and click, flicked over my shoulder with the greatest of ease.

“What is it little foal,” Midnight said not turning around.

“The world won’t blindside me.” I said, the cannon now charging up with a green hue.

“Then what will happen?” He said as he turned to look at me.

“I will blindside the world.” I said as I bent down until my head was almost touching the floor and the cannon shot what seemed to be like a laser beam and went straight towards Midnight. I could hear the sizzling of Midnights face from the excruciating heat of the laser beam, the laser died back down and the aftermath was not pretty, in the obsidian behind Midnight was a hole revealing the inside of the obsidian block. Midnight got back up and looked at me, half of his face charged off from the blaster heat. His heat scar seemed to still glow with a little blue, some rock from the obsidian still was molten.

“I am done here messing with you and your wimpy friend!” Midnight said as a black cloud started to swirl around him, when he finished his sentence he blasted into a cloud of smoke and shot out of the hole like a black lightning bolt.

“We got to tell somepony!” Nitro said still in shock. He got up and started to pace the floor. I looked around and saw the Nitro’s backpack and looked around, until I remembered that I had a backpack.

“Wrench?” I said hesitantly. A mechanical arm reached out of my backpack with a slight hum and arrived next to my mouth I grabbed it and started to work on Nitro's backpack until I was certain it was better than new.

¨Alright Nitro, I fixed your backpack, so this is what I need you to do, I need you to take this teleportation device and fly up out of the hole, and activate it on the surface." I handed the capsule that looked like an oversized pill that had a little purple fluorescent light in it to Nitro. ¨Place it down so there's this side facing down, as I slid the capsule over to Nitro, he grabbed it with his mouth and nodded to me. He walked over to the hole and looked at me as if he might die on this short trip to the surface. He looked up at the blinding sun and sky and blasted off, I designed this upgrade to increase acceleration.
The smoke remained in the hole but I didn't mind, I pulled out my capsule and set it on the ground like I told Nitro to do. I looked at it and it had a red LED light on the top, I waited until it turned green. I robotic voice filled the cave, ¨Connection found,¨ and as it said that I lowered it to the ground with my mouth and let go of it. A tripod lowered from the bottom and lifted the capsule up and the glass slid open and formed a flower almost. The fluorescent light bulb slid out started to spin slowly at first and started to speed up until it just was a circle of blur. Some color started to form in the circle, I could ruffly make out a picture of the surface. I looked at the blur and reached my hoof out to touch it, expecting to hit the spinning bulb I touched it. Instead of pain I felt liquid, the blur seemed to ripple like dropping a pebble into water. I put my whole hoof in and it felt cold, yet warm at the same time. I put my head in and looked around, the hole from the other teleportation device was a good 3 hooves away. I stepped all the way in and I started to sway, everything looked like it was swaying, I looked back at where I came from, and it seemed to sway back and forth, I reached back out of the portal and grabbed the teleportation device and pulled it in. Immediately the portal started to become smaller and smaller. I pulled it through just before the portal closed completely. I turned around and walked towards the other hole. I stepped out into the bright surface, Nitro was there to greet me just as I walked out.
“You made it!” he said as he hugged me. “I thought you weren't going to come out.”
“So, let’s get help.” I said brushing off from the dirt in the cave. We turned our packs invisible and walked up the pathway towards the front gates.

* * *

“Um, we need to talk to the Princess immediately!” I said as I talked to the guard outside.

“Princess Celestia is busy and can not talk to little twidlets like you and your friend.” The guard said in a low voice, obviously trying to impress his comrades.

“I can,” a smooth caring voice said, striking fear into the eyes of the guards.

“Uh, your majesty, Princess Luna.” The guard said bowing, and looking at the ground. Nitro and I turned around, we looked up and Princess Luna was standing there with the sun right right behind her almost glorifying her upper position in the kingdom. I always thought that Princess Luna was the cuter one out of the two.

“We were just showing these little colts into the throne room.” The guard said as he started to open the door.

“No you weren’t, as I recall you called them twidlets?” Luna said, giving them the stare of death, but with a gentle tone.

“Sorry your majesty.” The guard said as he looked to the ground.

“Let us leave the presence of these rude guards and we can talk.” Princess Luna said now looking at Nitro and I.

* * *

We explained everything we saw and heard to the Princess as we walked through the courtyard full of statues. We stopped at where Discord once stood, frozen in stone. Discord wasn’t there anymore, after Twilight, and the rest of the gang had unfrozen him and used the elements of harmony to repair the town, he had disappeared. Some said he was dead, I didn’t believe that.

“So, Midnight is somewhere in Equestria?” Luna said looking at me funny.

“Yes, and if you want, we could take you there!” I said, hoping to get some reaction to this news.

“I think that would best for this situation.” Princess Luna said with a strange look on her face. I couldn’t really get what she was thinking.

* * *

We arrived at the ditch that seemed to stretch downward in an eternity of turns, twists, and drops.

“So this is the place?” Princess Luna said, scaring me to death because I forgot she was following us. You could see the hole now, but it was still a bit away, I saw somepony there looking into the hole and walking around it. After a bit we arrived at the hole and the young pony, about the same age as us was still looking in the hole.

“Um, hello?” I said as I walked up behind him.

“Woah!” he said and whipped around. He whipped around so fast, he lost his balance and went almost headfirst into the deep never ending abyss. I reached out my hoof and grabbed his and yanked him back up onto the surface.

Still a little stunned the brown pony with a very vibrant yellow mane and tail started to say something, but it came out in studders.

“You, saved, my, life.” he got up and started to give me a hug, then snapped back to reality and just stuck with the traditional handshake.

“You’re welcome, it was nothing. My names Grease, this here is Nitro.” I said pointing to me than Nitro, and before I could finish my sentence I was interrupted by his next sentence.

“Princess Luna!” The pony said as he bowed low to the ground close enough to lick it.

“And who might you be?” Princess Luna said as she lifted the pony back up with the end of her nose and looked into his eyes. Just a little bit of jealousy swept my mind, why hadn’t she done that to me, I would have liked it more than him.

“Xcav Driller” the pony said confidently and puffing out his chest a little.

“Son of Hauler?” Luna said in a questinate tone.

“Hey that’s my dad’s name!” Xcav said jumping around, then immediately looked down and kicked a rock into the hole. Not in anger, but in sorrow.

“What was that for?” I asked after he kicked it in.

“My dad, one day just left, never came back.” Xcav said almost crying now.

“Hey, same with my dad.” I said going next to him and put and put a hoof around his shoulder.

“Yes! Hauler and your father were great buddies, helped make this hole.” Princess Luna, again scaring me to death because I forgot she was here.

“Really?” Xcav and I said at the same time.

“Yes!” Luna said now laying down, and with an almost hypnotic stare of gentleness, I found myself sitting down. “Long ago, their were mining ponies and engineer ponies that worked in harmony." Princess Luna said as she was looking at a flower that so majestically sprouted from the ground. ”I will have to call some helpers, I will have to go back to the castle and request them, excuse me, I will be back.” Luna said as she got up and started to walk away.