The Dragon War: The Oncoming Battle

The Dragon War: The Oncoming Battle

Chapter 3:

Freeing Slaves

General Fireclaw lost the battle too keep Baltimare, and his plans of killing Celestia, Markarthus and Luna was still on a halt seeing how this unicorn captain was still breathing, but he couldn't help but do I slight chuckle thinking how he could use that unicorn to his advantages. He then shouted for his second-in-command.

"SAPPSCALE" Fireclaw's voice echoed in his battle airship base.

"Yes General"  Sappscale said flying through the door

"what do you want sir" she saluted,

"ah good your here... I need you to take your squad too every shanty town and tribe villages in Equestria and capture many ponies stallions, mares and foals, and if any try to fight back" Fireclaw's voice became more sinister than normal

"crucify them and show them what happens when they disobey our orders" he growls.

Sappscale saluted and flew out of Fireclaw's quarters, and made her way to the barracks where her own squad of highly trained blood-thirsty pride dragons were

"ATTENTION!!!!" she shouted, they all turned their heads and faced Sappscale

"General Fireclaw has ordered us to find every little shanty town and tribe village in Equestria and capture these ponies so we can make them into slaves... and if they try and fight back" her voice becomes more sinister too

"we will crucify them" then her voice changed and became more determined and eager

"now let's get moving".

All the dragons in the squad cheered and grabbed their weapons and put their heavily plated  bardon armour on and unfolded theirs wings, Sappscale took off to the skies first followed by the rest of them, they kept themselves hidden from everypony's sight, by activating their invisibility cloaking devices they had on them.

It was over 2 weeks and Wolfgang was back on her hooves fully recovered, as she stepped out that medical tent with her armour clean and repaired with a new upgrade; such as night vision too help with the patrol night watches.

"Look who's fully recovered" Cathstar exclaimed Wolfgang looked around until her vision caught a glimpse of her friends standing next to the trenches

"so what's our next task captain" Flash asked hovering above her, she liked that type of determination from her team and too hear it from her friends, made her feel comfortable knowing that someponies, that you know will stick by you every step of the way

"we'll be traveling to the shanty towns" Wolfgang replied. Cathstar and the others had confused looks on their faces as they didn't know much about shanty towns in Equestria, except for Big Mac who's made several pie deliveries to a couple of them.

The group followed Wolfgang to the commanders tent:

"Captain Wolfgang good to see your back on your hooves" the commander exclaimed, Wolfgang gave a little smirk

"you know me sir always straight back in the action" the group gathered round a virtual circular map of Equestria.

"So Wolfgang what was that magical experience aura when your power and Fireclaw's power connected" the commander asked with a raised eyebrow

"well sir when both our powers connected it was like I looked into his mind and I'm not sure it was one of my necromancer spells?..." The commander was intrigued since he never heard of spells that allows you too see through an opponents mind,

"so what was in Fireclaw's mind" the commander looking interested, Wolfgang thought with her fore hoof on her chin as she glanced from her horn to the map and then towards the commander and her friends, "instead I'll show you" Wolfgang smirked.

Her horn began a bright yellow gold colour as she concentrated on Fireclaw's mind and then aimed her horn to the map and before anypony's eyes was a image of Fireclaw's plans and what they saw left them jaw-droppingly shocked.

Wolfgang couldn't hold the spell any longer and the magical aura as she cringed and heard Fireclaw's laughter echoing in her ears and then the magical aura sucked back to her horn lifting Wolfgang in the air and then all the magic aura had disappeared Wolfgang dropped on the ground feeling dazed.

Cathstar held her hoof out and Wolfgang took her friends hoof and stood up on all four hooves

"thanks... what happened" Wolfgang asked still in a daze rubbing her head with a fore hoof

"well what we saw on the map Fireclaw wants slaves and wants to assassinate the..." the commander gasped before he continued

"THE PRINCESSES!!" he paused as everypony froze in shock except for Wolfgang who already knew so it wasn't that much of a shock.

"Wolfgang take your team here and rescue these slave ponies. Me and the rest of the team will fight through the Equestrian borders so the dragons can't break through" the commander exclaimed, Wolfgang and her team saluted and exited the commanders tent.

"We move out tonight so ready your gear" Wolfgang commanded, Big Mac and Flash went to the barracks to load up on their gear

"Wolfgang one thing I've noticed you seem to have some connection with Fireclaw care to explain" Cathstar wondered Wolfgang went serious as she stared furiously "you have no right to ask me that" Wolfgang quickly turned away and Fireclaw's laughter echoed in her ears as her eyes changed to Fireclaw's.

Meanwhile in Canterlot; Prince Markarthus was walking to the throne room still with the bandages wrapped around his still-injured body, he cringed as he used most of his strength to use his telekinesis to open the door, Princess Celestia was reading the letters from her niece Princess Cadance about Aiden's progress and she was listening to Wolfgang's third audio diary, her concentration was lost when Markarthus walked into the room "big brother I see your recovering well" Celestia said moving the letters aside with her telekinesis.

Markarthus walked towards Celestia

"what's the latest update on the war" he asked

"captain Wolfgang says that they've taken back Baltimare and I think the dragons might be planning something with the shanty Townes" she continued with a hint of concern in her voice.

Markarthus thought for a moment about what were the dragons planning to do with the ponies at the shanty Townes as he put his forehoof on his chin, Celestia was also thinking the same thing until Markarthus broke the silence

"I think Fireclaw's planning to do something dark with those shanty ponies" then he was interrupted.

Celestia's horn was glowing and she then pointed her horn towards the middle of the room, and an image of Captain Wolfgang (without her helmet) appeared.

"Captain Wolfgang what seems to be the problem" Celestia asked

"good afternoon  Princess" she turns to Markarthus and saluted and nodded "Prince Markarthus... anyway I trust you've listened to my third audio log and I wonder if you've had a past experience with General Fireclaw because when I was able to look into his mind." Wolfgang was cut off by Markarthus

"HE KILLED OUR PARENTS!!!." Wolfgang, even though she was just an image she still went on her knees.

"Ok... and now he wants to assassinate you two and Princess Luna"

"I wonder why he hasn't attempted that yet" Celestia wondered, Wolfgang's head lowered down as she sighed

"I think it's something to do with me" Wolfgang said with cringe on her face.

Celestia and Markarthus both had puzzled looks on their faces on what Wolfgang was saying, Wolfgang heard Cathstar's and Flash's voice as she turned her and then face the royal siblings

"I'm sorry I can't answer any of your questions I have to go" Wolfgang saluted and her magic started to fade away, Celestia was concerned

"no captain Wolfgang wait" she called out but it was to late the image already faded, all Celestia started to feel was worry as she began to tremble on how this war has gotten more risky and dangerous.

Wolfgang walked out of her tent and Cathstar, Flash, Big Mac and one more, it was Sharpshot the other legionnaire who keeps trying to woo Cathstar over

"Sharpshot what you doing over here private" Wolfgang said authority in her voice, Sharpshot walked forward and gestured with his hoof so he could talk to captain Wolfgang in private.

Wolfgang raised an eyebrow but was interested on what he had to say as she walked to the right with Sharpshot walking beside her

"what is it Sharpshot" she responded with a raised eyebrow still, Sharpshot gulped and sighed

"I'd like to join your little team" he was interrupted by Wolfgang

"this isn't because you want to get close with Cathstar" Wolfgang interrupted with a smirk.

Sharpshot turned as red as Wolfgang's mane and tail and cringed from the thought his feelings for Cathstar was noticed, he knew he couldn't lie in front of the captain so he gulped and sighed

"hmm yeah it's only because I looked out for her at the Barrier lands" Wolfgang put her forehoof on her chin and thought

"alright" she then whispers something in Sharpshot's ear

"and if she does warm up to you" she looks left and right so no-pony could hear "just keep the kissing between you two."

So after that little talk with Sharpshot, Wolfgang and her little team traveled to the first Shanty Town.

Sappscale and her squad of blood-thirsty pride dragons first raided a pony tribe village and captured all the mares and foals but all the stallions were crucified and burned and the village was burnt to the ground. When Wolfgang and her team made it to the tribe village, they were horrified because they didn't get there quicker.

"The dragons they've been here" Wolfgang said, Big Mac and Flash looked even more horrified at the sight of the stallions crucified and burned. Wolfgang used her magic to lift the tipi tents up and a mare that looked the same age as Wolfgang, jumped into her forehooves as she held Wolfgang tighter

"oh please help me... Oh please" said the mare tears flowing down her face, Wolfgang took her helmet off with her magic and used her forehoof and put it on the mare's chin as they met in eye level

"it's ok me and my team will rescue the remaining ponies of your tribe... it's gonna be ok" Wolfgang said reassuringly.

The mare felt tears of happiness and jumped over Wolfgang and was on top of her hugging and kissing her on the cheek, Wolfgang found it really uncomfortable seeing a mare on top of her kissing her as she cringed at this contact, Wolfgang then used her front hooves to push the mare off her "alright that's enough"she shouts.

The mare gets off Wolfgang as Flash helps her up

"thanks..." she then turns her attention back to the mare

"do you know which way the dragons went" she responds comforting the mare, the mare wiped the tears from her face and sniffed to clear her tears away

"the dragon who led the team of dragons said something about a factory" she was interrupted by Flash

"of course the rainbow factory the most darkest evilest place ever"

"isn't that place just an urban myth" Mac exclaimed

"no it's not... but didn't Pegasi used to work at that place" Cathstar spoke "but wasn't that factory destroyed years ago" Wolfgang exclaimed

"so the dragons must of rebuilt it and want slaves to work in slave labour in there" Sharpshot responded then Wolfgang's eyes shrunk as she thought in shock and then frowned in fury and pride

"we must save these ponies and destroy that factory."

So Wolfgang and her team followed a trail of blood hoof prints of the captured ponies which lead them to the shanty towns and more ponies were crucified and burned, and it looked like  everypony was taken

"I've been meaning to ask Wolfgang but why are these pony hoof prints covered in blood" Flash asked with confusion and with a bit of concern, Wolfgang's head turned upwards towards Flash as they continued walking "the dragons must of beaten" Wolfgang was interrupted by laser fire

"TAKE COVER!!! DRAGON ATTACK!!!" Cathstar shouted Wolfgang and Cathstar pulled out their assault rifles and Big Mac, Flash and Sharpshot loaded their battle saddles and fired at the dragons.

"These dragons aren't like the dragons we've fought before" Flash said firing and dodging from the laser fire, Wolfgang was about to answer when a laser was about to struck her but managed to cast a shield spell and as soon as the laser hit the force field, it bounced back and ended hitting the dragon turning into a pile of ash.

Wolfgang took cover so she could think, then just from her thoughts her horn began to glow as she let out a smirk.

Wolfgang took several deep breaths and bursted out of cover and her horn glowed brighter with magic and turned into a golden yellow lightening aura, and aimed her horn towards the dragons, but the dragons were quicker to counter attack by connecting their hands and dark magic flowed around and the dark magic connected with Wolfgang's lightening magical aura  everypony's faces showed a facial expression of breath taking shockness as it was intense whether Wolfgang was going to be strong enough to over power 15 dragons dark magic.

The moment was to intense, Wolfgang used all her strength to fight against the dragons combined dark magic, but neither did any of them know that the dark magic was putting a curse on Wolfgang as it affected her magic and made her stronger and stronger, her magic from her horn started glow brighter and then flames came out of her eyes as the magical aura lifted her of her hooves and she burst open her eyes and they were glowing white and she aimed her horn at the dragons and blasted them to oblivion.

Wolfgang gently flowed down an knocked unconscious as the dark magic curse to the energy out of her, Cathstar and Big Mac trotted up to catch her

"is she alright" said a very worried Cathstar stroking her best friends mane, and then suddenly before anypony could say anything Wolfgang's right eye forcefully opened, but something was different.

The pupil of her eye was a slit like a dragons eye

"uh Wolfgang are you ok" Flash spoke extending his hoof, Wolfgang took his hoof and stood up and shook her head repeatedly to clear her vision and her horn sparked with lightening flowing around, she didn't respond to Flash's concern so all she replied with was a frown and a simple nod.

Cathstar was never the worrying type but Wolfgang was acting strange every time one of the team was trying to speak to her but all she would reply with was a sinister "what" as she frowned, the curse dark dragon magic was still absorbing itself within her very soul making her stronger and more powerful.

More of Fireclaw's Scalefangers appeared and Wolfgang used her cursed magic and disintegrated them with one blast from her horn, after the dust cleared an earth pony stallion was still alive, so Wolfgang galloped towards the cross where the stallion was crucified and she used her magic to set him free and as soon as the ropes and nails were off he dropped to the ground

"wait a second" Mac responded with wide eyes

"I know this stallion... it's Caramel he lives in Ponyville, he's the one me and mah sister had a go at on Winter Wrap up day" Mac continued,

Wolfgang kneeled to the stallion and placed her fore hoof on his chin facing the stallion eye to eye,

"where did the dragons take them" Wolfgang asks.

The stallion trembled still in shock that he was still alive, when he gazed into Wolfgang's gold wolf coloured eyes, his bruised eyelids opened as he winced only opening them half way looking at the beauty of the mare in front of him "they came... out of know where"said the stallion feeling weak

"the... they... went that way" the stallion pointed with his hoof while trying to regain his strength.

Wolfgang with her cursed magic taking over her she wanted to just leave him but inside her she some feelings for this stallion, she was deep in thought looking at the to go and at the stallion and then she looked back at her friends

"you guys go on... I'll catch up" Wolfgang exclaimed smiling while friends continued on, Wolfgang then levitated the stallion onto her back and used her unicorn teleportation to travel to Ponyville.

As she placed the stallion on her back then  her horn glowed as she started to teleport to Ponyville, as she got there it was dark still which was good because she didn't want to attract everypony's attention her dragon eye began to illuminate in the dark giving her night vision, she turned her head to face the stallion on her back

"ok which one is your house" the stallion slowly lifted his head and tried to open his eyes wide enough to see

"it's it's... it's th... the one second houses next to Caro... Carousel Boutique" he said feeling drowsy from his injuries and exhaustion, Wolfgang quickly trotted up to his house and as she reached it she used her unicorn telekinesis to levitate herself up and as she reached the top window she levitated it open and then she levitated the stallion off her back onto his bed, but as soon as he makes contact on his bed he jumps up and looks at Wolfgang

"thank you!... what is your" he stopped his sentence seeing Wolfgang had already disappeared.

The team reached the factory and what they saw made them cringe and ready to vomit, the ponies were chained carrying heavy objects and being wimped

"I'm not so sure about this" Flash concerned

"what! your not saying your... chicken are you" Sharpshot replied with a smirk, Flash's eyes widened and then he turned his head and frown meeting eye level with Sharpshot

"nopony calls me chicken" he said while a yellow flash of light appeared and Wolfgang appeared out of it.

Wolfgang walked forward and looked at the factory and all the ponies that were captured this made her fill up with rage her nostrils were flaring, her eyes squinted showing her anger and then she took a deep breath and all the team huddled and thought of a plan

"can't we just storm the place and go in guns blazing" Sharpshot exclaimed

"are you mad there's only 5 of us and an army of heavily armed dragons" Cathstar she spoke with a bit of shock from Sharpshot's plan

"we need too stealthily sneak in and take the dragons by surprise"

"hmm"Wolfgang put her foreleg on her chin thinking

"you make a good point Cathstar... we could sneak in but" her eyes are drawn to the Big Mac's bag full of explosives, her eyes began to widen

"I'VE GOT IT!!!" Wolfgang shouted alerting every dragon to find out who made that loud commotion

"hide quick" Flash yelled out quietly.

The team hid in bushes and Flash flew up in a overgrown tree,

"check over there" said one of the dragons pointing at the direction, two pride dragon veterans flew towards the area and one pointed his laser rifle in the bush where Wolfgang was hiding the muzzle of the weapon was an inch closer to her muzzle, Cathstar, Flash and Big Mac had terrified looks on there faces, Wolfgang gently smirked and used her magic to grab the weapon and turned it around so it faced the dragon and then she quickly fired at both of them and the two dragons turned into piles of smoking ash.

Wolfgang looked at her team and did a sought of smile with a smirk

"what? I know every combat trick in every way" they all regrouped, and as Wolfgang was about to speak with her unicorn telekinesis to levitate the C4 out of Big Mac's explosive bag, Cathstar's eyes widened where Sharpshot's was an excited grin

"were gonna blow up" Sharpshot responded with his excited look

"yes but were gonna do it stealthily... so here's my plan" Wolfgang used her magic to do a computerised blueprint plan

"Flash you and Sharpshot will sneak into the through the vents and plant the C4 near generators or fuel tanks something flammable and it has to make the whole factory go boom!!... now me, Big Mac and Cathstar will free these ponies and we'll also plant a few C4 as well." For Equestria" Wolfgang finally said then the four ponies all said in unison

"For Equestria."

It was easy for Flash seeing how he was a Pegasus he flew up to the roof with ease while Sharpshot had to climb, it would of been easy for him if he knew teleportation spells. Flash looked down and saw Sharpshot climbing so he flew down to lend him a hoof

"did you need some help" Flash asked hovering next to him, Sharpshot didn't make a sound and just frowned as he started to jumping up on ledges, balconies and swinging on the metal bars and as Sharpshot reached the roof and he then smirked, Flash looked up and then continued to fly back up.

"there's only three vents" they hoof bumped "you take one and I'll take one" Sharpshot respond with a little nod and dive into the third one, Flash flew into the first one, and started planting the C4.

At the end of the vent Sharpshot was in, he found himself in the worst possible place, in General Fireclaw's office and his eyes caught a sight gruesome at the window, the dragons took the ponies and shaved them from their manes and put thorns on top of there heads and  gave them a burn mark of a dragon symbol on their flanks next to their cutie marks.

"I've seen some sights but this is by far the worst gruesome sight" he said in shock, Sharpshot was suddenly cut short by the door handle jiggling, as it made him jump and look many directions trying to find somewhere to hide, the door was a quarter open so Sharpshot quickly dived under a desk, as Fireclaw entered the room furiously and sat in his chair and turned around, which gave Sharpshot a chance to get out without being seen.

Wolfgang, Cathstar and Big Mac sneaked in through a herd of slaves and quickly sneaked to hide under large machinery and planted C4 on the generators, two young fillies stared at the trio with a mixture of shock and excitement, Wolfgang put her hoof to her mouth and quietly shhed, they nodded in response with a smile and went to tell the others but one of the "Scalefangers" had seen the little trio and sounded the alarm by the wrist devices.

Which alerted the lighting system had caught sight of them and General Fireclaw stormed out of his office to the control panel and activate the "grabber claws".

Wolfgang and Cathstar both used their magic to try and grab the mechanical claws to control them, and wrap them around the dragons until Sappscale flew at Wolfgang tackling her to the edge of the platform, Cathstar quickly turned her and gasped with shock as she went to gallop to save her friend but the grabber claw caught her just before she went, Sharpshot had just finished planting his C4 as he caught sight of Cathstar.

Big Mac threw his trench knives at Sappscale as she was about to dig her claws into Wolfgang's hooves as she was trying to hang on until one of the trench knives hit Sappscale and she let go, Wolfgang was about teleport until Flash flew towards her and catches his friend and set her on the ground.

Flash fired his battle saddle at the oncoming dragons along with Big Mac while Wolfgang leaped from machine to machine towards General Fireclaw

"Dracony I see" Wolfgang seemed confused on what he said

"what are talking about reptile" Fireclaw fires a fireball, Wolfgang double backflips to dodge Fireclaw's attack and fire's a beam of magic from her horn to her hoof at Fireclaw "you possess cursed dragon magic... which gives you the presence of a dragon but still a pony" Fireclaw speaks with a hint of a amusement.

Sharpshot uses his grappling hook to hang on to the other railing on the other side of the factory, so he swings down and his horn begins to glow and he fires at the grabber claw which begin disintegrate then just before Cathstar was about to fall, Sharpshot grabbed just in time as they swung to the other side.

"If you think saving my life will get me to like you your dead wrong" Cathstar exclaimed with a smirk then she went to Flash and Big Mac in the fight, Sharpshot gives a smirk of his own and came face to face with Sappscale

"bring it on scaly" he said with a frown, Sappscale fired her laser rifle as Sharpshot dodges the laser and fires his battle saddle.

Wolfgang was knocked down with rage filling up inside her as she caught a glimpse of her friends outnumbered, Fireclaw summoned a lightening sword from his magic as it flows down to his hands and he charged at Wolfgang until her horn glowed red and started spreading around the whole factory

"GET THE SLAVES OUT!!!" Wolfgang yells through headset as the magic aura starts destroying all the machinery and setting off the C4.

Big Mac bucks the wall and with his strength he creates a big hole in the wall

"EVERYPONY!!! GO MAKE TO YOUR TOWNS AND VILLAGES!!!" Cathstar shouts to all the slave ponies as they gallop back to their homes, while she and the three stallions wait for Wolfgang with worry on their faces, as the factory blew up and smoke clouding around the area Wolfgang just makes it out of the exploding building as she lands 20 metres away from her friends, they gallop towards her seeing her amour smoking.

She begins to stand up still feeling a little dazed as she begins to wobble and nearly falling to the ground until Cathstar catches her with her magic and levitates onto Big Mac's back "what is it with you being the big hero here" Cathstar smirked the team traveled back to base

"hey... who got cursed dragon magic" Wolfgang said jokingly as she was about faint.

"This is audio dairy 4 captain Wolfgang me and my team had rescued the ponies who were being kept for slavery in a place called the "Rainbow Factory" what me and my team saw was to gruesome and sick the ponies were shaved and were given burn marks of a dragon symbol and they were being wimped as they worked and not to mention ,Fireclaw noticed about my cursed dragon magic which makes me quick to anger more powerful makes me have the presence of a dragon.

Well it's been a long week and I've got night duty tonight, this is audio dairy 4 Wolfgang out."