Pony Alert 1

Chapter 4: Allied Equestria 2: Friends Divided

Location: Crystal Germaneigh, Gates of the Crystal Capital.

When they had left Ponyville that evening they had started out as six ponies and one dragon. They arrived in Crystal Germaneigh as five ponies and one dragon.

How could they have lost Twilight. It was all Rainbow Dash´s fault and she knew it. If only she had been quicker and.. Arrghh she was worthless and she knew it. It didn't matter how much she bragged it never made any difference. She never did anything right. And now she couldn't even keep her friends safe, the only ponies that really mattered to her. She had failed them and she had failed Equestria. Her friends didn't blame her they never did, but then again they where the best ponies you could find across all of Equestria.

It had all began so well they were traveling the roads of Equestria in a quick pace and the mood was good. Then it became night and the sky became awfully clouded. Altough Rainbow Dash didn't have the weather duty in that region of Equestria she found it strange that the sky was so clouded at the night. Lunar Republic law said that the night must always be clear so the stars and moon can guide us trough our dreams.

When they boarded the train you could hardly see anything outside the wagon. Then the power went out and all became dark as Luna's flank.

She should have known it coming, she should have saved Twilight. They had all agreed on traveling at the night to make it to Crystal Germaneigh as quickly as possible, what where the chances of being attacked by solar ponies on a train in the middle of Equestria. Well the chances where extremely high considering all the Pegasi traitors living in the Equestrian mountains.

But they didn't know none of them. Except Rainbow Dash. She new. Her father had sent her a message the last week warning her to be on her guard while on weather duty because the sky was filled with Pegasi traitors. She should have warned her friends, but no she did not even think twice. She never did, she was stupid if only...

"You okay sugarcube?"Applejack interrupted her thoughts.

"Okay, how can I be okay when one of our friends is captured by Solar Empire ops and.. and..."

"It´s okay sugarcube, she´s not gone we'll find her we got the best spies in all o Equestria."

"It´s not okay, what if they find out who she is or.."

"Rainbow calm down we need our minds clear to save her."

"It's all my fault."

"How can ya blame ya self sugarcube?"

"I should have stopped the Pegasi, i'm supposed to be fast and still he outran me."

"T'was dark it was no way you could be able to spot him in the darkness."

"It's still my fault.. I knew."

"What sugarcube?"

"I knew about the Pegasi spies in the skies, my father had warned me about them earlier and i should have warned you but I didn't I..."

"Ya did all ya could sugarcube, nopony could have known about the attack in advance. Nopony blames you. We all knew the risks we were getting into."

"But what if..."

"No point worrying in advance. Sugarcube. Also I have know that we'll find her. Trust me Rainbow, have I ever lied ta you before?"

"No but..."

"No but´s, let's catch up with t'others."

The other´s where waiting at the gate. The gate where huge, made completely out of crystals it had two cannon towers on each side. Out from the towers began a huge wall. It was higher than ten ponies on each others back's and thick enough so there could be several mounted cannons upon it. You could also spot several murder holes in the wall big enough to get a sniper trough. Rarity where in full conversation with one of the guards. By the look's of it she had little success with getting entrance to the city.

"Darling we must enter we are here on government businesses."

"Yeah likely story"a red crystal mare guard with a tired and annoyed look replied. On her head she had one of the traditional crystal helmets with a pike on the top. Her uniform was green and she had a long rifle over her back. "Why don't you take your lying flank and return to whatever place you came from, oh and take your friends with you!"

"Excuse me Ms! I have been nothing but patient and nice but now I have had enough with your insult's you Ruffian! I am a lady and I will be spoken to as Miss Rarity or Miss have I made myself clear!?"

"Ooh she calls you a ruffian, hahaha these ponies are so entertaining"a younger light green unicorn stallion with a black and green mane replied. It would seem like he was new recruit judging from his unprofessional behavior and for the fact that he wore a soldier's cap instead of a piked helmet.

"Quiet Private Greensprout!" The red mare shouted.

"Yes sir!"

"Miss Rarity i'm sorry but we can't allow you into the city unless you are expected..."

"But we are expected, we were sent by the order of Luna."

"Miss Rarity Luna hasn't sent anypony..."

"Aren't you expecting a Purple unicorn named Twilight Sparkle?"

"How did they now that!"Greensprout said shocked "SPY, SPY!!"

"GREENSPROUT!! Silence! As for you miss I can't confirm who and when we are expecting somepony."

"But Darling we are Twilight's friends we came here together."

"Yeah really then where is Twilight?!"Greensprout said in an accusing voice."You didn't think of that did you HA!"

"Quiet Private!"

Rarity looked terrible tired of the younger stallion who where checking out her flank at the same time as he was accusing her. Still she replied in her politest tone. "That´s the thing she got kidnapped by Solar Pegasi some hours ago, while we where on the train. Ask the conductor he can confirm that we got assaulted and that we where six ponies who went on the train.

"`Yeah and while we leave our post you sneak into the city, BUSTED!"

"Greensprout shut your big mouth or i'll make you walk back to Trottingham and back here ten times! Look miss nopony is doubting that you where attacked, but I cant let you in. Sorry."

Look darling we are no spies you have my word as an lady on it, and our friend is in trouble.."

Rainbow Dash flies over to Rarity."You guard's retarded or what? We are here to help you..." the Pegasi angrily yells. She gets interrupted by a loud voice from atop of the wall.

"What's going on down there?"

"Nothing sir only these five ponies and a baby dragon insisting on that they have been sent here by Luna, but don't worry i'm not letting them in."

"FIVE PONIES!? WHERE´S TWILIGHT!!?"Suddenly the grand gates open up and a white unicorn stallion comes out. He wears a dark blue suit with several medals upon."Where is Twilight!?"

Rainbow Dash lands in front of him. "I'ts all my fault sir..."

"It's nopony´s fault sugarcube!" Applejack runs toward to Shining Armor. "We were assaulted by Pegasi traitors n´ they took Twilight, t´was on the train and they cut the power n t'was in the middle o´ night we couldn't see them. "We are so sorry sir."

"Bucking horseshit..."

"We are all so sorry, right girls?"

"We failed Twilight"

"We will find her"

"Those meanie beanie Pegasi won´t get away with this!"

"Sorry..."

"Look i don't blame any of you.. I should never have left her alone." He sighed. "Luckily I made precautions. Spike?"

"Yes Shining?" The little dragon looked completely devastated the loss of his dear friend.

"Did Twilight have her saddlebags on her when they took her?"

"Yes she did, why you asking?"

"Then there is still hope, come with me everypony it´s time for you to meet the other generals.

While walking through the Crystal capital you saw what once where a city filled with beautiful gardens and grand palaces. The gardens where now firing ranges for ponies and the palaces where transformed into great battle bunkers. Everywhere you saw guards patrolling the streets and now and then a auto wagon with a mounted machine gun rolled by them. Ponies had barricaded their homes and not a single civilian where spotted on the street.

"Where is everypony?"Pinkie asked. "I't fells so empty here, so sad. Where are the children, and all the joy?"

"The plan was to originally evacuate all children and old ones out of Crystal Alliance territory and into the Lunar Republic, but our sea transports where attacked by Solar submarines, and if they where to travel by train they would fall victim to Pegasi terrorists. So now most ponies hide in their homes or try to aid us in building our defense. We get more and more recruits every day, but sadly i don´t think it will make such a great difference." Shining Armor gave out a long sigh and continued. "The crystal ponies lost all their best in the last war and they haven't practiced for this either. Ever since the war they have sought towards love and peace. And now they are under the shadow of war again. The griffons have been of extreme help, their knowledge of rocket weaponry have been irreplaceable and thanks to them our ponies our also getting the best of bazooka training. But I wonder if it will be enough."

"But where are the Pegasi, where are the Cloudsdale military?" Rainbow Dash asked worryingly.

"I'l get to that later. But i can say that we wont be getting the support we originally expected."

Rainbow looked like she had been hit in the face. "What, Cloudsdale won't help?"

"Yes they have sent help it´s just not what we expected. Well everypony it looks like we are here." In front of them stood a giant crystal castle, it was high enough to reach the clouds. At the gates stood four guards on watch.

"Welcome back general Armor"one of the guards said. He then opened the castle gates. The interior of the castle was beautiful, the walls where made of crystals in all kinds of colors. On the walls hung banners with the green flag of the Crystal Alliance. On it where a crystallized flower surrounded by smaller flowers.

They all came to two doors and when they entered they found themselves in a small circular room. In the middle of the room was a cyber map of Equestria on a table that showed the positions of the Allied forces and also the border between each country. Behind the table stood a pink Alicorn. She wore a green suit and she had a worried look on her face.

"Girls and Dragon may I introduce to you Princess Mi Amore Cadenza the leader of the Crystal Alliance."

"Please Shiny it's just Cadance. It's a honor too met you all iv'e heard so much about each one of you. But where´s Twilight?"

"She was captured.."Applejack began

"But we shall save her and we shall do so now."Shining Armor interrupted. "I feared that Twilight would be captured from the very beginning so I put a tracker in one of her saddlebags."

"Oh no poor Twilight" Cadance sighed. I think rescuing Twilight shall be our top priority but we must still wait for the other generals."

"Where are they then? The Cloudsdale general was supposed to be here long ago. And were did Blackbeak go?"

"He said that he was going to meet the Cloudsdale general at the gates. You know inform him of the current situation and all."

The doors opened and in came a giant griffin. He was completely black. Both the feathers and the talons and the beak had different shades of black. He wore a dark blue armor and a classical griffin helmet with a small metal plume on the top. "Evening" he said in a stately voice. Behind him came a violet Pegasus stallion with the golden armor of a Cloudsdale general. He had a insecure and worried look. His mane had the same color as Rainbow Dash. He looked over the ponies in the room and his eyes caught sight of the mare with the same mane as himself. His look immediately changed from worried to deadly cold. He walked forwards to Rainbow Dash.

"Dashie what are you doing here!?"

The mare looked like her world were being crushed before her. She then answered in a defiant tone."I was going to ask you the same thing Father! You are no soldier!"

"Huuuuuuuh!!"Pinkie was stunned by the father-daughter reunion.

"And neither are you, Dashie these are serious and dangerous stuff going on."

"Yeah well at least i'm a top speed flyer, you are just a cloud engineer. And i'm a grown up mare you can´t boss over me!"

"I am also the only general Cloudsdale got left!"

"YOU ARE NO GENERAL!!"

Cadance interrupted the discussion. "I think it´s time we tell our recruits what´s going on." Her horn started to glow and a screen appeared above the map. " Early this morning we received this message from Celestia´s agents."

A Pegasus with fiery orange mane that wore a blue uniform with yellow lightning bolts on appeared on the screen and started speaking. "This is grand general Spitfire, Celestia´s first general, captain of the Wonderbolts and leader of the Cloudsdale Liberation Front with a message to all the nations of Allied Equestria. You will all burn under the might of the sun, even together you won't stand a chance against our might. Just look at what happened to the generals of Cloudsdale."The camera turned and now the message showed 4 other Pegasi in the same uniforms. They where standing beside the decapitated bodies of eight other Pegasi. In front of the bodies laid 8 burned horse skulls. "See what happened to your generals? That is only the beginning, for soon enough all of Cloudsdale will feel the burning wrath of the sun. First we take your generals and then your government and soon we will take you... Unless of course you were to change side and join us in our glorious conquest. Celestia is merciful and kind to those who are loyal to her. Join us. Join the CLF. For the glory and honor of our Princess."The message ended with a blue flag with a winged lightning bolt appeared. The bolt was surrounded by flames.

"Now you see Dashie, i'm here because i'm the closest thing to a general they have left. My knowledge of clouds gave me a promotion into the army."

"So Mr Rainbow what exactly have brought with you to aid us?" The griffin asked.

"I've got Cloudsdale´s full battalion of Hurricane Attack clouds our best weaponry."

"And Mr Rainbow how many of these clouds do you have?"

"The battalion exists of fifty clouds divided into companies of five."

"So we got ten groups of clouds with five in each?"

"Yes and there are two specially trained Pegasi manning each cloud. They are our best gunners and fliers alike.

"OMG! I have meet Dash´s father. This calls for a PAARTYY!!"

Everypony and the griffin looked at the pink pony like she was crazy.

"Pinkie this is really a bad time..." Rainbow Dash said extremely annoyed.

"Yes we must stay focused at the task at hand." Cadance started. "The current situation could be much worse. Celestia does neither know or expect that we got aid from Cloudsdale or Luna so at least we got some surprises for them. Our spies report that Celestia´s scientists are working on two superweapons. What these weapons do is currently unknown but we must expect the worst. Reports also says that a new ally to Celestia has developed a completely new line of weapons with devastating effects. Altough it may look dark we have a secret project that is certain to turn the tide of the war. Even if our best scientists are working day and night we need help with the project. We need Twilight."

Shining Armor took over."Twilight Sparkle is the best chance we have for winning this war. She´s a genius and also Princess Luna´s student. With her help i'm certain we will get the upper hand. Sadly she was captured on her way here. Luckily we have the location of the base."

Armor´s horn glowed and on the map a little red dot appeared. The dot was on an big mountain above the clouds. "The dot shows the location of a secret CLF base where Twilight is being held. The base is inside of the cave on the mountainside and it´s heavily guarded. But it have one weakness, power. If somepony where to destroy the power generator feeding the base they would be completely defenseless. The Pegasi don´t know who it is they have captured so it´s important we get her out smooth and quick. If we send a small team they can disable the base easily with no casualties´s.

"Then let´s get Twilight!" Spike said.

"Um exuse me.."

"Um please anypony listen.."

"Please.."

"LISTEN!!".. Um sorry. Everypony turned their heads towards Fluttershy. "I think we have a problem.. um somepony already volunteered."She pointed her hoof towards where Rainbow Dash had been. She was now gone.

"Dashie! Why does she never listen to me she will get herself killed or worse.." You could see how the Pegasus started to panic and he turned to the other to generals. "Blacktalon, Mr Armor sir, we must save Dashie, please you must help her.." The stallion started to sob quietly. Fluttershy flew over to him and hugged him.

"We deploy our team and hopefully they wont be to late. Dismissed everypony."

Shining Armor exited the room and everypony else quickly followed. Except the two Pegasi. Fluttershy turned to her friends. "I'l catch up with you later girls, um if it´s okay." She then continued to hug the sobbing stallion.

"It's okay Mr Rainbow, we'll save her."

"Please Fluttershy just say Blaze."

"Sorry."

"What are Dashie doing she will get herself killed!" he sobbed.

The soft Pegasus got a serious look on her face."Um Blaze i'm sorry to say this but you really shouldn't talk about your daughter in that way, she deserves better than that. I know you are scared, I was also really afraid but then I found the strength in the ponies that I loved."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that I know that you fear of Dash´s health but you can´t treat her like she´s a little filly anymore, she wants to help, we all do. You need to support each other! And you now that she can take care of herself!"

"I know.. It's just that I can't stand losing her, she is all I have left. First I lose her mother and now if she'll get captured or worse because of her recklessness.. I'm just afraid. I don't even get why they made me a bucking general, i'm no soldier i hate war. I make clouds not warcraft.

"I agree on Rainbow just flying away was bad, but I also think she needed it."

"How? Why?"

"She blamed herself for Twilight's abduction and..."

"How can she blame herself?"

"You know she always does, she always have. She would do anything to save her friends. We both know how much we matter to her. And we both know how hard she pushes herself."

"Yes but she should not.."

"Rainbow can take care of herself, better than most ponies. Promise me Blaze that when she comes back you will treat her as your grownup daughter and not a filly!"

Blaze gave out a long and worried sigh. "Your'e right Fluttershy, I just want her to be safe. But she needs her father's support not his whine. And I need her."

"That's the Blaze i remember!"

"I should join that rescue team, you know better to get used to the war earlier than late. And I owe it to Dashie. You coming?"

"Um I really should check in with my friends you know, um if it´s okay?"

"Yeah your'e right. Well i'l see you later. And thank´s Fluttershy. You know i wasn't completely honest before."

"Oh my"

"I still have you."