DragonFire: The Series

"Spike," a familiar female voice faintly spoke "Spike, come on, wake up!!!"

"Ugh... Twilight?" Spike groaned. His vision came and he was fact to face with his childhood crush, the Mage "Rarity". She had on a more business looking white dress on with matching high heels, and her luscious indigo hair, still curled to perfection as she did when he was young. They were inside a tent area with medical equipment around them

"Twilight?" She asked "Oh silly, no! It's me, Rarity. It's been so long since we've last seen each other. I've heard how you're the first and youngest Draco commander. I do say, you rather dashing in a combat suit, even if it's... well... filthy and barbaric in almost every way possible." Spike blushed a bit, but his mind snapped as he remembered.

"WAIT!!! Twilight!!! Where is she!?!?!?"

"I'm sorry Spike." Luna said, walking inside their tent, followed by Cadence and Shining Armor. Cadence had on a Cerise dress with long sleeves that that matched her wings and had gold on the end of her dress & wrist areas, along with golden heels, belt, & a necklace. Her violet hair, with rose and pale gold streaks, nearly touched the floor, giving her a somewhat regal look. Shining Armor, on the other hand, had on his white jumpsuit while his legs were covered by blue combat boots and purple armor with gold edges that, despite Spike's, looked more for show than combat, covering his chest area, legs, waist, & wrists. Most would say that, had Spike not been a Draco with his dragon like qualities, Shining Armor could be seen as his older brother, as his sapphire blue hair, with cerulean & dark phthalo blue streaks, was also in a way that looked similar to an anime character's hair style.

"Spike," Cadence spoke "but we arrived when Twilight was kidnapped by King Sombra. You were unconscious on the floor, battered & beaten up. You did your best to save her."

"No!" Spike got up and placed his claws on his head "No,no,no,no,no,no,no!!! This wasn't suppose to happen!!!"

"We share your grief," Luna spoke "and believe me, we need our leader back as soon as we can."

"Well, Let's go get her!!! She can't be too far!!! They must b-"

"W're sorry, but we can't go."

"WHAT!?!?!? WHY!?!?!?"

"We need to stay and rebuild our planet," Shining Armor spoke opening the tent. Spike got up, feeling lucky Sombra didn't break his bones in their encounter, and looked outside: many of the buildings were either destroyed to rubble or barely standing with citizens trying to help each other out and help out the wounded citizens. "As you can see, we're a little tied up at the moment. Those Shadows, after taking Twilight away, began to attack the capital, destroying everything around them. We battled against them, and this is all we have left."

"Oh Spike," Cadence said, placing her arm over her shoulder "I wish we could help you find Twilight." With those words, Spike gained an idea.

"Hold on," Spike announced "I have a plan!!!"

"What is it?" Luna said, levitating a seat over to her as she sat down on it.

"Alright, you three have to stay and help rebuild with leading this planet's citizen's, right?"

"Yes. Where are you getting at?"

"What I'm saying is that Rarity and I should go and find Princess Twilight!!!"

"Find Twilight!?!?!?" Rarity shrieked a bit. She began to take deep breaths and thought about the situation. "Alright Rarity, keep it together. I'm pretty sure your customers will understand if your shop is closed, Twilight is your friend, Spike is the leader, and... OH!!! Alright then, Spike!"

"Yes, Rarity?"

"Let's go!!! Twilight needs us!!!"

"That sounds like a good idea," Shining Stated "but you're going to need more than that. You're gonna need a crew to complete this mission of yours."

"Wait," Spike said "you're... with me on this?"

"I am. Twilight is not just our sister, but is the main princess herself and person YOU swear to protect with your life!!!"

"And I think I know what you can use." Luna added "Come. I'm just glad those shadows nor that assassin found and destroyed it."

The five, after traveling through a broken down castle with guards still patrolling the emptied areas, went into an underground area. The lights lit up around them, making the whole area glow with white as they traveled down a hallway, ending with another door and a hand scanner next to it. Luna placed her hand on it, allowing it to scan her hands & fingers; it lit a green light and let out a beep of allowance, causing the door to open, revealing an elevator. They all entered inside, hearing the whirs of the elevator, slowly descending, revealing the elevator had a glass door, showing the metal surface going by them by the second. They soon found themselves in a large open area where, inside it's hanger area, laid a huge, white spaceship with, on both left sides, a flowing stream of light cerulean, light turquoise, very light cobalt blue, and pale heliotrope, that would easily tower the one Twilight and Spike arrived in!!!

"Oh my word!!!" Rarity gasped at the ship laying in front as they continued traveling down.

"What is that!?!?!?" Spike yelled

"That," Luna said with a chuckle "is your spaceship to use."

"...Really?"

"Yes. It was originally going to be Twilight's personal ship for when she had to do business with other planet's and galaxies, but since she isn't here, you'll use it."

"Does the color go with the name?"

"Yes. This is to pay tribute to my sister: it has the power you'd expect it to have, but is still elegant enough to fly around with grace. Welcome to "The Celestia"!"

"The Celestia." Rarity gawked at it as the elevator landed on the bottom below, letting them see more of how huge it was.

"There's already plenty of engineers inside, working & maintaining the Celestia as we know it. Of course, since you don't know anyone who's a good pilot, we had to get one for you."

"...who is it?" Almost as if on cue, the same orange winged angel flew down and landed in front of him, flaring his wings as he had a large grin on his face.

"Flash Sentry," he spoke "Reporting for Duty!!!" Before Spike could say anything, Flash flew inside the entrance of the Celestia, located at the bottom in the front area, followed by some other angels, mages, and humans, each bringing in supplies to the inside of the ship.

"Why him? Isn't there, I don't know, some other pilot that can fly the Celestia?"

"We didn't have all the time to find a pilot for the ship. His flight record actually excels the others and, though it just might help, he has some feelings for your stepsister."

"Don't remind me on that."

"Where will you be going?" Cadence asked the Draco.

"...Well... I figure I can go back to where Twilight meet her friends first, Ponyville, and then I can find others who would join our mission, and that's when we'll go and find her!!!"

"Not much of a plan there, eh?" Shining mocked

"Hey, I'm just getting the concept down, a plan will come soon."

"I hope so."

"If there's anything you need," Luna spoke "please, tell us now." Spike thought for a minute. He knew that he would need to get help, but everyone associated with Twilight would most likely be in Ponyville... all except for one.

"There is something I need!!!"

"What is it? Your comic book collection?"

"...No. That sounds nice though, but what I really need isn't something, but someONE!!!"

"Who?"

"Sunset Shimmer!!!"

"You mean... Celestia's old student that was banished into an alternate dimension?"

"Yes!!! Don't worry, Twilight and I are actually pretty good friends with her. She will gladly follow me to get her friend and, might we say, equal."

"Are... you sure about this?" Cadence asked

"Trust me on this. If anything goes wrong, I'll see to it that she's locked up until we complete the mission. There is a prison in the Celestia, right?"

"Kinda." Luna replied.

"Then bring her out here!!!" Luna took a deep breath: Spike seemed confident about this from what she felt otherwise. She opened a small device, tapped down something, and placed it on the floor.

"Alright everyone, you may want to back up on this." Everyone backed up from the area a bit, seeing a blue glowing orb with a figure forming inside. Though a silhouette, the figure was defiantly female with boots around the feet area and wearing a jacket. The orb made a small explosion, though not making a sound, and a woman floated down, landing on her knees gently. She had on a black leather jacket, covering over a purple t-shirt with a sun on it, with a skirt that, though an orange-yellow mix, had a white & purple stripe, with matching boots to her jacket that had a weird, matching purple blotch on both. The woman began to cough a bit and taking deep breaths.

"Where... am I?" She asked. She looked up and gasped at the sight of Luna "PRINCESS LUNA!?!?!? What's going on? Why am I here?"

"SUNSET!!!" Spike shouted with glee. He ran towards the woman and gave her a hug from right behind.

"Spike? What's going on? Is that a spaceship with Celestia's colors?"

"Oh Sunset," Rarity said with concern. "Please, step inside with me. I'll fill you in with what's happening and why you're here, sound good?"

"Uh... sure, I guess." Rarity extended a hand to Sunset. Sunset accepted the hand and was helped lifted up. Due to not being a mage for over a couple of years, it took her a while to walk, but was aided by Rarity, who carried her inside the Celestia. Spike began to follow them.

"Spike." Shining spoke, stopping him in place. The Draco turned around to his older step-brother. "Listen, no matter what happens, don't lose sight of what's really important here. Twilight may now be the head princess, but she's still our sister. When you find her, never lose sight of her, got it?"

"I got it." Spike replied

"That's good. So you later, little bro." He messed with Spike's hair a bit before saluting to him. Spike returned the Salute and began to head into the Celestia. Though that idiot Flash Sentry was piloting, he shouldn't be too much of a problem if he was kept in the cockpit. Spike entered Celestia, seeing all of the crew was busy doing something important, from checking their data on various of things: supplies, ammunition, coordinates, ECT. Spike walked over to Flash Sentry, who sat down in the cockpit, checking on everything. A chair stood in the middle, with a clear, long, and narrow windows, giving everyone a full access view to the world outside.

"Food... check!" He listed down, looking through the list of important stuff "Water.... check! Coordinates to other planets... check! One angry commander... definitely a check there!"

"Oh, shut up." Spike replied to Flash's comment

"Sorry about that, didn't know I struck a nerve there."

"You're getting close to it."

"Sorry, I get a bit excited when piloting any new ship!!!"

"Really? You fly ships often?"

"Yeah! I know we angels would love to use our wings more than rely on ships to do it, but with me, I actually enjoy using something that can fly. Are you a flying person?"

"I've... had my experiences."

"Oh, good, don't want a commander who'll freak out when I fly."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, if it happens, which I'm hoping it won't, expect many turns that will cause most to panic."

"I now hope so as well. Say, do you know where those Mages went?"

"The ones not in uniform?"

"Yeah... those two."

"They're in one of the rooms... room #3407."

"Alright. I'll talk to you later, get this ship running."

"Will do, Commander!!! This is going to be so cool!!!" Spike began to walk past the rooms until he stopped at #3407. He was about to knock, but heard Sunset whimpering inside. Not really sure what to do, he knocked on the door.

"Who's there?" Rarity asked

"It's Spike." Spike replied

"...Come in." Sunset's voice cracked. Spike opened the door and saw Sunset lying down with her head in between her knees, crying softly.

"She's not really taking it well." Rarity told Spike.

"I take it you told her what happened." Spike replied

"How?" Sunset questioned while tearing up. "How can anyone do that??? She was well protected and yet... they snuck in and poisoned her in her sleep!!! I-I never had the chance to see her... those years and yet, I can still remember her face." Spike sat next to her and placed a claw around her arm.

"I know... it's devastating."

"I'm... a bit glad Twilight is now the head princess, but... why did they kidnap her if they killed Celestia!?!?!? It makes no sense!!!"

"We'll find that out soon, but for now, we need to rescue Twilight."

"I... know." Silence came in between them.

"Now's not the time to grieve. We need to rescue Twilight and find out who's responsible and what they're planning! More will join us, friends of ours that I know really well. Sunset, according to us, you're redeemed, but to Luna and Cadence, you're not. Help us and fulfill your redemption. I'm sure Celestia would've loved to see how you've changed." Sunset's head perked up at what Spike said. She slowly stood right back up on her feet, took a final sniff, opened a closet, and pulled out some armor.

"Uh... Spike, is it alright if we can change the color of our suits?"

"I will see that."

"And... can you leave? I've got to change when we land on this... Ponyville. Why's it called Ponyville by the way?"

"I'm... not really sure." Rarity replied "It just sorta is, named by Humans."

"Really? I can understand their planets in their solar system named after roman gods, but that sounds like something a little girl would name."

"Yeah, I agree."

"We'll be launching in a few minutes." Flash's voice was heard throughout the intercom "Repeat, we'll be launching in a few minutes."

"You guys better go." Sunset replied. "I'll be ready when we land."

"Uh... the colors?" Spike asked

"Oh... right! How do I do that?"

"Is it alright if I help?" Rarity asked "as a friend, of course."

"Uh... sure. That'd be helpful!"

"Alrighty then," Rarity walked inside "First, we're going to have to take these out, then-" the door closed right behind them, muffling their voices. Spike began to walk back to the control areas and sat down in the chair, feeling how soft it was.

"Alright," Flash said "everything's ready to go, Spike!"

"Good." Spike replied

"Where to, sir?"

"Ponyville. I'm gonna need more friends, and hopefully, a good portion of them are still there."

"Alright... permission to speak freely?"

"...granted."

"I feel honored to work under you, even if I am a bit jealous."

"Jealous? You don't seem jealous."

"I hide my feelings better than others."

"Well... what are you jealous of?"

"It's that... you're a commander, leading a whole ship, and making your own crew! That's something anyone would want."

"What are you getting at?"

"It's that... you're a Draco."

"...So?"

"Draco's are, and don't feel offended by this, but, your kind has been looked down by the entire galaxy. We all thought you wouldn't make it, myself included."

"As I told Twilight, never judge a book by it's cover."

"True, true. We just thought... well, even if you did make it, you would still be the lowest soldier around, never going to get the respect as we did in our youth."

"It's a funny thing about respect: most people believe they get it when, in all truth, you earn it. I planned to rank through and protect all I stood for, never much for personal pride or glory."

"Yeah... I... respect that actually. Ponyville, right?"

"Correct."

"Alright, accessing permission to leave... it's granted. We'll be launching in 3... 2... 1." The walls in from of them started to part, revealing that there was a way for them to leave. The Celestia began to rise off the ground, and, in a matter of seconds, they were fired out to the outside world!!! Though going by super fast, it was revealed that the Celestia was made inside the mountain the Canterlot Castle rested upon, the only thing left untouched as it was turned into the capitol it was... or so it was thought. They all found themselves in space, seeing everything float a bit.

"Flash, the gravity?"

"Oh, sorry, forgot about that." Flash pressed another button and everything fell back onto the floor, back to what it was before they left. Their adventure was just starting: they needed to get the rest of Twilight's friends; Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy. Others would join, mostly friends, but some enemies as well... but that's another chapter later on.