Rise of The Solar Empire

Retracting the laser blade, he began to turn around, when he heard several guards approaching him. Had he not been so focused on Shining Armour, that he failed to sense them approaching. It had also surprised him that the alarms had not been tripped, perhaps his plan would not need to deviate from its intended course.

“Freeze scum.” One guard said, other boxing him in, all aiming their horns at him. “By the law of Princess Celestia, you are under arrest. Put you hands up, and do not resist.” He complied, raising his hands up, and the leader gestured for two to approach him. when they reached him, he extended his sabre, and killed both, jumping off the wall, his res weapon flashing in that dark. “Blast him!” the leader said and his troops fired at the human. Darth Critious deflected their blasts, and after lading, dispatched the other troops, leaving only the leader, who didn’t try attacking him

“What, not attacking me? I just killed you prince, princess, and your whole group, and you're just standing there.” Critious walked towards him, intrigued.

“You will pay for what you have done.” He said.

The human smirked, “I doubt that is going to happen.”  He raised his hand, and the trooper lifted off the ground, choking. “You are lucky to have died now, what is to come is much, much worse.” He threw the trooper against the wall, killing him on impact.

Critious ran, his sword extended, feeling that more troopers were heading towards him. As soon as he was then, he jumped, catching  two of them by surprize, and eliminating them quickly, continuing to run, he tried to evade the guards and their spotlights.

    One spot light almost found him, but before he could be caught in it, he pressed himself up against the wall. It wasn’t as if he feared the guards, he found it quite easy to deal with them, he just prefered to draw as little attention to himself as possible. Upon seeing a small army amassing itself across the clearing, he began to climb the wall. Scaling it as fast as he could, Darth Critious clung to the wall with one hand, over the heads of some of the guards.  climbing up the rough surface of the castle wall. Upon making his way to the top of the wall, he hauled himself up the barrier.Unknowing having hauled himself up into a guards perch, the guards tried to apprehend him, and alerting other guards to his presence. But the dark warrior killed them, and jumped off the wall, landing on the ground he was a spotlight find its way over to him. Its bright light blinding to his darkness accustomed eyes. He covered his eyes with his sabre hand. Within seconds Critious was surrounded by royal guardponies, one of them approached him, saying, “My name is Commander StarBlaze, of her majesty’s royal guard, lower your weapon.” His voice rang out, and Critious complied with his request, retracting his sabre, and attaching it to his belt. Pointing to two of the guards, StarBlaze approached him, in the darkness, Critious saw that unlike the rest of the guards, this one was a pegasus, and the ones at his side were earth ponies.With guard at both of his sides, the commander said to him quietly, “Greetings my lord,” and Darth Critious understood what he meant. “NOW!” the Imperial guard shouted, and several of the guards fired on others, killing them, and the two launched themselves into the battle, ruthlessly attacking the royal guards in the chaos that ensued.  The two had fought back to back, any royal guards that came near them were destroyed, within moments, the clearing had dead royal guards sprawled out on the ground, no imperial guards among the bodies.

    “I believe it is time for us to leave.” Darth Critious said to the guard.

“I do believe you are correct, your ship is already prepared for you, my lord.” StarBlaze said.

“You will not be accompanying me back to the base?” The human asked,

He thought the thinly veiled request over. “I suppose my guardsmen can stay and explain what's happened,” The imperial leader said, “Or at least one that benefits our cause. BroadShield, SilverStar, inform Princesses Luna and Celestia that there has been an attack on The Crystal Empire, and also tell them the attacker was eliminated.”

“Yes sir.” The two earth ponies said,and they ran to the castle.

Commander Starblaze returned to Darth Critious. “This castle needs to show signs of a greater attack, if the royal sisters find out it was a stealth assailant’s attack, we will all be under scrutiny. You wouldn’t mind making it seem like a more open attack would you, my lord?”

“Not at all.” facing the walls of the castle, Darth Critious raised his hands, and then quickly brought them down, making the castle walls crumble. Returning his gaze to the commander, “You will also need to dispose of all non-imperial troops, we cannot have what really happened here get out.”

“They will be taken care of my lord, but our empress is waiting for you to inform her of this.” StarBlaze informed him, joining him to the drawbridge that crossed the moat running along the circumference of the castle’s perimeter. BlazeStar and him walked across the bridge, troopers standing on either side of it, weapons in hand.

After they crossed the bridge, he looked back one last time at the castle before returning to his waiting ship. Using his powers, he removed the field that encompassed it, revealing his ship to him. Boarding it, StarBlaze went to the pilot’s seat, and he activated all the flight systems, and took off without a sound.

Darth Critious activating the communication channel,and entered the cockpit, StarBlaze moved to the co-pilot’s seat and a hologram of his Empress appear before them. “Was the mission a success, my apprentice?” She asked.

“No, my mistress, they did not join the empire,” The human male responded. “And Shining Armour did not join your Imperial Military.”

“This is most unfortunate.” He could detect displeasure in her voice.“And the location of Twilight Sparkle?”

“No more auspicious than Shining Armour and Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.” He delivered the news to her.

“Return to my chamber, immediately, I have another mission for you.” She replied, a touch of what some would mistake for warmth entering her voice. “And you, Commander StarBlaze, you will no longer need to go by that false title, Captain Starblaze, you are to assist in the retrieval of Twilight Sparkle as soon as Darth Critious discovers her.”

“Is there any particular reason you cannot relay if to me now?” Darth wondered, it was not often she delivered a mission to him in person, these were usually reserved for missions like the one he had just undertaken.

“I feel you will enjoy it more in person, meet me at our secret weapon.” She replied, her raspy voice carried a hint of the mission involving something he would enjoy undertaking. “Tell me, what do you know of the guard Flash Sentry?”

That name filled him with more anger than most people could bear to hold, but regarding him, Darth Critious felt nothing but hatred and contempt for that creature. His ship sped up greatly as he raced towards his masters location.

The warm sunlight filtered through the windows of the tree she called home, shining on her face. Twilight Sparkle began to stir in her bed as she felt herself coming out of sleep. She stretched her arms as she sat up, and extended her fingers. Wait, Fingers?! Twilight looked at her hands, last night she had fallen asleep as a pony, now she woke up and anthropomorphic unicorn. “SPIKE!” she called to her dragon.

“What?!” He called back.

“Did you notice anything tragen this morning?” She called down.

“No, not particularly,” He answered back. “Why, is everything alright?”

Twilight threw off her covers, and ran to her bathroom. she inspected her face, her suspicions had been confirmed, her body had changed, and she wondered if any other pony would have noticed this, they missed half of the crazy stuff that happened in Equestria, something like this would go unnoticed for a long time. She looked t her hands, inspecting her fingers, Been a long time since I last saw you, she thought, reminiscing about the last time she had fingers, but that was another world, so many strange things had happened since then. It almost made her sad, thinking about the friend she had to leave behind.

“Twilight, you ok?” spike asked, jerking her back to reality, he was wearing a chef’s hat.

“Yeah, just peachy, never better, happy as can be.” She said, trying to cover for herself.

“Oookkk…..” Spike said, not knowing what to say. “By the way, why were you staring at your fingers?”

“No reason.” She said, putting her hands behind her back. “Say, why are you in a chef’s hat?”

“The rest of the girls are going to be here in a few minutes, and I wanted to make breakfast.” Spike said.

Crap, they are coming here, “Out, out, out out out.” Twilight Sparkle said, pushing Spike out of the room.

  “Well that was interesting.” And Spike walked down stairs, back to his cooking

that was starting to burn. In Twilight’s room she dressed herself, and teleported herself downstairs before Spike had finished walking down.

    “So, whats for breakfast?” Twilight Sparkle asked.

    “Wel-” Before Spike could finish, the door was knocked over, and a cannon blast destroyed the kitchen, and left coating of carbon duct on the library, accompanied by a familiar, over excited pink pony

    “Pinkie Pie, are you CRAZY!?” Twilight asked, knowing the answer.

    “No, my mother had me tested.” The excitable earth pony said.

    Twilight facehoofed, “Uh. Why do I even ask anymore?”

    “Hi Twi-wow, great work Pinkie.” A rainbow maned pegasus said, accompanied by three others. “Overdoing it you think?”

    “No, just trying to cheer up my favorite librarian.” she said.

    “And why would I need cheering up?”

    The others jaws dropped. “You mean you haven’t heard?” A marshmallow coloured unicorn questioned. “She hasn’t told her yet.”

    “Heard what?” Twilight asked, standing up, worried. “What’s happened?”

    “This may be a bit hard to hear Twilight darling.” Rarity said.

    “Well, you see there’s been an…” Applejack said, unable to say anymore.

    The others mumbled, and said incoherent words, as if unable to say what had happened, until a light pink haired, yellow pegasus spoke up. “SHINING ARMOUR AND PRINCESS CADENCE ARE DEAD!” She said. Twilight’s jaw would have smashed the table had she been sitting, and Spike dropped his pan on his foot.

Twilight turned to her, horrified. “What, my brother’s….” She couldn’t finish her sentence. “But how, who would do such a thing to them?”

“We don’t know.” Fluttershy said.

“Why does this keep happening,” Twilight aid to herself, it seemed as if the whole world was out to get her, people she had cared about were taken from her, she was taken from them, and now this, it seemed as though everyone she cared about was being taken from her. “First Mitch, then…” She began listing off the ponies, and people, that she had been separated from, until finally reaching the end. “Now Shining, and Cadence, who else am I going to lose?”

    “Well, you’ve still got us.” Pinkie Pie said.

    Rainbow Dash smacked the back of her head. “Not helping Pinkie.”

“Sorry.” She said, her eyes becoming overly sad.

Twilight began frantically passing back and forth, “... who could be doing this, HOW could they be doing this? And why? Who would they be doing this to me?” She gripped Fluttershy's arms tightly, her face in the timid pegasi’s.

“I don’t know.” Fluttershy said quietly.

Knock, Knock.There came a knock at where the door used to be.

“Oh what is it now?” Twilight asked herself, walking over to the fallen door. “What is i-” she stopped when she saw who was there, two royal guards.

    “Twilight Sparkle, we have direct orders to take you to Canterlot Castle, immediately,” One said in a typical drill sergeant type voice. “Follow us.”

Twilight and her six friends accompanied them, only to find that a larger grouping of guards, all armed, and accompanied by a large armoured transport vehicle. She had become familiar with technology, something that war a recently new development within Equestria, but she had seen it in other worlds before.

The large door opened, and an elaborately dressed guard walked on the descending platform. when he stood in front of Twilight Sparkle, he bowed to her. “greetings Miss Sparkle, my name is Captain StarBlaze” He addressed her. “My condolences about your brother, he was a fine leader, and an even better friend.”

“But I assume that’s not the reason you’re here.” The lavender coloured unicorn said.

“Quite right, please follow me.” BlazeStar requested, his hooves crossed behind his back. “We believe that one of your enemies has been targeting you, and attacking those closest to you to find where you are.”

“But what enemies do I have?” Twilight asked. “Who would want to do this to me?”

“We don’t know Miss spark-” BlazeStar was cut of by Pinkie Pie’s chattering.

“Well there’s Nightmare Moon.” Pinkie Pie said.

“She’s Princess Luna now.” Twilight replied.

“Queen Chrysalis.”

“In the Canterlot Royal Stockade.”

“King Sombra?”

“Blasted into atoms.”

“Well, I guess that means, Discord?”

Strangely enough it wasn’t Twilight who spoke up, it was Fluttershy. “If you think discord would have done something like that, you’re wrong.”

“Well, he is the only one who can travel between dimensions, and is unaccounted for.” Rarity said.

“Oh yeah, and what about your friend Sunset Shimmer?” Fluttershy retorted, defending Discord. “She can travel between dimensions too.”

“Yeah, but she’s still stuck on Earth, and the portal won't re-open for another 2 moons.” Twilight said. “You should know that, we just went through the portal 28 moons ago, or did you forget our little excursion there?” Beginning to get suspicious of why Fluttershy was covering for Discord.

“Yes Fluttershy dearie, is there something you’re not telling us?” Rarity questioned.

Fluttershy was beginning to sweat under the suspicious gazes of her friends, she gulped and blurted out, “DISCORD AND I WERE HAVING TEA LAST NIGHT!” She said before shrinking away.

“Oh thank goodness, I thought it was some terrible secret you were hiding.” Rarity said relieved.

BlazeStar chimed in, “Anyway, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted!” His voice razing and aimed at Pinkie Pie. “Now, we must be returning to Princess Celestia’s castle for protection.”

The massive door closed behind them, and the craft took off, flying towards Canterlot.