Starhound

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

-Sir Winston S. Churchill

Lightspeed sat on Celestia's old throne, triumphant. After dropping off Starhound, he rethought his tactics and decided to take down the princesses one at a time. It worked like sweet milk.

The first thing he did was take down all the snobby nobles, especially that Blueblood asshole.

Nyx burst in, a whole contingent of guards piled over her. "Lightspeed, explain yourself!"

Lightspeed let out a groan. "It's a long explanation..."

A Long Explanation Later

"So you wanted to help Equestria? You could have made a petition."

"Ha, like that ever works. Celly's too busy worrying about the nobles revolting to actually give a shit to her 'subjects' and whatnot."

"Lightspeed, I've only known you for a day. But I know you're not like that."

"What do you know about this crap? I give an exchange to master; a small little compensation to create a better country."

"Your talking about communism! That never wor-"

Lightspeed teleported her out. "Finally some peace and quiet..."

Red Widow stood guard outside the throne room. The Day Guard had been replaced in favor of the Elite Night Bat Guards because they actually could do something without messing up.

Lightspeed came out. "Um, excuse me. I'm off to the library. I guess you're dismissed for the day."

"Thank you, sir."

She turned to the barracks, only to suddenly stop. Questions about him flew into her mind, like what book he was going to read, end of thinking capacity (etc).

Red slowly stalked him into the library. He grabbed a book in the Crystal Empire, then flew onto a cloud. She folled him stealthily onto a higher cloud, and watched him.

"Herro!" Another bat guard popped out behind her. It was her roommate, Vixen.

"Aaaaahhhh-oh, hi Vixen. Moshi Moshi Jesus Desu."

"Wacha doing?"

"Erm...nothing..." She suddenly took intrest into a dragon shaped cloud.

"Come back on, you can tell me!"

"Fine....I sorta have a crush on Lighspeed."

"Then you'll have to ask him out." Vixen said with a goofy grin.

A pony stood over Palpatine. "I'm now your master, weakling."

"Yes...Master..."

"I find your company interesting. Your not boring when we go clothes shopping."

"Yes...I do like chain mail armor swimsuits."

The two left J.C. Bits.

"You hear about the starships?"

Lightspeed nodded. "Missed MaC by a day."

"I like them. More than your wits."

"They do have one redeeming characteristic."

"What's that?"

"They don't talk as much as you do."

Red rolled here eyes. "You wanted to adopt Starhound?"

"Yeah. We're here."

The Ponyville adoption center was, in essence, a daycare with added dormitories. They walked in and were immediately swarmed with foals and fillies.

"I certainly does something, doesn't it?" Red asked as she nuzzled a filly.

"Yes. It makes me very, very uncomfortable."

They quickly found Starluck. Lighspeed took him to the adoption office, and after half an hour of grueling paperwork, managed to call him his own foal.

The now group of three walked into the sunlight.

"Wait...who'll raise and lower the sun and moon now?"

"Me, I guess..."

Starluck looked up at the alicorn. "Come daddy, you can do it!"

Lighspeed did it, he was just drained.

"Never..again..."

Red and Lightspeed stopped at the barracks. "Well, catcha later, Lighty!"

"Right...Reddie..."

Lighspeed let Starhound go play, and went down to the dungeons to find the Royal Sisters.

Celestia looked up at him, expression neutral. "Why are you here?"

"I looked over the history of the Crystal empire. I'm screwed!"

"You just realized that?"

"Help!"

"Fine." The solar princess blasted her way out of the cell.

"Wait, you could've gotten out any time?"

"I just wanted to see how you would've ran the country."

"Oh. Come on, Sombra's gonna do something bad!"

"Wait, he's your master?"

"Was! Come on, let's get the others!"

The entire group assembled, even Nyx, Rumble, and several flak frigates came into the atmosphere to support.

They teleported to the Crystal Castle, to find that Shining and Cadence were already engaging Sombra.

They lept into action, surrounding the massive cloud and hitting him repeatedly. Sombra fled, to the annoyance of the whole group.

"We didn't even get our licks in."

"We'll get him soon. Some day. Just not today."

"You do realized that it all escalated too quickly?"

"Meh. The author probably wants to move the story along quicker."

Indeed, I do.