The Unkown Brotherhood

Celestia looked up to see her sister's  silhouette in the moon as she continued to cry she looked around to see her castle in need of repairs but knowing the halls are full of memories she'll never forget and will constantly remind her of her sin.

“Sister why did you turn, why didn't you just talk to me?”

As she walks out the room she turns to see guards galloping towards her and wipes her eyes before looking towards them.

“Princess what happen to Princess Luna? Why did she turn?”

Celestia smiled as she raised her head “I don't know why she turned but she has been imprisoned in the moon until our one thousand and twenty fiftieth.” There was a silence as the guards payed respect for the lost princess “I am saddened by my sister's banishment but we must take this as a lesson even those of power can lose control of themselves and as such we shall make preparation in case I turn somehow or if we need a second defense.”

“But princess we have no one more powerful than you."

“That will soon change. Go fetch me Starswirl and Captain Lighthoof.”

“Hello Celestia you summoned me?”

“Princess you called?”

She turned around to see her Captain with his head down and Starswirl waiting patiently. “Yes to both of you I called you both cause you too are who I would trust the most to help me create a force more powerful than me.”

“Celestia forgive me but how will you do that it's taken me two hundred years to match your power. Also how is the captian of recon suppose to help in magical power?”

“Starswirl while he won't help magically he shall help keep the power secret. So you shall respect his presence and stay your tongue before it bites.” She walked over to her desk to pull a map of castle and surrounding land “If we are going to have a group to make sure I'm kept in check we shall make its head quarters close so Captain where should we keep the entrance?”

"Princess I don't think I fully understand can you elaborate more?"

"You shall chose the location for the force to stay since you have built many of our starting headquarters and trade post.This way i shall know for sure it is safe."

“Well if I may ask do you have a map of the castle layout” Celestia pulls out another map and spreads it in front of Lighthoof and he points to a storage area in the lower levels “While I am sure a outside location will be easier to built a better strategic option would be to build it under the castle with a entrance outside and inside the castle and I think this store room will be a good place to start its big enough for machinery to get through and isn't used often providing more security and secrecy.”

“Hey Gold” the unicorn pulled her head out of the book “Can we just read this next week nothing interesting has happened?”

“What!? We haven't even got to where they see what's inside the storage room to see if they could build the headquarters!!”

“So what we can read later we have a test in five minutes.”

“Fine but I call the dagger!”

Silver Rolled his eyes as they continue to trot towards the coliseum

“So you ready for the test? You never practiced.”

“I don't need to practice its all knowledge for me.”

“I'm sure about that but you still need to practice fighting with a sword especially--”

“Cause I'm a pegasus and I don't have the upper hand of magic yaddah yaddah.”

Silver rolled his eye's “then why don't you practice your sword skills?”

“Because this is the Alpha test not a field test.”

As they walked up to the gates outside coliseum they see their zebra friend waiting for them.

“Hey Brutus, how the rhyming going?”

“It is going good, but how is your journey of womanhood.”

“Can't you just say, good how are you?”

“No because I can cause you to irritate, and I must admit it is great.”

Silver glared at him

“Alright I'll stop, you got anger problems my friend.”

Gold giggled as she looked around to see a pony sitting in a strange position. “Hey don't hold up I'll meet you inside guy's.”

As they continue to argue Gold walked over to the pony as she got closer she notice on his hindlegs he had a book propped up.

“What you reading?”

“Umm..Well it's complicated and controversial so yeah.”

“I'm smart and don't care about pony's opinion.”

“It's about human biology and history of their dissection both alive and dead.”

“Huh so either you're bored or doing research. I'm willing to bet research.”

“How did you know?”

Gold smiled as she pointed to his eye “you're wearing a colored contact lens to hide your heterochromia* and the only pony who has that problem and is interested humans and that is Doctor Pendragon.”

"You can tell that by looking at me?"

“Nope you just confirmed it I could tell because of the way you're sitting.”

“Huh.”

She holds her hoof out “I'm Gold professional at recon and gathering information”

Alex but I'm sure you know that I'm alternate dimension researcher.”

“Quite a tittle.”

He scoffed “I’m fifty eight and done forty years of research I think I deserve it.”

"Huh well are you taking the test?"

“Yeah I'm hoping they'll let me use this.”

He pulls out a cylinder metal tube and hands it to Gold. She takes it and turns it around in her hooves, she notices to four buttons on the side “What do these do?”

He smiles as he takes the cylinder back “They make it more interesting.You'll find I tend to make a show out of what I do.”

"Heh you'll get along with some of my friends then, want to meet them?"

“Uhh sure why not?”

As they both got up they heard horns go off “Well looks like we need to meet up dureing the fights good luck.”

As she walked into the gates she saw hundreds of ponies heading to the spectator gates.

“Well hope this will be fun.”

As the stands continue to fill Gold and Silver sat on Brutus’s back while he continue to push ups.

“Can we get off I want to practice with Gold?”

“It goes alphabetical we will have time to fight.”

“So who's first Gold, I want to know if I should be bold.”

“Alex should be going first and from what I gathered it should be interesting”

“Why do you say that.”

“He's fighting a new monster that's been made, a changing infinite is what they're calling it until they can make a right name for it.”

“What does it do.”

Just wait and you'll enjoy what you see

As the crowd cheers Silver and Gold get off Brutus to see what happening “Huh looks like Alex feels confident”

Alex continues to wave at the crowd and a stallions voice is heard “Calm down ponies. Today I introduce the first candidate for the Alpha team he is apparently skilled in using a whip and his greatest skill is his intelligence meet Alex Pendragon and hope he doesn't die.Release the beast!”

As the gate lifts people look go see a small bunny hop out of the gate ponies started whispering and booing Alex smiles as he pulls out a cylinder and pulls it apart at the middle to make two whips

“Huh I thought he said the cylinder would be interesting?”

As he wipes towards the bunny the whip suddenly lights aflame as the bunny quickly hops away.

“Huh I spoke too soon”

The suddenly was surrounded in green fire as it became a manticore and flew up. Alex quickly wrapped his whip around its tail and pulled him to the ground.The manticore changed, it became more see through and held the shape of mareaquin as ponies continue to murmur Alex waited as he stared into its see through its face and he could of swore it grinned suddenly as it charged towards him. He tried to jump out of the way but it surrounded him and encased him in a ball of water as he tried to move the water followed his movements. Alex moved his hoof down to the lower button of his left whip when he pressed it the water was suddenly vibrating a strings of electricity made it shake and when it stopped both fell down as the water morphed back into a passed out bunny. Alex grabbed his head as he grabbed the bunny and held it up in the air as the ponies cheered his name “ALEX!ALEX!ALEX!ALEX!”

“Huh Brutus looks like your gonna have to show off a lot more than your brute strength to win this one”

“Gold not funny.”

“Too scared to rhyme?”

“Yes.”

“Well I give you a little help I noticed it needs to concentrate to morph and it learns from what you can do and will modify itself based on that showing it is intelligent.”

“Thanks Silver now I'm more scared.”

Alex walked in and laid on the floor panting and rubbing his head “So you're full of surprises.” Alex opened his eyes to see a familiar face.

“Hey Gold. Impressed I assume?”

“With your skills in using a whip mostly but yes. I notice you only used two buttons what do the other two do?”

“I'll tell you after I see what you can do in the ring”

“Alright fair enough.Hey my friend is up next come see

I can barely stand

Well I'll hold you up than.

"Welcome Brutus skilled in archery, hoof combat, and club combat and his greatest skill is patience let's see what he can do against the changing infinite!"

"BRUTUS!BRUTUS!BRUTUS!BRUTUS!"

Brutus smiled as he pulled up his club and everyone cheered as the gate opened and this time a changling walked out. "Well I better not disappoint."