Tears of the Indifferent.

Sahara's portal opened up depositing the group into her world. Spike leapt up and circled all the Ponies on defensive instinct. "Where are we?" He asked after a few moments of surveying the stone walls.

"In my world of course.. This Specifically is called the hall of echoes." She let out a wide grin.

"Mom I knew you'd save us!" Scootaloo cried rushing over and hugging Rainbow Dash.

"Oh Scoots I thought I'd lost you, what kind of mother am I to lose her daughter in a few hours?" Dash gasped holding her close.

Applejack nuzzled Applebloom and looked sadly at her friend. "Ain't your fault 'twas ours for messing' with that book." Applebloom said giving Dash a small hug.

"She's right mom we had no idea a dragon lived in that book we were trying to find out about Spike." She turned to look at the young drake carrying Sweetie Belle towards them. "And Sweetie Belle paid for our curiosity..."

"Wait you mean to tell me you entered Canrage's Prison in search of knowledge on dragons?" Javelin interjected now back to her fairly large size.

"Yes... We wanted to find out about Spikes..l anatomy.." Sweetie Belle whispered.

Spike's gave her a worried look and she patted his snout reassuringly. "You're feeling alright?" He asked softly. Sweetie Belle just nodded slightly and leaned against his chest scales.

Sahara flapped her wings to get everyponys attention, and once all heads turned to her the Alicorns smile grew. "Well now that we're not in any present danger I believe the hall of echoes can show you a good view of dragon history. I failed anatomy so you'll have to ask Lance when he comes back." She gestured for them to follow and she walked down the large hallway.

Applejack pulled Rainbow aside and making sure nopony was in earshot moved closer. "That there Sahara is making me nervous she seems like a nice gal, but why is she helpin' us?"

Rainbow nodded slowly "Yeah I didn't know that there was more Alicorns other than the princesses. We should defiantly keep an eye on her."

The two nodded to each other and followed the group of teenagers.

While nopony had heard the conversation Javelin was no pony. She smiled to herself "Those two are quite amusing it's been far too long since I've associated myself with any blessed other than Sahara. Perhaps they really are the ones who inherited the Elements."

"Now my new associates behold." Sahara gestured towards the now cloth covered walls. A picture frame with a picture of two black dragons roaring at each other.

"What's happening in this picture?" Scootaloo asked looking at the draconic art. "Wait the one on the left looks like that big one... Carnage was it?" She turned to Sahara who nodded.

"Indeed this is a memory frame it contains a piece of history, an echo or Flash Point as the military called them."

"Military, you mean like the royal guards?" Dash asked walking up next to Scootaloo.

"We'll the royal guard is fairly new back then their was a large combat force made up of several species." Javelin informed them. "It would actually be best if we let the echo tell it's tale." Her scales glowed silver and the world around them went black.

"Now sit back relax and please hold all questions until the end of the Flash Point thank you." Sahara cheered as the darkness began to give way to another picture.

Equestria: Ancient times.

A cyan dragon walked out onto a rocky ledge and looked down at the valley far below. A flash of orange caught his attention as another drake crossed the valley towards him. He unfurled his wings spreading the bright rainbow colored wing scales and pumped them a few times. "Buckshot!" He called as he leaped diving straight down at the other dragon.

Buckshot turned and let out a sigh as the cyan bolt hurtled towards them."This is going to end exactly like last time..." Spectrum slammed into Buckshot and the two. drakes tumbled snout over tail into a small grove of trees.

"What in the name of Draco were you thinking Spectrum? Oh wait I forgot you never think!" Buckshot growled shaking himself loose of the vegitaation.

"Lighten up Buckshot with the war going on we barely get any leave. We should spend this time having fun and doing exciting things."

"Or we can be productive and useful while waiting for our next deployment." The orange dragon grumbled.

"Bah Kaizer told us to spend our leave the best way we can soon lets do some flying!" Spectrum cheered as he flapped his wings buffing his companions face with wind.

"You know I hate flying why note a ground race?" Buckshot replied giving up on a quiet walk.

"No way you know I hate running and you'll make me tie my wings down." Spectrum stroked his wings frowning.

"Escuse me." A deep quiet voice whispered causing both dragons to flip around in surprise. A large yellow colored drake smiled at them timidly.

"Hurricane good to see you what is it you need?" Buckshot chimed at his squad mate.

Hurricane pulled a letter out of his pink medical bag and flipped it to face them. Spectrum shot forward and scanned it quickly let out a sigh. "So much for a few days of leave." He grumbled plopping back onto the ground.

Buckshot scanned the parchment and nodded. "We'll she did phrase it as 'Request' meaning Kaizer needs us their soon."

"What kind of op would require all three of us to show up on a leave day?" Spectrum grumbled flexing his wings.

"We shouldn't keep them waiting." Hurricane said quietly and unfurled his wings. The other drakes did the same and the trio lifted up towards a distant mountain castle.

Draconic Outpost 17
Shiver, Eclipse, and Aura walked out into the castle courtyard and looked up to see their squad mates gliding in. "Welcome back!" Eclipse called out and the approaching drakes dipped their wings in greeting.

"What's the report?" Buckshot said as soon as he landed. The dragon squad formed a circle and Eclipse put a small purple gem on the ground. A map of Equestria appeared before them cut into several sections with different colors.

Eclipse pointed towards a white colored section labeled Canterlot territory, and the map zoomed in. Eclipse tapped a section below Canterlot castle and a small village rose from the territory.

"PonyVille?" Spectrum read and tilted his head slightly "Why is this place important?"

"It's important because it's the staging place for project harmony." Aura informed him with a sigh. "Honestly do you ever pay attention to Kaizer's briefing?"

"No he doesn't now what does project harmony need us for?" Buckshot asked.

"As we all know project Harmony is developing a way to defeat Discord, and Nightmare's forces."

"Yeah yeah Luna's pet project what about it?" Spectrum yawned.

"I was getting to that before you interrupted me. Now it was moved to this town ever since Maw attacked Canterlot so Carnage and the other loyalists have returned to active offensive even without Maw leading them. They recently targeted several towns in the nearby area. We must defend PonyVille and Project Harmony at all costs. This is a high risk, high profile mission. Keep it low casualty, now lets fly the elite guard is already on sight." And with that the Draconic squad took to the sky heading towards PonyVille.