The Sun Comes Out At Midnight

I sat at the map writing a letter to Fleetfoot and Sourin about the mission to reclaim Solaris while in Twilight's castle as all the girls worked around me for their next mission. Everyone's cutie marks were reacting meaning it was going to be a big friendship problem. I tapped at the glowing marks on the map and was hit with some static magic. I let out a lazy groan as I sat back in the chair, today was my last day to relax before my first day as an acting member of the Bluemoons. We would be departing at sunset tomorrow and be flying all the way to a compound outside Las Pegasus gathering intelligence and blowing the place off the map. I had been put through a sneaking for dummies course by Blood Rain and Luna for the past week and had grown to enjoy moving silently as an alternative to overwhelming force. Blood Rains philosophy was the deadliest cut is the one that kills without being herd, which was impressive and terrifying.

Pinkie shook me from my day dream, "Are you okay Sunny?" I smiled at her.

"Yeah I was just wondering if you guys get this nervous when I leave." I let out a laugh to sell it.

"Well I know you'll be okay but the others usually freak out, Twilight hyper ventilated when Cadence thought you were going to die." I touched my eye that was once cursed with the nightmare plague, good times.

"I know you'll all do great but the butterflies in my stomach wont go away." I was a little worried for them as they were getting close to changeling territory and ponies are their favorite prey.

"Maybe you need to eat," She looked around and spotted a stressed out Twilight, " Take drama queen and go out to eat." I genuinely laughed at the sight of the princess micro managing all of the girl to an excessive degree.

"Yes Pinkie sir," She saluted which I returned. I rose from my chair collecting my finished letter and made my way over to the ball of anxiety. "Hey Twilight I figured we both need a break, want to go catch a bite to eat?" She looked at me with big pleading eyes.

"Yes Sun, I would like that very much," She turned to the rest of the room, "My stuff is taken care of but I'll make sure to triple check everything before we leave." Everyone acknowledged Twilight to put her at ease as we left the map room.

"So what are you feeling for lunch?" She maintained a serious look with me.

"I know what you are doing tomorrow Sun and personally it scares me." I had hoped she didn't know but by how she was acting it was obvious.

"Its just a standard mission no Sombras or crazy curses just normal stuff."

"Nothing is ever normal with you and there's nothing normal about blowing a building off the face of the planet in the middle of the night." I thought back to how many things I've blown up or destroyed.

"It's kind of normal for me, honestly this is a lot more tame than usual." She sighed

"Why can't you just retire and be Ponyvilles sheriff, just settle down and have a couple of kids or something it would stress everyone else out a whole lot less." I grinned at the thought.

"I haven't really changed anything yet and something still calls me to fight," I pointed to my heart. "When that changes I promise I will fill that castle in the woods full of ponies humans and maybe kids who knows."

"When do you think that will happen?" I honestly thought about it.

"First I have to get freedom for all humans, figure out who put a hex on me , find my dad, learn who my mom is, go to the moon, heal Spitfire, beat Luna in chess, and get married." I paused, "Oh and I have to go to the Grand Galloping Gala."

"That's a hefty list Sun." She seemed almost sad.

"I just think as a human its kind of hard to attract the opposite sex when I haven't seen a female human in like 6 months." She got a weird look on her face. "what's that look for?"

"You told me and the girls you like mares and according to Luna ponies and humans can you know.. procreate?" My face got red, this was the first time this topic got discussed without booze involved.

"Yeah I'm aware of that fact but there's also the stigma of being associated with humans still so unless," I focused on my lunar magic and went pony form, "I look like this all the time my significant other or others will be submitted to unfair treatment because of me."

Her face got really red, "Everyone promised not to show you this but I think you need to see it." Her hand flashed and a playpony magazine appeared, she magically flipped to the back page which contained the top bachelors in Eqestria. My eyes scanned the lower part of the page before she motioned me up to the top, "No.2 Apollo Sun the human prince and night guard, he's currently in the company of the elements of harmony, Vinyl Scratch, and one Spitfire of the Wonderbolts. He's mysterious and constantly surrounded by some of the most powerful mares in all of Eqestria. Prices exceeding 12 million bits have been asked of the Princesses for the transfer of his service but all have been turned down as this human is free! His annual income is suspected to be that of a high class noble so if he tickles your fancy try meeting him with a big smile and he just might let you into his group of high class mares." I just looked at the pictures that ranged from me on my balcony after a shower in Canterlot to me at the crystal heart ceremony. I felt like I was on fire but I still looked at number one, "Shinning armor the master of all mares hearts," I felt my embarrassment fade at Shinning's title.

"Sun mares are noticing you and we are worried you're going to get swept away by some crazy mares," I looked at her quizzically.

"Who is we?" She became flustered.

"Like the girls and the princesses, see its an issue of national security."

"I understand, we can't have little Suns running around." As we talked we made it out of the castle and into the newly winterized Ponyville, I zipped up my black jacket and adjusted a black hat Rarity gave me called a beanie. "I know we always go to Sugar Cube but I'm feeling it today." She smiled from beneath her newly dawned scarf.

"You always want to go there."

"What can I say its one of my happy places." The ground was coated with a light couple inches of snow which crunched under my boots, the sound was like nails on chalk board and any moment I thought about a wendigo popping up from the snow.

Twilight nudged me, "Don't tell me you're afraid of the snow?" I scoffed at the accusation like a true Canterlot pony.

"Me afraid of the snow hilarious, I just hate what can come out of the snow."

"I don't think you will find any wendigos around here Sun."

"Your brother probably wrote you didn't he?"

"Of course, he dose bi weekly and honestly I think everything that happened up north was quiet remarkable."

"Why do you say that?"

"You grew wings while you were there." I honestly forget how new my appendages were.

"You've got a good point but I would much rather go there now compared to my first visit." She playfully bumped into me.

"Why is that? Because they have a big statue of you now?" I smiled to the thought of standing in front of the statue and critiquing it to have ponies and people realize it was me.

"That would be a plus but there's an old library that holds tons of info on human history, honestly for a bookworm like you I think you would have fun there."

"Yeah I'm always willing to learn new stuff, we should take a trip up there."

"Sounds like a good time to me." We kept up the chatter about normal Ponyville stuff as I slipped my letter in the mailbox to Cloudsdale and we made it to Sugar Cube corner.

The door opened with a chime of the bell and the place was nearly filled with ponies enjoying coffee and hot chocolate, I followed the purple jacketed princess to the counter to sit and continued talking.

"So Sun some of the girls and I were wondering when your birthday is?" I paused to think and I couldn't remember what the day was called.

"It's uh that day that's the shortest of the year I can't remember what its called." Her eyes went wide

"You mean the winter solstice."

"Yeah that one." Mr.cake saw the two of us and being privy to my form change still slid me my regular; a hot chocolate explosion with a whole bunch of nonsense on it, Pinkie had got me addicted to sugar recently and this concoction was one of the leading causes. "Thank you Mr.Cake," I slid ten bits across the counter which were taken, thrown up into the air individually bounced off a foot and landed into the register.

Twilight poked me taking my attention from the incredible feat of hand eye coordination, "Your birthday will be here pretty soon."

"So its just another year not like we know the exact number." She looked shocked then reality hit her and she looked a little sad.

"Of course you've never celebrated your birthday, well this year will be different we'll all go do something special."

"What does that entail?"

"Not telling, its a secret." I playfully rolled my eyes. "Don't be like that Sun." I took a sip of my sugar monstrosity while not giving her the attention she wanted. She reached over and swiped some whip cream from my cheek and stuck her tongue out at me in a childish manner before sucking the whip cream from her finger.

"My only request is that everyone has a good time." She nodded as she drank her coffee. I guess birthdays are a big thing in the pony world but for humans the 16th birthday was the only one that mattered as you could choose to specialize in a certain slave trade unless you were me or any of the other 6 high threat level slaves then it was either mining, cooking, fishing, or death. I wasn't even allowed to cook and I don't get along with water so it left me with cave duties ,stupid slave system I couldn't wait to see the Counsel thrown out.

"Weird question when will it stop snowing?" She looked at me like I was stupid.

"Sun it just started."

"I just don't like it okay." Its kind of nice just living and putting my mind on auto pilot but I feel guilty sometimes when I have so much when so many still have nothing.

"Is there another reason you don't like it besides the mission up north?"

"When I was younger and I didn't know fire magic I was constantly cold and it just does something to your head its kind of like being hungry once you are cold its all you can think about."

"I'm sorry Sun, I forget you've been through so much sometimes."

"It's all right I try not to think about it most of the time." The bell of the shop dinged and in came the bundled up Pink pie.

"Twilight all the stuff is ready!"

Twilight sighed, "Good luck Sun."

"Thank you, and you too." She hugged me which was surprising but was returned. The two mares left and I returned to my drink with the addition of every ponies eyes now on me. I smiled as I took a sip, I wonder if I can become both number two and three bachelor in Eqestria with this form.

Everfree castle

The last day had ticked by slowly and the pit in my stomach was growing to the point I was giving off static electricity. The other Moons where starting to wake up and put their gear on, mine had been put on taken off polished examined and put back on at least twice. I held out the Sombra sword which was awkwardly changing its own blade, The dark red crystal of the T grip with the black crystal emblem in the center extended into a single black blade that hooked at the top extending backwards a couple inches before scooping in and the back of the blade was unevenly serrated back to the grip. I was uneasy so the sword made with half my magic was uneasy. I felt a strong hand shake me from my examining of the weapon, I looked up to see Crescent accompanied by Flash Night with serious faces.

"It's time to go Sun." I nodded and the hulking bat pony placed his helmet on and made his way out of the castle doors. I hopped up from my resting place and followed while making the conscious decision to keep my helmet off. The night air was cold and my breathe was visible, beyond the fog of my breathe were numerous glowing blue eyes that marked my team mates presence, the single pair of red eyes was Blood rain who just motioned towards the sky which signaled everyone to take flight. The silent formation of flyers formed two V's the first was 12 with me and Blood Rain at the helm, because I was deemed to volatile and green to a situation that required stealth, the second V of 24 was lead by Crescent.

The night was getting consistently brighter as we passed over Appleloosa and many smaller little towns. Everyone was quiet and it seemed like it ranged from professionalism to nerves, I was the latter. I thought about the girls mission and how they were in the middle of nowhere compared to me and the Moons which were going to be a couple miles outside one of the most populated cities in Eqestria.

As soon as the lights from Appleoosa faded the lights of the city of sin began to make the horizon glow in artificial light, a great white spear extended from the earth and was the only structure I could make out as we began to descend. The tree layer was thick and blocked the light from the moon above. Pair after pair of glowing eyes fell in line marching towards the three building installation. The flight had been a little over 2 hours so a 15 minute jog was nothing, almost everyone was bringing weapons to bear except me as mine were found to be too loud. The compound was swiftly coming into view and I stayed with the archery line to wait for the signal.

The three buildings seemed to consist of a communications building, a hanger, and a barracks. There was lights on in the coms building and team 2 headed there as team one pushed into the hangar, team three the archers were in overwatch. The team leader of team three was a quiet mare with snow white hair and eyes, I've herd her speak a total of zero times always answering with a nod but I've also never seen her miss a shot. The radio in her helmet must of given orders as she nodded and brought her bow to bear, it was a white ivory that had a lot of intense carvings on it. Team two was stacked up at the door of the coms building as the bow of the team leader was pulled taught before sending a single arrow flying across the opening to hit the metal door with a thud and fall into the hand of stallion named Comet, not a second later the door came open and a pony was snatched into the darkness to have their throat peeled open courteous of Comet with the arrow, team two pushed into the building and the lights went off. The team leader turned and looked at me motioning to her helmet. Mine quickly formed and my radio crackled to life, it was Blood Rain.

"Sun we need you in the hanger we are pinned down by magic users." The message died and I took flight with excel and was in the door in a second. I pushed past the members of team one and was soon faced with the red zone which was marked by a flipped desk that had magic spells flying over top it. I went to hop over it both swords already drawn and giving off dark magic in mass ,my blood starting to boil as I could feel the heart beats of those responsible for what happened to Spitfire just a room away. Blood Rain came from the shadows and grabbed me, "Like a professional Apollo, " I didn't flinch at the use of the name but felt a cap on my emotions form. I nodded and stepped over to the desk blocking the door way, a lance of fire flew past my head and I let out a breathe I was holding. Two balls of grey magic formed in my hands, I raised my arms and the pressure grew measurably before a wall of air was launched from my hands and sent everything to the far wall. I hopped the desk and I was instantly a surgeon, the Sombra sword was hurtled from my grasp and was sent through one of the unicorns faces to pin them to the far wall, I ran dipping below a sword of an earth pony to impale him through the gut and lift him off the ground turning the blade side ways and tearing it out the other side almost rendering him in two. The mass of swords ponies and magic users now concentrated on me and as I brought Selene to bare in both of my palms I removed the heads of several earth ponies with the finesse of ballet dancer, the blade didn't even struggle to penetrate the armor and pass through the spines of the ponies like butter and spray me in a fountain of gore. Selene hummed elevator music in my head as I plunged her blade into the earth just to have a black tendril appear from the ground at the end of room and pull a couple unicorns to their doom. The magic support of the enemy was gone and the Moons began filling the room. I called for my sword in the wall which came flying back towards me at high speeds, with its new hook it snagged the shoulder of one of the remaining ponies dragging him to me. The ponies head was caught in my hands, my helmet came down to look him in the eyes, the only thing I saw was terror, I was hoping to see something worth saving but instead all I saw was the face of the ponies that took Spitfire away from me, my hands got extremely hot even through my suit and he screamed until I spun his head around with a crunch that sounded over the steadily more quiet room. My helmet came back up as I turned to be helmet to helmet with Blood Rain.

I felt numb in my suit, "Like a professional." I put my swords in there loops on my hips and passed her. The radio in my helmet turned on to Crescent sounding distressed.

"Coms building facing heavy resistance, the enemy has a magic discharging weapon." I thought about the weapon that could throw fire magic at the club in Canterlot. I signaled to Blood Rain and she nodded which meant I could go. I was out in the open again and the night had gotten a lot louder as volley after volley of arrows were sent at the emerging enemy from the barracks. I was fairly confident that team three wasn't going to hit me so I headed into the fire of arrows. My hands glowed yellow and a ramp of stone raised from the ground and lead up to the third floor windows of the coms building, The crystal boots smacked hard against the stone as I avoided the offending spells and friendly arrows. I squeezed my wings extra tight to my body as I fully extended diving through the window.

I regained my bearings and I was in a darkroom with many machines beeping and flashing lights. I shook off the glass and pushed through the only door, I could hear a scuffle down the hall. I reached up activating my radio as I headed towards the noise, "It's Apollo, Crescent where are you guys at?" I kicked open the door to the stairs and the commotion got a lot louder.

"Second floor stress test lab." The radio cut and I hopped the rail to land in front of the door to the second floor. The door flung open and the enemy's backs were to me, I raised my hand a couple bolts of blue electricity left several smoldering holes that once was their chest cavities. I ran over to the flash fried corpses and picked up one of their weapons examining it, they were all different variations of the one I found in Canterlot. I picked up as many as I could and began magically sticking them to my legs. I herd a boom and was forced to stop looting. I ran down the hall to almost be stabbed by a couple of jumpy Moons. "Where is Crescent?" They just pointed to the Stress test lab door. I made it down the hall to the big doors and was immediately fired upon as I passed the threshold of the door. I ducked down behind the barricade that was concealing about half the team. I grabbed the closest pony, "Where is Crescent?" The sounds of magic being artificially shot was making it hard to hear and he yelled over the fire.

"He's behind the table!" I nodded and dive/rolled across the 7 feet gap to the table. My ears began to ring and I peaked out from cover to spot the giant glass case that held the golden Sun pendant, I pulled my head back before it could be shot off.

I grabbed the giant bat pony, "I've got a plan, I'm going to grab my Sun pendant you hand these out and give covering fire." I began to un stick the weapons from my legs and pass them out.

"Just say when Apollo." I took a breathe and closed my eyes for a second and tried to reach out to Solaris. I could just faintly feel the magical connection.

"Now!" I jumped over and headed into the hail of fire immediately taking a shot to the leg and chest which made me stumble but didn't penetrate my armor. I hurtled my body forward and smashed through the glass case and snatched the golden sun. The room flashed gold and by the time my vision came back Solaris in all her glory of the large golden sword was in my hand and the magic was resonating with mine and giving off waves of power. I ducked into cover as the opposing fire resumed, beakers and desks exploded around me. I pushed myself up against the wall to keep all the shooting in front of me. Crescent wasn't even flinching as the magic hit him, what a meat head. My left arm began to have electricity connect to the gold sword in my hand, a whine began to grow as I channeled more power into the blade. "Solaris I'm sorry I wasn't there." I popped up and the tip of my blade released a beam of energy that disintegrated the opposing force and completely blew out the back wall. My heart was fluttering at the exertion.

I rested Solaris on my shoulder as Crescent ran up to me, "How are you feeling champ?"

"That felt really good honestly." He slapped me on the back and gave a hearty laugh.

"I think you're going to enjoy the next part way more," before I could ask the radio cut in and the voice was Luna.

"Sun everyone is going to start pulling out we need you to head to a central location between all the buildings for complete demolition."

"Copy." I was lazy and turned to the wall I had been backed up to previously and pushed it outward, the team followed me through the new hole and began heading to the sky. I scanned and found the perfect spot, " I got my spot."

"Place all the swords in the ground in the shape of a triangle," I proceeded to do as told. "Now stand in the center and think about your father." I almost began to protest but kept quiet and began to think of the man. I shut my eyes and everything went white.

Cliffside

My mental safe space was warm and the sound of water hitting the rocks was soothing but I began to notice the sky had the sun and moon up. I turned from looking at the imaginary ocean to see Sombra, Draig, and two women one with long gold hair and the other with short black. My head cocked and the confusion was very apparent on my face. The two women walked over and the black haired one looked very entertained.

"What you don't recognize me stupid?" It was Selene. I just looked away.

"Sorry who are you?" She raised her fist and went to hit me but was stopped by the women with golden hair.

"I'm guessing that's you Solaris?" She nodded maintaining her monotone face. She raised a hand and placed it on my chest, her hand flashed and a red Sun formed on the backs of her hands. She gave a slight bow and went to stand by Draig.

"Is she okay?" Selene punched me in the stomach and all the air left my lungs and I bent over trying to get my breathe. She stuck her hand down to reveal the blue moon that formed.

"She feels like she failed to save Spitfire just like you."

"She couldn't have done anything though."

"Neither could you but still it persists."

"I feel like you are just jealous your sisters around again."

"I don't agree with what's going on that's all."

"Are they issues with Luna?" She turned away.

"She's doing something stupid and selfish." Before I could ask any questions I felt a heat form behind me, I spun and rose my hands giving off arcs of blue lightning. My blood went cold as the man with red hair stared at me, he wore white armor with gold trim. In his right hand was a black and grey sword with a crooked blade. I tried to call my blades to me but nothing happened they just stared at me. My heart began to race as he began walking towards me, I smashed my foot against the ground but the stone pillar that went to hit the man was destroyed by the simplest lowering of his foot. I turned to look at the emotionless magical beings, before I could turn back I was launched off my feet by a stone pillar of his making. I rolled to my feet and began launching bolt after bolt which were either evaded or deflected easily. I blew a plume of fire to keep him back but he sliced through it and my fire was consumed by his sword. My movements were just panic filled, I had never been over powered like this before. He swept my legs and I tried to excel a kick to the balls but he grabbed my leg and turned to throw me 180 degrees to my face. The panic was replaced with anger, I slid my hand across the ground kicking up dust into his eyes. It gave me a second to look over at Sombra whos eyes where beginning to glow with my red glow, I reached up and felt my left eye which was giving off a red fog.

"Okay Crimson you really want to go lets do it." I raised a glowing red and black hand which caused several black crystal pikes to impale the man. The pillars continued to rapidly jut from the earth until my breathing was heavy and there was a sweat on my brow. I stared at the red white and black porcupine and to my horror it twitched and began to move. "you've got to be shitting me." He let out a mighty roar and the crystal was reduced to dust, his hand was raised over his head which contained a ball of pure light magic. His wounds seemed to catch fire and then dissipate leaving seemingly untouched flesh. The ball in his hand turned into a chain which was spun like a lasso. Black flames consumed my arms in anticipation of the next attack. He grew impatient and sent the golden chain at me, I met it halfway with a burning fist. I was filled with dread as the chain canceled out my flames and wrapped itself around my arm. His face remained monotone as he ripped me forward and caught my throat with the none chain hand and began crushing my wind pipe. I reached my legs up to put him in an arm bar but the threat of a broken arm didn't phase him as the arm broke and he retaliated by beating me ruthlessly to and frown against the ground. My ribs were cracked and my arms felt dislocated, my armor had done a great job of keeping me alive. I laid on my back about a foot deep in the ground, Crimson went to retrieve his creepy floating sword. I staggered to my feet and raised my arm a dark blue circle formed, "Gravitos." The man stood up straight as the downward force of gravity began to spike, the blue magical circle began to glow brighter as more energy was channeled into it. The ground began to sink a little under the force and Crimson went down to a knee then had to place both hands on the earth to keep him from being stuck to the ground. I felt my confidence rise as my opponent was rendered immobile. I lowered a foot and a stone spear rose up, I grasped it in my left hand rotating it to throwing position. Even under the gravitational force hundreds of times greater than normal the beast still moved. My body wound up and lurched forward propelling the stone spear through the back of the head of Crimson. He went limp and stupidly I let the gravitos spell dissipate. I turned towards the four magic beings that had witnessed the event without batting an eye. My body felt taxed even though this was all happening in my mind. I made my way to Draig and wound up to punch his lights out. Before my fist made contact a sharp pain went through my torso that with a look down revealed the grey blade of Crimsons sword. He raised me off my feet as I clutched the blade through my chest to not sink farther down the blade, he flicked his wrist as if trying to get blood off the blade and it sent me skidding across the dirt to end up on my back looking upwards in a pool of my own insides. I coughed blood and it covered the inside of my helmet and the entire thing came down just to have the sun blocked by the face of Crimson who just started smiling like an idiot. I grabbed his ankle as protest and he shook it free, he raised his sword and right before it made contact with my face it disappeared, he disappeared along with the pain.

I got up and saw the world turn to the dark forest I had met Luna in numerous times. The damage to my ego and anger persisted. I felt the heat of fire start crawling across my body, the grass beneath my feet squealed as the fire rendered it to ash. "Luna where are you?" My voice boomed with aggressive authority. The sky opened up and the night princess along with Crimson appeared. "What was the point of that?" She just matched my icy gaze.

"You need to get stronger and seeing what the previous wielder of your power can do should inspire you to work harder." My eyes narrowed.

"Having my guts ripped out isn't that fucking inspiring!" I was shaking with anger and I felt the dark magic growing and replace the fire in forms of black tendrils that extended from my ever visible aura. She remained silent as I stared the two of them down. He leaned over to Luna and whispered something in her ear and she nodded.

"You did good for not having all of your power."

"I didn't have any of my swords or Draig, I had my dark magic and my elemental magic to fight an undying figment of my imagination. What does any of this have to do with demolition?" She let out a long breath and pointed at Crimson.

"This isn't an illusion or a fake this is actually Crimson Sun your father." My blood went cold and all my magic stopped. My eyes shot wide and me and the man just stared into each others eyes. "The boost in your magic acted like a beacon which allowed him to manifest in your mind." I walked up to the man who was still a couple inches taller than me. I placed my fist on his chest plate.

"Who is my mother?" He just smiled at me. "I'm not playing around I will peel back your ribs and tear out your beating heart you scum bag." He just kept looking at me with a smile.

Luna spoke up, "You won't be able to hear him Sun." I felt tears forming at the corners of my eyes.

"Well isn't that just fantastic." I let out a huff and turned away from the two. "Am I supposed to believe that he's been watching me my whole life and has always wanted to reach out and talk to me?"

"In short yes, he's not banished in the same way Celestia did to myself he's trapped within the minds of Celestia and myself."

"Then how would he be able to watch me?"

"Your his son aren't you?" My eyes narrowed

"You are really trying to sell it to me like that?" I laughed, "Your joking right?" She didn't budge.

"He's seen your struggles and empathizes with your journey, he's proud of you and the man you've grown into." My anger simmered down to annoyance.

"How does this have anything to do with demolition?" Luna gave me a smile which wasn't well received.

"You know the crazy healing magic and chain Crimson used?" I just nodded putting my face in my palm, "Well all the fighting was an intro to Solar magic and give you a reference to conjure it. You strangely have only ever used Solar magic when fighting Boss when calling down that beam of magic from the Sun but you had Solaris as a catalyze. So I the amazing night princess moved space itself to bring you the strongest Solar magic user in existence." Crimson leaned down to Luna, "Crimson would like to apologize he didn't realize you only had half of your power," great even my creator doesn't know why I have a hex.

"Lets get this over with I know I'm not going to get any of the answers I'm looking for tonight." Crimson nodded and took a step forward and placed his thumb on my forehead. I felt immense warm energy flood my body and the red sun on my right shoulder felt as it was absorbing most of the energy.

He just looked into my eyes and nodded, I nodded in return and the world went white.

The Compound

The night had got brighter and to my amazement the Sun was up. I looked down to see the golden magic coming off me in waves. The swords that surrounded me were also giving off the same golden energy. I focused inward and began to float the swords also rising up and beginning to orbit around me. I really hope everyone is out of range, The Sun and Moon released there own beams which twisted together in a double helix that struck the ground bleaching everything from the earth. I returned to the ground and the swords reverted back to pendants which I scooped up and placed in my arm slot. I looked up and saw many faint pairs of blue dots that hovered right below the cloud layer. The magic circle of Excel formed below my feet and launched me into the night sky. My wings opened and I navigated the shocked expressions to Blood Rain.

"Overall how do you rate my first outing?"

"I'd say 9 out of 10." I smiled within my helmet.

"What kept it from being a 10?"

"Your jobs not over yet, while you were in your creepy floating trance Luna radioed in and requested support for the elements of harmony as they've ran into some opposition with their mission. You, Comet, and Crescent are going to follow the marker being sent to your helmets HUD." My helmets compass flashed and the girls cutie marks pointed northeast, I saluted and turned towards the marker. I began flying away from formation and was joined by the two bat ponies on either side of me, my hands began to glow grey with wind magic that removed almost all drag from the three of us made flying the long distance a lot more manageable.

"So Comet what do you specialize in?" I could hear Crescent snicker a little.

"I uh specialize in cloak and dagger techniques." I slightly looked over my shoulder to look at him.

Crescent jumped in, "He's good at assassinations and literally throwing knives."

"Sounds like your a good pony to be friends with." Me and Crescent were laughing as Comet remained silent. "I know its weird to be working with a human Comet but I don't want it to get in the way of us being friends."

"I don't think it will Apollo." Another day another friend on team Apollo Sun. The flight was going much quicker because of the loss of head wind but nerves began eating at me and we switched to a line formation with the assistance of Excel and my wind magic to speed us up even further. The possible 4 hour flight was cut to 45 minutes, The lights of towns had been gone for awhile and a storm was rolling off the mountains which was where we were headed. We landed near a cave entrance, the mountain path was at risk of being washed out and the wind was roaring forcing us to use our radios to communicate. I brought out the Sombra sword and took point as the marker on all of our HUDs were ever closer. I raised a hand to signal to stop and I placed a hand to the mountain to try and get an idea of how many people were in the cave. I could sense 10. I threw up ten fingers and my comrades nodded, as we pushed in the glow of magic was resonating from a wall of cutie marks. The elements where on the ground along with three unknown ponies, while a lilac colored unicorn with a wooden staff stood above them. She aimed the staff at Twilight and I launched myself over with Excel to block the magic with my sword. The blue magic hit my blade with such force that my arms shook aggressively. The beam of magic ricocheted hitting the wall of cutie marks spraying glass and flashing the room with a white light. I felt the steps of the pony flee the room.

"Take care of the wounded I'm going to catch her." I ran out into the storm and the faint steps went further down the mountain path. I put my sword in its holster and began booking it after the unicorn. The rain was pouring but the rain that hit my helmet began to freeze, I lowered the covering before I was rendered blind. The steps were getting closer and the unicorn was faintly coming into sight. The shape of another cave at the end of the path became clear and I stopped running, slamming a glowing yellow foot down the cave entrance was sealed. Lightning crackled and even struck the bridge of stone that lead to the now sealed cave. I raised my hands as they crackled and sparked with red lightning, she turned and raised her staff that began glowing blue. My hair was wet and my ears burning as the wind had rubbed them raw. I tried to scream over the wind, "Just stop you're not getting away!" The staff let out a beam of blue magic which was narrowly avoided by leaping into the air. She started firing at a quicker pace which forced me to pick up my own movements, it wasn't to difficult with excel but the closer I got the bigger risk I was running. I took in a big breath and two balls of grey magic formed in my hands which ruptured to blast the unicorn with the might of a hurricane, she flew backwards and as she made contact with the mountain I raised my left hand now glowing yellow and closed my fist causing the stone to reach out and secure her to the mountain. I dashed over with excel and pinched her horn in an electrified hand, "I can send a electrical pulse to your brain that will pop your head like a grape, so you better start talking."

"I'm not your enemy Apollo Sun." Her eyes seemed calm and serious.

"What did you do to the elements of harmony?"

"They messed with the magic consumption experiment that had been going on here."

"What's the purpose of the experiment?" Her eyes remained steady.

"To turn my king into a god." I felt a magic disturbance and the wall the unicorn was attached to crumbled. I ignited my hands with fire and threw them into the reopened cave to see the unicorn disappear and a large form reveal itself. I dashed backwards as the metal figure began approaching. He stood taller than me in black knight armor that had purple veins running through all the seams, it concealed his face in a helmet similar to my own. Lightning was striking near us more and more, I took a bolt directly from the sky and redirected it towards the figure who raised a hand to catch it. The energy was crushed in the figures hand who in turn began to glow more purple. His hands sparked and he released a bolt of lightning, I raised my hand and sent a lance of fire which met the bolt halfway and detonated blinding me for a couple seconds. When my vision came back he was gone and the cave was re sealed. I made my way over to the sealed cave and placed my hand on the new stone which earned me a zap.

"Just another mystery to add to the pile."

Author's Note

I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy!