Bellum tyranni sol et luna Benedictus

By: ChAoS pOnY

Proditores

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. H. L. Mencken.

Prince Blueblood hobbled alone the stone and crystal filled passage way. He clutched his cane while cursing the metal mechanical leg he wore today, the pain in both his shoulder and wings from old wounds, his 'auntie' and her lies, whoever sent that damn treasonous letter, and finally himself for actually coming and being sobber. At least he wasn't at the Summer Sun Celebration and even if that fanatical brat Twilight Sparkle was right about Nightmare Moon's return, being a well known drunk with two flasks full of bourbon on him at all times meant no one would question where he had been too much.

At least whoever sent the letter chosen one of his personal favorite places to wake up after a night of drunken wanderings. He remembered all the times he had woken up here in the old crystal mines with his friends when they had all been younger, Him, Infinity, Beyond, Raven, Flim and Flam. Of course thing were different now. Flim and Flam were dead, Infinity and Beyond had disappeared, Raven was now always busy working for Celestia as an aid, and he was now testing the very limits of how much alcohol it would take to kill an Alicorn Archangel like him.

Reaching the meeting place he looked around before, flipping a bucket upside down, before sitting down and waited.... and waited..... and waited some more before pulling out a flask and taking a swig. "10 minutes brother, you owe me 10 bits." Blueblood was aready up, all pretence that the leg was hindering him gone and had the sword hidden in his cane out, pointed at Beyond. "Make it 20 bits, he came armed as well."

"I wish you wouldn't do that Beyond." Blueblood said as he sheathed the sword before giving her a quick hug and nodding towards Infinity who was floating in several chairs with his magic. He pretended to wipe off dust from the black jacket and pants he wore before asking "How much is he up to now?"

"75,347,270 bits and to sing at my wedding, your wedding, and Ravens wedding if any of us ever get married. Personally I think he's just hopeless addicted to long odds." Beyond said before pulling a picnic basket from under her grey cloak, revealing the rose colored dress she wore.

"So this was your ideal?" Blueblood asked as he unfolded a chair for her.

"No, but like you and your bourbon, we are not just going to walk into what might be a trap without something pleasent to eat before going." Infinity said, as he sat down next to his twin sister, wearing khaki pants and black henley shirt. "Besides, we're most likely surrounded by whoever was shadowing us while we were following you. Armor is not the best thing to wear when trying to be stealthy."

"Were shadowing, but it was just a random patrol, but they went back up to help keep an eye on the celebration after I told them this was Blue's favorite drinking spots." Raven said as she came in wearing her usual dark grey governess dress and with a large ceramic urn with a spigot on the side and wicker suitcase picnic basket with folded up legs in her magic. She quickly set the urn down on the upside down bucket and unfolded the legs on the wicker basket and opened it to reveal tea cups, suacers, a tin of cookies, sealed surger and cream containers, "Tea anyone?"

"Raven, I thought you went to Ponyville with Princess Celestia." Blueblood said as he unfolded a chair for her.

"Nope, took a couple of personal days from her Imperial Royal Highness to enjoy the Summer Sun Celebration." Raven said before smiling at the twins while fixing herself a cup of tea. "Last I heard, Celestia's agents lost track of you somewhere in Manehattan and all credible sightings ended in Los Pegasus a few months later."

"Which is what we wanted." Beyond said as she fixed herself a cup of tea as well. "You would think with all the fuss she made, that Celestia had lost both her best theoretical statistician and her expert in theoretical high energy magic."

"Perhaps it's because of what she did after you ran the numbers on my finding and she seized everything. Claiming it would needlessly panic the public and that it would be taken care of descreetly." Infinity growled, as he fixid himself a cup of tea. "Yet we haven't seen hide nor hair of her sending anyone into the Badlands, Everfree, or the Frozen North."

"She hasn't as far as the deeper parts of the Everfree Forrest go." Blueblood said, stealing the cup of tea from one of his oldest friends with a smirk as Beyond platfully slapped him on the shoulder for it. "We've lost patrols in there and she keeps putting off any campaign in the Badlands to clear out the bandits, criminal, lunar cultist, heritic, etc. that are hiding in that maze of a rats nest of canyons tunnals, old mines, and extremely deep caverns. There's even rumors of underground cities, fungal forrests home to highly intellegent monsters, and ancient secrets so dangerous they had to be buried under there forever. As for the north, there is one small oupost sitting out in the middle of nowhere that's used for a punishment assignment that even the windigos won't bother or go near for some reason."

"I see your still pretending to be a floppish, drunken, crippled, prick while hiding how much of a cunning strategist you really are. How many nobles suspect your act?" Beyond ask.

"None, though Prime Minister Fancy Pants has come very close upon occasion. Luckily Fancy Pants' new trophie wife keeps him too occupied to follow up on the occasional slip here and there." Raven told her. Before looking at Blueblood and saying, "though you might want to avoid an up and comer from Ponyville named Rarity Belle. She hides a rather sharp mind and an eye for details behind a reputation for as horrible gossip and a terrible flirt with dreams of marrying into the nobility. I would say she would make an excellent 'trophy wife' in the publics eyes for you, but she is definately Celestia's creature after spending time with your sister Cadence. We've all seen how fanatically devoted Twilight Sparkle is after Cadence did just a little tweaking to her hero worship of Celestia. So she goes into the same group as one the heir of the secrets of the fulgur mala's grand children, the Desindents of Commander Hurrican and Chancellor Pudding Head, and that filly who cuased that panic in Cloudsdale several years ago. I don't know what they are up to, but Celestia has something planned with those 6. There are even rumors that Rarity is of the blood of Queen Platinum." With that they all touched their horns with two fingers before using them to lightly tap the place on their chests over their hearts.

"So your the one to call us here." Blueblood stated since to call Platinum Queen was considered heresy and treason.

"Yes, because Cadence slipped up and I over heard enough of her and Celestia's conversation while Celestia was signing paperwork. It turns out that Rarity has a much younger sister and when Cadence asked if she should arrange to meet with this 'Sweetie Belle'. Celestia laught and said not to bother since Rarity was the important one and if it bothered her just have her be one of the flower girls at the her's and Shining Armor's wedding and meet with her then." Raven told them.

"So we have a half a year to a year to make contact with a child. get her to wear the Crown and Jeweled Heart of Queen Platinum, and have her say the ancient incantation while holding the Scepter and Sword of Unicornia, while in the presense of an Alicorn and four unicorns. All while avoiding this smart, detail oriented, and loyal to Celestia, sister of her's. Finding another unicorn who shares our dream of resurrecting the Kingdom of Unicornia. And see no problem with handing a small child all of Queen Platinum's power and knowledge. Have I missed any details?" Blueblood asked.

"Actually there are three minor details you missed." Raven said with a mischievous smile. "1) she doesn't have her cutie mark."

"Making getting her to do it easier as a way to earn her cutie mark." Infinity said. "Celestia knows what we all did as kids trying to get one."

"2) her class will be having a field trip to the palace gardens and tour of the castle in three months" Raven continued.

"Which is the perfect time to meet her away from that sister of her's and statistically there is always the one or two children who manage to get lost every time they have one of those tours." Beyond said with a smile.

"3) It will be on the same day as the take you child to work day and Celestia has given me permission to bring my sister to work that day." with that she turned and motioned to someone in the shadows, Blueblood relaxed when he saw a black unicorn filly with a white mane come out of the shadows wearing a white dress with a black sash tied into the bow in back.

She stopped when she got to the circle and nervously touched her horn with two fingers before tapping her chest over her heart with them, before flinching as her horn gave out a few sparks. "Hello sirs and madame, I am Dove Song of the house of Clover and I wish to join and aid you in the restoration of the Kingdom of Unicornia, like my sister Raven Quil, and our parents before us." She said nervously with a soft, melodic voice like a dove's coo.

"Hello Dove." Blueblood said before turning to Raven and the others before saying, "Alright, I'm in, but if we get caught we told Dove it was a game, she had absolutely nothing to do with this, and we all agree to take her part in this to the grave." His eyes then hardened, "Swear upon your very lives or I'll turn us in myself and beg leniency for her and you can all hang in Tartarus for all I care."

"Trust me, Celestia won't take us alive, but if she does, she won't hear anything implicating Dove." Infinity promised before opening a ring with a pill inside.

Beyond showed him a simular ring and said. "magically enhanced chemically induced brain death. Even if she is desperate enough to resort to necromancy all she will get is a mindless, cannibalistic goul pre-programed to go into a blood lust fueled beserker rage when it comes within 20 feet of an Alicorn."

"And you know Dove and I can't betray each other because of the geas placed upon our blood line makes it impossible for us to betray family, the new Queen of Unicornia once she is crowned, or Queen Platinum's last order to Clover the Clever to find her heir and to restore the Kingdom after Discord's betrayal." Raven said as Dove nodded next to her. "Dove has to get away to continue to try and finish the Queen's last orders and serve the new queen."

"Then we need to work out the details or Discord will play havoc with them... " Blueblood said as Dove sat down in a chair and they began planning.

Author's Note

This is the first of several other factions involved. Yes they might be small, but don't count them out yet. Prince Blueblood, Infinity, Beyond, and Raven are cannon and can be found here. Dove Song is just an OC I came up with for Raven's sister. This Faction (the Unicornia Loyalists) is small, but with the potental to grow fast once a new queen of Unicornia is crowned since all descendants of Clover the Clever is bound by the geas placed upon their blood line. Most of their bloodline is unaware of it and just think they are just very loyal to their family and have a bit of romantic nostalgia for the old Unicorn kingdom. As for Sweetie Belle, don't worry, it isn't possesion, but her gaining acsess to all of the wisdom and knowledge of Queen Platinum and all of the Unicorn Queen's before her and a massive boost in magical power from every queen before her giving up part of their essence upon their deaths to ensure that their bloodlines survival, no matter what the cost.
The Unicornia Royal Family Motto:
Non solum ore , sed omnium optime . Ecce coram te sicut puella , sed sic est in legione . Et mihi denuntias si igitur incendemus felices nostis .
You face not just me, but all of my bloodline. You see just a girl before you, but within this body is a Legion. And if you threaten me and mine, then all you know will burn.

As for this AU Blueblood. He is older and battle scarred from his military career. He is a drunk, but he once was a hero. He acts like a ignorant worthless stuck up snob, but it disguises a brilliant mind that can plan a campaign to conquer any nation with the right troops, but prefers to let Shining Armor lead the campaigns. As for him acting like a prick, it's not an act, he really is a jade prick who is both huanted by everything he has done for Celestia in the past, his failure as a brother, and her, the one who stole his heart and took his leg.