Author's Note

Unlike the last chapter this one is more plot driving, setting things up for events to come and getting some meet and greets out of the way. This was edited by my new editor: Moonlit_Stardust.

I hope you enjoy this chapter and thank all of you for supporting me!

Freeing Slaves and Meeting Important Equestrians (edited)

Jack's POV

What I saw when I looked over the cliff made not only me but every spirit that I have residing in me get super pissed. As I gazed out over the cliff, I saw a diamond dog mining operation ........... completely operated using slaves of other races, as well as other Diamond Dogs.

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There were hundreds of slaves mining gems, the species I saw were all three of the pony tribes, Griffins, Zebras, Diamond Dogs, and Minotaur’s. And from the looks of it they do not discriminate against age as there were elderly, middle-aged, and children all working in this mine. There weren't any that I recognized until I saw two people, Gilda and Trixie we're apparently captured and forced to work in this mine both sporting bandages as well. As I continued two gaze over the slave driven mine, I could feel my anger continue to rise. It was taking all the self-control I had not too obliterate the entire place, oh the main reason why I wasn't doing this was because I didn't want to endanger the Innocents down there.

However, I could feel my control start to slip when I saw two people I would have never expect to see there, Ditzy Doo a.k.a. Derpy and her daughter Dinky Doo. However, my anger spiked even higher when I saw Dinky trip and then one of the dogs start yelling at her, she was about to be whipped however Ditzy shielded her daughter with her body as she was whipped. At that moment I decided I was going to help them all, my decision was reinforced when I saw the Mane 6 and Spike come out of one of the openings in chains and none of them look unscathed. I was so beyond pissed there were no words to describe what I was feeling, and I was going to kill all the slavers that did not submit to me. With that I jumped off the cliff.

Celestia POV: Throne Room

As the throne room doors closed on the last Noble left, I let out a sigh and was grateful that lunch had finally arrived. As I was about to get off my throne a scroll appeared in front of me and I cannot fight the smile that came to my face with the anticipation of reading what is in Twilight's letter, however my smile slipped some once I noticed that instead of the normal gold ribbon, it was instead a red ribbon which I had explicitly told Spike was for emergencies only. I quickly open the letter and began to read, I reread the letter five more times and at the end of the fifth I stood up and addressed the guard standing at the end of my throne, "Wake my sister, get Captain Armor here and gather two platoons of troops. NOW!" I yelled with barely subdued Fury.

About 20 minutes later the two platoons of guards were in the courtyard along with my sister, Captain Armor and Cadence.

"Sister why did you wake us from our sleep? The guard you sent said it was urgent." Luna asked me with both Shining Armor and Cadence agreeing with her.

I simply handed Luna the letter as she, Shining Armor, and Cadence all read the letter their faces showing both worry and fury as they read.

Dear Mom,

Earlier today I went to the gym Fields outside of Ponyville with Rarity. While we were there Diamond Dogs ambushed us and took Rarity while I escaped and ran back to Ponyville to get help. When I got back to the library, I told Twilight what had happened, and we gathered the rest of the girls to go save her. When we got down into the Diamond Dogs cave we were ambushed, I slipped out to write this to you please se----

The letter was cut off, obviously Spike had been caught before he could finish the letter but not before he was able to send it. However, Shining Armor pointed out something that was on the letter, something that worried me to my very core.

"Is this red splotch here Spike's blood?" Shining asked as he took the letter from Luna and looked at the bottom of the page.

After he said this, I grabbed the letter from his hands and I prayed he was wrong as I cast a spell to scan the spots of blood, it was indeed Spike's. They all noticed my features darken after my spell confirmed their suspicions that it was his blood. The guards also noticed and shared my anger, it was common knowledge within the palace only that Spike was my adopted son. He was well-liked among all the palace staff, nopony outside of the palace knew this and everyone inside of it loved Spike for always being helpful, respectful and a genuine delight to be around.

"We are going to find these slavers and make them rue the day they thought they could get away with enslaving our ponies." I announced to all those gathered.

"Auntie I'm coming with you to make sure Twilight's okay and to heal anypony that needs it." Cadence told me with determination.

I allowed it, simply because Cadence is one of the most proficient in healing spells in all Equestria. After that was decided, both Luna and I lit our horns and in place of our Royal attire and gowns were our custom armors and weapons. I was going to make these dogs pay for not only enslaving and hurting my little ponies, but also my son.

3rd POV: Gem Mines

As the Mane Six and Spike were being escorted to the alpha of the gem mines, they passed by many different people in the same situation as them and most of them seemed much worse for wear. They were being led to a big dog sitting on a throne Made of Stone, this Diamond dog was easily over six feet tall, oh he was big, and you could see almost all his muscles beneath his fur, he looked like he was made of stone. But before they got to him, they heard something hitting the ground extremely hard, almost like that of an explosion.

Dust and debris were kicked up into the air, everyone shielded their eyes so as not to get anything in them. When the dust settled everyone looked at a strange creature dressed in strange clothes and wearing a metal mask that almost looked like a skull. no one there knew who this strange creature was, no one except for six mares and a baby dragon.

Jack's POV: Gem Mines

After jumping off the cliff I decided that the best place to land was in the middle of everything. I hit the ground hard enough to kick up quite a bit of dust and pieces of rock and stone, when everything settled I noticed everyone's gaze was on me which is exactly what I wanted. I quickly scanned the Quarry to get an estimate on how many slaves were in front of me, however my gaze stopped on a diamond dog sitting on a throne, wearing tattered brown pants that rested against his gray coat, and going by his muscles he looked like a bodybuilder on steroids. I figured he was probably the alpha of this group of slavers, I made a mental note to try and get information out of him and see if there was anyone else involved that wasn't currently present.

"ATTENTION ALL SLAVERS! THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING, SUBMIT TO ME OR DIE!" I yelled out and made sure everyone could hear me, I was also happy that the amplifier that I installed into the mask was working.

At first no one moved, it almost looked like nobody was breathing either that is until the Diamond dog boss that looked like he was built like a brick shithouse stood up pointed to me and said one sentence.

"Whoever brings me his head gets to have these six new additions as breeding slaves!" He yelled out to the Quarry but not as loud as I did.

"So be it." I said simply as every slaver descended upon me, and so I decided to test out the music player I installed into the mask as well and I chose a good one to kill these fools too.

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When the music started to play, everyone stopped for a moment confused on where it was coming from and I took that opportunity to use Corvo's collapsible sword to cut off the head of the first slaver I saw. That got everyone's attention again, and they swarmed me like worker bees swarming a wasp that invaded their hive. Their weapons weren't that difficult to deflect, they weren't of the best quality and none of them seemed to have any type of training in combat. They all seemed to rely on brute force and overwhelming numbers to beat opponents, they were quite surprised when this tactic wasn't working on me because I just kept slicing them down. Some of the dogs seem to have remembered that if they submitted, I wouldn't kill them because a few of them that had initially surrounded me jumped back and dropped their weapons and got on their hands and knees putting their head to the floor in submission.

I was making sure that all the slavers were coming after me, to leave all those they had enslaved unguarded. I was trying to do this for two reasons, the first was so that they couldn't use them as hostages to make me stand down and the second was because I wanted to make sure that the casualties of all of the people enslaved here were kept to an absolute minimum while I was fighting the slavers to avoid accidental deaths. As I was going along killing the slavers, I was also keeping count on how many I killed and how many submitted and at the rate I was going it was currently twenty alive, sixty-three and counting dead. From what I could see the big boss was not happy about this and my suspicions were confirmed when he got off his throne, jumped in my direction and landed a few feet away from me.

"All worthless you can't even kill one insignificant bug! Look like I do this myself!" He yelled at the Diamond Dogs that where cowering around us because of how many I killed.

He came at me with a giant battle axe that you would normally have to wield with two hands and yet he was only using one. That is a testament to how strong this guy was, oh so I decided to have some fun with him and so I dragged the fight out a little bit longer instead of ending it right away. As we were fighting, I heard some of these slavers cheering him on, out of the corner of my right eye I noticed a flash of light and then the slavers that were cheering, were now freaking the fuck out. I pushed the big boss away from me and looked at what was causing the commotion and I saw what looked like two platoons of Guards and the entire equestrian royal family, since I was currently preoccupied, I decided to give them a suggestion on what they could do to help.

"What are you all just standing around for?! Stop gawking and help the ones in chains?!" I yelled at them to get their attention.

I went back to fighting the leader and I had Shadow look out from my shadow and tell me what was going on with the unexpected backup we received. They seemed confused on where the music was coming from and reluctant to do what I had said. Shadow told me they look like they want to argue but Celestia put a stop to that and then they started to save all the people that were enslaved. I decided enough was enough and I started putting the pressure on the guy I was fighting and by that, I mean I started to move faster, hit harder, and cause as much bodily damage as I could without killing him. It was obvious when his face changed from slight smirk to a snarl and then to one of terror that he realized I wasn't taking this seriously until just now. When I knocked his weapon away from him, he looked like he had been through a meat grinder, he had bruises and cuts all over his body, he was bleeding quite a bit and you could tell that he had quite a few broken bones as well.

"Wait why you help slaves? Work for me and you have any breeding bitch you want!" He told me, no doubt in a last-ditch effort to save his own skin.

That pissed me off even more and I didn't even say anything to him after he said that, I may have gone a little overboard because the moment he was done talking I cut off his right arm at the shoulder and severed his left leg at the knee cap. He started to scream in pain so I then punched him in the face and knocked him out, after I did that, I used fire to cauterize his wounds so he wouldn't bleed out. When I was done with that, I noticed the song had ended and that it was very quiet in the Quarry. So, I looked around really quick and saw every pair of eyes staring at me, then the slavers that hadn't already been killed or submitted to me dropped their weapons and started begging for their lives.

When the slavers did that it knocked everyone else out of their stupor as the guards began to arrest all the remaining slavers. I noticed that there were two platoons of guards and that one platoon was arresting the slavers and the other one was unchaining and helping all those enslaved, I also saw Twilight go over to Trixie, Rainbow Dash went over to Gilda and the rest went over to Dinky and Derpy. I decided to walk towards Derpy and the others as well, I did notice that as I walked many people were talking about me, how I was their Savior or how I was an angel and other things along those lines. When I got within 5 feet of Derpy and the girls they all stopped what they were talking about and started staring at me, it didn't bother me as I expected this.

"Are you two okay?" I asked putting a lot of concern and sympathy into my voice.

"Thank you so much for saving my mommy and everyone else!" Dinky cried as she ran up and hugged me.

They all stared at Dinky with wide-eye and slightly open mouths, from my perspective it was pretty funny the way they looked, and I couldn't help but chuckle at both them and Dinky's Antics as I patted her on the head.

"You're quite welcome little lady. Now, how are you feeling Miss?" I said to Dinky before turning to Derpy and asking her.

"I-I-I'm okay, my back just stings a little bit." Derpy stuttered out.

"Here, drink this you'll feel a lot better afterwards." I told her as I crouched down and handed her a health potion from my bag.

I can tell they were all hesitant since the color and consistency of the liquid in the bottle was the same as blood, but she drank it regardless. After she did Fluttershy gasped and the others wondered what was going on when they all saw that she was staring at Derpy's back, what they saw amazed them all the whip marks Derpy had sustained both old and new were healing leaving no scars and the ones that had already scarred over disappeared. When nobody was speaking Derpy got concerned and started feeling on her back and when she was met with no marks or blemishes from the whip her eyes went wide and then she started crying as Dinky hugged her Derpy repeated one line repeatedly, "There gone".

I was very happy that I was able to help Derpy, as I stood up, I noticed a guard come walking towards us or more specifically towards me. He looked at me and in a tone that did not leave room for argument said, "The Princesses would like to talk to you, sir."

"Alright lead the way, I'll see you guys later." I told the guard before turning to the girls and letting them know I was leaving.

I started to follow the guard to where the other princesses were, it took longer than it should have because we kept getting stopped by different people coming up and thanking me for freeing them from slavery. I kept telling them that there was no need to thank me and that no one should be enslaved by another, I noticed that the guards that were helping these people were looking at me differently, some measure of appreciation in their eyes while some had a look of disgust or hatred and I did not know why for the second one. As we approach the princesses, I noticed that Shining Armor was hugging both Spike and Twilight rather tightly if they're blue faces were anything to go off of and The Three Princesses of Equestria we're looking on with smiles, they were even giggling at Twilight and Spike's misfortune of an overprotective older sibling hugging them blue.

As we got closer to the princesses, Luna noticed our approach and I'm assuming told the others as they all stopped and looked at me. When we did get to the princesses, they dismissed the Guard that had brought me there and had him go help with finding out where some of the people I just saved lived. For about two minutes no one said anything until Shining Armor walked up to me.

"My name is Captain Shining Armor of the Solar Guard and I would like to extend my sincerest thanks for saving my little sister and brother." Shining said as he and I shook hands.

"It was no problem captain, no living being deserves to be subservient to another." I told him in a pleasant tone since you couldn't see me smile.

"Very well spoken. Allow me to introduce myself I am Princess Celestia co-ruler of Equestria and princess of the day." Celestia said with a smile.

"We are Princess Luna co-ruler of Equestria and princess of the night. We thank you for saving our little ponies and every other being imprisoned here." Luna said with sincerity and authority.

"I'm Princess Cadence, the princess of love and I to would like to extend my thanks for selflessly risking yourself to save everyone here." Cadence said in a very pleasant tone while shaking my hand.

"Pleasure to meet you three, my name is Jack." I said introducing myself

"We were wondering if you wound mind speaking with us." Luna said catching me off-guard slightly

"Um, sure I don't mind." I said slightly confused

"Excellent! Then let us be on our way!" Luna exclaimed as she lit up her horn

Before I could react, she teleported herself, Celestia, Cadence, the Mane Six, Spike, Shining Armor and myself to what I could only assume was the dining room in Canterlot castle.

"Luna! You can't just teleport us all like that, he didn't even agree to come here!" Celestia exclaimed shocked by Luna’s actions

"We apologize we were just excited to speak with such a capable Warrior in this day and age." Luna said while having the decency to at least appear to be sorry for what she did

*sigh* "It's fine, what's done is done. If you will all excuse me, I am going back to the Quarry to inform the guards there what is going on, Captain Armor will you please go get the other Captains and bring them here I will return shortly." Celestia said just before teleporting away

Shining Armor left directly after Celestia teleported away presumably to go get the other guard Captains. I notice everyone taking seats around the table so with a sigh I did the same and sat down the opposite side of everyone else.

"Please never do that again and also explain things better when you ask to talk to someone." I said looking directly at Luna as I sat down

"We apologize for our behavior. Now! What would everyone like to drink?" Luna, I said while looking at everyone

*sigh* "Could I get an Oolong tea by chance?" I asked resigning myself to wait for the others to come back, all the while wondering what questions they were going to ask me.