"Platinum, how old are you? You look to be the same age as my father when I was a kid."

"You're partially right. I'm 35 right now. I've been fighting for The Resistance for the last 15 years."

"I see... 15 years huh..."

"I'm the one that started this civil war," Silver looked at Platinum wide eyed. Platinum spoke again, "To answer the question your thinking, I started it by killing one of the Kings of Ukrain, or more known as... my grandfather..."

Back with Quartz and Alicia, "Wait, then that means you have an older brother. Why would your brother want to kill you and ruin this peace here."

"Well, at first it was just to stop the rule of our grandfather, but he soon grew fearful that our parents were like our grandfather when in reality...," Alicia trailed off as she stared at Quartz, "Quartz, I'm nothing like my grandfather. My parents and I only had wished to gain the respect that we had lost when our grandfather was ruler. I've tried hard, and I'm close to earning the era of peace and benevolence that was lost during my grandfather's autocracy. However, it won't be very possible with this civil war. I'm just..."

"Afraid to take full action?"

"Yes...," Alicia placed her hands on her heart, and looked down at the village below, "I want this war to end so that the people's suffering may be healed with an era of benevolence. That is all I desire Quartz...," Alicia turned around to the rustling of clothing only to see Quartz kneeling in front of her.

"I now know my goal in life. My goal is to help you create that world of benevolence for you milady. I may he incompetent to many, and that includes my father. However, I will do my best to destroy this incompetence, and replace with what my father would want. Alicia, milady, allow me to become your personal knight."

Alicia knelt down to meet him, and placed a hand on his shoulder. He looked up to meet her beautiful, youthful face. Their eyes met with a glistening gleam in both of them, and Alicia spoke in her soft, quiet voice, "Of course Quartz. I wouldn't have it any other way," After realizing her close proximity to Quartz, she blushed before standing back up and turning around to hide said blush.

Quartz then stood up as well to see many exotic birds over his head, "Wow, so many species of birds and other animals that I've never seen before. My aunt Fluttershy would love to be here right now..."

Speaking of Fluttershy, Cobalt's wives all awoke within a wooded area that was bursting with nature. The girls stared around in amazement, namely Fluttershy, "Where are we? I've never seen such gorgeous flowers before..."

Twilight held up her hand, and her eyes widened, "Girls, we're in Uskain," They all stared around in awe. Everyone expected Uskain to be a barren wasteland, but what they got was this beautiful forest.

"Twilight deary, are you sure this is Uskain?"

"I'm positive. We are at the most southern tip of the mystic realm. Who knew Uskain was so beautiful. Isn't there a civil war going on?"

Sunset then spoke, "Judging by the area, we may be close to the capitol. Rainbow, do you think you can fly up to get of view of the area."

"I sure can!" Rainbow then ponied-up before flying to the top of the trees to see just that... trees. She flew back down to tell them the news, "Well, it's all trees here. I wouldn't know where to go from here."

"That means we'll have find he capitol through trial and error. Judging by the terrain-," Before Twilight could finish, Fluttershy spoke.

"Twilight, if it's nature we're talking about here, I think I should be the one to do this," As Futtershy said this, a unique bird landed on her shoulder. This bird had an array of colors for its feathers, "Oh, such a beautiful bird. Excuse me, can show us to the capitol?" The bird began chirping elegantly, and flew ahead of them slowly, "This way girls. He said that the capitol is pretty far, so we won't make it on one trip."

"Oh, I just hope our children and Cobalt is alright," Everyone raised an eyebrow at Rarity, causing her to chuckle slightly, "Right, I know Cobalt is now in the clutches of Harmony, but it's good to be optimistic. Or that's what Cobalt tells me," They all nodded as they began following the bird to the capitol.

"You killed your grandfather?"

"Yes, he was a tyrant that started this way of life for the poor. All he cared was women and wine, and not once did he care about the people. He got what was coming to him, and it's what started the civil war."

"I see, then you must want to kill the queen, or your sister to stop their reign, correct?" Platinum nodded in response, "I see, then that means we need to take her out. Once my sisters wake up, we get ready for this plan."

Back with Quartz, he saw that the sun was still in the middle of their view, "So it's still midday. Alicia, may I meet my partner? I'd love to meet this individual."

"Very well, I'll take you to her. She's in the training yard. Let's go," Alicia walked in front of him, and Quartz trailed back slightly. One thought still crossed his mind, and that thought was, "Where are my sisters?"

A few minutes after Platinum and Silver's conversation, the rest of her sisters woke up, "Silver?" Fluffy said as she slowly rose up, "Where are we? And why so it cold?"

"Fluffy, girls, you're finally awake. We're not home anymore."

"What do you mean? Who's that?"

"It's a lot to explain. Long story short, our father sent us to Uskain, but we were separated from Quartz. Platinum here found us unconscious, and brought us here to avoid being caught by government soldiers. We've been here for quite some time."

Lavender looked around at the cabin, a vision flushed into her mind of their father and Fluttershy here when they were much younger, "I feel like our parents know more about this place than they let on. They only told us that Uskain was forgotten about, but I feel that like that's not the whole truth. What if they're hiding something much bigger than we thought?"

This caught the attention of Platinum as he began to think as well, "Now that you mention it. Not many people remember anything from 20 years ago. If anything, everyone feels as if this place was only brought up around 18 years ago," They all looked at each other in confusion and curiosity. Why did they feel like this?

Meanwhile, Alicia and Quartz stepped outside to a training field of some sort to see everyone surrounding someone, "Ah, I see she's already warming up."

"Huh?" Quartz looked on in confusion at the massive crowd surrounding this one person. This one... girl, "Wait, why are they all ganging up on this one girl?"

"You'll see," Alicia and Quartz watched on as the girl cracked her knuckles.

"So who's next? I could use a little more practice before my partner shows up," A small group of soldiers attacked at the same time, but she read each of their movements with ease. She took the first soldier, and threw him into the next wave of them, already taking out most of them.

The next one met a flurry of quick, fierce hits to their pressure points, disabling their movements. The next two attacked with training batons, but she jumped up into splits, and landing on their shoulders. She then took the batons from their hands, and flipped down before hitting them fiercely with their own batons.

The next soldier ran up ready to strike, but she grabbed their abdomen before bringing her keg around her back to kick the soldier with her heal. However, the last soldier had managed to hit her in the back of the head, but she recovered quickly. The soldier came back to attack, but the girl grabbed the baton to pull them into a clothesline.

Around her now were bodies of soldiers who were now knocked out after the beating they had just received, "Who's next?!" She yelled at the top of lungs, causing the group to disperse leaving her a view of Quartz and Alicia, "The queen!" Everyone reacted quickly by kneeling in front of her, "What brings you here milady?"

"Stand down everyone. I'm just here to introduce Saber's new partner."

"My partner is here?"

"Yes, Saber, meet the son of Shining Cobalt, Quartz," Alicia introduced Quartz as he walked up.

"Greetings Nina, you have some real skill their don't you? You may even give my father a run for his money," Quartz held his hand up, and the girl, Saber, shook it.

"Don't mention it. I mean, these are newbies I just fought, but you have real combat experience. I think you would be a better challenge than these newbies. How about it Quartz. You duel me, with real weapons, and I just might consider you my partner."

"Nina, you can't consider him your partner when he's already your partner," Alicia added a frustrated sigh after her statement causing Saber to clear her throat.

"I meant my respect," She then went up to his ear and whispered in it, "And you just might earn the queen's respect," Quartz looked back at Alicia, and then back at Saber, "Do you accept?"

Quartz grew a large grin on his face as he said, "I accept!"

Author's Note

I hope everyone knows what I'm doing when I show Platinum and Alicia give different view points towards the war, right? Who do you think is right between the two of them, and why do you think Lavender had that vision? Is it a sign?