Everything had been going well in the beginning, really it had. Both groups led by Astral and Sun had managed to sneak into the port without being noticed, each group being careful not to make much noise as they snuck through the town. Each group splitting off as they reached a certain point to head to their own targets. They even managed to reach their targets without much trouble as well, only a few guards needing to be taken out and such. Sun had chosen to head to the barracks first, to take out any sleeping guards so they don't become trouble for them later on.

Of course, it was with Astral where things started to go downhill. When he had reached the docks with his group of unicorns, he looked out at docks frowning a little as he thought about what he could do. The first thing he did, of course, was made sure that everyone on the docks was disabled except his group. So, with the help of a few others in his group, he combined a sleep spell, and a mist spell making a mist that would force anything that breathed it in to fall asleep unless they had a strong magic resistant. Then the group used a wind spell to spread it throughout the docks, forcing every who had been previously awake to simply, fall asleep. Sadly for the group, however, was that not everyone was as weak to magic, as items had been made for the express purpose of stopping the effect of magic on the wielder.

After all, not every race trusted the Equestrians. Some of these races, were currently awake on their ship, feeling the buzz of the item that stopped them from falling asleep had awakened them. That mainly being those more experienced traders, specifically a few Cat people and Fish people, from the less friendly areas of the world.

They woke to see the mist surrounding them and the area, and they instantly get up and are ready to go, knowing that something was wrong and that they needed to protect their cargo. How could they make any money off of it if it was gone?

Astral hums a little as he focuses for a moment, wondering how exactly he was supposed to sink the ships that were ready for battle. He then glanced around at his group and sorts through the spells he knows, and the ones that he's taught some of them. Then he remembers that he needs to cause panic in the city so Mask can sneak out with the crowds. He hums a little as he stares at the battleship in front of him, before shrugging as his horn starts to glow. Might as well go with something big. He grins, as several arcane arrays start to appear over the ship, and then, with a bright flash of light, the ship didn't exist anymore, nor did the water around it for a moment. The ocean was quick to fill in that gap, however.

Astral was left panting heavily as he plops down on his rump, maybe not the best idea to use so much energy, but he was known for a quick recovery. Judging by the sounds of everyone outside of the docks panicking and screams starting to sound out, grabbing the attention of others worked rather well. He watches as his group starts to use spells of their own, blasting the remaining ships, simply sinking them slowly instead of making it disappear as he had.

He wonders idly if anyone had been on that ship when he had incinerated it, before shrugging as he realized he didn't really care. He was however quite pleased with the fact that his experimental spell had in fact done what it was supposed to. Not quite as powerful as he had hoped, but it worked well for his needs.

He continues to watch as his troops destroyed the reminding ships, sinking them slowly and letting the ocean swallow them up. His ear twitches slightly however as he hears a whizzing sound heading directly to him, and his horn quickly lights up and grabs whatever it is in a levitation spell. He glances in the direction, watching the arrow he held in his dark blue aura with an edge of red around it. He then glances at the direction of a cat standing on one of the ships that he had sent the mist at and frowns a little.

'Great, things just had to get complicated. Didn't they?" He thinks to himself letting out a small sigh as he drops the arrow. He had hoped he wouldn't have to deal with any actual combat, considering it was Sun's job to deal with the soldiers. It seemed, unfortunately, that the world had other plans, as he now had to deal with merchants? Pirates? Sea warriors? He wasn't really sure, might as well ask before he deals with them.

He starts to trot in the direction of the ship, ordering his group to continue their assault while he dealt with this. He idly noticed the sounds of battle coming from the direction Sun was working in and noticed some bright flashing lights in that direction too. 'Show off.' He rolls his eyes as he continues to advance to the ship, every arrow sent his way was stopped by a levitation spell. He couldn't do as much as he could normally, didn't mean he couldn't still fight with the few spells he could use.

'Hmm, about thirty-nine combat spells that won't drain my magic all in one go.' He counts as a grin grows across his face, teleporting onto the ship and in the middle of the group of Sea people. His grin was wide as he was clearly enjoying himself, which was a little creepy really, he summons a blue ethereal blade that had a slight red glow around it. 'This is gonna be fun.' He thinks as he watches as several of the group members throws up a shield when the time is finally up, then he raises an eyebrow as he watches another barrier overlap that one. He hums a little shaking his head as he focuses back on his targets, then with a swing of his blade, the first blood was spilled, in his area of the mission at least.

With Sun before Astral had caused a scene, he held a firm look of professionalism on him, holding back any emotions he may be feeling so he can get his job done. He wore his armor, which was crafted by him as a form of passage when he made it into the guard it, he's never worn another pair since then. The armor has his cutie mark engraved into the chest and his shoulders.

Attached to the back of his armor was a long spear wrapped in some white cloth, it seemed to vibrate under the cloth giving off the slightly of glows, making it barely noticeable. He had also crafted the spear, not long after joining the Revolution, and with a little help from Astral, he was able to make it perfect for him. He had used a spear throughout most of his training unsurprisingly and was one of the most talented with a spear in the last century. At least, according to his commander, he was.

Anyways, as he continues to lead his troops silently through the night, he would look around carefully to make sure that no one had spotted them. He would force them to freeze in place every once in a while just to make sure that they weren't seen. He was very cautious the entire time, planning out every step and every path they took, having memorized the map he was given, he knew the safest routes and used them to his full advantage.

They soon reached their target however, Spear grinning as everything goes to plan, the group moving into the barracks quietly, knocking out the guards that worked around the place. The group moving around silently, looking for the place where most of the guards were sleeping. Spear had assumed he didn't need to make much of a fuss, that they would cause panic after the two of them had finished their missions along with their groups. He probably should have confirmed that with Astral before they had separated.

Everything seemed to go wrong at exactly the same moment, as with a bright flash and loud boom came from the distance, every guard in the barracks had bolted awake to see the group that has snuck inside. There was silence for several moments, Sun just cursing out Astral in his head for several moments as he slowly reaches for his spear.

The noise of more explosions reach their ears soon, and that finally seems to breathe the life back into the room. As the guards jump out of their beds, several of them reaching for their weapons, and others pushing away members of Sun's group away from them and then going for their weapons.

With a flourish, Sun reaches back and rips spear off his back, the spear now grasped tightly with a wing as he spins it around. Waking several guards in the head and knocking them out, Sun barely managing to avoid the members of his group with the long spear in such a small area. "Move out of the room! We're at a disadvantage here!" He orders them as he quickly jumps back and makes his way out of the room, his group following as they clash with the guards, some of them even managing to wound a guard or two.

Finally, they're all able to make it out of the building, where the battle grew much more chaotic, as guards around the city began to pile into the area to help their brothers in arms. Sun growls a little as he spins his spear faster, small flames appearing around it and keeping the guards away from him for fear of being burned. He continued to fight his way through the guards, waking and knocking several of the unconscious. The worst injuries he gave to any of them was second-degree burns.

Sun was growing more and more annoyed at Astral with every guard he knocked out, as he could hear the sounds of battle coming from that direction as well. Then there was the fact that his group was starting to struggle with the guards, not because they weren't skilled, no. It was simply because there was so many of them.

Finally having enough of this little back and forth, Sun started to spin his spear faster, more and more flames igniting on the spear as they grow hotter. "Duck!" He shouts out, every member of his group and even some guards doing as he orders. Sun slams his spear into the ground, sending a wave cascading out and into several of the guards in the area. Some were able to avoid the flames sadly, and some were even able to use a little magic to put the flames out.

Sun glares around as his team quickly gets back up, Sun starting to focus intensely as he wacks anything that got too close to him, maybe hitting a few members of his group, accidentally. He focused on what Leader had taught him about Pegasi magic, which was pretty much nothing as he only really gave a few hints here and there, but still, Sun tried to figure out how to use it correctly.

He growls, a little annoyed as he feels nothing from attempting this. He couldn't really focus on it while he was swinging around a spear that was longer than him. Then there was the more annoying fact that whenever he waked someone there would be the rather annoying sound of a skull hitting metal.

So instead of trying to use his magic he just starts to move his spear faster and faster, causing more flames to appear around his blade hotter and hotter. The flames were now just barely licking the building as they pushed up and into the air, he was basically signaling where he was to everyone in the city. This of course, also just caused more panic to spread throughout the city as he knocks down more guards down.

He was rather enjoying this actually, cause it just proved even more than he deserved this position more than Shining Armor. This just caused his anger to grow as his wings twitch slightly as he wacks another guard upside the head, knocking them out. At this point, his numbers and there's had been pushed down severely, luckily there hadn't been any casualties on his side. He couldn't really say the same for the other side, however, as he thinks he may have hit a few of them a bit too hard, judging by the brain matter that was leaking out onto the floor.

As his anger at how he was treated grew, small sparks could be seen around his wings, that traveled up his blade and shocked anyone that was in contact with the spear. He didn't notice this, however, as he continues to spin the blade around and attack, creating quite the light show for others to watch. He does glance away from the battle, however, as he watches as several blades could be seen zooming around from where Astral was supposed to be. 'I'm gonna kill him when we're done with this if he doesn't get himself killed first.' He thinks as he watches as a barrier is thrown up around the town, before having to close his eyes for a moment as a large beam shoots up nearby, overlapping Astal's shield with its own.

Mask frowns a little as she lays on a little bench in the town park, reading a book as she waits. She didn't really know how to feel about her part of the plan. It was rather boring honestly, and she didn't like being bored, at all. She hums a little as she turns the page of her book, her horn glowing gold as she reads the book, flipping through the pages with a small hum.

She tilts her head for a moment and grins widely, she for the life of her, can't focus on the book in front of her. She was more focused on her Leader, oh how he interested her. To see through her brilliantly crafted disguise so easily? That was definitely exciting, it got her all hot and bothered. Though she didn't like him in that way, she definitely enjoyed it when he got closer and closer to her core. She doesn't even remember who she was at her core.

She hums a little as she flips another page, a frown growing on her face. The question that she's been asking herself for quite some time, who was Leader? Who was the man behind the mask? While she may be able to create a mask, doesn't mean she could see through them as well as he does. She knew he wore a mask, and she ain't talking about the one smack dab in the middle of his face, the way he walks, talks, the way he just stands still. Despite not being able to see through it, she can still see it, and that was a damn good mask he wore.

She blinks a few times as she sees a bright flash of light coming from the docks, and raises an eyebrow as she sees this. Sun is gonna murder him. She sighs a little and slams her book closed, before moving the book into her saddlebag. Rising from the bench she heads off, watching as several civilians start to leave their building in confusion and panic, and then watching as they start to run around like headless chickens. She rolls her eyes a little as she sees this, it's not that big of a deal, it's just a group of people trying to take over your town. Chill.

She starts to make her way through the town and crowded streets, her most recent mask still on her, giving her this shy and pathetic persona. She modeled this mask based on a certain pegasus she knew of in Ponyville, it's worked quite well for her lately, and she rather liked it.

Anyways, she soon joins a group of Ponies making their way out of the town, her continuing to look all scared and nervous. What a dull world, everyone around her was just so predictable, so boring. She huffs a little in her mind as she vanishes into the forest, continuing to follow the crowd of ponies for now. Now she needs to work on her identity and find a way to contact Leader. 'This is gonna be a long next few months.' She thinks to herself as she watches as a large dome appears over the town, another one soon following it as a large beam shoots up from the center.

Leader hums a little as he skips down the stone hallway, making his way under the town as he looks around. 'It's been a long time, far too long." He muses to himself as he continues to make his way through the ruins. Watching as little rats scutter by, somehow managing to make it down there and through the caverns.

He would soon come across a large metal door, which he raised an eyebrow at, tapping on the door a few times as he starts to brush away all the dust. Revealing the same image as was on the trap door, the sun, moon, and a sword in between the two. He continues to clean away the dust until he finally finds a small and thin hole on the door.

He smiles softly as he pulls his sword out, before finally plunging it into the little hole as far as he could, which was up to the hilt. He then takes a step back as the symbol starts to glow, before the door slowly slides away to reveal piles of gold, gems, and several other things just laying around inside. Leader hums softly to himself as he walks through the room, past all the piles of valuables.

He does stop for a moment however and glances to his right as he sees a little journal there resting on top of a pedestal, one with the same symbol as was on the door engraved on the cover of it. He frowns a little as he stares at it for a moment, before simply walking past as his cloak flutters over the pedestal, and when he finally moves past the journal was gone.

Leader soon comes across just what he had been looking for, a large orb with several arcane symbols running over it in criss-cross patterns. He hums a little and grins, doing a mental count in his head, he figures that Astral should have put the barrier up right about now. Let's make it better shall we?

Leader softly rests his hand on the large orb, causing it to start to glow brightly, before shooting out a large beacon up into the sky, going through the ground and up through the very center of the town. The light spreading over the town and wrapping around it, giving off a large pulse as the large light finally touches the ground. Anything the light had touched had either been pushed back into the town or out of it.

Author's Note

For some reason I thought it was Saturday, almost didn't post this.