It's been a week since Flame and the others had started their training. In that time Flame had no contact with the others to allow for maximum training time, but it was time to return. He walked into the Boneless in and greeted the rebel agent turned innkeeper. "Cheese, how are the preparations going?" Asked Flame.

Cheese smiled at Flame as he walked into the rebel's establishment. "They are finished, Spitfire is out gathering all of the stationed agents around the town and sending out the call to the other towns so they can get ready to move out." Said Cheese.

"Good to hear, has any of the others returned yet?" Asked Flame.

But before Cheese could respond another voice spoke. "...And to no ponies' surprise you are the last one to show up, you still act like that same lazy dragon whelp from all those years ago." Said Magic Circle as she walked down the stairs.

"And without a doubt, you probably woke up this morning at the crack of dawn." Retorted Flame.

"Awe, you know me so well." Said Magic as she used her magic and levitated Flame into a hug. "I hated the fact I couldn't see you for a week. I missed you."

"Twilight it was only a week, I used to spend twice that staying with mom during the holidays. But yeah I missed you too." Said Spike as he returned the hug.

They broke the hug and smiled at each other. "So how late am I?" Asked Flame.

"Not by much, Fancy just returned not five minutes ago, follow me." Said Magic as she walked upstairs.

As the two were walking, Flame wanted to hear about how Magic's and Incantation's training went. "So Magic how was your training?"

Magic looked at Flame and smiled. "It went well, now both me and Incantation can teleport a total of fifty ponies at once, we are also adept at using elemental magic attacks, I'm good with air, water, and fire magic, while Incantation can use, fire, earth, and water spells." Responded Magic as they reached the room. Flame opened it and instantly noticed a difference in everyone.

Fancy was the first to notice Flame's entrance. "It's good to see you, brother." Said Fancy as he smiled.

Flame returned the smile. "The same to you Fancy, how are the rebels?" Asked Flame.

"Believe it or not they are almost as good as me." Said, Fancy.

Flame nodded. "Good to hear." Said Flame. He then looked at everyone. "How was everyone's training?"

"Mine was good, I was able to control all the golems I summoned." Said Serrata as she shrugged. "Apparently it ain't much different from running a whole farm, or being the leader of the earth team during winter wrap up."

"As for me, I was able to pin a fly to a target from 200 meters without killing it." Said Wuzz.

"I was able to change all three of Serrata's Might Oaks to look like a full-grown version of you for nearly ten minutes. So if I only have to focus on one target we will be fine." Said Gem.

Flame was waiting for Confetti to say something but she had a serious look on her face. Seeing this made Flame nervous. "Confetti how was your training?" Asked Flame.

Confetti looked Flame dead in the eyes and responded in a serious tone. "I've seen things, wondrous, joyful things, I have found love in the arms of a stallion, I joined a band, we played all around the world but after some creative differences we split up, I started a school for party planners and watched my life's work flourish when the first graduating class received their diplomas, I climbed the world's largest mountains, swam across oceans, Bungy jumped over a river of crocodiles, and I found the true meaning of parties." Said Confetti as she took a sip of punch she didn't have a moment ago.

"You did all that in a week?" Asked Gem.

Confetti nodded.

"What is the true meaning of parties?" Asked Flame generally interested.

Confetti smiled for the first time and giggled in her normally bubbly way. "To have fun, silly dragon." Smiled Confetti. Everyone's facepalmed at the answer.

"Were you able to get everything you needed ready for the battle?" Asked Flame.

Confetti giggled. "Of course, I had all of that ready in the first five minutes of leaving the room."

"Good." Said Flame. He then looked at Shadow.

Shadow groaned. "I was about to win, but that dumb kid was walking out of his house and noticed me right before I touched the wall." Said Shadow.

Flame walked over to shadow and gave her a pat on the back, "Hey I was planning on letting you join me anyways when you had time, and the offer still stands, as for the books, I was going to ask Daring to join me as well, next time we meet up for lunch, your welcome to join us." Said Spike.

Rainbow looked at Spike in shock as she began to stammer. "You...kn-know...Dar-Daring Do?!" Yelled Rainbow.

"Where do you think she stores all the dangerous artifacts that a normal museum can't handle? She and Mom would talk for hours about how and where she got it. One day mom was busy and I greeted her at the gate, we talked, became friends, and decided to have lunch whenever she's in town."

"AND YOU NEVER THOUGHT TO TELL ME?" Yelled Rainbow. Spike was slightly annoyed as he pushed Rainbows to face away.

"I did tell you, multiple times in fact. But you were lost in your own world." Said Spike.

"Oh. Sorry." Said Rainbow sheepishly.

"It's cool, but one thing, no fangaseming when you see her." Said Spike as Rainbow nodded.

"So Flame, how was your training?" Asked Magic.

"Everyone has gotten used to the change now, and I have made some slight upgrades to my crossbow." Said Flame showing off his crossbow. "First I changed the strings out with some of Chars most elastic threads, allowing for faster launch speeds everyone can reach, I also added some gages to measure how many of everyone I have left, and lastly I added some reinforced metal that I found in a cave to the bow limbs, this helps to counteract how much power everyone is giving off when they launch."

"What do you mean change, what happened to Sparks and the rest?" Asked Magic.

"Nothing too major." Said Flame as he started to explain. "You see, back in Mudos, there is this specialty shop that sells equipment to bounty hunters like myself. At the time, I was getting ready to go on a very dangerous job, so I decided to stop in and get stocked up. That day the owner was selling a line of enhancers for living ammo. I bought all of them, except the one for Zappflys, that one was still in the works and wasn't available. I used them on the family and this is what happened to them." Said Flame as all eight popped out of Flames bag and showed themselves to everyone.

"I know they look very different right now, but their powers got a major boost, but it came with a cost, the first day I used the enhancer on them they went crazy for two days, then after the two days, they changed back to normal. After that, they seemed to be able to change in between their forms at will, it used to take a lot out of them and they were useless for a day, so we didn't rely on the change in fear of then losing control again. But now they have been like this for a week and the only difference is Alvin is only slightly more intelligent than a sack of Clakerz shit." Said Flame.

"Oh bite me, you walking belt not even a blind person would buy." Insulted Alvin.

Flame sighed. "See what I mean, how does a blind person know where to find a belt let alone know if it's ugly." Said Flame. Everyone nodded.

"Are they really ok?" Asked Magic worried about them.

Flame nodded. "They are, it just places a strain on their bodies when they change back to normal. This is the first time they have been in this form for so long."

"If you say so, but I want to hear their opinion." Said Magic. All eight nodded. Magic sighed and nodded her head. "Fine, I believe them." Said Magic.

Flame nodded. "Now that that's all settled, let's head down to meet Spitfire and the rest of the rebels." Said Flame walking out the door.

Flame and group arrived in the large cavern and noticed how empty it was. The cavern was like a ghost town as a lone tumbleweed rolled by. Flame Looked in the direction of where the tumbleweed came from and noticed Confetti had a sheepish look on her face. "Sorry, but you were thinking it too, and you know it."

But before Flame could chastise her another voice interrupted. "I agree, in the last week this place has done a 180, its now only occupant is me." Said Spitfire as she walked out of one of the side tunnels holding a map of their traveling routes.

"Hey Spitfire. Can I assume that you are the only one here because everyone else is already making their way to the outskirts of Dawnhallow?" Asked Flame.

Spitfire nodded. "You assume correctly. Thanks to Lord Fancy Pants all of the rebels are in tip-top shape, and they are currently on the move as of a few hours ago."

Flame nodded. "Good, can I also assume you all received a copy of the plan?" Asked Flame.

Spitfire nodded. "Again you are correct, and might I say, this plan is very un-conventual, but still holds many aspects of a true tactician."

Flame smiled at the compliment. "Thanks, and as for that un-conventual comment, if you haven't noticed I'm not the most conventual dragon and neither is my party." Said Flame.

"So true. But let's continue our discussion on the weirdness of you and your party on the road. It takes a pony three days by wagon to arrive at the gates of Dawnhallow from Thorngarde, and the others are a few hours ahead of us." Said Spitfire as she walked past the dragon and his party and walked through the tunnel back to the Boneless inn to gather the last two agents in the rebellion. Spitfire looked back and noticed everyone was still standing there, she became cross. "DID I STUTTER SOMETHING, GET A MOVE ON NOW!" Yelled Spitfire, as the echoes reverberated around the cavern.

Everyone was nervous, and scared at the same time, as they all quickly matched her speed and returned to the Boneless inn's secret entrance.

Once everyone was back at the inn, Spitfire shouted. "I found a rubber chicken in a cherry tree."

The moment that phrase finished both agents appeared in front of their leader. The cheese was now dressed in a two-tone gray poncho and a matching hat, as what would appear to be two writs mounted mini party cannons were attached to his wrist. Cherry was now dressed in a red and yellow western burlesque outfit, with dozens of throwing knives strapped to the outfit. "Agent Bread, and Agent Red reporting ma'am." Said the two salutings.

"Good, get ready to move out. You have five minutes."

It took them three minutes even to have everything ready. Spitfire looked impressed. "That would have been an academy record." She then looked at the dragon and his group. "I have readied your wagon and it is waiting outside of the inn for us to use."

"I was wondering why our wagon was outside when I arrived, so thank you." Said Flame as he looked at the fiery mare in front of him. Flame then smirked and opened the door for her. "Ladies first."

Spitfire giggled. "Thank you." Said Spitfire as she walked to the wagon.

Flame then looked at the rest of the ponies in the inn. "I'm not just holding this door open for my health." Said Flame as he motioned for everyone to leave the inn.

After a few more moments of holding the door open, Flame was the last one in the inn and before he closed the door he locked it. Flame walked to the wagon and jumped onto the driver's position. Flame then looked to his side and smiled at the rebel commander. She returned the gesture. Flame then looked at the ponies in the back who nodded at the dragon as Fancy Pants powered up his horn and started the spell that made the wagon move. Soon they left the town of Thorngarde.

It had been three days since our collection of rebels and adventurers have left Thorngarde, and now they were setting up a camp for their assault on the capital scheduled for tomorrow. Flame was setting up a tent for him and Fancy as he heard the sounds of a massive pony right behind him. Only one pony brave enough to approach a dragon from behind and that's because he knows he would be able to just punch the dragon out cold. "Good to see you McBiggin. How did it go?"

"Good." Said McBiggin

"And Ivy?" Asked Flame.

"With the girls catching up."

Flame nodded. "Were you able to get the animals to help?" Asked Flame.

"Yes and no."

Flame sighed. "Who do we have?" Asked Flame.

"Well, we have the Timberwolves, Manticores, wolfs, bears, and deer. But the Hydra was adamant of not wanting to have anything to do with ponies." Said McBiggin.

"Good, but what's with the deer?" Asked Flame, confused by how deer would be useful.

"It turns out they are actually pretty strong, as well as fast. Ivy thought they would be perfect for running supplies to the troops."

Flame was surprised, but he nodded. "Hey, good thinking, I never thought of that." Admitted Flame.

"Flame, get some rest, we're going to be going through a lot tomorrow, and we need you rested." Said McBiggin.

"I know, Spitfire has ordered a mandatory light out at sundown, so we have a few more hours of daylight left, lets head to the others and chat." Said Flame.

McBiggin nodded as the two walked over to the group of girls and joined in on the conversation.

A few hours later Flame and Fancy were asleep in their tent. Flame was talking in his sleep and muttered. "Lunar Glare."

Inside the dragon dreamscape, he was watching an imaginary walkthrough of the battle. Running the plan as a whole. "Should I expect Mal to pop up tonight?" Asked Lunar as she appeared in the dreamscape.

Flame turned around and shook his head. "No, Mal's still out of it after last time."

"Good. So are you ready?" Asked Lunar.

Flame nodded. "I am, so is everyone else, Serrata was able to up her control on her golems, and Gem was able to change the appearance of all three mighty oaks for ten minutes at once so she should be able to maintain the spell for a good while when the time is right."

Lunar then noticed that deer were running around the battlefield and she became confused. "Is this a scenario where Sekto will use deer to fight the rebels?"

Flame laughed. "No, Ivy breeze thought it would be a good use of their speed and strength, so we'll get them to run supplies or messages between the rebels. In a battle, what are you more focused on in the middle of a fight: A pony with a sword aiming to kill you, or a seemingly scared deer that just happened to run into town during the battle?" Asked Flame.

"I see your point." Said Lunar as she looked at the tired dragon. Lunar became concerned. "Flame how many times have you watched this battle?"

"Tonight: 23 times, Since we came up with the plan: over six hundred." Said Flame.

Luna sighed and used her magic and made the scenario vanish. Flame looked at Lunar and only found the disappointed look of his aunt, it was directed right at him. "What's wrong Aunt Luna?"

"Aside from the fact you're running yourself ragged, not much." Said Luna as she used her magic and levitated her nephew over to a dream bed she made appear. She placed Spike into the bed.

"Aunt Luna, what are you doing?" Said Spike as he struggled to break free from the bed's magical hold on him.

Luna sighed at the struggling dragon. "Spike please stop struggling, It no uses, that bed was made with my magic, and you're not strong enough to beat me in my domain." Said Luna. Hearing this made Spike stop struggling as the very inviting feeling of a pillow under his head was slowly making him nod off.

"But Aunt Luna, I need to make sure the plan goes accordingly." Said Spike as he started to lose control of his eyelids.

Luna walked over to the bed and took a seat on the edge as she slowly rubbed Spike's head. "Spike you have spent the last week getting ready for this fight, you are ready along with all of the others. But a person is only as strong as their mind is sharp. And dear nephew, your mind has become dull from lack of rest, so for now sleep and …." Said Luna before she heard the sound of snoring coming from the dragon. Luna giggled quietly as to not wake spike up. She then leaned down and kissed the sleeping dragon on the forehead. Luna then stood up and was about to check on the others but was stopped when she heard Spike muttering in his sleep.

"Love you Auntie Woona." Muttered Spike.

"I love you too, Spike, do your best tomorrow." Said Luna as she disappeared.

Spike was able to rest his mind for the rest of the night.

Flame was awakened by Fancy nudging him. "Flame wake up its time for the attack to begin."

Flame grumbled and tried to return to his sleep. "Not now Fancy, I don't want to hear about what you and Fleur did last night unless it means I'm becoming an uncle." Mumbled Flame still mostly asleep.

Fancy tried to stifle a laugh, tried being the keyword, and the whole camp could hear the sounds of the lord of Ravengrove laughing his ass off.

Flame was fully awakened by the sound of Fancy's laughing and looked confusingly at the laughing stallion. "Um Fancy what's so funny?"

Fancy stopped his laughing fit and looked Flame right in the eyes, and decided to divulge the secret he has been keeping for the last week. "Well, the night before we left Ravengrove, I took Fleur to our bedchambers, we spent the night in each other's embrace." Said Fancy giggling at the look he was getting from the dragon.

"Fancy, why the hell are you telling me this?" Yelled Flame in embarrassment.

"Well, you asked me to tell you what I and Fleur did last night if it meant you would be an uncle." Said Fancy smiling fully.

It took a few moments for the last two or so minutes of the conversation to be pieced together. Once it did Flames jaw dropped. "Really?"

Fancy still smiled as he nodded his head, as he pulled out a letter he had received the night before they left for Dawnhallow. "It's from Fleur. She said that a few days after we left for Thorngarde, she woke up very nauseous and she started to vomit in the morning. She thought it was just sickness but Randolph wasn't going to take the chance and requested the best doctor in all of Ravengrove to give her a full exam. He found two heartbeats. Two. Do you know what that means?" Said Fancy shaking the dragon.

"That my soon to be niece or nephew will have a dad with only one good arm if he doesn't stop shaking me." Said Flame still being shaken.

Fancy stopped shaking the dragon and looked sheepish. Flame smiled at the stallion and pulled him into a hug. "Congratulations Fancy. Now I have all the more reason to make sure we defeat Sekto. I refuse to let my niece or nephew be born into a world ruled by a megalomaniacal dictator. Plus if you die, Fleur would hunt me down to the farthest corners of the world, pregnant or not." Joked Flame. Fancy nodded in agreement. They both laughed.

A few minutes later Flame and Fancy arrived at the final battle meeting, and the battle was only moments away from the beginning. Spitfire, Fancy, and Flame were all standing in front of a very weird collection of fighters. Timberwolves were sitting next to a group of ponies, while a pack of wolfs were playing with the Manticores. A bear was arm-wrestling with a fiery orange pegasus mare dressed in a full set of heavy metal armor and a large war hammer on her back, as the rest of the bears and the ponies were cheering for their respective teams. But two ponies were cheering very loudly, one was a red pegasus with messy blue hair with green tips and a pair of daggers strapped to his hips, and the other was another pegasus with red and black hair and tail, she had a lot of throwing knives with yellow stones on the pommel strapped to her body. Flame looked at the very odd combination of creatures. He then looked at Spitfire. She turned to the dragon. "It's your plan, you're in charge." Said, Spitfire.

Flame sighed and calmed himself. "Attention!" Yelled the dragon as he pulled out all of the ammo tubes from underneath his crossbow mounting. Flame then released all of the contents of the tube and in an instant, the area was full of Flame's entire ammo supply. This gained everyone's attention. "Today is the day we have trained for, today we defeat Sekto and save Queen Solariea." Yelled Flame. "I know we all have read the battle plan already but I want to make sure." Flame looked at Ivy Breeze. "Ivy Breeze is in charge of the animals. The deer will be our main means of communications and supplies, both Timberwolves and Manticores will be aiding in the attack when we gain control of the streets. The Wolfs and bears will be in charge of returning any injured back to our base camp, bears are to carry the injured and the wolves are protected. Is that understood?"

All the animals nodded or howled in agreement.

Flame then looked at Magic and incantation. "Magic and Incantation are the leaders of the spell casters. I want teams of three spell casters accompanied by at least two fighters lead by McBiggin and Fancy Pants. One of the spell casters will locate civilians, one will teleport them out of the war zone, and the last will be for added defense and to increase the number of ponies that can be teleported at once. Once all citizens have been saved, the fighters will return to the battle along with the best offensive magic caster. The other two will stay and use healing magic to stabilize the wounded that the animal teams bring back."

Both the Fighter squads and magic casters gave Flame a salute.

Flame then looked to Wuzz. "Long-range archers will be lead by Captain Wuzz. Once all the civilians are secure, we will take our first objective, The outer wall." Said Flame as Confetti provided a map of the city behind Flame. "Once we have control of the wall we will utilize our archers by sending thousands of arrows into the city and killing anyone not in cover."

Flame then turned to Serrata. "Serrata is on her own and she is providing the main force for our main siege on the wall. I want a group of archers and fighters on the back of all three Mighty Oaks, once they make contact with the wall everyone will disembark the Oaks and then they will break down and be reformed into additional Bloomberg's, and once the wall is ours we will open the gates. At that point, Serrata will send in the Bloomberg's to destroy any defenses Sekto's forces will try and put up. They are made of rock so arrows will not affect them so archers don't worry about hurting them."

Serrata nodded and all the golems grunted.

Flame then turned to Confetti. "Confetti is in charge of keeping morale up and calming the rescued ponies."

Confetti then raised her hand and shook it violently. "I have a question."

Flame was a little confused at the actions of Confetti, but never the less he let her speak. "Should I try and get my band back together?"

Flame raised an eyebrow. "How long would it take?"

Confetti hummed in thought. "about five minutes, we're all here right now. John?"

"Yep."

"Paul?"

"You know it, baby."

"George?"

Nothing.

"George?"

Again nothing.

Confetti sighed and out of nowhere pulled out a megaphone and yelled. "George?"

Then out of nowhere a stallion dressed in a loying cloth came into the group swinging on a vine and ran into a tree. The stallion then peeled himself off the ground and acted like nothing happened as he walked up to the Naga and pulled her into a kiss. Once the kiss was finished the stallion smiled at the Naga. "Hey babe, what did you need?"

"Hey George, but I was talking about the other George, we need him to get the band back together. Have you seen him?"

"Yeah, he's in the bathroom." George then looked at the crowd and noticed the other George. "Never mind there he is."

Confetti looked at the second George and yelled. "George, were getting the band back together for today, you in?"

The second George looked at Confetti, he pulled out his guitar from behind his back and began to tune it.

Confetti then looked at the first George and gave him a quick kiss. "Sweetie I'm about to go to war, but I'll be home soon, why don't you head back."

George nodded and gave her one more kiss and then out of nowhere a vine dropped from the sky and George swung away. Confetti sighed as she watched her colt friend swing away.

Everyone looked at the Naga in confusion wondering what just happened, but Flame spoke up. "It's Confetti, don't question it. Back to the plan." Yelled Flame. Flame then turned to Gem. "Gem you are with me for the last few steps of the second phase of the plan. We will stay out of sight until we have reached the area near the palace, there I will release Char and her swarm into the castle, where they will station themselves over any guards leading to the dungeons. Then when we get there you will use your illusion magic on me to look like a fully-grown dragon. I will then unleash a powerful roar signaling the commencement of the third phase of the attack. Char and the others will incapacitate the guards with their venom while the sight of a full-grown dragon will scare many of the defending guards away. That's when you will drop the illusion and fall back to give aid to the magic casters." Said Flame.

Gem nodded.

Flame then looked at Spitfire and then to Shadow. "This is when our agile troops come in, before I roar, I will be accompanied by both Spitfire and Shadow as they are in command of the infiltration team. Once the roar is finished we will storm the palace, the infiltration team will then disguise themselves as the downed guards and wait until the queen has been secured."

Both Spitfire and Shadow nodded at their assignments.

Flame then returned his attention to everyone. "At the point, we have the queen safe, we need the entirety of our forces to be ready for our final assault, so by the time we have the queen, I expect for most of the fighting in the town to be over. Everyone not in the infiltration team will regroup right outside of the main gates and will wait until we open the gates with the queen in tow. Then the queen will be teleported by a spellcaster and sent to the base camp. Back with the main forces we will all enter the palace and fight off any remaining forces until we reach Sekto. Inevitably reinforcements will arrive so only a few of us will actually face Sekto. They include me, Magic Circle, McBiggin, and Shadow. This is not a backhanded slap to anyone not chosen's abilities, It's just we won't have a lot of room to move around, and we all have the greatest stamina and magic reserves. This doesn't mean your job is any less dangerous, so everyone, Keep on your hooves, paws, and or claws. We move out in five." Said Flame as he walked off the platform and let all of his ammo return.

Flame walked over to Gem and pulled her aside to give her a special assignment. "Gem we need to talk." Said Flame.

2 minutes later, Flame was finished telling Gem about his plan for her. "Can you do that?" Asked Flame.

Gem nodded. "Of course dear, I won't let you down."

Half an hour later. Flame was standing with Shadow, Spitfire, and Gem, along with about two dozen of the infiltration team, they were on a rooftop waiting for the right time for Gem to unleash her magic. Behind them was a literal battlefield. All of the civilians were safely rescued by the retrieval teams and are currently watching Confetti and her band perform. On the city wall, Wuzz and nearly 200 archers were resting after eliminating a large chunk of Sekto's defensive troops, while down below in the streets, the bears and wolfs were transporting the injured that the deer had spotted as they ran supplies to the fighter and magic caster groups. After the Mighty Oaks successfully transported the first attack groups they separated and stormed the streets of the capital, it was an easy job for the main bulk of the rebels to take most of the city from the remaining troops, allowing for Flame and his team to make their way to near the palace, relatively unseen.

It had been 15 minutes since Flame had unleashed Char and her swarm. Flame looked at Gem and nodded as he thought 'here goes nothing' as Gems hands started to glow. Soon the image of Flame was now one of a random adult dragon appearing in the middle of the battle, at first none of the guard tasked with protecting the main gates flinched, but then the fake Flame turned its head as it mirrored the real Flames body. The eyes of the illusion were as dark as night, and filled will the need to kill, this was enough to make a few of the troop's brake rank, but still many held strong. Flame then looked at everyone. "Cover your ears." Said Flame, he inhaled a large amount of air and held it in his chest. He looked at the sky and unleashed the mighty roar. The sound was so powerful it had driven off many of the currently pissing themselves guards away from the gate leaving only a few whose bodies refused to move out of fear or were just passed out standing up.

Once the roar was finished Flame looked to Gem and nodded. Gem dropped the illusion. "This starts at phase three, Gem falls back and help finish the fighting in the town." Gem nodded and used her wings to fly away. Flame then looked at his team. "Let's move out," ordered Flame.

Flame and his squad entered the palace and found that all of the stationed guards were knocked out as each had a Bolamite standing on the body. Char ran up to Flame and started to sign. "You guys did great, gather everyone, and make your way outside of the city and regroup with Confetti." Ordered Flame. Char nodded and she and her swarm left the palace. Flame then turned to his infiltration group. "Get these bodies out of sight and get that armor on. If anything let these guys get a promotion for staying at their stations. I'm heading to the dungeons." Said Flame as he started to run towards the dungeons, and when he made it halfway down the hall he dropped down to all fours.

A few moments later Flame had arrived at the palace dungeons and using the memories of what Lunar showed him, quickly ran to the end of the cells and in the last cell, he spotted her, still chained the wall. "Mom!" Yelled Spike when he saw Celestia. Solariea looked up and became shocked at the dragon in front of her.

"Spike, Oh thank the god's safe, I was worried that you were caught up in the fight I've been hearing for the last hour or so."

"Um... that's kinda my army trying to regain control of the capital city from Sekto's forces. Right now we're here to save the one true ruler of the kingdom, Queen Solariea, IE, you." Said Spike. Celestia just sighed at the fact that her son is commanding an army to save her.

Spike then began to pry the bars out of the wall and soon a hole big enough for Spike to enter was made. Spike entered the cell and used his teeth to break the chains holding her to the wall. Once she was free, Celestia fell to her knees. Spike ran over to his mother and helped her to her feet. Spike looked at his mother. "So mom, how did you like your stay at the royal palace of Dawnhallow?" Said Spike trying to make a joke.

"One star, service was lousy, the food subpar, and the view from my room was crap." joked Celestia. "So how are you doing?"

"Well, I finally told the girls and aunt Luna, the fact that I have my own personal evil self, and now you know, and before we have a long-winded discussion about this development, I have already promised to tell everyone about Mal after we get back next week."

"Mal?"

"Sorry it's not something cool, I named him when I was about two. Also, remember when I called you a bitch?"

"Yeah, I grounded you for a week, I found out that private Bronze Shield was the one complaining about his mare friend and ordered him to scrub the entire barracks for a whole month, for not keeping his daily life separate from his guard duty."

"Yeah that was Mal, actually Mal was in control of my body for a year or so until that night when you thought about sending me back to the dragon lands."

Celestia gasped. "You heard that?"

"I did, but when you said that, something in me got stronger and I was able to take control. Mal has only returned a few times since then, like my tenth birthday, and when I escaped my kidnappers back on Mudos."

Celestia sighed. "Were not done talking about this 'Mal', understand."

"Your the third pony to tell me that, it's now permanently burned into my brain."

Celestia smiled. "Anything else I should know about?"

Spike shrugged. "Well, I think Fancy Pants and Fleur are going to have a kid soon, and to a degree, I'm the uncle. But I don't know if that pertains to the real world, Pinky has a colt friend, and the next time Daring comes to the palace, Rainbow is going to be joining us for lunch."

"Really, that's it, to be honest, I was expecting something more world breaking."

"Like what, if you haven't noticed we are in a fantasy world, where your a high elf mare and queen of a whole kingdom. Sorry if you find a full-blown rebel army trying to save you, lead by your son and his friends not very entertaining." Said Spike.

Celestia laughed as they reached the main hallway. Spike returned to Flame. "As of this moment you are Queen Solariea and I'm Sentinel Flame, we are not related as aside from the fact I'm the one rescuing you." Said Flame.

Solariea nodded as the two reached the first disguised rebel in the hall, a blue pegasus with a darker shade of blue-colored mane, Flame walked over to the stallion to give him his orders. "You." Said Flame.

The rebel turned around and looked at his commander. "Sir?" Asked the pegasus.

"What's your name?" Asked Flame.

"Blue Blitz, sir."

Flame nodded. "Blitz, report back to Spitfire, 'Solariea is safe' and get ready for the final battle." Said Flame.

"Yes Sir." Said Blue Blitz as he sped down the hall only appearing to be a blur as he made his way to report to Spitfire.

After a few minutes of walking the two made it to the main palace doors, where Spitfire and Shadow were waiting. "Spitfire, Shadow open the doors and let the rest in." Ordered Flame. The two nodded and opened the palace doors. Once the doors were opened Flame and Solariea saw a large portion of the remaining rebels waiting for the signal to storm the palace. Flame and Solariea walked out of the palace. But before everyone started to cheer Flame stopped them. "This is not over, get into position now." Said Flame as everyone passed the queen and made their way to their defensive positions. But Flame stopped one of the magic casters before he could enter the palace. "Wait. What's your name?" asked Flame to the spell caster.

"I'm Sargent Spot Light former Royal Guard, Sir." Said Spotlight saluting the dragon and his queen.

"Sargent Spot Light, how large is your teleportation range?"

"I'm more of an offensive spell caster, but I can at least get to the other side of the city walls easily."

"That should do, Sargent, I need you to execute the final step in phase three, can you do that?"

"Sir." Said Spot Light.

Flame looked at Solariea. "Queen Solariea, Sargent Spot Light is going to teleport you back to our base camp on the other side of the city wall."

But before Solariea could retort Flame continued. "And before you argue, there is a large group of civilians who would be very joyful to see their queen." Flame then looked at Spot Light and nodded.

Flame released the queen and Spotlight took his place, as his horn powered up. Once Spot Lights magic was ready, Queen Solariea and Spot Light were gone.

Flame walked back into the palace, and slowly passed by the rebels defenses, Flame stopped by a familiar mare and smiled at her. "Cherry good to see you made it. I need a report of the battle outside."

Cherry looked at the dragon commander and smiled back. "Thank you, sir, as for the state of the streets, there are a few little fights scattered about, but they are looking to be in our favor, and as of the last deer message Ivy breeze sent out, our total losses are only in the '30s, while injuries are in the low hundreds." Then cherry looked sad. Flame noticed this and sighed and placed his hand on her shoulder, giving it a light squeeze. "I'm sorry to report Sir, Fancy Pants is one of the injured, he has lost his arm in the battle for the streets, and Cheese is with him missing a leg." Said Cherry crying now. She looked up to Flame and heard growling coming from the dragon. She took a step back in slight fear.

"Thank you for the report." Said Flame. "Don't get comfortable though, this won't take long." Said Flame as he cracked his knuckles. Flame walked past more of the rebels and even more, of them gave him a wide birth. Soon Flame was standing in front of the doors leading to the throne room. "Magic, McBiggin, Shadow, we're going in now." Yelled Flame. It was only one moment before all three were gathered. "McBiggin and Shadow, you two are in charge of dealing with Sektos personal guard. Magic your in charge of me."

"In charge of you, why?"

"Fancy lost his arm, and Cheese lost a leg. I plan on making Sekto reimburse them." Said Flame as he pushed open the doors with all of his strength. But the doors were not ready for the force of a pissed-off dragon and instead of just banging off the wall, the impact was so strong that it actually broke the stone the hinges were attached to, sending the doors flying across the room. Flame walked into the throne room, where he noticed, sitting on the queen's throne, was a tall creature dressed in a fancy pinstriped suit, with fancy black shoes. Its head was a dark purple color with four ridges of boney edges arcing across its head, in its massive black-gloved covered hands was a glass of wine in one and the other was a lit cigarette in a cigarette stick. The creature's eyes were glowing yellow and they were both focused on the dragon who rudely broke the doors.

"You know those were expensive right?" Asked the creature.

Flame nodded. "I had a feeling, Sekto I presume?"

"Yes, and you are the Great Sentinel Flame, I've heard so much about you. Would you care for a drink or a smoke?" Asked Sekto offering the refreshments in his hands to Flame.

"No thanks."

"Shame, I wanted to make your last moments at least somewhat enjoyable. Nevertheless, it's time for you to die." Said Sekto, as two dozen of Sekto's personal guards, ran out and stood in front of Sekto, spears pointed straight at the group. "Any last words?"

Flame nodded as he readied his crossbow and equipped Banger and Queen. McBiggin pulled out his greatsword and got into a fighting position, as Shadow pulled out her dagger and pulled up her mask. "NOW!" Yelled Flame.

Just then one of Sekto's guards turned around and speared two of the other guards next to her. "What?" Yelled Sekto in confusion. The guard showed her blue glowing hands and dropped her illusion, showing it was Gem.

Gem then unfolded her wings and retreated behind Magic Circle.

Sekto looked at the succubus and was about to order his guards to attack, but he fell silent as he looked at his personal guard's dead bodies on the ground. McBiggin was wiping the blood off of his sword, and Shadow was doing the same to her dagger.

Sekto was scared now and was going to try and make his escape. "I wouldn't do that." Said a voice from behind Sekto. He turned and for just a moment looked into the eyes of the one behind him. He only saw hatred, and the desire to kill. But before Sekto could run away Flame grabbed his neck and started to slowly choke him. Flame continued to grasp Sektos neck as he walked down to Magic. "Magic can you send me and him to the palace training area, and can you get this worthless piece of trash a sword. I don't like killing an unarmed creature."

Magic was very reluctant to comply with the request but complied nonetheless.

Flame and Sekto were in the palace barracks standing in the royal guards training area. On the ground on the other side of where Flame was standing with Sekto's throat still in his claws. Flame threw Sekto over by the sword, and after a few moments of Sekto breathing, Flame growled. "Pick up the sword."

"NO!"

"If you don't, you will die sooner."

Hearing this, and against his better judgment, Sekto grabbed the sword and used it as a cane to get up on his feet. Once Sekto was on his feet he readied himself and pointed the sword at Flame. Flame started to chuckle. "You know, this is a cliché right, a one on one duel between the leader of the rebels and the dictator." Then Flames face became serious. "But do you know what makes me different from that cliché? I don't give the bad guy a way out of the fight." Said Flame as he launched Banger straight towards the sword. Banger exploded right before hitting the sword, and the explosion was just weak enough to knock the sword from Sekto's hand. Flame took a step closer to Sekto. "That was for taking over the kingdom." Flame then changed out Banger, for Sparks.

"Please I surrender." Pleaded Sekto.

But Flame was not in the mood to listen. Flame launched Queen into Sektos left shoulder and she passed through but it still made his whole left arm useless. "That was for the people of Ravengrove."

"Aww...Stop... Please!" Cried Sekto.

Flame changed the Stingbees out for Fang. And launched Sparks at Sektos chest. Sparks gave Sekto a painful shock but not enough to kill him. "That was for all of the citizens that your guards harassed."

"AWW!"

Flame unequipped the Zappflys and got out Wallop. Flame then pointed Fang at Sekto's right foot. Fang proceeded to take massive bites out of Sektos leg. "That was for Cheese Sandwich."

Flame then launched Wallop into Sekto's left leg, The force of the impact was so strong it shattered his bones causing Sekto to fall to his knees. "That's for all those who have died today."

Flame then walked over to the face down a dictator and pulled him up so he could look Sekto in the eyes. Flame proceeded to punch Sekto in the face. "This is for my brother's arm." Then Flame Punched Sekto in the gut with all the force of a pissed off dragon. "This is for pissing me off." Flame then lifted Sekto by the throat again and opened his mouth to finish him off for good. Sekto looked down at Flame's open mouth and noticed a green light coming from his throat. Sekto shut his eyes and accepted his death. "And THIS IS FOR HURTING MY MOM!!" Yelled Flame. As he unleashed a massive fireball towards Sekto. The fireball was so powerful that it destroyed the wall of the training hall that was in front of Flame. Sekto opened his eyes thinking he was dead, but that was quickly replaced with the feeling of his flesh burning off. Flames Fireball may have missed its target, but fire can still burn flesh without it touching the flame itself. Flame dropped the now bloody, burned, and unconscious Sekto into his waiting tail as he carries him out of the training hall.

Flame walked down the halls of the palace going off of the memories of the map Lunar created and soon found himself in front of the main hall. Flame then opened the doors to the palace, walked outside stopping right before he would start walking down the steps of the palace. Flame then in hailed a large amount of air and roared. Across the city and far past the wall of the capital, the sound of the roar was heard. Once the roar was finished Flame took a seat on the top step of the palace and lowered Sekto next to him. Flame looked at the still knocked out dictator and sighed. "Your lucky I'm not heartless, or you would be nothing but a pile of ash right now." Said Flame.

Moments later Magic Circle ran past the front doors and looked at the two. She walked up to Flame and she became worried. "Is he..."

"No, he's not dead, horribly broken and burnt, but not dead."

Magic released a breath she didn't know she was holding and decided to take a seat next to Flame. "So what normally happens now?"

"Well, after the villain is defeated, one of two things normally happen, first is we actually get an epilog of what happens to the world, or we just sit here and wait for Discord to pull us out."

"That kinda sucks, I mean, we did all this work and we don't even get to see the payoff."

"Yeah it does, but it also lets us imagine what our characters would do after it's all over."

"Nope, I haven't just spent the last god knows how long just for the story to end. We're in my castle, technically speaking, so let's change it up a little." Said Twilight holding out her hand to Spike.

"What do you have in mind." Asked Spike taking his sister's hand.

"First let's get everyone outside."

"Easy enough." Said Spike. Spike then walked back into the castle and shouted down all the halls. "ITS OVER, EVERYONE LETS HEAD TO THE PARTY CONFETTI IS THROWING OUTSIDE THE CITY!" Yelled Flame as all the rebels made their way outside.

Once all of the rebels were outside of the palace Magic Circle gathered all of the magic casters and together, teleported everyone back to the base camp.

Discord then snaps his fingers and instantly all 12 of the game players were returned to the real world. Discord had a happy expression on his face as he was excited to hear what they thought, as everyone groaned due to the shifts in reality. "So What did you all think?"

Twilight was the first to respond. "God damn it Discord, what part of my castle my rules didn't you get?"

"Aw, but young Twilight, today I was the game master, I make all the rules." Said Discord.

Twilight groaned in annoyance and sighed. "Aside from the abrupt ending, it was actually very fun and very detailed storytelling."

"My only complaint is, I miss George." Said Pinkie sad at the loss of her colt friend.

"I was demoted to a side character used for plot convenience." Added Luna, not happy with her role.

"Listen to you, I only showed up for a few moments and that's it." Argued Celestia.

"Well I had a lot of fun, it made me feel like I was back on Mudos. Though I wish I could have seen Fancy Pants one more time. But I think you also saved me from Fleur." Joked Spike.

"But you did. You see I lied when I said I created this world, for you see, I merely found a world in the multiverse that seemed like fun and tweaked it a bit. In that world there exists everyone's character minus mine and Big Mac's. Didn't you wonder why Sentinel Flame was a legend? All I did was change a few faces, implanted some memories into all of you, mainly Spike, add a dash of Imagination..." Said Discord as he made a rainbow appear above his head. "... and then I added everyone's personalities, and vola, instant game night."

"So Confetti is still with George?"

"She is. And as for Fancy Pants, he returned home thanks to some help from Flame. That night he was chased around the manor by Fleur, but after that was out of her system, Fancy offered Flame a permanent home in the manor, for a few reasons, first he wanted Flame to be part of the family and wanted him to get to know their daughter Mary, named after her grandmother. Queen Solariea appointed Magic Circle and Incantation as her royal advisers. Lunar still jumps around people's dreams, guiding them in the right direction. After the battle, Cherry actually married Cheese after figuring out that after so long of playing a married couple she actually had feelings for him and him for her. Serrata, Shadow, Gem, Confetti, and Ivy were given royal titles and on occasion, they will be called by the queen to stop a monster attack, and on rare occasions, they would run into Flame and catch up."

"So were these scenarios all fake or are the real Fancy Pants and Fleur pregnant, and Cherry and Cheese married?"

"Sort of. Cheese and Cherry are engaged right now, and I think they are happy together, but Fancy and Fleur, I'm not sure, I'm not going to just pop up and ask. But, I might have also brought in everyone we know into the game as well so depending on how dense they are, I am expecting a few ponies arriving in the morning. Well, anywho, It's past my bedtime." Said Discord as he yawned, "I'll pop up from time to time to check up on you all. Goodnight." Said Discord as he disappeared.

Luna looked at the time and sighed at how late it was. "I must depart as well, being in charge of the day court requires rest and it is past my time for sleep." Luna walked over to Celestia. "Sister, I know Spike has informed you of Mal, but I want you to know that Spike had a better grasp over him than I did over nightmare, so do not fret over Spikes ability to control him." Luna then hugged her. Which Celestia reciprocated.

"I know, but I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and let someone I love to be taken over again. I lost you for 1000 years, 1000 years I should have spent with you if it wasn't for my dismissal of your feelings. But I don't think I could live with myself if I had to banish my own son. Thank you for helping him open up, Lulu." Said, Celestia.

"Anytime, Tia, I don't want to watch my nephew go through the same thing as I did."

Luna broke the hug and walked over to Spike, pulled him into a hug, and whispered into his ear fin. "Remember, if I find out you ever have that dream again, it's a lifetime of Garble kissing, and then Torch." giggled Luna.

"Yeah, I know, thanks for helping me tonight, I had a lot of issues to deal with, but now they don't seem that bad, knowing I at least have a dream valkyrie in my corner."

"That's what I was, a Valkyrie."

Spike nodded. "Strong, graceful, kind, and helps guide lost souls to a better place. Sounds a lot like you. Thanks for everything Auntie Woona. I love you." Said Spike.

"As do I Spike, and just remember your Auntie Woona will always listen to your feelings." Said Luna as she kissed Spikes forehead and teleported out of the castle.

Rainbow snickered. "Auntie Woona?"

" In my defense, I said it when I was only like 3, and I was having trouble pronouncing my L's. Twilight was Twiwight, and Celestia was Cewestia. Plus it just added to my cuteness." Shrugged Spike.

"It did." Said both Twilight and Celestia.

Rainbow yawned. "Well, I'm out, see you guys tomorrow."

"As am I, have a good night dears."

"Well I'm plum tuckered out, and we have apples to harvest in the morning, so I and Mac are going to call it a night. We'll see you in the morning, Spike."

"Yep."

"Yeah, see you two bright and early, but I might have to head to the old castle and get everyone together." Said Spike, just then a piece of paper popped into existence. Spike grabbed the paper and began to read. After Spike finished reading, he chuckled.

"What does that piece of paper say that's so funny?"

"Oh it's nothing, It's from Discord, apparently he transported the whole family into my wrist, and they're sleeping off the change right now, but it also says they should be ok in the morning."

AJ shrugged and smiled at the dragon. "Well, that's convenient. See you in the morning, Spike." Said AJ as she and Big Mac walked out of the castle.

"Well, I need to get ready for our 'YaY we beat the meanie party' plus I need to make sure gummy didn't overfill the tub again. Later." Sang Pinky Pie.

"Um...Spike?" Said a timid voice.

Spike turned around and looked at the yellow Pegasus. "Yes, Flutter's."

"Um... I know it's still game night and all, and I don't want to be a bother, but would you mind if I went home?"

Spike smiled at Fluttershy. "Fluttershy, you don't have to ask me, I am glad you could come and we all got to enjoy a fun adventure together."

Fluttershy smiled at him and giggled. "You truly are a knucklehead with a heart of gold."

Spike gasped an exaggerated gasp. "Flutters you wound me. You didn't mention my stellar good looks or my winning personality."

Fluttershy giggled. "Watch out Spike or you going to overshadow Rainbows ego. But thanks for letting me join in."

"No problem, but I do have one request."

"Anything."

" When we get back from the Crystal Empire, could you help me develop a line of food tailored for each type of ammo?"

"Of course, I would be happy to."

"Thanks."

"Have a good night." Said Fluttershy as she flew home.

"Well aside from the lackluster ending, I had fun. But I'm going to bed, I can hear it calling to me like a siren." Said Twilight as the moment she said siren she instantly remembered something important. Her eyes went wide and she nearly screamed in shock. "Oh my Celestia."

Celestia looked over at her student. "Yes?"

"Sorry, not you, but yes you, but not you right now, but not you... Oh, forget it." Said Twilight. She then looked to Spike. "Spike I forgot to tell Sunset you returned we need to head to the human world and tell her right now." Said Twilight as she grabbed onto Spikes' arm and tried to pull him to the mirror portal. But while she may be an alicorn, she was nowhere as strong physically, as she is magickly.

Spike chuckled at the poor excuse of dragging him off. "Twilight hold up." Said Spike, Twilight looked at her brother. "Twilight, it is way past dark right now, and Sunset is probably in bed asleep, right?" Twilight nodded. "Also, are you really up to waking her up right now?" She shook her head. "Ok, right now it's late, you head up to the bed and grab smarty pants and get some sleep, you can write to sunset in the morning and we'll go from there, ok?" Twilight nodded her head. Spike smiled "Good, and if you want, you can grab 'Starswirls' Collection of Powerful and Ancient Spells Lost to The Ages Vol 4' and read it until you get sleepy."

Twilight looked upset. "I don't need that book to go to sleep, I'm not a filly anymore." Said Twilight miffed.

Spike shrugged. "Your right, how about Vol 5?" Suggested Spike. The moment that volume as mentioned Twilight became a blur. Spike looked at the shocked expression on both Starlights and his mother's faces and shrugged. "This actually happened a lot when she was younger. Every time she would have a test in the morning she would start stressing about not studying enough, so one day I said, 'maybe you should read 'Starswirls' Collection of Powerful and Ancient Spells Lost to The Ages Vol 4' and she found it so interesting that she would read it every time she would get stressed, but after a while when we moved to Ponyville she lost interest in the book and decided to get the next volume and it worked just as well."

They both gave him unconvinced looks. "Are you both really doubting me? I have spent the better part of 10 years with that mare, I know her inside and out. I know how she likes her coffee in the morning on a cold winter's day. I know what she plans to dress up as on nightmare night for the next five years, and you're questioning me on how to get that mare to go to bed when she is stressed."

Starlight shrugged. "He's right, he's the resident Twilight expert, even after being gone for two years, he can still read that mare like a book. But I'm tired and like Rarity says, 'a mare need's her beauty sleep' so I'm out. See you two in the morning." Said Starlight as she walked up the stairs to her room.

Spike looked at his mother and smiled. "Sorry you got the short end of the stick tonight, would a hug make it better?"

"Yes."

Spiked pulled Celestia into a hug as the two smiled. Once the two ended the hug, Spike looked at his mother. "Ready for some sleep?"

Celestia sighed and nearly fell to the ground. "Oh god yes, I was chained to a wall for two weeks with a bed right in my cell and all I did was stay tied to a wall."

Spike laughed at Celestia. "Yeah, it reminds me of the time Stranger tied me to a tree for a month just to teach me about waiting until the time is right. Awe good times."

Celestia just groaned and decided to leave that one for later, not noticing that Spike was scratching at one of his scales.

Author's Note

There it is, a 5 chapter long arc. Thank you all for submitting your OC's for my use in the story, if your interested in seeing them in the sequal, I would be happy to add them, but thats not going to happen for a while. Stay tuned for a very long chapter next time, where I put a huge spin on Spikes origan, dragon/ ponie history, and Mal shall return.