Chapter 7: With wings of speed, I still don’t give a shit.

Mason in his dream looked at Luna and asked if she was one of the eyes watching him before he left Ponyville. Luna gave Mason a confused look and then realized and said, “Eyes?……Eyes! Yes, my sister and I were watching you, but if we were one group…….then……. But why would Cadence be watching you in the Crystal Empire.” Mason, thinking as he got up out of his chair thought out loud and said, “I was reading a book about the orb of sight and how rare they were. To create them you need a significant amount of magic and The Crystal Empire…… isn’t that the place where………” Luna said, “Cadence should have the last one at the Crystal Empire castle.”

Mason asked, “Isn’t the Crystal Empire cursed by that Sombra fuck boy?”
Luna replied, “Yeah, but Cadence and Shining Armor used the magic crystal heart that was hidden in the castle.” Mason retorted, “and who's to say the crystal wasn’t cursed and didn’t have part of Sombras soul in the heart and was slowly corrupting the core of their magic.” Luna thinking, and then looked up away from Mason and around and said, oh…. yeah…. I can do that….ok…hang on.” Magic invaded Masons dream and then Celestia entered almost immediately they both ran to each other in a hug Mason opened his arms and gave her a big hug. They both realized Luna was watching and parted from the hug.

Mason said, “God, you have no idea how long I wanted to hug you Celestia.” Celestia replied, “I waited as long as I could as well and I’d like to apologize for my students and her friends actions. I just can’t believe what you did in the destroyed castle.” Mason looked at her and responded, “Was I not supposed to do that I thought what you said to me at the train station was a hint to do that?” Celestia giggled and replied, “I was leading you to that idea. But a few pages more and you would have found a less painful solution for the transformation. Luna walked up to them and said, “Sister! He's waking up.” Celestia said quickly, “We got the storm king to move the time to 3 years later so please train diligently and help out your friends get stronger!”

Mason woke up from his dream with morning wood stronger than a redwood tree. Big Mac, Spike, and Stygian all turned around slowly trying to pretend they saw nothing. Mason embarrassed said, “It’s a human thing I can’t control this guy he has a mind of his own.” Big Mac and Spike replied, “Sure and that wet dream about Princess Celestia had nothing to do with it.” Mason, confused , was about to say something and Stygian interrupted and said, “You talk in your sleep Mason and I won’t lie but it sounded like we weren’t the only third wheel.”

Mason getting up said, “The time frame was moved to three years but let's not play the timeframe so let's stick to the original plan.”
Spike replied, “How would you know about the time frame changing if I never got a letter?”
Mason retorted, “I got the info from Luna and Celestia in my dreams and It wasn’t a wet dream I was talking to my friends.”

Big Mac looked over and asked, “Why would she connect to you to tell you?”
Stygian, excited, replied, “Luna is still single right? and if so can I go for her.”
Mason replied to both of them, “Well that's because we are good friends and yes she is single and not because she is waiting for the one it’s merely by choice.”

Stygian asked, “What does she like in a stallion?”
Mason replied smugly, “You mean what she likes in a mare.”
Stygian retorted, “Dammit, I really thought I had a shot.” Mason had finished packing his crap and said, “Yeah if you were female.”

A week later

Mason and the group made it to a motel in Los Pegasus. The front attendant asked, “how many rooms for you sir?”
Mason said, “Five rooms but I want a two bed and one bathroom.”
The front attendant replied, “Sir the only place that would fit your group is the penthouse.”

Mason retorted, “That works.” Mason dropped a big bag of bits and the group made their way to the penthouse. The group looked around the penthouse and all the rooms and set their stuff in the rooms they wanted.

Mason called out to the rest of the group to come front and center. Stygian appeared using his magic, Big Mac and Spike walked over to Mason. Mason looking at their raggedy clothes.

Mason said, “Take a shower and get ready, we're going out.”
Spike looked at the other two who turned around and went to take a shower and get ready, turned back to Mason and replied, “For what, where are we going.”
Mason replied, “We are going to find our fifth group member and that means we need to find them by looking, right? Spike.”
Spike retorted, “Can’t you look for us though?”
Mason replied, “In order for us to look we need to disguise and adapt and learn to blend into society and understand the flow of information and take in your surroundings.”

Spike walking into his room getting changed came out last and saw Mason in a tuxedo and Big Mac in casual clothes and Stygian in biker clothes and Spike was wearing semi formal clothes and glasses. Mason looked at them and without a word nodded and the group split to find the one Anthro they were looking for. Mason walked the streets in a tux, went to a masquerade party event held by the Wonder Bolts who invited the Princesses. Mason walking in grabbed a black knight's mask and sat in the back corner of the bar where he could see from all directions except behind him. After a bit of scoping the party Mason finally spotted the person he was after walking up to the bar.

The three from the group made it back to the room tired and exhausted.
Spike looked around and asked, “Hey, where’s Mason and did any of you guys have any luck finding a potential person?”
Stygian replied, “That was never the plan.”
Big Mac, shocked, said, “What!”
Stygian said, “He was trying to teach us how to blend in with any crowd and surveil the areas he assigned. Mason wants to know if he can trust us to find info even if it’s useless.”

Spike and Big Mac both realized but couldn’t say anything when the sound of the door opened, and they saw Mason wearing a black knight mask and a drunk Soarin walk through. Mason walked Soarin to his room. Mason walked back into the living room and took off his mask and sat down.
Mason asked, “So what did you guys learn while out.”
Big Mac stepped up and said, “I’ll go first then we can go down the line. I guess.”

Big Mac leaving the hotel walked randomly and saw a building where a Minotaur entered in a suit for a fighting match. Big Mac entering through the same door looked around and saw the challenger was Bulk Biceps. Who was being paid behind the scenes to lose the match. Big Mac signed up to be the warm up match for both fighters. Big Mac, getting in a pair of boxing shorts and boxing gloves started to analyze the outcome of both the fighters and how the match would end. Big Mac seeing every punch every movement got out to the ring and up first was Bulk Biceps. Big Mac was yoked before but now he looked like an absolute beast and clearly stronger than Bulk Biceps.

Bulk Biceps tapped Big Mac’s gloves for good sportsmanship and then threw the first punch like an actual fist hitting a brick wall. Big Mac got hit in the face but didn’t feel anything and looked at Bulk Biceps and barely hit him and accidentally sent him flying out of the ring in a TKO. Big Mac confused asked, “Is that It?” and he had expected more for his opponent. That’s when Big Mac realized that carrying that buster sword and swinging it around had made his body that of a piece of complete pure adamantium.

Iron Will seeing the fight put metal horseshoes in his gloves so he would win and before he knew it he woke up in the in house infirmary with Bulk Biceps next to him with only a cracked rib and Iron Will who only had a broken arm and a note on his chest given to him by Big Mac that read “You don’t deserve the title or the name”

Mason after hearing the detailed information of Big Mac’s night said, “So that’s why some of the nobles complained at that Masquerade Party about the boxing match.
Big Mac replied, “Yeah not my finest plan but it was better than going to a bar and getting drunk.”
Mason looked at Spike and gave a look to tell me about your night.

Spike was walking around and kept bumping into anthro’s by accident. That's when Spike's bits were stolen from him, and he tracked the group of thieves using his abilities. He asked around and learned the thieves also stole from other anthro’s. Spike tracked the thieves back to their den in a back alley next to a biker bar called the “Drunken Stallion”. Spike asked, “Can you give my bits back? I won’t report you to the police if you give them back!”

That’s when Lightning Dust chuckled and replied, “What can a weak looking and scrawny dragon such as yourself do because the last time I checked there was 20 of us and 1 of you?”
Spike pissed, looked at the leader and took off the nerdy glasses like Farm Steady from Super Anthro comic read by Spike and in his description which was a little hard info dump so Mason stopped listening tell Spike was done.

Mason coughed and said, “Good job and remember to not fight every time you encounter difficulties. Ok, that goes for all of you. A beat down is for when all bridges are burnt.”
Mason said, “Stygian, how was your info scoop?”

Stygian used magic to show the route he took and the track he put on Big Mac and Spike. So the info they gave had legitimacy and truth to it. Stygian walked to a BDSM night club to gather info on people like Mason. That’s when the Princess of Love made a stop to meet someone in the back where all the F.U.N. Rooms are and she didn’t leave yet. Mason was watching the recording on Stygian and as he was sneaking into a few rooms to figure out what room she was in.

That’s when Stygian found the room and transformed into shadow he saw her talking to Chrysalis and telling her the plan for her secret league of villains. Cadence said, “Don’t worry about Cozy Glow and Tirek. I also found those three sirens stuck in that mirror dimension and I stole Princess Cadence’s body and Shining Armor is going to be my new body after…….. I got to go but you know the main plan.” Cadence teleported to the Masquerade Party that’s when Stygian left and started to head back.

Mason looked at Stygian and said, “Stygian will be our spy/recon you will scout ahead of time, and we will plan accordingly, ok!”
Stygian replied, “Yes, Mason I will work hard for the results we are looking for.”

That’s when Spike, Big Mac and Stygian all looked at the room Soarin was in and thought the same question “how did he find this guy.” Mason, reading the room, answered out loud, “I found him at the Masquerade Party a little too drunk, ok.”

Cutting back to Mason wearing the black knight mask. Mason looked around and saw a group of anthro pony mares eyeing Mason like a snack. That's when Mason heard them announcing Princess Luna and Princess Twilight who had recently gone and started dating each other. That’s when the room slowed down to Mason. It's as if both Mason’s eyes and her eyes did the same. That's when the Front desk service attendant called, “Princess Celestia and her plus one was The Storm King!” The Storm King with his arm around Celestia’s shoulder.

Storm King asked, “Why increase the time frame of your sister and your wedding. You’d make a satyr like me very happy with a wedding sooner.” That’s when a wave of bloodlust went through the masquerade party and certain males and females got in bodyguard uniforms under their dresses/suits but the bloodlust wasn’t coming from Mason. Luna walked up to The Storm King with the bodyguards pointing their weapons at Luna to protect the Storm King and said, “Know this, I’m not interested in a satyr like you, and for you to want my sister and me just shows how greedy you are. Besides, I’m into mares not stallions that’s why I brought Twilight!”

That’s when at the corner of Storm King's eye, he thought he saw a figure that looked like Mason talking to Twilight. While she watched the argument between the Princess’s and the Storm King. The Storm King walks over to Twilight and using his bloodlust he said, “Move!” Forcing Twilight to move. Only to find nobody was behind her. Mason playing magic mind games with the Storm King, was at the bar watching from his peripheral vision. That’s when Mason saw Soarin who didn’t get knocked out from Storm Kings wave of bloodlust which shocked him. That’s when the Storm King looked around and saw a guy in the back corner of the dance floor, wearing the black knight mask and walked over to him and took off the mask. It was Zephyr Breeze who snuck into the Party so he could get a scoop on the news and sell to the highest bidder of news outlets.

That’s when Princess Cadence teleported in front of the Storm King and said, “Back off of my aunties subject’s.” But under that a secret message entered Storm King's mind telling him, “Mason isn’t here, and you are making a fool out of yourself in front of the nobles.”
Mason took the now drunk Soarin back to his penthouse room and after telling his group his info they looked surprised at the room Soarin was sleeping in.

Stygian asked, “So you think there is a gene in Soarin that makes him stronger over time?”
Mason replied, “I don’t think. I know there is after I got Soarin blasted drunk. I scanned his body and noticed he has a few small alicorn genes in his family pool. That tells me that he has the ability to get stronger and faster over time with the right training. He could give himself an evolution without a crystal or rune to be needed.”

Spike asked, “Ok, Then what about us? We evolved using those tactics. So does that mean we need to do that again or what?”
Mason pulled up the bodies of Stygian, Big Mac, and Spike using runic holograms and showed the process that they all went through.
Mason pointed at Spike’s body and said, “You ate two crystal's. The first crystal helped you by forcing a growth spurt on you and bringing out your dragon wings. The second crystal gave you the ability to change your flame breathing. Your potential is still locked.”
Mason looked at Big Mac and said, “You Big Mac ate that apple. All it did was make you a Druid. You as a farmer were in touch with nature to begin with so your cutie mark changed to make you better in being one with nature. All I can say is I might of changed your potential, for better or worse. I don’t have all the answers so don’t ask.”
Mason said to Stygian, “I don’t know your story Stygian but the process your body has gone through is that of magic enhancement so you can do a lot of more spells and have a bigger pool to draw from. Your potential is still locked.”

That’s when they heard Soarin get up and put on his shoes and open the door to his room and saw all four guys staring at him and before he could close the door. Mason froze Soarin with a time rune. Mason said in a serious tone, “We need your help Soarin to stop the Storm King and the forces of evil.”

The Storm King in his Storm ship was looking at his crystal ball that was given to him. Princess Cadence teleported to the Storm King and said, “You almost blew my spy’s cover. He had everything under control!”
The Storm King replied, “You have a spy on the inside…… you mean that weirdo with the laughing plant look?”
Cadence retorted, “Believe it or not I have eyes and ears everywhere and there is nothing I can’t get my hands on!”
The Storm King interjected, “Except Mason the human who was at that party despite what you said!”
Cadence replied, “That’s not possible. I would have felt his presence in the room. That's not possible unless he has some sort of new magic blocking device!”
The Storm King interjected, “ Mason the human was at that party! I saw it with my eyes I don’t care what you said!”
Cadence repeated angrily, “That’s not possible! I would have felt his presence in the room as stated previously. That's not possible unless he is hiding his power somehow!” Zephyr walked in on both having been in deep thought.

Zephyr coughed and said, “Well, this is nice, but I can tell you my Majesty that the Storm King is right that filthy monkey was at that Masquerade Party.”
The Storm King grinning said, “Told you so he was there but never got close to Princess Celestia. Why?”
Cadence replied, “Unless his aim was never Celestia but Twilight to relay the message.”
Zephyr retorted, “But that monkey never left the bar only to pick up a wonder bolt by the name of Soarin.”

Cadence looked back in realization and asked, “He picked up Soarin and nobody else! His plan must consist of scheming and trickery.”
Zephyr interrupted, “Yeah but Soarin is a useless wonder bolt. He is only as fast as he wants to be and can never do anything right. Spitfire always tells me the only reason he’s on the team is because of the stuff on the side and most times he won’t do the show. They have to use his double to do it.”
Cadence replied, “True but it’s the genetic makeup of his that makes me worry. If Mason was smart he wouldn’t waste any resources in his arsenal.”

Twilight in front of Celestia told her the plan Mason had and where they were heading next. Celestia said, “Thank you Twilight and I hope my sister and you love each other’s company.”
Twilight replied, “Thank you, Princess and Luna and I are happy.”
Luna with a gentle smile kisses Twilight
And said, “We need to head out. I booked a room in a nearby hotel. Sister! I know you are waiting for Mason but if the plan doesn’t work then the best option would…...”

Celestia cut off Luna and said, “I will never give up on Mason! He is the only one bold enough to want the real me and not want me for the crown.”
Twilight replied, “That’s true Moonie. Mason has never liked royalty and nobles. Plus, he only ever found girls like me and my friends like his little sister’s.”
Luna blushing replied, “Please Twinkle, don’t call me by my bedroom name.”
Twilight giggled and Celestia smiled gently knowing that their love was a beautiful thing.

Mason looking at Soarin said, “So are you in or not?”
Soarin thinking replied, “So you want me to join your group. Fight an evil group of villains the Elements of Harmony could barely beat and fight an army made by the Storm King!”
Mason nodded retorting, “Yeah! Pretty much.”

Soarin said, “Neat, well count me in!”
Mason replied, “Now I know that it might…… why do you want to join us just like that?”
Soarin answered, “Why! Because it would be fun and Celestia knows I need the exercise. But in all reality, I’m not long for staying in the Wonder Bolts and I can’t live like this, so I want to prove myself to those who want me to fail.”
Mason replied, “That’s a great way to look at it and I respect that thought process.”

Soarin looked over at these other guys in the group and asked, “Who are my new brothers in arms.”
Mason, standing up, walked over to the group and replied, “This is Big Mac farmer and also a Druid plus the tank in this group. The dragon is Spike. He is our fire starter and area of effect damage dealer. Stygian is our night walker and recon specialist and I’m the leader, strategist, Mason…. and a human.”

Soarin looking at them with wonder asked, “What’s my specialty?”
Mason replied, “That honestly depends on you. But after I’m done training you. You will be skilled in everything these three are.”
Soarin happily said, “Cool so what’s my training schedule look like?”
Mason replied, “Not now we need to rest and then get on the train so we can get the fuck out of dodge. The Storm King probably already discovered I’m in Los Pegasus. So, we will leave before he has time to search for us.”

Soarin asked, “You said 6 guys Mason, who's the sixth guy?”
Mason smiled and replied, “If he is where I think he is we should meet him on the train ride to the Griffin Kingdom.”
Soarin and the rest of the group, surprised at the same time, said, “Who is he?”
Mason with his index finger on his lips replied, “That is a secret my well-versed group of guys!”

Spike looking at Soarin said, "Don't think anything of it. Mason doesn't tell us most of the plan either."
Big Mac said, "Yep and welcome to the team Soarin. I hope we grow as brothers on this adventure."
Stygian looked at Soarin with a smirk and said, "As brothers we need to understand one another and enjoy all our strengths and weaknesses."
Soarin happily replied, "I always wanted brothers and you guys are pretty cool and I hope we can enjoy this adventure."
Mason laughing said, "Alright you guys lets head off to bed. We have a light day tomorrow, but we need to wake up early to board the train before Storm King realizes we left."
Soarin enthusiastically sarcastic replied, "Aye Aye Captain!"

Author's Note

Hey, Its Back this chapter was done because I finally found who are the last two to enter the group and these guys are special because of their genetics.