rise of a star

Hey readers. the real plan behind my fanfic will only be revealed in the fifth or fourth. So please don’t comment bad stuff about it.
Chapter 3: the plan:
“Ok here is the plan.” Darkwing said pointing at the map. “This red pawn over here is me. The Blue one is Silver. The yellow one is Vision. The green one is Twillight and the black one is Robin.” He explained.
“Wait, hold on a second. Why are you the red pawn?” Silver interrupted .
“Because, I’m the one who invented the plan.” Darkwing replied.
“Hey, I gave you the idea. And red is my favorite color.” Silver protested.
“What are you going to do about it?” Darkwing said.
Silver smiled.“Is that a challenge?”
I saw what was happening and started to laugh within.
“Generals, stop it. We don’t have time for this nonsense.” Celestia said looking angry at her generals.
“Of all the generals I have it has to be those two.” She thought.
“Ok let me start again.” Darkwing said looking at the map again. “As you can see the red pawn over here is me.” He said.
Silver growled quietly.
Darkwing continued.” We don’t have enough men for a frontal attack and we have too many men for an infiltration or a teleportation spell.” He explained.” So we are going with the 5 of us through the crystal caves under the Canterlot palace.”

“I’ve got a few questions.” I interrupted.
“Fire ahead” Darkwing said
“First of all why isn’t Celestia or Spike coming with us?” I asked.
“Celestia needs to command the men we have should we not return. And for Spike, they need him here if they want to send letters to the castle.” He explained.

“Ok but isn’t Chysalis going to expect us coming through the caves?” I asked
“she probably is but we have no better plan, so we have to be extremely careful.” Darkwing replied
“Ok, continue.”

“Finally, so let me start again. We five are going through the Canterlot caves. Since Twilight has already been in there so she will be the one to lead.
Once we’re there we need to make sure we don’t get seen by the Changelings, Should it happen that they see us, we’ll have to take them down before they can warn the others.”

We all nodded agreeing.
Darkwing continued : “The caves will bring us here.” He said pointing at the map.”It will bring us near the castle. There are two prisons in Canterlot. The main one where the Changelings probably brought all the captured guards to. And the one under the castle where the friends of Twillight are. When we get out the caves, we need to split up.
Silver and I are going to the main prison. Robin, Twillight and Clear Vision are going to the Castle prison and free Twilight’s friends. If we succeed we’ll rendezvous at the cave entrance. Should anyone get captured, you leave them behind.
It’s too risky to get yourself captured as well. Any questions? No? Good, everyone prepare and meet back in 30.” Darkwing ended.
Me, Twillight and Clear Vision left the tent.
“Robin, I’m going to tell Spike what’s going to happen. You might want to prepare.” Twillight said.
I saw her walking away. “Wow she looks even cuter then in the cartoons.” I thought.
“Oh no, I know what you are thinking.” I heard a sudden voice behind me.
“Don’t do it too early. You’re not a pony remember.” I turned around and saw Clear Vision smiling at me.
“How did you know?” I asked.
“I don’t need to look in the future to read your mind.” He said smiling. “There is one thing I don’t understand about you though. You’ve barely arrived in this world and you are already willing to risk your life for it.”
I started to smile at him. “it’s actually really simple. In my world, we humans aren’t always as friendly as you ponies.
Just like in this world, the world is separated in countries, each ruled by one or more human. But unlike Celestia, some of the rulers of my world are corrupted. Some start wars for land and kill people just to crush every rebellion.
And because of all these wars our world is getting “sick”. If we want to cure our world we need to stop every war and try to live better. But the leaders don’t want to listen. I already gave my hope up for my world. But then I saw this world in a cartoon.”
Vision looked at me with a confused face.
“cartoons are like moving images. It’s hard to explain.” I explained.
He nodded.
“So I kept on watching every adventure about Twilight and her friends. And every time I watched I started to wonder how it would be to actually live there. I already gave up the hope in my world. But here, here I will fight to the end.” I said proud.
Vision smiled: “You are a good person Robin, but there remains only one problem. You can’t fight, can you?”
“erm… I know how to swing a sword, but never learned anything.”
“We still have like 25 minutes, I think I can show you some moves, so that you will have a bigger chance of surviving this mission.” He said smiling and walking towards an open field.
It’s very dark, though the burning torches light up the area. Even though everything is mostly visible, it still remains a creepy place.

“Here catch.” Clear vision said throwing a sword at me.
I tried to catch it but the sword slipped through my hands.
“Damnit,” I cursed.

Clear Vision started to laugh. “there’s still a lot you have to learn.”
I picked up the sword. It’s a lot heavier than it looks like.
“Now, try to hit me.” Vision said.

I nodded and charged towards him.
I swung my sword. Of course I didn’t give it my all because I didn’t want to hurt him.
Clear Vision dodged the attack, he swung his sword against mine and in one flowing move he disarmed me.
My sword flew away a few feet and I stood there in shock looking at the laughing Stallion.
“A good tip, don’t give the enemy a chance of disarming you. Without your weapon, you’re nothing.” He said. “Let’s try this again, shall we?”.

I nodded, I still couldn’t believe a pony could be so handy with a sword, and be so fast. I took up the sword and turned to Vision.

I charged towards him. Clear Vision started to laugh. “I thought humans were supposed to learn.” He placed himself in the same position as the previous time.
A smile appeared on my face, as I kept on charging I let my sword slide over the ground. Sparks were made as slid the sword. I started to lower myself.
Vision realized what my plan was, yet a little bit too late. I stopped running and swung the sword upward at the same time as I stood up. My sword clashed against his.
The power from the swing was to strong and before I knew it Vision was disarmed. I stood up with the sword in the air proud that I disarmed a knight.
Suddenly a hoof grabbed my sword and an elbow hit my face. I fell on my back and looked up. Vision looked down at me and smiled saying : “Nice move.”

“Did you really have to punch me in the face? You said your opponent is nothing without his weapon.”
“Correction, I said you were nothing without a weapon.” He corrected.
I looked at him with narrowed eyes.
“And yes I had to punch you in the face, I don’t like to lose.”

“Well screw you, I just disarmed a knight.” I said very proud.
“Best out of three?” Vision said challenging me.
“You’re on.” I said with a smile.
A few minutes later.
I easily dodged Vision’s attack, I swung my sword trying to disarm him, but I failed and got a hoof in my face again. (seriously that hurts, he really loves to hit me in the face doesn’t he?). I fell on the ground and dropped my sword.

“That’s 15-1. You only had beginners luck.” He said laughing.
“hey it’s 15-2” I said angry.
“That one didn’t count, I slipped over a rock.” He argued.
“Hey I’ve never fought with a sword before and I already defeated you twice, I’m still proud of that.” I said smiling.

“Like I said, the first one was beginners luck and like I also said, the second one I stumbled over a rock.”
“Another match to prove it?”
“You’re on.” He said.
“There you two are.” A female voice said coming from behind me.
I turned around and saw Twilight standing with Spike on her back.
“Hey Twillight, hi Spike.” I said
“Hi” Spike replied.

“Hey Robin, you two need to come to the camp, we are about to depart.” She explained.
I sighed and stood up. I turned my head to Vision “Next time I will beat you.”
“Trust me you won’t” He answered smiling.
We followed Twillight back to the camp.
When we arrived we saw General Darkwing, general Silverlight and Celestia waiting for us.
“There you are, you’re late.” Dark wing said looking angry at us.
“Sorry, we were practicing.” I apologized.

“Here’s your equipment. Now put it on and we will leave.” He ordered.
We didn’t hesitate and took our gear. I only had an iron sword, a helmet and a backpack filled with some apples.
“Yeah we don’t have armor made for your kind. But the helmet fits perfect, sorta”. Silver explained.
The helmet fitted but still didn’t feel so right, but it was good enough.
“I’m ready.” I said.
“Same here.” Twilight said coming from behind me.
Seeing her with armor equipped was kinda funny.
“So how do I look?” she asked me.

“Euh… really nice.” I said with a forced, nervous smile. I lied, she actually looked ridiculous in that armor, especially because she’s a librarian but I couldn’t tell her the truth, she would probably hate me.
“Thanks.”

Darkwing coughed loud for attention. I turned around and focused my attention on him. Vision ,who was still wearing the same armor and weapons as before, now stood next to me.
“Ok team. I will be the leader, if I’m gone, Silver is in charge. We are going to depart. Celestia will teleport us close to the cave entrance.” Darkwing shouted.
He turned his face to Celestia.
Celestia nodded and said: “Good luck to all of you, the fate of Equestria lies in your hoofs.”
I coughed a little.
Celestia looked at me and sighed quiet “and hands…, good luck to all of you.”
I smiled.
Me, Dark, Twillight, Vision and Silver stood closer to each other and looked how Celestia was preparing her spell.

I turned my head and saw Twillight waving to Spike who was standing further behind.
Celestia finished her spell and we disappeared in a bright flash.

It took a while before my eyes could get used to the darkness. We were still in a forest, but not as dark and creepy as the Everfree forest we were in before. The trees weren’t so close to each other and I didn’t have the feeling something could attack me any moment.
I saw Canterlot a few miles away from us . I looked around and saw everypony still standing in the same formation.
“Everypony still in one piece?” Silver asked.
“Good, then let’s have a move on it, we don’t have the whole day.” Silver commanded.

We all nodded and started to walk towards Canterlot.
Clear Vision and Darkwing were walking a little ahead of us. On my left side there was Twillight and
on my right was Silverlight both quietly walking.
I was getting a little bored so I tried to start a talk.
“Silver?”
“Yeah?”
“How exactly did you get your general rank?
“Well I don’t have it that long. When the changelings first attacked, me and Darkwing were on guard duty in the castle. We heard the fight from the princes Celestia and Chysalis.
Me and Dark directly ran to the wedding room. We saw Twillight and her friends running out of the room to the streets.”

“That were you and Darkwing?” Twillight interrupted.
Silver nodded “when we entered the room we saw everypony in shock and princess Celestia was lying weakened on the ground.
Then we saw queen Chysalis for the first time. We charged to her but we stopped because of some kind of earthquake. We noticed that the protection shield was broken and thousands of changelings were now entering the streets.”
BAM! Everypony stopped walking and looked at me.
I was so focused on the story that I just walked against a tree.
“Seriously, WHO’S IDEA WAS IT TO PLANT A TREE HERE!” I yelled
Everypony started to laugh out loud.
I got back on my feet. A few moments later the laughing stopped and we were walking again.
“Sorry for that. Please continue Silver.”
Silver resumed his story.”Me and Darkwing noticed that the protection shield was broken and thousands of changelings were now entering the streets.
Everypony in the room except me and Darkwing ran out of the room all in panic. Celestia was still hurt on the ground. We knew we had to do whatever we could do to protect her. Dozens of changelings flew through the windows.
Darkwing and I started to fight. But they were with too much, we defeated some of them but we got overrunned. They threw us in the prison of Canterlot. After the fight was won thanks to Captain Shining armor and princess Cadence we were freed.
The princess thanked us for our bravery for trying to safe her and promoted us both to generals.” Silver said ending his story.
“So you just became generals for trying to safe Celestia?” I asked.
“Hey, me and Dark fought of dozens of changelings at the same time, you should have seen it, it was awesome.” He bragged.
I heard Twilight sob behind me.
“Twillight, what’s wrong?” I asked.
“Sorry, the story just reminded me that my brother and my sister-in-law are still somewhere far away in a place we don’t even know where.” Twillight said really sad.

“Sorry, Twillight I didn’t want to remind you.” Silver apologized.
“It’s not your fault.” She said still sad.
“Twillight, remember what I said in the camp, I will do everything to get all your friends safe, including your brother.” I said.
“Why?” she asked.

I looked confused at her.
“Why do you want to do so much for me? I mean we just met, you are from another world and you come here risking your life, trying to help everypony.” She said.
Sigh, here we go again.
And again an explanation about how I gave up my hope in my world etc…
“…and that is why.” I finished my story.
“So this world was just some sort of show for kids?” she asked.
“Yep.” I answered shortly.
“Wow, that’s just weird.” She admitted.
“Hey, you’re a librarian in a knight armor. Isn’t that weird?” I asked.
“You’re a human with a pony helmet.” She teased.
“True.”
We both laughed a little
Everypony was quiet again and continued walking.
A few moments later.
“Here it is.” Darkwing said.
In front of us was a dark cave entrance.
“Let’s go.” Silver commanded.
All five of us entered the cave.
There was only one path we could follow.
The deeper we went the darker it got. Silver and Dark both lit a torch. Silver walked behind the group and Dark took the lead.
After ten minutes of walking, the cave started to widen and more paths were shown. The first crystals were now visible. The light of torch reflected in the crystals and lighted up double as much as it did before.
“Lady Twillight, from here we need to follow you.” Darkwing said.
Twillight nodded and took the lead.
She took the torch from Darkwing and levitated it in front of her.
She wasn’t sure where to go.
“I think it’s this way.” She said.
We followed her through one of the paths.

We were wandering around for half an hour.
“Twillight, are you sure this is the right way.” I asked.
“I’m not sure, everything here looks the same.” She answered.
15 minutes of more wandering later.
We arrived in some sort of small room, with eight paths around us.

“Which way is it Twillight?” Silver asked.
“I don’t know, I’ve never been here before.” She answered.
“So you don’t know where we have to go!?” Darkwing yelled.
Twillight nodded in agreement.

“We are lost?!” Darkwing shouted in anger.
“Easy Darkwing, she does the best she can.” Clear Vision said trying to calm down Darkwing.
“And where has that brought us now?” He yelled louder than ever.

I started to think. “How do they do this in a movie? I started to think about the movie “The Descent”. Seriously that movie scared the shit out of me but WAIT I GOT IT.” I thought.
“I think I know a solution!” I yelled in happiness. Everypony looked at me.
“Twillight, could I have that torch please.” I asked. She nodded and levitated the torch to me.
I took the torch and walked to the nearest path and held the torch in front of it. I was looking focused to the fire but nothing happened.
I did the same with the next one, then the next one, but nothing seemed to happen.
At the fifth path I hold the torch in front of it and the flame started to bow and burn to the path.
“It’s this way.” I said happy.
Everypony looked relieved and followed the path.
“How does that trick work?” Twillight asked.

“Fire always burns to where most air is. In a cave that is most likely an exit.” I explained.
“I see. Stupid that I didn’t thought of that.” She facehoofed.
“Well you can’t be an egghead all the time.” I said teasing.
She started to laugh.
Twenty minutes later.
“There, I can see the exit!” Clear Vision shouted.
“Great, then we can finally escape this dungeon.” I said happy.
We were walking to the exit when suddenly Darkwing yelled.
“Everypony hide!”
We didn’t hesitate and hid ourselves behind some walls and rocks.
“Darkwing what’s wrong?” I whispered.
He put his hoof on his mouth to sign that I should be quiet and then pointed to the exit.
I looked with narrowed eyes to the exit and saw five black figures standing. “Yeah, I knew it was too easy.” I thought.
I looked around and saw everyone thinking.
Suddenly Clear Vision took a stone and threw it to the other side of the cave. A loud thump was echoing in the cave. The changelings from the exit heard the sound and moved to investigate.
“Ok, they’re gone, but they’ll be back. We need a plan.” Vision said.
“Let’s make an ambush over there.” Silver pointed to a higher laid reef above the cave where the Changelings went in.
we nodded and moved us to the position.
When we were on the spot Darkwing started to explain. “This is the plan. When the Changelings come back we just jump on them. Not harder than that.”
We nodded and waited focused.
5 minutes later.
We heard hoof steps coming from the cave. We prepared ourselves. I unsheathed my sword and hold it steady in my right hand.
The footsteps became louder as I got more afraid. My hand started to tremble.
The first Changelings appeared out of the cave.
Darkwing put his hoof in the air for signing us to wait.
“Come on, come on, COME ON.” I thought.
The changelings were now fully visible.
Darkwing lowered his hoof and shouted “NOW!”.
All five of us jumped on the same moment. The changelings turned around but it was too late for them. Darkwing and Silver putted their swords in their changeling. Clear Vision and Twillight both shot theirs down with a magical beam and turned them to dust.
I landed on my changeling knocking it to the ground. But he rolled and I fell on the ground. I tried to get up and looked at the changeling. He was now charging with his horn pointed at me.
Before he could hit me, I rolled to the left and let my right leg lie. He stumbled over my leg and fell infront of Darkwing’s hoofs. Darkwing looked at him and then stabbed him with his sword turning the changeling into dust.
I finally got up and looked around. Everypony was recovering from the small fight.
“Robin, are you alright?” Twillight asked.
“I think so.”I answered. I looked at my pants and saw my left leg was torn.
“Goddamnit !” I shouted.

“What’s wrong?” Twillight asked.
“There’s a freaking hole in my pants!”
“So what? Did you like that pants to much?” she asked.
“No, but it’s the only one I have here in Equestria.”
“Why don’t you go naked?”

“WHAT?! I can’t go naked!” I yelled.
“Why not? Everypony else does it.”
“Euhm… it’s kind of a humans thing…” I explained.
“Ok, when this mission is done. Rarity can probably fix it.”
I sighed and turned to the others. They were all laughing at me?
“What’s so funny?” I asked
“No..haha … nothing…haha…” Darkwing said.
I turned to Silverlight.
“What did he say?” I asked him with narrowed eyes.
“Well… haha…Darkwing said you…ha… are scared to take of your pants,…haha…. because you’re scared we maybe saw something..HAHAHAHAHA…” Silverlight laughed.
“Seriously, fuck you guys” I cursed.
They just kept on laughing.
“Guys, can you please stop. My friends are still in danger.” Twillight asked.
They stopped laughing and walked to the exit.
I walked outside the cave and saw that it was still night. That is good because we only have to sunrise before the execution begins.
“Ok guys, from here on we are going to split up.” Darkwing said.
“Silver and I are going that way to the main prison. You three must find your own way inside the castle. We will meet each other again before sunrise. And if anypony gets caught don’t, I repeat DON’T try to safe him. Is that clear?”
“Yes sir.” We said.
Me, Twillight and Clear Vision ran towards the castle. I looked behind me and saw Silver and Darkwing running the other way towards the city.”I really hope everything goes well.”
Hope you liked it :D, I know this doesn’t explain what my real plan is and it probably don’t bring the Gary Stu ratio down. But I will try to get it a little more down. I pinkie promise.
Don’t forget to R&R. If you like the story like it is now please tell me :D. And I kind of want to get some more characters in the fic so if you have any ideas don’t hesitate and send me :D.