Bright Haze: The Sky Dwellers

We were stood at the ruined gates of Canterlot and we all were now in armour and held spears and crossbows, saddles were packed with food and water and we were ready to go.

"Hey you guys ready for this?" I heard Twilight ask.

"Once more into danger." Heart Breaker replied, my memories were still blurred and I had a splitting headache. I must have done some sort of face or indicated I was in pain because I felt Rainbow Dash hug me softly.

"What was that for?" I asked, she smiled and winked at me.

"Just seemed hurt." She said seriously.

"My head hurts like shit." I admitted.

"Ah its okay. You will be fine soon." She replied, then I heard a shout from somewhere above.

"Rainbow!" A voice shouted, everypony stopped to look. The call got louder and closer, then I spotted a dark blue Pegasus much like myself flying toward use.

"Rainbow!" He shouted and got close enough to land, and did. He was dark blue, a slightly different shade to me and had shorter wings as well, he had tough looking hooves rather than the squishy things I had, his cutie mark was Ying and Yang and the Pegasus had brown coloured hair with two black strips just barely visible. He had sorrow in his eyes and fear, something was up.

"Spectra?" Rainbow asked, so she knew who this pony was. Rainbow looked confused and bewildered, obviously this particular pony wasn't where he should be. "I thought you were in Cloudsdale?" She asked.

"I was." Spectra replied, panting, completely out of breath. "But the city, it is under attack, by, golden armoured ponies, they are swarming the place!" He cried, Rainbow Dash had a blind moment where she processed what he said then jumped.

"What do you mean? Attacked?" She asked.

"These Pegasus, flow in and just started to slaughter everypony, soldier or filly. Hundreds are dead and many who tried to escape were shot down, luckily I managed to escape through the old valve in the factory." He replied.

"That is still open? If it is I am closing it myself, burning every last piece." Rainbow said with pure hatred.

"No it closed almost a month ago, wouldn't tell from the state of the place, completely falling apart."

"Good." Rainbow said with no pause what so ever.

"What are you going to do?" Spectra asked, Rainbow thought then Spectra noticed everypony else.

"Hello, I am Spectra Speed, some of you I already know." He said, sadness in his voice.

"I am Bright Haze, Element of Sacrifice and friend of Rainbow Dash and everyone present." I replied, then everypony else introduced themselves, Spectra was surprised we had a serpent on our side and nearly flow away to the hills when the knife started to talk.

"My name is Nick, nice to meet you." Nick said, putting an arm out to hoof shake. Spectra hesitated.

"I might cut myself, sorry Nick." He replied.

"Don't worry about it, will you be joining us or going to bugger off?" Nick said, Rainbow coughed to hint for the knife to shut up, who did.

"Yeah, if I am allowed." He replied then looked to Rainbow who pointed at me.

"The more the merrier." I said, only then realising that was the worst choice of words possible. Rainbow indicated she wanted me and wondered off. "Er, go put on some armour Spectra, I will be right back, Heart Breaker, Nick, with me." I said.

"So what's up with Spectra?" Heart Breaker asked, Rainbow Dash checked no pony else was around.

"He watched his family die at a young age and was living rough in Manehatten for years alone before he came to Ponyville and I let him crash in my place, he went to Cloudsdale to be a weather pony there but I never heard any more since then from him, until now." Rainbow replied.

"Ah, I see now, so what is the plan?" Nick asked. We were all silent.

"Do we ever have a plan?" Heart Breaker asked.

"Not with dealing with the threat of war, no, but what do we do, go to Cloudsdale and risk losing the kings location or leave it and risk Equestria being destroyed whilst we are gone?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"We can't risk the Sky Dwellers taking Cloudsdale but a defence would take too long. We have no choice, we either go and doom us all or stay and give the Dwellers more time to prepare their main army." I said.

"We could vote, who wants to go?" Nick asked, then raised his hand, nopony else did.

"We need to think of solutions to this, we can't stay and we can't go." Heart Breaker said.

"Unless we split up. There are easily eleven of us now, six stay, five go. Simple. The less amount of people we have infiltrating the Dweller city means we won't be found as easy, I opt I take all the Pegasi, so Rainbow, mysself, Fluttershy, Aeb and Heart Breaker, to go to the city, and the others to go to Cloudsdale and defend Equestria here." I suggested.

"No, Take Nick and Twilight, myself and Fluttershy will stay here, you may need Nick in the Dwellen lands to scout around in his small size, and Twilight will help Heart Breaker be able to walk on the clouds when the time comes and can also help you defend yourself against the king with magic." Rainbow said.

"Okay then, so us five shall go into the Sky Dweller lands and defeat this king bastard whilst you six stay here and defend Cloudsdale and the surrounding area, seems like a plan. We all ready to go back and then split up?" Nick asked.

Everypony nodded.

"Wait, what about Spectra?" I asked quickly.

"Ah, Twilight can cast Heart Breakers cloud spell now and Spectra can go with you guys, be nice." Rainbow replied looking at me and Nick.

"Wouldn't dream of being mean, lets go." I replied and we wondered off to gather our two groups.