Daniel Book Four- Zebrica

"What do you mean an army!?" Daniel was no longer calm, neither were Ditzy or Gilda. CC seemed fine though, for some reason.

"Here's where we can put your training to the test Daniel!" CC said excitedly. She received a confused look.

"Uh CC, what training are you talking about?"

"Your training! The weeks of physical training for your mind and, oh wait a minute, we haven't even started yet, have we." CC face hoofed. None of them had any time for a reply, for a very large spider scuttled in.

"You all need to get out of here now, we have team Bravo holding off the first division of forces, we're here to get you out." The arachnid said calmly. Everybody nodded, save for Daniel, who wasn't where he was. Ditzy turned her head, and saw him hiding in a corner.

"Daniel come on! We got to get out of here!" Ditzy yelled. Daniel just shook his head.

"No thanks, no spiders for me. I am quite alright right here in the corner, the nice not arachnid corner." Daniel had lost it.

"For the love of Faust! Change your forms!" The spider yelled at his team, which then all flashed green, and changed into changelings. The leader changed as well.

"What? You were Changelings?" Daniel yelled.

"Of course we are! Now get your ass moving." The lead changeling said, as a loud crash sounded from somewhere nearby in the caves. His eyes glowed green for a few seconds, and then he let out an extremely frustrated groan. "Faust damn it, the exit's blocked off. Which one of you is the most powerful, we need your help to clear the path." Everybody in the room turned towards Daniel.

"I think that would be CC," Daniel said obliviously. CC face hoofed.

"I believe that if we work together, it might be a great help. We all know how to fight here," CC reported officially.

"Alright, then come with me." Another large crash. The team of Changelings started filing out, and the quest followed suit. Zeekial was nowhere to be found. Suddenly there was a large flash of light, and the next thing everybody knew, was that they were all on the ground, with many unfamiliar ponies wearing armor charging into the cave through a new hole in the wall.

Daniel shook himself out of the daze faster than what would have been thought possible. He quickly grabbed his sword as several of the armored ponies charged at him. Tenebrae showed up almost immediately, and Daniel felt a surge of power. He swung his sword at one of the soldiers, and the mare was blasted back a couple of feet. "Find the openings in their armor," Tenebrae said. Daniel nodded, and examined the mare that he had just hit. He saw an opening in between the helm and the neck guard, and he quickly lashed his sword out, effectively slicing through the pony's throat. Smiling sadistically, Daniel began to swing his sword about in an almost random fashion, but every swing hit home.

CC was next to get up. She quickly hopped up to her hooves, and began throwing punches and kicks. Grabbing onto a stallions head, she twisted quickly, and the resounding snap was drowned out by the sounds of a battle. She quickly assessed her situation, and found that they were all surrounded. She jumped into the air, and landed on a pony's head, sending them to the ground. She then bounced from head to head in her deadly dance of battles. When she again landed on the ground, she charged forward at a random enemy, and had her horn grow in size, effectively causing it to stab straight through the armor.

Ditzy slowly stood up, and grew into her alicorn form, and started sending out blasts of magic spells. The enemies around her fell one by one as she sent the missile like spells out of her horn. She cast a shield around her quickly as several ponies came at her from all sides, and as they ran into it they all bounced off, and received a serious headache. While they were dazed, Ditzy quickly took them down. She then started heating up several of the other soldiers armor, and effectively roasted them alive.

Last but not least, Gilda stood up. She quickly started flying above the ponies in the seemingly endless fight, and dived down, claws at the ready. She quickly began pounding on their helmets, but found that it didn't do much to them. Thinking quickly, she dived down at them once more, and began removing their helmets, and for extra measure, began dropping the helmets as they hit the heads of the enemy.

"Ah shit! Where the hell are they all coming from!?" Daniel yelled.

"Good question!" Ditzy replied sarcastically. "Maybe we can figure that out when we're done here!"

"Come on, we need to get out of here!" CC yelled. She blasted a few back through the hole that they were all coming through, and charged forward. The others followed in a similar fashion, and they were out of the cave.

And in a new one.

"Damn! How are we supposed to get out of here with so many of these ponies? There has to at least be a hundred!" Gilda yelled.

"One hundred and thirty, excluding the ones that have already been taken down. I can feel their emotions," CC called out.

"Make that a hundred and ten!" Daniel called out after blasting a shot of his spikes in all directions.

"Quit your bragging for a moment and focus, we need to get out of here!" CC yelled, she tried to cast a spell, but was hit with an attack that she quickly fought off. With the rate that the enemy ponies were piling in, they might as well be looking at three thousand instead of, "Three hundred more? What the heck is going on here! Shit! Daniel, Ditzy, I need you to cover me, I'll get us out of here, but I can't be distracted, and there is a lot more of this army than I thought, so I suggest you get your asses over here!"

Daniel and Ditzy acknowledged the request, and began fighting their way through the massive army that was smothering everything. Gilda, although not addressed, started making her way over as well. After what seemed like forever, they had made it to CC, and were all forming a protective circle over her, but the form+

ation was broken quickly. "Damn! Okay, everybody listen to me, Daniel, I need you to cast a forcefield, and a big one, around CC, stay inside it as well," Ditzy was interrupted by several of the soldiers coming at her, she made quick work of them as Daniel did what he was told. Ditzy quickly regained her train of thought, "Gilda, I need you to help me not let to many ponies try and break this barrier, can you do that?"

"Sure thing!" Gilda  called out, beginning to fly over to Ditzy, when the unexpected happened. One of the many below her stuck their spear up, just high enough, to hit Gilda in the belly. She went down, and fell onto the forcefield, Daniel quickly opened it to let her in, and closed it, barely breaking concentration with the help of Tenebrae. He also shoved Ditzy inside of the forcefield, and promptly fainted...

But Tenebrae did not. He quickly gained control of the body, and it swung slightly as a puppet, but the effect could be seen. Daniel's horn that he had grown out in the spur of the moment quickly receded, but the forcefield, grew. Daniel's hands now glowed an icy blue, as icy as his eyes. which were currently closed. "Change of plans Diane, start tending to Gilda immediately, Cartline, can you get us out of here yet?" Tenebrae asked out of Daniel. The voice was not Daniel's own, but a darker more sinister one.

"Yes, here we go, long distance teleport. nobody move an inch!" CC called out, and a bright flash exited her horn, and they were suddenly all in front of a large temple, where everybody collapsed, all save for Ditzy and Gilda, who was still awake, but just barely.