Blood Brothers

"It's about a three week walk from here." Gold told his team. "Two, if we don't stop for the nights." They were standing at the edge of a thick jungle, to dense to drive through. The files they had said the main base was in this jungle. "Are you three sure your up for it?"

"If that's where AppleJack is then it's eeyup." Big Mac answered with determination on his face. He was going to get his daughter back no matter what.

"You sure they're here?" Shinning asked, glaring in to the jungle.

"Yes, it only makes sense that when a threat arises that they'll move a prisoner as valuable as a princess to their main base." Gold told Shinning.

"What 'bout AppleJack?" Big Mac asked.

"You said she is the Element of Honesty, correct. She is also a value to them." Sparky reassured Big Mac.

"Makes sense."

"Armor, you got the map?" Gold asked.

"Right here." Shinning said, pulling out the map.

"Good. Everypony's guns loaded?" With that question they all checked their weapons and started their long trek through the jungle.

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The walk was long and tedious. They stopped only a few of the nights to sleep. The wild life keep their distance, except for one tiger who thought ponies would make a good meal. Gold put it down quick. It wasn't for nothing though, after a little over two weeks they had a clear view of the base from a cliff they were on.

"Ha Ha! Gold ya're not crazy after all, thur's the base right thur. We made it." Big mac celebrated.

"Don't get excited just yet, old timer. We still have to get in and out alive." Sparky said, then looked at Gold, "What's the plan?"

Gold took about four hours to think of a plan, "A sniper would be worthless with this kind of base, so Sparky you'll be with us on the ground."

"Ok, I can handle that." Sparky said with pride as he pulled out an assault rifle.

Gold explained the rest of the plan. "The prison is heavily secure, so we get to the power station and shut it down. After that we make our way to the prison, get the girls out, and leave." He had them recap it back to him. "This is the final stand, we either get the girls out of there or die trying. Blood Brothers are you ready?"

"Yes." Sparky said, a flash of yellow moved over his eyes. The mark of a Blood Brother, corresponding with they eye color of the brother.

"As ready as I'll ever be." Shinning said as a flash of blue moved over his eyes as well.

"Eeyup." Big Mac said, even his eyes had the green flash move over them.

Gold knew from seeing those flashes on their eyes, he had made the right choice of a team. he turned and faced the base as a flash of red moved over his good eye, even though his eyes are a heavy blue.

This base didn't have a wall, so they snuck around as close to the power station as possible. They went through the base with stealth. They got in the power station, and got a surprise.

"It's empty, there's nothing here," Sparky said.

Click

"The door locked, Mac buck it down!" Gold shouted. Big Mac bucked at the door, but it wouldn't budge. The room was slowly filling up with gas, "Everypony hold your breath!" It was to late, Shinning fell, eyes closed. Big Mac collapsed, Sparky, who was flying, fell to the ground. Gold felt his eye lids getting heavy.

"Sleep Gold. You need to sleep." A metallic voice said over the intercom. "Sleep."

Gold knew that voice to well. Anger flowed through him as he fell asleep.

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Gold woke up in a sack, tied up with a gag in his mouth, not daring to move, he listen to three voices arguing. He recognised two of the voices.

"Well what if it's somepony they ponynapped?" A mare's voice asked.

"We can't risk letting out some crazy creature out and have it kill us." A regal stallion's voice protested.

"Ya to selfish, ah'll open it." A mare with a southern drawl said.

"Fine, If you two are so ken on opening it. then I'll do it. Best if I get hurt then you." The stallion said as the sack opened, "Oh great, It's you Gold." Gold was staring at his cousin. BlueBlood pulled him out and untied him.

"Thanks," Gold said.

"Gold?" Cadence asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Saving you," Gold answered.

"Good job. I take it Sparky is in one of the other three bags," BlueBlood said, pointing at three other sacks.

"Most likely they through the rest of my team in here," Gold said, walking over to the bags. he looked at the other mare, "Applejack, I presume?"

"Yeah. How'd ya know that?" She asked.

"A certain farmer told me. He should be in this one." Gold said as he opened one of the sacks and pulled out the large red stalliom.

"Pa! What's he doin' here?" AppleJack asked rushing to her father, "What's wrong with him?"

"He came with us to save you. We were gased, he just unconscious." Gold said. pulling Shinning out of the another sack.

"Shinning Armor!" Cadence said, running to her husbands side, "Thank heavens he's ok." She was checking his wounds.

Gold walked to the last sack. It started to squirm and electricity was jumping from it. Gold kicked the sack, "Sparky calm down and hold still." He pulled Sparky out of the sack.

"Great. Fucking great, we're captured." Sparky ranted, "BlueBlood? Gold you never said he was captured."

"I didn't? Oops. Sparky you mind waking up Big Mac and Armor." Gold asked.

"Sure thing." Sparky walked over to Big Mac and rubbed his hoofs together, then shocked him.

"Owww! What was that fur?" Big Mac asked angrily. He turned his head, "AppleJack!" He got up and hugged his daughter, "AppleJack, thank Celestia ya're ok." Tears were running down their faces.

Sparky shocked Shinning, "Ow! what's wrong with y-, Cadence!" He hugged his wife.

"Shinning are you crying?" She asked.

"No, it's liquid pride."

"So, Gold how are we getting out of here?" Sparky asked.

"No idea," Gold said.

"Great," BlueBlood said.

"Pardon me, but who are ya'll?" AppleJack asked pointing at Gold and Sparky.

"I'm Sparky, pleaser meeting you Miss Apple." Sparky said kinda flirty, receiving a glare from Big Mac causing AppleJack to plush.

"Name's Gold." Gold said.

"I don't get it." Shinning said.

"Don't get what," Cadence asked.

"The power station was a trap, which means they knew our plan that was made only a few minutes before. How would they know?"

Gold looked around the cell. It must be him. No other pony could have known that quickly. Which means he's still in my head. The walls are probably to thick to buck through. He thought. The bars have a magical field around them. "Do you still have magic?"

"No," BlueBlood answered, "We have no idea why."

"Unicorn blood, pegsus feathers, and dragon spit." Sparky said.

"What?" Shinning asked.

"A potion, put it on a horn and the unicorn can't use magic. I guess sense your a mortal alicorn it works on you too Cadence." Sparky explained.

"Is there a cure?" BlueBlood asked.

"Yes, blood straight from the heart of an earth pony. So, in less one of you three is willing to donate, no magic." Sparky said.

Damn, we have no magic. Gold thought, How could he be alive, I killed him years ago. How?

"Gold, ya alright? Ya look like yar gonna pass out." Big Mac said.

"Yeah, I'm fine. just thinking." Gold said.

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It has been three weeks sense their capture. They hardly talked. Food was brought to them, it was pears. Probably to mess with the Apples. Gold thought.

"Hey, demon horse." The guard said. "You look mad. You gonna kill us?"

"Nah, with his anger problems, he'll probably kill everypony in that cell," the other guard said.

"Watch it alicorn, he's got a rep for killin' your kind."

"No not for alicorns, its ponies he cares for. He'll stab all of you in the back." They laugh.

Gold had his back to them. He closed his eyes and tried to control him self. When he opened them his good eye was red and blood shot. He was more enraged know, A red aura formed around him. he turned and the bars shot out and bent around the two guards. He put his hoof on their heads and smashed them against the floor.

He turned towards the others, "Get out. I'll catch up to you later."

"And where are you going?" Sparky asked.

"Somepony is here and I need to see him."

Sparky looked at Gold for a moment, "Ok, good luck bro. You sure you know what your doing?"

"You too. And yes I know what I'm doing." And with that Gold ran down the hall and through a door.

Sparky looked at the two guards, one was an earth pony. He pulled a knife off one and started to gut the pony.

"What are you doing?" Cadence asked, gagging.

"We aren't getting out of here without magic," Sparky answered as he pulled out the heart. he walked up to BlueBlood and let some blood drip on to his horn. He repeated this for Cadence and Shinning. "You should have a small amount of magic now. If we live, it will be a few days tell you're back to full strength." He took the two guns and tossed them to Big Mac and AppleJack. He took the knife and gave one to BlueBlood, knowing that he couldn't cast a weapon spell. "Shinning, Cadence can you cast weapon spells?"

"Yeah," Shinning said as a magical spiked shield appeared.

"Sure," Cadence said as two magical short swords appeared.

"Good. Get ready for a fight. If you kill somepony take their gun." Sparky ordered.

"We're going to have to kill." BlueBlood asked, shaking.

"Yes."

The six of them were at the prisons front door, "Ready?" Sparky asked. They all nodded. Sparky opened the door and the fight began.

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Gold sprinted down the main building's hallways. Guard tried to stop him, only to find them selfs bleeding on the ground. He made one stop to the armory, were he picked up his katana and Sparky's hooflets. Gold followed his instincts. He came up to a door and he knew who, no what was behind it. He smashed through it.

"Scarlet Dagger, what a pleaser it is to see you again." A dull yellow unicorn said with his back turned to Gold. His mane was black. He had no front legs, in their place were wires, four large wire sticking out of each side of his body. The wires were plugged in to the wall.

"How are you alive?" Gold demanded an answer.

"I live now because I can. The question is not how I live, it is why I live. Is it not?"

"What's your game, Solid Shadow?"

"Game? Who am I to you. I don't play games," Solid Shadow said as the wires unplugged and retracted, leaving only a few feet of them sticking out. His controlled like tentacles. He stood on his hind legs and walked to a coffee pot. "Would you like some?" He asked as he turned, revealing a pair of small cracked glassed. Behind those glasses were eyes Gold was far to familiar, eyes of hate, eyes of anger, eyes of pain, eyes of death, red and blood shot. "No, fine, more for me." He took a drink of his coffee, "Blah, I always forget the cream." He looked at Gold a saw his eyes. "Why do you choose to hind you gift? Why don't you embrace it?"

"Because I'm not a sick bastard like you!"

"But you're powerful. You seamed to greatly accept them on your wedding day. My invitation was probably lost in the mail. Right?"

Gold remand quiet.

"Quite a battle scar you got there. But I think I win on that front." he said, gesturing to the wires. "What brings you here, anyway. Is this just a rescue mission, or is it a search and destroy?"

"Both. By the way, Scarlet Dagger is dead, I'm just Gold now."

"Well then. If its a fight want, 'Gold' then its a fight you'll get," He said, "Prepare to die, brother."

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"Get the tanks and the choppers," a guard said as a bullet went through his head.

The team was fighting there way out of the base. Helicopters took off and tanks started up.

"We need to get the choppers out off the sky!" Sparky shouted over the gun fire.

AppleJack was knocked to the ground, her gun slid away. Three guard loomed over her. Big Mac killed the three as a tank barreled its way towards them. Big Mac bucked and sent it flying into a chopper, causing a big explosion.

"Holy shit Big Mac," Sparky shouted.

BlueBood and Shinning were back to back, shooting any thing that came close. Cadence was flying low, taking out guards in her way. They slowly made their way to the jungle. When they got there they used it for cover to run. Sparky smelled smoke and looked behind them. He saw fire. He looked up and saw helicopters shooting flamethrowers.

"They're trying to kill us with fire," Sparky shouted as a burning tree fell in front of him and AppleJack, "Run we'll catch up."

They ran to their right. the smoke was getting heavy. AppleJack was feeling light headed. They meet back up with the others after a few miles. They hid in a cave. It worked the choppers couldn't find them.

"Ok, we wait here tell it clears up," Sparky said.

"What 'bout Gold?" Big Mac asked.

"He'll be fine, he knows what he's doing. I hope."

As they stood there AppleJack fell over. "Jackie!" Big Mac shouted and went to his daughter. Her eyes were closed. Big Mac checked her plus, "She got no plus!" He started CPR. After two minutes of nothing tears streamed down Big Mac's face.

Shinning put his hoof on Big Mac's shoulder, "I'm sorry Big Mac. She's gone."

"Nope, Nope! Ah didn't come this far ta loose her now." He kept trying Shinning and BlueBlood pulled him away from her. He fought back, but he didn't have enough energy to stop them.

Sparky looked at AppleJack's body, "I might be able to save her."

"Do it!"

"It might fry her though."

"Do it! Fucking DO IT!"

Sparky put his hoof on AppleJacks chest and shocked. She shot up panting.

"Jackie!" Big Mac hugged her.

"What happened?" She asked.

"You died," Sparky said. "I restarted your heart with an electric shock."

"What?"

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Gold laid on the floor, he was in a puddle of his own blood.

"Gold you are pathetic," Solid Shadow said. He walked over to a control panel and pressed a button. "You should start running." He teleported away.

"Self destruct in two minutes," the computer said as Gold got up.

"Dammit." Gold sprinted out of the building. He ran past the destruction his team left. He ran into the burning jungle.

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They sat in the back of the cave. It was night. Sparky heard a sound he grabbed a gun.

"Hold your fire, Sparky," Gold said.

"Gold. HAHAHAHAHA! You crazy bucking shit head," Sparky said.

"Gold good to see you made. I was worried I'd have to tell Auntie that her son died," BlueBlood said cause them all to laugh.

"Wait, What!?" AppleJack asked.

"Gold was adopted by Princess Celestia when he was five," Big Mac told her.

"Oh. Yeah ah think Twilight said somethin' 'bout you a few times."

"Well lets make our way back to Ponyville," Gold said.

        Then a loud explosion happened.

        "What the fuck was that?" Sparky yelled.

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They got off the train. The train station was empty.

"Where the hay is everypony?" AppleJack asked.

"Yo guys there's a fire in town," Sparky said from the sky.

"Let's go," Gold said.

They ran towards the fire.

"That's Twilights house," Shinning said. They fought their way to the front.

"The building to unstable, we can't send in anypony." The local fire-marshel said.

"But Twilight, Spike, and Nyx are still in there," a white unicorn mare with a purple curled mane said.

When Gold heard that he charged threw the crowd and shoved the fire-marshel out of his way. He busted through the door.

"Gold, What are you doing?" Sparky said.

"Crazy as ever cousin," BlueBlood said.

"Prince BlueBlood?" the white unicorn said.

Big Mac and AppleJack ran up.

"APPLEJACK!" said a pink pony as she jumped on to AppleJack.

"Pinkie Pie, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Rarity good to she ya'll. What's goin' on here." AppleJack asked.

"The library just lite up and Twilight, Spike, or Nyx haven't got out," a blue pegsus with a rainbow mane said.

"Dammit Gold. You just got out of the frying pan and went straight to the fire, literally," Sparky said as an owl landed on his head.

"Hoo," it said.

"My friend Gold. Wait a minute, no I'm not going to make myself look like an idiot arguing with an owl."

Gold was inside the library looking around put couldn't see through the smoke. He closed his eyes and opened them again, his good one was red and blood shot. He darted to the stairs, they broke under him, but he was still able to get up to the next floor. He busted into the bedroom where he saw three figures, an unconscious alicorn mare, a baby dragon, and a small alicorn filly. The alicorn mares was pinned under beam.

"Move," Gold said, putting him self under the beam and lifted. Once it was off the unicorn the dragon pulled her out. Gold lifted her onto his back. "Get on and hold your breath," he ordered the two. The four around them collapsed, leaving only one way out, the window. "Hold on," he said as he jumped through the window.

"Holy shit Gold you are crazy and Nightmare Moon is sitting on your back..." Sparky said staring at the filly.

The rest of the team and then some ran up. A doctor also ran up with nurses and a gurney. Gold put Twilight on to the gurney.

"You two alright?" Gold asked the dragon and the filly.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Hey your Gold, haven't seen you in awhile. Great time for you to be in Ponyville," Spike said.

"I'm fine, thanks," Nyx said.

"Umm, Gold your eye," Shinning pointed out.

"Oh." Gold shut it and reopened it making it look normal

"No seriously, this filly is Nightmare Moon. Am I the only one shocked by this?" Spark asked.

"Sparky remember the whole fiasco of Nightmare Moons second return?" Gold said.

"Yes."

"And how Celestia was 'punishing' her?"

"Ohhhhhh, now it makes sense. Uh, sorry kid."

"It's fine," she said.

"Well Gold you look like shit. You're cut up, bruised, burned, and I'm wandering about the hole in your leg."

"What?" Gold looked at his leg and saw a bullet hole in it, "Oh, shit."

"Ah think we all need a doc," Big Mac said gesturing to the cuts and bruises on everypony.

After a week of medical treatment, they were all let go. BlueBlood went back to Canterlot. Shinning and Cadence went back to the Crystal Empire. Big Mac and AppleJack reopened Sweet Apple Acres. Gold And Sparky stopped by the apartment Twilight got for her and her family while the library is big rebuilt.

"So let me get this straight, you got word of terrorist and recruited Shinning Armor when Cadence was ponynapped. Then in the bar in town you were idiots and didn't see the reflective surface behind you and flipped through pictures of prisoners and one of them was AppleJack, Big Mac saw and you recruited him. Then caught a spy. Broke into a base, it was a flop. Found the head base, got caught, found AppleJack, Cadence, and Prince BlueBlood. Busted out and out of luck got back in Ponyville as the library burned and saved us," Spike recaped.

"Yeah," Gold said.

"That sums it up," Sparky said.

"Wow," Nyx said,

"What do you two plan to do now?" Twilight asked.

"Probably gonna stay in Ponyville." Gold said,

"Really?"

"Yeah, its close, so is Celestia needs us, we're not far. And travel gets kinda boring once you've seen everything," Gold said.

"Well then. Welcome to Ponyville."

"The one town were Discord or Nightmare Moon can be your neighbor." Sparky said, "Now you could even live next door to a skilled assassin."