Equestria's Fiveby Primary213ChaptersDarkness over the skies of CanterlotRetaliation! The heart of the BeastThe threat lives no moreDarkness over the skies of CanterlotThe Changeling Army was swarming the royal city, causing destruction and taking hostages. The five ponies looked at each other, then Doctor Hooves looked up at Queen Chrysalis. "Hey! You! Up there! Stop this attack, or you will regret it!" He yelled at her. She looked to the left and right, then down to see him looking up at her. She just started laughing and sent some changelings down to them. "Bad choice." The Doctor said to himself. He then turned to the other ponies. "Ok team, this is what we do, they can change into us, but that doesn't mean we can't kick their asses. Rainbow, Daring Do, and Spitfire take to the skies and take down as many as you can. Leave some for me and Mare Do Well. We will handle the rest. Got it?" He said the four. They all saluted him, and the three pegusai took off and engaged some of the Changelings. As the Doctor predicted, some of the Changelings continued towed the Doctor and Mare Do Well. "What do we do?" She asked the Doctor. He turned and looked at her. "I'll buck the one coming toward me, you take care of the other three as you wish." He replied. She looked up and ran over to a food stall and jumped onto the shade and bounced off really hard and flew toward the Changelings. She hit one with her front left hoof and grabbed one and kicked him to the floor. The last one grabbed her and threw her down to the floor. She landed on a stall and was dazed in the rubble. She quickly shook her head and looked back up at the Changeling. He was charging her from the sky. Just as he was gunna grab her, the Doctor tackled him and tied him up with rope before he knew it. "That was a close one. Stay alert and bring those fuckers down." The Doctor said to her as he helped her up. She cleaned herself off and continued to fight. The three in the air were doing phenomenal. They were working together and were dropping the Changelings. Queen Chrysalis was starting to become concerned. She was calling out orders for the changelings, but they were empty. The five were just too well skilled and could stop any attack the Changelings did, and could take hits as well. "This can't be possible, these ponies are too.......much for my army. Fall back! We have to fall back!" Chrysalis yelled as she started to fly away. "She is escaping! Don't let her leave!" Rainbow Dash yelled. The other four started running and trying to catch up with her. Rainbow Dash caught up to her and was about to grab her when she turned around and held Rainbow with one hoof. "You seem eager to fight, you have will and determination, I love that." Chrysalis said to her. As she said this, she looked at Rainbow with dark green eyes. Rainbows eyes were enveloped in the same green, then it receded into her pupils and she smiled evilly. The Doctor tried to grab her, but she slapped his hoof away and kicked him to the ground. "You need to learn that ruling Equestria is better than slaving for a stupid Princess just so she can say thank you. If you are smart you would join me and Chrysalis." Rainbow said to the Doctor. She had her hoof extended to him. He just looked at it and slapped it away. "You are evil, and that is Chrysalis talking, not you. You need to come back with us and help us bring that revolting life form you call a Queen down." The Doctor replied angrily. "When will you ponies learn." She replies as Chrysalis and her laughed and flew away with the rest of the changeling army. The Doctor got up with help from Spitfire. "What the hell happened to her?" Spitfire asked as she landed next to the Doctor. He looked at her as the other two ponies walked up to him. "She was put under a spell of possession when Chrysalis looked into her eyes. Rainbow's will wasn't strong enough to get away from it and she is now working with Chrysalis. Don't worry, we will find her and give that damned Queen a taste of her own medicine I swear. We need to prepare to launch a counter attack on Chrysalis, but first, we need to become a more uniform team." The Doctor replied to the three. They all had their heads down and followed the Doctor to Canterlot castle. They other three were wondering what the Doctor meant by becoming a more uniform team, but they knew all his ideas would always end well, so they never questioned it. "We can't fail the Princess, we have to find Rainbow Dash and end Chrysalis." Daring Do whispered to Spitfire. "Yeah, we are Equestria's five. We cannot lose to a low life like her. We will find her no matter what it takes." Spitfire replied and smiled at Daring Do. When they arrived in the castle they told the Princess about the situation. "Well, it seems that Chrysalis is more dangerous than I had originally thought. I am sorry to hear about Rainbow." She sadly replied. They Doctor walked up to her throne and looked up at her. "Don't worry Princess, we will find the Queen responsible and make her pay for what she has done, but we ask for about three weeks to prepare for our counter attack. I want to make sure my team is ready and capable to bring her down and rescue Rainbow. We need to learn battle situations and maneuvers and further train as a team, not individuals if that is ok with you Princess." They Doctor said to her. She smiled and nodded to allow them the time he asked for. The four bowed to her and went Roa lower level of the castle that as a training room. They four ponies looked inside and saw all the equipment I there and knew the Doctor had a lot planned for them. They all were determined by the Doctor to free Rainbow and get her back on their team so they could bring Queen Chrysalis to her knees and make her regret ever messing with the Equestrian Five. Retaliation! Retaliation! The five had gone through rigorous amounts of training and had "become one". There team was unstoppable and they knew nopony could stop them, even Chrysalis. They couldn't reach their full potential because of the fifth missing member, Rainbow Dash. The Doctor had shared his intellect with the rest and they had battle plans and special moves that were initiated by call signs. "Ok, now that the three weeks are over, we have an advantage vs. disadvantage situation here." The Doctor said to the other three ponies. They all looked confused. "What would those advantages/disadvantages be?" Daring Do asked. The Doctor walked away from the three and took a deep breath. "Well, we already know the advantage is that we can function like an orderly team with no errors. The disadvantage is that Chrysalis has had three whole weeks to plan out what she will attack and whom. Also, she can be anywhere, we have no idea where she could be. Ponies, we will be fighting an uphill battle from here on out." He replied to Daring Do. They all started to realize what the Doctor was talking about. The silence in the room was broken by a door opening and two royal guards coming in. The Doctor walked up to them and they saluted each other. "What is the sit-rep on the situation?" The Doctor asked the guard. "Well, our recon groups have found where Chrysalis is held up. She is in the Everfree Forest. Some of our recon guards said they spotted her there and there was some suspicious activity inside the forest that is linked to her." He replied. The Doctor was scratching his chin with his hoof as he heard this. "Ok thank you for this information." The Doctor replied. The guard saluted him and left. The Doctor turned to the other three and was thinking of a way to approach this situation. Suddenly, the Doctor's face lit up and the silence was broken by him stomping his hoof on the floor. "I got it! A plan of attack!" He yelled in the room,startling the other ponies. "Care to explain commander?" Mare Do Well asked him as she stepped forward to hear what he had to say. He looked over at her and cleared his throat. "Well, as you know, the Everfree forest is not as big as most ponies claim it is, so this means that we contain the element of surprise on her. To her knowledge, she must still think we are planning to attack her and is probably mounting a counter attack against us. We can stop the if we take out the leader, and how you ask? We use her confidence and powers against her!" The Doctor explained to the other three. They all started nodding there heads, signaling that they knew what he was saying. "But there is one factor we haven't counted in, Rainbow being controlled by her. How do we get past that?" Spitfire exclaimed. The Doctor smiled when her heard her say this. "I'm glad you brought that up. Now as good and hard working Rainbow is, she is arrogant and won't give up a challenge. So we must simply distract her to the point where she only is worried about the one pony creating the distraction. Sound good?" He replied to Spitfire and they all agreed and were prepping for the journey to the forest. When they left the castle, the Doctor was assigning jobs to the three ponies. "Spitfire, you will be in charge of the distraction process with Rainbow. Mare Do Well and Daring Do will attack Chrysalis any way they possibly can, remember work as a team and don't leave anypony behind on this one. Now for me? Lets just say I am going to place the final touches on this mission." The Doctor said to the three. They all understood everything, except the last part. "What do you mean when you say placing the final touches on the mission?" Mare Do Well asked him. He just let out a short chuckle and continued forward. They all looked at him confusingly, but decided to just follow him to the forest and find out there. When they arrived near the outskirts of the forest, there was definite Changeling action taking place outside of the forest. There were changelings outside of the forest and around the outside watching for anypony to come in. The four were seeing this through binoculars from a distance away. "So, what's your call Doctor?" Spitfire said to the Doctor as she put down her binoculars. He kept looking through his binoculars and took a deep breath. "Well, it's nice that you asked that. Remember how we said you are the distraction in this op?" He replied as he smiled, still looking through the binoculars. She sighed and her wings were ready for flight. She flew up and started doing tricks in the air that the Wonderbolts would do. The Doctor noticed that some of the changelings were watching her as a distraction. "Nows our chance! We can attack now!" The Doctor said as he put away his binoculars. The two other mares did the same and followed him. They all were running at the changelings and they surprisingly hadn't noticed them. "Attack plan delta, Daring Do take your position." The Doctor said to the other two. "Got ya loud and clear!" Daring Do replied. She extended her wings out and started to fly towards the changelings that were flying. By this time, the changelings knew that an attack was happening. They looked over at the three, but it was too late. Daring Do struck the four in the air and they hit the ground knocked out. The Doctor had three surround him and as they jumped toward him, he bucked one in the face and ducked just as the other two were about to hit him. They collided and hit the floor next to him. Mare Do Well was preforming fast, yet painful, techniques and was jumping from one hostile to the next. She was surrounded by five and she slid under four and hit four of them up into the air, one for each hoof. "Daring Do, finish em!" She yelled as they were frantically trying to get back on the floor. Daring Do saluted her and flew as fast as she could towards the four and hit them all one by one to the floor. They were all dazed and knocked out when Daring ado reached the floor. "Nice team, you executed that perfectly. Spitfire you may regroup with us now." The Doctor said as he looked over at Spitfire. She flew over to the three and landed next to Mare Do Well. "That was awesome! We did amazing! I can't believe that actually worked!" Spitfire yelled as she landed and was laughing a little bit. "I don't mean to be the one with the bad news, but that was just the first outside force. Who knows what's lurking in the forest waiting for us. Good news is, we weren't spotted from the inside and these ponies didn't call for reinforcements so we still have. The element of surprise. We can sneak past the patrols on the inside of the forest and get directly to Chrysalis if we play our cards right." The Doctor replied. The other ponies agreed and were surprised on how well the Doctor knew what to do. "Damn Doctor, if we had listened to you since we first met you, we could've been done with this mission last week!" Mare Do Well said as they all started to make their way into the "changeling forest". The heart of the BeastThe four ponies stopped halfway through the forest to see scouting squads frequently walking throughout the forest. The Doctor knew they must've found the bodies to the guards. He put his hoof in front of the other three ponies and stopped them near them behind a couple of bushes. "Why are you stopping us Doctor?" Spitfire whispered to him. He raised his ears and was listening for something. He slowly turned his head to Spitfire to respond. "There are too many Changelings in the immediate area, we need to go recon and sneak around and I have just what we need to do so." The Doctor replied. He reached into his saddle bag and pulled out four gillie suits. "Ok each of you take one of these and we will have to sneak our way to Chrysalis and after we take her out, the rest will follow." He said to the three mares. They all understood and put on the suits. They were on the side of a main dirt road that ran through the forest. When they all had the suits on, the Doctor gave each pony a headset so they could communicate with each other. "Ok, Daring Do and Mare Do Well flank left. Don't get caught and stay hidden. Spitfire and I will flank right. Destination is the middle of the forest, Chrysalis should be there.if you need help, or have information on something, use the headsets. Lets move." The Doctor whispered to the other three. Mare Do Well and Daring Do saluted him and snuck around to the other side of the dirt road and the Doctor lost sight of them. "Doctor you there?" Daring Do asked him over the radio. "Yeah I read you loud and clear. Don't use names over the radio, we are echo 1, you are echo 2." He replied to her. She agreed and Spitfire and the Doctor moved forward on the side of that dirt road. He wold to first from one part of brush to the next and signal Spitfire to follow once he knew it would be clear. "Spitfire, I need you to go up into a tree and tell me if you can see any hostiles in the area ok?" The Doctor asked her. She saluted him and flew up into a tree when the Doctor gave her the all clear. She went up into the tree and it was silent for a while. The Doctor was looking around to make sure their cover wasn't compromised. "Ok, we got two main squads more down the road and a couple of ponies in the trees as well. It's not looking easy Doctor." She said to him on the radio. He looked down and kicked some dirt up on the ground. "Eh, when is it ever easy? Anyways, regroup and lets make our way up the road, I know a way we can cut through a deeper part of the forest where we won't be compromised." He replied to her as she made her way down to him. When they regrouped, he followed the road up to where those squads were. He stopped Spitfire and waited until he could see them. There was about 15 changelings coming down the road. "Let em pass. Do not engage." He whispered to Spitfire. As they walked by, the Doctor got on the radio. "Echo 2, be advised you have a large squad converging to the position behind you. Don't let them spot you over." The Doctor said. "Roger that echo 1, we read you loud and clear." Daring Do responded. After the 15 ponies moved on, three stopped around where the Doctor and Spitfire was. "Ok, these ones we will have to engage. I will provide distraction, you take them out silently." The Doctor said. Spitfire nodded her head and agreed. He walked out and whistled to the three. They quickly looked over at him and started looking angry. They then changed into the Doctor and started to walk toward him. Spitfire flew up and darted down to gain speed. When she reached the three, she grabbed them all and flew straight up. When she was over the tree line, she let them go and hit all three of them right into the ground. She flew over to the Doctor and landed right next to him. "All hostiles are eliminated Doctor, we are clear to move on." Spitfire said as she saluted him. He moved forward with her behind him. They both got off the road and he stopped to look at a map. "Ok we can cut through the forest and when we get to the end, we will be at the middle of the forest, where Chrysalis should be. Sound good?" The Doctor said. The other two heard him because he was on the headset. They all agreed and echo 1 went onto the dense part of the forest. While they were in there, they weren't facing any changelings Inside. The forest was too dense for the changelings to send recon troops. The Doctor and Spitfire were completely concealed. The same didn't go for echo 2. "Ok, The Doctor and Spitfire did their job, lets go and get to the rally point before they do." Daring Do said to Mare Do Well. They both started moving north on the side of the road and were watching for changelings. Daring Do would take point and Mare Do Well would wait for the all clear by her to move forward. They were moving slowly through the forest. "Hold it, there is a squad coming up ahead, go dark." Mare Do Well told Daring Do she nodded and they both got down in the brush and waited until they all passed. There was about ten changelings that walked by and were looking for anything unusual. "Ok, looks clear. Lets move forward." Daring Do whispered to Mare Do Well and they both slowly got up and continued forward. Mare Do Well had binoculars and was looking outside of a bush to find any other changelings in the area. She was scanning the area. She did a double take and saw something surprising. It startled Daring Do and she wanted to know what she was looking at. "What is it? What are you looking at?" Daring Do quickly asked her. She gave her the binoculars and was pointing to where she was looking. Daring Do looked through the binoculars and saw Rainbow Dash alone looking around confusingly. "It's Rainbow, what do we do?" Mare Do Well asked. Daring Do put down the binoculars and looked at her. "We have to go over there and get her, of corse." Daring Do replied. Mare Do Well looked at her oddly. "Don't you think we should ask the Doctor first?" Mare Do Well asked. Daring Do just blew her off and flew right to Rainbow. Mare Do Well followed her. "Rainbow there you are, we have been looking all over for you!" Daring Do said to her. Rainbow looked at her confused. Mare Do Well caught up and saw Rainbow. "Hello, can you hear me Rainbow?" Daring Do said to her, Rainbow just laughed and suddenly, she transformed into a changeling. "Dammit, it's a trap!" Mare Do Well yelled. Twenty changelings came out of the forest and surrounded them. "Echo 1, we have been compromised, I repeat we have been compromised." Daring Do said slowly and softly into the headset. They were being taken into custody and Mare Do Well looked at Daring Do. "I told you we should've asked the Doctor first!" She yelled as they were taken away to Chrysalis. The threat lives no more"Echo 1, we have been compromised. I repeat, we have been compromised." Daring Do's voice was heard by the Doctor on the radio headset. It went quiet after that. "Dammit, we lost the other two. Spitfire, it is just you and I left. Let us proceed on course to the middle of the forest." The Doctor said to Spitfire as he kept walking forward into what seemed like nowhere. "But wait, shouldn't we go rescue them? They are going to be taken hostage." Spitfire replied to the Doctor. He turned back and looked at her. "That would be leading right to the biggest trap for the two of us. We must think of something intelligent to do before we act." He replied as he kept walking onward and Spitfire closely followed. They both kept moving and didn't have to worry about changelings because the forest was too dense to have squads move in. "The changeling army will be looking for us, so expect heightened security around Queen Chrysalis." The Doctor whispered to Spitfire as they could see the middle of the forest. "I got it, so what is our plan of attack? How can we take down a Queen with just two of us?" She asked. He took out binoculars and laid down to get a good look at what was at the middle. "I've taken down worse and it was just me." The Doctor replied softly, as if talking to himself. When he looked at the middle of the forest, he saw Chrysalis and Rainbow Dash standing right next to each other and the Queen was talking to some of the changelings. "Ok, it seems we have about ten changelings to get rid of and we have Rainbow Dash to take care of and when she sees us, she will bring out the other two and use them against us." The Doctor said as he was looking out of the binoculars. He put them down and looked at Spitfire. "Our job is to go there, engage enemies, and overthrow this Queen. Got it?" He said to her. She nodded her head and they both ran to the middle where Chrysalis was. They stopped behind a bush and waited. Suddenly, the Doctor walked out from behind the bush. "Hey, you! You took my team and created this huge mess! I don't take kindly to stuff like that. Now I am asking you nicely to restore everything to its original order, or face me!" He said to her. She just started at him for a while and bursted into laughter. "You, you actually think you can beat me? You and what army? Just one other Pegasus named Spitfire are supposed to stop me? This is truly a joke!" She replied as she laughed once more. He looked at her angrily and started to walk toward her. "Fair enough, let it be known you chose your own fate." He replied in a normal tone. She just laughed once more and Rainbow looked at the Doctor. She was still clearly under on of her spells. "Was that a threat? Hah! Guards, get rid of him. He is no use of me anymore." Chrysalis replied. There was no response to her. She looked around and saw the ten changeling guards piled in one area and knocked out. She looked oddly at the pile of changelings. Just as she looked back at the Doctor, he was right up next to her and his rear hooves hit her and she fell down. Chrysalis was thrown off and surprised that the Doctor did this. "Good lord, you were getting annoying! It is nice to shut you up." The Doctor said as Chrysalis stumbled back up to her feet. As she did, her eyes were enveloped in green and she was angry. "How dare you hit me! I will strike you down with one mighty bolt!" The angry Queen yelled as her horn enveloped in a green aura. The Doctor smiled. Just as she was about to hit him, an orange flash flew past her and hit her good enough to make her fall once again. Spitfire stopped in mid air and smiled at her. Rainbow's wings expended and she flew straight off towards Spitfire. They both took off and when Chrysalis got up, the Doctor hit her once again and put a device on her horn. When she got up, she tried to use magic, but wouldn't work. "What the hell did you do to me?" She asked furiously. "Well, I put a device that stops you from using any magic at all and the more you try to use magic, the more pain it causes to the user. Quite simple actually." The Doctor replied as he walked up to her. "Now leave this land or so help me, I will cause you so much pain and grief, you will rue the day you became an enemy of the Doctor." He said as he looked her in the eyes. She jumped back and had Daring Do and Mare Do Well brought to her by her guards. "You don't actually have the leverage here. I get what I want or your team gets disassembled for good!" She said to him as she looked at the two prisoners she had. The Doctor laughed at her. "What do you think you can do to them if you can't use magic, plus I'd look up if I were you." The Doctor replied. When she did, she saw Rainbow and Spitfire coming straight at her at full speed. At the last moment, Spitfire moved, but Rainbow didn't. She ran straight into the Queen. There was a huge dust cloud created. After the dust settled Rainbow slowly got up and was disoriented, but was back to her normal self. "Wha...what happened?" Rainbow slowly asked. Spitfire picked her up and put her next the Doctor. She landed next to him and he walked up to the Queen. "Now do you want to talk?" He asked her, she only slowly moaned back because of the the hit. He grabbed her and put cuffs around her hooves and dropped her on the floor. Spitfire let out the other two and they all were joined together again. "Nice work Doctor! With you, we are unstoppable, that is another bad pony brought to justice!" Mare Do Well said to the Doctor. They all gathered around him and started celebrating. "Hey guys, sorry for attacking you if I did, I was under that spell and I am sorry." Rainbow Dash said as she looked at the floor. "Oh nonsense, if anything you made it a better challenge to stop this psychotic Queen!" The Doctor replied as the five saviors of Equestria laughed and picked up the Doctor and carried him around.
Darkness over the skies of CanterlotThe Changeling Army was swarming the royal city, causing destruction and taking hostages. The five ponies looked at each other, then Doctor Hooves looked up at Queen Chrysalis. "Hey! You! Up there! Stop this attack, or you will regret it!" He yelled at her. She looked to the left and right, then down to see him looking up at her. She just started laughing and sent some changelings down to them. "Bad choice." The Doctor said to himself. He then turned to the other ponies. "Ok team, this is what we do, they can change into us, but that doesn't mean we can't kick their asses. Rainbow, Daring Do, and Spitfire take to the skies and take down as many as you can. Leave some for me and Mare Do Well. We will handle the rest. Got it?" He said the four. They all saluted him, and the three pegusai took off and engaged some of the Changelings. As the Doctor predicted, some of the Changelings continued towed the Doctor and Mare Do Well. "What do we do?" She asked the Doctor. He turned and looked at her. "I'll buck the one coming toward me, you take care of the other three as you wish." He replied. She looked up and ran over to a food stall and jumped onto the shade and bounced off really hard and flew toward the Changelings. She hit one with her front left hoof and grabbed one and kicked him to the floor. The last one grabbed her and threw her down to the floor. She landed on a stall and was dazed in the rubble. She quickly shook her head and looked back up at the Changeling. He was charging her from the sky. Just as he was gunna grab her, the Doctor tackled him and tied him up with rope before he knew it. "That was a close one. Stay alert and bring those fuckers down." The Doctor said to her as he helped her up. She cleaned herself off and continued to fight. The three in the air were doing phenomenal. They were working together and were dropping the Changelings. Queen Chrysalis was starting to become concerned. She was calling out orders for the changelings, but they were empty. The five were just too well skilled and could stop any attack the Changelings did, and could take hits as well. "This can't be possible, these ponies are too.......much for my army. Fall back! We have to fall back!" Chrysalis yelled as she started to fly away. "She is escaping! Don't let her leave!" Rainbow Dash yelled. The other four started running and trying to catch up with her. Rainbow Dash caught up to her and was about to grab her when she turned around and held Rainbow with one hoof. "You seem eager to fight, you have will and determination, I love that." Chrysalis said to her. As she said this, she looked at Rainbow with dark green eyes. Rainbows eyes were enveloped in the same green, then it receded into her pupils and she smiled evilly. The Doctor tried to grab her, but she slapped his hoof away and kicked him to the ground. "You need to learn that ruling Equestria is better than slaving for a stupid Princess just so she can say thank you. If you are smart you would join me and Chrysalis." Rainbow said to the Doctor. She had her hoof extended to him. He just looked at it and slapped it away. "You are evil, and that is Chrysalis talking, not you. You need to come back with us and help us bring that revolting life form you call a Queen down." The Doctor replied angrily. "When will you ponies learn." She replies as Chrysalis and her laughed and flew away with the rest of the changeling army. The Doctor got up with help from Spitfire. "What the hell happened to her?" Spitfire asked as she landed next to the Doctor. He looked at her as the other two ponies walked up to him. "She was put under a spell of possession when Chrysalis looked into her eyes. Rainbow's will wasn't strong enough to get away from it and she is now working with Chrysalis. Don't worry, we will find her and give that damned Queen a taste of her own medicine I swear. We need to prepare to launch a counter attack on Chrysalis, but first, we need to become a more uniform team." The Doctor replied to the three. They all had their heads down and followed the Doctor to Canterlot castle. They other three were wondering what the Doctor meant by becoming a more uniform team, but they knew all his ideas would always end well, so they never questioned it. "We can't fail the Princess, we have to find Rainbow Dash and end Chrysalis." Daring Do whispered to Spitfire. "Yeah, we are Equestria's five. We cannot lose to a low life like her. We will find her no matter what it takes." Spitfire replied and smiled at Daring Do. When they arrived in the castle they told the Princess about the situation. "Well, it seems that Chrysalis is more dangerous than I had originally thought. I am sorry to hear about Rainbow." She sadly replied. They Doctor walked up to her throne and looked up at her. "Don't worry Princess, we will find the Queen responsible and make her pay for what she has done, but we ask for about three weeks to prepare for our counter attack. I want to make sure my team is ready and capable to bring her down and rescue Rainbow. We need to learn battle situations and maneuvers and further train as a team, not individuals if that is ok with you Princess." They Doctor said to her. She smiled and nodded to allow them the time he asked for. The four bowed to her and went Roa lower level of the castle that as a training room. They four ponies looked inside and saw all the equipment I there and knew the Doctor had a lot planned for them. They all were determined by the Doctor to free Rainbow and get her back on their team so they could bring Queen Chrysalis to her knees and make her regret ever messing with the Equestrian Five.
Retaliation! Retaliation! The five had gone through rigorous amounts of training and had "become one". There team was unstoppable and they knew nopony could stop them, even Chrysalis. They couldn't reach their full potential because of the fifth missing member, Rainbow Dash. The Doctor had shared his intellect with the rest and they had battle plans and special moves that were initiated by call signs. "Ok, now that the three weeks are over, we have an advantage vs. disadvantage situation here." The Doctor said to the other three ponies. They all looked confused. "What would those advantages/disadvantages be?" Daring Do asked. The Doctor walked away from the three and took a deep breath. "Well, we already know the advantage is that we can function like an orderly team with no errors. The disadvantage is that Chrysalis has had three whole weeks to plan out what she will attack and whom. Also, she can be anywhere, we have no idea where she could be. Ponies, we will be fighting an uphill battle from here on out." He replied to Daring Do. They all started to realize what the Doctor was talking about. The silence in the room was broken by a door opening and two royal guards coming in. The Doctor walked up to them and they saluted each other. "What is the sit-rep on the situation?" The Doctor asked the guard. "Well, our recon groups have found where Chrysalis is held up. She is in the Everfree Forest. Some of our recon guards said they spotted her there and there was some suspicious activity inside the forest that is linked to her." He replied. The Doctor was scratching his chin with his hoof as he heard this. "Ok thank you for this information." The Doctor replied. The guard saluted him and left. The Doctor turned to the other three and was thinking of a way to approach this situation. Suddenly, the Doctor's face lit up and the silence was broken by him stomping his hoof on the floor. "I got it! A plan of attack!" He yelled in the room,startling the other ponies. "Care to explain commander?" Mare Do Well asked him as she stepped forward to hear what he had to say. He looked over at her and cleared his throat. "Well, as you know, the Everfree forest is not as big as most ponies claim it is, so this means that we contain the element of surprise on her. To her knowledge, she must still think we are planning to attack her and is probably mounting a counter attack against us. We can stop the if we take out the leader, and how you ask? We use her confidence and powers against her!" The Doctor explained to the other three. They all started nodding there heads, signaling that they knew what he was saying. "But there is one factor we haven't counted in, Rainbow being controlled by her. How do we get past that?" Spitfire exclaimed. The Doctor smiled when her heard her say this. "I'm glad you brought that up. Now as good and hard working Rainbow is, she is arrogant and won't give up a challenge. So we must simply distract her to the point where she only is worried about the one pony creating the distraction. Sound good?" He replied to Spitfire and they all agreed and were prepping for the journey to the forest. When they left the castle, the Doctor was assigning jobs to the three ponies. "Spitfire, you will be in charge of the distraction process with Rainbow. Mare Do Well and Daring Do will attack Chrysalis any way they possibly can, remember work as a team and don't leave anypony behind on this one. Now for me? Lets just say I am going to place the final touches on this mission." The Doctor said to the three. They all understood everything, except the last part. "What do you mean when you say placing the final touches on the mission?" Mare Do Well asked him. He just let out a short chuckle and continued forward. They all looked at him confusingly, but decided to just follow him to the forest and find out there. When they arrived near the outskirts of the forest, there was definite Changeling action taking place outside of the forest. There were changelings outside of the forest and around the outside watching for anypony to come in. The four were seeing this through binoculars from a distance away. "So, what's your call Doctor?" Spitfire said to the Doctor as she put down her binoculars. He kept looking through his binoculars and took a deep breath. "Well, it's nice that you asked that. Remember how we said you are the distraction in this op?" He replied as he smiled, still looking through the binoculars. She sighed and her wings were ready for flight. She flew up and started doing tricks in the air that the Wonderbolts would do. The Doctor noticed that some of the changelings were watching her as a distraction. "Nows our chance! We can attack now!" The Doctor said as he put away his binoculars. The two other mares did the same and followed him. They all were running at the changelings and they surprisingly hadn't noticed them. "Attack plan delta, Daring Do take your position." The Doctor said to the other two. "Got ya loud and clear!" Daring Do replied. She extended her wings out and started to fly towards the changelings that were flying. By this time, the changelings knew that an attack was happening. They looked over at the three, but it was too late. Daring Do struck the four in the air and they hit the ground knocked out. The Doctor had three surround him and as they jumped toward him, he bucked one in the face and ducked just as the other two were about to hit him. They collided and hit the floor next to him. Mare Do Well was preforming fast, yet painful, techniques and was jumping from one hostile to the next. She was surrounded by five and she slid under four and hit four of them up into the air, one for each hoof. "Daring Do, finish em!" She yelled as they were frantically trying to get back on the floor. Daring Do saluted her and flew as fast as she could towards the four and hit them all one by one to the floor. They were all dazed and knocked out when Daring ado reached the floor. "Nice team, you executed that perfectly. Spitfire you may regroup with us now." The Doctor said as he looked over at Spitfire. She flew over to the three and landed next to Mare Do Well. "That was awesome! We did amazing! I can't believe that actually worked!" Spitfire yelled as she landed and was laughing a little bit. "I don't mean to be the one with the bad news, but that was just the first outside force. Who knows what's lurking in the forest waiting for us. Good news is, we weren't spotted from the inside and these ponies didn't call for reinforcements so we still have. The element of surprise. We can sneak past the patrols on the inside of the forest and get directly to Chrysalis if we play our cards right." The Doctor replied. The other ponies agreed and were surprised on how well the Doctor knew what to do. "Damn Doctor, if we had listened to you since we first met you, we could've been done with this mission last week!" Mare Do Well said as they all started to make their way into the "changeling forest".
The heart of the BeastThe four ponies stopped halfway through the forest to see scouting squads frequently walking throughout the forest. The Doctor knew they must've found the bodies to the guards. He put his hoof in front of the other three ponies and stopped them near them behind a couple of bushes. "Why are you stopping us Doctor?" Spitfire whispered to him. He raised his ears and was listening for something. He slowly turned his head to Spitfire to respond. "There are too many Changelings in the immediate area, we need to go recon and sneak around and I have just what we need to do so." The Doctor replied. He reached into his saddle bag and pulled out four gillie suits. "Ok each of you take one of these and we will have to sneak our way to Chrysalis and after we take her out, the rest will follow." He said to the three mares. They all understood and put on the suits. They were on the side of a main dirt road that ran through the forest. When they all had the suits on, the Doctor gave each pony a headset so they could communicate with each other. "Ok, Daring Do and Mare Do Well flank left. Don't get caught and stay hidden. Spitfire and I will flank right. Destination is the middle of the forest, Chrysalis should be there.if you need help, or have information on something, use the headsets. Lets move." The Doctor whispered to the other three. Mare Do Well and Daring Do saluted him and snuck around to the other side of the dirt road and the Doctor lost sight of them. "Doctor you there?" Daring Do asked him over the radio. "Yeah I read you loud and clear. Don't use names over the radio, we are echo 1, you are echo 2." He replied to her. She agreed and Spitfire and the Doctor moved forward on the side of that dirt road. He wold to first from one part of brush to the next and signal Spitfire to follow once he knew it would be clear. "Spitfire, I need you to go up into a tree and tell me if you can see any hostiles in the area ok?" The Doctor asked her. She saluted him and flew up into a tree when the Doctor gave her the all clear. She went up into the tree and it was silent for a while. The Doctor was looking around to make sure their cover wasn't compromised. "Ok, we got two main squads more down the road and a couple of ponies in the trees as well. It's not looking easy Doctor." She said to him on the radio. He looked down and kicked some dirt up on the ground. "Eh, when is it ever easy? Anyways, regroup and lets make our way up the road, I know a way we can cut through a deeper part of the forest where we won't be compromised." He replied to her as she made her way down to him. When they regrouped, he followed the road up to where those squads were. He stopped Spitfire and waited until he could see them. There was about 15 changelings coming down the road. "Let em pass. Do not engage." He whispered to Spitfire. As they walked by, the Doctor got on the radio. "Echo 2, be advised you have a large squad converging to the position behind you. Don't let them spot you over." The Doctor said. "Roger that echo 1, we read you loud and clear." Daring Do responded. After the 15 ponies moved on, three stopped around where the Doctor and Spitfire was. "Ok, these ones we will have to engage. I will provide distraction, you take them out silently." The Doctor said. Spitfire nodded her head and agreed. He walked out and whistled to the three. They quickly looked over at him and started looking angry. They then changed into the Doctor and started to walk toward him. Spitfire flew up and darted down to gain speed. When she reached the three, she grabbed them all and flew straight up. When she was over the tree line, she let them go and hit all three of them right into the ground. She flew over to the Doctor and landed right next to him. "All hostiles are eliminated Doctor, we are clear to move on." Spitfire said as she saluted him. He moved forward with her behind him. They both got off the road and he stopped to look at a map. "Ok we can cut through the forest and when we get to the end, we will be at the middle of the forest, where Chrysalis should be. Sound good?" The Doctor said. The other two heard him because he was on the headset. They all agreed and echo 1 went onto the dense part of the forest. While they were in there, they weren't facing any changelings Inside. The forest was too dense for the changelings to send recon troops. The Doctor and Spitfire were completely concealed. The same didn't go for echo 2. "Ok, The Doctor and Spitfire did their job, lets go and get to the rally point before they do." Daring Do said to Mare Do Well. They both started moving north on the side of the road and were watching for changelings. Daring Do would take point and Mare Do Well would wait for the all clear by her to move forward. They were moving slowly through the forest. "Hold it, there is a squad coming up ahead, go dark." Mare Do Well told Daring Do she nodded and they both got down in the brush and waited until they all passed. There was about ten changelings that walked by and were looking for anything unusual. "Ok, looks clear. Lets move forward." Daring Do whispered to Mare Do Well and they both slowly got up and continued forward. Mare Do Well had binoculars and was looking outside of a bush to find any other changelings in the area. She was scanning the area. She did a double take and saw something surprising. It startled Daring Do and she wanted to know what she was looking at. "What is it? What are you looking at?" Daring Do quickly asked her. She gave her the binoculars and was pointing to where she was looking. Daring Do looked through the binoculars and saw Rainbow Dash alone looking around confusingly. "It's Rainbow, what do we do?" Mare Do Well asked. Daring Do put down the binoculars and looked at her. "We have to go over there and get her, of corse." Daring Do replied. Mare Do Well looked at her oddly. "Don't you think we should ask the Doctor first?" Mare Do Well asked. Daring Do just blew her off and flew right to Rainbow. Mare Do Well followed her. "Rainbow there you are, we have been looking all over for you!" Daring Do said to her. Rainbow looked at her confused. Mare Do Well caught up and saw Rainbow. "Hello, can you hear me Rainbow?" Daring Do said to her, Rainbow just laughed and suddenly, she transformed into a changeling. "Dammit, it's a trap!" Mare Do Well yelled. Twenty changelings came out of the forest and surrounded them. "Echo 1, we have been compromised, I repeat we have been compromised." Daring Do said slowly and softly into the headset. They were being taken into custody and Mare Do Well looked at Daring Do. "I told you we should've asked the Doctor first!" She yelled as they were taken away to Chrysalis.
The threat lives no more"Echo 1, we have been compromised. I repeat, we have been compromised." Daring Do's voice was heard by the Doctor on the radio headset. It went quiet after that. "Dammit, we lost the other two. Spitfire, it is just you and I left. Let us proceed on course to the middle of the forest." The Doctor said to Spitfire as he kept walking forward into what seemed like nowhere. "But wait, shouldn't we go rescue them? They are going to be taken hostage." Spitfire replied to the Doctor. He turned back and looked at her. "That would be leading right to the biggest trap for the two of us. We must think of something intelligent to do before we act." He replied as he kept walking onward and Spitfire closely followed. They both kept moving and didn't have to worry about changelings because the forest was too dense to have squads move in. "The changeling army will be looking for us, so expect heightened security around Queen Chrysalis." The Doctor whispered to Spitfire as they could see the middle of the forest. "I got it, so what is our plan of attack? How can we take down a Queen with just two of us?" She asked. He took out binoculars and laid down to get a good look at what was at the middle. "I've taken down worse and it was just me." The Doctor replied softly, as if talking to himself. When he looked at the middle of the forest, he saw Chrysalis and Rainbow Dash standing right next to each other and the Queen was talking to some of the changelings. "Ok, it seems we have about ten changelings to get rid of and we have Rainbow Dash to take care of and when she sees us, she will bring out the other two and use them against us." The Doctor said as he was looking out of the binoculars. He put them down and looked at Spitfire. "Our job is to go there, engage enemies, and overthrow this Queen. Got it?" He said to her. She nodded her head and they both ran to the middle where Chrysalis was. They stopped behind a bush and waited. Suddenly, the Doctor walked out from behind the bush. "Hey, you! You took my team and created this huge mess! I don't take kindly to stuff like that. Now I am asking you nicely to restore everything to its original order, or face me!" He said to her. She just started at him for a while and bursted into laughter. "You, you actually think you can beat me? You and what army? Just one other Pegasus named Spitfire are supposed to stop me? This is truly a joke!" She replied as she laughed once more. He looked at her angrily and started to walk toward her. "Fair enough, let it be known you chose your own fate." He replied in a normal tone. She just laughed once more and Rainbow looked at the Doctor. She was still clearly under on of her spells. "Was that a threat? Hah! Guards, get rid of him. He is no use of me anymore." Chrysalis replied. There was no response to her. She looked around and saw the ten changeling guards piled in one area and knocked out. She looked oddly at the pile of changelings. Just as she looked back at the Doctor, he was right up next to her and his rear hooves hit her and she fell down. Chrysalis was thrown off and surprised that the Doctor did this. "Good lord, you were getting annoying! It is nice to shut you up." The Doctor said as Chrysalis stumbled back up to her feet. As she did, her eyes were enveloped in green and she was angry. "How dare you hit me! I will strike you down with one mighty bolt!" The angry Queen yelled as her horn enveloped in a green aura. The Doctor smiled. Just as she was about to hit him, an orange flash flew past her and hit her good enough to make her fall once again. Spitfire stopped in mid air and smiled at her. Rainbow's wings expended and she flew straight off towards Spitfire. They both took off and when Chrysalis got up, the Doctor hit her once again and put a device on her horn. When she got up, she tried to use magic, but wouldn't work. "What the hell did you do to me?" She asked furiously. "Well, I put a device that stops you from using any magic at all and the more you try to use magic, the more pain it causes to the user. Quite simple actually." The Doctor replied as he walked up to her. "Now leave this land or so help me, I will cause you so much pain and grief, you will rue the day you became an enemy of the Doctor." He said as he looked her in the eyes. She jumped back and had Daring Do and Mare Do Well brought to her by her guards. "You don't actually have the leverage here. I get what I want or your team gets disassembled for good!" She said to him as she looked at the two prisoners she had. The Doctor laughed at her. "What do you think you can do to them if you can't use magic, plus I'd look up if I were you." The Doctor replied. When she did, she saw Rainbow and Spitfire coming straight at her at full speed. At the last moment, Spitfire moved, but Rainbow didn't. She ran straight into the Queen. There was a huge dust cloud created. After the dust settled Rainbow slowly got up and was disoriented, but was back to her normal self. "Wha...what happened?" Rainbow slowly asked. Spitfire picked her up and put her next the Doctor. She landed next to him and he walked up to the Queen. "Now do you want to talk?" He asked her, she only slowly moaned back because of the the hit. He grabbed her and put cuffs around her hooves and dropped her on the floor. Spitfire let out the other two and they all were joined together again. "Nice work Doctor! With you, we are unstoppable, that is another bad pony brought to justice!" Mare Do Well said to the Doctor. They all gathered around him and started celebrating. "Hey guys, sorry for attacking you if I did, I was under that spell and I am sorry." Rainbow Dash said as she looked at the floor. "Oh nonsense, if anything you made it a better challenge to stop this psychotic Queen!" The Doctor replied as the five saviors of Equestria laughed and picked up the Doctor and carried him around.
