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// This is my war 
// Story: Ivory and Japooter 
// by EggNBacon 
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        Japooter reached the opening at the top of his fortress, he gritted his teeth. Nearly completely surrounding the building was a large amount of the same significant green and brown colours. This attack was large, Jay couldn't have denied that by now. The sun was crawling away from the sky, the Lord felt that this was a coincidental sign something was going to fall, and he hoped immensely that this was the opposition. By this time, he noticed the alicorn's swooping down to the colours and taking precise shots on the hopeless victims. A merciless grin began to form on the pegasus' face, it seemed the entirety of the rebellion was here, and the Lord knew from previous minor events that they refused to retreat, either win or lose, this was surely the victory day against all resistance. The second wave of alicorn soldiers had arrived, the battle was then clearly showing an advantage for the Lord's army. 

It was then at this moment that a slight advantage was starting to kick in for the rebellious forces, for the fast-paced attacks of the clones was becoming less and less subtle in approach. Two alicorns were shot to the ground as they stayed within the unicorn soldiers' sights for too long. The ruler, however, took this as if walking onto a stone. It was a short term problem. Every ten minutes that passed led to more and more soldiers attacking the commoners. The battle was now becoming more fair, for more of the rebel colour's prepared for the drops. It was also at around one in the morning that the battle began including more firepower, cannons were sent to near the front entrances, but the Lord was prepared for this. Upon the few successful attempts of breaching the entrances, the clones are to attack with full force at the opposition attempting to enter. There was a flaw in the pegasus' plan, however. For once the entrance was knocked down, he never took into consideration the rebels' preparation. 

Surrounding the unforgivable Jay was stone, as cold as his heart on one of his happy days. Yet, the sudden rise of firepower from the opposition was creating a feeling he had not felt on such a high scale for a long time. The Lord couldn't believe what he was feeling, he refused to at first. How could he feel such things? But as he viewed over the battle once more, he noticed how quick they were now able to take down his army's waves of what he deemed overpowered clones of alicorns. The opposition had learnt from the past experiences. He wasn't prepared, he was afraid. 

Japooter felt threatened, his waves of clone alicorns were failing. He had one chance to keep his reign safe, and that was to increase the amount of alicorn clones produced per wave and hope they are enough of a distraction to try and reach lab entrance and begin his desperate attempt of saving himself. He flew through his invaded abode, gaining the sight of wandering rebels and being either chased or shot at. The pegasus never felt so determined to disappear in his life, it almost felt to him as if this was the day it was to end. He tried his best to not believe it, though, as he reached ludicrous speed in his fast-paced flying escape, everything an unrecognisable blur around him. Apart from straight forward. To the lab entrance. To increase the soldier numbers. When the significant blue painted door came into the Lord's view, a sense of hope emerged on the deperate blue pony's face. This was when karma struck its final blow.

Awaiting Japooter at the entrance to the lab entrance was three rebel unicorns, firing condensed beams of light at the fast moving blue blur hurtling towards them. While successful at dodging the first couple by sheer luck, the Lord was in too much of a panicked state to concentrate. Within moments, the once singular overall ruler of the land had been shot in his right wing, crashing at the feet of the unicorns. 
"Tr...traitors." The Lord spoke with weak delivery, as his voice became damaged and was immobile apart from the usual slight head movement. The middle rebel leaned into Japooter's eye sight, as if taunting the moments ago powerful figure.
"The game is finished, you monster. Five years of inequality and cruelty	beyond anyone's belief. Now, finally. We can finish this," The now obviously male unicorn in oral speech spoke in a slight Scottish accent, with an obvious sense of anger while he talked, but mostly it was joy. "Of course. We aren't monsters like you. We'll let you decide your own fate," With this said, the two unicorns beside the speech giving stallion positioned their horns in sync to face the crippled Japooter. "Immediate death, or delay the inevitable and die in front of a crowd of your enemies?" Japooter slowly looks up towards the the ponies, then grins. He was clearly in pain, but was pleased. 
"The second option." He spoke with utmost confidence. Moments after, the unicorns were pummeled to the ground in three quick blows from behind. From the shadows emerges a purple mare, who desperately continued to beat the unicorns with what was now seen to be a heavy metal pole from Ivory's room. By the end of the beating, Calcie was under slight exhaustion. "Calcie! My devilish guardian. I am glad to see you!" He embraced his lover. "Though, Ivory should be monitored. You know his importance to both of us." A slightly anxious expression arrived onto Japooter's face, but calmed when he heard the sounds of an agitated foal from the same shadows that Calcie emerged from.
"I wouldn't leave you behind, so I brought Ivory along when I arrived just now." The earth pony blushed slightly.
"Now then, time to investigate where my clones are." With haste, Ivory made his way into the laboratory, where he found his clone machines. The clone machines were 10 machines in a row in a blue metallic colour all around, with the exception to the doors, which were of a grey chrome colour. Presumably, the doors had to be shut for them to function. To the side of the far right cloning machine was a box labelled "DNA input", which in itself had been broken into and was now empty. "They have taken the DNA sample! Imagine what they could do with that!" Ivory was becoming paranoid, he then took a deep breath while Calcie attended to him. 
"It's going to be okay, perhaps we should consider the final plan you always go on about." With this, Japooter turned to her.
"The final plan is dangerous, we could die upon doing it. Basically, we go into a separate chute, all three of us, and then device automatically rips through to a random dimension, where we can rebuild our army." The face of Lord Jay turned more and more excited until he paused and became more serious. "This is unstable. We could die at any point during the method and there is a small chance we could end up in different dimensions. Hell perhaps even stay right here in this dimension." Calcie simply responded calmly.
"You are my hero if this works, I am willing to take any risks." She became slightly flirtatious in tone. "Perhaps there will be something else in it for you too...." With this, Ivory takes a deep breath and then scans his hoof-print on a wall scanner, a set of metal panels open up to reveal twenty chutes. 

Calcie places Ivory in the first chute, then her and Japooter stand in the other two chutes. Within seconds, they power up and the individuals disappear from existence, they have evaded the rebels.