Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
"What the hell's gotten you in such a hurry?" Top Dog snorted.
"It's not so much a hurry," Rainbow Dash said. Standing on the edge of the camp, she turned and gestured towards the setting sun beyond the charred and burnt forest. "It's all a matter of timing. Soon, it'll be dark out, and that will give us the best time to sneak into the castle."
"It does make sense," Sunset Shimmer said, nodding. "Dragons still have keen senses though."
"Yeah!" Flam folded his arms, frowning. "If Aatxe won't sense us with his horrible chaos crucifix, it'll be his big bad brother, Blood Fire!"
"I don't think the Flame Staff works like a detector, Psycho Shindig Number One," Rainbow said, gesturing. "And as for Blood Fire, the dude still isn't good at spotting stuff at night. No dragon is. Unless they breathe fire to light the way, but even then they only have so much juice to belch. Ya feel me?"
"And what makes you such an expert on dragons, huh?" Top Dog remarked.
"Because I've been around them more times than all of you freakjobs combined," Rainbow droned. "They don't see well at night. I'm willing to bet most of them will have retreated to the castle and ceased their patrols once the sun's down."
"Hah!" Flim grinned. "Fat chance of all of us getting through with that sort of a scenario!"
"We don't have to get all of us through, dumbass," Romulus growled. "Just her and myself. We'll sabotage the Castle and usher in the squirrels. Then Don Canter can send the rest of you in."
"Mmmmm..." Rainbow Dash swung her hoof from side to side. "Yes and no."
Romulus flashed a frown at her. "What do you mean 'yes and no?' That's the way we're friggin' doing it! So shut your trap!"
"Well, if you wanna let the Flame Staff go 'bye-bye'..." Rainbow shrugged. "Then be my guest. But me? I'm coming out of that with at least two shards. I don't care about the rest of you."
"Hah!" Romulus smirked. "And here I thought we were all in this together—"
"Not so fast, birdo." Don Canter spoke up, shambling out of his tent and closer to the conversation. He puffed on his cigar and spoke: "Yet the petite pegasus give her bright idea."
"Huh?!" Romulus frowned. "Since when were you listening to her?"
"Since she turned out to be a whole lot smarter than the assassin pigeon who's failed to bring me the shards so far!" Don Canter snarled. "Want I should just stay curious, or switch your salaries completely?"
"Mrmmmmmmmmgghh..." Romulus folded his arms.
Don Canter pointed his cigar at Rainbow. "Carry on, toots."
"Thanks, Chubsky." Rainbow paced before the thugs. "Romulus is right about one thing. We shouldn't all try sneaking into the castle. Even with the squirrels having our backs, it's just too clumsy and dangerous. So I suggest we both bring Sunset along."
Sunset pointed at herself. "Me?"
"Right." Rainbow pointed east, towards the sky. "The three of us fly to the castle, sneak in, and then Sunset Shimmer lays down her crystal reagents for her teleportation spell—"
"Wait a second..." Flam point. "I know where this is going. You're thinking that Sunset could get us teleported all the way into the castle!"
"Precisely."
"But... she only has enough reagents for a one way trip! The other crystals are back in Equestria!" Flam turned to gawk at the others. "Do you know what this means?"
"Derrrrrrrrr..." Top Dog scratched his head.
Sunset sighed. "It means that everyone here will have to walk back into the teleportation circle, port back to Don Canter's headquarters, and then wait for the signal to be ported to the next location."
"Which will be the Castle!" Rainbow said with a devilish smirk. "We find a safe spot for Sunset to set up shop. Once her spell's ready, we zap everyone inside. Then we'll take the place over from the inside out... right beneath Big Boss' snout! His brood will already be overwhelmed and that's even before we open the front gates to let in Mother Rushnut's rodent cronies."
"Don't you see?" Lancie stood tall on her shoulder. "Aatxe has a losing battle on his claw from the get go!"
"Sit down, Lancie," Rainbow exhaled. "I didn't ask for color commentary."
"Pfft! What color?" He pointed at his stone face and stuck his tongue out. "I'm all gray, ya fuzzbucket."
"I don't like this," Flim said, still rubbing a sore muzzle. "Mrmmff... all of that movement... all of that flight and transportation..."
Flam carried up the back end of the statement: "If the crystals get damaged... even slightly... then the teleportation spell won't even work!"
"Possibly," Sunset said. "But, assuming that happens, there'll still be enough crystals to teleport just the three of us back... or one of us. We'd port back to the castle with the extra crytsals and prepare for the actual attempt."
"That sounds really damn clumsy," Romulus grumbled.
"I'm saying..." Sunset shrugged. "It's a feasible method for getting us all in there quietly, safely, and with an element of surprise. And—what's more—if I'm there to keep an eye on everything, then I can fix anything that might get damaged from carrying the fragile crystals."
"So, you got our backs, bacon-haired one?" Top Dog asked. "Because it sounds strangely dangerous."
"Oh come onnnnn..." Rainbow grinned... then grinned some more. "What's the worse that could happen?"
Romulus glared at her, then looked at Don Canter.
Flim and Flam looked at the boss.
Squidgy twirled about in his glass until the green light of his pupil fell on the mobster.
Don Canter blew smoke, then parted his lips. "Anypony else got any brighter ideas?"
Dead silence.
Don Canter's ears twitched. "Well then..." He smirked slimily. "...the night ain't getting any younger."
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
Eheh...
Well, seems like Rommulus is just getting more and more irritated. Hopefully he'll get fed up to the point where he'll do something stupid to piss off Don Canter and get his wings clipped.
Hmmm, how convenient for Don & Co to voluntarily teleport back, leaving just the cat-bird and bacon-head for Dash to deal with.
Hatoful Boyfriend called, they want their Hawk group snipers back.
Y'know. If Rommy wasn't a buttfuck crazy psycopath hell bent on murdering everything that looks at him funny, I'd almost feel bad about him being the butt monkey here.
Obvious means of getting rid of most of the enemy's ponypower is obvious. :-)
But what I'm not getting is this. All Lancie needs is physical contact with one shard to perform one act of Discord-level magic. And while Rainbow might not realize this, Lancie would surely know that while individual shards can be depleted, once he has all of them and becomes Discord, he has a near-infinite supply of magic. It might exhaust Discord temporarily to heal Apple Bloom, but it wouldn't deplete him -- he'd get his energy back shortly.
So the obvious plan from Lancie's perspective would be: 1. Grab one shard. 2. Use it to teleport himself, Rainbow Dash and all of the other shards back to wherever they're stashing the shards they've already acquired. 3. Turn back into Discord. 4. Profit! (Assuming he's not planning on selling Dash out, but so far, I suspect his plan is, do exactly what he promised Rainbow and then unleash his reign of chaos, which isn't technically betraying Rainbow as he never promised her he wouldn't do that.)
So why hasn't he suggested this to Rainbow? Is he so hard up for entertainment that he's willing to delay getting his body and his full power back just to watch how she resolves this? Normally I'd say maybe, but this is kind of the all-or-nothing gambit for him -- if Rainbow fails here, his options for getting his body back aren't good. And he's expressed actual concern that this particular mission is making Rainbow act outside the parameters of her character, which you'd think he'd normally enjoy but he seems to have genuinely developed emotions for her.
Rainbow might not think of it because she might think Lancie literally needs the power of all of the shards to heal Apple Bloom and can't waste one of them (rather than what is probably really going on, which is either that Lancie really needs to be Discord to heal her, or that Lancie just claimed he couldn't do this without all his shards to motivate Rainbow to undertake the dangerous mission to reclaim them all.) But Lancie should surely be able to think of it. He knows his own capabilities. Why doesn't he propose this to Rainbow?
So that's Rainbow's game, huh?
Intemeresting. I... think Rainbow Dash has a new, less murder-filled plan brewing, but I can't say for certain what it is.
Look who the egg head is now, pretty brilliant plan coming together.
I don't give Dash nearly enough credit for her intelligence. I should start doing that now.
But what does this plan have to do with what Rainbow Dash discovered in that crater?
(And what did she discover in that crater?)
And now I'm all caught up...
Crap...now to wait once more...............
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I think I may know. Considering the fact that he can't really contact the other shards with just one shard, otherwise he would have done that way back before he even showed up in the story, he's probably having to use Rainbow otherwise he can't get ALL of them. If she grabbed the staff or all of the shards at once, he'd be able to teleport back, sure, but without being able to either massively teleport multiple objects, as he only get one discord-like wish each shard, he has to rely on Rainbow and her getting all of them at once.