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// Chapter 9: Setting up the plan 
// Story: A new World, a new generation!?... 
// by RandomFics271197 
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In their way towards the dungeons, they heard small giggles and a large amusing voice.

"Stop it... that... tickles."

Worried about what was happening they ran towards the source of the sounds and finally saw what everyone didn't expect.

Sitting on the stone floor was him, with his legs extended along the floor and a small pegasus laying on his lap. Brushing her mane with his hand, he looked over her shoulder and tried to shake her off of him.

Intrigued by this she put more weight on him and didn't want to move.

"What's wrong? Don't you find it cute, hein?" she asked.

"Ms.Hooves?" she heard a familiar voice call for her.

Turning her head back she noticed Sombra and the others standing in front of her.

"Yepp..." she squeaked and jumped off of him.

Looking back to the human, Sombra ignited his horn and pushed him against the wall.

"What have you done to her?" he asked.

He tried to speak but the magical field wasn't allowing him to do that.

"Your Highness, please he was just..." she tried to defend him but was stopped when he turned his speech to her.

"And you? I thought that I trained you better than anypony here but today you've shown me that you didn't learn anything," he said.

"But, he wasn't doing anything threatening I swear," she replied

"Don't try to cover my eyes I saw him holding you firmly with his hooves things. He was holding you hostage."

"Your Highness, I beg your forgiveness but he was holding me because of, I... I... tripped and he was trying to get me back up and those hooves things are called hands, your Highness," she said while keeping her eyesight away from him.

"Holding you firmly, dear Ms. Hooves. He wasn't helping you he was threatening you, wasn't he?" he asked.

"He was giving me a 'petting' care," she answered.

"Petting? What is that petting thing?" he asked.

"Is the same as grooming or brushing our body," she answered.

"So he wasn't holding you hostage?" he asked one more time.

She shook her head to the sides.

Looking back at him, he dispelled the threatening spell and headed towards him.

Coughing violently to get the air back to his lungs, he looked back up and saw Sombra standing in front of him.

"Hey, hey, hey I didn't hurt anyone here. I was just..." he tried to say but was stopped when Sombra spoke.

"You're going to help us and that's final."

After this, Sombra turned himself back and headed towards Celestia and the others.

"Our world is in danger. And I need your help if you want it or not," he said while he was heading towards them.

"Wait, wait, wait. First, you attack me and threaten me and then you want my help. Is that it?" he asked.

"Mathew?" a familiar voice called him, "Boss and the others are here already they took one of his friends and as he told me he's his uncle. They need our help or more precisely your help."

"What guarantees me that this is not any kind of trick?" he asked.

"They brought up the talisman forger."

After hearing this, he gasped and immediately looked to her and then back at him.

"What do you need?" he asked.

"The settlement. Where do they build the settlement?" he answered and returned a question.

"Wait, before I told you I want to know if this is going to benefit me. If not I won't waste my time telling you," he said.

Celestia raised her hoof and proposed a deal.

"You tell us what we want to hear and we will free you from this prison, what do you think? Do we have a deal?" she asked.

He looked back at them and then back at her.

"I've promised her that once I was out of this damn dungeon I would join your guard line." he said, "So that should be it, it's settled I will tell you everything you want to know and I will be out of this," he said while opening his arms.

Growling in frustration, Sombra raised his voice and ignited his horn.

"There's no mercy acts on those who threaten us. I won't allow you to be out of this prison not now, not never," he said while holding him down with his magic.

"Dear, please this is not time to talk about that..." Celestia said.

"No, no. I won't allow this stupid thing to roam free. He's dangerous and he will..."

Luna stood up and headed towards him.

"But you roam free. Chrysalis roams free. Celestia and I roam free." Luna said while trying to hold her sob, "And he roamed free and he showed us all that we should put our..."

Luna brought her hoof to her eyes and wiped them.

"He had thought me something. Anything can be forgiven even an ant. Sombra, you've to give him a chance as he did to you and the others that defied our stability."

Hearing this, Sombra looked back at him and dispelled his magic.

"I will give you my word that you will be free but do another stupid thing and you'll rot in here."

After saying this, Sombra channeled his magic and teleported himself away.

Raising his hand, he brushed where Sombra magic gripped.

Walking towards him, Lighting Hooves brushed against his leg.

"Did the mean King hurt you, was it?" she asked while keeping a small grin in her face.

Lowering his hand, he brushed his fingers behind her ears, earning small squeaks and giggles.

Walking towards him, Celestia channeled her magic and teleported all of them to a small room. Making humans fall when they landed.

Grunting in pain, he raised back up and brushed his hand behind his head.

"Warn me next time you teleport us like that," Mathew said.

Turning his head to Andrew, he raised his hand and asked.

"What did you want to know?"

"Everything."

He brought up a chair that was standing beside him and sat on it. Raising his hand he began his speech.

"First of all, we're here to capture the first known alicorn by birth. We are after a pony that was born alicorn and not those who develop those features over time. Second, we are after the descendant of Nightmare Moon."

Luna raised her eyebrow and gasped.

"The descendant of Nightmare Moon?" she asked, "But I was HER, and SHE was defeated how in the..."

Celestia raised her hoof and stopped her speech.

"He might be talking about Lysethia. Weren't they after her last time you saw them?"

"Yes they were but... she can't be a descendant of HER, I scanned her every time and she doesn't have that magical aura that SHE had."

"Can I resume my explanation or I should stop?" he asked.

Everyone inside the room gave him an approval signal and he resumed his speech.

"As I was saying before being interrupted, our boss decided to get the descendant of the Nightmare Moon plus the firstborn alicorn. And we are after the Umbrum Queen too, as far as I can tell that one is you and I believe that we were using Luna to bring you to us." he continued.

"But there's to be a settlement here to teleport the ponies back to Earth, can you tell us where?" Andrew asked.

"There's one. We decided to settle in the middle of the EverFree Forest. There we could work without raise any kind of suspicion." he answered, "Maybe we can use that portal to rescue your friend, I know where the keys for the cells are since I worked as a guard back on Earth."

"How many of them are on this settlement?" Celestia asked.

"I don't know, I was part of a small crew that was responsible to retrieve the Lunar Alicorn." he answered, "The only thing I know is that settlement is highly guarded and will be hard to get in without being noticed."

Andrew raised from his chair and brought up a small piece of paper.

"We need a distraction since they are after the Umbrum Queen we can use that in our favor." he said, "We could use you as bait and you will say that you had found and brought the Umbrum Queen, they will surely believe in you."

"There's one problem here. I need my necklace and my bracelet," he said.

Celestia brought these two items from her saddlebag and put them on the table before Mathew had the reaction to grab them, Andrew grabbed them and immediately said.

"If you are going to betray us I will make you regret it," he said while carefully giving him the items.

"I've no plans to betray you," he said while grabbing the item.

Grabbing the items, he clipped his necklace on his neck and placed his bracelet on his left arm.

"We still have this plan of working together and use me as bait," he said.

Andrew nodded.

Before they leave the room, Lighting Hooves spoked up.

"Don't you think they will find it strange when he will show up like that?" she asked, "I mean he was missing and probably there weren't any reports of his whereabouts,"

"Now that you said that I think you're right. They probably saw you being carried away by Luna and Shadow Night. It's too risky to put you in danger."

"But I'm planning to do this I want to help you I..."

"I'll go." Lighting hooves said.

Everyone in the room looked back at her.

"Ms. Hooves, those guys are dangerous I can stand putting you in danger for something that we don't know if it is going to work," Celestia said.

"It won't hurt trying. I will call for help saying that my Queen needs help and I will drive them off the settlement, once they are far away you can move in."

"And if they found it strangely enough to be true?" Andrew asked.

"Did you forget that now changelings are our allies? We could ask Princess Cadance and Chrysalis if they could let one of her changelings to do this for us. We will use the changeling for this matter."

Everyone in the room looked at each other and nodded.

"It's settled then, we will follow Ms. Hooves' plan."

Mathew raised from his seat and spoked up.

"You can't be serious right now, can you? She can't do this. If they found out that was a plot what do you think they will do?" he asked, "They will get both of them and she can't fly without her prothese, I'm afraid that they will hurt her and the changeling. I won't agree with this."

Standing beside him, Lighting Hooves raised her hoof and brushed it against his leg.

"Don't worry. I have been through worse than this."

"But... but... I can't let you do this... you..."

"I'll be fine. Promise."

Sighing and lowering his head, he raised his hand and made an approval signal to Andrew.

"Just don't mess this up," he said.

He nodded.

Leaving the room, Celestia walked towards a large room and ordered them to enter.

"We need to inform the other princess about this we cannot leave our posts without notice."

They all nodded and Celestia began to channel her horn and sent a telepathic message to the other princesses.

"Done, now we just need to wait until Cadance sends a changeling," she said.