//------------------------------// // We’re in it together // Story: My Little Pony: Legends of Old and New // by AlphaToothless95 //------------------------------// One of the guards that Midnight had sent to another base had started to question the behavior of the other one which involved sneaking away every now and then, skipping training, and often seeming disturbed whenever somepony talks about what Midnight will do to Zephyr Heights and the rest of Equestria. This was one of the many times when the guard had snuck away so he decided to follow her. What he found was truly a shock to him. There the guard was with the very ponies they were supposed to be hunting. They hadn’t noticed him so he had to stay quiet and out of sight. He decided to let them talk, see if he could figure out their plan. “You’re doing great Skylight, at this rate we’ll have destroyed all of Midnight's bases within another.. 6 days.” a yellow alicorn said, prompting the blue pegasus to frown. He was confused but not concerned. “Six days? I don’t think I’ll even make it past the second one. Midnight said that if we fail one more time.. I don’t even wanna think about what she’d do.. we all see Midnight for who she really is.. but no one else does. And we have yet to find the location of Starscout and her friends..” she says with a disappointed and tired tone. “Besides Midnight is just gonna have more bases built and more people taken prisoner if they don’t choose to follow her instead of Sunny.” she continues, she notices that the purple unicorn tenses up and looks angry whenever they mention Sunny. “Then maybe we can try and stop all this at the source.. Midnight.” came Askari’s determined response as she steps in between everyone. “If we play our cards right, we can take her down and make things right. We just have to stick together and work as a team.” she continues, earning hesitant looks from everyone around. “It’d be better than saving ponies who support a real murderer.. but if we stop Midnight.. when is it Starscout’s turn? ..When does she pay for what she’s done?” Nebula asked, earning a sigh from her friend and disappointed or annoyed groans from the rest of the group. “Nebula we talked about this, Sunny only did the terrible things she did because she was being controlled.” said Firestar, and she was about to continue but Nebula interrupted her. “I. Don’t. Care. No matter what you say, you will never be able to convince me of that. Whenever I get the chance, I will kill her, no matter who tries to stop me. And you Askari, I may have sided with you for now, but to be clear.. nothing is forgiven.” She says while glaring right into Askari’s soul, the zebra seeming unfazed in the slightest about it. “I know.. as for right now, Skylight, you should probably get back before someone starts to get suspicious.” she says and Skylight nods and puts her mask back on before starting to head back, the guard pony quickly hiding and planning to expose Skylight in front of everyone. He was just about to go do that but then he was grabbed from behind and strangled until he passed out. The pony that strangled him was a grey bat pony with dark blue hair. He had a hoodie over his head and a mask covering his mouth. He dropped the pony in front of the group and they all thanked him. “Good job Night Fury, thanks for looking out for us.” Askari says and the bat pony nods. “So what’s the plan now?” he asks and everyone seems to think about it until the yellow alicorn, Sunstrider, spoke up and explained. “For now, we wait until Skylight gives us the signal, then we move in quickly and quietly. No need for things to get bloody.” she says and everyone agrees. So that’s how their plan will go, now they just had to wait and hope it goes well. Back at Wings of Equestria HQ As Sunny unleashes blow after blow against the specialized punching bag, her friends watched with amazement as they could feel each blow from where they were sitting or standing and they saw how fast Sunny was delivering each punch. “She’s getting stronger by the hour, recovering way faster than we anticipated.” Thunderbird says to which everypony agrees until Artemis decided to remind them to be cautious. “She’s still not fully recovered yet, there are still some mental wounds that need tending to and she’s still barely able to run. If she goes too hard, she’ll run herself into the ground. So she needs to be careful and we need to continue to be there for her, got it?” Artemis asks as she turns to them all and they nod. “Good.” she says before Twilight and her friends all burst in and they look frantic. “Twilight! Girls! What is it?!” she asks and after catching their breath, they all take turns speaking and explain that Midnight and a large amount of her army is on their way. Hearing this, everyone got nervous, especially Sunny. Her breathing quickened as soon as she heard that and fear started to overwhelm her. “Nonononono.. no..” she says quietly as she starts to back up with a terrified look on her face. Immediately, Izzy was the first one by her side to comfort her. “Hey hey hey, it’s ok, I know you’re scared, we all are, but we’ve got this.. together.” she says and it helped to calm Sunny down a little bit but the fear was still there. “We’ve got the light..” she starts. “We’re coming in stronger..” Zipp says at the same time as her. “We’re in it together.” Hitch continues for her. “If you want it, it’s all inside your mind.” Pipp finishes and Sunny slowly looks up at them with every line of Pipp’s song. She smiles at them and grows a determined look on her face and nods. Twilight can’t help but smile proudly. “You’re all right.. I’m sorry for.. letting fear get the better of me for a minute there.. let’s go show Midnight the true magic of friendship.” Sunny says, her confidence returning and the lifelong sparkle in her eyes coming back with a newfound determination. They all got up and went to prepare, if Midnight was gonna be there soon, they might as well show her and her army a few new “surprises” that had been set up just in case something like this ever happened. The best of it? Courtesy of Pinkie Pie and Izzy.