Insanity War

by InsaneBatPony

Strategies

Insanity’s release had turned Equestria into a new land. In three short months he had conquered most of Equestria. His power was ever growing from his constant feeding on the sanity of the pony inhabitants. The resistance that had formed was being driven back by Insanity’s creations more every day. They had been pushed back to the last remaining stronghold, the royal city of Canterlot. The only thing keeping Insanity’s influence out of the city was Celestia’s magic.

In the short time they had, everypony was given a task and a unit to command. Rainbow Dash was given command of the Air Corps. Applejack was in charge of ground forces. Rarity was given the task to design armor with minimum weight and maximum protection for the troops. Fluttershy was in charge of intelligence and reconnaissance using her animal friends to spy on enemy commanders and their troops to gauge strength. Pinkie Pie was in charge of infiltration due to her odd ability to disguise herself, hide in almost any place and fit in amongst enemy troops should the need arise. Spike was in charge of crafting armor and weapons for the different units, using his fire breath and forge to create them, an aging spell was used on the dragon in order to let him be more useful to the cause and he was given the title of Forge Master. Princess Celestia decided to stay back and protect the non-combatant ponies in Canterlot with the magic shield she had crafted. Princess Luna was given command of strategy and attack plans. She resided in what is now the war room with the remaining elements of harmony.

Their first mission: Locate Twilight and return her to Canterlot. They sat around a large map of Equestria, all of them tense and wondering where to begin their search for Twilight.

“We should start here!” bellowed Rainbow Dash.

“Your pointing at Cloudsdale, dear” said Rarity in a quick rebuttal.

“I know that! I want to find Twilight as much as you guys do but I’m worried about my home.” She said with concern her voice faltering as she finished her statement.

“Were all worried about our homes Rainbow, But shouldn’t we start with Insanity’s last known location instead?” Fluttershy said rather quietly, but her suggestion was well placed.

“An where was that sugercube?” Applejack asked quizzically.

“My bunny Angel said that it was at the Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters.”

“Then we shalt start there.” Luna interjected. With a heavy heart and concerned look in her eyes she gave the order,

“Good Rainbow Dash, send the fastest flyer that thou have under your command, we cannot risk the Element of Loyalty disappearing or being injured if something were to go awry.” Luna cared for all the pony’s but war was raging and sacrifices were a necessity. “We shalt only need a Birdseye view of the Castle and surrounding area in order to plan the infiltration and investigation properly. “

“Right away Princess.” She said while saluting and she left the room to issue orders for the aerial recon and mapping mission.

“Fluttershy, could you send one of your bird friends to assist Rainbow Dash’s flyer?”

“Sure, I can do that.” She said timidly. She then also left the room to find the right bird to help Rainbow’s flyer.

“Spike, how goes the forging of the armor?” Luna asked the now larger purple and green dragon.

“Were a little behind schedule. The enchantments for the armor are taking a little longer than expected, but we should be done with the armor for the ground forces by tomorrow afternoon at the latest.” He said with a now deeper voice thanks to the aging spell. “The armor for the Air Corps is still in the planning and design stage though.”

Luna nodded and turned to Rarity.

“When will the designs for the Air Corps armor be complete?”

“I unfortunately have hit a snag in making the design light enough for quick and capable flight. I will do my utmost to finish the final design by the time the land crew armor is done, even if I have to pull an all-nighter.”

“Very well, see that it gets done. Both of you are dismissed.”

Rarity and Spike left to finish their respective projects hoping to be done by their promised time. Luna turned to Applejack who was wearing her wide brimmed hat, as always, and chewing on one end of a piece of hay.

“How goes the final stages of the ground forces training?” Luna asked AJ.

“Big Macintosh will be done with them by tomorrow morning guaranteed.” She said with a little pride.

“Fine. We begin the operation tomorrow at sun up! Dismissed!”

Those remaining left the war room. Luna called over one of her personal guards and asked him to give the plans to Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.

As the plans for the resistance were finalized and agreed upon Insanity was plotting his own strategy.
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“How should I dispose of those blasted resistance fighters?” He thought to himself while sitting on his throne made from the bones of deceased resistance fighters.

“Maybe I could force a frontal assault upon their strong hold in Canterlot? Hmmm, no, no. They might be expecting that. Hmm, ahh that’s it, I know the perfect thing to do. General!”

A pony came forward and bowed to her master while speaking.

“How can I serve you, my lord?”

“Take a small group to my old prison and make sure that the resistance don’t get too close to anything that I don’t want them to know about.”

“Right away sir.” She began to walk away when he called to her once again.

“Oh, and make sure to be highly secretive and cunning. Do use my favorite technique my dear, make them go crazy and try to do it with secrecy and cunning. My wolf blood boils at the thought of doing something that is not very secretive or done in an ambush style.”

“Your wish is my command.” She then exited the room to begin gathering the small force necessary.

Insanity got up and looked out of his palace window. To watch the sunset and fantasize of his ultimate victory against the resistance and his taking of Equestria and the ultimate victory of killing the Princesses to rule unchallenged.

"Those resistance fighters are probably looking for their old friend, they will start with the Castle. Too bad though she's mine now. Hahahaha."
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The sun had set over Canterlot. Celestia had retired to her quarters to rest and recover while Luna ruled her night and kept the barrier up around Canterlot. Rainbow Dash was finalizing the scouting plans with her chosen flyer, Fleetfoot, of the Wonderbolts Special Operations unit. Spike had issued orders to switch shifts and gave command to his second while he retired to his quarters to rest for the day ahead. Before lying down for the night he looked out of his small window up at the moon and looked at the stars and wished that his friend was there with him.

“Twilight, where did you go? I miss you, we all miss you. Please be ok.” He said tears beginning to well up in his eyes. He lay down to dream of his friend and a better time.

Rarity continued to design the armor for the Air Corps well into the night. Fluttershy had chosen her hawk for as Fleetfoot’s assistant in the mission. Applejack went to check up on Big Mac.

“Are they holding up to our expectations?” She asked her unusually large brother.

“Eeyup.” He said in his usual manner.

“Good. I hope this all works out tomorrow. Get some sleep Big Mac, I’ll keep watch for a while.”

With that Big Macintosh retired to his barrack with his set of troopers. They all wanted to rest but at sun up their mission begins.
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Insanity was retiring to his chambers now as well. He went to his windows and drew the curtain closed. As he walked to his private room he thought to himself,