"What if this plan fails, Master?" Colver asked over the short range communication crystal. "We could be stuck here for a long time."
"Well, it's too dangerous to call for help now. An airship without a power supply isn't gonna get us anywhere, and... there is something about this colt..." Star Swirl explained sitting out on a porch watching Sombra working on his chariot with the others in courtyard below. "You should be proud of your son. He gives without any thought of reward." He said to Shadow Flower, putting the cystal away as she came out to the porch.
"Well he knows nothing of greed. He has a..." Shadow Flower said not sure how to describe it.
"He has special gifts." Star Swirl guessed.
"Yes..." The pegasus mare nodded.
"He can see things before they happen. That's why he appears to have such quick reflexes. It is a Knight trait." The elder unicorn elaborated.
"He deserves better than a slave's life." Shadow Flower said saddly
"Had he been born with in the princesses influence, we would have identified him early." Star Swirl explained. "Harmony is unusually strong with him, that much is clear. Who is his father?"
"His Father? Um... Well... You see.." She said shyly.
"It's ok. I understand." He said putting a hoof on her sholder.
"Can you help him?" The mare asked looking at him
"I don't know." Star Swirl said sighing. "I didn't actually come here to free slaves."
"Hey Sombra!" A group of kids called as they ran into the courtyard.
"Working on your Chariot again?" A blue earth pony asked.
"Yep. I'm entered in the Summer Race tomorrow!
"What? With this??" The blue earth pony asked.
"You are such a joker, Sombra." A donky colt laughed.
"You've been working on that thing for years." A young female griffin stated.
"It's never gonna run." A zebra filly said.
"Come on, let's go and play ball. Keep racing, Sombra, you're gonna be bug squash tomorrow." A mean unicorn colt said as all the kids except the blue earth pony colt left.
"Hey! Wa-waush-ka'-ehe!" Sombra called to the deer who was carring over a box of crystals. "Care full with those Energy Crystals... If they go off in your hoof it will go numb for hours."
Taking what Sombra said into account, Wa-waush-ka'-ehe carfully put the box down before picking one up. Unfortunaty dispite his best efferts the crystal sent a jolt of energy through him, arking between his antlers before dissipating.
"Ouch muy tonge is fat. Muy togne. Oucho." The dear said his words garbled before going to sit down.
"You don't even know if this things gonna run." The blue earth pony colt said as Sombra stepped into the self driving chariot.
"It will." Sombra stated as Star Swirl walked over to the chariot, picking up one of the energy crystals from the box Wa-waush-ka'-ehe had brought over.
"I guess it's time we found out. Here use this Energy Crystal." Star Swirl said handing it to him. "Come on. Lets move away." He said as every one backed away.
Sombra put the energy crystal into place before he fliped a switch and the Chariot came to life glowing as it gave off a slight glow.
"It's working! It's working!" Sombra yelled happily.
Sombra sat on the porch of his hovel as Star Swirl tended to a cut on the colts foreleg telling him about the difrent parts of equestria and the princesses. When he told Sombra about Princess Luna he leaned back to look at the vast blanket of stars in the sky.
"Stay still, Sombra. Let me clean this cut." The elder unicorn said wiping at it.
"There are so many! And she puts them all up herself?" Sombra said astonished.
"Yep." Star Swirl said looking up at the stars himself and smiling.
"Your so lucky to travle all over Equestria going to diffrent kingdoms." The unicorn colt said jealously. "Has anyone been to them all?
"Hmm, Not likely." Star Swirl said thinking about it.
"Then I want to be the first one to see them all!" Sombra declared.
"Sombra, bedtime!" Shadow Flower called from inside the hovel
"Ouch!" The black colt said as Star Swirl put some of his blood onto a crystal.
"There we are, good as new..." The elder unicorn said wipping a patch of blood off his arm.
"Sombra! I'm not going to tell you again!" His mom said looking out onto the portch
"What are you doing?" Sombra asked seeing the bloody crystal.
"Checking your blood for infections." Star Swirl said getting up. "You have a big day tomorrow. Goodnight." He said as Sombra rolled his eyes and ran into the hovel. Once Sombra was out of ear shot he took the blood stained crystal and wraped it in a roll of paper before pulling out his comunication crystal. "Clover."
"Yes, Master." The unicorn mare responed.
"I need an analysis of this blood sample I'm sending you." Star Swirl explained.
"Wait a minute." Clover said setting up what she need.
"I need a Magic Resonates scan." He explaned before using a specal match to send the crystal to clover.
Reseving the crystal Clover put it into a container were it levitated in a red glow as a the analusus apeared on a small screen.
"The reading's off the chart... over twenty thousand!" Clover exclaimed. "Even you doesn't have a Magic Resonates that high!"
"No unicorn has." Star Swirl explained.
"What does that mean?" She asked.
"I'm not sure." The elder unicorn said looking up to see Shadow Flower in the doorway watching him before going back into the kitchen while he pondered the situation.
A sinister looking airship landed on top of a desert mesa. A ramp lowered as Aria Blaze walked out and over to the edge of the mesa and studied the landscape with a pair of binoculars. Spoting the lights of three different cities in the distance, her horn lit up and three football-sized crystal probe droids float out of the ship and head off in three different directions toward the cities.