Bolts of magic sizzled past the silver unicorns ear, singing her blue and cyan mane. "I thought you said we could escape without anypony noticing we were gone!" She yelled to Sweetiebelle.

"So did I. It must've been Trixie!" Sweetiebelle yelled back, her witch hat cutie mark absorbing the spell and reflecting it back through her horn.

With a snort of frustration Snow Flake jumped and twisted in midair to land facing their pursuers. "You guys look all hot and bothered. How about cooling off?" She quipped before she forced her ice magic into the ground. "Arctic Dungeon!"

The ice travelled rapidly along the ground, freezing the soldiers in their tracks.

"And now let's try a little neutral magic." She whispered as the frost on her horn vanished and it began to glow a deep blue. "Magical Symphony!" She yelled as her horn materialized musical notes and launched them forward. When the last note rocketed forward she turned and started galloping to catch up to the others. A sound like glass shattering filled her ears followed by painful screams. With a tiny burst of ice magic she left a calling card on the ground near the soldiers bodies.

"Holy Luna you're strong." Sweetiebelle said as Snow caught up to them.

"You should have seen her on the day the war began, she matched hooves with Celestia." Lightning smirked. He had ditched his torn uniform and put his brown coat and lightning bolt cutie mark on display for all to see. His silver-grey mane and tail made it look like he was carrying a pair of clouds.

"And here I thought that Rainbow was brave." Scootaloo gasped, her angel wing cutie mark catching the light of the sun. "You took on Celestia in hoof to hoof combat?"

Snow nodded. "With a little help from Lightning here and the Wonderbolts. Sure did."

"Well aside from dropping you and the others off, we didn't really do much." Lightning smiled. "I stuck around to watch though. That was one heck of a magic battle."

"You gotta tell us what happened." Scootaloo practically demanded. "I thought only Princess Luna or Twilight Lunara could match Celestia in a magic fight."

Snow smiled and began to recount the attack.


"We're nearing your drop point." Lightning remarked as he glanced at his passenger, a silver unicorn with a blue and cyan mane and tail.

"Thanks for the update." She smirked. "Remember. After I'm off your back get outta here. Nopony else needs to get hurt."

"You never told me your name ma'am. I'm Lightning. Lightning Talisman." Lightning told the mare as she prepared to jump.

"Snow Flake." Was all she said as she launched herself. "Cause I'm one in a million." She added before she formed a cone of ice around her body and angled towards the balcony of the royal palace.
The impact shattered her cone and she landed hard on her hooves. "Not the best way to start a mission." She groaned.
She looked up from her landing point as the others began their drops.
All over the palace grounds meteors were landing, lightning was hitting the ground, balls of darkness slammed through walls, the fountains exploded and pony statues made of earth and stone sunk up to their haunches.
A bolt of lightning slammed onto the balcony next to hers and a meteor smashed into the one beyond that.

"Nice landing Snow!" The lightning pony called out "The apocalypse siblingss are going to rock it again!"

"You said it Strike!" The fire pony yelled out. "We're the best of the Arcane mares. No way will even Celestia be able to stop us!"

"Don't get cocky Strike, Burning." Snow told her brothers as she smiled.

"Same to you sis! Strike Electro and Burning Flash are heading in!" was the simultaneous response she got.

Snow shook her head. "Snow Flake going in!"

The third floor guards hadn't put up much of a fight but it was the one hundred and fiftieth floor they were heading for.


They met up with a team of commando's. Nine ponies. Three mages and six rebel soldiers with spiked horseshoes on the ninetieth floor and assumed command of the team.

"Alright ponies, our objective is Princess Celestia. To reach her we need to get to floor one fifty. Once there the nine of you are to help us clean out the royal guards and then leave. My brother and sister and I can handle Celestia." Strike told them. "Any questions?" He asked. When no pony spoke up he smiled. "Alright then, pack 'em up and move 'em out soldiers."

The next sixty floors were moving faster than ever until they hit floor one forty nine. A rival team of three stood at the base of the stairs that lead to the final floor.

"Ahh the apocalypse siblings and a team of nine. How nice to finally meet you." The black earth stallion in the middle said. His blond mane and tail were short, way too short. He had his back to them. It showed how much he trusted his two accomplices who were wearing hoods. His cutie mark showed a white octagon with three red segments in it.

"Whiskey." Burning Flash snorted.

"Hello Flash. So nice to see you again." Whiskey said as he turned around to face the team of twelve. "And you brought Flake and Electro. It's a regular family reunion."

At that the two figures removed their hoods and revealed a green earth stallion with a short brown mane and tail. A knife in its sheath was his cutie mark. He stood on Whiskey's right.

On Whiskey's left was a blue earth mare with a blond mane and tail tied with a hair band. Her cutie mark was a red, scarab shaped object.

"What are you doing here?" Snow asked.

"Why I'm protecting the princess with my team, isn't that right Red Field? Valentine?" Whiskey asked the two earth ponies flanking him.

The two of them simply nodded.

"Get out of here." Strike told the other ponies. "We can handle this."

"Sir we can take them, we outnumber them four to one." One of the mages spoke up.

"We could outnumber them thirty to one and it would still boil down to just the six of us going at it. Get outta here!" Burning yelled.


Another bolt of magic shook Snow out of her story. "Sonuvabitch." She mumbled. "I'll continue later. Looks like the cavalry caught up to us."

"And we got our own cavalry!" Lightning yelled happily. "Wonderbolts incoming!"


"Delta-three-tango actual to Mike-three-Foxtrot, over." Rainbow Dash called into her mic.

"This is Mike-three-foxtrot go ahead Delta-three-tango actual, over." Fluttershy responded.

"Mike-three-foxtrot we have sighted enemy targets chasing down what looks to be some escaped POW's please advise, over." Rainbow relayed.

"Roger that Delta-three-tango, give me a sec…" Fluttershy said before silence filled the radio for about five seconds. "You are go to assist the POW's, over." She told Rainbow.

"Roger. Delta-three-tango actual out." Rainbow said before she clicked of her mic. "You heard her stallions and mares. Help those POW's!"