Jet led the group forward, passing several more rock formations on the way. After a few more minutes, they came up over a large hill just as the sun was coming up over the horizon. Across a small valley was a large steel fortress. It had a small, narrow land bridge leading up to the front gate. Surrounding the fortress was a moat of green liquid that seemed to steam as it touched the rock around it. "There it is. Castle Doomstat, the place Star Swirl has been hiding all this time." Jet said as he pointed to the fortress. "Why's it called Castle Doomstat?" Twilight asked. "Because Star Swirl killed the previous owner and took the fortress for himself. "Do we have a plan?" AJ asked. "Yes. I've been studying this place for a while now." Jet replied as he pulled out a piece of parchment and a looked at his watch. "Right about now, the guard shifts should be changing. If we move quickly, we can ambush the front gates before they know what hit them." Jet went on as he pulled out a pair of binoculars. "On my signal, we move up to the rock formation just outside the gates..." Jet said. He watched through the binoculars as the guards along the walls shifted on their feet, clearly uncomfortable. After a few minutes, the current guards moved away, leaving the barracks unguarded. "Now..." Jet said as he moved down the side of the hill quickly. Once the group was behind the rock formation, Jet checked the barracks through the binoculars just as the shift change made it up to the wall. "Good, undetected. Now, our plan of attack." Jet pulled out the parchment, which was an intricately drawn map of the fortress, and pointed to a spot on the far wall. "This is the armory of the fortress. A well placed explosive will send the whole south wall crumbling. It will scramble the guards and allow us to move in amongst the chaos unnoticed." Jet explained. "Where do you propose we get and explosive from?" Twilight asked. Jet sighed and opened a panel on his charred arm, revealing a timer. Dash gasped. "You mean..." She began. "I'm afraid so..." Jet looked away. "Let's just get it over with..." Jet said as he stood. Suddenly Dash pushed him to the ground. "What the fuc..." Jet began as he looked up to see an arrow sticking out of her back. He caught her before she fell and looked up at the fortress wall to see Star Swirl and an archer glaring at him. "No no no no no." Jet was saying as he felt Dash going cold in his grip. "D-Don't... do... anything... rash..." She said to him just before her eyes rolled back and her body went limp.
Jet stood and faced the fortress as the archer shot another arrow at him. He caught it just before it could pierce his heart and he threw it as hard as he could, nailing the archer between the eyes. "Star Swirl! You're a dead man!" Jet yelled as he took a step toward the fortress gate. "What about the plan?" Twilight asked, stopping Jet in his tracks. He looked over his shoulder at her. "Fuck the plan! He dies today!" Jet yelled as he rushed the gate. "Get the blast shield closed now!" Star Swirl yelled from inside. A large solid piece of steel covered the gate. "You think this hunk of steel will protect you?!" Jet yelled as he charged at full speed, ramming his shoulder into the blast shield and tearing through it like paper. As the dust settled, Jet could see the courtyard filled with an army of changeling soldiers. He popped his shoulder back into place and dropped his jacket, revealing a set of steel wings tipped with razor sharp feathers. He chuckled. "Bring it on." He said calmly to the battalion of changelings in front of him. Several of them charged at him with spears, but he simply ducked and sliced them in half with his wings. The rest of the battalion charged him with various weapons. He dodged and sliced his through several of their ranks before stopping, covered in green blood. "Do you not see?! You can't win this! Give up now and I may let you live!" Jet yelled to the army. "We live only to serve our master!" One of the changelings yelled back. Jet smirked and drew his twin blades, clicking together their hilts. "Very well! Allow me to introduce my partners, Agni and Rudra!" Jet yelled in reply as he began to spin the combined blades, a vortex of air rushing towards him as the blue handled blade glowed. Before long, a tornado forms around him, sucking in all the soldiers from the courtyard. Suddenly, flames erupt from his red hilted blade as it glowed in unison with it's twin. The flames lit the tornado like a candle as the blades lifted from Jet's hand and continued to spin. He flew up above the tornado and watched as the flames engulfed it. Once it was completely lit up, he dove down and sliced through it several times repeatedly. After a full minute, he dropped to the eye of the tornado and grabbed the blades, forcing them to stop spinning. The tornado subsided and a flurry of green blood rained down, coating the courtyard and painting Jet green. Star Swirl stood at the top of a large staircase, clapping sarcastically.
