Chapter 42- The Invasion of District I
Me: Alright, the title should say enough.
Itachi: So we're going to be making our move, are we?
Me: Yes. Anyway, I don't own the rights to Naruto Shippuden or My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
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I woke up the next morning before Rarity did. I walked downstairs quietly and began to cook her breakfast. I didn't have much of an appetite myself, but I was almost certain Rarity would love not having to cook for a change. It was a small token of my gratitude toward her for letting me stay with her while my house was destroyed. I heard her approaching from behind me. I looked at her over my shoulder. "Hello beautiful." I said. "Morning darling." She said yawning. She walked over to me. "What are you doing dear?" She asked. "I decided I would cook you breakfast today." I said. "Ah, I see. Thank you, I appreciate it very much." She said. "Why don't you have a seat, it's almost done." I said. "Alright." She said. She walked over to the table and sat down as I put her breakfast in front of her. "It looks absolutely scrumptious." She said. I sat down across from her after washing and putting the dishes away. "You know," She said eating a fork-full of eggs. "It's almost as if we're already married." She said. I smiled. "Yeah, it does seem like that doesn't it? I'm sorry we can't actually get married yet. I promise we will when this accursed war is over." I said. She smiled. "It's alright. I know you're doing your best, and with that promise you made me, I'm certain we'll be married." She said. I chuckled. "Of course, you have to promise me that you won't die before we get married. I can't afford to bring you back to life again in times like this." I said. She put down her fork (or rather, made it stop levitating) and raised her right hoof in the air, placing her other over her heart. "I promise I won't die until we are married." She said. It took everything I had to keep myself from laughing. "That does seem a bit silly." She said. I nodded. "But the significance is still there." I said. She nodded. She finished eating and I put her dishes in the sink. "So, what are you going to be doing today?" She asked. "Well, I was thinking I'd start working. This war won't be won with me just hanging out with my friends." I said. "Oh, I see. Well, that's fine, I hope you are able to get something done today." She said. I nodded. Actually, as we were speaking Trixie was making her way into the Changeling Empire so we could thin out their ranks from the inside. I hugged Rarity before heading to the base. I made it in, this time, without any interruptions. At that moment what Princess Luna had said to me refreshed itself in my mind. "No, she's not Princess Luna anymore, she's Nightmare Moon." I reminded myself. I walked down the hall and entered the main room. I was surprised to see Princess Celestia there. "Princess Celestia? What are you doing here?" I asked. "Tid, please, I need you to come with me. There is something we need to discuss." She said. "Oh, alright." I said. She had a serious look on her face. She teleported us to the meeting room. I saw only Twilight there other than Princess Celestia and myself. "Where is Cadence?" I asked. "She is off on important business. Anyway, we have some very important things to discuss pertaining to the events that took place a few days ago." Celestia said. "Oh, is that what this is about?" I asked. She nodded. "How could you do something like that?" Twilight asked. "Twilight please, let me handle this." Celestia said. "Right, sorry." She said. "Now, Princess Cadence and Shining Armor both reported you acting very differently that day. They say you showed up at the Crystal Empire and attacked Shining Armor and Zecora, leaving them unconscious as you bound Cadence to the wall. You then proceeded to take hostage both Vinyl Scratch and her children. Is this correct?" She asked. I nodded. She nodded. "Now, Princess Cadence also said that you mentioned something about only doing this to save 'her'. Did you say this?" She asked. I nodded again. "Good. Now, this begs the question, who exactly was in jeopardy here?" She asked. I sighed. "I was only doing this because Queen Chrysalis had somehow bypassed my security measures and took Rarity hostage. She gave me an ultimatum: Vinyl Scratch or her children, for Rarity. I had three days to complete the task." I answered. "Is that so? Queen Chrysalis was able to bypass all of the security measures you had taken?" Celestia asked. I nodded. "So, you were only trying to save Rarity?" Twilight asked. I nodded again. I turned to Celestia. "I assume this returns us to our good standing?" I asked. She smiled. "Of course. However, we must deal with Queen Chrysalis. It seems she may be more powerful than we thought." She said. I nodded once again. "Will do, I'll get right on it ma'am." I said. She smiled. "Great, I have faith in your abilities Tid." She said. "I know, otherwise you wouldn't have made me Grand Prince." I said. She chuckled. "Alright, touche. Anyway, that will be all, unless Twilight has something to add?" She asked looking at Twilight. "No, I have nothing to add. That will be all." She said. Celestia nodded. "Alright, then I'll send you back now. You have a lot of work ahead of you." She said. I nodded and she teleported me back to the base. "Alright, Princess Celestia, no, all of Equestria is counting on me." I said. With that I entered my office.
I was contacted a few hours later by Trixie via a communicator I had given her for when she had successfully infiltrated the Changeling Empire. "Hello, Tid?" She said. "Yes, this is Tid. What is it Trixie, have you successfully infiltrated the Changeling Empire?" I asked. "Yes, I have. I've been doing as you asked and taking out the higher-ups. When do you plan to move in?" She asked. "I'll send forces immediately. Be out of there within three hours, but don't go too far, we may need you for the battle, if the situation calls for it." I said. "Right, will do. The Great and Powerful Trixie will of course assist in the battle. There is no one in this world more skilled in magic than I!" She said. "Er, right." I said. "Trixie signing off." She said. With that the communication ended. Immediately I tried to contact Shining Armor, but remembered he was away on important business with Princess Cadence. My efforts would be useless if I didn't have someone to lead the forces into battle. I would have to rely on someone else, then. Slowly the idea came to me. I would send Itachi and the others. With their strength, they could easily take down an entire nation. I contacted Twilight. "Twilight, I'm going to need you to contact the others as well as Itachi and tell them to head to District 1 of the Changeling Empire. There Trixie is waiting. We are going to make our attack." I said. "Why don't I go too? I have mastered quite a bit of magic since the fight against Discord; I'm sure I could-" "No, I have a different mission for you." I interrupted. "Oh, alright. I'll contact them right away." She said. "Thank you." I said. "No problem." She said. The communication ended. I sat back in my chair and smiled. "Good, hopefully this battle will go according to plan." I said. I did a quick check of the perimeter of Ponyville and Canterlot but didn't see anything suspicious and sighed. It would be a good three hours until the battle would actually start. Rarity was out in the field as well, so I couldn't pay a visit to her. I sighed again. I never thought I'd actually be bored in a war. I walked outside of the base went into the Everfree forest, where I had been doing my ritual ever since I had arrived. Then it hit me. I hadn't been doing my ritual these past few days. I looked down at myself to see if there were any signs of transformation, but there weren't any. I scratched my head in confusion. I sat down in the middle of the clearing and did something I never thought I'd have to do again. I cleared my mind and found myself in my subconscious, staring at the beast. He was chained to several pillars, chains wrapping his arms, legs, torso, and neck. He was a large beast, about four times the size of myself. I didn't see what his body looked like except that it was of a wolf-ish nature. He had long sharp teeth and even longer claws. His multiple tails whipped around behind him furiously. "What do you want?" He asked. "I want to know what's going on here." I said. "What do you mean?" He asked. "I mean, why haven't you tried to take over my body? I mean, don't get me wrong, I like not having to do my ritual everyday, but it doesn't seem like you." I said. He smiled. "There are two reasons for this. One, I couldn't take over your body ever since you awakened the Mangekyou Rinnegan. I couldn't fight against the amount of resistance you put up, even without your ritual." He said. "And the second reason?" I asked. "Simple, I've grown fond of you." He said. "You've grown fond of me? Yeah, that's likely." I said skeptically. "What? You don't believe me?" He asked. "A leopard can't change his spots." I said. "But I'm a wolf." He said. I tilted my head in irritation. "Alright, alright, fine. Don't believe me. I was just trying to be friendly." He said. "Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it." I said. "If you want, I could prove it to you." He said. "Oh yeah? How would you go about doing that?" I asked. "I won't attempt to take any of your Chakra anymore, for one thing. For another, if you allow me to cooperate with you, I'm sure we'd make an impressive team." He said. "Really, you, who has always wanted to kill me even before you were sealed inside of me, want to team up with me? Pardon me if I find that a little hard to believe." I said. "Alright, well, just think it over. I'll be waiting for your response." He said. "Fine, I'll think it over." I said. He grinned as I left.
When I opened my eyes again and checked the crows I saw the battle was about to begin. Itachi and the others were walking toward District 1 slowly, the wind blowing their dresses and cloaks around them. The wind also picked up dust, blowing it around in clouds, adding to the atmosphere. They stopped about a hundred meters from the building, or series of buildings I should say. There were about four or five buildings standing before them. "Are you ready?" Itachi asked the others. They nodded. "Good, then let's get started." He said. "Rainbow Dash, you know what to do." He said. She nodded and turned her two front hooves to missile launchers. She fired and around ten or so missiles flew toward the buildings. They impacted and shook the building with their explosions. Thousands upon thousands of Changelings poured from the building, making directly for the the assailants. "Rarity." Itachi said. She nodded and ran toward the thousands of Changelings. Her mane flowed along behind her in the wind as she ran, making her look almost like the princesses. In fact, if I didn't know she wasn't a princess, I would've thought there were wings under her dress. The Changelings surrounded her in a cloud of black and blue. A few seconds later the Changelings were sent flying in all directions. Rarity flipped her hair and stood in a victorious stance that made her look absolutely beautiful, even in the dusty wind.
"Fluttershy." Itachi said looking at her. "Right." She said nodding. She jumped high into the air and summoned Ryujin. They landed on the ground with a huge crash that shook the earth. "Are you ready Ryujin?" She asked. "You know I am!" He said. I had forgotten about Ryujin. With his added strength, we would be all that more likely to win this war. He changed into his wind form. His body remained the same, but the end of his tail was transformed into a swirling cyclone. His body changed it's color from the usual brown-green mix to a gray and white mix. "Alright let's do this!" Fluttershy said. Ryujin opened his mouth and a sphere of wind formed, swirling so fast it was actually visible. "Rarity get out of there!" Itachi shouted. She looked back and saw Ryujin charging his attack and her eyes widened. She ran back as fast as she could. Ryujin continued to gather wind in his mouth, increasing the size of the sphere until it was about three times the size of Fluttershy. He closed his mouth, raised his head and forced the wind forward in a vortex of swirling destruction. The Changelings, who had just recovered from the last attack, watched in fear as the cyclone sped toward them. They attempted to escape, but were unable to do so. They were each pulled into the vortex and several hundred were ripped to shreds. The rest survived somehow, and were now dizzy. "That was powerful, but I know Ryujin's limitations. He wouldn't be able to do something like that again for at least five minutes, and we don't have five minutes." Itachi said turning to the others. "What are we going to do?" Rainbow Dash asked. "I have an idea, but we'd need to gather them in one place." Rarity said. Itachi considered this. "Does anyone else, have any suggestions? I'm not saying Rarity's idea isn't a good one, but I'm just trying to see if anyone has any other ideas." He said. No one else offered any ideas. He looked at Rarity. "Alright, I guess we'll go with your plan." He said. "What about you? Can't you use that 'Tsukuyomi' or whatever on those guys?" Rainbow Dash asked. Itachi shook his head. "I can't control that many living things at the same time. Something like that is only possible for the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, using the Ten-Tails to cast an infinite Tsukuyomi over the world." Itachi said. "Oh." She said. He looked at Rarity once more. "You say for your plan to work we need to gather them in one place, correct?" He asked. She nodded. "Rainbow Dash and Applejack, do you think you could do that?" He asked. "You bet!" Applejack said, eager to get into the fight. "You can count on us!" Rainbow Dash said saluting. They each headed in the direction of the huge cloud of the Changelings. Rainbow Dash flew incredibly fast around them, creating a rainbow colored tornado that sucked them in. Apple jack took care of the ones on the ground, kicking and herding them into the tornado. "Now get out of there!" Rarity shouted. They quickly made their way back to the others. Rarity walked forward as they did so, her eyes closed and her horn surrounded in a blue aura. The black ball of gravity started to form again. She concentrated and sent it above the cloud of Changelings. It grew as it flew. The Changelings looked up at the black sphere before being dragged toward it. Chunks of earth soared into the air, being ripped from the ground. The chunks of earth hit the a few of the Changelings, dragging them even faster toward the center. A few of the Changelings started to fly away from the ball, struggling to overpower the massive gravitational pull of the sphere. Rarity concentrated harder, her face straining with the effort of making the sphere stronger. At this point massive amounts of rock were being ripped from the ground, smashing the Changelings that failed to escape the already massive gravitational pull. The few hundred Changelings that had begun to escape where pulled even stronger toward the center. They couldn't resist and we're soon after crushed by massive boulders the size of hills. The sphere stopped pulling in rock once all of the Changelings were stuck inside. Rarity faltered and her front legs gave out. She raised herself onto her knees. "Itachi, would you be so kind as to use your Amaterasu on the sphere?" She asked. He nodded and activated his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. "Amaterasu!" He said closing his left eye. The black flames burst to life and covered the sphere, enveloping it in the black flames. The sphere continued to burn for a good ten minutes. Rarity was panting, exhausted from all of the energy she had exerted. Itachi finished the sphere and returned to his normal Sharingan. He crouched down and put his hand on her shoulder. "Are you alright?" He asked. "Yes, I'll be fine, I'm just a bit weak right now." She said smiling, but still panting. He threw her arm around his shoulder and helped her up, having to stoop down a little to reach her height. "Alright, let's go back." He said. The others nodded and they all started the long walk home.
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