Spark the Pikachu
Location: Round Table
Status: Literally Planned for Four Years OOC
"No." My voice was quiet but firm. "Not once, while. Keeping her from following us or the refugees means keeping her sight on something much more important to her, and I'm a little bit over distractions and nipping at the edges. No, I want to hit that fleet while we evacuate . . . and while we steal the Elements. Getting Luna out would be a plus, but if we're going to end this, we need the Elements and people to use them, and we can't find out who they are until we have them."
"Yeah, that makes sense," Spark muttered. "It's been a while since I multi-dipped in a task, but two at once isn't too problematic. Have to figure out how we split everything though."
He sighed.
"I'll have to be doing the temple, too. I've been cleaning out dungeons for years, so I could do it fast, but..."
Him
not being there when they attempt to steal the Elements.
Only then did I look up, fully expecting expressions of shock. But if they thought the idea was daring, I'd love to see what they thought of the actual plan. "Rythian told us about the power of that bomb. Let's ask S3 if we can blow it up high enough that it wrecks the fleet without damaging anything on the ground. Either way, we hit that fleet with our big guns while we send a team in to escort Cadence and Shining Armor to the vault and get what we need to end this damn war. Between the two of those, there's no way she'll pay attention to our moving van."
That, however, was a lot more problematic. Still, the bomb was sitting there, and the longer it sits without any use, the worse it was to even have.
And, well - he was a little sick and tired of being slightly terrified every time he stuck his paw into his bag. He wanted the damn thing
out.
Still have the issue with the door - I don't want to rely on the classic weakness of the walls being weaker, and Celestia vanished.
"I'm against that on a moral level, but honestly the situation's really fucked anyway, they have enough people to do rescue for them, and I'm still not actually sure if Umbra's bag here is connected to some personal storage he set up a year ago or connected to the treasury back home in the middle of Paradise so
any safe manner of using the damn thing, I'll take it." He admitted with a hard growl at the end of his small rant. "I'll table that for later because I'd rather focus on the second part of that. We still need a solid plan to actually get the damn things, and we don't have that," Spark warned. "I've thought up a couple of methods of
possibly getting past the door locking those artifacts in the vault, a little as a thought experiment, but also a little because we don't know if there's an additional step in between putting their horn in, like casting some identification spell or whatnot, and there's a solid chance there could be some built-in punishment for those trying to put their horns in a maximum security lock. One with dire consequences, like shattering the horn, because the absolute bitch possessing her doesn't actually give a shit."
He put up a paw for a moment, and the Pikachu fished through his bag before putting down a single Wonder Orb - almost solid dark green, but with small symbols in lighter green that bent inwards, like grasping an object.
"This is a Trawl Orb. It takes
every loose item located in the same building on the same floor until you run out of space, prioritizing on the closest first. Food, seeds, weapons, armor, it really doesn't care. They're great for Mystery Dungeons, but they're pretty much a restricted item for a reason. I have no idea if, at all, if this would work with the protections, but that's just the first idea and option that popped up."
"There's the Warp Seeds, too." He slips out a dozen tiny, blue seeds, shaped like crystals and wrapped with a small vine from its top. "Basically, teleport all over the floor and hope one of them lands us inside the safe. It might work, it might not, don't know if the protections stop me from just leaving via Escape Orb, or stop a Warp Seed from getting in, and we won't know until the situation solves itself."
"And my other options are in increasing levels of firepower and blowing up the walls, with the lowest option basically using a One-Shot Orb to blow up the door and its protections," A dark purple orb, menacing in its aura with harsh, jagged spikes appearing all over it. "And the highest being a One-Room Orb to cut the castle in half after forcing some sort of evacuation." He gingerly took his paw out of the bag, empty-handed, and shivered at the idea. "I'm honestly really glad we got the help. Would rather not test that particular theory about its viability."
"I've been thinking on this since
before we even reached Equestria and it's still not solid. I'm...not actually sure if I brought this up before, actually. Damn it." He admitted with a frown. "Luckily, you don't really need me for breaking in - just the items as a backup, so I can split up and clear out the jungle temple for the new base. Not fond of the split though that's honestly just personal opinion, not a necessity."
He scrambled up a set of small parchments from his bag, passing it forward. Most of them were completely clean of additional marks, showing a nice, clean map of an interior, but one, in particular, had little annotations of guards and arrows, detailing guard patterns, and three or four had written marks detailing much louder methods of getting to the center vault through walls.
"Map of the floor, based on the dreamwalk I had with Luna back then," He confirmed. "I had a personal strategy to work with this, based on how well we could sneak - or can't, for that matter, but if I'm not coming, a lot of those plans went up in smoke."
He rolled his eyes. "They're all Umbra levels of planning anyway, absolutely nothing solid - all flexible."
