Chapter 16: The Return

(doing simple math, 1 day on earth is a little more than 4 days in Equestria. And let's say they were on Earth for a day.)

The day after the three disappeared
It was a grey day, There were grey clouds hanging in the sky but the rain wouldn't fall. Rainbow Dash went towards the Library to check up on Twilight. ''Hey Twi, are you there?'' She softly knocked on the window. Twilight appeared in the window and opened it. She looked like she had been crying all night. ''Hey Dash,...Stop staring at me, I know I look horrible like this.'' Twilight backed off to the mirror and brushed her mane in style. ''I'm sorry Twi, I know it is terrible what happened but we must go on. You heard what that grey unicorn said. We will be next.'' Twilight sighed, Rainbow Dash was right. But she didn't want to go on, she would be happy with Bluestar but she was too late, he was gone.

When Twilight came outside she saw that the rest of the Mane six were already there. Applejack looked like she didn't had any sleep. There was only silence and nods of understanding. Twilight took the lead and they went in town, not knowing what they wanted to do. When they past a café they went inside to sit down and ordered a drink. When their order arrived silence still ruled. But the silence abruptly disappeared when everything started to shake violently. ''What in tarnation is going on?!'' Applejack yelled. ''I-I-I don't-t-t kno-o-ow-w-w-w.'' Pinkie replied, clearly having a blast of fun. After a minute the shaking stopped as fast as it began. ''Is it over?'' Rarity asked.

A voice suddenly boomed through the air. ''Good morning Equestria! How is your morning? A little shaken up? Hahahaha.'' The Mane Six ran outside, everypony in town was outside, looking for the voice but no one claimed to be the voice. ''Aw, what's the fun if you can see me? But that aside, I have an announcement to make.'' They looked in the air and waited for the announcement. The voice cleared its mouth before continuing. ''From today on, we, The Lethal Guardians, declare war on Equestria, and namely the princesses. You have 48 hours to reply a surrender or we will come and destroy anyone in our way.'' Pony's everywhere began to panic when the voice sounded one last time. ''Enjoy the remainder of your measly lives.'' The voice laughed and disappeared.

''What was that about? A declaration of war? That hasn't happened in…in…ever.'' Twilight began. ''Why won't we go to princess Celestia?'' Dash replied. ''She knows what to do.'' Rarity nudged Dash. ''While there is a crisis? She is so busy now she doesn't even think about us.'' The moment she said that a bright light flashed near them, it was princess Celestia. ''My little ponies, I have a request for you.'' The mane six bowed and looked up again. ''I want you six to help with the evacuation of all pony's to Canterlot, we will use it as a safe haven for everyone.'' The mane six looked at her. ''You accept the war?'' Celestia shook her head. ''I rather not but those won't stop when they conquer Equestria. They will do more things that will harm the pony's here and I won't let that happen.'' She turned around and walked away while the mane six bowed. ''I will now return to Canterlot to prepare for all the refugee's.'' She disappeared in a flash and Twilight looked at the others. ''Well, let's go to work.'' The others nodded and they began to round up everypony they could find.

Two days later somewhere in Equestria
The grey unicorn appeared in the middle of a big room where her brother and father were waiting. ''Welcome back Space Rift. Are our troops ready to begin the invasion?'' Rift bowed before her father and answered. ''Yes father, they are ready, but how did you know that they wouldn't surrender?'' The hooded figure laughed. ''Because, my dear daughter, I know Celestia, she would make one stand and one stand only at Canterlot. Maybe one line at the border but nothing more. She knows that there will be casualties whatever she did.'' The hooded figure walked down as Green Spectre walked down next to his sister. ''Green Spectre, Space Rift. You two will command the army, I have some preparations to make.'' The hooded figure walked into the shadows and disappeared. ''Well sis, let's burn them down.'' Green Spectre said evilly.

Canterlot
Twilight walked through Canterlot to the library. She needed to get her head out of everything so she went to her favorite thing before those three came, reading. Ever since the evacuation she noticed that ponies were restless and cramped up. Even though the Canterlot residents offered rooms to the evacuees, there was a lot of people that didn't had a roof above their heads. Even the library was full of ponies. When she arrived at the library she saw that most of the evacuees had woken up and left the library. It was a deal they made, library at day, hostel at night. Twilight went to the far back corner of the library and looked for the book she wanted. ''Oh come on, where is that book?'' She said irritated. ''Sorry, can I help you?'' A voice said behind her, she jumped and turned around. It was an light orange Pegasus with dark yellow mane and tail with an orange. He was holding the book Twilight was looking for. ''Yes, I was looking for that book, are you reading that?'' The stranger shook his head. ''Nope, just finished it. Wait you look familiar, what is your name?'' ''My name is Twilight Sparkle, nice to meet you.'' She lifted her hoof as a greet. ''I'm Solar, nice to meet you too.'' They laughed while they shook hooves. But her smile quickly turned to a sad frown, as she realized he reminded her of Bluestar. ''What is the matter, did I do something wrong?'' Solar asked. Twilight shook her head. ''No, I'm sorry. You remind me of a lost friend.'' Solar looked at her. ''Do you mean he was send to fight the enemy?'' He referred to the fact that Celestia send out an advanced guard. The front line. Twilight thought and nodded, he was indeed fighting these enemy's. ''That's horrible.'' Solar spoke and Twilight looked up. ''Talking like he is already dead. I may not be very familiar with how you do things but where I come from we don't lose faith in those until we see their body's. No Body means the he is still alive, nothing more, nothing less.'' Twilight looked at him, even though he misunderstood the situation he lit the flame of hope in her. She gave Solar a hug and he was in shock. ''Huh, what?'' Twilight smiled brightly and began to go to the door of the library. ''Thank you Solar, I'll trust him more thanks to you… Oh and can I take that book?'' Solar nodded and the book immediately flew out of his hooves. ''Ok, bye… Twilight Sparkle huh? This could be better than expected.'' With that Solar continued to walk around in the Library, looking for the book he was looking for since he came in Canterlot. 'Portals and Magic Teleportation's.'

Twilight ran towards the house she and the rest of the mane six reside, also there was Granny Smith, Big Mac, Applebloom, the Cake family, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Spike. Spike noticed her coming towards the house with a big smile on her face. ''Ok, that's definitely creepy.'' He said. ''What is creepy Spike?'' Fluttershy asked and Spike pointed to Twilight. ''She is smiling like she found one of the rarest books in Equestria, but that isn't really possible.'' The others also looked at the smiling Twilight while she walked in the house. ''Hey Everypony.'' She said cheerfully while walking to her room with the new acquired book. ''Wait up Twilight. Why are you happy? Did you hear a good joke? Tell me. Tell me!'' Pinkie Pie begged her. Twilight opened her mouth to answer but was interrupted by a bright flash. Princess Celestia appeared and didn't look amused. ''The advanced guard has been… eliminated. The enemy is coming closer as we speak. I beg of you, please use the elements of harmony to stop them.'' The mane six looked surprised, Celestia looked serious like never before. ''The elements of harmony could probably help defend this city, you can save all of us.'' No sound was heard, no voice or birds made a noise. Until Twilight moved forward. ''Princess it would be an honor to defend everypony.'' Celestia smiled. ''Thank you, go to Shining Armor to get your orders. If we can hold the defense up for long enough, Luna and I can use our magic to repel them.'' The mane six nodded and Celestia left. ''Twilight, will you now tell us why you are so happy?'' Twilight smiled. ''Just hoping. Now let's get busy. We need to get to Shining before it's too late.''

Entrance of Canterlot
Shining Armor was waiting, next to him was Big Macintosh. Help would arrive shortly but they could already see the enemy banner coming towards them. ''Come on, where is the back up?'' The enemy was closing in and the shield wasn't strong enough to last days under attack. When he heard galloping Shining Armor felt relief, he turned around and saw his little sister and her friends with the elements of harmony. After a few seconds he just nodded. There wasn't any time for social chat. The shield had to be strengthened and now. ''Ok ponies, let's rock.'' Twilight said and they concentrated on their elements. Within a few seconds they all began to glow and a Rainbow shot up towards the top center of the shield. When the Rainbow hit the shield the colors spread all across it. The shield was stronger than ever.

Just in time, The army on the other side reached their destination. A few of them came closer and touched the shield, testing it. But the shield gave them a shock that knocked them out instantly. The rest of the army remained emotionless, instead they made an oath and two figures came closer, a green earth pony and a grey unicorn. ''Hello Canterlot, time to pay up.'' Green Spectre said. He smiled and came close to the shield. He observed it and just nodded. He then turned around and gave another nod at his sister. ''Men! Get ready.'' The soldiers stood in formation. ''Ready sis?'' Space Rift nodded. Her horn glowed and it looked like she was preparing something. Green Spectre then raised his hind hooves that also began to glow. With a strong stretch the hooves hit the shield, the shield began to shake and show cracks. When parts of it began to fall Shining Armor put on his helmet. ''You two, warn the entire city and make sure everyone gets inside. When that shield gets down, we will be sitting ducks.'' Two soldiers saluted and galloped away. ''What about us Shining?'' Twilight asked but before he could answer the Shield exploded with a loud bang. Everypony looked shocked and then they realized they were all in more danger than ever before.

Green Spectre shot forward to Shining Armor with his hoof ready for a punch and Big Macintosh jumped between them to block the attack. Space Rift let go her magic and shot a shockwave that went straight for the mane six. Twilight closed her eyes and felt something on her side. When she opened her eyes a little she saw that it was Solar, he pushed her out of the way. She was amazed by it but not as amazed as what she saw next, nobody expected that to happen but Twilight had tears in her eyes when she saw it. I was a Blue Flaming Tornado that came down from the heavens.

Green Spectre stopped his attack when he saw it. The blue tornado blocked the shockwave of magic that went straight towards Twilight. Out of the tornado shot a few Ice Arrows that hit Spectre in his face. He quickly jumped back and watched as the tornado slowed down. There were standing three familiar ponies in front of them. Applejack was the first to respond. ''Blade!''

A few seconds earlier, far above Canterlot(Blade POV)
We saw a light at the end of the void between time and space. It was really creepy, nothing was there, no color, no sound, no light or darkness. It was really just void. When we got out we saw that we were far above Canterlot and saw a shield around it. ''Hey Bluestar, what is that?'' I asked, but before he answered we saw that the shield was shattered. Icestorm, who was standing on me suddenly jumped off. ''They're in trouble.'' We shot down and saw indeed an army standing outside Canterlot and two ponies attacking the mane six. ''Oh no you don't.'' Bluestar said when he began making his fire tornado. I grabbed Icestorm and flew us in the tornado, the three of us were now one big flaming tornado, but strangely we could still see what was happening. ''The green one is going to hit Big Mac!'' I said and I felt a shudder soon after. Icestorm's horn began to glow and she looked mad. ''Uh oh.'' I said and we landed on the ground. When the Tornado disappeared Bluestar was looking angry at Space Rift and Icestorm was looking angry at Green Spectre. ''Blade!'' I heard and turned around. I saw Applejack and was happy. Nothing happened to her.

''How… How can you three still be alive?!'' The Space Rift yelled. ''You should be obliterated in the fabric of space itself.'' I just laughed. ''Well, I guess space likes us. And I turned around to Applejack, who was closer than I thought when I suddenly saw an orange blur in front of me. Icestorm's horn glowed and she made a wall of Ice. Trying to give them some time. ''Blade, ya're back.'' She cried and hugged me. Bluestar also saw a blur appearing in front of him, it was Twilight that also jumped on him yelling. ''you're alive!'' But the fun didn't last long as hoped for when the ice wall shattered and an angry Green Spectre appeared before them. ''Kill them!'' He yelled and pointed towards us. The army behind him began their charge. ''Blade, you handle the grunts, Icestorm and I will take care of those two.'' He looked ready for a big fight so I just let him go. Icestorm also looked ready to kill. I looked at the grunts and they were charging straight at us. I fired my wings up and sped up towards the grunts, I rammed the first row and they all were blasted away, for soldiers they were surprisingly weak, or we were too strong. Then I dived down towards the other grunts and began to hit them till they knocked out. By going in a straight line from front to back. Some ducked and continued their invasion in the Capital.

Icestorm Battle
Icestorm made ice arrows and launched them towards Green Spectre who dodged the arrows and came fast to Icestorm, when he was close enough he tried to punch her. Icestorm couldn't defend herself and readied herself for the hit. Suddenly Big Mac appeared before her and bucked Green Spectre in his chest. He fell backwards and Looked at Big Mac angrily. ''Thanks Big Mac, you're not as wimpy as I thought you were.'' Big Mac smiled but not for long, Green Spectre was already up and punched Big Mac in the face. Big Mac flew away into a building. ''you're going to regret that.'' Icestorm said angrily and she made 2 arrows. ''Again ice arrows, come on.'' Green Spectre said but Icestorm continued, the arrows began to shine yellow and began to make crackling sounds. Green Spectre looked and saw that they were thunder arrows and shot towards him at lightning speed. ''Oh Shit…''

Meanwhile at Bluestar
Bluestar flew towards Space Rift and started turning like a tornado. Rift let out a shockwave that rivaled the power of the tornado. The two attacks kept raging against each other and were deflected everywhere. The buildings surrounding them began to crumble, the two were almost at their limit and broke up. Bluestar grabbed his weapon and hold on both ends. Rift was angry looking at him. ''I'm more powerful.'' She said to herself. Bluestar raised his Sansetsukon and rammed it in the ground. The ground began to shake and Rift couldn't stay standing. Spike's shot up from the ground and headed in the direction of Space Rift. ''Ahhh!'' Space Rift was hit and fell on her side. She laid with her head towards her army. She couldn't believe what she saw, her army was mostly gone, hit of the mountain or just ran away. They were afraid of one little Pegasus. She then stood up and shot a beam of light towards Bluestar. It was a direct hit and Bluestar could barely stand after receiving it.

Blade's sight
I was just done with reducing the enemy's numbers for the royal guars of Canterlot. Our side was more favorable. I looked at Icestorm and Bluestar and saw they were busy with their own foes. Something suddenly grabbed my attention, red thunderbolts above Canterlot. ''What is that?'' I asked while flying up towards it. There I found a hooded figure, flying. ''Welcome Flarestorm.'' He said. ''Wait, how do you know my name?'' The hooded figure came towards me. ''You look just like your grandfather.'' He said and fired a red thunderbolt at me. It hit my wing armor and the blast disrupted my flight. ''Who are you?'' I asked when I regained my momentum. The hooded figure laughed. He grabbed his hood and threw it towards me. ''Cliché!'' I said while the hood was blocking my vision. I flew up and took a good look at the hooded figure. He was a black Pegasus with Red hair. He had a scar on his right eye and electrical charges were seen everywhere on his body. ''I'm Dark Thunder. The destroyer of Canterlot.'' I looked at him and said: ''Dude, come on, Canterlot is still… standing… now… oh no.'' Dark laughed. ''Indeed Flarestorm, You're just in time to see everyone you care about be destroyed.'' Dark clouds appeared around us and I heard them rumbling. I flew towards him, I had to stop it! Dark stretched out his hoof and thunder shot at me from the clouds it was as a prison, it kept me at place while I had to watch the thunder preparing to go down.

''Say goodbye Flarestorm. To everything you love down there.'' Dark laughed and he pointed down. Red thunder went down towards Canterlot, towards my friends… ''no, no, NNNOOOOOO!''

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A/N: And we're back, School is still killing me and trust me, it's KILLING me. :P
But as you have seen, there is a fourth O/C. coming in. I'll leave that to your imagination :D