My vision came to me as a blurred mess and I could hear muffled voices, eventually they started to clear, revealing the operating room and the scientists

“Vuur, can you hear me?” one of them asked, I nodded.

“Yeah” I noticed my voice had a slight mechanical quality to it. I slowly began to sit up.

“Take it easy,” A scientist said, placing a guiding hand on my shoulder. “Your mind will still be adjusting to your new form” I swung my legs over the edge and looked at my hands, they were bigger, and fully mechanical, yet I could still feel with them.

“I feel weird,” I said.

“That’s perfectly normal, it should pass in a few minutes,” the scientist said.

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I was eventually allowed out of the operating room and led into a hall of some sort where the rest of my team was waiting (I’d waited till all the others had started the process before allowing the scientists to upgrade me). They were all different now, they still looked somewhat like there their original species, but there were some notable changes.
Minion was even bigger, about eight and a half feet, and he now had a mask of x-ray vision instead of accuracy. His armour was gun metal and black with gold shoulder armour, chest armour and mask, one noticeable difference was his shield was gone. Autumn’s colour was pretty much the same, except she had a silver mask and armour on her chest and shoulders. Vinyl’s armour was grey; with electric blue highlights, the same shade as her mane, and her mask, shoulder and chest armour was silver. Boris was armoured in green, with silver mask, shoulder and chest armour, his rifles were now gone. Scar was much larger, almost reaching Minion in terms of height. He also had gold chest armour, shoulder armour and mask. Instead of hands he had a set of nasty looking claws. The rest of his armour was green and blue; green abdomen, upper arms and lower legs, his lower arms and upper legs were blue. His Gatling guns were also gone. All of their armour was to the standard Hero Factory designs, although pistons jutted out of their leg and arm armour. My armour was slightly different; the shoulder armour was much more ornate compared to the standard designs available, this was to signify my position as High-Lord General.

“You okay?” I asked. They nodded.

“Talk about an upgrade” Vinyl said “I feel like I can take on Teridax single headedly, and do you know what the best part is?” She suddenly began to change, her armour splitting into hundreds of different sections and rearranging in a similar manner to Transformers from the live action film. The process finished and instead of a 7ft tall toa, Vinyl was now in her original Unicorn form “No pendants necessary, completely organic, and I mean, completely organic. Trust me, I checked” The other Neu-Toa took a few steps away from her. Minion shot her a look and she shrugged in response.

“Okaay,” I said. “Moving on, have you all got your weapons yet?”

“Waiting for you, brother,” Minion said, I nodded.

“I’ll just be a minute,” I said. “I need to take care of something first” He gestured for me to carry on and I motioned for Autumn to follow.

“What are you doing?” She asked once we were out of the hall.

“Starting a tradition” I said “You kept your old weapons and armour to one side, right?” She nodded.

“So has everyone else on our team” she said.

“Excellent”

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*POV 3rd Person*

Garnet was in his quarters, testing out his new arm, it was an improvement on the original in every way. He was going through the different weapons it could replicate when he heard a knock at the door.

“Come in” he said, the door opened to reveal his dad, fully upgraded and holding a large bundle of cloth “I take it the upgrade went well” his dad nodded and walked over before placing the bundle on the floor.

“I thought I would start a little tradition amongst our family, the other two teams are doing it as well,” he said, before opening the bundle and pulling out his old sword “I’m passing my old set of armour down to you, as Autumn is doing with Ruby. I hope it serves you as well as it has served me for all these years” He then passed the sword to Garnet and the Kirin took it in his mechanical hand, the sword lit up a dull red for a few seconds and shrunk down to a size more manageable for the Kirin before returning to its steel colour.

“What just happened?” Garnet asked.

“It’s accepted you as its new owner, you’re now an honorary Neu-Toa” Vuur said, before getting out the old Hau and placing it on the desk “You won’t be as strong as an Neu-Toa, and you’ll age just like any other Kirin, but you will be able to use the element of Fire and the mask of shielding. It’ll basically be like wearing an enchanted suit of armour.” Garnet was stunned.

“I…I don’t know what to say” He said.

“You don’t have to say anything,” Vuur said “Just promise me you’ll pass it down to your child when they’re…”

“She” Garnet cut in “It’s gonna be a girl, in 5 months I’m gonna have a daughter to call my own”

“Then pass it down to her when the time is right” Vuur said, before standing up “I’ll leave you to get on with whatever it is you were doing” he then walked out of the room before shutting the door.

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*POV 1st Person Vuur Koning*

I walked back to the Hall with Autumn and we met up with the rest of our team before heading to the armoury to select our new weapons. On the way there, I discovered that Boris and Scar’s voices had changed, Boris now spoke with a Swedish accent and he could turn into a Griffin, rather than a falcon, Scar now spoke in a German accent, weirdly enough. The armoury was filled with weapon racks that stretched from floor to ceiling, and contained weapons of many different styles; Equestrian, Griffonian, Minotaurian, Spherus Magnan, even Covenant tech, you name the culture; there was a weapon from it. However, our focus was directed to a new rack, filled with an assortment of blades and ranged weapons.

“The latest from Makuhero City” Stormer said from behind us “The blades were forged from Protosteel and designed to be in-keeping with the Spherus Magnan aesthetic” I walked towards the rack and picked up two large swords, the top edges had a teeth-pattern on them. I hummed in thought before touching them together; a line of light ran down the middle, fusing them together into a board. 1 firm pull was all it took to separate them again.

“I think I’ll keep these,” I said. A clear, orange and red flame materialised in the middle of each blade. “Definitely a keeper” I then put them away in my hammer space and looked over to see what the others had chosen. Minion had chosen two silver blades that looked like the type Tuma used to use. Scar had two large bracelets around each wrist, he flicked his clawed wrists and the bracelets changed into two multi-barrel guns that rotated around his wrists. Autumn had chosen two thin scimitars. Boris had chosen two boomerang-like swords and Vinyl now wielded a massive cannon over her right shoulder.

“A concussion canon, again?” I asked, she just grinned manically.

“What can I say?” she asked, as a hinged purple visor slid down over the eyes on her mask “I like things that make a loud noise”

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*A few days later*

We were travelling through the skies of Equestria, by tomorrow morning, we would be in Ponyville, and myself and all the Neu-Toa, as well as the Equestrian Princesses, a few Toa and some of the guardians from the other worlds were in the communal room. Stag, Double, Firefly and Stormy Skies were also there. We were all sat on sofas when Thor walked in holding his hammer.

“Who of you think yourselves worthy to lift Mjolnir?” He asked, before placing the hammer on top of a set of books and sitting down.

“What do we get if we manage to lift the hammer?” Firefly asked.

“To rule Asgaard,” Thor said jokingly, Rocket Racoon was the first to stand up.

“I think it’s a load of crap,” he said, gesturing to the hammer “I mean come on ‘only the worthy can lift the magic hammer’ who ever came up with that was either an idiot or someone who had been smoking something funny” I noticed the Defenders of Berk smirking, they knew how this would end. Rocket then grasped the hammer in his paws before pulling as hard as he could, as expected it did not budge

“Need any help?” I asked.

“Shut it!” he snapped, “I just need to pull it from the right angle. Groot, help me out here!” The sapient plant walked over and grasped the hammer before pulling as hard as he could, the only thing that happened was Groot’s arm snapped of and felt to the floor. I face palmed and muttered in Matoran as Rocket sulked back to his seat and Groot picked his severed arm before sheepishly walking back to where he had been standing before hand. I sighed before standing up.

“Screw it” I said “we all know how this is gonna turn out, but what the heck” I then walked over before firmly grasping the hammer and heaving as hard as I could, as I expected, it didn’t move. I them walked back to my seat “Next idiot” Firefly stood up and trotted over to the table.

“If anyone’s gonna do it, it’s gotta be an Alicorn like me” She said, her horn glowed and the same glow enveloped the handle. A once she began to pull, just as before, she could not make it budge. She began applying more and more power, but in the end, all she achieved was denting the floor before giving up and trotting back to her seat to catch her breath. Celestia calmly trotted over.

“It is not about raw power,” she said to Firefly, smiling “I’m sure you have to hold it a certain way” Her magical aura enveloped the hammer and she pulled, her smile immediately fell as the hammer remained unmoved “That can’t be right.” She applied more and more power, sweat ran down her brow and the floor began to sag under the power she was exerting. There was a metallic crunch and Celestia disappeared through the floor. The hammer was still unmoved.

“I HATE THAT BUCKING HAMMER!” came the shout of Celestia, causing most of us to burst out laughing. When she returned, Bhradain repaired the floor.

“I think” Snotlout said, standing up and walking over “it only works if you’re a Viking like me” I notice Thor smirking at that. Snotlout grasped the hammer and pulled, just like before, it remained unmoved.

“You were saying?” I asked, he didn’t respond, as he was too busy muttering to himself as he tried multiple times to lift the hammer. Eventually he conceded and walked back to his seat, I notice Lhikan watching with Interest.

“Hey, Lhikan” I called “why don’t you give it a try, if anyone other than Thor is capable of lifting the hammer it has to be you” multiple others nodded and voiced their agreement and Lhikan eventually stood up and walked over before grasping the hammer with his hands. He gave a great heave and the resonating ‘clunk’ echoed through the room. The room fell silent and everyone just stared in shock at the hammer, which Lhikan had managed to nudge off the books and onto the table proper. I gave a low whistle.

“Well…fuck me with a shovel” I muttered “Looks like you’re now a Norse god, Lhikan” the aforementioned Toa simply stood there, stunned.

“Mata Nui” He muttered.

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*POV 3rd person*

Boris, in his griffin form, carried Sandstorm into her new room and placed her on the bed before tucking her in.

“Now you just go to sleep,” he said, brushing some of her mane out of her face, Sandstorm huffed.

“But I don’t want to” she protested, “I want to stay up, and see Equestria” Boris chuckled

“Vill Ecvestria disappear during the night?” he asked.

“No” she said, sighing.

“Then you have nothing to vorry about” he said. “Besides, tomorrow ve vill be stopping in Ponyville, meaning you can explore, I think there’s even three fillies around your age who you might get along vith, but only if you promise me you’ll go to sleep” he then began to sing in a soft voice, in a language that Sandstorm didn’t understand.

Never the less, it comforted Sandstorm and began to lull her into a peaceful sleep. By the time Boris had finished she was sleeping peacefully, he smiled softly before standing up and walking out of the room, he stopped in the doorway before looking back at the sphinx, his daughter, the concept would take some getting used to.

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*POV 1st Person Vuur Koning*

I was in my quarters on the bed; Autumn was currently in the shower whilst I was on a Laptop. We had managed to contact my earth’s authorities, at first they did not really take me seriously, right up until Celestia managed to teleport a pencil holder from an office in MI5 during a video conference with them. I was finalising details of what to expect when we eventually found my home planet, we did not know where it was in relation to the other Earths and Terras, we just knew it was close. The world’s governments were planning for what was essentially going to be a massive P.R. stunt to get the public to trust us, with interviews arraigned for multiple T.V. channels and shows. Hell, the American government were planning an episode of Mythbusters where we were going to explain the science behind how Neu-Toa were able to control the Elements, a whole episode demonstrating what we could do, they were even planning to demonstrate a Neu-Toa of fire’s nova blast as the grand finale. The British government even had an episode of Top Gear planned (I still wasn’t sure what to think about that). I was in my Human form, but there were some differences, one of which was my eyes now glowed a light blue colour. The most noticeable difference was I now had a set of large, feathered red and orange wings sprouting out of my bank (you can thank Celestia for that one).

I heard the shower turn off and a few minutes later Autumn trotted out with a towel held between her teeth, her mane still slightly damp.

“Need a hand?” I asked, closing the laptop and putting it to one side. She walked over and dropped the towel in my lap before turning around and allowing me to dry her mane.

“How’s the P.R. stunt going?” she asked.

“It’s making progress, we just need to finalise a few details and get a couple more T.V. broadcasters on board.” I said “I just hope it doesn’t end up like the whole Spartan 3 incident where the moment the galaxy is safe everyone starts condemning us for our origins and methods” I had finished drying her mane and had now moved onto her wings, taking care not to apply too much pressure.

“You worry too much.” she said, the tiniest hint of a blush beginning to form on her cheeks “as long as we don’t buck up too badly, we should be fine. People don’t like change, just give them time and they’ll accept us.” I had finished drying her wings and chucked the towel into a nearby laundry basket before Autumn turned and nuzzled me.

“Lay down on you front” she said, I gave her a look and she rolled her eyes “just trust me on this” I humoured her before laying down on my chest and I soon felt her forehooves kneading into my back and shoulders, working all the knots out of the muscles.

“This has to be one of the things I missed the most when we were stuck in our Neu-Toa forms” I said, starting to relax.

“What did you miss the most?” She asked. I turned my head and gave her a look.

“I think you and I both know,” I said, before resting my head on my arms.

“The fact that I’m so cuddly and fluffy?” she asked playfully, I rolled my eyes, after being with her for so many years I could tell when she was ‘in the mood’ a mile away, all of this travelling to worlds in deferent seasons must have been playing havoc with her hormones. She’ll be in a ‘mini-heat’ for a day or two, a week at most. Not that that was a bad thing, she had a very strong will and was good at controlling certain urges, also medication tended to help.

“You’re in heat,” I noted. I felt her lean towards me and nibble my ear. “You know that doesn't work with humans”

“I don’t see you complaining,” she whispered, before kissing my cheek and continuing to massage my back.

“How could I when I’m with someone as beautiful as you” I replied “I still don’t know what I did to deserve someone like you”

“I think it’s because you’re so worried about losing me that you’re willing to change just to keep me happy” she said, before rolling me over and lying on my chest with her forehooves crossed. I got the feeling neither of us would be getting much sleep that night.

“Only because you’re so perfect,” I said, before wrapping my arms around her and pulling her into a kiss.

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