I walked onto the bridge, I could see Minion and Jörmungandr talking with Twilight, Minion looked really excited.

“Brother, give me your phone” he said.

“Wai-what?” I asked

“Twilight and Jörmungandr have found a way to communicate with our world using our phones” he said.

“Your shitting me” I said, he shook his head, I passed the sleek-white phone to Twilight “how?” Twilight then proceeded to rattle off a complex sum of equations and something about portals and a universal arcane grid whist casting a spell on the phone, she levitated the phone back to me, the light-bar at the bottom was now glowing purple.

“It would even work with your computer” she said “so you could access your worlds ‘internet’ without actually connecting to any one network, think of it as piggybacking”

“Have you talked to our parents?” I asked Minion.

“What do you bloody think?” he said, incredulously “of course I bloody did”

“What were their reactions?” I asked.

“what you would expect” he said “the shouting, asking where you’ve been for the past year or so, asking where I’ve been, the denial, until I sent them a picture of me standing next to Twilight, then the tears of joy from knowing that we are ok, oh, and Mum wants to speak with you and Autumn”

“Aww, you told her?” I complained.

“It’s my job as your older brother” he said, smirking.

“You bastard” I said “anyway, I need to go find Autumn” I then ran off towards our quarters.

I found Autumn sitting at the writing desk, writing a letter.

“Hey, Autumn?” I said, she looked up from the writing desk.

“Hmm?” she asked.

“How would you like to talk with my parents?” I asked, she looked confused.

“first of all” she said “how?, secondly, I though your dad died, so you should only have one parent”

“Twilight made a spell that lets my phone access the mobile networks back home” I said “and my mum remarried” she nodded in understanding, I then took my phone out and went to call home.

“Well” I said, taking my mask off “here goes nothing” and I pressed the call button, before putting the phone on loud speaker, I could hear the dial tone, I heard a click.

“Hello?” I heard a familiar female voice ask.

“Mum, it’s me” I said.

“Oh my god” she said “Luke!?”

“Who else would it be?” I asked, I then nudged Autumn and whispered in her ear “say something”

“H-hello” Autumn said.

“Who’s that?” my mum asked.

“My girlfriend” I said “Autumn Skies” my mum gasped.

“Picture” she said “NOW!” I chuckled before taking a picture of the two of us and sending it to her, I heard my mum gasp again.

“You two look so lovely together” she said, I did a double take.

“You mean you aren’t at all unhappy that I’m in a relationship with an alien?” I asked.

“No” she said “why would I be?”

“Don’t worry” I said.

“Just remember” she said “if you have kids, I want to be the first to know” I smacked my head on the desk, my cheeks red with embarrassment, Autumn wasn’t faring any better, her wings were at full span.

“Mum” I complained “could you not say that in front of my girlfriend”

“But I’m not in front of your girlfriend, am I?” she asked, you could practically hear the smugness in her voice.

“For god sake” I muttered, I could hear my mum and step-dad laughing, I knew just the thing to quiet them “Hey, Mum”

“Yes?” she asked.

“Did Minion tell you that I’m now the captain of a two and a quarter million ton airship?” I heard a load of glasses shattering, a whole host of curse words, all from voices I recognised, I dead panned before saying in a rather dry tone “you had people ‘round to celebrate, didn’t you?”

“Umm, yes” she said, actually sounding a couple shades paler, if that was possible “and no, your brother didn’t tell me” I chuckled, for the next few hours I retold my story of my adventures in Equestria and the surrounding countries.

I was standing on the deck of the ship, looking at the town and the people going about their business, I heard footsteps, I turned around to see Scar walking up to me, minus his Gatling guns.

“Come to enjoy the view?” I asked, he just grunted, that’s the thing with Scar, even though he can talk, he hardly ever does, and when he does he’s always, moody “I never understood why you’re so grumpy all the time” he looked at me, scowling.

“Personal reasons” he said.

“Before or after we encountered each other?” I asked.

“Before” he said.

“Want to talk about it?” I asked, he just glared at me “what? It often helps if you talk about your problems” he quirked an eyebrow, before sighing and resting his head on the railing.

“It was when I was still a timberwolf…a proper timberwolf” he said “I was leading my pack on a hunt, and it went bad…really bad, we encountered a family of Manticores, and I stupidly ordered my pack to attack them, long story short, a lot of my pack got… there isn’t a word in your language to describe it, it’s like the magic that holds us timberwolves together, it got separated from their bodies, permanently, most times a timber wolf can search for a enough wood to create a new body, but this time they couldn’t, and I caused it”

“Shit” I muttered, I went to say something else but I was interrupted by a deafening roar, I looked up to see a absolutely huge red dragon attacking the town, me and scar both looked at each other and nodded before running below deck to our quarters, I ran into my quarters and got my armour and weapons, picking up an arcane auto-rifle as well, Autumn was just finishing putting on her armour as well, I ran up to the bridge.

“Orders sir?” Blazewing asked as I walked into the room

“Aim the anti-ship guns at the dragon, but try to cause as little damage to it, I’m off outside to go and fight” Blazewing nodded before relaying orders, just as I walked outside two of the turrets fired, sending shockwaves across the deck, suddenly a massive white blur slammed into the dragon, sending it flying into an empty field and kicking up a cloud of dust, obscuring the field, when the dust settled I could see Frostfang duking it out with the red dragon, they began talking in draconic briefly before they resumed fighting, the red dragon charged at Frostfang, who sidestepped and grabbed the other dragons tail, causing it to face plant, the red dragon then turned around and swiped Frostfang with its tail, sending him flying into some trees, I turned to the bridge.

“OPEN FIRE” I shouted, the sky then split from the cacophony that followed, but the shot’s just seemed to bounce off “fuck, it’s not working!” the dragon now just looked pissed, it charged at us but just as it got about 500 feet away Frostfang appeared out of nowhere, grabbed the fire-drake by the head, forced its mouth open and unleashed a torrent of ice breath down the fire-drakes throat, his spines glowing blue as he did, I saw ice began to cover the fire-drakes skin and the neck shattered, leaving the now decapitated and half frozen carcass to fall to the ground with a thud, Frostfang dropped the now disembodied head and let out a great roar of victory, silencing any other animals for miles around, the crew of the ship cheered, soon followed by the town.

“Well” Minion said, walking forward “I guess we’re on clean up duty”

*Perspective: 3rd person*

In the caves below Canterlot, Teridax growled, and crushed the viewing crystal that was in his hand.

“Curse that ice dragon” he said, he hadn’t counted on the ice-drake showing up, but he would not make the same mistake again “no matter, that dragon was weak anyway, I will wait until this land is unprotected and then, I will unleash my Rahkshi army on the capital” he then looked through two viewing crystals, this time showing Luna and Sombra, he let out a chuckle.

“Yes” he said, absentmindedly running a finger other the crystal that was displaying Luna “they will do nicely as my advisors, especially Luna, so beloved and cherished by her sister, yet she fails to utilise her sisters true potential, no one appreciates her power, and I will use that to my advantage, to turn her like I did 1000 years before” he then focused his attention on the crystal displaying Sombra in his cell, he focused his powers on the crystal and his sight became one with the crystals.

Sombra was sat in his cell, thinking as he had done for the past few months, he was snapped out of his musings by the cell going dark.

“Who’s there?” Sombra demanded.

“Keep quiet!” a guard barked, after a few seconds Sombra saw two red eyes appear in the shadows.

“Consider me an ally” Teridax said, in a hushed voice “I have a proposal for you” Sombra eyed the eyes suspiciously before saying quietly.

“I’m listening”

“I don’t have long” Teridax said “but you have a choice ahead of you, you can either rot in you prison like a weakling, or, you can join me, gain powers beyond your imagination, and exact vengeance on the one that put you in here”

“I wish I could” Sombra said “but he’ll kill me if I do”

“He’s now part of a group that forbids killing” Teridax said “so you don’t have to worry about his hollow threats” Sombra smirked at this.

“Then consider me in” he said, Teridax chuckled.

“Excellent” Teridax said “but you will have to bide your time in this cell for now, we mustn’t raise suspicion, but I will come back for you, soon” Sombra nodded and Teridax’s red eyes disappeared along with the shadow enveloping the room, and Sombra returned to his thoughts, which mostly included all the ways he would torture and kill Vuur Koning.

*Perspective: 1st person (Vuur Koning)*

Cleaning up the mess took a long time, made worse by the fact that the carcass had started to melt, as you would expect, Fluttershy was not happy with what had happened, I was leaning against the trunk of a tree when Fluttershy confronted him about it.

“How could you do such a thing!?” she demanded to a now shrunken down Frostfang, tears streaming down her cheeks.

“I tried to reason with him” Frostfang said, doing his best to keep calm “but he would not listen, I had no choice, if I hadn’t’ done something, then what do you think would have happened to your town”

“You didn’t have to kill him” Fluttershy said “all creatures have feelings and deserve to live” I chuckled darkly, surprising them.

“You’ve obviously never heard of Xenomorph’s, The Flood, Nazi’s, Rahkshi or Visorahk” I said, counting them off “ask Mata Nui about the last two, as for the first one, well, it’s larval stage gestates inside a live host and escapes by bursting out of its host’s chest, whist the host is still conscious, did I mention it has acid for blood, I’ll leave you to try and convince Frostfang that every creature disserves to live now, Auf Weidersehn” I then walked off, leaving the two of them stunned into silence, and Fluttershy several shades paler.

“What the hell was that about?” Minion asked, walking up to me.

“Fluttershy was upset that we had to kill the dragon, using the excuse that all creatures deserve to live” I said “so I told her about Xenomorph’s as an example of a creature that does not deserve to live” my brother face palmed.

“You don’t tell innocent little ponies about those kinds of things” he said, shaking his head behind his hand, I just shrugged.

“Would you have done any different?” I asked, already knowing the answer, he went to say something before muttering a few choice curses towards me “didn’t think so”

“Oh fuck you” he said.

“One” I said, smirking “I’m not gay, and two, I’m not into incest”

“God dammit” he muttered.

“Don’t you mean ‘Odin’ dammit?” I asked rhetorically.

“Who?” Autumn asked, landing beside me

“I’m Norse-Pagan” Minion explained “Odin is the all-father, the father of all people and Norse gods, but I personally worship Thor and Loki, gods of thunder and mischief respectively” he then rolled up a sleeve to show tattoos of the Norse symbols for Thor and Loki.

“I thought humans couldn’t get cutie marks” Autumn said, booth me and Minion burst out laughing.

“They’re tattoos” Minion said “I chose to get them done, speaking of which, I need to find a tattoo parlour somewhere”

“There should be some in our next stop” Autumn said.

“What symbol this time?” I asked.

“The Three Virtues” he replied, shrugging.

“Count me in” I said.

I was sat at the writing desk, sketching out designs, I was planning a bike that used to same levitation systems that the airships used, but on a smaller scale, just to keep it levitating about a foot of so off the ground, the only problem was propulsion, I would need to talk to Twilight about that, I was interrupted from my musings by Autumn walking in and wrapping her arms around my shoulders from behind, and kissing me on the cheek.

“Hey beautiful” I said.

“What are you drawing?” she asked.

“It’s designs for a bike, similar to one I actually had back on earth” I said, logging onto the laptop and showing her a picture of a bike similar to mine, a Royal-Enfield 500-Bullet, “but more like a ‘chopper’, so it’s more comfortable, I love the classic bike look, but they don’t half give you a sore arse, a chopper is more laid back and comfortable, so it’ll be a compromise between the two types, hopefully I’ll get it built by the time we’re in Minotauria, I’ve looked at a tourist book and the roads look beautiful, I’m thinking when we stop in one of the towns you and me go for a ride along one of the valley roads” I saw Autumn smile out of the corner of my eye.

“I’d like that” she said.

“Oh” I said, remembering something “I’ll need our group of friends to gather for a picture at some point, I want to send the parental’s a picture of us all together, also I want us to do a video call with them, I’m not sure Aurora has met her grandmother yet” Autumn giggled at that.

“I can’t wait to see her face when she finds out” she said, I then got my camera out.

“Smile” I said, we both smiled and the camera flashed “Mum’s gonna love this”

“You’ve been sending a lot of pictures to her since this morning” Autumn said.

“I haven’t talked to her for a year and bit” I said “what would you do in my situation?” she went to say something but stopped, I could see her pouting out of the corner of my eye.

“Damn you and your logic, Human” she said, nuzzling my cheek, I chuckled.

“To which I say; damn you and you pony magic” I said, she snorted.

“Touché” Autumn replied.

“Sometimes I don’t know whether ‘its magic’ is an excuse or a scientific explanation” I said, Autumn lifted her head from my shoulder and put a hand to her chin in thought.

“It’s actually a little bit of both” she said, after a few seconds “it depends on the tone it’s spoken in and the context of the sentence”

I was walking along the corridor towards my brothers quarters, I needed to speak to him about something, I knocked on the door… no response, I opened the door and immediately regretted it, there, on my brother’s bed, was Vinyl straddling Minion, the two of them kissing passionately, whilst Rammstein’s ‘Ich Tu Dir Weh’ played in the background, this went on for several seconds before they noticed me, they just looked at me as if I had walked into them playing a board game, Vinyl waved nonchalantly.

“Sup?” my response was to very slowly close the door and walk off, a few seconds later Minion burst into the corridor and ran after me.

“Bro” he said, grabbing my shoulder “are you O.K.?”

“I did not need to see that” I said shuddering “but seriously, yes, I’m fine” Minion sighed with relief.

“Thank god” he said “for a moment I thought we’d scarred you for life”

“So…” I said “you and Vinyl?” he scratched the back of his neck.

“Heh, yeah” he said.

“Well, who am I to object” I said, walking off “it would just make me a hypocrite”

“You and Autumn are free to join us anytime” he called.

“No, thank you” I said before walking out of sight, I reached my quarters and Autumn noticed the blank look on my face.

“Are you O.K.?” she asked.

“Where is the brain bleach?” I said, sitting down on the sofa, noticing Autumn’s look I added “I walked in on Vinyl and Minion about to get freaky and then they offered for us two to join them” Autumn fell on the floor laughing

You’re not helping” I said.

“Oh wow” Autumn said “I wish I could’ve been there to see your face”

“Oh fuck off!” I said, although my expression showed I wasn’t serious.

“You have to admit” Autumn said “it is a little funny”

“O.K. you got me” I said “the worst part was the song that was playing in the background”

“Which was?” Autumn said, gesturing for me to continue.

“Ich Tu Dir Weh by Rammstein” I said, Autumns response was to once again fall on the floor with laughter

“Ha, they like it kinky” she said, getting up and wiping away a tear, she suddenly got a devious look on her face “I can think of the perfect thing to get them for Hearths Warming now”

“Whatever it is” I said “no!”

“Oh come on” she said “I’m sure they would love a whip”

“Oh my god!” I said, face palming “I did not need to know that” Minion and Vinyl then teleported into the room, and started dancing whilst ‘I just had sex’ played on Minions phone, we both just stared at them, after a few seconds they started to head towards the corridor, still dancing as they did so, when they were out of the room I said.

“You wouldn’t think my brother’s actually three years older than me would you?” Autumn suddenly went pale.

“Oh shit!” she said.

“What, you finally realised how childish he can be?” I asked.

“That too” she said “but also when we go to Trottingham, both of our older brothers are going to meet”

“Oh shit indeed” I said “I hope your brother isn’t as bad as Minion”

“Don’t get your hopes up” Autumn said.

“Great” I said, standing up “I need a drink”

“It’s 11 in the morning” she said incredulously.

“Exactly” I said “it’s only 11 in the morning, what else is going to happen today?”

I was walking along the streets of Ponyville, ponies greeted me as I walked past, I was stopped by Lyra, in case you were wondering how I knew who it was, I got to know her when I was training to be a guard, she was also a big help when it came to learning about other humans who had been sent to Equestria in the past.

"Hey, Vuur Koning" she said, tapping my leg.

"Oh, hey Lyra" I said, I noticed she looked a little nervous "What's up?"

"I kind of have to ask you something" she said, not looking me in the eye.

"Go on" I said, she mumbled something "I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear that"

"Iwaswonderingifyou'dletmejoinyouonyourship?" she said, far too quickly for me to understand.

"Whoa, whoa" I said "take a deep breath, calm down, and repeat what you just said, slowly" she took a breath before saying.

"Would you let me join your crew?"

"why?" I asked.

"Well" she said "I guess I just want to see the world, like you do" I sighed before saying.

"Alright"

"Wait, really?" she asked "Just like that?"

"I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't, just one thing, does Bonbon know?"

"Yeah" she said, nodding, she looked sad "things have been a little shaky between us lately, we both agreed that we kind of need a bit of space for a while, you know what they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder" I chuckled.

"I know it better than most" I said "alright then, go pack your things, we leave tomorrow at lunch time"

in case you're wondering, Yes!, my brother is that immature at times, but I wouldn't have him any other way

Teridax: more commonly known as simply "Makuta" or the "Makuta of Metru Nui", was the leader of the Brotherhood of Makuta after overthrowing Miserix; the original leader. During the final battle on Bara Magna, he was finally killed by Mata Nui