We walked onto the deck of the Jörmungandr, with Jack Harkness in tow.

“Well” he said “you certainly have quite the boat, named after the Norse World serpent if I’m not mistaken”

“Correct” I said “now, I’ll warn you, there are many individuals of just about every species found on the northern continents, just treat them as you would anypony you meet, and I don’t mean start chatting them up!”

“I wasn’t gonna” he said, feigning innocence, we lead him to our communal room, where Mata Nui, Lyra, Saphyrus, Cloddiwr and Blazewing were chilling “Ladies and gentlemen, our last addition to the group, Captain Jack Harkness, and he has a cool party trick” I then pulled out my pistol and shot him in the skull, he slumped to the floor, everyone gathered stared at me in shock.

“What in the name of Celestia was that for!?” Lyra shrieked, a few seconds later Jack inhaled loudly.

“Ta da” I said “behold, the immortal pony!”

“That still hurt” he said, getting up “don’t do that again” everyone was staring at him.

“He…but…you…gun” Lyra stuttered

“He can’t die” I said, Jack walked up the Lyra, took her hoof in his and kissed it.

“Hey” he said “Name’s captain jack hark…” I then pulled him back by the tail, causing him to face plant.

“Down boy!” I said “calm your hormones, she doesn’t swing that way” Jack stood up and quirked any eyebrow

“Is he always like that?” Lyra asked, blushing slightly and looking a little overwhelmed.

“His preference is anything that can talk” I said “I wouldn’t be surprised if he tries to make a move on Mata Nui” Mata Nui raised an eyebrow at this.

“Am I missing something?” the biomechanical god asked.

“Better you don’t ask, Mata Nui” I said.

“Meh, not my type” Jack said, actually considering what I said “too much metal” me and Autumn face palmed.

“Never stopped you before” I muttered.

I was stood on the gun deck of the Jörmungandr, watching the sun set over the city, I heard the flapping of wings and Aurora landed on the railing beside me.

“Hey uncle” she said.

“Hey” I replied.

“What’s up?” she asked.

“Hmm?” I said, not fully hearing what she asked “oh, nothing, just lost in thought I guess” suddenly the sky lit up a bright orange colour.

“Whoa!” Aurora exclaimed “what is that!?”

“That’s the metal works dumping the unusable slag-metal” I said “remember what I told you about my home-town, how he sky lights up?”

“Uhuh” she said, nodding.

“Same thing” I said “there’s a reason my home-town’s motto is caelum referat laboris”

“What’s that mean?” she asked.

“It roughly translates to the sky reflects thy labour”

*3 days later*
The weekend in Stalliongrad was fairly successful, although we didn’t explore the city much as it wasn’t exactly the tourist capital of Equestria, but now we were flying towards Trottingham, I was in the workshops, adding the finishing touches to the bike, I had managed to get it done quicker than I’d anticipated, and I was now sat on the bike setting up the steering with Gwyneth’s help.

“Right, try turning left” she said from underneath the bike, I turned the handlebars as requested and I heard several flaps open, and one struggling, I heard Gwyneth grunt, followed by a dull thud and the bike shaking “There we go, that should do it” she got out from under the bike as she said this.

“Right” I said, giving her a fist-bump “we just need to wait until we stop in Trottingham to give it a test”

I was stood on the gun deck with the rest of the Toa and Mata Nui we were getting close to Trottingham, Several pegasi had noised our ship and had flown over to ask about it, things like ‘how do you say the name?’ ‘Why are we here?’ that sort of thing, I was stood next to Autumn with my arm around her shoulders.

“Don’t worry” I said “everything will be fine”

“I’m not worried” she said quickly, her eyes darting around “who said I was worried?” I deadpanned.

“Look, if you are that worried, I’ll go ahead of you and warn them” I said, she took a deep breath and looked at me.

“You’d do that?” she asked.

“Anything for you, my love” I said, the others, minus Mata Nui, face palmed.

“Good god” Minion said, with Aurora on his shoulders “could you get any more clique?” Autumn giggled.

“I think it’s very sweet” she said, the ship soon docked and I ran ahead, I could see Winter Chill and Midsummer Night.

“Where’s Autumn?” Winter asked.

“Before you meet her, I need to explain some things” I said, they motioned with a hoof to go on “O.K., first off, me and Autumn are now together”

“As in, ‘together’, together?” Winter asked.

“Yes” I said “secondly, a while ago, when we visited Canterlot, we met this being, long explanation short, the being has a mask that activated around us and turned us into bipedal, biomechanical warriors” I took my mask off, revealing the exposed metal jaw-struts, they both stared at me slack jawed, at that moment Autumn walked up to us, they stared at her, wide eyed.

“Autumn?” Midsummer asked, Autumn took off her mask “Oh my Celestia…” Midsummer and Winter then promptly feinted.

“Great” I said, picking up Midsummer and placing her over my shoulder, Autumn did the same with Winter “I think we broke your siblings” the rest of the Toa walked over to us.

“Who are they?” Minion asked.

“Allow me to introduce Autumns brother and sister” I said, me and Autumn then span around to reveal their unconscious faces “Winter Chill and Midsummer Night”

We eventually carried them to the House of Autumns parents, I had the others hang back, as I was the only one out of the group that they would recognise, I passed Midsummer to Minion and knocked on the door, Winter Storm, an older Pegasus stallion who resembled Winter Chill but with darker colours, opened the door.

“Oh, Vuur Koning!?” He said “What brings you here, without Autumn?”

“Funny you should say that” I said, stepping to one side to reveal the group “you might want to get some smelling salts for your son and youngest daughter” Autumn waived awkwardly

“Heh, hey dad” she said, Storm just stood there, slack jawed, before turning to me and glaring.

“Explain why my daughter looks half human before I buck you to low Tartarus” he growled, he was one of the few ponies that truly intimidated me, considering he was a similar stature to Big Mackintosh, I quickly explained the situation, he then went inside and brought out a few bottles of smelling salts, we then revived thee two unconscious Pegasi.

“Huh… what?” Winter said from Minions shoulder, after a few second he realised to position he was in “WHY AM I UPSIDE DOWN!?” Minion chuckled before placing him on the ground, Midsummer looked up at Minion.

“Who are you?” she asked.

“Minion, I’m Vuur Koning’s brother” he said.

“Brother!?” Midsummer, Winter and Storm said at once

“Did I not tell you?” I asked, they all shook their heads “well, now you know”

“Know what?” Skyfall, Autumn’s mother, asked, walking out the door, she stopped dead in her tracks when she saw all of us, then she saw Autumn “oh…” she then feinted, and everyone/pony gathered facepalmed/hooved.

“I’ll go get the smelling salts” Storm grumbled before walking back inside, he then called from the hallway “You lot might as well come in too” we all shrugged before walking inside, Autumn picked up Skyfall and followed us in to the large communal room that they had for social gatherings, once we had revived Autumns mother I began to recall what had happened over the past few months, at the end of it Skyfall asked

So, you’re together?” I nodded.

“And technically, as Minion is my Brother, and Aurora is his adoptive daughter, everyone in our group considers Aurora as Autumns niece” I said, everyone nodded to prove this “so that makes Aurora your unofficial grandniece, congratulations” the look on their faces when they came to the same conclusion was priceless.

“Oh” the both said, becoming spaced out, Autumn giggled.

“Well done” she said “you’ve just broke my parents”

“I try” I said, shrugging.

“You should have heard my mother’s reaction when she found out about Aurora” Minion said, chuckling “I think she damaged to speaker on my phone from the shouts of joy” I laughed before turning to Winter and Midsummer

“That means she’s your niece as well” I said, Midsummer squealed with joy whilst Winter just looked overwhelmed

“I’m an… uncle?” he said, I chuckled and patted him on the shoulder.

“I’m 19, how do you think I felt when I realised I was an uncle”

“But that means that technically, if Aurora is our niece, then technically, you and Minion are now our brothers” Winter Chill said, the realisation hit me like a ton of bricks.

“Oh sh…” I was slapped round the back of the head by Minion “ow” I said as I rubbed the back of my head

“Don’t swear in front of Aurora, please” he said “And yes it does, you now have guardians of Equestria for brothers”

We were all, minus Skyfall and Winter Storm, who were off spoiling their new Grandniece, at a pub having a few drinks, and surprise, surprise, Minion and Winter had started a drinking contest, that wasn’t to say it wasn’t funny to watch, it was actually hilarious to watch my brother trying to out drink…well, my other brother I guess,

“Holy Celestia, this is gonna take getting used to” Midsummer said “I now have two extra brothers, not including the rest of your group, because I know you class all members of your team as brothers or sisters, so there is them as well”

“if the portal to my world reopens, you’re going to have a lot more family” I said “mostly from my late father’s side”

“You never said much about your dad the last time you were here” Midsummer said “what was he like?” I chuckled.

“Bonkers half the time” I said “but the good kind, he was a decent bloke, he made sure me and my brother were happy, he cared about us two more than anyone else in his family, I wish you could have met him” I then burst out laughing as I remembered something.

“What?” Midsummer asked.

“I just remembered something he told me” I said “when he and my mum were still together, he used to ride down the streets of our capital city on a motorbike, with mum on the back, and he would shout at the top of his voice ‘NOOOOOOOORMAAAAAAAAAAAAL’”

“He sounds like he was bat-shit insane” Vinyl said, smirking “But at the same time awesome”

“He listened to old school music like rock and roll and blues” I said “but when Minion played him Dubstep he got up and started dancing to it, he was always open to new types of music”

“He listened to blues?” Midsummer asked.

“He had a record collection of about…” I trailed of, trying to remember to number “1’600 vinyl L.P.s, which Minion and I have jointly inherited, it’s just a shame it’s still stuck on earth”

“Alright” Vinyl said “He definitely sounded like an awesome person”

“We’ve also inherited Lynn Isobaric speakers from him” I said, Vinyl gave a low whistle.

“What’s Isobaric?” Midsummer asked.

“Two speakers arraigned one behind the other in the same enclosure” I said “it gives it a greater tonal range and deeper bass, but at the cost of size and weight, they don’t call them bricks for nothing, they are about 5 foot tall”

“Dude, stop, you’re torturing me” Vinyl said, her eyes shimmering “I have been wanting some Iso’s for ages, and now they’re so close, but so far” I smirked.

“We also have an L.P. player with a spring balanced turntable” I said.

“Aww, you’re evil” Vinyl said, I gave a sinister chuckle, I was interrupted by a letter with the royal seal appearing in front of me, I opened it and began to read

Dear Captain Vuur Koning

Twilight Sparkle has managed to develop a spell that can summon inanimate objects from your world, if you have belongings from your world, then you now have the possibility of summoning them here.

I await your reply

Sincerely
Princess Celestia

“Well hot damn” I said “Royal Enfield, here I come”

“What?” Vinyl said

“You might get to hear my dad’s collection after all” I said, passing her the letter, her face exploded into a grin

“OH BUCK YES!” she said, Minion looked over

“Wazzup?” he asked.

“Twilight developed a spell that can summon our belongings from Earth” I said.

We were all stood in the hold, I had my laptop with me and was going over the spell with my Mum via skype, and Luna was there as we needed someone with immense magical power to summon all of the items.

“You know royalty!” My mum said for the tenth time

“Yes” I said “have you gotten everything I asked for” she tilted her tablet to show the piles of records, all of the stereo system, the Royal Enfield that I had inherited from dad, plus various other items that belonged to me and my brother, such as Games consoles, T.V., D.V.D.s, games and other items.

“I am ready to perform the spell” Luna said to me, Minion, Vinyl , Jack Harkness, Lyra and Frostfang “but I will need to use all of your magic reserves as well to avoid exhaustion on our parts, this is a complex spell even for me” we all nodded before focusing our magic on her, she began to study the image on the screen and lit up her horn, her eyes promptly began to glow white, I looked at the others to see the same was happening to them, I could feel all the different energies of each individual, I saw a flash on the screen and all the items disappeared, a few seconds later they appeared in the hold of the ship, Luna dispersed her magic and stumbled slightly, she looked exhausted, I felt exhausted, but I walked towards her to support her.

“Thank you” Luna said “I will have to rest here for a few days, my magical reserves are completely exhausted, I’m physically exhausted as well, and I shan’t be doing that for some time

“Bloody hell” Minion said, sitting against a wall and catching his breath “I fell like I’ve run a marathon uphill”

“We can rest now, we’ll move all of this later” I said, Jack Harkness walked over to the Royal Enfield, Luna sat down and I walked over to the Enfield as well.

“Nice Bike” he said, sitting down, I nodded and sat on the bike seat

“Can’t beat the classics, just a shame the Indians can’t build a decently working bike for shit” I said, Jack chuckled “It will need a complete engine refit as there isn’t any petrol reserves in Equestria, my dad was constantly tinkering with it, trying to get it to work for more than a few miles, I plan to continue where he left off” I looked at the various parts scattered around it

“Aren’t you more concerned about keeping it original?” he asked, I deadpanned.

“It was made in the 90s” I said “the only original things left is the engine case, the fuel tank, frames and wheels, everything else was replaced with better parts, so why bother keeping it original, when I’m done, it’ll be one of a kind” I then picked up the fuel tank off of the frame, and opened the fuel cap, the inside was completely rusty, I showed it to Jack.

“As I said, the Indians can’t build a bike for shit” he looked inside and gave a low whistle.

“I see what you mean, I think I’ll stay away from Indian built Enfield’s” he said, he then looked at the bike “except for this one” I gave a chuckle and placed the tank back on the frame

“I’ll be the only one that rides this, I might teach Autumn to ride it, but that’s about it” once we were all rested we began to move all of the stuff to where they were going to go, I ended up having to wheel the bike through the ship to get to the workshops, Gwyneth saw it and raised an eyebrow.

“What is that?” she asked.

“This” I said, wheeling it beside the hover bike “is a 1996 Royal Enfield 500cc bullet, inherited from my father, a word of advice, never wheel one of these through the ship, super strength or not, it’s not fun having to push it up stairs, strip the engine and gearbox and start giving them the once over, I’m off to get the rest of the parts”

*POV 3rd person*

Minion and Vinyl were moving one the speakers into the communal room for their group, some of the records were already there, but most were still in the hold.

“Wow” Vinyl said “I can see why they are called ‘bricks” they set the speaker down at the other end of the room to the first speaker, with the stereo system right in between them.

“Right” minion said, picking up a wiring diagram “now to wire these up”

Luna looked through the different L.P. sleeves with Aurora, there was just about every audio subject imaginable recorded on these, Birdsong, audio books of literature; she recognised the name Shakespeare from what Vuur Koning had told her (amongst others), audio recordings of transport, and most of all music, there was all kinds; classical, blues, rock & roll, rock, pop, country and western, the occasional metal group, she was shaken from her musings by Vuur Koning walking back in.

“How did your father collect so much?” Luna asked, Vuur Koning chuckled.

“Various sources” he said “oh, if you see a white L.P. sleeve with just the words ‘the Beatles’ written on it, and unopened in its original packaging, let us know, and if you see another with a bunch of flags around a podium with the words ‘Sabaton’ and ‘Heroes’ on it, come find me, that’s the first L.P. I ever bought, I had mum order it as soon as I found out about it” Luna and Aurora both gave a mock salute before continuing their exploration of human music, Aurora spoke up.

“Could this be the one Uncle Vuur Koning was looking for?” she asked, hefting up an L.P. that depicted an altar of some type at the top of some steps, with the statue of and Eagle with its wings spread around a globe of some type mounted on a podium, there were 8 unique flags, 4 each side, and printed in big silver stylised letters at the top was the word ‘Sabaton’, and at the bottom in smaller and relatively plain letters was the word ‘Heroes’

Luna took it in her faltering magic before holding it in a wing.

“Yes, I think that that’s the one” she said, standing up and looking for Vuur Koning, she soon found him in the Toa’s communal room with Minion and Vinyl Scratch “Vuur Koning, is this the album you described?” Minion took it and nodded.

“Sabaton!?” Minion exclaimed “you never told me you bought a Sabaton L.P.”

“When did you get that?” Vinyl asked.

“Around the time we managed to open communications to earth” Vuur Koning said “All this time it’s been waiting for me” he then turned on the stereo system and removed the packaging from the L.P. sleeve and placed the record on the turntable, he looked at Luna.

“Behold, there latest album” he said, before placing the needle on the outside of the Record

Enjoy, I've provided a link to the full Heroes album on YouTube for you to listened to in the link at the end, it's also available to listen to on Xbox Music for free as long as you have an internet connection, I would definitely recommend it, I love all but two of the songs on there, those other two I just tolerate,

all of the songs are about soldiers that went above and beyond the call of duty in war

Whether they are German soldiers protecting citizens from the Red army and escorting them to western allied forces to surrender as the city burnt in flames at the end of WW2 (Hearts of Iron)
an all female Russian night time bomber regiment (Night Witches)
Or the story of Witold Pileski, the man responsible for exposing the horrors of Auschwitz (Inmate 4859)

all of them are about heroes, regardless of what side they fought on or what beliefs they fought for, to quote 'Hearts of Iron':

it is not about berlin, it is not about the Reich, it's about the men that fought for them

the album doesn't support any particular mind-set, religion, or political group, any comments arguing about the matter will be deleted, however, if you wish to discuss, then feel free, but please be civil and mindful of others opinions, beliefs, religions, etc.

thank you