We were getting ready to leave for Minotauria, I was just about to order them to retract the gangplank when I saw Winter Chill and Midsummer night running towards the ship.

“WAIT!” they called, they ran onto the ship.

“We want to join your crew” Winter said, I raised an eyebrow.

“Do you parents know?” I asked, they both nodded, I sighed “alright, follow me, raise the gang plank!” a crewmember nodded and pulled a lever the door closed as we walked away.

“What skillsets do you have?” I asked.

“Winter has really good endurance in cold weather, I’ve seen him shrug off blizzards like they are nothing” Midsummer said “And I can withstand working in the sun better than most, plus we both have experience in weather patrol work, we know clouds like the bottom of our hooves”

“So endurance to specific conditions and an above average knowledge of weather patterns?” I clarified, the both nodded “looks like you’re both on navigation”

“Wait, just like that?” Winter asked.

“You’re family now, I trust you won’t fuck it up” I said, they both blinked at that, I eventually led them to the bridge I turned to Blazewing “Blazewing, this is Winter Chill and Midsummer Night, they are brother and sister to Lieutenant Autumn Skies, they also have increased endurance in their namesake seasons and an above average knowledge of weather patterns, so I’m assigning them to the navigation team” he nodded.

“Aye, aye, Captain” he said, I turned to the ships construct.

“Jörmungandr, add their names and roles to the roster and assign work shifts” the construct nodded before conjuring a notepad out of magic and scribbling a few notes down.

“It is done” he said “they will work standard 8 hour shifts from 9am till 5pm, with slightly longer shifts in the appropriate season” he then walked off to carry out some task or another, I turned to the two ponies and chuckled.

“I told you I was the captain of this ship” I said “and I’ll have Princess Celestia transfer your employment status from weather patrol to Royal Navy Navies, with the appropriate pay of course” Summer raised a hoof.

“What’s a ‘Navie’?” she asked.

“Short for Navigational Engineer” I said “term from my world” Winter said the word a few times, trying it out.

“Navie, I like it” he said.

“Right” I said “let’s go tell your sister and find you a couple of rooms”

I lead them to our common room.

This is where our not so little group of friends hangs out” I said, opening the door “I’ll warn you, it sometime gets a little crazy, thankfully most of us are working at the moment so it should be quiet” sure enough there was just Minion sat on a sofa with a pint of cider, listening to Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ via the record player, I noticed that several cabinets had been set up, which were filled from floor to ceiling with Vinyl records, Minion noticed us walk in.

“What are you two doing on the ship?” he asked, more surprised than anything.

“They decided to join the crew” I said “they’re now a part of Navigation, if you see Autumn, tell her” he nodded, I then turned to them.

“for a few day, you won’t do any work, as it will take some time to get your documents arraigned, so you can either chill here, or go explore the ship, but stay out of the engine room and anywhere obviously dangerous, and take care if you go to the workshops, however, there is usually someone with a stall of some kind that produces tech for individuals by commission, so if you need something making, go there” they nodded “I’ll come find you when your rooms are ready” they nodded before walking to the sparring room, I felt a little rusty in my combat training, time to remedy that, I quickly stopped at my quarters to pick up my Sword, my phone and headphones before heading for the sparring hall proper.

I practised my moves whilst music played through the headphone, as I was practically in a trance, I only just noticed Discord, he calmly held up a hand to stop my sword, I took of my headphones.

“What are you doing here?” I asked, walking over to a table and downing a bottle of water.

“Merely passing through” he said “I noticed you’ve changed”

“No shit, Sherlock” I deadpanned.

“Why the hostilities?” he asked, sounding genuinely curious.

“nothing personal” I said, half sitting on the table “well not all of it is, I’ll admit some of it is to do with what happened during the Tirek incident, and yes, I know you won’t try and pull that move again, but it’s also the fact that you just seem to set me on edge, you’re unpredictable, and I hate unpredictability, it’s also the fact that your appearance is totally kicking my O.C.D. into overdrive” he nodded.

“Fair enough” he said, shrugging.

“You seem very subdued with your chaos magic” I pointed out.

“If I was always using chaotic magic then that would just make me predictable” he said, I snorted.

“Touché” I said “anyway, because of what happened with Tirek, if you dare pull that backstabbing move again, Toa or not, I will kill you and mount your head on a pike”

“Get in line” Discord said, at that moment Luna walked in “What are you doing here, dear Lulu?” Luna snorted before answering

“I performed a complicated and energy consuming spell” Luna said “so I’ve been grounded for the past few days, but, my magic reserves are now replenished and I’m ready to return to Canterlot, I was just saying my farewells” I nodded.

“See you whenever” I said, she nodded before disappearing with a flash, discord looked at a watch that had randomly appeared on his wrist.

“Well, I should get going as well, chaos to cause and all that, tata!” he said, before clapping his hands together and disappearing in a pink mushroom cloud the promptly started raining chocolate milkshake, I shook my head slightly and rolled my eyes, he may be reformed, but there are something’s that will never change, one of which was his apparent lack of morals.

we were several days into our flight, and we were well past the border, the terrain had changed from relatively flat and forested to mountainous and forested, it actually reminded me of north Wales, I was sat in the common room with the others going over the map of Minotauria, and Vinyl insisted on pronouncing the names with Equestrian Pronunciations.

“For the last time” I said, beginning to lose my patience “double L is pronounced ‘H’L, and the W is pronounced like two Us”

“But there is literally doubles of every letter” she said “it just looks like someone had a seizure on a type writer”

“Well to a Minotaur, Equestrian seems guttural and unintelligent” Gwyneth said indignantly

“Sie haben offensichtlich noch nie gehört, Deutsch” I said, making every one present look at me with a confused look on their faces.

“What is that language?” Mata Nui asked.

“German” I said, I went to explain more but I was interrupted by the coms in our mask crackling into life.

“Guys?” I heard Minion say “you might want to come up to the gun deck and take a look at this” we all looked at each other before I teleported up. I saw Minion standing on the gun deck, leaning against the railing and looking down.

“What is it?” I asked, making him jump.

“Oh, it’s just you” he said, he then pointed to a clearing some distance away “change to my mask and tell me what you see on the thermal lens” I did as requested and I saw a thermal spike, I then changed to the telescopic lens and zoomed in as far as it would go, what I saw surprised me, a camp site of some sort, with an American pickup truck and a caravan, of all things.

“Are you seeing the same thing as me?” I asked, looking at Minion and raising an eyebrow.

“You mean a pickup and caravan?” he asked rhetorically, the others joined us on the gun deck.

“What’s up?” Autumn asked.

“All of you change to Minions mask and switch to thermal vision” I said “when you see a thermal spike switch to the telescopic vision” they all switched to the correct mask.

“What in…” Autumn said, trailing off.

“Well Brother” Minion said “What we do next is your call, I personally want to find out what the hell is going on down there”

“Suit up” I said.

We stood in the part of the hold used for airdrops, we were all fully armoured up and armed, Mata Nui pulled a lever and part of the floor slid away, revealing a clearing, I turned to Blazewing.

“Keep the ship here unless I call for you” I said over the din “I’ll keep up communications with Jörmungandr” I then nodded to the others and we jumped off, Minion and Scar landed first with dull thuds, I landed next and rolled to lessen the impact, followed by Vinyl. Autumn and Boris landed last, slowing their decent using their wings, I got out my sword and the others armed themselves as well.

“Minion, I want you taking point, with thermal vision active” I said, he nodded “everyone else, single file behind me, keep communications open, I don’t want us getting ambushed by bandits or predators”

“Sir, yes Sir!” they said, Minion then led us to one side of the clearing.

“Vinyl, I want you to alert us of any incoming unknowns” I said.

“Yes sir” she responded, but with none of her usual attitude, we began to walk through the trees.

“Stay on guard” I whispered, Minion began cutting a path through the trees, it was slow going, but eventually we came close to the clearing, I signalled for the others behind me to stop and crouch, I walked forward and tapped Minion on the shoulder “Just you and me will go through, we don’t know how long he or she’s been here” he nodded and we stowed our weapons before entering the clearing.

“Is there anyone here?” I called, after a few seconds there was still no response “If there is anyone here, we mean you no harm” still no response, I turned to Minion.

“Begin searching, but be careful” I said, he nodded, we then split up, I could see that the pickup truck was severely damaged, the font end was caved in around a tree stump and the front wheels were at an angle they shouldn’t be, the number plate confirmed that it was American registered, State of Indiana to be exact, I heard Minion exclaim in Surprise.

“Brother” I heard him say over the coms in a panicky voice “you might want to get over here” I ran around the camp until I saw Minion with his back up against the Caravan, and a human with a small axe pressed against Minions neck, I went to tackle the person but a noticed a grenade in his other hand, the human noticed me.

“Put down your weapons” he said in an American accent, I slowly took out my sword and lowered it to the ground “All of them”

“Bugger” I muttered before getting my pistol, auto-rifle and knife out and placing them on the ground.

“Alright” he said “we’re gonna play a game of 20 questions, and if I think you’re lying, boom” I held my hands towards him.

“Okay” I said “Just take it easy” I could see in Minions eyes, he was actually scared

“Alright” he said “question 1, where the hell are we?”

“Look, I know this is gonna sound crazy” I said “but you’re not on earth anymore, to be exact, we are on the planet Terra, in the country of Minotauria”

“Prove it” he said.

“Autumn” I whispered into the com “Get your flank over here, and make sure you are unarmed, we have a situation”

“What!?” she exclaimed “I’m on it”

“Walk over, slowly and calmly, and take off your helmet” I said, a short while later Autumn walked around and froze when she saw the situation we were in.

“What the hell are you?” the human said, looking Autumn up and down.

“She is a pegasus” I said “don’t worry, she won’t hurt you”

“Who are you?” he asked, looking at us “and how many of you are there?” I sighed.

“Alright guys, come on out, and stow your weapons” I called, the others soon appeared “We are the Toa Jörmungandr, also known as the Wolfpack, we aren’t here to hurt you, we just came here out of curiosity, you are the only human that we know of on this world, besides me and my brother, please, just put down the axe and let my Brother go”

“Are you sure more of you aren’t gonna jump out of the trees at me?” he asked with an eyebrow raised.

“Trust me” I said “I’m British, we don’t use dirty tactics” he snorted in amusement.

“Thought your accent was odd” he muttered, before lowering the axe “Alright, how did you find me?”

“Err” Minion said “that would be me doing” he then tapped the cluster of lenses on one side of his mask.

“We have I ship” I said “we were at an altitude so he was able to see for miles”

“Wait, that was yours that I saw?” he asked “the one with the dragon?” I nodded.

“I’m Captain Vuur Koning of the Equestrian Royal Navy” I said.

“What kind of a name is that?” he asked.

“Human names don’t work here” I said “try for yourself if you don’t believe me” he then tried to say something, it ended up sounding like what I imagined a choking penguin sounded like.

“The hell?” he said “What am I gonna call myself?”

“Do what I did” I said, “use a term in another language, as long as it has a ring to it and sounds like a name” he went to respond but we all heard rustling from beyond the tree line.

“Err, you wouldn’t happen to have any pets would you?” Minion asked, the American looked at him.

“No” he said

“Alright everyone” I said, picking up my weapons “weapons ready and form a defensive formation” me and the other Toa stood in a semicircle around the American with our backs to him and the caravan, I noticed the American getting into a fighting stance with his axe ready, I was looking for anything beyond the tree line when I heard Minion and Vinyl call.

“Several thermal signatures, medium sized beasts” Minion said

“Several audio signatures” Vinyl said, I heard a shout behind us and turned around to see a traditional chimera standing on top of the caravan, just as I was about to aim my pistol at it the American threw the axe at the chimera, causing it to embed in the cat head, the creature stumbled and fell off the other side of the caravan.

“Nice shot!” I said.

“Yeah” the American said “but I’ve just lost a perfectly good tomahawk”

“More signatures!” Minion called, more chimeras started to appear from the trees, soon there was a massive pride of them, I looked at Scar and noticed he was in a trance, his claws were also glowing green, I began to hear the howls of Timberwolves.

“Oh, Scar” I said “you genius!”

“What?” the American said.

“He controls plant life” I explained “that includes Timberwolves” a pack of about ten timberwolves jumped over the caravan and stood between us and the Chimeras, Scar came out of his trance and began barking and yipping at the timberwolves, they nodded before forming a circle around us.

“Those things can talk!?” Vinyl exclaimed

“I used to be one, didn’t I?” Scar said, his Gatling guns then clicked into position, for a few seconds neither side moved, somewhere in the forest an eagle cawed and both sides charged “now might be a good time to call for the ship”

“Oh shit, of course” I said, I them opened communications with the ship “Jörmungandr, we have a pride of chimera’s trying to make a meal out of us here, I could really use some help right about now”

“On our way” Jörmungandr said, as he said this a chimera managed to get past the timberwolves and charged towards us, I brought up a wall of flames, but it jumped through, acting on reflex I pulled out my hunting knife as it ploughed into me, the knife pierced the creature’s chest, the Chimera leapt off and hesitated, but other than that it didn’t seem affected by the wound.

“Come on” I said “don’t be stupid, I don’t want to kill you, but if you persist, then you will leave me no choice” I them flipped the knife so I was holding it blade down, the chimera growled before charging, I waited till it was close enough before jumping, doing a back flip, I landed on the chimera and pierced the knife into the area where the two spines joined, the creature collapsed to the ground and I was thrown off, I rolled before stopping in a crouched position, I stood up, at that point I heard Auto-AA guns beginning to fire at the Chimera’s, I looked up to see the ship looming over us, the Chimeras soon began to retreat into the trees, several Equestrian Guards flew down and formed a perimeter.

“That’s a big ship!” the American said “Quick question, how are we gonna get all of this on there?” he pointed at the pickup and caravan, followed by the ship, I chuckled.

“Oh ye of little faith” I said

yeah, the Human is a character belonging to 'Dragonstoa', I've been I talks with him for weeks about having him join the story, but I've been waiting for the right time to include him

(there you go Dragon, I hope your happy now)

if you wish to appear in his story as well then P.M. me and I'll start discussing it with you

*Takes cover from the impending swarm of requests*