*the next day*

I was wondering around the town, mostly for the sake of wondering when I heard a loud bang and got struck by lightning…again.

“FOR FUCKS SAKE, ECHO!” I yelled, looking up I saw not only Echo, but Rainbow laughing her arse off on the cloud and Vapaa floating next to them “you two as well!?”

“Oh come on, Hothead” Rainbow said “that was hilarious, besides, Echo’s an awesome prankster” I looked at Vapaa and gave him a look, he simply deadpanned and folded his arms

“That was for what you said last night” he said.

“Wait, what did he say?” Rainbow asked, I smirked before looking around to make sure no one was in earshot before getting on one knee, I cleared my throat.

“Roses are red, my mind is twisted” I said, her face contorted into confusion “bend over bitch, you’re about to get fisted” her cheeks flushed, her wings shot out and she promptly fell off the cloud.

“that, is for electrocuting me” I said, standing up and walking away.

“Oh, it…is…on!” I heard Rainbow say.

“Try it” I said “bitch” her wings shot out again, I laughed as I walked away, Rainbow got up and flew in front of me.

“Oh, no” she said, prodding my chest plate with a hoof “you are not walking away after what you just did!”

“What can you do to stop me?” I asked her, raising an eyebrow “no boasting, truthfully, what could you physically do to stop me?” she faltered for a split second and I smirked, I have you now, bitch.

“I’m faster than you” she said, I rolled my eyes.

“Oh, please” I said “lots of things are faster than me, it’s not that big of a deal, as for fighting, I bet I could floor you in less than ten seconds”

“Yeah ri…” I cut her off by grabbing her throat pinning her to the floor “gak, what the buck, dude!”

“Not even two seconds, and I was holding back” I said, releasing her, she flew up and hovered at my eye level “nothing personal, Skittles, but a Toa of fire is always easy to provoke, with me that takes the form of wanting to actually back up my claims, you would actually be pretty good as a Ta-Toa, you certainly have the personality for one, I’ll be seeing you around” I then walked off, she didn’t stop me this time, she quickly moved out of the way.

*pov 3rd person*

Vapaa and Echo flew over.

“If you tell anyone, I’ll deny it” Rainbow dash said, Echo chuckled

“You weren’t there when pirates took Autumn hostage” Echo said “I was one of the first members of the crew, so I saw it”

“What did he do?” Rainbow Dash asked “he mentioned it the last time he was here, but he never explained what happened, something about it being messy”

“He slit all of their throats” Echo said “and we were left to clean up after him, it took several hours to clean the blood up” Rainbow dash and Vapaa went considerably paler

“But I thought Toa couldn’t kill” Vapaa said.

“This was before he became a Toa” Echo said “he may be calm most of the time, but just under the surface is an inferno, waiting to ignite, Minion says it’s to do with his past, but he didn’t tell me what exactly, just don’t tell his kids about it, as he’ll probably hunt you down and do unspeakable things to you”

I ended up in the Everfree forest, for some reason it didn’t really scare me now, if needs be I can use the Kenohi Mahiki and turn into a bird or something, I eventually reached a clearing where I found Scar, talking to a pack of timberwolves, presumably his original pack, I switched to the mask of translation and my mind was filled with all kinds of conversations, I focused on what Scar was saying and most of the voices began to filter out.

“Why can’t you return to us, Alpha?” a timberwolf said, I walked forward, startling them “who is that?” Scar turned to look at me and sighed.

“Oh, it’s you” he said.

“I’m just a friend of Scar” I said, gesturing to the former timberwolf “this your former pack?” Scar nodded

“How do you understand us?” one of them said, I tapped my mask.

“This lets me speak in your language, among others” I said what “seems to be the problem?”

“We want him to return to us” one, a younger male said “with his powers we could unify all of the Everfree packs into one”

“You seek unification?” I asked, clarifying, they all nodded, I nodded “I’ll make you a deal, as he is part of my team, we are going to be travelling to the uncharted lands, but when we come back, he can help you to unify the packs, the rest of my team can help as well if you want” I then shape shifted into a timberwolf for a few seconds

“What’s the catch?” and older female asked.

“my team is tasked with protecting the innocent, whenever my team is needed, he has to help as well” I said, I noted the hesitant looks on their faces “think of my team as like a pack, each member is vital and there must always be six members, but new ones can’t join an existing team” an old male wolf stepped forward.

“Very well” he said “you may take him on your journey, but when you return, you must help us”

“Of course” I said, I then turned to Scar “do you have a problem with any of this?” he shook his head.

“It satisfies both parties” he said, shrugging “I don’t have a reason to object”

“Well then” I said “I’ll leave you to catch up with the pack” I then walked off, after some time I stopped, an idea forming in my head, I smirked, I then switched to the Mahiki and turned into a Utahraptor, imagine a raptor, but about 7-8 foot tall and 23 feet long. Jurassic Park, eat your heart out, I then began running back towards Ponyville, raptors are really fast, so I managed to reach the outskirts in about a minute, I then began to dart behind houses, altering my colour to make myself harder to see. I soon reached the castle, thankfully no one was actually around and I quickly darted across and towards the entrance, I snuck towards the throne room. Twilight was sitting on her throne, reading a book, I levitated a candle and placed it back down with an audible clang, she didn’t react.

“Perfect” I whispered to myself, before crouching down and crawling along the floor, which is hard to do when you can’t actually move your tail. I eventually made my way behind her throne and tapped a clawed finger on her shoulder, when she turned around and saw me she screamed and flew into the air. I promptly fell on the floor, laughing, quite a sight to see when a raptor is literally ‘rofling’.

“Vuur?” she asked “is that you?”

“Yeah” I said, moving my jaw in time with my speech just for the sake of clarity.

“What is that?” Twilight said, landing and walking over.

“This is a reptile from the Clade of Dinosauria” I said “called Utahraptor, these things lived on earth about 125 million years ago, things like birds of prey evolved from things like this”

“This is unlike anything on this world!” Twilight said in amazement, she then got right in my face “show me more!” for the next few hours I went through all of the Dinosaurs I could think of, whilst Twilight furiously scribbled down notes and sketches.

“Just so you know, the colours of these are purely guess work” I said, I was currently a T. Rex, at that moment Rainbow Dash walked in. She froze when she saw me, I waived as nonchalantly as I could with my tiny arms “hey, Skittles” the moment Rainbow Dash heard my voice, and saw the tiny arms, she put a hoof over her mouth and started snickering.

“Dude, those arms” she then lost it and fell on the floor laughing “you look ridiculous”

“Rainbow!” Twilight said “we are in the middle of an important scientific discussion” suddenly my nose began to itch

“Oh shit” I said, scrunching up my snout

“What?” Rainbow asked.

“My nose itches!” I shouted, I then began stomping around and rubbing my long snout on the floor trying to stop the itch, unfortunately smooth crystal is not good for solving itches “for god’s sake, stop itching” Rainbow promptly fell about laughing once more, Twilight just face hooved.

“You could just change back to a human” she said, I stopped and chuckled nervously before changing back and scratching my nose.

“Ah, that’s better” I said “right, where were we, oh yeah, you might like this one, Skittles” I then turned into a Deinonychus, complete with feathers, she just looked at me, unimpressed.

“You look like a 4 hoof tall turkey” she said “I’m not really impressed”

“These were like the cheaters of the dinosaurs, they were incredibly fast and intelligent” I said, I them started tapping the sickle claws “and then you’ve got these babies”

“Okay, a 4 hoof turkey with claws” Rainbow said, still not looking impressed.

“No pleasing some” I muttered, before changing back into a human and turning to Twilight “that about exhausts my database of dinosaurs, I’ll search up some of them for you, in fact, I’ve just been thinking, I have a tablet computer, in addition to my laptop, I could give you the tablet and its charger, and then I can use it to email you any information, I can also use it to contact you whilst we are exploring the southern lands”

“I’d like that” she said, nodding.

*a few hours later*

I passed the tablet and charger to Twilight, I had wiped the memory on it, activated the safe search and filtered all results; didn’t want her to go stumbling upon anything that might damage her innocence or give her access to things like the blue prints to a nuclear reactor, I also set up an email account for her.

“now, if you search up something and it come up as blocked, then it’s for a reason, email me about why a particular search is blocked and I’ll explain why” I then went through the steps for email, when that was done I showed her the basic search engines “also, don’t create accounts on social media websites without asking me first, I don’t want MI6 after my arse because you created a Facebook account, okay”

“Yes” she said, looking impatient.

“Well, someone’s eager” I said “anyway, hope you enjoy, but take care, the entire sum of human knowledge is contained on the internet, but not all of it is true, whatever you read, take with a bit of salt until you have proof that it’s true”

“Yes, yes” she said, already going on the browser, I took this as my cue to leave and walked out of the palace.

I walked into the sparring hall of the ship to see Vapaa and Sumerki sparring, they were blade-locked. Sumerki jumped back, using her wings to propel her and fired a beam of purple shadow energy at Vapaa, who dispelled this with a blast of pure light. Vapaa then sent a beam of light at Sumerki who responded in kind, the beams met halfway and refused to budge.

“Urg, we’re matched” Sumerki said in a ‘Slavic’ accent, scowling.

“An unstoppable force meets an unmovable object” Vapaa said, smirking. They both nodded and counted to three before dispelling the beams.

“Nice work” I said “you might make a Toa yet, Sumerki” she just snorted and gripped her staffs tighter.

“I think that was a compliment” Vapaa sang, Sumerki scoffed and walked off, once she was out of ear shot he said “ever since she became a toa she’s almost constantly moody”

“Becoming a toa with a distinct lack of morals can do that” I said, dryly.

Sumerki walked through the corridors towards her quarters, she was seething, she didn’t ask to become a Toa, she was perfectly happy working as a night shift technician, he thought’s started to drift.

“Sumerki” a deep voice said, she suddenly realised that the corridor had gotten really dark.

“Show yourself!” Sumerki said, two red eyes appeared.

“I understand how…” the voice was cut off

“You don’t understand gówno!” Sumerki snapped “I don’t care who, or what you are, but I never asked for your opinion on it, and if you are trying to turn me to some dark cause then you can go and pierdolić!”

“Very well” the voice said, before the shadows disappeared. Sumerki snorted before continuing towards her quarters.

Teridax punched the viewing crystal and growled, he hadn’t expected such a reaction from his own element.

“That went well” Leorahk smirked “you just got chowed at by a bat pony”

“Know your place!” Teridax growled

“Look, thestrals don’t take skit from anyone, they hate condescension and they are also very stubborn” the former griffin said “I’ve seen thestrals kill each other because they can’t agree on something” Teridax and Chiratrix raised an eyebrow at that.

“So, despite the fact that her element is shadow, she isn’t really suited for working under shadow” Chiratrix said, Leorahk nodded "well, there goes that idea"

seriously, what's a T.rex supposed to do when it get's an itchy nose

also, thestrals speak a language that's a mix between Russian, Polish and Czech, basically a generic Slavic language