I was in the armoury, the kids were picking out some firearms and I was supervising them, just in case.

“Skohka likes” I heard the Lower Steltian say, I looked over to see him holding an arcane-Gatling gun with the power pack already strapped to his back

“If you like” I said “then it’s yours, it’ll do 4000 rounds per minute if you’re feeling brave” Skohka went to say something but was interrupted by several loud bangs in quick succession, we looked over to see Ruby pointing a large gun at a target, or lack of said target.

“I think I’ll keep this” she said, smirking.

“…And my daughter just found the arcane 50 calibre machine gun” I said “that’s a comforting thought”

“Was that genuine or sarcastic?” Autumn asked, walking over.

“Honestly, a little bit of both” I then saw John Henry walk up to the firing range with a gun, very similar to the one Ruby had. Except when he fired it, it fired at a much slower rate and the arcane round spread out a lot more. It also totally obliterated the target in a couple of shots “and now the 14 year old griffin has an automatic shotgun as well”

“Detta är nu min bom-pinne” John said in Griffonian, smirking whilst sticking the shot gun in his hammer space “ingen får röra min bom-pinne” Autumn face palmed and shook her head.

“What did he say?” I asked.

“I’m not even going to bother translating” she said.

*POV 3rd person, a few weeks later*

The battle raged through the streets of Manehatten as the Crusaders, Spike, John and Aurora, all covered from head to toe in armour, ran for cover around a corner as the edge exploded into rubble.

“Of all things” Scootaloo said “it had to be a Kaita Rahkshi. John, think you can take that thing out?” she motioned to the automatic shotgun held in the albino-griffin’s talons as she said this.

“Not at the range” he said “the shots would just bounce off”

“Spike?” she asked.

“These are just pistols” he said, shaking the aforementioned weapons.

“Gosh darn it!” Applebloom said, Aurora opened a com link.

“Dad?” she asked.

“What’s up?” she heard her adoptive father ask over the sound of plasma fire.

“We might have provoked a Kaita” she said, chuckling nervously.

“What!?” he exclaimed “I’ll be there soon, where are you?” Aurora looked around for a street sign.

“28th street” she said.

“Why did it have to be halfway across the city?” she heard her dad say before the com-link cut out, they could hear the footsteps of the Kaita approaching and John readied the shotgun only to hear plasma fire and the carcass of the titan to fall to the ground next to them. Minion poked his head around the corner and smiled.

“You okay, kids?” he asked, they all nodded and he pointed to a school building located across the street “good, Rahkshi have taken some kids and their teachers hostage, think you can rescue them?”

“We’ll do our best” Aurora said.

“I’ll be outside making sure nothing gets in, Garnet and Ruby should be here with Skohka by the time you bet back” he said “so if you need help, just buzz me, now go!” he then ran across the street covering the young teens as they ran inside. Applebloom kicked open the front door and they walked in, it was seemingly empty.

“Am I the only one who gets really creeped out by empty schools?” Scootaloo asked, nervously.

“Never been to one” both John and Aurora said, they soon came to a large hall, John looked through the window and ducked down before cursing in Griffonian.

“They’re in there” he said “with about 6 Rahkshi, how are we gonna go about doing this”

“Activate our cloaking garments and each sneak up behind one” Sweetie Bell said “then we use these to take them out” she took out a pole from her saddlebags that she extended out to 8ft, at the end of it was a nozzle.

“So were gonna hit them over the head with a long stick?” Scootaloo asked, Sweetie Bell and John face hoofed/clawed.

“No, Vapaa made them for us, he says they fire out lots of ball bearings with enough force to cut through barbed wire” John said “or the armour of a Rahkshi” Sweetie Bell then passed one to each of them and showed then how to set them up, once they were proficient in using them they activated the cloaking garments and John slowly opened the door just enough for them to sneak inside. They each walked around the back of a Rahkshi and set up the pole so it was at the same height as the Kraata chamber on the Rahkshi.

“On three” Sweetie Bell whispered through the com link “one, two, three”

BANG

Tongues of fire spat out of the top of the poles, children all screamed and the Rahkshi promptly collapsed to floor. The kids all deactivated to cloaking garments and stepped forward.

“Alright Everypony” Sweetie Bell said “you need to calmly walk outside and make your way to the nearest shelter, we’ve got friends who will escort you there” an adult pony, most likely a teacher, scoffed.

“Why should we listen to you?” he said “your just kids” the Rahkshi nearest Sweetie Bell stirred and she grabbed it by the head before twisting violently, breaking the Kraata’s spine. The whole room dissolved into shocked silence.

“Anypony else got any stupid questions?” she asked, raising an eyebrow “you want a reason why you should listen to us? Okay, our nation has been taken over by a Makuta, we’ve been stuck outside our own country for 1 and a half years. We managed to enter this building undetected and take out all of the Rahkshi in 2 minutes, and frankly I’m not particularly in the mood to deal with ponies who are sore over the fact that they got rescued by a bunch of kids, now get moving!” she pointed to the door as she said this and the teachers began directing the school kids towards the exit. Applebloom was looking through the crowd when she saw Babs Seed.

“Cuz!” she called, Babs Seed looked over and her face was riddled with confusion.

“Uh, do I know you?” she asked, realisation struck Applebloom.

“Oh, the uniform” she then took off her full face helmet and Babs Seed ran over and tacked her into a hug “careful, watch the blades”

“When Teridax took over, you disappeared” Babs said, her eyes watering “I thought you’d…”

“Hey, it’s okay” Applebloom said “come on, Ah got friends who’re helping to take back this city for the Princesses” the kids then led everyone outside, the school kids began to panic when they saw Skohka.

“Hey, it’s alright” Sweetie Bell said “he’s a friend, we’re going to escort you to the nearest shelter” the school kids calmed down but they still looked nervous.

“Alright” Minion said, stepping forward “my name is Toa Minion, whilst were escorting you, we’re going to need your help. If you see any Rahkshi, I need you to tell us, okay?” the kids all nodded but the teachers looked sceptical.

“Again, why should we listen to you?” the one from before asked, Minion hefted up his plasma cannon.

“You really want to argue with this?” Minion asked, tilting his head towards his plasma cannon “better yet, do you want to argue with my niece and nephew who friends a Steltian wielding a mini-gun. We are in the middle of a bloody war here and we don’t have time for ponies like you asking questions all the time, you can either come with us or stay here and get slaughtered by Rahkshi” as he said that a swarm of Rahkshi flew around the corner towards them.

“Skohka!” Ruby said, the Steltian grinned before levelling his mini-gun and unleashing a torrent of arcane energy at the Rahkshi.

“Alright, let’s move” Minion said, he then turned to the Kirins, Crusaders, Spike, Aurora and John “protect the school kids, me and Skohka will hold the Rahkshi off” the teens all nodded before leading the school children and teachers away. Skohka guffawed as the Rahkshi began dropping like flies.

“WAAAAAAAA, CRY SOME MORE!” the Lower Steltian said “is like music to Skohka’s ears” Minion rolled his eyes

“Of all the times to make that reference” Minion said, sending 20 of them into the wall with a flick of his sword before unloading his plasma cannon at the pinned Rahkshi, causing them to explode in a fireball that took out several stray Rahkshi “you had to use it now!?”

“It fits” Skohka said, taking out the last few Rahkshi before lifting up the mini-gun and kissing the barrels “you did well my friend!”

“Again with the Team Fortress 2 references” Minion said, rolling his eyes before placing a new plasma cartridge in his cannon. A few more few around the corner, Minion went to take a shot at one when they all got obliterated by lightning as Rainbow Dash and Gilda flew past “thanks, the kids are escorting a group of school kids and teachers, think you can give them a hand?”

“You bet” Rainbow said over the coms.

*POV 1st person Vuur Koning*

I was with Autumn, Vapaa and Orca as we made our way towards the city hall. A Rahkshi jumped out of an alleyway and Vapaa got out his Tomahawk before throwing it at the Rahkshi, hitting it square on the head.

“Bloody good shot” I said.

“Thanks” Vapaa said, walking over and yanking the small axe out of the Rahkshi’s skull plate, we all heard chuckling and two humans walked out of the alleyway, flanked by Rahkshi, they were soon blocking our path.

“Hello, big brother” one of them said, looking at Vapaa, who scowled.

“Long time no see” the other said “it’s been what? 2 years, since you ran off to pony land”

“Seth!? Gabe!? What do you two want?” Vapaa said “because I don’t have time to deal with you two”

“Care to explain who these are, Vapaa?” I asked, walking forward. The two humans looked at me and raised their eye brows.

“So you finally made some friends” the one on the left said “even if they are British”

“You got a fucking problem with me being British!?” I asked, stepping forward and getting out my sword.

“Which country was it that needed our help to win World War Two?” the one on the right asked.

“I’m sorry, but you can’t say much considering your country constantly tries to claim other countries inventions as your own?” I shot back, running my finger up the blade of my sword “we could just stand here all day talking shit about each other’s countries, but I’m quite frankly not in the fucking mood…” I was cut off.

“Quite the foul mouthed one, aren’t you?” the one on the right asked, smirking.

“Go fuck yourself” I said, pointing my sword at him “I don’t care if you are Vapaa’s brothers, I will fucking end you if carry on”

“You and what army?” they both asked, at that moment a centurion of Chameleon Rahkshi, led by the Charahk that we knew, all made themselves visible.

“You were saying?” I asked, they sneered before walking up to Vapaa.

“We’ll be back” the one on the left said “and next time, your boyfriend won’t be there to protect you”

“We aren’t gay” I said “we both have girlfriends, now fuck off before I deck you!” they both turned into Makuta, with one of them looking like the grim reaper, and flew off. Their Rahkshi followed soon after.

“No offence, Vapaa” I said “but your brothers are dickheads”

“Tell me something I don’t know” Vapaa said “to make it worse they’ve sided with Teridax” I sighed.

“Just when things couldn’t get any more complicated” I said, before turning to Charahk “we need you to defend the entrance to the city hall, if we can take it, then they city is ours” Charahk nodded before relaying the message to his troops in their language.

“Hag nah kini Metru duh ye ignika” he said “dreg nah makoki rah nah Metru” the other Charahk all cheered before charging and swiftly dispatching the Rahkshi that were standing guard. Myself and my fellow Toa all walked inside the city hall, where a troop of Vahki were surrounding the Mayor. I walked forward.

“Halt!” one of them said, they all readied their staffs.

“This city is now under the control of the Union” I said “all Vahki law enforcers are to obey our commands as per override protocol 4859” they stiffened up momentarily, before disarming their staffs.

“Override protocol received” they all droned “Thank you for choosing the Nynrah Ghost Tech standard law enforcement unit”

“You directives are to protect the city and help in rebuilding” I said.

“By your command” they droned, before walking out and driving Teridax’s Rahkshi out of the city. Within a few hours we had Manehatten back under Equestrian rule. Next Chapter: 8 Estimated time remaining: 45 Minutes