We woke up the next day and began making our way towards the Senate of the Dragons. Whilst the Dragon’s weren’t united as such, the Senate was in charge of uniting them in a time of need and represented the Dragons as a whole. If we wanted to unite the dragons then here was our best shot at doing so. The Senate of Dragons wasn’t exactly a hall as it was an entire city, located on the side of the Everfree’s tallest mountain, and it was huge. Canterlot had nothing on this city, both in sheer size and beauty, it was like something out of Lord of the Rings. We landed at the gate to the city and a small dragon, about the size of Garnet or Ruby, walked over.

“Outsider, state your name and intention” he said.

“I am General Toa Vuur Koning of the Terra Union army” I said “I come here wishing to speak to the Senate”

“And you, dragon?” he asked, turning to Miserix.

“I am Makuta Miserix of the Terra Union army” Miserix said “I have come here also wishing to speak to the Senate”

“What about the…Wyvern?” he asked, looking at Lhikan warily.

“Do you really want me to leave her out here with you?” I asked, Lhikan growled quietly as I said this

“Uh, no” he said “you uh, can’t miss the Senate building”

“Thank you” I said, before directing Lhikan forward. She walked past the diminutive dragon, who looked like he was bricking it. Once we entered the city, dragons large and small quickly moved out of the way when they saw me riding a wyvern, Miserix just snorted and rolled his eyes as he watched a 200 ft. long fire drake quickly step aside to let us pass. We soon reached the Senate building and, not surprisingly, they let us straight in. we entered a hall full of senators.

“May I ask why you have come to this fine…uh city?” a gold dragon asked, his gaze warily flicking between me and Lhikan, who I was still sat on.

“Dragons of the Senate” I said “Myself and Makuta Miserix come here today on behalf of Princess Celestia to form an alliance with your senate, as you probably already know, Equestria is now under the control of Makuta Teridax, I come here asking for your help in taking back Equestria”

“Might I ask why we should agree to join your alliance?” a 500ft. long jet-black dragon said, not the least bit bothered by the fact I was sitting on the back of a Wyvern.

“I’m the first person to do the one thing that no one has ever done since Wyverns have first appeared” I said “I’ve tamed one, I could always just let Lhikan here go on a rampage if your answer doesn’t please me” the jet-black dragon now looked nervous, whilst the rest of the senate looked ready to run out of the hall.

“If…we were to agree to join” the jet-black dragon said “what would be in it for us?”

“the fact that I don’t turn my pet Wyvern on this city?” I suggested “plus you also become allies with Equestria, but I think you a bit more worried about the Wyvern that I’m currently riding on and have complete control over” all of the dragons gulped before looking at the jet-black dragon.

“V-very well” the Jet-black dragon said “we will help you to take back Equestria”

We were now flying towards Ponyville with twenty 200 foot dragons, Lhikan also had her own set of armour, and much to the relief of my aching behind, it came with a saddle.

“So I’m your pet, am I?” Lhikan asked, she now had a gem infused with a translation spell located on the chest plate of her armour, I laughed nervously.

“Heh, that was just to get the dragons on our side, okay?” I said “I didn’t actually mean it”

“Oh sure” she said, sarcastically whilst rolling her eyes “also, what was that about you having complete control over me?”

“Same excuse as before?” I suggested, suddenly feeling very nervous, she gave me a very evil smirk and her gaze flicked down towards the ground and I suddenly realised that we were at a very high altitude “you wouldn’t dare” she responded by stooping into a dive and doing a barrel roll.

“Oh, yes I would” she said, over the sound of my totally manly screaming, I noticed the ground was approaching at a rather swift pace.

“Okay, okay, I’m sorry” I said, she instantly stopped spinning and levelled out.

“Apology accepted” she said, smiling innocently as she re-joined the dragons, some of whom were giving me sympathetic looks. I just groaned before lying back in the saddle.

“Why did I think it was a good idea to pick a wyvern?” a muttered.

“Because Dragons are terrified of me?” Lhikan suggested.

“Rhetorical question” I said.

“She has a point” I heard a dragon mutter. I sighed.

“This is going to be a long flight” I said.

“And I’m going to love every minute” Lhikan said, doing a barrel roll.

“Of all the Wyverns I had to choose” I said “it had to be the childish one with the sassy attitude”

“You love me really” Lhikan said.

“Tempus, kill me now” I whispered, so that a certain Wyvern couldn’t hear me.

*meanwhile in Ponyville*

The Crusaders snuck into Ponyville along with John, Aurora, Spike, Garnet, Ruby and Thel.

“Why exactly are we here?” Thel whispered.

“Did you not listen?” Sweetie Bell asked “*urgh* we are here to protect the school”

“You could do that without us” Thel said “why do you need me, Garnet or Ruby?” the Crusaders and Spike quickly pulled everyone behind a bush as a Kaita walked passed.

“Because of that” Spike said.

“What is that?” Thel asked, shaking slightly.

“It’s a Kaita Za” Sweetie Bell said.

“In Atquean?” Thel asked.

“*Sigh* it’s three different Rahkshi magically fused into one” Sweetie Bell said “it’s faster, stronger, has tougher armour and is a heck of a lot smarter”

“How do you take one down?” Thel asked, Spike smirked.

“We don’t” he said “you do” John chucked his extra automatic-shotgun to Thel before giving a two clawed salute.

“Well” Scootaloo said “it’s been fun knowing you” they then shoved the three older members of the group out of the bush before running for the school house and activating their cloaking garments.

“They are so going to pay for that” Ruby said, a large shadow loomed over them and she chuckled nervously, they looked up to see a three headed Kaita with absolutely huge fists, Ruby got out her 50-cal and looked to Thel “uh, Thel, now would be a good time to start firing” Thel took aim and pulled on the trigger, bangs echoed across the street as shot after shot impacted into the Kaita’s thick armour. Ruby began firing but none of their shots seemed to affect it.

“They are definitely going to pay for this” Garnet said, turning his right arm into a plasma cannon and sending a shot at the armour. Only for said armour to catch the round, stretch and then snap back into shape, sending the round right back at him “What the fuck!?” he jumped out of the way just as the shot hit the ground where he had been standing.

“What kind of power is elasticity!?” Ruby exclaimed “that’s just cheating!”

The younger of the kids soon reached the school house.

“Wait a second” Sweetie Bell said, the others could just see her walking towards the School house and looking inside, she quickly walked back over “They’re in there, there’s also a Rahkshi. Scootaloo, Applebloom, with me. Spike, Aurora, John, you three stay here and look out for trouble” the Crusaders then walked over to the School house and snuck in before walking around the back of the lone Rahkshi, the three of them deactivated their cloaking garments. Cheerilee’s eyes widened when she saw them and the Crusaders quietly signalled for her to keep on teaching, Cheerilee nodded discreetly before carrying on. The Crusaders looked to each other and nodded before getting out their short swords, jumping up and thrusting them into the Rahkshi’s Kraata chamber. The Rahkshi gave a final screech of surprise before collapsing to the floor, the students all turned around and their eyes widened when they saw the Crusaders.

“Heh, hey guys” Scootaloo said, the entire class then rushed towards them and enveloped them and a hug “Hey, we missed you too, but could you please give us some space, we haven’t finished yet” as if to punctuate the point they all heard an explosion outside, the Crusaders ran outside followed closely by the school kids. Running towards them were Spike, Aurora, John, Thel, Garnet and Ruby followed closely by a Rahkshi Kaita.

“Run for it, kids!” Garnet called, the school kids all screamed before scattering.

“I told you guys to take care of it!” Scootaloo exclaimed, as she ran after the group.

“Kind of hard when it’s practically made of rubber” Garnet said, running alongside her “we should have waited for an adult, but noooo, you were too worried about the bloody school”

“Just get behind it and take it out from there” Scootaloo said, Garnet huffed before taking off and flying around and behind the Kaita. He landed on the back and turned his arm into a flame sword.

“Let’s hope this works” Garnet muttered, before igniting the sword and plunging it deep into the Kraata chamber, the Kaita let out a screech before collapsing whilst still in motion and throwing the Kirin off. Garnet impacted with a thud and shook his head to clear his thoughts, he looked towards the Kaita to see it was still alive and kicking.

“Oh come on!” Sweetie Bell exclaimed, Garnet stood up and fired several plasma rounds at it, this time the rounds melted through, killing the Kaita for good. The school kids began to warily approach the remains of the Kaita.

“Is it…dead?” Pipsqueak asked, looking at Garnet, who turned his right arm back into its normal mode.

“Yep” the Kirin said “you won’t need to worry about it now, or pretty soon Rahkshi at all for that matter, we’ve come to liberate the town” Diamond Tiara scoffed.

“I doubt that” she said “you haven’t been here 5 minutes and we’ve nearly died”

“Diamond?” Sweetie Bell said, extending a hidden blade in her hoof “shut up, now!”

“Or what?” Diamond Tiara asked

“What do you think we’ve been doing for the past year and a half, Diamond?” Scootaloo asked, walking forward “Looking for our cutie marks? No, we’ve been training non-stop and fighting to put an end to Teridax’s reign”

“Um, I don’t mean to doubt you” Cheerilee said “but you’re just 9 kids, how are you going to stop him?”

“What do yawl think those guys are for?” Applebloom asked, as the Jörmungandr, flanked by several smaller vessels, came into view over the Everfree forest. The school kids, and Cheerilee’s, mouths dropped.

“And that isn’t even a tenth of our total fighting force” Sweetie Bell said, Scootaloo looked at Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon and smirked.

“Who’s the blank-flank looser now?” she asked, one of the smaller craft landed near them and Skohka walked out wielding his Mini-gun. Ruby beamed before running over and jumping on his shoulder, she then got out her 50-caliber automatic spell rifle and took aim before taking down several Rahkshi that were flying towards them.

“Come on, Skohka!” she said, Skohka nodded before charging into the town center after several Rahkshi. Autumn, Minion, Boris, Vinyl and Scar walked over.

“You okay, kids?” Autumn asked, the school kids all nodded “Follow us, we’ll take you to safety, Miss Cheerilee, ma’am? If you could make your way to the town hall please” Cheerilee shook her head.

“These children are under my care” she said “where they go, I go”

“Very well” Autumn said, before turning to the younger members of their team “I need you to scout ahead, we need to get to the town hall and I need you to find the safest route” the younger members all nodded before running for the town.

“Alright, kiddies” Vinyl said, getting out her swords and flipping them over several times “let’s go” the Toa the began to lead the children down the streets.

Twilight and the rest of the Elements of Harmony walked into Ponyville Castle.

“Girls?” Rainbow Dash said as they entered the empty hall “does it seem a little strange that this castle is deserted?” they all heard sinister chuckling

“Who said this castle was deserted?” Sombra asked, materialising out of the shadows. He was now bipedal, about 14 foot tall and he had a distinct feline quality to his appearance. He had silver armour and a black cape that dissipated at the end, as if made of smoke, and he wielded a staff with a blade made out of crystals. He walked forward and looked around at the hall “I must say, Twilight, I do approve of your aesthetical choices for this castle”

“You aren’t Trixie!” Twilight exclaimed.

“Oh, were you expecting that bumbling half-rate showmare?” he asked, running a metal clawed finger up the crystalline blade of his staff “She couldn’t handle a position of power to save her life”

“What do you want, Sombra?” Rainbow Dash demanded.

“I do believe there should be a ‘King’ somewhere in that sentence” he said “as for what I want; all of you…dead” the Elements began backing up as he walked forward with a predatory gleam in his eyes. He flipped his staff 180 degrees and thrust it into the floor, causing a wall of crystals to spring up behind them and block their escape.

“I am going to enjoy this moments, very much” he said, pulling his staff out of the floor “they say revenge is a dish best served cold...

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