“Are you sure you don’t want our help?” Tahu asked, the Toa had caught wind of what was happening and had come over as soon as they could.

“I need you to stay and protect this world” I said, Tahu nodded before placing a hand on my shoulder.

“Very well” he said “farewell, brother, try not to make too many bad calls”

“You know me” I said, walking backwards towards the ship “when have I ever made a bad call?” I them span around and began walking at a brisk pace towards the ship, since the end of the war the roster of crew had been played around with, meaning we had pretty much equal numbers of every type of sentient species working on the ship. Garnet flew over, he was in his elemental armour and had a large bag slung over his back.

“Hey dad” he said, walking alongside me

“Hey kid, how’s Thel?” I asked “she on the ship?” what? You didn’t actually think I would let the kids miss out on an opportunity like this, did you?

“Yeah, although she’s been a little moody lately” he said, looking a little glum “I hope we don’t break up whilst we’re on the ship”

“Don’t worry” I said “from what I’ve seen and experienced, relationships on this world are a hell of a lot more long lasting than ones on my world, some people just need a bit of space every now and again”

“Was that intentional?” he asked “because we’re going into space, and you said people need space every now and again” I bust out laughing.

“Ha, no, it wasn’t intentional” I said “but well spotted” we soon spotted Ruby, also in full elemental armour, riding on Skohka’s shoulder, honestly, those two have been practically inseparable since they first met, not in relationship sense, he’s more like an uncle to her and Garnet. I called over to her and waived, Ruby said something to Skohka before jumping off of her Steltian friend and walking over.

“Hey, dad” she said, as I gave her a loose hug.

“Hey, dear” I said “you ready to explore other worlds?”

“Hell yes!” she said, doing a fist bump “um, when do I get my gun back?”

“Patience, young padawan” I said, waiving one of my hands like a Jedi “let’s get our stuff on the ship first”

*7 hours later*

I was stood on the bridge, overlooking the proceedings.

“Ship is ready to depart” a pony said.

“Captain Blazewing” I said “if you would be so kind” that was another thing, I was no longer captain of the ship, That wasn’t to say I didn’t call the shots around here, but Blazewing was much better suited for the role of captain. Blazewing nodded before tapping something on the controls, a few seconds later I got the feeling of weightlessness and the view outside the windows went dark.

“Activate artificial gravity” Blazewing said, I landed on the floor and stumbles slightly. I looked outside the window and I could see countless stars.

“We’re in space!?” I blurted.

“Yes sir” Blazewing said, I quickly rushed outside and my jaw dropped.

“Magnificent, isn’t it?” Luna asked.

“What are you doing here?” I asked.

“Twilight is taking my place temporarily” she said “I’m representing my nation when we visit other worlds”

“Makes sense” I said, I then opened up the com-link “Frostfang, how are you coping?”

“Trying to comprehend the sheer beauty of what I’m seeing” he said “but other than that, I’m doing just fine, these booster rockets are a huge help”

“Good to hear” I said, I then heard Minion over the com-link.

“Luke, get your arse over here, we have a fucking huge problem” he said, he never said my real name unless there was a huge problem, I teleported to his location on the other side of the ship and was confronted by the sight of several Covenant cruisers.

“Oh shit!” I said, Luna teleported over.

“I don’t see what the problem is” she said “it was to be expected that we would encounter extra-terrestrial life forms”

“Luna” I said “I want you to send a letter to Celestia and have her relay the following message to the other world leaders, if ships matching that description enter their world and try to form an alliance, they need to politely decline and ask to remain neutral”

“What’s got you so spooked?” Luna asked.

“They are Covenant cruisers” I said.

“And?” she asked.

“The Covenant make Nazi’s seem like fucking care-bares!” I exclaimed, drawing the attention of several crew members “if you piss them off, they will reduce the surface of your world to glass and kill everything until your world is just a cinder floating through space!” Luna went pale.

“I-I’ll relay the message for you then” she said, I teleported into the Bridge.

“Captain” a pony said “someone is…trying to contact us”

“Put them through” Blazewing said, a hologram of an elite in full covenant armour popped up and my stomach dropped.

“Unidentified vessel” the Elite said “please state you identity and intentions” I stepped forward.

“This is Vuur Koning of the planet Terra” I said “this vessel is designated Jörmungandr and our intentions are strictly neutral, our world does not wish to form an alliance with the covenant but we do not wish to be your enemy either. If you are in need of food, our planet can provide only that, nothing more, am I understood?” the Elite did a double take.

“You’re…human” he said.

“Yes, but not from the earth you know” I said “look, several universes have merged into one, the humans you’ll meet on unfamiliar worlds, probably won’t know who, or even what you are. So please, just leave them be, they are completely innocent of any crimes” the Elite narrowed his eyes.

“Whilst I won’t trust the likes of you” he spat “I will heed your words, we will not attack unless provoked”

“Thank you” I said “I will transmit the coordinates so you know which planet is neutral. But know this, that world is protected, not just by soldiers, but by beings with the power to move suns, do not piss of the leader of Equestria” I then cut off the com-link and noticed that the entire of the Bridge was silent.

“H-How do you know of them?” Blazewing asked.

“Just know that they aren’t to be messed with and leave it at that” I said, before walking onto the deck and watching the Covenant ships leave for Terra, Luna soon walked over.

“I notice they’ve headed for Terra” she said.

“Let’s hope they don’t do anything stupid” I said.

A few weeks later

We reached our first planet, from what I could tell, it was earth. Thankfully, the covenant hadn’t pulled anything whilst on terra, they’re still there, Celestia explained the situation with Teridax and they even agreed to help us.

“Ah, it’ll be good to be home” I said “Can’t wait to try my mom’s cider chicken” Natrix groaned.

“You have been talking about cooking a chicken with a can of cider stuck up its ass for weeks” he said “I’m never going to your mom’s house”

“But you have no idea how good it is” I said “it’s to die for”

“As you have told everyone ever since we left Terra” Vapaa said, we soon entered the planet and landed in the ocean somewhere between the U.K and northern Europe. I was on the deck with Autumn, Garnet and Ruby when Minion spoke up over the coms.

“Guys, you are not going to believe what is currently on the bow of the ship” he said, I put on my mask before teleporting over to the bow. Standing there, plain as day, was Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third, with his Night Fury, Toothless.

“Alright” he said “who’s in charge here”

“That would be me” I said, pushing through the crowd.

“Who are you?” he asked.

“Depends if you’re a friend of not” I said “for now, you can call me Vuur Koning” I gave a slight bow as I said this, Toothless growled at me and I glared back.

“Are you in allegiance to Drago Bloodvist?” he asked, I burst out laughing.

“You think I would side with a bastard like him?” I asked, Hiccup got out his sword and ignited it, I scoffed before getting out my sword and letting flames dance along mine “You should learn to pick you fights, kid” he hesitated slightly, Toothless growled before charging up a fire ball and shooting it at me, I absorbed the flames and dispelled the smoke before walking forward, Toothless began growling.

“H-how did?” Hiccup asked.

“You think you have power?” I asked “just because your dragon spits fancy fireballs, I control fire. And I don’t wish t become you enemy, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third, in fact, you’re just the person I was looking for” I put my sword away.

“What!?” he asked looking confused.

“You noticed the planets in the sky?” I asked, he glanced up before nodding “I’m from one of those, guide us to you island, and I’ll explain everything there, until then, I’m in the mood to go flying”

“Where in Thor’s name did you get that dragon?” Hiccup asked, eyeing Lhikan warily, we were currently leading the Jörmungandr towards Berk.

“I’m a Wyvern” Lhikan said, startling both Hiccup and Toothless.

“There’s a difference” I said “for one thing, Wyverns can’t breathe fire, their speciality is venom”

“You can talk!?” Hiccup asked.

“So what?” Lhikan asked.

“Where we come from, most dragons, like Frostfang over there can talk” I said “Wyverns can’t usually talk, but thanks to this little number, her thoughts are converted into speech” I leant over and tapped the crystal on her throat”

“So if I stuck one on Toothless…” he trailed off.

“Sorry, but no” I said “I don’t think it would work on life forms from this world” at that point Garnet and Ruby flew over and began flying around Toothless.

“What are those?” Hiccup asked.

“Kirins” I said “a hybrid between a dragon and a pony” Toothless heard this and snorted in disgust.

“Well excuse me!” Garnet said, crossing his arms “we can’t help who our parents were” Toothless snorted.

“They’re also my adoptive children” I said, both Hiccup and Toothless stared at me, wide eyed, mouths open, I shrugged “What? Their mother died and myself and Autumn Skies promised to look after them, isn’t that right, kids?” Garnet and Ruby both rolled their eyes.

“Yes, Dad” they droned.

“I have no idea how the others will react to that” Hiccup said, I shrugged.

“So what” I said “I personally don’t care what other people think, but if they have a problem, they come to me about it” Ruby sighed.

“Dad, can you stop threatening people, please” she complained.

“What?” I asked “I care about you” at the point the Island of Berk came into view and Garnet and Ruby gasped.

“Whoa” Garnet said.

“It isn’t much” Hiccup said “but it’s home” we soon landed in the town, whilst the ship anchored just out to sea, Garnett and Ruby were promptly swarmed by several smaller dragons.

“Um, Dad?” Ruby hissed “a little help…hey!” at that point a Nadder tried to lift up her tail, only to receive a tail blade to the face, the dragons soon got the message after that.

“Feisty one’s, aren’t they?” an older female voice said, I looked to the source to see Hiccups mother, Valka, walking over “might I ask who you are?”

“I am Vuur Koning, from the planet Terra” I said

“Planet!?” she exclaimed, before chuckling “and I thought I was crazy” I looked to Garnet and Ruby and jerked my head towards Valka, they soon got the message.

“Our dad isn’t crazy” Garnet said, all of the gathered people gasped.

“H-how is that possible?” Valka asked.

“Where we come from” I said “dragons can talk, you’d love it”

“Talking dragons?” Snotlout scoffed “yeah right, my foot can probably talk better that a dragon can”

“You better believe it, boy” Frostfang said, poking his head up from the docks and causing everyone to fall deadly silent.

“Is that proof enough?” I asked, deadpanning “right now that you are all silent. We have come here, to ask for your assistance, a being, called Makuta Teridax, has pulled our Universes together, and I’m asking for the help of your dragon riders to stop him…”

“But, you have such a large and well-armed ship” Hiccup said “what good will we do?”

“If you help us” I said “then that means we have that much more chance to defeat Teridax”

“Who is this…’Terrordacks’ that you keep mentioning?” he asked.

“Teridax, is a being of pure shadow” I said “and I’m being serious when I say that, he has powers beyond imagination, and he is unbelievably ancient”

“Exactly how ancient are we talking?” Astrid asked “a couple thousand years old?”

“Try 400 million years old and you’re on the right track” I said, the crowd began muttering

“What exactly has he done that is so bad” Hiccup asked “he just seems like a really old guy with shadow powers”

“He practically wiped out his own species to ensure he didn’t have competition” I said, causing the villagers to gasp “he is fiercely intelligent, his backup plans have backup plans, he will stop at nothing to ensure he controls everything in existence, he’s the reason why you can see planets in the sky. You think Drago Bloodvist was bad? He is nothing compared to Teridax”

“Suppose we agree to help” Hiccup said “what would happen then?”

“Well for one thing” I said “I would need you to come with us, however, we will provide some soldiers from my crew to compensate”

“But they won’t be able to fly” Astrid said

“Actually” Autumn said, landing next to me “we have Pegasi, Griffins, Thestrals and Dragons, all of whom can fly”

“What are you?” Valka asked.

“I’m a Pegasus” she said “in a manner of speaking” Hiccup turned to Valka and the looked like they were discussing something, after a few moments Hiccup turned to me.

“We will help you” he said “but only if you can promise the safety of my village”

“I will lend you the best fighters that I can spare” I said, Hiccup smiled

"Then we will gladly help you in your quest" he said, we shook hands and the crowd cheered. Next Chapter: Chapter 3 Estimated time remaining: 6 Hours, 26 Minutes