Rainbow Dash turned to me, still surrounded by an aura of Plasma.

“What the buck is this?” she asked.

“You’ve just become a Neue-Toa” I said, standing up “Toa of plasma most likely”

“Plasma?” she asked.

“Think lightning mixed with fire” I said, before nodding my head towards the door “come on, we have a factory to liberate” I walked through the melted doorway and stopped when I noticed Rainbow Dash wasn’t following.

“Uh, how do I walk?” she asked, I face palmed.

“Watch closely and use your wings to balance” I said, before slowly walking towards her “one foot in front of the other, like so”

“Okay” she said, before walking forward unsteadily, only to fall over.

“Oh for fucks sake” I said, walking over, picking her up and putting her arm over my shoulders “just hold on until you feel like you can walk well enough on your own” we then continued on our way through the corridors, progress was slow, but we eventually found the detention block. Rainbow Dash could now walk reasonably well on her own, seems she was a fast learner. I walked to one of the cell doors and looked through the window, there were a few pegasi kids in there. I knocked on the window and they looked at me in surprise.

“Hey, kids” I said “you might want to stand clear of the door” they nodded before squeezing themselves against each corner.

“HYAA!!” I kicked the door down with barely any effort and the colts and fillies walked forward, they eyes full of wonder when they saw me “can you all fly?” all except for one nodded.

“I-I think my wing is broken” a green filly with a white mane said through gritted teeth. I turned to Rainbow Dash.

“You’ll know what you’re looking at” I said “you check” she nodded before walking forward, the filly began backing away in fear.

“Hey, kid” Rainbow Dash said softly “I’m not going to hurt you, I need to check your wing” after a few moments the filly hesitantly tried to open her left wing, only to cry out in pain when it reached about half of its full span. Rainbow carefully held the half open wing and began lightly pressing on the bones to check

“How bad?” I asked, she shook her head.

“Not good” she said, before scooping the filly up in her arms “looks like I’m gonna have to carry you, kid”

“Alright kids” I said “let’s get out of here, and quietly” then then began quietly waking their way out of the cell and we began looking for more occupied cells, thankfully there weren’t any more occupied cells and we soon met back up with the rest of the toa, by which time explosions were shaking the entire factory.

“What the h…” I stopped when I remembered we had kids with us “what did you do?”

“I felt trigger happy” Minion said “also, if you see a hole in the floor and ceiling, that was me” I sighed and face palmed.

“We’re stuck on this world for the time being” I said “the last thing we need is to be wanted for destruction of property”

“We would have had the guards on our tails anyway” Rainbow said “now let’s get out of here, our best bet is to head straight for the old castle in the Everfree” I nodded to Minion who began unloading his gun in the wall until we could see outside.

“Alright” I said “Rainbow, you lead the kids out first” Rainbow nodded and took off, followed closely by the fillies and colts. Once they were clear we flew after them as the factory exploded around us as soon as we were clear of the factory we could see it falling towards the ground in flames.

“Good riddance” Scar muttered as it impacted with the forest in a rainbow coloured fireball, we soon made our way to the old castle and set up a temporary camp. Most of the kids began to wander around the castle, but didn’t actually go outside. I was sat against the wall in the throne room, keeping an eye on the kids when a yellow filly with orange hair, about 7 by my guess, walked over and sat down next to me.

“What are you?” she asked.

“I’m a human” I said, absentmindedly playing with a ball of fire “think of a really smart monkey, I’m also a Neue-Toa”

“And what’s a ‘Nu-toe-ah’?” she asked.

“An elite warrior that can control the elements” I said “for instance, I can control fire”

“Can you get burnt?” she asked.

“Yes” I said “but it’s very hard to do so, and it never works when it’s my own fire. What’s your name, kid?”

“Uh…Sunny Skies” she said “Mister…”

“Vuur Koning” I said “my real name is Luke, but I prefer Vuur Koning”

“That’s an odd name” she said.

“Where I come from we don’t name people after things” I said.

“Where do you come from?” she asked.

“Space” I said, I noticed her eyes widened and chuckled “you got a home?” she suddenly looked down cast and sniffed.

“Not anymore” she said, tears starting to form in her eyes.

“Come here” I said, holding my arm out for her. She shuffled over and leaned against me as I comforted her. We sat like that for some time and eventually I noticed she’d fallen asleep, Autumn walked in and stopped when she noticed me with the filly, she gave me a look.

“Honestly, Vuur” she said quietly, sitting down next to me “another kid?”

“I guess I’m a softy like that” I said, gently stroking the filly’s mane “*sigh* what are we gonna do with all of these kids?”

“I guess they could go to members of the crew” Autumn said “no way in tartarus we’re leaving them on this planet”

“Honestly” I said, rolling my eyes “a Dictatorquestria, what’s next, an alternate Earth where the Third Reich won World War 2?”

“Vuur!” Autumn exclaimed quietly “don’t think like that”

“Considering our luck I wouldn’t be surprised” I said, before trying to contact the Jörmungandr “still no signal, how long will we be stuck on this hell hole”

“We will need help at some point” Autumn said “let’s just hope we can find someone friendly”

“Uh…Vuur Koning, you might want to come see this” I heard Vinyl say over the com-link. I gently nudged Sunny Skies awake.

“Sunny” I said “come on, you need to wake up”

“Ungh…Vuur Koning?” she asked “what’s wrong?”

“I need to get up, you can sit with Autumn” Sunny Skies nodded before groggily walking over to Autumn, who pulled the young filly into an embrace, Sunny Skies fell asleep almost instantly. I chuckled before standing up and walking out of the room. Vinyl and Minion were stood outside at the bridge “What’s up?”

“Just look across the bridge” Minion said, I looked along the bridge and did a double take, standing at the other end, looking just as shocked as me, was…me…or rather, a female version of me, her armour was exactly like mine but…sleeker.

“Shit” I said “this just got a lot more complicated” Next Chapter: Chapter 22 Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 55 Minutes