*POV 1st Person Vuur Koning

The Jörmungandr; flagship of the Terran Union Army, the largest war vessel to sail the skies of Terra, home to 70’000 personnel at any one time and armed with enough guns to make the battle of midway seem like a mere kerfuffle in comparison to the amount of firepower it would take to bring don this might vessel. Home to some of the greatest warriors to ever live.

“Mead!” Minion exclaimed, slamming an empty tankard down on the table “By the Glory of Odin, I must have more mead!” My self and most of the other Neu-Toa were in the Tavern on the Jörmungandr, along with some of the other Guardians of the world’s we had visited. Teridax was now captured, Hearths Warming season had just begun, and we were taking the time to celebrate, all this bullshit with chasing after Teridax was finally over. A bar maiden brought over a fresh round of drinks, including a stein sized tankard of mead For Minion.

“Once Hearth Warming is over” I said, looking at Minion, Vapaa and Natrix “we’ll set of, in search of our home”

“It’ll be good to see our family again” Minion said.

“What do you miss most about your hometown?” Natrix asked “Apart from your family?”

“Our hometown has a massive steel works, and on some nights the entire sky glows orange” I said “Might not be good for the environment, but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t look beautiful”

“So” Vapaa asked, looking at me and Minion “How exactly are you two going to ‘pop the question’ once you get to earth?”

“Not sure yet” I said, scratching my chin “Probably once everything has calmed down

“Screw that” Minion said “I’m proposing the moment we step foot in the U.K.”

“You don’t fuck about, do you” I said.

“Well, I wouldn’t say that” Vinyl said, walking behind Minion and surprising him before putting her forehooves over his shoulders and kissing him on the cheek “The answer’s yes, by the way” he then trotted off, leaving a stunned Minion.

“Well, damn” he muttered, before taking a sip of his mead. Our attention was diverted by a shout.

“What the fuck!?” we all turned to see 3 grunts at the bar, two of them; a male and a female, were sat at the bar, whilst the third, another male, looked on in anger. The one that was stood up pointed at the male “what the fuck, who the fuck are you!?”

“Who are you?” the male grunt sat at the bar shot back.

“I’m her frickin’ boyfriend, asshole!” he said.

“That’s cool, bud” the male grunt at the bar said “I’m her man-friend” a hush began to des I looked at my fellow neu-Toa.

“Think we should break it up?” I asked.

“Fuck that, I’m off duty” Minion said, taking a sip of his mead, “besides, this is the funniest shit I’ve seen all year” I turned back to look at the grunts.

“You know what?” The grunt that was stood up said, walking backwards towards the exit whilst flipping them off “fuck both of you!” he then left.

“The hell was that about?” Vapaa asked, before any of us could answer the grunt from before returned with two other grunts.

“Fuck you!” he shouted at the male grunt sat at the bar and the situation quickly dissolved into an all-out grunt bar fight, whilst the female grunt looked on and begged them to stop. Before any of us could get up to stop the fight two grunts in their battle armour arrived to try and break it up, resulting in one of the grunts ending up on the floor, the couple quickly made their escape and eventually eveerthing returned to some semblance of normality.

“So…” Natrix said, before taking a sip of his drink “That happened”

I was in a field with Raz 'Vtam; the Elite who I’d saved from the timberwolves in the Everfree, he was now wearing gold-plated Protosteel armour, and getting used to using his new primary weapon, an extremely long range sniper rifle, this was an experimental design adapted from a U.N.S.C. sniper rifle used for orbital assassinations. He was currently aiming at the top of Canterlot Mountain. Whilst I was spotting for him, we had received word that some Dark Hunters had been spotted near Canterlot. I spotted a tall, insectoid looking dark hunter about 10 meters away from where he was aiming, indicated by a red dot on my binoculars.

“10 meters to the right” I said, he moved his wrists almost imperceptibly and a crack rang out, a few seconds later the depleted uranium bullet slammed into the head of the dark hunter, blowing it clean off and sending liquid protodermis and fragments of armour flying everywhere as the corpse slumped before tumbling down the mountain. “Nice shot”

“I like to keep my kills quick and clean” he said. We heard an explosion come from the direction of the Jörmungandr and looked behind us to see Galvetron, The Shadowed one, Teridax, and multiple Cybertronian like Makuta running towards the forest, with Skohka, Gelphana and Talguda on their tail.

“Teridax’s lackeys got the jump on us!” Gelphana shouted to us. We quickly caught up to them and ended up in the forest, I shifted my mask into its battle form, with mouth guard up and brought out my swords just in time to block a strike from a red and black Makuta, who was wielding two sickle blades.

“Get Teridax!” I called to the others, kicking the Makuta away and bunching him in the jaw “let me handle these” he responded by upper cutting me and pinning me against a tree.

“Your kind should have been eradicated long ago!” He said, before pulling my head down and kneeing me in the face. My vision flickered for a moment and when it cleared, I was met with a clawed foot to the face, sending me flying into a nearby tree. My head pounded, but I bore through the pain to see the other Cybertronian-esc Makuta aproaching “You should have stayed out of this war, boy”

“And you should have stayed dead, Antroz!” I said, spitting out blood before picking up my swords and charging, I then began to strike at Antroz and the other Makuta “I will not stop, tell every last one of you has fallen”

“That is why you will fail, Toa” Chirox said, using his long, blade-like arms as whips, I grabbed one of the arms as he struck out and twisted, before slicing his arm off and flipping it around plunging it into his chest in one fluid motion. He looked down in shock.

“I am no Toa.” I said, twisting the blade and ripping it to one side, tearing a gaping hole in his armour before dropping the blade “I am a Neu-Toa, and unlike Toa, I don’t have qualms about killing.” I then merged my two swords into a shield on my left arm, blocked an attack from Krika and knocked him back before plunging my right hand into Chirox’s chest cavity, pulled out his heart stone and crushed it in front of his eyes.

“You die!” I said, splitting my shield into two swords and cutting his head off before kicking him away. I then brought up my swords to block an attack from Icarax before putting my swords away and kicking his knee joint, dislocating it, I then grabbed his shoulder before kneeing him in the face and sending him crashing to the ground. Tridax charged at me from behind, I turned, grabbed him by the neck and flipped him upside down before kicking him in the head, sending him flying.

“You fight with courage” Antroz said, I punched him in the chest, sending him stumbling “If you were to join us, you would make a great Makuta” Icarax  grabbed me from behind by the shoulder and began slicing into my side with is rotating shield, I elbowed him in the face, sending him stumbling back. Tridax came at me from the other side and punched me in the gut with his gauntlet. I kicked his legs out from under him and kerb stomped him in the chest, denting it. Icarax came at me from behind and grabbed my shoulders before flipping me over him and flinging me into the trees, he then turned around and round-house kicked me in the face, ripping the mouth guard off my mask and sending me into the dirt. As I tried to get up he elbowed me in the face and I heard a whine which steadily increased in pitch, I turned around just in time to see his right hand had shape shifted into a cannon as it fired, sending a round straight into my chest and sending my flying back tens of feet. I crashed into the ground and rolled onto my front before spitting out a tooth that had been knocked out, warnings flashed on my HUD whilst alarms blared.

“Surely you would see sense now and join us” Icarax said, stomping over, his right hand changed from a cannon into his bladed shield “you would ensure the safety of your home, your people” I stood up and got out both my swords.

“To live in fear in no life at all, I would rather die than serve under a Makuta!” I then charged forward and blocked his strike before stabbing him in the shoulder and sending him to the ground. Antroz struck out at me and I blocked his attack before cutting off part of his wings. I then kicked his knee out from under him, sending him stumbling. Icarax came at me with his shield spinning like a buzz saw and I cut his hand off and the wrist, sending the shield flying through the air and hitting Tridax as it went past. Krika came at me from above and I uppercut him before elbowing him in the face. Icarax came at me and I drove my left sword through his leg and my right sword through the side of his torso, I kneed him in the face and pushed his head into the ground. Tridax pulled out a large dagger and swiped at me, but I blocked it and put my swords away before getting out two, Protosteel hooks, jumping up onto his shoulder and ripping his head apart before jumping down and pulling the corpse down with me.

“Piece of slag” I said, before stumbling and opening my com-link “Wolfpack, brothers, sisters, I need you” I felt an indescribable amount of pain spike through my chest and a large blade went through the chest plate and electricity arced around it. Alarms blared and my vision began to flash red.

“You’re so weak,” Icarax said, lifting me up.

“No” I pleaded, grasping at the blade as blood began to run down it. I felt a sharp pain as something gave way and flames leapt from the wound in an explosion which left me I a daze. Icarax pulled the blade out of my chest and pushed me to the ground. Just as my vision began to fade I saw Garnet rushing towards me, I used the last of my strength to cry out.

“No…run…” then my vision went dark.

*POV 3rd person*

Garnet stood there in shock, he’d just seen his father killed in cold blood. Was his family destined to be taken away from him? He let out a roar of rage before inhaling and bellowing out as loud as he could.

“MUL QAH DIIV!” he shouted, before charging at the Makuta “You took my father away from me, I…WILL…END YOU!” he then began striking bow after blow at them, parrying every attack they sent his way, eventually the rest of the Wolfpack began to arrive and Minion went into an absolute frenzy.

“You motherfucker!” he shouted, grabbing Icarax by the shoulder and slicing his arm clean off before kicking him away.

“Makuta, Retreat!” Icarax called, and as one the Makuta took off into the skies. Autumn ran over to Vuur Koning.

“Come on” she said “Wake up” he didn't respond “I swear to the gods, Vuur, if you don’t wake up right now I will make you regret it” as expected he didn't respond and Autumn broke down crying. Minion dropped his weapons and fell to his knees, before looking to the skies and letting out a cry of rage that shook the heavens.

That went well” Antroz said sarcastically, landing with the other Makuta and Teridax.

“Who cares for a few Makuta” Teridax said “What matters is the main drive behind our enemies moral is dead, and we can focus on our final goal unhindered.

“And what is our final goal?” Icarax asked, reattaching his arm. Teridax glanced at him before answering.

“Earth” he said “birthplace of Vuur Koning, and soon, gravesite of the Human race”

*POV 1st Person Vuur Koning*

A bright light filled my vision, I looked around, but saw nothing

“W-what…” I said, my voice echoing for an infinite amount of time “am I dead?” I heard hoofsteps and soon Fantasia stepped into view, as sad smile on her face.

“Hello…my son” Next Chapter: Chapter 40 Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 10 Minutes