Unfortunately for Cole and the ponies, the gateway’s coordinates were a teeny bit off, instead of appearing on the ground, they were a few thousand feet in the air, plummeting to their doom (hey they were calculating trajectory, you forget to bring over the zero and the whole thing goes to shit). Cole wasn’t the least bit scared unlike Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, and Twilight, whom were screaming their lungs out. As they were falling, Cole got a good look of Battlefield: Ponyville, lots of the major buildings were destroyed or badly damaged; fires were ravaging the buildings as they were attacked by robots that only one man Cole knows would make. A few of the royal guards remained and caught the four mares from falling any further; Cole on the other hand, (or hoof) was still falling. Dash was catching up to Cole to try and save him, but Cole was one step ahead. He reached into his de atomiser case and pulled out his good old exoskeleton thingy suit (remember he put it in there back in chapter 4 haha I’m so fucking smart) and quickly put it on. He looked at Dash and gave her a wink saying, “I’m Cole, I’ll be fine.” With that a helmet shape shifted its way around Cole’s face as he continued his decent.

*****

Big Mac had gathered the foals into the corner as he stood in front of them to defend the helpless ponies. A large metal monster slowly walked towards them. It’s claw approaching them ready to capture the poor foals. Big Mac shouted, “Stay behind me, children!”

“Where’s Rainbow Dash when you need her?” a small orange pegasus squeaked from behind the red pony.

“Where’s anypony when you need them?” a marshmallowy unicorn piped up.

“Ah wish ah could see mah big sister one last time.” Applebloom said with a tear forming in her eyes. The beast grabbed Big Mac and as he struggled as best as he could, the monster turned around and dropped him in a giant cage containing other ponies.

“Well this is the end of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.” Said the orange pegasus as she hugged the two others beside her. The large claw returned to claim another victim. When the white unicorn looked up she saw a streak of bright blue crash through the body of the machine and impacted on the other side of it.

The monster slowly fell to the ground lifeless as the black and turquoise creature stood up. Applebloom looked at it, she wasn’t as scared as the others, it looked rather familiar, almost as though she had briefly met it before. Then Applebloom shouted, “It’s you! Mah sister introduced me to ya a few days ago.”

The black creature turned to the cowering group of foals in the corner and he kneeled to get to their level. His mask receding until his face was revealed, it was Cole. Cole said to them, “Get out while you can, before the ro- I mean monsters get you.”

“All of our friends and parents are in the big cages.” Said the small white unicorn while pointing a hoof at the giant cage outside.

Cole walked up to it, he pulled out his pistol and put a bullet through the lock to free the ponies. Rarity and the others were carried to the ground safely behind Cole, as he freed all of the ponies he turned his attention to another droid who was making its way towards him to ruin his day. Luckily for Cole, he knew exactly where to shoot it; he pointed his Desert Eagle at the exposed part of the droid’s neck and pulled the trigger. When the bullet connected with the clusterfuck of wires, the droid began to descend rapidly until it hit the ground and dented itself until it looked like a truck ran over it, it slid its way up to Cole where it just stopped. The droid was massive, almost ten times Cole’s size, as it approached Cole, the life in the droid’s lights faded away. Cole then reached into his de atomiser case and pulled out his AUG, he loaded it up and got it ready for action. He then turned to the ponies and said to them as his mask enveloped his face, “Get the ponies somewhere safe, I’m going to the source.” He then fired up his suit and burst into a super sprint before Dash could protest. As much as he loved her, he wasn't going to put up with any bullshit at the moment.

Cole was running as fast as he could, he knew that he didn’t have much time left before the public execution of the princesses, it was already a quarter to midnight. A few human soldiers attempted to stop Cole in his path. Cole didn’t stop, he jumped over them and in the middle of his flip he capped a few sticky grenades and dropped them over the soldiers, as he landed, he already had his assault rifle out and had the trigger pulled back and was firing at the surrounding soldiers. The sticky grenades exploded and a mixture of shards of burnt bones and charred guts flew in every direction. Cole’s bullets penetrated the soldier’s faces as he fired; his suit aided in his aiming and was allowing him to get continuous headshots. When the area was clear he put his gun on his back and began sprinting again, when suddenly a lone soldier tried to outsmart him by jumping him from a corner. Cole didn’t even stop, he grabbed the man by the arm and kept running as he dragged the man at super speeds. He could hear the man screaming in agony as his skin was torn from his limbs by the rocks and shards of wood, Cole then thought of ending his misery by swinging the man out in front of a wall where all he heard next was a crunch and the man’s arm was torn off of his body. He then dropped the dismembered arm and continued running towards Canterlot.

*****

Princess Celestia laid there, bruised badly but not cut or shot, her sister on the other hoof (or hand if you’re that anal about grammar) was unconscious. Celestia had a tear leaking from her eye as she turned her angry gaze to the monster that stood before her. The monster looked to be the same as Cole, but had a metal jaw, and was a lot more like what she had expected from a human. She said in a shaky voice, “How could you do this to us, you… you monster!”

The monster simply laughed in his throat as he rapidly brought his foot around to connect with Celestia’s jaw, knocking her to the ground. He kneeled down do wrap his hand around her throat and bring her gaze to meet his as he said, “You’re the monster, ruling this world through Aristocracy? It’s my personal belief that the best form of government is Fascism, my dear. Oh and you only have, oh how sad," The monster looked at a device on his hand, "only ten minutes left to live, it’s a shame you won’t get to see your world ruled correctly.”

Celestia tried to use her magic against it when she remembered that it had put some sort of chemical in her to make it impossible. She struggled anyway, she managed to grunt from a bruised face, “There’s good in this land, maybe all of the humans in your world were weak minded but we ponies know what’s right and will stand up against you.”

“Let me give you a brief history lesson,” Albrecht began, “It’s the 12th of August 1939, my beautiful country was in chaos, money was worthless, politicians were drunks, we were just getting out of our first Global war, World War 1.”

Celestia shuddered at the name World War 1, but Albrecht continued his speech, “Our people were loosing faith in their country, but that day was the day a man named Adolf Hitler rose to power. He brought back the country to the economic powerhouse it was meant to be.”

“What does this have to do with you killing me and my sister!” Celestia grunted.

“When Adolf was in power, he began killing people solely for their beliefs, and none of the people that voted him in objected, even if they knew it was wrong. What I’m saying is, if you get everyone to lose faith in your country, you will have total power over them. So what I’m going to do is kill you two and when I have your world at its knees, I will turn every citizen in your kingdom into a slave of mine to rebuild a new Nazi Germany.” Albrecht gave an evil laugh. His watch then started to beep, Albrecht grabbed Celestia by her ears as she screamed in pain with tears rolling down her cheeks he turned on the camera.

*****

Cole was already in the palace when he looked out one of the giant windows to see large holograms of Albrecht holding Celestia’s head by her ears, he said to the populace of Equestria, “Good evening, my followers. Tonight, you will witness the fall of a tyrant and the rise of a true leader. Take a good look everyone for this is the last time you see this monster.” Albrecht then brought his pistol to Celestia’s head as she began to whimper he said into her ear, “Good night, my sweet princess.” Cole was already in overdrive, he was charging faster than ever before, he was leaving streaks of light behind him as he ran through (that’s right, he ran through) droids and burst through the door. Cole had his pistol pulled out and shot Albrecht in the jaw where it simply bounced off, Albrecht then pulled the trigger out of reaction but wasn’t aiming at Celestia, it was aiming at Cole. Cole’s suit protected him as he caught the bullet with his hand and simply tossed it aside as he walked towards the menace. Cole drew his pistol again and shot Albrecht’s pistol out of his hand and onto the ground.

“Back away from her you motherFUCKER!” Cole shouted at the top of his lungs.

“Sure, I didn’t want to kill her anyways; I wanted to kill you first so the world could watch the fall of their only hero.” Albrecht said as he backed up. Cole had the pistol pointed at his head ready to pull the trigger, but he wanted to see where he was going with this. Albrecht then said with a smirk, “Let’s settle this like men.”

Cole then threw his pistol aside and said, “Fine then.” Cole wasn’t sure he could trust this bastard, so Cole got ready for the worst.

Well the worst didn’t happen, but the unexpected did, Albrecht disappeared into the shadows of the palace hall and out stepped his two titanic henchmen. Before Cole could react one of them shot a tazer at him and brought him to his knees. One of the henchmen had a crowbar in his hand as he swung it at the back of Cole’s head which knocked him to the ground. The two henchmen began savagely beating him, one broke his arm and one even used Cole’s eye to put out his cigarette which made Cole scream in pain, he was blind now and his eye felt like it was melting in his skull. He was pulled to his feet by his hair and hit across his face with the crowbar which broke his jaw and made Cole’s skull rattle. When Cole got up the henchman with the crowbar swung again but this time Cole was ready, he grabbed the crowbar and twisted the henchman’s arm, his elbow was exposed so Cole took the opportunity to kick his arm in the wrong direction, breaking it with a loud snap as the henchman let go of the crowbar. The man fell onto the ground as the other one came up from behind Cole to shoot him again with the tazer. Cole swung the crowbar at him without realizing he had the curve facing the henchman which made the crowbar pierce the man’s skull and penetrated the brain. Killing him instantly, Cole then tipped the crowbar out of his head which tore his face off as his brains spilled onto the floor and blood gushed out. The dead corpse dropped to his knees as Cole approached the other one who’s arm was bent out of shape. Cole gripped the crowbar tightly as he swung it like a glof club at the man's head repeatedly until the man’s head was broken open exposing the brain ever so slightly. Then Cole got on one knee and approached the man’s face. He then dropped the crowbar and used his still working hand to drive it into the man’s chest and pull out his heart. Blood sprayed everywhere as the man died instantly too, as he tore out the heart, the ribs were pried open to show the lungs and his stomach.

As Cole was getting up he could hear clapping coming from the shadows, Cole instantly drew his other pistol and used his suit instead of his own muscles to hold his broken arm up with the pistol. Cole slowly stepped towards the now unconscious Celestia and Luna. He put Celestia on his shoulder and carried Luna under his arm as he slowly made his way towards the door. His arm felt like it was on fire but had to keep holding it up with his suit. Eventually he had managed to carry the alicorns to the main entrance and left them there hoping that Twilight and the others would find them there. Cole then made his way back to the room where he had mutilated the two henchmen. When he arrived all he could see was Albrecht’s face, Albrecht was still clapping somehow when he said, “Cole, it’s so nice to see you finally acting human, yet somehow you’re still a monster.” Albrecht motioned his head towards the corpses lying there.

Cole returned his gaze to Albrecht as he said in a shaky and angry voice, “Your chaos will finally be over, eight years you have been killing countless people and have even attempted to infect a hospital. I’m not the monster here, I heard all about your master plan, rebuild Nazi Germany here? Enslave these ponies?”

“It was for humanity’s survival, I read all about the Nightmare coming to destroy our world and I would bring select survivors here to rebuild the original human race.” Albrecht said as his head slowly sank back into the shadows.

“Al, I destroyed Nightmare, and if you think that you’re going to be able to kill me and continue your master plan, then you should give your head a shake.” Cole said as his suit lit up with turquoise, his jaw in agonizing pain, his suit was running low on energy, Cole could tell, he had begun to use the suit a lot by now.

“Nein, you should give your head a shake.” Suddenly a giant, blood red fist shot out of the shadows at Cole’s chest launching him to the wall breaking it in. Cole could see stars, his suit wasn’t able to protect him now. His arm began to hurt again, Cole couldn’t move it anymore. Cole tried to get out of the hole and burst into a sprint, but all he could manage was a limp. Albrecht slowly stepped out of the shadows in what appeared to look like a giant walking tank, only no cannons, just the black coat of paint that would glow blood red throughout the cracks, much like Cole’s suit. Albrecht walked up to Cole and swung another fist hurdling Cole into the air. Cole could feel one of his ribs had broken as he was vomiting blood as he fell down. Albrecht hit him into the wall again as blood sprayed out of Cole’s ears, nose, mouth, and his blind eye, Albrecht walked up to Cole who was now lying on the floor. Albrecht laughed inside his throat as he said, “Aww you poor thing, your eye has been hurt. Nein! I should help this poor boy.” Albrecht pointed a giant black finger at Cole’s face and a small needle popped out of the tip. Cole tried his best to get away but Albrecht had pinned him down and locked his head into place. All Cole could do was scream as his right eye was torn out of his skull. Cole could feel the warm blood filling up his eye socket as his eye was thrown away. Albrecht then said, “Oh dear, your poor arm is damaged too. Let me fix that.” Albrecht then pursued to tear off Cole’s arm as Cole screamed in pain. Cole was about to die as Albrecht kicked Cole away and threw his arm with him. Cole was barely alive enough to reach into his de atomiser case one last time hoping for something he could use. But before he could grab anything Albrecht picked up Cole by the waist. Cole’s vision was filed with stars as he was about to die of loss of blood. Albrecht brought him up to his face as he said in his deep and evil robotic voice, “Any last words, Cole?”

Instead of speaking, Cole spat a pill into Albrecht’s laughing mouth as he said in a quiet voice, “Fuck you. That’s what.” What Cole spat wasn't any ordinary pill (you remember what it was, "if all else fails").

Albrecht realized what he had just swallowed but before he could do anything he dropeed Cole and fell to the ground, dead. With the last bit of life left in Cole, he managed to pull himself up and walk out of the door. He limped slowly as he made his way to the entrance, his face covered in blood from the vomiting and the bleeding. His arm gone and his jaw broken. He made his way to the main entrance to see the six ponies surrounding the princesses. Dash turned around to see Cole with a slight smile. Her smile quickly disappeared as she saw Cole’s missing arm and his empty eye socket. The last of his energy gave out and he fell down the stairs. Dash gasped in horror as Cole lay there, motionless. Twilight managed to levitate him into the circle as Dash began crying and holding onto Cole, she began shouting with tears in her eyes, “Cole? Cole, wake up! Cole? Cole! Cole! COLE COLE! NO NO Cole!” Twilight began to tear up; she felt a sudden despair in her stomach. He had saved both his and their world, at the cost of his life. Fluttershy went and hugged Dash as they both cried. Nopony spoke; they let Rainbow Dash cry it out. Cole then raised his hand and held Dash’s face as he kissed her gently. Then his breathing slowly came to a stop as Dash had her lips tightly pressed against Cole’s, her tears rolling against his cheeks. Then Cole left the world with a smile still on his face, he left his family behind to never know the success he had become, he left the agency a hero. He left earth as salvation. He left Equestria as a protector, he left Dash with a broken promise, the promise he would never leave her.