Twilight woke up from the vision from the past, tearing up after seeing what happened.

WHY!? Twilight thought Why did you do that!? She turned to see Mortality & Natality together, with a third pony. The third wasn't an Alicorn at all, but an earth pony mare. That's when she realized who was there!

"Hello there, Twilight!" Eve greeted herself with a bow.

"Eve," Twilight simply replied "I... saw your past."

"Oh yes, I'm sure you did."

"I apologize for what you've seen, Twilight Sparkle," Mortality spoke, still in near whisper "But all of that stuff was needed to be seen."

"I'm just glad Daddy hadn't forgotten about us!" Natality added, hugging her father's leg. He looked down at her.

"I was so close, I'm just glad you are as beautiful as your mother, even after her death."

"I'm still here!" Eve replied

"Oh... Sorry." He turned to Twilight, who only watched the three, completely mismatched family, stood together as if they were meant for each other.

"Do you want me to leave you alone?" Twilight simply asked.

"That would be pleasant." Twilight got up and began to walk away from the family. Who would've though the Grim Reaper, Mortality, the Prince of Death, would've had a wife and an Alciorn child that did the opposite of what he did! Love really did act strange, but, they never spoke of love once. Maybe love was unneeded back then, since, after all, they were just born... and... perhaps, since Elysium & Tartarus are so opposite, they must've hated each other. But... how was Cadence made then?

Twilight thought to herself, when she noticed the tail of her mentor traveling down some stairs. Could that really be her!? Hopefully, Eris wasn't doing some trick to Twilight.

"Celestia!" Twilight pleaded, running after her mentor. Celestia must've not heard her student, and she traveled down into a dark area. Twilight looked down and only heard what sounded like a forge down there. Did Celestia request new boots or a crown? Twilight entered the dark room, seeing the place getting darker with each step down, and clanging getting louder! She noticed a glowing, dark red light below and decided to follow it. Why was Celestia down here!? There had to be a good reason!

Twilight could feel heat in there, seeing the dark light was non other than lava, surrounded by a well forged well with, around it, a forgery that is clean, organized, and was much bigger than Canterlot's forgery. What really fought her eye, however, was a light turning on, showing something bright. Twilight covered her eyes, but adjusted to the sudden brightness, seeing that it was golden armor on a statue of Celestia! The statue was posed as if it were leading an army into battle... quite fitting for her actually, since Celestia never backed down from a fight and, with her wisdom, made sure few lives would be lost. She walked to the golden armor, seeing that it was dented a bit, but clean looking & could be worn in battle if needed. It protected many of the vital parts, surrounding the chest & neck area (with Celestia' Cutie Mark in front), the flank, and the top & bottom parts of each leg. It wore a helmet that matched with the armor, looked a lot more menacing than a crown, and had a face guard to it, leaving only the eyes vulnerable. The statue also held, in it's hooves, what looked like a golden Spear-Axe mix, matching the armor perfectly. Another light was turned on nearby and a statue of Luna, posed as if it were also leading the attack with Celestia in mind, stood next to the Celestia statue. Like The celestia statue, the armor looked similar, but it was black, had Luna's Cutie mark on the chest, and she held a sword in her hoof in which the edge on the hilt was shaped like her wings with a crescent moon in the middle, pointing towards the blade! Soon, multiple lights were turned on, each with a statue of an Alicorn underneath it, all wearing Armor that, though designed to work the same, looked unique in some cases to match their personality, were different colors, and each statue was posed in a way to look like they were charging into battle, but still matching their personality with the right weapon of choice for them. (With the exception of Mortality, Natality, Bureaucrat, and a couple of other Alicorns Twilight has yet to meet.)

Many of the weapons are as followed: Braveheart had both Sword that looked like the mightiest of out of all of them and a shield that could defend him from all attacks; Everest had a large hammer that looked & probably was the heaviest out of all of them; Eris had a pair of nunchucks that wouldn't look graceful and, well crazy; Flora actually had a bow & some arrows, most likely tipped with poisons her plants may grow or having bait animals will be attracted to; Einstein & Socrates held what looked like twin swords, with Einstein's looking more for attack while Socrate's was more for defense; Aqua looked as if she was going to throw a trident as if it were a spear, Areos held a small sword compared to the others, probably a dagger, but considering how fast he was, he didn't mind doing a sneak attack;Fuego held what really looked more like a machete than a sword, but it looked as if it could go on fire as well, while Blizzard had some spears that, with her, would most likely have icicles on the tips. Cadence's statue was on the far side, sitting down & holding also a bow & arrow. Many of the other Alicons, she couldn't recognize, and though Mortality's statue held onto Natality's status with her armor on, his statue looked as if it held onto the scythe, but it was gone.

"Beautiful, aren't they?" A deep voice asked. Twilight jumped into the air a bit and turned around! Standing right behind her, standing just as tall as Everest, but looking much more muscular, stood an Alicorn stallion that had no mane or tail, but looked as if her were made of metal himself with a cutie mark of a Hammer in front of a cog. "Sorry about that. You're Twilight Sparkle, right?"

"...I am." She responded "Is this your Forge?"

"Very well indeed! Name's Alloy, Prince of Metal! What you're seeing, right now, has to be my most finest work ever!"

"All those statues?"

"Oh no! Those are provided by both Everest and Masterpiece, I'm talking about the armors and weapons!"

"Oh... you... made all of them?"

"Every single one of them by my own hooves! If it weren't for my weapons & armor, we'd all be under Tartarus's power."

"Wait... what!?"

"Oh, sorry, not suppose to speak about that yet." He pulled out a measuring tape and began to inspect Twilight with it.

"What are you doing?"

"Taking precautions, just in case."

"Precautions?"

"Oh, you know, in case we fail our task and Tartarus wakes up, resolving in us having to take him down."

"...What!?"

"But that's not going to happen... hopefully."

"Alright... what happens if... whatever we do... succeeds?"

"Oh, that? You get complimentary armor & a weapon by the best blacksmith in Earth's history! It's funny though; many of Earth's finest warriors wear the best armor & use the best weapons, but we blacksmiths never get the thanks we deserve."

"Do... you feel a bit angered by it?"

"A little bit, but, I remember this: we work behind the scenes to make sure those who use them, survive and change history."

"I... never thought of it like that."

"Yeah, not many do. Most ponies feel themselves as the heroes when, as I've seen in history with my brothers & sisters, they're actually nothing more than a side character. I accepted the fact that ponies don't recognize me and any of my other siblings. Of course, with their armor, I'm glad they thanked me when it all ended."

"...Do you wear armor?"

"Of course not! Who needs armor when your own skin is made of Titanium, the toughest metal in the world!"

"...Touche' there Alloy, Touche'."

"But I'm not going to charge in like an idiot. I have my limits like anypony else. Why, I was vulnerable when I was born!"

"How- Never mind, just show me."

"You got it!" His horn glowed red and the past was shown.

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A whole kingdom was built with barely any tress standing, with the said standing trees belong pulled out by their roots! All across this kingdom, ponies weren't happy at all, but instead, hated each other and trained to their physical peaks and seem to lack emotion. Everywhere, Pegasi patrolled their areas, acting like guards and hollered at others to follow specific orders at one another, leading to fights that ends with a pegasus killing another; Unicorns also patrolled, but planned everything out, using their magic to protect themselves and oppress their surrounding peers; Earth Ponies were nothing but slaves: they did all the physical hard labor, were treated badly by the pegasi (who viewed them as excuses of life), and unicorns took some away for horrible experiments. A flash of red light came down, and Tartarus landed there, about their size, but still standing tall enough to not be threatened. The Earth Ponies shook & fell to the floor, desperately trying to bow while work at the same time! The Pegasi and Unicorns, however, smiled and bowed to the Alicorn. Tartarus turned to a lone unicorn, who stood up from a seat carved out of stone.

"My Lord Tartarus," The unicorn spoke with a bow, showing much respect "what brings you down to our construction area?"

"You're behind schedule," Tartarus replied "and so far, you haven't brought out those 'Diamond Dogs' your top unicorns are making."

"Trust me, they are!"  

"What's making your construction longer?"

"It's something the Earth Ponies stumble while digging. Come, you may want to see it." The two traveled to a mining area where earth ponies dug with their hooves. Some earth ponies dragged out a large piece of metal (silver by the looks of it), stopping only when it was fully out of their hole. Tartarus went to the metal and placed his hoof on it.

"What is this?"

"We call it 'Metal'."

"Metal?""

"We're not really sure, but we believe it's stronger than earth itself, but, we're not sure what to do with it."

"... I think I have an idea. ALL OF YOU: STAND BACK!!!" All the ponies backed up away from Tartarus and the large chunk of metal in front of him. Tartarus's horn glowed, and all of the fire around the camp began to float towards the Alicorn. Tartarus, with all of the fire in his magic, blasted the metal, and everypony watched in awe as the metal began to melt under the extreme heat! The flame went away, and the metal was now liquid, slowly drying to become hard on the surface, and, in front of him, was the young Alloy. Alloy himself wasn't metal like he was now, but a grey coated Alicorn that didn't have a mane or tail at all. The pegasi and unicorns all went into defensive positions, waiting for the new Alicorn to make his move. Alloy groaned a bit and slowly got up, seeing Everypony holding makeshift weapons at him! He growled at them, successfully making some back off, but others kept going towards him. Tartarus lifted his right hoof up, and everypony stopped, obeying their master. Tartarus walked to Alloy, splashing through the liquid metal, and stood in front of his son.

"Who are you!?" Alloy growled at his father.

"I am the one who freed you from your prison," Tartarus replied "and I am your father!"

"Father? ... And who are all of these?"

"These are my- NO! Our followers!"

"Followers?"

"Oh yes! They follow us, fear us, worships, and I, being the most powerful around, aid them when they really need it!"

"So... we're more powerful?"

"Exactly! And I'm using my power to get this world under one flag! But enough about me, who are you?"

"... My name is Alloy."

"Alloy? Well... Alloy... as much as I'd like to get to know you more, you need to visit your brothers and sisters."

"Where are they?" Tartarus's horn glowed and Alloy began to shrink in front of him! Tartarus grabbed his son with his grape and lifted his son to his face.

"They're right in here!" Tartarus began to rub his belly to show where his siblings were at. He began to levitate his son into his maw.

"NO!!! I will not be eaten! You will pay!!! You-" His ranting was muffled, as Tartarus closed his mouth around Alloy, titled his head back, and swallowed. Tartarus began to walk away, but felt himself stuck inside something. He looked down and realized he was in the puddle of liquified metal. He ripped the chunk off and saw the metal had formed around his hoof. That's when he got the idea: Use Metal to make weapons and armor!

Alloy fell into the dark land, landing right next to his other siblings. Braveheart was there, meaning that Alloy was born just a few weeks or months after War was declared by the two nations.  

"Well Well Well," Braveheart spoke, walking towards his brother "We got ourselves another family member!"

"He has no mane or tail!" Aeros commented

"Ew!" Eris also commented "That's just as disgusting as Mortality!"

"I am right here, sister." Mortality spoke.

"Come on up!" Fuego spoke, lending Alloy a hoof. Alloy slapped the hoof out of his face and got up on his own.

"What is your name, brother?" Braveheart, stepping towards Alloy.

"My name is Alloy." He responded "And who are you all?"

"♫ We are Family!♫" Eris sang out of nowhere.

"Silence!" Fuego shouted, hurting with fire for a small bit, then cooled down.

"What do you do here?" Alloy asked.

"We wait." Braveheart replied

"Wait?"

"We will soon be released for the final war in history, the End of Elysium!!!"

"Fuego told us Elysium has a sister like him!" Aeros added.

"Which means Elysium likely has others like us with her. I can't wait to hear them all scream & beg for mercy!"