Over the clouds of Manehattan, two storms were coming. The one heading from the east was a mechanical swarm of automated mecha, ready to tear, rip, smash, and destroy. The other tempest, coming in from the south, was mechanical, yes, but that was where the similarities ended. This storm had only one goal in mind. It’s goal was protection, and, if that failed, vengeance. This storm was in the shape of a packed ship filled to the brim with creatures, weapons, and a very, very, pissed off Iron Man.

“I can’t believe they did that to me,” said Jacob.

“Sir, calm down,” said his butler.

“I mean, I was a good boss, the company was doing well.”

“You’ll bounce back from this, I know you will,” said the butler. He moved his hand back to a panel of switches and buttons, which were the controls for the ship. “We just need to focus on what’s important.” Jacob quickly shut up and gave a steeled expression to the northeast.

The airship was maintaining a cruising speed of twenty five knots, as to allow the crew to attend to the ship without having to worry about being flung off. The metal on the ship was freshly polished, the guns were cleaned, the lasers were fully charged, the med bay was fully stocked, and the sails were restitched as the ship prepared for it’s first, and hopefully last battle.

When they reached the Manehattan skyline, they were met with more than a few pegasi and griffons. “Listen,” said Jacob, “There is a threat coming and I need you to get as many ponies as you can out of the city.” The creatures, sensing something earlier, agreed with them and proceeded to try and evacuate the city.

It was going good, until, half an hour later, the mechas came, and panic also went. The citizens scrambled about, trying their best to run out away. The good news was that almost everyone got out. The bad news was that the mechas arrived, they were two stories tall, and packed serious fire power. That is, except for one. This one was far larger than all of them, clearly modeled after a dragon if the design was anything to go by. It was thirty stories tall, had a bulky frame, a long tail, glowing spines along its back, and, to make it more ridiculous, it had a roar.

Jacob turned to his forces, “Alright, I have a plan. Jarvis, I want you to be in the ship, focus your fire on that monster. Only use the mega laser if you have to. It drains the rocket’s power. Speed bots, I want you to rescue as many ponies as you can, if they are fine, get them out of here, if they are injured, bring them to the med bay. The rest of the bots are to keep the fight contained to a nine block radius. Turn them back or turn them to scrap, capiche? Caleb, Mason, and I will fight off the mechas. Bubbles.” The Ursa turned to him, “I want you to put everything you got into Mechagodzilla over there.” She nodded before leaping off the ship, landing on the monster.

There was a burning feeling within Jacob that he couldn’t yet describe. It was a desire to shout something timeless, something that one could say over and over without it ever getting old.

“Hyde, are you thinking about saying what I’m thinking about saying?” thought Jacob.

“You bet, partner.” replied the alternate personality. “You wanna say it together?”

“Hell yeah.” thought Jacob before shouting something that he wouldn’t soon forget. “Avengers, Assemble!” This simple command radiated to all of his allies, delivering the simple feeling of determination to all of them. “Now let’s kick some ass.”

“Let’s smash.” said Caleb before jumping off the ship. Luckily, he had a few mechs to break his fall.

“Have at thee!” Thor shouted before flying off.

“Am I supposed to say something?” said Jarvis, before taking control of the captain’s chair. “Anyway, best of luck to all of you.”

Iron Man proceeded to dive off of the ship before rocketing to the closest robots.

Let’s just say that no one was bored throughout this fight, but the victor for the most exciting fight had to go to Bubbles vs Mechagodzilla. When Bubbles tackled the beast from above, the two were sent back into the harbor, where they continued to fight. Mechagodzilla claws were sharp, and they proceeded to claw away at Bubbles, who stumbled backwards into a long doc. She bent down, and tore the dock out of the water before slamming it into the mechanical monstrosity. This caused the monster to stumble back.

The monster’s back rockets flared up as it started to take off. It’s stomach opened up to reveal a giant laser weapon. It glowed brightly as it proceeded to fire a beam made of high powered bolts of plasma at Bubbles. This causes her to stumble and groan before getting up. She looks around, anger flowing through her. Her maw glows brightly as mist starts to seep out. “Well” she thought. “I guess that it is time to use it.” Her maw opened up slowly as she faced her adversary. “Supernova” The energy within her maw began to swirl as its glow intensified to a blinding light. “Blast” A giant beam of solar energy shot directly out of her maw, blowing the robot away, tearing it’s arms and tail off in the process.

The airship, however, was sitting in the water, tilting its frame so that the bow was facing the monster. While Jarvis was in the captain’s chair, ready to press the main button. “Ready, aim, fire!” The dragon skull design on the front of the ship shifted as the head slid back, while the jaw opened. A gigantic laser fired out of it, so powerful that it tore a hole right through the monster’s power core.

Meanwhile, in Canterlot, Celestia was looking over the balcony, towards Manehattan. She saw a large pillar of light fly far out into the sky from there.

“Huh,” sighed Celestia. “And here I thought that only Ponyville had that type of crap.”

Back at the harbor, The monster collapsed onto its knees as it clutched the hole in its chassis. Bubbles, however gave out a cheeky grin towards Jarvis, in thanks. The butler nodded before saying, “No, thank you, lady Bubbles.”

He turned around to look at the camera to the med bay. “Oh dear.” There were hundreds of ponies, severely mutilated in many places, strewn about, contained in stasis chambers. “I guess that it is time to get to work.”

His hands turned into mediguns as he proceeded to fire red healing beams at the injured. Some of them healed completely, but as for others, the beam didn’t work. You see, the only way for the medigun to work is if the subject’s heart is healthy. The ones that weren’t healthy enough were kept in the stasis tubes while the others were sent away. A little filly tugged on his leg. “Um, mister, thanks for healing my leg. I thought that I’d never walk again.”

Smiling, Jarvis knelt down and said, “You are most welcome small one.” He went back to work. “I hope that the chambers don’t overflow.”

Meanwhile, on eighth street, Mason and Caleb came across a rather peculiar sight. The first one was a frail looking pegasus holding a large, cubic device. The second one was a mecha that was repeatedly punching a building. Screams echoed from the building area.

“I’ll take care of the mecha, you deal with that guy.” said Caleb.

“Aye.” replied Mason. He then proceeded to walk towards the stallion in question. “Ho buddy, thee need to wend hence from here.”

The stallion cackled madly. “Dude, I don’t know what you're saying. All that I know now is that there is chaos, and I have this.” He fondled the cube. “It took so long to steal it, but the precious is mine.” His hoof slipped onto a button, causing the device to produce a blinding flash. When the light cleared, Mason saw a rather strange sight in front of him. It looked like the stallion, but at the same time, it didn’t. The pony in question appeared to be made out of light, with lightning coursing through his body. The figure floated up before firing a laser at Mason. “Pal, let me tell you something. I am light. I am living. I am a laser. You know what that means?” He was instantly behind Mason. “Rules no longer apply to me!” He then proceeded to blow Mason away.

Mason’s hammer lit up with a bright, threatening glow. “Fine then, if 't be true thee bethink yond thou art above consequence, then have at thee!” He charged at the figure, swinging his hammer wildly.

The figure, however, easily kept dodging the strikes. “Buddy, you may be stronger than me, but I am much faster than you. Ha, if you don’t hit me, I will cause more chaos. The world will know the meaning of fear as I will zap it into them. For I am the Living Laser!” He then proceeded to blast Thor into a building.

The warrior got up and let out a roar. “I shall smite thee.” His entire body started to glow bright blue as lightning coursed through him. His eyes glowed bright as a voice spoke through him. “Mine name be Thor, Guardian of Midgard, Son of Odin, Avenger, God of Thunder. You dare to stand against me!?” His body began to move at an accelerated speed, everything around him slowing down as he approached a speed thought impossible for something with mass. Everything around him stopped, except for the Living Laser. The demigod grinned before calmly walking up to the laser. The laser himself, unable to go faster, stumbled away from the god. He flung his hammer at the villain, hitting him directly in the head, knocking him unconscious. When his hammer came back, everything sped up around him, going back to normal. A loud boom of thunder blew throughout the area. The glow of his body was long gone as he now looked at his limbs. His muscles were strained, every part of his body was in pain. “It appears that I have won. He, he, he, ow.” His hammer felt heavy as he fell over, passing out from exhaustion.

Meanwhile, Caleb suplexed the robot that was beating up the building. The robot was then ripped to pieces, but what he found was all the more terrifying. The robot wasn’t beating up a building. It was beating up a small child. The figure that was left was a brown coated filly with a blood red mane, or maybe that was the blood. The frame of that pony was battered, bruised, and drained. Her limbs were thin and veiny, cuts and gashes all over them. Her face, well, what was left of it, was bloodied and in tears. Hulk could hear a heartbeat, but it was very slow, and very faint. “Don’t worry kid, I’ll get you help.” He picked her up and put her on his shoulder. “Really dude, passing out on the job?” He poked his brother before sighing. “I guess two people need to see the doc bot." He lifted him up.

He jumped from building to building. Kid in one arm, brother in the other. He managed to find the ship docked at the harbor, firing its weapons at nearby mechs. “I guess that was from the mega laser.”

He landed on the ship. He cupped his hands and yelled, “Doc!” as loud as he could.

Jarvis walked out. “What is it! Can’t you see that I am working on some patients… here.” He stopped as soon as he saw the kid. “What are you doing just standing there? Bring her inside, now.” Hulk nodded, laying them both down on medical beds. Jarvis aimed one of his mediguns at Thor while looking around, “I just hope that this battle ends sooner rather than later.” said Jarvis, looking around at the room, gesturing to all of almost all of the filled capsules. He placed the filly into the last remaining stasis chamber. “Get well soon, young one.”

Author's Notes:

For once, I don't have to apologize about a chapter's release date. Whoo!
Anyway, there are so many questions. Who was the kid? What happened with Mason? What's this about this about the Living Laser? How many ponies are injured beyond medigun usage? And finally, where was Iron Man in this fight? All of this and more will be answered, in the next part.
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