Over the years Twilight visited Nathan in the caves many times, she would talk about stuff like what new spells she learned or how her studies were going and he'd tell her of missions that he and the squad went on in the past, although whenever he talked about the squad he seemed to get a bit depressed. When she asked him about it he told her that a few things happened between him and his friends.

"Do you know they way I know about your future?" She nodded. "Lets just say I had to let a few bad things happen for the sake of the future."

"What kind of things?"

"I can't say, some things are better left forgotten...for now at least." He walked over to a curtain and pulled it away, revealing a large emblem with the letter 'M' written in a circle of fire. "Twilight, if you ever see this emblem on a monster or building that is inhabited, you let me know."

"Wh-"

"Don't ask questions, just promise me that you'll come get me if you see this emblem."

She looked at her giant friend and nodded. He sighed in relief and sat back down beside her. "Can I ask you something that's been bothering me for awhile now?"

"Sure."

"How come you're so big, even the other Rangers were taller than the princess, you're as tall as a young adult dragon." He looked at her with his huge eye before standing up and pointed to his waist.

"There is a device on my waist called a Size-O-Matic, it allows me to change from my original size to giant."

"Then why stay giant?"

He sighed and placed his hand on the floor for her to walk onto. He lifted her to eye level and she sat down. "I stay this size to feel strong, like I can do something. There's a lot of personal reasons behind it, the other rangers don't even know about it since I always stayed the same size around them." She placed a hoof on his giant eye and looked at him with caring eyes. "You should go, you've got more studying to do for that test in a few days." She nodded and hugged his eye, the jumped down from his hand and walked out the door.

He sighed and rested his back against the wall. "how the hell am I gonna explain the Maniacs to her?"

11 years later

After sending the now Alicorn Twilight off with their alicorn magic, the three princesses sighed in relief. Celestia looked to Cadence and them to Luna who was looking at her sister with a worried expression. "What's wrong Luna?"

"I was just thinking, maybe...just as a precaution...we should activate Phoenix Squad."

Celestia took a minute to think about it, she had no doubt her student would prevail in her task, but she had to be careful when the fate of the world was a stake. "Alright, we will activate the rangers." Luna nodded and the three alicorns shakily proceeded to the old hallways.

"Should we use Nathan or the squad?"

"The squad, Nathan would probably try to stop them from destroying Tirek. I don't want to have another feud on my hooves like years ago." Luna nodded and opened the large stone doors. They walked over to capsules and pressed large buttons on the bottom of each pod. Steam escaped from the pods as the three royals stepped back.

A black metal hand moved the glass door out of the way and Thane stepped out, his black body blending into the darkness, the only visible part of his body was his large Crimson eye. The next ranger stepped out of his pod, he was noticeably smaller and his blue metal could be seen through the darkness. The next two rangers stepped out at the same time, one had a slimmer figure with yellow metal and the other was a rather blocky looking ranger with purple armour. The yellow one had a much longer arm cannon and the blue one had a smaller cannon and the black one had two hands with no cannon.

The robots looked to each other then to the princesses and noticed that they looked pale. Thane ran over to Celestia and began looking her over as the others did the same with the two other mares. "What happened to you?"

"Tirek, has returned. We expelled our magic into my student in hopes of hiding it from him."

"Why didn't you just awake us up first, we could have taken him on."

"No, that wouldn't have worked. There are certain things that have to happen, you know this."

"That's exactly what Nathan said when Nightmare Moon was banished."

Celestia nodded and turned to the others. "Here are your orders, you are to assist my student Twilight Sparkle in ponyville, but you are only to engage Tirek if all else fails." They saluted and made their way out of the room. Thane picked up the tired Celestia while Zane and Katie carried Cadence and Luna.

Meanwhile, Nathan's eye lit up and his programming told him the other rangers were awake. "Tirek..."

After an intense battle Tirek and Twilight stared each other down. "It appears we are at an impass." He clicked his fingers "How about a trade, your friends, for all the alicorn Magic in Equestria." Twilights friends kept telling Twilight not to do it, but she let her emotions get the better of her.

she agreed to his demands and Tirek let her friends go. After a heartwarming scene with Discord they figured out that the necklace was the last key, but before they could run to the tree of harmony a force field surrounded them, trapping them inside. They turned to see Tirek twice the size he was when he fought Twilight. "You didn't think I'd just let you go, did you? I've learned my lesson from those accursed galactic rangers!"

Twilights ears flicked up at the sound of the robots names. "You know the rangers?"

(Music)

Tirek raised a brow at Twilight. "Wait...how do you know about them? They aren't still around are they?" The smug look on Twilights face confirmed his fears. "Doesn't matter, with all of this alicorn Magic they are no match for me!" Just then, multiple missiles shot into the air and landed oh Tireks back, causing him to grunt in pain.

He turned to see three of the rangers standing there with different rocket launchers from the RYNO(1) series. Just then a sharp pain cut through his neck. There was Thane with two energy blades coming from his wrists had used a camouflage belt to sneak up on Tirek and cut his neck. He jumped out of the way as Tirek tried to swat him and turned invisible to get away.

"DONT YOU HIDE FROM ME COWARD!!!" Tirek started wildly shooting huge beams of energy at the ground around him. While he was distracted Katie aimed her cannon with a scope and shot Tirek straight in the eyes, temporarily blinding him. He screamed in pain, taking advantage of his disability, Krystal got up close and personal with her shock cannon as she shot his legs with charged blasts, sending him to the ground. Zane, feeling a bit brave, ran up to Tireks horns and started shooting them to disable the field around Twilight and her friends. "ENOUGH!!!" Tirek grabbed the rangers in his magic and held them in the air.

They struggled against the force but their resistance was futile. Tirek looked around for any other rangers and turned with fury in his eyes.

"WHERE IS HE!?!" He roared in the Rangers face. Twilight noticed something on Tireks arm, it was the same emblem that Nathan had shown her.

"Where's who, you pathetic crossbreed?" With Krystals little quip, Tirek sent the Rangers flying off in the direction of the girls, they landed just in front of the group and got to their feet. They felt the ground shake as Tirek charged towards them, but the way the ground shook, it felt like there was another giant running towards them.

Twilights face brightened up as she remembered the only other giant she knew. They then heard a loud robotic voice yell something out. "LEROYYYYYY JENKINS!!!" Just as Tirek was about to hit them a huge purple and silver fist hit him square in the jaw, sending him flying. "And it's good!"

The ponies jaws dropped as they gazed upon the towering robot that sent Tirek face first into a mountain.

Tirek got to his feet and stared at Nathan who had moved to a more open area to draw fire away from the girls. "So, you've shown yourself, my old nemesis. It's been a long time."

"And your still as ugly as the day I kicked your pathetic hybrid ass."

"You're as vulgar as ever."

"Awww, you remembered." They charged at each other and their fists collided, sending a shockwave over the large clearing. Nathan grabbed Tirek by the horns and swung him around until he smashed him into the ground. "I'll give credit where credit is due, you've gained a whole lotta weight from being in Tartarus, by the way, how's the Dogfather been?" Tirek roared in anger and swiped at him, he dodged and hit Tirek up the jaw.

He kicked Tirek away and charged up his arm cannon. "Kame-hame-ha!" He shot a huge purple beam at Tirek that hit him square in the chest. He then turned to Twilight. "Don't you have somewhere to be!?" He watched as the ponies snapped out of their trances and ran towards the tree of harmony.

Taking advantage of Nathan's distraction, Tirek pinned his arms behind his back and charged a beam of magic.

"Ohhhhh no, I am not getting buttraped by a monkey-horse!" Nathan swung his foot back and kicked Tirek in the groin, causing him to squeal like a girl. While Tirek fell to the floor, Nathan put his cannon to his mouth. "You wanna know what death tastes like?" He shot a powerful beam of magic down Tireks throat. "Y'know now that I think about it, this can easily be misinterpreted as something else."

Tirek grabbed the cannon and threw Nathan off of him. "Enough playing around!"

"Oh this isn't playing, this is a little thing called a distraction." He shot a barrage of rockets from his shoulders onto Tirek which caused him to wince and backpedal. "Ah, such a shame. A G1 villain returned from a forgotten age, put into writing perfection. But why Larson, why give us such filth to work with, and now good ol'Tirek pays the price." Nathan glanced over to the cliff where he saw Twilight and the girls in their rainbow forms. "I believe my work here is done, say hi to Cerberus for me, I did always love that dog."

The girls shot their rainbow deathbeam at Tirek and freed all the magic in Equestria. As Tirek was thrown into the portal to Tartarus Nathan looked in and waved at him. "Eat me, don't forget to write."

The crystal castle appeared and the three princesses were freed. After a really catchy musical number, Twilight ran out of the castle and into a shrunken Nathan's arms. "Nathan, it's so good to see you again!"

"Good to see you too squirt, what's it been a year?" She nodded and hugged him. "Look at you, a princess now, what did I tell ya huh?"

"Yeah yeah, destined for great things yadayada." He chuckled and set her on his shoulder. The rest of the main six walked up to him with great interest. "Ah, the rest of the elements, I was wondering when I'd get to meet you lot."

"Nathan, this is Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy. Girls, this is my childhood friend I told you about, Nathan." Pinkie began jumping all around Nathan's body while Rainbow looked over his weapons. The rest of the Rangers were inside the castle talking to Celestia."

"I'm sorry we failed Celestia, we didn't anticipate Twilight giving up the alicorn magic." Thane apologised.

"One of us did." Zane pointed out. "Somehow Nathan knows what will happen."

"And he still refuses to explain how, all he says is 'some things need to happen, so don't interfere'."

Celestia looked at the group unsure then noticed Katie was missing.

As Nathan began making his way back to the castle he was stopped when he heard a familiar voice.

"Hey there Nate, long time no see." He turned and looked down to see Katie standing there waving.

"Yeah...a thousand years is a long time."

"You haven't been online for the whole time have you?"

"What do you want Katie, I'd rather avoid Thane for now, as it looks like you guys are staying online for awhile."

"How so?"

"Didn't you see the mark on Tireks arm, that wasn't there the last time we fought. Katie, the Maniacs are back." She stayed silent and he walked away. "Say hi to Zane for me." Katie reached her arm out but he ignored her and walked off.

She sighed and began walking back to the party.

While Nathan was walking he was stopped by Twilight who sat in the middle of the path. "Where do you think you're going?"

"Um, back to my cave in Canterlot, I don't have anywhere else to go." She flew up to him and stared him in the eye.

"Oh yes you do, you're living with me now, I have a large empty castle now with only Spike and Owilicious to share it with. I have plenty of room. Besides, we haven't seem each other in a year." He sighed and looked at her.

"I'm not getting out of this am I?" She shook her head. "Thought so."

She lead him back to the castle where they found out that the rest of Phoenix Squad had returned to Canterlot. Nathan was fine with that, the further they were away from him the better.

Author's Notes:

(1) The RYNO series is a line of super weapons in the ratchet and clank games and mainly consists of rocket launchers.