An hour later, Nathan and Sonata reached the remains of Manehatten. "Oh no..." Sonata mumbled sadly as she looked out at the crater before them. Stretching miles apart with a huge cloud of smoke rising from the centre, splats of blood scattered in places ponies were standing when the bomb went off. Nathan growled and jumped down into the sizzling crater. Celestia had beaten them there. She and a small army of gaurds were looking around, searching for anything or anyone that may have survived.

Celestia kneeled down near a patch of blood and closed her eyes sadly begore shedding a tear. "All of these ponies...all of these innocent ponies...foals...newborns...they're just...gone..." She spoke with a mixture of pure rage and immense sadness. Nathan turned into his pony body and walked up to her, placing a hoof on her shoulder before she turned around and hugged him, sobbing silently into his neck. He wrapped one hoof around her and began speaking softly to her in an effort to get her calm down, however he was also doing it to keep himself from going on a rampage.

"I won't say it's going to be ok...nothing about this is ok, but I will say that when I find the ones that did this..." Celestia pulled away slightly as she watched hos coat begin to turn dark grey and his eyes begin to glow red. "...I will destroy every last piece of their bodies."

Celestia nodded and wiped the tears from her eyes. "Avenge my ponies Nathan, stop The Maniacs from causing any more harm...go all out."

Nathan nodded before forming back into his ranger mode. "I'll hunt them down right away."

"Oh my this is just marvellous!" Nathan froze in place as he heard the voice of the one responsible. Hack sat on a boulder while looki,g out at the destruction. "I knew the Apocalypse Magic was devastating, but I didn't realise such a small amount of of it pressurised would cause so much destruction! I love it!" Nathan slowly turned around, his eye now completely blood red. "It really clears everything out doesn't it? I think a new settlement could be placed here! Of course you'd have to mop up the blood, been out the land and see about destroying it all again. What do you think Nathan old chum?"

Hack smirked and jumped out of the way of a huge blast. He landed a few feet beside a newly formed crater and smiled evilly. Nathan's body had become completely black, his lights now all blood red and red mist began to seep from his cannon, blood red fire outlining his body. "Wonder..." His voice was echoed and crackled, speaking in almost a growl.

"Hmmm? What's up? Aside from the ashes of these little ponies gong up in that smoke cloud that is?" He was caught off guard as a huge metal fist slammed into him, hitting him in the head first before slamming into the ground.

"I WILL END YOU!!!" The gaurds in the area ran away as Nathan grew to his full size, pulled out the RYNO V, which was all black and seeping red mist from its barrels, and aimed it directly at Hack. "DIE, DIE, DIE!!!"

The ground began to shake violently as the unearthly barrage of destruction was focused on one point, on one person. The huge bullets and missles breaking the ground. The enraged Nathan just kept the trigger held down, not caring if he ran out of bolts buying ammo.

Suddenly the ground formed a huge fist and slammed a huge stone fist into the side of Nathan's body, pushing him to the side but not causing him to fall over. Hack jumped out of the huge hole formed by the barrage, his blank eyes glowing and his smile gone. "Alright big boy, you wanna dance? Let's dance."

Hack pointed his cane to the ground and slammed the end of bit into the stone. Multiple fists of stone rose out of the ground and began punching Nathan from all different angles. Nathan let out a metalic roar of anger before raising his fist, which was filled with his energy, and slamming it into the ground causing a huge shockwave, destroying the fists and splitting up the rocks.

Hack held up his cane as it began to stretch to the height of Nathan and began to widen. He then slammed the now huge cane down into Nathan, crushing him against the ground. Hack began to repeatedly bash the warbot with the cane, while using the stone to hold him down. Nathan broke free, grabbed the cane, took it away from Hack and swung it with incredible strength. Hack was sent flying at Mach speed.

Nathan swung his cannon while rapidly firing it, but instead of blasts multiple balls of red energy came out and stayed in place in a curved line in front of the warbot. He sighted Hack who had landed in a thick layer of clouds before snapping his fingers, causing the balls of energy to fire devistating lasers towards Hack. Each of the beams hit and Hack cried out in pain as the energy began breaking him down.

A huge stone hand shot up from out of the ground and grabbed Nathan by the face and tossed him into the ocean before the sand from the sea floor formed hands and began to surround him as he sank. Once he was surrounded by the sand it formed spikes inside and clamped down onto him. He roared in pain before charging his cannon and heating the sand into glass before breaking free. He landed on the sea floor and launched himself upwards.

He shot out of the water to Hacks suprise, grabbed Hack and shoved him into the muzzle of his cannon and began charging up. The blasts inside burning Hack in the process before Nathan aimed his cannon at the side of a mountain and fired. Hack shot out in a large fireball before slamming against the mountain, causing the top half of it to crumble under the force of the shot.

When Nathan began running towards the mountain he saw a cloaked Maniac grabbing Hacks unconscious body, ready to teleport out. "OH NO YOU DON'T!!!"

He jumped and crushed the two under his foot. When he lifted his foot he saw they had teleported away before they were crushed. He roared in absolute rage, furious that he had allowed his foes to flee.

Sonata shook her head as she watched him tear apart the remains parts of the mountain in a blind rage. "I think we'll have to keep him away from anyone for awhile..."

Author's Notes:

Nathan is furious and we've got a look at Hacks powers