“Are you certain Dainn is with that army,” I ask the changeling who told me of the Caribou army.

“Yes, sir. I saw him personally, and rushed here to alert you,” he said.

I was silent for a time before I said, “Have everyone else evacuated, I’ll buy time.”

“But sir-”

“No ‘buts,” I say. “Now, spread that order.”

“I’m not leaving, Mau’ual,” Silver said. “I knew Dainn when we were kids, i might be able to help buy sometime.”

“Silver, I may trust you somewhat, but I don’t want to risk it,” I say.

“Then what about us,” Applejack said. “I think it’s ‘bout time we show those Caribou what happens when ya mess with the Apples.”

“No,” I say. “I won’t put any of you in harm’s way.”

“Too bad, because we aren’t leaving without you, Mau’ual,” Silver said, putting her helmet on. “Now, where are they coming from?” she asked the changeling.

“Northeast, from Canterlot.”

She nodded. “Then have everypony get out heading towards the Everfree.”

“Ma’am,” he said, saluting, before running off to spread the order.

I looked at her. “I could have you charged with insubordination, you know?”

“Don’t really give a shit,” she said. “Now come on, we need to buy sometime.”

With that, she and the two Apples began to make their way to where the Caribou Army was approaching. I began to follow close behind before I heard something above me.

I looked up, and I saw a sword that resembled the Master sword from Zelda, Skyward sword. I grabbed it out of the air as it closed in on me, and I saw, on one side, it had Celestia’s cutie mark. I flipped it, and it had Luna’s on the other side, though the entire thing was an amulet. I’m going with a token. “Okay, so how do I summon you?” I ask, not expecting anything to happen.

I then see a flash of light just in front of me as another person walks through a portal that instantly fades leaving a figure standing there, wearing little in terms of armor or weaponry but only carrying a guitar. He then looks to me and says “Hello, My name's Craig as you probably know from my token.”

“Yeah, why are you not jumping at the sight of a heavily armored being?” I ask. “Actually, never mind, I have more important problems to deal with.”

He then looks at me and asks “Why, what’s wrong?”

“Ever hear of ‘Fall of Equestria’?”

His eyes then twitch and shouts, “Where are those fucking caribou… I will end them!”

“North east of the town. Me and some of my allies are going to hold them off so that the Resistance can escape. Wanna help?”

He then touches the back of his guitar as it changes into a sword that looks similar to that of his token. His body is now covered in what looks like a synthetic skin that is covered by a dark blue chestplate and he has a helmet that looks like that of a Halo EOD helmet. He then looks back at me and says “This answer your question?”

“Yes, and I prefer the Raider helm,” I say before jogging in the direction the others went. “Come on.”

He then smirks and say “Like you even had to ask.” He then proceeds to follow me.

We reached the others about a minute later, and Silver, the Apples, and alicorn Fluer were there waiting for us, and Craig was a little surprised to see alicorn Fleur. He then whispers to me and says “Am I going mad or is there an alicorn that isn’t one of the princesses in front of me?”

“You are not crazy,” I reply, getting the others to turn around. “Guys, this is. . . an ally from my homeworld that’s going to help us buy time for the others.”

Craig then bows to them then says “Hello, my name’s Craig… Okay I'll be honest with you i’m not the best at introducing myself. Let’s just say I know of those bastards and I ain’t going to let them hurt you.”

“Good,” Silver said. “Otherwise, I’d have to hurt you. Name’s Silver.”

He then removes his helmet, places it under his shoulder then says “Well it’s a pleasure to meet you Silver.”

“I guess he already know us,” Applejack said.

He then smiles and says “Yes I do, Applejack. How could I not know the Element of Honesty?”

“You aren’t curious as to who the alicorn is,” I ask.

“Fleur de Lis, and no Applejack, lets just say I’ve been around Pinkie a lot, I’ve learned to predict what’s going to happen.”

“Great,” she said sarcastically. “‘Nother Pinkie Pie.”

“Shut it, Applejack,” I say. “Right now, we have Caribou to kill.” With that, I began to make my way to meet the Caribou Army, the others following behind me.

Craig then smiles as I hear him say, “War never changes.” With that he puts his helmet back on and begins to walk next to me.

Once I was a few feet away from the Caribou army, which, I guess, was in the thousands, I stopped, and the first thing I saw was a heavily armored Caribou male in the kind of armor that Winters from the CGI TMNT movie from around two thousand seven wore, with a shit ton of glyphs on the armor. “Dainn, I assume,” I say, and I say it’s a safe bet, as, at his feet, he had a nude Celetstia and Luna, and, of what I saw, Luna was black collared, and her sister red. Okay, a few ideas. One is that the wave from two days ago that the Tree caused inspired a short lived rebellion that Luna was a part of, and was made a black collar for, while Celestia is either entirely a slut, wouldn’t anger me, or she’s biding her time, which also wouldn’t anger me.

“You’d be correct,” the Caribou said. He scoffed. “Why is it you fight for mares? They are weak.”

“No, they aren’t,” I say. “They outsmarted you, after all.” Ah, I love being a smartass.

Craig then smirk and says “I’d say around ninety percent of them are smarter than you, No contest”

“It seems as if your kind hasn’t had a point where the females thought themselves better than males.”

“No, we did,” I say. “It was called the forties.”

Craig then laughs and says, “Heck, the monarch where I came from was female.”

“Point: not the Caribou,” I say. “Now, who wants their ass kicked?”

Craig however didn’t give them a chance to answer as he punched Dainn directly in the stomach causing him to be sent flying as he says, “Pretentious prick.”

I rolled my eyes. “You guys deal with the soldiers, Craig and I will hold off the only person worse than Blueblood.” With that, I activated my thrusters, and flew to where Dainn had landed,to find he was already getting up.

Craig then lands next to me and says, “What do you: think slow and painful or quick and painless?”

“Slow,” I say, cracking my knuckles. “Come at us, asshole.”

Craig then smirks and says “Shame I wanted to put a bullet through his tiny brain.”

“Do that to end him,” I say before I used my thrusters to get in close to deliver a punch, only for the jackass to hit me with enough force behind a hammer uppercut to send me flying while spinning in a circle. “FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!”

Craig then sighs and says, “Lets have fun with this thing.” He then charges forwards as he draws his sword as Dainn tries to hit him with his hammer to which he just grabs it as he falls and says, “That the best you got?” He then pulls the hammer from his grasp and shouts, “Batter up!” With that he smashed the hammer into his chest knocking the wind out of him and then knocks him upwards.

Dainn landed, but his armor wasn’t even scratched, and he laughed. “Not at all, you female sympathizer,” he said before he got up fully and I landed, creating a crater next to Craig.

“Fucker,” I say, getting up. “I forgot that he’s got alicorn status, basically.”

Craig then laughs and says “Good I wouldn’t want to defeat him that quick.”

“That includes their power,” I say. “Of both Celestia and Luna, for that matter, maybe even Cadence and Twilight. In short,” I say, getting into a stance that had my mauler facing the King, “we can only hold out for now.”

Craig then smirks and says “Then I’ll go for strength in numbers.” He then brings his hands together and shouts, “Shadow clone jutsu!”, creating multiple clone around us.

“Well, we’re fucked,” I murmur to myself as the clones charge, most bouncing off a shield Dainn made, or getting ripped in half by him. Hey, I warned Craig. Maybe I should have said he beat Celestia by himself without that power boost.

Crag then laughs and says “Well then looks like I will need to try with him…” he then begins to hover of the ground as his helmet disappears and his hair begins to rise from his head and turn blond.

“Not gonna work,” I say, but he didn’t listen.

Craig then charges him as he starts hitting with a flurry of punches that do nothing.

Dainn then grabbed him by the throat. “You should have listened to your comrade,” he said before he sent Craig flying, and looks at me. “Now, it’s your turn.”

“Fun,” I say sarcastically. “Well, come on, I got nothing worse to do today.”

“With pleasure,” he said before he just leaped from where he was at me, and punched me with enough force to send me flying.

I landed damn near where I started, near Celestia and Luna. “Hello, Highnesses,” I say, getting up.

“What are you,” Luna asked.

“Just a soldier,” I say before having to jump out of the way of Dainn coming down at me, only for me to land, and deliver a counterpunch, which he blocked with both hands. Not gonna work, fucker.

“As weak as a mare,” he said before he let one hand fall, and began to push with the other. Fortunately, my armor had enough power assist to where my arm didn’t move, much to his shock and the princesses. “How?”

“Because I don’t rely on magic, asshole,” I say before boosting to the left, and delivering a mauler shot to his chest, actually making a small crack appear as I sent him flying. I looked down at my mauler, and saw a rainbow mist around it, and grinned under my helmet. “Thanks, Harmony,” I say before walking to where he was. “Silver, time to see if you can help, here,” I tell the doe over the radio.

“On my way,” she said.

I then see Craig walk over to me and and say, “Well that was a rush. Has he got anymore?”

“Doubt it,” I say. “But be careful.” I then look at him. “And how the hell did you go super sayian, because last time I checked, you aren’t from DBZ, or Yang from RWBY.”

He then smirks and says “Discord give me the power to manipulate anything from any game. He also fucked around with my DNA so I’m part Sayain, part human, part namekian and part frost deamon.”

“You, my friend, sound like a gary stu right now,” I say as we reach were Dainn was, and, surprisingly, he was still out of it, and Silver was already here, her helmet removed.

Craig then looks at me and says “Have I missed something or is Silver a Caribou?”

“You haven’t missed anything,” she said, kneeling down to her knees and, to our surprise, stroked Dainn’s face as if he were a lover. “Oh, Dainn. What happened to the Dainn I knew as a child?”

“Wait, you knew him as a kid?” I ask.

“One of his families staff,” she said. “He wasn’t like how he is now. He cared for all his subjects, male and female, equally.” She smiled a little. “One time, we even said we’d change the Caribou to more like Equestria. I guess me doing that now is keeping an old promise to an old friend.”

Craig then smiles and says, “That’s very loyal of you, Silver”

“Thank you,” she said before getting up. “I think we bought them enough time.”

I looked back, and saw the Caribou actually retreating. “Yeah, probably,” I say before looking at Craig. “See ya next time.”

Craig then smiles at me and says “You know who to call if they start on you again” He then removes an amulet from around his neck and open a portal big enough to walk though he then begin to walk through but quickly headshots one of the retreating caribou with a pistol and says, “That’s for using mares as slaves.” With that he disappears through the portal as it shuts behind him.

I then looked at the ground, at Dainn. “Leave him,” I say, though I knew from Silver’s expression she didn’t want to. “We will try to bring the one you know back, Silver. I swear it.” The other got behind us at that point. “Come on, guys. We need to tell the others we’re good to leave now. With that, we made our way back to Ponyville, but not before Silver and I looked back at Dainn, a look of pity and sadness on my face, and those plus a look of hope on Silver’s.

Author's Notes:

Crossover with The Dark Brony's "A gamer in Equestria".