My Little Overwatch

by HAZESHIFT

First published 12th of November, 2015

Twilight has had many thought about the portal to the alternate Equestria. She wonders if it can lead to other worlds. Well hopefully the aftermath of an experiment along with several visitors will give her an answer she likes.

Ever since she's made the trip to an alternate Equestria multiple times, twilight has begun to think heavily about the portal. Is it just a connection between the two dimensions or are there more connection to more worlds that can be made. After a long time of theorizing and discussing it with Sunset Shimmer she decided to set up an experiment to test her hypothesis. In the presence of her friends, her brother, Discord, and fellow princesses she begins the experiment which in the end has dazzling and explosive results. In the aftermath they discover that beings have made their way through the portal and that they are just a bit different from the norm that they know. They're a bit more defensive, more fight-y, more...quirky? With the portal being in need of repair they can't immediately send them back and so hopefully the new arrivals will be able to wait patiently while it's being fixed. And maybe in that time they can show Equestria just exactly who they are and what they stand for while they watch over and protect creatures of a world not their own from a dangerous force using something they might recognize
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Written because like many other people i ahven't gotten into the damned awesome Overwatch BETA ...plz blizzard?

the games out now i'll be fine....

Also WOOT! PITY?HASN'T BEEN UPDATED IN AWHILE AND IS MODERATEWLY READ FEATURE SPOT WOOT! I'LL TAKE IT!!! 6/18/2016

Chapter 1: No Mistakes, Just Happy Accidents

Many ponies always considered that Twilight Sparkle was not the fastest of ponies, even with her Alicorn Powers she always seemed to be much slower compared to the likes of Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. But most of the ponies had never seen Twilight move when she was doing research. This was the case for a few ponies who sat watching her zip back and forth from various machines in one of larger rooms of her palace.

“I honestly have to admit that I am impressed,” Discord, spirit of chaos, creator of weaponized airborne confections, queen of the dance, and whatever titles he granted upon himself said to the group of ponies sitting next to him as his eye got a little bit wider than his smile. The group next to him comprised of three Alicorn princesses, one Unicorn prince, and five other mares being two Pegasi, two Earth Ponies, and One Unicorn; all five of whom were known as the Elements of Harmony.

“I’d honestly never thought would say this ...but I agree with Discord,” Rainbow Dash said as her head kept moving in tandem with the speedy movements of Twilight zipping about her workspace.

“T those who haven’t witnessed it before it can be quite a jarring experience, seeing as how Twilight usually appears to be the slow and steady type. But i’ve always found it quite amusing, it reminds of days gone bye,” Celestia responded to the two, her smile a bit wider as she was trying her best to keep in laughter. She remembered seeing Twilight like this back years ago, zipping back and forth between machines twice her size and quadruple her weight. The only thing that had changed since then is that now Twilight was now aided by the new amounts of energy she gained from being an Alicorn instead of drinking a week's worth of the castle’s strongest coffee.

“This remind me of the time she built a volcano for a science fair, that erupted with a substitute lava that was close to the actual thing,” Cadence laugh watching her sister-in-law.

“Oh yeah I remember that...that was a horrible day,” Shining Armor sighed a little remembering.

“What do you mean? She won first place that day right?” his wife asked.

“Yeah she did and that was great, but neither you nor her had to carry what basically amounted to a live volcano on you back! I had to wear ice packs under my uniforms and take cold showers for a week before the burning sensation stopped!” Shining told Cadence all the while pointing at his back, and although he wanted to seemed miffed he couldn’t help but smile when Cadence laughed.

“Wouldn’t have that worked in you favor though, Shining?” Princess Luna asked. “I overheard some guard saying something about how mares like a ‘hot’ stallion, wouldn’t you being hot increased your chances of wooing Cadence?” Luna asked not quite full knowing the context of what she just asked.

“I well...I uh… Cadence you want to take that one?” Shining immediately passed the responsibility of answering that to his wife.

“Luna, one of these days you and i need to have a talk,” Cadence said giving of the aura of an older and wiser mare even though she was much younger and much less experiences than Luna.

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Meanwhile while everyone was conversing and talking about her and other varied topics Twilight was busy double and triple checking all her machines and their connection to a particular mirror that she knew well. The mirror that acted as the portal to an alternate Equestria where alternate versions of her and her friends lived, and also someone she considered her newest friend, Sunset Shimmer.

As she finished checking she looked over to a book that sat on a small table next to all the machines. “Okay then let’s send the message,” she said to herself as she opened the book and picked up a quill with her magic. “Dear Sunset, I’m ready to begin the experiment. If you’re ready please step through,” she wrote and then set down the quill before turning to her audience. “Alright everyone we’re almost ready to get started, Sunset should be coming through the portal soon, everyone be nice and that goes double for you Discord,” She said to everyone, and if she hadn’t been in such an alert state she would have never noticed the slight twitch Celesta gave when she mentioned her former student.

As everyone got ready for Sunset Shimmer to come through the portal Twilight walked around then and stepped up to Princess Celestia. “Are you okay princess?” She asked noticing the small jump she made.

“Oh Twilight i didn’t notice you...i’m fine why do you ask?” Twilight had seen Princess Celestia smile a lot over the years, and she had taught herself to notice when the princess was smiling genuinely and when she was doing it as a reflexive mask not to make anypony worry.

“I noticed something when i said the Sunset Shimmer would be coming back. Are you worried about seeing her after all this time?” Twilight asked watching as Celestia finally dropped her mask, the serene smiling mixing with a frown.

“Oh Twilight when you’re like this you a truly a remarkable mare. I am worried about seeing Sunset Shimmer after so long. The last time we spoke was not...pleasant,” She said taking a look at the portal.

“Well I can’t tell you exactly what will happen, But I can tell you that she’s not the same per-pony that she was back then, I’ve seen the transformation she’s made and so have the alternate versions of my friends,” Celestia looked at Twilight noticing the happiness seemingly radiating from her. She knew that trusting in what Twilight said usually led to good things but the smallest piece of doubt still remained in her mind, especially when the face of the mirror suddenly lit up, announcing the arrival of Sunset Shimmer.

The flash was quick and once everyone’s eyes adjusted they were met with amber coated mare with a two tone red and yellow mane wearing a black jacket. “Sunset you finally here!” Sunset barely had any time to react before Twilight zipped from her position and wrapped her in a hug using strength she was not prepared for.

“It’s nice to see you too Twilight...but can you loosen up? it’s getting a little hard to breathe,”She said taking a chance to take a deep breath when Twilight released her.

“Oh sorry about that, my strength is a bit different here than the other world,” she apologized before turning around to the group watching them. “Um everybody, this is Sunset Shimmer, the mare who stole my crown once and then used it to become a raging she demon, before I stopped her along with alternate versions of all my friends who then befriended her and then helped her and I defeat some sirens in a music contest and then later helped defeat an alternate version of myself who kind of went a little crazy with magical power!” Twilight condensed all of her experience with Sunset into one long run-on sentence. Everyone seemingly gave her a quizzical stare before something else caught their attention.

Everyone watched in silence after noticing that as Twilight gave her abbreviated history of Sunset and her, Sunset had gotten up and walked over straight up to Princess Celestia. The two stood a few hoof lengths apart both staring at each other with pleasant smiles not saying anything until Celestia decided to break the silence.

“You look...well Sunset Shimmer,”

“You do to princess, i guess Immortality and all has it’s perks huh?” she said jokingly but was surprised when Celestia chuckled.

“Yes i guess it does,” Celestia responded causing Sunset to chuckle with her before the
two returned to being silent.

“I…” Sunset started, getting Celestia’s attention. She noticed the Sunset’s smile was gone replaced more with a mourning expression and her eye were watering. “I’m sorry,” she said as a tear fell causing Celestia’s own eyes to water.

“No Sunset i should be sorry. I...I-” Celestia felt like she was going to start crying.

“Oh for the love of ...WILL YOU TWO JUST HUG ALREADY WE’RE TIRED OF WAITING,” Pinkie Pie, who had been weirdly quiet for her for the longest time today suddenly and loudly shouted at the two causing them to look at the group now watching them. most of them looking like they were in the same state with watery eyes looking like they were going to cry and then there was Discord sitting in a movie theater chair with popcorn in one arm and a box of tissues in another while a mysterious third arm held a tissue at the ready.

The two of them looked at each other and both gave a slight shrug before they closed the gap between each other and embraced each other to the cheers of the group. They stayed like that for a while, letting their tears flow freely as years of emotions bubbled up to the surface.

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After enough time was spent on Celestia’s and Sunset’s reunion , Twilight was finally able to get everyone back on track after a small cleanup due to all the tissues discord used and handed out.

“So you told the alternate versions of all of us that you would be leaving for awhile right Sunset?” Twilight asked.

“Yeah I told them that you were planning on doing some experiment on the portal and that it would be better if i went home, knowing that it would be easier to fix form this side than the other. They took it well enough, we’re on break at school right now so my absence won’t be a weird occurrence,” she said, her friends were a bit sad that she had to leave for the break but she assured them that she would be back no matter what.

“Alright then that’s all the pre-checks,” Twilight said quickly flipping through all the pages on the clipboard floating next to her. “Alright everybody we’re good to get started!” she called out getting a few cheers from ponies.

“Finally! That was taking forever!” Rainbow Dash threw her hooves in the air, unlike many of the others, Rainbow had possibly the smallest amount of patience possibly even less than Pinkie Pie in certain situations.

Twilight rolled her eyes as her friend let out her frustrations before she decided to address everyone. “Ok so i’ve gathered you all here today because i’ve figured out a way to do an experiment with the portal that i have been researching for awhile now. After conversing back and forth with Sunset Shimmer and doing some testing when i had free time and we didn’t have to solve a friendship problem or confront some kind of monster or chaotic deity...no offense Discord,” Twilight said mid explanation.

“None taken,” Discord replied as he sat in a floating lawn chair peeling an orange.

“Okay anyway, in those test we found out that the portal has not just one connections but actually many connections to many different worlds!” Twilight waited as everyone gasped while they considering the implications of her words. “ Both of us discovered that as of now the portal is tuned to a specific energy frequency that has set the portal to be connected to our Equestria and the alternate version. So Sunset and I came up with the conclusion that if we manipulate the amount of energy in the portal that we can therefore connect it to other unknown worlds!” Twilight finished her little speech before moving over to a cart to grab something off of it.

“But Twilight if you feed magic into the portal couldn’t there be a possibility of it accidentally leeching all of your magic?” Shining called out wondering how far his sister had thought ahead for her safety.

“That is an astute observation Shiny! One we first thought of way back in the planning phase. Which is why i got this!” Twilight said as she held up the item she picked up off the cart. It was a small box , its walls looked like they were made out of glass except for the small sections where little metal circles attached. On the inside of it looked to be a purplish liquid.

“Ah a chargeable magic battery, the two of you have been through about this,” Celestia said as she walked up examining the battery Twilight held.

“yes we decided that instead of trying to give it magic naturally we would use a battery as a supply just in case and for extra safety i invited Discord to attend so that he could make us a bunker,” Twilight said putting the battery down and turning to the draconequus.

“Hmm? What was that? A bunker? Why?” Discord seemingly had fallen asleep to take a short nap in his lawn chair, little pieces of orange peel falling to the ground as he sat up.

“Yes i would like for you to create a bunker in the room for us so we can watch the experiment from within and protect us from any possible danger,” Twilight asked knowing that getting the god of chaos to comply would be a hard sell.

“But why? Explosions are so much more fun when you’re unguarded and up close!” He said getting up from his chair to the unamused sates of most of the ponies in the room.

“Yeah!” Pinkie said appearing right next to discord before she slapped her hoof against his open claw.

“Sorry Discord but no bunker equals no experiment,” Twilight put Discord in a difficult situation and she could see it practically written on his face.

“Oooh….fine. But you owe me one!” he said as he snapped his talons and immediately a jet black box with a viewing window appeared on the opposite side of the room from the portal. Disappearing from his spot Discord reappeared next to the bunker opening the door and beckoning everyone inside. In an orderly fashion everyone filled in with Fluttershy being one of the last giving him a quick hug before she went in. “Alright princess everyone is in the bunker are we all set?” Discord ask looking to Twilight who was connecting the magic battery to the portal with some kind of hoses.

“Just about...there!” she said as those hoses audibly clicked into place. With a quick double check she nodded before walking over to the bunker thanking discord as she walked inside. “Ok everyone get ready!” Twilight said as she managed to levitate a broom from her position in the box. IT slowly crept closer to the magic batter and when it was within reach hit a button on it starting the process. Everyone watched as Twilight’s stored magical energy slowly moved into the hose and then into the portal, the space where the hose and portal connected turning purple closer to the hose and getting lighter as it stretched throughout the portal.

“Ok so far everything is good, the energy should keep flowing into the portal until it finds a connection and then should shut off the process,” Twilight said smiling as she watched the experiment go off without a hitch so far. But as the seconds slowly ticked by everyone in the bunker began to notice a light humming noise that made itself heard.

“Uh everyone else hears that humming right?” Rainbow Dash was glad that other ponies nodded in her direction. “ok good...Is it supposed to do that Twilight?” She asked managing to tear her eyes from the mirror to look at Twilight.

“Actually yes, the excess of energy flowing into the portal should create a sound...but….” everyone noticed when Twilight audibly gulped. “But within all normal deviations the sound should have stayed level,” She said watching as the purple color began to disappear from where it had spread to the mirror and instead started to be replaced by a bright orange. “I think something has gone wrong,” Twilight said taking a few steps back from the window.

“Oh on the contrary Twilight, something has gone right,” She turned to find Discord slowly floating forward to watch the unfolding spectacle. “Can you feel or sense it? Or have you not figured out that power yet? Well anyways I can tell you that so far you experiment here has been a success the portal has connected to somewhere”

“But If a connection was made then why hasn’t the portal stabilized,” Rarity spoke up for the first time, also getting closer to the window somewhat mesmerized by the colors.

“Well I can’t speak exactly for what would be happening on the other side. But there is the delightful possibility that as the portal was connected to wherever, there could have been an event that saw something or somethings move through, which also explains the reason why the portal is absorbing so much of the energy because of-”

“Conservation of Momentum!” Twilight shouted interrupting Discord. “The first time i went through the portal I fell and when i came out on the other end the same thing happen. The portal must preserve the energy of momentum of all parties passing through it!” Her eyes widened as she levitated up a piece of paper and a quill and quickly started scribbling physics equations on it.

“Twilight, with all the energy the portal has absorbed so far, what’s the entry from the other side going to be like and how long do we have till it does happen, Shining asked as he slowly moved Cadence behind him just in case.

“Um...hold on...just a second...carry the five and divide by….oh!” Twilight’s frantic scribbling came to a sudden halt. She looked up to her friends, brother, and mentor before sparing a short glance at the portal before she turned back to them. “Well I sure am glad that i convinced Discord to make this bunker,” she smiled apologetically and before the room shook. Everyone's’ eyes moved to the portal as the surface of the mirror seemed to ripple. Suddenly An explosions tore through the portal exploding out into the room the smoke and fire hitting the wall of the bunker scaring everyone in the room. once the smoke and fire cleared everyone looked back on the portal expecting to see something but nothing stood in front of the portal.

“Well...that’s not right...and that’s me saying that!?!’ discord said confused right before ten orbs of light exploded through the portal moving at high speeds and bouncing all around the room. Five of them were a bright pulsing orange that the portal had been glowing while the other five were were a pulsing black. Everyone in the bunker watched as the orbs continued bouncing around the room and occasionally each other. Suddenly the five of each orb lined up on two sides of the room the oranges on facing the black ones. In a flash each set charged at each other all ten crashing at the same point before the orange ones seemed to force the black ones away. They flew out the window into the distance while the orange orb scattered to different parts of the room before everything seemed to settle down, the glow faded from both the orbs and the portal. Meanwhile inside the bunker everyone who had watch the spectacle unfold before them either sat or stood in shock hoping that it was over.

Before anyone could notice Twilight was at the door of the bunker wrenching it open and running out with Sunset Shimmer on her heels. A dense smoke coated the floor and obscured whatever the orbs were from vision but no one paid attention to that as everyone moved to the portal as the filed out of the bunker. “It’s okay everyone the portal is still in one piece!...Although there is some structural damage!” Twilight called out as everyone slowly waded through the smoke as they got closer to the portal.”The mirror itself is okay but the crystal base…” everyone got to see as they got closer many small cracks ran from the top of the base to the bottom. “ The cracks shut down the portal, right now it’s no more than just a regular mirror,” said looking over to Sunset Shimmer who had turned a little paler.

“But...it can fixed right?” Sunset asked nervously and instinctively moved closer to Celestia who put a wing around her in comfort.

“Oh yes of course, all we need is some crystal harvested from the castle in the Crystal Empire and we can repair it good as new...or even better!” Twilight gave a small hop in place which gave cause for her friends to be worried.

“Uh Twilight? Are you ok? You’re acting kinda funny,” Applejacked asked as she stepped up using her hat as a makeshift fan to blow away some of the smoke.

“Yeah and funny is putting it mildly,” Rainbow Dash hovered above Everyone using the flaps of her wings to help with Applejack’s efforts.

“Oh i’m fine fine everything is fine,” Twilight brushed them off as she moved over to the machines that had been hooked up to the portal.

“Oh don’t worry about her you two. Her body is just having a hard time processing all the emotions she’s feeling. So instead of not showing any or picking the right one it’s just mushing them all together into one kind of super emotion,” Discord said as he dematerialized the bunker with a snap of his talons. “The only way to get her back on track would be to remind her that we have inter-dimensional guests that we should probably start thinking-”

“Discord’s right!” Twilight interrupted as she teleported in front of the draconequus grabbing his face in her hooves and pulling it close to hers. “Somethings came through the portal and now we have to-”

“WOW that was absolutely ridiculous!” A female accented voice caused everyone to immediately turn to find a pony standing where one of the orbs had crashed. A light tan furred face smiled as a brown mane fell in front of orange tinted goggle covered eyes. she wore a brown flight jacket which had some weird white bulky attachments to the chest and forelegs. and form where that ended were tight orange pants that formed to the curve of her body. She spun in quick circles taking in her surroundings.

“Um excuse me?” Twilight called out already having a whole lists of questions. The mare quickly stopped spinning and locked eyes with Twilight. Before Twilight could utter another word the was a flash of blue light and the mare accompanied it closing the gap between her and Twilight instantly.

“Oh well look at you aren’t you a cute little purple horsey,” The mare said gazing into Twilight’s eyes as she grabbed her by the cheeks. “Did you just talk, that’s amazing! You can call me Tracer, love, it’s what everybody else calls me; good guy or bad guy,” She spoke fast but not fast enough to not be understandable. With another flash Tracer was in a different part of the room giving everything a once over as she kept talking. “Hey since you can talk do you think you can answer a few questions? Like where am I? Why am i the same size as a small cute horsey thing? Why can’t i feel my hands? And why am i not terrified by that aspect?” Her last question ended with another flash where she ended up once again standing in front of Twilight.

Twilight mouth open and closed a few times as her body kept processing all the information of the last few seconds. When she finally did decided what to do she hoped it wouldn’t be too difficult. “Um well...Tracer you said you name was right?” She asked getting a quick nod from the mare. “Well to start, I think I can answer two of your questions easily. If you would just step over to this mirror here real quick and have a look,” She moved over to the mirror and watched as Tracer simply walked instead of what seemed like teleporting over.

“Ok so what am i supposed to be looking...at?” Tracer’s gaze finally met her own in the mirror. Her eyes moved as they looked her over and she turned to get a full view of her body. She reached up with one hoof to push her goggles up and rub her eyes and then stared at the hoof in a bit of shock when she pulled it away. Slowly she put her goggles back in place and turned to the group still wearing her bright smile. “Well that’s interesting I’ll say. Looks like i’m the cavalry now,” she said with a weak chuckle before fainting and rolling onto her back with her back leg twitching in the air.

Everyone was still as silent as they had been since she had first spoken up, even Discord. But thankfully Pinkie pie decided that it was finally time to break her silence. “She’s funny i like her,”

Author's Notes:

AHA AN OVERWATCH CROSSOVER!!!!!! I will honestly admit the only reason I wrote this was because I haven't gotten into the BETA and that frustrates me to no end because IT SO DAMN COOL!!!!!...also like some kind of idiot I've already pre-purchased it.......so yeah

so if you ask yourself why where there ten orbs? well and overwatch match is 5v5 and so far i've only revealed one "good" character. i'll let you guess and mingle on who the other 9 can be...you only have 20 guesses

Oh Btw when looking something I could use for a story cover i found this ponified Tracer btu i also found ones of her as a pegasus and i wasn't sure if i wanted to make her an earth pony or pegasus so i thought i'll wait it out a bit and see if any person or group of people has a particular inclination to one or the other...so tell me which if you want a particular one

originally i was going to write this for NaPoWriMo on EQD..and possibly get some more publicity on it...but i'm already trying to write something for the regular NaNoWriMo and i'm kinda behind on it..... so while i would like to i can't make a full commitment to this even if i said i would only get 10k words done on it...there's just to many things i need to be doing like school work, nanowrimo writing, any other fic writing i do here, fallout 4, daily check to see if i get into the overwatch beta in which case i'm going to stream it all the damn time(also proves true for when it comes out), building my gundam models, eating, sleeping, etc etc...

But i can promise that i probably won't abandon this...i can also promise that i don't think i'll ake this an epic long story like my one other(My New Life In Equestria) and other in progress(Their new life in Equestria) which i can only ask you give a once over...both of them..maybe plz?

Chapter 2: We'r a team...for better or worse

He remembered fighting. He remembered the bullets, the explosions, the screaming battle cries, the energy manipulations and everything else. It was normal now to him, he had been doing it for awhile and his veteran sense had made him adjusted to it. What he wasn’t adjusted to though was then in the middle of a scuffle something he could only describe a some kind of portal opened up in between everyone. And with no time to stop and change direction everyone collided with the portal getting sucked into as they unleashed their attacks.

He couldn’t remember much after that, just a swirling vortex of color and sound. He had been through something like this with Symmetra’s teleporter before but traveling through that was always instantaneous. This was more akin to traveling a long distance. He had no clue how long it lasted but before he could see the end and where his destination was his consciousness faded...he just hoped that when he woke up he would be close to his lightning gun if the situation was that he needed it.

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Winston opened his eyes slightly as he slowly regained consciousness. Unfortunately all he could see was smoke, although he did notice the shadow of his lightning gun only a foot from him, so far in his book this was a good situation. He lifted his head slightly trying to see how high the smoke went. He didn’t have to move much before his eyes cleared the smoke. What he saw reminded him of things he only saw in book his father gave him when he was an infant, and before he need spectacles for reading. Everything was bright and pastel colored, even for how dark the room actually was.

“Ok so what am I supposed to be looking...at?” A familiar voice got his attention. Winston looked over to where he had heard Tracer’s voice and made a startling discovery. He saw small horse like creatures, except they were much different from any other kind of equine he had ever seen. They were varied in color and what appeared to be species as well seeing as how some appeared to have functional wings and horns. To the right of them he noticed what looked like an ordinary mirror but something told him that there was something strange about since he could see some kind of machinery hooked up to it in various ways. Right next to it he saw one of the purple horse thing that was like a few of the others that had both wings and a horn but his attention was soon ripped from it as he took a particular notice of the horse thing that was standing next to it. It took him no time to recognize the clothes, goggles, hairstyles, and chronal accelerator Tracer always wore. He had little time to think about why she now resembled the weird horse things he assumed had somehow opened the portal on his world, because he watched as her eyes went wide in shock as she stared in the mirror, quickly checking out her new form before turning around to the group behind her. “Well that’s interesting I’ll say. Looks like I’m the cavalry now,” he watched as she chuckled before she fainted. It wasn’t something he totally expected from Tracer but it was something that could happen. As the group got closer to check on her he decided that now was probably as good a time as any to make first contact...well...a better attempt at it anyway.

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“She’s funny I like her,” Pinkie said as she hopped closer to get a better look.

“Funny looking is more like it, Applejack said putting her hat back on, her hoof tired of fanning away the smoke.

“Now now dear, i might say she looked quite nice...in whatever she is wearing. you don’t suppose she’d bee willing to share would she?”Each mare took one more step before a rose colored wall of magic stopped them.

“OK ok everypony just take a step back,” Shining put himself between Tracer and everyone else. “First of let’s give her some room to breathe and not crowd around her. And second let’s not assume that just because of that happy friendly intro that this is someone or thing is a good guy...or gal,” he said taking a look back remembering that Tracer was a mare.

“Shining Armor I think that’s-”

“A tactical and wise decision from someone who’s been in the military and does not have all the information he might need,” everyone jumped and turned as they watched a large figure rise out of the smoke. “Although you are right to question him, Tracer’s couldn’t be a bad person, there's not a bad bone in her body...though at times she can be annoying,” Everyone stared as a large armored gorilla stood, and stretched while talking to them. “I’m sorry it’s very impolite of me to address you without talking to myself. My name is Winston and-”

“you’re a talking Gorilla-” Unbeknownst to both parties, Fluttershy had been totally enthralled at the sight of Winston. She had never had a chance to see a Gorilla before and the fact that he could talk made him all the more interesting.

“Well um...yes I am,” Winston recovered quickly from being interrupted. “Although I am perplexed by your species, you resemble horse but i’ve never seen a form like this,” he noted to all of them trying his hardest to not stare into the wide adoring eyes currently staring up at him.

“We are ponies, Mr. winston. And I am Princess Celestia and this is my sister Princess Luna,” Celestia and Luna walked forward to which Winston gave a slight bow as he remembered you should do when meeting royalty. “I want to be the first to apologize, this must be a new experience for you,”

“Well the whole meeting another one or group of talking animals yes, that is new. The teleportation...kind of. I have done something like it before although not to this kind of effect...with this much damage..which might be partially to blame on me and my comrades,”

“Yes...well I can say that is most likely partially our fault as well for bringing you here so suddenly. My student Twilight sparkle wasn’t exactly expecting this kind of reaction to her experiment,” Celestia apologized as she motioned for Twilight to step forward.

“I’m guessing it would have something to do with that mirror over there?” He asked looking over to the mirror then to Twilight who nodded weakly. “Well as much as the scientist in me would love to discuss it right now I think our biggest priority right now should get taking care of Tracer and also finding my other teammates and hoping their reaction isn’t as...dramatic.

“Yes helping Tracer should be...wait...did you say other team-”

“ACH MEIN GOTT! CAN’T A MAN WHO TOOK A HUGE BLOW GET A LITTLE TIME TO REST! MY HONOR WILL NOT STAND THE ABUSE!” everyone including the princesses this time jumped as a loud brash voice shook the room. Everyone watched wide eyed as in another corner of the room a large silver figure, larger than Winston, rose from the smoke. A seemingly impossible large suit of pony armor cleared the miss, a beam of yellow in the helmet showing its vision scanned the room. “Uhhhh….” the voice came out as it took in it’s surroundings before it saw and locked onto Winston. “Ah Winston there you are….what’s going on?” It ask as it moved towards the gorilla, every step making a metal clang.

“Ah Reinhardt good of you to join us. You remember that portal right? Well apparently we’ve been involved in some inter dimensional travel,” he said oblivious to the shock most of the other occupants were in in seeing a suit of armor and possibly a being inside of it that dwarfed Princess Celestia.

“And wherever we are happens to be a world filled with….small cute color horses?” Reinhardt said casting a look back noticing the differences between some of them before focusing back on Winston.

“Well they call themselves ponies as I’ve learned from their leaders, the princesses,” Winston motioned to the princesses with a wave and almost immediately Reinhardt’s head snapped to the four Alicorns, all of whom jumped slightly at the swiftness. The room was quiet as no one spoke as Reinhardt stared down the princesses while no one was able to tell what was going on inside the mind of whomever was in the armor. As suddenly as he had locked onto the princesses Reinhardt glanced around the room taking in the scene, noting that it looked like an explosion had gone off. he came his own conclusion that his team had probably caused the damage in the midst of their “trip” here. He had caused damage to a royal household. He had besmirched his honor by doing more than scuffing a royal floor.

“MY SINCEREST APOLOGIES YOUR MAJESTIES!!!” With speed that Tracer would say was impressive Reinhardt bowed and groveled before the four princesses, prostrating himself with his helmet touching the floor and his forehooves pressed together reaching to the sky in penetance. “My team and I have besmirched the honor of your household by damaging you fine castle. On my honor as a knight i swear to submit myself to any punishment you set fit for this dishonorable transgression!” his words rang even with his face to the ground. Except for Luna each princess stared in shock of the display. Even though they had ripped him from his world and had basically been the cause of him damaging Twilight’s castle he was still ready and waiting to accept punishment for it.

“Oh I rather like this one. Sir Winston? would you care to explain your friend here?” Luna asked as she inspected what she could of the large armored giant.

“Well um...yes. Reinhardt is a chivalrous man who took it upon himself to always live by a knight's code way back when,” Winston explained intriguing the princess.

“Ah so your world has knight, kings, queens, and princesses as well?”

“Well at one point in history yes. but now….not in so many ways,” Winston answered earning a nod from Princess Luna.

“Hey what this weird looking statue thing over here?” Rainbow Dash called from across the room before Winston or Luna had a chance to say anything else. both Winston and Reinhardt turned to find the her sitting upon a friend of their who power was offline for the moment.

“Ah Bastion there you are, I think it’s time to rise and shine!” Winston called out, earning a confused glare Rainbow Dash as she wondered why would a super smart looking Gorilla talk to a statue like that. That was until it began to move beneath her. Rainbow looked down over the edge of where she was sitting to come face to face plate with a singular rectangular blue light. Rainbow had never met a robot before but there was just something about staring into that light that Rainbow could tell that it was looking back.

“Uh hi?” Rainbow said before Bastion nodded forward, unbalancing her and forcing her to hover again this time face to face. Rainbow just stared with a blank face as Bastion just stood still, except for the shaking of his normal running state. She flinched slightly when he finally moved raising his left hand putting it above her head.She didn’t move not knowing what Bastion was going to do before he lowered his hand gently patting her head a couple time.

“OH you don’t really have to worry about him. Bastion usually lives in isolation but he’s a huge animal lover especially for a robot,” Winston chuckled as he noticed the blush on Rainbows face.

“Wowie a robot! Never seen one of those before!” Pinkie pie zoomed around Bastion hangin around and on him in various poses and positions before stopping by his right arm. “That’s a funny looking right arm. Oh look a button!”Pinkie said as she reached out to push the button on his arm. Bastion reacted immediately as he felt his attached weapon fire up. He stopped petting Rainbow Dash and his hand shot down to grab Pinkie Pie and move her out of the way as he raised his right arm up and out of the way of anyone in the room.Repeated loud bangs filled the room as bullets flew, pieces of crystal breaking of as Bullets impacted the walls and pages flying from books as they were torn to shreds. Everyone except for Reinhardt hit the deck as he brought a foreleg up and a large blue shield expanded across him and covered all the ponies that were behind him. After a few seconds of fire Bastion got it under control and looked around the room in a panic before he put his hand behind his head and stared at the floor in embarrassment.

Meanwhile no one was looking at Bastion but more at Pinkie Pie. And after taking a look around at the damage her curiosity had caused she felt the anger from her friend’s stares. “...Oopsie” was all she was able to say while smiling that innocent smile of hers.

“Huh? What? Gunfire? Who’s there!?” Tracer bolted upright in a sleepy daze after everything was over. She shook of the tiredness and looked around the room noticing three of her companions. “Winston! You’re alright!” Tacer jumped up and blinked forward while glomping onto the Gorilla her small form not encumbering him much.

“Good to see you’re up at em’ Tracer,” he said picking her off him and setting her on the ground.

“Oh Reinhardt looks like you're a horsey too...but not as little as far as I can tell,” She said walking around the tall suit of armor.

“The term is pony, as we learned while you were busy taking a nap Tracer,” Reinhardt said looking down and his even more miniature friend.

“Yeah yeah. whatever you say you big tin can,” she said poking him on the foreleg. “So looks like we’re all up and run- wait a minute...me, Winston, Reinhardt, Bastion...we’re forgetting someone. Have either of you seen-”

“EEP” Tracer was interrupted when Fluttershy suddenly squealed drawing everyone’s attention. Fluttershy one again unbeknownst to all had moved away from the group when she noticed something a few feet from where Bastion was. walking over she noticed a pony slightly bigger than tracer and armored like Reinhardt. Mustering up her courage and gently poked it hoping to rouse his slumber. he looked similar to Reinhardt but whatever he was wearing was much smaller and sleeker. Looking from its helmet down to his body she didn’t notice the black part of the visor light up in a brilliant light green.

before she had a chance to notice and move away it sprung up on his two hind legs and grabbed her. Spinning her around to face her towards the others before his foreleg wrapped around her neck securing her in place.

Rainbow immediately saw this as an act of aggression. “Hey buddy what’s the big idea?” she took one step forward only to be stop when the ponies free arm flung out and threw something. a ninja star impacting the ground only a few centimeters from where Rainbow Dash’s forward hoof was. “Hey !” She immediately jumped back checking her hoof just in case. As she landed Tracer walked up beside her, her smile never leaving her face.

“Oh there you are Genji!” She said waving which led everyone beside Bastion, Winston, and Reinhardt to do a double take between the two of them.

“Wait a minute you this guy?” rainbow Dash looked incredulously at Tracer before scowling at Genji.

Genji meanwhile took in his surroundings from behind his captive noticing Bastion and Winston. But his head titled to the right when he noticed the weird horse like creatures that looked like Reinhardt and Tracer, the last one specifically waving at him like Tracer always did.

“Nani? Tracer? Reinhardt?” Genji spoke in his native tongue, the last moments before he awoke might have rattled some of his parts a bit to much.

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Meanwhile, Elsewhere…

To say he lost consciousness would be a bit of a stretch of the truth. He didn’t really have anything he could call a consciousness anymore. The experiments made sure of that. Instead of saying he lost consciousness he could just say that he was at rest while awake, not moving, not thinking, just staring into space while everything went on around him uninterrupted. He got up only to find his body different than how he had remembered before the weird explosion. Last he fully remembered he was trying to kill some of those pesky and in the way “heroes” with some other and then a hole opened out of nowhere sucking them all in and causing their unleashed energies to exploded. Looking around he noticed that he was in some kind of forest, a canopy of trees above him. He looked to his arms and hands only to find that they didn’t exactly exist as he once knew. He would not panic though it wasn’t the first time he had been “changed” against his will. And just like last time he would find the ones responsible and make them remember the name he was given. Reaper.

“So you’re finally ‘awake’” his vision snapped upwards at a voice he knew well, the only other ‘professional’ he considered giving his ’trust’.

“Widowmaker…” he said finding the assassin sitting in a tree, her form similar to his. “What...has happened to us…?” the words came slowly as usual, his speech was the biggest thing affected by his change.

“I don’t know I have as much information as you do right now. Although i can say we look like a little girl's representation of a pony or something like that” she told him hopping down from her branch, her weapon shifting slightly upon landing.

“Everyone else…?”

“Unknown at this moment but i think the should be-” both of their gazes snapped to a bush a few feet away as it shook slightly before two objects jumped out surprising the two killers. they were wolves but instead of flesh and blood there was wood. Reaper and Widowmaker paused at the novelty of it before both drew their weapons and aimed at the creatures. The two Timberwolves stared at the creatures in front of them, they could sense nothing but danger coming from them, and also unfortunately they could also sense it behind them.

“Fire in the hole!” A voice shouted from a distance and before Reaper and Widowmaker could do anything a tire jumped from behind one of the bushes and crashed into one of the timberwolves, exploding on contact. The second wolf jumped sideways to avoid the explosion but as it landed a hook shot out of a bush, breaking into the middle section before a force suddenly yanked on the chain attached to the hook pulling the timberwolf through the bush before a loud bang was heard. Wooden pieces flying over the bush landing next to the pieces of it exploded brethren.

“Well that didn’t take long,” Widowmaker remarked as two new ponies walked into the little clearing they were in. One looked like he was perpetually caught on the fringes of explosions, his hair and face blackened with smoke, soot, and gunpowder. He was also missing one of his legs, a pegleg in the place where one of his back legs should be. THe other was much larger than him, in size and girth, the most notable thing about him was his mask, which was a cross between a pig and a gas mask.

“Junkrat, Roadhog...so you two survived,” Reaper stated as the two small groups got closer, neither noticing that all the small pieces of wood had slowly started to move.

“Eh I’ve been through way worse explosions than that...though it was nice. Might have cracked my top 10. What do you think hog?” the smaller one looked upward and received a small shrug. The wolves were pulling themselves together, their attackers and possible would be attacker unsuspecting. “So any idea where in the blazes we are?”

“Most likely another dimension on another world. One that has...different tastes,” Widowmaker said as everyone got a good look at their new forms.

Before anyone could say another thing the timberwolves howled and jumped at them and for a brief second they believed they had one. The four ponies were quick to draw their weapons on time but in a split second the wolves were airborne attacking them and in the next a small “Thwang” was heard and the wolves were suddenly pinned to a tree, not shattered but still stuck and helpless.

“Sloppy, undeniably sloppy,” The four looked up to find their last missing team partner. He stood on his hind legs while on of his forelegs held a bow and a bandana that held his hair back blew in the slight breeze. “Just because there is an explosion doesn’t mean the target has been killed, you should be more careful Junkrat. One of us may not always be around to save your skinny hide,” the pony hopped down from the tree his landing silent.

“Well sorry Hanzo. but we all can’t be raised to be the perfect assassin,” Junkrat rolled his eyes at the bow wielder. “But hey at least we got firewood!” he said turning to the Timberwolves pinned to the tree. Both on whimpering as the five ponies slowly closed in on them.

Author's Notes:

THE TEAMS ARE REVEALED

good guys: Tracer, Winston, Reinhardt, Bastion, and Genji
bad guys: Reaper, Widowmaker, Junkrat, Roadhog, and Hanzo

for the good guys, Tracer and Winston were a must while I liked the idea of Reinhardt being a larger than everything else pony. And BAstion just seemed like a nice fit due to all the animals. And for Genji...well i just like him cause he looks bad ass

The bad guys on the other hand...i do like them but so far there are only really five of them, so yeah... Not saying they aren't impressive and cool at points but my hands were a bit tied with that comp

man it's been awhile since i put out a second/followup chapter this quick.....but i felt really invigorated to continue after seeing the positive results from the first...thank you all so much for that

but i'll probably say it will be awhile before i post a third...got some other things to take care of at the moment. Like other fics, school...fallout 4....and the like...maybe during the thanksgiving break i'll have something for something up...so why don't y'all keep an...Overwatch...on all my fic, huh?

...i am not even one bit sorry for that

Chapter 3: Not Lost in Translation

“Genji, we were transported here by accident, these ponies mean us no harm. Now will you please put down the throwing star down and let the fraulein go?” Reinhardt told his cybernetic teammate as visor met visor. But all Genji did was tighten his grip slightly not moving his hoof which held his foldable throwing stars

“I think during the trip and subsequent trash might have scrambled some of his parts, he may not understand us at the moment, although he appears to at least recognize us,” Winston said as he did his best to hold Rainbow Dash back from charging at Genji.

“Well why don’t you talk to him then, don’t you speak like six languages? Cause I know I’m not going in there, he never falls for it and I end up with some hair missing every time,” Tracer said calmly as she began playing with her new wings.

“Well I don’t like to admit it but I haven’t taken up Japanese yet,” as he managed to snag the end of Rainbow’s tail as she tried to dash past him. He looked back to the other ponies who all stood back looking worriedly at Fluttershy and her metallic captor.

“So you mean to say that we have no way of communicating with this ‘teammate’ of yours?” Celestia asked as she moved up to Winston.

“As it stands, yes I believe that to be the case. The best case for right now unless his translator starts working again is to just wait it out and-”

“Sumimasen?”* (Excuse me?) Winston and everyone else in the room stopped when Fluttershy suddenly spoke to her captor. His visor meeting her eyes. “Watashi wa omonidearu koto o imi suru monode wa arimasen. Shikashi, wareware wa naku, anata no teki wa, wareware wa yūjindesu. Dakara, nai hidoku kokoro ga, anata wa sore ga anata to daijōbuda baai... Watashi ga ika sete kudasaideshitanaraba?”* (I don't mean to be a burden. BUt we not your enemies, we are friends. So if you don't terribly mind could you please let me go...if that's okay with you?) If Genji was surprised by the pony speaking Japanese it didn’t show as his visor remained the same green color it had for the past couple of minutes. He turned his attention his attention to Winston and the other ponies in the room, tilting his head as if to ask the question silently. When he got a large round of nods he looked back to Fluttershy before slowly he let her go and his ninja star retracted into his hoof.

“AHA! Now I got you?” Genji looked up to see a rainbow blur moving towards him fast, but not so fast that he didn’t have any options. Seeing as how the yellow pony had been so nice he decided to let it go and when the rainbow haired pony got close enough Genji simply leaned slightly to the left and Rainbow Dash zoomed past him and crashed into a bookcase, causing her to be buried in a pile of books. He turned around to look at the scene and when he saw that the pile wasn’t moving he walked away confident he wasn’t going to be attacked from behind.

“Rainbow Dash!” Came a couple of cries as a few ponies rushed past him as he walked towards Winston, Tracer, Reinhardt, Bastion ,and a small group of taller ponies.

Celestia was a bit wary as Genji approached her, although she was understanding of his actions. Suddenly thrust into a foreign world with creature you couldn’t identify, if she was in his hooves she would also be a bti defensive and ready to attack.

“Gomen'nasai,”* (I’m Sorry) Genji gave a bow before Celestia and Luna before turning to Winston and motioned towards his head.

“Yes we already guessed your translator isn’t working properly. Now sit down so I can get a proper look at it, Winston said as genji turned and sat in front of the gorilla, a small piece of Winston’s armor popping open to reveal some small tools. As Winston got to work on Genji, Reinhardt made an appeal to the princesses.

“I’m terribly sorry for my teammates actions your majesties,” He said bowing as low as he could, even though his pauldrons still sat around the height of Luna’s head. “Please in your most kind and noble ways, do not judge him to harshly. He will suffer through any punishment you deem fit,

“Nani?”* (What?)

“Don’t you question me Genji, we are in the presence of royalty,” Reinhardt seemingly roared as turned to face Genji, but in his actions he missed Luna and Celestia struggling not to laugh. “What do you think would've happened if you had seriously hurt one of these small innocent ponies-”

“I’m gonna break his bucking legs!” Reinhardt heard a roar come from across the room and he looked to see Rainbow Dash who was now free of the book pile and being held back by numerous ponies as she glared murderously at Genji.

“Um...what connotation does the word ‘bucking’ have here?” He asked

“One that will probably have you reconsider your definition of ‘innocent’,” Shining chuckled as he stepped up to the armored behemoth.

“Ah I see...Excuse me Miss Rainbow Dash, was it?” Reinhardt took Shining's words and thought on them for a moment before approaching the fuming pegasus. “I would like to apologize for the actions of my cyborg friend, I am sure that he didn’t-”

“Wait did you say Cyborg?” Twilight cut into reinhardt’s apology and before he could give a reply Twilight teleported over to Winston’s side looking over Genji with interest. Sure enough she saw Where Winston was working and saw the inner workings of Genji. But before she was able to squee genji shot a hoof to her mouth to silence, which made most of the ponies in the room jump slightly given his earlier actions.

“I appreciate that you are intrigued by my state of being, But if you could be so kind as to keep close noise to a minimum while my systems are recalibrating,” Twilight heard the synthesized voice come from the mouthless mask and blushed slightly as she took a step back.

“Oh I’m sorry but the thought of meeting all of you along with an actual cyborg is just so exciting! I’ve taken notice of the level of technology most of you seem to be wearing or in Bastion was it?-” she paused to ask the somewhat giant robot who looked down at her before nodding. “-is made of. Most of it is years beyond what we have here in Equestria, it’s like Shining’s old sci-fi novels that he used to read,”

“What do you mean ‘used to’ Twily? He still does. He reads a little bit before we go to bed every night,” Cadence said out loud to her sister-in-law causing Shining to blush as everyone laughed a bit.

“All joking aside though, it interests me to know how you managed interdimensional portals and travel with your level of technology. As a fellow scientist may I ask of your secret?” Winston asked, readjusting his glasses after he had removed them to wipe a tear from his eye. He saw a quick look of confusion on Twilight’s face before she quickly broke into a smile.

“Oh well you see I found that the mirror which acts as a sort of dimensional anchor had a magical frequency which anchored it to another dimension which i had already traveled to so I theorized that if I was able to change the frequency it could lead to other worlds!”,” Twilight told Winston as she trotted around everyone and grabbed a small notebook from the table and handed it to Winston who only slightly raised an eyebrow at how she was able to handle things without fingers.

“So what was special about the frequency that you found?” Winston asked as he slowly went over the notes noting that the level of math that Twilight was applying was advanced.

“I beg your pardon?”

“Well you said there was a ‘magic frequency’ so I have to assume there was something that made it stand out and had you investigate it?”

“Oh no no, I think there’s been a small misunderstanding. By ‘magic frequency’ I didn’t mean to imply that there was something special about it. I was referring to the natural frequency of the magic within the mirror. I found that using my own magic I could change the frequency and-”

“Excuse me Twilight but what do you mean by ‘magic’?” Winston asked not quite fully grasping what Twilight was trying to say

“Well you know magic, the energy found in most organic and some inorganic life form that we find ways to manipulate and help us with things in everyday life,” Twilight quoted a sentence from an old book she had read as a filly. And while she did her horn lit up and her magic reached out to a nearby book pile on the ground and several small tendrils picked up some books, quickly dusted them off, and placed them back on the shelf.

Beaming with pride at cleaning up what was probably the smallest mess in the whole room Twilight turned back to Winston only to find him looking dumbfounded in her direction, his eyes seemingly locked on the bookcase behind her. “Um Winston?” She said walking up to him a waving a hoof in his face, fear setting in slightly when he gave no reaction. In a slight bit of panic she turned to everyone else who was busy chatting and spied tracer across the room. “Um...Tracer can you help me for a second?” Twilight called out catching Tracer’s attention who quickly made her way over, her smile faltering when she saw Twilight’s look and then looked to Winston before her smile came back quicker than ever.

“Oh I haven’t seen this look in the longest time. Not since the time we told him about peanut butter ice cream. So you told him about something he hasn’t seen or can’t quite understand yet? Happens every once and awhile. He may be super smart but he doesn’t get out much unfortunately. So what were you talking about?” Tracer told Twilight while she stood on her hind legs to get a better look at the frozen Gorilla.

“Well he asked about how i got the portal to work and i started talking to him about magic and then he just froze up. Is magic a rare thing in your world?” Twilight asked still worried she may have broken one of her newest interdimensional visitors.

“Magic? You mean like magicians and stage magic? Or like the stuff in kids book?” Tracer asked back.

“The latter?” Twilight’s reply came out as a squeak.

“Oh well...no not really i don’t think we have something like that...at least not that i’ve seen. And I’ve seen...quite...a lot?” Tracer looked down at Twilight to find her sporting a somewhat identical look to the one Winston wore. With a quick wave in front of Twilight’s face Tracer decided that it was about time she struck up a conversation with someone else. That pegasus with the rainbow hair looked like someone she could relate to, from the way she charged at Genji Tracer could at least confirm that she knew something about going fast.

Twilight and Winston both sat motionless only about a foot or two away from each other. Each of them was trying to comprehend something that was a bit out of their depth. Thier minds trying to form logical conclusions only to find that they did not have enough facts to back things up. Each hoped that sooner or later something would happen that could distract them from their respective quandaries so that they may come back to it at a later date. And thankfully it appeared that karma, the universe, or some other entity entirely was willing to oblige because as luck would have it right before Pinkie was willing to declare this a party a loud series of crashes and noises made themselves known to the occupants of the castle. Both Twilight and Winston were literally shaken out of their stupors and the crashes and other noises became louder and a slow but steady rumbling made itself known.

“Girls!” Twilight immediately snapped into action as her and her friends quickly moved for the castle entrance. Celestia and Luna following behind them with a bit of a slower pace while Shining and Cadence were the last to leave.

“Sorry about this but it looks like there might be another monster attack. We'll just take care of this real quick and be back before you know it. You all can just stay here this won’t take long,” Cadence assured the before she and Shining Armor headed out of the room leaving the five new visitors by themselves.

Each of them looked around at each other, none of them speaking a word as the rumbling continued and the noises kept growing. Finally Reinhardt spoke up. “They might not exactly know who we are...but do they really mean to think that we’ll let them handle this all by themsel-”

Reinhardt never got to finish his sentence as the sound of a blade being drawn gathered everyone’s attention. Genji was back where he had first landed, he had found his swords and drew his katana from its sheath. He wasn’t sure how he could grip the handle without fingers but he gave a few tentative swings not noticing any difference before he had turned into another kind of creature. “Do you even need to finish that comment Reinhardt?” He said as he slid the sword back into the sheath with a soft click.

Winston and Tracer and even Bastion chuckled, It wasn’t the first time Genji had said something like that, something that just answered for everyone in the room and reminded them of what they need to do.

“You know…” Reinhardt chuckled through his helmet. “I really hate it when you do that,” he said moving over to a pile of book and pulling a giant hammer out of it.

“But you can’t downplay its effectiveness when he does it,” Winston said as he found his tesla gun, giving it a quick look over to make sure it was fine. Bastion beeped in agreement with Winston as he tapped a part of his chassis and a hatch popped open and a bird came out and perched on Bastion’s shoulder.

“Well boys, it may be a different world but it still looks like it need some heroes to fight for it. What do ya say we show em’ how Overwatch does it?” Tracer gave her chestpiece a quick tap to make sure it was fully powered before the five of them headed for the door.

Author's Notes:

HAHA I'M BACK MOTHERBUCKERS!!!!!! had some of this done awhile ago and then i just got into the rest of it in a couple hours.....god I procrastinate too much...

so anyways thank google for thew japanese translation otherwise this might have been a bit shorter. but i had wanted Fluttershy to do the whole speak japanese thing from the get go

god the game comes out in 2 months i can hardly wait!!!!!

not sure when i'll get around to the next one but if i start picking things up it probably won;t be as long of a wait....hopefully...i'm sometime prone to lying so...just fyi

but hey if you like this check out my other stuff...it should tide you over for awhile...although the first few chapters of my first fic could use some rewriting....eh maybe

PECAE OUT TILL NEXT TIME CYA!!!!

Chapter 4: I Gotta Rock...

“Well chalk this one up to the new things we get to punch WOAH!” Rainbow Dash said as she ducked a large rock that sailed through the air. It crashed behind her and her friends, leaving a trail of destruction in it’s wake. Ponies ran past them and past the other princesses as they got out of the way of the danger.

“Hmmm… rock monsters. It’s been awhile since we saw something like them,” Luna remarked as she looked at the group or cobbled together creatures. Weird formations of rocks moved together in tall formations of bodies, a few standing as tall as princess Celestia were dwarfed by other that made several of the nearby houses that they were trying to attack seem small.

“They don’t seem very coordinated do they?” Rarity ask as everyone watched them shamble around slowly while groaning, bumping into each other and occasionally taking a swing at something. From what they all could see the only thing that had been destroyed was a cart full of cabbage, it owner was a good distance away from it now but had broken down into tears over the destruction.

“So uh what’s the plan here Twi?” Applejack asked as she watched two of the smaller rock creatures bump into each other and fall apart only to reassemble themselves.

“Pfft. Plan-schman. Have you seen these guys? There as dumb as...as...a bunch of….well a bunch of them! I say we just knock them over and then clean up with ease. Watch i’ll start!” Rainbow Dash declared confidently and zoomed off before anyone could say otherwise.
She flew over to one of the taller rock monsters and aimed a buck at a small rock that looked like it was a knew or something. The kick knocked the rock out of alignment with the rest and the rock creature slowly came tumbling down creating a pile of rocks. Rainbow waited for the cheers to begin but soon noticed that none were coming and also the the groaning of the other rock monsters had stopped. Looking around she noticed that slowly all the rock monsters were beginning to face her. It was weird seeing as most of these things had a rock which denoted a head but no exact facial features which made the missing groaning all the weirder. “Uh…” Rainbow never got to think of anything to say as a noise form below disturbed her train of thought. The pile of the rock monster she just kicked was moving. Each rock seeming to climb over and on top of one another as it began to reassemble itself. The head rocked climbed back into place and like the others began to stare at Rainbow Dash before all of them let out a collective roar

“Well that can’t possibly be good,” Twilight said as she used her magic to pull Rainbow Dash back. They watched as the rock monsters now seemed to become more organized and enraged. The started smashing and hitting things on purpose. “Ok, thanks to Rainbow’s brilliant plan we now need a new plan before these things decide to actually destroy Ponyville,” Twilight said as Rainbow gave a sheepish smile. “Now it seems like just dismembering them won’t work so it looks like we’re going to have to-

“HELP!!!” a trio of high pitched cries grabbed all the attention from Twilight. Everyone immediately looked towards the town square where the Cutie Mark Crusaders were hoof deep in trouble. They scampered beneath all the rock monsters trying their hardest to not get squished.

“Girls!” Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity all cried in unison and looked to Twilight for a plan. But before Twilight could speak something else happened to interrupt them.

“UUUURRRAAAAGGGHHH!” A large shape leaped over them landing closer to the crusaders than anyone else was at the moment, the shape unmistakable to anyone who had been in Twilight’s castle just minutes earlier

“Winston?”

The Crusaders were having a fun day till the rock monsters showed up. But they only dampened their mood a little bit. Sure the couldn’t get Cutie Marks in rock monster corralling since they were way to small but the rock monsters weren’t doing anything too bad since they seemed to be just roaming around like they were tired or had just woken up from a long nap. The girls thought it was funny how they were acting and were watching with curiosity until Rainbow Dash showed up and kicked one.

“I don’t think that was a good idea,” Sweetie Bell said,

“Nonsense! Rainbow Dash always...knows what... she’s... doing?” Scootaloo started in support of her idol but lost a bit of confidence when the attitude of the rock monster's attitude started to change and everything went quiet.

“Sorry Scoots, but I’m gonna have to agree with Sweetie Belle,” Apple Bloom said just before the rock monsters let out a simultaneous roar.

“Run?”

“Run,” “Run,”

All three of them ran together trying to get out of the town square but just as they were about to get out a large arm swung down blocking their path. All three of them screamed and headed in the other direction but were quickly blocked off by one of the rock monsters. The three of them huddled together and hoped that their sister would save them quickly as a rock monster lifted an arm above them.

“UUUURRRAAAAGGGHHH!” a strange scream came from somewhere and the girls looked up when a new shadow fell over them. A weird shape came towards them as the rock monster began to bring its arm down on them. They braced for impact but were confused when they heard a weird thud from above them. THey opened their eyes to find themselves in a weird blue dome and beside them stood a giant gorilla, the only reason they knew it was a gorilla in the first place was thank to Miss Cheerilee’s excellent education.

Winston looked down at the three fillie watching as their jaws slowly dropped as they looked him over, it had been awhile since he had seen a child of any kind do that, but it was still fun to see when it happened. “Are you three ok?” he asked and trying to best as the slowly nodded in unison. “That good, now how about we get you three out of here?” he said as he scooped them up into one of his hands. “Tracer! Airmail!” Winston shouted and the Crusaders didn’t have time to react before he flung them up into the air. Truth be told it wasn’t the first time the Crusaders had seen Ponyville from this height but in this kind of situation they didn’t know whether to be scared or thrilled. From their height they saw most of the town as well as an orange blur that was seemingly sporadically teleporting towards them.

“Ah there you are,” the blur called out and in the blink of six eyes the blur jumped forward faster than anything they had seen; besides Rainbow Dash; and caught them. “HAHA first try!” Tracer said as she held the three fillies as tight as she could and circled back down to the ground. For the Crusaders the flight was pleasant enough and this mysterious pegasus was cool, but there was a limit to how much excitement a pony could take in one day. Unless of course that one pony was Pinkie Pie. As soon as Tracer touched down each crusader zipped over to their respective big sister and hugged them. “Awww, now that is just plain adorable. I wish I had a camera,” Tracer said as she looked at the little fillies holding onto their respective sister’s forelegs.

“Uh, Tracer?” Twilight said breaking Tracer’s concentration.

“Hmm? Oh yeah, right. Don’t worry about this, we got this one, think of it as repaying you for the damage in the library. Just because Overwatch doesn’t exist here doesn’t mean we don't have to help. Oh hey look a giant rock,” Tracer had said her piece while turning and came to find a decent size rock coming flying at them.

“Don’t worry I got this one,” Before Twilight could do anything Reinhardt stepped up from behind everyone. He reared up on two legs and managed to steady himself as he used his other two legs to bring back his hammer. When the rock had come close enough Reinhardt swung his hammer with a loud battle cry. The sound of the hammer connecting with the rock was akin to an explosion and caused many to blink and miss the rock sail back from the direction it came from and crashed into one of the larger rock monsters which resulted in an explosion of rocks. “HAHAHA! Now that was fun, I should do something like that when I have free time. Everyone looked up to the armor that shook with laughter watching what he had caused, their jaws agape just slightly.

“Maybe so, but for now we should focus on stopping these creatures,” Genji was the next to come out of the castle, and while his face was hidden the other ponies could hear just a bit of mirth in his voice from watching Reinhardt's antics. I can incapacitate the small ones, Tracer should make sure that none of them leaves this area. You and Winston can take down the bigger ones,” Genji said while smaller rocks came flying towards the group. Without looking Genji removed the smaller of his swords from the scabbard on his back and blocked each of them with precision and sent them flying back from where they came. “And we can have Bastion do clean up," as quick as he had pulled the blade out he sheathed it back in and calmly walked toward where Winston was currently zapping rock monsters with his Tesla gun.

“Um well yes, that sounds like an excellent plan. Bastion stay here and shoot from a distance,” Reinhardt called out to Bastion who was the last to arrive, before two plates on his back separated and he activated his small jet and charged across the square till he collided with another one of the taller rock monsters which cried out in alarm as it fell from the force of the collision.

“Boys...always like to act cool don’t they,” Tracer said nudging Twilight. She looked to her gear and then flick her wrist and grinned when she managed to catch her gun despite not having fingers. “Well good to know that still works...somehow,” She said before taking off once again.

Everyone stood there still in a bit of amazement as Bastion finally came to the front of the group. Everyone’s attention went from the spectacle in front of them to the tall robot next to them. Bastion picked Fluttershy out of the group and kneeled down next to her. “Bweep,” he made a noise and held of his hand and a bird quickly landed on it right in front of Fluttershy. Fluttershy’s mood went from mildly frightened to cheery when she saw the bird, it was a species that she never had the chance to see one up close before. She looked up at Bastion and could only describe his “look” as curious. She held her hoof up and the bird jumped to it gracefully with a flap of his wings. “Bweep boop,” Bastion beeped again and patted Fluttershy on her head. He took a few step forward and the ponies watched as his parts shifted around. “Boo boo boop beep bwoop BWEEP!” Bastion’s height reduced dramatically as he compacted and a long barrel protruded from his front, many of the ponies behind him were reminded of Pinkie’s party cannon. Bastion rolled forward before the long barrel swiveled around to face them. The bird of Fluttershy’s hoof gave a loud chirp and gestured with a nod of his head and the barrel seemed to nod in recognition and swiveled on back around just in time to blast a rock that was coming at it into much smaller rocks.

“Um Princess Twilight?” Twilight’s concentration was broken when someone called out to her. She looked and found that many ponies had gathered closer to the castle and were also watching the scene of three very different looking ponies,a gorilla, and a robot taking out a large group of rock monsters. “Who-Who are they?” a mare asked with trepidation and curiosity. Twilight looked back to Celestia who smiled back at her and nodded.

With permission Twilight stepped forward and spoke to the slowly growing crowd. “Ponies of Ponyville. You have nothing to be afraid of the situation is under control with the help of our new friends and allies the-” Twilight paused realizing she didn’t exactly know how to phrase her next words. Did she risk telling the people these were beings from another world, one more advanced than they were. What would she even call their group. She remembered them saying something about an organization, but.

“Psst, Twilight,” Twilight jumped a bit as Tracer had quickly flashed back over to her side without her knowing. She held a piece of paper in her hooves and quickly pushed it into Twilight’s. “That should help you out,” Tracer said with a wink before with a flash she was back with her team fighting rock monsters.

Twilight looked at the card Tracer had just handed her looking at the one word that covered both faces of it. She turned back to the people smiling as she tucked it under her wing. “They...are the agents of Overwatch,” Twilight proclaimed loud enough for everyone to hear before turning back to see the last of the rock monsters being taken care of.

Hanzo stared out into the forest he was stuck in. From his perch up in a tree he couldn’t see much since the forest was so dense. He sighed frustrated at his predicament. He was stuck in an unknown world, in a different body, with people he did not care to be around for long periods of time. Even though he tried his best to stay out of underworld affairs back on his world he still liked to be prepared and kept his ear to the ground. He had heard many stories about The two known as Roadhog and Junkrat, seen as sort of heroes among their kind in their home country but to general people most of their actions were nothing but wanton distraction and looting. Their actions however were nothing to the fearsome Widowmaker though, the stories were something that could be seen in the many victims that she left in her wake. It was not as if he was a stranger to taking a life but from what he could decipher she did not do it for any reasoning other than the thrill. The last one he was with though, the one known as Reaper was a mystery though. As best he could put together, he was some kind of science experiment that either went wrong or right. But whatever happened it resulted in a dangerous being.

“Another trial I must undertake,” Hanzo told himself as he sat awake on his turn to watch. Part of him wondered if this was just how fate was meant to be or if karma was just now deciding to punish him for actions he had taken earlier on in life. Even though he knew that his brother Genji was still “alive” he wrestled with his conscience on a daily basis. He reason that the only reason that he was now stuck in his current predicament was that he had tried to once again come face to face with his brother to settle their differences the only way the two brothers knew how, by fighting.

“Hanzo,” Hanzo’s train of thought was broken when Reaper suddenly called up to him. Hanzo looked down to reaper who silently nodded in the general direction of several bushes. Hanzo had noted the presence of something had taken up residence in the bushes minutes ago and silently nodded to Reaper. He had paused to think that it might be an animal but several had already wandered into the little camp and immediately scampered off once they saw the dismembered remains of the weird wood wolf they had used to make a fire. Hanzo drew an arrow and knocked it as silently as possible, Reaper slowly moved back towards the fir as a feint for anyone who was watching. With precise skill Hanzo drew back the arrow and launched it just behind the bush. Upon impact the arrows scattered and several shot back into the bush. There was a startled scream as the bush rattled before something decided to jump out. Reaper shot forward and struck the creature before pinning him to the ground. Hanzo jumped down from his perch as the other three member of the camp woke due to the shrill screams from the creature.

“What in the bloody heck is that thing!?!” Junkrat said as he got a look at the thing pinned under Reaper’s hooves. It looked like a cross between a horse and an insect. Black plates lined it’s entire body which concealed translucent wings and on it’s forehead was a horn.

“Whatever it is it’s seriously loud,” Widowmaker remarked wishing to just kill it and be done with it.

“It not panic,” Roadhog spoke up getting everyone’s attention.

“What?” Reaper asked pushing down a little harder on the creature.

“It not panic. It calling for help,” Roadhog responded as it looked down at the screaming squirming creature. Suddenly more screams like the one the creature were making could be heard from within the forest. Flashes of green fire came from all around and within seconds the five were surrounded by more of the creatures. The five drew their weapons in defense and Reaper pushed down on the pinned creature a little harder.

“Well this certainly does not bode well,” Hanzo sighed, he was not one for fighting many opponents when they all knew he was there.

“No I don’t think it does for you,” A new voice responded and caught the attention of the five as a few of the creatures surrounding them. The one that spoke resembled the creatures but she was taller, her horn was bigger and more jagged, and she seemed smarter than the rest of them. “My my, you five are definitely interesting,”

“And so are you, finally something that speaks. We’re going to need some information from you,” Junkrat said.

“Oh really, do you think that you're in a position to be demanding anything from me? Queen Chrysalis? Queen of the Changelings?” the large Changeling boasted.

“Well queenie...let’s just say that just like us. You have no idea what you're dealing with,” Junkrat smiled as he raised his grenade launcher with a gleefully mad smile on his face.

Author's Notes:

HAHA A NEW CHAPTER FOR EVERYONE CLAMORING FOR IT!

wanna know what's happened in the time sincethis chpater in the last? well i started a new fic and did a one shot and oh yeah...Overwatch actually came out!

And it is glorious!

but anyway a lot of people were always getting on my case saying (And i'm paraphrasing here slightly) "DUURRRRRR....Hanzo no badguy! What you doin?" my apologies if those weren';t you're actual words. Honestly i had always felt a little weird putting Hanzo on the badguy team. To me his lore read as a bad guy. But then that literally amazing short came out and i had to work around that so now i'm changing it up a little with him and hopefully that shows...DOES THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY PEOPLE!!!!!

but anyway no i'm on to finish another chapter i've been working on for two months..till next time...GET MORE LOOT BOXES!!!!!!

Chapter 5: A Little Birdy Told Me

“Alright, so let me see if I got things straight,” Junkrat asked the now pacified Chrysalis as he lounged on the unconscious bodies of her changelings that were stacked to resemble a chair. The fight had not gone well for chrysalis and her changelings. The cornered ponies displayed abilities Chrysalis had never seen before and in no time at all she was at their mercy. Most of her changelings lay strewn about the clearing either hurt, unconscious, or both. The only thing she was surprised was that these ponies simply did not kill her and her children. “So you’re telling us that we're these creatures called ponies. And that this place called Equestria sn a land filled to the brim with a bunch of different kind of critter. And you and your kind is another kind of critter called changelings who feed off emotions and your enemies of the ponies for something you pulled a while back that didn’t go according to plan?” Junkrat asked as he scratched behind one of his ears.

“That’s...accurate,” Chrysalis replied growling slightly, not wanting to answer another of the scrawny one’s questions but deciding to once her gaze met with one of the masked ponies. “Is that all you want to know?” She sighed doing her best to not show the pain she was in, she had to be strong for her hive.

“Actually just one more. In your time hiding skulking, sneaking, hiding, and spying, did you ever come across something like a portal to different worlds?” Junkrat said and Chrysalis felt the deliberate presence of her captor focused on her, their stares felt like they gave of actual pressure.

Luckily for her the pressure was lifted when the attention shifted as a bush rumbled in the clearing, the ponies turned their weapons toward the bush as a lone changeling launched out the top and promptly landed straight on it’s face. As the changeling shakily got to his feet it looked around in a hurry noting the scary looking ponies and the rest of its hive mates in various forms of disarray. It started to show a change of emotion but then it met gazes with chrysalis and any change immediately went away.

Junkrat watched with curiosity as the changeling quickly moved to its queen not even noticing him or the rest of his group, it walked right up to Roadhog and simply slipped around the larger pony with somewhat disturbing ease. Meanwhile he also looked at the queen whose look was somewhere between astonishment and deadpanned. The changeling reached her and reared up putting two of it’s hooves on her trying to reach to touch its horn the Chrysalis’. When Chrysalis realized what the changeling was doing she obliged, wrapping a hoof around the changeling before lowering her head touching her horn to the changeling’s. Junkrat watched closely as as green glow formed between the two horns. He watched as Chrysalis’ eyes seem to glaze over and the smaller changeling shut its eyes. Looking to the other members of his group who all had their eyes on the queen, they all watched in silence for a minute before the glow died down and the changeling backed off, it opened it’s eyes briefly before yawning. Chrysalis gently laid the changeling down gently and watched it curl up before falling asleep.

“OK I think we’re gonna need an explanation for that,” Junkrat said before he noticed something, Chrysalis was smiling. It took only a second before he noticed the she was laughing as well, it was low and somewhat hard to hear at first but it grew enough to where everyone else heard it.

“So that explains it. You all came through the portal in the purple one’s castle-” she said getting each of their attention, “-and also not alone? How intriguing?” her words struck deep as she finally looked at them looking at her. She rose trying to make herself looks as regal as possible. Reaper moved to raise his weapons but Widowmaker stopped him before Chrysalis began to speak again.” So it seems I may have totally misjudged you, you may look like ponies but you’re actually something completely different. But putting all that aside I believe it’s in both our best interests to work together,” she said chuckling, a s spark of magic went off from her horn and several changelings began to rise to their hooves.

Everyone looked to Junkrat, the de facto leader to find him smiling as well. Whether it was out of madness or actual happiness was anyone's guess. “All right then Queenie, if you wanna work with us then how about starting with the stuff that you know that we don’t?”

“Hey, Fluttershy,” Rainbow Dash said as she approached the mare who was still carrying on some kind of conversation with the bird she had seen Bastion hand to her. It had only been a short while since the new visitors had defeated all the rock monsters and PInkie was already on the verge of throwing a town wide welcoming thank you hero party, which to her description was three separate parties wrapped into one. After the final rock monster was taken care of ponies began to filter back into the town square looking at and up to the new beings who had saved their town.

“Oh hi Rainbow Dash. Is something wrong?” Fluttershy said as she turned her attention from the bird perched on her hoof.

“Not really...you’ve been talking to that bird since the big robot handed it to you right? The tank one not the one with the hammer,” Rainbow said trying to clarify.

“Oh yes I have. His name is Ganymede, and he sure is a sweetie,” Fluttershy held out the bird for Rainbow Dash to get a better look at him, and in response to the compliment his feathers fluffed up slightly. “He’s been telling me a lot about our new friends...oh and that reminds me, Mister Bastion is the only robot,”

“Huh, what do you mean?” Fluttershy’s words grabbed Rainbow’s attention away from Ganymede who she could swear was doing his best as cute as possible.

“Mister Reinhardt isn’t a robot, he’s just in a very large suit of armor. And form what Ganymede has told me Mister Genji is what’s known as a cyborg, so he is technically only half robot?” Fluttershy said looking questioningly at Ganymede for confirmation for her last statement to which he nodded affirmatively.

Rainbow started to ask a question but was quickly interrupted. “But how did he become half Cyborg?” said one young voice

“And is that why he’s all metal and shiny on the outside..and if so does that means he’s squishy on the inside?” said another just after the first.

“Also if he’s half cyborg then what’s his other half?” Came a third voice once again in quick succession. Ganymede looked down from his perch to see the three fillies he had seen before. He remembered their terrifying screaming as they were running, then flying, then falling, and then being caught by Tracer and put safely on the ground. Ganymede wasn’t totally sure but his animal instinct told him that there was definitely something different about these three small fillies and that it would probably be best to keep them at a wings length.

“Where did you three come from?” Rainbow Dash asked the three fillies who attention quickly shifted from their questions to Ganymede.

“Oh we were just playing on Bastion,” Sweetie Belle said dismissively as she reached up a softly petted Ganymede, an action which the bird show no dislike as it leaned into the soft hoof

“Uh isn’t that a little dangerous, you kids did see what he could do right?” Rainbow Dash asked again.

“Well it’s not like we’re the only ones doin it,” Applebloom said pointing over in the direction they had come from. Rainbow Dash looked to find Bastion being swarmed all over by what looked like every foal in ponyville. The large robot didn’t seemed to mind as it let out what seemed like happy “beeps” and “boops” as parts of him whirred, vibrated and spun much to the enjoyment of the foals.

“Well that’s….uh...well...ok I guess,” Rainbow Dash just stared not sure what to think about the situation.

“Yeah it's really awesome when he spins the things on his back and you hang on! It goes really fast!” Scootaloo pumped her fist in the air remembering how fast she went and how dizzy it made her afterwards. Rainbow Dash looked at the three fillies and then back to Fluttershy who just chuckled and shrugged, foals will be foals after all.

While all the foals were busy being entertained by Bastion most of the adults had gathered near the princesses, each intent on asking their question whether or not any of the princesses could hear it over everyone else asking their own questions!

“QQQQUUUIIIIIEEETT!” Reinhardt roared and slammed his hammer against the ground, the loud bang it made silencing the crowd.

“Umm...Thank you Reinhardt,” Twilight said after a few seconds of silence. “So in an orderly fashion...does anypony have a questio-”

“Where did they come from?” A unicorn in the crowd shouted and immediately Twilight noticed who asked and groaned in exasperation.

“Lyra…” Twilight sighed “If you’re asking like that i think that you’ve already figured-”

“Answer the question!” Lyra shouted once again interrupting Twilight, Reinhardt looked at the mare and then to Twilight who just waved him off as she put a hoof on the bridge of her muzzle. She really should have seen this coming.

“Earlier today with the supervision of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, I began an experiment on the mirror portal, the resulting experiment opened a somewhat volatile portal which resulted in-”

“So you’re saying that they are…” Lyra interrupted and Twilight sighed, she knew where Lyra was leading her and Twilight wished she had seen this coming quicker.

“While they are not from the same world i once went to, our new visitors are or to be more specific were before coming here once...human,” Twilight said with bated breathe and saw something unexpected happened. Instead of Lyra jumping up and down with joy she just stood silently beaming in her apparent correctness and everyone else physically drooped and collectively sighed. “Uh...what?” Twilight asked as one by one ponies began approaching Lyra, who had materialized a small sack out of somewhere, slowly ponies walked up to Lyra and each dropped a small amount of bits into the sack.

“Is this normal?” Reinhardt asked turning to the Princess each of whom had the same eyebrow raised. They shook their heads and Reinhardt went back to watching whatever was going on in front of him.

“You took BETS!” Twilight shouted as she teleported over to Lyra was was busy holding the slowly bulging sack up with her magic.

“Nope!” Lyra said with a smile. “Just one long term bet with everypony in town. “ Lyra kept smiling and Twilight just looked at her in frustration as the line slowly moved. It took all of Twilight’s mental strength to not burst into flames, she stood there huffing and puffing before she gave up and walked back over to the other princesses. She was happy to see that Winston, Genji, and Sunset Shimmer had finally found a way to tear themselves from the large partying crowd.

“Wow the ponies in this town sure are quick to celebrate,” Sunset said watching the festivities.

“More like they’re too exposed to large scale dangers,” Twilight muttered with her head held low. Sunset noticed her friend’s disposition and looked up to Winston who was also watching the Alicorn, he shrugged and from there Sunset decided it was best to bring up a new topic.

“So...about the portal…?” Sunset broached the topic about her and the new visitors way home.

“Ah yes the portal, Right we should get on that,” Twilight ‘s mind switched tracks and she perked up immediately. She moved forward and began to scan the crowd, looking for her friends, her brother, and her sister-in-law.

“Who ya looking for?”Tracer said as she came in like a blur stopping right next to Twilight, the action causing Twilight to jump in shock. But when she got finally over it she gave Tracer a look the made the self temporal warping pegasus take a slight step back. “Can I help you?” Tracer said slowly with concern.

“Tracer do you think you can get some ponies for me?” Twilight asked and watch the quick change of emotions on Tracers face.

“Ha! Can I!” She said before turning to the crowd. “Can I?” she questioned before turning to Winston. “Can I?” she asked Winston who shrugged. “Well either way I’ll give it my best shot,” She said before once again she was gone leaving behind a trail of blue here and there.

“I can’t help but notice that you didn’t tell her who you needed,” Genji said watching his teammate weaving in and out of the crowd and time.

“That I did not...I hope that-” Twilight responded and then started to say before Tracer popped back into existence next to her along with Shining Armor and Cadence.

“TADAH!” Tracer announced with a flourish as Cadence and shining Armor looked around in surprise before focusing on Twilight. “Please be careful when moving as contents may have been disturbed during the trip,” Tracer said giggling before Winston bopped her upside her head.

“Hey Twily….did you ever finish that cloning spell? Shining ask as his head slowly bobbed up and down.

“Uh...no?” she responded.

“Then why are there two of you?” Shining asked before Cadence, who had managed to snaps back to her proper senses moments before, cuffed him upside the head. Afterwards he shook his head roughly before looking at his sister again. “Ah there we go, back to one,” he beamed doing his best not to take notice of all the giggling that was being directed at him. “So what’s up?”

“We need to start work on fixing the crystal mirror, and for that we need-”

“Crystals from the Crystal Empire!” Cadence cut in, immediately getting what her sister-in-law was planning.

Meanwhile a few feet from them Winston, Genji, Tracer and Reinhardt watched not exactly getting what was going on and being said. It wasn’t until Reinhardt heard something about a trip that he perked up and stepped forward. “If you need someone to retrieve something may I offer my assistance? It would be my honor” he asked kneeling slightly. While it was true that even in his world’s modern age he considered himself the last knight, he had now entered a world where being a knight could still be a reachable dream.

“Well I don’t see why that’s a bad idea,” Celestia spoke up after watching the scene play out for awhile with her sister.

“I think I should go as well,” Sunset Shimmer also stepped forward. “Twilight needs to be here to check over the mirror and keep track of our new guests. And I’m the only other pony who knows as much about the mirror so i’m the best choice to figure out what crystal we need to be able to repair it,” Everyone around nodded in agreement with what she said and Celestia also agreed although on the inside she wished to spend some more time with Sunset, but she knew that this had to be done. Once all the plans were in order the group began to head towards the train station, some of them wondering if the train would be able to hold up with the weight of Reinhardt’s armor.

Spike ducked back into the castle, he told the Crusaders and other foals that he bring something out of the semi blown up lab. As he walked around he sighed knowing that Twilight would sooner or later ask him to help clean this up even though she could probably do it quicker with her magic. After a short walk he came across a piece of one of Twilight’s machines that had broken off when the portal had exploded. He picked it up and dusted it off thinking it was good enough proof for them. Then something caught his eye, something that was glowing. After moving some debris around he came across on of the recording crystals Twilight had set up. He smiled knowing he had found better proof and activated it wanting to know what it captured. As he did the crystals glow subsided and a beam of light shot out from the crystal and landed on the wall forming a screen.Spike watched the events he had been there to witness once again. He watched as the energy around the portal started to explode and then something weird happened. The footage slowed down showing everything going by slow as the explosion expanded. He thought it was awesome until he noticed something. Five golden orbs flew out from the portal, he figured those were Tracer, Genji, Winston, Reinhardt, and BAstion. But then he noticed five dark orbs. Spike's eyes went wide as he watched the orbs fly around colliding with the light orbs before all of them somehow were casted out of the castle in the same direction. Spike looked up to the wall where he noticed the hole from the video. As the video shut off spike held the crystal in his claws..

“Well that’s probably not good…” he said to himself as he rhythmically tapped his claws against the crystal. “TWILIGHT!” He yelled as he took off running towards the center of town with the crystal in tow.

Author's Notes:

sorry this took me awhile... the new WoW expansion came out...and it's pretty good...but i feel like i wanna play some overwatch now so....

btw I'm looking for editors if anyone is interested

NEXT UP: INTERESTING THINGS ARE AFOOT...HOOF! AND OUR PARTIES MAY FINALLY MEET!!!

Chapter 6: The Great Train Something Or Other

“You’re sure you want to do this Sunset?” Celestia couldn’t hide her emotions well as sunset crossed the small distance from the station platform to the train car. Any pony that within a few foot radius could see that Princess Celestia, the mare who raised the sun every morning and for over one thousand year single hoofedly ran the country, was pouting.

“Yes Princess, I think it will be a good thing for me to do. Plus Twilight has told me a lot about the crystal empire and this will be the first time i actually get to see it unlike the last time…” Sunset paused as she remembered the only time she had been in the crystal was before her transformation into a raging she-demon.

“....Ok then...i was just hoping that we-” Princess Celestia started but stopped when Sunset suddenly hugged her.

“I know. After this is all over it’ll be nice to have some us time.” Sunset said to her before letting go and taking a step back, Celestia took a moment to compose herself before smiling her normal princess smile once again.

“Agreed, it will be nice. Be safe.” She said

“HA, safe? With me going with her there is no way she will not be safe! There is absolutely nothing to worry about Princess!” Reinhardt suddenly interjected himself into the conversation, his massive frame nearly bowling over several ponies in his wake. Celestia watch the spectacle and couldn’t help but giggle, even with how old she knew Reinhardt was it was funny to see how he acted so child like with being chivalrous.

“I believe you Reinhardt, I hope you all have a safe trip back to the empire.” Celestia told both of them and then gave a small wave to Cadence and Shining Armor who were already waiting on the train car. Celestia watched them get on the car noticing the slight dip that happened when Reinhardt got himself into the car. Don’t worry Aunt Celestia, we’ll get to the empire, show them Flurry Heart, get them the crystals they need, and then send them on their way back.” Candace said as nearby the conductor gave the signal for all to board

“Ok then, have a safe journey all of you.” Celestia said albeit a bit reluctantly as she stepped away from the train car.

“Ok so who’s Flurry Heart?” she heard Sunset say as the door to the train car closed

“Are you going to be ok Tia?” Luna had come to stand next to her sister when she wasn’t paying attention. She watched as her sister looked through the window at Sunset Shimmer who was standing next to Cadence and Shining, clearly listening intently to something that was being told to her. As she wondered she watch the look on Sunset’s face change quickly

“YOU TWO HAD A WHAT!” a shout rang out from the train car before the shrill noise of the whistle sounded and the train began to pull away. Celestia got one last glimpse of Sunset and her eyes practically bugging out of her skull form what Cadence had just revealed to her. That small sight let Celestia let go of some of her worry as the train started to pick up steam and seconds later it was a small dot on the horizon.

“Well that’s a start to solving all of this.” Tracer in her usual manner popped in and broke the tension with her cheery tone. “Not that being here is any problem! It just that we got a few people who might be wondering where we are right about now back home. So the quicker we can solve this mess the better right? Besides we just beat those rocky things, is there anything worse than those that could come at us?” Tracer asked and no sooner than the question leave her lips, Spike rounded a corner waving a crystal in the air and shouting as loud as he could.

“TWILIGHT! TWWWWWWIIIIILIGHT!” he kept it up until he reached the train station only pausing once he was right in front of Twilight, finally pausing to rest his claws on his knees and take a few breaths. His words came out in between every breath. “We…Have...A...Problem…” he held the crystal up and Twilight took it in her magic and activated it. Her friends slowly gathered around her as the video started playing

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Several Miles out of town…

“So you know for a fact that the train is going to be coming in a few minutes?” Junkrat asked as he stood next to Roadhog and Chrysalis who were hiding in some bushes close to the railroad tracks. Once the group had listened to Chrysalis’ information Junkrat quickly came up with a plan.

“I am a conqueror whose people are master at espionage and subterfuge, getting a train schedule is easy. They have pamphlets.” Chrysalis shot Junkrat a glare. “The train left Ponyville a few minutes ago and so it will be here in mere moments. Do you have a way for us to get on the train?” Chrysalis asked noticing how both of her new “teammates” were earth ponies, albeit weirder earth ponies than she had ever come across.

“Yeah…” Roadhog said and lifted his hook slightly, his gaze never breaking from the horizon.

“You can’t be serious? Is he serious? Do you seriously think that-” A shrill whistle sounded interrupting Chrysalis, she turned to find the train moving in their direction just as she said it would. “See? I told you my information was accurate.” she said with a slight air of superiority.

“Alright so you got one thing right today, good for you, ok buddy time for your part,” Junkrat said before he nudged Roadhog who slowly moved out of their hiding spot as the train came closer. The three watched as train cars passed by, seeing brief glimpses of ponies through the windows.

“...OK.” Roadhog broke the silence as the end of the train started to come up. Before Chrysalis could object a large forearm swept over her and junkrat and brought them close to Roadhog’s side. Despite his looks Chrysalis found that he didn’t in fact smell as bad as he looked. As the last car came into view Roadhog readied his hook and with split second timing he hurled it forward. It sailed through the air until it collided with part of the last car, causing the hook to somehow wrap around it.

“Oh you have got to be kidding MEEEE!” Was all Chrysalis could saw before the slack of the hook’s chain was picked up and Roadhog help on causing all three of them to be pulled into the air behind the train.

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Inside the train…

“I think she’s finally calmed down,” Reinhardt said looking at Sunset whose demeanor had changed abruptly a couple of times over the course of the train ride. After having heard of Cadence and Shining Armor baby she was freaked out, then she became furious and it seemed like she was about to self ignite. Then the anger went away and she was sad and tears began to fall in waterfalls which freaked out Reinhardt a little bit. After that came the denial where she poked and prodded Cadence saying that she looked to good to have delivered a baby and the finally came the acceptance and now Sunset sat on one of the chairs that lined the car and watch the scenery go by with a slight smile on her face.

“I sure hope so…” Shining Armor said as he slowly put down the fire extinguisher he had been holding for the past couple of minutes.

“You both know that she can hear you right?” Cadence gave the two a look as she sat a few seats away from Sunset Casually reading a book, she had remained calm during Sunset’s little “episode”.

“How did you stay so calm during all of that?” Shining replied to his wife with a question of his own.

“Well one of us had to, plus I’ve had plenty of experience dealing with things like this.”

“When have you….oooooohhhh right.” Shining started to ask but then nodded once Cadence started to give him a stare.

“Heh you two remind me of myself and A- someone that I used to know.” Reinhardt started to say a name but stopped and changed his words.

“Oh was that a name you were about to say Reinhardt?” Cadence picked up on it quicker than Shining or Sunset.

“NO!....I mean, no I don’t know what you’re-” aloud series of knocks on the car door interrupted him. All four of the car's occupants looked at the door and saw a small group of ponies crammed just outside looking terrified. Reinhardt opened the door and the group quickly filtered inside and began to huddle near Cadence.

“Your highness, Queen Chrysalis has come on board with two weird looking ponies!” A mare all but shouted. Cadence’s eyes went wide and before Reinhardt could even begin to ask Cadence moved past him and into the next car. Reinhardt just watched as Shining followed her and then Sunset Shimmer, leaving him with the scared ponies.

“Don’t worry everyone we’ve got this!” Reinhardt said to the ponies as he hefted his hammer over one shoulder. And followed behind the three other ponies catching up to them quickly. “Sp does anybody wanna-” he caught something green out of the corner of his eye and in a flash moved himself to the front and raised his foreleg to activate his shield. The green blast hit the shield then dissipated as Reinhardt watched a figure walk towards them from the other side of the car.

“Well well well this is a bit of a fun reunion.” Chrysalis stepped forward and glared immediately at Cadence and Shining.

“Really...that’s the best you got? You couldn’t think of any other line besides-” Junkrat walked up with Roadhog behind Chrysalis with full intent on using all of his snark but stopped short when he recognized the giant armored being before him. “Reinhardt?”

“Junkrat. Roadhog” Reinhardt replied two both of them as Roadhog just exhaled

“Chrysalis” Shining and Cadence said in unison as they stared down the Changeling queen.

“Cadence...Shining” Chrysalis said with a sneer

They all stared at each other and there was a split second or two of complete silence before… “Sunset Shimmer!” Six pairs of eyes landed on the mare who called out her own name. “I...didn’t want to be left out.” She said sheepishly

Author's Notes:

took me a lot longer than I liked to finish this. Sorry for the wait. not sorry for the sort of cliffhanger

Chapter 7: Especially Not Something This Adorable!

Author's Notes:

finally got around to this, been on an almost two-week long streak of doing 100 words a day for various writing projects. this happened to be one of them and one day I just accidentally banged out 100 words of this and just kept going till it was done...sorry for the wait

have fun, hopefully, the ending sets up what is going to happen next well enough

It was a bright day in the Crystal Empire. The sun shone brightly down on the inhabitant who sparkled in the sunshine as the walked, pranced, and trotted around without a care in the world. Near the entrance to the city was the train station where ponies waited for the train and others tried to do business, as the next train was minutes away from arriving, ponies who were getting ready to greet others that they knew were coming began to arrive on the platform. Among them were a mare, a stallion, and a little filly.

“I’m always so amazed by the weather you guys have up here, it’s always so pleasant.” Starlight glimmer walked with a little bounce in her step. Which was delightful for the little Filly bouncing up and down with every step.

“WEEEEE!” Flurry squealed and clapped her hooves together in excitement. Every number of bounces she would land slightly askew on Starlight’s back only for a hoof to push her back to her normal place.

“Yeah, but it always makes ponies want to do things outside,” Sunburst said while he walked with a somewhat unusual gait as he kept making sure Flurry was always in the correct spot.

“And there’s a problem with that how?” Starlight stopped to ask as she tried and failed to contain a snicker.

“Well...it’s easier to read a book inside,” Sunburst said and then lamented his choice in words as Starlight immediately broke into laughter with Flurry Heart joining her, not that she knew what she was laughing about though she just liked laughing. As they laughed Starburst looked away in embarrassment noticed the train pulling into the station. “Ah look the train has arrived.” he announced as the three resumed their little walk.

Both Starlight and Sunburst began to notice something was wrong as the approached when ponies began to stream from the train screaming and running. Before either could say anything one of the train cars exploded in a multitude of colors. Hues of pink, green, blue, and orange erupted from the car and shot into the sky. Starlight seeing this immediately set up a shield around Herself, Flurry Heart and Sunburst. Flurry Heart, oblivious to the danger in front of her kept on cheering at the sight as she found the mixture of colors pretty. Another explosion rocked a train car and this time Starlight and Sunburst noticed as a figure was launched through the roof and proceed to fall and crash several hoof lengths away. A pony who’s bright yellow hair was partially aflame landed on his hooves and cheered as he leveled some kind of object back at the train.

“Ah it’s a perfect day for some mayhem!” he said and Starlight watched as the object began to spit out little balls which arced for the train. Before they could reach their target, however, light blue magic bolts flew out of the shattered remains of the windows, intercepting the balls and piercing them and causing them to explode.

“Then do it somewhere else!” Sunset Shimmer jumped through one of the windows and began blasting magic bolts in Junkrat’s direction. True to his nature Junkrat scrambled out of the way of oncoming fire and tried to find some place to hide. While that was happening Starlight and Sunburst kept watching as large dents kept appearing in the walls of the exploded train car. Sure enough after so many crashes gave way and a large pony wearing a mask came flying out and crashed through a nearby stall full of vegetables.

“MY CABBAGES!” the stall owner cried for his destroyed produce as the pony that crashed into the stall slowly got himself upright. Leveling his gaze back towards the train.

“Piggy!” FLurry heart called out causing Starlight to look at the large pony whose mask did indeed make him look like a pig, that and his rotundness and various pig themed tattoos. Much to her dismay though the pony heard Flurry’s call and looked over at them. But before anything could happen a call came from inside the practically destroyed train car.

“WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU’RE LOOKING!?!” Reinhardt roared as he charged out of the train car. The small engine in his back propelling him towards Roadhog.

“Ah, not gonna get that so easily this time,” Junkrat said while still hunkering down from Sunset firing at him. He saw what Reinhardt was doing and pulled out one of his mines. With an expert toss, he managed to get it in the path of Reinhardt. And then when he passed over it Junkrat activated the mine which lifted Reinhardt into the air over Roadhog. But while Reinhardt flew through the air he regained control and with a sharp swing of his hammer unleashed a streak of energy that hit Roadhog and forced him back enough to collide with Junkrat.

“Thanks for the setup!” Sunset called out before Roadhog and Junkrat could get their bearing straight, a wall of light blue magic slammed into the both of them which also sent them flying in the general direction of Reinhardt who had crashed through the wall of a house. After the two crashed through a house on the opposite end of the street.

“What exactly is-” Sunburst who had been watching the whole spectacle till now tried to ask a question but another eruption stopped him. As everyone still under Starlight’s shield looked back at the train car, something from the inside tore the roof off and three shapes ascended into the sky.

“Mommy!” Flurry cheered and sure enough when Starlight and Sunburst looked. Princess Cadence was one of the shapes that had come out of the car and across from her was.

“Chrysalis!” Starlight said in shock, not having seen the changeling queen since their last encounter. Chrysalis and Cadence exchanged charged magic blasts while dog fighting in mid air. And when the changeling queen thought she had the upper hoof and tried to blast the pink princess a shield stopped her blast as Shining Armor floated next to his wife, surrounded by his own magic. The three never noticed the three below them as they fought and weaved their way into the city towards the castle. As the dust finally settled around them as the fight moved farther into the city Starlight finally spoke again. “Huh, I thought I was the only one who could do the whole floaty flying magic thing?”

“Is that really your first question in this whole situation?” Starburst practically shouted but restrained himself since he didn’t want to upset Flurry. “Come on we gotta go help them!” he said and immediately took off towards the castle.

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When they got there the noticed multiple holes and broken piles of crystals were strewn about the place with sounds of explosions, and lasers being fired off coming from inside the castle. As Starlight, Sunburst, And Flurry slowly made their way inside. Starlight couldn’t help but chuckle.

“And what’s so funny about this?” Sunburst asked, his voice slightly panic filled.

“I was just thinking about how this reminds me of when the Crystalling happened,: Starlight replied as she motioned back to Flurry who appeared to still be in an ecstatic mood. Sunburst thought about it for a second before he also joined in with the chuckling before the three of them reached the scene of the battle.

“I WILL DESTROY YOU!” Chrysalis roared as she tried to his Cadence and failed as Shining kept his shield up. THe rest battled around them in the throne room, utterly wrecking everything that they hit that wasn’t their target.

“Well looks like we will have to redo the decoration budget...again.” Sunburst sighed before one of Junkrats grenades bounded upward and exploded while striking the ceiling causing a chunk to fall down. While this didn’t have an effect on anyone fighting or Starlight and Sunburst it did have an effect on Flurry. When the dust settled from the falling ceiling her eyes somehow locked onto the one thing that was sitting on top of the pile. A small stuffed snail plush, her Whammy. Once again not deterred or frightened by the spectacle around her Flurry jumped from Starlight's back and slowly made her way towards her toy. It was only when she was a quarter of the way to the pile that Starlight and Sunburst noticed but couldn't do anything lest they get caught in the insane crossfire going on around them. Flurry meanwhile slowly made her way unimpeded to and then up the pile towards her precious Whammy, she stumbled only once while climbing but it was nowhere near close enough to deter her. When she finally reached the top she held her Whammy with both hooves and gave it a victory hug before Roadhog unceremoniously crash landed next to her with a heavy thud.

After taking a vicious hit from Reinhardt’s hammer, Roadhog blacked out for a second while he was launched backward. The thing that brought him back to consciousness was the constant tapping of something in the front of his gas mask. Opening his eyes he found a very small pony sitting right in front of him with a snail plush under one hoof and the other booping the front of his mask while repeatedly while giggling every time her hoof made contact. Meanwhile, Junkrat who was ready to find some way out of here pulled the wheel of his back and grabbed a chain on it

“Alright, everybody. Get Ready for-

“WWWWWAAAAAAAIIIITTTTT!” Roadhog suddenly roared. THe volume of his scream bringing everything to an immediate halt. Everyone froze in place and looked at the lumbering behemoth who finally voiced himself.

“Huh, so he can speak?” Chrysalis quipped raising an eyebrow.

“Yeah but only when it’s important. What’s up big guy” Junkrat answered and then despite the enemies around them started to strike up a conversation. Roadhog then slowly lifted his hoof upon which was propped up Flurry Heart holding her plush snail.

“FLURRY” Cadence and Shining both shouted in unison, her parent’s voices causing Flurry to look their way and wave to her mom and dad while they looked on in sheer horror.

“Oh is this little one your?” Junkrat asked in a completely nonchalant and pleasant way. Warily Shining and Cadence nodded as Junkrat seemed to fawn over their child. “Oh well, then can you find somewhere to put her away from all this mess so we can get back to beating the snot out of each other?” He asked and with those few simple words, all the air seemed to be sucked out of the room.

“What?” Reinhardt deadpanned voice carried through his helmet, Sunset just stared slack-jawed, and Cadence and Shining just look liked the words were still being parsed in their minds.

“I agree with the tin can. WHAT!?!” Chrysalis screamed at Junkrat as she stomped over to where he and Roadhog were holding Flurry like some kind of trophy. “Why would you give away what has now become our biggest bargaining chip. Now that we have their detestable spawn we can make any demands we please, we can rule this pathetic sparkly colorful empire. And if they refuse then mmph.” Chrysalis had been walking towards Flurry during her rant and didn’t even notice when Roadhog stuck his hoof out and she walked muzzle first into it.

“Then nothing Chrissy-kins? That wasn’t the plan. All we’re here to do is get some of that blasted crystal we need to fix the portal and that’s it,” Junkrat reminded her.

“Forget your plan, you stupid moron! We have the upper hoof now. They have to give into our demands not that their child is in our grasp. And they’ll do exactly as I say or else WAAGH!” Chrysalis never got to finish as faster than she could do anything against Junkrat fire and hit her with an explosive and then while she was down he quickly moved his tire and dropped it on her.

“Chrissy Chrissy Chrissy. Why do you always seem to not notice that you never have the upper hand...or hoof in this case. This was my plan, and when following my plan you play by my rules. Rule number one, no hurting civilians unless they attack you, they’re mostly just idiots anyway.

“Says the guy who was shooting explosives in a train...and at a civilian!” Sunset said while pointing to herself, interrupting Junkrat who gave her a flat look back.

“Occupational hazard you learn to deal with, also we-” he paused to point at himself and Roadhog. “Didn’t shoot first. Chrysalis shot first, then you returned fire, and then I tried to blow you up.” Junkrat told Sunset who paused for a moment to think while Junkrat turned his attention back to Chrysalis. “Oh and rule number two, no hurting kids ever. Especially not when they’re this cute. Junkrat said while giving Flurry a small boop on her snoot which caused her to start wheezing.

“Everybody hit the deck!” SUnburst called from across the room and he and Starlight immediately hit the floor while Shining and Cadence dragged down Sunset and Reinhardt before FLurry sneezed and fired a gigantic laser at the same time, blasting a Roadhog and Reinhardt sized hole in the wall.

“Heh and she’s powerful to boot! I like this kid! Here, kid, you wanna do the honors? Junkrat put the ripcord in Flurry’s hands and then looked down at CHrysalis who now had a look of horror on her face as she looked upon the foal.

“Now Flurry, you wouldn’t want to do that. Now let’s put down the cord and_” Chrysalis tried to stop her while imitating Cadence’s voice, but Flurry’s interest was more on the cord and she completely ignored it and yanked hard on the cord which activated the rip tire. Chrysalis screamed as the tire began to spin, bringing her along with it as it rolled towards the hole in the wall. When it reached the hole it jumped into the air before exploding along with chrysalis who was thrown far away due to the force of the blasts.

“CURSE YOU!!!” Her scream fade as she flew farther and farther till she was a dot in the distance.

Meanwhile, everyone watched in silence at the scene except for Flurry who giggled and babbled while jumping as she sat upon Roadhog’s as he slowly made his way over to Cadence and held her out to them. Cad nice then snatched her up and peppered her with hugs and kisses not just for being safe but also for what she did to Chrysalis.

“So… how about we discuss our surrender?” Junkrat broke the relative silence and before anyone else could speak Reinhardt barred down on him giving him a menacing glare behind his helmet.

“And what makes you think we want to do that instead of beating the snot out of you and taking you prisoner?” He asked but noticed that Junkrat still had his trademark smirk which made him slightly nervous.

“Two reasons really. One, we did a good thing saving the royal kid and getting rid of their hated nemesis in one fell swoop. And two, you know that if it's just me and Hog here than there are the other three that might be seeking your friends out now.” Junkrat told Reinhardt and imagined the look on the old soldier’s face as he put two and two together.

“Oh…..fudge.”

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Meanwhile in Ponyville…

A cyborg ninja sat on one of the castle’s many balconies meditating.

Chapter 8: Anime Friends/Brother Screaming At Each Other In Angst...

Genji sat in contemplative silence upon a balcony. Not in his usual meditative stance since that seemed to be a tad difficult to get into with his new body and how the legs bent. His eyes closed, he listened to the multitude of different sounds that were around him. Birds chirping, ponies going about their daily lives, kids laughing and screaming as they ran and played. Farther into the castle Genji could make out the tell-tale signs of research being done. Winston along with Princess Twilight was busy conversing about science and connections between their two worlds. Raising a hoof to the sky he looked at the metal that was covering the parts that made up some of his cyborg interior. He thought about how his current technological state was so different from the world that was around him. Everything seemed so old compared to him but yet he found that they were creatures around that could imitate his physical feats and even do some things that he couldn’t like actual flight.

“It is sort of like master used to say. “The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same...hello Spike,” Genji said out loud and slowly craned his neck so he could see the little dragon who had now frozen mid-step while holding a tray. He had picked up the sounds of something approaching him as he meditated.

“Wha-? Bu? How?” Spike spluttered and Genji just chuckled.

“You claws make easily noticed tactile sounds when you walk on crystal,” Genji told him and spike took an experimental step and noted as the tips of his claws made little clacking sounds as they touched the crystal.

“Huh well will you look at that,” Spike said sounding impressed with himself for some reason. “Anyway, everyone is having lunch... besides Bastion and I thought you would like some food,” he said as he walked up the Genji and set the tray down next to him. “How do you eat anyway?” Spike absentmindedly asked not bothering to think if Genji could even eat.

“Well while I don’t need to eat fully like most normal pe-ponies…” Genji said and watched Spike’s reaction before tapping against his faceplate. “This is a mask,” Genji told him and being as precise as he could with his hoof, activated the locking mechanism of his mask and slowly began to take it off. Spike, who had made a silent “o” shape with his mouth watched the mask slowly come off with all the surprise and wonder of a child watching a magic trick up close. Genji looked down at Spike, the dragon’s yellow looking into his red, but that wasn’t the first thing Spike noticed.

“Ouch, that looked like it hurt,” Spike said not thinking about his words but once again froze when he noticed Genji looking down at him with one eyebrow raised. “Oh sorry, I didn’t mean,”

“It’s ok Spike, I’ve made peace with what happened all those years ago, and forgiven those who did it. Now it is for them to forgive themselves.” Genji said before picking up and taking a bite of the sandwich.

“Wow, that is deep,” Spike said as he thought about what Genji just said as he stared into the distance. Genji chuckled beside him between bites and swallowing so as not to choke. After he finished he put his mask back on. He gave a few quick stretches before looking into the distance where Spike was.

“Spike I’m going to need you to do something for me.” He said as he grabbed his swords and attached them to their holster slots on his suit before looking back into the distance.

“Uh yeah sure, what is it? Want another sandwich?” Spike asked a split second before Genji seemed to teleport in front of him in a green blur, blade drawn as something bounced off if it and embedded itself into the crystal wall of the castle. Spike slowly turned to look and found an arrow sticking out of the wall of the castle that he took pride in keeping spick, and until now, blemish free. But before he could turn to say anything he another arrow joined the first in the wall. As Spike whipped his head back around to face Genji turn into a blur before he felt lifted and then the next thing he knew Spike was on Genji’s back.

“Hold on,” Genji told him before he galloped towards the balcony railing and lept. Spike screamed as they were in the open air for a split second before somehow they zipped forward and Spike found them in them in a tree and along a wall of a nearby house then on the roof of a house. Just like when Twilight teleported with him on her back, Spike became disoriented. The only constant was the occasional pinging noise as Genji kept deflecting the arrows that came towards them.

“Oh boy, getting dizzy,” Spike said as the constant whooshing made it hard to get a clear read on where they were and what direction they were facing.

“Just bear with it for a little while longer. We are almost close enough to him.” Genji said and quickly swiped and sliced and arrow in half.

“Close enough to who?” Spike asked as he quickly bounced of Genji only to fall back onto his back.

“My brother...Hanzo,” Genji told him. And leaped high into the air.

“YOUR BROTHER! Spike wailed as he held on for dear life as they fell down towards the ground. He watched as they plummeted and just before they hit the ground everything went fuzzy and he then found himself behind a cart. “Wha? Who? Huh?” he babbled as Genji set him down and walked out from behind the cart. Slowly and shakily Spike peeked out from behind the cart. They somehow managed to end up in the middle of Ponyville square. He spotted a bunch of other ponies who were also hiding behind carts looking at Genji and another pony who stood on the opposite end of the square. He had a bit of facial hair and his mane was pulled back into a bun. His clothes only covered the upper half of his body and only one foreleg. On the uncovered foreleg was a long tattoo that covered most of it and at the end, Spike could see him holding a bow, but it was a much different looking bow than he had ever seen. It looked like something out of one of his Power Ponies comics, so futuristic looking.

“Stay behind the cart Spike,” Genji told Spike as he got back to his hooves and walked out from behind the cart and began walking towards Hanzo. Ponies watched from their cover as the weird metallic pony approached the weird archer pony.

“Hello...brother” Genji said as a part of his left arm moved and his shuriken popped up.

“Not going to give me a chance to stand down? Brother?” Hanzo asked sarcastically as he grabbed another arrow from his quiver and slowly brought it towards the bow.

“Not this time. Maybe I’ll decide to see if you want to change your mind after you come too once I knock you out.

“Heh, you can try. So why did you bring the little blue and green lizard with you?” Hanzo asked chuckling as he took a quick look over his brother’s shoulder, the words loud enough for Spike to hear.

“Hey who are you calling a lizard? I’m a dragon you...you!” Spike jumped up on the cart he was hiding behind shouted but couldn’t find a decent end to his insult. Hanzo took notice of his words and raised an eyebrow at the so-called “dragon”.

“This world is a strange surprise brother,” Geji said, regaining his brother concentration just long enough before he attacked throwing a set of three shurikens in his direction. Hanzo dodged the first two and used his bow to deflect the last before he nocked the arrow he was holding and fired. Just like the last time Genji used his short blade to deflect the arrow before he lunged forward.

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Spike watched in amazement as the two brothers fought only a couple meters away. Arrows met shuriken, blade met bow as the two exchanged bows in a flurry that most who were watching had to pick their jaws up off the floor, some literally who were still hiding behind carts and low to the ground. Blue and green flashed in all directions from the two fighters collided, each dodging each others projectiles by centimeters until it looked like both had run out. The brothers landed a few feet from each other, hanzo visibly panting while genji similarly breathed but the mask hid if he was tired. Both of them look at each pof as the huffed, ponies watching them could feel the determination to beat the other coming off of them as they slowly got back to their hooves. Hanzo retrieved one last arrow from his quiver while Genji moved a hoof back to the larger of the two swords attached. Spike watched as green and blue energy collected around Genji and Hanzo.

“Ryū ga waga teki wo kurau!!!”/ “Ryūjin no ken wo kurae!” each brother shouted a line in a language spike didn’t know but he felt a surge of energy shoot through him when Hanzo loosed his arrow and Genji drew his katana and charged and the energy around them manifested into dragons. As the attack collided two blue dragons met one green dragon and everything went white.

“Mawp...mawp...mawp,” the noises Spike made help him start hearing again as the spots left his vision and everything came back into focus. There was another crater in Ponyville market again and near the edges were the two brothers who were both unconscious, most likely knocked about by the force of the explosion where they were at the epicenter. As spike made his way down the cart and over towards Genji a flash appeared next to him.

“Spike what hap- Oh my gosh! Twilight said as she began running and quickly levitated the dragon onto her back. And galloped over to the crater. As she got closer Genji stirred and managed to flip himself over onto his back.

“You need to….get back to… the castle.” Genji said wincing as he tried to sit up.

“You’re right, I can go get the first aid-”

“No!” Genji cut her off with a wave. “We’ll be fine,” Genji said trying to wave Twilight off try to get her to leave quickly. “You need to get back to Tracer, Winston, and Bastion. My brother wasn’t alone, he had allies, who are planning to hurt mine as we speak.” Genji managed to tell Twilight before promptly passing out, leaving the Twilight and Spike to give a panicked look back towards the castle

Author's Notes:

TETSUO!!!!!

KANEDA!!!!

...for those who didn't get the chapter title...and for those who didn't get that...well i can't help you

Chapter 9: Almost reminds me of a trailer I once saw...just add changelings

“Please let everything be fine please let everything be fine please let everything be fine” Twilight kept repeating as she galloped, flew and teleported her was back to her castle with Spike holding onto her mane for dear life. When the large crystalline structure finally came into view and it was still in one piece Twilight started to breathe a sigh of relief.

And then an explosion from inside blew out one of the walls.

That sigh turned into a jaw-dropping gasp as Twilight froze in place. The scene playing out in slow motion until a shout was heard coming from the castle.

“LUNA!!! THAT WAS WAY TOO MUCH!” the sound of Princess Celestia’s voice, even when shouting, helped ease some of the worry from Twilight.

“WHAT!?!” and the addition of hearing Princess Luna’s voice helped as well and shortened the amount of time Twilight stood staring at the hole in her castle.

“OH GREAT THE TINNITUS IS BACK!” Twilight managed to hear Celestia shouting as she started galloping again.

“WHAT WAS THAT! I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE TINNITUS AND CHANGELINGS!” Luna shouted once again before the edge of a magic blast could be seen through the hole in the wall and several changelings then flew out from said hole. Twilight deftly moved around them as she slowed down and finally got a look at the scene inside her castle.

Both Princesses were fighting off a group of changelings, looking only slightly haggard and just slightly singed and exploded. Celestia looked calm with just a little bit of anger like a proper battlefield commander should while Luna was smiling like a maniac as she savagely fought any changeling that came close to her.

“Aw, that is so cool! I wish I had a camera!” Spike exclaimed from her back and Twilight wanted to crane her neck so she could give him a disapproving look but she didn’t want to take her focus off the battle that was going on inside her castle.

“Ah, Twilight you’re back. Sorry about the wall, somebody didn’t think about the consequences to her actions,” Celestia said as she swatted away changelings with her magic. Throwing a quick glare at her sister who was batting away changelings with her bare hooves.

“It’s fine, as a princess she will have to learn about castle reconstruction sooner or later. This just helps to set it UP!” Luna finished with a grunt as she bucked a changeling so hard he flew across the room taking several of his or her brethren with him when he collided with them.

“Don’t try to justify you haughty needless destruction with promises of future teachings to Twilight! She needs to get to Tracer, Winston, and Bastion. These changelings didn’t come alone there were some other ponies with them and they didn’t look friendly.” Celestia chastised her sister and warned Twilight who snapped to attention and quickly galloped past the situation. As she galloped she her sounds coming from deeper inside the castle. What sounded like various different blasts got louder and louder as she got closer to where the mirror was.

“Oh look Twilight’s here to fight. Heehee hey that rhymed!” Twilight breathed a sigh of relief as she got to outside the room and found her friends fighting off changelings. Rarity was busy blasting changelings into the air for Rainbow Dash to zoom around and punch them back down into the ground where Applejack would round them up. She was now glad that she had randomly stocked up on a lot of rope when she had passed a sale at the market because Applejack was sure putting it to good use.

“Sorry we’re late everyone I just had to check-”

“Genji and his brother had this cool fight with flips, ninja stars, arrows, swords and cool energy dragons that made a huge explosion!” Spike shouted interrupting Twilight who managed to give him a quick look as she ducked and started blasting changelings.

“Anyway, where’s Fluttershy? Twilight asked and Applejack managed to stop hog tying changelings long enough to point over towards the doors to Twilight’s lab where Fluttershy where all manner of loud bangs were coming from. As quickly as she could Twilight managed to move over to her friend and joined her as she looked inside.

Inside she managed to see Winston, Tracer, and Bastion fighting it out with two other ponies whom she didn’t recognize. The one who wore the white mask though reminded her of Sombra though as he seemed to be made out of shadow as he did his best to dodge all of Winston's and Bastion’s attacks. The other one she could barely keep track of as she zipped around the room with some kind of contraption as she attacked Tracer who blipped in and out and all around.

“Oh I hope they’re a bit more careful, they are somethings in there that are-” the universe decided that today was not Twilight’s day to finishing sentences as a sudden flash followed by a loud BOOM went off and Twilight only managed to get a look as something came careening at and then through the doorway before crashing on the far wall.

“Oh no!” Fluttershy and headed over as Twilight finally noticed that it was Bastion who been rocketed out of the room.

But before Twilight could join her she heard two noises and then found that Tracer was now in the space Fluttershy had just occupied next to her.

“Phew that was….phew,” Tracer said as she took a couple deep breaths before noticing that Twilight was looking. “Don’t worry about it luv, the cavalry's here,” she said giving a slight flex, doing her best to assuage Twilight of her fears.

“Tracer, who are these guys!” Twilight shouted a bit causing the energetic mare to jump slightly.

“Well...they’re… old enemies of ours. They were the guys we were fighting before we all got teleported here. My guess is they’re after the mirror to try and get back and get rid of us.”

But the mirror isn’t even working at the moment!” Twilight shouted again, getting a little annoyed and frazzled and annoyed with the whole situation. First, it was an explosion, then the rock monsters, then genji and his brother, and now this.

“My guess is that they know about that and have some kind of plan. But the good thing is we have them mostly outnumbered...not counting all the buggy ponies,” Tracer trying her best to sound cheery in this small battlefield.

“That...is...just….is it safe to go in there?” Twilight started to form a sentence before she gave up and asked a question to distract herself.

“Um...let me check,” Tracer said picking up a piece of debris in her hoof, slowly she moved around twilight and towards the edge. Slowly she stuck her hoof back into the doorway putting the rock debris into the open. A second later a small thundercrack sounded and the debris basically exploded into smaller chunks. “Well. it will be once I give her a distraction,” Tracer said with a slight sigh and she was gone in a flash before Twilight could notice or even ask her what she was going to use for a distraction.

Twilight went back to watching as Tracer zoomed around her foe who was shooting at her. Doing her best to stay out of the way of incoming fire while also firing back. Seeing a bit of a clear path Twilight snuck into the room, keeping low as Winston and Tracer battle their opponents and blasts whirls of energy, shadow, and lightning clashed overhead. She managed to make it under the table next to the mirror and was thinking it would be ok to teleport it out of the room before something large crashed into the table. When Twilight looked she found that Winston had been knocked down and was in a daze as the masked figure slowly walked towards him, casting his weapons aside and somehow summoning new ones.

“Stupid monkey” she heard him growl as he got closer to Winston whose body and the table shielded Twilight from his view. But underneath the table, something finally broke in Twilight. Whether it was the insult hurled at Winston, the destruction of her castle or how everything had gone from somewhat peaceful to completely insane, Twilight had had enough.

Reaper had just leveled his guns on Winston, intent to finish him off when something purple moved from underneath the table and then he felt something slam into him and send him flying back. He crashed into some shelves and fell to the ground, he looked up while groaning to find a purple pony standing between Winston and Himself. This must have been the “Twilight Sparkle that Chrysalis had talked about. He cursed to himself that things had gotten this far, obviously, things had gone wrong since Junkrat and Roadhog were late and Hanzo had gone to have a stupid fight with his cyborg brother.

“You...you are going to stop fighting and destroying my castle right now,” Twilight said as she stood her ground as Reaper slowly got to his feet. “You are going to stop and surrender and get all these changelings to stop as well!” she said still trying to remain slightly calm, Reaper noticed that her eyes began to lose their color and instead shine a bright white, he knew he had to do something to get her out of the way.

“I have a better idea…” he said as he started to pull what little shadow power he had back to him. “How about you DIE DIE DIE!” he let his rage go and fired everything he had at Twilight as his world went red. Producing gun after gun, trying his best to get rid of the princess. Only when he was spent did he notice that something was wrong. As the smoke cleared he noticed that everything around him was tinged magenta. A magenta dome surrounded him, having blocked his attack and making sure that nothing else was destroyed in the process.

“I told you that you were going to stop,” Twilight said in a matter of fact tone as her magic shifted and she used it to bind Reaper where he stood as Winston got back to his feet.

“Phew...thanks for the assist Twilight. But what about-” Winston thank her and was about to as when Widowmaker unceremoniously thudded on the ground next to Reaper, her lip bust open and her face bruised as well.

“That...was for the last two times you...purple…” Tracer said as she landed and came skidding to a halt next to Twilight and Winston, finishing her sentence with a simple hoof wave in the air before she crashed onto her haunches, her goggles slightly cracked and a few cuts marked her face.

“You think you’ve won but the changelings-” Reaper began to say while struggling against his bond.

“Have been fully pacified” Celestia interrupted as she, Luna, BAstion and the rest of Twilight's friends entered the room. Genji followed a minute after them, dragging Hanzo with him, having tied him up with his own bowstring. Reaper just stared from behind his mask at all the ponies for a while before someone else broke the silence.

“Oh, and your other ‘allies’ have switched sides!” Everyone turned to find Junkrat, Roadhog, Reinhardt, Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer, Sunburst, Shining Armor, And Cadence all walk in looking like they had fought their own battle with Flurry sitting on top of Roadhogs head playing with parts of his mask while babbling and giggling.

Cadence, Shining!” Twilight rushed over to her brother and sister-in-law and hugged them while still maintaining the spell. “What happened to you guys?” she asked.

“Oh you know me, Roadhog and Chrissy showed up and had a nice fight with lots of big explosions, shouting about getting revenge and dramatic pausing. And then we decided to switch sides when this baby just walked into the middle of everything!” Junkrat butted into the little family hug while giving a very abridged version of what happened in the crystal empire which managed to make Twilight do a quick double take at Flurry who was still messing with Roadhog’s mask while the giant earth pony remained passive and stoic like a statue.

“And while Chrissy wanted to use the little tyke as a hostage I was all heroic like going ‘naw you can’t do that to kids! Plus she’s adorably destructive!” he said reaching up to be able to ruffle Flurry's hair with his mechanical arm. She laughed slightly a the sensation before sneezing and firing a laser which went and struck Reaper and Widowmaker by blind chance. “See this kid is amazing! I wish I had one...but anyway after she basically did the same thing except bigger to Chrissy, sending her absolutely flying, by the way, we switched sides cause any side that has this kid is the side I wanna be on!” Junkrat finished his weird story/monologue/rant to find everyone was staring at him with a mix of emotions.

“Rrrrrright…” Twilight said looking from Junkrat over to Cadence’s group who all gave her a shrug that stated that Junkrat was basically telling the truth but were too tired to interrupt and set things straight.

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After a slight clean up everyone was once again gathered around the mirror. As Twilight diligently repaired it with the crystal the sunset had managed to grab before booking it back to ponyville.

“OK...and that should do it,” She said as the crystals fused together and the all the cracks in the mirror disappeared a magical flash showing that the mirror was now back to working as it should. And now if I can just-” She said as checked the machines connected to the mirror.

Meanwhile over to the side Flurry Heart sat on the floor playing with the little balls that were junkrat’s Grenades.

“I don’t think that’s at all safe,” Sunset shimmer remarked as she watched Flurry hesitantly as she rolled and prodded the balls around.

“Eh it’s fine I already took out all of the explosive components. They’re completely harmless,” he said as Flurry took a strong swing at one of them in particular and it sailed to the fall wall where it then promptly exploded creating another small hole in the wall. All attention minus Twilight’s then focused on Junkrat who gave an embarrassed smile. “That’s the last one I swear,” he said as he started to sweat a bit under all the pressure.

“Ah! I got it!” Junkrat sighed audibly when Twilight exclaimed that she had figured out and the portal began to shine brighter until it’s round surface resembles an oscillating blue portal. Everyone looked and through the portal, they could see a futuristic-looking room with all different kind of machines and lights that seemed to be drawing Twilight in like a bug to a bright light.

“Woah there young princess!’ Twilight found her forward momentum stopped and felt herself being dragged back as Reinhardt called out and dragged her back by one of her forelegs. “I know it might seem inviting but this is a trip meant for us for now,” he said and Twilight blushed slightly when she realized that she had just been blindly walking towards the portal.

“But hopefully one day you’ll be able to visit. It'll Be nice to share things about our different worlds,” Winston told her giving her a pat on the shoulder as he moved the bound Reaper and Widowmaker closer to the portal.

“I’d like that Winston, I’m sorry your time here has been so short and...less peaceful than it should have been,” She said and Winston chuckled.

“Unfortunately things happen, it’s something a lot of us have come to live with while being in Overwatch. But I’m sure there will be a time where we can get together peacefully. Plus I’m sure we all left a good impression,” he told her and motioned behind her where she saw that each of her friends and family members was saying goodbye to someone who was about to leave. Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow Dash all watched as Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo mercilessly hugged Tracer who giggled while they begged her not to go. Fluttershy was saying goodbye to Bastion while giving him tips about how to take care of Ganymede. Twilight wasn’t sure if Bastion even understood here but she did notice that he beeped and nodded at her every once and awhile. Sunset Shimmer, along with the princesses were trying to stop Reinhardt from bowing since he looked tired and were worried that he might not be able to get up. But he refused, citing his knightly code of honor which Princess Celestia humored him for saying that he served well and he should be proud of himself and for those that trained him, which seem to hit him emotionally as when he heard that his head shot up and he shed a few tears from his good eye. Pinkie Pie was helping Cadence and Shining Armor as she tried to pry the little princess away from Roadhog the former of which had a death grip on the former mask. It seemed like an impossible task until the silent larger pony stopped Pinkie before reaching into one of his many pouches and pulling out an exact spare of his mask. He held to up above his head and got Flurry’s attention and got her to switch to that mask before he lowered her down and handed her to Pinkie, giving her a quick pat on the head before stepping away.

“Wait are you telling me you have spares of that mask?” Junkrat asked incredulously and Roadhog just fixed with his emotionless steadfast masked stare for a bit before Junkrat just shrugged and backed off.

Spike was saying his goodbye to Genji, or at least that's what She though until she could see that he had a notepad in his claws and was furiously scribbling down notes while Genji was telling him something while doing some hoof motions. She’d have to take a look at exactly what Spike was trying to learn from Genji.

I think I can agree with that. BE sure to thank the rest of Overwatch for us when we get back. It’s nice to know that there are still groups of p-....beings out there looking out for and trying to help everyone,” She said not noticing the slight frown that formed quickly on Winston’s face before he switched back to a smile.

“I’ll be sure to tell them. I know they’ll enjoy hearing that,” he told her and was caught a little unaware when she reached up and wrapped her forelegs around as much of his neck as she could. He returned the hug wrapping his much larger arms around her for awhile. Before both of them were aware of the sudden silence followed by a loud clicking noise. When both of them looked the found Pinkie standing behind a camera which was pointed directly at them.

“Pinkie where did you get that camera?” She asked as Winston and her separated.

“Form one of your castles many many room Twilight! Why’d you ask?” Pinkie said and Twilight just rolled her eye and simply chalked it up to Pinkie being Pinkie.

“She is a very odd one,” Winston remarked.

“Yes she is, and that is one scientific study I will never finish,” Twilight told him

“You did a study on your friend?” Winston asked.

“I started but it was way to hazardous for my health. How about we take a photo before you all leave. So you can prove this for when you get back...and for a good memory?” Twilight said after remembering part of a very painful day.

“I think that would be a great idea,” Winston said before the two of them got everyone together for a picture.

Author's Notes:

and...almost done. little thing i want to finish on, should be soon...ish

Epilogue: Play of the Game

“That sounds like an absolute load of hogwash!” Torbjorn said before taking a swig of his drink.

“It may, but it is true my friend,” Reinhardt said with a little laugh before looking to Brigitte, who shrugged as she looked up from looking over Bastion who was too busy focusing on Ganymede to care about anything else.

“You expect us all to believe that the four of you along with Widowmaker, Reaper, Junkrat, And Roadhog all got transported to another universe filled with magical talking ponies who have their own society and you fought with them to stop not only the other four but also rock monsters and changebugs…” Lucio said from his position across the room.

“It’s ChangeLINGS Lu, the only looked like bugs...well part pony part bug anyway,” Tracer said as she walked past Lucio and sat down in her own chair.

“Well, for one thing, your medical reports make it a bit more believable,” Angela says as she hovers over Genji who knows better than to protest getting looked at.

“A vacation it was not,” Genji muttered and laughed to himself a little remembering the vivid and colorful yet brief adventure.

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After returning through the portal to their world, Reaper and Widowmaker had managed to have an escape plan set up and waiting for them somehow. They got away while Junkrat and Roadhog stayed put, saying that they were too tired and that they just wanted to rest for a bit before they had to break their way out of another jail cell. A little later they managed to get picked up by the rest of their ex-overwatch buddies who managed to get there before any proper authorities.

Everyone was now resting and recuperating as best they could while trying to explain what happened and how unbelievable it all was.

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“What I don’t get though, was why the only ones who weren’t transformed were Winston and Bastion?” Hannah asked from her position in a lounge chair opposite Lucio. “I mean I get Bastion since he’s an omnic but that doesn’t explain Genji fully since he’s part machine as well.” She thought before taking a sip from some neon yellow-green drink.

“It is a difficult phenomenon to wrap one’s head around I agree, But for now I think I’ll find something else to think about for a little while,” Winston said and everyone chuckled before everyone fell into a bit of silence. It would have been a silence that lasted a lot longer if a blue portal didn’t suddenly tear through reality right in the middle of the room. Everyone jumped to attention and managed to have a weapon ready in seconds but were left to wait as the portal just shimmered in the air.

“Uh...so is it supposed to...you know... do anything?” Lucio asked taking just a slight step back.

“Well, when it happened to us it wasn’t like this. It was a bit more….explode-y.” Tracer told him. Whether she knew it or not though her words seemed to have an effect as when she stopped speaking the portal shimmered. Everyone went back on the defensive again as it seemed to coalesce and get brighter before the shapes came out in a flash.

Tracer was the first one to be able to see after that as she saw the shapes move and managed to see three set of eyes lock onto her.

“Tracer?” Three young voices spoke and for half a second she tensed up before a thought in the back of her mind went, wait a minute I know those voices! “TRACER!” the voices shouted but this time it was accompanied by movement. And although she was generally considered the fastest of the crew, her speed failed her this time as whatever it was crashed into her, although she had to admit it was a very soft whatever.

Everyone else’s vision fully came back just in time to make out what happened, that Tracer had just been bowled over by three small girls. Everyone who wasn’t tracer and the three girls looked at each other in surprise and didn’t know what to do as Tracer was being mercilessly hugged.

“BEEP” Bastion was the first to do anything, as one of his eyes lit up and then became a projector. Everyone who wasn’t currently pinning down Tracer looked over to the wall where the only “proof” of the group's adventure was being displayed. Winston, Bastion as well as several ponies who looked like Tracer, Genji, Junkrat, and Roadhog stood grouped up with a bunch of other colorful ponies, all of them looking just a little tired, haggard and battle-worn.

“I’m failing to see the connection here,” Pharah said looking at the picture and then back to Tracer and the girls who managed to hold on as she managed to start uprighting herself.

“Bwoop,” Bastion pointed at the photo before he started to move closer to the photo, having put it on one of the rooms holo-screens. Everyone watched as when he got to the screen he pointed to three small individuals. And then over to the three girls, people’s gazes followed as he went back and forth a few times between the photo and the girls to make his point.

“Apple Bloom? Sweetie Belle? Scootaloo?” Tracer asked as the girls finally let go of her, she stared down at the girl who just looked up at her, beaming. She watched as the finally looked at one another and each took in a deep breath. Tracer couldn’t exactly tell why but when she saw them taking a breath her hands shot straight to her ears before it happened.

“CUTIEMARK CRUSADERS OVERWATCH DIMENSION TRAVELERS!!!”*

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*As it turns out in the overwatch dimension, glass makers thought that they had come up with a product that would stand up to most things. They did not plan for interdimensional travelers who scream reached a higher sonic pitch than anything else know in their dimension

Author's Notes:

why the hell did I wait so long to do this? eh, not totally sure always working on something else blah blah blah. hope you like a small wrapped up ending...sort of.

Don't think I'm gonna follow this up though. if anybody thinks they might want to and has something feel free to send me a DM.

Now to work on other things!!!!!!