Twilights P.O.V.

Tirek was shaking with rage as he stared down the gigantic metal golem towering in front of us. “Give me that magic!” he shouted. With him being so big, it was deafening.

In response, Excalibur waved the weapon like one would wave a hoof, taunting Tirek. “Come and take it!” Tirek continued to shake before he screamed out furiously, charging with reckless abandon. The mighty weapon spun to life as it roared like a dragon! All of us covered our ears it was so loud as the flame it spewed was as bright as the sun itself. The first-round from the weapon impacted against Tirek’s shoulder, causing him to stumble, but he continued onward. Creating a shield, Tirek used it to deflect the bullets, causing them to bounce and ricochet randomly. But, each one that actually impacted caused the shield to crack and become brittle. Raising his fist, Tirek was ready to fight once he was close enough.

The golem stopped firing as it ducked under the fist to dodge the attack, metal and flesh slapping together as the two titans collided. Using the weapons lengthy form, Excalibur used it as support, lifting Tirek up and over his back. Tirek's impact against the ground was like an earthquake. Swiftly turning, the golem lifted one of its legs and stomped Tirek right in the face!

Using its weight, Tirek was pinned to the ground under the metal titan. Grabbing onto its foot, Tirek did his best to push Excalibur off, but it was to much weight. Lifting the foot, Excalibur pulled it free of Tirek’s grasp before stepping on the centaur a second time, earning a cheer from myself and my friends. The two continued to struggle for control, Tirek tried to break free while Excalibur held him down. Tirek groaned and grunted, as he struggled, he prepared a magic attack in the center of his broken and remaining horn. Once his head was angled correctly during the struggle, he fired the beam. Excalibur leaned back, avoiding the attack as beam after beam shot towards the sky. Tirek fired blindly until one of them finally connected, throwing the golem high into the air and the weapon from his grasp.

The ground shook violently as he landed with a roll. Digging his metallic hands into the ground, Excalibur gouging the ground. Tirek pushed himself to stand before taking off in a full sprint. Excalibur released his grip and charged forward, grabbing his weapon and placing it in the small of his back. Yet again, each step they took was like an earthquake. Once they were close enough, Excalibur extended and arm and shot forward faster, and without moving his legs. Tirek was caught off guard as he was stiff armed.

All of us winced as Tirek was clotheslined, his body went out from under himself as he landed head first, his body folding in half. Sliding to a halt, Excalibur waited as Tirek stood up again. “Not so tough now, are you?”

Tirek stood, boiling red with rage. “RAHHHHHHH!” he screamed in ferocious fury. Stepping forward, Excalibur’s golem flexed its arms as white plumbs of smoke vented from its back. Tirek lead the charge as he stormed forward, Excalibur following no to far behind. The impact was explosive as the pair were a flurry of fists. But the fight appeared to be rather one sided. For every one strike Tirek landed, Excalibur landed three. When Tirek attempted a headbutt he missed as Excalibur leaned back and retaliated with one of his own, which sang out loudly as metal and bone connected. Tirek went cross eyed as he stumbled backwards, holding his head with both hands. Attempting to throw another attack with his right hand, Excalibur caught it in his palm and put Tirek in a standing arm lock. He held it for several seconds as Tirek attempted to pull his arm free.

CRACK!

All of us winced when we heard bone cracking as Tirek’s arm was dislocated from his shoulder. It was very disgusting, if I am going to be honest. Rarity even gagged while Spike grabbed his mouth and stepped out of sight.

“Ohhh… That’s going to hurt…” Rainbow stated as she rubbed one of her shoulders.

Tirek screamed out in agony as he was released, holding his now limp shoulder. Stumbling forward, Tirek fell onto his front knees as he stared at his useless limb. Stomping forward, Excalibur grabbed Tirek’s right arm with his left hand and lifted it, causing Tirek to scream out again. Clenching a metallic fist, Excalibur pulled it back, causing Tirek’s eyes to widen in horror. “Wait!” he pleaded, holding up an equally pleading hand.

CRACK!

All of us winced again as Tirek’s shoulder was relocated back into place. He continued to writhe in agony as he held his shoulder. As Excalibur continued to watch the sobbing centaur, for the first time since everything started, all was calm. There was no screaming, gunfire, of fighting.

I even heard a bird chirping.

What followed next was so fast I barely caught it. Tirek lifted his head and charged a spell and fired it. Excalibur had zero time to react. Pieces of searing hot metal shaving were torn free as he was thrown high into the air. He sailed through the air for several seconds before crashing down with a grunt.

“NO!” I shouted as the rest of my friends gasped.

Excalibur didn’t have time to react yet again as Tirek reared back on both legs before attempting to crush Excalibur and his Golem. It was only stopped when Excalibur grabbed onto both of Tirek’s front legs and held them with everything he had! “Oh, how the tables have turned,” Tirek taunted as he pulled his legs back and attempted to try the attack a second time. Excalibur grunted as he pushed back with his metallic arms. The two continued to struggle for dominance before the lights on the golem started to glow bright red.

What followed next was a pulse of very powerful magic, one that created its own gust of wind.

It came from the golem. What was that thing?

“*BZZT* STAY AWAY FROM MY FRIEND! *BZZT*”

“What the!?” everypony shouted.

“Ordis!?” Excalibur’s sister shouted.

From within the trees another metallic titan stormed by, its metallic feet tearing up the ground with each step. As it got farther away, it was much different than the one Excalibur was piloting. It was smaller than Excalibur’s. It was slightly taller, with less mass on its legs and arms. It was painted a dark red comparative to the jet black of Excalibur’s.

“Huh?” Tirek questioned rather dumbly with a turn of his head.

His answer was a punch to the lower jaw.

The hit was so powerful that Tirek was pushed off from on top of Excalibur and causing Tirek to stumble. But the attack never ended. The second golem continued a series of punches to the face before it finished by punching Tirek in the stomach, knocking the wind from him and causing him to wrap both arms around the affected area. Stepping back, a metallic arm on the left shoulder popped up, firing a blue beam of energy right in Tirek’s eyes, causing the centaur to yelp and grab his face. On the right shoulder, another arm appeared, firing a volley of missiles, striking Tirek in the chest. Dropping to the ground and using one hand, the golem used it as a pivot point, using its legs to sweep Tirek’s front legs out from underneath him. As Tirek came crashing down like a tree, the golem rolled forward along Tirek’s side. Lifting both arms exaggeratedly high into the sky, it grabbed Tirek’s back legs.

Leaning back, it used its weight to pull Tirek as it started to spin. Once it started to build momentum, centripetal force began to build as Tirek was lifted off the ground before he was thrown like a hammer in a hammer toss at Appleloosa. The golem stumbled upon release before it came to a stop and watch as Tirek came crashing down quite a ways away.

It held up both hands like a hoofball referee would when somepony scores. “My dream has come true! I have joined the operator in glorious battle!”

Excalibur P.O.V.

As I sat in the cockpit of the titan, I groaned. On the internal screen, a giant metal hand came into view. Staring up at the owner, I took it with mine. “Thank you, Ordis,” I thanked as he pulled me to my feet. Offering me my gun, I took it with both hands.

“You're welcome, Excalibur.”

As I stared at Ordis’ chassis, I wondered if he had the titan’s systems worked out. Operating the Monarch, his versatility made him very universal in this role. Guess we'll see how well it works. “Take him out!”

With a nod, Ordis pulled his weapon from his back and charged forward. Firing a volley of rockets, he followed behind with gunfire from the 20 mil. Tirek charged forward from where ever he landed with a shield, each rocket exploded against its surface with each round bounced off harmlessly. With another scream Tirek came to a sliding halt, scoring the land as he charged another attack. Firing the beam towards both Ordis and I, Ordis dashed to the right to dodge the attack. But me, I held firm and activated the weapons gun shield. The intended beam struck true, but the shield held strong. Behind me, everyone else could only watch in awe. When the attack ended, and my vision cleared, Ordis and Tirek were mid-grapple. Lifting the gigantic weapon, I pressed a button on the firing handle, causing the weapons internals to spin as I swapped from close range to long range. Placing the crosshairs on Tirek, I charged the shot. The shot was like an explosion as it left the glowing barrels. When the shot connected, it exploded on impact, throwing the centaur from his footing. Ordis watched Tirek as he fell away before slowly turning to look at me. I could see the confusion.

“What?” I said dumbly. “Keep shooting!”

The battle was a constant back and forth, but at least we were on an equal playing field. Metal and flesh collided while gunfire rained true. Ordis and I did our best to watch our fire and keep Tirek out of the nearby town. It was going well.

Emphasis on the word going.

The ground shook violently as I tumbled and rolled like a ball through the center of Ponyville. As I continued to tumble I was able to orient myself appropriately with little struggling. Digging the titan’s feet into the ground I came to a sliding halt just in front of The Golden Oaks Library. Waving my arms in order to keep my balance, I leaned dangerously close to Twilight’s home. Turning around, I caught glimpse as Ordis sailed through the air and over a building. Not too far away I saw the top of Town Hall collapse in a plume of dust. Just as I focused on Tirek, my eyes went wide as he fired another beam of magic.

I had no other option.

I dove to the right, grasping onto the handle of the Predator Cannon as I rolled. Behind me… well…

Behind me the library exploded in a bright ball of explosive arcanic light. When I came to a halt, I could see the demolished remains of the library. In the distance, I could see Storm of all things, running towards the group of ponies and humans with what appeared to be an owl in her mouth. I could see Twilight and Spike holding each other closely as Storm ran up and gently placed the owl on the ground.

I dropped my head. “Sorry Twilight.”

With a new sense of determination, I holstered the cannon and charged forward. Tirek fired another blast, forcing me to lean to the side, scraping across the sides of multiple homes. Once I was close enough, I socked Tirek right in the jaw before I grabbed onto his horn. Dodging under his counter swing, I used that opening to get behind Tirek as best I could. Swapping hands, I grabbed his horn with my left hand and threw him into a headlock, holding on as tight as I could. Lifting his arm, Tirek elbowed me in the side, but I retaliated with punch to his head again as we struggled for dominance.

There was a blast of light from Tirek’s horns. Then another one as he attempted to shoot something. “I WILL DESTROY THIS PATHETIC LITTLE TOWN!” he screamed in vicious fury.

“Like hell you will!” I retaliated with another punch to the head and tug of his horn. He fired again into the air and the next one impacted in the center of the street. I was starting to reach a point of serious struggle! “Ordis!”

As if it were predetermined, Ordis came sliding out from a nearby street. With a look of determination, he charged forward as fast as he could. Pulling back his left arm he prepared a punch. I knew how we could play this in our favor.

And make it hurt a lot.

Releasing Tirek from the headlock, I too pulled my right fist back and in tandem, both of us hit Tirek right in the center of his ugly mug. As his face caved in on itself I pulled my hand back and wrapped it around his throat. Lifting him into the air by the bottom of his jaw. Ordis, upon seeing my actions, responded in kind by wrapping his hand over mine. The two of us funneled as much power as we could into our systems and lifted Tirek off his hooves and backwards, slamming the back of his head hard into the ground.

As we held him down, we looked to each other for guidance, but we knew what to do. With a nod each, mine hidden inside the cockpit and Ordis’ little head that he himself was housed inside. Tirek gagged as we tightened our hands around his through before we lifted his head off the ground and slammed it back into the ground. Digging out feet in we took off like professional runners as we dragged Tirek through the center of town. We may have ruined the street with the gigantic ditch we dug with the back of Tirek's skull, but that's an easy fix. Crashing through the center of town and probably scaring the shit out of anyone still here, the pair of us came out of the cities limit and heaved Tirek like the rotting corpse he is. Behind us, Serenity, Drax, Ember, and the girls came running up behind us. They could only watch with a hint of worry.

“What do we do?” Serenity questioned frantically as she watched the three of us collided.

“What can we even do?” Ember added with less worry. She has always been one to be blunt and less worried about things.

“Ve must ‘elp,” Drax added his two cents. “Perhaps ‘e ‘ave weapons in Liset?”

As all three of them conversed, trying to come up with a battle plan, Twilight rubbed her eyes. The girls, Spike and Discord could only watch as their last hope of freedom did their best to hold their own. Discord seemed to be taking the whole thing pretty hard as he stared down at the necklace in his claw.

“Twilight…” Discord started softly, causing Twilight’s ear to twitch. Her and only her turned her head to look up at him. “I… am so… so sorry for everything I have done. This… this wouldn’t have happened if I had just done what I was told.” Discord sniffled as tears started to roll down his face and onto the medallion. “...This is all my fault.” Wrapping his claw around the golden medallion, he lifted it over his head and placing it over Twilight’s head and around her neck. “I don’t deserve your forgiveness. But please… consider it?” Discord finally wilted as everything he had caused and endured came to light. “Tirek promised me more than friendship. But… there is nothing worth more… I see that now…”

Twilight could only stare down at the medallion as it seemed to glow brightly with a rainbow sheen for a mere second. “Twilight? Yah think that might be the last one we need?” Applejack questioned.

By now, all eyes were on the princess. “Maybe. We need to get to the chest!”

Just as they were about to find the object they needed, there was yet another pulse of magical wind that exploded across the land, causing everyone to wince as dust was thrown into the air. The ground shook violently yet again, but this time, it came from behind. Trees toppled in their wake as the Calvary came crashing through.

Three more titans came bursting through the trees of the Everfree before they came to a sliding halt not too far away. A Stryder, Ogre, and Atlas class titans. The grey and white Stryder with an older style military star and circle painted on the side with a lightning bolt paint pattern stood on the far left. In the center, stood a bright orange and jet-black behemoth Ogre of a titan with several green dragons painted on the front. Lastly, was the Atlas painted in a white and grey multi-camo with a skimpily clad, blue haired woman sitting next to a bomb. The Ogre sat in a squatting position while the Stryder sat squatted while leaning on one knuckle and the Atlas on all fours.

“Pilot, we work better together!” all three titans spoke, their voices and accents mixed as all three held an open metal palm forward. It was clear ones voice was deep, one female and the third foreign.

All three of them started in awe before I shouted at them. “What are you waiting for!? Get in!” In the background, Ordis and Tirek with in the middle of a fist fight.

“I call the one with the sword!” Serenity immediately shouted, shooting off towards the skinnier titan. Once she was close enough, the titan reached out and grabbed onto her torso and opened the cockpit and gingerly placed her inside.

“Orange!” Ember called, and she ran towards the larger, heavier set titan. The mech did the same thing to her, grabbing her and placing her inside the cockpit. Drax didn’t say anything and just sighed, being left to the final titan. Jogging up, he waited for the final titan to grab onto him and open its cockpit and place her in the seat.

As all three on them observed the inside of the pitch-black cockpits and couldn’t resist touching a few knobs. There was a flickering as the inside of the cockpit lit up, showing a camera view of the outside of the titan.

“Protocol One: Uplink with pilot. This may take several seconds. Please remain still,” all three titans spoke in unison. “Protocol Two: Uphold the Mission. The mission is to defeat Tirek and protect the citizens of Ponyville. Protocol Three: protect the Pilot.” All three Tenno sat still as they felt a strange humming sensation at the back of their heads.

“Pilot,” Ember’s deep voiced titan spoke. “Watch this.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG-rWOGAIUE

“All operational knowledge is located here, Pilot,” Serenity’s accented titan spoke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3psRTlxz5AY

“My operational systems are here. Please watch,” Drax’s female voiced titan spoke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwe1ZnYPgrY

In each cockpit a video appeared in the viewing screen and started to play. After a minute or two, the video screen closed, and the titans indicated that the uplink was complete. Ember, taking the initiative, stood up and pulled her bright orange weapon from her back.

“Scorch systems online. Thermite launcher ready,” Scorch addressed.

“Hell yah!” Ember cheered as she thundered forward. Time to bring the pain.

Next, Drax rose followed by Serenity, each pulling their weapons from their backs, the formers white and latter’s black.

“Tone systems ready. Paint the target with the forty-millimeter,” Tone informed Drax. With a roar Drax charged forward himself.

That left Serenity and her titan. “Ronin systems active, shotgun ready. My sword is yours pilot,” Ronin addressed. Serenity took a step forward before she stopped, leaning back to look at Twilight and the girls.

“Twilight.” All mares and one dragon lifted their heads to look up at the towering titan. “If you think that thing is what you need,” she said, pointing a metallic finger towards the trinket around the princess’ neck. “You do what you can! We’ll hold off Tirek!” And with that, Twilight and her friends took off with a nod while Serenity drew her sword, dragging it across the ground, causing the blade to spark with blue energy.

Tirek crashed against the ground with a bounce. With a groan, Tirek pushed himself up and spit the dirt out of his mouth. There was a hollow *thunk* and a hiss as a gigantic round canister landed next to him, spewing a dark green gas everywhere. Tirek’s eyes started to water as he coughed violently, the unknown gas causing his throat to burn. Through his tears, Tirek could see a large black object moving towards him. He could only watch as a large orange fireball flew in his general direction.

Before it ignited the toxic fumes and causing the barrel to explode!

Tirek screamed out in agony, immediately shooting to his feet, parts of his body burning from the aggressive thermite. Waving his arms in front of his face, Tirek had no time to react as Ember charged though the flames like a bat outta hell, grabbing onto his horn, Ember jumped and punched Tirek in the jaw before shoving her left hand forward, a wall of flame causing Tirek to scream again as his flesh melted and singed.

As the centaur stumbled, Drax came dashing up. The 40 mil. roared loudly as the action clanged loudly, causing all three burst rounds to explode square against Tirek's chest. Inside the cockpit, Tirek was surrounded by a broken red circle as Drax watched on. Tirek had no room to recover as a series of homing rockets fired from the shoulder mounted pod, exploding against Tirek’s chest. Stumbling yet again, his eyes went wide as Serenity came barreling forward. Wind milling her sword, a wave of blue electricity shot forward before she warped out of reality for a second before appearing behind Tirek and dashing off to the side. When the wave of energy contacted with the centaur, his muscles locked up, making him unable to move.

Metal and flesh collided again as I punched Tirek yet again. Stumbling, the centaur spun from the strike, opposite of me, Ember did the same and added a flash of her Flame Shield too. All of us surrounded the centaur like a mob and savagely beathim. Punches and kicks were delivered swiftly. It was time to give back the beating we ourselves had received.

It was satisfying.

With one last thunderous bitch slap from me, Tirek spun and attempted to run through a gap between Ember and Drax. “Where are you going?” the former questioned as she grabbed the bruised and bloody centaur by his horn. Pulling him back, Tirek pleaded for his life. Like I intended to let him go just yet. Once he was far enough back, Ember grabbed onto his left arm and held on while Ordis stepped forward and grabbed him by the right. Grabbing onto his horn, I lifted his limp head.

His face was bruised and one eye swollen shut while blood trickled from his nose and dripped down his chin. “You thought we were done, didn't you?” I asked, but he didn't respond. Just panting. “Well to bad!” Shoving his head backwards, he let it fall limp. “Deal with him,” I said to Serenity and Drax. Serenity stepped forward but was pushed aside by Drax.

The dragon roared as he stepped forward, using Tirek's horn as a handle, the titan pummeled the centaur square in the face. He threw punches wildly, causing the red centaurs head to bounce with each smack. He continued that for some time before Serenity grabbed his shoulder and pulled him away. She too, screamed out as she pulled her sword out and slashed at the centaur’s chest. His hide was tough, but she cut though with enough force. With another Arc Wave, she was satisfied.

My turn.

Stepping forward, I cracked my neck inside the cockpit. Pulling.my arm back, I focused as much power into the hit as I could. Punching Tirek in the gut and made it the focus of my attack. A series of strikes there, knocking the wind from him and adding the occasional uppercut, causing his teeth to chatter with every impact. It was sometime until I felt bored enough. Grabbing onto his horn one last time, I punched him square in the face one last time before lifting my leg and kicking Tirek square in the chest. Both Ember and Ordis released him simultaneously, letting Tirek tumble backwards from the impact.

On weak knees, Tirek attempted to push himself back into standing. With a scowl I stepped forward, but halted when my titan, Legion, spoke up. Followed closely by everyone else's.

“Smart Core ready.”

“Flame Core ready.”

“Salvo Core ready.”

“Sword Core online.”

“Burst Core ready.”

Well…

Seems like the heavy weapons are finally ready.

Pulling my chain gun from my back, I detached the partially used magazine, letting it drop towards my feet, banging loudly upon impact. Pulling a new one out I inserted it into the bottom of the gun and guided the belt into the gun.

“Open fire!”

The sounds of metal grinding filled the air as Serenity pulled her sword free, holding its sparking blade with both hands. With power flooding her systems, she shot off like a bullet. Ember charged forward, lifting both hands over her head and slamming them against the ground, a wave of superheated flames expanding in a triangle shape from the point of impact, violently scorching the earth. Serenity disappeared into the void, dodging the flames. Tirek screamed out in agony as his hooves were ignited before Serenity appeared, kicking him square in the chest, rapidly slashing at his torso before finishing with an Arc Wave and dashing out of the way.

Drax roared like a lion as he held his arms at his sides, both shoulder pods launching a salvo of missiles high into the air. Guiding them through the skies, Drax brought them down on top of Tirek. Ordis dropped his current magazine and loaded a new one, his 20-millimeter roared, spewing a continuous stream of arc rounds. As for me, a red dot appeared on Tirek’s head.

I just held the trigger, mag dumping the 140-round drum.

Even as he disappeared in a plume of dust, the dot remained. When Ember, Drax, and Serenity’s cores ended, all three of them settle on firing blindly into fog, Drax being the only occasional firing of rockets. Ordis and I continued to fire until our mags ran dry. Each of us loaded our respective drums and waited. The dust was settling at a slow pace and was still too thick to see through. Ordis glanced over towards me while I turned towards Ember. Both silently understood their task and advanced forward, weapons ready. Each step was like a roll of thunder and the only sounds made on the battlefield. Once they were close enough, they waited and watched for any movement.

A blood-stained hand grabbed Ordis by the ankle.

He caught only a mere glimpse before he was pulled off his feet, landing against his back. With one foot still suspended Ordis fired into the dust cloud before he was lifted into the air and towards Ember. The two titans collided as metal grinded and buckled against metal. Ember lost her balance and stumbled sideways while Ordis continued to sail up into the air, crashing back first against the ground. As he was pulled from his crater, he was about to suffer the same slam attack before he ejected from his housing with a *pop*.

The cephalon sailed through the air before a tiny parachute strapped to some string opened, causing the little cube to gently flutter gently towards the ground. “Hmmm… that didn't go as I expected.” As he watched the battle rage on, a gust of wind caught the ‘chute, blowing him away. “Do not forget about Ordis!” he shouted as the gust carried him away.

“I gotcha little buddy!” somepony shouted as a pair of sparkled blue hooves caught the little cube.

“I praise the Void!” Ordis said, relieved. “I… Miss Dash, you've changed!”

The limp titan crashed against the ground and from the dusty, Tirek stepped out, blood dripping from his mouth. Grabbing both legs of the titan, Tirek roared as he pulled with all his strength. Metal grinded, hoses separated, spraying fluid everywhere as he tore the titan in half, tossing them aside as nothing more than mere junk.

Ember groaned as she fell backwards, landing on her back. Holding a hand to her titan’s head, she rolled to try and sit up. “Pilot eject now!” Scorch screamed in alarm. My sister's eyes shot open as she stared at the centaur looming over her. In a panic, she reached between her legs and pull the handle there as hard as she could. In a flash, she shot out the top of the titan and high into the air. She could only watch as the cockpit was crushed under the front hooves of the enemy.

I watched as Ember sailed to safety. Before I could do or say anything, Serenity was gone. “No wait!” I shouted, reaching out towards her, but it was too late, and she was too fast. Dashing towards him she fired the three-barreled shotgun as fast as she could. Each pellet either impacted against the adrenaline high centaur or missed right out, and when her gun went dry, she drew her blade. Wind milling it over her head, she brought the blade down, aiming for Tirek’s head. A metallic clang and a flash of sparks as the blade impacted against the centaur’s wrist guards. Pushing back with all his strength, Tirek pushed the blade back over her head and wrapped one of his own around her shoulder, punching the central abdomen of the titan.

Grabbing onto the arm that held the sword, he pulled as hard as he could. Metal shredded, teared, and buckled while tubes broke free, spraying fluid and wires arched and sparked off exposed metal. Pulling the arm free, Serenity could only stare at where her arm once was while Tirek pulled the sword from the hand of the severed limb.

“Eject pilot!” Ronin warned.

Serenity could only focus on the tip of the gigantic blade pointed right at her. Grabbing the ejection handle, she shot out the hatch in the roof, watching as Tirek shoved the blade through the chest of the titan, letting it topple over in a heap, the blade buried deep in its chasis. “Dammit!” she shouted angrily as she sailed through the air.

Drax roared as he charged forward, ignoring my shouts of concern. His 40 mil. rounds exploded on or near Tirek. Each fired their own ordinance at each other. Drax activated his Particle Wall, causing the magical attack to impact against the wall. When the light faded, Drax barely had time to react, pulling the eject lever and being the final one to get shot out of his titan. Not a second later Tirek slammed head first into Tone, Tirek’s remaining horn exploding out the back. Lifting his head, Tirek wrapped both hands around the smoking husk and tore it off, metal sheets of armor shredding like paper.

Fuck…

Back to where it all started I guess.

Aiming the Predator Cannon, I fired. The gun roared as Tirek charged forward, murder in his eyes. Dashing to the side, which was a bad idea that did absolutely nothing, he continued through the onslaught.

Shit, I’m too slow!

Once Tirek was close enough, he spun on his heels, rearing up on his front hooves, he kicked me with all his strength. I heard metal bend and buckle dangerously as the screen flickered and cut out for a second. I landed with enough force to cause an earthquake, staring up at the bright blue sky through the central screen while the other screens flicked red.

“Come on Legion!”

“S-S-S-SSSS-ystems… o-o-off--l-l-l-l-ine,” Legion spoke, his speech very clearly broken. Text appeared in the center of the screen while operating numbers appeared in an endless list on both edges of the screen.

>INITIALIZING EMERGENCY RESTART...

>REROUTING AUXILIARY POWER...

I pressed buttons and slapped at controls, but it was all in vain. “Come on Legion!” I shouted again, secretly hoping shouting would work. Legion sputtered more jumbled garble as he tried to respond. I shouted again as I slapped the arm rest, causing a bright flash of sparks to arc brightly, causing me to wince.

Tirek appeared over me, panting heavily as drops of blood landed on the screen. “Looks like I win!” Reaching down, he grabbed the front of the titan, lifting me into the air. I could do nothing but stare daggers towards the centaur. “I will enjoy ruling this land even more now!”

“TIREK!” I heard what I assumed to be Twilight’s voice. Cursing loudly yet again, Tirek focused on something out of my view. Releasing me, I bounced as he shouted something, stepping over me, dragging his hooves over me, causing me to tilt slightly. I was too focused on fixing this hulking machine!

“M-M-M-y t-t-targetttttt-ing s-s-stems a-a-a-aaaare offline,” Legion finally spoke in a manner I could understand. “A-A-Alon-g with m-m-my n-n-n-avigat-t-t-tion.”

More text appeared.

>AUX POWER ONLINE…

>VALIDATING NEURAL LINK...

Text appeared above the previous lines.

LEGION-CLASS TITAN: DREADNOUGHT...

MAIN PROTOCOLS.

The next words cycled as though they were searching for the proper letters.

LINK TO PILOT: EXCALIBUR PRIME - LINKED

That was all I needed.

Lifting a hand, I held it in front of my viewfinder. Clenching a fist, I slammed my open palm against the ground, I clenched my fist into the dirt.

“How is this possible!? You have no magic!” Tirek shouted at the six floating mares. All of them had been what was referred to me as rainbowfied. Their manes and tails much longer than usual, ends bright and colorful, those with wings were bright and multi-colored, their hooves textured with what appeared to be their cutie marks around their hooves.

“That’s where you’re wrong Tirek,” Twilight shouted in return, as he and the girls hovered in front of the angry centaur. “I may have given you my alicorn magic, but I carry within me the most powerful magic of all!”

Guess?

“And where magic fails!” I shouted at the top of my lungs. “Tech. will prevail!” Tirek spun on his heels, throwing a wild punch. Blocking it with my left forearm, I punched Tirek with my right fist, then using the minigun as a hammer right to Tirek’s jaw! Pushing him back, I held my right arm out, gun in hand. Wrapping the gun under Tirek’s front legs, I lifted with every ounce of power I had left. I pushed Tirek up into the air and onto his back legs. Pulling the weapon back as far as I could while grasping onto the support handle.

And thrusting it forward with everything I had!

Tirek coughed violently before he gargled up blood, before slowly staring down at the gun shoved barrel deep in his abdomen. With one final roar, gears grinded, pistons roared, and metal groaned as I lifted Tirek into the air and suspending him off the end of the barrel…

And pulled the trigger!

I… well… let’s just say it was messy. Tirek screamed in agony as the weapons barrels spun, bullets tearing through soft flesh and into the air. It was bad, trust me. When the drum ran dry, did I finally relent. Pushing Tirek forward, I let him, and the gun drop against the ground with another earth shake.

It was done…

I could only stare, panting loudly. “You tried!” I shouted tauntingly. Exhaustively, I lifted my leg and stepped on Tirek’s head yet again. Weakly, he grabbed onto my foot, but lacked the strength to fight back.

“Enough… enough…” he pleaded. “Please.”

I laughed. I laughed long and hard. “Like hell I will! Like hell I-” I winced when a flash of light caught me in the eye. Holding up my hand to shield my eyes. Through blasts of bright light, I did my best to find the source.

Yes, it was that distracting.

I soon focused on the blade of the sword protruding from the burning husk of Serenity’s titan. It was also my first true visual of what had actually happened. The ground was scorched to a blacked ash, burning steel and husks of the titans I spawn littered the ground. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see wisps of smoke coming from Ponyville.

It was horrifying.

But I had other business to attend to.

Stepping over, I wrapped my hand around the handle and stepped on the chassis of the titan. Pulling with all my might, I pulled the sword from the titan’s chassis, stumbling from the force once the weapon came free. Holding the weapon reversed, I dragged it against the ground. Stepping up towards Tirek, I placed the tip against the ground, not too far from his face.

“Please… mercy…”

I took a deep breath. “Fuck… you…” Adjusting my hand, I held on to the blade properly. Stepping forward I kicked Tirek in the jaw, causing his upper body to tilt violently, causing the gun lodged inside him to move painfully. With a hard swing, I swung the blade cutting off his remaining horn.

“That was for my friends!”

Tirek screamed out in agony while holding up his arm, pleading for mercy. I gave him none. With another swing, he stared, then screamed as he stared at the severed limb, his arm flying in a random direction.

“That was for the Equestria…”

Spinning the weapon in my hand, I held it reversed yet again. Holding him down with my foot, I held the weapon high over my head with both hands. “RAAAAH!” I screamed anticlimactically, shoving the blade through Tirek’s abdomen and deep into the ground. Tirek gargled and weakly grasped at the blade with his good hand. Feeling weak in the knees, I fell onto one knee. Using the handle of the weapon as a crutch, I grunted as I pushed myself up and back into standing and the blade farther into the ground. Lifting my metallic hand, I slowly closed it into a fist. Gingerly lifting it over my head, I held it there.

And punched the pummel, driving the weapon further into the ground.

Tirek grunted, coughing up more blood.

I did it again, and again, and again. Each strike driving the weapon deeper into the ground. Cupping one into the other, I slammed the weapon into the ground with both hands. Each strike drove the hilt closer and closer to Tirek’s form. With each forceful strike, the blade sank in several feet. Once it was as far is it could go, I grasped onto the handle yet again. “And this…” I weakly grabbed onto the blade with my other hand. “Was because you pissed me off!”

I twisted the blade ninety-degrees.

Bone broke, and flesh lacerated. Tirek reached up and weakly palmed at the outside of the titan, trying to get a grasp as something. “Burn in hell…” He continued to claw at the titan weakly as his eyes slowly rolled into the back of his head.

And he released his final breath.

Metal grinded violently and stripped gears rattled as I stood up. Turning towards Twilight, the girls, and my team, I gave them a thumbs up. The Tenno responded in kind, while the girls smiled weakly. They were probably horrified by what they had just bared witness to.

I suddenly felt really, light headed.

I could feel myself swaying as black appeared on the edges of my vision. I stumbled, feeling weak on my feet. I tried to correct myself which only caused me to stumble and fall backwards. As I landed, the hatch of the titan opened, and I rolled out the top. “Thank you… Legion.”

“You’re welcome… pilot…”

Reaching up, I pulled the Alicorn Amulet off my chest and crushed it in my palm. It was spent, permanently. Not too far away, Legion and the remnants of the titans started to fade into nothing more than dust. Tirek’s corpse too, faded as stands of rainbow light ascended into the sky and took off towards the far corners of Equestria. It must have been the magic he siphoned from the citizens of Equestria. Not too far away, Ember, Serenity, and Drax fell forward as they fainted. I vaguely heard someone scream my name. But I was too tired to even care or listen.

It was done, I deserved a nap…

Author's Notes:

Finally, Excalibur and Ordis' Titans respectively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAAyHn58KPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s85IrfMlBUA

I love Titanfall 2 and I thought "What a better way to mold two of my favorite games into one!"

Had to show off my boy Legion! I am the true Dreadnought!