"So... we're in a world full of... ponies?" Blue inquired to Orange, as the two tried to catch up with their aptly-named green and red comrades. "Not that I'm complaining or anything, but... ponies?"

"I don't get it as much as you my icy friend," Orange spoke. "But it sure kills the boredome, eh?"

"Yeah, I guess," he chuckled back, turning forward again before his brow curled in confusion.

"Hey, is that smoke I see in the distance?"

Blue peered in front of himself as well and saw the black cloud he was told of forming just over the trees as well.

"You know what they say. Where there's smoke..." he began, grinning maliciously.

"...There's fire!" Orange finished. The two let out hoots of joy and pulled out their weapons, ready for battle.

As the chaos of marauding goblins, kobolds, and diamond dogs went on around her, Dinky, a young unicorn filly with a gray coloring to her fur and a blonde mane, backed against the outer wall of a house as a kobold cornered her, his small, alligator-like face focused on her smaller form, a spear held in his claws ready to perform irreparable damage. Just as he was about to attack the defenseless foal, another, larger gray shape burst in, and got between the raider and the filly. It was a pegasus mare with a pair of golden eyes that were as crossed as her current expression.

"Stay away from my Dinky!" Derpy shouted, as she turned about and bucked her rear legs at the lizard-like creatures. The kobold went flying back upon being struck, but quickly got back up and ran back to the pony, raising his spear and bellowing as he charged.

"NA-NA-NA-POW!" a voice went suddenly out. The kobold stopped in reaction, turning to look for who made the noise, and was swiftly met with an armored fist to the scaly face as a red figure came into view. Several teeth scattered about in various directions as the reptile's snout was broken by the knight's knuckles, and he fell onto his back.

"EXCELSIOR!" Red continued, as he ran up to the downed reptile, grabbed it, and chucked it at a nearby goblin, crushing the squat, green creature. Derpy, surprised by her rescuer, was even more amazed as three more alien, multicolored, non-pony beings sped forth.

"What killed the dinosaurs? The ice age!" the blue one cheered on, his frost-tipped sword cleaving through a kobold's chest, sending a wave of green blood and armor about the dirt ground.

"Don't ask how I do this. Just... beans," the green one said in a normal, inexpressive voice, to a horde of nearly a dozen of the monsters he dashed in front of. Finishing his claptrap, he sent forth a misty, cloudy blast of green gas at them, poisoning and suffocating them slowly the moment they inhaled. Soon, they all fell to the ground like dominoes, choking on the foul, tainted air.

"Pardon us, ma'am," the orange one wielding an axe apologized, tipping his helmet forward to the mare in friendly respect as he passed by. Derpy and Dinky could only watch with surprise and awe at what came next.

After a good few minutes of hacking, slashing, biting, kicking, throwing, breaking, random cursing, punching, more hacking, bludgeoning and name-calling, the four colored knight-esque figures quickly made short work of the remaining raiders, and once the dust had (mostly) settled, they were all either dead, or had fled the town when their rampage subsided. Though the ponies around them cheered at their success, Red wasn't happy about that.

"Hey! Come back!" he shouted angrily, running after them a short ways before stopping. He pulled out his bow and took three shots at them, but missed.

"Aww..." he complained, kicking a rock as his three friends came up to comfort him. "It's no fun when they run..."

"What? Where are those idiots all running off to?" Killer asked himself, watching from a hilltop as his army ran from Ponyville in a cowardly fashion.

"It appears your army is faltering," Princess Luna chuckled from the cage she sat in a few feet away. Killer shot her a death glare from behind his helmet, but the alicorn easily ignored it.

Turning to the kobold next to him, Killer reached into his back pocket and pulled out a set of keys. "Here," he spoke, giving them to the smaller reptile. "Keep these safe. I have work to do..."

With a hint of worry in her cyan eyes, Luna watched as the giant diamond dog pulled his equally gigantic club from his back, and trudge off to the entrance of the town.

"Guys... do you, um, feel that?" Blue asked his friends, as he felt tremors going out through the ground below.

"Sure do," Green replied, casually. "Sounds big. Sounds bad. Sounds tough."

No sooner had he spoke, a large shape, five times each of their sizes, came into view from behind a building. Upon seeing them, the dog-like figure wielding a tree trunk as a weapon let out a growl.

"So... you're the ones that chased my army away, eh?" he spoke. "You may have beaten my army, but now..."

He thumped his tree trunk-club on the ground, shaking the ground further.

"Now... you deal with me!"

"Oh, boy!" Red said in an excited voice, rubbing his hands together with glee. "This reminds me of that time we fought that giant barbarian! Remember, guys? We fought him, and we killed him, and then a chest fell on him from the sky, and then he exploded, and then-"

The knight couldn't finish talking about his flashback, as Killer swung his club and slammed the unwary knight into the ground, leaving only his flailing legs above the dirt. Stuck for a good measure, Orange, Blue, and Green rushed forward with battle cries, and attacked him, their weapons only able to hit his legs. Killer laughed at their pitiful attempts to apprehend him, and swatted Blue and Orange away, leaving Green alone, whom he scooped up in a claw.

"You're so pathetic, it's almost funny!" the dog barked at Green, once the Knight was on his eye-level. With one arm still free, Green sent out a puff of green smoke, causing to diamond dog to cough as he wafted it away with his club.

Unaffected and unamused with the attack, Killer threw the knight straight through the air, and his green form soon crashed through the roof of a nearby building with the name House of Lamps spelled out on its front. Wood, splinters, and timber scattered with his rough landing.

"Green... no!" Orange yelled, once he and Blue picked themselves back up.

"If he's dead, I call his boots," Blue said in an uncaring manner. Either way, both returned their focus back on the beast before them, and charged blindly forward. Killer laughed, and brought his club down in reply, whacking them away.

Though he was sore, Green came to a few seconds after landing. Upon adjusting to his situation, he noticed he was surrounded by lamps, and a puddle of lamp oil was leaking nearby, thanks to his impact. The wretched, evil gears in the knight's head began to turn the moment he saw where he was.

"Ooh..." Green spoke to himself, a devious thought coming into his mind. "Now there's and idea..." Grabbing as much of the unbroken items in his hands, Green shuffled outside, tittering to himself. Upon leaving the store, he saw the dog was laughing, and his comrades were all broken on the ground, groaning in pain; save for Red, who was still stuck head-first in the ground, screaming muffled curses from where he was.

"Looks like it's time to oil up, big guy," Green cackled, as he chucked the first lamp at the enormous dog. It shattered on Killer's shoulder upon impact, sending the clear, flammable, petroleum-infused liquid it contained all over his body. The dog growled and turned to Green, just as another flew through the air and hit him right on his helmeted face. As the dog tried to wipe the liquid away, Green tossed what else he had left at the brute, covering as much of his body as he could in lamp oil, and looked to Orange with his permanent, stony glare.

"Orange, now!" he hollered out. Moaning, the knight in question saw what his friend was talking about and quickly set to action, knowing exactly what to do. A sphere of fire left his raised palm and flew toward Killer, and once it touched his shaggy fur, his entire body erupted into an inferno.

The diamond dog let out a series of yelps and cries as his massive form was enveloped in burning, red-yellow flames. Dropping his makeshift weapon, Killer flailed about in a vain attempt to extinguish the fire, looking around desperately for something to douse it, until his eyes landed on a pond a few dozen meters away. Unthinking, he rushed to the pool as the three knights ran up to Red and pulled him, leg-first, out of the ground.

As the four wandered to the pond they saw the dog sighing in relief. Upon noticing the four figures, he turned to them and laughed evilly.

"Your only hope of beating me, and it's gone," he chuckled. "What will you do now, weaklings? What could any of you possibly do? Hehehe..."

The dog's face then went from smug to fearful in a matter of seconds as he saw a literal spark gleam in the utterly enraged Red Knight's eyes, and raised his hands to the large dog.

"POWER!" Red screamed at the top of his lungs in as hammy of a tone as he could muster, electricity discharging from his fingertips and arcing into the water where the diamond dog stood. "UNLIMITED... POWER!"

The dog shrieked in pain as he was shocked violently, the water it stood in amplifying the power of Red's magic to the maximum. Red only stopped half-a-minute later, when he used up most of his energy in his attack, and the enormous diamond dog, though not moving or making any more noises, still stood.

Steam and smoke rose from the dog's form, as well as what sounded like the popping and snapping of slightly charred flesh. With a defeated moan, Killer's eyes closed and he fell, face-first, into the water below, unconscious. Bubbles formed around his submerged face before stopping a few moments later, and all went still.

Whatever goblins, kobolds, and diamond dogs still remained all saw as their leader was beaten, and promptly turned about, fleeing from the town. The ponies that were defending themselves let out more happy cheers as they saw their attackers fully abandon the battle, and instantly set to helping each other recuperate.

Luna sighed in relief as nearby ponies came to her aid, her cage now undefended. Her jailer, in his haste to escape, dropped the keys to the princess's prison, and they were promptly grabbed. The moment she was released, Luna's horn lit up and cast a spell of reparation that extinguished all the fires in Ponyville, and fixed the majority of the damage done to its buildings.

"Citizen, do you know of the ones responsible for defeating these beasts?" she asked once her task was done.

"It was those four guys that look like knights, my princess," the brown-furred earth pony that let her out replied. "They're not ponies, and they look a little weird, but they helped us." Nodding to him, Luna spread her wings out, happy to do so after having had them confined to such a small space, and took to the air.

It wasn't long before she located the beings in question, and landed in front of them. Captivated by this new creature's appearance, the normally rambunctious quartet let her speak.

"You have my earnest thanks, brave knights," Luna spoke. "I am Luna, one of the princesses of this land, and ruler of the night. By defeating the diamond dog leader and sending his lackeys running, you have freed me from my bonds, and given this land the hope it desperately needs in this dark hour. For that, I am eternally grateful."

Red, Blue, Green, and Orange, hearing her regal title, each shifted a wary glance at one another, knowing what just had to come next. As the alicorn waited for them to respond, the quiet that followed had become very palpable. As she was about to speak again, it was broken.

"SHE'S MINE!" the four suddenly cried out in unison, tearing their weapons from their sheaths, and attacked each other in a dogpile of vivid color and a flurry of rapid movement, much to Luna's great confusion.