Author's Notes:

Mega chapter after some time stopped.
And Mane loses It... Oh no...

The early morning was rough for Galena Neighborhood, and by the time being, part of the city was being awaken too by the sounds of heavy armored squads, running on the streets in the direction where the uproar started.

Captain Shining Armor, the face of the Royal Army running in front of his troops in his heavy steel armor upgraded with four chest holsters holding four pistols, leading the way with sword on his hand.
Followed by five squads in regular iron armor, now the spears and swords were substituted by pistols and blunderbusses and equipped with short swords for just in case of close combat. And the archers turned into snipers with regular high range muskets.

But behind them, running at the maximum speed they could endure, and each step making the ground tremble with mini quakes, not one but three huge juggernauts, or how Mane Shaker calls them, "Bulldozers". The heaviest and strongest soldiers qualified to wear those thick armors were meant to be feared and respected, even among their own allies, being a branch from the Elite. All in full heavy-duty steel armor made specially for war, bullet proof (except snipers, like previously seen) and coated with a special polish making them almost magic proof. Holding a larger blunderbuss made to disseminate large groups, four pistols on their chest armor in a belt with four holsters and steel great-swords to close encounters. Anypony who would see them being deployed knew something really fucked up was going on...

"Captain!" The sergeant greeted him in a hurry as soon his captain stopped in front of him, breathing heavily from running.

"I came running at the speed of a damn eagle." Shining caught his breath and peeked at the motel from a corner. "What is our situation, sergeant?"

"The troops have the entrance covered. The back of the motel is just a tall wall, means no way of escaping. We see three of them running back and forth in rooms, and there's a guy on a balcony constantly blowing our covers in all possible ways, sir."

"Any causalities from our side?" Shining asked with a guess of the answer and It's reason.

"None at all. That's what is puzzling us."

"I know what It is..." Shining patted the sergeant's armor on the shoulder, giving away a strange frustration. "It's Mane Shaker we are talking about... he NEVER killed a single one of my troops ever..."

"Sir?" A soldier called Shining Armor with a docile voice.

"What is It soldier?"

"With all due respect, if this Mane Shaker never killed any of us, why do you want him so badly?"

The captain stood silent for a moment, pondering about that question. The soldier was right with such statement, but accepting It from a low rank would be like a defeat in his authority. Shining Armor slowly turned around and looked at him in the eyes, making him flinch a bit.

"It's a personal grudge..." He answered with a calm voice. "Sergeant, get me the schemes of this place. We are going for a new assault in full force."

"Are we taking the juggernauts, sir?"

"Definitely."

"Have you found anything?" Sigil asked while emptying the furniture in one room.

"No! And you?" Copper replied while running from a room to another.

"I'll go check downstairs! None of us as checked those yet." Pinkamena informed. "Guard my sniper please! It's in the room next to yours, Sigil!"

"Go rested, I can carry It if It's necessary. Be careful."

Pinkamena came out of one of the rooms and went to Mane with a fast but silent pace, surprising him when he noticed she was right next to him.

"Found something?" Mane asked.

"No, I'm gonna check the rooms in the ground floor. We haven't seen those yet, came to my mind if they have a secret basement like us."

"Alright, be careful. And remember! Don't. Kill. Guards." he said in a cold tone

"Are you nuts?" Pinkamena replied poking her forehead in a taunt. "What if I get caught in the action?"

"Come outside and call me, I got you covered, silly! I have a full view from here. Or just knock them unconscious."

"I'm counting on you, dumbass..." She smiled and took the stairs behind Mane.

Arriving to the ground floor, Pinkamena started smashing the rest of the broken windows and jumped inside one of the rooms, starting to pull out the thin rugs on the floor and emptying the furniture. Nothing, she moved to another room and did the same, and in the distance she noticed metallic noises. She peeked by the broken window and saw three huge figures with blunderbusses in their hands, and surrounded by small squads, all advancing through the entrance.

"Mane!" She screamed. "There's three of those big guys!"

"Working on that!" Mane replied recharging his magic.

He ignited the previous carriages, creating four huge bonfires. With all his magic strength, he manage to levitate the burning transports and smashed them in front of the troops path, creating a flaming barricade. In the distance, from a corner, a blue haired figure in dark grey armor appeared to witness what was causing the whole scene. Mane focused his attention and their eyes met, giving him a cold chill down his spine.

Shining Armor's white color turned into a slight red in fury, and without a warning. He ordered the troops to retreat. Mane saw them going back taking a turn by the corner but there was something missing. His attention was cut when he saw the four carriages on fire being levitate with such ease, and all the sudden they flew in his direction.

Mane panicked and stopped them in time with a magic barrier, making a huge crashing noise. They fell on the ground in pieces of flaming wood and scorching metal. Sigil and Cooper showed up to see the confusion, and they stared at Mane with their mouths open in amazement.

"I got this..." Mane sighed while cleaning the sweat in his head. "Keep searching, come on!" He ordered to the Cult's duo of leaders, taking a while for them to snap back in reality.
Mane looked back to the battlefield with carriage bit all over the place, and saw the juggernauts advancing slowly to the motel with blunderbusses ready.

"Shit!" He shouted. He recharged his magic and tried to freeze the giant soldiers but the spell's ray disappeared when It struck on of them.

"They are using magic proof coating!" He thought. Mane's head started rushing in thoughts, while his body started to tremble when he remembered Pinkamena was down stairs and probably no idea of what was going on. His mind rushed in thoughts and he jumped from the first floor while turning into crystal in midair, landing on the ground with a loud noise and the screeching of minerals rustling on each other when he got up.

One of the juggernauts shot a pistol but Mane's crystal body deflected the bullet, the other two shot their pistols with no effect. They grabbed the blunderbusses and pointed at Mane, which in a second transformed into a mist of black smoke. They shot at the same time and the iron pebbles passed right through the smoke, again without any effect. Mane flew at high speed while they started getting their great-swords out, while the unicorn flew around them.
Their big swords were useless in the trail of smoke, and Mane kept taunting them until one of the swords sharp end passed by his face leaving a small but nasty cut, making Mane retreat for some meters close to a motel room and come back to his normal form.
He passed his fingers on the cut in his right cheek, leaving a small drop of blood on It..

"His head is vulnerable!" One of the 'bulldozers' grunted. "Get him now!"

The three elites grabbed each one two pistols, pointing the six barrels at Mane and shot point blank at him. The cloud of the gunpowder cleaned up, and Mane was ducking with his back turned and made in crystal, but when he got up he felt a pain in the back of his chest as if a bug was eating him inside. One of the bullets had made It's way before he could turn his back into crystal, and now was inside him creating a nasty pain making some of his moves hurt.

"Charge!" Their steps were like a stampede of bulls making the ground shake with every large step they made in Mane's direction. He saw the three brutes running at him and he transformed into smoke and flew out of their path in time.
He reappeared behind them some meters away and got back to normal. The bullet was out of his body thanks to the 'shadow form', but the wound was still there creating the inconvenient pain.

The three juggernauts putted their swords in front of them in a guarding way while looking at the tired unicorn, awaiting his next move.
"What's with the big weapons?" Mane commented with a smile. "All those steroids made something else smaller?"

One of the knights let out a scream of fury and charged at Mane with his great-sword raised, ready to cut him in half. Seconds before he delivered the strike, the grey stallion transformed into smoke and vanished from his path like before, making the weapon hit the floor instead.
He flew around him at high speed, eventually making him confused with the random patterns. Behind him, Mane made his torso come back to normal while his legs kept the smoke, levitating him in the air. He grabbed the juggernaut's helmet and took It out, leaving his head uncovered.
The gigantic knight grunted while trying to catch Mane in the air, now this time he kept swinging his sword in hopes of hitting him.
He stopped his frenetic attacks to the air, and he noticed Mane standing twenty meters away from him, with the helmet on his hand. The 'bulldozer' raised his blade again in guard, while his other two comrades stayed there separated seeing the battle going.
Mane smirked and looked at him in the eyes, threw the helmet away and transformed into smoke. He flew at him full speed and the knight prepared to swing at Mane's face.

Right before he would reach the swords range, Mane flew up right in a ninety degrees line, and the juggernaut cut the air instead. In midair, Mane came back to normal and transformed his left hand into hard crystal, and before the knight could do anything, the crystal unicorn lashed his heavy fist like a morning star on the giant's face, knocking him out right there.
With a loud metallic noise, he fell on his face unconscious with some teeth scattered around him.

"WOOHOO!!!" Sigil screamed from the first floor's balcony. while shaking her fist in the air and along with her, Copper clapping at Mane's performance with a smile of amazement. "What a fighter!" Sigil shouted.

"Thank you!" Mane looked back into the two remaining challengers. "Next!"

The second one approached with loud noises, ready to avenge his friends defeat. He started juggling his great-sword in one hand and swinging at full speed in the air, showing his training and that wouldn't be a easy fight this time.
Mane sighed and with a smirk, he pulled the weapon out of his opponent's hands with his magic, leaving him disarmed and staring at him surprised without knowing what to do.

"I don't like showoffs." Mane threw the sword back at him on the ground in front of him. "Now grab It and fight like you must, this is not the circus!"

The juggernaut took possession of his weapon again and slowly walked towards Mane, which stood still. With a grunt, he attempted to decapitate Mane, but he ducked in time. Now a vertical swing to cut him in half but he dodged with a roll. He hardly stood up with a pain in his back from the previous bullet, and jumped back when another attempt tried to cut his stomach.

"This guy is fast for a 'bulldozer'. I need to change my tactics" Mane thought while jumping from every attack.

He transformed into crystal, making himself slower but with an advantage. The knight attacked with a vertical cut and Mane stepped aside making the blade land on the ground, and raising his right crystal hoof he smashed the great sword with a stomp, breaking it in two.
Furiously, the juggernaut grabbed him by the head and threw a punch on Mane's stomach making him flinch, even if he was made of hard mineral now, he could feel the strength of the knight trembling in his crystal body.

The angry giant managed to throw Mane on the floor, and stomped his back, making Mane let out a short scream from the pressure on his hard body. After two more stomps, he rolled to the side and crawled out of his opponent's leg range.
He transformed back to normal and stood up, quickly stepping away to catch his breath. His whole body was hurting from the stomping attacks, as if he was being smashed between two walls.

The knight charged at him with large steps, but Mane transformed into his shadow form and flew between his legs, disappearing from his path. And from behind him, Mane went back to normal and delivered a midair kick on his back, making the knight fall with the weight of his armor and the impulse.
Before he could get up, he felt a huge weight on his back, as if he was being crippled with a boulders. It was Mane with his entire body in crystal, locking him in position with his legs. The huge knight turned his head to the side to see what was going on, and through his full helmet he saw Mane raising his crystal fist and delivering a punch in the thick steel helmet.
Another punch was threw, one after another. but the steel helmet didn't dent It.

From the balcony, Sigil and Cooper watched the full scene. Mane throwing heavy punches one after another and the knight squirming on the floor in attempts to get up. His punches weren't even affecting the heavy armor, but the noise generated was like a metal smith's forge, with a hammer constantly pounding the anvil. After some seconds, the juggernaut stopped moving and fell unconscious on the floor.

"Did he killed him..?" Sigil said quietly.

"No." Copper answered. "He's unconscious."

"But... he didn't touch his body, and the helmet is not even smashed."

"It was the impact. The constant trembling and noise inside the headgear was like having your head inside a bell."

"Hey!" Pinkamena showed up next to them. "I found something downstairs, I need your help."

"Oh hi. Have you been seeing this?" Sigil asked with a smile. "I saw finishing the first guy. Seems Quill taught him a better control in his magic flow."

"Indeed." Sigil replied. "What did you found?"

"There was a hatch under a rug, It might contain something. I want your protection while I work on It."

"Copper, come on, we have a work to do."

"Aye." He answered, following the mares downstairs.

Meanwhile, the last juggernaut was slightly bigger than the previous ones, and he approached Mane with his sword down. They stood five meters away from each other in silence, the giant staring at Mane from behind his juggernaut helmet covering his entire head, and Mane with his hand covering the bullet hole in his back.

"You fight with skill." The knight grunted.

"Thank you."

"I think I recognize you... from Canterlot." He putted his great-sword's end on the floor and rested his hands on the weapon's cross-guard. "I've seen you before, in the Mignight Gala, running away from Our Highness."

"I wouldn't be surprised. Every guard in Canterlot wants my head on a silver board in their walls..."

"Our Captain Shining Armor told us about you. How many time we got deployed to arrive there and you were already gone, and did our job for us." His voice was deep like a cavern, fitting to his role on the guard. "Tell me... why you do this?"

"I'm trying to clean my family's name." Mane coughed from his fatigue. "Let me tell you something."

"What?"

"You're the first Royal Guard, and even more, an Elite! To stop and talk instead of trying to kill me."

"I wouldn't be surprised. But do you think killing the scum of this world would give you a better name?"

"Hey! Don't question my perspective!" Mane coughed again with his wrath coming to his head. "I came from a family where one of the members was the ban of this city. He killed hundreds, and thousands maybe! And how do you think I feel being a kid back then, having no idea of what he was doing and realize his acts many years later? How do you think I feel?"

"I don't blame you. And honestly, I feel bad for you."

"A 'bulldozer with feelings? Never seen that." Mane giggled. "But seriously, I'm trying to make this world better by my own hands."

"And that's a good thing I guess. Putting your life in the line for the innocents, It's quite a honorable thing to do. Sadly Princess Celestia and Captain Shining Armor don't have the same perspective." He moved his head to the sides, allowing his neck bones to crack a bit and relax.

"So... are you gonna fight me or not?" Mane dared to ask.

"Yes." The knight dropped the sword on the floor. "Like I said, I feel sorry for your story and I find you honorable. And for what I know, reports always said you never killed none of us." He took out the belt with the four pistols and dropped It next to the great-sword, the same he did with his blunderbuss. "I'm sorry, but I'm an Elite Knight with honor, and I have my orders..." He said It while raising his fists.

"I understand..." Mane turned his entire body in crystal and raised his fists too. "It's for the balance, if It's going to be with honor."

"Alright." The juggernaut hammered three times his breastplate with his fist.

Mane threw the first punch in the breastplate, making the same noise from before. The knight took It and felt the impact, and countered with a punch on Mane's face, making a screeching noise of steel on mineral. The grey stallion retaliated with a punch on the helmet, but the enemy parried him and punched him in the side of his chest, making the wound in his back hurt even more.
The knight released the grip, and Mane stood back with some breathing difficulties, and the huge knight punched him again in the face stunning Mane. This time It was is turn to parry, but the brute strength of the knight made him stagger instead and receive another punch to the face, followed by another in the chest.
This time he fell on the floor, couching hard while holding his back wound.

"Get up!" The 'bulldozer´grunted. "You managed to beat my armed and armored friends, but you can't beat me?!"

"It's a clean fight, you ass... *cough* I'm not using my magic besides my crystal form!"

"You're nothing without your magic?!" The knight mocked. "How are you supposed to protect your friends then, if you get unable to use It?"

Mane looked around and saw his friends by a broken window of a room, watching the whole scene.
"Mane! We got It!" Pinkamena called waving a file with papers inside. "Let's go!"

He got up, and threw a kick in the opponent's stomach with all his might, making him fly one meter and fall on his back. "I'm not done yet!" He took a deep breath hurting his back but made the anxiety go away.

"I'll tell you something." The knight muttered while standing up. "I'm the champion boxer among the Elite, and you're about to get a beating!!!" He charged at Mane, which he dodged to the side and threw a punch in the chest armor, barely affecting the rampaging juggernaut.

He attempted another punch, but the knight defended and answered back with a brutally strong fist to Mane's crystal stomach, making him lose his breath.
The knight started delivering punches, one after another stunning Mane in place. The steel gauntlets against his crystal body were like a pickaxe in hard rock, not breaking It but leaving dents, and every punch was driving the crystal stallion exhausted, and got to the point where his crystal body was starting to vanish into fur and flesh. And with a uppercut, the knight knocked Mane on the floor, making him loose possession of his power.

By this time, the Royal Army was on the other side watching the match, cheering for the juggernaut, and Shining Armor himself with a smile of seeing Mane getting beaten up and a wish It was him doing It. Pinkamena, Sigil and Copper stepped out of the room and started cheering for Mane, which was now on the floor trying to breathe properly, bleeding from his nose, from his body with some cuts where the steel armor dented his crystal body, and even more from the back wound.

"MANE! Get up!" Copper shouted.

"We believe in you!" Said Sigil

"MANE LOOK OUT!!!" Copper screamed making Mane look at his opponent, which grabbed him and threw him on the floor with a huge *THUD!*. The colossal knight lifted him again and threw him at his friend's direction, making them duck while his body flew past them right inside the room through a completely broken window, and he landed with a huge noise.

"Shaker!" Pinkamena fell on her knees next to his body, where he coughed dark red blood on her pink belly and top tank. He tried to get grunting in pain but she stopped him. "Don't go. You can't win this fight. Let's escape while we can."

"Diane." He coughed again while trying to get up again. "Don't interfere. This is my fight... *cough*"

"Don't be stupid! Look! They are distracted by the spectacle, It's our chance!"

In the moment, Sigil and Copper entered and checked on Mane, and he was a mess of bruises all over his upper body.

"Damn..." Copper baffled. "He got you good."

"You're not helping!" Sigil snarled. "Mane! Speak to me!"

"Just help me get up. I'm not done yet!" He complained.

"No! We are getting the fuck out of here. Right now!" Pinkamena ordered.

"YOU are. I'm not!" Mane managed to get up, while tasting his own blood coming out of his nostrils. The metallic taste was somehow a relief for his thirst, and Copper offered his steel flask with water on It, which Mane accepted and drank It all. "This crystal hoof is gonna kick his ass back to Canterlot, directly to the hospital."

"Mane! DON'T! He's gonna kill you." Pinkamena grabbed his arm stopping him from going out of the door back to the street ring filled with Royal Guards.

"It's about honor, Diane. He challenged me indirectly, and he showed his respect about me, which I never expected from a Royal Guard, much less an Elite!" Mane snarled, while feeling an energy coming to him. "If It's a fight he wants, It's a fucking beating I am gonna give him, and I'm gonna win!"

"Alright..." Pinkamena released her grip. "But then, tell me this."

"What?"

"If your uncle Sombra and family were watching this, how would they feel, seeing the last member of their family alive letting himself getting pounded like this?"

Mane opened his eyes really wide and he didn't blink for some time. He started breathing really heavy and loud, ignoring the pain all over his body, making Pinkamena stand back against a wall. The said energy got stronger inside him, to the point he felt like his bones were about to explode, then his muscles started to feel energized, an energy he never felt before.
It was an unspeakable wrath, the anger accumulated in his mind got transferred to his body in the form of strength and stamina.
Sigil and Copper stepped back when a strange dark purple aura started forming around his body, getting more intense with every second making him start grunting with every breath he took. It was like he was about to destroy an entire country, and he kept staring at floor while none of those three dared to touch him.
His horn started to glow with It's normal red, and It started sparkling until It was a strong bloody crimson red, illuminating the room as if It was covered in blood.

"Pinkamena, what have you done..?" Sigil whispered in fear.

"I have no idea..."

Outside, the Royal Army kept cheering at the juggernaut with cheers and whistles. Shining Armor kept his smile up from the spectacle and ordered a squad to the room where Mane was with instruction for use of brute force.
When they started to gather their equipment, a loud roar was heard from the motel, making the troops shut up immediately.
Shining Armor told them to hold back when he saw the room glowing in purple and red.

The juggernaut looked back, to see Mane covered on his own blood from his bruises, walking towards him slowly in a pace as if his hooves where too heavy to walk properly. The veins in his body could be seen, pumping his 'Devil Blood' through his body like a power pump alone delivering water to an entire city.
But his eyes, that's what made the troops freeze, except the 'bulldozer' and Shining Armor, which he recognized that energy from somewhere.
His eyes were the same ones, but letting out a purple aura out of them. An intense look of anger and death wish to those who would oppose him.

Shining Armor had a flashback, a really strong one from many years ago, when he liberated the Crystal Empire with his troops, fighting side by side with the Princesses themselves. Mane's demonic stare reminded him when he faced King Sombra before Celestia and Luna interfered. He feared the worst and told all his troops to gather their weapons and step back, all obeyed except one, their champion.

"Do you think that's supposed to scare me?" The juggernaut commented.

"Major Knuckles! Don't taunt him!" Shining Armor ordered. "Get back here!"

"Captain! I beat him one time, I can do It again. He's an unicorn, maybe It is just to intimidate!"

"MAJOR! Get back here! That's is an order!"

"You all! Watch this!" The juggernaut ran towards Mane raising his fist in the air, but he stood there in his place, staring at the charging colossus without blinking and the same furious expression.

As soon the giant knight threw his punch, Mane casually stepped aside and punched the helmet with his bare hands with such strength that the knight almost fell to the floor. He attempted another attack this time on his belly, and Mane grabbed his steel fist and transformed his hands into crystal. The juggernaut champion tried to pull back but Mane's strength was somewhat bigger, and he started to squeeze the gauntlet with, more and more until the thick steel started to dent eventually starting to hurt the opponent.

"OW! Stop! Argh!" The juggernaut grunted. "Sto-aaaAAHHHHH!!! AHHH! YOU'RE CRUSHING MY HAND!" Blood could be seen dropping out of the gauntlet. Mane remembered the results of his grip when he made Quill's test, and now It was the time to use It, but this time with a strength he didn't knew about.

He released his hand, making the champion step back in agony, holding the mangled gauntlet with his hand crushed inside. The muffled screams under his helmet were somewhat terrifying, making the troops guess the pain he was at the moment, even to Pinkamena herself who was staring at the scene speechless, along with Sigil and Copper.

Mane turned his fists back to normal and he punched the opponent in the helmet, making him step back stunned. He got closer and started delivering punches with all the strength he had in his armored stomach, with every landing hit making the knight grunt. The berserking stallion kept pushing him back with every hit, and once again, blood started to come out of the helmet's neck guard, dripping out on the floor creating a path of blood drops, and Mane's fists started to bleed too from punching heavy-duty steel so many times but ignoring the pain.
He kicked the knight in the stomach so hard that he fell on the floor and dragged on the floor three meters, with the armor's steel making a loud screeching noise on the ground.

The suffering 'bulldozer' tried to get up quickly to retreat but Mane kicked him back down, and he started punching the helmet non-stop, and just like the gauntlet, It started to dent but more slowly while the juggernaut kept squirming and screaming for help, but none of his allies dared to approach, frozen in fear of they were watching.

"He's gonna kill him like that!" Copper baffled. "We must do something!"

Pinkamena didn't think twice and started running towards the fight. She attempted to grab one of Mane's arms, but the strength made It slip.
She started screaming at Mane to stop, but he didn't listen and kept punching the juggernaut's helmet leaving even more dents and covered in his own blood from his fists of fury.

"MANE! STOP!!!" She grabbed him by the back but Mane shoved her away, eventually hurting her and fall on her back, going back to punishing his opponent. "THIS IS NOT YOU! STOP IT!" She screamed while starting to cry. "THIS IS NOT YOU!!! YOU ALREADY WON! You got what you wanted!"

Mane kept hitting the helmet now with a wide grin, almost crushing the knight's skull inside.
"P-PLEASE make It sto-op... I don't wanna loose my only friend this way!" Pinkamena fell on knees crying from seeing her friend fall into the path he taught her not to follow. He heard her sobs and turned around, and saw the pink mare crying and covering her face with her hands with tears falling between her fingers.

The enraged stallion stopped, his expression changed to a emotionless one and he stood up. The juggernaut's helmet was all mangled and covered in Mane's own blood. His hands were also all bruised and bleeding from pounding steel so many times with all his strength.
The defeated giant rolled on his stomach and crawled out from the finished fight towards his two comrades, still unconscious from the previous fight they had with Mane, and he collapsed next to them.

Mane stood next to Pinkamena and touched her head. She slowly raised her face and saw him staring at her with a blank expression, and he looked to the troops and stared at Shining Armor in the eyes, making the captain freeze in mortal fear.

"IS THIS ALL?!!!" Mane roared at them, making all of them flinch. "COME ON! COME ON, MOTHEFUCKERS!"

None of them moved an inch, they were all stunned afraid of moving. One of them attempted to step back, and Mane noticed his moves and stared at him with those eyes surrounded by a purple aura, and the soldier fainted in his spot.

Mane extend an arm to Pinkamena and she slowly held his blood soaked hand, helping her getting up. She hugged him and kept crying on his shoulder, whispering to him to calm down and that was not his true self. He kept staring at the army in front of him, all not daring to move, even Shining Armor himself.

"GO AWAY!!!" He roared again. "LEAVE ME ALONE! YOU HEARD THAT, SHINING ARMOR?! LEAVE ME ALONE!!"

"... T-Troops! Retreat! We have no business here!" Shining Armor ordered, and they didn't loose a single second to obey.

The Royal Army ran away from Mane's sight, that even Shining Armor didn't bother to order his troops to go in a formation, all he cared about was his troops and their lives along with his own life of course.
He called a pegasus scout official and he heard carefully what Shining Armor had to say.

"Tell your squad and the other scouts we have a message to the entire Royal and Crystal Army stationed in the city, to NOT disturb Mane Shaker, The Last Sombra and his friends for now, we are on red alert here for the next days."

"Is It all, sir?"

"I have one exclusively for you, soldier. After informing the other scouts, go directly to our camp and write a message to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, reporting everything you just saw! I don't want a single detail missed! That means even if you must write a fucking book!"

"Yes sir!" The soldiers saluted and walked back to his squad.

Back in the hotel, It was dead silence except for what was left of the carriages on fire with their crackling noise of the heat in the wood.
Sigil and Copper stepped outside to see the three juggernauts completely beaten up by a single stallion with unusual powers nopony else in Equestria had but Mane.

Pinkamena kept crying in Mane's shoulder, soaking his leather vest with her tears, and the wet touch called his attention again towards her. He petted her slightly and she raised her head covered in tears. Her ocean blued crying eyes met with those green evil ones surrounded by the purple aura, which eventually started to disappear slowly as he calmed down.

"Mane..?" She sobbed.

"I'm here..." He whispered back.

"Was that... your uncle's power?" She asked.

"...yes..." He sighed in a sad tone. "I experienced for the first that nightmare I have. And It's... almost uncontrollable."

"I could see that..." She passed her fingers on his chin, attempting to calm the beast. "Are you okay..?"

"My head... It's like It's gonna explode."

"Come on. We must go before something else happens."

She held his hand and guided him on the opposite direction where the troops went, with Sigil carrying Pinkamena's sniper and Copper going in the distance in the same direction. The sun's height in the sky suggested It was almost midday, and It's reflection in the juggernauts armor made Mane stopped to look at them, completely unconscious and probably in a coma. Seeing three Elite Juggernauts beaten by himself alone made him smile in pride, but It quickly vanished when he remembered he almost killed one of them.

In the distance behind them, Pinkamena saw a group of soldiers waiting for them to go away, probably to take care of the defeated soldiers. Mane looked at them and with a trembling bloody hand he grabbed a pouch full of golden coins, all of them with a value of one hundred each and he poured It on top of his last opponent's armor.

"I'm sorry..." He whispered, while Pinkamena kept guiding him out of the scene.

In the roof of the ruined motel, a character stood there, somepony that only Mane could see and talk to, but this time, he was not alone.
The ghost of King Sombra stared at the squad running to aid the juggernauts, while the Other four spirits kept laughing and talking to each other.

"That's was something! Hahaha!" Laughed a character while eating popcorn, a character which body was formed by different parts of many animals. "Can't wait to see another show like this!"

"I know right? Reminds me when I was fighting my sister's army back in the years!" Laughed a dark blue alicorn mare in a spiky armor made of an unknown metal. She had a moon as a symbol in her breastplate, and her hair was like an dark blue aura coming out of her helmet, composed by stars forming various constellations.

"You saw how that pink mare calmed down the monster? I sense something between them... something... lusty..." Another mare commented. This one was made was the most twisted looking one, she was an completely black alicorn with bug wings and she didn't had fur, but her body full of strange holes in the arms and legs was like the smooth marble of a statue, dressed in tight leather clothes, showing off her curves and well defined breasts. The most disturbing feature was her long horn with a strange formation of gaps.

"I didn't like a lot." Sombra grumbled. "Tirek! I told you to give him a fraction, not all of It!"

"Not my fault, Sombra." The gigantic centaur commented. "That sure was a fraction of my Wrath." He was red and black with a long white beard, making him the oldest of them all. He had two huge horns in his head, and his muscles were big like his age, his eyes were two yellow dots in the middle of black, and his four bull hooves were as muscular like his arms.

"So, what now?" Asked the mare in armor.

"You go back to the moon, Nightmare MOON!" Mocked the one made of different parts.

"Shut the fuck up Discord, or I'll put you there myself!"

"Now now Nightmare... no need to get angry. You can come visit me, and I'll help you relax..." Commented the black mare while putting her hands in Nightmare's armor around her chest area.

"And Chrysalis, you stay away from me!" Nightmare Moon pointed at her face with a dagger made of the same metal as her armor.

"Can you guys stop? Mane almost killed a guard here! We have things to talk about!" Sombra snarled.

"You can come too, Sombra. No need to panic." Chrysalis winked at him while licking her lips with her long pointy tongue. "I can be whatever you want me to be."

"No thank you." Sombra replied.

"What about me!?" Discord complained.

"Ugh! You? With who?!" Nightmare Moon commented.

"Banished to the moon!" Discord mocked.

"WHY YOU..!"

"I don't mind, you can come darling..." Chrysalis replied.

"Slut..." Nightmare grumbled.

"ENOOOOOOOOOOOOUGH!!!!!" Tirek exploded in rage. "Listen up you imbeciles! Sombra said the correct thing! Mane Shaker himself almost killed an innocent due to my power I decided to borrow him. Since he discovered his inherited powers, we talked It would be the best time to start supporting him and we saw what happened here today! We need to have a meeting and discuss if this is a good idea! Got It?! Now let's move out, we have a lot to discuss!"

And they all descended to the underworld.