After leaving the town of Griffonstone, Fidget had began to lead Rain and his friends on a eastbound trek outside of the town and towards the shrine. Which was a rather good thing for them, because the longer that they wandered around in the small town, the more that they felt as if they weren’t somehow welcome and hearing nasty things about them said behind there back. Though, there were a few things that Rain also happened to hear in Griffonstone about a big monster that lurked within the horrors of a place called the Abysmal Abyss, but he decided to hold off on that until after they made sure that the crystal was okay.

Though, it was as they were walking through another breezy mountainscape that a realization came to Rain. And it was involving something that Fidget was talking about earlier. Before the encounter with the Veritas, he was trying to figure out why she was so desperate in order to try and make money however she could. And in his mind, he just figured it out. “I understand now…”

For a moment, Fidget looked towards Rain, hearing his small statement as she looked back towards him. “What was that? I didn’t quite hear you just now.”

“I understand now, Fidget… Why you’re really wanting to make bits however you can,” The knight clarified, his statement surprising that of Shining Armor and Luna for a moment before they heard him finish what he was saying. “You want to build airships without the involvement of the military… isn’t that right?”

Around that time was when Fidget herself nodded, leading Shining to step up and say something now as he looked back towards her. “I admire your passion for your goals, Fidget. But are you sure this is the best path to take? You do realize how difficult this might be?”

The griffon nodded, before giving out a bold statement as she looked directly back at the stallion. “I don’t care how challenging it might be, I’ll still do it all the same. And I’m going to earn every bit myself,” She proudly declared before turning away from both of the knights for a moment. “Airships shouldn’t be used for destruction and murder. In my eyes, airships are the key to unlocking our potential, no matter what species we are!”

Rain thought about it for a moment, before letting out a small breath as he looked back at the griffon. “Well, when you put it like that, it makes me wish that there’s some sort of way that I could be able to support you and help you make that dream of yours come true…”

“Well… if you really want to do that, you can always put your money where your mouth is,” The griffon smirked as she looked back at Rain, almost as if she was trying to get him to empty his change right there. “What’s the amount of income you knights get within a year? Whatever it is, I say that’s a small price to pay for a bright and peaceful future for all walks of life! What do you say?”

Though… the knight himself had a different view on what he meant by trying to ‘support’ her as he let out a deep sigh. “Uh… I meant something along the lines of… moral support, if I were to be honest with you. Go, Fidget! You can do it!” The last two lines of the sentence served as the only examples that he could think of in that time, but it was something that Fidget had decided to laugh off so he could think a little more on it while they were walking towards the factory.

Of course, as they were walking, it was Shining’s turn to start the conversation. And he was hoping that he would try to start this conversation on better terms than the last few times he had spoken with Fidget. “So you want to be able to make a ship on your own terms without the help of the griffon kingdom’s military… and that’s why you can’t ask the government to supply a crystal to power your vessel.”

“You hit the nail right on the head there,” Fidget replied back as Shining let out a sigh of relief. “I don’t want to make my living building death machines like my brother… Now that I think of it, coming back to this place reminds me of when Gaven and I were kids.”

Now it was Luna’s turn to speak, sounding curious now that the factory was brought up again. “What’s the factory like, Fidget?”

“Well, it’s only everything that a complete airship maniac could ever ask for and more!!” Fidget replied now, sounding as if she was a foal describing the inside of a candy store or an amusement park. “If your a technician like I am, the griffons who worked there would let you watch up close while they’re working. So my brother and I would stay up all night to watch!”

The mentioning of her brother brought the griffon back down to earth as she let out a sigh and looked back at her companions. “Unfortunately, my brother’s completely lost the sense of wonder he used to have back then.”

“It sounds though that you had a very happy childhood together.” Shining commented, leading to the griffon nodding her head before continuing to speak.

“Yep… though, one of my favorite places inside the entire factory was the room where they had portraits of all the old Cid’s from previous generations,” She continued to speak as Luna took a moment to stop and drink some water from a canteen that Shining had on him. “It’s really something since you can see all of them together, going all the way back to the founder. I even memorized names, faces and all the details of them from the founder all the way to the fifteenth Cid.”

“Why? Was this for some kind of history class for school?” Rain asked, remembering some of the other classes that he had to take alongside that of the classes that he had to hone his magic.

“No, it’s just something I thought I would do… Hey, if I wanted to become a Cid, then I had to remember those that came before me, right?” Fidget did kind of have a point there. But Rain knew the lesson about that from another one that Stardust Glimmer taught him. Saying that if we learn about the past and realize the mistakes that came from it, it will help in making sure that they those mistakes did not repeat themselves.

Of course, Luna herself had decided to ask a different question now. “Do you have a personal favorite?”

“Well…” The airship technician thought to herself, before snapping her talons and coming up with an answer for Luna. “If I honestly had to pick, I would say that I really like the first Cid. He was a good looking, middle aged griffon that had a scar on the left cheek. If it weren’t for him, then it wouldn’t be possible for other Cid’s to come after him. Heck, my brother and I wanted to be just like him! Every time I think of the Cid’s of the past, it makes me feel that I need to do something important too, after all, my dream is to become one myself.”

“Does every airship technician dream to become a Cid?” Luna then asked, wondering what Fidget’s answer would be. Before adding on one other question. “What about your brother, Fidget?”

“Well… My brother had the same dream that I did once upon a time…” Fidget stopped walking for a moment so she could face Rain and the others, before continuing where she left off. “We used to make airships for anyone who wanted one, no matter their status or what country they were traveling from. And it wasn’t just airships either; I used to make mechabo’s with him too. But one day… out of nowhere, he changed. Told me he was done making toys and volunteered to become a military technician.”

That clicked something in Shining’s brain as he looked back at Fidget. “I see… I had called one of your creations a toy myself back in Granitebeak. I apologize for my behaviour-.”

The griffon herself just shook her head, before looking back at the unicorn. “Don’t let it get you down, Shining… If it makes you feel better, you can compensate me financially.”

“And just like that, Fidget’s back to her normal self.” Rain thought to himself, just as the knight and his companions noticed something in the far off distance. As they got closer, the four of them found themselves approaching a huge metal structure that towered over everything in the distance. Huge steel beams that dug into the earth, cliffside and the ground along the coastline kept it standing as a variety of cranes extended all around the outer exterior of the building.

As it turned out… This huge metal structure was actually the same airship factory that Fidget had been talking about over the last few minutes and honestly, Rain did not expect for such a facility to look like this. Back in Equestria, most of the factories that they had to create carriages and train cars were done in indoor facilities that could take up a whole warehouse, but this was a lot different from what he thought it would be. Though, as they were entering the facility’s bottom floor, Fidget already seemed to be enjoying herself as she briefly looked around for a moment.

“Ah… This definitely takes me back,” She smiled, before looking back at her companions. “I’ve had so many good memories in this old place…”

Yet, it was around that time that Luna herself… was puzzled by those remarks. And by one other detail about where they were. “But… there’s nopony here.”

“Well, that’s the thing,” Fidget sighed for a moment, before looking back to her friends as the tone in her voice began to shift. “A long time ago, this place was deserted and the Gustcloud factory’s tasks were taken over by the shipyard in Granitebeak, see?”

“Fidget,” Shining then spoke up. “I don’t think that I need to remind you that we don’t exactly have the time for any detours.”

In response, the griffon shook her head in an effort to refocus before telling him something. “I already know that. So don’t worry about it, Mr. Prince,” She told him, using a nickname that she had called Shining earlier to get his attention. “Besides, I know that if we cut directly through this facility, then we can be able to get much farther ahead of our enemies.”

“So it’s a shortcut then,” Rain then commented.

“See? Blondie gets it,” She teased, leaving Rain a little bit bewildered as the griffon turned back around you. “I told you that we were going to reach the temple, and since I know this place like the back of my claw, we should have no trouble going through here!” With Fidget as their guide, the four of them were able to explore the facility and look around for anything that could potentially help them. However, the more and more that they explored through the facility, the whole thing felt less like a shortcut through an empty factory and more like a field trip down what Fidget would consider as Memory Lane. Especially at some points where she acted less like a guide trying to help find their way out of there and more like a tour guide trying to show a group of tourists the entire facility.

Which became more evident upon reaching a room on the second floor and finding one of the things that she had been telling her companions about all the way here. Unlike the rest of the facility, this room reminded Rain of what would be that of a chamber in Canterlot Castle from the way that everything inside the room was organized to the carpet that was rolled out in the hallway. But the one thing that really stood out was a makeshift wooden model of what appeared to be an airship in a display case in front of-.

“This is it!! This was what I was telling you guys before,” Fidget squeaked as she looked at the frames on the wall behind her with a sense of awe and wonder on her face. “The room where they kept the portrait of all the Cid’s over the years.”

As Rain looked around, the setup for the entire room felt as if he was in an exhibit for a museum. Almost like the Museum of Magical Studies that Stardust took Shining, Sunset and him too while they were still training for a field trip. This went as far as to seeing signs on some of the stands and display cases that were boldly labeled as ‘DO NOT TOUCH’. Most notably… the airship model in the case that was titled as ‘The Invincible’.

Fidget herself though was primarily focused on the portraits along the wall as she was talking to Luna about them. Including the one that stood out the most that was in the center of the room. Upon looking at it, Rain saw the painting and thought that this was the first Cid. Not just because it matched most of the details that Fidget had said earlier from the appearance and the color of his feathers, but because it also had the same scar on the left cheek.

The griffon technician that was with him soon confirmed what he was thinking as she began to explain more, after telling them that this was indeed the very first Cid. “There were a lot of old tales of the first Cid. He was the founder of the airship technology that we use today and the first griffon to have befriended the dwarves.”

However, before she could go any further, that was when Shining interjected as the unicorn looked back at her. “Fidget, I understand that you’re using this opportunity to walk down memory lane… but if we continue like this, this shortcut would not exactly qualify as what you say it is.”

In a matter of seconds, reality hit the griffon as she scratched the back of her head in embarrassment. “Ah geez… You’re right, Shining. I’m really sorry about getting carried away.” she replied back, before turning to see what appeared to be an exit door that went upstairs and opening it up for them. Letting the knights and the white magus go first so she could get one last look at the portrait of her idol before leaving the room.

After walking up a set of stairs to the next floor, they found themselves on the shipyard’s docks. And upon walking out the door, Fidget immediately saw something that was out of place. “What in the-!? What the beak is that doing here?” Just as the four of them were getting onto the catwalk, they could see something that was immediately out of place. There was an airship in the docks right now and it was a massive one. It easily dwarfed the size of some of the ship that Rain had been on before when traveling from Canterlot to Ponyville and it looked like it had been through combat before because of some of the minor scratches and scars along the size of the vessel.

“Fidget, I thought you told us that this place was deserted.” Shining himself now spoke up, recalling what the griffon had told them as they were first entering the factory.

“It is, this placed was decommissioned forever ago! No one else is supposed to be here.” Fidget countered for a moment as she looked back at the vessel again. Just as caught off guard about this new development as everyone else was.

“I’ve never even seen one like this before…” Rain added on. Though, the more that he looked at it, the more that something about it seemed awfully familiar. But also happened to notice something by the control panel for the ship. “Fidget, look!” The knight pointed out to her. From what they could see, it appeared to be that there were several dwarves there working on the ship. Which, surprised the griffon as she walked over there with Rain and the others following right behind her, wanting to know what exactly were they doing… and more importantly, why were they here?

Approaching the dwarf who appeared to be in charge, Fidget herself took a moment to look at the dwarves that were hard at work. Trying to see if she knew any of them. However, that didn’t quite go as planned as she had originally hoped. “I… don’t recall seeing some of them at the forge… Maybe they’re from another village or something?” She turned to face one of the dwarves as she watched them work without making a sound at all. Acting dreadfully quiet as if they were under somepony’s control.

Of course, one of them did happen to speak after Fidget bashfully spoke up. “Hey, can somebirdy explain what’s the big deal with this airship here?” None of the dwarves responded to her and just kept on working… which prompted Fidget to add a follow up statement. “Why are you building something like this in this old place. Did somebirdy force you to work here?”

That was when one dwarf actually turned around, facing Fidget and the others before giving a prompt response. “Nothing like that at all, miss. Me work here on my own free will for the same of that great griffon,” That prompted Rain and the others in order to stand behind Fidget as the dwarf continued to speak. “This ancient airship, the Invincible… We unearthed it from the ground here. It’s powered by the Heart of Babel.”

“Hold on… The Invincible?” Rain thought to himself, before realizing something. “Wasn’t that the name on the model ship where they had those Cid portraits?”

“The Heart of Babel!? No kidding, the Heart of Babel?” The griffon originally said, sounding as if she knew what they were talking about. Of course… that did not entirely last long. “I… honestly don’t know what exactly that is, but judging by the name it sounds powerful!”

“It may be, but we never got the damn thing to move off the ground,” The dwarf cursed. Though, it was what he said next that immediately caught the knight’s attention. “The Heart’s power is sealed by a crystal so…”

“Wait… Sealed by a crystal?”

The single question from Rain was met by the red lights going off around the facility and sounds of alarms echoing everywhere, catching him and his companions by surprise as they were trying to understand what was happening. The only one who did know what was going on was the dwarf that was talking to them… and as what he had to say wasn’t exactly good. “Ah, that’ll be the security systems, then… since you lot are trespassing. The defense system’s about to give ya everything it’s got, so me would run for it… though, that’s just me opinion.”

“Right…” Rain said, noticing what appeared to be numerous security drones now converging on their position as he reached for his greatsword. “Point taken… but I think it’s a little bit too late for that.”

“Aw beak…” Fidget cursed as Shining drew his katana and Luna readied her bow, preparing to engage in combat with the security drones. “Sorry guys, turns out my shortcut is not really working out for us-”

At that moment, Shining swung his sword two times to slash a pair of mechanical robots in two as he looked back at the griffon. “Fidget, this is no time for trying to offer us discounts! We need to find a way to get out of here safely!” Rain nodded his head in agreement as he also engaged the security forces. Taking down a pair of guards and a security eye before it can fire off any of its weapons.

“Y-you got it!!” The griffon replied back as she stood next to Luna and began to look around for a way to get out of the facility. “I’ll guide us to an exit and- Hey! Who said anything about discounts!?!”

All Rain and Shining did was ignore that stray comment as they continued to combat both the mechanical bots, foot soldiers that were guarding the place and also monsters that just happened to wander in from outside. But it was during their escape that Rain heard Fidget talk to herself about a question that all of them had on their minds right around now. More specifically, the airship that they were seeing… It sounded like ‘The Invincible’ was an ancient airship from a long time ago, so who exactly would go this far in order to try and unearth it from underground?

But it was something that they had to worry about later. Because as it is right now, they already had a lot to deal with in the present moment. From fighting enemies to trying to find a way to get out of here, the four of them were scrambling all over the place. Encountering more machines and monsters along the way as they made their way to what looked like a loading bay with an open garage door.

But just when the four of them thought that they could be able to finally catch their breath, they heard a new voice begin to speak. “Well, well, well… Looks like the changes to the security system worked out perfectly. Originally, I thought some rather large rats would’ve triggered the alarm,” They turned to the opening of the garage, just as they saw what looked to be another griffon step out. This time, it was a male with a similar appearance to that of Fidget. However, his clothes were different then that of her own. “But it was you, Fidget?”

Upon noticing the new griffon, Fidget widened her eyes for a moment. “Gaven!? What the hell are you doing here?!”

“You took the words right out of my mouth, kid sister,” The griffon smirked. However, upon noticing Rain and the others, his expression quickly changed as he let out a deep sigh. “Don’t tell me… You and your friends here… They’re the ones causing all this trouble for Lord Veritas? Seriously?”

“LORD Veritas?” Rain now questioned the moment that the griffon’s words were spoken. “So you’re working for that bastard?”

“Sorry pal, but that’s not going to fly,” Gaven shot back at him. “You can only answer a question with a question, when you’re the griffon in charge. Besides, your presence here tells me all that I need to know… and I’m not going to let you interfere with Lord Veritas’ plans. Come on out, guardian!!”

The moment that he finished his last sentence, something began to emerge from the garage. An overly huge mechanical contraption that appeared to have three different weapons on the left and right side of the construct as well as the center. And it had just detected Rain and the others as a threat.

“W-wait! Gaven, you don’t have to do this!!” Fidget shouted out to try and convince her brother to snap out of it. However, that did not exactly work as he just smirked.

“Have to? Heh… Of course I don’t have to. I choose to serve,” He said, before thinking of something else to say. “You know… you could join me, Gadget-”

“Don’t… call me that.”

“Working for Lord Veritas and to help achieve his goals… it’s one of the greatest honors any true airship engineer could dream of!” He continued to speak.

However, that did not stop Fidget from trying to get her brother to snap out of whatever trance she thought he was in. “What are you talking about!? What happened to you, Gaven?!”

Though… it was in that moment that something else caught their attention. Fidget’s mechabo, who had been following her and everypony else around the entire facility, had finally caught up with them. But when Gaven saw it, all he did was look at it in disgust before looking directly back at his sister. “Ha… Don’t tell me. You’re still stuck in that fantasy of mass producing airships? How childish of you to be chasing those dreams…”

And that… made Fidget snap. “Alright, you know what!? That’s it!! My dreams are not goddess damned childish and you can go straight to the Abysmal Abyss for all I care about! Whatever you are, you’re no brother of mine now!!”

At first, Gaven did not say anything… but after a few seconds, that’s when he let out a deep sigh. “So that’s how it's going to be? Then I guess this is where we part ways for good then,” He said, turning around and walking past the construct that was behind him before saying one last sentence. “Guardian… Eradicate Gadget and her friends. Completely.”

Quickly, the Guardian approached the four of them and began to prepare its weapon systems. Aiming directly at the group as Rain and the others were caught off guard. He did not have enough time in order to try and cast a defensive based spell, so his next option was to try and go for the evocation bead he had in his pocket. “Carbuncle, we’re really in a jam right now! Can you help us?”

“Sorry Rain, but I can’t help you guys out here! My Ruby Light only reflects magic and spells,” The Esper told him, just as they saw the Guardian beginning to charge it’s main cannon. “There’s no magic coming from that thing!”

“Damn it!” Rain cursed, drawing his Crimson Saber. “Looks like we got no other choice! Everyone, get ready for a fight!!”

“YOU SHALL NOT PASS!! DEFENSIVE PROTOCOLS ACTIVATE.” They heard a robotic voice come from the automaton as Shining Armor drew out his blade as well. Aiming it’s weapons at them, the Guardian began to fire off a series of lasers that scattered all around the compound as Rain and Shining did their best to try and dodge them before attacking. However, as their blades connected with the outer shell of the machine, they realized that they couldn’t even make a dent in it.

“What the?! What’s this thing made out of?” Shining said, just as the robot attempted to fire off another laser to push Shining backwards. Clipping the unicorn’s shoulder in the process.

“Count 5…”

“What was that just now?” Rain asked himself, backing up so he could regroup with Shining Armor. Luna herself began to conjure a healing spell to sooth the injuries that Shining had sustained as the unicorn looked back at Rain and the Griffon that was nearby.

“How in the world are we supposed to stop that thing? We can barely make a dent in it!”

“Come on guys, you gotta focus!!” Fidget told them, before looking back at the construct and noticing something. “I think I figured out what it’s trying to do.”

“Oh really, enlighten me.” Shining deadpanned.

“It’s buying time to charge up the main cannon. That’s why it’s only using the weapons on its shoulders against us.” Fidget pointed out to her. “Maybe we can use this as a chance to-”

“I’m sorry for having to interrupt you Fidget, but we got more lasers incoming!” Rain told her as he dodged another pair of incoming beams and conjured some fire magic. Thinking that it could be able to melt a hole in the exterior of the construct, Rain fired off his spell as it hit the Guardian. However, when the flames died down, all that the Guardian received was a few burned plates of metal, but nothing that he was trying to go for.

“Oh come on!”

“Count 4…”

Backing up again, Rain had to jump out of the way of several lasers that were fired at him. However, despite avoiding a majority of them, one happened to graze the side of his chest. Leaving a nasty burn as the pain seared throughout his body. It was in that moment that Shining himself began to try something with his own magic, casting aero spells in an effort for the extreme wind to try and tear off some of the metal plating. However, it somehow triggered something in the machines program to resist Shining’s magic as it knocked him backwards.

“Count 3…”

“This is bad. Nothing that we’re doing is even affecting it,” Shining remarked, gritting his teeth and wiping some of the marking off his sleeves as he looked back at Rain. “Does anyone exactly have some kind of plan!?”

“Count 2…”

“No! And even if we tried, I don’t think I have enough magic to put up a proper barrier like the one against Veritas!” Rain shot back, but standing defiantly and at the ready as Fidget stood nearby them. They were out of options at this point… and time was running out.

“Count 1… Charge complete. Firing Main Cannon…”

“Here it comes!!” Rain said, just as the cannon on the guardian began to fire a gigantic laser blast. As it surged towards them, the knight and his companions were blinded by the sheer power that this single blast contained. However, a few seconds after being fired, they soon realized something. None of them were injured… none of them had burn marks or were hurt in any way.

But when they turned back towards the guardian, that was when they realized what exactly saved them. In between them and the battle construct was the beaten and battered exterior of Fidget’s mechabo. It had wandered directly into the guardians line of fire to block the attack, despite the damage that it did to its own body. And seeing it there had Fidget look at it with a horrified expression on her face. “Mechabo!!”

“It… it protected us…” Luna replied, just as shocked as both of the knights that were with her right now.

“We have Mechabo to thank for saving our lives… It chose to protect us and it’s creator,” Shining then commented, before saying something else as the griffon slowly walked towards it. “It was truly a worthy creation…”

Fidget couldn’t agree more with that as she looked back at her creation, getting on the ground as she hugged the metal remains of her own invention. “Mechabo… thank you… I’ll fix you up in no time… that’s a promise-”

“First charge released. Hostiles not eliminated… Firing second charge.”

“Oh no! It can fire twice!!” Rain shouted out upon hearing that. “Fidget!!”

In that moment though, something began to happen. Luna, out of desperation, tried to reach out with her power in order to help protect Fidget from what the Guardian was about to unleash. Though, it was in that moment that a crystal began to form in her hands. One that glowed with the colors of a rainbow. She remembered watching Rain and Shining call upon the visions that were crystals similar to this one to help them in previous encounters on their journey… and she also thought that calling upon whoever was in this crystal was the only chance she had of saving Fidget.

“Whoever can hear this… please, help my friend!!” She thought to herself, channeling her power into the crystal as she heard it crack open. In seconds, there was a loud boom that almost shook the entire factory as the blast from the Guardian was fired. However, much to the surprise of everypony who was watching, Fidget was not hurt. She was able to get out of there rather quickly as she turned to the others.

“What in the world did you just do?!” Fidget then asked.

“I… think she just summoned a vision.” Shining answered.

“A what-?”

“We’ll explain later…” Rain promised the griffon as she looked back to him. “Though… question is… who exactly did Fina summon-?”

“Hahahaha!!!” They all heard the sound of laughter coming from where Fidget was as the dust began to settle. A dark blue stallion now stood there, sporting black combat armor around his chest and upper legs, but nothing on his arms and hooves. He had a helmet on that showed off his blue mane and tail as they heard the figure continue speak. “Fear not, my comrades!! Now that I am here, I can help protect you all!! So is my duty!”

That… made Shining’s eyes widen as he soon realized who exactly this stallion was. “Oh dear Celestia, that’s Commander Hurricane!!”

All that did was have Rain look back at him with a raised eyebrow. “Who?”

“Commander Hurricane was the leader of the Pegasi and the one of the founders of Equestria. The lengths he took in order to personally throw himself into harm's way in order to help others have made him recognized as a hero to his people,” Shining explained to him. Even though he did not notice the stallion that he was talking about coming back towards him. “He also was the one who founded the Cloudsdale Royal Legion, the same military unit that Flash Magnus was a part of.”

“I see that somepony here is knows a lot about me!” Hurricane’s words caused a shiver to go down Shining’s spine as he turned around to face him. “I don’t know who you all are, or where I am, but you can count on me to-” It was around then that Hurricane looked directly at where Luna was standing, who was honestly shocked by everything that was going on… and happened to say something that did not go down so well. “P-princess Luna? What are you doing in a place like this?”

That had Fidget blink for a moment before letting out the first thing that came to her head in that moment. “Woah, woah, woah, woah!! She’s a freaking princess?!! Why didn’t you guys tell me-!”

“We were trying to not draw attention to ourselves-” Rain’s sentence was cut off as he noticed the Guardian in the distance. It was beginning to get back up as he turned back to everypony else. “But how about we focus on that after we try to find a way to get out of here first!”

“Already thought of that! Follow me!!” Fidget retorted, having the rest of them follow her to what looked like a set of wooden doors that were on the floor in the far back. Briefly, Rain could notice that they the doors were labeled as ‘Scrap Cart’ as he saw Fidget turn towards the new arrival of the group. “Hey big guy! Hit that release switch!”

“Wait, what-?” Before Shining could ask what she was talking about, Hurricane did exactly as Fidget told him. As the Guardian was locking onto them with it’s weapons, the doors from underneath them gave way, dropping all of them down as they soon began to realize that the ‘doors’ was actually a minecart. To Fidget, she knew that this facility always had a system to dispose all unneeded material into a minecart. Once it was full, the minecart would automatically take them to the end of the track to dump whatever was in the cart to the Garnet Scrapyard, a recycling plant that was not far from the facility.

Yet, when she was doing this, she didn’t actually tell Rain or anypony else about that. Which lead to Shining look back at her with a shocked expression on his face. “This was your escape plan!?”

“If you want to slow it down, hold onto the handle there.” Fidget told him. However, when Shining did what she said, the handle for the cart snapped off.

“It’s no good, the brakes are shot!”

“Wheee!!” They all heard Luna shot in that moment. “Faster! Faster! This is fun!!”

“Luna, I don’t think this is the time to be enjoying yourself!!” Rain then said as he looked back at everyone in the cart before looking farther down the track. Realizing that the end was in sight. “Everypony hold onto something!!”

Once the cart hit the end of the runway, it sent everypony that was on board flying in the air for a few seconds into the piles of broken machines and metal. But just as everypony was coming down towards the ground, they felt themselves falling gently onto a strong gust of wind. They soon came to realize that Hurricane himself was using his weather magic as a pegasus to ensure that everypony landed safely.

“Is everypony alright? Nopony is hurt?” Hurricane asked, checking on everypony before looking to Fidget. “Are you alright, miss-?”

“I’m fine… I’m just pissed,” Fidget growled for a moment. “I can’t believe that scumbag would actually do something like that! When I see him again, I’m going to punch him so hard he’ll go straight to the abysmal abyss!! Cid made the first airship for his love of the skies, not to be used for war. So I’m going to beat him my way!! You hear that Gaven, you hear me!!!”

That… left the commander a bit baffled as he began to turn back towards Luna. Who happened to be standing right next to Rain as he asked them a single question. “Am I… missing something here? Because I’m not entirely sure what’s going on.”

The knight looked back towards the white magus for a moment, before looking back towards the commander. “Perhaps we should explain everything while we try to find our way out of here. You’ll know what’s going on once we caught you up to speed.”

Author's Notes:

A new chapter and new things begin to unfold. Not to mention that now we have a new vision for Rain to have in his party. Let's take a look.

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Name: Commander Hurricane
Job: Founder
Role: Tank, Support, (Physical Attacker)
Rarity: 5*~6*
Origin: Equestria's Six Founders
Gender: Male
Race: Pegasus
Trust Mastery: Maelstrom Cape (Accessory; +10 Attack, +5 Defense, 100% Resistance to Lightning and Wind Damage. Enables 'Heroic Presence'; which increases the units chance of covering it's allies and issuing a follow up attack afterwards)
Current Trust: 5.0% (Gained after seeing that Luna is the one who summoned him)

Innate Abilities:
-Bare Knuckle Extreme (Passive, 5*): Increased Attack by 200% when unarmed
-Not on my watch!! (Passive, 5*): When an enemy initiates an attack, there's a high chance that Hurricane can intercept the attack and take the blow himself, applying damage mitigation. He also gains access to Cross Counter.
-Cross Counter (Conditional, 5*): A powerful counterattack that ignores enemies defenses to a single target. Can only be active through his passive.
-Provoke (Active, 5*): Increases chance of being targeted (100%) for one turn.
-Sucker Punch (Active, 5*): Increases Attack Power by 100% for four turns and increases the fill rate of Hurricane's Limit Burst Gauge by 200%
-Slipstream Kick (Active, 6*): A powerful attack that strikes all opponents in front of Hurricane and enables Whirlwind Blitz (4x Damage to a single enemy) or Lightning Bringer (4x Damage to all enemies).
-Inspire (Active, 6*): Increases Attack/Magic by 80% for 3 turns to all allies.
-Encourage (Active, 6*): Increases Defense/Spirit by 80% for 3 turns to all allies.

Biography:
The leader of the Pegasi Tribe and one of the six ponies who first founded the Kingdom of Equestria. Hurricane is known for not just his strength and his skills with flying, but also his willingness to recklessly throw himself into any situation if it were to save somepony's life. He was also the founder of the Cloudsdale Royal Legion, a military force dedicated to protecting the ponies of Cloudsdale as a whole. His heroics had also inspired the likes of other ponies too, including the royal legion cadet known as Flash Magnus years later.

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Hurricane's role as a unit is that he serves as a Counter Tank with the abilities of Brawler units like Goken in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. With most of Rain's team consisting of characters that mostly focus on dealing damage, Hurricane's role is to protect his comrades and provoke enemies while everyone else deals damage. It was kind of a role that seemed missing that I felt needed to be filled and Hurricane felt like the best fit for the job.

Hope you guys like it and stay tuned for more.
-Frost

Fun Fact, Hurricane's personality is based on 'loud and proud' characters, such as Rider from Fate/Zero and All Might from My Hero Academia.