After many hours and many miles later, we made our way to an old and forgotten city that looks like something like from fertile Japan or ancient China. Danny's drone flying over the forgotten city to get a better look at it, while the rest made our way deeper into the city. "This reminds me of a story I heard growing up?" Rarity asks herself over the radio. "You mean the story of Mistmane you told us during that camp trip?" Rainbow asks her " Yes, that the one. But this place looks like has seen better days." She answers her friend while trying to get a better at what happened here and why it was left in ruin.

We got kelp going until seeing something in the distance that's we never suspected in a million years; a statue of another dragon but this one looks different than one we before and the ones the Twilight and the others seen back in their world. The statue head looks like a normal dragon, but there's something like strings coming from the side of its face next to its mouth. But the body doesn't look like a normal dragon, it has a body more like a snake.

We stop at the statue to get a better look at it. "This must be another type of dragon?" Spike asks looking at the statue in front of him. While I notice something on the platform and wipe away the most relieving a stone plate with a strange looking keyhole next to a plate.
"Here stands the lair of the Forest Guardian."

"Who would build a statue of the Guardian? Unless." I said thinking out loud before quickly heading back to the getting the Forest Key. "James, what you're doing?" Duke asks me making everyone else look at me heading back to the statue with the key.
"Why is there a statue with the same keyhole used for the other elemental doors from the other worlds we trying to get the others elements?" I ask them with the key in my hand.

"You mean?" Twilight answers me with a question of her own before covering her mouth and gapping when it finally clicks for her and the others, as I put the key into the keyhole.

Within a matter of seconds, the key starting to glow as the grown around us starting to shake making creaks around the statue lowering itself, making to dive towards the key and it before it when into the darkenest below. Then the ground us and the cars make a big jolt making everyone nearly fall to the ground, before lowering us towards where the statue is heading. Danny sees what going on toke is drone into the deeps where we are heading.

Moments later the ground stopped where the statue as stopped and the key stopped glowing and I take the key from the keyhole. Rainbow and AJ look up to see the hole that just made is nearly the size of their thumbs or the size of the moon of there world. Once Danny rejoins with us there's only one path leading towards into darkness in front of us. Then a pulse of a normal green color came from the darkness towards us.

"Fluttershy." When a voice in the distance scares nearly everyone. "How does it knows my name?" Fluttershy asks out loud.
"I don't know, but there only one way to find out." Rainbow answer her question getting back on her bike and starting her engine. "Rainbow!" Twilight shouted to her getting her attention. "Listen Rainbow there no telling what kind of guardian we're dealing with until we do let just take slow to see what this dragon does." Twilight tells Rainbow to talk some sense into her.

"She right, there no telling what this dragon might be doing being a guardian of the element we need." AJ respawn from Twilight just said.
"There a change that this guardian is one of the nice ones like some of the others?" Pinky said with a smile on her face.

"Fluttershy; come to me, I need you." The voice calls out to them again like he's hurt making Fluttershy think out loud. "He sounds like hurt." before jumping to action towards getting in her car and starting the engine and taking towards where the guardian would be.

"Fluttershy wait up." Twilight said over the radio making the rest of us follow her towards where the element and the guardian would be.
Moments later with the pluses from the element leading the way; we found a large room with roots coming from the trees at the surface. At the center is the element plus- acting like the others before.

"Nice, you and friends as showed up." The voice said to us making us look around the room to see where it's coming from. "OK guardian; we know what you look, so show yourself!" Rainbow shouts to the voice wherever it coming from. "Rainbow, you're always looking for a fight." The answer her with a sarcastic flair in his voice before a bright flash of light coming from above us making everyone to cover our eyes from the light.

There's movement coming from the other side of the light making very hard to see what behind it. Once the light died down showing the guardian looking just like the statue, but looking a lot older with green and yellow scales. Yellow eyes glowing brightly as the sun looking at us. He's holding something in his claw-like hand looking something that I can't make it out from inside my car.
I got out of my car to see this guardian in face to face. He lands next to me making me remove my sunglasses to show him my eyes that I'm not the who he thinks I am. "James, I'm so sorry about what happened." He tells me, making to shed a tear a little from my own past.

"Now there's something I need to show you." He tells us making the thing in his hand glowing again so bright white.
The next thing we know it we're back in Equestria in the city of Ponyville, but it's very different from what Twilight and her friends remember. The city is left in a ner state of ruins and seeing a huge ship in the ski hovering for what looks hundreds maybe thousands of feet in the air going as far the eye can see. The Peace of Omega in the ski near the ship.

"Where are we?" Rainbow asks out loud looking around getting off her bike before seeing the city of Cloudsdale be attack by some both Reds attack drones and gunships sending the floating city into a fireball in the ski.

"What's going on?" Applejack said getting out of seeing what's happening around them seeing her home and farm being in a set of flames by of drones with flamethrowers setting fire to the apple trees that she and her family spent a lifetime building.

Twilight and Spike see their home being destroyed by those tanks they have seen earlier yesterday. "Starlight!" Twilight before hitting the gas heading to the castle as fast she can as well Spike trying his best to keep up with her but falling behind. Both of them are only a few yards away until the base of the castle starting to fall; making both them to it their breaks seeing their home fall the ground smashing to pieces. "No, no." Twilight tells herself getting out of her car, running as fast she can towards the rubble to see if Starlight got out in time mindless else checking through the rubble until she sees her body bearly hanging on for life. Starlight opens her eyes to see Twilight in her human form and could only say one thing. "I'm sorry." reaching her with one of her hooves towards her before falling down next to her, letting go of her last breath closing her eyes for the last time. By that point Twilight breakdown crying from pain and heartache from the event.

Fluttershy sees a huge tree she seen back on Forest World just as big in the middle of the Everfree Forest. Before looking overseeing the forest being cut down with more Reds machines and bulldozers, the animals even the Timberwolves trying to fight them off, but with no avail with Drones killing and destroying them the further the machines when.

Rarity and Pinky sees both their homes felt in ruin and the Cakes as well other ponies running for their lives running past the both of them; turning around to see more of those drones and bigger ones with people inside them looking more like suit of armor, carrying rifles and miniguns that would go on a helicopter than anything else. Then the ground shank beneath their feet making both of wonder what to come at them. Seconds later something did behind the drones, eyes glowing red with fire walking on three legs looking more snakes from the way are moving, scaring both of them to near death from the hight along, the beast they see stands over 70th ft tall. The weapons that it's carrying makes of two miniguns and something that I could never see before. The weapon charges up before firing a ray of light as bright as the sun towards the crowd of ponies, sending them into nothing but smoke and ash remind of the crowd where the weapon it. Ponies still alive ran through the smoke turning their colts and manes to gray or near gray from being nearby when it hit.

Both me and Duke sees what going right in front of eyes and seen this time and again from the attack on the base years ago, But this time it's very different it wasn't just the base this it was the whole world this time. Then I hear a voice behind me. "Both of you have seen this before?" The voice asked the both us, making me turn to see it's the guardian. "Where are we?" I ask him. "Your where you need to be, to be seen what would happen in your mission." He answers my question before showing all of us something else. The around of us turn from death and ruin to a cave where's a tree made up by the castle.

Twilight sees what happened around her and trying to find out what just happen to herself and her friends, before turning to see the Tree of Harmony with the elements still inside the tree itself. The tree isn't looking like the way Twilight remembers the last time she saw it, that because the tree turning dark from what going out and throughout the land of Equestria and beyond. Then people starting to make their way into the cave where the tree is being kelp. Everyone turns around to see who is coming and come to find out it was no other than the General himself with some commanders following him. "So your the source of the power of this world?" He asks the tree like it could take or something, then in a small flash, something came from the tree taking the form of Twilight in pony form. "So your the force the destruction and chaos?" She asks him. "You mean what going on outside, then yes I am." He answers her question with a cocky ass attitude. Making her look angry from what he just said before he reaches out to the other men behind him, handing him something that looks that many times before back on Earth. "Let me ask you this, do you know what this is?" He asks her holding the device in hand. "No, I don't." She answers him. "Well let me show, what five pounds of C-4 would do." He said before throwing it towards the tree, making me jump into action running towards the explosive before landing on the middle of the tree, With the detonator handing to him from one of the other men with and flip the switch making the C-4 into giant fireball and a shockwave hurting the pony form the tree taking form of, when she opened her eyes she sees the figure standing over her. "I knew that wouldn't kill you. I just want to know what these gems are and what do they do?" He asks her grabbing her with one arm and pulling a handgun with his other hand before pointing it at the tree. "They're the Elements of Harmony." She answers him taking a breath before continuing. "They are elements represents strength throughout the land and world. Only a few that represents can the Elements the most can handle them and used their power for the good of the world." She answers him making him angry a little making him fire the handgun where been aiming at which was the tree itself.

Everyone even myself is shock what's going on going on in front of us. Twilight just wanted to hit the General in anger, but it would be useless because this is only a vision of what may come to be. Then in a flash, we're back in the room we were before he showed us what he wanted to show us.

"What was all of that?" AJ asks the Guardian for what they just saw back there. "That is what will happen if you fail in your mission before the Darkness can found out about your world and destroy it before you can get back home." He answers her.

"Wait, you mean this will happen if the General and his Reds get to Equestria before we even have a chance to get home?" Rarity asks out loud. "Also what was that giant ship hovering over Ponyville?" Rainbow asks trying to make what she saw in ski above the city.

"Not only that; but why would he be interested in the Tree of Harmony?" Spike asks next question.

"All that I can say, is that there's one thing that saves your world from other distortion and that is a word that only a few people know about. Two of them are in this room as we speak." The old dragon tells us before touching the ground before us. "You mean the MR Series?" I ask him. "Yes." He answers my question. "No, no those words can never be said in a million years." I said being stunned from what he just told me and the others.

"James, what are you talking about?" Spike asks me, making take a deep breath and swallow my pride before telling them the truth. "Do you remember what happen back in Los Angeles?" I ask the seven of them.

"Yes, you mean the mess you made daring?" Rarity asks me. "Yes, there's a reason why the MRPD tries to catches me. You see after I discovered the nine worlds, back on Earth I built a business around what I discover on that day with money I had on me at the time after the speed test of the mark 1 of the car you see today. After the qualifying rounds was over and done; the real racing begins right into the nine worlds and war that been going on for a very long time. The race series was a huge hit all around the world and made over 5 billion dollars from the views alone and the mark 1 was put into a museum in my hometown. The second year was the same thing as the first year but more divers showed for the qualifying rounds and I was there's when I might Becky." I stop to take a breath before continuing on what I have to say. "After the second year and Becky became trap on the nine worlds. The MRPD tried to catch the drivers even me as well but they could only do that during the City Event. Once the third year started MRPD started showing up on the tracks with the Silenzers and Reds through there owned portals, the same portal we are using today; also their cars became faster than before doing everything they can to catch every driver, but the ones that tried either crashed their cars or got destroyed from the environments of the other eight worlds. After I became trapped and joined up with Silenzers, I found out that the Grand Leader, the old General of the Reds, and the Chief of MRPD met together before the third year started that only way to end the MR series was that I took out of action and close the portal to Earth so that this wouldn't happen again and if the words of the MR series get said out loud it starts all over again." I explain to them the best way that I can.

"Well then, it would be best not to say those words if we don't want that happen to us." Spike said out. "Now what about this element. The only ones who haven't got one let are me, Rarity, and Fluttershy." Twilight said before Fluttershy step forward.

"I'll do it." She said stepping closer to element making the plus go a faster and faster the closer she got until she right next to it. "Wait." The Guardian said landing next to her. "After you take the element, take this as well." He tells her putting the clear ball that he used to show us what we need to know, on the ground next to her. She takes a deep breath before reaching out with her right hand and putting it on it making it glow brightly as a sun making everyone else try to cover their eyes from the light when Fluttershy screams can be heard from across the room. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Fluttershy screamed from the plain as the element takes a new form of a chip looking us like the others with the same symbol like the key as on it. The roots around begins to shack before there's a shock wave when she finally able to pull the element out; making it glow green and a mark on the side of her neck as well.

A few seconds later the guardian falls to the ground; Fluttershy sees him falling to the ground making run to him to see if he needs some help. Both the element and the mark on the side of her neck still glowing. "It alright Fluttershy, this has to happen because I have seen." He tells her before closing his eyes for the last time. The glowing from the element and the mark has stopped she couldn't help but cry for him and what he has gone throughout these years.

Twilight and her friends came to if she going to be alright. "Fluttershy?" Twilight said her name with considered. "Yes, Twilight." She answers her trying to hold back some of the tears. "It ok, those who already have an element knows how you feel right now." She tells her friend trying to cheer her up a little. "It not that why I'm crying. It because I can still feel him touching my shoulder knowing that he's in a better place now." Fluttershy tells her friend.

I check the timer on my watch showing 10:27 am, I check on the timer inside my car showing less than 10 hrs left and the pup taking a nap in the passager seat. "Must be a heavy sleeper." I thought to myself before heading back to the others.

"How much time is left?" AJ asks me. "We got less than 10 hrs to reach the portal before the marker battery dies." I answer her question. "Best for us to get a move on then." Applejack said running back to her truck. Fluttershy gets back on her feet and picks up the clear ball before getting back to her car as well everyone else towards their vehicles heading back to the elevator and to the surface.

By the time we reach the surface there are animals all around us even the giant gorilla we seen before is also there. Also, Rexy and the Raptors are there as well in the sky has a green hue like the northern lights back on Earth. "What's are they doing here?" Rainbow asks looking confused as ever. "I don't know." I answer making me confuse as well from going on right in front of me.

Animals from all sizes came to see something that they haven't seen for a long time on this world a passing of a guardian and see who or what is the next guardian. Rexy steps forward us making me and Fluttershy get out of our cars trying to found out what going on and why you're all here. "Rex, what going on?" I ask him. "We're here to pay respect to the new Guardian of this world and we'll follow her to the end." He answers my question as well tells the rest of us through the collar.

The animals begin to clear a path on the ancient road we use when we found the city. The both of us got back into our cars and slowly made our way down the cleared path in front of us, Rexy, the Raptors, the giant gorilla, and the others made all kind of noise from roaring, beating their chest, kicking up dirt. While the ones who can fly flap the wings; while others kneel down as we when on past them. Once we were out of the city clear the last of the animals we gun it forwards the portal as fast we can.

After what felt like forever and hundreds of miles of going through the remains of the battlefield from yesterday and the old Silenzers main base, we reach the research center where I used to work at. When a Red portal opens where the exit is and all of the hit the breaks stopping a few yards away from the open portal waiting to see what will come out of it.

Seconds later only one vehicle came through and it was a Sweeper. The portal closes behind it; the Sweeper opens the front where a spinning gear was used for a door and out came were a few bikes and armor cars used for the zones years ago. But these weren't Reds they were something else entirely. One of them on a bike came towards us before stopping next to us pointing at his ear, making me change my radio to the right channel. "Can you hear me?" Ask the person on the bike. "Yes we can, may I ask who you and your friends are?" I ask him. "We're a special forces squadron for the Rebellion code name Predator Squadron." He answers my question I got a better look at him seeing a patch on his right arm showing what looks like a pather on it with claw marks underneath it. Before seeing another portal opening next to us. "We'll be in touch; James." He tells me before driving to the portal as well the other and Sweeper follow him. After both portals closed we got on our way towards where the gateway portal is located with the marker.

The timer keeps counting down the closer we got and only no less than ten miles to go when we reach the cliff face we used a few times before. We found the road and move as fast we could up the cliff face. While I look overseeing the old base and where Old Yeller is being stored and thought to myself. "It only a matter of time."

From only being only five miles from the marker now and only having less than five mins left. We stopped for a few seconds to put the key on top on my car. The timer keeps going and just drove on the dirt road until the place starting to look a familiar and I knew where we're heading. The timer showing only 45 seconds left and thinking to myself going 137 mph; "Come on, come on, just only a few more yards away."

The key shoots out from my car towards the portal and it's open up. We push our cars to speed to get through the gateway; back towards the city world and the shop.

Here is the 36^th Chapter of the story. This one takes some time to write and edit because of reasons that I can't get into right now. But the next chapter will head back to Equestria and one back grown pony you may know.

All that I can say is; "Spoilers."