Author's Notes:

This is going to be one of the longest fights in the story yet. Sorry for the short chapter, guys, but this was merely a prelude to the ongoing battle to the first EQG film's events. I hope to entertain you with this battle.

Thinking.

That was all Twilight could do for the moment.

She'd been thinking for half an hour since her friend's children were being soothed by the Princesses, even by Cadance who was now with them along with Luna. After what she had revealed to them, Celestia now regretted by had said that her son was gone aloud. Maybe she shouldn't had done that, maybe she should had her lips sealed, hidden from the children. But, no. She needed to tell them that their father was gone.

After what that two-headed hydra did, Twilight came to the conclusion that that creature couldn't be reformed as it had so much darkness in its heart. When she thought of this, Twilight couldn't help but wonder where it indeed came from. Was it really from another dimension like Moon said it was from? She hoped so, because it would be trespassing in another world if it was. She was unsure of how dimension travel even worked. Was it science? Well, for one thing, she was glad that she couldn't do a spell like that even if she did try, it would simply not work.

However, when she was thinking, all of her friends were doing their own business in keeping them calm and collected as they, too, saw what had happened to their Prince in that duel.

"I still think we ought to teach that Hydra a lesson." Rainbow said, pumping her hooves in the air.

"But, Rainbow, you've seen what it did to Moon, didn't you?" Applejack asked. "If you were going to be reckless, then it would certainly do the same to any of us." A sigh of frustration came from the rainbow pegasus. That was true.

Just then, something that startled them greatly, a portal appeared in the middle of the room.

"What the-?" Rainbow was cut off as a human jumped through the portal, dusting himself off as he looked at his surroundings. He was back. That was good.

"Moon!" Twilight squeaked as she ran up and hugged her friend tightly, just as the portal disappeared behind the human. She knew that this only human could be her friend.

"Easy, Twilight." Moon tried to calm her down. "I'm alright. I'm alright." He rubbed her back as he felt something wet on his belly. She was crying. He hated creatures showing their weakness.

"Have ya got any ideas on how worried ya made us?!" Applejack shouted at him, galloping up to them. "We've been worried for little over a day! A day for Celestia's sake!"

"Gee, chill, Applejack." Moon rolled his eyes. "For me, it has only been a few hours in Tartarus."

"Oh, yeah?" The orange pony snorted, unconvinced. "I've been trying, or should I say, we've been trying to calm ya children down when they cried. Ya could at least use yoor telepathic abilities to tell us on how you were fine. But, no. Instead, ya decided to make us worried sick for ya."

Jeez.Moon let out a small groan. "Just chill. I'm fine, wasn't I? I didn't need to tell you that. You could've just feel that I was alright in Tartarus, except for the five battles that I've been having while in that horrid place."

"You had five consecutive battles?" Celestia asked, walking up and hugged her son with her wings, before pulling back.

"Yup." Was all Moon replied with. "So, a little respect would suffice, Applejack, since all you've been doing is shouting at me as well as scolding me."

"Well, ya did worry us, after all." Applejack huffed, giving another snort.

"And, you've never been worried for a human being all this time when I was here." Moon pointed out.

"I-" Applejack cut herself off. "Good point." She gave him a small smile.

Dragon Lands...

Opening his eyes, the tall red dragon felt a breeze in the wind. He was back. So, let get this show over with.

"Virin," the red dragon snarled out. "I've been waiting for this day, Lizard Prince. The day where I'll finally defeat you in battle. Prepare yourself, for I'm coming foryouthis time."

Location: planet Earth, city: Tokyo...

Walking down the halls to the conference room, a tall pale man with a black mustache, brown hair, yellow eyes, and a black attire, was going through the halls. His name was Alimayo, a second-in-command for the Japanese Self Defense Forces.

After having witnessed the first Godzilla's attack in Tokyo in 1954, Alimayo was appointed to the second-in-command ranks in the Self-Defense Force as he had the courage to attack the monster with his men and had great strategies on how to deal with the Kaiju.

After several minutes later, Alimayo had gotten to the conference room as he opened the door by the handle, as the door slid back as the men inside the room looked at the one who entered their conference.

"Alright, let's begin." An rather thin man called out as Alimayo closed the door and sat on his seat.

"Any news on Godzilla's location?" Another thin man asked, looking through the group gathered here.

"Yes." Another nodded. "His location is in the depth of the Pacific Ocean. So, all we have to do is using bombs so we can get rid of the Kaiju."

"It won't be that easy." Alimayo raised a hand, gaining his men's attention. "Remember the first Godzilla's attack? The Kaiju had survived many bombs and had received no damage at all. So, we have to use an atomic bomb in order to get rid of it." Mutters came through the men after this.

"Using an atom bomb?"

"Impossible!"

"We'll never do something like that!"

"We could destroy our Defense Force if we do that against Godzilla!"

"And," the same man that had reported Godzilla's location, said. "We've done so that using an atom bomb would be illegally use only. If we indeed used an atom bomb, we would just cause panic throughout Japan. So, using the atom bombs is downright forbidden for us."

Sigh. It was worth a try.

Getting out of the topic, Alimayo asked, "Any news on the final dragons, then?"

"No." The same man replied. "There are no reports on the last of the dragons. It looks like they've just disappeared out of thin air. But, that's legally impossible. They've got to be on the Earth somewhere."

Alimayo nodded in acknowledgement. They've got to be on the Earth in some place they hadn't looked before.

Equestria, Canterlot...

After what had happened in the throne room, Moon decided to announce his return to his children, just because they've been the most worried for him as Rainbow had pointed out.

As he walked, Moon bumped into somepony as he fell on his back as did the pony.

"Ugh. Watch where you're going." Blueblood's voice grunted, before looking at the human. "Monk-Moon, you're back?!"

Rolling his eyes at his "cousin, Moon answered, "Yes. And I'm stronger than ever. So, if you want a duel, it's fine by me."

"Not on your life!" Blueblood sprinted away from the human, going as far away as possible.

Laughing a bit, Moon got back on his walk to his room.

After a few seconds, Moon finally reached his room as he opened the door slowly by the handle, not intending on waking his two young ones up yet. When the door was open, Moon closed the door silently as he slowly walked up to his bed where his children laid.

Groaning, Jaxar opened his eyes slowly...before seeing an all too familiar being in front of him. The human was smiling at him fondly.

"Dad!" The red dragon didn't care if he woke his sister up, he tackled his father with a tearful hug. Varin, with tears in her eyes, hugged him as well.

"You're really back, dad!" She cried in his chest, rubbing her cheek alongside it.

"I'm glad to be back, too." Moon had his own eyes in water, hugging his children close to his chest. Just then, he got a message from an all too familiar rival's voice.

Virin.

Moon snapped his eyes up, gaining confused looks from his children.

"Dad?" They asked in unison.

I challenge you to a battle, Virin.Garble's voice echoed through his head.I'll be waiting for you in Dragon Lands, near a volcano. I'll expect your arrival within two hours.

Then his voice was gone.

Moon looked back down to his children. "I'm sorry if this will have to be cut short. But, I've been challenged to a battle."

"Don't go!" Varin cried. "You've only just got back."

"Sorry." Moon apologized. "But, this is something I have to do. If I don't show up in time, it'll consider me a coward."

"We understand." Celestia's voice called from the door. The trio looked to the door. "We expect the outcome to your victory, my son."

"Yeah!" Rainbow cheered. "Kick that Garble guy's butt!"

"How'd you know him?" Moon asked her, eyes curious.

"Been in the Lands, duh." Rainbow replied in a duh tone, shrugging her shoulders.

"It takes some time before Twilight's test is done, anyhow." Celestia said slowly, whispering to his ears when she galloped up to him, smiling at him lovingly. Moon slowly nodded as he put his children down to the floor, going to the balcony and summoned his wings.

"I'll announce my victory once we're done!" He called to them before he flapped his wings and are gone to the air.

Dragon Lands, near a volcano...

With his arms crossed, Garble stood and waited for his rival to come. He huffed as the time was nearly up. Only an half hour more and it'll show that Virin is a coward of not fighting him.

Narrowing his eyes as he heard powerful wings flapping, Garble smirked as he finally saw his rival coming to him and landed on the ground a few meters away from him.

"Took you long enough." The tall dragon sneered coldly.

"Sorry." Virin apologized. "But, I've had to reassure my pony family that I'll win."

"You mean whenIwin." Garble snarled out, narrowing his eyes at his rival.

"Whatever." Virin shrugged, uncaringly. "Shall we do this thing or what?" An evil smirk from the tall dragon.

Garble charged at Virin, but the smaller dragon evaded the attack by rolling to the side. An snort came out of the taller dragon's nostrils as he fired a fireball at the smaller red. The smaller dragon, too, fired an fireball, resulting in an explosion to occur between them. Garble fired another fireball at Virin, but he retaliated by firing another fireball as well, resulting in another explosion.

Virin charged at Garble, knocking him back as the taller dragon grunted as he fell on his back and pushed the smaller dragon off of him with a kick, causing the smaller drake to fall to the ground face first forward. Getting on his feet, Garble fired an fire breath and engulfed the four-legged dragon as it laughed delightfully, to the taller dragon's confusion. What was so funny?

In answer, Virin walked out of the fire, no damage at all. Gritting his teeth, Garble charged straight for the four-legged dragon, knocking him back as the two wrestled on the ground, grunting and groaning at the same time. With an effortless push, Virin kicked Garble off of him as the tall dragon fell face first on the ground, before getting back up in his feet as he launched an fireball at the four-legged dragon. Virin fired an fireball as well, resulting in an explosion to occur in-between them.

Gritting his teeth again, Garble launched another fireball at his rival, but he launched an fireball as well, with another explosion between them. Roaring out, the taller drake charged at his smaller rival, but the four-legged dragon evaded the strike by rolling to the side. Virin began to make a Comet Dash at Garble as his body lit up with energy, going faster than lightning at the tall dragon, who roared in rage as he had been hit by the Comet Dash attack.

Making another Comet Dash, Virin got Garble to a corner as the small dragon smiled in victory. This was a small duel, that's for sure. However, to his surprise, Garble roared in anger as he made his own Comet Dash strike as he knocked Virin off his feet by the unexpected move. Grunting in pain, Virin launched a fireball at the taller drake, but Garble dodged it by flying upwards, laughing ni a different way than the other times.

Virin made, once again, an Comet Dash attack against Garble, surprising him as he was knocked out of the sky and landed on the ground with a harsh thud. Virin, once more, made an Comet Dash by pushing Garble forward, causing the tall dragon to roar in pain as he had enough of this game. The tall dragon clawed against Virin's side, making him roar out in pain as he felt another claw pierce through his scales, causing blood to drop to the ground.

Garble made his own Comet Dash attack as he pushed Virin forward, causing him to finally roar in pain as he was being pushed backwards. With his wings spread out, Virin flew upwards as Garble followed after him with a fireball attack, hitting him underneath as the small dragon roared in pain as the taller dragon made in for the strike as he clawed Virin's wing, causing the drake to fall straight down to the ground, panting for breath as he tried to get up.

Garble landed on the ground, smirking deviously as he prepared to finish his rival off as his mouth opened with a fireball forming in his mouth, intending to kill the Guardian of the World...