Prologue.

It has been nearly three months since Faust told us of the threat to all Equestria, and so far, we've come up with no way of knowing what or when it could be. So, to prepare for the worst, we decided to fortify Luna and Celestia's old castle, so when the threat does arrive, we'll at least have a place to go. And for the past couple weeks, that's where we've been.

I started unloading a cart of cobblestone to start rebuilding the west wall when I heard the familiar footsteps of my scaled pupil. " Yo, Spike, what up?" When I turned toward him, I saw that he wasn't in the best mood. " Hey, what's with the face?"

" Ugh, where do I even begin? First, Twilight kicks me out of my old basket in her room. So now, I have to live in the guest room that Swagger was using."

" Spike, you're a teenaged dragon now, you need your own space. Also, I thought you outgrew that basket?"

" That is beside the point. Anyway, I tried to help out around the castle, but everyone keeps saying they don't need my help."

" And I'm going to guess you came over to see if you can help me with the outer defenses." He gave me a questioning smile hoping I'll say yes. " Okay, you can start by burning away those creepers on the north wall, then you can help me put down some of these stones."

" On it!" Spike went over to the north wall while I started unloading the stones. After making a large pile by the destroyed wall, Spike came back. " Alright, now what do I do?"

I pointed along the wall where the wall was destroyed. " I'm going to get rid of the rubble along the base. While I'm doing that, I want you to start placing a foundation stone." He gave me a thumbs up while I started getting rid of the rubble. When I was finished with the wall, I turned to see Spike was half-way done with laying down the foundation. While I was watching him do that, I noticed he had a comic sticking out of his pack. " Hey, whatcha got there?"

" Oh yeah, I was going to show you this later, but I guess you can see it now."

Spike took the comic out of his pack and showed it to me. When I saw the cover art, I had to do a double-take on what I was seeing. " Is this... the Avengers... as ponies?"

" Heh heh, yeah it kind of is. Do you remember those comics you showed me when you first arrived here?"

" Yes briefly," I told him while I went about putting the stones into place.

" Well, when I went up to Canterlot for that errand Twilight needed, I visited my favorite comic book store while I was up there. Anyway, I showed the comic you gave me to the owner, and he started making his line of comics based on that."

" Wow, that's cool. What's the guy's name?"

" He's a unicorn by the name of Stanlee Nicholson." Wow, that's perfect.

Seeing that we did enough to earn ourselves a break, I led him back into the castle, towards the private room in the library. " So, what's the adventure so far?"

" Well, the Avengers are trying to stop an old foe of theirs from waking something up with an ancient ax he's trying to steal, all while trying to save the city of Maretropilos." Fucking puns! Although that does sound pretty good. While he was reading, Swagger, Jackie, and the girls came in the room for a break themselves.

" Howdy Spike. Darling, taking a break?"

" Yes Darlin', we got the north wall repaired, for the time being, so Spike and I decided to kick back a bit." I brought out my flask and took a swig before addressing the others. " How're the repairs on your end going?"

Twilight answered first. " Pretty good. Swagger helped me figure the best places for some trap runes." She went and nuzzled him while Swagger gave her a scratch behind the ear, making her purr like a cat.

When Swagger was done, he turned to me. " I placed a few pipe-bombs along the perimeter of the castle, a few napalm bombs along the forest, and a few alarms along the halls." That'll put a dent in something.

" Nice job, Swagger. what about you Fluttershy, how goes clearing the place of all the critters?" Don't want anything accidentally activating any of the traps.

" Nearly finished. A few spiders and mice are gathering all their things before heading out."

Pinkie then came up. " Oh! Did any of the mice have tables made from discarded matchboxes or chairs made from bottle caps and paperclips?"

" That's it, no more Tom and Jerry for you." Pinkie's mane started deflating after hearing me deprive her of a cartoon. " Okay, you can still watch it, but just remember the difference between reality and fiction."

Her mane became its usual puffy mess again. " No chance on that ever happening." I tried.

While we kept going over the castle's progress, Spike went on reading his comic. Just as he was getting to a particularly good part, the next page was completely blank, save for a small scribbling at the bottom right of the page. " Hey, what gives? Why'd the story just drop from there?"

Rarity leaned over to investigate. " Perhaps they cut the story short so you'd have to buy the next one." She then noticed the small writing at the bottom of the page. " What's that writing at the bottom?"

Spike took a look at the page but couldn't make out what it said. " Crap. Anyone have a magnifying glass?" No sooner had he asked that one floated toward him in Rarity's blue aura. " Thanks, beautiful." They shared a quick kiss before Spike went for the inscription. " Hey, listen to this. 'You can return to the place you started when Doom is brought down'." He stared quizically at that for some time, before reading the next line. " 'Take a closer look, to join the adventure in this book.'" No sooner had those left his lips, a bright almost blinding light escaped from the blank pages. " What the hell!?" Before we could act any further, the book started sucking Spike into the pages.

" Spike!" We all yelled once the book started taking my scaled pupil.

Before he could get sucked in, Swagger and I grabbed hold of him pulling him back towards us. It started working and we got most of him out of the book. The book had other ideas and started sucking all three of us in. " Holy shit! This thing's got more suction than a street-corner whore!" Twilight eyed Swagger after saying that before joining the other girls in pulling us away from the book.

Before we could make any leeway with Spike, the book decided to turn the suction up to Fuck, and brought us all into the pages. While we were being pulled in, Dash had this to add to the situation. " Guys, this sucks!"

" Why you little!" I let go of Spike and wrapped my hands around Dash's neck. " I'll teach you to make terrible puns while in mid-peril." Soon, our struggle ceased with one last pull from the book. Soon, we found ourselves being sucked into the pages of the comic.

Now the adventure can begin.

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Something felt off. Which is to be expected when weird shit like being sucked into a book occurs. In all honesty, I expected to wake up on my back in a different location. I expected to hear different voices and other noises that wouldn't belong in the previous setting. Hell, it didn't even bother me to see the night sky. No, no what bothered me, was the fact that I couldn't feel my wings or even the presence of my mana pool.

I stood up from my resting place, which happened to be a rooftop, and started examining my body. The first thing I noticed was that I was at least a head shorter than I should be, judging by how close the ground is. My muscles seemed larger but I feel they lost some strength. Luckily, my senses were still as strong as ever. When I tried to become the wolf, nothing happened except for a tingle at my knuckles. To top it all off, I was wearing a leather jacket, blue jeans, and a white t-shirt. I would've investigated more, but the sound of a bunch of bodies stirring and groaning brought my attention over to the other side of the roof.

On the other side of the rooftop, my wife and friends lay in a pile, clothed in some very odd garments, or at least odd for them. The first to emerge from was Swagger, and it looked like his left arm was covered by a metal sleeve. upon further inspection, I could see that his hair had grown a bit past shoulder length. His eyes and mouth were covered with a tactical mask and goggles. If I didn't know any better, I'd say he looked like.....Noooo. " Swagger, is that you?" Damn, my voice changed to, and yet it sounds very familiar.

Swagger turned to me and he had to recoil at my new look. " TEX? What happened to you?" He then started looking at himself. " What the hell happened to me?" He started flexing his left arm and came to a shocking surprise. " I can't feel my arm! What the fuck is going on!?" While he started freaking out, the girls and Spike fully awakened.

Seeing her lover in distress, Twilight moved to his side to calm him down. Unfortunately, the red cape she was wearing made her trip and faceplant the roof. " Ouch! where'd this cape come from?" She stood to her full height and saw that she was wearing a red cape, blue robes, and a golden amulet in the shape of an eye. " What is all this?"

While those two were getting a grip on what's going on, I turned to the rest of our friends and Jackie. As I observed before, they all had attire that now that I had a good look at, looked like the attire of a very famous comic book team. Looking back at Twilight and Swagger, I realized that he looked like Bucky Barnes, better known as the Winter Soldier. As for Twilight, she shared a shocking resemblance to Doctor Strange.

Seeing them turned into comic book characters, I turned to see what the others have turned into. Rarity had on a black suit with gauntlets on her fore-legs, a symbol of a red hourglass adorned the back of the suit where her Cutiemark is. Yeah, that's Blackwidow all the way. And with the way she was eyeing her ensemble, it looked like she approved. " Well, I'm not sure how this was put on me, but the design is simply wonderful." Dammit, quite lingering on her ass!

To distract me from temptation, I looked over to Dash. Like the others, she also had a costume on, though this one seemed to hold more divine meaning. She wore a suit of armor that looked like it was made of silver dragon scales. A long red cape flowed in the small breeze of the night. Her head was covered by a helmet that covered her eyes where she could see through the two slits, and on each side of the helmet was a silver wing. Finally, beside her leg, lay an all too familiar-looking hammer, Mjolnir. Given her helmet style, she most likely took on the role of Jane Foster's Valkyrie, instead of Marvel's interpretation of Thor. She started looking over herself and a large grin appeared on her face. " Oh yeah, this is so awesome!"

The next of our friends I turned to was Spike. He had on black pants and torso padding with purple highlights. Strapped to his back was a quiver of arrows and a collapsable recurve bow. To top it all off, he sported a pair of purple shades. While he looked over himself. he gave a nod of approval at his attire. " Yup, this will come in handy."

While Spike was admiring his attire and weapons, I looked over to Fluttershy. Her attire was a black and yellow striped dress, yellow boots, and gold earmuffs that resembled a bugs antenna. " Oh my. This is very-" Suddenly, she shrunk to the size of a bug and started discharging bolts at random from her forelegs. " Eeeep. Sorry sorry sorry." Just as fast as it happened, she regrew back to her original size and sprawled on the rooftop panting. It seems she's taken on the role of Wasp. " Let's not do that again."

Coming over to comfort her, was my wife in new duds as well. Instead of her usual stetson, it was replaced with a blue mask that had a capital 'E' in the middle. The rest of her body was covered in a blue and star-spangled suit. And sitting across her back, a circular shield with a star in the middle. She's acting as Captian America, or in this case, Equestria. Even though Cap is a male superhero, Jackie makes that suit look sexy. " Calm down Sugarcube, just take a deep breath."

While she calmed Shy down, I turned to our party planning friend to see what hero she became. I only needed a glance to see that she became an anti-hero. Her entire body was covered in red and black spandex with two swords strapped to her back. The only reason I could tell it was Pinkie, was that her mane and tail were poking out of her costume. Suddenly, she starts gripping her head and yelling. " Gah! There are two voices inside my head!" Deadpool. Not surprised by that. " Shit! Fuck! Chimichangas!" She quickly put her hooves to her mouth before more obscenities could be said.

Twilight tried to bring our focus back on track. " Can someone please explain what the hell is going on!"

Spike, saw this as his opportunity to shine. " Isn't it obvious. We entered the comic I had with me and turned into the characters as well. Fluttershy, you've become Wasp. You're able to shrink to the size of a bug and shoot electric blasts. Dash, you've become Valkyrie. You wield Mjolnir and control thunder itself. Almost as powerful as Thor but not quit, Rarity." He had to take a moment to compose himself over her attire. " You've become Black Widow. A super-spy with gauntlets that fire ' Widows bite' bolts that send a shock to the victim. You also have the agility that would put a snake to shame." He sent her a wink after that comment, making her blush. " Applejack, you've become Captain Equestria, a super-soldier with advanced fighting techniques. The shield on your back is made of a fictional metal called vibranium and is indestructible. Pinkie, you've become Deadpool. You... pretty much do the same thing you've always done, with the addition of a healing factor and ninja skills."

" But what about the voices? Fuck! And the cursing?"

" That's just a small drawback." He then pointed over to Twilight. " As for you, You've become Doctor Strange. Master of the arcane arts and Sorcerer Supreme." Twilight seemed to get a bit of a high on that bit of information. " As for you two," He pointed over to Swagger and me. " Swagger, you've become the Winter Soldier, a former villain that was being used by the criminal organization known as Hydra. And Joe, based on the clothing and the hair, I'd say you've become the Wolverine." That came as a shock to me, though not an unpleasant one.

" And judging from your outfit and bow, I'd say that you're none other than the marksman known as Hawkeye." He puffed out his chest with pride with that knowledge.

While everyone was admiring their new looks, I started to hear a commotion down on the streets below. Ignoring them for the moment, I looked over the edge of the roof and saw that we were across the street from a research and development center, which was being raided by a group of ponies in grey uniforms and gas masks. " Hey, guys." Everyone stopped what they were doing and headed for where I was leaning. " I think we have a fight on our hands?" They all looked down to see what was happening on the streets below. " Spike, what was happening in the comic before we got sucked in?" Before Spike could ponder on what went on before we got here, a group of mechanical dogs, circled the ponies and started to attack. " Nevermind, let's just get down there and kick ass!"

Seeing that we had no time for a recap, I lept off the edge ready for a fight, only to remember I no longer had my wings. Rather than flail about in horror, I readjusted into a head dive with my arms outstretched. Seeing a couple of those mechanical dogs right under me, I channeled what would usually cause my transformation into my arms. With a sharp 'Snikt' from my knuckles, the famous adamantium claws came out. And were aimed right for the two dogs below me. " Raaaaaaargh!" By the gods that felt good to let out. I landed on the street in the usual superhero landing position with my claws impaled in the heads of the mechanical beast.

The fighting between the gas mask ponies and mechanical dogs ceased once I arrived. The others joined me via using Twilight's portal spell and joined behind me, though the bad guys' attention was still on me. One of the ponies then grows a spine. " Just who do you think you are?" As I looked at the goon, I saw a symbol on his flank where his Cutiemark would be and saw that it was the symbol of HYDRA.

To answer the nameless goon's question, I rose from my position while retracting my claws, letting the dogs slip from my grasp. " I'm the best there is at what I do. But what I do best-" I then crossed my arms in an 'X' while popping the claws. " -isn't very nice." I could practically feel the eye rolls from Swagger and Spike.

The goon returned to his senses and turned to his comrades. " Avengers have arrived! Tell the Beta team to retrieve the artifact. Everyone else, engage!" As soon as the order was given, the other HYDRA agents and even some of the robot dogs charged at us.

Seeing that a fight was underway, Dash rose in the air and started spinning her hammer before releasing it at five mech-dogs, turning them into scrap metal. " Oh ho yeah, this's so cool!"

Three mech-dogs made their way towards Jackie and started firing lasers from their eyes. With the lasers heading towards her, whether it be by instinct or the comic gave her the reflexes to do so, she brought her shield to block the incoming lasers. While the barrage kept coming, she would angle the shield to where the ricochet blasts would hit stray enemies that tried to surround her. When the dogs ceased their fire, she removed the shield from her arm and flung it at the dogs, ricocheting from one dog to the next before returning to her. " Woo wee! That was something else ah tell ya what." She sent me a wink my way before charging into the fray.

" Ooh, that mare. Can't wait to bend her over my-"

" Joe! Please, not while I'm around." I heard the small voice of Fluttershy to my right and turned to see that she was perched on my shoulder. " Hello."

" Shy, what are you doing? You should be fighting the goons with the others." I pointed out to where Spike hade captured a group of Hydra agents with a net arrow while Rarity beat the crap out of a few more with her electric batons.

" Oh, I know I should, but I just can't seem to bring myself to hurting those poor little doggies." An explosion to our right brought our attention over to a bunch of those, little doggies, firing, and biting at a swearing Pinkie. On the bright side, I'm glad to see her hack and chop with her swords.

" Yeah... how about you go and find out what those guys are trying to get in that research center," I told her while pointing over to the three Hydra agents entering the building with a giant hole in it. " while I go and slice n dice those fools surrounding Swagger and Twi." I pointed over to the two, who were starting to get overwhelmed. Flutters gave me a weak nod before zipping over to the recovery team. With her off my shoulder, I went full rampage on the bots and ponies surrounding my best friend and niece. " Come on you miserable maggots! Let's dance!"

Back in the real world. Luna's Pov.

I wandered the halls of my old home after leaving the children with David and Discord, hopefully, they won't turn the halls into a slip n slide again, and went looking for my husband and wife. " Jackie! Joe! I've come to offer my assistance in fortifying the castle." I decided to check the secret room in the old library, to see if I could find them there. Whilst I searched for my two loved ones or any of the others, I would notice the runes placed by Twilight and the various traps rigged by Swagger, and it brought a smile to see how far along this place was coming.

When I made it to the secret room, I found it empty yet, it had the tell-tale signs of being occupied within the last hour. " Hmm, maybe the left for the dining hall for lunch?" I was about to head towards the dining room, but a glow on the floor had caught my eye. When I went to investigate, I saw that it was one of Spike's comic books. " Curious, why would there be a light coming from here?" With my magic, I lifted the book toward me and turned toward the page where the light was coming from.

The moment I flipped to the page, the light from the book became almost blinding and a strange force started sucking me in. " What's the meaning of this!?" I tried with all my might to escape the strange vortex that kept pulling me to the page. But no matter what I did, the force behind the magic comic kept getting stronger. Before I knew it, the book had swallowed me whole, transporting me to who knows where.

Luna's Pov. Other side of Maretropolis.

I woke up with a throbbing headache and a terrible case of heartburn. When I rose from the concrete ground in the unfamiliar alley, I noticed that my forelegs were covered in fake studded leather. Upon further examination, I saw that I also sported a jacket made of fake leather and had three metal studs on the shoulders. " Hmm, not my usual attire, yet I find it oddly satisfying."

While I kept admiring the new look, I failed to notice the ponies closing in behind me. " Well well well, look what we got here boys." I turned to the voice to see who I was up against. When I looked behind me, I saw three ponies walking down the alley towards me. The one on my right was a lanky pegasus with a disheveled left-wing and twitchy eyes. The one on my right is a large earth pony whose size could rival Big Mac. He had a spiked mane and an iron club hoof guard on his left foreleg, clearly the muscle of the group. Finally, there was the third pony in the middle, a unicorn with a slight split down his horn, and an iron chain wrapped around his barrel. He seems to be the leader. " What's a pretty little thing like you doing on our turf?"

Feeling my pride and authority being insulted, I stood tall and let them know who they were dealing with. " Listen here, you low-life thugs. I don't know who you three think you are, but you have just insulted the queen of Herot and princess of Equestria. So unless you want a well-deserved thrashing, step aside." Now comes the fear-induced quaking.

Instead of quacking fear, the three burst into laughter they found my authority funny. " Get a load of this story. Ha! Princess of Equestria, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be running around in faux-leather." Have to admit, he has me there. " Now then, if you want to continue stepping on our turf, then you'll have to pay up." His horn glowed around his chain and started snaking around him. " And I think I know the perfect payment." Before I had time to form a shield, his chain wrapped around me and constricted me like a python.

With the chain wrapped around my wings, I had no hope of getting airborne. I tried using my magic to escape my predicament, but then the pegasus slapped a suppression ring on my horn. " Ah ah ah, no cheating." The scum made for a pass at me but I showed him the error of his ways by bucking him right in the jewels. " Arrrgh!"

" Hmph, serves you right." Just as I was enjoying my small victory, the throbbing in my head and the small heartburn started to grow into a blazing heat. " Urgh, what's going on?" My little bout of discomfort was enough for the brute to take hold of me. " Ugh, get... get... heh heh get off of... heh heh ha ha hahaha!" I don't know why this was making me laugh, but it felt like another being was taking over me.

" Hey, boss, seems the bitch is already going crazy over us." The brute kept me pinned under him while the burning sensation kept coursing through my veins. " Hey, you mind if I have the first go?"

" No way dude, that bitch got me right in the nuts, I deserve to empty them in her first." The pegasus I bucked in the nuts piled on me trying to position himself as best he could with his friend on top of me.

" Now fellas, we don't have to fight, we can all use her at once." Their leader approached me from the front just as the burning turned into a raging inferno inside. " Open wide bitch."

Stopping my fit of laughter for a moment, I looked the filth in the eye. " Sure thing, Bitch!" I opened my mouth wide and directed the inferno out of my body and onto the leader. What left out of me could easily be mistaken for dragon fire, but it had a strong smell of sulfur to it. The instant the flames hit him, he started screaming at the top of his lungs, causing his two friends to let me go. With my body free from constriction, I started to feel a change in my body. The fur and flesh started to burn away revealing my bare-bones, setting them aflame.

The two gang members went to comfort their friend while my transformation came to completion. " Ugh, boss, I think we should get out of here." The twitching pegasus mentioned to his fried leader. Hearing them talk of escape just made the fire around me burn brighter.

" Oh no, the party's just begun." The heat from my horn turned the ring to molten slag, and I was able to manipulate the chain around my barrel and wrapped it around the pegasus and earth pony. With the chain wrapped around them, I went for the char-broiled leader. " Hmm, you have a certain smell about you. Do you know what that smell is?" The coward started shaking and backing into the wall. " That smell is all your sins and misdeeds that you've committed throughout your life. And I think it's time they were burned."

I grabbed him in my magic and brought him close. " No. Please. Don't hurt me."

I brought him close, so he could look into my eyes. " Look into my eyes! Your soul is stained by the blood of the innocent! Feel their pain!" What came next was almost indescribable. As I looked into his eyes, I could see all the horrible deeds he has done, from simple robbery to murder. With each sin revealed, his eyes started to burn away to nothing but crisp charcoal. With all his sins burnt, he fell to the ground with burnt sockets and a gaping mouth. With him down, I turned to his friends. " So, who's next?"

Joe's Pov

I finished slicing the last of the mech bots before regrouping with the others. " Okay, the lackeys are taken care of, now let's get to the main bad guy." We all headed for the gap in the research center, before coming to a sudden halt at the approaching figure coming out. " Oh, crap." Out of the hole, came a familiar Villian.

The villain in question was a griffon with a metal suit and face mask, and to top it off, he had a green hood and cape around him. Doctor Doom. " Well, it would seem that the Avengers have arrived. A predictable occurrence, but annoying none the less." On his back was a weapon the goons were most likely sent to get. And it looked just like MY AX! " So, Avengers, have you come to see my rise to power, or be destroyed?" He asked before tossing a knocked out Fluttershy our way.

Spike took the reigns on this. " Hey, Doom. Did you get a haircut?" Note to self, teach Spike better lines.

" Hawkeye, you seem to be lacking on your usual humor. Never the less, you, your team, and even that sword-wielding maniac over there" Doom directed his gaze over to Pinkie who at the moment was decapitating already dead doom dogs. " have been nothing but thorns in my side for too long." He revealed his metallic wings and rose to the air while unsheathing Frostbite. " Now, face the force of the gods!" He shouldered my ax and powered it up.

" Duck!" We all ran out of Doom's sight just as he fired a large wave of winter at us. Everyone was able to dodge the blast in time, though my leg was not so fortunate. " Gah!"

" Darlin'!" Jackie ran up to me while shielding herself from any more attacks. " Hold still honey." She raised her shield and smashed it on my frozen leg, freeing it for the time being. " There you go darlin'."

" Thanks, babe." I kissed her before we headed back into the fray. " We need to get my ax away from that maniac," I yelled out to everyone.

Dash went hammer to ax with Doom before he grabbed Dash by the throat and tossed her onto Pinkie. " Wow, usually I have to pay to get a girl thrown at me. Stop it voices!"

When Dash got her head out of Pinkie's crotch, she turned to us. " Any idea how we're going to do that?" She pointed over to Doom, who was currently dodging arrows and stingers from Spike and Rarity.

" The best way to take down Doom is to keep him distracted and take away whatever new weapon or power he posses's."

Jackie dodge-rolled over to us when Doom sent an ice spike her way. " Can't you just call it back to you?"

" Believe me, I've tried. But either Doom's done something to the ax or it doesn't know it's me 'cause currently I'm Wolverine." To prove my point, I tried summoning my ax in the usual fashion. Nothing happened. " Okay, here's the plan." I brought an unconscious Fluttershy around and brought them in a huddle. " Shy, I want you to be like the wasp you've become and sting the hell out of him." Shy gave a nod before zipping off toward Doom's head. " Twi, conjure up as many fireworks and illusions as you can and direct it all over him."

" You can count on me." Her horn lit up and a multitude of sparklers and whizz-bangers flew all around Doom whilst avoiding Flutters.

" Okay, now we just to get the-" My plan was interrupted when a blast of freezing wind blew Shy out of the air and canceled out Twi's illusions.

" Enough of this! I think it's time you see what this weapon can do." He lifted my ax and let the frost runes power it up. " Now, feel the power of Jutonhiem!" Before we could move to stop him, he plunged the ax into the pavement. When the ax struck, I expected ice spikes or chunks of a glacier to rise from the ground, instead, the ground started shaking and rising for at least four hundred yards.

While the ground kept shaking, Swagger stumbled over to me. " Tex, you have any idea what's happening?" To answer his question, a giant blue hand rose from the cracks a block away from where Doom plunged the ax. " Nevermind." On the other end of the street, another blue hand rose, sending a bagel stand into the stratosphere. Finally, emerging from the middle of the two hands, a mound of freezing blue flesh rose with Doom atop it. Within moments, the earth gave way for a massive frost giant.

When the giant stood at its full height, it was as tall as any of the skyscrapers around us and as wide as a small mountain. With Doom on the giant's head and the ax embedded in its skull, he ordered the behemoth around. " Now monster! Wipe out the Avengers!" Taking his order literally, the giant reeled his arm back for a mighty swing.

" Twilight, Shield!" Twilight was able to erect a bubble shield around us just as the giant hand made its way to us. " Brace for impact!" When the giant hit the shield, we went sailing like a golfball through the green. As we sailed across the city, I could see Doom directing the giant towards the outskirts of the town, likely towards his lair. After a minute or so our momentum slowed and we started to descend into an alleyway. Once we hit the pavement, Twilight's shield canceled out and we bounced around the alley, leaving me to land in a dumpster. " This... is humiliating." To add insult to injury, the lid closed on the dumpster.

When I got out of the bin, I regrouped with the others to form a plan or at least something resembling a plan. Spike went ahead and summed up the situation " Okay, so Doom has Joe's ax and summoned a frost giant that just smacked us across town. We're boned."

" C'mon Spike, it ain't that bad. All we have to do is get the ax away from that varmint, and we'll have saved the day." Jackie tried to make light of the fact we were all just bitch slapped by a giant popsicle. " Look on the bright side, he'll be easy to follow."

" Yeah, we can follow them, but how do we take down that giant. I doubt this hammer will do much." Dash lifted her hammer before letting it drop on Pinkie's hoof.

" Gahhhh ha ha ha!" Dash got the hammer off her to see that Pinkies hoof was smashed to shit. " My hoof!" Three seconds later, her hoof was back to normal. " I love having these healing powers." While she admired her healed hoof, her attention was then brought to the three bodies with burnt eye sockets laying on the dumpster. " Hey, guys. I don't remember taking out these guys. Did you guys take a fire poker to their eyes?"

Hearing about bodies made us turn to what Pinkie was looking at. Shy screamed at the top of her lungs then proceeded to faint. The others had varying degrees of disgust, except for Spike, Swagger, and me. Spike went up to examine the bodies. " Guys, these three are still alive." That really brought our attention to the unknown trio to see they were still breathing.

" Hold on. Burnt eyes, still alive, and twitching. Oh shit." An orange light and a soul shattering laugh went off behind us. " Fuck." We all turn around to see a flaming skeletal alicorn with a leather jacket and iron chain wrapped around its waist. " The Ghost Rider."

Twilight was the first to say something. " Please tell me that skeleton is on our side."

" Maybe this will convince you." The flaming bounty hunter told us in a slightly feminine voice while making her way to us while the flames turned to a blazing blue. " Pucker up, my king." With no other warning, the Devils bounty hunter made out with me.

At first, I was stunned as were the rest of the group, then I started to put the pieces together. Alicorn skeleton, blue flames, female voice, and using a familiar pet name! When she parted from me, I stared right at her. " Luna?" She let out a small chuckle before extinguishing her flame, revealing my lovely lady of the night. " Luna!" Seeing that the firey anti-hero was Luna, everyone gathered to greet her. " Honey, how'd you get here?"

" By accident. I tried to find you and Jackie in the library's secret room, when I went in the room I found one of Spikes comics on the fool and it was glowing. When I opened the book to investigate, the book sucked me into this alley with this attire. Not long after that, those three tried to have their way with me." Jackies and my attention went to the three goons. Jackie gave off a low growl while I popped out my claws. " Don't worry you two. As you can see, they've been taken care of."

" By barbecuing their eyes?" Pinkie asked while holding a marshmallow on a stick over one of the thug's eyes.

" Not exactly." Spike directed our attention to more comic book knowledge. " The Ghost Rider, which you are now, Luna, is infused with Hellfire, a fire that not only burns you but your soul as well." All the girls' eyes pinpricked at that. " One of the ways that the Rider can use it, is with a technique called, the Penance Stare. It allows them to look into their victim's soul and burn it with all the sins they ever did in life."

" It's true, I looked into each one of their souls and witnessed all the wrongs they ever did in their lives and turned it against them." Luna started to shudder for a second. " Believe me when I say, they deserved it." I put my arm around her to try and comfort her ordeal. " So, I've been wondering. How do we get out of here?"

" So far the working theory is that we stop the bad guy, retrieve my ax, and save the day."

" The only problem is, the guy we have to defeat has a frost giant as his own pet! How would we even fight something like that?"

" Dash does bring up a good point. Do we even have anything strong enough for something that big?"

" Well, if we had the Hulk, Captain Marvel, or..." A sly smile worked it's way on my face as my attention went to Luna. " The Ghost Rider."

Luna was very surprised after I said we needed her to take down a giant. " You believe I'm capable of such a feat?"

" Hell yeah, we do. In fact, I think I have the perfect plan in mind." We all gathered around Spike to hear about his master plan. Hopefully, it goes a lot better than mine did.

We followed Doom's path of destruction, avoiding his line of sight. " Damn. How much do you think it costs to fix a city on a daily basis?"

" I believe the average cost is 1.5 million bits per square mile for a large city like this. Though that was the cost from a thousand years ago, it might have changed while I was away."

" Guy's! Can we focus here." Luna and I stopped our conversation and listened to Spike. " Okay, everyone remembers what they need to do?" We all nodded, remembering our part. " Good. Rarity, follow me. Joe, Luna, get behind the giant. Everyone else, distract Doom." With the instructions given, we got into position. Spike and Rarity teleported in front of the giant and made themselves known to Doom. " Hey, ugly! Is that a wart on your head or a bad case of lice?! Oh wait, it's just Doctor Doom!" This got the giant to stop and brought Doom's attention.

" So, you and the Widow survived, how annoying. However, I am nothing if not merciful. Bow before me now, and my slave shall not smear you with his boot!"

" Hmm, it's a tempting offer darling, but I believe my Spikey has a much better offer." Doom didn't have long to ponder the meaning before Spike launched a barrage of exploding arrows at the giant's eyes, making it stumble a bit.

Doom tried to regain control of the beast, but with Dash's lightning, Pinkie's gunshots, and Twilight's illusions, he was having a very hard time doing so. " Fools! Your minor distractions can not stop my plans of domination! The world will kneel before the iron claws of Doom!"

" Always with the monologue. Can't a villain just shut up and shoot." Swagger commented while firing off his M60.

" Sound advice, Winter Soldier. Let me practice that on you!" Doom took the ax from the giant's head, releasing the giant from his hold for the moment, and aimed it at Swagger. Without saying a word, Doom fired a beam of ice at him.

Swagger ducked behind a nearby newspaper stand to minimize the damage. After a moment passed by, Swagger only felt a nip in the air. When he looked up from the stand, he saw that the blast was being blocked by Twilight's shield. While holding up the shield, Twilight turned and gave him a sly smirk. " See, told ya I'd make it up to you." Instead of answering her, Swagger came up beside her and kissed her before returning fire.

With the ax out of the giant's head, it was time for Luna's part. " Here goes nothing." She became the Rider and brought out her chain. With a little effort, she set it aflame and sent it toward the giant's legs. Being magically lengthened and burning with a fire equal to the sun, the chain was able to wrap around the right leg, and when she tightened it, the leg was lopped off.

" Raaaaaaaaawr!" The beast cried out in agony while trying to keep it's balance.

When the giant went to lean on the nearby buildings, I saw this as the perfect opportunity to grab Frostbite. " Luna, you ready for the fast-ball special?" She nodded my way and engulfed me in her magic. She swung me around a couple of times and launched me toward Doom. When I got close, I popped my claws and aimed for his chest. " Raaaawr!" Doom turned in time to get a chest full of adamantium. Once he was impaled, he dropped the ax and I catapulted him toward Pinkie.

While he was flying through the air, he threatened me. " Fool! I've survived worse from cosmic giants. Your claws mean next to nothing!" His rant would've continued, had he not landed on Pinkie's rocket launcher.

" Hi Doom, bye Doom!" Pinkie pulled the trigger and sent Doom on a fiery ride, right into the giant's face. When they collided, the giant's face exploded in a spray of blue brain matter, no idea if Doom survived that. Seeing her good work finished, she went and took a whiff of the smoke coming off the launcher. " Sniiiifff, aw yeah. I'm touching myself tonight."

" Pinkie! TMI!" Dash stated while hiding the red in her cheeks. " Joe, grab the ax so we can get out of here."

" Alright, this was fun while it lasted." I rummaged through the brain matter and found my ax near the frontal lobe. The second the handle made contact with my hand, the same force that brought us here appeared in the sky above us and sucked us in.

Back to stupid reality.

I found myself at the bottom of a dogpile where someone's flank was in my face. " Unless this is Jackie or Lulu, get off my face." As we all separated from the pile, I found that Shy was the one who sat on me. Needless to say, we were both acting very shy.

After that moment of awkwardness, everyone expressed the joy of being a superhero. When the mood settled down, Twilight congratulated Spike on his comic book knowledge. " Spike, your knowledge saved us from being in that book for who knows how long, and I hope you know that."

" I do, and I also know that I won't always be needed for certain things and that changes are coming." Spike then looked over to Swagger. " Sorry if I gave you shit the past few days."

" It's alright little dude no hard feelings. By the way, do all comics do that? If so, I need to get a few of them."

" No, I got this from my buddy in Canterlot at the house of enchanted comics." He was oblivious for a moment before it started to hit him. " That would explain us being sucked in, though I didn't think he was being literal with the title."

While most every one groaned and left the room, I pulled him aside. " Can you give me the address? This will make the perfect gift for the kids." He started writing down the address as we left the castle.

Author's Notes:

I'm very sorry for the delay, but work has been working me like a dog. It was also a pain to come up with who would be who as a comic character. If you believe someone should have been someone else, then say so in the comments. I would also like to say, that I will be going back to skipping certain episodes and put them in a flashback.

Now, with all that being said, time for a clip.

https://youtu.be/hYTGRRdDK3k

You know what, you deserve another for being so patient.

https://youtu.be/yFxjUin8bCo