(Canterlot Castle)
(The next day)

“Never thought I’d be doing something like this again.” Zeko said to himself as he entered a massive room and stood before both princesses, Blueblood, and an entire noble court to present the information he’d spent his time gathering.

Murmurs in the court persisted as soon as Zeko stepped into the room and stood at a podium with a paper in hand. Celestia stood first and spoke to the room which quickly lost any side conversations. “The urgent meeting is now in session, our speaker will be our otherworldly visitor Zeko!” She sat down as Zeko looked around at the crowd surrounding him.

“Alright nothing new here... I can do this...” The shinobi whispered to himself, preparing to put himself in direct view of so many onlookers. “Ok! Citizens of Canterlot, I wanted to meet you all here to discuss a major issue!” At his words many of those in the room rolled their eyes or scoffed at the statement but his next words would draw attention back towards himself. “As we all know there was an attack on the castle not too long ago that was done by the Red Claw and there was quite the situation that I handled.”

“Handled?!” A noble stood at the brash statement and looked down towards Zeko. “The castle could have been destroyed and our lives-“

“Were saved by me and my friends if we didn’t help then considering everything I know now I can say for sure that this nation would have fallen if they’d gotten their way.” There was a deafening silence running through the room after the statement, at this point Zeko was over his nervousness for the time. “So if anything I think I’m owed a thank you but I’ll be the bigger person on that for now.”

“As if we’d give you any form of-“ A stallion started but he was quickly cut off by a red flash appearing in front of him and Zeko’s hand grabbing him by the mane.

“And this is what I was just getting to.” Forming a seal with his other hand, Zeko used a jutsu to change the stallion’s appearance to what he truly was

“CHANGELING!” Blueblood screamed

The creature was revealed for what it was directly in the court to the attention of every major figure present, royal guards stood closer to the princesses as the dark colored being reached towards its thigh. “Graah!” It pulled a knife and prepared to stab Zeko in the throat

“Not happening.” He grabbed its wrist and slowly forced it into stabbing its own chest as the court watched on in horror. “This is exactly what I was talking about-“

“MONSTERS! THEY’RE INVADING!” Luna erupted but before anything larger could occur Zeko pulled the knife out and jumped back down with the changeling in his grasp.

Zeko threw his panicking hostage onto the floor and stepped its arm. “The problem you’ve all either been apart of or completely ignorant about has been the cult known as the Red Claw, and from what I’ve learned they perform political assassinations to further the glory of their beliefs.”

The air went still as both princesses eyes widened at the realization that some of their own emissaries had been going missing recently and that some of their court had managed to rise in position quite suddenly. At the same time some members of the court began to sweat nervously.

“And this guild targeted me by the orders of a stallion that held a grudge against me...” At that Zeko became a blur again and appeared next to...

“What do you think you’re doing?!” Large Wad’s seat

“No particular reason really, just popping around asking questions. Speaking of which does this look familiar to you?” Zeko produced a letter with a seal of three claw marks on the wax, and upon seeing the envelope Wad began to sweat lightly.

“W-What are you accusing me of you cur?!”

Zeko leapt back to where the injured changeling was and opened the envelope. “Well I found this in the fight at the gala and lost it but it came back to me... like Ronaka...” The teenager whispered the last part of the sentence before throwing the changeling against the door to the large room. “As per your orders, we have began the hunt on the target but he evades our attempts on his life and has even managed to cause some of our elite members to perish or go missing.”

“Is there something you may need to reveal sir Wad? Thou seems to be sweating heavily.” Princess Luna pointed out that the stallion’s shirt beneath his vest was almost drenched with sweat and upon noticing the stallion wiped his forehead with a handkerchief

“A- No your highness! I’m perfectly fine at the delusional rambling of this-“

“Not done yet!” Zeko interrupted. “So to fully bring down this increasing threat we have called in aid from our allies the Black Talon, Piercing Horn, Razor Wing, and Gleaming scales. But from what we have gathered he has already fell some of the Black Talon and three of the Piercing Horn, we can only hope that the Gleaming Scales would manage to break his facade of invulnerability.” As he read Zeko walked to the changeling and prepared to open the door

*CRASH*

The pack of dragons that had been tailing Zeko burst through the massive window and started swarming the room. “There he is! Swarm him now!” The pack of dragons honed in on Zeko and flew towards him at an alarming speed.

“Guards defend the nobility! Young Zeko, defend yourself!” Princess Luna exclaimed as the royal guard took up defensive positions around the nobles in the stands, many of which cowered in fear at the attack.

Zeko looked surprisingly calm at the turn of events and switched to his Rinnegan and scanned the ten or so dragon attacker’s movements. “Psh, inexperienced kids...” The first dragon came and was immediately sent into the marble floor of the room. “I’m guessing you guys are only so old, otherwise you’d know-“ He elbowed the next dragon that approached from behind and slammed him into the one in front of him. “Just trying to blitz your enemy will get you killed unless you have a better plan.”

“This wasn’t apart of the plan! How is he- Gack!” A chakra rod to the stomach stopped that dragon in its tracks and sent it to the floor.

The next dragon opened its mouth and exhaled white flames that collided with a wall of sand. “Oh just my luck.” And the sand was instantly turned to glass but it flowed like molten rock. “Ok don’t let that hit anything.” A volley of spikes shattered the glass and made Zeko jump backwards to see the remaining dragons launching quills at him.

“Keep your distance nest siblings! If he can’t reach us it’s only a matter of time before we land a blow that takes him down.” Another volley of spikes were launched at the crimson haired teenager and they missed their mark, the next gout of white fire also missed and scorched the floor where he’d been.

Weaving the ram sign, Zeko jumped backwards towards the royal guard and brought large sand spires from the ground to pierce the dragons through their wings, sending them all careening to the floor. “I’m done with taking it slow here...” Zeko walked over to the fallen dragons and the sand curled towards them. “No more games, I took this whole world as simple and sorta gay but now I’m done with that... Time and time again things pissed me off but made up for it but now no more.” The sand spires all went down...

*Crunch*

And pierced the skulls of the dragons, all but one. “What? You just killed them all as if- Hmph!” A hand over his mouth interrupted his words and Zeko’s serious expression made him stop his babbling

“What I want you to do is go back to whomever your master is and tell them what happened here, tell every one of those groups that I’m not being patient anymore.” The dragon noticed its wing was healed enough for it to fly again, and as soon as Zeko let him go he crashed through a window to flee.

Wad took the inopportune time to voice his opinion. “You just let an enemy go! Guards I want him arrested for-“ The whizzing sound of an object and a squelching noise was all anyone present heard.

“AAAAAH.” A mare screamed when she saw that Wad’s stomach was pierced by a chakra rod with the letter Zeko had been reading attached to it.

“Before anything gets out of hand...” Zeko stated this as royal guards took up protective stances and even the princesses looked tense. “I had the evidence he was a traitor right there and I just handled that the easiest way I could.” The crimson haired teen turned and saw a familiar face

“Zeko!” Fortified Wall made his way from the guards and approached the teenager. “That was an overly excessive amount of force, it wouldn’t have been hard to-“

“Sorry but there wasn’t any befriending them or getting them to peacefully stop fighting. They had the sole purpose of killing me and anything in their way.” Zeko turned back to the door and started walking out, grabbing his captive in the process and walking into the hallway once again... leaving those in the room to fully absorb what they’d witnessed. As Zeko walked into the hallway he saw a prism of rainbow energy surrounding the rift that he’d passed through to Kotetsu’s village.

“Weird how some gay horse people closed that off.” They say speak of the devil and he shall arrive, but no devil compares to the Uchiha standing behind Zeko... who nearly had a heart attack from the scare.

“OH-“ He stopped to take a breath and drop the quickly summoned chakra rod. “Don’t do that, no really don’t do that. Why are you even here? Unless it’s to be the bearer of bad news as usu-“

“I’m sorry.”

Zeko paused. “Come again?” There was a long silence that was almost maddening.

“I’m sorry for selling you out to the Mizukage. And to make it up I brought you a gift.” With an eerie smile Kotetsu pulled out a scroll with unfamiliar seals on it and handed it to his cousin.

Zeko took the object and was visibly confused, but once he opened it and a cloud of smoke appeared he saw something that changed his attitude rapidly. “Is this... no way...” Zeko reached for the object on the ground but trembled the whole way, while Kotetsu’s smile seemed less eerie and more so like a dear friend seeing someone he missed.

“The hardest part was having it be as durable as the original because Uchiha craftsmanship is hard to meet. The difference with this is that it doesn’t repel chakra but is amplified by-“

The sound of sparking cut Kotetsu off and the weapon was coated in a layer of electricity. “This... does put a smile on my face. I almost want to forgive you for giving up my sword.” Zeko swung the fan with a fair amount of strength and struck Kotetsu who burst into spiders on impact. “But who’d have thought that Kusanabe Zeko would be wielding a perfect replica... Of Uchiha Madara’s gunbai?!”

Kotetsu reached into his eye and pulled out a chain with a curved blade at the end, resembling a scythe. “This is supposed to go with it but I remember how you aren’t good with sickles.”

Zeko broke his look of happiness for a second. “Are you challenging my adaptability? Give me that!” After snatching the weapon Zeko wrapped the chain around the hilt of the fan and found that he could fold the scythe to place it comfortably against the fan. After the weapon was placed on Zeko’s back Kotetsu decided to warp away, feeling hat his message was delivered well.

“Giving him a gift before MY wedding, I might be getting soft by relation from this gay world... that we aren’t telling anybody else about.” The spiral of reality stopped and Kotetsu was gone but Zeko’s hostage awoke during the conversation and was confused to the point of silently screaming but its chest being injured prevented any real noise.

Zeko took his attention off of his departing cousin and looked towards his hostage. “I nearly forgot about you.” Zeko removed the knife quickly and allowed a gush of fresh blood to leave its chest. “I’ll give you one chance, tell me where the leaders for these... cults are.”

The changeling shifted its eyes around before looking at its chest with slowly blurring vision, not even feeling the pain anymore but starting to feel cold instead. It spoke with an airy voice, as if the last of its strength was going towards speaking. “I’ll let... The secrets... die with me... I’ve worked as long-“ A hand on its head and a soul extraction was all Zeko needed at that point, once the agent let it slip that it knew something more its fate was sealed.

“Black Talon leader’s name is Quicksilver? Griffin of course.” Zeko looked at the changeling corpse on the ground and slowly started to form an idea, one that would give him a quick edge on his future target...

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(?????)

The sound of footsteps echoed throughout a long empty hallway, all coming from a single figure walking towards a stone door embedded with the face of a griffin skull and beak. The figure approached the door and knocked four and a quarter times before reaching into the beak, grabbing a handle and turning it ninety degrees to the left. “Four and a quarter times... still don’t get how the hell that works.” The voice identified the figure as a young male and he walked into the room to see a silver griffin looking at a table with a map of Equestria and surrounding nations.

“Oh you’re here, why? I didn’t need you for any-“

“He’s coming for you!” The griffin ceased his questioning and listened to his aide. “Zeko knows who and where you are now! He’s coming for you!” The griffin walked from behind the table and looked at his shorter companion.

“Well if he wants to come after me then let him Zukako, if I die then one of the tunes will be broken and should he manage to get rid of the others then this world will have its cleansing.”

Zukako looked confused and somewhat scared despite only having one eye area being uncovered yet his mood was easily read by the taller griffin. “Quicksilver I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean but I think we should be on our guard. Knowing that he could come for you at any time makes me eye sting!”

“Which- Oh right.” Zukako was visibly unamused by the statement that Quicksilver made but the griffin laughed it off. “Well if he does come here he’ll realize I’m a slight bit more extreme than what he’s been fighting up to this point.” He walked behind the table once more and resumed looking at the map again.

“He fought me! And I’d have won if he was alone... but even when he was he was doing fine on his own! I just have a bad feeling... and I don’t think you’re safe.” Quicksilver rolled his eyes at the statement. “You saved my life and I just don’t want yours to end yet.” Zukako turned and opened the door again. “I have to end it myself...” He left and Quicksilver sighed loudly.

“These are dark times ahead of us.”

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Author's Notes:

Intense writer’s block, Etika’s very sad and untimely demise, and other things that just wouldn’t let me create. I’m sorry that it took this long but I’ll get back on track, see you next time