In the outer reaches of space, a sleek spaceship travelled at Mach 2 speed with a human male at the controls listening to his headset. Music that came from some group called the Spinners as he put it. Inside the ship were a green skinned human female, a muscular male alien whom never covered his top, a slender human female with two antennas sticking up, a racoon and a strange tree shaped creature who only said three words "I am Groot."

"All right, Guardians," the human male said to his assembled team. "Time to get your game faces on."

"Uh, why are we doing this again?" the racoon asked.

"It's a distress signal, Rocket. Someone could be in trouble," said the green skinned female.

"And besides, we're nice. Especially after most of us being turned to dust. We got to try and start being more nicer, right, Groot?"

The human male looked back towards the tree shaped creature, who immediately put away whatever object he was playing with.

"Good thing you put that annoying video game away," the human male further remarked. "Shows that you learned your lesson."

"I am Groot," the tree shaped creature said. "I'm Groot."

"Just be thankful he isn't a total d-hole like last time, Quill," added Rocket who looked intently at Groot as they neared an asteroid field. "Either that or he's trying to keep me from smashing it to pieces."

"Look at this," gasped the green skinned female as they came across pieces of a destroyed ship floating in front of them. "What in…? They…they're four legged."

"You're right," said the muscular alien. "They are four legged creatures that have strange markings on their behinds. They look like the creatures that are from my world."

Quill, the human male leader of the group, couldn't believe it either.

"Easy for you to say, Drax," he whispered. "They look as if they were attacked without warning."

Suddenly, one of the ponies' bodies landed on the windshield of the ship, it's eyes wide open and rolled back, a clear sign that he was dead.

"Get it off! Get it off!" cried Rocket, waving his paws in shock and fear. "Wipers! Wipers!"

Suddenly, before the wipers could be activated, the guardians all heard the sounds of evil laughter surrounding their ship.

"Shh, quiet!" whispered Quill. "Listen, do you hear that?"

"It sounds like an evil soul," said the female creature with the two antennas. "That has been floating around space."

The sounds of the laughter grew louder and louder, causing a sign of growing fear among the guardians.

Then, it happened from out of nowhere. Almost as if they were hit by something, their ship began to spin around sharply.

"What was that?!" cried Quill as he and Rocket tried to control the ship. "What just hit us?!"

"I don't know, but I'm getting sick!" yelled Rocket.

"I am Groot! I am Groot!"

"Get the thrusters going, Gamora!"

"They've been knocked out!"

"Oh, Jesus…"

Suddenly, they were spinning around in a reverse direction as they neared Earth's atmosphere. But, they were too distracted and disoriented to notice. The fast spinning knocked all of them out and soon, their ship rocketed through the sky, crashing down and down before hitting the surface with a loud Earth-shattering thud.

…

Meanwhile, the kingdom known as the Crystal Empire was going about its business when they suddenly felt the effects of the thud, causing all of the buildings and structures to shake.

"What in Equestria?" cried Princess Cadence, who was knocked off her throne by the rumblings. Just as quickly as they began, however, the rumblings stopped. Dashing into the throne room, her husband Shining Armor raced towards his wife, helping her to her feet.

"Cadence, are you okay?" he asked worriedly.

"I'm fine," gasped the Crystal Princess, picking up her discarded crown and placed it on her head. "Any idea where that came from?"

"I'm just as confused as you are, dear."

"Where's Flurry Heart?"

No sooner did Cadence say that did their daughter came flying into the throne room, her large face filled with terror as she threw herself into her mother's forelegs.

"It's okay, Flurry, it's okay," whispered Cadence, trying to calm her alicorn foal down. At that moment, Sunburst, Flurry's crystaller came dashing in. "She's okay, Sunburst."

"Thank goodness for that," remarked Sunburst, trying to catch his breath from running so fast. "It just came out of nowhere, like any other earthquake."

Right away, Cadence began to think that this was likely no ordinary Earthquake.

"Earthquakes are pretty rare in the Crystal Empire," she said. "But, we can't take this lightly. Part of me is saying that this was no ordinary earthquake. Shining Armor, we need to send out a patrol to investigate what is going on."

"One step ahead of you, Cadence," said Shining Armor, motioning for several of their guardsponies to make their way into the throne room. "I need some of you to patrol and find out the source of the earthquake. The rest of you stay here and check for any damages, understand?"

Saluting their leader, the guards did as they were told.

"I'd better go with them, so I can see whatever happened for myself," remarked Shining Armor, much to Cadence's worry. "Are you two going to be all right?"

Like a good wife, Cadence showed her worry for her husband.

"Yes, but please be careful," she pleaded, hugging her husband before watching him dash out of the throne room.

…

Racing out of the Crystal Empire, Shining Armor and several of the Crystal Empire's guards followed the ripple effects from the quake and were stunned by what they saw.

"Hold it!" called Shining Armor as they came across the damaged spacecraft. "What in Celestia…?"

The guards aimed the horns at the craft as a precautioned while Shining Armor slowly walked towards the damaged ship. Being the cautious pony that he was, he was preparing himself for whatever was coming his way.

"Keep your horns aimed!" he called, raising a hoof to his platoon before carefully reaching the handle to the craft's door. Suddenly, he heard a faint moaning noise from inside. "There's somepony in here!"

He listened again and then, he heard more faints. Finally, he heard a faint voice.

"Help…help…"

"Get over here!" shouted Shining Armor and the platoon raced over to the ship. "There is more than one in here!"

Immediately opening the door to the ship, Shining Armor and two of the guards peeked inside the ship and saw the Guardians of the Galaxy, either knock unconcisous or were semi-concisious.

"What do we do, Prince Armor?" asked one of the guards, thinking that these creatures posed a danger. "Do we help them?"

"Please…please, help us," groaned Quill, weakly looking up at Shining Armor, who realized what needed to be done.

"We help them," said Shining Armor, firmly. "Get the rest of the platoon and maybe some back up, if necessary. These creatures need help fast."

…

Meanwhile, the earthquake wasn't reserved for the Crystal Empire as the sun rose for another day in Equestria. Aboard the Friendship Express, the train carrying Tony Stark, Peter Parker and the Carpenters arrived in Canterlot, but they too felt what happened.

"Tony, any idea what was that?" Julia asked as they got off the train and onto the platform.

"I don't know, Julia," answered Tony. "This isn't like California, you know. As far as I'm concerned, it was probably just some random phenomenon."

"Either way, we should find out what it is, Mr. Stark," suggested Peter. "Maybe something crash landed here or something."

Immediately, Tony pressed a button on his chest and attempted to get in touch with his Artificial Intelligence.

"HOMER," he said. "Can you find anything on any earthquakes in Equestria?"

"I'll see what I can do, Mr. Stark."

So they waited and waited for any news. Finally, about 10 minutes later, HOMER reported.

"There has been a crash in the nearby Crystal Empire," explained HOMER. "Apparently, it is a ship of intergalactic origin."

Realizing that something was amiss, Tony realized what he needed to do.

"Julia, I'm going to the Crystal Empire to investigate what's going on," he said. "Take Peter and Rachel to Twilight Sparkle's castle."

"Mr. Stark, I should go with you…"

"No Pete, stay here because I don't know who are what this craft is."

Pressing the button on his chest again, Tony morphed into his Iron Man armor and took to the air, determined to find out who or what crash landed on Equestria…