Silent Night was at a loss for words. The two beings standing in front of her were the two of the most dangerous on the planet. One, a griffin with glowing yellow eyes. His tail was missing and his body covered in burn scars. The other, a changeling with no wings.

"Whats the matter Silent, Mane got your tongue?" Xero said.

With that, Mane tackled her and pinned her to the wall by her throat. Silent started to sputter and struggle to no avail.

"Leave her alone!" Applejack yelled. She ran up and bucked Mane in the base of the spine with enough force to fracture a skull. Mane, was not amused, so he let go of Silent Night and went to murder the crap out of Applejack. He never made it as he was punched in the face by a rainbow.

"Uugggghhahhaha." The attack surprised him but did no damage. The attacker, Miss Rainbow Dash, was speechless.

"Impossible, I put so much behind that punch." She complained.

He was slowly walking towards her when a chair was thrown at him, hard. Mane didn't even flinch when the chair broke against him.

Pinkie Pie spontaneously appeared in front of him and hit him with her party cannon at point blank range.

"Haahahaha." The laugh made Pinkie's hair deflate. Mane didn't like her in his way, so he punched her through a wall. Pinkie wasn't moving.

"Pinkie!" Katar yelled and rushed to her aid.

Fluttershy was pissed, even more pissed than when Twilight told her that if she didn't fly faster, Discord would win. She marched right up to Mane and yelled. "HOW DARE YOU!"

She used the Stare on him. The stare was a weapon of the most dangerous kind. The psychological effects are impossible to calculate. It has never been used on a pony or griffin. What it is believed to feel like is having your soul ripped from your body as you slowly go insane. Prolonged exposure will drive most living beings to insanity. What Fluttershy doesn't know is that when used on a sentient being, it allows you to see into their soul. This is dangerous for both parties as it can corrupt the Starer to the disposition of that is being Stared at. The receiver of the Stare can suffer from many things including, insomnia, fear of mares, fear of Fluttershy, eternal sorrow, insanity, and possible death from having your soul literally ripped from your very body.

"Just because your big...ger than everypony doesn't...mean that you can..." the rest of her words died with her courage. She just so happened to peer into Mane's soul and what she saw horrified her. She saw pain, a lot of it. Both from himself and what he caused others, and how much he loves it.

What this did to Mane was faze him for a while.

"Mane, stop screwing around." Xero yelled.

Mane shook his head and growled.

"Look, just finish them off and I'll buy you a pizza." Xero said.

"Mmmruuhaahagg." Mane said, unhappily.

"Two pizzas."

"MRMMRRHHFFAAHGGH!" Mane was pissed, and for no reason at all, like always.

"With stuffed crust."

...

"Good. Now, kill my boy, kill." Xero said.

Mane gumbled before turning around.

Applejack got an idea. "Rarity. SIlent, do ya think y'all could distract him for a spell?"

"If by distract, you mean get maimed horribly then yes." Silent answered.

Rarity nodded.

"Good. Rainbow, Ah need to talk ta you."

Rainbow groaned and walked over to her. "What."

Applejack leaned in and told her the plan.

Meanwhile, Katar joined in the fight and was doing is hardest to do any damage to Xero.

Xero ducked under a punch from Katar and used his momentum and hind legs to sweep Katar's back legs out from under him. Katar caught himself on his forelegs, pivoted himself, and bucked Xero in the chest. While flying back, Xero shot a bolt of magic at Katar, singeing his face. Katar fell down and Xero took this time to charge up his magic for something more powerful.

Octavia, Vinyl and Starscream were nursing their wounds.

"Do you think we should help them?" Vinyl asked.

"Who, the agents or the others?" Octavia retorted.

"On second thought, lets go up to the boss and get our pay. Those two don't need our help." Vinyl said.

"Good idea, lets go." Octavia agreed.

"Hey, agent Mane, over here." Rainbow yelled. She was out a window, trying to get Mane to go after her.

Mane glanced at her and growled.

"Yeah, that's right. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." Rainbow taunted.

Mane glared at her and charged with a speed that would make a Wonderbolt feel threatened. Rainbow wasted no time in flying as high as she could.

She started her decent with Mane coming out the window. She felt herself picking up speed. Faster and faster she went. A mach cone formed around her. Soon, it would happen.

Mane was a quarter way to her now and climbing fast. But not fast enough. Rainbow Dash did it. She did a sonic rainboom aimed directly at him. Upon contact, he went in the opposite direction of what he was before. The roof didn't even slow him down when he hit it. The next ten floors didn't either.

Basschords was making himself a sandwich and was about to grab the bread when it dissappeared. Along with majority of his kitchen.

"What the fuck?" He said to nopony inparticular. "Dammit, I wanted that sandwich."

Trixie and Twilight had stopped fighting when a rainbow appeared in the room. When it hit the floor, the impact shook the building to its core. The crater that it left had a very tired Rainbow Dash in it as well as a griffin with every bone in his body broken.

Twilight looked at Trixie with an 'I told you so look' look. Trixie glared in response.

Rainbow looked up and said. "Hey Twilight, do you think you can teleport us out of here."

Twilight tried a little magic before confirming that the anti-magic field had been broken when Rainbow crashed into it. "Yes, gimme a second." and with a bright flash, Twilight and Rainbow Dash disappeared. Leaving Trixie and Scootaloo alone.

Trixie sighed. "One second, its been a while since Trixie has done this." and with another flash, they left the room.

Sodalg entered the room to see the ponies gone and a very fucked up agent Mane in their place. He sighed. "Well, at least they didn't kill you Mane. Now, lets see if you can recover from that. I made it so you can regenerate slightly back when I augmented your body."

All that agent Mane did in response did was growl. Next Chapter: The Price of Survival Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 9 Minutes