The next six months went by pretty fast for Havoc. Between training, spending time with Screwball, travelling from one diamond dog to the next and the battles; he was surprised to find that it was August and they were at the doors of Black Diamond, the largest diamond dog warren in the world.

He and Screwball had quickly become great friends. They enjoyed causing trouble together, and Screwball's knowledge of human culture gave them an interesting topic of conversation. Havoc was surprised to find that Screwball, behind all the chaos and randomness, was an intelligent and insightful mare.

After a few weeks, they had grown close enough for her to tell him how she became what she was. She was the only daughter of a lower middle class Canterlot family. She never met her father, a baseball coach who died of a heart attack when her mother was pregnant with her. When she was two, her mother’s health quickly deteriorated to the point where she couldn’t take care of Screwball. Since they had no other relatives, Screwball’s mother sent her to an orphanage, and died a few months later due to a disease that nopony ever explained to Screwball because “she was too young to understand”. Being an earth pony in Canterlot, she was constantly surrounded by unicorns, so she had grown jealous of their magic. She would spend lots of her free time trying to find ways for earth ponies to do magic. One day, a week after she got her cutie mark, she found a strange book in the orphanage’s library that nopony seemed to have seen before. Reading this book, she learned about Discord, the spirit of chaos and disharmony who had the power to alter reality in any way he wanted. The book also detailed how to gain Discord’s gratitude, and how he would grant a wish to the fortunate pony.

For years, she followed the book’s guidelines. She vandalized public property, created conflicts between the ponies she knew, and caused mistrust and hate whenever she could. She eventually realized that Discord himself was using the book to talk to her from his stone prison, and that she could reply by writing on it. Yes, just like Tom Marvolo Riddle’s diary in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I guess Discord thought that, if using a magic diary to make a young girl do what you want worked for Voldemort, it would work for him. Over the years, Screwball became more and more enthralled by Discord, to the point where she considered him the father she never had.

Eventually, Discord broke free, and soon appeared before her. Using his magic, he turned her into a chaos pony. Under normal circumstances, a pony will slowly grow sick and die if there’s too much chaos magic in his body. This is what happened to Diane, and it’s caused by the conflict between the harmony-based magic that is natural in ponies and the chaotic magic. However, just like a bit of chaos magic will be easily rejected by a pony’s magic, a large amount of chaos magic can overwhelm the natural pony magic, taking its place. When this happens, ponies turn into chaos ponies, gaining most of a draconequus’ abilities.

Chaos ponies were one of the many wonders Discord created during his reign over Equestria. Discord turned many of the ponies who learned to enjoy his chaotic rule into chaos ponies, but they were exiled when he was defeated. Eventually, these original chaos ponies became extinct, since the chaos magic made them unable to give birth to living offspring. According to Screwball, Discord preferred chaos ponies over draconequi minor because they were much easier to create, similar in power and less prone to bitterness and emo-tantrums. Their main disadvantage was that their swirly eyes couldn’t be concealed, even with illusion magic, so chaos ponies were unable to live among other ponies without revealing their true nature. Since Celestia and Luna had considered them abominations to nature and harmony, Discord wasn’t keen on them knowing that he had made a new one.

When Twilight and her friends reimprisoned Discord, Screwball considered giving herself up, but Discord had other plans in mind. Now that she was a chaos pony, he could communicate telepathically with her, giving her orders from his stone prison. Until his next release and turn to good, she spied on the Elements and chesspieces of interest for him, and attempted to kill Havoc whenever she could.

Havoc’s days were mostly occupied by both Screwball and his training. He sparred with any griffon who volunteered to face him, learning how they moved, their strengths and their weaknesses. He also trained with Drogur, who used Latin magic against him. The Alpha had been overjoyed when Havoc revealed that the magic words were magical due to them belonging to a different language, and had ordered him to tell him all the words he knew. Sadly, Havoc’s knowledge of Latin was almost nonexistent, so their only source of new words was fighting Griffon.

The next time Griffon and Havoc fought over a diamond dog den, a month after their first fight, Havoc surprised Griffon by simply forcing his beak shut with magic, silencing him. Unable to use his magic, Griffon quickly surrendered before Havoc could cripple or kill him. A week later, they had to fight over who would loot the corpse of a dragon who was idiotic enough to attack the scouts of both armies. Havoc and Griffon teamed up to kill the dragon, and fought each other as soon as he died. Even though Griffon had discovered a way to use magic after being silenced, Havoc won again, having learned a way to mitigate the effects of the “Concordia” spell. When Griffon gave up, Havoc almost decided to kill him there and then and blame the dragon. Only the possibility of infuriating one of the most powerful nations in the world gave him pause. From the dragon’s corpse Havoc got a new bone to use as a hammer, replacing the one Griffon broke.

Their fourth and last fight took place a month later, and they fought over who was best pony. It had started as a harmless conversation between both. Being both humans, they had decided to meet to just talk about human stuff instead of fighting each other. They had happily talked about videogames, about how they arrived to Equestria and a few of their exploits, both calling the other a Mary Sue a couple of times, until Griffon mentioned that Twilight was best pony. Havoc replied that Pinkie Pie was best pony, followed closely by Cadance, whereas Twilight was worst pony. They had become progressively angrier, with Griffon praising Twilight’s virtues while Havoc talked shit about her, until they began to fight. Despite being mad at each other, deep inside they knew they were just being silly, so they didn’t use weapons or magic against each other. Even though Havoc was bigger and stronger, Griffon proved to be much faster and more skilled at hand-to-hand combat, so soon he had Havoc pinned down in a submission hold. After that day, Havoc began to train more in non-magical combat, so he wouldn’t be so vulnerable without his magic.

One of the main worries for both Havoc and the ponies was the lack of information from Equestria. The Gem Fido skies were dangerous for lone pegasi carrying messages, and the few roaming dragons were not the only threat. Wyverns, the distant cousins of dragons, were a more common and equally lethal threat, although they were smaller and simple minded. There were also feral griffons, who had never seen civilization and enjoyed pony meat; the untamed weather that could endanger unprepared pegasi; and slaver diamond dogs desperate enough to sneak into enemy territory with their airships. In the end, mailponies could only reach the frontline when accompanying groups of soldier that were joining or returning to the army.

When the Sun and the Moon froze in the sky during Summer Sun Celebration in a constant half day, half night state; Shining Armor feared for the worst. After some heated arguments, he settled for waiting a full day before rushing back to Equestria. Luckily, everything returned to normality after a couple of hours, and Luna herself explained it all to Shining in his dreams.

A few weeks into the campaign, Havoc received a letter from Diane herself. Thrilled, he cut his training short so he could read the letter. The letter was a ten pages long paragraph that was insanely hard to read, but Havoc did it anyways. A lot of it was fodder about how good her health was now, how much she missed him, parties, and how well everypony was doing in Trottingham. From it, he managed to extract some tidbits of information. For starters, she was a bit angry with him for stealing money from the city, but she would use it as he told her if she ever had to. She was also renting his room, both to make some extra money and because the house was too big and looked empty when she was alone. She also assured him that she had rented the room to a mare and they were certainly not having a lesbian relationship. She didn’t write much about Comet Tail or Robin Hoof, only mentioning that they were both doing well. Havoc replied to that letter, telling her about what he had been up to, and so each month he received a new letter from her.

It might seem that Havoc’s life as Equestria’s strongest weapon in the Gem Fido war was reduced to fighting Griffon and hanging out with Screwball, but that was far from the truth. As the Dominion and the Equestria army took over dens, the remaining ones began to take measures to save themselves. Sometimes they would find empty dens, only for the next one to be occupied by three full clans, managing to pose a serious threat by sheer numbers. Their techniques also evolved, some of them paying dragons in gems to fight on their side, attacking the relatively defenseless dens Equestria had recently conquered, forcing them to increase the garrison on each one and reducing the size of the main army; or executing their slaves beforehand in a show of defiance. The latter ones became rare after the first den that did it was obliterated to the extent that it would have been easier to build a new den than to repair the damage done to the original one.

To make things worse, rumours of the legendary Diamond Wolf being the leader of the alliance of Gem Fido clans began to spread, making most of the remaining dens join the alliance and fight together against Equestria and the Dominion. In addition, everyday some of the dogs who fought for Equestria deserted so they could side with the Diamond Wolf.

When they reached Black Diamond, most of the remaining diamond dog clans had gathered in it to offer Equestria a last stand. The Dominion was busy dealing with a rebellion in the first dens they had conquered, so they were unable to reach it. Apparently, treating all diamond dogs living in dens you conquer worse than they treated their slaves because “they did it first” isn’t a long-lasting policy. Due to this, the equestrians would have no help fighting the massive army that, for the first time since the beginning of the war, outnumbered the pony army.

The increasingly common use of dragons by the diamond dogs had forced Celestia to send the Wonderbolts to help. Even though the Wonderbolts were mainly a group of acrobats and performers, they were also a group made of pegasi who could use the razorwing technique with enough skill to cut through dragon scales and bones. They would fly disguised as regular scouts, waiting for the right moment to cut a dragon’s wings and make it fall to a certain death, either by the impact or by the army who waited on the ground. Since Black Diamond had a total of five adult dragons on their side, their presence could be decisive.

Havoc was called by Shining to his tent the same day they reached Black Diamond, where all the important people was gathered.

“This time, your goal isn’t to cause as much damage as possible, there’s so many of them that you won’t make a difference,” Shining explained to the draconequus. “This so-called diamond wolf is supposed to be a formidable foe, stronger than Griffon, even. Your main goal is to accumulate as much power as you can, and you will engage the wolf the moment he reveals himself. Try to take him alive if you can, but don’t hesitate to kill him if non-lethal methods won’t work. In the meanwhile, you will pay attention to the battlefield and help any group that sends a blue signal.”

They also gave him a brief summary of their plans, since they knew he was unable to sit and listen during a full meeting. For the next hours before the fight itself, Havoc simply soared a few meters above the camp, taking energy from the myriad of little accidents and funny situations that took place in it.

Unlike most diamond dog warrens, Black Diamond was built on the surface, just like any pony city. Since the main threat to them was dragon attacks, the city had stone roofs and several ballistas to fend them off, yet it lacked walls that would protect them from the pony army; so the diamond dogs decided to leave the city and meet their enemies in the field.

The mercenary dragons circled above the endless hordes of diamond dogs, breathing fire and roaring in a display of power. An idea sparked in Havoc’s mind, so he carried it out before the fighting began. Using his magic, he created an illusion that looked like him, just more menacing and twice as big as the largest dragon in the area. The illusion roared so loud that two of the dragons got so startled that they collided against each other and almost fell on the army below. The equestrians laughed and cheered, and the Gem Fido diamond dogs began their charge to make up for the humiliation.

Just like that, the battle began. The pegasi archers fired volley after volley of arrows enchanted by the unicorns so they would explode upon impact, while a few Gem Fido dogs replied with bows, crossbows and slingshots. When the equestrian infantry charged against the dogs, Havoc made his copy run a few meters ahead of them, turning smaller with each step. As soon as it collided against the first line of diamond dogs, it exploded in a shower of shrapnel, injuring dozens and making an opening for the equestrians to break through. The magic words shouted by Attila and Drogur mixed with the orders, the cries of pain, the roaring and the neighing as the soldiers killed each other. The pegasi soon fired all the enchanted arrows, so they took flight and began using regular against the enemies below. As soon as they did, the dragons rushed towards them.

The arrows fired by the pegasi couldn’t pierce the dragons’ scales, but they could tear holes in their leathery wings or blind them, so the dragons had to strike fast and with their eyes closed , so they relied on their sense of smell and hearing to find their prey. When the Wonderbolts cut the first dragon’s throat with their razorwing as soon as he reached them, the others began to move in circles and use their firebreath to keep the deadly pegasi away from them. Havoc abandoned his position near Shining Armor and flew towards a pink dragoness. A few seconds before he hit her face with his hammer, both of them did a double take.

“YOU!” they shouted at the same time. ‘I can't believe I'm going to fight the same pink dragoness who tried to kill me twice after I stole from her! Just when I thought the universe had forgotten about me and decided to fuck with someone else...’

“This victory will be twice as sweet!” the dragoness gloated as she tried to bite Havoc, who dodged her teeth by a few hairs’ breadth.

“So, why did you hate me so much?” Havoc asked.

“What?! You don’t remember? You stole from me!”

“For you, the day Havoc sacked your hoard was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday,” he replied as he kept on dodging her attacks and making her even more furious by throwing puns and lightning attacks that wouldn’t kill her but were painful.

He kept on taunting and attacking her, giving the Wonderbolts a chance to attack her wings. The joined effort of four Wonderbolts managed to sever both of her wings in the blink of an eye, making her plummet to her death while she cursed Havoc’s name with her last breath.

“Well, that was anticlimactic.”

“There’s three more of them, you still have a chance to have an epic battle with one of them,” a male Wonderbolt replied as he flew past.

Shrugging, Havoc looked to the ground, and found two constant streams of blue fireworks coming from different points in the battlefield. “Shit!” he cursed as he flew towards the closest one.

The first group in need of help was made of fifty diamond dogs and ponies, and they were being overwhelmed by a similar number of mercenary minotaurs. Havoc joined the fight, allowing the equestrians to retreat by holding the minotaurs off. Since they were too much for him to defeat without spending large amounts of magic, he resorted to cheap tricks such as creating copies of himself or making banana peels appear on the floor while reinforces arrived. Soon enough, a phalanx of crystal ponies charged against the minotaurs.

“We’ll handle this, go to the next blue signal,” a familiar voice came from the group of crystal ponies. Only after taking flight and arriving at the second source of fireworks did Havoc realize that it was Emerald Sword’s voice.

The second group was faring much worse than the first. Six teen dragons were fighting alonside the diamond dogs, and they were dealing a lot of damage. ‘Given my luck, these dragons will be the ones I lived with after leaving Granite Back.’ Havoc turned into his teen dragon from and engaged the largest one, quickly noting that he didn’t know any of them. Since he was just one teen dragon against six, he soon had to revert to his draconequus form and fight them with magic. Even though the dragons’ scales protected them from magic, they weren’t effective against indirect uses, such as tossing diamond dogs at them or making the air around them become thicker than honey.

For a full hour, Havoc continued to fight all over the place. After all that time surrounded by huge amounts of strife and violence, he reached the maximum amount of magic his body could handle. For him, it felt similar to finishing peeing after a long time, even though he had filled his body with magic instead of emptying his bladder. He continued fighting, releasing all the extra energy he gained after that point, until a deafening roar made most of the battlefield stop fighting for a second.

Havoc looked at the source and found the only dragon who hadn’t been dealt with yet, a humongous black male, with a large humanoid riding on the base of his neck. ‘That must be the diamond wolf. Let’s kill him. … That dragon is HUGE… I’m so not going to fight a freaking enormous black dragon and a super diamond dog at the same time without help.’

With that idea in mind, Havoc approached one of the Wonderbolts and told them to help him take down the last dragon. They quickly decided to have Havoc distract them while the Wonderbolts attacked, just like with the pink dragoness. Havoc created the giant copy of himself for a second time and made it fly towards the black dragon.

“Dragon,” his augmented voice boomed. “You don’t have to die here, fighting for some worthless diamond dogs. Give me your rider and we won’t have to fight.”

The dragon replied by roaring again and breathing fire on Havoc’s copy. The illusion was quickly destroyed by the flames, and the real Havoc teleported just behind the rider.

“Hey man, I gonna cut you up so bad, you gonna wish I hadn’t cut you up so bad!” Havoc threatened as the dragonrider turned to face him.

It became obvious for Havoc why they called his enemy the “diamond wolf”. Just like alpha diamond dogs were bigger, fiercer and stronger than the common breed, the diamond wolf looked like an alpha of alphas. He was around two and a half meters tall, and powerful muscles could be guessed under his white fur and the samurai armor he was wearing. The wolf looked at him, but something seemed wrong with his eyes. They showed no emotion as if he was sleeping with them open, until he blinked and they returned to normal. Then, too fast for Havoc to register the movement, the diamond wolf drew a human handgun and shot Havoc in the heart. Shocked, the draconequus couldn’t react as the wolf shot him twice in the skull, making his head burst like a ripe tomato.

‘What the actual fuck? Did he just shoot me? I can’t see shit. Actually, I can’t feel anything. Oh no, this is just like when I was turned into stone. … Shit, did he just kill me?! Am I dead?! Oh fuck he killed me and now I’m dead and…’

Havoc realized that he could still sense his own magic, violently swirling inside of him, almost too much for his body to handle. Scared, he tapped into it, wishing himself to heal. After a brief flash of pain, he found himself falling towards the distant ground.

“Well, at least now I know I can survive having my head blown. I guess I’ll have to… Thank him for teaching this to me.”

As he flew back to the dragon’s location, he noticed that the Wonderbolts were in danger, what with the violent dragon attacking them while the diamond wolf fired his handgun. Thanks to the vast amount of energy he had, he could make a machine gun appear on his hands and spray the dragon with bullets without worrying about depleting his reserves. The bullets could barely pierce the dragon’s scales, but it was painful enough to make him turn and attack Havoc. When he did, Havoc turned the machine gun into a rocket launcher. The rocket hit the dragon square on the chest, the explosion dazing him and giving the Wonderbolts an opening. The diamond wolf attempted to kill them with his gun, so Havoc did his best Darth Vader impersonation and yanked it out of his hand with magic. Since he had never learned how to properly use a gun, he hid it in his hammerspace and flew towards the dragon’s head. Turning into smoke, Havoc slipped through the dragon’s maw as he tried to bite him, and reformed atop his muzzle. Only then did he realize just how massive the black dragon was, as he could stand on him just like Fluttershy did with the red dragon she Stared down, and Havoc was much larger than Fluttershy. He also noticed that the dragon had several strips of paper stuck to his forehead with “狼付き” written on them. Neither Havoc nor Google Translate knew what that meant, but Havoc guessed the japanese text had something to do with the guy wearing a japanese samurai armor.

The dragon looked at him, but his eyes showed no spark of intelligence, as if he was just some dumb beast. Ducking as one of the dragon’s claws almost got him, Havoc approached the papers and tried to remove one. As soon as his fingers touched the paper, a powerful jolt of electricity hit him, forcing him to release the paper and instinctively suck his burned fingers. Trying to pull them off with magic was useless, since they also repelled it. He was about to try using his axe when the dragon caught him with his claws and promptly crushed him. Havoc turned his body into rubber to avoid having his bones turned into powder, and forced the claws open by making himself ten times stronger. As he returned to the dragon’s back, he made two long copper wire appear on his hands. Seeing that the diamond wolf was “zoned out” again, he quickly tied a wire to each of his hands and moved to the dragon’s forehead.

“What is this?” Havoc heard the diamond wolf ask with a surprisingly soft voice just as he made the other ends of the wires touch different strips of paper. As soon as he did, he heard the unmistakable sound of someone being electrocuted.

After a few seconds, the papers suddenly caught fire and burned into a crisp in the blink of an eye. Havoc connected the wires to two new strips, but nothing happened. The diamond wolf suddenly jumped from his saddle on the dragon’s neck base to his head, a katana ready in his hands. Havoc noted that, unlike the other diamond dogs he had encountered so far, the diamond wolf’s build was more similar to a human’s. Instead of having short legs and large arms to walk on all fours like gorillas, his body was shaped for walking on two legs at all times.

“So you are the draconequus who’s been fighting for Equestria,” the wolf said. “Havoc, right?”

“Yep, that’s me. I didn’t get your name, though.”

“I am Aio Kusanajin. Before we begin, I want to know why you are fighting us.”

“You are slavers, slavery is bad. Is it really that hard to grasp?”

“You don’t understand, just like ponies,” he complained, shaking his head. “Diamond dogs are slaves, too. Slaves to the dragons who force us to resort to any means to meet their demands of gemstones. The Dominion offers slavery to the griffons, and you offer slavery to Equestria. I will lead the diamond dogs to true freedom, uniting the clans and creating a nation. Only then will we be able to live in harmony. You can join me, or stand aside and don’t intervene. Try to stop me, though, and you will die.”

“I would consider joining you, but the only thing I have seen you do so far is turning this relatively non-violent conquest into a bloodbath for both siders. Also, you shot me in the head.”

“Then you leave me no choice.”

Aio moved faster than Havoc thought possible, and before he could move his weapon to cover behind it Aio had severed his two arms and disemboweled him. Havoc’s eyes glowed red and fired energy beams, forcing Aio to retreat. Then he did a thrust of his katana and, even though its tip was two meters away from Havoc, a stab wound appeared on his neck.

“Wow dude you aren’t messing around,” Havoc said as his wounds healed instantly. “How the hell did you do that?”

Aio sighed. “My weapon has an air manipulating effect that makes it cut my enemies even if I don’t touch them with Hakuryū no seieki. Please tell me you’re not immortal.”

“Bitch I might be,” Havoc replied as he readied his hammer.

“If you really thing you will defeat me with such a crude weapon you are just delusional.”

Suddenly, the dragon roared in pain and shook his head wildly. Havoc tripped and fell, while Aio remained atop the dragon, never losing his balance. As he flew back up, Havoc noticed that one of the Wonderbolts had managed to wound the dragon’s side, leaving a large bleeding gash. Havoc teleported just behind Aio, who had returned to his place on the dragon’s back, and tried to crush his head with a blow of his hammer, but the diamond wolf once again reacted almost instantly and dodged the attack, cutting Havoc’s right hand in the process.

“Would you cut it with the cutting?”

“I gonna cut you up so bad, you gonna wish I hadn’t cut you up so bad, Havoc.”

“Very funny, I think I’m going to maim you now,” Havoc said as he tried to use his magic to tear off Aio’s limbs. However, the samurai armor protected him from Havoc’s spells better than dragonscales would. “OH COME ON! Is anti-magic the new fashion or what?!”

“Only a fool would face an army of unicorns without protection against magic.”

Growling, Havoc tried to hit Aio with the hammer, but the wolf could easily dodge him. However, this time Havoc grew an extra set of arms that grabbed Aio’s wrists just as he was about to stab him. “I suggest you to surrender. Ponies and diamond dogs are dying under us with each passing second.”

“To die in combat is the greatest honour. The most terrible thing is to live as a coward.”

Havoc shrugged and retrieved Aio’s handgun from hammerspace, then emptied the cartridge on his belly. The first four bullets glanced off the armor, but the fifth one generated a powerful explosion that separated them. When Aio tried to attack again, Havoc teleported to the dragon’s head and hit one of the papers with his axe. The magic-nullifying properties of the weapon made the paper fall from the dragon’s forehead and be carried away by the wind. Curious, Havoc decided to do the same with the remaining strips. By the time Aio reached him, there was only one strip of paper left.

“Don’t!” Aio warned as Havoc got rid of it. As soon as he did, the dragon shook his head and blinked.

“I am free!” he bellowed with a powerful voice. “Aio Kusanajin, you no longer control my actions! Prepare to die!”

Moving faster than any being of his size should, the dragon did several barrel rolls, throwing both Havoc and Aio off his body and injuring a nearby pegasus with one of his wings. Aio fell for several seconds, but managed to land on the ground without injuring himself.

“Dragon!” Havoc shouted as he floated just in front of him. “We also want Aio dead! We can work together!”

“You are the creature that broke his magic,” said the dragon as he stopped flailing around. “Very well, I’ll work with you. For now.”

“Good. I’m fighting for Equestria, so cause as much damage to the other army as you can while I deal with Aio.”

“I’ll help the ponies, but I have one condition: I’ll be the one who kills Aio. Bring him to me after you defeat him.”

“We have a deal, then. I’ll tell my side that you’re not our enemy.”

Since the pegasi had heard their exchange, they stopped trying to injure the dragon and returned to their landing zone while Havoc teleported to Shining Armor’s location.

“What is it, Havoc?” he asked when the draconequus appeared in front of him.

“The black dragon was being mind-controlled by the diamond wolf. He has agreed to fight for us today, so don’t attack him. Now I’m going to give the diamond wolf the beating of his life, bye.”

Shining blinked in confusion for a moment, then gave the necessary orders to ensure nopony or diamond dog would engage the black dragon.

As Havoc flew back to the place Aio had landed on, he asked himself a very important question. Now, how am I supposed to find him among the thousands of diamond dogs out there?

A vertical beam of red light wider than a building answered his question. The beam became thinner while Havoc approached it. By the time he was close enough to touch it, the beam had collapsed into a sphere the size of a pony that was linked to a ruby the size of a pony head held by Aio.

“What the fuck are you doing?” Havoc asked as he readied his axe.

“You leave my no choice but to use my secret weapon: Carbuncle, the eidolon of void!”

“The what now?”

The sphere of red light exploded, leaving behind a creature with green hair and a large ruby embedded to its forehead. The creature, no larger than a pony and vaguely similar to a bunny, stared at Aio.

“Just when I thought you couldn’t be more weeaboo, you summon this little shit,” Havoc said, laughing.

“Carbuncle, that draconequus is a threat to all the diamond dogs in the world. We need your strength.”

“What’s it going to do? Bite my ankles a-” Havoc’s phrase was cut short as a red beam of magic surged from Carbuncle’s ruby, obliterating his legs, tail and part of his torso.

“Oh.”

Author's Notes:

I didn't feel like writing 50k words about the Gem Fido war, with Havoc's relationship with Screwball and Griffon developing along with the war. It would have taken too long.