"GORE! AH'M COMIN FER YOU!" Big Mac screamed as he used his armor gliders to fly upwards to where Gore was. Gore looked down and saw Macintosh flying up his position.

"Well well well, if it isn't the last COLT." Gore said brandishing his sword which was still covered in Deadeye's blood. "After I kill you nopony will be able to stop me!"

"Thats why yer not gonna kill me." Big Mac said.

"You fool! Your captain was twice the soldier you were and I dispatched of him! How can you honestly believe you can defeat me alone?" Gore laughed.

"Because ah'm not alone!" Big Mac said. Gore expected a group of ponies to arrive but nothing happened.

"If something was supposed to happen there, I must have missed it." Gore said.

"Mah friends and family are with me! That's all ah need to beat you!" Big Mac said as he pulled out his sword and charged at Gore. Gore was caught off guard by Big Mac's sudden attack and fell down. Big Mac stood as tall as he could on his hind legs as Gore stood up. Big Mac was intimidated, Gore was still at least a foot taller than he was!

"Alright hayseed, let's do this!" Gore said as began twirling and spreading his wings in an attempt to slice through Big Mac. Macintosh ducked and jumped out of the way of Gore's spinning wings as the griffon flew upwards and elbowed Big Mac to the face. Big Mac hit the ground with a hard smack as the floor beneath him cracked.

"Aw don't die yet!" Gore said picking up Big Mac by the head and held him up to his face. "Are you sure you are a COLT? You went down fairly easy." Gore was met with a kick to the face the moment those words left his mouth. He dropped Big Mac and the red horse ran up and bucked Gore as hard as he could in the stomach. The blow knocked Gore back nearly ten feet. As Macintosh wound up to do it again, Gore grabbed his back hoof and slammed the COLT into the ground. Gore jumped into the air and stomped on Big Mac with all this power. Gore continued to do this until Big Mac had been pushed nearly ten feet into the ground. Gore picked up Macintosh by the mane and threw him at a wall at full force.

"You equines are so weak! You lack discipline and a hard heart! You'd rather save the weaklings of your society than preserve the ones who can fight! That is why you lose!" Gore said as he relentlessly pounded Big Mac into the wall. The ponies in the war room gasped as they saw Gore's fist pounding onto Big Mac's head. Big Mac brought his hoof up and blocked one of Gore's punches. Gore was caught off guard by this so Big Mac head butted the griffon full force knocking Gore back. Big Mac somersaulted in between Gore's legs and then crawled up the griffons back. Big Mac wrapped his hooves around Gore in an attempt to choke him. Gore began slamming his back into walls and elbowing Big Mac in the ribs. The hits were too much for stallion as he let go and fell to the ground in tremendous amounts of pain. The situation didn't look good: Big Mac was barely standing at this point, though he had done quite a deal on Gore. The griffon proved to be the stronger one in this fight. Gore smiled as he swooped in and kneed Big Mac in the stomach. Macintosh fell down as Gore kicked him around. Macintosh could feel his armor starting to give away in some places.

"I expected more out of you, I won't kill you just yet." Gore said as he flew up towards the lava release gate. Macintosh realized what Gore was about to do so he forced himself up but his body screamed in protest.

"Come on big brother!" Applejack called from the war room.

"Let's go Big Mac! You got this!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

"Please get up Big Mac!" Luna yelled. Macintosh could hear everypony yelling at him to get up. This gave him strength but it still wasn't enough to shut up the screaming protest of his pained body.

"Big Macintosh" Big Mac opened his eyes to see his parents in front of him. They were just like he remembered them.

"Ma? Pa?" He asked painfully.

"My beautiful baby boy." His mother said as she rubbed his mane.

"Don't let him win son! You can do this!" His father yelled.

"Yer stronger than he is!" Big Mac turned to see Granny Smith was there as well.

"Come on Mac!" He heard Redwood Oak call to him.

"Let's go COLT! This is what I trained you for!" He heard Colonel Striper call out.

"Come on bud!" He heard Steel Tank and Gunny yell.

"COME ON BIG MAC! DON'T GIVE UP!" All the voices seemed to scream at once. Big Mac shot right back up, though his body was in extreme pain. The adrenaline rush and motivation he now had numbed all the pain he felt. Macintosh looked towards the sky and smiled. The ponies watching through his VISORCAM began cheering.

"Thanks y'all." He said as he activated his glider again. He flew up just as Gore was about to release the lava.

"I have waited so long for this moment!" He said as he was about to press the switch. A force knocked him to side. He looked up and saw Big Mac was there.

"YOU!" Gore said "I'm impressed to see you still standing. I see leaving you alive was a mistake. One I'm not going to make again."

"Ah'm not stopping till yer a pile of feathers an a bad smell!" Big Mac said as he drew out the sword Deadeye had given him. The two soldiers charged at each other exchanging blow after blow. Big Mac dug his sword into the ground and then used it to launch his back hooves into Gore's jaw.

"That was fer Autumn!" Big Mac said as Gore lunged at him. Big Mac jumped out of the way and slammed the griffons head into the ground.

"THat was fer Blitz!"

"Were did you get this power!?" Gore yelled. Big Mac ran full speed and elbowed Gore in the stomach.

"That was fer Shadow!" Big Mac said. Gore kicked the pony in the face and knocked him to the side. Gore took this oppurtunity to pick up his sword. He ran at Big Mac who rolled forward and tripped the griffon who face planted into the ground.

"That was fer the Captain!" Big Mac said. Gore went to stab Big Mac in the chest. Macintosh dodged and delivered his blade into Gore's thigh.

"AHHH!" Gore said as he punched Big Mac into the ground. Big Mac's visor started to form cracks from its prolonged punishment. Gore went to punch again but Big Mac deflected it and delivered his own punch to Gore's face. Gore screamed as he grabbed Macintosh's front forehoof and kicked in at the elbow. Macintosh screamed as he felt his arm break.

"Hehehe, I will finally kill all the COLTS!" Gore laughed as he limped over to Macintosh. Mac noticed his sword a few feet away from him. He began to crawl towards it when Gore kicked it away.

"I don't think so!" Gore said as he brought the sword down on Big Mac. Gore's depleted strength was not enough to penetrate Big Mac's armor but it left a bad bruise. Big Mac punched Gore in the face with his good hoof. He then did a backflip away where he landed next to his sword. He threw it and it hit Gore right in the chest. It hadn't gone all the way through but it had penetrated the griffon's armor. Big Mac ran up and wound up preparing to buck.

"An this is fer everypony yer kind killed!" Big Mac said as he bucked the sword sticking out of Gore's chest with all his force. The sword went clean through Gore's lungs as he began to choke on his own blood. Big Mac than ran up again and delivered one more buck to Gore which caused the griffon to fall. Gore was impaled by a sharp rock when he hit the bottom. Big Mac finally collapsed, his adrenaline wearing off causing all the pain to come flooding back. He had ended Gore's reign of terror but he still had one more thing to do.

"Command this Omega Two. General Gore has been neutralized." Big Mac said over his radio. The war room erupted into cheers. With both Von Griffon and Gore dead this war would be over.

"Outstanding work COLT!" Blue River said.

"Ah still have one more thing to do." Big Mac said as he walked toward the main support column. "General ah'm at the main support column."

"COLT, just wait, we will have a team come get you and we will use artillery to level it." Blue River said.

"No there are still grifs here who don't know their leader is dead. They will still set if off." Big Mac responded.

"You do realize if you do this. You will not have time to escape." Blue River said.

"If ah wasn't prepared to do this, ah never would've joined the Marines in the first place." Big Mac said.

"NO!" Luna cried. "There has to be another way.

"I'm sorry princess but Macintosh is right. Equestria is still in danger." Blue River said.

"Now wait just a dern minute! You can't just tell my brother to go and die!" Applejack cried.

"I'm sorry this is what he signed up for." Blue River said.

"Applejack?" Applebloom asked. "What's gonna happen to Big Mac?"

"He's gonna go see Granny Smith again sugarcube." Applejack said as he hugged her sister tightly.

"Tell mah family ah love em." Big Mac said. "Tell Luna ah love her as well."

"I love you too." Luna said as tears stung her cheeks. Big Mac used his strength to wound up for one more powerful buck. He hit the column with all his might. He saw the ceiling beginning to cave in and the small canals beginning to fill with dust and rock. He saw a large boulder falling towards him. Just before it him he locked his armor and went into suspended animation. Applejack closed Appleblooms eyes as the boulder hit Big Mac and his VISORCAM went dark. The war was finally over.

Author's Notes:

Alright I know I said i promised a happy ending but that was before I decided to make a sequel. What I really meant was the sequel will have the happy ending. I can't believe this is the second to last chapter of the first story already! R&R

"All wars have an end."