I appeared on a cloud above Los Pegasus and I looked down onto the battlefield. A much larger goblin army was coming from the south than I had guess, but it still smaller than my largest estimate.

“HOLD THE LINE!” I heard Applejack shout and I looked at her fighting with a sword. I was a bit later than I wanted to be, but it was fine, Applejack hadn’t lost a single soldier and they were fighting on top of mounds of bodies.

I then looked at the goblins, knee high, green things, skinny arms and legs, three claws, messed up teeth, beady eyes, and they were lightly armored with needle swords. They went for miles, hundreds of battleships were on the sea bombarding Los Pegasus’s docks.

“Seffron!” I looked at Dash as she landed next to me. “There you are! What the hell have you been?”

“Feather.” She pulled off one and gave it to me.

“We’ve been fighting for a while.”

“I know.”

“Then why haven’t you helped us?!”

“How’s the triple rain boom coming along?”

“What does that matter?” I tossed the feather into the air and the cloud wrapped around it creating a cloud gun battery. “Whoa.” I sat down and flipped a few switches.

“Well?”

“I have been trying, but things keep coming up.”

“Isn’t now the perfect time?”

“I guess.”

“Now stand back.” I pulled the triggers and needles of ice shot out of the gun making the air vibrate. Every pony looked up at me as I sprayed ice needles onto the army, wiping thousands out. If something is shot fast enough, it’ll go through almost anything, and the best part about ice is they bleed out rather or not they take it out, because it melts quickly.

“PUSH FORWARD!” Applejack ordered and they started to push forward ripping through the goblin lines.

“Watch out!” Dash shouted and I looked to my right out to the sea and hundreds of goblins on gliders were flying toward me. I hit the cloud and it turned me allowing me to open fire at them ripping through the gliders and sending them crashing. I jumped flying into the air as dozens of goblins hit, exploding and ripping apart my cloud gun.

“I hate goblins.” I mumbled and shot down into the middle of the goblin army landing hard. A air wave ripped up everything along with every goblin around me for a ways.

I held my hand out and my real sword appeared, sending out wind blades ripping though the army, into the sea and cutting dozens of ships to pieces. I swiped my blade sending air blades ripping apart the army in front of me, only to be filled by more.

Goblins, by far one of the most annoying creatures I knew, a single hatch of them was tens of thousands. In just a month they could have millions of babies, and then have an army nearly the same size in ten years. They aged much faster than ponies.

Their lands were burned through from their massive populations. The entire goblin kingdom was on the march to Equestria, so hundreds of millions of soldiers were coming, much more than I thought would come, but less than I expected.

“Seffron!” Applejack said landing next to me cutting down four goblins with a single swing of her sword.

“Hey.” I sliced next to her ripping through a goblin battle line.

“We have explosives out here! Thousands of them, I need you to move back so we can blow them.” I grabbed her flying into the air and he held up a donator. She pressed it and it was a beautiful sight, seeing line after line of explosives going off wiping out the goblin army as far as I could see.

“Nice.” I said as we landed at the goblin wall.

“Second wave incoming forty five minutes!” A stallion shouted with a radio on his back running along the army’s battle line and I smiled setting down Appleajack. “Commander.” The stallion said saluting me and he kept running.

“Move that boy pile over!” Applejack ordered two soldiers. “Seffron is there anything you can do to slow the next wave?” Dash landed next to us.

“Not much, Celestia wouldn’t be happy if I glassed the land over.”

“I don’t care we have only been fighting for ten minutes and we’re being overwhelmed by these damn things.” She held up a knee high goblin in armor. “While we easily cut them down, they ever end.”

“I know, they sent the entire army by the looks of the size. We haven’t even made a pin prick yet, the reason why the Rat Race was so bad, was because we were locked into combat for days and they didn’t stop racing.”

“What do you suggest we do?”

“Fight till we pass out, then wake up and fight some more.” I chuckled smiling and she frowned. “I’m not joking, that’s what I did the first time, though this time with might be in trouble.” I looked out. “Rainbow Drop figured out the triple rain boom during this battle, it scared the goblins so badly, that they ran and never came back. They would have won in the end.”

“What?” Applejack said stepping back.

“We don’t have the forces to handle hundreds of millions of goblins, we only have wiped out a million or two, while that might seem impressive you’ve run out of bombs, and I can’t protect you all while I battle. Unless Dash does a triple, we won’t stand a chance as we are right now.”

“Wait,” Dash said. “Can’t we just can’t we call Celestia and the others?” Dash asked sweating nervous, she was far from hot, even though we were on the edge of the desert being baked in the sun.

“We could win, but we would be here for weeks. We need to scare them, not just fight them, they over whelm with their tactics, they don’t change them. Have you at least gotten close to it?” She looked away.

“No.”

“Hey!” Applejack shouted at a soldier. “That don’t go there!” She ran off.

“Have you done like I said, faster?”

“I’ve tried, and tried! But I can’t get past two, I slow down okay! I can’t get it, I’ve never really failed at anything, but this, it’s impossible for me!”

“Rain drop was heavier than you by quite a bit, and that was fat.” She looked at her belly, she was absolutely toned. “You should be able to easily go faster than her, or maybe it’s that you don’t have the weight.” I went down ripping armor off of goblins and plating her a little making her the right weight.

“Okay let’s try this, Applejack we’re going to try a triple, make sure when you see it you alert the city and take cover.” She nodded and Dash flew into the air with me.

“Ugh this is so heavy.” She complained.

“You need at least forty pounds you skinny mare, though I suppose gaining a few more pounds wouldn’t hurt you.”

“Hey, I’m perfectly healthy!” I chuckled.

“Said the boney one.” She blushed and I laughed. She shifted pieces so they felt more right on her.

“Am I that much of a problem?”

“No, I’m fine, but a bit of fat wouldn’t kill ya.” She rolled her eyes. We flew high into the sky and her jaw dropped seeing the army moving from Equestria’s boarders running. The air was thick with dust on the ground. I looked back at Los Pegasus, we were barely far enough away from it.

“What now?” I lifted her up.

“I’m going to help you do a triple.”

“What?”

“I’m going to give you a huge boost, but first we’re going to go higher.” We started going up till the air became too thin to fly higher. We looked down seeing clear to dodge city and the goblin army kept marching making it past San Palomino mountain.

“Now what?”

“We are going to spin into a circle and then your hooves have to connect with my feet softly, then I'll launch you as you jump. The boost should easily be able to get you going at speed, then you have to push your limit. I know this will suck, but you might need to break your wings from how fast you’ll be going.”

“WHAT!” She shouted.

“The first time nearly killed Rainbow Drop, well along with wiping out Los Pegasus for the most part.” I chuckled. “As well as wiping out half of my world’s army at the time, and most of all the blast caused the San Palomino mountain to get removed from the map completely. She broke every bone in her body.” She looked down nervous.

“I-I.”

“Look at me!” She looked at me. “We don’t have a choice, we don’t have the time for you to second guess, even if I went full force it would take me weeks, and that would be with every last pony’s help. Please we need to scare them.”

“Fine.”

“Now we have a few minutes to practice, do not jump, if we are able to get it right three times in the row, then we will do it.” She nodded and I grabbed her. We spun and then I let go of her, she missed me flying away from me.

“What the!” She said flying back over to me.

“It’s harder than it looks, now watch my wings, know where I’m going.” She nodded and we went for twenty minutes before she got it right once.

“YES!” She shouted realizing it.

“Again.” We spun and she got it a second time.

“Oh yeah.” She pranced around.

“Again!” I said and she nodded. She missed the third time and she groaned knowing I wouldn’t let it happen without three times in a row. “We will do this till it’s perfect, do you understand me?” She nodded and we worked on it for another twenty minutes. The goblin army was now at the door step.

“YES!” She shouted when we finally made the third mark.

“Now we only get one shot, I'll be aiming you, you will push off as I push you, this will give you a massive boost to your speed.” She nodded. “Now then, don’t think about it, think faster, do not let that thought escape your mind.”

“Let’s do this.” I grabbed her, we then spin faster than normal and she adjusted for the spin separating us. We spun extremely fast and she matched me perfectly, we both jumped had and I launched her. The air around her cracked, ripping through my right side like wet paper. I watched as pain ripped through my body.

“Come on.” I mumbled.

She glowed with rainbows and she went through the first rain boom, then the second one less than an instant later. I couldn’t blink as she hit the third one. Sound went away completely, then light disappeared making the area a vortex of rainbow light for only a second. When it came back as a shock wave, hitting me in less than a second and ripping my body further apart.

I grinned having aimed perfectly, only a small part of San Palomino mountain was gone this time and turned to ash. I had hit Equestria’s boarder with Dash miles away, and it still turned all of San Palomino Desert into glass along with the rest of mountain.

A rainbow cloud miles wide shot up into the air mushrooming. I laughed as my body healed after a few seconds. Not even I could put that much power into a single shot, she had wiped out the entire goblin army in a single blast.

I looked out at the sea and it had been pushed away. I then looked at the boarder hearing a roaring. I groaned as the ground cracked, ripping open, cutting from the boarder through the desert, cutting open the Apple Wood mountains stopping barely in the White Tail Woods. I was probably going to get in trouble for that.

I flew down going through the rainbow mushroom cloud and going to Dash which was on the ground. Her body was mangled, bones were in the wrong parts, and most of her bones had turned to dust from the impact along, with all her organs. She was lucky she had the armor on her body, she would have probably been ripped apart otherwise, and I can’t bring mush back from the grave.

“Oh Dash, I killed you.” I laughed pulling up her body, which was now more like a water bag than body. I moved her out of a body imprint and set her down on the glass area next to the hole.

I spread out my wings and red symbols etched through my scales into my skin. My eyes burned red fire bleeding blue fire. I held out my hand and black fire appeared around it bending light. A red ribbon appeared from her body. It was the only one around, all the other bodies had been burned away to nothing.

“Hear me,” I said as green smoke steamed from my mouth. “I call upon you Dash to live again, in thyine name Spike Ever Sparkle.” I grabbed her red ribbon and it changed to green going back to her body. It twisted fixing her and red goo squirt out of her body as it was replaced by new parts.

I let go of the ribbon as it turned completely green, then I let out a breath changing back to my normal form. I fell to the floor. I wanted her back to life, not a zombie, it took considerably more magic not to make a mindless slave. Also since I could use the tree of life this time, it was easy.

“AAAAAAAh!” She screamed as she regained her soul and mind. Tears went down her face and she got up throwing up blood.

“Hey Dash.” She looked at me, blood running down her front.

“I’m alive?” She felt herself.

“Yep.”

“But, but, it, where was I? It was so beautiful.” I frowned, a place I knew I would never go. Monsters like me just weren’t allowed there.

“I don’t know, you must’ve been dreaming or something.”

“Right, a dream.” She looked down coughing up some more blood. I snapped my claws making her normalize and come back completely. I snapped my claws again and she cleaned up completely. “Thanks.”

“No problem.” I picked her up and we flew up into the air through the rainbow mushroom cloud into fresh air. Her eyes went wide seeing what she had done. “Take a close look Dash, you did more damage than Drop did her first time, but you had considerably more power in your blast.”

“Whoa.” Dash thought for a few second. “I figured out how to do it, it was so simple, I can do it again if you need me to.”

“No!” I pulled her closer stopping her from flying. “I can’t bring someone back from the dead more than once in a day, and you need to practice before doing it again. Now that you’ve figured it out you’ll get plenty of chances to use it.”

“Cool, but can I fly?”

“Nope.”

“Please?”

“Can you feel your wings?” She paused and felt them with her hoof. “It’ll take a good day or two to get feeling back in them, till then you have to stay grounded and not even try to fly, do you understand?”

“Yes.”

“Good, I can heal everything but certain brain damage, and if you try to fly you won’t be able to feel your wings again, and you won’t be able to fly again.” She nodded. “Sorry, I didn’t think to tell you before now.”

“It’s fine, but you’re right, I shouldn’t do it again for a while.”

“Yeah, and gain some weight, you don’t want to waste heavy pieces of armor each time you do it.” She nodded. We landed at the battle line and yelling could easily be heard. We went over to Applejack as she finished wrapping her side. I looked around.

“How many losses?!” Applejack yelled.

“None!” Another soldier yelled back. “But almost every pony is burned badly, we need more medics, and the medics need medics!” I chuckled a little and I flapped my wings sending out a green mist along the entire battle line healing them all.

“Whoa.” Applejack said as a large piece fell off her face regenerating back.

“Are you alright?” Dash asked.

“That was amazing.” Applejack said hugging her, then looked behind her stepping back from the still burning desert glass.

“We’re lucky we were able to extend the wall and got back in time, please tell me that finished this war.”

“We have a huge wave of water coming in a few minutes, so I'll have to go stop that from washing away Los Pegasus, but the entire army was wiped out in that single shot, the leaders were probably still in their capital, but they wouldn’t be able to come back with an army anywhere that size again, not for at least another thirty years.”

“Well,” Dash said. “We’ll be long since ready by then. I hope no one died in the city though.” Dash was staring now at the city.

“Don’t worry about it Dash, they were all far enough away,” I said and she looked at me smiling. “I made sure to aim you just right, the most we’ll find is a few burns, and if they were inside, they won’t even have that.”

“Really?”

“Yep.” I pulled her close hugging her. “Let’s get you home, Applejack I'll be back shortly.”

“Ya can stay with her if ya like, after that healing spell we got medics to heal others, so we don’t need ya.”

“I'll be back.” I picked up Dash and we teleported to her home. I set her on her bed, and made her fall asleep. She would need to sleep for a few days at least, I couldn’t afford her wings becoming useless weights. I teleported back to Applejack and she looked at me.

“Hey.”

“You do realize that thousands of pony will be burned right?” She paused. “If they were in the open when it happen, they were probably killed.” She stared at me.

“But ya said.”

“Stop, first of all I couldn’t know that for sure, second of all it doesn’t matter, I hadn’t expected her to create so much more power than I had originally thought. The blast wave shouldn’t have come this far out, in fact you should have had a small army let to fight against on this wall right now.”

“Wow.”

“Anyway, come on, grab the medics and we’ll head into the city.” She nodded.

“All medics group up, we need ta build a medical tent area!” She shouted ordering. A group of twenty unicorn pony ran up regrouping. “Every other pony move out and find me the injured!” The soldiers groups up and jogged into the city.

We walked into the city and a few soldiers set up tents for the medics. The soldiers brought ponies in with burned wounds. There were thousands of wounded, a lot of pony didn’t care about the attacks. Applejack and I went to the docks.

“Applejack I can do this alone.” She looked at me as we stood on one of the last docks of the entire city. The water hadn’t come back yet.

“Nope, I ain’t gonna leave ya alone, I also need ta ask, what if we find dead pony?”

“You don’t tell Dash, if you blame anyone, you blame me, is that understood?” She nodded. “It was my choice to use her against the army, anything that happen was my fault, you cannot blame her, or tell her. Is that clear?”

“Yes, I wasn’t gonna any way.”

“Good.” I stomped my foot creating a shield which bubbled everything in the city and around it, I frowned as the wave started to come in, it was hundreds of feet high.

“Whoa.” Applejack said amazed.

“In my world Shining Shield was the one to do this, he was out of commission for weeks after it.”

“You’ll be alright though?”

“I have enough power, so yes. A single pony doing this, well it was a lot to ask, I was at the Rat Race at the time, so I couldn’t help him sadly. We lost a lot of good pony because he was out cold in a coma.”

“Wow.”

“Anyway, I got this.” I said more to myself than her. The wave hit pushing the shield back a bunch, but then went around it completely submerging the city. “This is what it looks like under water.” She smiled looking around at the beautiful sight.

The water lowered after a while and then slowed to a stop draining back out into the sea after a while pulling back tons of goblin bodies, but most of them were gone, so clean up wasn’t going to be that bad, but much for their metal would be melted into the glass.

“Everything alright?” Applejack asked and I let the shield fall grabbing her so she didn’t get washed away by the small wave of water that passed us. Even a few feet of a wave can knock the strongest earth pony over.

“Yep.” I let go of her as the wave fully stopped. I looked up as it started to rain. The sky was black from the water rushing over the hot sand. Applejack pulled her sword off her back as a goblin appeared in heavy black armor with a scroll on his back clearing his throat.

“Are you the great Pony general? I have a message.”

“She is Master General Applejack.” I said as I stepped back. He went down on a knee bowing.

“Your name will be remembered for this day, for all history, so long as the stars burn in the night sky, you will not be forgotten, this is the promise of the goblin king, and he will never lie.” He got up opening the scroll.

“Thanks?” She said unsure.

“The goblin king admits a fair and honest defeat to Master General Applejack, the nation of Goboon pledges loyalty and support to Equestria for time eternal. It will offer assistance when in time of need. Just write the message on this scroll and it will be done.” He held up the scroll to Applejack going down on knees and she took it.

“Your message is received, and tell your king.” It looked at me seeing my magic stepping back scared. “Not a single pony life was taken in this battle, and that we can freely use such power as we need, and it was not a power of our Princesses.” Tears went down his face. “That should you no longer honor this an agreement, that we will burn your capital down with this power.” It trembled nodding and disappearing.

“But we can’t, right?”

“Not for a while, but they will take that to heart, we beat them in just two hours of fighting them, they will fear us and use the name Equestria as well as the name Applejack as one of fear and power. They will protect Equestria at all costs, those words will save us from many more armies coming to our shores. Goblins are known for not being scared of anything, they will scare almost any nation, especially since we just beat them at their nation’s height.”

“Are you alright?”

“Yeah, I’m just dreading clean up.” She looked around.

“Yikes.” I chuckled and I went to the medical tents as Applejack joined her soldiers in helping ponies.