The Four Strangers
Epic Confrontation
"You suck!" - Gravemind (Halo 3 with IWHBYD skull on)
"That unit is defective. It's thinking is chaotic. Absorbing it unsettled me." - Nomad (Star Trek)
"Ah horseapples!"
Everypony in town were destroying everything in their panic, props from the party flying into windows, ponies running into ponies, carts, buildings, everything. Twilight and the main six, being well the main six, ran out into the crowd to calm everypony, meanwhile both Princesses were arguing about how to deal with the situation. Obligation and his brothers on the other 'hoof' began to slowly walk away from the scene as the situation went from bad to horrible. As the chaos continued nopony noticed the group of blue eyes appearing over the small hill on the outskirts of town and that on the other side of town appeared thirty-two griffins.
Before anymore mayhem could happen in the ounce peaceful town the griffins yelled out, "Charge!"
Everypony turned around to see the griffins charging down the hill with enchanted armor and rifle-like staffs that began to create beams of pure energy at the townsfolk. Before either Princess could react they were jumped from behind by two additional griffins, who put anti-rings over their horns, making the use of magic useless. Mercy, being the first of the four brothers to realize what was happening jumped towards the Princesses, the griffins stopped to look at the giant flood in the fact that they wouldn't be able to defeat him turned back around, putting there rifles up to the necks of the Princesses, by that time the rest of the Juggernauts got into battle formation in plan to fight, but not harm or kill the them. They would started a fight if it weren't the fact that the enemy had all the ponies and Princesses as hostages.
The leader of the griffins began to speak, "I Captain Lance Martian demand that you surrender or we will kill everypony here!"
Obligation, seeing the look of bloodlust in the Captain's eyes, but not in the eyes of his men and for a second there he could swear that their eyes flashed green. But before he could respond, Mercy decided to put his big sensors into the mess.
"Why should we surrender!"
Tolerance face palmed and the griffin Captain looked at Mercy like he was an idiot, "Because we got all these ponies, including their Princesses hostage that's why!"
"WhAt aRe YoU doINg brOthEr?" Whispered Restraint.
"I am trying to buy time, look at Princess Celestia, Mercy tilted his head to face towards the Princess of the Sun, who at the moment was trying to remove the ring off of her horn, "If I can keep this up the situation won't have to resort to bloodshed."
Restraint, understanding his brother's plan explained it to the other two brothers, Captain Martian, noticing the four Juggernauts interactions became extremely agitated, but still felt bumptious spoke out, "What are you four talking about over their, I hope you aren't going to try anything sneaky, because if you do," The Captain went over to Princess Luna, pulling out a knife and leaned it against the Night Princess's throat, "Or I will kill one of the Princesses!"
"You wouldn't dare!" Yelled out a restrained Rainbow Dash.
The griffin Captain looked over to the cyan pegasus with a smirk that only the craziest beings would wear, "Oh, Miss Dash I would dare."
The look in the Captain's eyes got the pegasus to shut up, as he continued to stare at her one of his men spoke up, "Sir, we have done are side of the bargain, now it's your turn."
"What bargain?" Asked a still struggling Celestia.
Lance, ignoring the Sun Princess looked over to the other griffin, "Oh yes, you'll get your side of the bargain." Not a second later a red dragon with a purple underbelly flew out of the Everfree, landing with a thud holding a smaller figure in his palm. The figure was a tall, slim female who was blacker than the night itself, she was wearing a tore up gown that was a sickly green with black and white fur around the collar of the dress, her mane and tail were also a silky green, which had holes that could be seen in them, and so did her hooves. On a torn part of the dress exposed a green piece over her middle section that sprouted hole covered insect wings. Everypony, except for the four brothers immediately identified the figure as the Queen of the Changelings.
"QUEEN CHRYSALIS!"
"What is she doing here!" Yelled out Rainbow Dash.
"More importantly what has happened to her?" Stated Twilight as the griffin forces, minus the Captain were engulf in green flames to be exposed as changelings. Obligation and his brothers looked at the sight in excitement.
"Mmmm... another species that needs study. Whispered Mercy as the dragon put the Changeling Queen down. One of the changeling drones ran to Chrysalis's battered body to see if she was still alive. The other changelings had a look of anger on their faces, giving the griffin scowls.
"You said she'd be unharmed!" Yelled out one of the drones.
"No, I said that I would not kill her or fatally wound her, she'll survive." Replied the griffin.
While the conversation continued onward, nopony noticed the four giants moving towards the mane six. Also unknown to everypony except for the changelings was that the entire changeling swarm were preparing to attack the dragon and his master. Unknown to the Juggernauts was that the changeling drones were also getting ready to free the Princesses.
"HEY!" Yelled out the griffin at the Juggernauts, but as he did, Chrysalis, who had regained a level of reality lunged at him, pinning the griffin to the ground. The dragon was about to smash the Queen, but was assaulted by a swarm of changelings that appeared out of the forest, they were zooming left and right around the giant reptile. A small group of the changeling swarm split off and slingshot themselves around the town hall, slamming with all their might into the underbelly of the beast.
Meanwhile Chrysalis continued to hold the griffin Captain as a now free Princess Luna was ramming herself into the griffin. Celestia and the main six began to organize the townsfolk out of the battle zone. The griffin Captain head-butted the Changeling Queen as the Princess jumped forward, causing her to hit Chrysalis and fly into the window of a small shed.
The swarm and the dragon continued their attacks, the swarm itself was getting smaller by the minute as the dragon constantly used its breath of fire to eat away at the swarm. Suddenly the entire swarm formed a ball and in a big flash of green light they took the form of a giant black three-headed hydra with wings and lunged at the dragon, throwing both into one of the buildings, causing flashes of multiple colors as both roared, shortly covering the area in smoke and dust. As the smoke/dust cleared away, everypony sees the dragon get up, missing his left arm, holes in right wing and tail, and crimson blood pouring out of left eye. The changeling made hydra-thing lying in the debris battered worse than its opponent. The dragon, tired and broken, decided to complete this fight. He started to inhale large amounts of oxygen to blast the changelings off the face of Equestria, but before he could the four Juggernauts came out of nowhere, one grabbing his working arm, two more grabbing the legs, and the last one landing on the dragon's back, grabbed the ears and pulled, causing the dragon to look up and blasting fire straight into the sky. The dragon continued to struggle against the four brothers as the changeling hydra-thing flew up back onto its makeshift feet and ran towards the group, but it fell over, collapsing back into a swarm of changeling drones. The dragon, tired from exhaustion and loss of blood tumbled over into another building, the four Juggernauts flying off the dragon. By then the griffin was tied up and all the townsfolk were evacuated from what was left of the town. The group, consisting of changeling, flood, and pony moved to loom over the griffin.
"Chrysalis." Said Celestia in a flat tone.
"Yes?" Replied a beat up changeling queen.
"You... Need a bath." With that statement everypony started to laugh.
"I think we all need a bath, but first," Chrysalis looked over to the four Juggernauts, "who and what are those four things?"
Celestia, Luna, and the mane six turned their heads to face the four behemoths with looks that said 'ya who and what are you?'