> Shobbit O'Gale Arrives in Equestria > by Dimensional Librarian > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1 Intro to the Dragon Rangers > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In the game of life every living thing is a piece. Some more influential than others. Now whether that influence is good or bad is a question that many have asked. I am writing this down so that future generations can know and understand the goods, and evils, of the Dragon Rangers of Alvinailey. Now for those that don't know the Rangers of Alvinailey are all good men and women working to help the knights and the king himself to keep the peace. Some rangers sometimes manage great deeds, things, that puts their name in written history. Then they became the Dragon Rangers. You might be asking yourself "What is the difference?", well its simple though their goals are the same the Dragon Rangers answer to no one except the dragon that made them. I am one of these Rangers and I have no dragon any longer. My name is Shobbit O'Gale and I killed my dragon master and am now able to write this journal and work on correcting what evils I was forced to do. I will also try to save the others and if I can't I will stop them from bringing further harm." Twilight Sparkle then set aside the piece of paper that fell out of a book she had found and just read. She then quickly looked over the simple yellow page and only found the one entry in elegant hoof writing. "This is amazing, Spike! We now have a whole new mystery to solve. I'm going to need everything we have on the Ancient Civilizations of Equis." Spike rolled his eyes at how eager Twilight was getting about the old piece of paper but went to do as she asked him. Shobbit O'Gale stood triumphantly over his most resent kill, the Magic Dragon. Taking in raged breaths and watching the moisture of his breath freeze and become fog in the deadly cold temperatures of the Alvinailey North, he drew his Dragon-scale knife and knelt down so as to skin a portion of the scales from the last dragon in Alvinailey. As he worked the seven foot tall human thought about the past twenty-three years of his life, "So much in so little time. Now what should I do with my life? With every dragon gone I guess I could try to settle down." Shobbit was so caught up in his work that he didn't notice the magical glow of prismatic colors escaping from the bleeding wound of the dragon he was skinning. Finally looking at is blood stained hands he noticed the light slowly getting brighter and only had the chance to mutter "Oh, shit!" before the light consumed him and disappeared leaving only the frozen barren waste land that was the Alvinailey North. Luna was watching over her night as always, she had made the night sky as wonderful as ever when she felt a surge of magic high within her night. Gazing up in curiosity she saw two stray meteors, one was quite large and would cause numerous damage when it landed the second was smaller and with a quick spell she could tell that it was going to land somewhere in the Everfree Forest not really harming anypony. While the small meteor was okay to let pass the Princess of the Night wouldn't allow the larger one to strike Ponyville like its predicted path said it would. "You shall listen to me the Mistress of the Night!!" Luna shouted to the large meteor as she gathered her magic and started straining to redirect it even against its fighting her magic. After a five minute struggle which left Luna breathing heavily and a bit of sweat beading down her forehead the large meteor had been moved so it would land out in the Badlands far away from anypony. Nodding in satisfaction Luna then went inside so she could write a letter to be sent to Twilight Sparkle in the morning asking her to go and investigate the smaller meteor site. Spike had been looking out a window of the Castle of Friendship and has seen the meteors, "Uh, I didn't think Luna had meteors planned for tonight?" He mused to himself as he watched the smaller one land in the Everfree "Whoa!! That meteor must be made of something special to not have burned up. I need to tell Twilight." The small dragon then turned tail and ran toward the library where he had left Twilight with her strange study session about the mysterious page she found. When he entered the library it was a mess with all the books about Ancient Equestria and the world as a whole, and sitting in the middle with a disheveled look was Twilight Sparkle. "Hey Twilight?" Spike started before realizing she was of in a trance muttering. "There has to be something. I mean its not like this page came from another world right?" Twilight asked herself almost on the verge of a breakdown she was so well known around town for. "Yeah the mannerisms are a little strange but this has to be something of Ancient Equestria!" Spike sighed and was about to take in a deep breath when he belched and caught a letter with practiced precision. The small drake opened the letter that had Luna's seal and quickly read it his eyes widening. "Uh... Twilight you might really want to read this! Princess Luna says that a meteor crashed in the Everfree, which I saw and was about to tell you actually, and she wants us to check it out in the morning." Spike said loud enough that it pulled Twilight from her current state of mind as she turned to look at him. "A request to go study something alien from the Princess herself?" Spike nodded yes as Twilight's smile grew, "Alright then! We'll head out with the girls first thing in the morning." she then happily trotted of to her bedroom to catch a few moments of sleep. > 2 Shobbit meets the natives > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The morning sun woke Shobbit up from his unconscious state, his eyes opened with the swiftness of a feral hunter. One of the first things that the human noticed was that he was in a forest instead of a frozen waist-land, looking at the leaves overhead he got the feeling that this was a dangerous forest for most living things unless they were born in it. Shobbit then slowly sat up finding himself wrapped in his own cloak "You're a lucky Basterd, Shobbit. You only survived that spell and fall because of your cloak." he thought to himself as he smirked. He then rose to his feet and looked around taking note of the path of destruction his landing had caused, next he noticed female voices. "Come on girls, we can't let this meteor sit for to long. Otherwise it would becomes useless to study." Shobbit smiled at the happy sounding voice and thought "So we have a nerd." "Really Twilight did you have to wake me up this early though?" asked a tomboyish sounding voice slowly approaching his position, he then heard the sound of many hoof steps. "So they have horses." Shobbit thinks to himself as he puts his hood up and wraps himself in his cloak activating the magic of a Chameleon Dragon which made the seven foot tall figure wearing a cloak of mesmerizing colors disappear along with his shadow. He then stood as still as a tree as he watched the bushes in front of him move and reveal six equine shapes. His sharp eagle like eyes took notice that two looked like just horses, two of them had wings, one had a horn, and the last and wings and a horn. "So I'm seeing a pink giggly horse, an orange horse wearing a hat, a blue pegasus with a rainbow colored mane, a yellow pegasus, a white unicorn, and I have no idea what the purple one is." He thought to himself. "Yes we did silly!" said the pink one making Shobbit stiffen more if it was even possible "It talked!" Shobbit watched as the six equines trotted around the clearing his landing had made and hear the purple one cry out in exasperation. "There's nothing here!!" "Yes there is Twilight he's right here." Shobbit's eyes widened and darted to look at his feet and there was the pink one which and spoken and was gesturing right at him. That's when he felt the presence of a dragon and glazed over at the way the equines had come and saw a small purple and green dragon walk out of the bush. At the sight of such a small dragon walking around Shobbit's eyes ignited with a burning hatred and before any words could bespoken by another horse the dragon spoke first saying "Hey everypony sorry I'm la.....Awk... Gak..." *THUD* only to get cut off by the infuriated human who had broken his cover and moved fast enough to make Rainbow Dash jealous just to grab the dragon by its throat and pin it against a tree. Shobbit would have stared crushing its wind pipe and taken its scales to add to his cloak when he felt a shot of magic hit the side of his covered head and dissipate into the scales of his cloak. He loosened his grip enough to allow the dragon to breath for now as he turned to look at the purple equine which he knew had shot the magic. The glare she was giving him was enough to give him a momentary pause but he had seen it before on so many others, manly gods and goddesses but, the look was still the same. Shobbit then ran his gaze over the other five and saw varying degrees of shock and fear in their eyes. "I don't know what you are but. Drop... Him!" He heard the purple one say as his gaze fell back to her. "And why should I let a DRAGON, go?" Shobbit asked with bile in his voice. "So um.... We can..... uh.... maybe talk about this." spoke the yellow pegasus. "Why it does seem like we have all gotten off on the wrong hoof," started the white unicorn, "But I do believe that if we all just calmed down we might realize we have more in common than you think." Shobbit then let out a huff of air and stayed silent for a moment longer before he let go of the dragon in his hand. "You live for NOW, Dragon." he says calmly as he starts to walk away from the equines behind him when the rainbow maned pegasus darted in front of him. "Hold it Bub! You're going to have to tell us about the meteor that you apparently found and why you attacked Spike." she asked him. Shobbit gave her a glare then turned and looked at the other five and noticed that the yellow pegasus was tending to the dragon he almost killed. "Let it be known on this world that Shobbit O'Gale has shown the first signs of mercy in a long time," he tells them before leaping into the air with enough force the ground shook and the nearby trees creaked from the pressure of the air displacement. Rainbow Dash was caught off guard by the bipedal creature suddenly going skyward with enough force to force her to the ground. Looking up in awe all six ponies and Spike saw the tiny dot that was Shobbit before hearing a *BOOM* and the dot took off across the sky faster than Rainbow Dash had ever gone. "Awesome......" had excaped Rainbow's lips while Twilight stared after the now dissappeared sight of Shobbit. "His magical power is scary. And then he is the writer of the page I found?" the young alicorn thought to herself. > 3 Ponderings > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shobbit had flown away from the six equines and the dragon they were protecting by using the stored dragon magics in his cloak, hours ago. Now sitting upon a high mountain ledge he looked upon the strange land he found himself in. None of the landmarks he knew from his home world and Alvinailey where anywhere in sight and that is what had the Dragon Ranger so worried. "So, if nothing is familiar to me then I guess I must be in one of those "Other Worlds" that the Mages and Goddesses always talked about." The sun was starting to set at this point in the day with a seemingly magical property to it. Shobbit watched the sun set over the horizon and the down below the far off mountain range. "I can feel the power of Dragons, in the air. Is there really a dragon here that has divine like magics? No, I don't believe that there is, the dragons I can since are weak and unorganized. I'm not sure if I should hunt them while they are weak, or if I should wait for them to become an organized force in this world?" With a heavy hearted sigh Shobbit then rose to his feet and looked down to the woods below, "First I will have to find food then I will go and let the ruler of this land know of my existence." He then jumped down into the woods to hunt for small game. Dear Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, I am writing this letter to inform the both of you of the strange occurrence that has happened in the Everfree. Yesterday I had found an old and yellowed page with some brief writing that got me interested into looking into the old civilizations of our world. I was in the middle of trying to find any more information about a kingdom called Alvinailey when Spike got a letter from Princess Luna asking us to go and check out a rouge meteor crash site. When me and the girls arrived there wasn't much there just a gouge in the ground where the meteor landed. As we looked around for clues Pinkie pointed out that it was a living thing and standing there watching us. At the same time Spike showed up and before any of us could blink a strange bipedal creature, almost as tall as Discord, and wearing what appeared to be a cloak of dragon scales was choking young Spike against a tree. Thinking quickly I fired a quick stunning spell at its head yet it was dissapated to nothing when it touched his cloak. After we got him to let Spike go he told us his name was Shobbit O'Gale, the writer of the page that I found and have enclosed with this letter, and that he had finally shown a dragon mercy. I will continue trying to find out more about this stranger and what dangers he poses to Equestria but, any information you might know will be extremely helpful. Your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle "Okay Spike go ahead and send this letter to the Princesses." Twilight told her assistant as she finished writing the letter then turned to look at her friends. "Alright girls it seems like there is a new threat to Equestria and we're going to have to do what we can to stop it." "An' how we gonna do tha' exactly?" Applejack asked "We all saw how tha' spell of ya'lls did nothing to him, as well as how Rainbow is still stunned sillier than a cat in a yarn factory." The applefarmer gestured a hoof to the friend she mentioned who they had to drag back to the castle because she was still in shock from seeing a wingless creature fly away easily making a sonic boom as well. "I'm afraid I must agree with Applejack on this, Darling, he does seem a tad bit much for us to handle without the Elements. And then there's that astonishing cloak of his." said Rarity. "Oh and we need to figure out what kind of cake he likes!" Pinkie exclaimed raising a hoof in the air. The rest of the group gave out sighs at the easily excited pink party pony. Catching, cleaning, and cooking a rabbit for a meal was easy for Shobbit to do and within an hour he had a cooking fire made with the plump rabbit he caught on a spit over it. As Shobbit watched his meal cook he sat stock still up in a tree camouflaged by using the powers of his cloak, "I'll eat then go straight for the ruler. I'm going to assume that they live in that castle up on the mountain. The one near the village just didn't have the right feel to it. Now once I reach the ruler I'm probably going to wind up scaring their guards which will just be a nusance to deal with but not impossible. I'll then ask how their relations with the dragons here are, and depending on their answer I'll slay them in the name of this country. Otherwise I will hunt for the glory of Alvinailey." Shobbit then quickly ate the now fully cooked rabbit and within five minutes left no trace he was ever there as he jumped into the air taking flight with the magic of a wingless serpent dragon as he also used his camouflage magic which made him look like a section of wavering air steadily flying toward Canterlot. > 4 Meeting the Diarchs > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was mid-morning in Canterlot, most of the guards were out in the yard practicing in full equipment. Everypony was going about their day when a thunderous crash, and a shaking of the earth turned their eyes toward the Canterlot Castle Courtyard where a cloud of stone dust was steadily rising. The guards immediately rushed toward the sound to see what had disturbed the peaceful afternoon under Celestia's sun, while the civilians ran away in mild panic. Crouched in the middle of the slowly dissipating dust cloud was Shobbit, his cloak radiating with flowing prismatic colors. The first pony to react was a simple unicorn private who shouted, "We are the Royal Guard, and we command you to stand down." Shobbit's reply scared the guards to the deepest parts of their souls. With a chuckle, he slowly rose, and was soon a towering bipedaled giant compared to the guards. The ears of everypony around dropped, there eyes got wide, and a few jaws dropped as the color of the cloak flashed a solid crimson red. "Seize him!!!" Shouted one of the commanding officers finally catching his breath. "Trust me when I say this Ponies, I won't kill you for doing your job." Shobbit said right before dashing forward at a startling speed. Grabbing the unicorn private that spoke first by the horn, and forcing out a cry of pain from its owner. He then pulled and spun around carrying the unicorn full circle before letting go and having him fly into a wall and fall unconscious. Ten unicorns then charged up their horns and fired hard magic bolts at him, which all absorbed into the cloak. The unicorns stared in shock at their magic being useless. At the same time five of the largest earth pony guards charged forward to try jumping onto the imposing figure and bring him down. Shobbit saw them coming and with a sigh as he used magic from a Chrono Dragon, he froze time and leapt up on top of one of the towers of the castle. When time unfroze for it seemed that their target had teleported as they all crashed into each other going out cold. They all looked around frantically hoping to hurry up and end this skirmish before it got worse. "I guess the only challenge I should expect is from a dragon." Shobbit stated with a bored tone from above, yet before anypony could look up he landed with the power of an Earth Dragon creating a powerful shock-wave in the ground itself and causing all present except for Shobbit to be thrown back. Sadly, luck was not on Shobbit's side that afternoon, his landing had been strong enough to throw several unicorns and earth ponies over the nearby edge of Canterlot. While most of the pegasus had been on the other side of Shobbit or they had gotten hit by colleges and they couldn't go to save the helpless falling ponies. Releasing a breath of annoyance Shobbit darted forward his cloak and hood flowing behind him majestically as he steps off the edge. With a back-flip in midair he shot downward like a bullet carefully eyeing the location of the falling ponies. Shobbit grabbed the edges of his cloak and streamlined himself toward the closest falling guard, when he reaches them he grabs the stallions front leg and with a simple twirl of his body sends him flying up toward Canterlot. While the guard returned upward Shobbit had twirled himself over to the next and repeated the process. Swiftly working its now only Shobbit and one last earth pony and they both had almost reached the ground. Pulling the white stallion close to his body and turning his back to the ground, Shobbit and the guard hit the ground with a bone crushing thud. Shobbit then rose to his feet with the now unconscious guard in his arms, and shook his head to clear it from the ringing. "I'm getting to old for this crap," he mutters before jumping all the way out of the crater and up the mountain landing gently back in the court yard where the fight had started. There was a noticeable difference in the atmosphere to Shobbit looking up and focusing his eyes he saw that all the remaining guards where ready to keep trying to fight him while a few where taking care of the ones he already threw up. The Ranger then noticed a pony that stood taller than the rest, almost as tall as he was while its horn made up the distance and then some. Shobbit then put the body of the guard down as he ran his insightful eye over the being before him. He could tell it was a mare and looked similar to the small purple one he first saw in the woods, on her rear was the image of a sun, and her face bore an expression that he had seen many times before an angered royalty. "I am Princess Celestia, I rule Equestria alongside my sister Princess Luna." She said to Shobbit as her glare hardened, "And I don't appreciate it when my little ponies are threatened." Shobbit chuckled "So a Diarchy uh...... Well I am Shobbit O'Gale a Dragon Ranger of Alvinailey, and I simply wish to ask how your relations are with dragons?" Celestia and Shobbit were now standing in the throne room, Celestia on her throne and Shobbit standing tall before her. Somethings had been explained but the Princess wanted to clarify and make sure she heard correctly. "So you're saying your from a different world and have exterminated all the dragons from it?" she asked making sure to hide the slight fear in her voice. "Yes Ma'am that is correct. And after I find the Dragon Emperor from my world I will be keeping my word from years ago to cleanse whatever world I'm on of dragons." Shobbit then turned on his heels his cloak flicking upward at the sudden movement and then followed its owner billowing behind him as he walked. > 5 Around Equestria and Alvinailey > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Twilight Sparkle, I am writing this letter to you so that you know that Shobbit, the creature you found, has come and talked to me. He started with explaining that he is from another world that seems to be similar yet different to ours. I tried asking him more but he refused to answer me personally, he next asked how Equestria feels about dragons as a whole. In complete honesty I told him that most ponies are scared of them but we can live with them because they sleep most of the time. Our conversation then went on to him explaining that he could feel the dragons magically and knew that they didn't pose a threat to us currently. After kindly asking him of his plans he explained to me how he is going to wait for Nerroth, a powerful dragon of magic, to heal and fall into a normal pattern before he goes to finish his crusade to kill all dragons. Because of this I told him he could wait near Ponyville and turn it into his base of operations while he waits. I am positive he won't harm Spike until after he's killed Nerroth from his world. So I suggest talking to him while he waits and make him a friend so that he doesn't try to make an entire species extinct. I trust that you and your friends will be able to help Shobbit see a better side of life. Sincerely, Princess Celestia Nerroth's landing in the bad lands was quite destructive, yet the Dragon Emperor still lived. Opening his eyes after the hours of rest he let himself have, he rose to his haunches and craned his neck around. "Such a barren landscape." Taking a large breath through his muzzle Nerroth picks up in many things. "I since a new magic, guess my spell worked. Live dragons are on this world, but they are disorganized and don't seem to be trying to make the other species submit to their will. The Hunter is also on this world somehow." He then starts to growl with hatred as he starts to lumber off into the sunset he could see "I now must plan and kill that wretched human for killing all my subjects." Within a home in Ponyville a pegasus was laying down on their bed. Now at first glance at the sleeping equine he looked like any pony else but if one simply took a closer look they would notice his fangs and claws like that of a wolf. His gray fur is longer than most ponies and matted in a few places. His mane and tail were jet black as well as the tip of his wolf like muzzle. Rising to his paws he stretched and opened his scarlet red eyes which immediately darted to the corner of the room. "Wiesz, nigdy nie powinieneś zakradać się do demona." "I'm sorry but that's not a language I know" came Shobbits voice from the corner. "Also pardon me for simply looking into a feeling I had." "It means "You should never sneak up on a demon, you know?" and what feeling?" asked the pegasus from his bed with a polish accent. "I sensed a demon and was curious." Shobbit tells him as he steps out of the shadows and sits down holding a hand out to him. "I'm Shobbit O'Gale, Dragon Ranger of Alvinailey, and you are?" "Daszkin." says the gray hybrid as he shakes Shobbit's hand with his paw "Now how can I help you, Dwunożny?" "I need a place to stay while I rest and wait for my next hunt." Shobbit explains, "I also need to have a hiding spot from that pink one that lives in town." Daszkin nods in understanding before saying "Yeah, Pinkie crazy pony, but she will still find you." "I see. It seems like I have homework to do about this world." Shobbit says as he looks out the window. "Pierdolić the homework." Das chuckled as he went back to laying down "Just pierdolić it all." Shobbit continued to look out the window while his new companion went back to sleep. "What has my life come to?" In Alvinailey Castle Princess Esperrago was sitting on her balcony looking town to the Castle Town bellow. She watched as the citizens went about their days enjoying their simple lives and the Royal Alvinailey Knights marching through the streets and along the various parapets of the castle. Their armor glittered in the sunlight like a well polished diamond, which was partly true. The young princess then looked toward the training grounds which happened to be closer to the Main Keep and saw Maj. Gen. Nenton teaching the new soldiers of the Dual Double-Sided Scythe Division. She smiled when she saw him before noticing that someone wasn't in the corner of the court yard like he normally would be. Esperrago then rose to her feet and walked with grace toward her father's throne room with only one thought on her mind. Shobbit O'Gale was missing, so that meant that he had to be found and the knights ready. As the princess walked a shimmering light filled the hall next to her as another woman appears wearing a long and elegant green dress, it flowed behind them as they walked and shimmered with a divine like power. "You felt it to Goddess Terra?" Esperrago asked her new companion as they walked. "Yes, Him disappearing isn't all that strange but normally I can just use my powers to locate where he is and keep an eye on him," the Goddess replied, "And when I started looking yesterday my brother was nowhere to be found." She then looks at the Esperrago and asks "How did you now Shobbit was missing?" "He normally is in the training yard watching, but today I just got a bad feeling when I saw his place empty unlike the times when he is off hunting dragons." "And I'm sorry that I must be the one to tell you this but my brother has actually done it. I can't sense a single dragon on the planet any more." Terra says. "Then this is probably worse than I thought," Princess Esperrago states as they both quicken their pace while keeping a lady like appearance walking. > 6 Dragon Heart, A Goddes's Plan, and Discords Contingency > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next day a golden pegasus mare with a forest green mane in a braid landed outside of Daszkin's home. She then knocked on the door loudly and called out "HEY DAS!!! YOU PROMISED TO GO WITH ME TO MY SISTER'S BIRTHDAY!!" Daszkin heard the voice and let out a sigh of annoyance as he groggily crawled out of bed. "I'm coming!" he calls out loudly as he flashes his canines. Das then headed for his front door ignoring Shobbit who was sleeping sitting upright on the couch. Das then opened the front door and smiled at the mare before him. "Good morning Dragon Heart. I'm ready to go." Shobbit's eyes flew open when he heard the mare's name. He then quickly got behind Daszkin and stared at her and growled "You better not have Draconic blood!" Daszking then jumped up in front of Shobbit standing on his hind legs. "Wait! Dragon Heart good pony." he says as she stares at Shobbit with awe. Shobbit looked between them both and turned on his heels going back inside. Das then stepped outside and shut his door. "We go then, Dragon?" "Your Equestrian is still terrible Das." Dragon giggled as she shook her head and they started to walk toward her sister's home. "Now about your new roomate tell me about him." "So the best Ranger this Kingdom has ever seen is missing and the dragon he left for was the Dragon Emperor Nerroth?" King Alvinailey asked his daughter and the Goddess the had come into his throne room moments ago. "And you both want to go looking for him?" "That is correct your Highness." Terra told him, "I plan of following his residual magic and originally was only going to go on my own. But it seems that Esperrago wishes to join me." "I can handle myself Father." Esperrago tells him "And if on the off chance that Shobbit was somehow send to another world do you really want the O'Gales to be their first interaction with Alvinailey?" The King let out a sigh and hung his head. The two women before him had been talking to him about them going on this trip and he couldn't see any reason to say no for his daughter to go. "Fine go and stay safe." he tells them as they leave to go get ready. At some point throughout the day Shobbit had left the home and was out in Whitetale woods about the get a squirrel to cook for food. With an arrow notched and pulled back he was ready to fire when a voice pierced through the air. "I wouldn't suggest doing that if I was you." Shobbit's hand twitched right as he released the arrow causing it to fly high and hit a tree. He then looked around with a growl until his sight came upon a creature that looked like a combination of many creatures. "What the hell are you?" Shobbit asks bow still in hand. "I am Discord the Spirit of Choas." it said flamboyantly and bowing. "I'm a Draconequus and you're a hum... Argh!!" Discord was then flying through the trees having been punched by Shobbit. "Sorry I just hate gods and dragons." Shobbit says sarcastically as he rushes forward to keep attacking Discord. When he reached the figure that was Discord he found that it was just some cleverly placed bushes. "The fuck." "I must say that was a good try. And it hurt, you my friend have a lot of dragon magic." Discord said from behind Shobbit and teleported to a random tree branch as Shobbit tried to hit him with the his bow. "Uh hu... Look Shobbit my friend you're looking for Nerroth. You need help fighting him, help from someone that knows and understands magic." "I'm not talking to the purple one that tried to shot me in the head." Shobbit tells Discord coldly. "I wasn't referring to Princess Sparkle." Discord then holds up a card and tossed it to Shobbit who easily caught it. "Just feed it some magic and say the phrase on the backside and you'll get some much needed help." Discord then teleported in front of Shobbit wearing a suit and shook his hand with his claw. "It has been a pleasure doing business with you but I believe you need to actually formally introduce yourself to the Elements of Harmony and I have other matters to attend to. Ta Ta!!" Discord then puts himself in a black dress with a large black hat and starts to float away holding an upside down umbrella. Shobbit looked at the card before putting it in his pocket for the moment and headed toward the castle in the town. Shobbit had gone to the castle in Ponyville as he learned it was called. He went camouflaged so as not to scare any of the ponies. He went inside the castle and heard the sound of the voices he had heard before talking down the hall. Disengaging his camouflage he walked down the hall bow on his back he then reached the door the voices where coming from and opened the door. Everypony in the room went silent and looked at him with varying degrees of shock. "I...I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle, but please just call me Twilight." spoke the purple one with wings and a horn. "I'm Pinkie Pie! What kind of cake do you li...." said the pink one which Shobbit started to ignore as he continued to look around the group. "I'm Rarity, and I must say that your cloak is absolutely fascinating. Would you let me design you some cloths some time?" Said the white unicorn with a purple mane The blue one with a rainbow mane then shot around the room and hovered in front of Shobbit "Look bub I'm Rainbow Dash the coolest and fastest flyer in all of Equestria. I will not be out done by some wingless muscle brain from somewhere else." "Calm down Sugarcube he just got her." Said the orange one with a hat as she pulled her flying friend back and looked at Shobbit "Ah'm Applejack, nice ta meet ya." "I....I....I'm Fluttershy." spoke the yellow pegasus from underneath the table. Shobbit took a look around once more before speaking up. "I am Shobbit O'Gale, I'm a Dragon Ranger of Alvinailey and arrived in this world after my fight with the Dragon Emperor Nerroth. I will be waiting here for him to rise or until I find his body. After that I will work on returning home." "Could you teach me more about your world and your magic?" Twilight asks quickly before Shobbit could leave. "I'm sure that we could work something out." Shobbit told her then remembered the card that Discord had given him and pulled it out. "Why don't we start with seeing what this one does?" As he spoke he turned it over while filling the card with magic and read the inscription " 'By Book and Blade, I summon Thee, To defend in my time of Need.' " Once the spell was finally charged the card glowed brightly and time seemed to freeze as it created large runes and glyphs in the air from magic and they floated over the table in the middle of the room before opening a large and blinding portal. Shobbit and everypony in the room covered their eyes as they looked away and listened to the howling winds. > 7 Dragon Emperor Nerroth > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nerroth landed in a barren volcanic crater and took a look around as he folded his wings to his side. His heightened senses then picked up on the presence of a dragon as large as he. He then turned his head to the left and gazed upon a large navy blue dragon with twenty-foot yellowed teeth and the narrowing eyes filled with anger at another dragon within its territory. “I’ve come to bring all the Dragons of this land under my rule.” Nerroth spoke with a voice that told the large horned dragon before him that he meant what he said. The other dragon then let out a growl and then spoke, “How dare you say such a thing to me, Dragon Lord Torch?” Torch then stepped up and glared at Nerroth. The Dragon Emperor smirked at the Dragon Lord before speaking. “I am Nerroth, Dragon Emperor of the planet Alvinailey. When I came to this land I must regretfully say that I brought a Dragon Hunter with me.” Nerroth then started to walk around and explore the volcanic crater. “What is the point of this story and why you said you were going to usurp my rule?” “I’m getting to that my friend.” Nerroth says with a bellowing chuckle. “You see, this Hunter, is only focused on me for now, but once he’s done killing me the last dragon from his world he will come for you and every dragon on this world. I will need to rule the dragons of this world so that I may teach you all how to defeat this human.” “What the heck is a, Human?” Torch asks confused and turning his eyes away to ponder the meaning of the term in his head. When he did Nerroth then rushed forward and bashed his head into Torch’s armored chest. Torch bellowed and swiped at Nerroth's side expecting his claws to dig into dragon flesh but instead stopped right at the scales of Nerroth. "What in Tartarus!! Why can't I pierce your flesh?" Nerroth chuckled as he raised a claw and grabbed Torch by the throat and standing on his hind legs lifting Torch and starting to choke him. "Magic! That's how!" He bellows then throwing Torch to the side. Torch then catches himself with his wings before opening his maw and unleashing a torrent of destructive dragon's fire. The fire rolled across Nerroth and burned the ground around him. Nerroth then leapt into the air and cast a freezing spell upon Torch before landing next to him "See you need me. I'm stronger than you and know more about our enemy than you ever will." Nerroth then pushed the frozen Dragon Lord Torch over and watched him shatter into tiny pieces. Near the edge of the volcanic crater a much smaller red dragon had watched the fight unfold and gulped in fright once he saw his Dragon Lord fall to the stranger. As the dragon started to rise to leave Nerroth turned to him and called out "HALT!! I am now the dragon in charge here as I'm sure you just saw. Now tell me your name young Red Dragon." The dragon stopped and looked up at Nerroth in fright "Garble.... Sir... ?" he responds to the Dragon Emperor. Nerroth looked at Garble curiously as his mind and magic went over Garble's capabilities. "I am going to grant you with knowledge and power to become the general of my new Dragon Army." Nerroth told Garble "We will then proceed to destroy every other form of primary life so that Dragons stand on top." Garble then watched in awe as strands of magic flowed forth from Nerroth and closer to him. A look of worry befell his face right before they touched him. Garble then started screaming in pain and fell to his knees, his already muscular body started to grow and expand filling itself in with pure and perfect muscles. Next Garble's claws and teeth sharpened themselves and became much more durable. Magic then flowed into his senses and heightened them all, Garble could now see, hear, smell, and even taste further and better than ever. Ember was on the further side of the crater, wearing her dragon armor, during the fight between her father and Nerroth. She then watched as Nerroth started to do something to Garble and winced once she heard his cries of pain from across the massive crater. She then turned around and ran for a short distance before taking flight, "I have to see if even the Ponies can help me avenge my father." She thinks to herself as she heads for Equestria. Once the pain stopped Garble arose. He now stood at an even twelve feet tall and his eyes had changed into a more murderous red. Garble then let out a chuckle his voice sounding deeper and reverberating throughout his now crimson scales. "I think it's time to make those Puny Ponies regret ever messing with me before." "That's what I like to hear from my generals." Nerroth chuckles before waving his claw to the side "Now, GO! and send all the other dragons this way as you head to fight the Hunter." "How will I get the older dragons to listen to me, Your Excellency?" Garble asked his new Emperor. "I've given you plenty of magical powers and the magic to easily use it all." Nerroth tells him with a smirk. Garble then chuckles and takes flight on his much stronger wings and with a few flaps is flying higher and faster than Princess Ember. He is so focused on doing his Emperor's bidding that he didn't notice the small golden clad dragon flying as though its life depended on it and slow down in dismay at seeing him fly by. > 8 Boss Fight > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shobbit was the first to be able to see after the blinding light and noticed that a section of the portal had gone dark with shadow. He watched it curiously as someone in ashy armor came flying out of it and landing upon the crystal table is a painful *THUD*. The light then faded and time started to move again, the next to notice that someone new was in the room was Twilight who stared at the second bipedal figure with wide eyes. “Who are you?” she asks. Groaning, the second figure got up, with a feminine panting, as if she had been yelling. “Ugh… First off.. Where the hell am I, Twilight…” “Uh… My Castle?” Twilight says confused “And how do you know me?” “I thought I was in Canterlot.. Wait. How’d I get here?” “The Draconequess gave me a card.” Shobbit says in a low voice as he flicks the card in the figure’s face. “I used it.” The second figure looks at the card and sighs again, scootching off the table and taking her helmet off, revealing short white hair, with burned ends. “I am Illua, The Bloody Grimoire, and That would be my Token, as it was described to me.” Shobbit raises an eyebrow when she says Token before he speaks “I am Shobbit O’Gale Dragon Ranger of Alvinailey.” “So… What seems to be the issue? I was in the middle of trying to Kill Celestia for being a raging Bitch.” She spat, waving her hand momentarily in front of her, bringing up some form of floating paper before her. Around the room gasps were heard from the ponies “You were doing WHAT!!??” they all asked in unison when Shobbit let out a sigh and let his magic search. “I am only in this land because of the Dragon Emperor Nerroth, a Magic Dragon from Alvinailey and the last one I need to kill to end my purge of dragonkind.” Shobbit tells Illua “His magic is beyond my understanding.” “Great, Another Displaced. That would explain how I was brought here. At least it’s not an invader. Alrighty, To explain one thing to the girls here, It’s called the Multiverse. My Celestia fucked me over and imprisoned me in stone for a few hundred years for starting a rebellion that helped the common person actually thrive.” Illua began explaining, tapping a few things on the window before her, and materializing a glass flask filled with a swirling blue liquid. “What’s in the that Flask?” Twilight asks wanting to learn about Illua’s magic as well. Shobbit again looked at Illua curiously when she said ‘Displaced’ and ‘invader’ but he held his tongue for now. Illua looked over at the lavender pony. “This holds an elixir, a potion that restores my physical health and mana pool.” Illua chugged the flask quickly, before the glass dematerialized. “Considering I experienced a solar flare directly to my face, died, and came back in the matter of two minutes, I needed one.” Shobbit scoffed and muttered “I’ve been thrown into stars before but I believe that is off topic from why you are apparently here.” He then turned on his heels causing his cloak to display its flowing prismatic colors around the room as he headed for the door. “I would like to speak to the Maiden outside after I kill the approaching dragon.” Just as Illua had began closing her menus, a new one opened in front of her. Boss: Crimson Dragon Enhanced Garble “Well Fuck. GET DOWN!” Shobbit laughed and said “The fight will be in the field.” He then Turned and leapt out the window that was always left open for Rainbow Dash. Everypony in the castle then heard a sound of thunder and something hitting the earth in the empty fields outside of Ponyville. ”Oh Come on, Flight? Jeeze. Gotta go Catch up.” Illua’s book fluttered for a moment, leaving her shimmering as she jumped out the window, running at an accelerated pace to go catch the dragon ranger. Garble had been flying for almost five minutes when he was suddenly face first in the dirt. He then rose to his feet and looked around for what hit him when Shobbit landed creating a small crater, his cloak turned a silvery metallic color. “It’s time to die dragon.” Shobbit says coldly as he rises to his full height of seven feet. Time slowed to a stop as Illua caught up, finding the ranger and the boss. A new window appeared before both displaced. Join Party Y/N? “Shobbit, this is part of my abilities that I don’t exactly control. Time stops, and because this dragon has been classified as a Boss, I have to party with you to kill it. I don’t know what will happen if I get locked out of a boss.” Illua said as she ran into the crater-clearing. Shobbit took a hold of his longbow and while still staring at Garble said “As long as I get his scales to add to my cloak I don’t care Fair Lady.” His cloak then turned the same deep crimson that was on Garble’s scales “Crimson Dragons are amongst some of the most physically strong.” “I personally don't necessarily collect scales, except for the few times I’ve made armor. Go right on ahead and keep em. I got some other types you might not have too, once we get out of this. And.. uh.. The other thing about this.. He will always appear and move as if he was completely unharmed until his health runs out.” “So I’ll just use my personal magic as well. I give him five minutes, he’ll be a pincushion in five seconds.” “Okay, then press the Y on the window in front of you, and you will see a red line at the top of your vision. Thats his health. When that disappears, He’s dead.” Shobbit then reached a single finger out and pressed the Y. Time slowly began to accelerate back to normal, Illua casting Protect on the both of them, blinking slightly as the spell was rejected. Despite the impending fight, Illua cast Libra, and gasped. Th-This guy is way beyond me. Am I even needed here? She silently thought as she drew the two katanas she had before, Hoarfrost and Holy Moonlight. Shobbit ignored the new things in his vision and focused purely on Garble who had started moving forward. Shobbit then leapt into the air and shot twenty arrows at Garble’s heart which all got stopped by a magic barrier. “Ha!!! You puny humans can’t do anything to me now!” Garble cried out in victory and keeping his eyes on Shobbit who had landed behind him. Illua smiled as the crimson dragon turned, dashing up behind him and cleaving the tail off, leaving a frostbitten stump behind him. “The one exception to the boss rule. Tail’s give weapons.” She smiled as the tail disappeared like her flask, as she struck her blades into Garble’s back, the health bar having been already knocked down to half by their combined attacks. Garble then laughed and flicked a wing back hitting Illua across the side before quickly turning and unleashing a torrent of Dragon’s Fire that was magically enhanced to be more damaging. Illua went with the wing, rolling back out of the way of the green flames. “If my arrow’s won’t pierce you because of Nerroth’s magic then I’ll just choke you!” Shobbit shouts running forward and stepping in between Garble and Illua the fire hitting his cloak and dissipating out around him as he reached a hand out and grabbed Garble by the neck and stopped the torrent of flame. “Got him still?” Illua asked, sheathing Holy Moonlight as Hoarfrost began to glow with an eerie blue light. She swung the katana back, tensing. Shobbit ignored Illua and then flew upward with Garble as his cloak turned Ivory and he tightened his grip. Garble was trying to claw Shobbit away as he ran out of breath but every time his claws touched, Shobbit used the magic of an adamantium dragon to turn his skin indestructible. Illua simply watched as the health bar slowly ticked away, pulling out her book and beginning the spell Meteor. “Hey Shobbit, I hope you can protect yourself from this.” She called up, the small bead of light chasing after the contained dragon. “Long…. Live... Emperor Nerroth!” Garble chokes out right as the light reaches him and Shobbit. The sky above them turns crimson, as the Meteor spell triggers, a massive asteroid covered in angry red cracks of lava descends on Shobbit and Garble, the land below glimmering with the protection of the forced Arena. Shobbit let the asteroid hit Garble first and with a twist of his wrist snapped his neck to make sure he was dead. Boss Defeated Appeared for Illua, along with the aforementioned weapon she cleaved from the tail. Once it was done Shobbit was back on the ground already skinning Garble for the scales. “So… Those questions you had?” Illua asked. “What do you mean by ‘Displaced’ and ‘Invader’?” Shobbit says as he finishes and then pulls off his cloak and starts to walk toward the Everfree Forest looking for a stump. When he removed his cloak his magic levels seemed to fall drastically. “So… Displaced, as it was told to me, is to be removed from your world, and brought to another, typically Equestria, but the problem is there are multiple Equestria’s on multiple timelines. I was removed from a place, that I’m assuming may be much further technologically and socially because you refer to me as ‘Fair Maiden’, and basically prevented me from being harmed.” “I kill dragons not Chivalry.” Shobbit tells her as he sits down and starts to add the scales to his cloak “I’ve now killed fourteen billion and one dragons.” “Well, Damn, no wonder. You registered as a few hundred bosses in a single location when you had your cloak on. The other term, Invader, is a bit harder to explain. An Invader is another Displaced, but you can almost always be sure they are hostile, or desperate.” Illua remarked, as she pulled up the windows once more, and pulled out not one, but two of the tail weapons. “Huh, got a second one. Wyrmsbane. Want it? It has some Anti-Dragon properties.” Illua held out the second sword. It looked like a Broadsword made of dragon scales, with the hilt having a draconic skull motif. Shobbit looked at Illua as he sewed on the last few scales and shook his head no. “I have no need for a sword like that. I am almost sixty years old and have only ever used a bow and knives.” He then finishes and puts his cloak back on. “And Alvinailey is a strange place where even gods walk amongst the population and the kingdom sells these.” Shobbit then holds up one of his arrowheads to show Illua its crystal like structure. “I’ll take that!~” A lion’s paw suddenly snatches the crystalline Arrowhead. “Got anything you wanna coin for your own Summon?” A certain smirking Draconequess stood, spinning his own tail in a circle. Shobbit quickly reacted and punched the Draconequess in the face and took his arrowhead back “This is not for the likes of you.” “Actually Shobbit, he’s actually offering to do the same thing he did to my card. Turn it into a token so others, like myself, could summon you to their worlds, and possibly hunt more dragons. And You’re Sixty? I’m.. 325? I don’t know, Stone Prisons mess with your sense of time.” “The years in stone don’t count.” Shobbit says then looks down at his arrow contemplating. He then nods his head no “I only want to kill Nerroth and then I think I will go home and annoy a certain Goddess I know.” “Well, Time should be standing still where I left, So If I summoned you, It may return you to where and whenever you left. Oh, and To send me home, I’m pretty sure you need to keep my card.” Illua handed back her token to the much taller man. “Discord, I got a favor to ask, you Mutiversal being.” “Yes? I’m Listening ‘oh fairest of maidens~’.” Discord had changed into a brilliant set of white plate armor. “Take this sword to my brother, if you can.” “Aye Aye~.” And with the second Wyrmsbane in hand, Discord Disappeared. “So, anything else you may or may not need?” Illua turned back towards Shobbit. “Did you sense the magic that stopped my arrows from piercing that dragon?” Shobbit asks her. “ It was kinda strange. I was able to cut his tail off, without a problem, but I couldn't exactly leave any more a notable sign of damage other than the health bar.” “That was Nerroth’s magic. The only way I could pass it before was with the brute strength of all the dragons of my planet. But I don’t think that I will be able to get passed it that way again.” Shobbit says “FOUND HIM!!!!” then came the voice of a woman in a sing song way. An average size woman wearing cloths that Illua would be used to walked up from behind a tree smiling “You can never get away from me Brother.” “Miss O’Gale” Shobbit says with a sigh. “I’m assuming you brought the Princess with you?” “Over here Mr. Grumpy.” Said another woman that walked up and stood next to Illua “Hi I’m Esperrago Alvinailey” “So, a little sister, and a Princess got Displaced with you, or is there some space-time shenanigans going on here?” Illua tilted her head, sheathing her blades and dematerializing them. “I actually followed my brother here using the strong magic signatures from where he fought Dragon Emperor Nerroth.” Terra O’Gale said. “I’m Terra O’Gale Goddess of Creation.” “And the only reason I don’t kill the Gods and Goddess with the Dragons.” Shobbit mutters. “So you’re related to a goddess, and of Creation no less.” Illua turned to the goddess. “Pardon my casualness, but if Dragons are such an issue where you’re from, can’t you revoke their existence, as they are a creation?” “I actually got promoted to being a Goddess after the old God of Creation was killed.” Terra says sheepishly. “Not my fault.” Shobbit says getting up and then leaving. “Well long story short, I can only make inanimate objects like Shobbit’s bow he refuses to use. He also has his own personal reasons as to why he hates dragons.” Terra says as Esperrago starts to follow Shobbit. Terra then looks at Illua worried “But do you need help getting home? I can sense that you haven’t been home in a long time, and that Illua isn’t your real name.” Illua sighs softly. “Yeah, But I have too much baggage from the version of the world I’m from, to go back to my homeworld. Plus, Going back to my real name now would be a bit of a lie to the Equestrians that know me.” Illua begins walking after Shobbit. Terra walks with Illua and makes a bow and quiver in her hand the size of her fist before handing it to her “Here take this and speak your true name then me or my brother and we will come to help.” “Will do. Now, make sure your brother doesn't go ragey. Spike is a dragon that is being raised by the populace here, so he will always be friendly towards the sentient race here, Ponies. And Brush up on history. I’ll bring a history book from my version so you can see the definite timeline difference.” Illua takes the miniature bow and quiver and puts it into her bag. Terra smiles and nods. “I’ll keep an eye on him.” “Hey Shobbit! Take my card, and channel some energy into it. And Tell me my duty is done here, when you want me to go home.” Illua calls out. “Hopefully, going home won't be as Violent.” Shobbit looked back and smirked having heard her last statement “You’re the one that made this spell Sweetheart.” He then pulls out the card and fills it with magic and says “Your duties are done for now Fair Maiden.” “Yeah, But considering when I was summoned, I was… rather forcefully snatched out. See you later.” The Portal opened once more, this time it was simply a ring of runes, in which Illua stepped through and disappeared. The runes faded shortly after, leaving nearly no trace of her existence in Shobbit’s world. The small group of Alvinailian’s watched as the runes disappeared. “Now about you running off to another world with your number one enemy!” Terra says to Shobbit sternly. > 9 Ember reaches Ponyville > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ember had been flying nonstop and just reached the outskirts of what appeared to be an apple farm. It was then that she ran out of stamina and crashed into the ground painfully "Ow.... " she mutters as started to black out and hear voices. "What is it girls?" "Ah don't know. Maybe we should tell Twilight?" "I think we should." Ember's world then went dark. Shobbit had returned to Twilight's castle with his sister and the Princess of Alvinailey following him. Applejack's perfectly emerald eyes settled onto Shobbit entering Twilight's Castle, her face twisting into a neutral expression as she settled her hooves more firmly and steadily on the ground. "Welcome Back, Mister O'Gale," She said in a rather unamused tone, swaying slightly on her legs where she stood. "Who's tha' here Lady ya brought back with ya?" She raised an eyebrow, resisting the urge to wiggle them. "A special companion of some sort?" Fluttershy flapped her wings rhythmically and slowly, steadily circling the room with little else to do. Her turquoise eyes glanced to the opening door and she watched curiously as Shobbit waltzed back in. She stopped in her flying and landing smoothly but tentatively back onto the floor. She remained quiet, slinking and shrinking as not to be seen as easily. She manipulated her mane to cover part of her face, yet she couldn't help but flash a few curious and cautious glances at him and the other who was standing not to far behind. Terra smiled and waved at all the ponies in the room as a small blush came to her cheeks "I'm Shobbit's little sister Terra." "You're also a Goddess." Princess Esperrago reminded her as she walked in and looked around curiously at the crystal walls "What crystal and metals are combined to create the walls?" Shobbit sent a glare at Applejack, then spoke to Esperrago "Thank you for reminding me of your presence Princess." He then steps forward to the table and looks toward Twilight "I need to know everything about the dragons of this world because one of them just attacked me and Illua." Applejack rolled her eyes at Shobbit, her attention pulled to Terra. "Howdy there, Terra," She said enthusiastically. "My name's Applejack, but my friends jus' call me AJ," She winked, large grin splitting her face. She seemed fairly distracted by the girl to not notice Esperrago's question or Shobbit's request. Not that she'd of been able to answer them anyways. Fluttershy timidly approached Terra, partly intrigued by her. She stood beside Applejack, sending her a small, welcoming smile before lifting her head to Terra. "H-Hello..." She introduced, checks flushing a faint pink as her ears folded. "I-I'm Fluttershy..." She wasn't one for introductions, but her public speaking had improved since becoming friends with the others. Yet she preferred to stick to her timid ways and avoid becoming as flamboyant and Pinkie Pie or as arrogant and hot-headed as Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash regarded the two who had just entered the room. One was a goddess. Interesting... Rainbow gave a sharp bow to Terra, "I'm Rainbow Dash. Fastest flyer in Equestria." She smirked lightly, "Think you can take me on?" Tossing back her head, her smirk widened. Goddess or not, Rainbow knew she could totally take her on. Twilight, on the other hand, thought otherwise. Bowing low, she said, "Welcome, Terra." Glancing at the other female with Shobbit, she added, "The walls are made of the same crystal that composes the Tree of Harmony. They look the same, but I'm not sure what the metals or stones are." Straightening to her full height, Twilight said, "Now, dragons... You say you were attacked by one?" Confused, Twilight paced around the Cutie Map, her brow furrowed. "They all are secluded with themselves out in the Dragon Lands. They don't like to interact with us or each other very much as to watch over their hoards of treasure. Well besides Spike my assistant." Twilight stopped pacing and stood in front of Shobbit, her eyes expressionless. "That's all we currently know about them." "It's nice to meet you all" Terra says smiling then looks at Rainbow Dash with a devious glint in her eye "You're speed is limited by things around you. Are you sure you want to challenge the Goddess of Creation to a race?" "What about a Crimson Dragon with a yellow belly standing about as tall as me? What do you know about him?" Shobbit asks "What's the durability and how long does it take to craft with it?" Esperrago asks Rarity then perked up and looked back and forth between the women that entered. She then beamed as she approached them and said "I believe formal introductions are in order for the rest of us. You've already meet Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash, Princess Twilight Sparkle is the one talking to our dear Shobbit. Pinkie is...." She then looks around and noticed that the energetic pink party mare was missing "Pinkie Pie is probably making a 'Welcome to Ponyville/Equestria' Party for you all." She then stands up straighter "And I am Rarity, Fashionista Extraordinaire. It's wonderful to meet both a Goddess and a Princess from another country." Esperrago turned and smiled forgetting her last question and spoke up "Why thank you." The door then burst open as three little fillies came running in carrying an armored and winged figure. "TWILIGHT!!!" they cried simultaneously. "We found them right outside Sweet Apple Acres." said Scootaloo before noticing the humans in the room and her eyes going wide along with the other Crusaders. "MONSTERS!!!!!" they cried simultaneously as they fled leaving Ember on the floor who slowly started to come to. Ember slowly opened her eyes feeling a lot of dragon magic nearby and looked up to see a tall intimidating figure covered in dragon scales and looking at her with a hatred of an erupting volcano. > 10 The Plans of War > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terra acted quickly once she realized that a dragon had been brought into the room and teleported Shobbit away from the castle. Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash then had to leave to chase after the CMC and calm them down. Ember then looked around at the remaining ponies and humans in the room before taking off her helmet and weakly saying "I... I am... Princess Ember... of the Dragon Lands. I have... come to... ask for your....." She then looks to the side and whispers "help." Shobbit came out of the teleport in the middle of a library, lined around the walls was torches and various artifacts along with the books making it look like a museum more than a library. The human let out a growl as he started to move through the aisles looking for the way out. "So from everything that I've gathered I can only see one outcome of what's to come. War." Shobbit heard someone say after several minutes of him walking around. He knelt down and started to sneak closer to the voice and listen to them talk. "It will be a three way fight at first, Equestria, the Dragons Lands, and Alvinailey." "So what do you want us to do about it?" came a second voice, "We've already tried to avoid a war between Equestria and the Dragon Lands." "I understand that David, but you have to realize that with Shobbit, Terra, and Esperrago all in Equestria, " spoke the first voice once more. "Things are different now, and War will happen. The problem is that these ponies aren't ready for it." "So what you're really asking Booksalot is that you want us to turn back time so that this war happens at a time when the ponies could have a fighting chance." stated the voice named David. "Excatly!" Booksalot cried out, "You can also come out from behind that shelf my dear Alvinailelian." "How did you know I was here?" Shobbit asked as he stood and stepped around the shelf to look at a red unicorn with a tri colored mane that looked like he got out of bed and hadn't done a thing to it. Sitting in the chair next to the pony was a human wearing a suit and his hair washed and combed back providing an air of professionalism from him. "That's simple Shobbit, the fire tells all." Booksalot spoke, "Now since we are all here we can truly begin the preparations." Shobbit gave the two a curious look before sitting down at the table with them and looking at the maps and charts upon it. "As long as Nerroth's death is upon the agenda, you have my support." After Ember had explained what she had seen, she immediately fell unconscious. Terra O'Gale and Esperrago had decided to go for a walk through Ponyville to talk about what they wished to do about the discovery of Nerroth. They both soon had found themselves sitting at a pony sized table outside of one of Ponyville's restaurants, sipping on tea they had ordered from the waitress. "So Nerroth has amassed new forces." started Esperrago. "My brother won't be happy when he finds out either. He'll probably beg to lead a charge against them." Terra stated calmly, as she took a sip, "I think that we should see about getting your troops here dear Princess." "Why? What use would the Alvinailey Knights be?" "They could help control collateral damage to the area. That would be helpful to allow Shobbit to focus on Nerroth." Terra stated as they both finished off their tea. Esperrago nodded solmly as she look at the various ponies walking by. Terra then continued to speak, "The only problem I can see currently is that I would need to send someone back to know where the right version of Alvinailey is before I open a full sized gateway." "What if we asked one of the ponies?" Esperrago asked as she noticed a white mare with a blue spiky mane and wearing red tinted sunglasses staring that them. "She seems interested." "Why would I just throw a random pony across the Void so that I can make a gateway to allow the Knights to get here?" Terra asked as she looked over at the white mare in question and took notice of the headphones over her ears. "And honestly it would just be slightly evil of me to send someone that connected to technology to Alvinailey." "Well we could ask around, and I'm suggesting a Pony because I know you would never send me with the risk of me not landing in the right place." the Princess said with a smug grin. "Why am I even friends with you?" Terra rhetorically asked with a glare at Esperrago, while the mare that had been watching them trotted closer. Blue magic lit around her horn and headphones as she pulled them down to around her neck as she got closer. "Because I'm cute and adorable that's wh..." Esperrago said with a smile, before getting interrupted by a tomboyish yet clearly feminine voice. "Hey bitches, I was just standing over there and wondering what in all of Equestria you two are?" "Pardon us but we were in the middle of a conversation." Terra stated clearly annoyed at the lack of manners. "Look all you needed to do was give me a simple answer and I totally would have left." the pony countered quickly and with a grin showing she was enjoying herself. "But, nooo, you just had to make this into a much longer conversation that will now take even more away from the one that seemed to be over to me from before." Terra's eye twitched slightly as Esperrago spoke. "We're Alvinailelians. It's a place in another realm, I'm a Princess of the Kingdom, and Terra is a Goddess." "Well my name is Vinyl Scratch, best DJ to lay down Wubs this side of Canterlot." said the pony proudly, "What sort of Goddess are you?" "Creation." Esperrago answers for Terra quickly. "Cool maybe we can "Create", something amazing sometime. Am I right or am I fucking right?" Vinyl asked with a grin before she disappeared. "I may have a temperment problem with ponies." Terra sighed out as she stood up. "You sent her to Alvinailey didn't you?" "Well at least I can get your Knights here now can't I?" Terra asked as the two then started walking toward the Everfree Forest.