I stood in the hangar of the Tower as Guardians and civilians alike, ran around loading ships with supplies and weapons, “Ōkami,” Sarah said as she walked over to me, “I don't know how you want this to go but it won't be easy. Especially since we don't have a flag ship.”
“You don’t need to worry about that. I have a plan that I will be trying out pretty soon.” I responded as I made my way over to the large bay door. I looked over the edge, “I honestly thought we were higher up.” I said before diving off, leaving a stunned Sarah behind. After falling for a moment I snapped my wings open and flew towards the orb that is the Traveler.
*****
“Get those civilians onto the airships!” Midnight barked as she pushed back a group of neoshadows, “And get word to the Gryphon kingdom, Canterlot has fallen.” she finished solemnly.
Runa slid on the ground at Midnight’s side, “We will get it back. But for every inch they take we shall take hundreds of them.” she said before charging forward with a team of BoS soldiers in T-60 power armor.
*****
Maleficent landed in the coronation hall and looked around, “Oh it is so wonderful to be back.”
“By now you should know it is not this easy.” Seresutia said as she walked out of the crowd, “Ben get your people out of here. I don’t want anyone caught in the crossfire.” twenty thestrals appeared out of the shadows, each with their keyblades at the ready, “Now tell me Maleficent, why don’t you just go home before we have to do what Sora did all those years ago?” Seresutia asked as she summoned her keyblade.
“You insolent child!” she yelled as flames encompassed her body as she became a large black dragon.
“I thought you'd be bigger.” Seresutia stated as she spun her keyblade before charging Maleficent. She dropped to the ground and slid as Maleficent’s claws swiped at her. She jumped on to the top of the claw and ran up her leg. Seresutia threw her keyblade in a strike raid as Maleficent opened her mouth to breathe fire at her. The impact from the keyblade made her flinch and swallow the flames. Out of nowhere a smaller slightly purple dragon slammed into Maleficent causing Seresutia to lose her balance and fall.
*****
Midnight watched in horror as Nightmare Moon sliced her way through the humans, changelings, and thestrals with a demonic looking scythe, “Everyone retreat!” she called out. Sadly the only ones to respond were the soldiers that were close. Nightmare smiled gleefully as she cut down the forces that opposed her.
“No more!” Celestia yelled as she slammed into the ground in front of Nightmare Moon, “Sister I know now what darkness has overtaken you but please fight back. I do not wish to fight you.”
“Of of course you don't. You cling to tightly to your light. Embrace the darkness and we can be on the allies once more.” Nightmare chuckled darkly.
“No. I can't do that. We need balance. We can't both be one with the darkness. So please stop this. We can work together to help everypony.” Celestia pleaded.
Nightmare snorted before she slapped Celestia, “Tis a shame. I didn't want to do this.” her horn lit up and stone surrounded Celestia's hooves, “Goodbye sister.” Nightmare spin her scythe and slammed the blade into Celestia, sending her flying back into a group of thestrals.
*****
I landed on the Traveler sphere. Summoning Whole as One I stabbed it into the sphere, and it started glowing. Slowly it rose higher into the air, as it expanded rapidly. After a while the glowing died down and instead of the Traveler, a CSO-Supercarrier sat over the city, “I didn't expect it to be this big.” I opened a DTL and walked through. When I came out I was standing inside the command deck. I looked around and chuckled, “At least they made it easy for a human to use.”
“Welcome aboard Captain.” a female voice said from all around me.
“Who are you?” I ask.
“I am Clara, and I am this vessels on board A.I.”
“Well Clara, let's bring this beauty closer to the Tower to load supplies.”
“Would you like to use the gravity well to lift the supplies into the loading bay?”
“That sounds like a wonderful idea.” I chuckled as I stood at the control panel.
*****
Seresutia jumped back dodging another swipe from Maleficent, “Is that all you got, you overgrown gecko?” she taunted, “I've seen a frog who fought harder than you.” Maleficent roared in rage before letting out a torrent of green flames from her maw, “and his name was Kermit.” she said with a slight chuckle.
Before Maleficent could breathe fire again Mal landed in front of her, in her dragon form.
*****
Sarah watched in shock as I slowly descended from the CSO, “Will this work?” I asked as I touched down in front of her.
“I'll admit that I almost sent a few fighters to investigate, but how did you do that?”
“The power of a X-blade. I didn't even think it would work. But enough of us just sitting around, let's get everything loaded so we can get moving.”
“Almost all the supplies are loaded onto the jumpships. All that is left is the tanks and other large objects that dont fit on the ships.”
“Then let's get those ships into the carrier so we can unload them.”
“Will do.” Sarah responded before she walked away to give orders.
*****
Midnight trudged through the camp, surrounded by worn down, tired soldiers, “Captain Midnight?” one of the human soldiers asked as he looked down at Midnight, “What will we do? Equestria is but a wasteland of darkness, and the other countries have shut their borders to us saying that we are the cause of this mess.”
“All we can do is wait and hope that help arrives soon.” she replied solemnly, before continuing down the rows of tents before stopping in front of a tent with a red cross on it. Walking inside she stopped a nurse, “Red Heart how is she?”
“I don't know much about Alicorn biology, but by normal pony standards she is recovering, but slowly.”
“May I see her?”
“Right this way.” Midnight followed Red Heart behind a set of curtains. Laying in bed was Celestia, but instead of her pristine white coat, it was covered in mats and bloodied bandages.
“This will be over soon Celestia. I have a feeling something will happen soon.” suddenly Oath Keeper appeared in Celestia's hoof before raising itself up and shooting a beam of light into the sky.
*****
I stopped as I felt a pulse of light from another world. A light that I know. I take off in a full sprint to find Sarah. I ran through the halls of the Tower. I finally found her by the Speaker, “We need to get going. Now.”
“What's wrong?” Sarah asked.
“I was called to by a friend of mine's keyblade. Something went horribly wrong.”
Sarah's face went pale, “For a keyblade to call you like that. Let's just say it is not good. All the supplies are loaded. So we are ready to go.”
*****
Murrue Ramius sat on the command deck of the Archangel when suddenly alarms started blaring, “What is going on?” she asked.
“A large unknown ship just appeared out of nowhere, Captain.”
“Try and make contact. We don't need to fight if it is not necessary.”
“They are actually trying to contact us.” one of the crew members responded.
“Then put them through.”
“Captain Ramius, this is Ōkami. We are requesting your aid in the battle for my world.”
“It is good to hear from you Ōkami. We would be glad to help. Just tell us where to go.”
“I am opening the port hanger please come land inside and I will have someone bring you to the bridge. We have one more stop to make.”
*****
Seresutia looked at the lizard in Mal’s hand, “I was not expecting that to happen.”
“Neither was I.” Mal responded.
“So what are you going to do now?”
“I really don't know.”
*****
The CSO exited the large DTL and was resting over a large castle, “So who are we here to get?” Murrue asked.
“We are here for one of my girls. One you have already met.” I responded, “I'm going down. I'll be back in a little while.” I said before opening a DTL to the surface. When I walked through I was met by some armed guards, “Alright. Take me to your leaders.”
The looked at each other in confusion before leading me into the castle and past a large group of people and some thestrals.
“Hey guys.” I said as we passed them. Most of the thestral’s eyes lighting up when they saw me. I just smiled and waved.
“Ōkami!” I heard Seresutia yell.
“Hey.” I replied before she slapped me, “Ow.”
“That was for being an idiot.” she then grabbed me and pulled me in for a kiss. We she pulled away we both smiled, “That is for coming back.”
“Well while I would love to stay here and meet some of your new friends, I can't. Our world needs us to return, something bad has happened.”
“What do you mean?”
“I don't know all the details but darkness is consuming our home.”
“What? But that would mean that…” she had a scared look as she trailed off, “I trust you have a plan.”
“Yeah. Got a warship full of soldiers. We are going to take the world by storm and eliminate the darkness.”
“There is a problem with that. Midnight warned us that something was off with Luna when you didn't come back. I think she might have fallen.”
My breath caught when I heard that. I knew she had fallen before but to hear it happen a second time because of me, was just to much, “Then we will do what we can to save her. Even if it means removing her darkness by force. But we have stayed here long enough.” I said as I opened a DTL, “This will take you to the ship.” I said loud enough that the thestrals could hear me.
“What ship?” she asked.
“We really don’t have time for me to explain. We need to leave.”
“Alright, but you will explain everything to me and the girls once this is over.” she said before walking through the DTL.
“Sorry for any trouble cause by my people.” I stated before following Seresutia through the portal.
After I stepped back into the ship the Thestrals started filing in through the portal. Not long after I stepped through I was punched in the gut by Seresutia, “Who are these two women?” she asked angrily still holding a clenched fist, while pointing at Sarah and Jessica.
“That would be Sarah and Jessica. Sarah is a survivor of the first Keyblade war and Jessica is one of the Guardians I befriended while I was stranded on their world.” I responded trying to back away from her slowly.
“Sure. And the reason that they are in the command center of a ship that only needs one person to operate its main steering functions is?”
“Your guess is as good as mine. I can see why Sarah is here, saying that I did call her beautiful when I first met her, but I don’t know why Jessica is here, but we can talk about this later. We have to go save our home first.”
“Alright, but we will be talking about this.”