It was Matoro’s fifth day in Equestria, and by far the most strange. It was his first real encounter with the citizens of Ponyville. The past four days he mostly only went out at night, listening to the stories of Twilight and her friends. Today was the day when he saw some real daylight. He glanced to his Cordak blaster to his right, ‘I’d better leave it here,’ he thought, ‘wouldn’t want my arm blown off again.’ As he exited Twilight’s tree home he got his first real look at the townspeople. He stared at them and they stared back. He slowly started to walk down the street when…
“ZOMBIE, RUN!” yelled Pinkie pie.
Matoro glanced at where Pinkie pie was. Twilight warned him that something like this might happen. Holding out his twin cutter, he froze Pinkie pie’s legs and mouth. He then proceeded to walk over to her.
“Why, hello Pinkie pie, nice day huh?” he asked.
“Mmph (HELP!)”
Matoro sighed, “Ok look, I’m not going to eat you. In fact I’m not even hungry, so why don’t you calm down and let’s try this again, ok?”
Pinkie pie nodded. Matoro then unfroze the ice around Pinkie pie.
“You ok?” he asked, “good, now, who told you I was a ‘zombie’ as you put it?”
“Rainbow dash saw me after you made that zombie come to life in the graveyard yesterday. She said you used your funny mask to make yourself become a zombie,” replied Pinkie pie.
“Ok, well, first thing is, I’m just assuming I’m a zombie. I might just be a visible ghost. Secondly, where does Rainbow dash live?” said Matoro.
“In the sky,” replied Pinkie pie.
Matoro looked into the sky and sure enough, he saw Rainbow dash’s house floating among the clouds. He sighed; there was no way he was going to get up there, he was going to have to give her a piece of his mind later. As if on cue, some storm clouds appeared in the sky and started to rain. Thunder and lightning crashed while it started to hail.
“What the?!” said Matoro as hail started to hit him, “uh… does this happen normally?” he asked.
“No, it never hails during a thunder storm,” replied Pinkie pie, “somepony must have messed up in the weather factory.”
“Yeah,” agreed Matoro, glancing to his left. He suddenly turned when he was an oddly familiar body shape streak through the hail. It was mostly upright, running on two feet and a grey and golden body. It also carried a staff of some sort. ‘Is that a…?’ he wondered, ‘no, impossible, I’m just seeing things.’ Matoro assured himself, ‘a Rahkshi in Equestria, hah, when Makuta sings.’
“Err, Matoro?” asked Pinkie pie, “something wrong?”
“Huh? Oh, no. nothing’s wrong, I’m just seeing things,” replied Matoro.
Suddenly, Rainbow dash was falling to the ground, she was trying to fly in vain as her wings looked too heavy to move. Matoro quickly created an ice slide to prevent her from falling. She slid down it and looked at him, “thanks, I don’t know what happened, one minute I was flying and being awesome and next thing I know my wings are too heavy to move.”
“How very strange,” replied Matoro as he looked at where he thought he saw the Rahkshi.
“Cool! Can I try the slide next?” asked Pinkie pie.
Meanwhile, Fluttershy was also having some problems of her own, but not with the weather. All the forest animals were going out of control. The only thing that could have led them to do this was a large magenta creature. It was very strange looking and smelt of cold metal and something else. It was shooting some sort of beam at the animals and making them attack anything in sight. Fluttershy was trying to calm them down when a white creature came up alongside the magenta one.
“Oh, um, please stop fighting,” she asked.
The white creature glanced at Fluttershy. It opened it face to reveal a worm like creature and hissed at Fluttershy. It took aim with its staff and shot a bolt of pure anger at Fluttershy. It hit her dead on. With a dazed look, she stumbled up the road and stopped in front of Rarity, who was just coming to see her.
“Oh, hello there Fluttershy, I was just on my way to see you,” she said.
Fluttershy, head still spinning gave Rarity a dazed look.
“Fluttershy, are you alright?” asked Rarity, concerned.
Fluttershy shook her head and looked at Rarity, then she yelled, “YOU! WHY DIDN’T YOU HELP ME?”
“Wait, Fluttershy what’s going on?!”
“THE FOREST ANIMALS WERE GOING OUT OF CONTROL AND YOU DID NOTHING TO HELP ME!” yelled Fluttershy.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t know,” said Rarity.
“SORRY? SORRY?! SORRY ISN”T GOOD ENOUGH! I’LL KILL YOU FOR WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO TO EACH OTHER!” yelled Fluttershy, purely enraged.
“Wait Fluttershy! Stop, please!” said Rarity, scared at how angry Fluttershy was.
“NO! THEY WERE GOING TO KILL EACH OTHER!” yelled Fluttershy.
“HELP!”
Twilight, which was walking nearby heard Fluttershy’s yelling and came to investigate what was going on. She heard Rarity’s call for help and came running only to see and enraged Fluttershy preparing to attack Rarity.
“FLUTTERSHY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” cried out Twilight.
“STAY BACK! SHE WAS GOING TO LET THE ANIMALS DIE!” Fluttershy yelled. She raised her hoof and prepared to pound Rarity into the ground.
“FLUTTERSHY, STOP!” Twilight yelled.
“NO! THE ANIMALS WERE GOING TO DIE!”
“AHHH!” yelled Rarity.
Twilight, thinking fast, froze Fluttershy just millimetres above Rarity. Fluttershy’s frozen body then fell over onto the ground.
“I’m sorry Fluttershy,” said Twilight.
“T- Thank you Twilight,” said Rarity, “I don’t know what happened, she just became enraged and started to tell me that the animals were going to kill each other.”
“Something must have happened did you see anything that might have caused her to act like that?” asked Twilight.
“Well I did see some large white creature running into the forest before I saw Fluttershy,” replied Rarity.
“Weird,” said Twilight.
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“NO NOT THE BEES!” yelled Applejack, a large swarm of insects started to attack the farm just after a large orange creature walked by. Bugs of all shaped and sizes were attacking the apple trees and there was nothing Applejack could do about it. When she started to ward off the bugs another large creature fired a beam from its staff and next thing she knew she was too weak to move. Then as soon as the bugs appeared, they were gone, along with all the apples.
“NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” she cried into the evening.
About an hour later, Twilight, Pinkie pie, Rainbow dash, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy and Matoro gathered in Twilight’s house.
“What in tarnation was going on out there?” asked Applejack.
“I don’t know,” replied Twilight.
“I just guessing on this but, did anyone else see a large creature with a staff just before these things started to happen?” asked Rarity.
“Come to think of it yeah, I saw an orange one just before those bugs started attacking,” said Applejack.
“What could it be?” asked Fluttershy, recovered from the rage.
“Sounds like a Rahkshi.”
“Sounds like a what?” asked Rainbow dash.
“A Rahkshi, monsters that attacked my home when I was still alive,” said Matoro.
“But what would a Rahkshi be doing here?” asked Pinkie pie.
“I don’t know,” said Matoro, “I hope it isn’t a Rahkshi though, if it was then…”
“Then what?” asked Twilight.
Matoro looked down, sighed, and walked out of the house and into the night.
“Hey Matoro, wait!”
Matoro walked until he hit the center of the town. He sat down on of the benches and looked into the starry sky. ‘I wonder how Jaller, Hahli and the others are doing?’ he thought. He got up and started to walk away from the town. “If Makuta did follow me here then he will be going after me,” he muttered.
“Who Is this ‘Makuta’?”
Matoro spun around and stood mask to face with Princess Luna.
“Oh, uh… hello?” he said.
“Hello Matoro,” she said.
“Um, do I know you?” he asked.
“I am Princess Luna, bringer of the night,” she said.
“I am Toa Matoro, deceased toa of ice,” he replied.
“Yes, I’ve heard from my sister that you think you’re dead,” said Luna.
Matoro sighed, “Every day I’m less sure about that. I thought when I used the Ignika it would be done, I’d be with the other dead toa heroes.”
“Wouldn’t you be glad if you’re still alive?” she said.
“Yes but, my friends, Jaller, Hahli, Nuparu, Hewkii and Kongu are still back home in Metru nui,” said Matoro sadly.
“Metru nui, you mention it a lot, what is it exactly?” asked Luna.
Matoro smiled, “it is a large city, my home before the great cataclysm. After that I lived on the island of Mata nui. Only until about a month ago is when I returned to Metru nui.”
“It seems that you and your friends have had many adventures,” said Luna.
“Oh, you don’t know the half of it.”
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Discord stared at Makuta, and then he started to laugh.
“HAHAHAHAH, you look PRICELESS!” he said through the laughter.
Makuta glared at him, “ah Discord, looks can be deceiving. You of all people should know that, after all, you disguised yourself as a balloon when trying to defeat your pathetic equine foes,” replied Makuta.
“It was… for the effect. I couldn’t think of a better way to terrorise her,” replied Discord.
“And yet they still defeated you Discord. after all I’ve taught you,” replied Makuta, “admittedly yes, the first time you were imprisoned there was no way you could have won but the second time, you were defeated by six little ponies. And you had the upper hand, for the most part. You let your overconfidence get the better of you.”
“They were… more powerful then I realised, but not this time,” said Discord, “this time I will have the element of total surprise.”
“Didn’t you possess it last time?” asked Makuta.
“Celestia blew my cover,” said Discord bitterly.
Makuta gave Discord an amused look, “you talk about this Celestia character a lot. Maybe she is more than a common foe to you?”
“Shut up.”
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Brutaka looked at the five figures in front of him.
“Are you sure about this? You know what will happen if you fail,” he said.
The five stared at their former enemy, “yes Brutaka, we will succeed in this rescue,” said Jaller.
“Who exactly are we trying to quick-find again?” asked Kongu.
Brutaka chuckled, “oh, you’ll know him when you see him.” Brutaka then used his Kanohi Olmak, great mask of dimensional gates, to open a portal to a strange land. “He is through here.”
“Are you sure? You said that you couldn’t control where the end of the portal was,” said Nuparu.
“This is without a doubt where he is. Now go, time is of essence.”
“You guys ready?” asked Jaller.
“Ready,” said Hewkii.
“Yep,” replied Nuparu.
“Yes,” responded Hahli.
“It better not have any more water,” muttered Kongu.
“All right, let’s go,” said Jaller as he stepped through the portal. The other four soon followed.
“Go and find your friend,” said Brutaka as the portal closed.