//------------------------------// // The Assult Begins // Story: Rise of The Robopony // by Robobrony //------------------------------// Rise of The Robopony Chapter 5: The Assult Begins Over the skies of Equestria, hoards of robots filled the air, ready to take control of every city in the country. Down in Ponyville, the girls and Steele Mane saw the assult begin as they were still gathered in front of Steele Mane’s hut after learning about each of their weapons. Steele Mane spoke to address them. “Looks like this is it, Malcom is making his move, girls, we’ll have to split up and take different sections of the town so we can properly protect every pony. Just remember, your suits also have built in homing sensors, your visors can display a map of the immediate area and show you every ponies location. Fluttershy, you can come with me and find a position on a roof and act as my support, ok.” Fluttershy looked worried but then took on a determined look as she responded. “All right, you can count on me.” Then Applejack got worried about something. “Wait a minute, what about my family, I gotta make sure they’ll be ok.” Steele Mane looked at her with a smile. “Go to them, we can handle things here. You go and make sure your family is safe.” “Are ya sure? I’d hate ta leave you guys too.” Twilight came forward. “Go Applejack, you can join us later when you feel your family is safe. We’ll be fine.” Applejack gave a smile as she responded. “Thanks gals and Steele Mane, I promise to get there and back as soon as I can once I know my family is safe.” Applejack took off for Sweet Apple Acres. Twilight then remembered Spike. “I’d better warn Spike, just give me a second.” She quickly ran into her library and called out for Spike. “Spike, where are you?” Spike emerged from the kitchen. “What’s up Twilight, whoa, what’s with the metal?” "There’s no time to explain, I need you to stay in here and don’t come out until I come for you, ok.” Spike was a little worried by her words, but he did as he was told. “All right Twilight, I’ll stay inside, but what’s going on.” “I’m sorry Spike, but there’s no time to explain, just stay inside and don’t come out no matter what you hear, ok.” “All right, I stay inside.” “Thanks Spike.” Twilight made her way back outside to rejoin her friends. “Ok, I’m ready to go now.” With that, the girls all charged into town and split up in different directions, Fluttershy following Steele Mane. Meanwhile, up in Canterlot, the royal guards were doing their best to try and fend off the metal monsters attacking the castle, but weren’t fairing too well. The unicorn guards magic did little to stem the tide of robots as one by one they fell to the robots stun lasers. In the throne room, the princesses were ready to fight any robots that entered their throne room. They herd laser blasts just outside the door, as well as grunting and struggling. Suddenly, the doors burst open as two robots came flying in and landed on their backs. Then, a large metal hammer came crashing down on one sending a surge of electricity through it, causing it to explode, the hammer did the same to the other robot. The princesses looked on in curiosity at the scene, then, a new figure entered the room. It was another alicorn. His coat, mane, and tail were all a raven black except for a brown streak through his mane and tail. He had brown eyes and was taller than Luna, but shorter than Celestia. He had a grey cloud with three gears under it as his cutie mark. The princesses ran up to him with a smile on their faces,Celestia then spoke up to greet him and thank him for his help. “Nightshade Smoke, thank the heavens you came. We need your help to protect Canterlot.” Nightshade Smoke levitated his hammer back onto his back with the handle jutting just over his left shoulder. He had a straight face as he looked up at her. “What is going on your majesty, what are these things, and where did they come from?” Celestia responded with worry and desperation in her voice. “There’s no time for explanations, I will try to explain everything later, but right now, we need to stop these things from taking over Canterlot.” “All right, let’s go.” Nightshade Smoke lead the princesses out of the castle to deal with the imminent threat to Canterlot. Up in Cloudsdale, the robots worked quickly as they took over the city, they had to stay in flight though since they would just fall through the clouds if they tried to stand on them. They had two long rods protruding from their backs, each with two more rods coming down from them connected by a light blue clear energy. Within the shadows of Cloudsdale, a lone shadowy figure moved silently through the town, it quietly snuck up on two robots from the shadows, in a flash of white, the robots were sliced in half in one swift movement. The figure emerged from the shadows to get a better look at its prey. “What are these things?” It was a pegasus. He had a midnight black coat, his mane and tail were a darker and lighter shade of crimson. Wrapped around his left hoof was a chain with a curved blade at one end. His eyes appeared cybernetic, his pupils would rotate as they grew and shrank while he tried to scan them and figure out what they were. The metal surrounded his eyes and ran down his face and stopped at his nose. Unable to figure it out, he continued to try and destroy as many of the things as he could. But with every one he destroyed, there seemed to be two more to take their place. He was starting to think this was futile. “I must get to the princesses, maybe they can help and tell me what these things are.” He didn’t like to leave his home town but he didn’t have much of a choice. It would only be a matter of time before he would be found and caught. So he reluctantly left for Canterlot, being careful not to be seen. Manehatten, the town was having a great deal of problems as well, as the robots went through the town blasting and capturing every pony they could. Suddenly, up on the rooftops, a lone pony appeared. He teleported down to the streets and started blasting the robots with arrow shaped energy blasts. The robots were no match for him as they tried to blast him but he just moved and teleported around like crazy, blasting and bucking the robots. He then came to a large group of robots, he simply eyed them, in a quick flash he disappeared and reappeared behind the group. After a moment, the robots all exploded. This pony appeared to be an earth pony as he had no wings or horn. His coat was a darker shade of grey with light grey patches. His eyes were red with black surrounding white irises. He had sharp looking teeth, a black and white mane and tail, and his cutie mark was of eight emeralds, seven surrounding one big one. The emeralds were gold, white, green, blue, purple, light blue, and red, the giant emerald was a light green color. As he spoke, he spoke with a kind of growl in his voice. “What in the name of Equestria are these things, where are they coming from? There’s just too many of them for me to handle alone. I’m going to need help if I’m going to stop this, I’d better go see the princesses. Back in Canterlot, the Celestia, Luna, and Nightshade Smoke just finished off the last of the robots invading Canterlot. The princesses and Nightshade Smoke were in front of the castle gates to converse about what was going on, little did they know that there were two ponies listening in on their conversation. The pony that was fighting in Manehatten was up on a roof looking down as he listened in, while the Pegasus with the cybernetic eyes was also hinding in a nearby ally way to hear what was going on. Before Nightshade Smoke could speak, one of the royal guards came forward to inform the princesses of what was going on. “Your majesty, we have received reports that every city in Equestria has been taken over by these things!” Celestia and Luna became worried. Celestia spoke up. “What about Ponyville?” “We’re not sure, we haven’t received word from there yet.” “Thank you. Go help with the cleanup, myself and Luna will be along momentarily to assist.” “Yes your majesties.” The guard gave a bow and went off. Nightshade Smoke finally spoke up. “Well, what are these things and where did they come from princess?” Celestia took on a worried look as she responded. “I cannot explain the situation as well as I would like, there is only one pony in Equestria who knows more about what is going on than I do.” This confused Nightshade Smoke. “Well, who is this pony? How could he know more about this than you?” “His name is Steele Mane.” The pony on the roof got curious about that name. “Steele Mane?” The Pegasus also wondered quietly to himself. “Who is Steele Mane?” Nightshade Smoke continued. “And where is this Steele mane?” Celestia answered. “You are to go to Ponyville and aid him in any way you can, since he is the only one who knows about all this, you are to follow his orders from now on until this matter is resolved.” “You want me to go to Ponyville and follow some pony I’ve never heard of instead of you? What is this all about princess?” “Pleas Nightshade Smoke, I know this is an odd request, but it is for the good of Equestria.” Nightshade Smoke didn’t like this, but he was under oath to serve Celestia and Luna. “As you wish princess, what does this Steele Mane look like?” Celestia took on a mischevious look on her muzzle. “You’ll know him when you see him. Trust me, he will be easy to spot.” Nightshade Smoke smiled at Celestia. “Going to be like that aye, fine, have it your way. I will do as you say.” “Thank you Nightshade Smoke.” Nightshade Smoke then turned around and headed for Ponyville, unaware that he had two others tailing him in secret, neither one aware of the other yet. Back in Ponyville, the girls and Steele mane had split up to try and stop the robot invasion in town, Applejack headed for her home, Sweet Apple Acres, to make sure her family was safe. Her big brother Big Macintosh was backed up against the front of the house as two robots closed in on him, he was glaring at them as they came closer. One of them spoke. “Surrender pony.” “Nope.” Was all Big Mac said. The two robots pointed their arm cannons at Big Mac, ready to knock him out, suddenly, the robots got wrapped up by two long metal tentacles and lifted in the air. Electricity surged through the tentacles and into the robots causing them to explode, they were then tossed aside and left in a heap. Big Mac just watched in astonishment at the feat. Big mac then heard something familiar. “YEEEEHAW, that’ll learn ya not ta mess with the apple family!” Big mac followed the tentacles and found his little sister standing before him wearing some kind of metal suit with a visor. “Applejack, is that you, what in tarnation are you wearing, and what were those things, and how did you-“ Applejack cut him off. “Sorry big brother, not much time to explain, is every pony safe?” Big mac nodded, still confused as to what was going on. “They’re inside the house.” “Great, you get inside too, I’ll deal with these metal varmints myself, I promise to explain everythin later when things are settled.” Big Mac was reluctant to do as she asked, but she seemed to know what was going on, so he did as she told. “All right then, you be careful now and don’t get hurt.” Applejack then went to work on the rest of the robots that were invading her farm. There wasn’t that many since her farm was away from Ponyville a ways. Back in Ponyville, Fluttershy was up on a rooftop in the same area as Steele Mane providing support as she got the hang of her sniper gun. It was long, rectangular, and made up of three sections, one smaller than the last, with each shot she took, the smaller section that fired the rounds would retract quickly into the section it was attached to and slide back out. Each round was a small white ball of energy that easily pierced through the metal body of the robots. Steele Mane was down on the ground blasting the robots with ease with his laser cannons, he started to fly around to doge some of their blasts, he came crashing down on top of one, hooves first, smashing the head and crushing it down to the ground, then he focused his lasers above his back and created a large concentrated energy ball and fired it into a group of robots in front of him, obliterating the group. In another section of the city, Twilight Sparkle was flying around in her suit to make herself a harder target for the robots, despite the fact that she did have a protective shielding like Steele Mane said she had in her suit. Her wings were similar to Steele’s, but hers was a purple color. She zipped around the area blasting the bots with her EMP guns, causing them to flail a bit before falling to the ground destroyed. Pinkie was busy having fun as she kept blasting bots, flying all over the place. “Whee, this is fun, you can’t hit me, you can’t hit me!” She taunted them as she flew around them and stuck her tongue at them. She fired her bazooka at a group and with a loud boom and a cloud of dust that followed, the robots were history. Rainbow Dash was also having a blast, figuratively and literally, as she flew around her area blasting enemies with her thunder cannon. Just before she took a shot, the two rods on the top of her cannon would have electricity flow between the tops of them, since she was in combat, the electricity stayed that way as she flew. Each bot she hit with her cannon was vaporized instantly. “This is way too cool, these bots don’t stand a chance against us.” Rarity was busy in her section using her energy star launchers, the energy stars she fired were a violet color and had four points, as they flew through the air, they spun quickly. They sliced through one bot and stuck to another behind it, the star would then explode and destroy the bot. She was easily handling her section as she was able to fire her stars rapidly, she would jump side to side as she fired to avoid enemy fire. Thanks to the suits Steele Mane gave them, the girls were making quick work of the robots invading their town. Rarity gave a confident smile as she just finished off the last of the robots in her section of town. “Well, that takes care of that. Steele Mane, can you hear me?” She decided to try the communications to inform Steele Mane that she had finished with her section of the town. “Yes Rarity, I hear you, what’s up?” “I believe I’m done clearing out the robots in my section, how are you doing?” “That’s great news Rarity, I still have quite a few to deal with here though, but Fluttershy is proving to be quite helpful as a sniper. Why don’t you go help one of the others clear out there section?” “All right then, see you later.” After Rarity finished talking to Steele Mane, she was about to take off to help one of her friends, when suddenly, a large shadow started to loom over her from behind. She turned around to see the source with a worried look on her face. She looked up at a terrible site. “Oh dear.” She stood before a large robot that looked like a gorilla with a pair of sharp menacing red glowing eyes, it was easily as tall as one of the buildings in Ponyville. It reared up, throwing its large arms and making fists as it let out a loud mechanical roar. Rarity aimed her star launchers at the massive robot beast and fired numerous shots at it. The stars stuck to its chest in multiple places and exploded. They didn’t appear to have any effect as no clear damage was visible. Rarity got really scared now. She tried to contact Steele Mane again. “Steele Mane, I hate to be a bother, but I have a serious problem here!” Steele Mane responded as he continued to fight off the robots in his section. “What is it Rarity?” He could hear the worry in her voice. The robot gorilla raised one of its fists and slammed it down on Rarity, she managed to jump out of the way in time as she galloped a ways and took to the air. Her wings were a violet color as well. She tried circling around the beast while blasting it as she spoke to Steele Mane. “There’s a giant gorilla like robot here and my weapons don’t seem to have any effect on it, I need help!” Steele Mane became worried for his friend. “Hold on Rarity, I’ll be there as soon as I can!” There were only a few robots left, but he needed to finish them off. “Fluttershy, can you hear me?” Fluttershy answered. “Yes Steele Mane.” “Fluttershy, I want you to go help one of the others while I finish off these robots and go help Rarity.” “Ok Steele Mane, you be careful.” “You too Fluttershy, and good luck.” Fluttershy activated the tracking system in her suit to find the closest pony. “Let’s see, it looks like Twilight is the closest.” Fluttershy then flew off in the direction of Twilight to act as her support. Steele Mane got an Idea on how to finish off the rest of the robots around him. He retracted one of his lasers and started spinning the other around. He started to fire a continuous beam, it sliced through the robots and destroyed them. Steele Mane was now free to help rarity. He extended his wings and took off in her direction as fast as he could. Rarity was flying around the giant bot frantically as she fired, trying to find a weak point somewhere in the robot’s body. Even though she was flying too fast for it to hit her with its arms, she was still scared as her weapons seemed to have no effect. Rarity finally saw Steele Mane flying towards her. “Oh thank heavens.” Steele Mane called out to her. “Rarity, get behind me!” She quickly flew over to him just as the gorilla bot took another swing at her and missed. She got behind Steele Mane as he brought out his lasers. He pointed them down at an angle away from the robot. He started to fire a continuous beam as he made them cross, they crossed through the giant robot making an x through its chest, it reared up and roared as if in pain then suddenly froze as its hands were raised. Its eyes started to flicker from red to black as the roar started to get weaker, finally, it’s eyes went black. Steele Mane charged at it and struck it at where the large x he made on the beasts chest, causing it to fall into four pieces. Steele Mane and Rarity landed a few feet away from where the robot now lay. Rarity felt relief that that ordeal was over and retracted her weapons. “Good heavens, thank goodness that thing is down, what was that?” Steele Mane answered. “That was a juggernaut, one of Malcom’s tougher robots. Unfortunately, he has others like this one, other’s that may be more difficult to deal with.” Rarity got worried at this statement. “Well, what good are my weapons if I can’t even harm that thing?” Steele Mane had a thought on that. “I think I was in a bit of a rush to finish yours, it was the last one I was working on, perhaps I need to recalibrate it. Could you turn around please?” Rarity was a little confused at his request. “Um, all right, what are you going to do?” “I’m going to see if I can boost your weapons power.” Rarity then turned around so her right side was facing Steele Mane. He opened a panel on his chest and produced a metal cable, he snaked it to the back of Rarity’s suit where another panel opened up to reveal a hole for the cable to connect to. He hooked himself up to Rarity’s suit and began to scan it. “Let’s see here, aha, there’s the problem, one moment, calibrating, and….done. There you go, you’re all set.” Steele Mane then retracted his cable and the panel on Rarity’s suit closed. Rarity then turned to Steele. “So, what did you do, will my weapons work better now?” Steele Mane gave her a smile as he responded. “You bet, sorry about that, it was kind of my fault that your weapons didn’t work on that thing, I was in a bit of a rush on it.” Rarity just smiled back. “That’s quit all right dear, it all worked out in the end.” “What in tarnation happened here?” Applejack had returned from her farm to help out in Ponyville when she came upon the scene of the giant robot now in four pieces. Steele Mane came forward to explain. “This giant robot is called a juggernaut, it’s one of Malcom’s stronger robots. He does have others like this one.” “Well that can’t be good, but it looks like ya’ll didn’t have any trouble dealin with it.” “No, I was able to destroy it easily. Anyway, how is your family, is every pony safe at your farm?” “Darn tootin, thanks ta this here suit ya’ll made fer me, I wa able ta take care o things and show them metal varmints who’s boss.” Steele Mane smiled at the news. “I am glad to hear it, I will contact the others and see how they are doing. Twilight, how are things on your end? Have you cleared out all the robots in your section?” Twilight responded over the communicator. “Sure did, me and Fluttershy just cleared out the last of them.” “Glad to hear it, Pinkie, what about you?” Pinkie answered. “All clear on this end, those meanie bots are scrap.” “Rainbow Dash, what about you?” Rainbow then came in. “All clear here, those drones don’t know what hit em’.” “All right then, Applejack just got back from her farm, her family is safe, I’m also with Rarity, let’s all meet back at the center of town to regroup.” Steele Mane led Rarity and Applejack back to the center of town to meet up with the others. With the battle in Ponyville now over, the ponies that were hiding in their houses saw it was now safe to come out. The group met up in front of Ponyville town hall to think of their next move. Steele Mane spoke up first. “I’m glad to see you all safe, looks like your combat armor worked out better than I hoped.” Rainbow Dash agreed. “Hay yeah it did, those bots didn’t stand a chance.” Twilight then asked, “So what do we do now, I’m sure we should inform Celestia about this.” Before he could answer, they all heard what sounded like heavy footsteps coming their way, they turned around and it was another juggernaut. It stomped closer and all the ponies that came out went back into their houses. Rainbow just smiled. “I got this.” She stepped forward and brought out her lightning cannon, ready to blast the beast. But before she could, a large metal hammer came crashing down on its head, smashing it and sending a large surge of electricity through its body. The giant robots arms blew off and the beast collapsed backwards. The group watched as the hammer levitated back to its weilder. Nightshade Smoke flew over the downed robot and made his way to the group. Rainbow was disappointed that she didn’t get to blast the bot herself. “Hey, I was about to do that!” Nightshade Smoke just looked at her and eyed her getup, then noticed the others as well. Twilight came forward to address him. “Nightshade Smoke, what are you doing here?” Nightshade eyed her for a moment before responding. “Twilight, what are you wearing, what are all of you wearing? What is going on here?” Twilight began to explain. “Well, you see, these things are called combat suits, our new friend Steele Mane made them for us so we could fight these robots that attacked Ponyville.” Nightshade then perked up when he heard Steele Mane. “Wait, Steele Mane? Celestia sent me to find him, I am to follow him since he is somehow the one that knows what’s going on here. Where is he?” The girls then stepped aside to let Steele Mane meet Nightshade Smoke. Twilight did introductions. “Nightshade Smoke, this is Steele Mane. Steele Mane, this is Nightshade Smoke, he was originally sent her from a country called the fringe to assassinate Celestia, but in his travels, he learned how kind and wonderful she is, so when he got here, he pledged his loyalty to her.” Steele Mane said his greetings. “It is nice to meet you Nightshade Smoke.” Nightshade Smoke looked at him curiously. “But, he looks just like one of those things, why is he helping you Twilight?” Twilight gave a sheepish grin. “Well, it’s kind of a long story.” “A story I would like to hear.” A voice out of nowhere responded. The girls, Nightshade Smoke and Steele Mane looked around for the voice. Rainbow Dash was the first to find it. “Up there on the roof of the town hall.” The group looked up and, on the roof of town hall, was a pony with a dark grey coat with patches of light grey. The figure jumped down in front of them. This figure looked so menacing, even Pinkie couldn’t find it in herself to greet him. Nightshade smoke was the one to ask this new figure for an identity. “Who are you?” The pony responded. “My name is Chaos Control, I am a powerful pony who’s job it is to keep the balance of order in the world. Obviously, these things that appeared are the cause for the balance to be out of whack, which is why I am here. I was listening in on your conversation with the princesses and heard that this Steele Mane can enlighten us on what is going on here.” Nightshade Smoke didn’t believe him. “Oh really, and you expect me to believe that an earth pony can help in a fight against these metal monsters? Sorry, but I don’t buy it.” Chaos Control responded. “Believe what you will, but the fact of the matter remains, I will do what I can to fight these things. Like it or not, I will be joining the fight.” “I’d like to help too,…if that’s all right.” Another voice from nowhere came out. This time it was from the shadow of a nearby ally way. The group all looked to the source, a Pegasus with a chain around his hoof and a blade at the end emerged from the shadow. Nightshade Smoke asked this one for an identity too. “And who are you?” “My name is Cameron, I want to help because my home, Cloudsdale, has fallen under the control of these monsters.” Rainbow became panicked at this. “WHAT, NO, not cloudsdale, we gotta go save it!” Nightshade Smoke spoke to try and calm her down. “Easy Rainbow Dash, I know how you feel, but there are still questions that need answering. Like how do we know this pony isn’t one of them, look at his face, those eyes look similar to those things.” Cameron got a little upset about this and tried to defend himself. “I’m, not one of them, I swear, my eyes are the result of a magic accident that I was involved in while trying to help a unicorn mare friend of mine, a spell she was trying imploded and made my eyes like this, part of my brain is also cybernetic like my eyes. I swear I am not working with them.” Nightshade Smoke continued with his questions. “ Well all right, but I’m keeping an eye on you, are you even any good with that weapon you have?” Cameron was very nervous with every ponies attention on him. “Well…yes….I am also good at being stealthy and quiet. I was able to take out a few of the robots at Cloudsdale, but there was just too many of them, I was sure to be found out sooner or later, so I left to see the princesses to see if they could help. I was there when you were talking with them too. So I followed you here to see this Steele Mane for myself as well, hoping he could help.” Nightshade Smoke spoke again. “All right then. Now Twilight, about your friend here that seems to have attracted so much attention, would you mind explaining where he came from, how it is he know what’s going on, and what in the name of Equestria you all are wearing.” Twilight began. “You may want to take a seat, it’s kind of a long story.” And so Twilight told the newcomers of how Steele Mane came here and how he knew what was happening. Back up on the space ship, Malcom was on the bridge watching as his drones worked. “D-17, give me a progress report, do I have control of all the cities in Equestria?” The drone to his left responded. “Negative sir, two cities are still free, the droids sent to attack Canterlot and Ponyville were all destroyed.” This made Malcom angry. “WHAT, WHAT HAPPENED, HOW DID THOSE STUPID DROIDS NOT MANAGE TO TAKE OVER SOME STUPID TOWNS FULL OF WEAK LITTLE PONIES!” “Reports indicate that in Canterlot, there were three ponies known as alicorns defending the city, and in Ponyville, reports indicat that six other ponies wearing strange armor were protecting the town next to Alpha-1.” This made him angrier, but he spoke through gritted teeth. “Alpha-1, that robot is starting to be a real thorn in my side. I’ll bet it was his stupid friends fighting with him in some new suits he made for them. I swear I will turn that defective hunk of junk into scrap if it’s the last thing I do. Is the test subject ready for deployment yet.” “Almost sir, a few more adjustments and it will be ready to go.” This made him a little less upset but he still spoke with some anger in his voice. “I just know those stupid ponies and that hunk of scrap is going to try and free the towns I took over. I will send my little surprise to them at the first town they come to.” Back in Ponyville, Twilight had just finished telling the new ponies about Steele Mane. “And that’s what is going on. Steele Mane is defecting against his creator for his friends and he made us these battle suits so we could fight.” Nightshade Smoke had heard enough. “I see, well, that is an interesting story, I still find it hard to believe that a magic accident gave a machine like him emotions, but the evidence speaks for itself. So Steele Mane, according to princess Celestia, I am at your command. I am to aid you and help you fight off this menace.” Steele Mane gave his thanks. “I am most grateful for your assistance. I am not sure how good of a leader I will be though, but I will try my best.” Chaos Control came forward as well. “You can count on me to help as well, it is my job to keep the balance in this world, and these robots are really messing it up.” Then Cameron spoke up. “I don’t know how much help I’ll be, but I would like to help and promise to do my best as well.” Steele Mane was amazed by all this support he was getting. “I don’t know what to say, I am truly grateful for all your support and belief in me. I swear I will do my best as well to help save this world and stop Malcom. Now I believe it would be prudent to first try and free the closest town from Maclom’s control.” Twilight spoke up with the answer. “That would be Appleloosa. I say we rest up first though and get ready to head out tomorrow.” Steele Mane agreed. “Indeed. Malcom’s drones were all using their stun blasters instead of lasers, which means he intends on turning all the ponies into slaves. The Appleloosa ponies will be fine until we can get there tomorrow.” Nightshade Smoke spoke up again. “Then it’s settled, tomorrow, we head to Appleloosa and save the ponies there first.” And so, a band of heroes has been formed to save Equestria. Let’s just hope they can handle whatever this special project Malcom has in store won’t be too difficult. AN: All right, time to give credit for the OC’s used in this story. First, Nightshade Smoke was submitted by Mr.Wiliams on fanfiction.net. Cameron was submitted by Dragon outcast on fanfiction.net. Chaos Control was submitted by chaotic pony on fimfiction.net. Hope your enjoying the story so far.