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// Tired of holding back 
// Story: The New Brotherhood of Darkness 
// by JeckParadox 
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	"This'll go well." Kazi whispered sarcastically. "Just think, we're plunging to our deaths in a universe we know nothing about, accompanied by a former psychopath, in order to find Makuta after we sent him here so we wouldn't have to find him!"
"Quiet Kazi, this is an important task. And Brutaka is to be treated with the respect an Order of Mata Nui member deserves. Mata Nui selected the six of you for this effort, and bestowed upon you the power that would be necessary."
"Shame Velika couldn't be here." Piruk said.
"We will not mention Velika." Axonn growled.
"Still sore about how he tried to kill you?" Piruk said to the gigantic silver titan.
"Yes."
"I think it more has to do with him having the mask of truth, and yet he didn't recognize Velika as a Great Being until it was too late." Balta teased.
"Just because you're Toa now doesn't mean you can all suddenly act arrogant." Axonn chided. "This is a serious mission, and I and Brutaka are your superiors, you will treat us with respect and focus on the situation at hand."
"Of course, Balta, Piruk, Kazi, apologize." Garan ordered. "You are Toa now, that doesn't put you on any higher of a station in regards to our two companions, but it does mean you have a more important duty to accomplish. Understand?"
Three mumbled apologies were said, but the drama was cut off as the last two members of their party arrived. "Dalu, Dakar, is the coast clear?"
The two new Toa climbed into the portal. "Kind of," Dalu answered hesitantly. "We found a village quite close, but the villagers were... strange. Quadrupedal, completely organic, about the size of a matoran. The way they're living in the village, acting together, each doing their own job. I think those rahi are actually this world's matoran."
"Do we make contact?" Balta asked. "We don't really know how far Makuta's influence has spread... they might report us to him..."
Dekar leaned on the side of the dimensional hole Brutaka had carved, "I didn't see any weapons. If need be we could just escape. They'd have no way of stopping us, the only danger would be them alerting Makuta."
Piruk sharpened his claws noisily. "Excuse me? Master Spy here? With the ability to disguise himself as anything he wants? I'll go down, try and talk to them for a while, and then I'll come back with any information we need."
"Good plan." Garan agreed. "But get back as soon as possible, don't ask about Makuta directly, just observe for now..."
"Understood." the Le-Toa's Kanohi mask of Illusion, the Great Mahiki, glowed a bright green, surrounding the toa with a shimmering light that left a green pony with a gray mane standing there. "I'll be back in less than an hour." he jumped out the portal as the other Toa watched carefully out of the hole. 
Brutaka growled. "We are wasting time here."
"Do you mean 'we' as in you, or 'we' as in 'we'?" Kazi asked, baiting him.
"We mean we as in we!"
The toa there blinked. "You know, I'm starting to miss Velika's riddles." Garan sighed.  

"Now... onto the next order of business... Nightmare Moon." Makuta said, going over his mental map. "She left the barrier with the Princess, and hasn't come back since... she lost to the Princess once before, correct?"
"Yes, she was banished to the moon for a thousand years, but she said that won't work any more."
"hm. We need to find her, Sombra, I'm going to teleport you into the smoke, be careful, and be stealthy.Try to find Nightmare and explain to her that I've found my true power. I'm going to conquer Canterlot, I'll check back in with you when I'm done." Sombra gaped at how casually Teridax said that. 
"W-when you're done?"
"Yes, Celestia's at the Northern front, and she probably doesn't know what happened yet, after all, her false Spirit won't be able to contact her." He stopped. "Sombra, how did you capture them the first time?"
"I managed to trap the Rainbow one separately from the others and used her as a hostage to make the others surrender."
"Well, try that again. Mobilize your forces in the city, but make Nightmare your top priority. After you find her start working on trapping those six. I understand your universe's... reluctance to kill. But it might be necessary to destroy their necklaces or at least incapacitate one of them. After all, without their unity their powers are useless."
"I'll try, Lord Makuta." Sombra said, bowing. Makuta raised a claw and teleported him. He then got up out of his throne, it crumbling behind him. He snapped his claws again and found himself in a garden, the castles of Canterlot towering over him. With a few beats of his wings he fluttered to the highest tower and phased through the wall, entering the tower. There was what appeared to be someone's room, a blue bed with star and moon designs covering the comforter, a telescope on a balcony opposite of the way he came in. A fairly typical room beside that.
He began to turn to shadow and slid under the door frame, finding two guards of a species he had never seen before. They had bat wings and draconic eyes. But he was able to bypass them quickly. 
He flew down the stairs and down through every nook and cranny of the castle. He came back to what appeared to be the courtroom. A unicorn in full purple armor stood in front of the biggest two thrones, and there were ponies in booths up and down both walls, squabbling and crying out. Roaring at each other, attempting to buy each other out. It was disgusting. An entire hall of corrupt Turaga.
He decided this was the best place to be. He didn't know which of them were necessary or not. And he supposed it didn't matter, considering he would conquer the universe. But still, keeping them all alive would be the easiest at the moment. He rose out of the shadow behind the thrones. The entire court was silenced by his appearance. He decided to take an appropriate note from Discord and reclined in both thrones at the same time. "Now then, I'm sure you all know who I am. Makuta Teridax, leader of the New Brotherhood. You were at war with us. I personally destroyed your entire first wave myself. And now I'm here, in your throne room, with all my powers restored and not to mention the powers I've ripped from that weakling Discord. Fighting against me will be futile." He bent down and looked into the shaking Lieutenant's eyes. "Understood?" He said slowly. The unicorn nodded once before falling to his knees. "Good. Now then, as your new King I will require a detailed log of all your battle plans up to this point, and that you give me the exact location of your Princess."
"N-never." A lone guard said, raising his spear. He didn't have time to scream before he was teleported above an ocean somewhere far away. 
"Wrong answer." He turned his head as a unicorn stallion got up from his chair, huffing and puffing out his chest he took a step toward Makuta. 
"I'm Prince Blueblood. Celestia's heir, and her nephew. I'm afraid that I am in command. Now then, begone demon!" he shouted, pulling out a strange rune scribbled on a piece of paper. He lit it with his horn, and a flash of light fired out. Makuta raised a finger, bored, and struck the slowly charging rune with a lightning bolt. Blueblood looked from the ash up to the serpentine mechanical beast, and then back down. "How about we become partners?" He asked hopefully. 
Makuta smiled and sat correctly in Celestia's throne. "You know, why not? Actually, I have a better idea. All the nobles here can fight, and the winner will be the new Lord over my formerly Equestrian territory. I don't need all of it after all, I'll control a universe soon." 
He waited as the nobles looked at him with shock and fear, but surely, slowly, they were glancing at each other, first to their rivals, then to their superiors, then to their relatives. In less than three minutes the entire court was a brawl as unicorns blasted pegasi out of the sky and Earth ponies wrestled anyone they could reach into submission. It was hilarious to the dark lord, who began a slow hearty laugh. He slid out of his chair and walked through the madness. "I'll be back in ten minutes, I'm off to conquer the rest of Canterlot."
He closed the doors behind him, increasing their density and making them incredibly heavy. Far too heavy for any of the nobles to escape. He knocked out two guards and then began flying down the halls, paralyzing or simply knocking guards through the walls. He fired out two bolts of lightning into the sky, which quickly expanded and fanned out into hundreds of strikes that burned flags across the city. He walked to a courtyard and stomped on an image of the sun, it shattered beneath his feet. Soon there were guards coming down every street, rushing him from every direction. "Unicorns! At my signal!" A lieutenant called. He stomped his hoof and a hundred beams fired from every direction at him. 
He used the Makuta power of dodge and his body automatically avoided every beam. "Is that all?" Makuta asked. He pointed directly upward, the ponies there looked up in fear of what attack he would use now, but they didn't have time to react as Makuta jerked around at incredible speed, his arm bending and stretching with the velocity like rubber. He spun in a circle, his improbably stretching arm knocking the entire circle of guards off their feet. He then forced his palm forward in a quick motion, a sonic blast firing off of it and knocking about twenty Pegasi out of the sky. He then finished the combo by putting a finger to his forehead and firing a burst of psionic waves, using the power of Confusion on the ponies for almost a mile around, leaving them all babbling mindlessly and looking off in every other direction. 
He fluttered high above the battlefield and looked over the city, now officially in a panic. He shouted with the strength to shatter rock, and was heard across the entire city. "Ponies of Canterlot. Bow to your new King! Makuta Teridax of the New Brotherhood of Darkness!" He created a gigantic thunderstorm behind him for dramatic effect.

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Piruk trotted into town, looking around at the immaterial buildings, there was so little steel in the village. The ponies there were very kind and trusting to one of their own, and quickly guided him to the town hall. There he learned quite a bit, if even just from the words the ponies who worked there said to each other. There was a war on, against something called... the Brotherhood. 
Nightmare Moon.
King Sombra.
....and Makuta Teridax.
Piruk sighed as he made his way back to the portal. He quickly relayed what he had learned. 
"The creatures here are at war with a country to the North, one run by a 'Brotherhood'. And, Makuta, if he's not leading the Brotherhood, is at least definitely part of it. The creatures here, called ponies. Are our allies. Right now their leaders have gone North to help with the war."
"Good. Then we should reveal ourselves." Axonn decided. "We need to locate Teridax immediately, and having as much help as possible can't hurt."
"What good will a bunch of Matoran do us?" Brutaka said, becoming irritated with the strain of holding up the dimensional barrier. 
"They aren't matoran, I was just saying they acted like them." Piruk corrected. "There are a few differences. About a third of them have wings, and could fly, and I saw a few with horns that could levitate things without kanokas. They could actually be useful."
"Well then," Garan got up. "Toa, with me. We're going to go meet the village's Turaga. Piruk, can you cover all of us?"
"...Definitely not Axonn and Brutaka... maybe three others beside me. I'm not really used to my Kanohi yet."
Garan nodded. "Kazi, Dekar, you both stay here with Brutaka and Axonn. Dalu, Balta, you're with me and Piruk." The five Toa saluted. The four chosen jumped out of the portal, turning invisible as they came under Piruk's kanohi's green glow. Piruk himself became a pony, and moved forward toward the center of town.
The other three watched the ponies curiously. Apparently a war was on, but the town was joyful and prosperous. Like Rahi they ate fruit and plants, which they bought and sold like tools. They spoke to each other softly, and several were singing or humming joyful tunes as they went on their way. It was some strange kind of paradise. "What kind of village do you think this is?" Balta asked Garan. "Ce-matoran? They're lifting things with their minds, after all. Or maybe Bo-matoran. There's plants everywhere, and I swear I saw one of draw a flower from the ground with just their leg."
"Quiet Balta." Garan whispered. "Piruk's concentrating, and I don't know how much of us they can hear outside the illusion."
"The answer is all of it. So please be quiet." Piruk whispered. He smiled at a pony who greeted him as he passed. "They're pretty friendly here. And really happy." Piruk stopped suddenly, and the three Toa in a line behind him bumped into each other, but careful not to disturb Piruk and his illusion. "Except those three." He looked at three fillies as they walked forward, one white, one orange, one yellow. 
He bent down, hesitating. There was something off here. For one thing, those three were notably smaller than all the others, and they were the only ones without grins. "What's wrong?" He asked, hoping that the question was innocent enough.
The yellow one looked at him for a second before sighing. "My big sis went North to help in the North."
"So did mine." The white one sighed. 
"And so did mine." the orange one sighed, the other two raised an eyebrow at her. "What? Rainbow Dash said she was my unofficial sister now!"
The other two shrugged. Piruk nodded, suddenly very grim and serious. "War is a terrible thing, I'll pray for your family's safety." They raised eyebrows at the strange phrasing of it, but accepted his condolence. 
"Can we move forward again?" Balta whispered as quiet as he could.
Piruk gave no signal that he heard him, but moved forward normally to the town hall. As soon as they were inside Piruk looked to Garan, invisible to the other ponies inside. "Over the exit, we could really scare them." Piruk warned. Garan nodded and motioned for Dalu to go to the other window and Balta to go to the closest. He himself readied to jump backward to block the door. 
"Excuse me, government workers." Piruk started.
"Yes, do you need anything mr....?"
"Piruk. Now, I'm about to show you all something that might scare you, but know that you aren't in any danger." He waited for at least one of them to nod before he motioned for the three Toa to jump to their positions.
The six ponies in the room simultaneously screamed, and Dalu sighed. "We are not here to harm you-"
"You're monsters! Just like that thing from a little while ago!" 
"Protect the Mayor!" One of the ponies yelled, rushing up a staircase. Piruk glanced to Garan, who motioned for him to come closer. 
"I'll see their... mayor? You guard the door."
"Yes sir."
Garan ran up the stairway, easily jumping five to six steps in one jump, he bypassed the galloping pony and slid up to the door, standing between the pony and the door. The pony looked up in fear and moved to the side, bluffing. Seeing Garan move to the side to block him, the pony decided to risk it, and dodged to Garan's other side. Garan caught the pony's chest in his hand, lifting the pony in the air with one arm. 
"Please put me down." The pony whispered. 
"of course." Garan lightly set him down and motioned for him to open the door. But Mayor Mare stood up and opened the door herself. 
"What's going on? I heard screamiiiiiiiiiiiii......" Her voice faded as she took in the gigantic black mechanical bipedal figure. "Oh my Celestia, it's another one!" She yelled, slamming the door. Garan put out an arm to catch the door and hold it open, but the force of the mayor's push made Garan's arm go through the door. 
"Darn it." Garan sighed, pulling his arm back through the hole and looking at the door knob. He put a hand around it and twisted gently, then slowly pushed the door forward. "I need to speak with you, I will not harm you. You see, I am a Toa hero, a warrior of the Great Spirit come to-"
"You're one of Makuta's friends! Aren't you?! I know what you did at the Library and in Canterlot, you're the ones who started this whole thing with the Crystal Empire!"
"Makuta? Where is he? We are here to bring that criminal to justice."
Mayor Mare blinked. "I... what?"
"We are Toa heroes from the Matoran Universe." Garan began, bowing on one knee. "We, perhaps wrongly, attempted to imprison Makuta in another dimension to ensure he would never escape."
"And... he escaped?"
"No. This universe was the Prison. We didn't... well, we were desperate and we didn't check if this universe was populated or not. But we are here to make sure he never makes trouble in this world, or ours."
"You... you're going to bring him back to your world?"
"No. But we are going to seal him permanently in stone forever." He raised an eyebrow and Mayor Mare rolled her eyes. "What?"
"A lot of things 'permanently sealed in stone forever' have been getting free nowadays."
The Toa blinked. "What?"
"Mayor... what... should I do?" The shivering stallion managed. 
"We need to contact the Princess!" Mayor Mare began. "To the library!"

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Twilight was unsure of what had just happened. Sombra and... that monster... had just gone. She turned to Fluttershy who was obsessing over the new worm that creature created, the one with Discord's horns. 
"Oh Discord, I'm so sorry... please speak to me." The worm made noises, but it was indecipherable. "Why can't I understand you? I can understand the other animals all fine..." Fluttershy was on the verge of tears. But she managed to hold it in and put Discord on her back. "Now hold on tight. I don't want you getting lost..."
The seven ponies climbed their way back to the surface and looked around at the streets that had become familiar with their consistent visits. But now the city was darker, the ponies fearful and attempting to avoid the main streets, like it was when the city first appeared. 
One of the crystal ponies noticed the seven of them coming up and stopped in place. Twilight stopped at the same moment and the two mares locked eyes. Twilight slowly shook her head 'no, don't do it'. But the shivering Crystal Pony gulped and shouted at the top of her lungs "GUARDS!" 
"Run!" Twilight shouted, galloping through the streets, Captain Shield Wax and the other five mares following behind her. 
"We need to get to the border... Sombra and the rest of the brotherhood might not be here, but right now the entire Crystal Empire is our enemy."
Shield Wax slid to a halt, the mares stopping around him. "What's going on? We need to get going," Rainbow Dash grunted impatiently. 
"Captain Shining Armor." Shield Wax whispered. "And his wife, if we found them and let them escape... they could rallie the Crystal Ponies back to their sides, then we could work on taking down the barrier..."
"Of course! Shiny and Cadence!" Twilight bopped herself on the forehead. "That's a great plan... but where would they be held?"

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Makuta walked back to the doorway, he smiled that it had not been damaged, but he could tell that there was efforts to break out. He opened the door and turned it's density back to normal. He gave a wide grin at the floor littered with beaten and unconscious nobles. Standing in the center, huffing and puffing, stood Blueblood, covered in sweat and attempting over and over to move his mane back out of his eyes. 
"What's your name, my new servant?"
"P-prince... blueblood... the magnificent." He breathed out, exhausted. An older earth pony got up, but Blueblood screamed and levitated a throne, throwing it at the stallion, sending him back to the ground. 
Makuta grinned, placing a claw on Blueblood's chest. "You're savage, ambitious, and strong... alright, I declare you governor of Equestria with my authority as it's King."
"Th-thank you... er... my King.." Blueblood said slowly... "now then, I think I shall retire for the nigh-" He slumped forward, unconscious and exhausted. 
"You ponies tire easily don't you..." He made several steps forward and grabbed both Celestia and Luna's thrones, crumpling them together into a mass of ripped cushion, wood, and steel. A burst of dark light came from his palms and sank into the crumpled mass of former throne, and it became a liquid mass. He threw it onto the ground where the two chairs used to stand and formed it into one gigantic throne appropriate to his stature. "Guards!" He called. 
Two beat up and despaired guards walked into the room. One of them looked Makut in the eye and grimaced. He pulled out his spear. "I serve Celestia! Not you!" He charged bravely. 
"You know... I'm tired of all this." Makuta whispered. "Simple villagers, rahi-like creatures with absolutely no armor..." He shot a claw forward like rubber, stabbing through the charging guard and into the ground below. "I have decided I'm not going to hold back any more." His claw retracted and the white pegasus fell forward. 
dead.
The other guard looked with horror at his partner. "Now then." Teridax almost whispered. "Get these ponies out of my throne room. Every single body that is still here after a half hour will become a corpse. Get to it." The other guard gave a slight nod and ran off as fast as he could to find more help. Teridax snapped his claw and Blueblood's k-oed body was teleported outside. 
He had won the fight among the nobles, he deserved at least to be spared from his clean up if the guards weren't fast enough. Ponies flooded the room minutes later, rushing to get the beaten nobles out as fast as possible to spare them from Makuta's threat. A mare let out a gasp that was audible throughout the room, despite the work going on, when she found the dead guard. 
Makuta frowned and shot his head forward like a snake from his neck, his eyes looking into hers. "First time you've seen death my little pony? You won't have to see much, I'll be a good ruler. But just know, and tell as many others as your can, that i'm not afraid of killing. Your lives mean little to me. Even less so considering how easily you can die. Spread the word, my faithful citizen."
She nodded, and the room quickly got back to work as Makuta's head slithered back to his body. 

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Sombra flew back through the smoke, making sure that all the tunnels made by the Equestrians were completely filled in. He flew back to the city and entered the force field that kept the winter cold outside. He was worried about Windigoes. They absolutely loved war, and he definitely didn't need more snow around.
He smiled at his guards surrounding the seven Equestrians. He appeared in a mass of smoke and stopped in front of them. His eyes shifted from one pony to the other, before two gigantic hooves of black smoke came out of the pillar. His face sunk into the blackness as a colossal smoke effigy of King Sombra formed, towering over the seven ponies. "Which to get first..." his voice resounded. The pony made of darkness turned toward Rainbow Dash. "You were the weak link the last two times we fought, why change anything now?"
"I was the weak link?!" Rainbow growled, surprised. 
"Well Darling, you were the first to get captured..." Rarity offered.
"And you lost when you were with the Wonderbolts and I had to heal you..." Twilight said hesitantly. 
Rainbow puffed out her chest and had a determined expression. "Well this time'll be different!" She declared, shooting straight upward. 
The giant shadow Sombra followed her rainbow trail with his head, but quickly turned back down to the ponies below. "Well, that got her out of the way, Earth Ponies first!" He growled, bending down like a predator and jumping forward, his dark gigantic maw wide open. Applejack and Pinkie both gave a yell as Sombra swallowed them. 
"He just ate Applejack!" Rarity screamed. 
"Pinkie!" Twilight yelled, getting into an offensive stance and painfully charging her horn. But she stopped when the giant Sombra dispersed, two cages made of swirling dark crystal floating above him. Inside both were an unconscious and scared-looking mare. 
And around his neck the elements of honesty and laughter. "Well, that worked perfectly! It doesn't matter what happens to the rest of you now that I have these two, but..." He stopped dramatically, sneering down at the scared mares. His cape billowed and a lightning flash behind him lit up his silhouette. Fluttershy fainted. "Better safe than sorry." He said grimly. He stomped a hoof and black spikes surrounded the rest of them, shooting upward and encasing Twilight and Rarity's horns, and covering a fainted Fluttershy's wings with dark crystal. 
He looked down at his prisoners. At the elements around his neck, at his loyal troops surrounding them. He had won, again! And this time he would keep winning! He was a real evil overlord now. He could feel it. When they looked up at him with fear he felt proud of a job well done, but none of the dread of what he was doing. He did it! He did it!
The large Kraata on Fluttershy's back jumped upward and fired a ball of darkness at his face. "Oh Celestia I'm blind!" He shouted, twirling around and pounding on his face to get the immaterial solid dark off his head. 
"Incoming!" A voice screamed from above. Sombra looked up, and the darkness melted away from the gigantic burst of multi-colored rainbow light exploding in every direction. And the pegasus mare firing down at him faster than the speed of sound. 
"Mommy." Sombra said the moment before Rainbow's hoof collided with his horn. 

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Princess Celestia and Luna stood together, looking over the hundreds of tents that had been assembled for the war. Already the darkness was becoming immune to their spells. Celestia frowned. It had been dumb luck the last time. Or perhaps it was Sombra's overconfidence. But she and Luna flew above his smoke a thousand years ago, and landed at the top of the dome protecting the Crystal Empire. After that it was short work before they broke through the shield, and used the elements to try and banish him to the sun. But he escaped, transforming himself into a shadow. So the last thing they did was seal him into the ice. 
A last minute-spell from Sombra of course hid away the city for a thousand years. 
And now, less than two years since it came back it was at war again. 
"Celestia... I don't know how we're going to do it this time.." Luna said sadly, she tried not looking, but her eyes shifted to her missing wing. Celestia nodded, looking up to her broken horn. It was lucky that she had already told everypony that the sun was going to be in the same place for the next few days. It would give Luna the chance to restore her energy, and for Celestia to eventually grow back her horn. 
But it would have to be quick. Griffia, Saddle Arabia, Zebrica, and a multitude of other countries far to the south or on the other side of the planet of Equestria were shrouded in darkness for many more hours than was expected. 
She frowned at the thousands of streams that were crisscrossing the camps, turning what was a day ago a tundra into a marsh from the unnaturally prolonged summer day. 
Sadly, the smoke wasn't clearing in the slightest. If she had her magic she could have probably burned her way through, or Luna could have, if she wasn't in so much pain or so exhausted. A green fire appeared in front of her as she frowned. Spike knew that she was in the middle of a war. 
She opened the scroll and was surprised by the message to say the least.
Dear Princess Celestia, this is Mayor Mare, Mayor of the town of Ponyville!
Anyway, I apologize for bothering you, but we've come across something that might greatly effect the progress of the war against the brotherhood. Eight warriors from Makuta Teridax's world have come looking for him, and apparently they have a way to stop him. Sealing him in an alien substance known as 'protodermis'. Now, I have no idea what protodermis is, or whether to trust them, but they seem to hate Makuta, and are law keepers in their world. They apparently sent Makuta here, another world, as a way of banishing him. But as soon as they found out what he was doing here they came to stop him. Or something along those lines. They are beings similar to Makuta, (they don't like being compared to him by the way), with strange powers and mechanical bodies. They call themselves 'towah heroes." Anyway, they're here in Ponyville, so you might want to contact somebody and have them sent up their. 
Mayor Mare, mayor of Ponyville, it's an honor to write to you.  
Celestia incinerated the message and frowned. "So... it's those thing's faults..."
"Sister, do not act hastily, their help might be beneficial, or even key, to defeating Sombra and the monster."
Celestia nodded. She pulled out her own message, giving instructions for Spike to send it from her to Canterlot. Her reserve guards would take the 'towah heroes' to the front, and then Celestia would question them herself. 

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A message appeared in green flame next to the lieutenant's hospital bed, and a nurse picked it up, seeing the golden hoof mark on the seal, a message from the Princess!
She opened it, not caring if she was breaking the law, it was an emergency! She read through the message. There were things in Ponyville capable of sealing Makuta!
She hid the message and spoke with a friend, telling her to bring it to his friend. A weatherpony. The weatherpony flew out on his usual round, surprisingly not disturbed by the new leadership, and then started down the mountain. 
He stopped by the local weather chief's house. Belonging to a 'Rainbow Dash'. She wasn't home, so he decided to fly to the mayor's office. That was when he saw them. 
Black and silver, blue and iron, red and gold, green and silver, gold and black, white and blue. The six beings stood taller than Celestia. They were mechanical like Makuta... but the way they held themselves, he could tell they had power, but they didn't intimidate. They had muscle underneath, instead of the cold soul underneath the shifting black plates that Makuta had. They spoke to each other, their eyes were just as alien, but they were kind and determined. They carried strange tools and weapons, but... it was like that they were empty. Like the warriors had to give their tool the power to hurt before it could become a weapon.
And the other two... they were almost twice as tall as the other six, they were each in leagues of their own. Like night and day. One was clad in gold and blue. With red eyes that burned with determination and vengeance. One was clad in silver and red, with cool green eyes that showed strength and intelligence. The gold one held a silver double blade as tall as Celestia, and it shown with a blue ethereal light. The silver one held a gigantic axe that glowed with golden light. 
He fluttered down to them, and he shivered as every eye there turned to him. He hesitantly pulled out a scroll. 
"Th-th Princess Celestia sent a message to Canterlot..." He pointed toward the city on the mountain. "...Sh-she thinks that the one you're looking for, Makuta, is at the North front, but he's really in Canterlot! Right now! And he's attacking ponies and scaring everypony and..."
The giant with the axe kneeled forward. "Thank you." He said simply. His steel mask bent around his mouth. It was strange to watch, but the voice was deep and soothing. 
"The message says.. that you can beat him... right?"
The blue and iron one stepped forward. "Don't worry. We are going to defeat him. Or we will die to the last trying." She assured.