"Do you give up yet?" Zangief asked with a laugh at the small, rainbow Pegasus that was trying with all of her might to get out of the pair of legs that could be mistaken for tree trunks that were crushing her midsection. "Come now Dash, did you really think that I would not learn anything from our last fight? You cannot use that annoying speed if you cannot move."
"Just...going...easy on you!" Dash gasps out as she struggled with all of her might to escape a thin waistline. Her wings beat with the speeds of a small hurricane, but Zangief laughed the effort off as he rested on the ground with his head held up in his palm.
"Well this must be embarrassing for you," Chrysalis said with a slightly violent jab into Celestia's ribs, getting a small look from the princess of the sun. "Not only is your Element of Harmony losing in front of the entire town again, but this time she's not even getting a chance to fight back. I wonder why I had so much trouble dealing with them the last time I invaded?"
"Because this is nothing more than a one on one fight whereas we beat you as a team! Not to mention your black heart could never stand up to the power of friendship!" Twilight spoke up to defend her teachers honor, but all her words did was garner a maniacal laugh from the queen.
"Be careful with your words Twilight or I'll ask Zangief to spin his way back in time and make sure that you and Celestia never meet." Chrysalis could see the skepticism in Twilight's eyes about her statement, but then with a delicious smile Chrysalis saw the princess of friendships eyes glance quick over at Zangief and for a moment she questioned whether he could or not.
"Hey, what's that?" Rainbow Dash wheezed out to Zangief as she pointed off into the distance, but with another hearty laugh Zangief tightened his things to keep the Pegasus pinned.
"Do you take me for a fool, sparrow? I would not fall for such an obvious trick!" Zangief laughed.
"Fine, I guess you don't want to fight a three headed bear," Rainbow Dash shrugged and almost immediately felt the pressure leave her midsection.
"Where is that bear?! Come and face me!" Zangief roared as he shot to his feet with both of his arms outstretched, looking around with a fire in his eyes for the new foe. It was only after he heard Chrysalis curse at him that he realized what had happened and in the very next instance he felt two hooves drive themselves into his head, slamming his bearded face into the soft dirt. Dash began to jump up and down on the back of Zangief's head while Chrysalis let out a groan to the sky loud enough to wake her daughter.
"What Zangief do this time?" Insectum sleepily mumbled as she lifted her head towards where the fight was happening and blinked the sleep out of her eyes when she saw what was going on. "Zangief do something stupid again mom?"
"You have no idea." Despite the sight of a Pegasus jumping up and down on the back of a human that was as tall as most bears, Chrysalis's focus was taken away from the fight as she spotted a small purple and green reptile running towards them with a letter clutched in his claws so tightly that it was practically folded in half. "Twilight, you need to teach your pets to stay at home. Here comes one of them now."
Twilight skipped on chewing out Chrysalis for her words and opted instead to snatch the letter from Spike's claws with her magic, leaving the exhausted dragon to collapse onto the ground as he tried to regain his breath. Her eyes quickly glanced over letters that were written with haste before the letter was in Celestia's clutches and the princess of the sun felt her heart go cold as she looked at Chrysalis with fear.
"It's Tenna. He and his army is attacking the hive. Luna needs help."
"WHAT?!" Zangief roared as his head burst out of the dirt and hurled Rainbow Dash through a building that had gotten front row seats to the fight and was now paying for it. He raced over to the group and accidentally slammed his hips into Celestia as he snatched the letter out of her magic, hurling the princess of the sun and getting an ear splitting shriek from Twilight as Celestia landed in a pool of mud. "Let me see that letter!...Oh right, I cannot read pony. Chrysalis, is what she says true?" Zangief asked as he nearly punched Chrysalis in the face giving the letter to her.
"Dammit all Tenna, I'll tear you limb from limb!" Chrysalis roared with an unholy fury as she skimmed over the letter. She then took to the skies to fly back to her nation, but was stopped when Celestia grabbed hold of her with magic and brought her back to earth.
"You will never make it in time if you fly. We will use the teleportation spell into the wastelands that Twilight and I have been practicing," Celestia decreed while wiping mud out of her mane, giving a look to Twilight with a nod as both of their horns began to glow.
"You've been practicing a spell to get you into the heart of my land, have you?" Chrysalis asked with the smallest hints of respect in her voice. "I take it you had that stored away incase you needed to attack me at any given time?"
"Of course. Rainbow Dash, you...oh right. Fluttershy, when Rainbow Dash wakes up you two will gather the others and keep an eye on Ponyville and Canterlot. Make sure that Tenna isn't trying anything here," Celestia ordered before the spell enveloped the three princesses, the queen and the Russian wrestler. One flash of light and space tearing magic later the five of them found themselves on the outer layer of the hive. Even on the other side of the walls they could hear the sounds of fighting on the inside.
"Come! There are children in danger!" Zangief roared as he busted through the iron doors that were supposed to keep any foe out with his skull, charging into the hive with a roar that would cause the Ursa's to shake with fear. He barreled into the hive to see changeling fighting changeling everywhere, both on the ground and in the skies. The sight confused him for a moment until he spotted streaks of red on some of the combatants, telling him who was about to get crushed.
"I am the protector of the hive!" Zangief roared with such a voice that all within a mile radius stopped their fighting to see the Red Cyclone take to the skies and scoop two red streaked changelings into his arms, spiraling back down to the ground with them and landing on a third. "Tenna! Today you shall be defeated!" He drove his leg into the face of another red marked changeling as he said this and rocketed them through solid rock, gaining cheers as the changeling guard let out a cry,
"It is Zangief! Zangief is back!" Roars of hope rose from the changeling guards as those words echoed across the entire hive, filling those who had been desperate with the will to keep fighting. Zangief was crushing two more of Tenna's soldiers with his mighty muscles with purple and red blasts of magic descended from on high, striking down a large number of the soldiers around the wrestler.
"Focus on keeping the citizens safe Zangief, Twilight and I will take out those in the sky!" Celestia ordered as she and Twilight zoomed by in full combat mode, blasting even more of the cowards who were attacking the city. Zangief smiled before hurling the two changelings tucked under his arms, leaving him free to grab two more and drive them into the side of a building.
"I can't sense him." Zangief turned to see two of his foes be blasted to ash with a torrent of green magic, which was followed by the arrival of Chrysalis a moment later. One blast of magic from her horn punched a hole through one of the changelings before a smaller blast of magic that came from her back struck one of Tenna's troops in the eye, causing him to cry out in pain before three hundred and fifty pounds of Russian might shut him up.
"What do you mean?" Zangief asked as he stuck out his arm and nearly decapitated a changeling.
"Tenna. I can't sense his magic, his changeling signature. Nothing," Chrysalis growled as a Tenna troop leapt into the air behind her, but Insectum intercepted with a small burst of magic that burned the changelings face. Chrysalis swung around and impaled the changeling on her horn before tossing him off while smiling at my daughter. "Barely eight years old and already you're striking down your foes. I'm so proud of you."
"Well, we know he's got an ego. Where would somepony like him go?" Insectum asked the two of them, getting both Chrysalis and Zangief to share a look before both of them turned their gaze towards the castle.
"That bastard," Chrysalis snarled before she hurled herself forward with her wings, Zangief keeping pace with his massive strides. Despite wanting to reach Tenna as quickly as they could, the group had to stop every couple of blocks to help citizens that had been caught in the crossfire of the guard taking on the invading forces.
"He really is unleashing all of his forces for this battle, is he not?" Zangief observed as he splashed onto three changelings and crushed them immediately, rising to his feet to see a barrier of green erect itself around him to deflect a number of spells that had been aimed at his back. Chrysalis burned those changelings to a crisp before loud screams could be heard, turning all three of them towards a number of children that were caught in the middle of a burning building. "Hang on, I am coming!"
Zangief careened into the center of the burning building and scooped the changeling children into his arms, only to have his ears assaulted by the sounds of something breaking. He looked up to see the building coming down upon the three of them, but with conviction that was stronger than any force on the planet he planted his boots and used his body to shield the children as brick and steel crashed down on top of him.
"Darn that idiot he might have gotten himself killed!" Chrysalis snarled as she and Insectum began to use their magic to hurl brick and metal off of a massive pile that used to be a building, both wondering if that had been it before a mass of muscle burst forth from beneath the wreckage.
"Do not worry little ones, you are safe," Zangief said as he walked forward and placed the children on the ground, watching them run off towards some of the guards before looking up at Chrysalis. "We are making little progress. As much as I wish to throw Tenna to the moon my heart will not allow me to pass by those who need help...and that seems to be everyone."
"Then let me handle saving the changelings while you deal with Tenna." The three looked up to see the princess of the night land in the middle of them, getting a snarl out of Chrysalis as she glared at Luna.
"I let you look after my kingdom for one week and you let the place get invaded. And you wonder why I hate you and your sisters guts," Chrysalis snarled at Luna, but the massive frame of Zangief placed himself between the two of them.
"Thank you for doing this Luna. In return, I promise to throw Tenna once for you!" Zangief promised before picking up Chrysalis and placing her and her daughter on his back before racing off towards the castle. To the threes surprise they found that the doors to the castle were opened and a single changeling was waiting for them, mockingly bowing to Chrysalis as she approached.
"Greetings Chrysalis. Zangief. Tenna has been expecting you," Thox said to the group before motioning for them to follow him inside. The three did so with some slight hesitation and Chrysalis erected a small shield around her daughter to be safe, while Zangief lumbered behind the changeling with a snarl.
"Where is your coward of a leader? If he knew I was coming why did he not come to meet me himself?" Zangief demanded, but all Thox did was look at Zangief with a menacing smile on his face.
"Because he has plans for you, oh might Zangief. Ah, here we are." To the surprise of both Chrysalis and Zangief, they found that instead of the throne room the changeling had instead lead them to the roof of the castle, where Zangief and Tenna had first clashed. At the edge of the roof across from the stairs stood a cloaked figure who looked out across the battle, far larger than Tenna and almost exactly the same height as Zangief.
"Tenna you coward, quite hiding and face me!" Zangief bellowed at the changeling as Thox vanished back down the stairs.
"You were a fool to face us alone Tenna. Without my daughter to hold hostage even I could crush you like the worm that you are," Chrysalis snarled with anger as both she and Zangief glared at the cloak figure, who began to laugh. The laugh caught Chrysalis and Zangief off guard, for instead of sounding like the voice of Tenna it was far more mechanical and cold.
"Yes Zangief, it is time that I faced you," Tenna said in a metallic voice as he turned to face the group, letting the robe fall off of him as he did so to reveal...
"The Steel Tornado?" Zangief asked in confusion as he saw his mechanical doppelgänger instead of a changeling staring at him. "What have you done Tenna? Have you no honor to face me yourself?"
"But this is me Zangief. My old body was far too weak to face somepony as truly strong as yourself, so I created a body that coud match yours," Tenna laughed with a robots voice, slowly beginning to walk towards Zangief with glowing red eyes. "But now not only can I you... now I am stronger than you." Then it was Zangief's turn to laugh as he began to march forward as well, but there was no joy in his laugh. Only anger.
"You have hurt children, attacked a mother and thrown away your own body for a metallic shell. You are not strong Tenna, you are only a coward," Zangief said with rage, rage that got Tenna to nod with the robots head.
"Come then Zangief. Show me that I am wrong. Show me just how strong you are."
Both of the wrestlers let out a loud roar and charged towards each other, slamming head on in the center of the rooftop and beginning the ultimate battle.