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// Chapter 1 - The Invitation  
// Story: My Little Pony Equestria Girls - Halo Warzone 
// by GundamBrony 
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Canterlot High School 
3 Months after the Friendship Games

As students heading towards the building, things have been pretty normal since after the Friendship Games. From a princess came to this school and dethroned a mean bully girl who turned into her crazy she-demon form, to three beautiful but dangerous and evil girls brainwashed all of the students into hating and battling them until the reformed Sunset Shimmer and Princess Twilight stop them, and finally, facing a school rival, the Shadowbolts from Crystal Prep, with a student who reassemble the Princess trying to discover the magic and pressured by the Crystal Prep to use the magic resulting in her turning her into another she-demon which Sunset able to use the magic to stop her rampage and now Human Twilight now transfer to Canterlot High.

With the Friendship Games ended, the students and faculty now focus on getting ready for the winter season to come. With things finally calming down and no magic surprise pop out yet, the students continue doing their normal life before the winter break started.

As the bell rang, all of the students were dismissed as the Rainbooms came out of their respective classes. They want to headed to the music room to do another band practice.

"Oh yeah, just a few more days, and it's winter break!" Rainbow said, smiling.

"You said it. Can't believe just four weeks left to go!" Applejack expressed, amazed.

"I'll say, time really sure goes fast when you at least expected, consider what happened so far." Rainbow said.

"Yeah" Fluttershy nodded "I can't wait to spent time with my family on the holidays."

"Me too! And I know what I'm going to do on the break!" Pinkie Pie squealed hopping. 

"Let me guess, a winter break party?" Sunset asked. 

"Not just any winter break party silly, a Super Duper Amazing Winter Party!!!" Pinkie replied as the girls rolled their eyes at their pink friend's love of parties as they imagine how Pinkie's parties goes.

"Consider how big your parties get every time, I think we can imagine how it goes." Applejack said.

"Well, at least we can finally get another rest from another fight against powers of evil magic." Rarity said. "I can't stand seeing the wears and tears of my wardrobe and it took weeks to get them back to the way it was." 

"I know Rarity, but still, there's bound to be magical stuff popping up into this world at anytime without a warning." Sunset said as the others nodded in agreement. 

"Speaking of magical stuff, where's Twilight?" Rainbow asked.

"Right here." a voice spoken as a girl with a blue and pink dress appeared with glasses on and a ponytail.

"Sorry for taking too long. I just had to get Spike back into my bag after class is done. Don't want to get into trouble for bringing pets in school building." She unzipped her bag as Spike popped up his head.

"Whew! Finally get some air. This bag is stuffy." Spike said.

"Well now that we're here, we better get ready to our band practice." Rainbow said as Sci-Twilight following them to the music hall.

"So any words from um, well, the other me from Equestria?"Sci-Twilight asked as Sunset open her journal.

"Well, she's doing some important meetings in Canterlot. Said that she'll be done for the day." Sunset said as Sci-Twilight nodded then looking away.

"You okay?" Sunset asked.

"Yeah, just still little surprised that I'm princess of that world fulled of colored ponies and she helping out with you and the others before I got here."

"Twilight, I understand that, but no matter what, even if Princess Twilight got her problems back on Equestria, we'll always need you." Sunset said as Sci-Twilight nodded.

Then as the girls reached the music room, they can hear noise of that's loud across the room.

"Fire Team Osiris! The light is green." a unknown voice was heard as a machine noise was heard as well as an orchestra music too.

"Fire Team Osiris?" Pinkie asked.

"What the hay is going on here?" Applejack exclaimed as the girls open the door, four pre-teens were holding game controls with a console system attached to the computer as they watching at the screen, a movie like video game.

"Sweetie Belle? Scootaloo? Applebloom?" Applejack said as the CMC turned and wave at the girls "What are three doing here in the music room?"

" Our new friend, Button Mash won a Xbox One Console system with the Limited Collector of this new game so we decided to try it out in the music room." Applebloom said as she handled a game cover as the girls looked at it.



"'Halo 5 Guardians'?" Applejack read it "What the hay is that?"

Rainbow facepalmed and groaned "Ugh, just one of those Halo games that all gamers are excited about."

"You know this Rainbow?" Sunset asked.

"Know it? I heard a bunch of times from Cloudsdale Junior High School that Halo is one of the most popular games in the Xbox games with this 'massive multiplayer online' games, 'beautiful environment', and bunch of stuff! And to be honest, it drive me crazy about those kinds of video games." Rainbow explained.

"I never like those kinds of games. Just holding a gun and shooting at innocent creatures really scared me." Fluttershy said.

"Shh! Quiet! Here it comes!" Button Mash said as the girls watched as four armored like humans skydiving as one of them yelled "Contact!" Then the girls cringed at seeing at this sight : those four armored like human shooting their guns at the aliens while running down the slopes of the snowy mountains as a huge alien ship crashed down on the mountain as those four armored like humans running down to a cliff then the screen showed a first person view as one of the armored humans rammed into a alien then the first person grabbed a energy like sword and stabbed onto the alien's neck then facing against a crowd of aliens, a wreckage dropped down on them. To Sunset, she never seen those kind of violence before in video games. In fact, she never seen so much in her entire life. As for the others, Pinkie and Rarity felt disturbed at this while Fluttershy hid behind Rainbow while she had a bored tone, as for Sci-Twilight and Applejack, they also have the same expression as Pinkie and Rarity.

"Okay girls, follow my lead." Button Mash said as the CMC move the controls, controlling each of their respective armored humans. As the girls watched them shooting at the aliens while performed tactics like those in the military, Sweetie Belle pound on the ground, sending the aliens flying away while Scootaloo healed Applebloom as Button Mash firing his weapons on the enemy turret while picking up weapons from fallen enemies. 

"Scootaloo, take aim at the Prometheus Solider. Applebloom, long range support. Sweetie Belle, your with me. We're going to charged at them." Button Mash said as the CMC nodded as Scootaloo use a riffle like weapon and shot down the Prometheus Solider while Applebloom climb up and fire at incoming enemies as Button Mash rammed one of the aliens too while Sweetie Belle smacked another too. Then as they advanced to another location, more of the aliens came as they continue shooting at them and so forth. 

After what to appear to be a few minutes, Rarity decided to end this. "All right, that's enough of this barbaric nonsense." She reached through the Xbox One and turned it off.

"Aw, c'mon! Why did you just turned it off?!" Sweetie Belle complained. "This is the first level of the game!"

"Because we want to use the music room to do some band practice. You can continue playing this 'Halo' game by tomorrow but right now, you girls need to do your homework." Rarity said as the CMC groaned while helping Button Mash putting the Xbox One back into the box and leave the band room.

"Well, that was interesting to watched." Spike said as the girls getting ready to start their band practice.





At the principal office, Principal Celestia was doing some paper works. While flipping through stacks of papers and writing on them, she flipped to one particular photo as she set the other stacks down, the photo shows one particular student, having a black messy hair, tan skin, and polo shirt with kahki pants. Underneath of it, a big borderline read as 'Missing' and 'Have you seen me?' 

She sighed as her memories flashback to that particular day where that student used to come here before the magical events happened.

Flashback

At Canterlot High School, a student was lying on his back gazing at the azure sky as Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna looking at him.

"Are you okay? Your friends are worried about you." Principal Celestia asked.

"I'm fine, just waiting for him to come home." he replied.

"You mean your father, correct?" Vice Principal Luna asked as both sisters sat down with him.

"Yeah, he's been gone for 10 years since he return to the army to stop an war happening on another country. This year, he promise me that he'll come back from the army on my birthday." he said.

"You really miss him." Principal Celestia said.

"More than you know." he replied.

"I'm certain he'll come. He always make his promise, Valor Star." Vice Principal Luna reassure him.

**(Time Skip)** 

At the news announcement, Principal Celestia and Vice Prinicpal Luna were shocked that Valor Star's father, Honor Medal, was K.I.A. (killed in action) as he was deeply crushed by the loss as both principals hugged him along with his mother and sister too while shedding so much tears. After a memorial service, another news that Valor Star went missing just after a few weeks ago as principal tried to call the police but so far nothing. The same thing happened as similar events happened to other schools including Crystal Prep as more students went missing after Valor Star.

Flashback end

"Valor Star....... where are you?" she place her hand on the picture as a knock was heard as she wiped her tears and place the photo on her drawers of the desk.

"Come in."

As the door open, Vice Principal Luna came in with a clipper on her left hand. "Sister, we about to get ready to go home soon. Are the paperworks almost done?"

"Huh? Oh, right." Principal Celestia handed the work to her "Here, all of them done."

She flipped through the pages as she nodded then she saw something nagged Principal Celestia. "Something wrong, Celesita?"

"No, I'm fine." 

"I know that you're lying, sister. " Principal Celestia turned away as Vice Principal Luna grab a chair and sat down. "Is it him you're thinking about?"

She nodded "It's been 5 years since he's went missing along with other missing students from other schools. His mother and sister may have doing their daily lives but they still grievance of his disappearance even though they tried to move on. I really miss him."

"I know, me too, sister. If we only know what happened to him and the other students........." Vice Principal Luna said as both gave each other a hug.





Unknown Location

Inside of a landing bay, a Pelican landed as the bay door open, Joker came out as the Commander walked towards him as Joker salute him.

"At ease, Joker. Your teammates are at the commanding bay. Come." he nodded as he follow him to the commanding bay where 5 other armored humans were waiting for him. One is the familiar green armored person, Chief, while the other one, have a white and blue stripe armor, each asymmetrical from right being bulky to left being somewhat, with a helmet that have a blue visor that angle around it in hexagon like shaped and a metal part covered the other one. The second one colored in red and have a circular helmet with a gold visor like the Chief, only covered half of the helmet as the armors are symmetrical than the others. The third one, being grey all around, had a helmet almost like Chief but only with the blue visor being rectangular like shaped as the armors from all around, having triangular shaped to it. The final one, the brown one, having a similar shaped to the grey armored person but the helmet having a unique to all others. It has a large triangle shaped flow to the top of the helmet as the orange visor has three cameras angle together, as it closed down to the rectangular shaped following the shaped of the human's chin. As for the armor, it has those of similar build to the Chief with the exception of the legs and shoulder armors have bulky like shaped pauldrons. Each of them have different symbols on their chest armors like the Chief only with different numbers from '112-116'.

"So having fun time being like a phantom, Joker?" the brown armored human, in masculine tone, joked.

"What do you think?" Joker said "I never like being the silent type. That's Ghost's job."

The white one, Ghost, turned to Joker said in a feminine tone "You should try to enjoy being silent for once. It could be helpful to our advantage."

"Enough." Chief ordered them as the three quiet down then turned to the commander "Go ahead, Commander."

"All right, now let's begin." he press a few buttons on the screen as a hologram showed videos of the events happened from the Fall Formal to the Battle of the Bands and the Friendship Games. "On July 16, 2013, three strange anomalies appeared on the school, Canterlot High School at certain events from the Fall Formal," a camera video shows a red and fiery demon fighting six girls and a rainbow tornado shot up in the sky before screen went static "to the Battle of the Bands", another camera showed the same six girls now with a new girl unleashing another anomalies creating an winged unicorn and blasted three aquatic like horses into pieces "and now, the Friendship Games." another one shows the same event that Joker recorded as the video shows dimensional rifts tears around the school.

"Commander, what are those tears?" the red person asked.

"Those are dimensional rifts, Dead Eye." the Commander replied "The strange anomalies from the Friendship Games happened when this girl release the unknown energy and being corrupted as a result of being exposed to the large amount of energy." 

"However, this other girl, able to counter it using that same power to close the rifts and defeat the demon girl, freeing from the corrupted energy she's exposed to." After the video shows the battle between two students with wings, the hologram turned off.

"So what you suggested you want us to do?" the silver one asked. "Consider how Canterlot High have these strange energies and whatever those girls did, asking them will be out of the question."

"That's when our missions start, Cogs." With that the Commander begin speaking the six armored humans as once of them agreed, the Commander leave the commanding bay with the six armored humans.

"Let's go. We need to prepare ourselves for the mission." Chief ordered though some heard of his changed tone.

"You okay?" Joker asked as Chief turned and silently nodded before heading out with the others following him too.





Canterlot High School

The next morning, the girls finished their science class as the bells rang, they started walking towards the cafeteria.

"Man, I can't believe that Mr. Discord want us to do a quick project on chaos history before the start of winter break!" Rainbow groaned. "And I haven't even know of those stuff!"

"It isn't that all bad. At least we can choose which history and theory we want." Fluttershy said which Rainbow rolled her eyes.

"Really, Rainbow? You need to pay attention to those otherwise, you might get left behind." Rarity said.

"I can't help it! You know all of those science really making my head hurt that only eggheads can know those." Rainbow realize this as she turned to both Sunset and Sci-Twilight "Uh, no offensive."

"None taken." both replied.

"Science isn't that hard, Rainbow." Sci-Twilight said "It just fulled of hypothesis, theories, and the knowledge of the world."

"All the more reason why my head hurts on these knowledge." Rainbow groaned.

"How about this? After lunch, I'll tutor you at the library." Sci-Twilight offered "I used to tutored other students back at Crystal Prep. I got the notes about the today's lesson."

"Well, all right." Rainbow said as while girls continue walking, Sci-Twilight bump into someone as she was knock on the floor, with her glasses drop down.

"Twilight, you okay?" Pinkie and the others help her up.

"Yeah I'm fine. But where are my glasses?" She said as she pawned on the floor, trying to find her glasses.

"Here, miss." a male voice handled her glasses from the floor as Twilight grasp it and put it back on. Once her vision is clear, she got a clear look at the mysterious accidental assailant : he was a full grown adult, being older than Principal Celestia, Vice Principal Luna, and Principal Cinch, with a white uniform with medals on the color shirt indicated that he belong into the army and a name badge is listed 'Iron Will'. He also have a black briefcase on the right.

"Are you okay miss?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm sorry if I bump into you." Sci-Twilight replied.

"It's okay, miss. I'm looking for the Principal's Office. Can you show me where it is?"

"Oh just through the next hallway and it should be on the third door right." Sunset said.

"Thanks." With that, he walked to the direction that Sunset described, leaving the girls wonder of the unknown person.





As the principals begin working on the paperworks, a knock was heard from the door.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

"Come in." Principal Celestia called out as Commander Iron Will open the door.

"It's been too long, Celestia." Commander Iron Will said.

"Commander Iron Will, haven't seen you a bit since you moved from Canterlot High." Principal Celestia said, having a furrowed expression "How's things going after you left?"

"Oh, things pretty busy with my students working hard." Commander Iron Will replied.

"'Your students'?" Vice Principal Luna asked.

"Correct, for my own academy of course." he laid the briefcase as he open it, he handle stacks of papers "And I got a special event coming up and I want your school to participate with it. The Crystal Prep is also invited to participate too."

He handle a flyer as the principal read this flyer, it shows an illustration of three armored humans holding guns on each sides as an neon blue light letters read :

You're school is chosen to participate in our first event of paintball games,  HALO : WARZONE! Located at Iron Will Solider Academy, face against five branch teams and get the chance to fight against I.W.S.A. proud team, Charlie Horse. 

Don't Miss out! 

"A paintball game?" Principal Celestia looking uninterested "Thanks but no thanks, we don't want our students to participate in those kinds of activity."

"Beside, we already held up the Friendship Games 3 months ago with the Crystal Prep, so we need to rest from it." Vice Principal Luna added.

However Commander Iron Will haven't falter from it as he continue speaking "I see that you're not interesting in it. Well, what if I told you that I know where the missing students are?"

That caught their attention as Principal Celestia stand up in shocked "Wait you know what happened to them?!"

"If your school can participate in it and win it, then I'll tell you." Commander Iron Will turned away and glance at them.

"How we know that it isn't some kind of trick?" Vice Principal Luna asked.

"Perhaps this will convinced you." He gave a yearbook to them before leaving as Principal Celestia open the books and turned the page, it shows him in his young age with a group of students, then as their eyes widened : each of the students bear resemblance to the missing students including her dear student.

"Valor Star......" she whispered.





At night time, as the school was closed for the night, everything was silence as crickets was chirping. Then three invisible figures moved quickly as quietly, behind the walls as an invisible force field shield them then as the reached the statue, where the portal located, turned off the invisible force field, revealing three more armored figures in grey. Each of them bore almost the exact helmets but distinguished in their color stripes on top of their helmets and armors along with their color visors and different armors on chest, shoulders, wrist, and knee pads. Each of them bore the same symbol of a banshee like design with word design read : Spectre.



The green visor armored person open up a com link "Sir, we reached the designated point."

"Roger that, proceed Operation : Unlock." Commander Iron Will's voice was heard from the com link as the red visor set a pack near to the portal as pressing on the keyboards, a smaller device connect to the portal as the portal begin to ripple until a purple portal appeared.

"Commander, the portal is open temporary. We got 10 minutes to keep it open before it close it down." The green visor person reported.

"Copy that, Camo. Proceed with Phase - 2." Commander Iron Will replied "Gather as much of the mysterious energy as you can and get the hell out of there."

With that, all three of them enter the portal leaving the device with the timer read : 9:58





Equestria, Princess Twilight's Castle

In the library of Princess Twilight's castle, the portal to the human dimension is still intact in the dark as things have pretty gone normal after Princess Twilight and her friends deal with an 'interdimensional time loop' by a certain pony. 

Then the portal begin to spark a few magic as a purple portal open up as the three armored figures came out, remained the same. Each of them check the area as they moved quietly, holding their weapons for any sign of life but so far none.

"Area's clear." the red one quietly replied.

"Good, now we need to gather the energy from this dimension." Camo replied setting another device down.

"But how we know where to find it? By my guess, this is a library. So there's bound to be somebody here like a night guard." the clear visor asked.

"With this, Shadow. The Artemis." Camo showed him a device as he strapped it down on the right wrist. Then as the device operated, a scanner was shown as a white dot bleeping.

"Follow me and stay quiet." The others nodded as they exited out of the library, each of them checked the corners as they follow the scanner to where it stopped at this location. As they nodded, they open the door silently as they enter to a throne room. 

"This must be it." Camo said as he follow the scanner to the exact point at the middle as he set the same device from the one back at the statue, the machine open up as the throne rooms begin to covered in different auras : lavander, cyan, orange, pink, purple, and light yellow as all of them begin to be sucked in the device.





Meanwhile at the lower corner of the room, Spike twist and turned on his basket as he yawn a bit while open his eyes slightly. 

"Great, now I'm thirsty......" he moaned as he got out of his basket and headed to the kitchen for a nice cup of water. As he passed the door to the throne room, he notice the door is slightly ajar as quietly as he could, he peeked in to see three armored humans absorbing the throne room's magic.

What the?! What are humans doing here in Equestria?! The portal is closed so they shouldn't be here! And why they're stealing magic?! Spike widened his eyes while rubbing them. Then quietly backed away, he hurried to Twilight's room. 

As she open the door, Spike got up and trying to shake the sleeply princess up "Twilight! Wake up! C'mon! Wake up!"

Twilight groaned as she open her eyes with bags in her eyes "Spike, what's wrong? It's three in the morning......."

Spike cut her off "Twilight, humans are here in the castle! And they're stealing magic!"

"What?" Twilight cocked her eyebrows "That can't be......the portal is already closed........there's no way........."

"Yeah I know, but you need to come quickly to the throne room!" Spike said. As much as Twilight want to go back to sleep, she sighed as she followed him to the throne room as when they reached the door, she saw a rainbow of lights flashing around. She peeked at the ajar door and widened her eyes at the sight of armored humans stealing magic.

"Told you." Spike said as Twilight burst the door open, the three armored humans turned and draw their weapons at the princess.

"Hey! What are you three doing stealing magic?!" Twilight shouted as Shadow throw a flashbang as it hit on the ground, a harsh light blinded her and Spike. As they quickly grab their device, they make a run from her as the harsh light died down, she saw the armored humans gone as she heard footsteps as she use her magic and teleoport to that location.





"Commander Iron Will, this is Camo of Team Spectre! We have been compromise by an inhabited creature of this dimension! We're on our way back to the portal to Canterlot High with the remaining resource of the unknown energy!" Camo said on the com links.

"Roger that, Camo. You got  6 minutes before the portal closed." Commander Iron Will said.  

As they sprint to the portal, a purple flash appeared as Princess Twilight cuts them off. "Stop!"

"Activate, Phaser Mode!" Camo shouted as they press on their chest, the armored humans become transparent as Twilight about to brace herself, they passed through her.

"What the?!" She then chasing after them as Camo and his teammates deactivate the Phaser mode, reverting back to their solid forms, they quickly glance back as Twilight catching up to them as she tried to use her magic on them only for the armors to be immune to them but heard beeping from it. They sprint faster to the library with Twilight begin to catching up with Camo as the three of them jump quickly to the portal. Once they landed on the portal, Camo closed the portal quickly as Twilight was about to enter the portal, it quickly closed as she crashes into the regular portal mirror.

"We made it......." Shadow sighed.

"We got the mysterious energy we needed. Now we need to return to base." Camo ordered as they headed to the LZ.

"Oof!" Twilight exclaimed as fall down on her haunches "Now I know how Rainbow felt about her crashes."

"Twilight are you okay?" Spike helping her up.

"Yeah, I'm fine. But, I'm worried about this." Twilight glance at the mirror portal with worried eyes. "If these humans know how to open up a portal to Equestria, then I'm afraid that something bad will happen."

"What are we going to do?" Spike asked.

Twilight then thought of this. Just what kind of humans are they with their kinds of technology? How did they know to open up the portal to Equestria? Did Sunset and her friends revealed to them? No, they'll never do that. They promise that they'll keep the Equestrian Magic off from other people to prevent other evil magical beings that possibly sent there in the pre history date. So did they spied on them or something?

"I better tell about this to Sunset, Spike." Twilight said as she levitate a journal and begin writing to Sunset.



 

The next morning, Sunset Shimmer took her seat next to Button Mash at Mr. Kobon's Reading class as he begin lecture of one of the famous book to studied on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for next test after the winter break. As she open the book and begin reading along with the class, her backpack begin to vibrate as she quickly open it and saw her journal vibrating in the same arcane color magic and shining.

A message from Princess Twilight? Sunset thought of it

"Sunset? Is there something wrong?" Mr. Kobon asked.

"Uh, nothing, Mr. Kobon." Sunset said as she take one glance at the journal before continue reading the book. As the bell rang, all of the students begin leaving the class as Sunset pulled her journal and read the message from her face went to confusion, to puzzled, and dumbfound, and shocked. Whatever Twilight describe this, this is unbelievable and impossible in all of history. There's no way that an event could something like this happened.





"SAY WHAT?!" the girls screamed at this news from Princess Twilight as the Rainbooms were at the cafeteria having lunch as Sunset caught up with them and told the message happened of three armored humans able to open the portal to Equestria and stealing magic from it.

"But that's insane!" Rainbow exclaimed "There's no way no one have the power to open the portal to Equestria!!!!"

"Yeah that's what I was wondering too, but somehow those armored humans that Princess Twilight described able to." Sunset said.

"But why would those armored humans steal the magic in Equestria?" Fluttershy asked.

"I don't know, but Princess Twilight tried to stop them but they somehow able to go through her and close the portal." Sunset replied.

"Do you think that Princess Twilight might left the portal open?" Sci-Twilight asked.

"No I don't think so. She usually closed it after each visit. " Sunset said as the girls pound of this event. Just who are those 'armored humans' and what do they come from? What do they want with the magic in Equestria? Whatever that may be, if those armored humans stole the magic from Equestria, it could spell something worst in both worlds.

"So is there anything else that she said beside those pesky armored humans?" Applejack asked.

"Well, she said that she'll be coming over to assist us in finding the stolen Equestria Magic and return it back since she got some time to rest from her royal duties." Sunset Shimmer said. The girls, beside Sci-Twilight, were exclaimed at this news while Sci-Twilight just nodded but lower her head but changed to being happy. Spike and Sunset Shimmer notice of her changed expression and have worried looks at her but decide to ask her about it later.





Equestria, Princess Twilight's Castle

Princess Twilight explained to her pony friends about the last night event as she explained that she and Spike will go to CHS to ask them to help them find the stolen magic and return it back. So far, her pony friends have the same expression as their human counterparts.

"It doesn't make sense, darling. I thought that only you can open and closed the portal. It doesn't make sense that those armored humans to open the portal manually." Rarity said.

"I know, but by quick glance, those armored humans were wearing some kind of high technology and my guess were correct, it would be the same reason why they able to open the portal to Equestria." Twilight said, preparing to open the portal.

"But I thought those humans don't have those kind of technology." Applejack said.

"That's what I thought, but I think that there's something else that me and my CHS friends haven't discovered yet." Twilight replied as when she place the book on top of the portal, electrical surge around it as well as magic surges too forming up a portal.

"Okay, now we're set." Twilight said.

"You sure you don't want us to come too?" Rainbow asked, hopefully. "It'll be nice to meet my awesome human self consider that you met yours too."

"Better not, I need someone to keep an eye on the portal just in case if those armored humans came back to steal another magic from this place." Twilight said as the girls nodded.

"Wait!" Pinkie Pie shouted "You told me that since your human counterpart's Spike now able to talk due to Fluttershy's human counterpart, how we supposed to know which is our Spike when he turned into a dog too?" The girls never thought of this as they pound of this idea until Rarity got it.

"I know, be right back!" Rarity hurried out the castle as a few minutes, she came back with an familiar fire ruby necklace.

"Is that?" Spike exclaimed.

"Yes Spike, the fire ruby that you gave me on your last birthday. I always kept it safe for you since of all of the jewels I have, this is the most prized of them all since it represent the generosity that you did." Rarity said as Spike blushed red on his cheek. 

Rarity placed the necklace on Spike's neck "Promise that when you come back, you hold on to it safe, okay?"

Spike was touched that Rarity would allowed her to let him borrow her fire ruby necklace as he nodded "For you milady, I'll make sure to keep the fire ruby safe and sound."

Rarity nodded then gave Spike a kiss on his cheek which he fainted in bliss as the girls giggled at the drake's love sick mood.

"Okay, then Spike, ready?" Spike regained his sense as he nodded as both ran into the portal. The others looked with worried expression hopefully for their friends to be safe.





Back at Canterlot High, Pinkie and Rarity were playing tic-tac-toe as Pinkie won as her continuous winning streak starting to be excited to being....bored. Rainbow continue kicking her soccer ball as Sunset and Sci-Twilight were reading some notes for the exams coming after the winter break, Applejack was eating some of her home made meals she brought and Fluttershy was petting Dog Spike which he enjoys.

They were waiting that long as so far, they been waiting for an hour for her to come as Rainbow started groaned "I don't know if she's coming."

Then, a side of the pedestal begin to glow and rippled as two figures shooting out. One of them is the same violent color as Human Twilight and the other the same as Dog Spike. Once the two figures landed on the ground, the girls exclaimed happily

"Twilight!" 

The now former alicorn turned human rubbing her head "I'm back."

Looking up, she saw her human counterpart offering her hand to help her up. With a smile, she grab it as her human counterpart pulled her up as Sunset Shimmer, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Rarity hugged their friend as her human counterpart stood aside having a forced smile.

Spike (Dragon) groaned as he got up, he saw his counterpart as both yelp at this sight before looking at each other like a mirror. 

"I can't believe it! Another me!"Spike (Dog) said.

"Wow, you must be this world's Spike." Spike (Dragon) said as both continue looking at each other before Spike (Dog) begin to sniff around him.

"Uh, what are you doing?" Spike (Dragon) asked his counterpart, uncomfortably. 

"Just a greeting. It's the habit that we dogs do." Spike (Dog) said as he was about to sniff his behind,  Spike (Dragon) widened his eyes and scurried away from him and hidden behind Princess Twilight.

"Don't even!" Spike (Dragon) exclaimed.

"Sorry." Spike (Dog) said.

"It's been a while Princess Twilight" Sunset said.

"Great to see you again Sunset." Princess Twilight turned to her human counterpart who begin to meekly wave her hand at her.

"It's good to see you again, Princess Twilight." Sci-Twilight said.

"Good to see you again, Twilight." Princess Twilight said as her human counterpart nodded at her.

At the Sweet Shop Cafe, Princess Twilight and her friends were drinking smoothies as she explain to her friends last night event. And completely, they were surprised at this.

"But I don't understand how would anyone from outside know of Equestria Magic?" Sci-Twilight said.

"I don't know, Twilight." Princess Twilight said "But consider what happened that involves around it, I think it might attract attention to those guys."

"So why didn't you stop them?" Rainbow asked.

"I tried but they have some kind of advanced technology around them." said Princess Twilight "But when my magic hits them, their armors somehow nullified it."

"Can you describe what those armored humans look like?" Rarity asked.

Before Princess Twilight can speak, Applebloom and her friends burst the door open and rushed to their sisters.

"Applejack! You better come to the gymnasium!!!" Applebloom said.

"What's wrong, Applebloom?!" Applejack asked.

"Principal Celestia called for a assembly for all of Wondercolts!!!" Scootaloo explained as the girls were puzzled at this as all of them rushed to the gymnasium.





All of the students taken their seats at the benches or the chairs, confused of what's happening. The girls taken their seats at the right benches as the principals begin to addresses.

"Students, yesterday, our school is been chosen by a principal of a new academy, to participate into an event along with Crystal Prep Academy." all of the students murmured at this news as the girls looked around at the student. "And now, without further ado, here's the principal of this academy, Commander Iron Will."

With that, Commander Iron Will came to the stage and grab the microphone and begin to speak "Thank you, Principal Celestia."

"I taken the time to see the Wondercolts and Shadowbolts face each other in the Friendship Games and to be quiet honest, I was impress of it. So I decided to create an event that my students would like to challenge both of you for the honor of your victory in a paintball game." The students were confused at this as the girls adopted the same expression. "However, to make it interesting, this event will pitted best students from both Crystal Prep and Canterlot High against my own in this event that will test out the teamwork and leadership. And to make it interested, if either of our teams win, we have a $100,000 prize money goes to the school donations." The students widened their eyes at the prize money. That's enough for to repair the Wondercolts' statue and possibly more school gears for the gym, more computers, and other stuff for the school.

"So by tomorrow, you'll need to pack a few clothes because you'll be staying there for two weeks for the tournament and the best students will be trained by our coach for the tournament. May the Reclaimers watched over you all." With that, Commander Iron Will gave the microphone back to her as he left the stage. As the students continue to talk to each other, the Rainbooms having puzzled glances at this event. The Wondercolts and the Shadowbolts were chosen to participate in the paintball event for the prize money. But they knew that the principals wouldn't just say yes unless they have a reason. 

After all of the students left, the girls running up to the principals at the back stage. "Principal Celestia!"

Both turned as they saw Sunset and her friends coming towards them. "Sunset, I'm sorry if I surprise you and the others about this."

She then glance as both were surprise at the appearance of two Twilights "And I see that your 'twin sister' have arrive."

"Principal Celestia, why would you want us to enter the event after all that happened from the Friendship Games?" Sunset asked.

Rarity agree with her "Quite honestly, we been dealing with dark magic for far too long along with doing other events in our school."

Both turned to each other before nodded "We tried not to enter it as you said Rarity, but apparently Commander Iron Will said that he'll tell us what happened to him."

"Him?" Rainbow asked "Who's he?"

"I think it's better if we girls tell you about this." Vice Principal Luna said "But not here, at the office."

The girls were confused at first but nodded as they follow them to the office as the principals begin explaining to them a hidden truth before the magical events happened.





"Let me get this straight," Applejack said "you're saying that before all of the magical stuff happened, there was a student, name Valor Star, who went missing five years ago?"

The principal nodded as Rarity speak "And there were other missing students who also went missing around the same day he went missing?" Another nodded from them.

"But what does it have to do with us entering the event?" Rainbow asked.

"Commander Iron Will said that if we win, he'll tell us what happened to the missing students." Vice Principal Luna said as the girls were surprised at this "We don't know if he's lying or not but given the yearbook he gave us, it assume that all of the missing students were here in his academy."

"Speaking of Commander Iron Will, you two know him, right?" Applejack asked.

"Yes, he used to be a faculty in Canterlot High but because of his assertive teachings to other students who were new in CHS, many new students were result in being mean to others, so we have to fired him and ask Dean Cadance to teach them the right way." Principal Celestia said as the others nodded. To Princess Twilight, that Commander Iron Will is no different from the one back at Equestria.

"But how did Valor Star went missing?" Fluttershy asked.

"It happened when his father, Honor Medal, was a solider in the military army. He admire his father so much that he dreams of being in the army to protect his country like he did. They were very close to each other as he help him practice his army skills. One day, his father was called to stop an war on another country as he promise to him that he'll come on his birthday. But on that exact day, his father was reported as K.I.A. as the news reached, causing him in so much grief. After placing his father's memorial, he was under depression shutting those away from his friends and us as a result, he ran away from his parents."

The girls were deeply sadden by this. Never all of his life that Valor Star lose someone important in his life and ran away from it. 

"So you think that Valor Star might be in his academy right?" Pinkie asked. "Along with the other missing students?"

"Again we're not sure but we need to take our chance it." Principal Celestia said "I know this is too much, but we would like you girls to participate in this paintball event game and win it. If possible, me and my sister will try to find the missing student from the academy."

The girls were puzzled at this request. At first, they have their own problems to face to with the stolen Equestria Magic by three armored humans and now the principals were asking them to participate in entering the paintball event to win for the answer of the disappearance of the missing students. 

"I wish we can help with this, but we got another problems that we need to dealt with." Princess Twilight said.

"Does it involves in magic?" Vice Principal Luna asked as she nodded and begin explaining the situation to them.

"So those armored humans stole magic from your world? I think that's awfully familiar to us." Principal Celestia said.

The girls were taken surprise as Sunset asked "You mean you know who those armored humans are?"

"We don't know who they are actually but the way you describe them, I think that they might come from the same place we're going." Vice Principal Luna said as she handled the Warzone flyer as the girls read their eyes widened at this. 

"Are you saying....?!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"Yes, I think those armored humans that stole the magic came from Iron Will Solider Academy." Principal Celestia said.