Back at Canterlot high and two hours earlier
“Hey! What are you doing the statue?!” Sunset shimmet screamed as she saw a strange man looking closely at the statue, with a lot of strange equipment, Sunset’s day was not going well, after getting a confusing message from Twilight, her old journal had let loose a powerful blast of magic, she only avoided having her head melted off because Rainbow Dash had pushed her out of the way but now she was wanting to head back to Equestria because her gut told her something was very wrong. However when she’d gotten outside, she spotted the man and whatever he was doing, it couldn’t be good but as she approached she was stopped by another man holding a bow in his right hand “Hey! Get out of the way!”
“Sorry miss but Mr Stark is very busy working on figuring out what’s going on with this unusual energy spike, so the area isn’t safe. Please take me to your head, so I can tell her the school is to evacuate by order of the Avengers!” the man said as he held out a badge that showed his identity “So please lead the way”
Sunset knew she couldn’t do anything at that precise moment but as she turned to leave, her friends, including this world’s Twilight Sparkle walked up and they looked concerned at the portal but they were unable to say anything while the man was present and after dropping the man off they walked out to the soccer field and began a meeting.
“So why are those two guys interested in the portal?” Pinkie Pie asked as she sat down on one of the seats.
“Yeah the portal has never drawn so much attention, there must be something wrong but strong enough for the Avengers to notice?! This is bad!” Applejack said as she looked out a bottle of water and took a sip.
“I don’t get it! Who are the Avengers? Are they friend or foe?” Sunset asked as she looked over at the school with great concern.
“Well the thing is, darling the Avengers have been around for about four years now, there was an attack on New York and they suddenly appeared” Rarity explained as she looked over at the school as well “They wouldn’t be here, if the need wasn’t dire”
“Um…what about pony Twilight?” Fluttershy asked timidly as she looked at Sunset “You…don’t think she’s in some sort of trouble?”
Sunset frowned “I don’t know. I won’t lie, I’ve got a horrible feeling that she’s in trouble and I need to get through the portal to check! Before my journal nearly took my head off, Twilight send me a message saying not to go through the portal but I’m still going” Sunset said as she looked around the group, who nodded showing their support “Is it just me or is the field awfully quiet?” the group looked around but they spotted a man standing at the door of the school “Who’s that?”
“Captain America!” Rainbow Dash whispered, she then looked closer at the man “Is it just me or is he staring straight at us?”
“Well there’s a very good reason for that” A voice behind the group said “Hi my name is Scott Lang, I’m afraid we here to ask you lot some questions” he smiled as a man with wings landed on the stands above the group and a woman approached the opposite side of the field “Well I heard something about Pony Twilight care to explain?”
Sunset shimmet looked around they were completely surrounded by the Avengers, there was no way out but they had to get to Equestria and find out if the pony world was okay. The woman saw Sunset looking around and said “Don’t do anything stupid!” she drew two pistols “Or else I’ll have to knock you out!”
Applejack dashed forward and kicked the pistols out of her hands “Bet ya didn’t expect that!” she said looking at Black Widow with a grin “Come on girls, we can’t let ourselves be pushed around!”
“Yeah, AJ’s right!” Rainbow Dash said as she looked at Antman with a grin “Guess that means you’re out of luck!”
Sunset however said “Rainbow! Applejack we need to get to our instruments! Come on! Let’s run past that Captain America guy!” they ran toward Cap but Spike charged forward and jumped on the hero who was a bit too surprised to respond as Spike did everything to hold the heroes back “Thanks, Spike!” Sunset called back to the dog.
As they ran through the school they were drawing closer to the music room, but then they were stopped by the appearance of another superhero blocked their path, Spiderman “Well hello there! Sorry ladies but I have my orders” he said preparing his web shooters but Pinkie was there revealing her party cannon from one of the lockers “Oh well that isn’t fair at all”
“Oh I’m sorry we have a friend to help!” Pinkie said as she pulled the string, there was a big bang and Spiderman was buried in confetti “Well what did you expect, it is a party cannon it just happened to loaded with confetti last week I loaded it with banana cream pies!”
Rainbow Dash looked at Pinkie with a concerned look “Pinkie, you scare me sometimes” she said before they finally made it to the music room and their instruments. Locking the door behind them “Thew! We made it but uh…Sunset, I don’t think us doing the whole Pony up thing will help us get through the portal!”
Twilight nodded “Rainbow’s right! If we try to run past them maybe one of us could make it?” she wasn’t sure about this, Twilight was still unconfident about the whole Pony up thing and now they were going to try and outsmart the Avengers! This had failure written all over it but then she had an idea “What if we use this to lure them away?” she pulled out the old device she had used to drain the other six of their magic “It could work? As it’ll give off the same energy as the portal”
Suddenly a voice said “Um, I’ll take it” as they turned they found themselves looking at a tall boy with green dreadlocks and a relaxed smile “Sorry, I wasn’t meaning to like to ease drop…I was in here like and then you guys ran in”
“Who are you?” asked Twilight she remembered seeing him at the friendship games but other than that she really couldn’t remember his name “Sorry”
“It’s cool, the name’s Sandalwood, I’ll buy you as much time as I can” Sandalwood explained as he looked out the window of the door and spotted someone “Hey it’s Micro chips, he can help us too!” Sandalwood opened the door and pulled a shorter, thinner boy with glasses in “Hey Micro chips we like need your help”
Micro chips turned and looked at the girls with a blush “Um…s…sure it’d be a pleasure” he stuttered “What can I do to help?” so the plan was explained to him by the girls but the whole time he kept giving a very fleeting looks at one of the girls. After that Micro chips tugged on Sandalwood’s sleeve “Um Sandal could we talk over there?” he pointed to the corner.
Sandalwood nodded and they walked over to the corner “So what’s up dude?” Sandalwood asked in a hushed whisper as he looked at Mirco chips who seemed extremely nervous “if this is about your crush…then dude you better tell her. Look I know dude, you…just need to take a deep breath and tell her. The worst she can say is no”
Micro chips looked over at the girls as they were talking “It’s all very well for you to say that but it’s not that easy for me. She’s so talented, brave, strong and…I’m not” he whispered as Sunset walked over.
“Hey, we’re ready to head out” she said as Sandlewood took the device “Are you sure you want to do this?”
“Don’t worry we got this, we totally gonna get you to that statue!” Sandalwood said as Micro chips nodded “But could I make a totally cool suggestion? You remember Rainbow Dash’s rally song from before the Friendship games? Well that song we right we are Canterlot high and we will unite, weather that’s against another school or super powered jerks!”
“Yeah! He’s right we’ll help too!” the voice of Applebloom called over from the door, leading in Scootaloo and Sweetie Bell “Those guys are messing with the wrong school!”
“Yep!” Big Mac said as he followed them in “I’m in too!”
“We can’t let them get away with bullying our friends!” said Lyra Heartstrings followed by Bulk Biceps, Shining Armour and Sweetie Drops “We saw those jerks try to hurt you! Canterlot High unites when threatened!” Bulk nodded and Seetie drops smiled.
“Shining what are you doing here?!” Twilight asked shocked as her big brother hugged her.
“I saw those guys try to hurt you, no one does that to my sister and gets away with it, I was also coming to take you to Mum and Dad’s wedding anniversary!” He seemed very cross but smiled when he explained about the wedding anniversary “So I’ll do what I can to get you to that statue”
“Well looks like we got some help! Let’s go teach those Avenger jerks how we at CHS tackle threats!” Sandlewood yelled and the room roared to life, it was at that moment Sandlewood looked out a map of CHS “So we like need a plan to get them to the portal”
“I think I have one” Twilight said “A large group would get caught too quickly like with how Spiderman was able to block our path. If it wasn’t for Pinkie Pie’s party cannon we would have been caught” she drew seven different routes on the map to the statue before pointing to one of the routes for each group “So we’ll split up! Sandalwood you’ll take Fluttershy this way, Um CMC you’ll take Sunset this way, I’ll go with Big Mac this way, Applejack you’ll go with Micro chips on this route, Rarity will go with Lyra this way, Bulk will take Pinkie this way and Sweetie drops could you get Rainbow there via this route?” she then paused and turned to Shining “Please take this. You’ll be our diversion” she had a selfish reason for this decision but kept it quiet “Let’s get ready!”
“Right!” they all said as the group prepared to leave Shining walked up to Big Mac.
“Um Big Mac isn’t it?” he asked nervously remembering the time five years earlier when he’d beaten Big Mac narrowly in the Friendship games, he’d been a different person back then but it had ended with Big Mac humiliated and Shining hated to admit he hadn’t dissevered to win but then he decided to be honest “I don’t know if you remember me but I’m sorry for what happened at the friendship games five years ago, I cheated you and I’m sorry” he looked down ashamed.
Big Mac smiled, extending his hand and said “I don’t remember that and maybe you shouldn’t either?” to which Shining nodded and shook his hand “Now let’s get our sisters through that portal!”
“Yeah, just promise me, you won’t let anything happen to Twilight” Shining said sad that he was implying that Big Mac would let his sister get hurt but Big Mac smiled and nodded “Thank you”
“Your welcome, just ya promise me, you’ll watch out for my sisters too, if you can” Big Mac said as they prepared to leave, the group split into three and then into their seven groups. Big Mac looked round a corner but there stood a member of The Avengers, none other Captain America but luckily he had his back to them. Big Mac turned to Twilight and whispered “There ain’t much I can do to hold him for long but I’m gonna tackle him and you run past!” Twilight nodded as Big Mac stepped out but his boots made a loud screech sound and Captain America turned “Um look behind you! It’s Twilight Sparkle!” Cap turned and Big Mac took his moment, tackling Cap to the ground but was Cap was a lot stronger than the plucky teenager “Twilight! GO!! While I still got a hold!”
Twilight nodded and ran past Big Mac, not daring to look back, she didn’t want to imagine how outclassed Big Mac was but she kept moving “Good luck mac!”
“Get off me!” Cap shouted as he threw Big Mac off him but in the wrong direction, Big Mac landed down the route Twilight had just gone, so when he stood up a moment later he was blocking the route “Out of my way! You have no idea, how dangerous this is! I don’t want to hurt you!” Big Mac raised his fists in a defensive manner “You really don’t want to do this, boy. That girl is dangerous!”
Big Mac smirked and said “Yep! But you threaten my sister and her friends and you’re the one in danger!” he hoped the others were doing okay.
The CMC and Sunset certainly weren’t they’d run into Antman, who’d shrunk and now they were waiting for him to reappear “Hey! Ya chicken! Where are ya?!” Applebloom called out as Sunset stood pensively “With all due respect, you’d best get going!”
Sunset nodded but as she got near to the entrance of CHS, Antman appeared behind her and grabbed her wrist “Sorry, miss but you’re not going anywhere!” Antman said as he tried to pull her closer so he could get her to Stark but he was knocked over and Sunset rolled away. Seeing Scootaloo had collided with the superhero with her scooter and was now joined by Sweetie Bell and Applebloom grabbing Antman’s arms and legs “Hey get off! I don’t want to hurt you three but I have a job to do!”
“We do too, it’s called helping our friends do what’s right and you won’t stop us!” Sweetie Bell said but she was struggling, she then screamed “Sunset! Go! We’ve got him!”
Scootaloo screamed “If you get caught you’ll owe me a new scooter!” she too was struggling but they had to hold on “You’re not getting our friend!” as Sunset made for the doors but was stopped by Spiderman who wrapped his web around Sunset’s wrist “NO!”
Suddenly Spiderman was knocked off his feet by some unexpected help which hit him hard, he let go of his webbing and Sunset made it to the door “Boulder says hurting my cousins isn’t nice” Maud Pie said in her usual bored sounding voice “Are you okay, Applebloom?” who nodded and looked at Maud with a smile “Now maybe you’d think about leaving”
Fluttershy and Sandalwood then arrived on the scene running from Hawk eye who screamed “Antman stop them!” he then looked at Antman and snapped “Seriously?! You can’t handle three little girls!”
Sandalwood turned and said “Dude maybe you just need to calm down? We’re just trying to get our friends to the statue!” but Hawkeye punched him knocking him to the floor “Bro, that was most uncool!”
Fluttershy was almost at the door but both Spiderman and Hawkeye made one last attempt to stop her, Spiderman shot his webbing and Hawkeye made a grab for her wrist but that idea proved to be a mistake as the webbing caught Hawkeye. Maud then grabbed Spiderman and threw him at Antman, the crusaders got out of the way in time but Antman was hit by the falling wall crawler. Which was made worse when Hawkeye fell on top of them, causing the three men to struggle in the webbing and Hawkeye snapped “I don’t believe this, we just beaten by three little kids and three teenagers!”
Maud pulled out her pet rock and said “Boulder was right, those Judo classes was money well spend” she smiled as the crusaders began to laugh and they followed Fluttershy out “Oh my”
Bulk Biceps was trying his best to get Pinkie Pie away from Falcon, they’d made it outside via the back door and were running round when Falcon had spotted them, he’d driven back to the car park but there was precious little they could do to stop him. He was high up about to swoop down and when that happened dodging would be all they could do but suddenly help arrived. They were running through the car park, a car pulled up and DJ pon-3 looked out before indicating for them to get in. Falcon flew low trying to make a grab for Pinkie Pie but a swerve from DJ had the desired effect of shaking him off.
Applejack said “Ya seriously need to get a life!” as she kicked Black Widow in the stomach sending the woman flying into a locker and she turned to Micro chips who smiled sheepishly “Well that was easy, maybe these Avengers aren’t so tough?”
Micro Chips shook his head “I calculate that…that simply isn’t the case…it’s that your…um very strong yourself!” he said looking at Black widow who stood up rubbing her back and stomach “We’d better get out of here!”
“Not so fast!” they turned to see a man standing in armour with long blonde hair “You shalt not pass, otherwise I’ll have little choice but to stop you” he had a big hammer and as he stepped forward he looked deadly serious “What is thou’s choice?”
Applejack looked at the man wondering if she could make a break past the man but suspected her chances were somewhere between hopeless and none “Well I’d like to say…” Applejack said trying to think.
Micro chips suddenly stepped forward, thinking fast and said “My good man! She needs the toilet! You wouldn’t deny a woman her most basic need!” he hoped the large man before him didn’t know the nearest toilet was the other way “Please!”
Thor raised his eyebrow but smiled “If thou promises they’ll let me accompany them” he said standing to the side allowing Micro Chip and Applejack to pass “Lead the way. Black Widow is thou okay?” he had turned to Black widow who looked at him in shock as Applejack and Micro chips ran “What is thou staring at?” he turned round just in time to see Applejack close the side door behind her.
“I actually can’t believe that worked” Applejack said looking at Micro chips “Thank you”
“Oh your welcome” Micro chips said looking at Applejack as he continued “But we still need to keep moving, that guy looks like the kind that wouldn’t appreciate being outwitted” he was certain that he’d just ticked off the wrong guy but he made a promise to the Rainbooms and he intended to keep it and get AJ to the portal safely “Alright the cost looks clear”
“Wait where’s Twilight and Big Mac they were meant to join up with us weren’t they?” Applejack looked around concerned but there was no sign of them “Twilight?! Big Mac?!” Applejack called out but there was no sign of them.
Rainbow Dash and Rarity’s groups had joined up but they were concerned, Pinkie Pie and Bulkbiceps were meant to join up with them but they spotted the car. So they all headed for the statue finally they made it but the statue looked too quiet and then they then saw a man in a red and gold suit land carrying, Shining Armour, who looked unconscious!
“No, Shining!” came a scream from the front door, it was Twilight and her eyes were filled with tears. She had to take a different route to get to the door but it was taking Sunset and Fluttershy everything they had to hold her back “Let me go! He needs me!”
Sunset screamed “Twilight for goodness sake! If you go to help Shining, you’ll be caught!” suddenly a man in a red hat jumped out of a car and kicked Iron Man who dropped Shining and allowed Twilight to run to her brother, the new comer protected her “Who the?!” Sunset said in a hushed whisper
“How dare you?! Leave this school now or I’ll be forced to show you a world of hurt!” the man said as he pulled out a gun and pointed it at Iron Man, the man seemed to pulse power out from him “Are you alright?” the man asked Twilight who nodded numbly “Good, I don’t know what’s going on but kicking the stuffing out of a teenager is well below the mark!”
Iron man said “These teenagers are giving off a weird energy! We need to capture those with the energy and contain it! It’s very unstable!” he seemed certain what he’d done was right “What I did was within reasonable force for the situation, besides all I did was knock him out with a knock out dart”
It was true the dart was sticking out Shining’s leg but that didn’t stop Twilight yelling “We haven’t done anything to deserve this! You came to our school and threatened us!” she had tears in her eye but then she calmed down and asked “Who are you, sir?” she looked up at the man in the red hat.
“Call me Wesley Collins but I’m also known as the Red Time force ranger!” he then yelled and moved his arms “Time for Timeforce!” he transformed into the red ranger before drawing two swords “Now, you have this one chance to back down!”
Iron Man looked unimpressed as he prepared his weapons but then a voice yelled “Your out of line Stark” it was Captain America standing with Big Mac “It turns out that these girls have been doing our job in defending the school! They’re no threat!” Principle Celestia and Luna suddenly stepped out of the school “Celestia and Luna told me everything and Mac here supported their claims! Avengers stand down!”
Iron Man looked at Captain America with a cold glare “You believe the word of three people, Cap!? That maybe enough for you but some of us need evidence! So far all we can tell is that there is an enormous energy pulse that killed our friend! James Rhodes has gone missing and all you think about is the word of three people you don’t know!” Iron man yelled in frustration “Not counting the missing monsters Carnage and Venom”
Wes suddenly spoke up “Um…hang on, there’s something I need to say, my powers are from the year 3000, recently my friend Eric and I got word from the year 3015, they said among other things, the time line is beginning to become heavily damaged in many areas!” he explained “Including the disappearance of one of our founding members, Billy Cranston, the original blue ranger, records of him are beginning to disappear according to my friend, Trip”
Iron Man then looked at Wes with anger “Then why are you here?!” he snapped “You come here to screw up the timeline even more!?” he paused and pointed at Twilight “Her friends and herself are the strongest link we have to what happened to the missing people, since they’re giving off a similar energy! So I’m taking her in!”
Suddenly more Canterlot high students ran up, forming a circle around Twilight and her friends “Canterlot high united!” they all screamed “We won’t let you take our friends! We believe in the magic of friendship!”
Spike ran up to Twilight and growled at Iron Man pulled his face visor off but he looked very confused “James is my friend, what would you do James?” he whispered to himself, he seemed to make up his mind, landing on the ground before deactivating his armour and stepped out from it “So who can explain to the rest of the class why you have this energy in such high amounts?”
Sunset Shimmer stepped forward and said “I can. First off I need to make one thing clear, I’m a pony”
Tony, Wes and Cap began laughing before seeing the serious look on Sunset’s face, Tony asked “Your serious?” to which Sunset nodded “No…no…way are you a pony…that wouldn’t explain the…how…pony…that doesn’t make sense! How…how are you talking if that were the case?”
Wes began laughing “If that’s your only question, consider yourself lucky!” he said through trying not to burst out laughing “I mean, if you’re a pony, then how do you look like a teenager? What does being a pony have to do with the high energy readings?”
“Would you let her explain before you ask questions?” Spike suddenly snapped.
“A talking dog!!” all three men yelled in surprise and more questions started right away “How? When? What?” were among about twenty questions hurled Spike’s way but Twilight timidly pointed to Sunset and the questions stopped.
“Well, um…I’m a unicorn from a magical land called Equestria. I live here because I like it here and no one ever said there was a problem. However when I came here…” and so Sunset explained the adventures that had transpired in Canterlot and about Pony Twilight “So when my homeland’s magical energy is put at risk, I think we’re directly affected but I’m not certain, as for why heroes from this world are disappearing….I really have no idea”
Tony smiled and said “So this statue is a portal? Hmm and the only way to fix stuff here is to make sure things in this Equestria place go back to normal? Well I do believe the next step is obvious” he turned to walk through the portal “Come on let’s go!”
Captain America however said “Hang on Stark, we have a problem if whatever is threatening their world comes through the portal while we’re away, our world could be destroyed. I think it’d be best if myself and the Power ranger went through with the seven girls and the dog”
Wes nodded “He’s right and besides, all due respect Stark, there might not be internet in Equestria and that armour of yours is Wi fi isn’t it?” he said as he laughed “I’ve send a message to Eric, he’ll alert the other rangers who’ll be on standby and ready to help”
So the group of now ten all prepared to leave through the portal. When they had done so they were in for a shock, Sunset Shimmer, Cap and Wes were unaffected by the portal but the rest had switched to ponies and dragon respectively.
“What’s going on? I’m a pony!” Applejack said checking out her new body and attempting to cover up when she realised she was naked “Um Sunset what the heck is going on?” she looked around and saw her friends who equally looked awkward. “So Pinkie and I are…normal ponies, Fluttershy and Rainbow are ponies with wings?”
“Earth ponies and Pegasus ponies” Sunset said as she looked around for pony Twilight.
“Awesome!” Rainbow Dash said “So Rarity and Twilight are Unicorns?”
“Wait! What?!” Sunset said spun round and saw Twilight, she was a unicorn “Your supposed to be an Alicorn, Twilight?! I’m supposed to be a unicorn! What’s going on? It’s like someone is playing a joke on us!”
Wes however heard an explosion “With all due respect we can work this out later!” he said as they ran outside, to which the new ponyfied humans were having considerable difficulty but they did get help from Cap and Wes “So this is your homeland, Sunset?” as they got outside.
“You know, I can’t imagine how hard it must have been for pony Twilight, when she first came to our world” Rarity said as she looked at her hooves “It really difficult to run on four legs”
They then spotted the massive explosion from Piccolo’s attacks and headed over to the sight of the battle “What the?!” Sunset said as she saw so many unusual things in the land she used to know so well. She then spotted the pony main 6 without Twilight that couldn’t be a good sign “Um…sorry am I interrupting something?” she asked Applejack, she then decided to lie and said "I brought some help…Twilight send me a message telling me not to go through the portal…who are all these people?" she wasn't sure if it was best to lie at this point but the situation seemed tense.