Charming Thunder walks into the meeting room. Inside were Celestia, Luna, Discord, Rainbow Dash, Trixie, Sonata, Applejack, Twilight, Sunset, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Starlight, Cadance, Shining Armor, Spike, Ember, Meta, Chrysalis, Cosmos, Galaxia, Lucina, Sombra, Starswirl, and Amidala. They looked at him as he entered. "Why call all of us here?" Ember asked. "I have a Dragon Kingdom to run and I can't do that if I'm here."
"The reason why I brought you all here is because of this," Charming Thunder stated before playing a holo recording of the Imperial fleet being attacked by unknown ships. "This fleet engaged us and took down most of the fleet. The flagship that belonged to Admiral Thrawn managed to get away and we had boarders. The leader of this fleet refer them as 'Skytroopers'-" Suddenly, everyone noticed Lucina grab her head in some pain and suddenly, she lifted her hand to a random wall and a ecto-plasmic ray fired from there and it destroyed the wall. A few seconds later, Danny's spirit appeared next to her, clearly angry.
"He has the audacity to use MY fleet!?" Danny shouted in anger as Lucina shook her head, the pain clearing away. "The nerve of that stallion!"
"Care to explain, Danny?" Galaxia asked in confusion.
"I built that fleet back when I was still Cyber. It was originally purposed to destroy the entire Equestrian Empire's fleets. It was supposed to make me nearly invincible but I, unfortunately, died before it could be deployed." Danny looked at the hologram of the stallion Charming Thunder had managed to replicate. "I don't know who that is, but he is NOT the guardian I assigned to keep the Eternal Fleet from falling into evil hooves."
"Care to tell us about who this 'guardian' is?" Charming asked but Danny smirked.
"Secrets are best to being secrets. But I don't doubt you'll met the guardian soon enough. You just won't know what the guardian will be. Now, if you excuse me, I have to do something." Danny stated before he turned to sparkles and surrounded Lucina and disappeared.
"He's still in my head, but I can't look into him so I don't have a clue what this 'guardian' supposed to be," Lucina said.
"Anyways," Charming Thunder continued. "It is clear that the one who controls the fleet was a stallion nicknamed; Zero." Charming Thunder revealed a holo figure of Zero. "The only main question is; who is Zero?"
"From what I've heard, he is a terrorist against the Equestrian Empire," Shining said. "And then came in the Red Hood."
"The Red Hood?"
"A vigilante that might have the same goal as Zero," Celestia said. "Earlier today, the Red Hood attacked our troops to steal cargo that was recently delivered to us." Celestia then played the holo recording of the vigilante attacking Equestrian troops.
"Its like that pony know their every move before the riot soldiers could even hit him," Chrysalis said shocked.
"This vigilante got away with the cargo and ran off to who knows where."
"That's two new problems to take care of then," Twilight said. A transmission came in and revealed a holo transmission from Fancy Pants.
"I am sorry to interrupt, but Cloud City is under attack," Fancy Pants said as explosions were heard in the transmission. "Their forces are bing led by a masked stallion. Charming Thunder stood up from his chair.
"Guess we're in luck," Charming Thunder said. "What's the status?"
"I don't know what they're here, but please send help." The transmission ended as Charming Thunder looked at everyone.
"Ember return to your kingdom. Rainbow, keep the skies clear so I can get a clear chance of landing at the city."
"Right away," Rainbow said before she flew out of the room.
"Trixie, Applejack, Lucina, Sunset, Sonata, and Starlight will help with any civilians."
"You can count on us," Starlight said.
"Starswirl and Twilight, you're with me with taking down the leader of the attack."
"Right," Twilight said. Everyone else Charming Thunder didn't call in the room began to take their leave.
Charming Thunder then rushed over to Lucina and said, "Be careful."
"Don't worry, dad," Lucina said. "I'm sure your training will be useful in this battle."
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Arriving at the city, Charming Thunder sees the city in smoke in his transport. Rainbow's Millenium Phoenix held off enemy starfighters as Charming Thunder's shuttle arrived and touched down at the streets of the city in front of a chemical plant. Charming Thunder along with Twilight and Starswirl walked down the ramp where Fancy Pants along with two of his bodyguards stood. "What's going on?"
"Some of the enemy droids went inside the chemical plant with some of the tibana gas," Fancy Pants said.
"What are they using it for?" Twilight said.
"I'm not sure."
"We'll find out soon enough," Charming Thunder said. When Charming Thunder took a step towards the building, a droid gunship appeared out of nowhere and slowly flew towards them as it fired at some buildings.
"Take cover!!" Starswirl ordered. Everyone took cover, but Charming Thunder stepped up to to the gunship. He then just stood there waiting for what will happen next. On top of a building, the Red Hood held a remote that is controlling the droid gunship as he looked at the targeting screen.
"Time to die, old stallion," Red Hood said as he pushed a button on the controller to let it open fire, but nothing happened. A small screen with the image of Zero appeared in the corner of the targeting screen.
"In death, he has nothing left to fear," Zero said. "If he ever comes to me, I'll be ready for him. Pull back and deal with the Imperials." The Red Hood nodded and controlled the gunship to leave Charming Thunder. Charming Thunder looked up to see the Red Hood fleeing as he leaps onto the droid gunship and takes his leave.
"Friend of yours," Fancy Pants asked.
"No," Charming Thunder said. "But he won't go far. Twilight, go with Starswirl and follow the Red Hood."
"What about you?" Twilight asked.
"I'm going in to the chemical plant and find out what's going on."
"Be careful in there." Charming Thunder nodded as he used his teleportation spell to get inside the building undetected.
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As Charming Thunder investigated inside the chemical plant, he heard chatter going on at the other side of a door. He slowly opened it and took a peak to see droids carrying canisters of tibana gas and chemicals. He then looked up at the observation room to see a shadow of Zero working on something. "Charming Thunder is here," Zero's voice said on the speaker. "Make sure he doesn't interfere with my plan to cloud this city with a new toxin. Charming Thunder drew out his blaster and opened fire at the droids in the room avoiding the tibana gas without being noticed by Zero. He used his lightsaber to cut down the Skytroopers that were close to him. Once the room was cleared, he took out his communicator and contacted Twilight.
"Twilight, Zero is here," Charming Thunder said. "How's it coming over there?"
"Red Hood managed to get away," Twilight said. "He was tough."
"At least you tried. I'll contact you once I have Zero." Charming Thunder turned off his communicator and walked up the stairs to the observation room. He then opened the door to see Zero at a terminal as he entered the room.
Zero slowly turned to face Charming Thunder as he said, "Do you really think you've won? Fear makes you predictable. You should've died by your precious princesses." Zero drew out his vibro blade and readied for combat. Charming Thunder charged at Zero and strikes first. Zero was fast to block Charming Thunder's strikes. They clashed their blades as Charming Thunder looked at the terminal.
"What are you mixing the tibana gas with?"
"Something far worse. A toxin that will make everypony run scared. I am in complete control." Charming Thunder broke the clash and punched Zero in the gut. He then grabbed his neck and slammed him to the wall.
"Shut it down!!!"
"It's too late. Either you let me go or the blast will spread this city with toxin." Charming Thunder threw Zero to the floor and took out his communicator.
"Twilight, stay away from the chemical plant."
"Why?" Twilight asked. "What's wrong?"
"Zero has made a toxin that will spread in the city." Charming Thunder was interrupted when Zero shuts the door behind him. He rushed to the door and tried to smash it down, but it didn't work.
"You have nothing to blame but yourself, Charming Thunder. I bid you farewell." Zero took his leave as Charming Thunder banged on the door. He then had a different idea and walked up to the terminal and reading a neutralizing agent.
"What are you doing, Charming?" Twilight asked in shock. "It's too late. You can't stop it."
"I'm not trying to stop it. But I can try to reduce the blast radius. Don't worry about me. Just get yourself and the others to safety." The neutralizing agent has been deployed and four canisters of the neutralizing agent appeared next to him. He then walked up to one of them and slowly took out the canister.
"I urge you to reconsider, Charming. Who knows what will happen if you get caught in that blast."
"There's no other way."
"Please, Charming. Don't do it." Charming Thunder slowly carried the canister to one of the slots. He slowly slid the canister into the slot and connected it. The neutralizing agent chemical filled up the tube as Charming Thunder headed back to grab another one. Explosions erupted outside of the room as he continued.
"BLAST RADIUS REDUCED BY 25 PERCENT," the computer said. He slowly grabbed another canister and slowly walked up to another slot and placed it in. "BLAST RADIUS REDUCED TO 50 PERCENT." He grabbed the third one and walked up to the third slot and placed it in. He grabbed the fourth and final canister of the neutralizing agent. When he slowly turned around, he saw Cyber aiming his arm cannon at his face. Charming Thunder was shocked to see him here.
"Miss me?" Cyber asked before Charming Thunder collapsed to the floor. He laid down on his back as his eyes began to get blurry as he looked at Cyber. "Charming? Charming? Can you hear me Charming?"
"C-Cyber," Charming Thunder said. "But I thought you were-"
"Oh, don't act all surprised, Charming. You knew this was going to happen. Now I am stuck inside your head thanks to my cyber drones that are inside your body. Together, we're going to give Equestria what it deserves. A new Charming Thunder. A darker more-" Cyber was interrupted when he saw explosions outside of the room. "Well, we can come back to this later. Sure you have saved the city by reducing the blast, but there is now one problem. This chemical blast is about to explode."
"Are you really here or is it just my head seeing things?"
"Yes, I am really here. Just in your mind. And no. You can't kill me again."
"I wasn't planning to anyway." Charming Thunder activated his lightsaber and sliced open the sealed door and made a run for it out of the chemical plant. He got away in a safe distance as the building exploded and collapsed to the ground. Charming Thunder took a breather and turned to see Twilight and the others arriving to the scene. Twilight, Applejack, Sunset, and Lucina gave him a tight hug of relief.
"Oh, thank Celestia," Twilight said. "When the explosion...I thought you might be..."
"It's okay, Twilight. I managed to reduce the blast radius and get out of here on time."
"But what about Zero?" Applejack asked.
"He got away. I was...exposed to the toxin."
"Oh dear," Twilight said in a panic. "Are you alright?"
"It's okay. I had a bad reaction, but it's over now."
Charming Thunder saw Cyber walking past the group as he said, "I really got to hand it to Zero. I've never been a fan of what he's been up to, but now that the toxin is spreading in you, it really brings out the me in you." Cyber laughed as Twilight tapped on Charming Thunder's shoulder.
"Honey, are you sure you're okay?" Sunset asked. "You look as if you have seen a ghost?"
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," Charming Thunder said. "For now let's leave and try to figure out the way to get rid of the toxin."
"Yeah," Twilight said. "It think that's best if we do."
