A new world

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"Come on guys! Me and Anna already set up a good spot for the picnic!" an orange haired girl yelled from the distance, smiling.

Her name is Natalie or Natz as what her teammates call her. She was a fair skinned girl with an orange hair color and aquamarine irises. She was the mage in her group, a white mage to be precise. A type of mage whom specializes in both holy magic and black magic as well. From healing spells to destructive ones, she was capable of wielding them with ease.

She was currently wearing one of her old clothes, a white robe that was the formal wear of the white mages. A fairly simple work, using a rather strong and durable but soft kind of fabric, that was enchanted by other white mages for protection against magical sources. In her left hand, she was holding her oldest staffs that she had first used on her first day on being a white mage, a crystal staff. Forged with a magical wood from a sacred tree and a crystal in the middle tied together with red string, she owed this staff many thanks due to it being rather durable and giving her a rather significant way to boost her spells.

"Alright! We'll be there soon! Just helping out with ol' red head!" a golden haired guy replied, waving his hand towards Natz.

His name is Matthew or Matt as what his friends call him. He too was a fair skinned guy with a golden hair color and light blue irises. He was the swordsman of his team and the overall meat shield. His brute strength is unrivaled and his swordplay is the most feared among all over swordsmen in his world, thus dubbing himself as the 'Greatest swordsman alive'.

He was currently wearing his usual attire. A pirate captains shirt, with a black vest, red scarf, black captains pants and a pirate captains hat that had a grey skull with two bones forming an 'X'. This attire was given to him by his father when he first left on his adventure. He used to be a pirate captain captain, sailing the seas and having epic battles but soon retired when he had a huge stash of gems, golden coins and other valuable items with him. And so, on Matt's 15th birthday, his father gave him the very same attire we wore, although it seemed rather big at first, he grew into it and it soon fit him like a glove. In his left hand was his most beloved sword that was given to him by a special person. It was a sword forged with ruby's with a pure white blade which was reinforced with diamond, and a red hilt with a golden wing design. It was named 'The Heavens Gate' after its rather holy design powers corresponding to holy elements.

"For gods sake Matt! Help me with this stuff will ya?" a red headed guy soon entered Matt's vision, making him smile.

This guy is named Lance. A slightly tanned guy with a dark maroon hair and red irises. He was the gunslinger among his teammates, wielding a black gunblade. His agility and swiftness is a scary factor as well as his insane accuracy in the battlefield. Not to mention he can provide air support to help bombard his enemies from afar.

He was currently wearing his old officer's uniform, consisting of his all black jacket, hat and pants. On his jacket were a multitude of medals during his service in the army when he was only 15. He first met Matt and Natz just a year ago, when he was apparently trying to take over the world with his very own Valkyrie Tank, a mobile vehicle dedicated to destruction. Designed by him, it was also the very same vehicle he used when he first fought against Matt and Natz. In the end, he lost against their combined powers and eventually surrendered, in which he and the two of them were now on good terms, using their powers to help save the world from the many dangers.

Well...Unlike one time when Lance went kind of crazy and kidnapped Natz, in which Matt had to come to save her.

The trio went to many different places, including a desert where many hideous worms lived, a tundra where they battle against the last woolly mammoth and through the center of a black hole, where they faced their most powerful enemy as a trio.

Akron.

A being that was said to be extinct for centuries, only to have been awoken accidentally by the trio. In a case to stop him from absorbing the world, the three of them fought him in an intense battle that seemed to have lasted for years. Eventually, the being was killed and was no longer bringing harm to the world, resulting in the trio to lay low to relax.

However, this was changed when they met a peculiar green hair girl.

"Come on guys! Both of you are slow!" the same green haired girl shouted from the distance, giggling from the sight of two guys having to carry a lot of stuff.

Her name is Anna. A fair slightly tanned green haired girl with emerald colored irises. She was the archer among the entire party, shooting arrows to help bombard her opponents, provide support, absorb buffs and a number of other things. Famed for being able to connect to Gia herself, she is able to provide a multitude of ways to support her allies.

She was wearing her usual home outfit, a green dress with sleeves that was the same color as her hair. She was by far the youngest out of the party, with Matt and Lance being 17, Natz being almost 17, and Anna being only 15. She is also a very outgoing and is a nature loving person, due to her having grown up in a village located in a forest. But even so, she was also very childish in nature.

It was odd on how the trio met Anna. Apparently, the jewel that was being kept in Anna's hometown, was stolen by an unknown being. With that, Anna went on her adventure to retrieve it back, meeting Matt, Natz and Lance along the way. On their adventures, they also found out that another sacred jewel was stolen, making Anna think that someone or something was trying to bring back the creator of the world.

Godcat herself.

In their rush to head to another town to find whether the last jewel was safe, Anna told the trio on how the divine being created the world and the first two cats along with it. However, seeing that her children had forsaken her, she took away their arms and legs, leaving them as they are. This caused Matt to abruptly hug his cat, NoLegs, saying how horrible of a creator he had.

However, they were soon too late when they found that the last jewel was stolen as well. In a fit of rage, Anna began to mercilessly attack any creatures that stood in her path. Along the way to find clues as to where they might be, Matt found a few dozen cats climbing a tall mountain and, just barely, seeing that they had the jewel with them. Hurrying his teammates, the four heroes soon went on their way to stop them.

Unfortunately, they were too late, once again, as Godcat herself was now back in both of her forms.

The battle that was waged between the four heroes and Godcat lasted for hours, with the 4 heroes being ragged and tired. Even so, the heroes continued on fighting. Many spells were used, limits were broken and blood was shed. Finally, when the heroes thought their end was in a blink of an eye, Godcat pitied them and spared their lives, leaving the world in search of a new one.

After that, many months later, the 4 heroes were simply enjoying life as it was right now, with no fighting, no wars and just relaxation.

They deserved it anyways.

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After the red and white checkered mat was placed, Natz and Anna sat down, helping to set up some plastic plates.

"You know guys, we really need more this. Nothing but relaxation" Natz said, her orange hair was flowing in the wind.

"I agree. Adventuring is really hard work! How do you guys do it?" Anna asked, her curiosity getting the best of her. Her head was currently cocked to the side, looking at her teammates with a small smile.

Both Matt and Lance looked at each other with a slight worried look. They faced Anna once again with a pokerface before shrugging their shoulders. They continued to empty one of the basket they brought along.

Natalie shook her head and chuckled. "Guys" she softly said to herself.

After a while, both the guys had emptied the two baskets and entire mat was packed with food, making both the guys salivate at the mere sight of the delicious food. With the two females chuckling at the sight of their friends salivate, they finally ate the food that was presented.

The wind gently blew against the faces of the four heroes, their hair blowing towards the opposite way. The four continued to relax, unaware of a certain sphere over in the distance that was gradually growing in size. However, their chatter soon died down when Lance was aware of the certain object in the distance.

"Erm...Guys...Do any of you know what the hell that thing is?" Lance said, pointing towards the rather visible multicolored sphere.

The group soon turned silent when the sphere began to grow even bigger and bigger.

"Wait a second...That's a portal!" Natalie exclaimed.

Unfortunately for the group, the portal suddenly quadrupled in size and its suction increased exponentially. The four of them didn't have any time to react as they were soon whisked into the portal to whoever know where. Once they were through, the portal then gradually decreased in size up until it suddenly vanished.

=Equestria. Location: Ponyville=

It was a lovely afternoon in Ponyville. The many different technicolored ponies were well on their way with their usual routine. Shops were open and busy as ever. However, there was one shop that seemed to be having very little customers.

Sugarcube Corner. Famed for having the best pastries and baked good in the entire town and probably, the entire world. Inside the bakery was a pink earth pony named Pinkie Pie. As the name suggests, everything about her was a different shade of pink. A slightly darker pink mane and tail, a pink fur color as well as a pair of blue irises. She was currently wearing her usual attire, a yellow blouse with blue stripes at the bottom and a blue skirt with a picture of her cutie mark.

Sitting behind the counter, Pinkie was currently twirling her hair around due to being bored out of her wits.

"You betcha mister narrator! It's so boring around here!"

(Psst! Pinkie! Can you cut out the 4th wall breaking for a while? Pretty please?)

"Okie Dokie Loki mister narrator!" Pinkie brightly replied in thin air, seeming answering nopony whatsoever.

Her arms soon slouched against the counter as she continued to observe, hoping something would happen.

And suddenly, her wish seemingly came true. For a brief period, Pinkie noticed a bright light spark in the middle of entire bakery. The light soon grey more intense and suddenly, a bright flash of light appeared, blinding Pinkie for a moment. Rubbing her eyes with her hands, she then looked at the same exact spot.

Noticing that were two females lying on the floor unconscious. Pinkie jumped from her seat and gasped, seeming able to stay afloat in the air for a brief moment, before landing back on the floor and proceeded her way towards the unconscious females. With her head cocked to the side, she took note of their faces, their clothing, mane color and those sort of stuff before she decided to gather her friends and ask what might have happened.

Before exciting the building, however, Pinkie magically brought out a blanket from behind her back and laid it on too of the two females. Once that was done, she bolted through the door in lightning speed, leaving the unconscious females behind.

A day in Canterlot (Matt and Lance)

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The cast of the 'Epic Battle Fantasy' series, Matt, Natz, Lance and Anna do not belong to me. They all belong to Kupo707, also known as Matt Roszak.

It was a beautiful day in the city of Canterlot and many ponies were going about their daily business. It was currently around 12 in the afternoon and most of the snooty, high class ponies were walking into different restaurants to eat.

However, in the Canterlot Castle, there is one particular pony whom is wishing for something to happen.

Inside the castle, in the Day Court, sat Princess Celestia, one of the two royal sisters and princess of the sun. She was currently wearing her usual attire, a pure white dress with a print of the Equestrian sun in the middle that was encrusted with different multicolored gems as well as wearing her royal regalia, her crown, golden colored necklace and shoes. With the immense title she was holding on to, she always had to wear the same attire everyday, everywhere she went.

Not only that, but she also had to attend tons of meetings with other royal figures, conduct court business, sign papers and many other things. Right now, in the room where she currently sat, she was finding it hard to pay attention to what the stallion was saying. In her mind, she was begging for something to happen just so that she wouldn't have to listen to him complain any further.

Thankfully for her, her wish apparently came true.

In the form of a loud window crash from outside the door.

With her mind now focused on the sound, Celestia ordered the court to be adjourned, much to the stallion's dismay. On the outside, she remained cool and calm, a regular sight from the princess. However, in the inside, she was thanking the creators for the huge distraction and was really curious and excited at the same time.

"Guards! What seems to the trouble?" Celestia asked, now outside of the dreaded court room.

One guard, a mare with a pure white fur coat answered. "Princess, there are two unidentified creatures that has crash landed in one of the stained glass. They both seem to be males from their faces and both wield a weapon. Other than that, they are completely new in terms of what anypony has ever seen" the guard replied, her voice remained stoic.

Celestia nodded her head and asked the guard to guide her to where they were. 'New creature..?' Celestia though to herself as she was led by one of her guards.

After moments of relative silence, Princess Celestia was brought to a throne room where many of her guards were standing around the two creatures whom seemed to be lying on the floor. Celestia could hear the murmurs from her guards, asking what were they or who were they. Clearing her throat, the guards then stood to attention.

Celestia walked closer towards the two beings, feeling slightly nervous inside. Once she was a good arms length away from them, she began to take note of what they looked like.

As what her guard had told her, the both of them were definitely male. One of them had a long and oddly golden colored mane with two strands of braided hair at the side. He was wearing a grey shirt underneath the black vest with a red scarf, a hat with a single white feather and a grey skull and bones as well as a pair of black pants with a metal chain on one side. Beside him was a pure white sword that gleamed in the slightest amount of light, with a red hilt and a red ruby in the middle of the pure white blade as well as a pair of, what seemed to be, golden wings that connected the hilt to the blade.

The other male had a dark maroon mane color that was short. He was wearing an all black attire, which included a black vest with many medals that seemed to be pinned to, a pair of black pants a black leather cap. Next to this being was an odd choice of a weapon. It seemed to be a mix of a blade with container that separated the black hilt from the black metal blade. Not only that, Celestia also managed to spy a sort of groove at the bottom of the hilt, which, she though to herself, may act as a trigger of sorts.

"Strange...I have never seen anything like them at all..." Celestia said to no one in particular. User her right hand to bring a couple strands of hair behind her ear, she continued to observe them, trying to spot anything that may make them a pony. However, with the lack of either wings, horns or both was irritating her slightly, since no earth pony has ever looked like them before.

Suddenly, the male with the golden mane moved. It was only a slight motion, but it was enough to send Celestia's guards into defensive position, in case they might lash out. Moments later, he woke up. Celestia observed him. His eyes slowly opened to reveal the golden irises that lied beneath.

He coughed slightly, causing both Celestia and her guards to flinch slightly. Then, the creature scanned around with it's eyes slightly opened. He then proceeded to try and stand up, only to make his legs wobble before he toppled back down on the floor. Celestia gasped slightly at the sight. He was trying to stand on its two legs of sorts, allowing Celestia to figure out that he and his friend were probably bi-pedal like her and her kind.

Coughing slightly once more, he shook his head and them spoke a sentence which surprised Celestia and her guards. "Urgh...Someone got the number of that bus that hit me..?" he asked.

'He spoke Equestrian! But how!?" Clestia wondered in astonishment.

Then, Celestia tried to communicate with him. "Umm...Hello?" she asked in a soft tone.

This led the being to shake its head and look directly towards Celestia, causing her to stare at his golden irises that seemed to gleam in the sunlight from the broken stained glass. There was a lingering silence that persisted for a couple of moments up until Celestia noticed his eyes to shrink to the size of a pinprick.

"Ah! W-What in the world are you!?" he asked as he was now standing up, the same white bladed sword that was beside him a few moments ago was now in his hands.

"We could ask you the same thing creature! Now stand down!" another female voice erupted from one of Celestia's guards as they all formed a barrier in front, in a defensive stance.

"Stand down guards! Let me talk to him" Celestia soothingly said, causing many heads to turn, looking at her in confusion before backing off slowly, their stance never changing.

Celestia then began to slowly walk towards the golden maned being, causing him to take a step every time she took a step forward. As soon as he was beside his red headed companion, he knelled down and shook him violently. "...Lance...We got some unexpected company..." he said, causing the red headed being to grumble and sit up.

"Urgh...Why did you disturb my sleep Matt..?" this 'Lance' being answered. 'Matt', whom Celestia deduced to be the golden maned being, tapped on Lance's shoulder before pointing towards Celestia herself.

Shaking his head, Lance followed the direction of 'Matt's' finger and soon his eyes were focused onto the 'odd-white-horse-creature-thing'. As soon his mind said those words, Lance's eyes also shrank to the size of a pinprick, as he scrambled himself onto his feet and grabbing his weapon, pointing it directly towards Celestia.

"Please, I do not mean any harm to you" Celestia said as she tried to reassure them, only causing more discomfort towards the two beings.

"Yea right!" 'Matt' replied as he tightened his grip around his sword.

"Bucking listen to her you monkey!" another female voice erupted from Celestia's guards, causing 'Matt' to feel annoyed.

"Alright then! Who said that?" he asked, looking around the room.

"I did you twat!"

Celestia then turned her head to the left and saw that one of her guards had stepped forth. She mentally sighed asshe knew who she was. Starburst she thought as she frowned when one of her personal guards stepped forth.

"Listen here you creature! No one disrespects the princesses! You're going to have to get through me first!" she yelled, pointing her spear at Matt.

Celestia decided it was best to interfere right now before any more damage could be done. However, it was apparently not fast enough as the 'Matt' creature was now soon charging towards, causing Celestia to shout out "Stop" as she noticed Starburst channel a beam of light energy from her free hand which was then launched moments later, causing a huge burst of energy to erupt from her hand. The other guards quickly took for cover as well as the 'Lance' creature when the energy beam hit 'Matt'.

=Meanwhile=

"Oh my! That is a stunning dress, darling~!" a white unicorn, known as Rarity, stared in awe when Natalie showcased her full Pope set, including her hat as well as some accessories along with it.

Both Anna and Natalie chuckled. Just a few minutes ago, the both of them awoke to find themselves in a world not their own, in a town they do not know with beings that they have never seen before. They were obviously frightened at first, with all the new things being thrown at them, metaphorically. Luckily for them, the locals were rather friendly and they managed to make some new friends as well. However, they were still very worried about their two other teammates since they couldn't be found anywhere.

"Thank you! This was given to me when me, Matthew and Lance were trekking along a tundra. We traded some old relics and ancients miniature statues in exchange for this" Natz fondly recalled how much this entire 'set' saved her during her journey with the two guys in her team.

"I've never really seen you wear that! It looks so pretty!" Anna said, feeling the soft velvety texture of the dress.

Natalie giggled. She was about to say something when there was a sudden explosion in the distance, causing her and the rest of the girls to quickly exit the building. Once outside, they saw that over in the far off distant city of Canterlot, a giant laser tore the main castle of the city.

"Natalie! That could be Lance firing off his Hyper Beam! They must be over there!" Anna excitedly said, pulling onto the shoulder of Natalie.

With her head in a mess, Anna pulling her towards the train station that was nearby and the rest of the girls behind them, Natalie could only think of one thing as soon as she saw that beam.

'Please let Matt be safe..'

=Back in Canterlot=

Smoke soon filled the room as rubble began to fall off the wall. Celestia knew Starburst could pack a huge magical punch, but just now she just overdid it. With most of the wall now torn, all that was left was smoke in spot of the 'Matt' creature and Starburst panting.

"Hehe...Didn't stood a chance" Starburst panted as she was kneeling on the paved floor, a smug look bore onto her face as she obliterated the foolish golden maned creature.

However, as soon as the dust and smoke had cleared away, Starburst and everyone else in the room, besides for 'Lance', were shocked as to what they saw. The very creature, that took a magic beam directly, was still standing, his sword glowing slightly as a small glowing red barrier surrounded him.

"You know...I knew a guy who shot lasers like that. Some scary stuff" 'Matt' said, grinning as he saw the horrified look on the female's face.

"W-What are you..? W-Who a-are you...?" Starburst quivered in fear, as she inched away from the creature.

"The names Matthew or Matt for short. Ol' red head over there is Lance. As for what I am, I am simply the greatest swordsman you shall ever face" Matt answered, his grin slowly dying down as his left eye soon began to grow red, his sword also glowing the same color.

Celestia just stood in her place, utterly amazed, shocked and horrified as she had witnessed this creature survive a huge magical blast. As for Starburst, she was completely horrified. She had exhausted most of her magic to try and destroy this being, only for him to not have a single scratch on him.

As Matt slowly walked towards the helpless mare, he began to point his sword towards her. Once he was near, he simply rested the tip of the blade onto her neck, still staring at her with a nonchalant look.

And then, he spoke, giving off chills across the mare's spine. "Don't ever try that again"

A day in Ponyville (Anna and Natz)

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The cast of the 'Epic Battle Fantasy' series, Matt, Natz, Lance and Anna do not belong to me. They all belong to Kupo707, also known as Matt Roszak.

It was a lovely day in the small quaint town of Ponyville. The streets were bustling with ponies going along their daily routine. Selling items in the marketplace, a small dinner serving ponies as well as the generic talking that came with them.

However, the lovely atmosphere would soon change as soon as a pink party pony would enter the scene.

"TWILIGHT!!" the very same pink pony screamed at the top of lungs as she zipped through town at seemingly lightning speed, something that would bring a rainbow maned pegasus to shame.

On the other side of the town, a purple alicorn in the towns library, 'Golden Oaks Library' stopped reading when she heard her name being called. "That's odd. Sounds like Pinkie Pie" Twilight wondered, placing the book down on the nearby table and readjusting her red spectacles.

The very same pony in mind is Twilight Sparkle. She is labeled as the most powerful magic wielder in the entire of Equestria, due to her cutie mark specializing in magic itself. She is also one of the four alicorn princesses of Equestria, also being the youngest of the four. Not only that, she is also one of the bearers of the 'Elements of Harmony', in which her and her five other friends saved Equestria on multiple accounts. However, even with all that fame and power in mind, she didn't mind to live a simple life as an, 'Alicorn Princess Librarian', as what her friends call her.

She was currently wearing her librarian uniform which consisted of a plain white button up blouse underneath her lavender coloured jacket, which adorned the sign of the library on the top right pocket of the jacket, as well as a purple skirt which had her cutie mark on the right side, a pink star in the middle surrounded by five other smaller white stars. Her mane was also neatly tied into a ponytail that was secured in place with a pink star clip.

Standing up, she lightly readjusted her jacket and brushed off any small specs of dust on her jacket. She had asked her friend Rarity to tailor her entire uniform since she owed Twilight a favor. What Twilight asked for a simple librarian uniform, Rarity just 'Tut-Tut' her friend and made her an elegant work of art that, 'Would make any stallions eyes bulge at the sight of a sexy librarian' as what Rarity said.

Walking towards the door, Twilight hoped to at least open the door to see the commotion. However, not even half way through the room, the door burst open revealing a pink pony that looked very worried to say the least.

"TWLIGHTYOUHAVETOCOMEQUICKTHEREISSOMESORTOFALIENBACKATTHEBAKERYANDITLOOKSLIKETHEYNEEDOURHELPWENEEDTOGOOVERTHEREQUICKYOUHAVETOHELPPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!!!" Pinkie Pie said in the speed of a thousand miles per hour, causing Twilight to reel back slightly her face slightly sour.

"Okay! Pinkie calm down. Say that again, slower please?" Twilight said.

"I said that there's these two alien thingies back at the bakery and they need help!" Pinkie slightly summarized, waving her hands comically in the air.

"Aliens? Um...Alright. I'll send the rest of the girls a letter before we head off, okay?" Twilight asked, causing Pinkie to nod her head furiously before adding, "Be quick!".

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As soon as Twilight sent the letters to the rest of her friends, Pinkie grabbed her wrist and pulled her out of the library, yelling "We have to hurry! To the bakery!" before some sort of music popped into her mind.

Once they reached the bakery, the music seemed to stop instantaneously, causing even more confusion to the already confused Twilight. Shaking her head slightly, Twilight heard Pinkie say "They're over here!", before turning her head to where Pinkie was. As soon as she did, her eyes couldn't help but stare at the two females whom were lying on the floor unconscious. Walking towards them, she knelled down took a good look at their faces, surprised to find out that, indeed, they were not from this world. They didn't look anything like what she has seen before. They were kind of like a smaller versions of a minotaur, without the horns.

'This is very odd...I should ask Princess Celestia what they are' Twilight thought, standing up while rubbing her cheek with her hand.

Suddenly, the bakery door flung open, revealing a multitude of ponies Twilight was greatfull to see.

"What's all the commotion about darling?" a refined voiced emanated from the white fur coated unicorn. She was Rarity, a pristine white unicorn with a dark purple mane and tail color. She is the towns personal seamstress and a damn good one too. Her taste in the fashion world always seems to awe any of those whom have seen her works. She was currently wearing her usual business suit, a white button up blouse underneath her dark purple business jacket that adorned many gems as well as a white skirt that had the picture of her cutie mark, three sapphire gems. She was also currently wearing a purple pair of spectacles along with a red scarf around her neck.

"Oh! Hello girls!" Twilight said, smiling at her friends. "Well...Pinkie here seems to have found these two beings. She said they seemingly popped into existence right in front of her"

"Oh my!" a soft squeak seemed to exit the muzzle of the same pony. The pony in particular is Fluttershy, a butter yellow pegasus with a pink mane and tail color. Most ponies only know that she lives in a quaint little house near the Everfree forest. But what they don't know is that she is Ponyville's veterinarian. This is also a reason why many animals reside in the big field that she has for a backyard. She was currently wearing a a light green sweatshirt that seemed to be rather big for a mare of her size as well a yellow skirt that has the picture of her cutie mark, which is trio of pink butterflies.

"I know right Flutters!? They just came in like 'BOOP' " Pinkie said, lightly pushing Fluttershy's muzzle, causing a rather cute 'squee' to exit from the pegasus.

"Well ah don't know 'bout you girls, but ah think they seem harmless enough" a voice with a southern twang from the orange pony. Her name is Applejack, an orange southern earth pony with a golden mane and tail color. She is part of the towns Apple Family, where she tends to the towns very own multi-acre apple farm, 'Sweet Apple Acres', along with her older brother Big Macintosh, her younger sister Applebloom and her grandmother Granny Smith. She was currently wearing an orange blouse underneath her slightly tattered brown leather jacket along with an also slightly tattered pair of brown jeans, both of which came courtesy of from her cousin Braeburn. Besides that, she was also wearing her favorite Stetson hat which was a gift from her father before both he and her mother left to 'visit the many wonders of Equestria' as what her father said.

"I'm going with Applejack on this. They don't seem dangerous at all to be honest" a tomboyish voice emanating from the cyan pegasus. This pegasus in particular is Rainbow Dash, a cyan colored pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail, thus the name. She is the captain of Ponyville's very own weather team, tending to the weather as well as helping other places with weather problems is needed. She was currently wearing a a cyan tank-top with a winged lightning bolt in the middle as well as a pair of dark blue jeans.

"We should probably wait for them to at least wake up first. Pinkie, besides the two of them, what else have you found?" Twilight asked, causing the pink pony to go "Oh!"

Pinkie then began to rummage behind the counter before pulling out a staff and a bow.

The staff had a light brown wooden handle that seemed to turn more orange as it went up. At the top was a bright sapphire gem that was probably socketed and seemed to be held tightly together by a red ribbon that was tied to form a bow. The bow, however, had a rather simple design. From what seemed to be three branches of a tree tied together by a rather sturdy brown rope with a piece of a very fine, and seeming breakable, string.

"I found these things right beside them when they first arrived" Pinkie said. "I placed them here since the Cakes might suspect something"

"Can I have that staff?" Twilight asked, causing Pinkie to nod before handing her the staff. Just as she touched the staff, Twilight felt a surge of magic energy enter her, causing her to reel back slightly and gasp.

She heard her friends gasp as they quickly went to her. "Twilight darling, are you alright?" Rarity asked, causing Twilight to nod in reply.

"Yea...In fact...I feel more energized...I don't know why" Twilight replied in between breathes. Testing out a hypothesis, she placed the staff gently down and before she knew it, the same magical energy that had entered her dissipated into nothingness. 'So that's where it came from! This staff is causing the magic of the user to be enhanced' Twilight thought.

Moments later, they heard a groan before a voice entered the room. "Nya~...Not the best place I slept" a feminine voice filled the room.

Silently turning around, the girls saw that the orange maned female has finally awoken. Rainbow Dash nudged Twilight softly. "Hey! What do we do now?" she silently asked.

"I don't know. We should probably wait first" Twilight replied, gripping the staff in her hands.

They heard the same female giving off a small yawn before looking around. "Where am I..?" she wondered, looking around the room. They then saw here shaking the other female beside her. "Hey Anna...Wake up" she said hoping that green maned girl would wake up.

"Ugh...Five more minutes mom" the green maned girl replied. They then heard the orange maned girl give a 'Humph!' before replying, "No cake for you then"

"OH! CAKE?! I LOVE CAKE!" Pinkie Pie bursted out, hopping over to both of the now-awoken females.

"Hi there! I'm Pinkie Pie! What's your name? Oh! I heard you have cake? Do you have cake? huh? Do ya do ya do ya?!" Pinkie bounced in placed, causing the rest of the girls to groan besides Fluttershy.

"Well...there goes our cover" Rainbow Dash said, rolling her eyes.

They saw both of the females look at them with a mix of awe and shock. It was probably due to never having seen anything like them before. Before anything else could happen, Twilight decided it was best to introduce themselves first.

"Hello there. There's no need to panic, please. We won't harm the both of you. My name is Twilight Sparkle and these are my friends, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie Pie" Twilight said, pointing a finger to herself followed by the names in order, all giving a small 'hello'.

The two girls looked at each other first, the green maned one whispering something in the others ear. After a while, they both nodded before standing up. "Umm..Hi. I'm Natalie and this is my friend Anna" the orange maned girl said, pointing a finger to the girl beside her who gave a small wave.

Before anything else happened, Twilight saw Natalie's eye shrink. Before she could ask what was wrong, Natalie then pointed to the object she was holding. "My Crystal Staff! Where did you find it?!" Natalie asked

Twilight felt slightly relieved, knowing she wanted to know where she found it. "Well, from what Pinkie Pie said, it was just next to you when the both of you arrived. I take it that this bow" Twilight's horn glowed purple, enveloping the bow in the same glow before it slowly came to her "is yours Anna?"

Anna then gasped before looking around her. Her eyes then locked onto the bow before replying. "Yea! That's mine!". Without any hesitation, she went forward and grabbed the bow out of Twilight's magic before thanking her. Twilight smiled before handing the staff back to it's rightful owner, to which Natalie was grateful for.

"Now that that's settled, can we sit down first? I want to ask some questions" Twilight said, using her magic to pull some chairs for her, her friends and for the two guests.

"Ask away I guess" Anna replied, placing her bow gently on her lap.

"Okay. First things first, what are the two of you exactly?" Twilight asked, using her magic to conjure a small notepad, a quill and a small vial of ink.

"Well, we are what you can call humans. A more scientific term, if you want, is 'Homo Sapiens'" Natalie answered, causing Twilight to scribble some stuff on her notepad,

"From what happened to me when I touched your staff, I take it that your world has magic?"

"Yep! In fact, Natalie here is the greatest mage of our world" Anna responded this time, causing Natalie to sheepishly smile.

"Umm...There's still a multitude of spells that I haven't learned yet" Natalie said, a small blush forming on her face.

Twilight couldn't help but grin at this. The greatest mage of her world? This she had to see. "Well...I hope the both of us can learn from each other then. I can't wait to see what spells you can wield!" Twilight excitedly exclaimed, causing her friends to chuckle at her.

Twilight composed herself before asking, "With that in mind, does your staff help you in some sort of way? Besides casting spells" Twilight said, quickly adding the last line.

"Yes actually. All my staffs that I have wielded in my adventures all help me in some way. This staff in particular helps boost my magical prowess by quite a bit, although not as much as one of my other. However, with that, there is also some negative effects that they posses. The staff that I had said, which is called 'Hela's Staff', causes my vitality and my magical capacity to drop, even though it boosts the potency of my magic by quite a lot" Natalie explained, causing Twilight to furiously scribble it down on her notepad.

"Wait, then that means it does the same with your bow, right Anna?" Rarity asked this time round, causing Anna to nod in reply.

"Yep. However, for me, my bow causes not only the spells that I cast to be stronger but all the arrows that I fire to hurt more. However, as what Natz said, some of my other bows also has negative effects. Like causing me to be slower, having lower accuracy and stuff like that, while granting some absurd boosts. I have this one bow called the Eagles Eye that slightly lowers the damage my spells and arrows do but it never fails me to hit every single attack I make. Like I said, absurd stats" Anna said, nodding to herself with her eyes closed.

Once again, both Natalie and Anna saw Twilight furiously scribble down what the both of them have said. Rainbow;s attention then peaked when she heared the word 'Adventure'. "The two of you went of an adventure? Like, to where? Around the world?" Rainbow asked, her interest seemingly caught now.

"True. However, it's not only me and Anna that went on an adventure. The both of us actually have two other teammates that we worked together. Their names are Matthew and Lance and both of them are guys" Natalie answered, causing the girls to 'ooo' in surprise.

"So...What's the other two then? Ah can tell that your a mage of some sorts while Anna herself is an archer" Applejack asked.

"Well...I guess I should start from the beginning of my adventure, all the way before I met Matthew" Natalie started, adjusting her seating posture.

"You see, I actually came from a family of white mages back in my home world in which I was part of a small white mage group, dedicated to learning about the spellcraft of the white mages. I eventually got sick and tired of learning the same old spells day after and day and soon I left wearing the same outfit you see before you and the same staff I am currently holding. This dress is actually a modified version of the one I used to wear, since all the months I spent travelling did a number to the dress" Natalie said.

"I traveled far and wide, learning not only what is considered as white magic back in my world, dealing with the stuff for holy of defensive purposes, but also black magic, dealing with the more destructive magic. Also taking up quests, I also spent the gold I had earned on some other dresses, not only to try and fill my wardrobe but that I could feel it would help me. Eventually, I arrived at a small city where there was a stadium holding a tournament. Winner takes the fame and glory as well as a huge sum of gold. However, downside was that it was a 'fight-to-the-death' sort of tournament" Natalie then heard the girls, even Anna, gasp. "Yea...That was my first thoughts of it but I felt pretty confident in it since almost all the competitors were those melee battlers"

Anyways, long stories short, I made it pretty far up the rankings. My next match was against this golden haired guy name Matthew" Natalie then heard them gasp once again. "Yep. The very same Matthew I know until now. Anyways, I lost the battle rather quickly. I thought he was going to go an all 'Up-in-your-face- sort of strategy since he made his sword disappear but I was fooled, when I saw a bright light from the sky in the shape of the sword. I thought I was going to die at that point, I was scared witless, with me sitting on the floor seemingly paralyzed. However, he spared my life, making the sword of light barely hit me, only landing in between my legs. I quickly left the arena, scared due to the near death experience. I was pretty ragged after that as well, my hair was disheveled and I remember having a nosebleed"

"However, before I could leave the town, I remember Matthew coming up to me with a worried look on his face. He apologized for making me experience that traumatizing moment and asked whether or not I wanted to follow him along on his adventures. Needless to say I didn't hesitate to say yes" Natalie said, having a small blush on her face when she heard some small 'squee' from the girls and with Anna saying how cute that was. "Anyways, after that, me and Matt went around the world doing what he can to help others and to have some fun along the way. Not in that regard Rainbow Dash" Natalie said with an unamused look when Rainbow Dash gave her a look that said 'I bet you did it'.

"Anyways, along the way, we learned of a recent news that there was a person rampaging through a certain part of the world, claiming to want to destroy everything in the world to hope for a new beginning. When we reached the area, there was this giant armored vehicle filled with different stuff, like a magic jammer, causing myself to unable to cast spells and Matt to unable to use his swordplay moves. The pilot of the vehicle was a gunner, using this special device that shoots deadly metal projectiles at rediculous speed. Not only that, but apparently he was able to call for backup, sending in these metallic objects called bombs that explode and deal very huge amounts of damage as well as having absurd accuracy due to this device he dubs the Scanner. Needless to say, we defeated him and that was how me and Matthew met Lance" Natalie concluded, causing the girls, besides Anna, to look at her in shock.

"Woa! That Lance dude wanted to destroy the world before?" Rainbow asked, causing Natalie to nod.

"That's mean! He is a meanie pants!" Pinkie responded, causing Natalie to chuckle.

"Don't worry, he now uses his powers for good and its all water under the bridge now" Natalie said.

Twilight was quiet for the most of the conversations up until she asked, "You said your teammate Matthew was a good swordspony right? How good is he actually?"

Natalie chuckled once more. "It's swordsman actually where I came from and to give you and idea of how powerful he is, he can take and entire magical energy beam directly to the face and he can still to a cartwheel afterwards. I have seen him punched a robot so hard it flew thousands of miles away, leaving a trail of broken terrain. Not only that, but his swords that he wields are all two handed weapons. I have seen many people try to lift them up with both of their hands but none could carry them for a long time and Matthew can do that with only one hand. Heck, I've seen him use two swords before. Nothing else to say other than the entire battlefield he fought in was unrecognizable afterwards" Natalie concluded with a straight face, looking at the many shocked faces.

"Um...Wow..." Rainbow Dash simply said.

"Darn.." Applejack whispered gulping slightly.

"Oh....My...." Fluttershy whimpered in her seat from the thought of the sheer power of a single being.

"Oh dear..." Rarity began fanning herself, not theatrically but due to her body giving more body heat that normal.

"Wowee!" Pinkie's shocked face soon turned into a huge grin, seemingly un-phased by this.

"And I thought Shinning was strong..." Twilight said, stopping her writing.

"Yea! But don't worry though, he's really kind and gentle! Even after a bad start with him" Anna said nodding with a smile.

After a rather long odd silence, Rarity then asked a question that managed to break the atmosphere. "So tell me darling, you said you bought some dresses. May it be too much to let me see them?" she asked, causing some 'Ooo' to come from the rest of the girls.

"Erm..sure. But keep in mind, the clothing I have is actually back at home. I just use my a magic to magically transport them to myself" Natalie explained first.

"OH! A simple transportation spell!" Twilight said in surprise.

Natalie then stood up, grabbing her staff and waving it in the air. Moments later, a bright white glow surrounded her. After a while, when the glow soon died out, the girls then soon found themselves looking at Natalie in a completely new set of clothing, a pure white silk dress with what seemed to have a jacket as well, with a hat on her head and a completely new staff, a pure white metal handle with two white wings with a sapphire crystal in the middle which was held together by a piece of golden string.

"Oh my! That is a stunning dress, darling~!" Rarity answered as she and the rest of the girls came close to take a look at the beautiful dress.

"Thank you! This was given to me when me, Matthew and Lance were trekking along a tundra. We traded some old relics and ancients miniature statues in exchange for this" Natalie fondly recalled how much this entire 'set' saved her during her journey with the two guys in her team.

"I've never really seen you wear that! It looks so pretty!" Anna said, feeling the soft velvety texture of the dress.

"Natalie! That could be Lance firing off his Hyper Beam! They must be over there!" Anna excitedly said, pulling onto the shoulder of Natalie.

"Come on girls! Somethings wrong in Canterlot. I can feel it" Twilight said as she and the rest of her friends went to the nearby train station with Anna and Natalie behind their tail.

=Meanwhile=

Matthew continue to stare at the mare with his nonchalant look. The atmosphere was heavy and the rest of the guards were rather afraid.

...Up until Matthew laughed, causing everypony except Lance, who was smiling, to flinch.

"Hahaha! I'm just joking about not doing that again. To be honest, do it again! That tickled actually!" Matthew grinned at the mare. He then lowered his sword before pulling out his other hand. "Here, you best be standing up"

Starburst continued to look at the odd creature. Moments ago, she just blasted him with the most powerful spell she knew, leaving him unphased by it. He then proceeded to threaten her not to do it before laughing minutes later saying she should do it again. And now he was helping her! Starburst couldn't comprehend what this creature wanted but she didn't hesitate to grab his hand after a moment of silence.

"There we go! Up once again. Let's try this again shall we? The names Matthew, you can call me Matt for short" Matthew smiled at the mare.

Starburst couldn't help but stare at him as if he was insane. However, if the creature was wanting a fresh start after the bad one she just did, she took the chance to right what she did wrong. "....Starburst" she softly said.

"Nice ta meetcha!" Matthew said, continuing to smile at the mare.

A little further away, Princess Celestia couldn't help but smile knowing that everything was fine for now. She then heard a voice that caused her to jump slightly. "Let me tell me, that Matt is one big softy at heart. Don't let his fiercesome battle moves make you think otherwise" Celestia turned to her right to see that that 'Lance' creature was now beside her, not seeing where he went just now.

Celestia turned back to the sight of a now laughing 'Matt' creature and the face of a slightly slightly flushed Starburst and she couldn't help but smile once again. If what this 'Lance' creature say is true, then she didn't really have to be cautious.

"...I'm happy to hear that..." Celestia answered.

Reunion and the first encounter

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The cast of the 'Epic Battle Fantasy' series, Matt, Natz, Lance and Anna do not belong to me. They all belong to Kupo707, also known as Matt Roszak.

"Ack! No! That's a fencing technique! Your sword is meant to hack and slash stuff you n00b!" Matt yelled, causing the mare to flinch.

It has been a couple of hours after the commotion where a small portion of the Canterlot Castle got blown off, leaving a huge hole that lead to the Royal Gardens. Everything was mostly back to normal, although everypony in the castle were still on high alert due to the two beings that were still in the castle.

Lance was currently with Princess Celestia and her sister Princess Luna, whom was abruptly awoken by the sheer magic that Starburst let loose. He was basically talking to the both of them about his home world and how he and Matt came to be friends. Needless to say, the two princesses were shocked to find out that this particular human, as what he called his species to be, wielded such a deadly device. However, Lance managed to calm the both of them out of their shock, saying that he regretted what he did and now used his powers for the greater good, to which he also told them about how him, Matt and a lady named Natz fought against an immortal being that wanted to bring destruction to their home planet.

Matt, however, found himself inside the Royal Barracks where, orders from Princess Celestia, he trained with the Royal Guards, which he found to be a big surprise when all the guards, except for some of the higher ranking ones, were female. He taught them about his world's different swordsman playstyle, as well as giving them a brief history of how he became a swordsman himself. The guards were rather curios about his story and found themselves wondering how this being was so powerful.

The training itself wasn't too harsh at first, although the guards themselves wouldn't call it easy either. They did some basic blocking, attacking, dodging as well as Matt asking them to mix magic along with it, for those who could wield magic. As said earlier, the training seemed easy at first but it went downhill when Matt said a couple of words.

"I will begin to pick any one of you to spar against me. Starting from...you!"

And the mare that Matt first pointed at was scared to say the least. However, as what the guards soon learned when they saw him spar, was that he was a very kind being. To give an example, when Matt used one of the borrowed swords from the guards many spares, he managed to hit the mare and giving her a rather deep wound at the side. When he saw her writhing in pain, he immediately stopped and ran to her, asking whether she needed to go to the Castle's personal doctors.

Needless to say, she didn't go, causing Matt to ask a different representative.

Right now, the rest of the guards were watching him spar at a safe distance, analyzing his movement and attack patterns.

"Quick Slash!"

Taking a step back, Matt gripped his sword tightly before dashing towards the mare at lightning speed, with the mare just barely blocking the attack. Letting go of the pressure that Matt was applying, quickly swung his hand around and tried to slash her, only to hit nothing but the air as she dodged it with relative ease.

"Take cover!" Matt yelled, causing the mare to look at him confusingly.

Matt then raised his sword with both of his hands before yelling out a word.

"Tremor!"

He then slammed the tip of his blade against the hard ground, making it crack slightly. After a moment, a slight tremor could be felt coursing through the ground, causing the earth beneath the mare to erupt outwards. Earth spike then emerged, catching the mare off guard slightly. Using what little strength she had left, she jumped out of the way, barely escaping a spike that nearly scratched her at the sides.

Panting heavily, the mare dropped to her knees, her sword impaled into the ground. Matt sighed, knowing that she couldn't handle any more. "Alright, go rest up. I can tell you need it" he said, walking towards her. Once he reached her, he reached out his hand towards her. "Come on now. Get up" he said softly.

The mare in particular stared at him for a while, her eyes darting back and forth between his smile and his hand, before grabbing his hand, allowing him to pull her up. She grabbed her sword and pulled it out of the ground.

"Say, I never really got your name. Nor for the other female" Matt said, placing his sword behind him as he crossed his arms.

"Cosmic Shard....The one before me was Silver Gleam" the mare known as Shard said to Matt, causing him to nod.

"Alright then. Send her my apologies. I really didn't mean it" he said, rubbing his neck sheepishly.

Shard nodded, panting slightly less as she grabbed her sword and left the so called 'arena'. Just as Matt was about to call someone else, a voice caught his attention from the distance.

"Hey Matt!". Matt turned around to find his buddy Lance walking to him, his gunblade could be seen from behind his back.

When he got near, the two gave each other a fist bump, smiling widely.

"Girls, this is Lance. You probably know him by now" Matt chuckled as Lance took off his officer's cap and gave a bow.

The guards didn't say much aside from various looks among themselves. "Hey don't be like that! This guy's really nice. He wont bite. Trust me". There was a bit of hesitation at first among the mares, but eventually, they all started to hold a conversation with the gunner and even the swordsman.

Along the corridor towards the Royal Garden, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were quietly walking, still contemplating over the events that had transpired over the last couple of hours. However, the duo's thoughts were interrupted when they heard laughter coming from the gardens.

The two looked at each other for a moment before seemingly having the same idea to check what it was all about. "What do you think our guards are laughing about sister?" Luna asked, trying to break the silence between the two.

Celestia merely sighed and shrugged before replying, "I honestly have no idea dear sister".

As the two entered the gardens, they were greeted by an odd sight.

Matt was juggling all sorts of items with relative ease as Lance kept on throwing more items onto the pile, causing the guards to break into laughter when Matt lost his footing and dropped everything he juggled onto his head, causing him to spin his head for a few turns before shaking off the concussion, him and Lance laughing along as well.

From the mere sight, Celestia and Luna smiled, knowing that their guards were now more at ease with the two new creatures.

"Wow!" Anna and Natalie exclaimed in delight from the sight of the magnificent buildings of Canterlot.

A few moments ago, the entire group had finally reached Canterlot, taking a bit of time due to an unfortunate rail track incident.

"No time to waste!" Twilight said, pulling the two girls along.

Snapping out of their trance, Natalie and Anna ran behind the group, catching the attention of the snooty ponies, mostly the stallions, causing their marefriends to hit them.

Once they reached the castle, two guards stopped them as their lances were blocking their path. "Halt!" They yelled out loud. "No pony is allowed to enter"

Twilight only gave them an unamused look. "Guys...It's me. You know, Princess Twilight Sparkle?" she asked, completely unamused.

The guards seemed to have recognized the purple alicorn. "O-Oh! Our mistake Princess!" One of the guards said before the two relaxed their stances, letting them through.

Once inside, both Anna and Natalie couldn't help but gander at the beautiful marbled walls, the stunning architecture and the murals. It was truly a sight to behold. "This is so cool!" Anna exclaimed in delight, her green eyes sparkling ever so slightly.

It was then that Twilight noticed both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, both in their usual royal regalia, walking slowly towards them. They didn't seem to notice the gang as they were talking among each other. Twilight then decided to call out to them.

"Princess Celestia! Princess Luna!" Twilight called out, waving her hands in the air to catch their attention.

Needless to say, the royal sisters caught sight of her and smiled. When they were a couple of meters away, Celestia decided to greet her with a hug. "Twilight. How nice of you to come along. Oh? It seems your friends are here too" Celestia said in her usual motherly tone. She then noticed two very odd creatures before asking, "Twilight, who are those two?", pointing a finger to both Anna and Natalie, whom were still staring at the murals on the wall.

"Oh! I wanted to ask you about them actually. They say they're humans and they came from a different world" Twilight said, summarizing what she had learned from the two new girls.

This caused Celestia eyes to widen considerably. Twilight noticed this and asked, "Princess, are you ok?"

"Twilight..." Celestia started, "....Are their names Anna and Natalie..?" she asked, keeping her voice toned down.

This time, Twilights eyes widened. "Yes actually! How did you know?"

"Are they here to check on somepony named Matthew and Lance?" Luna asked this time around.

Twilight was now getting suspicious. How did they know? It was impossible to tell since the two of them just came to this world. Unless...

"...Twilight, can you ask them to come over here?" Celestia asked, causing Twilight to comply with a very slow nod.

"Anna! Natalie! This is my mentor and the Princess of the sun, Princess Celestia. Co-ruler of Equestria. And this is Princess Luna, Princess of the moon, Co-ruler of Equestria and Celestia's sister" Twilight said, holding a welcoming smile.

As soon as both of the girls laid their eyes on the two princesses, it would have seemed that they were about to pop right out of their sockets. They were relatively tall, only being about a head taller than them, not counting their horn. They were both stunning and beheld an aura of grace as well as authority. It was then that Natalie mentally sighed, thanking them for having a bigger breast size than her. It was stressful enough to find most men ogling her.

Just as Celestia was about to say something, Anna beat her to it. "Wow! You're really tall!! I wish I can be that tall! I don't want to be short~..." Anna ended in a small frown, but it was nonexistent due to how quick it changed into a sheepish smile. "I..I mean...Umm...H-Hello.." she said in an embarrassed tone, causing both of the royal sisters to laugh.

However, it was at that time that they heard a scream. Followed by a whizzing noise and then a huge explosion from the nearby wall. Once the dust cleared away, all that could be seen was Matt lying on the pile of broken debris, his Heavens gate in his right hand as he rubbed his head with his left. This caught the sight of both the Mage and the archer.

"MATT?!?!" Anna and Natalie exclaimed, causing the blonde swordsman to turn his head to the two before grinning.

"Hey! I was wondering where the two of you were!". Matt got up and dusted himself before his face soon turned into one of seriousness, which was rare for a guy so carefree like him. "No real time to explain. Let's just say that the Praetorian is back and it doesn't seem too happy" Matt said, causing both Anna and Natalie's eyes to widen as the rest to look at them confusingly.

"In short, big robot. Came out of nowhere. Wants to destroy stuff" Matt summarized to the best of his ability, this widened their eyes considerably.

Then, out of nowhere, a voice pierced the silence in the room. One that only Matt, Natalie and Anna could recognize very well.

"Hyper Beam!"

They then heard a long "Bzzz" before a grey colored beam tore through the other side of the wall from the otherwise now known 'wall-turned-hole'.

"Come on! Times wasting!" Matt yelled, putting his sword on his back as he grabbed both of the girls hands and dragged them to the royal garden, where they saw Lance holding his 'Super Snipe' rifle. He turned around and saw Matt with Anna and Natalie, which surprised them.

"Hey! We could really use some help here" Lance simply said, before a red beam was aimed at his chest. A moment later, , the robot's chest opened up and revealed numerous machine guns, fire bursts of bullets at Lance to which he simply dodged them in relative ease.

Afterwards, a red line seemed to run up and down the group, causing the Praetorian to stop for a while before saying something in a metallic voice.

"Matthew. Class:Swordsman. Likes: Swords, Food, Heavy metal, Treasure, Slaying enemies. Dislikes: Long dialogues, Low EXP rates, Lag. Weapons: Unlimited Swords. All stolen"

"Hey! So what if I stole most of it! Not everything's stolen you garbage!" Matt yelled, throwing a rock at the gigantic robot.

"Natalie. Class: Mage. Likes: Peace, Sweets, Tree hugging, Cute things, Healing. Dislikes: Tentacles, Death, Evil spikes, Being sent to the kitchen. Weapons: Powerful Magic and Huge boobs"

"H-Hey!!" Natalie yelled when the robot said her boobs were weapons, causing Anna to unconsciously grip hers, a small frown on her face.

"Anna. Class: Archer. Likes: Tree hugging, Nature, Cute creatures, Pet bushes, Healthy food, Living. Dislikes: Dying, Tentacles, Toxic materials, Computers, Big words. Weapons: Variety of bows. Cuteness overload"

"Cool!" Anna yelled, grinning.

"Hey, why didn't he say you stats and whatnot Lance?" Matt asked, pointing a finger at Lance in an accusing tone.

"He did a while ago. Said I was a bomb freak, liking guns and explosions and that I'm stupid" Lance replied in an unamused tone.

The group groaned before taking their stances next to each other. The entire garden was silent, the many eyes of the female guards, the elements and the Princesses stared at the group.

And then, the Praetorian swung its red metallic katana, as if it was leading a charge. Suddenly, two robots wearing a brown leather jackets materialized beside the Praetorian, a small sword stuck on top the hat of one, while the other had a magazine.

"Shit! A gunslinger and a swordslinger!" Lance yelled out loud, placing his ridiculously large black rifle on his back as he gripped his gunblade tightly.

"Natz, Anna, take care of the two slingers first. Lance and I will distract the Praetorian" Matt whispered to his teammates, earning a nod for a reply.

The battle began when Matt yelled out one word.

"Cataclysm!"

Matt the slammed his sword down onto the ground. The ground beneath them started to shake ferociously, sending many ponies in the City of Canterlot of quake in fear. Moments later, a huge pillar of earthy stone erupted from the ground beneath the Praetorian, sending it reeling back as it shot many small rockets in retaliation, most of which the four were able to dodge. Those that did hit them had stung quite a bit.

"Barrier"

A moment later, after chanting in an unknown language, a red barrier surrounded the four heroes in the shape of multiple diamonds, increasing their resilience against any kind of magical attacks their foes might toss at them. Natalie then cupped her hands and placed then on top of her chest, chanting in another unknown language, her staff somehow able to stay vertical.

"Thunder Storm!"

Natalie yelled, slamming the the bottom tip of her staff onto the ground. Moments later, a loud rumble could be heard from up above in the sky, the clouds started to gather as thy turned dark in color, sparks of lightning being emitted dangerously. Not a moment too soon, a series of lightning bolts fell from the clouds and struck the robots, causing a sizzling sound to be heard and, what seemed to be, a low metallic groan emitted from the Praetorian.

Whispering a couple of words to himself, Matt's sword suddenly glowed red along the outline. With a grin, he then charged headlong into danger, the metallic behemoth readying its red katana. Jumping in the air, Matt narrowly dodged the katana slash that was meant for him, before he yelling out into the heavens.

"Legend!"

Landing with a loud impact, Matt slashed the Praetorian in the chest, leaving a huge cut. Dodging the other attacks meant for him, Matt gripped his sword and gave several swift, yet painful, jabs, in which the Praetorian had to block most of it with its gigantic metallic shield. Matt then twisted his right hand and thrusted the sword upwards before delivering a mighty blow, sending the shield to fly meters away.

Meanwhile, Lance was helping the two girls against more slingers that had materialized out of nowhere. Lance was partnering Anna to help Natalie fully cast her spells, the both of them shooting a flurry of mixed bullets and arrows that either whizzed past the many robots or it actually hit them, sending sparks of electricity to fly around. However, they also had to dodge the many bullets and swords that were shot at them, which most of it they had managed to dodge.

At the corner of his eye, a lone Swordslinger managed to sneak behind Natalie who was practically a healing ward, using her trained white magic spells to heal the many wounds that, if left unattended, may kill them. Re-equipping his scanner, Lance gripped the handle of his gunblade with both hands, a finger lying on the trigger.

"Snipe"

Lance whispered to himself before he pulled the trigger. The bullet then whizzed past Natalie's right ear before hitting the robot dead center in the head. Natalie flinched when she heard a high pitched screech and sparks flying about. Turning around, she saw the dead robot with a hole in its head. Turning back, she simply saw Lance looking at her with a smile as the barrel of his gunblade emitted a small smoke train. Smiling back, Natalie was about to say "Thank you", only to be cut off when a yellow haired blur shot past her, landing on the ground with a groan.

Turning around, she saw Matt get up and dusted himself before gritting his teeth as his right eye glowed red for a moment, before jumping off and yelling a word.

"Revenge!"

Landing on the other side with a loud impact, Matt brought his sword down with a mighty blow towards the Praetorian, leaving a big slice from the top of its metallic chest to the bottom, a series of computer sounds could be heard.

It was terrifying to say the least.

Moments ago, this metallic behemoth had suddenly appeared saying it wanted to destroy everything. The guards couldn't do much against its strong titanium plated chest, only making their swords and spears bounce off. The unicorns tried to use magic and needless to say, the most they could do was fry a very small portion of its outer layer.

And now, here they are, these four new beings, fighting against this gigantic robot thing and it's minions. Everypony could only stare in amazement at how easy it looked when Matt sliced and diced the robot, how fast the projectiles from Lance and Anna were and on how potent Natalie's magic was.

In everypony's eyes, they were a force to be reckoned with.

Rainbow Dash couldn't help but grin at how cool the moves this 'Matt' could do, delivering mighty blows as he managed to dodged almost all of his foes attack with ease. And this 'Lance', he never missed a shot from his weapon. All she could heard was a couple of 'PEW PEW PEW' and his enemies suddenly dropped down with ease.

Twilight was enthrall we in how Natalie castes her spells. True, she didn't have a horn, but she had thought that her hands would at least glow, signifying the spell cast. But nothing of the sorts. She just simply said what spell she wanted, and it just happens. This, 'Thunder Storm'' she casted, was one such example, causing a black clouds to suddenly appear as sparks of lightning struck down.

For the two Princesses, it was a horrifying. Princess Celestia had thought that Matt was maybe using some sort of amulet that had let him survive that magical blow against Starburst. But she couldn't help but widen her eyes when she saw the metallic behemoth grab him and throw him into the ground.

Very hard.

And yet, he survived, not looking that fazed at all! He even jumped up high afterwards and delivered a blow against the robot.

She really couldn't that the four of them we're nought to fight this being. Matt just simply gave her a small smirk before he continued to pull the two girls his hands were holding onto.

Princess Luna could only stare in amazement at the creatures. When her sister first said about how powerful they were, she was very hesitant to agree. However, now as they displayed their combat prowess, she wouldn't doubt their strength, although, she thought, maybe a scientific testing is needed for research.

With another loud crash, the two Princess and the elements found themselves watching a dust cloud. After it cleared, it showed Matt whom was, once again, thrown by the behemoth. He was gritting his teeth in anger and he jumped up onto his feet, exclaiming that, "I had enough! Guys! I'm taking them out now!"

He then raised his sword and his entire body glowed red for a moment. Gripping his sword with his two hands, his entire form disappeared as he took a small step forward. Moments later, he appeared next to every single one of the robots, in lightning quick succession as he kept on appearing and then disappearing. When he came to the behemoth, he jumped up into the air before he pierced the robot, leaving a gigantic hole in its chest. He then landed on his right foot and left knee, a rouge wind seemingly passed by him, causing his hair to flow as he stared at the ground, his hat obstructing anyone who wanted to see his face.

Still kneeling down, he pointed his sword towards his right as he spoke a few words.

"Aku Zoku Zan. Swift death to evil"

And then, all the slingers sizzled for a moment before falling and then exploding, a flurry of explosions kicking up tons of dust. The behemoth then said in its deep metallic voice, "System Malfuntioning! Unable to recover!" before many small explosions erupted from the inside, causing the behemoth to topple over. Once it was all done, Matt stood up, his hair flowing against the same rogue wind as he faced away everyone, a small smirk forming on his face.

Aftermath (Or, Chapter: Matt and friends get cool stuff)

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The cast of the 'Epic Battle Fantasy' series, Matt, Natz, Lance and Anna do not belong to me. They all belong to Kupo707, also known as Matt Roszak.

The job was done. With the Praetorian now dead, Lance, Natalie and Anna gave a huge sigh of relief. Silence soon followed as all that could be heard was the sizzling of burnt computer parts and sparks from the electronics. The battle that seemed to last for hours had finally ceased and the entire battlefield was filled with nothing but scrap metal and broken robot pieces, with the Praetorian still in relative shape.

Standing up, Matt blew a strand of his blonde hair away from his face as he placed the sword on his shoulders and walked to the his teammates with a small smile, receiving smiles back from his friends. Turning to his left, he saw the many ponies were staring at him with a wide eyed expression and opened jaws, with a couple of the female guards grinning while a others fainted. Chuckling, he casted his eyes over the two princesses and the six new ponies, all of which were gawking at him. He gave them a small smirk before he turned back to face his friends.

"Well now...That's that I supposed" Matt said, impaling his sword on the ground and placing a hand on his, causing him to tilt slightly to the right. "Only thing is, how did they manage to get here? I mean, Lance did hack it and we used it for our benefit. So why did it turn against us once again?"

Scratching the back of his head, Lance faced away for a mere moment softly saying in an embarrassed tone, "Hehehe...Yea...Hacked it pretty good..."

"I'm not too sure. I've never been good at this computer robot thing that you guys know how to do" Natalie commented, leaning forward slightly with the help of her staff.

"Don't ask me! I've never been an IT person" Anna said, waving her hands defensively.

"...Hmmm...Hey Lance, do you think you could fix it and program it to help us instead?" Matt asked, scratching his chin.

Lance rubbed his chin and thought. "Well....Based on the damages we have done to it, it would probably take about a couple of weeks by the least. From what I see, it looks like you fried it's motherboard. I could try and remake it but it take more time. The hacking park shouldn't be too much of a hassle" Lance said.

"Ehh...Better than nothing I supposed" Matt said. He then picked up his sword and placed it behind his back. "Anyways, we should probably help out cleaning those dead slingers out. From the looks of our fight....We did quite a number to this garden" Matt whistled as he surveyed the place, only finding small traces of what used to be a garden. Broken statue pieces here, hedges destroyed, flowers burned. Among other stuff.

"*Sigh* We're going to be here for a while..." Lance replied, placing his cap back on.

As the two males walked towards the, still shaken ponies, Natalie placed a hand on Anna's shoulder. "Anna...This is what it feels like to do housework...Need to start early if you're going to marry Lance" Natalie said, the last part more joking.

"H-Hey!!" Anna yelled. However, Natalie was already on her feet and was now quite distant from her.

After many, many hours of intense work, most of the Royal Gardens were back to it's original state, the only few places that were not yet back in complete shape were the places that were burnt to crisp by the many missiles that both the Praetorian and the Gunsligers fired. The huge wall that god demolished when Matt was sent flying, was mostly back to original, only with a couple of holes that needs patching up here and there. Matt wiped his forehead and gave a huge sigh of relief, seeing as how the job was now done.

You see, as he and most of the guards were helping with the walls, his friends went and helped various other things.

Lance was in charge of trashing the robotic beings as well as fixing up the Praetorian so that it would help them instead of kill them. However, due to Lance's rather creative nature, he would be using most of the salvageable scrap metal for components to upgrade the guards armor and weaponry, as he told Matt that with their rather primitive metal armor and weapons, they wouldn't be able to pierce or slash through any creatures that came from their world, seeing as though they could.

Natalie and Anna were in charge with tending to the wounded at the medical wing of the castle. Most specifically, Natalie would be tending to those whom are magically hurt, such as a backlash of magic pulses and/or any form of radiation from the Praetorian, which Anna tended to those whom were more physically hurt, such as broken jaws, arms and stuff like that.

Which left him and most of the guards to do the physical labour, with the unicorns using their magics if needed and the pegasi using their wings if they needed to reach something up high. 'To be honest, I'm not surprised they chose me for the heavy work. Heh...A meat shield after all' Matt joked, chuckling a little.

"Um..Sir? You're presence is required" A female voice called out, causing Matt to turn around.

There he found a pearl white earth pony with a lush golden mane with a pair of blue streaks down the middle. "Oh! I'm needed?" Matt asked, causing the mare to nod. "Well alright then Miss..." He trailed on with an ushering hand, causing the mare to tell met name.

"Sapphire Dust, sir" The mare said, causing Matt to nod.

"Alright. And please, cut with the 'sir' crap. Feel old when I'm called that" Matt chuckled, causing the mare to blush a little and giggle. She turned around and ushered Matt to follow alongside her as the both headed their way.

"So...Umm...What do you girls actually do here for fun?" Matt asked, trying to dispel the awkwardness.

"Oh. Well, we often play card games and board games for fun most of the time. Then, if were on our free time, we would sometimes go prancing ponies. Either in the castle or in Canterlot. Thankfully we're not restricted to only the castle" Sapphire said, waving a hand as she told him.

Matt nodded. "I see..." He trailed off for a while. He was then tapped by her, causing him to look at her confusingly.

"So what do you call those sword techniques of yours?" Sapphire asked, curiosity overwhelming her.

"Ah! Well, their called my 'Bushido' which basically means a code of honor and morals that my father taught me. All the things that you've seen me do we're just a couple of them, among many others. And what makes them special is that my sword also plays an important role in them" Matt somewhat summarized, causing the mare to look at him confusingly.

"Your sword? How?" she asked.

"Well, you see this sword at my back?" He asked, pointing a thumb at his Heavens Gate. Sapphire then nodded, "Well, every weapon I wield contains. And element along with it which would either inflict more pain against my foes or do nothing at all if their elements are the same. For example, my Heavens Gate is a Holy elemental weapon. This causes more harm against those with an element of evil or darkness and would hardly anything against those that are Holy elemental as well" Matt told her, sounding well rehearsed.

"Wow...Well that's cool" She said with a smile, causing Matt to chuckle.

"Not only that, but if I use one of my Bushido techniques, named 'Seiken' which basically means 'Holy Blade' in a different language, the sword technique will be significantly stronger. If you want to learn more abou them, you should to ask Natalie. She's the one with the orange hair and a staff" Matt said, causing the mare to nod in understanding.

After a couple more moments of the two talking, they had reached a large red metallic door, where two guards were standing. Sapphire said that "This is it" before telling him that she needed to check on her guard mates. Nodding, Matt said farewell for now and went up, causing the guards to nod at him before pushing the door.

Once opened, Matt saw Lance with the Praetorian fully functioning, standing at attention as Princess Celestia and Luna went up and inspected it. However, something was off with the robot. The main difference was that it had a more dark tone with a couple of flashing red lines and orbs. In the middle, where the huge open hole was at before, was still there, but, from what, Matt thought, Lance had some help from a unicorn or Natalie as the two seperate halfs were floating as a small red orb hang in the middle, with teeth like metal blades around the rim of the two halves. His eyes then trailed upwards and found that The Praetorian was now wielding a weapon that resembled a butchers knife, with its shield being relatively the same. On it's back were two ruby red metal 'wings' that supported the entire robot via upward thrust. Matt usually called it 'wings' due to its design being more wing-like.

He walked nearer, causing him to hear the conversation they were currently having.

"...-his is truly a masterwork, Sir Lance. We must ask though. This behemoth will not hurt any of our little ponies?" Luna asked, causing Lance to chuckle.

"Don't worry Princess. The Praetorian will not harm anything unless told to. I made sure to recalibrate everything since something or someone had messed up my defense mechanism for this thing" Lance said, patting the bottom side of the robot where a small red glow was being emitted.

It was then that Matt decided to make his presence known. "Yup. Ol' Lancy Pants knows his stuff when it comes to mechanics and robots and stuff like that" Mat said, chuckling slightly when he saw the three flinch slightly.

The two royal sisters regained their composure and welcomed Matt into the throne room. Lance then ushered Matt to come nearer, which he complied with a grin.

Once he was close, Lance gave him a firm slap before giving him an unamused face. "Real funny Matt. Real funny" Lance said, before smiling a little. "Anyways, I think you may like this" he said before going behind the Praetorian, causing Matt and the Princesses to be confused.

Matt turned his head to look at the two monarch, hoping to get an answer. In the end, all he received was a shrug. Sighing slightly, Matt turned back and found Lance holding some sort of black metallic rectangle with a hilt protruding it. Giving Lance a confused look, Lance chuckled. "Anyways, I found the thing that had corrupted the data banks of the Praetorian and found out that it could be altered using a bit of help from the princesses best mages. Apparently, the material that had caused the Praetorian to go haywire is also the same from a certain foe we have encountered before. That being the Cosmic Monolith" Lance told him, causing Matt's eyes to widen in shock.

"Yea...Apparently the material that came from the Monolith was too powerful for the Praetorian to handle and it corrupted it, causing the thing to go nuts on us. Luckily for us, I managed to painstakingly remove all the alloy and reshaped the Praetorian. Hadn't really thought of a good name, so I just went with the 'Praetorian Mk II'. The one thing that weird's me out the most is that once everything was assembled, the damn thing suddenly changed color, having a much more darker tone with them red glowing lines that you see"

Matt nodded in acknowledgement. "Yea....But pretty cool nonetheless". He then heard the two princesses usher Lance to continue, seeing as that he wasn't finished yet.

"Anyways, I actually had more spare alloy's to work with when I was done. At first, I thought of scrapping them, but then I thought, 'Why don't I make some weapons out of these?'. And so, I did. To keep things simple, it took me a heck of a load of time, but they're done. A weapon for all three of you guys, with my Shadow Blaster upgraded. I only have yours at the moment. The rest are still back at the castle's personal smithy" Lance grinned, causing Matt to grin in return.

"Oh? Pray tell what does Sir Matthew's sword looks like?" Luna asked as both she and her sister walked up to the two humans.

"Glad you asked Princess" Lance said. He then grabbed the hilt before unsheathing a black two handed sword and dropping the metal container onto the floor with a loud 'CLANG'.

Matt gingerly grabbed the sword with his hands, his right hand gripping the hilt as his left one slowly grazed the blade. The sword itself was as black as the night, with the hilt being red. It was an odd looking one, probably one of the oddest looking blade Matt has ever seen. The blade was split into two sides with a nice clean cut in the middle, the outline of the blade glowing slightly red. On the blade itself, however, were the same designs as the Cosmic Monolith he had faced before, red glowing lines and a two bright red glowing orbs near the tip of the two bladed sword.

Then, after a while, he felt a sudden surge of energy flow from his hands and through his body, energizing him. Grinning, he turned his attention to his friend for a moment and stared back at his sword.

Needless to say, Matt was grateful. "I..Just...Wow dude...This is really amazing" Matt said slightly breathlessly as he continued to grinned at his new sword.

Lance laughed. "No problem. But to be honest, I really think those red orbs may be the center of this certain type of alloy. It always appears first before all those red glowing lines start to appear from it and spread out in different directions" Lance told him, chewing on the inside of his cheek.

Matt laughed when his friend said that, his eyes never peeling off from the magnificent creation he made.

"...and we should be done now!" Natalie gave a relieved sigh as she sat down on one of the spare beds.

"Oh man! I'm so tired!" Anna groaned, lying down on the same bed as Natalie.

After many hours of intense doctor work, the two females were finally done tending to any of the guards that were injured before they and fought or were caught in the crossfire. Anna, with her 'pro-as-heck' survival skills, tended to those with physical pain while Natalie nursed on those who were more magically injured as well as helping Anna.

Needless to say, it took them quite some time to get every guard in tip top shape once again.

"On behalf on the rest of the guards, we thank you" a mare known as Starburst, said with a small bow and a smile. Apparently, from what they've learned, she was also the same mare that fought against Matt, and lost, although the girls were not that surprised when she told them how he survived her most powerful magical attack.

"Hey, its no problem really. I was trained by white mages who specialized in this sort of stuff. Although...can't say I ever healed this many" Natalie said, panting as she was still tired.

"You girls should teach us unicorns how to cast such a powerful healing spell like that" a mare with a deep purple mane, whose name they found out is Cosmic Shard, said with a small smile.

This in turn caused both of the human females to chuckle. "If you all want to learn healing spells, go ask Natalie. Most of my healing directly comes from the earth itself" Anna said, trailing her eyes upwards to see a group of three upside down mares.

A light silver-grey maned pegasus mare rolled her eyes. "Yea we know. You told us that like...an hour ago if I'm not wrong" the mare, named Silver Gleam, said in a slightly sarcastic tone.

This caused the entire group of five females to erupt in laughter.

After a while, once the laughter ceased, Natalie stood back up and grabbed her staff that was lying next to the bed, which Anna did the same. "Anyways, it was fun talking to you girls. But we need to go now. Your two Princesses wants to see us in the throne room" Natalie said. She started walking but then stopped as something registered in her mind. "Um...Do any of you know where the throne room is exactly?

The rest of the girls laughed as Natalie blushed crimson.

After a solid few minutes of walking and talking, the five females arrived at a huge red door.

"Here we are!" Startburst announced.

"Oh! Well, thanks girls! See you then!" Natalie said with a smile as she and Anna waved goodbye at the three mares. Looking at one another, they nodded simultaneously before walking inside, finding the Praetorian standing at attention as its thrusters at the bottom were faintly giving off light.

Lance was the first to notice their arrival. "Ah! Natalie! Anna! Good! You're just in time!" Lance said out loud as the two females walked towards the group of four.

"Ah! Afternoon Natalie. Afternoon Anna" Celestia said with a warm smile as her sister smiled as well.

"So...Why are we here for Princess?" Anna asked in a curious tone.

This caused the two princesses to chuckle as they both told the two of what had happened and why the both of them and Matt were requested to be seen. Needless to say, Anna and Natalie were shocked to find out that Lance had, all on his own, completely reworked the Praetorian and created a weapon for the three of them each, using the same material that could be found on a Cosmic Monolith.

"And so, here are yours!" Lance said, as he appeared from behind the Praetorian, holding a staff and a bow.

The staff was had a simple black metal framework with four claw like metal at the tip, surrounding a glowing red sphere. What was interesting about it was that it was seemingly bending time and space around it, creating a black haze like affect around the red sphere. The metal body of the staff was filled with straight, red glowing lines as the bottom tip of the staff had a small red glowing sphere as well.

The bow, on the other hand, had a metal framework almost like Anna's 'Black Widow' bow. The two metal pieces, that was connected to each other, had two spikes near the handle of the bow. On the two opposite sides of the handle piece had the same glowing red orb as red glowing lines were surrounding the frame. What really surprised Anna was the fact that, the bow did not have some sort of metal string on it. Instead, there was a red, thin, glowing line, which Anna assumed to be where she would fire her arrows.

"Let me tell ma...These two were a bitch to make" Lance said with a small frown.

Needless to say, both of the girls were surprised and very much elated at the sight of a new equipment piece. Lance handed out the two weapons to its respective owners, in which, when they touched it, felt a massive influx of energy. For Natalie, she could feel her ability to cast more was increasing as well as feeling that her spells could cause more harm now. For Anna, she could feel her pupils shrink and her senses sharpened. Whenever she looked around, she could feel her eyes pinpointing different items, such as vases.

The two girls grinned at Lance before seeming yelled, "Group Hug!", before the four friends embraced one another in a celebration of a huge success.

A small distance away, the two princesses stared the four humans, turning to each other before smiling. As silently as they could, they exited the throne room, leaving the four as they could hear laughter when they left.

The blue furball and the moon

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Silence.

That was all that could be heard between the two royal sisters as they continued walking down the long hallway. It was pretty evident from their faces that they were thinking of something important. However, it seemed that Luna couldn't take the silence for any longer, as she let out a heavy sigh and spoke. "Sister. Now what do we do about these four creatures? From what we know, it's highly unlikely to try and send them back as we have no clear picture of what their planet even looks like"

After another long silence, Celestia heaved out a sigh of her own. "I honestly do not know, dear Luna. They are very powerful creatures, that we can vouch for, so trying to comprehend them with any force would leave us with heavy damages. However, I may have an idea as for what they can do"

At that moment, Luna turned her head and looked at her sister in a questioning manner. "Now do, pray tell, what that idea may be?" she asked, curious as to what her sister may suggest.

Celestia giggled when she saw her sister make a cute face. "Well...For one thing, they can all help around the castle. Since they are powerful enough to take down that behemoth of a creature of metal, they can also help in defending the land. Whatever may happen, we should council them first, as they have more experience in fighting that us" Celestia said, pointing a finger upwards in a lecturing tone. "Not only that, but Matt can help in training our guards, since he is well versed in the arts of swordsmanship. Lance can work out in the castle's personal blacksmith to see if he can so call, 'upgrade' the guards armor and weaponry" Celestia made an air quotation mark with her fingers.

"For Natalie, I supposed she can work with the archmages as well as train our unicorn guards in magic wielding. And as for Anna, she could potentially help out as a nurse or a doctor in the medical wing" Celestia concluded, causing Luna to close her eyes and think.

It was a pretty good idea. If anything were to ever attack the castle or a place like Canterlot or Ponyville, they would be able to help as they can probably dispatch the problem with ease. The thought of letting Matt train the guards slightly scared Luna, since she knew how powerful he was in terms of strength and his pain tolerance, or what his friends call him, 'The Meat shield'.

Nodding in reply, she smiled at the idea.

Afterwards, the two sisters continued to walk along, making a couple of small talk as well as laughing along the way. Then, they finally made it to the dinning room of the castle where, they shockingly had found, the elements were sitting on the chairs as Fluttershy was holding something that was blue.

Twilight first realized their entrance. "Oh! Hello Princess!" she said with a smile as she waved her hand, to which the royal sisters waved and smiled in return.

Celestia and Luna then sat next to the elements, however, their attention was not towards the food, at which Celestia had used all her willpower to face away from the luscious vanilla creamed cake, but was now at the blue object on Fluttershy's legs. Celestia then asked, "Excuse me Fluttershy. Can you tell me, what is that?" she asked, pointing at the blue object.

Then, the object made a sound that caused the two sisters to flinch slightly as the elements giggled.

"Meow?"

The object then turned around, revealing a blue furred feline. However, that was not the odd part of the cat, but that it did not have any legs whatsoever. "...Kindness...Pray tell, how did you find such an odd feline?" Luna asked.

"Yes Fluttershy...Where did you find him? Or her?" Celestia followed along.

Fluttershy gave a small giggle when she felt the cat squirm on her legs, tickling her. "Well..."

Once the fight was over, which Matt single handedly did, he placed his sword over his shoulder as gave a smirk towards the elements' direction. With that, the girls saw on how he was now casually talking to his teammates as if nothing ever happened, the smile never leaving his face.

Still in relative silence, the four beings went over to the two royal sisters and the elements, solemnly saying that they would help fix the damages they had caused in the castle, to which the sisters reluctantly told them that they were allowed to. With that, all that was left were the elements and a scorched battlefield, as the guards and the two princesses went back in.

"...That...was..." Dash started as her pupils shrank a little from the memory of the destruction.

"...Really...Scary" Fluttershy softly said as she was hiding behind the cyan pegasus.

"...I...Had never seen such...a powerful magical force..." Twilight gasped. "I can still feel the magical residue...It's so potent" she spoke with such horror.

Applejack was unable to say much, other than the fact that she saw 'a whole lot of explosions and stuff'. The reason why was due to her having to tend to a now unconscious pristine white unicorn mare, who bore a small smile.

"...AWESOME!!" Dash finished her sentence, causing the butter yellow pegasus to squeak and somehow manage to be curled into a small ball. "DID YOU ALL SEE THAT?! THAT WAS AWESOME! HE JUST WENT 'SWISH' AND THE ROBITS JUST FELL!!" Rainbow continued, fluttering in the air from the sight of Matthew's swordplay.

"...Well...Ah think ah can safely say that ah've seen everything now..." Applejack grinned, sighing a in relief when she found out that Rarity finally awoke.

"...Oh..Gracious me. That stallion! Oh my stars...! So strong, brave!" Rarity dramatized every single word she spoke, fanning herself as she suddenly felt hot.

The girls continued on speaking what they had just witnessed, with only Fluttershy being left out since she didn't want to be reminded of all....those things. The explosion, the flames, the sound of metal against metal. It was too much for the poor Pegasus to contain as she simply sat down on the pavement and quietly waited for her friends to finish.

However, not even a few minutes had passed, Fluttershy sudden heard the rustling of a nearby bush, causing her to squeak in fear, thinking of the horrifying possibilities of what may be lying within it. Then, as moments passed, a creature stepped out of the bush, causing the pegasus to widen in shock as her mouth was agape.

It was a cat. A navy blue, fur coated cat. However, there was something different about it, in the fact that it did not have any legs whatsoever. No front legs. No hind legs either.

"Meow..?" Fluttershy heard the cat speak. She started to smile softly.

Standing up, the butter yellow pegasus slowly walked towards the feline, causing its head to tilt to the right in a cute manner, enticing a soft giggle from the pegasus. "Hi there little guy. Who are you supposed to be?" Fluttershy asked in a soft, motherly tone, causing the cat to comically jump in air.

"Meow! Meow meow meow!" The feline spoke, causing Fluttershy to giggle.

"So your name is Nolegs? An odd name from a cat" she said, causing the cat to give a lengthy 'meow'.

"Meow meow meow. Meow. Meow!"

"Hehehe...I guess that's how you the name then"

"Meow! Meow meow meow, meow meow!"

"I guess your master wasn't really creative with the name, I supposed"

"Hey Fluttershy! Who ya talkin' to?" Applejack voiced out, causing the pegasus to turn back and give her friend a smile.

"Umm...girls. This is Nolegs" Fluttershy said, turning back and bending down to grab the cat before turning back to reveal him to her friends, causing all of them, aside from Rainbow Dash, to squeal in delight.

"Ohmygosh! You're so cuteeee!!!"

"Oh heavens! Such a cutie! Mmhmm!"

"Hey there little fella. Ya look mighty fine there"

"Wow! Such a fascinating creature. I have never seen a cat like you before...Wait...You don't have legs?"

This caused the girls to stop their barrage of cute noises when Twilight mentioned the feline having no legs. This caused all of them, even Dash, to make a small sad face and let out an "Aww"

"Wittle cat doesn't have legs! Those meanies!"

"Ummm...Actually girls...he said he was born like that" Fluttershy said, causing them to, yet again, stop and stare at her. "Well...he specifically told me that he was born like that and nothing else. And so when he became a pet to his master, he simply called him 'Nolegs'. And that he said his master couldn't think of a better one to name him" Fluttershy explained.

"Curious...Say Fluttershy, since you can so call communicate with animals, could you help me to translate what we says when I ask him a couple of questions?" Twilight wondered.

Fluttershy thought for a while, but gave a small nod and a smile in reply.

"Well! If you're all done, can we go to the dinning room? Kinda hungry right now...Hadn't eaten lunch yet" Dash said, her stomach grumbling in reply, causing her to blush slightly as the rest of the girls laughed.

"Well alright then. Let's head over to the dinner room. I bet the chefs are bored right now. You can take Nolegs along too, Fluttershy" The purple alicorn said with a smile as the group headed to the dinning room, with Fluttershy holding Nolegs in her arms, who was softly purring, causing her to giggle.

"....and we just sat here talking as we ate" Twilight said, causing the two princesses to nod slightly.

"I see..." Celestia said. She then jumped slightly when she felt something soft brush against her leg. Looking down, she spotted the feline looking at her with a small smile, in which the princess picked him up and smiled as well. "Aww...Just look at you..."she said in a motherly tone as she made cute faces, causing her sister to laugh.

=PoV change=

Laughing slightly when the hug ended, the four heroes smiled at each other. Then Lance spoke up. "So, what are you guys calling it?" he asked.

Matt immediately smiled. "Well, my idea is naming it the 'Cosmic Annihilator'. It kinda has a good tune to it"

"Well...I'm not too sure, but I would probably call it the 'Doom Bringer'. Not sure why though..." Natalie scrunched her face as she wondered.

"I'm calling it 'Dark Demise'! I like the sound of it!" Anna exclaimed, causing Lance to chuckle at her.

"Hehehe...Alright then I guess". As soon as he said that, Matt's stomach grumbled, causing the girls to giggle and Lance to laugh as Matt gave a sheepish smile.

"Ehehe...I guess I'm hungry. All that fighting gave me an appetite!" Matt said as he stretched his arms.

And so the group carried forth, walking around the seemingly endless hallway as they asked different maids and guards as to where may the dinning area would be. After many countless minutes have passed, the group finally arrived at a big door, similar to that from the throne room door. "Weeeelll....This should be it" Matt said as he stood in front of the door.

"Go ahead" Lance ushered Matt to open the door, to which he did.

With his foot.

With a loud impact, the door flung open, hitting the other side of the wall with a loud crash as the two doors slowly made its way back to its original spot. It was at that moment that the four heroes saw the two princesses and six pony mares sitting along the long table, whom were now staring at Matt as if he had just committed arson.

"Hahaha...Sorry bout that!" Matt smiled as he rubbed his back. Lance smacked his face with his hand and groaned as the two other girls just giggled.

However, something caught the eyes of Matt. It was so hard to miss, with Celestia's fur coat being pristine white. There, on her lap was something blue in color. Not only that, but it had fur, pointed ears, a tail and-

"Meow?" the creature question as it turned its head to face the new guests, its eyes widening as its smile grew larger.

"NOLEGS!!" Matt dropped his sword and ran to his friend, in which Nolegs did the same, jumping into his arms as Matt gave him a hug.

As Matt went on and gave his feline companion a hug, his friends laughed as they walked towards him, a multitude of "Hey Nolegs" and "How are you".

"Do-Do you know him?" Fluttershy asked, hiding her face behind her mane as a small blush formed on her cheeks.

Matt smiled then laughed at the pegasus. "Psshh...Do I know him? That's an understatement" Matt chuckled once again. "Met him in a stadium. He practically had nowhere else to go, so I asked whether if he wanted to tag along. Needless to say, he was pleased with it" Matt the stared down at his feline friend. "Isn't that right buddy?"

"MEOW!" Nolegs replied, causing Fluttershy and Matt chuckle as the rest all smiled.

"Anyways, I should thank you for finding him. Didn't know where he went once me and Lance arrived" Matt said, causing the butter yellow pegasus to smile.

"Oh! It's fine. To be honest, I think he found me instead" Fluttershy said, giggling when she heard the cat "Meow".

After that, the four heroes went and sat down around the dinning table where they were served a simple sandwich, followed by a multitude of food from pasta to salads, as well as a plentiful amount of desserts, such as cakes, sweets and a cake. The group went around eating the different types of food, laughing along as Matt and his friends shared stories of their adventures.

Soon afterwards, Luna then stood up. "I apologize for interrupting, but I have to be excused. I need to rise the moon now" Luna said, causing the four heroes, as well as Nolegs, to tilt their heads in a confused manner.

As soon as Luna left, they quickly asked what she meant, in which Celestia quickly replied. "You see, in this world, I raise the sun while my sister raises the moon with our magic"

This caused the four of them to be shocked, telling the ponies that "The sun and the moon revolve around our planet!". Needless to say, this caused them to be shocked instead.

After a brief silence, Anna asked, "Is it too much to see her raise the moon? I want to see it actually"

Celestia giggle. "I suppose so. But just don't disturb her when she's doing so. Here, I shall teleport the five of us to her". Celestia then stood up and faced her student. "We shall be back then Twilight. Try not to do anything too crazy without us" she winked causing her student to giggle as well as her friends.

Celestia's horn was suddenly enveloped with a small golden glow that grew in intensity as time passed by. Moments after, she casted the spell necessary, causing the light to disappear, along with the five of them. They soon popped up in a large room. The walls itself were painted in a navy blue coat, with silver stars and and a silver crescent moon above on the ceiling, where a chandelier was hanging, emitting a soft blue glow. The rest of the room was filled with a variety of things, such as some tables, chairs, a queen sized bed, a bookshelf and, to the four heroes most utter surprise, a laptop. The furniture was in a light chestnut brown color, with the bed having a navy blue mattress and pillows with the floor being paved marble white, a navy blue carpet in the middle.

"As far as what you all can see and tell, this is Luna's bedchambers" Celestia said.

'Go figure' the four heroes simultaneously thought.

However, the soon spotted a balcony with an open door frame. Not only that, but Princess Luna was standing on the balcony, staring at the sun that was setting over the horizon.

"Now watch" Celestia whispered.

Soon afterwards, they could see Luna's horn light up in a soft blue glow. After a moment, as soon as the sun had set, the moon then rose, with the scenery suddenly changing from an orange glow to a slightly purple sky. The moon also held a blue glow to it, to which the four literally knew what Celestia meant by 'raising of the moon'.

No kidding.

Once the moon was high up in the soft purple night sky, Luna's horn stopped glowing and smile at the sky. However, it soon changed to on of sadness. A light bulb then popped out on top of her head (Literally), and she adjusted the sleeves of her royal dress. And so, with her hand in position, she began to touch nothing but the air. However, when she did so, a little twinkle appeared in the night sky, taking shape in the form of a small star, surprising the four heroes and causing Celestia to chuckle.

"She's not known as the Lunar Princess for nothing you know?" she joked.

Luna continued her work. It was stunning to see her do such a thing. She was the artist and her night sky was her personal canvas, to be filled with spectacular works of art that she made. Afterwards, when she was done, she dropped her arms and smiled at the fully painted night sky. Then, all the stars twinkled for a mere moment before randomness took place as every star twinkled at different intervals. Smiling once more, she sighed and turned around, fully satisfied with her work....

...Only for her pupils to shrink a little when she saw her sister as well as the four heroes standing there, a huge grin on their faces. The

"..I..I see that you all enjoyed our performance" Luna sheepishly smiled as she walked over.

"That was soooo cool! Those stars were so beautiful when they twinkled! Oh! And on how you raised the moon too!" Anna said as she launched herself onto Luna, causing the lunar princess to blush.

After a while, when the four heroes were done talking to the Luna, the four of them heaved a huge yawn, causing the two royal sisters to giggle. "I shall take them to their chambers then, dear sister" Luna said, looking at Celestia. "Are you going back to where the elements are?" she asked, to which Celestia nodded.

"Yes. I would like to catch up with them. It's been a while since I last talked to them" Celestia explained, to which Luna nodded in acknowledgement.

"Very well. I shall meet you there in a bit" Luna then faced the four humans. "Come! I shall show you all where you shall slumber"

And so, the left.

"Here we are!" Luna yelled, opening a door to reveal the huge room that was meant to house the four humans.

It was a luxurious place. The floor was paved marble white, the walls were painted in a soft golden hue with a slight light brown coloration. The furniture were probably made of the finest oak wood and there were four beds, each having a white mattress with a golden colored blanket, each of the bed being equally spaced apart.

"Wow!" the four simultaneously exclaimed, to which Luna chuckled.

"I shall take my departure. See you four in the morn!" Luna said farewell before leaving the room.

"Dibs on the shower!" Natalie exclaimed as she ran to a nearby door, revealing the bathroom where a bathtub was implemented as well as a shower head.

"No fair!" Anna yelled, banging onto the door as the two guys laughed.

Today was a good day for the four of them.

With all that talking, fighting with the robots and such, it was exhausting to say the least. So they decided that they should probably stop worrying too much now, seeing as though every was now better than what they had anticipated.

And thus, relaxation was theirs once more.

Memories of an impossible fight

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Staring at the ceiling, Matt sighed as he tossed and turned in bed, careful not to wake up his fellow companions. It was currently a few minutes past midnight, as what the wall clock says, yet Matt was still awake. He didn't know why he was still awake and for how long. So, with another heavy sigh, Matt got out of bed, wore back his black captains jacket before leaving the room, making sure to close the door as quietly as possible.

With that, he went on a walk. He didn't know where he would end up, "But it should probably have something that can help" Matt thought as he adjusted his jacket, the cooling air brushed against him with a gentle greeting as his two strands of braided hair blew along.

With everything that had happened over the past years, Matt thought of how he first started his journey. Chuckling a little, he remembered how his father first taught him swordsmanship and to groom him into a fine warrior. He remembered how he got into his first tournament, decimating every opponent in his way, winning the tournament in first place as well as meeting Natalie. He remembered how the two of them fought a guy named 'Goku', all bloodied as his guts spewed forth of his chest. He remembered how the two of them went on another adventure to stop a rather young soldier and his Valkrie Tank.

Sighing once again, he remembered how the trio fought against Akron, a deity who wanted to absorb everything on earth. And lastly, on how the trio met Anna, fighting alongside her to retrieve some stolen artifacts and defeat the creator of the world, Godcat.

Stopping in his tracks, he found himself in the royal gardens. A cold breeze greeted him, causing his blonde hair to flicker in the wind. Matt surveyed the area, smiling when he remembered this rather beautiful garden was their battlefield against a corrupted Praetorian. Walking once again, he spotted a bench over in the distance. Walking towards it, he sat down and placed his elbows on his legs and placed his face on the palms of his hands as he stared at the ground.

Matt had never thought that his adventures would take him this far. All the things he had done, monsters he had fought, places he had never seen before, it all seemed like a dream. All the kids back home always said of how he would never go far and would return home crying to his parents. But he never did. "Heh...And look where we are right now..." Matt muttered to himself as he looked around the garden scenery. "...I hope your proud of me...Mom...Dad...I miss the both of you guys..." Matt softly spoke to himself.

And with that, he softly smiled, remembering all the things he had done in his life so far, and shed a tear.

With a content smile, Luna walked along the empty hallways. She had just left the dinning room a few minutes ago as the the elements and went into Celestia's bedchambers for a slumber party. She politely decline their invitation and said that "It would be best if I am to be left out. I am not so very social among you girls and what you all would say, I would probably not understand" a slight blush formed on her cheeks when she said so.

But even so, Luna loved the feeling of her night. The air was so ever cooling and the atmosphere was so gentle and calming to her. Not only that, but with every step she took that would allow her to see the night sky, her stars would twinkle as if bowing to her.

With her hoof softly clopping along the marbled floor, she passed by the royal gardens, looking about the same as it did before the encounter with the behemoth. However, something caught her attention, causing her to stop and turn. The figure was faint, but it was no doubt that Matt was sitting on one of the benches. Curious as to why he was still up, Luna softly walked onto the pavement of the garden, heading towards the human.

As she drew nearer, she saw a glimmer of silver near Matthew's eyes, causing her to inwardly gasp. 'Has..He been crying?' Luna wondered.

When she reached the bench he was sitting on, Luna decided to speak. However, he voice got cut off when Matt beat her to it. "...You know Princess...Your night sky is really something to behold, ya know that? The night sky back at home was never this gorgeous". This caused the lunar princess to blush as a deep shade of red appeared on Luna's cheeks.

"..Wh-Why th-thank..-thank you sir Matthew" Luna stuttered, causing the human to chuckle as he turned around and gave her a smile, enabling Luna to see a tinge of red in his eyes, confirming her thoughts. After a lengthy, and awkward, silence that soon followed, Luna then meekly spoke. "Umm....If it is no trouble to you, why are you even here Sir Matthew? Shouldn't you be asleep now?"

"Sleep? Nope...Couldn't get a wink of shut eye. Been thinking a lot lately. Weirder and weirder things keep happening. Like the four of us suddenly appearing here on Equestria" Matt said, turning back and now looking at the bright moon.

"What has been bothering you? I can tell it's not only that" Luna said, hoping he might spill what was on his mind.

Then, to Luna's gratefulness, Matt sighed before speaking. "...I miss my folks back at home..." he softly said, just loud enough for the lunar princess to hear him.

Another silence soon followed when Matt said that. Luna instantly knew what was bugging him. He may or may not be able to go back to his home world and visit his parents. Not to mention he looked rather homesick. This place was not a place he knew. He did not grow up here, make friends here. Everything in Equestria was foreign to him, from the average ponies to the plants. Besides him and his friends, they were the only humans on Equestria.

"...I see" Luna simply replied, nodding her head slowly. "Umm..Is it too much trouble to ask to sit beside you?" she asked rather shyly.

Matt turned his head back to her and smiled a little. "Sure. No one's stopping ya"

With that, Luna then took her place beside Matt. Time passed by as the two talked to each other, learning a bit more about each other, laughing along as the two cracked jokes to lighten their spirits. Then, Luna seemed to ask a question that was bothering her for a while. "Sir Matthew. I hope you would not mind if I took a look at a particular memory of yours" she asked, causing Matt to look at her suspiciously.

"Which one? And why?"

"The one where you told us about your battle against the evil Akron. I am rather skeptical of how such a powerful being was slain by the you, Lady Natalie and Sir Lance. It would seem like an impossible feat" Luna replied her face trying to stay as neutral as possible.

Matt smirked. "Oh believe me princess, we did it. However, we had a lot of injuries after we slayed him. I couldn't walk for a couple of days when of his tendrils pierced both of my legs after Natalie's healing numbed off" Matt said, shuddering at the memory. "I guess it would be fine. However, I should warn you, it is not a pleasant sight"

Luna nodded. "Agreed. Now, I shall cast my magic then". Luna's horn then glowed a luminous blue as she channeled her magic. Soon, Matt felt his eyes getting heavier as he felt more drowsy. He tried to fight, but sleep eventually overtook him, his head now laying on top of Luna's lap.

Luna then opened her eyes and found herself in a very different place. The ground was paved with dark maroon colored stones and...bones were scattered everywhere. However, when Luna turned, her pupils shrank. What she saw was, over in the distance, was a black hole. The space around it had red-shifted as black rocks encircled the black hole. Luna took a step back, her heard trembling with fear. This...this place couldn't have been the battlefield they fought Akron on. Luna then took another step back, the earthy soil beneath her began to rumble.

Turning around, Luna then finally saw the trio, Lance, Natalie and Matt. Except for Natalie, they were all wearing the same outfit as when Luna first met them, Lance's full Officer outfit complete with the hat and badges and Matt with his full Captain's outfit, a metal chain attached to the side of his pants. They were all wielding the same weapon as before, Natalie with her staff, Lance with his gunblade and Matt with his Heavens Gate. The trio seemed to be waiting for something, their faces anticipating for it to happen, whatever it was.

And then, a pentagon emerged, symbols of undecipherable words and glyphs of powerful and ancient magic. After that, the ground erupted into a pillar of flame as a creature suddenly emerged from its cinders. It was slightly larger that the trio and a tad bit taller. It had two horns protruding from its head as its eyes were covered by cloth with an ancient seal of sorts. The most defining thing about the creature was a gigantic onyx that was in the middle of its body as a sapphire was located to the left and an emerald to its right. Two large demonic wings had sprouted on its back, which were used to break the chains that held it down.

"Ah...It is the ones who had awoken me from my slumber" the demon spoke, it's voice sounding corrupted as every word seemed to lace with poison, darkness and evil. "Let us see if they are worthy to stand before me..." it trailed off, speaking in third person.

"Akron! Your time has come to an end!" Matt yelled, directing his sword towards the demon.

"For Billions of years, I have in my memory, the early days of this planet. When earth was but rock and fire. Before other life began to evolve" It spoke once more. "Perhaps I excised before even that. but I an unable to recall further into history. I have lost all memory of the world from which I came"

And then, the demon suddenly move an inch before rising from the ground, revealing a whole new part, with a disgusting and horrendous face as its razor sharp teeth bared and made itself known to its foes. "Countless times I have been weakened and enslaved. Yet ultimately, I remain, while my enemies succumb to the flow of time". The gigantic face then widened its mouth, causing a hideous worm of sorts to emerge from within, plunging into the ground and next to the demon, gurgling in a disgusting manner. "I have witnessed species evolve and head towards extinction. I wonder how long Man will survive?" It questioned itself, before the Akron shook his actual head, which was wrapped in cloth. "For eons, I have pondered the meaning of my existence. Alas, I am unable to find an answer"

Beneath the wrapped cloth, something red sparked for a moment. "All things must come to an end. Planets, stars, entire universes, even Gods. Perhaps my destiny is simply to be destroyed. And yet, I am immortal. Freedom is my captivity. I shall not die". The demon then began to chuckle in a corrupted manner, causing the trio to flinch as Luna took a step back in fear. "I delight at your power. Such. Incredible. Power"

And with that, the demon launched its first attack, opening its mouth as a black shockwave erupted from its mouth.

Seeing the fight had started, Natalie drew up her staff and conjured the same red mystical barrier, blocking most of the magical harm that was inflicted.

The worm then suddenly went underground, popping up just in front of Matt and lashed its tail at him, with Matt blocking off most of the hits with his blade. Counter-attacking, Matt pushed the tail out of the way before giving it a nice deep cut, slicing it in half, the worm then disappearing into nothing but black smoke.

Akron flared his wings as two metal claw like things were summoned beside the demon, its core blazing in a bright neon red light. Akron's cloth then glowed red for a moment before a red beam from his horns was fired at the trio. Thankfully, Natalie's barrier helped them by a margin.

"Hello?! Yea! Send in those prototype missiles that I asked for! YES! ON THE DOUBLE!" Lance shouted into his walkie-talkie, placing it back behind him. Moments later, a black missile dropped down from the sky, imploding into a huge black ball.

"Seiken!"

Matt yelled out loud from the smoke that was left behind, directing two fingers towards the demon. Akron looked around in confusion for a moment. Then, a bright light emerged from above, a large white sword in the shape of Matt's 'Heavens Gate' appeared and descended from above, causing the demon to shield itself using its wings and a protective barrier, blocking the light blade and shattering it into shards

Matt then rushed forward without hesitation, bringing his sword down onto the large disfigured face, slashing it multiple times as Natalie and Lance assisted him from afar, shooting bullets and casting spells. Akron roared out in retaliation as the large demonic face opened its mouth, a black smoke enveloping the visions of the trio and Luna.

Needless to say, when the smoke cloud dissipated, the trio's faces as well as Luna's were full of fear, Luna especially as she witnessed horrific visions. Horrible visions of nothing but darkness as bright red evil eyes looked down upon her with razor sharp teeth that could chew threw anything.

"Ugh...Gonna have nightmares after that" Matt muttered.

"Judgement!"

Natalie roared out, a glyph of sorts appeared around the demon. Then, moments later, a beam of pure, holy, concentrated magic shot up, enveloping the demon as it cried out in pain. Matt noticed this and began to cast in more of the 'holy blades', with every one of the blade managing to embed itself into the demon. Akron roared in pain once again before he flared his wings once more, the spell coming to an abrupt end as the holy blades shattered into wisps of light.

The two metallic claws then shot forward towards Natalie, causing Matt to react quickly.

"Quick Slash!"

In a heartbeat, Matt suddenly appeared in front of Natalie, using his sword to block the attack as Lance fired off a concentrated energy beam from his rifle, blasting the two claws into oblivion. Natalie gave her thanks as the trio then clustered up together, causing the demon to hum. "Hmm...You do have the potential...A shame, especially when you are about to perish!"

Akron then fired another beam from his eyes, causing the trio to split up. In the split second they did this, the large face then fired three huge ball of energy towards both Matt and Natalie, causing the duo to fly back a bit as from the impact. Lance fortunately dodged the one that was aimed at him, by jumping high up, causing him to have a gap for a counter attack.

While still in the air, Lance pulled out 6 bullets from his jacket and quickly loaded them into his gun. With his 'Scanner' equipped, Lance aimed at the demon.

"Unload"

Lance then fired his gunblade a total of six times, each time a burst of white light appeared as it struck the demon with precise aim, causing a portion of its wings to tear off and the wrapped cloth to sag, revealing the two scarlet red orbs that were Akron's eyes. The gigantic face then opened once more, letting out two more hideous worms, with the both of them heading straight to Matt. Trying his best to defend, he managed to block most of the oncoming hits from its tail, only to be surprised when he felt a huge stinging pain in his left leg, causing him to yelp in pain. Not a moment later, another stinging pain surged through his right leg, causing him to drop to his knees as he coughed out blood, with both of his legs bleeding profusely.

Taking a look, a spike with a skull on it had pierced through both of his legs. Matt tried to move but the spikes held him in place. Akron the let loose an ear piercing screech, causing the trio and Luna to cup their ears and shut their eyes from the sheer intensity. Luna slowly peeked one of her eyes back at the battlefield, finding Matt's eyes glow red before leaping into the air, shattering the spike that had impaled his leg into pieces. He roared in might at the demon, bringing down his blade swiftly, tearing through the demon's left wing. As he landed back onto the ground, he staggered back, dropping his sword for a moment as he coughed out more blood, wincing in pain.

"Dammit! Natalie! Help up Matt! I'll cover you!" Lance yelled as he landed back on the ground, bringing out his walkie-talkie once again. "Valkyrie! Code Scarlet-9!" Lance yelled into his device as he awaited for a response.

Meanwhile, Natalie had a rough job of dodging the various projectiles that were sent towards her. Magical ice shards, fireballs and even concentrated beams of energy were thrown in her direction to try and stop the white mage from advancing. Fortunately, Natalie was able to dodge most of the spells, also having to use her own spells to disjoint some of the more harder spells to dodge. Setting up a barrier to protect herself, Natalie kneeled down next to Matt, casting a healing spell to hopefully heal up most of his wounds.

However, just as Natalie was finished with the spell, numerous worms erupted from the ground behind her, causing her to stagger a bit, holding her staff in place to stop her from moving back any further. The worms oozed out a black substance from their 'mouths' before charging towards the white mage and the swordsman.

Thankfully, the attack was repelled when a sudden blast impacted on the ground next to the worms, causing them to fly back. Natalie and Matt turned their heads behind and found that Lance was approaching them on his Valkyrie Battle Tank. The two sub-machine guns that were on the front rained bullets towards the evil monsters as the main cannon continuously fired its canon shells. Stopping just next to his teammates, Lance looked below and smiled a little. "Sorry it took a while" He said, chuckling a little.

Matt grinned as Natalie smiled. Natalie then reached out to Matt and gave him a hand, which he grabbed to help pull himself up. Grabbing his sword that was laid on the floor, Matt stood with his teammates side by side. "You guys ready for the actual fight?" Matt asked, receiving an "Of course" from Natalie and an "Aye" from Lance.

The trio stared at the large demon that was their foe, with his army of worms and metal claws. Akron smiled. "Perhaps Man does have a future on this planet. We shall see if He is above God himself" He announced in his corrupted voice.

Matt raised his sword towards Akron and grinned. "Get ready. We won't be holding back". And with that, Matt let out a battle cry as he charged forward, with Natalie gently floating next to him, wisps of light surrounding her, and Lance on his tank, with two additional cannons next to him charging up to fire their deadly beam of energy.

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However, a bright light tore through the entire setting of the place, erasing everything back to a blank slate. And soon after, when the bright light was gone, Luna had found herself back at the garden, with a sleeping Matthew that was laying on her lap. Her mind began to run questions of just how strong these warriors are. They had challenged a powerful demonic foe, and if what Matthew had said were true, they managed to defeat this monstrosity. However, there were still questions in her mind. Such as who was Lady Anna? Where did she hail from? How powerful is she?

Luna shook her before looking down at Matthew. It was odd thing though. Such an odd creature that looked so frail and weak can actually hold immense power in a highly destructive scale. However, even so, she knew they would only use it for good. They were kind-hearted beings, even if Matthew and Lance acted slightly barbaric at times. she couldn't help but chuckle.

More questions to be solves in the morning, if the moment presented itself. For now, they shall rest.

The Creators only knows how long they need it.

The break of morn

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Celestia heaved a heavy yawn, her eyes still fogged with drowziness and her body still feeling extremely sore. She had stayed up rather late at night, discussing with her sister about more things related to their four outworldly visitors. It was rather cute how she found Sir Mathew laying on top of her sister' lap, in a deep and content slumber. Needless to say, Luna was slightly flustered when she saw her with him, splurting many incoherent sentences.

She stretched herself and gave off another yawn, rubbing her eyes to try and dispel her sleepiness. Despite all things, she, as the princess of the sun, still had to raise the sun for her little ponies to know it was morning. Though, it didnt neccessarily meant that she enjoyed mornings. There was that one time where she was so grumpy in the early morn that she accidentally made the sun a few degrees hotter than it should have been. Thankfully, none of her precious ponies were hurt. Stretching her arms out and letting loose another yawn, she begrudingly got off her sweet bed, which was still beckoning her to stay. It was tempting for her, to say the least.

Making her way to the balcony, her mind wandered for a moment and recalled what she had spoken with her beloved sister. It was on how the four of them were more stronger than it seems. She had no real gauge as to know how powerful Lady Anna is, but her sister did inform her about the others encounter with an incredible demonic foe. Not only that, but due to how she is known to be the mistress of dreams, Luna had also shown her a first person view of the encounter through her eyes. Celestia was horrified. The....'thing' that she had seen...So gruesome...So horrible...And yet, Sir Mathew, Sir Lance and Lady Natalie had managed to beat such an entity?! She could literally feel every move from the two parties in the dream. How much power and force was put into destroying said demon.

Clearly they were in a whole league of their own.

Shaking her head, she dismissed the thoughts. Now was not the time to be distracted. She had a sun to raise. Once she was at the balcony, she stopped and looked up, admiring the work of art her sister has. The night sky. Such a beautiful thing indeed. Too bad it had to make room for the day sky. Seemed like a waste.

Channeling the magic from within herself onto her horn, her horm glowed in a bright, luminous golden glow. The moon that was planted onto the night sky shimmered in a golden glow, similar to her own. With her magic, she willed the moon to stand down, to which it complied and dipped down over the horizon, saying farewell to the townfolks. As it did, another large celestial body began to rise from the horizon, greeting Celestia in the same golden glow. As the sun rose into the sky, the colour of said sky changed, from a dark blueish-purple hue into a warm yellow-orange hue and then into a bright sky blue.

Feeling satisfied with the position of the sun, she cut off the magical connection from inside of her, making her horn gradually lose its golden glow. Nodding to herself in pride, she left the balcony and made her way to her personal bathroom to do her morniny routine.

Sunlight dipped into the room through the agaped curtains, causing a certain green haired girl to slowly open her eyes. She smiled. It was morning in this new world of Equestria. Pulling down her blanket, she gave off a huge yawn and stretched her body. Scanning the room, she found nothing too unusual in the room. All of her friends were still asleep. Natalie holding onto a bolster like a staff, Matt snoring like no tomorrow and Lance was....

Wait....Where is he??

Anna looked around and had suddenly realised something very wrong. She wasnt in her bed. She was in Lance's bed. And from deduction, somehow, she had slept IN the same bed with him. The thought of it made her cheeks flare up, giving it a pinkish glow. Oh jeez! She had to go now before someone else barges in!

Slowly getting out of the bed, Anna heaved a heavy sigh of relief. If someone had seen that she was in his bed, she might have portrayed the wrong idea! Lance was merely her teammate and a good friend that was a little weird at times. As well as being a massive NERD! Even as she was getting off, she could hear him mumbling something about numbers and equations and guns all the while making cute but weird 'pew pew' sound effects.

Making her way into the bathroom, she was amazed by the architecture that was said bathroom. It was kind of like a mix between a huge bathtub and a shower, with various shampo and soap that was situated on a nearby shelf next to said tub. She didnt get a chance to take a bath last night since she was dead tired from the previous encounter with a certain machine. By now, she couldnt help but feel exited by the thought of body being submerged in warm water. Taking off her clothes and putting them aside, she filled the tub with water, letting hot steam fill the room, giving off a relaxing atmosphere. Once the tub was filled, she stepped inside. Her entire body was practically melting from how amazing it felt!

However, her state of stupor was broken when she had heard the door open, her eyes filling with worry as she had remembered that she had forgotten to lock it. Thankfully, she realized it was merely Natalie, whom had a towel wrapped around her body. Anna sighed in relief.

"Hehe, you mind if I dip in as well?" Natalie asked, locking the door behind her.

"Sure! This bathtub is big enough for all of us to fit in!" Anna exclaimed, grinning at her female friend. Natalie giggled before taking off the towel that was wrapped around her and placing it to the side. All the while doing so, Anna sinked into the tub a little further as she had seen the object of most men's fantasies. Natalie's breasts.

She could have sworn that it didnt looked all that large. But thinking about it, it might have probably been her clothings that helped to make it seem her bust is just above average. But without anything holding them back, the two mounds looked gigantic compared to Anna's. She cupped her own breasts fron under the water in self-consciousness. A line between an A to a B cup. While Natalie's looked like Double D's. Maybe larger.

Anna had forgotten that Natalie was now in the tub with her. Natalie's sigh of absolute pleasure made her snap out of her stupor. And yet, they were there, in front of her, mocking her of her small size.

Despite that, Anna tried to keep things to a lighter tone and decided to chat with her. "Hey Natz. I never knew you were part of a legendary clan of white mages! I heard those guys could defeat a death worm with a flick of their wrists" She exclaimez, her voice was full of awe.

Natalie chuckled a little. "Ehehe....Err there are some who can do that, but most of my clanfolks practice typical white magic. You know, healing and rejuvination, purification, cleansing of illnesses. Though some others practice the more destructive aspect of white magic to help defend the area. My 'Judgement' ability is a more enhaced version of their skill known as 'Beam of Holiness'. The names they use are...not very creative"

Anna nodded her head. She supposed it was reasonable. Having known Natalie for a while, she could tell she was the kind of Mage that could very well improve any of her spells or any other existing spells. Despite being only 2 years older than her, Natalie had the knowledge and arcane abilities that could rival any master Mage. Hell, she had witnessed Natalie blast a draconian-like elemental into nothing but ashes before when it 'accidentally' ripped her favorite dress and left her partially naked. It was terrifying as she could feel the magical resonance from said blast.

"How about you Anna? I've never really heard much about your life" Natalie whipped curiously, which made Anna raise a brow.

"Me? Well....I guess I should start from the start, I suppose. Err...I was born in Greenwood Village, the same place where you guys made trouble, as far as I'm concerned. My dad is the village's woodcutter and my mom is a seamstress that had a lot of customers, due to how quick and efficient she worked. I also have a sister named Sarah that works as a shopkeeper in a far away land that occasionally comes back during her breaks" Anna explained.

"A sister?" Natalie asked.

"Yea. She looks kind of like you, although she has long green hair, has a green dress and works as a part time Mage apprentice" Anna explained, causing Natalie to hum.

"Hmm.....I think I've seen a person like that before..." Natalie pondered, wondering if she did meet a girl like that before.

The next few moments were spent talking and gossiping like no tomorrow, the two females enjoying the time together. The soothing warm water was making it hard to think straight and the room was fogging up. Probably a built in sauna system, they thought. After a while, the two of them left the bathroom with a towel around their bodies. They had found that the guys were still sleeping, to which they merely shook their heads and smirked. It wasn't shocking to see them sleeping in. Matt was physically drained, as far as they know, and Lance had worked hard in reprogramming the Praetorion and making new weapons for them.

Summoning their clothing, the two girls made their way to finish up their appearances on a nearby wall mirror. Natalie had managed to teach every single on them how to summon various pieces of clothing and equipping them in a flash, to which they were all thankful for. However, Matt was the hardest to teach due to having little to no arcane magic present inside of him. Either that, or Natalie suspected something was holding it back. Once they were satisfied, they left the room, making their way back to the main dinning hall.

"Aww...Aren't you hungry?" Fluttershy cooed as the furry blue ball known as NoLegs continued to munch down on a couple of fishes in a bowl.

"Man! It's pretty nice of the princesses to let us stay the night here!" Rainbow grinned, munching down on a bowl full of 'Apple-O's'.

"Indeed. It's been a while since we last been here" Twilight agreed, causing the rest of the girls to nod. Due to how casual they were with the two princesses, it was pretty normal of them to walk around in their nightgowns. However, it was a rather odd sight, nonetheless. The six of them had woken up just a while ago and had just arrived at the dinning hall.

Suddenly, the doors swung open, revealing two human females clad in their attire from yesterday. Both Anna and Natalie took a seat opposite each other and eyed the various types of food on the large dinning table. There were cereals, oatmeal, pancakes, fruits, bread, and more surprisingly, a large vanilla cake with pink frosting. Natalie was so tempted fo eat a slice of cake, but reminded herself not to eat such sweet stuff in morning. So she decided to go a few stacks of pancakes with bread topped with jam. Anna, on the other hand, went for some cereal and a few slices of apples.

"Glad you two couls come early" Rarity commented, blowing gently on her tea. "I do have to say. That dress, oh so charming! I never really got to see the introquet detail that was put into it due to certain events. But now that the two of you are here, I must admit, it is absolutely gorgeous!" She fawned, a huge grin plastered onto her face.

Natalie smiled and chuckled a little. "Thank you! I always loved the dress since I almost always use it. Matt says its an iconic part of me" she admitted, causing the rest oof the girls to giggle.

"Hey! Speakin' of ol Matt, where's the fella? Shouldn't they be wit ya or what?" Applejack asked, sipping on her mug of coffee.

"They're still sleeping. They had a long day from what we pressume" Anna told them.

"Speakingof the guys, I have to admit, I have never seen such marksponyship in an individual! I noticed that no matter what, Lance never missed a single enemy. All of his....projectiles were dead accurate. And Matt! Such power! I could feel the very ground shake whenever he slashed about!" Twilight commented on the fight that had transpired.

"Yea! I mean, did you see that Matt guy?! He like, sliced through those scraps of metal like butter! It was so cool to watch!" Rainbow grinned from the thought of the fight, earning a small chill in her spine.

"Well, that's them for ya. Since Lance was recruted into the military at such a young age, he had gained so much knowledge in strategic plannings, sharpshooting and explosives. Through the years, he quickly rose in rank, earning himself the lead commander of an entire squadron. But that's a long time ago, before he turned down and walked away from innocent bloodshed" Natalie explained. "As for Matt, mowt of his powers come from his weapon as well as whatever small arcane magic that he weilds. But most of the time, he relies solely on brute strength and because of this, his pain tolerance is beyond comprehensible. Heck,there was this one time when we me and Matt fought this evil being that had golden hair and smelled of rotting flesh. He was about to launch a powerful ball of arcane energy, which he calls 'Spirit Bomb' directly at me. He knew that I couldn't stand the intensity of the blast, so he used himself as a shield and blocked most of the harm. I could still feel a huge magical residue emitting around the area, which was completely burned to the core. Yet Matt was still standing strong, though he was coughing out blood"

Natalie could still faintly recall the event. She had seen a small scale version of the blast before, which disintegrated a while bunch of wildlife, so a sphere that was nearly quadruple in size could only mean devastation. And yet, Matt was capable of tanking it for him. It was the second time that he had saved her life when death was staring at her in the face.

"Oh...m-my..!" Fluttershy squeaked. "B-But e-e-everything was fine in the end....right...?"

"Thankfully. After the whole event ended, we stopped by a nearby town to rest and heal up. But I could neverforget the horrifying image of it. I was literally so close to death yet again,but had managed to evade it by the skin of my teeth." Natalie sighed.

"So in summary, you got a powerful mage, two marksponies and a ludicrous swordspony on the same team?" Pinkie inquired, cocking her head in a cute manner

"More or less" Anna chuckled. "Though in truth, Lance is more of a techie in our squad as well as the main tactician. His eye for detail in the battle in so precise that he can tell whether an army is coming just by tbe force of the wind blowing on his face. And even I have trouble finding out whether or not my parents are coming back home from the sounds of footsteps. Also, from what I've observed of him, he an incredibly huge nerd!" Anna exclaimed, causing both Rainbow and Pinkie to laugh while the others looked at her in confusion. "Really! I always hear him blast into his walkie-talkie of his some numbers and equations. Even this morning, I heard him talking about formulas of other stuff!"

The group around the table shared a laugh, causing the room to ring in a light tune. "Seems like we have a new study buddy for Twilight!" Rainbow exclaimed, causing the group to laugh once again, much to Twilight's amusement, who simply rolled her eyes.

Just then, the doors busted open once again, revealing a pair of siblings who, much like the elements, looked like they had a rough sleep. Celestial was still in her nightgown, pearl white with golden trims with a light pink coat that covered her back. Her mane was frizzy, unkempt and most importantly, light strawberry pink in color, which slightly confused both Anna and Natalie. Not to mention it didn't look ethereal as before. Luna looked just about the same, also clad in her nightgown outfit which was mainly navy blue with black polka dots. Her hair, much like her sister's, was also unkempt, and was in a lighter shade of blue.

"Morning girls. Morning Anna, Natalie" Celestia's motherly voice filled the room.

"Good morning Elements, Lady Natalie and Anna" Luna spoke slightly softer, yawning a little bit.

The girls replied with various replies. The two princesses walked forth and took a seat, with Celestial sitting next to Twilight and Luna next to Fluttershy. "I hope that the two of you had a pleasant rest?" Celestia addressed Anna and Natalie, to which they nodded earnestly.

"Yes! I haven't had such a good rest in a long time due to how much we always had to travel" Natalie explained.

Reasonable, the two princesses thought. "Pray tell, for how long has your group of misfits travelled? I assume for the most part?" Luna enquired.

"Well, in terms of travel, Matthew has traveled the most. He told he started his adventure at the age of 11 and I had only met him two years after that" Natalie explained, taking a bite from the pancakes topped with syrup. The taste was so divine, even more so that the food she mostly ate back at her home world.

"Hmm....So that was the reason why Sir Matthew looked gloomy....I wonder..." Luna mumbled, earning a confused look on both Anna and Natlie's faces. Luna had caught them staring and explained last nights events, on how Matt looked so distant with tears in his eyes.

Natalie listened in intent and nodded her head. "No surprise there...Matt hasn't returned home in a long time. He probably doesn't even know whether if his parents are still up at about or not" Natalie explained.

"What about Lance? As far as I can tell, he is a soldier of sorts?" Celestial asked.

"Yep. Lance was part of an army group called the 'Black Valkrie's' which was the 23rd Squadron of specialized soldiers adapted for field manipulation. Lance was the leading commander for the group and has never failed to win in a raid or war due to how keen his eyes were during battle. Even though he always uses this weird glass thingie, his accuracy is extremely precise, to the point where he can simply look at a target from over several meters away, fire a single shot without aiming and still hit it dead on" Anna explained, which earned her a ludicrous look from Natalie. "What? He told me about his past and I saw how good his shooting skills are"

"Anyways, he was raised in a family full of army veterans, with his mother being a nurse from the army long ago. His father taught him many things which included how to fire a weapon, create explosives, field analysis and machine building and programming. At the age of 12, he had apparently created a huge metallic vehicle which he dubbed 'The Valkrie' which was inspired by the group that he became part of a year later" Anna further explained.

The two princesses nodded. "I see. Well, a rather odd bunch of individuals whom were apparently brought together by fate. A swordspony whom could cleave the mountains in half, a Mage with vast arcane wizardry, a commander of an army with dead precision and an archer with an innate ability to be one with nature" Celestia commented from her past experience of seeing them fight. "Such an interesting yet odd group"

"Well that's us! And no matter what, we're a team!" Anna exclaimed, causing everyone in the room to chuckle.

Then, the doors opened yet again, revealing two males wearing very casual clothing. A shirt, some pants and a jacket, one was an admiral's jacket, the other was a green army jacket. Upon seeing the girls, Matt grinned. "Come on now! Don't leave the two of us out on the fun!"

"By fun, I assume you mean eating breakfast?" Lance asked rhetorically.

"What else?"

Lance sighed and laughter was soon followed, filling up the room. All that was left was to have fun and talk about nothing at all.

However, as the group continued their merry gathering, a large black cloud was looming overhead, lightning crackled as a large beam of white light suddenly shot down onto the ground. Once the light faded, all that was left was a bulking behemoth of a tank made of white, smooth rock with a large cannon attached to its back. Is hissed, fumes white fumes erupting from within as a large spearhead hung underneath, crackling with energy.

Tales of Epic Fantasy

by Krokorokok

A new world

A day in Canterlot (Matt and Lance)

A day in Ponyville (Anna and Natz)

Reunion and the first encounter

Aftermath (Or, Chapter: Matt and friends get cool stuff)

The blue furball and the moon

Memories of an impossible fight

The break of morn