The Stone Ones

The first thing that Forge noticed now that he wasn't a statue was how much bigger ponies had gotten. 2000 years ago the ponies barely reached his belly button, now he was only about 3 feet taller than most of them and the guards around the garden probably went to his lower chest. Speaking of guards, none of them looked happy that he said he was going to turn Tia into glue. In fact, one of the unicorns had his horn charged and aimed at him.

Forge ignored the stallion, chuckling to himself, and took his shield off his arm. I've waited 2000 years to do that He thought as he loosened the straps that held his chest plate together, the said piece of armor falling to the ground with a solid thud.

His gauntlets and leg guards were next to go. Then finally his uncomfortable steel boots, leaving him with only his mail and some shorts and his sword on him. He looked his body over and saw that it still retained the wounds from that battle with Discord. After I'm done with Tia I should get these looked at. He thought as he made his way to where the princesses were standing still looking dumbstruck. The unicorn that had his horn charged apparently didn't like that.

“STOP BEAST!" He roared to Forge as he released a beam of magic right at him....

Shining armor was furious. A monster had threatened his in-law and princess. The beast was dressed for war so he charged his horn to get ready to stop the creature, who just looked at him and started to strip off its armor. Shining watched with growing anger as the creature took off the last of its armor, leaving nothing but chainmail and something covering its lower body and its sword.

The creature saw him as so little a threat that it would take off its protection? Shining’s blood boiled, he would give his life to protect the princesses, and this.... whatever it was, would not take another step toward them. When the creature just did that he released his spell, putting everything he had into it. It hit the creature with a loud boom and stirred up a lot of smoke. Shining smiled, Looks like- All of the ponies in the garden gasped, as the smoke cleared to reveal the creature looking like nothing had happened.

Suddenly it was right in front of him, all 7 feet of him, not looking very happy. getting lifted up by the scruff on the neck with only one of its claws so their faces almost touched, Shining received a good look at its glowing blue eyes. It growled and did something to Shining that had never happened to him, he got bitch slapped across the face. The creature kept slapping him on both cheeks.

“Are.you.out.of.your.god.damn.mind?" The creature said the words between each slap. Shining tried to defend himself but it was like his hooves were glued to his sides...

Twilight watched in horror as the giant human shrugged off her brother’s attack and proceeded to slap him around. The other guards stared in fear, none of them moving to help their captain. Their captain, one of the most powerful unicorns in Equestria, was being slapped around by this creature. Twilight looked at the princesses and saw fear on ones face and confusion on the other.

“Girls" Twilight said to her 5 friends. “We need to get the elements of harmony." They looked at each other and nodded, running into the castle.

Luna couldn't believe her eyes, one of her greatest friends, no, one of her family was slapping Shining Armor across the face again and again. Forge used to do that to soldiers during the war before she had lost him and the others, or so she thought. In fact, if she wasn't so shocked she would have laughed at the craziness of it all. She looked at her sister, fear written all over her face. She said they died during the battle in the gardens. Why did she lie and why where they turned to statues? She thought as took a nervous step forward." Forge?" She asked nervously...

Forge looked up from the pony he was slapping the shit out of and looked at Luna, his anger giving way to a smile. Dropping the pony on the ground he turned toward his favorite princess. “Little one?" He asked her, she wasn't so little anymore, she was a good foot taller than him now. She had tears in her eyes and took another step forward, a smile on her face. He took another step forward, intending to wrap her in a hug but someone's shouting stopped him.

“STOP THERE CREATURE!"

Forge looked to the shouting, seeing six mares with necklaces on and the purple one had a crown in its head. That orange one has a neat hat on He thought as he looked them over. Then it hit him when he looked over the necklaces and crown over. “So the elements have new holders, interesting." He muttered as the six girls were lifted into the air, all of them glowing. Soon they were covered in a blinding light, their weapon of mass friendship ready to fire.

The ponies looked at the scary creature in horror then relief when the elements of harmony came back with the elements on them. They had defeated Discord, surely that could beat this creature. When the rainbow beam hit the creature in the chest they were all sure that it was statue time for it.

They were wrong....

All of the ponies gasped as the creature took the beam in the chest like it was nothing. It crossed its arms and waited for the beam to subside. The 6 girls looked in horror. The elements of harmony, the most powerful magic anypony knew, did nothing? “W-what?" Twilight said as the human looked them over, an amused look on his face. The girls looked at each other, not knowing what to do when a magic aura grabbed each of them and brought before the human. Twilight’s usually brilliant mind was having trouble piecing together what was happening.

This creature, this human, was somehow using magic when magic apparently didn't work in it. Twilight looked at the blue aura surrounding her and tried to free herself with magic but it was no use, the humans magic was unlike anything she had ever seen. She remembered that the human’s name was Forge I thought he was a good guy she thought as he made the girls form a semi-circle around him.

“You’ll never get away with this monster!" Rainbow said, trying to get out of her magical holding and failing. Forge raised an eyebrow.

“What am I getting away with?" He asked stumping all of the girls.

“Whatever yer going ta do!" Applejack shouted.

“What am I going to do? I got out of my prison and got attacked, more than once I might add."

The girls looked at each other, confused.“B-but y-you said y-you said that you were going to turn the princess into glue." Fluttershy said barely above a whisper.

Forge was about to answer her when he heard, “P-please d-don't hurt mah sister Mr. Forge." Forge turned around and saw 3 fillies cowering a few feet from him. All of his anger melted and he squatted down to the filly’s eye level and motioned for them to come closer. Applejack tried to yell but nothing came out of her mouth as she watched as her sister and her friends approached Forge.

The poor things are shaking Forge thought as the fillies came closer. He looked at the earth pony with the red bow in her mane, the one that told him not to hurt her sister. “What’s your name little ones?" He asked her.

“I-I'm Applebloom, this is Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle." She said, making Forge smile.

“I’m not going to hurt anypony Applebloom; I'm just making sure I'm not going to get attacked again." She looked up at him.

“Promise?" Forge looked at her seriously.

“I swear in my life that no harm will come to these girls."

The 3 fillies looked a lot less scared and they looked to the other 2 human statues. “Mr. Forge" Sweetie said. "If you were a statue do those other 2 statues have your friends in them?" Forge nodded and looked up, princess Luna was walking toward him. Forge smiled and got up.

"Excuse me girls, I need to say hello to my little sister." He told the fillies as he walked to Luna, wrapping the crying monarch into a tight embrace.

“w-eee m-missed you s-so much!" The princess said between sobs.

“I’ve missed you too little one" Forge said, tears in his eyes " Or is it big one now? Christ, you girls got big." forge looked at Celestia and frowned. “You young lady" he said to her “are in trouble when I wake the others up." He picked the still shocked princess up with his magic and floated her over. He then walked over to the other human statues, knocking on the bases. “Hey guys" He said to the statues “I’m getting you out but you're not killing anything, we're going to the war room to have a chat with Tia, Luna, and these new element holders. That’s an order."

Luna watched as Forge put magic through his hands and touched the statues. They cracked and two other humans hit the ground. They stood up and Luna once again saw how much bigger Forge was, height-wise. She first looked at Longstrider, his thin frame and his crazy colored jerkin and leggings with his stupid pointed shoes with his glowing green eyes. Then she looked at Reaper in his blue and grey robes with his metal vambraces and his dark skin and golden glowing eyes, which were covered by his hood.

They both looked happy to be out, Longstrider laughed, popping his bones. “Finally" he said in the cheerful voice that Luna remembered so well

“We’re free, so we're going to have a talk with Tia eh?" Reaper looked at Forge and Longstrider and the hugged each each of them. “Thank you Forge" Reaper said, his voice sounding like rocks grinding together " I had this itch on my back that I've been meaning to scratch for the last 200 years." They all laughed and the two looked at Luna, both of them smiling. She rushed them and wrapped them in hugs, crying.

Forge clapped his hands together. “Alright, let’s get to the war room." He looked at the crusaders “Do you girls want to come?" They smiled and nodded as Forge floated the 6 girls and the princess toward him and they all walked into the castle, leaving some very confused ponies outside in the garden....

The 6 girls were very confused. These humans weren't going to hurt them; Luna was even hugging them and crying on their shoulders. They wanted answers and the Forge had promised them. Goodness knows that we deserve them Twilight thought as they were floated down another hall through the castle.

Forge was happy; he and his brothers were free. Longstrider looked at him, grinning. “I can't wait to spread the old wings Forgey." Forge rolled his eyes and gave him the finger as Dash looked at his back, wondering at his lack of wings.

“How in the hay can you fly, you don't have wings.” She said to him.

Forge snorted. “O he has wings; you're looking at the fastest thing in Equestria, probably in the whole world."

Dash's eyes filled with determination and pride. “I’m the fastest flyer in Equestria!" she said,

Longstrider looking back at her, grinning. “Really? Then we should have a little race then; earn my title back."

As he and Dash bickered, Forge looked at the pony with the hat. He floated her in front of him and looked her up and down. “You’re an Apple eh?" He asked her.

“How did ya know?” Aj asked, confused.

Forge grinned. “You have the look of 'em. There were a lot of Apples in the army back in my day, they had their whole battalion. Are there still like a million of you and do you still have a crazy obsession with apples?"

Applejack huffed. "We're not obsessed with our apples!"

Forge looked at her and grinned and looked at Applebloom. " Hey Applebloom" He said to her " What’s your favorite kind of apple? Mines gala, but I'll also eat granny smith. Hey, if you had to pick which one would you pick farmer?"

Applejack looked thoughtful. " I'ah don't rightly know. Gala apples are so sweet and have such a nice crunch but granny smith-" She looked at his amused face as she rambled on about apples for 10 minutes and stopped, red faced, realizing that she proved his point. He and Applebloom chuckled at her.

Twilight cleared her throat. Forge raised an eyebrow and switched Aj’s place with hers. "Hello ,Mr. Forge"

"Just Forge ma'am"

"Okay Forge, my names ,Twilight Sparkle-."

Longstrider and Reaper groaned. "Why, even after 2000 years do you ponies have such silly names?" Reaper asked. Forge scowled at them and motioned for Twilight to continue.

"Anyway I have so many questions for-" Forge raised a hand, cutting her off.

"Ms. Sparkle all will be revealed when we get to the war room." He said. Twilight huffed as he put her back with the other girls. Where and the hay is the war room even at? She thought grumpily as the humans led them through the maze of halls to a room that hadn't been used in a 1000 years.......