After Celestia called off code there's-dangerous-aliens-and-they're-going-to-kill-everypony-panic-PANIC! and the humans looked after their wounds and got on a new set of cloths, Forge sat down and beckoned the 3 fillies over to him. “Girls you want to see something neat?" He asked, looking at the fillies. They nodded their heads, excited. Forge smiled and reached behind Scootaloo’s ear and brought his hand in front of their faces, revealing something that the girls had never seen.

"What's that Mr. Forge?" Sweete asked.

“This girls, is a slinky. We had them where I came from, they're toys and it took me a few tries but I recreated them. “The girls looked at the slinky with interest. Forge played with it in his hands, making it wider and slinking it back and forth, making the fillies laugh. “Here girls I have on for each of you" He said, giving each of them one. “Now you know the best thing about a slinky is? If you do it right you can make them go down a bunch of stairs. Why don't you try it out?"

Grinning, the Crusaders ran out of the war room with their Slinkys in their mouths, looking for a long flight of stairs. Forge looked at the six girls. “You if any of you girls are squeamish I’d suggest you go with the little ones." Fluttershy got up and trotted out of the room, almost running. The other 5 girls smiled at their friend and looked at Forge, who had somehow gotten a pipe and was putting tobacco in it. “You ladies mind? Nasty habit I know, but being able to breathe fire I probably wouldn't get lung cancer." He said chuckling.

Releasing a small jet of flame he lit the pipe until it was smoking merrily. Taking a long drag and blowing out a smoke ring he looked at the mares. “We can't explain everything to you girls, oaths of silence, you know how they are, but how about you start with the easy questions and we can go from there." Twilight was practically jumping up and down from excitement. Getting out a quill and paper from seemingly out of nowhere, she cleared her throat and thought of the perfect first question, something that wasn’t too personal and it would get the ball rolling.

"So what are-" Pinkie thought, ruined it with her barrage of questions.

Jumping up and down all around the humans she said a mile-a-minute. “Doyoulikepartiewhatwasitliketobe-" Forge snapped his fingers above her head and tapped her on the head.

“Sit" He commanded. The girls watched dumbfounded as a confused Pinkie sat on her hunches right next to Forge. Forge began petting her like a dog as he turned back toward Twilight. “Good girl. Go ahead Mrs. Sparkle." Twilight shook her head and cleared her throat.

“Um okay, what are your full names?"

“Are real names are our own, only the old king and my brothers and sisters know our real names." Forge told a confused Twilight.

“Why?"

“Names hold power, so we made up new ones when we came to your world. But my full title is Captain Forge Metalworker."

“I’m Lieutenant Longstrider Highflyer." Longstrider.

“And I'm Sergeant Reaper Deathdealer." They all struck their chest with closed fist.

“We are the Thanes, the special forces and the shock troops of the old Equestrian army." The girls looked at each other as Twilight frantically wrote what they were saying down.

“So where are you from?"

“Terra" Forge said simply. Twilight looked up from her notes and waited for further explanation and getting none, just a blank stare from Forge and the others.

"Can't you go into more detail?" She asked, getting a sinking feeling that this question and answer session was going to give her far more questions than answers.

"Nope" Twilight sighed in frustration.

"Okay, how did you get to this world?"

"Tia and Luna’s dad got us."

"Why?" Forge took another drag of his pipe and looked thoughtful.

"Why as in why he picked us or why he needed humans? I can answer both."

"Please do." Twilight said, smiling.

"The first why I really have no idea; one day we were just sitting in our room talking when a big alicorn appears in our room" Forge chuckled" Scared the shit out of us. I can't tell you what he said or did to convince us to help him but he did. First though, he wanted us to be prepared with what he needed." All of the humans grinned. "He pulled out a load of money, changed into a human, and we went shopping, almost drove the old horse nuts." Celestia and Luna chuckled, remembering when their father had told that tale. "But where was I? They needed us because of the war against Discord."

"Why did they need you?"

"Because he was outmatched, Discord and his allies were breed for war compared to his forces. Discord had the diamond dogs, the diamond ponies, some pony allies, the griffins, and the worst, the goblins."

"What are goblins?" Rainbow asked.

"Imagine us but midnight black, totally evil and an unrelenting need to destroy everything in the most horrible way possible." The girls shuddered.

"Don't worry girls" Celestia said, trying to calm them "goblins died out a 1000 years ago."

“Anyway" Forge said “All that Tia's dad had were the ponies, the Fergius, and some dragons of questionable loyalty."

"What’s a Fergius?" Twilight asked.

"Can't tell you, they're very particular about who knows of their existence."

"But you told us their names!" Forge snorted.

"Just because you know something's name doesn't mean you know anything about them." Twilight almost groaned, Forge knew of all these creatures that she had NEVER heard about and he couldn't tell her about them.

"Now why he picked humans? A couple of reasons; You ponies aren't really made for war like griffins or diamond dogs. You have to hold your weapons in your mouth, you were a lot smaller, and things like killing don't come easy to you. Humans thought are built more like diamond dogs and violence comes almost naturally to us. Sure, you’re a pretty sturdy fork, a shit load stronger than us and you can use magic. But the old king did stuff to us to make us basically living war machines. It’s the reason that we're as strong and as fast as we are, and it's also why I breath fire and Longstrider has his wings."

“I still don't see any wings...." Dash grumbled at the back of the group.

“What about Reaper?" Twilight asked. Reaper grinned and Forge said, “Have you girls heard Reaper at all, you hear his footsteps or heard him breathing?" The girls shook their heads no. “Exactly, he doesn't make any noise, perfect for an assassin."

The girls looked at the humans, slightly horrified. In a place that had almost forgotten about war, 3 beings that thrived in it were now loose. They seem so nice though Twilight thought .....Well other than Forge attacking my brother and slapping Celestia in the ...actually, now that I think about it, Forge really isn't that nice.... but the others seem to be and Forge said they did it for Equestria, and it was a different time. She then looked up from her notes almost shyly. Now was the question of the century for her.

"Why didn't our magic work on you and why can you use magic? Why didn't the elements work on you?" All of the other girls leaned in closer, except Pinkie, who had fallen asleep with Forges petting, they wanted to know too. I bucking swear if he says-

"I can't tell you...." This time Twilight couldn't hold in her groan this time, slamming her head against the table. Everyone in the room chuckled. "....But I CAN tell you some things about our magic."

"BUCK YES PLEASE!!!!" Twilight cheered and immediately blushed at her foul language, making everyone in the room laugh.

"The magic that we can do is limited and it needs, in my case, special settings to work. For example, all I can do well is levitate things and grab things out of the air and stuff like that, and you know that I breathe fire. The problem is that I need some contact with the ground to work, your magic might not work on us but it will work on most of our cloths, you get me up in the air and I'm magicless. I can do some little spells after that but that’s it.

Longstrider over there can increase and slow down the speed of things and Reaper can affect shadows, it’s scary as hell, you got to get him to show you some time. O and for some reason lead messes with our magic, if you put it on us then we're a lot weaker. Or if you have any lead on your person our magic can't touch you."

Twilight was having the academic time of her life. She was learning a whole kind of magic from things that were supposed to be legends! but something was bothering her though. "Ummmm if you don't mind me asking, why are you telling us your weakness; should they be with the things you can’t talk about?"

"Ya!" Rainbow said, flying eye level to an amused Forge. "It seems like we could beat the tar outta you guys if we put lead on ya." The humans chuckled.

"Trust us" Longstrider said "Lead just makes us weaker and slower. We've been trained for years not being as strong or as fast as we are now, and even then we could take you ponies out pretty easy." The girls nodded slowly, giving the humans the benefit of the doubt, well except Dash who thought she could put any of the humans in the hospital in 10 seconds flat.

"Now can you fill us in on everything that’s happened in Equestria? Do they have plumbing yet?" Longstrider whined, turning toward Celestia and getting a smack from Forge. Twilight thought it was odd that they knew about plumbing but remembered that they weren't going to tell her anything about their world so she mentally shrugged (more like mentally slammed her head against the table but hey…) and did what she was best at, lectured. It took about thirty minutes and she saw Forge get noticeably angrier as the lecture went on, but then he looked confused toward the end of it.

Walking to a map and putting it on the table Forge said, pointing at ponyville. " So let me get this straight, you ponies are allies of griffins, you basically NEED hugs to survive, you ponies think that Tia and Luna are gods, and Tia you gave all of my land to a bunch of Apples and said land is now called Ponyville? O and your guards are a bunch of little girls and an invasion by these changelings was stopped by the power of love? O and Discord came back for some goddamn reason?"

Celestia cleared her throat. "Yes" Forge sat down, a confused look on his face. Reaper and Longstrider whistled.

"Wow, I've only ever seen Forge so angry that he gets confused once, good job Tia." Applejack was still confused about how Forge said ponyville was his land.

"What do ya mean ya own ponyville?" She asked Forge who walked over to his metal container and took out a document and put it on the table. It showed that in face he DID own all of ponyville. He had a land permit with Celestia's seal on it.

Land permit,

The land between Canterlot and Manehatten in a 10 mile radius near the Everfree forest is now owned by a Forge Metalworker to do as he will until the property is sold, given away, or any other complication.

Celestia,

Regent of the sun and princess of Equestria

“Those directions seem like they're right smack dab in the center of your ponyville to me. Tia let me have the land when I wouldn't stop harassing her about it .I wanted a place close enough to Canterlot to visit but far enough to work in my forge in peace. You know Tia I could sue you, and it’s not going to be called ponyville anymore."

Celestia rolled her eyes, “Why not?!"

“Because a moron could of made up a better name." Applejack huffed; her family had named ponyville after all.

“From now on it’s going to be called Forge's Town."

“That’s a stupid name."

“You’re a stupid name!"

“That doesn't make sense; I'm not a foal Forge so I'm not going to play this game with you!"

“Dummy says what?" Forge muttered.

“What?"

Luna giggled as Celestia and Forge argued like the siblings they were. The arguing ceased as Forge’s stomach growled angrily at him, telling him that he needed something to eat. Getting up from his chair and sighing, he said, “I’m looking to see if there's anything good in the kitchen, you guys want to come?" Forge asked Reaper and Longstrider, who nodded and got up with him and left the room, leaving the 5 girls and the princesses.

Twilight slumped in her chair. “Princess" she said toward her teacher “can you tell me more about them?" Celestia smiled at her students NEED for the knowledge.

“I’m sorry Twilight" She said, putting a hoof on her students shoulder." But I can't either, humans aren’t supposed to be in this world and the more we know about them the more balance of things gets..... unstable." Twilight slumped "But I can tell you about them on a personal level and I will tell you about them as a species and as people." Twilight perked up.

" First off, lets start off with Forge." Celestia said "You've already seen that he has a… bit of a temper. He is also the mad scientists of metalworking, so if you see a crazed look in his eyes DO NOT encourage him."

Luna grinned evilly. You know sister" Luna said " Forge forgot to tell the girls about his other power." The girls looked at her quizenly.

"What power?" Twilight asked. Luna’s smile got bigger and eviler.

“Did you girls feel calm around him? Not really threatened by him at all?"

“Why yes" Rarity said” He seems...... rough around the edges though. Why princess?"

“Because Rarity" Luna said, her smile gaining Pinkie Pie proportions. “For some reason Forge releases pheromones naturally from his sweat, mares can't keep their hooves off him. You all might feel it right now, an uncontrollable attraction to him."

The girls looked at her confused. “No, not really, what about you girls?" Twilight said the others girl’s shaking their heads no as Luna’s smile grew so wide it was threatening to lift off her face.

“You will soon girls."

“He must of been a lady’s man then." Applejack remarked. Both of the princesses chuckled.

“You’d think so” Celestia said,” and many mares tried but there's a problem, Forge is terrified of mares in a romantic sense." The girls looked at each other.

“Why?" Dash asked “Is he a colt cuddlier?" Now the princesses were laughing openly.

“No" Luna said,” In the words of our brother ' mares are dangerous animals' you'll see, just try to come on to him at all." Twilight looked at Luna.

“Princess" She said "Did you say that Forge is your brother?" Luna nodded her head.

"Yes Twilight Sparkle, so are Reaper and Longstrider, our father adopted them after they spent a few years with us."

"So they're princes?" Rarity asked, her eyes sparkling.

Celestia chuckled, " Yes, but don't remind them, they don't like being reminded their royalty."

"Princess, what happened to the other 2 humans, you did say there were 5 right?" Dash asked. Both of the princesses looked sad.

" It’s not our place to tell, Twilight, the humans might tell you but give them time, it'll be a very sore subject for them."

"Um princess?" Aj said " Now that they're free and what not, what’s going ta happen ta them?" Celestia smiled.

"Now that they're free they are going continue to do what they swore to me they would do, protect the elements. They're going to be living in ponyville to keep an eye on you girls." She walked toward the map that Forge had put on the table. "Forge's going to want to have a Forge set up so he can work." She tapped her hoof to her chin thoughtfully. "I'll put him out near you Applejack, it’s outside of ponyville enough for him not to keep the locals awake all night."

Celestia grinned at Luna and they both looked at the girls. "I guess we should tell you about the other two, now listen about Longstrider, it’s hilarious......"

Forge and his brothers had just raided the kitchens, scaring the shit out if the cook who happened to be a damn good throw with his knives. After some reassuring, threatening, and a knife wound, the cook was happy to cook something for them. The humans were happy to find the Equestrians had pizza now so they asked for about 10 pies. Forge was carrying one of those pies down to the dungeons. Ignoring or glaring at the guards and opening the door, Forge looked over the changeling queen that had tried to take over Canterlot, queen Chrysalis. She was chained to the wall with ring on her horn, something to stop her magic Forge guessed.

She was looking warily at him as he put the pizza down and walked over to her. She was in between the height of Tia and Luna with holes all over her black body. "What are you?" She asked, confused. After her capture by the ponies, her hoard had disowned her and left her for dead. No one had come to visit her since... well she couldn't remember when. Now this monkey thing with glowing eyes just came in with a pizza, looking her over.

Forge got closer to her, within touching distance. "What are you doin-" He grabbed the chains around her legs and ripped them off, and then he took the ring off her horn. Plopping down in front of the confused queen he grabbed the pie and held it out to her. “Want some?" He asked her, taking a piece and eating one himself.....

Author's Note

A New years present for you guys, happy new years!