Attack of the Starbridge

Pinkie Pie turned around and jumped over to him, “Yes, that was me silly.”

“Why?”

Pinkie stood still and looked at Loki confused, “Well I’ve always said that phrase. I didn’t know that it was somepony’s actual name.”

He smiled, “Well, I am glad to see that I am remembered somewhere. Even if it was only by my enemies.” He walked closer to the group, making the girls step back. They just identified the giant staff on Loki’s back and it’s wicked curve and look did not look appealing, and with his smile dissipating he no longer looked friendly.

Then, to the group’s surprise, Fluttershy spoke up, “Um, sir. Why are you here? You obviously aren’t from here and I just want to know,” Her voice trembled a little bit but then rose as she said, “What brought you to Equestria?”

Loki smiled again, “Well, by Odin’s beard, finally someone who is willing to converse. What is your name?”

Fluttershy forced a nervous laugh, “I’m Fluttershy.” She said with more confidence than the practice cheers for Rainbow Dash.

“Well Fluttershy, thank you for asking me. I came here a long time ago; I came with my brother, Thor but before you freak out,” He exasperated this next part, “I am nothing like my brother.  We came here when we were young and wanted to conquer a land for our people. We had heard that this land was recently overthrown so we knew that it would be weaker; we came with an army of about 2,500 men. When I saw that they had gems flying around the two sisters I ran from the battleground.  I looked back and saw them fire upon the army and saw light flash from man to man, and then I broke through the tree line. I didn’t know weather my brother lived or died in that battle. I do know that every single man that came or was coming died that day.”

Applejack looked confused, “Why would you conquer new land for people, you could have just asked the Two Sisters for a section of land to use for your people. Our people, er ponies, are not quick to war but when we are threatened we will fight like any other pony.”

Loki turned, smile big and eyes lit up, “Chatty now? Well, I guess now that you know my story you should know what I’ve done since I’ve been here.”

Twilight cut him off, “Wait, what is your title in your world.”

He glance over, “Why, I am Loki, son of Odin. The God Chaos.”

Rainbow and Applejack tensed up, the mane six hadn’t been very fond of chaos makers like him, Discord for example; Twilight motion for them stay calm though so they both sat down, Rainbow on her hind legs and AJ on her front legs, ready for anything.

Fluttershy spoke so that nothing would break out, “Please continue.”

The recently learned god turned and said, “Well, the first thing that I did was influence the blue princess.”

Twilight broke in, “Luna.”

Loki continued unfazed, “I told Luna about the glory of ruling; she then took it and went running. When she rose up against the multi-colored princess,”

Twilight broke in again, “Celestia.”

“I supported Celestia. Of course, I then visited Luna on the moon. I tried to keep her company but she kept pushing me away. I stopped visiting her after about 90 years. The next 910 years I was just learning about your people. Your history, your hopes, what could possibly be coming.” He turned to Twilight, “Good job, Twilight on finding out about Mare in the Moon. You and me both dear.” He turned back to Fluttershy, “I was quite fond of your people; I wanted to join the royal guard for Celestia, they would never let a non-pony join the guard though. I’ve been silently guarding her since. I know all of your ‘lessons’ and all of what you’ve done. Queen Chrysalis, Element Tree, the Everfree Forest invasion. I didn’t have anything to do with that by the way.”

Rarity spoke for the first time, “How can we trust you? You said yourself that you are the God of Chaos. When Luna returned she was still evil; you influenced her. Why should we trust you?”

Loki’s eyes became fire and in a booming voice, “Just because I like chaos doesn’t mean that I will try to change my history. Everything that I have said and will say is the absolute truth.” The mane six looked frightened, the fire left his eyes and he spoke in a normal voice. “The faces that you are making right now are what I live for and why I make chaos. Other than that I am nothing like Discord.” He said with a dismissive wave of his hand. “Well, it was nice chatting with you but I need to oversee my brother’s destruction. Tah.” Then he vanished in a puff of smoke.

Pinkie was smiling and turned to the group, “He’s good at magic. What were you trying to say Twilight before he showed up?”

“Well,” She looked at the lingering smoke. She could’ve sworn that she saw Loki’s smile in there. “Let’s go back to Ponyville," She turned away from the smoke, " I’ll explain again in the library

“Okie Dokie lo-“ She glanced around, the smoke had finally gone away but the presence of Loki was an elephant in the room. “Okay.” Said Pinkie Pie and jumped to follow the group.

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When the group came back to Ponyville, it was in distress; everywhere that was a road was crammed with ponies, wanting to leave or go visit loved ones that they didn’t want to see destroyed; thus making it a lot harder for the ponies to get to the library than intended.

Rainbow Dash was convinced to make the trip there easier and started to yell at the people in front of the group, when that didn’t work she turned around, “Fluttershy, you gotta help me; get these people to move. We need to get there soon, the longer that beam of light is hitting the ground; the more enemies are coming to attack Ponyville.”

Fluttershy looked around, “Well, I could ask them to move.” She smiled.

“UGH! Fine,” Rainbow turned to the crowd, “We need to get through, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO STOP THEM!!!!!!!” she yelled at the top of her lungs.

Everything stopped, nothing moved except the light beam that was deep in the Forest. One middle-aged pony spoke up, “Where do you need to go?”

“The library, make way please.” Fluttershy said. Of course only the first few rows of ponies heard her but as they moved away, so did everypony else. Soon the ponies were at the Library and Twilight was being her old self, going through books and trying to find any information on these people.

“Oh! You guys keep looking, I need to grab something for us.” Said twilight and ran into the back of the Library, underneath the stairs.

“Hm, I’ve never seen that before.” Applejack whispered to spike, “How long has there been an area for ponies to go through in the library under the stairs? Last time I was here there wasn’t anything like that.”

“I’d assume so, that was just added by Princess Luna herself; she said that she was storing something back there for Twilight and that she would know the time to use it. I wasn’t even allowed back there, during the creation of it and now!”

“Now why would she do that?” Asked Rarity, “She doesn’t have anything to hide from us, her best of friends.”

“Well, I’d to tell you that I knew, but I don’t” Spike said, looking sad.

“It’s okay, dear” Rarity said, and patted spike on the head.

After about 2 minutes of waiting and guessing what it was that was down there, Rainbow shouted, “Oh, come on! We need to hurry!”

“I’m coming as fast as I can!” Shouted Twilight from behind the wall. She then stepped out and the entire group was shocked. Standing before them was their friend, but in a full suit of armor. “Since we gave up the Elements of Harmony, Luna said that in case of an attack that we should have these available to us. She had one for everyone.” She then levitated out 6 other suits of armor, each one on a manikin, except one that was obviously Spike’s. All of the other sets had nametags that had the name of its’ future bearer on it.

Rainbow Dash was the first to break out of shock. She launched into the air and did a hoof pump while she yelled out, “Yeah! Awesome” Then she grabbed her set and started to put it on. Then AJ ran up to hers and took it off of the manikin, one at a time. The suits of armor were solid steel, crafted by the Forges of Luna beneath Canterlot. The helmets were different for unicorns, with a slit at the top for the horn to go through, as the unicorn put it on, metal would follow the tip so that it could be protected. The armor was different for pegasi too, they had slits on the back of the main chest piece, but not metal rose up to with the wings, it would weigh then down and wouldn’t allow the pegasus bearer to fly. Twilights had both of these, and in full suit she was a weapon and force to be reckoned with.

Every single suit of armor was different for every different pony; Fluttershy’s was lighter, because she wasn’t a strong flyer she had to have lighter armor. This meant that she would most likely be behind the front line with bow and arrows. Rainbow Dash’s though was extremely heavy, but because she was one of the strongest flyers in Equestria she would be able to still fly fast. She’d be in the air with bow and arrow as well as a sword in case she needed to land. Applejack’s was an interesting one; there was a hook on her right foreleg, higher than the middle joint but just below the shoulder. This was where a rope would go so that she could it when she wanted too. Other than that it was just like everypony else’s; Pinkie Pie’s armor was quite plain, but as Pinkie Pie put it on, she knew exactly what to do. She pulled her party cannon and blasted the suit of armor a few times before giggling onto the floor. Now it was an array of colors, ranging from pink to pink and had streamers; while Pinkie was laughing her mane off, Twilight used a come to life spell so that the streamers grew hard and could attack any enemies within about 10 feet of Pinkie. Needless to say Pinkie would be on the front line.

Spike’s suit was green and purple, it had a short sword ready to be used and the section around his mouth was hardened steel, so that it could withstand the heat of dragon fire. Rarity’s was a simple suit, nothing much more could be done to it; there wasn’t anything that caught Rarity’s eyes about it but she still put it on. She knew that it wouldn’t be worth adding things to it because it might be her downfall in combat.

Then she looked over at twilight with a confused face, “What exactly will I be doing in this battle?” She asked, not even putting the armor on yet while everypony else had already done so.

Twilight walked over and said, “How about you try on the suit first?”

Rarity looked over the metal and sighed, “Oh, okay. Just give me a second.”

She started putting on the suit of armor; after it was all on Twilight whispered in Rarity’s ear and she squealed, “That is perfect!” Her horn lit up after she said that and then she slowly started to fade away from sight. She was going to be behind lines, gathering information that was vital for everyone and the survival of Equestria. Then there was Twilights, with slits on her back and her head so that her horn could still cast spells. This was going to be a war that would be worth waging, the fate of the land that everypony loved. This war would be worth fighting, a war worth winning.