:Alliance:

Fulgore stood before the Princesses in Canterlot's throne room, watching them silently as they stared at him with mixed looks. Looks he could easily identify as fear and unease, though the small Ponies next to him were clearly oblivious.

"We have agreed that in order to combat the threat of Gargos, we, must trust you and hope that you will agree in return to ally with us. Will you?" The named Luna asked.

'I don't have time for this.' Fulgore thought and simply settled for a nod of the head.

Celestia managed a bright smile and got to her hoofs, "Thank you. We promise we will do everything we can to assist you in defeating in this enemy."

When Fulgore shook his head, Celestia's smile dropped, causing her to ask, "You...don't want our help?" Another shake of his head and she added, "But...why?"

If he could glare, Fulgore would have, instead settled for tapping his metal chest with a metal fist before turning and leaving, earning a crowd of mixed looks from everypony present.

In his mind, Fulgore repeated to himself that does not need help from them, as he was quite more than capable of defeating Gargos alone.

He stopped walking, hearing something following him, and turned to look down at, the white Unicorn who called herself Rarity, who was smiling up at him. "Do let me show you around darling if you plan to take a walk. It's...the least I can do, for helping me and my friends."

Fulgore just stared, and stared, aaand stared, until finally relenting, gesturing for her to lead the way.

And she did, quite happily if her wider smile was any indication.

Orchid and Thunder rose from their seats when Glacius entered, finally returning from, wherever he went to.

"You took your time." Orchid said, showing Ultratech's device to him.

"Apologies. But travelling to other worlds on transportation vessels is not exactly the quickest of methods." Glacius explained.

Thunder recoiled, "You...travelled to another world? Where? Why?"

Glacius raised an icy hand, replying, "All will be explained in due time. For now, we must hurry, I have a bad feeling we will have company soon." He said before reaching out to the device, levitating it over into his hold. "It won't take me long before we can warp to this other realm, until then, I must ask you to prepare yourselves."

Orchid nodded, getting to her feet, "So then...we're really allies?"

Glacius stared back at her, silent for a moment before responding, "I was under the impression our alliance was sealed some time ago."

"Just making sure." The agent smirked.

Thunder looked between the two for a moment, before looking outside, something catching his eye, "Glacius, how soon were you expecting company?"

"Very soon." The ice alien replied. "Why?"

Thunder tightened his grip around his weapons, adding, "Because it's already here. Lot's of it."

Glacius approached, looking outside. Indeed, it would seem Ultratech forces were approaching his ship, many Fulgore prototypes led by, Sadira?

A step back, and Glacius spoke, "You must hold them until the device is ready. Can you do it?"

Orchid gave him a cocky smirk before standing next to Thunder, "You kidding? This'll be a piece of cake." She said before leaping out of the ship.

Thunder simply stared, before turning to the ice alien, pleading, "Please hurry." Before following after the agent.

Glacius stared after them a few seconds longer before turning away, hooking the device up to his ship and getting to work.

"And finally, last but certainly not least, Rarity's Canterlot Carousel! It was always my dream to own a boutique in Canterlot and-"

And Fulgore simply continued to listen and silently tolerate the absurdly annoying tour that Rarity took him on around Canterlot as she showed and explained the many things he had no care whatsoever for. A few Guards were keeping an eye on them, at a distance, clearly too afraid to be near the 'metal beast' that destroyed an entire castle with one attack. It didn't help any that he was getting stares from everypony else they were passing by.

The pony certainly had a knack for talking as she just did not stop talking at all as soon as they left the castle. So much talking in fact that he could probably have written a book with the amount of words that came out of her mouth, several books in fact.

"There were some difficult times during the first days of the boutique since its opening but-"

And she just continued to talk away, and Fulgore simply processed all of the useless information only to delete it a few seconds after. After all, what good was it going to do him? Maybe she could talk Gargos to death, it certainly was not an impossibility given how much she seems to love the sound of her own voice.

He tried to picture Gargos now, curled up and clutching his ears as Rarity continued to torture him with her power of talk.

Suddenly, his scanners picked up a large energy signature and, something else, approaching very close by. Rarity was brought out of her talking as soon as she noticed the cyborg turning his back to her. "Um, is there something wrong?"

Fulgore remained motionless, waiting in silence as the 'something' danced across from rooftop to rooftop while the energy signature continued to grow. Until...

A dimensional rift opened up before them.

No time to think, and certainly no time to decide, he made the first move before anything and anyone else and jumped through as Rarity screamed out his name, a mad cackle and a skeletal figure following right behind.

Fulgore came flying through the rift and onto an icy field. One he recognised all too well as his optics looked towards Glacius' ship ahead. He was back, and finally out of that place. He turned towards the skeletal figure of Spinal, who quickly reformed and stared at him, seemingly wanting some payback for their last encounter.

"Um Fulgore?"

His thoughts stopped, and his eyes would have widened if they could as he looked down at his leg that Rarity was clutching onto.

'She followed me!' He thought and cursed, rather infuriated slightly that he wasn't fully rid of the ponies.

"Well now, what do we have here?"

The voice dragged Fulgore's attention behind him, and found himself face to face with his familiar 'ally' Sadira, accompanied by, many Fulgore prototypes, the first models. 'So, those models are still operational.'

Sadira chuckled and took a few steps forward, passing by an exhausted Orchid who Fulgore just noticed, and...an unconscious Chief Thunder. Memories once again flashed in Fulgore's head, and he nearly stumbled had he not quickly regained his balance.

Looking at the device in her hand, Sadira smirked and added, "When I heard that you and Jago had disappeared around here, I was unsure of how it was possible." She chuckled, "But then I remembered the rift Ultratech's device created and ARIA did tell me it's pull was...quite strong. It only made sense." She turned to Spinal, who looked ready to attack at any minute, "Ah, the immortal warrior, you were the last one I was expecting to appear, I was under the impression it was only Fulgore and Jago whom had disappeared. No matter, ARIA will find a use for you too."

Spinal cackled, "Ye can find a use fer mah bony ass bitch!" Was the immortal warriors response before he launched an attack, or atleast he would have had several Fulgore prototypes not attacked him.

Fulgore turned back towards Sadira, whose eyes drifted down to his leg that Rarity was hiding behind. "Oh...what's this now?"

"O-Oh no..." Rarity gulped as she tightened her grip around Fulgore's leg.

Inside the ship, everything was finally ready, and Glacius wasted no time unhooking the device from his ship before preparing to join the battle.

Outside however, a lone figure hovered down and waited nearby, watching the ship from a short distance, waiting for the ice alien to reveal himself.

"It is time, to take back what is mine."

Author's Note

Rushed chapter I know, but I've decided to, change a few things, so this fic is probably going to end at the next chapter, so I can start a new story and get a fresh start.