Back Into It

(Ponyville Town square)

          Tony was currently sitting behind a stage by himself, his mind was stricken by what those that once looked to him for protection would think of him escaping his duty as a soldier, not to mention that the only speeches Tony did were to soldiers and not to an entire crowd… in the middle of Ponyville, at first he thought it would only be confined to Sanctuary but turns out they Cadence only took Tony to City hall to meet up with Sweet Heart, who was over the moon to see him before she punched him, anyway after that fiasco, he was led to an airship on to Ponyville but this time It had a massive crystal tree on the outskirts, which everyone simply shrugged when he asked about it.

      So after they arrived, Tony was sat down in the chair he was currently occupying and was told that the nobles, military commanders and royalty of Equestria, Sanctuary, the Crystal Empire and its allies would be in attendance to see him, it would have been better if they gave the man a chance to get to know what has happened in the past five years but Celestia’s words were that he shouldn't be told anything as it may change what he says.

       “Fuck me, why am I shaking?” he asked as he grabbed his right arm to stop It from shaking but to no avail. “Calm down boy, you have faced down worse than a couple stuck up shits so be a man” Tony said taking a deep breath a few moments Cadence entered from the stage entrance and looked to her husband and frowned at his behavior before approaching him, using her magic to life his head before locking lips with him causing him to go wide eyed before accepting the kiss even if It was timid.

       ‘What's happened to you?’ She thought before breaking the kiss and looking at him, she used her magic to scan him and frowned when she discovered that his heart was racing but for the wrong reasons. “Sweetie, what's wrong?” She asked him as she sat in front of him and placed a hoof on his lap.

          “J-just everything is hitting me all at once, and… and well I realized home much of a fuck up I am” He sighed.

            “How so?” she asked him curious.

             “I went to war, Got injured, Got sent to another dimension where I was able to heal and sleep through the last five years while you and the…. You and the girls had to take the slow way… believing believing was dead and having to raise our… your foals alone” he said as he clenched his fist. “How am I not a total screw up when I can't even look after my family or even die right?” he asked as she slapped him before grabbing his head in her magic and turning it back to face her as tears formed in the corner of her eyes.

        “Stop, just stop, first they are our foals, i don't give two shits about what you think, they are ours and secondly, the extent of your injuries that you explained… well you would have been dead before getting home. Yes it has been hard without you but we had each other to keep us going, you coming back is a miracle, a miracle that I thank Faust for every moment I see you so please cheer up Tony because you are with the ponies that love you, and nothing will stop them, us from loving you” She said as Tony nodded before wrapping his arms around Cadence causing her to smile and kissed his cheek moments before the sound of fighting was heard making her groan.

        “What?” Tony said releasing Cadence and moved to the door to look out only several Alicorns in armour attacking the nobles so without thinking and ignoring Cadence’s protests, Tony ran out onto the stage and instantly recognized three of the four, one was suppose to be dead, no was dead by Tony’s memory.

            “Ah of it isn't the Freak” WarSong laughed before zooming forward at Tony only to plant a hoof in the ground in front of Tony, spin around and Buck Tony in the chest at full strength, send him through the stage. “Well I was expecting more” Song laughed before noticing a groan and looked to see Tony getting up. “Oh thank Faust you're not dead… yet” He laughed as he watched Shadow Storm teleported to the o the side of Tony and blast him with an extremely powerful spell in his side causing him to be sent hurtling through the air towards the newest Alicorn, Who grabbed him in his magic and slammed Tony into the gravel road resulting in the sound of several of Tony’s bones breaking.

       “Now thou art done” The stallion as as he walked over to WarSong before using his magic to pick up the entire stage and slam it down onto top of Tony. “Tis done” He said before turning to Glimmer Shield who was watching In shocking who saw Cadence crying, the sight of her ex wife in tears hurt him, she didn't know why but it killed him to see her in such a way. “Glimmer what art thou lo…” Solaris was saying before a powerful surge of power, but it wasn't just him, everyone with a coy hundred metres and instantly turned to the source, said source caused the four attackers blood to run cold as they watched the stage begin to shift and rise but it wasn't because of somepony using magic, no. Everyone watched as Tony lifted the massive chunk of debris but around his bloodied body was a burning red aura,  with hints of Gold, blue and green running through it.

       “I have got a bad feeling about this” WarSong said as they watched Tony’s body mend itself as the stage he held turned to ash and blew away. “Okay Shadow, Cool him off” WarSong said as Shadow darted forward with horn glowing onto have her wings, mane and tail but into flames when she got close enough to causing her to scream out for a second before she was silenced by Tony suddenly materialising her and slamming his fist down Into her, creating a deep burning crater with no remains of the dark Alicorn.

          “I am sick of you and your band already, and I have only been here two days”Tony as he approached the two remaining Alicorn stallions “the constant attacks well to be Honest it was three but you endangered my family, my children and my friends and i won't let you get away with that” Tony said as the burning aura around him disappeared.

      “Ha the fool used up too much magic” WarSong Laughed before the two stallions launched forward only to discover how wrong they were as they watched both of Tony’s arms transform into what resembled that of a of a dragon’s arms and before they could react, they both discovered themselves impaled.

        “No its called being smart” Tony growled at the gasping in Alicorns before the aura reappeared, incinerating the corpses before vanishing just as Tony’s arms returned to normal “And maybe I did use up all my magic” Tony chuckled before passing out.

        Everything was silent as all eyes moved to look at Glimmer Shield who very quickly stuck her hooves in the air. “I surrender” She exclaimed moments before being tackled by several Elite Solar guards.

(Twilight’s Castle half an hour later

         “holy shit my head” Tony groaned as he sat up, his skull felt like a Brute had used it for a basketball. “Where am I?” he muttered looking around before discovering that he weird arm braces on his wrists which were studded with glowing red gems. “What the fuck happened? I remember… That son a bitch dropped a god damn stage on me” Tony growled before getting up, failing to realize that was on a bed and face planted onto the crystal floor making him groan in pain. He felt an odd sensation on his face as if someone was running across the floor towards him, so he instantly shot up and head butted a Stallion doctor who just ran in to check on the noise which unfortunately knocked both of the males out just as the unicorn nurse watched from the door away as held her face in her hoof as she shook It softly.

     After her little moment, she picked up Tony in her magic and put him back into the bed before picking up the stallion and laid him on the couch. In the room before she left to retrieve Twilight.

(Friendship Castle’s great hall)

       “So you see Twilight, we need your help to train Tony in magic as Eliza can only do so much” Lucy said to the Purple Alicorn of magic as she nodded before sighing.

         “And what of my bro… my sister?” She asked shooting a quick disappointed glare at Glimmer, who at this point in time had her wings bound, her magic blocked, her legs shackled and several Armonian marines pointing their rifles at her.

            “Well in this case the decision is up to Tony as Band Glimmer was in targeted him the most directly and his herd the rest of the time” Celestia said just as the nurse looking after Tony walked in” Nurse Green Heart, How is Tony?” She asked the nurse.

             “Well I have good news and bad news, The good news is that Tony awoke faster than we expected” She said receiving several sighs of relief.

               “And the bad news?” Luna asked.

              “He immediately knocked himself and the Doctor out” She said as everyone simply looked at her in shock.

               “You're kidding?” Molly asked as the nurse shook her head.

               “I wish I was, so now we need another doctor” She said before leaving the room.

               “I forgot how hopeless he is at times” Luna groaned.

(Back into the room Tony is in… yea couldn't think of a better name)

              “Okay now my head really bloody hurts” He groaned as he got off the bed and looked to the unconscious quadrupedal stallion lying unconscious with his tongue sticking out of him muzzle on the nearby couch. “Whoops” He chuckled before walking to the door slowly and opening it only to be blinded by the light from the hallway. After a few moments he exited the room and came encountered a pony Nurse who was looking at him with wide eyes and her green coat had turned bright red over her face. “Hey are you alright?” Tony asked crouching and clicking his fingers in front of her face. “Hello, Earth to pony” He said as she suddenly started blinking and shook her head.

       “S-sorry sir… but um your um… oh wait sorry you are not a pony… your naked sir” She said as Tony looks down at himself.

        “So I am” He chuckled before looking back at the waist tall mare before it clicked. “Oh shit” he Said darting back into the room just as the mare shook her head.

         “Well at least I know one of the reasons the princesses missed him” She muttered with a slight giggle moments before Tony exited dressed in a pair of blood stained shorts that he was wearing during his fight. “Good enough” She said before noticing Tony hold his in pain. “Ah here” She said gaining his attention as she floated a box of painkillers from her mane and gave them to the man before leading him down the crystal hallway.

         “Well at least it isn't as painful to walk barefooted on as Titanium grate” He muttered gaining the nurse's attention.

          “hmm?” she asked as he simply shook his head.

           “Nevermind” He said as they both reached a door which was guarded why two Pegasus guards in purple armour, who stiffened up quickly upon seeing Tony and one even took a unwilling step back. “I guess I made a bad first impression” Tony muttered before entering the room and come face to face with all the surviving royalty, nobles and military commanders and his herd.

         “Ah the freak, you are up again… didn't knock out any poor ponies?” a white stallion with a golden mane said causing several pony nobles to laugh until the stallion silenced by Tony approaching him and standing in front of him.

          “Oh no, but it would be happy to oblige” He said as he clenched his fist only to find himself snared by several different magic aura’s.

            “Ha you hide behind thos…” he was staying until a large familiar red and black Dragon grabbed the stallion by the tail and lifted him not the air inside down to face the giant.

             “No, i would believe they don't want to have a poor little welp clean up the mess you make Blueblood” The Dragon said snorting a ring of smoke onto the Stallion.

               “Oh K-King Inferno, i- i didn't mean to offend anypony” the Prince said as the Dragon glared before dropping him back onto the floor and stepping over him.

              “It is good to see you Tony, been some time since we last spoke” The Dragon laughed as he patted the man’s shoulder. “Now I believe you have some people to talk to” Inferno said as Tony nodded before getting on the stage and walking over to the podium after the magical grip on him vanished. As he reached the podium, he discovered a small piece of paper with a short message inscribed on it.

       ‘ Take Questions’ He read before looking up “Okay so let's keep this simple and quick, you lot ask questions and I’'ll answer them to the best of my abilities” Tony said multiple arms went up. “Okay, um Maroon Crystal mare with the interesting hat” He said as the Mare in Question rose to stand on her seat.

        “Ah Thank you, i just wanted to ask you, what happened to you after the War of the Caribou?” She asked curious as several of the audience nodded in agreement and Tony sighed.

         “Well the answer requires some back story I'm  sorry but I shall keep it quick.” He said rubbing his eyes.

          “That Is perfectly fine” the mare said as Tony noticed several tape recorders float up near him to record what he said.

            “Okay so you there was a creature, a deity who controlled the void whom had taken a fancy to this world and begun collecting things from different universes, this included vehicles and items from my universe, unfortunately Human soldiers were pulled through with these items but unlike me, he placed these men and wemon in areas where they would be murdered” Tony said before stopping and taking a deep breath. “i honestly don't know  why I was spared from this fate but I was, anyway fast forward a year and i had the pleasure of meeting the Bastard in the flesh to find out that he saved my father from dying in combat only to kill him in from of me in a way to break me… so as you can see I really hated him. When the battle came and I managed to crash near Daine’s castle, i assaulted it without back up and dispatched Daine only to encounter the Deity, at this point I was badly wounded so the dark god offered me a way to save the rest of my troops from a genocidal army from my universe which destroyed my home world… which i obviously took along with demanding that he never return which he did except his ‘gift’ came with a hidden cost and that cost was that I would return to my own universe.” He said as the mare nodded before sitting back down. “Anyone else?” he asked before scanning the room and picking a pompous looking unicorn Stallion in a suit.

           “Hello… thing, why is our princesses herding with you” He said spitting at Tony, getting the man on the cheek.

             “Well shit head” Tony said wiping his cheek clean. “ I am who i am and I just so irresistible and don't by my partners” Tony said with a shit eating grin as the Stallion growled.

              “How dare you insult me filth” He growled as his horn began to glow while Tony chuckled. “Why are you laughing?” He asked.

               “Simple, did you go to the the gala Seven years ago?” Tony asked.

                “Of course, that as the year you faught the… oh” The stallion said as he quickly sat back down.

                 “Anyone else?” Tony asked as a single metal arm rose up from beside blue Dragon arm rose from beside Inferno. “Yes Bluie” He said before hearing Intern laugh before hearing make say ow.

                  “Its Ember, I am The Dragon Lord” the Blue Dragoness rose wearing a platnium dress and holding a odd staff.

                 “Hey Ember but asked for questions not statments” He said

                “Funny” She said with an unimpressed look upon her face. “Anyway, this Question involves my big sister Amber” She said as Tony took a glance to Amber before back to ember. “Did you undo the Dragon right of passage to court and royal Dragon?” She asked as Tony cocked an eyebrow which made Ember smirk. “I take that as a no so you have two options, either end your relations with Amber or Under go the Trial all mu…” She was saying before Tony Inturrpted her.

          “I'll do your trials” He said catching the dragoness off guard.

            “What? Most jus…” She was saying in shock.

            “Then I guess I'll be in for a interesting time” Tony said with a shrug.