(WARNING: Towards the end of this chapter, Caribou abuse Cole, Dash, Pinkie, and Missy. Sex/rape does happen. You HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!)

I was still in a completely broken state. "NO, THIS CAN'T BE!!!!! I hauled ass for 1,536 miles, all while helping to destroy an entire empire, JUST TO BE TOLD THAT MY MAREFRIEND IS ANOTHER 1,500 MILES FROM HERE?!?!?!?! WHY?!?!?!?!"

Aurora went over to comfort me, but there was very little comfort to be had.

Don then grabbed his communicator. "Are you there Princesses? Did.......did you see all of this?"

Celestia seemed to be close to tears as well. "Y-yes Major, we did. And we're just as upset as Captain Leopard is right now!"

"Yeah, I know how he feels. Now half of the hostages are safe, but the other half are still in harm's way, 1,500 miles away from here!" Don then thought of something else. "And how are we going to explain this to the families?"

Celestia sighed. "Well, I've arranged a meeting with them a little later on today. My original plan was to surprise them with their daughters/family member, but now, only half of them will receive that good news. Now I guess that when they arrive, I'll have to tell them the truth."

Don sighed, "Yeah, telling them the truth. Let's just hope that they will be able to handle it."

"Yes, let's." Celestia then sighed off for the time being, before she, and others in the room with her, buried their faces in their hands, and cried.

Meanwhile, outside in the city, the battle was over. The last few remaining Zebras were rounded up, and either killed, or in the case of a few females, imprisoned for the time being. Then our engineers, using what resources were available to them, began to repair some aspects of the infrastructure (such as the city's walls), and restore utilities like power, water, and sewage for our use. We also brought the train into the city's main railyard (or rather, what was left of it), where it would remain while we came up with a plan for what to do next.

Meanwhile, while Don and Alex were tending to their marefriends, as well as helping Dan get to the train's medical coach so that he could be properly taken care of, I was making my way up to the palace's roof, with Aurora in tow. I had one goal in mind, and that was to fully claim this city as ours.

Once I was up on the roof, I looked at the flagpole located in the center. It was still standing, and the flag of the Zebra Empire still flew at the top, even though the flag was damaged. "Well, not for much longer", I muttered. I then grabbed the ropes, and after pulling down the flag, I detached it from the pole, and after giving it to Aurora to hang onto, from one of the compartments of the pack that I was wearing, I pulled out a tightly folded up American Flag.

"Now THIS is a proper flag!" I then attached it to the flagpole instead, and hoisted it up to the top. There was a breeze, so the flag was indeed waving at the top.

"Yes, it does indeed look better than THIS flag!" Aurora said after she dropped it onto the ground.

I picked it up, and decided to add it to my growing collection of war-trophies. Then, after returning to the throne room, I got back into the bulldozer, and drove it back down to Level 1, before taking it out of the palace, and parking it on the palace grounds. I then went back to the train, where after returning to my quarters with Aurora, I lay down on my bed, and began to cry again.

Meanwhile, Don and Alex were helping Twilight and Applejack back to the train. Both of them had blankets wrapped around them, as they were still naked.

"So, aside from Dan, are either of you hurt? They didn't do anything to you, did they?"

Twilight sighed. "Well Don, aside from putting us through a train crash, they dragged us around, kept us naked all of the time, attached collars to us, and occasionally beat us around, but overall, Applejack and I did ok."

"Yeah, but Ah sure would like mah hat back! It was lost somewhere during the train crash! As were mah saddlebags!"

Alex smirked. "Do you mean THIS hat?" From his pack, he pulled out AJ's hat, and handed it to her.

"MAH HAT!!!!" She took it, and put it back on her head. "Where did ya find it Sugarcube?!"

"From the wreckage of the train, actually. It seems that the Zebras were only interested in you guys. All of the train's luggage was found mostly intact in the train's baggage car, including yours, Twilight's, Dan's, and even everypony else's."

"Does that include Cole, Pinkie, and Dash?"

Alex nodded. "Yes, sadly it does. Cole's bag was placed on his bunk, and Leopard took Dash's duffel bag for safe keeping. Everything else was moved to a storage car where it can be looked through later to determine who it belongs to, and if the owner is deceased, then it will be sent to the family."

"We're just so glad that you were able to come and rescue us in time. If you hadn't, Celestia knows what Zakia would have done to us!"

Don smiled. "You're welcome Twilight. You're my marefriend after all, isn't it my job to come and save you?"

She nodded. "Yeah, it is!"

Soon, they all made it back to the train.

"Wow, this place really hasn't changed at all, has it? It still looks the same as it did when I last saw it!"

Don nodded. "Yeah, we sure don't change things up too much! And your clothes are in your bags, which we put on your beds. So you guys can go clean up, and then get dressed if you want. I need to go and check on Dan."

"Sure Don, we'll be right here, but please don't be gone too long. I.....don't really want to be left alone, not......not now."

Don nodded. "Yes, I understand what you mean perfectly. I'll only be gone for a few minutes, and plus, you do have Applejack, but I'm sure that Alex won't mind staying here with you until I get back, right?" He looked at Alex.

He shook his head. "No, no problem at all. I've been meaning to spend more time with AJ anyway!"

Don put a hand over his face. "Please Alex, don't mean what I think you mean!"

Alex shrugged. "I dunno, what do you mean? Does it involve condoms?"

"Ok, we're done here!" Don then left to go see how Dan was being treated.

When he arrived at the medical coach a few minutes later, he found Dan lying in a recovery bed. He was at least partially dressed again, and all of his wounds had been properly treated.

"How are you feeling Private?"

Dan turned to him. "Shockingly Sir, I feel absolutely amazing! They gave me some treatment, called......um....called um....?"

"Ze Bat-Pony Treatment?" Dr. Fritz asked.

"YES! That's it!"

It was then that Don noticed that Dan looked somewhat similar to me, minus of course the wings, although he did have furry ears on the top of his head, thicker hair, cat-like eyes, and a long, thick tail.

"The same treatment that was invented to save Captain Leopard's life after the Battle of Zandia." Don then turned back to face Dan. "Well, I certainly am glad that you're feeling better private, especially after what happened."

Dan frowned. "No Sir, I am NOT ok! And I will not be ok until Pinkie, Cole, and Rainbow Dash are safe! Do you know what it's like to be auctioned off? We were all in a line, waiting to be picked. Danin didn't want me though, he said I looked like a walking corpse. He took Cole instead."

Don sighed. "Yes, I do know how it feels to be auctioned off. The Futas did it all of the time. However, later on tonight, we WILL be reaching out to the Caribou, and DEMANDING the immediate return of the 3 hostages!"

Dan sighed. "Yeah, good luck with that! Danin made his position VERY CLEAR! He will not be giving them back anytime soon!"

Don narrowed his eyes. "We'll see about THAT!" He then said goodbye to Dan, and left the medical coach.

By the time that the sun set over Zebrica, the city walls had been completely shored up again, all utilities had been restored, all fires had been put out, and the city was at least made somewhat livable again.

Eventually, I did come out of my room, but I was still extremely upset. I sat down in the commons room, and Aurora sat down on my lap again.

"Why Aurora, why did Danin take Dash?"

She seemed to shrug a bit. "I don't know Master. Obviously to have her for himself, but she seemed to have been picked at random."

I then hugged her. "Well, at least I still have you. And now that I think about it, I'm sitting here, being extremely upset, while Dash is 1,500 miles away with Pinkie and Cole, having GOD KNOWS WHAT done to them, while I'm just sitting here doing nothing!"

Aurora licked me in the face. "That's the spirit Master!" She then kissed me again, and I kissed her back.

"Hey Leopard, are you in here? I heard talking, so what......?" Todd froze. "What in the........what?????" Todd had just walked into the commons room, and saw me kissing Aurora. "OK, I'll just be going now!" He then took off running.

I got up. "NO, WAIT TODD!!!! IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK!!!!!! I WAS JUST UPSET, AND SHE WAS COMFORTING ME!!!! WE WEREN'T GOING TO HAVE SEX, COME BACK!!!!"

It was another 30 minutes before I could get Todd to calm down, and fully explained the situation.

In the end, all Todd said was, "Just....in the future, if you ever want to f@#k Aurora again, please be a little quieter when you do. I'm not judging you, all of us do some weird things (although it is borderline insane to 'scratch the itch' with a dog!), but please be more quiet when you do! I DO NOT want to hear that!"

It was then that I realized just how much I was going to have to explain to Dash when I saw her again. I knew that Todd would keep quiet about it, but had anyone else heard us? I didn't know, and I REALLY didn't want to find out!

It was also later that same night that the time that we'd been dreading had arrived. Once again, the families of the Element Bearers had gathered in Canterlot to hear of the outcome of the battle. Once again, we all sat at an individual screen, and discussed with the families.

On Don's end, things went great. First, it was just Shining and him, but then they stepped aside to reveal Twilight!

"TWILIGHT!!!! YOU'RE OK!!!!"

She began to cry a bit. "Hey Mom, Hey Dad, hi Spike!"

"Hey Twilight!"

"We're so glad that you're safe Dear!" Her mother was saying. "If we lost you, it would be the end for us!"

"Well, now that won't have to happen, as Don saved me!"

"Thank you Major, you've saved our daughter!"

Don nodded. "It was my pleasure Mr. Sparkle. I just did what I had to do."

They continued to talk for a while longer.

Next, it was Alex's turn. When he showed Applejack to Granny, Applebloom, and Big Mac, their cheering was so loud it almost damaged the speakers!

"Ah'm safe and sound everypony! The fellers on the Battleship Express saved me, Twilight, and Private Dan from the Zebras! Ah'm ok!"

"Thank Celestia!" Granny cheered.

"Yeah, we were gettin' really worried sis! Ah'm just glad yer ok!"

"So am I Applebloom, so am I." She then turned to her brother. "Hey Big Mac."

"Hey Sis. Glad to see you again."

"As am I."

They all continued to talk for a little while longer, with the conversation beginning to lean towards Alex being able to marry Applejack when the war ended.

By far the worst fate though, was mine. I now had to explain to Rainbow Dash's parents what had happened.

When I saw them on the screen, her mom spoke first. "Hello Captain Leopard! Well, the battle is over, so where is she? Where's our Rainbow Dash?"

To their surprise, instead of answering right away, I instead took off my trademark Kitsune mask, although I did still have my hands covering my face. Both of them could see that I was crying.

"I'm sorry", I whispered, "I'm so, so sorry."

They had no words, and began to cry as well. "NO! No, how could this be?! Our Dashie is.....dead?!"

"YOU!!!" Her dad turned to me angrily, "YOU DID THIS!!!! YOU LET HER DIE!!!!"

"NO!!!!" I screamed back, more out of frustration than anger, "SHE'S NOT DEAD!!!!"

"WHAT?!?!?! Well then, where is she?!" Her mom asked me.

I sighed. "When we arrived in Zebrica, we believed that all hostages were still present and accounted for, but unfortunately, we were wrong. A few days prior, most likely around the time of the Battle for Randeth, Zakia reached out to Danin, and asked for his help in defeating us. Danin said that he would only help if he got half of the hostages. Long story short, Dash, Pinkie, and Private Cole, were taken away to the Caribou Empire. Their fates at this time are unknown, but it is strongly believed that they are still alive."

When I finished my explanation, both Bow and Windy stared at me.

"I'm.....sorry that I yelled at you, Captain Leopard. I was just so.....upset!"

"I know, Mr. Hothoof, and I forgive you. I was equally upset when I was told that Dash and the others had been taken even farther away as well."

"So, what will you do?" Windy asked.

I sighed, before putting my mask back on. "What has to be done. As soon as we're done here, we will be sending a message to King Danin personally, DEMANDING the return of Dash, and the other 2 hostages IMMEDIATELY! And the Caribou Empire will be invaded if they fail to comply."

They both looked at each other, before looking back at me. "Just, do whatever you have to do Captain Leopard, BUT BRING OUR DAUGHTER HOME!!!!"

"That's right!" Her dad agreed, "Show those Caribou that you mean business!"

"Don't worry, I plan to!"

It was equally upsetting for Pinkie's family to take the news.

"WHAT?!?!?! SHE WASN'T THERE?!?!?!"

I shook my head sadly. "I'm sorry, everypony, truly I am, but she, as well as Rainbow Dash, and one of our soldiers, Private Cole, were sent from the Zebra Empire, to the Caribou Empire. Their current status is unknown, but we do believe that they are still alive, as I'm sure that we would have heard otherwise if they weren't."

Now Pinkie's family, as well as Dash's were on the warpath. Out of politeness for the rest of us, Pinkie's dad did hit the "mute" button, and for nearly 10 minutes, their entire family seemed to be screaming obscenities. Eventually though, they did unmute.

"I'm truly sorry for that outburst, but when you said that our Pinkie was handed over from the Zebras to the Caribou, we, as some of you say. 'blew a fuse'. We have taken a moment to collect ourselves, and we now ask all of you for our humblest apologies."

"Well, apologies accepted. I was equally upset when I heard about Rainbow Dash, just as her parents were."

I then noticed that Don and Alex had finished their talks with the families, and had sighed off. However, I was still on the call, as were Rainbow Dash's parents, Pinkie's family, and of course, the Princesses.

"Um, Princess Celestia?"

"Yes Captain Leopard?"

"I think that the time has come to give Danin a call, and see where the Caribou stand in all of this."

She nodded. "Yes, I do believe that you are right Captain."

I turned to Don. "Hey Don?"

"Yeah Leopard?"

"Is Tarrath's body done being preserved yet?"

Don shrugged. "I don't know, why?"

"Because we're about to call Danin, and it would be nice to have."

"Oh, yeah, well, I'll go check and see."

He went to do that, while the rest of us began to set up the call.

We decided to split it between the Battleship Express crew, the families, and of course, the Princesses.

A few minutes later, Don arrived with something wrapped in a body-bag.

"Is, is that it?"

He nodded. "Yeah, this is it. The taxidermists weren't quite done with it, but they said that you could have it for a brief period."

He then set it on a table, and unzipped it. I was stunned. I kept fully expecting Tarrath to jump up and fight, but he was dead.

"Impressive! I can still even see where I pumped him full of buckshot!" I then took his body, and set it in a chair up close to the screen. I then crouched next to the chair, so that I could operate my "puppet".

"Ok, now is everypony ready?"

They all nodded.

"We're ready over here Major Don!"

"As are we, Major."

Don nodded. "Excellent! Now then, on to the call!"

Celestia imputed the code, and then we all watched, and waited to see if anything would happen. (This was set up so that the first thing that whoever picked up would see would be Tarrath's corpse. I would then do a little song-and-dance routine with it before revealing myself, and then the others would pop up on their screens as well.)

Sure enough, somebody answered.

"Hey, who is this?" I could see that it was Danin himself. "Wait, GENERAL TARRATH?!?!?! BUT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!!!"

I shook Tarrath's head. "No, no, I'm not dead!" I said in a weird, muffled voice, "But I had to call you!"

Danin narrowed his eyes. "According to MY records, you were killed in the Battle of Zandia!"

I moved the arms a bit. "No, I'm not dead, I'm just a big, corpse puppet!" I then popped up from behind Tarrath's body. "SURPRISE BITCH!!!!"

Danin recoiled a bit. "What?! Commander Fox-Face?!"

With that, the other screens turned on as well, and others behind me stepped into view as well.

"Hello, Danin", I growled. "As you may have seen, 'Tarrath' over here is indeed dead, but I had him stuffed so that I can have him put on display!" (I then had the body removed, so that it could be returned to the taxidermists.)

"What do you want Fox-Face?"

Celestia then spoke up. "What he wants, is what all of us want. We want you to release your 3 hostages that you took from Zakia, as well as surrender to us! Do this, and you may be spared the same fate that the Zebras have received!"

"Oh, and why would I ever do that? I have the strongest empire in all of Equus! Zakia was a bastard fool. His empire was weak, and on the brink of collapse. No, we will not surrender, and no, you cannot have the hostages!"

In that moment, something changed inside of me. I felt something wake up; something dark, and evil. Whatever it was consumed me. When I opened my eyes, they still looked like blue cat's eyes, but they were much, much darker. I then growled deep in my throat, a growl that no one in the PCC had ever heard before.

Then, in a voice not my own, I said, "You WILL give me the hostages, or you WILL suffer a fate worse that Death! You will beg to die, as the sounds of your citizens being cut to pieces reaches your ears, but Death will not be granted to you. Tonight, we will destroy what remains of the Zebra Empire in a storm of Hell-fire. Then, I will take your empire, and tear it apart, just like I did so many years ago. Don't you remember that Danin? Remember what I did to your ancestors? Do you know who I am, or did your forefathers force themselves to forget?"

By this point, Danin was so scared by what he was seeing, that he actually turned dead white from sheer fear. Others in the room, and even the others watching could clearly see that I had been possessed by something; something dark, evil, and from long-ago.

"Don't you remember me Danin?" I asked again.

"S-S-S.......SOMBRA!!!!!" Danin cried, "B-B-But.....IT CAN'T BE!!!!!"

I then laughed evilly, and Danin terminated the call right then and there. I then came to myself again, but whatever it was that had just possessed me, I could still feel was very much alive and well inside of me, and was now a part of me.

Don turned to me. "DAMN Leopard!!! That was an Oscar-winning performance right there! HOLY SHIT!!!! You scared the living DAYLIGHTS out of him! How the hell did you do that?!"

I shrugged. "I.......I don't know......It kinda, just.....happened."

While the others were busy congratulating me on my performance that had just wiped the smirk off of Danin's face, Celestia and Luna were also almost dead white from sheer fear.

Cadence noticed this. "Hey, what's wrong Aunties? You look like you've just seen a ghost!"

"W-w-we.....just....d-did!" Celestia finally stammered.

Cadence was confused. "Um, what?"

Luna then took up the story. "Ever since he arrived here, I've felt that there was something......different about 'Captain Leopard', as he calls himself; something.....wrong. His subconsciousness was always so different than that of his comrades. It felt so strange, yet so.....vaguely familiar....."

"He had so much raw power." Celestia added. "And his new 'Bat-pony procedure', which was done to save his life, has only made him grow stronger. He has so much raw potential, more than even he knows!"

"Ok.....but I'm still incredibly confused. Isn't his having power a good thing? I mean, he is helping us win the war."

Celestia looked her niece dead in the eyes. "I've seen that kind of raw power only once before. It didn't scare me enough then, because I knew that we could defeat it. Now, through Captain Leopard, that same raw power has returned yet again, and this time, I'm scared."

"And that raw power had a name Cadence." Luna finished. "A name that so well fit the pony who wielded it. He was once a great stallion, until his raw power became darkness, and completely corrupted him. He rose up, and began to conquer Equus. It was he who overthrew the Caribou Empire the first time, and brought it to ruin. He did the same to the first Zebra Empire. Now he has returned, and has begun to do it again."

"But who......??? Who was he?"

"His name......was Sombra, Cadence. King Sombra."

Cadence slammed her hands over her mouth. "As in......'King Sombra who tried to overthrow the Crystal Empire a few years ago’? But it can't be, HE'S DEAD!!!!"

"That's what we believed too Cadence, but now, the more that I look at Captain Leopard and what he's done, the more and more convinced I become that he IS Sombra reborn!"

Cadence stared at her aunts in absolute shock. All 3 of them knew what could happen if their hunch was indeed correct. But was it? Or was what had just happened nothing more than a strange coincidence?

Back in the Caribou Empire, Danin was still freaking out. He had long been told stories by his elders of the reign of King Sombra, as well as the violence, death, and destruction that he had caused to the original Caribou and Zebra Empires, and he had felt a bit of relief when Sombra had been defeated by the Diarchs of Equestria. Now, Danin wasn't so sure anymore.

"Are, you ok, My King?"

Danin looked over at who had spoken. It was Colonel Stuggs. "Colonel, does the name, 'King Sombra' mean anything to you?"

Stuggs froze. "Yes. He was one of the cruelest rulers in the history of Equus. More than 1,000 years ago, he rose up and destroyed the old Caribou Empire, and tried to take over the rest of Equus as well. He was defeated by the Diarchs of Equestria. Then, 1,000 years later, he returned, but this time he was defeated and killed. It was a story handed down through my family for generations. My many-times over Great Grandfather, General Raddak, was there when it happened."

Danin looked at Stuggs. "Colonel, I'm reinstating you as a general. Between you and Rodin, as well as any other good soldiers, I'm going to need all of the defense that I can possibly get for the Caribou Empire."

Now Stuggs was worried. "Why, My King? What is going on?"

Danin looked at Stuggs directly in the eyes. "I need all of you, General, because HE has returned!" Danin then explained everything that he had just seen and heard, and how much it scared him.

When he finished, Stugg's jaw hit the floor. "B-b-but, My King, I-I-IT CAN'T BE!!! SOMBRA IS DEAD!!!!"

Danin just shook his head. "No, sadly he is not dead, YET, which is why we HAVE to prepare! He will try to retake our empire again, and we CANNOT LET HIM!!!! We will fight him to the bitter end!"

"Yes Sir! We will prevail against Sombra, and the rest of the Humans! FOR THE GLORIES OF THE CARIBOU EMPIRE!!!!"

"Yes, that's the spirit General! Now then, go forth, and plan with General Rodin the defense of our empire. When you two are done, report immediately back to me!"

Stuggs saluted. "Sir, yes Sir!" He then left to do his king's bidding while Danin began to put together some plans of his own.

While all of this was happening up in the throne room, down below in the main harem chamber, Dash, Pinkie, and especially Cole, were finally beginning to adjust to their "new life". Cole and Missy had grown extremely close to one another, and had very clearly fallen for each other.

At the current moment, Missy was sitting on her bed, quietly humming to herself. Sitting just behind her, Cole was gently brushing her soft, brown hair. (Yes, unlike Ponies, Caribou have hair instead of manes.)

"Mmm, you're so good at this Cole." She cooed gently.

"Mmm, thanks Missy. You're hair is really soft, almost as soft as your fur."

Missy blushed. "Aww, you're so sweet Cole!"

Unfortunately though, their sweet moment together was about to be interrupted. The door leading to the chamber was opened, and a group of Caribou came inside.

"Oh great", Cole muttered. "Not this again!"

Every now and again, Caribou males would come in to have sex with some of the harem slaves. (Dash and Pinkie were "off limits" as was Cole, due to them being Danin's personal property, and the last Caribou who had tried to rape Pinkie was skinned alive by Danin himself!) Missy was often overlooked, as she was older than most of the others, and was more chubby than outright curvy, and was seen by most of the Caribou as an "ugly duckling".

Unfortunately though, even though they were never touched sexually, they often WERE touched physically. Dash, Pinkie and Cole were often pushed around, and sometimes forced to do terrible things; things like licking urine off of the floor, to performing sexual acts on each other, to any number of other degrading things. That day was no different.

From what Cole could see, the group who came in consisted of 4 Caribou soldiers, and all of them were young, and had bulges in their pants. They walked up and down the rows of slaves, looking to see which ones to take.

"Hmm, so which ones of you cuties will we take to f@#k?"

Most of the red collars tried their best to make themselves appear cute, so that they would be chosen. The black collars mostly just glared, and the purples were usually too busy masturbating.

Eventually, 2 of the 4 did find two willing red collars, and bent them over, but unfortunately, the other 2 wanted to have some 'fun' before f@#king.

"Hey! Here's that Human-thingy that all of the guys are always talking about!" He pointed to Cole.

"Wow, he's a lot smaller than I thought that he was going to be!"

Cole glared up at them. In all of his time as a prisoner, his fire of anger had never gone out. "Piss off!" He growled.

"Ok, I'm going to pretend that I didn't hear that." He then looked at Dash and Pinkie. "Ok, I know that we can't have sex with them, but we can make them 'do stuff', right?"

His friend nodded, smirking a bit. "Yeah, and it's really hot to make them do it too!" He then turned to them. "Ok you two, I wanna see some girl on girl action!"

"F@#k you!" Dash spat.

The one she spat at, Rakk, grabbed her. "Ok, I see that you need to be taught a lesson! I said, I WANNA SEE SOME GIRL ON GIRL ACTION!!!" Then, while his friend Bann held Pinkie, Rakk pushed Dash into her.

"I'm sorry Pinkie, so, so sorry!" Dash looked like she could cry.

"I know Dashie, it's not you."

They then began to work their little routine where they pretended to be lesbians. They kissed, licked, groped, fingered, and even 69'd with each other.

"Damn, that's so hot!" Rakk muttered.

"No kidding. However, I wonder what those two would do!" He pointed to Cole and Missy.

"Bite your f@#king leg off, that's what I would do, now piss off!"

"Yeah!" Missy agreed.

Unfortunately, this only served to make the Caribou extremely upset. Rakk then began to hit Cole. "Insolent bastard! I'll teach you to disrespect your overlords!" He then grabbed Cole, and held him down.

"What are you gonna do Rakk?"

Rakk smirked. "How about we pretend that this bitch here is his girlfriend, and we make them f@#k?"

Bann laughed. "Heh, yeah, that's a really great idea!" You get the bastard, I'll get the bitch!" He then held Missy down, while Rakk did the same thing for Cole. They then forced the two of them to have sex. Cole had always wondered if his relationship with Missy would build up to them ever having sex one day, now he wondered no longer. He began to cry, as did Missy.

"I'm sorry Missy." He said softly.

"It's not your fault Cole, it's theirs. All we gotta do is just give them what they want. If they just want us to f@#k, then we'll f@#k."

Out of the corners of their eyes, Pinkie and Dash saw what they were doing to Cole and Missy, but they weren't able to do anything about it. Rakk and Bann were also masturbating to what both groups were being forced to do to each other. Eventually, they both blew their loads, with their jizz landing all over the 4 hostages. Cole also blew his load all over Missy's chest and belly.

Once the group of Caribou were finally done, they left the room laughing about what they had just done. They then shut the door again, and locked it.

Once they were finally gone, Missy got to her feet, and beckoned the others to follow her. They did so, and she led them to the corner of the room, where a small sort of shower had been built in the far corner of the room, right next to a row of toilets. After washing the jizz off of themselves, they returned to Missy's sort of alcove, where after wiping the mess up with dirty towels, they all lay down on Missy's sort of bed, where they all kind of formed a pile, and cried about what had just been done to them. Usually, they had just been pushed around, but now, the abuse had just taken a whole new turn.

Cole had tried to fight, but similarly to Dan, he was just too weak from his recent injuries, and repeated abuse. Now, he had been forced to have sex with Missy, while Dash had been forced to have lesbian sex with Pinkie. Seeking a source of comfort, Cole gently began to suckle from one of Missy's breasts. Missy just cuddled him while he did it.

"Please Stud", Dash muttered while she cried, "Please, come and take us away from here! We can't take this anymore! Please, help us!"

All of them knew that their situation was very grim. As long as the Caribou still held power, their lives, and more so, their very sanity, was in jeopardy. All of the repeated abuse was wearing all of them down, and depriving them of any hope of rescue. They were 1 Human, 2 mares, and a Caribou cow. Their captors liked to abuse them, and refusal led to more abuse. They needed to be rescued, and rescued, before they lost their minds, or worse, committed suicide.

Back in Zebrica, after the calls ended, and we had reassured the families of Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie one last time that we would get their daughters back, we began to plan out the final destruction of the Zebra Empire. Don had agreed with Alex and I, as had the Princesses, to spare Zebrica from nuclear destruction. However, the rest of the Empire wasn't going to be so lucky. There were 3 remaining cities, 4 towns, and a number of villages and settlements. All of them were targets to have a nuclear weapon dropped on them.

We all knew the risk that we were about to take, but if it meant the destruction of the Zebras once and for all, then it was worth it. The real risk though was going to be firing all of the nuclear shells required to level those areas all at once. We knew that, at least in theory, that our guns were capable of doing it, but this had never been tested. Now all 12 of our 16in guns, as well as our 4 railguns, and a few other heavy artillery guns that were capable of launching nuclear ordnance, were all locked and loaded, and each gun was aimed at a different area. An estimated 11 million Zebras lived in those areas, and all of them were marked for death; death by nuclear strike.

Don had everypony begin to run through the final checks, safety procedures, and protocols prior to launch. We all knew the extreme danger if anything went wrong, so we were all trying to make doubly sure that nothing would! Also, since the killing was going to be way out of range, Celestia also agreed to broadcast the destruction to the rest of Equestria. It was also being filmed by us for archival purposes.

"Ok Boys", Don told us, "We're live on the air right now, so watch your language! Young kids don't need to listen to any cuss words! This is also going into the history books, so we all need to watch our mouths!"

"Roger that Don!" We all continued with the preparations.

"Hmm, well, at least they won't be swearing or anything, so that's a plus!"

Celestia nodded. "Indeed Cadence, indeed, provided of course that they actually follow through with it!" They all continued to watch.

Eventually, the time had come. Everything had been checked, and double checked, with a triple-check being performed as well. Everything was all set, and the launch controls had been given over to the "Big Red Button" as we called it in the PCC. (Which is exactly as it sounds like. It really is a big red button that, if pressed, will launch whatever weapon it has been synchronized to.)

"Ok Don, all systems are go. Everything is ready for launch!"

Don nodded. "Roger that Jim!" He then turned towards the closest camera. "And for the record, for this launch, I'm going to turn control over to the one man who has more experience launching nuclear weapons that me. My 3rd in command who always wears a Kitsune mask, Captain Leopard!"

"Wait, WHAT?!?!?! I'M going to get to launch the nuclear weapons?!"

"Yeah, if you want to anyway. If not, I could do it!"

"NO!!! No, I can do it!" I then walked over to the Big Red Button. Before I pressed it though, I too turned to the camera. "Before I make history by launching this nuclear attack, I would like to say that, to anypony or Caribou watching this, take heed. Humanity is no joke. When we fight a war, we're not playing around! And how's this for the history books, 'BURN IN HELL YOU FLAMING BASTARDS!!!!'" I yelled. And then I pressed the button.

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(Do I have a soul? No, no I don't. And if you laughed at this, you don't have one either!)

"SHELLS AWAY!!!!" Don yelled.

With that, on television screens all across Eqeustria, Ponies everywhere watched the final destruction of the Zebra Empire play out right before their very eyes. A TV was even hooked up for Zakia, (Aka, "Jazzia") to witness the final annihilation of his empire in the rear boxcar where he (or rather, "she", as he looked a lot more like a femboi now!) was being held prisoner.

The devastation was truly almost unimaginable. Not one of those Zebras ever even stood a chance. One minute everything was fine, and then the next, the shells hit, and then nuclear explosions happened. Every city, town, village, and settlement was leveled completely, and the area around them was destroyed. Even if any Zebras did manage to survive, their outlook was most likely death from radiation poisoning. Readings taken from our Geiger counters were high, and still rising.

At long last, the Zebra Empire, once the 2nd most feared empire in all of Equus, was truly no more. It had fallen, never to rise again. All of it's inhabitants were either dead, dying of radiation poisoning, or even like Zakia and a select few others, were being held prisoner, at least for the time being.

Once the nuclear detonations were over, I looked out towards what would be the Caribou Empire. "Ok, it's your move now Danin", I muttered. "The ball's in your court, so what are you gonna do? Will you surrender peacefully, or will I have to do what I did to your forefathers before you?"

Author's Note

Well, I don't know if this was quite the chapter that you all were expecting, but here it is nonetheless! So now, the Zebra Empire has truly fallen, leaving only the Caribou Empire. What will happen to them? Will they take the hint from the Zebra's destruction, or will they still choose to fight? And what about Dash, Pinkie, Cole, and Missy? Will we ever be able to rescue them, or will time run out for them?

Also, what about the alleged connection between Leopard and Sombra? Am I REALLY Sombra reborn? Or is it just a coincidence? And if I really am Sombra, what does that mean for the war?

Well, once again, stay tuned, and I'll tell you!

Meanwhile, as always, comments, feedback, questions, as well as spreading the word about this story, are always appreciated, and I'll see you in Chapter 16!

ScarFox out for now!

(also, any comments on the Sombra twist, or any ideas about what should happen to the Caribou, are always appreciated. I really enjoy reading your comments, and responding to them.)