New guy at CHS: The next generation

"Hey!" A guard yelled from behind them, "We have intruders!" They started firing at Cobalt and his partners, and just narrowly missing them.

"Get to the yard! I'll provide some suppressing fire!" Cobalt fired at the two guards that spotted them and stepped back as Kat and Cupcake sprinted towards the vehicle yard. In the midst of their firefight, Cobalt heard the whirring of a helicopter's wings and shook his head, "Where did all this equipment come from?" Cobalt looked around and softly swore to himself.

He sprinted behind him to catch up to the girls, but a bullet pierced his calf, sending him to the ground. He felt burn from the plasma, but got up and continued on. However, the wound took too long to heal and it was slowing him down slightly.

He was limping as fast as he could, but couldn't do anything that could properly defend himself, "Damn it! I hate being slow!" Behind him, the helicopter grew close as he turned to see it take aim at him. The miniguns on the helicopters side began to rev up and it fired it's rounds into Cobalt. He took out the plasma sword he took and tried to deflect the bullets.

Meanwhile, Cupcake stopped as she felt he was in danger, "We need to go back. We can't leave him behind."

"It's alright, Cobalt is the strongest being in the known universe. I may not have been born when the legends of his great deeds happened, but he's not one to be taken lightly. He'll be fine. Quickly, we're nearly there."

Although she was reluctant on leaving him, she did so anyway, "Alright, I hope you're right..."

"I know I'm right. He wouldn't be nicknamed the God of War for nothing."

Cobalt was now taking cover behind a tree as the bullets flew by him. He knew that once he leaves the safety of the tree, he would be shot into a million pieces. He had to think fast, but how fast could he think in this situation? He was a genius, but he couldn't think under this condition. It was then he saw a rocket fly by his head and take down the helicopter and all those who were around the explosion. He looked on in amazement as he saw the Storm Division taking the enemy troops out with ease.

The same leader from earlier picked him up and smiled, "Well, that's our good deed for the day. C'mon boys, let's get our emperor to safety!"

"Yes sir!" Cobalt was happy to see his troops. He had trained them himself and he was surprised to see how far they had come.

"Thank you Falcon. I knew I could count on you."

"Anytime your Highness. Let's go...," They dragged him over to the vehicle yard all while holding off the enemy resistance.

"What happened with going to the capitol?"

"Our transport unit was taken out by an ambush. The Resistance are ready for this assault and will prevent anyone from interfering. We don't know if we can hold them off with amount of firepower they're sending. They're coming in from 4 sides. They have already taken out the strongholds around the capitol in just a few hours. Now only the capitol remains."

"This..."

"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid your family is in danger."

"That's why we can't waste anymore time. Let's get going."

They soon arrived at the vehicle yard to show Cupcake and Kat waiting on them, "Cobalt!" Cupcake yelled. She ran to give them a hand and saw that Cobalt was injured, "Oh no..."

"It's fine. My healing factor will kick in, but it'll take some time. Just get me in the truck and I can help will holding them off."

"Your Highness, we can order a chopper to pick you up not far from here. It'll be a bumpy road, so I hope you're all ready."

"We'll be fine..."

"We'll accompany you there. Get in. Uh, Ms. Cupcake was it? Please stand back here with him. I'll be in the front while the rest of my men help defend. I hope you're a good shot."

"I hope so too...," Once they put Cobalt in the truck, they hopped in and quickly drove off. They fired from the back of the truck to push the enemies back. A group of resistance soldiers drove up in motorcycles with molotov in hand.

"They're gonna blow us up with those molotovs. Take them out!" Kat yelled from out front. The Storm Division began their barrage of bullets with Cupcake checking on Cobalt.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm fine. Don't worry about me. Take those guys out first..."

"Okay, if you need any help or something just ask...," Cobalt nodded as she went to offering suppressing fire.

Once they got into open field, two other trucks appeared beside them, "They're gonna sandwich us! Do something!"

Two of the soldiers both nodded at one another before ripping the sides off the truck. They started firing at the truck's tires in order to pop them.

Eventually, the tires gave out and both trucks spun out of control. One of trucks flipped and exploded once it crashed on the ground. The other ended up spinning into their truck and ramming the end of it.

This sent the truck flying and flipping put of control like the one before. They went flying in the carry bed of the truck before everything went black...

In a large conference room somwhere, multiple species of high class individuals sat as they watched the events of the universe unfold. One human sat at the end of the table and sighed, "It appears that Discord's army will achieve universal domination if this keeps up."

"I'm afraid nothing can combat his army, and I doubt that's the end of 'em...," A reptilian-like creature responded.

"We cannot lose hope. I'm sure that all will be fine," A robotic person responded, "My sources say that the children of Cobalt will cleanse this darkness."

"I hope you're right..."

"Oh I hope so too," Out of nowhere, the door was blown open to reveal Discord and his mindless zombie army that housed the Ponies of Equestria and even some of Cobalt's top generals, "It'll make my quest for the Emperor's Jewel that much easier. What better place to check than the HQ of the Order of the White Fox. Now, Minentha, you secretly watch over Equestria and is second-in-command of the White Fox, so you must know where the Emperor's Jewel is. Tell me, and I just might spare you..."

The woman slammed her hands on the table before saying, "How would I know that? Cobalt hasn't even hinted as to where the jewel is. Besides, how did you even find this place?"

"I don't think having this HQ in the heart of the Mystic Realm is smart. Now, if you don't know where it is, then all of you are useless to me," He glanced at his army and snapped his fingers, "Please handle these useless heathens," They all nodded and started to close in on them.

"What's the plan now Minentha?" The dragon asked.

"All we can do is hope that Cobalt is doing what he can to fix this situation..."

Meanwhile, Cobalt's vision became blurry after the darkness disappeared. His vision slightly blurry as he heard multiple gunshots and the ricochet of bullets near him. He glanced at his hands and they were slightly bruised and charred. Once his vision cleared, he saw that they were surrounded by the enemy resistance.

One of the Storm Division troops turned around and gave him a weapon, "Take this and stay down your-," Before he could finish his sentence, a large hole appeared in his chest as he fell lifeless on the ground.

"Shit! Arctic!"

"Ugh...," Cobalt softly said as Cupcake was beside him still knocked out. Kat soon arrived and saw that he was okay.

"Alright, Falcon called for the helicopter to pick us up here. Arctic and Mantis are already dead. It's only the 6 of us left. We're low on ammo and some of the food from the tent was lost. We don't have much left to defend ourselves with. What's our plan?"

"We hold out," Cobalt pointed his handgun outside and killed one that was closing in on them, "I'll stay in here with Cupcake. You should too. Falcon and Halo should be fine," Cobalt shook Cupcake lightly, but she didn't budge, "I guess she's pretty knocked out. Kat, what's the ETA?"

"They said 5 minutes, and that was 3 minutes ago. We have to hold out just a bit longer..."

"Alright, let's hope we can..."

Meanwhile, in his lab by himself, he was now on the floor sipping some coffee and his clothes were stained and wrinkled, "I've only been at it for a few hours. Why does it look like I've been at it for a month!" He tossed his next cup coffee off to the side and laid on the floor, "What do I do now? I've done all I could to decipher all of this, but I haven't even gotten a breakthrough."

He quickly sat up and looked towards the outside, "Maybe I can go and ask for help...," He quickly shook his head and slapped his face, "No, I need to do this alone. I can do it. I just need something to spark an idea on what to do...," He rubbed his chin and snapped his fingers before saying, "Cue the montage music! But what music wouldn't be copyrighted?" He tried to think of the perfect song and just shrugged his shoulders, "Eh? Let's go!"

Meanwhile in the main city, Pinkie shuddered slightly as she looked in the direction of the capitol, "What is it Pinkie?" Applejack asked, "Ya' look like ya' saw a ghost or somethin'."

"Oh no, I just felt uh... a disturbance..."

Back with Quartz, he was softly singing, "The hours approaching, just give it your best, and you've got to reach your prime. That's when you need to put yourself to the test, and show us a passage of time. We're gonna need a montage. Montage! Ooh it takes a montage. Montage!" He was about to mix some chemicals together before someone interrupted him.

"Really? Team America?" Quartz fumbled the chemicals as he fell to the ground, "Isn't that way out of your generation?"

He poked his head up as he saw Saber, "Oh please, that movie was cool. You gotta admit, right?"

"Never seen it, but I know the memes and such. But uh, how's the research going?"

"Uh, good during the montage, or cut away. I don't know at this point. Whatever happens, happens. Anyway, what do you need Saber?"

"I just wanted to thank you."

"Thank me? What for? I doubt it's for the recon mission. I didn't do much of anything."

"If you didn't tell us about where the guards were, then we probably wouldn't even be here at this moment. It seems your training when you were younger is paying off, huh?"

"Yeah, I guess so. It does seem like that doesn't it?" Quartz chuckled as he leaned on the counter in front of him, "I mean, I only felt slightly more confident because of you. I mean because of you, I've gotten used to living here and training with firearms. I'm glad you're my partner Saber."

Saber lightly blushed and smiled, "Well now, your father's charismatic personality is in you a little Quartz. You say such nice things, and I doubt you realize that what you say to me and the other girls can be known as flirtatious."

"Uh? What do you mean?"

"Oh geez, you're still young, and you have no idea about girls and their feelings. That's just weird since you're living in a house with a father who has 7 wives. Hell, you even have 5 sisters. How do you not know a girls feelings?"

"Uh..."

"Oh man, I'm gonna talk to your family about this," Saber quickly left Quartz alone, confused at what just happened. Quartz only shrugged and started singing lightly again.

"You're gonna need a montage!"

Earlier that day, Fluffy and Electric explained the plans they were told to Alicia, "So my brother has a large army? How large?"

"Over a million. And he has tons of artillery and armored vehicles. He's ready for this assault. He's just waiting for the right moment..."

"Who's to say that moment is soon?"

"It may very well be. Quartz keeps hinting that he feels that a war is coming to the capitol soon. How long do you think we'll have?"

"Hard to say. Moving this many troops will take time. At least a week to move all of them."

"We can't risk an unknown attack. We have to take security measures. Saber, send a unit to directly protect the rest of Cobalt's wives. Better yet, we should bring them here. Lavender, take your sisters to their quarters. They must be exhausted after the last few hours. Tomorrow, the training will intensify," They all nodded as they worried about their possible doom from The Resistance.

Meanwhile, Cobalt and his small group was pinned down heavily by the advancing army, "Damn it... how much longer?"

"Shouldn't be too long. He should be here soon," Falcon was now the only one left from the Storm Division. All the other men perished from the continuous onslaught of the enemy resistance, "I hope it's soon because I'm running dry."

"Me too," Kat said as she loaded in another clip, "I'm on my last mag..."

"I only have half of one left..."

"Hold out...," Cobalt ordered as he looked behind him, "I can hear it...," Not long after, the whirring of helicopter blades filled their ears, "Get ready!" Cobalt shook and slapped Cupcake to wake her, in which she did.

"Huh?"

"Let's go...," Her eyes widened as she saw Cobalt looking over her, "Helicopter is about to land..."

"Okay...," Cobalt helped pick her up as he began limping with her, "Cobalt, are you sure you can carry me like this while you're hurt?"

"I'm fine. Don't worry about it..."

Soon afterwards, Falcon heard on his radio, "Hurry it up to the helicopter! The heat is too much. We can't stay long!" Falcon led everyone to the helicopter and offered whatever suppressive fire he could do.

"Get on!" Falcon yelled. Cobalt quickly helped Cupcake on before hopping in himself. He gave Kat a hand and reached out to help Falcon, "Go on without me! You need to get to the capitol and warn the queen!"

"I'm not leaving you!"

"If my men would die here, then I'll die with them," Cobalt fired off some shots into the advancing army and looked back and forth from the helicopter and Falcon, "Don't worry about me. I'm glad to have done this mission for you your Highness. Go protect your family."

"We gotta go! We can't stay here!" The helicopter started to rise as multiple rockets fired at them, swaying it slightly. The swaying caused Kat to fall out. Cobalt had managed to grab onto her, but their grip on each other was rather weak.

"Just leave me here. I'll be fine. Don't worry about me..."

"No, I'll be damned if I lose another ally in this!" Cobalt with all his might pulled Kat back onto helicopter. Kat looked at him with a surprised look, "I'm not one to lose too many people. I don't want to lose anyone else. Pilot, how long should it be before we get to the capitol?"

"Depends if any air units stall us. Don't worry. Those machine guns on the sides should ease the heat on us."

"Alright, I think it's best if we rest while we're ahead. I think I'm just gonna... sit here... and rest for a while...," Slowly, Cobalt fell asleep and/or passed out from fatigue. Cupcake slowly caught him as she laid him on her lap. She looked at Kat who only shrugged her shoulders.

"I wonder what will happen when we make it to the capitol. Are we going to go our separate ways, or will he actually stick with me? Abandon his own family just to save my own?" As Cupcake thought this, all she could do was smile,"Of course not, he'll stick with me and get his own family to help. He promised me."

Meanwhile, Quartz closed off some of the files as he stretched at his newfound evidence, "Whew! I'm glad I got something out of today. Oh, I should report them to Alicia!" Quartz ran out of the evidence room and sprinted to her room. Once he arrived, he knocked on her door quickly as she opened it just as fast.

"Oh, Quartz, I didn't expect you," She responded quite lustfully.

"Really? Earlier you asked for me to come to your room to make it up to you for getting Fluttershy and Twilight. Anyway, I have some great finding from my research earlier today."

"Uh, first off, I want you to make it up to me," She led Quartz in to a chair. She sat backwards on it, and laid on the back of it, "Give me a massage. My shoulders have been really tense these last two weeks. Just massage them a little for me alright?"

"Uh, sure. I'll tell you while I'm giving you one," Almost immediately, he started, and Alicia instantly felt relaxed, "Well, earlier, I found out that A.W. is a person that goes by the name Adonis Wilks. He's a supposed businessman that resides on Earth. He deals with international terrorists on illegal drugs and weapons."

"So you think he might be working with my brother?"

"Most likely. However, the chemical formulas written under his name got me thinking. What if he's creating some drug to enhance his soldiers fighting ability. I mean, they're all untrained, so maybe he plans to strengthen them that way."

"Hm, have you figured out where this Adonis guy is on Earth?"

"No, that's the only thing. I only got his name and what realm he lives in. However, I don't have the exact location of his facility. It's somewhere on Earth that's for sure..."

"I see, could we risk searching Earth?"

"It's best if we not cause an uproar in Earth at the moment. Even if whatever attacked my family is out there, he'll probably finish us off before them. Anyway, I also found out that Platinum gets his equipment from multiple sources. Some on Earth, and even the on the mainland. He has arms dealers everywhere and he uses them to get his equipment. Who knows what he has to combat us."

"I never knew this. Quartz..."

"That's not even the worst of it. Apparently, he has some soldiers from the mainland. Not even my sisters, but some former soldiers who had nowhere else to go. Makes me worried about what we could face..."

"Quartz, I'm worried for that very reason. Your sisters told me that my brother has over a million troops on standby for an attack on the capitol. They said that if he would mobilize them, it would take a week. I'm scared... we don't have the troops to defend against such numbers...," Quartz abruptly stopped which scared Alicia, "Quartz...?"

"Victory in battle... is not won through superior numbers," Quartz shot one of his blades out as he opened the balcony door in her room. He stepped out and pointed his sword to the sky, "I shall crush all those oppose me and my queen. Anyone who gets in my way will turn into rust on my blade. And I know that I'm close to discovering something. Those scriptures have something hidden in them. If I can have more time work on them I can...," Out of nowhere, Quartz pulled a gun out and ran to Alicia's side, "My queen, get behind," Quartz pushed her behind his back and kept one around with other on his gun. He radioed in, "We have an intruder... lock everything down..."

"Quartz what's going in?"

"Get my family to safety Saber..."

"Quartz!"

Out of nowhere, Quartz shot his blade out to his left and was knocked into the nearby wall. Soon afterwards, a black haired woman carrying a chain and sickle, "Oh dear, I didn't think he would be that weak. I expected more out of Cobalt's son. Ah, Alicia, just the women, I was looking for... hehehe..."

Meanwhile, in the halls, Lavender and her sisters ran through the halls only to be stopped by two familiar enemies of their father, "Greetings girls. I don't believe we've met."

"No, but you've met our father, Onyx, Gold. How are you here?"

"Platinum was nice enough to give us the chance to kill of you. It'll make his attack on this hideous capitol a whole lot easier."

"Not on our watch," The girls prepared to fight their father's former enemies.

Saber led Rarity, Twilight, and Fluttershy through only to see a group of soldiers slide in front of them. What turn the corner was a small mech that wielded an axe, "I guess we'll have to fight this thing to get through."

"I think we should check on Alicia. Quartz is alone with her, so they're going to throw all they can at her."

"This isn't a full on assault. It's a recon. They're just scoping the place out first. However, this means their attack won't be long from now..."

"I say we deal with this nuisance before we check on the queen and Quartz," Twilight offered.

"Yeah, I need my payback for last night," Saber said as she cracked her knuckles.

Meanwhile, Alicia was shocked at the force behind the hit, "W-Who are you?"

"Oh, sorry, allow me to introduce myself. I am Midnight. His father and wives know me very well. I expected more out of him. I thought he could block it, but oh well. I was told not to do anything to you, but how could I pass up on the moment...," Midnight whipped her sickle towards Alicia as she flinched, but bullets sent the sickle off course towards a nearby wall.

Quartz soon came in firing multiple shots at Midnight as she easily dodged each one. Quartz quickly ran to attack with his blades, but Midnight blocked and they met in a deadlock, "You won't touch my queen. To get to her, you go through me."

"That can be arranged," Quartz and Midnight attacked one another at lightning speed, much to Alicia's surprise. The two read each other easily, but it was obvious that Quartz was lacking in skill. Midnight had a look of boredom on her face, "Hm..."

They broke apart from one another with Quartz breathing heavily while Midnight was perfectly fine, "What's the matter? Why the long face?"

"This is too boring. I need a challenge. That's what this nation lacks. Without our mystical powers, fights like this are just boring. Just point," Out of nowhere, Midnight brought out a massive railgun and aimed it at Quartz before smirking, "and shoot," Quartz stepped back and prepared to block it.

Once the projectile came into contact with his blades, he stood his ground fiercely but eventually, he gave into the power of the railgun. The force from the railgun shot straight through him and left a massive hole in his chest. Quartz's body soon went limp as he fell lifeless on the ground.

Alicia looked on in shock as she slowly crawled to him, "Q-Quartz...?" She shook him even if she knew it was pointless, "Nooooooo!" Alicia started to weep on his lifeless corpse as Midnight watched on.

"Oops, I meant to take his head off. Oh well, onto you Alicia," Midnight pointed her railgun at her, but out of nowhere a bullet by her head as she turned slightly to see the rest of Quartz family and friends, "Man, I guess I won't be taking you out now. Gotta blast. I'll be back to finish the job!" Midnight then jumped high out of the balcony and was gone like that. Saber tried to follow her, but she was already gone.

She then turned to everyone else who were shocked to see Quartz laying lifeless on the ground. Saber ran to his side as they flipped him over. His eyes stayed open as she saw how lifeless he was.

"Is he...?" Rarity asked as she gripped her hand, "No..."

"How did this happen?" Lavender asked, "I need to know!"

"Lavender," Fluttershy placed her hand on her daughters shoulder as she shook her head at her. Lavender had tears fill her eyes as she hugged her mother, "Is there some way we can heal him?"

"Not even his healing factor can save him," Saber then looked at Alicia and said, "Unless you can help him..."

"My powers aren't even that strong. I can repair the damaged organs, but his skin won't be repaired."

"Well, you can heal him until then. For now, we need to prepare for another attack like...," Saber tried to stay strong, but once she felt a hand grab her own. She looked down to see Quartz gripping onto her. Once she saw this, she broke down slightly too, "Quartz!"

"Please... get me up so I can work... on the evidence..."

"No, you need to rest. We won't allow you to push yourself any longer," Lavender ordered him, "Iwon't allow you to do anything until you're healed."

"Yes," Alicia spoke softly as she rose his head to meet him, "So please... rest now...," Quartz nodded as he slowly passed out.

Meanwhile, back at a camp stationed close to the capitol, Platinum sat within a tent with Silver and Blaze, "By tomorrow, we'll have the capitol surrounded on all sides. We'll have our artillery bombard them for the time being while we climb their walls and strike."

"We'll deal with our siblings. I'm guessing you'll be handling your sister?"

"Yeah, it's personal between us just as it is between the two of you and your siblings."

In the middle of their planning, Midnight, Gold, and Onyx entered their tent, "We have our scouting report."

"Ah, have our deeds been accomplished?" Platinum asked with curiosity.

"Not all of ours, but Midnight did complete her job," Onyx replied, "She was successful with the termination of Quartz."

"Great, that's one obstacle put of our way."

"Wait, when did we agree to killing our own brother?" Blaze asked.

"I gave him permission to do whatever was necessary," Silver responded with a deadpan tone, "Besides, he's an easy sacrifice."

"But..."

"That won't matter any longer. Our attack will start next week at the crack of dawn. We'll hit them when they least expect it. We'll match on yhem, and stop their reign to open a path for me. You're all dismissed..."

Later that night, Blaze gripped her fidgeted fiercely as she slept. Was her brother really dead? Was she blind this whole time by Platinum's lies? What would happen of they successfully take over the capitol? All these questions she wants answered now, but she'll have to wait... for the day of reckoning...