Avengers: War for Equestria

Panicked and frightened to see her pillar equivalent badly injured, Rainbow Dash knew that time was of the essence. She didn't know how badly hurt he was, but felt that she needed to keep him alive.

"Flash? Flash?! It's me, Rainbow Dash!" she cried, trying to get him to open his eyes. "You all right?!"

The pillar coughed up some blood, some of it splashing on Rainbow Dash's face as he came around.

"Where…? What…?"

"Flash, just lie still there!" cried Rainbow Dash, raindrops falling on her as she tried to find any help. "SOMEPONY, HELP! WOUNDED PEGASI!"

Then came a response.

"CRASH!" a voice called and Rainbow Dash knew what the voice was. "CRASH, WHERE ARE YOU?"

"SPITFIRE, OVER HERE!"

Rainbow watched as her commanding officer limped over towards her and Flash Magnus. Like Flash, the commanding officer of the Wonderbolts was covered with bruises and scrapes all over her body. Approaching Rainbow Dash, she briefly fell down for a moment before getting back on her feet.

"Rainbow…Dash…good to see you…alive," she panted. "20…of us…dead."

"What about Soarin and the others?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"I…don't know…."

"BOSS!"

The two mares then turned to see the pie loving member of the Wonderbolts also limping towards them, two of his legs visibly broken.

"Soarin!" cried Rainbow Dash, as the two Wonderbolts briefly embraced. "Thank Celestia you're okay!"

"Good thing you weren't here to witness this, crash," groaned Spitfire, sitting down to lean her back against a boulder and remove her goggles. "That wind demon…he was just too strong for us."

Rainbow could only lower her head in shame for she had witnessed the horror of what had just transpired.

"Yeah," she sighed. "How many more dead or missing?"

"We're not sure, Rainbow," coughed Soarin, lying down on his side. "But, all we know is that we weren't equipped to fight this guy."

"What about the Avengers? Did you protect them?"

"I saved one of them before being knocked out of the sky."

"Good, Crash," congratulated Spitfire, looking over at Rainbow Dash weakly. "You certainly have come a long way from when we first met."

At that moment, Flash coughed up some more blood and Rainbow had a good idea that her pillar equivalent might have broken several ribs.

"Chest is…killing me," moaned Flash. "That wind…was powerful."

"What do we do now?" wondered Soarin. "We've got to get out of here, boss."

"None of us can fly, Soarin," groaned Spitfire. "I think we wait until somepony helps us."

"I can fly," offered Rainbow Dash. "But, I might have to make a few trips."

"Save your strength, Rainbow," advised Soarin, before weakly turning his attention over to Spitfire. "You'll need it later. Boss…there is a cave about a mile from here. Maybe we can…take shelter there."

Struggling to her feet, Spitfire attempted to walk, but was unable to, quickly collapsing.

"Where…where is it? Where is it, Soarin?"

"Over…that way," he replied, moving his head to the right. "We can wait until somepony rescues us."

"Are you going to be okay if we move you?" Rainbow asked Flash nervously. "I don't want to hurt you."

"Hey, it's okay," Flash replied, placing a hoof on Rainbow Dash and smiling at her. "I'm a pillar. I've been through worse."

Making their way among the dead pegasi warriors, the three Wonderbolts and pillar of Equestria slowly went into the cave.

…

Back at S.M.I.L.E., two of the awakened Guardians of the Galaxy were about to be questioned by Twilight and Sunset about the alicorn like creature that had attacked them.

"So, you want to know about that pony dude?" asked Rocket to Twilight. "The guy with the mask."

"Mask? He was wearing a mask?" wondered Sunset. "Can you be certain?"

"And…" added Star Lord. "He had the tail of a dragon and the horns of a dragon. He just came out of the sun…like Satan himself."

"Who's Satan?" asked Twilight. "Is he a master? And I'm only asking to get to know you a little better."

"He is a master," grunted Star Lord, rolling his eyes. "But he's not my master, so that's beside the point."

Trying to get a sense of the situation the guardians were in, Twilight activated a spell from her horn that was placed on both the heads of Star Lord and Rocket.

"What…what the hell are you doing?" cried Star Lord, feeling the spell being put on his head.

"I'm just looking into your minds to see what happened," answered Twilight as she saw the Guardians' ship being looked down upon by the giant alicorn like creature. "So, he comes out of the sun…what exactly is he doing?"

"Uh, spreading his wings?" Rocket guessed nervously. "But, he did have a sort of maniacal laughter and was chanting in a strange language."

"He must be talking in old ponish," remarked Starswirl, looking up at the screen with Rockhoof.

"He is indeed," added Rockhoof. "Unless of course, it was a different sort of language that we had never heard of before."

"Maybe that's why Celestia was emotional," whispered Twilight as she deactivated her spell on Rocket and Star Lord. "That alicorn is somepony close to her and Luna."

"Either way," finished Rocket, sighing heavily. "That horse dude is bad news, folks. You don't want to mess with him unless you want to end up like us, lying here on hospital beds."

At that moment, Sunset turned her attention towards the plant creature that she had helped out of the damaged ship. Gently placing her hoof on its forehead, she gently stroked it up and down.

"How's Groot?" asked Star Lord.

"He's resting comfortably," answered Sunset, still stroking the plant creature's forehead.

"How's Gamora?"

Attention then shifted over towards the green female creature, still fast asleep from her injuries.

"We've just put her in a medically induced coma," said a medical doctor pony, walking over to Star Lord. "She has suffered some internal injuries."

This wasn't the news Star Lord didn't want to hear and was not going to take this lying down.

"Save her life, dammit," he growled to the doctor pony, pulling on his necktie. "She's the love of my life!"

"We'll do what we can," replied the doctor pony, pulling away from Star Lord and walking away from him.

…

Meanwhile, back in Tambeleon, Grogar and his band of villains were reveling in their recent triumphs.

"Well, my friends, we continue to get better and better," he remarked. "Arabus and Lavan have demonstrated their powers to prove their dedication to our goals of conquering Equestria. Furthermore, Chrysalis and Tirek, you have proven your worth by freeing Titanium from Tartarus."

"Nothing more refreshing than knowing you will get a chance for vengeance," the cyborg pony growled, clutching his hoof turned claw. "All I ever wanted was to have Equestria go with the changing times and this is how I was thanked for what I have done…"

"And you will get that chance, my friend. Once we have the alicorn princesses here before us in chains," interrupted Sombra, getting that feeling of seeing other ponies suffer.

"You're desires for regaining your rightful place has further inspired our cause for ultimate glory," remarked Grogar. "However, we still need to have…"

But, Grogar was soon interrupted by Lavan, who merely just rolled his eyes.

"Lavan!" the goat snarled, glaring at him. "Why must you give me an attitude?"

"Because I know what you are thinking of recruiting," the lava demon hissed, his flaming arms folded. "You want to recruit Squirk in addition to Arabus."

"Yes, I do, lava demon, so you'd better be flexible with whatever decisions I make, because I can assure you that any defiance or betrayals will not be tolerated! And furthermore, if you betray me, I will make certain you will pay with your life and that goes for all of you!"

"Whatever," muttered Lavan, giving Grogar the sense that Lavan was going to defect him eventually, but the rest of the group swore their loyalty to him."

"Yes, well I can assure you that you will help us achieve our respective goals once we help you achieve what you wish to do," said Chrysalis, bowing to Grogar. "I will need all the help I can in regaining my throne from that traitor, Thorax!"

"And you will all achieve your ultimate goals in time," promised Grogar. "However, I am merely carrying out orders for our true leader."

"True leader?" asked Tirek, his arms folded. "What are you talking about, goat? Is there more to this than we should know?"

…

Back in Canterlot, T'Challa, having left the meeting with the princesses, was at the Wakanda Embassy trying to get more information on Titanium's escape from Tartarus.

"Apparently, the prisoner who escaped was a former pony that used to live here," said Mufasa the Wakanda ambassador to Equestria, looking at a newspaper that showed Titanium's picture on the cover. "He was sentenced for trying to create robot ponies that were designed to benefit Equestria."

"And this is why he was jailed? For trying to improve the way of life of this land?" asked T'Challa.

"Yes, my king," answered Mufasa. "What do you think we should do? Should we close the embassy and return to Wakanda?"

"No, Mufasa," replied T'Challa. "I want you to reach out to our generals and prepare them to come here and aide our allies in the fight ahead."

"At once, my king."

Soon, Wakanda would be engulfed in the fire that was about to spread throughout Equestria…