Avengers: War for Equestria

"Your brother?" Tempest remarked as she absorbed what had just been said to her. "What about your brother?"

"1,000 years ago," replied Luna, looking over at Tempest as she produced a picture of when she and Celestia were younger, reliving moments they had with the red alicorn. "Prince Cosmos, our brother, had a purpose to provide the balance between the day and the night. It was his responsibility to make sure that there was both the dawn of the morning and the twilight of the night."

"Essentially," interrupted Grubber. "He basically helped you lower the sun and the moon down carefully."

"Yes, hedgehog," continued Luna as the pictures became more focused on Cosmos becoming corrupted with evil. "But, he had become jealous of us and we did our best to reason with him, convince Cosmos that he was just as important as us, but he couldn't listen and eventually became a threat to Equestria."

At that moment, Celestia took her eyes off the picture and looked back at Tempest.

"We had a decision to make," sighed Celestia, sadly getting to her feet. "To either banish him to the sun or let him remain and usurp our thrones. Of course, we had no choice but to banish him to the sun. But, we couldn't do it alone so Starswirl had to help us."

Tempest watched as the red alicorn was blasted to the sun by a combination of Celestia's, Luna's and Starswirl's magic blasts. The exploding blast caused Tempest to look away briefly as the screen disappeared from Luna's view.

"I can't believe Uncle Cosmos would do such a thing!" gasped Cadence, shocked and dismayed by what she, too, saw. "Aunt Celestia, Aunt Luna, why tell me this now?"

"Because we felt that the time wasn't right, Cadence," replied Celestia, walking over towards her bedroom window and looked out at the ever darkening skies. "However, with Grogar's return and our enemies banding together, there is no doubt in our minds that Cosmos will return."

As Tempest listened, she began to have flashbacks of when she had her confrontational reunion with her sister, Razzle Fizzle. In fact, she could still remember every single word that was spoken between the two of them.

"I, for one, know firsthand what its like to be in conflict with a sibling," sighed Tempest, walking over to Celestia's side, placing a hoof on her shoulder for support. "You know that, right?"

"Yes, Fizzlepop. I do remember it. But, Cosmos and we have deeper wounds than you and your sister. If he ever returns from his prison, we'll be seeing the same pony that we sent to the sun 1,000 years ago."

"If there is anything I can do to help…" offered Tempest, only for Cadence to interrupt her sentence.

"Sorry, Tempest," sighed Cadence, looking over at her aunts. "But, we have more important matters to deal with. 20 pegasi are dead from the encounter with the wind demon, Arabus."

"Dammit!" whispered Luna, absorbing what had just been said to her. "Very well then, the time has come for us to act now. Sister, we need to evacuate Canterlot."

This made Celestia turn away from the window and face her sister, niece and former enemies.

"Then, we must do so at once," said Celestia, quickly pulling herself together of her raw emotions and going over towards her armor that hanged in her closet. "I cannot risk having another repeat of what happened at the Friendship Festival."

"In that case," added Cadence. "I'll have the Crystal Empire evacuated as well. Who knows what these monsters will do if they start attacking our subjects again?"

Suddenly, Celestia grabbed her helmet and removing her tiara, placed it on her head and turned around for them all to see her wearing it, causing gasps to be heard.

…

Meanwhile, Iron Man and War Machine along with the Hulk moved as fast as they could, trying to find the missing Pegasus ponies and their two comrades. The wind and rain from Arabus was making their mission a little difficult.

"Tony, I'm not seeing anything!" Rhody called to Tony.

"Keeping looking, Jim!" Tony called back from inside his armor. "The sooner we find them, the better. HOMER!"

"Yes, Mr. Stark?" asked Tony's Artificial Intelligence. "I must advise you that you are flying in turbulent weather."

"I don't care about that!" grunted Tony as they hit a pocket of severe turbulence. "Can you find any trace of Scott and Wade, as well Rainbow Dash and the Pegasus ponies?"

"According to my last calculations, Mr. Stark, they were last seen in a cave next to an open field of dead Pegasus ponies."

Acting on this advice, Tony and Jim flew towards the field, following HOMER's impending instructions with the Hulk following. Upon arriving at the battlefield, both men could feel themselves developing sickness from seeing the dead lying on the ground.

"Is this the cave, HOMER?" Tony cried as he and Jim landed at the cave's entrance.

"Yes, Mr. Stark."

However, little did they know at that moment, a low growling sound was heard, catching the attention of Jim.

"Tony, we've got a small problem," he remarked.

"What now?"

"Listen!" Jim whispered, as the sounds of low growling continued to be heard. "Do you hear that?"

"Is that your stomach?"

"No," Jim replied. "Although I feel like I should have picked up the tab at lunch the other day."

"It doesn't matter," Tony said, focusing on what was in front of them. "Right now, we need to find our comrades and get back to base."

At that moment, the growling sounds grew louder and louder and before any of them could react, a three headed creature leapt through the fog and caught them all off guard.

"The hell?!" cried Jim, as they all looked at the creature, which was comprised of a Saber-toothed tiger's head and front legs, a goat's head and hind legs, and a snake's head for a tail. "Tell me I'm not back to studying Greek history! What do we do Tony?"

"We've got to get into the cave, that's what we need to do!" answered Tony. "We've got no time to deal with creatures from ancient Greece!"

Just then, a portal formed from out of nowhere and Dr. Strange stepped out of it.

"Okay, where have you been, Strange?" asked Tony. "We could sure use your help right about now."

"Looking at the future," answered Dr. Strange. "You three hold him off, I'll get the injured."

No sooner did he say that did the chimera let out a loud roar and leapt right at the three Avengers.

…

From inside the cave, Rainbow Dash heard the creature's roars and realized that there was danger right in front of them.

"Crash, what is it?" asked Spitfire.

"I don't know, but I'm going to find out."

Before Rainbow Dash could make a move, Dr. Strange entered the cave and landed in front of Rainbow Dash, stopping her in her tracks.

"The only place your going to is safety," said Dr. Strange. "Iron Man, War Machine and Hulk are buying us some time. We must go, now!"

"No way, magic boy," cried Rainbow Dash, her adrenaline kicking in. "They need our help and I'm going to help them!"

Before Dr. Strange could protest this, Rainbow cruised past him as fast as she could. With very little choice, he turned his attention to Scott, Wade and the injured Pegasus ponies.

"We need to go!" he called, using his magnetic powers to pull Spitfire, Soarin, Lang, Wilson and Flash Magnus through the portal, dragging them back to safety.

…

Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash charged as fast as she could towards the growing conflict between the Chimera, Iron Man, War Machine and the Hulk. Try as they might, the three Avengers could not slow down the fast moving beast.

"Rhody," cried Tony as the Chimera leapt on top of him. "You've got any idea how to tame this kitty?"

"This is why I never liked cats," Rhody muttered as he tried to get back onto his feet, only to be knocked back down by the Chimera's snake tail. "Hulk, can you help him?"

Loudly roaring, Hulk reached down and grabbed the chimera, pulling it off of Tony and throwing it back onto the ground. However, the Chimera rebounded and proceeded to push the Hulk back down on its back. Seeing that the Hulk was in trouble, Rainbow let out a loud cry as she kicked the beast with a strong kick to the side.

"Come on, kitty cat!" Rainbow yelled. "You want to play dirty? Let's play dirty!"

Snarling, the Chimera attempted to swipe at Rainbow Dash, but the Element of Loyalty was too quick for it to strike. Finally, Rainbow managed to lure the beast towards the edge of a rushing waterfall. Seizing a chance, the Chimera leapt at Rainbow Dash, only to be knocked back down by the Hulk. Seizing another opportunity, Rainbow punched the Chimera with a front left forehoof, causing it to lose some of its teeth.

At that moment, both Iron Man and War Machine got to their feet and joined them on the battlefield, firing their weapons at the Chimera, striking it in the face and causing it to bleed.

"Bad kitty!" cried Tony. "HOMER, activate Hydro Armor! I'm giving this kitty a bath."

Activating his hydro armor, Tony flew towards the chimera and pushed it into the river, which lead towards a waterfall. But, Tony's actions were too little too late as the chimera also grabbed Rainbow Dash as well, sending her into the water as well.

"HELP!" cried Rainbow Dash.

"Oh, crap!" yelled Tony as he followed Rainbow Dash down the river. Rainbow tried to escape, but the current was too strong. "Rhody, come on!"

Jim heeded his friends' call and took to the air, but just as got airborne, he suddenly felt a tremor of fear consume him.

"No, not again," he whimpered, trembling. "This…this is Joey all over again!"

"Rhody!" Tony yelled. "What's wrong with you? Get over here!"

"Tony…I…" Jim started to say, but Tony couldn't wait for him to act. He needed to save Rainbow Dash now.

Judging his moments, he leapt down towards Rainbow Dash and activating his Hydro armor, leapt down and pulled Rainbow Dash out of the water just as the Chimera fell over the falls to its death below.

"Thanks!" gasped Rainbow Dash, grateful to be all right. However, the same couldn't be said for Jim as Iron Man flew in front of him.

"Rhody, what's the matter with you?" Tony asked, crossly. "When I ask you for help, you give it to me! I'll have you know that this mare could have died!"

"Tony, sorry I…"

"Come on, not this again. When are you going to get over…?"

"What's going on?" wondered Rainbow Dash as the Hulk looked up while turning himself back into Bruce.

Sighing heavily, Tony motioned for them all to return to S.M.I.L.E. to regroup as Equestria was now evacuating all of the innocent out of harm's way…