Avengers: War for Equestria

"What the hell is going on out here?" Fury Swipes cried as he dashed into the command center of S.M.I.L.E. headquarters to see many of his agents gazing up at the giant screen and watching the battle between the Hippogriffs, Avengers and Squirk, the sea monster. "Why is everyone standing around for?"

"It's that monster from the sea," replied an agent, pointing for Fury to look at the screen. "Seems like its trying to get to Seaquestria."

At that moment, Sunset Shimmer dashed into the command center also wondering what was going. The former protégé of Princess Celestia was stunned by what she saw as Twilight fired a blast of magic from her horn, striking the beast in the side of the face.

"Is that Squirk?" she cried with Starswirl, Rockhoof and Mage rushing in. "The sea beast?"

"So, you know who that is" asked Fury, turning around sharply at Sunset. "Okay, then how do you figure out how to stop it?"

"Don't give her a hard time," barked Starswirl, his horn glaring to keep Fury away. "It's clear to me that we need to help our friends."

At that moment, another agent called out with urgent news.

"We just got this report," he cried out to Fury, handing him a notice. "The wind demon is on the move, about 30 miles outside of Canterlot."

"The Pegasus forces are going to have to face it again," sighed Fury, handing the paper back to the agent. "I don't know how many are going to stand up to this guy again."

"They won't have to, because we'll take care of things from here," called a voice and everyone turned to see Peter Quill, Rocket, Mantis and Drax out of the ward and staring at the gathered group, their weapons in hand. "It doesn't matter if we are hurt, we need to stop whatever this creature is."

The Guardians were soon joined by the tree creature much to Sunset's amazement.

"I am Groot," the creature said, flexing out the long roots from its arms. But, Fury wasn't impressed.

"Out of the question," he ordered. "You all are still hurt from the accident."

"And I say that if we wish to help, we will help," retorted Star Lord, looking at Fury right in the face.

"And I say if you are still hurt, you are still hurt."

Before the two could come to blows, a portal appeared and Dr. Strange stepped out of it.

"They have to go," he said.

"Says who?"

"The future," answered Dr. Strange, firmly.

Grunting in frustration, Fury reluctantly allowed the Guardians to go, except for Gamora, who was still in her coma.

"Fine!" he snapped. "But if you end up dying, then my hands are clean of your deaths."

With three of the pillars and Sunset in tow, Dr. Strange and the Guardians went to take on the wind demon.

…

Inside the Medical ward, Spitfire and Soarin were overhearing what was going on.

"Are they nuts?" Spitfire cried. "That wind monster is going to tear them apart."

"It can't be as worse as what we went through," remarked Soarin, taking note of the bruises and injuries all over his body. "Either way, we can't help them because we are stuck here all bandaged up. How many of our forces could still take on the demon?"

"I'm not sure," sighed Spitfire, powerless to think of a way to help stop Arabus. "I'm just not sure."

"That's easy for you to say," remarked a voice and the two Pegasi turned to see Scott Lang with his leg stretched out on a sling. "I can't even walk let alone fight. Bet my daughter is going to be disappointed to hear that her daddy lost on a broken leg."

Spitfire could sense some sympathy within Scott for she was a daughter herself.

"You're a dad?" she asked, causing Scott to turn and look at her with sympathy. "How old is she?"

"6."

"That's a fun age," she chuckled. "I can remember when I was 6. Those certainly were the best years of my life. My mom certain raised me well."

"You're lucky," remarked Scott, chuckling slightly. "Let's just say my life wasn't exactly peachy keen either. When you're in and out of trouble with the law, it almost makes it impossible to live with the one you care about."

"You were a thief?" wondered Soarin'.

"Yeah, it seems that a prison cell has always been a home for me," sighed Scott. "Hell, it's even more of a home to me than my own house in San Francisco. But, I'm trying to pull myself together and turn my life around."

Right away, both Soarin' and Spitfire developed a mutual respect for Scott, knowing how much he wanted to impress his daughter.

…

Back at Mount Aris, the seaponies were starting to take heavy casualties as Squirk continued his onslaught. From atop the cliff, Novo realized that their efforts were becoming futile.

"Seaspray!" she called out to her second-in-command. "We need to retreat!"

Before he could respond, one of Squirk's long tentacles grabbed Seaspray and threw him against the side of the cliff, knocking him out cold. The sea beast then fired several blasts of ink at some of the aerial forces, one of them hitting Iron Man.

"Ugh!" Tony groaned from inside his armor. If I wanted a new paint job for my armor, I would have done it myself!"

Shaking off the ink, Tony charged and fired several missiles at Squirk, hitting him in the chest below his shark head.

"How do you like that?" he laughed as Squirk was hit with another barrage of missiles, this time from War Machine, who was trying to keep his emotions in check.

Seeing War Machine, Squirk roared and leapt right at him. From inside his armor, Jim struggled to stay brave.

"I can't…I can't…" he panted as Squirk fired a blast of ink at War Machine, hitting him.

"RHODY!" screamed Tony as Jim crash landed on the beach, landing on top of several Hippogriffs, wounding them.

"Your pitiful efforts are futile!" Squirk laughed. "Feel me wrath!"

Before he could fire another blast of ink, he suddenly felt himself being hit from behind and he turned to see Sam Wilson flying right towards him, firing lasers from his jet pack.

"It's Falcon!" called Peter, motioning for Julia to look up.

"Leave my comrades alone!" he called and at that moment, Squirk suddenly felt himself rise up out of the water as he looked over to see Wanda Maximoff use her telekinesis to lift him out.

"Time for a long swim," she remarked, tossing Squirk several hundred feet into the distance.

At that moment, Tony looked down to see Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes running towards them.

"Figured you could use a hand," he said to Twilight.

"Thanks, Steve," gasped Twilight, turning back to Queen Novo. "What do we do now?"

The Queen of the Hippogriffs looked out and saw her dead soldiers floating around in the water as well as the unconscious Seaspray, lying against the cliff where he was thrown at.

"For now," she sighed. "Regroup and collect our dead."

From down on the beach, Julia, Peter and the others ran towards the downed War Machine, who was completely covered in Squirk's ink.

"Jim! Jim!" cried Julia, taking off his helmet as Jim coughed several blots of ink out of his system. "You okay?"

"Yeah…" he coughed. "Whatever you say…Chuckles. Christ, that was scary."

"Jim!" called Tony, flying down to help his friend. "You hurt?"

"I…I don't know what happened," he cried, his eyes widened with fear. "My fear…of the water…it's just too great."

"We'd better get back to Twilight's castle," advised Starlight. "And regroup ourselves."

"You go back," said Thor, activating a spell that caused his hammer to disappear. "I'm going to find my brother and friend."

Without another word, Thor quickly left to go find his missing comrades.

…

While the battle at Mount Aris was over, several groups of citizens in Equestria were coming together for a meeting that included the Apple Family as well as Moondancer and her friends. They had all gathered in Donut Joe's shop in Canterlot.

"We were blindsided last time," said a female voice from inside a black cloak. "We allowed for that monster to come in here and turn our lives upside down. All of us in this room were subjected to be enslaved, caged and chained like common criminals. Well I can tell you right now that all of you and me, the Great and Powerful Trixie, will not stand to being held against our will by a group of monsters!"

And the power removed her cloak to reveal Trixie hidden underneath it, her grayish blue mane ragged and a scar under her left eye.

"I say to you that we must now prepare ourselves to protect our very way of life!" she shouted. "If you are with me, raise your hooves high!"

Without hesitation, everypony in the room raised their hands, pledging with Trixie to form a group of ponies determined to protect their freedom and their way of life from the Nine Circles of Death…