Avengers: War for Equestria

While their comrade was aiding the Avengers in fighting Squirk, the two Asgardians that survived the attack made by the sea beast opened their eyes to find themselves in a medium sized room.

"Where…where are we?" asked a dark skinned figure weakly looking over towards his light skinned comrade. "Are…are we alive?"

It took a moment for the light skinned figure to try and move his head, but he managed to turn and glance over towards his injured comrade.

"I…I think we are, Heimdall," gasped the figure. "But…the heat in here…it's unbearable."

The light skinned figure tried to move himself out of his bed, but felt a sharp pain in his back and couldn't move.

"Can you move yourself?"

But, the dark skinned figure couldn't move either. Just then, they heard a series of footfalls coming towards their room followed by a knock on the door. Opening the door, a peach colored Pegasus pony clad in Middle Eastern garb came into the room holding what appeared to be healing spices.

"I see you are awake," she remarked in an Egyptian accent, putting the spices on the nightstand. "You should consider yourselves lucky to even be alive after being in the water for so long."

"Who…who are you?" gasped Heimdall.

"I am Somnambula, ruler of this land that is named after me," she explained, putting the herbs on the light skinned figure's back. "It's not very often that there are few that faced the monster of the deep and lived to tell the tale."

The feeling of the spices made the light skinned figure groan slightly.

"How…how did we get here?" asked the light skinned figure.

"A few villagers found you washed on the shores," explained Somnambula, motioning for the light skinned figure to further roll onto his stomach. "What were you even doing here anyway?"

"Answering a call to arms," answered Heimdall weakly, looking over at Somnambula. "We have been summoned…to fight a great threat. Perhaps you know what we are talking about?"

"I do. And I can assure you that we are doing whatever it takes to combat the great threat. But, we cannot do it alone."

"Of course…we can't," gasped the light skinned figure as a pony dressed in a purple gown came into the room followed by a light golden colored pony in a khaki shirt and pith hat. "We must join with my brother…"

"How are the anthropoids here?" asked the pony in the purple gown. "I hope you are both willing to pay up for the accommodations."

But, the gold colored pony legged the pony to quiet her down from speaking any further.

"You'll have to excuse her," chuckled the gold pony walking over towards Heimdall. "She's very tough at time on her guests. I'm AK Yearling, but you can call me Daring Do."

"What a…strange name," remarked Heimdall. "I'm Heimdall, sentry from Asagard."

"And…" added the light skinned figure, groaning while trying to roll back onto his back. "I'm Loki, brother of Thor, king of Asgard. You must help us reunite with him."

"And we will," said Somnambula, giving the two humans some space. "But, you need to recover your strength first. If you are to fight the growing threat, you must be at full strength."

Loki let out another groan as he tried to regain his strength. He knew that he needed to be there for his brother, despite their differences and antagonistic history.

…

Stepping outside of the room, Daring and Somnambula returned to the inn's lobby and tried to figure out just what to do with the two humans.

"They should consider themselves lucky to even be alive," remarked Daring. "We were lucky to find them when we did."

"Yes," replied Somnambula, absorbing what had just been spoken of. "They should be lucky. The attack by the sea creature was only meant to be a warning of a grave threat against Equestria. I am hopeful that we will be able to defeat this threat, but the game must be played out."

"And there is no question that Rainbow Dash and the others are going to be fighting this threat as well," added Daring Do. "By the way, haven't you read the newspapers?"

Daring took a newspaper that had been sitting on the front desk and showed it to Somnambula. The pillar took the paper and read it which showed a headline that talked of a great threat against Equestria that not even the princesses could stop.

"I think its all a bunch of hooey," said the pony in the purple gown, snatching her paper out of Daring Do's hooves. "Just a bunch of unnecessary hype over nothing. First there was that Storm fellow taking over Canterlot and then Equestria's minister of defense turns rogue."

"That's because it's real, Mrs. Trotsworth," retorted Daring Do. "Look at the bottom of the paper."

Daring motioned for the inn's proprietor to look at the bottom of the paper, which showed a message for ponies to take up arms and come to Canterlot.

"Ponies are joining forces to fight this threat," cried Daring Do. "Just because this village wasn't attacked by the Storm King doesn't mean that we are all immune from what happens in Canterlot. Either way, we are all going to be affected."

However, the innkeeper refused to believe everything that was being said.

"Likely story, Ms. Yearling," sneered Mrs. Trotsworth. "Perhaps you have been going out on too many of your adventures lately."

Exasperated, Daring left the in to get some air with Somnambula following behind. Once they got outside, they saw a line of male villagers outside of one of the villages small huts. Curious, they both went over to investigate.

"What is going on here?" asked Somnambula to a random green village pony.

"We are signing up to fight the growing threat against Canterlot," he answered, firmly. "The call is too great to ignore. Our princesses and our kingdom need us."

Just then, they saw a series of carts arriving and the ponies who had signed up to fight were going in them. Somnambula realized that she needed to be with her fellow pillars and Daring Do realized that she needed to be at Rainbow Dash's side.

Either way, the two mares were going to be among those absorbed in the fight ahead.

…

Back in Canterlot, Celestia and Luna watched from the throne room balcony as the mass evacuations for their citizens continued under the supervision of Princess Cadence. Both sisters were aware that there were some that were going to stay and fight for their homeland, even though they were both against any foolish fighters. However, Tempest, Grubber and Mistmane remained with them.

"I really do appreciate you both allowing me to stay here," said Mistmane, walking over to the two sisters.

"You are a pillar," remarked Luna, turning around to look at Mistmane. "We need you to help us fight this threat our brother has made against us. But, we can't let our subjects be placed in his path of destruction, so we're getting them out of here."

Just then, a messenger came into the throne room with a scroll for them to read.

"It's from T'Challa," said the messenger, handing the scroll to the two sisters. "The Wakanda forces should arrive in Equestria by tonight and they will aid you in locking down Canterlot."

"Thank you," sighed Celestia dismissing the messenger. "At least King T'Challa is willing to help us fight, Luna."

"He will do everything he can to help his country's allies, Celestia," remarked Luna. "It's just a shame that not everypony is willing to heed our orders to evacuate."

"After what I did while serving under the Storm King," said Tempest, a hint of remorse in her voice. "I can't really blame them for wanting to bear arms and fight for the defense of Equestria."

"This time, we're on the good guys side," added Grubber, trying to keep his friend's chin up despite the growing circumstances that were against them all.

At that moment, a pair of guardsponies came running into the throne room with looks of terror on their faces.

"Your highnesses!" they cried. "It's the wind demon that killed the 20 Pegasus soldiers! He's on the move heading towards Canterlot!"

Realizing that action needed to be taken, Celestia dashed towards her quarters with Luna following behind, also moving towards her own quarters. A little while later, the two sisters emerged from their respective quarters clad in their battle armors. Tempest and Grubber were amazed at how the sisters looked in their armor.

"Do you want me to help you fight this threat?" asked Tempest.

"No Fizzlepop," answered Celestia. "We need you and Grubber to go to Twilight's castle and see to things on her end."

"Yes, your highness," Tempest replied, bowing to the sisters and with Grubber on her back darted out of the throne room.

Taking to the air, Celestia and Luna were about to join three of the pillars, the Guardians and Dr. Strange in facing off with Arabus and his powerful storms…