Avengers: War for Equestria

In a private jet aircraft loaned to him by Tony Stark, the World War II veteran Steve Rogers and his faction of Avengers neared Equestria only to be escorted by a group of Wonderbolt cadets.

"Seems to me like this is the welcoming committee," he remarked, looking out through the cockpit window. "Might want to prepare for landing, guys."

"Somehow I don't think they would want us to land," said Sam Wilson, a member of Rogers' faction who was looking out the passenger window. "They look like they want to knock us out of the sky, Steve."

"Just relax, Sam. I don't think they would want to do something like that," replied Scott Lang, another member of Rogers' faction. "They can't be as bad as the guards in the prison."

"You're just saying that because you were once a petty criminal."

The commanding sounds of their leader preventing the two Avengers from fighting with each other

"Take it easy, guys. We're nearing Wonderbolt headquarters now."

Under the cover of darkness, the private jet landed on the runway and parked next to the plane that carried Stark and his faction. Stepping down, Rogers and his people were met with the glancing eyes of Spitfire and her platoon of Wonderbolts.

"Uh, we come in peace?" asked Sam, nervously.

"Are you the other faction of Avengers who are coming on Princess Celestia's orders?" she asked. "Identify yourselves."

"Steve Rogers," answered Steve, nervously. "Sam Wilson, Wanda Maximoff and Scott Lang. Tell me something, are we not welcome here?"

"We're just on high alert, Mr. Rogers," replied Spitfire, motioning for her platoon to lower their weapons. "There was a fire in Maretonia coming from a volcano that was sparked by a lava demon."

"Don't remember Cassie telling me that," whispered Scott, scratching the back of his neck. "Good thing she watches the show that takes place here, otherwise I would have had no idea."

"All right," said Spitfire, pacing back and forth in front of the Avengers. "You are to stay here for the night and then report to Canterlot for a meeting with the Princesses and your fellow Avengers first thing in the morning."

Despite the tense welcome, Rogers and his crew did as they were told and were directed into the Wonderbolt Cadet barracks. As they were led away, Spitfire watched them with keen interest.

"Can you be certain that they mean no harm, Spitfire?" asked Soarin', her second-in-command. "They seem harmless."

"We're just acting on intelligence that was giving to us by the American Embassy," whispered Spitfire. "That's all. These guys once fought Tony and his fellow humans when they really should be working together. I mean, they are superheroes, aren't they?"

Soarin' gave Spitfire no answer, for he had no answers. Nevertheless, Rogers and his people were placed in a large room next to the cadets' room.

"Got your suits ready?" asked Steve to his faction.

"Our Avenger suits?" remarked Scott. "My suit's ready to go."

"No, it's like commander Spitfire said," reminded Steve. "We are to meet with Princess Celestia and the other princesses tomorrow, so we need to look professional."

"If you say so," muttered Sam, who then quickly fell asleep. "I got my wings spread out and ready…"

Before he could finish his sentence, Sam fell asleep and the rest of the faction followed suit.

…

Meanwhile, in the depths of Equestria, Tirek was brought to the gates of Tartarus in a tall cage by a group of guardsponies, one of whom was a disguised Chrysalis.

"It's Tirek!" shouted a guardspony, motioning for several other guards to come over. "He's been brought back again."

The guards surrounded the cage and Tirek got himself ready to strike and find the mad scientist pony that Grogar had spoke about.

"Get ready," whispered the disguised Chrysalis to Tirek. "Wait for the moment to come. Can you absorb magic?"

Tirek, of course, remembering how he was once stripped of his ability to steal magic by the princesses, targeted a guardspony and taking a deep breath, slowly began to absorb the magic out of him.

"Hey, what are you doing?" shouted another guardspony as he saw his comrade fall the ground, magicless. This was the moment that the two villains were waiting for and Chrysalis dropped her disguise, immediately firing her sickly green magic while Tirek broke open the cage and immediately began taking out the magic of his captors.

"Go for the scientist!" shouted Chrysalis, using her firing power to shield Tirek from them. "I'll hold them off!"

Running, Tirek immediately began searching for the mad pony scientist. The rest of the prisoners cheered wildly as Tirek ran past them, beating down guards that tried to stop him. Finally, he came to the wing where he saw a cyborg pony made entirely of steel and titanium standing in a cell at the end of the wing.

"Are you the mad scientist pony?" he asked.

"Yes, get me out of here!" the cyborg demanded. "Get me out of here!"

"Stand clear!" said Tirek and fired a blast of magic from his horns that broke the cell door open. "All right, let's go!"

"STOP THEM!" shouted a guardspony and Tirek didn't hesitate, but instead absorbed their magic, rendering them completely powerless and growing taller.

"Move!" Tirek cried, his voice a little deeper as he grew. "Chrysalis is covering for us!"

Racing back to Chrysalis, the two villains took shelter behind the Queen of the Changelings as they all quickly gave chase from the prison.

"Get out of here, you two!" she cried. "I can't hold them off forever!"

"Wait!" shouted Tirek, taking a deep breath and drained the magic of the guards fighting Chrysalis. "Now, lets get out of here!"

With the guards rendered powerless, the three villains attempted to race away from Tartarus. However, they still had one more obstacle to face…Cerberus, who snarled and barked wildly trying to stop them.

"I'll put this puppy down!" cried Chrysalis, firing a blast of magic from her horn and striking Cerberus in the chest, knocking the three headed dog on its back. "Now, stay down!"

With the three headed dog easily disposed of, they took off into the night.

…

Once they were gone, one of the guardsponies not affected by getting his magic drained, saw what was happening and immediately ran to draft up a note to Celestia.

…

Celestia was then awakened by the sounds of loud banging on the door to her bedroom and was startled to the point of being tangled in the bedsheets.

"Sister, you need to hear this!" cried Luna, racing into Celestia's bedroom. "There's been a crisis at Tartarus!"

"What…what…what did you say, Luna?" grunted Celestia, groggy from being woken up so suddenly. "There was an escape from Tartarus!"

"Tirek and Chrysalis," she panted, a look of fear on her face, passing the scroll to Celestia. "They broke in and freed Titanium from his prison."

Hearing this, Celestia immediately opened her eyes and became very cross.

"Damn that Grogar," she hissed, angry at what had just transpired. "Damn him and his ilk! Luna, send some of your guards to Tartarus and see what can be done. Grogar and his demented acts will not go unpunished, you understand, Luna?"

Not wanting to suffer any more of her sister's justified anger, Luna ran off and did as she was told. Enraged, Celestia stormed over to her dresser and saw her gold battle armor hanging at the very end.

"And by my spirit, ranging for revenge," growled Celestia, her eyes red with range as she clutched her armor with her magic. "Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice cry 'havoc!' and let slip loose, the dogs of war."

…

At that moment, on the embassy row in Canterlot, the Equestrian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Wakanda was awakened by the sounds of the chaos going on outside his embassy.

"What in…?" muttered the ambassador, climbing out of his bed and running over to the window. "What is…?"

"Mufasa, what is it?" asked his wife, groggily waking up. "It's the middle of the night. Go back to sleep…it's probably nothing at all."

"This isn't nothing, Sarabi," answered the ambassador, hastily going over to his desk downstairs. "I have a feeling that this is related to that bulletin we got from the Princesses today."

"About this dark blue goat named Grover or whatever his…name is?"

"I'm not taking any chances, Sarabi," the ambassador said, immediately going over to his laptop and turning it on. "I'm notifying our king about this and he will come to Equestria…along with the Black Panther."

Another of the Avengers were about to be summoned as the news of another escape from Tartarus prison was about to reach the Avengers and their allies, human and pony…