8 months later
Ponyville, equestria
Dakota POV

It has been 8 months now since that one decided night and things only got better afterwards and I was now on a vacation in ponyville after I got bored of the same old sights of canterlot. The weather had actually been doing it’s own thing ever since I first entered equestria, so now it worked like weather on earth. A pretty nasty snow storm had hit ponyville and the snow was still coming down pretty hard. I had a snow plow made for my truck and was plowing the road down Main road in central Ponyville while Manuel was following me and laying down salt on the road behind me. I actually did something interesting and heated the plow by soldering exposed wires to it and passed 232amps and 210 volts of dc current through the plow to heat it up. The power source was 3 additional alternators that I installed in the truck to power the subwoofers and numerous lights. The subwoofers were temporarily disconnected to allow for the heated plow. It wasn’t glowing but it was still charred from how hot it was and I cold see the heat radiating off of it from up in the cab. We were going down Main Street and had just passed twilights library; knowing her, she had probably been awake for a while now since it was only 10:30 in the morning but she always liked to get as much done in as little time. More stuff had appeared ever since these 8 months have gone by. I had other trucks that I owned, a 1974 dodge coronet, a sisu M162, some music equipment including couple of guitars that I owned, and other things. The craziest things that showed up though was actually a small group of abrams tanks including a Huey helicopter but I’ll get to that later. I knew that someone had to be doing this but now wasn’t the time to worry about it.

We finished taking care of the roads in ponyville and decided to go to twilights castle and wait until the snow stopped. Ponyville was much larger than portrayed in the show ( blame Faust ) so it was still about 10 minutes to reach her castle and knocked on her door. A certain purple dragon opened the door and allowed us to come in. In the time since I started a here with tia and aqua, I had gotten to really know the main six a lot and made friends with them real quickly. If I had to choose which one I could relate to the most, it would be rainbow dash since we had a lot of similar characteristics. We were both prideful, kind of reckless, athletic, fun loving, and heavy sleepers.

They were all at twilights castle since they got snowed in so they would be here for a few days at most. Spike led Manuel and I towards the map room were the 6 elements were. We made it there and gave them the good news that the roads were clear now but they would still be slippery for a bit because of the ice. Since we would be here for a bit, I decided to go back out to my truck and get something to pass the time. I reached into the weather guard and pulled out a big black duffel bag and a UPS went back inside. Once I made it back inside, I asked twilight if there was a common room or something were I could set my stuff up. She said there was a small home theatre that was recently finished being built in the basement that was ready for use.

That’s all I needed to here as I went down there with Manuel right behind me. The other 6 ponies decided to follow me as well. I would’ve liked to meet starlight as well but she had gone back to her home town to spend hearthswarming with her parents. Once we were in the small theater, I put down the ups and took off my bag. “What’s in that rather plain looking bag darling?” I heard rarity’s posh voice call from behind me. “If we’re gonna be here for a while, then we might as well do something fun to pass the time.” I replied to her. As expected, that piqued pinkie’s interest. “Ooooohh I’m all for that! Let’s get this started!!” I just chuckled at her enthusiasm. Not delaying any longer, I opened up the duffle bag to reveal my beloved Xbox One X and an expensive projector. It took no more than 3 minutes to get everything set up. I plugged everything into the ups and powered it on. I turned on the projecter and switched inputs to the Xbox. I then pulled 4 custom made elite controllers and powered on the Xbox. We spent much of the day playing games like call of duty, forza motorsport, halo, ace combat, moral kombat, as well as numerous other games. We also watched plenty of movies and tv shows as well. Pinkie had brought lot of snacks which made it all the more enjoyable.

I had given both Celestia and aqua cell phones and showed them how to use them call me when they need me and I wasn’t at the castle. I texted them and let them know that they could come down to ponyville and see us if they wanted to and they said that they would depart soon to come and visit. I told everyone else about this so we could clean up a little bit. We took turns playing battlefield 1 afterwards and they didn’t understand it one bit so me and Manuel had to describe it for them. From what WW1 was, to the many different countries involved and the events that contributed and started it. This game was made to take the gaming community back to the dawn of modern combat and give everyone a view of history through a way that appeals to millions of people.

We were partway through the “friends in high places” war story when Celestia and Aqua arrived.

“Hey guys, welcome to our little hide out.” I greeted them. “Hi dakota, good to see you again.” Aqua replied. We got greetings out of the way and continued playing games.

It was 2 hours later now and me Manuel we’re doing a 1v1 on cod mw2. “Fucking puta madre dios mio piece of shit!” He shouted as I got another kill on him. I was up on him by 8 kills since he was only used to GayStation. I was just kicking his ass without even trying at this point. He got so pissed that he actually broke the sniper only rule and switched to an M240 and I still beat him. I was just laughing my ass off afterwards since it was recorded as well. We then proceeded to watch some more movies. I decided to put on battleship since the movie was just as good as the board game was.

We wrapped everything up after about another 3 hours and thanked twilight for letting me stay at her castle for the last 2 weeks. After we got everything packed up, we said goodbye before we left to go back to canterlot. When we were walking back towards the entrance, I could hear a lot of something going on outside. Hurrying up to see what it was, I opened up the door two see 4 more damn humans and cars, and these 4 new humans were also the last 3 in my woodworking class and the woodworking teacher himself. I started running over to make sure they aren’t hurt. Kendall, Johnathan, Cody, and Mr.Hesington were all looking around with looks of just pure confusion. “Holy shit, Dakota is that you!?” I heard a certain Alabama accent call out. “Yeah it is!, and I ain’t alone either!” I called back to him. Once everypony saw us, they immediately stopped what they were doing to bow and clear the way through for us when they saw me and Celestia. “What the hell? Dude what’s going on?” Johnathan asked. “It’s a long story and I would rather not get into right now especially in the freezing cold.” I replied.

We got them inside of twilights castle and Celestia got them taken care of as far as questions go. Manuel and I got our winter gear on went back outside and got to work. I pulled my balaclava down over my face as soon as I opened the door and walked over to my truck and grabbed some towing ropes while I prepared the glow plugs. I handed half of them to Manuel and we got to work. I would tow Kendall and Johnathon's vehicles while Manuel took Mr.Hesington and Cody’s cars since their vehicles were lighter and Manuel’s truck is more suited for light and medium duty while mine is built for medium, heavy and superduty. We got them all attached and the others came out and got in with us; Celestia, Aqua, and Johnathon got in with me while Kendall, Cody, and Mr.Hesington got in with Manuel. We departed for canterlot and left ponyville. Normally, on a decent day, it would be a 2-hour drive to canterlot from ponyville but that wasn't the case. It had been snowing heavily for the last 2 and half days and I couldn't see shit past 80 feet; combine that with ice grounds and the fact that im pulling an additional 11000 pounds worth of vehicles behind me and it would be more like 5 hours.

I switched on the amber lights including a Federal Signal Vision SLR lightbar that I had mounted on the roof of my F350 so Manuel wouldn't lose me in the snow. Once we made it back to canterlot, It wasn't looking much different than ponyville. Streets were blocked and impassable due to the snow and it was up to 2 feet in some places, Good thing I had this plow otherwise we would have had to abandon our vehicles here and try to make it back to the castle on foot. I don't know how the Russians are constantly able to put up with this cold, Which is ironic since im 29% russian. We finally made it back to the castle and got through the gates and parked up. A small garage was built close to the gates for us to store our vehicles that was a maximum of 35 feet high to allow for the Kenworth to be put in there and raised up on the lifts if and when I needed to work on it. Manuel and I detached the towing straps and put them away and told everyone else were to park their vehicles based on their size. Kendall had a 2014 Ford F150 crew cab, Cody had a 2015 Jeep Wrangler, Johnathan had a 2016 ford excursion , and Mr. Hesington had a 2014 dodge charger srt. Kendall and Cody parked between my GMC Denali and the Kenworth while Johnathan and Mr.Hesingotn parked next to Natalie and Kevin's vehicles.

We dashed inside and got everyone situated while walked back towards my room to unpack my stuff and get changed. I noticed that Celestia had been following me and had something to say. When we got to my room, I hit her with 2 questions of my own. "Tia, Do you know anything about these portals that keep opening up and depositing my friends here." Was all I asked her. "I do, I've been trying to find a way to send you and your friends back home because I know much your families miss you all and how much you all miss them. So far we have only been successful in pulling things through." She said to me. "Alright, I have one other question though. There is a black void in the secondary compartment of that metal box you see in the back of my truck. I have been able to reach into it and pull out anything that I wanted just so long as it would fit through. Would you happen to know anything about that or anything related to that?" I asked her. Her eyes widened in shock at this as I said this. “Do you have any idea, what type of magic that box holds in it?” She said while she was still in a shocked state. “That metal box that you call a weather guard, is enchanted with a type of magic so rare that very little is known about it and I have only encountered an object enchanted with it once in my whole life. Dakota, that box is enchanted with something known as infinity magic.” She said. Infinity magic, I know I remember reading a story on this website that had that type of magic infused into some dude’s hat that he wore when he was brought to Equestria, turned into his alicorn OC, lived with flitter and cloudchaser, has a fear of magic since it almost got him killed, and constantly wanted to keep himself from being discovered by Celestia and Luna. That seemed to make me remember as I now knew just how much power I had in my possession.

I talked with Celestia a little more before we wrapped up and I went back to my room, got showered, and decided to play my Guitar for a bit. I got really into it since aqua came in and started singing alongside me as I continued playing my guitar. Celestia came in as well halfway the song along with a bunch of the guards that I had gotten to know a lot about them and became close friends with. We all continued as I played multiple sabaton songs such as Union, firestorm, price of a mile, Sun Tzu says, the art of war, nuclear attack, the last attack, panzer battalion, and many other songs from the Swedish heavy power metal band. After I finished up, I turned off the amplifier and hung up the amplifier. I got into bed and Celestia Aqua got in with me, probably because they didn't want to go back to their own beds and we were still a herd anyway. I turned off the lights and fell asleep with the two mares right beside me. I was once again in Vegas in the dreamscape and this time, not only were my friends from earth here, but also the main 6 and the guards that I had made friends with. Vegas had become the go-to place during the sleep time's as there was no limit to what we could do there and how much fun we could have. The dream was abruptly ended when I woke up to a knocking on my door. I got up and climbed over Celestia to open it and be greeted by a frantic looking guard. I knew that she needed to tell Celestia something so I wasted no time in waking her up by whispering in her ear. "Allahu akbar" Was all I said and that made her jolt up. Ever since I had told her about the "groups" on earth that shouted that saying, She would get pretty scared by it as I told her what they did. she walked over to the guard while I sat on the bed and listened to the conversation.

"Your Highness, Princess Cadence and Shining armor arrived here at the castle 10 minutes ago and have an urgent message to give you." the guard said before Celestia dismissed her and started running towards the throne room. I woke up Aqua and we followed her there. When we got to the throne room, Cadence and shining armor were both decently injured. They both had cuts all over their bodies, Cadence had some burns here and there, Shining armor had a black eye and a bloody nose. I heard something that I didn't want to and hoped that I never would. Sombra had returned, and he has enslaved the crystal empire again. I slipped out of the throne room during their conversation and proceeded to the garage that was built for us and texted everyone and told them to meet me here as soon as they saw this message.

4 hours later

I had been cleaning a gun that I planned to take into battle when we went to go kick Sombra's shadowy ass. Everyone had finally shown up and I told them what had happened and that I was going north to kill his ass and that I would like them to help me. I told them that if they didn't want to, then they didn't have to. When I told them that He was a tyrannical ruler, they were all on board with me going to kill him. We geared up and started to get into the tanks. I'm guessing these were experimental tanks since the turret was loaded with an autoloader and multiple ammo racks and no room for anyone in the turret except for a mechanic/machine gunner. the turret was now operated by a remote relay in the driver's compartment. I'm guessing that America was aiming for one man tanks since they wanted to experiment with the idea of one man turrets in WW2 and wanted to improve on that. Kendall was going to drive my Denali since it was armored like my ford but we had the room to mount an HMG in the bed to act as a gun truck, While Cody was going to drive my F350 so we had access to the black void that allowed us to pull out whatever we want. We started the Abrams tanks and the Trucks and left. I opened the gates to the castle since there were no guards on duty right now. We were guaranteed to attract a lot of unwanted attention because of how loud the engines in the tanks were but that wasnt of concern. We left the city and went on north to go and kill Sombra. I told my now squad-mates to avoid killing any of the crystal ponies when we get there since they were already suffering at the moment.

My phone went off after about 1 hour of driving and I saw a text from Celestia. "Where are you going? The guards told me that you are all missing as well as some of those vehicles. Please, If you have left the city, Come back." her text said. "We're going to kill king Sombra before he can inflict any major damage on the crystal empire. I'm sorry, but someone has to do something as soon as possible before he can amass his forces and begin invading nearby areas. Don't try to stop us as we are already one hour north of canterlot and we will be approaching the crystal empire to kill King Sombra by the end of the day." That was my reply to her. I knew that this was a very dumb idea. A group of 12 guys with guns, 6 tanks, and a gun truck going to face down an army was a terrible idea but it was the only thing that could be done right now. Equestria did not have an army and recruiting would take too long so this was our best and only option. I wasn't sure what the end result would be once we got there, but one thing was certain, we were going to kill him. Even if it was the last thing we would do. We would Kill king sombra, or die trying.

Author's Note

Now things are getting heated. get ready for a war in the next chapter. Our tanks give us an edge so we wont have to try very hard.