The armor clad unicorn of shadows paces, contemplating both of his failures. "I shouldn't have underestimated these equestrians. Their magic is strong, and their friendship even stronger... And what's worse, Discord HUMILIATED me in front of the others!" Sombra growls in frustration. "If only I had a new, or old, army..." Sombra turns his attention to a sizable box in his makeshift icy cave lair. He walks up to the crate, unlatching the rusty metal hinges. Inside, lies a pristine, large golden object. "I didn't want to have to go back crying for help, but I'm out of options..."

Sombra's form starts to change, fur receding and armor shifting and stretching to cover most of his body. Small gaps reveal the flesh and bone disintegrating into a green, gaseous substance that stays within the armor. The metal plating seals over, as the helmet, horn, and face start shifting themselves. The face recedes behind the expanding helmet, as Sombra's red horn begins melding with the helmet, turning somewhat fin like in shape. His purple irises begin overtaking the rest of each eye, turning to a glowing, solid shade of purple as the eye sockets change to a quadrilateral shape. Sombra stands on his now chicken like hind legs, while tangible claws and feet begin to form. His barrel turns to a shape fitting of a bipedal being, rather than a quadrupedal one.

What once took the form of a pony, is now back to its natural state. Makuta Sombra, is back. He reaches into the crate, lifting the mask of dimensional gates up to his face, placing it over his mask of charisma. He calls upon the mask's power. The mask glows as a portal opens. Suddenly, six makuta fly through, along with a massive burst of energy. The portal closes when the golden mask is knocked off of Sombra's face. He gets up, surveying the other six beings that came through the portal.

A dark red and black bat like biped, a dark blue and silver bat like quadruped, a black and silver bat like biped, a black and lime bat like biped, a black and lime mosquito like biped, and a black and yellow beetle like biped. Sombra snickers as they all stand up shakily.

"Brothers, sister. I take it you've all just come from a massive battle?" Sombra asks, mildly amused at the condition his siblings are in.

"Teridax betrayed us, left us to die in the energy storms." Chirox, the black and silver bat like biped says, only for Gorast, the mosquito like biped, to be at his throat.

"I would choose your next words carefully." Gorast says in a warning tone, the needle at the end of her mutated mask close to the neck of her fellow makuta.

"I'm just surprised you're alive. After you 'borrowed' Tridax's Kanohi Olmak, and replaced it with one from another dimension, we never expected to see you again. Or in Chirox', Vamprah's, and my own case, hear you again." Antroz, the dark red and black bat like biped says.

"I was looking for a world of my own to easily conquer." Sombra begins to explain.

"Considering you brought us here, you failed." Bitil, the yellow and black beetle like biped remarks, snickering.

"These Equestrians are more powerful than I first thought, deceptively so. I wouldn't have brought you here unless they were a serious threat." Sombra explains, momentarily shooting Bitil a dark look.

Mutran, the black and lime bat like biped, begins laughing when he looks into Sombra's mind, seeing the ponies. Mutran displays what they look like to the others with telepathy. They all snicker and laugh.

"You had trouble with THOSE! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!" Bitil laughs out.

"SILENCE!" Sombra bellows out with a power scream. The makuta fall silent. "We need our things if we stand a chance at beating these creatures." Sombra says, mentally relaying Twilight's fight with Tirek to the others, who all look at each-other somewhat surprised.

"If this is really how powerful these ponies are, we need a full scale armada of rahkshi and rahi." Antroz says as Sombra picks the Kanohi Olmak back up.

"Precisely. I will open the portal. Once I do, grab as much as you can before Teridax notices we're not dead. The energized protodermis is our highest priority, as are any spare Kanohi masks and weapons of power. Do we still have the spear of fusion?" Sombra asks.

"No, a mad skakdi named Vezon stole it, and he could be anywhere since he's got an Olmak fused to the back of his head that he can't control." Antroz explains.

"How many Olmaks are there in our dimension?" Sombra asks.

"Currently, one. One worn by Brutaka, the other is on Vezon's head, the one you brought over for Tridax. Tridax is dead by the way." Antroz explains.

"Huh. Speaking of our brothers. What of Miserix, Icarax, Krika, Spiriah, and Kojol?" Sombra asks.

"Miserix was imprisoned, Icarax was killed by Vamprah, Gorast, and Mutran, Krika was killed by Gorast, Spiriah was exiled, and Kojol was killed by his own armor eating virus." Antroz relays.

"Well then, we must still act quickly. On my command..." Sombra opens a portal into the brotherhood of makuta's main base. "GO!" Sombra yells as he and the rest of the makuta scramble to gather as many things as they can using their teleportation. Black vats of energized protodermis, various melee, energy, and projectile weapons as possible, some loose Kanohi masks, various viruses, rahkshi armors, and Zamor ammunition of various effects. As soon as Sombra feels Teridax start to notice the commotion in the base, he telepathically orders the other makuta to go back through the portal. Sombra quickly returns to the other side, closing their link to the Matoran universe off. The once empty cave now filled with the pilfered items.

"Let's expand this cave to fit everything. With a base of operations, we shall be comfortable while bringing destruction to this puny planet." Sombra says, with the others agreeing.

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Twilight sits alone on her new throne in Canterlot Castle, bored out of her mind.

"Ugh, why wasn't I told being the Princess of Equestria would be so booooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing." She complains with a flop on her throne.

"You know, you don't have to just sit there." Discord says as he falls up from within the carpet. "I mean, you're THE Princess of Equestria now, you can do whatever you want to..." He says with a grin.

"I'm supposed to wait for council with Equestria's citizens though, I can't just shirk my responsibilities like that." Twilight says with a roll of her eyes.

"Well, then I'm happy to report that there's been a disturbance in the fabric of our reality, and this time it wasn't even me!" Discord beams, quite literally.

"WHAT!? How is that GOOD news!?" Twilight exclaims in a newfound panic.

"Well, you did say you were bored. Now you have an excuse to go on another adventure with your friends, just like in the good old days of last week!" Discord gestures, wearing his O&O costume to demonstrate his point.

"Spike!" Twilight yells, the dragon already scrawling a message as fast as he can.

"On it!" Spike says, sending the first of the messages.

"Don't forget to warn Starlight, the School of Friendship needs to be evacuated too!" Twilight finishes.

Spike simply nods.

The clock is ticking, for both sides. Who will emerge victorious? The remnants of the brotherhood of Makuta, or will it be our beloved cast of multicolored magical ponies (with dragon)? Find out next time!

Author's Note

In case anyone is interested in reading about the makuta species, here's a link to the page on their species. There are links to the characters as well, at the bottom of the page. There's information on everything bionicle on the site, so anything odd that's mentioned in the story can be easily found on this site should you want to delve deeper. I will try to explain the necessary information as it becomes relevant. https://biosector01.com/wiki/Makuta_(Species)