It had been 10 days since the battle up on the snowy mountains. Khan has taken serious hits after what Twilight did to him. Tempest was busy organizing the rebels, by securing their food supplies of what is left of it; same goes for their ammo too.

Sparkplug was searching around the mining cave to see if he could find something. He was holding a flashlight in his hands searching all the areas; cause some caves and mining tunnels are not always deserted. His search was over the moment he tripped over something.

"Ahh!" He yelled tripping over what appears to be a metal pipe. After getting his bearings, he looked down to see what appears to be a old lever to the mineshafts. "Uh. It looks old, but still useable." He commented as he picked it up.

Just as he got better look at it from his flashlight, a familiar face walked by. "Ah, see you found a lever to this damned place." A rough feminine voice said causing Sparkplug to flinch. He looked to see no one other than Tempest Shadow, now standing there with her arms crossed.

"Oh, um, yeah I did. Do you have any idea for where it might go?" He asked while scratching his head.

"In the control area." She answered pointing to the building with a bunch of electronics controls and switches with levers on them. "Now lets see what else is down in this hellish mine of horrors."

Sparkplug went over to the control console where the old lever used to be, and put it back into place. Sure enough it fits, then he pulled on it making a loud creaking noise. The lights suddenly started to come on, the gears were grinding, and the mineshaft was slowly but surely rising to the surface area where the unicorn and human waited for it. After a few minutes it showed up, with a few mining tools laying inside; along with a dead corpse of what appears to be a bat-like pony.

"Huh, so Bat Ponies worked in this place before they shut down the system." Tempest said as she got inside followed by Sparkplug as he stood two feet beside her. The mineshaft was now going down unexpectedly taking the two down into the deeper parts of the mine.

As they were going down a voice rang out from the ceiling corner on the right. "Greetings to you our fellow worker!" It spoke and the two rebels looked at what appears to be an old speaker from back in the old days. "I'm Mr. Pelt, President of Pelt Inc. Mining company." The voice explained what appears to be a male's voice. "For those who don't what this place is, well let me tell you. It is one of my own mining facilities that power the economy of Equestria, and serves Celestia willingly by our miners the 'Bat Ponies'."

Both Tempest and Sparkplug looked at each other wondering what's going on before turning back towards the speaker.

"Ever since the banishment of the one called Princess Luna, many Bat Ponies were left jobless, homeless, and problems that they never thought they had to deal with." The voice continues. "That is when our fair Princess Celestia came up with a solution. Putting those that served her sister, and instead serve her for a generous donation in rebuilding the Bat Pony's way of living again."

"Ok, so now we know why they were here. Question is: Where are they now?" Sparkplug asked.

Tempest look around the mineshaft before answering him. "My best guess is what they were digging for down here for wasn't what they thought and just quit."

"But that still doesn't explain the corpse in here."

"Well I don't know. Probably somepony ended up dropping the body here hoping no pony find it. And from the looks on it, it had it's throat slit open, and looks like it was here for weeks."

just as the two carried on their conversation, the mineshaft came to a quick halt. The doors opened revealing a bunch of dead bodies all over the place. It wasn't just Bat Ponies, there were also unicorns, earth ponies, Pegasus, and earth ponies that had crystal texture. And from the looks of them, they have been dead for two days fresh.

This took Tempest and Sparkplug by surprise. Just before they could react, a bullet came out of nowhere and almost shot Sparkplug in the face.

"Ahh!" He shouted as he took his gun out while quickly taking cover inside the mineshaft, and so did Tempest.

From the looks of the bullet, it was an armor-piercing round that not only hit the machine, but also went straight through it as well. Sparkplug recognized the bullet and quickly raised a white flag before something else happened.

"Wait, wait, hold your fire!" He shouted letting the shooter know he and Tempest are no threat.

As the human yelled, another sound of a cocking gun made a noise.

*Cluck-Clink!*

"Show yourselves! Or learn a bullet in the brain." The voice demanded.

Tempest looked at Sparkplug with scolding eyes. "What the hell are you doing? We can't surrender to these guys." She whispered in a angry tone while grinding her teeth. "They would want to know about our new base of operations is at!"

"Well what other choice do we have?" Sparkplug asked in an upset tone. "Besides, I know that bullet. It was made back in me and Khan's old world. That thing can pierce through not only flesh and bone. It could also shred right through light armor vehicles, and actual armor if you're wearing one of course."

Sparkplug slowly raised his weapon up. "Ok w-w-were coming out." He said stuttering as he came out, but Tempest was ready to fire, but had a quick thought changing her mind at the last second. After that, she also raised her weapon in the air slowly while coming out.

The human and unicorn stepped forward into a large flashing light blinding them for a moment before getting their eye's adjusted. And what they saw came at a very shocking image. There were humans dressed in post-apocalyptic leather and furred clothing, and Crystal ponies armed with Modern rifles with cartridges belts.

"What the heck is this?" Sparkplug asked as a purple crystal pony came out wearing a suit of light armor, and it was a mare with blue hair. She was armed with a magnum revolver, and a double barrel shot gun on her back also wearing a homemade helmet.

"You, your human." She said while coming closer to him. "Are you with the resistance, the ones that are opposing Celestia and her sister?"

Sparkplug and Tempest looked at each other in confusion before turning back towards the strangers.

"Wait, you heard of the resistance?" He asked.

"Yes we have, and I'm glad to know that I wasn't the only one that rebels against Equestria's law of human enslavement." She answered in a relief tone as the rest of the mare's group lowered their weapons.

Sparkplug took a minute to acknowledge the weapons they were holding. And what they were holding was something out of the ordinary, they were holding freshly made pipe-guns with armor piecing ammunition. They also had carbine rifles from back in World War 2, and what appears to be modern M16 assault rifles from back in the 60's.

"Hey um. Those wouldn't happen to be M16 rifles your holding?" Sparkplug questioned getting a better look at the weapon.

This took the group by surprise as they gasped in amazement. For they have never knew a human knows about the weapons they're holding.

"How do you know about the name of our weapons?" The crystal pony questioned looking at Sparkplug with a stern look on her face, as she was scanning him.

"Well from my world, there was a war that pretty much ended our world, and the weapons your using now are now extinct." He explained as he pulled out one of his weapons slowly. He showed out his own pipe-pistol. "For my own weapon was made by a weapon-smith just before he died. And now me, and Khan showed up in your world."

This was a total surprise to them. Tempest stepped forward. "What my friend here says is true." She spoke. "And thanks to him and his own leader Khan. We manage to get an upper hand with the weapons they provided for us. As a result, we defeated the equestrian army."

The other group was stunned to hear this, so the leader offered out a hand. "Well then, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Glitter Bom, leader of this group of resistance." She said in a happy tone. Tempest shook her hand in return.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Tempest Shadow, previous leader of my own group of resistance."

"So who is in charge of your group now?"

"Khan, the human I told you about."

And so-on the two groups met, and quickly got used to each out. Turns out that Glitter not only had weapons from the human world, but they also had a human that knew about the weapons, and create them too. Khan was brought to Glitter to meet face-to-face, and they got along well. They exchanged information about the events that had been happening around recently. Glitter was amazed that Khan's group managed a flawless victory against the equestrians, she also told him about things stirring up in the Crystal Empire. She also told him that most of the ponies there want to support in the rebellion but was too scared and weak to make a move.

"So that is what's what we been planning to do all this time until you and your group came along." Glitter said.

"Ah, I see." Khan replied while nodding his head in agreement. "Well, I gotta say Glitter, you know how to get things started around here. And I'm glad your group and my group are working together to start this uprising. Question is: When do we begin, and is there more of what we should know about?"

Glitter shook her head in disagreement before saying. "No, not that I know of." She answered while her eyes bugged out in realizing she forgot something. "Oh, wait! There was one more thing I forgot to mention. Inside the city of the Crystal Empire, there holding a unicorn mare by the name of 'Lyra Heartstrings', expert on human bio/ hermit researcher."

Khan's eyes went widen the moment she said the last four words as he looked at her eyes. "Are you saying there is a pony that knows about me and Sparkplug's race? And she is at this very moment being held prisoner?!" He exclaimed in worry.

"Yeah. We lost her about two months back when we were trying to blow up their guard posts, but got caught during the heist. So we pretty much have been raiding there food supplies to keep us going for a while in hopes of one day rescuing her, but we are limited in options."

"Oh."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Wait a minute, I think I got it."

"What, what is it?"

"Were going to need our very best for this one Khan."

{Crystal Empire}
[Interrogation Room]

Inside the rooms were filled with screams of the ponies and other creatures begging for mercy as whips sounds, electric sparks buzzing in the background, and sounds of cracking bones and horns as well. The hallways looked grey and gloom, with a texture of darkness within shadows on every corner. Each rooms had numbering plates on identifying as different rooms, some were small while others over like the size of actually houses. And one of these large rooms a certain mint green colored mare with a stray-jacket on was struggling to bust loose.

"Arrrgghh! Erg, erggh!" She struggled as she thrashed around like a mad dog needing to be put down. Until she was zapped by a cattle prod.

"Now. I will ask you again Lyra." Said a voice from a speaker. "Where is the locating of the rebel's hideout?"

Lyra looked up with her eyes bloody red as she looked like she haven't slept for days. She had an evil look on her face as she was heavily breathing.

"Go to Tartarus, all of you!" She yelled as she made snarling noises scaring some of the ponies around her. "Your days of enslaving these beautiful creatures are at an end! And when they destroy your way of life, your going to wish you never taken me away from Ponyville!" She then cackled like a hyena before seconds later before getting another shock from the cattle prob.

"I've tried to be fair you, but I have already lost patience with you long ago." The voice continues. "Either tell me what I want to know, or your human Zack will die for your uncooperating behavior!"

Just as the voice spoke a human male dressed in ragged robes was tied to a metal pole, and was looking at Lyra with pleading eyes. Lyra was horrified as she glanced back.

"Y-y-you would." She stuttered in a worried tone looking scared.

"It's either this or all humans Lyra, the choice is yours."

Lyra looked back towards the human Zack who has no idea what's happening. But one thing is for sure; he wants to be with Lyra again, and she can't do anything about it except accepting her interrogator's demands.

"Snowy mountains. The rebel camp is in the snowy mountains just right next to the Yaks country." She sighed as she answered.

"Now was that so hard?"

"..."

"Guards! Estcourt Ms. Heartstrings back to her cell, and execute her human."

"WHAT?!"

"Oh, did I forget to mention that I known your habits with humans. And we can't give you a chance to screw everything up for us. Besides, you and your human would of been the examples of what happens to those to choose to have sex with their humans instead of forcing them to obey and work."

"No! Don't you dare hurt Zack! He has done nothing wrong! ZACK!"

{STAB!}

Author's Note

Well guys I'm back sorry it took so long. Anyways before you get too excited, I just want to say sorry for bailing when I did. I just didn't know how to keep this going until the answer came to me from Hio4 Old World Blues Fallout Mod. And yes folks, I'm using the weapons, armor, vehicles and tech in this story too, just to keep this interesting. Also because of my Godzilla fic being a bigger succes than my our stories, I'm going to be writing it for a time being so pray that I have the motive to progress.😉