The battle was about to take place right near the rebel's hideout. Khan ordered out to dig holes big enough to fit one person/pony at a time. He also told Tempest Shadow to have her troops dig traps within the ice, and snow to weaken the enemy's numbers. The diamond dogs were working for hours, but they manage to get done. Meanwhile Sparkplug was in his personal snowbound with the 50. cal armed, and ready for action.

"Hey Captain!" One of the human rebels yelled out getting Khan's attention. "Were done with the holes, and Tempest also said that she is done as well! What's next?"

"And now..." Khan said facing the blizzard up ahead. "...we wait."

{About like 1 mile away from Khan's position}

The equestrians were on the move with the elements of harmony at their backs. Bronze was determined to settle the rebel problem once and for all, but also must obey his princess' command, and try to end it peacefully. The Mane six was thinking the same thing, some want to fight them, as others don't want to.

"How long till we get there sir?" Twilight asked, as she wiped off some snow from her eyes.

"In about like 15 minutes, if not shorter!" Bronze yelled out making sure she heard him. "Stay behind us, and let us talk with the rebels!"

{Back to Khan again 15 minutes later}

The rebels held out their new firearms weapons, they were aiming towards the outside of their holes. Khan and Tempest was in their own snowbound, as the rest of their troops lied down in the holes ready for a sign. Just then, one of the rebels spotted a flashing light just beyond 100 yards away from his binoculars.

"Alert! Alert! Enemy approaching!" He shouted alerting everyone in the area that the royal guard has arrived, and began to aim down their shooting weapons on the targets.

The royal guards came to a stop as soon as they about seeing distance to the rebel's cave. The army looked around wondering where their enemies are, so Bronze stepped forth about ten paces before stopping again.

"Khan!" Bronze shouted. "Khan, we wish to speak to you personally!" Khan listened to what the pony was saying, and thought over what would happen if he doesn't. So he stood up, but was stopped by Tempest.

"Are you crazy Captain?!" She quietly yelled out with a serious look on her face. "We can't let them take you, you are too important to risk sir, let me do it."

"I already thought this through Tempest." Khan said looking at her eyes. "If I don't then you won't get a chance to live your life like everyone else's. And besides, I think they want to talk terms of peace, and I will see if I can convince them to stop searching you all."

With that, he freed himself from Tempest's grip, and dashed outside. The royal guard stood ready as Khan showed his face to them, Bronze had a look of anger mixed with trying to keep calm about this.

"So we meet again Khan." Bronze said while crossing his arms.

"Yeah, hello again Lieutenant Bronze." Khan said with the same look, as his enemy's.

"I have a honorable compromise for you, and your rebel friends. I want you to turn yourself in, and we won't hurt you. But, if you don't, then sorry to say, we will have no choice but to kill you. In the name of peace, and harmony!"

"In the name of peace, and harmony!" The army shouted as if they were actually living machines.

"You want me to turn myself in cause your princess asks you to?" Khan asked making Bronze raised an eyebrow.

"That is correct Khan." Bronze replied. "Also it was your former master's idea too. She looked mighty interested in study you, and for your sake you listen to her."

Just then, Twilight ran up to Bronze facing Khan with a worried look on her face.

"Khan, please!" She begged. "I don't want to lose my own special slave! And what happened back then is over, you can live a normal life again! Isn't that what you want, to live in peace?!"

Khan was not moved by her words, and given a sad sigh.

"Twilight listen." Khan said looking at her. "I get what you want from me, and I get it. But the freedom you are offering me is no different than still leaving a collar around my neck. Even if you let me go outside all by myself, I can never feel truly free let alone feel more trapped than a caged bird. The freedom I fight for now, is about true equality for humans, and ponies co existing! I will be the first to say that we are not the ones that fight for the wrong reasons. We fight for true freedom, for right reasons that you equestrians don't have any right to claim!"

Everyone on both sides stared at Khan in shock of what he said.

"We are not rebels you bastards! We are the 'New Equestrian Republic'!" Khan finished his sentence, and the enemy see it was time to kill.

"Khan, no!" Twilight yelled in terror.

"You little-" Bronze was about to draw his sword, but was shot off by gunfire. The new republic fired at the royal guards pinning them down, as others were not so lucky.

The mane six hit the ground while listening to the sounds of guns firing away from the distance. One of the royal guard's head was blown off right in front of them. Fluttershy was shocked by this, and screamed to the top of her lungs. Rainbow Dash's blood boiled at the sight of this, she got up to charge right into Khan pinning him to the ground.

"You stupid human!" She shouted while strangling him. Khan slowly reached for his knife, and stabbed her in her belly. She was hurt real bad, but was still alive. She then looked at Khan only to be punched across the face head first in the snowy ground.

"Rainbow Dash!" One of the royal guards shouted, and made his way towards her.

Khan quickly picked himself up, looked to see the battle was raging on. The equestrians were at first getting killed in the firefight, but they somehow took cover behind some giant snow like boulders.

"Damn it! I guess now we are at war with these troublemakers." Bronze said to himself. He then turned to face his troops, as they were looking at their leader for new orders to follow. "Alright men, you know what to do! TAKE THEM OUT!" The equestrians regained their moral, quickly drawing out their weapons.

Khan then was tackled by a dark purple like pony. It was Tempest Shadow breathing heavily looking down at him.

"Khan! We have to regroup with the others now!" She yelled, as a bullet whistled right passed both their ears, killing a equestrian guard's head point blank. It was time for them to move, and they dashed right for the nearest bunker, while diving inside it.

"What is our situation solider?" Khan asked while getting up, looking at a human shooting at the enemy. The human looked back at Khan.

"We caught them off guard sir! And rousing speech by the way!" He replied, as he looked outside to see if the equestrians are still out there plotting their next move. "You need an extra gun sir?"

"No thanks, just keep them on their toes, and we will win this fight!"

"Yes sir!"

Khan then faced Tempest, as she was breathing heavily still, due to being up in cold high places like the mountains. He then placed his hands on her shoulders, making her face him.

"Are you ok Tempest?" Khan asked looking around her body to make sure she hasn't got a scratch on her. In cold harsh winters, even a simply cut could be a death sentence, and it is wise to always keep your body warm in case of injuries like that.

"I'm fine captain." She answered. "Just scared of what would happen to you out there." Khan was about to ask, but was interrupted by a diamond dog.

"Sir, we got a problem!" He said

"What is it?" Khan asked.

"Those ponies are charging in at full force captain! What should we do?"

"Get Sparkplug! I want that machine gun shredding up those bastards!"

"Yes, my captain!"

The diamond dog ran out the bunker, while Khan, and Tempest remain inside.

{At the mounted machine gun nest}

Sparkplug had his pipe sniper rifle, sniping Pegasus one by one. Every time they tried to attack one of the rebels, his job was to clip their wings. Or as I would say: 'Plucking those damn pigeons!'

"Sparkplug!" The same diamond dog that was with Khan earlier ran straight for him.

"What is going on down there?!" Sparkplug asked not leaving his gun, and still shooting down ponies.

"Khan ordered you use your mounted weapon right now! The enemy is attacking in full force! They're too many flying ponies for you to shoot!"

Sparkplug didn't waste another second, and he got to the 50.cal, while locking and loading it. He aimed it at the Pegasus, he then waited for ten seconds. The equestrians were about now firing range, then he began to open fire on the enemy. The pony guards were being massacred, bodies torn to shreds, armor being stripped as the bullets went right through them no problem. Bronze himself was still charging at the rebels, with a few dozens of guards still determined to kill their enemy.

"Keep going men! Their weapons won't surpass us!" He ordered. The equestrians were about 10 yards away from the enemy, but they could not see where the rebels were hiding. Bronze was losing his troops one after another with each passing moment, and he had to find his enemy's hideout quick.

Khan was looking onwards to see the fight turning in his favor, and gave off a evil smirk seeing his enemies die at his feet. He felt bloodlust raging through his veins, as he watched at poor guard lose all his body parts.

"Um, captain?" Tempest asked making Khan drop the smirk, and turn towards her. She was armed with a scraped pistol in her hand. "I'm ready when you are, just say the word!"

"Alright then." He said looking outside. "We tighten up our defense line. You are with me. Lets kill as many as we can, before retreating with the others at the entrance."

"Yes captain! I will follow you no matter what!"

"Nice to show loyalty, I like that." He said giving her a smirk making her blush heavily. "Lets move!"

The duo then ran outside the snow bunker shooting down equestrians. Tempest shot a entire clip of her gun killing 8 guards, before running dry. Then a female guard ran at her with a knife in hand, pinning Tempest to the ground.

"Your dead traitor! I will kill you for what your band of rebels have done to Ponyville!" She said about an inch from stabbing her victim. Just then a blade stabbed her through her neck. Khan showed up offering his hand to Tempest helping her up.

"You ok, again?" He asked looking like, he asked that already. Tempest got up, while drawing out her blades.

"Yes sir! Thanks for saving me!" She replied looking around to see what is happening. "I'm all out of bullets sir, but I can make due with my blades!"

"See that you do!"

Just then a bunch of colorful looking figures popped out of nowhere, and Tempest was pushed back by them. Khan looked up and saw a purple alicorn standing in front of him with an angry look.

"You monster!" She shouted. Before Khan drew out his weapon, he was held back by two earth pony mares. One of them was an orange mare with a cowboy hat wear winter clothing, and a pink one wearing pinkish winter clothing. Khan struggled to break free, but this did no good, cause they were somehow too strong for him.

Twilight then shot a bolt of electracy at him, knocking him out of the earth ponies own grasp, and sent him flying into a rock shaped snowball. Khan struggled to get up, but was shot again by Twilight's magic.

"I could have given you everything your heart desires, but you chose to rebel with these noponies!"

Twilight fires another bolt at him, opening up his chest wounds.

"We could have got to know each other better! Maybe even live as equals so you won't work anymore!"

A large powerful blast shot Khan right at his stomach, leaving a foul smell of burning flesh into his skin. He quickly drew out his knife, but was shot out of his hands, and was held against the snowball with magic on his hands and feet. Twilight was now in closing distance of Khan's face.

"After what I saw in my dream warned me about you, and I couldn't believe it! That your race ruled your own world, but suddenly destroyed it all because of your greed, and anger! With somepony like you around will only make things worse for the ponies that have worked so hard for to maintain peace in this world! I'm afraid after what you have done here today, I can't protect you from my teacher's wrath, and I swore to fight for harmony! And I'm ending this once and for al-"

She was then interrupted by a magic blast that sent Twilight flying through the air, knocking down her friends too. Khan was released, looked up, and saw Tempest looking pissed with steam coming out her broken horn. She looked back at him, with a worried look on her face, and rushed to check on him.

"Captain, are you alright?!" She yelled as she was inspecting Khan's wounds. Tempest removed his shirt seeing burning skin underneath the winter clothing, and magical pulled out a bandage quickly patching him up.

"I'm fine Tempest!" Khan replied while coughing up a bit looking at her. "How are our troop's progress doing?"

Tempest looked around to see the equestrians making their way through the field, but they lost 3/5 of their entire force. So the fight was very much in the rebels favor, and can easily cut them down with melee weapons if they have to. The royal guards were shot to death by machine gun fire, some manage to reach the snow banks, but were cut down by humans, and diamond dogs waiting for them with melee weapons in hand.

"We have this battle in our favor cap!"

"That's great Tempest!" He said trying to stand up suddenly falling back down.

"Hold on sir! Help will come shortly, but for now we must stand our ground!" She said as she gave him a spare scraped revolver.

Just then a small group of ponies showed up with swords, and spears in hand aiming down on them.

"Drop your weapons, now!" One of them ordered, but Khan quickly drew his gun, and shot him in the head startling the small group. They then decided to charge at they none stop, Tempest charged her horn again, and delivered a shockwave sending them backwards.

"Great job Tempest! Lets get going!" Khan said once again trying to get up, until a yell came out from the distance.

"Khan!" It was Sparkplug calling out from a distance, with 5 other humans running to Khan, and Tempest. "We have done it sir! We beaten them back! The enemy is retreating, and their commander-and-chief is dead, we won!"

Soon other humans, diamond dogs, griffons, and rebel ponies cheered on. They raised their weapons in the air boasting their victory against a powerful enemy. Tempest looked at Khan with a widen smile, and she used her magic to help him up.

"I need somepony to get Khan to the medical bay asap!" She ordered as two ponies showed up, taking Khan's body for care.

{In Ponyville}

The equestrian army had returned with scars on their backs, and shame on their faces. The towns folk were shocked to see the royal guard like this. They began asking questions, but the guards just let out sad sighs not saying a word to the public. The Mane six came back with bruises on their bodies, as they were dragging a injured Rainbow Dash through the streets of Ponyville. A couple of middle-aged ponies that looked a bit like Rainbow jumped out to the group of with scared looks, and tears running down their cheeks looking at their daughter.

"What in Celestia's name happened out there?" The rainbow maned stallion asked looking worried.

"We were talking with Twilight's slave, but things got carried away, and...Oh gosh!" Applejack said looking down.

"Please, I must know what happened to my little Rainbow!"

Applejack looked back up again now with tears in her eyes. "He and his whole army wiped out our forces, and stabbed Rainbow! Luckily, it wasn't too serious, but Khan's army complete destroyed us with their new weapons!"

The couple followed along with the defeated group, while also hanging their heads down in sadness, and defeat. They all walked down towards the town square, where a group royal guards stood attention. Not only for the returning army, but also escorting the celestial sisters to make sure of their ponies, and their success. When the defeated group came back, they were just as shocked as everyone else.

"Mother of me." Celestia said to herself looking sad with grief.

The defeated army approached the sisters with sad looks on their faces, including the elements of harmony.

"What by my name happened to you all?" She asked looking to see Rainbow Dash in a med bed being carried by four guards. Twilight looked up at her teacher with a sad expression.

"Everything went horribly wrong Princess." She said as tears streamed down. "We got to talk to Khan, but then...Oh my!"

"What, what happened my student?"

Twilight was now really letting out the water works. "Khan killed most of our army, and injured Rainbow!" She cried out, and then fell to her knees crying. Celestia and Luna looked at each other with scared looks, and could tell this means war and they hate that. Just then Celestia walked to Twilight cupping her chin making her look up.

"Don't worry my student, I will deal with him now. Now, just get Rainbow to a hospital, I will arrange a emergency meeting at Canterlot. We will deal with the rebels."

Twilight nodded, she then told her friends to get their friend to the hospital. Meanwhile Celestia then stormed off, with the injured royal guard following behind her. Luna thought of something that could work, but must do it in privacy, and mustn't be interrupted. So she used her magic to teleport herself back to Canterlot.

Author's Note

Yeah guys I know, I'm slacking. But my family and I will be moving our stuff soon, so I will be busy along the way. Still I do intend to keep my promise. And if I feel like writing again, don't worry, I'll write stuff.