With the addition of Discord’s abilities in the equation, Project: Vulcan was working even more efficiently. In just a few hours, they followed the trail of trace magic until it reached a solar system a few light-years away. The trail was small, about two inches thick, but it was enough to locate the planet. All he had to do was get hooked up to the equipment to show the display and guide them through the trail of magic.

With the draconequus’s abilities, they applied it to a magic map and photographed it so they could see the extent of the caribou’s magical taint. Equestria was completely covered in a grey blob, representing the Caribou Empire, save for a rainbow colored magic that was covering the Everfree Forest. The greyish-black blob had expanded southward, but it did not go towards the Undiscovered West.

Discord was pretty experienced, and Fluttershy was busy practicing medical abilities, as well as basic combat. She never really was the type to fight by any standard, but she knew that it was a necessity to freeing Equestria from Dainn’s hold. They all knew. And speaking of Fluttershy, he thought of her. “Discord.” the lead Koopa said in a knowing tone. “Thank you for helping us locate Equestria. You can go now if you wish.” he said. The spirit of chaos and disharmony just smiled and snapped his fingers, going straight to Fluttershy’s room.

The yellow pegasus had her hair cut to a shoulder-length, as was her tail, and her manestyle was adjusted to suit its new length. She was currently wearing her dress, dangling her bare feet from her perch on her bed. “Fluttershy…” Discord looked at her. “We are going to go home soon. Get ready.” he said in a calm manner. Fluttershy looked at him and nodded in a knowing tone before speaking.

“I’m scared, Discord.” Fluttershy replied. “Flurry Heart’s nine and she’s been training for battle for six months straight, and I’ve just started my own training.” She then clenched her hands and shed some tears. “I’m scared, Discord. It’s been nine months? What has become of our friends, our family, our-”

“Shhh, it’s gonna be okay, my dear sweet Fluttershy.” Discord said while he pulled her into his embracing hug. “I am having those same thoughts right about now, but, save it for when we are in the fight, kay?” She nodded solemnly. “I know, Fluttershy. But, look at this, it’s only been nine months into the Fall, so, the mind control is still fresh, which means we can be able to save them.” Discord said. “If I were at full power, I would’ve, but, in the end, we can still rely on one another to finish a task, as Sparkle had told us. Look, I may not have been the best friend for her, but I will not make the same mistake as before.” Discord then got her off the bed and into her shoes. “Now, we must go. I have finished my job, and the map is currently being delivered to Bowser. I may just be dreaming, but maybe we’ve picked the right choice through this wild adventure of ours.”

Fluttershy looked at Discord before going into a smile. “Thanks, Discord. Now, all that is needed is to prepare for the upcoming storm.” Discord nodded, and walked out the door to go to his room, leaving the Bearer of Kindness to think things through. She did know one thing about this, a whole new world of crazy has opened just so they could get Equestria back.

Shortly after a satellite and a magic-scan map, along with the traditional map that Discord poofed up, were brought to the Koopa King, work was immediately out on building stargates to the country of Equis, on Bowser’s orders. Already, a year had passed since the Fall had officially begun, and everyone was pretty anxious. Flurry Heart had finished her training and gotten her first suit of armor, and hopefully to her, her only one.

Flurry Heart’s new armor was a blueish color, and the magically-enhanced alloy that it was made of was forged to look like crystals, similar to the Crystal Heart before it was transformed into the Crystal Cock. The main metal was a darker blue, but there were some places with the same blue as the original Crystal Heart. The metallic plate armor had covered her chest, shoulders, elbows, the backs of her hands, her waist, and she had a pair of boots and a helmet that can hide under her hair, save for the hornlike structures on either side of the helm. The rest of the armor was chain mail and gold lining, with the occasional purple lining. It covered all of her body, save for her wings, head, and tail. Her new weapon was a halberd made from the same alloy as her ‘Crystal Mail Armor’. A black handle with a dark blue blade that had a miniature replica of the Crystal Heart in it accompanied a decent medium-sized shield of the same style, with a Crystal Heart in its center.

The Crystal Halberd and Crystal Mail Armor were not made of actual crystal, but the alloy set was made in honor of the Crystal Heart, which was reshaped into something very vulgar by the caribou in order to spread their taint across the Crystal Empire. She gazed upon her new armor and put her right hand on the chestplate. “Soon, I am going to wear this suit of armor in my fight to save Equestria.” she said. “I never wanted to know what killing something would be like, but I guess I have no choice in the manner.” Flurry Heart couldn’t help but to compare her future actions with the past of her aunt.

Both her and Twilight fight for a good cause, taking down villains, but while Twilight and her friends had brought forth the magic of friendship across Equestria, she is going to be a literal soldier in a war against an Equestria occupied by a civilization of megalomaniacal rapists, and she had not even earned her cutie mark yet! There are similarities and differences that parallel each other, which is pretty strange, in the long run.

It was getting dark by now, that, she knew. Fortunately, she was already in her baby blue pajamas that she got, and walked back to the dorm, she, and recently, Fluttershy and Discord temporarily live and into her bedroom. There, she went into her bed, turned out the lights, and yawned before going to bed.

Two days after that, in the Keep, Bowser was gazing through the window and into the seemingly endless sea of lava. It was hightide right about now, and the smoke from the volcanoes had not been up for quite some time, revealing a dark night sky, with the only other lights besides the castle being the lava itself, shining a bright orange. Darkland may not look like a place you would want to live, but it is very valuable because of all the ore in it, and the Castle was more like a giant city, built to withstand the magma it was built upon.

But there was Equestria, a new country for him to discover. If Celestia and Luna were still alive and enslaved, he would’ve set them free, but with them dead, and Twilight not really being the ruling type, and with a race of rape-hungry male supremicest brutes currently dominating the land and brainwashing the ponies, he will find out what to do with them, his current plan was to take it over and be the better king. He may not have had the best person or done the greatest things in his life, but he is the type of person to treat people of both genders with respect and dignity. The caribou, they were abusive, and he was one hundred percent certain that they all need to die.

And he will be their executioner.

“Just you wait… caribou.” he said, his tail thumped on the ground as he crossed his arms and glared into space with a determined look. “You may have taken out Equestria, but I will not be so willing to give up. Not with what you forced an innocent CHILD to see.” he took a deep breath and exhaled. “You not only took over the country, but you cheated. You brainwashed the males into your idealogy and made them rape their loved ones. That, is something I will not stand for! Not no way, not no how!”

The Koopa King held out a picture of Fluttershy and five other ponies. The picture was originally located in Fluttershy’s cottage before the caribou invaded. She went to save that picture before fleeing into the Everfree, but a caribou commander chased her into the forest to rape her, but he was only stopped by Discord. These xerox machines were something alien to his little, well, aliens. Equestria’s most advanced technology was just a bunch of pipes and dials comparable to ENIAC, one of humanity’s first computers, no offense to them.

“Soon,” he said. “Soon, I will raise my sword against you stupid caribou fiends, and I will take the reins of rulership and undo as much of the Fall as I could. But still, there are these incest children that would remain.” He did not know what to do with them, but he would not order them to be killed off or anything, he’d probably just throw them into other families and let them raise them like normal kids. “You, on the other hand, have had this idea for goodness knows how fucking long, and it makes me sick just thinking about it! But times are going to change as they always do...” Bowser couldn’t help but let a chuckle. “You better turn the night light on when sleeping, because Koopa’s coming to town!”

“Um, King Bowser?” a voice said. Bowser slowly turned to see a Magikoopa in blue robes coming up towards him. “I apologize for interrupting your rants, but the Stargate is fully built right now. What are your orders?”

Bowser looked at his old advisor for what felt like an eternity, but it was actually two minutes before he regained his senses and spoke. “Kamek, the large trucks are wood, stone, and metal are to build a single large fort.” He handed him a map of Equestria. “We shall place that fort in the mountains of the Undiscovered West. We should have more to spare, with that forest being immune to their magic, we could rebuild the old castle Flurry Heart kept talking about to secure our foothold on Equestria. I’ll give the details later.”

“As you wish, King Bowser.” Kamek replied, nodding before summoning his broom and flying out into the distance, towards the direction of the portal room in Bowser’s Castle.

“Just you wait, caribou. Just you wait.” he said as he walked back into the castle, planning some serious hell for the caribou to pay. The portal to Equestria was already up and ready to be activated, they’ll test it the next day.

The Undiscovered West wasn’t a very explored place. Even though the Caribou had taken over the land of Equestria, they didn’t care what the Undiscovered West was, nor did the rulers before them. But that unwillingness to explore the area would be a bit of a hiccup. A blue rift opened up in the coniferous forest, scaring some forest animals away as a metallic circle appeared out of nowhere.

Out of the Stargate, a red-shelled Koopa Troopa came out and looked around the area before one of them looked back at the Stargate. “Huh, the other endpoint materializes behind us when we exited it. Thank goodness we’re not stranded.” he said as two green-shelled Koopas leaped from the portal behind him. Suddenly, a whirring came in the earpiece he wore and he turned it on to hear the one speaking to him.

“Bowser speaking, are you there, Kevin?” he asked.

“Loud and clear, your Highness.” Kevin replied. “Although, this landscape doesn’t seem that kind of ‘alieny’ to be exact. I was expecting something strange and bizzare.”

“Hey, I had Flurry Heart look between our world’s plants, and see which ones are familiar to her and are alien. There ain’t any supersized mushrooms, but the basic flora like trees have similarities to our own, as do the animals, but with a change in proportion.” Bowser replied through the earpiece. “Remember the device I gave you?” he asked.

“One of my acquaintances has it.” he said, gesturing to one of the Green Koopas, who had pulled out the device he was talking about and handed it to him. It looked like a toy remote.

“Well, press the device, and it will scan the magic residue, namely Flurry Heart’s with the natural background magic of the world you are in.” Kevin nodded as he examined the device in his hands. “But there’s a warning, the device won’t work if the world you are in lacks said background magic, but give it a try and you’ll know.”

Kevin pressed the remote, and it detracted a miniature satellite dish that scanned the magic around them before proceeding.

Robotic Voice: MAGIC PROTOCOL, STATUS, MATCH

“It says it is green.” the Red Koopa said as he looked at the remote.

“Excellent. This Stargate will be where we build our fort.” Bowser replied. The three Koopas looked at each other before looking at the forest. “That’s all you need to do, you can go back through the Stargate again. Remember the end point will remain where it is, but it will essentially be useless unless we reactivate it.” And with that, the three Koopa Troopas jumped back into the portal. The upcoming storm, being six months into a promise, has finally begun.

Author's Note

This is the basis for Flurry Heart's armor, except in my story, ponies are plantigrade anthros and she has a shield with her. Please give hugs and kisses to the person who made that.

Heh, next step in Koopa conquest: build a fort.