Twilight's friends were frozen in place, their mouths agape, staring at the two codexes.

Most of their information applied more to the game than the lore, but what little there was painted a most morbid picture.

The Orks were everything Aries claimed them to be. The only thing that they learned from EG Rainbow Dash's codex was the names of significant Orks threatening the Imperium today, along with the battles they were fighting.

Everypony found the beasts deeply disturbing, since the absolute nicest of their kind can only be compared to Diamond Dogs and the meaner Dragons.

This was especially disturbing for Rarity, who declared the Orks to be the enemy of everything she stood for...until they discussed the Dark Eldar.

The Orks were not the enemy of Rarity's ideals, they were simply their absence...but the Drukhari were their perversion.

They were the most opposite of the Changelings, where the Changelings fed on love, Drukhari fed on despair. And where the Changelings abandoned their wicked ways at the first opportunity, the Dark Eldar enjoyed their cruelty.

Where the Orks had made war into a sport, the Dark Eldar had made torture into an art.

The stunned silence was only broken by sniffles as Fluttershy began to weep. "...that...that poor thing....how could they?..."

Rainbow Dash draped a wing over her eldest friend. "It's...it's okay. He's alright now. We can help him."

"...But should we?" All eyes turned to Rarity, who immediately threw her hooves up in defense. "I-I mean, don't get me wrong. It's horrible what those ghastly heathens did to him, but...do we really want him to...return to normal?"

Most were uncertain, but Fluttershy was not. "Rarity, I understand what you're saying, but even if this Ork decides that he wants to be evil...that's his choice. And we have to respect that."

Rarity was about to argue that, but Fluttershy put a hoof up and continued. "If he chooses to be evil, we will stop him. He's only as strong as the average Earth Pony, I don't believe that he's a Weirdboy, and unless he came from the Blood Axe klan, he isn't going to be interested in making plans...Besides, it's a little too late to prevent Orks from becoming a part of Equestria...unless we set my Sanctuary on fire."

The group was confused by this at first, but their eyes widened to pinpoints when they realized she was referring to the Ork's method of reproduction: shedding spores from his skin that grow in the ground until they emerge as fully grown Orks looking for a fight.

"So...I guess...befriending the Orks is our only option." Twilight voiced out loud.

"Oh, Aries is going to love this." Rainbow Dash said sarcastically, knowing that he was probably going to declare war if they didn't let him kill the Ork...which they just couldn't do.

"Well, now that we know what we're not doin', does anypony know what we're gonna do?" Applejack asked her friends.

"Hmm, well I don't think a party will work, unless I convert my Party Cannon to use Dakka, but maybe if...OOOHH!!! WE CAN TURN HIM INTO A DRAGON!!" Pinkie Pie shouted, much to her friends' confusion.

"...and how would we do that?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Well duh, we already decided that the nicest Orks were like the meanest of Dragons, so let's teach him how to be a Dragon so he'll be a nice Ork." Pinkie Pie explained like it was obvious...and now that her friends knew she was being figurative, it was.

"Pinkie Pie...that's...THAT'S GENIUS!!" Twilight shouted, causing the party pony to smile with an audible 'squee'.

"Okay, so our best bet is to show him how Dragons have a good time and hope he doesn't take it overboard...eh, we've pulled off more half-baked plans than that." Rainbow Dash observed.

"CUE THE MONTAGE!!" Pinkie Pie shouted while hitting the Play button on a boombox.

Fluttershy

Fluttershy presents the codexes to the Ork. Upon seeing his subtle reaction, and reading it as an expectation of strife, Fluttershy put a calming hoof on the Ork before explaining what she and her friends had decided.

Applejack

Applejack had a few burned trees left over from the Awakening that she had been meaning to get rid of after rebuilding the farm. So she figured letting the Ork chop them down would be a good baby step.

The Ork looked at the ax in his hand as if had been handed a child's toy gun to fight a war, but nonetheless did as he was told.

He charged the first tree and swung, the ax-head buried into the tree...and broke off. Fearing punishment for failure of his task, the Ork immediately grabbed the tree and pulled it from the ground and tossed it aside before charging the next one.

Applejack and Fluttershy looked on wide-eyed as scorched trees flew through the air, one smashing a stray cart, and another tearing away a large cluster of fruit-heavy branches from a healthy tree.

Rainbow Dash

It surprised nopony that Rainbow Dash gravitated towards the Evil Suns klan, (which Twilight realized was the Ork army used by the athletic Pegasus' human counterpart) or that she wanted to give this Ork a taste of speed as well.

To this end Rainbow Dash found the wreck of the Derby Racer cart from the race she, Rarity, and Applejack almost accidentally ruined for their younger sisters a while back and rebuilt it, painted red.

She sat the Ork in the passenger seat and took off down the streets of Ponyville...without having warned anypony first.

It didn't take long for the high speed cruise to become a frantic race between reckless driver and innocent pedestrians, and while Rainbow was able to avoid hurting somepony, she couldn't prevent a crash.

Rainbow Dash pulled herself out of the wreckage and shook the stars out of her vision. She looked for the Ork to see if he was alright, and saw holding one of his teeth...and smiling about it.

The smile disappeared when he realized that he had no pockets to hold his tooth in, and having no other way to keep it...he ate it.

Pinkie Pie

Ponyville's local party pony wasn't willing to turn her party cannon into a lethal weapon, but whatever else the Orks were, they were fun loving. With this in mind, she decided to ask some Dragons what they do for fun.

Smolder was still coping with the tragic events involving her brother and Ember, so Pinkie Pie ended up enlisting two members of Aries' PDF: Blaze and Inferno.

The Dragon couple set up an obstacle course of rocks and trees and other things for the Ork to test it's strength on.

After showing him how it's done, the Ork was unleashed upon the obstacles...or so they thought.

Unfortunately, Dragons are a bit stronger than Ork Boyz. And the Ork was only able to move half of the obstacles. To make matters worse, he once more came to expect punishment for failure and started to panic, attacking the unmovable obstacles with such ferocity that he was hurting himself.

Fluttershy immediately rushed to the Ork's side and calmed him down, and was astounded to see that his wounds were already healing with only the deepest leaving scars so faint, they were practically invisible next to the deeper scars adorning his body.

Rarity

Rarity and the Ork were behind a curtain. Fluttershy couldn't hide how nervous she was, she knew that Rarity absolutely despised the way Orks clothed themselves, and she also knew that the Ork was likely to hate anything that Rarity tried to dress him in, but Rarity had assured her that she would dress him as 'a stylish savage'.

Fluttershy had no idea what that meant...until the curtain parted.

The Ork was dressed head to toe in studded black pleather beginning with a bandana and ending in studded pleather boots.

The Ork's expression showed that he found the spiky studs to be too small, but otherwise, he liked it.

There was something else in his expession, but Fluttershy couldn't quite make it out. If Pinkie Pie were there with her, then she would've explained that his expression clearly stated that he had just developed the spontaneous urge to paint his skin white, fly into outer space on a rocket powered motorcycle, and call everyone a bastich.

Twilight Sparkle

Twilight thought long and hard about how to help this Ork, but in the end, there wasn't much she could do for...it hit her like a freight train, he needs a name.

After looking over the Ork codex again, she realized that Ork were very similar to pony names in that they primarily served to highlight the Ork/pony's identity.

And so, when Fluttershy brought the Ork to her castle, she asked the Pegasus to gauge the Ork's reaction to different names.

Unfortunately, all of Twilight's choices sounded more like pony names with an Orkish accent. (Tree-Shaka, Leatha-Face, Car-Raca, etc)

And then Twilight asked. "Well, do you want to pick your own name?"

END OF MONTAGE

The Ork looked over at a mirror in Twilight's castle, and slowly traced a finger across one of his scars.

...Slave...Plaything...Mon'Keigh. These are the only names he has ever known...and one other.

"...Greenskin." The ponies started at the raspy guttural voice, it was the first time he had spoke.

"Huh, G-Greenskin? Isn't that another name for your race?" Twilight asked.

"When dem Drukhari Gitz called me dat, it remoinded me dat I waz still an Ork...dey stopped when dey figured dat out... it's been a loooong toime...since I felt loike an Ork...even a wimpy one who don' wanna foight." The Ork, Greenskin, lamented.

Twilight had to struggle not breathe a sigh of relief when he said that he didn't want to fight. Fluttershy, however, stepped forward with a look of pity on her face.

"You're safe here. I don't know if you'll ever believe me but it's true, nocreature is going to hurt you here." No sooner had Fluttershy said this...did Aries walk in.

Author's Note

Welp, there's my first attempt at a montage...and probably my last.

Yeah, I could've done a whole arc about Greenskin(temporary name) fitting in with Equestria, but the next two or three chapters is going to be about Aries overcoming the doubt Sombra placed in his heart, followed by a retelling of Frenemies...and then we get to the good stuff.

And before anyone bites me over Mon'Keigh, that is not the Elder word for humans, it actually translates to 'lower lifeforms', basically making it the Eldar equivalent of Xenos.

That's...all I got for right now, If you can guess the DC reference, you win an Internet cookie.