Harmony and Heavy Metal

Celestia looked upon another fleet of troops ready to go to Las Pegasus to fend off another Changeling invasion. She looked at them with a sorrowful expression, she knew they were well trained for situations of castle and town deference, but they never prepared for all out war. Every day she looked upon the numbers, to many of her good soldiers have died on the battle field with a few of Chrysalis soldiers even being touched. "Tia, are you alright?" Luna asked from the doorway of Celestia's room.

Celestia simply shoke her head "No, you know how it feels to be sending all those soldiers to die out there. It's not the best feeling."

"Don't worry Celestia, as you always say, Harmony always wins." Luna said trying to cheer up Celestia.

Celestia only turned back to look out the balcony "I know, but this time, I can't believe that statement could cheer me up in the slightest at the moment. Look at them, most of our soldiers are either going to die or be mentally scarred from what they see. Guard!" Celestia called to the closest guard. "Bring me Shining Armour." The guard instantly complied and left the room.

"Why call in Shining Armour, he is busy with preparing for another invasion toward Manehatten." Luna said with a curious expression.

"I need to get a damage report, to see if we can still salvage anything from the latest invasion in Fillysburg." Celestia said as she lowered her head.

Luna looked at her sister, Celestia was on the verge of tears from the look of it, she could not help but feel empty at it all. Luna walked up to her sister and placed a hoof on her shoulder "Don't worry Tia, we should focus on other matters, you need to go to Las Pegasus to give a speech and bring up moral."

Celestia looked up to her sister "Even I don't feel the slightest bit of moral at the moment, how could I bring up the spirits of our soldiers." Celestia said with a groan.

Luna knew it was nearly impossible to cheer her sister up in situations like this, so she just sat there, running her hoof through Celestia's mane. "You wanted to see me Princess Celestia?"

Celestia turned to see Shining Armour standing in her doorway with a stone expression on his face "Yes, do you have the report for the latest invasion yet?" Celestia said as she rubbed her face.

"Not yet, most of the soldiers that came back from that... newly pronounced hell hole... didn't have sufficient statistics to bring, and we can't send a research team because the changelings have started a small fort there, it would be... in lighter words... suicide." Shining Armour said with a sigh.

Celestia looked on the verge of tears once more, ready to bawl onto her sisters chest. Celestia was hopping they would get a lucky break or some sort of miracle to happen, but it never came, with every passing day, she seemed ready to break one of the rules of her land, to bring another from another place to help in there war, and with mention of the fort at Fillysburg, she had enough.

"That is a shame." Celestia lowered her head once more "Shining Armour, how would you feel if you got a co-commander?" Celestia asked as she raised her head.

"What! Where in Equestria would you find someone as qualified as I." Shining Armour said with a hoof to his chest.

"Not in Equestria, but from another land."

"From where? The griffons would never help us, and there is no known civilization in the Bad Lands, so from where could you find another commander for me?" Shining Armour said as he rubbed his temple in thought.

"I have made a risky decision, I have chosen to summon another from another world to help us." Celestia said, still contemplating her thoughts of who this warrior might be.

"What! That is the most dangerous thing anypony could do! Remember the last time someone tried that, a whole city was nearly leveled!" Shining Armour said with worry.

"We have no other choice, if we don't do this, we would have to start to draft civilians to this war! And that is the last thing I want to do, so make preparations for a guest, we need to do this as fast as possible." Celestia said as she walked out of her room.

"Princess Celestia, this is to risky, what if we have another enemy come from... where ever you plan to pull a warrior from, what if he is just as bad as Chrysalis?!" Shining Armour called from Celestia's room.

"We have no other choice Shining! Of all the people to question my decision, I would never expect you to do such a thing." Celestia said as she entered the throne room. Shining Armour looked at her for a moment, questioning her decision. What sort of implications would this bring? He had no other time to think, he ran off around the castle, telling everyone to prepare for the worst.

Luna followed her sister to the throne room in hopes to change her mind, she knew how bad something like this could get if done incorrectly, and only one had ever attempted to do so, nearly leveled an entire city that was nearly destroyed in the process of trying to send... whatever the pony summoned back to where it came from, it was now illegal to bring other beings into Equestria after the incident.

"Tia, are you sure about this, I mean , we could always just... well no, that wouldn't work... what about-"

"Enough, I have made my decision and I am not going to change my mind at this point, I have already gained enough magic to summon anypony I want from anywhere, and I will most defiantly use it, I do not want to suffer another magic overload... now stand back." Celestia said as she made a portal appear in the throne room.

Luna flinched, it always took a massive amount of magic to bring another being from another into theirs, so the amount of magic Celestia was using would drain her for quite a while after the portal was opened.

"Celestia, are you sure about this!?" Shining Armour called from the entrance of the throne room.

"Very, now stand back, I have no idea what might come out of this portal and the last thing I need is a dead commander." Celestia said as she gritted her teeth. Shining Armour went to the entrance of the portal to wait for whatever might come out with an annoyed look.

...

Eddie Riggs was driving Deuce around the land of Heavy Metal, looking for something to keep him occupied. Would he race some other punk who claimed to have a faster car (Yeah right), or would he have another run in with some random enemy, or would he just relax his muscles with a nice cold beer back at Bladehenge. He would sit next to Ophelia and enjoy the sights and sounds of a small metal concert occupied only by his soldiers, he knew he never got any recognition for the war that they had won four months ago, Doviculus's head still adorned the small ornament on the hood of his car, and every time he would look at it, he could not help but think 'I helped an army do that shit.'. Eddie, as a roadie would never take credit for helping with anything, even at the party they had after they defeated Doviculus, he still let his dead partner Lars and his sister Lita take all the credit for what were his actions. 'All in a days work' Eddie thought as he speed down the small jungle where he found the metal beasts.

Eddie drove up over a small hill to find a small fleet of grave diggers marching pointlessly around. most likely looking for revenge. Eddie got a malicious grin on his face as he cranked up Love Dump by Static-x

All the grave diggers looked to see the large chrome car blasting away heavy metal music, they thought it was to upbeat, so they decided to destroy Eddies car to stop the foul noise. They all charged at the car in unison.

"Time to rock their worlds!" Eddie yelled as he hit the nitro and ran over several of the grave diggers and decapitating a couple of them as he swung his axe out the car door. As soon as Eddie turned to meet the group of grave diggers again, he jumped out of Deuce and ran into the group of diggers as he got ready to play his signature face melter.

The grave diggers all blocked their ears as Eddie pulled out Clementine and began to play the necessary notes to melt the very faces from these "Zombie Emo Bastards". As the final not was hit, all of the grave diggers grabbed their faces as they began to melt violently. Eddie did not cringe at the sight like he used to, now he was used to decapitations, melted faces, and even disembowelment.

As the group of grave diggers died horribly, he looked upon another sight that worried him, running in from all the commotion was a random jungle cat that began to shoot lasers out of its eyes. Eddie looked at it as a challenge, he ran and hopped back into Deuce as he prepared his lighting launcher. The jungle cat looked into right Eddies eyes as it began to charge at the vehicle, Eddie hit the nitro and charged at twice the speed the jungle cat was even attempting to run. "My grill will be your grave!" Eddie yelled as he shot lighting at the jungle cat. The jungle cat froze in shock as the lighting, giving Eddie ample time to run it over. As Deuce made contact with the skull of the jungle cat, Eddie suddenly found himself in... the color blue?

"Where the hell am I?!" Eddie yelled as he drove down the vortex. Eddie suddenly got a look of determination as he started to drive even faster that before "Alright Deuce, I don't know what the hell this thing is or where it's taking us, but you better make it count, got it?" Eddie said as he hit the nitro "LETS ROCK!"

...

"What is taking this thing so long? It should have made it by now!" Celestia said impatiently.

"Maybe it is better if whatever wouldn't come through-" Luna said before she was interrupted by Celestia's grunt from staining her magic.

"Princess Celestia, please don't strain yourself, the last thing we need is for you to tire yourself before you have to raise the sun." Shining Armour said in a caring voice.

"I know what I do Shining Armour, now leave me *grunt* be!" Celestia yelled as she felt a presence in the vortex "Shining Armour, move now before you get hit with whatever is coming through!"

"Wait, what did you say?!" Shining Armour called from the noise that was now present from the vortex.

"MOVE!"

"WhaAAAAAAAAAA" Shining Armour yelled as he felt a small amount of fire singe his tail as a very tricked out carriage flew above him and into the throne room and flew out the decorated window, shattering it.

"What in Equestria was that?!" Luna yelled as she looked upon a speeding carriage that completely destroyed the flower garden that adorned the front of the castle.

"It's heading right for the city!" Shining Armour yelled as he ran out of the throne room.

"Come sister, we must stop this monster!" Luna yelled as she turned to see her tired and worn out sister laying on the floor panting from exerting to much magic "Of all the thing that could happen today, why this?" Luna said as she flew out the window toward the carriage.

Meanwhile, in the eyes of our favorite roadie...

"What the hell was that?" Eddie said as he cleaned the colorful glass of him. He turned to look at whatever he might have hit, he looked at the overwhelmingly tall castle that he speed away from "Okay, really, where the hell am I?" Eddie said as he felt Deuce hit something else, he had destroyed a small gate that lead from the castle toward the city "Maybe I could get some answers over there." Eddie said as he placed his attention to the city before him.

"STOP FOUL BEAST!" Is all Eddie heard as he speed down the road toward the city, he looked back to see a... horse with wings and... a fucking horn?

"Foul beast my ass, have you seen yourself!" Eddie taunted as he flipped her the finger. He returned his attention to the road ahead, only to see he was about to run down another one of the horse things, he quickly turned fast enough to avoid the poor animal, only to crash through a building, totaling his best ride "Aww man, of all the times this could happen, why now?" Eddie asked in a disgruntled tone. He hopped out of the now destroyed Deuce and looked at the quivering family that sat around a table, they looked at Eddie like he was some sort of monster "Uh, hey there horsey people." Eddie said in a confused fashion as he waved at them. One pony fainted, and the other grabbed the smaller one and ran upstairs.

Eddie turned to leave the building, only to meet eyes with the horse he saw chasing him yelling at his car "HOW DARE YOU COME TO OUR KINGDOM AND ATTACK US!" Luna yelled as she bucked the car several times.

Eddie was on the verge of laughter as he saw his car being attacked and yelled at, it was really a funny sight in his mind, the car was still playing another random song by Ozzy Osbourne "Your looking at the wrong monster horse thing." Eddie said as he pointed at himself "I was the one who was driving Deuce, and she's a beauty, not a monster."

Luna turned to look at Eddie, what was this thing, and was it driving this... thing. She did not give it a second thought. she grabbed Eddie in her magic and started to hold him down. "YOU WERE THE ONE WHO CAUSED DAMAGE TO THESE POOR PONIES HOME!"

"Hold it, hold it, hold it, ponies, really?" Eddie said as he felt himself being pinned to the ground "And how the hell did I get here anyway?" Eddie said as he tried to break free from Luna's magical hold, but to no avail.

Luna took a second, she was about to yell at Eddie once more, before she realized he must just be confused and scared "Luna, let *cough* it go." Celestia said as she weakly landed next to her sister.

"Yeah, it would be nice to get back on my feet, maybe an explanation too?" Eddie said as he slowly raised his hand while still in Luna's magical hold.

"Right, sorry sister." Luna said as she dispelled her magic from around Eddie. Eddie shot up and pulled his axe from his back, prepared to defend himself.

"Now, which on of you is gonna get here and come get some?" Eddie said as he motioned them to attack.

Luna was about to launch herself at Eddie in a rage, before Celestia blocked her with her hoof "Please sister, give him a chance." Celestia then turned to Eddie "Sorry for my sisters behavior, she did not anticipate for our warrior to come here in such a... what is the thing you came in?" Celestia said weakly.

"Oh, you mean Deuce? Yeah, shes a speeding beauty, that's for sure." Eddie shoke his head for a moment "Wait, wait, wait, what the hell are you talking about "our warrior"?" Eddie asked with a confused tone.

"I have *cough* summoned you her to help my people with a *cough* war, we had to summon the best war commander in the universe, and you happen to be the one we were looking for." Celestia said as she forced a smile.

Eddie rubbed his chin for a moment 'The best war commander in the universe huh, nice.' Eddie thought as he looked at Celestia.

Eddie put his axe away and put his hand out to shake her... hoof? Celestia complied, and placed her hoof in his hand. Luna looked at him in disgust, he looked unwashed and scared beyond repair. "Might I ask for your name mister?"

Eddie pointed at himself and grinned "The names Riggs, Eddie Riggs."

"Well mister "Riggs", it's a pleasure to meet you." Celestia said as she gave a weak smile.

"So you need me for a war huh, i'm not sure I could even begin to help you without my road crew with me." Eddie said as he crossed his arms.

"Your "road crew'? What does that mean?" Luna asked as she glared at Eddie.

"Well, I guess you can call them my soldiers, but I can't do much without them ya know?" Eddie said as he sighed "So sorry, you think you can send me back now?"

Celestia looked at him with teary eyes "Please mister Riggs, I only ask you for your help, my species is at risk of mass extinction." Celestia said as she lowered her head.

Eddie looked at her with surprise "Damn, that blows, but I still can't do much without my road crew, so unless you can bring them to me, I can't do much. And even then, what the hell are we fighting and why?"

"We can brief you back at the castle, we can head there now." Celestia said as she started to flap her wings, before she fell to the ground.

"Sister, are you okay?" Luna asked as she approached her sister and nugged her in the neck with her muzzle.

"She doesn't look so hot, how about I help." Eddie said in a reassuring tone.

"How could you help, did you not crash your "Deuce" into that building?"

Eddie pulled out Clementine and prepared to summon another Deuce. "Watch this, it's gonna blow your damn mind." Eddie started to shred his guitar in the necessary fashion. Out of nowhere, another copy of Deuce popped from the thin air as the other one exploded away.

"What in the name of Equestria was that!" Luna yelled as Deuce appeared in front of her and her sister.

"I just dropped a Deuce." Eddie said with a chuckle "He he, that never gets old, now hop in." Eddie said as he walked toward Celestia.

"What? You expect me to go with you after you destroy town property!" Luna yelled at Eddie.

"Hey, it was an accident okay. And she sounded like she wanted my help." Eddie said as he pointed at the passed out Celestia..

"What are you doing?" Luna said as Eddie picked up Celestia.

"I'm gonna put her in Deuce and drive her up to the castle, is that okay?" Eddie said as he placed Celestia in the passenger seat.

Luna looked at him with a quizzical expression "Oh, go ahead then." Luna said as she flew next to the moving Deuce "Wait, why are you so quick to help us?"

"I know what it feels like to be the ass end of a war, and i'm willing to help." Eddie said as he remembered when he first made it to the land of heavy metal.

"I see, care to explain." Luna asked in a curious tone.

"Maybe later, right now we need to help your sister here." Eddie said as he speed past the destroyed castle gate. "Also, I want to say sorry for destroying alot in only five minutes of being here." Eddie said as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Tis okay, you were not aware of where you where." Luna said with a shy smile.

"Is this the place where I could park?" Eddie said as he hopped out of Deuce. Luna only gave him an unsure nod. Eddie then went to pick up Celestia in his arms and walked into the castle. "Were should we put her, you got a hospital or something?"

"Oh no, she only needs to regain her magic is all." Luna said as she lead Eddie through the castle.

Eddie whistled "Wow, nice place you... uh, does this happen often?" Eddie said in a worried tone as several guards pointed their spears at Eddie.

"Let her go, you horrid beast." Came a demanding voice from the group.

"Shining Armour, please behave yourself, he is the one Celestia summoned and he is willing to help!" Luna called from above.

"This is the thing Celestia summoned?" Shining Armour asked with a confused tone.

"Yeah, that's me, what of it?" Eddie said in an minorly annoyed tone "Why else would I be carrying her to...  where are we taking her?" Eddie said as he kicked the ground.

"We shall take her to her room, and Shining Armour, tell your men to stand down." Shining Armour reluctantly complied and raised his hoof, calling off the attack.

"Thanks man, now if you excuse me." Eddie said as he passed around a couple guards.

"Oh, and Shining Armour, prepare the guest room for Eddie here, he shall stay in the castle for the night." Luna said with a smile.

"Sweet, never slept in a castle before, hell, I have been sleeping in Deuce for the passed nine months. Shes a good car, but a crappy bed." Eddie said as he started to ascend up the stairs in Luna's lead.

"Wait, you intend to give this thing the guest room!" Shining Armour said with worry.

"Yes, of course, he was invited her by Princess Celestia herself, and she would be very upset if she found out you were mistreating one of her guests." Luna said in a matter of fact manor. Shining Armour only grumbled as he walked off to inform the servants and other castle workers of the new guest they now have to cater to that wasn't a pony.

"So tell me pony thing, one minute you were going to stab me with that horn of yours... and now you're suddenly okay with me?" Eddie asked still unsure of the Princess's motives.

Luna only gave an unsure look "Tis not that I trust you, but my sister seems to be fine with your presence." Luna said as she looked toward her sister cradled in Eddies arms "And you seem nice, considering you chose to carry my sister all the way to her room without an introduction... Oh my, where are my manors. I am Princess Luna, and my sister is Princess Celestia, and we are the protectors of Equestria, we are the raisers of the sun and the moon." Luna said in a confident tone.

Eddies eyes went wide "Wait, you raise the..." Eddie took a second to look over Luna to know which one she raised "Moon, right... and she raises the sun? Why the hell do you need my help, she can lift the sun for fucks sake!"

"Well, us ponies are not a war like species, so with our current war with the changelings, we are losing our war." Luna said as she lowered her head "We cannot continue to use our current strategy, but so far no one can come up with a better strategy, so right now, the only thing we can do is defend our cities."

"Well, I can see your problem, but without my road crew, I really can't help." Eddie said as he moved Celestia to one arm as he rubbed the back of his head.

"I do think that could be a problem, for Celestia's magic would take a massive toll if she were to bring an entire army to our land-" Luna was interrupted by Eddie raising his hand.

"All it is, is a large ass tour bus, all of my soldiers can come through at once without a problem, and our other play things can be built here in... "Equestria" right?" Eddie said as he lowered his hand.

"Yes that is our lands name, and what is a 'large ass tour bus'?" Luna asked with a hoof on her chin.

Eddie couldn't help but chuckle at her saying 'large ass tour bus' he did not take her for one to use profanity. "It's what is used to take my road crew out and about around the land of heavy metal."

"The land of heavy metal?" Luna asked with a curious expression.

"It's the place I 'came from'." Eddie said as he formed quotations with his fingers.

"i see, I hope you don't mind my saying, but why do you call it that?" Luna said as she removed her hoof from her chin.

"Because there" Eddie said as he pulled Clementine from his back "All you need for some magic is a little rock." Eddie said as he placed Clementine back on his back.

'You have magic in your land as well?"

"Yeah, but only those who know the ways of heavy metal can use magic." Eddie said as he puffed his chest.

Luna was curious "Use music for magic, how odd."

"Hey, at least I don't have weird horn sticking out of my head!" Eddie snapped back. Luna looked at him with an annoyed look.

Luna gave only a small sigh "Yes... well... here is Celestia's room, if you would please place her on her bed, in the morning she will awaken with her powers completely regenerated." Luna said in a reassured tone. Eddie then proceeded to lightly toss her onto her bed and placed her blankets over her. "Let us allow her to rest, she still has to debrief you and teach you about Equestrian facts." Luna said from the doorway. Eddie was already exiting Celestia's room, before another question plagued her "Eddie, I can't help but notice how calm you are about traveling from your world to ours."

Eddie only grinned "It's not the first time, and after you've seen some of the stuff I have, almost nothing is weird anymore." Eddie said as he brushed some lose hairs from Celestia of his clothing.

"Wait, you have traveled from a different world before?" Luna asked in shock. She had never heard of someone traveling from several worlds more than once.

"Yeah, did I forget to mention that?" Eddie said as he ran a hand through his hair.

"No, how about you explain yourself better than you have already Mister Riggs." Luna said in a stern voice.

Eddie only yawned "How about tomorrow, I'm beat, and if I could know where that guest room is, I would really appreciate it." Eddie said as he looked around.

"Down the hall to the left, the door at the end of the smaller hallway should be it." Luna said as she started to walk away.

"Wait, what if I got to take a shit?" Eddie asked with a half-serious expression.

Luna looked at him with confusion "I beg your pardon?"

"You know, the bathroom?" Eddie asked as his legs buckled.

Luna faced hoofed "There should be one in the room."

"Thanks!" Is all Eddie yelled before he burst into his room for the night. He slowly stopped in the middle of the room to look for the door that lead into the bathroom, as he spotted his target, he ran full force into the room and looked for a toilet, but to no avail, he only spotted some sort of small hole on the ground with a drawer and sink next to it and a shower to the other side of it. Eddie looked at the hole and started to think how this would work "This is going to be a long night." Eddie said as he sighed.

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