Darkness Rises when Silence Dies

Over the everfree forest near Ponyville

“My Lord, we are now over the township known as “Ponywille” reports indicate that this is where Princess Twilight resides” One of Scorch’s Praetorians explained

“ “Ponyville” what the bloody tartarus kinda name is that? You know what! feck it! prepare the vertibyrds let’s make this snappy why don’t we” Scorch retorted

“ What the Buck!” Spike exclaimed

“Language!” Twilight said scolding spike

“ It’s a giant flying island!” Spike exclaimed

“I thought he said he’d only be bringing a few dozen soldiers” Rarity said

Helicopter noises emerge in the distance

“What in tarnation!” Applejack explained as a pair of vertibyrds emerged from the island

“That must be Arch Hortate Scorch” Starlight said

A large crowd of ponies started to gather in front of Twilight’s castle

The vertibyrds began to descend as they approached Twilight’s castle

“Oh boy oh boy I wonder how many ponies could fit in those things thirty forty!” Pinkie exclaimed thinking of the size of the parties she could through

“Brother it would appear that a large crowd has gathered at our destination” Deus Ex explained

“Damn, Praetorians!” Scorch exclaimed

Scorch’s praetorians turn to him when we land you are to form a shield wall around me and my brothers we cannot be seen

The vertibyrds land a group of black arnored guards pour out forming a path through the crowd

“Uh what ur they doin’?” Applejack asked

“I guess their his bodyguards” Twilight suggested

After all the guards are done
A finale group of six stallions emerge from from the two Vertibirds

The first one was tall and muscular, solid black with a dark blue mane. He dressed in frontier esk attire with a large duster and bowler hat atop his head. He looked to be in his 30s to 40s and whiskers adorned his face. He had a rectangular scar on his right cheek as if that patch of skin had been removed. His were steel grey far older than his body. He was the Gunslinger

The Second to emerge was much shorter than the first and wore a far more modern black jacket with a thick scarf looking more akin to something from Spike’s japanese comic books, He was a pale grey with mane as black as the night, His right arm unlike his left which rested at his side, was rigid and stiff suggesting a prosthetic, His eyes were bright orange almost like lights a stark contrast to his body, He had no visible scars just a cold glare. He was the Cyberpunk

The next stallion was visibly much more flamboyant than the first two he leapt out of the vertibird, He was snow white and his mane spiked and dyed like a rainbow. He wore a bright blue suit and sunglasses. He had several piercings and maintained a blissful stride. He was the Playcolt

The fourth to emerge was brown like a tree trunk and his mane like spring leave, He wore an equstrailian cowboy hat and a bomber jacket. He had yellow wolfish eyes. He was roughly the same height as the first and walked just as slow. He had two scars slashed across his left cheek and a gun at his side, he wore a hunting knife on string like a necklace. There was a slight grin across his face. He was the Hunter

The last two were much more distinct then the first four one wore a button up black long coat with a green scarf The other wore an open black leather trench coat over a red nuka cola tee shirt and a pair of surprisingly shiny jeans.The one in the long coat was a bright white with a green and gold mane and was quite handsome despite this he kept his head down and seem almost sheepish like he didn’t want to be their. The one in leather had a mane like fire no not like fire of fire his hair was blaze his coat was an ashy gray, a cigar rested in his mouth and his face had an unnatural look to it as did the other stallions’. They were The Twins.

The six made their way through the path and into Twilight’s castle without so much as a grunt when the door behind them finally shut, the twin in leather let out a sigh of relief

“Huh, Thank Faust that’s over” he said as he snapped his fingers revealing his true draconic appearance namely a set of horns atop his head, scales on his face, and a green gem on his horn.

“Uh What the hays goin on?” Rainbow asked

“Frumentarii!” scorch shouted and a few of the guards ran up to him and stood at attention

“Find a large room with a large table and lay out all the intelligence we’ve collected, praetorians secure the castle if anyone tries to get in” he glances at Twilight “stop nonlethally” he said begrudgingly

“Excuse me Scorch is it? I would like…” Twilight started

“Thunder you got the blow darts?” Scorch asked in Horse

“ Exy said he finished rigging the syringer to your wrist blade” Thunder replied in horse

“Gotchya” Scorch replied in horse

“What?” Twilight asked

Starlight tried to talk to the other twin

“Could you talk to us?” she asked

“I don’t know Equestrian’’ he replied in horse sign language

“Guess you can’t talk to anypony” Starlight replied

“What are you saying?” He replied anxiously

“‘course they don’t speak ponyish they’s foreign ain’t they” Applejack said

“Hey Scorch, considering we’re using her house as a base of operations, you think you wanna give her the time of day” Thunder said

“Urgh fine” Scorch said rolling his eyes

“Greetings Princess I’m Scorch Ember and these are my brothers, Blizzard, Deus Ex, Dragon mist, Thunder Storm, and Wild Hunt, we’re hunting a traitor anything else you need to know” Scorch explained frustrated

“Actually yes, what did this traitor due to warrant the “Arch Hortate” to come all the way to Equestria to find them” Starlight replied

“Huh Thunder can you” Scorch started in horse

“Yeah I got it” Thunder replied”

“Alright , So first some context about four thousand years ago there was a technologically advanced civilization known as the Deep deer they were so advanced they keep entire libraries inside small data cubes called Lexions almost like modern flash drives” Thunder explained

“Makes sense” Twilight replied

“Well about a 130ish years ago a british archeologist by the name of Robert Jackson discovered one after exploring a dwarven ruin, when the Legion guides examined it, it appeared to corrupted and unusable, so when Jackson asked if he could keep as a souvenir unfortunately for him the guides were wrong so when he opened it…” Thunder fell silent

“ W-What happened?” Fluttershy asked meekly

“The lexion had been used to contain a dark power and by opening that power was unleashed into Victorian London the resulting tragedies...”

“Oh great another villain” Rainbow dash said under her breath

“...are known today as the Whitechapel murders”

“Wait! You don’t mean?”

“Eventually we travelled to London and put a stop to the madness and returned it to the Lexion, but not before it started a cult following one that would cause pain and suffering throughout Nirnequus” Thunder explained

“So what yer sayin’ is that this feller your after is part uh that there cult” Applejack replied

“I’m saying he stole it and is now actively working with the cults remnants in a nearby castle, in an effort to raise that god” Thunder explained

“But we’re gonna feck his shite long before that happens, Ain’t we Thunder!” Scorch says from the doorway to the throneroom

“Hel yeah We are!” Thunder yelled back

“Come on, we’ll need your help gettin’ this som’bitch” Thunder said

“Well I guess that time of year again” Twilight said

“You said it Twi” Applejack said enthusiastically