THE SYMBOL OF PEACE

Fred's POV

I let out a tired sigh as we rode the train to Ponyville, exhausted after my fight with the Changelings and Chrysalis, which is saying a lot since I fought the likes of Beast Killer, who I'm pretty sure could compete with Nomu. Then again there was basically an army of Changelings, "You okay Fred?" Twilight asked me, snapping me out of my thoughts. I nodded my head in response to her question.

"Yeah, just a bit tired is all." I said, giving her a tired smile. "Between running all the way to Canterlot, fighting Changelings and Queen Chrysalis and her venom, I'm pretty exhausted. Plus I'm still working on the Quirk book, but I'm nearly done with that, just need a few more all nighters."

"You shouldn't push yourself too hard dear. It would be a pain later if you have to fight again but are too exhausted to do so." Rarity said, causing the others to agree with her, even me, if another threat appeared and I was too exhausted...I shudder at what could happen. I then let out a tired yawn, which I just realized how tired I am!

"Yeah, I guess you're right. I could probably use some sleep." I said, rubbing my eye when everything started to get a bit blurry.

"You can go ahead and sleep Fred, you earned it after the big fight you had." Twilight said, giving me a smile, which I returned with my own.

"Thanks Twilight." I said then leaned back against my seat and closed my eyes to try and get some sleep after today's events.

Fire, everything was on fire. Everywhere I look, there is always fire and rubble. "What is going on?" I asked no one as I looked around, then I heard movement behind me, making me turn to see someone rising from the rubble of a house, their form shadowed by the flames behind them, making two horn like protrusions on the sides of their heads as well as their glowing eyes visible. I immediately went into my Hero Form, getting into a fighting stance. "Who are you?! What is going on here?!" I asked the figure, only to receive no answer as the figure kept staring at me. "I ask again, who are you?!" I shouted, this time, the figure started to chuckle as energy flared around them, lightning coming off their body. Then they said only one thing.

"Tekken no junbi." they said, before charging at me and punching my injured side, causing me to shout in pain.

I let out a surprised shout as I woke up, eyes wide and looking in every direction. "Fred? Are you alright?" I heard someone say, making look in their direction, seeing Twilight and the others looking at me in confusion and concern. "What's wrong?" Twilight asked me, I let out a sigh and realized I had stood up and was in my Hero Form. I sat back down while changing into my civilian form.

"I'm fine, just had a nightmare. Nothing to worry about." I told them, holding my head as the nightmare was fresh in my memory.

"Must have been some nightmare if it made you go hero." Rainbow said, making me nod in agreement.

"Yeah, it also felt so real too. There was a building on fire, then there was a strange figure. They had two horns on the side of their head, and energy flared around them. What's even weirder was what they said." i said.

"And what is that dear?" Rarity asked,

"Tekken no junbi." I replied, closing my eyes, wondering what it means.

"That sounds like Japonese." Twilight said, making me raise an eyebrow at her. "What?"

"Nothing." I replied, then asked, "So what does Tekken no jubi mean?"

"Hmmm, not sure, my Japonese is a little rusty, I'll have to look it up at the library, if I find out what Tekken no junbi means, I'll let you know." Twilight said, causing me to nod,

"Thanks, cause frankly, that nightmare seemed too real for comfort." I said while shaking my head, the punch to my side certainly felt real too, as well as the pain form said hit. I then realized I had subconsciously held my side where my nearly healed injury was, I glanced around and removed my hand from my side. Then I heard the train whistle, signaling we are coming to a stop soon. "Looks like we're nearly at Ponyville." I said,

"Yep, home at last." Rainbow Dash said just as the train stopped and we got up and got off the train. "Well, I better get going. I got some important business to attend to."

"Ya mean ya want to take a nap." Applejack said, causing some of us to chuckle,

"Yeah, so what? I can use a nap after everything that's happened." Rainbow Dash said, then flew off. "See ya!"

"Well, I must be off as well, I got a few dresses to make for a client. Oh and Fred, are you still able to train Sweetie Belle? If so, I'll be bringing her by later." Rarity said,

"Well, the princesses didn't say anything about me not training anyone to properly use their Quirks, so yeah, I might be able to train her again." I said Rarity making her smile.

"Oh good, ever since she's started training her Quirk with you, she hasn't been breaking any fragile items, well, mostly anyway. I'll see you later dear." Rarity said, then walked off. Everyone else minus Twilight and Spike said their goodbyes and left.

I turn to Twilight, "Guess you'll be escorting me home then, with you being my warden and all that." I said to her,

"Yeah, sorry." Twilight said, a frown on her face.

"Eh, it's fine, I kinda figured there would be consequences to my actions. At least me protecting Chrysalis part." I said, thinking back to the Changeling Queen before shaking my head, "Anyway, let's get going, I still got a book to write."

Twilight nodded before the three of us started to head to my home, passing by some ponies as we did, each one of them waving or thanking me for all I've done for them. Eventually we ran into the sirens, who had several bandages around the places where the Diamond Dogs had stabbed them when they were used as weapons. "Hey, Fred right?" Adagio asked me, I nodded my head.

"Yep, that's me." I replied, then the three hugged me,

"We never got a chance to say thanks for saving us from those meanie Diamond Dogs." Sonata said as the three of them released me from the hug, "I thought we were gonna be used as weapons for the rest of our lives."

"You're very welcome. I can't stand seeing others being used like that." I said to them, causing them to smile, well Adagio and Sonata smiled, Aria just had the frown on her face. "By the way, Sonata said something about you wanting to have me with you when you apologize to Celestia about all the things you did?"

"Ah yes, that." Adagio said, a nervous look on her face, "Our time in another world, where magic is scarce which made us extremely weak, has actually gave us some time to think of our actions in the past." the other two nodded their heads in agreement before Twilight got our attention.

"Maybe we can walk and talk, cause All Might here kinda needs to get back home so he can rest." Twilight said, reminding me of how exhausted I was.

"Probably a good idea." I said before we began walking through the town, as we did I turned to the Sirens, "So you thought about what you did back in the past?"

Adagio nodded her head, "Yes, we did. We also tried thinking of other ways to obtain power so we can continue singing."

"It's kinda one of our favorite things to do." Aria said next, which made me raise an eyebrow in confusion.

"Well why can't you just sing without making everyone angry and stuff." I asked them.

"Siren magic doesn't work that way. It's in our nature to cause mayhem and anger with our singing." Adagio replied, "Which ultimately led us to be banished from Equestria by Starswirl the Bearded."

"I see. Hmmm." I held my chin in thought, thinking of how to help the sirens. "This is difficult, then again, I'm not much of a expert on magic. Maybe you can help Twilight?" I asked the unicorn, who nodded her head.

"I'll see what I can do. But I'll have to ask Celestia and Luna for help if I have trouble with something." Twilight said, and I can see that the sirens had hopeful looks on their faces. "But, there might be a chance that I might not find anything to help you." this caused the sirens to have worried looks instead so I decided to speak up.

"Hey, don't worry, I'm sure there is a way to help you with your situation." I said to them,

"You think so?" Sonata asked me, and I nodded in reply.

"Yeah. Even if she doesn't find anything, there's still others who might know something." I told them, making them smile, 'Maybe I should ask them if they would like to do hero work until Twilight can find something to help them? Nah, probably a bit too soon to suggest that.' I thought to myself as I see my home up ahead, with Ruby currently talking with a familiar Changeling. "Hey Ruby! I see you met Thorax!" I called out to the Genesect. "How have you two been?"

Both Ruby and Thorax turned to look at me as we walk up to the house, Thorax hiding behind Ruby when he saw Twilight, who had a shocked look on her face. "Hi Fred. And we've been doing fine, just mostly talking." Ruby replied, before looking at Twilight, "And please don't report him to the princesses, he didn't do anything wrong."

"Well I, er, um." Twilight stammered, trying to find words and causing me to chuckle a bit. "I have to at least tell Celestia about him, but I might try asking her to at least go easy on him, but that's gonna be hard considering he was involved in the invasion."

"I-I understand." Thorax said while nodding his head.

"But I'm sure that Celestia will go easy on you, considering you helped save ponies after you decided to against Chrysalis." Twilight said, causing Thorax to smile a bit.

"That's good to hear, I-I think." Thorax said, then had a uncertain look on his face. I chuckled a bit before yawning, catching everyone's attention.

"Oh! Sorry Fred, I forgot that you exhausted after the invasion." Twilight said in concern.

"It's fine Twi, I'll just head inside and get some sleep, you can talk with Thorax and the others." I said as I walked to the door.

"Alright, goodnight Fred." Twilight said, with the others saying goodnight to me as well, causing me to smile a bit before heading inside.

I didn't bother with going to my room and just fell face first onto the couch, letting out a exhausted sigh as I did. "Man, what a day. How did All Might and other heroes handle being a hero all the time?" I asked no one as I let out another yawn as I felt myself going to sleep, "I'll think more on it later." then sleep claimed me.

3rd POV

Cups clanked together as ponies laughed and cheered, "I'm telling ya Braeburn. Nothing beats a good cup of apple cider!" a stallion, who is better known as Sheriff Silverstar, said to Braeburn.

Braeburn merely smiled and nodded his head. "Agreed partner, especially after a hard day of work out in the orchard." Braeburn said, drinking his own cup of cider, he also noticed the sheriff had a newspaper next to him, the headline reading.

Equestria's New Hero All Might!!

NEW HERO

Below the headline were two pictures of Fred, one of him fighting Discord, the other was him fighting the Diamond Dogs. "Hey, ain't that that new hero everypony is talking about?" Braeburn asked, causing the stallion to look at the newspaper and nod but before he could say anything, they heard a commotion outside.

"What in tarnation is going on?" Sheriff Silverstar asked as he and Braeburn walked out of the tavern, just as a pony went flying in front of them, surprising the two, "What the?!" the two then looked in the direction where the pony was sent flying from, seeing a large crowd trying to fight something and losing.

"What do you reckon is going on over there?" Braeburn asked his companion as they ran over to the brawl,

"No clue, but whatever it is, it messed with the wrong ponies." Silverstar said as the two reached the brawl, only to become shocked when they see several ponies be sent flying by just one creature! "What in the name of Celestia?" Silverstar asked in shock as he and Braeburn watched the creature take on several ponies at once, not even breaking a sweat.

"What in the name of Celestia? That thing is taking out all those ponies like they're nothing." Breaburn said in shock, just as the creature punched a pony in the jaw, sending them crashing to the ground.

"Well that won't stand! I'm taking down this varmint right now!" Silver Star said before charging at the creature, Breaburn following him. The creature turned its head and seemed to smirk. "Take this you no good varmint!!" but Silver Stars fist was grabbed by the creature before it was crushed, causing him to shout in pain before he was kicked in the gut.

Silver Star shouts in pain again as he fell to the ground, holding his gut in pain, "Sheriff!" Breaburn shouted as he ran over to the sheriff of Appleloosa. "Are you alright?!"

"I-I'm fine. That varmint is a lot stronger than it looks." Silver Star said, still holding his gut in pain, Breaburn looked back at the creature, who was walking towards one of the buildings before placing some sort of poster on it then walked away. Everyone in Appleloosa watched as it just walked out of town, no one wanting to stop it less they want get beaten again.

Once it was gone everyone looked at the building where the poster was before walking towards it, on it were four words.

Tekken no junbi o!

"Um, anybody know what this says?" a pony asked receiving no's in response.

"Hey, there's something else under it," Breaburn said as he looked at the words under the sentence. "Prepare for-"

Fred's POV

I opened my eyes, waking up from the odd dream? No, it wasn't a dream, that much was certain, it was way too real to be a dream or a nightmare. It was a vision.

But...

"A vision of what exactly?" I asked myself.