It’s been roughly about an hour or so since Twilight has started to interview the humans, and in that short amount of time the unicorn has learned quite a lot from the them, even getting to know each of the members a bit better. It was hard and sad to hear about how they were all abandon by their families, and how they had to live on the run when everyone else found out about their powers. Twilight was also heartbroken to hear that where the humans are from, that people that are the same as them are ostracized and feared because of their powers, and are treated like monsters. And are even sought out and killed to ensure that they couldn’t get the chance to abuse their powers. But it was ridiculous! Why should people be imprisoned, or even killed, just because they have special powers and might have a chance to use them for evil intent, instead of encouraging them in using them for good. Aside from the humans backgrounds and how they eventually met up, Twilight learned more things about the human world at least the good qualities that the group tried to focus on, and from everything she was being told the human race certainly has made some amazing advancements.

“Alright gentlecolts I think we can stop here for now; I really do appreciate you all agreeing to this.” Twilight said as she started to pack up her scrolls, inkwells, and quills, and while the mare was packing up she was happy that the six humans were actually being comfortable around her so much, so they were actually loosening up and being more friendly.

“You know I thought you all would be far more reserved when I asked you to this interview, but you’ve all have been very cooperative.”

“It's not that hard to think about it.” Circus said as he juggles an apple around. “When it comes to humans it takes a bit for us to open up, but it helps when we’re talking to a pleasant person. Also, it’s hard not to when we have a cute girl to talk to.” Circus said with a sly grin and a small chortle, which caused Twilight to blush and get flustered as she almost fumbled with an inkwell.

“Circus, stop messing with her.” Wave said with a small smile as he looked to the blushing mare. “Sorry about Circus’s little joke Twilight, he likes to think he’s the funny man of the group.” The unicorn shook her head as she tried to calm down.

“No it’s fine. I’m just not used to being called, c-cute is all.” Circus was about say something but a stern look from the others made him stop.

While the humans started talking amongst themselves, and Twilight was recovering from her little blush she started to take note of the humans personality as they all talked. Plasma was one of the three more relaxed and composed of the group, but he also seemed the more reserved member of the six. At least that’s what Twilight could glean from the human. Steel was like Plasma in being fairly relaxed and composed, but he did seem to have more boisterous moments when he really gets talking. Wave was certainly the most friendlier and more outgoing of the group, and Twilight peg him as the most dependable one of the group, there was just this air around him that gave the unicorn that sense. Circus was obviously the joker of the group, probably why he picked the name he now used, but he was a delight to talk to always trying to show the bright side to most of the stuff that was discussed. Snap was the third relaxed and calmer member of the group, but he did seem a little shy as he didn’t talk as much as the others. Then there was the last member Burner, and while he was as talkative and engaging with Twilight, something about the way he spoke and acted gave Twilight an impression of just being angry or annoyed. Whether it was true or not would have to be cleared up later.

Just as Twilight finished packing her saddlebag, and the humans were just chatting with each other, something came slipping from under the closed doors of the dining hall. A wisp of smoke came flying into the room, wafting its way over to the table where it materialized into a scroll, and floated in front of the violet unicorn.

“Whoa! What was that?” Plasma asked as he looked at the scroll that Twilight caught in her magic.

“It’s a letter from Ponyville.” Twilight simply stated.

“But how did it get here?” Steel asked as he looked at the door, expecting to see something else to just come and fly in.

“I have an assistant in Ponyville who can send messages from where he is, to any pony that he knows after using his fire breath.” Twilight said as she un-rolled the scroll and started to read it. But as she started to read what was on the parchment, her expression quickly changed from her cheery smile, to a panicked and frightful expression.

“Twilight? What’s wrong?” Twilight heard Snap ask but she was so taken back by what she had just read that she didn’t answer right away, but after a silent minute the unicorn spoke up.

“This…this can’t be…Ponyville is under attack!”

After stuttering to even say those few words, Twilight all but ran out of the dining hall and headed towards the nearest balcony that would allow her to see Ponyville. And as she burst out of the room, and galloped through the halls, the six humans followed after her. Twilight continued to gallop through the halls of the castle, almost ramming into maids, butlers, guards, and even a noble as she looked for the nearest balcony that she could see Ponyville from. Eventually she found a suitable balcony that was facing in the direction of the town, and once she stepped out onto it she could instantly see smoke and what looked like fire emanating from the town.

“NO!” Twilight quietly whispered as her hooves against the railing tighten as her eyes started to water. Eventually the humans had caught up to the mare, and when they looked to where she was looking to they saw Ponyville set ablaze, and even saw a pillar of fire erupting from the buildings.

“What the heck is going on down there?” Burner asked as he watched the wafting clouds of smoke drift from the buildings.

“I don’t know, the scroll says the town is under attack!” Twilight lamented as she just stood there on the balcony, her eyes tearing up before a few drops started to fall.

“I have to get back to Ponyville, but a train won’t make it in time, neither will a carriage. And I can’t teleport that far!” As Twilight was prattling off and pacing back and forth and idea came to her mind, and she immediately rushed over to Snap.

“Snap!” Twilight said in a panicked voice while looking up to the human. “You can teleport to the town from here in one go can’t you?” the human then looked to where the town was, and seemed to be studying the distance in his mind. After briefly studying the distance Snap looked down at Twilight.

“Yeah I can make that jump, and let me guess you want me to teleport you to the town.” Twilight then developed a hopeful smile.

“Yes please. Please, take me to Ponyville I’ll do anything you ask if you do.” Twilight pleaded as she wrapped her forelegs around the humans waist.

Snap turned to face his friends to wonder if he should do this, after all, why should he help them. True Snap and his friends were warming up to Twilight, but they were still only associates, even if Twilight believes they are friends. However, could they really stand by and just watch the ponies in that town suffer, and endure their town and homes be set on fire as whatever it is attacking the town continue to do so, when they have the capabilities to help them. The only reason they use their powers is to steal things, hurt people if they think deserved it, they were far from anything to be called heroes. So should they really act like heroes in this situation? Especially when the ponies have their own military force. But still, this little unicorn who is waiting for an answer, and giving the humans a pleading look was begging for their help.

“Alright I’ll do it. Just, stop with the face please.” Twilight all but smiled and wrapped her hooves around Snap’s stomach, and hugged him. “And don’t worry about doing me any favors, we’ll help your town out.” Snap said as he petted her head.

“Thank you!” Twilight gratefully said as Snapped looked towards his friends.

“Alright guys huddle up, and hang on to me.”

Each of the humans placed a hand somewhere on Snap’s shoulders, or back, while Twilight kept her forelegs wrapped around his waist. Then in a blink of an eye the entire group vanished in a flash of yellow light. A moment later, high above the town of Ponyville a flash of yellow light appeared, and Twilight found that she and her six human friends were high up in the sky, and were now currently free-falling. Naturally, the group was a little thrown off from being teleported into the sky, however Twilight was way more thrown off than the humans.

“AGH! WE’RE SO HIGH!” Twilight screamed as she quickly latched onto the nearest human after reappearing in the world, who happened to be Burner who wrapped an arm around her.

“Shit, I off shot it!” Snap chastised.

“Well in retrospect, you didn’t get a good look at anywhere specific in the town!” Steel shouted as he grabbed Burner as he held Twilight close as she continued to scream.

“Grab on to me guys!”

With Circus gathering everyone up by using his power, the humans quickly grabbed back onto Snap, who then teleported down into one of the streets of the town that he could now see more clearly. Thanks to the bird eyes view that his slip up granted him. But when the group appeared in the town, and recovered from the momentum change they were able to see just how bad things were. Ponies were running around screaming everywhere and were trying to hide in the none burning buildings, and speaking of said buildings they were all engulfed in flames like giant bonfires. The group then noticed that the sky was growing more darker, and it wasn’t due to more smoke filling the sky, instead they saw clouds being pushed in by pegasi who then started to bounce on them, causing the darken clouds to rain down onto the burning town.

“What in the world happened here?” Wave asked no one in particular before another group of pegasi flown over them with clouds in hooves, and started to spray rain onto the flames of the closest buildings. But the rain wasn’t strong enough from the small clouds to put out the fires.

“Wave see if you can help douse those fires.” Plasma said as he points at one of the burning buildings.

“Leave it to me!” Wave said before he turned into a mass of water, and then vaulted into a building where Twilight heard him splash around and causing steam to vent from the windows.

“Let’s get a move on guys, help out however you can!” the rest of the group were about to run off and help out in trying to put the flames out, but they stopped when they heard a chorus of voices call out.

“Twilight!” the group turned to see all of Twilight’s friends galloping towards them as they rounded one of the none destroyed section of town.

“Girls what in the hay is going on?” Twilight asked as she met up with her friends half way, with the humans jogging up to them.

“Ah don’t know.” Applejack said worriedly as she spoke up. “Apple Bloom & her friends just came running into town, then that’s where this thing came running after them shooting, and blasting fire everywhere!” Applejack said in a very panicked voice.

Before Twilight could even question her friends on what the thing was, a roaring stream of fire came bursting through a building and was heading straight for the entire group! But right before the flames reached them, or Twilight could even try to put up a shield, she watched as Steel rushed to the front of the group, and transformed into his larger metallic form and used his entire body to block the fire. The group un-covered their eyes and watched as the flames bellow past Steels hunched over body, while his metallic body started to glow white hot. As the stream of fire continued to ram into Steel Twilight and the others grouped up closer, so that they wouldn’t get burnt by any wild flicks of fire, but as the now massive human continued to act as a shield they could hear him groan in pain the fire grew more intense.

“Oh no Steel!” Rarity cried out after Steel cried out in pain.

“Hang in their big guy!” Rainbow Dash called out as she wanted to help, but the fires that were rushing past them didn’t leave much of an opening for her to leave and help out.

‘Damn, this fire is hot, it’s even hotter than the flames that Burner can use!’ Steel mentally groaned as he tried to withstand the intense flames. ‘I don’t know if I can…withstand this…’ Just then a sudden burst of very cold water came crashing down onto Steel’s body, rapidly cooling him off before creating a wall of water in front of the metallic human

“Steel are you alright!?” Fluttershy asked worriedly as she tried to examine the human, but even after the rush of water his body was still too hot to touch without burning.

“Yeah I’m fine, but damn that fire was hot.” Steel groaned as he looked behind himself at the group to confirm his state. “Thanks for the save Wave.” The group looked past Steel and saw that the wall of water then formed the head of Wave.

“No problem man, besides I’m more suited to handle fire than you are.”

The flames eventually stopped and withered away, until nothing more than a deep burn scarred crater was burned deep into the ground, leaving a blistering carved path. Wave & Steel quickly reverted back to their normal human forms, and now that the flames were out Steel was checked thoroughly over by Fluttershy who was still worried about his condition. Pinkie rushed over to Wave to see if he was alright, but he just waved her off and said he was fine. But things weren’t over yet.

A deep and menacing roar erupted from behind the buildings that the flames came barreling from, and when the group turned to go see the source of the roar the smoke obscured the objects form, but the group could make out that the thing was standing up right, and it seemed to have a pair of wings on its back, but the smoke could be distorting its form.

Whatever the creature was it let out another terrifying roar, and like the last one it was so loud that everyone had to cover their ears, but the sheer volume was so intense their heads still pulsed with pain. After the creature roared it continued to walk till it made its way through the smoke, but as the figure passed through the vail of smoke, Twilight and her friends were utterly stunned at what they saw. Standing half a yard from them was a large bipedal creature, easily as tall as Steel when he transformed, and was covered in badly torn up clothes that were also set on fire, but the creature didn’t even seem to notice that it was on fire. But aside from its horribly mangled clothes, the fire that was clinging to it, was its large dragon-like head that had an extended fin on the top of its head…and its glowing red eyes that were glaring right at the group.

“No way!” Twilight heard Plasma shutter as she turned to look at him, and saw that not only him but the other humans all had an utterly blown away expression plastered on their faces.

“It can’t be.” Circus said as his mouth slowly hung open.

“How is he…how is he here?” Snap muttered.

“Wait!” Rainbow said as she looked between the stunned humans. “You guys know that thing?” The cyan mare asked as she pointed at the lumbering giant creature as the building it came walking out of crumbled behind it.

“It’s…that’s…” Burner tried to say but stumbled before he and the other humans spoke up.

“Dragonface!” All six of the humans said in unison.

“Dragonface? Who is he, and how do you know him?” Pinkie asked worriedly as the now known Dragonface, was coming closer, but before any of the humans could say anything the group watched as Dragonface came vaulting towards them as he roared again!

“Oh no you don’t!” Steel shouted as he transformed and clashed with Dragonface, both slamming into each other and started to wrestle with each other.

“Twilight you and your friends keep everyone else away from here, we’ll take care of Dragonface!” Plasma shouted as he created his Burn Saber and the rest of the gang prepared for a fight.

“Now go!”

“Come on girls let's leave the humans to handle this, while we help the towns ponies!” Twilight said as she galloped towards the un-destroyed half of the town while her friends chased after her. But as she left the humans behind, she looked behind her at the fight group and silently prayed that her new friends would be alright.

~~~~~

Just as the ponies left the area, and the two giant men continued to wrestle with each other, the rest of the group of young men joined their metallic friend in fending off Dragonface. During the tussle, the dragon headed man opened his large mouth and clamped his jaws onto Steel’s head, where he then unleashed a massive torrent of fire directly onto Steel’s face! But before Steel’s face could possibly be melted away, Wave came in and slammed right into Dragonface’s head causing the giant human to stumble backwards, while his head was smothered with ice cold water and dousing the fire wafting from his mouth. Plasma then came lunging at Dragonface’s left side, and unleashed a series of fast sword strikes with his burn saber, burning through what little clothe Dragonface still had, but his body only received minor burn marks on his tough skin.

‘Damn it! my Burn Saber didn’t even leave a scratch on him.’ Plasma mentally jargoned as he lashed out one more time, before backing away when a Steel was swung towards him.

Steel was then let loose and sent flying into another building, smashing through the wall, and causing it to collapse right on top of him. Wave was trying to stop the flames from erupting from Dragonface’s mouth, but the intense flames power was too much for him, and was also blasted away and was about to crash into a different building. But before he did so, Snap appeared right next to Wave and teleported away before placing his friend next to where Circus was, before he launched himself into the air and then rocketed towards Dragonface, slamming into his back before bouncing off him. Snap then teleported to a very heavily stocked wagon full of bricks, and then warped it into the air above Dragonface where Circus’s hands grabbed it, and forcibly smashed it over Dragonface’s head. But the giant man didn’t seem to even feel the bricks, or Circus’s tackle and just ran over to Circus’s body, but the disassembling young man just separated his body into smaller pieces and floated them past the giant.

As the fighting continued Steel eventually recovered from his throw, and barreled out of the remains of the building and towards Dragonface at full speed, ramming into the dragon-head man and pinned him to the ground and started punching him. But the barrage of punches were cut short when Dragonface grabbed Steel’s right arm, and pivoted his weight so now he was pinning Steel to the ground, and started to try and rip the young man’s head off by biting it. Snap then appeared next to Steel’s legs and teleported himself & Steel above Dragonface, where Steel again slammed into older human. And as the two continued to wrestle with each other, Dragonface was about to unleash another torrent of fire onto Steel, but two streams of compressed water slammed into the dragon-headed human. But the water strikes weren’t the only attacks that struck Dragonface. Plasma leapt at him and lashed out at Dragonface’s back, and was actually able to damage him. A barrage of fireballs also slammed into the large man, and Burner was about to launch what looked like a torpedo made of fire at Dragonface, but stopped when the man unleashed his own fire breath at Wave.

“OH CRAP!” Wave shouted as he went to transform into water. But just as the flames were nearly close to roast the young man, the flames curved off course and headed over to Burner, who was gathering all of the fires around him creating a massive fireball in the process. “Thanks for the save Burner.”

“No problem Wave, but you and the guys need to steer clear. I’m gonna dunk this moffo with his own fire!” Burner said before he looked over to where Snap currently was.

“Snap, I need a lift!”

“Coming right up.”

Snap then vanished in a flash of light, and teleported right behind Burner and in another flash of light the pair appeared right above Dragonface. But it appeared that Dragonface had caught onto their plan, and was aiming his head up at the pair and unleashed another stream of fire directly at the duo. Snap vanished and appeared where Circus was, while Burner was left free fall towards Dragonface while collecting more of the mutant’s fire, increasing the size of his giant fireball till it was the size of a large tank. As Burner was half way to Dragonface, Steel, Plasma, and the others started to run till they judged that they were at a safe distance, and watched the event that was about to unfold before them.

“Sorry that I have to do this Dragonface, but I’m gonna have to bust your face in to stop you!” Burner shouted as he readied to slam the fireball into the giant man, who just continued to fuel the fireball with his own fire breath attack.

When Burner was just a few feet from Dragonface he slammed the massive fireball right on top of Dragonface, crushing him into the ground before the flames no longer could be maintained in its spherical form, and erupted into a massive pillar of fire that roared into the sky. Piercing the cloud line and smoke clouds that hovered above the town. All the ponies in the town then screamed out in terror, and duck under anything to hide in or under, when they heard the fireball explode and watched the pillar of fire pierce the skies. And from the force of the attack the south end of the shopping district was reduced to smoldering rubble and debris, as the pillars immense heat just washed over them, but the town wasn’t the only ones being burnt by the attack. The rest of the humans didn’t get as clear of the blast radius as they thought, so each of the humans were struck by the searing heat wave and started to be covered in minor burns. A minute and a half of nonstop bellowing flames and intense heat, the pillar of fire eventually faded away and left a massive twenty foot wide crater in the middle of the street, with Burner dropping on the edge of the crater and baring equally bad burns as his friends. As for Dragonface, Burner saw that he was laying un-conscious in the middle of the flaming crater, with all of his clothes burned away. Slowly getting up after being blown away from the explosion, Plasma and the others managed to get to their feet and walked over to the crater, and also saw the unconscious body of Dragonface’s heavily burnt body.

“We need to restrain him. And fast.” Burner panted as he was helped up to his feet by Snap and Wave.

Steel then looked for anything that could re-strain Dragonface, and found some steel piping from a broken stall, as well as chains that weren’t badly damaged or even melted away. Steel then started to wrapped Dragonface in chains and using the pipes to cuff his wrists and ankles, while Plasma used his power to weld the pipes together with the chains to ensure Dragonface couldn’t break free. As the humans were finishing in restraining Dragonface, the ponies emerged from their hiding spots, and saw the level of destruction that was before them, looking over the charred up shopping district. Just as Twilight and her friends trotted over to the young men, two chariots came flying in and both Celestia & Luna looked on in horror at what has happened to the town. Before any pony could even utter a word, Circus looked to them and spoke.

“You better have a really, really, and I mean a REALLY, strong jail cell to keep this guy locked up.”

~~~~~

Two hours have passed since Dragonface rampage in Ponyville was stopped, and the town was in the process of rebuilding itself, and the ponies that were injured were being taken care of. However the ponies in Ponyville were now all on edge, some of them haven’t even left their still standing hiding spots as they were to afraid.

While the town and its inhabitants were working to rebuild the town, with the aid of the royal guard, Twilight, and her friends along with the humans were brought to Canterlot, where the humans were being treated. While Dragonface was placed under the most strict security measures the princess have ever implemented, and brought to the jails and placed inside the most durable prison cell it had. For the six valiant heroes they were taken back to the medical wing to be treated, and while they did managed to avoid most of the more damaging blows, they still sustain some horrible injures. Including the horrible burns they received from Burner’s final attack. Actually the most injured of the group was Steel, as he was directly engaging with Dragonface’s intense melee and fire attacks. Normally Steel is highly resilient to such attacks, however he does have his limits, and Dragonface just had so much power that he practically made Steel’s resistances and durability almost redundant.

“YEO-OW!” Steel blurted as one of the two nurse treating him applied a salve to his back. “Damn that stuff really stings!”

“I know it hurts sweetie, but just bear with it for a bit longer.” The little earth pony mare said sweetly as she gently applies the salve with a cloth. As for the other humans, they were just getting a few bandages, and few treatments, while the princess’s & the element bearers stood to the sides and watched them.

“I’m still amazed that a single creature could cause so much damage to all of you, and to the town.” Celestia said as she looked at all the humans in the room.

“Dragonface is like us, another human with a mutated power. He’s also one of the oldest living Un-Naturals from Earth, and is on the most wanted list worldwide.” Circus said as he sits up straight on his bed, while the pegasus nurse continues to wrap his torso with bandages. “And he’s earned the reputation of being one of the most dangerous Un-Naturals in the world.”

“Why is that?” Luna asked the group. “From what Twilight and the others have told us, you said you know Dragonface.”

“Well yeah, there isn’t anyone back home that doesn’t know him.” Wave said as he looked at the princesses. “When you earn a reputation like Dragonface’s, it’s not that hard to have everyone know who you are.” Waved finished as the unicorn nurse finished wrapping his hands in bandages.

“And its far worse than what most believe.” Burner remarked as the unicorn nurse treating him finished dressing the burns on his chest.

“What could be worse than burning down half the town?!” Rainbow asked as she gave the group a questionable look. The room immediately went quite as the humans all looked at the hovering pegasus, their eyes like dead fish. That’s when Burner broke the silence.

“…how would you like it if the thing your famous for is going feral at the drop of a hat, and reducing your home town to ashes…and eating not only your family but everyone that gets in your way.” Every pony from the princess, Twilight, and her friends, to even the medical staff, all felt a chill run down their spines as they all looked at the humans with horrified looks.

“H-he ate…his…f-family?!” Fluttershy asked in horrified stupor, her eyes growing moist as she shuttered at the thought of actually…

“According to the news he at his mother, father, two brothers and sister. Along with his aunt & uncle… everyone in his small town.” Plasma said in a leveled yet sadden tone of voice. “It was all over the newspapers, and articles were wrote about it, there were even pictures of the whole incident.”

“And ever since then he’s been on the run for the crimes of burning down towns, cities, and eating everyone that he comes across, all because he has an unstable mutation.” Snap added on. “Journalist and many investigators have tried to find him, but if the latest articles are true, Dragonface has spent the last thirty years of his life secluded away in deep forests & mountain regions, only being spotted whenever he goes berserk and unleashes his fire breath.”

“Thirty years. He’s spent all that time, alone.” Pinkie Pie asked as her mane & tail went limp as she continues to hear this tale of the elderly human.

“Yeah.” Wave said somberly. “And there are many more Un-Natural humans like Dragonface who are in hiding. Some out of shame out of what they’ve done to others already, while others are just too afraid of what they might do, so they hide themselves away.”

“But there are those who exploit their powers, and do whatever they want with them.” Steel finished, wincing again at the stinging sensation coursing over his body.

“…and what about all of you?” Applejack asked. “Did you all have such hard ship growing up?”

“…” none of the human’s spoke up, just opting to just sit on their beds. But eventually, Plasma broke the silence while turning to face the ponies, a sad defeated expression on his face.

“Yes.”

Author's Note

It really looks like the ponies have their work cut out for them. can they really befriend six humans, who already have difficulty in trusting others, and what about Dragonface? will he escape and cause even more destruction? who knows.