Baa-Ram-Ewe!

-Equus, a few minutes after portal shutdown, detainment room, Ocellus-

I was going to be eventually needed when it came to the Stonebacks, I had some understanding of their guttural language… also I told ponies that changelings were really good at learning verbal and not so verbal languages very easily. We wouldn’t be good infiltrators without it as a capability, learned a lot about dragon body language from Smolder. Pegasus ponies weren’t the only ones who get stiff wings apparently.

“I’m so glad to see you that you two are okay!” What, not talking about me fighting the guards to try and get back into Tambelon like a mad changeling Gallus? Why were you wearing a helmet, armor and wielding a spear?

“Yeah, we were going to come in after you!” You were our friends so that was a likely thing to happen Silver Stream… also since when did you get into archery? Yeah I think they really were going to come in after us should things have gone terribly wrong, a flying archer was interesting.

Nice to see Edith again, clucking merrily and trying to be unobtrusive, which wasn’t easy for the cockatrice in the room.

“Yona is sad Yona doesn’t get to use shield to protect friends for life!” Hair traditionally braided and pulled back into a rather quaint looking Viking style, Yona looked like a Shield Maiden. Spindle the wolf spider, was on one of Yona’s horns and he waved at me.

Yona was likely taught by a Shield Warrior and the only one I knew of around here was Fortitude from Airship Mauled.

He was Fortitude, the fantastically fragrant!

Okay, even thinking his name caused that to happen, good to know.

“You think you’re upset, I didn’t even get to use my abilities. Apparently I can clean entire beaches in seconds using just the sand of the beach itself… also made a lot of money finding lost bits in said sand. Had to pay Snickers the Turtledove somehow.” Sandbar pulled the cork from his back… without touching it. What?! Wait… it’s made of sand? He was manipulating sand? That… wow, that looked really powerful. How was he perfecting those shapes with it? “I’m better with beach sand than desert sand though.”

That was taking Earth Pony to a literal extreme, kind of like Ground Type Pokémon were said to be capable of. We only got some distinct idea of their abilities when they took out those nasty sand worms without casualty, for some reason I’m glad we never went to the kingdom of Terrera.

“Wait, so you guys have been preparing to come in and fight to save us?” Smolder was ecstatic to hear that, also secretly grumpy that they might have thought she was weak and that was balanced out by the fact that she wasn’t nearly strong enough to fight any of the Stonebacks just for their sizes. “That’s kind of awesome not going to lie… now can you help us find a way back into Tambelon?”

“You want to go back in there?! The feelings I got from the portal were horrifying, the land there was positively tortured and screaming!” Sandbar stated with a quivering look in his eyes like he was about to cry and Yona cuddled him. “It was really quite unpleasant that I could even hear it through the portal.”

I noted down that Sandbar could now feel what the land feels like, something that I as a changeling might be lacking even when I turn into an Earth Pony. Communing with nature should be easier for a changeling, but nature knew a liar when it saw one which explained why numerous animals had a tendency to glare at us trying to deceive the ponies that they were bonded to as familiars.

Maybe if I didn’t lie while in the form of an Earth Pony I could do ground manipulation too, maybe even make friends with a patch of land in the Dragon Lands? That’s going to take some research, but that’s for much later if I survive going back to Tambelon. I’ll probably will never be anywhere near Sandbar’s current level of course, wouldn’t doubt that his connections is strongest to where the sea meets the land. It’s in his name after all.

“Well excuse us for not wanting to abandon our friends to the Tartarus they’re now trapped in, Pom simply saw and heard people needed help… so she couldn’t leave with us knowing that fact.” Which wasn’t a good thing Smolder. At least there was Tianhuo so that’s a bright spot for Pom, but her god puppies, Dormarch and Dolly being trapped there too could be an issue for her. At least Pom didn’t have to worry about us… until we came back that is. “Dormarch is a cool little guy with incredible power, Dolly is crazy awesome and can do magic. Sure they have an entire army coming at them, but we kind of had time to learn how to handle large armies before we ended up in Tambelon. Also we’d come back for any of you guys too!”

“So how would we go about doing it? The portals stabilizers were absolutely destroyed by Jaded and she’s the poster kitty for doing weird stuff, like hacking up a hairball and throwing it in before she did that. What use is a hairball going to be for those that got stuck in Tambelon?” Gallus was pacing around and talking to himself. Nobody said we weren’t doing it, nobody said they didn’t want to help and most of all nobody was questioning Smolder holding my right hoof with her left claw. Silver Stream seemed to squeal a bit at the sight and was happy for us, her feelings said as much and I think I might be a little bit more sensitive with my empathic abilities now from everything I’ve been through. “Jade doesn’t just do random stuff without there being some kind of purpose to it, I’d say it was calculated move… but her dyscalculia has been proven to be a universal hazard. As for what happened to the portal stabilizer, I think she used the portal stabilizer in a magic alchemy cast and I have no idea what that did.”

“I’d surmise that we’d simply need to make another stabilizer to even attempt opening a portal to Tambelon?” I don’t know the magical frequency or how to make the stabilizer, but now that I’m back in Equestria I’m sure I could find out.

“We’d probably have to ask Starlight and Sunburst, they were all working on this project for quite a while.” That or find someone just as knowledgeable, I did not want to give up on Pom’s family or Pom! They were the first unto the breach and they came to save all of us. Not just most of us, then they themselves perish battling an entire army. “We’ve been through a lot, but friendship was kind of a universal constant and I’m glad for that. It’s because of that friendship that we’re going back.”

“So none of you question the stupidity of going into a realm full of those Troggle guys to fight for a people that might not understand what we’re doing for them?” Smolder asked flatly. “Pom couldn’t leave because she literally can’t turn away from those who need help, she has this whole sacrifice thing going on and it’s annoying.”

“We’ve been training to do just that Smolder. We’ll do it without the Royal Guard or whoever was going to help with this previously.” Okay, so Gallus was backing us one hundred percent, good to know. He also grinned for a moment before pointing at us. “Also congratulations on pairing the spares.”

“What are you… oh…” Smolder blushed, but she didn’t let go. I can at least say our relationship was going better than Rainbow and Applejacks, in fact many people can say that.

Rainbow and Applejack were both really bad with feelings, I once heard Applejack went to work at a cherry farm out of embarrassment for being incapable at winning a rodeo despite placing in the overall top ten… out of two hundred ponies competing.

“Yona is being very happy for you two my closest of friends!” After Yona said that, Spindle threw in a squeak of agreement.

I think I actually really missed Lit, that little guy was beyond the impossible at such a tiny size. Wonder what he was doing now? He must be so upset that he couldn’t follow Dolly around. That or he could have just gone back to eating lightning out of a lightning rod and not care, but I doubted he’s that lazy.

-Somewhere in the Digimon Digital Realm connected to the Pokémon realm at that moment, Lit the Joltik ‘Super Hero’-

There were still some issues with Machinedramon going out of control, but here he was dealing with them… with Tsumemon at his side!

Also his friends Gilgamesh the red bulky bug guy and Greekidu the Chocobo.

“Tsumemon warp digivolve too… Zanbamon!” His friend from Jijimon’s home had eventually found and joined him in his travels. Swearing brother ship and allegiance, also somehow making Lit a troubleshooter of Yggdrasil.sys otherwise known as a Digidestined.

Fighting one Machinedramon with a Mega wouldn’t be hard, fighting thirty at the same time? A little more challenging to be sure.

-Equss, Equestria, Canterlot, detainment room, Jade-

“Won’t we need an adult to help us though?” Silver Stream stated as I walked in, the foal-sitter of my little Silvers was looking for a way into Tambelon. I should probably mention that Fizzy was already on top of things.

My petty kitty nature was riled up and I had plans forming in the back of my head, Saddle Arabia, what’s that? Is it an instrument? Didn’t matter, Tambelon really needed to end before Hearths Warming near the end of this month. I did not like the cruelty I saw there and I’m not abandoning cute puppies, Pom and my favorite Huoshan Guard Tianhuo to that.

“Hey guys, I’ll help!” Yep, I cared about all my friends, even the ones I seriously annoyed. At least Tianhuo, Huoshan’s Puppy Patrol and Pom were all together again. “You know that I’m an adult right?”

“That’s kind of what we’re afraid of.” Gallus stated bluntly.

“Ooh… my adopted little brother, right through the heart!” I acted like I was seriously hurt by the hinted at accusation of my character, I did deserve that accusation however so I’m fine with it. “So what you want is someone who knows plans for fixing the portal and stabilizer to randomly jump into Tambelon right?”

“Yeah, but what unicorn are we going to get to…” Gallus paused and realized where this was going. “Oh come on, not even you can be that convincing and I know Fizzlepop isn’t going to be happy that you tried.”

“I’m her bed warmer and cuddle toy, I have a little more pull than someone who jumped ranks in the royal guard for being exceedingly competent. Plus I know Fizzy, she’s not going to leave it at that with a mission entirely incomplete. She’s already on it and will get back to me this evening, I’ll tell you guys the time frame we’re working on then.” That and I knew Gallus could catch and restrain me at my best, so he deserved the title he earned for himself. Good on him for putting all the work in to stay healthy and better than most of the royal guard, Sergeant Shady would likely want to help too. I’ve been making a good rapport with him as a friend. “If you’re wondering, I convinced her half an hour ago not that she really needed it as she was going to do it anyway… the convincing was a lot of fun though.”

“Did you at least shower before coming here?” Gallus sniffed the air.

“What do you take me for, an irredeemably crazy psychotic super villain of Saddle Arabia?” They stared at me. “Okay, don’t answer that one… or mention the letter I sent out a minute ago that might cause some problems for Saddle Arabia in like three years. Put a really slow burn on that one, maybe I can get Saddle Arabia before then...”

“Is your messing with Saddle Arabia chronic at this point?” As laid back as Sandbar was, I was pinned by his stare that promised several things. None of them good if I didn’t answer him honestly.

“Yes, it is. I’ve been going to therapy for it.” Not that it was really helping me, they knew exactly why I had a chip in my shoulder about Saddle Arabia. Ballad Din’s descendants were at least on top of all the trouble running wild in the streets and my haunted Zamponi running amuck. Didn’t even ask how it was haunted at this point, I’m just accepting it as being a thing from building stuff out of parts manufactured and put together with magical alchemy. “Now can we get back on topic, are you sure you want to dive back into Tambelon even knowing it might get you grievously hurt, dead or worse than that?”

“Yes.” Gallus answered immediately alongside all of his friends, I’m so proud of our little early guard.

“If you die in Tambelon, then little Gavin is going to be so upset his uncle isn’t around anymore.” I pointed out blithely.

“Who said anything about dying?” Gallus stated with a smarmy grin on his beak.

“Now you’re getting into the La Perm spirit of things!” I said with a bright smile, my family was a wonderful mishmash of my mother’s efforts to make a big family from having so little.

“Should we be worried?” Smolder and Silver Stream stated at the same time and they glanced at one another, then smiled a bit.

“Hey I’m Gallus’s adoptive big sister, I have to look out for him and his best friends in the whole wide world… also mom is expecting grandchildren from him. So she’ll want me to keep all of you alive at all costs. Definitely Silver Stream and Gallus for sure.” That wasn’t exactly the most comforting thing I could have said, but mother Kuril was a queen that like giving affection and feeding hungry waifs. “Mind you the La Perm family has no sense of normalcy so expect general chaos and madcap antics since Arizona is going to be coming with us. Need help or protection, stay behind her and use her body as a shield. She’s good for it.”

“Not making me feel better about being successfully adopted by Kuril here.” Yes, keep giving out that flat disapproval Gallus. You can’t escape the love of a queen easily, once it has been applied.

“Then blame Maries for getting the paperwork through as fast as they did.” Knowing for a fact that I knew he wouldn’t do that, he had a decent relationship with them and my little Silvers.

“Okay stop it, I can see where this is going and it’s going to be an hour long back and forth between you two sniping at each other somehow.” You didn’t have to call it out so readily Smolder, Gallus enjoys the sister brother bonding we have… also Abyssinians were sometimes catty jerks and griffons weren’t far off from being that way either if they were feeling greedy on a particular day. We have a lot in common to no one’s surprise. “What’s the estimated time of our getting back into Tambelon? The sooner the better, because I doubt Pom could fight an entire army alone… sure she could fight most of an army alone, but she isn’t going to wing and she can hardly hurt the Troggles. Not to mention Hollow Heart and Grogar are major threats there.”

“Yeah, those two are going to be major problems, Grogar especially since he’s a powerful demon goat even without his bell putting him on par with gods. Also I cannot give you an estimated time, but expect it to be quick. Fizzy may have control problems with her horn, but she’s still one of the most powerful unicorns around while only being a bit below an alicorn in magical strength without the requisite control. Believe me, she’ll help recreate a new portal stabilizer into Tambelon in short order.” The threat that I was aware of who was slowly working his way back to breaking his own way back into Equus, Grogar, was powerful enough to contact and create a cult here on Equus with just his presence and minimal power. So his danger was something we couldn’t overlook, but I’m not capable of beating a demon… in a fair fight anyway. Still didn’t have any ideas about how to fight him unfairly though, the guy was terrifying by his very presence alone and was likely a true immortal unless highly unusual circumstances occurred. “First off and something to keep you all busy and not causing trouble, you need to get your supplies ready. Water, food, medical and combat, plus maybe a blanket for a small makeshift shelter in case you get separated from us. Fluttershy and Discord have the emergency supplies ready to go, but we need to get everyone’s personal supplies squared away as I don’t know how well we could rely on finding Discord’s supplies with the chaotic places they could show up… also I need to go to the bathroom and I suggest you do so too. Tambelon doesn’t have much in the way of plumbing… though the castle certainly does and they even had that route covered.”

“Quick question, what did the stabilizer do as far as magical alchemy is concerned when you did a cast with it?” Ah, was wondering when someone would ask Gallus.

Fizzy wasn’t interested, since she knew that I knew what it did and that was enough for her. I would tell her, or at least someone, if it was something with a highly dangerous negative consequence.

“Oh that? It stabilized everything in a given area conceptually… don’t think too hard about everything ‘conceptually’ being stabilized. It even included my slightly wonky magical genetics as hybrid Abyssinian unicorn, I think I’m fully viably compatible with ponies now. Not like that was a problem before, but I’m not about to tell my mother or anyone about it or else I’ll be put on some kind of endangered species list and forced to procreate. Oh and it prevented the portal it was holding open from closing in a more… ‘volatile’… manner, so there’s that.” Why did everyone tense and stare at me like that with worry? It wasn’t like that could have gone entirely wrong. “The effect was entirely benign. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go find the nearest toilet that I can use… pony sized toilets are a little bit annoying.”

-Silver Stream-

“So… we can get into Tambelon, do you guys think my archery is good enough for that?” Unlike my teacher, I could actually use real arrows. Jacky was really good with a number of incredibly odd objects.

“You can snipe your teacher from half a mile away, I think you’ve got this.” Thanks for the vote of confidence Gallus!

“And I did so several times, never met someone so cursed before.” I’m surprised she survived the multiple arrows to the chest and butt, plus that tree that fell on her after I accidentally put an arrow in her leg that slowed her down just enough to get crushed by it.

“Cursed, do you be talking about Captain Jacky ‘The Blackcap’ Chickadee?” Yeah, that goat had been fairly quiet, but her machine bird friend was really good at making ice cream. She seemed surprised he could even do ice cream or pudding, I mean if he could create jam then obviously had had methods for working with milk in his body so of course ice cream was possible.

“Yep, never met a pirate who could survive hunting so many cursed artifacts, in fact she makes habit of doing that deliberately because she’s already cursed and her curse can’t be made any worse than it already is.” I was a bit worried I almost accidentally killed her numerous times, but she seemed just as chipper as the first time I met her and she never held it against me.

She was also a really good teacher for someone who couldn’t fire arrows in a straight line to save her life, and it once did save her life and that of many people because she couldn’t, she was really good with a regular bow using normal arrows as much as her special bow.

“Should I be getting everyone’s stuff ready and together?” It was always nice of Sandbar to volunteer doing stuff for us.

“Yes, also be sure to take a note to the local guard barracks about the two extra loaded quivers they have in storage for me, thanks!” Ice arrows, sticky bomb arrows and the normal sharp pointy ones I currently had on me. Two of those arrow types were for catching or disabling criminals, the last one wasn’t nearly as nice and I hoped I didn’t have to seriously hurt anybody.

-Some hours later, Dimensional R & D stable, Starlight Glimmer-

“So Twilight is getting an idea of where she can settle the Stonebacks and their adopted wild ponies… what do you think ‘their’ status in Tambelon is now?” The stuff happening in there was sickening to hear about, also Jaded was quite thorough with her drawn maps. It was actually really impressive if you didn’t know she did the same thing when it came to breaking magical security systems, the only maps she didn’t have was of the inner workings of Castle Tambelon or the insides of the buildings in the City of Bells.

“Probably not good, but I’m sure they managed to get away or are alive, those Troggles aren’t fast even if their throwing arms sure are.” Oh Sunburst… I still find you very highly attractive, now if only some unicorns like me weren’t prone to insanity over the smallest things. Phyllis has been balancing out my more mania related issues. “Pom and Tianhuo are both very fast individuals, the Canis Minor are decently speedy too and very strong. Don’t know about the informational entity, but I heard the Dalmatian has momentum based magical abilities. They are feasibly alive, but we won’t know for how long.”

“Heard the Dalmatian does ice magic too, how does that translate into momentum based magic?” That was something I wanted to know.

“The arresting of momentum by ‘stopping it cold’ in a literal sense would count as well. I’d assume she was capable of lightning and fire too if she can speed things up.” Okay, that was actually sounded logical enough to me Sunburst. Now if only my dreams of a herd would work, Trixie was already okay with it, but getting Suburst on board with it was going to take some doing. I wasn’t exactly the friendliest unicorn in the world and I’ve made some mistakes he was quite clearly aware of despite me trying to rekindle our friendship after them. “That magical alchemy stuff is really amazing, it stabilized all the magic in the entire region of Canterlot for about an hour! Amazing… then again with all the power going into the portal, understandable. So Fizzlepop wanted to know how long it would take to get a new stabilizer in place, I know we have the supplies, but you’re the one with estimates.”

“Do we really intend to send people in to just rescue Pom and her family, did you see that odd golden glow she gave off?” That was terrifying, but also why did it even happen in the first place? Why did that golden glow occur and how did it allow her to defy so much magic? “She resisted Twilight and the extra power Celestia and Luna lent her to control the sun and moon.”

“That’s because she has anti-magic properties, Twilight couldn’t have saved her with magic no matter how much she tried.” That was an actual thing Sunburst? I mean I had heard of anti-magic material, but an anti-magic lambkin? I’m mean Lambkin were nuts, but not that macadamia. Which reminds me that I need to pick up some special roasted nuts for Trixie. “Also yes, we’re going to save them and whoever else we can while not letting Grogar out. That he’s managed to even farm back some of his power while trapped in Tambelon is horrifying! Also think about it Starlight, if Grogar is doing that to unicorns… how long will it be until he has enough power to counteract what Gusty the Great managed to pull off? He will eventually come back to Equus and Equestria for his bell even if we don’t try to stop him from trying.”

It makes one wonder why so many unicorns believed themselves so superior to other races, I don’t see unicorns ruling over dragons… mostly because they would beat us in a straight with their ridiculous resistance to magic. I had once wanted to everyone to be equal once, but how I was living now was much better than what I was doing previously. I actually had a purpose and a place, I was actually happy for once in my life instead of miserable and making others equally miserable. That and I let my crush on Sunburst get way too far out of control and blamed special talents.

Thinking on it…

That Grogar was stealing the power of unicorns, he could feasibly eventually farm enough of those poor ponies to get out in the future by himself in enough time even if we didn’t let him out accidentally. So Pom and Tianhuo would likely set the ground work for that, we very well couldn’t abandon them.

So we would deal with him immediately before he could peaceably, at least that’s the way Twilight will want it to go. Sometimes peace wasn’t an option and there were all those Troggles we had to somehow deal with attacking us as we tried to get every last pony and donkey out of Tambelon.

We would be attempting to leave Grogar as the only being in Tambelon that could never escape by himself, this means we’d be stealing the Troggles too… that would be a very sad and lonely existence, but it was warranted as we don’t know what Grogar would do to the Troggles afterwards. We don’t want him to do something like use soul magic on the Troggles to gain more power.

We had to do this, as we were made aware of a major threat that was slowly growing in power, so that future generations don’t have to worry about him popping up out of the blue and blindsiding them like Luna did for that one night that lasted a really long time.

“Three days at best, we’re taking rest breaks and not rushing this.” I finally stated.

“Is that just you two working on it or is it with help?” Fizzle stated as she entered the room, the unicorn that actually took Celestia and Luna down.

For all the power present, Fizzy actually succeeded at capturing and holding Canterlot. I never knew how bad the royal guard was until then. They at least looked like they could do their jobs and nowadays they actually could with some extreme training.

“That’s us two… a day and a half with someone that can work on it at our level. Again with requisite breaks and not rush jobbing something this stupidly dangerous.” Then thinking about it I decided to bring it up. “If Jaded is correct and they are farming unicorn horns for magic…”

“And possibly as a food source after being worked to death. Then I’ll be entirely professional about it, yes.” Fizzlepop then proceeded to just bluntly tell us what Sunburst and I were thinking on not too long ago. “We’re actively invading Tambelon for the safety of future generations if Grogar can build back his power. His methods might not be the most efficient, but if he eventually succeeds and somehow gets his bell back, he’ll have basically increased his power by a lot and will be practically unstoppable. Equestria is actually being quite proactive about this sealed threat in a can for once, especially with a lot of unicorns calling on us to do so given that Jaded has spread the news as to what we’re working on in the background and why we’re keeping it quiet. Nobody wants Grogar to come back to Equus and nobody wants him to keep harming unicorn’s foals, even if they’d be of no relation to anyone existing today. Even the less than noble among the nobles have their limits on lines that should not be crossed, so even the unicorn supremacist party in the lower ends of government wants to stop Grogar. Also for the record, I really hate politics and this is a far more interesting thing for me to be doing as a use of my time.”

“So we’re sending everyone in?” Sunburst was worried about those we were sending in, Jaded’s report on barely being able to deal with Troggles physical might was there in the report she wrote up… while she was still in Tambelon no less and had guessed every last question that would or could be asked about the situation.

Jaded was quite thorough, even if she couldn’t even ‘safely’ break the security of Tambelon Castle in the City of Bells.

“Only those who volunteer to do so. Jaded is one of them, she may be a major nuisance to any guard in existence, but she truly cares about her friends. That and she has been wanting to destroy an entire country, Tambelon counts as a foreign country with eventual intentions to invade and destroy us as it tried to do to the unicorn settlers in the past. My Storm Creatures are all volunteering to fight the Troggles. They should be on par with them for their size, but not exactly their strength so I have an army willing and able to assist the endeavor in a siege.” Fizzy had a warm smile on her face as she said this, likely because her approval ratings with the Storm Creatures were as high as ever. “I’ll be there to make sure nothing happens to Jade. In other news Discord’s supplies have disappeared, apparently they hit the emergency supply beacon recently. So the realm is now ‘randomly’ full of supplies that can only be opened by those going into the realm that have arrive there within this year, that limits those that can open those crates to newly born foals and anyone we send in. Discord has promised us the supplies couldn’t be misused by anyone otherwise, also he made them very noticeable. So Pom’s family should they survive the next day and a half if they can dodge Grogar’s army, then we’ll be able to get someone back in there to start setting up the Tambelon’s fall.”

“So Grubber will be bringing the entirety of your forces around?” Just for confirmation that ponies would be seeing the entire Storm Queen army again for this operation.

“Yes.” Fizzy nodded along with that.

-One and a half days later, outside the room with the portal to Tambelon, Sergeant Shady-

“Okay, be aware that going in you’ll randomly appear anywhere above ten to one foot above a solid surface. You could be in the City of Bells, you could possibly appear in Tambelon Castle and you can even appear on the outskirts. So Keep your head on a swivel and be prepared to roll or dodge the moment you appear as you may need to run and regroup immediately. We have word that the Troggles have good aim with their throwing spears. Good luck in there and for those of you who are a unicorn do not, under any circumstances, be capture by Grogar’s forces!” I could see Jaded sticking with the ones we only freshly rescued, that Ocellus was quite a powerful changeling… not quite queen material, but she could be. Kind of surprising she’d go back to Tambelon, when it felt almost as dead as Queen Chrysalis’s heart. “Arizona Arid, you’re going to be first to breach this time. Cause a ruckus and draw attention, also remember that you have a reason to come home again and congratulations are in order. The more forces you can draw you’re way the better the others coming in, though scattered as they may very well be, will not be under as much immediate threat.”

“Making a ruckus is what I’m good at!” Arizona grinned broadly and had a wild air about her. “Also how did you hear about my herd going to the hospital? I only learned that five minutes ago.”

“Information specialist, it’s my job to keep Equestria secure from all who would harm my friends, family and favorite food source.” I stated plainly and jokingly on that last part. “Grogar is not just a threat to Equestria anymore, he’s now considered an active threat to this whole planet! One we intend to stop and will not allow to fester like so many problems before, the Royal Guard actually intends to solve this one!”

“Yeah, let’s do this!” Didn’t know how much Garble could do, he was a civilian… at least he was a dragon. Troggles weren’t fire proof according to Jaded, but they were still highly resilient bastards that even fire was going to take a bit to do some real damage.

“Good luck with being the first one to lead this invasion Arizona.” I said to the cow, the portal was opened and Arizona lunged through without a second thought.

-City of Bells, Arizona ‘Earth Shaker’ Arid-

As soon as my hooves hit the dirt I was hit by at least five spears. Four had bounced off my skin and one actually stuck into my left side making me actually bleed. I pulled it out with my teeth and then glared at the offending Troggle.

Guys weren’t lookers, but if they were tough as reported and even that Tianhuo couldn’t take them down for too long… then I had my work cut out for me as a fighter.

Oh yeah, it’s also been a while since I’ve been hurt!

Like Shady said, I had a reason to come back, I don't even know what my kids will look like. Seriously couldn't even begin to imagine, but they will know that I'm as insane as my parents.

"You, you're my first beat down!" I charged at the Troggle that managed to hurt me with a mad grin.

So I might have had some of my father and mother's proclivities when it came to being called 'Mad Cow'.