The three villains sat around the warmth of the campfire, remembering their best moments of when they each took on the Princess of Friendship and the Element of Harmony.

Those were the days for them. All three of them.

Tirek, Cozy Glow and Chrysalis were their names and they were the only villains left in Equestria that hadn't succumbed to friendship and reformed. And after months (maybe years) of plotting, brooding and Celestia knows what else, they were all reunited by a legendary tyrant from the past, by the name of Grogar. And after King Sombra was defeated after refusing to work with him, the three agreed.

However, more months passed by during their stay with Grogar and the ram didn't make them do anything, wearing down the trio's patience. In fact, they took out their impatience on each other, which got on Grogar's nerves. And before long, he sent them on their first task.

They had to retrieve the Bewitching Bell from the top of Mount Everhoof. Seems easy enough, they thought. They were wrong.

Despite Cozy's idea of working together (and Grogar's original order of doing so), the three split up and tried to climb the mountain on their own. However, try as they might, all three failed to make it to the summit. Well, only Chrysalis and Cozy tried. Tirek set up a camp and waited for the other two to fail and come back, so he can use the information they learned against them and make the climb.

When Cozy returned, the two got into an argument. And the sounds of their arguing attracted an Ophiotaurus to their location, which then attacked them. Luckily, Chrysalis came onto the scene, disguised as a female Ophiotaurus and drained the attacking creature of its love.

With the threat of the Ophiotaurus gone, the three villains then sat around the campfire and discussed all of their best plans. Which brought them closer together and they started to respect one another. And when they discussed Discord and how Tirek used the draconequus against the ponies.

"You should've seen Twilight's face when her friends appeared in bubbles around me. She was all..." Tirek stated, before making exaggerated groaning noises and morphing his face in different ways. Cozy and Chrysalis then both let out quite a bit of laughter.

"She's so stressed out all the time," Cozy added.

"When I posed as her former foal-sitter, I thought she was going to implode!" Chrysalis joked, sparking more laughter from all three of them.

"I wish I could've seen her face when I nearly erased all the magic from Equestria," Cozy stated.

"All magic was a little excessive, don't you think?" Tirek stated.

"Eh, I think big. Besides," Cozy replied, before switching her tone to be darker and continuing, "it would've been worth it just to see Twilight and her friends bow down to me!" The filly then smiled evilly.

Tirek joined in on the evil smirking with his own grin and said, "Indeed it would. Who wouldn't love to see those prissy ponies realize they lost everything?"

Then, Chrysalis then shapeshifted into Princess Twilight and then said mockingly, "I'm a pathetic pony princess! I made a detailed list of all the ways I'm a failure!" This caused Tirek and Cozy to burst out into laughter. Chrysalis transformed back into her own form.

Once both of the villains recovered from their moment, Tirek then spoke up. "You know, working with you two may not be the worst thing,"

"Perhaps... as long as it results in the complete destruction of our enemies," Chrysalis agreed.

"I wouldn't have it any other way," Cozy stated, before quickly saying, "Do the pathetic princess thing again!"

Chrysalis agreed and shifted back into Twilight and did the 'pathetic pony princess' routine again, much to Tirek and Cozy's enjoyment.

However, once Chrysalis had finished the routine and shifted back, there came a massive roar as another Ophiotaurus emerged from a nearby bush, rising up to show its size. Chrysalis and Tirek immediately got into a fighting stance and moved to protect Cozy.

They didn't really need to. That Ophiotaurus wasn't roaring as a show of strength or hostility. No, that Ophiotaurus was roaring in pain. Seconds later, the creature went limp and fell to the ground, dead.

All three villains were confused as to why the Ophiotaurus just attacked them and then just died.

"Umm, is it just me, or did that creature just die in front of us?" Chrysalis asked, confused beyond all recognition.

"No, you're not the only one seeing it," Tirek replied. Not knowing what to do next, the three approached the body. Cozy slowly trotted up and poked the corpse, just to make sure that it was truly dead. Surely enough, the body didn't move.

"Yep, it's dead," Cozy said to the others. But before Tirek and Chrysalis could let a sigh of relief, the changeling saw something off next to the body. Something that one with sharp eyesight could spot at that distance.

Chrysalis could see the light coming down through the trees and... reflecting off of an object crouching near the dead cow-snake hybrid. In fact, the object (or rather creature) was somehow reflecting the light around it, creating some sort of optical camouflage. And the creature also appeared to be in the form of an equine.

And before Chrysalis could call out and demand who was watching them, the equine then stood up fully and moved towards the three. And as soon as it took one step forward, the camo shut off and the reflecting light was sucked away, like a blanket being pulled off a mannequin, revealing the equine. He was dressed in a military uniform and equipped with gear that Chrysalis didn't recognise, all of it camouflaged in jungle colours. The heavily-tinted sunglasses and bandana (or whatever it is called) eliminating any hope of the equine being identified. However, the lens on the left was bright blue and displaying information to the wearer that the three villains couldn't read. And in the grasp of his magic, was an ACR assault rifle coloured in jungle camo, equipped with a Tac Scope, a 3-Round Burst Trigger, Dual Mags, a Vertical Foregrip, an Under-Gassed gas system, a Heartbeat Sensor, a Suppressor and an Extended Stock. On his back, was a similarly-camouflaged AKS-74u Personal Defence Rifle equipped with a Magnified HWS, a Full-Auto Trigger, Standard Ammunition, a Vertical Foregrip, an Under-Gassed gas system, an Aiming Laser, a Muzzle Compensator and an Extended Stock.

But once this equine was close to the three, he stopped and took off his sunglasses and pulled off his bandana, revealing blood red changeling eyes, a unreformed changeling shaped muzzle and two fangs coated in dried blood.

Upon seeing these features, Chrysalis froze in shock and disbelief. It.. it can't be... She thought, as she stared at this very familiar changeling. Then, her thoughts were confirmed, when the changeling smiled at her and said, "After all this time, I have finally found you, my love,"

This was a turning point at this moment. Chrysalis then rushed up to and embraced the changeling, before locking lips with him. And just as she expected, he retuned the embrace and accepted the kiss.

After a while, the two broke the kiss. Chrysalis just stared into the changeling's eyes. And Tirek then broke the silence. "You... know him?"

Chrysalis just smiled.

Later...
Grogar's Lair

Grogar stared at his crystal ball, the image of his bell centred in the yellow glow. His eyes fixated on the magical instrument, his mind rampant with thoughts of him finally reunited with it and spreading chaos and fear throughout Equestria. How he wished that those three could work together and get him that bell.

A loud pounding at the entrance of his lair shook him from his thoughts. But just as he got up, the door came crashing down and the three villains entered after the door.

This was confusing as heck for Grogar. They had never ever done something like this before. Whether it was to annoy him or show their strength, he didn't know which reason it was. But the ram knew that something was up.

"Oh, golly. We are very sorry about the door, Grogar," Cozy apologized, with a sense of sarcasm in her tone.

This made the ram frown. They had never done what they had just done before. And he didn't feel any better when Cozy then suddenly gave him a evil smile...

Author's Note

FYI: The image I linked to Akula's Ghost uniform is shown to fit a human form. Just imagine that uniform fitted to an equine from, without gloves and boots (specifically, a changeling form). Or, if you are a good drawer, you can draw it and send the link to the photo to me (please)?

Also, the weapons you will see in the following chapters can be created in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier without any mods needed. So, if you wish to recreate the guns from this story, you may do so (But you will need to have unlocked quite a lot of stuff to do so).

Also also, I cut the chapter short because I wanted to. There was going to be more in this chapter, but I didn't feel like making more on this chapter.

Hope you enjoyed the first chapter.