Chapters Eighteen years had passed since Cozy Glow was imprisoned in Tartarus. Celestia and Luna had decided to start modernizing Equestria. Over the course of ten years, motorized vehicles were designed, tested, and mass produced. The last eight years encompassed soldiers being trained for combat on land, water, and in the air. Little did anyone know that the peace was about to be interrupted.
One summer evening in Canterlot, Celestia was doing some paperwork in her office when a guard knocked on the door.
"You may come in.", she responded as she finished signing off on a document.
The guard reported that a radio call had been received from Twilight.
"She needs to speak with you, Your Majesty. We have her on hold."
Celestia teleported to the communication room and put on her headset.
"What's going on Twilight?"
"Celestia, I was going back to my castle to turn in for the night when I saw something come swooping down from the sky uncontrollably and crash in the Everfree Forest. I radioed Luna to meet me for identification and we realized it was Discord. He's badly injured and fading fast. We have taken him to my castle and he has told us something startling. You might want to hear what he has to say."
Celestia wasted no time reaching Twilight's castle. Just inside the doors, Cadence and Flurry Heart were shuddering and chattering their teeth in nervousness. When she arrived the room where Discord was, she stumbled backwards upon seeing his injuries. He had a broken wing, two black eyes, and cuts and burns all over himself. He was also coughing up blood and having trouble speaking.
"Celestia, I have bad news for all of you. Emperor Grogar has returned from exile and has united King Sombra, Queen Chrysalis, Lord Tirek and Cozy Glow to destroy friendship completely. I tracked them down and discovered that they are planning to attack all over the globe, but they spotted me. I tried to get away, but they hit me hard. You must do everything in your power to defeat them and save the world."
Discord breathed his last having choked on his blood. Celestia arranged a proper burial for him and then gave an announcement to everyone, including the dragons, changelings, griffins, yaks, seaponies, and hippogriffs to prepare for war.
Queen Chrysalis had flown unseen over Equestria and witnessed the troops arriving and gearing up. She returned to the cave where the villains were gathered. She explained to everyone what was going on. Grogar was confused.
"I've never heard of these soldiers. Who exactly are they?", he asked with a grunt.
King Sombra rolled his eyes in annoyance at the mention of the fleet. Cozy Glow muttered something under her breath, presumably cursing against the fleet for bringing her down. Chrysalis spoke up.
"This fleet is a group of warriors that is spread out across the observable universe. Some of the soldiers reside here on Eqqus. Together, they fought to protect every single inch of space from an evil entity that is more powerful than you."
"Who could possibly be more powerful than me?", Grogar asked.
"These soldiers fought to protect the universe from the devil, Satan. He is the master of lies, stealing, temptation, and many other bad deeds. At this point, they have destroyed him for good. However, your decisions to bring down Twilight and her friends were likely part of Satan's work before he was destroyed.", Sombra grumbled.
Grogar was speechless. He continued to explain his plans to team up, but Sombra wouldn't listen. He was focused on fighting alone. Grogar relented and allowed him to attack by himself. Sombra had initially planned to take back the Crystal Empire, but he switched targets and chose to attack Canterlot first.
**
Before dawn the next morning, everyone was roused from sleep by the loud and ear-piercing SCREAM of air-raid sirens. Celestia rushed to a lookout and got word of Sombra's aircraft entering the area. She called out over a loudspeaker and soldiers began running out to defend. At the same time, Cadence and Flurry Heart began getting troops ready to protect the Crystal Empire.
"OPEN FIRE!", Brandon shouted.
The sky was illuminated in a heartbeat with spotlights, laser shots, flashes from gunshots, and exploding anti-aircraft shells. Sombra's bomber jet was struck on the starboard wing slightly and his fuel tank was ruptured, but he was able to drop three bombs on the capitol and cause a raging fire near a weapons storage silo. Enraged, Link shot a heat seeking missile to chase Sombra down. No one was killed in the attack, but there were many wounded.
"The Crystal Empire is mine again." Sombra said to himself as he flew further north.
He knew that he was losing fuel, but he didn't realize how fast until the gauge light started flashing when he was two-thirds of the way to the Crystal Empire.
"CURSE YOU, CHRISTIAN FLEET!!" he growled as his plane tipped into a steep dive.
He managed to eject from the plane before the missile struck and detonated the remaining bombs, but he landed so hard that he broke his horn off. He had also knocked himself unconscious from the hard landing. When he woke up, he was standing on a trapdoor with a rope in front of him and his hooves were shackled. Looking around, he realized that he was in the Crystal Empire, but not how he wanted to be. He was standing on the gallows and looking into the eyes of Flurry Heart and Cadence who were burning with anger.
"ANY LAST WORDS, EVIL KING?" Flurry hissed as she grabbed a lever with her aura.
Sombra said nothing and spat in Flurry's face. Disgusted, she nodded to her mom.
Cadence put a hood over Sombra's head, and then put the noose around his neck and tightened it. Flurry yanked the lever and Sombra dropped toward the ground. He felt the rope cinch against his throat and he felt his vertebra snap. Once it was confirmed that Sombra was dead, His lifeless body was cremated and his broken horn was sealed in a crystal and taken into space where it was shot into a black hole.
**
Back in the cave, Grogar and the other villains observed Sombra's demise.
"Serves him right for trying to attack alone." Tirek laughed.
Grogar nodded and continued setting plans for how the rest could attack if they worked together.
Celestia and Luna sent Brandon to sneak into the cave and gather some information about the villains' attack plans. It took four days to reach the cavern, but he was able to sneak in without being seen. Since he was wearing a chameleon suit, he was completely invisible, and he had also silenced his boots. He found that even though the villains were discussing together about how to carry out the attacks, each one would have their own mission. He took notes and pictures of the plans and began his trek back to the princesses. When he reached them, he explained what the plans were and how to counter them.
"Chrysalis will go first. Her targets are the Crystal Empire and the Changeling Kingdom. Ground troops and air force will need to shoot at her and hopefully bring her down. Delaying her weapons might help out as well."
"Mom and I can handle her when she is at both the Crystal Empire and the Changeling Kingdom.", Flurry said confidently.
"Not only that, but Thorax told us that Ocellus has recently been designing a missile that can seal cargo doors shut by spewing molten metal.", Cadence added.
"Tirek will try to set fire to the land next. Our best plan of attack is to spew a supercooled fluid at him, such as liquid nitrogen, to freeze him solid. Then we can remove his power and get rid of him properly."
"Leave it to us for killing Tirek. We beat him once, and we can do so again.", said the Main Six together.
"Cozy Glow will be last, and she has the most sophisticated attack plan. This will be the hardest one before we can take out Grogar himself. She is planning to drop bombs all over the land, even into the oceans. This alone will require using all of our assets, ranging from the ground troops to the air force and the navy."
"Once she is down, I should be the one to land the final blow. She betrayed me, and I need to return the favor with a vengeance." Neighsay said in a firm tone.
Brandon accepted all of the claims and everyone got to work drawing up plans for their methods of defending Equestria. The most intense part of the war was about to begin.
Cadence rushed to the Crystal Empire and Flurry Heart headed to the Changeling Kingdom to get everyone ready. They spread the word that Chrysalis was attacking and that some of her bombs were enhanced with changeling slime to maximize power. Brandon had reported that the changelings would be the first target, so Thorax had everyone get up early to get all of the defense systems up. Chrysalis' plane was spotted on radar two hours before dawn and the guns rang out as soon as she was in sight.
She was about to drop her first round of bombs when a flashbang blinded her. The bright flash gave an opportunity for Ocellus to fire her custom-made experimental weapon. As Cadence said, the missile spewed molten metal and sealed the doors shut on Chrysalis' plane, making it temporarily impossible for her to drop bombs. She began firing her guns and took out twelve changelings along with four defense turrets. One of her missiles reached the castle and weakened a pillar. Thorax would have been crushed to death, but Pharynx pushed him out of the way in sacrificing himself for his brother. Devastated and enraged, Thorax climbed to the castle's pinnacle and fired a blast from his horns. The blast shattered Chrysalis' cockpit window and forced her to put on an oxygen mask to breathe properly.
"If I can't exact my wrath here, then I will do so at my other target!", she shouted as she left the Changeling Kingdom and flew north.
Brandon climbed on Flurry Heart's back and gave pursuit. He received a radio call from Cadence that Chrysalis had struck. He urged Flurry to fly faster and they soon reached the Crystal Empire. They were met with chaos. Fires were raging from several of her bombs being dropped and many of the houses had been burnt to the ground. Chrysalis was using a tactic of swooping down and then turning around again to drop her bombs incrementally. When she pulled out of another swoop, she flew over his head and turned back to drop more bombs. Flurry noticed that the strong force had yanked twenty of her feathers off and she began screaming angrily.
"HOW DARE YOU MESS UP MY WINGS!"
Becoming angry himself, Brandon shot an arrow that severed the coolant line to the plane's engines, causing them to overheat. When the engines began to glow orange, Chrysalis realized that she was in danger and ejected as she approached the Crystal Empire again. The plane crashed to the ground and exploded in the outskirts, causing a blazing fire. The blast was intensified by the remaining bombs going off at the same time, which resulted in two watchtowers being destroyed. Chrysalis thought she had evaded the explosion, but shrapnel from her plane exploding came flying at a high velocity and clipped both of her wings. This made her unable to fly properly and slow down. Without the ability to slow down, she slammed face first into the outside of the palace at such a high speed that she was squashed and killed instantaneously in a slimy and bloody mess. The fire took three and a half hours to extinguish completely and thirty of the crystal ponies were killed in the battle. Twelve perished in fires, ten were shot by Chrysalis' guns, and the last eight were killed in bomb blasts. Once it was confirmed that Chrysalis was dead, Brandon left the Empire and hurried to reunite with his fellow soldiers while Cadence, and Flurry Heart helped repair the damages.
At midnight, Cozy's radar signal appeared on all of the displays around Equus. She was visible to all of the soldiers who were working to stop her attack. Searchlights were turned on and soldiers began priming their weapons for defense. Once Cozy's massive plane was spotted near Yakyakistan, soldiers immediately opened fire.
"Celestia, this is Link. We have engaged Cozy Glow.", Link radioed in.
"Affirmative, you must stop her at all costs.", Celestia replied.
Link acknowledged her reply and boarded his personal ship, the Phoenix . At the same time, Brandon, Colin, Stephen, and Fraaz boarded their ships as well. As they all took off, the Main Six followed suit and formed up as the main squadron.
"All wings, this is the Phoenix , report in.", Link radioed to his comrades.
"Odyssey standing by.", said Brandon.
"Eclipse standing by.", said Colin.
"Vulture standing by.", said Stephen
"Kelvin standing by.", said Fraaz.
"All pilots, set wings in attack position.", Celestia instructed over the radio.
Wings on the ships began opening up and the engines began speeding up as they accelerated to attack speed. Link expressed his plan to the Main Six.
"Alright, here's the plan, you must shoot the bombs and destroy them before they reach their targets. Me and my comrades will shoot at the plane to alter Cozy's course."
Everyone acknowledged and then they saw the bay doors fly open on the underside of Cozy's plane.
"This is Pony One , SHOWTIME!", Twilight called out.
As Cozy released her bombs, Twilight and her friends opened fire and destroyed them in midair. Cozy became angry and started shooting back.
"SHIELDS UP!", Twilight screeched.
Everyone quickly raised their shields and Colin flew his ship in front of Cozy, with his engines facing her.
"Let's see how you like fire.", he said with a grin.
He flipped a switch and deployed a rear-facing flamethrower with three barrels. Twelve foot long flames shot out and covered the front of Cozy's plane with soot. The heat caused the windshield to weaken and break apart. Cozy began coughing violently and quickly put on a respirator to breathe. She tried to start shooting back again, but Brandon had other ideas. He released two acid globes which shattered and melted Cozy's guns in a matter of seconds.
"Link, this is Twilight. My friends and I have a problem. Our laser guns are overheated, we need to pull back."
At this point, the chase had gotten over Ponyville. Cozy saw the Main Six pull away and dropped an incendiary bomb into the Everfree Forest. The bomb landed near a natural gas well and blew it sky high, setting fire to the entire forest. Firefighters were dispatched in a flash and began dousing the flames. Cozy turned to the southeast and flew for the Dragon Lands. Brandon called out to the Navy on the Celestial Sea, instructing them to get ready with anti-aircraft guns. Stephen activated a shockwave weapon that produced powerful bolts of lightning and threatened to zap Cozy who was trying to fly around the ocean and avoid the Navy.
At the same time, Fraaz released a smokescreen to blind Cozy. She flew straight into the path of the anti-aircraft guns and sustained heavy damage to her plane. Her fuel tank was ruptured and leaking badly, her landing gear was destroyed, and her cargo doors were jammed shut on the left side of the plane. Link flew ahead of Cozy Glow and then turned around to shoot at her with a laser lance. As he did so, the Main Six arrived and Fluttershy fired a heat-seeking missile at Cozy's engines.
Link's shots fried the controls in Cozy's cockpit and the missile started closing in rapidly as her plane glided helplessly downward over the Dragon Lands. She ejected before the impact, but didn't realize that she was headed straight towards a ledge. As she shot out of the cockpit, her plane struck the ground, the missile met its mark and took out the engines, and the remaining bombs were set off by the engines exploding. She didn't know that her helmet had fallen off, and she hit her head on the ledge and passed out.
When Cozy woke up, she was shackled to a tall square post and had something in her mouth that felt rubbery. She spat out what was in her mouth, but then heard something whistling through the air behind her. Before she could turn her head, she felt several sharp points slash across her back and she screamed in pain. She felt this ten times and then felt it once more on the back of her head. As she began to recover from the stinging pain, she tasted warm blood running into her mouth and realized that she had been whipped. Suddenly, she felt cold water splash against her back and she screamed even LOUDER. This was due to the fact that she had been sloshed with salt-water. The pain was so intense that she passed out again.
When she woke up again, she was staring into the faces of Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Twilight, Flurry Heart, Neighsay, Ember, Twilight's friends, and the other five Admirals in the Christian Fleet. She was tied to a post and standing on a pile of freshly cut wood.
"Cozy Glow, you are charged with attempted premeditated murder, arson, and escape from imprisonment!", Celestia hissed angrily.
"HOW DO YOU PLEAD?", screamed Luna.
"Your majesties, I have no choice but to plead guilty.", Cozy choked out.
"The stiffest sentence that we can give you is that of death by burning at the stake!", Cadence said in a disgusted manner as Flurry poured oil on the wood and Ember lit a lantern.
Ember handed the lantern to Neighsay who raised it high above his head as Colin lit torches around the stage for all to see.
"This is the consequence for betraying me 18 years ago.", Neighsay growled.
He threw the lantern down and shattered it. The oil ignited and set the wood ablaze. Flames engulfed Cozy in a matter of seconds. She was screaming in pain as the fire burned her severely, but soon choked on the smoke and passed out. As she burned, everyone watching was cheering. When her charred skeleton was all that was left of her, Brandon fired a signal flare for water to be dropped on the fire. When the fire was extinguished, Cozy's bones disintegrated into powder and were blown away by a single flap of Rainbow's wings.
"AND NOW FOR GROGAR!", Celestia shouted at the top of her lungs.
Everyone yelled back in agreement.
**
From his hideout, Grogar watched as his last attacker was sentenced to death.
"IT'S NOT FAIR!!", he yelled aloud.
Everyone charged on the cave where Grogar was and quickly had him restrained. Celestia destroyed his bewitching bell and Luna shattered his crystal ball. Once Link had shot arrows and pinned Grogar against the cave wall, Brandon drew his sword and prepared to deliver the final blow to end the war.
"You have caused your last dose of trouble for Eqqus! This is the end of your reign of terror.", Brandon yelled as he raised his sword.
With a single swing, Brandon decapitated the evil blue ram. Grogar's lifeless head and body burst into flames and were reduced to ashes.
All citizens of Eqqus were jubilant for three months straight after Grogar was killed, and Celestia had news for Twilight.
"It is time for me and Luna to retire and pass the torch to you as Equestria's new ruler. May you do well.", she said warmly.
"Thank you, Celestia. I will do my best.", Twilight replied with a bow.
Twilight was crowned the following week and the Christians packed up to leave. Peace was finally brought to Equestria after thousands of years, and there was never another threat again.
The End
As everyone was getting ready, Celestia gathered Luna, Twilight, Cadence, and Flurry Heart to discuss plans for the war.
"We might have a greater chance of succeeding if we call in our allies in the Christian Fleet.", Flurry suggested.
"I agree with her. They have always been a large help to us in times of need.", Cadence added.
Twilight and Luna agreed as well.
"Then it's settled. We will radio the fleet for reinforcements."
Celestia sent Flurry to the radio tower in the Everfree Forest with instructions to call out to all of the branches.
"This is Captain Flurry Heart of the E S S Harmony . This is a Priority-One call for reinforcements from all branches in the Christian Fleet. Unreformed villains are declaring war on Equestria and the surrounding regions. We stand a better chance of victory if we have more soldiers on our side."
Instantly, she began receiving acknowledgements from the other five branches.
"This is Admiral Link. The Lemurian Star will be arriving in orbit in two hours."
"This is Malladus. The Infinity is on her way."
"Terran Base here, this is Admiral Valerian. We're on our way."
"This is the Snowstar . The Brandonians are on route."
"This is Captain Reddick from Magmux. The Sunchaser is headed your way as I speak."
Flurry relayed all of the acknowledgements to the other princesses and the preparations continued. The ships appeared on radar and soldiers began coming down. Vehicles for all environments were sent down as well via transporters. These ranged from planes and helicopters to jeeps, snowmobiles, and battleships.
Neighsay had gotten word of the crisis and began suiting up himself. Tracking drones were launched to spy on the attackers and figure out what kind of tactics they would be using. It was discovered that the villains were in a faraway cavern, and had used wreckage from scrapped aircrafts to make their own, along with finding out the way to make powerful bombs. Little did anybody know that there was a surprise attack coming early the next morning. Nevertheless, the soldiers were split up evenly around the globe to protect against the attacks.
During the battle against Chrysalis...
Neighsay and the Main Six were getting ready with the help of Link and Colin. Colin's troops were standing ready to deploy liquid nitrogen for putting out any fires that Tirek started. He began torching the Everfree as soon as he reached Ponyville. Stray embers began igniting some of the structures, but the fires were quickly put out. After a large struggle, the lava warriors began shooting liquid nitrogen at Tirek himself. Even though the liquid nitrogen was colder than regular water, it was getting evaporated before it could reach Tirek's mouth.
"Link, the liquid nitrogen is not working at putting his fire breath out. I'm calling in Kirby and Fraaz to bring foam.", Colin radioed nervously.
"Acknowledged, Colin."
Seconds later, two ships came into view and began flying towards Tirek.
"The fire ships are here.", Link crowed.
Foam began spewing from the nozzles and putting out the forest fire and the structure fires at a massive velocity. Some of the foam hit Tirek in the face and blinded him along with stopping his fire breath.
"YOU'RE UP!", Link yelled to the Main Six.
Neighsay used his medallion to charge up his horn and released a chain to restrain Tirek and take away his power. Then the Main Six took over. They began feeling the power from the Elements of Harmony surging through their veins and then they joined together to release a blast of the energy. Tirek was hit square in the chest, and the blast of energy burned a hole through his heart. He dropped to the ground screaming in pain and then turned to dust. After he was defeated, the power dissipated and everyone came back together.
**
Grogar and Cozy Glow watched both of their allies' defeats in disgust. Grogar informed Cozy that he was now relying on her to win the war.
"I will not accept another defeat from those slimy soldiers. Kill them all."
Cozy nodded and started prepping her plane. This one would be the largest one seen and the hardest one to take down. Once all of her weapons were loaded up, she put on her helmet and climbed into the pilot's seat. The engines warmed up quickly and she taxied onto the runway outside the cave. Once she had accelerated to a high enough speed, she pulled back on the yoke and her wheels left the tarmac. She did not know that Brandon had secretly attached a tracker to her plane which would allow her location to be known at all times.