What It's Like To Call This Place Home

RED looked around "Well, that happened."

The Doctor sat down "Yep, and I was gonna ask her out..."

"Your too late, dude." RED turned and left the Tartis "I think Atlus has won." RED walked randomly around the orchards for several minutes, until he heard his name from somewhere towards the middle of the orchards, so he redirected his course in that direction. After several minutes, he arrived at the barn "Did somepony call me name?" RED walked to the front, finding Applejack sitting and waiting for him "Sup, AJ, you called?"

She nodded "Ah got a letter from Luna, she wants t' see y'all in Canterlot, today." She led him to a chariot with two of Luna's royal guard.

"What's with the chariot?" RED looked bored "I'm assuming she sent transportation for the other Spectors as well."

She nodded "Its important, but don't say anything, it's top secret."

"Cool, it's been too long since we got a top priority mission, I'll radio Atlus, let him know to get to Twi's place A.S.A.P."

She nodded, then stood on her hind legs, and kissed him "jus' be careful, alright?"

"I'm walking fire, being careful is the least of my concerns, don't worry about me, I'll be fine, k?" RED lifted her in a hug, then kissed her back "'Sides, I've got the others to help, should I need it." He put AJ back down, walking towards the chariot, he activated his radio "Atlus, report to Golden Oaks Library, A.S.A.P."

-"Affirmative"-

All five Spectors were standing on the flat roof of the tallest tower of the royal palace. It was a giant black slab of stone, in the center it looked like someone lived there. A book shelf, bed, and telescope, was placed about, as though it was used, very recently. They all stood at ease. "Attention!" Dimitri commanded the Spectors, as Luna began to appear, the Spectors obeyed the command, moving to attention.

Luna noticed this "A-at ease." Luna looked surprised, Dimitri noticed.

"Permission to speak, ma'am." Luna looked more surprised.

"Granted."

"You look surprised, may I ask why, ma'am?"

"Equestria has not been a military power since a massive was way back when Celestia and I had first gained control... It was also the last time we saw any of these" she conjured an illusion of a massive, armored, Changeling. "I think somepony has recruited The Changeling Queen's heavy soldiers, for warring reasons."

"How do you know they were recruited? Is it possible they have just quit?" PK questioned.

"I don't think they would all be going to the same location at the same time if they quit."

Atlus stepped forward "You wish for us to find the location they are heading, correct?"

Luna nodded. "Destroy any you encounter, you are the only military power Equestria has."

RED smirked "So what your saying is, that Equestria will never fall, as long as we live."

"If that is how you interpret it, then yes." She smiled "and since you are so cocky, the mission is all yours."

"Bad ass! Is this slab explosion-proof?"

"Yes."

"Atlus, what direction are they in?"

"North, Two-Hundred miles."

"Peace!" RED detonated the air around him, launching himself into the air, Atlus pointed north. RED continually detonated the air behind him, constantly moving him towards his target. "Atlus, what is their Position!"

"-They have stopped, I will keep you updated on their location, until you can see them.-"

Several minutes tater, RED had visuals "Atlus, cancel next update, I have visuals, I repeat, I have visuals." Red dropped through the air, landing a quarter mile away, before he lost view of them he used his nanobots to quickly count them "Ho-ly shit."

"-What did you see?-"

"My nanobots counted one-thousand-fifty of the bastards."

Dimitri chimed in "-Why so many... It's as if they're trying to build an army to rival us, specifically...-"

"-RED, this is the fifth pack to travel this path, Luna thought it was just a mating season kind of thing, but there apparently have never been reason for that many to have existed.-" Echo informed them "-What, Twi has been teaching me the history of Equestria, from the very beginning.-"

RED began laughing "Neeeerrrrrd! Man, E, you officially fail!" He began sprinting toward the Changeling camp "At any rate, this battalion is NOT getting any closer to their destination!" He jumped through a bush, several feet away from them, the second they noticed them, several exploded, the ones that should have been crippled, just stood back up, but the specific targets would never move again.

Anitchka was watching the show on a viewing portal, laughing "It will take a lot more of your fire to damage them, you fool!" His outburst caught Sombre's attention.

"Whats happening?" He looked at the portal, he watched horrified as RED, although having some trouble, slaughter the giant changelings "You allow your most powerful soldiers to be slaughtered, and laugh at their pain?!"

"Yes, he does!" Trixie appeared next to him "And I love that sense of humor!"

"And they thought I was Evil... That's really messed up."

"Silence yourself, and go Finnish the augmentations, I told you to make, or you will face him!" Sombre quickly trotted out of the room "Now it seems that I must retrieve the soldiers myself, if we ever want to have an army, of the correct proportions. I leave you in charge, until I return, my love." He kissed Trixie, before disappearing.

RED placed his palm on the face of the last Titan, causing the fluids in its head to rapidly explode. "Last one dead. I'm coming back, and leaving a note saying it took me..."

"-Fifteen minutes.-" Atlus informed him.

"To do this damage, and that there are four mor like me, ready for combat."

"-That is perfect, do you wish for me to teleport you?-" Atlus questioned.

"You can do that?"

"-Yes, Dimitri developed a perfected version of his teleportation system, one that allows me to teleport item not infused with nanobots.-"

"Why doesn't he do that to himself?"

"-The procedure would kill him, permanently.-"

"Ah, yea teleporting sounds like a good idea." RED said before Atlus appeared in a cloud of static.

"Let us go." Atlus grabbed RED's hood, then they were on the roof, with the other Spector

"Whoa, dude! You fuckin' stink!" Echo, and Dimitri covered their noses, PK fell forward (most powerful sense of smell) thudding on the ground, Luna covered her mouth, trotting to the edge and picking over the threshold.

RED looked at his arms "Oh yea, I forgot to burn of the gore!" He lit up, as a red flame engulfed him, incinerating all gore.

"Much better, damn, changeling gore smells bad! Why couldn't you smell that?"

RED scratched his head smiling as the fire went away "Gore smells like gore to me, not much difference."

The meeting was coming to a close as Luna was asking the final question "Now I cannot send a guard to acquire all of you every time, any ideas?"

RED thought for a second "Do you have something that will never stop burning?"

"Yes." She clapped her hoove together, causing an inch thick column to rid from the ground, an ice blue emerald sat atop the column "the only way to stop a fire on this emerald, is to completely submerge it in freezing water."

RED launched a crimson flame at it, lighting it "I can move through my own fire, like a checkpoint. Also, do you have more?"

"I have as many as you like."

"One-Hundred, please."

She summoned a pouch full of miniature versions of the ice blue emerald "Just place it in a spot, where it will not catch anything else on fire."

"Cool, peace!" He launched himself off the tower, then detonated the air behind him once, arcing him perfectly to land outside Sweet Apple Acres' sign. "Ah, home, sweet home!"

Trixie was sitting on the stuns throne, thinking, while Sombre trotted in "Hey.. Wait a minute... Where is the dragon?"

"He is manually retrieving the army." She sighed.

"Can I ask you something?"

"Sure, what's up?"

"What do you think of him, honestly? Are you using his love of you for power? Or is his love shared?"

She looked him in the eye "At first, I was just using him... But sixteen years ago he risked his only chance to kill all the Spectors by himself, to save my life... And sixteen years is a lot of time to think... And his love is... Shared."

"What a pity."

"Why?"

"He is the type who will sacrifice anything and anypony, to get exactly what he wants... I've only encountered one other being who was like that... He was a terrifying fighter..."

"And let me guess... It was you?"

He looked horrified "No, no it was not. That being was a true monster. It was the leader of the Spectors."

Trixie flinched "So that was him... If Anitchka says this army will work, it will."

"Is that what happened last time?"