"How's it going?!" A man said as he was sharpening his sword. He was speaking to an elderly man who had sat beside him, "Hey, I heard Discord's army is trying to get info out of the emperor."
"Discord does not understand that the emperor has the information to where the Emperor's Jewel is. He knows that he can't kill him. However, if you've seen how the emperor has been the last few years; this may be a sign that he doesn't have long left. I believe that once he passes...," The elder looked down, and looked towards the sky, "Discord will search every dimension up and down. Including our island here..."
"Well, we don't have to worry about anything. Those six warriors that arrived here yesterday show a lot of prowess. I'm sure with the combined might of our militia... we can push Discord's army back. We'll be fine here."
"There's a ship landing on the beach!" A voice yelled out, "Whose ship is that?" One soldier asked, "It's Discord, Discord is attacking! He'll be any minute!" This caused the man to jump up in shock.
"Ugh, looks like Discord is already beginning his attacks. There's only one ship, so it's more than likely a recon squad. They'll be easy to take out," The man took his sword, and stood up only to look back at the elder, "Would you care to join?"
The elder nodded as he manifested a wind staff, "I may be old, but I still a little fight in me."
On the beach, Cobalt stood off the ship and saw that the island was still in one piece, "The Depab Archipelago. Home to a small village of about 1,000. It seems Discord hasn't made his way here."
"Discord doesn't know this part of the mystic realm. Besides, this is only a remote island," Harmony spoke, but she instantly turned her attention to her daughter who started coughing. She pressed her head against hers, and her eyes widened, "Her fever has gotten worse. We need to find help quickly Cobalt."
"I know, but I don't know this island well either. I usually send Fluttershy and Thunder here to work out any legal actions. I've never been here before."
"Look, go find some help, and I'll stay here with my daughter. Hurry, I don't know how long she has."
"Right!" Cobalt hopped off the ship and ran up a slope only to see a massive army in front of him, "Was I wrong?" The army reached to massive lengths, "This could be the entire island. When was the last time we did we do a population consensus?" As Cobalt was in thought, a large volley filled the sky. The volley was large enough to block the sun, "What the?!" The arrows came down on to Cobalt with a large explosive shockwave.
"Sir, our arrows made contact with the invader!" A soldier reported to the same man from before. This soldier, along with the others had little to no armor on their chest. They were no more than mere peasants."
"Good, that should be enough to take 'em out," However, as this man said this, a large explosion emerged from the beach, "Huh?!" Cobalt emerged from the dust to show a green barrier around him, "Hmph, I guess it's a mystic of some sort. Could be a former soldier of Brisk's army. Arrowhead formation! Charge at him full force!" The army created an arrowhead type of formation before charging at Cobalt.
Cobalt, although reluctant, prepared for a fight, "I guess I don't have a choice...," Cobalt charged as well to meet the enemy army full force.
Meanwhile, the Mane 7 were all resting while in their carriage. Rarity tried to find a way to use their mystic powers, but to no avail, "What is wrong with our mystical powers? We used them just fine when we were on the main land," That's when the driver spoke up.
"Mystics and their powers have no power anymore. The Queen of Uskain is the only one that wields that power here. For some reason, after her grandfather's rule, all the power of non-imperial blood civilians were disabled. No one knows why that's the case. Ever since then, our advancement in technology decreased. Though we use firearms, those are mostly of trade from Earth."
"I thought Cobalt stopped all trade in and out of Earth on order from the UN. Why is that available here?"
"Well, we aren't part of Emperor Cobalt's rule. Once Cobalt ordered the queen's grandfather to secede from his rule; he created his own set of laws that allowed trade to and from Earth. Although, Earth does its trade in private from their own central governments. Many merchants in the mainland do this as well. They receive munitions from Earth to either give to The Resistance or the Anti-Resistance."
"Hm..."
"I heard there are even Earth merchants that trade with merchants here. There's a large trading system that was secretly implemented after The Great War. It's what made the civil war here slow, yet deadly. However, The Uskain National Liberation Army and the Anti-Resistance Forces outnumber the Resistance 1 to 4. The only thing keeping them in the fight is their way of guerrilla warfare. It's what's lowered the morale and numbers of the defenders."
"Hm, and if our husband would have sent troops here to assist?"
"That more than likely would've caused more destruction not to either army, but to the Imperial Army themselves. The Imperial Army still fight with swords and magic, correct?"
"Yeah. Why do you ask?"
"They would've been quickly gunned down by the firearms. Both armies have adapted without the use of magic, and know how to counter magic now that they've evolved from that type of warfare. Yes, all of you and Cobalt's elite soldiers are powerful, but all that can be stopped with a simple bullet. Guns have been so common here in Uskain that nearly everyone carries one."
Rarity fell silent before asking, "Do you carry one?"
The driver pulled out a compact glock from a holster on his hip, "Of course I do. My job is dangerous. Especially if I'm carrying valuable goods. I need to be able to protect myself."
"With only a handgun?"
"There's more," He put his handgun away, and turned around, "There should be a a secret compartment below one of your friends," Rarity looked down, and saw a small indent on the bottom of the carriage. It was under, Rainbow, who was fast asleep. She softly moved her aside to open the compartment to reveal an arsenal enough to support a family, "This helps me on my travels. However, the Anti-Resistance force was able to push the Resistance back."
"Some of these firearms..."
"Allow me to answer your question before you ask. The queen has actually turned to the countries in the Earth realm for assistance. Although they can't send troops, they can send help through equipment. We have help from many countries in the Earth Realm. Two large contributors is the U.S and China. They send any type of supplies they can. Weapons, armored vehicles, artillery weapons etc. The list goes on."
"If there are vehicles like that here in Uskain; why isn't there one stationed in nearly every city here?"
"We may be supplied by them, but that doesn't mean there's enough to go around. The cities of important stature were given armored transport vehicles in order to transport court officials to and from the capitol."
Rarity fell silent until one thought crossed her mind, "Is our husband disliked here?"
"Oh heavens no. The civilians here adore Cobalt. However, some of the civilians here don't particularly like you."
"Me?"
"The nation knows that you were the one that passed the vote to steer away from the war, and to not let the public of the entire mystic realm to know of this civil war. A few civilians did not take kindly to your neglectfulness...," That's when the man stopped his carriage. He set his hand on his handgun, and took it out. He turned around and pointed it at Rarity, "I am one of them..."
Rarity's eyes widened as she stared down the barrel of a gun pointed at her,"I know is partially my fault, but I don't need to die for it! No, someone save me!"
BANG!
Cobalt was surrounded by multiple soldiers. He calculated the movements of each soldier that as ready to strike, "These soldiers are untrained in combat. Their attacks will be easy to counter...," As he said this, two soldiers charged at him. He ducked down and swung behind him. He heard another soldier run from behind him, and he stabbed his sword underneath his arm, stabbing the soldier in the process. A group of soldiers charged at him from his left, and he swung in their direction, taking them all out.
He was then pierced by an arrow in his shoulder in which he pulled out. After this, he threw his sword in the direction of the arrow. His sword pierced the archers chest, almost instantly killing him. Cobalt went to pick up one of the fallen soldiers swords, and continued with his attacks. One by one, they fell. The sword soon broke from use, and he picked up a spear to vault himself over to his sword. He picked up his sword, and flipped out of harms way.
He wielded the spear and his sword tight, ready to strike back. In the distance, 6 unknown decorated warriors stood over a hill, "He's quite powerful my lord. What shall we do?" One spoke. This one was female with flaming red hair. She wielded a war trident that was rather large.
"Remember, we can't rush into battle like usual. We aren't habitants of this world, so we need to be cautious of who we fight. This man here will surely be a test," Their leader spoke. He wielded a bo staff. This bo staff was red, and you could practically feel the flames emanate from it.
"Oh come on Brian, we can handle this guy. There's 6 of us, and only one of him," Another one spoke, this was a girl too. In fact, every one of them except the leader was female. This one had lightning blue hair, and wielded a sword and shield similar to that of Silver.
"Oh please, Celestia, don't be too irrational with Brian," This one sounded a little like Rarity, except without the over exaggerated accent. She had icey-white hair, and wielded a dual bladed weapon similar to that of Brisk.
"Silver is right, I'm sure we should plan this attack out first. Look at how he's handling our large army. He's not a force to be reckoned with," This girl had lapis colored hair, and she wielded dual swords.
"I'm with Celestia. We're all much stronger than the soldiers fighting. If we combine our might, we can subdue this threat," This girl had features similar to that of Blaze and the girl mentioned first. She wielded a serrated blade that had weird symbols on it.
"Girls, quiet! What should we do Brian?" The first asked.
"Thank you Cupcake.I agree with Gleam, and Lapis. I say we do what we can to subdue this man. We don't know what he's capable off, so stay on the defensive. Let's go!"
"Right!"
They all grew grew dragon-like wings before flying down towards Cobalt. He caught wind of this, and he spun into the ground, "Huh? Where'd he go?"
Cobalt jumped from the ground, and charged at Brian, "I got you now," However, he was blocked by all of Brian's girls, "Huh?"
"You won't lay a finger on our master!"
Cobalt backed away, and landed on the ground to see the 6 warriors flying in front of him, "None of you are human, are you?"
"Speak for yourself after what you just did!"
"I get it! Look, I'm not here looking for trouble!"
"Nonsense, we won't listen to your lies! We'll stop you here and now!" Cupcake stated.
"Enough talk! I just wanna fight!" Celestia charged towards Cobalt, in which he went into the ground, causing Celestia to miss. She stopped in her tracks only for Cobalt to rise up behind her to elbow her in the gut. This sent her far into the sandy beach. Cupcake launched a lightning strike at Cobalt in which he countered it by channeling it through his sword back towards her.
Cupcake attempted to block the lighting strike with her trident, but the force forced her into the same situation as Celestia. Silver sent down multiple ice shards, similar to that of Brisk towards Cobalt, "I've seen this one too many times...," Cobalt kicked through each icicle. After the last shard was destroyed, he sliced the air in front of him, and created a massive ball of energy. He then kicked the ball as if it was a soccer ball towards Silver.
Silver had managed to dodge it only for it to explode into the group of soldiers watching the battle. Silver turned towards the carnage. However, this small opening left her open for an attack. Cobalt charged towards her, and kicked her dead in the sternum. This caused her to cough up a little blood as she collided with the ground with force.
Lapis and Gleam attacked Cobalt. Lapis attacked swiftly with her swords which surprised Cobalt, "She's fast. What the hell? I've never seen anyone attack as fast as her..."
He didn't see Gleam coming from the side to attack. He was quick enough to match her speed, and he was met with her blade in his abdomen. Gleam let out a berserker scream as she drove her blade through Cobalt. The force of the hit sent Cobalt into a nearby palm tree. The sand covered Cobalt as he collided with a loud boom. Gleam and Lapis gave each other a fist bump as they saw what they had done to Cobalt.
They all met in front of the kicked up sand, "Did we beat him?" Brian inspected the sand in front of him. It was then they saw a blue aura emanate from the sand, and a large beam fire at them. The beam hit everyone except Brian. The beam sent the girls tumbling down the hills on the beach.
Brian gritted his teeth as Cobalt walked out of the sand to reveal zero wounds on his body. The two warriors circled around before charging at each other. The two blocked every attack they threw at each other. This stopped when Brian suddenly appeared behind Cobalt, and grabbed him from behind. The Brian in front of Cobalt then grabbed him from the front. The two copies looked at each other as the two jumped up high into the air. They then spun at high speeds head first down towards the ground below.
"This is gonna hurt..." Cobalt flinched as a massive explosion kicked up large amounts of sand. Once the sand dissipated, the other Brian copy was already gone, and the real Brian was breathing heavily. However, in front of him, Cobalt was nowhere to be seen, "Huh? Where did he go?"
Brian looked around for Cobalt, but to no avail. He was nowhere to be seen. It was then he felt movement behind him. Before he could fully turn around, he shot by the same beam that hit his students. Brian was sent back, but he was able to gain ground and land on his feet.
Cobalt then heard something being shot at him from behind him. He turned to block it, but his sword was hit from his hand by a razor sharp throwing knife. He attempted to go for his sword, but Celestia was there to trade a hit on Cobalt. He anticipated the attack, and he went into the ground once again only to appear behind them.
He dusted himself off as he kicked up a spear into his hand, "You're all much stronger than I thought. That goes against my own teachings."
"We did the same to your own skill. It's a shame you are to be our enemy. You would be a great ally."
"Same to you, Brian. Weird name, but you're all strong nonetheless. However, I'm here for a whole different reason," Cobalt began to twirl the spear before getting into a battle ready position, "It's back to basics for me!" Cobalt then charge at them sweeping, and stabbing at them. However, they easily blocked and dodged his attacks. He then stabbed his spear to vault in between all of them. The spear then started to glow blue as he twirled it around in an attempt to hit them.
However, this proved useless when Silver countered the attack, and swiftly attacked him. She knocked him back towards Gleam, "Gleam!"
Gleam proceeded to swiftly attack with her sword before ducking down, "Celestia!"
Celestia came charging in with her shield. She tackled him with it, and sent him into the air. She followed it up by following him up, and throwing her shield down onto Cobalt, sending him onto the ground. Celestia then proceeded to surf on Cobalt through the sand before kicking him up, "Lapis!"
"Right!" Lapis jumped up, and attacked Cobalt with light, but fast hits before moving away, "Cupcake!"
Cupcake stood on the ground as she waved her hand across the blade of her trident. She then swung down to force an eruption of dark matter to shoot from the ground, "He's all yours master!"
Brian jumped up and jabbed his bo staff multiple times into the air sending multiple small meteorites at Cobalt before hitting him into the ground. Cobalt was forced onto the ground. The 6 warriors surrounded him, "Do you give up?"
Cobalt smirked, and balled his fists fiercely, "Not a chance," Cobalt's eyes began to glow yellow as his eyes, nose, mouth and ear began to bleed.
"What in the world?"
Cobalt than uttered the two words, "Last Stand..."