Rarity flinched as she awaited the bullet, but she looked ahead of her to see the man was now dead. A bullet had penetrated his skull, killing him instantly. The gunshot woke up her friends who were dazed at what just happened, "Rarity?" Twilight slowly said. Her eyes widened when she had saw that their driver was dead, "What happened to our driver?"

"I-I don't know! One second we were talking about the war going on here. Then he started to say that some of the civilians here don't like me because I ordered our army not to assist. He then pulled a gun on me stating that he was one of those people. Then he was shot. I don't know where the bullet came from..."

"Anyone in there?!" A voice called out, "We're here to help you out here!" The carriage drapes opened up to reveal multiple soldiers dressed out in black clothing and vests, "Wait, you're Rarity, and you're all Emperor Cobalt's wives. I'm glad we stopped him before he took the shot. Look, we can take you and your friends to the capitol."

"Thank you. How can we repay you?"

"No need for it. We know the trouble Cobalt is in. We only wish to help you and your family out," He then pressed his hand onto his ear, "What?" All of her friends looked on with concern, "I see, roger that."

"What happened?"

"Cobalt escaped from the mainland."

"H-He escaped?"

Back on the Depab Archipelago, Cobalt would take out hundreds of militants in one hit. Brian and his students were sent far back from the force of Cobalt's attacks, "Where did all this strength come from?"

"He said Last Stand only after he started to bleed from his face. Maybe he's pushing his body past his limit," Lapis responded, "I say we let him go until his own body kills him."

"I don't want him to die. I'd rather have us capture him so that we can know his true intention."

"There's no way we can even attempt to capture him in this state. What are we gonna do master?"

"I can go full dragon mode, but I don't want to risk destroying the entire island," He then looked at his hand, "We need to activate Empower somehow."

"We can't do that. Look, I say we just try to fatigue him. It's the only I can think of a way to beat him in his current state," All they heard in the distance was massive explosions, and Cobalt screaming like a madman.

Brian shook his head, and stepped forward, "Let's go. We can't let him too close to the village!"

"Right!"

Rarity and her friends were already boarding a transport helicopter, but before Rarity could hop on, a well dressed court official stopped her, "Excuse me, Ms. Rarity."

"Huh? Oh, you're the mystic official we sent here 2 years ago. Moonshadow was it?"

"Yes, you're correct. You see, we'll be sending your friends to stay around the area of the capitol. However, you'll be speaking to the queen directly. You have a quite a bit to discuss with the queen. Don't worry though, I can help converse with her."

"Uh, okay. Thank you Moonshadow."

"No problem milady. Let us go."

Rarity stepped onto a smaller helicopter with Moonshadow, and they put on the headsets that were there, "So milady, the mainland has fallen, hasn't it?"

"Yes. Cobalt sent my children, along with my friends and I here to avoid the attacks on the mainland as everyone here were to call it."

"Ah yes, the citizens here call the lands up north the mainland. No matter though, there was actually word that one of your children is now a soldier of the UNLA."

"Really? Who?"

"I have no idea. They only just arrived yesterday."

"I see, it may be my daughter. Let us hurry please. I need to know if the rest of the kids are safe."

"Yes milady. PIlot, let's speed this up," The pilot gave them a thumbs up, and went slightly faster.

Harmony saw the destruction in front of her, and she wanted to stop it. But she didn't want to leave her daughter behind while she was sick, "Cobalt..."

Cobalt stood in the middle of nearly hundreds of corpses. Cobalt began to yell at the bloodshed around him. He stabbed the staff of his halberd into the ground fiercely, taking out more soldiers just from this alone. He then stood stone still after his charade.

Brian was about ready to signal another attack on him, but he stopped. He held his hand up to stop his students, "Wait, it seems he had finally reached his limit. His soul looks as if it has been passed on to the next generation," They all stared at Cobalt's immobile body as he had his eyes closed, "If he were to have a title, he would surely be called the God of War."

Out of nowhere, the man from earlier jumped over Brian and his students to attack him, "Take this!" Cobalt's eyes shot open as he swung and hit this man with the blunt part of his halberd. This sent him flying into the sand as he turned his attention back to Brian, and Brian only.

"Please, I only request help..."

Brian looked past him to see Harmony running up the hill, "Please, stop fighting. He's telling the truth. He's only seeking help. Help for his family, kingdom, and my daughter," Harmony was seen carrying her daughter in her arms, "Can't you see? He's the emperor of the mystic realm!"

"Emperor?" Brian questioned.

"Wait, Emperor Cobalt?" The man slowly stood up to see for himself. His widened at the realization, "He is...," The elderly man arrived soon after and sighed.

"Ah, I do apologize your imperial highness. Our village leader here is much too young and incompetent."

"What?!"

"Silence you. I humbly apologize for the trouble we caused."

"It's nothing. I just wish... to seek...," Before Cobalt could finish, he collapsed in front of them.

"Cobalt!" Harmony ran up to him to check if he was still breathing, "He used his Last Stand ability. He needs to be healed right away. Excuse me, can one of you hold my daughter while I heal her?"

"I'll do it," Brian stepped up, and took Harmony's daughter from her.

"Thank you, Brian was it?"

"Yes, I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. He tried to tell us, but we didn't listen to him. I hope you can forgive us."

"It's fine. You all were just trying to defend your home."

Brian then turned to his students, and chuckled, "Actually, we're not even from this realm. We were brought here from some unique force. One second we were training before...," Brian paused slightly before he continued, "I was with my students and all my friends. However, in the middle of our training, a large dark vortex formed over our heads. It then surrounded us, and we felt ourselves being lifted up."

Cupcake then continued for them, "We soon found our home to be surrounded by unknown entities. They looked to be serpent-like human beings, along with ponies, and dragon-like creatures as well. They attacked us, and even proved too much for us to handle. Most of our friends were captured, and we soon found ourselves to be on this island. We don't know where all of our friends are, but I'm still somewhat glad that I have my master and sisters with me."

"Discord..."

"This Discord fellow, we've heard a lot of talk about him. Who is he?" They soon heard Cobalt cough up blood during their conversation, causing the elder to speak.

"I say we heal our emperor here first before we continue on. Takam, clear the island of all these bodies. We'll need to rebuild our army soon if Discord were to actually attack."

"Right," The man, now known as Takam, got to work with other soldiers to rid the bodies from the island.

"That is Takam, he's our village's leader. However, he is still very young as you can see. He's only a few years older than the emperor's oldest daughter. Let us head back to our village. I can perform my healing magic there."

"Thank you elder for helping me, and if you can, would you please do the same with my daughter?"

The elder inspected Harmony's daughter who was in Brian's arms, "Hm, she has a high fever, but it's nothing too serious. I can use some herbs back at the village to create a soup that will weaken the effects of this fever. With a little bit of rest, she'll be as good as new. My name Bezsius. I'm the mystic realm's last known mage in existence."

Back at the capitol, Quartz was carrying his new equipment inside the capitol with Lavender glaring at her brother, "If my memory serves me right, I thought this was a clothing run for you Quartz. Not an equipment run."

"Well, this just sort of caught my eye. Besides, this will be cool," Quartz set down the cache in his room with everyone waiting outside, "This is gonna be awesome!" Quartz started to take out the vest and weapons in the cache. Saber went to sit beside him to inspect each weapon for them.

"Now you know that you won't be able use these weapons on missions, right? These are all specifically for practice. Now I can't tell you how to control your recoil just yet, but I can tell you how to load your weapons, and the basic uses of it."

Saber started to explain as Alicia looked at Lavender, "Excuse me Lavender," Lavender turned around in response, and she continued, "May I speak with you in my throne room?"

"Of course," Lavender followed Alicia to her throne room, and waited for the reason they were their, "What's wrong?"

"I've received word that my men has picked up all of your mothers. Your parents will be staying in a mansion not far from here, but Quartz's mother, Rarity, will be arriving here shortly to discuss the attack on your father's land. We've also received word that your father was captured."

"He was?"

"Yes, and he was captured about a few hours after you were sent here," Lavender looked down in worry to know that her father who was known to the strongest mystic in history was captured, "However, we've received word that there was some major destruction done by one warrior on the Depab Archipelago. That may be your father escaped from his prison not long ago."

"Really? Can we go save him?"

"That's why we're calling his wife. We want Rarity's opinion on what we should do with that warrior at Depab. We don't know if it's really Cobalt or not, so we don't want to risk giving the position of our nation away for Discord to attack."

"Discord?"

"We'll talk about it once Rarity arrives. Actually, Quartz will not be meeting his mother just yet. For you see, he'll be sent on a recon mission with his captain. So it'll take some time before they meet each other once again. I know they're rough past with each other. I want to give Rarity some time before she comes face to face with her son."

A soldier ran into the throan room with Rarity and Moonshadow behind them, "Milady, Lord Rarity and Senator Moonshadow have arrived."

"Ah...," Rarity saw Lavender, and looked away from her which confused her greatly, "It is a pleasure to meet you Rarity."

"The p-pleasure is all mine. Queen Alicia, if I may ask, which one of my children is part of your army?"

"That is something that you'll have to wait on my lord. First, I need to have a word about your husband..."

Meanwhile, back in Quartz's quarters, he was working on tactical reloads and such, "Reload!" Saber yelled causing Quartz to quickly reload his weapon in under 10 seconds, "Great, you seem to be having trouble to properly take the mag out of your pouch and loading it in the gun, but so does everyone else. You're ready."

"Ready for what?"

"Your first mission..."

Silver and her sisters were with Platinum training until a resistance soldier ran up to them, "Platinum, we've received word that there's a recon unit being sent to our cargo ship on the west side of Uskain."

"Hm, girls, this will be your first test. The four of you will lead the counter-defense against this recon squad. I want all of you to send a message to the UNLA. You'll be sent there now quickly. Let's get all of you suited up."

Soon afterwards, Quartz and his sister started to gear up for the recon mission. Quartz sported out gear that made him look like an elite soldier. Silver and her sisters looked like typical resistance soldier. What will happen when these siblings come face to face with each other?