Sombra looked at sonic.
"My son, don't you think you might be overexager-"
"No! Celestia has sent the mane six and the freedom fighters to the edge of our border, just in case we decide Canterlot would be a nice place to invade and destroy next! I told them we were not the enemy." Sonic roared, slamming his fist into a pillar, leaving a sizeable crack in it.
"Yes, but you also haven't given them reason to believe it." Sombra folded his hands in front of his face and closed his eyes in thought. "This is unexpected, and consequential, beyond a doubt."
Sonic's eyes narrowed. "One word and I could easily triple the man power needed."
"No need." Sombra turned to the wall behind him, made up entirely of TV screens, with a wave of his hand. "You get yourselves ready. Special ops mission 2341597. You deal with this. Don't kill, unless others try to kill you."
Sonic nodded and walked off, followed by the other horsemen. Cadence and Crash looked at Sombra.
"Are you sure that's the best idea, Father?" Cadence asked.
"They can handle this. They'll be fine."
Sonic and the others walked into their private armory. "You know the drill. Kill people who try to kill you, otherwise, play the diplomats." Sonic said, while grabbing two Black Rhino DS60's and an AK-47. "Now, get ready."
The others set to work, grabbing weapons they saw fit to take, along with their ordinary weapons. Knuckles took a minigun and 2 western colts. Shadow took two silenced Uzi's and a Rosenberg pump-action shotgun. Tails grabbed a sniper rifle and two desert eagles. Silver grabbed an anti-tank rifle and a German lueger. Silver, being the ever so quiet figure, grabbed a grenade launcher.
"Ready?" Sonic asked.
The others nodded. Without so much as a word, the group headed out of the castle and sped toward the border.
The mane six and the freedom fighters waited at the border, along with a sizeable battalion of the royal army.
"Why do we need to just sit here? We should be doing reconnaissance or something." Dash grumbled.
"Darling, the princesses said to wait at the border. I, for one, won't disobey their orders." Rarity said.
Something flashed in the distance, catching dash's eye.
"Commander." She said. "Take about a fourth of your troops and go check that out. Report if you find anything,"
The commander nodded and took his group. They walked out to the clearing, out of sight of the rest of the group. The commander saw movement out of the corner of his eye, pulled out his pistol, and fired. The movement stopped.
"Commander, is everything alright?" Dash asked through the comlink
"We're good here. Thought I saw something but it must of-hold on." The commander squinted in the distance. There was a sudden bright flash, and a soldier next to him suddenly jerked back, and blood flew out of his chest.
"Shit! Man down. We're under sniper fire!" The commander said.
"Pull out of there, captain!" Twilight said, eyes growing wide. There was a sniper? Must've been border control. When the hell did the crystal empire have a border patrol?
Tails sat on a ledge high in one of the mountains. He emptied the camber and reloaded. He then fired again, this time hitting a soldier in the head. "Targets are engaging in combat."
Silver leaned out from behind a rock and shot a grenade at the back of the battalion, sending soldiers flying. The remaining soldiers opened fire.
"We have a sniper in front of us and a grenadier behind us! This is a fucking war zone!" The commander shouted.
"Pull out of there, captain." Dash said.
Suddenly, the comlink went static. The others remaining at the base could hear what was happening over the border, but the soldiers over there couldn't hear them.
Six figures emerged from the rocks and surrounded what was left of the group. Death stood at the head, arms crossed.
"What business do you have in the crystal empire?" He asked.
"I don't have to tell you. You're not my boss." The commander spat.
Death sighed and flicked his hand. The guard's weapons shifted, binding the soldiers. Then, black crystals shot out of the ground, impaling 15 soldiers.
"I'll ask again, commander. What business do you have in the crystal empire?" Death asked once again.
"I'm. Not. Saying." The commander spat.
Suddenly, the commander's battalion erupted. The six figures hands twitched. Some soldiers suddenly caught on fire, some had blood just erupt from there chest, some suddenly couldn't breathe, some were impaled by rocks, some had their bones just crumbled to dust, as If every ounce of gravity was clinging on to them, and still others were stabbed by metal and crystal.
The commander looked around him. He alone was still standing. Death walked up to him. "I'll ask one more time, Commander." Death said, pulling out one of his pistols. "Why are you here?"
"I'm not telling." The commander said.
Death sighed. "Your funeral." He aimed his pistol at the commander's head and fired.
The freedom fighters and the mane six rushed to the sight where they heard the bullet shot. The sight there was sickening.
Fluttershy began crying. Antoine and Bunnie tried to comfort her.
"Looks like they had no intention of invading us. This wouldn't have happened if we hadn't come here." Twilight said.
"Commander, Call celestia's castle. Tell them that the crystal empire has closed its borders. Then head back." Dash said. She then looked back at the sight. 22 soldiers, lined in a row, impaled, and the phrase, written in blood: THE BORDERS ARE OFF LIMITS. Her fist trembled. She looked at the others. They nodded. The group sped off across the border.
"Message sent." Sonic said through the comlink. "The Battalion is leaving the border."
"What about the mane six and the freedom fighters?." Sombra asked.
"I don't see them." Sonic replied.
"They're right behind you."
The six turned around to see the two groups standing before them. Before sonic could speak, the six were suddenly forced down by magic, fueled by anger.
Twilight and Rarity held up their hands, forcing the Six horsemen down.
"I'll ask this once." Dash growled angrily. "Who are you?"
"Tell them now." Sombra said.
'Oh, you haven't figured it out yet?" Sonic asked smirking.
"You know what, fine. Twilight, force of the hoods."
The hoods flipped of. The two groups stared in shock.
Sonic smirked at them, his lightning blue robotic eye taking everything in. "Welcome to the reunion."