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Everybody needs some pony to love.
Twilight Sparkle woke up peacefully to the sound of birds chirping. She got up, stretched, and combed out her mane with a brush held via magic.
"Good morning Spike!" She called out.
"Morning Twilight!" Her dragon companion called from downstairs. "I already got some breakfast made for you! Tony's already up so I got him something too." Twilight smiled. Spike often got up early to get stuff ready. One of the many positives of having him as an assistant. Twilight came downstairs and found Black Panther sleeping...
On the carpet in front of the fireplace. She sighed, smiling, and walked into the kitchen. Tony was sitting at her dining table, sipping a cup of tea and reading a book. Twilight recognized it as an Immortal Instruments book by that new writer in town...she couldn't remember her name.
Anyway, Twi trotted over to the table and sat down. Tony saw her and put his book down. "Have a good sleep, Twihard?" He asked.
Twilight rolled her eyes. She's heard worse nicknames. "I slept fine." She said. "Enjoying the book?"
"Yeah." Tony responded. "Also, The Princess sent a letter via dragonbreath. She'll be sending the royal carpenters to help me build a base for my team. Also, this book really reminds of one from our world."
"Weird coincidence huh?" Twilight asked.
"I don't believe in coincidences." Tony said. Then, Spike came to the table holding a plate of gems. Tony looked in confusion and awe as the tiny dragon bit into a jewel as if it were a fruit. Twilight noticed that and explained. "Dragons eat gems. It has something to do with their fire breath."
"This world is WEIRD." Tony thought aloud.
Twilight and Spike both chuckled. "Also, how can you afford all those gems?" Tony asked.
"They're pretty common up near the mountains." Spike explained. "Rarity and I go there every now and again to go hunting for them. She gives me all the emeralds since she hates the color."
Tony found that interesting. The gems could have something to do with all the magic around, considering dragon's fire could send letters in smoke form, and the beam fired from his gem gun was pretty strong, most likely because of stronger magic. That reminded him, he needed to return Rarity's gems later.
"So anyway, what's magic like in your world?" Twilight asked Tony.
"Huh?" Tony said, snapping out of his thoughts. "Oh, uh, there ain't much." He explained. "A few people in our world can tap into magic, like Thor, our wizard friend Dr Strange, our warrior friend Iron Fist, and a large number of our adversaries."
"Odd." Twilight said. Tony and Twilight made some casual conversation, including Tony telling her about some of his more memorable battles, and Black Panther eventually woke up. Spike fixed him up some breakfast and he joined the conversation.
"...so my armor was about to break as I was being held over a cliff by my neck ready to be thrown into a pool of boiling lava and do you know what he does? He starts monologing! He has like, this prepared speech about how feeble we are compared to him, 'The world would soon be HIS' I mean, really, how stylish do you need to be?" Tony continued one of his stories "Soon enough, Doc Strange managed to get us out of that hellish place, dragging Mephisto out with us, where we managed to beat him. He gave us back Pepper, and we all lived happily ever after, the end."
"Tell me a bit more about this 'Pepper'." Twilight requested.
"She was his secretary for a while before he became Iron Man." Black Panther said. "She eventually became his fiancée, before she moved away after deciding it was too dangerous to have a superhero boyfriend." Tony blushed, embarrassed.
"Oh, sorry." Twilight said.
"It's alright, I'm over it." Tony responded. There was a silence as the 3 ponies and dragon finished their breakfast. "Well, thanks for breakfast, lizard boy." Tony said, going to tinker with his armor some more.
"Not a lizard." Spike growled through his teeth before starting to clear the table. A small red, orange, and yellow bird flew down from the ceiling, landed on Spike's shoulder, and nuzzled him affectionately. Black Panther swore he saw flames coming from the bird while it flew.
Spike chuckled at the bird. "Good morning to you too, Peewee." He said to it. Twilight noticed Panther's confusion and explained. "That's Peewee, Spike's pet Phoenix chick."
"Phoenix?" Panther asked in amazement.
"Did someone say someone had a pet Phoenix?" Tony asked, poking his head in the room.
"Yeah." Spike answered. "I took him in after a bunch of other dragons chased off his parents. Lousy jerks...the dragons, not his parents."
"Aren't Phoenixs composed of fire?" Panther asked.
"Kind of, they have fire-related powers, and are at their strongest in the sunlight." Twilight said.
Tony looked in annoyance. This world is freaking WEIRD. He thought.
"Do you have a pet owl too?" He asked, noticing one sleeping on a perch.
"Yeah, Owlowiscious helps me out in the evenings when Spike's too sleepy." Twilight explained.
"Does he have the ability to levitate and/or read minds? It wouldn't be any more farfetched than anything else in this world I bet!" Tony said, clearly annoyed by how surreal Equestria was.
Twilight, Spike and Peewee just stared. Even Owlowiscious, who was sleeping seemed to give him an odd look. "Just forget it. I'm going back to my armor." Tony grumbled before walking off with his head hanging.
"You'll have to excuse him." Black Panther said. "He's a...colt I guess...of Science. The surrealism of this world compared to ours must be annoying him."
Twilight didn't really know what to say. "I guess he'll just have to adapt." She said. Panther looked out the window with a thoughtful expression.
"What's wrong?" Twilight asked. Panther sighed. "I'm just thinking about my kingdom." He said. "I hope my queen will rule well while I'm away."
"Say, who is your queen?" Twilight asked.
"Ororo, or Storm, as she's better known. She used to be part of Wolverine's team, the X-Men, though when I proposed, she came to live with me in Wakanda." Panther explained. "She is a very lovely lady, and I miss her so."
"That's awful sweet." Twilight acknowledged. Finally, something normal about these ponies. The mauve unicorn thought.
Panther just sighed. "Well, I hope I'll be able to return soon." He said.
Meanwhile at Fluttershy's cottage, the Spectacular Spider-Colt woke up in his web hammock to a lovely voice singing a wordless tune. He stretched and dropped down from his hammock to look out the window only to find his hostess Fluttershy was the throat behind the angelic song he woke up to.
He rested his forelegs on the windowsill watching Fluttershy care for various animals, which made him wonder. Why do ponies like Flutters have to care for nature around here? It's crazy. The arachnid avenger thought. He dismissed it for now as he strode out the door to greet her. Several birds flew off when the door swung open, and Fluttershy squeaked and hid in a tree. Spidey chuckled and trotted over to Fluttershy's hiding tree.
"It's alright Flutters, it's just me." Spidey said. The canary-colored pegasus poked her head between the leaves. "Oh, hi Peter." She said, smiling nervously. She glided down and stood level with her red-and-blue guest. "So,um, want some breakfast?" She asked.
"Sounds good, what do ponies normally have in the morning?" Spider-Colt asked.
"Well, there's oats, hay, sometimes I make myself some tea..." Fluttershy said.
"Alright, cool." Spider-Colt interrupted. "Let's go see if Bruce is up." The two trotted back to Fluttershy's to see that their scientist friend was indeed awake. He sat upon the couch watching Angel in a little house Fluttershy set up for him inside. He was...apparently conversing with a gray bunny.
"Good morning, Bruce." Fluttershy said.
Bruce turned around to see his hostess and teammate standing before him. "Good morning you two." Bruce said.
"I see Angel's already invited his new girlfriend this morning." Fluttershy said, acknowledging her pet with his gray-furred companion.
"Come again?" Peter asked. "Your pet has a girlfriend? Are you not concerned you may have a horde of tiny rabbits running around your house? Eating your food and invading your privacy?"
"Maybe you haven't noticed she has about A hundred animals living in her house already?" Bruce asked Peter.
Fluttershy blushed. "I do love animals very much, I don't mind if Angel and Lily decide to...breed." She said.
"So her name is Lily, huh?" Spidey asked. Fluttershy nodded and got out some food bowls for Angel and Lily. She filled them with vegetables and left them for the happy rabbits, who came out shortly and ate. Fluttershy then went back to grab a tray and put some breakfast on it. She came back, put it on a coffee table in the living room, and the three began eating. They sat in silence for a bit until Fluttershy decided to ask Peter a question.
"Um, Peter?" She began.
"Yeah?" The Spider-Colt replied.
"How did you know about that ice ball about to hit Princess Celestia yesterday?" She asked.
Peter smiled. "Simple: My Spider-Sense!" He said. Fluttershy quirked an eyebrow, confused. "It's this mental alarm that tells me when danger's imminent. It came with the Spider power package." Pete explained.
"Spider...power...package?" Fluttershy asked.
"Yeah, I should probably explain." Peter said. "About a year ago, me and my high school class were on a field trip to a science lab where they had radioactive super-spiders. One of them got loose and bit me, giving me sticky hand...er, hooves, super-strength, agility, and my spider-sense...and if you're wondering about my webs, I had to build web-shooters myself. You wouldn't believe how expensive web fluid is." Fluttershy giggled a bit. "I guess since my transformation when I came here, my web-shooters became part of me, and instead of a physical signal back where I come, I now just think about shooting webs and my body complies."
"That's pretty cool." Fluttershy said.
"Yeah, but the superhero gig ain't all money and glamor...hell, there is no money or glamor. I've got a 10-foot list of psychos who would all love to play hockey with my skull, and my boss Jameson telling everyone I'm a menace doesn't help matters much either." Pete said.
"Ooh, I'm sorry." Fluttershy said.
"Nah, don't worry about it. I've gotten used to it, and so far the people haven't staged a rally to run me out of town, so, that's something." He replied. Fluttershy giggled again while Bruce just rolled his eyes. After breakfast, Spider-Colt thanked his hostess for the meal and swung off to talk to Pinkie Pie, leaving the gamma-irradiated scientist and the canary-yellow pegasus alone.
"So, um, how's your life where you come from?" Fluttershy asked her guest.
"Well, when I'm not Hulked out and smashing stuff..." Bruce began. "...I usually prefer to focus on scientific research, experimenting with stuff with Stark, Hank, and another genius friend of ours, Reed, or Mr Fantastic as he's best known. He's the leader of another superhero team called the Fantastic Four, consisting of him, his wife, The Invisible Woman, her brother, The Human Torch, and Reed's best friend, The Thing."
"It sounds like your world has a lot of superheroes." Fluttershy said.
"Well, we've got quite a few, that's for sure." Bruce responded. "The superhero community is closely monitored by a large organization called S.H.I.E.L.D, dedicated to keeping the peace, even if their methods of doing so are...unusual."
"What do you mean?" Fluttershy asked.
"S.H.I.E.L.D's made some odd and just piss-poor decisions in the past, like supporting the Superhuman Registration Act, which sparked a Civil War that split the superhero community right down the middle, and planting outposts in countries with closed borders, without permission, and acting like it's just fine. Bottom line, S.H.I.E.L.D's a little crazy. Luckily, it's run by a good man, Nick Fury."
Fluttershy just stared. Sparked a Civil War? That's borderline Discord territory. Bruce noticed her discomfort and told her something else. "Fury didn't have anything to do with the Civil War though, he was in hiding, right after he made ANOTHER piss-poor decision, though the consequences were still severe, they weren't quite as explosive. During the war, Tony and Cap were probably the craziest though, being the leaders of both sides, and all." Fluttershy was on the edge of her seat. Bruce smiled. "Let me tell you a few war stories..."
In the morning, at Sweet Apple Acres, Carol Danvers woke up on the scratchy hay bed she'd been given. She looked down to the entrance of the barn from atop her "bed" and saw Hank Pym (now with his mask off) and one of her hostesses, Applejack looking over some kind of chart.
She floated down and took a look at them. Hank turned around and said "Oh, good morning Carol!"
"Morning, Hank." The blonde mare said before yawning. "So, what's going on here?"
"I'm helping Applejack get ready for...I'm sorry what did you call it?" Hank responded, turning to Applejack for an answer.
"Applebuck season." AJ responded. "It's our harvest season. We go out into the orchard, and buck all them trees t'get the apples. One year, in a rather boneheaded move of mine, I tried to harvest the entire orchard by m'self." Applejack blushed slightly, embarrassed.
"The entire orchard?" Hawkeye asked, leaning on a barn door. "Were you high?!"
Applejack chuckled nervously. "I did it out of pride. Big Macintosh was hurt and ah thought he was sayin' ah couldn't do it on mah own. After a while, I needed more recovery than he did. Eventually my stubborn streak wore off and I called mah friends to help out." She said.
Hawkeye looked over the humongous orchard and mouthed "The whole thing..." to himself. Applejack chuckled again and turned back to Hank to continue working on the chart. Ms Marvel decided to fly over and see the orchard herself. She saw Big Mac talking to little Applebloom and decided to investigate.
"...but ah wanna help this year!" Applebloom whined to her brother.
"Sorry Applebloom, maybe next year." Big Mac told her. The young filly grumbled and walked off with her head hanging. Ms Marvel flew down to Big Mac. The red stallion was startled by her but it wore off quickly.
"Howdy Ms M." Big Mac greeted his guest.
"Morning." She replied. "So, what's going on here?"
"Ah'm takin' a sweep o' the orchard to make a pattern for Applebuck Season. Did Applejack inform ya 'bout it?" Big Mac said.
"Yeah." Ms Marvel replied. She flew a little closer to the stallion to ask an obvious question. "Did Applejack really try to harvest this entire orchard all by herself?"
"Eeyup." Big Mac replied, chuckling. "We all like to laugh about it every now and again." Ms. Marvel smiled. "Say, since ya'll are staying at our farm, do ya'll mind helping out with Applebuck season?" Mac asked.
"Sure." Ms Marvel replied. "Since I'm living on a farm I might as well contribute."
"Ah assume ya'll ain't familiar with buckin'?" Big Mac asked. Ms Marvel shook her head. Mac gave a demonstration on a nearby apple tree. He kicked it with his back legs, let the apples fall into baskets placed under the tree. "In ya'll wanna practice, we got an old barn up on the hill over yonder. We keep it for sentimental reasons. There are some support beams that're about as thick as some a these trees."
Ms Marvel thanked Big Macintosh for the advice and took off to where he said the barn was. The barn looked old, withered, and, to Ms Marvel's surprise, charred. Something happened here. She thought. It appeared that it was torched by a flamethrower and put out again. Since dragons exist here... She began thinking. Could a dragon have torched this poor barn? She decided to ponder later and entered the damaged structure. She looked around and could swear she heard screams of battle crying out as she walked into the middle of the room. A beam that was about the size of some small trees stood in the room, and Ms Marvel decided to use it as a test dummy. She turned her flank to it, raised her hind legs, prepared to strike...
And missed. Instead, her legs went past the beam, which struck her in the crotch. Her super strength broke the beam, but it didn't make it any less painful. She let out a scream and slumped down, broken beam still between her legs. This is gonna be harder than I thought. She thought.
After lunch, Iron Colt and Black Panther trotted up to the restaurant that Ant-Pony had mentioned the day before. They went inside and sat down at a table, a waiter coming up soon after with a notepad in hoof.
"May I take your...wait, you're some of the ponies who saved the town yesterday!" He said. "How about a drink on the house to repay you for your troubles?"
"Thanks, but-" Black Panther began.
"Sure! Thanks a ton! We're actually expecting the rest of our team to show up later, so can they get some drinks too?" Tony cut his teammate off. Panther just shook his head.
"How many of you are there?" The waiter asked.
Tony paused for a minute, counting his teammates in his head. "13." He answered. "Alright, 13 drinks on the house, fair enough." The waiter said.
"What do you recommend?" Tony asked.
"Well, our salt licks are superb." The waiter answered. Tony and Panther looked at each other, confusion evident on both their faces.
"I guess we'll try those then." Tony said. The waiter wrote the order on his notepad with a pen in his mouth and walked back to the chefs. A minute or so later, Black Widow, Wasp, Spider-Colt and Bruce walked through the door.
"Well, how were your mornings?" Tony asked.
"Quite well." Widow answered. "The cakes are EXTREMELY good cooks."
"Flutters unintentionally serenaded me as I woke up." Spider-Colt "It's a thousand times better than alarm clock." The teammates sat down around the table Tony and Panther sat at as the waiter from before returned with a tray of salt licks for them before walking off to serve another customer. The Avengers looked at their salt licks with confusion before trying them, and discovering that they were pretty good. Soon Hank, Hawkeye, and Ms Marvel arrived, Ms M limping slightly.
"Word of advice: bucking is not as easy as it looks." Ms Marvel told her teammates. They chuckled, not really knowing what she meant. The waiter rushed in with a salt licks for each of them right then. As with the others, they looked at their salt licks, confused, before trying them and enjoying them.
War Machine entered soon after looking slightly less content than everyone who entered so far.
"You alright, Rhodey?" Tony asked his old friend.
"I'm less than pleased." The armored stallion responded. He opened his mask to reveal three slash marks on his cheeks.
"Did a pre-pubescent Wolverine attack you?" Spider-Colt asked.
War Machine shook his head no. "Turns out miss Rarity has a cat who does not approve of guests." Rhodey explained. "She got me once, but when she saw all my armor's weapons she backed off." He got a salt lick too, stared confused, and then started drinking up.
Soon enough, Captain America and Thor flew down to the restaurant and joined the rest. "Good day, comrades!" Thor said to them.
"Hey Goldilocks, Steve." Tony said to his newly winged friends. "Slept well, I suppose?"
"Aye!" Thor said. "Twas blissful."
"Almost didn't want to get up." Cap said. "Clouds are REALLY comfy!" They got their drinks...blah blah blah...eyed them...yadda yadda yadda...and they enjoyed them. Cap saw Rhodey's marks and asked about them. Hawkeye made a Wolverine joke about it.
"Speaking of which, where is Wolverine?" Hank asked.
"Right here, bub." Said a gruff voice from the doorway. Everyone looked at the doorway to find their mutant teammate leaning on it. You know the drill when he got his salt lick.
The Avengers sat enjoying their licks and talking of possible ways to get home, when they heard something outside. They exited the restaurant to find the Princesses, two chariots, an earth pony guard wearing armor that concealed his entire body, a pegasus wearing normal armor, several pegasus royal guards, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy waiting for them.
"What's going on?" Tony asked no one in particular.
"We've sensed a powerful magic unlike anything we've encountered before." Celestia explained. "We don't know if it's particularly dangerous, so we'd like to ask for your assistance in investigating it."
"We won't require the services of you all, but we do request that the ones known as Ant-Man, War Machine, Bruce Banner, Ms Marvel, Wolverine, and Black Panther come with us." Luna said.
Cap nodded. He understood why she wanted some of them to stay behind: in case of another attack. The royal guard clad in heavy armor stepped forward. "My name is Barrier, a captain of the guard." He said. "And...this is my protégé, Flash Sentry." The pegasus guard stepped forward, with a beige-yellow coat and blue mane, and smiled. "Hiya. Heard about your little battle yesterday, it sounded awesome."
"Well, we are the mightiest heroes around where we come from." Spider-Colt bragged while looking at his hoof as he would his nails.
Hank rolled his eyes at his teammate before responding "We'd be happy to help."
"Nice armor, by the way." Tony complimented Barrier.
"Thanks!" The armored guard said. "I made it myself."
"Really? I made my armor myself too!" Tony said, sensing a kindred spirit.
"You can discuss your armor later, Barrier." Luna said. "Now we must move."
"Yes my lady." Barrier said quickly before entering a chariot, Flash Sentry following.
"No offense, but, why are Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy coming?" Black Panther asked.
"They each have a specific skill set that could help us on our mission." Celestia explained.
"Considering that we're dealing with magic, I would've thought you'd invite Miss Sparkle along." Panther thought aloud to her.
"I have my reasons." Celestia simply said. "Now let's go."
"Be safe, Hank." Wasp said to her fiancée, nuzzling him. The scientist blushed before trotting onto the chariot. The pegasus guards took to the skies, pulling the chariots with them. Soon they were out of sight, leaving the remaining Avengers alone.
"Now what?" Hawkeye asked no one in particular. A few shrugged.
"I think I'll talk to Miss Dash about getting Thor and I jobs managing the weather." Cap said.
"I might as well mingle with Pinkie a bit." Spider-Colt said.
"I have a theory I want to test...and I need to drop off Rarity's gems." Tony said.
"Wasp and I should probably help the cakes fill out some orders." Widow said. With that, the ponies that spoke headed off for their forementioned tasks, leaving Hawkeye alone, who just sat on the spot he was standing in.
"I might as well make myself useful." He said, heading back to Sweet Apple Acres, thinking to himself while walking. He thought about his fellow Avengers who didn't vanish here, at least, he hoped they didn't. His thoughts drifted mainly to his ex-wife, Mockingbird. They still had feelings for each other, but couldn't take their relationship as far as they wanted for reasons obvious for any superhero. Hopefully she was alright, and probably worried because, considering mankind's media, they'd probably have noticed a distinct lack of Avengers in the area. He was knocked out of his thoughts when he bumped into a mule in the market. He apologized to the cranky mule and realized he was going the wrong way. He turned around and made his way to the farm much later than he would have liked. He counted himself lucky the Apple family was forgiving.
Meanwhile, in the chariots on their way to where the princesses sensed the mysterious magic, Bruce Banner rested his forelegs on the side of the chariot he rode in, looking down on the ground below him.
"You ok, Bruce?" Ant-Pony asked, who was in the same chariot.
"I'm fine, I just think this is pretty amazing." Bruce answered. "I can see everything from up high practically out in the open. I can't fly, so this is new for me, and it's pretty damn...what the hell?" Bruce was cut off by what he saw from the chariot. It looked like a crater that could be seen from high above. Princess Luna apparently noticed this as well, as she asked the pegasi pulling the chariots to descend to it. Once the chariots landed, Bruce, Hank, and Wolverine got out to investigate.
"My goodness." Rarity said, overlooking the damage.
"What happened here?" Applejack asked nobody.
"That's what we're trying to find out." Hank responded. After several minutes of investigation, Bruce finally came to a conclusion. "Well, here's my initial assessment: Something big exploded here."
"Gee, thanks Sherlock!" Wolverine said sarcastically.
Bruce just shook his head and continued. "My only question is, what? You haven't exactly mastered black powder have you?" He asked the princess.
"Not quite, I'm experimenting with it." Barrier answered for her. Rhodey took a mental note of this.
"Well, whatever caused this crater could have been the magic you sensed, your majesty." Black Panther suggested. Celestia nodded. Nothing she had seen not involving magic could make a crater like this.
"Wait...I know this place." Rarity said, looking around.
"You do?" Flash asked.
"Yes, a while ago I came here gem-hunting with Spike when I was attacked by Diamond Dogs." Rarity explained.
"Diamond Dogs?" Wolverine asked.
"Horrible, filthy canines who kidnapped me to help them harvest gems." Rarity explained. "My gem-finding spell made me a valuable asset to those ruffians. Luckily Spike got my friends to come rescue me, but I had it under control."
"You fought 'em off?" Bruce asked.
"It turns out my whining is their weakness!" Rarity said smiling.
"Well that weakness won't stop us now." A high, creepy voice said.
"Who said that?" Applejack asked. Before they knew it, the group was enveloped in a cloud of smoke. The gas stung their eyes, hurt to breathe, and obstructed their view. Soon, the group was falling unconscious from the dusty gas that caught them off-guard. War Machine lowered his mask to protect himself, but that strategy was quickly overturned by a large rock hitting him in the back of the head. Bruce Hulked out soon after the gas hit. The beast looked around trying to find something, anything, but his tough exterior didn't protect him from the smoke. Much later than the others, Hulk fell, the last thing he heard was a horrid laughter as he blacked out.
War Machine groggily woke up. He looked around and found himself in a dark, dank cave. He got up and tried to walk away but found he was dragging some weight. He looked back to see himself attached by a harness to a cart. He also looked around and saw everyone else attached to carts.
Seriously? THIS is their plan? He thought.
"Hello, little ponies." A creepy, unpleasant voice said from the shadows. Three figures emerged from the darkness and revealed themselves to the the diamond dogs Rover, Fido, and Spot.
"Oh, you again." Rarity said, still waking up. "Oh well, time to start my whining." Before Rarity could open her mouth, a dig dog landed on her back and forced a muzzle on her. Rarity could barely make a sound.
"We're ready for you, 'Miss Rarity'" Rover said mockingly. "Now you and your friends will be our little gem finding slaves forever!" He and the diamond dogs laughed maniacally while the ponies just gave them puzzled looks (except Fluttershy, who just whimpered.)
The dogs stopped laughing and looked at their prisoners' puzzled faces. "Why aren't you scared?" Rover asked. War Machine started snickering and eventually just burst into laughter.
"What's so funny?" Fido asked.
"Oh, I'm sorry, just...THIS IS YOUR BIG PLAN!?" War Machine asked, still in hysteria. He eventually calmed down and spoke again. "I'm sorry, but your plan has more holes than I could put in you right now with my gun." War Machine revved his shoulder-mounted minigun to show off to his adversaries. "But before I do that, I'm gonna point out to you why your plan is stupid." He said.
"One: You hope to keep the RULERS of this ENTIRE WOLRD in this underground cave with nothing but a harness." That was the first point.
"Well, Celestia isn't powerful without the sun, and Luna's much weaker." Spot said hopefully.
War Machine simply shook his head. "Celestia might be weak without sunlight, but that doesn't mean she's weak enough to be beaten by you bums, and Luna may be weaker, but she's still powerful." Luna's eyes began to glow with anger at the canines, who tried to stay confident through The armored pony's lectures.
"Two: I don't see Bruce around here, so you obviously left him behind. Something tells me he'll be angry, and you wouldn't like him when he's angry."
"How do you know we didn't kill him?" Fido lied.
"You can't kill him." War Machine answered with a smirk.
"Third: Wolverine. Enough said." With that, the mutant revealed his claws and sliced through his harness with ease, smiling.
"Fourth: You left my armor on, so I could blast you into oblivion if I wanted to, but I'm not finished telling how stupid you are." The dig dogs started towards Rhodey to take his armor before a tiny missile launcher came out of his shoulder. "SIT your five-dollar asses down before I make change!" He threatened, and the dogs complied.
"Fifth: you left those cart tracks, giving our friend an obvious path to follow." Suddenly, the ground began shaking under their feet, as if a stampede was headed towards them. "Speak of the devil." Rhodey said before the giant green Hulk burst into the room. He growled at the dogs before doing what he did best: smashing them.
As the Hulk did his work, Celestia and Luna calmly lifted the harnesses from themselves and the rest, and then released Rarity's muzzle. Fluttershy was still whimpering as Hulk unleashed his rage upon their captors while the rest watched calmly. "Oooooh! That one just got neutered!" Flash said as he watched, gaining some chuckles.
Later, the dogs laid in crumpled heaps all over the floor. Hulk snorted at them. "Puny dogs no match for Hulk." He rumbled, then turned to Fluttershy. "Little Shy Pony ok?" He asked. Fluttershy felt slightly better, nodded, and smiled, which Hulk returned.
Celestia walked over to an injured Rover to ask him a few questions. "You've been here a while, we sensed a powerful magic in the area. What do you know?" The elegant alicorn asked.
Rover looked around the cave. The odds were not in his favor. In the end, he gave in. "We saw a bright light down that tunnel." He said pointing to said tunnel. "We tried approaching it, thinking it might be a really big gem, but something attacked us."
"What attacked you?" Barrier asked, curious.
"We don't know, it moved too fast to see. All we know is it's red." Rover answered. Celestia nodded and turned to her guards. "Barrier, you, Flash, and these two..." She said gesturing to two of her pegasus guards. "...stay behind and watch these dogs. Hulk, War Machine, Ms Marvel, you stay with them." War Machine saluted, (hitting himself in the head in the process) Ms Marvel nodded, and Hulk just snorted.
"The rest of us will proceed forwards to investigate this light." Celestia instructed. She, Luna, her two other pegasus guards, Wolverine, Black Panther, Ant-Pony, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack walked down the tunnel. Suddenly, while walking through, Fluttershy started whimpering again.
"What is it?" Wolverine asked her.
Fluttershy continued shivering while answering. "I just can't shake the feeling that something really horrible is down there."
"I as well." Rarity said.
"Yeah..." Applejack continued. "Somethin' down there just feels wrong!" Celestia and Luna looked at each other worried. The Elements of Harmony had a direct opposition against evil, so this could be a bad sign. "Maybe you three should go back." Luna suggested.
"What!? I ain't 'fraid o' nothin'" Applejack answered, standing tall.
Wolverine chuckled. "Well, stay with us if you want, if your not scared to face the terror that inevitably waits at the end of the tunnel." He mocked.
"O' course!" Applejack responded proudly. "Ya'll head on back, ah got this." She told Fluttershy and Rarity.
"Be careful." Rarity said before heading back with her yellow friend. Applejack wore a smile for her friends, but it faded when they were far off. After a while of trekking, the group finally reached the end of the tunnel. A small cavern was there with boulders stacked at the back. Through them was a light blue glow that emanated far.
"This must be the source of the magic." Celestia thought aloud before walking forward to get a better look.
Wolverine sniffed the air, and something was off. He smelt...black powder? Wasn't Equestria primitive in the technology area. Maybe it wasn't native, or just ready to be mined. His first suspicion was confirmed when he looked up to see explosives above Celestia, flashing and about to detonate.
"GET BACK!" He yelled, lashing out and pulling Celestia back just as the bombs detonated, causing layers of rock to completely drown out the light. The group looked up and a figure jumped from the ceiling, landing in front of them. It was a unicorn ninja colt dressed in red and black, with katanas on his back, a device on his chest, pistol holsters on his belt, and strange belt buckle. His eyes were closed, and when he opened them, they were glowing green, like the Frost Giants.
"Deadpool." Wolverine acknowledged. Deadpool smirked under his mask before magically lifting his guns out of their holsters.
"Scatter." Ant-Pony said as Deadpool opened fire. The group took off in different directions while the red ninja's bullets sprayed all around the cavern. Wolverine charged and slashed Deadpool in the side. Deadpool winced for a second before jumping away, and before the ponies' eyes, his wounds just closed up, as if they were never there at all. He put his guns back in their holsters before vanishing. The ponies looked around the cavern nervously, waiting for something, anything to happen.
Their silence was broken by Celestia, who screamed in pain. One of her guards looked to see Deadpool slashing one of his swords through Celestia's flank. Deadpool disappeared again and reappeared behind Luna and gave her the same treatment, then to a guard, then Applejack, then the other guard, then Wolverine. The cycle continued for a while.
Great. A teleporting, regenerating, armed-to-the-teeth ninja wants to kill you and everyone else. Applejack, how do you get yourself into these situations? AJ thought. The farm pony bucked out her legs, desperately trying to hit Deadpool. Luckily, she succeeded, taking the red-clad ninja by surprise. He fell due to Applejack's powerful kick and Wolverine took this opportunity to tackle him. He slashed Deadpool's torso, cutting off his chest device with it. The ninja shot Wolverine in the head, knocking him out with a metal clink. Deadpool ran for his device, but was knocked by away by a pegasus guard. With that, he stabbed the guard in the leg and jumped behind a recovering Princess Celestia, grabbed her neck, and held a sword to it with magic.
Suddenly, everything in the room seemed still. No one moved as the blade was just inches from Celestia's neck. All was quiet except for a winged ant buzzing around...
Back in the first cavern, Fluttershy and Rarity arrived back to the others.
"Everything ok, ladies?" Barrier asked them.
"Yes, we were just recommended to return." Rarity explained. Suddenly, some rumbling noises could be heard in the walls of the cavern. Nothing seemed to happen until War Machine and Barrier flew up to the ceiling extremely fast!
"Rhodey!" "Sir!" Ms Marvel and Flash Sentry called as they saw them fly up as if they were attached.
"Can't...move." Rhodey said, struggling. Suddenly, Flash, and the two other guards were flying toward the ceiling as well. Flash waved his legs around while hanging by his armor. Wait...his armor! He tried to get it off, but it just seemed to tighten around him. Back on the ground, the rumbling came back and suddenly, giant sheets of metal came out of the ground and walls, forming cages around the diamond dogs, Fluttershy, and Rarity. A large chunk formed into a ball and smacked Ms Marvel in the back of the head, knocking her out. Layers upon layers of metal sheets piled on top of the Hulk, subduing him, but just barely. As the ponies struggled, a white earth pony dressed in purple with a purple-and-pink helmet and silvery mane hovered into the room with his hooves out in all directions. His eyes were glowing green.
"Mag...ne...to!" Rhodey yelled, still struggling. Magneto smiled and held his hostages at bay, starting to make the armors of those who wore them implode on themselves. Fluttershy started to grow angry with him and gave him the stare. Magneto caught this, it made him uncomfortable. He used the metal of one of the diamond dogs' harnesses and wrapped it around Fluttershy's head, blocking her eyes, rendering her stare useless.
Rarity watched as Fluttershy cried under her metal blindfold, the caged dogs whimpered, the guards and War Machine were trapped in their own suits of armor, Ms Marvel unconscious, and Hulk being bombarded with heavy metal. How did it come to this? She thought.
Back in Ponyville, Spike walked through the doors of the library. "Twilight, I'm back!" He called out. He had just got back from errands. No answer, odd. Even stranger, the library was a mess. Spike just shrugged and began cleaning up. Twilight may be OCD, but on occasion, she goes a little crazy. While putting books back into shelves, he heard the sound of crunching behind him. Twilight must have come down and started snacking on the groceries he got.
"Good choices, Spike." She said. "The perfect little snack before I destroy the town."
Thanks Twilight, I...wait, WHAT!?" Spike yelled before turning around. It was indeed his good friend, but her eyes were glowing green, like the Frost Giants!
"T-t-Twilight? What's happened to you?" He stuttered.
"I've been shown the truth. Celestia is a worthless foal. Fear is the only path to peace on this world or any other. Harmony can be achieved through it, as well as absolute power. But don't take, you word for it, take it from my new associate, Venom." The corrupted unicorn said.
Suddenly, a large pegasus slammed onto the floor on the other side of the room. He seemed to be suited from head to hoof in a black skin-tight suit with a white spider stretching across his chest to his back, and made another spider. White formed around two creepy glowing eyes. His most distinguishing feature though, was a large mouth filled with sharp, pointed teeth. A wormlike tongue slithered out of his mouth waved around in a disgusting manner, Spike guessed to intimidate him. (It worked)
"N-no Twilight, you won't destroy anything. I won't let you!" Spike said, still scared.
"On the contrary," Twilight began. "you're going to help me." Suddenly, Venom's tongue shot out of his mouth and wrapped around Spike like a snake. Spike struggled, but that tongue was surprisingly strong. Twilight grinned as her horn began to glow green. A beam shot out at Spike, and when it hit, his mind went numb, but his body felt painful, and he couldn't do anything.
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