Within the throne room of Shao Kahn's Fortress, Baraka had returned his emperor to report what had happened. The news that was given did not bold well with the conqueror.

"You failed me! I gave you one simple task, and you returned to me to report that you were defeated by pastel-skinned peasants!"

"They were not alone, my lord. The Earthrealm Protectors were with them." Baraka pointed out, only to get smacked across the face.

"How could the Elder Gods have hidden this realm from me?!" Shao Kahn growled. "Even more, how did Raiden know about it?!"

Baraka wiped the blood off his mug as he stood up, unsure how to answer. However, he didn't need to worry as Shang Tsung, the wicked sorcerer himself, stepped in.

"It is possible, that he learned of its existence long before we did sire. And as embarrassing as it is to know of Baraka's defeat, we at least know that the Protectors of Earthrealm have chosen to guard it."

"Why Raiden would send them to that wretched place, I wouldn't care otherwise. I want them dead... for good!" Shao Kahn snapped.

"Yes, sire. I will have Kano and Ermac search for the remaining protectors and kill them before they have a chance to reunite with their comrades." Shang Tsung said with a bow before walking off.

Growling in frustration, Shao Kahn wished nothing more than to rip Raiden's heart out. But if he did, he'd lose access to the whereabouts of this realm. He grinned underneath his helmet, knowing that keeping Raiden alive was the best option to go with...

Sweet Apple Acres was considering one of the best apple farms in all of Equestria. The homely little farm was where Applejack and her family lived and the whole orchard was their pride and joy.

Currently, three young filly girls were investigating the orchards. These were Applejack's little sister Applebloom, Rarity's little sister Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo. Together, they were the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

"Applebloom, if something did fall out of the sky and land in the orchard, we would have heard about it." Scootaloo pointed out, the three currently investigating the strange star storm that happened last night.

"Scootaloo has a point. What if was it all just a dream?" Sweetie Belle added.

"Believe me, I woulda known if it was a dream if Princess Luna showed up," Applebloom said. "I'm telling y'all, something landed in the orchard, and we need to find out what it is."

"Cutie Mark Crusader Alien Hunters?" Scootaloo grinned excitedly.

The three girls continued their investigation, looking around everywhere in the orchard to find out where the 'aliens' may have landed. Suddenly, Scootaloo tripped over something, her cry of alarm alerting her friends.

"Scootaloo, are you alright?!" Sweetie Belle cried as she made her way over.

"Yeah, I just tripped over something..." The young Pegasus girl winced as she was helped up to her feet before realizing just what she tripped on.

"What is that?" Sweetie Belle questioned as they saw it was a leg of some kind. They found it leading to a bush and began pulling on the leg, hoping to find out who was in it.

After some struggle, the two yanked the body of the individual out. She was a human woman with blonde hair tied in a ponytail and wearing a gray-and-white jacket with matching trousers, a grey sports bra, and a headband to maintain her hair. She also has skull patches on her sleeves.

"Whoa, Applebloom wasn't kidding!" Sweetie Belle said as the two observed the stranger.

"Hey, Applebloom! We found something!" Scootaloo called out.

"I found something too! But I'm going to need help lifting him! He's heavier than a bunch of rocks!" Applebloom called out.

Suddenly, the woman began to stir, letting out a groan that alerted Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle. The two watched as the woman slowly sat up, clutching her head as if nursing a migraine.

"What in the world? Could've sworn I heard children around..."

"Um, are you okay, ma'am?" Sweetie Belle asked politely as the woman opened her eyes to see the two fillies staring at her.

"What the...?" She felt Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle's ears curiously, making them tense up nervously as she looked confused. "Are those horse ears? And are those tails? Am I going crazy or something?"

"You're the crazy one. You don't look like any creature from Equestria we've seen." Scootaloo pointed out.

"Very funny, kid. I'm a Human, or is this some kind of strange alien horse world I've ended up in?" The woman sarcastically retorted as she got back up to her feet.

"Pardon me, miss, but who are you?" Sweetie Belle asked.

The woman sighed. "My name is Sonya Blade of the Earthrealm Special Forces."

"So you ARE an alien?" Scootaloo asked excitedly.

Sonya couldn't help but laugh. "I guess that would be an apt description. But from where I'm from, you'd be the aliens."

Suddenly, Applebloom ran up to them. "Girls, I need help! I can't lift a creature that's as big as my brother. Especially if he has big metal arms!"

Sonya's eyes widened. "Did you say metal arms? Did he also have black hair, a beard, wearing a camouflage vest, smells like he's smoked a few cigars?"

"Not sure 'bout that last part but do you know him?" Applebloom asked.

"Yes. Take me to him, please."

Applebloom nodded as she led Sonya, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo to where she found the other stranger. Unbeknownst to them, a portal from Outworld opened up, and out of it stepped a man with grey skin, glowing green eyes, and wearing red and black armored robes with a hood and mask that covered his mouth and nose, and a gold piece on his chest area.

Following him was a man with a truly sinister look. He had low messy black hair, a scruffy beard, and a cybernetic right eye. He wore no shirt, showing his muscular scarred body and dragon tattoos on his arms and chest. He also had a bandolier that strapped around both shoulders and across his stomach and also had a glowing red core across his heart area. Lastly, he wore camouflaged cargo pants with combat boots.

These two were Ermac, the vessel of souls, and Kano, the unscrupulous leader of the Black Dragons.

"Well, ain't this a right pretty place," Kano noted as he looked around, his hands on his hips.

"We sense they are close by... we will find them West of here," Ermac noted, reaching his hand out as if sensing their targets.

"Alrighty then. Lead the way, Spooky." Kano said casually as he followed his partner.

Back with Sonya and the CMC, Applebloom soon stopped where she found the other person.

"You sure this is the place?" Sonya asked.

"Sure is!" Applebloom proudly said. "Trust me, I know my way around the farm."

"Hey, is that him?" Scootaloo asked as she pointed forward, Sonya looking to where she was pointing to see a familiar face.

"Thank god, Jax!"

Sonya ran over to the unconscious body of her friend and lightly smacked him a couple of times to rouse him from his slumber. A groan came from the man as he slowly got up, rubbing his head. This gave the CMC a chance to see what he looked like.

He was an African-American man with black hair and brown eyes. He wore a camouflage vest with the name "Briggs" emblazoned on the right upper vest pocket with his left upper pocket acting as a storage for his cigars and dog tags around his neck, along with two more pockets near his abdomen. He had a red, white, and blue flag wrapped up and tied around his upper right arm and he wore green pants with some additional color of black on them and wears black army boots.

The most striking thing about him was his arms. Instead of flesh and blood, they were made of metal and looked cybernetic in nature.

"Sonya is that you...?" The man, apparently 'Jax' to the CMC, asked.

"Yeah, it's me, partner." Sonya smiled. "Just what have we gotten ourselves into this time?"

"Good question. But whatever's going on, we need to figure it out pronto." Jax said before noticing the CMC and turned to Sonya with a playful smirk. "Please tell me you didn't..."

Sonya blushed. "No! No, they're not my kids!"

"Yeah mister, we just met her," Scootaloo said.

"Uh-huh..." Jax replied and looked around. "I don't know how much I can take with this dimension travel."

"Huh, you're from another dimension? I think Rarity told me about how Twilight went to another dimension once." Sweetie Belle noted. "Oh! I'm Sweetie Belle, this is Applebloom and Scootaloo!"

"WE'RE THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!" The trio all cheered together as Jax chuckled, admiring their enthusiasm.

"Well kids, my name is Jackson Briggs, but just call me Jax for short. I see you already met my partner, Sonya."

"Can you tell us where we are, kids?" Sonya asked, crouching down to the three children's eye level.

"You're both in Sweet Apple Acres, the best dang apple farm in all of Ponyville!" Applebloom proudly explained.

"I like your arms!" Scootaloo said to Jax, looking at his bionic arms.

"Heh, thanks. I've gotten pretty used to them." Jax chuckled as he clenched his fists to flex a little. "They're state-of-art bionic implants. Had them made for me after my arms were taken."

"You lost your arms?!" Sweetie Belle gasped.

Jax sighed. "Yeah, definitely not a pretty moment. Ermac took no prisoners..."

"Who's Ermac?" Scootaloo asked.

"WE ARE..."

Hearing the menacing voice, Sonya and Jax immediately got in front of the CMC protectively as Ermac floated down, green soul energy swirling around him as Kano chuckled, walking out from behind a nearby tree and rubbing his nose.

"Hello, love... It's been a while." Kano smirked, his eyes focused on Sonya.

Sonya glared hatefully. "Kano...Nice to see you're still as ugly as ever!"

"Awww, now that's not a very nice thing to say. Especially in front of the little jobbers." Kano said, his eyes dangerously looking over to the CMC before Jax stepped forward, punching his fists together.

"You touch them and you answer to me, you son of a bitch!"

Ermac floated forward, holding his hand out menacingly as it glowed brightly with soul magic.

"We took your arms, Major Briggs. Now, we will take your heart!"

"KIDS, RUN!" Jax cried just as Ermac barreled toward him like a rocket, tackling him as the CMC did as they were told and hid for cover. This left Sonya and Kano against each other.

"Just like old times, eh Sonya?"

"Only this time, it's going to be a different fight," Sonya growled. "You won't escape this time."

"Escape, and miss all the fun?!" Kano laughed.

"This WON'T be fun."

Sonya charged at her nemesis, who smirked and crossed his arms, blocking her approaching kick as he took out his knives and went to stab her with them, only for Sonya to dodge and kick them out of his hands.

"Playing fair was never your best forte."

"I fight my own way, Love, remember?"

Kano's cybernetic eye then glowed brightly as he prepared to fire his Eye Laser but Sonya quickly punched him across the face, redirecting his laser as it sliced a nearby apple tree apart.

"Hey! Don't disrespect the apple trees!" Applebloom cried as she was about to go out and give Kano a piece of her hand until Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle stopped her.

"Applebloom, you saw how dangerous that guy is! We need to stay put!"

Sonya blocked a hard kick from Kano and leaped over kicking him in the face. Stumbling, Kano got back up and spit out a bit of blood before lunging forward, tucking into a ball, and spinning at high speeds.

Sonya was hit hard and impacted the ground, tumbling slightly before quickly looking up to see Kano jumping to stomp her head in. Quickly, the Special Forces woman rolled out of the way of Kano's boot as he turned to her with a smirk.

"You still got it. I'll give ya that, Sonya."

Kano lunged forward, brandishing a pair of new knives as he moved in for the kill, only for Sonya to leap over him and take out a garrote wire, snaring it around his neck and pulling him down on his back, snapping his spine. She then snapped back with a punishing reverse headbutt, breaking the back of Kano's skull, and then finished it by throwing him forward, head first, splintering his neck.

"You little...!" Kano growled as he got up through the pain, only for Sonya to deliver a flying kick to his chest, sending him straight into a tree, making him slump on the ground as several apples fell on his head, followed by a broken tree branch.

"I guess the expression the apple doesn't fall far from the tree takes this to a whole new meaning," Sonya smirked as she turned to the CMC, who were all staring at her like she was a superhero. "You girls okay?"

"That was the most awesome thing I've ever seen in my life!" Scootaloo cried out with a bright smile on her face. "Where did you learn to fight like that?!"

Sonya chuckled as she ruffled Scootaloo's hair. "I trained for years, that's how I was able to join the army and get transferred to Special Forces."

"Wait! What about Mr. Jax?!" Sweetie Belle asked worriedly.

Sonya's eyes widened, realizing the little Unicorn girl had a point. Quickly, the four ran in the direction where Ermac tackled Jax, leaving the unconscious Kano behind.

Back where Ermac had attacked Jax, the Special Forces Major was dodging multiple soul energy blasts while firing back with his SMG, which was thankfully still on his person. However, Ermac was getting tired of this game of Cat & Mouse and quickly uprooted the tree Jax was currently hiding behind, preparing to crush him with it when a pulsing pink energy ring hit him, knocking him back as he turned to see Sonya arrive.

"If you will stand in our way...then we will take a part of you!"

Ermac flew toward Sonya like a torpedo, throwing a punch aimed at her ribs. However, Sonya blocked the attack and pinned it against the soul vessel's back, twisting it at the wrist and making him scream in pain.

"You won't get that chance pal...!"

Sonya then forced Ermac back to his feet before delivering an uppercut to his jaw, dislocating it. As Ermac staggered, Sonya peppered him with body blows until he managed to break away and try to strike again, only for Sonya to block it and fire her Energy Rings at his face, blasting him away.

Ermac hit the ground but got back up with the help of the souls within him. "You have indeed improved since our previous encounter, but one thing remains the same; We are many, you are but one!"

"All those souls you have doesn't matter, you're still gonna lose." Sonya taunted as Ermac growled and rocketed toward her once more. The Special Forces soldier moved to dodge but was caught off-guard when Ermac blasted her with a point-blank soul energy blast.

"Ms. Sonya!" The CMC cried in worry as they saw Ermac about to make the killing move, only for a familiar large figure to get behind him.

"GOTCHA!"

Ermac was caught off-guard as he was spun around to face Jax who grabbed him by the neck and rapidly punched his face five times in the face, breaking his nose before following up with five rapid-fire punches to the stomach, making him vomit up blood. Jax then clapped Ermac's head and took out his grenade launcher, which he also still thankfully had on his person, blasting the soul vessel away with a point-blank explosive shot to the face.

"Damn, that felt good!" Jax said as Ermac crashed into a tree and slumped over before weakly getting up with a glare.

"This isn't over..." With that, the vessel of souls vanished in a wisp of green smoke.

"That takes care of him. But what about Kano?" Jax asked Sonya. Realizing this, She ran back to find where Kano lay unconscious, but by the time she got there, he was gone.

"Damn it! He gave us the slip..."

"We'll see him again. Besides, we need to worry about our own situation." Jax said, putting a hand on his partner's shoulder.

"Who even were those guys?" Sweetie Belle asked as she and the rest of the CMC came over.

"Those were Kano and Ermac," Sonya explained. "Kano is the leader of the Black Dragon Mercenaries, one of the worst criminal organizations from where Jax and I are from. As for Ermac...he's a specter with a million souls composing his body."

"If those two found their way here, then no doubt Shao Kahn's got his eyes on this place," Jax noted grimly.

"I think I know who can help! Princess Twilight Sparkle!" Sweetie Belle spoke up. "I saw her, my big sister Rarity, and their friends leaving for Canterlot not too long ago with some people who looked just like you!"

"Yeah! One looked like a martial artist, one was this really pretty lady with black hair, and the other was this guy who had his name drawn on his chest!" Scootaloo added.

Sonya perked up. "Would the guy with the name on his chest happen to be wearing sunglasses too?"

"Yeah, how did you know?"

"Which way's the train station?" Sonya asked firmly but gently.

"Ooh boy, someone's gonna-"

But before Jax could finish his sentence, Sonya wrapped her arm around his neck, choking him.

"Ah-ah! One more word, and you're roadkill."

Our three favorite little fillies on the eternal quest to find their Cutie Marks are here! And they found Sonya Blade and Jax as well as Kano and Ermac!

Also, for information on when this takes place in MLP Canon, it's during Season 5 after The Cutie Map but before Amending Fences.