The gang grouped together once the two soldiers came up to them. Spike sensed there was something not good coming off of Damian and began growling at him.

"What is this, Scooby Doo and the Mystery Gang?" Damian joked as he looked at them, both hands holding the rifle close.

"Civilians are not supposed to be in here, how did you guys get in here?" The soldier with the helmet on, Watson, asked. Even with the helmet on, he was looking at Damian, watching what he's going to do.

As Spike continued to growl at Damian, the other girls looked at each other before Sunset spoke. "We uh… got lost, we're part of the archaeologist group. We're one of the diggers." She lied.

Damian narrowed his eyes on her. Though half blind, he could see the blood stains from fighting the Dwellers and how ragged they looked. What they were wearing wasn't what the diggers wore.

"You think we're that stupid?" He grunted, fingers tapped on his weapon. His face turned into a scowl.

As he went to step forward, Watson clapped a hand on his left shoulder. "Hold on, mate." Watson said.

Damian glared at the man before huffing and stepped back.

Watson nodded before approaching the girls and Spike. "Listen, I honestly at this point don't care why you lot are here, but as you probably know, judging by your injuries and clothes, there are things in this Temple that are deadly. All of you can't be here."

"Sirs, we know, but we can't leave." Cassandra said, pushing her glasses up. Her glasses by now had a crack on the glass and the frames were now a bit crooked on her head. Most likely would have to get a new pair when they leave. "I know you won't believe us, but we have a mission here we need to complete."

"The fate of our world and Equestria depends on it." Dash said.

Damian scratched his jaw before grunted. Having to think about this before pointing a finger at them. "Are you that crazy ass group that has been tampering the U.N equipment and undermining our operations?"

"Wait, what?" Sunset blinked.

"Yeah, man, they're not a part of it," Watson grumbled under his breath.

"What did you just say, Wats?" Damian looked at him.

"Didn't say anything, brother." Watson quickly spoke.

"What? No no we haven't tampered anything. We just got here several hours ago." Serenity said. "M-Maybe you can help us, we're missing two of our friends here."

"If those two strayed from the group, more likely than not, those two are as good as dead." Damian pointed out.

"Rachel and Elizabeth aren't, they can handle themselves!" Spike barked, moving to where he's guarding the other girls.

Both Watson and Damian jumped when the dog spoke and Damian aimed the gun at him. "What the fuck?!"

Spike started barking loudly, going to lunge at him.

"Spike, stand down!" Cassandra reached down and grabbed the collar, being careful not to stab herself with the long spikes on it and held him back.

The other girls and Watson shouted at Damian to lower the gun down.

"That dog is talking, what the actual fuck?" The burly man stared at the dog, gun still aiming at him.

"It's a long story, but please lower that gun." Applejack said as everyone was trying to calm down the already highly tense situation.

"We got enough on our plate without there needing a shoot out on civilians and their…talking…okay how is he talking, seriously?" Watson asked.

"So what? I can talk, you two have a problem with that?" Spike snarled, being restrained by Cassandra.

"Spike, calm down, it's alright." Cassandra said, trying to calm him down. Trying to use her techniques to calm the raging boy down by going underneath his neck and began scratching it, making shushing noises in the process.

It did help calm Spike to where he isn't trying to attack anyone but he was still growling at the sight of Damian. Something about him he sensed was not right. He wasn't a good man, Spike could tell.

"We're about to cross to a world where there's ponies who talk and walk on two legs, we've been fighting demons for weeks and now a talking dog? I swear I think I've been drinking too much." Damian grunted, freeing a hand to rub his head as a migraine was coming up.

As Damian contemplates his actual existence and wonders if he has any brain cells left, Watson takes control.

"Okay, you guys said you are missing your friends, we can help." Watson said. "Names Watson, my associate over there is Sergeant Dickhead,"

"Fuck you." Damian growled at him while the others couldn't help but giggle. Something to lighten up the mood. "It's Sergeant Lockhart, asshole."

Spike continued to growl deeply at that, the other girls stared at him with wide eyes. The giggling stopped.

"Uh… you wouldn't happen to be related to our missing friend, Rachel Lockhart?" Serenity whispered, asking Damian.

Damian looked at the meek girl and smiled in a way that was a bit uncomfortable. "Why yes. In fact she's my daughter. You say she's here?"

The gang recalled Rachel mentioning her father being abusive to her. Seeing this look in their faces, Damian lowered the gun.

"I don't know what she's been saying to you ladies, I know she and I have our differences and are going through a bit of a rough patch, but I have been looking for her." His tone sounded like honey but there was venom in his words. "You say she was here? We can work together on finding those two. More numbers there are, the better it is to fight against those monsters."

Watson stared at him, also getting way too uncomfortable looking at the soldier.

The gang spoke to each other, not knowing what to do. Not wanting to cause any more tense situations, but they didn't know what to do. Two armed soldiers, one of them was giving off bad vibes.

However, there wasn't anything they could think of. The Dwellers were everywhere, these guys have better equipment to maneuver the ever changing Temple. Maybe they could find Rachel and Elizabeth together. And if push comes to shove, six girls with powers and a dog could take two soldiers out if they don't get shot.

"Okay, we'll work together." Sunset said as the girls turned to them.

"I rather we continue on our own, I don't trust him." Spike grunted, glaring at Damian.

"Easy there, Scooby." Damian glared at him. Spike snarled in response.

"I don't think we have a choice," Rainbow Dash grumbled.

The girls didn't think this was a good idea either, but there wasn't anything they could do.

"Alright, we'll stick together and find your friends." Watson said as the girls and Damian began walking down another corridor.

Even though Spike was way too focused watching the burly man like a hawk, just waiting for him to do something, when he passed by Watson, there was a familiar scent on him.

Which was odd because only one of his friends smelt similar to this bloat. He looked up to Watson curiously.

When Watson waited until Damian was ahead of the group, he leaned close to the girls. "Yo, I am with you girls, I know Rach as well." He whispered to them, keeping his tone down to where Damian didn't hear them.

"Really?" Lucy gasped loudly, only to have everyone hush her. Damian looks over his shoulders.

"What's the deal?" Damian asked.

"Nothing, just trying to get to know these ladies. We don't even know their names." Watson said.

Damian snorted. "Don't bother." He said before turning to face ahead.

They waited a moment before Applejack whispered to Watson. "How do you know her?"

"We go way back. We have a few things in common, we traveled to Equestria together." Watson said before lifting the goggles part of the helmet up, exposing the upper part of his face. He was a black man, however, his eyes weren't normal. They were red with black slitted pupils like dragons… Like Rachel. "She and I share a few things. Real name's Malik." Malik whispered before putting the goggles back down, covering his face up once more.

"You're just like her too?" Cassandra whispered, quickly pulling out her notebook and taking notes.

"I'll explain more later, but just know I'm on your side… Dickhead ahead of us however… watch out for him."

"We can tell." Applejack whispered.

"Just play it cool for right now." Malik muttered to them before continuing their walk.

The gang soon came to a large room filled with treasures. Gold, various gems, centuries old paintings, tomes of knowledge, all compiled in front of a rather large altar with the same golden dragon statue the gang kept seeing. There were braisers that were lit all around the room.

"Well I'll be damned." Damian whistled low. Though he himself saw some treasures while wandering and shooting up the place, this was the biggest stockpile of gold and pressure jewels he and anyone else in the group had seen.

So much wealth, one could live rather comfortably for the rest of their lives and their children's great grandchildren could live off of.

Damian walked over to one of the piles and picked up a diamond studded choker and hummed softly before pocketing it.

"H-hey, those aren't yours." Serenity called out.

"I doubt those monsters would care less, shut up or I'll make you shut it." Damian threatened with a grunt, giving her a menacing glare that made her back off.

The soldier looked around, seeing if the two missing girls were in this room, all for a while, taking a few pieces of gold and jewels and putting them in his many pockets.

"Damian, I doubt the two are here, let's head out." Malik said, trying to hold his tone. "This treasure might be cursed."

"Bah! I don't believe in that. Besides, since we're all moving across worlds, we might as well start a new life rich and wealthy." Damian said.

Though he was on the mission of hunting his daughter, it sure was a waste to leave this treasure. It was better than what pension the U.S Military pays for their hard work.

Sunset sighed, looking around the room with the others, she ended up tripping on a goblet and crashed into the back of Damian.

Once her hands touched him, Sunset Shimmer's eyes flashed white and her mind began seeing memories of Damian's life.

She saw how his life was just full of uncontrollable anger, constantly getting into fights with his family, terrorizing those around him. His father tried to discipline him but it only provoked him more so he was sent to military school. Sunset saw how it only taught him more on how to become more of a monster he was becoming. She sees him enlisting in the Army, rising in the ranks and becoming an interrogator for terrorists, using extreme measures and he was damn good at it. He loved the fact he was allowed to torture. So much so that he had begun torturing POW's for fun and to see how much their bodies could take. Men, women, sometimes children, it didn't matter to him. Seeing him losing his status and being dishonorably discharged for having a fight with a higher up. When he met a young woman that looked similar to Rachel but smaller, he married her and had their daughter, but it wasn't enough to curb his need to cause pain. The mother took the blunt end of the abuse, having scenes shifted to Rachel fighting for her and getting into constant fights with him. Seeing so many horrible things Damian did to satisfy his sadistic tastes on other's expense on his own wife and child.

The scenes then shifted to the last day Rachel's mother was alive. After having an explosive breakfast and punching a black haired dyed Rachel in the face and she stormed out of the house for school. He watched from the small bathroom window and watched Rachel tampering with his truck and leaving. When he went back down, the wife couldn't take it anymore and tried to fight him, wanting the abuse to end once and for all. The fight didn't last long before he pulled out a large knife and plunged it in her stomach, twisting the knife sharply and pulling it out.

He watched as his now dying wife was stumbling out of the home, watching her grab the keys to the now tampered truck. An evil smile split from his lips as she disappeared. Hours later, getting the oh so poor news that his wife had suffered a terrible vehicle crash. Lost control and crashed it, Whom they presumed had died instantly.

With how the body was found, it was enough to cover up the fact she had died right before the crash.

His abuse then shifted to the grief stricken, guilty daughter, who had his way with for years after that, seeing all the horrible things he had done to Rachel up to the night she ran away to live in Equestria.

The vision ended and Sunset stared at the man horrified. Her stomach twisted to the point she felt ill. She saw his ill intentions, what his plans were after he were to cross over to Equestria, what he had plans once he caught Rachel. What he plans on doing to do with the other girls and Spike once he gets what he wants.

Damian turned to look over his shoulder, looking at Sunset once she bumped into him. "Can I help you?" he asked.

Forget about the Dwellers, this man in front of them was the real monster. A monster who cannot cross over.

A monster Sunset knew could not remain alive.

The two stared at each other as she slowly made a grab for her axe.

Rachel and Elizabeth managed to loop around the Temple and found their way to the room where they told Rúna's story once more. The bodies of the two dead soldiers they encountered earlier. Now seeing the aftermath, the one soldier still had a spear embedded in his head while the other was mutilated.

"Did we just make a loop?" Elizabeth asked, frustrated that they were nearly back to where they started. "How do the Dwellers get around when the walls change constantly?"

Rachel was annoyed that they were back here. She looked up in the room, trying to think. "Maybe we can go how the Dwellers do it, through the cracks and holes." She said, seeing a large hole high up on the wall. "Didn't you go through a crack?"

"I'd rather go find a secret trap door than squeeze into another crack."

"We don't have much of a choice." Rachel said. "I think I can try and carry us up there." She points at the hole.

As she said that, the radios of both soldiers were set off. Both had the same static and voices coming out. Something calling from the open frequencies. The two girls listened for a hot minute, hearing what sounded like gunshots, girls screaming, a man telling them to shut up.

Blood running ice cold, Rachel ran to the bodies, picked up one of the radios and began twisting the knobs, getting to the right frequency. Once she tuned in correctly, she and Elizabeth heard the voices clearly.

"You stupid cunts made a big fucking mistake." Damian's voice growled, sounding really pissed off. Hearing what sounded like Serenity crying out and of him hitting her.

There were sounds of the others trying to get to him but the two girls heard another gunshot firing. "Anyone else make another fucking move, I'm blowing all of you straight to hell!"

"This mother fucker right here." The other voice, Rachel now recognized more clearly.

"Scarecrow…?" Rachel whispered. Hearing the familiar accent of Malik's. But when he spoke, there was an unusual, but familiar growl sound. Almost dragon-like? While there was a bit of a distance with the other voices, Malik's was really close.

At this moment, Damian has complete control. His foot pinned Serenity to the ground, stepping on her chest with the assault rifle pointed at her, another handgun held out, pointing at the severely injured girls and Spike.

When Sunset went to attack, Damian saw her move and back handed her hard, knocking her to the ground. Once that happened all hell broke loose.

Spike had broken free from Cassandra and attacked Damian. Tackling him to the ground and biting him. Got him by the arm and shook savagely. Damian slammed his fists against the dog's head repeatedly to get him off. When unable to push and kick him off, Damian pulls out his large knife. Since he couldn't get to Spike's neck, he stabbed him twice in his side. Spike let it a pained yelp before he was thrown off.

"Spike!" Cassandra screamed. Her hands glowed, was going to throw the man around, only to have him quickly reached for his handgun and shot at her once. Aiming right for her right hand, blasting a pretty big hole.

If others wanted to know where Rachel had gotten her good aim from, this was the man right there.

Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Lucy, Sunset and Serenity did try to restrain him, Malik also stepped in to stop the bastard. They were either shot, stabbed or beaten to a bloody mess. The ones that did prove a bit of a challenge were Malik and AJ.

However, Damian had far more experience than anyone else in this room. He's been doing stuff like this for years.

Dash was knocked out cold after she had speed ran past him several times, getting in a few licks before Damian timed it right and got her in the face and she was down like a sack of potatoes. The combo of her speed and the force of the punch, essentially running into the punch canceled her out.

Damian did get hurt by Lucy's sprinkle bombs, it did do some damage but it only pissed him off more. The same knife he used on Spike, he threw it at her and embedded her in the hip. He went toe to toe with AJ, had to admit he was impressed by her strength but he was able to subdue her. Same goes for Malik, though he did show he was much stronger than he looked, Damian shot at him several times, twice on his side and one on the chest.

He had removed Malik's helmet to expose his whole face. Like Rachel, he also had pointed ears and sharp teeth.

Serenity did hop on Damian's back, pressing the handle of the axe up against his throat, he just grabbed handfuls of her long pink hair and flipped her hard over his shoulder and threw her to the ground.

While Damian had reached for his assault rifle, Malik had turned on his radio and put on an open frequency, hoping anyone was alive and close enough to hear them, pressing down the call button.

"Just let us go!" Serenity cried as it was getting hard to breathe with his foot on her chest.

"Yeah you gals lost that right to ask that." Damian grunted as he pressed his boot harder on her. Amused to see her cute little face twisted in pain and anguish.

When he finally realized he was hearing an echo of his voice, he glanced down at his radio before looking up to see Malik holding his.

"Whoops." Malik gritted his teeth. Though the shots weren't enough to kill him, it hurt like hell. Especially when he had been trying to dig out what bullets he could.

Damian gave a warning look to Serenity to stay put and commanded the girls to stay, he marched over to Malik and rips the radio out of his hands.

Though trembling and bleeding, Cassandra quickly scrambled over to where Spike was. He was on his right side, his left was bleeding heavily as a pool was forming. He was whimpering and moaning.

Pressing her band hand up to her chest and sobbing, she quickly grabbed rags from her bag and pressed it against him. He let out a shout and tried to get away but Cassandra shushed and whispered. "It's okay boy, it's going to be okay." Trying to get the bleeding to stop.

"Hey, what the fuck did I just sa-" as Damian was getting on Cassandra, the radio came on.

"Get your hands off my friends, you goddamn prick!" Rachel's voice growled loudly through the radio.

Damian grinned maliciously as he pressed the button and spoke. "Rachel? Baby girl is that you? It's been awhile."

"Step away from them right now, it's between you and me. " She grunted.

Damian walked back over to Serenity, glancing over at the other girls. "Yeah, it was until your little freak friends attacked me. It was self-defense." He responded to her. "But you're right, we have some unfinished business. Only one of us is going to leave this temple alive. "

"I'm going to make fucking sure it's you this time."

"Y-you can't fight her, she's pregnant!" Lucy called out, trying to figure out how to pull the knife out, winching each time she tried to grab the blade.

Damian blinked before pressing the call button. "Is that true? You're pregnant?"

There was a moment of silence before responding. "Yes. Yes I am. Though I doubt it's going to change anything."

"Nope. The way I'm seeing it, I'm doing that brat a favor. Don't know who was dumb enough to knock your dumbass up, but it'll save the trouble of having you as the mother. After all, you're planning on killing me, just like you killed your mother."

Sunset shook her head and shouted. "Rachel, he's lying! He killed your mother, he killed her after he saw you tampering the truck! She was already dead before the crash!"

Damian snarled, storming up to Sunset and pistol whipped her, cracking her cheekbone and nose.

Rachel gripped the radio tightly. Her whole body trembled after hearing what Sunset just said. She had already flinched when her father brought mom up, but when Sunset said that…

At first she didn't believe it. After all these years, believing she was the cause of her mother's demise. Wrapped in pain and sheer guilt for so long it was suffocating her.

Rachel knows Sunset could see memories of people. She mentioned the truck, she never told the girls about that fucking damn truck.

It was him!

Elizabeth watched silently. Mortified that their friends were in danger, horrified to hear how awful Rachel's father was.

"While I hang onto your friends a little, why don't you find your way to us." Her father suggested. "These radios have built in trackers, you can track me and we'll end this, once and for all."

Rachel couldn't agree with him more. For once in her life she agreed with him.

"What's your position?" Rachel asked.

"One of the treasure rooms. My radio number is 1637-835-4260. Just follow the beeps, it'll lead you there." Damian said. "Also, since I'm feeling a bit generous since these damn walls change and monsters are roaming this Temple, take your time. However, every thirty minutes when you're not here, I'm going to have my way with these girls, one by one. Starting with her!" There were sounds of him kicking and Sunset yelling.

"Fuck you!" Sunset Shimmer cried out

"And you know how I like them when they struggle. Tick tock Rachel. Tick tock." Damian grunted.

Then radio silence.

Once the radio went silent, Rachel let out a loud roar, while holding on the radio, she turned to the weapons rack and knocked it over. She matched over to the statue of Queen Rùna and punched it.

When she did, the stone cracked at the base, her fist indented it.

"That fucking bastard!" She screamed.

Her blood was boiling, her body was visibly steaming out of anger. This darkness that had been inhabiting her body was coming out. All the rage, all the pain, everything over her lifetime poured out.

Her father had tormented her and others far too long.

It was time to settle things once and for all.

"How can one man overpower five girls and a dog?" Elizabeth asked in a panic state. She had never heard any of her friends make that kind of awful sound before. "We have magic!"

"Father has ways…." Rachel's stomach twisted when she called that abomination her father. Felt so sick to be related to him. "Why couldn't he be like his variant…" Rachel shook her head at that before pushing herself off the statue and setting the tracker up and punched in the code.

"Rachel, what do you mean by that? Do you know his pony self?" Elizabeth asked as she approached her. When the mom-to-be didn't respond, Elizabeth asked again. "Do you know his ponyself?"

Rachel closed her eyes when she asked once more. "Yes….I do. I already told you his name… When I left the first time, I was so scared that my father would find me and drag me away, when in actuality, that's what actually happened. My dad did find me and took me away, took me away to Equestria. I also know the pony me, her name's Lilysky, but we're so fucking different that we're basically different entities. Not the same being." She admits. "A father is supposed to protect their children, raise them and protect them from the monsters of the real world, not becoming one. So when I go kill this sonvabitch, I won't be killing my dad because he's back at Equestria waiting for me." Once she set the tracker up, the radio began to beep.

"Let's hurry." Rachel said quickly before quickly walking towards the hole the girls spoke before.

Rachel walked up to the wall, devising a plan to get both girls up, when only one idea came to mind, she grabbed hold of Elizabeth. "Hold on." She said.

"What are you~ WHOA!?" Elizabeth cried out when Rachel jumped while holding onto Elizabeth. Having one arm wrapped around Elizabeth's waist and holding onto the radio, Rachel's free hand dug into the wall once they were up at a height and flung the purple haired girl up, having her thrown into the hole before climbing up the rest of the way.

"Warn me better next time!" Elizabeth snapped as she got up, dusted her body. Without wasting any time, the two began following the beeps, using the holes and cracks in the walls to get to where they were going.