Karl woke up. But not in the world called Equestria. He woke up in The Rift, the small space inbetween the worlds. He looked around him, showing that he was inside the house. He looked behind him and saw the old door, closed and locked. He looked to his right, and saw that his missing leg had been replaced by a crystaline counterpart. He looked infront of him and smiled. In the chair sat a crystal bi-pedal figure, other known as The 43rd Clockmaker. He looked at Karl and said, "You have one wish, what do you want?" Karl looked at him with a grim smile and answered, "I shall become the first in the F4 project." The Clockmaker looked at him and said, "And so it shall become." They both vanished in a flash of light, leaving the old house in the middle of The Rift.
"Hold up." Heron said, pushing her bowl away from her and standing. She trotted over to him and peered directly into his face. After a few seconds of awkward staring, she said "Knew it. You have a leaf in your mane." She plucked the tiny, barely visible leaf out with her teeth and spat it away with a "PFFTU." Gathering herself, she said "Right, sorry. I just can't stand when ponies' manes are messed up. It's so unnatural looking!"
His face was almost a different color "yeah maybe I shouldn't eat so fast," he said nervously chuckling he saw the door and started backing up and right when his hoof touched the dirt he turned around and started to walk outside he looked back at her "well bye" Gaze said rubbing the back of his neck smiling.
Heron Wing shook her head in disapproval. "You simply do not wave goodbye to ponies you don't know!" she said. "My name is Heron Wing. Now you may say goodbye."
Tyro's eyes look like they're about to pop out of his head as he pants heavily, his chest low to the ground as though he might dry heave. His head was swimming and numb all of a sudden like he had been hit with a drug. Sulphy gives Tyro the susspitious eye. "Vins Mirs Nase." Tyro blurts out as soon as his brain returned to normal. "Whut was that?" Yells one of the train robbers they had been following. The pony in the hat nods to one of the dimond dogs around him to search the immediate area for anyone watching them. There wasn't anything but the large rock out in the desert, next to the train line. Sulphy manages to give Tyro a punch on the shoulder before the Dimond Dog picked them both up. "I found them boss!" Then Tyro took a sharp intake of breath at the same time as Sulphy. Together, they blew two bursts of flame into the dogs face. Screaming and clutching his features, the dog drops them both. "Whut in tarnation?!" The hatted pony cries as he turns his attention from the on-comming train. He spots the baby dragon and the fox. "Hey! I know you. Yur tha' furball that's bin makin' it real hard for me. And the sidekick, too." Sulphy stops: "Sidekick? Me?" "How about," Tyro intergects, "You come quietly and then we don't have to cause any mischief." The pony in the hat s******s so hard his hat slips. You can see a few of his scars on his navy blue coat. He then looks to the dogs throwing wood on a roaring flame that sat on the train tracks. "Fellas! Throw the furball and his friend on the fire! Lets see how that coat burns!" The dimond dogs converge.
He looked at her and he completely forgot to say his name to her "Oh yeah," he said, "Well my name is Grazer but I would like to be called Gaze," he stared at her longer making things weird again. "Well I guess I can bye now um Heron," he said he walked away and waved goodbye to her.
On his way back from work, Fire decided to fly about, when he noticed some commotion when flying over the desert. He flew in closer to notice an old friend, Tyro, and some not so friendly looking diamond dogs. "Hello, lads." Fire said landing near by, "I noticed my friend, a fire, and some nasty looking diamond dogs, so I decided to drop down and chat."
Rashall walked into ponyville by himself, he really just wanted to take a stroll through the town, but he knew that it wouldn't be that simple.
"Huh...What a stroke of luck..." Tyro said as a diamond dog throws a punch at Tyro. The first knocks him back into the here and now. He retaliates with a burst of flame to the dogs feet. He backs off, grateful not to have been burnt like his comrade. Tyro then tries to tackle the dog, scratching his his short claws. The dogs arm flails and catches Tyro mid leap and throws him to the side like a toy. Tyro rolls back on to his paws once he lands, just as more diamond dogs surround him.
Firebreeze quickly headbutted a diamond dog to the ground and then sent two kicks into the face of another. He soon notices the surrounded Tyro and begins to try and ward off the diamond dogs using kicks, tackles, and head butts.
Arrows was flying through the desert to get to the shooting range, when he saw Firebreeze and Tyro fighting off some diamond dogs. He took out a arrow and bow and shot a specially made arrow at a collar of one of the dogs, electrocuting it. He landed and asked, "Need some help?
Arrows joined in and shot a arrow, which was caught, but then exploded along with the diamond dog holding it. "They're making this too easy"
A caped pony watched the others beat the diamond dogs, one after one. He squinted his eyes at the group, before letting his right hoof leave the cape, raising it up. However, it was made of crystal, causing the sunbeams to dance through his hoof. He directed the sunbeam at one of the diamond dogs, hindering it from seeing until one of the ponys bucked his face. He quickly returned the hoof inside the cape, and started trotting away with a smile to his face.
Tyro slides left as a fist flies downwards. He sees the diamond dog ready another punch just as an arrow hit him in the shoulder. He attempts to spot where that was coming from and spots a new pony that had arrived from no-where. Apparently, lots of ponies like to fly past Appleloosa at this time of day. Breaking up a punch up must be a welcome change of pace. He was suddenly grabbed by the scruff of his fur and pulled into the air. Dangling by this part of his coat, he struggles, attempting to wriggle loose from the dog's grasp. The diamond dog giggles and tosses Tyro over it's shoulder. He flops through the air and into the bonfire, landing on the burning timbre in a heap. The flame swallowed him up as the train blew it's whistle. You could hear it's breaks squealing fitfully, fighting the train to a halt. Tyro pushes himself up, sitting up in the fire. The Pony in the hat looks back as he continues to run for the train. He spots Tyro sitting in the bonfire unharmed like he was simply sitting in a shower. "What the?" The train came to a few stop eventually. The driver sticks his head out, to get a better view of the bonfire on the tracks when he hears a click below him. The pony in the hat was pointing a wrist mounted gun at him and showing off those shiny, silver teeth. "You play nice now, yeh hear?"
Heron Flipped her mane out of her face as she climbed out of the cold water. She enjoyed taking a dip whenever she had nothing to do, and this counted as one of those times. Stepping off in a trot, Heron turned to her nearby house. Despite how small it was, she enjoyed the plainness of her house. It was one of the few houses in ponyville that was made of brick, and it had a skylight (installed personally by her) if she wanted to take to the skies. The door swung open with a small squeak, and Heron walked in leisurely. Before she closed the door, she noticed a voice nearby, stopping her dead. "Hello?" she said slowly as she closed the door. "Is- is anypony there?" The voice suddenly stopped, leaving her alone in the darkness. Heron stood in that spot for quite a while, ears perked to catch the tiniest sounds. Nothing ever came. By the time she got her nerve up enough to move, she had already dried off. Turning the lights on, she shook off her fear and dismissed the voices as her imagination. After all, why would anypony be in her house in the first place?
Rashall had finally left ponyville and was on it's outskirts he was surprised that his favorite hill had some how survived the war. He smiled as he walked to the top and sat down underneath the tree looking out over ponyville, maybe they didn't need him here or his warriors anymore, but he would never truly know.
Firebreeze sneaked behind the hatted pony, and headbutts him, effectively knocking him out, "Sorry, I don't know how to play nice, lad."
As the caped pony trotted on it's way to Ponyville he noticed a familiar grey pony sitting on top of a hill. He stared at the grey coat and the red edged mane before raising his right crystalline leg, allowing the sunbeams to again dance threw it. He zoned in on the tree above the grey pony, creating a small mark on it. He then quickly discarded the hoof inside his cape and begun trotting a little bit faster back to Ponyville.
