The Stone Ones

"Why are we waking them up princess?" Twilight asked her teacher as she, Applejack, and Celestia walked to the war room to wake up the humans.

Celestia smiled at her student. “Well my student" she began. “Forge and the others are always impossible when it comes to waking up. That’s why you're all wearing lead so Forge wouldn’t just throw you out with his magic and go back to sleep."

"But why do ya need me princess?" Applejack asked her. A sly smile grew on Celestia's face.

"Because of your voice dear Applejack." Celestia told her.

"What about mah voice?" a confused Applejack asked; Celestia’s smile grew.

"Well you see the boys had a drill sergeant by the name of Golden Delicious. She was an Apple like you Applejack, in fact you sound just like her, so all you need to do us yell wake up and they'll be wide awake." Applejack, who was still confused, nodded her head.

Opening the giant doors with her magic Celestia and the girls were assaulted by sounds of snoring. Longstrider was covered head to toe in blankets so you couldn't see any of him. Reaper was all over the bed, sleeping in a very weird position, snoring far louder than the other two. Forge was under a bed so all they could see is his feet sticking out. “He really doesn't sleep in beds." Twilight thought aloud.

Celestia chuckled quietly to herself. “Forge has a deep hatred of them, for a very good reason though; you need to get him to tell you the story about it. Now, would you do the honors Applejack?"

Nodding, Applejack took in a deep breath and shouted at the top of her lungs. “WAKE UP! " Almost faster than the girls could see, the 3 humans jumped out of their beds (or in Forges case, he threw his bed off him) and saluted, fear written on all of their faces.

"Ma'am!" They all yelled. Celestia tried, and failed, to stop her laughter. The humans fear turned to confusion to disgruntlement to fuck-you-and-everyone-you-ever-and-will-ever-love-you-bastard/bitch. They looked at Celestia and frowned. "That's not funny Tia, ya almost gave us heart attacks." Reaper grumbled, yawning.

"What time is it Tia?" Forge demanded, looking for his blanket so he could go back to sleep when he threw their asses out.

Celestia walked over to them, her head held in a dignified pose. "Its 8 o'clock Forge, time to get up. You have to address the guards today." Forge looked a lot happier as Celestia snapped at them with her tail. "Come on boys, shower time!" She said as she herded the grumbling and tired humans toward the royal apartments to get showers. The other 2 girls followed, giggling.

" I'ah would ah never thought Celestia the mean big sister type." Applejack told Twilight. Celestia overheard and chuckled. " I am their big sister, isn't that right boys? Somepony needs to get there lazy flanks up in the morning in the worst way possible."

"Eat a bucket of raw dicks Tia." Longstrider grumbled as they were guided to the showers.

As they waited for them to finish Twilight asked, "Princess, they really don't seem like soldiers. Aren't soldiers supposed to be more...... disciplined than that?"

"Trust me girls, when they're on duty you'll not see better troops. But when they’re off duty they tend to act like.... foals." Celestia told the girls as the humans walked out, washed, clothed, and teeth brushed, and ready for breakfast. They met up with the other girls and walked to the throne room to get breakfast.

The whole group, excluding Twilight and Celestia, was tired and pretty cranky as they sat down at the table. Not long after they sat down and ordered their food, a tired Luna entered the room for breakfast. She always liked to have breakfast with her family and that proved far more since her brothers were back.

Sitting between Forger and Celestia and said yawning, “Morning sister, brothers; girls." She got a good morning from Twilight and Celestia and grumbling from the others. As they all quietly ate their breakfast the door flew open, revealing the most hated prince in Equestria, prince Blueblood.

He looked at the humans and the girls with distaste. "Aunty.... What are these... things doing here eating in the royal dining hall?" He looked at the other girls and gasped. “Why are commoners sitting at our royal table?”

Celestia was about to answer when Forge said, " Who's this queer Tia and whys he being a dick?"

Blueblood took offence. " What did you call me beast?" He demanded.

Forge, who didn't look up from his breakfast said, "I called you a queer, you know, a colt cuddlier, a fudge packer, a homo. Christ Tia, is this guy gay and hard of hearing?"

Rainbow, the 2 humans, Applejack, and even Luna laughed. Forge won Rarity’s heart, and all of the other girls, except Celestia, (she was just smiling) gasped. Blueblood's blood boiled. Pulling a glove out of nowhere, he threw it at Forge, who looked bored.

" How dare you monster!" an angery Blueblood said " I challenge you to a duel!" Luna and the humans quietly giggled and the 6 girls gasped at the seriousness of the situation, but Forge just yawned and looked at Blueblood.

"Fine, how about at 5 in the courtyard, I have something to do today already so I can kill two birds with one stone."

Blueblood was baffled by the human’s calmness to the whole situation. "Okay.... name the weapons!"

Forge yawned again, eating some more of his cereal " Whatever you want big boy."

"It’s Prince Blueblood you filth!"

"That’s a long ass name... Well good day Princess Bluebloodyouflith." The girls nervously laughed and a furious Blueblood left, slamming the doors behind him. Forge snorted and finished his orange juice and cereal. “Nobles.... Tia, did he call you aunty? Does that mean that dick is my nephew?"

“Yes."

“Why are my nephew’s dumb assholes Tia?"

"They're not that bad Forge..."

"Really? Bec- O look, Chrissy decided to grace us with her company." Forge said as Chrysalis entered the throne room and ordered pancakes.

She yawned and looked at the humans, then the princesses, and then the girls and the fillies. She could tell that there was something wrong by sensing their emotions. “What happened?" She asked, a still giggling Longstrider answered her.

"Nothing really, Forgey just was challenged to a duel."

That perked her interest. “Really?" The 6 girls looked at Forge nervously.

“Darling" Rarity said, “you may not know this but prince Blueblood is a master swordsmen."

“Ya” Rainbow said, “You could really get hurt."

“He hasn't been beaten when he's using-" Rarity said but Forge interrupt her.

" - he uses a long sword, about 4 feet long. He favors his right side when he swings and he prances around like a fairy when he fights, is that about right?"

The girls looked at him confused. "How did you know that? You've never met that meanie pants!" Pinkie excitedly said. Forge shrugged. “It comes with forging weapons. Don't worry I'll be fine girls. He's getting his shit wrecked" Forge looked at Celestia expectantly.

“Tia, what can I do to my nephew, pain wise?"

“Nothing, just rough him up a little" Forge looked sad.

"Why?! He probably really needs an ass whoppin' Can I at least knock some teeth out?" He gave her his best puppy dog eyes.

"*sigh* Fine."

Forge cheered and ran around the table, making the 3 fillies laugh.

2 Hours later.....

"Are you sure that it's okay for you to take those stiches out?" Fluttershy asked as the 6 girls and Chrissy stood around Forge, who was waiting for Reaper to take his stiches out. Longstrider was playing hide and seek with the 3 fillies and losing badly.

"Yes Mrs. Fluttershy, our bodies heal a lot faster than you ponies. Alright get these out Reaper; I got stuff to do today."

"What am I getting them out with, my blades?" Forger snorted.

"Longstrider, stop sucking at hide and seek for a second and open my container." Longstrider’s head popped out from a closet and he did as Forger asked; grumbling the whole way. When it opened Forge reached his hand out and muttered something. Faster than the girls could see a slivery object flew to his hand and wrapped around his arm.

Twilight looked at the substance around Forges arm, amazed. It looked like some kind of metal but it was flowing like water. "What is that?" She asked, her eyes the size of dinner plates

She asked Forge, who looked up at her. "This is my masterpiece, Quicksilver. I can make it form into anything I want, it’s almost indestructible, and is utterly at my command."

Twilight's eyes grew even wider as some of the Quicksilver pooled in Forges hand and formed into scissors, which Forge gave to Reaper, who started to take his stiches out. Her mind raced, she was almost excited as a filly that just got out of school for the summer. She tried to control herself and almost failed. The amount of research for something like that almost boggled the mind. As calmly as she could, Twilight asked, “How is it made?"

Forge laughed, “That, my dear niece, is a secret.”

Twilight couldn't control herself; she was bucking tired that her thirst for knowledge was not being quenched by the humans. Using her magic she grabbed the rest of the Quicksilver off of Forges arm and ran out of the room. As Celestia was her witness she was going to learn everything about this Quicksilver, for SCIENCE! Before she got out the door though the Quicksilver snaked down to her legs and coiled around her, making her fall to the ground with an thud. Reaper and Forge were laughing their asses off.

“One...... does not simply take Quicksilver from Forge.” A laughing Reaper said as the Quicksilver flew back into Forges hand. Twilight looked at the ground, ashamed of her actions. Forge looked at her with sympathy in his eyes. "It's alright Twilight, if it makes you feel better you'll be getting some of the quick-" Twilight zoomed over to his, her face uncomfortably close to his.

"Really!?" She happily said.

"Yep, all of you girls are getting some; in fact I'll probably need to make some more when I get to ponyville." Twilight looked at him, giving him puppy dog eyes.

" Pweese tell me at least a little about it uncle Forge!" Forge laughed.

"It’s semi-intelligent. There, there's your birthday present."

"You're not going to get me anything else for my birthday? You're a bad uncle!" Twilight joked. Forge laughed again and patted her on the head as Reaper took the last of his stiches out.

"Fine, I'll tell you the secrets of the universe." He told her, winking.

"Really?!"

"Yep."

"Um, sugarcube, not that I'm not grateful or anything but why are we getting this stuff?" Applejack asked

“Because farmer, this stuff will help us track you if anything happens to you. Anyway this stuff really is helpful, 10,000 uses and all that, anything you need it'll form. It's going to take a couple of days to get it to form for you but you'll all love it, trust me"

“Now Twilight, I know you have some more questions for us so go ahead and ask them. Remember though, it has to be biological only." Twilight perked up and grabbed a quill and some paper. “Okay let’s start with something easy, how much do you weigh?"

The humans looked at each other and shrugged, "I think I weigh 250, Reaper maybe 190 and Longstrider's got to be 160 soaking wet." Twilight wrote down what Forge said.

"Okay, you weigh a LOT less than we do.... hummmm, so how much stronger are you than us?" Forge looked thoughtful. "2000 years ago a good bit, but I have no idea now. But we can test it. Which one of you girls is the strongest?"

"I am!" Applejack and Rainbow said at the same time. They then glared at each other as Forge laughed.

"Alrightty then you can both hoof wrestle me."

"Hoof wrestle you?" Rarity said, aghast “Why would you do such a barbaric thing?"

"Well Miss Rarity it’s the best way you can tell how strong somepony is; ready girls?" He said as he walked over to the table. Rainbow Dash flew into the chair, sticking her tongue out at Applejack, who frowned.

“You ready to lose big guy?" She cockily asked him, putting her hoof on the table.

"No ma'am" A grinning Forge replied, clasping his hand with Rainbows hoof; Reaper putting his hand over both of their appendages.

“Ready.......set.......go!" Reaper said, moving his hands away.

Rainbow put everything she had into it, fully believing that she was going to win. The humans arm didn't budge, Forge just looked thoughtful." Hummm, at least you ponies got a lot stronger, or maybe you're just really strong Miss Dash." Slowly and easily, Forge put Dash's hoof down to the table. Applejack fell over, howling with laughter at a flabbergasted Rainbow Dash.

Forge raised an eyebrow at the farmer, "What are you laughing about farmer, you're losing next." That just made her laugh harder. She was far stronger than all of the mares in ponyville and her brother was the only stallion that could beat her physically.

She plopped down on the other side of the table and Forge clasped her forehoof. “Ya ready to lose hun?" Forge just gave her his best shit eating grin as a response.

" Ready...... set" Reaper said as Applejack thought of how much force she wanted to put into the match Don't want ta hurt him or nothin' she thought as Reaper said go. Putting a decent amount of strength into it, Aj was surprised that the humans arm didn't move at all, it was like she was trying to move a mountain with her hand. She put more into it, then more, and then more until she had put everything she had into her forehoof. Still Forges arm didn't move.

Whistling, Forge said with closed eyes, " Good on you farmer, but you forgot a very important thing."

"What’s that?" Aj said through gritted teeth.

"You forgot when it comes to upper body strength; a blacksmith will beat a farmer every time." As easily as he did to Rainbow, Forge gently put Aj's forehoof on the table, beating her.

The room was deathly quiet, none of the others ever seen Applejack lose a hoof wrestling match....Ever.

Forge got up and clasped his hands together. “Alright, time to address the troops.....

In the courtyard.....

Shining Armor looked over his guards for the hundredth time. All 200 guards had been called out to the courtyard that morning to be addressed by the creature that attacked him the other night. Somehow it was the princess’s brother and he wasn't happy for a number of reasons. Speak of the devil and he shall come... Shining thought as Forge walked into the courtyard, looking as intimidating as a man in a pink shirt that says free hugs on it can be.

“Atten-ion!" A Sergeant yelled and all of the guards saluted. Forge ignored him and walked toward Shining. “Captain, let me see your 4 best fighters." Forge calmly said. Nodding he looked at the mass of troops.

“Alright... HeavySet, StormChaser, and ShieldSworn present yourselves!" Shining noticed that his sister, her friends, the princesses, the other humans, and.... her were watching everything unfold. For some reason the human had let the changeling queen out a few days ago, much to Shining’s dismay, every time he saw her he was reminded that he had failed to stop the conflict that they knew was coming.

A massive earth pony, a smaller mare, and a green Pegasus moved out of the crowd and presented themselves to Shining Armor, each of them smartly saluted. Shining saluted to Forge, “I make the 4th sir." Forge didn't look impressed. Walking toward the mass of troops and pulling out and lighting his pipe he said," First, my name is Captain Forger of the Equestrian special forces, or the Thanes." The troops nodded, they had been briefed. “Second, in two days we are having a mourning party, do all of you know what that is?" They nodded; they had one a few years ago.

“Good, now let’s have a little fun my little fillies and colts." Turning and pointing to the 4 ponies that Shining had selected he said, " Me and these 4 are going to have a little sparring match, they win I buy you all drinks" The guards cheered " but if they lose you're getting the famous Forge's yelling session. But first you need to know that you're going to be put back in basic" The guards whispered to each other as Forges eyes grew an edge to them.

“After 2000 years it seems that now it’s easy for Canterlot to be invaded" Shining flinched” So ALL of your training doesn't or didn't help you in any way. So luckily for you each of you are getting a little Thane training. Can I get a thank you Captain ?!"

“Thank you Captain!" All of the guards shouted as Forge took his pipe out of his mouth and blew a cloud of smoke." Another thing that you'll like, the officer positions are open; it’s easy to see that your officers are not qualified for their positions. Now it’s who's the best gets the best position, not who they fucking married or who they know." Shining stiffened; it was easy to see that that was thrown at him.

“Now you 4 ready to get your asses kicked?" Forge said, turning toward the 4 ponies, all 4 who got up in fighting stances, each on their hind legs, each of them about Forge's height, except HeavySet, who was about a foot taller, as they got up on back legs.

HeavySet chuckled and took a step toward Forge, “Not today Cap. I'm breaking your little monkey ass." As he took another step Forge's leg shot out, Spartan kicking HeavySet right in his stallion hood. With a very high pitched scream, HeavySet was down on all 4's a hoof holding his boys. Putting his shoulder into the big stallion, knocking him over, he turned to the other 3 and gave them a smile, showing his canines.

“Celestia save us." StormChaser said and Forge chuckled and pointed toward Celestia.

“She’s not going to help you fillies. One down and I haven't even broken a sweat, let’s try to give me a little more of a challenge, kay?" ShieldSworn and StormChaser looked and nodded at each other. Flapping her powerful wings, launching herself into the air, she flew toward a still smoking Forge as ShieldSworn charged him. Forge took his pipe out of his mouth and grinned," Double attack eh?" He flung the pipes ash into Storm's face, blinding her as Forge snatched her out of the air.

Looking right into her eyes he cocked his head back and with a loud crack head-butted her and threw the now knocked out Storm into the still charging Shield, knocking THAT mare out, both of them laying in a heap. “That’s two and three." A spell struck him in the chest and he turned toward Shining. “Now nephew" Forge said in a jokingly stern tone " that didn't work last time it isn't going to work now. Time to get your ass kicked!" He ran toward a terrified Shining, who threw more useless spells at him, Cocking back a fist and connecting painfully to his stomach, Forge laughed as Shining bent over, holding his stomach, the wind knocked out of him. “Terrible" That was the last thing Shining heard before an elbow connected against his head, knocking him out cold.

The other guards were terrified. Their 4 most feared guards were beaten with little difficulty. Forge turned toward the guards and grinned evilly. “Now it’s time for you to get chewed out."

The 2 princesses, the changeling queen, 2 humans, and 5 girls (Fluttershy didn't want to come) watched as Forge lost his mind on the guards. He brought everything from the honor of their mothers, to their effectiveness as soldiers to how shotty their armor was. Even though they were about 300 feet away they could hear everything he was saying... or shouting.

" He really has a pair of lungs" Chrysalis commented as Forge knocked the helmet off the head of a scared guard, getting very close to his face, his face red with rage, a stark contrast to how pale the stallion had gotten.

"I'M GOING TO BUTT RAPE YOU WITH THAT FUCKING HELMET, YOU STUPID PIECE OF FLY SHIT!!!

“Princess, did he hurt my brother?" Twilight asked, concerned for her brothers well-being. Celestia simply shook her head. “All of them are fine my student. They'll just have some nasty headaches when they wake up."

“I’ah never seen nothing like that." Applejack remarked, whistling to herself.

“That. Was. AWESOME!" Dash yelled. Longstrider chuckled.

“You should see me or Reaper in a fist fight; we make Forge look like a push over.”

Dash blinked. “So you’re better in a fist fight then him eh? I don’t believe you.”

Reaper joined the conversation. “It’s true, out of the 3 of us Forge is the worst at hand-to-hand combat; he’s a weapons specialist. If you don’t believe us ask Tia.” Celestia, who was listening to the conversation, nodded in agreement before she continued to watch the grade 5 shit storm Forge was giving her guards.

Rarity was fanning herself and she watched Forge intently, it looked like he was screaming, just screaming, at the top of his lungs at a poor guard. “What a barbarian!" She said to herself as she bit her lip and fanned herself faster.

“That silly really likes to yell." A bouncing Pinkie said.

It was Luna's turn to chuckle. “This is Forge's favorite thing to do. We had to make him a Captain, he refused it about 10 times; he loved being a drill sergeant." They all turned toward a smiling Forge, who was walking toward them. All of the guards looked shaken and it looked like a few had passed out in fear.

Just then, Blueblood charged out, a sword in mouth. “Now beast-" Forge walked up to him and delivered a titanic uppercut to the spoiled prince’s jaw, making him do a flip in the air and hitting the ground with a thud. "- taste my steel!" Blueblood got out as he got up; spitting teeth and falling right back down, out cold. Forge chuckled, catching the sword that shot in the air with Blueblood as he walked up to an amused Celestia and gave her a big hug, lifting her off the ground.

“Thanks for letting me do that Tia, that was fun! Now let’s go get some grub, putting the fear of god into your guards and fucking up nephews is hungry work!".......

Elsewhere….

The equine body was really a marvel, especially when that equine was a unicorn.

“Please….stop…. I-I’ll give you- AHHH!”

If you opened it up one could hardly tell the difference between them and a human; it was even harder when you opened them up. Lungs, kidneys, even the heart was almost a perfect match.

“*sob* I-I don’t want to die…”

Of course there were differences if you knew what to look for. A pony’s blood was a deeper red than a human, and there was a lot more in them, almost 9 gallons. It was the best if you wanted to paint a sunset, not to mention that it’s taste wasn’t that bad either, it was almost sweet, kind of like lemonade.

“….*gurgle*…please….I have….a wife…..a foal”

Pony’s bodies really couldn’t take the stress of torture like a human could though, usually only lasting about a day of two if you were skilled enough to keep the poor stallion or mare alive. The stallion on the table at the moment, a Mr. Spell Slinger, if the human remembered correctly, was almost spent.

After 2000 years of perfecting his craft most would say that he was good at what he did. Why would be slowly torture a poor innocent soul before killing him? Well because it was just so much darn fun!

First they would be defiant until he showed them his tools, his knives, hammers, and other goodies, then they would beg. Begging would turn to screams; that was the best part.

He swore there was something therapeutic about the whole thing.

The human looked over the bloody, dying stallion and grinned. Around him was a collection of the fella’s organs, buckets of blood at his feet; something for the troops to snack on. May as well finish this… he thought as he reached for the stallions horn.

SNAP!

The weakened stallion barely flinched as he lost his horn, his eyes becoming unfocused as his life was draining away.

Not a bad size… He thought as he walked over to his horn grinder. Most knew that unicorn horns were special, what most didn’t know is that if you ground up a unicorns horn it could be used to help increase your lifespan, something that the human had been doing for thousands of years. It tasted like shit but what are you going to do?

“Master, master!” His servant yelled, hobbling toward him.

He sat down on his couch was sipped his unicorn horn tea. “What is it slave?”

The servant bowed down low. “This one has news from our spies, your brothers are free.”

The human grinned; it was a cold, evil smile. It had been a long time… Odd that they would come when he was about to start his plan to destroy this world, no matter, even with them in the picture there was little they could do.

“Tell the troops to get ready, we’re going to have a nice little raid soon, and get rid of this.” He said, waving toward the body. The servant hobbled away and brought back two others, both as black and ugly as the other, grabbing the deceased stallion and taking it to the troops of their evening meal.

The human chuckled, turning toward his fire, swirling his drink. “So Forgey, you’re back. Good, I want to see how long you and the others last on my table.” With one last swig of his tea he threw the rest into the fire, the unicorn magic making the fire let off a menacing blue glow as the human laughed…..