2. The Slaughter - The Attack (Revised)

Chapter Two

                                                                      The Slaughter

I saw the castle loom over us, as we approached it. I put up a hand, signalling for my squadron and the other ten soldiers to stop. Our speeders stopped to a full halt.

I took out my binoculars and looked at the gate of the castle. There were ten guards guarding it, must've been more security since we attacked Ponyville. I smirked. Nothing can stop us and our powerful technology.

"This is the plan. We sneak to the gates, with the transparent camouflage that lasts a few minutes, and then crack the heads of the guards there." I planned.

"I'll stay here." Hawkeye said to us as he set up his sniper nest.

We sneaked through the trees, and we followed Shadow's lead. When he activated his invisible camouflage, we all did also.

We were in position behind the guards. One of the guards scratched his head with a hoof.

I looked at Hawkeye in his sniper's nest. He was under some leaves and had his special robotic camoflauge set to foliage camouflage. I could see the look in his eyes, one that was hungry for blood.

We snapped the guards' necks like a twig. The snap was louder than expected.

"Damnit." I said as a lot more guards looked over the wall.

The guards leaped from the wall, stumbling and landing in front of us. I tapped one on it's shoulder. It looked behind him, confused, not seeing anything. I could see them sweating.

I whispered into the comms. "Kill em'."

I heard the silenced fire of Hawkeye's sniper rifle as he took out three of the guards. They looked around, frantically, not seeing where the attacker was. We all turned off our camouflage and opened fire with our pulse guns.

The big gate door behind us opened. I saw five guards looking at us. We ran towards them, and opened fire. We heard the shrieks and screams from the ponies that were "civilised". We ran into the city, shooting down hordes of guards. It was total chaos. Ponies flying everywhere, and magic auras exploding everywhere.

I looked down at my feet as I saw crossbow bolts impaling themselves into the ground. I looked forward and saw guards that were shooting at me with their crossbows. I dashed up to them and smashed them which a sickening crack. I shot the rest that evaded my blow.

A pony that had armour that was half purple and half gold appeared out of nowhere with a magical 'poof!' The pony was a stallion with a white horn, coat, and dark and light blue mane and tail. The pony looked like a captain. Shadow appeared from thin air behind him, and stabbed him in the back.

The captain crumpled to the ground as Shadow took his knife out of it's back and disappeared with his fully invisible camouflage, which lasted shorter than the transparent one.

"We have to approach the castle!" I yelled into the comms as I sprinted through the streets torwards the castle.

"Roger that, ETA two minutes." I heard Shadow say.

The castle loomed in front of me, and I met the rest of the squad and the ten soldiers there. We pushed the door that let into the castle but it wouldn't budge.

"Great to know they have common sense." I said to myself. I nodded at Rookie and he placed breaching charges on the door.

"Clear!" I yelled as I detonated the charges, facing away from the door and to the side, hunching over. The door exploded with metal flying everywhere outside, but our suits protected us. Viper ran through the mass of metal. My jaw dropped as I saw him dropping ponies and killing them with his bare hands. He is a human tank.

We followed behind him, and we looked for any place that looked like a throne room. We plowed through mobs of ponies, shooting them down as we did. We saw two decorated doors, one was decorated as if it were the sun, and the other the moon and the stars. Rookie placed more charges on the wall.

"Clear!" I yelled as I detonated the charges. We burst through the hole in the doors, and we saw two princesses along with six mares.

"Ahh, Princess. We are back. It was a big mistake banishing us from this planet and destroying our technology. Such a shame you puny little ponies wouldn't embrace technology and advance with us. You, without reason, kicked us out out of jealousy towardsour power and technology" I said in my most villainous voice.

"Who ya'll callin' puny?" A orange pony with a Stetson hat asked.

"Quiet you!" Tech barked as he shot the pony with a power shot, just for blasting someone back a few meters. The pony flew back and hit the wall, knocked out.

"Now, you will comply with us or you'll be killed." I ordered.

They just took a fighting stance and I laughed.

"Ok, Just to make this fair, I will do hand to 'hoof' combat with you, versus all of you."

Shadow and Viper complained and pouted. "But we wanted to do that."

"Next guards we see you can do that, but stand down for now." I said as I got in a fighting stance.

They all charged, thinking that they could do something if they charged all at once, but my armour has gravity mode where I can't be knocked over.

"Jarvis, gravity mode."

"Yes master." My suit's AI, Jarvis, replied.

They all crashed into me and were dazed.

I took the chance and I deactivated gravity mode.

"Gravity mode off."

I brought my foot down kicked with all my might, a orange pony that yelped in pain as she went flying towards the wall and made a small crack as the smashed against it.

A flying cyan pegasus punched my armour as hard as she can, "You don't hurt my friends!", but I saw her wince as she felt that she just hit hard metal.

Annoyed, I grabbed those wings and cracked them, making a sickening *CRACK!* the pony screamed in pain,

"AAAAAAAGHH!", and I threw it took the floor, sending her sliding to where the orange pony was, still conscious.

During each of my single fights, I didn't feel them topple me over anyways because they couldn't hit my armour hard enough, so I was oblivious to their attacks. Nor magic was effective, I had magic dampeners in my armour.

A purple one, a white one, and the two princesses charged up a magic beam in their horns. They shot it at me, but it was deflected right off the armour, since we do have magic dampeners that we found out how to make ever since we scanned the planet, which was even before I woke up.

I used the dash feature of my armour, thrusters at the back of my arms, back, and legs.

I got to the white princess and I slapped her as hard as I could.

'Sometimes I just have to smack a bitch.'

She crumpled to the floor, and the blue princess got enraged

"HOW DARE THOU HURT OUR SISTER!" She barrelled into me, but I brushed her off.

I slammed a kick into her underside and she crumpled.

I saw the remaining three cowering in fear in a corner.

I heard horror music as I approached them slowly.

The white and yellow one got behind the lavender one, and the yellow one wrapped her wings around the white one.

The lavender one charged up a magic beam.

"I will spare you, but you will be locked in here. Consider this mercy. I have specific orders to take the white one with wings and a horn. It doesn't matter if you escape." I simply said to them.

I saw the big white one stand up and try to escape through the window.

I heard the loud rings as the suppressed fire of Hawkeye's sniper rifle shot the white princesses' legs. It was a stunning round, as real rounds would be a lot louder even if it was suppressed.

"Princess Celestia! NO!" The lavender unicorn yelled.

Viper grabbed her by the scruff of her neck, he was taller than her.

Celestia just hung her head down in defeat, and was guided by Shadow from the castle.

"General! We have the white Princess, but a dark blue princess and six mares that are important to them are still in there." I radioed the General.

"They are of no importance." He replied with malice in his voice. "Excecute the white Princess in front of all the citizens."

"W-What sir?" I asked, surprised by his request.

He just ignored me and replied, "We are sending men over there."

I heard static as he didn't say anything else.

We walked out of the castle and into the town square.

Viper shot his gun into the air, which was really loud.

"CITIZENS OF CANTERLOT! HERE IS YOUR PRINCESS!" My voice boomed through the streets.

The ponies stopped running in confusion and stared at us.

I pushed the princess to her knees and put my gun to her head. There were no guards to stop me, as we killed most of them in our invasion, and the rest just gave up and sat down because they knew they lost.

Celestia knocked the gun out of my hand with one of her hooves. Captain Norwood took out his pistol and he asked, "Any last words? 'Princess?'" He spat.

"Yes; I will not die my ponies! You will see me in the future!"

"Nonsense." Captain Norwood said as he fired.

Instead of her head blowing apart, at least It stayed intact.

I checked her pulse, dead.

The ponies didn't avenge their ruler because they know they will loose and they were demoraled by the death of their ruler. I smiled with malice and I heard drop ships approaching the city.

I pushed the body onto the ground and we turned around to face the ships that we approaching. The ships landed outside the city, and men came into the city. Me and my squad dismissed the ten men that aided us, and we walked through the crowd of ponies and soldiers. Hawkeye joined us and we walked out of the city like total badasses.

I walked forward the general who was waiting for us at a ship.

"Have you executed the princess?" He asked.

"Yes we have." I replied with a bit of remorse in my voice for killing Celestia, even though it was for revenge.

"Good. Now go patrol the streets of Canterlot and round up the ponies." The General ordered.

I saw the other men capturing the ponies that were escaping from Canterlot.

We walked back into the city.

My squad and I captured most of the guards along with other soldiers, and I found the captain of the guard that Shadow stabbed in the back, laying on the ground.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Shadow asked.

"Buck off." The captain replied.

Viper kicked him in the chest. "You have a big mouth don't you?" Viper asked teasingly.

"You're coming with us to the dungeons of this wretched castle." I told him as my squad an I hauled him off to the castle.

We pulled the captain to the dungeons, to his new home. I opened the door to a cell and threw him in there. I locked the cell, making sure I locked it so he wouldn't use magic to escape.

"You won't get away with this!" He yelled at us. I threw a roll of gauze for him to patch up his wound.

"Oh fuck yes we will." I sneered at him.

We walked out of the dungeons, regrouping with other soldiers to finish rounding up the civilians