My Little Carmines

Chapter 4: Meeting the true monsters!

The Ponies stuttered in utter fear as the stalk struck fiercely from the gentle soil. The ugly root shunned its disgusting black and blood red colour over the small town; the ugly thing had snatched attention from the eyes of all of the Ponies and the young soldier. Carmine shook violently as he watched the red root sprout, he knew exactly what these things were and what evil they contained within them.

The stalk finished its erect from the soil and allowed two large sacks to born onto the sides of it. They formed in a matter of seconds, leaking a horrible poison colour from the exit of the sack. It then released a large ball of the poison, connecting with a hard clash on the soil, and the poison broke open to reveal an ugly, infected Lambent Drone!

"SHIT, The hell is that?"

Carmine reacted quickly, pushing Luna and him to the side of the cart. He bellowed towards the other group of Ponies who turned their attention to him.

"RUN, get outta here!" He screeched, looking out of the side to see the Drudge advancing towards them. A second Drudge spawned out of the stalk; following the first.

"What; why?" the mayor asked, confused but terrified at the same time.

Carmine couldn't explain why. He was interrupted by something loud and familiar. A gunshot!

One of Celestia's guards dropped dead, blood oozing from his chest; direct impact to the heart.

"Oh shit, the fuck are these things?" Carmine screamed to himself, ripping out his longshot sniper.

By now the Ponies erupted into cries and screams, retreating into there homes or the closest thing that could be described as shelter.

The Drones unloaded more rounds to the fleeing Ponies. Some managed to escape…others weren't so lucky!

A bullet penetrated a Pony's flank, causing him to collapse in pain. Two royal guard Ponies went to his aid but…

A bullet smashed through his skull, leaving a small hole with a blood river that poured violently on the ground.

The other guard stared in disbelief, watching his former partner collapse to the floor. He quickly dragged the injured Pony towards a sweet shop.

Carmine whipped his head and sniper around the cart, taking quick aim and firing at the first Lambent. The bullet penetrated the Lambent Drone's chest, causing a yellow explosion to cover the brown soil; the liquid imulsion glowing brightly.

"Whoa, god that was cool!" Carmine yelled at the exploding Lambent.

He attempted to reload the sniper, pulling open the tried quickly in putting the next round in but slipped, dropping the round on the soil.

"Damn not again!"

The second Drone unloaded his Hammerburst round on the cart, creating black holes that wedged inside it. Another Lambent Drone spawned again, replacing the dead former Drone. Carmine noticed this and figured that shooting the sack things would do something.

Carmine picked up the round and loaded it more carefully. He pried around the corner again, taking aim at a sack and fired.

The bullet whizzed through the sack, leaving a hole in the middle where the imulsion leaked like it was bleeding, the colour turning into a mixture of red and yellow.

He spun back around and glared towards a terrified Celestia and a snuggled up and teary Luna. They both had their eyes shut over the terrifying gunfire, nudging together; resisting looking at the dead guard.

"HEY…HEY" Carmine roared, gaining their attention.

They both glared towards the young soldier, tears streaming down their faces as their guards spared their attention towards Carmine.

"Listen…I-I'm gonna get their att-attention, and when I do, run…run to the closest building you find" Carmine cried over the howling wind of bullets. Luckily the princesses knew what he was getting at because Carmine feared that they didn't hear him properly over the gunfire.

Carmine scanned his surroundings to spot something he could dash to as a distraction for the Lambent. He spotted a water fountain in the middle which could support some sort of cover.

He breathed heavily as he waited for the perfect moment to sprint, the prying eyes of Luna, Celestia, the guards and the Ponies that peered ever so slightly over the windows to watch him.

He then made the runner! Sprinting as fast as he could whilst keeping his head low; he dived for the fountain. The Lambent immediately switched their attention to Carmine, giving the princesses and the guards to advance to a safer place.

Carmine fired his rifle once again at the sack, causing a second hole which resulted in it exploding into imulsion.

"Oh...that worked I guess" Carmine thought to himself, focusing back on the Lambent which he had no idea in what it was.

The princesses darted for the closest home they could, the guards escorting them as quick as possible while the ugly creatures were distracted. Once inside, they all peered out of the window to see if Carmine was ok.

A Lambent Drone marched towards where the princesses had retreated, its dumb mind made him fire at the wall with a lack of effort but was advancing dangerously close towards the window. Carmine was too distracted in killing the second pod.

Suddenly, the Lambent monster clutched over the window and snatched Luna by her mane. His mighty strength forced her out of the window screaming.

"LUNA" Celestia cried as the beast aimed his weapon at her.

Carmine suddenly realised the trouble she was in, panicking quickly, he aimed his rifle at the monster and fired, hitting it in the hamstrings. It dropped Luna flat on the dirt and attempted to crawl away.

Being the last one, Carmine slowly walked over towards the Lambent that was desperately trying to crawl away from danger. By now the Ponies had worked up the courage to step outside as they watched Carmine approach the beast.

He flipped his sniper around, clutching the barrel end of the weapon. Raising it above his head, Carmine drove the butt of the gun into the skull of the Lambent, shattering what could no longer be called a head.

The rest of the body suddenly erupted in imulsion, it landed around the buildings and on Carmine.

He just stared at the filth, letting out a grunt of disgust and slight pain.

"Ah shit, fuck that hurt!"

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A group of eight Locust soldiers advanced through the forest, heading in any direction to send reports back to their new base. Destroying anything that just so happened to be in their way like a rabbit or deer.

As they patrolled through the swampy forest, one of them spotted something that shined a sunny yellow in the bushes. They carefully walked towards it, Hammerburst's and Retro Lancer's ready to strike whatever the thing may be.

Suddenly, it pounced on the first Locust Drone, it ripped through its scaly, rock hard skin in a matter of seconds ; leaving it in a pool of Locust blood.

It was a Lambent Manticore! The creature had clearly been exposed to imulsion which led it to extreme effects of mutation. The eyes had become a large glow of yellow orbs and the teeth had extended outside of the mouth as the flesh had been pierced away, the stinger had mutated along the spine and the tip hung loose over its head. Two large yellow orbs were located on the side of the body that were protected by the hard mutated wings; they opened when ever the Lambent Manticore attacked but the Locust was too distracted to realise it.

The Lambent Manticore glared fiercely at the seven current alive Locust Drones. The eyes of nothing watched the Locust closely, waiting to strike its next victim.

The Drones immediately unloaded on the giant abomination.

The bullets ricocheted from the creature's new skin; it didn't even cause a dent. However, the Manticore erupted in furious rage! It aimed its stinger at the Locust that angered it.

A large sudden ball of venom boomed from the stinger, connecting straight onto the Drone's skin.

He cried in utter agony as the venom burned his skin. Literally, it burned straight through the scaly skin, exposing the Drone's bones and burning organs.

The Manticore proceeded quickly in attacking its next victim, opening its mouth, it released a sea of golden flames towards the five, one managing to escape the destruction and darting back to the base; leaving his allies to burn together in never ending pain of flames, running in different directions, lighting up the trees and the shadows of darkness as they pursued deeper into darkness.

The mutated Manticore growled viciously once more before returning to its Drone meal.

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Discord watched evilly as his army continued to breed. The statue was almost complete as the head was the only missing part. He couldn't wait for to have the six ponies in his clutches so that he could bring eternal pain to them all. His next step was to capture the two royal sisters; they were the main reason on how he lost control of Equestria. Having revenge on them would make Discord complete and having the Locust by his side would bring him eternal rule where everypony would be too afraid to question his power.

A knock echoed through the room. Discord ordered them to come in and what bestowed in front of him were twelve Wretches, eight Drones and two Boomers. They all bowed in his presence.

"Ah, good, good. I already believe you know why you are here?" Discord questioned. They all nodded in response and began getting to work.

The Locust began immediately in redecorating the throne room. They removed the overgrown weed that invaded the stoned walls. The broken rocks and stone that rested everywhere was collected and thrown away and replaced with a brown and black mixture marble stone.

Discord went back to his thoughts as he continued to watch his new empire expand.

A large commotion was herd from his army. The two large wooden gates opened magnificently and a single Drone crashed in. He grabbed another Drone and was explaining something to him which resulted in him dashing towards the entrance of the castle.

Discord wondered what the fuss was about…

Discord's train of thought was interrupted by a large knock at the door and Kreikie exploded in, bowing at Discord; breathing heavily.

"My…My Lord there…there'sssssss a problem!"

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Trixie darted through the creepy dark forest, not caring in which direction she was going, the only thing she wanted to do was get as far away from what ever those things were. Recapping the horrifying images that had just occurred in front of her. The poor Pony, how could anything murder somepony without a good reason or question? More tears beamed down Trixie's cheeks as she continued to race through the mud, hoping to find some sort of refuge to take shelter and clear her head.

The clueless Unicorn was so focused in her deep thoughts that she did not see a large root, lazily resting above the soil. She tripped and the side of her head collided with the hard dirt. Her vision became a sudden blur.

Trixie heard footsteps approach her, the sound of hooves patting against the dirt. She glanced up, only getting a glance of a stripy creature in a hood before passing out into pitch blackness…