Gods Eaters in Equestria

Leaping into the air James swung at the exposed portion of the vajra's(1) tail with his God Arc, effectively slicing it off. The vajra roared angrily and spun around faster than he thought possible before swinging a claw at him. He was still in mid air trying to regain his center of gravity after throwing so much weight into the last attack that he didn’t even have time to bring up the shield as the Aragami’s claw grew closer. Closing his eyes everything slowed before a blast was heard making him open them to see an H_laser round passing through the claw of the Vajra making it rear back. To distracted with being saved james forgot about correcting himself and landed in a puddle of Aragami blood with a *splsh* right next to the dead body of an ogretail.

“Hffff…. Fuuuck that hurt”

“James fall back. You are exhausting yourself.” Maria yelled at the scrawny brown haired teenager with her god arc still pointed at the enemy in its gun form. Sighing he complied and dashed back to her side as more rounds erupted from her weapon.

“Aren’t I supposed to be the one giving orders?”

“Is this really the time.”  The petite redhead replied as he switched out of gun form and back to blade mode revealing the Buster (2) that was twice her size. Even though a god eater could thrown their arc around like it was as heavy as a paperweight, it was still a little funny to see the fourteen year-old charge the massive beast with a seemingly impossibly heavy weapon which she handled effortlessly.

“TAKE THIS YOU MONSTER” She yelled swinging her blade at the vajra’s back leg effectively ripping a large gash into it. The beast gave a pained scream, attempting to keep its balance. It was then that James looked around.

“Wait where’s Ta-“

“INCOMING BITCHEEEEEESS” came the all too familiar scream from or teams booster hammer (3) wielder Tabitha. She jumped from the roof of the factory activating the rockets in the back of her weapon which propelled her downward at an extremely fast rate before she slammed the business end of it onto the vajra’s head stunning it.

Using what little energy he had left james retracted the blade of his arc switching it to god form (4) allowing the large predatory mouth that was the living portion of the bioweapon to surround the entire thing. Thrusting it forward the arc’s mouth began to tear the still stunned Vajra apart until it found the core and immediately clamped onto it with a loud crunching noise as it devoured its meal. The moment the black circular core was ripped from the Vajra its body fell limp. The mouth retracted and James fell to his knees. He had lost so much energy that he just let himself fall face first into the dirt. Tabitha nonchalantly tumbled across the ground giggling like a child as always but James could tell she was exhausted. Maria was already resting against the body of a dead Aragami with her arc at her side. James turned his head and found he just couldn’t take his eyes off of the white sphere that was in the center of the room. Why had it attracted so many aragami and why were they walking through it? It could probably have something to do with that nova’s devouring apocalypse theory Sakaki had been mentioning. Either way he had to call it in. setting his arc down he lifted his armlet (5) up so he could call the den. “this….is defense force……..squad 13…..all aragami eliminated….no casualties to report…..we’re all ok……….but we’re too exhausted…….to head back to the den,…… requesting evac. And get Sakaki down here…….we’ve……..we’ve found something that’s sure to get……..his attention.” He panted and waited for a response.

“Roger sending evac and support teams to your location. Glad to see you’re all ok james.”

“Yeah……well this hell of a world is gonna have to try a lot harder if it wants me dead.” He said finally having caught his breath.

“I’m sure it will. Just sit tight for now, I’m not picking up any aragami signatures in the immediate area so you can relax until help gets there.”

“Great I could use a cat nap.” He said letting his arm fall to his side. He turned his head to see Tabitha curled up in a ball asleep as was Maria but leaned against an aragami carcass. His eyes felt so heavy that the moment he shut them he was out only to be woken an hour later by the sound of a few helicopters. Shortly after there were several footsteps as James felt pairs of hands lift him up into a sitting position. One of the people holding him up injected him with a small dose of adrenalin to help keep him awake. James opened his eyes to see three medics looking him over while two others with protective gear took his god arc to be placed back in its holding case. Even though he knew why they were so careful he found it funny each time they struggled to lift the weapon that he swings around like a paper weight back into the case while being careful not to let it touch their skin. James had found out why they wore the gear the hard way when he went on his first mission.

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flashback

It was a simple ogretail extermination mission but James and two of the others in the group were complete green horns and had no combat experience. As a result one of them, a boy named Thomas froze when one of the ogretails charged and swung its armored tail at him. He screamed in pain and was sent flying like a ragdoll into the wall of a decaying building. The impact from Thomas’s body hitting the wall shook several large pieces of concrete loose and before anyone even had time to react the concrete had fallen ontop of him. Blood sprayed across the ground and only Thomas’s  god arc was visible from the pile. Ignoring the orders from his commanding officer James rushed over to the pile of bloodied ruble and first tried to push the huge pieces away but they were too heavy. He then reached down and grabbed the base of the arc to pull Thomas out continuing to ignore the orders given to him. the moment he touched the weapon things went terribly wrong. The metal of the arm twisted and formed around his fingers trapping his hand within it. The metal rose up to his knuckles and stopped but the skin on his hand began to turn black and scaly. It felt like he was on fire and James screamed bloody murder as the bioweapon not built for his DNA began to warp his arm in an attempt to establish a link with him both physically and mentally causing more of his skin to change. He began to see things, images of Thomas’s life as if they were his own. The memories of his family, his friends, first day of school, his girlfriend, and worst of all the memory of how the aragami took everything from him as they slaughtered all of them. The blackening skin had crept up to his shoulder and the other members of the team were using all their strength to pull James free from the weapon. Just before the black skin surrounded his face they managed to rip him away from Thomas’s god arc along with much of the skin on his hand. The blackening skin faded as the connection with the arc was severed allowing James’s body to correct itself. He woke up in the medical room of the den and was told what happened and that he was lucky to be alive. The incident had left scars on the inside of james’s hand which would be a constant reminder to him of what happened.

(end of flashback)

The medics looking him over began to spray disinfectant on the small cuts across his body which resulted from him being knocked across the floor and against walls. Despite what most god eaters look like whether they are incredibly skinny or overweight, once they take and pass the aptitude test (6) their muscles and bones become far denser and more powerful than a normal human allowing them to take more damage during a fight. However as with the case of Thomas, they are by no means invincible.

“Well well well look who it is. The only team in the far-east branch who could be sent to hell and get kicked out again. How was the mission?” Said the arrogant male in front of him holding his short blade god arc (7) over his shoulder.

James just rolled his eyes “Nice to see you too Jeremy, and I wouldn’t go around making fun of my team when you are the only god eater to be stuck with an old-type arc in 30 years. Besides my blade is still bigger than yours (not an innuendo for **** length)” He replied gesturing to the long blade god arc being placed in its case making Jeremy grunt and walk off. “gets him every time.”

Around sixty years ago when the weapons known as god arcs were introduced to Fenrir there were only two types, Blade, and Gun types. However after ten years a new type of god arc was developed that could switch between blade and gun form thereby classifying the original two types of god arc as old-type and the new arcs as new-types. Slowly but steadily the amount of new-types god arc candidates rose until old-types were deemed obsolete with the occasional exception. Jeremy was one such exception. He may have an old type god arc but he more than made up for it with his combat skills and high aragami kill rate. By no means was Jeremy weak and james knew that even though he is a total asshole he is a damn god team mate to have.

The medics finished up with James and his team by giving them larger shots of altered adrenalin which would last them until they got to the den in around two hours. Looking to his left james saw sakaki the far east branches director circling the white orb.

“breathtaking truly breathtaking if I had to guess I’d say this is either the seed to novas devouring apocalypse or for lack of a better word a wormhole.”

“What makes you say that?” asked Maria as she cracked her neck.

“well to be honest not much but if you take a moment you’d notice there is a draft in the room that is centered around this orb. Watch” he said picking up a handful of grass and held it above his head. He let go and instantly the gras began to float down and was dragged into the sphere. “see, Breathtaking”

Tabitha clapped her hands and picked up a handful of pebbles before throwing them at the orb. “THIS IS FUN.” She exclaimed and was about to throw another rock into the sphere until it began to pulsate.

“I don’t think that was such a good idea Tabitha.” Sakaki said

“oopsie sorry.” She said rubbing the back of her head. Suddenly there was a flash of light that surrounded the entire area pulling in everyone and everything they had with them leaving the inside of the factory as beran as it was before anyone had arrived.

Equestria: Canterlot University testing grounds

Time: a week prior to present

Twilight was sifting through books and scribbling things on chalkboards and note pads. She had been developing her own unique spell for months that if successful would definitely win her a hoofbel prize.  The spell in short would allow her to transfer the memories of a pony and store them onto 8mm film reels to be preserved and archived in museums. The memories themselves would be seen through first person perspective of the one who made the memory. She could only imagine what it would be like to actually see things through a pony’s eyes and experience what they do. The knowledge that could be obtained would be indispensable and would make retelling historical events a much easier feet. Not to mention that since the memories would be preserved in a physical form, anypony could view them and not just unicorns. She felt that everything was going to go smoothly this time but just to be safe she had moved her experiment to an open courtyard in the Canterlot university. As she was setting up she instructed her volunteer test subject to sit in the chair she had placed in the center of the courtyard. She finished prepping and then moved over to a chest. Inside the chest were several energy crystals that each held enough magic to power a Canterlot city block for two years. It had taken her awhile to gather the crystals but twilight knew it would all be worth it. She took the crystals out one at a time and placed them in a pattern around the chair her volunteer was sitting in. once she was done, she stepped back.

“ok Light Wing just remember to stay calm and breath steadily.” The mare nodded resting her head back. “Alright here we go.” Twilight said rubbing her hands together and closed her eyes. Her horn began to glow its usual purplish pink and the same aura surrounded the energy crystals as they began to spin and slowly move into an upright position while still spinning. Once the crystals were spinning fast enough small tendrils of magic slowly crept out and made their way up Light’s body before latching onto different parts of her head. The tendrils then began to in a way download the electrical impulses running through the neurons in lights mind. Twilight sighed and stopped her flow of magic and let the crystals do the rest as she slowly approached Light Wing. “So tell me what are you seeing right now?” she asked the mare.

“I-It’s hard to explain really. It’s like I’m reliving every moment of my life at once but also in order from the beginning to now.” She said and twilight wrote down every word.

“Any pain or discomfort.”

“N-nothing painful. My head just has this tingly throbbing sensation running through it.”

“That’s most likely the magic pulsating through you to retrieve the memories.” Twilight had to restrain herself as her excitement grew with each second. She did however allow herself a few fist pumps in the air as her wings ruffled themselves a bit before regaining her composure. Everything was going perfectly and if it continued to go this well she would finally have concrete evidence to support her theories and would no doubt be awarded the hoofbel.

Suddenly her contained joy turned to worry as Light wing spoke again. “H-Hang on e-everything is starting to go white. Is that normal Twilight……T-Twilight?” the mare said her voice beginning to grow panicked. Twilight raced back over to her notes and practically ripped through the paper trying to figure out what was happening before rushing back over to Light Wing. The Pegasus mare was whimpering slightly but dared not move or risk making things worse.

“Th-the spell has probably just finished running through your memories and just needs a minute before pulling back.” She said which did ease Light Wings mind until she spoke again.

“Wait wait I’m starting to see something……. I-It looks like I’m in some sort of metal room….Like in a factory or something.”

“Is it a place you remember?” twilight asked

“N-no actualy I don’t remember this place at all it’s totally ne-aaahhh.” She screamed making twilight jump and drop the papers in her hands.

“What’s happening, Light Wing what do you see?”

“Creatures…. large and scary creatures. They have h-huge teeth and only two legs. They are nothing I have ever seen before I know that much.” He breathing began to increase rapidly as twilight lit up her horn attempting to use her magic to pull back the energy crystals tendrils but for Celestia knows what reason it didn’t work. The crystals were now completely independent and unresponsive to outside magic. As Twilight racked her brain on what to do Light wing spoke again. “Oh buck I think one sees me. It’s getting closer Twilight please do something, make it stop.” She begged. Twilight lit up her horn and attempted to remove the tendrils from Light Wing only to have them bury themselves deeper into the mare making her cry out in pain again. Tears rolled down her face as she clutched her head in her hands “Oh Celestia Twilight please do something.” She sobbed trying to pull away, flapping her wings to add more force but the tendrils held her in place and began to dig deeper and deeper into her head making the mare cry out in pain.

Not able to bear her cries any longer Twilight did the only thing she could think of. Trying to steady her shaking hands she took a deep breath and lit up her horn. The aura around it began to spark and fizzle as the spell Twilight planned to use charged up. when she felt enough energy had been gathered in her horn she launched a magical blast of energy into Light Wings body. The idea was to overpower and burn out the spell from the crystals with a stronger spell of her own. Unfortunately things didn’t work the way Twilight had hoped as Light Wing’s body laid limp in the chair she was sitting in, the tendrils still attached.

“L-Light Wing….Light wing say something.” Twilight said as tears began to form in her eyes. Slowly and hesitantly she made her way over to the Pegasus, her entire body a shaky mess. Standing over the chair for what felt like an eternity she finally reached down and grabbed Light Wing’s wrist pressing her thumb against her radial artery……….no pulse. Frantically she pressed her ears against her chest……..she wasn’t breathing. Twilight put her hand to her mouth as tears rolled down her cheeks. She had just killed Somepony, Somepony who was just trying to earn a bit of money to get by, somepony who had friends and a family. Unable to support her weight her legs buckled and she fell to her knees and cried into Light Wing’s side. “I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry i had no idea this would happen. Please just come back Light Wing, don’t die.

The royal guard began to funnel into the courtyard along with Celestia and her sister Luna. The sisters looked apon the crying alicorn and the mare that lay dead in the chair next to her.

“Twilight what happened.” Celestia asked kneeling infront of her former student.

Sniffling a few times and wiping her hands over her muzzle she looked up at her former mentor. Even though they were both on their knees Celestia was still a hoof and a half (1’6”)taller than her. Gathering whatever she could Twilight finally spoke in a choked voice “I-I don’t know. Everything was going perfectly but then the spell began to act on its own and began to hurt Light Wing. I did everything I could but-but I just couldn’t get the tendrils off of her. So I tried to burn out the spell as a last resort but it was too much for Light Wing a-and she…..i’m so sorry.” She broke into tears again and celestia was quick to pull twilight into her arms comforting her as best she could.

“shhhh shhh, I know you are Twilight but you had no intention for this to happen. It was nothing more than an unfortunate event.” Celestia ran her hands through Twilight’s mane as Luna came over and embraced twilight as well.

“We agree with our sister. It is unfortunate but progress is not without sacrifice. The only thing thou can do is be sure Light Wing’s sacrifice is not without meaning.”

Twilight looked up at Luna and nodded

The three alicorns stayed like this for a while, holding each other until twilight finally stood up. “I-I’ll go tell Light Wings family. And I want her to have a royal burial not just a standard service.” Celestia nodded and they turned to leave but stopped as they noticed a light beginning to fill the room. Twilight was the first to gasp upon noticing the light was coming from light wing’s body. Her body was beginning to glow brighter and brighter until everypony had to shield their eyes. At first twilight thought that maybe the spell was bringing her back to life until her limp form then began to lift out of the chair and float in midair. The guards immediately had their spears pointed at the glowing body and arrows at the ready while the unicorn guards charged up their offensive spells.

The glow continued to grow brighter and brighter as the sound of bones breaking filled the courtyard. Twilight used her magic to create a light filter over her eyes so she could see what was happening. The site almost made her lose her lunch as Light Wing’s body was being broken and morphed into a shape that didn’t even resemble a pony anymore.

The glow brightened one last time and was even too much for the filter over Twilight’s eyes. Though as soon as it brightened it just as quickly dimmed. The three princesses heard whispers from the guards and turned to see a very large glowing white sphere over the chair that Light Wing had once been in, the tendrils still attached to it. Celestia and Luna lit up their horns and readied themselves for anything. Twilight on the other hand just stood there trying to understand what had just happened. She walked closer to the sphere with a dumbfounded expression “H-How could this have happened? The way I designed the spell would have never led to this regardless of whether or not I messed up.” she began to run through scenarios in her head and eventually came to one logical conclusion, the crystals. one of them must have had a certain magic inside of it that compromised the spell causing…..this. she lit up her horn as well and ran a scan over the crystals. She went one by one through the crystals checking their individual energy patterns and eventually stopped on a deep scarlet red one in the pattern. She was right the crystal’s magic was in deed conflicting with the spell but there seemed to be something more to it. She scanned it and not only did she discover the frequency but also felt a sort of malicious feeling coming from the crystal as if it was alive or cursed.

Before she could find out anything else there was an ear piercing roar that emanated from the sphere. Twilight was surrounded in a gold and blue aura and pulled away from it just as something erupted from it. Before them stood a large two legged creature with a heavily armored skull and tail.

“Th-that has to be what Light wing saw when the spell went bad. But how is it here?” she asked aloud not expecting an answer.

Celestia was the next to speak. “Guards be ready to attack.” She said before turning to the creature. “I do not know who you are but one of my little ponies is dead because of you so I DEMAND THAT YOU EXPLAIN YOURSELF.” She roared in the canterlot royal voice hoping that would get an answer out of this creature.

Unfortunately the large creature which stood only a hoof taller(1') than Celestia reared its head back and gave a loud feral roar as it charged. Immediately it was assaulted by a blast from Celestia which blew a hole in its head followed by volleys of arrows and other spells from the guards. The creature bellowed, screamed, and thrashed its body around until it fell to its side and stopped moving. The guards then surrounded the creature and when it didn’t move for several minutes they gathered ropes and began to tie it up to be carted away. However as one guard moved to secure a rope around its muzzle the creatures eyes opened and lunged forward grabbing the guard in its mouth and crushing her between its jaws, the teeth punching through her armor like it was nothing. Once again the creature was assaulted by a volley of arrows, spells, and spears until it stopped moving again.

“What in tartarous is that thing.” Said on guard in a panicked voice.

“How could it have survived so many attacks.” Yelled another.

The guards began to drag away the creatures body just as another roar came from the sphere followed by another, and another, and another. many sounding similar to the first but others sounding completely different. One by one the creatures began to funnel out of the sphere. The guards fighting for their lives and to the best of their ability but even with magic from the unicorns and the strength of the earth ponies and aerial attacks from the Pegasus the sheer size, and number of the creatures was too much and what little of the ponies left were forced to flee from the courtyard. The princesses were evacuated as well as the student of the university and the citizens of Canterlot but the creatures continued to overwhelm the royal and lunar guard as they fought to hold them back while everypony else escaped.