Nightmare Moon vs the Orks of Bad Moons
Author's Note
This is another of my ideas that came onto my mind, so I decided to write it up.
For those who aren't familiar to Warhammer 40K lore, the orks talk in broken english. I tried to my best of ability to get it accurate. For those who are knowledgeable of this please correct if you can.
Story
The orks, a race of barbaric green skinned beast that lives for only one purpose, to fight. Their warlike nature made them a menace throughout the galaxy. They would gather up a large army and invade planet. They bring with them violence and destruction, where ever they go.
Fighting is practically in their genes, their desires to go to war is unmatched by any other race. Because of this, the Orks tend to fight against each other a lot. If there is no other enemies the orks will eventually turn on itself and divide into smaller clans and wage war with each other.
This is beneficial for the galaxy, for if these savage creatures ever did unite together, they would be the greatest threat ever in the universe.
Our story begins in a small town on a planet, located in the far reaches of space. This old mining planet is currently being used by the orks of the Bad Moons clan.
The Bad Moons are one of the six major clans to exist in Ork society. They are most known for being the wealthiest of all the clans, their orks are able to grow teeth faster then any other.
Ork teeth is the currency of their society and the more you have, the more you can buy things with it. For the Orks of Bad Moons, they can purchase such luxuries items such as weapon attachments, gold plated weapons, exotic pets, and even flamboyant clothing.
In the middle of this town made of scrap metal, there is large tower decorated with many banners of his clan. The flags were yellow and each one depicts a snarling yellow crescent moon on a black sun background.
At first glance one would assume that this ork was a patriot, but in reality, he was just showing off to all the orks how rich he is.
The ork living in this tower of steel is the leader of the town and he rules it with an iron fist, literally. His primary melee weapon is a large iron gauntlet. His weapon serves two purposes, the first being to show his authority to the lesser orks and the second being to punch people.
This massively large ork is a nob that goes by the name of Kommanda Irongutz. This nob was reward this town by his Warboss for his contribution for fighting for his clan. He of course took the gift and renamed it after himself.
Irongutz now runs this town, imposing taxes upon the many orks living in this town. One day why counting all the bags of teeth he has, he noticed that one ork didn't pay his taxes. Looking him up, the large ork discovered it was a boy name Rotbrain.
Calling for one of his underlings, another nob enter the room, this one a bit shorter then Irongutz. It was Kaptin Ringrat, head of security of Irongutz's town.
“Oi, Kaptin!” Irongutz shouted. “Why iz Rotbrain's teef not ere?”
“Uh Boss, Rotbrain doez not live ere, dat git live outside of town.” Ringrat answered.
Irongutz slammed his fist in anger. “I don't care, ya betta get hiz teef or else I ave ya face smashed in!”
Not wishing to incur his wrath, Ringrat hastily left the room. As he walked on the long hallway, his mind was full of dread.
Rotbrain is quite infamous around this town, being a weirdboy the guy's mind has been warped to the point of insanity. That ork is always in his hut, doing strange experiments.
The last ork that visited Rotbrain's hut went missing for a week. His body was later found by some orks on patrol, heavily mutated.
Not wanting to be Rotbrain's latest test subject, Kaptin Ringrat came up with a new idea. He was going to get his own underlings to do it. Spotting an ork boy walking by, the nob told the boy to stop.
The Kaptin gave the boy the task of obtain teeth from Rotbrain, he specifically told him to give the teeth to him and not Irongutz.
The boy agreed and left. Unknown to the Kaptin, the boy was planning to give this task to somone else. He too also fear going to Rotbrain's hut and remembered the last ork that visited him.
The boy then found himself a grot and smiled. In a ork hierarchy, the gretchins or grots as they are called are the lowest ranking memeber. With the nobz being at the top and the boyz in the middle, the grots are at the bottom of barrel.
The boy then passed down the task to grot, the little pointy eared and nose creature gulp upon hearing this. He knew of the infamous Rotbrain, but knew that he has to obey his ork superiors. And since he has no else to pass the task to, he'll have to do it himself.
An hour later, the gretchin spotted the hut on top of small hill. Rotbrain's hut was covered in strange red markings, there were skulls and bones attached some of the metal poles sticking out of the hut.
Everything about this place just scream out scary, but nevertheless the little guy got a job to do. Ignoring all his instincts the gretchin walked up to the metal door and banged on it.
The door opened, revealing a ork with a metal plate over his head and a gold ball shoved into his left eye socket. Before the gretchin can ask about the teeths, he was suddenly grabbed by the weirdboy.
“Ah just wat I need!” Rotbrain said as he brought the little grot inside and dumped him into his cauldron full of boiling purple liquid. The gretchin screamed in agony as he was being dissolved into the strange liquids.
With his final ingredient obtained, the Weirdboy went onto the next phase of his summon. According to the book he bought, if this works, he'll be able to summon the dread moon beast and it will become it's servant.
Flipping through the pages, the ork found the page with the words and started reading it out loud. As Rotbrain said the enchanted words, the cauldron started to boil, but more so then usual. The large black bowl started shake. It grew more rapidly as the ork nearly finish the summoning.
The cauldron then exploded, filling the room with purple smoke. Rotbrain swatted the fumes away and opened a window, allowing the purple gas to escape. Once they were all gone, the ork looked around for his moon beast.
When he found nothing, the ork angrily toss the book to the floor. He then storm off complaining about wasting good teeth for this thing.
However, unbeknownst to the Weirdboy, something has entered the planet's atmosphere. It was falling down in a accelerated rate. It then crashed onto the ground, creating a large crater.
This whole event was witness by three ork boyz on patrol. They watched the thing falling from the sky and crash someplace near them. The leader of the trio wanted to see what that was and they all drove their wartrakks in the direction of the crashed object.
The patrol came across a the crater and spotting something in the middle. It was something the three has never seen. Crouching on the ground was a black creature with wings and a single long horn.
The hair on this thing was the most strangest thing of it. Its as if the night sky itself is attach to this things head and flank. Speaking of flank, there was large purple smudge on its flank, with a blue crescent moon it it.
Other features they notices was that the unknown alien was wearing a blue helmet, necklace, and shoes for its four hooves.
The lead ork wanted to get a closer look, so he proceeds to walk towards the mysterious animal. At the same time the black creature was regaining consciousness.
Nightmare Moon was feeling a bit dizzy from her teleportation. Her head was hurting and her vision is black. Slowly the headache started to fade away and her vision was coming back. The first thing she saw was this green creature walking to her. Looking at his belt, the mare notices his knife.
Believing herself to be in trouble, the alicorn quickly got up and spoke. “Do not come any further, foul creature!” She said with thunderous roar.
The green creature halted, surprise that she spoke to him.
“Ey ya ere dat, dis git just talked!” Nightmare followed the source of the voice and spotted two more of the green creatures, standing far away.
The mare then notice the creature grabbing his knife, making her go into a combat stance.
“Let'z see if dis git can scream.” The ork then raise his weapon up high and charge at the alicorn.
Nightmare reacted by grabbing the knife with her magic and pulled it away. She then quickly plunged it into the beast's head, killing him.
“Oi, ya saw dat!” The ork said to his partner. “Dis git just took Dogga's stabba and stab him wit it!”
His partner started to get worried. “Dat git must a pysker, jus like ol Rotbrain. Let'z leggit!”
Both orks ran, trying to reach their wartrakks. But, before they could even get near them, Nightmare flew in and landed right in front of them.
One of the ork raised his machine gun and squeeze the trigger, unleashing a hail of bullets at her.
The mare didn't know what kind of weapon this creature was wielding, but knew enough that it was dangerous. Quickly casting a force field over herself, the bullets just bounced off her magical shield.
Eventually one of ork's bullet ricochet of the mare's shield and hit his partner, injuring him. The second fell down screaming in pain from the friendly fire.
The ork kept firing, until his magazine ran out. Seeing that his weapon has stop firing, Nightmare grabbed the ork with her magic and smash him to the ground. It didn't kill him, but it will definitely leave a mark.
The mare then brought the ork right in frontof her. “Listen closely beast, for I will only say this once. I'll be asking you questions and you will answer each one of them.” She then stared into the orks frighten eyes. “Understand.” She said threateningly.
The green creature nodded his head and answered all her questions.
After the interrogation, Nightmare Moon was flying high in the sky of this alien world. According to the green beast, the world is called Tallion IV and that natives here are called Orks. The black alicorn then ask who this Rotbrain was and from what she gathered he was apparently a powerful wizard, who is quite feared among his kind.
Following the direction the ork gave, the mare was suppose to find a hut, located near a large town. She continued her flight until she spotted the town. It was nothing she ever seen before. Instead of wood and stone, this place was made of metal and steel.
Ignoring the strange structures, Nightmare refocused her search for Rotbrain's hut. After circling around, she spotted the hut on top of a small hill.
She landed in front of the hut, not bothered by the strange markings over the house. She then burst the door open and charged in, hoping to find this ork wizard. However, all she found was a cauldron and strange items littering the ground.
Nightmare trotted further into the room, stepping over the all the bones, papers, and broken glass pieces. The mare then noticed another door in the room, this one covered by some beads. She was about to enter, but then felt a surge beyond it.
Sidestepping, Nightmare barely dodge the stream of fire coming from the door. Once the flame stopped, she back up bit, preparing for her attacker.
Beyond the shadows in the doorway, came a another ork. While just as hideous as the last three she met, this one seems to be more grotesque then the others. She couldn't tell if this beast was either scarred or just heavily mutated.
“Oi! Wat stupid git finks he can jus bash me door down!” The ork spoke.
The weirdboy then got a good look at his intruder. “Wat da ell are ya?”
“My name is Nightmare Moon and I am here to see you.” She replied.
“Me?”
“Yes, you wizard. From what your brethren told me, you are quite a feared being.”
Rotbrain continued watching the mare, when he noticed the crescent moon on her flank. “Say.” The ork spoke. “Wat iz yer name again?”
“It's Nightmare Moon.” She answered annoyed that this creature forgot her name.
“So yer dat Moon Beast, I summon?” He said. “I though you be bigger and scary, real disappointing.”
Nightmare glared at the disappointed ork. “What do you mean summon?” She said, angrily.
“Yes, summon. I summon you and ya serve me.”
Rotbrain then found himself pushed against the wall by the mare' magic.
“Lets get one thing straight ork, I serve no one, especially not some vile beast.” She then dropped the ork to the ground. “Send me back to my world immediatly.” The mare demanded.
“And ow da ell am I suppoze to do dat?” He questioned.
“The spell you summoned me with can be reverse.”
Putting his hand on his chin, Rotbrain though about what she said, he the shrugs. “Well I gess dat kould work.”
“Good, then lets proceed.” The mare said as she watched the ork get up.
“Hold a sec dere Moon.” Rotbrain spoke. “We gotta talk about payment.”
Nightmare raised an eyebrow, she then grabbed the ork with her magic. “You dare bargain with me ork, you're going to do the spell or else I kill you!”
“Ha, do dat and you'z never go home.” Rotbrain responded, gloating at the situation the mare's in.
The alicorn glared daggers at the ork, hoping that he break under the pressure. But, this ork proves to more braver (or stupider) then the last one. She sighs and dropped the ork.
“Very well Rotbrain, what is you want?”
“Well lady, I'll be needin one thouzand teefs.”
Nightmare gave a confuse look to the ork. Sensing that she was confused, Rotbrain showed he a small leather bag. Opening it up and pouring the contents out, reveals a bunch of teeths.
“You use teeth as currency?” She asked and the ork nodded. “Then pray tell me where I can obtain a thousand teeths?”
“Dere iz a town nearby, ya kan start dere.” Rotbrain suggested.
The mare then left his hut and took flight, heading forward to the large town. As she near, she noticed the banners that were placed on the walls and some of the tall building. They were yellow flags with a picture depicting a snarling yellow crescent moon.
She snort at the image, believing it to be some sort of insult to her. She then spotted a open spce area chose that to place to land.
The streets of Irongutz were lively as ever. Orks were walking about, some are doing their jobs others are just playing. On some streets the orks are roughhousing with each other.
Then everything changed with the arrival of the dark alicorn. She made a grand entrance by landing in busy market place. Then she proceeds to make herself known by raising the volume of her voice through the roof.
“Orks of this town!” She proclaimed, her voice drawing the attention of all the orks in the market. “I have come here to gather all your teeths, give them willingly and no harm shall fall upon you.”
The mare then watched all the orks, waiting for any response to her ultimatum. The silence went on for a few seconds before one ork pointed his finger at her.
“ Ya eard dat boyz!” The ork yelled. “Dat git iz tryin to steal our teefs!” Then the whole crowd of orks took out their weapons. From the sluggas and shootas to the stabbas and choppas, all these weapons were train onto the dark alicorn.
“Looks like I have to do this the hard way.” She grumbled to herself and charged into the mob.
Elsewhere, Kaptin Ringrat was pacing around in his office. It's been a while since he sent that boy to retrieve Rotbrain's teeth, and he has yet to returned. He kept his mind of the subject by doing some paper works.
Then all of sudden he heard some big explosions. “Da ell waz dat?” The nob captain said to himself, as he walked to his window. From his spot, he could see a series of explosions coming from the market place.
The door to his office slammed open. “Kaptin dere be trouble at-”
“I know.” Ringrat interrupted. “Send da boyz ta deal with dit, I'll come aftah.”
The boy followed his captain's order and went off, rallying the other boyz. The captain then prepared himself for combat. Putting on his armour with spike shoulder pads, he also pick up his largest battleaxe and his loudest slugga.
Back at the market place, Nightmare trotted the destroyed streets, gathering teeth from all the fallen orks she slain. She was either taking their pouches or literally ripping them out of their mouths. She was putting them into a large sack she grabbed earlier.
Looking at the destruction around her, Nightmare still couldn't believe that this all happened in less then a couple of minutes. During the beginning of the battle, she cast a shield over her whenever they start firing their projectiles. She in return blast them with her horn.
Then things started to get intense when the orks started bringing in the big guns, such as the big shootas, deffguns, and even rokkit launchas. The combination of these three is what caused all those explosions earlier.
As Nightmare continued to collect the teeth, she sense the presence of several assailants on top of the buildings. The sound of rockets is heard and the orks on top came flying down. They formed a circle around her, blocking any attempt to escape.
Looking at her new opponents, these orks had these large pointed metal tubes attached to their backs and they were brandishing their menacing axes. Each one was readying to strike if she makes a move. Then another ork arrived, landing outside of the circle. This new ork was much more different then the other orks she faced. Not only was he bigger, but he was also wearing more armour and had a actual battleaxe.
The two orks in the circle made a opening for their captain. The nob eyed the creature that is causing trouble and tilted his head slightly.
“So youz da git, dat be causing all da trouble?” The ork captain rhetorically asked. “Who da the ell do ya tink you are?” Pointing his finger at her.
“Well beast if you must know, my name is Nightmare Moon and I am here to gather all your teeth.” She then opened her large sack, full of sharp ork tooth. “Now be a good boy and give me your teeth or else you can join fallen brothers.” She said the last threateningly, while also pointing her hoof at a dead ork body.
Kaptin Ringrat let the mare's threat soak into his head. He then immediately started laughing. “ Ye got a lot of nervez, I giva ya dat but, no way in ell will Kommanda Irongutz allow ya to loot hs teefs!”
“Well why doesn't your commander, come and stop me himself?” Nightmare remarked.
“Dat because he iz a buzy ork and haz no time to deal wit every grot dat stirz troube in hiz town.” He retort. The nob then put his free hand on his battleaxe. “Mess her up, boyz!”
The circle of orks all charge at the mare in the middle. One ork to her left swung his axe her, but she dodge his swing by lowering her head. With her horn aimed directly at the ork, she fired a magic beam and pierced his skull.
The dead dropped his axe, but before it could touch the ground, Nightmare picked it up with her magic and swung it around her in a circle. Two orks were caught in the swing and were remove from the fight. The mare then threw the makeshift axe at a ork. He miraculously dodge it, but unfortunately for him, the alicorn had her horn trained at him and blasted him.
Another ork tried to attack from the back, Nightmare saw this and bucked the him to a wall. The crash caused the rocket on his back to activate and he was flown straight up into the air until he exploded.
The last three boyz all charge he at once. The black mare simply swatted them away like flies, with her magical wave. She then levitated one of them and pierced his rocket with her magic. Harshly throwing the ork between his two comrades, the rocket blew up and the blast killed all three of them.
With his minions taken care of, Nightmare turned her attention to the last foe, Kaptin Ringrat. The good captain wasted no time and swung his battleaxe downward. She easily evaded by stepping backward, but to her surprise the ork dashed forward. He swung his weapon up, cutting the alicorns left front leg.
The sudden attack gave the mare a feeling she never had before, pain. Before she counterattack, the large ork tackled her with his shoulder, pushing her a few feet away from him. The spikes on his shoulder pad, left a nasty wound on her body.
Nightmare laid on the ground, still suffering from pain she received. Being a all powerful being, the mare easily defeated her foes with such ease. Rarely did she ever got hurt and when she did, it always feel alien to her.
Bringing herself out of her stupor, she spotted the ork coming towards her. He raise his right leg over her head and prepared to stomp it. Acting quickly she shielded herself from the from his boot. Her magical barrier deflected his stomp, causing the large ork to start loosing his balance.
The mare slided her rear leg, knocking the nob down. Catching his falling battleaxe with her magic, she swung it down onto his face. However, the way it was facing, instead of split his head in half, she instead hit him with the flat part of the axe.
This still hurt the orc captain and made him unconscious. The dark alicorn laid their for a minute, letting her wounds heal itself. The blood stop leaking and tears on his body, started sealing up. Soon her wounds were gone, leaving only the blood stains behind.
Nightmare stood right up and trotted over to the down captain. Opening his mouth with her magic, she plucked out every single sharp fangs he had in his disgusting mouth. Looking at her bag full of teeth, the mare believed that she has gathered enough.
Just as she about to leave, three grenade like objects landed in front of her. The mare cast a shield over herself, but instead of explosions and shrapnel, it was a big white flash.
Nightmare herself disoriented, her eyes were blind and her ears deaf. She stumbled around a bit, becoming a vulnerable target for her new opponent.
While still dazed, she felt something punched her to the ground, cracking the pavement below. It then grabbed her long flowing tail and swung her to the other side, smashing her to the ground. It repeated the process several times before putting its metallic hand over her throat.
The effects of the flash grenades was starting to wear off, her vision was slowly returning and what she saw surprised her. The creature holding her by the throat was another ork, but this one was even bigger then the captain she defeated. This massive ork wore metal helmet with horns on both side, a similar armour like the captain, and the metal gauntlet that he is using to hold her.
“So, youz da one making da trouble.” Irongutz said trough his many sharp teeth. “Let Irongutz tell ya one tink, you may kill my boyz, but you do not steal me teefs!”
The commander then threw the mare at nearby building. He then did a big leap and punched the down pony with his iron fist, crushing her body and the breaking the floor beneath them. Both of them fell from the second floor of the structure, the ork's fist still connected to the mare. He then grabbed her again and threw her out of the window, causing a lot of cuts as she passed right through.
The ork then climb out of the shattered window and walked towards the fallen alicorn. Putting his giant hand on her head and raised it up. “You're gonna be my newest trophy.” He whispered, he then produce a knife behind his back and aligned it with her neck.
Suddenly her horn flashed, causing Irongutz to go blind. “My eyes!” He shouted, dropping his knife and the head as he rub his hands in his eyes. He then felt two strong kicks, pushing him back a bit. He was push even further by some strange energy blast.
With his vision returning, Kommanda Irongutz saw the scar covered mare staring right at him. She fired a beam from her horn and the ork blocked it with his gauntlet. Taking his custom sidearm from his holster, Irongutz fired the gun at the mare.
Instead of creating a barrier, she continued her beam attack, only creating a small shield. While it protected her against the majority of the bullets, a few slipped past and struck her legs. Putting all her energy into the beam, it broke through the metal gauntlet and penetrated right through his hand and his shoulder.
Irongutz yelped in pain from having his hand and shoulder pierced. This made him stray him gun away from her, leaving himself open for the Nightmare's attack. She galloped to the massive ork and stabbed his chest with her horn.
Before she could go any deeper, the ork's giant right hand grabbed the mare, keeping her from moving. He then raised his damaged gauntlet over her, planning to bash her. Suddenly he felt his back exploded. It turns out that when the her horn was deep inside the ork's body, she concentrated all her magic into another powerful blast, and release it within.
The commander stumbled backward, feeling the full weight of the damage done. The giant ork felt his life being slowy stripped away. He fell on his knees and soon the rest of his body fall, revealing the big hole on his back.
Nightmare watched as the ork collaspe and die in front of her. Pool of blood poured out of his open wound and grew wider around the corpse. Seeing that she was done here, she flap her long black wings and took off.
In a hut outside of town, the ork weirdboy Rotbrain, was preparing a ritual for the return of the mare. Reading from the book again, he found a way to return a summon back to where they came from. He then heard the front door opened, revealing the black alicorn.
“Ah good, do you ave dat teefs?” He asked looking at her with anticipation.
Nightmare hauled the bag of teeth and toss it right in front of him. The ork then empty the content in the bag and quickly counted all the teeth. After doing that, he turned around and face her.
“Oi, ya missing one.”
Nightmare then pull one of his teeth out and place it in the pile behind him.
“OK, letz move on.” He said while rubbing his mouth.
They both move to the large ritual circle near them. Nightmare stepped in the middle of the circle, while Rotbrain stood outside and held the book. He began reading the enchanted words, and the lines beneath her started to glow brightly.
Nightmare felt the same surge of energy that brought her here, she didn't show any resistance and allow it to consume her. One moment she was in the ork's hut the next she was in total darkness. Like before she was temporarily blind.
Her vision eventually returned and spotted a familiar planet. Recognizing it as her home, she smile when she realized that the ritual worked. But, then something occurred to her. Looking down at the surface she was standing on, it was the familiar grey rocky ground she knew all too well.
The dark alicorn screamed in anger, seeing that she is back on the moon again. Forced to relive there for the remaining of her imprisonment.
Meanwhile back on Tallion IV, Rotbrain was smoking a cigar and was skimming through the book's pages. He then stopped at one and read it. The page spoke of summoning a creature that is spirit of chaos. The ork grunted and closed the book, he had enough of summoning for today.
He then took his bag full of teeth and decided to hit the town, go on a spending spree. He closed the door to his hut and walked down the hill, heading to the partially destroyed town.
