My Little Deathbattle

Holy shit! It’s crowded in here.

I thought you were dead, Lolk.

I got better.

Copycat.

Whatever. Let’s get this overwith. New Lunar Republic’s Evening Armada. Gorilla force on a massive scale.

Changeling Empire’s Armada. Master killers of entire cities.

And the Solar Empire’s Dawn Breakers, the worlds most powerful organized military.

He’s Aegis and he’s Lolk

And he’s overpowered-I mean Nex. And it’s our jobs to analyze these troops’ weapons, armor and skills determine who would win a deathbattle.

Don’t make me kill you again.

Suuuure you will.

Dawn Breakers

Faction: Solar Empire

Leader: Princess Celestia

Locality: Canterlot

The Solar Empire’s Dawn Breakers were formed just before the rise of the NLR to defend against them and are lead by Celestia herself.

Celestia leads by example. Standing tall on the battlefield and commanding her troops as needed.

Celestia wields a golden halberd that she can channel her magic through. And since this is a five on five on five, there will be one unicorn, two earth ponies and one pegasus.

The unicorns most commonly use the basic magical bolt that can be charged to either kill or knock out.

Kind of like roofies in a titty bar.

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What? I don’t do the drugging. I just hear about it. That aside, for close range fighting, the Dawn Breakers have Silver Bit, single shot, muzzle loaded rifles. Each one capable of heavily denting any modern armor.

Outside of firearms, the Dawn Breakers use lances and crossbows.

They rely heavily on their ability to work as a coherent unit under strict command. When together they are hard to break, but break them up and they’ll lose a one on one fight.

With Celestia in charge, the only way to break up unit cohesion is to kill her. And seeing as she’s the strongest, it’s unlikely that will happen until the other four die, leaving Ol’ Sun Butt out to dry.

They don’t stop for anything, and you do anything to cross them, they’ll unleash the power of the sun!

You’re a moron.

Metal head.

Watch the metal head thing.

Alright Lunarus.

THAT TEARS IT MY LITTLE CHANGELING! I’M GONNA KICK YOUR NADS SO HARD THEY’LL-

“Celestia guide us to greatness.”

Evening Armada

Faction: New Lunar Republic

Leader: Princess Luna

Locality: Everfree Castle

Yeah baby! These are my ponies!

Your ponies? *sigh* Anyway, the NLR’s Armada is the pinnacle of guerrilla fighters on a massive scale.

Their tactics are all hit and run with pieces of an organized military tied to it.

The Armada is lead by Princess Luna wielding her signature cavalry sword. Like the other leaders, she leads by example. She prefers to be on the front lines and fight with her troops while Celestia and Chrysalis like keeping further back and commanding.

Thus leaving her open for attack.

But she’s not alone! Her five pony officer squad is made up of two earth ponies, one unicorn and two pegasi. The pegasi wield the Lightning Lance! A lance that arcs with magical electricity and also the Thunder Claws. Magically enhanced hidden blades developed by the Lunarus Corporation. Her unicorn uses a cavalry sword as well as their magical spells.

Such as Shadow Thoughts. A spell that brings the worst fear of the pony it is cast on to life. Effective on groups. They also use several fatal bolts taught originally by Commander Nexus.

And the earth pony is the marksman. Using the Thunderstorm MK. II repeating rifle.

Yes! This stylish modern lever action rifle has ten shots in the tube and can fire at 45rpm! It fires the equivalent of real .50 caliber slugs. That’s my kind of weapon! BFG’s baby!

The wide range of skills in the Armada allows them to be effective alone and in groups.

“Day or night, we fight! All hail the Night!”

Changeling Armada

Faction: Changeling Armada

Leader: Queen Chrysalis

The Changeling Armada is a large force whose sole purpose is to find a place to feed and survive.

But they're not as barbaric as you might think.

They use modern weaponry scavenged from the battlefield.

And that's the Armada's greatest strength, adaptability. They can pick up any weapon and use it to the best of their ability.

This is put into all of Chrysalis' troops telepathically. Giving her an advantaged in a massive battle. Or in this case, a five on five battle. Her four troops can use whatever is needed.

They come in with lances and swords, but when somepony with a gun goes down, the whole fight will take a turn.

Like Celestia, Chrysalis likes to stay back and command, giving her a higher chance to live to the final fight.

And when it comes, she rolls in with a dark red battle ax. Nothing special, just a battle ax that's red.

Her magical arsenal is all fatal. One hit from any spell will kill. There is a one shot grenade style spell that has a four foot kill range. A devistating spell that will can only be used by Chrysalis herself. Really? Why would you bother writing that Nex?

Balance. If they could all use it they'd win in seconds. And they also don't have a saying, so we'll have to roll with nothing for now!

Okay the combatants are set, let's end this debate, once and for all.

But first, a little announcement.

WE HAVE A TUMBLR!

That's right. The Officers of the NLR now have a Tumblr where you can ask us questions about anything. Our lives or battles we've faced. Anything is permitted.

But hold those Questions for now. Because, IT'S TIME FOR A THREE WAY REPUBLIC DEATHBATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!

The small town of Ponyville was vacant of all of her citizens, not even the construction workers taking away what was left of the old library were anywhere to be found. From the north, a small, three pony squad of Dawn Breakers marched down Main Street consisting of the lead unicorn and two earth ponies with their Silver Bit Rifles on their shoulders. The column of three stopped ever few feet to clear out the houses on either side of the street, one at a time. Once they had finished moving down the first block, one of the unicorns sent up a bolt of magic that burst like a flare. In the middle of the group, Princess Celestia appeared in a brilliant flash of light with her halberd.

"What's the status Colonel?" she asked the lead unicorn.

"We've cleared the first block and the backup team will be in in a few minutes to set up home base." the unicorn replied.

"Any site of them yet?" she asked.

"Not yet Princess. Our scout should be here any minute now."

On cue, their pegasus landed hard on next to the unicorn. "No sign of either one of 'em your highness." the pegasus mare said saluting.

"Start setting up base. We'll need t-"

"Get down!" one of the earth ponies shouted tackling Princess Celestia to the ground just as the sound of a rifle shot rang out.

"Sniper! Second floor balcony!" the unicorn shouted letting off a magical blast that blew the window that he thought he saw the sniper in.

Celestia flashed to her post at the edge of town and watched over the battle. The four ponies sprinted into the building that they had just checked. The Armada sniper coughed at the smoke around him and put a hoof to his ear.

"I've been made. Go loud." he said into a mouth piece at the collar of his armor.

And at the south side of Ponyville, Queen Chrysalis stood with her four changeling scouts. "You know what must be done. Eliminate them." she said coldly as her changelings buzzed off towards the smoke plume that was the NLR sniper position.

FIGHT!

Back inside the house the four guards went over their options, which were limited. "I say we go behind these buildings and flank that sniper position. Even if they're dead, we'll have a place where we have an advantage." The unicorn said looking to his comrades.

"I guess that's our best option." One of the earth ponies agreed. "But me and Quick Shot should be the ones to take it."

"Make it quick, we got four unknowns coming in from the south."

The NLR soldier still in his position saw the four dots coming his way and leveled his repeating rifle in their direction. He fired one shot but missed. He recocked his rifle and ran to the back door.

"Lieutenant Moon, we got incoming near your position, take 'em out!" the sniper said as he jumped from the second story window to the roof bellow him.

Lt. Moon didn't reply but spread her bat wings and grabbed her lightning lance. She launched up into the air with the speed of a Shadow Bolt directly below the changelings. She flew into the formation but was spotted by the trailing changeling just before she could give a proper surprise attack. The changeling spun around and dodged her lance. It took hold of the lance and threw Moon skywards without her weapon. It separated from the group and flew upwards as Lt. Moon recovered.

Back with the Dawn Breakers, they'd sent out their two earth ponies to the sniper's position as the unicorn took a position at the door. The pegasus held her lance tightly in her hoofs as she watched the back door. Without warning, the wall next to her collapsed as an NLR unicorn blew down the wall. She swung her lance but what she was swinging at wasn't a unicorn, it was a manticore. She stammered back as the unicorn finished casting Shadow Thoughts onto her and quickly put up a shield against the spell being cast by the Dawn Breaker. The bolt bounced off and shot back at him. He was able to dodge but the changeling coming into the window wasn't. It turned to dust on contact. The NLR soldier kicked the lance away from the pegasus and threw it like a javelin at the unicorn.

He side stepped it to allow it to dig into the wooden door frame. When he looked back, the unicorn was gone and the pegasus was just starting to recover from the illusion spell. Back in the sky, Moon was just tangling with a changeling holding her lance. She was able to grab the lance when the changeling came up at her but the changeling wouldn't let go. They twisted and turned as they fell towards the earth at full speed. The changeling kept trying to bite her as they fell but was stopped when they both slammed into the roof of the Caracole Boutique. The two fell down on either side of the building in full view of one another. The lance landed down in-between them both.

The two scrambled to their hoofs to get to the lance sticking out of the ground as the other two changelings chased down the Armada sniper stallion. He ran across the roofs of Ponyville shooting over his shoulder during each jump. One peeled off at full speed to the right where the street would be going. The Sniper leapt over another gap and noticed a skylight. He ripple fired two shots and dove rifle first into the weakened glass. The glass shattered as he fell into a ransacked dining room. He rolled when he landed on the table and rolled to the other end. He sprained his right rear ankle on the landing but was otherwise in one piece.

His light armor thankfully took most of the impact but he knew he didn't have time to rest. He had one changeling coming in from behind and another flanking him. It was probably already on its way to him. He hopped off the table and hobbled through the open door. He heard the changelings break down the skylight and found himself with new found vigor. He hobbled faster and ducked into a hall closet.

He quickly reached back into his saddle bags and started pulling out rounds for his rifle. One at a time he reloaded, repeating the saying he heard back in boot. We are the Evening Amada. We were born to die, but not before them. He repeated that saying about nine times as he finished reloading his rife. Just as he recocked it, the door flew open and a changeling buried its teeth into his neck. He shouted in pain as the second one tried to get in but was quickly shot from down the hall.

The second Armada earth pony recocked his rifle and shot at the door where the second changeling was finishing up with the first sniper. He came out and flew out the window with the first sniper's rifle. He ran over and checked on his comrade. An apple sized hole was left in his neck where the changeling bit him. A look of horror permanently etched on his face.

"May Luna guide you into eternity." he said shutting the dead soldier's dilated eyes and shutting his mouth.

He wasted no more time, he ran to the stairs he took up to get into the streets as the Dawn Breaker earth ponies still checking out building where the NLR sniper was. The carefully checked their corners as they went hoping to get a glimpse of the sniper that shot at their leader. As they walked into the room that their unicorn blasted, gentle whispers started flowing through the ears. They had to ask the other if they heard what they were hearing. They agreed it wasn't just in their heads and were on further guard as the sun fully set on the west horizon.

The back of the room they came it became black with shadow as they looked out from where they were. From the shadows behind them, two glowing white eyes appeared. The glow faded slightly revealing dark blue irises appeared in the white orbs. A flash of sliver and the dark blue glow of a long horn showed itself as well. A four foot long chrome blade slowly appeared from the shadows before digging itself into the back of the right earth pony. He shouted in pain momentarily before falling limp, right off the blade. The second earth pony turned to shoot but was met with an armor clad shoulder slam into her.

She was thrown out of the hole in the hole and two stories to the street. Her armor didn't help much with the fall but did keep her from dying. She rolled over and watched as a tall black armored figure jumped down on top of her with the still bloody cavalry sword to her neck.

"Any last requests soldier?" the tall figure asked spreading her wings.

"Please, let me go Princess." the earth pony plead trying to reach for her rifle.

Princess Luna sighed and shook her head. "If only little one." She said before slashing the earth pony's throat. "May Rosetta bring you peace." she teleporting to the roof tops.

Celestia, watching it all from afar, saw her sister on the battle field as she let out her Canterlot Voice to summon her remaining troops. Shining armor stood next to her looking through his own magnifying glass at the short battle.

"Reinforcements are ready Princess. When you're ready." he said putting it down.

"No. I'll handle this myself. If I fall, sound retreat and prepare for a full invasion come day light." she replied picking up her halberd.

She spread her wings and flew head long into Ponyville from the north. Chrysalis simultaneously started to fly in from the south. In the top of town hall, Luna, her unicorn, remaining earth pony and pegasus, started planning while keeping a shield up around them in case the other changeling tried taking a shot through one of the windows.

"I say we retreat and return to camp." the bat pony said a little nervous. "We're out matched at the moment."

"We won't back down." the unicorn said. "If our leaders won't back down then neither will we."

"He is right. We will stand and fight." Luna said. "Captain," she said to the unicorn. "You and the marksmen remain here and give us cover if a battle in the square breaks out. I shall contact you if it is elsewhere. Lieutenant Moon, you are to remain with me."

Lt. Moon sighed to relieve some of her stress as Luna left he shield and flew low out the window to the west. Moon followed closely as Celestia landed on 4th Street to stay out of sight. Her unicorn motioned her to his building and Celestia didn't hesitated to join her forces. She was depressed seeing only the unicorn and pegasus were left. They briefed her on the situation and the last location of Princess Luna.

"Have you seen Queen Chrysalis?" she asked.

"No your highness." the pegasus mare said.

"We've only seen her changelings." the unicorn added.

"Without our marksmen we're sitting ducks out there in the streets. We'll have to move by the building to the east to attempt to get the drop on them."

"We'll follow you Princess." the unicorn said.

Back on the west side of the square, Princess Luna and Lt. Moon walked amongst the shadows, out of sight completely. Luna kept her head on a swivel while Moon kept her eyes on Luna. As they came to an intersection Luna peeked back at Moon and knit her brow.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"Yeah… But not for long." Lt. Moon said looking to their right.

From the south west, Queen Chrysalis flew in with the remaining changeling carrying the rifle. They landed and Luna drew her sword as Lt. Moon leveled her lance at the changelings.

"Hello Luna." Chrysalis said. "Miss me?"

"I wouldn't miss you if we were blood."

"Well I hope you don't share the same connection to your soldiers." she said before launching one of her high explosive spells at the town hall attic.

The two soldiers left inside didn't have time to get out before the whole roof went up in a fiery explosion. Luna lunged at Chrysalis in anger. The changeling shot at her but was too slow. Luna slashed at Chrysalis but she parried with her ax, throwing Luna back. The changeling would have shot again as soon as it leveled the rifle at her. Lt. Moon was still holding her lance at Chrysalis who had her back turned.

"Lt. Moon, what are you waiting for? Kill them!" Luna demanded.

Lt. Moon gave a sick smile as she moved up to Chrysalis' side. She vanished for a second in green fire and reappeared as a changeling.

"It seems you're out numbered and out gunned." Chrysalis said with a chuckle.

Luna grabbed her sword with her hoofs instead of holding it by magic and reared up onto her hind legs. She lunged again at the three changelings at full speed. Chrysalis swung at her but she was able to block and simultaneously kick the lance wielding changeling away with her hind leg. The rifle changeling was slow on the response but was able to get the repeating rifle leveled at Luna as she passed. With her free hoof, she grabbed the barrel and twisted it around in the changeling's grip. It lost its hold on the rifle before it could fire and Luna was able to get it back into the hoofs of the Armada.

She spun it around slipped her hoof into the trigger guard. She hadn't done much with these things, but she was certain that she'd be able to adapt. Before she could shoot, a golden tipped lance passed by Luna's head and embedded itself in the now empty hoofed changeling's chest. He shouted in pain as he fell down. Luna spun around and was able to put up a shield as a golden bolt of magic was fired at her from Celestia's halberd.

The shockwave threw her back towards the changeling with the lance. Luna swung her sword at it and slashed through its head and lance staff as she slid to a stop. Luna leveled her rifle and squeezed the trigger. The kick threw her left foreleg up into the air as the rifle bullet slammed into the unicorn that stood next to Celestia. The Dawn Breaker pegasus appeared out of the trees with her lance out in front of her.

Luna saw this coming and deflected the lance and the pegasus off in the direction of Chrysalis. She swung her blood red ax in a wide arc from right to left and batted the pegasus away. She was dead before she even hit the ground. Luna, with one hoof, cocked the rifle and leveled it at her sister. Simultaneously, Celestia aimed her magical halberd at Luna. Chrysalis jumped at Luna while she had the chance and tried to bury her ax in Luna's unprotected neck. Luna put up her sword and blocked the weapon. She took her aim off of Celestia and started to tussle with Chrysalis.

Celestia took the chance and fired a bolt at the two of them. Luna was the only one of the two that saw it and swung Chrysalis around into the shot. Chrysalis screeched in pain as the shot connected with her back. The magical shot killed her instantly. Luna tossed the carcass aside and put the rifle on her back.

"So it has come to this has it?" Luna asked still on her hindlegs.

"I don't want to do this Luna."

"Neither do I Tia."

FINISH IT!

Celestia was the first to strike, she fired another bolt at Luna. At this range, she was able to dodge and start a counter attack. She sidestepped the bold and sprinted at her sister. Celestia put up her ax, ready to block the incoming attack. Luna swung from the right and had her strike glance off of the metal shaft off Celestia's halberd. She spun around and slashed again. Celestia blocked and hooked the bottom of her halberd on Luna's right rear hoof. She yanked her hoof out from under her. Luna fell flat on her back and hardly had enough time to put up her sword to block the ax blade coming down on her.

She kicked Celestia off and teleported up to the nearest roof top. She leveled her new rifle and fired another shot. Celestia was able to teleport out of the way and reappear behind her with her halberd raised high over her head. Luna reached behind her back with her sword and deflected the blade to the roof. Both sisters took flight in opposite directions before squaring off high over Ponyville. Channeling their magic into their wings, Celestia and Luna both shot forward with their weapons straight out in front of them.

As they closed in on one another, pure black clouds started to roll in from the east and white from the west along with the sun and moon. When their blades clashed, thunder rumbled across the forest and fields as they pass by one another without a single scratch. They back and started a long rolling scissor. With her horn already pointing in her direction, Celestia fired a long bolt of magic at Luna and she responded with the same. The beams both passed within inches of the other due to them having to tilt their heads slightly to see the other.

They made another pass at one another and their blades met once again. Now the clouds met and formed a perfect storm as another powerful clap of thunder rolled through the land followed by a massive bolt of lightning that shot up towards them. It passed by them as they rolled over and pulled into another steep climb. Four more times they repeated this until they were higher than even Cloudsdale. By then, Ponyville was a black and white hurricane. They sky above was a dark purple as the day and night battled for dominance. At the final apex, Luna spun around and fired a single shot from her rifle and folded her wings.

She had to aim slightly higher but the shot was dead on. The lead bullet sped towards Celestia and buried itself in her right wing root. She shouted in agony as her wing went limp and she began to drop out of the sky. Luna looked up to see her as she started to fall. She spread her wings again and caught the wind. Celestia sped towards her at break neck speeds as she put her sword to her side and began firing the last six rounds in the rifle. Most missed but what did hit knocked off the plates that were protecting her stomach and right shoulder.

The two were almost even now, Luna pushed hard, tossing the rifle aside and prepared to deliver all the damage she could. On her first pass, she slashed at Celestia's neck. She was able to put up a strong enough shield to deflect the strike but not enough to keep it up. Luna's next pass lobbed off Celestia's horn. Another powerful blast of lightning came from the hurricane but this time it rippled across the clouds like a tree's roots weaving through a mountain. Luna wasn't able to get in another strike on Celestia as they passed through the now dying storm. Bellow, the ground mush as rain and wind pelted the land.

Celestia hit outside of town square at full speed, having hardly enough time to put up another shield to soak up some of the impact. But it wasn’t a lot. Most of her bones broke on impact and the sheer force of it left a sizeable crater where she hit. The shock wave knocked the town hall off its foundation and knocked down a walls in nearby buildings. The storm was dying fast now. The torrential rain now a down pour as Luna floated down out of breath and her eyes glazed over.

She waded through the muddy streets and slid down into the crater her sister was now laying in hardly alive.

"Luna…" Celestia choked as her younger sister stood over her. "Please… It….It doesn't-have to be like this."

"I'm sorry Tia…" Luna said using her horn to raise her sword over her head, point down. "It does."

"Luna!"

Luna thrust her blade downward. The tip of the blade passing through Celestia's unprotected chest and out the other side. Celestia convulsed and arched her back in momentary pain as the shock of her heart being split in half hit her brain. She coughed her last, bloody breath as she settled back down into the dirt. Luna pulled her blade from her now dead sister and fell to her haunches sobbing. From behind, a dark blue unicorn with mechanical wings wearing black armor landed behind her.

"Luna?" He asked.

"It is done Lunarus." she said getting up with her tears mixing with the rain. "All that remains are her militant leaders."

Nexus walked close to her and put a hoof on her shoulder. "General Armor will be advancing soon. We should go."

"Yes. Rally our troops to take Ponyville." Luna said as she flew out of the crater.

Nexus looked to Celestia's body and knelt down next to her. He reached over and shut her eyes and used his horn to cross her forelegs over her chest. "May Rosetta guide you to everlasting peace." he said before following Luna into the Everfree Forest.

FATALITY

Whoa… Did I just get a gentle feel there?

I would have thought your heart was made of metal too?

Hey, back on topic here.

Oh right…. HOLY SHIT BUCKETS FULL OF BRIKS THAT WAS COOL!

Despite their ability to adapt, the Changelings are more effective in high numbers. The five man squad isn't part of their strong suit.

And the Dawn Breakers might have been able to work as a team, but when you put them on the spot in a spontaneous battle, they don't fair too well.

It was their ability to think on the fly and have it work that gave the Evening Armada their edge. The advanced weapons weren't too bad either.

And as for the immortals; Chrysalis may be deadly, but only in a complete surprise. If Celestia hadn't come in when she had, Luna would have been the first to go down.

And before you accuse us of stacking, we went through four others that weren't in the NLR and thought that anypony BUT Luna was the best Princess. And the average of all the scores still put the Evening Armada on top. Sorry Sun Butt.

The winner is Luna's Evening Armada.