Chapters AVP
A new species have been found, the ponies of Equestria have been living in relative peace for seven months without anything bad happening….and that's all about to come to a screaming halt. Strange beings Called "Humans" have appeared in there peaceful world, left behind, cut off and without any hope of contacting their friends for help….and that's the good news, deep below the surface of Equestria, deeper then the Forgotten Diamond mines, Creatures have been laying in wait, for the planet to be Flourishing with life to harvest…..again.
the Human ship "The Star Hammer" is Orbiting Equestria it is slowly approaching the planet, on bored are over 400,000 Humans, 50% being civilian, 30% are Military, and the remaining 20% are Wailand Yutani Scientists, but on bored, unknown by all but the Military Personnel, are two Pony Brothers, the eldest one being a young adult Changling Hybrid (in human terms) and the younger being a very young Unicorn colt, Karl Enters the bridge and gives the captain a Friendly Smile, "so...this is where your kind are from eh, Karl?" the captain says in a slightly mocking tone, Karl frowns and says "Sir, with respect, I don't like to think of this planet as my home, this ship has been my home for as long as i can remember", the captain gives him a friendly slap on the back and laughs "hahah,i know, I'm just messin' with ya!", "of course sir, of course" Karl replies, standing upright, the captain gives him a smug look and says "no need to be so formal Soldier", Karl responds with a grin and says "the suit makes you look fat", the captain looks at his stomach then turns to Karl and says "...too formal" and they both begin laughing "ah, its good to see your humour doesn't die Karl, okay people you can leave for break, I'll take it from here", the captain says as he approaches his chair, the people in the room all salute "Yes Sir!" as everyone leaves, Karl approaches the commander, the commander gives Karl a puzzled look "what are you still doing here, I said everyone could leave", Karl simply stands beside the commanders chair and says "with Respect sir, I would rather stay, the rules clearly state that the bridge must be occupied by at Least two Personnel at any given time, Sir", The captain smiles "of course Karl, of course", as the two look at the planet through the ships main screen, the captain looks at Karl's scar, the scar he remembers Karl getting when he was still a rookie.
"And it's basically my fault he got it" the captain thinks to himself"
-Flashback-
"Captain, We Got incoming!", a marine shouts to his commanding officer, over the sounds of gunfire and orks battle-cry's, the commanding officer fires his pistol at an oncoming ork, as the ork falls to the ground, the Commanding officer approaches Karl and says "listen up Rookie, I need you to infiltrate that ork base over the next hill, think you can pull it off?", the small Changling soldier gives a salute and changes his form to fit that of an Ork, the commanding officer then pats karls now ork shoulders and says "that trick of yours never ceases to amaze me", Karl gives a salute and says "just doing my job sir...i mean, i dunt take orders frum you...Humie", "Hahaha, you gonna surprise em aren't ya sold-" but before the human can finish, he and everyone else are nocked to the ground by an explosion, as Karl gets to his feet he looks up and notices all his human Ally's are dead, he changes back to his Changling form and waits for the oncoming ork assault to take his life, but as the orks close in on his position, he remembers his little brother Ramirez, the Small pony that had been with him for as long as he could remember. "Well, still too late to do anything now".
-End flash back-
"Something wrong, sir?" Karl snaps the captain out of his flash-back, "oh...uh. it's nothing Karl" the human says to his friend "its hard to believe I've known you since you where just a rookie, huh?", "not really sir" Karl Replies "this Galaxy has seen a lot of wars, there have been a lot of lost lives, a lot of promotions...lost family's", the human raises his hand and interrupts "alright yea, lets not go down that road, there are enough fresh wounds going around, we don't need to go opening old ones", the Changling replies with a salute "yes sir", and the Changling and Human commander continue to look at the planet through the ships main screen in silence.
Meanwhile on Equestria's surface, Ponies have gathered around the centre of town, all of them looking up at the sky and at the strange machine floating slowly towards them, all the talk is about the same topic "what is it?, is it dangerous, is it alive?, what does it want?, are there ponies inside?", the mayor walks towards the centre of the town and the crowed all turn their attention to her "please, every pony remain calm, I'm sure the princess' is dealing with the situation, she has assured me its some kind of object and that it isn't dangerous, please return to your normal duties, and do NOT attempt to fly towards the object, the princess has forbidden it", with that they return to their daily routines, twilight rushes back to her library, her friends following her, "Twi, what's all the rush for?" asks a confused Applejack, twilight goes straight for the telescope, and begins looking at the object "the princess said we couldn't fly towards the object, she dint say we couldn't examine it from far away, besides, aren't you curious as to what it could be?" twilight says without even looking up "yea, that sucks, I could get a good look at it and get back without anything even seeing me" says an unhappy Rainbow dash" maybe they just want to be peaceful?" FlutterShy quietly suggests, "I'll bet there Aliens" says spike coming down the stairs, "now spike, why would you think such a thing? It could just be a comet, like the ones Twilight looks at" says rarity, "but look at it, ill bet there are Aliens walking among us as we speak, there just in disguise, like that one weird Unicorn that kept asking me if there where books here on the most dangerous creatures in Equestria", "what?, someone came here and you dint tell me spike?" twilight asks, finally looking up from her telescope, twilight takes a few steps towards spike "why dint you inform me some pony needed a book?" spike takes a few steps back "wow, twilight calm down, I was going to tell you when you got back, but with that thing in the sky, I thought you'd Be Too Busy" spike says in an apologetic tone, twilight places her hoof on spikes shoulder and says in a Calm tone "I'm not mad at you spike, I'd just wish you would tell me things like this, even if you think there not that important", spike smiles at her and says in a relived tone "yea, ok, I will", twilight looks around the library "so…what did he take?, I don't see anything out of the ordinary, and none of the books are missing" she asks the small dragon, "OH, right, I cannot BELIVE I almost forgot about it, he had a weird looking thing with him, I KNOW I heard voices coming from it, they sounded a bit worried then he panicked and left an odd book and another weird thing here, It must have been by accident, cause he was in a hurry to get out…..nearly broke the door off its hinges when he ran out, ill go get em", spike says as he disappears up the stairs. "well, that's a bit odd, considering every-pony is occupied with the thing in the sky, I wouldn't have thought that anyone would be interested in my books, pinkie, do you know any pony who is like that?" twilight asks her pink friend, who seems to be concentrating on something "huh?, oh sorry twilight, I'm just thinking, the pony that spike was talking about doesn't sound like any pony I have met before, I'll have to throw him a PARTY!" Pinkie pie says before running out of the building. Spike returns, and shows twilight the objects in his hands, see? He had this on his ear covering his eyes, and he would read a book then write something in this book here", the device spike gave twilight looked like a pair of sunglasses, except it was a dark shade of blue, and completely see through, the book had a key lock on it, "hmmm this is an odd type of glasses" twilight thinks to herself "and this book looks so like its been buried for years", twilight examines the book closer. The books cover is made of brown leather, and worn torn pages fill the book, twilight tries to open the book, but notices that it has a lock, and is protected by a strong and primitive dark type of magic, "urgh, I cant open the book" twilight complains, her friends all try to open the book, but none of them can, "I guess we'll tell the princess about, spike take a letter please", spike pulls out a quill and paper and copy's what twilight says "dead princess Celestia, I wouldn't bother you what with that strange object in the sky, but a mysterious pony left an odd pair of glass that just look unnatural, but that's not what worries me, he also left a book here, and its protected by a primitive dark kind of magic, I just wanted to let you know. Your faithful student: twilight Sparkle", spike sends the letter away in his puff of green smoke, and so the group wait for a reply.
Meanwhile, Back on-bored the Star Hammer, Karl is Running along a Corridor, shouting "RAMIREZ, RAMIREZ WHERE ARE YOU!" after running into, and knocking over a soldier, Karl stops and says "oh shit, sorry dude, I'm just looking fo-" before Karl can finish his sentence, the human reveals he is cradling a still sleeping Ramirez in his jacket, "oh Bloody Humping Hell, I was worried sick about him thanks for getting him for me, where was he?", the human gets up and hands the sleeping Ramirez to Karl, the human then says "well, I was walking around when I saw him playing in the ventilation shaft, so I stoped and watched over him to make sure he dint hurt himself, and after a while, he started crying in a corner cause he couldn't find his way back to you, so I said hello to him, and he seemed to remember me, so I told him I'd take him back to you. And while I was walking he fell asleep." Karl gently places Ramirez on his back, being careful not to wake him, he turns to the human and says "thanks James" James looks at Karl and says "not a problem Karl, you know he is always welcome to get a ride back to you if he ever gets lost". On the ships bridge, the captain looks at the two talking through the captains personal Screen then zooms in on Karl and Ramirez and smiles, "heh, he's a strong willed little guy" The Captain thinks to himself, he notices a red flashing word saying 'incoming Call', the captain clicks on the holographic flashing message, a screen pops up with a Human engineer, wearing a yellow hard hat and a thin type of leather armour covering his legs torso and forearms. "ah shit, if it's the engineer, ya know something wrong" the captain thinks to himself, the engineer on the screen salutes the captain, the captain dose the same "what is it Engie?" the captain asks in a mixed tone of authority and worry, the engineer looks at the captain with an apologetic look "sorry captain, its probably nothing important, but I can swear I can hear something coming from the ventilation shafts, whatever it is, it sounds fast" the engineer says in a serious tone, "I'll have someone look into it, thank you for the heads up" the captain replies with a salute, "not a problem sir" the engineer says before hanging up.
Back on the planets surface, the group are waiting for a reply, suddenly, a bright white flash blinding light appears, and a Celestia appears from it, "hello every pony", she says in a reassuring tone, but with a frown clearly stuck on her face, "Hello Princess" twilight says in a cheerful tone until she see's her mentor's frown "oh, heres the book" twilight says as she gives the book to the troubled Alicorn. Celestia examines the book, her horn glows as she levitates it *BRRZT* the book falls to the ground as celestias' horn continues to glow "it Is Defiantly dark Magic, it's a very strong type too, I cannot lift it without destroying it and whatever it is hiding, yet it is nearly undetectable until magic comes into contact with it, I'm going to have to take this back to canterlot so me and my sister can study it, it would need enough energy to completely drain a Pony to get this kind of magic", with that, she disappears in a another flash of blinding white light, "well…what now" asks a confused Rarity, "well..I'm going to continue to study that strange thing in the sky", twilight says in a distracted tone, "I'm going to go off and do more training see if I can two more then one sonic rainboom" says a bored rainbow dash, rarity walks out of the building and says "I'm going to go and do more dress, you never can have too many dress'", FlutterShy had already left, due to her rabbit showing up and informing her its lunch time, pinkie pie was still out looking for her future new 'friend', "an' I have to get back to tha' farm and get them apples" applejack says as she leaves, leaving twilight alone to stare at the object in the sky.
AVP:Wake up call
Deep below the planet, something begins moving inside a massive diamond hard substance, slowly beginning to stir and awaken, so are the many hundreds of thousands of smaller diamond Hard substance's, a crack appears on the Mysterious Objects, as the occupants are beginning to awaken from their slumber.
Back on-bored the Star Hammer, Karl hears his Hoof-com beeping, opening it with his magic, he see's a Yellow message 'captain on com' flashing on the small hollow graphic projection "yes Captain?" Karl asks with a clear hint of happiness, "I see your little sibling has found his way back to you" the captain says copying Karl's happiness, looking up at the camera, Karl smiles and waves with his left wing, keeping Ramirez safely on his back with his right wing, "anyway" the captain begins "I want you to make sure Ramirez stay's out of the ventilation vents, one of the engineer's says he heard something coming from inside the vents, Ramirez dint do anything wrong, its just for his own safety", Karl looks back at his sleeping sibling and smiles then looks back to the holographic video feed of the captain and says "heh, I will sir, he wont be too happy though, he loves playing in the vents", the captain gives him a smirk and says "…how about I give you an escort down to the planet?, some of our Ally's on the planet have made contact with us, and they are waiting for orders, so, what do ya say?", a smile grows across Karl's face after hearing him, "he will be VERY Happy to be able to play on a planets surface again, Sir!" Karl says with a laugh, "hahaha, yea, I thought he would be, I'll let em know to give your brother a tour of the city they are from and to be discreet and keep him safe, get to a ship, they'll be waiting at the usual drop point" the captain says, happy that Ramirez will be happy because it makes karl Happy, Karl salutes his captain one final time before closing his Hoof-com, he looks back at his still sleeping sibling"….heh, he sure is gonna love to be on a planets surface again after being cooped up on this ship" he thinks to himself.
Back on the planets surface, a large group of pony's have gathered in a small base just outside pony Ville, hidden by the ever free-forest, they are gathered around a large assembly area, a screen as big as a train is standing at the far end, with the pony's at the other far end, all seated and quite, listening to the Massive Screen, "hello everyone, I'm the captain of the star hammer" the captain appears on screen saluting to the pony's who return by standing up-right, saluting and shouting "Sir!", the captain raises his hand "thank you all for coming, I have two people-er PONIES coming down on a drop-ship, they will be arriving within the hour, they are VERY important to me, the first is Karl, you have all worked for him, with him, and by him, he will be carrying out his usual duties, BUT, he is also bringing along his little brother 'Ramirez', While Karl is performing his Duties, I want the BEST two soldier's we have guarding Ramirez and taking him on a tour of the town, keep it discreet, I don't want anyone…er…any PONY to know, I want him to blend him, just do as he asks, take him for walks, take him for a play, a swim, just make sure he is happy and safe, am I understood?", all the pony's salute "YES, SIR!" they all shout in union, two pony's walk forward from the crowed, one of them a unicorn the other a pegasi, the unicorn has a dark blue mane and a light blue body and horn, the pegisi is a dark shade of grey, his mane red. "Sir, I'm a Class 'A' Unicorn, I'll be willing to take him wherever he wants to go, and I have a house in the town 'ponyville', he can stay there, Sir!" the unicorn says in a without hesitation, the pegasi walks up beside him "Sir!, I'm a class 'A' Pegasi, I own a hidden diamond mine and because of it I am Extremely wealthy by this species regards, I can purchase him whatever he desires, Sir!" the pegasi says just as His Unicorn Partner did, they both salute and wait for the captain to give them orders, the captain salutes them "thank you gentlemen, I trust a great deal to you, Karl is lost without his little brother, and as you know, Karl is The BEST I have, he is an extremely well trained fighter, he can fly but he became a pilot anyway, and a damn fine one at that, and he is the best I have at sneaking into enemy territory un-detected, Do NOT let anything bad happen to Ramirez, am I understood?", the captain says in a serious tone, "WE GET YOU SIR!" they all shout and salute in sync, "good, now I'm needed up here, so good luck to you all, and keep up the good work" the captain says before ending the transmission, just as the pony's leave the building, a drop ship lands with the word 'Imperial Guard' painted clearly on the sides "that must be them" says the unicorn to the pegasi, "indeed, well, let us go greet our new V.I.P" the Pegasi says before Walking over to the Karl. "it's good to see you again sir" the pegasi says to karl, "likewise soldier" karl says to his pegasi friend, then the pegasi notices something "uh….sir?, we were told that you'd be bringn-" but before he can finish his sentence Ramirez comes running out of the drop ship "YAA WEE HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Ramirez screams happily, Running around Karl and then running about the small base, until he runs into his new unicorn bodyguard "oh, sowy meister", the unicorn simply looks at him "not a problem little one, I assume your Ramirez?" the unicorn says in a friendly tone, being careful not to scare his new objective, Ramirez looks at the unicorn and says in a confused tone "…..uuuuuuhhhh..", "haha, so his an adorable idiot huh?, not a problem" the unicorn laughs to himself, "so you two are the ones who will be keeping my brother safe, huh?" karl says as he and the pegasi walk over to the still confused Ramirez and Unicorn, "yes sir, we will guard him with our lives" the pegasi and unicorn both say in sync, "good to hear, well, I best get back to work, I left something important behind last time I was here, its time I go and get it" Karl says to the two before turning to face his brother "now Ramirez, these two are gonna take you wherever you want to go, and keep you safe, I need to get back to work, so be good okay?" Karl says to his littler brother who responds by wrapping his two front legs around Karl's neck and giving him a big hug "okay, when you be back?" Ramirez asks in a slightly sad tone, "as soon as I can" Karl says "well, I best be off now, gentlemen" Karl salutes both of them, and they salute him "keep him safe and out of trouble" karl says before opening his wings, changing his form and flying away.
But back deep beneath the planet, the Mysterious Objects have been cracked open, and its occupants have escaped into the diamond caves above.
Meanwhile, back at canterlot, Celestia is with Luna and the two are trying to figure out what could be so important in the little book that someone would go to such lengths to keep it safe, "well….we can try to open it with force and salvage whatever is left couldn't we?" Luna suggests, Celestia continues to look at the book with a determine face "no, no, we would loose too much information, whatever is in this book is either valuable information or something that could be used against us, if it is some kind of plan against us, we need to know what so we may counter it" Celestia says, not wanting to take any chances. "Maybe if we are lucky, the pony that left it will come back for it" Luna says trying to lighten her sisters mood "is that a good thing?, this is a strong type of dark magic, strong and dark Magic, what if they do not return peacefully, what if they find out we took their book, they'll get angry", Celestia says trying to convince her sister, meanwhile, one of the royal guards pony walking by outside overhears them, and quickly ducks into a deserted section of the castle and pulls out the same pair of sunglasses that the mysterious pony had left at twilight's house, he clicks a small button on the inside of the glasses puts them on, and looks around at the flashing lights an messages, he picks one in particular and clicks 'Call Outpost one', it flashes the word 'contacting' then he hears a quite click as an image of a unicorn appears in top left corner of the glasses "This is outpost one, Go ahead, go ahead Unit #233", the pony looks around his surroundings before starting the conversation "I Think we may have a problem on our hands…er…hooves, I have overheard a conversation between the Princess', they have acquired Karl's Recon Book, his magic is protecting it, but I don't think it will hold up against them forever, what are my orders?" the pony says and then remains silent to allow the unicorn to speak "Unit #233 do you think you can get Karls Recon Book without Being Spotted?" the unicorn asks with a hint of worry in his voice, "….uncertain Sir, shall I attempt to Acquire it regardless?" the pony asks, "this is outpost one…Yes…attempt to Acquire the book, I'll have a Bird on stand-by in case you get found out, Good luck Unit #233, Outpost one, out", the unicorn says in a tone of authority, the pony places a look of determination on his face "roger that sir, I'm on it, Unit #233 Out *Bzzt*" ending the transmission, the pony conceals his HUD Glasses back under his armour, as the pony heads back towards the room the princess where in, a pegasi Guard overhearing the conversation Quickly fly's back to the Princes', after only a few minutes of flying, He arrives and bursts open the doors, Startling the princess', "Your Majesty's" He Bows, "I believe we a problem, there is a spy among our ranks, he is on his way back here", Celestia looks at the pony with shock "Are you CERTAIN he's a spy?" Celestia asks in a Serious tone, "yes your majesty" he gets back on his feet "I heard his conversation, I believe he knows the one who owns that book, and he even has the same pair of strange glasses that you have there" he says as he points to the glasses Celestia acquired from twilight, "Very well then, We shall have to surprise our guest, I have some questions for him" Celestia says as she places the book on the middles of the table "shall I get more guards your majesty?" the guard pegasi asks, "no, we will deal with him, isent that right sister?" Celestia says as she faces her sister "indeed" Luna says, Celestia walks over to the Guard pegasi and says "now listen to me, I want you to do exactly as I say".
As Unit #233 arrives at the room, he walks over to a guard and says "its quite in there, what are the princes' doing?" the guard looks at him with an emotionless face and says "they said they Shouldn't stress themselves with the book or the device, they have gone to bed, and ordered me and the first guard pony who walks by to guard it, so congratulations you just signed up" he says as he continues to look forward. "wow, this is going to be really easy" unit #233 thinks to himself, as the two stand there quietly for a few moments, the Guard pegasi looks over at Unit #233 "well…here goes, hope he buys it" he thinks to himself, "hey, I'm gonna go get us some drinks, don't go anywhere", unit #233 looks at him and tries to suppress a smile, "uh…thanks man" Unit #233 says, "this is gonna be a piece of cake" he thinks to himself, as the pegasi Walks around the corner and out of view, he looks around to make sure he is alone, he is, so he quietly opens the door, closes it, and slowly walks towards the Book "he, this is Way too easy" he thinks to himself, as he reaches the book, his grabs and places in his armour, he pulls out his glasses and clicks the little button and puts them on, "Outpost one, this is Unit #233, I have acquired the book….and it looks like Karl left his Visor here, mission complete" he says as he grabs the spare pair of glasses and places them in his armour with the book, with his mission done, he begins walking back towards the door, the dark, Un-light room, making so he could only see the light coming from underneath the door, "I have the objective…I'll get to a clear ground and await Evac" he says aloud and proud, but as he is walking towards the door, his glasses place two squares on the and Bright Red Words say 'warning, radar detecting movement, Organic life detected, the squares turn into arrows, and point at the sides of his glasses, "oh fuck….it WAS way too easy IT'S A GODDAMN TRAP" he thinks to himself, he casually turns around, "Well done, I HAVE been trained to not full for ambush's, but I dint Suspect Pony's of ambushing" he says to the mysterious two life forms in the room with him, suddenly the two squares stop in the middle of his visor, suddenly the all the lights in the room flash on, standing across the room from him, are princess Celestia and Luna are watching him carefully "hello" Celestia says "we have some questions for you…'guard' don't worry I only want answers", he simply looks at her for a moment, standing perfectly still, then, he pulls out a small metal cup like object, Grabs the pin hanging from it with his mouth and says "you got me fair and square…only problem is" he pulls the pin out, holds onto it for a few moments then throws it into the air, suddenly an Extremely Loud Bang and Blinding White light fill the room, as Celestia and Luna fall to the ground and try to Clear their eye's and ears, they barely hear the door get kicked open and the Guard pony running out saying "I don't do Fair!", as he rushes out of the room, he hears guards coming from the right, so he runs left, ducks around the corner, but stops running when he See's Celestia and Luna blocking his path "a clever Trick, but you seem to forget that we have powerful magic" Luna says as she approaches "now come quietly traitor, and I promise you will not be harmed, and don't try that trick of yours again, your little toys have no effect on us" Celestia slowly walks towards him and says "yes, although it was a rather unexpected, my sister is right, your gadgets wont work on us", as he slowly backs up, he looks turns around to begin running again, when he sees the hall filled with guards pony "now come quietly, and answer our questions" Luna says as she approaches him "ya know?" He says "when you said that 'my toys wont work'?" he pulls out another cup shaped metal device "you where wrong…" he quickly pulls the pin out with his mouth, but instead of throwing the device, he holds onto it, suddenly it makes a long loud hiss as Smoke begins to quickly fill the room, as his figure disappears in the smoke, he laughs at them as the guards pony rush at him, followed by the sound of metal hitting the ground and being smacked together "WE GOT HIM" they shout, but as the smoke disappears, they are revealed to be on one of there allies "wait, where did he go?" Luna Shouts, Celestia spreads here wings and blows the smoke away "all of you, seal off the castle, don't let him get away" Celestia says as she walks away. Meanwhile somewhere outside the castle, the drop ship appears in the distance, he nervously looks around to make sure he wasn't followed, he notices he is completely alone as all the guards are still looking for him in the castle, as the drop ship lands, Karl Exits the drop ship and walks towards unit #233, "hey, I thought you'd need help cleaning up MY mess". As Unit #233 enters the ship, Karl notices Luna quickly approaching with several guards "we need to leave, NOW!" Karl shouts to the pilot, "I'm TRYING, something's holding us down!" the pilot shouts back. Karl quickly fly's out of the ship and try's to find whatever is causing the problem "WHAT THE-"Karl spots part of the drop ships landing gear being held down by a Dark Blue light "that BITCH, she's keeping us down" Karl thinks to himself as he glances back at the quickly approaching alicorn and guards "okay….i Can do this….no problem" Karl thinks to himself as he takes a deep breath, Karl's horn begins to glow light green, focusing his horn at the dropships magically affected area, he covers Luna's Magic with his own "…..urghn….c'mon….c'mon, BREAK DAMMIT" Karl says to himself, Suddenly Luna's magic completely disappears, as soon as Karl notices that he releases the ship from his own magic and the ship Quickly slingshots into the sky "HOLY SHIT!" #233 shouts to himself "TAKE US BACK DOWN NOW!" #233 shouts at the pilot "IM TRYING SIR, HE'S NOT LETTING ME!" the pilot shouts as loud as he can, #233 looks back down at Karl and notices he is barely on his feet, Karl looks behind him and see's that Luna is only a few feet away "GAURDS, SEIZE HIM!" she shouts to the guards, then she looks up at the drop ship hovering in the air "NO WAIT, I'LL HANDLE THIS ONE, GO AFTER THAT THING IN THE SKY, DON'T LET IT GET AWAY!" she screams as she notices #233, Karl Begins breathing quickly "oh NO YOU DON'T" Karl screams as he uses what remains of his magic to keep all the pegasi frozen in the air, "SIR, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" #233 shouts to Karl over all the noise "GO!" Karl shouts as loud as his lungs will let him "GET OUT OF HERE!" he shouts, loosing his magical grip on the pegasi, Suddenly Luna tackles him to the ground "RELEASE THEM AT ONCE AND COME QUIETLY!" Luna shouts at the exhausted Karl. Using the last of his magic, Karl pulls all of the pegasi to the ground, knocks Luna off "TAKE CARE OF MY LITTLE BROTHER FOR ME!" Karl manages to shout before he passes out and the ship quickly begins to fly away, disappearing into the distance. Luna only just recovering looks around at the Pegasi guards, who are also only just recovering, and then, she walks over to the now Unconscious Karl and says in an angry tone "well…l see that thing has gotten away with the Spy, but at least now YOU will answer some questi-" but she stops in her tracks when she notices something about the mysterious unconscious Pony, he is COMPLETELY Still, she moves closer and places her ear in front of his mouth, nothing "HE'S STOPED BREATHIN, GUARDS, GO GET HELP!" Luna screams to the confused Pegasi guards, who seem to be a bit frighten by Luna's Sudden scream "Y-Yes your majesty" they say before all flying into different areas of the castle. "No, no, NO, NOOO!" Luna begins screaming at herself "I DINT MEAN TO DO THIS!" she then begins to panic "WHAT DO I DO, WHAT DO I DO?" she continues to scream at herself "….i have to try something…" she then sits beside the non-breathing pony "okay" she takes a deep breath "here goes", she then places her mouth on his and breaths "come on, DON'T DIE" she takes another breath "COME ON, BREATH!" she screams at the pony, nothing, no response, no breathing, she takes another deep breath, nothing, another, still nothing, she takes another very deep breath, places her mouth over his again, and repeats, suddenly a Group of Doctor and nurse ponies comes running over the hill with the guards, followed by Celestia, the Doctor pony, a Brown coloured Unicorn With a White mane Approaches the Unconscious pony, followed by Celestia "what happened!" the doctor asks as he places his medical bag next to the pony "Celestia….sister…i….i didn't mean to…he just…that thing….the spy…" Luna begins to cry to Celestia as the doctor gets to work on checking the pony, Celestia nuzzles her sister "Sister" Celestia whispers in a reassuring tone, "IM SORRY, IM SO SORRY, DON'T LET HIM DIE, I DINT WANT TO KILL HIM!" Luna screams at her sister, Celestia doesn't speak, but looks at the doctor "okay, He's alive but BARELY, we need to get him to a proper medical attention NOW!" the doctor shouts to the other medical ponies.
Meanwhile, back at the outpost, Unit #233 Exits the drop ship in a depressed state, the other ponies look at him, but he doesn't look back, he simply walks the assembly area, once inside, he closes the door behind him, and locks it as a sign that it's a private conversation, he then presses a button on his HUD Glasses and he blinks at the words 'Call Home Base', a female human appears on the screen "this is home base, go ahead" she says, Unit #233 Takes a deep shaky breath and says in a calm tone "this is unit #233 …..i need to speak to the captain immediately" the woman pauses for a few moments before pressing another button, as the woman disappears, the captain appears "What is it soldier?" the captain says in a happy tone. #233 takes a few moments before replying "Sir….we have a situation….its Karl, Sir, he was captured trying to help me escape with the objective". After that, the captains smile disappears, and is replaced by a worried facial expression of Fear and Anger "What happened?" he says in a Serious tone "I want NO bullshit, tell me EVERYTHING that happened", Unit #233 replies with a salute "Yes, Sir", Unit #233 Stands upright and tells the captain of what happened on his mission and what happened to Karl "This is what happened, Sir".
Chapter 4:Hostile contact
The town of ponyville is full of ponies all asking the same question 'did you hear the screaming', 'what was going on, did some kind of animal attack sompony' they had all nearly completely forgotten about the strange object in the sky, or the strange pony that beat up Rainbowdash the day before, apart from Rainbowdash who was looking all over the town for the strange pony and his friend, when she noticed a straight line of earth ponies escorting Strange looking carriages around town to collect different ponies with Pegasi flying over head as escorts, she fly's towards one of the pegasi to ask what the fuss is about but all she gets is a "Back Off" response, she then spots the small colt she frighten among the convoy of ponies, she attempts to approach him to ask where his pegasi friend was, but she is blocked off by the earth ponies, the convoy break off into multiple small groups and all head off into different directions of the town, one of the carriages heading for the school, one of them heading for a few houses, when a strange train speeds along the nearby train-tracks towards canterlot.
A few minutes ago on bored the Star-Hammers command bridge….
"Sir, you've got an incoming message, its urgent!" one of the humans says to the captain, "Very well, patch it through" he says in a curious tone, as he examines the message, he quickly gets overwhelmed by a sense of Fear and despair "…dear god…" he whispers to himself in a frighten tone, he activates his bridges communication device and says in a serious tone "ATTENTION Star hammer military personnel, we have a confirmed Xenomorph infestation on this planet below, I want fighters and frigates guarding that planet, Nothing gets Off that planet without MY say so", all through out the military occupied sections of the ship the ships computer repeats the same Message "Red Alert", the halls filled with the lights flashing Red, ships leaving the star hammer to take up positions around the planet to stop anything from getting out of the planets atmosphere without them knowing. The captain then presses some buttons and the hidden base back on ponyville is put on red alert, all the ponies are rushing towards the assembly area, the base automatically locking down all possible entrances and exits, its camouflage system going online to make it look like a normal small village, when inside the assembly area, all the ponies are talking among themselves 'what do you think happened?' some say 'must be pretty bad if the base is put on Red Alert' suddenly the massive screen comes to life and all the ponies immediately stop talking and pay attention, they all stand up straight and salute the captain "SIR!", they notice he has a serious expression on his face "LISTEN UP MARINES!" he says In a serious panicked yell "we have a confirmed Xenomorph infestation on that planet, it looks like its originating from near that town of ponyville, I want you to evacuate our people from the towns and put it on Quarantine, I'll have group of drop ships ready to get them out once you bring them back here to the outpost, once you have quarantined the towns, I want the BEST we have moving to contain the Xenomorph Threat, AM I UNDERSTOOD?", they all salute "WE GET YOU SIR!" they all shout in sync, suddenly the ponies are running around the base, grabbing all the equipment and vehicles they have, once they have armed themselves, they all stand by the base' main gate and await their field commanders orders, suddenly, the pony field commander walks out in front of the mass of ponies "alright, LISTEN UP!" he shouts as long as he can "I WANT A CONVOY TO HEAD INTO PONYVILLE AND CANTERLOT AND EVACUATE OUR SCIENCE TEAMS AND THOSE WHO PROVIDED US WITH RESOURCES, TAKE THE CARRIGASE', I WANT OUR UNICORN DIVISION TO WORK ON THE FENCING AND QUARNTINE OF THE AREA AND I WANT THE BEST TRAINED FIGHTERS WE HAVE TO COME WITH ME, WE'LL MOVE TO CONTAIN AND KEEP THE HOSTILES OCUPIED LONG ENOUGH FOR THE REST OF YOU TO COMPLET YOUR TASK!", with that they all go off to do their tasks, a group heading for ponyville with earth ponies either pulling the carriages or running along side them to keep them safe, with pegasi flying overhead to make sure no threats come from the air, all of them concealing their weapons with active camouflage so they appear to be unarmed, expect for their Silver armour, the commanders of each squad sit in cushioned interior of the Carriages, Reading the location and detail of their objective on the Carriages Built in Holographic Computer screen. As the convoy breaks up into smaller convoys, they each head off into different areas, while a specialized train speeds for Canterlot. Meanwhile, the Containment team arrives at the Diamond mine entrance and find Blood and the armour of the guard's pony that so foolishly came before them, as they enter the darkened Diamond mines they turn on their weapons flash lights to help illuminate the dark Cave, as they move deeper and deeper, they see the bodies of the guards pony, Terror still trapped on their face, the deeper they move in, they more they find "poor damned fools" one of the marine ponies says out loud "poor bastards dint know what they where getting themselves into", just then they come across a section of the cave covered in a black substance, among the black substance is the bodies of their Deceased Comrades that were working the mines "yea…..looks like we're in the right cave, lets burry this area and move out, its obvious the Xeno's have had time to set up a proper nest, so moving in further would be suicide, which is basically our job, but I want to take out as many as possible, we'll cave in this area, and move deeper, I want groups of two, lets move, cave in as many areas of the cave as possible, when you've completed your job, meet up back outside. BREAK" with they the ponies move off into different directions of the cave in groups of two.
Meanwhile back at one of the convoy's, one of the carriages reaches a house, the field commander gets out of the carriages and knocks on the door, an earth pony answers the door and says "yes, what is it, I'm rather busy right no-" but he stops dead in his tracks when he see's the armour, the field commander approaches the pony and says "Ms. Filthy rich?, there has been an incident, we need you to come with us", Filthy rich looks at the ponies with a scared expression "….what's wrong, h-How bad is it?" he says in a frighten toned, the field commanders guards escort Filthy rich to the Carriage "W-wait" he begins to protest "my daughter is already at school" he says in a quite shout, "not to worry sir, we have sompony taking care of it" the field commander says in a reassuring tone. Meanwhile at the Ponyville School, Ms cheerily is busy teaching her class when two ponies in strange silver armour enter the class room "Excuse me miss" one of the ponies in armour say in a gentle tone "we are here to collect DiamondTiara for her father, we have written permission here" he says placing a small folder of paper on her desk "oh.. Well alright then, DiamondTiara, these gentle colts are here to collect you" Cheerily says before she notices something about the folder "uuh….excuse me….what dose V.I.P mean?" she asks with a hint of curiosity, the other pony in silver armour walks up next to his partner and says in a cold emotionless voice "It's a military, it means Very Important Pony", DiamondTiara smiles at hearing that and says out loud to the class "HA, I'm Very Important" but one of the ponies in silver armour chuckles "heh, sorry kid, your not important, not to us anyway, but your father doesn't want any Harm to come to you, so we have been ordered to come and take you to safety", Cheerily's face changes to one of fright "uh….what do you mean 'take her to safety?' what's going on?", the guard pony grabs the folder off the desk and says "sorry ma'am, but that information is classified, not even your princess' are allowed to know it without Clearance", suddenly, a device on the ponies exposed leg begins beeping loudly, he looks at the device with the same emotionless expression as he partner, he press a button on it and a holographic image of another pony in silver armour appears in the air "what's going on?" he says in a tone of authority, as DiamondTiara is escorted to the exit by one of the ponies in silver armour, the pony in the holographic image says in a quick panicked tone "Sir!, containment failed, the Hostiles have broken out, they overwhelmed us, I lost sight of the commander, there Heading your Way, GET OUT OF THERE!", he says before a loud hissing cuts him off "what the?" the screen changes and shows a group of Xenomorphs coming towards him *Bang Bang* "AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" the pony shoots at the advancing Xenomorphs before his is overwhelmed and attacked "AAAAAAAA-*BZZT*" suddenly the feed goes dead, suddenly the class if filled with the small ponies screaming as they panic and run out of the room "oh, Sorry miss, you weren't meant to see that", he says as he runs out of the room to rejoin his partner and the Carriage. "okay, we have the V.I.P, lets get out of here!" the pony says as his partner rejoins them in the carriage, as the street fills with screaming ponies, the Carriage rolls away to join the rest of the carriages as they head for the entrance of the ever free Forrest with the pegasi and Earth pony Escorts stopping in the middle of the street, the pony that is next in charge says into his Hoof-com to the rest of his troops "Okay, the V.I.P's have been extracted, all escorts, meet up on the street, unicorns, Activate the Quarantine!", as he finish's giving his orders, Ponyville is covered in a massive giant Magical bubble that spreads for miles, with unicorns in silver armour station at random positions to keep the shield up, as the Carriage's disappear from view, the ponies on the street are beginning to panic due to the strange bubble and strange Ponies in strange armour, the pony in charge stands in front of the armour ponies and shouts "okay boys, IN FORMATION, We've got hostiles incoming". Meanwhile, back at canterlot, a strange train has arrived at Canterlot's train station and ponies in strange silver armour quickly pour out of the train, escorting strange Carriages, as the strange ponies move around, canterlot getting some ponies to follow them back to the train, Celestia Appears near the strange train "who are you ponies?" she says in a calm voice, but the ponies ignore her and continue to escort certain ponies from the streets and houses into the train, Celestia tries to get there attention by getting the way of some of the ponies and asking them questions but they simply move around and continue to work without so much as acknowledging her, Celestia gets somewhat irritated, as her guards don't wear Silver armour, she then stomps her hoof in frustration and yells at the ponies "ANSWER ME, WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?", one of the ponies in silver armour approaches her, his armour is different from the rest as his is spiked on the shoulder pads, he walks in front of her and says "Hello, I'm in charge of this little operation until such time as command decides otherwise, please to not get in our way and no pony will get hurt" he says in an emotionless cold voice, she is about to reply when another pony in silver armour walks out of the train and shouts to him commanding officer "SIR, the V.I.P's are on the train, We are ready to deploy our forces!", Suddenly a large group of Canterlot Guards pony approach the commander and Celestia, the captain looks at the silver armoured pony and says "What do you mean by 'FORCES?' you know that an attack on this city is hopeless!", Celestia agrees with the guard and says "indeed, What would you possible need 'Forces' For?", the silver armour pony looks at celestia and Laughs "hahahha what are we doing with forces you ask?", he continues to laugh "protecting those who are loyal to us, and leaving to rest of you to deal with creatures that make nightmare moon look like a filly throwing a tantrum!", Celestia is about to say something when one of the silver armoured ponies come running back towards the train Yelling "XENO'S INCOMMING!", the pony in charge press a button on his hoof-com and says "Command, The Xeno's have changed their attack plan, there coming to canterlot First, NOT ponyville" he then bangs on the side of the train "GET THESE V.I.P's OUT OF HERE!", as the train begins to speed off, the silver armoured commander says into his hoof-com "Okay, unicorn Division, Activate: Quarantine", suddenly a massive magical bubble appears across Canterlot, keeping anything from getting in or out, but a part of the bubble opens to allow the train to get out, and then closes behind it, Celestia's horn begins glowing "WHAT IS THIS, WHATA RE YOU DOING?", but instead of answering her, he turns his back to her and says "sorry lady, but I cant let these things get out, that means nota SINGLE pony is allowed to leave", he then shouts to his troops "OKAY PEOPLE, GET INTO FORMATION!", just as Celestia is about to threaten him again, she hears loud hissing noises coming from down the empty street, which is quickly replaced by screaming ponies, as the street fills with ponies of royalty or riches running and screaming, black creatures begin mercilessly attacking any pony too slow or unfortunate enough to get caught, the silver armoured commander shouts to his troops "XENOMORPH WAVE IN-BOUND", as the Xenomorphs close in on the guards pony and Celestia, the silver Armoured ponies run towards the fleeing ponies, stopping only a few feet from the panic "WATCH YOUR FIRE!" the commander shouts to his soldiers "LOOK OUT FOR CIVLIANS!", the Xenomorphs turn their attention to the ponies in silver armour begin advancing towards them, suddenly, a black stallion comes flying from Canterlot Castle and lands in front of the Silver ponies, "ITS THAT PONY WE FOUND, THE ONE LUNA TOLD ME ABOUT…'Karl' she said his name is" Celestia thinks to herself, the silver ponies begin cheering at the sight of the black stallion in green clothing, "good to see you again, sir!" the silver armoured commander says in a happy tone, Karl looks over the silver armoured troops and laughs "yea, its good to be back", Karl moves in front of the Group and Faces the oncoming Xenomorph Horde "STAND YOUR GROUND MEN!" Karl shouts to his comrades "WE EITHER HOLD THIS LINE, OR WE DIE TRYING, THERE IS NO RETREAT!", the Xenomorphs continue to run towards the silver ponies until they get within jumping distance, at which point they begin leaping into the air towards the silver line of ponies, Karl smiles "ALRIGHT 'LADIES', LETS BRING THE PAIN!" and the Xenomorphs engage the silver ponies, karl kicks the first Xenomorph backwards, sending It stumbling into its friends, but it quickly recovers, and two more Xenomorphs run past it, straight at Karl, who waits until they get close enough to hit, he then fly's towards them at the last second and hits them head on, Celestia and the her guard pony stand there, in pure confusion and shock, not sure of what to do, "uh…princess?" one of the guards says in a confused tone, suddenly a Xenomorph stabs Karl with its tail and then sends him flying towards Celestia, Karl looks back up at the battle, and notices that the Xenomorphs are taking heavy losses, but keep coming with a seemingly endless wave of black death, he quickly recovers from his wound and looks back at Celestia and says "You gonna sit here douching or move your asses?" he says pointing to the castle, he then runs back into the battle, Karl and his silver armoured Comrades continue to fight melee for a moment, before Karl kicks a Xenomorph away and shouts "FIRE!", suddenly all the silver armoured ponies Pull there weapons from their armour and begin firing their weapons at the Xenomorphs, as the battle continues to rage on, Celestia decides to assist the strange ponies in beating the strange creatures, after remembering that they attacked Defenceless ponies, as the rest of the guards ponies join in, More and more Xenomorphs come running towards them from the distance, some bigger then others, a few of the ponies in silver armour try to knock several Xenomorphs away so they can hit them from a distance, but the Xenomorphs continue to close the distance, and when they fire their weapons, the Xenomorphs explode, covering the silver armoured ponies in The Xenomorphs green Acid Blood, they roll on the ground screaming in pain "AAARGH GOD, GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF!", they continue screaming until the blood melts away their armour and skin and reaches their vital organs, at which point they stop screaming and lay dead on the street, as the battle only seems to get worse for the ponies, Karl Approaches the captain of the guards ponies and says in between gun shots "Hey *BANG BANG BOOM* I don't think that *BOOM, BANG BANG* You Princess *Bang Bang Ratatatatatat* should be here on the *Ratatatatatata bang Hiss*Front lines", the guard pony looks at him with an expression of Confusion and Anger "I DON'T TIHNK NOW IS THE BEST TIME FOR A CHAT!", Karl simply laughs and shoots two more oncoming Xenomorphs "its as good a time as any!" he replies back, as the Guard ponies continue to take Casualties, Karl walks over to Celestia who is trying to hit several Xenomorphs crawling along the walls of the buildings, "CURSE YOU, you infernal Creature's", a Xenomorph sneaks up on top of a nearby building and leaps onto Celestia, "AARGH, Get OFF me you Foul Creature!" she screams trying to shake the Xenomorph off, only seeming to fail, suddenly, she feels even more wait on her back and looks up to see the Xenomorph looking at a Karl who is sitting on Celestia's back in a taunting manner "Hey, How's it hangin'? " he says before he kicks the Xenomorph in the face, sending it flying off Celestia and onto the ground, he then jumps on it and fires his weapon into the Xenomorphs Head, he then looks back at Celestia to see her tired from using so much energy and trying to shake off the Xenomorphs "oops, my bad" Karl Laughs, suddenly a Guards pony is sent flying past Karl, Blood shooting from open wounds on his chest, legs and neck, "yea, you need to get your friends here to retreat….the-" Karl is interrupted by another guards pony, sliding to a halt on the ground in front of him "there getting slaughtered". He says coldly, before running back into the battle. Celestia doesn't get up, she instead looks around at the battle raging around her, her guards ponies are trying to protect their homes and these creatures are mercilessly killing them in cold blood, meanwhile, the Siler armoured ponies are standing their ground and fighting with the Pony Named Karl "his soldiers are better then mine, their better equipped for these creatures" she thinks to herself, looking at the strange weapons the silver armoured ponies are using, "he's doing a better job at leading a defence then I am" she thinks to herself before gaining her balance, she runs over to a group of her guards pony who are barely surviving against the never ending wave of Xenomorphs "Captain" she says over the sounds of screaming and gunfire "we need to retreat, I don't want to loose any more ponies", the captain looks at her with a shocked expression "But your majesty, what about these creatures!", Celestia gestures to Karl and his silver troops as they continue to hold their ground "I think they can handle it".
Meanwhile, back in canterlot castle, Luna is still in bed, thinking of all the horrid things she saw in Karls memories, having time to think about it, she also got a better look at Karl then any other pony, his body is pitch black, his mane and tail are grey, he wears a type of green clothing, he has bat wings (the same as Luna's guards) he has one long sharp horn, like a unicorn and two smaller horns on his head, and his eyes are a colourer-less White, yet she can still see it in his eyes, apart from his physical features, he is just as kind hearted and gentle as any pony else…..or at least he WAS, until everything he knew was destroyed by those Creatures….those Xenomorphs "hmm….he's very brave" Luna says to herself, there was something else about him though, something she just couldn't figure out. Suddenly one of her personnel guards enters the room quickly and says in a tired tone
"Your majesty, the prisoner has escaped!"
Chapter 4:I Admire its Purity
I Admire its Purity
Luna rushed to the Medical wing where Karl was being kept, when she ran in, she noticed the bed's where full, all of the, but no sign of Karl
"Pray tell, what are all these ponies doing here, what happened?" Luna asks one of the nurse ponies
"oh hello princess, uh, these ponies where brought in a while ago, something about tall, skinny black creatures that can run along ceilings and walls attacking every pony, most of these are injured guards pony, but some of them are normal citizens" the nurse says before returning to work
Luna walks over to the bed where Karl used to be and looks at the patient; he is different, one of the many citizens that were brought in
"Pray tell, do you know where the previous occupant of this bed is?, he is a stallion, black with a grey mane, has one unicorn horn and two smaller horns, his wings are like that of a dragon and he Luna is interrupted by the patient
"Yes….i know who you are talking about, I don't know who he is, but he saved my life from those creatures" he says in a weak injured tone
"So he saved sompony….that must mean he isn't THAT bad" Luna thinks to herself
When she suddenly realizes "WAIT, Black skinny creatures that can climb on walls and ceilings?, ITS THEM! the ones I saw in Karls memory!" Luna mentally screams at herself
horrified that the creatures might be back to do to Equestria what they did to Karls home and his people, Luna rushes out of the medical wing, avoiding all the incoming injured ponies, each having either identical wounds, or completely different wounds, but all from the same type of creature.
Meanwhile, back in Ponyville, the Silver armoured ponies are standing their ground, when the Xenomorphs come over the buildings and begin attacking the fleeing ponies
"Stand your ground men!" the pony in charge shouts
As the Xenomorphs reach the Silver armoured Ponies, and the Battle between the silver armoured ponies and the Xenomorphs covers ponyville. Meanwhile, back on-bored the star hammer, the last of the drop ships have docked with the ship, and its inhabitants are heading off into different sections of the ship, FilthyRich is with his daughter who seems to be scared half to death by the sudden change in environment, as Filthyrich and DiamondTiara enter the bridge, The captain of the star hammer is looking at the ships main screen, he hears the ponies enter the bridge
"Good to see you made it here safely ms. rich" the captain says without looking away from the screen
"Please, just call me Rich" filthy rich says in a humbled tone
"And what shall I call you 'captain'?" rich asks as he approaches the human commander
"Just call me 'Dwain the captain says as the two look at the screen
on the screen is the many different soldiers who are fighting the Xenomorphs, some are doing well, others are doing poorly, others are completely still with the big red words 'Deceased' covering the screen, rich hugs Diamond Tiara so that she cant see the screen
"Its okay sweetie" he says in a reassuring tone "it'll all be alright, I promise"
As he continues to look at the screen, watching the pony soldiers try to fend off the seemingly never ending Xenomorph Horde.
Rich notices something and points to a screen
"So I take that
He points to a screen showing Karl saving one of his fellow troops from a Xenomorph
"Is your 'Special' soldier 'Karl' that you told me about?" rich says in a curious tone
Dwain looks at the screen with Karl on it
"Heh, yea it is….being the hero as usual I see too" Dwain laughs
"I'll have someone take you to your rooms" Dwain says gesturing to DiamondTiara
"Yea, I'll go with her….i think I have some explaining to do" Rich says as he approaches the door that has a human soldier waiting for him.
Dwain continues to look at the screen, he then brings up one of the many smaller screens, showing a soldier's point of view of a Xenomorph, before it kills him, as the Xenomorph picks up the Injured pony, it opens its jaw and its smaller jaw shoots out, passing through the ponies skull with ease, killing it instantly, as the pony falls to the ground, the captain rewinds the scene and pauses it on the scene before the Xenomorph kills the pony, he looks carefully at the Xenomorphs face and says in a Dark Emotionless Tone
"…..what the fuck are you?"
Back in canterlot, Celestia is helping the medical ponies to tend to those of her guards ponies that survived, as the battle continues to rage on the streets, the ponies in canterlot flee to the safety of the castles interior courtyard, Celestia is trying to keep order among the crowed when Luna comes rushing out to her
"SISTER, the Pony 'Karl' has escaped…..what is every pony doing here?" Luna asks in a panicked tone
Celestia try's to smile "come on, just tell her, everything is alright" Celestia thinks to herself
"….no….I cant lie to her, especially not right now, I'm going to need every pony's help in this crisis" Celestia sighs
and says "….sister…..our subjects are under attack from the creatures you described seeing…and yes I know that 'Karl' has escaped, he's with his friends who are keeping the creatures at bay" Celestia says in a sad tone
Luna's heart sank after hearing that
"….wait…..why do I care about his safety, we only needed answers, now we have them….even though I wish we dint now"
Luna thinks to herself, but for some reason she cant explain she seems to care for Karl, but she pays it no mind "no….he is a pony….even if he is physically different, he is still a pony, and he deserves my affection just as much as any pony" Luna thinks to herself
Then she realizes something about what she thought "…..wait….AFFECTION? Surly it was just my mistake, I meant to think Attention" Celestia notices her sister is thinking
"….Luna are you alright? You seem calm….which is good…..but considering the circumstances..." she asks in a confused tone snapping Luna out of her train of thought
"….oh What?...sorry sister, I was just thinking, surly there is some kind of connection or reason that both karl AND the creatures that destroyed his home have returned after such a long time.." Luna says, trying to concentrate.
Luna decides to assist Karl and his friends in driving the creatures off "…I'm going to find him" Luna says, spreading her wings
But Celestia stops her "NO, Sister, you can't! He is doing fine…and besides it's not safe, I had trouble dealing with the creatures because there are so many" Celestia says trying to talk her sister out of putting herself in danger
But Luna ignores her, and fly's away, Celestia is about to take after her, when a guard comes running towards her
"Your majesty" he says bowing his head "Ponyville is Also under Attack by these creatures!", after hearing the guard, Celestia Takes off towards Ponyville
"NO, twilight and the other elements of Harmony are there" Celestia says to herself "wait….THATS IT" Celestia screams to herself "THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY, we can use them to drive these evil creatures out of our homes!" Celestia happily says to herself as she fly's towards Ponyville.
Meanwhile in Ponyville, The silver Ponies have managed to drive off the Xenomorphs but pay the price as most of them have been killed by the Xenomorphs, leaving only Seven Alive of the two hundred Ponies that started out. As the surviving silver armoured ponies attempt to regroup, the next pony in charge of the group opens his hoof-com and says in a depressed state
"Command…this is the escort team…..we drove off the Xeno's…but my commander is dead…..so are most of the troops…..there are only seven of us left….we need immediate Evac…..", it remains silent for a moment, then he gets a reply
"this is the captain of the Star ship…I read you, I'll send down several drop ships to retrieve you….and you body's…..I'm sorry about your team….they were good soldiers…" Dwain says before ending the transmission.
Back at canterlot, Karl and his comrades are beginning to loose the battle against the Xenomorph horde
"Man they Just KEEP COMING!"
One of the soldiers screams, Karl continues to fire his weapon into the Xenomorph horde when he notices something about the horde. There making a line, allowing something to pass through the horde
"KEEP FIGHTING MEN, WE'VE GOT TO WIN THIS!" Karl shouts to his comrades
as the Xenomorph horde continue to close in, Karl continues to fight and try to motivate his comrades, even though it seems like a hopeless battle even to him, for every single Xenomorph they kill Several more take its place, as he continues to fight, he notices he is loosing soldiers
"DAMN IT! I don't want them die because of me….but what choice do we have, we CANT let them win" Karl thinks to himself
Suddenly the Xenomorph Horde move out of the way, and Karl sees what they where protecting
"Oh shit" Karl thinks to himself
He quickly stands in front of his ally's and gets their attention
"CRUSHERS!" Karl shouts to his comrades
So they know what to expect, as the Xenomorphs move out of the way of their comrades to allow the bigger Xenomorphs a clear path to the targets.
As Luna Nears the source of the gunfire and screams, she notices something horrific
"By the Moon…..they go on as far as the eye can see!" Luna says, looking at the quick moving Wave of Black death nearing Canterlot, she then notices why the Xenomorphs haven't taken canterlot yet, a small line of Silver keeping the Xenomorphs at bay
"That must be him and his friends" Luna says to herself as she fly's closer to the raging battle, she then notices the silver armoured ponies are scattering
"Why are they scattering?, they are not retreating….so why make yourself vulnerable to overwhelming numbers?" Luna then notices the reason why
Rushing out of the sea of blackness is a group of Larger Xenomorphs, Their heads are Much larger then the other Xenomorphs, much more thicker and wider, and their body size is also considerably larger then its smaller comrades, almost like a dragon without its wings, or an adult bull that's somehow increased its natural body size.
As the silver armoured ponies Scatter, the Large Xeno's split up and chase after different Targets, the ponies being chased seem to be trying to get it to face them so their comrades are behind them, Luna fly's to a nearby building and watches the battle unfolding, the silver armoured ponies are attempting to use their weapons on the Larger enemies but it seems to have no effects, so they try to get around behind the Creatures and begin using their weapons on the creatures back, which seem to affect it somehow
"So….that's its weakness" Luna thinks to herself "Very Clever of you Karl, Use THEIR Size to YOUR advantage"
But as the ponies get behind the creatures and begin damaging them, the creatures use their sharp tails to knock there attackers away, as the battle between the lager Xenomorphs and the silver ponies continues, Luna notices something odd about the battle
"Wait…..why aren't the other smaller ones taking advantage of this opportunity?"
she looks over to see the smaller Xenomorphs are leaving the area, almost as if retreating, as the larger creatures continue to charge at the silver ponies, Luna spots Karl, with the spy from Earlier, working together to bring down one of the large Xenomorphs.
"Sir, Holy SHIT Sir!" Unit #233 shouts as Karl and Unit #233 barley avoid getting crushed beneath the crusher's massive head.
The crusher now facing both of them, charges at them when a blue beam comes from the top of a nearby building and hits the crusher in the back, killing it.
causing the crusher to land on top of Karl and barely missing Unit #233 Luna then fly's down to Unit #233 and says
"Oh its YOU again
In a surprised tone, she then notices something, she can't see Karl
"….uh….where is Karl?" Luna asks in a confused tone.
"Get. This thing. Off me" Karl says from under the dead Crusher
Luna uses her magic to lift the Dead Crusher off of Karl who gets up and brushes himself off
"Uh, thanks for that"
Karl says in a relived tone, but stops as soon as he notices who it is that assisted him
"…..ah crap" he mutters to himself
Luna approaches Karl who defensively backs away
"Oh, please, don't be afraid…considering the fact that you and your comrades are fighting these creatures…..the same ones that killed your family, that takes courage, Karl" Luna says in a Reassuring tone, then realization hits her AND Karl of what she just said out loud
"….What did you just say?" Karl says in a mixture of Horror and Anger
Luna's ears fall down onto her head her face turning to one of Sorrow
"No…..Wait…please…I can explain….." Luna says in an apologetic tone
But before Luna has time to explain, one of the silver armoured ponies comes running backwards from the corner of a building, falling over and scrambling to get back on his balance, Terrified and screaming
"AAAH….what the hell is tha- What the HELL is that" he screams, stopping to look back and then continuing to run away screaming "what the FUCK!" and disappears in the forest of Buildings.
Then a massive Xenomorph appears, though by looking at the Head, they notice it doesn't have a Normal Xenomorph head.
"…..it's…its him" Karl Says Horrified
"Hello…'Karl'"
It says, its voice sounding unlike anything they had heard before
"It's been a while, how have you been?" it says
"I've missed you Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha" it says entering a fit of hysterical laughter.
"I thought you where DEAD" Karl Screams at the creature.
Chapter 3:Calm before the storm
The Eve of War
"And that's what happened sir" unit #233 salutes after finishing his Report. "I see" the captain says in a relived tone, "Sir is there something I'm not aware of?" a confused #233 asks his happy captain. The captain laughs "well, actually, there's a lot of things you don't know soldier, but none of them have anything to do with anything on this planet, one of them however is Karl, you see, he is VERY good at escaping captivity", #233 Salutes "but sir, I can swear his condition was critical when I got a last glimpse at him", "no need to worry, he has a habit of escaping situations with death like this, its happened more then you know, also, Karl is one of the Selected Few who have been 'implanted', you know all about the 'implantation' don't you?" the captain says to Unit #233, then the captain gets another frown "…..but if he doesn't make it out….then I'll Decide what to do next" the captain says in a serious tone, but changes it to a more happy one "but, I don't think that will come to pass, lets just not let Ramirez find out about this, huh?" the captain says in a Mixed tone of authority and happiness, "Yes Sir, I wont inform him, SIR!" Unit #233 salutes before ending the transmission and leaving the building "hmm, its still night out" he thinks to himself.
Meanwhile, In a diamond Cave, there are a group of ponies mining diamonds, one of them, stops working, "something wrong Soldier?" one of the ponies asks, "uh, its nothing, I can swear I saw something move Though" the pony says to his comrades before getting back to work "Ah, its probably nothing though, might just be some kind of Cave Critter or something, nothing to stop working over" he says as he continues to mine the diamonds with his comrades.
Back at canterlot the medical ponies have been working on the pony that was captured "URGH, nothings working" one of the doctor ponies say before looking at the heart monitor *Beep Beep Beep beep* the machine begins beeping quickly and the Lines on the heart monitor are spiking up and down "no NO, WERE LOOSING HIM!" *Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep* *ZAP*, meanwhile, outside the medical wing, Luna is sitting on a bench staring at the Red Sing 'operating', Celestia walks back in "I raised the moon….oh your still here?, you need to get some rest sister", Luna is about to answer when the light Flicks off and one of the doctors walks out, Luna walks over to the doctor "Well?" she says in a mixed tone of Fear and curiosity, the doctor gives her a puzzled look "its an odd thing" he says "He died, we couldn't save him, but" he says before moving aside to allow the two princess to enter, as the group enter the medical wing Luna quickly says " 'But' what?", she says in a really frighten toned, "he survived" the doctor says before stoping in front of a door "he's in here" he says as he opens the door, the room is coloured Bright White, with a Few Beds Laying at the end of the room, all of the beds are empty expect one "go take a look at him" the doctor says before grabbing a clip bored with his magic and walking over to the sleeping pony, as Celestia and Luna approach the unconscious pony they notice something, he has a Horn AND Wings, "he's an odd type of Changling from what I can tell" the doctor says before using his magic to open the ponies mouth "though he can change his form, he doesn't have the default appearance of a Changling, he doesn't have fangs, insect wings or anything that the normal ones have, and that's not even the interesting Part", as the doctor points towards the sleeping ponies chest "his heart had completely stoped, yet, it was restarted by a jolt of electricity…from inside his body", Luna looks at the little sleeping pony before looking at the doctor "but…what….how is that possible, is it a type of magic?" Luna asks in a completely Confused tone, "well no, there is no such type of magic that can restart a Heart, and it's not magic…..there are little machines inside his body that restarted his heart" the doctor says before grabbing a needle full of blood "yet when we tried to take a blood sample, the machines avoided it, it would take a Very large and quite fast wound to cause the machines to exit his body, otherwise, they are smart enough to avoid cuts, or other Exits of the body" he says as he looks at the Pony in amazement "do you think he is somehow related to that thing in the sky?" the doctor asks as he puts away the blood sample "By the moon, I had completely forgotten about that, what with the fuss going on around here, though the spy that got away might have known, considering he was in a similar machine to the one in the Sky" Celestia says she walks for the door "though he has had a Very Rough night, I think it would be best if I had some guards keep a watch over him, after all, we don't want him running off without explaining what was so important that it almost cost him his life", as Celestia leaves, the doctor also heads for the exit, Luna waits by the bedside for a while, then a few guards arrive at the doorway "we'll take it from here your majesty, he wont be getting away anytime soon", suddenly the doctor walks past and grabs his clip bored with his magic before heading for the exit "I almost forgot my clip bored" he says in an embarrassed tone "and you cant go Interrogating him you brutes, he Needs REST, Not Chit-Chat" he says in a more serious tone before leaving, as Luna heads for the exit for the exit she remembers something, "he shouted 'Take care of my little brother for me' to the other pony….so he is protecting someone precious to him, perhaps that is what the book was for, a location or something of that nature" she thinks to herself, then she remembers something else "wait…..the spy….the spy shouted something…what was it….'Sir' …..So he is in charge…..perhaps that means he will be more civilized when he wakes up" she continues to think to herself before heading back to her room.
Meanwhile, back in ponyville Ramirez is sitting on the back of his Pony Body guard, enjoying all the sights. Looking at the street lamps providing light to the street "oooh. I like dat" Ramirez says while pointing at a cupcake sitting on a window still at sugar cube corner "Sugar cube corner….hah, what a gay name" the unicorn whispers to his pegasi partner "Heh, NO Shit" his pegasi partner laughs back as Ramirez runs into the shop, "awww, aren't you a cute thing?" ms. Cupcake says as Ramirez points to the cupcake "I like dat", just as reaches the cupcake his bodyguards walk in, "ah yea, ill pay for that, he's with us". She looks at the two "oh….are you two-" ms cupcakes is cut off by the pegasi "NO, no were not, we're just his body guards, he belongs to someone important", ms cupcakes looks at Ramirez sucking on the cupcake "ooh, like…royalty…Is he Related To one of the princess'?" she asks with a shocked confused tone "" the pony body guards begin laughing uncontrollably, the unicorn walks over to Ramirez and pats him on the head "no, he is FAR more important then the princess'", Ms cupcakes looks at him with a shocked tone, but before she can say anything Ramirez leaves the store, and his body guards follow, "what a strange group" ms cupcakes thinks to herself. Meanwhile back outside, Ramirez is running along the road, avoiding any of the other ponies that he doesn't know, when he spots something in the sky, moving to quickly for him to get a proper look at, all he is able to make out is the object is a blue blur, when it begins to slow down he notices that its actually a rainbow pegasi, it quickly fly's towards him and lands in front of him, scaring him and causing him to fall onto his back, rainbowdash laughs at the small frightened colt and says "what are you doing out and about alone little gu-" , "not a good idea, girl" a voice says interrupting her, she turns around to see a unicorn and pegasi giving her an angry look, "where did you two come from?" rainbow dash asks in a surprised angry tone "and where do you get off sneaking up on me?" she says in a more angry tone, "we're not sneaking up on anyone, we're just keeping HIM safe" the pegasi says as he points to Ramirez who is beginning to Cry, the pegasi walks right in front of her and says "now, Step aside and BACK. OFF!" he says in a tone that could make most mares back off, But rainbowdash isn't a normal Mare, so she stands her ground "….Heh! NOT a wise move, Girl" the pegasi says before spinning around and sweeping her off of her hooves with his hind legs. Rainbowdash gets onto her hooves and looks at the Pegasi stallion and says "oh its ON NO-" before she is cut off by a hoof to the stomach, then a hoof across the face, and finally a Jump-Kick, sending her flying away from the group, the crowed all stop and stare at them, as if they had just committed an Extreme crime, but in ponyville, beating up another pony that has been making you angry is about as close to a crime as you can get, the unicorn uses his magic to pick Ramirez up off the ground and place him on his back, and the pegasi looks around at the crowed "….well?" he says in an slightly happy tone, "isn't someone going to help her?" he says pointing towards Rainbowdash who is still recovering from the Quick beating she just took, some of the ponies go and help rainbowdash up, still staring at the pegasi "pfft, Armature" the pegasi says to himself before leaving with his unicorn partner and Ramirez. On a nearby rooftop, a lone Grey Pegasi has been watching the two protecting Ramirez, he then turns and fly's off into the distance with a smile on his face "the Queen will be most pleased with this information" he says to himself, before changing his form back into a Changling.
Meanwhile, back in canterlot, Luna has just finished lowering the moon, allowing her sister to raise the sun, as she heads back, she stops in her tracks as she gets a headache, she then falls to the ground unconscious.
When Luna wakes up she looks around to notice that she is a black void, she looks around and the suddenly a massive white light flashes, blinding her momentarily, when she opens her eyes she notices that she is in front of the mysterious Pony that was captured, "….its you!" she says, but he doesn't seem to hear her, as he walks forward, she expects him to do something, but instead, he passes right through her as if he where a ghost "what….how…" Luna asks herself out loud as she try's to find out what is happening, she looks behind her to see the pony walking towards another pony "well…i must congratulate you on surviving the first wave.. Son" the other pony says as he looks around at the Brown Rocky landscape, the sun setting and its light shining off the land, giving the impression that the land was instead coloured red, she then notices strange creatures lying around the two mysterious pony's, the are covered in a Green liquid, and there skin is entirely black, they have long heads, shaped like sausages, and skinny arms and legs, and a long spiny tail with a sharp tippet end, they don't appear to have eyes of any kind, or ears for that matter, only a mouth with Teeth. She then turns back to the mysterious ponies and notices there wearing a strange type of Green clothing, "but you MUST leave now, while you still can, you need to protect yourself, Karl". The taller mysterious pony says to the Changling hybrid. "But father….you wont last long on your own, they already took mother, I don't want to loose you too!" Karl says, trying to convince his father to abandon his suicide mission, "no Karl, I don't want to leave you, but If i don't activate this NOW, This planet, and the pony's that live here will DIE, we cant let that happen, these things already took out the Alicorn's, there aren't many left alive, so I need to activate this while I still can, to save the rest, now please….leave while you can I'll hold them off as long as I can", Karl wipes the tears out of his eyes and leaves for the Remains of the once peaceful city located on a cliff side "that's where Canterlot is!" Luna shouts as she recognizes the location the remains of the city are located. She looks back at the other mysterious pony, Karl's father, but he disappears in a spreading blackness, and Luna finds herself floating along side Karl as he runs towards the remains of the city, as he enters the city, he see's the body's of All kinds of different Creatures, most of them Alicorn, some of them are changling, some of them are normal pony's, the body's seem to fill the blood soaked remains of the street, apart from a few Debris covered areas, as the buildings surrounding the street are either half destroyed or on fire, he then notices that in the middle of the street, is a wounded unicorn holding onto a small colt, he rushes over to the bleeding Pony and notices he is holding a completely burned sword "Heh" the pony says to Karl "I killed the nightmare that killed us" he says as he gestures to his dead unicorn wife "but, my son will survive, he'll make it, do you think you can do me a favour and…keep him safe?" he says as he coughs up some blood "here…..take him" he says as he gives the colt to Karl "….what's his name?" Karl asks as he looks around the make sure there alone "his name….his name is…..well….. we named him Ramirez *cough*….please…..get him out of here….." the unicorn says to Karl as he begins to die " I will….i promise you, I'll keep him safe, we'll be like brothers" Karl says, trying to ease the unicorns passing, The unicorn gives Ramirez to Karl and pushes Karl away "now go" he says in a weak tone "get out of here…while you still can…." he manages to say before succumbing to his wounds and dying, "well little guy….looks like I WONT be alone After all" Karl says to Ramirez as he heads to a the old castle, Ramirez not being old enough to know how to speak, simply grabs Karl's face with his hoof and with a smile, as Karl finds what he is looking for "ah, here we are" he says as he enters the castle, Karl Heads up the still burning Bloody stairs, Making sure to keep Ramirez Safe, as he enters a room he walks over to a small pile of green cloths and takes the smallest one he can find "here you go, this is…..was….my room, here, lets put this on you" he says as he puts the green clothing on the small green unicorn "heh, almost looks like you already have some on" he laughs at the little colts Green Body, Karl hears hissing, knowing the Nightmares know he is there, he quickly grabs Ramirez and places him on his back, he then runs over to the bed and smashes open the wooden bed head, inside is a hidden button, he presses it and his bed is pushed aside, and a small pod emerges "there, this will keep us safe until everything blows over" he places Ramirez in the pod, and quickly rushes over to his bed and grabs a small red Fez, he runs back over to Ramirez and places the Fez on his head "here, almost forgot I had this, it was mine from a while ago, I just never wore it, you can have it though" Karl says as he enters the small pod with Ramirez and closes it, he then presses some of the buttons next to Ramirez and says "okay…..well….good night" just as a Blue gas fills the Pod and freezes them both, the pod lowers back into the hidden area it was kept in, and the bed slides back over, just as the Xenomorphs enter the room and begin looking for him. Luna looks at the Xenomorphs as they quickly climb the walls and the ceiling looking for their victim, Luna then hears an Ear Peircing Explosion, she looks out through the broken window and see's the rocky landscape beginning to light up with a massive white light, coming from the area where Karl's father was, as the light spreads, it erases all the buildings by ripping them apart and replacing them with tree's and bush's, just as the light reaches the room Luna and the Xenomorphs are in, everything goes black, and she wakes up in her bed, with a doctor and Celestia by her bedside, "sister…." Luna says in a sad scared tone "I think I know who that mysterious pony is".
meanwhile,
Back in the diamond mines, the ponies have finished mining for the day and are preparing to depart, when suddenly "AAAAAAAAHHH!" they hear a pony scream, the ponies all rush to the source, and find a pony on the ground, with a wound on his chest "what happened Soldier?" one of the commanding ponies asks as he examines the wound, "I don't know sir, something came out and attacked me, I dint get a good look at it, but it was BIG" the pony says as he attempts to get his balance, "SIR, I just saw something move" one of the other ponies says gesturing to the darkness surrounding them, "Get your weapons ready gentlemen, I don't think we're alone anymore" the pony in charge says, before pulling out his P-Pistol, which is almost identical to its human counterpart, expect that its designed to be used by ponies, by warping the weapon around the pony's chest and using a mouth trigger, the rest of the ponies pull out P-Pulse Rifles, which, like the P-Pistol, is identical to its human counterpart, with the exception that it is designed to be used by Ponies instead of humans by wrapping the large weapon around the ponies back, and have the cross-hair come around the ponies face so that they can aim and shoot while on the move, the group of ponies begin moving around in a group, searching for the mysterious creature that attacked their comrade, suddenly, one of the ponies devices begin beeping "SIR, we have incoming", he says as he shows his device to the pony in charge, "hoooooly-PISS-Shit" he says in a surprised tone as he looks at the small black box that is quickly filling with Red dotes, "FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS BOYS, ITS GOING TO BE A BUMPY NIGHT!" he shouts as he points his weapon into the darkness, suddenly, the creatures enter the light and the ponies get a good look at their foes "…..holy shit, XENO'S, WE GOT XENO'S!" one of the ponies shout as the creatures begin advancing towards them, "LIGHT EM UP BOY'S!" the pony in charge says as he and his troops begin firing at the Xenomorphs, "THERE EVERYWERE SARGE!" one of the ponies says in a scared tone "Don't even THINK About it marine" , as the Xenomorphs close in and begin attacking the ponies, one of them stands Frozen in fright by the Xenomorphs Lack of mercy and sheer numbers "God DAMMIT rookie, FIRE YOUR WEAPON!" the commander shouts to the frighten pony, suddenly a group of Xenomorphs tackle the scared pony to the ground and begin Biting and stabbing him with their claws and tails, the captain shoots two more oncoming Xenomorphs before he notices the Xenomorphs killing the defenceless pony "ROOKIE!" the commander shouts before the Xenomorphs Overwhelm the group of ponies.
In the distance, the gunfire and screams of the ponies being slaughtered can be heard clearly by all of ponyville and faintly by canterlot, as the sun rises, a group of guards pony arrive at the scene, only to find the area covered in blood, "by the moon!" one of the guards pony shouts "What in the Hay happened here?", as he looks around for any survivors, he spots a badly injured pony, still breathing, but bleeding severely "I FOUND A SURVIVOR", as the rest of the guards pony approach the injured pony, the commanding guard shouts out his orders "WE NEED TO GET HIM TO A HOSPITAL, AND INFORM THE PRINCESS'!", he then notices the blood going into the entrance of the diamond tunnel "and go get reinforcements, we're going to check out that tunnel!".
The injured pony manages to press a button on his hoof-com and send a message back to his commanders, the message reads 'SQUAD DOWN, SURVIVORS UNCERTAIN, SEAL OFF PONYVILLE AND EQUESTRIA, XENOMORPH INFESTATION CONFIRMED'