Darkest Hours in Equestria

Steeltrix, Derpy Hooves, the Doctor, Macintosh, Twilight, and the Mane 6 quickly ran down the streets as the shrill screams continued to go on and on and as they quickly turned a corner, they all came to a bit of a startling sight.

Not because it was particularly gruesome but because of who it involved.

Flash Sentry was fighting his best against a sudden horde of Grechfillies while Prince BlueBlood in all of his Imperial Guardpony gear, was running around as what seemed like half of the Grechfillies running after him. Trixie was also firing away with her lasrifle nearby as she shouted, "Feel the wrath of Trixies lasrifle!" as her shots hit one grechfilly but then several more shot sluggas at her and she ducked down behind her squads destroyed APC as the slugga's shots ricocheted off the APC's armor.

Steeltrix nearly swore as he fired his lasgun with Derpy, Dr. Whooves, and Twilight and her squad joined in as the grechfillies suddenly were slaughtered where they were and as BlueBlood sighed in relief, he came face-to-face with a very mad Steeltrix.

"WHAT THE HECKC WERE YOU DOING! Running around like your tail was on fire instead of helping your friends is a detriment of the Imperial Guardponies and if it wasn't the fact you were related to Celestia herself that I would end you here and now!" Steeltrix fumed before he walked towards Flash Sentry and asked, "What exactly happened?"

"We got jumped by Zzap guns and the Chimera bought it. You came in the nick of time to help us, Steeltrix." Flash said as he looked around.

Twilight approached Flash Sentry and said, "Hello Flash." as the orange pony looked over at her.

"Twilight?" He asked in disbelief.

"Yep, it's me... I'm an Ultrapony now." She said and as Flash looked her up and down, he smiled as he said, "Your brother would be proud."

Steeltrix looked inside the APC as he found that everyone else of Flash's squad was now dead and as his muzzle crinkled at the smell of burnt flesh, he turned away as he asked Flash, "Well... since my squad has been decimated, may I ask to join our two squad together?"

Flash thought for only a moment. "Yes. We could use Big Mac's rocket launcher anyway."

As Twilight looked around, hearing the sounds of gunfire and lasfire all over the place and as she looked over to where the Grechfillies Zzap guns were, she let her eyes wander past them as she tried to see beyond that.

"I say that from where we stand, we can go and attack what appears to be a Ork Ponyz fortified position. I believe it would be wise if our squads move in to destroy it together." She said as she hefted her bolter and began to move down the alleyway.

Flash lead his newly formed squad and as the two squads moved down through the alleyway, they heard the shots from slugga's. shoota's, and Bug shoota's of Ponyz and as they stopped at the very edge of the alleyway, Twilight looked at the crudely fortified post with a critical eye. It was merely a barricade of scrap, jagged metal that went form one side of the street to the other and all along it were Ponyz, Nobz, and Grechfillies and as Steeltrix poked his head out to see what was around, he saw several dead Guarponies in the area between the barricade and what looked like some destroyed Chimera's.

"We should maybe go get help from some other squads... that looks like an awful lot of these Orkish Ponyz...." BlueBlood said as he took a step back and as Steeltrix rounded on him, Steeltrix grinned as he said, "Watch us."

Steeltrix tossed a hoof full of frag grenades and as the frag grenades erupted into greasy smoke and as it hurled body limbs, chunks of meat, and a lot of blood, Steeltrix charged in with a bayonet regardless of his still injured foreleg and Flash and the other's of the squad followed the brave pony in as Twilight shouted and charged in as well and the Ork Ponyz, Nobz, and Grechfillies looked at the sudden attack as they were thrown into complete disarray and across the way fellow Gaurdponies charged as they saw this opportunity as a way to break the Ork Ponyz position in a fell swoop.

Almost instantly the Ork Ponyz, Nobz, and Grechfillies fled the scene and las shots and bolts from Twilight's squad struck them down as the Orkish ponies ran for their lives but they never made it as they were scythed down in seconds and as the gardponies advanced past Flash's squad and Twlight's, she watched as a Commissar pony followed the Guardponies, shouting somewhat encouraging obscenities.

"Twilight!" the sound of Captain Haikunes voice made Twilight jump and as she answered, "Yes sir?" it would seem things had gone from bad to worse all of a sudden.

"We need your squad to advance due East and flank the Ork Ponyz that have us pinned down! And we need it now!" Haikune said over the sounds of shouting, bolter fire, and explosions.

Twilight answered, "Yes, Brother-Captain." automatically and as she ceased the communication line, she headed in the direction the captain had told them to go, knowing her squad would follow her.

But she didn't expect Flash and his new squad to follow them and as they ran past destroyed and ruined buildings, she could hear the grunting and small groans from Steeltrix as he ran with his injured leg. They came to another street and before she could stop herself, Steeltrix jumped in front of her and fired a stream of lasbolts down the far end and she poked out as she fired a stream of bolts at the Ork Ponyz attempting to create another barricade. When Shoota's and Slugga's began to fire at them, Steeltrix ducked back in time to allow Flash to appear and as the two squads helped trade fire against the Ponyz, Twilight reloaded her bolter as the spent magazine hit the ground with a metallic *clack* and as she slammed another one into her bolter, she popped out again to fire another burst at the Ponyz. Her aim for the most part was flawless as the shots blasted a chunk from the flesh of a Nobz in a gout of blood the splattered it's friends behind it.

Suddenly Big mac lumbered up and sent a rocket towards the Ponyz and she watched as the Ponyz scattered all around but the missile smashed into the greenskins as it sent a huge explosion of blood into the air along with bodies and limbs.

"Good job, Macintosh!" Said Applejack from behind her brother.

"Eh Yup!" Big Mac said only as Twilight lead the two squads onto track and they continued to run towards their original objective.

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Captain Haikune was pinned with a Tactical and a Devastator squad behind an orkish barricade and as Shoota's, Big Shoota's, Slugga's, rocket launcha's, and other weapons were fired all around them, Twilight wondered what she could do to draw the greenskins away from the area. As they stood there for only a moment, she spied a nearby building to where they were and she saw that some of the windows might have a perfect line-of-sight for a flanking shot at the greenskins. The only problem would be a short stretch of open ground between them and the apartment.

But without further hesitation, she lead both squads from where they were across the short stretch and as they ran, she felt a few shots snap pass them but it was impossible to look and tell if the Ork Ponyz had seen them or if those were just stray shots. They came to the ruined entrance and as Steeltrix rushed in with Flash and as the rest of the two squads began to file into the building and as Twilight ran over to some windows, she saw they were in an almost perfect condition to fire into the flanks of the greenskins. And just as she set up to fire at a few Nobz, suddenly a launcha swung towards their direction and as a rocket lanced at the apartment, it blew a hole in the wall and sent debris pattering off Twilights armor as she fired her bolter while everyone else found an opening and fired their weapons into the unprotected flanks of the Orkish Ponyz. Blood splattered the pavement and Captain Haikune saw this as an opportunity and he roared as he jumped up and fired a stream of bolters at the Poyz and Nobz as the other squads by his side fired with him. Blood splattered the streets as the Ponyz were slowly being cut down but as a few shots from a Shoota hit the wall next to Twilight, she could see from here that Captain Haikune was losing warriors as well, their bright blood painting the pavement where they fell. But as she aimed her bolter, she watched as another launcha-armed Pony popped up and she fired a shot as the bolter shell arced away and punched into the chest of the Pony, hurling it back against a wall as it's blood splattered the ground and the wall it hit.

That's when she heard a grunt and turned to see Steeltrix stumble back as she saw his helmet crumpled to one side and he fell backwards as Flash shouted, "Steeltrix is down! Give me covering fire!"

Everyone fired their weapons as best as they could as Flash ran over and grabbed Steeltrix by his flak jacket and he slowly dragged him away from the hole in the wall as Fluttershy ran over and began to help him along. As soon as Steeltrix was out of the line of fire, Flash ran back and took Steeltrix's place as Fluttershy began to administer first-aid to the pony. She saw from some of the readout in her helmet that he was concussed but as she looked at his leg, she saw it had already become infected and she administered an anti-biotic as she ripped off the bandages and replaced them with some clean, new ones. She felt a bullet nap over her helmet and she ducked down as she tried to cover Steeltrix with her body and as she looked around, she watched as all of her friends were fighting.

She wished she could be strong enough to fight back but as she watched her friends try their best to fight back, she knew she didn't have the courage nor the heart to fight back against anypony. And so she was forever stuck helping those who could fight for her, even if that meant taping their limbs back to their body and sending them out to die all over again.

Flash ducked back as orkish bullets hammered the flimsy wall he was behind and as he popped back out, he fired a few more shots at the Ponyz and Nobz spread around and he watched as some of his shots connected and watched as only two Ponyz were downed by his shots and as he looked down at his las charge, he had barely any left so he reloaded as he made sure the setting was still at "full" as he fired more shots at the Ponyz and Nobz. Behind him, he could hear the rest of the squad blasting away at the Pony and Nobz and as he watched them, he hoped that Steeltrix was going to be okay.

He was honestly the only pony that could save them all in this war.

Suddenly, a mob of Pony came roaring and shooting at the two squads positions and as everyone fired everything they had, Applejack came forward and spewed a gout of promethium into the horde of Ponyz and as the fuel coated the Ponyz, the combined mass of bolter shells and lasbolts struck down the Ponyz before they reached the house.

And then there was the Orkish Killa Kan as it came stomping through the area as its large claw snapped the air and its other arm had a large arm with a Big Shoota mounted and as the creation slowly walked onto the field, Captain Haikune looked to see the only Ultrapony with a rocket launcher dead on the ground and he cursed as the Nobz and Ponyz began to pin him down along with the other Ultraponies with him. The Killa Kan fired a stream of Bug Shoota bullets at the apartment Twilight was in and the two squads quickly ran for cover as the huge Killa Kan towered over the opening as a few Ponyz came charging in with slugga's, cleava's, and shoota's as the squads engaged the mob in grisly melee combat.

Fluttershy covered the immobile body of Steeltrix with her own as Applejack and Rainbow Dash fought off a few greenskins trying to attack her and as Twilight crushed the skull of a Pony beneath he stock of her bolter, she fired a few bolts into another as she then fired a blast of warp lightning at the Killa Kan. The lightning stitched itself across the metal of the Killa Kan but it didn't do much to the shock of Twilight and she bolted for cover as the Big Shoota began to try and nail her with a flurry of high-caliber bullets.

Big Mac fired his rocket launcher at the Killa Kan and the rocket blasted off the Big Shoota arm straight off and as the metal arm hit the road with a huge klang!, the Killa Kan looked at the pony as Big Mac tried to quickly reload the launcher. But as he managed to put another rocket into the weapon, the huge claw of the Killa Kan came snapping at him and he rolled away as the claw snapped an Ork pony in half, splurting the wall with red blood as the Killa Kan tried again.

Applejack used her flamer to club down a Pony and as she kicked another one down before smashing its head in and as she watched Rainbow Dash thrust her chainsword into the midriff of another, she wondered when Steeltrix was going to get up again when she saw the metal arm tried to snatch her big brother and she was about to shout a warning when something outside exploded and she watched the metal claw hit the floor as she looked through a cracked window to see Captain Haikune with the smoking rocket launcher as he put it down and continued to fight the enemy Nobz and Ponyz still outside.

With the Killa Kan downed by the Ultraponies and Guardponies, the Ponyz and Nobz slowly receded from the fighting as they soon left the area completely, leaving the dead and wounded behind.

As Twilight and her friends slowly leaned out of the apartment they sheltered in, The remains of Captains Haikunes squad came forth as Fluttershy had Steeltrix on her back and as the two squads met up, Haikune was listening to something on his radio and Twilight noticed that his entire posture went from normal alertness to sudden surprise and he said into the radio, "What do you mean they took her? I thought the portal was within our territory!"

Twilight looked at the stallion as she asked, "Captain, is something wrong?"

"Yes! The Chaos ponies just took someone from right under our noses in Ponyville..." Captain Haikune said as he then asked his radio, "Where did those ponies head?"

"Captain, they headed for the Badlands." came the reply.

"What's the status about our position to the north?" asked Captain Haikune.

"The Dark Eldarponies and Eldarponies still are fighting there and what forces we have there have been unable to break the siege." came the reply.

"And Appleloosa?"

"I'm afraid its become a Necropolis... We haven't been able to send anypony there to stop the Necroponies."

Captain Haikune cursed as he said, "How many forces can we spare from this assault to assault the Necropolis or the Chaos base in the badlands?"

"I have only twelve Ultrapony squads available and only maybe 50 Guardpony squads available." Came the reply as Captain Haikune contemplated this.

"And any armor?"

"Captain, we have a few Rhino's and one or two Predator tanks left. We have with the Guardponies a few Sentinels, some Chimera's, and a few Leman Russ tanks." said the voice.

Captain Haikune was thinking of the next best action when Twilight asked him, "What are your orders sir?"

He looked back at Twilight as he finally made up his mind.

"All available units, we move to destroy the necropolis at Appleloosa." He said sternly into the communication channel.