My Little Madness: Has Nothing To Do With Spartans

Sanford ventured further and further into the forest, still searching for Hank.  He was desperately thirsty, and was out of ammo for his weapon.  He heard a rustling in the brush overhead.  There was a large slash in a cluster of vines ahead, and it was too straight for it to be natural.  He dashed towards it as a large lion-like creature with wings and a scorpion's stinger dropped from the trees.  It roared, and charged at him.  Sanford flung his grappling hook at it, hooking the creature's ear.  Sanford pulled and jumped onto the creature's back.  He dug the hook into the base of one of its wings, and tugged.

The wing dislocated from the creature's back, bleeding profusely, and toppled to the ground.  He took the hook, and dug it in further.  The creature howled in pain, and stabbed at Sanford with its tail.  Sanford rolled off as it jabbed its poison barb directly into its own back.  Contrary to popular belief, being impaled three times in the same spot does not give you superpowers.  Instead, the creature toppled onto the floor, blood and poison spilling from its wound, as it softly moaned in pain.

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Fluttershy came running at the sound of the howling.  An animal must be in extreme pain to produce a sound like that.  She eventually stumbled upon the massive corpse of a Manitcore, which lay in a pool of sticky, warm blood.  It was still warm.  That meant that whatever had done this to it couldn't be far away.  She noticed a rustling in some nearby brush, and slowly approached it.

"Hello?"  She said.

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Sanford kept running, he was hot on Hank's trail.  He had just passed a massive three headed creature completely decimated floating on the surface of another clearing.  He ignored it, and kept sprinting deeper into the forest.  Then he heard something.  It sounded like someone had said 'Hello.'  It must've been another talking horse. Sanford kept running, and reached another clearing.  He looked up, and noticed the sky was a vibrant pink color.  He watched as it began to rain.  It splashed down.  It seemed to be... chocolate milk?  Well, it did.  Until it began to sizzle against his bandana and the ground.  It was acid.  Sanford ran back to the cover of the trees as the exposed ground began smoking and and dying.

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Fluttershy knew what the pink clouds meant.  But what came from them was not what she expected.  She watched in horror as a trio of ducklings waddled out into the chocolate milk-rain, only for them to quack in horror as wafts of smoke curled from them as their feathers melted away, followed by their bare flesh, leaving cute little goreless skeletons.  Fluttershy abandoned her pursuit of the figure to check on her animals, some of which were outside still.

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10 Minutes Before the Battle of Sweet Apple Acres

Princess Celestia appeared in the Ponyville library in a flash of gold, causing Twilight Sparkle to drop her payload of books in surprise.

"Princess?!  What are you doing here?"  Twilight asked.

"There is not much time.  Discord has returned.  Again."  Celestia said.

"I'll go get the rest of the Elements!"  Twilight said.

"Wait- before you go, be aware that disaster has struck, other than Discord's Second Return.  An army of bipedal creatures has invaded through some kind of portal in Canterlot.  It fell days ago."  Celestia said.

"Canterlot!?  But... that's the most heavily fortified city in Equestria!  And... my brother.  He was still there..."  Twilight responded.

"I don't know what's happened to your brother, Twilight, but he is surely alright.  He is one of the best soldiers in Equestria."  Celestia comforted.  "But I will be staying here for now.  I will assist in the defense of Ponyville, as there is an army already approaching."

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Shining Armor and the rest of the surviving Royal Guard members were hiding in the Canterlot Sewers, constantly evading and ambushing the enemy.  There were only seven of them, counting Shining Armor.  His men had been decimated when some kind of strange gas was released inside their barracks during the night.  They were still suffering from the side effects.  The last time a Royal Guard had actually killed something before they invaded was the first Nightmare Moon incident.

His normally pristine armor was splattered with gore and dirt, and he had a splatter of blood on his face from impaling one of the enemy with his horn.  None of their magic worked, like there was some kind of greater presence preventing it around Canterlot.  And all day and night, constant hissing of pistons and machinery came from the surface.  He had no idea what was going on, except for that they had to escape Canterlot.  Then, a loud rumbling came from above.  Dust on the ceiling was shaken loose, chunks of rubble falling.

A large crack began to appear, and a large chunk of the cobblestone surface crumbled into the sewer, a pair of AAHW soldiers on it.  Shining Armor and his men, were surrounding them, all hiding in the shadows.  They hadn't seen this kind of soldier before.  They AAWHs turned on a pair of flashlights and searched around.  The lights danced around and eventually landed on one of Shining's men.  The Guard's horn flared and released a fireball at the enemies, illuminating the sewer and revealing all of them.  They each began to fire off combat spells at the soldiers, who had taken cover behind some of the rubble and were taking potshots.

One of the Guards yelled in pain and toppled into the rushing water below as one of the AAHWs charged from cover holding a belt of grenades.  It twirled them and then flung them at a concentration of three Guards.  One of the guards jumped on the belt, getting a stomach-full of shrapnel and dying.  Shining Armor charged up a incendiary spell and hit the exposed soldier with it, sending him flailing into the path of one of the other Guard's spell, and he exploded into a mess of burnt chunks of gore.

The other soldier pulled out an oversized shotgun leaped from cover, and emptied the clip in the general direction of Shining Armor.  The AAWH was hit by multiple spells, bloated, and burst, spreading entrails around like sick party decorations.

"Captain!  You're hit!"  One of the survivors said.

"Oh, shit."  Shining Armor said as he looked down at his armor, and saw a large shredded section on his front left shoulder, blood spilling from it.  The adrenaline from the fight wore off, and Shining felt the full force of the pain.  He could no longer stand, and toppled over, a pool of blood forming around him.

Chapter Body Count: 8