Chapter 1 : Not what they expected
“Is the portal ready Commander?” Celestia stood tall along with her sister.
“Yes, you may enter whenever you so desire, your highness.” The Commander stepped aside and took a position of attention, behind him: rows of stallions geared in armor were ready for anything.
“Remember Commander, whatever world we are entering, we don’t want to enter and provoke anypony as if we are invading. This is the first time we have ever done this so we must pay very close attention to what we may pose or not.”
“If I hear any screaming from you or the expedition team my stallions and I are charging in.”
“Commander.” Celestia raised her brow.
“My men and I are fully aware of the punishments but I will not stand by and let any pony get hurt just because you ‘seemed’ like a threat.” The Commander said devotedly. Celestia merely chuckled and responded with,
“As stubborn as always Commander, I appreciate the concern but do you doubt the power of your leaders?”
“No ma’am I do not.”
“Then we can handle ourselves if a situation does happen, understood?”
“Yes ma’am!”
“Do your stallions understand?” The room then filled with a loud “YES MA’AM!”
“Good. Let us make haste to our departure then.” She turned and began walking towards the portal. Luna walked beside her,
“I can’t wait to see what may be on the other side, I really hope there is intelligent life!” Luna said delighted.
“I hope we will be able to communicate with whatever it may be.” Celestia thought out loud
“Well, we won’t find out until we enter the portal!” Luna could hardly contain her excitement as she frantically flipped through a empty book, preparing her notes. The expedition team was just a small team of researchers adding up to 6 in total, including the princesses. The portal displayed a wavy, greenish magmatic like blanket. They entered, vanishing into thin air. The Commander nervously stood at attention.
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They stood on what seemed like a building that hasn’t been attended to for a long time. Immediately the researchers began taking many notes, Luna herself furiously wrote information as a small stream of smoke gently rose from her notebook. Celestia viewed the world, it saddened her to see it demolished, destroyed, decaying, sucking any pit of life it may find. She saw many curious looking objects, a rusty steel box with what seemed like wheels on the bottom. Tall, large buildings that grew strange looking vines that sprouted everywhere. Then a sound broke all of their focus.
The sound of something sprinting, and fast. They look down from the building to see a biped creature running as fast as a jog from a pony. He wore tattered clothing, underneath him he wore black leggings of some sort with many pockets; broken down tanish hoof wear were also seen. From above he wore a plain white shirting, covered in what seemed like muck, blood and some other dirty fluids. It carried a small metal like L shaped object, his backpack tightened on strong while his tattered on mask covered his face while a bit of it breezed in the wind. They stood admiring the creature, just as Luna was going to speak, a high pitch screech was heard from the opposite direction of the creature.
“Cloak.” Luna’s horn lit and the ponies then soon vanished from plain site. They watched as three other biped creatures that seemed more of a different gender, fly down the same road the creature ran. Black wings spore from their backs, fluffy like ears stuck out, and a devilish tail came from their behind. They were quickly catching up to the other creature, the ponies watched with suspense.
It turned and aimed its L shape metal and a loud explosion sound was heard. similar to a cannon in Equestria but not as loud. A total of seven shots were heard, they saw two of the flying creatures go down, lifelessly. When they crashed into the ground, blood spilled from multiple wounds. The small cannon the creature hold seem broken, the top part was cocked back as if it was out. Before the creature pounced on him, he swiftly took out a short knife only to be tackled, letting go of the small blade. The two began struggling to pin the other down.
"Your majesty what should we do?" A researcher came up to Luna.
"Should we help?"
"Who should we help!?"
"I think we shouldn't mess with either of them, what if they are different species? Whoever we saved might anger the other!"
A small dispute broke out between the researchers. Luna looked to Celestia.
"I think we should help the male." Luna said, looking back down at the creature who struggled to grab the knife but the female slammed her hand down on his. They continued to strangle each other.
"Hmm..." Celestia thought.
"We may make an enemy by helping him, but from what we saw he looked like he was being chased, and tried to defend himself." Luna said as she stared at the two. Celestia was still in thought.
"if that doesn't help you then just look at how they look, the females th-, they look evil. Celestia I need an answer." Celestia relaxed her head, and looked at Luna.
"Very wel-" They both heard a loud grunt and saw the female biting down at his shoulder. She held strong, the males face was beaten, bruised, bleeding. He slowly rose his arm and began pounding her head. She didn't let go and he began to slowly lose the will to fight. He rose his arm again to strike again when suddenly, she ripped flesh out of his shoulder, her head flew up with a smile on her face, the male screamed in agony. That when she pinned both his arms, he struggled to get free but she slowly moved towards his neck,
He flinched and tried to move his neck away from her but he knew it proved useless.
A group of stallions, along with the commander jumped through the portal.
"What is going on?" He said with his spear ready.
"Cloak." Celestia's horn glowed and the stallions disappeared from plain sight.
"Now Commander, ready your arrow."
"Yes ma'am, where shall my bow be pointed?"
"Look down here Commander, you see the vampire like creature? Aim for the head."
The Commander looked down and saw the creature that screamed. The vampire was sucking on his throat seductively and the face of the creature was submissive. She released him and the male yelped, the vampire stuck out her long, silvery tongue and licked up his neck slowly, grabbing blood that oozed out slowly from his bite. The Commander aimed his arrow with his magic. The vampire slowly began moving her hand down the males private zone. He had no strength to resist, he merely looked away from her field of vision, hiding his discomfort. He then suddenly felt the pressure of the vampire fly off of him, he looked to where the pressure flew away to see an arrow in her head. He tried to smile but the blood the drew out of his wounds made his face sadden. He raised his arm towards his wound on his shoulder, and tightly pressed on it, making him grunt loudly. He began getting up while trying to keep his agonizing voice down. He stood, slowly walked and reached in his one of his pockets to take out a small vile, he slowly unscrew it on till he passed out and hit the ground with a loud thud.
"What do we do your majesty?" The Commander holstered his bow.
"Go back and bring the medics, we leave after we recover him."
