The Dark Crusades

On the other-side of the galaxy Fabricator General Twilight Sparkle sat in a darkened room the air around her was cold, recycled and religiously clean. This was for a reason around her stood six regeneration tanks all but two stood full in each floated a pony with highly oxygenated nutrient fluid flowing round them constantly being removed and replace as it grew dirty with the waste products from the ponies within.

Twilight sparkle stood up Using her mind impulse unit she turned on the lights. She unlike most ponies in the Adeptus Mechanicus  had very few obvious augmentations to her body, after all the princess favourite student and wielded of the element of magic and had to keep her public appearance and couldn't be seen scaring the public with her looks.

As the lights turned on each tank lit up with a special colour of it's own, the first a cyan blue light emitted from it's base, the second a shade of orange, the third a bright pink and the forth emitted a aura of pure white light, completing the circle sat the two empty chambers one belonged to twilight the other Inquisitor lady Fluttershy - Ordo Xenos her special talents with strange and exotic creatures had become very useful during the conquests of the empire of the sun. As if on que in behind Twilight walked Fluttershy her thick black leather cape flowing behind her obscuring her cutie mark of butterflies and her long flowing tail. A hood covered her head and shrouded her face in darkness but out of the darkness shone a soft pink glow.

"Fluttershy it's been too long" started Twilight only to silenced by the pony standing beside her with a wave of her hoof. This wasn't the shy pony known to the population of ponyville before the start of the dark crusade. Over the centuries Fluttershy had become more confident and up-front with her demands and orders, not even the so-called Iron Will had anything on her. But then again he had been executed within the first few weeks of the Dark Crusade for desertion.

The yellow Pegusi lowered her hood and turned to face Twilight, her bionic eye glowed softly pink in it's eye socket. A mass of pink scar tissue surrounded it highlighting the eye further. "Yes Twilight it has been too long" Fluttershy began her voice still as soft as ever. "But we had some problems with orks in the gamma quadrant but don't worry we have corrected the problem" she said the final few words ending with what sounded Like a chuckle her laughing at a private joke.

The two mares stood side by side in silence, for a while they looked from tank to tank taking in each of there friends. For today was the day when they were to be woken. It was thanks to a series of augmentations that each of the mares present were able to have lived for slightly over a millennia but not all of them were as lucky as Twilight to have retained there beauty.

In the first tank Rainbowdash floated, curled up in a ball like a unborn foal in her mothers womb. But unlike a unborn Pegusi foal upon her back there were no wings... She had lost her wings in a battle against the tau. (Two legged foul creatures who walked around in a pathetic copy of the imperial light power armour). In the place of her wings were instead two bundles of cables, each were vital for the use of a power armour mounted jet pack.

In the second tank very much in the same position as Rainbowdash floated applejack she had been slightly more fortunate than the Pegusi as she had not lost any limbs but instead she had lost her right eye to an ork which had pierced right through her helm with one of it's tusk. In that very same battle she had also lost her dear brother. Big mac primarch of the Crimson Shades chapter of the space marines. He had been beheaded by a ork behemoth. But not before Big Mac had slaughtered hundreds if not thousands of the enemy.

In the third tank floated Pinkie pie, she being her usual self was floating upside down and had a look of content on her face, occasionally the mysterious pink pony would twitch as her pinkie sense kicked in. Twilight noted down every movement when it happened. As she and the Adeptus Mechanicus had long sense decoded the pinkie sense and used it to there advantage. From the first glance you could tell pinkie had the most extensive injuries among the group, along her back were patches of skin which were bald due to an incident a decade previous when the propane tanks of her flamer had been punctured by Tyranids the resulting explosion had resulted in the loss of her two fount legs along with a large proportion of exposed fur but thanks to her enhanced healing power much of her skin had healed allowing the regrowth of much of her fur. As for her legs, two shiny bionic legs were attached in there place.

In the third tank floated Lady Rarity who had been bestowed the title after becoming the governor of a planet in the Delta sector on multiple occasions. Along with that she was also the primarch of the Dark Angles how she had managed it all was a mystery to everyone including her friends. But it had not been all smooth sailing as they watched Raritys' trade mark mane moved of her face ushered by the gentle current within the tank. Reveled underneath were a cluster of cybernetic components as Rarity had lost her facial muscle in the left side of her face when she had been hit by a high frequency pulse rifle which had partially reduced her face to jelly only the fast acting of her chapter's medics had saved the right side while the left side was left in the trust worthy hands of twilight sparkle who had amazingly restored the majority of the muscles using bionics to replace to unsalvageable ones. During that attack she had also lost her left eye which had turned to liquid in her head now from the eye socket a bionic eye emitted a soft white glow to replace the lost eye.

Twilight sighed "Fluttershy were did it all go wrong" the yellow pony looked at her and said "It's not your fault if only we hadn't been attacked this would never have happened." Both ponies shuddered remembering the faithful day when terra had first been introduced to the horrors of this never ending war.