Displaced harmony: Tale of an Equestrian Badass

Chapters

Welcome to Paradise
Wake Up Call
It Had to be Bandits
The Gangs All Here...Mostly
Changes
Insanity Inbound
The Oath
It's All In My Head
Threshers! Hydras! Explorers! Oh my!
Headcase
Brood Lord Asphyxious
Making the World a Better Place
A Nightmare by Any Other Name....

Welcome to Paradise

'Ugh, why does my head hurt?' Allen, thought, staggering to her feet. He rested against a tree barely able to stand on his own as he held his head.

"What the hell?! Why am I a girl?!" He er... she screamed as she looked herself over.

Last thing Allen remembered was buying an ECHO communicator from some shady merchant at the convention and now he was stumbling about in a forest with his manly bits missing. He groaned as his yelling brought about more pain as he held his head. 'Well ain't this some shiz.'

The man turned woman slid to the ground and waited for the pain to die out before he tried to think out his next move. 'Ok, I'm in some kind of forest as Gaige, powers and all if this big blue menu is anything to go bye, and I have no idea where I am. Great, just what I needed in my life.'

She groaned as she stood grabbing a shotgun that was laying where she had been when she arrived here and looked around trying to decide what to do. A sudden yell decided for her as what looked like a bearded pony ran out of of bush halting in its tracks when it caught sight of her.

"Um... Hi?" Allen said nervously. She never was one for conversation.

The bearded pony garbed in a wizard hat and cape stared at her with great intrigue as it watched her before a yell jolted him back to the present.

“HE WENT THIS WAY! COME ON, WE CAN’T LET’EM ESCAPE!”

“Oh no!” the pony spoke before frantically looking this way and that. He darted off into a seemingly random direction, stopping before he got more than a few feet from the nearest bush to look at the human. “Quickly, we must escape these blasted gryphons before they find us!”

‘Us? I have no part in all this! This ain't even my fight damn it!’ she thought as she ran after him. Allen could barely keep up with the pony as they made their way. Well, keeping up was a strong word, more like going fast enough that he didn’t completely outrun her but he was still slowly getting further and further ahead. She managed to quicken her step as she heard more shouting from their pursuers, this time sounding much closer. ‘Ugh, knew I should have never stopped running track.’

“Gocha now pony!” yelled a gryphon form over head as it tried to swoop down on him. Allen took one moment to hesitate before pure instinct and fear took over. In the span of half a second, Allen took a chance and blew the gryphon out of the sky with one shot. The gryphon’s limp, headless body fell to ground tumbling, missing a large portion of the top of its chest as well as its head in a bloody spray in the wind.

“You bastard! I’ll kill-”Looking up, Allen barely had a enough time to shoot down a second gryphon that had turned its attention to her after seeing his comrade get iced. ‘Alright, two down, probably like 10 more to-Oh fuck!’ Not paying full attention to where she was going Allen tripped on a large root and went tumbling right into a tree. She groaned in pure pain as she shakily stood before two more gryphons landed in front of her, both looking totally pissed off and glaring at her in pure rage.

One gryphon, a female by the looks of it, stepped forward drawing her sword. She tightened her grip and the obsidian blade burst into green flames as she eyed the human before her.

“I don’t know who you are nor what you are, but those were some of my best men, my best friends...” her expression softened as a single tear fell down her feathered face before her gaze suddenly turned even more fierce than before, “ and you just killed them like it was the most simple thing in the world!”

Allen shivered, the rage the gryphon felt was so strong even a human could sense it. if looks could kill, Allen was sure she’d be dead a thousand times over.

‘Awe fuck nuggets, what the hell did I get myself into this time?!’

“Jus tell me one thing before you die...,” the gryphon said snapping Allen out of his thoughts, “Why?”

Her question, rather than being filled with rage and promise of death, was saturated in sadness... with a hint of a promise of death to anyone who watched enough drama T.V. shows like Dare Devil to catch it.

Len was honestly caught off guard by the question, but didn’t make the mistake of taking to long to answer. “Well, in all honesty, I just got transported into the everfree forest from another world, First guy I meet urged me to run because your guys would probably kill me if I didn’t go with him, saw them try to end him and the rest from there was more like just fear and instinct driven.”

She looked more thoughtful than angry like Allen had been expecting, but still held a glare. before she could speak Allen decided to ask a question of her own while she still had a chance. “So, why re you guys after that pony in the first place?”

The gryphon looked at her like she was crazy before remembering what she had said. “You really are from another world if you don’t know who Starswirl the bearded is. Long story short, the gryphon kingdom of Gryphonia wants to conquer Equestria. him being a pony and close to the pony Princesses, capturing him could help us to make a big impact in the war. If anything we’d be taking out a very powerful piece in this game.”

Allen nodded seeing the reasoning behind it all to be pretty sound, ya know, except for the whole “Conquer Equestria because we can” part. Allen looked around not really sure she would get far at all if she tried to run now, so, she resigned herself to her fate, not that she would go down without at least trying to go down fighting. With a heavy sigh she looked back to the gryphon, gun in hand, and steeled herself for whatever came next.

“For what it’s worth, I’m sorry about killing your friends. I’m sure they were great people. Don’t know which of us is gonna come out of this alive, but you seem like a pretty great person as well. Guess it’ll be an honor to either be killed by you, assuming I don’t end up putting you down first.”

“Still going to fight for the damn ponies?” she questioned taking a fighting stance. her wings flared out like a bird trying to make itself seem more intimidating.

“Let’s be honest, you’re not about to just let me go and leave me alone, not after all this, so what choice do I have.” Allen asked with a raised brow.

“If you walk away now, I may consider not ripping you to shreds.”

“Considering that you’re the big bad guys moving in and beating down the little guys, yeah, no, I kind of need to be able to live with myself and look at myself in the mirror when I wake up the next day. looks like I’m gonna have to play the hero today.”

The gryphon sighed, obviously now hoping to avoid killing the human. The two began to circle each other slowly, the other gryphons giving them space knowing full well what would happen if they interfered. “Shame, I had honestly hoped you would have taken me up on ym rare show of mercy. You have my respect brave warrior.”

“Actually, I've never really fought before today. Good Start though, right?”

“Yeah, not bad, just don’t lose. don’t die here. I need you to go off and become an amazing warrior now so that we can at least rest easy knowing we were taken out by someone who was truly a natural born war machine.”

‘Honor and pride, gotta respect that.’ She sighed before the gryphon suddenly lunged forward. Allen tried to get a shot off but her the gryphon was not only more prepared than the first two, she was faster, much faster. Allen barely managed to duck under a blade swipe before she bashed the gryphon in the gut with but of her gun and knock her away.

“Names, Gilda by the way. Gilda Stormheart.” Gilda quickly recovered and moved out of the way expecting another blast from her opponents strange weapon.

Allen paled as he pulled the trigger only to see it needed to be reloaded. With this fact being made clear she had to roll out of the way of yet another strike from the flaming sword before quickly reloading. Gilda never let up the whole time she was reloading and it was sheer luck that she managed it with nothing less than a few direct hits on her metal arm.

“Len, call me, Len! Len Heartworthy!” Len fired off another shot at the gryphon, and unfortunate new recruit to Gilda’s squad being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In flurry of feathers and blood, the others got the message and decided watching from behind the trees would hopefully prove far more safe. “Sorry!”

Gilda grinned as she charged again, this time managing to actually cut her non metal arm messing up her opponent and causing Len to drop her gun. No way Gilda was about to let her get it back either. Len barely managed to pull off a trick and get behind the fierce war bird, dropping to a roll and coming up ready to fight. As strange as it was, she was actually loving every second of it, even the pain only made the fight that much more enjoyable.

Len waited, a plan in mind for the gryphon that would hopefully get her off the defensive. Things weren't exactly looking good for her at the moment and everyone watching, including Starswirl, knew the fight was almost over, pretty quickly to. Gilda prepared to finish this, dashing forward knowing this would be the deciding blow. She was right, in a way, just not the way she expected.

Len grinned as Gilda got in range, ready to pull off her plan, assuming she was fast enough. Mid swing, len shot forward with a solid punch to the gryphon’s face strong enough to send the gryphon flying a good 6 feet. ‘Man this arm totally rocks!’

Gilda stood uneasily as she got up disoriented from the attack. Len made a quick call, grabbing the sword and rushing forward while her opponent was left wide open. Gilda tried to sober up and get out of the way, but she snapped back into focus just a second too late dodge the attack, a searing pain shooting through her chest and out her back. Looking down slowly with wide eyes, she could see her own flaming sword plunged into her chest. She coughed up blood before the world around her started to spin. She managed to focus her vision just barely enough to make out a slightly saddened and remorseful Len standing above her. ‘So, this is how it ends hugh, well, at least I went out fighting.’

The world slowly faded to black and she happily drifted off into a deep sleep, one she would never awake from. She was actually happy to die, at least she was dying honorably and not attacking dying at the hands of a pony, a race that her people were wronging simply because of the will of some greedy bastard of a king. “Thank you... Len.”

Wake Up Call

Gilda groaned, blinking away the darkness as she tried to sit up, a sudden jet of fresh pain made sure she didn't try that again. “Argh! Damn, what the hell?!” She clutched at her chest with deep ragged breaths before her breathing slowly calmed back down to a more manageable since. Looking around, she could make out a hospital room, as well as she the sun slowly setting through a window.

Gilda sighed, she always did loved to watch the sun set. it was always so beautiful. ‘Wait a sec!’ her eyes shot open going wide as she frantically looked around before settling on her chest to notice a recently closed up wound on her chest. ‘I’m... alive?’ She immediately went from shock to suspicion as she kept a wary eye out.

A thought soon crossed her mind as she awaited somepony, anypony to come waltzing in through the door. She had been happy to die, thankful even. She never liked this war, and never would, it was wrong and went against everything she ever believed in. She had honestly lost all pride with the great gryphon kingdom. A second thought crossed her mind, one she would normally rather die than even entertain for more than second, yet this time she actually gave it a bit of thought. Join the ponies, or help out in some kind of way. More than likely The gryphons thought her dead and she honestly wished they were right.

Before she could continue her current thought process the door swung open revealing a familiar yawning human. Len’s tired gaze lit up like fireworks when she saw the gryphon awake and she rushed over setting down her breakfast before gentle hugging the war bird.

“Welcome back to the land of the living Gilda! Gave us quite the scare there.” Her smile and proximity brought a blush to the gryphon’s face, thankfully she managed to keep it hidden for the most part.

“Y-yeah, I’m back, but why am I still alive? I thought you ran me through, right through my heart?” She asked in slight frustration, angry that she couldn’t sit up without pain.

Len looked over to her breakfast and smiled when she notice a hungry gryphon staring at it now. “Hungry G? Here, special ordered and cooked by yours truly, bacon.” Gilda’s mouth watered at the smell of the delicious looking strip of meat. Her stomach growled fiercely seeming to echo her thoughts. She greedily scarfed down the piece of bacon in seconds. Some would even say that her tiny heart grew three sizes that day.

Len giggled, before catching herself and groaning. “I take it the kitty likes the bacon?” Gilda nodded fiercely, or at least tried to before a sharp struck her chest forcing her to calm it down a bit. Gilda only blushed harder than before when Len started absently stroking her chest. Despite the pain she couldn’t help but poke and fluff her chest out a bit, a strange feeling coming over her, that is until a thought shot through her mind.

“Um, hey, Len, what happened after you ran me through?” Len stopped immediately genuinely thinking. As she stood, Gilda could see her sword strapped to the side of the human.

“Well..”

...

Len watched as most of the other gryphons flew off without a word, just simple nods in acknowledgment of her dead and nothing more. The ones that stayed were young and stupid, simple staring at her in a mix of fear and anger. Eventually, one of the emotions took hold, and it wasn’t the one that would have kept them alive.

Len wasted no time dispatching of at least two gryphons before Starswirl fired off three bolts of magic hitting at least two of the others square in their chest. The last three didn’t even see it coming as an pink blur with blades coming streaking in taking out two of them with the final getting the short end of the stick and begin blown apart by both magic and the blasts of a shotgun.

“Agh, firefly, how nice of you to finally join us.” Starswirl said with a bit of sarcasm. The mare grinned as she fluttered over to him.

“Yeah, I know, you wouldn’t last-”

“Hey, you two, shut the hell up and help me save this gryphon already!” Yelled Len as she removed the sword and was trying her best to keep her fellow combatant from bleeding out. The other two looked at her like she was crazy until a solid glare told them pain was promised if aid was not given. Frantically the two went to work trying to save the gryphon. Before but it was almost all for nothing, that is until a second human figure rushed out from the brush with a red vial in her hand. Without skipping a beat she injected the gryphon and, to Len’s relief, effectively healed up the gryphon.

Looking over to the human, Len noted she was dressed up like Maya, granted she had a different head than the default, but that wasn’t exactly important, really. Len was never one to look a gift horse in the mouth also rather than question anything she simply ordered the three of them to get the gryphon and move her to a hospital.

...

“Oh, and, I got a sweet book filled with magic spells from Starswirl, even tells me how I, a non magical being, can learn to use magic in order to actually cast the dang spells. Awesome right?”

Gilda had to admit, that was awesome, especially the part where Len got two ponies to save her life and take her to the castle of the two sisters. She whistled hearing all of this. “Some first day in a new world, right?” Len just nodded with a slight giggle, once again catching herself.

“Yeah, totally. Anyways, I’m joining the ponies in the war. Was wondering what you were going to be doing. Just so you know, I convinced them to let you go free.” Gilda blinked a couple times before smiling. She knew exactly what she was going to do.

“Think my ties with the gryphons died when you put my sword through my chest.” She chuckled, grinning up at her savior before clenching her chest in pain. “Guess I’ll stick around for a bit, maybe see what my fellow gryphons are capable of on the battlefield, y’know?”

Len admittedly liked the sound of that. She grinned as she gave the gryphon another gentle hug before getting up to leave. “Oh, before I forget, you’ve been out for about almost two days now, but I hear you’ll be free to actually leave the hospital in like one more day. Till then, try not to scare the poor ponies too much. See ya around G!” Gilda couldn’t help a light chuckle as she watched the crazy girl go. Ashvatha knows what kind of craziness she was in for running around with that one. Only time would tell.

“Still gonna kick her ass though, no way I’m going to just let her beat me and get away with it so long as I have breath in my body.”

“That can be fixed y'know.”

“Ahh! Um,... Heh heh, w-what are you talking about? I didn't even say anything.”

Len glared at her with her head just barely poked in enough to see her eyes. She slowly retreated through the door before it closed. Gilda sighed, deciding against saying anything else for fear of been heard by the crazy human.

“Still gonna kick her ass though, no way I’m going to just let her beat me and get away with it so long as I have breath in my body.”

“That can be fixed y'know.”

“Ahh! Um,...," she laughed nervously, "W-what are you talking about? I didn't even say anything.”

It Had to be Bandits

Pow!

“One.”

Pow!

“Two.”

Pow!

“Three.”

Pow! Pow!

“Thats four.”

Pow!

“Five. Reloading.”

Len dove back behind cover to reload her new rifle. She groaned as she heard the tell-tale scream of a psycho rushing her.

“You’ll make the best meat bicycle!” Yelled the bloodshot bandit as he ran up the hill with buzzsaw axe. She couldn't help but grin when she jumped up and punched him in the face, his mask breaking from the impact. She really enjoyed kicking him over the edge into a deep cavern with spikes all over the floor beneath.

“Have a nice fall Asshat!” yelled a happy Len before popping two more shots and blowing the heads off of two more bandits before diving back behind cover.

‘How did this shit even happen again? The day started out so pleasant too.’

...

Blood Wing, a thestral and Luna’s personal assistant(or whatever you call her position.), panted heavily as her body twitched uncontrollably. Len rose from her knees licking her lips. “Thanks for the fun. I’ll be back after I return from scouting some gryphon camps, then we do this a couple more times.” Blood Wing couldn't even reply as she just nodded with a goofy grin on her face.

“Good girl, see ya around.” She strode out into the hallway happy with herself as she looked at her EXP bar seeing it flash before emptying as she got the classic LVL UP with a big golden 15 popping up into her face. Checking her skill tree, she added a point into one of her more weird trees that had nothing to do with the character Gaige from Borderlands, instead they dealt with her use of magic and... well the last one of the three new trees was a bit of a mystery but she still liked the sound of it.

“Hey, Len, got a mission for us!” Came an excited Firefly zooming down the hallway to land beside her, Gilda right behind her and landing to her other side. “We get to go fuck up some more dodos and maybe even get some pie on the way back! Fun right!”

Len chuckled as she scratched behind Firefly’s ear. The mare practically looked orgasmic as from the scratch, her eyes seeming to glaze over. ‘Who would have thought ponies like it behind the ears just as much as dogs do?’

“Sure does Fly. Let’s get on the move already, we’re wasting precious killing time.” Len said with glee as she ran down the hallway eager to get started. She had just finished upgrading her goggles yesterday as well as found some new gear by killing the local skags. Something she didn't even know existed here.

“Alright boss lady, let’s go kick some ass!” Fly cheered before we left the castle.

...

Boom!

“Ha, ya skaglit!” She screamed as she killed another gryphon, blowing his head off and turning it into chunks.

Gilda grinned madly as she slashed through two more with her sword before shooting a third one in the face with her pistol. Firefly just laughed like a maniac as she down through any that tried to flee.

“I love my job!” Yelled Gilda as she plunged her sword into a goliath gryphon centurion, the massive gryphon twice the size of a normal gryphon. Gilda’s grin fell as the huge gryphon just seemed to be a bit more pissed than in pain and got bitch smacked into a tree.

Firefly yelled out a battle cry as she shot forward at blinding speeds and delivered a solid buck to the gryphons jaw, the sickening sound of bones breaking filling the air as she used his face as a springboard to tackle another gryphon out of the air and brutally bash his skull in.

The massive gryphon stumbled about still recovering from the surprising brutality of the pegasus. Len, being one of opportunity, ran up behind him and grinned with malicious intent before giving him a solid robot nut check. If the gryphon thought he was in pain before, now he was pure, unfathomable agony the likes of which no one had ever known.

“Say ‘ahh! ’ Shit for brains!” Len pulled out a triple barreled shotgun and fired it into the gryphon’s face, blowing his head off and blighting his body on fire.

Len looked pretty satisfied with herself as she watched the gryphon start dropping their weapons in fear and surrendering. “Good choice, We would have been happy to slaughter you all but, y’know what, this works to.”

“Hey G, you alright over there?” asked a concerned Firefly. GIlda gave a thumbs up before proceeding to rest up against the tree.

“My head is spinning but I’ll be fine after a few minutes.” She said as her eyes spun around comically.

Firefly and Len relaxed as they tied up their captives. Satisfied, the trio started to loot the area fro any valuables.

“Wow, its good thing we have you on our side. To bad you came in near the end of the war. the gryphon’s are almost beaten. Sadly that means less violence for us.” Firefly deflated at the revelation, actually saddened.

“Be careful what you wish for Fly. fighting the gryphons amy be fun, but an even worse enemy could show up and it won't be so fun then.” Len warned. After finding out that skags existed in Equestria she had been worried how many other things for the game existed in this world.

As if to simply answer her thoughts in the most bull shit way possible, a massive metal structure boomed out of a portal in the sky, the object zooming overhead before crashing some ways away.

“I got a bad feeling about this one guys. Lets check it out.” Len ordered before taking off in its direction.

Len ducked behind a rock as she looked on in both mild shock and horror at the occupants of the object, a ship from the looks of it. Anthropomorphic ponies all wearing varying items of clothing such as masks, helmet, goggles blood stained pants and blood stained wraps, usually on their arms and or chest. Each one looked to be well armed and few didn't even have guns, just carrying around a buzzsaw axe.

“Hey, it’s a vault hunter! Let’s get em!” yelled a bandit. Said bandit received two shots, one to his nuts and the last to his face.

“Fuck you skag breath, you sons a bitches ain't gonna take me down, no way, no how!” Len shouted back. before popping off into two more bandits taking them down.

‘And thus you now understand just how quickly things went to shit. What was supposed to be a simply, yet very fun killing spree elevated into a shootout with a bunch damn bandits. Just great. Well, at least I can do some real looten, borderlands style.’

Gilda flew overhead unloading a full three clips into the bandits racking up six kills before she landed to avoid being shot out of the sky. Firefly, being even crazier and headstrong than both of us combined, fly straight into the heat of things slashing away and dismembering at least a dozen of them before sheathing her swords, instead picking up two buzzsaw axes before dashing from behind piece of ship wreckage and continuing her slaughter spree. After making a full two dozen in total kills she landed beside a stunned Len and Gilda.

“Are...are you the god of death?” Asked Gilda in a state of complete awe.

“Not bad, but let’s see if I can't do better.” said Len before doing what was even seen as crazy by Firefly and probably even Discord, she jumped over the rock ran down the hill firing and reloading her shotgun over and over. The two didn't understand at first, it soon became apparent as she went about blasting bandits apart left and right, half the time her shots missed but somehow ricocheted of objects and still managed to find a cozy home inside of bandit skaglits, incinerating them.

The biggest surprise came when Len unleashed a secret weapon, one she had kept secret for the last two weeks. A massive, floating machine was soon digistructed into existence before booming in mechanical sound before immediately going about slash and beating bandits into a fine paste of blood and guts.

“Third place... third place... I can’t believe those judges gave you third place! I mean, just look at how badass you are Death trap!” Len raved.

“Thank you master. DIE!” boomed a deep mechanical voice as the machine known as Death Trap ripped a bandit in half. A much large bandit walked out into the battle, one arm being freakishly huge and the other freakishly small. GIlda made sure to picked up a new, better weapon before rushing in and unloading both of her guns at the overgrown monstrosity from the sky while Firefly rushed in taking care of any other bandits that were in the area.

“We got ourselves a badass, be careful!:” Len shouted before Death Trap went to work fighting the badass bandit. Though DT was strong, the bandit was equally so and demonstrated this by back handing the robot to the ground. As it raised its weapon to strike the downed machine, DT fired a laser from its one eye burning the bastard alive as Len unleashed her wrath on him with a new weapon she picked up,a four barreled corrosive shotgun, and Gilda hovered behind him reloading and firing off in his back. Dt managed to get up before taking one last great slash and decapitating the badass.

Len sighed as she looked around to see that everyone was either dead or had managed to escape into the forest. Checking her map, however, revealed one last red dot. Len, being a bit of completionist as of late, marched over to the last dot shotgun in hand.

“Ya should have ran like the rest of your friends ass hat, cause now I’m gonna-” She stopped, lowering her weapon seeing a wounded little filly, probably no older than 12. Her left arm and right leg were mangled beyond repair and hanging by bits of flesh, not even fully connected in all honesty. Two long cuts went over her left eye and the other eye, though still there, didn't look to be in too much of a better state than the other.

Gilda was about to ask what was going on when she halted at the sight of the girl and her heart sank seeing what she knew had to be a child in such critical condition. The poor thing barely looked alive at all, the only sign she still was, was the rising and falling of her chest but it was more than obvious she was fading fast.

“Um,... Gilda, Firefly, watch over her for a sec, try and keep her alive till I get back.” She ordered. Neither of them protested as Firefly got a good look at the horrible condition of her charge.

Len searched frantically through the wreckage. “Come on, come on, it's got to be here! Where is it?!”

Tossing a side piece of debris she found a crate and opened it to find exactly what she had been looking for. “Yes! I”m coming guys!”

She sprinted over to them, sliding under a fallen rail and sliding to halt just a mere inch away. Without hesitation she injected the mare with one of the vials. “Get her to the castle, i need to scavenge for a few things around here to help the poor kid out.”

Her words left no room for question as she rushed off leaving her two companions to tend to their part and get the young filly to the castle for treatment. All the while, form watched them from the shadows. a pair of teal eyes narrowing before the form sunk into the shadows, with a sick grin it watched Len closely before disappearing all together.

“Yes, fight, get stronger, yes. Prepare your body for you shall be truly useful to me...Miss Heartworthy.”

The Gangs All Here...Mostly

Blood Wing groaned as she walked the castle halls trying her hardest to keep her composure. Her nethers had been aching all morning and now as the sun reach the pinnacle of it journey across the sky, she wasn't sure how much longer she could last like this. She could already feel something wet traveling down her legs and kept her eyes forward avoiding the looks of everypony else as no doubt could take just one sniff and know.

“Damn that insufferable human. Tricking me into eating her heat inducing pie.” she grumbled.

“Ah, Blood, there you are! Perfect timing as usual.”Came the sweet voice of the lunar princess. Blood silently cursed her luck before turning and bowing to her majesty.

“Please, no need to be so formal old friend. I do, however, have a meeting with nobles and would like-” Luna cut herself off as she sniffed the air around her before her teal eyes landed upon her advisor and her face turned beat red. “O-oh my, nevermind Blood, it would seem you’re busy with more... um...stressful matters. I had thought the suffering you had described earlier this morning to have passed.”

Blood, a mare who was never embarrassed, always strong, well composed, and incorruptible, blushed even harder than the princess and made a mental note to cave in the skull of the one responsible for her current predicament.

“I apologize your highness, I...I just need to find her and handle this and i shall be right with you.” she assured.

“Now may not be the best of times.” Upon seeing the curious look on her advisor’s face, Luna decided to help her understand a little better. “Go to the healing chambers and you shall no doubt find all the answers you shall require.”

With a nod and a bow, Blood carefully made her way to the healing chambers, eager to see what could be so important that she couldn't use the human to get herself off again.

“Could something have happened to her?” she wondered aloud. Blood couldn't understand why, but for some reason the thought actually brought her fear as she quickened her step, soon delving into a full sprint.

Blood Wing burst through the doors to the chambers only to go silent as she found her intended target taking sharp tools and to some...Pony? somepony's eyes. The human looked to her in surprise before a small smile made its way onto her face. With her eyes, and everyone else that sat in the room working, Blood felt more than a little uncomfortable, even more so when, not only all the non humans smelled the air before staring at her, Len had done so as well despite her less than static sense of smell showing just how strong of scent she was leaving at the moment. The look of lustful hunger that splayed across Len’s face did not help either.

“Sorry love, I’ll have to attend to you later on tonight. I’m a little busy at the moment.” Len stated as she got back to work, gingerly working on the mare’s eyes.

“O-of course, my apologies, I... If I may, what happened to her? Assuming it’s a her.”

Len brought up a holographic chart on her arm and began to list out a few things. “Looks like brutal rape and mutilation, her eyes clawed out, her arm and leg torn from her body, and to top it all off, something clawed up the rest of her body as well. Long story short, it wasn't pretty.”

Blood couldn't believe what she had just heard.How could somepony do such things? it was just...just...wrong, even by her standards.

“So, we good to go later tonight?” Len asked as she apparently finished up with the eyes.

Blood, huffed and pointed her nose into the air as she took a seat next to the human. “As much as I loath the idea, yes.”

“Awesome, was worried I wouldn't be able to have seconds. Or is it technically fiths?” Len’s mischievous and lust filled grin was enough to quiet any form of verbal retaliation as she attempted to avoid the gaze at all cost.

“Well, if you two are done flirting, how about we get back to problem at hand?” Gilda strode over to the young mare and sighed.

“She’s right, we need to figure out what were going to do with her. I mean we can’t just kill her after we spent hours trying to save her, at least not right away.” quipped Firefly as she eyed the mare in a wary manner.

Blood looked around the room before taking a chance and adding her opinion into the mix. “M-maybe we should wait until she wakes up and explain the situation, then we take it from there.”

Len smiled at the thestral and pulled her a little closer. “Great idea, lets go with that. If she turns out to be to hostile, we terminate her. Otherwise, I don’t think the princess will mind another warrior added to our ranks, right team?” Everyone looked at her strangely.

“Since when are we a team?” asked the gryphon as she eyed everyone in the room in a seemingly new light.

“Yeah, a team? I don’t really like the whole team thing, but if it has you guys in it then thats awesome!” Cheered the crazy pegasus. “Wait, who’s the leader then?”

Gilda grinned and stepped forward. “I nominate Len for leader of Psycho Squad.” she pronounced with great pride. “She’s the greatest warrior here, and that's with only two actual weeks of training.”

“I second that notion, seeing how she’s the whole reason this team exists.” added Firefly.

“I’m casting my vote for Len as well, but only because if I don’t she might not show me that tongue trick again tonight.” Blood blushed profusely at her own statement. it had been an attempt at payback, so you can imagine how much more hot and bothered she was when Len made a certain gesture between a v shape to her mouth before licking her lips with a predatory grin.

“So,” Len looked at everyone present once more, “now we just need to wait for our current pending member here and then we can deliver a more detailed report to the princesses. Sound good Psycho Squad?”

“HELL YEAH!” came the resounding reply.

“Nice job on the name by the way.” Gilda nodded and smiled proudly.

A sudden knock another door claimed their attention as they turned to see Celestia in the doorway. To her surprise and, somewhat, relief no one made a move to bow. If anything, they just stood their shooting her an annoyed look the longer she stood there.

“I trust you have the situation under control miss Heartworthy?” Len nodded and looked over the unconscious mare before returning her gaze back to the solar monarch.

“Situation is being handled, but if you don’t mind, all of my friends just call em Len...so call me len your majesty.” Len smiled receiving an even warmer smile in return.

“I see, well then, from this moment forward you shall all address me as Tia or Celestia.” she declared.

“Fine by me. Does this include Lulu as well?” Celestia nodded and Len beamed. “Great, tell her the whole friends call me Len thing as well please.”

Celestia's grin widened a bit. “I think she’d love to hear such. Oh, and, do be gentle with her advisor, we still need her to be able to perform her duties, not be trapped in bed unable to walk.” she said with a wink. If blood could get any redder than she was now, she’d have to change her name to Red Wing or find a new job.

Not even Celestia could refrain from enjoying the poor mare’s misery as she laughed. Just when Blood looked to be getting pissed off Len grabbed her and sat Blood in her lap before nipping up her neck and ears. Though she looked just as flustered, she her anger was completely replaced by desire as she feebly tried to struggle out of Len’s grasp. She would later swear she nearly died when she moaned out in front of the princesses and her friends.

“Alright, guys, enough messing around, we do have some bandits to catch. Hows about we get to work finding them and introduce them to psycho Squad and their badass leader.” barked Gilda gaining a round of cheers and relief for a certain thestral, if only for a moment. She gulped at what came next.

“Now if you’ll excuse me, this little filly ain’t gonna wake up for a couple of hours and I have a mare to escort to my bedroom. Anyone who wants to join is free to join. Yes even you Tia.” The amount of grins that came her way, especially from the princess of all ponies, was enough to make even Blood Wing whimper as Len carried her off followed by the princess and the other two members of the team. “One mare orgy coming right up, Don't worry Blood, we’re gonna have loads of fun, buckets full from the looks of it.” And thus Blood managed to get redder.

Changes

Jax growled as she struggled with her restraints. The shadowy chains holding strong as she pulled on them. Though it had been nearly a month since she was captured by this darkness, she hadn’t given up hope, not even in the slightest. She glared as Nightmare laughed her vain attempts at freeing herself and pulled the chains making her grunt in pain.

“I will admit, your will seems to be unconquerable. Even I am having trouble keeping my hold on you for so long.” The nightmare stepped forward cupping Jax’s chin in her hand and forcing the girl to look her in the eyes.

“Don’t worry though, I’ll try and make our relationship as short as possible. Soon enough, your friend, Len, shall be my new body, and with her, I shall get close to my true target and cover the world in darkness.” Jax’s glare seemed to get stronger. A light dimly shining from her tattoos and weakening the chains. It quickly faded though and Nightmare simply wrote it off as a flash of her rage.

“My, my, such a feisty one. I like that about you. getting so angry about me hurting someone you practically gave the coldest of shoulders to after you met her. They’ll believe you to be the evil one. They won’t believe your crap story about being possessed and you know it.”

“Then you don’t know Len apparently. We’ve been watching her all this time but you still haven't learned a damn thing.” She growled. “I was a bit upset over being sent to another world. I was a bit bitchy to her at first, but if you hadn’t pulled this shit i would have made up for that. I’m going to destroy you, just remember that demon.”

“Ooh, I’m shaking in my metaphorical boots.” taunted Nightmare before laughing madly. “Please, stop being so funny. Seriously, you’re gonna kill us with this hilarious performance of yours.”

“Wow, this coming from the bitch who's just stalking a girl. Didn’t know you were such a perverted child loving bitch Nightmare. Staring at her in the showers, and even watching her mess around bed like that. Bet you wish it was your ass she was tying up and spanking don’t you you horny slut.” Jax grinned as she saw the shadow faints glow red.

“S-shut your damn mouth! I watch her because she is the one I need in order to get to Luna! I’m just not strong enough yet!” Jax only laughed harder as she watched Nightmare get redder.

“Oh wow, you didn’t even really deny that you wanted it! You really are just a horny little spirit to afraid to just go and get her some sweet, young ass!” Jax laughed hysterically as she watched Nightmare get more frustrated only to notice the spirit made no attempts to deny any of it.

“This, Len shall be useful to me regardless of my desires.” ‘wait did she just admit it?’ “I will reign my wrath upon these lands and with this warrior at my side I shall be unstoppable.” ‘Holy shit, she totally is!’

“Hey, when she beats you, and she will beat you, maybe you should tell her how you feel and try another route with her, if you’re not dead or destroyed.”

Nightmare looked her quizzically, before finally shaking her head and leaving Jax to herself. “It’s too damn early in the morning for this shit. I’m going to go masturbate our body now. have fun watching it.”

And what are we doing after that?” Jax questioned.

Nightmare grinned at that. “After that, we have a certain royal gryphon to go pay a visit to. Should be fun really.”

...

Blood yawned as she awoke. She wiggled her way from between Gilda and Firefly and followed the scent of food over to the balcony of Len’s room to find said human happily munching away on her breakfast.

“Hey Blood, I’ve been meaning to ask you something.” Blood took a seat as she grabbed a hay waffle and some bacon.

“Ask away, not like I got much to hide really.” Blood started to chug down a glass of orange juice.

“Can I be the father of your next changeling brood?” Blood immediately spat out her juice and fumbled with the glass before clumsily letting it fall off the edge. The sound of shattering glass and an alarmed guard screaming out, probably a rookie, soon followed. Her entire face was red when she finally looked back to Len to see the women simply eating as if nothing had just happened, obviously patiently waiting for a reply.

“I-I, what? W-what the hell is a changeling?!” Len gave her a look along the lines of ‘I know so cut the bullshit’ and Blood gulped.

“You’re hive doing well, or are you here because they’re all dead or something?” Len inquired as she sipped from her glass.

Blood glared as she calmly grabbed her knife. “How long have you known?” It was a simple question and possibly the only thing she could ask seeing that she would get no where trying to lie to the human.

“From the moment I met you Blood Wing, or would your prefer Queen Dread Wing, the changeling allegedly responsible for the genocide of the frost trolls and slayer of the dragons, Terror Claw and, this one I find kinda funny for some reason, Blood wing.” Len answered.

Blood seemed stunned by how much she knew and hesitated to attack, a hesitation Len took advantage of to discourage her. “You know I wouldn’t mind killing you if you tried to kill me, right? I mean honestly, i figured you wouldn’t like this whole situation but I refrained from letting Deathtrap jump you because I actually like you, no, I think you genuinely mean a lot to me. How much do I mean to you?” The question in and of itself hit Blood hard. Before long though, she made her decision, gently putting the knife down and looking apologetic.

“I apologize, you have grown on me greatly, and to find out the love I feel from you has been directed towards me even knowing what I am. To know that your love was directed at the true me, it does bring about a certain..well...longing for a mate.” Blood blushed deeply as she thought over her earlier question.

“My hive is very small and fragile. Those dragons required the entirety of our strength and even then, it was almost too much for us. We few that survived barely managed to do such.” She nervously gulped as her body was engulfed in green flames. In place of the thestral Len had grown accustomed to seeing, a tall, thick, black frame now sat in her place, her long, faintly glowing, illuminating mane seemed to be riddled with holes just like her hooves and legs. Her long Crooked horn Looked sharp enough to cut through steel with such ease that it would be almost as if someone wasn’t even wearing armor or had drawn a blade against her. Her eyes luminescent green eyes seemed to speak of great intelligence, compassion, pride, and even authority. As if only to add to her overall beauty, her well polished carapace gleamed on the light with only three large scars running across her chest, likely from being clawed by something big.

“If my form truly does please you, then, perhaps you would consider becoming my... Grand Duchess? Yes, we shall stick with that title for now.”

Lene nodded with a grin liking the sound of ‘Grand Duchess Len Heartworthy’ very much. “Wow, that does sound like a nice title. Though, and this is if my studies on your culture are accurate, Empress Len and Empress Dread Wing sounds so much better.” Blood’s eyes widened as she understood what Len was suggesting, before narrowing as predatory grin slowly grew on her muzzle.

“Empress Dread Wing? I do like the sound of that, and all the power that comes with such a title. The other hives would have to bow to me then. It would seem my bride to be is just as ambitious as I am, if not more so.” Len only grinned as she finished her breakfast and swayed into the room.

“And possibly more lustful than you as well my dear. Now then, I’m going to go take a shower. Care to show me how a changeling queen plays with her mate in water?” A blush and the quick scramble of hooves was all she got in reply. Gilda and Firefly, who had heard the entire conversation having been awaken when Blood got out of the bed, were quick to get the door.

“Sweet mercy of Ashvatha, why didn’t I get stabbed by some strange creature from another world sooner? My body hasn’t felt this good in years!” Firefly nodded vigorously as she bit her lip watching her new found leader walk through the door followed quickly by Blood in her true form, herself, and Gilda.

...

“Your highness, you have a strange visitor here to speak with you. She claims to be able to help us in our war with Equestria.” announced a gryphon guard. With simple nod from the large warrior gryphon king, the doors opened to reveal a certain human shrouded by her dark purple cloak. Amethyst spikes jutted from her shoulders and from the back of her hand curving forward. She grinned as she saw her desired prize.

“Speak creature, and if I don’t like your words I shall have our head.” boomed the gryphon king. His hard, deep voice seeming carry on far beyond the throne room.

“My name is Nightmare Siren, and I,” she lifted a hand and suddenly her tattoos glowed before every guard near her was suddenly impaled by spears made entirely of shadows with dark sphere forming around the gryphon king as he was lifted into the air, “am your new queen.” With that, she clenched her fist and the sphere suddenly began to shrink with the king still inside. His screams were like music to her ears, as well as the sound of his crunching bones as she made the sphere the size of a large hoofball. She tossed the sphere out the window and let it spray its contents on the crowd of angry gryphon citizens outside the castle, many of which quickly recognized scent of blood and pieces of crushed royal attire that fell with it. Many either screamed or emptied their stomachs, but the most common thing among them was but one thing, the cries of “The king is dead!”

Insanity Inbound

Len panted as she pressed on running through the cave. A glance behind her revealed the tale-tail sign that the the overgrown bugs were still after her. A particularly massive spider ant rolling past its companions and catching up at an unsettling rate. She just barely managed to dodge a shot of string and another shot of fire from another massive spider ant. With exit so close Len just had to make it, so she took a risk. With a decent jump off a stalactite she jumped onto the head of the first massive bug and used it as a launchpad to springboard herself ahead tumbling just outside cave.

She ducked as another shot of web fly over her head before growling at them. “Damn things don’t know when they’re beat.” Her growl soon turned into a sadistic grin and laugh. “I think I’ll fix that for you abominations.” With her grin widening she pulled out her new E-tech pistol and fired red shards into their heads, shards than soon exploded and killed most of the young ones before the biggest spider ant bashed her away. Changing up tactics Len decided to put her magic lessons to good use firing off a ball of fire that exploded heavily against the skull of the first before shooting a large shard of ice at the fire spider ant, freezing that bastard solid. It wouldn't last long but it would at least put him out of the fight for a few seconds, more than she needed honestly. Pulling out a rocket launcher and pumping raw elemental magic into it, she let loose a barrage of fire/slash corrosive rockets into the the , spider knight from the looks of it, disorienting it before pulling a master chief and spring boarding off its head to get behind it and let out another barrage into its soft, exposed, vulnerable abdomen effectively killing it. Its cries of death were like a sweet symphony to Len’s ears.

Being in the air offered little maneuverability, so it was no surprise when she bashed by the flame spider ant and lit on fire. What did surprises her was the ground shaking violently before the ground behind her gave way allowing a certain massive spider ant to rise out of the ground with her knights, the queen herself. One thought crossed Len’s mind as she greeted her teeth through pain of the fire. ‘This is just might hurt.’

The spider ant queen smacked her into the air before a knight tackled her to the ground hard, she could swear by the pain of it all, one of her now broken ribs was now threatening to puncture her lung or heart, either being a bad thing. She growled as her eyes flashed a violent green before she punched a magic infused fist into the mouth of the knight before it spontaneously exploded. A second knight tried to rush her only to be gripped her emerald might and crushed before exploding violently in a fiery and corrosive explosion.

Len picked up a vial of red liquid and injected herself, she roared in pain as her ribs reset themselves and her punctured lung patched itself back together, good as new. She panted as she struggled to stand. Looking at her HUD, she could see Deathtrap had finally recharged. Quickly she released her robot of death upon the monsters and let him get to work. She grinned in satisfaction as three knights screamed in agony as they were lit on fire and died. The queen seemed to look to be trying to escape, ‘nope.’

“Hey, where you going?! The party isn’t over just yet your majesty!” Her sadistic grin returned in full as she pulled out an old favorite, a torque shotgun, and fired off the explosive ice rounds into the queen's abdomen. Her scream elicited a purr of pleasure from Len before she took another shot blowing off one of the slowed queens back leg. One could honestly not tell the difference between a wild monster and Len at the moment as she charged ahead blowing off another two legs. With Deathtrap dealing with the others she took her sweet precious time beating the queen to death with her metal fist. She took great pleasure in the feel of her fist finally bashing through her tough head exoskeleton and into its skull. With an almost feral predatory grin, Len turned her gaze onto the remaining knights and elemental spider ants, even spying a few badass spider ants. A chill seemed to wash over them as she did so, a few actually shaking and running off into the cave with no intentions of coming back out till she was gone.

“So...” her gaze washed over the few brave ants, “whose next?” A knight in the back released its excrement onto the ground to Len’s satisfaction. With her blood thirst growing with every passing second, she charged into the group with a loud war cry, Deathtrap following his master’s example and charging headlong into the battle.

...

“And that's why that spider ant head has a hole in it.” Said a cheery Len as she two pegasus guards paused as they finished hanging the massive trophy above the fireplace in said human’s room. Luna and Celestia both looked on in amazement, wonder, and a bit of fear, or in Luna’s case, something far more entertaining.

“Will... will you marry me?”

“What?!” Luna quickly realized she had spoken out load and froze in fear now.

“Well, I was kind of think me, what with her being a madly in love changeling Queen and all, I’d propose to Blood on our on our two month anniversary, but I don’t see why I can't have you both.” Len tapped her chin in thought before smiling warmly. “Yes, I will, I shall have you a ring in three to four days. Sound good?” Her smile slowly faltered as she noticed Luna wasn’t speaking, hell, she wasn't even breathing. “Um, Luna? You alright there sugarcube?” Getting no reply, Celestia poked her sister worried for her health. Luna responded by slowly falling over like some kind of statue.

“... I think she agrees to your terms.” Celestia said absently as she gazed down upon her love struck sister statue. “I’m reasonably certain that she’ll be fine in a few minutes... I hope.”

Len giggled, something she had been doing increasingly around her friends. At first she had paled every time she caught herself, but now she didn’t even pay it much attention, hell, she thought her giggle was so damn cute she’d fuck herself if her male and female half ever separated.

“I’m sure she’ll be fine your Tia, Lu is a strong one.” Her smile quickly faded as she got back to the discussion form before she began her epic tale. “besides, we have much more important matters to attend to, such as this recent reports from our spies in the gryphonia saying that Jax has killed the king and taken over the empire. Not to mention the fact that she is amassing more power with each passing day at an alarming rate and will soon be making a strike against Equestria, a final play to win this war and probably kill you and your sister.” Celestia got serious as well as she looked over the reports again.

“Yes, its unsettling to think of how this might all turn out. From these reports I’d say we have about another two months before she finally has enough power to rival both I and my sister.”

Len frowned as she looked over another report for a third time. “And what about this rumor that she is possessed by a spirit of darkness that seeks to bring about eternal knight. Think ti could be what cause Lu to change?”

Celestia nodded with anger, her mane briefly bursting into flames. Ever since she Len had warned her about Luna’s possible future, she had taken to making sure to treat her sister far better and spend as much time with her as she could. “Yes, but I’d sooner die than let that...THING take my sister away from me.”

“Yeah, same, I’m not letting that happen to her. We have to save Jax as well, she was a bit of an as that first day, but we barely got to know her before that thing took her from us. She doesn't deserve this, she doesn't deserve to die because some bastard darkness decided to go body snatching. This nightmare is skag bait!” Len slammed her fist into the table for emphasis, cracking the table in half with her rage. WIth as simple spell, Celestia repaired the table... before smashing it to pieces with her bare hooves and fixing it again. She looked visibly more relaxed.

Len groaned in pain as her mouth continued to be sore with pain, though something felt...off in her mouth. She grabbed a silver platter and gasped as she took in the sight of her teeth, her new fangs in particular. Her eyes had also changed it seemed, taking on a more dragonic look while glowing in blue luminescent beauty with trials of circuitry in her irises like some kind of motherboard, energy pulsing and surging through each little individual circuit. The final change she notice was her now robotic looking tongue. Looked like something you’d expect some kind of transformer to have, even pulsing with blue energy between the individual grooves.

“I thought that was normal for you honestly.” Celestia spoke, interrupting Len’s thoughts. “I must admit I rather like these changes.”

Len grinned a little, hearing that honestly calmed her down a bit, and she had to admit she did look more badass. “Well, this is probably a result of my recent research into techno organic tech. Its mutating me a bit it seems.” Len sighed as she prodded a fang with her still fully organic hand and looked to the slowly rising now comfortable yet flustered Luna on the ground with a her cheeks burning in as they were a deep shade of crimson.

“Hey, Lulu, what do you think about the changes.” Len asked opening her mouth and sticking her tongue out, noticing it extended at least three times her normal tongue length before she mentally stopped it. She didn’t really feel like finding out how far it could actuely go, at least not right now. ‘Giggity’.

“Luna only blushed deeper seeing signs that the tongue could go even further. “I’m gonna avoid saying words, words are bad right now.” was her only reply as she stared wide eyed at Len, Celestia couldn’t help but mimic her sister as she too seemed now very hot and bothered as she stared at the abnormally long oral appendage.

“T-that was an accident, I swear.” Len stuttered out nervously as she retracted her tongue. “So,... who's hungry?” Desperate to get the conversation, hell, the whole situation behind them, both princess shot a hoof into the air. Being just as eager as the two royal sisters, Len simply nodded before Celestia lead the way to the dining room, sending a maid to go and collect the others for lunch.

...

Blood beamed with pure joy. She felt sick but couldn't be happier. She knew she would find some juicy info if she spied on Len’s conversation with the princesses, but to find out the human had already planned to propose?! Granted, changelings usually did things much faster, being paired by the end of the first month of their relationship, but no matter, Blood was just so bubbly and happy, she had, as they say, butterflies in her stomach, both literally and figuratively.

She quickly ported out the moment Len and the others had left, going with her alibi of being in the bathroom admiring herself for an hour. “I can’t wait, I just can’t wait. Oh thank the great high mother Ashvatha herself, this the happiest day of my life thus far!”

Blood happily skipped out of the bathroom, not even caring enough to put her disguise back on as she bounced through the halls, her happiness was so infectious guards and servants alike didn’t even fear the sight of her, being swept up in her powerful emotions and actually smiling and waving. Some even looked envious knowing a mare in a happy really great relationship when they saw one. This was only just the beginning, soon she’d be giving Len the good news, though she had been feeling rather nervous, terrified even, she now felt as if life couldn’t get any better and today was the best time to do it, the best time to tell Len she was pregnant with their brood and would be setting up their new hive very soon. Literally nothing short of Len dying could bring her down now.

The Oath