Warhammer 40k: The Multiversial War of Equestria

by The Warmaster

Chapter 8.5

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Deep under Canterlot mountain

   Deep under the mountain that held Canterlot, a large, powerful machine awoke from its slumber. Though it had spent millenia  underground, it was still very much functional. It could sense what had happened so far up above, and could sense that it's counterpart had awoken too, along with three blips that it did not recognize. As it activated, the cavern it was located in was aglow in light, which most ponies thought was some sort of natural event. It began its system start up, checking it's weapons and nano building arm. It knew that it would be a while before it could resurface, but it also knew that when it did, there would be another war. It was prepared. The last CORE  Commander was ready.

Equestrian dig site in the mountainside of the northern mountains.

    As Lucky Shoes walked around the camp, she was trying to hold in her excitement. Just yesterday, they had discovered what appeared to be a massive, bipedal,and completely metal machine! They did not know what it was, but the only thing that was on it, besides the metal, was a single, strange symbol.

   She wondered what the symbol meant as she walked towards the site where the machine now sat in. When she arrived, she held out her ID to the guards, and they stepped aside to allow her through. She trotted  down into the recently dug crater,  stopping only when she was next to the machine. She studied the area that would be it's face. She tapped the thing, even though she had done this a million times. Someone then tapped her shoulder. She jumped before turning to her friend and fellow archeologist, Daring Doo.  She smiled.

  "Little bit jumpy, aren't ya?" Daring joked, chuckling a tiny bit.

  "Yeah, but we ARE in a dark, creepy cave. What did you expect?"  Lucky replied, giving a playful shove. They then turned back to the device, and stared up at it in awe.

  "Wonder what the princess's will say when they get the letter we sent about this thing.." Lucky asked, gazing at it. Daring shrugged.

  "I bet they will reward us greatly for this find. I mean, look at it! It could be a lost civilization  that came before the founding of Equestria, or it could be an ancient alien! Who knows!" Daring replied, waving her arms around for emphasis.  Lucky  tried to withhold her laughter at this display.

  "Maybe. But even so, we should probably dig up the last of it. There's only a little bit more left." Lucky said, grabbing a shovel and floating down. Before she could, however, there was a massive noise as the wierd glass in its head burst into a green light. Daring backed away, out of fear and awe, as the great machine came to life. It raised its arms, breaking free of the railings as it attempted to leave the cave.

  "How does it expect to escape the cave? We are inside a mountain, for Celestia's  sake!"Daring shouted over the sound of it activating. Almost in response, the machine  raised on of its arms, and a great light flashed just before there was a sound of an explosion. When Lucky could see again, there was a massive hole where a wall was standing just a few seconds ago. Her mouth dropped as the machine stepped through the hole  and out into the open lands of Equestria. It moved it's head around, almost like it was searching for something, before it began slowly walking towards an open plane. Lucky just stared at it as it trudged off into the distance, taking a few seconds to realize that Daring was trying to get her attention.

  "Lucky! You in there? Come on! We gotta go to Canterlot and report this!" She yelled,  causing Lucky to blink as she reorientated  herself to the world around her.

  "Your right. Let's go!" She replied, and they shot off towards Canterlot.

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Equestrian North. Time: 10: 00 PM.

  As the great machine trudged  forward, it was aware of organic life actually living in this planet. Back during its time, to be organic was a fight for survival in itself, what with the CORE  threat endangering all organic life. It walked onto the frozen tundra, and, with its scanners, located multiple metal deposits. It began constructing it's base, thinking on the fight to come.  It remembered it's reason for being here: To hunt down the last CORE  Commander  and exterminate him. It did not know why it was underground when it reawoke, but it knew that the CORE  Commander was still alive. That needed to change.

   For if the ARM Dream of a free universe without the constant threat of the CORE, the Core Commander needed to die.

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