Chapters Fall Of Helghan
The skies burned over Pyrrhus the once great capital of the Helghast people, the greatest accomplishment of Emperor Visari and his people had been reduced to dust. The ISA had not only left the Helghast capital in dust and ruin but they also went as far as to kill Visari in cold blood like savage animals. As the Helghast forces tried to push the ISA out they realized that they had no choice but retreat to their ships and escape what was left even though they didn't want to. Most children of Helghan wanted to stay and fight but if they did they would be slaughtered and the ISA would have privilege of victory.
"All units retreat to extraction point we must leave Helghan so that it's legacy may survive" Syth, a capture trooper and the personal apprentice of colonel Mael Radec gave the order on all secure Helghast comm channels. He was not only Radec's apprentice but his adopted son he took him in after he found him with his dead parents. Apparently an ISA soldier killed his parents and Syth killed him with his bare hands Radec was impressed by the boy and he took him in as his son and apprentice. Throughout his life Radec trained him and he became a captain in the Helghast army after his graduation at the academy with the highest test scores. He went with his father on many missions such as when they boarded Templar's cruiser and Radec killed him to get the nuclear codes however the woman that was with him deleted the codes before she died.
Syth was one of the best of the Helghast soldiers and many thought that he would be his father's successor but in truth he only wanted to follow in his footsteps not replace him. He had not heard from Radec since the dead Helghast that fought and died. Syth feared to find his fathers corpse but he found him unconscious Syth dropped his weapon and ran to his father "father! father!! wake up!!" he said shaking his father and mentor.
Radec slowly opened his eyes as he heard Syth yelling, Wait, Syth!! he jolted up and drew his pistol looking to see if the ISA were still around but he didn't see any only Syth looking at him.
"Syth! are you alright? are you hurt? where's the ISA? " Radec asked he was glad that his son was safe but where were the ISA?
"Father I'm fine but what about you? what happened?"
"Me and my men tried to defend Lord Visari but we were beaten and I was knocked unconscious" Radec explained.
"Where is Visari?' he asked but Syth looked down Radec feared the answer, did the ISA capture him?
"I'm sorry father Lord Visari was killed by the ISA savages in cold blood."
This angered Radec beyond belief the fact that they killed Visari proved that they are the evil ones yet they they keep trying to make the Helghast look like the aggressors. Radec realized that he failed not only his people but his Emperor and friend. "Father all surviving Helghast are moving to an extraction point we have no choice but to leave Helghan" Syth said with sorrow and irritation. This shocked Radec they had no choice? did the ISA have so much ground that they didn't have any chance to reclaim their home? Radec realized it was the only hope for the Helghast and he hated it and he knew that Syth didn't like it either.
"Very well where is the extraction point located?"
"Its the MAWLR Graveyard the ISA would never think a ship would be hidden there but we must hurry our flight window is clear but not for long." Syth and Radec then made their way to the extraction point as they did they looked at was left of their city this was their home and they were forced to abandon it. Even though it wasn't the best planet what with the radiation storms and other problems but it was the home of the Helghast nonetheless Syth vowed he would come back to retake his home no matter what it took.
"BloodPact team whats the status on the ship and its passengers over" Syth asked over the comm, his team should have gotten the ship ready for take off.
"Status is green captain we're ready take off over" a soldier said over the comms Syth had an amused face as he heard the voice.
"Its sure good to hear your voice Razer hows everyone on the ship doing."
"Everyone is fine but get back here our window is open but not for long the ISA are being restless trying to find us."
"Roger that me and Colonel Radec are heading to the extraction point over."
"Copy that, tell the colonel that the people have chosen him to lead the empire" Syth looked at his adopted father even though his face was covered he could tell that he was surprised that they wanted him to lead them. Syth was just glad there were no civilian casualties they had evacuated all the civilians before the city was nuked, they wouldn't let all those people die.
Syth and Radec were able to reach the ship as they did all troopers that saw Radec gave him a salute as they entered. When they got to the bridge of the ship Radec took seat on a control throne in the center of the room"set course out of Helghan's orbit and past Earth space, hopefully we can out run the ISA." The ship made a hum about to make a jump through hyper space before an explosion shook the ship "sir ISA warships are attacking us and they hit the hyper drive its malfunctioning" a pilot said in distress.
The ship then went into hyper space away from the ISA thank god. Syth then looked at the Shipmaster who was in charge of most of the ship
"I don't know the hyper drive core was hit and as a result its sending us to an unknown planet I can't give direct coordinates until we are out of hyper space." Syth just became more infuriated by this as he went to leave for the hanger.
"Where are you going Syth?" asked Radec as he noticed that Syth was getting his signature StA-52 Assault Rifle which had the Helghast symbol engraved on it as he was leaving.
"If his planet is habitable then me and some soldiers will go down and do some reconnaissance and maybe find some locals or the ruins of a city" Syth had already gotten a few ships ready just in case they found any habitable planets before they left Helghan.
"Be patient we need to see this planet before we can make any rash decisions I don't want to lose any soldiers or you because you want to go and do recon on an uncharted planet" Radec was trying to be strategic and wanted to make sure that Syth wasn't going to do something that would kill him. Syth had a lot of patience but Radec could understand him needing to blow off some steam after all they had just gone through.
Several hours went by and they left hyper space once they did they saw a luscious, and clean planet. The crew used what they called 'The Oculus' a machine that could let them see a planets terrain to make sure they could be colonized or to see if enemy camps or bases were on the surface. The machine only had so much range and power so only a small area could be scanned at a time as the crew was scanning one of the operators found something.
"I got something!!" he said as he put a visual on the main screen of the bridge. When the image appeared all of the bridge crew were surprised at what they saw. A castle like structure, probably 16th century build, it was built into the side of the mountain and had an entire city around it but that wasn't all the Helghast were staring at. Inside the city were humanoid ponies being rounded up and cocooned by what a race of insect people.
All the soldiers were shocked that they found a whole new planet with a native race that was never discovered, but what surprised and angered them the most was that they were being under invasion much like the Helghast. There was a sign in front of the main gate of the city that said 'Welcome to Canterlot'
"My queen, we have secured the city and rounded up most of the population soon we will have full control of the city"
"Well done general continue your sweep and make sure that if you find any other ponies to capture them"
"It will be done my queen" the changeling general then walked out of the throne room. On top of the throne was queen Chrysalis, ruler of the changelings, as she sat on the throne she felt empowered and confident in her invasion soon she would have all the ponies imprisoned and nothing could stop her.
She even had beaten the princess and had the Elements of Harmony as prisoners now all she needed was to find the last few remaining ponies and imprison them for food. Once she is successful her and her changelings will be able to have an unlimited source of love it was only a matter of time.
Author's Note
Told you I would write this
Squishing Bugs and Taken Names
Squishing Bugs and Taken Names
Canterlot
Everything was going wrong for Twilight at first she was overjoyed to be a part of her brothers wedding but now her and friends were now held captive by the changelings. She couldn't help but feel helpless as her nor her friends could do nothing accept sit and watch as the changeling army overwhelmed them and the royal guard. While her and her friends were sitting and watching Queen Chrysalis relish her victory.
"You'll never get away with this, I swear that you will not get away with this" said Cadence angry at the changeling queen. Chrysalis had not only invaded Canterlot, but she ruined Cadence's wedding and brainwashed her husband it was becoming a very bad day for the ponies but not for long.
Helghast Ship
Syth continued to stare at the image shown to him and the rest of the Helghast soldiers. A capital city seemed to be under siege by these humanoid bugs he could see what looked like anthropomorphic ponies some civilians some soldiers. The sight of innocents being held captive against their will angered him and Radec it reminded them of Helghan and what the ISA had done to drive them off of their world.
"Father we need to go down there and help them we can't just sit here and let this go on" Syth said to his father and to his surprise many of the other soldiers were agreeing with him as well as his father.
"Very well Syth I will send you with BloodPact unit as well as a few platoons once you've secured the main district in the city I will accompany the next few platoons as we land" Syth nodded and went to the hanger while he called his team on the comm.
"Attention BloodPact unit meet me in the hanger we're going down to the planet and assist the locals with the bugs" Syth said as he sat in a drop ship waiting for his unit along with the thousands of others that were excited to go to planet and get to see some action. Syth didn't have wait long as his unit arrived and entered the drop ship. The drop ship rose and left the hanger heading towards the planet's surface as they made their way down to the planet every solider was preparing for war.
As Syth was loading his pistol Razer came up to talk to him. Razer was a capture trooper like Syth except he had an infiltrator's mimic module which let him look like the enemy. It was a useful little piece of equipment and it saved both his and Syth's life on more than one occasion.
"What do you need Razer something buggin you?" Syth asked
"No just excited that I get to get in some action, but I wasn't expecting us to help a city filled with humanoid ponies."
"Well I guess we'll need to add that to the to do list, but right now we need to secure an L.Z. for the rest of the troops." Syth explained as he and the soldiers were heading to the city.
"Have all dropships engage tactical cloak when we get close to the city I don't want those bugs knowing we're here until we have an advantage." All ships obeyed and activated the cloak the Helghast then landed in the outskirts of the city when Syth gave their next commands.
"I want all snipers to get on high points of the city and get ready to take out as many hostiles as you can. Do it stealthy as possible and the rest of the infiltrator units will move in disguised as these bugs under Razer's command. Once we have a secure position around the city snipers will take out as many as they can while the infiltrator teams will silently kill these bugs and rescue civilians. When we secured the center of the city we will then evacuate all civilians to a nearby safezone and storm the large castle like structure when Lord Radec and his reinforcements land, You have your orders."
Syth personally loved to go stealth first rather than run in guns blazing. To him stealth was the best approach especially since they would have full advantage. Whoever was leading these bugs were going to have a nice surprise in store for them. When Syth and his unit got close to the wall he activated a zoom feature on his HUD. When he found one of the bugs he did a scan over it's body and sent it to all infiltrator units so they could mimic and look like them without a problem. What intrigued Syth was that they were using spears and swords and not any form of firearms whatsoever.
'Guess they aren't as advanced as us that gives us a huge advantage'
Syth then signaled all infiltrator units to activate their mimicry unit, once they did they slipped into the city without any suspicion and moved to locate some civilians in the city. Syth stayed back with Victor, BloodPact's sniper and leader of the sniper unit for this mission, to oversee and alert Razer and his team should something go wrong. Syth would go in there with a mimic unit but decided that Razer was more than capable to lead his own unit for this mission. Many missions during the war and before he would bug Syth to let him lead his own unit but Syth felt that he needed more time in the field first before he got to handle leading his own unit. After many missions together Syth felt that Razer was ready to start leading his own teams and squads. This would be Razer's fifth time leading an operation but he had never done one of this scale so naturally Syth would be a little worried about him, they were like brothers during training in the academy and on the battle field and they were pretty close.
"You really should stop worrying about him Syth I'm sure he'll do fine this isn't the first time he has led a team before."
Syth looked over at Victor and then back to the city he knew that Victor was right but he was always taught to expect every possible outcome, even the impossible ones.
While Syth and Victor watched from afar Razer and his team were moving throughout the city looking for were the civilians would be located at. As he and his team continued they found what they were looking for and they were disgusted by what they were seeing, what they saw were the civilians being pushed, shoved, and ordered around like slaves. What was sicking the most was that they were mostly female and the bugs were planning to rape them. Razer looked and took count, there were only seven of them and twelve of Razer's team so this gave Razer and his men a good advantage.
"All right listen up soldiers here's the plan me and two others will walk up to the group of bugs and distract them meanwhile the rest of you sneak behind them and when I give the signal slice their throats wide open and then we escort the civilians to the extraction point understood?' all soldiers nodded in agreement the and proceeded to move into their positions while Razer and two others walk up to the group with their mimicry units activated to look like the bugs.
"Hey!! what are you doing here I was told that we wouldn't have anymore soldiers in this area!" said one of the bugs as he stepped forward with an attitude of authority, must be the commander. Razer played it cool and spoke with equal authority
"We're here to escort the prisoners to a new location."
"New location!? why wasn't I informed about this!?"
Razer could see that his soldiers were in position so he got ready to give the signal "look I'm going to take these prisoners whether you're okay with it or not" after he was done speaking he pulled out a silenced pistol and shot the commander in the head while the rest of the soldiers proceeded to take their kills and slice the bugs throats open. All of the bugs fell, choking on their own blood, while Razer deactivated his mimicry unit and contacted Syth.
"Syth this is Razer my men and I found a large group of civilians and are waiting for your signal to move to the evac point, over."
"Copy that Razer once the other teams move in and the snipers open fire move to the extraction zone."
"Understood we will await further orders."
Chrysalis was enjoying her victory having all the ponies rounded up like cattle ready to feed her children until she heard what sound like thunder cracking.
*BANG*
*BANG*
*BANG*
She went to the closest window and what she saw made her eyes go wide. She saw not only her dead children in the streets but also what was killing them. She was seeing what appeared to be weird armored monsters with terrifying red glowing eyes using weird black weapons she had never seen before to slaughter her changeling army. Many of her changelings died at the hands of these unknown soldiers and they were apparently helping the ponies, guards and civilians alike, and guiding them to the center of the city.
The queen then turned her attention to the changelings in the room "go out there and kill off those things now and bring back the ponies for food!" she said in a booming commanding voice. The changelings did as they were told and flew out into the fray Chrysalis turned back to the window. She saw what appeared to be countless of them swarming the city killing the changelings in a bloody massacre while they progressed towards the castle she only hoped that she would not meet the same fate as most of her children.
Meanwhile outside the changelings were barely holding up as the Helghast kept pushing forward as ships were being filled with civilians and taken to the Helghast base camp located three miles away from the city. Once it was confirmed that all civilians were evacuated Radec and more Helghast troops landed in the center of town which became their holding point in the city with ground turrets and sky drones that tacticians would set up to give them an upper hand. As Radec proceeded through the miniature camp he found Syth interrogating some of the bugs that his team and himself had captured while they retreated to the castle. As he got closer Syth shot one of them in the head and kicked the body to the ground.
"I'm not a very patient man you know in fact my patience is thinning quite quickly" he said as he walked around the bound prisoners. The other four prisoners looked at their fallen brother with wide eyes and the to the figure that had him in cold blood filled with fear. Syth then looked at them and smiled under his helmet as continued to taunt them.
"You understand why I'm here?" he asked only to get a snarky reply from one of the bugs.
"Well your mom probably got drunk with guys one night an-" he was cut off from a punch to the face Syth then aimed his pistol at him and fired as the body hit the floor Syth looked towards the one closest to him and pointed the gun at him.
"You are next unless you tell me where I can the one behind this invasion or I'll kill you and every single one of your filthy friends!!"
Syth continued to stare him down until he finally cracked "okay I'll tell you just don't kill me please, it was queen Chrysalis she is the one in charge of the invasion shes in the castle now please just let me go!!!" Syth smirked and turned to Radec his father nodded. Syth then proceeded turn towards the bugs, lifted his rifle, and pulled the trigger.
Author's Note
Finally the second chapter is done I said I would get it done this weekend and I did for all of you who have been reading I'm still looking for an editor for later in the story and still waiting for the pairs to be voted also the next chapter may take a bit of time to write so be patient.
Well thank you for reading I hoped you enjoyed I am Shade Shadowfeeder saying
keep it shady
I'm out
Assault on the Castle
As the last of the changelings were exterminated Syth ordered all units to be ready for an assault on the castle. He went over his plan with Radec and the soldiers, the plan was to have snipers around all high points both outside and inside the castle to give maximum cover fire. Due to the fact that there were so many weak glass windows the bullets from the sniper rifles could take out a whole window with one shot which would give Syth and the rest of his soldiers a bit of an advantage. Razer was tasked with sneaking in the throne room with some infiltrators while the castle would be under siege to locate the queen while in disguise. The new objective was to capture or neutralize the queen and rescue the civilians that she had kept hostage, hopefully this queen wouldn't do anything too drastic or stupid that would cost more lives. Syth was hoping there could be a way to settle this without anymore bloodshed, while he interrogated those changelings he found out alot about them and why they did this invasion but it didn't justify that they would have probably raped some of these ponies if the Helghast hadn't intervened. Still he could relate them to the Helghast the only reason they attacked Vekta was because Helghan was losing resources and was too hostile to grow any pure food, Vekta however was pure, luscious, and for lack of a better term clean they came to the planet in hopes to find a way to ether help Helghan or to colonize it. The only thing that stopped them was the ISA, through stupid debating and politics the Helghast and the ISA started a bloody war that cost both sides a great amount of lives. Had it not been for Visari all those years ago the Helghast would been decimated long ago.
Syth made it his personal objective to stop this conflict one way or the other, but he hoped that the ponies and the changelings could settle their differences in a peaceful way rather than that of bloodshed he didn't want to have what happened to the Helghast and the ISA happen here to them. As the rest of the soldiers got in positions Syth contacted lieutenant Alex who was overseeing the camp that they sent the ponies to for food and medical attention "lieutenant give me an update on the civilians that were sent to the camp."
"They're doing fine so far, although they are a little scared of me and the rest of the soldiers they seem to warming up to us but there are some snobbish nobles here that I really want to shoot in the head."
"Remember your orders are to make sure they're safe but should they get to out of line lay down the line and remind them who saved them from a fate worst than death that should shut them up."
"Roger, I'll keep you posted" the signal cut out as Syth made his way to Radec to finalize the rest of the plan. Radec wanted to lead the assault into the throne room and personally see to it that either the changelings surrendered or kill the queen in front of all her people to make an example out of them. The plan was simple, move a large battalion through the main hall while being covered by sniper fire from the outside and reach the throne room. Now to some people this would be suicide but due to the fact that the changelings weaponry was very primitive and that their magic couldn't get through the Helghast's armor lowered the threat level.
Syth approached Radec as he finished giving orders to Victor, who would be in charge of the snipers around the castle, Radec then turned to speak with him "it seems everything is in pace all I need from you is to accompany me while the rest of the soldiers move towards the throne room and keep an eye out for any changelings that will slip by and try to kill me" Syth understood what he was saying if one changeling got past them and saw Radec it wouldn't take a genius to figure out he was leading the assault.
"I understand father I will keep my eye out for any changelings that get past the battalion and kill them if they get to close" Syth said as he loaded his rifle and prepared for the assault.
The door to the castle was blown open as the battalion of Helghast soldiers marched towards the throne room. The battalion had four standard troopers leading behind them were two tacticians walking alongside a heavy trooper, behind them were forty shock troopers with different weapons ranging from the standard issue assault rifle to the Sta-11 SMG. In the back guarded by Syth was Radec walking with his hands behind his back and with a fearless posture. Most changelings that saw the battalion ran but others stayed to fight, they were gunned down the second they showed a weapon. As the Helghast made it halfway down the hall they were ambushed by what looked to be the last of the changeling army many of them were on walls, the floor, and even the ceiling.
"OPEN FIRE!!!!" Radec commanded
All hell broke loose as the changelings and Helghast engaged each other, the heavy trooper moved to the front and unleashed a large barrage of bullets while the rest of the soldiers took cover behind columns that laid on their sides and proceeded to open fire from behind. The tacticians threw their drone beacons into the large horde soon enough sky drones flew in from either from the windows or holes in the roof and opened fire on the changelings from above. The snipers from the outside proceeded to shoot at the changelings as well getting some headshots or leaving them mortally wounded. One of changelings flew past the line of soldiers only to be greeted by swift kick by Radec sending him backwards a few feet, the changeling got back up and pulled out a dagger and ran at Radec.
"So you want this to be personal, it will be my pleasure" he said as he drew his knife from it's sheath and charged. The changeling tried swiping at his neck only for Radec to duck and slash his stomach. The changeling screamed in pain as he clutched the wound and fell to his knees he looked up at Radec only to be greeted by bullet to the head. "No challenge at all" Radec said unimpressed he looked towards the battle that took place ahead and grinned under his helmet the changelings weren't putting up as much resistance as he originally thought they would. However the thoughts were brought to a sudden halt as more swarms of changelings came out of the throne room door at the end of the hall. The heavy trooper had to take cover to both reload and get out of the way as massive amounts of changelings were firing crossbow bolts which wounded some of the Helghast soldiers in the process, after reloading the heavy trooper left cover and opened fire on the large swarm as did the rest of the troops.
"Syth move up with me" Radec commanded as he pulled out his pistol and moved up to take cover with the rest of the troopers. Syth followed close behind and took cover alongside him and proceeded to open fire. More and more changelings swarmed in as the Helghast continued to hold the line and fired crossbow bolts at them, one hit Syth in his upper arm while he fired on some changelings.
"SON OF A BITCH" he yelled as he got back into cover and pulled the bolt out, he then pulled out a grenade and pulled the pin.
"Right back atcha" he said as he threw the grenade at a group of changelings, the changelings just looked at it and laughed just before it blew up in their faces. A lone changeling pulled out a dagger before charging towards them but before he could climb over the downed pillar Syth came out from cover, grabbed him by the neck, and dragged him over. The last thing the changeling saw before he died was Syth unsheathe the blade from his gauntlet and plunged it into the changeling's face.
Radec decided to hop over his cover and use his knife and pistol, he fired his pistol at few changelings and killed them via headshot before a blast of green magic knocked the pistol out of his hands. He looked to see a changeling clad in dark purple armor and had a giant two handed sword strapped to his back, Radec assumed that this was a high ranking general or field commander. The changeling drew the sword from his back and charged with a battle cry raising the sword, Radec drew his knife and charged as well but before the two combatants could meet Radec activated his cloak. The changeling was confused at first but then switched to high alert, eyes dashing back and forth looking for the Helghast veteran.
He continued to look for him but was suddenly hit in the face by an unseen force and sent staggering backwards a bit, he looked up to see nothing and was hit again this time in the stomach. He looked up just in time to see Radec before he got hit by a bicycle kick and was sent sailing back a few feet, and dropped his sword while Radec landed skillfully on his feet. The changeling general got back up and cracked his neck before he charged at the Helghast soldier full of rage Radec sidestepped him and stabbed his back making the general howl in pain as he fell to his knees .
Radec picked up his pistol, walked over the general, and kicked him hard making him lay on his back. Radec crouched down and looked at the general "you actually proved a little bit of challenge unlike the rest of your kind" the downed general just glared at Radec "but now you will be put down like animal you are" Radec finished as he stood up, loaded his pistol, aimed at the head, and fired giving the changeling an honorable death. Radec turned to see the rest of the changelings were retreating towards the throne room, no doubt in fear of the troops they lost, not all of them made it as some snipers got some lucky shots on them. Syth ran up and reported that only a few soldiers were wounded and were being given medical attention Radec was pleased that the assault was pulled off with no casualties.
"Syth I want you go on ahead with two of the shock troopers while me and the rest will wait for the signal" Syth nodded and went ahead with two other Shock troopers. When they got to the door Syth checked with Razer to see if he and his troops were ready.
"My squad is ready to go we also have troops on the roof of this room ready to swing down through the windows and from a hole in the roof. There are ten civilians in the room but one is in a cocoon above the throne ready on your mark" he said in a hushed tone so that none of the other changelings would be aware of the mission.
"Alright troops prepare for breaching" the shock troopers nodded and took positions on both sides of the door. Syth placed a few explosives on the door and detonated them.
Chrysalis sat on the throne with anticipation, she had sent out her changelings to deal with the unknown creatures when they came back it was only a third of her army. She scanned the room trying to find General Krell but she couldn't find him she looked and pointed to a random changeling "you what happened out there and what happened to the general?"
The changeling looked down at the floor "we retreated because he was killed and we were losing so many of our soldiers. During the battle the general was engaged in one on one combat by the leader of the creatures who call themselves 'Helghast' who only wielded a knife and could turn invisible at will. We couldn't harm them any with magic blast and their weapons kept us too far of range to use swords and daggers. When the general was defeated and killed that is when we realized we were out numbered and fled here" said the changeling, who was really Razer wearing his changing disguise. Chrysalis was shocked just what weapons did they use? and who was their leader?
"Heh guess your army isn't so tough as you thought" Chrysalis looked at the owner of the voice who happened to be Rainbow Dash, The Element of Loyalty, and scowled.
"Watch your tongue or I will make you show respect" she hissed.
"Oh yeah? prove it!!" Chrysalis was about to retort when the door exploded. All eyes went wide when three figures stepped through the smoke of the explosion. Two of the figures looked the same so they were assumed to be guards but the third one was different, the figure looked like the other ones except he had more armored and was pitch white with a blade protruding from his right arm. As he walked in he began to look at some the changelings and then towards the ponies before looking at her.
"Queen Chrysalis I presume" the figure said in distorted voice which she theorized was because of the helmet he was wearing.
"That is me who are you?" she asked cautiously looking at him.
"I am Captain Syth, of the Helghast Empire, and I'm here to make you surrender and take these civilians to a designated safe zone" he said looking at her with those lifeless, red eyes.
Chrysalis just started laughing while Syth stood there not moving a muscle "you think that only three of you can stand against my children, you are outnumbered" she declared with smug smile. Syth just chuckled darkly, the changeling queen wondered what he thought was so funny until she heard the remaining changeling drop their weapons. She turned around only to see changelings holding some of the Helghast's weapons and pointing them at other changelings. One of them walked up to her "what are you doing use the weapons on the-" she stopped mid sentence when the changelings turned into Helghast soldiers and one of them wore the same armor that Syth did.
She turned back to the Helghast captain who was chuckling at the look on her face "surprised your highness, i'll have you know that the Helghast have much more advanced technology than you or any species on this planet, so I will say this once again surrender!" This time Syth put more authority into his voice which only seemed to anger the queen.
"Never!! I will never surrender to you" she launched herself at him and tackled him to the ground. She was about to punch his head until a loud crack sounded off everyone looked towards the door to see a new even more frighting figure.
"Get away from him you BITCH"
Author's Note
UH OH
Radec is pissed
thank you for reading I hoped you enjoyed
keep it shady
Chapter 4: Royal Fighting
Syth was not a man to be distracted by any means that was what made him a good capture trooper. All of the Helghan Empire knew that capture troopers were trained day in and day out to be the best of the best and they were widely respected for it. Throw in the fact that Syth was trained from early childhood by the legendary Colonel Mael Radec and some would consider him the perfect soldier, a lethal killer, and a walking symbol of death that could never be distracted from the missions that he would be given, but none of the training that Syth went through could prepare him for the thing he was seeing or rather things. When the changeling queen lunged at him she not only knocked him down but landed in a very 'suggestive' position on top giving him a good view of her cleavage. Now Syth never really had any interaction with women before or a sex drive for that matter due to his constant training and the fact he never had time to try and interact with anyone unless they were the soldiers with him during a mission, Syth was glad that his helmet covered his face as he could guess just how red it would be at this point.
Syth was shaken out of his stupor by his fathers voice as spoke to the queen with his intimating distorted voice "I will say it again; get away from him or else" he said while aiming the gun at Chrysalis. The queen looked at Radec for a few moments before looking down at Syth then back at Radec she could sense a strong bond between the two soldiers much like a mother wolf and her cub. She grinned as she grabbed Syth and teleported in front of the throne; holding him in a headlock while having a knife at his throat.
She looked at Radec with a evil smirk "now YOU will surrender or this one dies" she said hoping that he would stand down and allow her and her changelings to leave, but to her confusion the one she was holding just started to laugh dryly.
"I can't believe how stupid you are" he said before bringing his head back hard and headbutted her in the face, grabbed her by the arm, and threw her over him. She was sent skittering across the floor before standing up, as she did Syth got a better look at her and what she was wearing. She was dressed in what appeared to be battle armor that was made from a greenish black metal, it was wasn't very bulky in fact it was slim and covered her figure well, she was also very tall; at least 6'9 which was only a few inches taller than Syth.
The rest of the Helghast soldiers were ready to open fire on her but Radec stopped them by raising his hand "no, let them fight one on one" he wanted to not only see how strong the queen was but to see how Syth's training had been coming along and this was the best way to see both.
The queen charged up her horn to blast at him with magic as she got up and fired at Syth out of blind fury. Syth immediately rolled out of the way and ran towards Chrysalis while firing his pistol but Chrysalis just blocked the bullets with her gauntlet covered arms. Syth continued to charge at her at increased speed Chrysalis blocked anticipating him to ram into her but to her surprise he dropped to his knees and slid between her legs Syth used his legs to swipe her legs out from under her causing the changeling queen to land on her side. As Syth was about to deliver a punch to her face she blasted him square in the chest sending him flying across the room and crashing into the throne. He got up and cracked his neck and just chuckled "if that is all you can do i'm not impressed" he said mockingly as he dusted himself off like it was nothing "please try and not disappoint me you over grown cockroach."
That pushed her over the edge as all she saw was red as she flew toward him screaming a battle cry with her horn charging up another offensive spell. Syth just stood there not even moving as the enraged changeling continued to fly towards him, when she got close he sidestepped out of the way and grabbed her by the horn and armor and threw her above his head and onto the floor. The changeling queen slid a few feet before she raised her head up and came face to face with a fist hitting her in the face and sent her flying into one of the columns of the throne room.
As Chrysalis fell to the floor Syth walked over to her and turned her over only to be greeted by a green beam of magic hitting him square in the face knocking him back as well as knocking his helmet off as it rolled away from his prone form. Chrysalis walked over to him so she could see the face of the soldier she just killed, however as she did she was shocked to see his face. Syth's face was pale and had snow white hair that wasn't too long nor too short and he looked very young around late teens young. Before the queen could do anything else she saw Syth's eyes open up while his left hand grabbed her leg and she felt a painful shock and fell to the floor on her back as she screamed in pain. The pain only lasted a few seconds but it was enough to have the queen fall on the ground in agony while the Helghast troopers surrounded her while Syth went to get his helmet and put it back on.
Radec walked over to Syth while the troopers escorted Chrysalis and the rest of the changelings out of the castle "you alright Syth when I saw your helmet fly off your head I thought you were dead."
"I'm fine apparently the atmosphere is safe enough that we don't need to wear our masks all the time" Syth said while inspecting his armor just to make sure it didn't take damage. As Syth was checking his armor one of the natives ran to check on another that was apparently knocked unconscious. Judging from the shape of the body it was female, she was wearing a tattered dress and a crown on her head, she was just as tall as the queen but instead of black and green she was pink and had feathered wings instead of insectoid ones, she also had a horn on her head that was the same color as the rest of her body.
"SHINING!!! are you alright!? please say something!!" she said frantically as she shook him trying to get a response from him. Syth walked over to her to check on her friend. It seemed to male, he wore a red and gold like suit and black dress pants, his hair was a dark blue with streaks of lighter blue in it he also had a horn but no wings like the female had. As he approached the two the female turned to him with a look of fear but the look changed as she charged her horn and took a defensive stance over the downed male. Syth rolled his eyes as he continued to move towards the pair and stopped a few feet from them.
"Look, unless you let me get him some medical attention chances are he isn't gonna last long so I recommend that instead of fight us that you let us help you and your friend there" she looked back at one on the ground and back up at Syth with a worried look. She reluctantly backed away and the horns glow died down, Syth called some medics over with a stretcher and they loaded the wounded native onto it. As the medics made their way out the female walked over to Syth while looking to where the medics were taking the other one away.
"I-Is he going to be alright?" she asked with worry in her voice.
"Don't worry our medics have saved many lives on the battlefield and our doctors have saved even more off the field I'm sure he'll be alright but if you want to see him I would ask to follow them if they give you trouble just say I gave you authorization to see him." The female looked at him and gave a small smile and then wondered off to follow the medics Syth then returned his attention to the rest of his soldiers.
"Call up the camp and tell them the city is safe to return the civilians and get the rest of the civilians in this room out and to the rendezvous point" he barked out and the soldiers simply nodded and returned to their duties. He walked over to were Radec and Razer where waiting.
"Heh damn Syth you sure gave that bug a nice ass whopping, a shame I wasn't helping you but your dad here thought you could handle it" Razer said in his usual smart-ass tone while gestured over to Radec. The Colonel just gave him a stern look that just spelled disappointment but turned his attention back to Syth.
"I'm glad you're alright you had me frightened there for minute, especially when your helmet went flying off."
Syth gave a lighthearted chuckle "well I was trained by you since my early childhood so I couldn't just die that easy it would be unbecoming of a trooper such as myself." he laughed a bit as well as Radec and Razer. The group stopped laughing as a trooper came up to them and reported that the princess herself wanted to talk with Radec as well as the rest of his soldiers that helped retake canterlot. The same thought came to all their minds as the left the room to meet the princess.
'Well this should be good'
Author's Note
hey I'm not dead and also sorry about the long wait I've had alot on my plate as of recently and also doing other fictions that I hope to release soon that have been in my head but I'm glad you've been patient with me and the next chapter will involve a bit of Syth and Razer bashing some heads with the main six.
on another note I still am looking for a co-author to help out cause I get writers block real easy and having another person help me is a good way for this to come along.
also the new fic I'm writing is a 123 Slaughter me Street crossover which I haven't seen alot of
thank you for reading I hope you enjoyed
I AM SHADE SHADOWFEEDER SAYING
keep it shady
I'm out
Negotiations
The Helghast soldiers continued down the hallway towards the chamber that the princess would be waiting for them and most were nervous while the others including Syth were dreading the meeting. If there was one thing Syth could not stand it was by far politics he understood the need of it but he disliked how sometimes there will be that one jackass who has a stick shoved far up their ass and thinks that everything should go their way he just hoped that the princess wasn't like that. The Helghast soldiers came to a pair of doors with two unicorn guards standing on either side of it holding only spears. Syth couldn't help but chuckle a bit at how 'basic' the weapons were on this planet it was almost saddening, Syth also noticed that the six civilians that were there as well talking to each other but all stopped and looked at the Helghast as they continued to walk, but before anyone could go through the door a guard stood in front of Radec and spoke up.
"Sorry sir, but the princess wanted to talk to only you so your soldiers will have to stay out here" Syth was about to protest but Radec motioned him to stay silent.
"Very well, but I will call them in should the need arise" the guard nodded and opened the door to let Radec through. While the rest of the troops stayed vigilant and alert Syth and Razer decided to sit on the floor and talk for a bit.
"So how you holding up Syth it looked like the bug queen gave you quite the thrashing back at the throne room"
"I've suffered worst in training you know that first hand, remember our old drill sargent" both of them started to laugh a little bit at that. They many great times and not so great times back at the academy especially how tough their old drill sargent was on them. Syth remembered when he and Razer pulled a prank on him by having a remote firecracker in the toilet and to this day Syth still didn't know how Razer convinced him to help with it, but needless to say that after their little stunt the Sargent made them clean all the toilets in the academy for three weeks. When the graduated from the academy a few years later the drill sargent told them that he was very proud of both of them even though they could be a serious pain in the ass. While they were reminiscing one of the civilians appeared in front of them from seemingly nowhere with the biggest smile on her face. She was pink everywhere her mane and tail were a darker shade and extremely curly, she wore a baby blue T-shirt and khaki shorts, on her arm was what appeared to be a tattoo of three balloons.
"HeythereimPinkiePieandIwantedsaythankyouforsavingmeandmyfreindsandsavingtheweddingalsoIneedtothrowyouapartyhaveyoueverbeentoapartyorevenlikeparties?"
Both Razer and Syth sat there with dumbfounded expressions which was hidden by their helmets. Razer was the first to shake his head and respond. "Ok three questions One: can you repeat that but slower, Two: what drugs are you on, Three: where can I get some?"
She gave him a confused look "what are drugs?" Razer was about to answer before Syth gave him a nudge in the side signaling for him to stop.
"Sorry about him, he tends to open his mouth before he thinks" said Syth while he hoped to keep Razer out of trouble.
"Thats ok I was saying thank you for saving me, my friends, and the wedding also was going to ask if you like parties and my name is Pinkie Pie!"
"Well thank you for clearing that up but to answer your questions no I don't like parties because I've never been to one except for some fancy diplomatic ones and before you ask no I don't celebrate my birthday."
The pink pony woman gave him a shocked look "what!?!? how can you not have birthday parties didn't your parents ever throw you one?"
Syth froze, his parents were never able to throw parties for him on his birthday due to financial problems before they died but they were able to at least get him one present a year. The jobs they had wasn't the best paying ones but at least it put food on the table. Razer looked over at him and shook his shoulder trying snap him out of it Syth just shook his head and looked at the woman before answering.
"No, they couldn't but they were able to get me presents" Pinkie just smiled and ran off saying something about a surprise and cake.
"Well...that was weird" Razer said while looking at Syth
"Yeah well we don't exactly discover planets with anthropomorphic ponies on a daily basis now do we."
"Guess not."
Just then another one of the civilians actually flew over right up to Syth and was in his face. She was a bright blue with a rainbow mane and tail, she was wearing a periwinkle T-shirt and regular blue jeans on her arm was a tattoo of a cloud with a lighting bolt that was colored rainbow coming out of the bottom.
"Can I help you miss."
Razer just sighed "I bet Radec doesn't have to put up with anything this annoying."
"I bet Syth and his team doesn't have to put up with anything this annoying" Radec thought as he sat their and listened to a noble named Blueblood trying to argue with Celestia about the Helghast and how they should be thrown in the dungeon or something and it was starting to irritate him.
"For the last time Blueblood I'm not going to order the arrest of the Helghast just because you have problem with how they didn't take the time to help you carry all of your belongings when they were evacuating the city." The princess was getting tired of this it was supposed to be a meeting between her, her sister and Radec but before anything could be said Blueblood barged in regardless of the princess's orders. That was one thing that Radec couldn't stand disobedience due to the fact that the Helghast military program was very thorough when weeding out the weak and disobedient and thus was a rare problem to deal with. When it was a problem however the disciplinary actions that were used was so terrible that just after one trip those soldiers never behaved like that again.
"So you're going to let them get away with treating me, a member of royalty, like a common peasant" Blueblood was clearly getting aggravated that he wasn't getting his way.
"No more of this leave now or I will have the guards throw you out" Blueblood didn't argue instead he left the room with a huff. With all that said and done Radec was able to get a better look at her she was at least seven feet tall and unlike the other locals he saw she had both a horn and wings, she was white with a rainbow mane that seemed to flow on its own, she wore a sleeveless white robe with gold highlights, she also wore a gold tiara on her head. Radec also noticed that she had a tattoo of a sun on her arm before she started to address him.
"I apologize for that Blueblood's behavior he acts more like a child than a prince most of the time."
"Its alright if I had to guess he probably wasn't given enough discipline as a child" the princess giggled at that due how true it was.
"I believe introductions are in order, I am Princess Celestia co-ruler of Equestria" she said as she took a seat across from the Helghast.
"I am Colonel Mael Radec, current Ruler of the Helghan Empire."
Celestia seemed to calm at his answer she was afraid that the alien sitting across from her was going to be some overlord and would demand that she and her kingdom surrender to them but fortunately that was not the case. "What may I ask are you and your people doing here I find it hard to believe that you came just because of an invasion."
Radec then proceeded to tell her of the war, the attack on Helghan, the assassination of Scholar Visari, and finally being driven from their home world. The more Radec explained the more furious Celestia became the fact that the Helghast were forced off of their home planet and being persecuted angered her, she couldn't help but feel sympathetic towards Radec and the rest of the Helghast.
"What will you and your people do now?"
"I propose an alliance princess if you are interested"
"Go on" she said her tone turning serious.
"Since my people are in need of a new home and it is obvious that you have more enemies than you were prepared for so my offer is this, you give me and my people territory for a new nation where we have our own laws and government and in return you will have not only our allegiance but access to our technology and training for your military seeing that most of your soldiers are lacking any." Radec stood up and held out a hand to Celestia at first she looked hesitant but then she realized that he made very good points ones that she, unfortunately, couldn't deny. The threats to Equestria were getting more and more dangerous so much so that even the Elements of Harmony could eventually become obsolete and that truly terrified her this alliance might be what she needs to keep her and her subjects safe.
"Very well I accept this alliance and its terms" she shook hands with Radec before they left to address the ponies and helghast outside. When Celestia stepped out into the hallway her eyes widened and her movement ceased when she saw Rainbow Dash and the helghast known as Syth wrestling on the floor. The wrestling lasted only for a little bit before Syth was on top and pinned Rainbow Dash to the ground by her wrists.
"I win" he stated and proceeded to get off leaving a very flustered Rainbow Dash before offering his hand which she took. Once both were on their feet/hooves they turned to see Radec and Celestia staring at them.
"What?" they both asked in perfect sync.
(Helghast Holding Cell)
Chrysalis was sitting in one off the alien holding cells with a look of shame, she had failed herself as well as her subjects. She probably thought the aliens were going to kill her and her remaining subjects which frightened her beyond anything else. Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard footsteps she looked up to see one of the aliens in elegant looking armor standing in front of her.
"Queen Chrysalis I presume" it, apparently a 'he', asked
"Who wants to know?"
"I am Colonel Mael Radec and I have an offer for you."
Author's Note
NOT DEAD HALLELUJAH
but in all seriousness sorry about late updates there has been some problems going on for me but its not gonna stop me from updating.
thanks for reading I hoped you enjoyed
I AM SHADE SHADOWFEEDER
saying stay shady and I'm out
