Rise of the Imperial Pony Empire

2 Years after the founding of the IPE

Location: Canterlot, SE

A spy is running from the guards in the city of Canterlot, home to the Solar Empire. She was caught spying on Celestia and collecting info on military, now, she is running for her life, trying to get out of the city. She had taken out as meany as 7 guards, see didn't have time to count, but only to have more come after her. She had possibly about half of the Canterlot garrison after her. She managed to reach the courier to get the info out of the city. Now, she was trapped in an enclosed city after the gates closed in on her and was surrounded by the guards. She finally surrenders after a long chase.

The mare was now hanging by chains in the Canterlot prison. They had tortured her, giving her no mercy. She had almost died in one of the torture chambers. They had finally given up, they will just let her rot. So she thought.

Celestia herself had showed up at last, the one thing she had wanted all along. She stood proud the Alicorn, glaring down on the spy that intruded her kingdom.

"Tell us where you have come from and you shall live." she threatened.

Smirking the spy replies, "And why would I do that?"

"Like I said you will li-"

"Bullshit." she snaps cutting her off. "You say that and once I had told you would have me killed." she thinks a bit, "But then again, you probably won't know where I come from is."

"Let me guess the Lunar Republic?" she guesses.

The mare laughs.

"Whats so funny?" Celestia asks clearly un-amused.

"Well, I am from a new player in the game of war that we are playing right now. We have better Tech, better armies and better leaders." the mare answers.

"And what that place be?" she asks.

The spy smiles, "The Imperial Pony Empire."

Location: Arthrenia, IPE

Rose looks out over the massive army that had formed in preparation to march into the Solar Empire. Fury and the Mayor stands next to her watching as well. After 2 years since the founding, the Imperium entered a golden age of tech and military. They still have the good old Rifle. They made the battle armor the Troops wear, more stronger and durable as well as add a new Tech armor under the main pieces which acts like a shirt, covering their open coat that's not protected by the main battle armor. They managed to grow their land without the knowledge of ether nations. Now, it was time to go to war with almost a massive 1 and a half million strong, and still growing.

"Well I have a idea Rose." Fury says turning to her.

"Go ahead."

"There is a outpost nearby our boarders belonging to the Solar Empire. I suggest we send a small assault team to delver a message." he informs.

"Hmm.." she thinks, "Yes that would be a good idea. Give them a nice little offer to not fight us or we will crush them."

"Alright i will mobilize a force to move there now." Fury informs her.

She nods, "Good luck Commander."

As he heads off into the keep of Arthrenian keep, Rose turn back to the army in the streets. They were singing a march as they paraded through the city. She smiles, as she starts to sing alone with them.

Location: West Boarder of the IPE

The squad of troopers start to enter the Solar Empire on the west toward the small base set up near the city up ahead. One of the guards near the base entrance spots them and yells to alert the others within the base. Some of the troopers bring their Rifles to bear instinctively, only to have them lowered by Fury.

"Don't worry, let them see us. "We will give them a surprise." he says.

The guards approach the strange dressed men with weapons ready. Stopping a good few inches away from Fury the ask, "Halt. What are you doing here? This is restricted area." says the main guard.

"Don't worry we want to give you all something." Fury replies calm.

The guard grunts, "We don't want your stupid bribes, you're probably from the NLR." he brings his weapons to bear as well as the other guards.

"Whoa, now we are not from the NLR but the IPE." Fury states.

The guard wavers, "Uh what?"

"The IPE." Fury says again.

Some of the guards start to laugh. "What kind of bandit clan is that?" he asks before a sound goes through the air and he falls over with a bullet hole in his head, going clean through the armor on his head. The other guards stop laughing to stare at their dead comrade. They then look up at the Troopers who had their Rifles to bear, and Fury with one smoking near the tip as he stares back at them.

"May I make a suggestion?" he stares at them hard enough that could scare a pack of timber-wolves, "Run."

The guards stand shell shocked till they start to turn tails and run away to the base. Fury and the Troopers just laugh at them as they run, but stop when they see the rest of the garrison, it was slightly bigger than their size of troops. Bringing their Rifles to bear they form a line, putting the close combat troops in the front and the Rifle-wielders in the back to fire over them. The guards were confused as they see them make the line and aim the weird sticks at them. The commander of the Garrison comes out and when he spots the line he thinks for a time before yelling, "Take cover!" about half of the guards follow suit and duck as the others get riddled with the barrage from the Rifles. The rest still recovering from the strange weapon they are facing. Some manage to get up right away and charge at the Troopers only to get ended full of bullets. The battle has begun.

It was a extremely short battle, thanks to the Rifles the Troopers had and the armor the Close-Combaters had. The whole garrison was wiped out save for a few wounded on the ground screaming and crying in pain.

Fury walks forward with the troopers in tow into the base, smiling he says, "That was probably the easiest thing ever done." Murmurs of agreements come from the Troopers as they loot the bodies of the dead. Fury finds the body of the Garrison commander and kicks him with a hoof, "I told you we just wanted to give you something." he says to it.

He turns to face the Troopers, "Alright," he yells, "let's set up defenses here. There is no doubt that they will be coming here to find out what happen to the garrison. We are to hold this area at all costs." He salutes, "For the Imperium!" 'For the Imperium!' came the response from the troops.

Location: Outpost near the IPE boarder, SE

A SE battalion was headed down the path to the outpost, when they heard a loud bang. They all stop suddenly and look around furiously for the source of the sound. The squad leader looks ahead to the Outpost in the distance.

"Come on, this way." he says waving them forward.

"SE troops coming in!" a spotter yells from the tower of the Outpost.

Fury nods acknowledgement, "Alright gather around," the troopers come together around Fury, "We are to hold this Outpost till they can't fight anymore. I want Rifle-wielders on the walls and Close-Combaters by the gate with me. Everypony know what to do?" he asks. He gets a nod or a yes as an answer. "Alright, let's give them hell!" They move to their respective points and wait.

As the SE soldiers come into view, they see a slaughtered Garrison before them. The commander moves up to the front of them, "It seems we are encountering an enemy unlike any other, keep your guard up and search the Outpost for survivors." he informs them. They nod silently and head in through the entrance.

"Attack!!!" Fury yells at his Troopers. The sound of Rifle-fire is followed soon after and screams of orders and dying fill the air almost immediately after. He turns the corner with his Close-Combaters not far behind him, into the Battalion of SE. He slams into the first SE soldier with his sword in his left wing grip and another in his right, stabbing the soldier through the chest and to the heart, killing him instantly. He starts combating many foes at once and downing them all without taking a single blow. Till, he runs into the Commander of the SE battalion. He had twin-blades like Fury but they were slightly shorter. He had a coat of pure white that was plastered with blood, and a yellow mane and tail. He turns on Fury and charges at him with swords high. Fury blocks at the last second and shoves him back.

"Come at me knave." He yells.

"Only if you come first." Fury yells back.

Growling, he comes forth slowly, then once he was a few inches, he lunges at Fury. Fury, surprised by the sudden attack gets beaten to the ground holding off his blows, till he finally gets the upper hoof by hitting the Commander in the head with the flat side of the blade stunning him momentarily. They move back a few inches, then simultaneously charged at each other once they collect themselves. The Commander was beating him down. Fury swings only to miss and hit the ground. The Commander see a chance and cuts his right wing off, leaving only a stub and a blood fountain. Fury screams in pain, for to lose a wing by combat was the most painful thing to happen. Fueled by his pain and anger for losing his wing, he charges at him only to get sidestepped and get his other wing cut off. He nearly passes out from the pain and blood loss. The Commander stood there gloating and laughing.

"Whats wrong wingless? Too much pain?" he laughs.

Fury gritting his teeth and fighting the pain, he grabs his fallen sword by the mouth and throws it at the Commander. He was laughing to much to notice the sword coming at him and stops his laugh short with a choke. He looks down at his chest to see the sword protruding out of him. His blades drop to the ground as he takes in the pain. With a final sound, he falls over on his side dead.

The SE soldiers seeing their commander fall, call out a retreat and they start to flee the fight back down the road. The troopers were cheering as they run, only to stop short as they spot Fury wingless, on the ground in a pool of his own blood.

Location: New IPE Outpost, field hospital

The new base was quiet. Most due to Fury being wounded in combat, and the morning of the loss of others. They didn't take too many losses, only a handful were lost, mostly due to lucky blows by the SE in combat. The SE, well, they didn't fair so well they lost almost all of their Soldiers in the fight. Only around 17 survived.

Fury was laying on the medical bed, unconscious, with medical equipment attached to him. There were a few others in there as well, some minor, some large like a broken wing or a cracked bone. Fury's remains of his wings were now wrapped in cloth to stop the blood loss, which it did. He had almost died right then and there on the field. He was lucky they had great medics in their team.

Location: Vanhoover, SE, west of IPE

The soldiers of the battalion were running back to the large base set up there to warn the Commander there of the new threat. Upon coming into view of the base guards, they were immediately let in. Just about all of them needed medical attention after the fight they had with the IPE.

As the Soldiers lay in the hospital in the base, the Commander enters the place to talk with the most able of them all, a Pegasus with a broken wing and many cuts across her form.

She sees the Commander come to her and stands at attention, "Sir!" she says saluting.

"At ease soldier." he says waving her down to sit. "What happen to the rest of you?"

Her face fills with dread, "It was a trap. The garrison was killed when we got there. When we entered the Outpost, we were jumped by unknown attackers." she says.

"Was it the NLR?" he asks.

"No. It was not. Its something new. Something we have never faced." she replies.

"Can you describe them?"

"Well....They had a odd looking armor it looked like it was thicker than ours and that was proven in my fight on one. It was red colored with a Black streak down the middle of the armor." she informs.

"Hmm...any clue on what they could be called?" he asks.

"Well, in my fight, I saw a symbol and 3 letters. IPE." she informs.

"This is new." he mumbles, "You have done well soldier. Do you know were your Commander is?" he asks.

She looks down, "He was slain in combat, only us 17 survived."

"Damn, he will be missed." he says.

"Yea."

"Well I should leave you be to rest. You and the rest of your team will get a higher ration of food." he says.

"Thank you sir." she replies laying down.

The Commander walks out of the Hospital and demands a messenger. The messenger comes up, she was a Pegasus.

"Sir what do you need of me?" she asks saluting.

"I need you to deliver this message to Celestia of this new threat we are facing." he says.

"Yes sir it shall be done right away." she says before taking off toward Canterlot.

Watching her fly away, he sighs, "This was a peaceful part of the Empire, now there will be war."

Location: Canterlot, SE

Celestia was reading messages from the bases when she picks up an urgent one from Vanhoover. She pops it open and begins reading it. As she reads down, her eyes grow in size in shock. She puts the paper down and looks out the window near her. Thinking back to the spy she captured a few days back. She put the pieces together in her mind as she looks back to the window once again but this time, looking Northwest.

"It seems we have a problem." she says grimly.