I wasn't scared. Honest I have vanquished demons that stand miles high, stood against monsters born to kill me and stared Hell itself down until it collectively pissed it's pants, so why would I be scared of what one of the hooded ones called "Princess Celestia, Alicorn of the Solar Heavens?" Certainly not because her her mane was on fire or that the air around her shimmered with waves of heat or that the very stones of the castle below her melted into slag as she walked on them, and most of all not that she was neighing and nickering at me and I couldn't understand a single word she was saying.

The massive spire standing proudly atop her head would have been intimidating alone but the glow surrounding it only added to the sense of danger surrounding her. Her nickers and neighs continued before one of the hooded cleared it's throat and a small exchange went on between them. Her horn glowed brighter than the sun before I heard a disappointed motherly voice "Why would you slaughter my guards so barbarically?"

"Translation module detected. Integrating in 3, 2, 1. Integration complete: translation module Common Equestrian Tongue acquired." VEGA's voice buzzes in my ear while "Princess" Celestia stares at me clearly waiting for an answer.

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Though the sun hasn't moved, it feels like it's been several hours that she's been staring at me. No sound emates from the throne room until one of the hooded clears his throat "Your Highness, I'm not trying to hurry your interrogation or anything, but myself and the rest of The Eclipsed have to get back out there. Redeemer has already searched the guard who was found with him for wrongdoing."

Celestia turned that raging glare upon the poor member of these "Eclipsed" who was speaking and seemed oblivious to the grave he was obviously digging for himself. "A mare who just watched two of her friends killed in front of her and one of them crippled to the day he dies and you force her to relive those moments... How many times?"

The stallion hung his head in shame for several moments before a soft "Six times Your Highness" was heard.

Celestia's eye twitched several times as the hem of the stallion's cloak started smoking... Wait a minute, everything was smoking. The waves of heat roiling off of her were burning away everything in the throne room. Clopping hooves sprinted across the floor as the female guard stood in front of her interrupting her glare and the inferno in the room.

Celsestia's glare returned to me "You stand accused of two counts of murder most foul against royal guards, one count of assault with deadly intentions, treason against the crown and several other crimes. Do you offer any defense against these charges? Silence will be taken as an invitation to search your mind for proof or innocence of this crime."

My silence echoed.

"Very well then. I will search your memory for any hint of these crimes. If I detect any of these crimes, I will banish you to Tartarus. Prepare yourself." With that. her horn glowed and she touched it to my helmet. Instantly flashes of Hell appeared in her eyes, bodies torn apart, flesh piled to the heavens, lakes of burning blood, demons tearing each other apart and eventually even the Icon of Sin itself.

She watched as the many-mile tall beast attacked me, it's bloated body unable to stand under it's own power as blood leaked from the monstrosity's mouth and into the pool of blood stretching to the horizons around it. Demons crawled from lake of blood and onto the stones barely rising above the pool. Fire and lightning and plasma flew past me as the lesser demons attempted to protect the Icon. For the longest time, I battled lesser hellspawn as I sought some way to bring down this abomination.

My chaingun coughed a steady stream of bullets into wall of muscle, bone and rage before tearing the baron in half. Several bullets ricocheted wildly inflicting more damage until a roar knocked me off my feet. I noticed the Icon was rubbing a hole on its head. My only chance was to hope that lead close enough that I could damage the brain with something.

What to use? bullets might bounce around in there, but they would be nothing but bee stings to it, my plasma rifle might hurt it, but it couldn't do collateral damage to the beast, my BFG would fry anything if i could line it up, but the hole was only about 2 meters wide and I couldn't force the beast to hold still for the shot. The last weapon in my arsenal was my rocket launcher. Oh yes this would be good.

My rockets flew with all of the hopes and dreams for the human race upon them straight into the creature's face. Rivers of blood ran down its face as my rockets blew small craters in its head. I dropped to one knee for added stability and pumped my last three rockets into the monster all together. A massive cloud of smoke and flame erupted from the hole as the beast screamed. Every single demon who had crawled from the blood fell together as one and melted into a soup of gore.

As the memory ended, Celestia pulled away, her snow white coat was tinged green and her eyes filled with tears. She stumbled up to her throne and curled like a ball at the foot of it. The Eclipsed mumbled between themselves but none approached the sobbing royal, until another voice was heard echoing "TIA, THE SUN RIDES HIGH WHEN MY MOON SHOULD BE..."

Another alicorn stood at the archway, her extremely dark blue coat stood in sharp contrast to Celestia's shining white coat and her black mane shot through with small pinpricks of light differentiated her from Celestia's variegated one. Her eyes seemed to rove the room taking in every single microscopic detail in seconds and then she was standing beside the fallen alicorn.

"Sister, please tell me what's wrong. I promise I will fix it."

"Lulu, there's nothing that any of us can do to fix it."

"I promise I will fix it, please tell me."

"That creature over there was brought before me for two counts of murder and he's guilty of it and so much more, and there's no way we can punish him for any of it."

The blue alicorn's eyes glared at me with unrestrained hatred. "Why can we not banish him to Tartarus or strike him down where he stands?"

Celestia's eyes locked onto mine through my visor "Because Allmother Harmony herself couldn't stop the hellish creatures that will follow him, and he'll walk through Tartarus with a smile to come back and take revenge if we banish him."

"Nonsense. I will punish him for his crimes" Her horn glowed with black light as Celestia shouted at her, but it was too late. A beam of black light burst from her horn and shot straight at me.

The beam struck me right in the chest. Electricity began sparking around me as VEGA's voice in my ear spoke

"Argent Energy charge approaching unsafe levels. Argent Energy charge at over 500% Argent Energy levels approaching lethal levels. Argent Energy levels at over 5000% charge. Argent Energy levels exceeding eighteen petawatts. Venting Argent Energy now. "

A massive roar shook the castle as vicious spires of lightning arced from me to every single piece of metal in the chamber. Luckily enough, the only creature wearing metal was the dark alicorn and her battle armor. Her armor melted and pooled beneath her on the floor, her horn charred black and her eyes rolled into her head.

I stretched my arms out as lightning exploded from my fingertips. Anywhere the lightning struck was instantly consumed in arcing halos of energy or melted down into slag.

When the HUD in my helmet finally read that my Argent reserves were empty, I was standing in an empty throne room. Every bit of metal in the room had liquefied, all of the stones in the room glowed and oozed downwards and anything else in the room was ash.

Around one of the servant's doors popped Princess Celestia's head and around the other popped Lulu's. Celestia was snickering while Lulu said "If you say 'I told you so,' I will ensure that the chefs make no cake for the next thousand years." That shut Celestia up fast.

Author's Note

Praetor Suit Ability Unlocked: Overload

You are now able to overcharge your armor past 200% At any point in time, if you have more than 200% armor, you can dump all of your armor to overload your suit and gain the ability to briefly direct lightning at your targets

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STARTING POINT, WHY YOU SO HARD

I know that the sisters should speak in olde english but i'm a little too lazy to write like that, plus it would have added like a week onto this chapter, so no "royal we" are going to appear. also i have no idea if the previous sentence is grammatically correct in the slightest.

I can't fully comprehend how much energy that is, but i do comprehend that it's enough to power a small planet

I apologize for the fallout equestria style of perk, but it's the only way i could think to signify an ability or upgrade without intrusive vega dialog or meta dialog from the doom slayer.

EDIT: errors pointed out by this confused dude who wasn't too confused to point out problems. thank you