As an Astartes, Alpha have learned that things never goes as smoothly as you plan, but the reaction to the situation is what makes an Astartes who they are. His chain sword lay a several meters away from him. The blood-stained hydras glared at him, calling to him, but the guards stood in the way, aware of its capability if he were to hold it once more. The guards let loose a wave of magical shots and sent their vanguards at him, Alpha tore through their ranks with devastating effect, wielding a bleeding broken spear taken from a fallen guard, like the many others that littered the hall behind him. He used the bodies of the recently slain as shields, picking them up in his hooves and charging them. He is still not use to standing on his hooves but as long as he can do it he couldn’t care less. Magical blasts blew away chunks of his flesh cover and a vanguard’s spear tore through it, making his shield null. He threw the meat shield at the vanguard, pinning him long enough for Alpha to quickly jam the spear into his skull.

With his speed, their magical shots and primitive spears didn’t come close to hitting their target, those that did find their mark were ineffective against the heavy power-armor. He lodge the broken shaft at a guard’s throat, who in his dying breaths attempted to dislodge it. A panicking unicorn fired at his face as Alpha charged, successfully knocking his head aside, but his victory was short-lived as a creamite hoof smashed the private’s skull against the white stonework.

“Stop him already, you are the Canterlot Royal Guard!” their sergeant urged them on. However, a few of his troops lack the discipline to carry on the will to fight causing those that did to meet an early grave. Their sergeant cursed at their shortcoming and drew his short sword to met with the Astartes. The sergeant was skilled to say the least with the short sword and offered a more interesting fight than his subordinates, Alpha would be lying if he said he wasn’t taking a little pleasure in it.

Their blade flew in the air with roars and silent deadliness. Many times the sergeant drew his blade close to vital points of the armor -the joints, the exposed neck- but Alpha was able to parry the blade against each strike. In addition, with each parry the iron blade chipped against the force of the roaring creamite chain-sword. In a last ditch effect the Royal Guard grabbed one of the fallen flower pot nearby and threw it at Alpha, whom blocked it, shattering the pot and spraying water over him. The Guard lunged at Alpha in his blindness, his blade aimed once more at the exposed neck. Suddenly the Guard felt a burst of pain followed by numbness and fell to the floor with a hard thump. The guard couldn’t move as his blood seeped into the floor, a deep gash at his abdomen exposing his innards to the open air. Alpha paied no more mind to the sergeant as he drew his final breath. He shook the water out of his fur.

“He’s over here!” Another patrol had found him, deploying a mix of earth ponies, unicorns, and even pegesi armed with various melee weapons. He turned to them, he will no longer run, he can no longer play it quietly. He has what he came for and now these xenos will learn the strength of an Astartes. The time to strike is now.

He charged once more into the fray.

[2 HOURS PRIOR] [Within the Library]

The small lizard creature looked left and right, seeing no one, it took the fallen book with him. Alpha hung above on, using the bookshelves as ledges. With his purser gone, he dropped down and left through the double doors, after making sure that no more ponies were around.

The corridors had little means of nighttime lights, save for a few candle lights that lit a few halls. The moon provide the means of lighting up the building in an evening glow. There were few guards save for the distant hoof-steps that he hear echoing from the different parts of the castle. He was cautious regardless, he still doesn’t know the full extent of their security. He crept through the halls, attempting to find any signs of the archives.

He soon passed by a set of stairs that led to the lower levels of the castle, conveniently labeled Canterlot Archives. he made his way down to the steps with silence until he reached an iron door with a restriction sign. He tried to push the door only to find it locked, so he hid under the stairwell until a guard made his rounds. When the guard opened the door, he rushed at the guard and snapped his neck. He donned the guard’s armor and took the keys off his corpse. After hiding the body, he went inside disguised as the guard.

The door led to a single hallway filled with more rooms. Hundreds of shelves lined the hall, filled with scrolls, books, and other small oddities. A few had paintings and large carvings between the shelves. There were rooms with containers that held items locked within magical force field. From fossils of ancient beast, to dusty books not meant for the public to see. Alpha took inventory of all the items, seeing every conceivable use that he may need of them in the future.

Finally he reached a room that lead to a balcony. Below, guards and other ponies moved about. There were only a few guards and the other ponies were all unicorns. Some were elder and up-coming researchers, their apprentices and assistants milled about taking notes and doing what the researchers asked of them. At the center laid a large, round, marble platform, lay his prize: his Legionnaire power armor in separate pieces. The researchers took notes as they ran varies tests on

He needs to get the room cleared.

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A crash echoed through the room. The guards quickly dispatched to the main hall, a few of the researchers and their assistants follow them to assess the damage. At the scene, some of the researchers broke down in tears, one fell to his knees and cried out “Why Celestia?! Why?!” at the now broken remains of a once perfect skeleton of an ancient dragon, a project that they’ve spent weeks cataloging and collecting data.

The few that remained in the room were careful as they continued their study, one of the apprentices would’ve saw a shadow moved if he was paying attention. Ebony Mane was busy using his magic to take notes and data as his mentor spoke to him, whom was looking over the cooled armor after the spell resistance test.

“Amazing…” Searin Gemlock, Ebony’s aged mentor, said, rubbing his aged hoof around the scorch mark of their recent experiment, beneath the scorch mark was a perfectly undamaged pauldron. “This armor is able to resist the effects of some of the most powerful magical inflictions. Look at the inscriptions Ebony,” he said, pointing to the minuscule markings on the armor, “We don’t know the origins of these words nor what they mean, but we do know that they play a role in the armor’s protection, least in the magical portion of it. It’s simply amazing, this technology is far more advanced than our own, and we can make so much innovation with enough data.”

His expression suddenly changed to a frown, “The one thing I can’t get over is size of the armor as well as the weight. The design is made for an earth pony yet there is no record of ponies growing naturally to this size. Not only that, it took five unicorns to lift the whole armor up with their magic to transport. Even if we used an enlargement spell on a willing subject, it would only be temporary let alone for extended use lest we risk magical overdose. Even then, there lies the matter if the pony is strong enough to wear such things…”

“None of you are fit to don the armor regardless,” A dark voice sounded behind his mentor. The old unicorn screamed in protest.

“By Celestia, don’t sneak up on me like that. I nearly had a heart attack,” he scolded

Both unicorns got a good look at the their sudden guest. He was wearing Canterlot armor, yet it was somewhat of a tight fit. There was something about his chaotic green eyes made Ebony Mane uncomfortable. While the his mentor bashed the oversize guard about proper social conduct, the apprentice shifted his eyes from the guard to the armor.

‘None of you are fit to don the armor.’ An idea formed in his head. He called to his mentor and whispered to him.

“I think one of his size should be able to fit in the armor, and if we have to, we can use a strengthening spell.” he whispered. The old unicorn thought about it for a minute, looking over the guard and the alien armor set. Finally, he nodded and turned to the guard.

“We would like ask you a favor,” the old unicorn said, “This artifact has been generous given to us by her majesty Princess Celestia for our study, and we would like your to test this artifact, seeing you’re the only one large enough for it.”

“It would be an honor,” he said passively, guess guards have an image to keep.

“Alright everyone, we have a subject to test the armor.” the unicorn ordered. The crew immediately mobilized to their stations. Three ponies disassembled the armor, one unbolt it, another unscrewed them, and the last used his magic to lift the heavy pieces with much strain to the proper placement on the large red guard.

The old unicorn watched with excitement as the pieces came together without flaw. A lot of time have been spent on studying the pieces of armor and trying to understand the armor with no avail, few could not understand a thing about it while others would get a sense of foreboding and claimed that they’ve been getting nightmares, both parties quit the research, but that can all change now that they have a subject to test the armor itself and its capability.

After a painstaking hour of fitting, everyone in the room was in awe at what they saw. A metal beast that towered over all of them, the ornate armor was bold yet dull. The face was that of a angry black god, its red eyes glowing with infinite malice and its maw a set of razor plate teeth. A faint hum of power thrummed from the armor, as the red eyes awoken.

“SYSTEMS ONLINE.” the guard’s voice emanated from the suit, which had a cold metallic edge to it. A round of cheers erupted from the crew and researchers, eager to start testing and collecting data. It was a crowning moment, both the mentor and apprentice were in joy. It was only when the jubilance died down did the wearer speak.

“Where are the weapons?” The voice maliciously.

They looked at one another in confusion. The armored pony had not moved since donning the armor, so they thought they might have misheard him, their reluctance was also due to the last pony that handled the weapons end up blowing himself up and his lab. Not to mention that only the Princesses and the researchers knew about the weapons

“Well we have to do a few physical tests before we can move to any other testing.” one of researchers said, cautious of the unmoving giant. The others researchers they wanted to flee, but didn’t dare in growing fear of catching the attention of the metal giant.

The suit turned to towards the one talking to him with suddenness that the pony was forced to stare at the deep glowing eyes.

“I’m only saying this once. Give me my weapons at once.”

The guards immediately surrounded the imposter, weapons and spells at the ready. The Gemlock spoke out seriously.

“Stop this, the weapon tests are not yet ready for any study. They are too dangerous and volatile for any pony to handle right now.”

((a little music to set the tone.))

The guards continue to be weary of the armored giant. It easily towers over them, but it will not stop them from doing their duty. However, they were so focused on keeping him in their sight that they were caught off guard when he moved to one of the guards and snapped his neck. They were paralyzed with shock but that didn’t stop the imposter from launching himself and killing two more guards. He quickly picked up a spear in his mouth from one of the fallen without skipping a beat, and charged once more. Finally the remaining guards snapped out of their fearful daze and attacked. The unicorns charged their spells and fired. Many of the shots just grazed the armor, a few leaving small scratches and hitting other things or leaving scorch marks on the walls. The few shot that did hit the mark, did little to stop the metal behemoth. The spearhead pierce the unicorn guard’s skull and caked his coat crimson. He yanked the spear out and sliced the throat of the last guard before he set his weapon at the ready.

Save for those forty seconds of death, silence loomed in the room, the lives of the guards slowly spill out onto the tilted floor. The researchers were in shocked as the instant death that the creature dealt to the guards, they have not seen such a display of death with the exception of one of the researchers setting off one of the explosives from the suit on the first day. Suddenly the quiet was broken by a single shout of fear.

“RUN!!”

Ebony Mane ran screaming, as did many others. They were being chased by the destructive juggernaut, his metal hoof steps smashed onto the floor with each thunderous step. At one point, the hoof-steps seems to have stopped and moved towards a different direction. More guards rush pasted him, and loud bells can be heard across the grounds, but no sooner the guards went past, Ebony Mane heard a mechanical roar and a slick sound of tearing flesh that accompanied the screams of agony.

More guards attempted to stop the mad pony but were met with the same fate as those before them. He can hear the screams of his fellow workers and their cries of help as the monster reach to them first and dealt the killing blow. A few times, he could hear them pled for their lives just before it swiftly ended. His lungs burned as he galloped. He wasn’t the most active of ponies much like his childhood, and oh how he regretted cutting gym as a foal, as weak sluggish muscles threaten to slow him to his doom. He can only hoped that by some sheer luck that Princess Celestia will stop him and end the massacre.

As he and a few of surviving researchers turned the corner, Ebony Mane found that they are not the only ones evacuating. What seems like an impossible amount of ponies from the night shift and day shift staff were heading in the same direction, herded by the Royal guards. However the congested halls made it difficult to move quickly and the other ponies weren’t aware of the amount of danger they are in. Ebony was still not confident in his safety even with the large group of guards protecting them, even when the resounding thuds of the metal hoof steps and sounds of battle were far behind him. He ran up to one of guards.

“You need to stop that monster!” Ebony shout in the guard’s face, “You need to get every guard you have and stop him!”

“Get back with the group citizen, the Royal Guard are doing everything in their power to quell the intruder and evacuate everypony from the castle as soon as possible.” the guard said impassively, surely he doesn’t understand the danger that pony poses.

“You don’t understand, that thing is a monster! It can not be stopped by the Guard alone, only the Princesses can stop him. Where are they?!” The conversation has drawn the attention of the crowd, a few starting asking the same thing with hushed voices. The guard noticed this.

“Princess Celestia is making preparations with the Captain to stop the intruder, and Princess Luna is overseeing the evacuation.” the guard responded. The guard’s tone only angered Ebony further. He wanted to say more, but he stopped suddenly when he heard the sounds of thumping hooves. It wasn’t the sound of clinking guard armor, it was a set of hooves that rumbled with the force of a buffalo herd. Everyone turned towards the noise.

It was the intruder covered in blood and his helmet hung on his side. Ebony can see his face was contorted into a battle harden war face. His red coat matted with crimson and he noticed the twin slanted scars along his neck, making Ebony shortly wonder about what kind of large beast managed to wound him. The intruder managed to get the alien sword that they had in the same room that day. Ebony remember examining the weapon, it was like nothing they seen before. It was shaped like a sword but further examination revealed that the engine was meant to rotate the teeth-like blades along the sword’s edge. Even from the distance, Ebony can see the burr along the length of the blade, the roar of the weapon was that of a mad beast.

“MOVE! EVCAUTAE IMMEDIATELY!” the guard pushed Ebony aside and meets the intruder with three more guards. Ebony and the rest of the evacuees ran, the crowd screamed as they did so. They ran, escorted by two pegasi guards, until they ran out the palace gates. Ebony pause, as everyone else ran into the night, and looked back, the windows were glowing red and he can still has the faint growl of the mad beast…

[PRESENT]

The chain blade tore through the guard’s neck with a sickening smoothness. The guard futilely attempted to stop the grave wound as his life spilled on Alpha’s metal hooves. Alpha looked up from his recent kill. Several guards lay still, a few of them still twitched a hoof in death spasms. Alpha briefly viewed his handiwork. The guards managed to corner him in one of the many rooms in the castle, but they were no match for his skills. Blood stains the once immaculate windows, remaining candles in their holdings dimly lit the room, cracked stonework bleeds from the smashed skulls of the guards, a pristine painting of a bloody hero standing victorious against a now dead dragon brought to life with actual blood, and a fallen daisy soaks in the crimson liquid. Battle stimulus and blood-lust burned within, urging him to seek out more prey, he didn't have to wait long. More guards pour out from the hall and into the room, a combination of pegasai, normals, and large squads of unicorns,

“Magic Division, Aim!” shouted the commander. Unicorns readied their magic blast. Alpha was already at charging speed, with the chain sword’s microengine roaring for battle.

“Fire!” A stream of magic shots flew down the corridors, showering him with hits like small punches, ignorable.

“Beam Fire!” the commander ordered, and a score of unicorns moved to the front with horns charged and released a large beam of magic at Alpha, exploding on impact. The guards briefly felt their pride swell for bringing down the monster. with orders to capture the intruder alive, the earth ponies drew close the small column of smoke to bring him in. Suddenly, Alpha jumped out of the cloud of smoke and cut a guard’s head clean off.

“Vanguards Charge!” the commander ordered. The heavily armored earth ponies charge with spears and halberds at the fore, pushing Alpha back with the blunt force at the cost of their pole-arms and to some their lives. Alpha veered to the side when a grey pegasus launched a javelin at him. He gripped the weapon with both hooves and tossed it straight back at her with such strength that the pegasus didn’t react until it pierced her half way and embedded her to the wall. Alpha’s systems were signaling red flashes within his helm, the beam attack had drained most of the power pack and several other subsystems are in danger of shuting down, he can not afford to battle for too lest he risks a glancing blow that would stop him indefinitely.

After he gutted one of the guards, he mag-locked his chain sword and charged into the wall behind him. He can hear the commander shout the “Beam Fire” and just as his shoulder guard crash through the wall. The unicorns’ magic exploded around him, sending him through the wall right into a female guard and the purple unicorn whom Alpha remembered was named Twilight by the small lizard. Twilight was knocked back from the blast and Alpha crashed into the female guard pony. She was quicker to react than he thought, and managed to avoid being completely crushed beneath the armor, but her hind hoof was caught and her blunt hoof strikes were meaningless against the Astartes’ ceremite armor. He bit into her neck, drawing a flow of blood. she strikes quickly became weaker and soon lost consciousness, but she pulse still beat. He toss her body out of the way and march towards the now wide-eyed Twilight.

“YOU!” she shouted. He quickly responded by knocking her out and draping her over his back, that should ward off the unicorns from firing for a while.

“After him!” tens of hooves chased after him, unicorns firing pot shots and pegasi throw javelins or loosing arrows. The commander isn’t going to let the murderer of his charges escape. He suddenly realize that the intruder had a civilian. “Watch you fire, he has a civilian!” he warned.

Alpha continued to run down the corridors, turning several times when a massive groups of guards stood in his way. He’s no fool. He can clearly see that they are herding him to somewhere. He will let them lead him into whatever trap they have ready and he will destroy all of them.

Soon enough, Alpha busted through the ornate doors right into the throne room, stain-glass windows and soft red carpeting leads up to the throne. In the middle of the throne room is a white unicorn wearing purple armor and a large white one with both wings and a horn, who he can guess is Princess Celestia. This is somwhat unexpected. He can see surprise flash in her eyes for a second. She took a step forward.

“So we finally meet my little mysterious pony. You have stirred up a bit of trouble in my kingdom.” The purple armored unicorn stood between the two of them, guarding the Princess.

“Stay behind me Princess,” he said. He eyes flashed with recognition and worry towards the purple unicorn. “Twiliy!” he rushes towards her rescue but quickly corrects himself, glaring at Alpha.

"She better be ok or I'll-"

“Do not worry Shining Armor. I will get her back and I am quite capable of defending myself.” Celestia interrupts, a hint of doubt rose in Shining’s mind.

“I will not put you in danger too Princess.” he said, facing Alpha, horn glowing.

The rest of the guards have finally have caught up to Alpha, and they surround the throne room, spears at the ready and spells charged. Alpha only chuckled softly and dropped the unconscious Twilight not so gently to the floor, making her grunt in pain and the captain of the guard to bare his teeth at him, and he pulled out his chain sword.

“You are surrounded, drop your weapon!” Shining ordered roughly. Alpha stoically let his chain-sword roar in response, causing Shining Armor and several of the guards to flinch at the noise while Celestia narrowed her eyes.

She spoke to Alpha. “You’ve hurt many of my citizens, caused chaos in Ponyville and killed many of my finest guards and researchers," Her eyes were filled with regret and disappointment, "It didn’t have to be this way. Lay down your weapon now and I will lighten your punishment.”

Even with a chain sword in his mouth, a dark laughter echoed within the spacious room.

“You truly believe that I will lay down my weapon which you have stolen from me? You xenos have ripped me of my armor and attempted to use it for your soldiers. It is foolishness if you believe that I would ever yield .”

Shining Armor step forward. “Then it is my duty as captain of the guard to stop you personally.”

“Challenge Accepted.” Alpha gunned the chain sword and lunge at the Princess.

“BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!”

Alpha was just about to lop the Princess’ head when he was countered by a broadsword. Shining had produced a broadsword from thin air, readying for himself for Alpha’s next strike. The blade was half as tall as the wielder with runes running the length of the blade with a dense blue glow. However, unlike Alpha, he was holding it in his hooves. So holding things with his hooves is possible Alpha observed, but he needs to learn to do so quickly, holding a shaking chain sword with his mouth isn’t the best way to use a chain sword.

Shining Armor came charging at him swinging his blade in an horizontal arc, determination and rage flared in his eyes. Alpha parried the blow and he aimed to strike his neck. Shining managed to parry with the flat of the blade, struggling to prevent the hungry teeth of the chain sword from eating at his flesh. Alpha was a little surprised that the broadsword didn’t break under the teeth of his chain sword, but he saw a faint layer of aura. The psyker was using magic to protect the blade, and Alpha plans to find out how long his magic will protect him.

When the guard captain pushed Alpha away from him, Alpha charged the captain. He slammed the active chain blade against the enchanted broadsword. The sounds of screeching metal and constant braking magic filled the air, cause several of the guards to drop their weapons and clutch their ears against the violent noise, Celestia herself twitched an eye. Shining shifted his weight and moved out of the way, only to have Alpha come straight at him without a moment’s rest. Alpha went low and managed to clip Shining’s leg, drawing first blood. Shining grunted in pain, but remained standing, because if he didn't Twilight and the Princess will be in grave danger.

Shining Armor threw his rune blade at Alpha, sending it at great speeds despite its size and weight. Alpha knocked away the sword easily enough but Shining shot a burst of magic that knocked his sword out of his grip and sent him flying a good meter. Alpha firmly landed on his hooves, but he was struggling with more than just his battle with the captain of the guard. Bloodlust clawed at the back of his mind, calling to him to go in a frenzy and rip Shining apart with tooth, hoof, and anything else. Pushing the bloodlust aside, he picked up his sword and charge at Shining Armor once more. Shining was using his magic, but Alpha couldn’t see the object he was using it on. Suddenly he faintly heard the whizzing coming behind him. He turned to defend himself as the blade came back at him but the blade came flying back to strike him as he charged the captain. Shining took this time to charge another spell, the light of his horn growing with power.

Just as Alpha closed the distance, his vision was blocked by the blade, and when he parried the blade, he was caught in the full blast of Shining’s magic at point-blank. If it was not for the armor, he would be dead, but it didn’t prevent him from sailing across the room and crashing into the thick stonework. His eyes refuse to focus themselves and he can hear the guards moving in on him. Bloodlust raged in his mind, and he was forced to lay there trying to focus his mind into working conditions with great difficultly.

The guards closed around the fallen warrior. The spell blast took a lot of the already exhausted Shining Armor, and parrying and blocking Alpha’s attacks were of no easy matter. Using his magic on his sword and the charged blast took more energy than he would like but he was glad that the fight was finally over. He doubt that he would have last much longer against such a warrior of an intruder.

“Secure him.” Shining ordered, sitting on his hunches. The guards surround the pony weary of any sudden movement. Shining Armor turned to get Twilight, whom was now waking into consciousness.

“Twilight!” Shining called, weakly walking towards her. Twilight shook her head and looked at her brother and smiled.

"RWAAAAGH!!"

Shining turned, shaken by the vocal force like everyone in the room, as Alpha exploded through the guards, leaving them in a whirlwind of blood. Chainsword in hoof and madness in his eyes, Alpha reached Shining with ever surprising speeds. Shining just managed to called his blade to him with his magic and block the crazed Astartes. Twilight gasped as he was forced to the ground by the Astartes’ overwhelming strength. Thankfully, he managed to get a two handed grip on the blade to keep himself from being devoured by the roaring teeth of the chainsword.

Shining was close enough to see the pin-pricks of his pupils. However within his eyes was the swirling colors of his magic. They continued to shift around until it dissipate into Alpha’s chaotic green eyes. Shining Armor kick the Astartes off him. Alpha grabbed a grip on the carpet and used the momentum to slash his chainsword at Shining’s torso, causing Shining cry out and fall on his side with blood spilling from the deep wound.

“Shining Armor!” Twilight cried.

Alpha held his blade high and strike at Shining to deal the death blow, before he was shot by a beam of light and exploded.

“Enough of that,” said the solar princess, the burning magic aura around her beginning to simmer down. Princess Celestia moved towards Shining Armor, Twilight herself is already at his side casting a healing spell, constantly barraging him with questions of his well-being as she focused on the spell.

“It’s alright Twilight, it’s only a flesh wound.” he said weakly, only to cough up a bit of blood, which only resulted in more worry from Twilight. Soon, Twilight cancelled her magic.

“I managed to stop the bleeding. It’s not much but I did what I could.” Twilight said, a bit disappointed that she couldn't do more.

“Do not worry Twilight, a medic is on the way and his life is no longer in danger.” the Princess stated smiling.

A mechanical growl interrupted their conversation. They all turned to the source of the pile of smoke with growing dread. Alpha stood there, battered and bleeding but still standing, with chain sword underneath his hoof. The inscriptions on his armor were glowing white with heated energy. Despite the damage that he took, he looked like he was unfazed by it.

“I’m going to destroy you all for that.” he growled, he charged at them with sword raised. Madness and rage can be heard an his battle cry.

A pillar the size of Celestia crashed into Alpha and crushed him against the stonework. Everyone was looking at Twilight, whose horn and eyes were glowing with powerful energy, her face of anger slowly became more relaxed with her breathing though her eyes were still furrowed.

“No pony messes with my brother.” she growled. The whole party cautiously moved to the Chaos soldier. He was still breathing but he was knocked out. Every single one of them visibly released the tension, with the exception of Celestia whom was mostly impassive but glad that it’s finally over. Celestia turned to the remaining guards.

“Get the wounded to the hospital wing, get a roster of the fallen, we must prepare a large precession for them” she said sullenly, but she turned to the intruder with a stern face. “and have him sent to the dungeon, strip him of his armor and use the strongest shackles we have on him. Send word to my sister that she is to meet me in the dungeon as soon as possible and that she can have the staff escorted back to the castle.” the guards saluted her and carried out their assignments.

Suddenly Spike came rushing in the throne room, with a score of medics, several carrying stretchers. “Twilight!” he shout with joy, but pause when he noticed the room. “Whoa…what happened here?”

“Long story” she said. Celestia moved next to Twilight.

“You should stay here for the night and head off in the morning. I’ll have Silver Wing escort you to one of the guest rooms.”

“Thank you Princess,” Twilight bowed and followed the guard to her room, with Spike tailing behind her.

“And we will talk later about what you are doing here so late at night,” the Princess said behind her. Twilight visibly cringed before responding, “Yes Princess...”

Spike whispered to Twilight, “You are going to tell me what happened right?”

“Yeah in the morning; right now I want to some sleep.”

“I guess I could use a little sleep too.” Spike yawned.

Princess Celestia stood watching her throne room in disarray, guards and incoming staff worked hard to clean the space. She watched out the window, her horn glowing with magic as the sun rose over the horizon, heralding the new day. She sighed and made her way to the dungeon.

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When Alpha opened his eyes, Celestia and a smaller dark blue princess with the mark of a crescent moon and an ethereal black mane filled with stars stood before him in a dungeon cell. Alpha quickly assessed his holdings. The darken cell was small and windowless but big enough that the princesses are able to stand side by side within. The room was made with stone bricks and the single iron door had only a small bar window to which to view outside the cell; he can see the royal guard from the open door. He quickly find out that his fore-hooves were heavily shackled to the wall, forcing him to stand or hang there.

“He’s awake sister.” said the dark princess

“That he is, Luna.” Celestia responded, neither of them taking their eyes off him. Celestia and Luna’s stern eyes look upon him with clear disdain.

“Sister we implore you, we should have destroy this creature while we have a chance.” Luna pleaded with her sister. After hearing the reports on Alpha’s actions, Luna was quick to decide that he should be immediately executed, which did not go unsupported by a few members of the council.

“What is your name creature?” Celestia demanded.

“I am Alpharius” He answered.

“Well Alpharius, know that we will be forced to probe your mind unless you answer our questions forthright.” Celestia warned. Alpha remained unfazed.

“Where are you from?” She asked. Alpha was silent.

“Who are you working for?” Luna demanded. Silence. Luna turned to Celestia in order to convince her of execution.

“I am Alpharius. I work for no xenos.” Alpha spoke, his stern eyes gazed upon them. “Return my possessions and I may spare your lives.”

“Know your place, you are speaking with the Princesses of Equestria” Luna fumed, tempted to do the deed right there. Celestia calmly held a hoof to stop her and turned back towards Alpha when Luna calmed down.

“I see…” Celestia answered. “However, we must probe your mind. I will not lie, this will be not be pleasant.”

Alpha growled at them but before he can truly test the strength of his chains, the princesses horns lit up and his vision was filled with light.

The world around him shook with the sounds of incoming fire. Alpha rose from his resting slab of his sleeping quarters. His hands immediately gripped his sword, bolter, and pistol, mag-locking his sword and pistol to his armor. The ship was a flurry of activity, as he emerged from his quarters, maintenance staff moved to fix machines and douse fires in a burr of action.

He found himself moving towards the bridge, wanting some answers from the captain, like where are rest of the warband. He came into the bridge, rifle at the ready. His trip to the bridge was isolated, as was the bridge itself. The consoles and cogitators were on and blinking with activity but there was no one around, the command throne was desolate. The shaking had stop but he can still hear the sounds of void battle in the distance. He switched out his bolter for the sword and pistol, the mechanical blade growing softly like a hunter ready to strike. But this wasn’t real, none of this was…

Alpha open fire on the shadow that has been following him. The shadow moved swiftly, moving around the room completely avoiding the shots as they left scoring marks in the consoles. It was toying with him. He shot a nearby console; it sparked and exploded, frightening the intruder, long enough to shoot it in the leg. As the creature fell bawling, Alpha charged at the entity and slashed at him with his roaring chain blade. However he was engulfed in a field of energy unable to move. Magic…

The entity moved out of the shadows and reveal himself to be a ragged pale-blue unicorn. His once well kept white mane has fallen into disarray beneath his cloak and hood. His glowing yellow eyes cringed in pain of the bolter wound on his hind leg. He hobble his way towards him, his horn bursting with energy.

“Please stop moving, this vessel isn’t well equipped to deal with the strain your resistance is giving off,” said an ethereal voice that obviously didn't belonged to the unicorn. The unicorn suddenly had a fit of spasms before fog of darkest black was brought forth from his mouth and spilled mistily on the metal floor, his eyes became wide and blank. The mist rose and condensed, a body forming. It didn’t take long for the entity to materialize itself into his dream.

Its slim body was that of a shade with dull midnight flesh, its lower body nothing more than mist and fog. It wore a broken, ragged gray cloak that covered its head and partly exposed its slim muscular chest, a piece of the symbol of Chaos burning brightly upon it. From the hood, two sets of horns curved upward, outer set being shorter, and beneath the unnatural darkness of the hood, a pair of red left eyes, one on top of the other, peered at the Astartes.

Two pairs of powerful arms held on his side, the lower pair crossed across its chest. Each hand was branded with the icon of a different Chaos God; the upper right that was marked with Khorne’s icon was slim but held firm with bundles of bright red muscles, the hand a powerful fist . Covered in boils and warts, the upper left of Nurgle was in a state of decay, exposed bone beneath decaying green flesh, its three-fingered hand ended in cracked yellow claws . Beneath the arm of Khorne was a bony blue arm of Tzeeneth, strange multicolored feathers and spider-like fingers its most notable features. its last arm was held the mark of the Prince of Pleasure upon its smooth pink skin, dressed in a long black silk glove that exposed the effeminate yet sharp fingers, and an ornate wrist brace with an oval-shaped emerald. Along the back of where the shoulder blades would be, a pair of big bony bat-like wings rest folded. The membranes open and close at the slight muscle movement.

“And currently the only one preventing the Princesses from probing your mind right now, with some assistance from me of course.” the Daemon spoke with a hint of ego in its haunting voice, the distant rumbling of void battle still echoing within the chamber.

‘You are foolish if you think I would believe that, Daemon.’ Alpha thought, still struggling to break his bindings, only achieving to shake within the aura.

“It matters little if you believe me or not, the fact of the matter is that you are in a predicament, and I am assisting you against some rather warp-sensitive creatures, though they are quite resistant to the influence and ignorant to their touch; and yes, I am aware of your thought for the most obvious of reasons.” the Daemon spoke. “The Gods of Chaos has given you favor of a chance to get back your previous form and even more if they are pleased with your work.”

“………”

“The Gods call to you to retrieve a five tomes of power. They are ripe with chaotic power and will aid you in recovering your form.” The daemon’s red eyes twisted into a wicked smile. “I know it must be difficult to believe me, but as prove of the Gods' investment, I have blocked the memories of this conversation and a few others just enough that the Princesses will not kill you outright or anything hinder you, but you will remember this. When you get out my liaison with contact you. It’s about time for you to wake up,” The damned creature said with a snap of its fingers.

Author's Note

Finally after weeks of editing I got this out as promised *whew*
It will be a while before I any real work done on starting chapter 4.
Bring Love to your mothers!
Also I would Love some feedback on your thoughts of the story :3