Chapters THE LIGHT YOU BRING WILL DIE! THE LIGHT INSIDE YOU WILL DIE! ALL THAT YOU ARE WILL DIE!
I opened my eyes to a room filled with darkness a dark voice vibrating around my head. The only light in the room was a torch which was being held next to me by a wizened old man.
'Its Walter, but...he's dead, I'm having the nightmares again.'
"Who's there...show yourself !" Walter shouted into the darkness whilst waving the torch around.
In response to Walter, thousands of glowing eyes appeared, staring into our very souls.
"Oh... This isn't good," Walter said fearfully
A dark giggle could be heard as the eyes stalked closer to us "The children are here to play"
The shadows then charged towards us whispering the words "play ! play ! play !" as they attempted to kill us.
"What are they ?" Exclaimed Walter whilst unsheathing his sword.
I ignored him and quickly rolled a safe distance away whilst Walter rushed in. I started to charge a weaved fire and vortex spell whilst Walter distracted them.
"KILL ! KILL !" The dark voice shouted, its vile voice echoing around the room.
WaIter was distracting them pretty well, but a large group of the shadows ignored him and went after me, so I unleashed my spell catching all the shadows in a tornado of fire.
But more shadows came out of the darkness, I fired at them with my pistol and Walter cut down any in his reach. But they just keep on coming.
"There's too many of them " Walter stated with a panicked voice "Keep fighting... we have to keep fighting!"
I brought out my sword and charged right into the approaching shadows. Two was thrown into a wall by a push spell, one got a nice stab, three got shot in the face and one I just picked up by the leg and proceeded to throw around like a ragdoll.
"Do you feel the darkness around you? Do you feel it's torturous path through your mouth and your eyes? until it eats away inside you... Tell me how it feels," The Voice Questioned, its words resonating in our very minds.
I ignored the demon and charged another spell, this time rows of blades sparkling with lighting, burst from the ground surrounding me, they then flew towards the shadows, striking each one and killing them.
The dark whispered to us again "You are tainted. The stain shall never wash out. The sun will never shine upon you again. Tainted...broken...little toys."
After that the shadows stopped coming, we walked on desperate to esca- "Your Majesty"
"AHHHH !" I woke up in shock from the voice and looked around in a panic.
I wasn't in the dark room anymore, I was in what seamed like a throne room with a scarlet carpet leading up to the throne I am currently resting on.
I looked at the person who woke me and he was shaking when my gaze fell upon him. He was a feeble little man wearing an expensive looking outfit.
"I am so very sorry your majesty, but you fell asleep when I was reading todays agenda." The man said with a tinge of fear.
"Its alright Hobson just don't shout at me again, you do remember what happened to the last person who shouted at me?"
[Flashback]
I was in the throne room, in front of me was two people, each wanting something to do with the Silverpines forest, Reaver, CEO of Reaver Industries and a good advisor he always come up with something good whether it be making money or something to spend the money on. he wanted Silverpines to be harvested for it's lumber and the dangerous creatures inside it to be used as weapons of war.
Next to him was a man of the higher class and he wanted Silverpines to be a wildlife reserve, you don't get many nobles who want that nowadays but I know which one I'm going with.
"Silverpines shall be cut down for it's resources and it's creatures tamed !" I announced to everyone.
The crowd that normally appears in my throne room went into an uproar, some were cheering, some got triggered.
"THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS" A rather flamboyant noble shouted at me.
The room went quiet when the noble shouted, I stared at the stuck up aristocrat with a glare that can make hollow men go reeling back to their graves.
'ooooh... you screwed up there my friend' I thought.
Many people fear me for good reason, but they especially fear me for Balverines Dawn, but I'll come to that another time.
"Excuse me" I said menacingly to the noble.
"Well your majesty I must go and make the preparations for the deforestation of Silverpines, Tatty-bye" Reaver said with a smug smile whilst strutting out of the throne room.
The noble stared at me in terror "m-my apologies your majes-".
"Do you know what happens when people shout at their king?" I interrupted him.
The noble slowly nodded his head. I giggled at his fearful face "They get sent to Ravenscar !" I said with a cheerful voice that unnerved everyone.
A clockwork automaton walked up to the noble and picked him up and started walking out of the room.
"NO YOU CAN'T DO THIS UNHAND ME YOU PIECE OF SCRAP DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM !" The noble panicked whilst banging his fists against the robots back.
"Shouting again are we? looks like we need to give you the special treatment." I said with a maniacal gleam in my eyes
[Flashback End]
I smirked at Hobson's frightened face.
"Don't worry Hobson your too helpful to throw away," I told Hobson, reminding him that he was one of the few people I care about.
"It has always to be an honour to serve you, your majesty. Shall we proceed with todays royal agenda ?" Asked Hobson
"Sure, what am I doing today ?" I questioned, Hobson just stared at me annoyed and just gave me the list. 'oh I slept through it'
Meet with a returning Explorer
My eyes widened, 'so that old expedition I funded a few DECADES back has returned, I always wondered what happened to them, NOT it was only 8,000 gold I made that back in a couple of seconds'
"When do they arrive ?" I asked
"In a few hours my king." Hobson informed
'Well time for small talk'
"I heard you were thinking of retiring next month ?" I said
"Yes my lord, I'm not a hero like you, I'm starting to get too old for this job." said Hobson
'Sad he's a good advisor, he is breaking 110 though, so he needs to stop working. At least I have jasper, I bet he gets bored from all that time in the Sanctuary, he's going to run out of books soon'
[Meanwhile in the Sanctuary]
"899,999,997 899,999,998 899,999,999 100,000,000,0" Spoke an old butler sitting in a middle of a literal Mountain of gold.
[Meanwhile on a ship MADE FROM GOLD, who thought that would be a good idea]
A pure white Human/Horse hybrid with ethereal hair that had the colours of blue, green and pink with a tattoo of a sun on her neck, was sitting at a desk writing letter.
"Dear Twilight Sparkle
I am currently a few hours away from the coast of the land know as Albion our dear friend Denise the Explorer has told us so much about, once I get there, Denise, Luna and I will talk to the king and hopefully get him to stand down and allow a woman to take his place or if it doesn't work then I'll have to do it by force, afterwards I will replace him with Denise and hopefully quell any resistance that might appear.
Hugs and kisses ~~your mother~~ Princess Celestia .
"TIA THOU NEED TO SEE THIS ! " Shouted a dark blue horse/human hybrid who also has ethereal hair but with the colours of the night sky, fittingly she had a tattoo of a moon on her neck.
"Coming Luna !" Celestia shouted back to her sister.
After sending the letter away she left her cabin and walked up to her sister, she was about to ask her what she should see but Luna pointed in the direction of it.
What they were looking at was a massive black ship with a triangular shape that was made from a weird stone material. the ship looked like it can take on most of the ANE fleet and come out unscathed.
It was covered in really big guns and a lot of smaller ones, it made her ship, the ANNC Solar Flare Look like a parasprite.
"SWEET CELESTIA what the tartarus is that thing !" Shouted a random crewmen that no one cares about.
A dark skinned woman walked up to deck facing the behemoth "I knew the Kingdom of Albion was planning to make some big ships, but I didn't know they would be this big." Exclaimed Denise.
"Thou hast been gone for a long time who knows how much Albion hast changed since thou hast left," Luna explained
"I was only gone for 54 years." Denise argued.
"We'll be at their port in a hour so make yourself presentable, we're here to dethrone a king and we want to make them think we're here for peace." Celestia Informed.
Denise ignored her and looked at something in the distance. Celestia followed her eyes only to see a massive storm.
"That storm is unusually large Denise. is that normal?" Celestia asked.
"No, there's something in that storm, look." Denise pointed at the storm.
As soon as she pointed towards it, a part of the storm cleared up to reveal a imposing Spire shaped tower that stood in the ocean, the storm revolving around it. it was made from the same stony material as the black ship.
"Sweet Faust !" I whispered to myself "What is that?"
"That is the tattered spire, a massive conduit of the worlds Will. though I don't remember it being this big" Denise explained
"We'll deal with it after we sort out Albion's government. we are nearly at the port." I shook of the shock of seeing two massive structures bigger then anything the ANE could come up with. the tower itself would be taller then Mount Canterlot, even if half of it was put underground it would still be taller.
When their ship landed there was quite a few guards wearing weird armour there were also a lot of metal golem like creatures. Most of them pointing rifles at them
When she and her sister walked of the ship a man wearing armour with golden highlights and a crown on his head, walked up to them. this was obviously the King.
Celestia and Luna bowed "greetings your majesty" Celestia said
"And what are you exactly, you look like some sort of hybrid" The King said with Hostility
"I am Princess Celestia and this is my sister Princess Luna, we are Alicorn Ponies." Celestia Introduced
The king snorted at the their names "Where is your King or Queen ?" The King asked 'why would the King/Queen bring their princesses are they trying to get them betrothed'.
"We don't have either of those, we rule the country." Luna explained.
"Two princesses ruling a country, that's new, anyway I noticed a lot of your crew were staring at our big beauty over there, what do you think? " The King said as he turned to face the monster of a ship.
"HOW IS THAT THING NOT SINKING AND HOW DO YOU POWER IT" The captain of the Solar Flare shouted taking Celestia and Luna by surprise.
"Old Kingdom machinery, it also uses will as a power source so we don't have to waste copious amounts of oil to run it. it ended up splitting Mistpeak mountain in half when we tested fired it ?"The king said as he looked at the Black ship.
The ponies and a Yak crewmen gulped, all of them hoped the King was lying as they slowly looked at the main gun of the black ship.
"What did you name that thing if you don't mind me asking ?" One of Celestia's guard Steel Wing asked the King.
"We named her the HMS Archon, she is the first off the Archon Class Super Battleship, this will tip the naval war with the ARE in our favour." the King announced.
"Thy nation is at war that must be terrible," Luna said with worry but she let out a small smile, as taking over Albion will be easier.
"I wouldn't call it terrible, it's kind of boring all the battles tend be draws, they have the numbers, we have the technology." The King said with boredom, surprising and scaring some people.
"Boring? do you know how many lives can be lost to war ?" Celestia said in shock.
"Still boring, anyway lets get to the castle shall we, and tell me, how much did Denise tell you about Albion?" The King asked Celestia.
"Oh she told us many things about this land," Celestia said excitedly.
Celestia told the King everything about what Denise told them, people then saw the king say something to one of his guards, people don't know what he said but some people think it had something to do with Denise not appearing later on at the castle.
[At Castle Fairfax the home of the King]
Celestia and Luna were sitting in a dinning room eating tea and biscuits whilst the king went somewhere else.
"Where did the king go ?" Celestia questioned whilst sipping the tea one of the servants made her.
"He's at the throne room milady you will brought there when he is ready." Said a maid carrying a tray of cups and plates to the kitchen.
"The staff here are quite nice aren't they Tia ?" Luna said with a mouthful of biscuits.
"They are, too bad they serve a tyrant !" Celesta said with sad anger.
"That was five decades ago Tia, and from what Denise told us, Albion was threatened by a great evil at the time, desperate times call for desperate measures." Luna reasoned whilst sitting in a blood red chair, in a blood red room, in a blood red castle, yeah defiantly a desperate measure.
"Your right Luna...say, were is Denise ?" Celestia questioned.
"She ended up going to Aurora to meet up with her family." Explained a random guard.
"Hmmm I thought she said her family died ?" Celestia questioned but shrugged off when the guard went into the next room.
[Meanwhile at Ravenscar]
Denise was strapped in a chair with a weird contraption attached to her head, it wasn't very comfortable and there were several needles on a table next to her and the chair was attached to a machine sparkling with electricity.
"Now your going to tells us everything you know about Equestria and its allies, or I'm going to put you through the 'Special Treatment' and you don't want to go through that, oh no, just ask any of the prisoners down there" The prison guard pointed down a hall full of people screaming and laughing insanely.
Denise struggled against her bindings but it was futile, so she looked at the guard and spat at him
"Now, now none of that. oh well don't say I didn't warn you !" The guard said before pulling a lever attached to the machine.
All that could be heard that night were screams that would make a banshee sound like a squeaky door.
The screams got to the point that the local kraken came out of the sea and filed a noise complaint to the Albion Law department. This was later brought to court where the Kraken sued Ravenscar for 65 gold.
Author's Note
Getting sued by a kraken. that's just embarrassing
who the ARE and the ANE are will be explained in a chapter dedicated to explaining the nations of the world, which I'm already working on.
ANE: Allied Nations of Ergon (MLP nations)
ARE: Allied Republic of Ergon (Human nations that are against Albion)
KA: Kingdom of Albion (Albion and its colonies)
The planets name is Ergon because the fable lore doesn't say the name of the planet (there might be a name but I couldn't find one) so I called it Ergon because it sounds like a planet name.
This was a rewrite as the original failed moderation twice
Benevolent and Malevolent
"Dead fingers talk. Dead fingers whisper. Dead fingers claw at one million eyes..."
The throne room was filled with darkness, the once vibrant crowd, replaced by silent shadows.
The colourless doors at the end of the throne room opened to reveal two winged beasts with vicious looking horns on their heads, standing behind them was the Crawler laughing manically at me.
"Accept death now... It is so much easier than what is to come..."
It was behind them, now it is in front of me, it thrusts its hand down my throat and its body turned into the inky sludge and it ran down my throat, all I could do was gurgle as I choked on the dark substance. Thousands voices are screaming in my head, It's trying to control me I can feeling it crawling through my insides, there was no pain. just darkness as the Crawler slowly possessed me.
The two beasts walked up to me, the screams stopped when they spoke "You will never escape the darkness. It flocks to you. Always." The crawler spoke through their mouths.
This land is ours, the world shall fear the coming of the guardian. The dark guardian shall save us.
"Now introducing, Princesses Celestia and Luna of Equestria !" Hobson's voice snapped me out of my trance.
The throne room was back to it's normal red colour, the crowd are cheering and booing as normal, it was just another nightmare, and where the beasts used to be, was the two princesses, bowing down to me. I narrowed my eyes at them.
'Their tainted they have to be, my nightmares are not normally like this, there working for the Corruptor I know it, you think you can hide your minions from me you corrupting son of a bitch'
I gestured for them to rise. As they did they stood there waiting for something.
"You may speak" I commanded with toxicity
Celestia spoke first "Your majesty, let me be the first to tell you what a great honour it is to come to your land and meet you."
I stared at Celestia with hostility "What do you want ?"
Celestia looked at me oddly "Nothing your majesty we here to talk diplomacy and trade."
She is lying, they wish to dethrone us, they want our land, they want us gone a voice whispered in my mind
"If your here for diplomacy you wouldn't bring a fleet of warships" I gestured for my guards to point their rifles at the princesses.
Luna decided to speak "Thou clearly misunderstands us we are only here-"
"Do you honestly think I'm thick, I know you have an invasion waiting to attack us, we sent our fliers to investigate when your ship landed. A ship like yours doesn't travel such a long distance on it's own." I said with venom dripping from my words
There faces darken as they realised that I'm not as dumb as they thought.
"Fine then, we're not here for diplomacy, we're here to overthrow you and free the women here and destroy the patriarchy that torture these lands !" Celestia said with determination.
"Actually were here to free everyone !" Luna corrected her sister
"Well looks like we have an upstart. Do you know who I am princess? I am part of a pure blood line of heroes that descended from a man called William Black, the First Archon of The Old Kingdom. you see a long time a go, three beings of great power came from the void and enslaved Albion, these beings were known as the court, they tortured man and forced them to raise monuments to the void. then one day a blacksmith and his wife had a child. That child was William Black, he was gifted with the 'Power of Will', with this power he would go on to destroy the court and create The Old Kingdom or at the time was named The Kingdom Of Albion. by then his powers were so great that he could shape the very world around him. so princess I seriously hope you reconsider what your hoping to do !" I said whilst standing up from my throne and unsheathed my sword.
Their soldiers are coming prepare yourself
"GUARDS !" Luna shouted very loudly. At the last second I shouted at the guards to get to cover.
Suddenly several dozen ponies with wings burst though the coloured glass, they shot at my guards with what looks like a crystal firing lasers at my guards but the ponies were surprised when their lasers deflected of their armour. My guards then took advantage of this and charged the ponies with their blades, tearing them to shreds.
Several ponies that weren't attacking the guards surrounded me and attempted to hold me hostage "STAND DOWN OR WE WILL KILL YOU KI-ARG !" He never finished his sentenced sentence as I jabbed him in the stomach, then I proceeded to grab him by the neck and hoist him in the air. I then used my will to surround myself in magical blades causing the pony soldiers to back off.
I then stared at Celestia with anger "I JUST GOT THAT WINDOW REPLACED YOU KNOBHEAD !" I crushed the ponies neck and launched my blades at the other ponies, killing them all.
Celestia stared out me with shock "I thought you were just trying the scare us with your 'pure bloodline' but I clearly underestimated you. no matter, me and my sister will destroy you, for we are the goddesses of the sun and moon !" Celestia proclaimed.
I raised my eyebrow at the 'goddesses' part "Ok then, let's see you try." I felt calmer as my body prepared itself for a fight
The 'goddesses' charged me after their horns lit up and each of them summoned a sword and some armour that matched the colour of their tattoo.
When they got close enough I used a pushed spell, and sent them flying out of the throne room. I walked after them, and once I got to them I used another push spell on them whilst they were still getting up.
They ended up back in the throne room struggling to get up, some of my guards tried to take advantage of this but the pony guards kept them away.
"Can't even put up a proper fight, pathetic !" I insulted the princesses as I slowly walked towards them, the ponies tried to stop me from getting to close but my guards just shot them. 'why didn't they do that earlier ?'
Luna looked at me in rage at her horn lit up and she disappeared. 'she teleported, where did she g- oh she teleported in a battle I know where she will be'.
I turned around just in time to block Luna's attack with my sword, Luna looked at me with a shocked look then she smiled.
I looked at her with a grin and my hand snapped back and grabbed Celestia's sword.
I looked at Luna with a disapproving look "Your shocked face turning into a smile gave your sisters attack away, you really are stu-HURK !" I was interrupted by a dagger going straight through my heart.
I fell on my knees as Celestia pulled the dagger out, she then walked in front of me grinning "Weren't expecting that were you," she laughed " men always misjudging the women." she then gave me a hard kick to the face, knocking me over, Celestia then went to finish the job
"GET OF HIM YOU BITCH !" A powerful feminine voice shouted down the throne room.
I quickly kicked Celestia of me and she got hit by a weaved fire and lighting ball knocking her over and burning her fur whilst causing her muscles spasms. Luna turned to the person responsible but I quickly wrapped my will around her, exerting a bone crushing force on her as she fell to the ground.
I got up and wiped some blood of my face whilst trying to stop the blood coming from the gaping the wound in my heart.
The person responsible for knocking out Celestia ran up to me "Grandfatherareyouhurtwheredidtheygetyouisitbadohmygodwhereisyourheart" My Granddaughter said in a panicked frenzy.
She had black hair with blue eyes and on her face was a tattoo of a Guild Seal
My Granddaughter, Princess Serena was the youngest of my 14 grandchildren, at the ripe age of 25, she is a strong woman, just 7 years in the royal army and she's already in the 1st Guild regiment, it makes me proud every time I see her wearing her clockwork armour.
"I'm alright calm the hell down they just took me by surpr-BLURG !" I puked out some blood onto the floor as my wound gets worse. "Get me a health potion !" I rasped out.
My guards ran up to me and gave me a potion. I quickly chugged the liquid life down, its effects happening instantly as my wounds started healing. I dropped the empty potion and walked up to Celestia and I stomped her head till 'm sure her skull is cracked in several areas.
"Radio the HMS Archon, tell them to use the Spire Transit and warp behind the Equestrian fleet, this is a code Black I want that fleet to be slaughtered NO survivors !" I ordered Serena. I then turned to my guards "Take these two to the Spire Dungeon then send them to Bargate Prison after the scientists are done with them." My guards nodded and carried the Alicorns away.
Author's Note
Time to see what the Archon can do to the Equestrian fleet
I had to rewrite this chapter because in the last one the King just steamrolled the princesses even though he kind of did in this chapter but the last one just made the King sound to Over powered
Future chapters will be less about the king and about the war with the ARE and the ensuing one with the ANE
Naval War and Experimentation
Admiral Ichabod Crane of The HMS Archon stared at a birds eye view image of the ANE Fleet which was currently 20 miles from his fleet.
He was staring at the formation of the 1000 strong ANE invasion fleet looking for any weaknesses, he noticed the weird weapons the ships seem to have, some of the ships have guns that was mainly a crystal with lenses taking the form of a barrel, some had the traditional ship cannons, some even where using primitive cannons on the sides but those ships were made from wood whilst the other ships were made from metal or gold, so they must be mothballed
'Either they are stupid to make a boat from a soft and heavy metal or it's just some fancy paint.' Ichabod thought
"My lord we have orders from Princess Serena, she said it's from the King," said a young Ensign, he was wearing a dark blue uniform and he had youthful green eyes and gelled blonde hair.
Ichabod took his eyes of the projection and gazed at the boy "What doe's the King have to say ?" Ichabod said with enough boredom that it'll make Jasper seem excited.
"Serena said that the king has authorised Code Black," Ichabod's eyes widened "He wants us to surprise the ANE fleet with the Spire Transit and erase them from existence." The ensign informed.
Ichabod stared at the ensign with shock, Code Black is only authorised when a powerful Corrupted presence has been discovered and the corrupted needs to be destroyed immediately before it spreads.
'If this ANE is working for the Corruption then they must be destroyed,' Ichabod witnessed first hand what the Corruption did, he was in Bowerstone when the Crawler and it's Darkness invaded and he saw the Corrupted swarm the old Tattered Spire.
"EVERYONE STOP FAFFING ABOUT AND GET TO YOUR POSTS THIS IS A CODE BLACK, CHARGE THE MAIN CANNON AND FIRE IT ON MY ORDERS !" Ichabod barked to his crew.
Everyone got up from their tea time and ran to certain places around the massive 2km ship, after everyone got to their places the top half of the ship shifted as the Archon's main gun turned towards the ANE fleet, a noticeable cloud of will started forming around the barrel occasionally some lighting would strike out, hitting a poor chicken attempting to fly.
"On your orders sir," says a crewmen.
"FIRE THE CANNON !"
[ANE POV]
A all white male gryphon wearing a white uniform was staring at a magically projected image of the human fleet trying to look for any weaknesses, what kept him staring at the fleet was the big black ship in the middle of the fleet.
'That will make the land invasion extremely hard we might have to call in reinforceme-' The gryphon stopped his thoughts when the top half of the black ship moved towards his fleet.
"CAPTAIN CHICKEN BEAK , THE BLACK SHIP IS CHARGING THEIR MAIN GUN !" shouted a zebra crewmen
Chicken Beaks eyes widened when he saw the clouds surrounding the gun barrel, and he nearly cried when he saw the lighting kill his poor cousin.
"PREPARE FOR EVASIVE MANEUVERS !" Chicken Beak shouted, his ship moving out of the way just in time as the main cannon fired a dark blue beam of light that went through their portside and then went through several other ships then it exploded taking out many more ships, in just a couple of seconds, half of the ANE fleet was destroyed.
Chicken Beak and the rest of his crew was knocked over by the beam hitting their ship and when they were getting up they were then knocked over again as the shockwave from the explosion rocked the ship.
"ORDER THE FLEET TO OPEN FIRE ON THE HUMANS !" Chicken Beak shouted, he looked at the human fleet but he noticed a flash of light and the black ship was nowhere to be seen.
[Archon POV]
"FIRE THE CANNON !" As soon as Ichabod said that the entire ship shook, the main gun letting out a beam of pure Will striking the ANE fleet causing an explosion that took out half their fleet.
"Bloody hell, the little buggers must be pissing themselves at the moment !" said a crewmen with a thick albion accent
Ichabod ignored him and went towards a big button with a image of the spire on it "All personnel, prepare for S.A.T (Spire Assisted Travel)" Ichabod announced through the ship wide radio before slamming his hand into the button.
Instantly a bolt of energy shot out from the tattered spire and hit the Archon, the energy from the bolt formed a glowing circle around it and the Archon disappeared.
"Admiral we have entered S.A.T, we will appear in the middle of the ANE fleet in 10 seconds." Informed the ensign
Ichabod nodded at the ensign before barking orders into the ship radio to prepare the weapons for their surprise attack, he looked outside the one way windows and all he could see was a blurred out world. they were quickly approaching the blurred images of gold, grey and brown ships, and a moment later they were right in the middle of the ANE fleet, the Archon was then surrounded by the glowing circle again as they re-entered the naturel world.
"EXITING S.A.T PREPARE TO OPEN FIRE !"
[ANE POV]
"CAPTAIN THE BLACK SHIP IS RIGHT BEHING US !" Shouted an earth pony
"SHEILDS NOW !" Chicken Beak commanded,
All ANE ships were surrounded by a pink aura before disappearing. Some ships weren't quick enough as they were torn apart by blue beams fired by the ships secondary cannons.
"17 ships down sir, no survivors," The zebra crewman said
"Focus fire on the black ship, we need that thing down before the rest of the humans get here." Chicken Beak ordered.
[3rd person]
Pink beams and cannon shells were fired at the Archon, they were either deflected by a blue over shield or they bounced of the black armour whilst the ANE ships were being torn apart by Will beams and lighting bolts, some ships would just randomly sink or get crushed by an unknown force.
Eventually the ANE carriers would release their fighters and bombers to attack the Archon, they manage to chip some of the armour but the Archon let out Shards made from the same material as the spire. They shot down the fighters with lighting attacks and any that got close were thrown into other ships or just crushed.
The Archons main cannon was starting to charge again as its other cannons let out a barrage of laser death, mincing the ANE.
ANE were then be hit by more cannons as the Albion fleet got into range. unlike the Archon they were firing shells and had steel armour [basically WW2 era British ships with a bit of steampunk], and the ANE fleet were quickly being destroyed, several ships decided to retreat but all but the fastest of them had a chance.
[Archon POV]
"Chase that ship quickly before it gets away !" Ichabod pointed at a particular ship that was moving quite fast.
"Sorry sir but the ships out of spire range, we'll sink if we go any further and its too manoeuvrable so there's no point in using the main gun." Informed the ensign
Ichabod sighed "Finish the rest off."
The main cannon turned towards the ANE fleet and fired, the beam wiped out the remaining ships. the battle was over.
[At the Tattered Spire]
The King stared at projection of the naval battle, he had a massive grin on his face, not only because of the overwhelming success of the HMS Archon but also because of the advancements of the Spire Soldier program.
'This is going to be great' The King thought before he walked up a flight of stairs, he then came across a crowded hall full of pods and scientists, all of the pods were full of Albions elite soldiers, all them have small shards of the spire inserted inside them most of them will not survive the power of the shards. the process to make soldiers of their kind was perfected by Lucien Fairfax but most of his research was lost when the last spire shattered, the surviving papers were in a vault in Castle Fairfax allowing him and his royal scientist to recreate Lucien's creations such as the shards.
As he walked to the end of the hall, he started to hear screams of pain as humans and other creatures alike were being tested on, he walked past a rather gruesome image of a prisoner from Ravenscar being vivisected.
After a while of walking and sniggering at the unfortunate test subjects. he came across a 13ft beast of a man surrounded by scienstists preforming various check-ups on him, there was several spire shards sticking out of his body, most notably his head which is now bold from the shards sticking out of his head, a clockwork exoskeleton was being placed on his body before being covered up by a thick black trench coat that covered up most of his face and a trifold hat was placed on his head, leaving only his glowing blue eyes visible.
He is know as the Alpha Commandant, a recreation of Lucien's commandant, both of them are almost clones but the Alpha Commandant is a lot bigger and is wearing modified clockwork power armour custom made to work along side with his powerful strength and endurance.
The AC gazed at the king and bowed when he got closer "My king it is an honour to be the first of my kind to kill in your name, when will I get to charge into the battlefield ? the scientists won't tell me when I'm ready," The AC said in a deep voice that sent vibrations through our ears.
"Well you will be ready in a year but we can't send you into battle without your a squad of your brothers and sisters, so around three years." The king informed AC, he seemed agitated at having to wait so long but he kept it hidden. " but if see it necessary I can assign you a mission if it requires a more specialized soldier."
AC smiled "I can live with that."
"Good, now follow me. we're going to see what the scientists have discovered from the ANE." The king said before walking of, the AC close behind.
The King and the AC walked towards an atrium, this was full of the ANE demons that were captured, Ponies with horns, wings or neither some looked like they were made from crystals, gryphons, yaks, minotaur's, diamond dogs, bloody dragons, zebras, and changelings.
All these were captured from the few ships that were capture and a few others who tried to sneak into Albion.
"Pathetic creature. They were foolish to think they would have stood a chance against us !" The AC commented whilst watching a injured dragon get slowly vivisected by a group of scientists, they could have made it painless but the creatures reaction to the pain was needed to get a better understanding of their psychology whilst their organs are cut out and studied.
The rest of the atrium had similar things going on with other species suffering the same treatment whilst others watch from their cells.
All species were in separated areas, two of each species were being cut open one male, one female, the others were either having tests preformed on them or they are locked up in their cells, glaring at us while we walk.
One dragon thought it would be a good idea to breath their fire at us, it burned a bit of my armour but he was treated with his spire collar activating and treating him to a wonderful thing called electricity.
The AC turned around and stormed to the dragons cell and grabbed it's neck through the bars then he repeatedly slammed the dragons face into the bars until his face had no scales left, his other cellmates tried to stop this but their collars forced them to the floor, all they could do was watch their friend get beaten.
The AC then walked back to me as if nothing had happened.
I stared at him then the broken body of the dragon and sighed with disappointment, then I got an idea "Guards, grab that dragon and have the quacks see how its body can handle disease." I ordered a bunch of guards that were walking by. these guards were heavily based of Lucien's own spire guards, but instead of thick black clothing they where wearing a black clockwork exoskeleton.
I then looked at the AC and gave him a pat on the back before walking through a corridor
After several minutes of walking past the screams of some prisoners and some empty pods, we reached the centre of the spire, it was a big building right in the middle of a massive abyss with bridges connecting the building to the rest of the spire.
After a few more minutes of walking they came across a heavily fortified and heavily guarded room.
In the middle of the room were the princesses, they were both strapped onto a 'Rehabilitation` Chair' shipped directly from Ravenscar Keep and fitted with a few spire shards to give it a bit more oomph.
Currently interrogating the princesses were one of the few successful SSS [Spire Super Soldier] she was getting very little information out of them but she hasn't activated the chair yet, no man and woman on Ergon has withstood it. It doesn't need to be used most of the time as the mere thought of it being used would get even the most stubborn person to tell everything they know, the only people who suffer the chair are people who underestimate it or don't know what it is.
[warning colourful language ahead]
"Tells us everything you know about your military, your secrets, your nations weak points and your numbers right NOW you furry feathered WANKS OR I'll BREAK YOUR FUCKING HORNS OFF AND SHOVE IT SO FAR UP YOUR ARSEHOLES THAT YOU WOULD BE PUKING BLOOD AND SHIT COVERED SHARDS !" said the rather creative super soldier, she was like a female version of the AC but only 7ft and she still has hair and isn't wearing a hat.
"WE SHALT NOT TELL THOU ANYTHING !" shouted Luna in defiance
"My little ponies will free us then we will destroy yo-AHHHH !" Celestia was cut of by her horn being broken off, she was then stabbed in the leg by it.
"TELLS ME EVERYTHING NOW YOU CUNT !" The horn was then pulled out of Celestia's leg and was stabbed in her other leg "OR I WILL MINDFUCK YOU AND THEN PROCEED TO KICK YOUR SPUNK STAINED BODY TILL ALL YOUR BONES ARE DUST !" She then kicked Celestia in the head, further damaging her already cracked skull
"GET OFF MY SISTER YOU BITC-*SKRIIIIIIP* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !" THE SSS ripped one of Luna's wings of and then grabbed her hand and impaled it on her own horn
"Was I taking to you," The SSS gave Luna a hard punch to her snout "CAUSE I SWEAR I WAS TALKING TO A CUM STAINED SLAG, NOT SOME LOUD MOUTHED BITCH WHO THINKS SHE CAN DO ANYTHING TO STOP THIS !" The SSS pulled Luna's mouth open and ripped some teeth out.
The king looked towards the AC who was just staring at the interrogation. He then slowly looked to the other guards in the room who were also just staring. He then turned back to the interrogation 'By the void... why didn't my brother think off this.'
"Now back to the cum whore,"Celestia got a boot to the head "Tell me everything, OR THE BLUE TWAT GETS HER JAW RIPPED OUT !" The SSS said whilst grabbing Luna's bottom teeth and gave it a nice tug.
"You wouldn't you filthy ape !" Celestia retorted.
The SSS gave Luna a harsh pull and dislocated her jaw, she then walked up to Celestia and ripped the horn out of her leg and impaled Celestia's hand to the chair.
She then went to Luna and took her hand of her horn, then she broke that horn off and stabbed Celestia's other hand.
She pulled Celestia's head up and kissed her before pulling a leaver next to the chair.
The chair sparked to life and Celestia received a shock that can only be found in a thunder gods wet dream. the shards on the chair worked desperately to keep Celesta alive and attempt to enter her mind whilst her will is weak.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH"
One of the guards sighed "We're going to get sued by a kraken again."
Later that day a family of krakens were slamming their tentacles on the spire for several hours trying to get someone's attention, eventually the AC told them to leave.
The krakens then filed a complaint to the Albion Law department which was then brought to court and after a week of heated debate and a fist/tentacle fight between the AC and a kraken (which was seen as THE fight of the century) the Tattered Spire was sued for 100 gold
Author's Note
well it got violent at the end, but I lightened the mood with the krakens, now we know the power of the HMS Archon.
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The World and The Nations (willl be updated several times so keep an eye on it)
Nations of Ergon
1.The Kingdom Of Albion
Present: The Kingdom Of Albion is a land of industry and progress, and is probably the richest nation known to the world, It is also the most advanced nation, and it'll probably keep that title, as it is always one-step ahead of everyone. A nation makes their first tank, Albion already made fleets of them, a country manages to get a over designed piece of wood of the ground, Albion has already done it, and has made it an over designed piece of metal.
Map: http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/096/0/7/fable_combined_illuminated_map_by_isbrealiomcaife-d3csg92.png
Military: Albion is infamous for it's army, they are known to deck out their troops in a type of clockwork exoskeleton that gives the soldier greater strength and decent protection some of the more specialised soldiers get to wear proper power amour. Albion also has clockwork automatons that it deploys along with Balverines to deadly effect.
Numbers: 4,143,764 Soldiers, 1,046,238 in reserve, 1,056,153 Balverines, 913,241 Clockwork Automatons, 625,234 Twig class walkers 25,245 Fairfax Class Heavy Tanks, 134,425 Hobbe Class Light Tanks, 1,234,648 Oakfield Class Troop Transport, 8,126 Banshee Class Bomber Planes, 231,555 Bowerstone Class Aerial transports, 10,234 Mercenary Class Fighter Planes, 3,279 Knothole Class Corvettes, 1,782 Hook Coast Class Destroyers, 874 Snowspire Class Cruisers 78 Bloodstone Class Battleships, 12 Ravenscar Class Aircraft Carriers, 1 Archon Class Super Battleship, 51 Kraken Class Submarines, 1500 Lionhead Class Attack Helicopters, 0 Hero Class Redacted
Population: 517,824,975 Civilians, 2,327,690 Domestic Automatons
Land: Albion would be the same size of Europe whilst aurora is the size of India
Landmarks: Old Morningwood fort, Hero Hill, Heroes Guild ruins, Castle Fairfax, The Arena, The Tattered Spire (off limits, any unauthorised personnel will be shot dead) Ravenscar Keep (off limits any unauthorised personnel will be imprisoned there), Auroran Temple, Shadelight Temple (Off limits, anyone attempting to enter will be imprisoned in the Tattered Spire under suspicion of being corrupted) ~~Bargate Prison~~,
Technology level: Late WW2 level mixed with a bit of steampunk and some bits of Old Kingdom machinery (Old kingdom technology runs on will which is magic that comes from the soul, this allows machinery to be powered cheaply and Old Kingdom tech can sometimes defy the laws of physics Example: allows dozens of soldiers to fit in a object the size of a small stone
History: Eons ago, Albion was a place of peace and beauty, full of butterflies, Chickens and pretty flowers.
In the days when the people still suffered under the Court's ruthless Bummings, a humble blacksmith and his wife had a boy. They named him William Black, and he would become the hero that Albion needs. Little is known about William's youth, all we know is that the children who bullied him were never seen again.
William strutted up the peak of Ruon, Albions biggest mountain and challenged the Court to MORTAL COMBAT. The Knight of Blades appeared first, but William surprised him by shoving the SOA up his arse so hard, that the KOB was erased from existence. The Jack of Blades appeared next, but William just went megalomania on that genocide loving twit and broke his body, but JOB pussied out by sending his soul back to the void. Then The Queen of Blades appeared last. the battle between two lasted for weeks and it was finished when William pimp slapped her so hard that entire mountains and valleys were formed. After an eternity of slavery Albion was finally free.
After he went all MLG on the Court, the Archon set his mind to unifying Albion into a great kingdom. By this time, his powers of Will were so badass that the world seemed to reshape itself whenever he thought of it, which led to some funny moments. Cities were built in mere weeks, and awesome machines were constructed that ran on Will alone. Through a thousand years of peace, Albion reigned as the most badass nation that the world had ever known, Its territory is known to have extended to the northern Edgelands, and its economy to have traded with the countries beyond Albion's shores, including Samarkand to the east, and the Cities of the West.
The Old Kingdom grew more badass and powerful but it was too badass, this ended up turning the Archons children into brats that thought themselves better then everything . They called themselves Heroes and used their powers of Will to terrorize the people of Albion. William might have stopped them, but his baddasery was slowly killing him. Faced with the fact that he was slowly rotting, the Archon wrapped his body in gold mail and a blue cloak before seemingly vanishing from the land. Thus, the corruption of the Kingdom began.
When the kingdom reached the height of its power the Archon at the time ordered a massive tower to be built to focus the badass power of will the tower was called the tattered spire. Of course focusing all that badassery in one point was not a very smart idea.
The construction of the tattered spire opened a rift between Albion and the Void. This allowed a creature called the corruptor (who was created from Williams leftover badaasery) to send his chief lieutenant, the Crawler to Albion. In a desperate attempt to stop this, three of the greatest heroes at the time combined their powers to stop the crawler. they managed to close the rift before anything else can come through, but they couldn't kill the Crawler, instead they imprisoned him in the Auroran desert, WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONING.
Eventually Albion got back to together. But was plagued by bandits and greedy villagers turning Albion into a place of war and strife.
One day a village called Oakvale was attacked by a warband of bandits led by Jack of Blades who have found out that it is the home of a descendent of the MBPOAT (Most Badass Person Of All Time) William Black. They found the out that the BH (Badass Hero) was a mother of two children. they found the mother, the father and her daughter Theresa.
So CC went to Bargate
But before all that CC was invited to fight in an Arena, He won because he was the next MBP and he then met JOB, CC didn't know that JOB was a prick so he accepted a seal from JOB which allowed him access to the north of Bowerstone. (yay details)
So CC went to free his mother but JOB ambushed and said that the seal he was given allowed him to hear everything he said, and now he knows about Theresa. CC was then imprisoned in Bargate and was tortured for years. but CC was too badass and he found away to escape with his mother, but he was stopped by a Kraken that was at the exit. You know who came out of the fight.
CC then escaped with Scarlet but Scarlet got captured along with Theresa and CC ended up chasing JOB to the Heroes Guilds Hall of Heroes where JOB summoned the Sword of Aeons and killed CC's mother right in front of him. JOB went into his god mode, but CC just went megalomania on him and killed JOB and took his mask as a trophy but JOB pussied out and he went to the void again. Then CC had a choice. kills his sister and get ultimate badassery, or throw it into the rift that jacks soul has made. CC chose to throw away the sword. how do we know this, ~~cause fuck you that's how~~ well the king of Albion and his father would later be guided by her in the future.
Then a new menace started terrorizing Albion, The Summoners, creatures created by a evil necromancer before the collapse of the old kingdom. CC then went to the source of the Summoners, the frozen wastes, there he met the MBP Scythe, who liked to wear gold mail and a blue cloak he also had rotting flesh.The DNTMBPOAT (Defiantly Not The Most Badass Person Of All Time) sent CC to necropolis to collect the stones Y, M, C, A. these stones will teach CC the necessary gestures for waking the Oracle, which will tell CC where the Summoners are coming from, a big spooky door. after reaching the door, CC needs to fill a shrine with souls of heroes.SAAAAAAANS DAAAAAANCE . basically JOB is dead, after multiple failed attempts at killing JOB, CC went all out and completely destroyed Jack of Blades.
[WARNING: This story about Chicken Chaser and the Old Kingdom has been altered to better fit different ethnic groups, for the official version please consult Brightwall Academy]
Author's Note
please tell me if any of the militaries seem OP
Here's a map of the world, http://i1295.photobucket.com/albums/b632/yupuy1/AlbionWorld_zpsf7c5460a.png
WARNING: I drank several cans of monster Half way through this
Past the mountains that was in between the KA (Kingdom of Albion) was the nations that formed the ARE.
Currently in a massive room was their council. who were arguing about their lands and trade but they mainly focused on the war with the KA.
They were talking about different plans of attack with their generals and places they should try to defend, most people
Many people were arguing what to do with the KA's massive treasury, abundant resources and their much superior technology which they are getting a bit to excited about even though they are in a middle of a stalemate.
"Sending troops to attack the Screaming Palace is suicide councillor Fredrick, that place has been heavily fortified and it's filled with Albion's mechanical abominations, our troops would be ripped to shreds. what is going through your head to make you think we should attack that fortress ! " A woman with black hair in a ponytail with green eyes and red skin argued with a tall man with a bold head with the same skin and eye colour, they and everyone else in the room was wearing a black uniform with the logo of the ARE which was a silver castle surrounded broken chains.
"Your idea of attacking Albion's factorise through bombing raids are much worse Councillor Morgan, our bombers will be shot down before they even get close to the mountains that block off Albion, hell any aerial assault would be stupid, their planes have proper metal armour on them, we're just barely making planes made from metal and its a bitch to get them to fly !" Councillor Fredrik retorted
A random councillor who nobody cares about looks at them "Why not a naval assault, we completely outnumber them and we can easily take out their capital that way, it was what their king did to dethrone his brother." everyone looked at him and were dumbfounded, they would have said something if the doors didn't slam open, the doors hitting a chicken and sending it flying into the void.
Walking towards the councillors was all yellow Pegasus with a lighting bolt as a cutie mark and a green Gryphon with a bent beak who both walked to the centre of the room and bowed.
"Presenting representatives the from the ANE, Lady Thunder Hoof and Sir Strong Beak !" A guard announced to the council.
Councillor Fredrik turned to look at the newcomers "So these are the brave men and women who fought against the KA, we applauds you for your efforts even though you were pushed back"
"Our reports said you outnumbered Albion's defence fleet but something happened that destroyed nearly all of your fleet. what happened ?" Councillor Morgan asked the two delegates
Sir Strong Beak stood up "After our princesses failed to dispose of their king who we have heavily underestimated. Our fleet under the command of Captain Chicken Beak was attacked by a extremely powerful beam of what the reports said as a type of magic we have never encountered before." Strong Beak gave passed several pieces of paper to the Councillors. "The beam decimated the fleet and then the thing that fired it went on to... teleport into the middle of the fleet an-"
"IMPOSSIBLE !" The random Councillor from earlier, Councillor Christopher a man with blonde hair and brown eyes with tanned skin shouted" A SHIP THIS SIZED SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO FLOAT, LET ALONE TELEPORT SEVERAL MILES !"
"Believe me sir that ship teleported just look at the remains of out fleet and the camera footage we got from the few survivors." Thunder Hoof explained to Councillor Christopher.
A few servants brought in an Albion made projector (one of the many luxuries that was provided to them when they used to trade with Albion) and flicked it on.
The projected showed footage of the ANE fleet being torn apart by the black ship.
Strong Beak looked at the video and then back to the Councillors "As you can see, this ship is insanely powerful as it tore apart our finest ships and it caused our fleet to focus on it and completely ignore the advancing KA fleet which turned this into an outright slaughter." The whole room gasped as they saw the Black ship fired its main gun which erased an entire group of ships from existence.
"Well then Christopher, it looks like your plan to invade Albion from the sea has just become worse then Fredrik's plan to attack the Screaming Palace. That monster would destroy our fleet." Councillor Morgan Groaned "Does anyone have a solution that could break this damn stalemate besides demanding surrender and attacking worthless targets that would only drain our resources." Morgan glared at Fredrik
Thunder Hoof raised her hand which grabbed the Councillors Attention." I propose an Alliance. We will combine our forces and attack Albion from several fronts and overwhelm their defences."
The Councillors whispered among each other before Councillor Christopher spoke up.
"Why should we form an alliance with you. Your just some random nation that we haven't met that decided to get involved in a war against an industrial and military giant." The Councillor argued.
"Because forming an Alliance would be the best chance for both out nations survival because I'm pretty sure you have noticed that Albion has a massive and technologically advanced war machine that makes both of ours look like a bunch of savages who haven't left their caves yet. The only reason there is a stalemate is because you have the terrain in your favour but eventually the KA would just find other ways to invade you and then they will come storming down on us but if we both unite and combine our militaries and technology we will stand a chance against this threat and overthrow their tyrannical rule." Strong Beak said with a strong heart.
"Hmm maybe your right." Everyone looked up to see a man with white robes with gold stitching's gazed down at Strong beak. He was the High Councillor. "Eventually the KA will destroy us one way or another and if we don't get help we will be overwhelmed. it seems the enemy of our enemy is or friend." The High Councillor looked away from Strong Beak and stared at the Councillors. "Everyone not in favour of forming an Alliance may leave the room."
One councillor got up he was the Councillor of Umon'hon a nation that was east of Albion and Aurora so it didn't suffer much from the war with the KA.
"I WILL NOT HAVE MY PEOPLE INTERMINGLE WITH SUCH ABOMINATIONS. MY NATION IS LEAVING THIS WAR AND THIS COUNCIL YOU HAVE GIVEN OUR NATION NOTHING BUT MAKE US A TARGET FOR A GIANT !" The Councillor stormed out.
Another Councillor sighed before calmly walking out, she was the Councillor of the South Islands a nation next to the Uninhabited Lands which puts them under threat of the KA who are expanding down that area.
A minute later and no other Councillor left.
"Then it is concluded next week we will officially sign a deal with the ANE and form the United Nations of Ergon !"
Author's Note
Yay this chapter is not a lazy one anymore.
back to work on the new one
Meanwhile at the ARE palace
Far east of the KA and far west of the ARE was the Allied Nations of Ergon.
Currently the leaders of the ANE was having a meeting in a glorious palace on a cliff overlooking a sparkling ocean.
Inside was a massive room with a domed roof filled with people of various races wearing various bits of clothing making everyone look unique and independent but everyone wore a pin or badge with a symbol of a rainbow surrounding the elements of harmony and the silhouettes of the faces of most of the species that form the ANE.
Currently everyone was staring down at Captain Chicken Beak who stood in the centre of the room cowering.
"ONE SHIP TOOK OUT OUR FLEET !" Shouted a cyan furred female minotaur with short horns.
"It took us completely by surprise Lady Murran , we didn't expect it to shoot us from how far away it was and not in a thousand years did we expect for it to teleport into the middle of our fleet. That ship was incredibly powerful and it had the element of surprise, there was nothing we could have done." Captain Chicken Beak said in panic.
To many of the leaders today was not a good day despite the rather lovely weather outside.
The 4th Liberation fleet, a fleet manned by the bravest men and women of the ANE was destroyed by one ship, and to make things worse the princess Celestia and princess Luna were imprisoned. Faust knows the horrible things that are happening to them right now.
"YOUR FAILURE TO FEND OFF ONE SHIP HAS ALERTED OUR ENEMY OF WHO WE ARE !"Murran shouted back to Chicken Beak.
"Lady Murran, please calm your temper." A Tall earth pony named Sharp Quill he had green fur, a maroon mane, deep blue eyes and the cutie mark on the back of his hand was a dagger and a pen. He tried to calm down Murran.
Murran turned away from Chicken Beak and faced the earth pony. "AND HOW THE TARTURUS AM I SUPPOSED TO CALM DOWN. THE PRINCESSES AND MANY MORE OFF OUR MEN AND WOMEN HAVE EITHER BEEN KILLED OFF OR CAPTURED FOR INTERROGATION WHICH PUTS US AT A TACTICAL DISADVANTAGE !"
"OH SHUT UP YOU DUMB BITCH !" Everyone gasped and looked at a all Grey Gryphon who was called Falcone. "IF YOU DIDN'T LEAVE HALF WAY THROUGH THE MEETING LAST WEEK THEN YOU WOULD KNOW THAT WE HAD A PLAN IF THE INVASION WASN'T SUCCESSFUL, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP BEFORE I FUCKING GU- MFFFFF!!" Falcone was cut of as one of the guards casted a spell that shut him up.
"Thank you Falcone for butting in their." Sharp Quill looked at Falcone then turned to address the rest of the room." As some of you remember we had a plan in the event that the information that the explorer Denise has given us was outdated. The plan is that we make contact with the other nations near the Kingdom of Albion." Sharp Quill pressed a button on his desk which caused a projector to drop out of the ceiling and project an image of a silver castle surrounded by broken chains.
"This is the logo of the Allied Republic of Ergon, A very similar name to our government and they also have the similar motives to ours, to overthrow the KA, free its people and cede its land. Of course they were going to try and do that but the KA attacked them first though that was most likely their fault for getting to greedy with their trade with the KA and the fact they didn't hide their build up very well so the KA saw them as a threat and decimated their military and take a good chunk of their territory thought the ANE managed to rally up a force to push them back and cause a stalemate but eventually the ARE will have to surrender."
Sharp Quill showed the room pictures of the war which mainly included massive armies shooting at each other and some charging with sword and bayonets. the difference between the armies were obvious, the red armoured clothing with clockwork exoskeletons and automatic gunpowder weapons of the KA and the green plated armour and bolt action rifles of the ARE.
The pictures then showed naval battles of giant steam ships baring the crown of the KA fighting the smaller but more numerous ships of the ARE own steam ships, then it switched to air battles of the ARE's wooden fighter planes being torn apart by the more superior metal fighter planes of the KA.
It then went on to show pictures of mechanical creatures and beasts that looked like werewolves tearing apart ARE soldiers, then to the same creatures being fended off by highly skilled soldiers who are capable of using magic, then to KA soldiers wearing heavy armour and are being lifted several feet of the ground by stilt like legs.
Then the projector stopped at the picture of the massive ship that destroyed their invasion fleet. it showed the ship mincing their fleet with laser and shards of the ship that flew out and destroyed their fighters.
"This ship is probably the most dangerous thing in the KA's military arsenal and if they deploy it in ARE territory then they will be forced to surrender and when that happens then it will come here and destroy us, so our solution to this was to send a diplomatic envoy to form an alliance with the ARE and maybe we will stand a chance against them."
"Will there be a meeting with their leaders to sign the deal and if so where will we meet them ?" One of the few human leaders that have taken part or were descended from the people who lead the expedition to ARE lands asked.
"The head of their government said we will meet next week. the area we are meeting them at is a island that has the remains of a ruined lighthouse just of their coast."
The human nodded, satisfied with the answer.
Sharp Quill looked through the rest of the room. "Anymore questions ?" no body answered. "Good then this meeting is concluded, Glory to the Republic."
"GLORY TO THE REPUBLIC !" The room shook from everyones voices
"SHUT THE HELL UP YOU KNOBHEADS !" everyone looked outside to sea a monster with blood dripping from it rising from the ocean depths.
"DO YOU KNOW HOW FUCKING HARD IT IS TO FIND SOMEWHERE NICE AND QUIET. YOU MAY THINK YOUR FUCKING WHISPERING BUT WE KRAKENS HAVE SENSITIVE EARS AND NOW THEIR BLEEDING !" The Kraken stared at everyone though the windows. "I'M TAKING YOU ALL TO COURT FOR VERBAL ASSAULT !"
What followed was the ARE leadership being heavily sued for harming the poor sea creature.
Many people were outraged that they were being sued by a sea monster but they faced the horrors of animal right supporters who supported the Kraken of getting justice for its poor scaly ears.
The ARE leadership were found guilty of verbal assault and each of them were sued for 210 bits.
Ignoring the kraken for now. people saw the human leader whispering with another shadowy, creepy and feminine human before giving the shadowy figure an envelope and shooing her off.
Author's Note
don't know what to type down other then YAY I MANGED TO GET OF MY LAZY ARSE AND WRITE A CHAPTER and this cute cat
Corporal Ernest Jones of the 31st Royal Infantry Division was having a rather bad day.
Whilst they were on there way to provide reinforcements to the 20th and 51st who were assaulting The Fortress city Sweetwater Trees. They were continuously by angry tribes and small armies of warrior monks both of which had ambushed and killed a good chunk of our force in the surprise but after they lost the element of surprise they were easy pickings for our automatics and tanks.
Ernest spotted a straggler cutting one of his comrades in half with their katana and whilst they had their back turned, Ernest charged towards them and ran them through with his bayonet and pulled it out and shot them in the head for good measure.
Pulling the bolt back on his rifle and quickly caught the casing before it hit the ground and shoved it in his pocket.
"Cheeky bastard." He gave the body a kick before walking over to his slice comrade and dragged both halves to a truck and threw them in, ignoring the stench emitting from the pile of mangled bodies caused by mines and blade wielding savages.
Afterwards I walked towards a group of 6 fresh faced soldiers that are part of the section he was assigned to command. Originally he had command of twice that amount but were wounded or killed
He looked at one of the soldiers in sadness as they were currently quivering on the ground whilst clutching his leg which was torn apart by a mine and the only thing keeping it together was his standard issue Clockwork exoskeleton.
He crouched down and placed his hand on the boys shoulder. "Don't worry mate, your going to be alright." I reassured him before towards the rest of the group and pointed at two of them. "Samuel, Richard. Get him to a medic. Now!" I ordered the two and they nodded and quickly carried him to Van full of wounded who were being tended to by medics and med bots.
Ernest looked at the horizon and sighed. He could see smoke in the distance which could be the city of Sweetwater Trees.
He went and helped gather up the dead and wounded then climbed onto a transport and after his section he closed the doors and the transport resumed its drive towards Sweetwater Trees.
"Hey didn't Sweetwater Trees used to be some ancient ruined city?" One of his men, Joseph said to us
"Nah your confusing it with the ruins to the north of it. its said that anyone who wonders through that area would either eaten by the sand or killed by hollow men. Can't remember its name though." Another man, Arthur answered
"The Place From Which No Living Things Returns is what the locals called it. My granddad told me all about the place. He was with the royal army during the time when the King attempted to destroy the darkness that was in control of Samarkand. The army was forced to cross that area when a section of the Great Trade Road was blocked off and they were immediately beset upon by endless hordes of hollow men and the sand itself trying to swallow. If it wasn't for the King conjuring a massive force push to knock down the structure of the city and dragging the hollow men into ground then the army would have been massacred." I said whilst taking the magazine out of my rifle and inserting in another bullet to replace the I used earlier then pulling back the bolt to let the bullet in the chamber then pushing it back.
"Well good riddance, if that place wasn't sorted out then it would have made this invasion a lot harder. Heck, I think we are currently passing through that region to get to Sweetwater Trees." Samuel said as he scrubbed the barrel of his automatic
"Hey Robert." Arthur nudged a man next to him. "Why did you join the army, if you don't mind me asking."
Robert sighed." Same reason as Thomas, I wanted to support my family, as a soldiers family will apparently gain extra rations and free medical care. Don't know if it wasn't just some tactic to get people to join the army."
"Oh its true. My dad joined the army whilst my mum was sick and straight away a group of med bots took her to a hospital and took care of her free of charge and for the first time in years I couldn't see my ribs because of all the extra food they gave us." Richard said with a smile. "Despite all the bad things you hear about the King, he does genially care for his people as long as they aren't worthless wanks."
"I think people know not to be worthless as only once have I seen what they do to you if you don't pay the tax or pull your weight and let me tell you, the whole town had nightmares for months." Ernest said with a shiver.
They all sat there for a few more hours in silence before Thomas spoke up.
"Do you think we will win this war sir?" Thomas asked Ernest.
Ernest looked at Thomas and sighed. "Honestly I'm not sure. We are currently in a stalemate with us and the enemy deeply entrenched in their positions and either sides not showing any signs of weakness. The only reason we manage to get to Sweetwater Trees is because of those fancy rockets that were recently made."
"Well I'm pretty sure we're going to kick the UNE arseholes. Especially with all the new toys we are making." Joseph said with confidence."
The sound of gunfire could be heard outside and Richard looked out a small window.
"Looks like we're he- OH SHI-" The loud boom of an explosion could be heard and the transport was sent tumbling along with its occupants.
Ernest would have been thrown around but he remembered to put his seatbelt on because he is a responsible human being whilst the rest of his section was sent flying into the walls and ceiling.
"AH SHIT WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!" Samuel shouted before he collided with Joseph, their helmets just barely stopping them from knocking each other out.
After they had stopped tumbling, Ernest was left upside down on his seat whilst everyone else was sprawled out on the floor.
Reaching up his seatbelt, he took it out of its clip and fell to the ground and quickly got up.
"And that's what seatbelts are for lads NOW GET UP!" Ernest shouted and dragged Richard off the ground. but to his horror he saw that some thing had shot him through the head.
"EVERYONE OUT NOW!" Ernest shouted and kicked the door upon and dived to the side of the truck.
And when he got the side, several beams of light struck the ground near him and clipped the armour on his foot.
Acting on instinct Ernest leaned out from the side and shot a flying Pegasus soldier in the chest and was knocked out of the sky.
He went back into cover and pulled the bolt back on his rifle and tried to lean out of cover again but was forced back due to more beams of light striking near him.
He rolled to the front of the truck and counted a total of 4 Pegasus soldiers and 5 Earth pony soldiers then he aimed at another Pegasus soldier and shot them in the head and quickly pulled the bolt back and shot another soldier in the chest before they had time to react.
The Earth ponies charged towards him whilst firing their strange rifles and he went to throw a grenade over but they were taken out by Samuels automatic.
Ernest smiled before pulling the pin on his frag grenade and threw it at the Pegasus soldiers who were conveniently grouped together. "THROWING FRAG"
Everyone else dived to the ground and covered their heads whilst the enemy soldiers were gawking at the grenade before being blown up.
Ernest got of the ground and ran towards the rest of the 31st who were fighting of the UNE forces.
Noticing a Minotaur trying to choke a man to death so Ernest charged towards it and stabbed it in the sides and knocked it to the floor, then pulled out his pistol and shot it in the face.
Ernest helped the soldier up who thanked him before picking up his rifle and ran off to help fight off the UNE
"THOSE FUCKING CUNTS KILLED RICHARD!" Thomas screamed whilst gunning down a Unicorn.
Ernest ignored him and charged a Yak and attached it to a truck with his bayonet before pulling it out and shooting it in the head.
Hearing the sound of screaming. Ernest swung around and shot a Gryphon repeatedly with his pistol then finished it off with a shot to the head.
Ernest dived into cover and reloaded his pistol then holstered it and reloaded his rifle.
He stood back up and saw a UNE soldier in plate armour and holding a large shotgun.
Ernest aimed down the sights of his rifle and his helmet then fired several more times for good measure but the armour managed to withstand the bullets and the soldier charged towards him.
Ernest was knocked to the ground and had a shotgun aiming at his face. "ALBION WILL BU-" A roar could be heard and the UNE soldier was knocked to the ground.
Getting up, Ernest was shocked to see Richard tearing apart the UNe soldier and eating his insides.
Ernest took a step back as Richard began to howl loudly before his body started to grow larger and gain fur until he became a red furred Balverine.
Richard turned towards the enemy and jumped so high up that it hurt my neck to keep him in sight. Then he descended back down and tore a group of Pegasus soldiers apart with his razor sharp claws.
Hearing more howls, Ernest shot around and saw several Balverines charging past him and several other shocked soldiers.
"BY MY MOUSE OF A BELLEND, WE'VE BEEN GIVEN BALVERINES!" A random soldier shouted.
Castle Fairfax
"AAARRRRGH!" The King slammed his fist into the war table, causing all the figures on it to fall over.
"WHY ARE THOSE BLOODY HORSES IN THE SAMARKAND THEATRE!" The King said, eyes glowing slightly red.
"Our spies in the ANE told us that they have formed a temporary alliance called the UNE so they can help each other fight us." The royal spymaster Margaret Jay answered the kings demand.
"If we haven't had sent that battalion of Balvorn soldiers with the 31st then we could have seen heavy loses and our troops at Sweetwater Trees would have a much harder time taking it over and an even harder time keeping it under control." The Captain of the Royal Guard Jack Timmins commented whilst putting the figures back in place
"Well this is infuriating." The King said with gritted teeth.
"Well I have some good news for you my lord." Margaret smiled.
"And what could that be?" The King placed his hands behind his back and the red glow in his eyes dimmed.
"Remember when you have funded for that expedition awhile back." The king nodded." Well whilst they were getting ready to leave port I placed some of my spies on some of the ships and they have just recently managed to come back here on a ARE warship which was surrendered to the fleet, much to the confusion the ARE sailors on board who have been promptly shipped to the spire." Margaret handed a letter over to the King.
The King took an ornate letter opener out of his pocket and opened the letter and pulled out a small stone covered in blue runes.
The king placed his thumb on the stone and his eyes glowed a bright blue along with the runes.
After awhile the glowing stopped and the King had a large grin plastered on his face. "Margaret I don't know whether to kiss you for this or drag you to my bed chambers."
"Oh don't thank me." Margaret waved the king off with a blush. "Thank the brave men and women who had to bare with those monstrosities for under 50 years. Oh and before you ask, there at the Spire."
Just a quick note.
"Good. Very good." The King looked at one of the his guards." You. Go fetch Reaver, I want him to see this right away."
The guard nodded and went towards the door but it shot open and took him out. "Way ahead of you, your majesty." Reaver swaggered into room with his usual smug smile.
"Lady Margaret has already informed me and I am bursting with joy over the thought of learning all the ARE's dirty little secrets." He walked up to me and snatched the stone out of the Kings out and placed his thumb on it and his eyed started glowing as he took in the information contained within the stone before it stopped and he tapped the floor with his cane and a projector extended down from the ceiling and he placed the stone into a slot and then tapped the tap of the projector with his cane.
The Film on the projector was engulfed in a bright blue light and then it projected an image of a map
"Now this land here is Equestria and while not accurate in terms of the size and distance between locations. The locations themselves are." Margaret said
"It looks like something the orphans would have thought of before I evicted them from of the orphanage." Reaver grinned whilst he looked over the map, his eyes seeming to linger on the Crystal Empire and the Everfree Forrest.
"It does seem very childish, and for some reason most of the locations are horse puns. Some of them are surprisingly good." Margaret smiled whilst staring at Canterlot.
"I can see three ways we can invade Equestria from." Jack said before pointing at the eastern landmass with a swagger stick. "We can land troops on this landmass and invade the Gryphon lands and take over their capital, which we can then use as a staging point for the main invasion." Jack then moved the stick below the image of a dragon. "We can send some fleets through here and land troops on Equestria's eastern coast or we can straight up attack the city called Baltimare and establish a foothold there." He then moved the swagger stick to the river next to Bug Bear Territory. "And we can invade Equestria from the north and attack the city of Trottingham on the Gryphon isles and at the same time we can end up taking out the railway leading from Equestria to the Gryphon lands and as a result we can end up delaying Gryphon and Equestrian reinforcements from helping each other fight us off and we could also use the Gryphon isles as another staging point." Jack smacked the end of the swagger stick into to his other hand and faced the King.
Reaver look at Jack and feigned a pain expression. "You wound me Timmins. Our ships can never be sunk, They were made by Reaver Industries which is owned by me." Reaver said arrogantly
"Of course you would think that way Reaver. If its to do with you in any way then you will think its the greatest thing to grace the world" Jack said in a mocking way.
Reaver chuckled. "I wont think its the greatest, I know its the greatest."
"Unfortunately we can only spare the 4th fleet." The King was then given a list by Margaret. "Which is composed of 87 Knothole Class Corvettes, 42 Hook Coast Class Destroyers, 2 Bloodstone Class Battleships, 3 Kraken Class Submarines and 1 Ravenscar Class Aircraft Carrier." The King was then given another list. "The Aircraft Carrier contains over 80 types of aircraft: 50 Mercenary Class Fighter Planes, 10 Banshee Class Bomber Planes and 20 Bowerstone Class Aerial Transports. The fleet will also be bringing 2 field armies, each containing 100,000 marines." The King passed the lists back to Margaret. "Because we can currently only send the 4th fleet along with 200,000 men, I want us to invade from the north and establish a stronghold on the Gryphon isles so they are in a defendable position." The King ordered Jack
"Yes your Majesty." Jack went to walk out of the room.
The King then turned to Reaver. "Once we establish control of Trottingham, I want the men to round up the civilians and execute the young, the elderly and anyone who is in bad physical or condition, then separate the men and women and send them back so you can put them to work. Treat them like their below your lowest of workers and try to keep them working as long as possible but kill them if they stop working and kill anyone who tries to help them." The King said which caused Reaver snicker.
"My, my, when did you get so... evil your majesty. "Reaver then turned around and began walking out of the door. "You think you couldn't get anymore evil then replacing an orphanage with a brothel just for the money, you are just like your father. Tatty bye!"
Margaret looked at the King with a dumbfounded expression. "You replaced an orphanage with a brothel?"
The King gave her a blank look. "It put a lot of gold in the treasury, I would tell you why I needed the gold but for some reason people it only made people angrier and I'm too tired so goodnight!"
Outside Sweetwater Trees
With a grunt of effort, Ernest pulled his bayonet out of a small dragon.
After pulling his bayonet out Ernest looked up just in time to see a large group of the UNE get blown to pieces by an explosion.
Looking to the right, Ernest saw the massive Twig Class Walker who is tearing the UNE apart with Explosive arrows.
He gave the man controlling the walker a thumbs up and the man operating the walker nodded at him before he turned around and deflected a rocket with one of the moving armour plates surrounding him before drawing back another arrow and letting it fly into another group.
Ernest smiled and ran to cover and began picking off the UNE troops.
He aimed down the sights and shot a gryphon, who was trying to take out the Walker, in the head.
"AAAAHHHHH!" Ernest shot around but he wasn't fast enough to stop a hoof hitting him in the face.
"AHHH YA BASTARD!" Ernest was knocked over by the assailant and he quickly rolled away from it and got up.
The assailant was a orange furred Pegasus with the gold coloured armour they normally wear.
The pony brought out a sword and charged him and Ernest reacted to this by quickly pulling the bolt back and aiming at the pony and pulled the trigger but he was met with just a click and with a yelp Ernest narrowly dodged the ponies blade and he quickly kicked him in the legs and went to stab him in the heart but the pony kicked his legs out then rolled away from Ernest.
"ISN'T GOING TO BE THAT EASY CHIMP!" The pony shouted
Ernest stood up and placed his rifle on his back then he pulled out his steel long sword from his back.
"OH SHUT UP!" Ernest shouted back and walked up to the pony with his sword pointing towards him.
The Pony ran up and tried to slash him but Ernest parried it then backhanded the pony which dazed the pony and Ernest went to thrust the sword in his armpits but the pony rolled away.
The pony stared at him and held his blade with both hand and slowly walked up to him and Ernest did the same thing.
Once in range Ernest threw his sword forward in a thrust but the pony deflected it and slashed him but the blade banged of an amour plated and Ernest responded by punching the pony in the face and dented his helmet in the process and Ernest went in to finish him off but the pony kicked his sword which snapped in two then he quickly got up and stabbed Ernest in the chest.
Ernest should be in pain right now but the will stone in his power pack sent a signal to his helmet which injected a health potion into his system.
Ernest grabbed the blade and kicked the pony of it then pulled the blade out and snapped it on his knee.
Ernest cracked his neck and stared at the pony. "What's your name freak?" Ernest spat some blood
The pony got off the ground and glared at him. "Private Flash Sentry. You?"
"Corporal Ernest Jones." Ernest said before getting into a stance. "Sorry Freak, you seem like a nice person but I'm going to have to kill you."
Ernest ran towards him and dropped to the ground and kicked Flashes legs out then he got up and took his helmet off and began punching his face.
Flash grabbed Ernest's arms and head-butted him and threw him off and got up and went to kick Ernest but Ernest got up and grabbed his leg and slammed his elbow into to his knee which bent it the wrong way and kicked out his other leg but Flash flew of the ground punched Ernest in the face and cracked one of his eye slots then Flash set his leg back in place.
Ernest recovered from the hit and grabbed Flashes leg just after he finished setting it back in place then he slammed him back in the ground.
"GET UP!" Ernest Dragged Flash up and punched him in the snout.
Flash grabbed his snout in pain but Ernest didn't give him the time of day and punched him in the eye then kicked him in the groin the he grabbed his arm and flung him into the ground.
"GET UP!" Ernest pulled Flash up and Flash tried to punch him but Ernest grabbed it and snapped his wrist causing Flash to let out a scream and fall over.
"GET UP!" Ernest grabbed Flashes neck and held him up and stood him on his legs.
He stood in one place and stared on as Flash let out a scream of rage and charged towards him and Ernest reacted by punching him whilst he was running towards him.
"I'm ending this." Ernest picked Flash up and held him up with both arms before throwing him into his knee and snapping his spine.
Flash let out another scream as he flailed his arms around in an attempt to crawl away from Ernest who took out a pistol and pointed it at his head.
Flash clutched at his necklace and his body began to glow.
"*BANG*" Ernest fired the pistol echoed across the whole area which has gotten strangely quiet.
"Damn sha-..." Ernest stared at the empty spot in the ground which had nothing but a small hole. "Oh for fucks sake."
Ernest looked around him and saw everyone else dumping the striped bodies of the UNE in a hole.
"Hahahaha that fight was fun to watch, not as fun when I saw the Alpha Commandant beat up that Kraken but still fun to watch" Ernest heard a deep voice behind him and he turned around to see a red balverine staring back at him.
Ernest stared at Richard then that stare became a glare and he slapped Richard around face.
"OWW" Richard clutched his face.
"Oh I'll show you how." Ernest slapped Richard again
"OWW" Ernest hit him again. "OWW" Ernest slapped him again.
"STOP IT!!!" Richard snapped his needle like teeth at Ernest.
"DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE SHOUT AT A COMMANDING OFFICER!" Ernest grabbed his Rilfe and smacked Richerd with the rifle butt.
"SHIT!!"
Author's Note
Have a 4,000 word chapter
