Author's Note

This chapter was written by a good friend of mine, Lumox6, who has been proofreading this story from the beginning, and collaborating with me on other related works. He wrote Dan and Aurik's stories, and can be found here: https://www.fimfiction.net/user/299708/Lumox6/stories

Assault

Equestria, Canterlot, Three days later

In the throne room of Canterlot castle, sat a flustered Princess Celestia. She had been pacing back and forth, reading the letter that she had found pinned to her wall by a strangely shaped knife, one that only one person could have. She set the knife down on the table and began pacing again, waiting for John to arrive with Twilight and Aurik.

Twilight, accompanied by John and Aurik, both now wielding purple rifles, styled after Twilight's cutie mark, come rushing into the throne room, fear quite evident on their faces. "Princess Celestia, what's wrong!?"

Princess Celestia has a look of fear on her face as she hands her the letter. "I found this attached to the outer gate wall this morning." She gives Twilight the note, before sitting on her throne.

Twilight's face turns a dark shade of green. "Celestia, what does this mean?" John motions for the letter as Twilight gives it to him. He takes it and reads it aloud.

"Dear Princess Celestia,

You stupid cunt... You crushed me, broke me down, lied to me, took away the one thing that made me more happy than any pony or human could ever be. You took away what I cherished most. Prepare your self Celestia, for I am coming for you with the rage of a thousand burning suns.

And I'm gonna start by taking the one thing you cherish most, the one thing you are most proud of, Your bitch of a student, Princess Twilight Sparkle." Twilight looks like she is going to faint as Aurik goes over to her to hold her up. "And after I drain every ounce of FUCKING blood from that whore's pretty little neck, I will not rest until I have slit the throats of every fucking pony from here to the Crystal Empire. Now that I mention it, I will start with Ponyville. Good luck stopping me.

Sweet Dreams, Princess Celestia.

Signed your doom, ARES "

John crumples the letter, dropping it to the ground. He walks over to Twilight, who is now openly sobbing, and hugs her.

"Princess Celestia," Aurik approaches Princess Celestia, rifle at his side. "Vhat do you need us for?" Princess Celestia looks at him before sighing.

"I need your protection." Celestia turns around and walks to one of the windows overseeing the courtyard, where soldiers march in and out by the hundreds. "I am sending nearly all of my soldiers into Ponyville to guard the town, even though it won't be enough to stop him."

"Stop who, exactly?" asks Aurik, who is now adjusting one of the straps on his helmet.

Celestia sighs "Ares is a human, much like you." Tears begin streaming down her face as she remembers what happened. "He arrived here the day of the changeling invasion, three years ago. We saw that he had certain..." She looked down to the floor, before bring it back up towards Aurik. "skills we saw as useful. We employed him as a mercenary, only to be used on special occasions, however, he eventually went on a killing spree and we had him banished from Equestria."

Aurik stood at attention, saluting Celestia. "Do not vorry princess, ve vill protect you." Aurik looks back at John who is now cocking his rifle.

"Yeah, no one threatens a princess and gets away with it." He lowers his rifle, walking to the window. He looks out, just in time to see the last of the soldiers leave, making their way towards Ponyville towards certain doom.

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Equestria, just outside of Canterlot walls, three hours later.

It is quiet as the Guards ponies patrol the wall, looking for any signs of an intruder. From what they had heard and seen, most of their forces were in Ponyville, protecting Princess Twilight, who had secretly been moved to Canterlot. One of the guards sat down at his post, quietly sipping his coffee, when one of his buddies comes trotting up. "Hey Flash, hows it going?" said the gray pegasus.

"It's going pretty good, I can't believe somepony threatened Princess Twilight." said the orange pegasus, taking off his helmet to let his blue mane flow through the air.

"Yeah, I know. So any luck with the princess?" asked the gray pegasus, a look of excitement on his face.

"Uh... not really, I think she do-"

tchhh

Bones and brain matter showered the gray pegasus as his friends head explodes into a fountain of red. The gray pegasus screams, trying to see where that magic came from. He runs over, ringing the alarm to let everypony know that Canterlot is under attack, before his brains are splattered against the alarm panel.

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In the throne room sit John, Aurik and Twilight, along with Princess Celestia and her sister, Princess Luna. John gets up and walks to the window, moving the curtain to see outside. "Vhats the plan, John?" asked Aurik, who was now getting up and walking over to John. "Vhat are ve going to do if he really does get through that army?" John looked at him, a look of determination on his face.

"We kill him when he enters the front gate."

Over across the room was Princess Luna, who was now scolding her sister. "How could you not tell us, your own sister, what you had done?" Princess Celestia sat there, looking at the picture behind her, a picture of her and her rule. "Hiring a mercenary to do what we could have done instead?" Luna looked away from her sister.

"I did it to protect my-" She stuttered, putting her hoof to her mouth and coughing. "Our rule. Without us, Equestria would be lost." Celestia tried putting a hoof on her sisters shoulder, but Luna just brushes it off before getting up from her throne.

"Forgive us sister, we have many a thing to do before our impending doom." Luna says as she walks out of the room. Aurik notices this and walks over to Celestia, who is now looking more sad than scared.

"Princess Vhat vill ve do if-" The alarm sounds, causing Celestia, Aurik, Twilight and John to jump.

"He is here!" Screams Celestia. She looks down at Aurik and John. "Please, I need you to protect me!"

"What about Twilight?" Asks John, who now has his weapon trained on the window. The alarm stops, causing everyone to lower their guard.

Celestia looks at Twilight, who now has a look of absolute panic on her face. "She can come with me, just protect us."

An explosion, followed by gunfire rings out as Aurik runs to the door, putting the bar lock down. He then runs back and pushes over a table, sitting down behind it. "I vill take care of him, go!"

John gives him a salute as he, followed by Twilight and Celestia, make their way down the hall towards the safe room.

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Brain matter is spewed all across the wall as Ares walks past, his M24 limply laying over his shoulder. He walks over to the alarm box and switches it off. "Finally, that was getting fucking annoying." He looked at the now headless pegasi before him. "Tonight is just not your night, now is it?" He chuckles as he walks back towards the gate, his weapon changing from an M24 to an M79 Thumper. He opens the reciever, the new 40mm grenade, pops out. He lifts it up, admiring it. "Wow Luna, You did a fantastic job on this gun." He loads the 40mm grenade and clicks the receiver into place. He then aims it at the front gate. "Knock knock, motherfucker." He pulls the trigger, the projectile hits the gate, shattering it and sending shrapnel into the square. He unloads the grenade launcher, admiring as the grenade shell magically acquires another projectile. Once done, the grenade vibrates in his hand. He loads it, before it turns into an M240B.

Screams erupt as he walks through the front gate, his gun at hip level ready to be fired, he walks past some of the unlucky guards ponies that were right next to the gate when it exploded, some are missing legs, faces, one is even missing his lower jaw. He is still alive, screaming as his tongue flops around, trying to feel around for his jaw. "Poor guy."

BANG

The jawless ponies face immediately disappears in an explosion of red as his face is blown away by the 7mm bullet. Blood decorates the ground as he continues on towards the castle.

As he walks, he sees many ponies, all running to get away from him. Guards ponies run through the crowd towards ares as he raises his LMG. "There he is, get hi-!" the Guards pony's voice is cut off as he opens fire.

DADADADADADADA-

Guards ponies fall to the ground as they get ripped to pieces and the guards ponies just keep coming. As soon as the crowd of civilians clears, Ares tosses a grenade towards the oncoming guards. It explodes, sending some of the ponies into the air and through the windows of stores near by. Seeing what just happened, the remaining guards run away.

"Man, you guys aren't much of a fight, I probably don't even need to waste ammo on you." He hangs his rifle on his back as two guards run up to him, swords drawn. They both jump, bringing their swords down on him. He grabs them by the necks, squeezing just hard enough for them to drop their weapons. "I'm gonna have fun with you two." He throws one down and stomps on its neck, killing him instantly, before grabbing one of the dropped swords and thrusting it through the remaining pony's stomach. His screams echo off of the buildings. "AAHHHHHGGHGHGH, FUCK!"

"Huh, I didn't know you ponies knew how to cuss." said Ares as he thrust the sword farther in, twisting it and killing the pony. "Oh, dead already?" He drops the body lifeless pony to the ground before walking to the front doors of the castle.

Ares walks past pony after pony as he walks towards the doors. He notices one pony in particular, a white unicorn stallion with a blonde mane. The unicorn stares at him as he walks past. "Haven't I seen you somewhere befo-?" Asks Ares as he turns around.

"You arent fooling anypony with that ridiculous getup of yours, I know it's you. You are going to pay for taking Rarity away from me!"The stallion comes out with a knife and stabs Ares in the chest, before running to the front doors, standing in front of them before showing some form of pathetic defensive stance. "When my Aunt hears that I'm the one who killed you, she will have to make me an Alicorn!" He grins.

Ares looks at the stallion before looking down at the knife in his chest. Ares slowly reaches up and pulls it out before sighing. "I knew I had seen you from somewhere before." Ares takes the knife and flips it, holding it by the blade. "Prince Blueblood," Ares bends down with his arms outstretched. "what an honor it is to finally make your acquaintance." Prince Blueblood's smile instantly vanishes as he sees this. He turns around, hitting the door trying to get in. "Oh no you don't," Ares throws the knife into Blueblood's hoof, slicing cleanly through and sticking him to the wall. "AGHHGHGHHH!!"

"Yeah, I remember you now," Ares slowly approached Blueblood, who was now struggling to keep from crying. "I remember that you wouldn't even give my Rarity the time of day, you shunned her." Ares grabbed a knife from his chest and flipped it in his hands a few times.

"I-I did no such thing, I was just p-playing h-h-hard to get!" Yelped Blueblood through clenched teeth. Ares raised his now bloodstained yellow skull mask and gave him the biggest 'You fucking dipshit' look. "And who says she was yours, you know that if I c-called, she would have come running, she was always a whore for rich stallions." He laughed "She never loved you."

Ares lowered his mask and grabbed Blueblood's other hoof, pinning it and stabbing his knife through it. The feel of the knife breaking through flesh and bone was almost as satisfying as Blueblood's screams. Ares leaned in close to Blueblood's face and whispered into his ear. "Listen here you little shit!" Hissed Ares as he grabbed another knife from his chest, putting it up to the now sobbing stallion's throat. "Because I'm a nice guy, I'm gonna let you choose how you die." The stallion pissed himself as he sobbed, urine running down his leg.

"P-please, no..." sobbed the stallion.

Ares held up the knife to his neck. "Now, would you like me to slit your throat?"

"I-I'm sorry..."

Ares then placed the knife to his ear. "I could send this knife through your ear and into your brain, sure it would hurt more, but it would be quicker."

"Oh god..."

He then lifted the knife to his horn. "Or I could just cripple you and let you live, don't worry, your horn will be fine. I'll keep it as a trophy in my collection." At that, Blueblood, defecated on himself. Ares jumped back. "Jesus man, I thought you were grown up. It's not that hard of a decision, it's a choice between life and death."

"I can pay you a-anything you want, do you want bits?"

Ares steps back and grabs the watch on his wrist. "I'm gonna set my watch and if you haven't chosen one by the time it's at zero, I'm gonna choose for you. Aaaaaannd... there."

"Please I beg of you!"

"Nine"

"I dont wanna die!"

"Eight"

"Please!"

"Seven, you're wasting time. Six"

"Please, I don't wanna die. Ill give you anything!"

"Five"

"Have mercy!"

"Four, Now you're just wasting my time. Three."

"I can't choose... I love my horn, but I don't wanna die!"

"Two."

"Fine... I choose..."

"One"

"I choose to have my throat slit... I can't live without my horn."

Ares watch beeped. "Ohhhh...." He held up his watch, pointing at it. "Didn't choose on time, now I get to choose how you die."

"NOOO, you bastard, I beat your fucking time!" He screamed "You're going to chop off my horn." He sobbed.

"Hey hey now," Ares gently lifted up his head. "I never said that I would cut it off if you didn't answer, that was just one of your choices." He rubs the knife against his cheek, cutting it.

"Y-your choices?"

"Yeah, my choices are pretty much endless, luckily for you, I already have something dreamed up." Ares reached on his chest, grabbing a grenade. "Also, this works out for me, because I need to get through the door, which you're attached to."

At that, Ares thrust the knife into Blueblood's stomach, causing him to scream out in pain. "AAHHAHHGHGHHA-ACK!!" During his scream, Ares plugged Blueblood's scream hole with a grenade, before jumping back behind a wall.

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The gunshots got closer as Aurik set up his defensive line. His rifle clanged against the table as he pushed it to the door. "Zhere, zat should be enough." Aurik walks back and sits down behind a turned over table. He reaches under his vest and pulls out a cross, He holds it up and whispers a small prayer before putting it back under his vest. All of a sudden the screams stop.

Muffled yelling is heard at the door. Aurik, with his rifle raised, approaches the door, ready for anything to happen.

Thud thud thud

Aurik approaches the door and reaches for it, jumping back when a knife stabs through the door. Muffled screaming ensues as Aurik notices that the knife is now dripping blood. Aurik trains his rifle on the door, ready to start shooting when he sees another knife come through, this one coming through about three feet from the other knife, caked in blood. At that point Aurik jumps behind a table and he changes his gun into an MG3 LMG. He deploys the bi-pod and kneels behind the table, mentally preparing himself for this...thing.

Another thud, followed by a scream is heard, followed by silence. Aurik lowers his head as he guesses what happens next.

BOOM

The front doors fly inward as pieces of wood and gore fly everywhere. Aurik pokes his head up and seeing that, to his horror, half of a pony's torso is laying there, it's intestines laying in a heap around the opening, blood seeping out, staining the now charred white fur of the unlucky pony. He looks slightly past the smoke and ducks down as a hail of bullets nails his cover.

Ares walks through, hip-firing an M240B. Round after round impact the table as he slowly talks towards it. When his weapon clicks, signaling Ares that his gun is empty, he lowers the gun. Aurik sees this and opens fire, his MG3 rip-roaring through the remaining pieces of wood, the buzz of his LMG giving him confidence. Ares lifts up his arm and turns to the side as the LMG tears into him, pushed back towards the wall by the repeating fire. After about 200 rounds, he falls through the wall and hits the ground, completely inert. Aurik walks towards him, his LMG lowered. As Aurik approaches, Ares' M240B vibrates, turning into a sawn off double-barreled shotgun. Ares lifts it, catching Aurik off guard as he fires a round into him, sending him flying back into a table. He gasps for air as he reaches at his vest, he lifts his hand up to see blood. How had the buckshot gotten through his vest. He felt as his breaths slowly got weaker. Ares got up and walked through the hole in the wall and approached Aurik, kneeling down beside him, lifting his mask. "Wow, those tungsten rounds really do work."

"V-Vhy D-(Cough)daniel?" Asked Aurik as he looked into Daniels eyes, life slowly draining from his body.

"Well, " Said Daniel with a smile. "I felt that you guys were hindering my plans to kill Princess Celestia." Daniel stood up and lifted his shotgun to Auriks head. "Listen kid, I have nothing against you, you were a good kid, but-" Daniel paused as he stared at the cross around Auriks neck. "I just can't have you trying to stop me, Auf Wiedersehen, German boy."

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John ran with Celestia and Twilight and turned around a corner as he heard a final gunshot. He paused, looking back before hearing laughter, the laughter of someone who had just claimed a life. John felt sadness sweep over him as he ran towards the panic room, where Luna was sitting patiently, her head to the floor as she wept. As Celestia went over to console her, Luna slapped Celestia's hoof away and turned, submerging herself into the darkness of the room. Celestia looked down to the ground, a tear fell down her face as she started shaking. She turned to look at John, who was now barricading the wooden door. When done, he sat down against it, giving a long sigh as he cupped his face in his hands.

"What are we going to do, John?" Asked a panicked Twilight, who now had her face buried in her hooves. John looks up at her, a look of sorrow on his face.

"I don't know, Twilight. I'm so sorry." John checked his rifle ammunition. "But I know that I will never let anything hurt you." Twilight buried her head into her hooves.

Knock Knock

John jumped away from the door before it got blown from the hinges. A small burst of fire and blue enveloped everything in the room as Daniel walked in. "DANIEL, STOP!!" John raised his rifle, only to be mowed down by an MP5K. He hit the wall with a thud, before sliding down it. He hit the floor and lay there, completely still. Twilight looked at John and screamed as she ran over to him, shaking him before looking up at Daniel, a look of satisfaction on his face. Celestia backed up towards the wall, a look of petrified horror on her face as she stared at Daniel.

"You bastard, You killed my John!!" She lunged at him, only to be caught by the neck. Daniel let the MP5K hang loosely around his neck as he grabbed a blue and white combat knife, stabbing Twilight. Her screams drowned out any and all of Celestia's thoughts as she stared in horror as her star student is eviscerated in front of her. He twists the knife, causing Twilight to fall limp. He pulls the knife out, dropping Twilight's corpse to the ground and looks at Celestia, then past her. He throws the knife into the darkness. "Don't think that you are safe from your sins, Luna." Said Daniel as Luna falls to the ground, the knife sticking out of her temple. Celestia stares in horror at her now departed sister. Celestia looks up at Daniel, who is now slowly approaching her. Tears stream down her face and fall at her hoofs as she tries to get up, her legs shaking as she tries to stand. She whips her head around to throw a spell. It does nothing. She tries again and again. She sits back down as Daniel gets closer. He drops the MP5K and unholsters his Beretta, pulling the hammer back. "When I'm done with you, I will finally have my revenge." He takes the pistol and lifts it to Celestia's head as she pleads with him.

"Please, don't kill me, I swear. I can give you everything you had back." She pleads.

"No, you can never give me what I once had, you can barely even use your own magic right now." He presses the pistol to her forehead as she closes her eyes, tears streaming down her face.

"Please..."

"Say hi to your bitch and your sister for me."

He pulls the trigger.

Click

Celestia opens her eyes as Daniel starts laughing. He looks back at John's corpse who is now getting up, brushing off his jacket, red paint smearing his jacket. "Can you believe this dumb bitch?" Daniel laughs some more as John then helps Twilight and Luna up. She removes the knife from her head and drops it to the ground.

"Twilight? Luna?" Tears flow down Celestia's face as she looks at them. "H-how?"

"Paint rounds..." says John, bending down to give a crying Twilight a hug.

Daniel looks back at Celestia. "Did you really think that they would let me kill you?" He laughs.

"Daniel, we will take care of our sister." Says luna, who shows no sympathy in both her face and voice as she stares at Celestia. "She will be tried for her crimes."

"I love you John, let's please not ever do that again." says Twilight as she nuzzles John's chest. He kisses her before looking up at a disgusted Celestia.

"So... is that how they turned you against me? He made you his whore?" Said Celestia, a look of pure anger on her face.

"Celestia, ple-." Twilight started

"Thats PRINCESS Celestia to you." Screamed Celestia who lunged at Twilight, only to be tackled by her sister, Luna.

"Please sister, let us hear what she has to say!" Celestia stops struggling enough to hear Twilight.

"Please listen to me, the humans? They are not a horrible species, they may be a little brash, yes, but they are still full of compassion and love. Yet you take away the one thing he loves and still dare to call him a monster. What do you think that makes us look like?" Twilight turns around, walking with John out of the room.

"You little SLUT!!" Celestia uses her head as a weapon and hits Luna, knocking her down, before bucking Daniel into the wall and falling to the ground, unconscious. Celestia then runs at John, who turns around before being impaled and lifted into the air by her horn, his blood coating Celestia's face as she slams him to the ground.

"JOHN!!" Twilight Cries. Celestia stands over John as she rears up for her final blow, she stands on her hind legs, stretching her wings.

BANG...cling clang

Celestia looks to her left and sees Aurik, who is covered in red, holding a smoking pistol. She looks down at her chest, and falls to the floor. She slowly closes her eyes, never to reopen.

"JOHN!!" Cries Twilight as she runs over to him. "It's ok, it's gonna be ok, I love you baby, I love you, you're gonna be fine."

Luna lifts her head, rubbing it. She looks over and sees the scene outside as Daniel comes to. She raises a hoof to her mouth as a tear falls down her face, She moves over to Daniel and helps him up before walking to John and Twilight. Aurik runs toward them, dropping his gun as he falls to his knees and just stares at John.

"Please, John, don't leave me." Says Twilight as she lays her head on his chest. She slowly lifts his hand up, placing it in her lap.

"I-I love you T-Twilight." He coughs, causing blood to fly out, falling onto his jacket. He looks Twilight in the eyes before saying his final words. "T-thank you for m-making me the most h-happy human in the world." His hand drops beside him as his last breath leaves him. Twilight lays there, her head on his chest weeping as everyone surrounds him.

"JOOOOOHHN!!"