In between the towns of Ladipound and Canpoin....

King Dainn just lazily sits on his throne enjoying the his personal entertainment when suddenly the a messenger Caribou came through the doorway. The Caribou looked like it was a long trek to get here judging by the sweat on his face.

King Dainn raised an eyebrow. "Your highness, Vailden Göim has been assasinated."

Now that had sent an awful feeling through his spine. "What? How?"

"Cause of death seem to be loss of blood. His bitch is also missing. No traces of the maybe assassin that did this either." He reports.

Dainn's anger spikes at the report. His warhammer glowed an unholy purple that caused the messenger back away in fear.

Eventually, the glow in the war hammer stopped and so did Dainn's anger. "I've always known, that bastard has always pushed his luck too much. No matter. How is the conquer of the Crystal Empire?"

The messenger hesitated. "We lost ground, milord....."

"WHAT?!" King Dainn bellowed.

The poor messenger flies into a wall of the house grunting slightly in pain.

"I have just about had it with this puny army!" Dainn said getting out of his throne chair as his entertainment seem to disapprove below him.

Another messenger came in through the door not long after, but flinched slightly seeing a fellow messenger on the floor.

"Milord, I have good news. The mystery army is a band of legions from the Imperial Guard and an interracial rebellious group." He said.

King Dainn seem to be satisfied with the new information sitting back down. "That Zebra Emperor bastard. So he betrayed me instead of preparing to follow our ideals," Dainn said with malice. "Fine then, you," points to the standing messenger, "I want you to inform the rest of the remaining army of what you told me. Then I want you to order half of the army to invade Zebrinica."

The messenger saluted King Dainn before he ran off. "And you," Dainn said to the messenger that was on the floor. "I want the remaining army fully ready. We are going to prepare for battle. I'll put that white alicorn slut and her sister in their place myself."

"Yes your highness." The messenger said also leaving him in the throne room alone with his consorts again.

The Crystal Empire

Katina's POV...

The smell of the Barren North was frigid and bitter. But even in this blizzard, I and the legionaries with the Crystal Pony guard among us could see the Caribou army making its way toward our defenses.

My soldiers were growing uneasy. The Caribou army was twice maybe three times the size of our own. The Crystal Ponies are not much more professional than the legionaries are about the current wave of Caribou.

I walk up to the front of the legion's formation and begin my pace. "Soldiers! Have no fear of these Caribou bastards! You know what you can expect from these barbarians. They're a race of rabid, sex crazed bastards who will fight us tooth and nail," My legionaries seem to agree with me through their expressions. "But they don't know what they're up against. Roam is civilization! Roam is order! Roam is power! And out here- We. Are. Roam!"

My legion cheers out in a loud roar that startled the Crystal Ponies. The Caribou army was now in striking range. We could see the perverted looks toward the females, but they were ignored.

I raise my hand. "Aim......FIRE!" I shouted as a torrent of arrows from our army rain down on the shocked looking Caribou army. A good portion of the Caribou army went down in the barrage. "CHARGE IN!"

Then all hell broke loose. Both armies collide with one another. The war beasts that the Caribou rode on burst through the lines breathing fire in their wake. I put a few of those mammoths and their masters down along with Lieutenant Soap who was not far from my side.

I look into the distance and see the first major threat. One of the Caribou Sages. The wizard cause the ground to burst underneath a legionarie before the soldier gets impaled to death.

I came in closer and unsheath two of my gladius in each hand. The sage saw me just in time to dodge my fatal thrusts to end his life.

He counterattacked with a lightning bolt which caused me to stumble back, but unharmed. It was a good thing Imperial Guard armor is made with several series of runes that are made to deal with magic and strengthen the armor.

A sadistic smile crept on my face. I focus my rune energy into my gladius blades as blue flames lit on them.

My wild precise combo attacks kept the sage Caribou on the defense. "Powerful strikes from a zebra cunt," He said smiling. The wizard stick he had glowed dark red crackling with red energy. "I'll enjoy breaking you into a sex crazed bitch!"

The red energy forms into a snake creature wrapping around my arms. A powerful shock went through my flesh. Fortunately, my armor absorbed most of the shock, but the runes only do so much. I still stood even after the pain in my entire nervous system.

My body didn't seem to respond as the sage sucker punch me in the jaw sending me sprawled on the snowy ground. Feeling came back through my body after a few seconds.

"I'll make this worth your wild." He said.

I get up and spat to the ground in front of him. "I'll make sure that your vile breed doesn't get the chance to spread anymore." I said as the blue flames relights my gladius'.

Not long after, canons shots could be heard tearing up the earth, metal and gore in its wake. It didn't matter to me because I was too focused on the sage Caribou. He seem to not be as well seasoned with loud noises though judging by every time his ears twitch at the booms of the explosions. I let out a war cry performing another torrent of combat moves not letting the sage have any opening. It looked like I would get to kill my first sage.

Unfortunately, the fun did not go for long as another of the sages ganged up on me. I could put one down but two sages casting spells against me was hard to deal with. I was in trouble for a while deflecting spells while trying to cut through their defenses. It wasn't until Soap direct the other sage's attention from me, and quickly end his life that I could think of other options.

However, that sage's death seem to infuriate the one I currently fought. His blind rage gave me enough time to slice his knees open before driving the blade straight into his neck. When I pulled it out he fell over dead. "Thanks Soap. I owe you one." I said.

"No problem. I thrive off of the blood. It's quite the thing to get a high off of." he said with a crazed smile.

Two down, one more sage to go and the rest will shortly fall. I slaughter some more Caribou warriors with ease. It wasn't until a huge magical explosion happened to my right when I saw the Caribou I was looking for. He was definitely massive then the normal Caribou would be. Even compared to the other two sages. He wield a massive sword with Caribouian runes all over it.

The last sage sped up at me recoiling back. With great speed I dodged his downwards strike. The result sent ripples through the ground around him and a scar into the earth. I slash at his bicep only for his sword to turn my way again. This time, I took the blow with both of my gladius blades. The Caribou sage smirked at my struggle for a while until he kicks me into another Caribou so hard the impact broke the soldier Caribou's neck.

He went to make another move only for Soap to plunge a sword down into the Caribou's left foreleg. The sage only grunts in annoyance aimming the sword at Soap instead. I took the chance to unstrap a metal sealed potion from my armor, and run up to the bulky Caribou stabbing the potion in his skin.

"Do it, Soap!" I yelled.

He grabs a crossbow from his with an already loaded arrow firing straight into the potion. I jump off the sage Caribou as in a matter of seconds the sage explodes into a shower of gore from above the waist. Soap crackles in laughter while I catch my breath momentarily.

"I can't wait to make a smoothie out of all this!" Soap said gesturing to the gore and blood around him. The mental image made me slightly disgusted and concerned of Soap's morale and equinity.

After hours of disposing the rest of these bastards the battle was won. The Crystal Ponies cheer in victory while my legionaries roar in pride.

-:-

We head back to the Crystal Empire with our heads held high. The Princess and her husband prepared a celebration for our victory. My legionaries sure appreciated all the food we could eat after having nothing to eat for days.

"I am very surprised of the Zebrinican fighting style. Where did you learn your techniques?" Cadence asked.

Soap and I were invited by Shining Armor and Cadence to eat with them after the long battle. "The Emperor personally teaches the Centurions of the army, but we have to be Centurion material first." I replied. Soap eats his meal beside me.

"Um, Soap? Are Zebra supposed to be herbivores?" Shining said inspecting his plate that had meat and a red liquid drizzled on it.

Soap paused momentarily eating the remaining meat in his mouth. "Well yes, but my diet always includes some meat and blood on the side." he said pointing to his slightly sharpen teeth.

Shining and Cadence was trying not to look too disurbed. I sighed. "Soap was an orphan back on Zebrinica. He didn't had much to eat and so he had to eat meat most of his life. By the time we found him he loved to eat like an omnivore."

"What? The Emperor should have done something about that. Doesn't he care about his people?" Cadence said.

I shrugged. "Many Emperors in the past have tried to solve the cause of poverty, but ever since the Great Cultural War the richness of the Zebra people had spiked down tremendously. All that can be done is put up rules that hopefully stabilize the economy for now. That's all I'm told."

"I see," Shining said clearing his throat, "Well, we received good news from Celestia while you battled it out. She reports that the target Vailden Göim has been properly assassinated and they have located King Dainn."

"Huh, Shocker is not half bad." I remarked.

"She has also stationed you and your legionaries here in the Crystal Empire just in case something changes in the Caribou's plans." Cadence continued.

"Of course Princess." I said. I dig into my food after a bit.

"Well, looks like I won't get the satisfaction in killing the King of Bastards myself. Brikoius will sure as tartarus forfill it, or I'll kill that Centurion AND Dainn."

-:-

Canterlot....
Shocker's POV

I just about finished explaining to Princess Celestia and Luna personally how to create the technology I have. The only problem was their personal engineering ponies were slow in production. At this rate, it will take a week at most for the production to take off.

I also received detailed reports of the victory battle up at the Crystal Empire. World wide, this would mean the turning point in this damn war.

"The assistance of Centurion Katina and her legionaries had succeed in securing the Crystal Empire. We can now focus the Royal Guard to the main problem in defending the borders of Equestria." Twilight said.

I lazily play around with a pencil while in the middle of a Princess meeting. "It would certainly make tactics much more effective." Luna adds.

I place my pencil down catching the attention of the Princesses in the room. "That's good, but I personally think that he'll switch to a hands-on approach now." I said.

"Shocker is right. I've had experience with these kind of males lead in a patriarchy," Celestia said calmly, "I want all the able Royal Guard members to get ready for anything. If they find something it is to be reported and sent to me."

"Okay I can arrange that." Twilight replied.

No further arguments came up, so everyone went back to what they were doing. As for me, I went back on the War Hammer to finish a special project I had been working on just for the Caribou.

Author's Note

Hello everypony! I am starting to head towards the final chapter for the story. I know it's not too long from the average amount I do, but I hope you all enjoy this chapter though before that happens. Next chapter will come out soon.