A weapon for hire.
Assault on canterlot
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turn out the chapter is too big for my ~3000~words by chapter standard so here the first bit and the next one can come out anytime from tomorrow at best to next sunday at worst.(probably saturday. only other day aside sunday where i have the time to write for 4/5 hours straight without yawning every ten minutes or seeing only blurred smudge on my screen. i choose a tiring job so got to sleep early
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Assault on canterlot
It was very early in the morning, the sun wasn't even up yet and me and luna in her bertigo were crouching inside of the forest named everfree near ponyville, we were facing canterlot but still out of sight, the other furtive member of this mission was at the top of canterlot mountain on the other side to hide from changeling guards view, fluttershy had taken the night before to get into position unseen, the record i had from her deathscythe camera taught me i had a lot to learn from her in the furtive departement, the woman was practically invisible and inside a 16 meter tall, 7 ton war machine it was a fantastic show of skills, it did convince me she was more than the right choice to trust with testing any new equipment.
"Kshatriya luna, are you in position?"i heard celestia voice in my head.
"We are, we are awaiting your command."luna nodded
(music)
Celestia took a deep breath,"soldier of equestria! Today we are starting our counter attack, today we will show the world we are not prey to their cruelty! today we rise with the sun on a new era! We are the one who made an empire who lasted two thousand years! We have faced wannabe gods and necromancers with our heads held high and bravery in our heart! even though allies and enemy answered our call for unity, friendship and harmony with violence, if violence is the only language they afford us we will speak their language untill they fear the very idea of it! make them fear the shadow we cast on them! we will be their terror personified, this day may end and the dawn come soldiers but our rise him will never stop! so rise soldier of equestria! rise for justice! rise for glory! rise for you friends! rise for your loved one! and rise for the soldiers beside you! for.equestria!!!"
""For equestria!""
I observed through my camera as the sun suddenly shot through the sky, piercing the darkness and bathing no- flooding! The world in its blinding light, the cry of pain and surprise from the blinded guards of canterlot were heard even here but i didn't take the time to listen to them as me and luna charged while the enemy where blinded, we were moving toward the hidden entrance at the foot of the mountain, we would be out of communication range once inside or at least until i fucking pierced a hole inside the mountain from inside to restore a connection then we would open the gate and evacuate.
"Here it is kshatriya, just behind the waterfall!"
I scanned the place and found an hollow space behind the rock, i released four funnel who cutted us an entry and we jumped inside and through the waterfall.
"Sister! We are inside, good luck, give them tartarus!"
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Third person Pov
"Sister! We are inside, good luck, give them tartarus!"
Celestia smiled,"oh we will sister."she seated on her seat, and looked at the screen inside the grandeen command center, her troops made of daughtress upgrades with the new cheap but efficient frame kshatriya had designed to solve their units rough reaction and improvised control system. "All unit be ready to enter the city! We must make use of the enemy panic and deal a maximum amount of damage, heavyarm authorization to attack!"
A mad laughter filled the radio as a spinning sound started to pick up,"ahahahahah here come the party cannons meany!"
*ratatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatata*
The heavyarms arm-mounted gatling opened fire and rained death at 12000 round per minute or 200 round per second. Tearing apart everything on her screen, aries were slaughtered and exploded in green flame even behind the wall as said wall was seemingly erased by pinkie mad gunning, the equestrian and changling alike looked in terror as shell covered the ground near pinkie while she kept laughing more and more before finally the gatling started to slow down.
"Ffffuuuukkkk! Here come the climax!" the heavyarms shoulder opened and six homing missile burst forth, they flew over canterlot before falling down on a casern from which changeling units were coming out, the explosion sent a tremore through the city and started the full on battle for real, daughtress fly, cannon and command rushed into the city over the remain of the wall and opened fire on the aries and green painted daughtress the changling used.
"To me, regroup and push them back!"screamed a beta changeling inside a torus, he was doing is best to form a united front but the gamma changeling were in shamble and wouldn't respond.
"What the fuck is going on?! Since when equestrian have such high specs knight frame?!"is eyes widened and he turned around just in time to block a curved blade from dissecting him in two with its heated sword.
"Lets just say we got our MS updated recently!"
"Y-you are one of the elements?!" he tried to push her back but instead the woman disarmed him with a flick of her shotel before bringing down the others, the blade cut clean trough and the torus exploded.
The sandrock walked through with shotels at the ready, the green flame reflecting on its plating,"so those new units of us are that much stronger? No...even the upgraded daughtresses have an easy time now, our enemies are actually this bad we are just realising it now since we now have up to standard MS's."she grinned,"hope you see this big mac, our rise!" she rushed back into the fray, slashing with a brutal violence, soon the changeling were fleeing and hiding from her sight, the sandrock no longer an enemies but a terror made physical.
"Stop hiding and running you vermin' !!!!" Applejack threw both her shotel and claimed two life before plucking the shotel off the air on their way back by jumping high and spinning she then stashed them and grabbed her heat whip, she used the whip to get hold of a torus flying by and use him as a lift around the battlefield, she pelted the ground with her vulcans before finally yanking on the whip forcing the torus into crash landing, she walked to the downed torus trying to stand up and stepped on him to keep him down,"should've get the fuck out of our country when we asked nicely..." she crushed the torus under her weight as she walked over him toward the changling deeper into the city leaving behind only ruined MS covered in green fire and terror, a lot of terror.
Fluttershy had jumped into the city behind enemy line when the battle started, her deathscythe was covered into the black cloth she had worn to sneak close during the night. She was a few street away from the prison when she heard the explosion from pinkie missile.
"Pinkie, while i'm thankful for the diversion, don't make the city collapse while we're on it please, i mean if you want to..."
"Oh~~that was good*nnnggg*."
"!!!" fluttershy rapidly cut the link to pinkie pie,"she know no shame..."she said in a serious tone, her blushing cheeks and small smile the only thing betraying her own naughtiness.
"Theres an intruder here!" fluttershy turned to the aries surrounded by a mix of daughtress and aries who had noticed her while she was unfocused.
"Damnit pinkie!" she pressed a button and the additional shoulder plates holding her cape unlocked revealing the deathscythe its main weapon in hand, she powered her thruster and dashed close to the ground under the enemy fire, she put her free hand down and pushed driving both her MS foot into one of the aries head sending it upward, she jumped after him and hided behind it from the enemy fire, she grabbed her meatshield and threw it at them and shooted it with her shell cannon till it exploded creating a smoke screen, the changling formed a circle rapidly covering each other back but the deathscythe was already among them, all the changling saw as a ominous green light formed behind them, they turned to see...
"A-a-a demon!"
The blade slashed and reaped their lives, the lasts to die seeing how the blade had killed their comrade before even touching their MS. The weapon heat could reach them even in their cockpits, melting eyes and cooking innard in the instant before the burning blade could tore through their MS with seemingly supernatural ease.
The last changling, a upstart alpha named 'raw le cricket' inside a half melted torus was still alive and listened in terror as the enemy made a quick report to its command,the voice was cold yet beautiful, he would call it the whisper of lady death herself."command center? Here unit deathscythe, i was detected and will slaughter my way in from now, over."
'd-death s-sight?! The equestrian have death herself among their rank?! Q-queen Mother!!!'
He looked as the fiery scythe wielding knight frame walked deeper into the city, he passed out soon after.
Fluttershy for her part, did as she said, she spread death over the changling like the lord of pest itself but instead of moving toward the prison she moved to the aeroport at the city edge,
"Command center here is agent feral, i have reached the airport while trying to lure the enemy away from the prison before going there, should i program the airship here to fly back to ponyville?"
"Agent feral, here the command center the orders are to send all that can be sent to the everfree, we will gather them later once they were checked for changelings and traps. The rest is to be destroyed."
"Feral here, understood."fluttershy moved her deathscythe out of sight and got out, she was wearing a beige almost white military jumpsuit who stopped at the tight and shoulder revealing her thin clawed limbs. Her ample breast where held in place by a tick harness who also secured her tick scarf who's end was flapping behind her. She jumped down her prosthetic letting her land like a cat without hurting herself. She crawled on all four with her legs bending backward and making unsettling clicking sound on the marble floor. She moved from sheep to ship unnoticed sometime crawling on the ceiling or even climbing on passing changling MS. She sent all those who had autopilot so mostly heavy carrier for long distant shipping before finally reaching the last flying ship, a military A-grade battleship named daybreak, made by celestia in hope to dissuade warring country when wars started to pop around, a failure since the ship was magic powered, even worst it was built around a magic ether reactor so impossible to repurpose.
Fluttershy frowned,"won't be able to take this one, the changling have been doing to it what they do to MS it seem..."she noted while looking at the changling filling the ship with green goo containers from her observation point on the ATC tower roof, "its too big for the deathscythe to destroy it by himself without risking collateral damage in the explosion."
"Feral? Command here do you recieve?"
Fluttershy pressed her ear-com,"command, feral here, i receive you clearly."
"Change of plan, let the side mission go and rush for the prison, from the regal unit estimation of the regal-mercenary team they will be in place soon and wait for you, the sandrock as drown the attention away from the prison and the heavyarms is preventing aries from scouting from the sky so you should be able to go there unnoticed."
"Understood command center, i'm moving."she rapidly made her way back but found a small group of five changling trooper around her deathscythe,'a trooper patrol?'
All the changling were alike, two small pointy horns on the head and plates of thin black chitin spread around the body, they were armed with the capture weapons named needler they were known for, it fired two inch long crystal like spike that stabbed the target and drained its inner magic weakening it for capture, they also had the side arms goo-thrower who shot a sticky substance to glue particular though target in place long enough for more spike to be planted.
The changling to the left asked the others,"what is that? A new units the hunter brought back?"
"Maybe, they do bring a lot of stuff recently, but i've never seen one looking like that..."
"Hey ever thought of becoming a pilot?"
"Don't be crazy e.x.p-626, you gamma should focus on your simpleton jobs and stop dreaming of glory, then maybe you'd be useful!"said the newly arrived changling with fully grown horn and a bigger right arm with a chitinous blade on the forearm.
'an alpha!' thought fluttershy, the changling were a caste based society with privilege and responsibility spread among the different cast, going from top to bottom one queen, two reproducteurs/generals, the primas made up of the most competent element of the changling races be it military or not. The alpha who were the highest ranked among the regular citizen and the one allowed grown horns for full use of magic. The beta, the first level allowing changling genetics modification and then the gamma, the one who barely escaped or got out of the last cast and were treated as peoples.
The last cast was the drones, for them freedom was nonexistent and there life weren't their, instead the queen, prima, and alpha imposed their orders directly into the drone's minds and made them want downward need to do them.
She felt someone grab her hair and forcefully throw her into view,"what a lucky find, hey look what we got here alpha roach. Half a mare ahahah." she turned to see the changling with chitinous spiked shoulder pads but small horn,'a beta too?'
The alpha named roach grinned,"don't really matter, the useful part are left so its good for me."
Fluttershy stood up slowly her head low, the alpha walked close,"let me guess, a spy from the attacking equestrian eh? Well look like we got ourselves a prisoner boys, and a bed warmer too eheheh argh?!"the alpha backpedaled as he choked on its own blood, fluttershy for her part was looking at the windpipe she was holding in her right claw,"that is why i wear jumpsuit, always draw the attention away from my claw." she jumped on the five troopers in a flurry of claw, she slashed one across the face gooding its eyes and landed on another's shoulders with its head between her tight, she stabbed both hand claws into its neck and jumped backward landing on the blinded changling, her clawed foots gutting him. She got hold of another that tried to stab her with a knife and started strangling him with an headlock, she grabbed the needler of the trooper behind her with a clawed foot ripping it from its grasp before pointing it at him and pulling the trigger with said foot unloading the magasin in its throat killing him for sure, she pulled one last time on the head of the one she was strangling and a satisfying crack resounded in the hangar. The last trooper was dispatched when she threw the empty needler across the room and it slammed behind the fleeing changling head making it fall with a heavy thud and a cracked skull.
Fluttershy turned to the beta, the only survivor, he looked at her in fright yet its beta pride made him roar in defiance and rush at her, intent on ramming its spiked shoulder pads in her guts, fluttershy crouched and tensed before taking hold of the changling shoulder a he rammed in her, her clawed feet dug into the ground and she...stopped him dead in its charge.
"H-how?!"the beta said its voice strained as he still tried to advance.
"You don't need to know."she pushed down forcing him to kneel and slammed her knee in its face, she then grabbed hold of its head with a foot and jumped before spinning, the head made a full 720 degree turn while the body stayed in place and the neck literally exploded in gore as the head was unscrewed from its owner body. Fluttershy landed on one foot before the other slammed the head on the ground flattening it.
"Fly like a butterfly...maul like a bear."she turned around and climbed into the deathscythe,"command center, feral here, i'm back inside the deathscythe and moving to the prison." as soon she finished a giant green beam exploded from the mountain top,"i need to get to the prison as fast as i can!"
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Kshatriya pov
Me and luna were deep inside the mountain rushing through a long and tortuous upward tunnel of rough stone, i was at the front from my own insistence, we had no idea if the changelings had found this place and i sure as hell wouldn't let luna hog all the fu- i mean risk her life in a battle with entire company of ms...
'i-i want to fight some MS, it's been too long and there is soooooo many outside...'*slurp*
-kshatriya you can't salivate how did you-
'it's not importante!'
"I can see the exit!" i said intent on stopping any sidetracking.
"Indeed kshatriya. Behold my friend, the equestrian army of old."she said as we burst through. And behold i did, row upon row of Gundam RX-78, i landed and slowly walked forward scanning all of them, they were made of gundarium, a cheap alloy made partially of gundanium and their weapon were those magic based one the princesses told me about, from what i understood they could be used outside the tower ranges but small portative system were made and while something as powerful as a well made teleportation gate or their walls could resist even multiple of them for a time a mana saber or bolt would be snuffed out almost immediately upon entering their ranges.
"Luna, with those i could remake the gundam armors into the one they should have!"
"Really?! Those almost impenetrable one you told use about? Fantastic!"
"I know right!"
"Uhm, is there perhaps enough for uhm...more MS?"
"Maybe, i don't know how much of the necessary material was used making this alloy or how much of said alloy we can salvage since well..." i turned to the Gundam RX-78 who were all pretty banged up honestly most missed whole limb and sometime more, i saw at least 30 with barely any plating on them.
"*sigh*well we did say they were damaged beyond use." luna said depressed.
"It's still more than a good loot luna. But for now, i have to create an opening for us to contact the command center."
"Indeed thought while you did say you had a way too i still have my doubt we are still deep into the mountain and the wall are pretty tick, i hope it won't take too long..."
Two of kshatriya wing collided in front of her to form a wall,"oh don't doubt it will be done in a fucking second."two of her mega particle cannon started to power up rapidly filling at max power.
Luna eyes widened along the ominus green light growing inside kshatriya wings.
"Kutabare!!!!"
-kutabare....
*vvvvvvoooooooommmmmm!!!*
The beam collided with ceiling but instead of it exploding it melted and has the beam passed right through canterlot mountain stone. The beam bursted from the mountain in grand fashion making the entire battle pause and the equestria once again think 'just how many time will she surprise us like that?!'. The beam kept going for a bit before thinning out and disappearing, yet the beam was seen far beyond canterlot or even ponyville, and would surely draw the griffin attention, it was now a race against time for more reason than the changelings.
Kshatriya looked at the 30 meter wide hole into the ceiling and spread her wing while she did like she was washing her hand ,"alright, window to the outside done! Command center? Do you receive me?"
"H-here command center we- whoa!"
"J-just give me that, kshatriya what in the name of tartarus was that?!"celestia said in a panicked yet excited voice.
"My weapon with the biggest amount of raw fire power, it's kind of power hungry though even for me."
"*sigh* j-just forget it, feral will be ready any moment now- "
"Feral here, i am ready when you are."
Celestia nodded, "open the gate in 10 second starting..now!"
Luna counted while i deployed the panel, i placed it on the ground and pressed my foot on the button at the edge and it deployed into a loop a bit smaller than me but still big enough for two MS side by side to pass.
""3.2.1 opening the gates""me and fluttershy said at the same time.
The loop crackled with electricity and a soon what looked like a window formed, a window connected to a hangar in ponyville, i moved aside letting a long line of Torohachi pass who started disassembling and carrying the gundam RX-78 through the gate, it was like a ant colony.
luna came up to me,"now that this is done, i can go for my sister MS, i advise you to go up this window you opened and prevent them from entering, you could also help as a marksman from above the city."
"okay, be careful princess~~ and if you need help just call, i'll be here faster than any other MS could."i said while moving away and waving my hand at her, i jumped and powered my thruster to fly up the window, i had MS to destroy and gundam fan urges to satiate after all.
-shouldn't the princess safety matter more than entertainment to us kshatriya?
"it does, it's why i'm going to draw all the attention to me and empty this big towering castle of all its its little soldier.all.of.them fufufu"
-kshatriya are you making innuendo with the castle in an attempt to increase battle induced orgams chance?
"i was a very sexually active woman don't judge me~~"i whined while holding my head.
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while kshatriya was moving toward the battlefield, a crowned woman stirred from her sleep. she had a long crooked horn and two translucent wings, she had a gray skin with small black spot on her arm and legs from old wounds celestia inflicted to her century ago that were healed with the changeling now copious reserve of love, taken from the pony celestia ruled no less, truly a just repayment for the century of pain she endured with every movement. she was tall and thin by most race standard but to changeling she was actually close to chubby, a view leftover from their species almost constant starving, also while she had humble breast her butt was perfectly shaped and round from one of her regular royal activity.
"*yawn* i hate waking up from post eggs-laying sleep, i always feel starved." an explosion resounded and shook the castle.
"wha-guards!"two hulking twin changling prima with three long horn and thick sleek chitinous armors and two giant crossed blades behind their back entered,""yes our queen?""
she stood up not bothered by her nakedness and walked to the window,"what is going on?! i was asleep from the last eggs laying."
"the equestrian are attacking, the alpha and beta are holding the line while thprime are getting the counter attack ready."
the queen visibly relaxed,"oh, just the equestrian? well then i have to get ready, i always feel upset after laying eggs and i could use some practice target to vent on, get someone to get my broodmother ready while i dress and double time boys!"
they kneeled,""yes queen mother!""and left.
chrysalis laughed,"oh i can't wait to ear their agony as i empty them of their love!"
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