Invasion

Days passed and Giiluge would not speak. The next attack was sure to be imminent. He kept his mouth shut, no matter what Armanii did.

“Talk swine!” he said as he socked him once again in the stomach.

“You won’t get anything out of me...”

Armanii punched him again.

“Try your hardest, but nothing you can do will make me spill my guts to you!”

Armanii, his hand worn out from punching Giiluge too often, stepped back to take a break.

“He’s not speaking anytime soon.”

“We need something to scare it out of him.” Came Applejack

“Like anything is going to scare a Talomanzan general. Even if he is the lowest, he’s still very high ranking. He has a LOT of training under his belt.”

“Then...we’ll use the only thing we can.”

“What is that?”

“Well, yah see, Fluttershy has this ‘Thing’ where she can give a sort of death glare at something. It works on her obnoxious animal friends all the time, and I figure, since y’all are technically animals, it’d work on him.”

“That’s...that’s actually not a bad idea. Miss Fluttershy?”

Fluttershy stepped forward.

“Y...yes?”

“It’s time for you to interrogate Giiluge.”

“Me?! Oh no...I couldn’t”

“Just treat him like you would an animal that is...out of line.”

“Oh...okay.”

She walked up to Giiluge

“Uh...hi mister Giiluge...We uh...we need to know where your army is moving...”

Giiluge just looked.

“You think THIS is interrogation? Pathetic goi cazaxxa!”

Giiluge proceeded to spit in Fluttershys face.

“Oh um...I’m sorry I offended you...but we really need it...”

“The Silver Assassin would have done a better job! He would have threatened me with death! Tell me, where is the fabled black robed man?!”

“He uh...he left...”

“Figures, the Silver Assassins like to take their money and run.”

“He was a nice enough guy...”

“No, he wasn’t! He was just a black robed, greedy, self centered, arrogant bastard!”

Fluttershy had had enough. She gave Giiluge a stare that looked deep into his soul. His eyes widened and he fell back.

“Now you listen to me, mister! He was nice, he helped us and he’ll be back, and when he does you’ll be sorry you ever met him. Now where is the army going to strike next? Tell me!”

“F...F...F...Fine! Arog is moving his forces due east passed the Everfree Forest today to back up a new fortress!” He said with fear in his voice.

“Good! Thank you for your cooperation.” She said as she walked away.

“What’d I tell yah Armanii, nothin’ gets passed Fluttershys stare.” Applejack whispered to Armanii.

“I have to hand it to you, that was impressive. Now, if they are moving near the Everfree Forest, how would we turn them back...”

“I hope my furry friends will be okay...” Fluttershy said with a squeak.

“They will be fine Fluttershy. Just hang in there okay?”

“Okay...”

“You mentioned they are your friends? Can you speak to them?”

“Oh yes, I’m very kind to them, and they’re very kind to me.”

“I see...If you can talk to the animals...near the forest and the...yes...yes that would be perfect!”

“What would be perfect?”

“Fluttershy, are there any of your furry friends that live near the Everfree forest?”

“Many of them, actually almost all of them. Why?”

“I’m going to give you this.” He took out another small earpiece. “We need you to gather all of your animal friends and command them upon the troops.”

“WHAT?! They’ll kill them!”

“No, they wont, not when they see the Goddess of Nature before them.”

Giiluge perked up.

“Goddess of Nature? What do you plan to do?”

Armanii looked to the stallion guards.

“Take this cazaxxa to the dungeons, we won’t be needing him anymore.”

The guard started to carry Giiluge away.

“You’ll regret this Sve! You and your ponies will regret crossing us! Put me down you uncultured swine! Let go of me! I’m General Giiluge!”

He screamed as he was carried away.

“Now, here is what I had in mind. Lead your friends with a special chant that I will teach you, it will be in Talomanzan, so you’ll have to learn to pronounce it right. It’s a chant that is within the holy book that the Goddess of Nature, Kynareth, speaks when she is angered. You will need all your anger to pull this off. Do you think you can do it?”

“I...I will try...”

“Let’s begin.”

Armanii spent the later part of that day teaching Fluttershy that special chant from their holy book, the Rivitzalm Glatimatz. The chant goes like this.

Simuu Simuu, Nakka rem
Glu iim zde ty roban sa
Simuu Simuu, me prozo can
Qwer aroz vretyzziguuz
Simuu Simuu, ahro nam
Simuu Simuu, loxoban
Simuu Simuu, me metza yuulp
Simuu Simuu, I Yatah Yahm

Which, in English, means:

Come Come, Nature calls
See it go to destroy heathens
Come Come, I Stand here
To stand over my faithful land.
Come Come, turn away
Come Come, Children
Come Come, I am here
Come Come, The Goddess Reigns.

He spared no expense when teaching her the meanings and the pronunciation. In a good 4 hours she had mastered it, and could say it with a stone cold face. The moon was high in the sky when they had finally finished.

“Good! Now, we just need you to fly down there and gather your animal friends near where Arog is moving.”

“How will this work exactly?”

“You see, the Talomanzans are VERY religious. They follow the specific Talosian religion, a form of Pagan. It holds nature very dear, and it is a sin to harm nature without any good reason, which is why all Talomanzan production lines are eco friendly. But the Goddess of Nature hates humans, and therefore she often calls down strikes upon them and their cities. The soldiers will see, and hopefully believe, that you are the Goddess of Nature, and will be terrified at your presence. They will turn, and they will flee.”

“That...is a bit cruel...to use their own religion against them. YOUR own religion.” Came Twilight.

“Perhaps, but Arogs men will stop for nothing, and we need to buy all the time we need.”

“Ok...it just seems cruel...”

“Understood. Now, Fluttershy, fly down and gather your animals, we will wait for Arog by ponyville, he’ll move out of there no doubt.”

“Okay Armanii...” Fluttershy said as she flew out of the window, headed for Ponyville, or at least, outside Ponyville.

She flew down and waited outside the Everfree forest, gathering her friends from near her cottage. She told them to hide in the woods until she says the special words at the end of the chant. Angel Bunny was there, and he gave her a big hug, for he knew she was alright. They hopped behind the tall trees and waited for Arog and his men.

And they waited...

And they waited...

And they waited...

But Arog and his men hadn’t shown up. It had been hours, and back at Canterlot, all of the ponies had already gone to sleep. Her animal friends were getting antsy.

“Fluttershy, how are they doing?” Armanii said through the earpiece.

“They have eager feet, they want to scare them. Poor dears are getting scared out here in the dark.”

“Hang in there. They will come.”

They waited some more. But when all hope seen lost and it seemed that Arog had already moved out, a light could be seen coming across the field. Arog and his men carried plasma lanterns, and the glow from the soldiers guns lit up their eerie metallic masks. The light fell on Fluttershy, and the soldiers prepared to ready their guns.

“Well well, look what it is. A stray pony walking around at night. Naughty girl, you should be in bed. How about we give you a resting place right where you stand!”

Fluttershy exhaled, and spoke aloud.

“Simuu Simuu, Nakka rem
Glu iim zde ty roban sa
Simuu Simuu, me prozo can
Qwer aroz vretyzziguuz
Simuu Simuu, ahro nam
Simuu Simuu, loxoban
Simuu Simuu, me metza yuulp
Simuu Simuu, I YATAH YAHM!”

The soldiers started to back away, whispering to themselves. Then the onslaught of animals came from the forest, rushing at them in great numbers. The soldiers, all but Arog, dropped their guns and ran screaming.

“KYNARETH! YHU I YATAH!

“I YATAH!”

They screamed and ran, Arog cursed at them in Talomanzan to return to their ranks, but they ran back to Ponyville, Arog was left standing there in the dark, with only his lantern, Fluttershy, and her animals.

“Fucking goi cazaxxa!”

He pulled his pistol and shot at her, she flew up and away, and motioned for her animal friends to flee back to her cottage. Angel Bunny was on her back, and he held onto her tight. Arog couldn’t see her in the dark, even with his lantern. He cursed out into the darkness.

“SVE!”

Turning away from Arog, Fluttershy began her long flight back to Canterlot.

Armanii sat in the throne room, excited as to how well the plan had worked. He paced around talking to himself in excitement.

“I can’t believe that worked! That was amazing!”

All the other ponies had gone to bed. He was alone.

He paced and spoke to himself for a good while before hearing a creak on the ceiling.

“Hello?”

No answer.

“Anyone there?”

Still no answer.

He looked at the ceiling of the throne room, but he didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary.

He went and checked the radio when he heard another creak from the ceiling. This time he pulled out his gun.

“I will not play games with you. Show yourself!”

Nothing could be heard, he stared at the ceiling for a long 10 minutes before finally putting his gun back in its holster.

“Must be my imaginat-”

He felt the cold embrace of a plasma pistol against the back of his head.

“Make one move and you die.” Came a female voice behind him.

“May I turn around?”

“Fine, but keep your hands up.”

Armanii slowly turned around to find himself face to face with a Talomanzan woman.

She had a full latex suit on, and it was very skin tight. She had short black hair and small brown eyes. Her hands were small and her body slender and trim. She was beautiful, too bad she had a gun to his head.

“Wow, you’re stunning.” He said with a smile

“Thank you, I get that a lot.”

“Let me guess, Gritz?”

“On the money. After the failures of the Silver Assassins, Gritz resorted to...better techniques.”

“So you’re an assassin?”

“Indeed. Why? Do I look to beautiful to be an assassin?”

“Actually, yes you do.”

“Well thank you for the compliment Mr. Sve but I’m afraid after countless men begging for their lives with flattery I can assure you you won’t get out of this with politeness.”

“Bet that's not the ONLY thing they beg you for huh?”

“Eh, usual same old, same old. Sex is the big one though, they never seem to get it through their thick skulls that I’m already married. Can’t you see the ring?”

Armanii looked down at her left hand, and sure enough, there sat a ring. There was a giant emerald in the center.

“Very beautiful ring.” he said, still staring at it.

“Thank you, my husband is a dear man.”

“Well he must be one lucky guy.”

“Oh he is, I don’t ever have to kill him.” she smirked.

“Well, can I perhaps pay you off? I did with the assassin.”

“You can’t pay me off. Gritz would have my head, and trust me, he finds ways of killing the best.”

“He couldn’t kill me so far.”

“True, but that’s about to change.”

“Guess so.”

“Let’s quit stalling. I want this job done.”

“Can’t I have a little more time? Pray to the gods?”

“You should have said your prayers long ago, Sve. Goodbye.”

She squeezed the trigger. But before the bullet fired Armanii heard a familiar sound.

“PZZZZZZZTCH” The sound of a plasma blade.

Blood spurted out of the assassins neck and onto Armanii, he sat there horrified and he shut his eyes to keep the blood out. The head of the assassin fell to the ground and her body fell limp and cold. Behind her could be seen a black robed man with a silver comm on his face.

“Seems you really DID need me.”

He stabbed his blade through her severed head, twirling it around to make sure she was dead.

“Just in case she had that ungodly serum.”

Armanii opened his eyes.

“Emerald?”

“Yes?”

“I thought you walked off on me.”

“You think I would leave a...friend to die?”

“Friend?”

“Look...maybe I DO care too much about money. Maybe that’s my fault. But Virus didn’t die in vain, and I’ll make sure that this war is won for him.”

Armanii gave him a pat on the back.

“It is good to see you again. Welcome back.”

“Thank you, but we have bigger things to discuss...”

“And those would be?”

Emerald Impaler took off his silver comm and looked at Armanii, picking up the emerald ring from the dead assassin, just as Fluttershy was flying through the window.

“Gritz and Project ‘Czar’”