The last starship troopers

Chapters

Prepare for the carnage
The blood
Time to meet the girls
TANKER
fireflies
to the castle
the meeting, and a flashback
Idle
Protect and serve

Prepare for the carnage

I felt nothing but the turbulence of the dropship as we descended into a planets atmosphere. My black coated armor was not very heavy, and I would constantly question why we wear this. It offered no protection from our enemies.

Oh I almost forgot to introduce myself. My name is damien. I am a soldier in the Terran federation. The branch of military is the mobile infantry. I have a prosthetic robotic left arm, and have seen over sixty battles over the course of a month.

Guess it's true what they say. "we're just meat for the grinder.". Anyway me and my platoon 'the timber wolves' are descending into planet Laban. It's recently been invaded by the arachnid bug army. The vermin just don't know when to give up.

The arachnids differ from species. Though we would normally be fighting a bug warrior. They have four legs with two tendrils on their sides, with massive jaws that could crush you in half. Let's not forget about how strong they are. Just one of them will leave at least four or five troopers dismembered before its found.

I feel a tap on my shoulder. "Damien! You better keep your head in the game or else those hoppers are gonna be separating it from your shoulders!". My lieutenant said to me. Her name was Natasha. She was bulky with grey hair. She had crimson eyes and she always was understanding, or a complete ball buster.

"yes ma'am!". I said. I felt the ship make its landing. I took a quick breath. A red light inside the dropship flickered several times. There were several other soldiers in here. At least nineteen others. All dressed in the same black armor with a useless helmet.

The dropships door opens, and immediately I am hit with the night sky, the rain, and the lights coming from orbs of blue plasma. I rush out of the ship. Everyone else does the same. I look up and see that another dropship is coming down for a landing. It's wide with a bulky square chamber for troopers to stand in.

It didn't get the chance to land. A giant ball of plasma came out of nowhere and hit the ship, causing the ship to explode. The orb of plasma continued it's path to space. I felt some sympathy for the lives in that ship but I had to push that aside or I would join them. I ran and rejoined my platoon. We ran up a hill only to engage a small group of arachnids.

I fired my Marita rifle on a bug that was rushing me. I blew off a tendril and a few of its legs before hitting the nerve stem. Looking over shoulder I could see an old friend. He was pinned down on the ground with a bug standing over him.

My eyes widened as he was instantly ripped to pieces. The bug pulled his arms off with little to no effort, and did the same with his legs. Then it did a few stabs to finish him off. I felt my anger rise, and I raised my gun. I started to fire. The green blood splatters told me I was hitting it.

It made a hissing noise as it started to charge at me. I kept firing my weapon at it, the automatic weapon, against the armored alien. The bug was getting close, and I had to start backing up. It was getting way to close now, and I started to pull the second trigger. The shotgun blast helped kill the bug way faster.

It was almost a few feet away from me. I sighed in relief. Me and the rest of the timber wolves platoon started to advance to clear out the area. That's when the ground started to shake. Cracks in the ground began to shake.

I gulped hoping that it wasn't what I thought it was. I continued to fire my gun. Killing as many bugs as I could. Looking around I could see soldiers everywhere suffering the same fate as my squad mate. Either they were spared from a gore filled death, or they were given no mercy.

The bugs had no exception. Either our machine guns blew them to pieces or they were hit in their nerve stems. While I enjoy blowing off their limbs and jaws, I know that it's best to put them down as fast as possible.

The earth quake began again and from the cracks in the ground emerged a massive bug that was armored from head to the back of its body. It was all black and had green glowing eyes.

I barely had time to react when it spewed a corrosive liquid that caught fire the second it came in contact with the air. It zoomed past me and began to melt four men to death. "AAAHHH!!!". They all screamed in agony. They finished melting into a skeleton state.

"TANKER!". I shouted. The tanker positioned itself to shoot it's fire at me but didn't get the chance to. A blue orb came down and got every soldier and every arachnids attention. The blue ball then changed color into a rainbow colored ball. I closed my eyes, still seeing the rainbow lights. Then I saw nothing at all.

Pov twilight
Me and my friends rainbow dash, rarity, pinky pie, applejack, and Fluttershy were all invited for a day at sea by a captain known only as calaeo. She was a parrot pirate captain, who helps equestria during its time of need. She was at the helm of the ship steering with her usual grin.

"so why did you invite all of us out here today?". I asked. Calaeo kept her usual face. "the princesses told me how hard you and your friends have been working lately. So they thought about a day at sea te let ye relax.". She said. She recently has been trying to talk normal equestrian, and it's been going great for her.

I was a little angry to be tricked into going to sea for the day. Though I do feel like I could use the sea air. It really was nice to feel the air fly against my face.

"twilight! Do you see that?". Rainbow dash yelled to me. Everypony, and parrot on board the boat looked to the left to see a blinding rainbow light. It was a ball heading straight for an island in the distance. It had a very large magical aurora around it.

Calaeo had a curious expression on her face. She started to turn the wheel to, and as she did the ship changed direction towards the island. "I say we check out that light show.". She said. "I agree. That ball had a massive amount of magic in it.". I added. Fluttershy seemed to have been... Excited? "ooo. I wonder if the light was something wonderful and happy. It was full of rainbows after all.". She said. She kinda sounded like pinkie pie.

"let's not get our hopes up sugercupe. Looks can be deceiving.". Applejack said. I put my hands on the side of the ship to keep my balance as we gained speed.

"let's hope Fluttershy is right.". I muttered.

The blood

Pov twilight
When we arrived at the island we were met with nothing but a stench. Everypony and parrot was covering their nostrils to block out the horrid stench. "let's get to the row boats lads, and lassies!". Calaeo yelled. She still had her nostrils closed and I couldn't blame her.

Once we were on the row boats we started to row our way over to the island. As we got closer the smell became worse. Then I was able to smell smoke in the distance.
"anypony else smell that smoke?". I asked a few minutes after leaving the row boats. Fluttershy's eyes had turned into pinpricks.

I turned around to see bodies
Everywhere. There were giant insect like beasts everywhere, and they were all dead. They were massive, almost three times bigger than Celestia. They all had four legs with tendrils on their heads and giant jaws.

Green blood was everywhere to be seen, but that's not all. There was plenty of other bodies that were similar to us. Only they were not so lucky. They were dismembered and cut down to bits. No pony could hold it in. We all vomited.

"what the buck!". Rainbow dash yelled. We came into a clearing to see more of these black armored beings. Only they seemed to have met a worse kind of death. Fluttershy was crying her eyes out. She had refused to open them.

"maybe there are survivors?". Pinkie asked. Her hair was deflated and she looked so sad. Rarity's eyes went wide and then she fainted. I looked to my right to see what she was looking at. Only to seer another insect. It was on top of a small boulder, and it's legs were raised in the air. It had a black armored stallion impaled through one of its legs. Though what surprised all of us, was that the stallion was barely alive!

He was grunting, and crying. He was reaching for a strange club like weapon. He looked up with blood coming out of his mouth, ears, wound, and eyes. "please... The gun...". He said. We took a step back at how this creature could speak. Calaeo looked at the club. She approached and picked it up.
"this?". She said. The stallion nodded his head as Calaeo reached upward and gave the figure his club. Then the figure looked at us.
"thnk... you.". He said. He put the barrel side of his weapon towards his head. Then pulled a trigger.

BAM

We all jumped in surprise. The stallions blood covered the ground in front of us. Looking at him now, his head was missing. It was just a fountain of blood. We all started to cry at this point. "let's look for survivors. Then get the Tartarus out of here.". I said.

There was a high pitched roar. Almost like a squeal. We looked at the source to see several of the insects running at us. One of them had a head, stuck in its leg. "Nevermind. RUN!!!". I shouted. I used my magic to levitate rarity in the air and I ran in the opposite direction those creatures were coming from.

pov damien
My eyes fluttered open. I was net with the afternoon sky. The stench of corpses in the air. I sat up. Only to be terrified. "where the hell am I?". I muttered. I was in some kind of clearing. A few palm trees surrounded me. Some boulders and a big hill in the shape of a mountain was close by.

I stood up with my body aching. My gun was strapped to my body so at least it's close to me. Looking around the clearing, there are body's everywhere. Some are unconscious while others bled out. The arachnids were in the same situation. Taking advantage of that I approached one of the unconscious bugs, and shot it's nerve stem. Blood seeped out and almost splattered on me.

I repeated the process until every big in the clearing was dead. I then approached qlmost of my dead brothers in arms then grabbed as much ammunition as possible. Once done I began to check to see if my platoon was OK. We took a few casualties but in total there were fifteen of us left.

I heard a gun shot in the distance. It was a single shot. "poor bastard.". I said. "ugh where am I?". I heard. I looked over to see my lieutenant Natasha. She was just waking up along with several others. I walked over. "ma'am we seem to be in an unknown area. The bugs also ended up here but I took care of them before they woke up.". I said with a salute. Natasha had a raised eyebrow. "didn't know the bugs could sleep.". She simply said. She stood up with some trouble. I helped her up. "thanks.". She said. There was screaming in the distance. The screaming was feminine, and almost sounded like a civilian. There was no gun fire so it was safe to assume it was civilians.

"well where ever we are we still have a job to do.". Natasha said. "everyone fall in. We need to kill the bugs and protect the civies!". She said. We all started to move but that's when Natasha gave out those final words.

"MOVE IT YOU APES! YOU WANT T O LIVE FOREVER!!".

We began to jog towards the sound of the screams. With each passing second I began to feel as if we were going to be to late. As we got into another clearing I saw what looked human, but not. They had human features but not entirely human. Some of them had wings, one had a horn, another had both. The others have neither.

The other things that accompanied them seemed to have been humanoid parrots. There were three of them, and one of them looked like a pirate captain. "uhh lieutenant? What do we do?". I asked. Natasha had a raised eyebrow. Yet she seemed to be in some kind of trance. Maybe a flash back.

"I say we help them.". She said with confidence. Some of the other troopers looked like they were about to argue but they let it go.

With that, Natasha charged out of the trees. I followed in pursuit.

Author's Note

Well what do you think? I know it doesn't really come out well on paper but I am trying. Any recommendations on what I should do to make this better would be appreciated.

Time to meet the girls

Pov pinkie pie
My eyes fluttered open. Ha. Fluttered. Fluttershy. I am so going to use that as a joke later. Anyway. My eyes opened... I was indoors? I remember getting my leg stabbed by one of those meanie bugs. I felt shocked as I suddenly pulled my blanket up.

There was a weird looking glass box thingy on the spot where I was stabbed. Inside of the glass box was this weird purple stuff that kinda tickled everything that wasn't the wound. I raised an eyebrow and scrunched up my face. "hmm. Did I do something last night with the girls?". I asked myself thinking everything was a dream, but I already knew that it wasn't a dream.

"PINKIE!". I heard rainbow dash yell. A huge grin on my face was visible for her to see. "hi'a dashie! What happened?". I asked. Rainbow ignored me, like she sometimes does and she tackled me in a hug.
"I'm so glad your OK.". She said. I patted her back with a less creepy smile on my face.

"so what happened?". I asked again. This time rainbow was actually willing to answer me. She stopped the hug and looked me in the eyes. OK... Not creepy at all. GASP! Is she proposing or something! No. To many people would question the story at this point.

"some guys called the Mobile Infantry came in and saved us. They aren't from this world and even applejack was able to confirm it!". She explained to me. I narrowed my eyes and nodded my head slowly at the explanation. Then I realized something. I get to do something I never did before in the history of equestria.

"I GET TO THROW A WELCOME TO EQUESTRIA, THANKS FOR SAVING US AND FIXING MY LEG PARTY!!!!!". I yelled so loud I thought this place would collapse. Rainbow dash looked like she went deaf.

well no shit Sherlock!

"Go away author! You need to keep writing, and get as many characters into the love triangle as you can!".

NOT SO LOUD! You'll ruin it for the readers!

"I forgot to ask. When will the rest of the military show up?".

that's strike two pinkie!

"yikes sorry.". I looked over to rainbow dash who seemed to be wondering where that voice was coming from. I better get her to think it was only her imagination before I get to strike three! I slapped her across the face.

She shook her head repeatedly.
"what happened?". She asked. I let out a nervous chuckle. "you drifted off into space there.". I said. She shrugged her shoulders. "OK the medic guy said that your stab wound would heal in a few more hours. Just try and relax.". Rainbow said.

(boom boom boom)

A man with black armor and a helmet appeared in the room. I only just realised that this was a tent. WEIRD. Though for another creature. He looked nice, and-

please, just dont

Fine. He looked worried about something.

Pov Damien moments before
This wasn't exactly supposed to be a base. It was only going to be for a few hours for us to get our bearings but no! The bugs just have to come back, in a force of twenty. I know there were hundreds of bugs that probably came with us, though I am wondering why they haven't come at us full force.

A fire fly bug zooms over the sky. It is about to set fire to the medical tent. The firefly bug is the same thing as a normal hopper, only these ones are on fire, and they can shoot fire. Good thing about them is that they're slow. It's so much easier to hit them.

looking down the sights, into the air I fired the gun. The bug exploded into nothing but fire. It wasn't as pleasuring as seeing a hopper fall to the ground but they do make up for it by exploding. It then clicked in my mind. That tanker was right in front of me before we got here. So where is it? I pushed that thought aside and went to the medical tent.

Once inside, I could see that the pink one, and the rainbow one were talking. The pink one was looking at me with interest. That's when I realized I still had a worried look on my face. I took a deep breath. "hello. My name I damien. The camp is under attack and we have to get to the center. The medic will assist you.". I then left.

I started to head to middle of the small camp. As I was on my way two of the bugs got past our defenses. I aimed down the sights again and held my breath. I squeezed the trigger and the bug dropped immediately. The other bug was getting a little to close for comfort. I started to use the shotgun attachment on my rifle. The bug flinched as its lower jaw flew off and landed a few feet away. I pumped the gun and shot again. Once more the bug flinched and there was only a few blood splatters and the loss of its tendrils. Frowning, I began to shoot repeatedly. The bug dropped only inches from me. My heart was beating. I shot the bug a few more times, before reloading my rifle. I was running low on ammunition.

I could hear the sound of victory cries as the last of the bugs were killed off. "Phew!". I yelled. I unbuckled my helmet and took t off. I wiped the sweat from my face before putting the helmet back on. I started to head to the center of the camp, Where Natasha and the humanoids were talking.

"you can all come with us. Our boat is not to far away and we have more than enough room.". The pirate lady was saying. I gotta hand it to her. For a pirate, she is surprisingly kind. She then noticed me approaching. Was she hiding her face? She just now moved her hat to cover some of her face.

"excuse me but I don't think I allowed any of you to properly meet my friend here.". Natasha said. She was grinning when she said that.
"lady's I would like you to meet Damien.". Natasha introduced me. I gave a solute. "pleasure to meet you all.". I said. "darling! It is a pleasure to meet you. I am rarity.". The obvious rich girl said. Next to her was a country girl. "howdy! Names applejack. Always nice to meet a new face.". She said. "I'm Fluttershy.". Said the pink hair girl. She was smiling and kept eyeing me.

of course no one notice she was eyeing him with dreamy eyes

"twilight sparkle. It is always nice to meet a soldier.". She said. She then saw my prosthetic. She looked like she wanted to question it but I gave her a look that said don't.

Then I turned to the pirate. "h... Hi.. My names Calaeo.". She said. I just smiled. "nice to meet you. I can see how you lost one of your legs. I just so happened to lost my arm.". I said trying to make her lose interest in my eyes. That seemed to have worked. "m... Maybe we can trade stories?". She said. I gave her a nod. She seemed to have regained her confidence, after I started to leave. Woman are strange. No matter what species it is.

Author's Note

So this chapter wasn't exactly meant to be action filled. More along the lines of a cutscene to progress through the story. I guess? I just needed to find a way progress to the next chapter. Also.
Two chapters in one night?! (I have nothing to do until tomorrow)

TANKER

Pov Damien

It’s been a few hours since I met those other… beings. We had no signal to speak of to the terran federation. Well fuck me. I sighed to myself and tried to focus on our new objective. We were now escorting the group of humanoids back to their ship.

The group mainly stayed in the center of the platoon to stay safe, while a few others were curiose with the rest of the soldiers. I got to hand it to the cyan one. She has some strange taste in men. I don't want to say what I heard her say early about wanting to see.

Natasha kept grinning at me. She has been like a little sister to me since I joined the timberwolves. She once admitted to me that I was exactly like her little brother who had been killed on klendathu. I had told her how I lost my arm, and how I lost… him. She had been there for me like family ever since. Though when the rest of the platoon is around we get professional.

I was in the front, while Natasha was talking with Twilight. Something about a celestia? I’m not sure but if it concerns me later then i’ll jump in later.
“Are you alright?”. I hear applejack asking her pink friend. They are a little closer to the front, but somewhere in the middle of the platoon. “Yea I’m fine.”. The pinkie said. I kept looking forward, as I felt eyes fall upon me.

I hear rustling in the trees and bushes beside us. I aimed my weapon towards the sound, and as I did so everyone else joined in suite. I looked down the sights as the rustling became louder and louder. “Get ready!”. I yelled. As soon as I yelled that, a yellow and black striped arachnid warrior came out of the bushes.

“Armored Warrior! Take em down!”. Natasha yelled. We all started to fire our rifles, but it did little to no effect on the striped bug. It kept charging until finally a limb went flying off. The bug kept its charging at us. We fired more and more. The ticking sound of an empty clip rang through my gun. Everyone else kept firing, while I shoved a fresh clip into place. I was going to have to find more ammo soon, because this was my last clip.
The bug went down, after someone hit the only spot that wasn’t armored. No matter what, the nerve stems on the warrior class bug is always unarmored but very hard to hit.

After the bug hit the ground, it twitched for a while before it stopped moving entirely. I kept a straight face as we moved forward. “Is this what the war was like?”. Asked twilight. I didn’t even know she had approached me.
“No. it’s much worse than this.”. I simply said. Her eyes widened in shock. She was eyeing me in bewilderment.

“If you question my arm i’ll shoot you myself.”. I said with a frown. She took a step back from me. I sighed. “I’m sorry. It’s a very sensitive subject.”. I apologized. “Its ok. You were just warning me about a touchy subject.”. She said with a small smile.

A few minutes later she retreated with the rest of her friends, but Calaeo had decided to try and talk to me. “So how are you doing ma’am?”. I asked her. She rolled her eyes. “Please, I am the last parrot you would want to be polite to.”. She responded to me. I chuckled at her. “You know what? You talk like someone I knew.”. I said. She raised an eyebrow.

“Who would that be?”. She must have asked in curiosity. “Someone I once met. her name was dizzy. You talk a little bit like her. I only met her once. That was right before… klendathu.”. I stopped talking at that last word, and I fastened my pace.

Pov Calaeo
I raised an eyebrow at Damiens last statement. Klendathu? What’s a klendathu? Maybe that is something to ask Nathasha. I looked over my shoulder to see her laughing with pinkie pie. I slowed down my pace and allowed them to walk to me. Once I was beside Natasha and Pinkie I noticed that the rest of the main six were chatting over here. I looked to Natasha to ask my question. “Hey Natasha?”. I said. She stopped her laughing, and ever pony seemed to look in my direction. “What’s Klendathu?”. Natasha’s happy mood vanished and changed into a saddened one.

“Oh. Did someone mention it?”. She asked. She clearly did not like the topic either. The other ponies seemed worried about their new friend.
“Yeah. Damien mentioned it, but then stopped talking to me and he walked away.”. I responded to her. Rarity had an open mouth. “That’s not very nice.”. She said. “It’s not that simple.”. Natasha said. We all looked at Natasha once more. “What do you mean?”. Applejack asked.

“Klendathu is the name of the arachnid homeworld.”. Natasha explained. Eyes were wide, that the humans were capable of space travel.
“When the war started our first sky marshal wanted to eradicate the bugs as soon as possible. So we went to their home world with little to no information on our enemies.”. She said. We all wanted to say something, but we didn’t know what to say. Except rarity that is. “That is completely barbaric!”. She shouted. Natasha nodded her head.

“When the attack started we weren’t prepared for the bugs to be intelligent.”. That caught all of us by surprise. Twilight seemed to have been taking mental notes. “We lost several ships, one hundred thousand troops on the ground, and two hundred thousand troops in space.”. She finished. Eyes were wide once more. That many lives lost. “I lost my brother. Damien also lost his brother. Hell he also lost his arm, in addition to getting a shit ton of stab wounds.”. She continued.

I looked forward to wherever Damien was. Though I couldn’t see him. Everyone looks the same. They are all wearing the same armor, and helmets. Pinkie had her hair deflated, her eyes were watering. She let her tears fall for three seconds. Though when the tears came, they came like a waterfall. Some of the troopers who witnessed this were genuinely surprised.

We walked in silence for a little longer. That was until we could see our row boats in the distance. “Alright! My men, and soldiers go first.”. I said. They did save our lives, so the first ones to go to the boat should be some of the troopers. All of them were able to get onto the row boats, except for Natasha, and Damien. I was kinda glad that he was still here. NO! He’s another species, that probably sees me as an animal.

The ground began to shake. A massive black figure was slowly moving through the tree line. “Oh shit!”. I heard Damien yell. Every pony, and myself, along with natasha was looking directly at him. “TANKER!”.

Pov Damien
The tanker was in eyesight now. It was completely beetle like. It’s green eyes were glowing with hatred. It wasted no time in spraying it’s liquid fire all over the ground. I tackled Calaeo to the ground before some of it could turn her into fried chicken. “You ok?”. I asked. Still on top of her. She blushed as she nodded a few times. I quickly got up, and ran to the right. She had gotten up and ran to the right.

I ran towards the tree line with a crazy idea. One of the trees was slanted. I positioned my gun to be over my shoulder and I started to climb it. The tanker seemed to have spotted me, and it charged at the tree I was climbing. I reached a branch and stood onto it, and waited. The tanker was just about to bash its head into the tree, when I jumped onto it’s back.

I only have a single clip of ammo left so, with some effort, I walked up to the head. I aimed down and started firing down on the neck. Blood splattered everywhere around me until there was a big hole. The tanker had finally flinched from the pain it started to rock back and forth. I lost my balance for a moment, and almost fell. Though a gripped onto the edge of the armor plating. I still had a good view at the hole I made. I aimed my gun down and started to fire into the hole more.

The tanker got onto it’s back legs and let out an ear piercing roar. I held on tighter to the armor. When the bug was back on all six legs I unloaded the last of my clip into the giant. “Shit.”. I muttered. The bug got back onto its hind legs. As it did this I saw Natasha. She was running towards me with a grenade in hand. “DAMIEN CATCH!!”. She shouted as she threw the unarmed grenade.

I somehow managed to catch the grenade and grinned. I pressed the button on the top of the object. A yellow face appeared on the explosive, as it began to count down. “Armed. Five, four, three, two.”. I threw the grenade before it could say the last word. I let go of the armor plating and I was thrown of of the screeching bug.

As I landed I definitely felt something break. I turned my head at the tanker. It was on its hind legs letting out one last roar before the grenade exploded. There wasn’t much blood for a moment. The head was completely blown off from the neck. Any evidence that the neck existed in the first place was eradicated. The head fell forward and landed with a thud. The rest of the body fell backwards and created a massive crater.

“Damien!”. I heard voices say. I could barely move. Something was definitely broken. Maybe I hit my head to, cause everything is turning black. The last thing I see is… Calaeo, Pinkie, and fluttershy… arguing? I don’t know. Woman are weird. With that, the world is black.

fireflies

Pov Damien
Waking up after a battle is always one of the hardest things to happen. You always are the last one to learn about the casualties, or your the last one to learn about some kind of bad news. This time is an exception. I know that if I’m waking up than everyone made it out just fine.

I awoke, with the dark brown color, that is wood to be towering over me. I attempted to lean forward, but nearly found it impossible. I looked down at my body to see it encased in a body sized bacta tank. I sighed. Not in relief, or in reassurance. It was in complete boredom.

“GASP!”. Or so I thought. I turned my head to the right to see Calaeo and Natasha. Natasha gave me a warm smile, while Calaeo tried her best to stand straight. “You are one crazy son of a bitch.”. Natasha said to me. I grinned at her. “What can I say? I did what I had to do.”. I replied to her.

Calaeo cleared her throat into her fist. Weird. A parrot, with hands. I never gave it thought until now. “Well, Damien I would like to welcome you into my ship.”. Calaeo said. A question sprung in my head. “How long was I out?”. I asked. “Three days.”. Calaeo said. Natasha had a mischievous look on her face. “Calaeo never left your side.”. She added. A blush found its way on both mine, and the captains face.

“Well the medic will be in here to take off the bacta tank. When he’s done, I want you to get something to eat.”. Natasha said. I nodded as she walked out of the room. The parrot captain and I were alone for a moment.
“The elements are worried about you.”. Calaeo said to break the ice. Wait what? “The what?”. I asked. She was relieved for the change of topic, of her being by my side. “The elements. Twilight and her friends. They each represent an element of harmony.”. She explained.

Just then, the medic came in and started to unhinge the several locks, and screws to the bacta tank that was attached to my body. “The elements of harmony?”. I asked as the medic worked.

“The elements are the most powerful objects in this world. The only way to use them is if the element bearers use the power of friendship to use them.”. It was at this moment, I started to chuckle. “What’s so funny?”. I heard twilight ask. She came into the room, and she must of heard Calaeo’s explanation. “Do you honestly think that every problem in the world can be solved by friendship?”. Twilight, nodded enthusiastically.

Ten Minutes Later
Twilights jaw was wide open. For the past ten minutes or so, I had explained, the corruption, the world hunger, and the poverty on earth. She had no way to actually answer my previous question. She actually looked upset that the universe isn’t all sunshines and rainbows.

The medic had unhinged the last hinge. “Alright you should be good to go. Just take it easy for a while.”. He instructed me. I gave him my thanks and I stood up. I stretched, and I popped a few joints. I was able to get a good look around the room as well. It was all covered in a dark brown wood, with a few chests here and there. A hammock hung next to my bed which I found out was a mattress on top of a desk. I guess I needed to be on a flat surface.

I also noticed that I only had pants on. “Um. where’s my shirt?”. I asked. A blush found it’s way on the parrots face, while Twilight was handing me my shirt. Where was it? Did she just pull it out of the air like magic? I put the skin tight black shirt on. It did a good job at covering the many scars that were on my body.

I popped my neck, and cracked my knuckles. “Alright I better get to eat. I said. “I can take care of that!”. Pinkie yelled. “GAH!”. I yelled. I flinched a little. “Where did you come from?”. I asked. She just shrugged. “Look it’s just pinkie pie being pinkie pie.”. Twilight said. Oh this is one of those drop it things.

I nodded to her explanation on pinkie. “Alright so how can you help me pinkie?”. I asked. She grinned as she pulled out several cupcakes. They were all covered in a black icing, with red letters on them. The letters read Mobile Infantry. I took a cupcake and took a bite. Iit was incredible. It was sweet, soft, and tasted a little like honey. I ate the rest of the cupcake and ate a few more.

“Ok I think you might want to get some real food in you.”. Twilight said. I stopped my chewing and nodded. “Thank you so much pinkie.”. I thanked her. She put her hands behind her back. “Oh it was nothing.”. She was saying.

The boat swayed a few times. The sound of gunfire started to fill the air.
“That’s my cew!”. I said as I ran out the door. As I got outside on the top deck, I saw a rifle on the ground. I picked it up cocked it. “What are we shooting at?!”. I yelled. One of the men looked to me. “Fireflies!”. He yelled.

I aimed the gun upward, and I could see a small swarm of fireflies. There were at least twenty to twenty five of them. They got into firing range, and that’s all I needed. Everyone started to fire their guns. My rifle was lighter, and it fired faster.

I must have picked up Natashas gun. Only fleet personal and leaders got to use this rifle. I pushed it aside. I fired the rapid firing gun towards the swarm. Several of the fireflies exploded into their fiery mist, while other only lost at least a limb and kept going.

Stubborn bastards. I fired some more and took down another firefly. I had to change targets constantly. Aiming to the left I fired a little more, but a ticking sound indicated an empty clip.

“Not again.”. I said. “I’M OUT!”. I yelled. Natasha also had picked up a random rifle. She looked to me. “Here!”. She yelled. She tossed me a new clip of ammo. “Make em count!”. She said. I nodded. I unloaded my empty clip and shoved in the fresh clip.

I aimed forwards again, and the fireflies were getting closer. I started to fire and took down three more. As we took down the bugs, I had come to realize. How did these fireflies fly all the way out here? I had to push it aside because the last five fireflies were here.

They were slowing down, but they threw their corrosive fire onto the boat. It almost hit twilight but she jumped out of the way at the last second. Calaeo’s crew started to fill buckets of water and started to douse the fires that were put on the boat.

I fired a little bit more, and took down one of the remaining bugs. Though they came back and they all started to spray their fire on the boat. The boat was completely ablaze, but it could easily be solved with some water.

I stopped firing my gun and helped fill the buckets. We douse the flames quickly. I aimed my gun back up, but one of the fireflies was going straight for Natasha. I aimed an blew it into its flame mist. “Thanks!”. She yelled to me. “No worries.”. I said back to her.

That left three more bugs. One of the troopers shot down the bug out of sheer luck. Then the platoons marksman took down the last two with ease. The bugs were attempting to… retreat? The marksman took aim and fired twice.

The bugs were no more. The sea was coated in their limbs and some of their fire. I sighed in relief. “Is everyone ok?”. I heard Natasha ask. There were a lot of yes ma’ams. Then there was a few ‘I don’t even know.’. I honestly cannot blame them for their responses.

“Alright Calaeo when do we reach equestria?”. Natasha asked.
“Because those bugs have been attacking the boat we have been making pit stops, but by evening we should get there.”. Calaeo replied. Fluttershy walked up to me.

“You look hungry. We have bread and salads over here.”. She said. I don’t care what it is. I was prepared to eat anything consumable.

Efter eating I took a smell of the sea air. Hadn’t had this in a long time. I remember when I used to go fishing with dad. I was broken from my thoughts, when a loud voice rang out.

“Land ho!!”. I guess it was later than I thought.

Author's Note

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to the castle

Pov damien
After docking in the docs, we all got off of the ship. Twilight had been explaining about the monarchy system, and that she was one of the princesses. Calaeo had decided to go with us, while her crew would tend to the ship. We loaded our weapons after having to share ammunition. I had also just found out that we lost a member of the platoon while I was unconscious. I was now using her gun.

I embedded her name into the weapon. It was more scratched, then anything else but still. It read “Lyla.”. I switched the safety on, and walked up to Natasha. We all began to walk single file behind Twight, Pinkie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Calaeo.

“I don’t think you should all be walking like that.”. Rarity stated. We didn’t care for her words though. We kept our line going. “I think it is a good thing Rarity.”. Twilight said. Applejack had a raised eyebrow. “What do you mean sugarcube?”. She asked. “Well if they walk like this then will look like some kind of royal guard. Yes, they will be given curious glances but no pony will approach us.”. She explained to her friends.

As we walked down the docs, we reached the city. The city itself was amazing, if you were from here. For one, the city was made entirely from brick, marble, stone, and gold. It all looks so beautiful in a way. Thanks to our hard training I was able to keep myself contained. As we made our way through, I saw a shadow loom over my head.

Looking up I saw flying carriages being flown through the sky. It was almost like looking at flying cars. Though there were next to none of these carriages going around. I was a little disappointed to see no more of those.

Continuing to walk, I could see what Twilight meant when she said that we would be given stares. The ponies here just dropped everything and had dropped jaws. All the while they were looking at us. They were all wearing some kind of fancy wear, and I could already tell that these were the snobby rich people.

The ponies that had regained their composure, scoffed at us like we were nothing but meat. Gotta give that to them. They looked like they wanted to approach us to say some kind of insult, but not only were they hesitating because of us. They were hesitating because a princess was with us. They quickly began to bow, because they are just now noticing their ‘protectors’.

Twilight sighed with an annoyed tone. “I hate when they bow.”. She mumbled. I chuckled a little bit. I was at the front of the line with Natasha and she only had a grin on her face. She wasn’t looking at me, but it was at the strange lavender princess.

“Why do you hate when they bow down to you?”. I asked. She walked a bit closer to me. “You see, I always hated formalities. It’s also something I never got used to.”. She explained. “Understandable. You told me that you only became a princess not long ago.”. Natasha said. She joined into our conversation. Twilight only nodded.

We approached the castle, and at the front gates were two different ponies. One was a pale white unicorn with a blue mane. He wore golden armor which was terrible unless you wanted to look fancy. He had a spear in his hand, and he had a relieved face to see us all.

Next to him was a shorter pony but he seemed to be about the same height as Twilight. He had a darker blue mane that was spiked up. His fur coat was slightly orange, and he too was wearing golden armor. I looked at Twilight, and she looked annoyed. Then she looked happy.

Twilight charged forward and hugged the taller pony. “SHINING!”. She yelled. “Sis! I thought something bad happened.”. He said. “Something would have if not for them.”. She said looking back at us. The stallion now pronounced ‘Shining’ was looking at us with a furred eyebrow.

“I was worried about you too.”. The other stallion said. Twilight just sighed. Almost like a grunt. “Hello flash.”. She said. It sounded like an insult to say his name. Calaeo walked up to the two and quickly pushed them away from each other.

“Um did something happen between those two?”. I asked. The ponies had a hateful glare towards the stallion. “Flash not only broke twilights heart. He had hurt my coltfriend spike! The poor dears.”. Rarity explained to us.
“That bad huh… if he lays a finger on any of you, you let us know.”. Natasha said.

Natasha was always one to repay a debt, and currently we hold a pretty big debt to Calaeo and these ponies. Flash got the message and left. With that we wandered into the castle. Shining had taken the lead.

“So who exactly are you?”. He asked us all. “My name is Natasha. I am the Leader of this Platoon. We are the timberwolves.”. She stated Proudly.
“Names shining armor. I have to say I never seen a military group like you before.”. He said. Natasha decided to explain. “We are the mobile infantry. A human military that has been fighting against the arachnid bugs since they attacked earth.”. She said.

She began to explain everything about our army, that she was allowed to tell. I stopped paying attention because it wasn’t something for me to listen to. I looked around at the surroundings as we entered the castle. It was all built with marble, and stone. There was also a hint of gold here and there.

The hallways were covered in paintings, vases and a very long ass rug. We have been on the same red carpet since we entered the castle. I shrugged it off as I noticed the many stained glass windows. They were all decorated to look like a story of some kind. Maybe of some past events?

There was a set of doors up ahead. They were massive. They were dark brown and looked incredibly heavy to push. Shining armor stopped his conversation with Natasha and pushed the doors open with his magic.

“Princess celestia, Luna and Cady we have some guests…”. Was all I heard shining armor say, before I heard every men in the platoon gasp. Though it was the kind of gasp that said ‘A HOT CHICK!’.

Author's Note

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the meeting, and a flashback

Pov Damien

As we walked into the throne room, I was amazed by the sight in front of me. At the far end of the room were two individuals. One was a dark blue with both wings and a horn. She wore a similar dress that had a moon symbol stitched onto the material. Her… mane? I think that’s what they called it. It was a darker blue with what looked like stars in it. It seemed to have flowed with the wind. Only there was no wind. That only confused me.

Next to her was another woman who was slightly taller. She had pale white fur with an almost rainbow colored mane. She had a golden dress with a symbol of the sun on it.

As we entered, they both gave us a very curious look. Either it was a raised eyebrow, or widened eyes. The room was completely empty of any guards to our surprise. The room itself had glass paintings all along the walls. As I got a closer look I could tell that on most of these stained windows were twilight and her friends. They seemed to have done quite a few things before we got here.

Natasha was very entranced by the stained glass and was about to queting them, until a loud ‘AHEM’ broke us all out of our observations. We looked back at the far end of the room to see the two obvious rulers. One of them stopped the look, and smiled to us.

“Welcome to Canterlot. I must say you are not what I was expecting to come back from Twilights little break.”. The taller white one had said. Her voice was very soothing. It was almost like my mothers before she…

“My name is Celestia. Princess Celestia.”. The all white one said, her voice never leaving her. “And I am princess Luna.”. The blue one said. She gave a slight bow. Why would she give a bow? I decided to wait to say something because it was Natasha had a higher rank than me to do so.
“I am lieutenant Natasha of the Timber wolves Platoon.”. She said dryly. It was pretty obvious that she was tired of explaining things. I can understand that. She’s had to repeat that line far too many times for me to count. That’s including back where we came from.

“We have never seen soldiers such as yourselves before.”. Princess Luna said. I wanted to tell her ‘you have no idea’. Though I kept that to myself. Luna looked at me for a moment with a raised eyebrow. “What does thou mean by that?”. She simply asked, while looking in my direction.

I was taken back a few paces. ‘Did I say that out loud’ I thought to myself. The two princesses giggled for a moment. “Not you did not say anything out loud. We can read minds.”. Princess Celestia simply said with a smug grin while looking at the man next to me. “I’m flattered you would think of me that way.”. Was all she said as she giggled. The man next to me began to sweat. “Rodgers… go wait outside.”. Natasha said with a very unamused voice. The said soldier walked out of the room with his head down, almost like he was about to cry.

We heard the throne room doors open and then close. “Now that that's out of the way.”. Natasha said. “I think Twilight can explain things better than we can.”. She continued. Twilight approached. She was a little uneasy, but she was more than willing to explain things to the princess.

“Wait! Princess I think it would be best if you searched through my memories.”. She said. Celestia shrugged as a response and started a strange spell. For a few seconds there was silence until the spell broke and celestia, was out of breath. She looked calm though. She looked our way. She gave a smile.

“What did thou see dear sister?”. Luna said. Celestia did the spell again and used it on Luna. when it was finished, she too looked like she had something planned.
“On behalf of my country I would like to thank you for defeating those monstrosities! If you didn’t kill them they would have taken over the entire sea.”. Celestia said.

“We were only doing our job. To protect and serve.”. I spoke. They smiled once more. “Please forgive us but how much experience do you have with these ‘Arachnids’?”. Luna asked.

Natasha was about to answer but she came up with a different idea. “Why don’t you see for yourselves with that fancy spell of yours.”. She said. The two princesses seemed to like this idea. “That sounds like an excellent Idea. I am afraid I do not have any energy left in me to do the spell but we have a crystal ball that will let us all see your memories.”. Celestia explained.

“Fine by us, as long as no one gets hurt by it, hehe.”. Natasha said. Shining armor looked excited to see how other kinds of war happens. Or something like that. Twilight and her friends, as well as Celaeno looked both excited and nervous.

Luna used some of her power to pull out a large table, some chairs, and a giant ball that was at least half my size. “This is a larger ball, so everyone can see it.”. Luna explained. We all sat around it. We didn’t exactly have a choice. “Because this ball is so big, only one of you can use it.”. Luna explained to us.

I felt Natasha’s eyes fall on me. I had just as much experience in the war as her but she was in here longer. She was clearly nervous about it so she was probably going to use me as a guinea pig. I nodded my head in understanding to her.

“Ok just do it.”. I said. The princess just gave me a smile. “Reach out to it and you will relive a random event.”. A random voice said. I wasn’t to sure who had said it because when they said reach out to the ball, I saw black

---------- Klendathu strike

I was inside of my dropship. It was my first battle. More or less my first assignment. Me and my group were supposed to be helping to push a leading strike against artillery bugs about half a mile ahead of where we were landing.

A red light switched on. I cocked my marita rifle and waited for the doors to open. They opened very slowly. When they were open I rushed out with the strangers that I called allies. We were all cocky. We all had an itchy trigger finger.

As soon as I was outside of the dropship I could see nothing but blue. It clogged the night sky. I could see explosions in space, and as soon as I did, I began to run forward with the rest of my comrades.

We ran for about five minutes until we made it onto a large hill. I was at the top row of the soldier and I could peak my head over the ledge. Massive beetle like bugs were in the large clearing ahead of us. They had several legs and they swelled up their backs to fire plasma into space.

I continued to look at their size in shock until I was yanked down by another soldier. The moment he pulled me down, two nuclear explosions came from the plasma bugs.

The explosion lasted a few seconds before we were all able to climb over the ledge. “FOLLOW ME!!”. A man cried. There were many war cries that followed suite. I crawled to my feat and I began to run with everyone until a hand was pressed against my shoulder. I looked to my right to see my younger brother Jacob. He was a mute with blonde hair. He gave me a thumbs up, and I did the same to him. We began to run down the hill, side by side for another few minutes.

As we entered a canyon we were met with an arachnid warrior. It hissed in response to seeing us. I immediately started firing my rifle, while Jacob did the same. Other troopers who were behind us began to fire at the bugs behind the warrior that had finally died.

We had wasted over half of our clips on that one bug, and before continuing we reloaded. We advanced, but were faced with several more bugs.

Limbs and blood were splattered all over the canyon walls. An arachnids legs flew off and impaled itself straight into the side of another warrior causing it to screech. I laughed at the poor bugs expense.

We continued to advance through the canyon when we got radio contact.
“General Retreat! General Retreat! The bugs are tearing us apart! Back to the boats!”. The radio yelled. Not wanting to defy orders, we began to run.

As we backtracked one of the guys in the back fell to the ground dead. He had a scorch mark on his back and blood oozed from the wound. I red fiery bolt zoomed past us and it impaled another trooper. We looked upwards to see a rocky looking bug. It had a shell all over its body, and it had useless jaws that most likely would have at least broken a limb.

It fired a strange projectile that killed another trooper before we killed it. We began to run out of the canyon, all the while we were being shot at by those bugs. More and more of our troopers were blasted down by them, and they were very well camouflaged with the darkness and the canyon walls. Eventually it was just me, Jacob, and a handful of other troopers.

We had made it out of the canyon and into the clearing where we killed those plasma bugs. My eyes widened in horror at what was in front of me. Troopers were running for their lives as they were tripped and stabbed to death by bug.

Some of the soldiers were being pulled into a group, and they were ripped apart like they were nothing but a piece of meat. Jacob brought me out of my shock and helped lead me where everyone was running. I looked behind me on occasion to shoot whatever was running at me.

I would normally be shooting the limbs off of an arachnid warrior, while Jacob helped me out. We had reached the top of the hill with some effort. A bug had nearly reached us but we were able to gun it down. I was out of ammo now so my gun was useless. I dropped it so I could run a little easier.

Jacob still had some ammo left, so I let him take the lead. The boats were in sight. Some troopers were cheering us on to make it to the boat. I felt praised. Just as we were about to reach the boat I heard a screech. I turned my head to the left to see a bug rushing at me.

Before I knew it I was thrown across the clearing. I felt nothing for a moment. I looked down and my eyes were wide. My left arm was gone. A large shadow appeared over me. I was in terror as the arachnid warrior began to ram it’s tendrils into my body. There was nothing but pain.

I heard the sound of bullets cracking,and the arachnid moved away from me and died immediately. Jacob stood over me. He looked scared, and worried. He grabbed my right arm and pulled me to my feet. Whether I wanted to or not, I had to move.

Jacob slung my arm over his shoulder and we began a slow walk to the boat. Just as we made it, another bug came. Only this one went for the distracted one. Jacob was pulled away from me and I fell to the ground.

Some of the other troopers pulled me into the ship. They didn’t fire their weapons because the boat doors were closing. The last thing I saw before falling to the darkness was Jacob’s leg, and arm landing inside of the ship just as the door finished closing.

Real world

I came to my senses. I wiped my face of any remnants of sweat that I had. I looked around the table I was seated at. Everyone had a different reaction. To what they had seen in my memory. (I relived Klendathu so I know what they saw.)

Applejack was fighting tears.

Pinkie had her hair deflated and softly let her tears down.

Rarity was unconscious. No surprise there.

Fluttershy had completely lost it in wailing. I had expected Pinkie to Lose it the way Fluttershy did though.

Rainbow had tears in streaming down her face while she had a look of awe.

Twilight was slack jawed. She was completely lost in whatever she was thinking of right now.

Celaeno sat there staring at me with sadness.

Celestia and Luna were both Nodding their heads at what they had seen.

“I take it your tactics had changed after fighting them?”. Luna asked.
“Yes ma’am. That was the Klendathu strike. It was our first fight against the bugs. We didn’t know their weak spot at the time.”. Natasha explained.

“I see.”. Celestia said. She seemed saddened by what she saw, even though she was impressed that we could hold our own.
“I have a proposition for you.”. Celestia said.

“We have a problem with these ‘arachnids’ in the badlands. If you can exterminate them, you would all be very well rewarded.”. Luna continued for Celestia.

We didn’t need to think about that answer. “We accept.”. Natasha said.
“Although you must allow us to rest for a few day and to resupply.”. She added. Celestia and luna nodded their heads. “We will handle your resupply. We have a spell to multiply your items. Such as your ammunition. We will handle it, you just relax for a few days.”. They explained.

I looked at the elements to see Twilight with a slack jaw. “YOU MEAN WE HAVE HAD A THREAT IN EQUESTRIA AND YOU DIDN’T TELL US!!!”. She yelled at the top of her lungs. I felt as if my ears were ringing.

“We didn’t have what we needed to combat against them at the time young sparkle.”. Luna said. Celestia looked towards us. “I will have maids show you to your individual rooms.”. She said. She clapped her hand twice and what looked like an army of maids appeared.

“Please take our guests to their rooms. Ms Caleno, will you be staying with us?”. Celestia said. Caleno nodded her head. “Very well, will you also show Caleno to her room. I will have a guard go to your ship and fetch your crew.”. The princess explained.
I was escorted out of the room, while all I could think about was reliving Klendathu. Natasha knew that thing was gonna do that. It could have made me relive any other bad battle but Why Klendathu. I guess its just the world trying to f**k with me again.

Author's Note

sorry for the long wait. school has been on my top priority, and we now have 8 people living in this house including me. I haven't gotten a lot of time to write so I really hope you all like this. let me know if it feels rushed.

Idle

It was something that all soldiers hated when it came to the mobile infantry. Being Idle. It was an excruciating ache that made me want to cause trouble for the sake of not being in a confined bedroom all by myself.

Like all the other troopers, I was given my own room, it was fancy i’ll give it that. I hate it. I hate how it makes me feel more important than the normal citizens. The room was painted blue with a king sized bed sitting against the wall. Paintings had been hung on the wall, but they were all of fruits and vegetables.

If I had to list the most uncomfortable situations I have ever been in, this would be second. It was late at night, and I was still awake. Flashes from the war have been haunting me since the orb showed everyone the Klendathu strike.

I started to drift down memory lane for a while. I began to remember things that would haunt me forever, or wouldn’t escape my thoughts even while I was talking to Calaeno, or Twilight. After tonight Twilight and her friends will be leaving the castle and going to their own homes, but Twilight was saying how she had other plans before she went home. I tried to fall asleep, and it worked.

“Are you ready to begin your new training?”. An all to familiar voice said to me. I turned to look at a woman who was assisting me. “Yes ma’am! Ready to test the armor.”. I said. She looked pleased. She had red hair with brown eyes. She wore a grey and orange uniform that wasn’t zipped all the way up. The color scheme had said that she was an engineer. ‘Jessica’ I thought to myself.

“Good to hear ‘Marauder’.” she said in a slightly teasing voice. “Please don’t call me that.”. I said as I began to look at my surroundings. It was grey and technological. There were lights every which way that made it kind of hard. This was the new addition to the fleet. “The Hail”

The Hail, was a ship that housed a new kind of soldier the Marauder. The marauder armor was still in development, though the egg heads were able to make the roots for the full fledged armor.

As of now, the armor is just an upgrade to the Mobile Infantry to help reduce casualties. Equipped with a slightly bulky armor that the bugs strength couldn’t tear through without enough damage, and a smart hud built into the helmet as well as a personal radio to keep the Marauders aware of everything happening around them.

They also have built in flash lights, and a small device that can hold countless weapons and ammo. The armor also comes with a shield system. This was only an upgrade for the current armor that us normal troopers use. Although the idea for the armor is frowned upon by many squads in the Infantry. The armor is very heavy, and encourages suicide missions against bug armies.

I came to a stop to admire the armor I was going to be putting on. Jessica stood next to me and just chuckled. The armor was clad black and grey with a copper colored visor. On the suit were two straps crossing each other in an ‘X’. The flashlight was on the far side of the helmet. It was small but it was strong enough to give off quite a bit of light.

“Well what are you waiting for? Put it on!”. Jessica had shouted. I hurried over to the glass casing and I place each individual piece of the armor on my body. The straps had been, strapped from the shoulders to the gauntlet. The helmet had a lock feature that locked itself on my head. The armor was heavy, but not as much as I was expecting.

“Why is this so light?”. I asked Jessica. She gave a proud smile to me. “The armor has built with receptors to mimic your muscle movements. When you move your legs, the suit moves its legs. It's barely noticeable to.”. I gave a nod. She then walked over to a desk that was on the other side of the room. “Alright let's test some of these features on the suit. Hmm?”. She said.

I awoke in a bead of sweat. I haven't thought of Jessica in over a year. Not a dream, nor a thought had crossed me. I suddenly felt teary eyed. I took a quick breath and looked towards the clock on the wall. “7:30” the time read.

I got up from my bed. My shirt was off, and I only wore my pants. I walked over to the chair that had my federation shirt, and I quickly put it on. I considered putting my armor on, but thought against it. It's not as if I’m going to need it right now. I wandered into the bathroom that was attached to my room.

I had showered the night before so I just brushed my teeth. I then I cleaned my face with the sink water. This world may not have the same technology as ours, but it has the same concept of those… dark ages in our world. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to live without flying cars.

I wiped my face off and I came out of the bathroom. I then went to the bedroom door and I quickly opened it. The halls greeted me. There were fancy vases, and there was the long as hell red carpet. There were also several windows on the wall. Each one barely had any space from each other.

I heard other doors open. Natasha came out of the room next to mine, and everyone else had come out of a room that was further down the hall. I walked up to Natasha. “Morning sleeping beauty.”. I said. She turned to me and chuckled. “Morning. How'd you sleep?”. Natasha asked me. I only shrugged. “You?”. I said in response.

Before she could answer I heard another door open. Celaeno came out of her room which was next to Natasha's. She looked a bit slumped and she had a bottle of ale in her clutches. She yawned pretty loudly, before finishing whatever was in the bottle. She then looked down the bottle, shrugged and threw the empty bottle backwards into her room.

“Mornin.”. She said as she passed by. Her feathers were a bit ruffled, and she seemed to have been in the middle of her hangover. I could only chuckle. Lucky she was out of earshot of that.

“Lets go get breakfast hmm?”. Natasha had asked. I breathed a sigh of relief. “Thought you would never ask.”. I said, as we started going the opposite way Calaeno went.

“We had to ask for directions four times!”. Natasha blared at me. “I’m sorry! This place is bigger than a bug nest.”. I replied. As we entered we noticed that everyone was already here. Even the rest of the platoon. How they got here before us, I have no idea but they’re here.

“Welcome to the dining hall you two.”. Princess Celestia had said with a smile. “Thank you ma’am.”. Natasha said as she took a seat. Everyone wasn’t wearing armor, just like me and Natasha. Although my shirt was actually full black compared to everyone else's dark grey uniform.

Twilight had thought it was strange that my uniform was darker compared to my brothers in arms. “Hey Damien?”. She called out. I looked at her. “Whats up Sparkles?”. I said. She had a raised eyebrow when I said sparkles but shook her head.

“Why is your uniform darker compared to the rest of the platoons? Does it represent class, or rank?”. She asked. I sighed. “Uniform color shows what you are. Dark grey, or grey indicate foot soldiers, orange shows that your an engineer, and white means your a medic.”. I explained.

“But what does black mean?”. Applejack asked. “It means I'm a marauder class.”. I said simply. There were only raised eyebrows at the table, except for the platoon. “What's a marauder?”. Pinkie had asked. I sat back in my seat.

“Soldiers who use a special suit of armor that gives you the power to wipe out an entire bug army.”. I explained in the most flat voice I could muster. A few jaws were dropped. Namely from the princesses. “How could it have differed from your normal armor?”. Twilight asked.

“It had a built in shield system, the armor moved along with you, you could carry eight weapons at a time as well as max ammunition for all of them, a built in flashlight, and a heads up display.”. I said with a cocky smile.

I saw Celestia mumble something to herself. I could only make out a few words. ‘Potential, armor, found’. I was about to question her about what she had said, but Calaeno had already asked me something.

“Why weren’t you wearing your armor? If its as powerful as it is then why were you not wearing it when you arrived to our world?”. She asked. Ah how I loved it when your armor is covered in plasma from inside and out. “My armor was covered in plasma. It was all in the joints, the outside of the armor and it was just messing with the systems. It had to be thoroughly cleaned.”. I said.

As I finished that sentence a bunch of chefs came by and began to place down plates of food. Everyone was happily surprised to see pancakes on the plates. We didn’t need to wait to start eating what was placed in front of us.

Syrup, and butter was passed around the table as if it were on a train. It was a good meal compared to the dehydrated meals we had to eat on a daily basis outside of the ships. The fleet would provide us with alcohol, and other things to help us have a good time after a successful mission while waiting for pickup.

As we all had our share of breakfast we had asked to go to the armory and begin our daily workout in order to stay on top of ourselves.

There were guards that joined us and even Captain Shining Armor joined in. to say the least when we saw the obstacle course we were not at all impressed. We gave our own recommendations that made the cadets sweat and made Shining Armor Cringe.

“What kind of barbaric boot camp did you go through?”. He asked us. We just said standard military. We couldn’t get our recommended training course so we had to make do with what we had.

We mostly had lifted weights, and compared to what shining armor had started to bench press, we had the upper hand in strength. I looked to my left to see Shining was bench pressing five hundred pounds. It was not as impressive as what we were forced to lift.

We gave him a run for his money when we each lifted seven hundred and forty five pounds. Again were there jaws dropped. The only ones who actually picked up anywhere close to Shining’s Weight were the earth cadets.

“You aim to impress?”. I heard Calaeno say. I was finishing up a last bench press when she and her crew walked in and started to use the equipment as well. “You know me. Gotta stay on top of things.”. I say as I put the weights down where they belong.

I then get up, and use a towel to wipe the sweat from my face. “How's it going captain?”. I said with a grin. She chuckled a little. “Things are ok for now. Hangovers gone.”. She said.

“That's good to hear.”. I say. I then walk up to some dumbbells. The sound of my robotic arm rang through the air as I gripped them, and started to raise them towards my chest, then back down again.

“It’s always good to hear that someone's pain is gone.”. Calaeno added. She then walked over to the sparring ring and watched as Natasha was up against one of the cadets.

I had started to watch from where I was. As I had expected the cadet got knocked the fuck out with just one or two good punches. I placed the dumbbells down and walked towards the ring. I stepped inside with confidence.

Natasha looked at me before chuckling. “You sure you want to do this again?”. She asks. I actually wasn’t sure now. Every sparring match we ever had ended with her knocking me down or knocking me out. Though it was too late to turn back now, so fuck it.

“Lets go Nat!”. I said in a challenging voice. She replied by charging at me. She was about to go for a punch to the face, but I had countered by gripping her arm and slamming her to the ground. I put some distance between us, as she got up. She slowly advanced this time. The thing about Natasha was that she learned from her mistakes quickly.

She was in striking distance now. I went for a punch to the gun with my right hand, she had reacted by going for a punch to the face. As I had hit her in the gut I knocked the wind out of her, though she did get me in the face. She needed to suck some air back in her quick, or I would win. I was able to shrug off her punch faster than I thought I would. I had done a complete turn around and used some newly gained momentum to dash at Natasha.

She had just recollected herself and was able to jump out of the way of my next punch. She then kneed me in the gun, then gripped me by the chest and back. She followed by slamming me onto the floor of the ring. I was completely out of breath. She was about to be victor but I rolled to the other side of the ring and got to my feet. I gulped a huge breath of air, and saw a fist coming for my face. Again, I had no Time to dodge it. It was coming too fast to counter it to.

When it landed against my face I flew out of the ring. I passed out only for a few seconds before getting up, with a sting on my face. Natasha was still on the ring getting cheers from the audience we had gathered. She then stopped and came down. “Nice work. You almost had me! Though you didn't finish me when you had the chance.”. She said as she walked away to get some water for herself.

The foul taste of blood entered my mouth. I spat out a few small droplets of blood. I was about to follow Natasha’s example and get water but Calaeno’s laughing got my attention. I turned towards her. “I’m sorry!”. She exclaimed in between laughs. “It's not her beating your ass. It's the bruise on your face!”. She yelled.

I turned towards the mirror that was in the room and cringed. The bruise on my face was big and in the shape of a heart. “How did she get me a bruise like that?”. I asked myself. I shook it off and grabbed a cup of water. I drank the whole thing in just a few gulps before crushing the paper cup, and throwing it in a trashcan.

It's been four days since the ring incident. I have mostly seen Calaeno drinking during her stay here in the castle. I tried some of the ale to see what was up, and I gotta say that it's almost as good as the stuff the fleet provides.

Princess Celestia seems to be going through an emotional time. She apparently met up with someone while we were sleeping, and now she barely comes to greet us in the morning.

I was in the gardens. It had been a long day, and I wasn’t ready for bed yet. Not ready for our princess’s mission tomorrow. I sat on a bench and looked at the stars. They formed all kinds of shapes, and for some reason, Lines were in the sky drawing the pictures in the night sky. It was actually beautiful. I don’t care how many planets are blowing up, or how many lives are getting destroyed because of this. I am content in watching this little light show in the sky forever.

“Mind if I join you?”. I looked and saw Calaeno standing there. “Not at all.”. I said. I scooched over a little and looked back over, I could hear Calaeno sit down next to me. “So what brings you here?”. I asked. “I enjoy the night sky.”. She said as she looked up at it with a smile.

“I love it and I hate it.”. I said with a chuckle. Calaeno looked at me with a raised eyebrow. “Can’t see the bugs very well in the dark.”. I explained. She chuckled at my explanation and looked back up. “Ive been meaning to ask.”. I said. She turned to me. Her attention on full alert. “How’d you lose your leg?”. I asked her.

Her head drooped a little. “A few years ago me and a friend went exploring for treasure and loot on an old island.”. She said. “The island was known for being inhabited by Manticores.”. She started to slow down. “We didn't find anything so we tried to get back to the boat, but one of the Manticores got the drop on us. It got a hold of my leg.”. She started sniffling. “I was screaming. I don’t like to admit it but I was crying to. Then it stopped, and my best friend was screaming. The crew had come over to see what the commotion was. They found me reaching out for them, and the Manticore playing with Feather like he was nothing but a chew toy!”. She had lost it by then.

“That was his name wasn’t it? Feather?”. I asked. She nodded. I placed my left arm on her left shoulder. “Let it out.” I whispered. She lunged at me in a hug and started bawling her eyes out. “It was my fault!”. She yelled. She began to repeat those words over and over.I held her tighter.

An hour had passed, and she had calmed down. We didn’t talk much because of her break down. I knew that it was best to just let her let it all out. I should know. I blamed my brothers death on myself up until Natasha helped me.

“Does it still hurt?”. She finally asked. I turned to her. “The arm I mean.”. She followed. I looked at my prosthetic and clutched it, opened it, then opened it again. “Sometimes. The process of wiring this into your nerves will hurt on occasion, and the mental pain is even worse.”. I explain.

“How so?”. She wondered aloud. “Its really uncomfortable to go around with a robot hand and expect people to not stare at it.”. I say. She smiles a little. “Yeah I get that a lot from my crystal leg. Everyone gets one glimpse of it and they want me because they think i’m rich.”. She explains with a laugh. “Well at least people aren’t looking at you hoping to god you aren’t going to tell a war story.”. I say. We both started to laugh.

“So Natasha. What does she mean to you?”. She asks me. I was slightly taken aback by her question. “She’s like an older sister. Sometimes she’s the younger sister that's just a bit older.”. I respond. She laughs, as do I.

I noticed it was getting late and I was going to need my rest for tomorrow. I got up to leave when Calaeno gripped my hand. “No!”. She yipped. She looked me in the eyes and I did the same. “I want you to stay…”. She couldn’t finish what ever she was about to say as our lips had met. Her eyes closed and so did mine. I felt something. Something I haven’t felt since Jessica died. I wanted to feel more of it. I held onto her wing/hand and we refused to separate from each other's embrace.

It was a dark and moist cave. Green ooze was sliding down the walls, of the cavern. Bugs of all shapes all shapes and sizes were preparing for an attack. Although they must first feast.

The Changelings were all rounded up by the arachnids except for a select few. Crowds of hungry bugs wailed on and on as they looked at the defenseless poor excuse of a bug. Chariot bugs were carrying the arachnid leader. The Brain bug.

‘Where is Chrysalis?’ it spoke in telepathic form to its most loyal bug. The Royal.’ She had escaped by an unknown means your highness.’. The brain bug read the Royals thoughts. ‘No matter. We still have more than enough to feed what we have here.’. The massive worm like bug had spoken.

It then used the chariots to escort the brain bug towards the Changeling general. A long straw like tube emerged from the bugs mouth. The general didn’t have any chance to react as the brain bug slammed its straw like tendril into his head and began to suck the brains out of his skull. All that was left was the corpse.

The brain bug did this to every single last changeling and left the corpses for his army to feed on. They savagely fed on the bodies. Pulling them apart, or hogging one all for themselves.

Queen Chrysalis was forced to watch all of this unfold. She had escaped using a secret tunnel, and she had a good view from the crevice she was in. she broke down in tears as she was forced to watch her children get fed to these monsters. She then knew that she needed help. She could only hope that princess Celestia would Listen. She followed the path she was on until she was outside. She then began to run like hell.

Author's Note

I would like to thank everyone who supports this. I know my writing isn't as good as the next guys but I think that I am up there some where. I got more info on personality on important characters for this fic such as Calaeno. I will be doing some editing on the other chapters soon to match this so it doesn't seem off, but for now all I can say is thank you to everyone who Favorited this, liked this, and even had the time to read it. this is the third story I have show dedication too, and because of what I have planned . All of My Fics will get the same treatment as The Last Star-ship Troopers

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Protect and serve

Pov Damien
I ran out of the treeline, following close behind Natasha. The strange humanoids stopped their panicking to look at us as we charged. The bugs also stopped their assault and ran at us instead. I raised my rifle and filled a big with lead (or what ever the hell their bullets are made of).

The bug didn't want to go down without a fight but I had to keep putting holes in it. Before my very eyes, the bugs legs and tendrils were flying in several different directions. I grinned as I blasted off the lower jaw. Green blood began to ooze out of the life less body. I payed no mind to it, because there were more contacts.

The other troopers seemed to have been engaging the bugs, even to the point of circling them. How they ended up that way I don't know, but it worked. I joined in the crowd of troopers and we gunned down the remaining arachnid warriors. Tendrils, or legs flew into the air.

I could say I was proud of myself for a successful battle. Even if it was a short one. The victory was short lived as a bug came out of no where. It had wings on its back and was barely armored. it also had a stinger. It swooped down from the sky and lifted a man in the air. He was flown several yards away, and the moment the bug set him down started to impale him with its long stinger.

BAM

The sound of a sniper type Marita rifle blared through the sky. The bug was hit in the nerve stem.
"eyes to the sky's, cause we got hoppers!". Natasha yelled. We all looked upward and there were at least three more. One of them came down to grab me, but easily dodged it. I rotated my body so I could face the bug that was wide open for an attack. I pulled the second trigger on my rifle and killed the bug. It stuttered in the air before crashing in front of the human wannabes. I took aim at the sky again.

Another hopper went down with barely a fight. As it fell, several of us had to jump out of the way of the impact. Looking at the dead scum now, it made a small crater in the ground. A chuckled at the hoppers expense. There was still one more bug to deal with. As it circled in the sky, it had begun to pick up pace. It became incredibly hard to hit it. Natasha was able to blow it out of the sky after shooting randomly. If this were a video game I would just call hacks.

The bug crashed in front of me and Natasha. She seemed angered. She approached the bug and looked it in its dying eyes. "twenty two.". She simply said. Then she squeezed her trigger. The bugs blood splattered next to her, but miraculously didn't get on her we all.

She sighed in relief. She looked at the closest soldiers. She pointed towards two men. One was tall and a little skinny. He had blue eyes, and parts of his blond hair was visible. Then she pointed towards a woman. She was similar to Natasha. She had the same eye color, but her hair was also blond like the other man.
"you two check on Jeffery. He only got hit once by that stinger and we have plenty of medical supplies.". Natasha said while pointing towards the area where the first hopper died. The two soldiers saluted and jogged over to see if the man was alive.

Looking at the humanoids, they looked reassured. Maybe they are grateful we came here to help them? I looked over to Natasha.
"what do we do about them?". I asked pointing at the group. Natasha eyeballed them for a moment. Her eyes went wide. I followed her sight and noticed that one of them seemed to have been injured. They had blood, alot of blood running down their leg. It was the pink one with the crazy hair do.
"Damien, I want you to follow me to make contact.". Natasha said. I nodded my head. I reloaded my gun and put it around my shoulders.
"we will be right back. Set up a communication tent and try to reach command.". Natasha said.
"sir yes sir!". All the remaining troopers said. We then began to approach the weird creatures.

Pov Calaeo
I held onto pinkie pie as she lost consciousness. No pony seemed to care though because two of the black armored figures were approaching us. One of them was bulky and had crimson eyes. While the other was much skinnier. Though that didn't mean that they didn't know how to fight. They handled those monsters quickly. Even princess twilights magic couldn't make a dent in them. I looked over to rainbow dash, who had a look of Awe on her face. Twilight seemed to have the same look. The two armored figures were finally a few feet away from us. I wanted to gulp. Though I held it in.

"excuse us, but can you understand us.". The female said. She said it slowly like equin wasn't one of the first things to learn in life.
"yes we can.". Twilight said. She started to shake at the slight hostility in the woman's voice.
"good. I am lieutenant Natasha of the timber wolf platoon.". Natasha had introduced herself. She reached out a hand to Twilight.
"Twilight sparkle. Nice to meet you Mrs Natasha.". She said.

I looked down a pinkie who was still in my arms unconscious. I felt horrible for the girl. I was on one knee to help support her, but then a shadow loomed over me. "she's in pretty bad shape. We have a medic with the rest of the group that might be able to help her.". The male said. His voice was very... Comforting. It made me feel safe in a way. That's when every pony gasped, and realized that they completely forgot about pinkie pie. "don't worry, the boys most likely built a medical tent.". Natasha said. The male lifted pinkie into his arms bridel style.

"thank you for helping us.". Fluttershy said. Fluttershy was smiling, but not completely. It was all directed at him. She seemed less intimated by the male than Natasha. I don't know why she suddenly decided to speak to this figure in particular.

"alright let's take care of your friend.". The male said. I just might have to get his name. With that we were off to the rest of 'the timber wolfs'.

Author's Note

So how was the chapter. A bit a violence, and a bit of heads up for what's to come for damien and a few others :duck: