The last starship troopers

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.