"What the heck was that?!" shouted a very tired Twilight Sparkle. She was just about to write a letter to the princess when she heard a strange noise, coming from outside. Twilight looked down at the scroll to see that it's covered in ink, now she is grumpy. She grabs another scroll with her magic and writes the report, again.

"Twilight what wrong?" yawned Spike as struggled to get his tired legs down the stairs.

Twilight turned around only to see a very tired baby dragon. It seems that the mysterious noise has woken up the little dragon. "Oh it's nothing Spike, just go back to bed and get some sleep." Twilight assured spike. Twilight didn't want her number one assistant to worry about a mysterious noise coming from no where, plus he needed to get some sleep after a long night.

Spike can't be bothered to deal with Twilight right now, so without saying a word he went back to bed. Once Spike got back upstairs Twilight continued writing the friendship report. As she writes Twilight began to wonder what was that sound. Although Twilight is too tired to investigate, she will deal with it in the morning. She finished the report and left it on her desk, so she can remember it. Twilight went straight on her comfy bed and began to sleep.

Name: SR-37
Location: Unknown
Mission: Get back to Mars

It's night on this planet and I'm on my knees, praying to the Machine God for forgiveness. It's not unusual for Skitarii to pray for forgiveness, we pray several times a day. I'm praying because I've abandoned my brothers to the filthy xeno, while I escape with my life. I hold my necklace with a small gear on it whilst I pray. My only hope is that the Omnissiah will forgive me for my actions, so I can get revenge.

After exactly one hour I finish my prayers and I head down the stairs to check on Sara. For a guardsman she isn't handling the loss very well. As soon as I'm down stairs I see Sara sitting down on one of the chairs eating her rations and looking upset. The ration is a small block that is full of nutrients. I come up to her and I decide to talk to her "Sara, how do you feel?" I asked her.

"Well all my friends are either captured or killed. So yeah I'm fine." she says sarcastically as she continues to eat her rations. It was a stupid question with an obvious answer, so I understand how she feels. "What are we going to do? we have no imperium, no support, nothing. We are on our own, on a planet with who knows what."

"I understand your concern guardsman. So I will do patrols around the gunship tonight." I declared as I holstered my rifle. I don't have much ammo left, I only have around thirty bullets. I'm gonna have to check this ship for any spare ammo when I'm done with patrols.

"Wait, 38. I think I should go and do patrols." Sara insisted as she stood up and grabbed her lasgun. She won't last the night, she is tired and weak but I'm not.

"No. You had a long day and you need your rest, we have a long day tomorrow." I tell Sara as I start walking to the exit. "Before I leave you here can you tell me where you got your rations?" I ask her. Sara then dropped her lasgun and got her rations out of her side pouch. She had a handful of those rations, but I only needed one of them. Sara then walked up to me and gave me her rations.

"I only needed one of them." I tell her as I gave back the rest of her food except one for me. I then begin to exit the gunship before Sara yelled. "Stay safe!" As The large metal door of the thunderhawk opened I walked towards this mysterious forest. As soon as my metal feet touch the grass the gunship door closed behind me.

Half an hour later

It has been half an hour and so far it has been peaceful. The darkness of the forest can look demonic at times, I swear the trees have faces, it's unsettling. sometimes I hear a sound in the forest like tree branches crunching or wolves howling and wind rustling the leaves. This forest seems evil.

I eventually get used to the darkness of the forest, yet I'm still on high alert. I grab the ration the guardsman gave me out of my red coat and take of my mask. Most humans believe that my mask is apart of may face but that's not true. How else am I going to eat if the mask is apart of my face. I take a bite of the ration, it's tasteless but then again I can't taste anything. I can't taste food or water but it matters not to me. The only thing that matters is that I let my body process the food.

After I finish eating I put my mask back on I hear growling. It sounds monstrous and hungry. I turn around and see a creature that I've never seen before. It has the body of a lion, it has a massive wing span and a scorpions tail. And I have no idea what this creature is. It looks really hungry, and i'm its dinner. Its seems so hesitant to even go near me, maybe it's because it has never seen a creature like me or its just planning to strike.

I'm not taking any chances so I point my weapon at the creature and fire. I was aiming for the head but the creature moved to the left and the bullet hit a tree. The creature then pounced at me but before it hit the ground I shot it in the chest, twice. The creature crashed onto the ground and roared in pain, I then put it out of its misery.

The creature's blood was allover the ground, this includes it's brains. The body seems to be female, even though it has a mane. After examining the creatures corpse I turn around and find two more mutated lions. I reloaded my rifle and fired one bullet for each lion. I missed one but I killed the other with a head shot, the creatures brains went all over the trees.

The last lion I have to deal with looks bigger than the others. It has scars allover its body, It has horns on its head and its mane is coloured black. I suspect that it's an alpha male and quite possibly the most dangerous of the mutated lions.The alpha mutant charged straight towards me. The alpha pinned me to the ground and roared in my face, but I didn't even flinch. Unexpectedly the guardsman came to my rescue, she fired her lasgun and lasers beams sprayed all over the alpha. The alpha staggered and its still alive but he got of me, this gave me chance to get back on my feet. I grabbed my rifle and fired the whole cartridge but It didn't kill the lion, I suspect that all the scars on its body made its hide a lot tougher. Not wanting to waste more ammo I dropped my galvanic rifle, and holstered my arc maul in my right hand. I powered up my melee weapon and blue and white electricity came out of it.

I charged towards the mutant alpha and hit it in the head with my weapon. Normaly any arc related weapons can fry a mans brain but it only made the creatures head bleed. Is its hide so tough that not even electricity can affect it or is it naturally resistant? The alpha attacked me using it's claws but I blocked its attack. Even though I blocked its massive paw my left arm is now malfunctioning, it's a good job I can't feel pain. I hit the alpha again, but this time I hit him alot harder. I did an upper cut using my weapon, it smashed the creatures jaw. The alpha is suffering in pain after losing its jaw, I hit it again and this time it killed the alpha, I think its eye went out of its socket. If the creature is still alive it would be paralysed, never the less I still won the battle.

I examine the alpha and it's a male. A darker mane means it's male and a red mane means it's female. It's different from the lions back on Terra. I turned to face the guardsman. "What are you doing out here guardsman? I thought I told you to get some rest?" I questioned Sara as I walked towards her.

"I heard gunshots and I thought you needed help, so I came out to slay whatever creature was disturbing you." explained Sara

To be honest without her I would've been killed by the mutated lion. Perhaps she can be of some use, because if an alpha came to attack me then that means I'm in its territory. "Sara I may need your help. I want you to help me find a cave of these lions."

"Why?" she asked as went to grab my galvanic rifle. I then turned towards her and answered "To slay the rest of these creatures."

10 minutes later

After searching around the area of the gunship we found a small cave. Me went inside of this excuse of a lions den and found nothing. There wasn't any of these creatures in this cave, just bones, carcasses and other rotting flesh. It took me and Sara exactly two minutes searching till we found five small lion cubs.

By the looks of them they're less than a month old. They haven't even started to grow there manes, their tails are really small this includes their wings as well. Sara looked at them in aww. "Oh my Emperor they're so cute! Hey SR, come have a-" She turned around only to see me holding my arc maul really tight, that's when she realised what I'm about to do.

"No. You wouldn't dare." she said in anger in anger.

"Guardsman it's only logical" I stated

"LOGICAL!!! IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL IT!!!"

"Sara calm down. If I don't do it now, they won't survive without their mothers"

"Well why don't we just take them in?!"

"Because they won't except you as their mother and when they grow up they will most likely kill you. Besides what are you gonna feed them? Rations? Their diet is different. So believe me when I say, "it is logical"

"..."

"Guardsman. If it makes you feel better, consider it mercy."

With hesitation Sara walked away from the mutant cubs and came up to me with tears in her eyes "My friends were right about you and your kind. You're all heartless bastards!" Sara stated. And with that she exited the cave crying. I walked towards the mutant cubs with arc maul in hand. I kneel down to face them, they look so innocent and scared at the same time. Its as if they understand what I'm about to do. "I'm sorry little ones." I apologised as I raised my right arm with arc maul in hand. And slay the baby lions.

Back at the gunship

I returned to the gunship to find Sara asleep. With the evidence of tears down her face, I can that she cried herself to sleep. Now knowing that Sara is asleep I took the liberty to search for any spare ammo on the ship. I didn't find anything except bolter ammo and they're no use for us. Sara is right we have nothing to support us, we are going to die on this planet. I prey to the Omnissiah that there's hope.

Now that I searched the gunship I can start repairing my damaged arm. Skitarii rangers are taught basic repairs in case we get our arms blown up or something. The alpha disconnected the mechanics in my left arm so I can barely move my fingers. Luckily this has happened before on the battlefield, so I know what to do. I removed my left arm and I start the repairs.

The joints that move my fingers are pistons I just pull them back together and weld them. After twenty minutes of welding I test to see if my arm will move. The good news is it works now; the bad news is I still have the claw marks on my left arm and it's a good job that the marks aren't deep or it would've done more damage.

I took me time to notice but I can now upgrade my combat data. I decided it was time for an upgrade so using my mind the upgrade tree appeared in my eyes. I wanted to upgrade hand to hand combat so went there and I now I know how to do basic martial arts . If I keep upgrading I will complete the whole tree in about fifteen years, the tree is really big.

I hope we find intelligent life on this planet because I don't think we'll survive for long.

Ponyville outside golden oaks library

Twilight Sparkle just left the golden oaks library and is ready to start the day. Today she is going to help put away the decorations from nightmare night. Everypony in town is helping out even Rarity. Twilight started trotting down the streets when suddenly Rainbow crashed straight into her. Of course the crash was accidentel.

"Rainbow why did you crash into me?!" asked Twilight in a disappointed tone.

Rainbows Dash is a the cyan Pegasus who wants to join the Wonderbolts one day. "Sorry Twi. Anyways, Twilight I saw something weird last night and it kept me awake all night!" said Rainbow. This would explain her flimsy flying but her being awake all night was just an exaggeration.

"Well what was is?" asked Twilight. Twilight was curious of what Rainbow had to say but it may be, stupid or a story that Rainbow Dash made up.

"Well last night I was outside my house in Cloudsdale and I was just about to go inside. Til I saw a UFO!" Rainbow explained. Twilight did not believe a word that she said.

"Rainbow is this another one of your pranks?"

"No I'm serious, I saw a UFO."

"You saw it too?" asked Pinkie Pie who randomly appeared out of nowhere. Now Twilight believes it's a prank, so she just played along and listened to Pinkies side of the story.

"Okay Pinkie where did you see this UFO?" asked Twilight sarcastically

"Well I was just about to go to bed after I ate my midnight snack, even though it wasn't midnight. I got into my bed when I suddenly heard something that was just as loud as a dragon. I looked outside and I saw UFO. though it wasn't a stereotypical UFO that's shaped like a Frisbee, it was more in a shape of a rectangle." With that explanation Twilight thought that Pinkie and Rainbow have planned this prank.

"Well that is a lovely story pinkie but I'm not falling for it." stated Twilight

"But it's true!"

"Well if that's true how come everypony else hasn't seen or heard anything?" questioned Twilight.

Just as Twilight asked that question, Pinkie yelled "Hey! Did anypony see a UFO last night?!!!" Everypony in ponyville just nodded. They all seem very calm about it, but then again their are a few ponies that are saying the end is neigh including Applejack for some reason.

'Huh I guess that explains the noise I heard last night. I thought it was a dragon but then again I was really tired' Twilight thought. "Alright I believe you. So gather the elements I'll write a letter to the princess. Were gonna meet an extra terrestrial life form."

Pinkie then started waving her front hooves in the air and yells "ALIEN HUNTING! ALIEN HUNTING!" Ah yes alien hunting, I saw that on TV too.

Twilight and all her friends are in the Everfree forest, because Rainbow Dash said she saw the UFO land in the forest. Twilight was curious of what she'll find; Pinkie Pie is exited to throw it an welcome to our planet party; Rainbow wants to fight the alien if it's hostile; Applejack wants to fight it for coming to the planet; Fluttershy was scared and Rarity is also scared.

Pinkie pie was humming the theme song to invader Zim until they finally see the UFO. Pinkie Pie was right about it being rectangular but the mane six never expected it to be so big. It looked so advanced yet it looked impossible to fly, it's a hunk of metal how is it able to fly. Twilight went closer to the spacecraft and without noticing the rotting manticore corpses, she accidentally stepped on it. Twilight looked down and saw the rotting body and screamed "AHHH!!"

"Mother of Celestia! W-What kind of creature would do such a thing!?" cried Fluttershy with tears coming down her eyes. Rarity then went to hug Fluttershy to try and calm her down but she won't stop crying.

"Well now we know the aliens are hostile, lets give them a piece of our mind." said Rainbow as she is prepared to fight.

"Rainbow wait. Perhaps the aliens were attacked by the manticores and we all know how aggressive they are." Twilight stated "We should find the entrance to the space ship, because they might be scared after fighting two manticores and a manticore alpha." Soon after analysing the UFO, the front of the ship opened. The only thing on Twilights mind right now is a question, that question is 'What kind of creature can take on three manticores?'

She'll soon find out

Author's Note

Alright about the weapons. I don't know how much ammo the weapons should have in warhammer 40k so I based the galvanic rifle on real world hunting rifles for reference. So it would have five shots in each cartage. it makes sense because skitarii based the galvanic rifle on hunting rifles, it even looks like a hunting rifle.