The Skitarii Ranger
Chapter two
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Princess Celestia has just finished raising the sun and is now having her breakfast, with a cup of tea of course. Right now while she's having her breakfast, Celestia is waiting for her sister Luna to get her breakfast. Luna may be princess of the night but she still has to do her royal duties in the day.
A couple of minutes later the princess of the night entered the dining room with tired eyes. Celestia thought it was strange because Luna rarely got tired. Her sister either had too much coffee last night and is now suffering from a hangover, or it was because she had too much fun at nightmare night and had difficulty sleeping or some shit.
"Good morning Luna, how was nightmare night?" Celestia asked
"It was the most... fun sister." yawned Luna. Yeah this confirmed all of Celestia's suspicion, she had too much fun last night.
"I guess that explains why you're so tired."
"No it's not the reason why I'm tired."
"Then what is it?"
"I was in the doing my job. When I was in the dreamscape checking for nightmares I saw a horrible dream."
"Luna I think the word you're looking for is nightmare."
"That's the thing, it wasn't a nightmare it was a dream. And it was ever so horrifying to even count as a dream."
"I don't follow. Is it a dream or is it not."
"Trust me sister I know what a dream is. It was a dream because the pony who was dreaming it wasn't scared of it. It's as if they are used to it and has been in these situations."
"Luna please explain to me what this dream is like"
"... In this dream I was in there was only war. There were so many creatures fighting each other with magic, swords and with strange weapons that fire beams of light. Their seemed to be no peace in this world, because when they weren't fighting they were suffering from starvation and disease. So many of these creatures die everyday because of this endless war and if you did anything wrong you would be executed in public. One of the reasons they would be executed would be for being an atheist. "
Celestia didn't know what to say, she has never heard of any pony having a dream that's so dark and grim. It didn't make any sense, why would anypony dream such terrible things. Luna had to go through all that and she's still sane, maybe the reason why she wasn't affected by the insanity on the dream is because she was insane or still is.
Suddenly a letter appeared in front of Celestia from a ball of green fire. It was a letter from Twilight Sparkle, 'strange she just sent me her friendship report.' Celestia thought as she opened the letter.
Dear princess Celestia.
Recent reports from multiple ponies say that an alien spaceship has landed in the Everfree forest. I know this sounds crazy but Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and the rest of poniville say the same thing "I saw a UFO." Celestia if this is true then we have discovered a new species, but what are their intentions? Do they need our help or are they here to invade? Celestia please come to Ponyville with a small army just in case the aliens are a threat.
Your faithful student Twilight Sparkle.
"What is it this time sister?" asked Luna curiously.
"Luna drink your coffee and tell shining armour to bring twenty guardsponies to Ponyville." Celestia commanded as she got up from her chair and started walking towards the castle exit. 'Well at least this day isn't boring'
Name: SR-37
Location: Unknown
Mission: Get back to mars
Side Mission: Find intelligent life
It's daylight I was praying to the Omnissiah, till I heard a scream. Either something is getting attacked by the mutant lions or a xeno has found our ship. If its a xeno then there's intelligent life on this planet but if it's something else then may have to kill it. What ever that scream was it needs investigating. So I stopped praying twenty three minutes earlier than usual and got up from the pilots seat to wake Sara.
When I went to wake the guardsman I find that she's already awake, the scream must've woke her up. Sara looked upset, she's still mad about what I did last night. I don't care that she's mad right now, it had to be done. "Sara grab your weapon." I order her.
"What are we gonna murder more innocent creatures?" She questioned as she went and holstered her lasgun. I ignored her question as I went and grabbed my galvanic rifle. I haven't got much ammo left, I counted last night and I only have twenty bullets left. I'm going to have to eiter save ammo or make some more, but I don't have the materials to make the servitor-bullets so I may have to improvise.
"Guardsman what would you do if you saw a xeno on this planet?" I ask her
"I just point and shoot at the filthy xeno." she answered very quickly as she aimed her weapon and pretended to fire it.
"In other situations yes, In this situation no. We need to make allies with the inhabitants of this planet, otherwise we won't survive."
"Are you saying we should betray the imperium. That's heresy!"
"I never said we should betray the imperium. I said we should make allies with the xeno not enemies. Besides the imperium needs more allies to fight with." I explain. "We also have too many enemies so new allies would benefit us."
Sara didn't like what I just said to her, but it's true. We have too many enemies, I don't even know how humanity is still alive after all these years. I mean sure we had teamed up with the Eldar and the T'au but we never really became allies in this never ending war. "Listen. If the xenos on this planet are evil, we'll kill them. But that's if I conclude they're evil." I tell Sara. That seemed to brighten up her day.
"I can't wait to blast some xenos scum!" said Sara.
'So it's alright to kill xenos and not mutated animals' I thought.
I opened the large metal door of the Thunderhawk, as it slowly opens we are greeted by... multi coloured equine? Well that's disappointing, I thought I would find inteligent life on this planet. But all we ever see so far are dumb animal that want to kill us.
The equine also seem to be mutated like the lions, except they don't have scorpion tails. Theirs a purple horse with a horn sticking out of its head and has a mane with different shades of purple. another one with a horn but it's coloured white and has a purple mane. There's two winged equine one being cyan with a rainbow coloured mane and a yellow one with a pink mane. Two regular horses, one being orange and the other being a bright pink. Wait does the orange one have a hat? if this equine has a hat that means they are intelligent, unless they're just pets it still means there's intelligent life. Well theirs only one way to find out if they're intelligent. "Greetings. We are from the imperium of man and we wish to get out of this retched forest." I greeted. The equine seem confused, then the pink one bounced up to me.
~~"Hi I'm Pinkie Pie. Who are you? What planet are you from? Do you like cupcakes? Has kitten cut off Gulliman life support yet?"~~ The pink one jumped up and down as it says something in it's language. I should've expected this, there's a language barrier.
Twilight sparkle
"Pinkie please stay away from the aliens, we still don't know if they're evil." I order Pinkie Pie.
"Okie dokie loki." She said before coming back towards us. These creature look nothing like the aliens from my science fiction novels. They're bipedal and they look like they've just got out of an endless war. The one wearing a red coat looks like a robot due to its metal arms and legs. Even it's face reminds me of robots. maybe it is a robot.
The other alien looks more organic. It wears some sort of armour that's coloured green but has some clothing underneath the armour and judging by the face and long hair I'd say that it's female. And it's blue eyes are smaller then most creatures in Equestria but that doesn't matter. What does matter is that I'm meeting an alien species, oh I have so many questions. Only one problem, we can't understand what they just said and I don't think they understand us either.
So far, everything's calm. Until Rarity dashed towards the aliens. "Oh my this cloak definitely suits you darling. I especially like the red, it goes so well with the metal limbs. Though i'll give you minus three points for the claw marks on your sleeve. So all in all seven out of ten." declared Rarity as she analyses the red cloak.
"Rarity why are you reviewing the aliens clothing?" I questioned
"Twilight darling it's a rare opportunity to see clothing from another world." stated Rarity.
"Well its hard to tell them you like their cloths if they don't understand you."
"Yes I know but like I said it's a rare opportunity."
Well I guess there's no harm done, after all it's just cloths so it's okay. What isn't okay is that they don't understand us but I think I have a spell for that situation at golden oaks. "Twilight are you sure these we should make friends with the aliens? What if they're evil? I mean they just killed three manticores" Rainbow Dash questions.
"Dash if they're evil we'll just turn them into stone like we did to Discord. Besides they were probably defending themselves from the manticores." I explained to dash
"Yeah but-"
"Remember Zecora and not to judge a book by it's cover."
"Well I'm agreein with Dash, these aliens probably landed on our planet for a reason. They must be evil." Applejack pointed out. I have to admit the aliens probably landed on our planet for a reason. But picking a random planet for no reason only to take over sounds pointless. What will they gain out of invading us?
"Applejack just because an alien invades doesn't mean they're evil." stated Rarity
"Um yeah it does. That's the point of invadin, to take over the world."
"Applejack what I meant was-"
"Nope ah don't wanna hear it. They're evil and that's final."
"Um girls."
"Applejack try to be reasonable, remember don't judge a book by its cover."
"Ah know Twi, I'm just trusting my instincts, cause ah have a feeling they're evil."
"Girls"
"So do I, I mean one of them is made of metal." Rainbow stated
"Well what do you expect from a robot? They're made of metal."
"Girls!" yelled Fluttershy. Me and my friends then turned our attention to her. "Um... the aliens are gone." Well she isn't wrong it's gone wait.
"IT'S GONE OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!? WHAT IF APPLEJACK WAS RIGHT WHAT IF IT IS EVIL OH SHIIIIIIIT!!! WERE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!" I panicked
"Twilight. Calm down!!" Pinkie screamed as she slaps my face a few times to snap me out of my crazy moment. "We technically haven't lost them, look." stated Pinkie pie as she points to our hoof prints on the ground. Next to the hoof prints I see two different pairs of prints on the ground. One goes deeper into the ground than the other.
Well the good news is we know where they're going. The bad news is we know where they're going. I hope the princesses don't see them as a threat.
Sara Hart
Stupid xenos, they were talking among themselves for so long they didn't even know we left them in the forest. But it's only a matter of time before they notice we're gone and start following our footprints. Me and SR are following the hoof prints of the equine, we hope that they would lead us to some kind of civilisation.
The reason we ran away from the group of xenos that found us is because we couldn't understand what they were saying. So me and SR were like 'fuck this shit were out.' And we got away from them. Besides I didn't like the look of the orange xeno, she looked as if she was about to beat us to death with a rusty hammer or something. Not that she had a rusty hammer or anything but that what she looked like.
After following the footprints me and SR finally reached the end of the forest, only one problem. The good news is we found where the all the xenos live. It's really smaller then I expected, it looks so...peaceful... and more as ancient than the imperial cities on Terra. The bad news is we ran into an ENTIRE FUCKING ARMY!!!
Okay I exaggerated there's only around twenty solders with primitive weapons. But by the Emperor, it may be a small army but I don't think that SR would survive this wave of xenos soldiers, I mean he may be a machine but every machine has its limits. Behind the army are two tall equine. Both of them have horns and wings. There's a white one with a rainbow like flowing hair and a blue one with hair that mirrors the cosmos. They must be the leaders because they both seem to be more unique from the other xenos.
~~"Greetings strange creatures. Are you friend or foe?"~~ said the tall blue xenos. I think it just ordered the army to attack if we attack because they look as if they're about to charge straight towards us. Then again I could be wrong. If only we could understand them.
I can sense strong energy coming from the two leaders. Its as they have energy flowing through them, almost as if they're the most powerful beings on this planet. I can even sense the energy coming from the ones with horns, even when I was in the forest I can feel energy flowing through the purple and white equine. I have always felt this power when I was a child. My farther told me to keep it secret and never show anyone no matter how amazing it was. He also told me what I was.
...
But that doesn't matter now because of the fuckin army that's about to charge at us. "Guardsman drop your weapon." SR ordered me. Who does he think he is? Were not even part of the same military yet he still bosses me around. If he was a normal person I would shoot him in the face, but I can't because he would kill me before I kill him.
"Why?" I asked
"Because we would both die if we were to fight this small army."
He made a good point. As much as I hate him he is a lot more clever than me. Beside I wouldn't have survived without him but that doesn't mean I like him. So I'll do as he say's for now, I dropped my weapon on the ground and then SR dropped his weapons. Stupid ranger he should've kept his melee weapon on him like I kept my knife on me. I kept my knife on me just in case the xenos think about fighting us or decide to experiment on us.
~~" You still haven't answered my question, are you friend or foe?... Sister do they understand us?"~~ said the blue xenos
~~"I don't know Luna."~~ said the white xenos. Wait a minute. The xenos were waiting for us, they knew we were coming. ha ha I'm gonna get killed by these xenos.
Well just as I thought things couldn't get any worse the six xenos we found in the forest came back. They ran straight pass me and SR and went straight to the towards tall equine. Okay are they gonna confirm that were a threat or something else because if they're gonna kill us then I officially hate this planet.
After the xenos talked to their leaders the leaders and the six xenos walked towards me and SR. This is scary because I don't know whats gonna happen. Once they came up close to us I felt I was close to royalty. It felt like I was in the presence of the emperor himself. This made me feel calm.
A golden aura surrounded the white equines horn and immediately I felt like I had headache. It then became unbearable pain in my head It hurt so much. I wasn't the only one in pain, because SR seems to be having the same experience as me. He's holding his head really tight and trying to avoid screaming in pain. However after thirty seconds the pain stopped.
I was right about these creatures. They're psykers, I only met a couple of Pyskers back on the battleship but they didn't feel as powerful as those two xenos. "Greetings creature. Now that you understand us, are you friend or foe?" questioned the white equine.
They used the warp just so we could understand each other. My head could've exploded or worse, well I best start talking or they might kill us "Um... f-friend." I replied I hope they won't kill us.
Name: SR-37
Location: Unknown
Mission: Get back to mars
Side Mission: Find intelligent life
They used their psychic energy just so they could understand us, how irresponsible. I have a pounding headache, my brain could've exploded because of this psyker. Don't they know the dangers of the warp like being possessed by a daemon or exploding because of overloading their bodies with the warp. Are they not affected by the risks?
"Hey SR are you okay?" asked Sara "You look as if you're gonna faint or something."
"I'm fine guardsman." I responded. "Do the xeno understand us now?" I questioned
What I didn't notice was that the six equine have been listening to our conversation and they are mad. I should've chose my words carefully and called them equine. The he winged equine with rainbow hair flew up to me. "Hey who are you calling a xeno?!" The the cyan equine blurted. Seems that they speak low Gothic now. This good because I now understand them.
I can already tell that she's going to be annoying "I'm sorry I should've said equine." I say sarcastically. She didn't take that well because she started to look angrier. Maybe I shouldn't have said that either because I need to be more diplomatic otherwise the imperium would be deemed as enemies on this planet.
"Now, now my little ponies there's no need to fight." said the tall white equine. The rainbow haired equine then moved away from me as the tall white equine moved closer to me. "Greetings, my name is princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria. And this is my sister Luna Who co rules Equestria with me. Who might you be?" The princess greeted. So their is royalty on this planet. Also the planet is named Equestria but I could be wrong because that may be the a name of the country and not the planet.
"My name is SR-37, I am a soldier for the adeptus mechanicus. And this is Sara, a guardsman of the Astra militarium" I greeted
"... Those are strange names for aliens." The pink pony pointed out
"Well what's your name?" asked sara
"Oh my names Pinkie Pie and now that you're here in ponyville I can finally give you a welcome party."
"First of you're a hypocrite for saying our names are strange and second what's a party?"
Kemuel
"Wake the fuck up mon'keigh." I wake up to find that I'm in some sort of torture room, the room is dark and there's little light. There is a green misty fog in the room, I hear people screaming and groaning in pain and I also hear groans of pleasure and satisfaction.
I realise now that I'm on an Dark eldar Void stalker. I see one of the filthy xenos coming towards me. He wears dark armour but he seems to be missing his helmet. Getting a closer look at his face he has black eyes that look like an endless void; his hair is black and long it length goes up to his neck. He has pointed ears like any other eldar. He comes up to me, face to face and says "You have to help me find a seer."
Author's Note
Sorry I'm late. I have collage to go to so updates may be a bit late.
Tell me what needs editing so I could edit it, I hope this chapter is alright.
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