"And just where do you think you're going?" Chrysalis snarled. She had been tricked. She did not like being tricked.

"Did you really think you could make fools of us? I'm the one who outsmarted you remember." Tirek added. He and Cozy Glow were looking forward to whatever Chrysalis had in store for him.

"Yo-You FOOLS!! LET ME GO!! I HAVE TO WARN THEM BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!" Discord shouted on the verge of panic.

"Oh please, why would we ever let you do that ?" Chrysalis inquired.

"BECAUSE THIS ENEMY IS WORSE THAN CHAOS!!!" Discord answered.

The trio of villains lost their anger immediately as a freezing chill crawled up their spines. "...wuh...what...?"

It wasn't true...in a manner of speaking, but while the Ruinous Powers were more dangerous, only the followers of Slaanesh were more terrifying. And thus, Discord spared no graphic detail regarding the coming threat.

Equestria

Far from the villains' cave, Twilight and her friends were listening to a most unusual tale of their own. "An den da glowin' Bony faded away, an dese free shadowy figaz came at me loike deze waz tryna spook me, AN OI KRUMPED'EM GOOD!! AHHAHAHAHAAA!!! MORK'S TEEF!!! OI AVEN'T FELT DIS GOOD IN....uh...um...I've NEVAH FELT DIS GOOD!!! AHHAHAHAHAAA!!!"

Fluttershy couldn't stop smiling at Greenskin's newfound joy for living, but the others were quite concerned. "Three villains from our past?" Twilight asked more to herself than to Greenskin.

"Yeh. Dat'z roight. An don' worry about foighten dem again. I'll clobber em all boi meself." The Ork stated. Slamming the head of his battle ax into his pleather-clad chest.

Twilight couldn't shake her worries though, and was already mentally writing letters of warning to her fellow Alicorns and Aries.

As Twilight and the others bidded each other farewell. Aries was in Canterlot with Princess Luna...and over a dozen sleeping engineers, blacksmiths, and welders.

As Aries described the mechanics of gas operated firearms as he understood them, Luna fed the words into the ponies' dreams. Once finished, she brought Aries into the Dream Realm with her to oversee how the dreaming ponies envisioned such weapons, and how to build them.

Outside of these developments, Equestria enjoyed a normal, peaceful day. No less than thirteen songs were sung this day, and not a single monster attacked an Equestrian provence, be it village or city.

However...there is a dark nature to Equestria's peace. For Equestria and it's neighboring allies...are but one Continent upon a planet that has yet to be named, as it's inhabitants believe their single Continent to be the entirety of their world...except those that inhabit the Continent furthest from Equestria.

Anthross

The Continent of Anthross is home to a great many bipedal creatures. The Minotaurs of Taurus, The Werewolves of Lycone, but none are more frightening than those of Anthross' ruling country: The Empire of Caprio.

Caprio was one of two kingdoms of Anthropomorphic deer. The other, Cervis, had fought a desperate war against their neighbors for the sake of their freedom. For the bipedal deer of Caprio firmly believed that it was their right as the mightiest beings to rule over all.

The war had lasted a thousand years. While Equestria knew not but peace and the odd averted peril, Cervis had been slowly beaten and conquered.

The men were deemed weak and sentenced to death...but the women suffered a far darker fate. They were to breed stronger men to rule them, the heirs of the power mad monsters that conquered them.

Cervis fell to Caprio but a day after the defeat of Nightmare Moon 8 years ago. In the time since then, whilst the Moose and Roe Deer enjoyed the fruits of their conquest, the Caribou: most elite of the three races of Caprio, sought greater prizes.

8 years ago, Minotaur spies loyal to the ruler of Caprio set sail to various lands to discover new conquests awaiting their masters. Of the various races discovered by these spies, King Dainn of Caprio was only interested in one.

The 8 foot Caribou sat in his throne in full armor, resting his right hand on the pommel of his Greatsword: Willbreaker, and clenching his left into a fist as he snarled in anger.

...The power to defy reality...WASTED ON THE WEAK!!! The king snarled, slamming his fist into the arm of his throne.

While the thought of such power being squandered infuriated him to no end, the thought of producing an heir to such power brought a very different emotion.

While it did nothing to calm Dainn's anger, the thought of breaking new women brought a cruel smile to his face. His smile endured even as the doors to his throne room parted to reveal his Advisor.

The Advisor was unperturbed by the manic look on his master's face. If anything, he was curious to know what vile thoughts produced such an expression...so he may wear it himself.

"My Lord, at long last our fleet is ready. Bearing enough storage space to bring a siege from across the world to the gates of cursed Canterlot... and return with beautiful bounty of fresh slaves." The Advisor announced with a bow to King Dainn.

The Caribou King's smile widened, parting his jaws as his tongue licked the growing drool from his teeth. "Prepare my army, we set sail for the bottom of the world. TO WIPE OUT WEAKNESS AT IT'S STRONGEST SOURCE!!!"

The order was met with sinister laughter and then the two Caribou went to make their preparations. For King Dainn, that meant paying one last visit to his harem.

The King walked the halls of his castle en route to his bed chambers, admiring the numerous trophies and portraits that adorned the walls, and bowing respectfully to the images of his ancestors. Thanking them for achieving all that he owned and paving the way for his own conquests that would be inherited by his greatest son.

The cruel King was torn from his musings by a great shaking of the castle. When the rumbling subsided, he could hear screams and shouts and noises that were completely alien to his ears. He immediately recognized the signs of an attack on his Kingdom.

Forgetting his harem for the time being, King Dainn sprinted down the halls and turned to exit his castle, only to be halted by an explosion behind him.

Something had torn through the walls of his castle, piercing through the hall and beyond before Dainn could even see it, but whatever it was left a group of the invaders behind.

The attacking forces moved so fast that King Dainn could hardly make them out as they charged him with blinding speed, some even appearing to run along the walls.

King Dainn did not allow shock to immobilize him however, he unsheathed Willbreaker and swung horizontally. The mighty greatsword cut a gash in the castle wall and parried a long knife from the closest attacker to the wall before coming across to behead the center attacker and cut a third's arm off.

King Dainn turned on his heel and spun, slashing out with Willbreaker while distancing himself from his more agile attackers. He knew he best advantage was his superior strength and reach...and the alloy that made up his sword and armor, known across Anthross as Caprian Steel...and to the wider galaxy as Adamantine.

King Dainn halted his fighting withdrawal and got the first real look at his attackers. Females, that was the first thing he noticed about his enemies, the second was that their clothes were even more revealing than that of his concubines. But the most unnerving thing he noticed about his feminine foes...was that they were all smiling.

King Dainn knew that smile, he had worn it many times himself, it was the smile of a tyrant preparing to crush the weak. Even the one who's arm he had severed wore a similar, albeit more manic, grin. No doubt already deciding how best to break the Caribou's will.

King Dainn snarled at their smiles...before returning one of his own. They wanted to show him that he was inferior, he would show them just the opposite.

His attackers smiles widened, and they opened a hole in their ranks to let another, more elite, fighter introduce herself.

Dainn's smile windened as well. The female before him was everything he sought in a mate. Power Incarnate. She negated the single edged blades of her entourage for a far deadlier sword that unfurled into a bladed whip nearly 5 feet in length, and covered her breasts with the flayed faces of past victims.

The female warrior twirled her whip beside her as she walked, cutting gashes into the floor of King Dainn's halls. She was a savage in every sense of the word, and King Dainn couldn't wait to tame her.

The female brought her whip back into a sword and leapt. Her impossible agility allowing her to plant her feet onto the ceiling and launch herself at King Dainn.

The Caribou threw up his sword and spun backward, but his opponent still managed to land behind him. King Dainn slashed at her again, only for her to lash out and wrap her whip around Willbreaker.

The sound of footsteps told him the weaker warriors were joining the fray once more. Thinking fast, King Dainn used his strength to slam the flat end of his sword into the females' leader and throw her from his blade into the midst of her entourage, her whip still wrapped around his sword.

Two of the weaker enemies evaded their flung leader and pressed the attack. King Dainn cut down one, but the other, the one missing an arm, leapt over his head while he was between strikes and swung her blade at his neck.

The Caribou bent his knees to avoid the decapitating strike, costing him an antler, before swinging Willbreaker through the assailant's stomach and cutting her in half.

The King screamed in rage and pain as his lost antler caught up with him, but he hadn't the time to mend his wound. 4 attackers remained, and their speed made fleeing a death sentence. It was only the narrow halls that only his powerful sword could ignore that was keeping him alive.

"You've impressed me Mon'Keigh." Spoke the leader of King Dainn's assailants. "Kneel to me now, and I'll make you my personal pet."

"It is not I who will serve you, it is you who will bear my sons." King Dainn promised as he removed the whip and readied Willbreaker.

The remaining warriors scoffed, snorted and giggled at the Caribou's words before meeting him in battle once more.

8 Minutes Later

The sound of screaming blissfully filled her ears now that sounds of battle had been drowned out. A bliss she enjoyed until she felt the need to acknowledge her subordinate...she had been kneeling for quite a while, after all.

"Report sister." Spoke the Succubus leading the raiding party: Crimson Clawed Clarissa.

Clarissa was the epitome of feminine beauty within the Dark City. Tall for an Eldar, she could stand eye to eye with an unarmored Astartes, and only an Astartes had a chance of meeting her soul-shattering gaze.

The Succubus was dressed head to toe in varying shades of purple that swirled in maddening patterns modeled after the Warp, with the exception of her namesake: a pair of blood red Hydra Gauntlets.

"The city has fallen. Our losses were minimal." Clarissa's younger sister, a Wych named Belatrixx, reported.

"Excellent, have you found a new toy to play with?" Clarissa asked.

"Indeed sister, the King of this country is going to be such fun to torment into submission." Belatrixx replied with a delighted, almost childish giggle.

Clarissa and Belatrixx were true sisters by blood, but where most siblings among the Dark Eldar fought over power and authority, often killing each other, Belatrixx was more than happy to let her sister have run of their Cult and it's allies so long as she was allowed to torture and kill at her leisure. Meaning she always had first pick of the captives.

The younger sister bid the elder fairwell before returning to her chambers and her plaything, while Clarissa turned her gaze beyond Caprio. Thinking of all the new species that would conquer and bring to the Dark City, giving no interest in the plots of the Harlequins that had led her to this world.

Her only thoughts were of the Continent that she would save for last, bearing a race of lesser beings more innocent and ignorant than any human or Ork or even Tau that had heard of.

Equestria. I will teach you the laws of the galaxy...and the penalty of weakness.

Author's Note

Words do not describe what this quarantine has put me through. I had only one month left in my trade school before I graduated, and that was in April.

My apologies for not posting anything in these trying months, but I just couldn't find the time or motivation to write fanfics. I was caught between chores, Netflix, and I finally found my laptop after it had been missing for years.(don't ask)

Okay, now that that's out of the way, let's talk about this chapter.

Poor poor Greenskin, he finally felt safe and the Dark Eldar returned. I'm still contemplating how to make him react when he finds out.

Aries may have started Equestria's next big military development, but it's a long way off before the prototypes are ready for testing, so don't expect an armed Equestrian Defense Force taking on the Drukhari.

King Dainn: easily the most hated OC of the Brony community. I have never read the original Fall of Equestria, but I have read numerous Crossovers and self inserts that involve tearing the Caribou apart, including one particularly funny One-shot starring the TTS version of an Eversor Assassin.

The names Caprio and Cervis come from Capreolinae and Cervidae. Which are two groups of Deer. (basically the difference between Canines and Lupines)

And yes, the Minotaur spy I mentioned is Iron Will. Rather or not if a reveal of his past will happen in the story remains to be seen. (Featuring all these characters is hard)

And now for our antagonists...I am not a Dark Eldar player, and I know next to nothing about them.

Luckily, I downloaded Battlescribe after purchasing my first Ork models to make something of a shopping list for my infant Army, and used that to get some idea of how this invasion looks(I chose a Succubus for a warlord because it's the only one I knew anything about.)

On another topic. I might be walking away from this site for awhile soon.(I will try to finish this Volume first) And it's not because of the quarantine or anything like that...I have stated on my bio on FanFiction.Net(I really need to copy/paste that onto this site) that I am using fanfics to practice my writing abilities in preparation of trying my hand at original stories...and I think I'm ready to take a shot at it.

I've got an idea for a fantasy story, an idea for a sci-fi story...and two ideas for stories that I would love to see as manga and/or anime.

Well, that's all I got. If you haven't seen it yet, here's a video of my first models.

Other than that, thank you, enjoy, and stay safe in our crazy maddening world.