The three villains stared at Discord with empty eyes. Trying to come to terms with the horror they had heard of...and finding it impossible.

"Yeah, nice try Discord. I might've believed you if these Dark Eldar weren't so...childishly grim." Cozy Glow rolled her eyes, causing Tirek to nod in agreement and Chrysalis to tighten her magic hold on Discord.

"Ghhk! Hitz...hitz the truth! Khhgh!" Discord forced out of his pinched throat as he dangled in the air.

"Oh, so we're just going let you go warn Twilight and her friends of this imminent threat and wait here...for them to capture us." Chrysalis remarked while tightening her grip even more.

"No...we'll...need your hel-akk!" Discord croaked out.

"Help you? No. However, if we ruled Equestria and these Dark Eldar were attacking our kingdom, that's a different story." Chrysalis smiled at the Draconequus as she spoke her terms to the laughter of the other two villains.

"...Deal." The villains stopped laughing as they processed what Discord just said.

"Uh, did he just say 'deal'?" Asked Cozy Glow.

"The Dark Eldar target leadership first, in order to leave the populace vulnerable so they can pursue them at their leisure. So you have a deal, I'll convince the princesses to step down and let you rule Equestria, and if we survive you can keep it." Discord said.

Chrysalis fixed him with a deadpan stare. "And what if our first orders are to have you and your precious pony friends imprisoned?"

"...An execution would be better." Discord replied with a clear honest tone. There was no sarcasm, no mockery, he had meant it.

"...yo...you're serious, aren't you. They....they're real." Chrysalis couldn't keep the fear out of her voice as she replayed what Discord had told her of the Drukhari in her head.

She thought of the Dark City, of the various horrors that awaited her if she was taken alive.

She could survive in the Arenas, her ego refused to believe otherwise, but how many fights could she win before the enemy poisoned her food just enough to let her next opponent humiliate her for the crowd.

That was the best fate she could think of, the worst...was the Flesh Cults. The very thought of enduring such horror, being stripped of everything that made her who she was and serving the monsters responsible...it was like Friendship with more agony.

Discord had fallen from Chrysalis' grasp while she was in thought, yet he had made no move to escape, waiting to their answer. "...As if I'm going to protect Celestia from alien assassins when I can just take the throne after she and the others are gone."

Discord breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you."

"Tch, shut up. Now go tell Twilight and the others what's coming." Chrysalis ordered with a wave of her hoof.

Discord slithered out of sight, leaving the villains to their own devices. "So, what now?" Cozy Glow asked the group.

"Well, as convincing as Discord was, there is still the chance that he will inform the ponies of our location so that they can take care of us after the main threat has been dealt with." Chrysalis stated.

"In other words, we should start looking for a new hideout." Tirek stated.

"Ooh! I have an idea!" Cozy Glow shouted. "Why look for a new hideout, when we can steal one from somepony else?"

Zecora's Home

The Zebra Witch-Docter was stirred from taking stock of her potion ingredients by a most pungent oder. She determined that the stench was coming from outside just as there was a knock on her door.

Opening the door revealed Fluttershy...along with a strange ape-like creature that she identified as the source of the stench.

The creature was dressed head to toe in spiked pleather, beginning with a bandanna and ending with studded pleather boots. It held a Griffon battle ax in one hand, and it's face was covered in deep scars that didn't quite look like they had been earned in a fight.

Fluttershy cleared her throat. "Ahem, Zecora, this is my new friend Greenskin, I was hoping you might be able to help him with something."

Zecora could guess what she wanted help with. "Meeting new friends is always swell, though we can't say the same for meeting their smell."

Fluttershy gasped and blushed. "Oh, sorry about that. I have tried bathing him before, but it doesn't seem to work."

"No need to worry my friend, I'll brew a potion that will put his stench to an end." Zecora smiled as she turned to begin her work.

"Oh, thank you but...that's not what we needed help with." Fluttershy said.

Zecora was about to question her when the ape-like creature spoke up. "See, I had dis freeky dreem where da Spirit ov Armonee said dat free ov Ekwayztreeya'z old enemiez waz comin' back for annuver go. And I decided dat I was gonna krump'em good, but I didn't know dat dey waz Wierdboyz, but den Fluddashoy told me dat you'ze could make it where der Wierd Stuff wouldn't work on me, see?"

Zecora stared at the creature before looking to Fluttershy for some form of translation. "Do you have something that could protect Greenskin against magic?"

Zecora beamed. "Oh my friend, why didn't just you say so? I've had a charm for that since ages ago."

Fluttershy watched as the Zebra rummaged through her belongings for a moment before presenting her a tiki necklace. "This charm is called the Amulet of Might, it protects the wearer from magic in a fight. I entrust it to you: a champion of what's right."

Fluttershy took the Amulet. It glowed a fiery orange in her hooves, and she could feel a great warmth emanating from it.

"Here Greenskin. This'll protect you from magical attacks." Fluttershy said as she handed the Amulet to the Ork.

Greenskin donned the Amulet, and briefly glowed the same fiery orange as it's power enveloped him. "Woah, dat was ded'ard."

"Thank you so much Zecora. I don't know which of our old enemies are supposed to be coming back, but I do know that even Sweetie Belle could lift Greenskin off his feet with her magic. I was really worried he would get himself hurt...or worse." Fluttershy shivered at her own implication.

"There is no need to worry Fluttershy. With the power of the Amulet, your friend is unlikely to die. And now that I've ensured he will survive, perhaps I can remove his stench while my plants are still alive." Zecora all but pleaded.

Outside Zecora's house

"And you're sure we can get away with this?" Tirek spoke in a tone of voice that was certain of the opposite.

"Relax. Zecora is so far from Ponyville that nopony will even notice, so long as we keep her from getting away." Cozy Glow confirmed.

"And what if she happens to have visitors?" Chrysalis asked.

"Then we either wait for them to leave or we grab them too. If you're talking about after we move in, you can just impersonate Zecora and tell them to get lost." Cozy Glow explained.

"I. Am not. Rhyming." The Changeling stated as a fact.

The villains ended their bickering and dove into cover when the door to the Zebra's hut opened to reveal Fluttershy...and something else.

"What in Equestria is that?" Cozy Glow half whispered half shouted.

"Well, don't ask me. I've never seen a creature like that in all my life." Tirek stated.

"Be quiet. I think it hears us." Chrysalis hissed through her teeth.

The creature had turned into their direction, squinting hard at the foliage that concealed them. "Greenskin? Is something the matter?

The beast ignored Fluttershy and started to walk towards the concealed villains, holding a Griffon battle ax like a hatchet over his head to swing at anything that came at him.

Fluttershy watched him move closer and closer to the nearest bush, his ax raising a little higher with each step.

When he closed the distance, the Ork lunged forward and ripped the bush from the ground...revealing a small rabbit.

The rabbit wiggled it's nose as it looked the Ork in the eye, looking as cute and innocent as can be.

Fluttershy walked up to Greenskin and placed a calming hoof on him. "It's just a bunny Greenskin, it's not going to hurt you."

The Ork wasn't fooled. "You'ze look loike a bunny...you'ze actin' loik a bunny...but you'ze smellz loike a buggy nid."

With that, Greenskin brought his ax down. Fluttershy dove for the endangered rabbit before she even realized what was happening...only to find herself held hostage by Chrysalis.

The Changeling Queen revealed herself and tried to counter the Ork's attack, only for Fluttershy to knock her to the side...allowing Chrysalis to hold her in her magic as she righted herself and stared down her new foe.

"There are not many who're capable of seeing through my disguises at a glance. I'm impressed." Chrysalis spoke with a smug grin.

"I'm guessin' dat yer one ov Ekwayztreeya'z old enemiez roight? I waz expektin free ov ya'ze." The Ork replied.

Chrysalis considered that Discord had betrayed them, but decided that if such were the case, then they wouldn't have sent Fluttershy alone. "Well, you're right about that."

Taking their cue, Cozy Glow and Tirek stepped out of hiding with the latter trying to absorb Greenskin's energy. Instead he just barely ducked in time to lose the tip of his left horn to the Ork's ax.

The two surprised villains scrambled to get at Chrysalis' side with Greenskin hot on their heels...only to stop short when the Changeling Queen dangled Fluttershy in front of him.

"Careful. You wouldn't want anything to happen to your precious friend, would you?" Chrysalis sneered.

The Ork sneered back. "You'ze fink I'm dat stoopid? Da minute I stop fightin' You'll just zogg'er anyway. Noice try 'orsefly, but I'm smarta dan dat by a lot an' sum morr."

The two other villains were stumped. They hadn't thought about killing the hostage anyway...but Chrysalis was focused on something else.

"...What did you just call me?" The Changeling hissed as a dark aura emanated from her.

This brought a smirk to the Ork's face. "Wut'z a matta? Ard ov hearin'...'orsefly?"

"...Hold this." Chrysalis snarled as she threw Fluttershy into Tirek with enough force to draw a grunt from the Centaur before he held the Pegasus and drained her essence.

While Greenskin did twitch at the sight, he had expected her to be dead by now, so he kept his smile. "Ha! Now you'ze finkin' like an Ork. Ere we go."

The Changeling and the Ork Boy threw themselves at each other with primal battle cries. GRAAAGH!! WAAAGH!!!

The two Warmongers struck hard, Chrysalis' magic infused horn clashing with Greenskin's ax. Chrysalis was stunned that the ordinary metal ax could parry her magical attack, and Greenskin was equally shocked to see what he could only believe was Waaagh! Energy empowering the Changeling's attack.

Of course, neither combatant revealed their shock to the other. Instead, they gritted their teeth and dug in. The clash was a stalemate...until Greenskin drew back his offhand and threw a Toof Tayka into the Changeling's mouth.

Chrysalis was sent sprawling across the grassy ground they fought upon. The Ork didn't wait for her to recover and charged straight towards her.

"Uh, should we help her?" Cozy Glow asked Tirek.

"Do you want to?" The Centaur replied.

The Ork closed in and swung to take the Changeling's head. Chrysalis took flight, losing strands of her main, and returned to earth in the form of a Manticore.

Roaring in fury, Chrysalis swiped a pawful of claws at her greenskinned foe. But the Ork swung his ax to parry the blow, chopping off two and a half toes.

Chrysalis roared in pain and thrusted her stinger at Greenskin, who threw up his offhand in defense.

The stinger pierced through the Ork's hand, injecting the venom over Greenskin's shoulder. The Ork barely registered it for his high pain tolerance, and responded by crushing the stinger in his palm.

Chrysalis gave a sharp yelp, as this translated to the Ork ripping out some of her tail-hairs, and lunged at the beastly alien to try and crush him under her superior weight.

Greenskin saw the telltale tensing of the Manticore's muscles and gave his own lunge. Landing under Chrysalis' backside while most of her weight was shifted to the front, allowing him to wriggle out from under her and, to the exiled Queen's unfiltered fury, climb onto her back.

Chrysalis bucked and flailed, trying everything she could think of to dislodge the Ork, but Greenskin had dug the thick pointed nails of his offhand into her hide and bitten into her. He wasn't letting go without a fight.

Chrysalis thought of changing back to her true form to loosen his grip, but that would leave her much smaller body in reach of his battle ax that could easily chop through her carapace. The only choice was to go bigger.

A flash of green fire found Greenskin trying to sink his teeth and nails into the scaly hide of a greed grown Dragon.

The Dragon's long neck reached over it's back to claim Greenskin, but the Ork swung it's ax into the open maw and slashed across the upper gum line.

Chrysalis roared in pain and brought a talon up to her stinging mouth. While she was distracted, Greenskin made his move.

The Ork climbed up the Dragon's back as fast as he could. He had been hoping to reach the base of it's neck, but Chrysalis recovered faster than that and channeled magic to mimic a Dragon's fire breath.

With no time to reach her neck, and little time to evade or counterattack, Greenskin leapt off the Dragon's back...and onto her left wing.

Greenskin landed on the dormant leathery appendage with a downward chop of his ax right into one of the finger-like wing bones.

Chrysalis roared in pain once more and flaired her wings, sending Greenskin flying. The Changeling quickly changed back to survey the damage to her wing, finding a long narrow gash.

A quick test flight had Chrysalis breathing a sigh of relief however, as it was no more damaging than the other holes in her wings.

Her relief turned to anger as the Ork's bellowing battle cry announced his return. Chrysalis was about to shapeshift once more...when a potion crashed over her head.

A similar potion struck Tirek, causing him to drop Fluttershy, who was herself struck by a potion that restored her life force.

A quick glance behind Tirek revealed Zecora, an additional potion being lightly tossed and caught in one of her hooves.

Chrysalis tried to transform, but found that she couldn't. She barely had enough time to register Tirek suffering a similar failure for his magic before Greenskin was upon her again.

With little means to fight back, Chrysalis took flight to avoid the battle ax swinging to and fro in an effort to chop her head off. Tirek and Cozy Glow were already running for it. And with little hope of winning the fight, Chrysalis flew after them.

The Ork gave chase for a few feet before realizing that the Changeling was too fast for him. "DAT'Z RIGHT 'ORSEFLY! YOU'ZE BETTA RUN!! YOUR EAD IZ MOINE!!!"

With his point made, Greenskin turned to Fluttershy, who was already rushing towards him in a tackling hug. "Oh thank goodness you're all right!! You're not hurt, are you?"

Greenskin patted the top of Fluttershy's head. "Nah. Dem Drukhari gitz numbed me ta pain a long toime ago...hmm, I wonda if I can put a spiky bit in ere."

Fluttershy realized he was talking about the gaping hole in his hand...and promptly turned as green as the Ork in question.

"I am glad that all is well, but the appearance of these villains is less than swell." Zecora states, bringing Fluttershy back to the present.

"Oh my! Zecora's right. We have to warn Twilight and the others immediately! Come on Greenskin." And with that Fluttershy gallops off, with Greenskin lumbering behind with a joyful skip in his step. After some mental debating, he decided that Chrysalis' skull would look the best if it were mounted to the bottom of his choppa.

Author's Note

And there it is ladies and gentlemen. A new chapter is born.

In case anyone's forgotten, the fact that Greenskin was, for lack of a better term, 'raised' by the Dark Eldar makes this his first fight that wasn't rigged to embarrass him.

And now that he's finally feeling like an Ork...the bomb's gonna drop. The next chapter is Discord alerting Equestria to the immanent arrival of the Dark Eldar, followed by another OC race being butchered by Drukhari blades.

In unrelated news, my plastic Waaagh! is growing. I've placed an order for Warboss Grukk and his Nobz, and I'm expecting them tomorrow. I'll also be getting an Ork Codex by the last week of July/first week of August.

Now, about this chapter: I apologize to any Zecora fans who felt I didn't capture her essence, but it was my very first time writing rhymes.

If I include her homeland of Zebrica( which I probably will) I'm going to make rhyming a Witch-Doctor only thing.

That bit about the villains never having thought about killing the hostage anyway is me poking fun at that scene in the finale where they threaten to rip Spike's wings off unless Twilight surrenders...and then keep their word. (I know they did it for the age rating, but still)

If anyone's curious about the Toof Tayka, it's always been my headcanon that the only martial arts known to Orks is a punch designed by a Bad Moons Warboss to harvest teeth without breaking them.

That's...all I've got for this one. I'll see you all next time.