Harmony and Heavy Metal

The darkness that shrouded the small throne room was blinding in this horrid and decrepit palace of old broken dreams and newly found hope. Chrysalis sat on her throne, enjoying the steady flow of love that her soldiers took from some new pony slaves they would take from random cities. She remembered the first moment of the now steady stream of love, she enjoyed every minute of it. Her thoughts always revolved around the dream that she could pull love straight from the three princesses that resided in the castle she invaded only a few years ago. She relished this thought, the love they would have from looking on as her subjects were made into nothing more than containers of food would have the sweet ting of sadness that made the love taste just a bit sweeter.

"My queen" A random changeling called from the hall that lead to the throne room. Chrysalis snapped from her trance with a gruff sigh.

"What is it my loyal subject." The changeling that entered the throne room kept the guise of one of the royal guard. Chrysalis stared daggers at him "How dare you enter my throne room in such a horrid guise, reveal your true self you pitiful worm!"

The changeling quickly complied, a green flame surrounding him, revealing his hard and black exterior shell "My queen, I come baring warning. Celestia has summoned some sort of creature to assist her in the war we have been fighting."

Chrysalis simply gave a hollow chuckle "It does not phase me in any sort of way, why it actually could make things minorly interesting if I do say so myself." Chrysalis said as she placed a hoof on her chest.

"No my queen, this could mean lose of war if we do not prepare accordingly!"

"How so? You have yet to inform me of the creatures origin or species. How am I supposed to make an assumption of danger from the lack of evidence you have shown me?"

"Well my queen, from what we have gathered, he seems to be of a mythological origin."

Chrysalis raised an eyebrow "Do tell? By what do you mean mythological origin?"

"Well my queen, have you ever read a story based on a 'human'?"

Chrysalis sat there, confused by what she just heard for a matter of moments "Did you say 'human'. I dare say, if this is some sort of trick, I will have you executed on the spot." Several soldiers that sat in the same room suddenly approached the now shaking changeling.

"No my queen. I assure you that there is no trickery involved in this bit of information, I saw the creature with my own eyes."

Chrysalis looked at the changeling coldly. Suddenly, a flash of green energy surged from her horn, leaving the changeling to cower in fear of her might. As the flash withered away into the darkness, Chrysalis suddenly got a look of shock as her pupils increased in size.

"He knows what he speaks of, he does not fret." Chrysalis said without emotion "Quickly! Have all the men at the castle gain more information on this 'Riggs' that resides in Canterlot Castle. Quickly! We have no time to spare."

The changeling that had entered the throne room only moments ago quickly ran out to warn the others of any impending danger that could suddenly fall upon them. Several of her men suddenly stood at attention, awaiting any orders that their queen could issue them at any moment. "What are our orders my queen?"

"I want you and your men to find me as much information on humans in general. Any weakness, strength, and or otherwise is to be reported to me." All the soldiers nodded in agreement. "And, send some more men to Canterlot Castle, we cannot risk any information of our new threat to fall from our grasp." The group nodded again "Now then, you are all dismissed." The soldiers dispersed at a quick, flying and galloping to their respective positions.

The only one that stayed in the room was Chrysalis. She sat there, no longer able to enjoy the flow of love that she gorged herself in only moments ago. She could not help but think of what sort of threat this human could posses for her cause. She sat there, shrouded in thoughts of her sudden demise. She quickly shook her head, she knew that sudden defeat was not assured, and her worries would only slow her down.

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"That makes no sense! Why would we just send all of our men to The Hive at the very beginning?" Shining Armor said as he faced hoofed.

"Easy, my guys could completely destroy this Hive place while your guys kill off the... whatever the hell their called." Eddie said with a shrug.

Shining Armor and Eddie had been at it for nearly an hour now, Shining Armor tried to give Eddie the most skillfully planned strategies that he could think of, while Eddie only though of just going up to and destroying the main base of the changelings as soon as possible. Shining had though that Eddie would be able to comprehend the strategies being the best commander in the universe, but Eddie was more confused than a Justin Bieber fan in a Black Sabbath concert. Eddie had never come up with some significant plans during his time as a commander of war, he would only go by the instinct of the roadie.

"I can't risk my soldiers lives like that! These people have families you know!" Shining yelled at Eddie.

"If you trained them well enough, then this wouldn't be a problem." Eddie then gave Shining a challenging look.

Shining raised his lips to bare his teeth, he had heard enough "I will have you know that my men are the best in Equestria..."

"That's why the Hive is outside Equestria. Sorry Shining, but your men still need to work better at what their good at."

Shining slammed his hoofs on the table that separated them, he left a small smug on the south end of the map that sat on the table "I'm sure if I could take you in a duel that my men could defeat your men in an instant."

Eddie suddenly got a wild smile "Is that a challenge I hear Shiny?"

Shining then grabbed his sword from the corner of the room "You can say that."

Eddie then pulled his axe from his back "Good, this place is too peaceful, no fun at all."

Suddenly their metal clashed over the table top. Both looked at each other with malice, the entire time they discussed the plans for war, they would always disagree on every strategy and bicker on what sort of soldier would be sent. In short, they suddenly grew hatred for each other, slowly but surely the tension in the room was building with each lash at each other for the hour that they resided in that room.

Luckily, Celestia sat close to the doorway, to overlook the polar opposites argue and watch as they were near a situation like this. As soon as their blades made contact, she knew she had to intervene. "Enough!" Celestia called from the doorway.

Both men looked at Celestia, they both now pointed at each other as they said "He started it!" in unison.

Celestia face hoofed, she did not know Eddie all that well, so his behavior was still a mystery to her, but to see the captain of the royal guard acting like a small colt was embarrassing for her and the soldiers that sat nearby. "Would the two of you stop bickering like school foals and actually come up with a sort of plan."

"I already have a plan, but Shiny over here won't agree with anything."

"Yeah, but your plan will cause more casualties than necessary."

"You haven't even tried my type of plan yet, how could you be sure?"

"I am very sure, I just know it okay!"

"Enough! Would both of you just try to come to some sort of compromise already? I have some guests coming over to meet you Eddie. They will be going with you on your trip to your homeland."

Both the expressions of Eddie and Shining went from the same to completely differing. Eddie was confused while Shining already knew who would be coming. "Wait, wait, wait, what do you mean that they will be coming with me?"

"The few that will come will be a sort of magical bridge to your world, to make your trip here less straining on my magic. And my student Twilight Sparkle would like to take notes of your world, she really likes to visit new places."

Eddie thought it over for a few seconds "Sure, why not. But i'm not responsible for any trauma that they experience."

"What sort of thing would Twily see that would cause trauma?" Shining asked in surprise.

"Well, besides the endless gory war... nothing really." Eddie said with a shrug.

"That's terrible! Why would you put my sister through that!"

"It's not like I want too."

"Then why do it?!"

"It just sort of happens when we get attacked alright."

"Both of you please, enough bickering." Celestia said, now doubting it would work between the two "The last thing we need is for both of my top ranking soldiers to keep arguing like this."

Shining looked at Celestia with an enraged expression "How could he rise in the ranks so easily?"

"I summoned him personally, so that makes him just as capable as you Shining Armor." Shining Armor looked at Eddie, who now smiled at him with a face that screamed 'Ha, jokes on you, I already win.'.

"Fine then, only if you promise to protect her, understood." Shining said to Eddie.

"Wait, you said few right? How many exactly."

"Six, only my student and her friends."

"Alright, is their some sort of stuff I should pack for them?"

"No, they will bring their own supplies for the trip so you are not to worry."

"Right, now what are we going to do about our strategic differences." Shining said with a hoof on his chin.

Suddenly, a light bulb went off in Eddies head "Wait! Why don't you just take care of your guys and I will take care of mine."

"What are you getting at?"

"I tell my guys what to do, and we stay out of each others way. That sound alright?"

Shining Armor thought it over for a minute "I guess that could work, but what if we are in the same battlefield?"

"Easy, you take care of any strategic junk, and I will do what I do best" Eddie puffed his chest and slammed his fist onto it "Rock.".

"Alright, good for both for you. Now why don't you two come with me to the dining room, it looks like you two need a nice spot of tea." Celestia said with a smile.

"Wait, do you have any beer?" Eddie asked as the three walked down the hall toward the dining room.

Little did they know that one very suspicious guard came from the barracks, holding the map with every strategy that Shining Armor had thought of that day in his mouth. Every other guard seemed to ignore him, as if he was truly one of them.

...

"What sort of food does he eat? How tall will he be? What sort of life does he live where he comes from?"

"Will he want to party?!" Pinkie interrupted Twilight's random stream of questions.

They had been on the carriage to Canterlot Castle for an hour now, blissfully unaware about the bickering that happened between the two people that they could not wait to meet. " Pinkie please, let me list some questions for him. I know that it sounds like I might break him with too many questions, but I need to know these key things at best!"

"Like what material his bed is made from?" Rainbow Dash said sarcastically with a chuckle.

"Or the animals that live on his planet, oh how I can't wait to meet some now fuzzy friends."

"Or what sort of fashion they wear."

"Or... what sort of question should ah ask him?" Applejack asked with a hoof on her chin.

"You can look at my list if you want. I got a total of two hundred questions that you can ask him." Twilight said as she presented the list to Applejack.

"Two hundred? Twi, don't you think that this here alien could get mad with all these random questions like 'What sort of government does your world have?'. I can't even think of a reason to ask that." Applejack said with an eyebrow raised.

"Of course it's necessary. If we are to visit his planet, then we need to know how his planet works."

"Come on Twilight, cut the guy some slack. We don't even know him and you expect him to answer all your questions." Rainbow said as she took the list from Applejack.

"I don't expect him too, but I don't think he would be so inconsiderate as to not answer any of them."

"We don't even know this thing yet Twi! Why do you keep making assumptions about it!" Applejack said loudly, trying to knock some sense into the over exited mare.

"I'm just really exited about it you know. I have never meet a human before."

"Neither have we, but you don't see us making all sorts of lists and junk." Rainbow said with her hoofs in the air.

"Are you really surprised that she would do that Rainbow?" Applejack said as all of them except Twilight burst out laughing.

"Ha ha, very funny. But who will be laughing when you all don't get the information you desire." Twilight snapped at all her friends.

"Come on Twi, were just poking fun at you." Applejack said in an attempt to stifle her laughter.

"Yeah Twilight, don't take it too seriously dear. The last thing we need is for you to be all grumpy when we meet this creature." Rarity said in a reassuring tone.

"Yes Twilight, we're sorry." Fluttershy said as she looked away from Twilight.

"Oh you girls, I couldn't stay mad at you all." Twilight said with a new smile. They all pulled into their usual group hug,, dissipating any harsh feelings in the air.

"Excuse me, but we have arrived to our location." One of the pegasi called from the front of the carriage. All the mares that sat in the carriage all stood at attention, waiting for the usual feeling of sudden gravity to hit the bottom of the carriage. Already, they could hear a distant music playing from the inner working of the castle.

"What could be going on?" Twilight asked as she walked out of the carriage.

"Not sure, but that song sounds awesome!" Rainbow then started to bob her head while she listened to the music.

Suddenly, a loud thundering sound rang from the castle, startling the six. They looked down the entrance hall, wondering what could gave made such a noise, but the other thing they could not comprehend is, why did the guards seem to not care. They had no time to consider what sort of thing could be going on, they only knew to follow the source of the energizing music.

"What is that noise, it sounds horribly dreadful." Rarity scoffed as they passed the throne room.

"What are you taking about? This sounds awesome!" Rainbow said as she started to fly even faster.

"There is no time for that! We need to see what is happening in the castle!" Twilight yelled over the now deafening music as they turned the corner.

"What is that?!" The six yelled at the scene before them. All they saw was Shining Armor and Celestia slowly bobbing their heads to the music, and close by was a large metal machine with a very tall bipedal creature standing at the top of it also bobbing his head while he held an axe in the air.

Celestia slowly turned to see the source of the yell to see her protegee and her friends, Eddie saw that Celestia had turned and turned himself, only to see what he could describe as a 'fuck ton of colors'.

Eddie went to turn off the music "Are these the guests we we're waiting for?" Celestia slowly nodded. Eddie then jumped off Deuce and landed right next to the group "Hey, i'm Eddie".

The six looked at him with surprise they did not expect this creature to be like this. And who knows why this happened, but little did Eddie know that a ponies jaw is very powerful.

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