Introduction

It's only been a few days since it happened at ponyville and the battle with Discord before being set to stone, the coming of mankind, and even the promotion to captain and to rise as a planetary defense leader in charge of watching over the planet with various awards and honors only for them to be instantly taken away due to a particular problem, a penal sentence.

Yup, all his honors, and awards were gone the moment they gave them to him because of his shackles, boom collar, and the iron branding on his neck. Many would ask who he is, yet many only know him by one title he was given and regret every second of it. This man mortal man from the broken world of Cadia Prime was none other than penal Captain Thorn "Mad Dog" Grey, son of Cadia prime and Hero of Equestria.

That would mean something to him as he rested on his bed, fully awakened with his eye red from a lack of sleep. He spent awake all night remembering that day and also the fact at a couple of things, he was alone, left in a hole he dug in the ground with his trench shovel, well by a hole for a Cadians to call it was actually a small trench emplacement, with s dug out bunker, wooden and dirt walls, and a ceiling made of dirt, dried mud, logs, and leaves.

A little underground outpost where many ponies of Equestria come to see the "famous hero of Equestria's home" only see a dirt hole. For him, it was home, spending most of his twenty years in and soon twenty-one. He rested in a rat hole with his sleeping bag, tried and looking so tired he could be mistaken for a zombie if it were t for his bionic limbs and, worse, a new tank and titles to add to his name. The one Sergeant Major Kasrkin Grey was no more, and now replacing it was Captain Thorn "Mad Dog" Grey, "Hero of Equestria," Planetary Defense lord of Lord, and finally, the worse of them all, the first Penal Captain.

Just thinking about that made the urge to stick some steel between his teeth, have the barrel kiss the roof of his mouth, and pull the trigger, yet sadly even if he wanted to, he couldn't, not anymore, as of currently the day making it worse is the screams of a female Xeno pony. Grey knew too well knocking on his "trench door," which was only a rag nailed in a door frame as he could see pink hoofs from under it and her constant wood knocking before her screaming.

"Grey! Grey! Grey! Wake up Grey!" The voice said as he only turned away from the door and covered his head with his blanket.

"Pinkie, for the last time go away please; as much as I would "love" to party, leave me alone to sleep." He said in a groggy tone, thinking he could pass off Pinkie to go away.

"Oh come on Grey! Don't you know what day it is?" She asked as if expecting him to know, as he took a moment and thought on that good questions and gazed at his equestrian calendar hanging off a wall.

"Uh, it says "Monday." He said, taking another second thought before his burnt eye snapped open in shock. "Shit! It's Cadia's Day of remembrance. Emperor forgive me and my absent mind!" He says, rolling out of his rat hole and dawns on his Captain's uniform, quickly putting on his pants and shirt.

"Wait what "day of remembrance," What does that mean?" Pinks asked, peeking under the rage door to see Grey's scared back as he put on his dress shirt, buttoning it up and rolling both his sleeves and pants legs to expose his bionics.

"It's to remember the days of…old Cadia, my home world before it was destroyed by chaos." He said, a bit guilty and ashamed as he also remembered another part to this day. "A truly terrible day to be celebrating my becoming of age, the Emperor must really be ashamed of me to have those days be on the same."

Pinkie squinted her eyes at what he meant by "Becoming of Age" for a moment before she gasped and smiled, zooming into Grey's small trench bunker and hugging Grey tightly with all four of her hooves around him, knocking him to the dirt ground.

"Oh my gosh! oh my gosh! oh my gosh! Oh gosh! Oh my gosh! It's your birthday on nightmare night! A nightmare night birthday!" She screams as Grey looks at her, confused in all measures seeing her dressed as a chicken. Out of all the xeno worlds in the whole universe, to be stuck in this one with this pony that spends its entire life making parties, Grey could only look horrified and shamefully at the chicken pink pony.

'Emperor of man sitting far from this world on your holy golden throne... please kill me!'

In ponyville, Grey is fully dressed in his captain's uniform with an upside-down silver star on his left shoulder pad, and pon his right was his Penal emblem reading 'X.X.th Cadian Giggle Dogz' and chest plate. He marks two Xs to signify his penance over his khaki trench coat and officer's cap. Walking with pinkie Pie through ponyville as she still held on to him like a ripper on guardsmen, every pony stares at Grey as if he was a hero. He hated the attention, gawking eyes, and even some going up to him to ask for autographs, pictures, or even talking to him. He hated xenos to the core, yet as their planetary leader, he had to watch over all of them in this world no matter how much he wanted to slaughter everyone in the fire.

"I can't believe you have a holiday birthday; oh I got to get cupcakes; invite everyone here in ponyville. Definitely the princesses, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Twilight, Spike, Fluttershy, Lyra and-" She was cut off by Grey using his metal finger and thumb to hold pinkies muzzle closed, seeing he stopped in the middle of ponyville as everyone heard what she said and all started to stare at him.

"Pinkie, listen... I like that you put that much thought into it, but don't celebrate my becoming of age, for the emperor's holy sake, please don't." He asked her quietly as she gave him a concerned, questioning look.

“Mmm hmph?” She muffled out.
(why not?)

"Because I don't want it to be celebrated... Especially since my home is gone, and so is everyone in my life, friends, comrades... Family." He pauses for a moment before shaking his bead. "But that's beside the point. I "apologize" that I don't want to celebrate it, besides what's with all the decorations, costumes, and this holiday you keep blabbering on about?"

He lets go of pinkies muzzle as she smiles but speaks in a calmer cheerful tone as she lets go kg him and looms up and around. "It's one of Ponyville's holiday festivals, Nightmare Night, we're ponies dressed up in costumes, set up spooky decorations, and best of all, go all fillies and foals all over ponyville to get free candy! Free Candy Grey!"

"Don't you seem a bit 'old' to go out for what seems like a children's activity?" He said, scratching his head, making Pinkie gasp, shocked.

"Too old for free candy!" She mimics the sound of a chicken block before climbing on Grey again, getting up to his face. "Never!"

He can only sigh, shaking his head, seeing Pinkie rush off like a chicken leaving Grey alone. 'Welp, guess I'll be around might hit that bar I think I saw around here, or if not, explore till this festival starts.' He said in his thoughts as he walked around, seeing ponies, fillies, and colts dressed in costumes, some mimicking him and his "military uniform and cardboard cutouts of his eye and metal limbs.

Some other pony's in various outfits that practically look like a near identical to the imperium's past businesses, from old ninjas, clowns, demons, a warrior of Fenris, bees, and many more. For xenos in silly little outfits, it was adoring and admiring. It reminded him of hive world children taking boxes and colors to make armor or weapons of warriors they heard in stories, bringing warmth in his heart though faint. Perhaps he should enjoy this world's culture and document it later in his planetary report one day.

He smiled only to feel a kick to the back, knocking him down, and smiled, finally going to get into a fight to flip around, and that smile for combat turned to a face of horror at the sight of two ponies he wished he would kill. "Oh my goodness are you alright, Grey?"

At that moment, Grey, though never seen fear and doubt, now has developed a second fear in his life as a guardsman, fear of the green metal monsters known as necrons and fear of one of the two most deviant ponies he's ever met, Fluttershy. "You had such a terrible fall; I should see to your wounds right away... At my house."

She muttered her last words as Grey lay fast on the dirt with a frown of disgust and anger. 'Out of all the bullshit the author could come up with it had to be this shit from other human-in-equestria karken stories nobody reads.'

Grey said in his mind as he pushed himself up to his feet with the forced help from Fluttershy, which was rubbing her body against his, getting a chance to feel his body's physic and sniff his scent as he stood up. "Now let's get you patched up before something bad was too," Fluttershy says. She wore a 'questionable' get-up of purple ribbons wrapped around her body in a sort of birthday-style gift she was with even a tag that covered over her plot reading "Happy birthday, Grey, enjoy the cake."

Fluttershy looked back at where Grey was once standing but saw nothing, looking around to no signs of a human, then pouts at his escape. "One day Grey, one day, you'll be mine."

•

After running for what felt like hours, Grey hid himself within the Golden Oaks Library, where he saw Twilight stitching golden belles and fabrics together with a beard, making a costume as Spike was dressed in a dragon costume.

"Spike, you got to help me from Fluttershy and... Why is Twilight dressing like some old officers cuck?"

"An officers what?" Spike asked cocking his head, confused at what "cuck" meant, and Twilight gave Grey an annoyed look of disappointment.

"Grey, this is Star Swirled the Bearded, one of the most influential and brilliant unicorns in all of Equestria, the one that I told you about when we were answering that "inquisitor." person about even showed you in the equestrian history books, how could've you forgotten about that?" Twilight said as Grey scratched his metal jaw.

"Oh Yeah, that wizard guy... I ripped some of the pages out to snack on or use as toilet paper when you weren't looking." He said with a snap of his bionic hand, with Twilight's eye-widening and looking at him with anger.

"You did what with them!?" she screamed as Grey shrugged and smirked at her. "It didn't have any pictures and had too many words for me to care for, so it was only fair that I either took some of the pages or used them to wipe my ass; my Imperial handbook couldn't take much more of it."

He said with Twilight placing her hoof over her face and sighing. "To think you've been put in charge of protecting our world is beyond amazing and horrifying that you couldn't even read a book." She said, using her magic to hand Grey roles of fabrics and bells in his hands as he held on to them.

"To be fair, I can read, but I don't like it, so choose to forget how to and what are these for?" He asked, looking down at the roles of different shades of blue fabrics and bells he held as Twilight used a needle and thread to make her costume.

"For the price of Equestria's history and the Tale of Starswirled the bearded, you will help me finish my costume of him that matches his cloak and hat till it is perfect; once done, you're joining Spike and Me at the nightmare festival." She used to hold scissors and measure tape as she took a fabric role and measured a large piece to cut.

"I am and will not stand here to miss a Cadian Holiday, and part takes in your heretical xeno holiday Twilight, especially with Pinkie or the other two weirdos lurking around this hell hole." Grey said, dropping all his hands and heading for the door before Twilight stopped him in her magic.

"Wouldnt be a shame if Celestia or the Inquisitor hears about the Planetary Defense Captain not being able to help one of the Elements of harmony, Equestria's only defense, out with a holiday tradition?" She said with a smirk and smug look at Grey with pure shock at her blackmail before he sighed in defeat.

"Ugh, you little gah Fine... But you're helping me with my Cadian Tradition after this shit." He said, pointing a finger before having Twilight smile and rolling her eyes as they both spent the day working on her costume.

•

After more tormenting hours of Grey helping Twilight finish the final touches of her costume and going out to the nightmare night festival seeing all fillies and colts playing about going to the door for candy, ponies partaking in "spooky" Carnival games from spider web toss, poison apple bobbing, or pumpkin launching. Grey only watched contentedly, watching ponies play and having fun, reminding him of words within the guard that was sometimes like this little to no conflicts, no knowledge of war, or under threat of warp beings, xeno invasion, or certain world-ending doom. He felt calm, with no itch for a fight and no hunger for a corpse, after eating what was known as a "caramel apple" on a stick. The sweetness mixing with the taste of fruit on his tongue was like a gift to him by the emperor himself and near perfect as a K-unit Ration meal.

Of course, Pinkie made all the feelings of contentment vanish from Grey when she announced to nearly all of Ponyville about his birthday. The entire town of ponies throwing him a party at the festival, with Grey wishing he'd killed himself and Discord during his deal with Discord. All he can do is accept this as a "test of the emperor." At least, that's what he's telling himself in his mind.

"Isn't this great Grey? Not only having a birthday party but also a nightmare night party too like having a birthday night party!" She cheered with the other ponies of ponyville, wishing Grey a Happy birthday as he faked a smile of pain, cringe, and anger with his teeth clenched tightly. Holding his smile with the only thought of it being Pinkie's nature to make everyone have fun, as he knows it's just Pinkie Pie.

Be only sighed and shook his head before Rainbow Dash, dressed in a shadow bolts costume, moved a cloud slowly over his head and hit it to strike a thunderbolt over him, scaring everypony except Grey.

"Nice one Dash, but it'll have to take more than thunderstorms to get me like that." He chuckles with Rainbow at all the ponies running away screaming and sees Spike clenching his chest with panic on his face as he laughs at him.

"Rainbow, that wasn't very nice look at what you did to... Oh, come on, you too Grey." She said, looking at both Rainbow and Grey laughing at Spikes as if he suffered a panic attack.

"Lighten up, old-timer. This is the best night of the year for pranks, besides it's all in good fun. Oh, oh! Theirs, another group over there!" She says before taking her cloud and flying away to scare another group away as Twilight looks at the laughing human standing next to the baby dragon coughing to breathe.

"That's not funny Grey. At least know that." She said, using her magic to levitate onto her back as they walked the nightmare night festival, passing stalls of toys, food, and games.

"Oh please, that brings me back to when I was in my first deployment fighting off Tyranids, and the veterans decided to scare the piss and shit out of me with a damn, hormagaunt's corpse."

Twilight only rolled her eyes as Spike slowly calmed down from his scare, and all three saw a clown. Mayor Mare took the stage as the cheering crowd quiet downs.

"Thank you everypony and welcome to the nightmare night festival." The crowd cheered again as Grey stood behind them all as. Spike and Twilight went over to the front to see the action leaving Grey to be by himself to watch for a moment before walking off.

'Ponys are a bunch of colorful weak gits that don't even know how to fight, yet this world is nice but just not Cadia.' He thought as he walked through ponyville and the edge of ponyville; he was late on Cadia's day of remembrance, walking into the everfree forest quietly, knowing exactly where to go with both of his bionic hands to his side. His walk slowly came to a cadence match for moments and soon stopped at a familiar place. Before, he was nothing but the grass ground, a small opening with a large rock and what looked like an old dugout with grass fragments growing in it. He only knelt on his left bionic knee at the site of how he came to Equestria, clasping both of his metal hands and closing his eye, and prayed for the rest of the night.

Everything he has done from the beginning, meeting Discord, Zecora, Twilight, and her friends, both Princesses. The coming of a warp storm, to the death of hundreds near thousands of lives spent on this world only to be rewritten as if nothing ever happened yet, only memory for him as he was responsible for everything. Remembering the faces of his old friends, family, and those he trusted now, only seeing the look of fear, disgust, and shame, Grey only clutched his hands tightly and his teeth together. He unclasped his hands and removed his right shoulder plate that bared his Panels emblem, "X.Xth Cadian Giggle Dogz," he read with a spiked collar around the head of a dog with a large smile on it. He remembered making the deal with discord, and the face of all six ponies of the elements of harmony snarled at him. The voice of the lady inquisitor ordering him to open fire on them, his companions, his... Friends, he dares say.

Yet even though no one remembers and all is returned to peace, he bares the memory of every xenos death, screams, and cries, hearing them in his mind. He only has a promotion to officer ranks, no rewards, new titles and stories of his “heroism,” and the eyes of admiration, love, and joy from these creatures. He hated it... He hated it, all of it, all that saw him as a hero, the inquisitor, the xeno ponies, and this world.

Ever since he made that deal now, instead of pride, he feels shame; for the honor, he only felt guilt; it reminded him of how he fell, how he fell from grace when he still had a family and a loved one when he was both son, brother, and father. His first murder, the murder of a demon he once called brother, the disownment and bastardizing of a father, now a stranger, and abandon the family name for him to carry as a burden he is.

The time he spent locked away behind bars in the church and inquisition forced to starve, endless tormenting from day after day and night after night leaving him with only pink, red, and black scars on his body. The burnt iron brand on his nape marks him as a failure to bear all his crimes and sins on his shoulders and the memories of the once-known Thorn Cain Grey.

Son to the now-dead world once called Cadia Prime, The Broken Gate of The Imperium, son to a dead mother and abandoned father, Brother to a murdered demon, husband to a sacrificed wife, father to a cannibalized unborn children. Sinner to the emperor of man, criminal of the imperium, and imperial guard. Known only to the eyes of humans as The metal Cannibal, The Officer Killer, The Burned Man, and Red Eyes.

Now to the eyes of pony xenos, that he's cursed to speak their language known as Captain Thorn "Mad Dog." Grey. Slayer of Champions, Hero of Equestria. Honored by the Forge Master of the Salamanders chapter, Imperial Knight of Bosnia, Generals of the Ultramar Auxilia, the Elysian Drop Troopers, and the Inquisition. With their praise for saving a world and its discovery, having it be under the banner of humanity and for it to be watched over by him as its xeno race being weapons against the warp, the taint of chaos, and the heretic, the mutant, the demon, and the traitor to rid and free humanity and possible end the eternal.

'Hero of Equestria.' Grey said in thought, dropping the shoulder plate to the ground and slowly sitting on his knees with his head bowed down. It as the only light for him was the light of the full moon that hung over the night sky far from the imperium territory, far from the light of the emperor and the singing light of terra's holy star.

He sat and spent the rest of the night alone, remembering his once past twenty years of his life, most of which spent on Cadia, now gaining another number on his age marking him twenty-one years he spent alive still serving his penal sentence. Even without the chained shackles, he had on his arms, now gone and replaced with bionics sacrificing his arms, legs, eyes, jaw, bones, lungs, stomach, intestines, and even most of his skin. He could still feel the weight of the shackles even though they weren't there. He didn't feel anything but the itching burns of his scars, picking, scratching, and peeling off scabs that tried to heal over and reopening them to spill his blood for those he failed, even if it drains him entirely, it's either his enemies blood or his own that would truly free him from his pain, his hate, his regret.

After hours, he let out a roared from his heart and fell to the ground on both knees and hands to wept a tearless cry for those he failed, those he let get killed, unable to save or protect them those that he made them shame him for living, those he couldn't even die for and still draw breath while they lay cold and still. Now his new task will have him be set on this world with such regrets and burdens till his final death and possibly, far from the fight that he wanted to die in.

“Hero of Equestria, Captain of Eques Planetary Defense... What a fucking joke.”

Author's Note

Ya know, a lesson could be learned from this.

Live long enough to die seen as a hero but only be the one to bare with regret, pain, and guilt, knowing you are not one and must hide the truth. Or killed billions just to realize you died a failure and a traitor to your own kind, and you did it to save only yourself.

WAZZZAAA hope y'all had a happy Halloween or October and happy November 1-... 3rd

Was meant to be posted on the 31st but since we're here how I guess you can say happily late spoopy month. Oh also happy Greys b day if your those types that celebrates oc shit b day or some werido shit you freaks do.

Art is the new cover, and more will be coming... 1 out of 24... Fuck my life just like I fuck Grey’s life cause LOL, says I, LMAO.

Plus Sex, drugs, booze, less warfare more story focus on Grey, some shit about his tank, some more shit about him with 3 dudes and chicks guarding him, Munchy Tyranids, ORKZ WIT DA BOIZ! And more shit to cum ; )

Cya in the next chapter fuck boi