Princess Celesta walks the great halls of her castle in cantorlot, her princess mask on her face walks past staff that politely bow to her as she walks by, and they continue to do their chores of cleaning the castle and taking care as maids, butlers and staff. Guards stood straight attention and saluted her as she walked by before returning to their stance and at parade rests as they monitored the halls or their assigned post; she walked but not alone. Another alicorn princess with a pink coat, a curly purple, and yellow mane, and a blue crystal heart for a cutie mark was by her side. It was none other than Princess Mi Amore Cadenza as the two talked about the new arrivals coming, preparations for the wedding of Cadance, and her arrival from her trip all over Equestria.

"I do miss this castle auntie but I must ask, these: "hoomans" they seem rather... intimidating when word spread about the battle with discord and your arrangement of befriending them, it seemed near terrifying at their capabilities. Are you sure that they can be trustworthy for and to Equestria?" Cadence asked Celestia as she only got a smile and a wing wrapped to bring her close.

"I told you they helped us and even offered our world their empires protection; they promised and vowed shared coming information and anything that I would request for our world. Even assigned a dear friend that was their first to come to our world and is the very hero who saved Equestria, now leading the defense of our world against all that comes bringing risk." She said as the two continued, but Cadance slowed her steps.

"I know, but I'm worried that there might be something more, something that they are hiding from you and all; it all doesn't flow right auntie." She said as the two stopped, and Celestia only embraced the young alicorn.

“I understand your feeling of unease around the humans, and sure they may look and do things differently, but I assure you that my dear friend is making sure no risks would come from them or subjects.” Celestial said before letting go of Cadance, seeing her calm and letting out a soft sigh.

“I can only hope you are right, but this friend you speak of, what was his name?” Cadence asked, looking up at Celestia.

“His name is Thorn “Cai-” Celestia stopped herself for a moment remembering how he told her that not many knew his family name and wished to keep it that way for his reasons before she searched herself and continued.

“Captain Thorn “Mad Dog” Grey,” soldier of the imperium of man, from the world called “Cadia Prime,” and hero of Equestria as well as a dear friend of Luna and I.” Celestial said, smiling happily as they continued their walk. Cadence only stared at the floor for a bit, confused; why did her aunt trust this hooman? If he is both a hero and even Equestira’s defender as a whole world, he must be quite the being she could think of, let alone a Captain like her fiance, Shining armor.

“And where is he now exactly, if I might ask?” She said, looking up again at Celestia.

“He, along with some other humans from the imperium, is with Luna in the throne room, waiting for us so we can begin your wedding preparation, my dear niece.” She said before finally coming to see several knights and human guardsmen rushing to the throne room with screams echoing through the halls. Celestia and Cadance looked at each other and then backed down the balls to see a bright shine of orange light from the throne room, forcing them to gallop to the throne room. A pony guard sees them standing at attention, saluting her.

"What is the meaning of this gathering?!" Celestia said to the guard with a look of fear and sweat drenched from his body."

"Your majesty, it would be best assumed that the planetary Defense Leader, Captain Grey, is having another one of his. "Episodes," as he calls them, claiming there are "threats in the walls" and is using a fire-breathing weapon to attempt to cleanse the palace of such a threat." The guard dropped his salute, and the sounds of roaring flames were heard, along with screaming of human and pony guards and Grey cursing out belligerent words that made Celestia break her prince mask. Cadence dropped their jaws at terms and slangs she couldn't even describe or understand, along with the sight of pony guards running away with a fire burning their bodies.

"THEY CAN'T HIDE FROM ME AND THE EMPEROR'S HOLY FLAMES! I HEAR THEM CLICKING! BURN THIS PLACE TO THE FUCKING GROUND," Grey's voice screamed out. Celestia and Cadance approached the slightly burnt throne room doors and saw Grey in the center of the throne room with a fire-throwing weapon shooting a huge fire trail at the walls with Luna and unicorn mages shielding the fire as best as they could. Grey aims the weapon uncontrollably, seeing other humans trying to stop him as they grip his arms, legs, body, and the fire-throwing weapon, knocking them off with kicks, punches, or burning them alive. A mixture of chaos, screaming, and scared or burnt soldiers littered the ground before both Cadence and Celestia's eyes before Celestia used her magic to slam the throne room doors shut and tried to regain her composure.

"I'm going to assume the scared one with the fire-breathing weapon is this "Captain Thorn" Mad Dog" Grey" you called a dear friend, correct auntie?" Cadence said as Celestia regained her princess mask and only smiled awkwardly at her as Cadence cocked a brow at her aunt.

Hi again, Discord here, and yes, I'm having a blast within the warp at the moment, but you're probably wondering how this escalated so fast; no, it's not me this time, I promise... For now. But why don't we go back to the last chapter, where some things were falling from the sky, shall we?

Deep within and far, far south in the desserts plains of the badlands was the hive of the changeling empire, away from all civilizations and hidden within the natural rocky caved mountains. A race of shapeshifting insectoid ponies hungering for the essence of love of others. Very little knows about them and their hive, their territory as barely any would dare invade their territory, till now.

"My Queen, creatures with our territory over at the dunes, a changeling drone spoke out to his Queen, sitting on her throne holding an egg. She gave it to a drone, and as it flew, buzzing its wings off to one of the egg chambers. The Queen turned to snarl at the Drone, looking down at him, making him back away in fear.

"Well then, why come to warn me capture them like the others that dare trespass on my kingdom and harvest them of any love or life of whatever they have." She only demanded to see the Drone now his head with shame and fear.

"Forgive this drone, my queen, but... the creatures... they have none; it's as if they're only walking husks of meat and shell." He said as the Queen only looked down at the Drone. He was telling the truth; he could see fear not from her but from something else, as if he had witnessed a ghost before himself.

"Has it been captured?" She asked as the Drone slowly looked up at her.

"Y-yes, my queen, we have it captured with the other harvesters, but-" She cuts him off. "Bring it to me; if this creature of no life believes it can trespass on my territory, then surely it must be braver than all or a mindless fool.

She said, raising her hoof as the drone buzzed off into a tunnel, and with hours, a pack of soldiers and drones dragged a giant sealed cocoon, but within it was nothing that no changeling had ever seen or encountered. It was a beast of six appendages with a deep dark blue shell, red meat, and two bright glowing yellow eyes over an enormous gaping maw of razor-sharp teeth. Its first set of front top appendages was armed with substantial long scythe blades that seemed to be made of bone, and its shells, as the second set under them, were but claws as the last were clawed hooved as its legs and feet. Looking at it now, it was huge, even bigger herself and strange than what she had ever faced, almost alien to her and her hive. She slowly walked around it with Soldiers surrounding it and drones following her, looking at it and their Queen.

"Where did you find this... Beast?" She said as she stared into the cacoon seeing its eyes and eco-skeletal-shelled body.

"A few dunes west of the hive, my Queen, when we encountered it, it wasn't alone. It was... Eating its kind as what we believed to be their Queen continued to birth more of it; even trying to capture this one cost us several soldiers and drones." He said as he watched his Queen continue to stare into the eyes of the beast. She scoffed at it before her horn glowed green as she tried to look into the beast for any signs of emotions or life and found nothing. It was nothing but an empty black void inside it, an abyss that only reeked of terror to her as if she knew or had seen it before, a void of hunger, starvation, and everlasting gluttony.

She knew this void, along with her young and brood, suffered from it, suffering the hunger and need for love and life force of others, leeching on them till they were drawn and turned to a withering husk. This beast suffered this hunger just as she and her changelings have even gone out to cannibalize themselves to try and satiate it. She felt empathy for this beast. Perhaps it was a warrior killing its weak kin to survive, yet she shook her head, remembering that this creature and its hive had invaded her territory and even attacked her drones and soldiers. She would need to destroy this hive and beast as she prepares her army for her planned invasion of the pony race up north, the center castle of their kind.

She soon used her magic to look within the beast's mind to see if she could control it and have it obey her with mind control, but soon, she only yelped out a hissing groan and snarled. Her eyes soon glowed yellow like the beast as her face scrunched up with pain as she groaned, struggling to keep herself together, panicking all drones and soldiers around her.

"My queen, what is it!? What is happening!?" A soldier asked, keeping eye contact with the wrapped beast as he soon saw its body twitch in place, its body twitching at random seconds as the queen soon screamed out before the beast slowly curled up and broke free from the cacoon. All the soldiers quickly surrounded both beast and their queen as Drones ready themselves looking at its claws, scythe blades, and legs as it hissed out a roar at them all.

The queen's eyes slowly glowed from yellow to green as she raised her front hooves to the air to stand on her hind hooves.

"BOW BEFORE YOUR QUEEN!"

She shouted and slammed both of her front hooves straight to the stone ground, cracking it slightly as the beast's glowing yellow eyes slowly glowed green, and the beast itself soon crouched down to lay on the ground with its bladed scythe talons dug into the stone floor it's smaller claws pressed against it's shelled chest. Its head bowed as its hissing turned to a soft clicking and deep coo as the soldiers and drones, all in awe, looked at it and saw their queen slowly approach it before stopping right in front of it.

Both of their heads met at even heights. Seeing her stare into its eyes as it stared back, she heard it, its voice responding to her command, and soon other kin, the voice of its other kin, and soon the brood near that birthed more of its kind voice. She could see the memories, different beasts consuming others or their own; they were given many names, the great devourer, the IllMureead, the Y'he, the Voidborn, but one name stood amongst them all.

sus among us I fucking hate myself

The Tyranids she looked at the Tyranid called a "Hormagaunt "as it slowly lifted its head and pressed against the queen in the form of a nuzzle with its maw clicking its teeth as it cooed softly. She could only chuckle before it turned into deep, maniacal laughter as snow. She hears the voices of its kin within her mind looking up to see the voices of them all.

"Queen... Serve... Feed... Hunger... Brood... More Tyranids... Eradicate all... Consume... Evolve..." It spoke as she looked at her hive and soon spread her magic from her horn to theirs, as they all groaned and winced in pain before finally relaxing and submitting to their queen with the new voices and kin hive kin.

"Equestria will be ours within the days; come, my changelings, my Tyranids, we now go and feast on all that can give us what we want to satiate our eternal hunger, go and bring their brood pod, they for it is what we will need to gain more for our number. For Equestria, it will fall!" She announced before all the drones, soldiers, and the Tyranid joined in a hissing cheer to their new queen as she was no longer a queen but the hive mind of both changelings and Tyranids.

Back to the present about a few hours before Greys moment, Ta~Ta~

Another day another time to wait and see, only this time for Specialist Hanzel; nothing happened, and no sound came from his VIP and hero of Equestria, Captain Thorn Grey. He only remained seated in his desk chair, staring at the wall almost as if he was in a trance or deep thought; he knew from his time spent that neither were good outcomes, but the silence was getting to him. He always remembers hearing Grey as loud as possible, screaming his people's sermons and prayers or cursing whatever he wanted out of his mouth. He would comment on how improper and immature his behavior is. Yet, he also remembered how many times Grey purposefully missed shooting his head off with the "auto-gun" arms he called his bionic hands.

Yet the silence was annoying, and hearing Grey be completely quiet for half an entire day was unsettling. Then Hanzel was about to speak to Grey to break the silence when Grey immediately stood up and looked around. His eyes shifted around the room like Griffins when entering a new area; he slowly moved his hand up to the side of his head, turned what looked like a weird nob around a small speaking in place of his ear, and continued to look around slowly.

Hanzel's anxiety from the silence shifted to curiosity about what Grey was doing; seeing Grey crouched down and turning the nob and remaining quiet, Hanzel tried to listen, moving his ears slightly around, but either heard the sounds of muffled hoof steps or nothing. A knocking came at the door to Grey's chambers, startling Hanzel, but Grey remained still and ignored the knocks. Hanzel immediately took calming his nerves and turned to open the door to see a maid standing before him as she bowed.

"Her royal highness requested Captain Grey to gather within the throne room." She lifted her head as Hanzel nodded, seeing her walk away and close the door. He turns to face Captain Grey only to see him prone on the floor and crawling around with both hands over his ears.

"Uh... Captain Grey, you've been requested to head to the throne room, Captain." He said but saw Grey ignore him as if he weren't there and slowly crawl on his belly under his desk.

"C-captain...?" He said, flowing behind slowly.

"The walls..." Grey finally spoke tremblingly, making Hanzel stop entirely in place. See Grey's arms moving under his desk and pulling out a strange weapon he had never seen before, forcing Hanzel to spread his wings out and back away slowly.

"Sir, let just rake it easy and calm down, I'm sure everything is fine, and we can go see her majesty within her throne roo-" He said before Grey quickly turned to hold his weapon with a strange container that he attached to making a loud hissing sound and soon clicked several. Hanzel could see a small blue flame at the end, making him drop his wings and fold his ears to the back of his helmet.

"The walls...they’re in the walls..." Grey said, slowly aiming the weapon at Hanzel as he backed away to make for the door, his heart racing in his chest as his eyes shifted between Grey and the fire.

"T-the walls, sir?" He asked, concerned.

"The clicking... you don't hear the -the clicking... they’re... they’re in the walls... THEY’RE IN THE GODDAMN WALLS!" And after Grey screamed out, Hanzel immediately burst through the door with roaring flames. Following him was Grey screaming, shooting roaring flames; screams of fear and panic echoed through the halls for all pony guards of the castle. A few imperial guards rushed over to try and stop the panicked-induced captain from turning the whole castle black and engulfed in flames, screaming, "They’re in the walls!" repeatedly.

This led to Grey in an uncontrollable panic screaming out his lungs and burning. In his path to the throne room were princess Luna and a few guard officers waiting, trying to stop Grey or, at the very least, calm him down. After about three hours and a couple of thirty-seven guardsmen burnt alive with a few pony guards in the infirmary for third-degree burns and flesh melded to their armor. Along with a couple of burnt structural damages that were being repaired currently, he was eventually subdued by having his bionic arms and legs removed, leaving him to a crumpled mess of a rage-filled Stubb-man on the floor till he finally calmed down.

Celestia coughed lightly to catch the attention of other guardsmen and ponies, along with Grey and hanzel standing over him. "Now that "this" is taken care of, Grey, humans of man, I would like to introduce my niece Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, or Cadence if you wish, princess of love."

She said, only to see Grey's bionic Jaw drop open before he let out a big laugh and spoke to the other guards, who inturned laughed with him. "Princess of karken love, and here I thought I would become a prince of the guard. Oh, that's a good one, Celestia."

He continued his wheezing laugh as he slowly looked at Celestia, Luna, and Cadence before his laughter stopped dead, and his face shifted to a finished pan look.

"Oh... Your serious?" He asked, looking at Celestia, Luna, and Cadence nod their head before Grey and the other Guard looked at each other, talking for a moment before looking back at the princesses. "So what brings these princesses of... love here exactly, if you mind me asking?"

"Cadence approached Grey looking down at his body, seeing his thighs and left arm were stubs missing both knees and elbow down along with his entire right arm up to his shoulder. She couldn't feel a little sorry for the man, even the scars on his face were hard to look at, seeing bone and muscle exposed and even his whole eye socket and open mouth. "Well, sir Captain Grey I have returned from my trip to Equestira's neighboring nations and lands to now celebrate my wedding and-"

"Woo woo woo woo, slow down their las; who the hell would marry you, let alone allow something like you to get plowed like an animal on the discovery work?" Grey cut her off slowly, pushing himself up to sit up and look at Cadence as she cringes back at his strange words and slang.

"Well, for starters, my soon-to-be husband is Captain Shining Armor, Captain of celestia's Royal guard and of the unicorn mages." She said proudly with a smile, and her head held a bit high only to look down and see Grey's face shift to a look of cringing disgust.

"So... Captain Cucking Armor is shagging you and wants you as his own?" He said questionably, giving Cadence a sideways glance and having his bionic eye look at her.

"If you mean to be my fiance, then yes, you are correct." She responded before shifting his eye to look at Luna and Celestia and then at Cadence.

"So you are serious... huh, let me laugh even harder." He said before Laughing in hefty coughing laughter as he fell back on his back, thrashing his stubby limbs and telling the other guardsmen, who in turn joined in on his laughter.

"Oh, Emperor, I was going to tell you of the coming Tyranid invasion, but this took the damn cake and made everything much better." He said as he continued to laugh at Cadence as all three princesses looked at Grey with concern, anxiety, and confusion at Grey's statement.

"Pardon us, but perhaps we miss heard you. What do you mean by "Tyranid Invasion" Grey?" Grey immediately stopped laughing before slowly looking up to see a looming three alicorn princesses staring down at him with their faces showing the beginnings of terrifying anger. He looked back to see the guardsmen that held his bionic limbs were gone with his limbs in their place and Hanzel leaving through the throne room doors.

"H-Hanzel, I order you to help me reattach my limbs so I may make tactically withdrawal!" Grey shouted at Hanzel, who looked back to the horrific faces on the rules and back at Grey before slowly walking away, keeping eye contact with him till the doors closed, leaving Grey alone to his possible doom.

"Oh you little motherfucking..."

Author's Note

Shits going down as I struggle to figure out sex tags and warnings and which one to use/research to put in the next chapter.

Oh also art for this chapter and little hint for the coming wedding cover art

Try to go with more insect pony/ nid mix but more will be developed once we get we Get their

Now excuse me I have a new Warhammer 40,000 Cadia Stand Army Set Box completed with:
•20 New Cadian Shock trooper models
•New Scout/Armored Sentinel Models
•2New Ordnance Team
•New Cadian Commander/Veteran Guardsmen
•Data-cards ( I never seen nor heard of such things, I am getting old)
•A Badass 2 sided poster
•2 type box art

And of course, the most prized piece of them all...[pause for dramatic effect]... “9th Edition Codex”

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“Get Gud”

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Cya in the next chapter ; )