It was a stressful time in Canterlot castle, preparations for what could be the most idiotic thing of all time, a wedding for Shining Armor. One of the Captains in command, Canterlots guards unicorn Mages to the new unknown Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, the princess of love. Nobody had ever heard of this prince of love, let alone seen her. Yet, they were more distracted by the wedding preparation. A notice of an increase of royal guards, but also human soldiers have many questions it spreading rumors of possible war or even an invasion. Yet, under the words of Princess Celestia, it was merely for the humans to take part in the ponies' culture and support the wedding preparation. Soon the rumors only became what they are as ponies all across equestrian gather at Canterlot.

In cantorlot castle, the staff, planners, decorators, designers, chefs, and famous artists were scattered all across the court with the support of Rarity in making the Brides wedding dress, Fluttershy with the music, AppleJack with the cooking, Pinkie Pie with the party and event planner, and Rainbow Dash with providing a Sonic Rainboom as an ending event for the after party. Everything was stressful, even for the pony guards, casting a magic shield over the entirety of cantorlot by shining armor, thanks to the help of the imperial humans of the imperium.

A silent alert was placed along with a quiet planetary defense raise, locking down the planet and setting up defenses quietly not to cause panic as there stood the Guardsman himself. Captain Thorn "Mad Dog" Grey, Hero of Equestria, within a war room of the castle with Equestria's royal guard commanders, Captain Shining Armor of the unicorn mages. The new Major General of the pegasi air division and the Colonel of the Earthpony knights were on the opposite side of the table, with both rulers seated next to Grey Princess Luna and Princess Celestia.

On the other side were lord Inquisitor Marya, Lord Commissar Cornelius with his assistant commander Oscar Milan, enginseer Sarina, and bodyguards Twin Kreigsmen "Alina" and "Aline," vox-com casters Mordian, Valhallan, Catachan, Armageddon, Cadian, Kreigs, and Heidran regimental Commanders officers and squad leaders and with Tempestus scions squad leaders. All shifted their eyes and heads at the small xenos across the table and at Grey, all with their looks of disgust and hate at what they were witnessing as Grey translated between the two and laid out Cantorlots maps and strategic strongholds, choke points and areas of weakness.

The air was cold; a menacing silence grew from the humans present, with only Grey speaking to answer the Equestrian guard's leaders' questions as they all shared one thought.

'A traitor, a damn xeno lover siding with xenos; how hasn't he died yet, let alone be ranked as a captain and aiding xeno!?'

They all looked at Grey with malic, disgust, and shame at seeing him speak their alien tongue; few of the officer's hands were hovering or gripping others holstered side arms resisting the urge to blow the traitor's head off his body and burn it along with these xenos. At least they were trying to, but by lady lord Inquisitor Mary's command, they held back and only responded in grunts, nods, or death stares at Grey's questions or requests and commands.

"Soldiers if the holy imperium siding with a traitor and lead them aided by xenos, more disgusting and shameful than becoming a heretic." A Mordian officer said aloud, with a Cadian guardsman following up, slamming their fist on the table, startling the ponies and twin rulers.

"Forgive my question, Lady Inquisitor, but we can not have my thoughts silenced. Why have this... this traitor leads us? It should be you in his position as that thing. To this one, a Penal Dog, he brings dishonor to both the imperium and the guard." The Cadian officer said as they looked at Grey with rage and the urge to kill him where he stood.

"He's not even a Cadian anymore, let alone bare such a title; I say we chain him back again and have him fight off the bugs first to see how many can this "officer killer" kills before he's torn apart and we sacrifice the Xenos on his sides." A Catachan squad leader said, leaning back his chair with his boots plastered up and sharping a large devil claw knife in his hands.

Celestia and Luna couldn't understand what they were saying. Still, from Grey's expression, the looks on their faces, and the tones in their voices, it would only end in a bloody mess as they prepared for it; Lady Marya only stood up, slamming her hand on the table. Silencing all, she then placed her plasma pistol on it and looked at the imperial guard; other officers looked back, fixing themselves at seated attention, except for Grey.

"I choose him because unlike you or any other reject he is the only one that speaks their xeno tongue, and they have a vital importance to the Inquisition that is all you need to know and all you'll ever know, if you wish to continue then I'll let Cornelius deal with you personally via bolt pistol or perhaps you'd like to take it personally with me."

She announced, looking at them, making them only look at Grey with the same look of disgust and hate again. He didn't tell Celestia and luna or the others what she said; it was better that way, better to not know the imperium is using them rather than having them see what the imperium's care truly feels like. He made up a lie of her disciplining and shutting them up, looking back to the map he pointed out and speaking at each commander and officer.

"All the royal guard ponies will be held and stay within the castles walls, and grounds, their territory their hold, a perimeter defense by the Heidrans and Cadians will be set around from the walls to the few buildings as cover spots supported by the Armageddon Steel legionaries to be watching said cover holds and main road with the Mordians within the alley ways and in buildings. Kreigsmen your with the Catachans as the outer offense covering all and any enter points watched by the steel legionaries and Mordians here and here." He pointed at the north-eastern and the south-eastern areas of cantorlot city.

"Be discreet about your movement and commands, as painful it must be defense over offense for both the castle grounds and the-…"

He pauses for a moment before feeling Celestia and Luna stare, confused, and sigh. Tired of talking and making defense preparations, he looked and the questioning gaze of the other humans.

"It's not possible to with drawl this wedding and set it for another day at least after the invasion?"

He asked as Celestia contemplated in her mind; he was right; they needed to withhold the wedding later as now the only thing that matters is the defense of Canterlot and its ponies. She only let out a sigh and looked at him.

"If it means to survive and live to see another day, then we will have to but this is our world so I ask you, let our ponies fight along side with the imperium of man, not as aliens or strangers but as allies and friends."

Grey sighed before slowly nodding and looked over to Lady Marya, telling her before she slowly nodded, and Grey looked down at the map again. "The equestrian guard will be with the Mordians and Armageddons covering the roads with their earth ponies supporting supply runs and lines, the unicorns with any heavy, special, or anti weapon teams and the pegasi with the air defense. So I'll say this one watch your fire ya jack asses!" He shouted, pointing at the city's edges and the castle's outer walls.

"I don't care what you must do to kill as many damn bugs as you can, but any and I mean any come through the shield by Captain Shining armor around both this bloody Castle and city, I'll rip all of your throats out and feed you to the bugs mouths myself. Am I understood!"

He screamed out, getting a few half-ass gestures of their approval from the officers and squad leaders before they left, whispering to themselves and looking back at him. Grey turned his head to face Enginseer Sarina as he pointed at areas of the Castle edge. Celestia, Luna, Captain Shining Armor, and the new Royal Guard leaders watched him and waited for him to finish.

"Sarina, I don't not care how much it will cost or require, get me some damn anti air guns and cannons aiming at the sky, just get me my damn!-"He stopped to see Sarina looking at his hand; he noticed a white hoof on it as he let out a breath and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Just… please get me those air defenses up, even if you have to take it from the other regiments just say it was by my orders to get pass any restrictions or guard problems..."

He said in a calmer tone to her; she looked at the ponies ruler and then back at Grey with her bionic eyes scanning. Doing calculation readings and performing X-ray scans to see his metal skeleton, organs, and implants, his heart beating slower. Then an alert came to her of her heart rate accelerating with an unknown detection within her body, with a stabbing and sickening feeling at this xeno touching Grey's bionic body with the urge to attack it.

”An easy matter for one of my skills, Captain, I shall do it within moments personally and perform the necessary prayers to their machine spirit. Still, it would be most beneficial for you to aid me in preventing any restrictions from the other guard regiments that refuse your command raising the success rate to admirable desires.”

She said with her scans concluding and equations of him agreeing and coming with him to a whopping seventy-six percent, making her draw a small smile on her lips and her heart core beating a bit faster, making a faint Doki Doki sound.

“Yeah… I’ll, I’ll be right with you… i got some other business to attend to first.”

He said as her heart core slowed, and soon came a feeling of dread and sorrow within her, but she only nodded, holding them in before bowing her head.

“Of course.” she said, raising her head and walking away from the throne room, leaving Grey with princesses and new pony leaders. The silence grew from the tease and cold feeling to much more breathable and calmer air.

“They distain you…” Celestia said to Grey as he only stared at the map with markings of where regiments of the guard will be sent and posted.

“They always have… and always will, I might as well be dead to them, even the friendly faces I once knew see me as a traitor now but it matters little to me now.”

He said in a low tone from the look on Oscar's face or Alina and Aline's reactions. No signs of emotion or a twitch from their bodies, not even bother glancing at him. A swelling feeling grew in his chest; it hurt, yet he grew numb to it feeling his body numb and grow cold as it was free heavy. He only sighed, taking a feather quill, and began to draw out supplying lines with the labels for ponies from the support held in the castle to the front and defensive positions.

"They are blind to see you for who you are, as you are far from a traitor," Luna said with Grey closed his eye and paused his planning.

"Captain Grey, the princess is right, you are a hero, and you are better than them, and if they can't see that, then I'm sorry, but they are all blind to not notice your dedication and hard work you put into this world, and it's protection even if you tend to slack off at times."

Shining Armor followed up before Grey snapped the quill in his bionic fingers, let out a heavy sigh catching all the pony's attention, and pushed himself up to stand, scowling at the shining Armor.

"You do not know what dedication or sorry looks like in the guard, nor any military force, war or any real battle this world hasn't faced yet." He said in a calm, empty tone. To most ponies, their eyes showed all colors and variants of emotions, but when looking at Grey's, a human eye is even heavily Scarred and half burnt with the all just a red glowing replacement. There was nothing but a cold glaring gaze of a void with only the fire of angry see in it.

"What "I" have been through... You're only seeing the beginning of it, you'll are so far, far from the real end or the truth, all the lives lost, all the lives taken to survive, to breathe for a second. Just like-"

He stopped with teeth clenching and the burnt muscles of his face flexing as he spoke, remembering the battle reports and video feed of his home world, a task he failed from the start and a death robbed him. The fall of Cadia. He held his eye closed tightly with only thoughts of disgust and anger filling his heart, and thoughts of disturbing ways of slaughter all around him filled his mind before a dreadful silence built in the room. He let out a slow, heavy sigh and opened his eye.

"I would like to request to be alone... please."

He said softly as they all looked at him; Celestia and Luna looked at each other, their faces holding grim looks as they slowly walked past him and left him alone in the throne room. Only to feel two sets of wings and hooves wrap around his body and soon see both heads of the princess rest on his shoulders, gently nuzzling his neck a bit.

"We are sorry Cain..." Luna whispered to his ear as he only sat frozen and waited.

"Call for us if you need anything." Celestial Followed before both slowly let go of him and began to walk through the throne room doors with the only sound of them shutting closed, and now it was only Grey alone with silence.

"No, you shouldn't be... I who should be sorry, my friends..." Grey muttered quietly to himself before falling to his seat, leaning forward on the chair, holding his head in one of his hands, letting his arms rest on his knees, and staring only at the castle's marble floor, finally alone, or so he thinks.

'Hero of Equestria, Slayer of Champions, True-born son of Cadia. To see you like this makes me more disappointed in myself than you Cain; we were such amazing soldiers, highly honored, praised, and respected.'

A voice in his mind echoed as he furrowed his brow, and anger slowly swept into his mind and heart at the voice of Mad Dog.

'Till you let that bastard demon ripped and ruin it all for you, tearing it all for you... Now look at us, the weak, broken man no longer a soldier or respected and hated by all. Hell, not even a Cadian anymore, a reject of a true failure sitting here worshipped and praised as a hero by aliens and not by his own kind anymore... If father were here, he'd kill you right where you sit and remove our family name.'

Mad Dog laughed with the anger in Grey, slowly shifting to a sorrowful and painful realization.

He was right, for once in Grey's shattered and hated life, he agreed with Mad Dog; he didn't deserve this; he deserved to be locked in a cage barely fed, beaten, tortured for sick pleasure and game, and made an example of what a prisoner should be. He was robbed of his life by a traitor he shares blood with; he failed to defend and die for his home world as it died after ten thousand years of war. He was even denied death again by the inquisition and became their tool and living weapon, with his once-now friends hating him just like all.

He's not even a real captain, let alone a guard soldier anymore, only given that as an excuse and leverage against these xenos. Yet here he is, with a high ranked, a world that is now branded as his own with a xeno population that loves, praise, and cares for him all cause he saved the day. Many other soldiers or deserving heroes would love such things but not him.

He was glad the little family he had that still lived didn't see him as he is today, feeling shame for remembering them as he sat and looked over his map; it wasn't for defense but to buy time.

•

A couple of hours have passed, and now Grey walks through the hall alone, walking best the decorated halls till he gets to the ballroom seeing the alicorn of the day, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza or Candence since Celestia called her that, though she looked stressed. She must have been alone in planning the wedding, as her fiance works with him on the castle's defenses.

The thought of that made him feel weird; why not just have both of them let others know and focus on the coming attack like he did when he met his love in Cadia? Yet he then remembered different worlds, cultures, traditions, and much more. He remembered reading that in the ways of this world, love provided "gifts." He stated proclamations to others in the hope that they reciprocated the feeling instead of offering the head of a demon or xenos head or a trophy from battle, declaring their love decree to the other and showing their strength, power, faith, and devotion to them and the emperor near equal.

It was a strange concept to think about; as he looked more into it, a thought came to his mind. 'Do these ponies love me?'

He shook such a heretical thought away from his mind before seeing Princess Cadence look at him with her head cocked. He didn't like the stare, a stare of questioning, doubt, and uncertainty. He only shook his head and began walking away down the hall to join his other imperium soldier's defense preparation. He heard the sound of hoofs behind him, making him stop and see the very princess of love walking after him as he heaved a heavy sigh.

"Great, now I got to deal with this one." He muttered under his breath before looking down at the pink alicorn; she was a lot smaller than Celestia and even Luna, but he got a weird feeling looking at her, especially from her eyes, as if he could see a different color in them. Were they always green before they met back, or was his Mad Dog still playing with his mind again? He shook the thought from his head as she spoke.

"Hello, Captain; how goes our defenses?"

And this was what he had to deal with now, top of everything, a damn female worrying over crap more paranoid than a planetary governor over a rebellion at their doorstep.

"Everything is as expected, and their nothing to threaten over; the royal guards know their posts and are on high alert and watching over everything reporting all they see, even if a feather landing on the castle grounds." He chuckled at his weak jest to lighten his mood and tension.

"I even had to give my personal bodyguards to the cause for the defense." He said as he started to walk with Cadence beside her. He saw a slight twitch in her brow, almost annoyed by how he talked.

"Well then, your "confidence" shows it, but that isn't what I am referring captain." She said, making him shift a glance down at her.

"I wish to know why you and your "people" are here and what role they play; many noticed the growing numbers of "hoomans" grow, yet many don't question it. So why ask around when you could ask the source of it and possibly the only one that speaks the same language as both."

Down and blunt, that's her plan; she's trying to stuff her nose into something that she shouldn't; Grey needed to play his cards right; he can not allow the information or news of what their defenses are really for; he has to come up with something far from the truth. So he only pulled out his "get-out-of-trouble" smile and spoke in a cheerful tone, almost mocking her as a joke.

"What, most of us imperials never seen a wedding before? We've been under Constant warfare, we barely have time to settle down, and we wanted to give ya a "military" congratulations on your newfound love. hell, most humans would tell others how they felt about their love, and if they felt the same, we give them a demon's head or a war trophy with our declaration of love. I did it, and look at me now...a widower and still happy and faithful to the throne nonetheless."

That had to be it; he acted like all war-loving monsters that don't know what love is and say it for better protection and bullshit so that she can fuck off. A perfect plan if he played it right and used the right words just got to make sure he doesn't fuck up and ask about anything he has to give a legitimate answer to.

"So then if it is for a "congratulations," why are they all armed with such powerful weaponry and bring machinery of war? Celestia told me all about how you and the other humans use them though very "excessive violence." Though you did managed to stop the chaos forces, but follow the extreme amount of casulties on both the ponys and your people. So why have them here, are we to be expecting something near the same as before?"

'Ohyabloodycheekykarkincunt!' Grey screamed in his mind; he forgot both Celestia and Luna and ponies in ponyville witnessed the quarter might consist of the imperium against the forces of chaos. He needed to get away from her. If plan A to lie failed, plan G.

"Well, I would give a proper answer, but sadly, that is a need to know bases, and you also don't have the proper rank or title to do such things." He said with a stern dead expression, trying to imitate Cornelius's as much as possible but only getting "the look" from her.

"Even though I am one of the princesses of Equestria, with both of my aunts, Celesta and Luna as planet rules and you serve under them there for granting me such a royal position of this world and access to such "secret information" would it not." She said, pressing further on him as his intimation deflated and he stood frozen.

'FUCK! Think Grey! THINK! What would Elder Veteran Colonel Jankins would do!?' Grey quickly tried to remember his years as a private under the command of Colonel Leroy Jankins.

"Private Grey, if your enemy tries to pin you down and all may seem lost, just remember to never back down even at the gates of hell; we are guardsmen we never cower and fall; we stand and hold our line fighting on for it is what we do our best, we die standing... For the Emperor!"

The memory ended with Grey seeing his colonel stand up and charge at a heretic force, only shouting his name for all to hear. 'LEROY JANKINS!' echoed in his mind, and before Grey knew it, he bolted off in a random direction screaming the same name as his colonel; shocking not passing by staff and Cadence before long, she goes after and chances him.

"Oh no you don't; stop right there!" Cadence screamed after him as he ran. He thanked the emperor that humans were not only taller but had longer legs, so running her only took a second as now he found himself in an extraordinarily long and stretched hallway with decorated glass-stained windows.

He has never seen nor been in this hallway as he slowly looks at each window showing an image of Celestia and Luna, the elements of harmony, and two that catch his eye. One should be a human soldier with green armor and a brown uniform with eight other ponies. The other was the six elements surrounding the soldier with shackles and a chain sword standing over a statue of discord over a pile of demons and monsters of chaos.

He remembered these events on the windows showing how he came to this world and befriended the xenos then, only to make his sacrifice to defeat discord and save Equestria, forever known as its hero. To say he hated the title was an understatement, even the idea and the praise from all that see him in this world, yet he didn't want them to stop. He only stared at the glass, seeing every detail and line as the sun shined over him.

He turned to look around, seeing the long hall empty and not a single pony or human; he was alone and left in thought. Though he's a criminal and sinner, he is a loyalist through and through, killing in the emperor's name, spreading his light all across the stars and worlds of the galaxy, and now he is tasked to bring this world's protection, its hero. Though he hated it all and the world, perhaps this was his chance at redemption by the emperor. All see him as a traitor, but that won't stop him; he is the emperor's voice to the ponies of eques, his sword though chipped, his shield though crack, and his hammer though broken. If this world sees him as what they believe him to be, he will not show them that he is their hero but possibly a chosen one by the emperor, testing his faith, love, and honor to him.

Yes, that must have been it all along; he knew he was no hero, not for this world, his friends, his dead family, or himself but for the emperor and the imperium to rise and deny death to take him as his work isn't finished, not yet.

He thought to himself, staring at the stained glass with the sun's light that loomed over it, gently touching his body, and soon, even for a moment, he felt it. He felt the light and warmth of the sun on what little skin he had on his face and soon on his body; it felt extraordinary to him; he had never felt anything but pain; he took a slow breath in to feel the cool air in his implanted lungs, and with his eye closed he felt, calm with a slight smirk on his face.

"I am his warrior, his servant, and his will, for I am a guardsman. I serve the emperor and the golden throne. My faith in him is my shield. My hate for all is my blade, and I am his warrior for the emperor and this world. I am a guardsman of the imperium... I am the hero of Equestria. I await to be redeemed and confess my actions that weigh my soul, my lord on holy Terra." He said, enjoying this feeling as he opened his eye, basking in as much as his body and being can have of the sun's warmth on his body and the cool air in his lungs.

"Oh, mighty human hero serving his emperor's throne wanting to be redeemed, yet why serve that when you serve a queen who can grant your redemption and power?"

An unknown voice spoke behind him and in a swift reaction unholstering his laspistol in hand, he aimed at what was behind him but froze in place; his body twitched and shaped. He tried to break free from a green magic aura illuminating around before he looked to see a tall, dark figure with bright green glowing slit eyes staring at him and a giant toothy smile as it slowly approached him; it was a pony. Still different, its hooves had holes that revealed muscles and bone; it's a horn.

It was twisted with a strange blue mane and tail; its "coat" almost looked entirely made out of black bone as if it had been an exoskeleton practically more insect than a mammal pony and the only thought that came to Grey's mind brought horror. But also beauty as he stared at the green slit eyes with a sharp gaze into his very being, making a cold chill crawl up his spine to see it engulfed itself in a green fire and now became Princess Cadence right before his eyes. A damn pony Tyranid shapeshifter.

"Hero of Equestria, hah please, I had my expectations high for you, Grey, but now that we meet, I'm pretty surprised you were far more than what I wasn't expecting, an ugly, skinless, metal beast, but a perfect monster."

She said as Grey struggled in her magic aura. She walked around him, examining his body before taking away his laspistol and knives off his body. His mind was focused on how she looked at him, like prey to a predator, a mere toy for it to bend, break, and play with. He silenced his mind to stop such heretical thoughts as she watched, amused.

"Oh what is this I sense?" She said, looking at Grey with his eye closed, using her magic to look into his body and sense his feelings. That only made her eyes widen in surprise, and she laughed at him.

"Oh what a nuaght feelings you have, perhaps you have use after all, my hive hunger and my new drones out above the sky waiting, they would need a good path to strike through, one that only a certain hero can make."

She said, laughing as Grey felt his body slowly bend down on its own unable to control himself.

"N-never... Xeno..." He grunted, snarling at her, resisting and trying to force his body to move, only to feel his head force him to look up at Cadence as she pressed her horn over his head, and her eyes glowed a bright green.

"Oh, don't worry, my little human; this is just the beginning. You and my "husband" are all mines now."

She finished and saw Grey's purple eyes slowly fade to a green glow, and his face went blank; his mind soon was filled with whispering voices of thousands if not millions of insects as he stared off under Cadence's magic, the body was released, and he slowly kneeled, bowing to her.

“T-this soldier... await... your... command, my queen.” He said in a blank tone as Cadence only laughed for a new part to add to her plans.

Hours passed for Celestia sitting in her chambers with scrolls and a quill held in her magic, looking over papers of guests and invitations of guests sent out through Equestria. Checking off requests from staff and planners, and all the more tiring for her as she sighs with her thoughts, showing images of Grey during the Ponyvilles battle.

Soon a knocking came on her door, and she looked over at it. "Come in," She said to see the door open, and her sister walked in, closing the door behind her.

"Apologies for our interruption, sister." Luna said, looking at Celestia with a smile.

"Luna, you are always welcome here. Is there something that matter, perhaps trouble with the guards and their posting?" Celestia asked, knowing that she had left Luna in charge of the wedding's defense with Grey but saw her shake her head.

"Neigh sister; Grey has already overseen the entirety of Cantorlot, practically making it near impossible for our subjects to enter or leave." She said, causing both to chuckle lightly.

"Well, he sure knows how to do it; I could even say he was probably better than you a thousand years ago." Celestia teases, getting a cocky look from Luna.

"If you believe that, then I might challenge him to a duel and see for myself." Luna replied before both sisters laughed to themselves.

"I'm sure he would love that idea seeing how he's been acting for a fight even during the display at the throne room and his." Celestial stopped remembering why they had more support from the imperial guard as she looked at Luna with the same concern and worry.

"Do you believe what he spoke is true? This coming invasion and a bolstering of our castle defense." Luna asked as she sat next to Celestia as wrapped her wing around her sister.

"I'm sure he's doing his best; you know how he is, even if he's aggressive and behaves a bit childish," Celestia said before Luna glanced up at her with a brow raised.

"A bit?" She said as Celestia only rolled her eyes to the side with a slight smile.

"Ok, perhaps he behaves as one, but he cares for us just as he cares for his imperium. Even if he doesn't show it much." Celestial said and saw her sister looking down.

"Yet his people don't care for him; even the officers and commanders manage barely little to none, even wanting to bring harm to him as he does for them," Luna said as her ears lowered. "He has done so much and served with honor and fought all that brings evil, yet his own still see him as the evil they fight today you witnessed it do you not the way his people held the look of malic and wickedness to him." She was correct; Celestia saw how the officers and soldiers serving with Grey only looked at him as if he was nothing, even showing acts of threatening him or how he told them, wanting to prove he wasn't fit to be a captain.

Yet the more she thought about it, the more she remembered how he fought on the battle against discord and ponyville standing on piles of his enemies' corpses drenched in blood with a smile of insanity, enjoying it all like the warmonger he was. Yet there was something noble about it, not from him enjoying the love of war and wanting bloodshed, but by the thought that he slayed them to distract them from her, her sister, and their army to go and rescue the captured ponies and-

Celestia paused and focused on the thought, remembering his plan, sending small teams from multiple areas to weaken the enemy's front, yet seeing it now, they would've all died to say for him. He drove off their strongest to take them, knowing he would die just for her too. Celestia stopped, her eyes widening from the realization as the quill dropped from her magic as she sat; their jaw dropped in awe, and a sharp feeling ached in her chest; her sister noticed it and looked at her worried.

"Tia what wrong?" Luna asked. "He... He knew...Grey knew along." Celestia said, only confusing Luna more about what she meant by that. "What did Grey know?"

"He knew we weren't strong enough to succeed; the battle with diecord... he knew all that time and chose to take on their strongest... To..." Luna tried to piece it together, and her eyes widened slowly; her face only grew to shock. Celestia got her heart pounded against her chest for the thought, all that time. Grey only made that plan for them to have a chance to rescue and get out as many ponies as they could, to build them both times, knowing he'd die for challenging their leaders and Champion.

The image of Grey laying on a pile of those he slaughtered played in their minds, the look of his burnt face in their minds, both his legs sawed off. His right arm ripped from its socket along with his left hand, his jaw blown off, and his right gouged out from its socket with his only eye staring at them, lifeless and empty with the only sound of his final sigh of breath echoing their minds.

Celestia stopped herself from letting her memories play out. She felt her eyes water and Luna's body shaking in place; all that time, he knew and only did it not for the want to give his life or take on the strong but to protect all that was in the way, all that was captured and tortured by chaos.

They almost couldn't believe if he thought about it or put it together with every step he took. However, even if that were the case by small chances, they could only question why he was still branded a criminal and a traitor to his kind. Even if all the crimes and sins he had committed stayed, he could have been redeemed and confessed; he was a true loyal soldier that followed what he was trained and born for.

To protect those that can't fight and those that are afraid not for glory or reward or told to, and soon a sentence he said echoed in their mind.

Celestia felt a smile grow as a tear trailed down her cheek; he knew the imperium of man would come even if it were near impossible. He wanted this world to be under its banner, yet now she understands, tightening her wrapping wing around her sister to calm her as Luna rested her head on her sister's withers, her eyes still wide and watery at the thought, still struggling to process it all.

“H-he truly does care for this world, f-for us all...” Luna said as a small smile slowly grew as Celestia gently nuzzled her head.

“He does Luna, he cares for us all both as a soldier and friend.”

Author's Note

I'm back for now and To those expecting sex...

I lied their is no sex you all fell for the oldest trick in the book, ligma balls and hold that L cause all of you are down bad XD get rekt scrub lords.

LOL, LMAO

...want more? No to bad

🗿 No Bitches 🗿 + 🗿 no ponies 🗿 + 🗿 no plot 🗿 + 🗿 no war 🗿 + 🗿 you have space aids + 🗿 down bad 🗿
+ 🗿 you watch star track 🗿 + 🗿 your single and fat 🗿

May your L’s be many and your bitches few

(but in all seriousness I had some bad shit happen to me from my now ex mother suing me and kicking me out of my home cause “she owned it” but now here I am tired after moving all of my belongings to my own new place within 2 weeks spent a Christmas alone and probably new year's so yeah... I had a fine Christmas and new year's hope y'all had better.)

Art Showcase

The second hint of the final piece to come together with both the one from last chapter and the soon next one...

I think we can all feel both sorry for our “hero” as now he's no long recognized as a Cadian anymore or even a loyalist human along with what about to happen... Yet I still and will abuse him because it is fun and funny to do so

No you can't stop me as I am a Caucasoidus Anglicus with all the baby boiz, I see your comments and the make me smile so scream go white boi go at me as I stalk and lurk the floors of your home, ready to eat your first born infant sons.

A reminder that I take commissions on my Patreon along with you getting some good shit from it:

$1 if you want to leave a tip

$5 for head shot + access to early coming art

$10 for half body + head shout outs/ credit naming along with your own character to be place in the story or chapter

$15 full body + support with your name in the shout outs and credits and bonus chapter reveals of what will happen next before full release. + bragging rights

$20 of any art, character making, character background making/ editing + pretty much have voting power on what will come, who, when, where and how.

$25 for any NSFW content (+18 no scat or younglings/under 18 ya sick fuck, private message for more info.)

All exclusive to my Patreon on my page for you to enjoy both story, art and more.

Anyways you get the deal Cya in the next chapter blah blah blah where now I recreate helltaker in this most elaborate shitpost of a story.

Now, here's a riddle for you all: how long till I come to your house with sociopathic intent with

MR BEAST

majority of this is a joke and this chapter was going to be over 10k words so I decided to cut it in half as its
currently 2 in the morning and I am driving this car like a drunk dad in a fucking Nesta in a school zone so next chapter is full sex scene with chrysalis, possibly a tyranid hormagaunt and of course ya boi Grey this I promised and am currently working on