The Guardsman and The Empire
Ch: 2 Guards for the Guardsman
Previous ChapterNext ChapterThorn "Mad Dog" Grey sits alone in his trench, leaning against the dirt and wood wall with a ceiling made of wood twigs, leaves, and dried mud. Sleeping soundly, leaning his back against the wall, around him were ammo crates and boxes of different munitions and crates of preserves for him from corpse starch, K-unit ration meals from breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper. Yet soon, his peaceful slumber was disturbed by only the whining of two ponies he'd wished he'd killed long ago, calling him out.
"Grey! Can you please leave your... hole!"
Grey slowly opens his eye groggily with a groan and sighs at one of the princesses whining and remains quiet as he hears hoof steps outside his trench.
'Not this karken shit again.' he said in thought. "We know thou ears can hear us, we demand thee to leave at once!"
He slowly looked underneath the rag that covered his door and saw the hooves of both sisters and several guardspony hooves that stood outside his door. Celestia took a step forward and stood before the door cover.
"No Fuck off me hole." He screamed out
"But Grey! It's been a week, and you have room to rest in so why sleep in such conditions?" Celestial whined out as she stomped her forehooves on the ground as the Guard ponies watched their great powerful goddess leader, acting childish enough to make them hold in their laughter and struggle to keep their blank stare.
"Fuck off me hole ya bloody kark!"
"Enough!" Luna's shouted out in her cantorlot voice, face hardened from annoyance, and with her wings outstretched, she walked into his home, leaving both guards and Celestia to stay in front and only her shouting and the sounds of a struggle with objects breaking.
"Oh me..." Celestia said, placing her hoof on her face, ashamed at such needed force for Grey shaking her head in disappointment as the sounds of struggle worried the guards around her.
"Cease your resistance; you are to come to our castle and be enlightened at thous coming of age!"
"Kark off! Didn't ask for it, don't need it! Go fuck yourself, ya whining gorl!" He said in an accent mocking Luna, followed by the sounds of wooden objects crashing and breaking, then the sound of fighting continued before it finished with Grey screaming out and silence came with Luna walking out with a smile on her face. Her horn lit up, using her magic to drag Grey by his jacket collar with both his bionic legs and arms resting on his body detached from their sockets with tape holding his bionic jaw closed.
"Now then, shall we press on and Celebrate?" Luna said with joy as Grey got dragged like bagged luggage, making Celestia frown at him. The Guards watched the scene of Equestria's hero being pulled away and scolded by both of their rulers, concerned and concerned, confused beyond all else as they entered the chariot.
Now you probably wonder what the hell is going on, which we will find out next time on My Hero Acade- NO! Just rewind to the day after nightmare night and Luna finally learning to be a less-social friend.
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Grey now stands before both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna; sitting in their thrones along with him stood the new major general of the Pegasi aerial Division. Captain Shining Armor, the newly appointed mage of the unicorn Troops and the Colonel of earthpony knights taking the place of the last general of the knights, stood aside from Grey as he looked at them.
'Rest in pieces to those bastards.'
Grey thought, looking at them, remembering making the battle report of casualties and examining the dead; he remembered seeing the results of what the horrors of the iron warriors were preparing. He was lucky no pony suffered such horrors, with him only bearing the memory of it all. His attention was drawn over to the Princesses standing up from her throne and watching them as the three leaders of the Equestrian forces snapped to attention along with other guards of the throne room.
"Captain Thorn "Mad Dog" Grey. Equestrian's "Planetary Defense" of the imperium of man." Celestia said with a moderate tone fit for a ruler, but Grey scenes something within her manner hidden well from all. "For your heroic actions on ponyville along with aid against discord both I and my sister have come to the welcome you properly to Equestria's ruling as with Captain Shining armor of the unicorn troops, Major General of the Pegasi, and Colonel of the knights as our worlds lead defense."
So that's why he was forced out of his hole, to be part of a xeno and imperium cooperation of planetary defense force not just of the land but the whole world of Eques; what's next? He will be granted nobility in Equestria and live in this castle.
"For this, we will be granting you, as part of Equestria's military officer, nobility with the proper living arrangements within the castle walls. You will be working with Captain Shining armor, Colonel Iron Hoof, and Major General Clouded Mist," Celestia announced with both she and Luna smiling. Still, he knew they were smug smiles of evil tomfoolery on him.
'Oh fuck, high lords of Terra!' He thinks within his mind but forces a fake smile and bows his head. "Please, your majesty, you're being too generous for such honors and rewards to be bestowed upon me."
"Nonsense," Captain Shining Armor speaks out as Grey stares at Celestia and Luna. "You helped us save Equestria from the evil that only you and your kind would not. The only way for use to repay such heroic feats is by granting you nobility and rights within the guard along with your own personal bodyguards." He said, looking over to the throne room doors with all eyes focused on them and Grey just standing there frozen.
The throne room doors open to the sight of four guards, ponies a Pegasi in the sky-blue armor with a red crystal on it's chest piece; it's mane blonde with a green coats; next to it was a unicorn in the same color coat and mane but in purple and gold trim armor. Behind them was a large earthpony clad in heavy golden armor and a large halberd spear in its hoof as it walked their helmets. Visitor visors were dark enough to black out even the light from their eyes, and the last one was a unicorn, though aged beyond what could be considered guard. His white with gold-trimmed armor showed its results polished over scratches with red Crosses over its armor, signifying it was an old medical guard. All four stopped before Grey, aligned themselves side by side with each other, and stood at attention.
Luna then stepped down from her throne with an open wing she held behind Grey's back to introduce the four guardspony. "Grey, we present your personal guard here in Equestria castle, that was chosen and selected for your protection." She said as the unicorm stepped forward and kneeled before Grey, bowing his head.
"I am Commander Fletcher Fray of the third unicorn Mage of the third Assault Mage Brigade. It is an honor to protect and serve the hero of Equestira once more and hopefully with fewer casualties." He said, grabbing a glare from Grey.
"Wait a minute; you were here when I barged in here and threatened the general of the knights and the other leaders."
Fletcher slowly stood back up at attention and spoke out. "Yes, Captain, I was bare to witness your "tactic" of defeating the beast of chaos on ponyville. Before, I was only a lieutenant but have been promoted with other officers once Major General Clouded Mist was gifted his rank and new task."
"Commander, would you present your squad." He bowed his head to Luna in quick response. Yes, your majesty. He snapped a left face to look at the other three soldiers and spoke out.
"Guardspony's sound off!" Fletcher ordered out as the old gray pony with red eyes stepped, sat on his flank, raised his hoof in a salute, and spoke.
"Second Senior Petty Mage officer Straight Arrow, Medical Mage, and Veteran of the second Anti-Air Defense Brigade." He finished dropping his salute and standing back up. The next was the large brown-coated with an eye-catching blue mane pony that mimicked the same greeting but spoke in a feminine voice catching Grey off a bit.
"Heavy Knight Centurion Master; Golden Spark of fourteenth knight of House Murus, at your command, sir." She said, dropping her salute and standing back to attention; Grey could only shake his head from disappointment until the last one matched the same coat and mane color as Fletcher.
"Specialist Hanzel pegasi twenty-seventh recon unit of the eighth division sir." He said, in a younger tone than all the other guards and almost with an accent similar to Kriegen. It was strange to Grey, but shifting his focus to Luna and Celestia, seeing their smiles that he saw through, then turned to Shining Armor, Clouded Mist, and Iron Hoof and walked up to them, squatting into their eye level.
"So what you're telling me is that these four karken idiots are tasked with protecting me. Penal Captain and Planetary Defense Lead, criminal and sinner of the imperium of man and to the God emperor of man, savior of this accursed rock slayer of a champion of chaos has to trust..." them" with my protection?!" He said with his face pressed against Shining Armors' face, concerned at Grey's anger and intimidation.
"Yes..." he responded before Grey backed away, shaking his head and placing both his bionic hands behind his head, and letting out a huff of air.
"Un-fucking-believable, first not I'm granted the ranks of a captain, then set as planetary defense leader, now I'm a damn noble with my own damn weak bodyguards!" He lets out, scaring the four guards except for Fletcher.
"Grey, they were picky for the skills, tactical thinking and performance from the battle with discord out of many more surely you can understand."
"Shining armor, I remember you as a lieutenant back then before that captain promotion you got and also how most of them were pissing trench worth of tears out for rescue; they aren't worth shit to me, let alone my protective or this guard." He said to Shining as he glanced over at the four guardspony all glaring daggers at Grey before Celestia came up behind him, warping a wing around him, catching his attention.
"How about we just move to a different task, one that you haven't explained and requires both my sister and me along with some other officials from the imperium and a certain inquisitor wishing to continue on your "deal" of Equestria." She said calmly to him, shutting him up as he looked off to one of the side doors behind the throne and saw a servo skull and several officers from the Imperial navy. As he groaned, he walked with both princesses leaving Shining Armor, Clouded Mist, and Iron Hoof with Fletcher and his guard squad.
"Apologies for Grey's display; he tends to get enraged easily ever since the battle at ponyville; all I can give you. Commander Fletcher is to try to be patient with him and not to have him do anything "barbaric" last time that this happened he ended up killing his previous guards." Shining Armor said as Fletcher looked over at the door. Grey went with the princesses to think that the hero of Equestria is only a half-raging mechanical monster and prisoner and sinner, apparently to his own kind.
"Will do, sir; what are my and his guard's tasks for now?" Fletcher Asked. "Pack tour and your squad's belongings. Go to the VIP wing of the castle. There await your squad's barracks and your office for you to schedule and manage guard shifts for Captain Grey's protection along with your weekly reports." Shining armor finishes as both salute each other. "Will do, sir." All four leave the throne room with Shining armor, and the other commanders leave to join Grey and the princesses.
"To think the hero sees the guards of Equestria as weak and in such terms is dishonorable and below him," Hanzel said quietly.
"Well, he has a point on that; I saw enough tears from many of the guards during the battle only thing I wasn't prepared for was more of his kind and their technology and weapons. You saw that giant walker with the cannons buckers could take over Equestria with only a thought if they wanted." Straight Arrow replied, with Golden Sparks joining.
"To think that's bucker was the one that threatened and killed the Knights general, he doesn't respect ranks or even titles, let alone cares for them, to me is nothing more than a monster that should be caged or, better yet, killed." Golden Sparks said, snarling at the memory of hearing Knight General Solar Marble's death before Fletcher silenced them all.
"Look, guards, I know he's probably not the "nicest" or more tempered soldier or alien, even for all we know," Fletcher said before Straight Arrow barged in. "Nicest is pointing it one way, but "tempered," did you see the bastard's metal limbs? He could've killed us right then and there. All we could have done was run and hoped we flee away." He said, causing a sigh to leave from Fletcher.
"Point being is that I've seen the way he's fight, how he plans thing, and how he treats others; even if he doesn't look it, act it or even say it, he cares in his own wa; I don't know how but I can tell just..." he pauses, knowing that Straight Arrow was right and at what Shining Armor told him and how he saw Grey at Ponyville.
"Just... try and follow whatever he says or at least follow his lead; that's the best way I can tell you not to get beaten to death by him at least, alright?"
All three responded in unison, “Yes, sir.” and ready themselves to protect their planetary defense leader and Captain of Equestria’s guard. After that and the meeting, Grey ended up vanishing to ponyville for a week which was the exact start of both his birthday and nightmare night, in which it all ended with Grey being madder than a khorne berserker at his birthday party.
Author's Note
No art for this besides the new cover and possibly a new style on this story...1 out of god knows how many... Fucking kill me now and each one is a shit post not a shitpost.
Least I get to bully all of ya cause I am alpharius and cause I can.
lol, says I, lmao.
Big thanks to Brongcommander for not only the idea of Guardsponys but for the donation of 3 characters Fletcher Fray, Straight Arrow and Hanzel his own character, if you have or want a character (human or pony) present in the story then I will put little games and challenges within the story or down here in authors notes winner gets:
Bragging rights, character show case and shout outs, and possibly free art work if you want a commission then just go to my patreon and you can purchase the right to it.
Once agains thanks to Brongcommander and go give him a hug and some love.
Oh, hi, their welcome to “Guest Reveal,” I'm your Host:
Dr. K. MoonShard and today's guest is none other then a coming army to Equestria
You know it's biomass hungry Tyranids, and from the cover, it's of course the big boys of Hive Fleet Behemoth, but one only famous Celebrity within the behemoth hive will be our special guest arriving today.
It's big, it's ugly, it lacks depth perception, and it's “teaming” up with none other than Queen Chrysalis her Changeling Hive.
Please put your hands, hooves, claws, and appendages together for the one, the infinite, the lovable hungry Tyranid Carnafex eating the Crowd...
[Dramatic Drum Roll with screams of pain and agony on a world scale and loud hissing roars]
Old One Eye

And todays challenge is if you to take a guess at how big this boy is without using the internet or lore pr any sources only estimated guesses or equations you'll get your character or yourself these prizes:
Bragging rights, character show case and shout outs, and possibly free art work if you want a commission then just go to my patreon and you can purchase the right to it.
Just know for info:
Canon pony height is 3’ft 5”in or 104.14 for the dirty red coats.
Alicorn: 4’10” or 147.32
Average 40k human (the dead bodies under him above) is 6’ft or 182
Grey’s height: 5’ 6” or 167.64
Yeah he big hungry boy hope ya ready cause once the wedding bells ring, it's going get big real fast!

Good luck and have a great day, everyone, and Cya you next time in the next chapter and on “Guest Reveal.”
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