Twilight Sparkle was afraid. Not afraid of not being able to defeat the mysterious villain that was behind this, she always defeated the villain. No she was afraid of what state are they gonna find the disappeared.

Her worry began when they found the first "crime scene". Although to call it a crime scene would stretch the definition a bit. There was no body, no stolen items, aside from hundreds of little brass tubes with one of their sides filled in, and there were no definite suspects. All they found, was a puddle of dried blood on the stone floor.

An easy analyser spell confirmed it was from missing ponies. They had found three such puddles and identified four ponies. But seven of them went missing. There were still ponies left unaccounted for.

This is what scared Twilight. The blood heavily implied four ponies were killed in some gruesome way and their corpses dragged away to Celestia knows where and why.

But she withheld from giving up hope. Murder was exceptionally rare in Equestria, especially amongst villains.

What scared her even more was that the disappearances kept happening. Even after their arrival, two more ponies disappeared. First right when they arrived. And second just few hours ago.

They were currently searching for Night Shade, a self described night owl with a passion for gardening, who was last seen by her husband going to water some plants in her backyard in the middle of the night. She had reportedly forgot to water them and said her plants were quote on quote too important to wait until morning.

What followed was a head splitting noise that deafened and blinded nearly half the town closest to Night Shade's home, including Twilight and her friends. She could still taste the burnt metal on her tongue.

After a few minutes, when the horrible sound stopped, they immediately rounded up the citizens and determined that Night Shade was indeed missing. Not even a pond of blood was found. Although some of the ponies closest, including her husband reported seeing the mysterious tall red figures running away with a black bag. What followed was a long search for that eventually escalated into Twilight and her friends launching a search party comprised of themselves to look for her.

So here they were, Twilight and her friends, Starlight, and Spike, with the raising sun shining behind them, looking for a disappeared villager. Or, as Twilight internally started to fear, the culprits dragging away her body.

"Maybe we should split up." Said Twilight. "To cover more ground."

Rainbow Dash scoured through the sky, looking for anything that might give them a lead in this too long, and, even for her tastes, too bloody adventure.

She turned her head on the other side and dragged her eyes over the landscape.

"Uh, this is getting us nowhere." Complained Rainbow Dash.

I know, Dash. But we have to keep going." Said Twilight, flying next to her. "If there is even a small chance of..." She was cut off by Rainbow.

"Yeah, I get that. It's just that all I see is just some rocks, diferent rocks, few silhouettes, and maybe a mountain." Replied Rainbow

"Wait, did you just say silhouettes?!" Asked Twilight in schock.

As Rainbow Dash realised what she said, all the weariness from her missing a good half of her sleep was gone in an instant. She hovered in place, looking for those silhouettes she saw not but a moment earlier.

And just as fast as she saw them the first time, she saw them again. Her naturally sharp eyesight deciphering the tall red shapes running to hide behind some rocks. It was apparent that she caught them in the open, without any cover.

"Look, Twilight, they are over there!" Rainbow pointed one of her hooves at the rock the culprits were hiding behind. "Let's go get them!" With a flap of her wings, she rushed out to confront the red figures. Or at least tried to, since Twilight caught her in her magic before she could fly any significant distance.

"Rainbow, we've been over this!" Said Twilight, annoyed. "If we go after them now, then we'll never know where they are taking all those ponies."

"Then I'll beat out where it is out of them!" Cried out Rainbow Dash, struggling against the magical grip.

"Rainbow! All we will do is place a tracker spell on them and fly away as if we didn't saw them. Am I clear?" Asked Twilight.

"Fine." Rainbow Dash was released from the telekinetic grip and gently flew back to Twilight. "But for the record, I am against this."

Twilight and her friends were matching together for the second time that day. This time, the sun wasn't behind them, but right above them.

The tracker she placed on mysterious red figures had more or less stopped moving about one and a half hours ago. After some wait to confirm that they probably weren't just stopping for a rest or something, they set out to go after them.

The tracker itself had run out of magic about half an hour ago. So if the mysterious unknowns sneaked up on them, they wouldn't know. But that wasn't something Twilight was concerned about. They didn't seam particularly stealthy, more relying on the ear piercing noise then skill. And Twilight got that covered. She conjured a barrier that blocks all noise frequencies that are normally inaudible. She also did the same with light frequencies just to be sure.

The search party was just about to cross the peak of a small mountain, afterwards, they should have an unobstructed view of the residence of the mysterious culprits.

Twilight took a few steps forwards, just enough so she could see over the edge, and she saw it.

If you gave it only a glance, it would look just like any other camp, but if you looked more carefully, you would very much not see an ordinary camp.

It was riddled with tall figures, most were red, but a few were pale white with seamingly random parts being metallic. This trend persited amongst most of figures actually, now that she looked at it more carefully. There was even a few monstrously big hulking, red, and boxy things that looked like robots.

Amongst them were stalls with drills and machinery under them. Few even seamed to be operated by the figures. Twilight and her friends had found several holes in the bedrock that made the stony floor of the mountains. That explained why they couldn't find this camp, even tho it was this close to Cobblehoof. They were nomadic and moved their camp around to avoid detection, at least that's a likely theory until Twilight could go find out herselve.

On the outskirt of the camp were barricades, as if they expected an attack to happen any day now. There were even guards stationed on the barricades, wielding long tubes that were horrifyingly similar to muskets.

Twilight took out a pair of binoculars and looked at the camp through them. She moved her field of view to the centre of the camp. There was figure there, slightly bigger then most, flanked from all sides by those giant boxy robots.

It was different from the others, yet followed the same theme. It was wearing a red cloak that loosely hugged his, presumably male, body. His back was bloated, the bulge covered by his cloak, yet his posture was straight. There were several long thin metal tentacles coming out of his back with a variety of tips ranging from claws to spikes.

His face was prehaps the most terrifying part of him. Instead of eyes, there were two big, blue discs that glowed subtlety. Where the mouth was supposed to be, there was only an oversized, grill shaped, triangular mean looking scowl. Pipes were coming from the sided of the grill and went under the creatures hood.

Instead of the more common two legs, the figure had four, metal, spindly, spider like legs. In his mostly fleshy hands was a giant, fully metal axe with a skull emblem in the center of the head and a spike on the top. Next to the creature, suspended in mid air by a metal arm, was a boxy looking contraption. It was rectangulary shaped, with a slighty pointed tip. The middle was a purposeful looking blue coil. While Twilight couldn't possibly fathom what that thing was, it gave off the feeling of a weapon.

He was speaking to another red cloaked creature, but this one stood with its back to her, so she couldn't see much detail. The only notable thing about this creature, was a big machine attached to its back. The machine had several satellites and antennas attached to it. It reminded her of some kind of scanning tool. There was also a drill or two sticking out of the person.

Suddenly, Twilight was extra grateful for the barrier that shielded them from invisible or inaudible frequencies. And with only a slight adjustment, it could block other things too. It was very convenient and reliable.

Twilight shifted her binoculars back to first creature and looked at him more broadly. He radiated a feeling of authority and command. It was obvious he was in charge here, and therefore the most responsible for the disappearances.

She looked him in the eyes, almost hypnotised by their ethereal soft glow. Suddenly, he lifted his head and stared straight at Twilight. Horrified, she lowered her binoculars. She could still feel him staring.

"Let's move, girls. They already noticed us." Said Twilight.

Difindor's mind was in turmoil. In his head, he run over hundreds of diferent scenarios of diferent outcomes. Just as he always did. He briefly even considered shooting at them with his plasma gun, before deciding the xenos were far too away. The galvanic rifles of his skitarii on the other hand.

With a wordless command over the noosphere, the skitarii reoriented themselves to face this xenos threat which was already descending from the hill overlooking their camp. If they were lucky, they might just kill them before they even reach the Mechanicus camp.

But Difindor knew better. Even tho the reports from the test subjects haven't proved the xenos to be particularly strong fighters, it has, however, proven some of them to be psykers. And it is never easy when dealing with psykers.

With another wordless command, the skitarii, now lined up on the barricades facing the xenos, opened fire.

Hellfire of bullets rained down on the xenos as all their potential energy was released violently. At least, that's what was supposed to happen. Instead, all the bullets disappeared in mid air before touching them. as if being absorbed by an invisible barrier. The xenos, now in full sprint, didn't even seam particularly concerned.

Difindor couldn't possibly even start to imagine the strength and extent of this psychic shield. It was like nothing he had ever seen before. Rainbow energies were starting to form around some of the xenos, with the one leading the charge already starting to be engulfed in this multicoloured plasma. It was apparent that the xenos were charging a spell of an even stronger psychic might.

It was at this moment that Difindor realised he had lost. He might not lose everything. He might even escape out of this alive. But the xenos will unleash their spell, regardless of what he does. All that was left for him is to minimise the damage done and try to gain at least something out of this.

With another command, this one voiced not just over the noosphere but also through his voice box as a shout, he ordered two of his kastelan robot bodyguards to stay behind and hold the xenos off for as long as possible, while he, the rest of the kastelan robots, Kamenus and most of the other tech-priests and other high value members of his cohort to retreat to the other side of the camp to hopefully whether whatever the xenos will brought upon the ones who stayed behind.

Difindor did not spare a glance to the xenos nor the skitarii doomed to die. The optical feeds however, did provide him with enough detail.

The xenos had now reached the fringe of the camp and have been lifted into the air by their unnatural abilities. The rainbow plasma now a glowing corona that surrounded them. The skitarii and everyone else left behind desperately fired everything they got, including a few grenades, at them and took cover behind whatever they could as the xenos effortlessly flew over the barricades.

Difindor commanded the side of the camp he was in to take cover behind the stalls and machinery, preparing an ambush. He hoped that after expending themselves on whatever spell the xenos were charging, their shield would be left vulnerable or even completely spent and with a concentrated fire they could be finally put down. Oh how he longed to still have the backup valkyrie with him, but it was currently away coming back from delivering their latest xeno test subject. It would have made surviving much easier.

A rainbow laser emerged from xenos, specifically targeting and engulfing all the members of the Mechanicus on the half of the camp the xenos were in and even the ones on Difindor's side that were too slow to take cover.

A few moments later, they were gone. Both the beam and those hit by it leaving no traces of their existence but a little bit of radiation. The sudden silence was deafening.

The silence was then broken up by the xenos as they started to talk to themselves. It contrasted so much against the silent background that Difindor could actually hear them with his largely unaugmented ears.

"Well that was easy." Said a scratchy voice of one of the xenos in their alien but understandable dialect of Low Gothic.

"Hold your horses, Rainbow. We are not out the woods yet. We still have to find the ponies they foalapped." Said a second voice to the first, seamingly called Rainbow.

Hold horses? Out of the woods? Foalnapped? Thought Difindor to himself. Their dialect is truly nonsensical. This only further proves the insanity and backwardness of xenos.

This, other than increasing Difindor's conviction of xenos inferiority, also allowed Difindor to glean a few key pieces of information.

First, the xenos were unaware of his presence, just as he planned. And second, the xenos will come to him, so he doesn't have fire into a suboptimal position or lure them into it. They will walk into it themselves.

Know thy enemy. Was the only thing Difindor could think to himself as he positioned a stealthy servo-skull to overlook the xenos and readied his prized weapon from the depths of his cloak, the miniaturised multi-laser.

Most multi-lasers were too big and required too much power to be wielded by infantry and could be only wielded on vehicles and servo-turrets. This multi-laser on the other hand, was with its extensive modifications and resizing shrunk to a point were it could be powered, even if only for a time, by the impressive fusion reactor on Difindor's back and even be concealed by his cloak. Along with his plasma gun, it gave him a terrifying burst damage potential.

Difindor listened to the xenos if they were to drop another useful drop of information, but they did not. He recorded them all the same.

The xenos were now in the most ideal position they would likely ever be in. So, with a word of command over the noosphere Difindor commenced the ambush.

As one, the remnants of the camp stepped out of cover and opened fire. The rapid las fire of the multi-laser proving to be especially effective.

Or at least it would have been, had the xenos lost their shield. The only thing it achieved was scaring the xenos and making some of them yelp or sqeak at the sudden loud noises.

Difindor was the first one and the only one fast enough to duck behind cover again before the xenos fired off their spell once more. The rainbow plasma shinned off from the corners of the machine he was hiding behind.

And just as suddenly as before, the rest of his cohort was gone, not event the servo-skull survived. Difindor was alone.

"Hey! Come out of hiding! We know you're there, you won't surprise us again!" Shouted the scratchy voice of the alien from before. Undoubtedly proving Difindor wrong.

Difindor contemplated several diferent ideas and plans in his head that could give him a chance to survive. Yet none were sufficient. So he remained silent for now.

"If you come out of there you will get a fair trial." Said the second xeno also from before. This one was probably the leader of the group, but Difindor couldn't be certain for sure. "Stepping out and surrounding is the logical thing to do in this situation. You had your go at being a villain and it didn't work, but if you step out now and tell us where the ponies you foalnapped are, you will get a reduced sentence. I will make sure if that."

By the time the xeno, who Difindor was sure by now was a female, finished talking, he had already came up with several more ideas for survival, including surrounding. But where lesser being would have been swayed by the xeno's promises, Difindor saw right through their lies. Promising the enemy a trial if they surrounded was a tactic he had used himself, after all.

A thought appeared in Difindor's mind. Do not wait for death, death waits for you. It was told to him by his mentor and predecessor and it was also part of the Imperial truth and was sometimes broadcasted over the ship as an inspirational statement.

With renewed dedication he pondered on diferent ways to lure the xenos closer so could engage them in close quarters combat. A range in which a variety of shields, especially larger ones, weren't effective. If he were to die, then he would make sure that at least some of the xenos would die with him.

"I will not surrender to xeno primitives!" Shouted Difindor in the proper dialect of Low Gothic, not that you could be much proper in Low Gothic. He hoped to convey to them that if they wanted him, they would have to come for him. "Especially not after witnessing you kill everybody else!"

"Darling, we didn't kill anypony, or anybody." Said a third xeno. "We simply teleported them away or reformed them or both. The Elements of Harmony do not kill."

The Elements of Harmony. Difindor had heard of these artefacts before from the reports of interrogations of their xenos prisoners. They were supposedly jewelry of magical nature that could reform or otherwise deal with any 'villains' by shooting a 'rainbow beam' at them. He had thought it a mere propaganda before.

The notion that it doesn't kill, however, was simply absurd and naive. He wasn't sure whether the xenos were delusional and genuinely believed it, or were trying to trick him again.

"Elaborate." Responded Difindor. He could hear them coming closer to him, so if he could keep them in conversation, and therefore distracted, long enough, he would get an advantage in the upcoming melee.

"Well, I mean. The Elements never killed anypony before. Not to mention that they are the manifestation of friendship. Although I do admit that what happened here was quite unusual."

"Quite unusual, indeed." Commented Difindor with malice. He had already made peace with his upcoming death and started preparing several diferent instructions to be executed after his disintegration by the hands of the xenos. Not that the they have hands.

The sicarian infiltrators were the primary target of his plans. They had managed to overcome the xenos before, after all, not to mention that aside from him, they were the only ones planetside. So, he had ordered them to stealthily made their way to the xeno's base of operation and wait. Wait for the, hopefully by then weakened, xenos kill team. And then, eliminate them with one precise strike.

But for now, Difindor had xenos to distract. He waited a few seconds for their reply. When none came, he decided to take the initiative and start talking again before the xenos come up with another lie.

"Your lies do not sway me, xenos scum!" Shouted Difindor with all the disgust he could manage.

"Well, I never!" Yelled back one of the aliens. "Who do you think you are calling scum!? And with that horrible rug for a cloak!"

Before the xenos could continue, their leader Interjected. "Lies? What do you mean lies? We have said nothing but truth."

"Your lies are clear even to the blind. Your argument of friendship is as foolish as it is blasphemous." Said Difindor, certain his logic was sound. He was also certain the xenos would deny it. But such was the arrogance of aliens.

"Are you calling us liars!?" Shouted an angry voice of the scratchy sounding xeno. It was close. Very close. Only a second remained until it was close enough.

"Yes." Replied Difindor dryly. It was now close enough. This was the xeno that would fall first.

With one smooth motion, he moved out of cover and in front of the alien he was speaking to not but a half a second earlier.

The xeno in front of him was a cyan quadruped, clearly of the pegasus subspecies, as indicated by its with wings far too small to keep it in air. He suspected the touch of the warp was involved in some way. It's head and face unnaturally large with the eyes being truly oversized, yet strangely, aside from the red iris, human looking. Its mane was concuction of rainbow colors, it fitted the xono's name. It looked surprisingly similar to horse, with the major differences being a shorter snout, the addition of wings, smaller size, and disturbingly human facial structure. That and the colour of course.

Difindor raised his Omnissian power axe, lightning around the blade cracking with purposeful energy. The face of the xeno contorted and shifted to a look of surprise.

With another smooth motion, he brought his axe down onto the alien. But the xeno was fast. It hurriedly flapped its small wings and jerked backwards.

But Difindor was fast too. While this pegasus had managed to avoid the first strike, an impressive feat by itself, it will not avoid the second one.

Without pause, Difindor thrusted his axe forwards. The spike burrowed into the xenos abdomen effortlessly. He then pulled his Omnissian axe from within the alien and struck at it again. The xenos was too stunned by pain and shock to respond.

Tha same, however, could not be said about the leader. A purple corona of psychic light surrounded Difindor's prey as she was yanked back violently. But the leader was not as fast as the pegasus. While she has managed to push the other xenos quite far, it was not far enough.

A single limb remained within range and Difindor had to only slightly adjust the axe's trajectory. The power weapon cut through the limb as if it was water.

Satisfied with the damage done, Difindor moved to engage the xeno's leader, clearly the most dangerous memeber of their kill team.

But before he could even as much as take a step forwards he was too engulfed in purple light that stained his vision with unnatural colour. Suddenly, Difindor found himself unable to move. By communing with the machine-spirits of his bionics. He found that they did, in fact, received the commands to move, but a force of some kind was keeping them still. It was as if he was inside a block of iron.

The xeno leader was visibly struggling at some unseen exertion. An obvious sign that she was responsible for Difindor's predicament. That fact that she was straining was also an indicator that with enough force, he could overpower the loathsome spell.

With purpose, Difindor pushed with all the might of his bionics, remaining organic parts, and his faith to the Omnissiah.

"Twilight, will you be able hold him?" Asked one of the xenos that was not currently swarming around their wounded kin.

"Yes." Half gasped, half said the leader. Her strainage was significantly bigger then before. "Just need a few more seconds to charge up the total containment spell."

At this, Difindor would have cringed had he still had a mouth to cringe with. He quickly realised that he would not set himself free of the xeno's grip fast enough. That left him with only one last option.

The leader's eyes light up with surprise, as if sensing her upcoming doom. Prehaps such a thought was not too far from the truth.

"Girls! Use the Elements on him, now! He is going to blow up!" Shouted the leader with urgency and desperation. How had she learned that Difindor had set his fusion reactor to self detonate, Difindor did not know. But it mattered little, he would be faster then them.

"But what about Rainbow Dash!?" Shouted back one of the xenos crouched around their bleeding comrade. Not that the xenos appeared to particularly resemble soldiers.

"Just do it!" Shouted the leader back. Only a few seconds were left until the explosion of the fusion reactor.

A corona of Rainbow plasma surrounded the xenos again, stained purple by Difindor's prison. How had they managed to will it into existence so fast was a mystery. Especially considering how long it took them the first time. Maybe the more times they do it the quicker they can do it again, or maybe the more stress they are under the quicker it is. But Difindor could only guess.

He struggled as much his strained body would allow in a desperate attempt to get behind cover again. A futile effort.

With a last scream over the noosphere, Difindor first saw the etheric rainbow, then white.

The Arch Magos was stunned. Scifionsa was stunned. The inquisitor Canosius was stunned. The xenobiologist Biomeca was stunned. Everyone who saw what just happened was stunned. Aside from the odd servitor monitoring the pict-feed for visual hazards that is.

A small group of seamingly harmless xenos had just took down a well armed and equipped camp full to the brim with skitarii and tech-priests, one those being the security chief Difindor.

The startler was so great that the Arch Magos almost didn't register one last message from the now deceased Difindor that was sent aboard Voidspear. Almost.

So the Arch Magos forced himself focus and opened the message. It contained mostly what he expected. Difindor's will, list of his potential potential successors, only one of which was on the ship funnily enough, and few other minor things.

But hiding among the, for now, useless data, was a notification. A declaration even.

It informed the Arch Magos of an order Difindor had issued for the sicarian infiltrators to sneak into the xeno's settlement and eliminate the bearers of weapons the xenos called Elements of Harmony.

"[What are we gonna do about Difindor's last order?]" Aksed Biomeca, ever the meddler. The Arch Magos had strong suspicion this habit was going to get her killed one day.

"[Nothing.]" Answered the Arch Magos. The conversation between them was conducted through a shared channel that all high-ranking people aboard the Voidspear had access to. As such it allowed them to cenverse even when they are in completely diferent rooms."[It is a good plan. One with great risk, but far greater reward. A chance to eliminate the only major alien threat on this planet is not one to be passed. We shall leave the order as it is.]"

"[Permission to offer tactical advice?]" Asked Scifionsa abruptly.

"[Permission granted.]" Replied the Arch Magos.

"[[new_strategy] = Capture xenos bearing [Elements_of_Harmony] and deliver them to [Voidspear] for safe keeping. Interrogations had revealed that if [Element_bearer] == dead: new Element bearer is chosen. Therefore, [new_strategy] >[current_strategy].]"

"[I thought you said we shouldn't trust the Ponies about their Elements. You said the talks of their weapons were mere comfort lies if I remember correctly.]" Reminded Biomeca.

"[Correction: [specific_wording] = "[claims_of_weapons] = likely propaganda or comfort lies."]"

"[Just answer, Scifionsa. Leave your corrections to after we deal with this.]" Scolded the Arch Magos.

"[[previous_results_of_interrogations] = True. Therefore, probability of [interrogation_of_specimen3417] = True is High.]" Said Scifionsa, not seaming offended in the slightest.

"[Your logic routes are sound. I will follow up on your advice.]"

Rainbow Dash was currently sleeping and recovering from her wounds in her room in a local hotel that she and her friends rented out. The hotel was small and basic, as it was only meant for miners and families of miners, but it was sufficient.

Stalking her through the window was the sicarian infiltrator princeps. His enhanced optics allowing him to sea through both the window and the darkness from a surprising distance.

The princeps has already chosen his prey. The five man squad would attempt to capture three of the xenos designated as element bearers. Although the predicted successful captures was only 1.342.

All other infiltrators were in position now, all they waited for was the command to proceed. And they did receive it.

With coordination they leapt from cover and began bombarding the area with overwhelming stimuli via their vox-casters.

The priceps jumped onto a tree that grew close to the window he observed the xeno from. He then jumped again, this time straight through the window and shards of glass landed alongside him on the floor of the hotel.

The xenos he was sent to capture was lying on the ground, moaning in pain and holding her singular front limb around her ear. She received a few more scratches from shards, most stopped by the thick bandages wrapped around her abdomen and what remained of her right front leg. She otherwise seamed stable. Stable enough to not die while being transported to the valkyrie that is.

He could hear shouting from outside the door. He was not aware how the xenos managed to operate through the stimuli bombardment, but he was not gonna wait here long enough to find out.

The princeps mag-locked his weapons to his waist and gripped a nearby wardrobe. It took him only a small amount of effort to tumble the wardrobe in front of the door, forming a makeshift barricade. While the princeps would have loved to stay here and fight the incoming xenos, he also knew that if they wanted to accomplish the mission, they would have to avoid direct confrontation as much as possible.

The princeps took his stubcarbine into one of his arms and tried to take the almost blind xenos in his other hand, but she screamed and kicked at his cold metallic touch. The shouting of the other xenos outside the door got louder and they began to bang at the door. He would have to speed up.

He forcibly gripped her throat and lifted her up, choking her in the process. She kicked with her remaining feet, flapped with her sore wings, and squinted with her tearful red eyes. The princeps ignored all three.

He jumped out of the window, the xeno flapping its wings widely to prevent the doom she thought they were falling towards. That and relatively short distance they were falling made their falling onto the soft grass soft enough to leave the xeno without anymore injuries.

The princeps rapidly rose from the crouch he landed in took off in a sprint. The xeno's exertion was rapidly draining her remaining supply of oxygen.

The sound of the returning valkyrie's engines was starting to become audible now. It is going to preform the touch-and-go maneuver on the outskirt of xeno town.

The xeno in his hand was now almost entirely limp. The princeps loosened his grip just enough to provide the xeno with a single gasp to prevent her from suffering brain damage. Immediately after receiving her lifesaving breath of air, she returned to her pointless struggling

The valkyrie emerged from the darkness of the night sky. It descended down and touched the ground, but kept the engines running.

The princeps fastened his pace. He readied his arm with the still flapping xeno, and threw her into the valkyrie where an already waiting skitarii caught her. Then he jumped into the aircraft himself.

The sicarian infiltrator turned around to provide covering fire to the rapidly diminishing number of his comrades. Three of them were already incapacitated after being ambushed with warp sorcery.

The last infiltrator jumped through a window in the second floor, a xeno in his arm, but before he could land, he was engulfed by a purple corona that kept him in the air.

The princeps raised his stubcarbine aimed at the window his felow infiltrator jumped out of, but unfortunately he and the xeno he was holding were blocking the line of fire.

The sicarian leader briefly considered his options, and then lowered his stubcarbine. The xeno was not worth waiting here any longer and risking losing the one already captured.

The ramp of the valkyrie closed and the engines fired again, making the valkyrie do a vertical ascend for a few meters. Then, it took off into the night sky, leaving the rest of the squad planet side.

Author's Note

Okay, so remember that one time I said I will write briefly? Well, that isn't fricking happening, apparently.

Now it's time to talk about the story a little bit. As you may have noticed already, I made magic a lot more powerful than in cannon (Wait, the alternate universe tag isn't just for show?! I am so shocked! Said hopefully noone ever). This is mostly done so the fight isn't entirely one sided. Also, most of the actually useful magic (aside from telekinesis) is limited to Twilight, the alicorns (don't you dare tell me Twilight is an alicorn, or else you're joining the servitor crew) and maybe Starlight. But whenever those ponies, or the Elements, aren't around, it's gonna be a slaughter.

I've also changed the Elements of Harmony a bit. A pretty big bit actually. Firstly, when one of the Element bearers dies, the Element is transferred to a new suitable host that magicly finds its way to the other Elements. The other thing I changed is that the Elements work even when one of them is missing. They won't work as well, but they'll still work. It will also 'work' with two if the Elements missing, but only barely.

I also also did some changes to the time-line. Basically, season 9 already happened, but Celestia doesn't really trust Twilight to be a good leader as much as she does in cannon. There will also be some other changes, that I will probably bring up when they appear if I remember it.

And when it comes to the servitor issue, they are staring to pile up. So, that's why we decided that the first 500! people that call, will get their very own servitor, for free! But wait, that's not all. For this week only, we're giving away two servitors, for the price of one! Come and get your servitor for this limited offer.