Gorgutz 'Ead 'Unter and those things da 'umies ride

The group of ponies stared at the spike. It was long, and had many strange objects impaled along its length, in various states of decay.

Pinkie was bouncing around it like it was a maypole while the others just stood back in confusion.

"What is it anyway?" Rainbow Dash asked while she circled the spike and narrowly avoided crashing into Pinkie. It was the same size as any of them, had a brown haft and many red, blood-like stains along its length. Rainbow swooped in, turning one of the objects, revealing Indrick Boreale's face locked in a eternal 'NO'.

"Urgh!" She recoiled at the sight of the slightly rotted head. She moved on down to the next one and rotated it, showing a rotted head with a metal box smashed into its forehead.

"What slightly sick horror is this? Twilight, you're smart, you should know what this is. Twilight?" Rainbow flipped back to look down at the others. "Gals, any of you seen Twilight?"

The four ponies looked at each other with confused looks.

"She was here only a second ago..." Fluttershy whispered.

Nightmare's laugh echoed throughout into the castle.

"Well, that solves where Twilight's at. Let's go save Twilight!" Rainbow shouted, flying off towards where the laugh had come from.

"But what about that horrendous spike?" Rarity asked.

"The spike can wait, friends can't." Applejack shouted back as she and Pinkie ran into the tower.

"I'm going to regret this later..." Rarity raced into the tower after them.

"Well... If everypony else is going in, I might as well..." Fluttershy glided in after Rarity.

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"Alright ya Grotz! Turn  ma kroozer round an head for da place dat seems orkiest!" Gorgutz bellowed into the gretchin-filled cockpit of the Manta.

"Er, Boss?" 'Ucky asked from inside his Criork armour. Made from various bits of Crisis battlesuit and regular Tau armour, he had the chest plate from a battlesuit, the greaves were from Fire Warrior armour and he had the back of a Tau helm mashed with metal bars to the back of a Tau helmet so it could fit over the ork's massive head. It also had the jet pack from a battlesuit, like Gorgutz's cyber-harness now had. The Stormboyz were similarly equipped, with Fire Warrior chest armour in place of the battlesuits.

"How'z we goin' to tell how Orky somethin' is?"

"Shut it ya git! I know how Orky somethin is, and I'll go after da Orkiest spot around. It's dat Waaagh feelin."

"Oh." 'Ucky nodded in understanding.

"Oi, Boss! Deres some fancy lightshow up ahead! Come un see!"

"Ya better not be wastin my time ya filthy grot..." Gorgutz raised himself out of his 'Kommand throne'  and poked his head down into the Manta's cockpit.

"There Boss." The grot pointed to a ruined looking tower that reminded Gorgutz of some of those worlds where the humans were almost as good as orks at choppin'. Of course, no one was better at choppin' than orks.

Soon enough, bright light suddenly exploded from the top of the tower.

"Alright. Boyz-" Gorgutz turned away from the cockpit and back towards his Stormboyz. "we'z got a lightshow up ahead, and lightshowz means fightin'. And probably ma pointy stikk. So, ere's da plan. You, you-" Gorgutz jabbed a power claw at the two orks closest to him "-and 'Ucky will go lookin for ma pointy stikk and and heads that you can find lying around. Da Grotz will drop be an da other boyz at da lightshow afta we blow a hole through the wall with da dakkas. Got it, ya gitz?"

The orks nodded and otherwise acknowledged in various ways either by bashing weapons together or shooting them into the Manta's armour plated walls.

"Grotz, open da doors!"

The rear doors opened, flooding the Manta with cold night air and the smell of warp sorcery.

"Move, ya gitz!" 'Ucky yelled at his two wingboyz as they charged towards the Manta's doors and leaped out, firing their new jet packs as they went.

"Right. Now, ya gitz, form up by da door in a firin' line. And when I tell ya to fire, ya fire. Got it?"

The orks formed up in a close approximation to a Imperial guard firing line in the Manta's rear doors as the ramp began to extend.

"FIRE ya gits!"

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Nightmare Moon could only stare as the Elements of Harmony suddenly appeared before her and began to glow. She would not go down like this, not again...

A low hum filled her ears as a bright light surrounded the elements as they lifted off the floor.

A loud voice bellowed from somewhere outside the tower "FIRE ya gits!"

There was a very loud sound, she couldn't quite describe what to call it so she ended up terming it 'dakka'. The wall to her right exploded in a hail of blue fire and stone, effectively preventing the Elements from striking her now as metal ramp came crashing into her old throne room.

Several, large, green creatures similar to Diamond Dogs in cased in some futuristic looking armour walked down he ramp in a line forming into a semi-circle at the ramps base.

A larger green biped clad in some strange machine-armour, with a claw on its right arm and some strange cylinders in place of its left walked down the ramp after them before stopping about halfway down.

It shouted "Alright, which one of you multicoloured grotz has ma pointy stikk before I dakka y'all to da other side of dis here planet?" while pointing the claw at the Elements and the cylinders at her.

Nightmare Moon frowned. "Sorry, I don't speak barbarian.