Incarnate

First to Fall

With a flick of his wrist, Vilek ordered the hordes to descend upon the shield with their full strength. Being the very same spell used at the royal wedding some time ago, spiderweb cracks began to cover certain areas of the great pink bubble, and eventually spread all along the barrier. At this, the commanding officer of the Xenos, and his personal guardians darted within the sanctuary, the blatant retreat of their formerly brave commander caused the shield bearers to falter, and were met with the horrible sound of a dreadnought's massive foot crushing a guardsman completely. Once the dreadnought charged at the already weakened shield, and crushed the xeno psycher underfoot, the remaining guardsmen fled in full panic to the sanctary's doors, only to find them barred from within by their undoubtably terrified leader, and were slaughtered without remorse by the frenzied horde. Blood ran down the marble steps of the large building like waterfalls, meanwhile Vilek stood back with his masters, pondering how they would breach this final stronghold.

Once the heads were salvaged from the fallen defenders and put to proper usage upon pikes, the ravenous horde of warp-fueled invaders were met with a dilemma. The dilemma being a vast pair of reinforced white doors separating themselves from their prey, the dreadnought tried punching them down, the space marines tried blasting them down, the Khornate berserkers even went as far as to fetch a chimney from a building's charred skeleton to use as a battering ram, but nothing worked. And from inside, the spectral forms of Parix and Elegost saw that the coward commander was calling for help through a small rift in the air, and that the doors, windows, and walls were magically reinforced by the five remaining guards, and numerous civilians who had taken shelter within the sanctuary when the siege started, force would not best it.
It was then that the two ghosts examined their surroundings, they were in a vast chapel lit by candles and light through stained glass, all of the glass depicting a large white xeno and a blue xeno of similar size, surrounded by six much smaller figures wearing odd jewelry and casting light from their items. The room itself stretched down rows of pews toward a large altar sporting a huge statue of the white horse with a motherly look in her eyes, disgusting. It then struck the two to eavesdrop in the commander's vox attempt.
"M-multiple casualties both guard and civilian. Princesses, Canterlot, Ponyville, does ANYONE READ?!" And for the apparent first time, he was answered. "Speak more my little pony" the rift spoke as it unfurled to a fully open position, revealing the white horse xeno immortalized on the altar. "Your majesty! Thanks be, and as I was saying, our town is in ashes, the garrison are almost completely dead, and civilian casualties are catastrophic!" He ranted until out of breath, when his leader decided to speak up, "who assails the Celestian Empire!? Tell. me. WHO!" The recruit had no time to explain, as a large brown spot appeared on the doors and began to spread to the very hinges, and then crumbled the once proud doors into steaming piles of rotted wood and rusted hinges. As the door fell away, the soldiers and refugees saw a death guard veteran standing with his openpalm still extended, his very touch had rotted it away.

"What in Tartarus is that?!" Celestia screamed, only to be answered with howls of savagery from the horde of red clad bipeds rushing through the entryway, and what she saw and heard next made the ruler's blood run ice cold. The guardsmen stood to repel them, but their armor and bodies were torn to shreds by the axes the invaders carried, who bellowed numerous cries as they slaughtered the guards, but the most popular seemed to be "blood for the blood god!" Once the guards were reduced to nothing whatsoever, it was the civilians turn. However, what came next was unexpected, as a huge biped in black armor, sporting numerous heads upon his belt and shoulders ordered the horde to cease, saying that his masters have plans for them and that they were to be taken to the stronghold. At the very idea of her subjects being used for some sick purpose, Celestia cried out in zealous rage. "Animals!" She began, "Butchers! Savages! Why do you do this to my people!? Release them immediately!" Upon hearing the voice of their beloved ruler and diety, the surviving ponies began to either beam with joy, taunt the marines on the mistake they had made, or scream for aid, that all ended when one standard marine kicked a taunting mare in her forelegs, effectively snapping them. "Silence!" He yelled, as his leader approached the portal.

"Hear me false Empress! I am he Vilek! He who hath spoken to the dark Gods themselves, and used their servants to flatten this miserable village. Do not fear for your people, they shall live for as long as they are useful to us, and aid us in spilling blood all across the land!" Celestia thought to herself after hearing this outburst, "they shall share the fate of the diamond dogs then..."
For after news reached her that one of her element bearers was taken by a troop of dogs, she launched a crusade and wiped them from the face of "her" planet, nopony objected, because it was the will of their God princess. And so it was just. About halfway through her crusade, she received a message that rarity had indeed been rescued, and everything was fine again, but they had sinned, and demanded punishment, and the only place without knowledge of this genocide was strangely Ponyville, as she didn't want to frighten her element bearers.

"Your blaspheme will be punished savage. I am already assembling the pegasi needed to smite you from your little hovel." Celestia said with confidence, at which, Vilek laughed evilly. "Then they had best be more of a challenge then these welps! Take them to the pool," he directed to the four chaos space marines around the twenty villagers, "if any resist, break their backs and leave them behind." And with that the marines set out, not two minutes later a loud snap, and screams were heard. "I suppose that makes 19" Vilek said with a chuckle. "You shall pay for this" Celestia fumed, "you and your pathetic false Gods!" Vilek twitched for a second, and a broad smile covered Celestia's face, thinking she had broken him, only to be let down when she saw a cold smile form across his features. "If they are so false, worm. Then how do you find this? BLOODLETTER!" After that, Vilek left the scene, and what replaced him was what could only de be described as a daemon. It's crimson skin, elongated tongue, and large horned head terrified Celestia as he plucked the still living guard commander from the floor, and subsequently bit his horn off. Blood sprayed, and the picture faded with but the sounds of the daemon giggling, and the guard crying out for the princess to save him, Celestia was furious. She turned and trotted out of her quarters, and said but one thing to her guards, "summon my generals."