DOOM

Location: Frozen North, Pony Watch National Institution Main Base

Time: 0700 Hrs.

Date: June 20, 0695

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Soldiers marched across the snowy plain doing a cadence count, chanting "Left, Right, Left, Right, Left." over and over again. While some were completely fine, others were complaining about things, but quietly as they did not want to go without dinner.

"Man I'm freezing my balls off." A stallion with an ice-blue coat, rose-red mane/tail, and a scar on his left eye complained. The stallion to his side replied.

"What balls, Winter Lance?" The stallion said mockingly. The stallion had a forest-green coat, a steel-black mane/tail, and scar stretching from his left cheek to his shoulder. The other stallion glanced over to him.

"Fuck you, Greenday!" The stallion said. Greenday only laughed at his weak comeback.

After about twenty minutes, the soldiers returned to the base. They quickly went down to the mess hall. The mess hall was always warm, despite its awful smell. The two stallions that had conversed sat at the same table, a table in the corner. It was generally a bit colder, but it smelled the least awful. Across from them was a stallion with an aquamarine coat, a teal-blue mane, and a red stub tail.

"What's up guys?" The aquamarine stallion asked.

"Nothin' much. Still not used to the cold weather yet. What about you, One Shot?" Winter Lance said, eating his food. Before he could answer, a female voice on the intercom spoke loudly.

"All members of Alpha and Bravo Team report to the Mission Briefing Room immediately." The female voice said. Six stallions and six mares at another table got up and walked to the double doors leading out of the mess hall. They were the members of Alpha Team. Two stallions and six mares at another table got up and headed to the same doors.

"Time to go." Winter Lance said, getting up, quickly followed by the other two at the table. They headed to the same doors, whence opened, feeling a large temperature change. The hallway was freakishly cold, making the stallions shiver. They saw the twenty ponies up ahead, and quickly galloped to them.

}|{-Mission Briefing Room-}|{

The twenty three ponies all filed into the room one by one. The room was like a small presentation room, except instead of comfy chairs, there were uncomfortable folding chairs. But just like any other presentation room, there was a stage with a flat TV screen for slide shows. But that's not what interested them the most. On the stage, were seven of the nine rulers of the Pony Kingdom. There was Celestia, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie. The soldiers bowed down for a few seconds before raising again and flopping into chairs. Twilight Sparkle began counting all of the soldiers.

"... Twenty-one. Twenty-two. Twenty-three... We're missing someone." Twilight said aloud. The soldiers looked around and quickly realized who was missing.

"Where the hell is Midnight Twister?" A female mare with a white coat and mint-blue mane/tail asked with a bit of irritation in her tone.

"Did somepony dial 666? Cause the Devil's just arrived." Another voice said in a hot-headed tone. All eyes turned to the source of the voice. There was a steel-black coted Pegasus with a black, long, and straight mane that had green streaks going through it, standing at the door. He also had a prosthetic left wing, a blood-red right wing, blood-red fore hooves, and a black tail.

"What was taking you so long?!" Greenday demanded.

"I was banging your sister." Midnight Twister said, flopping into a chair.

"You're an asshole!" Greenday said angrily.

"You just jealous of my Pegasus swagger." Midnight Twister replied, still oblivious to the princesses.

"Dude, you do realize that seven of the princesses are here, right?" Winter Lance said cautiously. Midnight Twister turned his head to the princesses, whom stared at him with disapproval. He was completely unfazed by this.

"Yo!" Midnight Twister said with a loose salute. After about two seconds, Princess Celestia spoke.

"I believe you're all familiar with the UAC." Celestia said. The responses of the audience were simple nods. She continued immediately afterwards.

"Everything I'm about to reveal to you is extremely classified. Not a word about this outside of this room."

There were nods, signaling that the audience understood.

"The UAC have uncovered over two-hundred ancient alien artifacts on the moon. Most of them are tablets, bones, and the like. But one of them has... Strange.... Magical properties."

"What kind of magic?" A female asked.

"The magic that the artifact produces was never known about until now. We've decided to call it Satanic Magic."

Twilight levitated a remote to her and pressed a button with her hoof. The TV turned on, displaying a diagram of the artifact. It appeared to be a spear. Except its design was much different. The spear was entirely made of some kind of metal. And it had two blades, one on each end. The top blade was much longer and curved a little bit upwards. The bottom blade was much shorter and curved a little bit downwards. There were also holes in the blade on the back part of both blades. Each had some sort of ball of fire levitating inside it. And on the pole of the spear, there was a strap, probably supposed to be strapped to the fore hoof of the creature. Twilight clicked another button on the remote. The slide changed to a diagram of some sort of sarcophagus.

"This is another one of the artifacts found. It is some sort of sarcophagus. But something about this artifact makes it different. The 'something' is that there's a live specimen inside it. A team of scientists attempted to open it, and were successful. But not long afterwards, we lost all contact with the UAC. We believe that the creature inside was responsible for it."

The soldiers could already see where this was going.

"You're all going to the UAC facility on the moon. You're mission: Re-establish contact with the UAC. Retrieve all information regarding the artifacts if you can't re-establish contact. And your other objective: If you encounter this creature, and if it's hostile, eliminate it along with any other threats."

Fluttershy about broke out in tears upon hearing that. She didn't want this thing to get killed. It probably had a reason to attack the facility.

"Let's kick some ancient alien ass!" One Shot exclaimed, followed by multiple Hoo-Rah's coming from the rest of the audience. Celestia's response to this was a mental facehoof and a low sigh. Before any of the soldiers could move though, Celestia spoke.

"And another thing: Twilight Sparkle will be coming with you as a representative. I want you to protect her in case you come along any threats. If you ever get separated, finding and protecting her is your number one priority. Do you understand?"

"HOO-FUCKIN-RAH!" Midnight Twister exclaimed, followed by another round of Hoo-Rah's.

"Then you are dismissed."

The soldiers got out of their seats and gave solid salutes before moving towards the door.

-TO BE CONTINUED...