"Fragile." He paused, "You are all so fragile." The bald man whispered to himself while he stared at the dying clone of himself and the woman his clone cared for, the white void surrounded them while behind was a glittering blue portal. He calmly watched, as if in shock and sympathy, he turned and reluctantly stepped in. Everything vanished, a swirl of blue lights and then. Nothing.
It was over, Kane was dead, gone, from the world he plagued. And so did his followers, the Scrin were all but defeated, remaining pockets of Reaper-15 still attacked cities but the now strong and powerful GDI stopped them. Traveler-59 fled with the Scrin warships away from Earth. Nod was defeated and no more, followed Kane into the Scrin Therehold tower where history will forever record them as nothing but terrorists and were defeated by GDI. The Marked of Kane commanded by LEGION went underground and came out only at night for unknown reasons. Nod's special ops branch; the Black Hand simply vanished, possibly followed Kane or in hiding among the population. The war was finally over. GDI can rest.
Unknown to the Earthen people, through the Thershold tower was a new world, a world also plagued by war, a world that Kane hoped to return and save them from their own war. This world interestingly enough was Equestria, a shock and confusion the knowledge will be to some, this world contains the last piece of Kane's puzzle. Now I shall show you why. But first, the tale must be said.
Equestria was spilt into two, a war between both sides. The Lunar Republic and the Solar Empire. Each an enemy of each other, both commanded by the two sisters: Princess Luna and Princess Celestia. Sisters and now, hated enemies of each other, the war lasted for centuries. And countless deaths accord day and night, assassinations, ambushes on merchants. It was all that and the innocent simply watched, watched as their husbands, wife's, sons and daughter's were taken into the war to fight or cheap labour.
Inside this war taken world was a simple relaxing village. Ponyville. Many would say otherwise at first glance but this village contained the most members of both fractions, the calm and simple village was constantly involved in raids and attacks from both sides.
One night, a simple DJ walking down the street inside the town. A white unicorn mare with a dark blue mane walked calmly, her baggy white shirt stuck to her figure nicely and a pair of jeans were loosed on her legs. She walked away from the still music beating building, a smile on her face after her last gig. Her glasses shined over her red eyes. As she walked, a ear piercing sound echoed causing her to freeze in terror. Were one of the two fractions out to get her? Her thoughts raced until the noise stopped, a thud sounded followed by a grunt. Turning towards the alley the sound originated from. She carefully walked forward, entering the alley, she looked curiously around the area to find the sound.
Looking behind her in case someone followed her thinking she was a spy working with the Republic or Empire, she didn't notice the body on the floor causing her to trip. Falling onto the floor, she gritted her teeth at the thought of the thing tripping her, turning around in anger. She froze, lying on the floor in front of her was a pony like creature but one thing was certain to her. It wasn't a pony, it had the usual hands and body shape of a stallion but lacked hoofs which was replaced by a metal boot of sorts and the face. It lacked fur or anything pony features. It's face was obviously covered by skin, a 5 o'clock trim on its face, it's mane was jet black short. The body of the creature was covered by a metal plating of some kind, it showed many of his chest and stomach area making the DJ blush. What interested her was the symbol on his left breast. It looked like a backwards C designed like a scorpion tail surrounded by a weird triangle shape.
The more she studied the creature the more confused she got. Thinking quickly she dug one of her hands into a pocket and pulled out a mobile device, quickly typing in the number of her dear friend she waited. "Vinyl! Do you know what the time is?!" The noise of her roommate made her flinch as she lightly chuckled, "Hey Octey, listen, can you prepare a second bed in the main room. And get something to act as restraints please?" There was a pause and the sound of something slapping as jer roommate groaned. "Please tell me this isn't another stallion? I swear Vinyl if it is." She sighed and looked at the creature once more. "Octey, I promise youthat it isn't that. I found something or somepony and they could be really hurt, and can you come over here as well once your done?" Another pause, waiting for a few minutes felt like days to Vinyl until her roommate spoke. "I'll be there." Before hanging up.
Waiting for her roommate to show up was probably the scariest moment in her life, the creature on the floor could wake up any minute and probably cause havoc in a destructive rage. Or it could woke up and use her as it's slave for world domination. Or... her thoughts was cut short by a hand slapping her face, grabbing her head and rubbing the mark as she hissed in pain. Turning her head to look at her attacker only to see her roommate with her hands on her hips, looking unimpressed. She gave a weak smile at her roommate, "Hey," her roomate huffed and looked at the creature on the floor.
Her roommate was a grey earth pony with a black mane, she wore a simple but greyish T-Shirt and a pair of dark blue jeans. Bracelets sat on each of her wrists, her brown eyes studied the creature on the floor. "I can see why you needed me for this, but why me?" Her eyes harshly looked at Vinyl, "Well, you see, look. I trust you alot okay, if I told someone who is working for the Republic or Empire. They'll kill me to avoid me from telling others and do some fucked up stuff on this thing. I'm scared enough of the war anyway." Her roommate looked sympathetic at her, moving around the creature she bend down and picked up the creatures legs, "We better get going then, you take the arms." Vinyl looked confused, rasing her hand she let her magic aura appear, "Why can't I use magic?" Her roommate looked thoughtful before saying. "Vinyl, for all we could know, magic is poisonous to it." Sighing, Vinyl agreed and went to grab it's arms.
After ten or so minutes of dragging the creature, they finally arrived at their apartment. Octey distracted the clerk while she had to covertly drag it towards the elevator, after succeeding, they both relaxed as the elevator slowly and gently moved up. The two breathed heavily and looked away from each other, and avoided looking at the creature that was resting on the wall to their right. Vinyl finally looked at the creature, now that it was light she looked at it more in depth, she laughed to herself when she remembered when she tripped. It's armour plating was a dark black aside from the blood red symbol. When he elevator finally arrived, the two dragged the creature down the hallway until they reached their room. The number 38 was engraved in gold on the wooden door as Octey searched her pockets for the door key. When the door was open, the two rushed inside with the creature. Inside Vinyl could see that most of the furniture in the main room was moved about and in the middle was a single bed with just a mattress.
The two moved the creature onto the bed as Vinyl got to work in placing the restraints on its arms and legs. Vinyl stepped back when the last restraint was placed, glancing back only to fall onto the couch behind her she breathed relief. Looking at the creature some more while her roommate was worrying about the room and cleaning up messes and removing 'potential' weapons as she claims. Vinyl laughed. After calming down, she looked at her roommate who sat down next to her and also looked at the creature, she asked. "What happens now?" The question struck Vinyl as she fidgetted about looking for an answer, until. "I don't know," the question scared her. She can't keep this thing locked up in here or ponies will get suspicious or the creatures own people will come looking for it. "He." Her roommate suddenly said, breaking the sudden ice. "Wha?" She replied, looking at the mare next to her, "Sorry, but the creature. It's a he, a stallion." Vinyl pondered on this, "How do you know?" Octey simply sighed before pointing out, "He contains features that a stallion would have, such as facial hair and a set of abs." She blushed as she continued, "His jaw is also defined and strong like. Many features that a stallion would have."
Looking at it more, she began to agree with her roommates discovery. She stood up and slowly walked towards 'him', the word rolled against her tongue while she looked at him. Placing gently on the metal chest, she could barely feel his real chest underneath move in time with his breathing. "Do you think he will understand us if he wakes?" Her roommate moved next to her and replied, "We will know in due time."
Elsewhere, inside a complex of caves, water dripped into a small puddle from above as a rumbling echoed. A giant metal leg crashed down, followed by another metal leg. The metal giant walked throughout the cave system before finally stopping at a cavern. Inside was thousands if not millions of green crystals. A green gas infected the crystals and floated into the air. A hatch opened on the side of the machine and out jumped a black armoured creature with red lights covering it. The same scorpion tailed backwards C sat on his shoulder as it lifted it's left hand to it helmeted face. "Lord Kane, we have discovered a magnificent Tirburim deposit. A base shall be constructed." The armoured being paused as if it was receiving something. "No sir, the commander has not been found, I'll send a Shadow team out in the morning to search for him." The being lowered its hand and began commanding the machine as it shifted and twisted to form a structure of some kind. The armoured being then turned to stare at the glowing crystals before shouting. "KANE LIVES FOR NOD!"
A/N
It has been a while since I last wrote a bloody fic, problems have appeared and stuff have been hard. Anyway, after getting Command & Conquer to return to my gaming roots, the first genre that made me a gamer: strategy. I couldn't help but think, I could write a story about Nod, GDI and the dreaded Scrin (hate those alien bastards, tore up my bases) so after times of planning and pacing and stressful moments that involved my girlfriend cheating on me and coming out with depression and suicide to my family. (I'm proud to admit my depression and fight it) I decided to finally put pen to paper. Also, to those that will be confused about POV's, there will be five or so POV's but are in third person.
The first set are: Vinyl, Octavia and their Nod guest.
Second set of POV is: The Nod bases around the world, random Nod forces and squads and even Kane himself
Thrid set will be the Lunar Republic and the Solar Empire
While the forth will be various News articles describing GDI, Earth and Equestria
The fifth set is currently unknown at the moment.
This is long I know. But as to why I chose the Lunar Republic and Solar Empire Equestria is still beyond me because I thought it was a good idea at the time but I think it will add to the tension to the war when Nod reveals their presence. So thanks for reading and hope to see you next time.
Oh and a treat for you lot XD. A small preview of the next chapter, be warned as I may not include or it will be severely altered.
[SPOILER WARNING]
Vinyl walked out of the bedroom in only her underwear yawning, her eyes opened and closed tiredly as her brain processed the main room. Blinking to cover the tiredness, she came to a shock. The second bed was unoccupied, before she could run into her roommates bedroom, a hand quickly covered her face and turned her around, her eyes stared into the crimson red of the creature she found before as he leaned forward and harshly spoke. "Where. Am. I." Vinyl fainted.
Spoiler much? Thought so, but remember, this may be heavily changed and edited so don't expect this. Anyway, I wasted enough time, cya next time. Read & Review