Chapter 3: Canterlot's Defence

I dropped off from my ship and landed in the middle of the bugs, some were smart to leave some room for me but others were not, so they were crushed under my feet. I stood in my full form. The creatures cowered before me for a few seconds before their pride returned as a voice thundered from the crowd.

All the way from the back stood a tall black creature; it had a deep scar on its left eye and an eye patch to his right, it smiled at me showing its sharp unaligned teeth. It spoke in its language which made the army of bugs look chuckle at me, or we I think they chuckled at me. It finished its speech and told the bugs to attack me. I raised my foot, gathering massive amounts of energy and stomped the ground. The army of bugs dropped dead as the shock wave hit them. Unfortunately the shock wave just stopped just in front of the tall bug and other bugs behind him. They all stared at me with both awe and fear as they saw their brother-in-arms die in just seconds

Quel dropped from his ship and looked at my handiwork.

"Sheesh you didn't even save some for us, Kae'l," he joked.

"I don't have time for jokes, Quel," I said in a serious tone.

Not long after Quin and Kayle dropped from their ship.

The tall bug said something in rather a panicked voice which made all of the bugs retreat. I looked at Quel and he looks at me. I tilted my head in a convincing manner, Quel turned around with both of his arms raised.

"Whatever, you're the squad leader so do whatever you wanna fuckin' do," he said.

I nodded. "Ordis, take out my archwing,"

Ordis released the odonata from the ship and the flying machine flew towards me and attached to my back. The odonata gave a soft humming noise as I floated above the floor. I looked at Quel and Quin.

"You two stay here and keep an eye out on them – I pointed to the white horse – Kayle you come with me," I said.

Kayle practically jumped at my request. "With pleasure!"

Kayle contacted her ship to bring her archwing. And just like mine it flew off from under the ships belly and attached itself to her.

I and Kayle gave chase to the bugs.

Quin POV:

I watched as Kae'l and Kayle flew off and their imperators roaring in the battlefield as they downed the bugs. Well it looks like I have to guard the white horse… great, why did I even agree to join?

I turned around to see multiple guard horses aiming their spears at us. Quin pulled out her gorgon and aimed at one of the guards, I pulled out my trust Paris bow and aimed at one of the horses too. Sunbutt as I come to call it now because of the sun tattoo imprinted on its flank looked at me with caution and curiosity. I slowly aimed at her just in case shit hits the fan. Of course one of the guards had to block it.

Celestia POV:

The creature aimed its bow at me, I was about to calm the creature down, that's when Steel, my personal guard at the moment blocked me.

"Princess, please be careful!" he said.

"Sergeant I think it's fine if you move. I believe we just startled them," I said.

This only made Steel more determined to block my view and made the guards more than eager to attack these beings.

Kae'l POV:

Me and Kayle chased after the remaining survivors of the army. The tall leader was long gone right now were just picking off stragglers.

"I got one on my scanners," said Kayle and she marked the location.

"Got it." I said.

But before we could chase after the bug a loud explosion erupted from a distance. Me and Kayle stopped dead in our tracks and looked at the direction of the explosion, Fortunately the explosion was far away from Quin and Quel, but it was nonetheless close by in their location.

"Quel, you there?" I asked.

"Yeah I hear ya," he said through the comms.

"You heard that explosion?" I asked.

"Yeah,"

"I want you and Quin to investigate the location," I said.

Quin took a loud intake of breath making it sound like static through the comms. " Yeah, I can't do that, you see I'm kinda stuck here,"

"Why? What happened?" I asked.

"Sunbutt's guards aren't lowering their weapons at us and I feel like it's just getting worse here. You better get here ASAP because I can't speak horse." He explained.

"Copy, I'll be there in a moment," I paused and looked at Kayle. "In the meantime, I want you to check that explosion,"

Kayle nodded and headed off towards the direction of the explosion. I on the other hand will not afford to take any prisoners. I looked at where the bug was, it seems like it hasn't gone far. But what got me curious as how it went straight towards the trees instead of the open. I decided that its appointment with Death will have to wait, so I stalked the bug from a distance.

It's been three minutes and every second just prompts my itchy trigger to lay waste on him. That's when I saw it; It looked like a camp of some sort for the bugs. I could see caged horses and injured bugs that were lucky enough to survive our aerial attack. At the edge of the camp I could see five hostages; one had the color of lavender fur with a black mane and a tinge of purple, the other had white fur and deep purple hair that curled elegantly, another had a butter colored fur with a long pink mane, another was just… pink everything on its body was pink and its mane was completely straight, and the last one was orange with a blonde mane.

I took a minute to scan for more hostages and I spotted three more but this time they were smaller ones, probably children; one was white like the other horse and its mane was mixed with pink and purple, the other one was orange with purple mane and the last one was a yellow horse with red mane.

It wasn't long till I took notice of another hostage, this one was badly injured, I could see deep cuts from its sides, it had a very bad black eye and it was like someone just threw it in a pool of blood and its rainbow mane was completely messed up. Deciding that I had enough and that these bugs had to die my mission changed from exterminate to rescue.