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Warning: There are some disturbing scenes so heads up :D
Chapter 4
Storm is coming: Part 1
It was an ordinary day in Ponyville and everypony was doing their daily routine. It has been two years since Twilight and her friends defeated Nightmare Moon and saved Equestria. When they defeated Nightmare Moon, the ponies discovered that the princess's sister, princess Luna, was Nightmare Moon. Once everything went to how they were before Nightmare Moon's arrival, princess Celestia asked Twilight to report to her about what she had learned about friendship each week.
During the course of the year, the young unicorn had learned a lot about friendship when she was helping her friends. Sometimes the other ponies would report to Celestia on what they learned about friendship. Each time the ponies help one another, or anypony in Ponyville, their friendship with each other and the citizens grow stronger.
But something terrible happened one year after Nightmare Moon. An evil creature that was turned into stone by princess Celestia and princess Luna 1000 years ago. A creature that was pure disharmony and utter chaos and wants nothing but destruction and rule over Equestria once again. His name was Discord and also referred to has a Draconequus.
The spell that Celestia and Luna cast wasn't strong enough to hold him in his stony prison and with each passing century during his confinement, the spell was getting weaker and he was getting stronger. He was planning on how to take down the princess and take back Equestria while he was sealed away, he knew what he was going to go after once he was freed.
The time came when he was strong enough to break through his prison and take his plan into motion. However, when he was freed the sighs of his released did not go un-notice. All over Equestria, clouds that were pink and made of cotton candy rained over the land and it rained chocolate. The food, fruits, and other eatables turned massive and the animals grew longer appendages; the whole land, not just Ponyville, started to become unbalanced and everypony was scared for their lives.
It was there that the princess was in a frantic and called the mane 6 to aid her; that was when Discord made his move and used his dark magic to unseal the princess's hidden back chamber where Celestia kept the Elements of Harmony safe.
Discord wanted to have some fun with the 6 mares and greet his 'old friend' Celestia so he revealed himself to them. He told them that the elements are somewhere in the maze where he was sealed away as a stone. Once they got there, Rarity and Twilight's horn were gone and Flutteshy and Rainbow Dash's wings disappeared. Discord appeared before them and told them that there is no cheating and if one of them cheat, then they lose.
Discord wanted to have a bit more fun so while the ponies were in the maze, he started to manipulate each pony, turning them into their opposites. He started with Applejack and turned her into a liar, then Pinkie Pie, turning her into a jerk. Rarity into a greedy pony, Fluttershy into a bully, and finally turning Rainbow Dash into a selfish and un-loyal pony.
Since Discord told Dash that if she does not have her wings, then her hometown of Cloudsdale will be defenseless and destroyed if she wasn't there. Rainbow didn't want to leave Twilight but her home could be in danger; she was selfish and un-loyal enough to take the offer and flew away, his plan worked.
He told Twilight that Rainbow Dash cheated and she lost. The purple unicorn couldn't believe that Rainbow Dash, her loyal friend, betrayed her and went off to who knows where.
The Draconequus laughed in triumph, Twilight and her friends couldn't beat Discord, the Elements of Harmony couldn't defeat him and now was the new ruler of Equestria; Twilight couldn't believe it, her friends changed, Discord won, but most of all, she failed the princess and lost her friendship with her friends.
But Discord's reign of chaos didn't last very long when Twilight learned that she was the one who was able to reverse Discord's spell, all she needed was a refreshment that princess Celestia sent her through a letter.
Twilight and her friends used the elements and defeated, turning him back into stone once more. With that being done, Ponyville started to return back to normal and all over Equestria was returning normal has well. Equestria was now safe once more, thanks to Twilight and her friends.
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It was 6am when Twilight Sparkle was in her library organizing her books after another long night of studying. Twilight had been missing her study time on account that she has been helping her friends; she was helping them for one week and she missed her studies because of them. She didn't mind helping them but one week without her studying can make her quite uncomfortable. The following week, she spent each day and night studying up until now and she manage to catch up on her studies. She was exhausted and her eyes were red and had bags under her eyes; her mane and tail was a mess.
"And there we go. The last book is now neatly shelved." Said Twilight has she gazed around the room, looking on how neatly she cleaned the room. Normally she would have ask Spike to help her clean or let him do it but thought that Spike had been working hard last week and this week with helping around the tree house and helping Rarity with her cleaning and digging for gems.
She couldn't wait to go to sleep after a week of almost no sleep. At least now she caught up on her studies and has until sunset to report back to Celestia.
Twilight was about to go upstairs when she notice something out of the corner of her eye. She turned around and saw a book that was on the floor. The tired purple unicorn was too tired to pick it up and put it away, she left it there and went to bed. She would pick up later or let Spike get it when he wakes up.
When she got to her room she saw Spike curled up in his basket, snoring. She jumped onto her bed, ignoring to cover herself with her blanket.
She was asleep in less than 10 seconds when she landed on the bed.
3 hours later
"Twilight. Twilight wake up." The unicorn was happily sleeping when Spike woke her up from her sleep. Twilight let out a loud groan and turn her back away from Spike, trying to fall back asleep.
"Ugh later Spike. I'm too tired to do anything right now." Said the tired unicorn as she tried to fall back asleep.
"But Twilight, you have to help Applejack remember?"
Twilight sat up quickly. She forgot that she was suppose to help Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres to help her with apple bucking today. It was an important day for the earth pony because it was the day that the apples come in earlier than usual.
Twilight got out of bed, knocking Spike over, and went to the bathroom. She looked at herself in the mirror and did not like what she saw.
Her mane was a mess. Part of her hair was sticking out from all sides and her tail was in no good either as it too was a mess. Her eyes were still red and the bags under her eyes were still there.
"I really don't want to go but I made a promise to Applejack and I am not going to break a promise." She said to herself has she levitated a brush and started fixing her mane and tail. It took her a while because the hairs on her mane and tail kept sticking out.
Once she finished she turned on the faucet and levitated her toothbrush, toothpaste and started to brush her teeth. Her teeth were very dirty and her breath smelled awful; she couldn't believe that her teeth were still holding together and not a single cavity after a week of studying.
After she finished brushing her teeth she washed her face and dried herself. she looked at the mirror and liked what she sees.
Her mane and tail were straight and better than she had it before, her teeth were now bright and shining and her coat and cutie mark were slightly bit dirty but she didn't have enough time to shower. She grabbed a towel and turned on the faucet to wet the towel and turned it off and used her magic on the towel and she started cleaning her coat and cutie mark. The warm wet towel made Twilight feel good and grabbed another towel to dry her body and her mark. Once she finished she looked at her coat and cutie mark, it looked much better than before, but she hopes that after she's finished with helping Applejack and sending her report to the princess, she could finally take a shower and sleep.
The only problem was her eyes. They were still red and her bags were still there. She had no choice but to go with her eyes looking like this. She would tell Applejack that she was busy studying all night and hopes that Applejack could understand.
She got out of the bathroom and went downstairs. She saw Spike setting up the table for breakfast.
"Hey Twilight. Want to eat something before you go?" Said the young dragon generously.
Twilight felt her stomach rumbling when he said that and she did want something to eat, but she knew that she would be late if she ate and the only time she was late was when she failed to report back to Celestia.
"I love to Spike but I can't and I have to be at the farm before I am late." The unicorn said and went towards the door.
"Twilight wait." Shouted Spike.
"What is it Spike? I don't have tiiiiiahhhh." Twilight hit something and fell to the floor.
"Twilight are you ok?" Spike said, worried about his friend.
"Ugh, yeah I'm fine. What hit me?" Ask the dazed unicorn. She looked at what hit her and it was the same book she saw three hours ago.
"I was trying to tell you that there was a book on the floor." He said has he helped Twilight get back up.
"Well, what kind of book is it?" She said as she was rubbing her head.
Spiked picked up the book and started to inspect it. The book was the same size as the other books in the library, it had a grey hard cover and it was relatively heavy for its size. On the center of the book had a really, really faint symbol of what looks like a gear of some sort but can't quite tell. There was also three letters underneath the symbol but they too were faint to tell what they were..
"I am not sure Twilight. The title says 'Different Species', what a strange title for a book. I have never seen a book like this before." The young dragon said honestly.
"Let me see it." Twilight said curiously. She used her magic to take the book from Spike and held it in front of her. She was curious about the book.
"Hmm, your right Spike, this is a strange book and the symbol and the letters, I can't tell what kind of symbol or letters they are." She said and opened it and a letter fell down. Spike picked up the letter and was shocked when he saw it.
"What's the letter Spike?" Ask the unicorn.
"Ugh Twilight, this letter is for you. It's from the princess." He said nervously.
Twilight dropped the book and it made a loud thud sound, it made owlicious, who was sleeping in the corner jump in fright. The unicorn grabbed the letter and opened it; she hopes that it wasn't bad or anything.
She began reading:
Dear Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student, here is my gift to you. I found it deep in the Everfree Forest and kept it in the library. I want you to have it. It contains every species that lives in and out of Equestria. I hope you enjoy your new book and one more
thing, you don't have to report back on your finding on friendship this week. I know that you have been catching up on your studies and I am proud that you are continuing to learn. Just don't over work yourself.
Princess Celestia.
Twilight had her mouth wide open and couldn't believe it. Her teacher, the princess of Equestria, gave her a book and not just any ordinary book. It came from deep within the Everfree Forest and the princess kept it in her royal library. And now she wants Twilight to have it.
The happy Twilight was jumping up and down in excitement. Not only she found a new book to read, but it came from her teacher, and she doesn't have to report to her this week, which she was relieved.
"Oooo, I can't wait to read it right now." She said excitedly and the book on her desk.
"Ugh Twilight, I know that you want to read it but what about Applejack?"
Twilight thought for a second. She really wants to read the book but she has to help Applejack first.
'Maybe if I work fast, then we can finish early and i can read my book.' Thought the unicorn.
"Your right Spike. Well I'm off to go help Applejack. Can you leave the book where it is till I get back?" She asked. Even though if Twilight didn't need to go with the orange earth pony and if she was tired, she would read the book even then.
"Sure thing Twilight." Spike said happily.
"Thanks Spike, you are definitely my number one assistant." She finished, making the young dragon blush.
"Oh Spike, one more thing, can you feed owilicious?" She asked politely. Spike still didn't like owilicious and still thinks that the owl will replace him as number one assistant. But Twilight told him that no one can replace him and he will always be her number one assistant.
No problem Twilight"
"Thanks Spike." She galloped out the door and towards Sweet Apple Acres.
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Twilight arrived a few minutes late. She was exhausted from not getting enough sleep and galloped one mile to reach the farm. She went to the field and saw Applejack caring two baskets of apples and pulling several carts of apples.
Twilight was amazed at the site.
'Whoa. I didn't know that Applejack was strong enough to pull five carts of apples and carry two loads of apples.' She thought in awe as she saw the earth pony working. Twilight notice that Applejack was having a hard time pulling the apples and the ones she was carrying started to affect her balance. Twilight went to her side to help her.
"Applejack, sorry for being late. Here let me help." Twilight said. She used her magic to lift off the apples on the earth pony's back and place them on hers'. The weight of the buckets plus the apples were very heavy for the purple unicorn but she didn't want to show it. She also felt bad for being late and not helping Applejack in time. The last time she was tardy was when she didn't report back to the princess. Now, she was late again and it made the purple unicorn sad.
The earth pony looked at Twilight, sweat running down her face.
"Hey there Twilight, I thought you wouldn't be here cause you're always on time and thought that somethin' happened." Said the worried orange pony. "Don't worry if you're late, has long has your here." She replied with a smile.
The two smiled and went towards the farm to unload the apples.
"So Twilight, how come you're late." Said Applejack. She was curious because Twilight was never late, only for that one time
Twilight was thinking for a moment before responding.
"Oh um, I was busy studying all night again." She said, giving the country pony a nervous smile.
"Oh Twilight, you should know better than doing that again without any sleep." Said the orange pony.
Twilight felt bad for not getting enough sleep. "I know A.J, its just that, I was behind and I needed to catch up." She answered, keeping her head low.
"Well have you catch up yet?" She questioned Twilight has both ponies made it back to the barn.
"Yeah I did." Replied Twilight has she unload the baskets onto the floor.
"Ok then, why don't you sleep instead. By the way your eyes are and the way your body is slightly trembling, I reckon that you won't last if you continue helping me." Applejack said seriously has she unhooked herself from the carts.
"But Applejack, you need my help, and there are too many apples for you to buck, not to mention that they come in earlier." Twilight answered worriedly.
"Don't worry bout' me sugar cube. Your health is more important right now Twilight." She said, taking no for an answer.
Twilight didn't know what to do. Part of her wants to continue but her body was protesting for her to stop and sleep.
Twilight sighs in defeat.
"Alright Applejack, if you insist." Replied the defeated Twilight. "Well I guess I should go going home then." She said and she was about to leave when Applejack stopped in front of her.
"Whoa, hold on right there sugar cube. You are not going anywhere." Said the country pony . Applejack doesn't want Twilight to go home like this. Just because its day time doesn't mean that somepony or something might take advantage of her incase she collapses on the road. Her mother told A.L what happens if somepony were to take advantage if they were too tired like Twilight and heaven forbids her from letting Twilight leave.
"Alright Applejack, if you say so. Where do I sleep then?" said the tired unicorn.
"You can sleep on the pile of hay in the corner." Applejack said, pointing her hoof to a pile of hay in the corner of the barn.
The wobbling unicorn manage to make her way to the pile of hay and drop hard on the yellow dry grass; making several scattering in the air and on the floor.
The soft, cozy hay made Twilight fall asleep quickly. Applejack saw the sleeping mare and was glad that she didn't let her go home like this.
Applejack went back and hooked herself up to several line of carts and was ready to continue her bucking.
"Thank you Applejack.' The earth pony looked back and saw Twilight whose eyes are barley open. The way she looked and how the mooring sun was shining through the cracks of the barn, Twilight looked like an angel. Applejack smiled at the sleepy unicorn.
"No problem sugar cube.'" Said the earth pony and went outside to continue her work, leaving Twilight to sleep. Twilight saw the orange pony leave until she couldn't see her anymore and the faint sound of the cats were out of her hearing range. The unicorn was glad to have a friend like Applejack to help her when she needs it. Twilight closed her eyes and drifted to a peaceful sleep
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Twilight was tossing and turning on the of hays; he was having a horrific nightmare.
(Inside Twilight's nightmare)
Twilight was in the middle of Ponyville and everypony was in a panic.
All around her was in utter chaos, building, businesses, and homes were either destroyed or on fire. Twilight heard the screams and cries of the ponies around her. She saw several dead ponies on the ground with blood oozing from holes around their bodies, some were bleeding to death; love ones were around them grieving and trying to save them. It made the purple unicorn turn away from the sheer horror and madness; especially the dead and dying ponies. What made Twilight cry was that when she turned away she saw several fillies slaughter from an unknown source. Some were cut in half, others with no head, a few were beaten to death. Twilight just wanted to wake up from this terrifying nightmare. She is looking around at the chaos to find out who or what caused all of this. At first, she must have thought it was Discord, but she and her friends sealed him away and if even he did escape, he wouldn't do this, would he?
She galloped towards Sugar Cube Corner to find if any of her friends were all right. The screams and cries of the agony ponies and fillies filled the air along with strange popping sounds.
The smell of fire, blood, dead and dying ponies was getting to be too much for the unicorn but she somehow manage to keep herself together; despite what was going on around her.
Once she got there the building was on fire and she couldn't see anypony inside. There was blood stains on the door and on the walls. She just hoped that Mr. and Mrs. Cakes and Pinkie Pie weren't inside the burning building.
Twilight was about to head towards Rarity's shop when she saw three ponies, two stallions and one mare, the three were running away from the chaos. One of the stallions had a brown coat and his mane and tail were black, the second stallion had a light brown coat and the mane and tail were also black; Twilight thinks that they must be relatives. The mare had a light pink coat and her mane and tail were yellow. But she could quite tell because of all the smoke and debris in the air. Than out of nowhere a large creature landed on one of the pony stallions trying to escape, making a popping noise and blood splatter all over; some landed on Twilight.
The creature was non-other than a griffin, wearing the traditional armor of war. The other stallion was in tears cause the griffin killed his brother. The mighty creature used it's eagle claws to tear the second stallion apart, than used it's right talon to slash the stunned, horrified mare. The unfortunate pony fell with a thud; blood was spewing from her wounds. The helpless mare was still alive but the griffin used it's claw and stomp on the pony's head hard. The sound of bone, blood and brian matter splatter all over the floor and the beast just loved killing ponies.
Twilight couldn't believe what just happened in front of her. She just cried silently for the mare who just had her head stomp, she wishes to just wake up and forget all of this. But her sadness was replaced with terror when the griffin turned it's head towards Twilight; bloodlust it's eyes.
Twilight tried to escape but found herself unable to move.
The griffin then launched itself towards the traumatized unicorn, Twilight didn't react in time when the griffin pinned her to the ground.
Twilight struggled to get free but the sheer force of the talons made it impossible for her to escape. Despite this being a dream, the pain felt real. The griffin looked down at it's prey, a devilish smile crept it's face.
"You know my little pony, I always wanted to do it with a pony." Said the griffin as he was eyeing her body, making the struggling unicorn stiff. She knew what he meant and tried to free herself from his grip.
The griffin released his left talon and used it to trail his sharp nail slowly tracing down Twilight's body until it stopped just tat the bottom of her stomach. The purple mare knew what he wanted.
"I heard that ponies are soft and easily to break once we 'get it in there' to them.'
"But sadly, I don't have the time for that, me and my brothers and sisters are here to exterminate." Said the beast seriously. Twilight didn't know by what he meant by 'exterminate' but she did knew that he was here to kill.
"TIME TO DIE." The griffin yelled, pulling his head back and launched forward. Twilight closed her eyes, waiting for her faith when….
'BAM' 'POP'
A loud metallic noise followed by a popping sound struck the side of the griffin's head, causing the head to explode. The helmet from the griffon, bone, brian matter, and blood splattered all over the ground and on Twilight. The frightened mare heard the sound and opened her eyes, only to see the headless griffon land on top of her. The purple unicorn let out a shriek and tried to get out but couldn't due to the weight of the body. Twilight could see the spinal cord and veins of the griffon and when she looked at her hooves they were covered in blood.
Red liquid was dripping from the hole where the head was ones attached to the body. Twilight felt nauseous at the sight and was about to faint when a black metal leg shoved the carcass to the side; the body fell to the ground with a thud. Twilight was relived that the body was off of her but her whole body was still trembling and tail and body were covered in blood; the smell and stickiness of the blood made the mare sick. She looked up at who or what saved her and a terrified looked came to her face. Through her teary, puffy red eyes, she could see the being clearly.
In front of her was a figure about 6 feet tall and it was standing on two hooves. It had some sort of charcoal black and grey skin all over; it was relatively shiny. In the middle of it, it had a blue glow which was in a vertical line. The head was covered in the same manner has its body. The thing had no mouth, no nose, no ears, no hair/mane and no tail. The only thing it had was eyes
It frightened the purple mare because she had never in her whole life seen a creature like this before. What Twilight couldn't keep her eyes off was its eyes and the thing it was holding.
The creature's eyes were a blue color and has if it showed no emotion. The front hooves had small appendages at the end of it. The object it was holding was a small metallic object with a long barrel at the end of it; smoke was coming out of it. Twilight figured that what killed the griffin.
What Twilight was looking at was an Onyx Guard.
"Are you all right." It ask. The startled mare was shocked that it talked. What made her more surprise was that it spoke in her language, Equestrian. From it's voice, it sounded male.
"Y-yes, I-I-I'm fine." She said, still looking at the deadly weapon. She tried to look away but she couldn't stop looking into the being's eyes. From her point of view, the eyes showed seriousness.
"Good, If I hadn't come in time, that 'thing' would have had it's way with you." It spoke. Twilight shuddered at what happened just a minute ago and put her hooves around herself, making a squishy like noise due to the blood
The Onyx Guard probably shouldn't have brought that up but he doesn't have time for this.
"Come on lets go, we're evacuating the town." He spoke with authority. Twilight nodded but she was still traumatized by what happened and can't get up. New wave of tears ran down her face at what the griffin was about to do. The pain on her front hooves were hurting and can't get up.
The guard sighed in frustration.
"Here, let me carry yo-UGHAAAA.
He let out a loud a pain full scream has a long sword like object went through his back and out the stomach. The young mare watched in horror has the body of the one that saved her was tossed to the ground like a rag doll. The body fell with a thud, blood was spewing from the wounds; the Onyx Guard was dead instantly.
The young mare looked up at what killed him and was terrified at what was in front of her.
It was a tall, large and vicious creature. It was about nine to ten feet tall and standing on two hooves. It was wearing a large black coat like armor that covers the whole body, minus half of it's hooves. The hooves did have the same appendages like the one it killed, five to be in fact. In the middle of the chest were four small circles and it was giving off a orange glow. But what made Twilight terrified was the creature's face and the weapon it was holding.
The face was pale, rough and almost reptilian type. It had no mane/hair, no tail, no ears, the bottom teeth was sharp and were coming out of its mouth. It had the eyes of a monster, nothing but pure evil and destruction. In it's right arm it was holding a 10in blade that was dripping in blood. The big blade had sharp and it had several sharp edges too; the monster was holding it firmly and tightly.
What Twilight was looking at was non-other than General RAMM himself.
RAAM started walking towards the psychological damage unicorn. Twilight snapped herself out of it and shrieked when she saw RAAM heading towards her. She was crawling backwards trying to stay away from the Locust General. She went over the decaying carcass of the griffin and kept crawling backwards until her back hit a wall; her heart stopped.
The General stomp on the head of the fallen Onyx Guard, making a popping sound has metal, bone, brain matter and blood splatter all over. When RAAM go to the body of the griffin, he picked it up with his left hand and tossed it to the side like a piece of trash; he threw it about 10ft away making rough squishy like noise. It continued to advance until he was about one foot away from Twilight.
Twilight was crying silently has she gazed up at RAAM. Twilight felt like she was a puny little insect about to get squashed. By the way the General was looking at her, it didn't want to take advantage of her like what the griffin was about to do. Instead, it was going the kill her. The unicorn closed her eyes and waiting the monster to finish her. She waited but nothing came. She slowly open her eyes, hoping that she woke up but sadly she was still in her nightmare, RAAM was still in front of her.
"Look." It spoke, pointing its finger to his left. Its voice sounded deep and terrifying, almost demonic; it even spoke Equestrian, from the voice it sounded male.
Twilight looked to where RAMM was pointing. What she saw next was a massive massacre.
She saw ponies getting slaughtered by griffins. Blood and bodies tainted the streets of the once peaceful town. Twilight also saw Diamond Dogs killing ponies and griffins, some were capturing ponies to use has labor slaves in their tunnels. Few of them were trying to rape the helpless mare and one of them was Rarity. But were shot down by the same armored creatures that saved Twilight before taking them to safety. Few of the winged creatures tried to do the same but they too were gunned down by the armored being, but these were different than the others.
These wore blue colored armor which only covers the torso, leaving the arms expose. They too stand on two hooves and are coved with leather material and armor plating. They all wore helmets and their armor and helmets were blue and illuminating a blue glow. There were about two or three more types of armor beings but the ones that seems to have more experience would be the dark armored ones and those who have golden helmets.
They were holding strange metallic weapons. Some were big, other were small. Each one was making loud and different types of noises. However, two weapons that made Twilight sick and scared. One of them was a medium size weapon with a long, sharp knife at the front of it; most of them were covered in blood and used it multiple times against the enemies.
Then came the other weapon that made the young unicorn cower in fear. The weapon was the same size has the other, but this one seemed more advanced, more deadlier; parts of it was illuminating a blue glow. What made Twilight twice has scared was that at the end of it, instead of a knife, a chainsaw was attached to it.
The sound alone when it activates made the purple unicorn panic and shudder when she saw how one of the blue soldiers used it on one of the griffins.
The noise of the deadly attachment was terrifying to the pony's ears. When the chainsaw made contact, it made a high pitch noise has it was tearing flesh and bone from the griffin. The screams of pain and agony, along with blood coming from the griffin has it's body was being torn in half. When the body fell, it fell to pieces, blood, bone and guts fell all over the Gear and on the ground; the gruesome site made Twilight vomit.
Twilight saw several of the princesses's royal guards fighting along side the armored once. She saw earth ponies charge at the griffins, trying to save the ponies and fillies who were still trapped. Unicorns were using their magic to fight off against the Diamond Dogs while the Pegasi were carrying the ponies to safety.
"Time to witness the power of the HORDE." RAAM said has he gazed at the didn't know what RAAM meant until the ground started to shake violently. Twilight felt it was an earthquake until the ground near them started to split open and strange creatures were coming out of the massive hole.
These 'creatures' were very similar to the one in front of her. These had the same pale, rough reptilian-like skin, they too stand on two hooves, their arms were large and have very sharp fingers nail. Their bodies were builder than those in the center of Ponyville. They have begun to slaughter their enemies.
Most of them wore armor which only covers their bodies, leaving their arms expose; others have no upper armor, some they did, but were different, either a piece or armor on their arms or not. several of them wore different kinds of helmets and others didn't. The three things they have in common was that their armor was red, around their body armor and helmets were giving off a red glow, similar to the armored ones. The last thing is that they want to kill everyone.
Twilight saw how they strike their enemies with great speed and power.
The Locust Horde showed no restrain, no hesitation, no remorse, no weakness, no mercy, no nothing just kill anything that wasn't their kind.
"GRUBS!"
One of the Gears said and half of them started to focus fire on the Locust. Gunfire, screams, cries, smoke, blood, dead bodies filled the air has everything to hell.
The frightened mare watched in horror has the Locust bulldozed their way through homes, businesses, and the streets. She watched one of them chainsawed a Onyx Guard and another beating a Diamond Dog to death with it's weapon. Once it finished cracking the skull, and it said 'so weak.' The griffins changed their tactics and have of them started to fight against the Locust, which was a huge mistake for the winged beasts. The advantage the griffins had the ability to fly but the Locust saw them has flying targets and fired their weapons; wiping them out of the sky.
Twilight's heart stopped at what she saw in the alleyway. A Drone was mercilessly beating a pony has the mare tried to shield herself. The monster then pick up the bloody, beaten mare and threw her to the ground hard, making a cracking noise upon impact; the pony was hardly breathing and cried silently. The savage beast then came up to her, grabbed on of her legs, put it's boot hard on her stomach and with one mighty pull…. *CRACK*.
The leg came right off. The barely alive pony squirmed and in pain has the lost of her appendages. Blood was spewing out from the wound and from the leg; it splattered all over the dying pony and on the Drone. Then the monster started to beat her with her own leg; it sounded like if somepony was beating a sack of raw meat with a mallet. Twilight couldn't do anything but watch the horrified scene in front of her; she cried furiously. Once the Drone finished beating the mare to death it dropped the leg on top of the dead pony.
"Useless meat." It said has it went to grab its weapon.
"MOMMY!" Twilight heard a small filly who was hiding inside a trash can. He cried at what he just witness and went to his mother's side. The purple unicorn cried even more because not only was the young an orphan but just witness his own mother being slaughtered to death. Unfortunately, the Drone heard the cry and saw the filly near his dead mother it killed. Twilight couldn't watch has the heartless monster was about to stomp the young filly when…
*BAM BAM BAM BAM BMA BAM* One of the blue armored soldiers shot the Drone before it could kill the filly. The locust went down but was still alive; the Gear then kicked its side and it fell on its back. The armored warrior lifted it's leg and….
*STOMP* *POP*
It stomped on the Drone's head. Brain matter, blood and bone splattered all over the ground and on the wall; some on the filly. A fountain of blood was coming out of the headless corpse. The Gear came to the traumatized filly, picked him up, telling him to close his eyes and took him to a waiting transport outside of town.
Twilight didn't know what to think. She witness a brutal killing right before her eyes, a filly was about to get killed, saved by a Gear, taking him to safety; all of this was overwhelming the unicorn. The battle between the races were being dominated by the Horde. RAMM was smirking at how his soldiers were winning the battle.
Before anything else happened the ground started to rumble and a giant stalk of some sort popped out of the ground. Twilight saw how everyone stopped and looked at the stalk, but the Locust and the armored ones got tense when it appeared because they knew what it meant; the others didn't know what it was. Then around the stalk, round pods of some sort sprouted out and strange yellow creatures were coming out of it. The grounds started to shake and two more of those stalks rose up and released more of those things. Half of the Locust began to fire at yellow creatures and the other half at the other races; the armored ones did the same. These two races seem to be more worried than the others and to themselves because the yellow monsters was a living, walking infection, a disease, able to turn its host into one of them, epidemic. This was the Lambent or 'glows' how the Gears call them.
These yellow 'things' were even worse then the Locust. The had black burned skin and parts of their bodies were filled with yellow liquid. Some of them resemble Drones, while the others were more bloated with a yellow sacks in the middle of their stomachs. Some bloated once glow brighter and started to shake and transform into different types of creatures. Some had longer arms that shoots yellow balls of liquid, others grew a snake-like head on top and shoots some type of yellow fire and some grew taller and releases small spider-like creatures from the base of it. A few of them mutated into all three, into one super mutator.
The crying and mentally disturbed unicorn couldn't watch anymore and turned her head to the other way, buy only to see multiply dead bodies of those who fought and those who didn't.
She heard RAAM hiss and growl at the new foe; RAAM knew that the battle had turned and its only a matter of time before the Lambent would wipe out his forces. The General grabbed the crying mare with his left hand by the head roughly with little effort; he raised her to his eye level and the two were now face to face.
Twilight cried in pain when RAAM grabbed her by the head. She felt her head slowly being crushed by the pressure of the General's grip. When she looked it's eyes, she saw no emotion in the orange eyes, just pure evil and power.
"Preepare for the upcoming storm. Your kind, their kind and the 'Ground Walkers' will all perish in the name of the Queen. RAAM spoked has he looked at the scared, crying unicorn in the eye. Twilight didn't know was it meant about 'Ground Walkers' but she must think they that it was referring to the armored creatures. But there was one thing that Twilight didn't understand. Why did RAAM say the queen?
The Locust General enjoyed watching the helpless purple mare struggle to get free has he was dangling her.
"Tiime to DIIEE" RAAM said has he move his right arm towards his left; he was going to slice Twilight's head off. The crying Twilight was begging RAAM to not kill her and was now then ever to escape but proved useless.
"Nooooo. Please don't. Please I-I'll do anything you want me to do. Don't kill me please. Cried Twilight, tears running down her face.
"DIIEE SEPIAN." He said has he made a 'whooshing' sound with his blade.
*WOOSH*
Twilight's world went black.
Well there you have it. A little taste on what is coming. I know that it was kinda of sick on how the poor mare died and I might have gone a bit over board but thats the Locust's nature for yeah :D (don't hate) I was planning I killing the little filly but then I thought might be a bit too much but oh who know.
I will try to update this story and my other as well but it will be a while cause I have school already and it going to be hard to keep up on my fanfics so yeah.
I will try to update as fast as I can but I want it to be good so it will be a while.
Plz review and comment :D