Author's note: shit hell….sorry guys, this was TO damn long for me to hold off on posting…you guys aren't mad…right?...RIGHT? well, things have been a little screwy lately, with school an' all, and noisy-ass teachers; frankly, what really delayed this chapter, was a combo of battlefield 3 (I am getting the M-60, or go mental trying.) and my sweat and toll over trying my hand at writing an extra long 3 story chapter for Christmas…..i decided to finish the regular chapters, however, to take a brain break from the Christmas special, well, I'll tell you more after this chapter ends, and now, several weeks after it was supposed to be released:

Chapter 10: god dammit Leroy!

Marcus was setting up camp for Mendez and incestia; he would go inside ponyville in the morning, so that way he could be more dramatic. As he was prepping some spam, incestia asked him "what was it like, being trained for the UNSC? Did they make you and Mendez into badass spec-ops's guys?"

Marcus chuckled as he said "well, I can tell you about the day we were sent in on a combat-training mission, in a "easy" attack against a insurrectionist base, that was when Mendez and I teamed up for the first time; it was that day I always remembered, and in later years, I had Mendez moved to my unit for that shit we did many years ago…"

Marcus opened his mouth, and drifted off as he recalled that fateful mission, many years ago…

(location: harvest colony, 2528, mission: strike team trainees attack a backwater insurrectionist base. Chance of resistance: 33%)

"hey sarge, when we gonna see some action, not this paintball training we've been doing for months?" a young corporal Marcus waters said, as he nervously gripped his MA5B whilst leaning back in the warthog's seats; a punch on his shoulder drew his attention to 2 other marines sitting near him, the one named "Mendez" chuckled and said "if you could hit anything, you are always the first to get "killed" in combat Sims!" the other, pvt. Leroy Jenkins, laughed and said "well, if sarge doesn't kill us first!"

Marcus rolled his eyes as the sgt yelled "CAN IT! Today, we are attacking an innie base, with reported minimal resistance…it'll be our victory soon!"

Incestia tapped Marcus on the shoulder and said "but what sealed your friendship?" he put his finger to his mouth as he fast-forwarded the story

"…well, sarge, we think these guys are in there…can you give me a number crunch?" the sgt looked at his tac-boy and said "it's a 33.5 percent chance of survival..it's the best you punks ever got. Let's go in there quietly—"

Private Jenkins pulled out a pistol and leg of chicken and screamed "all right, time's up…let's do this…LEEERROOY JEENKINS!" and sprinted into the enemy compound, pistol blazing.

Mendez's jaw was on the ground as he said "omg, dude….he just went in. we gotta go save him!"

The combat team charged in, trying to save Leroy.

(several minutes later…)

"HOLY SHIT! I'M FUCKIN' PINNED DOWN!" Marcus screamed as .50 cal bullets ripped through his cover. He turned to the sarge and said "little resistance! This is fuckin' Peliliu Island 1945! We can't move, Leroy is off on a killing spree, and we can't stop him….i don't even know where Mendez is—"

He stopped mid-sentence as he saw Mendez run past him, into the oncoming machine gun fire.

"MENDEZ! YOU IDIOT, YOUR GONNA GET KILLED!" someone yelled as he jumped into the MG, and fired the full 60 round clip into the operator, and caught the others on fire with a thermite grenade. Mendez jumped down and yelled "I think we got em!" as a rebel fell at his feet, being slowly burned to death by the grenade.

As they left the scene with a restrained Leroy Jenkins, Mendez turned and said "WATCH OUT MARCUS!" and tackled a wounded rebel who was about to cut Marcus's head off.

Marcus shook his head as he finished his story, he looked back up at incestia and said "in a nutshell, cutting 47% of the details out because I hate talking, that's what happened…from that day on, I had new-found respect for Mendez, and less respect for pvt. Leroy Jenkins."

Incestia looked at him quizzically and said "what happened to Jenkins?"

Marcus shrugged and said "I think the sarge had him transferred to active ship duty on some destroyer named marathon…that ship got destroyed under still-classified circumstances in a planet the covvies occupied…what I did read in the files were something about him hitting an NCO, and going into a covvie ship alone; he never came back.*

Mendez walked up and said "you know Marcus, we have been moving very slowly to ponyville; remember when it was instant teleportation between places?"** Marcus chuckled as he said "fine, no more stalling, we are going to ponyville, timing be damned."

Incestia merely observed Marcus; he was fair, had charisma, was cool (20%, of course), and handsome. Wait, did I just say handsome? Incestia thought as she continued watching him; she changed the subject in her head and thought well, even if I did like him, he wouldn't like me, anyway….

(elsewhere in Equestria…canterlot to be exact)

Ridinoff sped through the streets of canterlot, hitting 2 dogs and a signpost as he missed his parking spot, and ran over one of the sleeping royal guards as he put his staff car in park; he jumped out of the vehicle and patted the guard's shoulder and said "it's just a flesh wound, I assure you…either way, your lazy ass was sleeping on duty, so this makes up for your flogging."

He signaled Luna to follow him as he ran to the princess's main hall

As they ran down the hall, ponies were jumping out of the way as a ridinoff covered in blood and guts ran down the hall; if that wasn't enough trauma for them, then most then got a heart-attack seeing princess Luna (not seen for like, what…1000 years?) sprinting after him, and knocking anyone aside with her royal canterlot voice.

They both burst into the princess's chamber, causing the princess to jump to her feet; her face had "holy shit, I did not see this coming" written all over it. She regained her composure and said "Luna, it has been too long; how has being nightmare moon felt?"

Luna gritted her teeth and said "we have worse problems than who's who…Equestria is being invaded by ponies from another dimension!" the princess gave Luna a disbelieving look and said "you mean the portals that got shut years ago?" ridinoff, still covered in gore walked up and said "an evil nightmare moon, and a evil version of me teleported in using those types of portals the last invasion had; they both spoke of invasion before they attacked us…the evil version of me is dead, the nightmare moon is somewhere in Equestria, I beg that you put me back into command of the troops so we can hunt-"

The princess waved him off and said "no, the stallions don't need to be flogged for sleeping at their posts; as for you Luna, I shall have a coming-back parade for you in a few days, come with me. Ridinoff put yourself on report and get back to work."

Luna yelled "Equestria has been INVADED! And you wave it off like it's not happening, how else could ridinoff get covered in blood, or me come back period!" as the princess was about to reply, gunfire and screaming filled the hall outside the room; ridinoff pulled his PKP out and said "I told you, but NOOO…nobody listens to the guy with military training!"

Ridinoff pushed a table on its side and extended the PKP's bi-pod, he looked over at the princess, who was ducking behind her throne, and Luna, who was cocking a CZ. He looked back at the door facing the room; he heard twisted screaming and growls outside the door; he knew they weren't friendly as soon as something started ramming the door, trying to break it down.

He aimed down his sights, and swallowed; he had no idea what was beyond that door;, and this could quickly turn into a final stand. As the door started to buckle, he pressed the trigger down and began to fill the door with bullet holes, hoping to stop whatever was trying to break in; he heard the growls beyond the door get louder as the sound of 7.62 hitting flesh became the dominant noise in the hall.

As his the last of his belt was sucked into the LMG, the door split in half, and all ridinoff saw was shit he had seen in his worst nightmare; they were ponies, bodies covered in sickly sores of black, eyes glowing red with hate; in blood, the mark of nightmare moon adorned them. He ditched his PKP and swapped to his trusty CCSH-41, and began to tear gnarly chunks of hamburger off of the freaks as they poured through the spilt door; he looked over at Luna who was expertly firing her CZ, landing headshots as they came close. This would appear to be winning fight, but ammo lasted only so long….

He was laughing out of sheer terror, if nothing else; this shit made the massacre in stalliongrad during 2043 look like a party….as he pulled the empty drum mag out of his SMG, he came to a horrid realization: he was out of rounds. He pulled his trench knuckle out and charged toward the freaks, screaming "YOU THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME!"

Luna ran to his PKP and put a 100 round belt into it, trying to cover ridinoff; each moment felt like decades, but ridinoff, filled with terror and rage, slaughtered the freak masses. As the last few were put down, ridinoff swore he heard one of them say "thank you" as he drove the blade through its heart. As ridinoff stood back up, he heard a sickenly familiar voice say "my, my….it looks like I underestimated you, ridinoff"

He looked around the room, trying to find the voice, Luna was in a panic as well, weapon aimed and scanning the room. Ridinoff was turning to look at the princess, and noticed a small pool of black smoke forming near celestia's feet. The voice said again "but, you will be dealt with eventually, in the mean-time, my minions shall take care of you, good by ridinoff. " he saw the cloud envelope princess celestia, and felt something knock him to the ground as a blinding flash of light filled the room.

As he lay on the floor, he heard the growling of the freaks down the hall; as they neared, he heard luna say "don't worry, I got you" and carried him out the window. As he opened his eyes and looked back at the throne room, he saw the monsters gathered at the window, hissing with displeasure as there meal flew away; ridinoff looked at Luna and uttered one thing before he passed out

"I will…have, my…revenge….for celestia, for Equestria…."

Luna landed on the highest tower in canter lot and demolished the stairs leading to it with the MPG. She put ridinoff down on the bed in the center of the room, and lowered her head; it was happening…the true nightmare moon was coming back to take over;

Yet, somehow, she had a feeling it was her fault.

Author's note: ok, first off these * stand for a few ref's I was doing, the first one about Leroy and his thing on the marathon is a reference to codenameone's story "ever wonder what's up there?" a fairly grim story about a REAL war the UNSC had to hold the covvies off from equestria…no, it's not a parody, it is SERIOUS…I beta-read it, and fuckin' loved it. You should read it, if you know what's good of you (bacon)

As for the instant teleportation ref, that is kinda making fun of my first and second story, how it was merely (1 hour later) and marcus and mendez could be half-way across the planet, yet in this story, it has taken them more than 3 days to head back to ponyville; but I did that so I could add more "life" to this story, u'no?

Well, review, and tell me your not mad, and seeing it is basically midnight with final exams tomorrow, I'll get my ass to bed and dream of cheese. And writing Christmas specials.

EAT. SLEEP. REVIEW. REPEAT.