Chapter 13

The Battle Of Ironclad

It was a bright and shining dawn and strangely enough, the sun had rose for Ironclad, prince Silas was sleeping soundly with his daughter Star Sprite in his arms. When he finally opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a ray of sunlight on his door, this made him suspicious as he slowly got out of bed gently so he did not wake Star. He quietly walked to the window and he slowly moved the certain away and looked out over the horizon, he then saw it. The sun was rising over the Canterlot mountain and was actually Shining upon the city, with this strange occurrence he felt uneasy, he then closed his eyes and began to sense something coming from the mountain, he began to feel a familiar magical presence coming this way, then he felt something bigger coming. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and with it, he got tense and real serious, he rushed over to Star who was still sleeping and gently shook her until she stirred and finally woke up with a yawn."Daddy? what's going on?"she asked still a bit tired and rubbing her eyes.

"Star, I need you to listen to me, I need you to go and find Jason, Maverick, Randy and Ulfric, they will protect, then i want you to go to your room and lock the door and barricade the windows...war has just arrived."Silas explained with a bit of fear in his voice.

"But dad, I don't want you to go."Star said now on the verge of tears as she got out of bed.

"Its alright Star, I promise I will return to you once the danger has passed...I promise."Silas said as he kissed her on the forehead."Now go find the men and get to safety."

Star nodded as she ran out of the room leaving the prince to turn to his armor and begin to put it on, once he was finished suiting up for battle, he took his golden sword and put it in his armor's holster. He took a good look in the mirror at his look and began to leave, as he left his room, his royal guard caught up with him and beholded his new look."Your majesty, we take it that you saw the signs?"they guessed.

"Yes I have, but do not threat, I already planned ahead and our defenses are set."the prince reassured."Princess Luna is leading the assault of both Canterlot and Crystal soldiers, no one or no pony is to touch her but me, are we clear?"

"Of course your majesty."they said sternly.

The prince and the guards finally made it outside and were greeted by both Sergei and Daniel who were also in their titanium armor and even wore black helmets made from the steel at Jason's armory."Prince Silas sir, I'm guessing you saw the signs?"Daniel guessed.

"Yes I have, I can feel the ground shaking with their march as we speak, princess Luna is leading the attack by herself so no one is to touch her but me, for now let's get down there and prepare for a fight."the prince ordered.

"Yes Sir!" they both said sternly.

Suddenly they notice that it started to get darker, the prince and his guards looked up to the sun which oddly got darker, when they looked closer they saw to their horror, a thousand arrows almost covering the sun as they descended on Ironclad. The prince instantly reacted by making his hands glow and raising a massive shield around the whole city that covered everything, even the soldiers that were stationed in the front of the city, all the arrows began hitting the shield and were being caught in the process, It took two long minutes for the arrow fire to subside, as he held the blanket of arrows above the city, he looked around for the source of the arrows trajectory and notice that the mountain had a few gold and silverish crystal like patches covering the mid section of the mountain, he had found the archers. He then targeted the archers and with a smile, fired the arrows back at the mountain."You can have these back you bastards!" The prince shouted as he saw the mountain get pelted with arrows, he then smiled as he and his men watched an avalanche of enemy bodies fell from the mountain, the men and guards cheered at this victory while watching what was left of the archers leave the mountain.

"Yeah that should teach them a lesson, little bastards!"Daniel cheered.

"It is going to take more than archers to stop us."Sergei said with excitement.

The prince suddenly saw small shadows come out from the sides of the mountain."Daniel! their coming! we must get to our soldiers! Sergei I need you at the wall with our archers!"the prince ordered.

"Yes sir!"they both said.

while the prince raced down the stairs with Daniel at his side, Sergei got a ride from a Pegasus guard, Sergei made it to his station first as he dropped from the Pegasus he rode and took control of the soldiers on the wall."All right soldiers! today...we fight! Canterlot and the Crystal Empire think they can just march in here and take our home Right?! Hell no! they are dead wrong! so how about we show these fools just how wrong they are!"Sergei explained loudly. The archers roared loudly for the speech and already had their crossbows set up and ready to fire.

The prince and Daniel on the other hand had just made it out of the city and were greeted by the one thousand troops Daniel had assembled yesterday surrounding the entire city, as they stood tall and ready, the prince and Daniel walked around and stared each soldier in the eyes, they ranged from their shiny black steel armor, to the spears they held, the prince finally smiled."You all look like the finest army of troops I have ever laid eyes on, as you all know, behind us the forces of Canterlot and the Crystal empire have rallied and are planning to destroy the home we have worked so hard to make our own, tell me! are we gonna just stand aside and let them do as they wish with our home?!" he asked in a loud voice.

"NO SIR!"the armies shouted.

"Then what are we gonna do?!"the prince shouted.

"WE ARE GOING TO SEND THEM TO HELL SIR!"they all roared.

"Precisely!" the prince roared as he turned to the enemy that was completely formed and stood only a quarter mile away."Now let's get into Phalanx formation and prepare for battle soldiers!"he shouted as he ran to the front line along with Daniel, the soldiers instantly turned with their leaders and allowed unicorn soldiers in the first and second line of the formation, the soldiers then put up their magical shields and huddle together in phalanx formation with the prince and Daniel in the middle, the prince had made a shield of his own magic on his left arm, he did the same for Daniel so their formation had no flaw. The prince then glared as he and Daniel saw Luna land right in front of the two armies and call out to them.

"PRINCE SILAS, SURRENDER IMMEDIATELY OR PERISH!"she said in her royal Canterlot voice.

The prince chuckled at her warning and turned to the soldier on his right."Soldier...give the princess our answer."He ordered.

"With pleasure your majesty."the soldier said as he reared back his spear and with great force, he threw it as far as he could right at Luna. The princess had little time to notice the spear coming right at her, but was lucky to see it just in time to dodge, she ducked her head down and the spear missed her, but it ended up hitting a Crystal soldier right through the chest, armor and all and even stuck out half way through the soldiers back. The princess and soldiers looked at the soldier with shock and horror as the soldier dropped dead, she then turned back and glared at Silas as he smiled.

"LUNA!...come and make us you bitch!"the prince shouted as he and the soldiers put their shields up and spears pointed to them.

The princess snorted."CHARGE!"She shouted as she took flight allowing the two armies to charge right at the Ironclad soldiers, they shouted as they ran to the prince, but this only excited Silas. The Ironclad soldiers became tense are more ambitious as they held formation and waited for the battle to begin.

"Remember! no mercy for these cowards! make them regret ever threatening Ironclad!"the prince shouted. It was at that moment that the Crystal and Canterlot soldiers collided with the magic shields of the Ironclad soldiers and the prince, they began pushing and shoving to stab and kill, but the Ironclad soldiers held their own and even began pushing the enemy back, finally the prince had enough of waiting and signal the soldiers to begin. Suddenly at that moment the pushing and struggling stopped cold for a second and in an instant, the Ironclad soldiers and the two men shoved the enemy back and put their shields down and began plunging their spears and swords into the Canterlot and Crystal guards, in their one barrage of stabbing they took down almost a hundreds soldiers, they then put their shields back up as the enemy slammed against their shields again. They once again shoved the enemy away and began stabbing more soldiers, the prince slashed at three guards cutting throats and slicing off armor allowing soldiers to plunge their weapons into them, Daniel sliced at five Canterlot soldiers and took off two soldiers hoofs, slicing one's throat, cutting up another's chest and slicing the last soldiers belly open when he tried for a downward slice. He immediately went under the magic shields as another wave of troops smashed against Ironclad shields, once again the Ironclad soldiers shoved the armies back and began stabbing more Canterlot and Crystal soldiers, finally the Canterlot and Crystal armies began to waver and half of them were running away towards the mountain. The prince smiled as he raised his sword to Ironclads wall as he signaled Sergei to commence crossbow fire, Sergei nodded as he turned to his archers and rose his sword up high.

"FIRE!"Sergei shouted as he swung his sword down. The crossbow soldiers fired a barrage of bolts at the enemies that were fleeing and instantly hundreds fell like dominoes, Sergei smiled as he saw the armies of Canterlot and the Crystal empire beginning to panic, he then nodded to the prince who now had the message he and Daniel were hoping for.

"All right soldiers! break formation and lets have some fun shall we?!"the prince shouted gaining a hearty roar from his soldiers as they began to disperse and kill any remaining soldiers of the enemy. The prince didn't waste time, he charged forward and sliced the throat of a Crystal soldier before he could see him coming, he then saw a Canterlot soldier coming at him and he immediately put his shield up and block the spear and thrusted the spear away disarming the soldier before plunging his sword into the soldiers chest. He saw two soldiers of Canterlot coming at him with swords drawn, but he merely smirked as he instantly slammed into them hard with his shield, breaking one soldiers neck while knocking one soldier to the ground, the prince then stabbed the down soldier in the stomach and quickly saw a Crystal soldier coming and use his shield in an upper cut move and knocked the soldier into the air. He was then surrounded by six Canterlot soldiers and six Crystal soldiers, the prince smirked again as he poured magic into his left fist and punched the ground and the resulting shock wave knock the soldiers into the air, he then harnessed his magical power and moved at blinding speeds and quickly sliced and stabbed every soldier around him before they even hit the ground, he then landed on his feet as all twelve soldiers landed on the ground dead.

Daniel was also having fun, he started by stabbing a Crystal soldier with a spear and blocking another's attack with his new magic shield, he then plunged his spear into the attackers neck and killed him instantly. He saw a Canterlot soldier coming at him with a spear and block it with his shield, the spear broke on impact and Daniel plunge the spear right through the soldiers chest. He then lifted his spear up, positioned himself and threw the spear into the chest of another Canterlot soldier, Daniel quickly reacted and pulled his own black steel sword out and upon drawing it he slashed a Crystal soldiers throat in the process. He then marched and sliced a Crystal soldiers chest and with the momentum he sliced a Canterlot soldiers throat, he then kicked another to the ground and plunged his sword into the belly of the fallen soldier, he then saw two Crystal soldiers coming at him with swords drawn, he smiled and flipped over the soldiers and upon landing he swung his sword completely around and took a finishing stance behind the soldiers, he then smirked as both of the soldiers heads rolled of their bodies and with it their bodies dropped dead.

All of the Ironclad soldiers fought flawlessly against the enemy, they would block with magic shields and stab to kill immediately, others would block with their sword and spears and stab and slash at each soldier they came up against. Their armor blunted every attack that was inflicted upon them and their weapons easily stabbed and cut through the weaker armor and weapons of both the Canterlot and Crystal soldiers, any soldiers that the Ironclad soldiers knocked down or merely wounded in each scrap were killed immediately by the soldier behind them, ensuring that no mercy was shown to the invaders. The training Sergei gave was definitely paying off for their guerrilla tactics were far superior to the basic pony tactics and the soldiers knew it, soon enough, they were running out of enemies to kill.

It became apparent that the battle field was full of Crystal and Canterlot soldier bodies and Ironclad had them in full retreat, but the prince wasn't done, he watched as Sergei allowed another barrage of crossbow bolts to be fired and with it the rest of the soldiers that attempted to flee were slaughtered, the Ironclad soldiers cheered as they finished killing any soldiers that remained, whether they were injured or not, Daniel even cheered with the soldiers as he believed victory was theirs as well, but the prince maintained a serious attitude as he stared up at Princess Luna who looked completely overwhelmed and horrified at the onslaught both armies have suffered through, and the worst part of it was that no Ironclad soldiers fell, she began to take off, but the prince wasn't letting her go that easily."What do you wanna do about her sir?"Daniel asked.

"I'm going after her."the prince answered.

"How sir?"Daniel questioned.

"Just watch,"the prince said as he put his hands together and began to glow completely yellow, he then began to concentrate hard and finally he did what he wanted to do. To everyone's astonishment, large magical wings sprouted out of the prince's back and with it his eyes glowed completely yellow, the soldiers and Daniel marveled in amazement as the prince took flight and chased after Princess Luna. The princess was almost home before in a flash of yellow light, the prince was right in front of her with his arms crossed and staring her down, she looked at him with fear, as she noticed his wings.

"Y-You can fly now?!"Luna frantically questioned.

"Yes well...I wasn't exactly kicking back and relaxing for the last year, I have been training in magic endlessly just so I could be a more experience and a more magical ruler to my subjects, just as you and Celestia are to your subjects...Tell me something, Why only you? why didn't Cadence and Shining Armor show up?"he questioned back.

"Well thanks to you, they were in no condition to even get back to their own kingdom, let alone go to war with you and your...kingdom."Luna answered.

The prince frowned and teleported right in front of her and grabbed Luna by the neck and rose her in the air as he began to get angry with her."You know...you really shouldn't speak ill of a kingdom, especially in front of its ruler, that is what got Shining and his bitch in so much trouble."the prince growled as he began to squeeze Luna's neck.

"W-Wait...wait! I wish to surrender!"Luna squeaked out as she ran out of air. The prince rose an eyebrow as he slowly released Luna from his grip and gave her a chance to catch her breath and rub her neck.

"Surrender? this should be good."the prince blankly said.

"Yes please...name the terms of my surrender."she shamefully asked.

The prince smiled at this and chuckled for a moment before speaking."Well for starters, the Crystal Empire will be surrendering to us immediately, make sure Shining and his wife gets the memo."Second, me and my soldiers will be marching upon Canterlot regardless to see if Celestia will kindly surrender to us as well and if she doesn't want to see any more blood shed in her own city she will surrender to us peacefully."If she doesn't then I will make her, do you understand me?"the prince demanded.

Luna nodded fearfully at the prince's demands."I-I will see if...my sister will yield, but I will make sure the Crystal Empire surrenders."Luna replied in a defeated tone.

"Good...now get out of my sight before I change my mind."he warned as he move out of the way allowing Luna to fly back to Canterlot, once Luna was out of sight the prince sighed and instantly teleported back to his army who were waiting ambitiously as they disposed of the Crystal and Canterlot soldier bodies and killed any wounded or knocked out soldiers they may have missed in the fight, they all rose to the prince and stood in silence as the prince stood there silently for suspense, finally he smiled as he rose his sword in the air."Victory is ours!"

The Ironclad army jumped up and roared with cheer over their astounding victory, suddenly Daniel came to the prince and happily saluted the prince."Sir! what do we do now sir?"Daniel excitedly asked.

"Tell the men to gather supplies and hurry, in a few hours we will be marching to Canterlot to see if Celestia will kindly surrender to us, find Randy as well...we will need his muscle if we want to push Celestia into surrendering and don't worry, I have already ensured that the Crystal empire to surrender and make peace with us, now all that's left is Canterlot."the prince explained.

"Yes sir, right away sir!" Daniel replied as he pushed through the cheering crowd of soldiers to give the announcements, the prince in the meantime stared back at the Canterlot mountain with a proud smile.

"Celestia, I'm coming for you, you better be ready to surrender."The prince stated to himself.

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT THE BATTLE OF IRONCLAD

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