Authors note: this chapter and the next chapter, since they both happen within the same time frame, I just want to point that out; this is the first time I actually had a chapter planned, not make a mish-mash or random awesome; this is PLANNED awesome. Well, you guys have been great readers; robbytherouge, shadowfire117, turdy1, to name a few, you guys have helped me out of so many issues from naming, to plot lengthing, to explaining the principle of writing (shadow, you need to write a story, I said it once, I say again: you got the mind of tom Clancy and mark twain in terms of insight to writing, what you said still enlightens me)

Well, let's do this (ahem) LERRRROYY JEEENNKINNS!

Chapter 24: tiberiuem sunset

(H-HOUR+1 of "equestrian freedom" OPS)

Twilight was using here binoculars, trying to get a good look of what was happening; GDI units covered in green crystals were firing on other GDI units! There defense would break soon, and even there mighty MARV's were getting infested by the crystals!

Before twilight knew it, infested missile squads were targeting her, and she turned to Flynn saying "DUDE! RPG! RPG!" Flynn looked out the window and said "meh, cheap Russian RPGs man! I can dodge these in my sleep." He yanked on the throttle and saw the missiles fly on past him; he turned back to twilight and said "now, if it was a javelin, I would have to do something tricky!"

He barrel rolled his helicopter to prove a point, causing twilight to practically piss herself. Flynn stopped for a moment, and saw his LZ: 5 miles into the red zone, was a huge tower of tiberiuem, and GDI friendly MARVS were trying to hit it was they got an onslaught from infested troopers. Fly heard on the "E" band a voice say:

Any GDI loyal or ailed troops, we have an ION strike ready to crack that tower open; transmit the data, we can't enter unless we crack it with the ION cannon!

Flynn grabbed twilight's binoculars, and grabbed the radio saying "this is ghost rider, I have said target in my scopes, bearing 1337x343, fire when ready. He was now 1 mile to the tower, and he started to gain altitude, so he could avoid and secondary's when whatever an "ION strike" was fucked this place over.

He almost jumped out of his seat when beams of blue light flew out of the sky, and started focusing on the tower; he turned his chopper around as he saw the energy gather in the center of the tower, it was going to be much, much more than a "secondary"….

A blinding flash of light filled the sky, and beta team covered their eyes; Flynn looked at his control panel and heard a beeping that said "WARNING: EMP DETECTED, SYSTEM FAILURE IN 3…2…1—KZZzzz"

He grabbed the throttle and started steering to the blast crater the strike caused as his UH-1 started losing altitude fast, his only goal now was to see beta team succeed, and say some lives; karma would be cool with him then.

He closed his eyes as the ground neared, followed by a sickening crunch.

(unknown time later…)

"wake up, Flynn, we made it!"

"ohh, shit man, don't worry, I can get you out of here!"

"open your eyes, human, you can make it!"

Flynn groggily opened his eyes to see Mendez, dash, and moon looking over him, his flaming UH in the background, he looked down at his legs, and saw they were missing, replaced by pools of blood. He weakly opened his mouth and said "is my cargo ok?"

Mendez looked at him and said "yes twilight is ok, you landed you helicopter so that the front hit the ground, and the hold didn't even get a scratch, but you need to see a medic, I can abort and take you to a GDI armory, they can help ther—" Flynn put his hand on Mendez's mouth and said "no, just get the smokes out of my left pocket, I am a dead man, you know, and I know it; I really don't fear death, karma has been good to me, and I to it, karma will help me through"

Mendez used his magic and pulled a beaten up pack of cig's, it was old; rather worn out, and it had writing on the side:

To: bad company's pilot, our favorite communist liberal pinko, Flynn

-haggs, sweet's, sarge, and Marlowe

Flynn smiled, the writing meant something to him, and he pulled out a cigarette, lit up, and as his eyes shut, he murmured "thanks' for the smokes, guys…." He then went limp, and more blood flowed from his wounds. Mendez looked up and said "I…think he's gone, guy's…"

Dash nodded sadly and said "the readers would feel much more sorrow for Flynn if Blackburn got the thumb out of his ass and made Flynn have more character," Mendez, moon, and now twilight looked at her and said "you know how to kill a moment, don't you?"

Dash looked at Mendez and said "maybe, I was just sayin' the truth."

Mendez turned around and started marching to the open cave in the crater, hoping it led down into satin's anti-chamber; he was going to finish what he started, and pay for his sin's, and other's deaths, with her blood. Twilight followed him, as did moon and dash, they were the best in their fields, and only they could stop her.

(several miles of tunnels later…)

Mendez was stunned when he saw a huge metal blast door, but his surprise went away as moon rather anti-climatically destroyed the door, removing a reason for Blackburn to explain why the door was even there.

Mendez walked into what was a giant arena underground, and before moon, dash, or twilight could step in there, a force field pinned them to the ground, and a familiar voice started laughing, and saying "you came back! I knew my experience in bed would have your loser-ass come back!"

Mendez saw a light shine on a spot high above him, and yelled "SATIN! I AM HERE TO KILL YOU, AND NOTHING YOU CAN DO WILL STOP ME, FREE MY FRIENDS!" she got a trollface and said "what about your princess? I got her captive too." Mendez said "oh, thanks, I forgot during my awe-inspiring hero's monologue."

Satin simply said "I know the feeling, evil person monologue is rough on the throat from all the excessive laughing, y'no—WAIT! BACK ON TRACK, WE WERE THREATENING EACH OTHER!" Mendez nodded and said "NOTHING IS IN MY WAY BETWEEN ME AND YOU, NOTHING!"

Satin looked at him and said "do you remember Edward Cullen, how GDI zone troopers mortally wounded him?" Mendez nodded as she continued "…WELL, I dropped his dying body into a vat of blue tiberiuem, and now he is a gay super-mutant, who insisted on naming himself BONAR!"

Mendez didn't have time to answer, as satin pressed a button on her pedestal, and the sound of a metal grate going up filled the room, and out of the darkness, a deep-ass voice screamed:

"BONAR IS ANGRY! BONAR SMASH WHEN ANGRY!"

Everyone in beta team uttered: "ooohhhh shit!" as a huge boulder flew through the air, and slammed into a wall. Satin started manically laughing as the ground shook, and a hulking Edward Cullen on steroids, wearing sparkly body armor, standing 25 feet tall walked into the light and said "BONAR NO LIKE MENDEZ! BONAR MOTHERFUCKING SMASH!"

Mendez tried to use his wings, but something was holding them down, he looked up and saw that satin was using magic, and that his wing were glowing; he rolled out of the way was bonar punched a 6 foot crater into the spot he once stood.

Bonar was struggling, he got his hand stuck in the ground; Mendez lowered his horn and jumped on his back, and started t-bagging him, pissing bonar off. Mendez felt bonar grab his leg, and throw him against the wall; he swore he heard something snap. He got up and saw his front leg bent sideways. He lowered his head, grabbed hold of his arm with his teeth, and yanked it back in place. Bonar's jaw hit the floor, and Mendez said "I eat pain." And charged at bonar again; bonar yelled "BONAR NO EAT PAIN; IT TASTES LIKE APPLES! BONAR SMASH APPLES!"

Mendez hit max speed, and rammed bonar in the gut; he screamed n pain and said "YOU NO HIT BONAR'S GUT, YOU HIT BONAR'S NUTS! AGGGGGH!" Mendez ran up to bonar, then rammed his horn right into his neck, and watched as blue tiberiuem poured out of his wound, and he started shrinking, until a frail, tiny Edward Cullen lay in a pool of blue Tiber. Mendez walked up to him, and then proceeded to rip him to pieces.

(Every single male on the face of the planet burst out in a joyous cry as the beast was slain.)

He looked up and smirked as satin saw him tear her "ace card" to bloody ribbons; she turned tail, dropped the force field holding his friends, and ran. Mendez went to go see if his friends were all right, and then turned, and flew after satin.

(elsewhere…)

Satin flew into the anti-chamber, and shut the door; she needed to contact the overlord, and needed a way to escape, before Mendez got to her.

She was sent in to weaken up the defenses, then take this planet and use it as a foothold to invade other sections of the universe; but before she typed in the distress signal in, she remembered her final back-up plan: princess celestia.

She had put her is stasis in the back of the antechamber's deep-freezer, along with bill Clinton, and the spy's head. She pulled out the princess, and then started the transfer; she would get Mendez, and make sure he could do nothing about it.

(elsewhere….)

Mendez was speeding down the halls; he would see to it that everyone was avenged for satin's atrocities. He ran up to the antechamber's door, and stuck some GDI C-12 to it, and waited until everyone had stacked up to breach; twilight was using magic to wield an AA-12, moon had energy charging in her horn, and dash had a 23-pounder shell out, it was painted pink with "fuck you" on the side. Mendez shuddered at the sight of it as he set the timer on the bomb, and ducked behind a rock, and started counting

3…

2…

1…

Beep

Breach.

An explosion rocked the walls as the door and most of the walls were turned into molten rubble, and everyone ran in, guns blazing. Twilight's AA was loaded with dragon's breath, and in the smoke filled air, it's glow silhouetted the team as it charged into the center of the room; like every other room satin owned, there was only a light in the center, and satin was nowhere to be seen.

A voice then rang through the air; it was and wasn't satin's voice, it was very garbled, switching between insane and regal; it sounded extremely familiar to them. Mendez turned as a huge flash of light filled the front of the room, and everyone's jaw dropped in horror as they "found" who they were looking for

It was the princess.

She still looked like she "normally" was, except he body now had sickly splotches of tiberiuem growing rapidly on her, and her eyes were now becoming like moon's, but only in a blood red color. He once-beautiful mane was now green waves of gas tiberiuem, and the very smell of it started to make twilight and dash cough.

The princess smiled evilly and said "I, satin ether, with the power of the sun, shall stamp you fools out, then spread the crystal across the world; you will be my slaves, watching helplessly as the world dies with fields of green! She then fired a green bolt at them, and Mendez crumbled to the ground as he felt the crystals on his chest shatter, and green blood began to trickle out. He turned his head and watched in horror as satin knocked twilight off her feet, then walked over to her and sprayed her body with blue tiberiuem; at first all she did was try to wipe them off, screaming "AGGH! IT BURNS! MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STO—HUURGH—"

She then went limp as the crystals engulfed her body, and she then stood up, hate in her eyes as she said "you dare good against the overlord and satin; you will perish, and I will be the prize pupil of OUR NEW RULER!" she lowered he horn and charged at Mendez with stunning speeds; just as she was about to impact with his heart, a blue bolt tackled her, and Mendez saw dash punching her in the face, and pinning her to the ground.

Dash briefly turned to Mendez and said "TAKE SATIN DOWN, I GOT TWILGHT UNDER CONTROL! Do this for me, Mendez!" he nodded, and charged at satin, who just sat where she was, grinning; as he neared, she said "you kill me, you kill your precious princess, note I am using her body, after all-AGGHH-FFJVnv…" she suddenly had a seizure of sorts, he sickly coat peeling off of the princess for a second as the real princess screamed "MENDEZ! DON'T BELIEVE HER! IT WILL KILL ME, BUT SHE IS A GREATER-huggh—AGGGH!" the princess got cut off as satin's coat went back over the princess, and she said "well, I thought I destroyed the princess's will to fight, after I kill you, I shall fix that…."

Mendez lowered his horn, and without second thought rammed his horn into the neck of satin; gore painted the wall behind her, but satin, as her body fell to the tiberiuem-coated ground, was smiling, a faint smile, like one would do in a victory speech…she shut her eyes as she hit the ground.

Mendez turned around, and started to walk off; a few seconds later moon yelled "LOOK OUT! SHE'S BACK!" Mendez turned around and saw satin, her wounds healed, charging at him; he recoiled as he felt a horn pierce his chest, just barely missing his heart.

He then got flung off her horn, and he closed his eyes in pain as his blood spotted the ground where he landed; as satin stood above him, readying her horn to plunge into his skull, a bolt of lightning hit her. She turned to see moon charging as much raw power as she could in her horn, and boxed satin in with dark magic.

Mendez crawled over to a puddle of tiberiuem, and felt pain go away as his wounds healed, he looked over and screamed in horror, dash had a cut on her side, and it was scabbing over with green crystals rapidly filled her skin; Mendez rushed to her side and said "OH MY GOD! Dash, speak to me!"

She looked at him, smiled and said "I got twilight down; I just got a lil' scratch on the way down…I think I'll-hurggh…." Her eyes fell shut as the crystal covered more of her body; Mendez turned around, his rage seething through his body: satin was going to die at his hands; he was going to confirm the kill.

(in the dark magic cloud…)

Moon was knocked to her feet; satin now had her power plus celestia's power, she had underestimated it. Satin hit moon again in the face, and blood spilled on the ground. Satin merely smiled and said "you are a thorn in my side; your death will be much slower than Mendez's, I assure you, I shall begin by removing those tacky eyes of yours…" as she started lowering her horn to gouge moon's eyes out, Mendez jumped and smashed a hole in the dark magic wall, and slammed ether against a wall.

She turned and said "YOU FOOL! You just don't get it, any attack you do will heal me, because I regenerate in tiberiuem; what are you made of again?" Mendez ignored her as he put his CZ against her head and fired all 12 rounds point-blank into her; she barely even noticed the bullets bounce off her body.

She just laughed, then blasted him with magic; he hit the ground; it was starting to look hopeless.

He pulled his KA-bar knife out with his mouth, and stabbed her in the neck; she had a true look of shock on her face, and she started to run for a pool of tiberiuem. Mendez tackled her, and pinned her to the ground. Satin looked him in the eye and said "gotcha."

Mendez felt his KA-bar go into his neck, and he started coughing; everything started looking weird to him, and he hit the floor, gasping like a fish out of water. Satin walked over to the radio station and typed in a code; the teleporter pad near her glowed.

She turned to Mendez and said "well, I shall leave this universe now, because, with you finished, nothing shall stop me!" as she finished saying this, a strange noise came out of the radio; it was a message from general Sheppard:

Attention, satin ether; I have been aware of you, and the overlords plans to invade this dimension via Equestria, and I have decided to stop you myself; as you know, tiberiuem can be abated by sonic blasts; let's just say I'm about to rock your world.

See, my plan is, "if an asset that is neutral is wanted by the opposing force…you destroy it. Equestria is the asset, and I must destroy the asset, to avoid capture this time."

The transmission ended, and Mendez heard the sound of a sonic charge arming; he saw satin jump on the teleporter, and as the unit started the transport, the bomb went off; Mendez remembered part of his body shattering as he hit the wall.

(at the GDI base observing the tower…)

The sniper team on watch had been drinking coffee for the past hour; nothing had happened near the tower after the ION cannon wiped the place clean; they spit up all their coffee as they saw the base of the tower explode from an AZZ-grade sonic charge. The spotter got on the radio and said "we found that missing bomb. It exploded: Spotter out."

As he put the radio up, he glanced at the sky; he looked in wonder at the huge shooting star in the sky, and wondered why the smaller one was catching up to it; a few seconds later, a blossom of a nuclear fireball filled the sky; the sniper team sat down and thought for a moment: 2 huge explosions had happened within 45 seconds of each-other. It was time to get high.

Authors note: OK, if nobody has anything to say about this chapter, I will remove my 27th tooth from my mouth, I re-wrote this chapter 6 times, trying to get it right; I give me an "E" for truly inspiring effort to make this the greatest chapter I ever made to date.

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