//------------------------------// // Equestrian Thunder // Story: The Alien Warriors: Journey to Equestria // by Texas Style Brony //------------------------------// After about five minutes of walking, the bushes began to move. "STOP!", Ramirez yelled, "Something's not right! Lock n load boys!", The soldiers soon formed a defensive circle around their new friends. Suddenly at least fifty changelings jumped from behind the bushes and attacked. "Changelings?! I thought that Starlight and Thorax had reformed them all!" Twilight exclaimed as she and the princesses tried teleport the ponies, humans and draconequus to safety. Unfortunately they couldn't. "What's happening?!" Twilight yelled. "They must have one of those special stones nearby, it nullifies anything that is not changeling magic!" Discord replied, having remembered the experience back at the changeling hive. "Well whatever, it's about time we see how good these guys really are!" Dash yelled over all the noise. "Right, let's do this!" Ramirez yelled as he charged firing his Stryfe at the attacking changelings. It looked something like this: Eight changelings dropped dead as the darts ripped right through them. Soon, the rest of the Lunar Nightwatch were also yelling out war cries and firing at the incoming changelings. The ponies and draconequus remained tightly at the center of the defensive circle the humans formed. "Eat foam!", Smith yelled out as he quickly emptied his Stryfe smg and reloaded, killing ten more changelings in the process. "Yeah! Come get some you freaking bugs!" McLaughn yelled as he was able to fire precise shots with his Retaliator at the changelings, scoring kills with all twelve darts before having to reload. Parker had revved up his Rapidstrike and was now spewing darts all over the changelings. Although the Rapidstrike was no minigun, Parker layed down some powerful suppressive fire with it while yelling out something like this: Now there were sixteen more dead changelings. Summers had fired two shots from his Rival Atlas shotgun, blowing the head off one changeling and the torso out of another. At this point, there were only two changelings left, and they immediately turned and ran. "Heck yeah!" Smith yelled as the rest of the team cheered along with him and were high fiving and patting each other on the back. However, the Mane Six looked on in a mix of awe, disgust, and fear. "Wow. That was totally awesome!" Dash yelled as she saw how quickly it all happened. "Oh my goodness! How can you humans live like this?! I don't believe that even the Royal Guard has seen this level of violence!", Rarity exclaimed upon seeing all the changeling bodies. "Eeep!!" Fluttershy was cozied up to Discord the whole time, afraid of the loud noises of battle and all the dead bodies strewn around them. "Well, now they know better than to mess with y'all", Applejack stated proudly. "Um, that was.....kinda scary.", Pinkie stated bluntly after nearly losing her hearing to all the gunfire. "Thank you for protecting us, but did it have to be so violent?!" Twilight exclaimed. "Twilight, ponies may be a peaceful race, but humans are designed to be a warrior species", Ramirez replied. The Royal sisters and Discord were looking at the humans impressed, however. There were still many threats against Equestria, and these creatures did not need magic to fight them. "Well, you certainly have proven yourselves to be fierce warriors. Thank you for protecting us and our ponies", Celestia stated. "I believe that we should not be far from Ponyville now, let us keep moving, I do not want to stay here.", Rarity stated, seeing Twilight's castle not far off. Everybody agreed, and soon after the Lunar Nightwatch had gathered and cleaned their ammo, they were back in Ponyville. Discord soon teleported away, and the Royal sisters boarded their chariot and left, but said that they would like to see the humans in Canterlot the next day. Twilight soon showed the humans to the guest wing of her castle. The rest of Mane Six decided that they would sleep over at Twilight's castle that night, to get to know the humans a little better. Twilight told Spike that the humans were their guests and that they may become her royal guard. Soon after, Spike began to make dinner for everypony and human. After a couple of hours of cooking, Spike went to the map room ringing a dinner bell and yelled "Come and get it!"