//------------------------------// // Thundering Storm // Story: Xenophage: Part 1 // by slayer792 //------------------------------// Xenophage Equestria Chapter III Thundering Storm Cotton Cove __________________________________________________________________________________ As Iron shielded his eyes from the intense light, the question that he asked himself over a month ago, was answered. This is what Order wanted the weapons for. Silver and his work were cursed. “Iron, I don’t think this was meant to happen!” Yelled Tix as she hid behind Iron’s mane. “No, I think this is what Order wanted. He wanted this to happen!” Yelled Iron. “Indeed, this is what I sent by younger brother to do. Made him use my name, and do my will!” Boomed a voice from the ring of weapons. “That is fucking cheesy!!” Came a grim and threatening one. “So what? It’s true. I don’t lie.” Came the first voice again. Iron knew both were male, but who were they? “You are wondering who we are.” Came a very feminine voice. “And you shall know. We are the new Guardians of the Universe!” Boomed the feminine voice. Iron now knew what they wanted, or did he? “We have come to help restore order, peace, and justice in Equestria.” Came the second voice. With his eyes still shielded. “Why did you need the weapons then, Couldn’t you just enter?” Asked Iron as he took a few steps back. “Could you enter you home with no door?” Asked a new voice, this one deep and strong. Iron shock his head in response. As he did the light dimmed. Only to reveal six massive Titans. The tallest appeared taller than Princess Celestia herself. The shortest looked to be just a bit taller than Princess Luna. “Take us to the castle of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, we have business to discuss.” Came the first voice, Order’s voice. Iron weighed his options, run and get struck down within moments, or obey and take them to the castle. “Iron, take them to the castle, the princess will know what to do.” whispered Tix behind Iron's mane. “We can hear you, Pixie.” spat a new voice. Tix revealed her self in hopes they would ignore her. Her hopes were not false. “Good, now lead on Iron Hooves. We don’t want to be late to the party.” sneered the voice once again. Iron slowly turned and started to walk. The door of weapon fell to the ground and became nothing more than a pile of steel. __________________________________________________________________________________ Canterlot Castle. “Sister, this year’s Equinox went off without a hitch! Usually it’s a mess without Miss. Sparkle.” Beamed Luna as she and Celestia walk down the halls of the castle. “Yes, Twilight is a major help to most festivals. The Wonderbolts were grand as well.” said Celestia and they turned a corner. “Yes, Miss. Dash has really improved their performance. And the dresses Miss. Rarity made for you and I are simply exquisite!” cheered Luna. “Sister, do you fell, weak some times?” asked Celestia as she dropped her head towards the floor. “No, what do you mean sister?” ask Luna as she helped her sister up. “Nightmare Moon, Discord, Queen Chrysalis, King Somber, and The Griffin Horde. All defeated by the Elements of Harmony, not by our armies or us, by six fillies.” Luna now understood why Celestia was so gloomy for the past few days. She felt weak. “Don’t worry sister, soon you will like feel yourself, when you do you’ll feel silly for ever thinking you’re weak.” Mused Luna. “I hope you’re right sister, anyway let’s get to the court.” said Celestia as she started a brisk trot. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Canterlot main gate. “Hey, ever wonder why we’re here?” asked one of the two grey stallions beside the gate. “No, we have a job to do. Even with the slim chance an enemy would attack Equestria, crush the army and the Elements of Harmony, we still need to stand guard.” said the second stallion. “What? No I mean why are we here, breathing and talking? Is this all just a cosmic-" "Halt!” the first stallion was unable to continue talking thanks to six approaching creatures lead by a lone pony. “Easy, You their what is you business creature?!” asked the second guard. The stallion stopped but the other six kept walking. Both guards looked at each other and nodded. The gate became engulfed in white magic and both guards approached the approaching creature, spears drawn. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Guardian point of view “Should we stop?” asked William. “No draw your weapons, but hold fire until I say so.” said Orion as he pull's out his Lancer. The rest did the same. “Remember Nathan. Gain their trust, help them, then we crush them.” “No need to tell me, as long as we fix it.” said Nathan as he cycled his Riot Shotgun. “Of course, no need to leave a broken world in our wake.” Said Layla as she readied her Anti-material rifle. “Agreed,” said both William and Gaz in sync. Orion looked back to see Zed slowly nod in agreement. “Okay, just walk past the guard, if they fire, keep walking, you’ll be fine.” “Halt, state you business in Canterlot." “None of your concern, step a side.” “Not going to happen, we don’t let animals walk around freely in this city." This sent Nathan over the edge. He rusted ahead and picked the stallion up by the horn with his left hand and broke it. “You feel like calling me an animal? I’ll show you an animal!” Boomed the angry man. Nathan reached for his knife only to be stopped by Orion's hand. “We have more pressing matters. Layla, fix him up.” said Orion as he held the handle of Nathan knife. Nathan was ready to kill the guard, but he decided to wait and come back later. “Fine, you win. We’ll settle this later.” Said Nathan as he pointed at the stallion who’s horn he'd broken off. “Halt! You are under arrest for the beating of a Canterlot Royal Guard, put your hooves where I can see them and get on you knees!” yelled the second guard. Orion raised his Lancer. “Do you want to find out what happens to a pony’s skull when six 7.62mm rounds hit it?” Asked Orion as he took a step closer, this made the guard shake with fear. “Do you feel lucky punk, do you?” asked Zed as he joined Orion. “You will take us to both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna now. Or we can just march through this city, mowing down anyone or thing how resists.” said Orion as he lowered his weapon and gestured to the gate. “We know they will both be in the court at the same time today and today alone.” The guard swallowed as he tried to make a decision. As he was doing this the first guard got to his feet and readied him self. “Fine, do not harm anyone else, we will lead you to them.” With that comment everyone could hear Nathan rolling his eyes. James looked towards the gate, what he saw was odd, the street up to the beta ring of the castle was filled with apartment and shops that sold all, he saw signs that sold three cherries for two bits. Another sold a box of potatoes for one. Ones who sold solid gold necklaces encrusted with Rubies, Diamonds, Emeralds, and other gems for only 100, ‘Most people would lose their minds looking at this. Half of this stuff is so out of order.’ thought James. “Hurry up, or we’ll leave you for the wolves!” Yelled Zed as the group walked up to the wide road. As they did so, only few stared, maybe seeing odd creatures in Canterlot was normal for them. The thoughts were quickly replaced with ones of being on one of the many battle field's he had to fight through to help others to get to his brother’s side. James tried to forget about the battles, however the harder he tried to suppress them, the harder they tried to get out. “Gaz, stop day dreaming. I know this is your life long dream, but come on, we got work to do.” Yelled Orion from the top of the hill next to the beta gate. James shrugged off most of his thoughts and began to focus on the matter at hand offering a helping hand to Celestia and Luna, with the encounter with the guards the chances of having it dropped drastically. “Hey, Orion we need to talk.” Whispered Nathan. Orion looked up from the small bits of paper he was looking over and signing. “Let’s continue this later, we’ll go in, in a few.” Said Orion as he walked over to Nathan who was leaning against the stone wall. “What’s on your mind?” Asked Orion as he joined Nathan. “It’s Layla. We made it so she’ll only remember this on her 20th birthday, but she has been looking at James and John alot in the past month. I feel uneasy. Should I feel happy or sad for her? When she remembers she's more than likely to have a boy friend.” Said Nathan as he looked down the hill at James. “Nathan, you do know girls usually have a boyfriend or two in high school and collage right? She’ll just think of it as flirting or the boy she used to know.” Said Orion as he congered up an apple and took a bite. “You’re right, I’m just being stupid.” Said Nathan as he took the apple from Orion and pulled out his knife to cut Orion’s bite off and took a bite from it. “No, you’re just being a big brother. It’s natural to be protective of her.” Said Orion as he took the apple back. “Um, sorry to disturb you, but uh, could I perhaps ask if your a human?” Came a light, sweet voice that seemed to crack up. “Yes Lyra, we are humans. We’ll stop by and you can do SOME tests, only if the princesses say we can stay and d our tasks.” Said Orion without looking down or look away from the skyline. “How, how do you know my name?” Asked Lyra, Orion stopped dead. He just made a mistake. He need to think of something fast. Great!, think think think think! Oh got! thought Orion. “I can read people’s thoughts, well in this case ponie’s thoughts. I read your mind quickly and learned you name. It only happens every now and then." This wasn’t a lie. Orion could ‘read’ someone’s mind from time to time. “Oh, can all humans do that?” Asked Lyra. “No, and I would think you would be acting like Pinkie Pie right now.” Said Orion right before he took another bite. “No, my mother, Lyra would be.” Once again Orion stopped dead. 'This is Lyra’s daughter? Is Bon Bon the ‘father’? If so magic works wonders.' He thought. “Really, who’s your father?” Asked Orion. “oh, I have two mothers. Lyra and Bon Bon, they used magic so Bon Bon could, uh, you know.” Said Lyra with the biggest blush on her face. “Do you all ways talk about your parent's in the bedroom?” Asked Nathan as he types some thing into his Pipboy pulling out two dice, rolling them across the ground getting a three on one and a four on the other. the familiar sound meaning 'prepare for the consequences' coming from his pipboy. “No, I don’t. Well, stop by the Ponyville Hospital, my mother and I treat non-ponies out of a quarter of the hospital. She be thrilled six humans have come to Equestria, to help us none the less! Bye!” Said Lyra in a rather cheerful tone. “Come on let’s get in this castle.” Barked Zed as he unloaded and reloaded is revolver. “Right, pass the pen and paper” Said Orion as he walked over and began to sign __________________________________________________________________________________ Name: Zak P. [Z/Zed] Age: 20 Eye color: Blue Hair color: Black Height: 5‘11 Weight: 198.3 Race: Human, Caucasian Affiliation: Brotherhood of Steel [Mojave Chapter], Boomers, Big Mt., The Divide, and The New California Republic. Rank: N/A Karma: Neutral S: 9 P: 9 E: 10 C: 8 I: 9 A: 8 L: 7 Perks: Commando, Center of Mass, Explorer, Jury rigging, Mad Bomber, Wheres My Pants, Pipboy Upgrade, Run Like Winds, Sniper, Strongback, Unexpected Happiness, Wild Wasteland, and Power Armour Training.