//------------------------------// // Arrival // Story: Conversion Bureaus: Warhammer 40k The second battle for the Kaurava System // by Gunnerben55 //------------------------------// Location: *Equstira* *Canterlot* Celestia looks out over the cheering crowd of ponies after she gave her speech of helping the humans of Earth by Conversion and they will teleport Equstira with in the hour. She smiles and looks to her side to see Luna mirroring her smile. "Sister we best be preparing our selves this will take a lot power." Luna nods. "Yes sister lets get to the others then." They both leave the balcony and head into the Palace. As the two sisters head deeper into the castle they arrive at the throne room where a circle of hooded unicorns are charging up their horns. one turns to the new comers. "Princesses it is wonderful for you to join us. We are nearly done just need you to complete the spell." Celestia gives him a nod. "yes we will begin in a moment." With that said she and her sister move into position opposite of each other around the circle. The throne room lights up with magic as they channel their magic into runes drawn on the floor. Soon all over the country the ground starts to light up as the spell slowly takes them away. The blue sky is replaced with the black void of space and ponies all over watch in awe and fear as they speed though reality. One of the unicorns feels a small change in the magic but can't place what it is soon he hears a small voice and he complies unable to do anything else and soon the spell changes slightly and no one notices. Soon the sky above is once again returns singling they have arrived on the planet. The sisters walk to the window and look out to see a clean blue ocean along the coast. "Feels like we didn't leave... but... i feel the air around doesn't hold magic... you were right sister they lack any form of it." Luna looks to Celestia. "Yes we will need to send scouts to explore this new world quickly i'm sure our arrival hasn't gone unnoticed." *Location* *Kaurava System* *Kaurava II* On the eastern coast of the main land mass a Imperial outpost sits to keep watch for the feral orks the raid in these parts. A young guardsman sits behind a heavy bolter aimed out over the beach below their hill trying his best not to fall asleep. He gives the waves a look and sighs. "Wish i could go for a dip... its hot here..."He whines to himself. a voice is heard behind him pops up. "Shut up Johnathan and stop complaining." Johnathan glares at his partner named Matt. "Like you don't want to just lay in the water and just be lazy for a bit" he retorts. His partner just laughs and looks out but stops when he sees something. "Is there any fly boys in the area or near by?" He points to a small formation of 5 small dots coming towards them. "I don't believe so... lets warn the sarge" Johnathan answers. He leaves his Bolter mount and goes into the bunker below. he passes a few other Men milling about the tunnels of the outpost before he reaches the command room where a Commissar and a sergeant are talking. As in talking i mean the Commissar going on endlessly how he won battles back during the struggle for the system from heretics to the sergeant trying his best not to stab his superior. Jonathan walks up to the pair and salutes. "Sirs if i may have a word." the two give him a look. "what is it private? can't you see we're busy?" "My apologies lord commissar but we saw a formation of unknown aircraft coming our way and i'm making sure if their are any flights scheduled to come by." The two men look at each other and the sergeant speaks up. "Umm... no flights pass anywhere near here... what type of aircraft are they?" Johnathan stops to think for a moment and a small fear creeps into him. "I... didn't check sir i saw them and came to report sir." The commissar didn't look impressed. "You are wasting our time... for all we know it was a flock of animals you know many roam around these lands. i should..." He is cut off by a buzzing sound to come from the speakers as the alarm goes off. "Seems you may be lucky... but if i need someone i will shoot you first to raise moral." *he storms past him to get top side with the rest of the guardsmen. A hand lands on Johnathan's shoulder. he looks to see the sergeant smiling at him. "Don't worry johnny i'm sure he wont shoot you and thanks for saving me... i can't stand to hear another word of bragging of him being the one to kill the farseer." Johnathan returns the smile and heads off to get back to his bolter. *Meanwhile outside* Winter Night the formation's leader was not having a good day. First he gets picked to go find the local Humans of this world and make contact with them, then he and his entire wing see something that sends a new wave of fear though them in the skies above as a long black object hung in place so far up some guessed it was in orbit. And to top it off the Princesses learned they had no control of the sun nor the moon and even found that a second moon and even three more planets very close to this one. "Lieutenant how much longer do we have to fly?" One of the new recruits whines. Winter just groans. "You can see the shore ahead of us i even see a building we can land at and make contact with this worlds inhabitants." They slowly near the coast and they see activity at the building. "Looks military sir... and... is that a two headed eagle on the wall?" Winter looks and sees the a large eagle. "Must be their national flag or something and if its military be careful we don't fully understand their weapons." The other 4 give their 'yes sirs'. They slowly near the Structure and notice a lot of movement at it. "Lets not go straight to it... get to the clouds and watch from above i'm sure they're getting ready for us." He leads them to the cloud cover above and brakes the line of sight with the building. One of the recruits comes up to him. "Sir if... i may ask... why are we hiding... and not going right to them to make contact our orders..." he is cut off by Winter raising his hoof. "If you want to go say hi to something that is waiting on us and we don't understand be my guest. Cause they were jumping into trenches from what i saw." The recruit peaks his head though the clouds and looks below to see winter was right but also sees a large box moving along the ground. "Sir... there is a box sliding along the ground down there." Winter is confused at first and takes a look himself and sees the 'box' stop near the building and a short round object on top turn back and froth with a short barrel coming from it. "I have never seen something like that before... if we make contact we have to be smart." The others after looking for them selves all agree and start on a plan. *Back at the outpost* Johnathan tracked the 5 unknowns with his bolter before he lost them in the clouds. "What do you think they are? i saw them glowing gold when the sun hit them. Any ideas Matt?" He looks at his ammo carrier who just shrugs. "What ever they are if they come at us they will get a hell of the Emperor's hammer right here." He pats the heavy bolter they both man. Something catches their eyes and they watch a lone dot exit the cloud cover and descend down to the outpost. "This can't be good... where are the other four?" Matt looks around at the clouds and spots a small object poking out of the clouds right above them. "The rest are waiting above... i don't like it." *Winter's Prospective* Winter glides down to the ground below and gives his team one last look before speeding up to the Building. As he nears it he can see many of the humans all focused on him with what he guessed were their weapons. He lands a good ways from the first trench and slowly walks forward before one that stands out from the rest leaves the trench with a sword in hand a large cap on his head. The tall man walks to him sword ready and a boxy object in his other hand. "in the name of the Emperor i will..." he is cut off when Winter speaks. "I come in the name of princess Celestia and her sister Luna of the country Equestria. the princesses sends their regards." The man stares blankly for a moment before he aims his sword at him. "These princesses send their regards? They think they have any authority on this planet?. He glares down at Winter. Winter was beginning to agree with the princesses of how they were war like. "i merely come to speak peace... i assume your in charge here... may i have your name?" This has him stop before he takes a pose and if winter tries he can hear groans from the trenches. "I am lord Commissar Walter of the Imperium of Man!" he states proudly and Winter got enough information from that simple bit of boasting then many would. Winter's ears go down a little. "The Imperium of Man..." He regrets every life choice he has made as he looks up at this Commissar and can already see in his eyes he has seen more blood shed then the princesses themselves have lived. The Commissar looks down inspecting him. "Where is you team we spotted 5 in all... where are the other 4?" *Johnathan's Prospective* Johnathan and Matt were getting jumpy as they watch the commissar talk to the small horse with wings. Matt taps his partner's shoulder quickly and points up. "The rest of his wing is on the move can't tell what they are up too though..." "I really hope these xenos don't do anything stupid... never seen these before not sure what they can do." Johnathan says slowly. All of a sudden the commissar yells at the horse and and points his sword to causing it to jumps back. Matt's eyes widen as one of the missing horses dives down with something in its forelegs. He calls it out to the rest in the trench and they watch as it dives on the commissar. "What are you waiting men! take down that target!" Johnathan calls out and pulls the bolters trigger letting bullets fly at the lone attacker. Soon the rest of the firing line lets loose with lasguns and red beams of death fill the skies. The Horse on the ground looks in awe and fear at the light show and tries to yell at both the guardsmen and its diving comrade. Soon a few of the beams hit home and the attacker falls limp though the air but a purple glowing object falls from its grip and is aimed for a section of the trench. The men stare for a moment before they quickly scramble from the dugout as it comes down. Soon only two are left at the end of the line when it hits. The container it was in bursts open showering the two in purple goo and they stare at each other blankly before they both bend over and cry out in pain. and to the horror to everyone watching the two guardsman slowly deform and after a few long seconds they were the same as the horse but one had a horn on its head and the other had none. Everyone was quiet as that stared and then one spoke. "I was blind... i can see so much under her sun... it lights the way..." They said nothing after that as two shots from the Commissar to their heads puts them both down. and then he turns to the other who is frozen in fear. "I have never seen anything like that and i seen the dark Eldar slave camps..." He aims his laspistol at the remaining horse.This snaps it back to the present and it took off with amazing speed into the air and speeds towards the clouds above. The firing line one again lights up and many beams of death and bolter rounds pass by the runner and as it reaches the clouds Johnathan swears he saw one of his shots hits but the horse doesn't come down so he shrugs it off thinking it was a near miss. *Winter's Prospective* He was fling for his life and was questioning the idea of coming here. and he saw what the potion does first hand... it was horrible. As he was braking the cloud cover something hit his back and his armor did nothing and his back exploded in pain and he fell onto the clouds and the rest of the ponies ran to him to help. "Sir stay with us! sir don't close your eyes!" "Get him in a stretcher and lets fly him out fast!' "I got a potion to keep him stable" He feels something pushed to his lips and he takes a sip before he blacks out. Only to dream about red beams that melt skin and the potion he was told was made to save humans from them selves made them in something worse and to think of what to report to the princess when he wakes up... if he woke up.