Aliens Equestrian Marines

by ShadowLeomus

Chapter 3 (Unedited)

Chapter 3: Into Hell

The hall beyond the door had been converted into part of a Xeno hive.
"OK, keep an eye on those shadows" she orderd "And watch the walls, I don't fancy an tail blade in the back".
The room was very unsettling, it gave off a sickly aura that made her sick to the core.
Oats walked over to one of the walls and felt it, quickly recoiling with slime dripping from his hoof "Blech! this stuffs nasty" he flicked the slim off "When I think these bugs can't get any more disgusting..." "Shhh!" Trevor put a hoof to her mouth to silence the squad "Listen".
they all strained there ears to hear what Trevor had heard.
After a moment they heard it, somepony calling out.
"Help! get me out of here!"
Midnight raised her rifle in front of her "OK. Double time it!"
They began advancing down the hall, quickly but carefully.
As they got closer to the cry's, Midnight's Motion tracker began clicking.
pulling it out, she saw six signals pop up on the tracker.
"I've got friendly's, Wolfs. Talons and Vipers".
They came up to a door which was covered with the black biomass, she try'd forcing open to no avail.
"Pyro, Door"
"thought you'd never ask" the red unicorn brushed past her and pulled out his Fusion cutter with his mouth "o'll ave iss open in a mo" he said with the cutter in his mouth.
Sparks began flying as he cut through the bone like growth and at the door behind it.
once the growth had been removed, the door hissed open, showing them what they all feared.
there were pones hanging on the walls, being healed by the same Black growth that coated the walls.
She truned to her team "Sweep and clear, teams of two".
they sweeped into the room, checking all the over the room, making sure that it was empty of anything with no fur.
Once that was done, they checked on the pones hanging on the walls, the one who had been calling out was struggling to get free.
"Thank goddess, cut me out of here"
"Buttercup? that you?" Midnight asked as she approached.
The Blue pony turned to face her as she approached, still struggling against the disgusting growth that healed her "Yea, thanks for coming for us".
Not bothering with her cutter, she used her magic to rip the bony mass off Buttercup, who dropped with as thump.
She rubbed her Flank, having landed on it.
Midnight took her sidearm out and handed it over to the pony "You alright?".
Buttercup nodded "Yea, but can you use a X.I.D spell on me, I want to make sure that none of those little buggers are in me".
Midnight did as she was asked and her horn glowed blue, then she touched the pones chest and let the spell do its job.
immediately, Buttercups chest became ghostly as the spell did its work, allowing Midnight a look inside her friend. after looking for a bit, she nodded in confirmation "Your clear, probably got knocked out when that thing nabbed you is all".
Buttercups chest returned to normal as the spell wore off, just as Oats called.
"Midnight! you'd better get over here"
She and Buttercup shared a worried glance, and ran off in the direction of Oats.
he was standing with Pyro in-front of another hanging pony.
"It's Captain Lance... he's been hived"
The pony hanging was indeed the captain.
she used the X.I.D spell on him to confirm what she had been told.
Inside him, a serpent like creature was moving around, it was nearing it's final stage and She doubted that the Earth pony had much time left.
He coughed and looked down "Corporal Midnight?"
"Sargent now" She said saluting "Sir, I'm sorry bu-"
"I know already... I can feel it in me, how many of my men survived?"
"Were still cutting down the others now but I'd say... 20 including my ponies, Staff Sargent Goldroot sent us".
Nodded Grimacing "So the old mules still kicking eh" she nodded "Good he's now the highest ranking officer on this ship" he wiggled his his hoof free and took off his command pips "here-" he handed them over to Midnight "Give him these... Staff Sargent Midnight".
Midnight blinked a few times, Did she just get promoted... to a Staff Sargent!
Her thoughts were interrupted by a faint beeping from her motion tracker, she didn't take it out though, she knew what it meant.
"Everypony grab any who are still breathing and get to the safe zone!" she orderd.
"Staff Sargent... wait..."
She turned and stared at the Captain "Yes sir?"
He had managed to wiggle his way out of his confines and was claiming out.
"Give me all your explosives, I'll buy you some time".
She looked at the Captain in shock, knowing what he was planing "No sir, I wont let yo-"
"Don't argue Sargent, you know just as I do that I can't be saved and I need this chance to earn redemtion"
"Redemption? for what?" she thought, he must have guessed what she was thinking.
"This is my falt, all of this" he admitted "If I hadn't taken this assignment then we wouldnt be in this mess" he grimiced clutching his chest "Please..."
She looked at him for a bit, not saying anything, then pulled every explosive she had out of her pouch.
"Here" she handed them over "And sir, in my eyes you have nothothing to be redeemed for, if you hadnt had taken this assignment then some other Battalion would have gotten it"
With that she ran off to meet up with her marines.

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Lance watched her go.
He could hear the hisses and the tapping of the Xenomorphs as they coming closer.
Lance leaned against the wall, grunting from the effort.
the thing in his chest moved slightly, causing him momentary discomfort before it settled again.
Lance drew the Explosives closer to him, the amount of the devices that midnight had given him would defiantly leave an impression.
He primed one as the first of the nightmarish creatures came into view, they had a pony like appearance, but that was where the simultaneity's ended
they swarmed along walls and ceilings, a few stopping in front of him, looking t him curiously.
the Explosive in his hoof beeped in increasing pitch and speed as it readied itself to blow.
Disputed the pain, he smiled.
"See you in hell" were his last words as his world went white.

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Midnight Heard and felt the explosion rock the ship, knowing that Lance had succeeded in his last act.
But she couldn't mourn him... not yet, not when she still had Pones to look out for.
"Double time it marines!" she shouted "All he did was buy us some time, let make the most of it".
many pony's were being carried along by her marines, being too weak to walk or too injured to.
finally the welcoming sight of the sentry guns and the barricad beyond came into view, the pones she had left to defend quickly turning off the turrets before they opened fire on the incoming pony's.
they passed the makeshift gate into he safe zone, medics rushing over and taking away the injured, Along with them came Goldroot.
"Report Sargent!"
She saluted before telling him what had happened, adding her second promotion and handing over the Captain pips that Lance had asked her to give Goldroot.
the Old veteran nodded grimly, taking the pips and looking at them "Poor kid, had his whole Carrier ahead of him" he turned his attention back to Midnight "Did he cause the Decompression we felt earlier?".
She nodded "Yes, he took all my explosives and bought us some time".
"Hell of a way to go" he chuckled "Kid probably took out a good portion of the Xeno's on board".
She shuffled uncomfortably, remembering the Captains last words.
The new Captain caught on that something was wrong "Something on your mind Sargent?".
"Before we left him... he blamed himself for all this... said that if he hadn't taken this assignment then none of us would been in this mess"
"He always did like to take the weight of the universes problems on his shoulders..." he said sympathetically "He was good like that".
he began to walk off "now if you'll excuse me Staff-Sargent-" he purposely used her full rank "-I have allot of thinking to do"
She watched him go, just as a pony shouted from one of the barricades "We got incoming!".
Midnight Rushed toward the barricade and claimed on top of it to see what the lookout had seen.
there were already 12 other pony's already on the barricade, weapons pointed down the large corridor.
everypony's motion trackers began beeping as the xenos came closer.
"Flare out!" said a large red earth pony next to her as he chucked the glowing flare down the corridor.
the light from the flare showed about 20 or 30 xenos of varying sizes, all rushing at them.
Bursts of light filled the hallway as she and the pones with her fired on the approaching swarm, soon the auto turrets added their fire to the mix as the Xenos came into range.
many were torn to shreds by the torrents of fire coming from the pony position.
Soon, explosions tore through their ranks also as a few pones used their under slung grenade launchers on the approaching swarm.
Midnight registered another pony claiming up onto the barricade, quickly followed by a long barrel entering her vision, pointed at he oncoming Xenos.
She turned to see Buttercup, holding the bulky body of a long-bolt sniper rifle.
she looked at her friend quizzing.
"What?" she said "I do more damage with Snipers then with a pulse rife".
To prove her point, she took aimed the weapon down range, held her breath and pulled the trigger.
The Ear busting Crack of the Sniper was quickly followed by alien cry's of pain a hisses, the shot had gone through almost 9 of the Xenos, killing 6 of them and wounding the rest.
Buttercup cocked her rifle, expelling the spent round, smiling smugly,
After a few more minutes of fighting, they finished off the last of the Creatures were reloading the now empty sentry's, when Midnight radio crackled to life.
"Midnight meet me in ops" Goldroot said over the com "I'm calling a meeting with the other Squad leaders"
"On my way sir!" she said before shuting the radio off.
"What was that about?" Buttercup asked.
She shook her head "I don't know" she made her way towards ops "But Its probably not good".

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Ops, a few minutes later.

"WE'RE WHAT!" one of the Sargent's shouted.
"We're abandoning ship" Goldroot repeated, plainly "We're too few to take back this ship and after that last attack, my guess is that the Matriarch is getting ready for her end game"
The Sargent's looked at him in disbelief, the Sargent who had spoken up earlier stepped forward "But we can take them, if we go for the queen now we can-"
"Can do what?" Goldroot snapped "Die?".
he stepped towards the pony threateningly "How many pones did we have when this all started? 700?" he asked dangerously "And how many are left? hmm?"
The pony recoiled in shock "1...120 s...sir" he stuttered.
Goldroot took another threatening step towards him "And how, pray tell do you expect to reach that bitch when not even 3 whole platoons couldn't even get 1 decks closer to her?"
the pony looked like he was about to argue, but sat down and looked down in defeat.
Goldroot smiled in triumph and continued his briefing "We will evac vie Dropship, the closest hanger hold Vipers 1 to 3 and are fully fueled and ready, once we get off the ship, we will head to these coordinates" he brought up a map of the space they were in on the holo-projector "there is a metal mass out there, if were lucky it could be an abandoned station or even a passing ship" she looked around "Also we will have a distraction to keep the xenos busy".
the hologram shifted to shipping manifests and schematics of... combat androids!.
Midnight looked at the hologram in confusion "Sir? what are Combat Android's doing on-board?" she asked.
"Turns out someone was smuggling them to Ios for the lab there, and they are conveniently stored right in the queens chamber".
Anything anypony was about to say was cut off by the Captain raising his hoof "Now I know what your thinking, if they are in the queens chamber why not get them to kill the queen?" he asked "We can't because they are unarmed and will be no match for her, they will attack the queen but of coarse the queen and her guard will destroy them all, but it will give us a chance to get to the dropships with minimal casualties because a large amount of the Xenos will go running to aid the queen, leaving a small number for us to fight our way through"
There were a few grumbles, but in the end, everypony agreed that this was the right course of action.
"Brief your squads and get some rest, we make our move tomorrow at 1100 hours" he saluted "Dismissed!"