//------------------------------// // Intro!!!! // Story: Martellus and I // by Sentinel343 //------------------------------// Martellus and I I didn’t want to be in a world full of walking, talking miniature horses. Correction ‘Ponies’. *Sigh* I look to all sides and see ponies. Roughly 68 of them parading me to some deep dank cell, somewhere deep in the bowels of what I already know is Canterlot. *Sigh* Better start from the beginning, shouldn’t I? Martellus, you should listen just so you know my backstory too. Also take over motor controls of the body, will you? Very well. So it all began at a Warhammer 40k convention… I wake up to the sound of my, oh so annoying alarm clock. I slam my fist into the top of my alarm clock and into the snooze button. Rubbing my face, I slowly sat up and groaned. ‘Another day at the office.’ I thought. Then it hit me. ‘The conventions today.’ I leapt out of bed and gave out a whoop of joy. Not bothering to reset the sheets, I ran into the bathroom, stopped, ran back into my room grabbed some light clothing and ran back into the bathroom. I changed, brushed my teeth, mouth washed and flew down the stairs of my 2 story house. Entering the garage, I turned on the light and saw, hung up and ready to be put on, my 2 years’ work, my Techmarine Space Marine suit. Modeled after Martellus’ suit from Dawn of War 2, needless to say, I put a lot work into it. I walked reverently across my garage to the suit, and slowly put it on, savoring each and every step of the process. I stepped up to a mirror, and grinned. (Check story image for appearance. Minus the background of course, along with missing bolter.) Looking in the mirror with pride, I savored the awesome look of the armor. Complete with mechandrite. I turned to get in my car, detached my mechandrite, put it in the backseat and got in the driver’s seat. Soon, I arrived at the Warhammer Convention. I stepped out of the car and looked up at the banner. On it was a picture of the Emperor of Mankind. Raising his left hand in an ethereal motion, with his flaming sword in the right, I basked in its glory. I turned around and grabbed my mechandrite from the backseat and re-attached it. I slowly entered the convention, boiling with excitement. 5 hours later… I ate lunch, consisting of my classic, unhealthy as crap, bacon pizza. ‘Bacon; blood clotting heaven!’ I thought. Finishing my pizza, I got up, put my helmet back on, took the umpteenth picture with another fan and set out to burn a $250 hole in my wallet. Soon I had found 3 books and a poster of the Dawn of war 2 crew. Seeing a food truck standing outside the convention center, selling to-go pizza and hamburgers with fries, I got a sinking feeling. ‘My feelings haven’t been wrong before…’ I thought Grabbing about 6 boxes of pizza and a dozen boxes of hamburgers, under the excuse I was getting ready for a party and conveniently had time to come to this convention, I set out again to search the stalls. However, one stall intrigued me. Stepping up I saw a multitude of weapons and equipment from many different titles, I began listing them of in my head. ‘Titanfall 1 and 2, Dawn of War, Halo, Call of Duty, Command and conquer, Marvel, DC Comics, War Machine, Hordes, Doom, Resident Evil, Gears of War, Star Wars, Star Trek, Minecraft, Team Fortress 1 and 2, Crysis 1-5, Transformers, they even have Galaga?!?!’ I thought, surprised. Then my eyes alighted on a bolter just like the one Martellus uses. ‘That would be perfect to complete the look!’ I thought. Looking for the manager of the stall, I was disappointed to see the stall was empty. ‘Must be off seeing another stall manager…’ I thought in disappointment. Turning to leave, I was more than a little surprised when I suddenly heard someone say: “May I help you?” If a human physically could, I would have jumped to the moon. Whipping around the see the newcomer, I see a guy that looks like he’s the evil merchant from Resident Evil 4. Creeped out, I didn’t respond, merely narrowing my eyes at him under my helmet. “See something you like?” He said, waving his hand to point out all the merchandise behind him. Snapping out of my anger, I decided to respond. “Yeah, how much for the bolter?” I said pointing. “Hmm, how about 20 bucks?” He said, taking the bolter off the shelf and putting it off the counter. Handing him the $20, I take it and suddenly lose control of my muscles. My body locks the safety of the bolter, pulls out the magazine, check it for ammo, is satisfied, slams it back in, and loads a bolter shell into the chamber. Surprised I look down at my body, confused at what just happened. Suddenly, the merchant speaks up. “Have a nice trip.” He says with an evil smile. Suddenly a wormhole opens up underneath me. I glare at him and flip him double birds. “FUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUU- “ I scream as I fall through the portal. My bag of food, soon gets kicked in with me. Soon after, I pass out. Martellus crouched behind a large boulder, his mechandrite working on a Tarantula turret, avoiding flying bullets from the Orks currently trying to kill him and his battle brothers. Standing up, he began to return fire with his bolter as the Tarantula turret activated and began acquiring targets. Hearing a the familiar ‘thunk thunk’ of Davian Thule’s massive mechanical feet slamming into the ground, Martellus ducked behind his boulder again. He looked up as the massive dreadnought stormed by, following Captain Diomedes and The Force Commander. Looking yet higher into the sky, he saw Thaddeus and his assault marines flying through the sky and slamming down into the greenskin force. Several of said Orks were launched skyward, and tumbled back down, stunned but laughing maniacally at the joy combat brought them. Soon the familiar and pleasant sound of the Tarantula turret opening fire met Martellus’ ears. Firing once again, the combined sound of his bolter and the Tarantula turret, Tarkus's and Avitus's Devastators and Tactical Marines assorted weapons, as well as the combat ahead of him, made it so that he couldn’t hear the sound of an Ork Wierdboy teleport in behind him. But he somehow heard his belch as the Ork released a Warp Blast. Whipping around as fast as his superhuman muscles could take him, he fired his bolter at said Ork Wierdboy. But it was already too late. The Warp Blast hit him, launching him into the Warp. The last thing he saw before he lost consciousness, was the Wierdboy's head exploding from his bolter fire. I woke up in a tree. Like any human would, I begin to analyze my surroundings. Not much to see other than branches and leaves... Suddenly, I hear a large amount of snapping, and immediately knows what follows. "D'aw crap." I said with a sigh. 'Warning: supporting structure is giving out. Weight too immense. Recommended Course of Action: escape fragile terrain and move to safe distance.' I heard a cold, metallic, and strange voice say in my head. Then the branches gave out. I smash through dozens of the branches as I fell. When I hit the trunk of the tree, I smashed through that too! As I fell into the trunk of the tree, I see around me what I can only assume is a library. I slam into another object that gets crushed instantly, and hit the ground with a groan. "Ow..." I groan before sitting up, only to be smacked in the face with a large heavy book. The impact knocked me back to the ground, and I felt the repeated blows of the book slamming into my head. "GET! OUT! OF! MY! LIBRARY! YOU EVIL CREATURE!" I heard a female voice shout, presumably the one who was smacking me in the face. 'Status Report: assault via book causing no damage. Recommended Course of Action: Disarm assailant. Possibility of assailant being a human is at 67%.' The voice said again. 'Who are you?! Why is there a voice in my head?!?!?' I mentally exclaim. 'Warning: unauthorized presence is in my mind. Plausible Explanation: Some Xenos nearby is using the Warp to corrupt my mind. Course of Action: Repel invader and kill Xenos scum.' It responded. 'YOUR MIND?! THIS IS MY MIND!!!! AND YOU ARE THE INVADER!!!!' I exclaimed back. 'Negative, you are a Xenos mind attacking my own that has to be destroyed with prejudice. Prepare to be eradicated.' It responded once again with an edge of venom. I immediately felt a presence pushing at my mind, destroying all that I was. We cant have that can we? I used my own mind to push back, putting his efforts at a standstill. 'Warning: Xenos mind resisting. Redoubling efforts.' It spoke. As I listened to it, it had gained some ground in my mind, and as it said 'redoubling effort,' its strength suddenly doubled, and it blew past all my efforts to stop it until it began to reach my memories, where I managed to halt its progress. The air around me began to gain the scent of a large amount of static electricity. I elected to ignore it to better focus on my attacker. But soon I felt a new presence in my head. Preparing a defense to defend against it as well if necessary, I braced for its attack. But it made a move I did not anticipate, it materialized a visible form in my mind. Its form; a purple unicorn, that seemed oddly familiar. It had a pink stripe in its mane and a 6 pointed star tattoo on its butt. 'What the hell?' I mentally whisper quietly. 'Query: So you have revealed yourself Xenos? Statement: This will only further speed up your eradication in both my mind and the real world.' The other presence said before following suit, making itself a form. Its form: Martellus from Dawn of War 2: Retribution?! 'What the actual hell?!' I said before making my presence known as well. As I appeared the Unicorn and Martellus turn to me in surprise. (What I look like will not be disclosed to protect my identity.) 'What are you?' the unicorn said in perfect English. 'Query: You were a human the whole time?' Martellus asked, becoming rigid. I blink before I say: 'Yes, I was, and I believe Martellus answered your question for you.' I say. Martellus suddenly sends a massive push into my mind, destroying my defense barrier around my memories and personality. He quickly finds what he is looking for. The Unicorn, takes advantage of the lack of a defensive barrier, and plunges into my memories as well, scanning and learning as much as she can. I yelp. 'Hey, you weren't invited!!' I shout, and push them from my memories, but Martellus has found exactly what he wanted. His image suddenly falls to one knee, and bows. 'My humblest apologies; fellow follower of the God Emperor. I apologize for attacking you and allowing a true Xenos mind to desecrate our presence. Statement:' He said rising and turning to the Unicorn, an aura of pure Righteous Fury surrounding him. 'I will rectify this error.' The Unicorn yelps as Martellus leaps at her, cocking a fist back to presumably smash it through the Unicorn's skulls. Suddenly, it hits me where this unicorn was familiar from. I yelp as well, and leap in front of her. Just as the fist is about to smash into (and almost certainly, through ) the unicorns head, my body falls into the trajectory of the fist. Martellus, seeing this, smashes his fist into whatever ground we have in our collective minds, and yanks his fist back, throwing himself off balance for but a moment before he rights his balance. I fall to the "ground," unharmed. The unicorn, although cowering in absolute terror, is completely unharmed. I stand up and turn to a fuming Martellus, surrounded by an aura of plain, good old and bad old, Fury. 'Query: why did you enter the path of my fist to save a Xeno?' He asks in a remarkably calm tone. 'You will find out shortly my potential good friend.' I say to him in cheerful tone. I usually reserved this tone for one of 3 things: to calm someone down, to piss someone off, or to say it was okay to enjoy something pertaining to me in some way or another. This time it was the first option. Martellus, although I could tell reluctantly, folded his arms and decided to wait for the time in which I would explain. Nodding once, I turn to The Unicorn. 'You okay Miss Sparkle?' I said as I looked her over for wear and tear. 'How do you-' She begins to say. 'I will explain later, right now we need to get back to the real world. Who knows what's going on out there right now.' I say. She nods with a suspicious stare and her form dematerializes. I feel her presence leave my mind soon thereafter. I turn to the still fuming space marine. I looked him in the eye and mechanical eye and began to explain our situation to the best of my understanding. He nodded and I sensed him filing all the information I was giving him away for later exploration. 'We cool? Not going to go on a crusade to destroy the ponies are we?' I asked, tentatively. 'Affirmative. Statement: our continued survival on this planet depends on us co-existing with the ponies.' He said with a nod. I nod as well. 'Good.' I say back. Our forms dematerialize, and I sense Martellus receding from his attack. Shifting my attention back to the real world. My eye open and my mechanical eye boots up. I see a library all around us, and I look towards the rooms inhabitants and see Twilight and of course her trusty assistant, Spike. Spike wisely, is hiding behind Twilight. I sit up. My robotic eye and Martellus immediately begin analyzing the room for cover, tactical firing positions, etc. He is discarding most of them as fast as he can collect them. I get distracted by him and don't realize Twilight is talking until she is shouting in my ear. "ALIEN VISITOR!!!!!!" She shouts. "AH, JESUS CHRIST!!! WHAT?!" I shout back, mostly surprised. She holds a hoof up to her chest and takes a deep breath, closing her eyes as she does so. "Welcome to Equestria I am-" she begins, "Twilight Sparkle, and behind you is your number one assistant Spike." I say. Both of their jaws drop in both awe and shock that I know their names. "How do you-" "Know your names? Lets just say I know people." They do a double take. "People? NOT ponies?" I realize my mistake quickly. "Yeah well some of them are ponies..." I quickly say, and hope that Twilight doesn't realize the blunder I just made. She gives me a disbelieving look and shrugs. She turns to Spike and whispers so quietly only my sensors and Superhuman hearing could hear what she had to say. "Spike, go write a letter to Celestia and tell her what happened, don't leave out what I told you about being in his mind." Spike nods and takes off. We look at each other and size each other up... or down in my case. I am considerably larger than her by at least 7 feet. As we wait, I begin to tap my foot because I was nervous and scared and I don't know how many other emotions. 'Silence your worrying. You sound like an elderly woman. If we must fight than they will find that I am much more Dangerous than I look, despite my ferocious appearance.' Martellus told me. "Fine. But try not to hurt them, it would send the wrong message. I am going to keep control for now. If things get violent, do whatever you are gonna do to help, savvy?" "Hurt who? Control? Why would things get violent?" Twilight asks with a slightly darker tone as she says 'Hurt.' I jump again as I realize my second blunder. 'Statement: You aren't very good with talking in your head are you? Statement: This may prove problematic.' 'Oh be quiet!' I mentally frustratedly shout at him. "I don't know what you are talking about. Where did this come from!?" I exclaim and point at something random. She turn to look and I take off. I burst through the door, or rather the wall where the door is and take off at a sprint. Almost immediately, Ponies start screaming. Most run in any direction not facing me or into my path and others run straight into their houses, pulling all sorts of odd knick knacks with them. Fences, door mats, other ponies. As I watch this and continue my sprint from the most powerful unicorn in all of Equestria, Martellus decides to butt in. 'I am taking control.' He says. 'What? No! We want to escape, not hurt any pony!' I mentally holler back. 'Engaging combat mode.' He responds, emotionlessly. Suddenly my view in my robotic eye is washed in red. 'What's happening!?' I holler at him in my panic. He doesn't respond. Instead he says: 'Combat mode initialized. Taking control of body.' Suddenly I feel disembodied. Have you ever put your finger in Jell-O? Or syrup? Imagine that feeling all over your body and that's what my senses felt. Or rather 'felt.' I 'watched' and 'listened' as Martellus' mind ran through dozens of calculations a second. He was working so fast, I think he could outdo a super computer. He dodged dozens of citizens, scaring the living daylights out of them, but none were harmed. We almost stepped on one as she fainted dead away in the middle of the road as she saw us coming. But Martellus' Reaction was FAR faster than my own would have been. He deftly leapt over her and another 6 feet in the air as if he was on the freaking moon. Suddenly as we reached the town square, a massive light bloomed in front of us. Martellus was almost blinded by it. Suddenly data began to flow in the form of ones and zeros across our vision. 'Warning: Warp signature detected. Warp magic being transferred into spell known as: Mass Teleportation.' The sensor said. Martellus averts his eyes and face and takes a step back. Meanwhile I am stuck on what just happened a second before. 'I can read binary? I can read binary! That's fucking awesome!' The light flashed and pulsed once before disappearing. In its wake were dozens of pure white ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns, with golden armor standing there where it once glowed. At their front, was a massive Alicorn with a pink, blue and green mane billowing in an undetectable wind. More data began to flow. 'Warning: Massive Warp power detected. Warning: multiple Warp powers detected.' Martellus growled at what I knew from the get go was Princess Celestia, Ruler of Equestria (or co-ruler depending on where we got dropped off in the timeline or if we are in some non canon Equestria that doesn't co-inside with the show my little sister forced me to watch with her.) She looks around, at first somehow not noticing the 9 ft. tall Astartes glaring death at her. When she notices me, our sensors can detect her surprise. "Creature! Who and what are you?" she shouts at me. 'Bryce, take control of vocal pattern and stall. I need time for an escape plan.' Martellus says. 'You got it!' I address Celestia. "Little ol me? I'm leaving!" Then I re-take control of my body and start sprinting in the opposite direction, singing the gingerbread man song. "Run, Run as fast as you can! You cant catch me! I'm the Gingerbread man!!!" "After it!" I hear Celestia shout. Then I hear something that is truly terrifying for my chances of escape, the thunder of hundreds of hooves hitting the ground to give chase. I start running faster. I jinx this way and that, giving the guards a hell of a time catching me. But a chase with this many people chasing, or rather ponies chasing, has to end sometime. I take a sharp turn down an alley and through the fence the ponies erected inside. I come out the other side of the alley and see about a dozen ponies on the ground waiting for me. Then Pegasi arrive, some dash off and come back pushing clouds. Data starts flowing again. 'Warning: Storm clouds detected. Likely outcome: Pegasi intend to weaponize Storm clouds. Recommended Course of Action: disable or kill Storm cloud operators.' 'Martellus? Options!' 'The cogitator is correct. That is the most likely outcome and solution. But it does not account for your moral code. Running will be our best course of action. The cogitator also detected that as we run, we cause large amounts of drag. Perhaps we can use this drag to incapacitate the operators?' 'Great idea!' I start sprinting towards the grounded ponies. They're massive eyes flare in panic and they throw spears. The spears ricochet harmlessly off my armor. I smash right into their numbers, and like Martellus said, our drag wind launched several of the ponies into the air. I punt another pony into the last 3 guards still standing and they get knocked over like bowling pins. The Pegasi fire their Storm clouds by stomping on them. The lightning hits, but fortunately for me, Chromite is grounded. My armor absorbs the lightning and channels it into the ground harmlessly. I jump and grab the Pegasi operating the Storm clouds and throw them into the other Pegasi. They all fall out of the sky like shot down ducks. 'That didn't turn out according to plan.' I mentally say. 'No plan survive first contact with the enemy. Mission achieved. No pony will be permanently harmed.' 'Great!' "Halt! In the name of Equestrian Law and Equestria's royalty, I command you to halt!" A Guard pony shouts. I turn and see about a dozen Unicorns and Earth ponies charging me. I turn back around and sprint in the other direction, shouting back at them: "GOTTA GO FAST!!!!" I sprint in the opposite direction, throwing guards ponies around like plushies with my drag wind. Soon however after about half an hour of utterly humiliating the guard and demolishing any effort they put up to impede my progress, I see a forest in the distance. 'That is our safe haven. Quickly, towards it.' Martellus says. I oblige this request and start sprinting towards it. Suddenly my motion alarm trips. Data starts flowing again. 'Warning: projectile of significant mass detected. Recommended Course of Action: Avoid impact.' I skid to a halt and Celestia slams down into the ground in front of me. "This mockery of my royal guard has gone on long enough!" She declares and her horn starts glowing. More data starts flowing from the cogitator. 'Warning: Warp build up detected. Likely outcome: Energy blasts meant to kill. Recommended Course of Action: incapacitate or kill psyker.' 'Martellus?' I 'hear' him running calculations and analyzing every angle. 'Our best option is to flee.' 'Agreed.' As she flares her eyes open to cast her spell, I kick a tremendous amount of dust into her eyes. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" She shouts in pain. Her hooves shoot to her face to clear the dust out, and I about face and sprint back into the town. After about another 15 minutes of making a mockery of the Guards, so much so that some of the ponies came out of hiding to watch my ridiculous antics utterly confounding any effort the Guard put up to stop me, I arrive back at the town square. I skid to a stop, spinning around to face the guards giving chase. Suddenly a red blanket falls down in front of me. I look up to see a pony standing on a roof, gesturing for me to use it. I nod and give him the thumbs up. Then I pick it up and hold it out like a Spanish Matador. As the ponies rush me, I throw up the blanket into their faces and as they try to gab me through the blanket, the ponies not involved are laughing their asses off. There were even some guards laughing as I whip one in the butt with the blanket. "TORO!!!!!!!" I holler out as I dodge yet another guard. "ENOUGH!!!!" Celestia shouts as she appears in a massive blast of light. She stood there, glaring death at me as her eyes watered from the dust I kicked in her face. She flared her wing outward to make herself look bigger. "THIS ENDS NOW!!!!!!!!" She shouts in range and fires a spell. Data on the spell starts flowing. 'Warning: Warp spell known as: Stun, detected. Recommended Course of Action: avoid contact with spell at all costs.' But sadly it was too late. The spell was traveling too fast for me to dodge it. So I did the only option left for me. I took the shot to the arm. I lost all feeling in my left arm as it took the impact and it fell limply to my side. I look up at her defiantly. "WHAT!? THAT SHOT SHOULD HAVE PARALYZED 5 MINOTUARS!!! WHAT ARE YOU?!" Celestia shouted in panic. I grin at my chance. "The one that got away." I say. I turn and face a veritable wall of guards ponies. They quickly form a phalanx, with shield facing every direction and spears poking out of the holes. The cogitator starts sending data. 'Warning: Position makes it impossible to disarm or escape without injury to pursuers. Warning: Moral Code will not let us harm subject 'ponies.' Recommended Course of Action: Surrender.' 'Martellus?' 'Unfortunately, if we wish to escape, we must use lethal force. But since you refuse to do so, we must surrender.' I groan and put my hands in the air in surrender. The guards cheer and Celestia smiles at them. Then the Mane 6 arrive. "Princess Celestia we came to stop the-" Twilight began to say before she sees me. "Oh." Twilight says, while the others show various forms of embarrassments. Then another pony runs into the scene, carrying a satchel with one hoof inside it rummaging around inside it. "Don't worry everypony! I am here! I can contain... it would seem you have the situation handled." The pony says. The pony was colored brown with a darker shade of brown for his mane. His mark was a shifting hour glass. I quickly realize that this is the infamous Doctor Whooves or Time Turner depending on who you ask. I get distracted as Martellus begins rummaging around I my memories. 'Oi! What are you looking for? I can just show you it, instead of you having to look for it.' I offer him. 'Negative, I have found it.' He responds in his monotone voice. In his 'hands' is everything I know of the MLP universe. I jump on his hands and wrap my arm around the file protectively. 'Before you open that, promise me that you wont tell the ponies ANY of the information that is in that file.' He nods and I release his arm, knowing I wont be able to verbally get him to say it. Suddenly our shields flicker as something impacts them. Snapping my attention back to the real world I see a Guards pony poking at us with a spear. "Get a move on!" He commands. I groan and oblige him. Leading the way is Celestia and the mane 6, as well as Doctor Whooves, who keeps sending me a look of both excitement, terror, and fascination. I elect to ignore him while Martellus begins reading up on all the available knowledge on the ponies, the princesses (future and present) and him in particular. Eventually we reach the train station when a problem rises in my mind. "That train wont be able to hold me." The ponies jump at my sudden talking as the trip had been completely silent. "What?" Celestia asks, utterly confused. "The train wont hold me. The cross beams forming the bottom of the train are FAR too weak to hold a Mechanicus such as I." Celestia blinks. Doctor Whooves on the other hand, nods as if he already knew that. "I assure you," She begins to say, with as little anger as possible. "It can hold the heaviest of species on this planet, short of a dragon..." It was my turn to blink. "If it can hold them, it can more than likely hold you, despite your unique..." She hesitates as she looks me up and down, "stature." I shrug and decide it is easier to prove them wrong rather than waste daylight arguing. I step onto the train and fall through the floor. Everyponies jaws drop, except for Doctor Whooves who nods again as if what just happened was exactly what he expected. I climb out of the wreckage and cross my arms. "Wanna try again?" I ask sarcastically. She shakes her head negative. "Fine," She says with an exasperated sigh, "We will teleport." "Tele-what?' 'Brace for molecular deconstruction.' Then the spell hits everypony/one and we disappear. The process of molecular deconstruction is extremely painful let me tell you. A lesser man would have passed out, but I was no lesser man. I was an Adeptus Mechanicus. So it felt like someone lit me on fire the whole way there. Which brings us to now. Congrats if you remained sitting and reading this this long! You might be able to survive the rest of the story! Assuming a Daemon doesn't get you first. Huh? What? Daemon? I said nothing about a Daemon! Your hearing things! Or reading things... whatever! My vision came back to me in the Canterlot Gardens. The cogitator immediately began to gather tactical data, meanwhile Martellus had finished the MLP data before the teleport, and began to sift through the data he was getting. I stand up, and see the ponies looking at me with various faces and emotions, mostly terror and a little bit of awe. 'Man, these ponies really wear their emotions on their sleeves don't they?' I mentally said to Martellus. 'Affirmative.' Suddenly we are surrounded by guards again. They prod us forward as Celestia gestured for them to take me towards the castle. "Get a move on, creature!" One shouts at me as it levitates a spear into my back, meant to prod me forward. Knowing that there is nothing these guards to do to stop me if I DID make a break for it, I sigh and decide it is easier not to make a scene. I comply and begin to walk towards the Canterlot castle gate. The Guards form up around me while Celestia takes the lead with the mane 6 and Doctor Whooves following closely behind her. As we reach the gate I see another familiar face, Princess Luna. 'Martellus, any frame of reference as to where in the series of the show we are?' I ask him. 'Negative, not enough data to make an accurate guess. Gathered data suggests after the premiere of the show, other data is inconclusive.' 'Thanks. Hold on, if Luna talks all Archaic, we are probably right after the Nightmare Moon incident, right?' 'Data from sub file: MLP Fan fiction, would suggest this.' 'Okay, thanks!' We continue our march till we reach Luna. "What hath you brought here, dear sister?" She asked. 'Data gathered suggests immediately after the Nightmare Moon event.' I look at the guards and see the ones nearest Luna are incredibly skittish. 'I can see it now, thank you.' 'Affirmative.' Celestia steps towards her and gives her a warm nuzzle. "It is nice to see you too dear sister." She says with a warm smile. Luna and Celestia look back at me. "What in Equus is that?!" Luna exclaims. " 'That' has a name. The names Bryce/Martellus. And I would shake your hoof, but, as you can guess..." I say with a shake of the dozens of manacles around my massive wrists. Luna does not respond. Instead, she stares passively at me. I stand awkwardly, not sure what I should be doing. Finally, Celestia breaks the tense silence. "Guards! Take it to the dungeon. We must prepare for Cadence's Wedding!" She says, clapping her hooves together. The guards begin prodding me with their spears and I begrudgingly start walking forwards again. After about another 30 minutes of walking, we arrive at the dungeons. The Guards escorting me unceremoniously shove me inside (or rather attempt to) and stand at either side of the bars. Inside the cell is your average everyday stuff; a sink, a toilet much too small for my current size, a bed also much too small, and a barred window with a view of the castle courtyard. I sigh and go over to the bed. I flop down onto it and it collapses from the wall and crushes under my weight like wet tissue paper. The guards rush to the door and as the dust clears, see my unfortunate accident. I groan, more from disappointment than pain. "Can we get a better bed in here?" I ask them. They both smile then nod at me before one of them rushes off. 'Wow, these guys are really friendly and nice aren't they?' 'So it would seem. Be on your guard, Chaos may be to blame for our predicament.' 'Chaos is always to blame with you Space Marines, isn't it?' 'It has a higher probability of causing this to us than any other force, phenomenon, relic, or Psyker in any world. And I am an Adeptus Mechanicus, not an Adeptus Astartes.' 'Fine.' I sit there sullenly, bored out of my mind, for about an hour. The whole time Martellus had been plotting escape routes based on the Data he has acquired from both me and our own short experience. Then I hear a slight buzzing. I look up, surprised at the odd noise. 'Martellus, can you identify the source of this noise?' 'Processing... Likely suspect: Tyranids.' 'I think Tyranids in Equestria would be highly unlikely.' 'Very well, continuing search for likely suspects.' While he does that, I walk over to the door and knock on the bars to get the guards attention. The bars end up nearly snapping from the slight knock. The guards look up at me in shock. "Sorry about that, don't know my own strength..." I apologize sheepishly. They recover from the shock after about 3 minutes of gawping. "Its okay, we needed to replace the bars anyway. What's wrong prisoner?" The one on the left of the door asks. "I am hearing this strange buzzing sound, I was wondering if you heard that sound too?" They look confusedly at each other. "No..." 'Warning: Unidentified targets entering visual range.' I bolt over to the window and see a seething black and green mass approaching Canterlot. 'Visual data suggests Necrons, but their energy signatures do not match Necrons. Caution advised.' 'Noted.' I run back over to the door. "Do you see that?" They push open the door, one of them standing in front of me, his spear pointed at me as if to ward me off as the other trots over to the window to take a look. As the guard climbs into the window, there is a tremendous flash and the guard falls out of the window to the floor covering its eyes, screaming in pain. As the flash reaches my eyes, I slam my human eye closed and the biotic eye polarizes to maximum polarization. I make it out alright and so does the other guard but the one in the window is howling in pain. "Shimmering Aegis!" The Guard in front of me shouts, then rushes to the fallen guard's side. "GAAAAAH, IM FINE!!! CHECK ON THE PRISONER!!" Shimmering Aegis shouts. The standing guard turns to me. "Are you okay? And are you the cause of that flash?" "Yeah, fine. And you really think that I was the cause of that flash? If I did it, I would be long gone." I reply as I point a thumb over my shoulder to the open door. "Fine." The guard says before turning to Shimmering Aegis who is just now starting to open her newly bloodshot eyes. "Are you sure your okay? I can go get a medic if you need me to?" "Yeah, I am fine. Go find out what caused that flash, Dancing Blade." Dancing Blade nods, then rushes to the door, before the wall explodes in a flash of green fire and smoke. Time suddenly slows as the explosion slowly unfolds before me and launches both Shimmering Aegis and Dancing Blade into the opposing wall. Its as if someone poured syrup over Time itself. 'Tactical Cogitator activated. Bryce, give me control.' Martellus suddenly speaks as the world continues to slowly move around us. 'What, why?' 'Data gathered from your mind suggests that you are unprepared for combat. Granted, you do have my body and its assorted weaponry, but it is likely that if these are indeed Necrons, this battle will be the end of us.' 'True, but if these were Necrons, wouldn't we be already dead?' 'Analyzing counter-claim... Counter Argument sound. A likely explanation could be the wall shielding us from the majority of the blast.' 'That is possible, but if that were true, then wouldn't the Ponies with us be dead even then?' 'Analyzing counter-argument... Analyzing vitals of entities known as: Ponies... Counter Argument sound. Very well, you may fight this battle, on one condition: if we face a threat too powerful for you alone, I will take control, forcibly if necessary. The Omnissiah will require us to part of the Great Machine in the days to come to combat the enemies of the God Emperor and the Imperium.' 'Sounds good, Put me in coach!' I say with enthusiasm. 'Slang not recognized, processing... Slang deciphered, meaning recognized, deactivating Tactical Cogitator.' Suddenly, time returns to normal speed. The dust cloud envelopes me and I am temporarily blinded, before my mechanical eye and helmet activate and I can see 7 ponies on the other side of the demolished wall. 'Warning: Culprits for explosion identified. Identifying as: Hostiles. Recommended course of action: PURGE IN THE NAME OF THE GOD EMPEROR FOR ASSAULTING ONE OF HIS ANGELS OF DEATH!!!' 'That is something I can get behind!' I mentally shout in excitement. I grab my Bolter from my waist than aim it at the nearest one as the dust clears. They come into view and I blink in surprise. It looked like a Pony but it was colored pitch black and had dozens of holes all through its body, Its horn glowed a sickly green, not unlike the color of Nurglites, and it has bright blue insectiod eyes. It had fangs that extended an inch past its lip and their jaws dropped upon sight of me. "What in the name of Queen Chrysalis is that!?" One exclaims. "I don't know! But the Queen has commanded us to wipe out this castle and raze it to the ground! KILL IT!" The one who is presumably in charge shouts. Then they charge, horns glowing the sickly green. I snap my Bolter into position and fire a Bolt, detonating the One in Charge's head. The others continue their suicidal charge, and all but 2 meet the same fate before the close the distance in the tiny room. They both jump into the air and I smash the front of my Bolter through one of their skulls, splattering its blood and its brain matter all over the wall. My other hand shoots up and grabs the other Black Ponies' head and I crush it as if it were an egg in a bad action movie. I clip the Bolter back to my waist and look down at Shimmering Aegis and Dancing Blade. I see them snoozing peacefully with large welts on their heads, resting against the opposite wall of the demolished one. I let out a breath I hadn't realized I was holding. 'Good, I am glad they didn't have to see that. Probably would have traumatized them.' 'Affirmative.' I turn and hop out the hole created by the Hostile ponies. I look all around and see dozens of the black ponies. 'Martellus? What should we do?' 'Recommended Course of Action: Purge in the name of the God Emperor.'' I grin and cock my Bolter. 'My pleasure.' I turn to the nearest Black Ponies and shout: "FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!" I charge and the slaughter begins. It has been 3 hours of continuous fighting. I am slaughtering them in droves but their numbers seem infinite. Much like Tyranids. You said it buddy. By now I had made it to the front gate, covered in blood and gore, so much so that I looked like a walking horror show. The Guards at the Gate that weren't occupied trying to contain the Black Ponies (and failing miserably I might add), either fainted dead away or the braver or stupider ones rushed me with their spears. They're spears snapped on my armor and they stared, shocked, at the stumps left. I lean down to their level and look them right in the eyes, intentionally changing the color of my mechanical eye to red. They were quivering with fear, one even wet himself. "Boo." I said suddenly shooting up to my full height hands above my head comically. Though, it did the trick. The Guards ran screaming as fast as they could dodging other Guards and Black Ponies alike. I look up at the Gate, then slam my shoulder as hard as I can into it. The beam they undoubtedly had to keep the Gate closed snapped like a twig under my inhuman strength and the Gate shot open, smashing several Black Ponies into green paste. I grab the doors and close them again to keep the rest of the Black Ponies out. Grabbing another beam, I slide it into the brace and make sure the Gate is secure, then start running to the Castle entrance. After destroying several more doors and rescuing Ponies from the Black Ponies I made it to the Throne Room. Looking around, I don't see Celestia or Luna anywhere. 'Hey, Martellus. Do you have Celestia or Luna on Auspex anywhere?' I asked. 'Negative. However, I do detect another powerful source of Warp Energy. And I do detect a smaller Warp power much like Celestia's own power.' 'Great, can you give me a Nav point to get to?' 'Already done.' Suddenly, I see the symbol of the Aquila over a Blood Raven Red arrow. 'Thanks.' 'Affirmative. I will continue to maintain equipment and provide support through the Cogitator.' I start sprinting off in that direction and after about half an hour of getting turned around, slaughtering Black Ponies, and rescuing innocent Ponies, I arrive at the door I want. 'Martellus, before I go in there, what can you tell me right now?' 'Nothing I haven't already told you, but remember, our deal is still in effect.' 'Alright. Here we go.' I raise my leg then kick down the door to see a wedding altar and the room that would go with it. But with a rather disgusting addition, dozens of dark green, gooey pods attached to the walls and roof everywhere and standing in it all, laughing her ass off was Queen Chrysalis herself. Then it hits me. 'Dude! We are at the end of Season 2! This is the Canterlot Wedding Incident when Chrysalis took over Canterlot for all of 15 minutes and was sapping Shining Armor of his Love! As Deus Ex Machina that sounds...' 'Affirmative, analysis is sound. Warning, Queen Chrysalis is about to address us, prepare for battle, hostile body language detected, Auspex detects hostile Warp Energies gathering.' I fall into a battle position as Chrysalis begins to speak. "Ah, so you are the Monster that my Hive Mind has been reporting. I do not appreciate you killing my Drones like that. I find it Hard to believe that one being has killed so many of my loyal Soldiers, but here it has happened. What is it you want, Monster?" She asks, giving me a suspicious glare. I remain silent, instead adjusting the aim of my Bolter. "SPEAK MONSTER!!!" She shouts. I remain silent once more. We both remain silent for a while, eyeing each other. I know that she is mulling what she knows about me over, until she speaks again. "Well, it appears you are nothing more than a mere beast. I shall slay you and mount your skin on my wall." She proclaims. "I think not Queen." I suddenly say, putting her visibly off guard. "So it speaks. Then tell me, why have you come?" She asks once more. "Cant tell you myself, but I do know what I am about to do. And that is stop you." Chrysalis proceeds to cackle maniacally. "You think you can defeat me?! HAH!!! I have already bested the most powerful Alicorn in all the land, PRINCESS CELESTIA!!! And I have already done away with Princess Cadence and that meddling Twilight Sparkle!!! What chance have you against me?!" 'What chance do I have against her anyway?' I ask Martellus. 'Scans say that success rate is at 73%... Success likely.' I grin. 'I like those odds.' I look up at Chrysalis, and instead of responding to her question, I shout: "FOR THE EMPEROR!!!" Then I charge, shoulder lowered to bash into her. She freezes up, obviously expecting me to cower before her. I smash into her like a Freight Train, and she goes flying through a wall. I walk over to the hole then climb into it, looking down at the dust cloud she created upon impact. "Hi." I nearly jumped through the roof. Fortunately, Martellus stifled any muscle reaction. I turn to see Doctor Whooves behind me, carrying a sword and covered in green blood and goo, but otherwise none the worse for wear. "Greetings Adeptus Mechanicus, I am-" "Doctor Whooves, we know." "How did you-" "Know your name? I happen to know someone." Suddenly his jaw dropped as his eyes bugged out. "Was it something I said?" Suddenly, my Auspex began to blare. I spin around and get blasted with a green energy blast, Putting me into a wall with the sheer amount of force behind the blow. "You think you could defeat me that easily!?! Then you are sadly mistaken!!! I am Queen of the Changelings!!! And I shall not be beaten by a beast like you!!!" Queen Chrysalis proclaims. Doctor Whooves steps in front of me. "Then face us." He says, brandishing his sword. "YOU?! HAH!!! YOU TRULY ARE STUPID IF YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN DEFEAT ME!!!" "I will not fight alone." He says and points to the door as the Elements of Harmony run into the room. "1 Stallion, 6 Mares, and a monster? You truly believe that-" I elected not to let her finish that sentence. "FOR THE EMPEROR!!!" She looked at me as I charged like a deer caught in the headlights of a car. I barreled into her wrapped my arms around her body and squeezed as hard as I could. But she was quick with her magic and made a formfitting shield around her body. Applying yet more pressure the shield was beginning to crack. She visibly began to panic and put more power into it. As she did, the cracks in the shield were mending just as fast as I was making new ones. 'Martellus! I am gonna need some help here!!!' I exclaimed to him. 'Initializing Mechandrite.' The Mechandrite mounted to my shoulder suddenly descended its claw and clamped down on the shields around her head. It began to squeeze as well. When that failed to produce a result, its soldering tool activated, cutting into the shield. The shield began to crack rapidly as this new assault began to take its toll. In a desperate gamble, Chrysalis teleported out of my arms and onto the ground before me. I grabbed the Chainsword at my waist, quickly activating it in the same motion, and my Bolter and aimed both at her. "DIE XENOS FILTH!!!" I exclaimed in righteous fury and charged. She charged as well and I brought my Chainsword down as she brought her horn up to intercept. The 2 objects clashed and there was a blinding light that not even the maximized polarized eye could fully nullify. After the flash, I was seeing some spots but otherwise unharmed. I turn to look at the other occupants in the room and see Doctor Whooves and the Elements rubbing their eyes to restore their eyesight and Cadence and Shining Armor embracing. 'Warning, finale of the episode approaching.' Martellus said, 'looking' at Cadence and Shining Armor embracing. 'Ready for the big finish, pal?' 'Affirmative.' I turned once again to Chrysalis to see her gawping at her horn. Or rather, what was left of it. The top half of it was lying on the floor broken and chipped apart in a dozen places from the teeth of the Chainsword's blade. What remained on her head was but a stump. She looks up at me with pure fury. "DIE YOU MONSTROSITY!!!" She shouts. She quickly grabs a sword from a dead royal guard and charges, only for another blast of light to launch her through the hole in the wall behind her that we had created in our duel. As she flew away, she screamed in pure fury and then disappeared into the distance. The light subsided and I turned to see the entire castle restored, but sadly, the dead still fallen. The Elements of Harmony and the Doctor walked up in front of me. "We thank you, being from another world. Had it not been for your valiant efforts, we would probably be dead right about now." Twilight said as she bowed. The other followed suite. As they bowed, I looked up behind her to see Celestia standing up. Once she is standing at full height, she glares at me, then walks over to Cadence and Shining Armor. She quickly converses with them then starts walking over to us. I step over the ponies bowing before me as I walk up to her. 'Be cautious, her body language suggests that still mad at us.' 'Noted.' I ready myself to spring as she sizes me up. Then she lets out a heavy sigh. "Your actions today have proven that you have come here lacking hostile intent. Indeed you even saved countless lives, among both my Royal Guard and the civilian population. I drop all charges against you. You are free. You may live here in Canterlot or in Ponyville. You may decide on your own time. I must tend to the city. Farewell." She says then turns and leaves. 'That was unexpected. Logging that in new file, designated: Pony Behavior.' Martellus remarked. 'You got that right. So, where do you reckon? Canterlot or Ponyville?' I ask him. 'Calculating... Ponyville.' 'Do you have a reason or is it just not to incur further wrath from Celestia?' 'The Timeline found in file: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, suggests that a very large portion of events take place in Ponyville. To better cancel our own affect on the Timeline of this world, I recommend we go to the heart of all activity.' '... Ponyville it is!' 'You on the other hand just don't want to annoy Celestia.' Martellus remarked. 'What?! Nah man!!! I want to stop the timeline too!' 'My lie detector suggests that is a lie, and my bullshit meter agrees.' 'Shut up!' I return my focus to the real world and turn to Twilight. "We would like to live in Ponyville. Can you lead the way?" She nods. "Of course, you can live in the library until we give you a proper home. Come on girls!" The other Element Bearers hand their and Twilight's Element of Harmony to Shining Armor and we all start walking towards the Canterlot Castle Gate. "What are you anyway?" Twilight suddenly asked. I groan. 'This is going to be a looooooong walk.' Martellus 'groans.' 'Affirmative.' Suddenly, the bag of Pizza and Burgers dropped onto the floor before me. Twilight and I both pause and stare at the bag. "WELL WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN!?!" I shout exasperatedly at it.