//------------------------------// // Siege of Canterlot // Story: Civil War Skrimish at Canterlot // by efug25g //------------------------------// As the royal sisters, Gladius, and Discord made their way out of the palace in Canterlot, they see the bright blue sky completely cover up with smoke and fire. On the streets, they see pony citizens running for their lives in fear of being killed by the invaders, as various explosions starting to erupt all over the city. There were guards scattered across the streets trying to repel the Unicornian troops from entering Canterlot. Royal guards unleashed various magic spells from all over the city while defending the battlements. Those who don't fight with their magic started attacking each other with various weapons, such as spears, swords, 18th century handguns and rifles, and with their hooves. Not wanting to stand around, Princess Celestia issued the following orders to her soldiers. "Equestria is threatened!! Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our country." One of the military commanders of Equestria came up to Princess Celestia await for orders. "Princess, the Unicornian Army is attempting to breach our walls from the main gate!!" Celestia responded by giving her commander the first order. "Get your men up to the courtyard and to the walls. Hold them off as long as you can." "Yes, your majesty." The commander acknowledged. "Gladius, help me save as many citizens as you can and escort them out of the city." Celestia told her bodyguard. "I'm on it!!" Gladius replied. "Luna, go help defend the main gate!!!" Celestia ordered her sister. "It's done." Luna acknowledged. As Celestia and Gladius charged forward onto the battlefield, in hoping to save the citizens of Canterlot from getting killed during the siege, Luna and Discord went with one of Celestia's commanders to the courtyard. As soon as they reached the courtyard, the main gate was immediately breached. "You are soldiers of Equestria!!!" Luna announced in a royal Canterlot voice. "No matter what comes through that gate you will stand your ground!!!!" The gate came crashing down in front of a platoon of Equestrian soldiers. As the Unicornian soldiers charged through the wreckage, Luna issued a military command at the top of her lungs. "VOLLEY!!! FIRE!!!!" The Unicornian troops were met by a barrage of magic blasts and gunfire coming from Luna's guards. The moment the invaders got closer, the Equestrian royal guard formed up a spear formation. A massive clash occurred between the invaders and the defenders in a full frontal assault. Luna flew up into the sky and launched an array of battle spells at the invaders, while Discord summoned his plunder vines to restrain the invaders who weren't engaged in fighting with the Equestrian guards. During the fight, Shinning Armour and Princess Cadence immediately went into one the evacuating airships, along Night Light and Twilight Velvet, before one of towers came crashing down into the castle grounds. "Are you sure you don't want to help out Princess Celestia and Princess Luna?" Princess Cadence asked. "I do want to get into the fight too, but I have to make sure our parents stay out of harm's way first." Shinning Armour answered. "Well, I hope they'll meet us back at the Crystal Empire." Cadence said in a worried tone. "Don't worry, my dear." Shinning Armour told Cadence. "They already been through a lot of life-threatening situations even before I was born." "Well, I hope nothing bad happens to Twilight again or to Twinklestar." Velvet said in a worried tone. She already suffered when learning that her daughter, Twilight Sparkle, was assassinated by those monsters that happened to be miserable excuses of Equestrian nobles. "I'm sure Twilight will meet us at the Crystal Empire, along with her friends very soon." Shinning said to his mom. The last thing Shinning Armour, his parents, and Princess Cadence saw from the window of their airship, before they disappeared into the sky, was Canterlot burning, followed by various shouts, explosions, and war cries echoing from down below. Meanwhile, back at the courtyard where the main gate is, the Unicornian invaders kept charging through the gateway like never ending tide. Various Changeling Republican soldiers, members of the Wonderbolts, and Pegasus guards came swooping down from the sky, piercing the invaders with their spears and their magic. However, the Equestrian army was slowly loosing its ground as Unicornian soldiers came scaling down from the wall on both sides of the shattered gate. Discord's Plunder Vines were able to hold their ground above the city walls but in just seconds later, they started getting obliterated by the invaders, as they were launching fire spells at the vines. As Luna continued fighting with the soldiers of Unicornia, Discord noticed that a huge fireball is coming down from the sky heading straight to where Luna is standing. "MOONBUTT, GET DOWN!!!" Discord shouted as he lurched forward, pinning Luna to ground and not wanting her to get blasted by the fireball. The fireball missed both of them inches away from where they were standing, before it blew up a nearby house that was abandoned. "Thanks, Discord." Luna said to the draconeques. When Luna got back up on her hooves and saw what was going on, her eyes widen with fear. "If they were bearing down on us with fireballs, then that must mean...." It didn't took that long for Luna to figure out where the fireballs are coming from. When Luna flew up into the sky again, she saw the invaders using catapults to bring destruction upon the city. Before she can do anything else, more catapults started hurling fireballs all over Canterlot. In just 10 seconds, most of the houses in the city streets have been bombarded with catapult fire, resulting in total collapse of several of them while those that didn't collapse got caught on fire. "DISCORD!!! Time to run!!" Luna told him in a Canterlot voice before ordering the rest of her guards at the main courtyard. "EVERY PONY RETREAT!!! FALL BACK TO THE PALACE!!!!" As Luna and Discord started running back to the palace, along with the remaining royal guards and their reinforcements, Luna realized that she can't leave her sister behind. "Discord, get Tia to regroup with me at the palace!!!" Luna told him. "Understood." Discord acknowledged as he took off on a motorcycle that he summoned with his magic. During the evacuation, Celestia and Gladius were almost done getting every pony out of the city when all of a sudden, Discord appeared right in front of them. "Sunbutt! Gladius! The invaders are bombarding us with catapults armed with fireballs and the main courtyard has been overrun. Moonbutt and her men are already falling back to the palace grounds but they're requesting immediate assistance." Discord told them both. "Captain!!" Celestia said to one her commanding officers. "Help the rest of the other ponies escape." "Yes, princess!!!" The Captain saluted to her before he went off to finish where Princess Celestia had left off. "Gladius, let's move it!!" Celestia ordered her bodyguard. "Yes, your highness!!!" Gladius acknowledged. By the time Celestia, Gladius, and Discord reached the castle grounds, Luna was already fighting with the invaders, alongside the rest of her surviving troops. Unfortunately, Luna is getting exhausted every time she fired up a spell to blast away the Unicornian soldiers. Not wanting to see Luna fall to the enemy, Celestia and Gladius came to her aid to ward off the rest of the invaders. Before he can rejoin Luna in holding there ground against the invaders, however, Discord spot a demonic figure from the south, behind the advancing Unicornians. As he looked harder, he saw a familiar foe standing next to a wrecked building. After staring at the figure in the distance, Discord's eyes widen with fear while his heart started beating in a panicked state. The figure turned out a be familiar centaur with red skin, white hair, black vest, and 2 really big horns on his head. It was Tirek. The moment Tirek saw Discord in the distance during the fight between Equestrians and Unicornians, he glared at him with looks that wanted to kill and drain Discord of his chaos magic.