//------------------------------// // Chapter 7: Assault on Lunar Republic HQ // Story: Assassinverse: Unicornia The New Order // by efug25g //------------------------------// Meanwhile, during the time that Twilight and her team made their way back to the sewers, Majesty Blueblood held a secret meeting with the former LR commandoes lead by their commander Red Moon. She was a dark-red pegasus who bears the cutie mark of a blood moon with two daggers crossing over each other on top of it. Lord Bronze, a dark-brown earth pony colt with a golden mane and tail that bears the cutie mark of a bronze coin, led the former LR commandoes to speak with Majesty outside of her castle. "So Red Moon, Lord Bronze told me that you and your men used to serve under Princess Luna as her LR commandoes, right?" Majesty Blueblood asked the female pegasus while standing outside of the Canterlot Palace. "Why, yes indeed, your highness." Red Moon replied to the Queen as she bowed at her hooves. "We have a score to settle with Princess Luna for abandoning us." "And why would you want to side with me and the rest of my faithful subjects?" Majesty asked Red Moon. "Because our allegiance lies with rulers that have more power above all others, like yourself." Red Moon answered Majesty's question. "We fled deep into hiding, thinking that Luna will come and save us but she proved us wrong. So, we all wish to show Luna the error of her ways, as well as teaching her a lesson for getting her nose into places where it doesn't belong." "I see you want revenge on Princess Luna as much as we do!!" Morning Blade said as he appeared behind Queen Majesty. As soon as he revealed himself to Majesty and Red Moon, the left half of Blade's face was now replace by a metal alloy with a red light coming out of his left eye. After a few months of surgery, his right front hoof was dissected and replaced by a metal grappling claw that shoots out in a range of 25ft, and can crush anything it grabs. Despite his surgery and robotic implants, Morning Blade still has his horn on top of his head and that he's still wearing his black armor on his body. "How do you feel after they made a few enhancements on your body?" Majesty asked the unicorn general. "My head still hurts a little." Morning Blade said. "And after I fell on the ground unconscious, the doctors told me that my front right hoof was dislocated and twisted behind my back and they had no choice but to perform a surgery on it in order to relocated and fix my hoof. Anyway, I can't wait to teach that purple alicorn harlot a lesson." "Then, you'll be accompanying Red Moon while during her raid upon Luna's Underground HQ." Majesty ordered the altered unicorn. "My father wanted me to let you know that if you ever see Princess Luna and Princess Twilight again, please tell them both goodbye for him." "Understood, your highness." Morning Blade said as he bowed to Majesty before following Red Moon and her men. "Alright every pony. Tomorrow, we attack at dawn!!!" At Luna's HQ, Twilight and the rest of the Mane 5 celebrated their reunion of the Element bearers of Harmony, along with Soarin, Flash Sentry, Discord, Zecora, Luna, Redheart, Sunset, Starlight, Trixie, and Spike. As they continued with their party, they were holding mugs drinking apple cider, played music, and started dancing the night away. During the party Rainbow Dash apologized to Twilight for not believing that her drunken attitude would cost the female pegasus her Wonderbolts career. As Twilight accepted Rainbow's apology, Flash Sentry took Twilight's hoof to go out dancing with her. The purple alicorn accepted Flash's request as she started blushing. After their dance, Flash and Twilight sat at one of the tables and ate dinner together in the cafeteria. As soon as their done eating, Flash took out his rock guitar and started playing his favorite romantic song, which is based on his relationship with Twilight Sparkle while she leaned over the table with her hooves hold her cheeks as she smiled at Flash. I Know You I Walked With You Once Upon A Dream I Know You The Gleam In Your Eyes Is So Familiar A Gleam And I Know It's True That The Visions Are Seldom All They Seem But If I Know You, I Know What You Will Do You'll Love Me At Once, They Way You Did Once, Upon A Dream I Know You I Danced With You Once Upon A Night There We Were Wishing This Dance Could Last Forevermore I Hope It's True That This Vision Is More Than What It Seems Because if Dreams Can Come True, I Know What We'll Do We Will Dance Once More The Way We Did Then Upon A Dream After Flash Sentry sang his song, every pony and creature started clapping and cheering for Flash out of excitement. "Oh, Flash. That was most beautiful song I ever heard!!!" Twilight said in a romantic smile, followed by a happy squeal. "Well, I was trying sing this song in order to cheer you up, when those wretched traditionalists tried to made you look bad, but I never had the time to do so." Flash explained while smiling at Princess Twilight. "But now I do!!" "Thank you, Flash. I'm not worthy." Twilight said happily as she hugged him, followed by a nuzzle on his cheek. "Well, it's good to have you back in the royal guard, Flash Sentry." Luna said to the orange pegasus. "Though, our problems with those power-hungry nobles are still far from over. We have yet to find a way to free the rest of our people, as well as our families. But first, we need to find a way for them to seek sanctuary and I do believe that the Crystal Empire will be are only bet." "But, Luna. That city is already crawling with a massive army of Cicada's Changelings." Starlight protested. "How are we going to get past them all." "Don't worry, Starlight. I already contacted the other LR commanders." Luna announced to Starlight and the rest. "They said that they will bring all of their forces and meet us at the Crystal Wastelands. For now, let's get some shut eye. Tomorrow, we'll get ready, pack up, and leave first thing in the morning." As the rest of the ponies and creatures went to their bunk beds, Twilight and Flash both slept together in the same bunk bed, with Flash's hooves holding onto Twilight's belly, the same thing goes for Rainbow Dash and Soarin. Meanwhile, earlier in the morning, the ex-LR Commando team, led by and Morning Blade and Red Moon, are making their way down the sewer entrance, below the causeway. They pressed forward, walking on their hooves silently. Morning Blade directed the team with a sewer map that he got from Lord Amadeus. As soon as they reached the metal doors, leading to the Lunar Republic HQ, Red Moon ordered two of her members to plant demolition charges in front of the door. On the other side of the door, Discord came out of his bunk bed, after leaving Fluttershy for a moment, to go use the restroom. However, before he makes his way back to the barracks, the Draconneques heard some muffled whispering coming from outside of the entrance. When he look, to see what's going on through the sliding window, he spotted a group of ponies readying their weapons and preparing to attack. "Holy shit!!!!" Discord said to himself, while freaking out. "Intruders!!!!" Without hesitation, Discord ran straight down the hallways, back to the barracks before shouting. "EVERY PONY, WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!!!" Discord shrieked. "COME ON! GET UP!! GET UP!!!" "Mmmm? What?" Twilight yawned as she opened up her eyes. Before any pony got up on their hooves and out of their bunk beds, they heard a loud explosion coming from the entrance of their hideout. Upon hearing the distant explosion, every pony jumped out of their bunk beds, startled by the noise. "OH MY GOSH!!!" Rainbow Dash yelled in shock. "HOW THE HELL THEY FIND US???" "Every pony, arm yourselves!!!!" Twilight ordered her friends as she and the rest of the Mane 5 and their followers went straight to the armory to fight back against the intruders. At the main entrance, the metal door busted open and fell flat on the ground. In just seconds, the Red Moon's LRC team came in as they bring up their Moon tower shields to form a frontal shield formation. Several Changeling Republican soldiers show up in the main hallways, hurling their spears and shooting their crossbows and their magic at Red Moon's men but with little or no effort thanks to their tower shields. The LRC marksponies appeared from behind the shield formation and started shoot back at the Changelings with their hand crossbows and their musket rifles. As casualties from the Changeling Republic started piling up, Princess Luna ordered them to fall back. "Princess Luna!!" Gladius shouted as he came up behind the dark-blue alicorn. "Crimson Cross is gone!!!" "We'll deal with that later, Gladius!" Luna said while using her magic to shielding the CR soldiers from getting hammered by enemy fire. "Right now, we need to hold off the intruders!!!" "Understood, your highness!" Gladius acknowledged Luna's orders. After every pony geared up in the Armory, Discord, Nurse Redheart, and Zecora decided to haul off their supplies to the emergency exit, which leads to the outside at the outskirts of Canterlot, while Twilight, the Mane 5, Starlight, Trixie, Sunset, Flash Sentry, and Soarin head out to prepare for counterattack. As Luna, Gladius, and the remaining CR soldiers fell back behind Twilight's group, they unleashed a volley of fire at Red Moon's commandoes. Pinkie Pie started firing a gatling cannon, with Fluttershy and Spike helping out with the ammo. Rainbow Dash and Soarin, after Nurse Redheart fixed both of their wings, started zeroing into the intruders with a sonic boom, followed by several spear thrusts the pierced the enemy in their sides. Twilight and Rarity jump from above and broke away the shield formation by landing in the middle of Red Moon's team. Rarity unsheathe her ninja sword and slashed across one corrupted LRC in his torso before getting stab upside his head. Twilight drew out her greatsword with her magic, charged it up, and made several sword strikes that broke most of the corrupted LRC's shields in two before getting their bodies cut off from their limbs. Flash Sentry made a spinning lance thrust into 3 corrupted LRC's piercing right through their shield before getting stabbed in their chests, killing them. Applejack, Trixie, and Starlight drew out their blunted weapons and started smashing their way through several waves of enemies. Gladius drew out his spear and started fight alongside Flash, taking down several more corrupted LRCs in a bloody frenzy. As the fight continued, Luna's eyes widen with shock after getting a full glimpse of Red Moon. "Red Moon?! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING???" Luna screeched in a royal Canterlot voice. "I thought you where helping me and my sister defend Equestria from Unicornia??" "Sorry, Princess Luna. We were going to find a way back to our HQ, but you abandoned us." Red Moon spoke in a hostile voice. "So as of now, you are going to pay for not helping us find our way back to HQ!!!" "Red Moon, don't do this. You were one of the best LR commanders I ever recruited!!!! Please, don't do something that you're going to regret." Luna pleaded with the dark-red pegasus. "It's too late to make amends, Princess." Morning Blade said as he appeared behind Red Moon. "You no longer have any more power to help and guide Red Moon and the rest of her LR Commandoes to serve and protect Equestria. So, say your prayers." As Morning Blade approached the night princess, he raised up his right hoof and shot his claw straight at Luna. Before Luna was about to do anything, she was immediately grabbed by Morning Blade's metal claw in the neck, crushing her windpipe. "N-No.....P-please...." Luna wheeze as she is starting to lose consciousness due to Morning Blade's strangling. In the nick of time, Twilight Sparkle appeared, unfurling her wings as she rammed into the altered general, making Blade lose his grip on Luna. After Luna collapsed, she took a breather first before getting back into the fight. "So, you must be Princess Twilight, the very same harlot that was once Celestia's bitch!!!" Red Moon taunted. "Watch it, Red Moon. Or you're next." Twilight snarled. "I heard that you and your men were one of Luna's LR commandoes until you all went MIA on her. YET, YOU DARE SIDE WITH UNICORNIA???!" "Sorry, my dear, but Princess Luna is not worth listening to anymore and neither are you!!" Red Moon said in glaring at Twilight. "So, prepare to die!!!" The moment Red Moon drew out her Rapier, she charged straight at Twilight. The alicorn and the pegasus clashed into each other with both of their swords held up high. Twilight made a horizontal slash at Red only to be parried by raising her sword next to her eye level. After Twilight and Red made 5 more parried between their blades, Red Moon made a fencing stance pointing her rapier directly at Twilight's face. However, Twilight dodged Red Moon's fencing jabs from both left and right as she raised her sword to form a defensive stance against Red Moon's flurry of jabs. Twilight made another horizontal slash at Red Moon, only for her to unfurl her wings and flipped backwards away from the purple alicorn. After Red Moon landed on her hooves, she pulled out her repeating hand crossbow and started shooting at Twilight, only for her to form a magic shield barrier from her horn, blocking 10 crossbow bolts before they hit the floor. As the fight continued between Twilight and Red Moon, Morning Blade snuck up on Twilight and grabbed her by the throat with his Metal Claw, crushing her windpipe within his grip. "AAAAAAAGGGGH!!! URRRRGHK!!!" Twilight screamed as she felt her neck getting crushed as she started to collapse on the ground. "NO!!! TWILIGHT!!!!" Flash Sentry screamed, fearing that he is about to lose his beloved Alicorn Princess again. Just when Flash was about to intervene, several more of Red Moon's men went in front of the orange pegasus and shoved him away with their tower shields. "Not so tough now, are you?!" Morning Blade glared at Twilight as she made a futile struggling against his metal claw. "Say goodbye to your kneecap, chuckle head-uh?!!" Suddenly, before Morning Blade could strangle Twilight's to death, something huge rammed him in his side, loosing his grip on Twilight. This time he was sent flying hitting his back on a wall to his left. As Blade got up, he spotted Crimson Cross glaring at him with an intent to kill. For Twilight, she started coughing out air, with Flash trying to get her back on her hooves again. Every pony in Twilight's team and Princess Luna were all shocked to see the very same earth pony that enslaved Applejack appear right in the middle of their battle with Red Moon's men. "What the??!! Crimson Cross??" Twilight gasped in a surprised tone of voice. "Are you okay, Princess?" Crimson asked. "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING??!!" Twilight shouted at the brown earth pony in loud royal Canterlot voice. "I came back to help you guys." Crimson Cross said answering Twilight's question.