January 25th, 1005, Queen’s Hive tower ( Under Renovation), Vesalipolis
Trimmel trots his way to his office, passing through some Construction drones, performing the task of removing old, crumbling rock with new and improved Lycitdan Concrete, supporting it with some Vrakkian Steel beams.
He seems to be in a good mood until he confronts the crooked horned changeling in his pure black uniform with a crooked horn insignia, he looks upon the Hivemarshal in smugness. “Greetings, Trimmel, how's dealing with… him?” he asked in a raspy voice.
“Ah! Cardo nice to see you too” Trimmel greeted Lacin with a respectful nod, though he was slightly nervous about Cardo's Appearance… there is something about him and his… otherworldly mysteries surrounding him.
“So! You seem to be in a good mood…” Cardo asked.
“Hmm hmm! Yes, I am, after dealing with that sore loser… I have managed to stabilize my funding to my Panzer programme and got him to shut up!” Trimmel smugs.
Dieter smirks. “Hehe, finally you made him shut up!”
“Not quite… there is still a problem with his little brother…”
Lacin Squinches his eyes. “You’re talking about Thorax?”
Trimmel looked incredulous at Dieter. “Yes… how did you know?”
Lacin taps lightly on his Queen’s guard badge. “ I am the Kapitän Anführer of the Queen’s guard, and the Queen’s guard are the Ears and Eyes for our glorious queen, that means we keep an eye on our people to make sure they don't… suspicious you know I mean...!”
“I know what you mean Lacin… in fact as your Hivemarshal… I want you to deal with this pest immediately as swiftly and brutally as possible… We don’t want him to fester anymore… Dangerous Poison to our people do you understand?” Trimmel said, in a monotone voice.
Lacin nods and grins at Trimmel, “ Anything to make the Queen happy…”
Trimmel trots towards the large door, with an insignia of a Queen of Queens herself. But before he could open the door. He looked at him one last time, “ and By the way, congrats on your recent disposal of Citrix and Septicx… speaking of which what did you do to Citrix?” he asked.
“Hmmm, it would be… secret hehe…” Lacin answered Trimmel’s question, in which he nodded and headed to the Door, where he entered the Queen's Chamber for his weekly report to his Panzer Project.
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January 27th, 1005, Thorax’s House, Soryth, Changeling Queendom
Thorax is very depressed, he hasn’t contacted Citrix nor gone to work for 3 days, the words from his former brother, Pharynx, sting to his broken heart. He felt lethargic today and isn’t keen on waking up early, but he has to, for some unknown reason
Thorax uses his magic to bring his hot coffee towards the table as he trots towards the table, he uses his magic to pull the chair in, he sits on it and reads the Friendship book in silence…
3 hours later…
After Thorax fell asleep after reading up to 5 chapters of the Friendship Book, he heard a knock on the door. He didn’t answer… the Knocking grows louder, this wakes up Thorax from his slumber and reluctantly trots towards the door, “coming…” Thorax answers the mad knock on his door hard.
Upon looking at the lens through the door, his body was immediately awakened, and his eyes widened. He's looking through the lenses and saw a changeling with a black uniform with a crooked Horn. Pharynx told him about this mysterious yet cruel changeling, his name is Hivegeneral Lacin Cardo, Kapitän Anführer of the Queen’s guard.
‘Shit! What's he doing here?!’ his thoughts ran through his mind for a possible decision. Bang! A loud explosion came from his kitchen, upon the explosion, hoove steps of Queen’s Guard soldiers started pouring into his house.
From the door, he heard the maniacal laugh outside of his door, “Hahaha! You're gonna die tonight Degenerate!” Cardo cackled as he cocked his Luger pistol. Thorax gulped, he turned around and galloped at full speed towards the back window.
He crashes through the window getting a few scrapes on his face and his Chitin, but otherwise, he's fine. He got up from his jump and galloped for his life towards the forest. Unknown to him Cardo saw Thorax galloping away from his house, his grins largely, as he liked the thrill of the hunt for his prey as he was getting pleasure from his fantasies.
“If this is how you play then Thorax... Then fine! Let's play catch shall we hehe…” Cardo snickered as he called his grunts with his whistle and ordered them to find Thorax in the forest immediately, almost all of them followed his commands and went through the forest. Except for his elite demolings…
“ You Grubs stay here and rig this place with explosives! I want his house to be obliterated, got it?!” Cardo orders his Demolings, which they understood, all of them went back to the house and started rigging explosives throughout the house, while Dieter went to the forest to give chase to that Degenerate.
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Thorax’s Pov:
I have used all of my energy from my legs as much as I could, but I'm feeling like they're about to give up… I managed to dodge some bullets from the pursuers and branches away from my face. Still, I galloped and galloped for more until I saw a large river, a river on the other side is the Crystal Empire…
My hopes went up, just a little more than I'm home free!! “AHH!” I screamed, my right leg was shot and it’s bleeding a lot… I screamed in agony, I fell to the river bed until I hit a rock preventing me from unto a river… “c-crap! It hurts!” I cursed. Using all of the strength I have I crawled myself to safety until someone grabbed my injured leg, it hurts like hell.
I turned around and saw that crooked-horned Changeling, with a twisted smile. “Hehehe peek a boo~” he grinned, and he proceeded to stomp his front right hoof to my injured leg, breaking my bones. It hurts like Tartaturus…
“AHHHHHHHHH!!!!! YOU SADISTIC FUCK!!” I cursed at Cardo. But the Crooked horned Changeling simply just laughed at his pain. “Oh I just love your screams… now your free life trial is expired…” he smiles at Thorax, his horn glowed blue-green, and lifted a rod from his saddlebag, he aimed it at Thorax’s chest and shoved the rod into my body, braking my Exoskeleton and Chitin in his back.”GACK!” I blurted out spewing green blood from my mouth… my eyes are slowly flickering…
3rd. POV:
Dieter is satisfied with killing Thorax, with his own bare hooves… there is something about killing a Degenerate that makes it so satisfying… He then uses his horn again to lift the corpse of Thorax and dumped it into the river, his corpse will be fish food.
He then turned around and his soldiers are there standing before him. Waiting upon commands.
“All of you! Remember this lesson if you chose to turn back on your Queen… this will be your Fate! Do you understand?!” Dieter scolded them saluting at their commander quickly. “Yes sir! “ they all said in unison.
“Dismissed!” he ordered. And soon his solderers dispersed.
Once they have disappeared into the forest. He looked back again one last time he looked back on the river, with a trail of blue blood, he smirks and leaves the scene.
Unbeknownst to him, someone is watching him in the shadows… witnessing the gruesome murder, the watcher retreated to the forest.
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28th January, 1005ALB.
Pharynx is arranging his documents for the latest test of his Gepanzerterjager programme, the armour has been working, and has improved a lot.
His shifting documents have been broken by knocking on the door. Pharynx couldn't bother to open it.
“Come in!” he asked someone at the door.
The door opened and his loyal assistant Yanna came in, with gloom on her face…
“Greetings Hivegeneral Pharynx!” Yanna saluted his Loyal General, with a sad face.
Pharynx notices her gloomy face, “what’s wrong Oberstleutnant Yanna? Is there something wrong?”
Yanna drooped down her ears and looked away from his gaze. “N-nothing sir…”
Pharynx wasn’t Convinced “I know there’s something wrong I need you to tell me Yanna! I’m your General and your Superior…”
Yanna gulps “y-you sure? This information would...make you upset an-”
“I don’t care if it makes me upset or not! You need to tell me everything I need to know! So spill it!” Pharynx ordered Yanna with a Firm and commanding tone. She droops her head down further and sighs.
“Alright, sir… I will tell you why I'm like this… you may not like it..” she said. She walks toward Pharynx’s desk and opens her Saddlebag showing a black file document with a white stamp of Confidential on the front. “Open it, sir,” she said.
Pharynx lifts the document with his magic and he opens it. He read the documents in great detail until he stood motionless… he dropped the document down to the floor, slumped down to the ground and tears in his eyes began to fall.
“Sir, are you ok?” Yanna asked worriedly to her superior, she went closer to comfort him, and Pharynx look back towards her, with tears in his eye falling more
“T-Thorax is dead?... w-who WHO DID THIS!!?” Pharynx shouted at his assistant, Yanna flinched at her Superior’s cry.
“U-um According to my Anonymous Creature who witness this Crime… the Murder of Thorax was caused by the Kapitän Anführer of the Queen’s guard himself, Hivegeneral Heinrich Dieter.
His eyes of sorrow became the eyes of rage and anger seeing the rage building up, she backs up a lot to avoid being a victim of his Rage induced tantrum.
Pharynx gets up, runs over the table and he lifted the table with his magic, and throws it over the other side of the Office, damaging the walls and destroying the table. He Screams in sorrow, regret and anger, the anger of himself.
“WHHHYY! WHY DID THEY DO THIS TO HIM!? THAT BUTCHERER!!” he screams and curses his Name. and continues to destroy his stuff in his office.
Soon his rage finally winds down, but now he is a complete mess. His Uniform has stains in his tears and some dust, his cap was ripped to shreds and now he’s crying on the corner constantly hitting himself over the corner of the wall.
“Why why why…” he repeated saying why, grieving over the death of his little brother Thorax the only one he had, now gone… and what's worse, they had fights with him not long ago… he wanted to apologize for his brash decision… but it seems he was too late.
Yanna felt sorry for the loss of his brother Thorax, and so she went towards him, not knowing how to comfort her Superior, she simply hugged him from behind… she couldn't help but shed a tear for him.
“I’m really really sorry sir… but I promise we shall do something about this!” she reassures him that they would bring justice to Lacin Cardo, the murderer of Thorax, Pharynx didn’t answer he just stayed silent from this.
His Office stayed silent as the elder Brother mourned over the death of his only little brother.
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Somewhere at the river bank at the Crystal Empire Border.
The Purple and Green Dragon Spike, the hero of the Crystal Empire, a dragon who sealed the Umbrum King Sombra from his release of the Crystal City, saved the Contestants and spectators during the Friendship Games of 1003ALB. Now just sitting on the river bank panning for some gold for his Precious Metal collection.
He’s whistling on the riverbank while panning for gold. His gold pan starts to take out any gravel and dirt away, this makes Spike go Excited.
“Oh yes, baby! Gimme those gold!” Spike said, still panning, finally, after minutes of panning, he got all the dirt and gravel out of the Gold pan. Revealing 2 Large gold nuggets and 1 pink gem, makes Spike happy, to the point he accidentally breathes fire into the bush, which it caught on fire.
“Whoops!” he exclaimed. Grabs a bucket full of water and douses it to the bush, smouldering the flames.
“There we go! Now hehe! You're coming with me!” Spike grinned as he put his treasures into the basket full of Gold nuggets, gems and various curious things that ended up in the river.
As he was about to leave the river, in his periphery he saw a glimpse of a rod sticking out to the river lazily going with the flow. Curious, Spike was able to grab the rod and bring it up to shore.
Once he hoisted up from the river, his face went from curiosity to outright terrified. What he just caught in the river was a Changeling who got stabbed in the chest.
This made him tremble in fear, “ Aahh!! C-changeling!” he Hid himself under the bush that was recently doused in water, hiding from the Changeling.
However, after some time he peeks through the bush and saw the changeling still lining there motionless.
“Huh… Is that Changeling dead?” he asked himself. And so armed with a stick, he walks closer to the body to see if it's alive.
Once he's close to the body. He began to poke it to see if it was still breathing.
After ten pokes, the body didn't respond. which made Spike a bit relieved. “Well that's a relief!” he said.
He then proceeded to look around the body to see what kind of changeling the… After much investigation, he found this changeling to be dead. However upon closer look when he leans over the chest, he finds out that it is still alive! Spike steps a bit away from the Changeling, gasping.
“Oh my Celestia, it's still alive! After that implement and being in the river for who knows how long…” Spike said. Sitting over some rock to think about his situation.
He remembers the Canterlot Invasion of 1002ALB, how it and its Swarmrades took over Canterlot and impersonated Cadence. But that was 3 years ago… but now this changeling is in his sight, lying there unconscious. He could kill it now just impale him with that rod again so he won’t cause any harm to other ponies…
However his heart has other plans...his heart believes that this changeling could be reformed and maybe try to reason this creature to the ideals of Harmonism, he does have the Healing potion made by Twilight herself to heal his injuries if he got scraps while being at Crystal Empire…
Maybe… just maybe… he could reform him.