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// The Necrony Catacomb's Collapse 
// Story: PonyHammer 40,000: Magic of War | Dark March 
// by Dragon Heart 
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	After making his way past innumerable Necrony forces and destroying beacons and dormant monoliths, Goliath found the spot and placed the bomb.

He brought his hoof to his comm link. "Siblings, the plasma bomb is planted. We make for the surface!" Goliath and the Pony Marines turned and headed for the exit. On his way back, Goliath saw Chaplain Aries fighting against the Necrony Lord in his way. Aries fought boldly and hard, but the Necrony Lord picked him up with his gauss magic, pierced him with his staff, and slammed him into the ground. Goliath had to save Aries's geneseed before he would be forever trapped under the rubble of victory, or claimed by the robotic creature.

He went up and engaged the Necrony Lord. They slashed and clashed at each other. Nule had to hurry up and finish off the deadly xeno. The Necrony Lord then struck the Captain in the eye, but Goliath refused to give up. With a powerful slash, he sent the Necrony Lord flying down a small cliff. He recovered the fallen Chaplain's geneseed and galloped fast to make up for lost time. He put his hoof to his eye hole to suppress the bleeding, which slowed him down a bit. It took a while, but soon he reached the headquarters and the exit.

He put down his bloodied right hoof and brought his other hoof to his comm link. "Blood Phoenixes, I have reached the surface. All remaining Battle Siblings withdraw!"

The Pony Marines all hurried towards the exit and left the underworld to be demolished. Captain Nule headed out, still suppressing his wound.

Elsewhere, the Necrony Lord had teleported to a place where several dead Necrony Warriors lay. He pulled a glowing green orb out of his chest and slammed it into the ground. The Necronies around him surged back to life and walked off to fight.

The Necrony Poniah approached the Necrony Lord. "Bring them back, my Lord." He urged. "The living are escaping..." The Necrony Lord put away his orb and headed of to fight the Pony Marines again.

The Poniah walked over the hill and spotted the bomb, which started beeping. "My Lord!" he called, "The living have-" The bomb exploded with immense power and destruction. Everywhere, Necronies were being crushed under heavy falling rocks and their black structures evaporated into nothingness. The specter, overseeing the destruction, screeched and disappeared in a whirlwind of dark grey smoke.


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The final assault against the Necronies in the catacombs under the Crisa'lide Plateau became the thing of legend among the Blood Phoenixes. Descending into that sepulchral underworld, the Battle Siblings must have felt cut off from the Empress's light altogether. Nevertheless, they fought with all the courage and steel of the Equestrium's finest, bringing holy fire to the enemies of all life.

Those Siblings who emerged from that charnel underworld marked their armors with a small elongated skull, emblematic of their fallen Necrony foes. The Chapter's Second Company, which contributed most of the forces sent into Crisa'lide, would add the Necrony skull to its heraldry and adopt the motto "Victory over Death".