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// Forged in fire... 
// Story: Legion 
// by TheRocketMan062 
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The opposing sides charged at each other.
After a moment, any of the wildlife that had ranged ability's opened fire...
Only to see their magic projectiles splash harmlessly against the Spartans energy shields.
A moment later, the Spartans opened fire, and the opposing sides collided in a hailstorm of projectiles, claws and blades.

Celestia screwed her eyes shut. she didn't want so see more ponies die. "What is this Luna!?" She hissed. "This is an example of my Spartans capability's." "AT WHAT!? DYING!" Then, the air was filled with the sound of dozens of assault weapons firing at once, and massive BOOMS forced Celestia to flatten her ears against her skull. she felt a tap at her shoulder, and Celestia opened her eyes. Luna too had flattened her ears. she gestured towards the battle, Celestia took a deep breath and forced herself to look.
Not a single pony had fallen.
The monsters where being annihilated with ease, even the mighty dragons where fairing badly.
The sound of the Spartans weapon fire was deafening, and Celestia watched in awe as line after line of monsters were cut down by the Spartans strange weapons. Some of the monsters thought that they could take the soldiers at close range. they were wrong, the Spartans that were engaged in C.Q.C were blurs, their blades flashing in the light just before they sunk into their targets. Limbs came off and crimson blood flowed like a river. Some of the Spartans strange weapons would simply blow a monster apart in a single shot. Celestia's eyes watered when a incredibly bright ruby red beam of energy cut across the arena,
And literally vaporized a dragons head. Celestia followed the beam back to it's owner, and spotted a Pegasus hovering in place, hefting an odd looking weapon on her shoulder. A small laser light clicked on, and the weapons barrel glowed as it built up another charge.
A second later, the weapon discharged once again and atomized a pack of timber-wolves and gave a chimera 3rd degree burns all over the left side of it's body. It was put out of it's misery by a Spartan wielding one of the strange pump guns. The remaining dragon bellowed in rage at it's partners demise, and spewed fire over a group of Spartans. The odd shields that surrounded the Spartans suits snapped on, and dispersed the heat. One of them staggered as his shields broke. His armor did not melt as Celestia expected, it instead blackened slightly and dispersed the flames just as well as his shields did. The Spartan pointed his hoof at the Dragon, which tilted it's head in confusion. Then bellowed in pain as it's left eye exploded. The Pegasi sniper's fired in volley's, some aiming at the dragons joints, other's attempting to shoot it in the heart. The Dragons thick, spell resistant armored scales did nothing to stop the anti-material rounds. A moment later, the dragon was dead.

All was silent once more. A thick smoke covered the battlefield, preventing Celestia from seeing anything. She found herself holding her breath. Then the smoke dispersed as the overhead fans kicked on.
All 32 Spartans stood, no worse for the wear, there emerald colored armor splashed with blood and on occasion, entrails.
Celestia coughed, and dry heaved.
This was one of the worst displays of violence she had ever seen. These soldiers were merciless, that fact being proven as she watched a Spartan curb stomp a wounded Cockatrice. 
She heaved again.
The remains of the Royal Guard would have been decimated. Celestia doubted that she could have fought all of those monsters and survived. The smell was horrendous, and below the raised platform she stood upon, the blood flowed like a river. Some Spartans were up to their shins in blood.
She heaved again, and tears spilled out of her eyes. And yet, as she righted herself...
She found herself smiling.
These soldiers annihilated an army of monsters easily a thousand strong and suffered no causality's at all.
The smile grew.
The killers that tortured her precious little pony's day in day out would feel the wrath of the Royal Sisters.
She flinched with every bang. Every bang represented a Spartan finishing off a monster. 
She would fight fire with fire.
BANG.
BANG.
BANG.
BANG.
The destruction of the terrorist cells and the cultists was the will of the demi-godess sister's...
and these Spartans were their instruments.

Two of the Spartans approached the Sister's. The one with white stripes on his armor walked up to Luna. The mare walked up to Celestia. Celestia heard a click, and assumed she was activating her helmets speakers. "Zat was satisfactory, non? zose creature's were amateur's." Celestia patted the mare on the soldier, and smiled. The mare took that as a yes, and saluted the princess. The other Spartan turned away from Luna. He tapped the spot on his helmet where his mouth would be twice. The mare returned the gesture. 
"They're happy." Luna said.
Celestia just wrapped her wing around her sister in an embrace.
"You have a lot of explaining to do sister, But...I will use you're soldiers."
"It will be a long explanation sister...and thank you."
"I want to hear it and don't thank me yet."
The sisters walked back to the doors and stepped out. Behind them, Spartans armed with Flamethrowers were cremating the remains of the monsters.
It was just another day for them.
But they were looking forward to being unleashed upon the Princesses foes.

Hundreds of miles away, the leader of the insurrectionists and cultists felt his a pit grow in his gut, and found himself worrying about somthing, but he didnt know what.
He would soon find out.


END OF ACT 1