"The damn orks don't seem to be getting any fewer." Avitus said walking down to a camp fire the space marines made. "If I hadn't slain hundreds of them already, they are still going strong."
"I feel as though this defensive strategy that codex astartes recommends isn't a permanent solution." Cyrus said.
"Indeed." Thule agreed. "Warboss Gortgutz maybe a greenskin, but he's not stupid. He's been able to slay a powerful chaos lord and escape the imperium twice. It won't be long before he formulates a proper plan to defeat this defense. The natives of this planet really need to learn how to fight."
"Aye." Avitus said. "I may as well as of had babes pick up lasguns and try to stop a chaos warband. Why are we helping these damn xenos anyways? Wouldn't it be smarter just to leave them to destroy each other?"
"Where is your pride Avitus?" Tarkus said. "These ponies need us as much as we probably needed them. They were nice enough to help us find a way off this planet."
"Aye, as well as send an entire ork wagh upon us. They're nothing but trouble."
"And who knows?" Thaddeus said. "Maybe right as we speak Gordian may be arriving with the Litany Of Fury coming to help us. The Emperor protects."
"Then let none find us wanting." Angelos said. "Alright space marines, we have more orks to purge. I have an idea."
"Let's hear it."
"We attack the orks head on."
"WHAT?!" Every space marine said at the same time.
"With all due respect captain, that's not a very good idea."
"Codex astartes would not recommend this."
"Tactical analysis shows many orks. We would be heavily outnumbered. Outmatched once they bring in any heavy weapons."
"I understand my brothers." Angelos said. "But from what I know, these orks have no way of getting any reinforcements. No more orks will come or be attracted to this wagh. If we can smash the morale of these orks, then I think we can easily defeat them."
"Yes. Remember, if we can eliminate their leaders, we can cause some havoc in their ranks." Thule said remembering his experience on Kronus.
"I am still not too sure about this." Thaddeus said. "There are maybe thousands of orks and only a few of us."
"I don't doubt the captain one bit Thaddeus." Tarkus said. "You shouldn't either.
"I must agree with Tarkus on this one." Cyrus said. "What can seven of us do against a few thousand green skins? With luck, we'll kill hundreds but....."
"That's where you're wrong!" Pinkie Pie said bouncing into the camp fire. "We'll help! It's will be a blast!"
"What in the Emperor's na...."
"You think we'd let you just all go in there and get killed? Think again." Rainbow Dash said. "If you're going to go on some crazy mission fighting aliens, I think I want to come too!"
"Well...."
"And I am coming along too! Fighting isn't really my thing of course, but maybe I do need to get a little excitement once in a while." Rarity said coming along.
"Ah reckon I can buck a few of these green things...." Applejack said joining them.
"I think I can maybe try to reason with them! Or practice my magic on them." Twilight said.
"Well, if you're all interested in.... wait aren't there six of you?" Jonah said suddenly.
"Eh..... yes...... um....maybe... I should stay ba...." Fluttershy stuttered.
"Fluttershy! We need you! Maybe your medical knowledge can be of use! The royal guard get hurt and they will need your help!" Twilight coaxed.
"Great. So they will be coming too?"
"Best we've got." Tarkus said. "We've got plenty of Orks to kill. The best we can do is accept their aid."
"Wat? Humie boys are here too?!" Gorgutz asked "I'ves got too many of deir heads on me pointy stik! end where are der puny bosses?"
"Over dier!" The nob said pointing at the general direction of where the equestrian line of defense lay.
"Alrighty..... den.... let's get to the good ol' waghhh! Alright youse gits who wants ta fight?!"
"'Ere we go! WAGGGHHHHHH!"
"You hear that?" One of the guards said to his partner. "That rumbling noise."
"Take a look." The other guard said.
The first guard who happened to be a Pegasus, flew up to a good position where he perched to have a good look. What he saw, made his jaw drop.
"WE GOT A LARGE WAVE OF THEM INCOMING!" He screamed to his comrades.
"Already?" Shining Armor asked. "When's Princess Celestia and our reinforcements going to be here?!" He asked to one of his subordinates.
"Half an hour!"
"We'll have to hold out till then!" Shining Armor said performing his shield spell as he went to the top of the hill while firing beams of magic down at the orks.
"Hoi, boss!" One of the boys said to Gorgutz. "Dat one over dere he looks like a puny boss."
"He does! I sure 'ope dat puny boss doesn't break as easily as the rest of 'is gits!"
This hope came true when an ork who was faster than the rest made it to the top of the hill. Shining Armor bounded over and sent a kick at the Ork's face sending him crashing down the hill. Without warning, lightning bolts began to strike the ork mob.
"Boss! De boyz are getting zapped by some weird stuff!"
And as Thule's analysis was, Gorgutz wasn't stupid. Looking up, he saw pegasi bouncing up on black clouds which sent down lightning bolts at his boys.
"Shoot dose puny gits on dem clouds!"
"Wut?!"
"Do it ya grot!"
With some hesitation, the orks fired their shootas at the pegasi. While the orks were horrendously bad at aiming, what they did forced all of the pegasi to get off from those positions and seek cover or be shot.
"And dats more like it! Up the hill boys!"
"Thought we could help!" Tarkus said as he ran up the hill and fired his bolter into the giant tidal wave of Orks. Likewise his brothers came bounding up the hill to do the same.
"That's Warboss gorgutz headhunter." Thule said. "Same ork that escaped me on Krouns. When I claim his head, our enemies will know that no one escapes the blood ravens.
"Where's that pony captain?" Cyrus asked. "They kill him and whatever we call this mob collapses like a sack of grain."
"Over there!" One of the royal guards said pointing at the other side of the hill. "That's where the bulk of them are!"
"Martellus, Avitus and Jonah will stay here." Angelos said. "Let's go get him old friend."
"Will do!" Thule said smiling. "Onward!"
Shining Armor gritted his teeth as he sent one of his beams through another ork. The situation was looking grim. Little by little, these brutish invaders had been able to make their way up the hill. Many of his guardponies had died trying to hold the hill while others simply ran from fear. The ones still alive and loyally with him were being cut to pieces.
"Try and hold them as long as you can!" Shining Armor yelled desperately once again raining down magical beams against the Orks.
One particular glory seeking ork had managed to make it past the massive mob of ponies that had been fighting alongside Shining. When the captain of the royal guard had his back turned, the ork jumped for the kill..... kicking the captain to the ground.
The attack had disoriented Shining, for a while, he was too dazzled to do anything, all he saw was his life flashing before his eyes..... and blood and gore flying. When his eye sight turned back to normal, he saw the Ork's head was pretty much missing. And Cyrus standing over him with his sniper rifle.
"Back to the front?"
"Indeed." Cyrus said.
"I hope it's honestly not just the four of you." Shining Armor said pointing at the massive wave of orks.
"Us four is a lot." Tarkus said. "Plus, we got them." The tactical marine pointed at the massive army of ponies that soon made themselves seen. As well as Princess Celestia and Princess Luna themselves.
Shining Armor smiled watching the orks being routed. About time things went his way.
"Wut?! A giant mob of puny boys?! And their stomping all of me boys?!"
"And two big humie bosses! They stomping and shooting all the boys and wez run back!"
"Ya stupid grot!"
In a fit of anger, Gorgutz picked up the Ork and threw him.
"Dem humies and punies may of won these here fight! But I will win the WAGH!"
Thaddeus was looked at the dead orks. He was almost knee deep in corpses, from where he stood he saw many members of the royal guard throwing up. It was clear many of them have never been exposed to any real level of combat. Elsewhere, Thule and Angelos looked from the hill all covered in blood with the two Princesses behind them.
"They will be back." Thule said. "Gorgutz never accepts defeat."
"And that is why we have to kill him here and now or he will only return to cause more grief." Angelos said.
"All of this horror." Luna said. "It has never of been here in Equestria."
"Well. It's here now." Thule said. "Now then, we're only just lucky the other end of the rift led to some random section in space. Had it been say..... the eye of terror or worse, the realm of chaos, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Now how did you where sub-sector Aurelia is or do you even?! Did you just ASSUME that any section of the space is of the Imperium?!"
"No...... We truly thought we knew." Celestia said. "We were able to find out after accessing some...... knowledge that had been kept locked up for some time."
"What do you mean?" Angelos asked. "What else do you know?"
"Well, we did end up...." Luna said nervously. "Taking a look in your heads....."
"Don't you dare try anything." Thule said.
"We won't. We can promise you that." Celestia said trying to calm the space marine. "We just went to see where you came from. We can assure you that. We simply have a particular way of looking at the stars, well just Luna and I. We found where you came from and used our magic to open a portal there. How these things got through, I am not sure."
"Unless Sub-sector Aurelia got overrun by Orks." Thule said. "My only guess can be is that they just happened to be sucked in in a similar manner to how we got here. But something bothers me....... how did you know how to open a warp rift?"
"Well, that is for another time............" Luna said. "We can show you later after we sort this all out."
"Very well." Angelos said. "But cross us..." Here he gestured at all the dead bodies of orks. Celestia and Luna had both seen first hand the space marines had for the most part single-handedly slaughtered these hundreds of so orks by themselves. What they could potentially do to Equestria, none of them really wanted to think about that.