//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: I am the hammer. The edge of his sword... and unfortunatly, the partner of a purple unicorn with wings. // by ThatRarityIsaSpy //------------------------------// Draigo politely excused himself from the briefing as he went out to think about the events of today. A purple talking horse with wings and a horn on Titan. By The Emperor's command. I have to go back to the warp again to acquire information from Fateweaver. And she get's to go with me. Is this punishment for all the times I used warp dust? "Probably is." Draigo grumbled to himself. Hey come on, it was hilarious seeing Kar'voth as a bunny rabbit with a ridiculously high-pitched voice. Ha, off to visiting relatives in the eye of terror? Bullshit. He recalled the first time when he battled Kar'voth, the bloodthirster had been all arrogant and full of himself, but despite his power, he nothing compared to the holy wrath of The Emperor. Draigo mused about how he killed Kar'voth and was successful at even making a bloodthirster fear him. Those khornates that still had half a brain were wise to keep out of his way after that. Speaking of khornates, who would be a good challenge for me? Kar'voth again? No. Too easy. Won't even as much as go in an 100 mile radius of me. Ka'bandha? Sounds good. Got flattened by Sanguinius during the battle of Equestria. Let's see if I can prove myself to their level. Angron? Maybe not a good idea. I hardly beat Mortarion with a few dozen brothers, this guy isn't a walk in park. An'ggrath? Would be a great fight. I'll probably win. If a mortal can do it, I can do it too. Draigo decided he was done thinking about his kill-list and went on to check on Twilight again. The horse was learning well from the report of a librarian. They had been teaching her the various arts of daemonic combat via magic. Due to the fact wherever she drew her power from seemed to have a tendency to shred even the most power daemons with relative ease, it wouldn't be long before she could defend herself within the warp. Draigo snorted at this. Her? He would love to see the equine battle a lord of change. She'd be left as a crater in the ground. I probably shouldn't let her get under my skin too much Draigo thought. "Is The Emperor still here?" "No. He left to for Terra just moments ago. Had you come sooner and maybe I would have been able to get him to wait." The librarian said. "Alright then. Let's see how our small equine friend fares in combat." __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "Whoa.... what happened here?" Rainbow Dash asked as she got up from bed within Ponyville general. She had recalled having lunch at Sugarcube corner with the others. "Mmmmm, cupcakes...." Pinkie mumbled dreamingly as she still was unconscious. "Chocolate........" "Can somepony tell me what the hay just happened?" Applejack asked as she got up. "What in tarnation just happened?" "Don't know." Rarity said. "Wait a second... oh dear! Where's Twilight?!" The five friends took a look around. Outside, a scout marine sat on probably the most awkward position in recorded history as he listened to their conversation. "Good thing this cloak works." He grumbled as he hoped that the branch would support his weight. "Milord? They haven't caught on.... yet." "Good. We'll be done sooner or later. Hope they don't put two and two together before then." The scout gave his reply only to realize in doing so, he lost his balance. "You hear something?" Rarity asked as she heard a thud and a grunt. "Ah, probably just somepony making a mess." Applejack said dismissevly. "I wanna know what happened." _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "I have complete faith in her abilities, why don't you?" Celestia asked as she walked through the long halls. "We're sending TWILIGHT into the warp. The literal hell! Why shouldn't I be worried? How do I know she isn't going to get eaten by daemons or turned inside out by some unholy magic?" "She'll be fine." Celestia replied. "Why wouldn't she be? I recall she had been present during the final battle against Abaddon." "So what? We were on our own playground with thousands of astartes! She'll have one person to accompany her! One!" "That one person doesn't get the name "edge of his sword" or "his hammer" for nothing. Draigo's power is second only to the primarchs." "And so what? I wouldn't trust any of the primarchs with Twilight alone for more than a day in the warp!" "Oh come on! You know they adore her greatly and treat her well. She'll be among friends with them." "No. It's just that I worry for her safety. You and I both went off to take a look at this crusade the primarchs went on. We bonded with them, became fast friends with all of them. I recall camping in a cave for about 28 hours with Leman Russ telling stories around a camp fire as well as helping Sanguinius get his men to the apothecary. We know those men. We're friends with them. They know us, and they're friends with us. Even then, I would hardly be assured with even them being with Twilight. Now we'll be throwing her into the warp with a complete stranger! Can't you see why I have doubts?" "You're worrying too much." Celestia said. "I don't recall you being worried when you sent Twilight to meet The Emperor or had her go meet up with the Blood Ravens again to collect artifacts from a captured vault." "You're missing the point. It's not that I am worried about sending Twilight into a place we don't have knowledge about. If anything, we do know quite well on how the warp works with personal accounts from many. It's because of that I am worried. If the warp wasn't a place where all the most despicable beings in existence lived, then I wouldn't even bat an eye at sending her there." "It'll be fine." Celestia said giving a loud sigh. "I am going to work on that new spell The Emperor gave me." "You ever wonder what his real name is?" Luna asked. "Or does he even have one?" "Oh, he told me he'll tell me someday." _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Tesseract labyrinth released it's prisoner as soon as Twilight gave the word. Facing against her, was a chaos spawn of khorne, the monster bounded for her. The purple unicorn did as she had been told. Stand her ground. Showing not even the slightest indication of fear for her opponent, she launched a magical bolt at her opponent. The attack tore off a small chunk of flesh, but did little than anger her opponent. Bellowing in rage, the chaos spawn doubled it's pace, only for Twilight with her naturally quick movement, to evade and have her opponent hit a wall of solid admantium. The Grey Knights within the ring all exchanged bets and watched with amusing looks. "Perhaps our little xeno friend may be able to finish the beast." Someone commented as they witnessed Twilight send a ball of fire into her enemy, the flames scorched it's flesh, and made it bellow and shriek in pain. "I'll say we'll need the apothecary after this." Someone else commented as Twilight hardly dodged the claws of the monster. "Doubtful. I believe she has learned quickly and learned well. The Equestrian is skilled at magic, and learning whatever it put's it's mind too. As is the case here." A librarian said as Twilight sent a beam of magical energy to her foe, the spawn was deprived of one of it's claws. "Maybe she'll end up as daemon food." Twilight had stopped for a moment to catch her breath and her movements began to slow, the monster only doubled it's efforts as soon, it backed Twilight into a corner and readied itself to crush her against the walls. It was about two paces from her when she casted her spell. Massive jets of flame shot out of nowhere, incinerating the abomination into ashes. Many of the Grey Knights were taken back by this, some voiced their approvals, others clapped, and a few remained silent. "Perhaps a good partner after all within the time you will spend in the warp?" A librarian asked Draigo. "Shut up."