Chapter 10: They turn on us
Last chapter: They quickly enter the planet’s atmosphere and descend quickly to come to the surface within seconds, all of them slamming into the ground and causing a ploom of dust to shoot into the air, Twilight turns round again to see Celestia, only just, stood looking over to the village and staring as some Havoc mechs begin to approach the village.
As the mechs get closer, Twilight can see a shadow grow bigger from under her hooves as the other two back away and are in front of her, she turns to be faced by Mathis and three Talons along with a pony in full power armour with glowing green eyes, “Hail the Grand Master, leader of SEA. Shame you have to be the enemy Miss Sparkle, now all enemies must be taken care of.” Mathis says as he stares at her.
Mathis stands and stares at the trio of ponies only to look to the side and see Rarity, Rainbow and Fluttershy heading towards them, Rarity and Rainbow both having anger in their eyes, Fluttershy not so much.
He looks back at twilight and grins, bends down a little and points at Canterlot, “That castle will be gone by the end of this war, all ponies will be enslaved and you will be my little pet.” He says to her in a gruff tone. She looks back to the castle then as she turns to face him he grabs her by the mane and pulls down so that she falls at his feet, the others go to attack him but the Talons pull out their guns and take aim at them, Claire has a automatic Gatling gun on her back that turns to target the other three coming their way.
Rarity and Fluttershy stop but rainbow takes no notice, flies right at Mathis but then knocked right to the floor as he pulls back his hand and punches her at just the right time so that he gets full force, “Stay down this time, bitch” he says to her as she hits the floor.
He looks down at the lavender mare at his feet who tries to scurry away but he stamps a foot onto her mane so that she can’t leave, “Mathis, We need to go, look.” One of the Talons comments while pointing at Canterlot, he turns to look at the castle then zooms in to see Kieron and Treacle fighting back at the guards, Treacle with no armour on but using her magic to fire on them and throw objects at them or pull them apart, Kieron in full armour and firing pulse cannon rounds at them while stabbing others with his laser blades.
He looks back at the Talons and knods, they all look at each other and immediately know that it time for business, their helmet visors close and they all run off at full speed, at least three times the speed on a human running at full speed, along with Claire running alongside them with her gun on her back firing up at the castle to provide covering fire for the Overseer and his pony even at this distance.
Ponies scatter as they pass by, as they run out of the village they can see the Overseer being overpowered by multiple pony forces that knock him down and overwhelm him then drag him into the castle, Treacle putting up a bigger fight but is eventually knocked out by a guard mech that punches her in the face as she turns to face it.
“We need to hurry; we have to get there before they enter that castle!” Mathis shouts back to them, they then enter an emergency overdrive that is to never be used unless in the case of an emergency retreat, the backs of their armour opens up to reveal small boosters and the bottom of their boots activate small boosters that cause them to hover as if on roller-skates. The boosters on the backs then activate and they are propelled forward at speed of ten times the speed on a running human.
They quickly come to the Canterlot border and are met by multiple pony guards and a few guard mechs, they all open fire on the approaching SEA force, but are surprised as a Havoc mech suddenly crashes down next to them and fires on them killing them all, the mech stops and looks at them as they pass by, “Glad I could be of help, mate.” A voice says to them over an intercom, Mathis knods before entering the city.
Kieron is first to enter the castle as he squirms trying to break free from his capture’s grasp but they unfold his helmet and hit a rifle butt off the back on his head causing him to flop and slump allowing them to drag him through the doors with no problems, Treacle not far behind and Celestia at the doors to greet them in with a quick punch to his unconscious body.
She orders for them to be put in the dungeon, Kieron hung up against the wall with his power armour crush and disposed of, Treacle to be allowed to walk about but is to have her back hoof shackled so that she can’t move far.
Mathis and the others reach the castle doors minutes after the Overseer and Treacle have been taken inside; thankfully the entire pony forces that were here are now gone and back at their posts, “Right, I have no idea where they have been taken, but we have to find them so capture any ponies that may know of their location.” Mathis says to the Talons who run off around the castle and in through a different entrance, “Claire, we will go in this way and try to find them, stay close, I don’t want anypony finding us or we could be in big trouble.” He adds, she knods before standing up against the wall next to him, he then slowly opens the door and creeps inside, thankfully nopony is in the main room, he makes his way round the room staying to the sides along with Claire right behind him.
The move around the castle insides to come to the corridor that lead to the hospital, Claire stops at stares down the corridor, she turns to face Mathis who shakes his head slowly, she looks back down the corridor then lowers her head and follows him down a set of stairs, “I believe this could be where they are, I never knew of any stairs leading down.” He says to himself but loud enough for her to hear.
They make their way down the stairs but stop to hear two voices at the bottom, Mathis slowly continues down the turn in the stairs and peeks round to see them stood at the bottom with a large barred cell at the end of the room, then suddenly they collapse as two Talons exit cloak, one turns and salutes then remarks, “Found them sir.” He smirks then heads over to the cell; he looks at the lock and shakes him head before grabbing it to break it but is blown back by a magical surge coming from it.
He hits the wall behind him and quickly gets up, “Claire shoot it.” He orders, she aims then fires at it once only for the bullets to bounce off it and hit the wall right next to Mathis’ head but he doesn’t react to it. He grabs one of the guards and walks over to the cell and hits its head of the lock, the pony’s body getting a magical shock and a large dent on its forehead, he hits it a few more times only for the skin to break and blood starting to run down its head, the pony already dead by now, he hits it once more and the lock finally gives way and breaks, he throws the pony to the side and slides the door open to see Kieron hung up on the far wall by the arms with head hanging and legs dangling, Treacle laid on the floor with her back hoof shackled and a red mark on her head where she was hit.
<Fenrir>
Thomas is now in the room where the magic cannon was that was once powered by Luna, it has been converted into a large cannon but is now powered by the Elements of Harmony now converted for the use of disharmony, named by Thomas as the Elements of Chaos. He pulls on some levers and presses a few buttons then hits a final button that causes it to start up and whir but the noise dies down a little as an indicator on a screen shows an error, he looks to see that the weapon needs a start-up, there isn’t enough power to activate the machine but enough to power the main phase, he looks about before calling out, “Mathis, bring me a unicorn, I need the power.”
“I have one here, sir. Will Treacle be enough for you?” Mathis asks via a hologram behind him.
He turns to face the hologram, “Yes, it shall be fine.” He replies before the hologram disappears.
<Canterlot>
Mathis punches the shackle on Treacle’s hoof waking her up and shouts in pain, he picks her up into his arms and teleports out of the castle up to the ship, he then tells the rest of them over intercom to get the Overseer out, one Talon runs up to Kieron and releases him then puts him over his shoulders then runs out of the entrance they came in through, Claire following and firing on any guards that block their path, once outside the Havoc mech meets them outside without being detected due to being cloaked, the Talon hands Kieron to the mech and orders for him to be evacuated, the mech takes him in hand and then quickly boosts out of the city just as some mechs notice it and fire on the mech.
The Talons and Claire then sneak away before anypony can find their prisoners gone. Once out of the city they call for a dropship and are taken back to Alverton without any death, a mission well done.
<Fenrir>
Mathis and treacle appear in the room with Thomas who already has a chair with the cables for Luna in hand, Mathis places Treacle down on the chair as Thomas attaches the cables to her horn, he walks over to the console and starts it up, the machine starts to drain some of her magical power as it starts up, she takes a little to realise what is going on but when she does she looks at the console and concentrates while watching the gauge go up and up.
Soon the machine is running at full power and is no longer draining her as the Fenrir supplies the power to it, the Elements in a metallic tube, they start to glow as they add their power to the machine, outside the ship the cannon starts to fold out and glow as the power starts to energise the gun, soon the noise becomes inaudible and the glowing is bright, the gun does another charge as Thomas presses a trigger, after a few seconds the cannon stops making noises before turning to take aim of Cloudsdale and then firing without noise, a large beam emitting from it, the noise then coming from it sounding like a nuke going off, the beam hits the floating city and causes it to start vaporising while moving down towards the ground, the beam isn’t its usual colour but is instead red and black.
The beam stops and the city is just a floating ball of fire left in the sky just off the ground, all the Viperox gone and dead, Thomas then comments, “The tide has certainly changed, in our favour. Now those silly ponies have no why of stopping us.”