Johnathan and the rest of the men gathered around the two ponies who they once called comrades and a few wonder over to the horse they managed to kill who dropped the chemical. One speaks Guardsman up. "They got this stuff to turn us... into them?" And all eyes fall to some of the unknown substation pooled in the trench by the bodies.
The commissar quiets them all. "Men today a new enemy faces the our home system... no not just our home... our Imperium! We must stand fast and report our findings to the governor-general at once. And someone grab the bodies we need our researchers to look into this new threat and their mutation weapon." With that he walks off to the bunker and two guards man grabs the dead horse while others get body bags for the other two.
Johnathan was still glued to his bolter still looking at where the last enemy got away. Matt comes up and taps him. "Whats got you thinking?"
Johnathan points to the cloud the target flew too and they can see the cloud a light shade of red. "Are clouds supposed to bleed?"
Matt follows his finger and sees the red cloud. "Lord Commissar sir! We are being watched!"
After hearing his title Walter comes over and glares at Matt. "What now guardsman?!" Matt points to the cloud that appears to be bleeding. "Sir they are still up there we didn't see them leave that cloud bank and they seem to be wounded from our fire, Sir."
Walter eyes the cloud. "I want your bolter clearing that sky do you understand me?" The two gunners reply with 'yes sirs' before they let the bolter loose on the cloud and are rewarded with a small flock of the flying 'horse' fleeing from the tracers.
Johnathan Curses to himself as his shots don't hit any of them. He eyes them as they disappear into the distance getting smaller and smaller. "If they come back we'll make sure they never leave." A hand is set on his shoulder and he looks at Matt. "I think if they come back they will be more then just a small group." Johnathan nods. "Yeah... but we'll have a gift for them."
*Location*
*Canterlot*
*Time*
*One day after first contact*
*Winter's Prospective*
Winter slowly opens his eyes to see nothing but white. He blinks away the sleep in his eyes and sees he is in Canterlot hospital. He looks around slowly and sees a doctor not far from him reading a clipboard floating in his magic. He leans up a little and calls out. "Doctor..."
The unicorn looks over and walks to him. "Glad you're awake sir you had a wound i never seen before... most of your back was blown open if it weren't for you armor whatever hit you would of gone deeper. "The doctor explained.
Winter stared at him and then spins his head to look at his back covered in stitches and bandages. "I feel like we got in over our heads..." he lays his head on the pillow.
"Well get your rest Winter the princesses want to speak to you about what happened." He starts to walk away.
Winter shoots up. "They want to speak with me?! Why me?"
"Cause you seen what the humans can do first hoof and you did watch them kill that young guard with no mercy." The doctor says before leaving the room. With a sigh Winter lays back down. "this is going to suck."
After a bit the sound of hoof falls are heard and a voice that is unmistakable. "Thank you doctor me and my sister will take it from here." And Winter can see Celestia and her younger sister enter the room and they freeze when they see his back.
Winter sighs. "How may i be of help?" The princesses regain their thoughts and walk beside his bed.
"We came to get information about the humans here." Celestia looks at him with a smile.
"Well... they are part of the Imperium of Man as a officer said... i think he was a officer. Also... their weapons... are powerful that's for sure... the one that hit me was able to fire at a high rate and i was only hit once... i got lucky." He rubs his back with a hoof. "And the poor lad who got killed... i was yelled at to leave... the kid thought i was being threatened attacked... they killed him and he dropped the potion he had in his hoofs... it hit two of their soldiers and they changed... then the officer killed those two with out second thought."
The princess stare in shock about the short explanation of what transpired. "These humans seem highly violent... we must proceed with caution in future actions... and it seems peaceful conversion isn't a option." She sighs. "I hoped it wouldn't come to this... sister we must raise the shield." At that her Luna nodded slowly but sadly. "We shall contact shining armor and prepare the shield." Luna walks out of the room.
"I hope you recover Winter we need heroes like you in this time of need" she says with a smile and turns to leave.
"Hero? Princess i'm no hero... i'm sure i think i made it worse in trying to make relations..." She leaves before he can finish. He stares at the door where his leader once was. "There's something more to this then you say isn't there..."
*Location*
*Coastal outpost*
*Time*
*Two days after first contact*
A force of Royal Guards hundred strong arrive at the location where the first death of the war happened. They quickly moved in force on the building, but the ponies were confused to find it completely empty. They explored deep into the bunker and found tech that was impossible with out magic. But due to them not understanding the tech they never understood what the red beeping lights around the building were.
Johnathan and the rest of his platoon sat in the tree line not far from their outpost waiting for all the horses to be in or near it. Not far from them the sergeant had the detonator in his hands. "just a little more... Men be ready for any of them who don't get hit by the blast."
After a few more minutes of waiting until most of the horses were around the building. All the guards are quiet only for the silence to be broken by the small 'click'. Then a explosion engulfs the bunker and anything near it. Many of the horses flying around the base were sent soaring from the force of the blast and land around the area in varying levels of how much is left of them.
Once the smoke clears the guardsman walk forward to check the ruins. Pops of lasguns firing ending the lives of any who survived the blast and the bunker is reduced to a pile of rocks and wire. Matt can't help but laugh a little. "Wondering how pissed the techpriest will be when they hear about this place getting blown up by us." Johnathan can't help but join him thinking about how they will react.
As the platoon moves though the ruins the one tank they have a chimera APC rolls up to the most intact part of the bunker, But a blue projectile flies and hits it front armor. The armor is slightly burnt and all the guardsmen stare in confusion. "Was that a plasma gun?" But soon one of the horse walks out of a pile of rubble covered in dust and a horn on its head.
The guards stare in shock as it limbs forward. The hull mounted bolter opens fire but a blue dome goes around the horse and the burst of rounds hit it and stop. And every guard is now aiming at it but unsure if they can hurt it if bolter rounds can't do anything what will las fire do?
Soon the voice of the commissar is heard. "Men! Fire don't wait for the xeno to get away!" He aims his laspistol and fires. The red beam pass though the shield with out problem and a look of shock and fear enters the horse's face as he is hit and sent to the ground.
The guardsmen stare in shock for once their 'flashlights' aren't useless. Some walk towards the horse and see its still alive. The men surround it as it looks in fear at them. "Lets see what fun we can have with it." They force it to it's hoofs and drag him to the commissar.
He looks down on the horse with disgust. "Before i kill you... what are you?" He puts his gun to its head.
The thing takes a breath. and closes his eyes. "I'm a pony... of the princess's royal army... and we will have our revenge for all you've killed here...." His life ends as a bolt hits right between his eyes.
The pony slumps over and Walter holsters his gun. "Alright men mount up we move in 5!"
After a while of gathering supplies the platoon marched away leaving the out post to nature and soon to be a beach head for the new threat in the coming days.
*Location*
*Canterlot*
*Three days after first contact*
Celestia stared at the report in her magic about the massacre of her ponies. "How many?"
The messenger who brought it lowers his head. "103 ma'am... none were seen leaving the ruins any who survived the blast were killed." He moves his head lower to the ground as he tells her the bad news.
"These... monsters... how can they kill so many and are unaffected by it." She stared out one of the windows towards where she knows it happened. "We must speed up the shields rate of growth we need it to stand a chance." The messenger nods. "I will go and inform Captain armor princess." He turns and walks down the long throne room leaving her by her self. "This isn't Earth... this is someplace worse." She looks out the window to see the shield around her country but past that she can see a large black shape in orbit.
More hoof steps grab her from the object and she turns to see her sister approaching her. "Hello Luna how are you." She smiles and gets one in return but Luna soon lets her fall. "Sister what is troubling you?"
Celestia frowns and looks up a the unknown object. "That is was is troubling me." Luna walks up and stares. "You told me they had space travel... but i'm sure none like that." They are interrupted by a green flame and a letter appearing in front of them and a seal of Celestia's student Twilight Sparkle. "I wonder what she has found?" She uses her magic to open it and starts to read.
Dear Princess Celestia
I'm sure you have seen the Object in orbit above the planet and i have taken the liberty to find out as much as i could about it. So far it is a little over a Km long and seems to be a type of warship. I'm unsure about the rest but it seems to have smaller ships move back and froth from it so i'm classifying it its a transport ship and also from more study of the planets around us them seem to be inhabited by cites all but a desert planet. they seem to be similar and these humans are on all of them.
Also it looks like each planet has more ships in their orbits the one closet to the sun has 4 in all but from this distance i can't make out their size but one is many times bigger then the one above us. And i seen on one of the moons of this planet a strange structure with glowing energies pulsing from it and i saw humans enter and exit from it using it as transportation. much of that movement looked military too and i spotted a large man and from his artier he looked to be the leader of this army.
That is all i managed to get from the here and once again thank you for letting me use the royal Observatory here in Canterlot.
Your student Twilight Sparkle
Celestia can't help but smile at her students eagerness to learn. "Thank you Twilight that is one less thing to worry about. But a new thing to worry about... their military leader is already on the move with a force that is still growing."
Luna was in thought. "They are in full control of this system and are ready to defend this planet from us... The news of the happenings at the outpost traveled quickly we may need to speed the shield up." Celestia nods. "I have already sent word to the captain to do so." At that Luna smiles. "Now we wait and keep an eye on the humans and see how they work. I will dispatch my finest night guards to watch them the land mass is covered in jungles giving them space to work."
Celestia now seeing they have a better chance then she first thought sighs in relief. "good to hear sister send them as soon as you can and if possible have them learn about the human commander its best to know your enemy. And a little bit of info of this world will go a long way."
Her sister nods and walks off leaving her sister alone to think.
*Location*
*Kaurava II*
*Monse*
*Governor-General Vance Stubbs arrival*
A Mass of Leman Russ tanks and chimera APCs full of guardsmen roll out of the Ancient Gate. The governor stands on top of a platfrom watching his regiment prepare for another battle for this system. He looks to the mountain range in the distance where the peak renamed after himself is and thinks if his men could fight all those enemies three years back they can beat this new enemy.
A Commissar walks up and salutes to him. "Lord Commissar Walter reporting sir! You need me sir?" He stands at attention as Stubbs looks out over his army.
"I requested you here cause you have fought this new threat and i need any info you have." He looks away from the marching army to Walter.
Walter smiles. "I got a story to tell you sir."