For his hard work to the Crown, the Royal Engineer of Equestria has been honored with a retinue of VIP bodyguards who protect him everywhere he goes. Their ordinary, everyday adventures together wind up being anything but ordinary.
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I hate to do this to everybody again, but we'll be slowing down to an every-other-day schedule for the time being - possibly to the conclusion of the available backlog. As each chapter is getting longer, I'm burning through the remaining backlog of material much more quickly; there are, approximately, forty chapters worth of existing material, and at the present pace, it will be exhausted in short order. Since I don't want to cut off everyone's drip feed quite that abruptly, I'll start by slowing things down. Hopefully the extra chapter lengths make it up to everyone!
"So that any who look upon his face know that he was so unworthy to die, that to live was punishment for his sin."
RIP Sand boys
The last wound will forever be the last grim reminder of betrayal, but how will "Mother of star's" going to take this new's of being false? How will the family go on after this battle, Brother and sister fought in the pit of star's.
Find out next time with ELWGM!!!
"The ole' pie in the window sill trick. That was the same trap you used in 'Nam to save my ass."
Pretty insane how 2 Estellar children were able to defend against 2 seasoned attackers that most likely caught them off guard.
I have a feeling Anon is going to get an earful from Honor once they get out about how he should have never offered to fight. Also, let's hope Lily paced herself this time
Also Purity, if movies have taught me anything it's that losing an eye makes villains MORE powerful, not less.
Y'know, that's the thing about fanatics and hardcore soldiers. They just don't know what to do with themselves during peacetime.
So coupled with that mentality + fanaticism + a scar AND to top it off being humiliated in a roughly 2:1 in their favor AND losing an eye?
He's either going to be an absolute embarrassment, or it's going to fuel his attempted martyrdom in the future.
... damn Ebonshield that's a bit much. I would've just broken his foreleg or something, not gouged out a frikkin eye.
Edit: But then again he did say that he had no remorse and if anything did that whole 'if they died it's because of you' BS for killing two children. .... .. hrm. Yeah, I guess that'd up the 'fk you' factor.
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They're fine though.
That's a brutal, if understandable, way to deal with someone that is promising to murder you. Marcos' conviction is admirable, but he went about this in a really stupid way.
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Thank you for your consideration.
brutal
Honestly, this has as good as killed him really. Blinding him, or even simply ruining his depth perception makes him incapable of pursuing his vocation, and the caste system prohibits him from looking to other professions to support himself. In addition, attempting such a brazen attack, and failing, will ruin his good name, and considering his mother's "gentle nature" will probably get him disowned in the bargain.
Stack this atop his willingness to commit sororicide to assuage his honor, well, his story doesn't end well.
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If he ever gives up the revenge thing and integrates with equestrian society he's going to be killing it at the nightclubs. XD
Damn things went from 0 to 100 real fucking quick. Thankfully it ended quickly although I wish we could have seen Anon show off more of his fighting skills.
I wonder how Luna is going to take this and how bad that reaction could've been if Anon had been injured or worse. Marcos wouldn't be calling her a false God then. I also liked the fact that even though Ebonshield didn't want to kill her brother she didn't do the cliché 'let villain go completely unscathed' bit where they just walk away.
On the plus side this will definitely stop future confrontations from other batponies once word has spread.
Well shit. I was just thinking to myself "geez, I hope Eb executes this fool, I don't see any other way of making him go away" but that works too
God damm...
That last chapter was a serious cliffhanger. But this chapter had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. I truly wonder what will now happen to Marcos and what Luna will personally do about it... if anything.
That must have hurt his eye...
You have to do what you have to do. I'll again miss my fix everyday, but you've kept up a tremendous pace and I've enjoyed looking forward to it every day. This was a very good chapter. I admit I did not expect how this went. I expected a duel, not a battle and they killed Children?! May the judgement be harsh to those fanatics.
Oh! Well that's certainly one way to do it - I thought she was going to stab his left limbs to cripple him. Foreleg, hind leg, and wing. Surely letting him go with just one eye gone will only slow him down, not stop him...
I was hoping for more gibs than this, but it still works.
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Thanks! They tried to kill children.
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What eye? I don't think there's anything felt of that eye.
The whole "jamming into Marcos' left eye, then slashing outwards in a savage attack" , makes me think the eye was removed if anything.
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I think that meant both eyes are gone he's now blind...
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Just the one.
Good.
...Ignacio?, or maybe a magical safety design of the weapon perhaps?
and the final....well, 'play stupid games, win stupid prizes' is quite fitting on my opinion.
Edit.:
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Don't worry Bobbles, we understand, not a problem
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Well given your other revelation that's a bit better... but he intended it and it's not good to leave a beaten enemy alive to plot more, in my opinion, treason. I wonder what Luna is going to say about this little encounter. She will find out. I do not think she will take it well at all!
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Do what needs to be done.
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He cant be a martyr if he is still alive. He also broke Carmen's decree of protection for the Royal Engineer and those under him. More likely that he is pretty much screwed when she gets her hooves on him.
If they lose a fight to a child they can't be all that good.
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What child? Everyone present is an adult...
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Well obviously. Maybe it hurt when the blade entered his eye socket?!
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I think he's referring to the two Meteors that were sent to kill Carto and Águila and failed.
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He means the Swarming Meteors send to deal with the Initiates, who, if not of colt/filly age, must be teenagers at least (the Initiates I mean).
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Marcos himself said so:
Regular Stellars, who are used to frontal confrontations are straight-forward battle are not used to the tricks and underhanded tactics that the Stellar Dancers use. The same tricks that would enable a 3-to-1 battle to be swayed in favor of the outnumbered party should allow the two Initiates to get an edge on a 1-on-1 confrontation with their assailants. Sparkshower also pointed out a few chapters ago during the Spa visit that there's no one better to detect an assassin than an assassin itself. Ebonshield must've taught them to always be on the lookout for potential assailants and to recognize when things don't seem right, especially when someone is stalking them or preparing to ambush them.
They got Three Ninjas'd. Except there were only two of them. Which makes it even more embarrassing.
Damn!
You just made my night!!! Thank you for this chapter!
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I don't really mind the schedules for chapter releases, but is the greentext still being updated, and is it being update to ponepaste/Royal Guard Mare General?
This is one of the few stories I've read that I'm actually invested in reading to the end, the other being Fallout Equestria. My point is, is the greentext itself dead and when you hit the end of what's written, this will be effectively it?
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The greentext isn't dead it's resting! It hasn't updated for a while, but TheManFromAnotherTime is still out, about, and helping out with the story. I am eagerly awaiting the greentext edition's continuation, as well.
Jesus! One chapter ago, Artemis and Lily were admitting that Anon turns them on, then this happens!
Insert eye pun here.
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We all appreciate the insane amount of hard work that both you and TheManFromAnotherTime are putting into this story, both fimfic and greentext.
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You know, I follow fics that update once every six months and they're still good. Don't worry about it
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You should never underestimate someone who has been fully trained to kill someone in very creative ways. A child is even more dangerous since they have even more imagination and the ability to lower an adult's guard by triggering the parental instincts.
The thing is, with mana exhaustion, if healed right, the patient ends up with a greater mana recovery/Pool than you had before. And if you are using low power spells (like Training rounds) if you pace things right, you are spending less mana than you recover. At the pace Arty was going she could go for hours.
Personally I hope that Ignatio was awake for this. He's already aware of how powerful unicorns can be but now he (and all the other batponys who apparently mostly fought each other and pegasi at the tower) knows exactly what that means. Anti-air battery going of in an enclosed space
10663360 Okay, that's nice. For an American who never really had the opportunity to express interest in other countries and cultures, and then do research on those other countries and cultures, this is strange and completely pointless.
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He probably was awake. A warzone going on and magic buzzing in your skull would be pretty hard to ignore.
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I concur, this guy needs to be wing maimed AND blinded for trying to kill young inocents. I really want to know how the flowered up bat will react to her doughter defeating him and about a dozen opposed in her own home. I seriously distrust that one to do backstabs, polotical moves u see. If she is bold enough to impersonate power she should not have, whats to say she isnt bold enough to indirectly deal with her problems? I would urge Anon do make a personal secret "gun" something to hold over as an element of surprise and absolute mortal need. Something ONLY he knows about how it works to make sure there is no griffins with mounted wing guns in the future: to not break the death dealing tech in their world. Hell maybe have anon help Honour with something techy for herself?
On the other hand Anon now knows he is attractive to poners hehe, looking forward to see what becomes of this
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I see what you did there.
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Societal disgrace will cut him more deeply than any knife could. He'll probably either end up quietly disposed of by Carmen to avoid further embarrassment, or disowned and starving in a gutter derided even by the shadows. He's lost everything he had to lose, and more besides.
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You underestimate a capable individual with knives, the most dangerous individuals are the ones that have nothing to loose.