Aliens: Equestrian Marines Prologue
She was standing on a cliff over looking an alien sea, the moon large over its horizan.
she couldn't remember how she had got there, or where she was for that matter. There was a grave... when she looked at it she felt a guilt and sadness, she didn't know why.
the name on the headstone was obscured by the snow that also litters the ground.
She looked around her, taking in her surroundings for the first time.
behind her was a forest going on as far as she could see, the trees were covered by the falling snow which was falling lightly. The sky was clear of any clouds, allowing her full view of the stars above.
there was a time she was a filly when she would look at those stars and just wonder... what wonders did those stars hide... now she only wondered what nightmares they hid.
she heard a rustling behind her and spun around just in time for a dark figure to leap at her with startling speed.
there was little time to anything but raise her leg over her face to shield herself, but when she lifted it up, instead of the dark midnight blue of her leg and hoof, was the gleaming silver of metal leg with clawed paw instead of a hoof.
She knew what the figure was, she had fought them on many times before. A Xenomorph warrior.
It leaped at her and...
... A loud boom and a fwoosh sounded from behind her as something penetrated it's chest, blowing its body into little pieces. A great shadow cast over her and the "dismembered" corpse. Slowly, Endless Midnight turned and looked upon her rescuer. There, upon a small hill of xenomorph corpses, stood a giant of metal and stone wielding a massive gun, it's barrel glowing and hissing faintly as smoke and steam rose from its sacred maw. The mighty being gazed balefully into her eyes with two glowing embers in place of its own. A grating sound, like grinding gravel, so deep her bones shook erupted from the demigod.
"The Emperor Protects."
Above, the sky lit with fire and fell to earth on the backs of countless specks entering the atmosphere, smashing into the ground. But Endless Midnight could only look upon the Angel as great wings of fire burst from his back, rising him into the air and away to smite the next group of abominations. Looking up, she watched the skies as salvation came from the stars