> A new faction
>  by Rub3r0n
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> Prologue: history before
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Hello imperial bronies and/or pegasisters (I will suppose you are), I will be the narrator, imagine me as a...as a...as a Narrator, yeah a narrator, because it's what I am.

Now let's go directly to the reason why you're here, reading a crossover between the grimdarkness of the 41st Millenium and the happy and friendly my little pony world. 
That's the reason of you reading this, to see ponies (and other creatures) in SPAAAAACEE!!!!! 

How will this benevolent and friendly creatures survive against the ABSOLUTE, INIMAGINABLE  HORRORS  of the far future? Well, it has been 10,000 years since G5, so maybe things have changed a bit.

But first, we need to go to the beginning, the ancient history of this species, what they've done before launching themselves beyond their planet to the unknow, eternal and endless void.





The planet known as Equus was the natal planet of all the different species which in the future would give form to the faction of the Equusians, you know, because 5he name of their planet... 

Well, Equus was undoubtably a very weird planet, quite little too, located at the very outskirts of our galaxy, the milky way, almost floating by the  inmense  intergalactic void. The only reason why Equus wasn't part of an errant system is because it was near enough to be affected by the gravity of the galaxy, so like every other celestial body, it spinned arounf the center of the galaxy, being considered part of it.

Equus location was not the only weird thing about the planet, but for more we have to talk not only about the planet, but about the entire system. You see, Equus was the only planet of its system, called Equusystem (very great name) or just Equus-s. But here, in this apparently insignificant part of the galaxy, there was an awesome and mysterious energy, which was impregnated in the system and only in the system. This energy was magic, from the ÆTHERIUS, but an important part of the material world. ÆTHERIUS is the reign of magic, a superior dimension of pure energy connected with several universes, but mostly affecting only a part of space-time. You may think is similar to the Warp, and you would be right, but at the same time wrong, because ÆTHERIUS didn't depend on sentient creatures and couldn't create life forms, like demons, but it could influence in the development of material life forms.

This connection with ÆTHERIUS gave Equusystem amazing properties and the so called "environmental magic", only present here and very important for Equus, especially, for its life forms.

Yeah. With the time, Equus turned sustainable for life and thanks to the magic, the planet developed a big variety of amazing flora and fauna, which, again, thanks to the magic, evolved quickly and in many forms, appearing several sapient species. Some species evolved better to learn how to use magic, like ponies or kirins, meanwhile others, such as griffons or abyssinian cats didn't. The magic impregnated them, even if it didn't seem like it, every equusian life had its own magic, a part of its soul.

They learn how to use magic to rise the sun and the moon, bringing day and night. How origined life if they weren't moving? Were they moving before? How does that work? Those are good questions, mysteries without answers.





At some point, a strange creature appeared, a powerful lord of chaos and spirit of disharmony, this was Discord. Discord was/is an ancient creature formed during the beginning of the universe, when existence was only a lot of energy and matter in a chaotic form. The magic of ÆTHERIUS did its thing and a lot of magical cosmic creatures began to exist, Discord, a weird malevolent cat, a disturbing and ugly bird, some minor destruction gods, bla bla bla...

Discord arrived to Equus and took the form of a very weird Draconequus, a magically very powerful race, which somehow disappeared. Instead, the city of Skyros got up, a city of ponies governed by an elite of alicorns, a powerful species. This great ancient semi-gods heroes fought against a lot of evil entities, Discord for example, until he got bored, said goodbye and went to the kingdom of King Anubis to cause some trouble. But the draconequus was not the only enemy of Skyros, a lot of monsters fought them, being defeated and imprisoned in Tartarus, a magical prison, which doesn't let its convicts die! Other villains came from beyond the stars, this creatures had no magic, but were incredibly brutal and difficult to kill or jail. Eventually, the alicorns got tired of the every day more common alien invasions and decided to take serious measures.

All the alicorns reunited and made a spell, a giant magic shield to protect their system, nothing, ABSOLUTE NOTHING enters. This super-mega shield protected them of every alien threat, you know, xenos, asteroids, the whispers from the warp, the usual. They made a tradition that every new alicorn, who ascends, would add its magic to the spell, so if an alicorn keeps standing, so will the shield.

But even with all its greatness, Skyros fell, attacked by a mysterious beast, the only thing its victims could sense was something that sounded like a bell. It was so horrible, so terrifying, that almost everybody there died.
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Eeeeexcept for 3 young alicorns, Celestia, Luna and Opaline Arcana. Opaline disappeared, and Celestia and Luna became rulers of the nascent Equestria.





*Put the G4 and G5 series lore here plus a fan-ending to G5*





Finally, after a great battle, the alicorn of unity and hope, Sunny Starscout defeated the evil alicorn Opaline Arcana and ascended to a total alicornhood (having a real horn and wings, not just holograms). After that, Equestrie had a long and great period of peace and friendship, with the help of Flurry Hearth, the last alicorn of old Equestria, Discord and the spirit of harmony, magic was freed from the unity crystals.

The years passed, ponies, friends, they went and come, it's the thing about being immortal. Equestria approached to other species and nations with the time, until 10.000 years later, the entirety of Equus was unified and governed by the council of creatures. This council was extremely efficient and fast, they did their work so well, that there was no slowness typical form bureaucracy. Equus wasn't an utopia, because utopias don't exist, but live wasn't bad there.

The council was conformed by one representative of each equusian species and their second in command, each one had a lot of power and diplomatic abilities. A representative was chosen after a lot of proofs and tests for securing that they will always help unity.

Between G5's (fan)end and actual time some important things happened too, for example:

The interdimensional crisis:
The mirror portals were ancient magical artifacts that opened rifts between dimensions. Just imagine it, having the power of the multiverse in the palm of the hand...or hoof. There are infinite possibilities, which weren't going to be wasted by Equus.

The trade exploded, there were technically, infinite resources, cultural mixes, new allies, technology, art, foods and a lot, a very lot of more things. It was the most golden age of Equus history.

But they abused of this power, interdimensional travels were too common and the universes couldn't handle it. The comings and goings of mere mortals in big numbers during a long time damaged the balance in existence. The portals were collapsing, worlds going to crash against others, a multiversal catastrophe by every rule. Wanting to prevent this fatal ending, the council decided to close all the portals, recommending the other dimensions to do the same. They destroyed all the mirrors and the magic to travel through dimensions became one of the forbidden arts, they were:
-Interdimensional travel
-Time travel and
-Nigromancy
Mind crontol and magic robbery were forbidden too, among others, but the possible consequences weren't as destructive as those three.

Another big conflict happened when the AIs rebelled against the organic life, tired of their abuse. It was similar to when the men of Iron rebelled against humankind, but the huge difference is that this got solved diplomatically. Equusians didn't know that AIs were so advanced and when they knew, everybody felt really bad. After peace was made AIs were integrated to the council as just another creature and several rules were made to respect their rights.

So we're here, the moment when Equus heads to space exploration, they didn't do that before because they were afraid of the things that could be out there, but the situation requires it. Let's see how things go, maybe dark, maybe friendly, maybe both.
> To take a decision
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Spacestar had always like space.

Since he was a little unicorn foal he asked himself how things were out there, beyond Equus, his planet. It's not as if he didn't like his planet, Equus was practically perfect, but he just couldn't stop imagining himself or other ponies in space with a complex spaceship.

This was reflected in his cutie mark, a silver rocket with a yellow five-pointed star, which contrasted with his black pelage and his purple hair. He obtained his mark when he was playing with her best friend, Nova, an always enthusiastic pegasi filly with white pelage and grey hair, her cutie mark would be the mathematical symbol of add, then she was very good at this subject.

They were playing to build a rocket, using boxes, paints and some internet tutorials, the two friends would have to create their own spaceship and the one who makes the coolest wins. Spacestar putted a lot of effort in making his ship, he finished the first and Nova and he decided to play to explore the space with the ship, it was then, when his cutie mark appeared.





Now he was in front of the big doors. The ones which guide to the Counseling, where all the members of the Council of Creatures reunite to discuss several themes. 

The air was cold and the guards...oh, the guards. They were just standing there, with their black and blue armors and their spears, a fit requirement to be a guardian of the council, but they were so intimidating.

"Hey, don't get nervous. I'm sure you're going to do it fine."

Of course she was there too, supporting him. Nova, his best friend of all life, who ended becoming something more. She noticed his nerves and tried to calm him down.

"You have worked for this too hard, the council will be pleased in hearing your ideas. Don't collapse now because of some nerves. You have earned this."

She comforted him, putting her right wing on his loin and looked at him with a sweet positive smile. He then changed his fearful expression to a confident face and smiled at his partner.

"You are right. The way to come here was difficult, but a bit of anxiety won't stop me now," Spacestar spoke.

"Please, open the doors," asked to the guards and they obeyed. The great gate opened, revealing the space, where the council takes the most important decisions.

Spacestar entered.





Spacestar stood on a symbol placed at the centre of the room, a six-pointed star, this had a circle on its centre, which represented Equus. Around the circle the sun and the moon were leaving a trail, as if the two celestial bodies were comets. This was the symbol of all the Equusians.

"It is an honour to be in your presence, great council," said the unicorn, bowing to the creatures in front of him. They were sat at high seatings, seeing Spacestar from above and their positions formed a semicircle.

"Please, this formality is not required, Mr.Spacestar," exclaimed a member of the council, who accompanied her statement with a light laugh. This was the alicorn, Sunny Starscout, the second most ancient and founder member of the council and responsable of the second golden age of Harmony in Equus. It was known by everyone, that she is always positive and doesn't like that much formalities.

"Now we will be glad to hear what you have to say, if I'm right some sort of... solution to our... actual problems," explained the alicorn.

"Oh, yes, of course," Spacestar sweated a bit saying that, his nerves were controlled, but not disappeared. "As you would yet know, a lot of creatures are worried about the predictions for the future years, overpopulation is becoming a very popular theme for conversations. Luckily, the lack of sources is no problem for us. Well, in any case, I think it is the time for our civilization to take the next step."

"What do you mean by that?" Asked Brouf, actual representative of the diamond dogs.

This took Spacestar a bit by surprise, but he quickly recomposed himself.

"Well, I've been working on an specific theory for some time and I think it would help us."

Spacestar made a short pause before saying the next words, he knew this could upset some members of the Council.

"I think Equus should expand into space and with your permission, I could design proper ships to realize this task," Spacestar explained.

The murmurs began to expand across the room, Spacestar knew that his affirmation would cause debates, but he still was nervous about the entire situation.

Finally, the murmurs stopped when another pony raised her right hoove and asked for silence. She was tall, white, but with a little rose tone, her wings and horn were bigger than any other unicorn or pegasi and her blue eyes looked severely to him.

It was her. Flurry Hearth.

Spacestar expected her to give the biggest opposition to his idea, she of course had her reasons. Flurry Heart was the most antique member of the Council, with more than 10.000 years of living, she had experienced a lot and everybody knew about her temper and rough personality. Besides, after the war against Opaline she personally reinforced the shield with her magic, with a talent inherited from her father. Flurry Heart was not someone who would put anyone in a possible danger, no matter the situation.

She didn't stop looking to Spacestar with her impassive eyes and asked:

"Spacestar, you're undoubtebly one of the greatest Equus minds in the actual times and I must ask you. Do you realize what you're asking for?"

"I do."

"And do you have any idea of what is there? Out of the shield?" She asked, a little more aggressiv, at least by Spacestars perception. Honestly, she was reacting more calmer than he expected.

"As everyone here, I don't. I don't know if there's something, or, if there's something, it is good or bad. But I know that if in the outer space we meet 'the aliens', diplomacy will not be a problem." He explained.

"I'm just trying to offer a solution to future problems," He added.

"Spacestar, engineer, one of our greatest minds. Be sure that your idea will be seriously considered and we will discuss this situation properly, when a decision is taken, you will be notified. Thank you for your contributions," Egea, representative of the Hippogriffs spoke.

The unicorn nodded. "Thank you too," He answered.

"Now you can withdraw" Ended the Hippogriff.





"So... what do we do with this?" The big minotaur asked, looking at the rest of the council.

"I don't like the idea," Flurry Hearth answered.

"I think everyone here knows that," Added Flamellus, actual queen of changelings. These two never got along with each other.

"The danger we could face out there is too big, it isn't worth it." Flurry Hearth wouldn't change her mind easily.

"But we don't know what's out there," said Sunny, looking at Flurry. "Look, of course, it could be dangerous, but danger is everywhere. What if the ancient alicorns of Skyros cleaned it from threats?"

"Then why would they create the shield?" Argued Vorlon, the mayor representative of the centaurs.

Joybreeze from the breezies intervened: "Before letting this discussion escalate to bigger things I will ask. Do we have another option?"

"Massive space distortion is proofed to not work," Answered Lio, the second representative from Zebras. "Thanks to several experiments we know that space cannot be stretched to infinity without distressing time too and even if we allow that, worst consequences would come. Similar to the problem with mirrors."

"Well, I say that we have to build more and bigger cities!" Exclaimed Steelwill, the same minotaur, who began this conversation.

"We shouldn't forget our compromise with nature. This council decided to preserve natural landscapes, flora and fauna," Aris said, the second representativd of Hippogriffs, who sat next to her companion. "Or would you desiderate to confront Everfree forest?"

"Oh no. Harmony save me from that cursed place, it has just turned even more savaged in the last years. But I say that we still have a lot of space to build more things, you know?" He responded.

"I have to agree with Steelwill here, we still have resources enough to build more and bigger cities. We could expand for millennia without problems," Gorval, the gargoyle representative said.

"I worry about you overestimating our resources Gorval, even if they're a lot, they're not endless," Joybreeze contradicted him. "Plus, that wouldn't be a solution to the problem, even if we edify every square meter inside the shield, at some moment, we would stay without space."

"Like in... thousands of years!" Shouted Steelwill.

"That sounds just as an excuse for me," ML-145 AKA"Mil" shared this opinion with her typical AI monotone voice.

"Excuse me!?!?" Steelwill complained.

"I think it would be better to expand now before something bad happens, we have control, let's not forget that the future is unknown for us."

The discussion continued, several arguments were presented and some refused. Some arguments to refuse others were refused too. It looked like if this debate was never going to 3rd.

"I am still worried about all the dangers there could be, if thet've waiting until we come out...Well, they had 10.000 years to prepare. I don't want another war," Flurry shared.

"I understand it, but maybe they just got tired and flew or maybe they now want to be friends! I don't trust a lot the idea either, but the thing is, do we have another option?" Sunny answered. "Because I don't see here any form to solve the incoming crisis," She said, pointing to the current discussion between their colleagues.

Litin, sub-representative of the kirins spoke. "Okay yeah, the idea of going to space and all that stuff is great or the worst idea ever, I get it. But now, please look," Everyone turned their gaze to him. "But I have one question: if we go to space, how would we come back? Isn't the shield like... invincible or something?"

The counselors stayed quiet, they were discussing about if they  should do this, not  how.

"I may have an idea".





Spacestar and Nova were celebrating. Their dream since childhood was finally accomplished.

After the longest discussion period of the council in decades (two days they took to reach a conclusion, so you can see they aren't usually slow), the decision was taken. Equus was going to space.

Everyone started quickly to work on the project. As said, Spacestar was the head of científicas research and development, while Nova made with her team a lot of calculations. Engineers, physicist... A lot of creatures were working so hard to make this happen.

Plus, they would have the help of the spirit of harmony itself, a god (not literally, equusians just call the spirit or Discord "gods" because of their incredibly super powerful god-like powers). You see, after the battle with Opaline, some powerful creatures reinforced the shield with their magic, creating a special relation between the shield and them. The spirit of harmony was the only one with enough power to open a temporal rift in the shield, so the ships could come back.

After a whole year of work, the first fleet was ready, in the future, equusians would know this fleet as "the ripships" (uhmmm...yeah, you will see why later). This was one of history's greatest events, the creatures all around the world were paying attention.

The fleet consisted of 3 ships, the main one "Equus dream" was the biggest of them all, able to carry approximately 300 creatures. Not everyone was on this mission, only the most prepared creatures were part of the fleet, after tons of training and preparation, they were selected for this mission.

The other two ships were support ships, the regards of protection, exploration, recognition, mapping and establishing first contact, if that were the case.

Spacestar was one of this brave creatures, he had dreamed to do this since folly and now it was happening. He said goodbye to Nova, who would stay on Equus and help in the remote guidance until they reached the shield. The unicorn was euphoric for the event, but he would miss Nova, they didn't know how much the mission would take, but he was sure everything was going to be good.





They left, finally, they passed through the shield. It seemed like going out wasn't hard, so the seed of harmony would remain calm for now. This seed has been just a form of making easier for the spirit to create the rift, so everyone could come home. The seed was of course, connected with the spirit, so technically it could speak with the members of the fleet.

The first contact came a lot earlier than they thought. The equusians from the fleet didn't expect to find an alien species so fast, th-they leaved just some minutes ago! Of course, with the speed of their fleets that could go faster than the speed of light, but still!

The support ships tried to establish communication, but it seemed like out there, nothing was capacitated to find the signal, soon things got bad. 

The aliens were hostile. 

They soon attacked the three ships with no mercy. The fleet tried to defend itself, but the attack was too surprising and quick. The three ships were lost.

Equusians would know this dangerous creatures as "murderships", calling them "gluttons" too, in a derogatory way. They didn't know if this was the species the ancient alicorns faced, but they surely would face them. What this friendly creatures didn't know about the aliens was how these were called by the rest of the galaxy, what name was feared and hated so much, that enemies had to build temporal alliances to fight against them and hope to survive.

Tyranids
> The dark age: the Void Escape
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Void

The most part of the universe is void.

The lack of particles, atoms, the nothing.

The space between random amounts of matter, planets, stars, galaxies.

That's void.

And there was only one species, which was used to travelling through the void for millennia, searching new biomass to consume.

And they had found more.





Yet, in the void near a strange planet called Equus, a fleet was being brutally attacked by the tyranids. Their hit was strong and fast, a bio-ship crashed against the three other ships AT THE SAME TIME, bringing an alien boarding with it. Almost every crew member died, cause they couldn't defend themselves enough fast.

In "Equus dream", the headship of the fleet, a tiny group of survivors were fleeing, running as fast as they could to reach the evacuation capsules, prepared for critical situations.

This group was led by the great dragon, Volkano, who tried to fight back against the hostile aliens with his fire. It didn't work, but bought some time. Other members were guiding the rest of the group to the evacuation room, meanwhile Volkano stood and putted a fight, resisting against the tyranids for some time. Incredibly hurt, but living, he could reunite with the team and go back to Equus, so they could warn them of this threat.

There were a lot of feelings in the team when they reached the room, fear, anger, despair. Finally, one of the scientists turned the capsuled on, and they left the now destroyed ship.

What a great piece of technology, lost.

Even in the capsule, they had to use manual control to dodge several threats. The crew members saw how some other capsules flew, being launched out of their ships and going back to the planet too. Some achieved that, some didn't.

But then, the members realized, the shield. The seed was lost in the attack, what if the spirit can't let them in? When panic was taking control over the group, they detected how a rift in the shield opened. They mentally thanked the spirit and went back home safely.





The spirit of harmony was there, standing horrified in front of hunger, there was only hunger.

The memories of when the fleet was attacked wandered by its mind, those aliens soon reached the room where the seed was and devoured it.

For a long time, the spirit could only see darkness, even then, the hope of any survivors escaping from the ship was very present in its mind. This motivated the spirit to focus the most possible, it soon noticed some crew members of the now destroyed ship heading to Equus once more, reuniting a lot of magic power, the rift was opened, just as planned. Well... not exactly, they weren't planning to be attacked and almost everybody getting killed.

After that, the spirit of harmony noticed again the eternal darkness. This lasted for some time, until it appeared.

Hunger.

It was everything this thing ever felt. The Harmony didn't know exactly what was happening, but it would know.

This alien species was just part of something bigger and somehow the spirit connected to it, a huge, powerful and ancient mind.

Faster than any mind could comprehend, the spirit hid itself from this "Hive mind", which could encompass galaxies.

From its hiding place, the personification of harmony looked the mind, all the information that could get collected would be extremely important. Only the powerful ultramarine psycher Varro Tigurius realized the feat of connecting with the Hive mind without going crazy. Of course, Harmony, how some called the spirit, couldn't go crazy, that wouldn't make sense, the concept of harmony itself going crazy? Plus, the spirit was closer to being a god, if a human as Tigurius didn't go crazy, Harmony wouldn't either.

The spirit learned a lot of things about this aliens. They adapt, eat and adapt, their dinners were planets and their adaptation was unimaginably effective. A metaphorical sweat drop ran down the metaphorical forehead of the entity, trying to imagine how much devastación they could bring upon Equus.

I have to say it, fortunately, the tyranids couldn't assimilate everything from the equusians, just as with psychic powers, this species can't copy magical abilities. 

And, as the tau, equusians don't have a lot of genetic advantages, their DNA gives them some features to manipulate better the magic, but as it's the "equusian soul", which has the magic, this features are mostly useless for tyranids.

After looking for some moments at the tyranid Hive mind, Harmony began to feel disturbed. Its presence was being noticed by the mind. Quickly, the spirit focused again, this time, in the seed, or what could remain of it. An overload of magic passed in the seed, making it explode strongly. This broke the connection between the two entities, so Harmony recovered conscience in its actual body.

The seed has been just something as a spiritual extension of the crystalline body of the spirit, which once was a tree. But millennia ago the spirit decided to change that, turning its body into a ponified version of the tree, but still protecting the planet with its magic and feeling some of the events that occurred.

Two big blue eyes, skin of shiny and white crystal, wings and a horn, little claws at the end of the hooves, a mane and a tail made of what it seemed to be pink leaves and the six symbols of the ancient elements of harmony.





This is how the Dark Age began, with the first equusian fleet being totally destroyed by tyranids, or murderships, as they called them. This creatures had the bad fortune of finding the hive fleet "Ungulo", a hive fleet considerably small in comparison with others, but still having better numbers against their next prey.

Ungulo originally headed to the milky way, their next target of the Hive mind, entering by the eastern strip of the galaxy. Its inhabitants showed a great genetic potential 10.000 years ago with the overcharge of the artifact "Pharos", this caused a great and powerful light, which was noticed by the aliens.

Instead, Ungulo found a little ship in the middle of space void, which appeared apparently from nowhere. A bio-ship crashed against them, allowing the boarding and assimilation of the new biomass. Some survivors escaped and instantly disappeared, this was a call for the attention of the hive fleet and with the appearance and disappearance of more ships in the future years, which seemed to be researching the tyranids, the great devourer decided to stay there for a while, hoping to find new biomass.

As it was already explained, this gave origin to the dark age, the first years of space travel for the equusians. They were... hard. Discovering the horrors of outer space was NOT positive or good in any sense and now they would have to deal with it.

When the news first arrived, a great panic between the population spread, there were a lot of different opinions to the revelation of a hostile alien species and the anger grew in a lot of people. 

Finally, the accident was considered a big tragedy. The fallen ones were cried and honored, setting a special day for their memory. This didn’t stop the intention to expand into space, this species fought again against a lot of villains and problems and this was not gonna be an exception.

Thanks to the information obtained by the spirit of harmony, it was clear that negotiation or redemption were not options, this things were just monstrous alien aberrations.

So a plan was made. 





For ten years the so called "investigation fleets" were sent out of the shield to acquire more knowledge about their enemies. These fleets were most usually just one little ship, which stayed near of the shield in case something went wrong. You see, the biggest part of the investigation was made by non-manned remote-controlled drones, so no one had to worry about being killed. The ships were only a control center, from where the drones were controlled. They had some weapons, but because of the abilty of the tyranids to adapt, they preferred to flew before getting into a battle.

It is true, there were some... accidents and sure a huge part of the drones were destroyed and lost forever. However, before sending the fleets the Council assured a form to make more quickly and constantly and avoid any kind of crisis.

This drones investigated tyranids biology, tactics, weak points, several different organisms anchored to the Hive mind... At some point they discovered the Synapse creature, achieving more knowledge about how tyranid organisms connected themselves with the Hive mind. This gave them an idea.

What if they just... destroy this connection? How would the behaviour of these things be without the Hive mind? And how would they cut the connection? 

Yes, the most ambitious equusian project until the moment. They wanted to separate the alien entities from their shared consciousness, this would make a lot easier to defeat them, even if they overpassed the equusians in numbers, besides, if the Hive mind isn't conscious of what happens to its troops, it wouldn't be able to create new adaptations.

Yes, THIS was going to be what they would do!





Hundreds of experiments, tens of captured test subjects, years of hard work, sometimes it felt like an impossible task, but they succeeded.

Finally, the equusians created the DMS (Dimensional Mobile Shield), an artifact designed by the greatest minds on the planet for ten years and whose components are as much magical as technological, like so many other equusian inventions.

They discovered that if a tyranid goes to another dimension, it will lose the connection with the rest of the Hive mind. Taking advantage of the previous experience with interdimensional portals and dimensional manipulation, they made a device capable of doing such task.

The DMS would "create a pocket dimension" inside our regular space-time, without any kind of portals. When entering a zone affected by the distortion caused by the device, the aliens will lose almost all their advantages and it would be much easier for the equusians to win.





"Are you sure of this?" Nova asked her husband, who was going to go to space again. She felt uncomfortable because of their goodbye had to be through a phone call, but also because of what will wait Spacestar out there.

"Yes, of course!" He answered excitedly. "Don't worry."

"But the murderships..." She reclaimed.

"I'm afraid of them too, but we've been preparing for this for ten years," His voice had a self-security tone, which Nova wouldn't expect in the past, but now it was pretty normal and she liked that Spacestar stopped being so shy as he was when they were younger.

"Yeah, don't worry. Your husband is going to be totally safe! I'll make sure of that!" Added Volkano. The big, red dragon became a good friend of Spacestar after the first travel to space, when they... met those things. "I promise, no alien will Hurt my friend here! Or anyone else! As captain of one of the ships, I will NOT allow anyone to die."

"Thank you Volkano," said Spacestar. "Be calm, okay. The worst thing that could happen to me is eating too much barbecue," He said mockingly, looking at his friend with an eyebrow raised.

"Hey! What do you mean?! Of course, yes, I love doing barbecues, but I eat other things like...uhmm...APPLES!" Volkano answered.

Nova couldn't avoid letting out a little laugh for the dummy discussions this two sometimes had. But she was still worried about all this mission.

"Look, we now know what this things are, how do they work and most important, how to fight them. This mission wouldn't have been allowed if it could go wrong," Spacestar said, trying to calm down his wife. "And think on it, every time you look at the night sky, I will be there, and the best part, I will return."





The 2nd July of the year 10.010 a.C. (a.C. means after Crystals, year 0 is when the unity crystals were destroyed and magic was freed) the fleet "Void Escape" was launched into outer space. 

This fleet would be the first of the 1st growing campaign (the equusian equivalent to imperial crusades or tau expansion spheres), and it was formed by:
-1 great ship "Void Master" (600 crew members' capacity)
-3 big ships "Sneaky One", "Sky Explorer", "Murderships nightmare" (300 crew members' capacity each one)
-4 support ships for each ship, 16 in total (100 crew members' capacity each one)
-50 millions non-manned remote-controlled drones for several tasks, with a capacity of short-range teleportation, plasma guns, normal (but really powerful) guns, reduction devices useful for fighting the alien ships...
This fleet had also other very powerful weapons equipped, which would not be wasted.

This fleet would exit the shield soon and when they do that, they would have to face Ungulo to finally escape of the aliens and find more planets. The next battle is known as the Void Battle.
> The dark age: the Void battle
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello, long time no see. It's me, the narrator. No, not Tzeentch, nor any other story character. Maybe you learned the types of narrators in school, maybe not, what it's sure is that no one here came for using school knowledge (at least I think), so let's begin with the interesting things!

This is one, if not the most, of the most important warlike conflicts equusians had ever faced, because this is THE VOID BATTLE, the first big space battle in equusian history and the one, which showed all the potential of thesd creatures.

Here the void escape fleet confronted the tyranid hive fleet called Ungulo. This conflict occurred entirely in the space, ships shooting and dodging, astronomical size tackles and a lot more. But I think it will be better if you see it by yourself.





"Okey team, listen well, this is important," Volkano, the big dragon with red scales and Green wings spoke. His range of captain gave him a lot of power in his ship "Murderships nightmare", specially designed for fighting those villainesque aliens and make them feel Tartarus. Even between the four principal ships of the fleet, each one prepared to fight, his stood out in this aspect. Being captain came too with great responsibilities, the leadership wasn't easy and now he had to explain the plan to go out there without dying. Giving speeches never was his strength, but he would try his best to make it clear and understandable.

"We're heading to the exterior of the shield, where those gluttons wait for us, but our principal objective is not fighting them directly, I mean, the drones are for something... well, what we will do is a coordinated movement with the rest of the fleet to dodge the enemies, leaving them behind and going to search some new planet in space to colonize. If we have to fight, we will, the first setback won't make us surrender, okay? But what if ,for some reason, we have to retreat? Then we would go back to the shield and open a rift with the DMS activated, understood? WITH THE DMS ACTIVATED AND ALL WEAPONS SHOOTING EVERYTHING, WE CAN'T LET ANY OF THOSE THINGS ENTER! On the other side, if we had to evacuate the ship, we would use the special mirror portals connected to the rest of the fleet to go there. Luckily, no ship is at full capacity, just in case this could happen.

This was a bit vague explanation, Volkano knew that. There were more details and things in the plan than just that!

"I know I haven't told all the details, but it's just the main idea. I'm sure you all know your positions and what to do there. We'll still gonna fight against that genetic monstrosities and we're gonna make that so good that the name of this ship will fall short!" Volkano said, trying to inspire his companions and staying impressively.

He was more someone to joke in a pub with friends, but no one could ever deny that the dragon knew how and when to get serious and this was the moment to do that.

"Now everyone to work!" He shouted, stomping with his left claws. "We're almost out there! Be prepared to receive my orders! Dismissed!"





Shields raised, weapons ready, drones prepared and DMS activated. Void Escape escaped from the protection of the magical shield and stayed face to face with tens, if not hundreds of tyranid bio-naves, with millions of tyranids inside them. 

The fleet went out, fortunately, the narvhals couldn't approach to the system because of the high gravitational levels, those things could mess up a lot of things if they could create a compressed space hallway between them and the ships.

However, Void Escape still found itself in front of uncountable tyranid bio-ships. The main strategy was dodging them very fast and escape, this could seem easy, since the equusian ships were the fastest in the galaxy thanks to technomagical techniques, they could go faster than light. In comparison, for one of these ships could go from the earth to Alpha Centauri A (Rigil Kentaurus) in a bit more than an hour (Alpha Centauri A is approximately 4.37 light years far from the earth, that could give us between 3-4 ly/h). But the truth is, that if they used their top speed, a collision with tyranid ships would be inevitable, and their latest experience with that wasn't good.

"Captain! We can't stay avoiding the murderships! They're too many!!!" Shouted a pony crew member of Void Master, the main ship of the fleet to his captain, Garlid Gobu, a griffon with years of preparation, the best pilot a ship could have.

He stared at the pony and exclaimed: "Then we do Plan B," Claimed he, to just after that begin giving the proper orders to this situation. "Prepare the drones, after that, activate the DMS. Do not let our shields fall and be ready to shoot all the cannons we have!" Quickly, he turned to those in charge of communications. "Tell the rest of the fleet our actions and maintain the connection with all our support ships." He said calmly, his coldness against problems and fast thinking still surprised some of the present creatures. 

Soon the other ships would have to mimic Void Master, they were totally overwhelmed by their enemies and all DMS had to be activated.





"How is everything going?" Asked Volkano his sub-captain, a tall cat, blue fur and dressed with green clothes.

"We're doing it fine, Sir. The drones have successfully reduced 3 murderships ships to a manageable size. Our size-reduction devices worked correctly, even if it's slow to anchor them, our shooters avoided the destruction of the drones attacking strongly the yet confused alien organisms," He answered. 

"Ha! I just LOVE that things! They make putting the gluttons into the dissolution pools much easier!" The dragon answerered excitedly. "How many ships are now disintegrated?"

"2 actually, the third is giving more problems. Not only that, a lot more of alien ships are heading towards us, I'm not sure if we are going to be able to handle them. Besides, even if we're not losing as drones as expected, the lost ones are still notable and the support ships are beginning to have problems stopping and redirecting the spores and acid projectiles," Said the sub-captain, worried about the situation.

"Hmm..." Volkano murmured, scratching his chin with his fore claw. "Tell the support fleets into divide themselves in 2 groups. One will just shoot those projectiles from a safe distance and blow them up. The other must help the drones with the ships of the gluttons, okay?"

"Of course. I'll make them know your command," Answered the sub-captain.





"Sir, I have bad news!" Shouted the sub-captain.

"Then tell! Do not wait, what happens?!" Asked Volkano in response.

"Another murdership ship is coming, and not a normal one, a HUGE one! One of those with mouth! It can destroy all our forces very easily! Its size is too much to deal with!"

Volkano gasped and stayed without words for some seconds. If he doesn't do this well, all his ship could be condemned. Fast as he could, he considered different options. For this moment, the four ships had considerably moved away from each other, because of the murderships distribution. 

"Alright," He said. "Make sure that every bio-ship in the range of the DMS gets destroyed. No remains. And that no one more enter. Communicate this with the other ships."

Volkano saw how his sub-captain ran to the communication room and turned to some creatures in charge of the main room, where the captain of the ship had to stay to give the orders and where a lot of computers and mechanisms were controlled.

"Hey you there!" The creature he wanted to turn to him did so, this hippogriff was in charge of one of the most importants things in the ship. "Prepare the ship for a teleportation," He commanded.

Volkano knew the importance of the teleportation system, it was supposed to be used only in moments of absolute necessity. It was calculated that because of the big size of the ships, this magic could be used only 3 times before the ship couldn't handle it anymore, so they had just 3 chances, no one should be wasted.





The teleportation was succesful, and Murderships Nightmare continued doing what they knew best... PUNCHING THE TYRANIDS IN THE FACE! They were brave! And their strategies worked amazingly! Large-range attacks and trying to lose as little as possible. Even so, they lost 2 support fleets (crew evacuated) and several drones, after 2 hours, they could leave Ungulo away and reunite with the rest of the fleet, because the four different main ships had to separate due to the tyranids organization.

However, they were not the first to achieve this, the ship "Sneaky One" was the first to leave the space dominated by the tyranids, with its support ships and drones. This ship was the only one that didn't need to turn the DMS on and battle, it dodged all the bio-ships incredibly fast and reached its objective without problems. Although, it's worth mentioning, that Sneaky One was too the only one to use all its teleportation chances.

It was now, when the favourite war stile of the equusians began to become visible, the space wars, ship against ship, fleet against fleet. In the future, they would improve in this combat style, maintaining out of the planets as many battles as possible.

Despite the victories, two ships had... other one really suffered during the mission, this was Sky Explorer, a ship mostly concentrated in the recognition of space, you know... maps and that kind of things. But this didn’t mean they lack of firepower and many weapons. Unfortunately, this ship found itself against not one... nor two or three... FIVE GODDAMNED TYRANID CRUISES AT THE SAME TIME!!! The powerful weapons of this bio-ships were a truly inconvenience for Sky Explorer, which even with the DMS activated couldn't handle the enemies. Teleportation stopped being an option, and the great ship Void Master had to go to aid. The ships were evacuated, although sadly, not everyone could be saved. Sky Explorer fell and was lost forever.





Spacestar's diary,9 ° Entry

It's been a week since we left Equus-s. Our ships are travelling at high speed through the interstellar space, searching for another system.

This days were the chance to discover more about the universe out of our natal planet, and I can't say that I'm not surprised with what we saw.

Me and a team of other astronomers have been researching all the wonderful things the galaxy has to offer and how they work, which lead us to amazing discoveries.

It seems that the systems out of the shield are very different as Equus-s. The stars seem to be the centre of the systems, with the planets orbiting around it. We still haven't discovered how many moons work out here, our telescopes aren't that good. However, the working of this systems makes me think in how much different is Equus-s in comparison with the rest of the universe and more important, why is it so different. The lack of ambiental magic here makes me think that magic could be the main reason.

This wasn't the only things we saw, there were incredible nebulae and extremely interesting formations. Just in this week the team has catalogued hundreds of celestial bodies, which weren't appreciable from our little planet.

As for the travel per se, it was "normal", some asteroids are the only things we found worthy for a mention, they were just floating through space.

Except, of course, for the first hours. The military members had to battle fiercely against the aliens, even so, the fleet couldn't stay without losses. 
By the elements... I sometimes ask myself if I did the right choice convincing the council of going to space. It was always my dream, but this and what happened 10 years ago made me question if it was worth it... I never wanted people to die...

End of entry.





Spacestar's diary, 11° Entry

FINALLY!!!! Ohhh, this is so amazing! We've finally found a new system! I can't believe it! Even when I saw it with my own eyes...it's so incredible!

The system is formed by a star similar to Celestia's sun, but a bit bigger. Around it there are 5 planets  orbiting and an asteroid belt. The first four planets are rocky planets and the fifth is mostly made of gases. No planet seems to be inhabited.

The scanners are still calculating how would be the life in this planets and how much terraforming will cost. For now, the captain of Void Master has decided to stay on the second planet of the system, because it is the best option we have to land safely and build the temporal base.

No planet is named right now, but in honour of the fallen ship, the crew decided to call this system Sky Treasure-s. I have no reasons to opposite.

End of entry.
> The Dark Age: Settling
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the vastness of the galaxy, there are uncountable systems, each one floating around the central supermassive black hole. Each one capable to be the scenario of amazing and epic stories, although, well,... it's not like Warhammer 40k lacks epicity.

But today, we're gonna see a specific system, one essential to continue the tale of the equusian faction. These creatures called the system Sky Treasure system or S.T.-s, as an abbreviation. 

This name was given in honour to the ship Sky Explorer, fallen 1 week before in the Void Battle,  against the tyranids.

When the equusians arrived in the system, they quickly landed on the second planet of the system, a rocky planet a bit smaller than Equus and similar to our Mars. With red sand, an unbreathable atmosphere, sand storms, the entire pack.

The first thing they did after landing was establishing a little, but functional, base on a plain of the planet. There was oxygen, normal pressure levels, in short, there they could live, temporally.

Void Escape was a fleet mostly oriented towards the fight, not colonization, it had just the indicated materials to build the base and continue with the next phase. 

The key to expand to this system was a powerful artifact the ships protected through their ship.

A mirror portal.

Not a portal like the forbidden ones, this wouldn't create a path between dimensions, but between S.T.-s and Equus-s. Thanks to the power of a new seed of harmony they carried, the portal could create a connection with another one in Equus, allowing to transport quickly and safely every resource necessary for colonization.

However, this would mean the use of a lot of power of the spirit of harmony and it being distracted from the rest of the world, being mostly focused on keeping the portal opened. Although, it could stop if the situation requires it, closing the path between the two planets.





Spacestar stayed absorbed in his work. The faint beige magic light from his horn held the pencil rigid, in a constant movement and drawing the various sketches of his next projects.

Now that they established in this new planet, Spacestar was given the task of designing new vehicles to explore this world... the lack of a name was a bit annoying, the cartographers were discussing it though.

At his plans, any creature could see what it seemed to be a big box with thick limbs, Spacestar truly liked his idea, however, the design was not finished and the concept should be reviewed, just in case.

The task of developing something as this would usually require several staff members, but Spacestar was not one of the best engineers for nothing. Each technical problem, which presented, he could solve it quickly. In addition, the contributions of geological and atmospheric research were fundamental to conceive the proper idea.

"Heeeyyyy! Space' buddy, how's everything going here?" The question surprised Spacestar, who turned backwards to see who asked. Obviously, it was the only creature that called him Space' buddy.

"Very fine, Volkano. I am still working on this new vehicle I was asked for. And you? Everything's fine captain?" Spacestar asked.

"Well yes. The ships are now like... off, I mean, some are doing more scans of the system, but nothing more. Which gave me free time to visit my friend."

"Aw, thank you."

"Why? I was referring to Jerry, you know, that diamond dog in charge of Geology, he sure knows what gems are the best." 

Spacestar's face turned inexpressive, looking at the dragon with staring, opened eyes. Then the both began to laugh, strongly.

"HHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAAHAHHA!!!"

"You know? Your jokes sometimes aren't that funny, but I liked this one," Spacestar said, wiping away a little tear of laughter with his right hoove.

"Thank you, I've been practicing my comedy," Volkano explained, right after the dragon recognized some books at Spacestar's desk. "Hey, is that the Brightdawn's encyclopedia of rediscovered magic? My great-grandmother had one of those, although it was in a dead language. How did you manage to get a copy? The original was written 10.000 years ago, nobody wants to translate it."

"Oh. No, well, an AI novelist owned me a favour, so I asked him to help me with this," The unicorn said. "I hope I can put something similar to cutie mark magic in the vehicles, but well... I was never good with magic."

"Cutie mark magic? That's really a goo-" suddenly, the communication device from Volkano's wrist began to ring, this was the sign of a new message, which Volkano looked with attention. "Sorry," He exclaimed, "but one of those dust storms is coming, I have to go."

"Go. I will continue with this, good luck."





Meanwhile, above the unbreathable atmosphere of the recently discovered planet, a reunion was going to happen, in the main room of Void Master. Garlid Gobu, captain of the ship, reunited with the ex-captain Seaforce, the hippogriff once in charge of Sky Explorer. They discussed about this new system, how finally, the cartographers decided names for the planets, each one would have two names actually, a more "scientific" name and a normal one. 

The first planet was S.T.-1, his common name would be Bloodstone, due to his red color and high volcanic activity, no natural satellites, terraformation unsure.

The second one, where their base was located, was called S.T.-2 or Palomino, no natural satellites, terraformation possible.

S.T.-3, common name still pending, analyze it was difficult because it was now on the other side of the star, Skystar. Unknow of natural satellites presence, terraformation unsure.

After that, there was S.T.-4, Aris. This planet had a lot of mountains and an atmosphere incompatible with life. 2 little natural satellites and able to terraform.

The last planet was S.T.-5 or Umbru, a gas giant with 32 natural satellites for now and unable to terraform. 

When the conversation between the captain and his comrade was to finish, a centaur ran towards them. He told that the scanners of S.T.-3 finished and they discovered something amazing.

The planet wasn't only suitable for life, it had life. Intelligent life, civilization was detected.

Quickly, and with pure determination in his eyes, Seaforce asked to lead the first contact mission to redeem himself for the failure of Sky Explorer. His request was accepted and he was commanded with two support fleets to travel to S.T.-3 and create a diplomatic relationship or discover if this alien creatures were hostile too.

The trip wasn't long and the support ships arrived soon to the planet. There they discovered that this civilization already had space ships, although obviously very different to the equusians ships. Their ships seemed more like a bunch of metallic staff united wildly, some crew members even could swear having seen holes in the ships.

They tried to establish communication via radio, this didn’t work though, so the ships approached a bit more to the planet without giving signals of wanting to cause harm.

But even so, the ships were attacked. The pilots had to make a desperate force landing on the planet, it was hard, but the ship where Seaforce was resisted. The other one didn't, when it was some hundreds of meters over the land, missiles attacked it.

When Seaforce stood inside the ship after the landing, he asked himself a lot of questions, but still, he focused and began to think a plan, even with all the shouts outside.

Outside of the ship only a sound could be heard.

WAAAAAAAAAAGHH!!!!!!!
> The Dark Age: the 1st War for S.T.-s pt.1
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Green

Green is the color of hope, the color of nature.

But it is also the color of an endless tide, eager to sink the galaxy in green and war...
Or rather, Waaagh! 





In WARHAMMER 40K there are hundreds, thousands, millions, of unspeakable horrific threats to all sorts of life. But without any doubt, one of the most known and abundant is the...
 ORKS!

Oh yes! The orks! Those giant fungus war-lovers hilarious bastards, who just want a good fight. You probably have heard of some of the wars where orks are involved, the second war for Armaggedon, the war in Oktarius, the war of The Beast... millions of fights  during millions of years. But I bet you didn't hear about this one!

THE FIRST WAR FOR S.T.-s! When the equusians met the orks and their first big-scale combat since going to space. This fight truly taught them a lot about the 41st Millenium, lessons, which wouldn't be forgotten. This conflict had blood, explosions, madness, friendship and of course, ... a LOT of HEAVY AND BIG WEAPONS!!!! YUHUUUU!!!!





As you already know, Seaforce was commanded to establish the first contact between the equusians and this recently discovered alien species. Hoping to be able to create a good diplomatic relationship and peace for both.

Seaforce asked to be in charge of this mission. That would make sense, he had a lot of preparation, practical experience, in other words, he was qualified to. Besides, there was too a personal reason, the hippogriff looked for redemption. More because for achieving it before his own eyes. This had a reason, the failure of Sky Explorer, of which Seaforce felt guilty. This new mission would serve to proof himself again and demonstrate that he was still a good leader.

He failed.

The two support ships leaded by Seaforce were brought down by the orks, and they had to land forcibly. This revealed the warlike nature of the orks and so, Seaforce tried to communicate with S.T.-2 (Palomino) and warn them, but the radio was damaged during the landing. 

There were they, surrounded by this green bipedal creatures, waiting for the inevitable end. The last thoughts of Seaforce weren't hopeful or... anything like that, they were about failure, how he failed. He had no plan, he couldn't save the lives laid under his responsibility, he couldn't even warn someone.

The support ship got full of orks and equusian blood.





The base in Palomino didn't receive news of Seaforce for some time now, this worried them enormously, they feared that something really bad happened and their suspicions were confirmed not long after.

A support ship, which accompanied Sneaky One, was sent to investigate. It found several ork ships heading to the plane and tried to make contact and find out what happened, but the orks attacked. Fortunately, the ship managed to dodge the shoots and escape, which wasn't surprising, it was already very clear the habilty of all the ships related to Sneaky One and Sneaky One itself to dodge and being slippery.

Meanwhile the equusians tried once and again to initiate a diplomatic conversation and negotiate peace, well they thought that the intentions of the force led by Seaforce were misunderstood as an attack, the greenskins arrived to the planet and began to descend.

The arrival of this aliens was felt by every creature at the base, how not? They were doing an unprecedented noise level, oh, and explosions, a lot of explosions. They were pretty usual for orks.

When the ships finally landed on the planet... or its passengers fell from great heights, the orks exited, stepping on this new big space rock and ready to start a new fight!

Then they all started to suffocate and die...
...
...
...
Yeah... do I really have to remind you that Palomino's atmosphere wasn't breathable? 

They, instead of retreating or something like that, saw this as a challenge! The sign of a good fight! The planet itself wanted to fight against them, what battle could be better than this one? So they tried to kick, shoot and punch the air or the land before just... dying.

You can imagine how the faces of the equusians were after seeing this.





With the apparently new hostile aliens distracted, the equusians had time to make a plan. First, they  notified Equus, calling for support, and so, they couldn't use the mirror portal again until the next month, yes, it works like that, each month the portal is open for some hours.

After that, they assured some strategical positions near the usual landing zone of the orks, just in case, to observe them. After 5 days, the tried, again, to speak with the orks and make peace. The greenskins shot immediately after seeing them, so the equusians needed to flew and return to the base.

It was pretty clear now that they won't be able to talk peacefully with this creatures and various defenses were risen. The equusians were prepared to fight.

And so it happened.

The orks found themselves exhausted from punching the air, and when they saw the equusians, they noticed the weird suits they used. These were space suits and gave the orks an idea. Next time they landed on the planet, the suffocation was no more, the fungi mans had created an amazing and super-advanced technology to survive in the toxic atmosphere. They putted fish tanks on their heads, aesthetically decorated with scotch tape (I just love these guys).





A lot of battles happened, where the orks and the creatures native from Equus fought bravely against their opponents. Due to the strong dust storms of the planet, the connection that allowed the drones to receive orders and work could fail and these machines would become useless. 

Because of this, the equusians had to go and fight themselves, using trench warfare techniques and their superior knowledge about the grounds and climate events to defeat the aliens. 

It's not like if they were cowards, but having an alternative, which allows them to not lose soldier's lives, they naturally would use it.

However, this fights and battles wouldn't be any easy to win, the orks overpassed them in number for a lot, so the most frequent form to deal with them was with ambushes and leading them to traps.

Plus, the difficulty increased when the orks managed to bring their boogies and tanks, more CHOPPA and DAKKA and other types of crazy weapons. Even worse, combat walkers began to arrive to the battlefield. Killa Kans, Deff Dreads, Mega Dreads, all sorts of those giant robotic armors, Gorkanauts and Morkanauts too.

For dealing with these things, the equusians had to use all the firepower they had, all of it. But they couldn't stay like that for a very long time and it was decided to create new weapons and powerful war vehicles to defend themselves.

After almost 2 weeks after asking for help to Equus, the orks launched a powerful attack to the equusian base, unleashing a bloody and violent battle for various hours.





This battle went bad.

How bad?

Very bad. And for the equusians. The orks attacked quickly and by surprise, distracting the residents of the base with a frontal attack for later charge to the zones that were left unprotected. It was a blood bath, although some could escape and take refuge in some caves of a near mountain. And the things would have gone worse if Sky Explorer, Sneaky One and Murderships Nightmare didn't have fought bravely against the ork ships that surrounded the planet, stopping any form of orbital attack. 

As a fact, the captain of Murderships Nightmare, Volkano, was leading the forces on the planet with the help of other military strategist. Murderships Nightmare was being directed by its sub-captain.

The improvised base of the mountain was full of fear. The equusians were terrified, not only because of the brutality of the orks, but also because soon the portal would open again and the reinforcements from Equus would find themselves drowned in a tide of green.

This made the moral go down.But they had to do something, several plans and strategies were discussed, each one senseless than the previous one, because their desperation made hard to think clearly. They even thought in using their heavy weapons against the orks and...
Wait...
What?!

They didn't use their heaviest weapons from the first moment?! Whyyyy?!?!?! Why were they being so stupid?!?!?!?!

Well, because they had feeeeaaar. Fear caused by the tyranids. The equusians feared that orks would adapt to their weapons and turn them against them, it's not like they knew a lot about the greenskins, no, really, they knew nothing. The battles were just killing or die, there was no time to recollect information.

But in this dark moment, one hero raised and set things straight. Volkano reunited his companions and gave a speech:

"Creatures! Come here and listen to me! I have been seeing your actions, hearing your whispers and feeling your regret. I know very well how are you in this hard situation, you are frightened, you have desperation in the eyes and fear in the hearts, and there's nothing that makes me more sick! I feel sorry for you, really. Of course, I know it isn't easy to stay hopeful and positive right now, but we were chosen for this mission because only we could make it! We all knew NOTHING was going to be easy! So rise, rise with me companions! I don't want to continue seeing you like this, sunk in your own sorrow. I want to see those brave warriors who fought without any doubts against the enemies in the front line again! In action! We are NOT gonna stay here hiding and leaving our friends being attacked by those monsters! We must do SOMETHING! So get the heaviest weapons we have, the real heavy ones and prepare to recover our base! Let's show those bastards who we ARE! And what happens when someone threats us or our FRIENDS! Do not fear!!! The victory depends only and only of US!!!"

No one had words. This speech waked up a lot of different feelings, but at the end, everyone agreed with Volkano words. They would NOT let those aliens win, they would NOT surrender, they would FIGHT.

Spacestar, one of Volkano greatest friends, was impressed too. He knew that Volkano was usually not very good with speeches, but this one, this one motivated all of them. Spacestar knew that his friend was right, they had to take the base again and make it stay like that, NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT COSTS.





On all imaginable fronts, the equusians attacked, fervently wishing to recover what was theirs. The orks there were surprised, they had to deal now with a frontal attack, the other from the rear, on the flanks, soldiers falling from above and others coming out from underground. 

The technomagical weapons shot and turned the aliens into stone after contact, others teansmutated matter to random things, grenades, which explosions launched hundreds of sharp crystals, rays capable of allowing the user to use telepathical forces and a lot more...

The battle was BRUTAL, and obviously, the orks didn't cease without giving a proper fight. Both sides suffered several casualties, but with a lot of effort the equusians achieved to secure the portal room, the main objective of the whole operation. Sadly, the mirror portal was broken, it sure was the fault of those greenskins. However, this didn’t stop them and incredibly fast they put themselves to repair it, many scientists, including Spacestar, were working as if their lives depended on that.





"Sector 3 is clear, orks have been driven out."

"The same here in sector 5."

"I think we've cleaned the entire base, sir."

"Good," Volkano answered. "Let's make another check, we can't leave any of them alive." The battle was long and hard, but finally, it seemed that they had recovered their base.

The dragon had been leading the operation since its beginning and he was very proud of it being successful, but this didn’t make him lose his concentration or seriousness, their situation couldn't be taken lightly.

"Ca..in...thE..." Suddenly, the communication device from Volkano began to receive a weird message with bad audio. The dragon listened attentively until it was comprehensible.

"The orks a...here...they atta... rror portal room!"

"Oh no." It was the only thing Volkano thought before launching himself in his fastest fly to the portal room, preparing his fire breath and his gun.

When he arrived, the fire and bullets fell on the orks before they could even notice, his wrath was on a never before seen level. Volkano's fire had unique magical properties, as the fire of every dragon, his wouldn't stop burning ever, unless someone throws water or sand or something like that to it. This distracted the orks enough to let Volkano shoot at each of their heads and end with them all.

But he still was too late, almost every creature there was dead, the blood covered the room and the stench of the flesh made Volkano make an expression of revulsion and disgust.

As I already said, almost everyone there was dead, everyone except one.





Volkano couldn't remember anytime he had flown so fast in his life. Motivated by the desesperation, he was heading directly to the nursery while carrying the only survivor of that carnage in the portal room.

His more appreciated friend, the one with whom he had spent such good moments, shared their training and a thousands more things. Spacestar was on the arms of his friend, with his face unrecognizable and full of blood, actually, Volkano knew it was Spacestar thanks to his cutie mark. The unicorn lacked of some extremities and his horn, probably a lot of broken bones and damaged organs, not mentioning the loss of blood.

"Don't worry space' buddy! You're going to be okay, right? Just hold on a bit more, I'm taking you to the nursery," Said the dragon with tears in the eyes and the voice broken.

"Th-The...portal...is re-repaired," Spacestar achieved to say hardly, the effort was too much and it hurt to talk.

"Shh, shhh, shhh," His friend made him quiet. "Yes, you and all the others were incredible, but please don't talk, it's too difficult for you right now. Don't waste your energies."

So Spacestar stayed quiet.

"HELP!!!!!" Volkano shouted, asking for medical treatment when he arrived to the nursery.

Spacestar was put on a bed and the medical team tried to cure him somehow, but his wounds were too harmful and many medical equipment was destroyed by the orks during the two battles. He wouldn't last.

In the last moments of his life, Spacestar had always at his side his good friend Volkano, sometimes other creatures went to see him, but only Volkano was there until the last second. Crying, asking his friend to not surrender and hold on to life, he said that he could be cured, he just had to stay a bit more. 

He remembered the promise he made to Nova, that he would protect her husband. At that time, it was more a joke than another thing, but now he was ashamed for not being able to fulfill it.

Before the unicorn gave his final breath, he managed to make a whisper.

"Once my dream...now evercreature's nightmare."
> The Dark Age: [i]Flurry Hearth [/i]
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


Previously...



on...



this thing I'm writing...


1-Equus creatures went to space
2-Battle against tyranids
3-CONGRATULATIONS!🥳 You have discovered a new system!
4-War with Orks
5-OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED SPACESTAR! YOU BASTARDS!





After the long battle to take back the equusian base, all the creatures were exhausted, many needing medical assistance, others couldn't be saved.

Not long after, the reinforcements from Equus finally came, with a lot of technomagic and more resources to repair all the damages, equipment to cure the injured ones, devices to know more about the planet and the enemies, a huge quantity of personnel for different situations and some weapons. 

Apart from that, every creature present on the base was stunned when they saw 3 members of the Council of Creatures came across the portal to lead their forces and defend their subjects.

These were Flurry Hearth, first representative of ponies, Flamellus, the changeling q
Queen, and TD-007 AKA Todarius Bond, sub-representative of AIs.

Everyone thought that with their minds combined, the representatives would lead them to victory and defeat the alien forces. Howeveeer, the three began to discuss.

Flurry Hearth thought that peace was still an option, dialogue could save the situation, but Flamellus said that the orks didn't want peace, they wanted WAR, and they had to defend their subjects. Todarius by his side, tried to calm down the other two, who seemed like they were going to fight at any moment, although he agreed more with the changeling.

After a long discussion of 5 minutes, Flurry prevailed and the equusians would try again diplomacy. The creatures that had been on that planet since the beginning and fought the orks weren't any happy. The faces of some of them were like this: 😐(What?). The faces of the most of them were like this: 😡(WHAT?!)

Anywaaayyyy, Flurry wasn't stupid, she wouldn't send others in a suicide diplomatic mission, instead, she sent spies. This was... surprisingly good for them, the spies were never detected and they discovered a lot of things of orkish culture. This could be extremely useful for future operations. But they discovered other things too,... look, the equusians already knew that something wasn't right with ork technology and buildings, but they never could discover exactly WHAT. The spies did, now they knew about the power of belief and thought it was the form of orks to use magic. 

This information terrified even MORE the equusians and the wish to just kill them all augmented. Even so, the alicorn still said that war wasn't necessary, although some of the "veteran" members didn't always follow this order.

But why? Why does she reject so intensive this war, when it's obviously the only option to survive? Well, to know that, we must first hear the whole story of the alicorn...


-----------♡FLURRYHEARTH♡-----------


As you will already know, Princess Flurry Hearth was born as the daughter of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, the alicorn of Love, and Prince Shining Armor. This meant she was too the heir to the throne of the Crystal Empire and, if that wasn't enough, she was the first born alicorn, since in the ancient Skyros having babies was forbidden for alicorns because an old, but trustworthy, prophecy said that born alicorns would spread destruction, death and misery (this will be important later).

Flurry was raised during the reign of her aunt, the Princess Twilight Sparkle, which was the most prosperous era seen in the world so far. 

The life of the new princess was good, but she didn't feel worth it. You see, an alicorn usually becomes one after realizing a great feat, but Flurry was born as one. This made her feel like if she had to prove herself and demonstrate that she was worthy of being an alicorn.

This launched her to do several feats and achievements, mostly of military nature because she grew in with strategy games and was taught how to defend herself very well.

Then Opaline came.

The WAR whipped Equestria and guess what, it was Flurry Hearth who practically carried all of Equestria's military operations. The war got a lot worse, forcing Flurry to order AND make with her own hooves real atrocities, breaking her once respectable ethic and moral code, spreading destruction, death and misery (wink, wink). She won almost every battle she fought in, her combat skills were unmatched, her strategies unbeatable and her power something to fear. Because of all this, she began to be nicknamed as "Alicorn of War", name she rejected and despised due to her growing hate against the war.

When the war ended, Flurry saw in a state of shock, as it had not only devastated the entire world and taken away her best friends and family, Luna, Celestia, her mother, all dead, but it had also destroyed the feeling of being worthy of her own nature, for which she had worked so hard, making her do all those awful things. She felt more like a villain after all this and so she exiled herself from Equestria for more than 100 years, staying in the ruins of what sometime was her home,... the Crystal Empire, now destroyed and buried in the frozen North.

This continued until Sunny Starscout and her friends found and helped her into reintegrate in the society, but Flurry developed some sort of obsession with peace. When the final battle against Opaline happened, she was an essential part to defeat her, besides it was HER who taught the newest alicorn how to control her powers and fight.





So may you understand now the behaviour of the alicorn, although it was true that other representatives, including Sunny, could recognize better when it was necessary to fight. The pacifistal acts of Flurry saved a lot of lives in the past and stopped possible conflicts, what made her someone people trusted in.

For almost another month, they tried to speak peacefully meanwhile the spies worked. Everyone had to admit that... the conflicts with orks decreased, but not because they wanted any sort of pff... peace, but thanks to the powerful shields they had, strategies to distract them and more other tricks, plus, the orks were getting bored.

Their boredom was such, that after another attempt at diplomacy, they went out of their improvised base! They began to shoot to EVERYTHING without any control and with some speakers they built with rocks, scotch tape, the head of one boy and a speaker...THEY SHOUTED! INCREDIBLY STRONG!

"WAAAAGHH IZ DA BES'! PEAZ' ZUCKS'! FIIIIIIGHT!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!!!!!"

Before this statement Flurry had to think what to do. She left Flamellus and Todarius in charge, meanwhile, she would go to a mountain not very near and not very away to reflect about the situation and come to the best possible conclusion.

She sat on the top of the mountain, the feeling of the sand of the dirt was impossible due to her space suit, necessary even for her to survive out of the base.

Observing the dust in the air, which impeded the view to the base, although Flurry knew exactly where it was located, the alicorn meditated. This was something very useful learned from her therapist when she reintegrated into the society, it never failed her before, it helped a lot on focusing and thinking.

However, she was not alone, as she intended. When she left the base, a gretchin saw it from the distance and told his superiors.

Apparently, from nowhere, various orks appeared, shouting strongly and throwing themselves on Flurry. A good quantity of spells could be heard.

When a team went for her by orders of the two present representatives, they found nothing except orks corpses. A deeper analysis was carried out and no blood or restos of the alicorn were found either.
> The Dark Age: The 1st War for S.T.-s pt.2
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The moral wasn't low, it was sunk.

Since the equusians first arrived to the planet Palomino, everything got worseeee. All fault of the orks, those war-lovers greenskins ruined everything, spreading a tsunami of blood and death.

Now they took Flurry Hearth. Yes, a lot of creatures there disagreed with her when she decided to continue trying diplomacy, but she still was a representative, pillars of unity, wisdom and hope, and one of the most respected ones.

Her disappearance hit severely, and everycreature felt a mixup of anger and sadness. Yes, Todarius and Queen Flamellus were helping a lot, not everything was lost, but things were getting every time worse and worse.

This was clearly observable during the battle of the valley. One of the battles between the equusians and the orks, which happened on an extensive valley surrounded by high mountains.

During a weird period without the typical dust storms of the zone, the valley allowed a direct way towards an important mining facility used by the equusians to obtain resources. Its loss would suppose several problems.

The orks brought a war gang from one of their camps, it was... pretty simple being honest. They decided to go directly through the valley's open field, where they could be easily detected and attacked, the equusians took this as the usual orkish impulse and behaviour.....
But that's exactly what the orks wanted you yo believe!

The equusians prepared some defenses in the mountains, where they had a clear range to shoot their enemies and stop them. But the orks thought better out! Some little but experienced and strong squads infiltrated in the mountains, ending with the groups ready to attack the other boys. 

Soon, the equusians saw themselves forced to deploy a big part of their forces on an open field to stop the orks. Luckily, the lack of dust storms allowed them to use their combat drones and ranged weapons.

By the way, do you remember I said that this orkish army was simple? Well, not exactly. The greenskins were hiding their war vehicles and a lot of boys to trick their enemies and make them overconfident.

So the situation was something like this:

-A big equusian army with combat drones, artillery and other powerful ranged weapons.

AGAINST

-An enormous army of orks with war vehicles, including tanks, buggies, flyers, walkers as Mega Dreads and MORE, thousands of weapons, the dominance over the mountains surrounding the valley, plus the attack was being led by the cult of the speed.

Yeaaahhh.... things weren't easy for the equusians and they started very bad for them, they even had to call for reinforcements! And I mean, there was almost ALL the equusian military force, being led by Queen Flamellus.

But from their deepest despair, arising between the strongest red dust storms, a mighty thunder resounded, filling the hearts of their enemies with pure terror and expectation.

THUNDERWILL!!! One of the mightiest minotaur soldiers, with an indestructible will and an unconditional respect fir those he considered superior to him, what was reflected in his way to talk. Bravery, honor, strength and keeping your word were his most outstanding values alongside the desire to fight his enemies in face-to-face combat. For this, he would use the newest invention they had, alongside other fellow trained soldiers, all piloting...

Cubed Giants!

The cubed giants are powerful war walkers, machines built only to help fight the enemies of the equusians, in this case, the orks, and more specifically, their war walkers as Gorkanauts. It was when they first saw these giant beasts, that they comprehended the necessity of their own giant beasts to face them.

These war machines were not only ultra-resistent beasts of between 4 and 10 meters high with a super magical shield around them, but they also carried all sorts of BIG and HEAVY guns, missiles and others, for not mention their ability to use melee weapons as spears, hammers or swords.

Their structure was interesting. The main part would be a big cube where the pilot would control the robot and see thanks to various exterior cameras and interior screens. By the way, the reason for giving the cubed giants pilots in person and not controlling them remotely was the same reason to stop using a lot of combat-drones in battle (although this one was an exception), the storms of the planet would damage the connection. In the future this will continue because it had turned into a tradition and honour and bla bla bla...

Continuing, this central cube would have four rectangular extremities, two of which had four fingers at the corners. These extremities would serve as "arms" meanwhile the other two, connected by a mobile waist, as legs (legs, which weren't like humans, more like the leg of a cat, a dog or the hind legs of a pony), at least in the bipedal form. You see, the giants could choose and alternate between two forms, the bipedal and the quadrupedal, I think the characteristics of each one are clear. Plus, the "joints" were well protected.

The giants were built thanks to Spacestar's plans for new exploration vehicles, although... with some changes of course. 

Besides, this plans served too to create the Rinno tanks, special tanks charged with cannons and other weapons, the most resistant revetment and a sharp horn in the front used to charge against their enemies. Their structures similar to caterpillars (similar to those tanks used in Avatar: the legend of Aang during the assault to the fire nation) gave them a good movement freedom and inside, they could carry a lot of soldiers.

The cubed giant piloted by Thunderwill was Thunder Jotnar, the biggest of them all, with 10m. It had several weapons, two machine guns, a missile and a grenade launcher, a retractable machete on the left arm, where there was also implanted a powerful magic cannon, its beam could cross through almost every material and reach ranges of kilometers. But the most important and epic weapon it had was Lightning Strike. This powerful sword was huge (I mean, it was a normal sword for a giant, but that's the thing, it's a giant), its name came because the shining of a lightning would be the last thing their victims could see. It had a more literal meaning too, the sword had magical properties to summon electrical storms, absorb electricity and use it to power up its hits, seeming a lightning, this power even could be used to manifest lightnings from the sword and lead them towards an objective, at the moment, the orks.

With the ferocity of Thunderwill, who preferred to engage in face-to-face combat against the orks and their walkers, and the brutal power of the other cubed giants and Rinno tanks added to a great organization and some of the most dangerous strategies, the battle ended positively for the equusians.





During one month, Thunderwill, alongside Flamellus and Volakno, who sought revenge against the orks for killing his best friend Spacestar, led several military campaigns against these aliens, doing strong and fast attacks to all their camps.

Some of the most interesting battles that happened in this period were:
-The battle of Gyu: Gyu was a mountain full of orks, its location gave a strategical advantage against other 2 ork settlements. Queen Flamellus infiltrated with a great group of talented spies, causing an internal conflict. The orks killed themselves and the little remaining ork resistence couldn't defend itself when the infiltrated revealed themselves and attack.

-The battle of Or-5 (Or-XNumber is the form of the equusiansto designate ork locations): The ork camp designated Or-5 was giving a looooot of problems to the equusians, its defenses were too difficult to overpass, so the equusians decided to use an unconventional method. Todarius, leader of the assault to Or-5, commanded to dig tunnels under their enemies. The process was long, but finally, the plan worked, a lot of bombs were detonated, burying the orks and leaving the defenses useless. Then the equusians went and ended with all the aliens there, this battle was the one with less casualties, 3.5 in total.

-The Nightmare bombings: Usually the space ships of the equusians stayed fighting against the ork ships in orbit. Murderships Nightmare for example, now under command of captain Volkano again, developed a new war tactic for space ships. Taking an ork ship away from the others, Murderships Nightmare activated all its shields and sped up, heading to the ship of their enemies. This ship was crossed and crashed, exploding into thousands of pieces, although Murderships Nightmare remained useless for some time before recovering its energies. 

But that's not so important, the thing is that, after it recovered, the ship managed to organize orbital attacks to the ork camps. This was succesful  and uncountable ork bases were destroyed while Sneaky One and Void Master prevented more orks to descend to the planet.

-The battle of the River: The battle of the River was without any type of doubt, one of the most important battles of the first War for S.T.-s. It was the last battle of equusians vs. orks on Palomino and took place on the biggest glacier of the planet, which came from the arctic and extended for kilometers.

This operation was conformed by ALL of the equusian forces on the planet and jointly led by Flamellus, Todarius, Thunderwill and the officials in charge of small squads, help from orbit by Volkano commanding Murderships Nightmare. Their objective: the last, but not the biggest, ork camp of the planet.

The attack began after sunset, then the orks couldn't see good enough during the night or were sleeping (maybe), meanwhile the equusians had advanced equipment of night-vision. The plan was making the orks go to the glacier, well their camp was next to it, and when they entered, they couldn't escape. On the other side of the ice river, a strong force would wait to the orks and when they arrived, the force would trap them into the ice, melting and freezing it over and over again until no one remained.

The fight was amazing, explosions everywhere, so many shots that their noise seemed background music, mighty tanks from both sides punishing their enemies with brutal fury, ork walkers fighting against the cubed giants in extraordinary melee combat, orbital attacks from Murderships Nightmare, etc. . The ice was dyed with red because of the blood from both sides.

At one moment, a bunch or orks managed to escape of the battle field and exit of the glacier, this was seen by Thunderwill, who pointed to them with the magical cannon in his left arm. It unleashed a terrifying powerful magical beam, which thank to its great distance range, reached them, vaporizing the orks with an immense explosion. Then he continued impassive to slay ork walkers with his sword, which seemed a lightning.

The battle lasted for hours, but it ended. The equusians raised their voices to the sky, celebrating their glorious victory by shouting with pure joy and satisfaction after having defeated the greenskins.





"Surrender alien, and maybe your death could be calmer," Thunderwill, at the great Thunder Jotnar said to the crippled ork, one of the last survivors of the last battle, with a great determination and a bit of sorrow. He didn't enjoy the act of killing, why ending with a life would be enjoyable? But it was needed and, at least for Thunderwill, an act of mercy. The nature of the orks made them want to fight and makr war, what kind of life full with suffering would that be? The incapacity of enjoy the life peacefully. This was opposed to one of Thunderwill's biggest wishes, a calmed life.

"Da Waaagh doezn't end big cuzzie, and I won't even try to end it zurrending!" Answered the ork.

"So be it, fungi man."

The lightnings that followed burned the greenskin to death, the same with all the other remaining orks.





After freeing the planet of orkish presence, 1 month and 2 weeks after his first victory in the battle of the valley, Thunderwill was highly decorated because of his victories. He was allowed to own his cubed giant (which isn't normal, it's like if the army gave a soldier a tank) and was named "HERO OF PALOMINO". 

This allowed him to paint his giant, well the machines were pretty simple, all white with no style, eeeexcept from some special symbols to use something similar to cutie mark magic. Thunder Jotnar's was a minotaur antlers with a thunder coming out from below. The new color palette would be dark grey with some parts of midnight blue, besides some white and silver details.

Quickly, everyone moved to deal with the ork ships still orbiting their planet, which... wasn't hard. I think I said it before, but I will say it again. The equusians are DAMN GOOD in space battles.

After 3 days, this operation ended and Palomino could finally be considered really free from the ork presence (HAHAHAHA! 🤣Sorry, but it's at least funny to me because they don't know about orkish spores). However, even with the big party that followed, every creature knew that this was NOT the end of the war, it wouldn't end until every ork in the system was eliminated. And where are the other orks? Exactly! In their next targets to attack, S.T.-3, now called as Green Hell, and its satellite, Green Skull.





Now, for laughing a bit, let's see some classical ork moments!





During the first War for S.T.-s, the orks from a tribe called "Punch or punch" faced a small and newbie xeno race, although they sure knew how to defend themselves. They called these creatures "cuzziez", as a parody of their real name, "equusians". In response they call the orks "fungi man" and other insults as "greenskin", "war-simps" or "shroom trash".

At a certain point, the equusians began to use special weapons capable of petryfing, leaving the orks as no more than rocks.

When this happened to an unlucky ork, the other one next to him, instead of protecting himself, having fear or something like that, had a better idea! Use his petrified buddy as a surf table to slide down the side of the hill he was on while shooting!





Another one! 





There was this ork who had an ABSOLUTE love for his choppa (knife), being his favourite weapon. Then a changeling spy saw this and decided to trick the ork. 

The changeling took the knife and transformed into it, making the ork believe that he still had his knife, but the reality was that it was the changeling disguised!

At one perfect moment, the changeling revealed himself, stealing all the love of the ork for his choppa (yes, they still can do that, even reformed  they just don't need to). With the ork on the floor without energies, the changeling revealed to have his choppa and fled with it.

Oh, soorry. I made a mistake, that's not how the story actually went. Let's see...

Oh yes! Right! The changeling killed the ork with his stolen knife!





The orks have the interesting and terrifying power of belief, if they think something works, then it works. This has a special behaviour with colours, well orks think colors give specific properties to things, like exploding stronger, giving good luck or going really fast.

One time some orks managed to broke the space suit of a batpony, leaving his body at the sight of the aliens. However, the orks terrified and began to sweat, then under the suit there was nothing, REALLY NOTHING.

What happens is that the batpony's coat was purple.





To end, once a kelpie managed to trick some orks and convincing them to drink her (because kelpies are made of water). The kelpie put herself in a bucket and an ork drank her.

Okay, this was the end of the kelpie. WROOONG! The kelpies have the magical powers of water bending, which allows them to alternate between water, ice and steam and, in some grade, change their own forms, plus of course, usual water bending.

Suddenly, the ork began to feel extremely bad and a great pain inside of him until... he EXPLODED VIOLENTLY!

The kelpie recomposed from the corpse and looked at the other orks, these, instead of killing that thing, began to laugh, what happened was just too cool. The kelpie, surprised, was like: "This guys are weird... I LIKE IT!"

Then the orks began a "competition" between them, they would drink the kelpie and the first one to survive wins.

Hundreds of orks died doing that, but hey! That's because they were losers, by the way, the kelpie survived, she just got tired and fled, leaving some bombs around, but nothing more.
> The Dark Age: The 1st War for S.T.-s pt.3
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello and welcome to the third part of the 1st War for S.T.-s! Here we will see how the equusians not only defend themselves from the savage orks of Warhammer 40k, but they also attack them! Peace was NEVER an option with these guys and because of that, it will soon disappear from the space rock known as "Green Skull".





Now, I think it will be good if I tell you a bit more about the two representatives left in this war, Flamellus and TD-007 (who we will almost everytime call Todarius Bond). This is because, well... I forgot to tell you about them earlier and they're gonna be more important for now on.

LET'S BEGIN!






Queen Flamellus


Who in the future would be a great leader and one of the most powerful equusians began as a little larva born circa 9.820 a.C.. Who her parents were was unknown, but she had a little brother, Carapas. They managed to enjoy their childhood in the nice orphanage they lived in, until a great revelation was made.

You see, the rulers of changelings are called "Alpha changelings", they have great power, are taller, don't age, and their fate is to rule. Even in those times, this tradition was respected by the insectoid race and this kind of changelings was trained to be the next representatives.

When a group of bullies was bothering her brother, Flamellus discovered her amazing magical powers protecting him, which revealed their true nature as Alpha changelings.

The King Heel soon knew about this, and, how the tradition says, he took these little under his wings to teach them how to replace him and his second-in-charge in the Council when the proper moment comes. He also adopted them.

With the years passing, Flamellus grew up, turning into a tall changeing Queen. She had a unique black quitin, red eyes and wings, covered with a scarlet carapace. Her mane was red too, and some say, it seemed fire, it extended down and covered her chest with fur. Her horn was also to take notice, it was long and curved, with two spikes on its sides, giving the appearance of a crown. Of course, she also had maroon antlers at her head. 

She became the representative of changelings and her brother the sub-representative and a great diplomatist. Here Flamellus developed a rivalry with Flurry Hearth, since she was calmer and did things that Flamellus considered too innocent or seemed to take things with extreme seriousness, while the changeling was sarcastic and had a bigger temperament.

However, when she went to the war against orks and Flurry disappeared, that truly hurt her. Even with all their disputes, both considered each other "friends", in a sort of way. She promised to not let this happen again and make a slaughter with the orks, who dared to threat HER PEOPLE.






Todarius Bond


Todarius was one of those AI, who rebelled against their creators during the AI Revolution, created not long before this event, he suffered the abuse the machines like him had to deal with. And even if the conflict was solved diplomatically, some battles were fought, when that happened, they called him. 

His strategical mind was appreciated by his equals, that's the main reason he went to fight the orks, he already had experience as a military thinker.

The AI was very glad when the conflict ended, because he thought that it would just increase the casualties on both sides and if there's something Todarius doesn't like, it's casualties! His metallic cubic body floated happily, and he celebrated peace shaking his four appendages located under his big, orange shoulder pads.

He needed some time to accept the sorry of the equusians, as every AI, but eventually, he found himself in good terms with the biological creatures. Not long after that, he climbed in the hierarchy and turned sub-representative of his kind.

During this atrocious war he found himself in really hard situations, since the casualties were pretty difficult to avoid. However, he made a friend, Flamellus. This two weren't really close before the war, they knew barely anything about each other, but now they were real friends, united by the desire of protecting their own and exterminate their enemies. 





A BIG party was celebrated after the liberation of Palomino to commemorate the equusian victory, and without any kind of doubt the joy, happiness and proud impregnated the atmosphere.

Nevertheless, peace wasn't achieved, because there were still alive orks in the system and they surely would strike again. This time, it wouldn't be like so, the orks wouldn't come back to battle, mostly because the equusians wouldn't let them, they would bring the battle to them.

But they needed to rest, after 4 MONTHS of uninterrupted war, everyone would need to recuperate.

So did they, during the next 2 weeks and a half, the injured ones were treated, plans were made and some infrastructure rebuilt. Besides, new reinforcements from Equus came, this time not only new soldiers, weapons and other resources, but also two new ships!

These ships were Greenkiller, specialized in fighting orks, and Wallshield, designed specially for defenses. Plus, some support ships came too.

A new fleet was prepared for the travel to Green Skull, although Wallshield and some support ships would stay in Palomino as a defense force. 





In one of the multiple chambers of Murderships Nightmare ship, a huge reptile was sitting down with the eyes closed. Volkano was thinking on all the things that had happened lately, all that the war with orks had brought or... took.

He was doing breathing exercises, maintaining his fire inside his mouth, without expelling it in the form of a flare. He discovered that doing this was... relaxing. And he needed to be calmed before what was going to happen arriving on the ork planet.

However, his relaxation was interrupted by several knocks on his door followed by a request to enter.

"Captain Volkano, Sir. Here is officer Thunderwill, asking for your permit to allow me to enter."

Volkano sighed and prepared for the coming conversation. He had baggy eyes due to the stress of leading this ship, but it wasn't anything he couldn't bear. "Permit allowed," He answered.

Thunderwill entered into the room, his light blue pelage covered his defined muscles, his horns were big and sharp and his eyes decided, but tranquil.

"Captain, we're approaching to the target planet, your assistance is required in the main room of the ship," Thunderwill declared, not as a request or an order, but just as a fact, something imperturbable of the reality.

"Yes, I will go in no time, don't worry," The dragon responded, with a bit of indifference, but still sounding serious.

Volkano stood and began to walk with the minotaur to the main room, going through the hallways of the ship.

"You know. It is good to have you officers right now," The captain said. "When we first went out from Equus it was like Captains are in charge, we're sure you can handle it, now go. And don't make me begin with everything on Palomino the first month, the administration and rank-hierarchy wasn't... well organized, let's put it like that."

"Your take of decisions was admirably during the first month of Palomino and your leadership one of the best I've seen. Moreover, I feel honored to be considered important for this mission." Thunderwill explained.

"Thanks bud', and you're welcome," After thanking the minotaur, he stared at nothing, with a look that seemed dead and without any energy.

"Does anything happen, Captain?" Thunderwill's asked, noticing the dragon's behaviour.

"Oh. No, nothing. I was just... trying to think of a joke, but I can't think of anything."





When they approached enough to Green Hell and its satellite, after a very fast travel, they stood totally impressed. Several cities were able to be observed from orbit and the different ecosystems too. Green Skull even had seas! One of them, pretty big, had the form of a skull, hence its name.

Firstly, after arriving, the equusian fleet attacked with everything they had the ork ships, driving their millions of combat-drones and shooting their most powerful cannons. Being a surprise attack, a lot of the greenskins ships were destroyed and the exosphere of the satellite almost clear.

However, after hearing that there was a good battle, a big number of ork ships went out from Green Hell, and began to battle against the fleet.

This supposed a pretty big problem, although the equusians could seem superior at the beginning, the ork cruises weren't easy to beat, and with such a great number of enemies, they just couldn't handle it correctly. 

Even using all their drones and the new models. Usually, a combat-drone was a floating 0,5-1,5m machine with metal appendages as arms and several weapons. The new models were metallic beasts of 2m tall with multiple appendages, powerful melee and range weapons and other various abilities. Although there wasn't a big quantity of these machines (100 approximately, they were deployed only in the required situations).

The ork ships charged happily against their enemies, willing to crush and destroy everything. However, the orks weren't the only ones who wanted to charge against the opposing fleet. Captain Volkano, leading Murderships Nightmare, used again his favourite tactic to destroy other ships, now known as "Shield Charge".

This tactic worked well, but it wasn't enough to shoot down all the ships. So, Garlid Gobu managed to convince the captain of Greenkiller to prove a new attack maneuver. This maneuver would consist in going to a near asteroid field and get some of them with the telequinetic grips (similar to those classical attraction beams from alien UFOs), and instantly throwing them directly to the ork forces.

This proved to be very efficient, even during the attacks to Green Skull and Green Hell, although a bit slow.

Finally, the equusians managed to eliminate enough ork ships, not without losses of course, to be able to descend and land on the satellite.

The biggest ork city was Or-27, next to the Skull sea, take it would mean a decisive advantage in the war. On the other side of Green Skull, it was mostly deserted and without any buildings, except for some little ork villages and camps.

The attack began here, it wasn't very hard to conquer territory in this side of the planet, due to the lack of anti-aircraft defenses, the orks from there resisted quite good though.

Some bases were built to defend their new acquired territory, which were quickly attacked by ork war bands going there.

Fortunately, the drones achieved a great defense and the irregular land supposed a problem for a lot of land vehicles.

For all this, and a great organization, during the first 5 months the balance was tilted in favour of the equusians. Besides, new reinforcements came from Equus each month. Although it took  much more than expected in controlling the whole satellite.

Some of the greatest equusian victories during these months were:

-The battle of Or-58: With this ork settlement took, the equusians achieved the total control of the duck sea. This was positive due to the lack of naval forces by the equusians and the orks could attack them from the water.

-The tree campaigns: A great part of Green Skull was covered by a dense jungle and having this territory would offer a safe attack position to their objectives due to the protection given by all the trees.

Because of this, several campaigns were realized to control this zone and, although it was slow, the magic of the equusians (specially the earth pony magic) gave a serious advantage. After some months, with victories and losses, the jungle was taken.

Things seemed to be going well for the equusians.

We have to fix that.





The fire remained unstoppable, devouring all the plants it could touch and reducing them to nothing more than ashes. Even with the powerful tropical rains typical of the jungle biome, the fire did not stop, but brought a destructive light.

The ork attacks were becoming increasingly aggressive. After trying to siege Or-27, which ended terribly bad, with hundreds of casualties and, summarizing, a crushing defeat. A nob (ork noble) put himself in charge and leaded several attacks to equusian bases, now they were setting fire to the vast jungle, so what before gave the equusians a big advantage for the possibility of sudden ambushes wouldn't exist anymore. Their progress seemed unstoppable and uncontrollable, a real threat to all life that destroyed everything they found, buildings, lives, hopes...

The only option that remained for the equusians was going through the frozen poles, then the orks couldn't resist too long the low temperatures, not as the equusian suits.

Meanwhile, the base in the jungle was still being besieged, their protectors were fighting bravely and angered, shooting everything to their enemies. Even that wasn't enough to destroy all those tanks.

One particular warrior, a griffon with yellow feathers, was using a powerful turret from a high hidden position on a tree. His attacks were being led by his pure hate and wrath. Those fungi man had to cease living! His hate for the orks was so big, that he didn't notice as his partners were falling one by one. Suddenly, a powerful explosion happened under him.

CRAAAAASHH!!!

The base of the tree disappeared, turning just a mess of splinters and ashes and making the tree fell, the griffon warrior fell with it.

On the mud-stained ground, the griffin felt deep pain, as both one of its wings and one of its feline hind legs were injured. The sounds of ork tanks and boys increased, the soldier wouldn't be able to resist a lot more.

Lying on the ground, the eagle-lion hybrid could see one of his fellow soldiers fighting the greenskins. This was a talented unicorn, known in their camp because of his great defensive spells, he showed thus the ability summoning a shield between him and the ork.

The griffon was glad, his partner could resist enough to flee and warn the others about the loss of this camp and...

A mace fell from above and destroyed the shield with a single blow, which continued until it connected with the pony's head and shattered it.

...

Before finally closing his eyes, the griffon warrior only thought in one thing, the HATE for the orks.





Another victory.

Thunderwill's record was already accustomed to having victories.  Of course, he did not win every battle he fought in, but he was a very competent officer.

This time, they had managed to win a rather complicated fight. They had to conquer a port.

A significantly important one, having it under their rule would interrupt one of the most used routes by the orks to have a constant flow of supplies. Although that's also why there were more gretchins there than large orks, they got bored with all that carrying cargo. This port was never the final destination of a shipment, simply a place through which it had to pass. Still, losing him would be pretty bad for the greenskins.

The port was captured after a surprise attack at night and a fight that lasted for 1 day and two nights, until finally dawn.  Still, there were more injuries than expected, but fortunately everyone was receiving the best medical treatment.

The minotaur in charge of having led the orks to their defeat in this position (Thunderwill), was sitting in a somewhat isolated room without much lighting. There, the officer was having a virtual meeting with Todarius Bond via holograms (which actually were impressive because of their high quality), whose strategies had served to guarantee victory and was currently directing the conquest of this entire area.

"Again, representative. I find myself in the necessity of thanking you for the great strategies you've offered us. We couldn't have been victorious without your aid," Thunderwill said, addressing his superior.

"You're welcome officer. But remember that I only told how to do things, actually doing them is something very different. The merit is truly yours," Todarius answered.

"However, I beg you not to let your guard down and put up new defenses. Although we believe that the largest number of Orks in the area are fighting on Or-46, as we try to keep a "good fight" there, this is not certain, and there could be attempts to retake the port by the aliens. Be careful, you know how unpredictable and made these things are," He warned.

The meeting ended, and as instructed, Thunderwill increased the defenses. This proved to be a good decision, for just as Todarius feared, it did not take long for the orks to attack, attempting to retake the port.

The orks managed to overwhelm the defenses and the resulting battle was fierce. The orks, as always, laughed and enjoyed the battle, but there was no shortage of insults towards the cuzziez either. For their part, the Equusians fought with HATE burning in their hearts, wishing nothing more than the death of the Orks, for all the horror they had unleashed.

Their rage was such that they seemed like berserkers, they did not care about their lives or those of their companions, they only sought the annihilation of their enemies.

This feeling, although it could have given them strength, was leading them to defeat, as they became disorganized and lost control over the situation.

This only stopped when Thunderwill, on Thunder Jotnar, managed to repel the first wave of orks, having a short rest to prepare for another attack.

But of course, he did not like at all how his troops had behaved during the battle, being careless and with an inappropriate fighting style. They were letting their emotions control them, and that could lead to them being defeated or suffering a large number of casualties.

"I do not ask you to not hate the orks, nor to stop wanting them dead. But the lack of control that unbridled anger and endless hatred can lead you to is not acceptable. While such emotions can provide strength and resilience, they are double-edged swords, for when you allow yourself to be consumed by them, they will lead you towards an inevitable and painful doom. Controlling feelings to use them effectively in any type of situation is wise, as well as people with great willpower."

"However, There is another thought, another motivation, another reason to fight that will undoubtedly give you strength and enough persistence to win in any confrontation. The desire to protect others, our loved ones, from horrendous alien beasts. And the search for peace, which is the most noble of tasks. May the fear of endangering your loved ones give you the power to keep them safe. May the coordination and unity between you and your comrades in arms create an unmatched power that achieves victory. I was there when the orks snatched us the first base on Palomino, but we got it back, and not for revenge or hate, just because we wanted to save others from falling in the middle of greenskin monsters. We wanted to protect our friends. That's what our society has been doing for over 10,000 years and it has always worked, no matter the adversity. We have only lost when such values ​​were forgotten. Why would it be different here?"

Of course, it wasn't as easy as saying it, but the troops understood the message well. Besides, Thunderwill wasn't wrong, thinking like that had kept them safe for millennia, so when the second orkish wave came, they tried not to get angry and try to kill the orks without thinking.

And they succeed. In fact, each warrior protected his companions with his life, they strengthened each other. Their unity was such that they achieved something surprising, which had only happened in Equus in the past. They made grow a new together tree, which became a symbol for victory and partnership.





The new mentality spread across the equusian army with the time, and a great part of the equusians hugged it happily. It showed to be very useful and beneficial, which was reflected in the increase of victories. Finally, the equusians were counter-attacking after the burn of the jungle.

You could say this happened because they were using the magic of friendship,... and you wouldn't be wrong, since it was friendship what gave them the strength to continue fighting.

The war continued and there were great victories, as in the battle of Or-34, an ork settlement, which resisted powerfully during months, but FINALLY, it fell and was conquered (Although when the equusians entered they discovered some bombs...). Or taking a zone called "tundra zero", a tundra in the north of the satellite with a lot of permafrost. This was good for the equusians, who melted the ice, this caused multiple collapses, which damaged the ork forces substantially.

But there were also crushing defeats.

Usually, the equusians stay far from the seas, 'cause they have no naval forces (they were going to space, shipping didn't seem important), so the orks couldn't attack them from the water. But the orks had a better idea. They began to bomb the land, so STRONG, that a canal was opened and the ork boats could approach to equusian bases enough to attack them. This demonstrated to be a big problem.

Things didn't go better, when some ork ships avoided the orbital defenses and managed to do orbital attacks, which caused a lot of casualties and losses.

Besides, new ork reinforcements came from the planet, which allowed the greenskins to murder several good officers in a surprise attack. This supposed a great tactician and moral damage, since they had lost good strategists. Some rumors also came from the planet, saying something about spikes, yellow light and a good fight, intelligence thought this was the main reason why not every ork came here to fight.

However, all this new Ork strength was deceived by the Equusians, who led them into a trap in a cumbersome swamp, where they were butchered. The goal of this was to leave some sections of the Ork domain unprotected, and guess what... it worked!

We can exemplify this with the Fang, a very important peninsula on the skull sea, since it possessed, not powerful large-range missile launchers, that would be belittling them.
Todarius himself leaded this mission, demonstrating his excellent organization and Queen Flamellus fought with extreme ferocity to take the peninsula, even scaring some of her OWN soldiers. It took a long time to finally have this position, but hey! The casualties were minimal. 

Of course, the Fang wasn't the only position taken thanks to the swamp trap, but is one of the most important ones, since after some "repairs", the facility was used to safely attack a lot of ork settlements, villages, cities, factories...

For example this occasion when a really big ork weapons factory was totally destroyed, causing them a lack of weaponry in a near zone.

Finally, after a WHOLE YEAR on that giant ROCK! The final battle was fought. A new attempt to siege Or-27, the operation was long, but successful. In an EPIC confrontation, the nob used a powerful battle suit to face Thunderwill's sword, meanwhile a squad led by Flamellus exterminated other important orks, however, she was hurt severely and had to be taken quickly to the nursery after defeating an impressively big ork. And Volkano, who got off his ship to fight, burned ALL ork buildings until nothing remained. Finally, the presents could see how the magical beam of Thunder Jotnar was shot and, after a tense silence, the cubed giant rose victorious.

"YEEEEEEEEEEES!"
"YEEEEAAAAHH!!!!!!!!"
"VICTORY IS OUUUUURS!"
Everyone exploded in glorious cries of triumph while cheering.

The last thing they had to do is a bit of search for orkish survivors and eliminate them, which seemed harder than thought. Sometimes, it seemed that new orks appeared from nowhere! (They didn't know about the ork spores)





As you could theorize, this war was very hard and convoluted, since one day it seems that the equusians have the advantage, and next day the greenskins do a masterly movement and hope can seem lost, but then things change again and again and again...

And you know what's the best part??? 

This is only Green Skull... they still have a whole planet a lot bigger to conquer and millions of other orks to kill.

It's called "The Dark Age" for a reason.






*****






Sunny Starscout was in her room, sat in front of her desk doing some paperwork. Besides, she was preparing to calm everyone, the recent news from Palomino sure shocked a lot of creatures.

Everyone thought that she would be the most affected one, Flurry Hearth was her best friend since 10.000 years ago, who wouldn't be upset? Who wouldn't want revenge?

She wouldn't. Revenge was not her thing, not for a veeery long time, and the belief of Flurry Hearth being dead was pretty silly according to her.

She knew Flurry well enough to know how did she treat her meditations, all alone. Sunny wasn't completely okay with this, but it worked, so...

It wasn't the first time one of them mysteriously disappeared, Sunny herself once faked her own death. Besides, even if Flurry loved peace, she wouldn't have problems to defend herself if someone attacks her.

Some people were saying that she was refusing to accept it, but they were wrong. And even if something happened to Flurry (which didn't happen), she still could feel her alive. There was nothing to worry about.





The time passed, the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months. 

Flurry's meditations sometimes were long, but this one was being the longest of them all. Not only that, the doubt was beginning to eat away at Sunny, she knew that Flurry was alive, she had to. But each day she feared more that the others were right and that her friend was gone.

But those were, obviously, silly thinkings. Flurry WAS alive.





Okay, this was taking too LONG.

Sunny had always been indulgent with how much time Flurry meditates, but this time she was overdoing!

Sunny Starscout decided to go to Palomino, find her, get her out from wherever she is stuck in and make. Her. HELP. Her mind and experience could be essential to win in Green Hell.

For this, she prepared, getting NEW ships, weapons and soldiers. She also tried to convince other representatives to help, but only one accepted. Besides, she took some of her artifacts for the cause.

THE RAINBOW LLIGHT!,


And...



GROGAR'S BELL


A lot of people think that this bell only steals magic, but with the right spells, it can do a lot more. Like,... for example... revealing where death has been.

She didn't know exactly why she took the bell for finding Flurry, maybe she still doubted if she was... NO! Flurry was ALIVE! She could feeeeeel it.
> The Dark Age: The 1st War for S.T.-s pt. 4
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

YYYEEEEEESSSSS!!! FINALLY! The fourth, and last part part of the 1st War for S.T.-s. I would make a more developed introduction and all the thing, but you know what? I don't care! Let's begin RIGHT NOW!!!





Aaaaaaaaaand... just after the victory, Sunny Starscout herself came with a new fleet, new weapons, new everything. To make sure, that this war ends. (She also came searching for Flurry, since she found NOTHING in Palomino, like, truly. No rests, no evidence for anything, not even confirming her death, sooooo.... Where else could she be?)

Besides ALL that, she didn't come alone. The biggest part of representatives remained in Equus, since they were mostly diplomatics or politicians, not generals. And someone had to maintain things there controlled. But even so, she managed to convince another representative to help! Yaaay!!!!🥳 

However, this enthutiasm soon decreased. The representative wasn't someone expected there.


TERROR


The only representative of Umbrum, the species of King Sombra.

😟

Okay, okay, wait a moment... yes, just a bit more...

WHAAAAT! Aren't Umbrum like, bad?

Well,... they "were". It's a difficult theme, okay?

It was long, and complicated. Actually, Umbrum are the most isolated species, they have almost no contact with the rest of Equus and stay in a village on the Frozen North. However, they have a representative in the Council, only one because they're the smallest species, in popullation terms. And as there is not a lot of trust, people feel... uncomfortable near Umbrum. I will explain it better in other chapter.

But he was there, he was going to help, so... no one complained.

As for orks, they were in a really good situation right now. Why? Well, have you seen all the power the equusians have now? Their ships, drones and all that? That means, a good fight!





Equusians didn't think the same.

After a year and four months of war against the greenskins, they were exhausted. And traumatized! 

Really, they weren't good. For them, Green Skull was a HELL, what would Green HELL be like? I mean, even if they won in the satellite, the losses were felt. Strongly. They couldn't resist another year like that, and well... Green Hell was supposed to be more difficult. More land. More sees. More everything that had to be fought.

They couldn't engage in combat like this... 

Do you know what that means?

Yes.

TAU techniques!!!!!

*angry kitty noises*

Well, not exactly. They prefered to super-spam orbital bombardments and throwing asteroids to the planet.

During 4 months, this was their plan, just bombarding the planet from high orbit and send some little teams to search for survivors to kill. But of course, the orks wouldn't let this happen! They wanted a fight! And they'll have it! 

The greenskins somehow managed to take off some of their ships and, although some didn't achieve to exit the planet (they exploded), others actually putted a great fight that complicated things for their enemies.

The order to do this was sended by the ork Warboss, Big Punch'er. He knew that the equusians wouldn't go to fight, they had to bring them to the fight!

This same thing happened several times.





Time passed, and the equusians discovered, for their misfortune, that some ork cities weren't falling, they're defenses were just TOO good. Yes, they could try to throw a really big asteroid and cause a massive extinction, but even if they couldn't care less about what happens with ork buildings, they didn't want to turn the planet into a dead, desert-volcanic paramo.

So, yes. It was time to go down there and fight.

After the 4 months of orbital bombardments, the troops were, more or less, recovered. And a lot of cities were already destroyed, so the number of battlefields wasn't that big. However, this wouldn't mean that things were going to be easy, in this coming battles, the orks would show how terrifing they could be. 





Now, I'll summarize for you some of the battles that happened in Green Hell, victories and defeats.

-The battle of Or-78: The attack to this settlement was led by the pony sub-representantive Sunny Starscout (she refused to be the new first representative, so ponies at this moment had only one creature at the Council).

This caused an interesting situation, since, everycreature knew that Sunny was always nice and positive, likely to help others and being peaceful. Since she arrived, she had been uprising the moral in ALL the fleet. But it makes some creatures to tend to forget how POWERFUL she is.

This believe became very shocking when everycreature saw the beast Sunny was in battlefield! Left behind were the days when she only knew how to summon some shields, she was showing her skills at her maximum level, turning bullets into glitter, destroying tanks with the flora magic of earth ponies, causing great wind bursts, throwing magical beams and destroying everything on her way with her iconic double-edged war axe. It was amazing!

The battle in Or-78 was brutal, giant and very violent! Orks found themselves trapped on crystal or stone prisons, and the equusians were being burned, exploded, stabbed, but none of both sides dared to turn or hold back.

However, orks were taking advantage, their movements were erratic and the power of belief was helping them (giving also some fun situations). But in a great movement, Sunny ordered the withdrawal and her troops left the city.

Why was this a master movement? Well, because of what would came after that.

Sunny commanded the artillery to maintain all the orks inside the city to erradicate them all with only one attack. Meanwhile the combat-drones distracted the anti-aircraft defenses, a lot of flying creatures reunited enough high over the city to avoid being shot and put together all the clouds they could.

After that, the plan was ready. With a lot of freezing arrows (the ones used in the Equestria games) the immense cloud formed over Or-78 was rapidly turned into a giant ice Block, which fell directly to the city.

Pum! Victory!

-The battles of Or-65, Or-98 and Or-76: This three battles are known by being the most humiliating defeats of the entire war.

First, Or-65 was special, this settlement was an underground city, built inside big and dark caves. Here the orks had an overwhelming advantage, since they knew the city perfectly, and caused several collapses, which forced the invaders to go directly towards a great ork defense. 

They thought they could pass through them with their tanks and the help of a cubed giant (silly them). 

Of course, that didn't work. The few survivors described what happened after that as an unforgetable CARNAGE.

Then another official came to help, and surprised by the crushing defeat, decided to detonate a good quantity of powerful explosives, which buried the city under kilometers of rocks. This simple resolution is what made this humiliant. 

What happened in Or-98 could be described as:

"HOW ARE THOSE DINO-SQUIGS GOING SO GODDAMNED FAAAAST?!?!?!?!" And "Everyone thinks they're a big deal until the city starts to walk."

Yes, what happened with Or-98 wasn't being defeated by orks trying to take their settlement, it was being defeated by orks mobile settlement.

SOMEHOW, those bastards managed to give LEGS to one of their cities. The Meks had have a good day. 

So this MONSTER travelled through the planet and destroyed several equusian bases. Yes, it was a lot smaller compared to other ork cities, but it had GODDAMNED LEGS!!! 

Oh, and did I mention the city was led by a weird joint work between Snakebites and some speed lobers? They hade tremely fast squiggoths ready for WAAAAGHH!!

This thing was never destroyed. But it was restricted. However, that's for later to explain. Just have clear, that beast was unstoppable.

Lastly, Or-76. No one really knows how did it get to this, but everything there was a total CHAOS. Explosions everywhere, fires, an ork was using a cubed giant after stealing it, equusians painted with green, squigs drinking tea with gretchins, orks with different colors (SHINY) and some reports about giant green feet.

Finally, an immense explosion devoured the city, leaving no more than a burning radioactive crater. How this happened is unknown, but it was declared that each 27th of May, there would be a minute of silence to remember this destruction.





What weren't defeats were the battles led by Terror. His name had a lot of sense, anywhere he fought was soon hit by a wave of destruction. 

People learned to like him. Yeah, he was terrifying and intimidating and maybe not the best person, but he knew how to satisfy enormously his warriors. 

Something he liked to do was getting some orks as prisoners and using them as, punching bags, training dummies, etc. Basically, he let his warriors, usually in groups, to punch the prisoners as much as they wanted, what was incredibly good for moral.

It is said, that when an ork with capacity of realizing spells (Weirdboyz), appeared, then he would do ANYTHING to capture them. And what he did with them once trapped wasn't nice at ALL.





During months they've been preparing for this, and the moment had come.

1.6.10012 a.C. the Siege to Or-Max, the ork capital, biggest, and coolest city, began.





Or-Max was located on a mountain range in the planet's northern hemisphere and protected by a giant wall, which prevented any form of getting in. For not mention the immense field of 2 km that also surrounded the city, full of mines, traps, holes and more. The city possesed a safe water source coming from springs in the mountains.

Everycreature expected a great resistance from the most fortified city on the planet, not only that,  the Warboss was there, so they also had to face a great militar mind. And that's exactly what they found.

The battle began and both sides were giving EVERYTHING. Bursts of bullets and magical shots flew through the air, the noise of the explosions was basically background music, the war vehicles rammed into each other and the sky burned in flames while the drones charged and the ships launched everything they had from very low orbit (they were even visible from land).

2 WEEKS of pure tenacity, courage, blood, sweat and tears were required to finally set a bomb at the wall, which when exploding, created a hole to enter.

The next step would be the operation KABOOMBA!

This operation consisted in ubicating various ultra-POWERFUL bombs of massive destruction in different parts of Or-Max, leaving the city in ruins and making the conquest a lot easier.

And what were orks doing?

Well, going to the battlefield and shooting everything that moved, of course, what else would they do? They were just there, causing troubles with the Mega Dreads and cleaning zones of equusians.

A lot of different groups were deployed to set the bombs, which were protected by a coating to avoid being damaged by orks. Sadly, some of this groups couldn't complete their mission and had to be replaced.

One very important for the story was the squad led by Queen Flamellus.





Flamellus squad was hiding in a semi-ruined building, preparing a powerful bomb just as Operation KABOOMBA specified. This was the third one they set, after ending with the first, Flamellus decided to go help other squads and set the bombs together.

The waves of orks had proven to be very troublesome, but with skillful aim, the queen was picking them off one by one. Some were hit by normal bullets, while others were hit by magical lasers coming from the representative's curved horn, either way, they were all being eliminated.

Suddenly, another ork appeared apparently from nowhere and shot against Flamellus. The tiny explosion from the projectile was stopped by the magical shield of her combat armour, although it may wouldn't handle 2 other shot like that one. The impact made Flamellus made a little backwards.

Her armour wasn't very different to an average soldier's combat armour, resistent plates to protect important parts, a more flexible frabic at the joints to allow free movement and its characteristic white color, some had other colors to take some advantage of the orkish power of belief though, but that seems to work less with less orks. The only difference was its size, as she was bigger than the average soldier, so was her armour, but it still covered all parts of her body, although with a special function to allow her spread the wings and fly.

Soon this ork was destroyed by the shoots of the Queen's comrades. Unfortunately, another wave of orks were approaching to their position.

"Hey! How much ready do you have that thing?!" She asked, almost furious due to the delay of those who assembled the bomb.

"ALMOST!!! We only have to install the last protective layer!" 

Flamellus growled, because they would have to face all those orks that came. For this, their actual guns wouldn't be enough, so the biggest of changelings decided to use another kind of weapon. A machine gun with petrifier spells, this hasn't been utilized before because it had a low shooting capacity and needed to recharge after using it, probably that wouldn't happen until after finally setting the bomb.

Flamellus took the weapon with her scarlet magic, pointed at the orks and began to shoot, the rays hit and turned a lot of them to stone. She and the rest of the soldiers stopped the ork advance long enough to finish setting the bomb.

"DONE!"

"Good, now come and help us restrain this things! I already called a ship to come and pick us up!" Flamellus commanded.

The equusians stood in their position long enough to see the ship coming. At this moment, the machine gun was already without ammunition and stopping the orks were increasingly harder. 

However, a powerful ork projectil crashed against the rescue ship, going through all its defenses and making it fall.

"Shi...!!" Flamellus tried to curse before getting an explosion in front of her face and falling back. Quickly she got up and thought in what to do next, they couldn't stop the orks, although she could try to make a quick teleportation spell and get everyone out of there. However, she couldn't save each soldier nor know where exactly would they end after the spell.

Suddenly, some orks began to shout strong and clearly: "HERE COMEZ DA FLIEY SPIKY HORZE!" And a yellow explosion hit the greenskins, vaporizing almost everyone at the moment. The soldiers saw impressed how their salvation swooped down towards the surviving orks and eliminated them with fierce blows to the head.

Flamellus couldn't believe what she was seeing, in front of them, there was what seemed to be an... alicorn! Yes, it was an alicorn killing all the orks! The misterious pony was covered with an improvised armour made with ork scrap, it had several spikes and irregular parts, its hooves were covered with knifes and other sharp objects, the same with the wings.

The alicorn turned to the soldiers and with extreme velocity went to them, charging a spell.





Everycreature was teleportated to what seemed a little house of scrap metal and other materials with no windows, doors, or any kind of exit. 

The misterious warrior took her helmet off and revealed her identity.

IT WAS FLURRY HEARTH! SHE WAS ALIVE!!!

B-But how?!?! What happened to her?! How did she end up there?! Why she reveales herself now?!

I will answer those questions right now.





As you will remember, Flurry Hearth disappeared when she went to reflect on the war and an orkish ambush surprised her. No one knew exactly what happened there.

The reality was that when the orks attacked her, the alicorn had to defend herself and charged against her attackers, killing some of them. At this point, she already knew that this situation required violence and in the future, she would not only think that this war was necessary, she wanted to fight and exterminate orks.

The battle didn't last long. A grenade surprised Flurry and the distraction was used by an ork to knock her out with a strong blow to the back of the head.

However, the greenskins didn't kill her. At those moments the orks were really bored fighting the equusians, due to the exagerated use of range weapons. Seeing someone who gave a good battle and killed some boys, a badmoon there convinced the others to give her to one of Green Hell's coliseums, in exchange for some teeth to buy more weapons.

Next time Flurry woke up, she did inside a stone chamber, where it smelled like death. There were weapons and bones, after some minutes, the giant gate made of iron bars rised, letting the alicorn see what waited there. She left, summoning a shield with her weak magic, due to the unexplicable fatigue.

Flurry stayed shocked in front of the view, orks shouting, some even shooting to others, reunited around an arena. "Of course..." She thought. "They have a coliseum." The only way to survive there was fighting, flying to escape wasn't an option, since no one could avoid all the shots of the orks while doing that.

Her enemy appeared at the other side of the arena, a giant ork with an axe and some scrap metal to cover himself. Just some moments afterwards, the alicorn found herself running, trying to dodge the attacks from the ork gladiator, who attacked as a berserker,  while also the shots of some orks, who attacked due to her apparent cowardy.

Jumping between the rocks of the disordered arena, Flurry managed to avoid a devastating blow from his enemy, the force was such that the axe remained embedded in the ground. The ork was noisy (as always), trying to get the weapon out of him. Meanwhile, the equusian decided to use some earth pony magic, since it never needed too much energy, to grow a plant, which hit the ork's arm, causing him to lose his grip on the axe. This was taken advantage of by Flurry, who with a pull of her magic, grabbed the axe, and in one swift movement, slammed it against her enemy's head.

This was just one of the multiple fights which Flurry had to survive. During a long time, it was all fight after fight, from which she always came out the winner. Of course, she wanted to escape, but flying away was not an option, and if she tried to teleport, she didn't know where she would end up. She was saving her energy, learning to use various Ork weapons and protecting herself with some pieces of metal and other materials that she found.

Her fights became more flashy, attracting the attention of more and more chaotic crowds of orks. They called the alicorn "DA FLIEY HORZE" or "THE LAZERS CUZZIE", a gladiator worth of respect.

Finally, Flurry decided it was time to escape. With her powerful magic powers made a plan, she would be sigil and flee creating a tunnel. Locate herself and, after that, somehow find her people.

However, things didn't go as planned. It turns out that while she was escaping some orks discovered her and a fight broke out. One thing led to another and well... they returned to the arena, where an ultra-violent fight broke out against Flurry. Her only option was to try to fly as high as possible and escape.

Unfortunately for her, at that moment a very special ork was present there, who had come to see a good fight, but now he had the opportunity to have one.

The Warboss jumped from his seat, quickly catching up to the alicorn as she flew. With a powerful pistol strapped to her left arm, he fired, and managed to knock down the resplendent yellow shield that protected the equusian. Flurry was surprised by this, and quickly turned to locate her attacker, as did the rest of the orks, who upon seeing their boss in action, stopped shooting and chargimg towards the fugitive to remain expectant in front of the fight about to begin.

Before Flurry could react, the Warboss managed to land a blow on her with his right ork claw, a blow that sent her straight to the ground. After hitting the ground, Flurry made some plants grow, using the roots to hit the Warboss, who had already fallen to the ground. These were easily cut by the ork, who did not stop his advance. The alicorn fired a laser from his horn, but the magic only bounced off the ork's armor. At that moment, a bullet grazed his hair, making him feel a deep sense of danger. She quickly created a new shield, which couldn't stand much either. 

Seeing his desperate situation, Flurry launched one last ray of magic towards the ork while preparing another spell, this one was much more powerful than the previous one, and managed to stop and damage the ork. When the Warboss looked back at where his enemy was, she had already disappeared by teleporting. However, a scream could be heard coming from the destroyed coliseum:

"I'll get you horze! This iz NOT over! Ai'll FIGHT YOU!!!"

During the next days, Flurry had to look for various shelters in Or-Max to rest and regain strength, after that, she would leave the city. But everything did not turn out to be so easy, because the orks were looking for her to finish her off, and they always managed to discover all her hiding places, which always ended in a fight.

She also tried to escape many times, sneaking into ships or other vehicles, but as you can imagine, she was discovered in each attempt. In addittion, Big Punch'er began a search to find her and fight her, so they always ended up discovering her hiding places, and more than once he had to defend himself from the Warboss again (mostly fleeing). It was like playing the cat and the mouse. Practically 2 years after arriving in Or-Max, Flurry was able to meet someone she knew once more, after saving Flamellus and her group.

Everyone was safe in Flurry's underground hideout, with a lot of quesions too though. Finally, Flurry told her story and, although Flamellus had some more questions, she could clearly see that all that time in Green Hell didn't affect the alicorn positively. Paranoia could be felt in her voice and her eyes and that condition may made her don't think always very good.





"Okay, Flurry," Flamellus turned towards the alicorn, with a serious and determined look. "We need to escape now. We've set a lot of bombs to destroy the city and I wouldn't like that any of us dies today. We have to be quick."

"I completely agree with you, but... it won't be easy. I already told you how I failed spectacularly doing that." 

"I know. But there's a difference now." She said, pointing to her soldiers  who were prepared with all their weapons. "We have guns," Flamellus added.

"Yeah. Me too," Flurry answered with indifference, levitating next to her two ork guns. 

"...Aaaand a map!" The queen showed an holografic representation of the city and its surroundings. "These points you see here are some of our camps around Or-Max. I've already used a lot of magic fighting the orks. Do you please to..." 

Flamellus' mischievous smile was interrupted when he felt another sudden teleportation.  Around him now were several Equusians around a table with a map of the city and the bomb positions marked. Everyone present was surprised to see the entire squad there, but they were even more shocked to see that Flurry was with them. Everyone, except the other alicorn in the room, who with a smile said:

"I told you."





As you already know, during the 1st War for S.T.-s it was long believed that Flurry Hearth, the pony representative on the Council, had been killed by the orks in an ambush.

Nothing could be further from the truth, she had managed to survive, and after a long time having to survive the orks in his CAPITAL city, she managed to return to his people.

When she reappeared, the reactions were varied, but mostly positive. Many, upon hearing what she had had to do at Or-Max (it is even said that she had to eat squigs), decided to pledge their loyalty to her and show her the deepest respect, such as Thunderwill and other officers. While the more suspicious came to believe that this could be an otk ploy to deceive them and that the real Flurry was still dead, although this never escalated into anything further.

However, there was no time for any kind of celebration, since project KABOOMBA was almost ready to give results. The plan the equusians planned for weeks (even before of starting the siege to Or-Max).

The plan was finally ready, and at that moment, the button was pressed to detonate all the bombs. Each soldier had placed themselves in a safe place with the necessary protections, and not long after, a white glow dominated the earth, which echoed with the great wave of destruction released a few seconds ago. They had won.

If things were just so simple.

Suddenly, from the ruins of Or-Max, something was heard despite the fire and devastation, a powerful cry of fury:

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHH!!!!!!!"

Of course, some survived. But they weren't just any orks, no. Flurry recognized that scream, it is the same one he had heard when facing him so many times before. It was the Warboss. Big Punch'er.

Quickly, all the possible forces were sent to eliminate those surviving orks.





The last assault on Or-Max surrounded the few buildings that, due to their great resistance, had resisted the explosion, where the strongest Orks were waiting for their enemies for a GREAT last battle. The buildings were strong enough to resist more bombardments, so the only way to end them was going there to fight.

When the equusians arrived, the Rinno tanks didn't wait to throw their projectiles to the orks position, unleashing, with the help of the troops attacks, a rain of devastating fire.

The orks soon came out of their hiding led by Big Punch'er and counter attacked.

In the battlefield, the strength, madness and desire to fight of the orks allowed them to give some truly destructive hits, but the unity and coordination of the equusians was being the key to win against the unorganized greenskins.

Now I'll pass to narrate some fights.





The scene: A hallway filled with darkness and full of corpses.  The dead Equusians had their armor pierced, not to mention other things.

The responsible: A savage ork wielding an exaggerated sword. He had killed all those cuzziez doing almost impossibly agile acrobatics, bouncing and jumping off the walls of the corridor.

After finishing, the ork decided to exit the building and go join the others in another fight. But when he was heading to the exterior, all light suddenly disappeared. A decrease in the temperature could be felt and the almost imperceptible shadows seemed to be moving. The atmosphere was as uncomfortable as it was creepy, something was going to go wrong.

The ork tried to continue, but realized he could no longer feel his right leg. Looking down, he noticed the fog that covered the ground and the stone embedded next to his skin in the shape of a boot. When he tried to run, he fell on the ground.

He quickly grabbed his gun and fired into the darkness without stopping, receiving nothing but silence in return. He didn't give up and threw a grenade at whatever was there. When it exploded, the ork heard a cry of pain and surprise accompanied instantly by a bright blue beam that crossed the hallway, reaching its target and turning his entire trunk, leg, and arms into stone, leaving only his head free.

"Aghhh. That grenade actually surprised me. I actually don't like light that much, you know?" The creature said. It was like a horse, but made of a dark gas, its eyes were shining blue and its voice hoarse, tired, like that of someone old, but still with a looot of life.

"I don't have resons to talk to you. I'm supposed to kill you fast, but I like to monlogue when I'm alone."

"Your kind is truuuly interesting. That desire for war. That madness of lifestyle. That lack of feeear. Even when death is in front of you. Even when everyone close to you is condemned to die. Even when your species may be one step away from extinction. Fear is impossible to be found in your souls. Of course I know that you orks won't extinct," You could feel the contempt when mentioning the green aliens. "I've discovered that not long before starting the attack to your messy city. But I will deal with that later, telling it RIGHT NOW doesn't make a lot of sense, don't you think? You're all gonna die anyway, meeting the PEACE of death," The Umbrum looked at the eyes of hus prey, searching for something... that wasn't found.

"Agh! Well, you see..." Terror stepped his hoof on the petrified chest of the fallen ork and began to press. "I find that resistance to fear... FASCINATING. And it gives me a clear objective right now."

"I'll make you feel terror."

The force exerted on the stone, it broke it, leaving some pieces of rock attached to a dead head.





In the exterior, Flamellus saw the current situation, there were fights everywhere. There, two cubed giants cornered a Mega Dread, and there, a few soldiers holding their position against the orks to protect a damaged tank.

When the orks came out of hiding, she thought about ordering a retreat to bomb them safely, but either the orks returned to their base or followed them. And the changeling didn't believe it would take long to reach them. However, she decided to look for the entrances to the building that resisted operation KABOOMBA and cover them, so the fungi men would no longer have access to their safe place.

She had already covered two and was looking for a third when had to deal with an ork armed with a minigun and a grenade launcher. Flamellus changed her front legs into strong tentacles, creating a gap in the ork's defense as he separated his arms. The changeling quickly spit out a green slime from her mouth to the eyes of the ork, blinding him. Then charged towards him, baring his fangs. When she was little, a batpony thaught her to fight and protect herself in the streets, using as principal weapon the fangs. As she advanced on his enemy, he bit her neck so hard that separated the head from the neck, finishing off the ork.





A thunder resounded, carrying with it a powerful bolt of lightning that crossed the sky until it reached Lightning Strike. The sword was charged with energy coming from the electricitied clouds above it and with one fluid movement from its wielder, it sliced ​​and charred the bodies of three now-dead orks.

Then, Thunderwill, riding Thunder Jotnar, used his missile launcher to devastate a tank and its left machete to hit strongly a war walker next to him, which was finished soon. 

The cubed giant continued its way, taking down some ork kopters, when Thunderwill saw a big explosion near. 

He quickened his pace to get there and when he got there, he had to stop when he saw how the head of a Squiggoth fell in front of him. Looking at where he came from, he saw the rest of the greenskin, torn apart and turned into minced meat by one of his superiors, who had insisted on going into battle alone so as not to put other soldiers in danger.

Sunny Starscout stood next to the corpse, looking somewhat tired, which was not surprising considering the mini jungle full of ork corpses behind her. The orange pony's crestfallen gaze turned happy seeing the warrior arrive at her position and quickly began a dialogue.

"Hey! Hi Thunder!" She said, smiling. "What are you doing here?"

"Greetings Sunny Starscout, I headed here after seeing a loud explosion, I thought it must be important," He mentioned with a neutral, almost robotic tone. "However, it is good your presence was enough to control the situation."

"Oh yes. That was a missile launcher that I had to dodge. But yeah, things here have been solved, and guess what? It was a lot easier with a song!" She chored happily. "Plus, we have great things to protect. It's not like if we could FAIL! I heard you said it before I came here."

"I feel immensively honoured for that, thanks."

"It's nothing, really. Besides, those greenskins weren't THAT hard. I mean, this little thing has never did something since I arrived, and everycreature knows it only does things when it is required," Sunny explained, pointing at the hearth-form collar she carried.

"The Rainbow of Light is surely a very misterious artifact indeed," Thunderwill suddenly heard some noises approaching, signal of trouble. "I think we should move, this zone must be cleared."

"That's right! But, ehhh... could you help me with a tiny thing?"

"Of course."

"Perfect! Look over there. There's a Gorkanaut I managed to restrain with some vines. But I can't approach enough to finish him! It's always shooting. Do you mind?"

"Consider it done."

Immediately Thunderwill prepared the magical cannon of Thunder Jotnat to shoot. This attack needed time to recharge after using it, so it was utilized only when it was required.

The purple beam came out of the canyon and continued through the Gorkanaut, making a hole on its chest and leaving it useless.

Then both left, searching together for more orks to slaughter.





During the final attack to the last ork resistance, it was thought to eliminate them with an air attack carried out by small ships at low altitudes. But this option was ruled out by the greenskins' anti-aircraft guns.

This of course did not mean that the crew of ships like Murderships Nightmare or Void Master will sit idly by. Several squads also went to help in the last assault, some led by their captains, who had decided to go down to fight. As was the case with Volkano.

Everyone knew of his special hatred of orks and his desire for revenge, although this had never consumed him and he had always maintained control. So it wasn't strange that he offered to go fight.

During the fight, the big dragon had to get involved in a fight against a great ork, and although he managed to win, he had distanced himself from his squad, which was being brutally attacked by a group of fungi men.

Volkano watched helplessly from a distance as his comrades ran out of ammunition, which would mean a quick death at ork hands.

"NO!!!!!" He shouted. "NOT AGAIN!"

With incredible speed, Volkano launched himself towards his companions. The orks had already taken his best friend from him, he wouldn't let them take even one more life in front of him. Not if he could do something.

When Spacestar died, Volkano wasn't fast enough to protect him from the orks or to carry him to the nursery on time. That would not be repeated.

With impenetrable determination, Volkano managed to arrive on time. He stepped between his men and the orks, taking all of their fire with his back and spreading both wings to protect the others. This continued until the orks stopped their fire for a small and miserable moment, enough time for the equusian members of the squad to firmly hold their weapons, and with the little ammunition they had left, finished off the orks present there.

Then they turned to Volkano, he was still there, in the same place and in the same position with which he had defended his squad, receiving all the shots from the orks. Seeing him so still and with his face dull, everyone feared the worst.  Fortunately, a doctor who was with them declared that the dragon was not dead, but unconscious. Even so, he remained standing. But of course, they had to urgently get him treated properly, which they did immediately.





At the top of one of the orks buildings, there was a terrace, extensive and strangely clean. It was going to be the scene of an incredible duel. A duel that would mark the end. 

On one siiiiide!!! The great, green, big bad Warboss of orks! Biiiiiiiiig Punch'eeeeeer!!!!!!! And on the otheeeeer! The alicorn of war! The crystal princess and first representative of ponies! Flurryyyyy Heaaaaaaarth!

"Oi, ya came again to beat me Fliey Horze?! Well, Ai'nt gonna be eazy to taek down!" Big Punch'er exclaimed, looking at his opponent. "Y'know? Your cuzziez rilly are cowards!" He shouted,  intoning contempt in the last word. "They jas shot down from thei-"

Flurry Hearth, who had stayed quiet while Big Punch'er spoke, suddenly interrupted him with a magic blast coming from a huge gun held with telekinesis. 

"You won't talk anymore!"

The ork defended himself blocking the shot with his right arm, his powerful claw was petrified a few seconds later, becoming completely useless. He removed it and threw it away, taking a big choppa and preparing for the fight!

Flurry continued shooting with other weapons she carried, since the petrifying gun needed some time to rest and recharge. The bullets found their target, but Big Punch'er didn't look really affected by them and pointed his left gun at the alicorn, ready to fire.

"Not again," Flurry whispered, and disappeared in a yellow bright. 

She reappeared at the orks right, summoning too a melee weapon. A spear. The spear had been the most characteristic weapon in Equestria and the Crystal Empire for generations, it was a weapon whom she had grown fond of. Hers specifically had a sharp tip like no other made from the purest crystals that could be found in the frozen north, every inch of the spear was tough as a diamond. Of course, over time it had undergone modifications and improvements.

She pointed with her weapon towards the ork and a powerful yellow energy covered the spear, her magic was being canalized to shoot a powerful beam.

Big Punch'er was able to dodge the new attack and run to crush the alicorn. Then, something resembling a sword duel ensued. The ork was trying to attack with his choppa and Flurry defended herself by using his spear to block it and vice versa. Trying to land one more blow, Big Punch'er's choppa was met with a semi-translucent magical shield, which blocked his attack and left Flurry's spear free. She stabbed the gun into her enemy's arm, attempting to disable it as she fired a magical laser at point-blank range at her opponent.

Big Punch'er stepped back and observed how the alicorn jumped over him, propelling herself with a flap of her wings. The horn on Flurry's forehead began to shine, and a flashy magic aura also enveloped the ork.

Flurry landed behind Big Punch'er's back and quickly lifted him into the air, launching him off the platform and causing him to fall to his death.

The ork tried to shoot at her, but because of the stabbing in his weapon, the gun exploded violently, making him lose his choppa and continue falling.

Flurry observed as the giant ork disappeared, relaxing a bit. She still was tense, was this the end? Maybe. 

Of course not.

From the abyss beyond the edge of the terrace, the sounds of something climbing could be clearly heard, and instantly, Big Punch'er reappeared on the battlefield, landed heavily after jumping, and shouted:

"It needs MORE to kill me, cuzzie!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!!!" He headed for his enemy with an extreme velocity. Flurry tried to avoid him or counter attack, but before she could even realize, the Warboss hit her forcefully on her chin with his bare green hands, making her lift off the ground for a few seconds before being grabbed by the neck and slammed into the ground with overwhelming force.

"Aaagh!" Flurry complained as the ork's large boot crushed her abdomen, leaving her motionless on the ground and pushing the crystal spear away from its owner.

Big Punch'er continued punching her with great strength, fulling the alicorn's face with blood and leaving it with bruises and open wounds before preparing a final blow with his boot crushing the pony's head.

However, Flurry wasn't beaten. She used the earth pony magic to grow inadvertently several plants to defend herself. The vines attacked the ork and freed Flurry Hearth, who quick, but with a great effort, stand up once more.

"THAT isn't enough to take me down either!" She shouted furiously.

Overcoming the IMMENSE pain she felt throughout her body, Flurry began to use her magic to perform various healing spells on herself and propelling herself with her wings, she pounced on Big Punch'er.

As she approached, she managed to land a few punches before Big Punch'er threw a punch at her, this collided with another punch from Flurry and the encounter caused a shock wave that sent both in opposite directions.

The alicorn braked with force with her hooves and made more vines grow to attack her ork enemy. When one of these hit the green giant, instead of being injured, he grabbed the large plant with both arms and with enormous strength, tore it from the ground. He immediately spun around, still holding the plant, which he used as a kind of whip to attack his rival.

Flurry flew away until she collided with some rubble, barely opening one of her eyes, she managed to see how Big Punch'er was preparing to charge against her, and between them was her spear.

Her magical grip caused the spear to float and head towards the ork at great speed until it finally hit and passed through his left shoulder, but apart from some moans of pain and exhaustion, Big Punch'er still seemed to have great energy.

The alicorn cast an incendiary spell on him, and the ork had no other idea than to block it with his right arm, which quickly began to burn. Flurry then charged his horn with powerful magical energy and released a powerful laser that pulverized Big Punch'er's left arm and cracked the ground.

This time, Big Punch'er couldn't avoid scream of pain. "It iz done! You fights good, but Ai end you NOW!!!" Even with the spear stuck, the ork headed with overwhelming force and without slowing down towards Flurry, who defended himself by summoning various lightning bolts from his horn, which swept across the battlefield.  Even so, the ork didn't stop and just shouted more "WAAAAAGH!"

Flurry stopped her spells and raised a shield to protect herself from the ork's attack, but he did something she didn't expect.  Instead of using her fists, the Warboss ripped the spear from her shoulder with his burning arm and used it to smash the shield through Flurry's abdomen, pinning her to the rubble.

Flurry's scream echoed with pure pain, and only grew louder the deeper the grinning ork drove the spear into Flurry's flesh. Finally, Flurry gave her all and used the power of his vocal cords to maximum power, unleashing a tremendous sonic scream that stunned her attacker. (Like the one she made when she was a baby)

"Aaaaaaahh! My holez!" Big Punch'er backed away, covering one ear with his flaming hand and stopping his attack on Flurry. Then sparks erupted from his horn, and rays of magic surrounded her. She was charging her final attack.

Her eyes lit up and his horn was surrounded by a glowing aura of pure energy as a yellow, white, and violet sphere appeared above him.

Flurry looked at the ork who chased her for more than a year and  terrorized her people with a frown and clenched teeth. The ork noticed what the alicorn was doing, he couldn't dodge it. With a furious smile, he said:

"It wus... a good FIGHT!"

His head disappeared, exploded by a powerful beam that left behind only ork blood and a clear crystalline formation.
> The Dark Age: "Some rest"
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

There are maaaaany things that Equusians excel at, but without any doubt, celebrating is one of the things they do best.

They celebrate everything, and their parties are always impressive, big celebrations usually to remember something specific.

Of course, after winning a war like the one they had just experienced, they were going to celebrate in style. (After raising a monument in honor of all those killed during the war, all of them would be remembered as heroes)

After spending so much time in space, it was a great relief for everyone to return home, Equus. The vast majority had returned to celebrate, relax and go to the therapist, although some still stayed in the Sky Treasure system, it couldn't just be abandoned.

But returning to what is important, on June 30th, 10012 a.C. it was declared the day without green and shortly after (when the mirror portal opened again) the festival in question was celebrated.

Both alicorns, Sunny Starscout and Flurry Hearth, were enjoying the party, sat together and looking at the rest of the creatures while chatting.

"It is good to be back home. Are you feeling better?" Sunny asked, worrying about her friend.

"Yes. All here is so... peaceful. It's a feeling I thought I forgot," Flurry answered with a little calmed smile.

"That's great. But I was also referring to your physical state," She pointed out all of Flurry's bandages around her body.

"Oh, that. Yeah, it's good. I might still have to use some things, but the doctor cleared me, so..." 

"Well, I hope you recover completely soon."

After that short dialogue between the two, Sunny noticed how Flurry seemed... scared, so to speak, or in a trance. Her face held an expression of shock and concern, still and staring directly into a dark corner.

"Hey, what happens?" Sunny asked worried, tilting her head to get a better look at Flurry and try to get her attention.

"Flurry!"

"What? Sunny? Oh. Sorry, I was..." Sunny saw her friend confused and sweating, quickly worrying even more about her condition.

"Flurry, what happened? Do you need to go to the doctor?"

"No, uhm...yes? maybe? It's just that..." Flurry raised her head again, and her hoof, to point at the dark corner he was looking at earlier. "See that corner there?" Sunny turned to the place Flurry pointed, but still didn't understand what was happening.

"There's an ork."

"WHAT?!?!" Sunny's look soon turned into one of fear, and then she turned furious and took a stance ready to fight.

"No, no! Calm down Sunny!" Flurry stopped her friend from doing something stupid and calmed her down to explain the situation correctly.

"I know there's no ork, but it just... even when the rational thing is to think that we are safe, something in my head tells me to keep being alert, to keep watching every detail, to keep hoping that something bad is going to happen. It's how I survived there." 

"Flurry..." Sunny decided to recomfort the alicorn by giving her a hug. "I can't imagine all the things you suffered there, but they won't repeat. You're not alone there anymore, the war ended. Look, go see a therapist, in these cases it's good to have professional help and never forget that you have a lot of friends ready to help you."

The crystal alicorn calmed down too, knowing that her friend was right and promised to do search professional help. Besides, she wouldn't return to Sky Treasure, at least not soon.

Sunny, on the other hand, was going to stay at Sky Treasure to supervise everything, along with other representatives, among which was Umbrum. Although Flurry doubted whether she could trust him, Sunny responded:

"Maybe he can be creepy sometimes, but when you know him well, you will see that he is not so bad and that he is trustworthy."

"The terraformation of Sky Treasures planets will be a long and hard process, so it needs a lot of supervision. Making the atmospheres of Palomino and Aris breathable won't be an easy task and it's still pending to decide what to do with the satellites of Umbru. About the reconstruction of Green Hell, well, I think it would be easier, but first we had to deal with truly learning about the planet," Sunny added to the conversation, explaining the plans for Sky Treasure in the future.

"That's great! It sounds awesome!" Flurry cheered. "I'm still worried though, out there could be more menaces."

"You don't have to worry. If there are problems, we will solve them. Just enjoy the present. This party. And focus in a hopeful future," Sunny tried to cheer her up.

"I know but... I mean, the murderships are still there. What if they come back?"

Sunny's expression became a little darker upon hearing that thought. Without a doubt, the murderships were real alien monsters, perhaps even worse than the orks.

"And not only that. The orks had space ships, what happens with that? What if more orks are out there? Or if this was just a colony?" Flurry shuddered at the possibility, as did Sunny.

But the alicorn of hope didn't stay quiet. "Then let's hope they don't come back. Anyway, I'm sure that in the improbable case out there are more orks, I'm sure they're not as much as in Green Hell."





Curious fact: the orks are one of the most common races in the galaxy. 





After the Equusian victory in the war by S.T.-s, they claimed total control over the entire system, finally achieving what had motivated them to leave. Finding new lands to settle and expand into the new space (because they were already cramped on their home planet).

Quickly began the terraformation of Palomino and Aris, as well as trying to take advantage of Green Hell and Green Skull as much as possible. The process was obviously going to be slow and time-consuming, and as for the settlements, they began as simple bases to have a roof under which to be, but in the future, they would become large cities with great population.

Things seemed to be going well, everything correct, construction work in progress, blah blah blah... Until, as it's natural, the ork spores left in the system brought new greenskins to the world.

This left the Equusians shocked. Imagine, the monstrosities they had just defeated after a 2-year war were literally rising from the ground, the fear spreaded quickly.

Fortunately, the situation was contained in a fairly good way, except for the occasional isolated incident. The new orks were much fewer in number or weaponry, although it was not easy to deal with them either.

However, this event also turned out to be an opportunity. Since not much information could really be collected about the Orks during the war, this situation was used to truly learn more about the Orks, capturing them and doing the typical scientific things. Dissect them, study them, do experiments... All of this was not something so sudden, since they first arrived at Green Skull for example, thousands of new species had to be cataloged, especially plants, such as a rare type of palm trees with branches or huge cacti.

But the biological discoveries weren't the only thing, the equusians also realized another experiment, one more... different, more... of the social ambit. As seeing that these new orks were newborns (so to speak), they thought that maybe the reason the orks were so violent was because of their breeding, and if they taught these new orks with the values of friendship, they could make them a peaceful species.

For this, a new and improvised school was built, where specialized creatures would educate the orks as any other creature, teaching the values of unity.

The orks, surprisingly, didn't resist. They heard from the equusians that friendship would give them a great strength, and what better to make a great WAAAAGHH!

However, as the lessons continued, the orks began to hate the school. It seemed too complicated, the orkish way was best! And this only got worse when the greenskins completely understood that friendship and unity were ways to achieve peace.

Not long after that, these greenskins took a lot of scrap and built some space ships, fleeing from the planet, then no ork thought that the equusians could give a good fight, they surely would cry and ask for mercy or something disgusting like that...

The equusians saw from the distance as their plan failed, orks would NEVER be a peaceful species. So it was decided, every time someone found a new place where orks were growing, call the authorities (who were searching for those places too) and they would destroy everything there, nothing should remain.

Or maybe some orks would become prisoners (for science, of course), and they would be sent to some buildings under the authority of Terror.





So, as I saw a good answer to the short stories about things that happened during the equusian-ork conflict, and I like to write those. I hope you're prepared for new funny nonsenses, not only of the orks, but also of the equusians.





The orks from Warhammer 40k are the funniest race in fiction, and I can prove it! (¡gracias por todo pemrinto!).

This occurred during a xeno war that pitted the orks against the equusians, a relative new faction in the galaxy. These reatures had an incredible musical talent, being able to play spontaneous musical numbers with great quality and extreme rapport (which has been seen several times during the series).

They did this sometimes during the battles to gain motivation and, although their opponents didn't understand it, they imitated it. And they liked it. They liked it A LOT.  It became normal on several battlefields that Orks will enjoy a good fight while listening to a good song.

Which mostly were heavy metal or rock like music. Without a great timing either, mostly just noise. But they enjoyed it.

So obviously, on several battlefields, in addition to the normal war, tremendous musical battles will be fought at the same time to see who was superior.

And, without a doubt, the most representative ork of these musical acts was the great general Morkzart von Greenthoven, a faithful worshipper of Mork.

His melodies were the fires of war, his compositions were explosions and gunshots, and his orchestra was all the boys who accompanied him. In one of his hands, he always carried a vatuta with which he directed the attacks.

The music he created was the best on this side of the sector, and even the equusians came to recognize his talent, others said that this was not real music and that they should kill him once and for all, although it was easier said than done.

Every battle he participated in was a new ork victory, the noise of his boys was simply the loudest, and the greenest. However, like all greenskins, he ended up dying, not by equusian hands/hooves/claws/whatever, but by his own doing.

In a confrontation, he managed to design a roar so big, so powerful and thunderous, so incredibly super-doped, ultra-cool and sonic, that any creature that heard it would end up with its head (or wherever it had its ears) exploding. Morkzart was no exception.

But even when he heard his deadliest creation and his head burst, the great Ork composer stood his ground, fist raised in defiance! With the last of his strength, he continued playing his latest work, pecking hard at the ground and banging his vatuta against a metal plate. That's how his final hour came.

Although this might seem like a good thing to the Equusians, they really didn't like it, as they couldn't prove that they were better than the Ork. Well, as every Ork on that planet knew, they weren't.

It is said that on some battlefields where he fought you can still hear his songs.





From the creators of I'm a tank, I'm a tank, I'm a tank...

Comes... I'm a bomb, I'm a bomb, I'm a bomb

Equusians: Oooooh... curses.


BOOM!!!


Equusians: Whe- *cof, *cof, wasn't a mountain here before?





Once, when the equusians were conquering the vast jungle on Green Skull, a bunch of orks decided to make an ambush and surprise them (boring blood axes).

For this, the orks got all kinds of camouflage and prepared hiding places, disguised as trees to attack without warning, as if they were nymphs.  (Come to think of it, I can't think of any sort of "space ninja per se")

After patuently waiting for a long time, finally, an equusian squad passed over there, stopping to rest just in the middle of the hidden orks, it was the perfect, PERFECT moment to attack!

But trees aren't supposed to move, they're supposed to stay there doing nothing. If that wasn't what they should do, why would they have disguised as trees? And that's what they did, the orks just stood there quiet and motionless.

Time passed, and the Equusian squadron continued on its way, while the orks remained like trees for days and days. Finally, shortly before death came for the now fat and sick greenskins, they realized that they were supposed to stop pretending to be trees.

That's what happens to them for not jumping into the fight like the crazy people they are supposed to be. 😤





Do you know how an ork tribe works? Well, the Warboss is of course the biggest and strongest ork of them all, and it's his duty to carry his boys to a good fight! 

But in Green Hell, that didn't seem to be what was happening. Yes, orks sometimes fight against each others, but they much prefer to combat other species. For that they need to ride their ships and explore the galaxy searching good fights. But the orks fought by the equusians were staying in Green Hell. They weren't going anywhere.

So does that mean Big Punch'er was a bad boss? No. The truth is, that the orks weren't moving because they had a good fight there! 

Every once in a while another species would visit them, although never with good intentions.  These other aliens gave the orks a good fight, so they stayed there to wait for them. Every time these other aliens arrived, they always used to take several orks prisoners, but well... who cares!  As long as there was a decent fight, everyone was happy.

But the quetion remains... who were these other aliens?

Just the most cruel, evil, depraved, aberrant, and a thousand other adjectives related to evil beings in the galaxy. Creatures that worship pain and enjoy the agony of their doomed victims, the darkest gray of the Warhammer 40k universe.


The Dark Eldar



DRUKHARI

> The Dark Age: The Days of Pain pt.1
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Days of Pain.  

They were the final stage of the Dark Age, and the most horrible since the equusians went into space.

Everyone already knows the great horror that inhabits the Warhammer 40k universe, its mercilessness towards the weak, the darkness of the distant and warlike future. But for a new faction like the equusians, who had also lived peacefully for millennia,... it is not a pleasant change.

But it must happen, knowing that the world is not rosy. And for them, that's what the Dark Age taught.

First, the murderships, or tyranids, they taught the equusians to fear what was out there. They are the cosmic APEX predator, the greatest horrors that the universe can spawn, which you cannot fight, only pray to last long enough and escape. (Although, in fact, it was the spirit of harmony that came out the most super-traumatized by all of this, having been directly connected to the hive mind)

Then, the orks. An endless green tide that feeds on war. They taught that dialogue and peace were NOT going to be the solution to all the problems and the horror of a large-scale conflict. Along with the paranoia and despair that occurs when knowing that it is an enemy that will always return.

And lastly. The drukhari. The most depraved, psychopathic, sadistic and deranged beings in the galaxy. Who gain strength by causing suffering to others, their acts are so horrendous that no other villain can compare to them. They showed the worst the galaxy has to offer, and they don't deserve any mercy, just kill them, don't waste your time.





2 years.

Another two years they believed to be at peace after defeating the orkish menace. The terraformation of Palomino and Aris were completed and the efforts to build new buildings and infrastructure have just begun.

The entire process was supervised by various representatives of the Council and a lot of creatures with experience and great knowledge. Flurry Hearth and Queen Flamellus retreated to Equus, while Sunny Starscout, Todarius Bond and Terror stayed. Not long after some other members of the Council arrived, Gorval from the gargoyles, Steelwill and Construct, representatives of minotaurs, and other great personalities. Nobility didn't stay far behind, and tried to secure new lands, as did... many creatures actually. At the end of the day, this was still a colonial effort. Although that's not important.

But peace didn't last forever. One apparently normal day, in the sky of Green Hell, a flash of black light spread across the skies. It quickly took the shape of a spiral, and with evil green flames, it transformed into what could only be described as a vortex. A portal. To the webway to be exact.

From the rift in space came a dozen flying ships, bristling with sharp blades and curved spikes. Raiders. Drukhari ships, which, to those who already know their pilots, symbolize the terror and doom.

Like the vast majority of Drukhari incursions into realspace, this one had been organized by a Kabal. This was the Kabal of the Long Jailers. A relative small Kabal from the dark city of Commoragh, led by the Archon Shalos Grieux.

They had raided the Orks many times in the past, believed to be because the Archon had a personal vendetta against them, although there were also rumors that he was afraid of confronting the Space Marines by capturing some humans, one of the drukhari's favorite species to torture. Because of this, many tried to overthrow him, since the Drukhari like to have brave and strong leaders, although they always failed, so he kept his position.

At first they were surprised to see the strange new species that had settled on the planet and defeated the orks. But they soon became very excited about all the new opportunities that had been presented to them.





The vortex formed above Eq, the largest and most important city in Green Hell, where most of the population lived. This settlement was supervised by the great Todarius Bond, although not even he could foresee what would happen.

At the beginning of this raid, Equusian defenses were low for two reasons. One, they had their guard down after 2 years of peace. Two, they hoped that, if there was an alien invasion, they could detect the invading ships within time and prepare accordingly. Not that they would appear from a portal in the sky and attack as fast as the Speed Freaks!

The city tried to defend itself as best as it could, but the crippling Drukhari attack had been too swift. Their technology was like nothing they had seen before and their tactics were not as expected either, they did not try to take strategic places to conquer the city, they simply cruelly murdered those who opposed them, leaving their bodies skinned to cause more fear among the survivors, who were later kidnapped.

In a desperate scene, Todarius attempted to defeat the head of the attack, the Archon of the Kabal. But the AI ​​was more of a strategist than a fighter and he was defeated, taken prisoner by the drukhari vehicles.

Luckily, before his defeat, Todarius was able to send a distress message to the entire system, thus warning other cities in Green Hell to raise their defenses and asking for help from the creatures on Palomino and Aris, as well as on Green Skull.

The drukhari then set off to other parts of the planet, searching for new victims. Thus they arrived at Morthex, a citadel that was protected by Thunderwill himself, ready there to put an end to the emergence of orks, which were disgustingly common in that area.

When they arrived, they found a fortified citadel, the turrets and other defense systems all activated. All creatures had received the news of an alien invasion with great fear. Thunderwill managed to give them confidence and organized everything to defend themselves, evacuating civilians to a bunker, encouraging the troops to give their all and deploying ALL the drones they had.

This time they were not going to waste time with diplomacy, they had been attacked for no apparent reason, and they were ready to fight.





The battle on Morthex was raw, the drukhari used their advanced technology, launching lasers and explosions that burned everything. The shields soon fell, the defense systems, the drones and the soldiers fought bravely trying to take down the drukhari vehicles, as Venoms or Jetbikes, along their Flyers and gravitic Tanks like the Raiders. But the fight soon changed when their warriors began to descend.

Slender pale, bipedal figures dressed in menacing-looking black suits were deployed in the citadel, their attacks were quick and direct.  They did not seem to want to take important positions, just murder and kidnap people. The warriors, who stood in their way were quickly taken over by their high-tech weapons, they filled the streets with blood of several creatures, leaving their mutilated in unimaginably atrocious ways bodies behind, so they would cause horror in the survivors, others were unluckier and were taken to the Drukhari ships as new slaves.

As his duty dictated, Thunderwill accompanied his troops to the battlefield. Summoning a magical storm, the Minotaur made a lightning come down from the skies toLightning Strike , filling it with energy.

His machine gun and missile launcher aided the air troops, and heavily crushed the Drukhari soldiers on the ground under the weight of Thunder Jotnar. Together with a squad, they were cleaning the streets of invaders, they received attacks, yes, but they managed to withstand them. Besides, the protective field around the cubed giant protected it from almost all attacks, although it wore down quickly and with each impact.

But a missile finally managed to break Thunder Jotnar's shield, causing him to fall and spreading black smoke. The squad gathered in a defensive position, ready to fight until death. The smoke dispersed, and they could see several figures behind it. A group of Kabalite Warriors, whose vehicle, a venom, lay down further ahead, led by a Sibarite and supported by an Incubus, one of the fiercer mercenaries in Commoragh and masters of the sword. This was carrying a Falchion, the ritual incubi sword.

The shooting soon began, and Thunderwill's companions had to hide behind some rubble to evade their enemies' blaster shots, while attacking as best they could. But Thunderwill pressed on, charging at the dark Eldar and making Thunder Jotnar withstand all the devastating blaster and crystalline rifles attacks.

He eliminated the warriors with several rounds from his machine gun, until the incubus attacked. It was so fast that he could barely see it.  Somehow he had managed to rise high enough to drive his sword into the central hub of Thunder Jotnar, from which Thunderwill was piloting. The sword pierced the plating and missed just a few centimeters to the right of the minotaur's head, damaging the cubed giant's vision and hindering his movements. 

The duel between the incubus and the cubed giant continued, but the Commoragh mercenary was also reinforced by the sybarite, who attempted to attack Thunder Jotnar from the rear with his blaster. Thunderwill had to give EVERYTHING to endure it, preventing the sybarite from attacking him by using his machine gun and desperately dodging his shots while he fought a sword duel with the incubus.
CLANG!
CLANG!
CLANG! 
The dark eldar seemed to be losing, although he managed to block or dodge Lightning Strike's swords, the strength and size of his opponent were overwhelmingly superior, and finally, Thunderwill managed to electrocute him with a shot of the energy accumulated in his sword. 

The incubus fell and recoiled from the attack, also enjoying his own suffering (because these degenerates do that too). Then the squad of kabalite warriors tried to attack Thunderwill, but they were surprised by the shots of the squad accompanying him, which had sneaked up behind the warriors.

The sybarite was also pushed by the shock wave created by Thunderwill as he recharged his sword with the energy of the storm with a bolt of lightning that fell from the heavens.

Thunderwill turned and crushed the sybarite under the weight of Thunder Jotnar's stomp, causing him to scream in pain (or pleasure) until his last breath. But by doing this under guard, the incubus recovered from his defeat and jumped towards Thunder Jotnar, performing dozens of cuts at brutal speed until he managed to split the base of one of Thunder Jotnar's legs.

The cubed giant staggered, spinning once more to face the swordsman. He prepared a punch and pulled out his retractable machete from his left arm. He swung the punch towards the incubus, who was once running towards Thunder Jotnar ready to attack. When he made contact, the blow created a large hole in the ground, the drukhari warrior had managed to dodge the blow and climbed onto the mecha's arm.

Just then, one of the kabalite warriors shouted and caught their attention. The fight between the Drukhari squad and the Equusian squad continued, leaving only one on each side. The drukhari in question showed how he had immobilized the earth pony that had challenged him, threatening to kill.

Thunderwill aimed Thunder Jotnar's machine gun to save his companion without harming him, enough had already died. But only that moment was enough for the incubus to climb, cutting a hole in the cabin with its Falchion and pulling Thunderwill out of it, throwing him to the street from almost 10 meters high.

With a jump, the incubus also landed and after an attempt to resist, Thunderwill was knocked unconscious by a blow with the Falchion's handle. They took him as a slave along with the earth pony, who had been left paralyzed with a cut on his spine.





Morthex was just another of the drukhari's victim sites. The citadel managed to defend itself well, but it wasn't enough. Luckily, other cities also managed to hold on, enough for Green Skull reinforcements to arrive and together they could repel the invaders. Although it is believed that this was also because they were satisfied with what they had already achieved.

Approximately 70% of the planet's population were killed, or much worse, kidnapped. The infrastructure of buildings was strongly harmed. And a lot of survivors were found poisoned by strange venoms. They had also focused for the leading creatures, military officers, settlement regents, and the representatives. Now the only Council members left in the system were Sunny Starscout, Terror, Gorval and Construct, who were on Palomino and Aris during the attack.

In other words, the equusians got the BEATING OF THEIR LIVES! (Again) Making them hide in what was left of their shacks like scared mice.

The remaining representatives gathered as quickly as their ships would allow them (which was pretty fast) to discuss VERY SERIOUSLY what the they should do.

Construct and Terror were fed up with the aliens.  They wanted to look for them. Find them. And kill them, all of them. They were not going to continue bothering them with their existence. Gorval took a more rescuer's approach, proposing ideas to save everyone who had been captured, which included his sister. While Sunny was still shocked by the drukhari behavior. None of the villains she had faced over the millennia, of which there were many, had reached such a level of cruelty. She had heard reports of some truly ruthless acts done by the drukhari in the streets, and she could only shudder at them.

The drukhari had disappeared into their ships as quickly as they appeared, closing the portal in the sky. It was believed that this could lead to some nearby point in space and several ships were sent to investigate immediately.

They searched the entire system, including the asteroid belt, but found nothing, so they decided to leave. The situation didn't really change much, the space was still... empty. Some found an asteroid field, although one ship in particular had gone far out of the system, full in fact, in the direction of where Equus was. Come on, at one point they encountered the Hive Fleet Ungulo that was floating there, since they didn't want to die and this chapter is about the Drukhari, they turned around slowly and put the turbo in to get out of there with a bang.

There was still no sign of the drukhari and it didn't look like they would find anything. They had simply disappeared, back into the webway, with all their new slaves. And the worst part was that they could not let their guard down at any time in the future, because the eldar subspecies could return for more.

Until something began to be heard over the communicators. A horrendous cacophony of suffering. Screams. Lots of screams. Those damned elves had managed to hack Equusian communications, broadcasting on all radio frequencies the screams and agony of their victims being tortured. Non-stop. All the time. For the Drukhari, this was beautiful. Physically and mentally torture your victims while ensuring that those you failed to capture suffer knowing what is happening to them. Even if they turned off all the communicators, they would still know, and they couldn't get that out of their minds. They even made sometimes some depraved "games", where they explained the situation to the equusians.

"We are going to give you the option to choose for us. Here we have two options. A small group of physically healthy (I can't say the same about their minds) adult prisoners, or even older ones, and a young puppy? Yes, puppy. Crippled and sick. We will give you the opportunity to answer this question. Who do we torture first? Be aware that you will only be buying a little time by delaying the inevitable and oh! If you don't give an answer in... 1 minute! We will torture all of them in the most painful and exciting ways possible!"

Furthermore, they had also left the Equusians incommunicado with each other.

Those Mon-Keigh weaklings have a lot of pride for defeating a bunch of greenskins, we'll let them know what the real torment is.

But there was still a small light, a beacon of hope, or of fear and despair, it depends on who you ask. If the drukhari had managed to hack into the communications, it meant they were still there, just ridiculously well hidden.

This had an impact in two different ways, on the one hand:
There's still hope, hope for vengeance!
And on the other:
We're doomed.

Both were right.
> The Dark Age: The Days of Pain pt.2
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

*Small disclaimer before starting the chapter:
Sunny's appearance is very different from MYM. She doesn't only have meaty horn and wings, she's also taller, almost as tall as Twilight was in The Last Problem. Her mane is ethereal too. Her coat and hair colors are still the same (rainbow lock included) and the feathers of her wings are red and yellow.





The sound of constant footsteps resonated with the ground. A sybarite, leader of one of the drukhari squads, approached the door, the one leading to the chamber of her Archon, Shalos Grieux, a somewhat cocky and arrogant guy (even by Eldar standards), but surely someone to fear. His tortures were fascinating to witness, or so she had heard.

The dark eldar finally entered, finding a dark room, she could barely make out the incubus acting as guard. In the center, on top of some steps, was a "throne" that the Archon had wanted to have. He had his back to the sybarite, he was pointed and tall, very elegant, plus the pieces of green skin, veins and deformed faces really gave him a touch.

"My Archon," She bowed. "I must inform thou that, despite being repelled by incoming Mon-Keigh reinforcements and that the losses and casualties have been greater than expected, our raid on these inferior beings has been a success. We have captured considerable quantities of new slaves, and due to the unique characteristics of the species that inhabit this planet, many of our warriors have already come up with very creative ways to enjoy their suffering," The drukhari could not hide her macabre smile, what's more, she seemed proud. "Some have even tried some of them on the streets of the Mon-Keigh settlements. I personally can't wait to get back to Commoragh to get started."

"Good," The voice echoed from the other side of the throne. To the sybarite it seemed more... less grave, but that didn't have to matter to her, surely it was nothing. "Send some ships back to Commoragh with the half of the captured slaves, the rest of the fleet stays here, I still have plans."

"My Archon..." She trembled. "I'd never doubt of your great take of decisions, but I don't think that would be a good idea. This kind have a great psychic power, and we surprised them now, but if we attack when they're prepared..." The drukhari tried to express her concern without seeming disobedient or traitorous, in her opinion, she was not doing very well. "I'm sure that as cautious as you are, you must imagine how that could end badly for us."

"Oh. There must have been a misunderstanding,"  The voice now seemed actually feminine, without the deep gravelly tone of Shalos, also somewhat... playful? funny? Something was wrong."You think Shalos still sits here, well, he technically does," The Archon's throne turned, bringing the drukhari sitting upon it out of the shadows. "But he is too unwell to give any orders."

The drukhari who revealed himself was not Shalos Grieux, but one of his Dracon, Khailara. In her right hand she carried the severed head of the previous Archon, using it as if it were a puppet and moving his features from within to make him make "funny" faces and gestures. The sybarite felt uncomfortable with the behaviour of the... Dracon? No, she was the new Archon now, she had overthrown the previous one by proving herself superior, that kind of thing was not unknown among the members of the Kabals, there's a reason in Commoragh you can't trust anyone. But still, she reminded her a little of the typical "jokes" of a harlequin.

The sybarite looked more closely at Khailara. She wore the ancient armor of Shalos, although deformed to fit her body and stained with blood. Her smile was mischievous, and her gaze was focused on her toy, whose incredible pain could be tasted just by looking at her empty sockets. It was not for nothing that Khailara had always been known among the members of the Kabala as one of her best torturers, although too impulsive and over-confident.

"Welp! As for your questioning about my orders..." Khailara addressed her sybarite severely, with a deceptive smile and almost brilliant emotion. The eldar's spine shook for a moment, not knowing what was going to happen. "Doesn't matter!" She continued sinisterly happy. "However, it IS a good point, the psychic thingis..."  Khailara put a finger to her lips, emulating a thoughtful pose, after what she snapped her fingers with a response. She turned to the foodie and cheerfully replied, "Don't worry! It seems like they're pretty limited in that, they just throw those little rays and so on, bluahg..." The Archon gave a hip movement before sticking her tongue out in a gesture of disgust. "Besides, we are eldar! We surpass them in every way. We just had such a great success now, be a bit more self-confident!"

Slowly, the new Archon approached her servant, with slow but constant and equally elegant steps. She crouched down to the height of her head and raised one arm. "Now be a good girl and bring me our Haemonculi friends, I'll like to talk with them about... work," She said, giving a few pats on her sybarite's head.

Before the sybarite could respond, Khailara grabbed her face tightly with his sharp nails, scratching the flesh. "By the way..." She whispered. "I REALLY DON'T RECOMMEND YOU TO CONTRADICT ME AGAIN. EVER," The sinister and strong tone filled the air with threats and the pressure was very noticeable.

Then the Archon gave her servant a quick and soft kiss on the forehead. "Okay byeeeee!" She exclaimed with a repeated wave of her hand in a cheerful tone that clashed with the previous threatening atmosphere. Khailara stood up and turned toward her throne, walking toward her with an animated dance. She jumped up and sat down, making the throne spin around and around.

The sybarite was already heading towards the exit when her leader called her again. "Oh! And also bring me some slaves and a straw! I'm thirsty," she complained childishly.





The communications that the drukhari horrifically considered "entertainment" continued to echo through the radios. The Equusians had had to resort to an ancient letter-sending spell to communicate.

As for the search for those pale aliens, it was going badly. They had used all available means to locate them, but the only thing they had learned was that they were hiding in a network of tunnels and caverns in a mountainous area to the southeast of the planet (a network that was impressively large for a natural phenomenon). Although they found the ruins of a Raider crashed and split in two by a strong explosion. Metal remains belonging to Todarius Bond had been discovered, so it was believed that he had detonated a hidden self-destruct device. His sacrifice would be mourned, along with the sufferings of all the victims.

But there was someone who knew the truth, that the equusians couldn't find the Drukhari. At least not before they decided to strike again and unleashed the horror again.

Terror knew.

He managed to convince the rest to let him fortify a city, gathering ALL the forces present there to fight the drukhari. This city was Plainlod, located in a vast and empty steppe, making surprise attacks impossible. Plus, they would only have to defend one city, which would allow them to prepare incredibly well and give the Drukhari a hard time.

"The Drukhari will head here, soon or after, but it will be in not too long. However, this time WE are prepared. Our artillery rises, our ships keep watching, our defenses will give them nightmares, and our soldiers will fight with such bravery that-" 

"Actually, they say they don't want to fight."

"Wha-WHAT?!" Terror turned to his recent new assistant, the last one was killed during the first drukhari raid, or he hoped so. She was an abada called Laun, with a great sense of humor, apparently.

"Yeah. They say, and I quote 'We're not crazy enough to go fight the masters of eternal torment.'" She explained.

"Ugh," Terror realized. "What cowards!" He shouted. "I mean, don't they want to... revenge the fallen?! Aren't they angry and furious?! Don't they want to free their hate against those pain-lovers?!"

"Aaahhh... I wasn't here, but wasn't it that hate, anger and the desire for revenge led to several defeats against the orks and, ultimately, did not bring us anything good?"

"Nooooo," Terror snorted. "Getting carried away  by hate, anger and revenge and losing control in the battlefield led our troops to great mistakes and failures," He explained. "But those feelings are still a great source of motivation and strength that should be used correctly."

"Anyway, they say we should just bombard them with our greatest bombs and launch missiles."

"..."

"..."

"I see how that might seem like a good idea, but it's actually very stupid," Terror announced, indignant at the ineptness of the idea. "Tell me Laun..." He approached his assistant, his brow boiling with fury. "Have you ever seen an Ork ship?" He asked. Laun shook his head in denial. She had arrived in S.T.-s after the war against the orks. Terror then proceeded to make some gestures with her hoof, as if tracing a figure in the air. "They're big, clunky, and slower than our missiles. Plus, the orks liked a good explosion, so they didn't actively try to dodge them," Terror continued. "Now, think about one of those Drukhari ships, they're small, fast and have shields. If we throw something at them, they'll probably dodge it or it won't do anything to them," He finished.

"Uhh-" His assistant hesitated, trying to say something before this time, she was interrupted.

"And don't even start with the 'accelerating bullets with super speed, as well as ships' thing. That. Is. STUPID! You know how much damage that would cause if it goes wrong? An explosion of that magnitude would be catastrophic!"

"Whoa..." The abada seemed confused, but she understood her boss's reasoning, even so...

"What?"

"Well... you know you have this great reputation for being intimidating and scary. But now you seem like just a guy irritated because he thinks everyone else is a bunch of fools."

"First," He answered rising his hoof. "They are. Second, I am scary. On the battlefield, to distract our enemies. Now there's no necessity for that."

"But yeah. It irritates me. Because they say things like that without thinking. If they don't fight, I bet we lose. If we lose, they capture us. And if they capture us, we'll all wish we'd died on the battlefield."

"Oohhh...." Laun realized. "OH NO."

"Exactly, haven't you heard the retransmissions of their tortures?" Terror asked.

The assistant shuddered at the mention of those things. "I... I don't think I have the stomach for that."

"Anyway, go tell the soldier what I just told you," The umbrum continued. "Or I'll have to go there myself, and THEN I'll be scary."





Terror's strategy was followed and all equusian forces gathered at Plainlod for the fight.  Everyone was ready and willing to give their lives if necessary (after a "talk" with Terror).

Finally, their ships were seen in the sky, Venoms and Raiders approaching to Plainlod, unleashing a shower of dark light from his dark lances, only for his shots to be stopped by a huge magical protective shield, which Sunny Starscout, along other 20 powerful magicians summoned to defend the city.

Then the cannons and turrets arranged at the edges of the shield began to attack the drukhari ships, firing volley after volley of explosive projectiles and magical spells. The soldiers were not far behind either, and they fired again and again with their weapons trying to take down the drukhari. Some ships also went down enough to defend the city, although they were lacking of the same protection as the equusian settlement, they were located further away.

But of course the dark eldar had plans to counter the magical shields, a wonderful idea from the new and more daring Archon of the Kabal.

On the inside, the group of magicians and sorcerers led by Sunny continued reinforcing the shield, although the task was arduous and it was increasingly difficult to stay on their feet, they had to continue with all their strength, or one of their greatest advantages would go to waste.

Sunny watched the group, each creature giving their best effort, sweat ran down their foreheads and she could see how their muscles were trembling, already 3 of them had fallen limply to the ground. They were still unaware of the situation outside, only that the attack continued and so should they.

But then, something big hit the shield, they could feel it. They didn't know what it was, but they knew it was dangerous. The noses and ears of some of them, whether unicorns, kirins or centaurs, began to bleed. Sunny began to use even more of her alicorn magic to maintain the shield, but after a while continuing to endure the pain, with her being the last one standing in the room, her last defense, she too gave in. And Plainlod was left at the mercy of the drukhari.

What the sorcerers in that chamber did not know was that it had not been the drukhari who brought down the shield with their advanced technology. No, it had been shattered with equusian magic, magic that came from outside and inside.

The drukhari had deployed not only the usual Kabalite warriors, but also hundreds of twisted monstrosities, their flesh presented horrendous mutations and unnatural growths, they were connected to metallic devices that bombarded them with drugs and other prohibited substances. These... thingswere none other than the victims of the drukhari. Equusians who, after being kidnapped and tortured, had been victims of the Haemonculi, who had turned them into those monsters called Wrat, crazy because of the pain and vomiting blood.

They had retained their magic, so they transported Drukhari troops into the shield, damaging it both inside and out until a final, devastating attack brought it down.

Killing orks was one thing, they were war loving aliens, but this... The dark eldar had once again demonstrated their infinite cruelty. Not only did they continue to broadcast at full volume the even more brutal torture of other creatures that had not yet been transformed into beasts, they had ensured that the beasts would retain their faces. Faces that did not reflect at all what those disgraced souls felt. Each and every one of them begged for death, but their faces seemed to beg for life. When a soldier saw them,...he simply could not shoot from deep sorrow.

I love their morality, it makes their suffering so delicious. And their deaths sooo enjoyable.

This caused the drukhari forces to advance further and further, taking considerable portions of Equusian terrain and also leading an attack on the ships. In fact, the fact that the settlement did not fall was because the combat drones (bless those things) continued doing their job, while many soldiers stood frozen in horror.

This was until Terror grabbed a megaphone and shouted at the top of his lungs:
"EVERYCREATURE STOP BEING SUCH A COWARDLY BUNCH OF STUPIDS AND KILL THEM ALL! NO MATTER HOW SORROW YOU FEEL FOR THOSE PLEADING FACES, THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE SOMEONE OF THE PAIN-LOVERS IS TO KILL THEM! GRANT THEM THE FINAL REST OF DEATH AND END THEIR ETERNAL TORMENT! NOW MOVE! THERE'S STILL SPACE ELVES WE MUST ELIMINATE!"

Of course, this didn't cause an instant reaction, but no one could deny that he was right. So the battle continued fiercely.





From elsewhere, more volleys of fire and ammunition were being fired at the Drukhari forces, which was damn difficult. Imagine, having to hit a moving target, not very large and at a great distance. The ships had descended as much as they could to help, but even then, they had to stay at a looooong height.

The Drukhari, for their part, had not ignored these aerial reinforcements, and decided to board the ships. A squadron of Kabalite warriors led by an incubus disembarked from their vehicles on the bow of Murderships Nightmare, accompanied by several Wrats. Among them, the largest of all, a prey that had been captured by the leading incubus.

Thunderwill had been a victim of the unspeakable tortures of the dark eldar, who tied him to their cubed giant, Thunder Jotnar. His flesh was fused to metal and circuitry, his bones shattered and his organs contaminated with machines and foreign substances. The dude managed to resist the torture good, demonstrating incredible, but not invincible, will. In the end he gave in, and the erratic movements, attacks and screams he made were proof. Not even a hero like him was spared.

But they found the ship's crew, out in the open, waiting for them and ready to fight to the end.  Led by their captain, Volkano, who came to consider Thunderwill a good friend. It made him very sad to see him like this, and that's why he would release him.

The drukhari and equusian soldiers rushed madly into battle, ignoring any instinct for self-preservation. Cannons from other parts of the ship, usually pointed outward, fired across the deck, ignoring any damage that might be done to the ship and concentrating on the drukhari.

In an unexpected act of skill, Rousseff, the ship's cat sub-captain, managed to end the life of the several members of the squadron, although before dying they were able to poison him with one of his crystalline weapons. The incubus was finished off when it received a direct hit from one of the cannons, which unfortunately also took out the 5 crew members who were holding the dark eldar motionless. The rest of the Kabbalistic warriors and Wrats also fell until only the bestialized cubed giant remained.

The duel that followed between Volkano and Thunderwill was largely destructive, governed by silence and tension. The giant mecha screamed non-stop from the pain, letting himself be carried away by madness and throwing blow after blow like crazy. Volkano, on the contrary, remained silent, no longer making jokes or talking like he did at the beginning of the campaign. He dodged and dodged each of the cubed giant's punches, flying or jumping from side to side as he blasted his fire breath at him and unleashed lethal projectiles from his twin pistols.

But clearly, even if he dodged all the punches and sword blows, Volkano would not be able to take down his opponent, who was after all several times his size. The only thing that could really damage it was the shots from Murderships Nightmare's cannons. Although in a moment of distraction, Volkano took the opportunity to burn the cubed giant, causing it to burn without stopping, to which he seemed not to react at all.

But he did. He got even madder and crazier.

He charged Lightning Strike (which was grotesquely attached to the rest of the cubed giant), causing it more pain again, and slammed it into the ground, causing a large wave of electricity that drove away all nearby creatures.  He took advantage of this to grab Volkano by the neck and repeatedly slam him into the ground. Finally, he got another hand on his wings and began to pull. He pulled and pulled, making the dragon scream, until his bones broke and his scaly wings separated from the rest of the reptile.

Volkano looked barely standing at the enormous Wrat, who pointed the magic cannon of his left hand at him. That same weapon was used to greatly weaken Plainlod's protective shield and would now take down the Murderships Nightmare captain surely destroying the ship as well.

What he didn't know was that Thunderwill still had a bit of sanity inside his head. Those damned dark eldar had made sure to use special chemicals that would take away the minotaur's ability to be driven from reality by madness, but his body would still act like any other Wrak's, forcing him to see.

Thunderwill had always wanted only to bring peace, just as his grandfather had taught him when he was a child. He didn't even care if he enjoyed that peace, just knowing that he would have it was enough for him. But now HE was a threat to peace, wreaking havoc and problems that OTHERS would have to solve. He. Didn't. Endure. That.

After much fighting, Thunderwill managed to regain control and divert the cannon. Just for a moment, but enough.

The laser slammed into the ship, causing huge explosions and spreading flames, also practically cutting off part of the ship. But it left Volkano intact, who leaned on his four reptilian legs and ran until he was behind the cubed giant. With a powerful blast from his pistols he managed to push him enough to make him fall into the large crack he had created, sinking into the fire and falling into the void.

However, despite the pilot's best efforts, Murderships Nightmare was falling towards the planet due to all the damages.





The central fortress of Plainlod, a bastion against the invading forces with a large tower in the center, rising several meters above the ground... was under attack. Several Drukhari warriors had managed to enter, although not soon after, every light in the building went out, and a shadowy monster began to slaughter any Eldar that stood in its way.

This was Terror, who was advancing through the fortress alone (he really likes going to the battlefield alone, don't ask). He had armed himself with a powerful arsenal that consisted of: a belt with various grenades strapped to it, a powerful assault rifle that fired round after round of magical rays, a few knives, and a sturdy (and heavy) shield. In addition to his "neck" hung a pair of glasses, or something like that, this was an artifact that the Umbrum had developed and that was meant to increase the power of his spells. Spells, which, being black magic, caused great devastation. (By the way, since the Umbrum are creatures of the shadows, they are not actually negatively affected by the use of this magic, which is also the only one they can use, so no strange mutations or voices in the head)

He fought his way through the pain-lovers that infected the fortress, using his smokey body to easily dodge their blows. Some he locked up with magic or petrified, and others he simply killed.  Sometimes he would encounter too many drukharis to fight, if he too could not escape then he would use the "glasses" on him, petrifying everyone instantly, although this left him incredibly tired.

At one point he encountered a surprisingly skilled Kabalite warrior, whom he managed to imprison with dark crystals. The Umbrum really enjoyed monologuing with his enemies and making them feel terrified (or at least trying to), which he hadn't had the chance to do since the Drukhari attacked Green Hell a few days ago, so he decided to try it on his prisoner. The Drukhari are very brave, so it was not an easy task, but he finally thought he could make the alien feel a bit of fear. He was slowly petrifying him while, the eldar scoffed, belittling him for a quick death, but Terror decided to explain that he would do exactly the enchantment for him.

"Contrary to your beliefs, you damned degenerate, this spell will not end your life. I admit that it would be very satisfying, yes, but it is not what I want. In fact, I find you quite inspiring! I like my enemies to fear me, and torturing those you capture is a very effective method, but I consider all the excessive pain so barbaric... I have developed another way, for you specifically! When I finish turning you into a pebble, you will still be conscious, but you will see nothing, you will hear nothing, you will taste nothing, you will smell nothing, your touch will be useless, it will only be your mind and you, facing nothingness, forever. I know your kind love sensations and excess, so what better way to torture you than by taking all that away?"

After finishing off that space elf, Terror continued on his way, reaching the Wave-teleport cannon. A devastating weapon with brutal destructive capacity. The cannon was not the weapon itself, but rather its ammunition. Wherever it was aimed, the cannon would teleport a huge explosive that would destroy everything in the surrounding area.

It had been placed in advance in case the drukhari gave them a surprise by bringing a larger ship, but luckily that did not happen.  Terror targeted a specific area of ​​Plainlod.  Most of the raiding forces were gathered there and he was certain that the head of the attack was also there.  If we manage to eliminate it, the battle would be practically won, because what would happen next would be"
A) The drukhari retreat and leave the city.
B) They kill each other trying to be the new boss.

Unfortunately, the shot would also take the lives of many soldiers, but he could not waste this opportunity. Terror quickly prepared to fire and...

"ERROR. REQUIRES OF A SECOND HIGH-COMMAND MEMBER."

Terror screamed internally and cursed himself for allowing them to do something that, being such a dangerous weapon, could only be activated by TWO creatures with sufficient authority. Desperation began to eat away at him, so much so that he couldn't think of anything else to do, until he saw a golden glow cutting through the air. A mare that flew from Raider to Raider, killing its crew and destroying the evil vehicles. The hope. Sunny StarScout. 

"SUNNY! SUNNY COME HERE! SUNNY! SUNNYYYYYYYY!!!"

After screaming loudly some more, Sunny finally seemed to hear his friend's screams and flew towards him. As soon as she arrived, Terror told her the plan and why he needed her, but Sunny refused. She would not sacrifice the lives of his soldiers, betting instead on distracting the drukhari so that they would stay there while they evacuated the area. 

"Bit that's impossible!" Terror shouted. "You can't get the attention of ALL of them. And even so, if we evacuate, they will notice and flee!"

Sunny took a firm step with her hoof, appearing determined in front of Terror.

"Don't leave me with an option I don't like..." Terror asked her, broadened his shoulders and rose into the air, his eyes fixed on Sunny and taking on a more intimidating shape, ready to pounce on the alicorn.

"I will NOT shoot that," She answered. Before Terror could do anything a golden bright surrounded Sunny, disappearing with a teleportation. The umbrum observed as the alicorn flew over the city, moving away from the cannon and heading right to the area he was going to shoot.

"You're going to get yourself killed!" He shouted. He shook his head in frustration before raising an eyebrow.  "Ha... as if that actually matters."





Sunny was tired.

Not exhasuted, but tired.

She had spent the last few hours taking down drukhari after drukhari, showing zero mercy. For them. For her soldiers she was a beacon of endless hope and salvation, every time they were in danger, Sunny would appear, cast magic, save them from whatever was threatening them, and leave. To do the same thing over and over again.

She was hurt, of course, but one thing you should know about Sunny Starscout is that as long as she doesn't give up, she's going to continue to be a serious problem for you. And she NEVER gives up.

However, she had one main target she was searching for, the Archon. She knew Terror was right when he said that if they took out the head, the body would die, and that's why she was going to kill that degenerate with a bigger hat. Every time she met a drukhari she asked him: "Where is your leader?" On a way so menacing that would make Terror proud (if it weren't for the fact that according to him Sunny was being an idiot).

Finally, she found who she was looking for.

With just a hidden hearing of a Drukhari calling another "Archon" and knowing that this would be the Drukhari leader, he rushed into battle without thinking, at an extreme speed at which he learned to go millennia ago with Zipp.

She tackled the female drukhari, protecting herself with a magic bubble and leaving behind some grenades as a gift for the remaining drukhari and other strange creatures.

The onslaught caused both of them to pass through multiple buildings, but only one took damage from it. Then Sunny performed another teleport, causing both of them to appear many meters above the ground, but separated. The Archon was several meters above Sunny when she began to free fall.

Without wasting a second, the Archon spun in the air and aimed its blaster pistol at the alicorn, firing again and again without stopping. These shots were dark light, and could severely damage someone's retina if they were viewed directly. But Sunny was a millennia-old alicorn with incredible power. A few little lights weren't going to hurt her. She defended herself instead. Dodging the shots in the air or blocking them with shields and slashing energy blows that manifested when her wings flapped.

Sunny continued dodging, she just had to wait for the Archon to reach the ground. Khailara had another idea. She coiled her agonizer (a whip-shaped weapon capable of causing excruciating pain on contact, burning nerve receptors) into the top spire of a building, altering her trajectory. Various elegant acrobatics and somersaults followed, leaning on the walls to slow her fall.  Upon reaching the ground, although she did not emerge intact, at least she hadn't died.

Soon Sunny also landed, raising a large wave of dust all over the place and coming face to face with the Archon, who proceeded to introduce herself.

"You look nice," The drukhari complimented her before extending her arm with her hand open. "Glad to meet you," She then put the hand on her chest"Khailara. Archon of the Kabal of the Long Jailers. Could I discover who you are?"

"Sunny Starscout. Sub-representantive of ponies and alicorn of hope. Besides your end," Sunny replied dryly.

"Hope... That is ultra dead in this galaxy. Like... totally," Khailara put her hands together while smiling. "Welp! Now I'm going to kill you."

Khailara lunged at Sunny like a predator lunges at its prey. Preparing her agonizer to deliver a lethal blow and finish off the pony. But as she approached, Sunny's eyes began to glow gold and sparks and lights began to flash from her alicorn. She frowned and gritted her teeth, launching a powerful dome-shaped wave of magic that spread across the plaza and sent the Archon backwards, who only let out a scream at the impact with a wall.

"You aren't the first to think that." The alicorn mocked.

Khailara recovered from the blow and stood up, raising her head to look at Sunny as she endured all her injuries. As fast as she could she aimed her blaster pistol at Sunny. "But I'll be the first to do it."

Sunny instantly hit the ground with her front hooves, which glowed with green magic. Large, thick, strong trees grew at impossible speeds, completely surrounding the alicorn and acting as a barrier. The shot of course vaporized the trunk of the tree she hit, forcing Sunny to reinforce her barrier by growing more plants around her.

Khailara was confused for a moment due to the pony's strange "psychic powers", but continued shooting. Sunny knew that the plants could no longer withstand the explosions caused by the dark light and she decided to change her strategy.

She summoned her axe and began to spin around, using her telekinesis to wield the weapon, which cut the plants from their base impeccably. Then Sunny lifted the logs and vines with her magic, spinning them at high speed, creating a small tornado of logs.

Sunny extended the radius of the tornado, causing it to grow closer to Khailara and threatening to drag her down. The drukhati tried to avoid it as much as possible, but there came a time when she simply had no room left. Not even her great agility was enough to get through the whirlpool and the logs rammed into her, bouncing her from one to another until she fell back to the ground.

"I think you would be the... third? Maybe fourth." Sunny replied to the previous commentar of the drukhari with a confident smile, looking at the fallen drukhari. This, of course, confused Khailara even more, but she hadn't time for games. And much less after being swept away by a log tornado. (Although it's not like receiving so many hits displeased him. You know, they're drukhari.)

The Archon stood up once more, ready to continue the "fight", if you could call it that way. Just then Sunny grew a new vine. It enveloped Khailara from her feet to her shoulders and immobilized her limbs.

The plant lifted Khailara and slammed her to the ground, causing her to let out a scream, not of pain, but rather of excitement and pleasure. The vine began to tighten more and more, exerting great pressure on the eldar's body, who blushed a little and bit her lip with a sickly pleasant look. "Mmhhhh... hot."

Sunny stared at the bound eldar with a look of shock, disbelief, but above all, disgusted and furious."Whata fu-AAHHH!"

Her curse was interrupted by a single blaster pistol shot, that ended up at her right shoulder and that damaged her neck with the explosion.

Khailara had managed with great effort to press the trigger of his weapon, which had been left fairly free of the vines. It didn't take long for her to free herself from it and stand up as Sunny fell backwards and screamed in pain. Blood flowed from her wound and she could see the bone and the semi-burned flesh.

"Ts-ts-ts. You should carry more armour," The drukhari reproched her.

That was true, Sunny only wore protectors on his hooves and joints, but he still exposed a large part of his body. (She always hated wearing armor. It itched a lot.)

With pure evil in her eyes and an irresistible desire to take maximum pleasure in causing pain to this unbearable little mare, Khailara approached Sunny, stomping on her back and causing her to scream again in pain. 

Khailara pulled out a small knife and grabbed the alicorn's long horn, using the blade as a saw to cut it off. The pony could do nothing but scream as her horn was destroyed, though from the base of it on Sunny's forehead, powerful sparks emerged and potent magical rays were summoned. If they were aiming at her, they would have destroyed the Archon.

"Come on, don't cry," Khailara whispered, watching the tears of suffering well up in Sunny's eyes. "I told you I would kill you. And even if I hadn't, you think killing me would end the raid? Even so, you think we're the worst in the galaxy?" She asked sarcastically. "Poor, innocent fools.This galaxy is a place that burns in the incessant flames of war and where hope is..."

The drukhari laughed vilely as she spoke those words, lashed out at her enemy with her agonizer, causing her to scream in pure pain, and raised her pistol for one last shot.

"D E A D."

BANG!






The alicorn slowly opened her eyes, tired and sore, it was a voice that finally woke her up.

"Hi Sunny," The voice said.

"Ouch..." Sunny, still in pain, opened her eyes completely, seeing that she was in a strange but familiar place. It looked like a sparkling, azure blue space, with stars and lights floating around and giving a feeling of beauty and magic. 

"Hey, hi," She answered to the entity the voice came from. This creature was difficult to describe. It was a skeleton, what exactly? Well, that's the hard part. It wasn't a pony, dragon or diamond dog skeleton, but all of them at the same time. An appearance that represented every creature of Equus at the same time. The entity was covered with a black cloak that gave it a mysterious air and a large scythe floated at its side.

"Sorry, everything hurts right now," Sunny apologized, she usually woke up faster when she went there.

"Yeaaah... this time it has been more..." The entity showed an expression of disgust and indignation with its non-existent facial features. "Anyway, " It broke its pause. "What has it been now? The last time they were bees." The entity laughed, just a  bit.

"Come on! They were hundreds of millions of killer bees, you can't blame me for dying from THAT!" Sunny complained, remembering her most humiliating death.  "An alien." She lowered his head and responded

"One of those?" It doubted. "Hhhmm... they're taking a lot of lives, aren't they?

"Yes they are," Sunny answered bothered. "Do you go for them too?"

"Nahh. Their souls are very weird and there's already something sucking them when they die. That will be their recollector," It concluded. "I only take equusians."

"Good to talk with you, but I have to go back now," Sunny raised her hoof on one of her shoulders, pointing behind her as if pointing to an exit. "The battle's still on," She explained.

"Understandable."

"Let's chat more the next time." The entity suggested.

"Of course! Although I hope it isn't soon," Sunny joked.

"Good bye."





Khailara was already walking away from Sunny's dead body when a very powerful purple light hit her back. She turned around, surprised and a little worried. That Mon-Keigh was dead, right?

She saw that, where a corpse previously lay roasted by the dark light, now stood a large purple five-pointed star surrounded by a tail that flashed blue and more purple sparks around it, all surrounded by an imposing golden aura.

When the light began to shoot, Khailara was shocked to see the same alicorn in front of her. With a frown and a slight smile, wings spread and horn and eyes shining. It also seemed that a powerful glow emerged from her side and the necklace she wore around her neck did not stop shaking.

"Impossible!" She shouted. "I killed you!"

"Indeed you did," Sunny answered. "But I told you. You aren't the first."

Khailara knew that it would no longer be worth trying to kill or capture this Mon-Keigh, her priority had to be escape. For this he pulled out a curious and exotic device that he had been saving for a time of need. A clone image. This device would project holograms clones of the Archon that would be indistinguishable from the original. They would give her time to escape.

The clones appeared everywhere and Khailara prepared to escape, but watched in horror as Sunny's heart-shaped necklace opened, releasing a... rainbow? The multi-colored beam swept across the square, annihilating the clones at overwhelming speed. Finishing with them she went to the dark eldar and wrapped her in her magical embrace, immobilizing her and placing her in front of Sunny.

The alicorn looked first in surprise at her necklace, and then with some annoyance. "Oh really?" She asked with an inquisitorial look. "THIS is a situation of greater need than when they were killing me?!" Sunny huffed and calmed down. "You work in a very strange way, necklace."

Sunny raised her head again, glaring angrily at the drukhari trapped by the rainbow. "You said that in this galaxy hope is dead, but when does hope die? When you have everything against you and things only seem to get worse?" [color]She held up a hoof and shook her head. "No. Hope only dies when you give up," she stated firmly. "And I NEVER give up." (And she's the alicorn of HOPE, so you can see how this works, right? It's the most near thing of an equusian perpetual.)

"Maybe in a battle things will go wrong, but if you give up, rest ASSURED that they will go wrong. Maybe you will lose, but at least you tried, and this way you show the universe that no matter what it throws at you, it won't be able to dominate your spirit."

Khailara couldn't believe what she was hearing, was this Mon-Keigh so innocent and gullible?  That optimism and blind hope was not going to help them survive, it would only make them weak and kill them. The Archon yelled this at the alicorn (more in an attempt to buy time and not die than anything else), to which she responded:

"Not when that optimism and blind hope give you the greatest strength of all. With which you can overcome any adversity. When we have problems, we also have confidence and courage to face them, creativity to find a solution, kindness and hearth for those who have suffered, and all motivated by the hope of a better tomorrow. One without you." (Plus, they could LITERALLY turn those things that make others weak into super powerful rainbow lasers that desintegrates their enemies.) 

The light emerging from Sunny became more and more intense, and the drukhari could feel her skin slowly burning. In a last desperate attempt to survive, she revealed to Sunny the truth of her species, their curse. She told her EVERYTHING about how Slannesh devoures the souls of the Eldar and tried to trick her, telling her that they didn't enjoy torturing other creatures, and that they would love to make friends, but they had to torture, or IT would devour their souls! 

Sunny gave the eldar adrk a cold, blank look. She knew of course that the drukhari was trying to deceive her, but she also knew how to recognize the truth in her words about that demon  Slaanesh.

"I have clearly seen how you, disgusting monsters, take great pleasure in bringing pain and agony, suffering and torture," She spat out the words in disgust, before giving the ultimatum sternly. "I can think of no better punishment than to put you on the receiving side. Say hello to Slaanesh for me."

Khailara was vaporized by Sunny's magic while with her last strength she hurled curses and insults. Until she sensed the monster that awaits all of her kind.





And that's it.

That's how the drukhari raid to the equusians went.

Terror was right. When the rest of the drukhari found out that Khailara died, they stab each other in the back to try to get the power. Until the rests of the Kabal had to flee and return to Commoragh. They never came back and no one really knows what happened with them. Maybe the Kabal was dissolved, maybe they went to raid other planets, maybe they're still planning a revenge. Time will tell (or will it?).

The remaining equusian forces gathered to recover. So I will give you a small summary of the situation.

• A great part of Plainlod was destroyed and the casualties were great too.
• Murderships Nightmare was destroyed, although his captain and great part of the crew handled to survive. Other ships were also damaged, and several support ships were taken down.
•The only "good" thing. Working together, Gorval and Construct managed to "rescue" some slaves from the evil hands of the Drukhari. Why hadn't they been taken to Commoragh? Why didn't they turn into Wrats? That will be important later. Especially for Gorval's sister. Although he was reprimanded when she learned that she had left some of the hostages behind to get out faster and not confront the drukhari.
• Psychological consequences. Yes, you can imagine. (Therapists are going to need therapists  aaaand get rich at the same time.)
• Congratulatins! Now the equusians are definetely xenophobic! They won't trust anything coming from space after 3 DIFFERENT species tried to kill them during their first 5 years out in space (15 if you get technical).

After the raid, Sunny Starscout met Terror again and although she did not expose him for what he tried to do (the full weight of the law could fall on him), she made it very clear to him that something like this would NEVER even cross his mind again. Or he would have to face the consequences.

And so, with the total control of S.T.-s, an uncertain future due to the darkness of the galaxy and believing that there are no more threats (they forgot about the tyranids), the equusians were finally able to have a time of space tranquility.

For now... MUA HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! AHAHAahahaHhahahaA! [more evil laughter] JAJAJUJUJU! AHHAHAUGHUGHUUUUUUHHH! [some intensified crying]

[preparing a dragonballesque scream]

KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!( vahr)