Dagger's End:

The Swine Tide &

The Underworld Uprise (Vol. 2)

Chapter 11

Secrents You Should Have Revealed...

Upon the Heavenly Angel, Dagger had organized a group of pegasi to prepare for an areal assult at the huge hog Stompa, as the air ship hid in the clouds.

The stompa made loud thunderous stomps, as it was heading to Canterlot! Around the Stompa were hogz on motorized bikes as the hogz cheered and excited to slaughter their first few victims, as the drove fast wildly!

Wartboss Wartguts was in the rear section of the huge titian made out of heaps of trash, as he planned for his hog nobs and a few boyz to make a quick assult whenever the rear hatch was open. "All right boyz! Dis 'ere iz wot weez gunna do!..." shouted the huge hog, " Weez gunna kill anyponyz dat we see, and collect dere 'eads for me boss pole!" A boss pole was a symbol to the hogs as a decoration of the foes they've fought, and a symbol of who is the real boss. The more heads, the more of a leader one hog would be. Doing this would also strike fear into their prey, as the heads on a metal pole or rack would hang and swing around, and possibly fall off when they rot for too long, leaving one of the grots to collect the fallen head off the ground to sell it for some teeths.

" Grrrrr! When do we get ta fight'n!?" barked one of the hog nobs, as he held a two hoofed long sized ax, as it had a chain saw in stead of an actual head of an ax. "Weez gunna fight soon... Don't you lot worry about it!" Growled Wartguts, as he grinned a bit, and snapped his power claws around as he too couldn't wait to unleash his 'stomping powers' of his...

Everypony was ready on the Heavenly Angel, as they all had a task to do! Dagger had commanded the pegasi to pick up anypony willing to hop onto one of the motorized bikes, and kick the hog riding the bike to then take control of the wheels. This would lead an advantage for the group, as they would have speed and mobility on their side!

Dagger gave the signal, as they all lept off the side of the air ship making their way to the rear of the group of hogs of bikers, where they wouldn't be spotted...

Ponies like Brave Heart had to stay behind because he was too big and heavy, plus all the equipment he had on him was adding even more weight.

Dagger had his jetpack activated, as he flew low to the ground as he was heading to the rear of the hog Stompa, as there was a nice big ledge space for him and a few other ponies to be dropped off one at a time. These ponies would help Dagger take over the Stompa and try to destroy it from the inside out as best as they could, or at least die trying...

The plan worked perfectly for the other pegasi as they dropped their ponies off on top of the hog bikers. Only two fatal deaths were made as, as the ponies who died either were dropped off too soon, or was cut in half by one of the hog's rustic weapons. None-the-less, many ponies took control of the hog's bikes, as they weren't used to such trashy technology. They took off, and rammed their bikes at the other hogs, as it then looked like a race to the finnish line in a very brutal manner...

Dagger, Mr. Booze, Trixie, Pinkamena or Pink for short, and Flash Sentry, as well as two or three ponies were dropped off the ledge, Dagger had pulled his thick blade out as he got to work by carving the outside wall of the Stompa. Dagger and his small group was going to attack from the inside, as they all jumped inside the huge hole in the Stompa.

However, sure enough grots and hogz spotted Dagger and his group as they charged at him with a 'Waaargh!' while the grots just screamed like little runts they are.

The group reacted as quickly as they could, as they engaged in close combat! Metal banged, magic was shot, Mr. Booze's rifle fired! It was a close fight, but it ended quickly!

"Alright! Let's get to work." Started Dagger, as he placed his blade back on his back. He pulled out small brown sacks; inside the sacks were explosive poweder that was very flammable, that was big enough to wreak most sized bar clubs.

After Dagger handed them to everypony, they split up and moved out to end this Stompa's movement as quickly as possible. " We need to work quickly! The hogz have probably herd us in our fight; no doubt they'll be interrested too." Warned Dagger to the group. "Yea? Well I'll show you how to shove a rifle up their-" Mr. Booze was soon cut off, as Flash Sentry interrupted him " Where do you want these planted again?" " See what you can do to find the legs to this heap of trash. If you think you can't, then just use it on a group of hogs or grots. We don't need them to work this machine, around here..." replied Dagger, speaking through his helmet.

Trixe, Dagger, Pink, and a few other ponies were going to split into groups of two, leaving Flash Sentry, Mr. Booze, and a few other ponies to finnish their job as well. They spilt up and trotted off into the dark walking fortress...

Inside the fortress were countless of grots and hogz. Most of them were un-armed, except the hogz themselves. The two groups bumped into trouble once every second, as they killed the hogz with quick stabs and jabs at the neck of the hogz.

Dagger's group had found one of the legs of the Stompa, as Dagger shouted with excitement, " There! Quickly, place the poweder around the legs!" Everypony did as told, as Dagger then readied his small hoof held blaster. He aimed, and fired, just as everypony was at a safe distance! The whole walking machine soon trembled a lot, as everypony lost their balance. The hog Stompa was still moving, as the hogz in it were beginning to wonder what was the problem...

Suddenly, The small group herd something growling, as it came from the entrance that his group came from!... A filly sized red round creature with two raptor legs came out from the rusty hallway, as in snarled and growled... It had a big and wide gaping jaw that looked like it could fit a whole stallion's head in it! It also had frills on it's back, as they twitched with the creature's reaction to it's prey...

These creatures were called squigs, that came from hog dung. Once the hogs made a huge dug up pit, they would leave their dung in the wide pit, and soon in a few days the pit would be growing with these weird creatures called squigs... The squigs would come in a reptile color of mostly red, sometimes orange, and rarely dark green. These squigs were mostly used for live stock, or used as charging live bombs strapped onto their back or mouths. They made great companions for wartboss's, as they would be trained to maul their prey to death. Grot's would get the worst jobs ever, as they would be used to fetch the squigs from the dung pit, risking themselves to get chewed up and eaten by these monsters...

The squig twitched and walked closer to it's first target, who was a young stallion. He looked at the creature in fear for a second, as he pulled his sword out in defense! The squig kicked the dirt from behind, as he then charged as it made it's stubby legs run at incredible speed! It soon lept! Jaws wide! As it managed to fit the unfortunate stallion's head in his gaping jaws!

Dagger had tried to shoot the creature before it lept onto it's prey, but he wasn't accurate enough, as these creatures could move in unexpected speed, but can yet be out runned.

Suddenly, as the squig's prey died, more squigs showed their ugly muck hungry faces, as they showed up around the room where the leg, of the stompa, would be in. They popped out of the shadows, out from under vents, and around corners of places.

Trixie paniked, as she fired at one of the closest squigs, with her magic! It died at that instant, others got closer! Pinkamena bucked at a few squigs that had pounced at her, making herself looked un-touched, as she soon drew her two blades! She soon turned any squig who dared cross her, into slices of squig ham...

One of the other stallions paniked, " Aaaaargh! I don't wanna die from these horrid creatures!" he dropped a big wooden battle hammer, as he made a dash to the exit that lead to a hallway. A few squigs chased after him, as they growled and dashed twords him! The stallion made his last mistake, as the Squigs managed to catch him, as he let out his last word out " Aaaaaa-guhth!..."

Dagger felt sick to his stomach, as he could see the shadows of the member of his group getting ripped to shreds, as the Squigs made for the head and ripped his head off, as something wiggled under his neck, which was probably the esophagus. Then they dug into the rest of the body, as you could hear the flesh being sqeezed, chewed, and devoured by the hungry squigs.

Everypony else was dead in his group, except for Trixie and Pink, as everypony was being devoured! This plan didn't turn out well, as Dagger shouted in retreat, " Get out of here! MOVE!"

He soon lept into the air and activated his jetpack, he used his dual flamethrowers to burn the squigs and making a path for the two mares to escape.

Dagger stayed for a moment to kill a few more squigs, as Pink suddenly paused for a moment to look up at Dagger, "... You could have warned them, before we got into this piece of cr-" " Not now Pink! Get going! I will avenge their lives myself if I have too!" snapped Dagger, as he dodged a squig's gaping hungry jaws away! Pink left the room as she rolled her eyes, and dashed after Trixie.

Dagger pulled his blade out, as he looked twords the leg that supports of the ceiling of the room. He slashed and hacked at all the weak points of the room, until it crashed down and pieces started to fall down crushing the dead pony hides as well as the squigs in the room. He flew out and landed in the open spaced hallway, and looked to his side as he saw what was left of the carnage of the stallion that he saw from the shadows... The young stallion's body was in pieces... You could barely make up of what was a face anymore, or what was the plot anymore, as the squigs had already ran off as they retreated into cover from the loud noise of the wreckage.

"Oi! Wot's dat!?" shouted a hog voice, coming through the hallway. Dagger didn't want to stick around, as he then made a dash to the opposite direction of where the hogs were coming from.

Flash Sentry and Mr. Booze had herd the wreakage going on in the machine, guessing that Dagger's group had done their part. " Steady everypony... It's just an explosion..." spoke Flash, trying to calm everypony.

"Hurry up you kids! These damn creatures aren't here to give us hugs!" barked the grumpy mule, as he held his old sniper rifle close to him.

A few hogz were walking through a hallway, as they headed tword's Flash Sentry's group. " Look boyz! Dere some poniez! Let's smash 'em ta bits! Den smash da bits!" cheered the hog, as they pulled their meele weapons out and charged! "WAAARGH!" they cried.

"Get your plots down!" shouted Mr. Booze, who was behind the group, as he quick drawed his rifle! He aimed and fired, with precision shot, each of which were accurate. The hogz dropped dead, as they soon all fell on the floor in a row, one by one, away from one another. Mr. Booze spat onto the floor, as he lowered his rifle, "hmph! Stupid pigs..." mocked the mule, as Flash Sentry and everypony else got back up and proceeded.

The group finally made it into the room, where the other leg would be of the hog stompa, as it made loud scratching sounds as it did all the work of moving the huge walking trash titian. The group laid their explosives around the leg, now they needed something to light it up on fire. "...Oh no..." alarmed Flash, " What's wrong?" ask somepony else. Flash replied as he looked at his sattle bag, as he carried it before getting on the Stompa, "... No, no, no!... I think I left the matches back on the air ship!..." " No worries... Just get out of the room, ladies." replied the mule, as he pushed one of them leading them to the hallway. " But how are we gunna light up the explosives?" asked Flash, "You won't! I will!" answered Mr. Booze, as he then raised his rifle, and backed out from the room as well, and carefully aimed at the side of the leg of the Stompa's. The room was shaky, as the Stompa was moving side to side now, from it's other damaged leg destroyed.

The mule fired, as it made a loud bang across the hallway, as he missed. " Damn it!" he cursed. Suddenly, a loud and long 'Waaargh!' was being made my a big hog nob, as he charged and stomped his way twords Flash's group. They could see him from a distance, as he held a big long ax, ready to make it's devastating blows!

" Booze!" "That's Mr. Booze to you chum!" replied the mule, as Flash tried to get his attention. The hog nob was getting closer, as you could feel his stomps coming closer with every step getting more louder and with more vibration.

The rifle shot once more, and didn't make a spark that time! " Buck!" swore the mule once more, as he was accurate enough to shoot a mouse a mile away. " Hurry up! That thing is getting closer! I don't think we could take it head on either, you old yak!" panicked one of the other stallions!

Mr. Booze breathed in and concentrated on his angle of his shot, then released both his breath and his shot at the side of the metal leg, as it finally made flares coming from the bullet's ricochet. The flares caught on fire of the bags with powder, and the other leg was no more, as the metal bended and roared with pain. The whole body of the stompa dropped flat on it's lower deck, as it was immobilized! The hog nob fell flat on it's face, giving the chance the ponies needed to escape from the big hog's wrath! The hog nob got back up slowly, as he picked up his dropped big war ax off from the floor, and charged after the ponies!

Flash Sentry's group was now being chased by the hog nob, as it got a little close as it ran with it's big ax held high! " Youz not run'n any wherez! Ya runts!" bellowed the angry, fierce nob!

As they ran all the ponies and one mule had to dodge obstacles infront of them as they lept over crates, dead hogs they killed earlier, and some other random trash laying around as they ran for their lives.

The hog nob was close! Flash Sentry dared not look back, thinking he would lose focuse and trip against some object, " Don't look back! Just keep running!" shouted Sentry, worried that the other ponies might have the same idea of looking back. They soon came across some rusty looking stairs, as they raced up making loud banging on the metal with their hoofs!

The hog nob followed right behind them, as his speed changed going up the steps as he was being slown down a bit. The ponies soon made it to the end of the stairs going upwards, only to find more hogs around of what looks like the control room. Grots paused, hogz turned their heads, " Oi! Wot are poniez do'n in da control room?" asked one of the hogz, " Ooooo!... Dibs on his flash bits!" shouted in excitement one hog spoke, as he pointed happily at Flash Sentry's Celestian armor. The hogz pulled out their melee weapons out, as they were mostly old, dirty, looking swords as well as axes.

The hog nob was right behind the group, as Flash Sentry's group was now surrounded by hogz hungry for battle!

"Your 'ead iz miiiine!" shouted the frustrated nob as he panted a bit! He raised his big ax and cut clean through one of the other ponies! Blood spewed everywhere, as the grots and hogz cheered for the kill! This was a great distraction, as the group then raced around the hog nob and ran back down the steps.

" Come back 'ere so I can shoot ya, git!" demanded one of the other hogz, as he carried a shoota around him. " Get 'em boyz! Waaargh!" encouraged another hog, as they all then swarmed twords the entrance of the stairs, pushing and shoving through. A few of them ended up fighting each other, as it created a distraction for extra space to occur.

Soon, in the rear of the immobilized stompa, Dagger's and Flash's group regrouped as they made a sudden stop at the exit.

"Everypony alright?" asked Dagger, " We lost a great stallion!... I see that not many made it with you?" replied Flash Sentry, "...Don't bother asking..." replied back Dagger, changing tone.

They all could hear the hogz shouting out, as they made their way to what was left of the group of ponies and one mule. " Son of a... These things never get tired do they?" grumbled Mr. Booze, as he readied and cocked his rifle, then aimed at one of the two hallways.

Dagger stepped out from the hole he had made in the stompa, as he climbed out as well of what was left of the group. Dagger suddenly froze, and didn't want to believe what had happened...

All Dagger saw, were dead hogz and ponies... both pegasi and earth ponies... There were even less ponies around, as the pegasi flew around trying to avoid getting shot by the shots coming from the hogz on bikes. Rainbow Dash had bucked one of the hogz in the head, knocking him down to the ground and crashing into a nearby stand alone tree. The tree bursted into flames the moment the bike crashed into it!

Rainbow Dash had spotted Dagger and the rest of the group as she kept flying around, keeping herself mobile to avoid from being shot, " Dagger! The plan was a mess!" she shouted. A few pegasi flew near the small group, as they picked up first Pinkamena, and then Trixie as the two flew off back aboard the Heavenly Angel.

"What happened!?" asked Dagger, very concerned of the situation. Rainbow Dash landed tword's the group, as she walked up twords him to explain the sistuation, " The moment the earth ponies landed on the bikes, they suddenly crashed as if the bikes didn't work anymore! We lost many lives today..." reported Rainbow Dash, a bit shaken up from the battle that had occurred. " Anypony who lived through the crash was killed by the hogz, that were on bikes..."

Dagger couldn't believe it... Not even the vehicles of the hogz could be manned... His mind went blank... All those pony's lives... the familys, the children, their friends...

Soon, Dagger and Rainbow Dash were the last two ponies left on the wide ridge, as Dagger stood there frozen... He had failed to keep everypony alive as much as possible... He didn't even want to hear how many of them... died...

Rainbow Dash placed a hoof on Dagger's shoulder, "... You did your best Dagger... Not every plan is perfect..." stated the rainbow maned mare, as she slowly left Dagger and made her way to the Heavenly Angel as she flapped her wings.

Hogz could be herd around Dagger, as they were getting close from behind. Only a few hogz were on bikes as they randomly fired at the sky, trying to shoot at any more targets to fire at. Dagger soon spotted a few of the hogz on the bikes with heads of ponies, mounted on a spike or on a tall sharp pole... It shuttered Dagger to see these civilian ponies, who gave their lives... just to help protect their homes...

" Your... Your lives... won't be in vain..." whispered Dagger, through his helmet. He soon fired his jet pack, and took off to the Heavenly Angel as the hogz nearly caught him by the hoof as he took off.

"Look at dem! Deyz run'n awayz!" complained one of the hogz. The hog nob that was previously chasing Flash Sentry's group soon barked out orders, "... Oi!... Whyz youz all stand'n around for!? Get da rockets! Weez now gunna be stormboyz now ya gits!" The hogz soon ran back inside the stompa as they soon prepared for another operation...

As soon as everypony who was alive made it on the Heavenly Angel, Rainbow Dash made a head count of everypony aboard the air ship. She counted more than half of this group was left alive and wounded. Many ponies had bandages on, casts, and even stitches were being sewed into the pony's skin. It was a really big mess on board the Heavenly Angel...

Brave Heart rushed to Dagger, as the two met up with each other in the quantillian pony's quarters, as he saw the battle from above. Brave Heart opened the door, only to find Dagger sitting on his bed staring out into the window of his room. "... Dagger... sir?" interruping Dagger's silence, Brave Heart spoke, " I assume the mission went well?" "... Yes... It did..." replied Dagger, as his tone was lowered a bit. The two didn't say anything else afterwards, as Brave Heart tried to find the next words for Dagger. "... I know your losses Dagger... and I know how this feels... Exactly!" commented the stallion trying to uplift Dagger's spirits. "... I too used to lead my brothers on a journy up a mountain, to ward off a few of King Sombra's knights back in the day. I later noticed I was the only one standing, even after all I've done." More silence occurred, as the two were left in the room. " Even though I had lost everypony that I knew, I know that they are in a better place now..." continued Brave Heart. " Mourning the dead won't make anything better right now. All we can do now is continue our path Dagger..." Dagger finially showed something as a reply, as he bobbed his head up and down a bit, in agreement. Then he looked up at the knighted stallion, " I know you're right Brave Heart, but this is something... I'm not used to..." Dagger looked back out the window as he continued, "... When my race and other races from my planet, fought to defend your home world... I felt all alone when I found out I was the only one left of my race... The last surviving member of my race out of the four others..." Dagger turned his head to Brave heart as he looked at him, " Fillies, colts, mares, all of them... were slaughtered by those damned zenoids..." More silences appeared as the two were in the room together. Neither one of them spoke for a while, till Brave Heart broke the silence, "... You're not alone Dagger..." spoke Brave Heart, as Dagger had looked down, then back up at the knight of the round table of something or other, " This planet is your home now... You're one of us now..." Brave Heart soon came to give Dagger a hoof on his shoulder, " As our leader, Dagger, we can't let you be like this, especially as to what would happen if everypony on this airship found you like this... Do you know what would happen, if they found out?" The two looked at each other, as the quantillian pony pondered about it a bit, "... They would think that I might not be fit for this job as a leader... I understand..." "We need you to be strong, Dagger." Dagger looked at the old wooden desk where his helmet was placed, as he then walked twords it, and picked it back up... Inside he was a quantillian pony... but on the outside he looked like any other pony.

It wasn't just because he looked like a pony that meant he was part of this world; it just simply means that it was easier for anypony to mistake him that he looked like a pony from Equestria with fancy high-tech armor that nopony has ever seen before. None-the-less it seemed that he felt accepted as a friend to Brave Heart, as he soon turned his head to the knight and gave him a short bow, "... Thank you, sir Brave Heart..." The big knight bowed back, in reply as in 'your welcome' with a simlpe bow and a smile. Dagger placed his helmet back on, and walked out of the room, as well as Brave Heart did after Dagger left.

In a medical room of the air ship, many ponies were hurt badly, as they had manage to escape from the hog's deadly fast bike attacks. Few ponies were missing their limbs, while others had deep cuts on their body as other ponies who weren't able to join them in battle treated their wounds as quickly as possible.

Dagger had walked into the room, as he saw everypony at work aiding the wounded. Suddenly, some pony bucked him across the face of his helmet and pulled him outside of the medical room.

Dagger had to fix his helmet, as it turned one-hundred and eighty degrees around facing the opposite direction away from his view point. He herd somepony talking, but could only hear muffled sounds as his helmet blocked his hearing. He twisted the helmet around and spotted Apple Jack in front of himself, angry at him for some reason. "... Sorry, what did you say?" asked the confused quantillian stallion, " Ah said, what's go'n on around here!? Last time we checked there were fewer pigs left that we killed and practically counted! How in the hay are there hundrends more of them!?" demanded Apple Jack, as she was one of the ponies who had ridden on those trashy looking bikes. Her left shoulder was wrapped in white medical bandages, as there was one red spot showing through the bandage as it was blood. Dagger didn't want to reply back, but he had to let them know soon.

" Apple Jack, we would need to go into a private room if we are to talk about this subject..." Trying to calm her down spoke Dagger, " Ah could care less about that Dagger! These other ponies and ah were asking the same thing as well! 'Where did these pigs come from!?' or 'How are there more of them still!?'" mimicked Apple Jack as the voices of other stallions and mares complaining and surpised as to what they have experienced.

The two looked at one another for a moment or two, only to hear something roaring with fire like a rocket sound. The both of them then turned their attention of the sound as they looked out into the clouds. The air ship was hidden in the clouds as it looked like dark clouds had formed. The air ship was in a thunder cloud, as it was preparing to rain soon.

The sounds of rockets were getting closer and louder, as the two could hear some sort of cheer coming this way. Both Aj and Dagger thought about dealing with their subject later, as something unusual was approching...

Then... in a distance... the two had spotted hogz in the air... not only were they pigs that could fly... but they were pigs with rockets attached on their back with belts strapped to them, as they carried their choppas with them! It was a group of the hogz that had chased the group of ponies in the stompa, as they somehow spotted the airship, " Oi! Wots dat!?" questioned a hog, as he wore goggles to cover his eyes from the wind. " Looks like some sort of fly'n airship dat iz... Lets smash it!" encouraged one hog, "Bet it blows up nioce!" another hog spoke, as he pulled out two stick bombs out from his rocket's pack as he gave an evilish grin showing his teeth.

"... Awww Celestia no... These things can fly too!?" spoke the surprised country pony. Dagger couldn't even believe it either, the hog's illogical technology had grown fast! Now that there were hogz with rockets attached on their backs, this was now going to be more of a challenge to kill them now. " Alert everypony! Brace for impact! THE HOGZ ARE HERE! BATTLE STATIONS!" shouted orders from Dagger, as anypony who was able to stand and fight scrambled on the air ship! Swords were ready, magic was charged, bows and arrows were picked up and fixed on their targets!

" Look boss! Dem poniez ownz dat fing!" commented one of the hogz as he sounded excited to found even more ponies to kill. " Charge at 'em boyz! Da wartboss wants dere 'eads! But save some for me ya gits..." encouraged the hog nob, the same one that was also chasing the other group of ponies back at the stompa.

The hogz were getting dangerously close, at quick speeds! Arrows fired at the group of hogz, but they were inaccurate as the wind interfered with the arrows. Suddenly, a loud rifle shot was sounded, as it was Mr. Booze at the end of the airship of the front, as he carefully aimed his rifle at each hog! He shot the nearest hog at the rocket, and the heap of flying trash was no more with an explosion. He fired again, this time this hog fell to his death as he gave out a squeel. Then another one, and another, and so on!

By then Mr. Booze had already killed almost a quarter of the hogz as they flew closer, only to see that the hogz were now in range of the air ship for an impact on their landing!

The hogz landed and the ship shook from many hogz landing on board the Heavenly Angel, as plankes of wood flew everywhere from the landing impact! The hog nob made the biggest and strongest impact on the deck, as this pushed the airship in the air! Wood bent, splinters of wood flew everywhere! The hogz were on board the air ship!

In all the luck, the hog nob spotted it's first victim! It was a young mare with her battle armor at the ready, as she charged her magic and fired at the nob at the face! The effect only made the nob to blink and wipe his face, as the magic wasn't effective enough.

Before the mare could recharge her magic again into a stronger settings, the nob recovered from her attack and then swung his mighty ax at the mare, cutting her in half with one swing! Blood splashed at the nob and around where the once stood mare stood, as not even her armor protected her from his strength! The nob claimed the head of the mare, as he raised it in the air with his hoof, " SKULL SPLLITAAAAAAAAAAAA!" roared the nob, happy to have recived his first kill before any other hogz could. The hogz cheered with them, as they then spit up into smaller groups and attacked the nearest pony they could find.

The pegasi few aroudn the air ship, as they did their best to kill the hogs on board the air ship! Most of the hogz were equiped with choppas, others with shootas, but the worst weapon the hogz had brought with a few of them... were flamethrowers...

It was chaotic as everypony did their best to fight against the invading hogz! Because of most of the member's were killed and wounded, team work almost didn't exsist! Everypony was on their own most of the time, as the strong beefy hogz charged at them with their tusks and then swung their choppas at them, killing them and collecting their heads. Most of the ponies put up a fight, but were quickly slaughtered as a few more hogz then ganged up upon them...

Brave Heart was at the middle of the deck of the air ship, as he swung very hard with his long heavy great sword! The hogz couldn't react against the long sword as they all just simply charged at the tall armored stallion. Brave Heart had just killed three hogz with a jab at the three, as the blade went through three in a row and then imedently pulled out, spilling the insided out onto the wooden floor. " Oi! Whyz me insides all over da place!?" complained one hog, just before he fell on the floor as he soon died. " DIE BEASTS!" shouted Brave Heart, as he clashed his armor at a few of them, trying to stun them, as he would make a combo of cutting them quickly! Hogz fell dead from his swings, as he held his ground rather well! " No retreat! No surrender!" shouted once more the stallion spoke.

Else where on the air ship, Trixie kept her distance away from the hogz, as she fired her magic at them. The spell she was firing was some sort of hardened material, that was sharp and fast enough to kill a hog in the head or at the heart section of the body. Shooting at any where else would only cause a flesh wound, as hogz were used to getting plenty of wounds easily.

The hogz had surrounded Trixie, as they readied their weapons at the ready as they cornerd their target, "... It seems the great and powerful Trixie has an audience tonight..." she comment to herself, as she then pulled a small pellet from her cloak, and threw it hard at the wooden floor. Smoke appeared everywhere, as Trixie now had a chance to escape! She managed to get around the hogz, as she then trotted off away from the hogz. " Oi! Were did dat pony go?" " Zog me, I tink dat pony was a frag'n sorcerer..." questioned the hogz to one another. They then departed the area and searched for new targets to kill, as they trotted off.

Frost and Octavia were at the rear of the air ship, where the engin and the big propeller were. A few other ponies were around, as they were all defending the engins to the propeller. " Get back ya over grown pigs!" shouted White Coco, the cheff of the group as she fired her small hoof sized crossbow at the hogz. Frost charged at the closest hog that was near her, as he bucked them in the face knocking him down. The hog got back up as he stumbled a bit, then darted twords Frost! Frost held his sword up in defence, as he got pushed back and slid as he grunted. Coco soon shot at the hog behind the head as it fell to the floor in it's death. " We cannot let the hogz near the engin everypony! Guard this area with your life!" shouted Frost, sounding like a sergent of the group.

One of the hogz had killed a stallion as he head butted him, then swung his choppa at his arm. The leg came off, as the stallion fell on the floor as blood splattered and squirted everywhere! He cried out loud, as the hog then pulled his head up and twisted his neck making a loud snap! He then cut the neck off and tied a rope through his eyes from one socket through the other, until the head could soon hang onto something around the hog. " Youz dead! I'm not! I win!" cheered the hog, as he pointed his hoof at the fallen body. Soon after wards of his gloating... he looked at something that was big and looking fragile... It was the rearest part of the air ship he spotted... The engins to start the huge propeller... "Ooooh... You'll do for a treat!" he happily spoke, as he was the hog than mentioned about blowing something up nicely. He pulled out a few weirdly shapped stick bombs, and pulled a few rocks mistaken as bombs. His eye sights weren't the greatest, as his eyes had milky look in it. "Hmmm... Nevar really use these fings before... Bet it makes a good boom sound... OOOO! Mabey even make da loudest boom too!" imagined the exciteted hog, as he then trotted over to the engin.

Pinkamena happened to be near by, as she had spotted trouble just waiting to happen with the engine! "... Don't... you... buck'n... dare!..." she cursed quietly, as she had slaughtered dozens of hogz behind her, as she spied at the hog with all the bombs. The hog jogged over twords the engine, as he readied the bombs. "Buck!..." ran the pink mare, with her black coat waving in the air as she ran. She pulled out her dual-sawed-off-shotguns as she ran at the hog! She aimed and fired, only to get the hog'z attention. The hog stopped for a brief moment and looked at the pink mare, as he made a quick grin. He thought about testing one of the new 'bombs' he had which were the few rocks he carried. He picked up one, and chucked it at Pinkamena. Pinkamena saw the rock, confused as to what perpouse was the hog to toss a rock at her direction. Suddenly, the rock exploded! The explosion pushed the mare back, as she released her shotguns and scattered away from her. She fell on the floor stunned for a bit, as she got back up slowly from the blast.

" OH! I love how dis one blows up!" cheered the hog, as he continued to run twords the engine. Pinkamena regained her focus, only to see that the hog had already made it to the engine, as he had already placed the exlposives and rocks around the engine. " Oh... shi-" the bombs and rocks detonated, and the engine was no more, as the propeller slowly fell off as the metal bended from it's big weight!

Frost turned around as well as did a few other ponies did... They couldn't believe what had happened... They didn't want to believe what had happened! The air ship was now imobilized, as if the hog'z intenstions were to get back at the ponies wasn't bad enough. The hogz roared and cheered, as a few of them who held their shootas had their guns pointing up at the big air ship's envelope, and randomly fired as a quick celebration of the explosion. " Did ya see dat! Ka-boom! Ha ha!" chuckled one of the hogz around. " Dey iz gunna be worm food!" cheered another hog, as he grinned showing his crooked teeth.

The air ship suddenly tilted and shifted as it shook everypony on-board... The Heavenly Angel was falling... The envelope had holes in it, as it slowly let gravity pull it down.

Rainbow Dash was handeling a few hogz as they tried to shoot at her, as they constantly missed with every shot they took. Their shootas spewed out dozens of bullets, as the orks enjoyed themselves having a great time shooting at their target. Rainbow Dash was only distracting them for a bit, until Flash Sentry sprang out from behind and slaughtered the rear section of hogz first then worked his way to the hogz that were closer to Rainbow.

The hogz fell dead, and they were no more. " Looks like the Heavenly Angel has fallen... We'll have to abandon the ship!" stated Flash Sentry, as he felt a sudden tilt of the ship sinking twords the ground level. There were still quite a lot of hogz on the air ship, as you could hear their constant war cries around, metal banging, and random shots being herd from the shootas.

Rainbow Dash then relized that maybe her best friend, Apple Jack, might be in danger as she soon zoomed around to find her. " I'll give everypony the message that we're abandoning the ship! I'll gather as many pegasi as I can, to help them off the ship." spoke the blue mare, as she then darted to search for Apple Jack first. She didn't want to see her friend get into any more danger now, as things weren't looking too bright now.

Apple Jack, was using her shovel to her two rear hooves, as she bucked and hit the hogz around her, fighting for her life! The shovel only made the hogz angry and stunded them a few times, while her kicks knocked them off their hoofs. AJ was low on her stamina, as she fought to survive for a while, all alone at the mid side of the ship. She's managed to knock a few hogz off the edge of the ship, but there were too many of them to handle as she tried to trick them to having their backs turned to the edge. This would make her work easier, if this was possible.

One hog charged right at her, as she dodged the charge and swiftly bit on it's tail, and then used all her might to fling the hog in the air, off the ship. It took a lot of force to do so, as these hogz were mostly made of muscle and barely any fat was on them. Apple Jack lost her footing, as she was too tired to fight back... She was sweating like a pig, and there was fire on the ship, making it more difficult for her to cool off for a few seconds. Seconds... seconds was all she needed to rest, but the hogz wouldn't let her.

Each time a hog was killed, tricked, or off the ship falling to their deaths, another hog came to replace it's place.

Another hog rammed his tusks right at Apple Jack, the moment she got up, and was flung into the air only to land on the hard wood floor, and she dropped her shovel somewhere. She grunted as she turned around to face her foes once more... She was laying as she looked at them... One of the hogz pulled out their melee weapon, and made a quick swing at her. The the hog'z poor quality weapon nearly missed the country mare, and shards of wood jumped around the attack. Apple Jack had just rolled around and tripped the hog that attacked. She got back up... one last time, as her legs shook... "... C-come'n... I dare ya..." panted AJ, as she could barely stand to fight any more. She had multiple cuts, scrapes, bruses, and bumps... The hogz were a great threat if you got too close to them.

The hogz roared at her, and they all charged at once, as Apple Jack readied herself to make her final stand...

In just a yard distance away from being pumbled by the hogz, Rainbow Dash had just shoved Apple Jack out of the way, saving her from certain death. The two hit the floor, and they both got back up quickly, " Come on Apple Jack! We're leaving the ship!" commanded the rainbow maned mare, as she helped her up and let her rest on her back. The two trotted away from the fight, as they could look around their surroundings. The fire was spreading fast! Bodies where everywhere, both hogz and ponies a like! The air ship was lost and everypony was either jumping off the ship into their deaths, catching a ride with a pegasi, or holding their ground against the hogz as long as they can... "R-rainbow!..." said the weak voice, of AJ's, as blood came out of her mouth a bit. Apple Jack looked like a mess, as her mane was ruffed up a bit, and marks were around her, "... Thank you, s-sugar cube!..." she spat out weakly, as she suddenly fell to the floor unconscious, as she slipped off her back, " Apple Jack!" said Raibow Dash, as she was now worried for her friend, as she now carried her on her back once more, this time it was difficult, "D-don't worry AJ, I'll make sure that nothing happens to you!... I swear I'll kill every one of those swines when we get off this ship!" promised Rainbow Dash, as she then trotted off to the edge and took off of the air ship in search of an area where everypony was gathering around...

, Trixie, Flash Sentry, as well as a few other ponies were at the area where what was left of the pegasi were picking up their passengers, and dropping them off in a safe distance area from the air ship. A few ponies stood watch, as they guarded the survivors behind them, as they waited for everypony else to escape then be the last ones to get off the Heavenly Angel.

The ship burned as the hogz with their flamers continued to randomly set anything on fire, caring less about their safety. Hogz continued to search for more ponies as they broke open doors or even walls as the ran around the ship.

Mr. Booze noticed he was low on ammunition as he only shot at any hogz nearby if they spotted his group. He now had to conserve his shots carefully, or he may end up using his rifle as his only weapon alone. Hogz were coming by once every second, as they would charge at the group, only to be stopped by somepony with a sword or by the mule's accuracy of his rifle. Dagger was also helping everypony out, getting them off aboard the ship. There weren't many pegasi left in Dagger's group, as they had to work quickly as possible!

And if things couldn't get any worse, a loud 'Waaargh!' was sounded off, as the big hog nob came crashing through a wall, spotting the cluttered group of ponies at the edge. " Dere you are! Come 'ere so I can chop ya!" spat the nob, as he charged straight into the group of ponies! Mr. Booze was the closest one to the nob as he felt his foot stomps from a distance away! The nob was now being targeted by the mule's rifle, as he knelt down to take his shots... The first shot was aimed at the nob's heart. It was a direct hit, but the nob was still running at full speed! Another shot was taken, this time at the knee. The nob jumped a bit from the pain, but was incredibly still running at full speed! " Mr. Booze! Get out of there!" warned Flash Sentry, as the stubborn mule ignored his command. The mule took his third shot, as sweat ran down on the side of his face, this time at the fore head but missed the shot! The mule was on his last bullet! And the nob was just yards away! " MR. BOOZE!" cried Flash Sentry, as he then trotted to the old stubborn mule. The mule took his final aim right between the eyes of the big hog nob, as the hog readied his large ax... The nob was about to make his swing! Flash was two yards away from the mule! Mr. Booze pointed his rifle at the nob, and pulled the trigger!...

Then... in a long, slow paced scene... the rifle clicked, as in the weapon was jammed!... Mr. Booze froze in fear, as he lowered his rifle, turned his head away, and waited for the worst to happen...

The mule was soon no more, as the hog nob swung his mighty ax at him, as the ax got stuck in his body... The nob lifted the mule in the air, as he gave him a griny look at him. The mule gave a soft smile back, as he tried to say his final words... " G-g-go... to hell!... You swine... of a... piece of shit!"... The nob then placed his hoof on the mule's back, and pushed him further into the ax's tip as more pain was caused to the mule. The mule gasped for air, as he felt like he was being choaked by his lungs, until he released his final breath away... The hog nob used his hoof again to buck him off his ax, kicking him off, leaving the blood stain on the weapon.

Flash Sentry's eyes widened... Mr. Booze was killed... by this brute... Anypony who was left who saw that was shocked... Trixie shook a bit in fear, as she lost her moral suddenly.

The nob readied his ax once more, as he raised it up high again, getting ready to kill Flash Sentry, as if he hasn't had enough carnage yet... Flash pulled his sword as quick as he could, only to notice that he wasn't going to be albe to pull it out in time...

A loud metal banged at the ax, as the nob was suddenly pushed back from his attack, nearly losing his balance!... Brave Heart in his full knight hood armor, as it reflected in the fire's light in silver, as he stood tall holding his great sword firmly... "... Brave Heart..." said Flash, has his words were taken away from savior.

Brave Heart didn't stick around for a 'thank you' to be herd, as he immediately charged at the nob, head first as he jammed the tip of the blade at the pig's gut! "AAAARGH! Wot!?" spoke angrily the hog nob, as if he thought he was immune to cuts. Brave Heart quickly pulled his sword out, as he then waited for a reaction to occur from his big foe. " You guys just get ready to be picked up! I'll hold him off as long as I can!" barked the knight hood stallion, as the nob surpisenly got back up from his deep wound. This surpised Brave Heart, as his long great sword wasn't enough to put down this big, tough, pig for good. Flash Sentry turned around to only find that Trixie was already being carried by Rainbow Dash, as there was a next pegasus ready to pick up Flash Sentry up, and take him to someplace safe soon. Flash wasted no time, as he ran and hopped at the pegasus as he carried him off to someplace else.

The last pony on board the air ship now... was Brave Heart... As he and the nob were both ready to fight one another. The two charged at one another "Haaaaaaargh!" "WAAAARGH!" shouted the two, as they both crashed into one another, sending Brave Heart a few meters away from the nob. The impact from the nob was three times more devastating than a regular hog, as he stomped his way to the knight. " Ya think ya can come and take me 'ead away? I'z biggar, stronger, and hoggier den you lot!" bellowed the hog nob, as he spat a few times at Brave Heart. The stallion got back up and readied himself once more. The two charged once more, only this time the knight tricked the brute that he was gunna charge directly at him. At that split second Brave Heart swung his mighty great sword at the hog's legs, as he ducked a bit low from the already swung ax. This cause more pain in the hog's legs, as he trembled onto the floor. The hog still got back up once more! Only this time he limped around. "WAA-AAA-AAA-AAARGH!" roared the nob, as he banged his chest causing a sudden tone with each hit on his chest. The nob looked furious now, as steam blew out from his nose! The nob now stomped his way to Brave Heart, as the stallion readied for what every was coming at him.

The nob swung his ax very hard! Brave Heart dodged the attack, as a strike from an attack like that would surely shattered his long blade. Instead, shards of wood flew all over the place from the floor, as the attack had missed. The fight was getting more brutal as each inflicted wound to the nob was made. Brave Heart took the opportunity to swing his great sword at the nob's back, causing more blood to spill than before! Black blood spilled everywhere! As the nob roared in pain, "WaAaAaARGH!" the hog nob got back up again! And looked at his target once more. Brave Heart was still surprised at the intense nob, as his eyes twiched from pain from his back. The nob suprisenly charged again, at full speed at the stallion!

This time however... Brave Heart wasn't there to fight the nob anymore...

Brave Heart had his eyes close a bit, as he slowly opened them finding himself flying in the air! The flight was swift as the wind rushed across his face. It felt good to be off the hot ship, away from the fire. Brave Heart looked upwards of who was carrying him. It was Dagger, in his quantillian armor with his helmet on. Dagger just looked straight ahead into an opening in a nearby forest, as night was falling quite fast...

Dagger managed to drop off Brave Heart near the group of the gathering ponies, as everypony were tending to their wounds, mourning the dead, and looking at Dagger for answers...

"Where are these beasts coming from!?" yelled one stallion, as he was missing an ear, and had one eye missing as it was patched up. "Why do they have these machines and how are they getting them?" asked another, who was a middle aged mare, as she looked like she had been caught by some fire around her mane and tail, as ash covered most of her body. "There were thousands more of those pigs flying around our air ship! Where do these numbers come up!?" shouted a colt, as he spat out his words in rage but also in fear, but mostly in an angered tone.

Dagger just simply walked through the small crowd of ponies, as they all asked and demanded questions from him. Dagger didn't want to remove his helmet off, he couldn't look through the glass of the visor at the other ponie's eyes even if he wanted to. He looked down, but didn't hang his head low, he wanted to remain and act like this was natural and it was to be expected to happen.

Dagger finally stopped, as he then turned to the crowd. He was safely out from the group, as he looked at everypony. Nopony was ready for what had occurred, as most of them showed angry face expression at their leader of the group.

"...I am sorry everypony..." started Dagger, after he swallowed his words. " I let everypony down..." he continued. Dagger could see Pinkamena in the corner of his eye, as she laid back by the tree, spectating the action that had taken place. From her view point beyond from where everypony was, Pinkamena could see the air ship burning as gravity pulled it twords the ground. She could hear the hogs shouting their "Waaargh!" constantly, as the air ship sank. Before the airship touched the ground a few meters away from impact, the hogz abbandoned the air ship and flew off in their trashy rocket packs as they lept off and flew back to the imobilized giant machine.

" You sure as hell did! We've lost more than half of the ponies we had, when we started!" shouted a stallion, as he was being bandaged by another pony. "Why don't you tell us where these demons are coming from!" snarled another pony.

Dagger simply froze, thinking of what to say and explain how the hogz would reproduce so rapidly. He felt a few sweat drops coming around his head, as he also experienced a short feeling of heat in his body, and then suddenly and imaginary candle of heat was blown away suddenly, as he felt cold... "... Hogz... They... Their bodies are fifty percent of fungi material... The rest is organic matter..." A few other pony's ears twitched, as they weren't sure of what they were hearing was correct. "... This means... they reproduce just like fugus does, but... at a dramaticly faster rate..." finnished Dagger. As he temporarily turned his head a little away from the crowd.

Everypony paused... they couldn't believe what they were hearing from this quantillian pony... This scared everypony, giving them thoughts and ideas of what big of a threat this could cause their lives, let alone their world, of a mass effect this could cause. A possible apocolypse possibly maybe? A war that could never end, or end pony kind?... Who knows...

"T-That's it!? W-what about those machines!? Such technology from trashy looking things are being used as weapons against us!" Paniced a unicorn, as she paused for a moment from stiching another mare's wounds up.

" They have this way of their own logics... to make anything that made sence in their own logic to be possible... If they think it will work... . work!..." answered Dagger, bluntly speaking, still ashamed of not informing his own team about the situation about their enemies.

Rainbow Dash walked twords Dagger, with mixed feelings. She felt hatred mostly, but was confused as to why Dagger had kept this a secret this whole journey. "... Why didn't you tell us sooner?" she asked somewhat softly, as looked at him. His helmet rose up to look at her in the eyes, but he soon looked away. " I thought that informing you would be a bad idea. You would be overwhelmed of the situation, especially how little of us were left." He replied to everypony. " Please understant, I didn't want to scare you..."

Frost somehow had managed to bring Mr. Booze's old hunting rifle, with it's scope still intact. He brought it up to Dagger, then dropped the rifle infront of him. Frost wasn't sad, he was upset! "... I expected better from you Dagger... From what I know... You were the new leader of your very own race... yet, your now the last one standing..." This coming from Frost, struck Dagger hard. Dagger dared not move away, as he dared to look up at Frost. He felt anger, and rage as he looked at the idiot standing infront of him. How dare he told him about his race! How dare he knew what was to be a leader of an entire race!... How... Then his eyes looked down at Mr. Booze's rifle... The old mule was now dead, because of his actions. What could've been done though? How else could this been avoided as well as many unnecessary lives were taken to this day?...

"... I-I..." stuttered Dagger, as he finally looked at everypony around him... Lost... was a proper word for everypony's face expression. Along with hatred, confusion, sorrow, and the lost of trust...

"... They trusted you... idiot..." Spoke Pink, as she stood right behind his shoulder, and glared down through his helmet... This broke Dagger's moral... As he started to slowly walk backwards, away from Pinkamena... away from Frost... away from Rainbow Dash... away from everypony...

He soon turned around... and vanished in the darkness though the forest... where nature would deal with his recklessness.

Rainbow Dash didn't think about stopping him for a moment, as she knew too well, that this was his fault for not informing everypony of the situation of their enemy.

Darkness fell, as Luna arose the moon in the sky, watching over everypony in most places...

King Sombra was walking around his throne room, as he waited, and waited, and waited for something... or some pony...

The doors to the entrance of his throne room slammed open! As one of his dark guards rushed to inform him, " Your highness! Your highness!" alarmed the guard. Sombra turned around swiftly, with his head, as he was unsure why this guard was shouting and running towrds his throne room.

"Kora has arrived, but she is heavily injured!" reported the guard. Sombra smiled... this expression confused the guard, but went with it as if it were good news. " Take me to her..." "Yes, your highness!"

Kora hauled a few bodies of slain ponies, as she has cuts, scratches, bruises, and her fur as well as her mane were a bit of a mess. Blood trickled around her legs, as she used her anti-magic powers to pull the bodies behind her, as she dragged them.

Sombra's guards and Chrysalis's minions were stunded to find her standing, as they could clearly see that she was in no condition to walk, yet... she still was walking as her legs shook a bit with every step.

King Sombra looked down from being at the top of the stairs, looking down at her created daughter. He was impressed... Her daughter had over completed her task, as he could see that she dragged the bodies of dead ponies behind her... These ponies were leaders and powerful ponies who had different skills, each at the strongest point and having their own weak points of fighting.

" Excellent! My daughter!..." boomed Sombra, as he slowly walked down the steps, with his smile, as his fangs peeped out. Sombra signaled his servants who were slaves, as they dashed to Kora.

"...D-daddy..." spoke the exaused mare... "...I-I did a-a-as you instructed me..." she panted with every breath. She tried to show for a smile to her father, as she soon fell down to the dirt. The servants immediately picked her up with quick haste, as they didn't want any more trouble or slip ups in their job as servants. Sombra signaled the servants to pause for a moment, and bring her to him.

The servants did as they were commanded, and the two had done so. One of the servants nearly tripped along the way up the stairs, but managed to correct her hoofing.

Kora was exhausted, as she was mostionless, only her chest was moving slowly as she breathed calmly. Sombra placed a hoof under her chin, then used his other hoof to brush her mane away from her face. "... There, there... Soon, after your task is over for daddy, you can rest all you would like... my daughter..." he whispered to Kora out loud, but not wanting to wake her up from her sleep. Sombra then placed his hoofs down, as he only liked the beauty that he created of his daughter, and treated her that she was a thing. Of course, Kora doesn't know anything yet about her father... yet...

It was a dark day light in Sombra's relm, as Kora was in her bed in her room. She was groomed, bathed, and was wearing new clothing that matched the pattern of her father's military. Her green eyes opened a bit, till it finally widened. She was in her room, as the black walls were covered in patterns of green webs like her mother's web signature that she liked. She had a wooden oak dresser, a desk complete with a mirror, and a big long closet that was currently closed.

Suddenly, Fauna popped up out of no where and hopped on her bed. Still unable to speak, she hugged Kora happily! She also had brought her a basket that contaned blue bug eggs, as they were shapped like a sphere. They were shiny, smooth, and somewhat sticky.

This basket symolized to Kora as breakfast, as Kora wasn't picky for one bit to have bite or two of her breakfast. Just before the daughter could reach her hoof into the basked, Fauna stopped her by placing her bug hoof onto her friend's hoof. She tried to express as to feeding the eggs to her master, as she would be honored to do so, seeing that Kora had been though a lot.

Fauna grabbed one of the blue eggs, as it shined from the reflection of any sort of light around, as it was dim in the morning. Fauna cracked the blue egg with her fang in her mouth, as she left a small hole on the egg, allowing whatever what was in it to seep out. Kora happily smiled at Fauna, giving her a 'thank you' expression to her mute friend, as she was given the egg with a poked hole.

She took the egg, and softly slurped the contents out from the blue egg. It tasted tart first, then sour, then sweet once Kora had gotten used to the taste, until the contents of the egg was all gone, leaving a transparent shell that surrounded the blue substance. The taste to Kora was like a ripe blue berry with a green sour apple, but the flavor would soon focus on one subject, which was somewhat a blue berry flavor, but not exactly the same flavor.

After Fauna helped Kora to a few of these eggs, soon queen Chrysalis had opened the door and entered the room. Chrysalis saw Fauna had managed to diliver the eggs to her daughter, and looked at her in disgust. To Chrysalis, Fauna was a mistake in Equestria, but at least she serves her purpose. Chrysalis then gave a light smile to her daughter, as she stood next to her bed, being across from Fauna.

"Morning my darling... I hope you like your breakfast... I kinda made them myself..." happily spoke Chrysalis, as she gave Kora a careless kiss to her daughter. It was a very light and quick kiss on her forehead, but this still translated to Kora showing her love to her. "Thank you mother!" smiled Kora, as she showed her white teeth like her father's to her mother. " I saw father, what's he up to?" asked the young youth mare, as Fauna handed the last three of the blue shiny eggs to her. " Daddy, is preparing to leave along with his army sweet heart. He wants you to accompany him in his journey to over take Canterlot." spoke the queen, as she placed a hoof on her daughter's head, then made her way to her back, then to her shoulder as if she was concerned for her life. " I'm looking forword to being next to daddy. I'll show him what I can do in the front line." spoke the cocky young mare, as she lept out from her bed. Kora wore a black vest, as there were pointed arrows pointing away from her body as they were on her shoulders. She had thin soft dark pads on the side of her flank, and a robe surrounding her legs as well as the rear sections of her body. She carried her sword under the robe, as it hung there for quick access, as there was a spell to respond when she wanted to put it away or have access to it when danger or a threat came across her.

She was ready to be by her father, ready for action, and ready to make her father happy.

Sombra gazed out at his army, the minotaurs, the pointy ears, diamond dogs, as well as his own guards who were prepped and ready for commands.

Captain Coldstar, when Nightmare Moon was in order temporarily who were soldiers to her, made his way to Sombra's black scaled dragon, as it's eyes glowed red. On top of the dragon was Sombra on his sattle, which was on top the dragon. Coldstar made sure to keep his distance from the beast, as he was only near it only for Sombra. " Your highness, my troops are ready, and we look forward to bringing back Nightmare Moon back to rule along side with you. However, I simply just want to make sure that we are not to take so many casualties in this invasion." spoke the captain of the night, having some concern about his soldiers as well as his race. Sombra was a bit bothered by this Nightmare Moon, but the deal was to only not take too many casualties in this invasion to Canterlot. "... You have my word, Captain... I'll even promise you, that during this invasion... none of your men will be harmed in the process of the invasion..." replied the King, as he then placed his helmet on, covering his entire face. The shape of this helmet was of similar of a dragon, but only pony based. There were metal scales on the helmet, as the colors were of silver, dark gold, and dark colored copper. King Sombra's mane also stuck out from the helmet on the back, as it was intentional built as the mane would wave around in the air.

Suddenly, with quick supprise, Kora lept onto the dragon's back and hugged her father tightly. Sombra looked back at her, giving her a look that she could barely tell through the helmet, but then focused the task at hoof. Cold Star soon trotted away from the Dragon, only to go focus on his men for battle. Sombra and Kora who were on the sattle of the big, dark, scaly dragon flew up wards, as the dragon had flapped it's wings heavily, as it lifted them up off the ground.

Sombra looked down upon his fleet... There were so many of them... hundrends... thousands... millions... of troops, brutes, and creatures of the Everfree forest and other parts of Equestria, ready for battle... Celestia and Luna would certainly noticed the size of the fleet for sure if they moved out soon, as they both are currently focused on the Hogz as their numbers grows larger and larger every day.

"My worthy soldiers of the New Empire!" stated Sombra, as he announced out loud, with his booming voice, " Today, we take Canterlot and bring Celestia's brave soldiers and bring them to their knees!" he shouted, as the Dragon flew around. " We will take their freedom away, and we will have what we demand to have of what's theirs! We'll belong into a new world order, where we are accepted of who we are and what is rightfully ours! What we make today, will always be remembered in history!... We will prosper! We will thrive! And we'll let those in our way, to perish in history whether they stand in our way or disagree of our actions and our thoughts..." the dragon then made one last loop in the air, then flew stright into one direction of where the fleet was moving twords. " Let's create a new order! FOR THE NEW EMPIRE!" blellowed King Sombra, as his waves upon waves of minions, soldiers, and other races came charging after him, as they pulled wagons, carts with weapons and arrows for their long ranged artillery, as well as for catapults as the crates were being pulled by the minotaurs as they grunted of the weight of the wagons as they pulled. The whole army cheered and roared, as most of them ran into the direction the dragon was flying to.

However... they weren't heading to Canterlot just yet... They had a different enemy to deal with, before they had gotten stronger... Sombra knew too well, that if they took over Canterlot now, they would have an enemy that would possibly hit arround the bushes pestering his forces. The Hogz had to go... if they did not go sooner, Sombra was aware that the problem would only get worse, if they were not properly handled now...

Kora's heart was ready for battle, as she felt the energy to fight anything that got in her way. Thank's to her father's words, she was more ready than she'll ever be... For the New Empire... "... For the New Empire..." Kora whispered...