Dagger's End:

The Swine Tide &

The Underworld Uprise (Vol. 2)

Chapter 12

WAAARGH!

The Hogz strong hold... it was a massive fortress of disorganized and a chaotic mess... A few vehicles were unfinished, guns and ammo were left unattended. The smell of hog dung could be smelled in a few areas where the squigs were being created out of it as they grew. Smoke was in the air, as tanks, bikes, and other vehicles were created from scrap metal were purring as they made an exploding sound from the engin, yet still operational somehow...

Warboss Wartguts was in a trukka, with a few of his boyz and a nob, who had killed Mr. Booze previously... The trukka had a rocket next to it's engin, as it boosted the speed for the Hogz in the trip. They soon made it into their base of unorganized operations, as they went over a few 'speed bumps' over some grots, as they screamed in pain for those who were left alive.

Warty was suprised to find his boss coming back so soon, as he then wondered what happened to the Hog Stompa. Wartguts bursted out from the trukka, as the other boyz and a nob jumped out as well, attending to what ever business was important to them.

"Tuh? Uh!? B-boss!? Oh! Wot 'appened to da Stompa!? Whyz youz 'ere so soon? Did dem pon-" Warty was snapped by Warguts as he spat his words out at him, as he barked, " Doh! SHUT IT YA GIT! Dem poniez stomped our Stompa! Dey took out da legz right and quick!... Iz gunna kill dem poniez if tis da last fing I'z doez!..." he walked around for a bit, looking at the boyz, as they lazily laid around. Wartguts just rolled his eyes, as he saw them doing their own things, such as fighting one another and eventually killing one another. Grots stealing teeth from other hogz, as teeth was treated like money. And other hogz telling tales of what great fun they had killing ponies, in a very straight forward story ever, leaving the details out of it.

Time had passed by, as the hogz couldn't care less about time, as they wasted it in nonsensical ways. Wartguts entertained himself by fighting a few of his nobs, as the nobs were hopping to be the new wartboss. None could kill Wartguts, as the biggest hog was just simply to strong with his might. However, he didn't kill any of his nobs, unlike how he treats the smaller versons of his hogz, which were the boyz, as they would easily get killed by their boss. Either way, most hogz didn't care much about dying, as they never thought about it. This doesn't mean that their entirely fearless however. A hog'z moral was driving by the size of the group of the mob. The bigger the mob, the more brave the hogz would get, the smaller the mob, the more easily the mob would be scared and retreat to one of their camps to rebuild their numbers.

"Oi! Boss! Boss!" shouted a hog nob kommando, as he carried his shoota around, along with his back pack with all sorts of things for a tactical kommandos needed. It was Brute Toof, as he and a few of his boyz dressed up as kommandos went on a recon recently, to report to their boss.

"Wots iz it!?" growled the big hog boss, as he turned around, with his one red lends cyborg eye. " Me and da boyz 'ere spotted a few more of dem poniez come'n ovar 'ere! Youz think we should pick of fight with dem lot?" asked the nob kommando, as he looked a little eager to fight somepony. The boss wondered why the ponies were coming this way, as he remembered there were banners that each had a wooden plank that stated 'WAAARGH' as each letter was painted red, with blood around the area at the nearby swam the ponies had been spotted. " Yea! Go! Get out dere, and kill anyz of dem puny poniez ovar dere. Bring some of dem 'ere dough... I'z like ta pick a fight wif dem lot..." Grinned the wartboss.

The nob kommando gave a quick smile to his boss, as he soon then turned around and signalled his kommando boyz to move out...

A few of Sombras's soldiers who were in scouting parties, as they were unsure why their king didn't want them heading into Canterlot in the first place, as they were passing by in through a forest. As they got deeper, the forest became a swamp as they moved twords the Hogz fortress.

The long eared ponies kept an eye out for any dangers, as they had already passed by a few of the Hogz's banners that had their signature on it.

"W-what are we doing here?... Were suppose to be heading north to Canterlot!" hissed a skinny diamond dog, as he looked at a compass showing north pointing at his right shoulder, as the scout parties were heading south east of Equestria. " His highness wishes to deal with matters, that could worsen in the future of the New Empire. He stated that there are beasts hidden in this forest, and we must end their genocide fights." stated one of the dark guards, as they walked in a stright direction.

The ground was getting muddy, as their hoofs and paws got dirty and wet.

Not to far away from the scout parties, somepony or someone was watching their moves, as they hid in the bushes, trees, and even in the lakes of the swamp, as they camouflage with the enviroment.

"Look boss!..." whispered one of the hog kommandos. "Yea, yea... I'z see 'em... get da trap ready for da suprise..." proudfully whispered the nob kommando, as he had a feeling this was going to be a thrilling and fun fight of their lives. At a distance from the scout parties, there were lumps under the dirt, as the scouting parties got closer to those lumps under the dirt. "Not yet!...Not yet!... Not yet!..." whispered the hog nob, as he was excited to see the reaction to the ponies and a few minotaurs in the scouting groups.

The scouts were very near the trap, set up by the hogz. The parties then froze, as they stopped just a few hoof steps away from the trap...

"Why have we've stopped?..." asked a minotaur, as he held a club ready for a good thwaking against anything in their way. A long eared pony had lifted her hoof, signalling them that she herd something from her sensitive ears... " Something just growled near us..." " So? It's probably just an animal, let's find these monsters and then inform the captain." replied another pony, as he wore his highness's army's armor on. "No... This growl was different... It's something I've never herd of before..."

One of the hog kommandos tried to silence one of the squigs that was strapped to a bomb in it's mouth, as it didn't like having things that wasn't edible in it's mouth. " Oi! Keep dat squig quiet! Youz gunna ruin it!" hissed a boy kommando, as he hid in the bushes that was infront of the scouts from a safe and hiding distance away.

"It's probably nothing... Let's be on our way!" stated another minotaur, as he carelessly walked past the traps as a few others followed as well.

The long eared mare pony suddenly spotted something unusual on the ground dirt... There seemed to be hilly patterns in a stright line... It then hit her, as she alarmed the party to stop. It was too late, as the scout parties then had sprung the trap! The hogz had gotten the upper hoof in the attempting ambush, as their mines exploded and detonated! Bodies flew everywhere, some into pieces! Then, shots from the hogz's shootas were sounded off, as the red hot shots flew everywhere! " TAKE COVER!" alarmed one of the guards, as everypony was confused of what was happening! They hid behind nearby stones, and old logs, as the bullets flew through things such as wooden trees and logs, and whatever that couldn't withstand the shots coming from the shootas.

"Light it up boyz!" shouted a hog kommando at the front of the trail, as the squigs with bombs and dynamites were lit up! Five red skinned squigs scampered their small raptor legs twords the scouting parties, as they made violent gurgling noises from their mouths, as their mouth was stuffed with explosives! Suddenly, one of the squigs decided that it wasn't going to go through this, as it turned around and charged instead at the opposite direction twords it's own previous owners.

One of the boyz noticed that the squig was coming right after him, as he saw the little runt charging at him with explosives in his mouth, "...Wait... Why ya go'n ta me!?..." asked the hog, as he was confused of the situation of what was happening, only to be blown up into pieces, as the hogz's body flew everywhere, and blood splattered everywhere! One of the hogz that was nearby laughed, as he pointed his hoof at his dead comrade, "Da Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!" cried the hog, as he couldn't help but laugh of the event that just occurred. Only to hear the other explosions sounding off, as the squigs exploded killing more ponies and dogs. The hog stopped laughing and picked up his shoota, firing at his targets.

The minotaurs were too big to take cover, instead, they were shot a few times as they tried to findout where the shots were coming from. A few were shot dead, as even fewer of them had traced the shots, and charged head on, thinking of what little to do. One of the minotaurs managed to stomp on one of the hogz, as he towered over the pig. Only to be tackled by the Nob kommando, Brute Toof, as he got him on his back and pulled his kommando choppa out! He chopped the minotaur's angry face off, as he then tied a rope around the head, and placed it in his back pack. The nob kommando then focused back on his targets, as he pulled his shoota out and opened fired! "Dakka! Dakka!" cheered Brute Toof, as he showed his yellowish teeth with an evil grinny smile.

The minotaurs were all slain in the group, as it was now a few ponies, Sombra's guards, long eared ponies, and two or three dogs, as they whimpered in hiding.

"Let's make a run for it!" cried one of the dogs, as he got out of cover and ran off! The dog was only running out in the open, leaving himself to get shot, as he fell on the mud ground, making a loud splat impact. " Buck! We're pinned down!" stated a mare, as she gritted her teeth in anger.

Suddenly, a dragon had flown over the scouting parties, as the dragon flew around scanning the information of what was going on... The dragon soon blew out fire out from it's big gator jaws, as the hogz soon tried to dodged the fire spreading all over the forest in an instant! "Ouch! Ouch! Tis 'urting me!" complained one of the hogz, as his fur was caught on fire. The hog kommandoz were not retreating, as a few of them soon fired rockkets at the dragon, only to miss, as it flew around with such speed! King Sombra's army was near as they could see the situation soon was getting worse.

"Um... boss... Dat looks like more poniez for us ta kill! I can't wait till I-" the happy hog kommando was just about to head to the main force of where Sombra's minions were marching, as they were getting closer.

The Brute Toof grabbed the boy with his hoof, as he gazed at the numbers of ponies, dogs, minotaurs, and even a few griffins as they flew around over their heads...

" Dis iz not gud boyz... We'z gotta go! Let's leg it!" shouted the nob kommando, as he then shouted his boyz to run back to the hog fortress. These weren't just ponies walking around getting lost, this was a massive army that was heading to the Hogz's main fortress!

Later that afternoon, Sombra's army was regrouping as the King was coming up with a plan to slay the hogz and bring an end to their 'Waaargh!' as he strategized for the attack...

Sombra had sent a few spies to scout out the hogz's fortress... only a few to return...

In the center of the hog fortress... Wartguts was brought a 'souvenir' as Warty reveald one of Sombra's many spies to his boss...

"... Ya fink you can sneak around me boyz wif out seeing ya!... Ya fink youz can come for me 'ead!" roared the wartboss, as he then quickly grabbed the pony with his jaws, then shook him violently, hitting him on the ground, as blood flew everywhere stainting Wartgut's fur as well as the dirt. He then flung the pony in the air, as he discarded him like a candy wrapper.

Warty was happy to see some blood around, as he knew that a fight was coming to their base, "Hogz iz nevar beat'n in battle!..." happily spoke the hog armored nob. " Shut it ya git!" spat the boss, " Da rest of dem iz come'n dis way and weez gots to be ready!..." the boss then thought about the boyz around him, as they still fooled around with one another, being free loaders as they are. Wartguts then stomped his way to a hut, as Warty followed him next to him. "Tell da boyz deres some kill'n to do!..." he growled, and then stopped to point at a few banner that had fire on the top of them lit up. Warty looked up, as the banners Wartguts built were huge! "I made them big banners to remind the clanz to betta keep their boyz in line!... I don't want no squickeths to come look'n for me, when the enemy iz right 'ere!" barked the wartboss, as he then entered the hut, leaving Warty to deliver a message to the nearest group of boyz around.

The hogz gathered around as small group, as the boyz cheered around seeing two boyz fighting one another, with their own choppas, as the hacked and slashed one another only creating cuts and scars. The mecha nob, Warty, stumbled around the hogz, as he made his way twords the center of the boyz, as he fired his mecha arm that was attached with a shoota, as it spewed it's bullets out. "Oi! Wartguts got a little message for youz!" shouted the mecha nob, as he ended up killing one of the two boyz who were fighting one another, as the body flew away from the impacts of the shots of Warty's shoota. The hog boy died, as Warty then continued, as he grabbed all the hogz's attention to him. He then pointed of what looked like a trashy looking speaker, as he snapped his power claws a few times, " Got it ya might suckas!? Dis 'ere voicy box 'ere iz gunna talk to yaz... So open ya earz!" annoucned the mecha nob, as he then stood in silence.

It took a few minutes for Wartguts to figure out the controls to the mic, as a few grots fiddled around in the hut, to help their boss out. One of the grots plugged in the wire to the socket to all the speakers of the base, as the mic was now active. However, the moment the grot pluged the wire in, the grot was zapped to death, fried as other grots laughed and chuckled at his death.

Wartguts then tested the mic, by tapping his power claw on the hogy built microphone... " Listen up ya gorts and squigs!..." the boss tested and listened to hear if the hogz around the base were quiet enough to suddenly make the entire fortress as quiet as possible. A few seconds passed, as Wartguts couldn't hear anything around him, as he then continued on his announcement. " Deez poniez iz coming after us like weez some kind of pony gits!... But we ain't! Weez da hogz and weez 'ere gunna 'ave one GREAAAAT fight!" he bellowed across the hog base, as he then walked with the mic in his powerclaw, out of the hut. He then attached the mic onto a pointy part of his armor, as he moved, disconnecting the wire that the dead grot had plugged in before. Somehow... the mic still worked normally, as Wartguts was still thinking as the mic worked still. He was outside as he looked around and moved around as he looked at all the boyz around him, as well as nobs, and grots. "So get your choppas ready, and shoota's loaded boyz!... Cause dere some kill'n to do..." loudfully growled the wartboss, as he stared into one of the hog nob's eyes... Then continued to walk, as he then checked at each section of his fortress of his hog clanz that grew in numbers.

Each clan was specialized in their own brute way of killing, as he annouced their names... " 'ead crushas, youz ready!?" he shouted, as he asked, only to get in replyment of a "WAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" as the boyz readied their weapons, and started running twords the exit of the hog base, filled with adrenaline of excitement to fight. " Foot Stompas your squiggeths and such iz ready!?" shouted the boss, as he checked up on the clan.

The Foot Stompas had one huge squig, which was called a squiggoth... A squiggoth was a massive huge beast, it had a head of a lizzard, huge teeth of an anacondas only bigger, thick skin of an elephant as well as it's feet. A big tail of a lizzard, as it had a mounted spikey ball attached to it, from the hogz, and two long tusks coming out from it's mouth, kinda of like of a warthog's tusks. The squiggoth was wearing wooden and metal armor on it's sides, head, and on it's tail bone section, as it was also mounted a box shaped shelter on it's back, as hogs were inside of it swinging their guns around. Inside this sheltered box was a long cannon, that would shoot out red bolts of lighting around, as the hogz gave out a few test fires, as the shots hit the dirt around, as big craters were made on the ground, as dirt flew everywhere!

The squiggoth cheered with it's clan, as it rose it's upper body in the air, then stomped it's entire earth shaking body on the ground, causing a few hogs to stumble around, "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"

Wartguts grinned at the shear sight of the squiggoth, as he couldn't wait to see the devastation of the monster soon... as he then continued, " Burna boyz... you wanna fight!?" excitenly spoke the boss, as he also excited the Burna boyz clan, as they were mostly hogz with lots of flamethrowers, as fire flew around them, as they torched the air around them, "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" this shout seemed to be louder than the other hogz before them, as they too ran out of the exsit of the hog base, ready to burn anything that was alive... or just burn anything anyway...

" Rockit Rangers, youz in it or wot!?" questioned Wartguts, teasing them as if they weren't ready to fight. The Rockit Ranger clan took this as an insult, as they immediately lit up their rockets and flew up in the air, as they practically covered the sky with their smoke in the air! There were so many of them, as they flew over many hogz below them, as they cheered "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" they cried!

Wartguts finally went to the last clan he went to, as this clan was filled with tanks, trucks, bikes, and many more vehicles that were built out of random scrap metal, " Quick Meks, youz gunna let all the runts get all the good fight'n done!?..." "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" protested the clan, as they turned on their crazy looking vehicles on, and activated the rockets attached to the rear of the vehicles. Some of the rides were painted red, as they seemed to travle faster and with better speeds as they almost flew up in the air, as they drove fast off a small hill.

Wartguts then finally made it to his very own clan called Da Face Rippas... They wore more trashy armor, pointier armor, bigger shootas, and a few squig bombs as they remained loyal to their masters requests... "Dats right..." he stated, as he growled. "Weez gunna pound 'em in ta little scraps!... Dis 'ere iz our right an proper..." Wartguts held his breath for a minute, only to soon release the loudest 'Waaargh!' to let the entire land of Equestria to hear his loud war cry ever! "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" afterwards the moment he had finished his loudest shout, the speakers suddenly exploded, as they fell, and burned as the fire erupted around it.

The hogz were ready! They were all ready and motivated to fight against the invaders that dared to cross paths with the Hogz. There was no plan for retreat! No back up plan! Nothing was prepared for a loss... It was all or nothing for the hogz... as they gave out their last war cry, this time, they all shouted simultaneously! "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!..."

Wartguts soon charged head on, to meet with King Sombra's dark army, knowing that with the combind forces of the clans... No pony... was going to be left alive... Only heads will be collected to the hogz, as they would have the best times to pluck the heads of their fallen enemies... All this was practically just for sport to the hogz, as they all were happy to have the best fight of their lives... getting 'stuck in wif da boyz'

The New Empire army moved faster with quick haste, as they had changed pace the moment they got the message of enemy contact from their scouting party. Griffins, minotaurs, ponies, the long eared ones, Nightmare Moon's small army, changlings, diamond dogs, and King Sombra's finest soldiers as they all charged through open ground of fields...

The Hogz saw the massive force of mixed races from Sombra's forces. Only... none of them were worried at all... infact, they were more happy then ever to see so many new creatures that the hogz haven't met before such as griffins and minotaurs! The hogz constantly shouted their 'WAAARGH!' as the threatened with their choppas waving in the air, shootas shooting up at the sky, grots chearing with their little shouts, they all wanted to fight, EVERY last one of them!

Sombra's Dragon landed swiftly infront of his army, as the captain of only a part of his masive force approched him.

"My lord! These pigs seem to nearly out number us somehow. I recommend long ranged arrows, and catapults to open fire on these foul creatures." stated the captain, in his dark night armor, with captain look appearance on his armor. Kora looked beyon her father, as she couldn't believe the muddy green and brown colors of the wave of hogz shouting, as they slowly made their way towords them. She could tell that the Hogz nearly out numbers their very own force, but she had already knew that the hogz didn't have any sort of skill, only to rely on brute force and numbers.

Sombra gazed at the waves upon waves of the Hogz... They had more than just bodies on the battle field... It seemed the Hogz had some sort of inventions that have never been seen before to any pony kind in Equestria... The whole army of the New Empire could see unstably built, of what looked to be fighter bomers, over sized trucks with rubber wheels with metal bits surrounding the rubber, along with spikes. He saw more hogz on bikes with rockets that would be launched as a weapon, tanks, and more rubbish built vehicles across the massive wave of Hogz almost covering the entire field of tall grass... It was going to be a blood bath, and a long battle as well...

Sombra then finally gave the commands, has he calmly spoke to his captain in command of the quarter of his forces, as he needed four captains to maintain order of command in his very own army. " I want all minotaurs in the front, and behind them with the swift ponies right behind them, providing as back up... then, send the rest of the fleet to charge right after them." "M-my lord?" concerned the captain, as he was already informed of how brutal these barbaric pigs were from stories being told across Equestria. Sombra, turned his head and gave a gentle nod to him, " You see captain... these beings have no such skill, which is what they lack in... If what I've herd is correct, their numbers and their strength is their only strong point. We have wits, and skill on the other hoof... We'll take care of this trash very swiftly, but keep inmind of this captain..." paused Sombra, as he looked once more at the Hogz approching, " Leave no pony alone in a fight... If we are to achive victory, we must push our forces to their limits, together... Other wise, we could be overwelmed. Is that understood captain?..." finnished Sombra, as he then turned his head back at his captain.

The captain didn't have any problem registering his highness's orders, as he gave a quick nod, and turned to his soldiers. Sombra took off with his Dragon and his daughter, Kora, and they flew off high in the sky to fly over the Hogz, as Sombra was going to drop Kora off to some place...

The Hogz drew closer, as Sombra's fleet moved slowly, to allow all the minotaurs and the long eared ponies to move first. The minotaurs created a long line of walls, as there was the tallest minotaur leading the charge. The tallest one was one of the leaders of the minotaur's counsel, as he was the provider of wisdom, knowledge, and indimidation to his race. All the minotaurs that he led had leather armor, and on the edging were gold plating, as they only provided style and little of protection... None-the-less the minotaurs were already tough enough to take plenty of cuts and scrapes from most attacks, they were only vulnerable from the Hogz shoota's that would shoot pellets or bullets out from their scrapy built guns.

As the minotaurs charged, the long eared ponies followed right behind, as they easily caught up with the minotaurs from behind. The long eared ponies were very agile, as they ran faster than their relatives, which were ponies. They were even a bit thinner than normal ponies, but this breed of ponies was somewhat rare, as they only keep to themselves in their hidden base of operations elsewhere. As these long eared ponies ran, they wore fancy looking cloaks, as they were stylish, expensive looking, as showed royalty, as they ran gracefully through the fields. These ponies were equiped either with two long slender blades, or elagant looking bows and arrows as they already were carefully aiming at their targets.

The wall of mintotaurs finally made contact! As pools of boyz flew everywhere! The boyz were all right, as they were tough enough to withstand the impact of the minotaurs charge or from their clubs. Only a few died, or didn't get back up only to be knocked out as they suddenly slept on the ground, probably getting trampled on as more hogz joined in the frenzy!

Some of the minotaurs locked in combat against the second biggest of the Hogz, the nobs... As they both locked their heavy melee weapons against one another, bashing each other's skulls or bodies with their weapons. The nobs would sometimes swing their weapons so wildly that they would end up killing some of their own boyz, but they didn't care, as they would continue to fight their opponent infront of them.

Soon after the hogz were locked in combat, the long eared ponies would soon leap into battle, as they swung their swords swiftly and smoothly, not allowing any hogz or any blood to touch their cloaks. Those who had bows and arrows made a long leap on top of either a nob, who wouldn't be aware of the pony's weight on his hunched back, or on random vehicles, as the pulled the string to their bows and releasing the arrows. Their accuracy was incredible! As no arrow was wasted! Hogz fell dead on the ground, as even for the boyz who carried shootas died as they pulled the trigger of their trashy gun, and fired bullets scattering everywhere, eventually stopped shooting when the hog soon thought of it's last thought, which was just shooting or killing something alive after the hog died.

Once the minotaurs and the other race of ponies locked in combat, everypony and creature charged at the Hogz, leaving most of them open as the minotaurs kept them busy, while the swift ponies provided protection to the minotaurs to avoid any sort of weak spots or advantages to be given to their enemies.

The hogz 'WAAARGH'ed, the dogs dug holes providing traps and a passage ways for other soldiers to pass through! Sombra's soldiers used their sturdy swords to cut through the pack trash of pigs, as they gave a sqee sound! Griffins flew around the trashy fighter bombers that the Hogz had, as bullets flew everywhere! The hog pilots would launch their grots in the rockets, to follow the griffins, or randomly pick their own targets, as explosions were created!

The hogz had their tanks rolling over their own boyz sometimes, as they also rolled over a few of the New Empires allies. Changelings easily tricked their targets, as the hogz in some parts of the battle field soon started fighting one another! The field was filled with all sorts of noises of metal banging, shouting, and bullets firing inaccurately.

As the battle was going on outside of the Hogz fortess, Sombra had his dragon flying around the fortress. The dragon was too high for the Hogz to pay any attention to it in the sky, as it flew around. Sombra was impressed to see that the Hogz had constructed a massive fortress. The fortress was built near on a beach, as there were trashy built boats, mounted with all sorts of turrets built from scraps of metal, and then painted in red and black. Sombra chuckled, leaving Kora to wonder what was so funny, "... My child... these creatures are not as much as a threat as I would think..." commented the king. Soon, the dragon dove down, preparing to breath fire, as the dragon's throat glowed red, orange, and yellow in a mixture of colors. It was almost as if the neck of the dragon was transparent when he had the fire in his throat. The dragon was soon close enough to set fire on the Hogz's boats, halting their 'infection' to where ever they could spread their 'WAAARGH!' in Equestria.

Sombra then gave the signal to Kora to jump off, and deal with the hogz from the rear. Kora gave a quick hug to her father, and then had lept off the dragon, falling far from the dragon to the ground serface. When she soon touched ground, only a little bit of dust was created, as she should've made a big inpact on the ground, possibly breaking her legs and ending up dead. This didn't happen however, as she then got back up from the impact from her landing and was immediately greeted to combat by the hogz...

"WAAAAAAARGH!" shouted one of the hogz, as he swung his ax at Kora too hard. Kora dodged the attack, as she didn't pull out her sword yet. Another hog came charging at her, as this one seemed to have a rusty old machete of some sort, as he swung too! Another miss was made, as Kora easily dodged it! She was making her way to the entrance of where the hogz came out from, as she soon found her target. Hogz chased after her, for those who missed her with their weapon, as Kora finally pulled out her blade out, as it popped out from it's hilt and gave out it's arua! Kora's sword cut through the blade one of the previous hogz, as it also cut right through the hog, spewing dark blood everywhere, but on herself. Another same previous hog came dashing at her, as that hog was cut too! This time, no blood splattered anywhere, as the cut was so clean and fast, the hog stopped running, confused as to what had happened.

The hog looked around it's self, checking for any cuts on his body, as he found blood all over his hoof, " Wherez all dis blood come'n from!?" shouted the hog, demanding where was this dark red stuff was coming from. The hog soon relized where the blood had comming from, as he soon found a cut that had gone through his chest, and out from his back, cutting him in half from bottom to top. It then hit the hog in the head of what had happened, as he soon fell down, "...Oh!..." he gave a soft word out, of finally figuring out that he was dead, as he sounded disapointed. The hog was now bleeding, as his lower half spilled his instestines out.

Kora fought with her blade, as she killed any hog that came charging at her. Suddenly, a door bursted open, as boyz with shootas open fired at Kora. Kora used her sword, as it deflected back any object that hit the blade. None of the shots had impacted her, as she was well trained with her powers, as she could instantly tell were and how fast the shots were coming at her. A few hogz remained standing, as the others died from their own bullets from Kora's deflection of her sword. Kora got closer to them, as she moved her blade quickly, and more quickly as she got closer to them. One of the hogz saw a grot around them, hiding behind another hog, as he picked him up and tossed the unfortunate goblin at Kora, only to be cut up into pieces! As he gave out a cry.

Kora was soon close enough to slay the boyz with shootas, as the shooting had finally stopped.

Kora thought she was done with any more trouble, only to suddenly feel the ground shake around her. It was a huge battle wagon, which was made out of tank parts, such as treds and metal walls, complete with a roof, as the top of this wagon was mounted on was a cannon. The shape was mostly a boxy shape of the head, as a short stubby cannon stuck out from it's head. The cannon pivoted it's head twords Kora, as it then fired it's cannon!

Kora swiftly dodged the shot, as the impact of the gun made a deep crater, showing that nothing was going to be left alive from that shot. "Squish! Bang! Boom!... I want blood under me tires!" happily spoke a crazy hog, driving the battle wagon from the inside, as the engins roared. Kora had to shut the entrance to the Fortress temporarily, so that no more hogz and vehicles could be driven out.

She quickly ran up to the battle wagon, created her own entrance with her sword, and got inside the battle wagon. As soon as she got in, she had slain a few boyz who were in the vehicle. They were suprisenly unarmed, as hogz constantly had a weapon on them every time. These hogz probably had too much confidence in their contraption, Kora thought...

She soon made her way to the cannon, and used her powers to push the cannon out from the top, as it left a sky light open. Kora lept out, and landed on the dirt ground. She was now facing the vehicle from behind, as she quickly used her powers to use the cannon from the battle wagon against them. The cannon wouldn't fire, as this confused Kora instantly, she wasted no time to then command the cannon to be thrown directly at the rear of the battle wagon. The battle wagon impacted the rear of the vehicle, as it made a loud metal clang, then exploded the rear of the vehicle, as it soon lost control and drove off into a wall of the Hogz's fortress.

Kora smiled, pleased with her work, only to be greated by a mega nob, which was just a nob with clunky and almost less trashy looking armor, with a power claw and a shoota one for each hoof. It was Warty, the second in command of the Hogz, as he looked down at the small dark mare. "Oi!... dat wuz me ride, dat wuz!" complained the mega nob, " Seems like your ride had plans to leave you then." replied Kora, as she teased him, " Wot!? Iz wazn't list'n!..." barked the big hog, as he dangerously used his power claw to clean some green and yellow ear wax from his ear, then flicked it away with his powerclaw. Kora soon lept over the mega nob and bucked him from the rear, "Oi! Dat wuz so rude!" bellowed Warty, as he turned around in his bulky armor, bearly giving him the speed he needed to catch up with Kora. Kora soon dashed away from the mighty hog, as Warty wasn't planing on letting her get away after wreaking his ride. Warty soon pressed on a button, as he only walked his way after Kora, as the armor weighed him down a lot. Warty soon was granted speed, as small rockets gave him the boost to at least attempt of keeping up with Kora.

Kora stopped and turned around to face at the mega nob, only to be shocked of the speed of the big beast! " SUPRISE!~" He shouted, taunting at the pony, Warty was in range enough to swing his power claw twords Kora's head, as she ducked down, allowing the power claw to get stuck in a wooden wall, "Wazn't expecting dat wuz ya!" taunted the mega nob. Warty pulled his claw out from the wall quickly as he could, only to find Kora hung on to his claw afterwards, " Oi! Were'd ya go!?" wondered the big beast, as he turned around to find her. Kora soon reappeared in the hogz visoin, only to buck him in the face. The nob was walking backwards, as Kora activated her blade once more. The nob shook his head in his big armor, as he looked back at the young mare, "... If it's a fight dey wonts!..." he stated, as he clamped his one power claw a few times. Suddenly, grots came running and scampering around Kora and Warty, as they were both surrounded. "... Tis a fight youz gets..." finished Warty, as he then gave a small grinny face expression to his enemy.

The grots ran at Kora, leaping in the air at such hights! The grots were able to leap three or four times their own hight, as they lept onto her and stabing her with small needles of a weapon. Kora shook them off easily, as she soon spreaded both of her front hoofs away from her self, force pushing with her anti-magic powers, as many grots flew everywhere! Most of the grots that got pushed ran away or died, as Kora looked back at the nob only to be greeted with a thwak of a power claw. KLANK! Kora was tossed from the impacked to a few crates, as they shattered into splinters and shards of wood. Kora simply got back up, bearly having any sign of a bruse anywhere. She then used her powers once more, to lift the Hog in the air, at first he was super heavy, but the hog was soon just inches off the ground, then feet, and then yards off the ground. The nob was confused as he looked twords the ground level. Warty wasn't startled so easily, as he then pointed his shoota at Kora. Kora's ears perked up, as she immediately cancelled using her poweres and made a dash for cover! A wall of bullets soon spewed every! It missed their targets as the shots were as powerful as a minigun, or some sort of heavy machine gun! The shards of wood from the previous crates soon became even more smaller pieces of shards, as the violent shots errupted from Warty's double barreled shootas. " Youz tink youz can scare me wif dat sort of wierdy stuff?..." questioned the nob, walk stomping his way to where Kora was hiding. He leaned over to a bunch of random parts to a truck, only to find no pony there. The hog was confused, as he was certain tha- Kora soon bucked him in the back once more, giving a light chuckle. This was the last time however, as enough was enough of playing with her enemies. She had to shut down the entrance to the Hog fortress, or the New Empire would quickly get out numbered and out fought by the Hogz, as they continued on their charge and rampage of constant fighting and shouting.

Kora whipped out her blade out, and swung! The mega nob had turned around, only to swing his... "...Uh?..." something was missing... as Warty stared at her for a few seconds... He attempted to try what he was doing before again, but... nothing happened... The hog soon relized that he was missing his arm that held his powerclaw, as he looked confused! "Oi!? Wheres me arm!?" panicked the hog nob, as he turned around, and found that his arm was on the dirty mudy ground. The mega nob picked it up with his mouth, and trotted away, allowing Kora to take care of more important matter as enough time was already wasted...

As the battle continued from the outside of the fortress, the main entrance to the Hog fortress was closing slowly. Most of the hogz didn't relize that they weren't going to be getting back up any time sooner, as they were simply distracted in their fights. It was difficult for Sombra's army to destoy the tanks and battle wagons on the battle field, as they kept crushing and shooting at countless lives both Hogz's and the New Empire's. The griffins took care most of the fighter bombers rather well, as their task was to simply distract the fighter bombers from launching their grot controlled rockets from exploding in the battle field.

Eventually, the Hogz outside of the fortress were out numbered, as some or most of the hogz started to relize that they were being out numbered as their moral broke quickly, "Weez all gunna die! Let's leg it!" cried one hog, as he ran twords the closed fortress's door. "Come'n boyz, if we leg it, we can fight another day!" convincing another hog, as he got a few other boyz to follow as well. The hogz pounded on the metal trashy door, as they demanded to get more boyz to come by. The door didn't open, until there were no more Hogz outside of the fortress.

Kora soon opened the door slowly, as she hid in a corner of the entrance, as she needed to concentrate on using her powers to open the door to the entrance. The doors opened once more, to allow the rest of the army to proceed into the fortress where hell and unknown creations of vehicles awaits them...

"'ead crushas, deyz come'n for yaz, attack!" bellowed Wartboss, as he then stomped his heavy body away from the fight, as he went back to the fortress to ready the other clans.

As Sombra flew on his dragon he noticed that in each section of the fortress, there were these huge banners as they were lit on fire at the top. He wondered if they could possibly mean something, or that they were there just for decoration, or a way to tell the clans appart. He watched down below, as his army slowly flooded the gate as they pushed twords the brutal hogz.

Kora led the push, as she fought along side with the long eared ponies. These ponies respected Kora more than any other race for some reason. They seemed to like the way she would fight, swiftly, cunningly, and quickly!

A few catapults made it through the entrance, as they managed to push it up the hill, which the main Hogz entrance sat on. They soon pushed and pulled the catapults into position inside the fortress, as they loaded and fired the catapults upon the Hogz. They managed to hit their targets, as they were in the area where the clan called the 'ead crushas were in. Suddenly, one of the catapults had managed to hit the tall banner in the 'ead crusha's area of the fortress, as it topled over and cruched and burned anything or anyone that got in the way, such as hogz and grots.

The hogz from the 'ead crusha clan soon relized that the banner was taken down and suprisenly did something that surprised a few of Sombra's army...

The boyz and the few nobs soon turned around, but not in retreat, but instead reading their choppas and shootas to fight other hogz that weren't part of their clan.

"Wartguts ain't so tough! Get 'em!" shouted one of the boyz, as they charged against their fellow hogz, and engaged in their hoggy combat of bruteful attacks. Wartguts soon noticed that one of the clans had turned on him, as he knew that one of the banners had fallen down. He soon got back with a few more of his boyz as he then commanded them to charge back and kill anyone that was against his cause, as he used his big shoota attached to one of his hoofs, "Ain't no grot mother gunna start wif out me 'WAAARGH!' Chop dem up boyz!" bellowed the wartboss, as he shot a few of his boyz carelessly aiming, and then killing mostly the traitors. "Boss! Da 'ead crushas, iz rebellen!" cried Warty, as he had his detached arm was now sown and stiched together, and somehow was able to have full control of his arm with his powerclaw attached to it once more. " I CAN SEE DAT YOU SQUIG FARMER! Now... shut your trap, and get back ta kill'n!..." snapped the wartboss, as he soon stopped firing his gun only to turn around and walk stomp his way back to the next clan nearby. "...but kill'n who boss?..." asked the dumbfounded mega nob, as if half of his brain didn't work properly.

Soon, both the 'ead crusha clan and the few boyz from Wartguts was killed, as the New Empire made their way to the next clan nearby, which was Da Foot Stompas.

"Foot Stompas, keep da trainer safe! I don't want no squickeths stomp'n all our boyz!..." barked Wartguts, relying on his boyz and the Foot Stompas to do their part to end the New Empire from proceeding. Sombra's fortress came to a halt, as they soon had spotted the huge bellowing beast... the squiggoth... It welcomed their uninvited guests by showing it's teeth, with a loud roar like a T-Rex somewhat. The giant fat bulky lizzard soon raised it's rear up in the air, with it's stubby legs, as it was about to charge!...

The squiggoth soon charged after a few seconds had passed, as it had to ready it's momentum of charging, before it could charge. It galloped shaking the entire ground around! It made thunderous stomps as it soon reached the first few bodies in the front section of the New Empire's army, as they got crushed, pushed, and flung out of the way from the squiggoth's long tusks! Many, many races from Sombra's army had died, as they were flung up in the air so high, that when they had landed, the impact had crushed their bones, leaving them to blead. While others were crushed, only to feel a sharp pain of being crushed, after the squiggoth had chargged.

The squiggoth had made contact with many lives, as it soon stomped and stampeded, once in a while he ate a few ponies, and minotaurs along with other species.

Kora had to bring the beast down! If this thing continued to do it's job, the entire army would be broken, and not have enough forces to overwelm Canterlot and rule Equestria.

Kora lept into action, after leaving the long eared ponies. She dashed twords the giant four legged lizard, as she sprinted incredibly fast, in addition using her complicated powers to aid her in her run.

The squiggoth trampled all over the place, as the hogz in the big trashy built metal shapped rectangualr box, had it served as a carriage. The boyz were loaded with big shootas, as the front of it was installed a cannon, similar of a battle wagon's, only it shot out a red lighting bolt, as the shot went just as fast as regular lighting bolt. On the far front, on the back of the squiggoth, was a hog boy called a squig trainer, as they would practically be the 'squig whisperer' for all squigs. Having a squig trainer meant for the Hogz that their giant squiggoth was in complete control of the hog, as long as the squig had a trainer, this beast would've run rampant everywhere if it weren't for a trainer.

Kora had reached the squiggoth, as the squiggoth was just about to make another stomp on the ground! The squiggoth's upper body froze, as Kora was nearly crushed by the giant squig's flat foot, as it was just a yard or two away from crushing her. The hogz in their trasnport on the back of the squig, were confused, as they still opened fired with their big shootas. "Oi! Wots wrong!? Stomp already!" demanded the squig trainer, as he hit the side of the squigs' thick leather skin with his choppa.

The squiggoth used it's other flat foot to land on the ground, as it then tried to pull the force away from Kora's powers. Kora released and was now staring stright at the beast... The squiggoth looked fearce, as it had a very unpleasant look; it growled at Kora. The young mare stood her ground, as others would back away or run away from the squiggoth. She pulled out her blade, as the squig then made it's attack, trying to eat her as it dove it's head into the ground, missing! Kora then lept up into the air and landed on the head of the beast. She quickly used her sword to jab it into the skull of the monster, but did nothing other than cause pain. The squiggoth bellowed out loud in pain on it's head, as the blade wasn't big enough to reach the brain, as the skull was too thick. She soon switched targets, as she suddely spot the squig trainer on top of the squig.

The squig trainer spotted the young mare, as she made a run after him. The squig trainer pulled out a slugga, and a leather built whip, as he stood up and fired his slugga, as it made a clanky noise per shot. Obviously enough, he missed by the time Kora got in range of cutting the trainer open. Before she could swing, the trainer's whip soon caught onto Kora's sword, and the hog soon had retreaved it after pulling the whip back to himself.

"Hmmmm... seems alright..." commented the hog, as Kora landed behind him. The blade was off by the time he examined it, "Oi! Where dat sharpy part go?" complained the hog, as he then looked back at Kora, who was behind him, and focused on fighting back. Kora used her hoofs to buck the hog, but it only made him angry. The hog soon cracked his wip, as the two were fighting standing up, as the squiggoth moved and shook around a lot. This complicated things, as the two of them fought!

Kora had managed to grab a hold of the whip, after it wrapped around her hoof and she yanked it out from him! "Oi! Dats moin!... stupid pony git... I'll showz ya!" protested the hog, as he somehow activated the blade, as it glowed! "Ooooo! Fancy dat! Now dat's sharp!" happily spoke the squig trainer, as he then charged after Kora! Kora whipped the hog a few times, but because of the fur and the thick skin of the hogz's was almost a tickle to him. Kora had to keep back from the hog or dodge the attacks, as he swung very hard to kill his target and collect her head. Kora had managed to get him from behind, as she strangled his neck from behind, "Dow! Oi! Let go you puny pony!" choked the hog, as he then leaned forward and Kora was impacted on her back, but got back up quickly. The hog soon swung a few times, only to find out that he couldn't move his arm that had the sword. His previous whip had gotten wrapped around him, as Kora then led the arm aroud back, cracking a few bones in the process, " Douch! Stop, stop! Dat 'urts!" cried the hog, as Kora soon got her blade back, and the hog got his whip back.

The hog was released, as his arm somehow got fixed making the cracking sound of bones once more, but the sound was in reverse...

"He he... time for thud!" happily spoke the hog, only to slowly noticed that he was somehow being lifted up off the air! "Oi! W-w-wat in... zog!?" complained the hog, as Kora used her powers to lift him up, only to command the hog's body to fly twords Kora's blade, as it stuck out the other side.

The hog trainer was now killed, leaving the squiggoth to do it's own bidding.

It took no more than a minute or two for the squiggoth to noticed that he was not being controlled by anyone... It soon then carelessly stomped around, crushing boyz, Sombra's allies, and of course many grots. The hogz in their ride on the back of the squiggoth got even more inaccurate, as they flew around the room they were in.

Kora had lept off the squiggoth, as she easily got it's attention, as the squig was looking for her in the first place! It growled, and then charged and stomped at the same time, after Kora.

Kora had to run away from the rampaging giant lizard, as she then sprinted away, using her powers once more. She dodged a few boyz, nobs, and other allies as she ran fast, only to be tripped by a few grots who were setting up a shoota in place for a sneaky trap, as they soon flew out of the way. Kora hit the ground hard, as she skrapped her rear legs... She tried getting back up, until she herd a snap in her leg!... She cried in pain a bit, but it wasn't very loud, as it was more of a whimper. The squiggoth stopped... it lowered it's head, and then rammed it twords the ground... It had picked up Kora, by the rows of teeth it had! The squig lifted her up off the ground, and flung Kora in the air!... all Kora could do... was meet her fate... as she was soon swallowed by the beast...

Sombra saw the action that had occurred, as he was surprised that Kora was eaten alive by the squiggoth... He was disapointed, for Kora, and that his expirement had failed... It took him many years to arrange an agreement with Chrysalis to become allies with one another, as they used dark magic to create a daughter... They were incompatible, as their genitals were completely different, if they were to do it the natural way... Sombra soon commanded his dragon to fly low, so that the dragon could finnish where Kora had failed.

The squiggoth hunched it's head, as it stopped it's rampage all over the place of the Hogz's fortress, as it was scratched from the rear of it's head. The squiggoth tried to leap it's upper body up to the sky, but it's stubby legs kept it from getting any higher than it could've if it had longer legs.

Sombra's forces launched arrows at the beast, leaving arrows to be shot when the squiggoth lept after the dragon. The monster bellowed, as it soon turned and switched targets. Nopony was safe from such a beast! It was too tough! Too strong! And had an appetite of flesh of other species, except for hogz as they tasted like dirt. Once in a while however, squiggoths would eat Hogz at times.

The squiggoth was about to charge once again... only to suddenly come to a complete halt... Everyone around was confused, as the squig walked sideways, backwards, and sideways again. Something shook in the squiggoth's belly as you could hear streached noise of flesh being blown up like a baloon... It got bigger, as the squiggoth died, and it's guts had blown up!

Green slobs of slime flesh, and black blood spewed everywhere around, as the squig was now on it's side laying dead. Out from the guts was Kora, as she limped her way out, disgusted, and in pain... Her mane was covered in slime, she smelled like hog feces, and her clothes were completely soaked in saliva.

Sombra was very impressed now, as his dragon flew around, he saw his daughter limping around, as she looked like she was going to exit the Hog fortress to the medical soldiers in Sombra's army, to rest and get bandaged for a bit.

Mean time, Wartguts had to kill more of his tratorious boyz, as the Foot Stompas had just been slaughtered, as their banner had gotten stomped. No matter, the wartboss thought, he still had a few more clans to lead into battle, as he readied most of them.

Sombra's forces was moving slow, as hords of hogs continued to run rampant everywhere, as the soldiers and other species had to push hard against the hogz. Celestia's army would certainly have trouble getting through the hog fortress, as she and her army couldn't possibly even pass through the entrance in these conditions currently with little soldiers to provide. Sombra on the other hoof, was bearly in the battle field, as he led his forces simply by flying over where he wanted them to go...

Time had passed, as the sun was going down, the battle had been going in the morning and was now the after noon. Sombra's allies were getting tired, as they either had to fight or die, as a choice. Food was disgusting around them, as hogz ate and drank fungus based foods, as it was unedible for other species. Unlike for other races in Equestria, hogz got hungry when they felt like eating something. Hogz never would get too cold or too hot, because they would never think about getting hot nor cold.

As clans turned against Wartguts, Wartgut's rage grew stronger as he was upset at the clans he bother to create and name, after time had passed on in Equestria...

"Boss! Boss! Da rocket rangaz iz rebel'n!" cried Warty, as he made a report to his boss. Wartguts only had two clans left... His own and a clan called Quick Meks. "Send in da nobs ya git!..." growled the big wartboss. He walked out of a hut, as he saw a gathering of nobs, reading their big choppas, big shootas, rockets, and all sorts of hog warfare the Hogz would throw in the battlefield. The nobs got the signal to make their charge to attack their enemy, as they charged at the New Empire. "Dats it boyz! Give'em da pointy ends!" roared Wartguts, as he barked out his words.

As the New Empire drew closer and closer to Wartguts's main section of the Hog fortress, the army was pushing and fighting back slower, as it was getting thicker and more tanks and boyz charging at the amry. It was getting more difficult. Killa kans came out of no where and sneaked attacked from the sides, grots leaped onto their targets stabbing with their weak tools for combat. Boyz chopped or shot with their shootas, and traps were sprung. This was alright to Sombra, as he had plenty of soldiers and allies to spare...

As Sombra's forces got closer and destroyed the last banner, as the last hog clan fought on their own now, the New Empire was closing in to finally finish the Hogz... once and for all... or... so they thought...

It was now a final push for the New Empire, as hog leaders Wartguts had around had made their escape such as Zoggit the weirdyboy, and Brute Toof the kommando have already escaped to some other places away from the massive hog fortress. It was only Wartguts, Warty, some boyz and nobs, and a few other mega nobs that were a little smaller than Warty... They were all holding the line for something as it would seem to Sombra... The last of the Hogz inside the fortress seemed to fight harder, as they were comepletely certain to win in this fight...

" Die got me yet!..." boomed the wartboss, as he fired his big shoota, as it was connected to his arm along with his hogy armor. "Die got me one moar suprise for ya!" bellowed the big warthog once more. "Duh... boss, we gett'n stomped up!..." reported Warty, as he was being shot by magic, arrows, and all sorts of ranged shots fired at him. Warty doesn't notice how many arrows he got on his metal back, as it didn't reach his skin on his back yet. " Hey youz da master of da obvious! Uze da explosives!" barked Wartguts, as the two were leaving the fight to the last of the hogz, as they thought they still had a chance of winning in this war...

"To wot?..." questioned the mega nob running slowly next to Wartguts. "DA BOMB YA GIT! DA BOMB!" finally spat Wartguts, as he demanded that Warty would finally press the button to set off his 'last suprise...'

Suddenly... a beeping noise was herd, but nobody payed any close attention to it, as it even had tiny red lights flashing at the top of the hidden rocket. The rocket shook violently, as it shook off what ever was covering it, such as scrap metal, heaps of trash, and maybe a squig bird with a nest ontop of it, as the squig soon flew away from the nest. The rockets weren't ment for flying to explode, they were ment to explode on signal, as they soon made devastating explosions that could wipe out parts of armies, such as the New Empire, if they dared to enter the Hogz's fortress... The explosions were intense! As they wiped out hundreds of boyz, grots, squigs with no wings, ponies, long eared ponies, minotaurs, some griffins in the sky, and diamond dogs as well! Bodies got burnt to ashes, as more rockets exploded! These rockets were scattered EVERYWHERE to only cover the entire fortress with devastation and leave to ruin. Whoever was in the fortress of the Hogz... never came out alive... However, as the explosions had occurred, a few of Sombra's soldiers laughed, as they cackled in their death... unnaturally...

Once the smoke and ash had cleared up from the explosions, two big bodies, with machine stomping noise, as they seemed to be running away from something, they got out from a hole underground. It was none other than Wartguts and Warty, they both made their get-away run away from the New Empire as fast as they could. " Always 'ave your tunnels dug 'n ready!..." stated Wartguts, as the two ran stompped their way to a nearby forest. " You sure iz smart boss!..." happily spoke Warty, giving a small grin. Only in reply, Warty got snapped by his wartboss, "SHUT IT YA GIT! I'z got me self a whole 'WAAARGH' to rebuild!... Now get me da zog off of dis 'ere place!..." growled once more the wartboss did...

Things were getting quiet, after the Hogz died out. The allies of the New Empire would however find grots here and there, as they were practically like roaches. Each time somepony or someone lifted or moved something, a few grots would run and scream or would fight back, with their little needle weapons or whatever they could get their gobblin hands on. The grots were easily handled, as they were the weakest little creatures from the Hogz. Sombra's dragon laid down next to a tent that was set up, as Kora, Sombra, a few captains, as well as a few other species were coming up for a plan to move to Canterlot...

Kora's wounds were healed up, as her casts were removed. From the conbination from the doctors, medics, and some of Kora's mojo, she healed suprisenly quickly! Even her broken bones on her legs were fixed, as she used her powers to force the bones to connect together through some sort of mutation or rappid growth.

" Once our forces have taken over Canterlot, we'll soon have control of the Crystal Empire, as we suprise them using the trains..." explained King Sombra, as he had summoned a map of Equestria, then made the map to vanish with his magic. " What about Celestia and Luna, my lord? Won't they be a big problem to our cause?" asked one of his captains. Sombra gave a light chuckle, as he turned to him, "... They're right now struck by fear, captain... I assure you, Celestia knows what's coming... She'll just have to surrender herself as well as her sister, to us... Once then, the Crystal Empire will possibly be even quicker to take over." " What about the Elements of harmony?" asked a minotaur, as he was very aware of the mane six's powers. "They've been taken care of... Twilight Dazzle has... taken care of the princess's gifted student..." replied happily the dark king replied. " I want our forces to move out by night fall!... I will cast a spell that Luna would think that we would still be here, in this exact location. We will then have to move quickly, and make our way to Canterlot, where we'll have the element of suprise." Sombra soon moved twords the exit of the tent, as he turned around, " Captain, friends... you have your orders..." gave a short bow, as Sombra was now outside of the tent.

Kora walked around the camp, as she made sure everbody was ready to move out. Night was about to fall, as Celestia lowered the sun. Luna would soon take over the night, as darkness was about to take over, in just a few hours. Kora watched her father perfrom at a distance, as she watched as to what he was about to do. Sombra had lept onto his dragon, as the two took off in the air. Sombra then summoned his dark magical signature aura at the sky, and then summoned clouds to cover the moon's light. The moon showed itself in the sky, as the unusual dark clouds covered it's light. Luna was now being tricked my King Sombra's magics, as the New Empire moved out immediately!

Comming out of the forest, was the dark red armored stallion, Dagger. He felt horrible for what he had done to his own team, leaving them in the dark of the truth and facts about who they were dealing with. He thought, that he would correct his mistakes by slaying the wartboss Wartguts himself, along with all the boyz he had around him... No... Something was wrong... Dagger froze for a moment there, as he looked at the area around him... Hogz, dogs, minotaurs, nobs, and metal scrap was everwhere... What had just happened, he thought to himself. Dagger suddenly noticed that he had spotted some sort of group of creatures who were the same ones that had died on the field of tall grass, as they appeared to be an army... Dagger hid low in the fields, carefully not to be spotted. Dagger then started to look at the evidence around him, and looked at the top of the hill, where the once Hog fortress once stood... "... It is over..." he whispered to himself... He failed once more as a once stood leader of his group. However, something was unusal about this army they seemed to be passing by... They wore such dark armor on them, and they seemed to have a huge army... it looked almost big enough to fight the Hogz. Maybe too big for that matter... He noticed that the army was heading north west, to Canterlot, as he wasn't sure if they were friend or foe of the ponies back in Canterlot. He simply stayed low, till they walked away from the fields of tall grass...

Kora was ontop of one of the wagons, as two minotaurs haulled the wagon. Kora stood tall, as she enjoyed the view from the cart. She suddenly... senced something... she turned her head, just before the New Empire was about to have everyone was in the forest. She looked back at the the fields of grass, as she looked around. She saw bodies and scrap metal all over the place, as she couldn't find anything unusual... but... wait... there was a dark red color in the fields... could it have been one of those squigs?... it didn't budge... it was probably nothing, thought Kora. As her vison to the fields of grass was now blocked by branches and trees, as the cart now rumbled through the terrain.

Dagger finally rose back up from the fields, till there was no one around. It was just he, as he made his way twords the smoke and ash of where the Hog fortress would've been...

He got up of the hill, and saw ash everywhere... Nothing alive was around, no boyz, no nobs, no wartboss... not even the smallest of grots was around... Whatever group of ponies and creatures that had passed by, had come and gone, and had done Dagger's job... Wait... thought Dagger. If this sort of numbers of mixed creatures wipped out the Hogz... they could be a big threat to Canterlot! Exclaimed Dagger, suddenly relizing the dangers his friends could be in! He had to warn the others! He had to go to Canterlot! Dagger simply ran out from the big crater that had ashes in it, and lept off the ground surface, and took off in his jetpack! Time was short now, as he took his time walking up the hill of the fields of tall grass, and ending up to get to the top, and flew off.

"Anything yet, Luna?" calmly spoke Celestia, concerned for the safety of Canterlot, as she was well aware of Sombra's army that had just devastated the Hogz's base. "Nothing yet sister." stated Luna who was also concerned, but was willing to fight for all of Equestria, against King Sombra. She would die to protect Equestria, especially the likes like Sombra, as she looked out the window. She could tell that King Sombra's army hadn't move an inch out from their previous fight. Perhaps Sombra's army was camping there for the night, and by the next day they would have arrived...

" Very well, I'll try to sleep tonight, good night sister." spoke the tired princess of the sun, as Luna gave a simple nod in reply. She watched the moon tirelessly, out the window... Would they hold them back? She thought... Sombra's army would surely out number them easily, as all they would need to do now was attack where the two sisters would least expect it, which would be at night, especially if they somehow managed to get here in such speed. Thanks to their powers, the two sisters are able to spectate all of Equestria, with no problem... or so they thought...

It was night for everypony, as they camped already half away to ponyville, from where they had lost their airship. Rainbow Dash stood up a little while longer, as so did a few other ponies did. It was quiet around the camp fire, as everypony had different thoughts or similar ones, as they thought about Dagger.

"Ah, uh... whipped up everypony's favorite!" announced White Coco, the cook of the group. She knew everypony was hungry, especially the long trip that they just took heading back to Ponyville. Apple Jack helped Coco out, as she took the plates to pass around, "Thanks sugar cube, ah think I'll help out with this one." whispered AJ, as she offered a plate of fried apple cinnamon to everypony. She soon offered the last plate to Rainbow Dash, as she seemed to be a little bit more gloomy than most other ponies. "Here, ya need this..." she comforted Rainbow, as she handed the food to her. Rainbow Dash took it gently, and tried to eat it. She had mixed thoughts and ideas about Dagger. He should've told all of us, but it would've got other ponies to worry about how little we are, she thought to herself. She knew Dagger was trying to help, but it made things worse in this matter.

Apple Jack could tell Rainbow had mixed feelings, as she forced herself to eat.

Rainbow Dash then finally said softly, but enough to let everypony hear her, "... You know, I'm not even sure how we were going to stop those pigs from rampaging over Equestria anyway." she said, " I'm sure there was a way Mrs. Rainbow Dash," replied Flash Sentry, upset with Dagger, as he thought that he should've informed them sooner than later. " He's just too unexpirenced, I know he had a plan, but he didn't have a plan to tell everypony of what was going on..." Spoke bluntly Pinkamena, as she had already finished her meal for the night. " I'm sure everypony would be scared, if they had herd about the information, that Dagger had to say. But I, the Great and Powerful Trixie, wouldn't be scared of any old info about anything." Commended, the snobby mare spoke. " Perhaps... but maybe we just need to remember, there were only about thirty of us..." commented the mysterious Octavia, as she still wore her ninja suit, as it was starting to smell of sweat. She hasn't had the time to wash it, as there was no lake or river around, as they camped on a hill, as behind them was a forest, and infront of them was another forest which was the Everfree Forest. They were close to home. " Though Dagger may have not told us, we shouldn't have let him leave our group." stated Brave Heart, as he took his knight armor off, letting his skin and fur to breath." Maybe your right... but... I just can't seem to forgive him, after those monsters attacked our air ship..." also commented Frost, as he sharpened his sword. " Kinda think of it, how did those brutes spot us on the air ship? Weren't we protected by some sort of magic spell from being spotted?" asked Flash, as he scratched his head after taking his Celestian helmet off. " Yes, we were... However... I guess it was their logic that got the best of us, in the end..." cooed Pinkamena, as she simply cared less of what had happened.

Everypony wondered, and thought for moments on. These complicated monsters that roamed around Equestria from space, were more complicated than they thought. The Hogz didn't seem to have magic, or any sort of powers... just... their logics didn't make any sence to them...

A cool wind blew over everypony around their camp, as it was time to head back into their tents for tomorrow's final return to Ponyville. Rainbow Dash was not looking forward to seeing Scootaloo face, when she would have to tell her about Dagger's absence...

Apple Jack was finally going to see Apple Bloom, after her feelings were hurt by her young sister's words, as if she didn't care about Tank's death of what he's done to save her young sister's life. Tank was once Dagger's best friends, as he was killed by an attack by the Zenoids, when Equestria was being invaded by their presence.

"Whelp!... I recon that it's a right time tuh sleep. See ya'll in the morn'n!" yawed AJ, as she went into her tent, and hunkered down for the night. Eveypony did the same, leaving Rainbow Dash to put out the fire, as she offered to do so.

All Rainbow Dash could think of now... was Scootaloo... almost forgetting about Dagger, and the reason why he wouldn't tell his own team about the details of the Hogz... or at least, not the important part of the information... She flapped her wings in the air, grabbed a nearby bucket full of water, and put out the camp fire; the wind nearly knocked her off guard. She then landed infront of her tent, and she too was about to sleep in her own tent.

It was a violent wind that was coming by, as everypony made sure to zip their tents up, so that no leaves got into their tents, while they slept. Most of everypony was looking forward to being back in Ponyville, and others are not wanting to go back, as their responsibility was to report of other ponies who had died, to their loved ones loss of their absence... it was going to be a long day tomorrow morning...