011.M31: One week later

It has been almost a year since the Roman Emperor Constantine had set foot in another world. The world of Ice and Fire proved to be easy prey for the Daemon Prince and his Roman Legions. The Doom of Valyria, the calamitous destruction of the Valyrian homeland had scattered them to the winds. Their dragons almost endangered and their people left with almost nothing.

The typical response the indigenous people would receive from a Chaos warlord is nothing more than sheer brutal conquest. Excited at an easy prey to kill and subjugated for their Dark Gods, a champion of chaos would show little mercy to the natives.

Yet, the pragmatic Roman Emperor did not choose that route. By taking the risk of helping the Valyrian people, the Roman Empire acquire the knowledge to produce Valyrian steel which proved to be a boon to the Chaos Imperium. Such magical-resisting material never seen before made the Romans wealthy enough to modernize their entire army.

After dealing with a few petty lords, such as House Targaryen, the world was assimilated into the Roman Empire. However, Constantine was not powerful enough to control two daemon worlds so the world did not undergo transformation. The Dark Mechanicum has established an industrial center on the planet to process as much of this steel for their Titans.

With the massive amount of men and goods from the world, the Roman Empire became the envy of many of the diverse armies of the Chaos Imperium. Such momentum keeps the Roman Empire going in their quest to conquer more worlds for Rome and the Chaos Gods. Moreover, what could be more glorious than spreading the reach of Chaos farther than ever before!

“Such a pity that the warp can’t provide transportation equal to the quality of the Chaos Armies,” The Daemon Prince said

Warp travel in the past proved to be dangerous and unstable in many ways. Fortunate for the Chosen of Rome, the Chaos Imperium has done much to improve both the capabilities of warp engines and the completion of newer Web-way tunnels.

In his seat, the Daemon Prince can hear the loud noises of daemons clinging to his ship.

“It seems we have… stowaways my lord?” said by the sorcerer Vorpal

Hundreds of thousands of lesser daemons are clinging onto the ship, not to slaughter the crew inside it, but to join them to the slaughter that is to come. The Romulus had been ‘blessed’ by the warp giving it warp powers and allowing daemons to exist within its radius.

“Fortunately for us, we have been giving permission by the Chosen Emperor himself, otherwise… the creatures of the warp would eviscerate us just as we enter the Immaterium,” said by the Roman Emperor

“Before we exit the warp, we should discuss the overall strategy,” said by Vorpal as he turns on a holographic screen

“We have three commanders from which we will deploy across the frontline,” Vorpal changes the image to one of the commanders

“The Centurion Julius Augustus is the most direct of our commanders. A squad of Vanguard Legionnaires in battle always accompanies him. Only he is authorize to deploy Varangian Guard squads,” –the image shows Julius cleaving a German barbarian in half during the pacification of Germania

“He knows how to get the job done. He has always proved loyal and effective in battle. Send him to take the path of most resistance,” –the Daemon Prince drank another glass of Essos champagne

After taking a drink of Westeros brandy, Vorpal shows the next commander.

“Akiba Shinrikyo, aspiring champion and leader of the Cult of the Blade. His command squad is composed of rogue psyker. His special unit is the Savage Marauder,” said Vorpal in his description of the commander

The image shows Akiba surrounded by several Chinese soldiers. Suddenly, the majority of the soldiers turns on their brothers and decapitates them for the dark gods!

“I’ve always know him as the master of stealth and subterfuge in our army, even though he is a foreigner. As always he should be behind enemy lines subverting elements of the enemy army…”

Constantine stops his sentence, noticing something is different in the warp.

“He is already planetside.”

“The blessings of daemonhood are truly useful my lord. Yes, he has already installed our cult throughout the entire world. Hundreds of thousands of cultist are ready to rebel in your name.”

Two months earlier, somewhere in Ponyville:

“Finally, school is almost over,” said by Scootaloo

“Yeah Scootaloo we should go straight to our treehouse!” said by Sweetie Belle

“We’ve got to continue finding our Cutie Marks!” said by Applebloom

(All three fillies said in unison) “Cutie Mark Crusaders!”

Filled with energy and excitement, the trio ran towards their destination, only to bump into somebody else.

“Argh!” –the robed pony fell backwards onto the ground

“Oh no!” said by Sweetie Belle

The CMC helped the stranger get up.

“Well… thank you young children,” said by unicorn stallion, “I am unharmed.”

The fillies sigh with relief. However, the stranger kept looking at Scootaloo, more precisely her wings.

“We’re really sorry mister,” said by Applebloom

“It is ok. I actually have some business with you pegasus,” said the stranger

“Huh, why me?” asked Scootaloo

“Well simply, I am part of a research group finding ways to help ponies with… special needs,”

Hearing those words filled the young pegasi with hope. “You can fix my wings!” Scootaloo said with a big smile on her face

The other fillies look on with curiosity at this turn of events. In the back of his mind, the stranger smiles at this series of events, he had done well in pleasing Akiba and the Dark Gods with this special conversion.

Back to the flagship Romulus

“Are you going to ignore our third commander? He would be very sad if you do,” asked Constantine

“Fortunately for him, he is the most memorable out of the three. Diehard Longshot, engineer and assassin. He works alone, dual wielding long-hell sniper rifles while using his psyker gifts to support our vehicles!” said by Vorpal

“Still can’t believe it?”

“Yes, that person truly is gifted by the gods,” –the sorcerer stops to take a breather “He is capable of keeping our warp-blessed machines afloat amassed a sea of death of destruction!”

Images show Longshot fighting during the campaign against Hive Fleet Medusa on the planet Xana V. While walk forward in style, he eliminates several smaller Tyranids with his sniper rifles. Once done he uses his psychic abilities to fix a Rapier siege gun. As the crew readies to fire another volley, the Chaos Champion imbues the shells with his power.

(WHOOSH!!!)

Each shell flew farther and exploded with the power of a plasma bomb, incinerating a huge portion of the bigger Tyranid bio-forms. With their sudden death came the sudden change in momentum as billions of Chaos Orks and Daemons charge the Tyranid lines. Victory there eventually led to the eradication of Tyranids within the Hellborn sector and expanded the territories of Ultima Segmentum deep into unknown space.

"I believe he should be attach to the 3rd Legion or 6th Legion," said by Vorpal

“Well the pieces are set. All we have to do is wait,” –The Roman Emperor takes another sip and smiles at the thought of the glorious battles to come

The Romulus exits warp space and into the local space of the planet Equestria. A few dozen of the drop pods fall towards the moon. There they prepare to build massive fortifications and dark temples to please the Ruinous Powers.

A much larger swarm of drop pods, in the hundreds of thousands, descends upon the planet in three spots:

• The majority of the Roman forces would drop onto the Principality of Equestria, converge onto its two coastlines

• A second strikeforce would assault the Kingdom of Gryphonne, splitting between the capital and the complex of urban cities onto the east

• The smallest force would crash into Africa, home of the Zebra tribes

Meanwhile… on another universe

"Whoa!" --The angel Pit covers his eyes as a bright light suddenly appeared in front of him

"Argh!" The young angel is overwhelm by the light as it sends him far away into a place foreign for all

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