The carnage begun as my zerg clashed with the equines. Entire extremities were severed by either searing bolts of energy, or by acidic spines going at an extremely fast velocity. Honestly, you couldn't go five feet without accidentally stepping on the dead, or limbs.

Whole bodies were dissolved by liquid possessing extreme toxicity, and the sound of screams constantly resounded in the battlefield.

Needless to say, I'm traumatized.

I ordered my troops to head just a bit back, just outside of the artillery range of those equine-bastards. Although, why they simply can't bring their unicorns closer is a mystery to me, something must be preventing them to do so.

Naturally, I avoided being a target by diving behind a wall, a personally favored tactic of mine that I constantly use since I got here. But this time, I was actually contributing, I was striking those equines down from the safety of this wall with my recently acquired weapon.

Although, I am no marksman, so most of the bolts usually strikes the ground, or anything behind my intended target. So far this battle was not favor of me.

But occasionally, the bolt strikes it mark, albeit it never was a fatal strike, usually making me recoil in disgust as the blood flows from the wound and the now dying equine collapses on the ground.

If it were not for those damned reinforcements, this bloody massacre would have ended a long time ago, instead they just keep sending in more of these ponies.

Honestly, they're just feeding the flames of war more kindling.

Retreat, it was somewhat of a viable option. I say somewhat because if I escape now, they're probably going to bring even more of these Hearts, which is something that I dread.

My forces, which were located just the western part of town, were struggling to maintain a hold on the middle of the town, the part of which the tower harboring the heart is located.

I've ordered my troops to demolish the tower, but the incoming equine forces were relentless in repelling us. We are at an impasse; my forces can't reach the tower, and the alicorn can't reach it as well thanks to my own troops.

At this point, the streets where this particular battle is taking place is no longer considered a street, it was more of a crater-filled desolate wasteland strewn with blood and corpses.

Those damn equines, they managed to devise some sort of spell, it was a fire-based projectile, it was quite efficient in killing most of my lightly armored division of my army. Thankfully, they were ineffective to the much stronger carapaces of my armored units.

I took a peek at the battlefield, it still seems that we are at a stalemate. The unicorns are forced to create a wall of impenetrable shields being maintained by five or more unicorns, which made it incredibly difficult to shatter.

Stepping out of the protection the shield is simply suicide as my ever-keen hydralisks are always prepared to strike them down, should they be out of the boundaries of the shields' range.

Spine after spine peppered the shield walls, albeit it proved almost futile as the shields' maintenance, the unicorns, were quite efficient at keeping the shields up. Should a single unicorn falter from exhaustion, another unicorn would replace the incapable unicorn.

Thus, the shield's integrity will not diminish.

While my hydralisks, barraged the shield-clusters with their honed spines, my close-combat troops simply took cover, as the adverse party's unicorns were launching orbs of magic towards the air, in hopes that it will land directly on us, eliminating us in a display of bright light.

These spherical projectiles the unicorns were lobbing at us served as a form of artillery, exploding upon impact. Although, the explosion radius wasn't that wide. Furthermore, the distance between us and them were relatively long, so their accuracy wasn't exactly something to worry about.

Ah yes, the space between us and them, it was perhaps, half a kilometer, or perhaps less than that, I'm not really certain. But the tension was quite high.

The spines being launched by the hydralisks are still within their effective range, but the resilience of the shields were too resilient to penetrate. My opponents' artillery were simply out of the effective range, simply landing several feet away from me and my forces.

Unlike my hydralisks, I did not choose to relentlessly attempt at breaking the shields, for very obvious reasons, such as reserving ammunition.

Suddenly I heard something spoke behind me, "Well, this is getting extremely dull."

Startled, I turned around hastily, only to find that it was just the living-cheese, Chrysalis, "Gah, could you refrain from sneaking up on me?"

"I am not sneaking up on you, you are simply unperceptive," she retorted.

"Ugh, forget it. Do you have any ideas on how to break this stalemate?" I inquired. This battle has gone too long as it already is.

"Hmph, do I look like a tactician? Of course I don't have a single plan to end this." she stated, "I thought you were the one in charge of planning?" she scoffed.

"Well, I'm not exactly a strategist as well, but if I have to guess, these ponies will have to get exhausted soon, thus, they'll be forced to retreat." I stated.

"Where have you been, exactly?" I asked.

"Oh nowhere, just in that little building there, the view is quite decent in there," she said as she pointed her hoof towards a semi-ruined building.

The building was somewhat stable, it didn't exactly looked too great, but it wouldn't collapse or whatever. The building had several tears visible, mostly caused by stray, magical beams.

The building has a roof, or rather, it had a roof. I've not a single clue what happened to it, but if I had to guess, it was due to a rather inconveniently placed mortar-shot by a unicorn.

I rolled my eyes and turned to view the battlefield once more, nothing too startling is occurring, just the same cycle repeating over and over; hydralisks shooting their spines at those damned shields, yet unable to penetrate them, the seemingly endless amounts of mortar-like magic bombardment is still ongoing.

"Hm, it appears that reinforcements have arrived," Chrysalis pointed out.

"Yes, I am aware that there are adverse reinforcements incoming-" before I could complete my sentence, I was interrupted by the changeling queen.

"No, that's not what I meant, look up there." she said, pointing her holed hoof into the sky, just in the horizon of the western part of the town were a cloud of some sort consisting of multiple black dots.

Then I realized, those weren't black dots, they were mutalisks, brood-lords, and other aerial-based zerg breeds. A sense of relief overwhelmed me, at this point, the only logical option for those equines would be to retreat!

"Oh, I thought you were referring to the seemingly endless amounts of additional murderous equines."

"Wait, it seems that they took notice of this as well." Chrysalis pointed out at the unicorn, who I recognized as the blue maned one from before, shouting some sort of command to his fellow comrades.

Suddenly, they dropped the shields, allowing them to charge at an alarmingly high velocity, but, that also left them vulnerable to the endless stream of hydralisk spines.

"Dammit, they must be going for the Crystal Heart!" I stated, "Everyone, do not allow them to reactivate the Heart, prevent them from advancing!" I yelled out to my zerg legion.

One tremor-causing collection of growls and roars from my forces later, they promptly rushed into the opposing army, thus resulting in a very bloody clash between the two armies.

"Well, are you still going to just sit here and watch?" I inquired, inspecting the area further.

"Hm, well, I am somewhat tired, perhaps I'll just recline here and spectate." she stated casually.

"As expected," was all that I could growl in reply before rushing towards the battle, while making sure that my crossbow was loaded.

Hm, charging into battle? This was rather contrary to my usually cowardice tendencies, perhaps it's just because that I'd die a probably very agonizing death, should I allow those equines to re-power the Heart.

The sea of zerg beings met in a bloody clash, screams of agony echoed throughout the ruins of this town. Everywhere I looked, I saw those ponies being murdered by either spines or claws. Of course, the zerg forces were no exception to death, they were indeed being killed by the equines.

I was being being cautious, and by that I mean that I was hiding a rather large pile of rubble. I regret participating in the actual battle now.

I peeked out of my cover, just to the left was a handful of hydralisks shooting down a cluster of unicorns. They exchanged projectiles, but apparently, the hydralisks were winning.

To the right of me was just a mess of equines and zerg creatures engaged in a brutal skirmish, it was a sight that made me nauseous.

The battlefield was constantly barraged by glave wurms, the projectiles shot out from mutalisks, and the magical artillery by unicorns positioned outside of the battlefield.

While the mutalisks caused it to rain death, the brood lords, a mantra-like, airborne zerg breed, caused it to rain even more death, not in the form of projectiles, but of the form of biological symbiotes, also known as broodlings.

Broodlings, they're are small but vicious and upon landing from being launched from a brood-lord, they will attack any nearby enemies, attacking them until either they or the broodlings are destroyed.

Suddenly, a sudden orb of magic blasted the ground beside me, causing me to stagger down to the ground, while also almost inflicting a heart-attack on me. Once I recovered, I noticed that there were no ultralisks on the field.

Somewhat understandable, they were quite the easy target, considering that they were extremely large. Several well-placed magical beams, and they were done for. Not a single one of them were left, unfortunately.

Then I saw something that caught my concern, the tower containing the heart was relatively clear, well, if you don't count the several projectiles bombarding the entire vicinity.

Suddenly, I saw that pink alicorn heading towards the entrance of the tower, of course, not without a few guards with her. Instinctively, I aimed at her with my ranged weapon, and pulled the trigger. Of course, due to the distance, the bolt missed my target completely by several feet.

I cursed to myself, "Dammit, both of you," I pointed at two roaches that were relatively nearby, "follow me." I ordered them, to which they complied as I rushed towards the tower.

Of course, I had to be wary, otherwise I'd be incinerated by the incoming unicorn artillery fire, or by opposing unicorns shooting their beams of energy at me.

Thankfully, I dodged all of that, and my roaches were unscathed as well. I hurried in the tower, there were just stairs leading up, nothing else.

Hastily, I ascended through the stairs as fast as I possibly could. Finally, me and my roaches finally reached the final level of the tower.

There, I encountered Cadance and her escorts, or rather what was left of them, considering there were more than six when they charged in here; there were only two of them left.

Cadance was currently focusing her magic to, what I assume, reactivate the Heart, and her guards who were both unicorns, attempted to eliminate us by shooting their magic at us, thankfully, they were dissolved by my roaches before they could perform just that.

Despite this, the pink alicorn remained occupied on charging the Heart, there was a possibility that she was far too focused on transfusing her "love-energy" to the Heart to notice.

Then I noticed that my roaches were about to project their acidic streams of saliva at her, "Wait, don't kill her, you fools!" I yelled, and of course, they obeyed.

Then I noticed that the Heart was emitting a fuchsia aura, probably signifying that it's close to reactivation. If I don't act, me, along with my zerg, will be eradicated.

But there was really only one thing to do at this point, and that was to kill her.

I hesitated as I aimed my weapon at her, then I pulled the trigger.

The bolt struck her right leg, the part where I was aiming, this obviously disrupted her concentration. To my dismay, the Heart's glow intensified, forcing me to shield my eyes from the immense brightness.

Suddenly, my vision was overwhelmed with white as the Heart promptly exploded, probably due to to the disruption that I just caused.

Author's Notes:

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