Trees flashed across my vision, The Fallen Angel fleeing from me was but a few meters away. I could see the glint off of his corrupted helm as I gained ground.

He was the first to burst from the underbrush and shout something to the assembled forces, other heretics and from the corner of his visor he saw a dreadnought.

"Damned heathens! They have me outnumbered... but I will not fail, the glory shall be mine!" I growled as I tackled the Chaos Marine to the ground, I could hear the dull clangs against my armor and his as we traded blows. He managed to shift a foot under me to send me off of him and at a nearby tree, With my sword drawn I began to rush again only for a loud gunshot to force my sacred blade from my hands.

...I could feel the headache again... I wanted to kill... I wanted to slay...

I turned to the dreadnought, the monster only a little taller than me seemed to think he could take on one of Empress Luna's chosen sons. With a roar I dug my feet into the ground and seemed to take off as the hulking brute met me somewhere in the middle of our paths.

The monster's fist shimmered with blue power as I felt my fist numb at the lightning coursing through my arm, I didn't even feel it as my fist connected with its jaw, but I saw sparks as its fist struck my helm. Half of my visor cracked and I could feel the embers coming from the initial break in the circuitry. After that I went flying and the world was just smoke.

I could hear a groan as I began to sit up, blinking a few times as I made it to my feet. I let out a pained shout as I felt something sharp drive itself through my leg. I turned as far as I could to see the Fallen Angel from earlier gripping a sword he had managed to get through my armor.

...I couldn't feel it... I saw the blade... but I couldn't feel it...

My fist clenched as I began to bring it down, aiming right where his visor was. It was in slow motion as I began to see the reflection of many colors in the glass, with each second the colors grew in intensity.

The few seconds I had to react weren't enough as my vision was filled with the entire spectrum of visible light, Exactly five seconds in I began to realize that my throat hurt because I was screaming. It lasted exactly sixty seconds before everything stopped... Cloaking my world in the darkness that was the Empress' embrace.

Light flooded my vision as feeling returned to my limbs, looking at the sky I knew I was still in the same world as the demonspawn that I had been slaying, but... Why was I alive? I was unconscious... The Chaos had more time to do to me than it knew what to deal with. I slowly began to sit up, Glancing around before I managed to see the Reclusiarch.

"Brother... Alhardir... What happened to the Chaos Marine?"

"Astelan... There was no Chaos Marine... The levels of chaos in this world were playing tricks on your senses..."

"I... I'm tainted...?" My blood seemed to freeze in my veins as I watched his expressionless visor.

"no..." He replied quickly, placing a hand on my chest. "...The Empress had six heroes purify you with the Elements of Harmony, bringing balance to your core." I could easily hear the relief in his voice. "Thank the Empresses that the Elements worked... You are still able to fight...?"

"yes my brother... Just... Give me a few minutes and I will be fine." I let out a small wheeze as I get to my feet, scanning the world around and notice the lull in the sound of battle. My attention catches on the group speaking on the far side of the throne room. "Alhardir, what is it they are speaking of?"

The Reclusiarch followed my gaze and nodded a little. "This world is being overtaken by the forces of the void, we are fighting a losing battle... Just like home... but here we are giving the innocent time to flee this world, Let us show the monsters of the void what happens when they invoke the wrath of Empress Luna's chosen sons." He held a hand up that I grasped with a smirk under my helmet.

I took a passing note that my chest stung, but I'd see the Apothecary later anyway.

I had my sword back in my grasp again, by the Empress... It simply felt wrong not to have it, I let out a hearty laugh as the adamantine blade sliced through the monsters that I had been informed were called Voidlings. It was almost too easy to swing and kill these creatures in a wide arc, they didn't quite leave blood to splatter everywhere... but it didn't matter since I had found that I could wreathe my fist in blue flames bestowed by our Beloved Empress Luna, adding the flames to my sword let no creature stand long before me. I spoke and shouted my praises to Empress Luna as I fought but the sound didn't seem to come through as I enjoyed watching my beautiful sword cleave through these warpspawn.

I saw the large dreadnought-like being grab a rainbow-maned pegasus from the ground before going back to firing on the Voidlings. As I let my blade find its mark in another of the beasts I let out a shout.

"WE MARCH FOR THE EMPRESSES!"

The Reclusiarch met my shout with one of his own, stoking the fires of war. "AND WE SHALL KNOW NO FEAR!"

I felt my resolve warm my limbs as my swings renewed their strength, gladly slaying these heretics as they charged to their doom.

"REJOICE! FOR YOU GET TO LET LOOSE YOUR ANGER!" One of the litanies of hate from the Reclusiarch.

"IN THE NAME OF THE NIGHT!" I agreed as I brought my sword down to cleave one of the voidlings in half before bringing my blade back up and continuing on, swatting away voidlings like they were flies.

"WITH YOUR HATE AS YOUR SWORD, AND YOUR DISGUST AS YOUR SHIELD, MAY NO WARPSPAWN BREAK YOUR WILL!" I heard the report of the Reclusiarch's boltgun as he dropped more of the enemy, I let out a praise of the Empress as I tore the arms off of one of the voidlings, forcing it to dissolve. "Heh... now if only the heretics of my dimension were self-cleaning like these guys..."

Apparently I had missed out on slaying a large voidling as the rest of the swarm started to flee. I cursed a little to myself as I felt the weariness of battle force my limbs to feel heavy and sluggish, without taking my eyes off of the treeline of the castle grounds I managed to trudge my way back over to the group.

After noticing that the group had dwindled down to just the displaced like me and not even five ponies I could feel the pain and hate that they had to have for this new menace. They needed the guidance of the Empress even more than I did so I reached to one of my belt pouches, the one that I kept the pendant of my chapter in, and pulled it out to give to the one who called herself Essence. "You all fought well, but I have only one pendant to give, and I bestow it upon you, Essence... Wear it as a mark of honor and know that should you raise it to the sky and call for Empress Luna's chosen sons we will send a team to aid you. Consider yourself an initiate of the Lunar Templars chapter." I watched as she used her powers to duplicate the pendant and pass them among the assembled Displaced, who also gave their 'tokens' out as well.

The Reclusiarch and I crossed our arms and saluted with the Imperal Aquila as I felt myself changing worlds, "I hope to slay more warpspawn with you soon..."

I landed on the cobbled streets of what I hoped to be Canterlot once the shift had finished. I slowly pushed myself off of the ground and looked around, amazed a little once I saw the shield that had been erected around the city. I let out a groan as my legs refused to start walking again, screaming at me to sit and rest before I killed myself out of sheer exhaustion... well... resting didn't seem like too bad of an idea anyway.

I slowly closed my eyes, blinking a few times as I fell asleep. I could hear a faint buzzing as my body felt like it was getting lighter.

Author's Notes:

The story that this Crossover is for is The Songs Of True Madness, It's a good story, a little rough in the beginning but once you get to the crossover chapters there's a lot of nice detail put into the story.