As the night lingered over Equestria, the city was all but abandoned, silence dominated the streets, and there were only a few patrols out, trotting through the streets, as their primary mission was to ensure that nothing that wasn’t Pony got even close to the former storage chamber of the Elements of Harmony, Equestria’s future depended on it. Each of the patrols consisted of three (or five) guards, as they continued on their way through the streets, covering the right and left sides, and of course, the center.

One of the groups trotted through the dark, and desolate sections of the Capital City. They strode by a darkened alley – From which, amidst the darkness, a blue light started to glow brightly, as it seemed to be moving forward, approaching it’s entrance point. Rotating itself towards the left side, it’s eyestalk, silently following them as they moved down the street. ‘’Advance!’’ The figure ordered, out from the darkness, the figure moved out. It’s body being illuminated by the rays of the moonlight…But it was not alone.

‘’Wait. Sir, I…’’ He said, raising his hoof up, motioning for the rest of them to stop. They did, turning their heads to face him. ‘’Yes? What is it trooper?’’ A Unicorn with the standard gold armor, but with black shoulder pads asked. ‘’Shshh – I think I heard something.’’ He replied, bringing a hoof up, holding it up, as he stood silently. The others, turning their heads, and looking around at their surroundings, nervously keeping their eyes peeled…

But there was nothing there.

‘’AHHHHHHH!’’ He suddenly screamed out in agony. His body glowed a violent burst of light-blue, revealing, for a single second, a skeleton underneath his skin, before dissipating away. Completely silent, and motionless, his body collapsed down onto the ground, dead.

The other guards turned, shifting their attention back, but as soon as their eyes meet the sight waited for them, they gasped. ‘’Exterminate! Exterminate!’’ was all they heard, before several beams was fired towards them. Their bodies too, become illuminated in a light-blue glow, as their internal skeletons were temporarily shown. They screamed out with agonized screams of pain. Their bodies stopped glowing so powerfully, and before long, collapsed down onto the ground, laying there motionless, as their attackers, moved away, and gliding along the stone floor towards their next target.

Nearing one of the less populated areas of Canterlot, construction in this particular location had been surprisingly halted, as the construction crews responsible for building new structures, had just…stopping. Assuming that some of it had something to do with the things that had recently happened, the group set out to investigate the old, abandoned ruin…as it has been five years since anyone ever set hoof there.

They rounded a corner, trotting down an ally, the patrol’s designated leader, being at the front of the group, his horn glowing a blue, magical aura, as it projected a light, to illuminate the path for the others. Two of the other guards turned their heads to look at each other, exchanging confused glances with each other.

‘’Um…Is it weird if I say this?’’ She said, her eyes looking back towards the stallion. ‘’But is he acting a little bit…odd?’’ She cracked an eyebrow, casting him a suspicious glance. The stallion turned his eyes towards the stallion in front of them, bearing a suspicious glance, but looking back at her with a blank glance. ‘’I don’t understand where you’re coming from.’’ He said, gently nodding his head towards the stallion. ‘’That guy’s a veteran, he’s fought a few battles here and there, that does things to you…’’ His eyes looked down, turning away. ‘’He…He fought in the Battle of the Badlands.’’ Her eyes widened, his eyes looked up, staring back towards her – Her head turned away, looking down. ‘’Many don’t talk about what happened that day…especially those caught at the back.’’ He turned away, looking back in front at the stallion, as he lead the way forwards.

Arriving at the abandoned, decaying ruin, ageing, half-completed, ruin of what had once been an important project, now…it was nothing more than a structure that nopony knew why was there. It was a pathetic sight to say the least, to see something so important, had just been forgotten, cast aside, and turned into nothing but an irrelevant limb that was just clinging to the great Capital of the Equestrian Kingdom.

As they drew closer towards the structure, the soft breeze blew into their armor, brushing through their fur, and sending shivers up along their bodies, as their now-cold armor touched against them. Suddenly, stopping in front of the door, his eyes became transfixed on the door – Having noticed that he had stopped moving, and had extended his hoof out, signaling for them to cease further movement, they directed their attention towards him. Becoming silent, as he just stared towards the door.

Taking a nervous step forward, she approached him, raising her hoof to put it on his shoulder, but before she could get close enough, he suddenly turned, casting her a worried glance. ‘’We’ve got to leave. Right now.’’ He said rather frightened. ‘’What are you talking ab-‘’ Before she could get another word out, a loud, deep rumbling shook the ground, causing everything to creak, before long, the shaking stopped, but the wind did not return to blow through Canterlot. It had been silenced, somehow.

‘’Whoa! What was that?’’ He asked, as he looked at the surrounding buildings. He turned back, casting a worried glimpse back towards the door, before returning it towards her. ‘’No time to explain. We’ve-‘’ suddenly, his ears perked up, his eyes widened in shock, and he slowly turned his head back, looking towards the door.

‘’I can’t hear anything.’’ The veteran said. They turned back towards each other, exchanging confused glances with each other. Their attention shifted back towards him, slowly backing away from him. ‘’I-isn’t that g-good?’’ She asked, her eyes looking around.

‘’No.’’ They heard him speak, but not turn to face them. He narrowed his eyes, staring them inside the black void inside the ruin.

From inside the building’s confines, several figures looked out towards the royal guards. They turned towards each other, giving a gentle nod – looking back, they hurried forward towards the front entrance. They couldn’t wait anymore - They had to act, and they had to act now.

With a powerful force of power, the doors were flung outwards, crashing down onto the ground, as the two figures within, charged out, and hurrying forward, towards the three Equestrians in front of them. Startled by the newcomer’s sudden arrival, she jumped back, startled – Her bystander assumed a battle ready-stance, glaring towards the newcomers – But the veteran lowered his hoof, placing it down on the ground, which confused them.

The newcomers charged forward, running towards the group…But to their surprise, the creatures ignored them, as they quickly ran past them, galloping with all their strength towards the closest street. Watching as the two strange creatures galloped past them, they turned, casting confused glances towards each other, cracking an eyebrow.

The running creatures possessed varying physical appearances – One of the creature’s upper body, up from atop it’s front hooves, a large form of flesh moved up, curving, as they formed a tip a atop it’s head, it had sharp teeth, orange skin, down along the sides of it’s front and rear hooves, there was a clear indication that it had suction cups, even around the form of it’s body, it could see spots where there were other suction cups, it lacked a mane or a tail, and it’s teeth were sharp, pointed – The other creature, that ran with it, wore a mask, it too curved up, but it was in a complete dome shape, there were two holes, through which eyes could see out, it’s body adorned a blue suit of armor, with large, broad, shoulder pads atop it, and it was holding a cane in it’s grip, as it galloped away…But what was particularly interesting about this creature, was that it was significantly smaller in height than the other one, who looked like it was about the same height as a regular pony.

As it ran, the blue figure turned, looking back, almost as if was confused by their actions. It’s head turned, and it ignored them, as it hurried down a random street, while the other, non-armored creature, hurried down another, slipping away into the night.

‘’Sir?’’ She said nervously, as she turned back, looking towards the stallion, as he had not moved since those two, strangers had emerged from the factory. He narrowed his eye, staring inside. Down from above, a powerful breeze started to blow down, passing through their fur, but at a much quicker speed.

In a control chamber, a red light blared. The creature’s eyestalk lens, watched the light blare loudly throughout the chamber.

‘’Alert! Alert! Our perimeter is breeched!’’ It shouted hysterically. Looking it’s eyestalk down towards the screen in front of it. ‘’Show me!’’ Another voice ordered from behind. ‘’I obey!’’ It replied, turning it’s Manipulator arm, end-appendage, to the side – Behind it, a large, blue rectangular box appeared, hovering in the air, in front of the figure. Raising it’s eyestalk, the figure looked towards the screen.

‘’Dispense Security to dispose of them, immediately!’’ It ordered. It rotated it’s eyestalk back towards down towards the screen, looking back towards it, as it turned it’s Manipulator arm, returning it back into it’s original position. The screen dissipated.

‘’What were those creatures?’’ She asked, looking her eyes back after them, as she approached the captain. ‘’One of them was a warrior, the other was a survivor.’’ He reached his hoof up, holding it up against her chest, she turned towards him, casting a confused glance at him. ‘’We have to leave – Now!’’ There was a sense of urgency in his voice, he pushed her back, beckoning for her to leave. Her head looked back towards the opening, pondering what had him so frightened…But then, he hadn’t even been inside the building.

‘’What is going on?’’ The other guard asked, trotting towards them.

Without another second’s hesitation, a loud humming filled the air. Before they could look up, and trace it to the source, another earthquake shook the ground, and another deep rumbling filled the air.

When the rumbling passed, a bright light shone down upon them. Reacting quickly, they looked up towards the source of the light, being forced to bring their hooves up to cover their eyes.

‘’All movement will cease! Remain still! Any attempted movement will result in immediate death!’’ A loud, booming voice commanded them. They looked up towards the source of the light, but was unable to get a good look at what was commanding them in such a manner. The loud, booming, humming that they had heard earlier, from a distance, was now much closer than they originally.

Suddenly, down from the source of the light, a violent beam of blue energy was shot towards one of the decaying walls of the ruined factory – The wall exploded, crumbling down, forming a large pile of ruined debris. Up from the destroyed wall, smoke and fire emerged, the smoke raising up, limiting their field of vision, even further.

‘’Whoa!’’ She exclaimed, jumping back in surprise, at such displays of power. Bringing her hoof back up in front of her eyes, as the bright light, once again, entered into her vision.

Down on the ground, the dust started to be blown up, scattering around, as the light moved, closer and closer down from it’s position in the air. The powerful wind, pulled against them as it passed over their bodies, pushing them further and further back. The wind’s strength eventually got so strong, that it almost caused them to slide backwards.

‘’You will stand by, as we make our descent! You will not move unless ordered to!’’ The voice boomed, as it’s shape hovered in the air above them. The ‘’hidden’’ shape started to fly downwards, approaching the ground – The sound of the violent pressurized air, was interrupted, by a loud, mechanical, whirring, as something adjusted itself. The breeze started to grow rougher, indicating that whatever was over them, was getting closer to the ground.

Underneath, in the smallest corner of their eye, they could several, sharp, pointed, claw-like appendages reach down. ‘’Heed your masters! Obey, Abominations!’’ The voice called down. The other stallion guard’s eyes widened, before crossing, angrily, as it glared enraged up towards the shape above them. ‘’A-abominations?’’ He growled, he reached his hoof towards his sword – He grasped the hilt, tightening his grip on the blade, preparing to draw it, but then remembering that he was still in direct line of sight for the creature above them. He turned, and trotted behind the mare, and the Captain.

‘’Halt! Remain still! Do not move!’’ The figure ordered, focusing most of it’s light towards him, but he refused to obey the creature’s orders, and continued forward. Secretly, drawing his sword from the quiver, preparing to throw it towards the creature.

He trotted out from behind the Captain’s left side, taking several steps forward, towards the creature, the light, continuing to focus itself on him, following him as he approached it. He looked up, staring up towards the figure above him, and it ‘’silently’’ keeping it’s gaze plastered towards him – He was not able to get a good enough look at it’s actual form, as another, blinding light shot down, falling upon him, while the first one returned to watching the mare and the Captain, who watched, as the two creatures just looked silently towards each other.

With a swift motion of his hoof, he reached down, grabbed his sword, and suddenly, with an equally swift movement. He shouted, as he swung his arm upwards, throwing his blade up towards the creature’s position.

‘’Ahhh!’’ She shouted, as there was a powerful release of electrical sparks, forcing her to shield her eyes from the powerful sparks. The figure started to sway to the side, the lights moved franticly, passing over her, blinding her even further, and causing her to step backwards away from the moving beam.

‘’Destroy him! Exterminate! Exterminate!’’ The voice boomed. Although the figure was moving unevenly in the air, it managed to regain some semblance of it’s stability in the air, focusing the light onto him, with much more control.

Up from above, from where the light was being projected, several green rays were fired down towards the surface, exploding upon impact with the ground, scattering dust, and broken pieces of the stone ground. ‘’Exterminate! Exterminate!’’ The figure shouted loudly, firing off, more and more of those beams in a frantic rage.

‘’Whoa!’’ He exclaimed as he dodged several of them, only to have the green ground behind him, explode – One of the beams shot down behind him, exploding upon making impact with the stone, throwing him forward towards the wall.

‘’No!’’ She shouted, extending her hoof, holding it out towards him, as he fell down hitting the ground. Before she could advance any further, the Captain extended a hoof, holding her back, preventing her from advancing any further.

Turning itself around to face them, the figure moved it’s light back towards them. Once again, speaking in the loud, booming voice. ‘’Halt! Remain still! Do not move!’’ It shouted, slowly, moving back down towards them, attempting to once again land on the ground.

Once again, the Spider-like sharp, pointed legs extended down towards the ground. However, out of nowhere, with no warning, a beam shot towards a spot on the top of the figure’s body, an explosion erupted, scattering several bits of falling metal and steel in random directions, a violent release of sparks accompanied the flames.

Shifting it’s attention away from the two ponies on the ground, the light were directed back towards the factory. Before the two guards got a chance to turn back to see who it was, another beam was immediately shot back up towards the figure in the sky. This time the figure swung to the side, dodging the incoming ray. ‘’Alert! Warning! Warning! Special Weapons Dalek detected!’’ It almost shouted in panic, it started to move back, climbing higher, and higher through the air, as it retreated away from the factory.

Keeping her gaze plastered on the night sky, as she looked after the strange-…thing.

Behind them, they heard a loud crash, as something collapsed down onto the ground. They turned to look behind them, only to be meet with several identical eyes that looked towards them. She gasped, bringing a hoof to her mouth.

Moving out through the doorframe, the figures approached them, extending, and raising their ‘’left’’ limbs towards them. ‘’Stop! Don’t move-!’’ Before the speaker was allowed to continue, the Captain reached out with his hoof, grabbing her arm, and instantly pulled her away. She turned her head back, watching as he had grabbed her, and was now running with his grip on her. He released his grip on her, allowing her to run on her own.

‘’Halt!’’ They heard the figure shout after them, though, they ignored it and continued onwards, moving away from the newcomers. Behind them, the sound of an energy being fired entered their air, behind them, the ground exploded, creating a slight crevice in the ground behind them. They rounded the corner, and continued to gallop forward, not bothering to stop for anything.

‘’After them!’’ They heard it’s voice bark to what they presumed were the rest as they galloped down the alley, but alas, they did not stop. They just continued onwards, galloping with all speed down the alley.

They turned at an intersection, and continued to run with all of the energy they could muster, even though by this point, she was panting, as she struggled to keep up with him.

As they galloped down through the empty streets, their eyes widened, as they suddenly fell upon several unwanted figures that stood in front of them. ‘’Daleks!’’ He shouted. At the other end of the street, the three figures rotated their domes, looking their eyestalks towards the two ponies, as they were fast approaching them. Turning themselves around to face them, they aimed their gun sticks, pointing them towards the two approaching Equestrians.

‘’You will stop immediately!’’ One of the Daleks shouted. ‘’Halt!’’ Another shouted. Narrowing her eyes, got a better look of what lay behind their attackers. Fortunately, it seemed like the rest of the street behind them was empty, devoid of any more of them.

She galloped up closer to him, extending out her hoof towards him, touching it against him, he turned his head, throwing a confused glance towards her. ‘’W-what are you doing!?’’ he asked confused. She turned back, casting a stern glance towards him. ‘’Don’t worry…! I’ve everything under control!’’ She said. He looked back towards the rapidly approaching Daleks. Biting his lip as they continued to get ever so closer to the narrow line of moving trashcans.

‘’Hang on!’’ She exclaimed, clenching her eyes tightly as she focused her energy to her horn, building up a small flow of magic.

Two of the Daleks in front of them turned to look towards each other, exchanging blank lenses. The Dalek on the left side, started to move forward towards them, adjusting it’s gun stick, to fire towards them. ‘’Halt! Or you will be exterminated!’’ It shouted towards them, but they did not seem to be obeying it’s orders, and just continued forward, towards it.

It backed a few inches away from them, but stopped, re-adjusting it’s gun stick’s aim, to accommodate their erratic movement. With a loud shout, it barked the orders ‘’Exterminate them! Exterminate! Exterminate!’’ As they were getting way too close, to be willing to heed it’s commands. With a quick speed, it slid back, firing several bursts of blue energy beams towards them – The energy beams flew past them, impacting with the walls of several structures, exploding outwards, and creating large, torn holes in the walls, the roads did not fare much better, as they too erupted, leaving cracked crevices in the energy beam’s wake.

‘’I hope you know what you’re doing!’’ He shouted worried, as he watched the Daleks get closer, and closer, thankfully the soft bumps, and other hindrances, were throwing off the Dalek’s aim, as they raced back to join it’s companions. Her eyes were still clenched shut, as the energy in her horn continued to build, getting stronger and stronger.

The two other Daleks had begun to move forward, approaching the other Dalek. They raised their weapons, aiming them towards the two ponies. The strange light…things, on top of their heads, started to glow, and what seemed more like a catchphrase was loudly shouted towards them.

‘’Exterminate! Exterminate!’’

‘’Wildfireee!’’ He exclaimed – Several beams were fired from the Dalek’s gun sticks. Speeding through the air towards them, and with their increased numbers, it was unlikely that they would be able to avoid this powerful barrage.

‘’Hahh!’’ She exclaimed, shooting her eyes open, as the built-up magic was fired off from her horn – In a single second, she and he vanished away, out of the Dalek’s line of sight, leaving only a few remnants of sparkling dust.

‘’Whaat!?’’ The Dalek in the middle exclaimed, backing slightly in surprise. The others rotated their domes, looking around their surroundings, in frantic confusion, as they searched for the Equestrians. ‘’What…!? Wh-…!? Explain! Explain!’’ One of the Daleks asked confused.

‘’Oh, I completely forgot that they could do that!’’ One of them said, the others’ domes rotated towards the Dalek, casting angered glances, from behind their eyestalk lenses.

A small distance down the street, a magical bubble popped, revealing the forms of Wildfire, and the stallion. Without a second of delay, as they re-emerged from the teleportation spell, she was only able to breathe a soft intake of air, before collapsing down onto the ground. Before she could hit it, he reached out, grabbing her with his hooves, and holding her up. ‘’Wildfire?’’ He asked, concerned, as she wouldn’t just drop down from exhaustion like this, or honestly any unicorn mare.

‘’Assault Squadron 5 will advance! Secure this sector of the Capital’s residential area!’’ A voice, he deeply wished wasn’t the one that he recognized, but unfortunately, it was. Down the road, a group of several, maybe five or six, maybe even more Daleks were moving up towards their position, and they were just out in the street, exposed.

Thinking of the only thing he could, he looked down, his horn started to glow, the magical aura enveloped her body, lifting her body up off the ground. Thinking franticly, he looked around at his surroundings, desperate for someplace where they could hide.

‘Where!? Where!? Where!?’ He turned his head, looking around at the surrounding buildings on either side. A few of them had cracked walls, and destroyed tears in the skin of the walls, destroyed windows littered the ground, as their shattered glass could be seen, reflecting the moonlight off them.

Before long, he heard the Dalek voices, as they ‘’spoke’’ to each other – But it wasn’t as much speaking, as it was just mindless shouting.

Gliding along the stone road, the Dalek Attack Squadron finally arrived at his position. One of the Daleks in the group, was a particular Dalek that had a slightly different color scheme than the others: It’s entire body was gold, but it’s Dalek Bumps were black.

‘’Continue onwards! The rest of our forces will spread out through the city, and eliminate the last remnants of resistance! We will proceed towards our main target – Our forces will meet us there!’’ It said, pointing it’s Manipulator arm towards Canterlot Castle. ‘’I/We obey!’’ The other Daleks chanted in unison.

‘’So that their plan-’’ a pair of eyes said, as they looked out, moving towards the castle. ’’They are not just intent on conquering the city, but also, whatever nasty business they’ve got at the castle.’’ The eyes watched as the Daleks vanished into the distance, their absence was not noticed as screams of their victims could be heard, echoing around the city. The eyes closed shut, as the figure moved away from the wall, being shrouded by the darkness of the night.

Author's Notes:

Uploaded this chapter cause i was bored