It's been a week after Q jr. released the Xenomorphs from their prison, and the creatures have taken Canterlot the day they left the cave... The casualties of the infestation were great in number, and the citizens of any town that had Canterlot in view saw the blackness that swept the city. Everypony that saw the horror is in fear, wondering what could've taken the prized possession of the Caribou Empire. And when the week passed, the news spread across Equestria and the Crystal Empire. Some ponies think that Chrysalis and her Changelings have returned, but some of the Caribou think the Ponies are up to something. At the same time, there are those that are in agreement between slave and male that something else is ahoof about what happened in Canterlot. Something bigger than Dainn, something bigger than Celestia the Sun Slut, something bigger than the Nordic Gods that the Caribou praised.

At the same time, it was suspected that Dainn was dead until he was found in his personal library surrounded by books and scrolls while looking like he'd rather be dead. The books and scrolls are about myths, legends, gods, titans, relics, something that he can use against the horrible Demons that have taken Canterlot.

Meanwhile, Shining Armor hasten his personal train to Ponyville to visit Dainn... That's all that Shining Armor said, no pony exactly knew Shining's intent...

Shining's train made it to Ponyville an hour ago, the train filled with guards just waiting inside the train. Those guards were a mix of Ponies and Caribou, their blades and shields all Crystal Pony forged and their armor the new Crystal Guard design that was made because it's cheaper to produce and almost resembles the Equestrian Royal Guard's armor only more smoothed out.

Shining Armor is walking through the doors of Dainn's new castle with two guards, one Crystal Pony the other a Caribou in old Crystal Guard armors. The Crystal Pony had a helmet, but the Caribou isn't wearing a helmet due to his antlers getting in the way. The ruler of The Crystal Empire is clad in his newest armor, an armor that protects his body yet leaves exposed gaps for excellent mobility. It's been crafted from the finest of mystic metals, giving him enchanted protection and strength along with the shine of polished chrome. It also features matching swords on there back and daggers on the lower-leg plating. The sheaths for the blades are all built into the armor for a completely streamlined look, and it makes this armor look like the most advanced armor known to Ponykind and Cariboukind. Really, the armor was supposed to be made for King Sombra a thousand years ago before his defeat. But the Crystal Pony blacksmiths made this armor for Shining as thanks for being such a great ruler, and in the hopes that he'll continue to be a great ruler of The Crystal Empire.

"Where is Dainn?" Shining armor asks out loud as a mint green mare wearing only a tattered skirt runs over to Shining.

"H-he's still in his library, my lord Shining Armor." The mare says frantically, "W-would you like a mare t-to fuck?"

"Please, just call me Shining." The Crystal ruler says, stroking the mare's face with the back of his hand, "And I'm a married man, Miss?"

"L-Lyra Heartstrings." The mare says nervously.

"Lyra? What a pretty name!" The Caribou guard says, "It suits your looks very well!"

"T-thanks..." Lyra says, covering her concerned face.

"Oh, you think I'd like sex with you!" The Caribou says, laughing, "No, don't concern yourself. We won't be long."

"Wait here, Guardsmen." Shining commands, "I'm going to have that talk with Dainn."

"Yes sir!" The Guards says, saluting their leader.

With that, Shining Armor walks down the large hallway before him. After some time, Shining finds a door that's been left cracked open. Inside is a malnourished King Dainn sitting on a pile of books reading a scroll.

"In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened... One stood." Dainn said, sounding mentally broken down.

"Are you okay, Dainn?" Shining asks, feeling concern towards Dainn. If Dainn's already broken, then his purpose for being there with most of his newly collected guard would be unnecessary.

"Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blisterd by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment."

"Dainn!" Shining called out.

"AH!... Oh, it's you." Dainn said, not expecting any pony to visit, "I thought you might've been something else... What day is it?"

"Exactly one week since your disappearance." Shining says, "It's Tuesday."

"S-sorry, I've been going through my library and told my guard to not make a big deal out of my being here." Dainn says as if he's telling a big secret, "H-hey, were there any scary guys on your way here? Any guys in armor, ugly muscled types, maybe ponies that sound like they took one to many punches to the head?"

"Nno." Shining says in suspicion of Dainn, "I didn't see anything like that... What's up with the books?"

"Oh! Your sister told me to look through everything!" Dainn says in a strange excitement, "I-I've learned a lot over the past few days! Did you know that Starswirl the Bearded made a mirror that goes to another world? He used it to banish three Sirens named Adagio Dazzle, Sonata Dusk, and Aria Blaze! They were nasty things, the Sirens! But I don't think they'll effect the Demons." Dainn tosses the scroll that he was reading, grabs a book, and begins to flip through it, "Ooo! Lord Tirek!... Wait, never mind. He would kill us all, then get swarmed by the demons. What do you think? What should we do about the demons?"

"The creatures that you described to me sound like something that cannot be contained through any means." A strange voice says. A hologram of a green monkey walks out with its arms crossed, and an annoyed look on its face, "The only ways to survive these creatures would involve leaving this planet and going to another world until we can replicate my technology. But that would mean destroying your world."

"Oh, stop being a downer, Brainiac!" Dainn says, sounding somewhat like a child.

Shining draws one of his swords, and points it at Brainiac.

"Who are you, and why are you here!" Shining says threateningly.

"I am Brainiac, and a satellite was extracted from the pod where I actually reside." Brainiac says, not scathed by Shining's threatening appearance, "Your sword would do nothing to me, nor would your magic. I am only a consciousness being held in a computer on a pod that made the one known as Applejack into Supermare..." Brainiac's face becomes concerned, "But I fear that those creatures in Canterlot were too deadly even for a Kryptonian to face... Is this the feeling of dread?... Fascinating! Excuse me, I must return to my pod to better process what has been happening over the past week."

Brainiac's hologram disappears... And Shining keeps his sword drawn.

"Brainiac?" Shining says to himself, "Heh! His name rhymes with 'Maniac'!"

Shining raises his sword, and slashes Dainn's antlers off with a quick strike.

"AAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Dainn cries out in pain, all four of his antlers falling to the floor. Dainn quickly looks over to a window to see his reflection grinning at him.

"Welcome to your fall, Dainn..." Dainn's future self says as it disappears into Dann's currently pain filled face

"I WILL NOT FALL!!!" Dainn yells out as Dainn leaps a great distance to his hooves, and runs for decorative twin swords that are hanging on the wall. Shining Armor draws his second sword, and bangs it on his chest plate twice.

"Your Crystal Cock didn't work on everypony, Dainn!" Shining says angrily as Dainn grabs the decorative swords, "I've been mind controlled before by something that used similar tactics!"

"Impossible!" Dainn yells out, "The only known creatures that could possibly do that are-"

"Changelings." Shining interrupts, "In fact, I was controlled by the Changeling Queen herself!"

Shining Armor flips one of his swords through the air, draws one of his daggers, throws the dagger at Dainn, and catches his sword... But Dainn catches the dagger, and throws it back at Shining Armor, the Unicorn dodging the blade. The dagger still manages to brush across Shining's neck, getting him right in the artery. Shining puts away his swords, grabs the dagger, and covers his neck.

"You Betrayed Me, Shining Armor!" Dainn says while twirling the decorative swords around in his hands, "And You Did It When I Have Your Sister-"

*resesesesese*

Shining and Dainn both look up at the ceiling to spot a winged Xenomorph holding a chestburster that has both wings and a horn. The creature seems to stare at the two warrior-rulers before expanding it's wings and flying away.

"Where do you keep the princesses?" Shining asks with concern.

"I keep Celestia and Luna in their own sealed cells, but your sister is in an average cage..." Dainn says, looking Shining in the eyes with similar concern. The two run for a room where Dainn was collecting the Elements of Harmony only to find that the ones he had have been killed. Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight Sparkle. All their cells have been bent open. Rarity, Dash, and Pinkie appear to have been eaten at places across their bodies while Twilight Sparkle has a hole in her chest. A hole that looks like something has burst from it...

Shining breaks down to his knees, shedding a single tear.

"Twily..." Shining says, thinking about his dead sister...

Dainn looks over at the pool of old blood that's from all the Elements that he captured, and sees the reflection of his future self again. The reflection begins to laugh as Dainn looks over to Shining Armor's current state. The prince of The Crystal Empire is currently in shock over the death of his sister, which gives Dainn the opportunity to cut open the Prince's throat. Dainn raises his sword silently, prepares to strike, and is kicked upside the head by a barely visible earth pony with silver fur and a shiny mane...

"Who Dares Defy Me!" Dainn says, looking straight at the more visible, very feminine figure. However, the figure issued a female's.

"Jeez, Dainn!" The naked station says, fully revealing himself, "I come to let you stick your cock in my ass again, and you instead want to kill my ex-CO? No nookie for you!"

It's Nickelmane, followed by a black and purple unicorn station who's dressed in armor that matches his color palette.

"Dainn..." The black stallion says darkly and ominously, "I had to leave my brothers because of you... They wouldn't stop raping my sisters. I tried to enjoy it, but what is sex with no love?... What about the children that are born in this mess-"

"Oh, Fucking Spit It Out Dark Hoof!" Nickelmane interrupts in annoyance, "You're not the only one who's pissed off about watching fellow guardsmen breaking down the mares of the guard, damnit! Just skip to your point!"

"Alright alright alright, not everypony is as direct as you!" Dark Hoof says looking back at Dainn, "What I'm trying to say is that I've seen how the barebones of this system works, and it's disgusting. So far, I've seen females being treated as things, and it disgusts me. So I left your empire, became a bounty hunter in The Wastelands, and quickly found a female that I've fallen in love with. Go ahead and finish for me, Captain Nickelmane."

"The day that Dark asked his Griffon marefriend to marry him, a Caribou slave hunting party swooped in to capture her." Nickelmane continues, "He killed the party, saved his mare, yada yada yada, he came back in the hopes of finding at least somepony willing to fight back. That's when he found you porckin' my ass, and decided to see if I wouldn't try to escape my cell for an opportunity to kick your ass. How could I refuse such an offer? By the way, behind you!"

Dainn turns around to see a pissed off Shining Armor throwing an uppercut that send the Caribou into the air, followed by Dark Hoof grabbing Dainn for Nickelmane to to kick the Caribou King in the balls, and the series of attacks ends with Dark Hoof slamming Dainn into the ground hard enough to knock him out. Shining Armor look to the two best soldiers that he's ever commanded in astonishment.

"Nickelmane! Dark Hoof! You're both alive and not brainwashed!" Shining yells out in excitement.

"Isn't your sister dead?" Dark Hoof points out.

"She is, and I'm still taking her death pretty hard, but we need to get out of here." Shining walks through the bent bars to Twilight's cell, and picks up his sister's corpse, "At least Dainn lost his antlers. I intended on killing hi-" Nickelmane impales Dainn through the abdomen in a place that won't kill him, but still keep him pinned, "... Uh, you alright?"

"He fucked Celestia in front of me for fun." Nickelmane states, "Would it be possible to take Celestia and Luna with us?"

"My two most trusted soldiers should have them." Shining says, "They're soldiers from my new Crystal Army. You two would both be pretty high ranking in my new Army if you're interested."

"Sign me up!" Nickelmane says excitedly, "I need a damn uniform!"

"Will we be destroying the Crystal Cock?" Dark Hoof asks.

"I'm gonna do it in front of Celestia and Luna, along with putting in a new Crystal Heart that should un-brainwash everyone in Equestria." Shining Armor says proudly, "C'mon, we need to leave now."

"I will join you, but what of the Elements of Harmony?" Dark Hoof asks.

"... We can't do anything about them, sadly." Shining Armor says, "We don't have the time. But we need to be leaving now."

"Yes sir." Dark Hoof says as the three of them leave Dainn's new castle. They meet up with the Crystal Pony and the Caribou entrusted with gathering Celestia and Luna. Now as a group of seven, they all head for Shining's personal train, being guided by a squad of Crystal Army soldiers. Tonight, Shining Armor will be making funeral arrangements for his loss. The only ones that were truly victorious were the Demons of Canterlot, as they have taken a possession that's valuable to both parties. Twilight Sparkle was used as an incubator for an Alicorn born Xenomorph, decreasing the number of princesses by one...

Author's Notes:

In case you wonder what the winged Xeno looks like, here's an image by Smudge Proof!