Denmother Green Ruby paced around her throne room, the Dig Team supervisor was supposed to report twice daily, once in the afternoon and once at night before work would stop and repeat again, for the past three days no radio contact has been made despite constant attempts to hail them over the radio, and she was beginning to worry they hadn't reinforced the tunnels enough and had caused a cave in, which if that happened certainly would have killed them. She sighed, her Empire's tunnels which lead all the way to the abandoned Crystal Empire remained quiet, not even a telegraph sent down the wire which had been laid down in the event the radio broke or got busted, which was highly likely since she knew her species wasn't exactly the most graceful species, and some dogs more often than not are rather clumsy.

The tunnel was just outside her underground city, it had railroad tracks built into it so they could use a train to haul the chunks of rock and gem from the Old Empire more easily, since it was rather far, so she just had to hope the Dig Team would make contact soon.

Eight hours later Denmother Green Ruby was running, she had been instructed to head to the royal bunker and she damn well intended to do so, within moments she was sealed within the bunker, five royal guards armed with a luger rifle with her. She wondered what in the name of Faust she had done to deserve this.

Throughout the underground city diamond dogs where fleeing, screaming, or dying, sometimes all three. Soldiers shot their machine guns and rifles at the shadows killing their friends and fellow dogs, but the bullets would just pass through. One dog commander stood up. "Retreat! I SAID RETREAT DAM-" He was cut off as one of the Umbrum passed through him, leaving him a husk, falling to the ground with the crunch of bones so old they may as well be dust, he was now a sack shriveled dry skin and tattered fur that clung to bones. Despite this soldiers fought on, to protect their pups and mates back deeper within the city. They only provided a distraction for a few minutes while diamond dogs boarded the few airships their Empire held and cast off for their only allied kingdom, the Minotaur.

Despite this, several thousand diamond dogs where slaughtered within a matter of hours, the fighting so one sided it wasn't even funny, Oppenpaws looked outside from within his laboratory and the Uranium processing facility, realizing there was no hope he set the one remaining nuclear device on a timer for thirty minutes, hopefully long enough to allow more dogs to escape, before grabbing a pill from his pocket and tossing it into his maw and swallowing, within seconds he began to foam at the mouth as the cyanide took effect and he slumped to the floor, spamming and choking before 15 seconds later his now bloodshot eyes rolled into the back of his skull and he went still, dead. His fellow researchers doing the same, while several tried to flee and got turned into husks for their efforts.

The royal guards fought violently, their base instinct to protect their leader, their alpha. "I want those things dead YESTERDAY!" One commander barked, pun intended, as he aimed a machine gun at the invaders, using armor penetrating rounds, and to his dismay, having no effect, he watched soldier after soldier fall to the shadows, becoming a dead husk so violently and quick he wouldn't know what soldier was who if it wasn't for the tags around their now decayed throats, before he himself was grabbed by one of the shadows. He tried to scream as he felt his very soul being drained away, but was unable to do anything beyond open his mouth before his eyes sunk into his skull and his muscle dried and bones became brittle, the Umbrum Queen tossed aside the pathetic sack of flesh and fur she had just killed and strode her way down to the royal bunker grinning all the while, stupid dogs marked where it was, which would end badly for them.

Denmother Green Ruby stared in horror at the three foot thick solid steel door as cracks began to appear with black crystals growing from them before the door shattered into pieces, her royal guards began to shoot, their rifles barking with each shot. Their bullets where more than useless as several shadows rushed in and slammed into her guards, Denmother Green Ruby screamed in terror and absolute horror as her finest royal guards shriveled into husks that looked to be thousands of years old, before the shadows receded and made way for a tall black mare, her crimson eyes staring directly into Green Ruby's soul.

The mare grinned, her fangs shining in the light of the overhead ceiling fans lamp, she spoke, her voice was cold, hollow and dead, yet somehow happy. "I really must thank you pathetic fleabags, after three thousand years you freed my people, but your flesh and blood, and all whom are made of flesh and blood shall feel our wrath for being sealed away for so long, eons have gone past, locked in eternal darkness, an eternal void with no concept of time, and barely enough magic to keep us alive, now your bodies will be our feast, your lives ours to do with as we please, and I choose to end yours, you pathetic sack of flesh." The shadow queen grabbed Denmother Green Ruby, and bit into her throat and watched with glee as the dog struggled and tried to shriek before she shriveled up like the rest, and tossed her aside like the trash she was.

The mare's grin was psychotic and almost euphoric "Yesss...It's been so long since I've tasted the flesh of the living, glori-" She was cut off as from deep within the city a bright flash and explosion went off, destroying several miles of the city she was in and, to her own horror, something she had not felt since she and her children had been sealed away, every one of her children within the blast had been destroyed, the pure heat and light having destroyed them instantly. "That...That should be impossible! Only the strongest of Mage's could have hoped to do this! And no one was left alive!"

She looked to one of her children. "I want to know what has just happened! Go and report it to me immediately!" The shadow bowed and was gone like a puff of smoke.

Within ten minutes her child was back, and he didn't look like he had good news, whatever the news was, she wouldn't strike her own. "Mother....they're just......gone, the flash from the weapon destroyed it, but in the process killed several thousands of us and the few remaining meat bags, its light so bright and blinding, what remains of them is just stains of shadow on the floor my Mother..."

The mare looked down at her child, an adult by pony standards seeing as it was over several thousand years old, and adult as it may be by umbrum standards it was still her child, and smiled sadly. "We shall just have to take further steps to prevent this from occurring again my child, now let us look at the map this civilization of mutts has created to see who is next for us to attack" She looked over a map on the stone table which had, and grinned seeing a nation called the Caribou Empire, this would do nicely, it would only take a few days for them to prepare themselves to make their way to the surface after so long of having been locked deep below the ground.

Author's Notes:

OCO, two chapters? Damn, how do ya'll like dis so far ^c^ Lemme know!