Nico for the first time didn’t know what to do; the entire world had turned upside down. He went from calmly sipping a beer in the heat of the party to fighting a losing battle that no one actually knew about.

All he understood was apparently Ayan turned to the enemy who is attacking the castle with field artillery (Invented by Ayan) and grunt spam.

“What do we do sir?” A private asked, scared to death

“See that pony over there?” Nico asked pointing to a Red Hoof who had freshly scaled the castle walls

“Yea”

“I want you to take this and shoot him in the face, okay” Nico ordered handing the grunt a rifle

The grunt obeyed his orders and skillfully shot a burst into the enemy, causing him to fall over, back on his side of the wall. The number of guards had dropped from the pre attack 300 on duty to perhaps 170 in the matter of an hour.

“Do you think every pony was evacuated?” Nico asked

“No they are actually playing beer pong right now” The inquisitive guard said

“O my god” Nico said, putting a dejected hoof on his fore head, he finally removed the hoof after hearing hoof steps and seeing his friend Tyler dashing towards him.

“What do you have for me Tyler?” Nico asked, almost getting hit by a lead projectile from afar.

“I got answers from the internet” Tyler said waving a piece of paper in front of Nico

“What does it say what does it say?” Nico asked quickly

“The walkthrough says that we should get a tactical nuke and then camp in these corners” Tyler said pointing to several different corners on the piece of paper.

“Tyler this isn’t Cod, we need a real solution” Nico said, he then had a brilliant idea “I have an idea”

***

“Wait so what do you want me to do?” Conor asked

“We have here a Vulcan mini gun, an Ursa major, and a dubstep playlist.” Nico said, showing Conor all of the items “Now go stop this invasion thing”

“Wait what am I supposed to do?” Conor asked

“Kill all of the Red Hooves” Nico said

“Why?” Conor asked

“Because I said so” Nico turned to Tyler “Follow him and make sure he does what he has to do”

“Okay…” Tyler said

“Sorry to say so guys but, not really in the mood” Conor said “Can I do this in like an hour?”

“No” Nico said “Right now”

Conor gave out a long exhale “Fine”

He allowed Tyler to mount the mini gun before putting the two white ear buds in his head and pressing a few small buttons.

“This isn’t going to work Nico” Tyler whispered in his friend’s ear.

“Give him 15 minutes” Nico said in a hushed tone.

(17 minutes later)*** (17 minutes later)

“Hey umm sir…” A guard said; tapping Nico on his shoulder. Nico found it amazing how here he was sipping coffee and reading a book while his ponies were getting blown to pieces. Life is funny sometimes.

“Yea what is it?” Nico asked

“Come look at this” The timid guard said motioning to a window. Nico expected to see Conor on the Ursa Major with his machine gun waving in the air. He just expected better results. Apparently Conor was killing the Red Hooves at a respectable rate; along with civilians and his guards.

“What the hell!” Nico asked slamming his hoof against the glass. The last thing he expected was Conor to kill everypony, INCLUDING the people he ordered not to kill.

“Yea sir it is pretty…strange” The guard said, running out the door he came.

Nico thought he was alone; that is until he heard a rapping on his door. He heard heavy breathing and unnatural mumbling and cursing from the other side.

“Silver Shield is that you?” Nico asked, trotting towards the door at a slow rate.

“YES JUST PLEASE OPEN THE DOOR!” Silver Shield said; bashing his head against the door.

“Why?” Nico asked; only to hear a earth shattering roar from the other side of the door.

Whatever smashed into the door (With Silver Shield) was not human, or pony, or anything that looked comely It was a massive white thing; its entire body covered in spikes and deformities of strange orange skin. On top of its strange alien head was Issac Clark riding it like a horse.

“Don’t ask” Clark said

“I’m not going to bother” Nico said waving a hoof in disbelief.

“Good” Issac Clark said, the beast gave out a roar and ran forward and smashed into the window; sending Clark a fly. The beast ran down towards Conor and his muddle to join the fray.

“Silver Shield…” Nico said in belief

“Yes sir?” Silver Shield said; lying down on a nearby couch.

“What just happened?” Nico asked

“It is a really…really…really…really…really…really…really…really-“Silver Shield said

“I get it…” Nico said

“Let me finish please!” Silver Shield shrieked

(An Hour later) *** (An Hour later)

“Really…really…really…really…really…really…really…really…really…really…really-“

“I get it” Nico said. He finally gave up trying to understand what had happened and walked into the other room; only to find himself in company. He didn’t know what he was looking at until it spoke.

“Scared Nico?” The strange pony said; it’s voice oddly calm and basic.

“No” Nico said; half surprised half “Not giving a shit”.

“I am sure you are general. All tools realize there fear when they realize they didn’t do what was asked of them” The monster said “You failed your wife and her kingdom”

“Pony please…” Nico said

“Pony please nothing… admit it.” The monster said, his odd hidden face lurking nearby.

“Meh later” Nico said

“Meh now” The monster said

Nico saw the eerily familiar purple vortex appear below his hooves and suck him in.

Pretty "meh" chapter in my opinion. One of those bump in the road chapters if you ask me.

-Vespi

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