MickeyAdaptus

''We should talk about the Valtrek situation later, we would need to spend hours of talking in order to get good into that concept, because I have alot to say about that.' Kiran thought to her. He then paused for a moment. 'You know, you might not be aware of it, but you are becoming one of us more and more, the fact that you admit you took your luxury for granted is a big step, especially for someone like you who has been experiencing that luxury for most of your life. But I think why Jack is sometimes uncomfortable around you or some others of your group is because he is still a true follower of the traditions and culture that our ancestors have built up, and more importantly sees Aliah as something that others can take an example of. The fact that none of you really are interested of doing anything with it does keep a bit of a hole between relations, let me explain why this is the matter, because it's different then all of you seem to presume as of yet.' 'With tradition and culture, we use those words very loosely, we don't worship our ancestors or have any religious acts, none of that nonsense... I think you can relate to how some heroes of your race have done deeds that are remembered to this very day, where they are known among legends and heroes of your race right? We have those too, but we see our ancient heroes not just as forgotten legends and honour them by placing a few statues, we see their deeds as a sign of admiration.' 'Some of those heroes still walk among us to this very day, There is Amriel Adaptus, the current prince of and leader of the Terran race, not only did he idealise the term *shadow walker*, but he is the grandson of Aliah, I think you can imagine how much people look up to him.' 'Then there is Clan Karviah, he is an absolute hero, Karthspire respects Clan more than anyone else in existance, and will constantly talk about him when he is talking about of his war stories. Clan is considered to be the strongest Raukan alive, not just because of feets in terms of strength and combat experience, but the way he masters the bezerker flaw that all Raukan have, he controls his own like it is not even there, outside of battle, he is calmer than ever, but once the battle starts to get tense, he charges into battle like a complete bezerker, his weapon called the Axe of Morkai cleaves trough enemies with absolute ease. Not only that, but he seems to have this inspiring feel, whenever he is leading the battle, those who are fighting alongside him seem to lose all doubt and fight harder then ever before, I can know this, I have had the chance to fight alongside him in the past.' 'And then we have Silver, oh boy... everyone's view on him can differ, for my own view, there is a rather very tense feeling between me and him, he was the one who ordered me to be put on the firing line, and would have gotten me shot for desertion. But I cannot deny that he is an uttermost smart tactician, and his experience is the very reason why we haven't lost this war yet. That is the sole reason why I haven't beat him to an inch of life. That ignorant bastard...' 'There are some more notable ones, but there is one you might already know, you know who that is? Caerson... He might be very secretive and in denial about his accomplishments, but he has done things that saved countless of lives, I am going to tell you his biggest an dearest secret. Caerson and Amriel where very close, at some point Amriel had gotten possessed, so in order to save his life, Caerson used genetic manipulation, and so forced the possessor to be bound inside Amriel like a prison, but this did take a pretty dark turn, because not only had Amriel now a very dangerous entity trapped inside of him, he was now capable of accessing its powers... I think you can see where this is going? Caerson had turned his prince and best friend into a walking time bomb with very dangerous powers, and with that very act created the term *shadow walker*.' 'To give you a description of what a shadow walker is, it is a person who uses dark and dangerous methods on themselves in order to battle their enemies. There are different ways someone can become a shadow walker, but the most popular one is injecting yourself with the virus, but not let it reach to a point where you still retain most of your personality and still have control over your own body. The shadow walker gene makes it possible to halt the virus to a certain point and stop it from progressing, but it has major consequences, one of them is that everyone around you will start to call you an abomination and usually will want to kill you. Even those dear to you will start to despise you for using methods that have started this entire war, to begin with. While Amriel is the embodiment leader of this Shadow walker thing, Caerson is the one who made it all possible, something that has turned him into a former shell of himself. That is pretty much why he has become the way he is now, dressing in cloaks in order to hide his own shame behind it. Gotta have pity with the man, I haven't seen him in a long, long, time.' 'And I admit that I have grown to respect you more than before, perhaps because I can see things in you that are similar to myself, or because I have become a man that has nothing left beside the prospect of vengeance, and uttermost retribution. Then you start to feel things that you never knew you had before.' 'But also, not to burst your bubble... But Celestia is still stronger than you, not by a whole lot. You do surpass her in terms of battle strategy and how you take on your opponents, there is no question about that. But I think you are forgetting she has alot of untapped potential, Jack has been pleading Celestia and Luna to fight more for a good reason, it is only recently that she has started to be more active in battle. If she would be jumping and air flipping like you do in battle, she would surpass you for sure. You have been utilizing your skill in battle for most of your life while she has been very inactive, sitting on her throne sipping tea, the but potential she had a thousand years ago never left, but has been lying dormant for far too long, as much as it might hurt your pride, you are going to have and accept that fact, I think a good lesson here is to drop all the competition in who is stronger and instead focus on doing your part, at what you are good at.' 'Because I am going to say something here that will have alot of purpose to you, there are those who are always will be able to go stronger than you, but strength doesn't mean much if you don't utilize it to your fullest potential, and the only way you can utilize that potential to its fullest is if you start taking a single combat role rather then take multiple. Celestia is both a magic user and a heavy weapon user at the same time, and strong as she may be, she will never be able to utilize one path completely if she uses both, but I think that seems to fit her best. You have the advantage of not having magic, or atleast not being able to use it, because this way you are not hindered by the prospect that you CAN use it, thus it can motivate you more to complete a single combat role like being marksman of spear user, rather than trying to multiple paths at the same time but never realising your full potential.' 'Once you get that new body, you will be getting a fresh start as well, what I know about you is that you are good with that bow of yours, but also are very experienced with spears. Don't get the wrong tough, you should still learn multiple things, but if there are situations where you need to be at your best, you need to choose the path that you have utilized completely. What I am trying to say here is, if you, for example, choose to use a spear user role, utilize that completely, drop your marksman training and other roles altogether and only focus on the spear training. In situations where you are forced to use your bow, use your bow, and in that sense, you are training as well since you are using it.' 'What I personally think? You should utilize that spear role of yours, because you can reach heights beyond what you are aware of, but at the same time, drop that competition thought altogether, don't strive to become the strongest, you are trying to force yourself that, and thus slow yourself down without realising it. If there is one mindset that will help you strive the best is *I don't care about how far I go or how strong I become, I am one among thousands, but I don't fight for the sake of my own desires, I fight to strive a future for others and thus so will others for me, because in the end we all stand united.*, That is one of Aliah's famous quotes when he addressed his students, and ironically, those 4 famous individuals I named followed that advice, and look what happened to them, they became heroes, did things that most would falter at. Remember this very specific quote I am going to tell you, and don't interject or try to form an argument againts it, just listen to it, and whether you want to follow it or want to ignore it is your choice.' '*Those who seek to strive for the uttermost power and want to be praised will only get stuck in the false dream that is clouding their judgement, those who deem pride and their own needs to be more important then others will start a path that will give nothing but loneliness and arrogance. Those who drop every ounce of their desires and utilize the advice given from those around him will strive to uttermost heights, where greed, arrogance, pride or selfishness will never play a part. Desires are the thing that stops you from becoming a hero, those who claim to be heroes are the ones who will never get the attention that they desire, only doubt, and start to think if they really are the heroes that they claim to be.*' Kiran was saying this quote to her in such a way where he was using his own thoughts as a way to make his own voice sound like Aliah's in that very quote, creating an inspiring effect. 'I think you can see why so many respect him like that? I sure know that Jack looks up to him like some sort of Deity, which I find pretty hilarious. But I see Aliah more as a person who knew what he was talking about, and based his words on what he had experienced, rather than thinking what was right. Of course, he managed to follow his own words, because to the people who had known him, they described him as an odd person, normally every person has this form of selfishness, but they said Aliah was acting like he was completely devoid of those things, almost as he had never been born with them, go figure on how strange that sounds...' Kiran thought to her. 'I did ramble on for far to long, but atleast I got my words across.' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Yeah, she did, perhaps i should have shown it better that i appreciated it, but i bet you already know why i wasn't capable of doing it better, i am just very distrustful around others, well, except around You and Luna, well Festus also for that matter. The matter of the fact is that i want to be around specific people at specific moments, but when it is not that person, i tend to feel uncomfortable, and just avoid the situation. I guess i...' Jack stopped in mid-thought, as he was just too tired to say anything, and started to close his eyes. He wasn't falling asleep but he tried to stop focusing on his surroundings, in order to stop any anticipation in the hope time would go faster for his mind. But he held on tight to her scales, to make sure he would get blown off due to the speed they where going at.

'Yeah i think I am, even after I got shot I still decided to keep fighting regardless, all of the adrenaline was really masking my pain, but I made the wound worse in the process, i can't imagine how much deeper that bullet must have gone through all that fighting, but everyone's lives where at stake, so I really had no choice but to fight.' Jack thought to her. 'I am just worried, someone named Fluttershy had been shot before and the bullet inside her body had gone deep to the point where it had almost reached her vitals, it took Celestia with lots of her magic to get that bullet out and fix her up, I am not sure if it will be the same case for me, but who knows... I haven't exactly looked after my own health since the last couple of months.' Jack thought to her as he laid his hand down but still kept his arms tight around the saddle, the wind rushing past his face. -------------------------------------------------------------- 'I admit, I am pretty impressed with how wild you wen't againts those infected during the last few minutes, despite almost destroying yourself in the process. Tough at the same time I saw how you handled that Kid, but don't beat yourself up to much over what happened to him, he was in a blinding rage of the death of his only family, and thus was looking for a way to justify his own rage, and considering the rumours of your group spreading like a wildfire everywhere, I presume it seemed reasonable to him to accuse everyone of your group. Well... not just you guys, I think he also had something particular againts Jack, nobody is comfortable around the *marked* ones.' Kiran said to Maple

"Yeah we did, I cannot believe how well this ended, normally I would have imagined some sort of escape plan for this situation, but instead we demolished those infected entirely, hundreds, no thousands of them... That is good... Thank you all." Jack said weakly. "You might want to check around and be sure you got all of them, there might still be some around that are hiding in buildings and basements, I suggest some of you check the area completely, perhaps someone might even be hiding in one of the buildings, you may never know..." Jack reminded everyone. 'Evelyn, could you please take me back to the camp really fast? I really shouldn't have forgotten the fact that i had been hit by a hollow point bullet. Because i can feel my ribs cracking.. We should really do it fast before i damage myself even further...' Jack thought to Evelyn, it was obvious that Jack regretted the fact that he had tried to fight with such a wound, but what was even worse, if this wound was going to left like this, the parts near his ribcage could start to regrow improperly, and thus damage his overall bone structure. He needed a doctor fast.

'You mean your fire breath that was combined with the magic that I gave you before? Yes, i can do that, just give a moment, it's going to take a bit out of me.' Jack thought her as he placed his hands on her scales, and started to transfer most of his remaining magic in Evelyn. 'There, that should-' Jack paused in the middle of his thoughts as he suddenly felt his injury hurt very much, his magic had been somewhat suppressing the pain but now that his body had gotten this tired, the pain really started to get bad. 'I might end up regretting this one...' Jack thought with a grimace on his face. 'But atleast you can now set forward your plan.' He then saw Festus. "Festus, you should trust Evelyn in this, she shows what she is talking about." Jack called out to Festus. He then looked at where Maple was fighting, and knew she wasn't going to last much longer, though he wondered at the same time why she wasn't asking Celestia or Luna to take over, rather than trying to exhaust herself to her very limits like that.

Jack climbed on her back and set himself in the saddle, he then looked at the battle that was going on inside the tunnel, which was happening a good distance away, but he could see bodies of the dead infected flying through the air, most notably Maple using Celestia's signature halberd. "Talk about taking it a step further," Jack noted as he could just hear the amount of sound emerging from that tunnel. He then heard Evelyn's question and thought for a moment, until he got an idea. "If you need Festus his head, we should get him outside as well, rather then be trying to get you inside that tunnel, since I presume it would be better if you have enough space, to fly around and stuff. If I may suggest, use an area effect attack that will clear an open path for a few seconds, we can use that moment to grab Festus and bring him outside. Do you think that will work? If need be, we can ask the others to clear the path instead?" Jack asked Evelyn.

The space marine Captain was silent for a few moments, until he lifted his gold coloured helmet off his head, revealing a human face with brown hair and a small brown beard. His face showing scars from millennia of battles. "Seeing as your kind has not done anything as a form of hostility or offensive towards our chapter, I would accept your request, but my word is not law, just like you I am a Captain who serves a higher in command, if all of you where a human colonization, I would be allowed to do this without problems but seeing as none of you are part of the Imperium, it is only by the will of my Chapter Master, and by his degree that this peace siluation could be granted, I have no say in it when it comes to declaring a peace offering that affects the entirety of my chapter." "Not only that, but we space marines do not represent humanity as a whole, we serve as the defenders of humanity and purge alien, mutant and heretic alike. To get a peaceful solution with the entirety of humanity, that would require your rulers to travel to Holy Terra and discuss it with the Highlords of Terra, but even then, Humanity has a distrustful and distaste againts aliens, seeing as most alien species are hostile all together, then this shouldn't come as a surprise." "Only way for us to get a peaceful solution without the authority of either my chapter master or the high lords of terra, it would require me to disband the second company of the chapter from the Imperium, becoming Excommunicate Traitors and thus by that extend an enemy of the Imperium, which is the same fate that only a heretic would wish for. So I think you as a Captain yourself see that it would be uttermost lunacy for me to become a traitor just to ally with an alien species that we barely know and won't deliver us anything better then the Imperium has to offer us." The Captain said as he looked into Maple's eyes as his stoic expression had still remained. "So my current answer is a no on your peace resolve, I will not risk the fate of my battle brothers and chapter alike just for a peace offering that will only lead us to damnation. Those are my formalities, if these are unacceptable by your terms, then that be the case because it goes beyond your or my opinions on the matter, we are both locked in by politics that we do not change, our superiors do." "Besides, if it comes to such important matters, I rather see your ruler face to face rather then to see one of her officers do the job. That way I can see if the words are genuine and not risk the chance that the message is thwarted by the personal opinions of the messenger, you can never be too careful when it comes to diplomacy." The Captain stated with a frown, he was not going to take any chances. "I suggest you and your men go along with your orders, whether I and my men are able to aid you againts the orks will be seen, anything could happen on the battlefield." The captain said as he then grabbed his Thunder hammer and started to walk away. His answer about aiding the Ponies againts the Orks was an indirect Yes, not mobilizing a combined assault just yet, but rather attacking their own accord for when they see that the time is right. Wich would happen very soon.

Jack stumbled a bit back when Evelyn almost had attacked him, but sight in relief when she had prevented it before he would get hit. "Sorry about that, but i needed to get past these infected to meet up with you." Jack said as he swiped the sweat from his face. "They are still in that tunnel there." Jack pointed towards where the entrance was. "Do you have an plan Evelyn? There are just to many of them... More then i could have ever imagined." Jack said, before he tensed up again, and realising there were still lots of infected around them. "Perhaps we should not stand still with those things still around us." Jack told her as he looked around.

"It would depend on who you are referring to when it comes to the one who leads us. Our Chapter Master is the one who is control of our chapter, I represent as the Captain of the second company, leading every astartes that is under my command, so you would be looking for me in that sense." The Captain replied His soldiers had not aimed their weapons at the ponies this entire time, but they capable of responding within mere seconds, thus they had no need to show their outside intentions of what they were capable of. "I must say, you are keeping an impressive composure, but I can see you and your men are not feeling very comfortable to be in presence from one of us, tensive movements of the tails and nervous facial expression give me a clear indicator. That gives me an accurate description of your military as a whole, more lenient and civil towards the soldiers but a serious lack of discipline and morale once the leading figure falls, I know enough about your military now." "And... presuming by your need of an audience, I can safely say that you wish our aid againts the orks? Unless that is not the case and you are all planning on taking on the orks with your current military, perhaps an outside species that could aid you in that conquest. If that is the reason, I cannot help but quirk an eyebrow at the fact your rulers would be willing to ensure your species demise, sacrifices are pointless if they provide no greater outcome, where the number count of your planet's recruitment population would be around a 5 considering its a single planet, the orks would be a 13 on the scale considering how they are born from spores. Which would render sacrifices among your own military as nothing but a waste." "But nevertheless, do speak, I am all ear." The captain told her, it was obvious that the Captain was this type of person who would look at what was practical and what would ensure a definitive outcome rather then take big gambles or risk if they could be avoided.

The Infected in the front where getting obliterated by the team efforts of the group, but as much as they were holding them back, it was only the front part of the enemy waves, because the ones that got killed were already replaced by the infected that had been swarming behind. "Guys, we will need a to follow up plan, because we can only keep this up so long!" Jack called out to everyone. Maple's and Luna's team attack had done great damage to the first hordes, but it only did so much as this battle was a matter of quantity over quality at the enemies part. Jack was growing very concerned as time wen't on, as much as they where standing their ground, he knew better then risk with this becoming their graves. And he knew he had to do something on his own part, he always used to do things in critical situations, and he wasn't going to back down. "Listen, Everyone, I am going to walk myself through this horde like I had said earlier, I am going to meet up with Evelyn, she might have something planned, and it is only proper that i am there with her when it happens. Just keep this up alright? Keep it up for as long as you can! Don't worry about me, as long as I can manage to blend in with them, they won't notice i am there, but if one of you goes running after me, I will be dead within a second..." Jack said as he dragged one of the dead infected towards himself and started to cover himself completely with its blood. "Buona fortuna, amici miei." (Good Luck my friends.) Jack said in a unknown language towards everyone with a smile He then started to walk slowly past the entrance that the infected were swarming from, slowly but surely he managed to get outside while hundreds of infected where running past him, he would occasionally get pushed aside, but he was walking in such a way that it was similiar to that a slowly walking infected. Jack knew beforehand that he could act in such a way they wouldn't notice him beforehand thanks to Kiran's modified DNA that was injected to him and that Infected blood, it was only that he was not sure he could pull off with trying to walk trough such an raging horde of infected, thousands of infected no less. 'Evelyn, i am outside, are you close now? I think i see you up in the sky, you probabbly won't see me because i am among all these infected at the moment. And before you scold me on how stupid idea this was of me, i had to get outside in order to reach you, we need to act fast, the others can't hold them off forever, can i ask what your plan is?' Jack tough to Evelyn.

"That is a good plan, Maple does the stronger armour here thanks to her plating and weight to stand her ground, though please don't rely too much on one another, we all need to do our part here if we want to live, I will be joining as well. Ok perhaps Ember might want to sit this one out due to her injuries, but I am still helping regardless." Jack said as he started reading magic in his hands, he was obviously not going to attack the enemies head-on with his knife, as he knew about his injury. "You and Celestia shouldn't let lower your efforts at all cost, we need every bit of strength and teamwork if we want to get out this alive." Jack noted to them. The door started on the verge of collapsing, the infected who were attacking the door did get hurt by the fire, some of them dying, but not by a whole lot. Because they then broke the door down, and they started pouring through straight into the tunnel, so many of them, but what was worse, because of my Festus his ancient flame, most of the infected became flammable, meaning they wreathed in flame, they where getting hurt themselves, but those who got caught in the flames would deal even more devastation to their opponents who would get close, getting burned from the flames that where surrounding the burning infected. "Oh crap." Jack muttered out loud. Jack started to fire some of his magical blasts towards them, not a whole lot or else he would drain himself of his magic to fast.

"You guys might be right, but i don't think we should celebrate to early about it, Pony and Eldritch body structure and biology are different, for all we know it might just take longer for me to get infected compared to ponies perhaps. I have seen someone turn with my own eyes, but it was hard to say how much time had passed back then. I mean, it does seem incredibly convenient, doesn't it? So many had gotten infected in the past and succumbed, and out of the billions of victims, it just seems very out of place that I just so happened to MIGHT be immune, i just don't know... I might not have turned yet, but i sure am feeling the side effect of being infected." "Normally i would be squirming on the ground in pain and screaming my lungs out, but i seem to barely feel it compared to what i am supposed to feel, and then those voices i can hear in my head... Or i could be wrong, and you guys are right about that there is a good thing about. I think we will have to wait and see, for now, we should focus on what is going to happen." Jack told them. The door started to almost collapse, it was only a matter of time until it would break and the infected would be pouring through to claim their victims, victims who would not go down without a fight. 'Things are not looking good... The door is about to collapse, and there are so many out there, we are going to get cornered any moment, please hurry, I am afraid we might not make it in time.' Jack thought to Evelyn with worry. "She confirmed that she is almost there, i guess we will have to get ready." Jack said, he knew this feeling all to well, once again being cornered in a room where on the other side countless of infected were ready to end him, he couldn't help but get nostalgia out of a most tragic situation.

Ms. Hennessy, did you feel like you could relate yourself to Mistmane? As in, did you feel like you really where becoming her when you voiced her lines :)?

"Evelyn is on her way right now. And I have I think the 4 of you all make a good point, but we won't be safe in here forever, like Festus said, they will break in here, I have learned not to underestimate the Infected, giving enough time, they will break through that door, considering how many there are of them right now, I doubt this door will hold for long." Jack admitted. "But Ember and Maple make a point as well, we won't last long againts so many, but I do have a plan, one that many might find taboo, but it might work.." "Remember how I tried to blend in with the infected using that little trick I had learned? Now that I am infected, I can make this work... I can walk through the horde unnoticed, and then try to lead them away from where you guys are, and then we can escape." Jack said. Suddenly the gate started shaking a bit, and very loud thumps and bangs could be heard, as lots of infected were trying to break their way in, the gate was still somewhat holding, but it was not guaranteed for how long it would hold.

"I am afraid we can't do much about it, it is like that same situation back in the desert where Fluttershy had that bullet inside of her and had tried to ask me to get that one out, I couldn't really do it since it was so deep inside of her, Celestia did manage inside of her." "But this bullet isn't the only thing that is hurting when it impacted me, it destroyed lots of tissue, I am bleeding inside, I am not even sure if magic could repair this, the body is difficult to understand, and trying to repair this? I just don't know if magic will be capable of doing the job for this." Jack admitted. "And I am not sure if Evelyn has heard what I said, she hadn't responded back the second time, so I don't know what our situation will be."

"We don't have to signal the others, remember that I can talk trough Evelyn via my thoughts? I am talking to her right now, in fact, I can ask her to warn the others, and then they can come and help us." Jack told Celestia. "Although... You are actually still right since even when they arrive we need to let them know where we exactly are. Or wait... We already have an signal! Festus had use his ancient flame, and that will keep burning, or at least that is what i think from what Ember told me, We have our signal right there." Jack mentioned. 'I am inside a underground, along with the others, we used an outside gate that is now closed, holding back the infected, but we don't know for sure how long it will hold, and if it will even hold for that matter. Could you please warn the others? Please get me out of here, i really need a doctor... I am not joking around when i say this wound is this bad..' Jack thought to Evelyn, his last words sounded like afraid pleading, as he was really afraid he was going to die.

"That would be most unfortunate, we have the manpower to topple down your own strike force 30 times over. I suppose you would prefer a now less aggressive approach on your part?" The space marine Captain said he was standing atop one of the big stone hills, his thunder hammer being held upside down on the ground, the hammer part resting on the stone. It was then that lots of space marines started to show themselves, around 30, most wielding standard bolters, but some wielding heavy bolters, indicating that those where Devastators. But among the lower places were also hidden scouts, some armed with bolters and sniper rifles. While the closer ones were equipped with combat shotguns, evidently being used against orks who would dare to come to close. "I suggest you and your men reconsider your actions and explain your purpose of being here. However, judging by your overall company and your words, I can already assume you were intending to attack, at the very least apprehend us, am I correct?" The Captain said to her, gazing at the ponies with a stoic expression.

Jack quickly dove under the still open gate and tumbled a bit over the ground. When he stood up again, he saw Maple using her body and its strength to keep the gate open which had allowed him to pass through. He was grateful that she was doing that for him, but he did not want Maple to get destroyed in that very same act. But to his relief, it wouldn't be the case as he had managed to pass through and so Maple could let go of the gate without the risk of getting bend by still having to hold the weight of that gate any longer. To his annoyance, his bullet wound was now starting to hurt badly as his adrenaline was no longer distracting him from the pain, and the side effects of his infection where not doing much either since he was not fighting or doing anything tense right now. "We made it... I guess that is a good relief, but it is a good thing i had decided to look around the town before we got overrun, else i had would have never known there were tunnels that let to underground here." Jack said to everyone. He then also realised that now it would be the best time to inform Evelyn, since he wouldn't really get attacked off-guard now. 'Evelyn, are you there? I hate to tell you this but... we have run into very big problems, we have been overrun, countless of infected started to swarm us and we are now sheltering in underground tunnels, the infected cannot get to us, i hope... And well, to make matters worse, i got shot, a hollow point bullet hit me in the chest, it destroyed a good amount of tissue and broke some of my ribcages... Only starting to feel the pain at its maximum effect now due to the amount of adrenaline i had been getting from this entire ordeal.' 'So yeah... I guess describing our situation as bad is an understatement...' Jack thought to Evelyn

"I can assure you that those things you faced inside your castle where Orks, the brutish green skins that thrive on war. We, however, are of the Adeptus Astartes, the Emperor's own space marines, we where pursuing the Ork Warboss Grimskull and his Ork Waaagh in the outer void of space, but it seemed his armies had made planetfall into your planet, we have come to destroy the Warboss and his clan with it." "While I can say we won't mean any of you harm, I cannot say the same for some of my battle brothers, as we as a species do not see aliens as very thrust worthy, despite that we still have our own methods in how we communicate and deal with situations our own way, but that doesn't mean we could scold our own battle brothers for having an aggressive stance towards other aliens, We space marines have the single purpose of destroying the enemies of mankind, meeting other alien species that are not hostile or pose no treath to humanity are rare, after all... siding with any alien can be punished with being declared a renegade and a heretic." "As much as it sounds bitter to swallow for others, the Inquisition keeps a watchful eye on those who falter in the light of the Emperor. While our battle brothers will restrain themselves and not do anything rash, I would like to suggest you keep your subjects restrained as well when it comes to this matter, you can expect conflicts when one of your own subjects acts with casuality towards one of us and runs his mouth with things that could break one of our edicts or our honour, but if you require more information or want to discuss things on the matter, our Captain is the one you should seek, he is chosen for more then his experience on the battlefield, he has a strong sense of politics as well." The Librarian explained. ----------------------------------------------------------------- During said conversations where Staunch was near, a conversation was going on between 2 Solar guards, or it was rather a whispering conversation, as they were talking pretty quiet. Both of them where Unicorns "Meet me at the barracks when the sun has gone under, our *master* said that we should have plenty of opportunities to gain our reward." One of the unicorns said. "Good plan Bright Horn, we shall get the praise that we deserve, not by guard duty, but by a far greater purpose!" The other unicorn said, only for his partner to smack him in the face. "Be quiet you buffoon! Do you want anypony to hear us?!" The unicorn hissed back.

Wanted to let you guys know something Interesting that Goku did in the manga. While I do think Superman Prime could beat Goku, power doesn't mean everything in that regard, if you think about it like this, if Superman manages to get such feats, who is to say Goku won't get them? There will always be something that drives Goku further and further up the power scaling, whether its a Spirit Bomb that triggers his Ultra Instinct feat, or that he suddenly is able to keep up with opponents he wasn't able to before. Because there is an interesting thing about Goku, he always battles opponents that are miles stronger than him, yet he managed to defeat that opponent in most cases, not saying he would simply defeat Superman like that, but it would be debatable of Superman could stay above Goku forever. Given enough time?

I think Goku, while Superman is very strong and has his unique stats when it comes to durability and strength, it is hard to say if Superman can really match the amount of power that Goku has gotten in Dragon ball super, i mean heck, Goku's power level is around a good amount of billions by now in his strongest forms. And if we look at Ultra Instinct, Goku already has an intense defence mechanism, he will constantly just dodge Superman's attacks because of the way Ultra Instinct works/goes. Tough the more stronger forms of Superman? There it becomes interesting, since you are starting to calculate in numbers that go off the chart.

Jack saw them moving towards the mine entrance, and he was very relieved to see they were moving there, but especially relieved when he saw Celestia and Luna using their magic to create a strong vanguard so the other could safely follow them without having to fight their way through the sea of infected. He did notice Festus hesitant at first because he knew that behaviour all to well, he does it himself alot as well, so when he saw Festus moving with them, Jack made a quick follow up plan in his head. There was one drawback to Jack's plan, when Jack would let go of the lever, the door would slowly close again, so he needed time his chance good here. Deciding that he needed to act fast, let go of the lever and started climbing on the roof of the house, and jumped straight onto another roof. So he did a pretty dangerous thing, but he had no other choice, time was of the essence. "Celestia, Catch me!" He could out as he jumped off the roof, hoping she would catch him, because it was the only way for him to reach everyone fast enough and for them to get into the tunnel before the gate was closed.

"My name is Domikelus Epitius Dorias, but in low gothic, you may call me by my title as Librarian Epitius. It doesn't surprise me that you recognize that name, as he known throughout the entire galaxy. The Emperor of Mankind is the ruling monarch of humanity, the greatest embodiment of universal Order in the galaxy, and even after his emplacement on the golden throne, he is leading humanity through its darkest hours." "Not even the Arch-traitor Horus Lupercal could stop the Emperor from protecting those who are faithful to him until the very end." "It is my pleasure to contact someone such as you Lady Celestia, the children of Sanguinius take it as an honoured privilege." The Librarian said to her.

Jack was about to reply when he saw Festus jumping to Embers aid and joining the battle, Jack couldn't blame Festus, he would have the same thing if he didn't have a plan of his own, so he decided to alter the plan a bit now that Festus had already jumped into the battle. "Luna, could you help them in the fight? I will make a B-line straight for what I had found, it is an entrance to tunnels that lead to underground, and eventually come back to the surface, we can escape via that way, once I have pulled the switch to open the door, I need you to gather everyone and go inside that tunnel, I will join you guys right after!" Jack told her, he then climbed outside and started running past most of the infected. Jack had a slight advantage here as he was smaller and lighter, thus it was easier for him to enter narrow and tight spots, while at the same time being able to keep a fast pace. After a bit of running, he ran into of the buildings and started running upstairs, but an infected came around the corner and tried to attack him, but Jack's instincts kicked in fast as he pushed the infected out of a window. Knowing he would get overrun soon if he didn't act fast, Jack ran towards the upper floor room, where the lever was located, and with lots of effort, he managed to pull the lever, and the gate that placed before the Mine entrance opened up. "It has opened up, Everyone go in fast!! Luna, Celestia, clear a path for everyone fast with your magic, i can't keep this gate open for long!" Jack called out.