@40kponyguy  
Oh yes, and there’s bonus points if you can guess where I got Ahriman’s first line from.
 
It’s a tweaked version of a line from a film.

@Evowizard25  
Well, the fight between Ahriman and Twilight doesn’t end well for either participant.
 
Here’s a Copy-paste of that part of the story  
(Spoilered because.. Well… it’s a fight. Grimdark on a safe image)
 
Ahriman reached the area where he had seen the movement, and looked around the pillar with a little caution. Hundreds of years of experience had taught him not to rush in to the unknown blindly.
 
What he saw took him by surprise.
 
A tiny purple horse-like creature with blueish mane, wings, and a horn. He quickly sensed that this creature had great psychic potential too; far greater than it’s diminutive size would suggest.
 
The creature’s first magical attack was only just blocked by a hastily raised kine shield.
 
The ancient sorcerer was thrown backwards in to the room several feet, although he retained his footing.
 
“Hmm”, he began, straightening up, “I believe you have taken from me something which I have rightfully stolen”.
 
“We were sent to recover that staff”, replied Twilight through gritted teeth whilst walking out in to the room, “I do not intend to leave without it!”.
 
“Then you leave me no choice but to take it back by force, strange creature”, Ahriman finished.
 
His own staff glowed for a moment before unleashing a multi-hued blast of energy. Luckily for Twilight, she had been prepared for this, and the attack flared around her shield, instead blasting away the pillar she and her allies had been hiding behind moments before.
 
She then responded in kind, but the huge warrior was far faster than she expected, leaping aside and sending another blast her way in one fluid movement.
 
This spell crackled over her head, leaving behind a worrying scent of singed hair. The wall behind her crumbled away in a shower of dust.
 
This gave her an idea.
 
She shuffled sideways, making it look like she was sizing up her opponent.
 
Ahriman was wary. This equine creature was a small target, and was proving to be a capable opponent.
 
He was beginning to think that maybe a change of tactics may be in order when a series of smaller spells were sent his way.
 
Caught a little off-guard by his own wandering thoughts he nearly failed to evade them, his super human physiology making up for the momentary lapse. He responded in kind, the xenos creature hopping aside from his attacks, which instead blasted chunks from the masonry.
 
“Hold still creature” growled Ahriman, growing a little impatient. He swung his staff around, the tip of the weapon almost clipping Twilight’s nose.
 
“I think not!”, she responded, flying backwards in an attempt to put some distance between them.
 
Another powerful blast of warp-spawned magic narrowly missed her, smashing out another pillar.
 
Twilight was beginning to grow weary. The magical warrior she was facing didn’t seem to be tiring at all, and it was only a matter of time before she made a mistake which could cost her her life.  
She only hoped her plan would work. It relied on her not getting too close to her enemy, who would almost certainly overpower her in physical combat, and keeping him distracted from her true plan.
 
She carefully positioned herself close to the exit to the building, near to one of the columns.
 
“I have you now”, snapped Ahriman, leveling his staff. The pony (he’d decided that was the best description for this creature), looked ready to leap to it’s right, but he second-guessed that this was probably a feint, and sent his last attack slightly to her left.
 
The magical attack tore through the pillar in a cloud of masonry and dust, but also blasted the purple equine clean out of the building.
 
“Hah!” he laughed smugly, seeing his adversary’s prone form on the grassy area outside the vestibule door.
 
As he began to walk forward to get a better look at his strange opponent however, a slab of stone smashed down beside him from the roof.
 
Ahriman looked slowly upwards, realization dawning on him of what that pony had really been planning.
 
He barely began to utter the words “OH SH…” before the whole building crashed down around him in a shower of broken stone and dust, trapping the sorcerer under tons of rubble.
 
I think I’ll leave it at that. This isn’t really anything to do with my picture of the abandoned Dazzlings.

@40kponyguy  
That wouldn’t have been interesting and that has been done before. {Boring, gruesome, skippable.}
 
Yeah, harming a canon character is usually trickier than a OC as some people don’t like seeing their favorite character harmed/die. If it is done, it must be handled with tact.

@Evowizard25  
True. The first few comments there were complaints about the paragraphing, and (I think) 2 of “why didn’t the Berzerker (grimdark)just hack all the ponies to bits”.  
(Needless to say, that’d have made for a very short story, and would have ruined the whole idea of making it fit in with the canon background)
 
I didn’t want to alter the outcome of that part of the story, so I just gave a brief explanation as to why he’d have hesitated.
 
A couple of the other comments also picked at why the Imperial Guardsmen the ponies befriend are overpowered. They’re basically seven survivors from an entire battle force, which means they’ve got decent weapons, and have learned a trick or two, plus they’ve been lucky.
 
(I will say, the current chapter should see that luck run out. I’m not intending to have any of the 8 canon ponies harmed, but I can’t say the same for our loyalist Guardsmen).

@40kponyguy  
That can certainly effect views and it would be disconcerting to have so many downvotes. Still, keep your head up on high and carry on.
 
Crossovers aren’t exactly the easiest to pull off since some people with get uppity if one side out does the other, no matter how logical the outcome was.
 
While not a crossover, some people didn’t like the Warhammer aspects I gave the Shimmerverse. Honestly, it’s more of the first chapters that have heavy influence from Warhammer with it more or less mixing in with both my own headcanons and canon aspects more fluidly as it goes on.

@Evowizard25  
Yeah. It was originally posted as a drag-and-drop from a draft I did on notepad, so the paragraphing didn’t carry across properly.
 
Most of the voting seemed to occur when I first uploaded it there, and it got a whole 2 upvotes then, and 12 down.  
Didn’t give me much of an incentive to keep going.
 
Since I broke the story up and explained a few things better, it’s gained 3 more upvotes.
 
I still haven’t figured out how to link the story to different groups on FIMfiction, so people can actually find it. All the views seem to be from people who’ve gone there from here after I’ve added a link in the comments on a picture.
 
A little unsurprisingly it’s the chapter that has the fight between Ahriman and Twilight that got the most views.

@40kponyguy  
That’s something that will tick readers off. It’s hard to understand a wall of text and such and is best to break up paragraphs in two instances:
 
When a different character is talking.
 
To avoid giant paragraphs and separate different events.

@Evowizard25  
Just read the first chapter. Looks like you’re a bit more gifted than me with getting your story across.
 
When I first uploaded my own story there, I hadn’t broken up the wall of text in to manageable paragraphs, and some of the story didn’t come across clearly enough for some readers.
 
(The comments say enough. Complaints about the early encounter in the trenches for example. The Berzerker the ponies run in to gets his head blown off by a ratling sniper who’s in a tower overlooking the trenches.
 
Whilst this was always clear, it seems readers just breezed over that bit and assumed one of the ponies killed him. I have been over that section of the story and it reads far better now).

@40kponyguy  
Group: http://www.fimfiction.net/group/202417/the-shimmerverse
 
First Story: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/167106/a-different-sunset
 
I hope you enjoy them and please leave some feedback. It’d be most appreciated. }I’ll give it a look through}

@Evowizard25  
Care to give me a link?  
I’m hopeless at navigating that website.
 
I even have a 40k crossover story up on there myself, although it’s had a cold reaction so far.  
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/208441/the-mission
 
May yet end up doing a comic strip version of this story. It’ll get uploaded here if I ever get around to it.
 
I haven’t seen any other crossover story which sees Twilight take out a warhound scout titan, and a bit later goes head-to-head against the Chaos Sorcerer Ahriman of the Thousand Sons legion.
 
I have a few more ideas to add to the story in the future. I know exactly how the story’s going to pan out and finish, although I have no intentions of having any pony characters harmed. It’s supposed to fit in with the canon pony and 40k universes. Needless to say, I intend for things to look pretty grim before they get better. As in, ‘how can they get out of this unscathed’ bad.
 
Spoiler- this is what is going to happen at the tail end of the story, and it hasn’t been written yet. Also, this won’t make that much sense if you haven’t read the story.  
You have been warned.
 
The ponies return to Equestria with the staff they were sent to retrieve.  
The Chaos Daemon which had originally taken over Luna (season 1 opener), and subsequently had taken control of the warhound titan Twilight destroys in the story, has taken control of a certain end of season 2 villain.  
She’s been infiltrating Canterlot whilst the ponies were away getting the staff.
 
Twilight goes with Princess Celestia to perform the spell which will reinforce the shield protecting Equestria from the warp.  
As the princess tries to use the staff’s power, however, it instead corrupts her, turning her in to the sun version of nightmare moon.  
Simultaneously, a daemonically possessed Queen Chrysalis launches a new assault on Canterlot, with Twilight trying to contain the princess, they are both out of the picture, and there’s no Shining Armour and Cadance to fall back on here either.
 
I could go on, but I would be spoiling too much of the story.
 
I am also considering adding a part of the battle where Discord teleports himself and ‘The Blue Scribes’ away from the battle, and dumps them out in the sea somewhere, minus their disk.
 
I’m also thinking of adding a small finale scene where the Scribes climb up out of the water to be met with singing from a certain trio. Rather than succumbing to the siren’s song, the scribes banish them. (Cue Rainbow Rocks).

AWWWW~ So cute~ I would so adopt these trio.
 
 
@40kponyguy  
Eh, can’t really think of much, but perhaps {Cue shameless promotion} You could draw inspiration from my Shimmerverse on fimfiction.
 
I has Warhammer Elements~

I’d adopt them.

if i had a second heart i would have two simultaneous heart attacks

They’re so cute, they can’t be evil!

I’ll see about getting a better resolution copy of this when I get my own laptop back. (It’s getting a virus removed at the moment). I can’t upload from my camera with this laptop I’m using at the minute.  
Just making do with the webcam on it, and the resolution is, frankly, rubbish.

HNNNNNNNG!

I’m open for any suggestions for my next couple of sketches.
 
I’m going to be doing an Aria Blaze themed Rhino for my pony themed 40k army soon, (got the model), so I’m going to need an upset ponified picture of her for the underside of that.