The USS Liberty

Atlantic Ocean

Bermuda Triangle

USS Liberty

Iowa Class Battleship

Captain Luidvick Armatella stood on the bridge the Liberty watching the calm waves crash over the bow.

“Evening sir.” A female voice said from behind, Luidvick turned to see his first mate Leela Mada standing with a cup of coffee in her hand. “Nothing to report from the comm room so I thought I’d come up and visit.” She smiled

“Hello, Leela. How is your day going?” Luidvick said going back to the window.

“Fine sir, I’ve been over the logs and we look ship shape for inspection.” Leela said, she handed the cup of coffee to Luidvick  and looked out the window. “A beautiful night tonight isn’t it?”

“Eh, I have seen better back home.” Luidvick said sighing as he sipped at his coffee and closed his eyes. “But yes, it is a good night. Stars are out, water’s calm, and no one is shooting at us.”

“Aye aye.” Leela replied, a blue light on one of the consoles flicked on. “What is it now?” Leela sighed. “Yes ensign? I see......okay I’lll tell him.”

“Yeeeess? Tell me what?” Luidvick asked.

“Sonar contacted a discrepancy in the sea bed, it appears that a vortex of some kind is forming.” Leela said as if it were nothing. “I bet its just Ensign ricky messing with us.”

“Ah... Remind me to make that boy clean the head. With his tongue.” Luidvick said.

“Okay thats gross, and-” Leela began but the ship lurched and listed to the side revealing a massive whirlpool.

“... Leela...” Luidvick said as he walked over to his chair and sat down.

“Aye Sir?” Leela said in a daze, the ship groaned and slowly slipped down the side of the vortex.

“Tell the crew to get into the ship, battened down all the hatches, and for the love of god get me a drink.” Luidvick said rubbing the side of his head as he rested his elbows on the arm rests.

“Aye Aye sir, Engines full astern, all personnel inside the ship. General Quarters all hands brace for impact.” Leela said over the intercom. A loud alarm sounded as the hatches slammed shut

“Impact? Leela we are going to be crushed in the sea.” Luidvick said sounding more annoyed than scared.

“Captain! Why aren’t you Terrified!?” Leela asked, shocked at her captains calm demeanor. The Ship slipped lower into the dark abyss that was the vortex.

“Leela, I have been up for twenty four hours and have only eaten a small bowl of the chefs stew along with two cups of bourbon. I am out of it right now.” Luidvick said plainly as he rubbed his forehead.

“THEN WHY AREN’T YOU-” The ship lurched again and nearly capsized.

“We’re all gonna die. Nice knowing you Leela.” Luidvick said leaning back in his seat and crossing his legs.  Everything went dark for what seemed like an eternity, leela looked around as suddenly the light returned and the ship was eerily quiet. She looked over to see the captain slumped over in his chair asleep.

“I’m relieving you of command sir.” Leela said as she had several of the bridge personnel escort the barely awake captain off the bridge. “Navigation what is our position?”

“Uh...we’ve lost contact with the sattelite network.” The Navigation officer said puzzled.

“Engine Room what's our status?” leela asked over the intercom

“Well. Things fahn down ‘ere.” The engineer’s thick southern accent said. “Engines don’ appear to be runnin’ out of fuel though... And that’s weird.”

“Weird but not bad mister Creeg. Nigel is there any damage to weapons?” Leela asked

“Not at all lassy! Everything is in tip-top shape! Save for a bit of spare water rolling around, we are fine!” The british sounding man said.

“Okay we have our ship under control, now we have to figure out where we are. Comm center can you raise command?” Leela said, she was adjusting to this new command pretty well considering what would happen.

“Well ma’am we can’t raise command, or anyone for that matter. Just lots of static.” The Comm officer replied

“Well lets find land and head there, we can find a place to anchor and figure out how the hell we survived that thing.” Leela ordered, the crew on the bridge nodded and soon the ship was steaming towards land far off in the distance.

“Ello ello! Leela! We have some landmass ahead!” Nigel said. “And looks like we’re about to see the welcoming committee, we have at least thirteen unknown fast movers inbound.”

“Sound Battlestations again. All hands on deck.” Leela ordered, the deck guns swiveled to the port side where the targets were coming from.“Give me visual confirmation on them.”

“Well... They are small. Blue. And leaving... Very peculiar storm cloud trails. Wait a goddamned minute. Is that a rainbow trail!?” Nigel shotued. “THEY ARE TRAILING RAINBOWS!”

“All batteries prepare to fire are my command.” Leela said in an authoritative tone. She looked out the window at the strange aircrafts approaching. “All Batteries open fire.” The ship lurched as all the AA guns began to fire, explosions shattered the formation apart and caused them to scatter.

“Bogies are evading!” Nigel shouted over the mic.

(Below Deck Captains Quarters)

“Hostiles on the deck, all personnel we are being boarded!” the Intercom shouted, sailors rushed past the door to Luidvick’s cabin causing him to wake up. He looked around before opening the door and grabbing the nearest sailor.

“Get me a gun.” Luidvick said in a manner that would scare Genghis Khan.

“Aye Aye sir!” The sailor replied in a terrified voice.

(Bridge)

“We are being boarded by what?!” Leela shouted, the officer in front of her shrugged.

“Pegasi, Ma’am. Small flying horses. We almost have them secured ma’am but-”

“Don’t But me! Get them off this ship now-” Leela was interrupted by the sound of a shotgun firing on the deck.

*BAM Chtc Chtch BAM chtch chtch*

“GET OFF MY SHIP!” Luidvick shouted from the deck as he was carrying a Benelli 12 gauge. “Get off you rotters!”

“What is he doing with a shotgun!?” Leela asked, she saw one of the attacker laying on the ground in a pool of blood. It’s rainbow hair was soaked in sweat. “Get that one on the bridge now before the captain kills it!”

“Aye Aye ma’am!” One of the sailors shouted before running down the steps to the deck.

“She wants to do what!?” Luidvick shouted before he glared at Leela from the deck and stormed his way past the sailors to the bridge. He slammed the door open and glared at Leela. “Why on gods green earth would you want that thing alive!?”

“To study it, Interogate it? Its obviously smart enough to attack on the deck so it must know something.” Leela said calmly

“Yeah! How much buckshot stings!” Luidvick said frustrated.

“Get your claws off me you ugly monkey!” A female voice cried out from the deck.

“And it’s rude!” Luidvick said.

“If its a waste of time you can kill it okay?” Leela compromised

“Thank you. You know how I don’t like taking chances like this.” Luidvick said.

“Ma’am we have repelled the attack with minor injuries and casualties but the creatures we killed are puzzling. We have one of them alive on deck if you’re ready.”

“Leela, I am going down there. Don’t try to stop me okay?” Luidvick said.

“I wouldn’t dream of it.” Leela replied as she and the captain began to descend the steps to the deck.

“Atta girl.” Luidvick said chuckling as he followed.

“LET GO OF ME! I MEAN IT! YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO YOU’RE BUCKING WITH! UGLY MONKEYS!” The Creature screamed as they approached, it wriggeld and shook violently trying to escape the hand cuffs it was in.

*Chtc Ctch* Luidvick pressed the muzzle of the shotgun against her nose and said. “Calm down, or you will end up like that one over there.” The pointed to a pegasus with his wing and half his face gone.

“Stormcloak? You MONSTER! YOU KILLED HIM!” The Pegasus bellowed, tears in her eyes.

“Says the creature that attacked my ship!” Luidvick shouted in rage as he turned the gun around and smacked her with the stock. She yelped in pain and whimpered.

“Captain, thats unneeded force!” Leela protested. She walked over to the Pegasus and knelt down. “Why did you attack our ship?”

“Celestia told us to destroy the cause of the time belt disturbance or whatever she called it.” The Pegasus said with a sniffle.

“Who the fuck would order a death sentence on a Iowa class ship!? With over a thousand crew on it for christ’s sake!” Luidvick shouted.

“She didn’t know what it was, she just said it was dangerous.” The Pegasus replied, she still was bleeding from her hind leg.

“Wait, you don’t know who we are or what we are?” Luidvick asked. “Well now I feel like a dick!”

“No? Should we?”

“I guess not... You there!” Luidvick pointed to a random salior.

“Aye aye sir!”

“Take this thing to the med bay. Get her leg patched up. And you gather up the dead.” Luidvick said pointing to another soldier.

“Aye aye sir.” They both responded, the first scooped up the bleeding pegasus while the other began to walk around gathering up the 11 dead pegasi.

“Leela...” Luidvick said as he handed his shotgun to a random Salior who took it off to the armory. “How many pegasi attacked us exactly?”

“We counted thirteen radar contacts sir.”

“And there is even there. And one in medbay. That means one’s missing.” Luidvick said looking at her with a stoic expression.

“Sir with all due respect you need to rest so you can resume command. Let me worry about the last one.” Leela said concerned. Luidvick just sighed and shook his head.

“Fine, fine! I wil go back and get some rest, when I wake up though we are going to port.” Luidvick said pointing a finger at her. “We need answers. And we ain’t getting them on the sea.”

“Aye aye sir.” Leela replied before turning to a sailor. “Secure from general quarters.”

“Yes ma’am” The Sailor replied before running off

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(canterlot)

Princess Celestia sat in her throne room reading over reports from the coastal folk that a massive metal monster was sailing towards manehattan and fast.

“Your highness, the remainder of the attack force has arrived.” A servant said nervously, Celestia’s eyebrow raised up.

“Remainder?” She asked nervously as well. “As in only one missing?”

“No your highness, only one remaining. And it isn’t Rainbow Dash.” The Servant said somberly

“Oh for Twilight's sake please tell me what happened.” Celestia begged

“Well all we got out was, loud noises, blood, missing wing, and big scary monkey with metal stick.” The servant said.

“He didn’t say anything else?” Celestia asked

“No he did, we just couldn’t make it out.” The servant said showing her nervousness now.

“Very well, summon twilight. I will tell her myself...” Celestia sighed

“Yes your highness.” The servant said bowing and walking out. Twilight walked in several minutes later with a big smile on her face.

“Princess! So nice to see you! What did you want to tell me?” Twilight said happily.

“Sit down Twilight.” Celestia replied distantly.

“Okay... Is everything alright Princess?” Twilight asked sitting down on one of the cushions.

“No.....Twilight its not. Its Rainbow Dash.” Celestia said in a almost cracking voice

“What happened? Is she pregnant?” Twilight asked worriedly.

“No, Twilight. As I’m sure you know there was a magic disturbance earlier today. I sent Rainbow Dash and a few Wonderbolts to investigate.” celestia said somberly

“Yes! It was a simple mission for them! Get in, get out, relay information!” Twilight said nodding.

“It was supposed to be simple but something happened. Only one of them returned.” Celestia explained. She didn’t dare look twilight in the eyes

“What!? I-it was Rainbow right?”Twilight said as panic took over her face. The Princess remained silent. “Celestia tell me! That’s my friend you are talking about!”

“No, she didn’t and neither did most of the squadron. We think that they all perished.” Celestia sighed out. Twilight just remained silent this time and lowered her head. A few seconds passed in the gut wrenching silence before Twilight grabbing Celestia and sobbing into her coat.

“Your highness?” A servant said interrupting the moment of sadness. Celestia looked up at the servant and shook her head. “It has arrived.”