(Many years ago)

The Vorsoth were coming...

Lord Admiral Sparkle of the once great Solar Navy looked at the fleet that had amassed in Equis space, over 2000 ships Lay in wait for the coming armada of Vorsoth Bio-Ships. The Ancients had sent twenty of their own ships to bolster the ponies lines... But it still wouldn't make much of a difference.

The listening beacons had picked up the enemy fleet approaching Equis at top speed. It wasn't very large with only a few hundred ships but with their superior weapons and armour they would tare them apart, but Admiral Sparkle wasn't the type of stallion who would take his end lying down.

"Father?" Admiral Sparkle turned to see his son Starswirl step into the Bridge "Starswirl why aren't you on your ship?" the old veteran asked.
"The 'WindSword' was too badly damaged in our last battle" Starswirl said "She cannot be savaged"
"I'm sorry son, I know the that ship was special to you"

"Don't worry father, I will be fine" the young Stallion said "I would like to help here on the 'Pride of thr Empire' father" he asked "I would rather be on a starship fighting then on the ground waiting for the end to come"
"Very well son, take the weapons station and wait for my orders" the young unicorn bowed and went off to preform his duty's and the Admiral was filled with pride as his son went about his duty's without fear or hesitation. Sparkle knew his son had intended to join the school of arcane science before the war had started, but like all colts his age he was encouraged to join the Solar Navy to help drive the monsters back to where they came from.

But of course that had been back when they had thought they could still win, but over the Corse of two years that had all changed, sure they had, had a few major victory's, the most notable being the raid on the gateway a few months ago where they had managed to steal a vital component from the gateway and essentially cut off the Vorsoth's reinforcements and meant they only had a little over three hundred ships, but those ships were still enough to push the Equin empire back to their home world.
Everypony finaly realised that they were doomed when two weeks ago, Emperor Solaris had been killed when his flagship the 'Primus' had been obliterated along with forty other ships and the colony they had been protecting.
His two daughters had disappeared leaving Admiral Sparkle the grand commander and military governor of the empire... Not that there was much of the empire left anyway.

"Lord Admiral! Hyperspace windows opening!"

Sparkle didn't need to be told as hundreds of hyperspace windows appeared before the fleet, coming from them were the dreaded Bio-Ships of the Vorsoth fleet and the even more feared Dreadnought.
"Their here..." Admiral Sparkle growled as he turned to his coms pony "Hail the fleet" the pony nodded to tell him he was on "Ok Ladies and Gentlecolts, they are here, I don't need to tell you what must be done so get to it, nothing gets past us, Lord Admiral Sparkle out!"

"Dreadnought firing!"

A massive arc of energy surged out of the monstrosity's maw like fore, flying across the battlefield and destroying almost sixty ships.
"All ships open fire!" Sparkle cried out over the fleet link "Destroyer group Take that thing down before it can recharge, frigate group two through five give them cover, everyone else. Break and attack!!"

The fleet surged forward with the Vorsoth coming to meet them head on, Sparkle watched a heavy carrier get blown in two and destroy a few cruisers that were too close to the blast radius, the Lord Admiral shouted commands to his fleet the 'Pride of the Empire' ducked and swerved through the chaos that the battle had become, he could hear the frantic cry's for help from other ships and fighter pilots over the fleet link, the call for help from a dying Carrier or the cry of triumph as a enemy ship was destroyed, but they were losing more ships then the Vorsoth and more were lost as the Dreadnought fired again destroying more ships that tried desperately to destroy it.

"Bring us behind and over the 'Harmony' and target the nearest enemy ship with the for word Crest cannons..... FIRE!" the nose of the Battleship rained fiery death upon a Vorsoth Battleship and with help another friendly Battleship and a Cruiser the enemy ship exploded in a shower of bone and shell.

This continued for almost an hour with the Ponies and their Ancient Allies losing more and more ships untill there was only a fraction of the number they were. As the Vorsoth came in for the finaly blow, Salvation came.

Admiral Sparkle stood in the ruined bridge of his ship when one of the bridge crew called it out "Lord I'm detecting a large number of portals opening"

"More Vorsoth?! Emperor be dammed that's all we need"

"Their not hyperspace windows Lord!"

Above the Vorsoth eight of nine blue swirling portals opened and a whole host of ships poured, they were a variety of different ships, some were dark grey with doing sections while others were almost fishlike in apperance and eleven of the smaller blue and purple birdlike ship's flew in formation in a V formation. But the four most defining ships were two massive ships who's wings were in a triangular pattern and had a long neck that ended in a small head like maw that bristled with weapons, the next was different shades of green and it looked more alive and skin like then a normal ship, just like the blue and purple ones, the green Bio-Ship was squidlike.
But the most terrifying of them all was the other black Bio-ship, It was jet-black. A shade of black so deep, your eye just kind of slides off it. And it shimmered when you looked at it. A spider, big as death and twice as ugly. When it flew by, Admiral Sparkle thought he heard a scream in his head.

The new arrives launched a number of fighter craft and laid into the enemy with righteous fury, the Vorsoth who up till now had proven very hard to kill were being destroyed quickly and even when the Dreadnought fired at the oncoming ships they we left almost undamaged, the two large ships pointed their noises at the offending ship and a arc of green energy flowed up their wings and surged to their noises and was fired into a massive green beams from each that when both hit utterly destroyed half the Dreadnought.

The Blue and purple ships proved to be incredibly agile and pulled off amazing maneuver such as turning to the side and flying sideways while strafing an enemy ship or turning 360 and shooting at a pursuing ship while still moving in the same direction as before.

In the end the Vorsoth retreated leaving the battered fleet and their unknown saviors to their sudden and unexpected victory.

Admiral Sparkle saw his son cheering along with the other ponies on the bridge and he couldn't help but smile. They had beaten back the Vorsoth thanks to their mysterious allies.
"Lord we are receiving a transmission from one of the large ships"

The transmission was played on the cracked main monitor, the alien looked like an Ancient but Sparkle guesses that he was not but another species of human "Lord Admiral Sparkle, I am Captain Anderson of the 'Venture', I believe we have much to discuss"

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(Present day)

They all watched the the Vorsoth leave through the recording and listened to Starswirl.
Carter recognised a few Warlock Destroyers and Hyperons Cruisers as well as Starfury and Thunderbolts among the fleet and she spotted the 'Warlock' among them.

"The leaders of the fleet met with the Ancients and Ponies, they were Captain's Anderson and Kruse as well as kosh Naranek and a being only known as the Shadow, they explained that they were from another universe that had fought and defeated the Vorsoth before and had discovered that they could permanently seal the universes that the Vorsoth inhabited from the rest of the multiverse, but in order to do so they had to travel to our universe to fight them here, any ship that came could never return to their own universe so they brought powerful ships and the means to build more, Kosh and the 'Shadow' Races beloved that they were dead already so they came too and they devised a plan to take the gateway." as he finished the scene changed to all three fleets working together to battle the Vorsoth, some of the other universe vessels were heavily damaged or destroyed.

"The battle was fierce and and all our hopes fell upon a device we only called the 'lock', things were going well, I was put in command of one of the White stars, White star 3" he pointed as one of the blue and purple birdlike 'White stars' flew by.

"So what went wrong" Carter asked.

"we had the 'Lock' in place but we were betrayed!, the Vorsoth had created a cult to worship them amount us and this cult stole the item that would allow us to permanently lock away the Vorsoth... The Key of souls"

The stallion held up his hoof and created a replica of the key, it looked like a knife more then a key with a long straight blade and a black rune filled hilt.

"They hid the hilt away from us and it was only though the quick actions of my father and Kosh did we managed to temporarily seal the universes"

The scene that played out next drew tears to many of the room's occupants including Starswirl himself.

One of the pony battleships which was now alight and rippling with secondary explosion's, slowly it moved close to what Carter guesses was the 'Lock'.

" 'White Star 3' to 'Pride of the Empire' can you hear me" the voice belonged to a younger Starswirl "Father you've got to get out of there!"
"I can't son, there's no time" the crackling voice of Lord Admiral Sparkle said sadly "There's only one thing we can do... I'm sorry son"

More explosions rocked the ship and as it died Admiral Sparkle said one last thing to his son "I love you" with that the 'Pride of the Empire' exploded, but instead of fire, a wave of pure magical energy erupted from the ship, when the wave hit the Vorsoth ships they simply disappeared, but once it struck the 'Lock' I burst into life glowing brightly, as it did this the entire universe was basked in one bright flash.

Starswirl whipped his eyes before continuing "M-My father sacrificed himself to trigger a massive magic energy surge that destroyed the Vorsoth in the Universe and activated the 'Lock' temporarily, after the battle we discussed what to do next, Kosh somehow knew that you would all come to this place, he knew you all by name and we built this station here for you and hid the ships that survived the battle in different places untill they would be needed, some of which you have already found and duplicated... We all went back to our home worlds and prepared, of course we knew that the war would be forgotten before long but Kosh and the Shadow knew a few of the possible futures, they and us took precautions so that only the best ones could be gained but we would not be able to see them through, Kosh and the Shadow would live on because their races are pretty much immortal, but they told us that only through the efforts of everyone in this room will you be able to finish what we started"

They were all silent for a while for a while as they thought over this information.

"But you said that this cult of Vorsoth hid the key" Twilight pointed out "How are we to find it?"

"It already has, when you all return to earth you will understand... But-" he waved his hoof and the room was returned to normal " I digress, Colonels Carter and Naomi you must return to you ships and prepare for battle, The minions pf the Vorsoth are about to arrive to stop you from completing your destiny's"

"Minions of the Vorsoth?" Naomi asked "What are you talking about?"

"I believe you call them the Lucian alliance"

Carter's radio crackled to life and she brought it up to her ear "Carter here"

"Colonel were detecting Multiple hyperspace signatures closing in fast" Tyrone said "we need you two back now"

"Go Colonel, the station will help too and you will have help, but first I must take the rest of you quickly" Starswirl made his way towards to door and mentioned for everyone except the Colonels to follow, now wasting time she began to run out the room and towards the docking bay with Naomi following quickly behind.

Outside behind the asteroid field 60 Ha'taks appeared and launched fighters

Author's Note

I'm really getting into the story now so I'll probably keep uploading at this pace so look forward to looks of new chapters in the future.