My Little Warzone: The Return of Nightmare Moon.

FORT WILSON
TIME: 1315 HOURS

They came back in the Condor, and what they saw was horrific, Fort Wilson lie their in ashes, low on fuel, the Condor had no choice but to land. All of the sudden, a purplish-blue glow surround the aircraft, and it burst into flames as everyone got out. "AAAGGH!" The Elites, and the ponies could hear the screams as burning marines were sent flying in all sorts of directions, wheels, rotor blades, all sorts of parts of the Condor became shrapnel as it flew from nowhere. "We-we have to continue on foot, to Canterlot" gasped Captain Molokus, shocked and gasping for air. He passed out, one of the ponies, Twilight Sparkle, could see a vague shape through the smoke and flames, Nightmare Moon. "Fools, did you really think that there was anything at the ruins? Of course not! It was a diversion!" She cackled, "Y-you, b-b-bit-" tried saying one of the Elites before she picked him up, and mercilessly tossed him 30 feet, even from so far away, they heard a loud "CRACK" noise, and he didn't get back up. Axis, woke up and she disappeared.

UNS ASPIRE
TIME: 1400 HOURS

The now crippled ship was slowly crawling to the Canterlot Port. Ponies stared in horror at the ship, it's deck set ablaze, they saw the burning wreckage of a Seahawk on board. A large deafening crack rang in the ponies' ears, all of the sudden, fire blossoms as if the ship tore itself open. A slab of concrete from the hull landed right next to a group of vacationers. It was absolute anarchy, a MQ-90 Dragon UAV, sporting a triangle with wings inside, captured it all. The operator stared in total shock of what happened. "Sir, you need to see this." Major Verivix watched the flaming ship explode, and, dumbstruck, said "Get this on a disc, we need to get this to Union High Command ASAP.". "Yes sir," said the young operator.

UNION HIGH COMMAND CENTER, SOUTH OF CANTERLOT
TIME: 1500 HOURS

"Dear mother of God..." said Gavarixus in horror as he watched the crown jewel of the fleet get ripped apart like paper. "1,500 personnel dead" Said the Major. "T-that bitch! How could she be so damn sick to do this?" Gavarixus had never sworn like that in a military area, he sounded extremely upset. After just a single mare killed 1,500 soldiers, why would he not be upset of something that heinous. "Send a squadron of Halberds and a pair of Goliaths. If she wants an all out war, its what she'll get." He said, his words fused with rage. "We have a boomer stationed nearby, do you want me to send that out too?" Asked the Naval Chief of Staff. "Yes, we need all the naval and air power we can get.". "Nightmare Moon killed 1,500 men, now she's getting the teeth of the tiger!"

RUINS OF FORT WIlSON
TIME: 1530 HOURS

The rubble had cleared up, and once Axis was able to get the others and himself up, he saw the devastation that was once the Union Army's most powerful fort. His Comms Technician was dead, but his combat transceiver and receiver were still in tact, and Axis called for help. "Is there-is there anyone out there?" he coughed into the transceiver, "This is MC medical camp Juliet Bravo, what's the issue" crackled from the receiver, it was hard to hear, but it was clear enough to understand. "Oh, thank God! We're at Fort Wilson, it was attacked, we need a Medivac ASAP." Axis coughed, he was on the verge of blacking out, but he had to stay awake. "Oh God...c-copy that, sending a Condor your way.". Axis dropped the transceiver, he had very little energy left. Fluttershy stumbled up to him, the only pony that was awake after the attack, tears rolling down her cheeks, she was cut up, bad. "Are-are we going to die?" She said, barely loud enough to understand, "No, no we're not going to die, and we're aren't going to let anymore die, we just lost 21 men, we can't lose anymore" Said Captain Molokus, tears were beginning to well up in his eyes, too. The beating of rotor blades could be heard, they looked up, and a massive V-74, gear down, was preparing to land. A combat surgeon ran out over to them, "Are you okay, sir?" he asked. Out of breath, Axis said "Yes, I'm fine, but get body bags, we lost several comrades, and assist this one too, she's cut up pretty bad.". Fluttershy hadn't even noticed until she looked down, there were cuts and bruises all over her legs, chest, and rear, her cutie mark was covered in blood. "Yes sir. Come on! Get some stretchers and bags out here now!". It was total chaos, and they knew who was going to pay for this.

HARRISON AIR FORCE BASE
TIME: 1545 HOURS

"Ghost lead, you're clear for take-off," Said the air traffic controller, "Copy that, heading towards the runway now." Said the pilot. The F-34 Halberd was a magnificent specimen, tan, sleek, with it's engine intake mounted behind the canopy, powered by a single Jericho T 470 Turbofan engine, this baby could hit up to 1, 850 in a half hour. It was armed to the teeth with two 20 mm miniguns in the nose, 6 AAM-14 Javelin heat-seeking missiles, and an external fuel tank, this plane could travel 1,000 miles, take out 25 aircraft, and travel back, of course, this plane wouldn't be taking out any planes. Major Jerivixus Marikross, was a Union Air Force ace, and he'd be flight lead for 6 Halberds on an escort mission for 2 B-95 Goliath heavy bombers. He taxied on the runway, pushed the throttle forward, and sent off, building up speed, halfway down the runway, speedometer reading 200 kts., he pulled the stick back, and lifted off, 5 other Halberds, or Hals, as they are nicknamed, took off behind him. "Spearhead lead, this is Ghost lead, approaching off your starboard wing." He said into his helmet, the leader of the two bombers replied "Copy that Ghost lead, we see you.". The Goliath was a massive bird, 270 Feet long, a wingspan of the same distance, 6 massive turbofan engines, and carrying enough bombs to take out a quarter of a mid-sized city. The weather was clear, and everything was looking fine, but one of the fighter pilots spotted something. "Ghost lead, this is Ghost 4-3, permission to speak" Said the pilot, "Granted." said Marikross, "I see something off of my right wing, can't tell, but looks like a, pegasus." He sounded nervous, something wasn't right. "Copy that, proceed with cau-" The pilot started screaming, Marikross shot a look behind him and saw his right wing was missing. "AAAGGGHHH!" He screamed, Marikross looked in shock and horror "4-3, eject! Eject!" he screamed into his helmet. "Levers jammed! Some sort of purple glow is around it! Oh shit! It's surrounding the stick too! I can't do anything, I'm going down!" the third pilot was livid with fright, he didn't know what to do. As his plane was spinning, he started entering a dive, straight towards the ground by a nearby house. "UURRRGG-" Then nothing, Marikross tipped to the side to see the ground, where a blossom of flame and smoke appeared. Pretty soon, bolts of blue and purple started flashing across the 7 planes, and cut off the tail of the second Goliath. "Tail's lost, we're going down!" Screamed the pilot and co-pilot and unison. They managed to jump out the doors, but not fast enough, the second they did, something detonated all the bombs in the bomb-bay at the same time. The blast caused a chain reaction with the lead bomber, and it exploded, it vaporized every Halberd, except for Marikross, the blast not only severely damaged the aircraft to the point of crippling it's wing, but sent the hapless fighter into a stall. "Going down! Going down!" He pulled the lever, but nothing happened, he saw a blue-purple glow surrounding the canopy, he started praying, right before the plane slammed into the ground.

UNION HIGH COMMAND CENTER, SOUTH OF CANTERLOT
TIME: 1600 HOURS

"Sir", it was a radar operator, "We just lot contact with our flight group of the Hals and Goliaths.". "God damn, she struck right under our noses..." Gavarixus said, he had a bottle in his hand with a scotch-like fluid inside, he took a swig, "Fort Wilson's been turned into rubble, and we lost contact with Serpentine 5-9, however, the Elites, excluding their comms technician, and the ponies all survived." Said the radar operator, bleakly. "That's good, but we still lost 21 men, and 6 tanks, each with 6 man crew, god damn, we lost 67 men..." said Gavarixus, he took another swig, much longer than before. "Is there any hope left?", "Well," Started the operator, "We still have the Justice ready, and we still have another carrier that's ready to deploy, the Inspiration.", "Send them, but take a fleet of 5 destroyers to cover them, we can't lose any more ships, or men." Gavarixus said, a sliver of confidence regained. "Nightmare Moon will be captured, and, if we need to, killed." Gavarixus sounded dead serious, he realized he would have to tell Princess Celestia this, after all, it's her sister, but after all she's just in half a day, it might have to happen.