The skies of Trottingham were filled with fire and smoke, dense layers of smog and ash filled the normally sunny skies of this once peaceful city. Above the layer saw dense fighting of Equestrian and Griffon airships. Bulky and big these ships fire volley after volley at eachother making no more than small dents and scratches. The most noticeable was the Thundersong. Stocked with cannons and machine guns, this three decked airship presented itself with heavy metal plates used five massive spinning blades to propel itself forward, the polished golden metal blended nicely with the dark brown wooden ascetics of the command ship carved to perfection. Truly it was a sight to be seen, not to mention a massive target.
“INCOMING!” Somepony bellowed as the shock of the incoming cannon fire rocked the command ship sending deadly wooden splinters every which way, the deck was a wreck with ponies desperately filling in for dead crew members. The lower decks didn't fair any better, the hull had more holes than a fine swiss cheese and pools of blood made themselves known under dead ponies.
The evacuation was going well until the griffon empire entered over the skies of Trottingham
A mighty explosion was heard over the skies of Trottingham
The crew looked in dismay as The Pegasus split into two and crashed into a less populated sector of the City being surrounded by griffon ships, all that was left was the Thundersong the sister titan to The Pegasus the only way to tell them apart now was that one was heavily damaged a large hole were the bridge should be and the other was scattered across the small portion of the city. The evacuation fleet still very close to the fighting and could see the tragic event still not believing what happened tried to lose there unessential cargo to try and gain speed, the Thundersong and its crew new they only had one choice having no engines nor a captain they had to fight.
“READY!” yelled the Staff Sargent through the listing tubes in the deck below, 40 out of the original 88 cannons readied there cannon's, the cannons all were facing toward the nearest griffon ship.
“Fire!”
The Thundersong fired it's broadside cannons, at that point the griffon war ship was crippled,
“FIRE!”
The second volley hit the cloud storage tank almost immediately caused it to plummet to ground at almost breakneck speeds the crew cheered at the sight of the plummeting ship but it was short lived as the other ships who destroyed The Pegasus surrounded the Thundersong and they began firing. the first volley sent the crew into a panic as crew were aimlessly thrown off the ship those fortunate enough were killed before they hit the ground below, shrapnel and fire spread through more areas of the ship annihilating anything in it's path, by then the ship's cloud storage was ruptured and the ship couldn't take it anymore it was going down.
“Medic!” yelled the pony trying to stop the bleeding from stray shrapnel that hit her friend,
Of coarse nobody cared everyone was trying to keep the ship from crashing into the city below, they were semi successful, the ships coarse was originally on route for the residential sector of the city but instead they hit a dense forest on the edge of the sector a couple kilometers away.
5 minutes before
“There here!” yelled the spotter on the bridge as he noticed the two ships entering into view “Two ships 11 o'clock”
The bridge was quite spacious it had several command consoles in the middle of the room to monitor sudden changes in wind and weather as well of the condition of the cloud storage tanks located in the center of the ship the captain controlled the steering of the ship via the wheel next to the control panels in the center of the room with two other consoles and a bronze tube so the Captain and the First officer could relay orders to the crew, the radio was on the right side of the bridge to relay orders to the other ships around it the walls were laced with metal and the window was made out of bullet proof glass although not impervious to explosions it could cushion the blow for the crew,
“A simple evacuation” she thought as the two griffon ships come into view from the cloud cover.
“Ready all weapons and fire on my mark”The Commodore said with a stern tone. Her blue Commodores cap covering her ragged
Rainbow colored hair, her wings hidden under her solid blue Commodores coat the shoulder pad had the R.E.A.F emblem on it right underneath was a smaller emblem ranking her as Commodore of the R.E.A.F (Royal Equestrian Air Force), the coat matched her cyan skin and a gold necklace representing the cutie mark on her hind quarters it was a cloud with a rainbow colored lightning bolt
“Lets show em who's the strongest ship here” said the Commodore eager for a fight.
“All cannons ready and waiting ma-am” said the first officer.
“Great, Frisko wait for them to come into range then tell the gunners to give it everything we've got” , said the Commodore
"yes ma-am" said Frisko. Although he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, Frisko was loyal, him being a Pegasus and all and a good fighter although not really captain material, he makes up his lack of smarts for overall good looks and speed, he had pure white skin and semi-neat hair with a pin of his cutie mark on his uniform his cutie mark was a flaming lightning bolt although he hated his first officers uniform it being the same as the Captains except for the rank of first officer on his soldiers patch and considering his wings were covered up he wasn't too happy.
“Only two ships, light schooners, wooden hulls!” said the lookout,
“Simple Enough” said the Captain
The two ships came into cannon range,
“Fire the forward cannons!” she said.
“Fire forward guns!” yelled Frisko into the bronze listening tube.
The volley of cannon fire disintegrated the first ship, taking its friend with it.
“Direct hit!” said the spotter next to her.
“They keep this up well be home by sundown” said the captain as cocky as ever.
“16 ships in the horizon,Heavy and light Frigates, light schooners!” said the spotter nervously “all Metal hulls, there headed for the Pegasus!”
“Dammit! I jinxed it” said the Commodore she turned the wheel to head to the Pegasus, “Where are our forces? those ships will tear us to shreds!” said the Commodore
“They were lunched late, there on an intercept coarse to protect the evacuation ships” said the radio operator
The Commodore let out a large sigh, “Well I guess were on our own”
“Reload Cannons and prepare for a fight” said the Commodore
“Yes Ma-am, Reload Cannons” said Frisko into the listening tube
“Oh and Frisko” said the Commodore
“Yes Commodore” Said Frisko
“We've been friends long enough” she said sincerely “You don't have to call me Commodore all the ti-” before she could finish her sentence.
“INCOMING!” yelled the spotter on the bridge as he ducked for cover.
“Huh?” said the confused Commodore
The room was filled with shrapnel causing a clear cut across the Commodore's face, the explosion blew out her eardrums and almost knocking her across the room, she couldn't make much out of anything although a couple of voices did sound familiar to her.
“Where did that come from!”
“Wheres the Commodore!?”
“The Pegasus! Its going down!”
“Fire!”
“Were going down!”
“MEDIC!”
“Rainbow Dash! where are you?”
“Rainbow Da-!”
The ship crashed into the city park fire and smoke rose from the sight of the crash as the evacuation ships now far enough to reach the reinforcements watch in horror as the two ships are nothing but smoldering wrecks, two of the observers who were overseeing the evacuation on both ships were Applejack and Fluttershy as they watch the explosions of the once proud ship with the greatest flyer in Equestria reduced to mere ashes,
“By Celestia's name what just happened?”said the occupant on the evacuation ship
“I don't know but we better get out fast before they head for us!” said another
“Who were on those ships anyways?” said the first out of pure curiosity
“A Commodore and a Admiral both were very respectable in the R.E.A.F” said the second “There both dead anyways”
“Shut up you idiots!” said a soldier walking in, pointing his hoof at Fluttershy
Hardly containing her tears Fluttershy broke down crying as she saw the smoke of the wreck getting larger and larger each second, Applejack however was trying to tough it out but couldn't contain herself, how could she, her friend died protecting her on a easy mission. But the worst thing she thought was how she was going to explain this to the others.
Rainbow dash's eyes opened as she noticed the fire and smoke slowly engulfing the bridge or what was left of it the bridge a thick light shone across the bridge from the window the control panels were destroyed and the steering wheel was too, she could see the ponies of what she could tell around her in the bridge were all dead, she tried to move but parts of the ceiling caved in on impact pinning here under a pile of rubble she felt an ungodly amount of pain she wanted to die, she couldn't move at all, the fire was spreading but wasn't very effective in a metal room, she wanted to scream but the debris were crushing her lungs she could barely breathe, even if she could say anything, no one could have heard her and even if they could, the bridge was on fire and of what she could tell the doors were caved in without any means of escape she new this was the end she wanted to wish that she could of done something maybe notice the projectile before the spotter did, she new it was here fault she was distracted she didn't pay attention and let down her friends.
Frisko,her first officer who were friends in Wonderbolt Academy, as a team they climbed though the ranks, when she was offered to take on a new position as captain she jumped at the chance it was a difficult job, but she was damn good at it, she ranked the 5th best Captain in the R.E.A.F (Royal Equestrian Air Force) eventually leading her to be a Commodore giving her the mighty flagship Thundersong even though she didn't like the name she had her own fleet to command and Frisko,who wasn't good at piloting took up the position as her first officer via a special request and ever since than they have been best friends.
Her older friends Twilight, the Alicorn who spends most of her days reading books and training in magic who was now the ruler over Equestria after the the siege of Canterlot by the griffons killing Princess Celestia which left her friends, Luna and most of the princess Celestia's royal guard the sole survivors of the attack before the bulk of the royal guard arrived only to see the griffons retreat, and Twilight wanting to avenge the princess was never the same, Applejack the sassy farm pony who loved making apple products. After the siege of Canterlot she and Fluttershy devoted themselves to help evacuate the ponies stranded on the boarders of the equestrian and the griffon empire mostly going off without a hitch until now. Rarity who created Rarity Industries was Equestria's leading producers of clothing and design and most of the new technology was made by her such as the machine gun and some of the newer ships in the air force, and Pinkie pie the crazy party animal who made everyone smile, no one knows what happened to her after the siege of Canterlot she disappeared 2 days after the siege without a trace and wasn't heard from since.
A loud groan was heard on the ships bridge Rainbows eyes narrowed she tried using her strength to lift the rubble off of her but to no avail the groaning continued she looked around and saw gunner on the ground he had red skin he was ranked 1st lieutenant but a couple seconds later the groaning had then stopped she new whoever it was, shared the same fate as her, she noticed that the metal room was serving it's purpose the fire was burning out.
“Great” she thought, “Let me die slowly, the more pain the better” she said in an annoyed tone knowing this was not the best of times for being sarcastic
She cracked a smile.
Tears formed as her eyes started to fade she was blacking out from the pain knowing she would probably die or wake up in even greater pain then now, more and more her eyes were fading she tried one last time to get herself free to no avail then gave up, darkness surrounded her then *BANG!?*.