Edited byTezz+LaCoil

Sunday morning.

The day where ponies are off from work, foals go out to play in Celestia’s morning sun, birds sing, and a flying metal hunk o' death flew into, and obliterated, half of Rainbow Dash's house. Certainly it was a typical, beautiful Sunday morning.

[[Sunday, 10:32 AM, above Ponyville]]

The sun shone between the curtains of Rainbow Dash's room. One very well placed ray of light had been creeping up towards her face since sunrise and had reached its destination. Rainbow scrunched her eyes and turned away from the light that was suddenly invading her restful sleep. She tossed and turned until finally sitting up on her bed, wanting desperately to fall asleep again. However the morning sun had other plans as she went to pull the covers up to her face and accidentally grabbed the end of the drapes, effectively tearing the whole thing off the wall and causing a loud crash. With the curtains gone, a flood of light poured through the window and smacked Rainbow in face with an angry, bright wrathfulness. The blue pegasus screeched, reeled back from the light like a vampony and landed in a position on the bedroom floor similar to a scorpion.

"OK FINE! I'M AWAKE NOW, HAPPY?" Rainbow Dash yelled at the window.

Getting up, she dazedly trotted to the kitchen for some well needed breakfast, as she has skipped dinner the night before so she could go to flight training.

Haphazardly, she opened a cabinet and selected a cereal at random. The rainbow-maned mare put the box on the table and went over another cabinet and took out a bowl, then placed the bowl on the table and poured the cereal into it. With that task completed, she then trotted over to the refrigerator and looked inside.

No milk.

"BUCKING HORSEAPPLES!' she slammed the refrigerator door and sat down, subsequently smacking her face onto the tabletop and groaning.

"How can this get any worse, the curtain, now this? All I want is a little cereal!"

Rainbow knew that such a small thing was barely worth getting worked up about, but because of her hunger she was cranky.

After uttering those fateful words, her ears flicked up and turned to the kitchen window. A low hum seemed to emanate from the glass pane.

With a quizzical tilt of her head, Rainbow Dash stood up from her chair, approached the window and pressed her ear to it. The same, low humming noise could still be heard. However it wasn't coming from the window, it was coming from outside the window, and strangely enough, the more she stood there the louder the sound became. In fact, the sound seemed to be getting closer. With that revelation in mind she started to unlock and open her window to look outside. Nothing out of the ordinary was outside, just a large tree, and the wild blue yonder.

VEERRRMM
WOOSH WOOSH WOOSH

Rainbow snapped her gaze to the large tree below her house. From behind the tree arose a huge, lumbering greenish-brown metal creature. It had somehow just appeared behind the pine tree and was looking straight at her! Or was it? She was unable to tell if it had eyes or not, but as she stared down at it she could see some details. Its "wings" seemed to be spinning around at a very fast rate, so fast in fact, that she could not see any of them properly. Atop said spinning wings sat a strange ball of unknown reason.

As she moved her attention down to the "head" of the creature she noticed that it had a see-through glass like skull. For a second Rainbow thought that it looked like there where things moving inside the beast’s skull. As she continued to observe, Rainbow mae not that the face of the creature had a round, dome shaped thing on the front which was constantly moving about, almost like an eye. That is when the ball thing turned and looked directly at her.
She froze as she stared back at it. The "eye" did not look like an eye at all, but instead more like the lens of a photographer’s camera.

Without warning, the inside of the head started to flash red and the metal creature then began to tilt sideways and wobble about. Rainbow could only stare in awe as the creature's tail sparked and started to smoke. As it struggled to stay afloat the great metal beast started to lean, and then fly directly into towards Rainbows house.

"HOLY-" was all she had time to sputter before...

… Before she was cut off by the loud sound of her house being ripped apart by the metal beast as it flew directly into her home. Cloud material exploded everywhere, sending bits of furniture and bits of her home towards Rainbow, who had ducked and dove to cover behind a nearby, somehow still intact couch. Just as soon as it began, the carnage stopped as an eerie silence took over. The next thing she heard was the sound of the mysterious beast moving away from her obliterated home. Rainbow stood up from where she had been taking refuge and looked at the destruction.

Half of her house was missing.

The kitchen, where she had stood only moments before, was just open sky. Her jaw fell completely to the ground as she stared at her home and the, which had all in one peice only seconds before.

Rainbow flew out from her house and stood on the roof and saw that the creature was headed straight for Ponyville, judging by the trail of smoke that it had left in its wake. Leaving her anger, shock and confusion behind her, the blue pegasus bolted up and flew towards her town, hoping she could get ahead of the beast and warn her friends before more terrible things could happen.

[[Ponyville town square, 11:15 AM]]

Twilight made her way though the large crowd of ponies who were shopping, selling and haggling at the various market stands. As she walked though, Spike sat up from his usual dramatic position of boredom on her back.

"Aww come on Twilight, do we HAVE to get new quills? I mean, we have like a hundred more in the storage closet." the purple dragon whined.

"I know spike, but those quills are outdated and dull. They won't write as well as the new ones we’re going to get. I’ll try to make this as quick as possible." she reassured, but suddenly remembering something “Oh, I nearly forgot! We have to pick up some apples at Applejack's stand, we have none after that salad party we hosted."

As the two walked through the crowd, they soon spotted Applejack who was working at her usual spot in the market place. Applejack turned away from what she was doing and, seeing her friends, waved them over towards her.

"Howdy Sugercube!' she said in greeting, "So, what brings you outta yer house? Is it ‘re-organize the library for tha' millionth time day?” she asked, adding “Also know as Sunday?"

Applejack had known Twilight long enough to conclude that she had designated certain days for maintaining the library in which she lived. Sometimes sunday happened to be one of those days more than others.

"Oh no no no! Today? That's just silly, I re-organize the library TWO times in one month. The next time I clean is next week's Sunday." Twilight said with a smile.

"Oh, riiight." said Applejack.

"Anywho, I came by today to buy a bushel of apples."

Twilight handed over a small hooffull of bits and laid them on the stand where Applejack tcould count them. When she had finished, Applejack then produced a bucket of apples from behind the counter.

"Ah whole bushel? Ah see that yer stockin up fer winter, smart girl." stated Applejack, as she gave the bucket to Twilight.

"Many thanks Applejack."

"No problem Twi!" the orange earth pony smiled.

A small rattling noise rang out between the space of the two friends. Twilight looked down at the bits on the counter, where they vibrated and moved slightly about. Moments later, their movement intensified as they started to vibrate more fiercely and fall of the counter.

However, the bits weren't the most concerning thing as what caught their attention next could only be described as a huge metal object that flew overhead and hovered over the town square, slightly wobbling as it started to descend. Ponies started running about and screaming in a frantic panic while Twilight took up a defensive stance as the object neared the ground. The wind from the thing was immense and it threw stands stands around as well as knocking over ponies.

"What the hay is that!?" screamed spike.

"I have no idea, but I think we're about to find out!" yelled twilight as she charged an offensive spell.

in time, the metal thing landed, its wings slowing down producing a mechanical whine. Once the thing's wings were slow enough, Twilight saw that they were not in fact wings, but propellers. It kinda looked like an upside-down fan. Once all the commotion died down, and the machine stopped moving, Applejack popped up from behind her stand, one of the few that still remained upright and intact.

"Uhhhh, well are you gonna take ah gander at it or what?" she said slightly paralyzed from fear.

"I'm think I'll take a look. Spike stay with Applejack." said Twilight.

The little dragon jumped off Twilight’s back and ran to hide behind Applejack’s stand with the country mare.

As Twilight stepped forward, she the sound of a jet racing at mach speed and witnessed a blue blur as Rainbow Dash almost materialized in front of her.

"Twi -*huf*- light! Don't *gasp* go near *huf* that THING!" Rainbow barely managed to say as the two stood in front of the strange machine.

"O~k? And why do you sound like you flew a marathon?" Twilight asked.

"I-I flew here to warn you about that…that…whatever it is!" she pointed with her hoof toward the object.

"Really, is it dangerous? I mean I want to inspect it but... what if its just some Dragon-creatue-thing that lost its way home? If we can get Fluttershy to help it back home then maybe-" she was cut off by Rainbow jumping into the air.

"IT DESTROYED MY BUCKING HOUSE!"

"It what?!" Twilight then reeled back in fear at the object.

"Why? Did you provoke it? Did it see you as prey? And how it that destroy your house? I don't see claws or anything."

"No, no! It literally flew and crashed into my house! The bucking thing almost killed me!" Rainbow yelled as she looked at the object with extreme menace

"Uhh girls" Applejack warned, "It’s start'n tah move again!"

The three friends swiveled their heads towards object.

The top of it had indeed started to move up with the see-through top of the creature moving to lift off it like a lid. Inside, two creatures sat. One was slightly elevated above the other. Both of the creatures started to climb up and out of the object and ponies around could see that both of them were bipedal and they had claw like paws and wore a jumpsuit of some sort. On their heads was a helmet with a weird looking visor that slightly jutted out from the face it. Then one of the creatures reached up and pulled off the head covering to reveal a face that looked like a monkey’s, but significantly less hairy and only having a small patch of brown hair on its head. It also had eyebrows as well as a 5 o'clock shadow.

Holding the helmet in its paw, it turned and looked at the other creature. It then did the did something unexpected: It spoke.

"Great job dick-head! Looks like your navigational skills really payed off this time."

The one called "dick-head" looked at his angry partner.

"Hey! who you call'n dick-head? YOU were the one that said ‘OH WE SHOULD GO OUT OF THE BASE'S AIR SPACE!’” as it threw up its arms in frustration.

"I only said we should got out BECAUSE we should of been patrolling the border after last nights mortar attack!" the other one retorted.

"FUCK! This is worse then when we almost got lost in Mogadishu! I cant’ even tell where we are!" It started to look around, it then spotted the three friends who were currently staring dumbfounded at the sight.

"What the.."
One of the creatures turned and looked straight at Twilight and Rainbow, its jaw then joined Twilight's and Rainbow's on the floor as it stared at them.

Without looking at its partner, it spoke with utter confusion and shock.

"You really screwed us this time Nick."

Author's Note

SO. how was it? I do not know if I might make another chapter, like I said, I made this story to help ease my writer's block I have been having lately. I will continue the story if i get positive feed back

until then, thanks for reading :D