Welcome to Equestria, Please do not Wrangle the local Wildlife

Lonestar was not having the best day. It had started off just like any other morning onboard the main ship of the Awesomenauts, with the genetically engineered space cowboy up early and already eating breakfast before most of the crew was even awake. As he ate, Voltar the Omniscient floated by in his brain tank, his long red caped fluttering behind him. He nodded to Lonestar as he floated past him and into the kitchen and began to have his drones prepare some breakfast for the rest of the mercenary crew. The egotistical genius was capable of incredible things with the power of his psychokinetic abilities and the robotic minions he could deploy, but he was a surprisingly good cook when the crew wasn't on a job. One by one the other members of the team began to make there way to the table in various states of awareness, towards the tantalizing smell of Voltar's cooking.

"Hiya Lonestar!" Lonestar looked up from his newstablet and saw Ayla sitting across the table from him. "So what are you planning to do with our down-time until we get hired again?"

The cowboy scratched his blue beard, "Well, I reckon I'm gonna go to the gym and practice my Holo-Bull wrangling, what about you missy?" he somewhat dreaded her answer.

"I'm going to see if I can convince Mr. Vinnie to let me take a ride on Spike! It'll be so Fun! We can fly around and play cops and robbers!" Lonestar had been expecting something of a much more violent nature and was relieved to hear that the girl was just going to be playing make-believe with the plankton crime boss's trusty companion.

Ayla was no ordinary little girl, the three-eyed, green skinned eight-year-old was one of the last of her race, the Sadak, and possessed extremely powerful psychokinetic powers. She had lost her parents to the great Sevenelevian coupon wars, and her foster parents were scared of her love of violence and disturbing sense of humor. So they had her put in a school for social re-adjustment. She did not take this well however, and committed seven acts of arson in roughly three days. Now in a maximum security psychiatric ward she went berserk and killed half of the guards in her escape through a series of walls.

As Ayla began to eat her eggs, Lonestar looked down at his plate and realized it had suddenly disappeared, he quickly looked around the room just in time to see Gnaw take a bite out of his breakfast and his plate. He leaped to his feet and charged the acid spewing war dog in the hopes of salvaging his meal, "NO, GNAW! BAD SKROGGLE". He was too late however as Gnaw, seeing his approach swallowed the rest of the plate whole and ran off into the ship's corridors.

The rest of the team began to laugh and Leon Chameleon, resident stealth artist, called out in his definitely-not-French-accent "Maybe next time you should try to resist shouting your lungs out mon ami" Lonestar just glared and set off for the gym.

As Lonestar exited the Gym after a rigorous rodeo simulation he heard a voice by his foot say, "Hey buddy, youse ain't seen Spike anywhere has ya? I ain't seen him since breakfast." Lonestar looked down to the source of the voice and saw Vinnie, a plankton about a foot tall wearing a red fedora. Although not physically intimidating, Vinnie was a criminal mastermind who was able to use his brains and the considerable brawns of his friend Spike the giant pufferfish to preform amazing feats on the battlefield or at a local bank.

Lonestar thought back on what he had heard Ayla saying at breakfast, "Oh I think Ayla is playing Cops and Robbers with him, it sounded harmless enou- WHAT IN TARNATION?!?!" It was at that moment that a massive explosion rocked the ship, there was a made rush by all of the crew to any veiwscreen or porthole to see what had caused it. They were greeted with the sight of one of their shuttles making a beeline for the hanger and about thirty attack ships in hot pursuit firing ion torpedoes. The shuttle just barely made it to the dock and the crew hurried down to see who had been occupying it. Upon reaching the dock they found Ayla and Spike, both with rather embarrassed looks on their faces, "Ummm sorry guys, I didn't think they would chase us past that wormhole." Ayla sheepishly said.

Voltar spoke up in his robotic German voice, "If I hand hands I would be face palming right now, vat exactly did you two do?"

"Weeeell I may have tried to mug some lady, but it turned out she was a senator so their entire private security in this system came after us," she perked up, "but now we can just blow them up now right?"

Ted McPain, an Ex-Marine who was basically a living stereotype said, "Well we could if we didn't have all the ship's weapons deactivated for maintenance, we should probably make a tactical retreat unless we want to get our bacon cooked by these guys.

The crew agreed and the ship began to make a hasty retreat. However the large headquarter ship was not built for speed and they were unable to outrun the cruisers. As more and more explosions rocked the hull the chase seemed to be over, "QUICK! EVERYONE GIT YER TAILS TO THE DROPPODS, THEY'RE OUR LAST SHOT!" Lonestar shouted. The crew all boarded their own pods and began to jettison from the wrecked ship.

However, because their scanners had been damaged in the battle they were completely unaware of the massive black hole that they were all flying towards. As they fell in one by one, one of the security guards looked to his Co-pilot, "You wanna go in after them?" he asked. "Hell no are you crazy?" was the reply, "All troops fall back... we lost them but I doubt we have to worry about them anymore."

Meanwhile in Ponyville Twilight Sparkle and her friends were out on a hill, looking up at the night sky, "Okay everypony! if my calculations were correct, The main part of the meteor shower is going to be coming in about ten minutes!" They were all very excited for this event, the astronomers in Canterlot had estimated that this would be one of the largest and most memorable meteor showers in over a century, and the time of year was just right to be out late at night to watch it. They all sat back and eagerly looked up waiting for the rain of space rocks,  "oo-ing" at the occasional stream of light.

Rarity excitedly said "Girls! look over there, its coming!" They all whipped their heads around to where their friend's hoof was pointing. A beautiful stream of colors and lights flew across the sky in a dazzling display of nature's beauty.

Pinkie Pie pointed upwards, "Ooo look at that one! Its really bright." Twilight looked at the meteor in question. It burned with a furious orange light and seemed to almost be getting bigger.

Her eyes widened "GET DOWN QUICK!" They all dashed to the other side of the hill and ducked down, just in time to see the flaming ball scream overhead and into the Everfree forest behind them. There was a small explosion among the trees and they all looked at each other unsure of what to do next.

Rainbow Dash then took flight a few feet of the ground and hovered, "Well I don't know about you grils but I'm going to go and check that thing out!" She began to fly to the woods but Applejack grabbed her by the tail.

"Whoa Nelly! we don't know what that thing was! It could be some kinda monster, I ain't takin' any chances with that."

Twillight nodded, "She's right, we have no idea what that was, Lets head back to town and I'll write a letter to Celestia first thing." They all agreed and began the walk back to town, not noticing the other unusual meteors fly overhead in various directions.

A pleasant robotic voice sounded over the speaker in Lonestar's pod, "Arriving  at uncharted planet in thirty seconds, twenty-five, twenty, fifteen, ten, five, four, three, two, one." The pod hit the surface of the planet and exploded, instantly vaporizing all of the technology and leaving a very cramped and angry cowboy in the middle of a dark forest. He looked around and saw nothing but trees and menacing eyes watching him from the shadows, "... Well shucks"