Flight of The Avali: Season One

On the Dome:

The few gathered in the cockpit were at an utter loss for words. The battle taking place in front of them was brutal, and it was only made worse by the fact that Oxoloc and Chotl had abandoned trying to connect to the teleporters after they made the grim discovery of the teleporters being disconnected.

There was no hope for escape. The Dome was too far from the battleship to make a difference. The engines were still down… even the Avenged was currently under maintenance. They could in theory take it there… but it’d probably be too late by the time they made it.

“It’sss… over…” Femati muttered.

“KEEP FIRING! DON’T GIVE UP!” Dandy’s voice echoed. He was trying desperetly to hold the crew together even in the worst situation.

To make matters worse Einuli had simply abandoned them, crawling through the vents to god knows where.

“It’s hopeless… we’re all going to die aren’t we?” Starlight muttered quietly.

That was until the screen of the ship, and there by all the visual feeds popped up with one message. ‘I’m nearly at the teleporters.’

All of those in the cockpit immediately perked up. “E… Einuli…” Femati muttered.

“Wait… how can he conta…” Luna was cut off.

“The bastard’sss usssing a hand held comm device… He mussst be usssing hisss own ssscrambling sssyssstem!” Femati said. “He’sss too fucking sssmart for hisss own good sssometimes!”

‘I’ll be able to restart the teleporters. Tell them to evacuate when I give the signal.’

Famati typed back, ‘What about you?’

‘I’m going to set off the reactors. I won’t be able to make it back here from the reactor rooms. They’ll be coming after me the moment they realize what I’m doing.’ He sent back. ‘Goodbye.’

Starlight and Femati were blinded temporarily by a flash of magic. Luna vanishing completely from the room.

“Oh gods…” Starlight muttered.

“We’ll… Misss you buddy.” Femati muttered. “Ssso much.”

Back on the enemy ship:

Einuli climbed out of the ventilation shaft, silently dropping to the floor a few yards away from the teleporter hub. He took in a deep breath, two guards were nearby, though they appeared to not be paying attention, which was good for him. He raised his hands up, firing off two quick and silent energy blasts, killing both guards without so much as a sound. He quickly moved, trying his best to stay silent, making it to the doorway they were guarding. It was clear, that despite being violent and strong enough to take over the ship, they weren’t all too intelligent during a battle. The door wasn’t locked, and slid open when he approached.

He slipped inside, glancing around for a sign of anyone else inside. So far the coast was clear. He made it to one of the consoles, attaching a cable from one of his wrists to it. He made sure to constantly check his surroundings, though his ears did most of the work.

Within a few moments he was able to crack through the relatively weak security system the had in place.

‘It’s ready. Tell them to get out.’ He typed into his wrist console.

‘Got it. Thank you Einuli. - Starlight’ Was the reply.

“I told you I wouldn’t let any harm come to your planet.” Einuli said quietly, disconnecting from the console.

Immedietly after he heard the sound of running coming from down the hall.

“He’sss in the teleporter room! Sssecure him!” One floran shouted.

Einuli readied himself. He was now alone on this ship, and he could guess they knew where he was going next if he didn’t teleport out.

So he gave them a run for their money, firing a blast at the teleporter core, destroying it beyond repair.

Immediately alarms went off in the ship, ancient red lights coming to life, bathing all the hallways in a sickly red glow.

Now, the florans in the dark were lit up, and Einuli fired at them, the energy blasts tearing right through the pirates.

“Come at me bastards… I’m taking us all down.” Einuli growled, rushing out into the hallway.

Meanwhile:

Luna teleported herself onto the Floran Ship. Though, her distance from the Moon made her feel much weaker. She knew, if she didn’t waste much magic there might be enough energy left for her to get both her and Einuli out of there… though how close they’d end up to the Moon, or Equus… she couldn’t say.

Within moments she heard the sounds of a fight, gunshots going off, followed by two loud thuds. She rushed towards the source and nearly collided with Einuli, who fully appeared to be in attack mode.

“The fuck?” Einuli growled glaring angrily at Luna. “What are you doing here?”

“I’m here to get you out once you set off the reactors.” Luna stated.

“And what makes you think you can help? We’d be no where close to the teleporters…” Einuli retorted. “Ah fuck it… I can’t be wasting this much time on you.” He pushed past her, running down the hallway, heading towards where his sensors were picking up the reactors to be.

Luna chased after him, silence not really being key for her.

The two made it quickly to the reactors, only to be greeted by one, much larger floran who was definetly the one in charge. He had several guards around him, all with their weapons trained at the raptor.

“Look what we have here.” The floran leader said, “The misssfit comesss right to usss. Planning on playing hero are we?”

“You won’t stop me.” Einuli barred his teeth.

“Oh, but we have you outnumbered… I don’t think your going anywhere. Now, jussst sssurender and we can dissscusss this planet’sss fate… If you do it without hesitation, or any more of a fight… we might jusss-” The floran leader was cut off as three of his guards were lifted up into the air by Luna’s magic, the now very angry alicorn coming into full view. The floran leader backed up, the last three of his men coming to cover him.

Before they could fire however Einuli charged. The raptor was a predator. At least his species was, and that came with one major thing besides speed…

He fired two bolts at the guards to the side, tackling the one in the middle.

Luna’s magic crushed the guards in her aura, dropping their broken bodies to the ground.

Einuli tore into the guard he tackled, ripping and tearing into the floran with ease. His armor barely managed to stop the augmented predator from ending his life.

The floran captain took the opportunity to tackle Einuli, before Luna could react she was attacked from the side, another guard coming right at her.

“You think you’ve won?” The captain growled. “I’ll return your body to them half-eaten… I won’t let a sssingle creature sssurvive on that pathetic planet!”

Einuli growled right back, fighting against the Floran’s own augmented strength.

Luna was having her own trouble, though that was simply because the floran attacking her simply didn’t let up.

“You won’t stop me…” Einuli growled. Immediately after that the sound of something letting out a lot of steam was heard. The blaster on Einuli’s left wrist was rapidly overheating, due inpart to Einuli purposefully damaging the heat sink by slamming it hard against the ground. “Get fucked you pile of shit.”

The floran captain attempted to escape, only to have the overheating wrist blaster slammed into his face, Einuli barely moving the rest of his body away in time before it exploded.

A mixture of Einuli and the floran’s blood splattered over the room. Einuli’s arm was torn apart by the shrapnel and due to the blast. But somehow, he clung to consciousness.

And like a warrior, running solely on a second wind, he rose up. The badly injured raptor stumbled over to the console connected to the reactor. Using his one remaining hand, he caused the reactors to dump their coolant.

The floran who had been wrestling with Luna was shaken to the very core by the sight of what he could only assume was a god given flesh -that being the Avali who had just survived a searing hot energy blaster being on his body, and the direct explosion it caused. “W… what a-are you…” He muttered.

Einuli slumped down, unable to stand any longer.

Luna took the opportunity to slam the Floran’s head against the wall, knocking him out.

She ran over to Einuli and scooped him up. He was breathing heavily and he appeared to be barely conscious.

Luna was utterly silent, she couldn’t believe her eyes, let alone what she had once thought.

“I-I told you… I’d p-protect…”

“Shh… Shh, you won’t have to say that… I’ll get you to safety.” Luna whispered, shushing him. “Now… how are we going to get out of this?”

“T… The v-vehicle… s-storage… e-even if… th-they’re old… i-it should survive a small en-enough explosion t-to launch us i-into space… a-and away from the ship…” Einuli mumbled.

Luna could feel the chilling temperature of his blood on her arm. If she didn’t move fast… he wouldn’t make it to the vehicle… let alone to any form of help.

“Alright…” Luna gave him a reassuring smile. “It… shouldn’t be hard to find.” She let out a small sigh, deep inside, she had lost all hope in leaving this ship alive. She knew nothing about it… at least Twilight, Celestia, and Cadance would be able to carry on without her.

She carried the injured raptor out, hoping she’d easily find this something they could at least survive in. Regardless of their dwindling time and chances… For her, she’d hope this would make up for what she said and did back in Equestria, at least… once they realized what she did.