Pony Alert 1

Chapter 5: Solar Empire 3: Spells of Doom

Location: Solar Empire, Outskirts of Helios City, Horn of the Sun secret lab.

"And here you have one of my personal favorites, the Pyro battle-saddle."Before the two unicorns was a battle saddle with two big tanks upon it. A hose led from the tanks into a gun pipe. "Demonstrate project Pyro". A mannequin with a the uniform of a crystal soldier appeared out from a hatch in the floor. "Fire!"

"Swoosh"

The mannequin erupted in flames instantly and in seconds the only trace was the pike helmet it had worn on its head.

"As you see the Pyro saddle is ineffective against all armor but it melts flesh in seconds and it also have a big mental impact on ponies. It tends to cause panic among the enemy lines."

"Amusing"

"Indeed, I wish we had any live test subjects but they ran out the last week."

"What a shame."

"Couldn't agree more. Anyway the only disadvantage with the Pyro is the highly volatile chemicals in the tanks. If a bullet where to penetrate them it will explode and create big chaos among our own lines. That's why Pyro´s always work together with other infantry and never with other Pyro´s. I they where to stand next to each other when a tank exploded it would cause a catastrophic chain reaction, who now's how big explosion it would create. You know it's so ironic, the crystal ponies invented the first flamer saddle. They defeated the former Northcolt Empire with it. And now we use it to burn them down instead."

"Ironic and pathetic!"

"Yes, and you shall now that most of our weaponry are based on crystal pony weapons from the first war. Our submarines, the chemicals and gasses we use. All of it based on reverse engineered crystal pony weaponry. Once upon a time they where as mighty as we are now, but now they are a pathetic peace loving nation just waiting to be burnt of the map of Equestria."

Trixie turned around and saw a tower of some sorts. On it were four gun pipes similar to the Pyro saddle but much bigger. "What's this?"

"Aah my infamous flame tower. After you introduced your Trixie Coils i bet these will go to the scrapyard. they would be deadly, only if it had fired faster. In almost all of the tests the subjects dodged the fire. Definitely one of my worst creations."

They continues walking down the lab. They then comes to a large tank with two cannons.

"And over here you have the backbone of all our tank divisions, the Heavy Buck tank. It´s pretty expensive but it punches through any Allied armor so it´s definitely worth it. And now we have come to the masterpiece of this tour. My very own design and idea, the Alicorn Heavy Assault tank." Before them was a huge tank with two heavy cannons and mounted missile systems on the sides. "It destroys anything and anypony in it´s way in seconds. The twin cannons fire two heavy blast of armor piercing shells that devastates any structure or vehicle and the twin rocket launchers on each side are packed with the same chemicals as our Pyro resulting in a complete incineration of anypony stupid enough to be in it´s way. The rockets also track moving targets so not even a quick airborne Pegasi can avoid it´s missiles."

"The great and powerful Trixie is impressed by this tour. Trixie have indeed underestimated you Sunset."

"You are too kind Trixie. Now when you know our work I am in need of your assistance, with our two most advanced weapons yet. Follow me."

They continued walking through the facility going past several test chambers and laboratories alike. One of them caught Trixie´s attention. She stopped in front of a huge glass window. Inside it was a lab, where unicorns in same uniforms as Sunset where conducting experiments on ponies laying on surgical tables. The only difference from their uniforms where that these ponies whore gas masks over their faces. On the walls of the lab hung several canisters containing different green fluids.

"What´s going on in there?"

"That is one of our longest and biggest research projects. We are trying to find several ways to create superweapons using toxins and radiation alike. By combining the two murderous elements we have gained the best of results. Sadly we have very big problems to build a weapon of them. The product melts any kind of weapon we have tried it with."

"Cant you just build weapons out of those canisters you keep the fluid in?"

"Those canister are magically protected by an anti-rad/toxic field generated by our own power plants, and if you would apply that field on a gun or tank that would require it to have it´s own power plant installed and that is practically impossible.

"Trixie weaponry runs on self sustained power. With the aid of the great and powerful Trixie i'm sure we could build..."

"Yes i'm shure we could but that´s not why you are here, no Celestia got something even better planned for you. Come with me."

"Before we leave the great and powerful Trixie insists on seeing the results of this weapon!"

"Sigh.. Alright" Sunset spoke into a tiny mic coming out of her uniform. "Use Toxic Meltdown upon test subject 5."

"But sir these are our last test subjects!"a unicorn in the lab replied.

"Well the problem isn't really the fluid's effect now is it? It's how we going to turn it into a weapon! Idiot do as I say or i'l use you as our next test subject!.

"Of course sir."The unicorns horn started glowing and he brought forward a syringe filled with the green fluid. He walked forwards to one of the surgical tables and injected the fluid into the pony lying there.

"Prepare for the show of your life!" Sunset said to Trixie Proudly.

The pony on the table started to shake violently and his white coat was transformed into a pale green color. His mane hair started to fall of. He started to cough violently and both blood and pus came out of his nose and mouth. Big yellow boils started to appear all over his body which kept growing until they exploded. Pus spat out from the exploded boils. His skin began to melt from his bones and a moment later only the bones remained in a pile of green slime mixed with pus. Even though the glass window where keeping most of the sound out it was hard to not hear the agony from the poor pony.

"Impressive and it really entertains the great and powerful Trixie."

"Yes but now we really need to get on with our work we're on a tight schedule you know, we only have a week before the invasion starts and Celestia want us to be done by then. If you don´t remember you are being send into the middle of enemy territory."

"The great and powerful Trixie never needs to be reminded of her importance!"

"Great then follow me."

They continued through the facility until they reached a circular door. In the middle of the door was a lock that used a unicorns horn as a key. Beside the door stood two guards on each side. They wore the same royal uniforms as the palace guards but they where in the same toxic green as Sunset's uniform. They also wore gas masks on their faces. They both greeted Sunset.

"Welcome back sir!"

"Well thank you my handsome guards." She walked forward to the keyhole an put her horn into it. The door began to shine and suddenly the door opened and behind it was a huge lab.

In one end of the lab stood a giant black globe supported by three metal poles. Several cords and wires connected the globe with several generators beside it. On the other side of the room stood a giant missile that you could only see the top of. The rest of the missile went down under the floor to the lower levels. A staircase beside the missile went down to those levels. Several chemical laboratory devices and computers where spread throughout the lab

"Trixie welcome to my personal lab. These two are our top priority this week and i expect that we will make Celestia proud by completing them before her deadline." She pointed at the globe and the missile.

"What are they?"

"The orb you see over there is the Iron coat project. It is supposed to harden a specific tank or structure by applying a magical super barrier, making it resistant to all enemy fire for an amount of time. Sadly I've had big problems with applying the effect on big objects. I was hoping you could help me change that." She then pointed at the missile."The giant missile you see over there is what i call Celestia´s Kiss. It´s basically supposed to be a giant bomb, able to destroy whole cities within seconds with the use of chemicals resulting in a giant inferno."

"Let me guess you need the great and powerful Trixie´s help to finish that too? Figured that you needed my genius to complete these weapons. " Trixie gave a cocky smile to Sunset Shimmer.

Sunset Shimmer looked very annoyed over Trixie's boasting."Yes I have had great complications to get the chemicals to cause the proper fire effects that Celestia wishes for. But then again two minds work twice as fast as one so i think you and I will solve it easily."

"Trixie appreciates your faith in her, and trust Trixie when she says she will finish these weapons for you." Trixie looked over at the giant weapons with her green robot eye.

"With me, not for me..." Sunset Shimmer looked like she wanted to burn Trixie alive.

"Trixie must ask, where do you test these weapons?"

"Well the Iron coat i use on any kinds of small metal object and then i try to attack it with a energy blast from my horn. They always resist my spells but the effect cant be applied on bigger objects. Celestia´s kiss I test at our secret testing grounds."

"And where is that?"

"Well I do have several of them but most are located in annexed lands like your own country Juggomaneia."

"This amuses Trixie to see her pathetic homeland covered in flames. But Trixie must ask, do you test them outside?"

"Why yes of course, how would i otherwise see the results of it? I have had whole towns evacuated just to test my weapons. It's the best part of this job, well except when I can melt ponies with a blast of magic from my horn. That is slightly more amusing." Sunset Shimmer smiled a cruel smile.

"And you don´t think the Allies would find out about it? You do know that they have spies everywhere." Trixie looked down on Sunset Shimmer. The height differences between the two unicorns made Sunset look like a little filly next to Trixie's giant robot body.

"Haha oh my no, Me and my men go in and warn the ponies that an enemy attack is imminent. And then after everypony is evacuated we launch our weapon on the town. Afterwards we tell the ponies that it was a new Allied weapon that was launched and voila we got like a hundred new recruits. And you shall know that the allies have their spies in the wrong places. They are really in the wrong places if they want to find anything of importance to report to their leaders. It's so amusing that Celestia allows them to live "

"Brilliant! Fooling ponies to fight for you at the same time as you test your weapons."

"Yes it is, I find it amusing that everypony believes anything you say to them. If I said it was Luna who had brought down the moon upon them they would believe that without even giving it a second thought, ponies put way to much trust in their governments."

"Well ponies are idiots."

"True story, with the exceptions of unicorns such as you and me."

Trixie's metal half of her horn started to glow. But instead of the normal unicorn magic aura, lightning sparks appeared that of the same type as a Trixie Coil. She grabbed one of the several notepads on a table next to the Iron Coat generator. "Now Trixie wants to put her genius to work on these spells of doom!"