Martians In Equestria

Chapter 12

Martian And Pony (Part 1)

Last time we saw our Martian friends, Wacko's breakable Fighting Machine could only walk about for about a mile until it stopped. On one such moment with his Tripod, a large flock of Wonderbolts charged at the Martians in a last ditch attempt to stop them. If only they had read the script to this story and knew what Heat Rays could do, they were reduced to nothing but piles of ash that drifted gently down to the ground. Probably the worse Kamikaze attack in the history of anything.

Thankfully, Wacko's machine started working again and they were soon on their way to Canterlot…only for the tripod to pack in again. To say by this point that the former squad leader was pissed off at the highest was probably the biggest 'no shit' moment ever. Those Europa made batteries had been the bane of the Martian's lives and had been a terrible running joke throughout this story, however, instead of trying to bring the battery back to life, they instead replaced it with back up Titan batteries.

The Titan batteries were not meant for the machines and were only used to power other parts such as power for temporary bases and such. But as these Europa batteries were getting on the Martian's tits, they couldn't stand it much more. Unlike the Europa type, the Titan batteries worked like a dream and from then on, there were no further breakdowns for the Martians.

And so they followed the rail tracks that they presumed led to the city of Canterlot. Inside one of the Handling Machines, Torno and Abaztard were sitting towards the rear of the machine having a secret conversation with one another.

"I still feel pretty bad about him though," Torno said to his fellow spy (by the way have any of you noticed that they've hardly done any spy work in this story?) "I mean, he's been put through hell at this rate from the King and all."

Abaztard shook his head. "True, but if it weren't for all this crazy shit that's happened to us since we got here, It would've been all hunky-dory and the mission would've been much easier."

Torno grunted agreeing with him as he slowly looked over to the driver of the Machine following the other Martian Machines. All of a sudden, something dawned on him and looked back at Abaztard, who was heading over to the front to take a seat near the front.

"Wait a second…' Torno muttered.

"Huh? What's up now?" Replied the other Martian spy.

Torno opened his beak but then closed it and shook his large cranium head, as it was nothing. "Sorry, nothing at all."

Abaztard didn't buy the reaction. "Look man, no point lying, I can see something's up with you. Go on and spill it out."

Torno bit his bottom beak and sighed. Like himself, being a spy, Abaztard was great at acting all Hawkeye around reactions, then again this is a spy trick that Torno, being the slight dumbass as he is, had forgotten about.

"Fine alright," Torno growled slightly in defeat. "It's a bit crazy mind, don't think that…well…"

"Go on," Abaztard encouraged his friend.

Torno looked over towards the pilot area, then back towards his fellow spy. "Well…have you noticed that since we got here…we've had fuck all to do here? Surely the King would've given us something to do like investigating the surroundings and such."

Following the words that came out of Torno, silence filled the inside of that Handling Machine, the sound being that of the mechanical devices working flat out. Then after that short bout of silence, in which Abaztard thought over at what Torno's notion was about.

"…Now that you've mentioned it…" Abaztard muttered. "King Abanazer hasn't really given us anything to do, and the only thing that we did do was by Wacko himself. Was the king trying to…surely not, really?"

The other spy sighed as he turned round and started shuffling along (the heavy gravity of this planet really effecting them) towards the front. Was Abazaner's plan was to get the spies killed on this mission? He only hoped that he was only a brain fart moment he was having with that theory.

Suddenly, the machine started vibrating and became worse and worse by every second.

"The hell?" Came the voice of the Handling Machine pilot.

"What's happening?!" Cried out a voice on the radio from one of the Handling Machines.

Quickly, the two spies sprinted towards the front to take a look through the green bug-like eye windows. Through the window they could see that the other machines had stopped and that they were shaking too from the vibration from all around them.

An earthquake?

Suddenly, there was a loud sonic boom that echoed across the land, and looking up, there in the sky…was another Martian space craft roaring through the sky as it left a trail of fire and a greenish mist behind it. However the Abaztard and Torno, this wasn't just yet another Martian cylinder, this craft was much larger than the others that had already landed previously. They knew that this was a special type, and it could only mean one thing…

As the craft roared overhead and headed westwards towards a mountain range, the vibrations in the ground became less and less as the spaceship went further away from them. The Handling Machine pilot watched the Martian spaceship head towards the horizon and turned to face the two spies.

"Well, looks like more reinforcements are on the way," he informed them, but was surprised to see that Abaztard and Torno had their bottom beaks hanging down in shock. "Err, guys? What's the matter?"

"…That's not more reinforcements," Abaztard uttered in shock.

"He's here," Torno added, their eyes kept fixed on that craft. "…The king has landed."

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While the Martians seem to be taking up this story, you'll be pleased to hear that we now head over back to our pony friends. By this point, it seemed that everpony from the south and west had all evacuated to Canterlot. By the way off topic here, but with Canterlot being built right in the centre of Equestria, with no disrespect here to it's creators, but it's surely a bad idea to be built there? After all, it is kind of is an easy target for enemies. Then again who cares? The Martians will prove this theory hopefully.

All around Canterlot, the evacuated ponies could at least at this point have a chance to calm down and have a chance to reunite with love ones that they would've been split in the retreat to Canterlot. Thankfully boys and girls, you'll be pleased to hear that, by the author being too lazy to write for this part, the Mane six and Spike had managed to reunited with each other.

Whoopee-fucking-do.

Another interesting point to note was that once again, the captain of the guard, Shining Armor, had placed up the large pink protective sphere just like during the Royal wedding. No doubt guessing that they were preparing to face of the Martians…but after seeing how weak it was during the Royal wedding, which we all know what happened then, one could probably be asking themselves how it'll work this time. Ah well, guess it does help keep the population of Canterlot calm from invading Martians from another planet.

"Everypony line up!" Cried out the voice of Shining Armor as he walked along one of the castle walls with a large number of royal guards all lining up on command and preparing to defend the city.

On a rather blundering note of Shining's part, he hadn't a clue of what his troops of swords and plate armor would be up against. They had heard rumours of giant tripod machines and strange brown creatures that were said to have the faces of an asshole. Nevertheless it was at least a good thing to try and make a stand to these invaders.

"Shining!" Yelled out a female voice from the ground. As the white unicorn looked down, there was his sister Twilight Sparkle and her friends, all of them looking worried.

Upon seeing them, he quickly rushed down the steps to join them. "Twily," Shining uttered tenderly as he embraced his sister into a tight hug. "After I heard about what happened to Ponyville—"

"Wait what?" Twilight interrupted as she pulled away giving her brother a confused expression, the others behind her giving similar looks. "What's happened?"

Shining Armor sighed sadly. "I'm sorry but…we got word here that Ponyville…was razed to the ground. Nothing remains...I'm sorry."

The Mane six and Spike gasped in horror. Fluttershy and Rarity burst into tears (which Spike, also being shocked and upset, held Rarity close to him), Rainbow Dash and Applejack freaked out and Pinkie Pie's puffy pink mane became deflated and she went into her sadder state. Twilight Sparkle could only remain speechless as her eyes went wide as dinner plates.

"Ponyville…gone?" She uttered in disbelieve, still coming to grips with the truth.

"I'm sorry," Shining replied sadly with a mournful look on his face. "What's more important thankfully is that you're here and safe."

The purple unicorn then looked up along the castle wall and gazed at the row of royal guard ponies waiting to fight.

She quickly turned her gaze down at her brother. "Are they all here for the-?"

"Yes," Shining corrected, he himself also turning round to admire the impressive array of troops.

The others all looked at each other in horror. "They can't be here for that!" Twilight gasped.

"What'd you mean?" Shining asked in a slight worrying manner.

"They have these giant three legged machines that can pick up ponies and bash them against trees!" Twilight informed.

"I've hearing a lot about those tripod things," Shining agreed in a slightly doubtful manner. "What are these…'Martians' like?" he said with an emphasis on the word 'Martians'.

"Ugly looking things!" Rainbow Dash said out loud.

"Huge!" Applejack added.

"Such ugly brutes!" Rarity said in her typical dramatic way by placing her forehoof on the side of her face.

"One was even having a shave!" Pinkie Pie called out looking scared. The others though all looked back at her and gave her perhaps the best 'wtf?' looks that you could ever hope to see. 'Huh? Didn't anypony noticed that back at—"

"Captain!" Yelled a male voice, interrupting Pinkie Pie's story. The voice belonged to a sergeant guard pony. He quickly rushed up to Shining Armor before taking a few gasps of air from his running. This stallion was a red stallion Earth pony along with a white mane and blue eyes…just saying that for those readers who like to know everything.

"What's the matter?" Shining Armor inquired.

"The Martians!" The sergeant cried. "Six thousand of their…tripod things…are coming this way!"

The captain of the guard remained calm despite what he heard, though he did have a burning question for the sergeant stallion. "Wait, what about the Wonderbolts we sent?"

"Missing," the red stallion uttered sadly and lowered his head.

Behind Shining Armor, the others could only listen in dismay at what they had heard, six thousand of these machines, all heading towards Canterlot? Only a handful of them simply wiped out Ponyville. They had either their hearts in their mouths or had their insides turned into ice. And for Rainbow Dash, the thought of the Wonderbolts, her great idols, all wiped out perhaps seemed almost unthinkable.

For the white unicorn there, he remained at ease and shook of any worries and doubts that he might've had. "Sergeant," He said coolly. "How long do you think they'll be here?"

The sergeant bit his bottom lip and looked up towards the large amount of troops standing alongside of the wall waiting for the invaders. "Not sure…they probably be here within the next fifteen minutes roughly speaking."

Shining nodded calmly, seriously though, how the hell can he be so calm with the planet on the verge of falling for the Martians? Maybe he's just trying to look cool in front of the ladies…even though he's a married stallion, but hey-ho.

"Well get up there and join the rest!" Shining ordered pointing up at the wall.

"Aye sir!" the sergeant said and quickly ran up the stairs to join his fellow troops.

Shining then turned round at the already revolted looking set of friends. "Now then, I want to get to the—"

"You idiot!" Twilight snapped and started shaking her older brother angrily. "You don't understand what you're up against!"

At once, Shining drew back from his sister with his facial expression being one of irritation. "Listen girls!" He ordered

"And guy," Spike added stingily.

"I want you to get a hold of the elements of harmony," Shining continued. "I'm not sure they'll be needed, but use them as our backup."

A sonic boom filled the air and everypony looked up towards the heavens to see another Martian cylinder racing towards the west, just about ten miles it seemed away from the city. Shining promptly looked back at the others. "Also, make sure Cadence, Celestia and Luna are safe."

Strangely to him, the seven friends looked at each other with great reluctance, all of them thinking that this battle for the city was already lost. "Do I make myself clear?!" He snapped, causing them to uttered several unwilling agreements and started running towards the castle part in the city.

With them now gone, Shining hurriedly rushed the stairs to join his fellow troops. "Alright stallions of Canterlot!" He called out. "Today is for us to fight like never before, no matter whoever they are, we'll show them what the might of Equestria can do!"

After his short rallying cry, every solider stallion remained silent as they waited for the Martians.

They waited…

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And they waited…

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They waited even more.

The tension was almost unbearable. Many of these stallions (or anyone else who lived in Canterlot) knew nothing about what these Martians were like. Through the protective shield they had protecting the city, nothing out there could be seen out there on the green fields that surrounded the city.

Had the Martians planned for a sneak attack?

Had the Martians gotten lost?

Had the Martians found some sexy looking alien girls and started having an almighty orgy with them?

…Ok probably the latter was unlikely, but you get the idea. Meanwhile up watching from the balcony, the three alicorn princesses all looked down below them.

"Do we have a chance?" Luna asked her older sister.

Celestia closed her eyes and sighed sadly. "...Impossible to say."

But there has to be a way!" Cadence replied with a tinge of hopefulness in her voice. "Equestria can't just fall to these creatures from…"

She stopped when she felt the ground vibrating slightly and the added sound of machines in the distance.

And no prizes to guess who it was.

Down below along the city walls, Shining armor drew up his stallions to be ready for the Martian's arrival. Then in the distance and walking closer to them slowly, there they could six thousand Fighting Machines and Handling Machines all lining up preparing to take the city by force.

Now Shining Armor felt within as he saw the monstrous machines standing side by side by each other. The troops began murmuring to each other, thinking that the sight of the giant machines made them want to retreat. "Hold your ground!" Shining ordered in an attempt to…well, hold ground their ground.

With the Martians now all lined up, the commanding Martian in his Fighting Machines gazed at the city and it's strange looking purple sphere. "How puny," The commanding Martian muttered to himself. Then he grabbed his radio microphone and prepared for the first battle.

He took one last look at the city before yelling into the radio set. "Alright boys, those in the front line, OPEN FIRE!"

And with that said, the tripods in the front row began firing their heat rays towards the purple shield to test to see how strong it really was. Much to their surprise on both sides, the heat ray attacks simply were absorbed into the shield like water.

For a minute, the Martians continually firing on all cylinders trying to break down the so call 'puny shield' that the commanding Martian had said not so long ago. They kept going, but many of them could see that this wasn't getting them anywhere.

"CEASE FIRE!" The commanding Martian barked out towards his fellow comrades. Almost immediately, they stopped and for the Ponies, it was nothing short of a rest bite for them. They could at least say that they had the upper hand during the first part of the battle.

The commanding Martian sat in his cockpit pondering what to try next. Then he had an idea. "Handling Machines!" He barked out through the radio microphone, this time to the Handling Machines pilots. "Head up that purple shield thing try and break it down up close!"

Just as he ordered, the Handling Machines started snaking their way through the tripods long legs and headed out towards the city. Now the ponies should've been bracing themselves for the smaller machines arrival, however their attention was caught by something that was happening towards their left.

There in the distance, was another squad of Martian machines heading to fall in with the rest of the lined up Martians. For the readers, our old hero Martians, Wacko's lot, had finally turned up, though they were about to turn the battle on it's head.

In his cockpit, Wacko could finally breath a sigh of relive that they had arrived. Just as he was preparing to line however, something went wrong with his Tripod.

It wouldn't stop!

The Titan batteries they had replaced for the power source for the machine had proved to be too powerful and now was on a collision course with the protective shield. "Shit, shit, shit, shit!" Wacko muttered in a panic as he tried every device in that cockpit to try and stop it…not even using the most obvious thing, the break, could help.

By now, the other Martians could see the runaway tripod, but assumed it was a rouge troop gone mad.

"I said Handling Machines you fucking nut case!" The commanding Martian yelled out.

But it was no use. The Handling Machines heading towards Canterlot could only look up and try and get out of the way as Wacko's tripod was aiming on a collision course. Seeing just the purple shield in front of him, Wacko shut his eyes and braced himself for impact.

Then with a glass shattering sound, the tripod crashed through the shield and crashed into the mountain face, covering the area in a cloud of dust. The shield now had been broken into thousands of glass like pieces that fell all around the ponies.

In the mind of everypony there, one thing was for certain; every one of them knew that they were…well…fucked.