Come into my web...

Date: September 5th 2014

Location: Equis, Country of Equestria, Canterlot

Time: 03:17

It was a beautiful night in Equestria.

The stars sparkled in the clear night sky and the moon shone dimly across the lush green land. Even Starswirl the Bearded would have found the sight breathtaking.

Sadly due to how late it was very few ponies were awake to witness the beauty, This always saddened Luna. She always felt like her nights where unappreciated by the populace of Equestria, Quickly she banished the thoughts from her mind.

'No, Such thoughts are what caused me to turn into Nightmare Moon all those years ago'

Bringing her mind back to the task at hand, Princess Luna began to finish her regular task of checking the dream realm of her subjects. The many ponies of Equestria never usually managed to surprise the Princess of the Night with what their minds could conjure up, however, there was the odd occasion where she was quite startled by what she had stumbled onto. Like that dream Applejack's elder sibling had where he was in a cave fighting against a ferocious dragon and wining!?, or that time she had entered into the dreamscape of Derpy Hooves, ponyville's resident mail mare, never before had she seen so many muffins in one place.

So caught up in her reminiscing of past experiences the princess didn't notice the unusually dark dream cloud until she bumped face first into it.

"Ouch!", Luna began to rub her nose with her hoof gingerly whilst examining the object she bumped into. 'Somepony's bad dream, well fear not my subject, I'm going to rid you of this ominous creation conjured by your mind'. her horn began to fill with magic before she touched it to the troubled dreamscape, what happened next was not what she had expected.

Her mind was instantly filled with images of ponies running and flying for their lives as gryphon soldiers flew over head and darted in between the streets of ponyville, Luna was to shocked to believe what she was witnessing. 'The Gryphon kingdom attacking Equestria, why?!' this question raced through her head just before a consistent sound of large hoof falls are heard by her over the noise of screaming ponies.

A giant bipedal creature rose up on to the hilltop to the east of the town, its large sleek, birdlike form dwarfing any creature Luna had seen before in her whole life, besides a dragon. The creature raised both its arms, which Luna could now see had what looked like barrels for arms, and they fired beams of pure light into the crowds of fleeing ponies.

"No, stop!" the princess yelled. Before Luna could attempt to change anything, the nightmare turned into a horror show. The creature turned its attention to her and it's weapons of light started to glow an ominous green. Luna tried to fly away but suddenly the sensation of searing heat across her wings and back made her cry out in pain and freeze up, she started to plummet uncontrollably to the ground.

She landed on her side with all the grace of a rock but started to try and rise on to her hooves, however, the ground started to shake violently and rhythmically. Luna hesitantly looked up into the barrel of one of the creatures terrifying weapons as it began to charge up, Feeling defeated Luna collapsed to the ground before hearing a distinct cold and monotone voice of a mare announce "Target destroyed". After that announcement a blinding flash and wave of heat hit Luna and she was promptly knocked out of the nightmare and back into the regular dreamscape.

Slowly but surly Luna razed herself back onto her hooves, "What in the name of Faust was that monster, and whom was the one that had created such a thing?!". She quickly tried to identify who the owner of the nightmare was, with a quick magical scan a name she hadn't heard of in a while appeared on the dream cloud.

'I must warn sister of this' with that thought in her head she started to use the magic tether stuck to her body to pull her mind back into that of her material form. Air rushed into her lungs as she jumped out of her dream state back into her regular body, she got up off of her bed and made her way to her sisters royal chambers.

location: Canterlot castle

time: 4:30 am

Bursting through the doors into her sisters room, Luna had forgone any formalities due to the severity of what she had witnessed. "Sister, it is most important we speak with you!", a grizzly tired voice was all that met her statement.

"Please, just five more minutes Lulu", the figure under the covers of the bed pleaded. "Sister this is no trivial matter, it is of the utmost importance we speak with you post haste, the fate of Equestria could hang in the balance!" At this sudden mention of possible danger Celestia stopped with the childish tired routine and shot out of her bed, a blinding flash illuminated the whole room, the light dimmed and Luna stood before Celestia adorned in her royal regalta.

"Luna, I trust this isn't some sort of prank to get back at me for that cake incident is it?", Celestia asked in her trademark stern motherly voice."No Tia. one of the ponies from ponyville, she had a very realistic nightmare". Celestia looked at Luna, a slightly annoyed expression starting to show on her face.

"Luna, all of this fuss over a dream?", Celestia deadpanned. "Sister we have traversed the dream realm for over a thousand years, we believe we can tell the difference between an ordinary nightmare and what I saw in that mares dream", Luna stated, feeling hurt at her sister's mistrust.

Celestia, seeing the hurt expression on Luna's face was quick to remedy the situation. "My apologies Lulu, I'm not thinking straight as its still quite early in the morning". Luna looked up at Celestia, "we are also sorry Tia for the rude awakening, It's just... the dream came from the mare every pony in ponyville tries to avoid". Celestia cocked an eyebrow at this, "do you mean Miss Light Spectre?", Luna slowly nodded.

Celestia let out a heavy sigh, "Do you know what happened to make the villagers of Ponyville scared of her?", Celestia asked her sister. "Well... we... no sister we hath not been told, we hath only heard roomers". Luna started to look ashamed at herself for being so prejudice of one of her subjects based on only the suspicion of others. The Princess of the Day let out another sigh 'Maybe I should have told Luna about this instead of keeping it a secret like Light asked me to'. With this thought in her head, Celestia turned to face Her sister.

"Luna, what I am about to tell you has to be kept a secret even from your personal guard, do you understand?" Luna nodded in understanding.

With the confirmation that she wouldn't be telling anypony about this Celestia began to recall the story behind the mare known as Light Spectre, she sighed, "It all started about 2 years ago..."

Date: September 6th 3059

Location: Planet Tharkad, onboard the Dropship Megalith out bound for the Nadir jump point to dock with the jump ship Chimera.

Time: 05:30

Nathan Ward was by any regular onlookers imagination, a standard Clansman. Being about as cocky as that of any young Clan MechWarrior with an average pilot build and a close shaven head of brown hair, The only abnormality was him being born with a condition which caused him to have one brick red coloured eye and one cyan blue coloured eye.

Other than that. He had lived the life of any normal clan warrior, who had been saved by a mercenary company after betraying those he once followed blindly, he was calm collected and always hated doing irrational and stupid things, including doing anything related to socialising with the mercenary scum he owed his life to and was forced to work with.

However the position he found himself in at this moment of time may just have undermined everything he convinced company commander Exodus put in his pilot dossier about being calm and collected.

But then again who could blame him, he was a Clans man after all born and raised for combat.

“Gaaah!”, Nathan yelled as he started rebounding off the exit to the Mech bay.

“You filthy FREEBORN!” Nathan lunged at his attacker intending to rip his head off.

However the figure that had attacked Nathan merely laughed and executed exact same manuver, pushing off the back of Nathan's Mad dog and yelling “you just had to insult me didn’t you!”

The two connected mid air and started ripping into each other, kicks and punches furring between the two men; this exchange went on for the better part of 5 minutes before an explosion happened and a darkened, covered in soot, smoking technician floated past.

“God damn it Jake!” the man who had been fighting Nathan yelled at the technician as he floated past with his left arm on fire.

“Hay at least I didn’t set off the inferno rounds in the Vulture’s side this time” The tech retorted as he floated by while patting his burning arm and trying to put out the fire, when finished he folded his arms over his chest and gave a look of amusement towards the two fighters his brown eyes focusing mainly on Nathan.

“So you ladies decided to kiss and makeup yet?” Jake retorted angering Nathan even more but garnering an audible laugh from the attacker, After the laughter subsided the older man looked over at Nathan.

“No but I believe the Lieutenant was about to apologise for calling me an inbred, freeborn whelp”, the man gave Nathan a glare with his dark crimson eyes.

Nathan sighed “Very well I concede the field and I apologise for simply pointing out what you are lance Commander Exodus”, he stated with a smug grin, however he regretted it after a right hook quickly collided with his cheek bone, after regaining his bearings and quickly rubbing the blood from his mouth Nathan shot his own glare at the half wolf half man who he had worked with for the last 10 years of his life.

“That bloody hurt you stravag!”, Nathan winced as that little outburst had just reviled his British base accent. Both Exodus and Jake looked at him their faces struggling to hold in the laughter, their faces couldn’t hold it in any longer “HAHAHA”, both men rolled backwards in the 0G environment of the Dropship not being able to control their tumbling due to the laughter.

Nathan grunted as he proceeded to leave through the bay exit, however as he did he looked back at Exodus and Jake and gave them an evil smile “Don’t worry gents, It’s only my turn on watch duty at the next base camp", at that both Exodus and Jake froze.

“Best check your rooms for any surprises in the coming nights”, he smiled as his last sentence had the desired effect, However as he left he thought at the way he had talked to the two mercenaries, and then winced as he thought of what Natasha Kerensky would have done too him if she caught him speaking with such contractions.

He made his way to the kitchen of the mess area or what would class as a kitchen on the faily large sized union class Dropship, He turned a hall to find it only had one occupant and that occupant was Chris Blaze, Chris turned to look at Nathan “Greetings Chris, how is the meal” Nathan said trying to sound calm; he didn’t know why but something about Chris unsettled him, the guy was about the same age as Exodus with blue eyes and close shaven brown hair, however he was not a boastful pilot, mostly keeping to himself unless combat called for him to communicate with the lance on rare occasion.

Chris looked at Nathan, then he nodded no emotion showing on his face, “If I didn’t know any better id say the Stravag is enjoying this a bit too much” Nathan thought to himself as he tried to stop a loud gulp but failed.

“GULP”, the room went silent once again as Chris once again looked at Nathan but this time a smirk was crested on his face. Nathan just slowly edged around the seated man and made his way to the fridge.

After Nathan's little exploration in the kitchen fridge and mess area he decided to go for a stroll back towards the Mech bay, however he decided on not making his way there just yet as a females voice bellows out throughout the ship “1 mike until we latch with the jumpship, Captain Gale out”, with that Nathan decided to make his way to the observation deck which was much closer than the Mech bay.

Nathan had always hated the docking procedure with jumpships, as the sudden jolt usually meant he had to put a death grip on whatever was close by to stop himself from face planting the floor, wall or ceiling in the 0G environment. However the one thing he did like about the docking with the jumpship was the jumping from system to system process, it only lasted for a split second but the sight was one to behold, Nathan strapped himself into one of the observation area’s chairs preparing for the sudden jump through the hole that was to be ripped in space.

“Megalith docked, Jumpship Chimera jumping out system in 3..."

"2..."

"1..."

"Mark”.

For a split second, brightness unlike anything Nathan had witnessed in a jump before had enveloped his whole vision. A rainbow of colours swirled around the two ships then everything went Black as Nathan passed out from the Extreme G-forces being forced on his body as did the Crews of both ships.

Date: 6th September 3059
Time: 14:00
Location: Oberon, Pirate controlled space, on board the union class dropship Fenris

Commander Alexander Blake stared into the deepness of space, it was a beautiful sight and it almost reminded him of the time when he was just a young boy full of innocence.

The Commander was interrupted from his train of thought when a Coms officer young man not even in his 20’s yet ran into the Commanders quarters, forgoing any formalities the boy panted and struggled to catch his breath.

“gahh... *pant*... *pant*... Commander... the marc’s... th...they just jumped... *pant*... away from Tharkad” the man managed to finally blurt out.

“Is that all?” Alexander asked him, his tone cold and calculating as space itself.

“*pant*... yes sir” the boy finally caught his breath and said.

“Hmm... very well I shall make my way to the bridge then” the Commander said as he passed the teenage boy, however as Alexander was about to pass the boy he turned with something in his hand.

“And corporal...”Alex said in a very low voice.

“yes si...”the guy never finished his sentence as a bright lance of pure ruby hit him in his left temple and he collapsed to the ground in a heap, blood oozing from the charred hole in the side of his head.

“Never walk into my room and talk too me, without showing proper military respect” the Commander growled to the now deceased Coms officer on the floor in the middle of his doorway, Alexander paid it no heed as he kicked the corps aside, holstered his laser pistol and began his march up to the bridge of the Dropship.

“Time for the hunt to begin” he thought to himself as he continued his leisurely march towards the Bridge.

“Soon Shadow Lance, I shall have my vengeance”, He said quietly to himself a smug grin begin to form.

Author's Note

BT:FiF chapter 1 version 2.01a (fist bump/hoof bump if you get the reference )
criticism is welcome, if see any mistakes that bother you just let me know in the comments and I shall get them sorted out ASAP.

Phantom: haha, told you id get this done as soon as possible :D
???: yeah, and now your hours behind on your coarse work and studies, congrats }:(
Phantom: *low grumble* I got some of it done, you damn mares are impossible to please
???: what was that?
Phantom: nothun to be concerned about ;)
???: with you, I've always gotta be concerned >:(
Phantom: oh hoh hoh, it seems you've changed gender and decided to grow a pair... *whack*
???: and it appears you just decided to lose some ;)
Phantom: *quietly wheezing whilst rolling on the floor*