Rise of the Imperial Pony Empire

Location: Arthos, IPE,

Operation: Sun-Fall

The city of Arthos. Proud, beautiful, and loud. It was an industrial powerhouse, and home to most of the factories in the IPE. It held the second biggest base in the IPE.

Now the army was only going to get bigger.

The SE assault army was to enter the city, combine with the garrison in Arthos and wait for orders the attack from high command. The SE Operation army was a good 750,000 strong, combined with the Garrison makes it almost a Million.

It was a force to be reckoned with.

They entered the base within the city and set up to wait. The command center was set near the middle. It held, of course, the Commander and his officers. Also, next to it was the messenger post. Troopers would come in and out of there holding letters from loved ones or delivering to them. The base had 50 barracks buildings that could hold just over a million, they were well ready for more troops. The Mess hall was massive. I took a large amount of the base in the back. The whole base was surrounded by walls with towers at certain points.

The Commander was sitting in his office checking charts and documents given to him, when an messenger enters. He looks up from his work to her. She hands him the letter before leaving the command center. Commander Mirroring Heat removes the seal and begins to read the new letter.

Dear Commander Heat,

You have a green light on the Operation of Sun-Fall. We want you to move as soon as possible to attack when the other Commander, Marrow, makes his move. He got this letter as well.

For the Imperium, High Gen. DeathFury

Heat sighs as he puts down the letter. "We were only here for 2 days and now we have to move out?" he asks the air. He stays silent for a time till talking again. "Well, we might as well get moving." He gets up from his seat in the CC, (Command Center), office to the door to the base outside. Upon his exiting, both guards posted outside salute on instinct. He heads out to the broadcast station to relay the news to the camp.

He enters the Broadcast station to meet with the broadcaster, Thunder Charmer. She looks up from the station setup to Heat and salutes to him.

"At ease." he orders.

"What is it you want sir?" She asks.

"I just got orders to move out and head to the front, I need you to broadcast to the base to pack up and get ready."

"It will be done."

"Good, I will leave you to it." he says leaving the place. He inhales the air outside of the center. "Well, lets get ready." he says quietly to himself and moves back to his office.

Location: North of CloudsDale

"Welcome to Cloudsdale troops." Heat says facing them with the floating city behind him. "I want the balloons up an ready for out attack. Unicorns cast the spell to make our non-Pegasi walk on clouds." He turns to the engineers of the army as the others do their thing.

"Get the WAM-1A up and ready for use. We just got it from High command, lets put it to good use."

Hours of preparations later

Heat was overlooking the final preparations when a engineer trots up to him. "The WAM is ready, sir." he informs.

Heat looks at him, "Good lead me to it."

"Yes sir."

Heat follows the engineer to where the WAM was located. Keep in mind that this is only a 1A line, first in its class. The camp was almost ready, balloons were in the sky only held down by ropes to the ground, unicorns were casting the spell for the troops in lines. The WAM was located in the middle of the camp, originally draped in a large tarp, it was now reveled to the commander.

It was a large Quadleg Mech. It had enchanted gems on the bottom of its legs so it can be on clouds. It had a large rectangular body with four box like parts sticking out of the side in the back and front were the legs go. The legs had large springs on it so that it could jump to incredible heights, not as high as Cloudsdale sadly but enough to reach the cloud path to it that floats off the ground. The body had a large engine run on steam in the rear. The cockpit was sitting in the front of the body slightly higher than it. It had four turrets for the ponies to protect it, one on the top, for air defense above it, on the sides, and one on the bottom. The height was taller than four Celestias stacked.  It was an ugly but beautiful piece of tech.

"Well, lets start it up shall we?" Heat says while going up the latter to it. "Common engineers, lets get in." he orders and opens up the hatch to get in.  Shortly after the engineers follow short and sit with the commander in the WAM. Heat gets a good look around it from the inside. "Not very roomy is it?" he comments, getting sounds of agreements. "Well lets start her up!" the engineer starts to turn switches and press buttons resulting in a loud sound and rumble of an steam engine.

He looks over the co-pilot who nods the lets go. "That there is to move forward and the small hatch above you is so you can look out as you move to see more clearly." he informs Heat who nods.

Heat opens the small hatch above him and looks out over the camp. The troopers were all watching the WAM take its first step. Sighing quietly Heat move the lever forward, "Here we go."

The reaction was slow but the front left and the rear right leg started to move the Mech forward eventually. Once the mech set its first legs down the next ones moved forward with it. The sound of cheers from the troops start up as the mech moves with its commander. He stops the Mech to look down at them.

"It is time we strike at them! Get to your balloons and grab yer gear! We are going to war! For the Imperium! For the Empress!" He yells out as they scramble to prepare. He keeps the Mech moving to the cloud path leading to Cloudsdale.

Location: Cloudsdale, SE

Some little colts and filly's were playing around outside with a hoofball when the ground started to shake every so often. They dismissed it till a stronger, much closer one sounded till they stopped. They started to back away from the location of the sound was coming from and started to run to their parents who were watching them from the benches nearby.

They too stopped to listen and watched.

The whole city seemed quiet but the sounds of heavy stomping.

Then, it appeared. The great beast from below that was somehow walking on clouds, jumped up from the road ending a few feet away from the parents of the foals. The reaction was immediate. A mare screamed at the monster that walked upon them as balloons came up from the cloud floor and land on the road, depositing the troops they carried.

Heat was watching the Parents from the safety of the WAM cockpit. "Lets move out." he informs the driver. He switched seats to keep a look out for any SE troops. The Balloons were dropping off the troopers from below. They trotted with the WAM, keeping a lookout from the ground.

Each squad of Troopers had at least one unicorn to keep them from falling through the clouds. The pegasi Troopers had no worry of falling. Every balloon had one squad, at 25 troopers it was a large balloon. They would go up, then come back down for more troopers.

The WAM moves forward with thundering steps down the road of Cloudsdale, alerting all indoors of their presence. So much, that even the garrison could hear it.

Minutes after entering the city, the roads to the path of the WAM was blocked with pegasus guards, ready for action. One steps forward to dress the WAM. "What are you doing here? You are disturbing the peace and breaking the alliance agreement!" he yells up.

All the IPE troopers aim their rifles at the pegasi troops making them stand at the ready. Heat responds by the speaker in the WAM, "We know of the alliance, and what better way to break it for our Empress than to attack the SE?" The WAM's turrets turn to the crowd of SE troops and commander. The SE commander's eyes go wide before he is shot to bits by the WAM's turrets.

Seeing their commander get obliterated by the IPE and the breaking of the agreement, causes them to get enraged and charge to IPE troopers with a war cry. Heat just sighs and smiles as his troopers open fire upon the SE. "Well this will be over quick." he says. His turret gunners open fire as well, creating a hailstorm of rounds at the SE troops.

The battle lasted only 15 minutes. There was something new the SE had, they managed to develop a rifle. More like a musket than a IPE rifle. Heat realized this when they started fighting for he saw smoke come from the SE troops from behind. How he had not seen this before, he does not know, but he must send word to the Empress immediately.

The rest of the city was overrun by the IPE mass numbers. It was a very short battle for the city of Cloudsdale for it only had about half of its original garrison, making it a quick battle.

The WAM was dropped back to the ground below the city where the non-pegasi ponies sat. The pegasi stayed in the city. Of course the population was terrified of them. They just took them over with sheer force. IPE guards patrolling the streets kept them from rebelling against them.

One victory, only a whole nation to go.

Location: Arthrenia, IPE

Rose was laying in her bed reading, as always. When little Morning Dawn starts to wine and cry getting Rose's attention. She groans and sets her book down to get up to her little filly in the cradle in her room.

"I'm coming. Mommy's coming." she says as she trots over to her and looks down at her from her cradle. She puts a hoof down for Dawn to play with which she grabs with her tiny hooves and coos adorably. Rose giggles, "Why are you so cute?" Dawn giggles in response as well.

Morning Dawn, the offspring of Fury and Rose. Born after one year of the founding of the IPE. She had the eyes of Fury and the coat of Rose, as well as being a pegasus. Her hair was a combo of Rose and Fury, a blue and red mix.

Rose was still playing with Dawn when a knock on her door sounds through her chambers. "Come in." she says without looking up from Dawn. Fury enters quietly behind Rose, hearing Dawn playing with Rose's hoof he sneaks up on her and when Dawn sees him he lifts a hoof like to shush her. Dawn giggles softly in response.

"Boo!" Fury jumps and grabs Rose, she squeals and giggles as he grabs her and pulls her back. Dawn was having a giggle fit all the while watching them. Fury turns Rose around so that she can see him.

"So, anything new?" Rose asks shaking a small amount.

"Well, other than the news from the Operation: Sun-Fall side, I think we are open to do what we want." he says smiling.

"That's great news! Do you have it with you?"

"Indeed I do." he says pulling it out. "Oh, just so you know, I have not read it."

"Thank you, Furry." she says giving him a quick kiss on the nose while he pouts.

"Its Fury, not Furry." he grumbles.

Rose giggles in response, "I know, but its true, you are furry. Like a cat. Even Dawn loves your furriness." she says getting a small giggle from Dawn as she was mention.

"Well, I will give you that I am furry, but I don't like the name you know." he replies.

"Well, I am still going to tease you with that name till you die." she says smiling.

"Hmm, I could always tease you with Rosey." he suggests with a smirk.

"Hmm, you could..."

"Its not could, its I CAN."

Rose breaks away from Fury and heads back to the crib with Dawn in it giggling a fit. Rose laughs at Dawn, "What got you so worked up, huh?" she asks as she puts a hoof down to Dawn to grab on to. Fury trots next to Rose and watches Dawn.

"Maybe she is just happier with both of us together with her." he suggests.

Rose nods agreement, "Maybe..."

They stay silent watching and playing with Dawn till Rose speaks up, "I almost forgot, you still got that letter?" she asks turning to Fury.

"About time." he comments and hands her the letter.

Rose just rolls her eyes and opens the letter. Fury looks over her shoulder to read along. In the end, both were a bit amused at the info the letter gave. Rose moves forward still holding the letter in her hoof.

"Well, that's nice."

"Indeed it is, they finally got rifles, but they suck." Fury responds.

"You know.." Rose starts, "We could have a bit of 'fun' when Dawn gets picked up by her sitter." she had moved next to Fury and nuzzled into his neck.

Fury goes immediately tense from the nuzzling. "Oh, so you are not going to send a letter back?" he asks looking down at her.

Rose stops and looks back at him, "I am but, it can wait a bit."

He nods, "That it can."

Location: Cloudsdale, IPE

Heat was sitting in his office when he got the letter from Rose. It stated that they were to hold up for at least 3 days to restock and rest till moving forward to Canterlot. It was a simple task. The troopers could stay in Inns and Bars to enjoy themselves. The WAM was kept in shape and was moved once or twice per day to keep it from getting weak.

Soon after the time ended, the troops were on the move again to Canterlot. By that time the whole of the SE was on alert for any IPE troops in the area.

The WAM was occasionally patrolling within the Camp with thundering steps, its guns always on the lookout for the SE that make it though. A large base encampment was set up near Cloudsdale full of troopers, with a few troopers heading off to Manehatten and the other cites to take them over.

Now all Mirroring Heat had to do, was wait for orders to move again.