Equestria's Supreme Commander

"And are the evacuation ships ready if need be for Manehattan?" I asked Twilight as we walked to the throne room in Canterlot. It had been six days since Celestia sent that message, and we were on the last day of the deadline. The princesses had gone to other cities and towns to warn them of this, and gave them the option of becoming independent city-states for the duration of this so as to be safer then they would be otherwise. Those that remained would have forts of all three factions built there, along with transports for evacuation ready.

"Ready," Twilight said. "We also found some ponies who want to help out with the war, and want implants."

"Send me their bios," I replied. "And what about the outposts?"

"Picked up small traces of Seraphim movement, but nothing major to find out what they're planning."

"Well, shit," I muttered. "Good thing I've been working on our own Experimental unit to combat their bomber and assault bot."

"Really?" Twilight asked as we stopped outside the throne room. "How come I haven't heard about it."

"Because not all the bugs in their programming is done yet," I replied. "Now, let's see how the others are progressing." With that, I opened the door and we walked in to see Cadence, Luna, and Chrysalis talking.

"My hive has pretty much all asked for an ACU, but most of them aren't even in the guard," Chrysalis said. "If there's one thing wrong with changelings, it's that many want glory, even if it means death for the hive."

"It's the opposite with the Empire," Cadence said. "Not enough ponies volunteering."

"And the ponies not in the guard think this is currently just an issue the guard can handle as is, if our recruitment is any indication," Luna said.

"Then I guess it's weird we're in the middle of that scale," I said as I walked up to them.

"Yes, it is," Luna said. "I still wonder how."

"Well, I have heard it's because he's the only one of us to have beaten Celestia before, while you two," Cadence said to the other two rulers, "were defeated, and I, in retrospect, haven't done much outside of anything that has to do with love."

"Plus he does have the alicorn who was able to equal Tirek on his side," Chrysalis muttered. "I imagine that helps make it look like he's capable."

"Still, I will take what we can get here," Luna said as she rubber her forehead. "I hope you all have ways to counter Celestia's aircraft, as i have not."

"Just one," Cadence said.

"Same," Chrysalis replied.

"A few for me," I said, crossing my arms.

"And I have been working on a new unit to give shields to our ACU's to help supplement their current defenses, especially the Cybran model ones," Twilight said. "So we may be able to protect otherwise vulnerable sites from them."

"Yeah, tests for it are promising, so far," I said. "Nothing on the scale of those bombs, th- SHIT!" I yelled as a massive headache hit my skull, which usually indicated a large unit loss at once, and as a feed popped up on my HUD, showing a rural town under Seraphim attack, the bomber passing over.

"What is it?" Luna asked.

"Celestia's a day early," I said. "Head to the ACU's, I'll send them the location."

"What are you going to do, Josh?" Twilight asked.

"Get something of my own ready," I said before going to leave the throne room and toward my ACU, currently held in the air by its own transport. It lowered as I neared and lowered a ladder for me to get on an climb to the cockpit. Once i got strapped in, I had my destination be set to a base only i knew about, Base designate: Kaiju for what I had there. I hope Celestia's ready for a war, because that's what she's gonna get.

Now I just hope my custom Experimentals will work.