Equestria's Supreme Commander

"Damn it, I knew we should have a built a fire base out here," Twilight muttered as she and the others with ACUs were busy fighting off Seraphim units to buy a town time to evacuate. Unfortunately, that replied on air transports, and a ring of SAMs had been built around the town, making that impossible, and tier two assault bots and tanks kept coming in from land. The only reason they had yet to fall was that the ACUs all had combat upgrades, making it harder to kill them while they can dish out more damage.

"I do not see how that would help," Luna said. "They most likely would have had bombed it as they did the small forces that were here."

"Luna's right," Chrysalis said as her ACU shot an Overcharge shot at a cluster of tanks. "Celestia is many things, but stupid is somehow not one of them!"

"Doesn't change the fact that unless Josh gets here soon with a lot of reinforcements, we're screwed!" Rainbow yelled just before a tank shot hit her, though it only damaged the shields. "BUCK OFF!" An explosion sounded. "Where'd he go anyway, Twilight?"

"I don't know," the lavender alicorn replied. "He just told me a few days ago he had a project. Best guess is that he's going to get it."

"Oh, shit," Ace groaned. "Sending feeds to you guys." A screen appeared on the HUD for each of the pilots, showing a force of three Ythothas and five Ahwassas moving closer. "We're so screwed. "We'd barely survive a single bomb from the fliers, but five plus three of those bots?"

"And that isn't counting the small army with 'em," Shadow said. "Still, at least we'll be going down fighting."

"I hear that," the changeling pilot, named Green Mist, said. "Routing all non-critical power to shields and weapons."

Applejack sighed. "Migh' as well," she said before she and the others did the same, and began to fire at whatever hostile unit came into range, wanting to take as many as they could with them, even if they knew the units could easily be replaced.

"There they are, north side," Ace said, and they all looked, and saw the army nearing. That is before, anyway, artillery shells began to rain down on them, easily hitting units in the large group and destroying the weaker ones.

"Time to put these new ones out for a test."

"Josh?" Twilight asked, amazed at the timing.

"Yeah, it's me," he replied just as the ground began to shake, not that it was noticeable for the pilots. "Just had to grab a few things. South side is clear of SAMs, and I have transports on their way for you all. Trust me, if you stay, you'll be caught up in the carnage."

Before any could ask, a roar was heard form above just before an army of Loyalist assault bots and Bricks dropped form the sky, making the pilots look up as far as they could using an ACU, and, to their surprise, saw three giant, metallic dragons-the wings attached to the front arms- flying in a 'V formation as they fired lasers at the bombers. Over the radio they heard, "Otachi fliers engaging targets, time to bring in the ground units."

It was hear the shaking became noticeable for the pilots as five Spiderbots passed by them, and a new unit- one as tall as the Experimental assault bots but with out the weapons arms and more pony like look to it with arms and hands-the knuckles having spikes attached to them, and an orange glow coming from its chest- pass over them. "All units, engage." As Josh said that, the Spider bots unleashed their microwave beam lasers on the non-experimental units that hadn't been destroyed.

"The buck?" Ace said, which was all their thoughts, as they saw the larger robot start to run towards its Seraphim counter parts as they tried to hit it with their weapons, but seemed to miss as it, somehow, dodged their fire where other units would take it head on. As they saw this, a file came to their ACUs. Two, actually.

One was for the new flier unit.

Experimental Air combat carrier. Designation: Otachi.

Purpose: to transport large assault forces and engage enemy air born Experimental units.

Description:Using specialized lightweight alloys combined with micro jets on the wings, this unit is able to fly and hover. Inside it is a factory allowing production of ground assault units, with the capacity for ten tech threes and up to thirty tech ones. Armaments include three microwave laser emitters, four missile launchers, and depth charges. A special ability is that this unit, when on land, can still initiate in combat with its razor sharp, titanium claws.

The second was for the new ground unit

Experimental ground combat unit/ACU shell. Designation: Jaeger MK1. Model designate: Gipsy Danger

Purpose: spearhead assaults against enemy bases that are heavily defended and engage heavily armored ground Experimental including Colossus class and to act as an armored case around compatible ACUs.

Description: Made of raw mass converted to Titanium and running on Nuclear power, armor has not yet been tested but theorized to be at Colossus level. Special joints allow for range of motion equal to human while connectors to ACU- and pilot by extension- allow orders to be carried out with ease to the unit if an ACU is connected physically. The first Jaeger made, the size required it be operated by analog signals. Though initially a drawback, this makes it immune to EMPs, and the ACU hardened exterior prevents power loss, resulting in the unit being immune entirely from EMP effects. Armament includes two plasma cannon- one on each arm- and two swords-also one on each arm. Both are collapsible, and the swords have a special ability to be turned into whips at the pilots command.

"Yeah, um," Ace said, "anyone else bucking terrified of that last one?"

"I'm more terrified it implies there's either more now or will be more later," Shadow said as the Dragon fly transports arrived.

"We can discuss it with him later," Luna said. "Now, I think it best we get out of here." They all agreed, and made their way to the transports, with Twilight giving one last look in her ACU towards Josh before leaving.

Josh-1st person- five minutes earlier

As I neared the combat zone-my ACU plugged into the Jaeger-hey, Pacific rim was a good movie, and what kind of science fiction guy would I be if I had access to a giant robot and didn't build it?- I looked over the force I brought with me. Three Otachies- based off the winged Kaiju from Pacific Rim and with five Loyalists and Bricks each- five Spider bots, three of the rapid fire artillery, and my currently only Jaeger was my force, along with three of the satellites in orbit ready to provide support if I needed it.

I was looking at the feeds from the satellites to know how to deploy my units when I saw the Seraphim army move in. I brought up the range overlays for the artillery stations, and smiled, as they were in range. "Perfect," I muttered as I had the three stations stop, unpack their multi-barrel guns, and begin to unleash their shots as I sent the fliers in to deploy their units for clean up. From there, I contacted the others and relayed to them I was inbound with help, and that transports were inbound form the south to get them out of there, finishing just as the Yathothas came into view. "Let's go," I said as the Spider bots passed the others, and i stepped over them as the Experimental hostiles began firing on me.

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As it was plugged into my implants, I was able to have the Jaeger dodge them as I would out of my ACU as I crushed a few of the Seraphim tanks under the feet on my way there. The first Yathotha I reached, I activated the elbow rocket on the Jaeger to drive a right hook right through the armor and into its inner workings before turning the hand into a plasma cannon, and shooting at it while using the energy inside it to power the thing further. Yeah, one thing not in the file is a happy accident being that the thing can absorb certain energy types. No idea why, but I like it. After utterly and completely blowing its insides to hell, I kicked it off the cannon before converting it back to a fist, and then whipping the right arm to the side to bring out the sword, which snapped together just as I turned left and sliced another bot in half from what would be its waist, then grabbed that, and threw it into the third before essentially using the things unibeam, which was really just ejecting some of the reactor heat, to melt them together, and them converted the left hand into a cannon, charged it to full, and blew them both to hell.

I then looked up, and saw the three Otachies engaging three of the bombers, the other two already having gone down form the lasers, missiles, and talons-make that three going down, because another was just taken down, meaning they'd fall even quicker with more than one targeting a single.

An alert then popped up on my HUD. I opened it, and saw it was a satellite camera feed, showing a Seraphim ACU with purple lighting. That made me look at the legs of the bot I cut in half, and saw it was purple as well. Then a simple message over basic radio. "An impressive show," Rarity said. "But your new toys won't be able to stop us. They only delay the inevitable. You will submit, or die."

I decided to reply. "You'd like to think that, wouldn't you?" I asked as I turned the Jaeger to face the ACU. "Well let me tell you something, Rarity. This is for you and those who you work with and under: if you want Equestria, you'll need to get through me and the others." And because it was one of the most badass lines in Pacific Rim- "Because whether or not you know, we're cancelling the apocalypse you wish to bring.

"In short, fuck off, both you and Celestia."