"-and that is why I believe we should attack those barbaric Griffons. How dare they criticize our culture? Humans have always been and will always be our slaves!" said a noble who stood in front of Celestia in her throne room.

Celestia facehooved, How did this idiot become a noble?

"For the last time, we are not warmongers! We have made a Non-Aggression Pact and we will honor it! Court is now dismissed!" Celestia yelled as the Royal Guards start escorting the noble and everypony in line out of the throne room.

"Was that really necessary princess? Surely not everypony in line was a noble who wanted war with the Griffons." said Twilight as she stood to Celestia's left.

"Please Twilight, you're a princess now. You don't have to call me princess anymore. I'm sure not everypony in line was a noble, but I just need a break."

"Sorry princess, old habits die hard."

"How is your Human Twilight?"

"You mean Matthew? Well, I still need to get used to him being around. He's been a big help though, doing some tasks Spike couldn't do. I think Spike is getting jealous though. He fears his title for my Number 1 assistant is at stake."

Celestia giggled at that. "He will get used to it Twilight."

"By the way Princ-uh I mean Celestia, I heard about the disappearances of exploration ships heading towards the Unknown Regions. Do you know what happened?"

"At this time, I do not. I did send the battleship Equestrian Thunder to investigate their last known position."

"Why send only one ship?"

"The Equestrian Thunder is the only warship available at this time since it was in dry docks for some time. The 4th Royal Fleet is currently doing some naval exercises near Trottingham with the 7th Royal Fleet."

"Well, I hope they're alright, they said on their last transmission that there was fog and they couldn't see anything.

"Don't worry Twilight, their radio antenna probably just got damaged in a storm. Besides, if anything happens, there's nothing that can stop a battleship."

Near the Unknown Regions

RES Equestrian Thunder

Lieutenant Quick Strike, a brown pegasus stallion with black hair and a blue naval uniform, stared at the fog that surrounded the mighty battleship as he stood on the starboard side of the ship. Around him, crewmembers were either talking to each other, or doing their duties.

Please be okay brother. Please be okay. He thought with worry.

"Something wrong son?" a voice said to his left.

"It's just my brother was on one of those exploration ships. He was suppose to be protecting those scientists Captain."

Quick Strike turned to look at Captain Austere Vigilant, a white unicorn stallion with grey hair, a grey shaggy beard, and a white naval uniform.

"Don't worry, I believe it was just a damaged radio antenna."

"You think the slaves on board their vessels rebelled sir?"

"Probably, in my long years as a naval officer, I've seen many Humans rebel on ships as soon as the ships are far from shores. I've been telling the princesses and the admirals to ban Humans from ships. They wouldn't listen to me, even when some Humans rebelled and blew up the battleship Canterlot. I heard they just listed it off as faulty munitions."

"If the Humans rebelled, I'm sure my brother and his men can handle them."

"I wouldn't count on that Lieutenant, Humans naturally are stronger than us. How do you think a group of Humans were able to fight through the crew of the Canterlot and set its munitions on fire? Just be glad the Humans didn't start a slave rebellion. We'd win of course, but we would take numerous casualties. My father was a Royal Guard once, he and several squads were sent to the Everfree once to take down a small group of escaped Humans. They fought ferociously and one left a nasty scar on my father's side. The band of 7 Humans were killed, but they took 28 of the Royal Guards with them to the afterlife. After he told me that story, I expected him to be angry, but instead he said that of course he was sad, but he had new found respect for Humans."

"So you think the Humans might have rebelled sir?"

"I don't think so, it was a small fleet of exploration ships. I doubt a group can take down a fleet. My best guess is their radio antenna was damaged in a storm, but odds are, your brother should be okay."

There was a moment of silence while they stared at the ocean.

"You know captain, I thought by now somepony like you would be an admiral by now."

"I could've, but I turned down that proposal. Probably because of my leniency towards Humans and that I criticized the usage of slaves. They apparently don't want a Human sympathizer in charge of a fleet. Before being the captain of the Equestrian Thunder, I used to be the captain of the cruiser Solar Strike."

"What ship did you start your naval career sir?"

"Ah, I used to be an ensign on the carrier Lunar Fury. Spent half of career there. What about you Lieutenant?"

"Well, I started off as an ensign on the destroyer Harmony. Spent most of my career there before I became a Lieutenant and was transferred to the Equestrian Thunder."

"Ha, I remember your first few days here. It took you a while for you to get used to going around a battleship. Got lost several times eh?"

"I'm not going to lie, I did get lost several times."

The two had a good laugh before it died down.

"Say captain, when do you-" *BOOM*

"What was that?"

Quick Strike didn't have time to answer before there was an explosion and he was launched into the water. He blacked out for a few seconds and when he opened his eyes, all he saw was water, debris, and the bodies of crewmembers floating underwater. Strike only felt pain as he swam to the surface. Gasping for air, he held on to a floating crate. Behind him, he saw the Equestrian Thunder was split in half and burning. He looked towards the fog and saw three silhouettes of some kind of ships, before he blacked out.

Author's Note

Yay, I made something again. Sorry to people who follow my stories. I got this idea though, when I was reading some books about tanks and warships. Anyway, tell me what you guys think and if you have any problems, please put a comment and tell me what's wrong so I can fix it. I hate it when people dislike stories, but don't tell the author why.