Author's Note

Okay, That description really needs work. Too tired to at the moment. Anyways, Hope you enjoy the story and all that.
I noticed that there weren't many TA or PA crossovers, so I decided to do both!
So Yeah!

Chapter One: The Reawakening

“Central Cognitive Thought Processor online. Beginning activation sequence in three...two...one..” A female voice whispered in the mind of the metallic body half buried in the ground. It was humanoid, with two bulky arms connected to large shoulder plates, which had blue paint and orange stripes. A long antennae stuck out of it’s back, which was extended. It’s eyes flickered, before glowing a bright red as the Machine’s servos began shifting, dragging itself out of the ground. As it looked around, the voice from before started talking to him.

“Greetings, Invictus Commander! Much has been lost since the Reawakening.” The Voice began, before an image of what looked like the planet he was on appeared in his eyesight. “Other’s have come online, like you Commander. Your orders are to find these other Commanders,rip apart their military’s. Stop the spread of the other Factions, and annihilate them.” It showed an image of multiple other Commander symbols across the planet, some red, some purple. Then the words “Annihilate” flashed, before the images faded, and the real world set back into view.

“Message received. Begin System Check.” The machine, now labeled as ‘Invictus Commander’, stated, his mind going over his multiple systems. However, as he went through his systems one by one, an error flashed across his eyesight when he checked his memory files. Filing this oddity for later inquiry and repair, Invictus checked his blueprint schematics. Basic Bot schematics, as well as the necessities. Nodding his head, Invictus began searching for resources.

Canterlot, After The Discord epidemic.

It was a quiet day in Canterlot, Capital of Equestria. Ponies went on with their daily lives, while the guards kept the peace in their Commander suits. Princess Celestia, Co-ruler of Equestria, sighed as she stared outside at the gleaming metal spires of the city. She stared at the guards and their armor, the metallic plates containing hidden servos that allowed movement. That odd symbol of a blue diamond with four lines surrounding it was plastered on each suit, it’s meaning unknown to this day. She thought back to the year they first discovered this technology, remembering when those guards brought in a strange babbling pony all those years ago….

Equestria, three years after Nightmare Moon’s banishment

Celestia sat in her ruined throne, still in mourning over the loss of her sister, Princess Luna. Three years ago, she had been forced to banish her only sister to the moon, after her strange and unnatural transformation into ‘Nightmare Moon’. Her thoughts were put to the back of her head as two guards carrying a miner between them stepped forward.

“Your highness, we caught this fool attempting to smuggle some strange artifacts out of the mine. We confiscated the items in question, and have brought them along.” One of them, who had a horn and bleach white fur, brought out a metal case with a simple levitation spell. Celestia opened the case and peered inside. The item was cylindrical in shape, made out of a strange metal alloy. It was hollow, so Celestia looked down the hole at the end. Inside, a number of odd crystals and wires were wrapped around the inside, pulsating with power. Curious, Celestia pointed the cylinder at a nearby wall. Then tried shaking it a little. Nothing happened. Sighing in disappointment, Celestia put the odd little device down,when suddenly it shot out a ball of yellow energy, carving out a nearby pillar. Startled, Celestia picked the now-apparent weapon back up, looking underneath it. A small little lever was there, previously unnoticed. Testing a theory, she aimed at the wall again, this time using her magic to depress the lever. This time, a ball of the energy shot out, hitting the wall and blasting through it. Turning back to the miner, she held out the item.

“Where did you find this?” She asked, and the Miner shifted a little.

“T’was buried under the mountain, yer Majesty.” He said, referencing the mountain that they were to build a new capital There was a lot more stuff, but I was plannin’ on smuggling it out bit by bit.” He gulped. “Please yer majesty, I just needed the money for my family. I wasn’t plannin’ on-”

“That’s fine, my little pony,” Celestia said, nodding to the guards and saying, “Lock him in the dungeons.” The pony’s eyes widened, before Celestia chuckled a bit. “Gotcha,” She said, “Show us where you found this, and you will be free to go. We will also send you a bit of money as compensation for your time here today.” The pony looked up from his trembling position, hope in his eyes.

“R-really?’ He asked, hope in his eyes.

“Yes, I’ve heard of the hard times ponies have been having as of late. Have a nice day.” A butler pony walked forward with a large pouch of bits, depositing it in front of the stallion. He nodded, thanking her again before rushing out, bits in hoof.

“Do you have his mining Schedule for the past few days?” Celestia asked after he left. One of the Guards nodded, pulling out a map and schedule. “He was mining in section B, under the crystal mines. Your orders, Princess?”

Celestia sighed, “Tell the workers that we should focus our efforts on excavating more of these artifacts. Mining out those caverns for gems might not be the most important thing to focus on here…” She stated, examining the cylinder. The guards nodded, before exiting.

Present time

Now, thanks to the mass amount of technology they eventually discovered, Equestria was revolutionized. With the strongest military on the planet, Equestria adopted a secondary Diplomatic approach, if friendship doesn’t work: Peace Through Superior Firepower. Celestia personally didn’t like the approach, but it worked. Guards were equipped with Commander suits replicated into pony models, with only the main weapons enabled. Canterlot was built, better than original plans, and peace settled for a thousand years.

Yet something felt...off. Maybe it was something in the air, maybe it was something else. All Celestia knew was that she had a feeling something would change.

Invictus Command & Conquer Military Operations Headquarters, Three hours later

The Invictus had constructed a formidable base in a relatively quick amount of time, even though resources are surprisingly scarce in this region. As the commander finished constructing another Power Generator, one of his nearby Dox patrols suddenly sent him a notification of a hostile commander being detected. Quickly activating the unit’s camera feed, he placed it to the top left corner of his eyesight as he continued to work.

The small squad of Dox Assault Bots, at most six, hid themselves within the bushes as the commander walked past, somehow not picking up his units on their sight.

“...Look, all I’m saying is that Daring Doo was better in the original trilogy than any of the later books!” The Hostile Commander said as a second commander walked up next to it.

“Ugh, let’s just see what this ‘unidentified signal’ is and head back to base.”

However, to Invictus, their language was unknown to him. Recording their conversation for translation later, the commander sent multiple commands all at once to all nearby Dox Patrol Squads, changing their patrol routes to intersect with the two Commander units. The squad he was currently viewing stayed where they were for a few seconds, but after the Commanders moved on, they slowly trailed after them.

After fifteen minutes of walking through the forest, the two Hostile Commanders were unknowingly surrounded. Invictus switched their command patterns to ‘Fire At Will’. The forest was suddenly bursting with noise and bullets as the Commanders were suddenly attacked from all sides. Noticing two large tubes on their backs, Invictus redirected the Dox fire into those tubes.

“Come in! This is Private Quibble! Hostiles have us surrounded, and I don’t think we can-AAAUGH!” The left Commander started yelling, before a lucky shot landed onto his generator pack, detonating it, and enveloping him and his partner in a decent sized explosion, destroying most of the Dox in the process. Invictus’s factories had already begun to add more Dox units to the que, and Invictus sent a Bot Engineer to reclaim the wreckages left over from the explosion, before returning to his build order. Engineers slowly cleared out more trees, expanding his operational area. When the Bot Engineer finally returned from reclaiming the Commander wrecks, it brought back a slightly damaged and outdated commander Fabrication arm. Giving it a quick scan, Invictus was surprised to find a large amount of blueprints for Aircraft production. Extracting the blueprints and adding them to his own databanks, Invictus cancelled a few engineer orders to begin production of an air factory. Just to burn up some extra mass, he sent an order to the factories for a decent sized number of Boombots for traps, since it looked like the enemy could not detect his units.

The first battle for Equestria had been won, and while small, this was the first step of many to Total Annihilation of everything.

Canterlot Castle, several hours later

Just as Celestia was setting the sun, and her sister Luna began raising the moon, two ponies in military uniforms ran up to her, panting for breath.

“Your highness! Urgent news from the South! Two Commanders on patrol were suddenly attacked, and eliminated!” One began, and Celestia frowned.

“Give me the full details in the war room. Reconvene ther by the sunrise.” The two Ponies nodded, saluting her, before running back inside.