3 Brothers on Equus

Pre-read:
Hello to those who are reading this story, Three Brothers on Equus, This is the last Chapter in the now Original story. But the Re-write will be similar but different to this one, the major difference is that all lose ends will be cleaned up, except for those that will be answered in future chapters. Similarities is that some of the characters will be taken out of the story, or have short periods in them... enough of my ramblings, here's that last few chapters of the 'First Invasion'.

LOG START:
NAME: FIRST INVASION (PART 2)

-------Before His Fall-------

(Year- 5378, Spring- Capitol plains, 3rd person)

The time was midday on spring around the Capitol, and yet the skies were black from all the smog, smoke and ships battling above the carpet of roaring, battling soldiers. The ground is scorched black as troopers run back and forth through the trenches as artillery fire from the capitol covers their position as five ICRs and two ATLs run across the field towards another trench.

crack

One of the two ATL's fell while carrying the load that he was carrying and two of th fire ICRs had dropped what they were carrying to pick p the ATL

"Damn, he's heavy!"

"You're right... Put him down gently."

The two ICRs lowered the ATL to their brothers and when they were about to jump in, one of the ICRs had his helmet crack and spill blood as he collapsed into the trench. A medic came running up to them, his uniform stained in blood and the bags under his eyes told that he hasn't slept for a while as he reached over and touched the ATL's neck.

"Dead."

"(Chuckle)" The Second ATL shook his head at the medic as he slowly looked up. "ATL's never die... ATL's never die..."

-------3 Brothers on Equus-------

The Inquisitors form was shadowed by the bright explosions outside the city walls as the darkness tried to swallow him. His memories began to surface as he looked around to confirm he was alone before he reached up and a hiss came from his helmet. Slowly pulling off his helmet and finally having it hang limp in his arm as a tear was briefly shown in the light as he looked down at the battle, he slowly began to hum a lost song.

As he slowly finished the song, the Lunar princess was looking at him with sympathy as she hoarsely said, "Oh my." Which caused the Inquisitor to glance at her, revealing his pale, almost paste like skin and dark eyes before he donned his helmet. Once he had his helmet secured, he turned to Luna who was wearing armor and showing him a kind smile.

"Princess?" This seemed to shake her out of her stupor.

"Our forces are quickly being overrun by the enemy forces, we... I mean, I was hoping that you could help us since only my guard and I trust you." The Inquisitor nodded as he walked towards her and as he was passing, he stopped and put a gauntleted hand on her shoulder very lightly.

"Thank you." And he walked away, leaving the princess to slowly put her hand on the shoulder.

The dark corridor was black and sometimes grey when the lights flickered on and off, giving an eerie feel as the steel door was punched in and landing with a resounding BANG. The moonlight framed Talon and two unicorns that were behind him, each of the two having worried glances showing, while Talon had one hidden for a different matter. Turning to the two behind him, he handed both of them a flashlight and said,

"Alright you two, you have already been on this ship before. Gold, you go to the bridge to see if Arrow is there, Silver, you go to the engine room and look for anything out of place while looking for the power switch, While Ill go to the Armory to get weapons for the front." And the three all parted ways.

(S)

Silver held the flashlight in his left hand while he held his caster in the other as he searched the engine room which was giving off a eerie glow from the damaged warp drive. Swinging his light left and right, he slowly made his way deeper and deeper into the ship, eventually he made his way to a large machine which said,

REACTOR CORE

And in red below it read,

DANGER, CORE UNSTABLE

"...Ssssshhhhiiiit." After he said this, a noise came from behind him prompting him to turn around just as some sort of hound jumped at him and the only thing that saved him was holding his caster as a bar, slowly fighting the hound for space. Unfortunately, his light had fallen and rolled off to who knows where, leaving the dark blue glow of the machines for light, as Silver struggled for his life. Then the hound ripped his caster out of his hands and he prepared to make peace with his god, and when the hound dove its fangs, shots rang out and knocked the beast off of Silver, leaving him on the ground gasping for life. He was still gasping when a gloved hand reached out towards him and clutching it, he was pulled up on his feet and got a good look at his savior. It was a mare in some sort of armor that was slightly similar to the ATLs but different, as she also held a rifle that looked like one of theirs.

"Thanks Azure"

"'It was nothing... Soldier boy'" She said before turning around suggestively and walking away to pick up his rifle, causing him to lean to his side and say,

"Well, I am a guar-" CLICK- Silver fell to the floor as he realized that he was leaning on the power switch for the ship, and as the ship started to hum, the two comically clutched each other. And then the lights turned on a bright white, showing that both of them were blushing when they realized what they were doing and them backing away from the other blushing.

"Look I'm sorry abou-"

[Silver, Azure. Get the hell up to the bridge. Arrow is in critical condition!] The two looked at each other as they noded and ran up to the bridge.

(G)

Gold ran down the several corridors as he tried to remember the way to the bridge and as he turned a corner, he was tackled by some sort of a hound that tried to kill him, until he kicked it over his head, but when he looked back, the hound was gone. So instead of questioning his stroke of luck, he ran to the bridge and opened the door to find none there except for a cracked window and a pool of blood by one of the pilot's chairs, so he made a lap around the bridge and found Arrow on the floor. He was leaning against the window with his helmet off and already half covered in it's owners blood, while Arrow had blood trails caked on his face he had his eyes closed while smirking, he looked so peaceful, ready to meet death like an old friend. When Gold saw all of this he ran and knelt beside the fallen immortal as he lifted up his radio.

{Sir, Talon!}

[No need to yell kid, what's wrong?]

{Sir Arrow, is gravely injured, what do I do?}

[What!]

{He's in a puddle of his own blood!}

[...Okay, now listen carefully, look where the blood is flowing, and if it is flowing out, tie a Tourniquet around the wounds] Gold knelt down lower and saw that the blood was slowly flowing out of the many wounds he had.

{He has too many wounds and I barely have any bandages!}

[...Shit, okay stay there and try to stop the bleeding, I will be there shortly.] Talon's radio shut off as Gold pressed on the wounds with what ever cloth he had to try and stop the bleeding.

(T)

Talon had to bust down the door due to the power outage, and found weapons sprawled everywhere due to the crash probably throwing them around. He was about to step forward until his radio cracked from Gold telling him of Arrow's condition. He looked around the room and spotted his replacement armor resting in a crane, stepping into the suit, it hissed as it latched closed around him. Then he looked around and saw a crate, running over to it and tossing the things off of it, he saw the crate read,

MEDICAL SUPPLIES

"Perfect." So he hoisted the crate onto his shoulder and ran to the bridge while alerting the two others on the ship to help Gold with Arrow. On the corridor connecting the bridge to the ship, he ran into Silver and Azure.

"Alright you two, I need you help in there and what you will see, will shock you." And with that, he slammed a hand against the door that slid open to reveal Arrow with his helmet off, in a pool of blood and his face pale white, with black lines running up from his neck as his eyes looked darker than usual. Both Silver and Azure gasped at his state which caused him to look up and weakly smile, showing blood stained, sharp teeth, as he spoke in a weak hiss.

"Took long enoughss." Talon ran up to his brother and started to pull out supplies, and threw a stretcher to the two,

"Get that unfolded!" The two did as they were told and when they were finished, Talon dumped his brother into it. Arrow now had a different helmet that hid his 'new features' and muffled his voice. "We need to get him to a hospital!" Talon turned and slammed his fist on a nearby console.

"Logos!" Logos appeared on the console along with a white hologram dressed in white robes.

"Yes, eject this window and spin your suit out along with his."

Logos din't respond as the window hissed and flew outwards, nearly nailing a pegasi that got too close to the ship, then both Logos and the white hologram disappeared. Talon picked up Arrow and started to run out the open window, and once he landed, he sprinted through the streets with speed that made Rainbow drop her jaw. Where the window was, a blast shied came down, closing off that exit, leaving the three Equus born on the bridge. Silver looked at Azure and held out a hand and spoke with a teasing manner.

"Mares first." Azure flicked his nose as she passed him, swaying her hips when she saw him staring.

"It's rude to stare." Silver Blushed and followed her out the door as Gold trailed him.

//END OF LOG//

//REPLACING LOG...
//INITIATING/
LOG START/
NAME: FIRST INVASION (PART 3)

//PLEASE STAND BY...

-------Before His Fall-------

(Year- 11935, Outside of an Abandoned RAU Super-Destroyer, 3rd person)

The dropship's bay was filled with soldiers wearing armor that was neither ACSC or RAU, but the indication that they were allied with the ACSC was the two imposing ATLs with their bulk dwarfing the soldiers. Then one of the two ATLs spoke up,

"Aright, we are approaching the RAU Super-Destroyer that was abandoned for unknown means. Two weeks ago, a recon team was sent aboard and never transmitted back once they were inside, ACSC High Command sent a second team a week ago to investigate, no surprise that they lost contact. We are to board, gather information, set charges, and leave before the thing blows, now, show us how your Deathwatch fights!"

"WE WATCH AND HONOR THE DEAD!" The Deathwatch members cheered. The First ATL turned to his brother and spoke in a quiet voice.

"Abraham, what do you think happened?" The ATL had the weapons and accent of a old fashioned cowboy.

"Probably a trap."

"Yeah, but if not that, then what?" Abraham turned towards his brother and did jazz hands.

"It's probably zombies then, Arrow" All the Deathwatch that were listening busted out laughing while the ATL crossed his arms.

"Shut up."

"All Right, Partner. Say, when are we going to dock?" Almost on cue, the ship shuddered as a hatch opened, revealing a corridor that had flickering lights. Arrow walked forward and placed a gauntleted hand on his brother's shoulder as the Deathwatch secured the corridor.

"You were saying brother?" He then turned to their party, "Alright, we will be spiting up to cover more ground, I will take team A and cover the Port side and lower levels. While Abraham and Iron take Team B to the Starboard and higher levels, keep your eyes ever sharp and ever vigilant." The two teams split up as Abraham's team finished the starboard side and was on their third level up when Iron's dark yellow hologram appeared on Abraham's shoulder.

The Deathwatch all got into firing positions as Abraham simply upholstered his heavy custom cannon pistol, tailored to only be held by ATLs, it had so mush recoil that it would be useless in a normal's hand. This pistol was made so it could blast an enemy tank open in a few shots, along with being able in most dire situations, go rapid-fire. All the members of the team tensed up as a shadow was cast along the wall, but eased up when a ACSC soldier came limping and stopped in the middle of the corridor. It shocked the team when it turned to reveal half of it's helmet missing, the skin underneath was green with bits of skull showing as bits of green hung, it broke into a screeching sprint towards the team, but was incinerated by Abraham's pistol. The head and top torso slid up to the party as it snapped at their feet, then the head and some of the plating under it was incinerated, again by Abraham's pistol. One of the Deathwatch turned to Abraham and looked at his pistol,

"I swear that's not a pistol, it's a fucking one-handed cannon." Abraham mockingly embraced his pistol in a loving embrace.

"Because it's my baby." He said in a mock baby sweet voice, causing the Death troopers to burst out laughing. Well, until their radio cracked to life.

[(Heavy Gunfire) WE'RE BRING OVERRUN, WE NEED BACK UP, ATL IS DOWN!]

-------3 Brothers on Equus-------

The hospital was busy and in overtime as doctors, nurses, and volunteers rushed back and forth as patients cried out in pain. However, it was all silenced as one of the ATLs bust through the entrance doors, carrying his brother that had blood soaked armor, Doctors ran up t him and took the ATL from his arms as they rushed him to the emergency room. Talon followed the doctors until they kicked him out of the emergency room, five minutes later, the Inquisitor, Gold, Silver, and Azure showed up. The Inquisitor calmly walked in with his arms crossed as the other three showed genuine concern for the ATL, Talon stood up and joined the Inquisitor as they both looked at the ATL going under the medical treatment.

"Talon?"

"...Sir?"

"Where are Logos and the other AI?"

"I told them to get into their suits."

"Anything else?"

"N-"

"He did not, sir Inquisitor." Talon was cut off by a familiar AI, all in the room turned to see a human in jeans, boots, flight jacket, aviators, and windblown hair. A second figure followed him in, clad head to toe in old knight armor, with white cloths covering the torso and down, in his hand was a lance that sometimes sparked with purple electricity. The Inquisitor turned towards the two and uncrossed his arms as he extended his hand to the knight.

"Ah, great to see you in your body Azure Knight." The knight simply nodded as he shook the Inquisitors hand, while Logos pulled out a tablet from his jacket and started to type on it as Azure looked at Knight.

"Who are you? I've never seen you before." The Knight looked at her as Logos spoke without looking up.

"He was the 'Dark Night's' A.I., that's why you never saw him, but he saw you." The Knight then nodded, agreeing with his companion.

"So is he like you?" And at this simple question, all of the ACSC personnel looked at each other and looked back to Azure as Talon tried to settle the situation.

"In a sense, yes." Logos slowly moved his hand under the pad as she asked the next question.

"What do you mean in a sense?" Talon opened his mouth to reply, but was cut off by Logo'es pad going off as he grimaced, and looked at the Inquisitor.

"Sir, I suggest that we-" He swiped up on his pad, "- evacuate the city to inside the Palace and try to defend it with the little defenses it has."

"But they won't listen to us, especially since the RAU are attacking." Just then Gold and Silver stepped up grinning.

"We think that we know the perfect way to spread the word."

"The city has a alarm in case of an attack, but if we hijack it's channel..." Logos smirked.

"Then we can use it to tell them to follow our orders." The two smiled

"Exactly." Just then Flash Sentry walked in, with his helmet lowered, along with five other heavily armored guards. Knight looked at them and slowly raised his lance as the guards opened fire, hitting the group if it were not for the Knight as he spun his lance to fast for the bolts to get through. Once the guards ran out, both Knight and Logos with dual batons rushed them, their forms complimenting the other's form. Knight as a battering ram, his form pushing the guards, every part of him a weapon from his lance to his charged, sharp armor, as Logos fought with grace, leaping over the guards, knocking then left and right with his sticks. They were a blur of rough purple and smooth green. One lucky guard was unharmed and lifted his rifle and scored at shot on Logos, tearing the skin on his face as he threw his baton that went through the guard's face and stayed there. He quickly put a hand to his face, covering it, as Knight picked up a struggling Sentry and threw him at the ATL's feet. He tried to get up, but was put down by Talon's armored boot on his neck as he grabbed the boot and started to flail his legs, chocking, and to his horror, saw the Inquisitor nod to Talon when he looked at him. Then the next thing the nurses knew, was the walls being painted red and pinkish as the body went limp, then caught on fire when the Knight bent down and flames came out from the slits of his helmet.

"...Could've done that outside Knight." The Inquisitor said aside when the Knight stood up, causing it to shrug as it stabbed the body with his lance and electrified it, then a few seconds later the body flashed and started to crumble in to ash. then Logos turned back to the Inquisitor,

"Sir, my calculations show that we will be able to push back the RAU forces, but with heavy causalities." The Inquisitor looked down and put his hand to his chin and Talon pointed a thumb to the two guards.

"What about those two, make them ICR's." Logos looked at him shocked with what was left of his face.

"AGENT! THEY CAN'T B-"

"They have shown potential." The Inquisitor said, staring Logos down,

"But sir! The proto-" the A.I. was silenced by the Inquisitor raising a finger, "... I'll start the medical tables, but I don't agree with this." Then he ran off and out of the hospital as Twilight and Fluttershy walked in, the latter carrying medical supplies. Talon looked at the princess as he motioned Silver and Gold to follow Logos as they ran out, and pulled out his knife, making the two flinch.

"What can I do for you Princess?" the two relaxed when Talon started to cut his beard.

"Where is Inquisitor?" Talon shrugged, noticing that he was alone.

"Ran off, what's up little one?"

"Where is he?"

"Don't know, why?"

The Princesses want to talk to him." Then she noticed the ash spot on the floor. "What happened there?" She asked pointing to it, Talon shifted and looked at the spot and said without looking at her.

"That was Lieutenant Flash Sentry, who tried to kill the Inquisitor and agent Arrow, so Knight took care of him and cleaned up mess." She was about to ask when she saw the blood splatter on his leg, her hand went up to her mouth as tears ran, and on closer inspection, she had a ring on. Talon turned to her and bowed his head, "I'm sorry for your lo-"

SLAP

The hospital went silent was everyone stopped and looked at the two as the princess of friendship yelled at the empty suit of armor.

"MONSTER!!!" She charged her horn and threw Talon across the room and teleported over to him and started to rain her fists down upon him, crying. "HE WAS MY LIFE, YOU TOOK HIM AWAY YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!! I SHOULD HAVE TOLD THE PRINCESSES TO KILL YOU!!! YOU'RE NOTHING MORE THAN A MONSTER YO-" she was suddenly grabbed by the wrist as Talon lifted her and grabbed her chin as his usually eyes, bore fury into her soul.

"YOU DON'T THINK THAT'S THE FIRST TIME I HAD TO DO THAT! I HATE DOING THAT, BUT I HAVE TO BECAUSE I'M THE STRONGEST AND CAN INTIMIDATE THEM WITH THAT! I HAD A FAMILY!!! I LOVE AND CARED FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM!!! THEY WERE ALL KILLED BY MONSTERS LIKE ME!" then he stopped and huffed as he dropped the princess. "I fight to keep families alive, but I will also kill one to save ten more, I will always make that sacrifice." He started to walk off but stopped by a soft voice.

"It's not you that suffers the loss." He stopped and looked at his shoulder.

". . . I'm so, so sorry." then he picked up his helmet, put it on, and the Broken Shield left as the Widow mourned as the world started to weep for it's lost children.

The trenches outside of the castle battlements were messy and bloody as the bodies of guards were everywhere as they were being assaulted by the RAU. They only fought because their princess was fighting with them, her dark armor was stained and had chunks of body parts in it as her honor guard laid dead in 'No Man's Land'. The trench shook as the enemy closed in on them, the guards looked to the city, knowing that they would die if they tried to run, but looked down in sorrow, thinking about their loved ones. Princess Luna saw this and mourned her subjects, then stood up, ready to make one last sacrifice for them, Minutes later, the guards started to retreat to the city when their princess stood out of the trench and ran towards the enemy. She had her cracked armor, borrowed sword and shield, as her's broke, she dropped into the trench and stabbed those around her and blocked the shots at her. But she was overwhelmed when a sniper shot her shield out of her hand as a heavy punched her, making her drop her weapon and fly across the trench. When she looked up, she saw the barrel of a rifle and the glow from inside it and though of her sister and the life she would never have with him. Suddenly the rifle was turned and blasted the wall, showering her in dirt as she registered an explosion and a sword on her lap as a cloaked figure sliced and diced the enemy, running up the heavy, jumping back to avoid his hammer, running up it and doing a back flip while kicking the heavy's head back, snapping it. The figure landed next to her and she saw a red visor from under the hood, as it slowly stood up when the soldiers surrounded them, and pulled the cloak off, revealing the Inquisitor as the enemy stepped back in fear. Seeing that they backed off, he turned around and held out an arm for the princess, which she did as he pulled her up and handed her a pistol.

The two faced towards the army and crouched down a little and got into fighting stances as they raised their weapons, and the enemy in turn braced for the attack. They stood, silently facing the other as they waited for the other to move, and both sides attacked at the crack of thunder. The two were fighting in perfect sync, one going high while the other attacked low, they slowly moved their way though the trench, killing all that came into their range, be it melee or firearm. It was a slaughter all the way till they reached the command bunker, the two nodded wordlessly and both descended into the cement building. They were in a large hallway that was filled with RAU troops, all barricaded and ready to fight...well that was until the large steel door behind them was blown open, crushing most of them and all of their cover, and those survivors were quickly dropped. Out of the smoke came a single heavy with triple miniguns on each arm, both aimed and spinning at the inquisitor, but held fire and nodded at the princess and gestured behind it. Luna looked at the ATL who simply nodded at her as she ran around the giant and down the tunnel, having watched her go, the heavy turned back to the Inquisitor to see his combat knife elongate into a second sword. The six in total miniguns span around and belched fire at the ATL, who spun his hands around in a weird way and started to walk forward (Think general Grievous), scaring the RAU trooper back a bit. When he got within swinging distance, the miniguns stopped their fire and were used as spinning clubs, but the Inquisitor grabbed one of the barrels and was thrown onto it's back, where he stabbed his swords through the neck piece of the armor and stayed there when the heavy fell. Nodding, he got up and ran after Luna, his sword transforming back into its knife form. When he caught up to Luna, she was knocked onto the table, and held down as they started to pry off her armor, crying and praying in attempt to stop them. Her prayer was answered when the one that was about to violate her, had his head turned into smoke as the Inquisitor silently slaughtered them all, even with the fact that they were unarmed. He slowly walked towards the last one, who was the forward commander of the RAU siege force, and with Inquisitor crouched down and balancing on the balls of his feet and lifting the commander's head with his knife.

"Siege Commander Edgar Frost, AKA 'Winter Blizzard'... a lot of people want your head. But if you give me information, I will guarantee that you will have a fair, safe trial." The commander looked up at the ATL with the frightened look of a child who had heard something in the middle of the night as he clutched something in his hand as if it was a life line.

"How can I trust you?" The ATL gently rested his gauntlet hand on his shoulder and said in a smooth voice.

"ATL's always keep their promises." The Commander looked hopeful and got up and slowly backed away as the night princess approached him, only for her to be stopped by the Inquisitors arm that had a gently shake of his head. "I know your upset princess, but he is too valuable to be killed." Looks at the commander and holds out his hand, "But I need the flashdrive." Edgar looked at the object in his hand and dropped it into the Inquisitors palm, only for the Inquisitor to pull him into a reassuring hug.

"Thanks for the hug ATL, but this is ou-" BANG Edgar glanced down to see the Inquisitors pistol in his side and looked back up to see his reflection in the red visor. BANG BANG BANG Edgar fell to the floor, the Inquisitor's boots the only thing in his vision as it faded to black, the princess had frowned at the ATL for the brutality of the kill as she walked up beside him.

"What happened to him being too valuable to kill?" The soldier looked at her as he lifted his gun to the corpse.

"He was useless, all of his information and tactics of his from the past are on the 'Dark Knight"s archives and the current tactics and everything are on this." He then held up the small flashdrive and fired off three more shots before leaving, Luna looked at the area around her, realizing that the Inquisitor was made for this level of carnage. Exiting the bunker, she saw the enemy heavy had a lion on his shoulder, the Griffin sign for Noble deeds, then heard a beep as little, sand colored squares that had red lights on them were along the walls. Walking out of the bunker, she saw that a RAU transport with slain soldiers sewn around it as the Inquisitor sat in the pilots seat, stepping over the bodies, she boarded the transport as it took off. Sitting on the outside seat, she could see Canterlot burning from her vantage point in the sky, then heard a loud boom as she turned back to the bunker to see fire, ash, and a crater where it was. Shocked, she leaned into her seat and stared at the view of the once great capitol, now burning and getting closer, and jolted up when something screeched and
then stopped.

"I'm sorry you had to see that princess, but you better prepare yourself... that was only the beginning." Luna looked down at her lap as it sunk in.

"How are we going to survive this?" The aflame city was no help to calm her thoughts.

The whole street was ripped up and thrown to the side as the alien ship lay on it's side, seemingly resting. Silver and Gold ran down the street, but faltered at the broken, but still imposing ship’s shadow, the two guards stood by the other apostate. The Inquisitor, followed by Logos, Talon, and Knight strode by them, all of them not sparing a glance except for Talon who had stopped and placed a gauntlented hand on Gold’s shoulder and gave a simple nod. Then he left the two as they slowly became aware of the glares that their fellow ponies were giving them, ponies that they grew up with, knew their names by heart, and once even been good friends at one point. Now they were on the end of their grace as they realized that their home was going to be gone by the next morning, but their lives would have been saved if not their history. Then as one, they stepped onto the foreign ship, leaving the soil of their home a last time. They entered the ship to find Logos waiting for them just outside the opening, he led them down the cold grey corridors, and turned a short number of times until they saw a shell inside armor, look at them with a sad smile and then stroll away while donning a cobalt helmet. The door opened at Logos ran in, and when the two entered, they saw the same number of tables, Logos looked at them and chuckled,

“Take off those useless body casts, strip your weapons and clothing all the way down to the briefs.” Then the two shed their skin that they were so used to having on them, the skin that held them at the top of their class and the Elite, and made them too confident.

~~~Flashback~~~

When the three strangers from an unknown place appeared one day, a guard showed them nothing but disrespect, then was beaten by one of the three. As time crawled on, he learned humility, courage and honor, all while following their cause, and the stranger’s as he fought, learned, and laughed beside them. He had been accepted as one of their own and found a new family, one that cared for him as he did them.

The other who was already humble, learned that everyone was not what they seemed on the surface as they struggled to understand them and stay loyal to his government as he became part of a new family.

~~~End Flashback~~~

Once they had taken off their armor and clothes, they looked at the cold metal tables. Then as one, laying down on the surfaces as they were strapped down, but their fear rose not from that, no. But from machines coming out for underneath them and injecting toxins into their bodies, causing them immense pain as they blacked out. Once they did, Logos stared at space as he communicated with the ship's systems and spoke aloud,

"I see a 4.7 percent chance of the surviving the procedure." The Inquisitor walked in from the shadows.

"They'll survive."

Outer ACSC space:

“This is Infortunatus 49-er to station Watcher 94, permission to jump to select coordinates?”

“This is Watcher 94 to Destroyer Infortunatus 49-er, the light is green. Good hunting and good luck!”

“Thanks Watcher, see you soon.” And with that, a portal opened before the destroyer and displaced it somewhere else.

The door to the Infortunatus slid open and a middle aged man walked out in an ACSC ‘Ship Master’ uniform as the shutters on the windows retracted back into the ship.

“Status report.”

A sensor lieutenant sighed over his console, “It looks like another waste- oh god.” The Sensor gasped and stared at his console

“Lieutenant?”

“... Several unknown ships detected, closest ones have launched nuclear missiles the moment we dropped out of warp. We can’t raise our shields in time, we’re sitting ducks... orders Ship Master?” All eyes on the bridge turned to the man as he was lost in his own mind, but he looked up and smirked.

“Send our a distress signal, full thrust towards enemy fleet and give the order to overload the reactor, we’re taking these bastards with us!” The rest of the crew gave various reactions from crying to confidently smirking as the ship sped forward, the nuclear missiles correcting their flight course to catch up with the ship.

“Sir! Shall we arm all of our warheads?” An officer said as he held a necklace with a cross on it.

“Arm everything! Do as much chaos as we can!” The Ship Master yelled from his chair as the bridge worked furiously at their consoles and they started to yell reports.

“Distress beacon has been sent with our coordinates!”
“Warheads are ready to pop!”
“Enemy turrets opened fire!”
“Several hull breaches upon decks two through five!”
“Fourteen seconds till missile impact!”
“Engines two and three are critical!”
“Warp engine is destabilizing! Self-implosion imminent!”
“Shields are 87% till operational!”
“Most of our deck guns are destroyed, the ones that aren’t are useless against their shields!”
“Enemy AMCs have locked on!”

The Ship Master sat in the chair as his Ship was in the middle of a small amount of ships out of the massive fleet. He pulled out a picture out of an inner pocket of his uniform and sadly smiled at it, remembering joyous memories as everything went white.

The ACSC had succeeded in its suicide run and taking several ship with it, but sadly made a little to no dent in the whole fleet’s numbers. The Infortunatus was almost completely obliterated, the only sign of its existence was the top half of an headless Ship Master and a photo that showed a father, his hands on his wife’s shoulders as she held their little daughter.

The gigantic station was surrounded by several ship, all varying in sizes as they orbited the station. Inside several of the station’s hangers were filled with several ICRs, Deathwatch, ICERs, and ATLs as they laid about, talking, maintaining their weapons, or exercising. On the bridge of this station stood the ACSC Chairman, the Deathwatch High Priest, an Orion agent, three ICERs, two ATLs, a few AIs (ranging in intelligence levels), and one ACSC Station Master.

The room was deathly quiet as one party dared the other to speak first, then Chairman Velescos, whom had that appearance of a friendly elder and he was, but could strike fear into people on a whim, spoke.

“What’s the situation on the search parties, Iron?” The yellow AI, dressed in old frontier clothing leapt off of one of the ATL’s shoulder and onto the table as holographic reports spun around him.

“According to the many report coming in from across this and nearby sectors, nothing... as of yet.” This caused half of the members there to sigh, and some left the room. An ICER stepped up, his armor heavily scarred and carrying old weaponry, and on his shoulders bore the emblem of Mars.

“What about our reserve ships? Can’t some of those be spared?”

“(Sigh), What ships we can spare are here or on the frontlines, we’re stretched too thin to continue this, and the council is on my ass about the resources being spent here. Eventually we’ll have to put a pin in this and move on, even no matter how much we don’t want to.” This seemed to upset the old warrior even more, he raised a hand and opened his mouth only to be interrupted by the AI on the table who was reading a report.

“Sir, you want to see this.” The AI swiped the report up and it flew and enlarged in front of the Chairman and minutes ticked by as he read. Swiping the report away, he stood there, looking at the table and when an ICR went up to him, he slammed his hand on the bottom of the table. Everyone on the station stopped what they were doing when all the lights turned red and the alarms blared.

The once quiet station was bustling with activity as soldiers ran to their stations as the ships out on patrol flew to their docks as the major ones and the station entered warp space.

The fleet of ships surrounding a giant metal ring had moved closer to each other and all weapons were online as they readied for combat. One ship in the middle was the most important, at least five times bigger than the other ships and ugly as metal and paint were discolored and missing, but on the hull said ‘Endeavor’. On the bridge the shipmaster was talking to another officer when the bridge door opened for an armored giant as his wolves followed him.

"Shimaster, is the fleet ready?"

"Finishing the calculations now." The Alpha nodded as his wolves overlooked the calculations that the officers were making and rarely correcting them. A loud beeping caused the attention of those assembled to focus from the direction of it as one of the officers looked at the shipmaster.

"Sir! A fleet of ships is exiting Warp in ACSC formation!"

"Tell our fleet to turn arou-"

"No." The shipmaster rotated towards the Wolf in confusion.

"Sir?" He adjusted his cloak before addressing the captain.

"The 'Endeavor', 'Vengeance', 'North Star', and the 'Long Haul' are to enter the Gateway Ring while the rest of the fleet holds position to fend off the ACSC."

The rectangular shape of the ACSC ships exited warp only to be fired upon by the other fleet as four of its numbers ran. The bridge door opened and the Chairman assisted by ICRs and went over to the ICER with a depiction of Mars on his shoulder as he gave out commands. The space outside was filled with flying shells, plasma, and fighters before the Martian saluted to the Chairman.

"Sir, the enemy fleet is confirmed to be the main fleet of the RAU, and three of their main ships have went though the Gateway which were followed by a carrier. Orders?" The old man gestured,

"You are the expert here Mr. Encell, lead the forces that you have." And with that, he turned around and walked out the bridge, but stopped at the door to say his message. "Oh, and before I forget, three Orion Commanders and their fleets are on their way." The Martian nodded before opening his Comms.

"Stealth, this is Old Bird, come in."

[This is Stealth, over]

"Once you get a shot to get to the other side, take it."

[Got it] and with that, the line was disconnected as the Martian clasped his hands, staring out at the enemy.

The castle gates closed as the last civilian entered as guards ran about, trying to fortify their primitive defenses as the advanced military raged down upon them. The three princesses waited on a balcony as a transport flew and hovered next to the balcony as Luna and the warrior stepped off. The two sisters embraced as Twilight and the pink one glared at the other one.

"Mind explaining yourself Inquisitor?" The two sisters pulled apart and one looked at Twilight in confusion.

"What do you mean?" Princess Celestia looked at her sister and explained what Twilight had told her. then all looked at the figure.

"Why did you order his death?" It shrugged before replying,

"Wouldn't know..." This enraged the princesses at the assumption of needless murder.

"Why you-"

"Cause your asking the wrong person." This confused them as the warrior was consumed in a swirling purple light, which faded to reveal Azure Knight. He then flew away in the transport after pointing to where his lips would be, shrugging, and pointing to the fallen 'Dark Knight'. The princesses looked to each other in shock before nodding to turn around into the castle.

Azure Knight had touched down in the hangar when he was approached by a heavily armored and geared Inquisitor.

"Knight, Logos wants you to make new armor for the two new ICERs." Azure ran by the Inquisitor as he pulled out his Comm link. Talon soon appeared in a heavier version of his armor and a modified turret from the ships deck as he conversed with his leader.

"New orders, Sir?"

"How bad is your position?" Talon bothered to look up as he spoke.

"The enemy has been pushed back somewhat thanks to Knight, and the guards had dug in while the enemy was recovering. I saw a few heavy transports with what looked like mechs touch down a ways, they'll be on my position in ten minutes."

". . . I'll be joining you shortly." The comms device was replaced as the super soldier grabbed a bike and rode out of the hangar.

As Knight was finished the firs armor, the ship notified him of something that one of the camera's had picked up. Upon paying closer inspection of the image, it made him stop and queue one of the transports for launch. Logos noticed this in the background and investigated he image.

One that showed survivors from Cloudsdale along with more wonderbolts flying towards Canterlot with RAU pilots trailing them.

The wonderbolts were being knocked out of the sky by the enemy fighters whom played with their prey. Spitfires Plane's system had notified her that one of the civilian planes was targeted, and thinking fast, she saw her plane would block the missile t the cost of her life. When the missiles launched and she was about to swerve into them, they were shot down by a all to familiar black transport that drew the aces attention, giving the civilians and Wonderbolts relief. The seven interceptors broke formation as they pursued the fleeing ship, any that locked on were targeted by the ship's gatling that forced them to lose their lock. Two planes on separate sides of the pursuit increased their speed and let loose on their weapons that tore at the shields before it broke off and rose into the sky with four pursuing it.

"Is this guy a joke? What is he doing?" one of the pilots said before the back of the transport opened and released kitchen appliances into the sky. all of them sadly missed except for one as it nailed one of the plane's cockpit as it lost control and narrowly missed another pilot.

"The hell was that?!" the first pilot looked back to see what happened, and looked back to see the transport without engines on. "AHHH- (Static)" it was consumed in fire as the transport reignited its engines as its shields flickered back on. The turret picking off another as it fell, six missiles for the last two. Knight looked around for the last three when his ship rocked as one of the back engines failed along with the shields, dropping the last two missiles that lost their fuel and hit as another flew to the ground. The last plane broke off and dumped something into it's engines as it raced towards the civilian ships. Knight flew after the ship, not shooting in fear of hitting one of the civilians, not noticing that when the engine failed, it left a gaping hole that one of the pilots got in. Knight noticed the RAU when he was about to stab him, the knife however hit the controls which made the ship dive and both persons fall out of the ship as it fell onto a RAU tank. The pilot had died in the fall, but Knight slowly got up to find himself surrounded by foot soldiers, and three Ironwolves, which promptly sprung forward and disarmed him while holding him down. The third however stood back and slowly walked up, then stabbed his weapon through the AI's anchor, killing it once and for all.

All of the ACSC personnel paused as they saw Azure Knight's signal disappear, then they continued.

The screen went dark as a figure in a white lab coat walked out and stood facing the camera, it was the scientist from the beginning of the story. He pulled his hands out of his pockets and clapped them and started to rub them as he looked off camera and nodded.

"Okay" He said looking back at the camera with an energetic voice as he started to rock back and forth on the balls of his feet. "So you're all probably wondering what in the blazes is going on, so sit back dow-" Looks off screen in a different direction. "OI, YOU! YES YOU! SIT YOUR ASS BACK DOWN!" After a few seconds he drops his glare and looks at the camera again. "So, hopefully without any more interruptions, I can start this announcement thingy off. Now, I'm going to read you the script or the big man upstairs who's writing this story will simply write it out."

"Ahem, SO, the princesses would have a guard run up to them and tell them of a zombie problem starting from the hospital, and our dearest Arrow would have been the cause due to a doctor accidentally being exposed to the fallen ATL's skin or organs after a successful surgery. so they would contact the Inquisitor who would arrive as both Gold and Silver whom have been modified into ICERs with Gold in the finished armor and Azure or Nightmare along with Logos there. So The Inquisitor would take the Ship's reactor core and a ship and fly into the enemy fleet to detonate the improvised bomb while Logos, Azure and Gold would hold off the Zombies with the princesses help as Silver gains access to the city's announcement system and orders all civilians into the castle while fighting those he had trained with. Gold would go deep into the fray as the Inquisitors insult and teachings would flash though his mind and he would find, fight and die by the Fallen ATL which would kill Celestia as well, and be defeated by the Logos. Once Arrow is cut down, his zombie army would collapse and fall into dust, Luna looks up to see a bright light which would be caused from the Inquisitor going boom." He puts the script down and rubs his eyes before continuing.

"So the crystal and magic princesses would try for surrender only to by cut down by a large handful of snipers, and the Lunar princess would join Talon on the battlefield and would see the ATL designated as Wolf, and she would either be killed by him, or be back stabbed by Talon which would be revealed to be a deep undercover Ironwolf ATL which had started his mission before the battle of Spring. Logos would have seen this with Silver and Azure, and once Luna dies, Azure would fall and be caught by Silver, and she would dissipate into stars after kissing Silver. Then a Deathwatch frigate would crash into the mountain and they would defend the castle and Silver would meet the Inquisitor's first hand trained ICER which is now the leader of all Deathwatch forces, and he would continue to train him as Logos would locate the RAU experimental generator which is keeping ACSC reinforcements from coming." Stops to stretch and pulls out a device and plays this song.

"So, the last main characters would launch a suicidal mission against the RAU, but before the mission, Silver dons the Inquisitor's old armor, which the Death leader would recognize as the armor that Inquisitor, who was known as Fox back then, trained him in. and they would fall from the sky and land in the battle field, everyone dying, but Silver and Logos would be left standing against Wolf, who would reveal that Logos was once a ATL who had died and was resurrected into an AI by the Orions, then he would wound Silver and turn on Logos. As he was about to kill Logos, he is stabbed through the heart by Silver with a knife that he would recognize as the knife he gave to his brother Fox when they were still pure all those years ago. So he would accept his death and Logos would sacrifice himself to take out the reactor. So Silver would be the last one standing as ACSC reinforcements arrive and he would black out to the sight of a white dropship with a red cross on it's bottom. He would wake up to the ACSC occupying the planet until he woke up, him being the highest ranking official as all the nobles and rulers across the world would have been killed by the now dead RAU. They were informed by past recordings of the Inquisitor, Arrow, Talon, the Royal Sisters, Gold, and Azure all speaking very highly of him. Centuries would pass and Equus would join the Council with Silver being the planets leader and representative." The scientist lowered his head and wiped a tear.

"Wow, guess he did let me tell the story somewhat, now there is one last scene before the story would end, but. . . (Chuckles) You have to find out what'll happen in the last chapter." And he walked backwards as the entire cast walked onto the stage and took a bow before leaving except for Fox, Arrow, Talon, Royal sisters, the two brothers, and the scientist.

"Anything else?" Fox stepped forward with a bit of shyness.

"I can say for certain, that we all hoped you liked our story even how horrible it was from the start, so I guess this is good bye then, huh? (Sighs) Well, nice meeting you." They all walked off, leaving the first one there as he cleaned his glasses.

"Well, not much to say except for thank you for sticking with us till the end." He bows . . .

exit.