A Galaxial Endeavor

Introduction:The Planes Of War
By:Prince Galaxy
Edited By:Chrome Masquerade
Proofread By: ...

While having lunch, Twilight and her friends noticed something flying by. It was in a shape of a large bird, reflecting a little bit of light, for that
matter. Twilight flew upwards to get a closer look while her friends chatted about what it could be.

"It's a giant balloon!" said Pinkie while jumping around casually, like always.

"It could be an animal," whispered Fluttershy.

"Wow! It flies!" said Rainbow before she added "Not as fast as me, though."

"It looks quite fashionable, especially with a star at the back." Rarity noticed perceptively.

Twilight took a quick look, hardly keeping up with the thing, for that matter. Inside were ponies, at first she thought dead, but after thinking more carefully she came to the conclusion that they were sleeping,

She examined the body of the object, only seeing the back of it before it flew out of view. It had four things that propelled the thing, she assumed. The objects described were placed symmetrically on both wings and also had an star emblem at the end saying "Galaxial Airlines" as a name, and a slogan below. "Our future lies in the sky". Quite intriguingly, it was also made out of metal. She flew back to her friends to tell what she saw.

Her friends, after listening carefully, stared at her in disbelief, curiosity and a whole mess of other emotions. A stunned silence started and was only interrupted by the breeze, until one of them broke the silence -more precisely, Rainbow Dash- saying, "Shouldn't we tell the princesses about this?"

They all agreed on such and went to the castle, not in a rush, but not taking their sweet time either.

When they arrived they were let in instantly and directed to Princess Celestia. They told her everything down to the slightest detail. Unfortunately for them she was oblivious on the matter. They let the matter go and went to bed, just to be greeted in the morning with more of the objects, about one every hour.

They let it slide. which was not such a good decision as they were greeted tomorrow with the same amount of objects, just that in the afternoon the amount would double with different emblems, like "Star Airlines" that had the slogan "The sky is the limit" or "Light Air" with "Reach the sun with us" and so on.

Action had to be taken and it was. The Princess ordered them to arrest those objects, and if they did not comply, to take them down, and so they did.

The first objects didn't comply, as a spear pierced through the left wing a liquid came out, but quickly stopped with an engine, the way Twilight described it.

Another one shut off, which caused the object to slow down before slowly descending, finding a landing zone. Some did not comply and activated an electric field that could detect any pony and direct a zap towards them, also activating backup engines and contacting their airport, which contacted the nearby military vessels. Some planes complied, some crashed and some didn't. The zone was chaotic with planes (if you didn't notice the similarities) desperately evading the guard, waiting on the military, others would crash down, leaving no survivors or the ones that did that were soon found either ran or armed themselves, mostly staff trying to help the passengers.

They had a technological advantage, but were outnumbered, Equestrian Pegasi were most harmed as some planes crashed right down onto Cloudsdale and many other cities, for that matter. The military had to hold back as all vessels were too far, and upon arrival their efforts would be in vain, they contacted their respective governments for plans of action.

The countries that had those airlines (yes there are places beyond Equestria) were alarmed and they all met. Conclusions had to be made. The meeting was rather long.

"They shot our planes down! We need to strike back!"

"Shouldn't we negotiate first?"

"What should we do?"

"Terrorists, I'm sure if it."

And so on. That was the discussion until the news came in:

"Sir, some of the planes were hijacked and are heading straight for us with armed guards. They seem oblivious of our technologies and the pilots are taking it slow to buy some time."

"Good ponies, they are. It's settled. We strike back in unison."

"Agreed."

And it all went down.

The plan was made. They were launching an operation named "Counter Strike: Intergalactical Offensive" (for short, CS:IO (Hopefully you caught the reference)).

They were a group of highly -and by highly I mean unbeatable- trained soldiers you would have soldiers capable of rivaling Celestia in magic.They were Alicorns, they were slightly less rare beyond Equestria, and let's not talk about the soldiers trained in combat. They could single handedly -or rather single hoofedly (Bad jokes)- take down the entire army of Equestria.

Unfortunately they were not the only ones that formed a pact. All the known countries in Equus (So the island is supposed to be called) became allies and also had a task force, trained in magic only. The fiercest undercover operations were about to begin. Spies were sent to Equestria. They were good at hiding but did not go unnoticed as scrolls and books disappeared from the royal archives. This was a war that started, not a conventional one nor a nuclear one but one where every piece of information counts. The first mission was to get the prisoners out of the dungeons for questioning, and to stop the hijacked planes as a second.

The Equestrian task force -named "Starswirls"- was soon dispatched, and the international task force -"CS:IO"- and was also dispatched.