Ponyville Under Seige

Location: Castle of Friendship, Ponyville

Date: March 23

Time: 11:21

Twilight sat in the map room, deep in thought about recent events as she stared at the smoldering ruins where Appleloosa used to be. There were only a handful of survivors from Appleloosa. Thankfully, their friend and Applejack's cousin Braeburn was one of them, but he was severely injured and was put into a coma after he was rescued. He was sent to Canterlot's hospital for the time being. The doctors said there was a good chance he would never wake up from his coma. She still couldn't believe that so many ponies had been slaughtered in one night. Even Celestia had barely managed to fend them off. She knew other ponies in Ponyville who had family who had died there. She made note to visit those she hadn't already. She wondered if there was a way to reform the aliens attack like she had reformed Discord, Starlight Glimmer, Trixie and others. The only difference was that her friends had never killed anypony. According to the papers, the aliens had just started slaughtering ponies out of nowhere. One thing she knew for sure:

They had to be stopped. One thing she was trying to figure out was how?

She couldn't even stop one alien. It had attacked her when she offered her hand in friendship, but oddly enough it didn't kill her or Spike when he got in the way. The idea of ponies provoking the aliens crossed her mind. She remembered the Appleloosians feud with the buffalo and how they had a hard time putting differences aside that maybe they had done something to antagonize them.

Twilight ran scenarios in her head trying to figure out what was really going on. It was hard for her to swallow this much. Her mind once again raced back to the alien she had met. There were many patrols in the Everfree that were searching for clues to where it had ran off to. Rainbow received a mouthful when she accidentally helped it escape. The princesses advised her to not play anymore heroics until further notice. Oddly enough, the alien we saw didn't draw it's weapon again. It just blinded us and ran away. Why? There was a feeling in her gut that there was much more going on than it seemed; a bigger picture, and now they were in it. As she pondered ilthe situation more, something in her mind clicked. She remembered the being trying to talk, but nopony could understand it. Maybe it didn't speak or understand Equuish. She slammed her head hard on the table at the thought of her missing something so simple yet obvious, her breasts doing hardly anything to cushion the blow. Before she can know anything, she knew she would need to get past the communication issue first, how it thinks, and what it is. She knew who could do just that.

Her thoughts were interrupted when a guard burst through the door.

"Princess! A small army has started attacking Ponyville! It's them!"

Twilight had teleported herself to her room and ran out to her balcony. Sure enough, there were large blood red balls of plasma arching towards the city and a small army of aliens in a distance, heading towards the town. These looked nothing like the ones in the Everfree.

Rainbow Dash was thrown against the wall from a blast from one of their vehicles. She caught a glimpse at what looked like four legged machines on a box with a cannon that fired those large deadly balls of flame. She wanted to fly, however those that did were shot down by tall armored bipedal bugs. They looked like they had the head of a praying mantis. The red bolts had left nasty burns on those they hit. She was sure to stay out of their sight, not doing any heroics as promised. It wasn't like she would stand much of a chance against beings this deadly.

Since the attack started, she had tried to help ponies get to safety. Some of the guards that were there had did the same while others went to fend off the invaders. Yeah.. Good luck with that.. She had managed to make it to Fluttershy's cottage. Dash really hoped she was safe. Since junior flight school, she had always wanted to look after the shy mare, even though she had vastly outgrown her in more ways than one.

Approaching the door, she banged on the door.

"Fluttershy! You in there?! We need to get the hay outta Ponyville!"

No answer.

"Fluttershy?" She peeked through one of her windows and saw that her home was abandoned. Flying around her home, she didn't see her or any of her animals. Not a chicken, bunny, or bird. She hoped that her cottage being far away from most of Ponyville gave her a better chance of escaping to safety considering her cottage looked untouched by aliens.

She had flown back to town, being sure to stay out of the aliens' range and landed by the castle. The guards were escorting groups of mares, stallions, fillies, colts, and carrying their injured into the safety of the Castle of Friendship.

"When will we receive reinforcements from Canterlot?! We're getting slaughtered by the dozens!" A guardsmare cried out.

"Soon. The princess told us to worry about getting the townsponies to safety first for teleportation."

That's all Rainbow heard before she took off running to help once more. She had flew on top of one of the buildings and saw that a fourth of Ponyville were in flames, and what she saw coming from a distance flying towards Ponyville didn't fill her with much confidence. Whatever they were wasn't what she was worried about the most. The four legged machines had curled their four legs into small horizontal circles. Glowing red, they had started lifting the machine as its cannon had also changed into a double barreled turret. The large machine hovered further into the town, gunning down the guards like they were nothing.

Rainbow's attention was drawn by a scream of a filly. She saw a group of those alien bugs surrounded by a dozen smaller ones, peach-skinned aliens in armor that had two beady eyes on each side of their heads and a large mouth. Their limbs looked like a fusion between flesh and machine as they held smaller weapons. They were closing in on her adopted sister, Scootaloo. She could hear her friends calling out for her to get up and run, but when Dash looked closer, she saw that one of her wings were hit with one of those aliens' weapons. Rainbow spread her wings about to risk her life for Scootaloo, the teen filly that looked up to her the most.

~**I got a present for ya!**~

Something went flying towards the advancing group. Said object had exploded, sending the smaller aliens flying, charred, and in pieces. The taller aliens had stumbled back from the blast, their armors sparking. Coming from the roof across from Dash was that alien again, the one she had unintentionally helped to escape, firing his weapon at the invaders killing them near instantly. It looked around before it jumped down after putting its weapon away and helped Scootaloo up to her feet. Dash quickly made her way to them, flaring her wings again, ready to charge.

"Hey you! Drop her right this second!"

The alien loomed at her and approached her with Scootaloo and handed her over.

~**You must be the mother. Take her and her friends to safety, now!**~

The alien was trying to talk to her. Dash stood there puzzled. It pointed to Scootaloo and then to her friends who were hiding. It then gestured both of its arms towards the castle.

~**Are you deaf?! Take your girls and get to safety! Move your asses!**~

Finally getting the message, she picked up Scootaloo and carried her towards the castle with Sweetie Belle and Applebloom in tow. Dash turned her head as she saw him take out his weapon and use his jet pack to leap over a damaged building and into the fight out of view.

"So cool..."

A bloater. I landed on a bloater. These guys are named for their heavily bloated appearance. They actually looked human if they were pale, all bald, no neck and pin-headed. Whatever they were before, they've been fused with mechanical enhancements to make them walking tanks, their 'hands' being replaced with combinations of blade, shield, and cannon. They're one of the reason why we switched to battery-powered nano mags. It took a lot of bullets to take these guys out unless you knew where to aim. There's a T-shaped weakspot on the back of their heads from where they had started their enhancements. Hit them there, you'll save a lot of bullets and tank buster rounds.

"Charlie usually took them out with his rifle, but he isn't here." I mumbled to myself. The bloated had started to shake him off while I hung on for dear life. I took out one of my pistols that was set on rapid fire and shot several shots on its weak spot. Small sparks had erupted from its head down to the rest of its body as I used my jump jets to get off. I didn't want to be trapped under it when it fell again.

More of the armored natives had teleported in, but I could tell something was wrong. When they teleported, some were upside down. Some ended up too high and those without wings fell to their deaths. I don't think I need to tell you what happened to the poor female that landed amidst three enemy squads. The horned natives had a mist emitting from their horns. They tried to use their abilities, only sparks would come out. Needless to say, they had warped into their own slaughter house. I also noticed my HUD's 3DMS (3D Motion Sensor) was complete static. This told me there was a jammer nearby that needed to be taken out. A few bolts hit me from the right, taking down an eighth of my shields. There were several wormheads and manti firing at me from around the corner. Launching myself in the air again, I dashed forward out of the way launching a grenade from my rifle towards the group. The grenade had exploded in the middle while launching four more smaller explosives. That took care of them. I saw two of the enemy tanks firing on a group of armored natives.

I was too busy to realize I was being watched. Armored natives were watching as I had jumped on to one of their Heavy Armored Transformable Siege tanks (HATS) and fired two grenades at both of the hover engines on the side closest to the second. I launched myself backwards as I watched it flip on top of the other one as it fired, cutting into the second one. Both exploded. Usually, I would be patting myself on the back seeing as my plans never work out that well, but I still had FoG to take out if still being shot at wasn't an indication. Further down the road were more FoG standing around a tall alien spire structure about to and a half stories high with a glowing red disc that was emitting a red hazy pulse. The jammer. I wanted to save my grenades in case, so I looked around and saw an incoming FoG dropship headed this way. They were trying to reinforce the jammer. Thinking quickly, I took out an EMP patch, launched upwards and threw it onto the ship. Its passengers, more manti and wormheads, had opened their hatches and jumped out before it crashed into the spire and exploded. I took out the manti quickly with well placed shots from my assault rifle set to burst. The rest were taken care of by my two pistols . As soon as my 3DMS came together, it sensed FoG reading coming from my left up high. A mantis had started firing at me from one of the building's rooftop. I had taken out its shield after taking a few hits from its rifle, but before I could take the final shot, a flowing spear had penetrated its chest plate before it disappeared. The mantis fell off the roof and hit the ground with a thump. I turned to the direction it was launched from to see a horned native male in armor with a rune circle around his hand as his horn glowed, aiming at the fallen mantis. I noticed the mist from his horn was gone as were the other horned ones. I nodded to him. He nodded back before shouting something to the others who went on their way. At least they know I'm on their side for now.

There were a lot less noise. This says there couldn't be much more of the FoG forces left here. Further down the streets was a landed dropship unloading troops and a TMAHV, a two manned armored hover vehicle with a mantis pilot and a mantis gunner. Two more manti and eight wormheads jumped out of the dropship as they had started firing. I had started developing a strategy as I took cover around the corner. Take out the ones on foot before dealing with the TMAHV.

I ran out, guns ablaze drawing their attention. I managed to take out a few wormheads which meant less guns shooting at me. However I had caught the attention of the TMAHV pilot and gunner as well. I was taking a lot of hits and needed to find cover to let my shields recharge. I launched myself upwards and then forwards over a building. The firing had stopped, but I knew they were making their way around to find me. My shields had managed to recharge as I had planned another strategy. Unfortunately I didn't have much time for thinking as I saw the TMAHV hover around the corner on one side and wormheads on the other.

I launched myself upwards and over the same building as I was soon greeted with two manti, weapons aimed at me. I changed my approach as I put away my rifle. I activated an energy shield I had installed on my left wrist to take in the fire. To do so, I had to drain my armor's shield to 50%. A blade came out of my right gauntlet as the edges glowed a feint blue. I blocked the oncoming fire with the shield before I landed. The mantis on the right would be my first target as I launched towards it with my blade drawn back and pierced his shields and armor with a forward thrust. I took a few hits from behind as my armor shields dropped to 20%. I charged at the retreating mantis, blocking his fire with my energy shield while closing the distance quick. I knew the TMAHV would be hovering around the corner shortly. The mantis tried to turn and run, but I lodged my blade into its nape, killing it quickly.

When the TMAHV came around the corner, so did the remaining wormheads. Deactivating my energy shield and retracting my blade, I took out both of my pistols having set them on automatic and gunned down the rest of the wormheads. These guys were trying to be smart with their strategy, but they had no idea who they were messing with. I had ran around the corner, knowing the TMAHV would give a chase.

My shields recharged and I had a plan. As the vehicle came around, I launched myself at the gunner, my wrist blade drawn once more, and decapitated the gunner. Taking its place, I grabbed the turret it was using, aimed it down and opened fire on the TMAHV cockpit. The pilot had gotten out halfway before it exploded. The explosion took out 63% of my shields. The now crippled mantis was crawling away to an open area. I grabbed it by the neck and pulled out a pistol, set in single shot as it struggled.

Then there was a flash. Looking over, I had saw I had the pleasure of meeting Queen Thiccness White Boobsmuch and a few dozen of her soldiers and the smaller purple one I had first met. The white one had looked around, looking at the bodies that littered the town, both native and FoG alike.

~**You've made quite a mess here, haven't you, little one?**~ she asked. Her horn was lighting up as a glowing circle had appeared on her wrist. A ball of energy formed in her hand.

Getting annoyed with the struggling, I had placed my pistol to its head and pilled the trigger. The purple one flinched as I did so. Dropping the corpse, they had my full attention.

"You're welcome." I said.

There was a pause until Purple spoke.

~**Princess, it can't understand us. We can't understand he either. We don't know its language.**~

~**So. We will bring him in to learn how to communicate with him before questioning.**~ said Queen Whiteness.

~**Wait!! It's cool! I swear!!**~ said a voice from above. The blue cyan rainbow haired native with the daughter had flown down and stood between me and the native army. ~**It saved Scootaloo's life, and mine too!**~

Queen Whiteness narrowed her eyes at us. ~**Who knows how many ponies it had killed? Even Twilight had reported it attacking her as well.**~

~**Twilight told me what happened, princess. It didn't kill her or Spike, or any of your guards that attacked it. It had every opportunity to kill her, Spike, Scootaloo, even me!**~ I wasn't one hundred percent sure, but Rainbow Hair sounded like she was defending me or saving me from an execution.

~**She's right, Princess Celestia.**~ Said Purple. ~**Even when we had it surrounded, the only ones who injured the guards were other guards. It may have been my fault for him attacking me too.**~

~**Your highness, this one had fought with us against the invaders and had managed to help us fend them off. If it wasn't for its help, Nome of us would've made it alive.**~ An armored native said.

Queen Whiteness paused wearing a puzzled look before she shook her head. She had ceased her magic. ~**Be that as it may, it's still dangerous. Until we can find out if it means us any harm or not, it would be best if we have him contained. Twilight, is there any other way to communicate with him?**~

Purple lit up her horn as a rectangle formed between us with a slide image of me following them somewhere. They want me to follow them. No problem. I nodded my head.

Queen Whiteness again. ~**Okay. Can you tell it to surrender its weapons to us.**~ Hesitantly, Purple made an image of my rifle, pistols, and grenades being handed over to them. Fuck that! I don't know who these people are, or when the FoG will attack next, and when they do, I'd best have my shit. They're gonna learn to trust me, and they're gonna do it now. I shook my head slowly. A couple of her guards had tried to apprehend me, a horned female and a winged male. The male had his head slammed on the ground, instantly going unconscious while the female got a fist straight to the muzzle.

~**BUCK! MY NOSE AGAIN?!!?!**~ The female whined. I pulled out my pistol and aimed it at her. She froze as soon as she saw me. I was looking at Queen Whiteness, glaring behind my visor, finger on the trigger while Purple and Rainbow Hair gave me pleading looks. She returned the look before nodding to Purple who in turn drew an X on her video of me surrendering my weapons. I put my weapons away, glad I didn't have to scatter a non-FoG head to prove a point.

Putting my weapons away, the Queen Whiteness motioned me to follow her towards a castle made of crystal. I kept my eyes peeled for any FoG survivors, and also on the nearby guards. If they try anything funny, they will regret it. Purple was walking ahead with Queen Whiteness, but was constantly sneaking peaks at me.

I heard Queen White Thiccness talk. ~**Twilight, we are preparing refugee centers in Canterlot. I would like you to help the townsponies here move in. I don't think it would be safe for anypony to remain here.**~

She whispered something to Purple's ear, but seeing as I can't understand what the hell they're saying, it wouldn't matter. It didn't matter at all until Purple took another peek at me to know that whatever they were planning, it was about me. I was going to have to keep an eye on her whenever she's around.

Maybe it was me being paranoid, but I was sure I was treading on thin ice. They these natives showed their wariness from their quick glances towards me on the way to a large crystal-like structure. Surrounding it looked like medieval military camps with the armored natives sure its citizens and injured were evacuated through what seemed like teleportation. It was then that Purple had left to the large crystal structure, but not before giving me one last look.

I watched her walk away until I heard a few guards that were escorting me whispering. When I snapped my head in their direction, the whispering stopped. Behind the crystal structure were a few chariots lined up while being pulled by winged soldiers. I didn't even bother with trying to logic. Queen White Thiccness had gotten on one and motioned for me to get on board with her. Looking around, the rest of the soldiers teleported away while a few got in the separate chariots. The two winged soldiers spread their wings as they started running. We took off to the air oddly enough, heading straight for a city resting on a mountain.

Through the entire trip, I was prepared to jump.

Author's Note

This chapter may be rewritten. I've revised it multiple times but it's not quite to my satisfication. However I figured I kept you waiting long enough and after re-reading it over and over again, and again, I figured I had nothing left to add.

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