War for Equestria

A unicorn ran into the office, "Have you heard of knocking, sir?" The officer asked.

"My apologies sir. But we have a problem."

"Then spit it out instead of apologizing."

The unicorn stood up straight, "The assassin was killed."

The officer sighed, "Then our time has come. Report to the Captain and give him the authority to attack. It's time to test this Commander's strength."

"Thanks for the ride back Captain Quill. I wasn't really big with taking the train back."

The Captain smiled, "Eh, it's no big Commander, I understand ponies need that fresh air every once and a while."

Nighthawk chuckled, "You and me both sir."

"well, we should be there in the next few hours. Why don't you get some shut eye in the guest quarters. I'll wake you up when we get there."

Nighthawk put his hat down and closed his eyes. He began dreaming of the green fields, blue sky and nothing but the wind in his mane as he galloped towards the sun. Penelope flying in the sky, Starfrost and the princesses galloping at his side and all of his friends with him. He began hoping that the memory will never go away, but suddenly, he woke up and saw flashes of light outside, he looked out the window and saw several ponies and pegasus flyers zooming by. He grinned and looked closer where he saw a few of the flyers blow them out of the sky. Farther out he saw smoke rising from several buildings and more flashes. He ran up to the bridge to check on the Captain. "What's going on? Is there an attack?" Nighthawk asked as he equipped his saber.

"I have no clue." The Captain said as he was typing something into the computer, "But I can't get through to any port, and it looks like this enemy has our kind of tech!"

Nighthawk shook his head, "Don't risk getting to port, get yourself some troops and prep this zeppelin for battle."

"What about you, then?"

Nighthawk looked over his shoulder and grinned, "I have my ways." He ran back to the room and pulled out a box that sunny gave him. He opened the box and pulled out a cuff, "Sunny I hope your right about this." He put the cuff on around his hoof and it began activating a set of red and yellow armor that Sunny Glider gave him, each piece of armor began shimmering with yellow flames and his chest plate had a phoenix engraved and lit up light blue. He jumped over the railing and lowered his visor and mouth guard. Metal wings were extended and lit up.

He began flying towards the Academy hoping that this was just a basic attack, but he turned around and saw a couple pegasus soldiers activate their weapons. Nighthawk teleported behind them and he shot down one of them with his magic. He drew his saber and teleported in front of the other pegasus and stabbed him in the chest. He looked carefully into his eyes, and looked down at his chest plate which had a symbol of the sun. Nighthawk took the blade out and landed towards the other pegasus which had the symbol of the moon on his armor.

Why are there soldiers of the princesses attacking us? Nighthawk thought to himself as he raised his visor and mouth guard.

"Nighthawk!" A familiar voice called out to him. Nighthawk looked up and saw Comet Burst and Sunshine Breeze fly towards them.

"Guys, what are you doing here?" Nighthawk asked.

Sunshine began panting, "Princess Cadence sent us to help clean out this mess."

"But we didn't know that it would be this horrible." Comet said as he began checking his data pad.

"Where's Bulk?"

Comet sighed, "He was sent in to oversee the evacuation of Princess Celestia, but we got nothing back from him."

"And Luna?" Nighthawk said with a grin.

"Back at the castle. Look Captain, I don't know what we have here, but we might get-"

Sunshine turned around, "Everypony get down!" She activated her weapon and began shooting at a flyer heading right towards them. She continued to shoot at it but suddenly exploded and crashed near the group. Sunny Glider flew down and deactivated his weapons. "Well that was close."

Nighthawk nodded, "And you came to help too?"

Sunny Shook his head, "Negative, i'm overlooking the evacuation, the southern border was breached, and word is out that soldiers are invading the Academy."

Nighthawk looked out towards the Academy, "No, no Starfrost." He lowered his mouth guard and visor and flew off.

"No Nighthawk, that place will be swarming, you won't stand a chance!" Sunny shouted.

"I'll take my chances!"

Nighthawk flew towards the Academy, behind him we're several more enemy flyers that began shooting at Nighthawk. He began dodging the beams and fired back in front of them, he shot down two of them, flipped behind the other and clipped the pegasus's wing with his saber. Nighthawk sped up until he saw a faint light. He flew towards that light and saw Penelope being surrounded by several unicorns and earth ponies. She screeched in anger and began burning one of the unicorns. Nighthawk teleported above one of the earth ponies and stabbed him in the back. He kicked a unicorn with his hind legs and shot a the last to.

Nighthawk looked at Penelope as she flew to his chest. "Oh Penelope." Nighthawk said as she began whirring. "I'm so glad you're safe. Now let's find Starfrost."

The two busted through the door of the broken up house, "Starfrost! Starfrost Freeze!" Nighthawk said as he ran upstairs. Nighthawk went back downstairs and heard Penelope squawking and pushing at a hoof. Nighthawk pushed the boards out of the way and saw the lifeless unicorn on the ground with a burn mark on her side and several cuts all over. "No, no no this can't be happening." Nighthawk said as he knelt down. "Starfrost please wake up." He began pushing her with his muzzle hoping that he could something from her. With tears in his eyes, he shook his head, "I'm sorry."

A pony walked up to Nighthawk, "Son?"

Nighthawk opened his eyes, "How could you betray me?"

Phoenix Blaze extended a hoof to Nighthawk, "Please son, don't let the past separate us. I did this all for you, so you could understand what dangers lie in wait for you."

Nighthawk raised his head.

"Nighthawk, forget her, forget all that you learned, and join with us. Together we could be powerful enough to overthrow the princesses. We could be unstoppable."

Nighthawk began breathing deeply. It's so clear to me now...the Empire, Ponyville, even now, I just never believed. Nighthawk sighed, "No."

Phoenix grinned, "No?"

He turned his head, "I'll never join you!" He activated his flying gear and dragged Phoenix out of the house and to the ground. He lit up his horn and fired a blast of magic, but missed when Phoenix teleported towards Nighthawk and took off his cover, "Very well then. If you're not with me, you against me." He lowered his own mouth guard and visor and drew his sword, "You are no longer my son."

Nighthawk removed his hat and drew his saber, "Bring it on then." He lowered his mouth guard and jumped towards Phoenix Blaze. He lowered his visor and teleported before his father could stab him. Phoenix turned around and saw Nighthawk's hind legs slam right into his face. Nighthawk jumped at him again and they clashed their swords. The fight kept on until Phoenix shot Nighthawk with his magic. Luckily it didn't penetrate the armor, but he could feel the heat and the pain.

"We would have been great together, but instead you decide to follow your so called prophecy and look where it brought you?"

Nighthawk raised his sword, "That prophecy is my true destiny, and I will do what I must to keep it that way."

Phoenixes horn lit up, "Then this was brought upon you." He fired a powerful blast of magic that should've killed Nighthawk, but before the beam hit, Penelope dove in and somehow merged with his armor. More flames began forming on Nighthawk's armor. A red and yellow stripe began flowing down his helmet and his saber lit up like the sun.

Phoenix fired another power blast but was deflected from Nighthawk's saber. He charged after Phoenix and clashed their weapons, but this time Phoenix's sword broke apart from the heat. He teleported behind Nighthawk and fired a blast of his magic that pushed him over. Nighthawk turned around and the two unicorns lit up their horns. Phoenix's lit up to a darker blue while Nighthawk's had a change in color and lit up to a fire red color. They both launched a beam of magic at each other and the power released a shock wave throughout the area. The two of them fought, and only one with survive.

The ball of fire came closer and closer to Nighthawk, nearly touching his horn. He looked up at his father one last time and closed his eyes. A single tear dripped down and Nighthawk put all of his power into it and launched the ball towards Phoenix Blaze and exploded. Nighthawk had Penelope on his shoulder as he got back up the hill and looked at the castle one final time.

"Nighthawk!" Sunny Glider shouted as he flew past, "We're evacuating to the F.O.B. outside of Ponyville. I recommend that you get moving before you're left here."

Nighthawk closed his eyes, "I'll comeback soon. I promise."