Twilight had never felt smaller and more insignificant in her whole life. There in front of her was the massive object that had crash landed outside of ponyville, except now it looked even bigger up close. It loomed over her like a titan, although the thing suffered a crash landing it appeared to be relatively in-tact, in fact Twilight thought that the field had sustained more damage than the massive object did, it also had the words ‘War Pig’ written in black on the side of it. There was also what looked to be a pirate flag painted on one of the wings.

But she would have to ponder on that later as she had a self assigned mission to do, she walked up to it and banged her hoof against its side, as predicted the surface of it was cold and hard, it also produced a metallic clanging sound. So her theory of the thing being metal was accurate. She also noticed that there were these weird looking machines lining the sides of it, and these machines had long wide metal tubes protruding from them, each of these machines came equipped with two of these metal tubes one on each side.

Twilight telaported onto the first deck and took a closer look at the pole machines (she couldn’t think of a better name) she saw what looked to be a small leather seat at the back of it and further up there were two handles, each with a red button at the end. Twilight stared at these red buttons curiously, eventually her curiosity got the better of her and she hopped up onto the seat and gently pressed the button with her hoof.

Bang!

Twilight covered her ears and screamed as the metal tube made the loudest noise she had ever heard. Once he ears stopped ringing she got up and looked around. When she looked in the direction the tube was pointed at she saw a massive crator in its wake. Twilight’s mouth fell open as she saw just how powerful this thing was, Twilight felt a pit in her stomach as she got a good look at how many of these machines lined the metal beast, if just one of them could cause damage like that, she didn’t even want to think about what all of these machines could do when combined

Just then she noticed an opening into the metal beast, without hesitation she entered the thing and looked both ways sparks were flying all over the place and there was a strong smell of what appeared to be grease oil and alcohol, Twilight wrinkled her nose at the horrible smell, but none the less she ventured forward into the depths of the beast, to her right were a set of stares, and lying on that set of stares was a strange looking creature that Twilight had never seen before. She instantly ran up to it and began inspecting it, the creature had a metal face with a single eye hole, spikes were protruding from the back of its head and it had really long forelegs that ended in dull claws. It’s torso was completely naked although it was covered in dark green tattoos. It’s bottom half was clad in what looked to be dark green trousers and metal shoes, and lastly she noticed it was wearing a large metal backpack. It also had had what looked to be a metal stick which it was holding in its right claw.

Twilight finished taking notes and continued on through the beast, as she continued to search the beast she found more and more of these creatures lying around and she checked them to see if they were still alive, most of them were with the exception of a few who just couldn’t survive the crash. Twilight also noticed that some of them were dressed differently to others, sometimes she would come across ones like the one she found lying on the stairs others were fully clothed, but they all had one thing in common regarding clothes, they all had masks on

After about thirty minutes of exploring (Yes the ship is that big) she only had one last place to look, Twilight walked up a ramp and arrived in what looked to be some kind of command deck, and there were eight more of the creatures here, although unlike the other ones not all of these creatures had masks on, but there was one creature which cought Twilight’s eye, it was lying on its front and it had what looked to be a massive pirate flag draped over its right shoulder, seeing as none of the other creatures had This she assumed this one was the leader. She walked over to it and tried to use her magic to flip it over, but as she tried to do this her magic just evaporated into thin air. Twilight’s eyes narrowed in confusion, she tried again, and got the same result. Seeing as her magic was obviously useless she resorted to using her hooves tor turn it over ( which was made difficult because the creature was so heavy), just as Twilight got the creature onto its back its eyes opened, Twilight screamed and so did the creature, the creature backed itself into a corner and pulled out another one of those metal sticks and pointed it at her.

“What are you doing on my ship!?” It asked

And the creature could talk, Twilight just sat there in amazement as she looked at the creature, but was soon brought back to reality when the creature shouted at her again

“I said what are you doing on my ship!?” He shouted (at least Twilight assumed it was male given the depth of its voice)

“Oh sorry I’m just looking around and trying to gather scientific research for, scientific purposes” she trailed off towards the end

“Oh well that’s alright then” replied the creature as it lowered the metal stick, Twilight just remembered to ask about that

“Um excuse me but can I ask you a question?”

“Sure go ahead”

“What’s that metal thing you have with you? “

“Oh its most commonly known as a machine gun, but the correct term is an assault rifle, but you call it what you like” Said the creature, Twilight noticed that as well as speaking ponish it also had an accent, the accent sounded like a southern trottingham accent.

“And what is this place?”

“We are currently on the command deck of the overland battleship known as the war pig”

“And what speicies are you? I’ve never seen any ponies like you before”

The creature chuckled “well we’re not exactly ponies, we’re a spiecies called humans”

“And one last question, what is your name?”

The creature chuckled again “Well true I haven’t introduced myself, Captain Dean Angell, leader of the Hoods”

“I’m Twilight Sparkle, faithful student to Princess Celestia”

“Pleasure to meet you Twilight now would be a mate and help me wake up the rest of my crew?”

“Of course”

The captain stood up and Twilight felt small again, at his full hight the captain was even able to make Celestia look short, to say that Twilight felt intimidated would be an understatement.

It was a good thing Twilight was on good terms with him or she’d hate to think what she would have to deal with.

To be continued

Author's Note

Part 2 will be up tomorrow and it’s much longer than this part so I’ll be as quick as I can, but I The mean time I hope your all enjoying