Jet Force Twilight

Starlight’s spell hit Mizar straight on his robot arm, causing him to stagger. The blast from his pistol flashed the side of Twilights face. Starlight growled while her horn gave another glow. Twilight was flung halfway across the room by Starlight’s throwing spell.

Twilight heard more blasts as she opened her eyes.

“Wrap this up.” Mizar ordered his soldiers. The ants answered their commander by making a noise that sounded like a highly pitched pig grunt.

“Grueeei!”

The mingling room was formed like a square. Mizar’s minions had the entrance behind them. Not far to their right was an open door that lead to the room next door. There were no other entrances and only tables for cover. All the ponies were unarmed. The ants aimed their rifles into the crowd and squeezed the triggers.

Twilight’s mind was still trying to progress what was happening. Her ears were ringing with grogginess and the sound of laser fire. She saw Rainbow Dash push a table to take cover behind. She saw a Wonderbolt crumble to the ground.

“Help! Help me ha...!” Her pleading was cut abruptly. More pleads could be heard around the room, each one ending with the same cut.

Mizar saw one of the target ponies fall to the ground. He wasn’t sure how long this would take. It didn’t matter though, by the time the Jet Force group made it here this thing would be wrapped up.

The world almost appeared to stand still, moving like in slow motion. The earth pony counted three targets. She noticed two more ant soldiers coming from the other room as she galloped out from her hiding place. Her blue eyes became dreamy. What was it called when someponys eyes became dreamy and the ‘dream’ part of the analogy was a nightmare? Pinkie Pie had no idea, all she knew was that she felt like sharing it.

The blue ant turned around and spotted one of the target ponies coming toward him. He raised his weapon and fired. The laser went straight through the flying pink dress, leaving behind black holes. Confused the ant looked down and spotted the pink pony that recently wore it. When he first had seen her, her mane had been fluffy on top of her head. It was now hanging limply down at her sides, her blue eyes looking coldly at him. She jumped up on him, grabbed his arm and twisted.

“Griiiih!”

The other bug wailed around and spotted the pink pony hanging on his friend. He raised his weapon and fired, watching the pink pony hurl herself and turn his friend before he was able. The blue ant screeched when the fire from his friend hit him in the chest. The shooter saw the gun of his friend fall toward the ground. The pink pony reached down and caught it in midair. It was the last thing the shooter saw. The door behind the ant spattered green with bug blood.

Suddenly the room was filled with bug screams instead of pony screams. Rainbow Dash leaned out of her cover and spotted Pinkie Pie. She was running on two hooves while dual wielding the weapons recently belonging to the shooters. She fired both of them toward the other doorway were several other ants were. One of them was standing in the open now, probably expecting the ponies to be unarmed. Pinkie Pie used both guns to riddle him. The body of the ant twisted and turned. His severed arm went sailing before he fell.

“Pinkie!” Rainbow Dash called.

Pinkie Pie tossed one of her weapons to Dash, who went on plain gut concerning how to use these horrible things. The recoil wasn’t the worst but she could feel the heat from the firing mechanism.

The room littered with the flashing lines of incoming lasers, making Whooing sounds as they came. The party cake was hit. The laser made a large hole through it while the cream melted by the heat. Glasses that was hit shattered and burned black.

Mizar was firing from the room next door. The pink pony showed herself now and then but it was almost like she knew exactly when he and his ants, which were actually mechanical drones, would fire in advance because she always had perfect timing. One of the drones waited for her. Once the pink pony leaned out he took the shot. She dodged the laser by moving her head slightly to the left. Pinkie’s returning laser went straight through the drone, who fell sideways onto the castle floor in green splatter.

Mizar thought he could just make use of his self-mending abilities, charge the pink menace and kill her but one shot was all Twilight needed with her horn to undo his self-reviving spell, just like Mizar only had needed one to end Twilight. Stupid diamond pony!

Suddenly, Mizar heard more blasts coming from the other side of the room. He turned around and spotted a blue-haired human woman with braids at her sides. Following her was a dog. It was an all too familiar sight.

Jet Force Gemini

“Finish this!” Mizar ordered his drones and fired at the window, causing it to shatter. Several blasts came from the woman. They flashed by Mizar before he successfully made his escape.

Pinkie Pie heard more bug screams coming from the other room, along with more blasts. Her face twisted in bewilderment. What is going on?

Silence fell over the mingling hall. It went on for almost a minute. The ponies slowly realized that they were out of harm’s way. The silence was then cut with wails of despair when their attention shifted to the ponies on the ground. Twilight looked out from behind her hiding place. In the corner of her eye she saw Apple Jack trying to stand up. Rarity still seemed to be in the progress of realizing what just happened. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash looked out from behind their table cover.

But Twilights eyes focused on neither of these things. Her head spun around in circles by the sight of Starlight Glimmer. Twilight wasn’t sure how, but suddenly she found herself standing over her, looking down over her lilac colored coat with purple, blue streaked mane. A small creak of blood ran down from underneath her unicorn head.

“Starlight?!” A highly pitched voice panicked. Pinkie Pie came galloping. She pressed her pink hooves against Starlight’s coat and buried her face inside it, feeling it’s pulseless touch. It was then like the castle itself was screaming. Pinkie Pie’s uncontrollable crying filled the hallway like a hurricane. Twilight stared down at her former student in disbelief.

“Starlight!?” Fluttershy wailed.

“Oh no!” Rarity screamed.

“Sweet Celestia, not Starlight!” Apple Jack screamed.

She was the raiser of the sun. Her name was known throughout Equestria as both a name and an expression. She now heard that expression coming from Apple Jack with the following name that pretty much confirmed her worst fears. Princess Celestia watched the doors to the mingling room open. What she then came to grips with would come to be not her worst fears, but a nightmare version of it.

The entire room was completely swallowed up with ponies screaming over coats of different colors. She saw a mare crying over one of the guards. She saw Wonderbolt member Fleetfoot crying over the lifeless body of Blaze, the usually confident Spitfire holding her with a gradually cracking face. She spotted Lyra Heartstring, trying to shake life in BonBon. Coco Pommel was doing the same over what appeared to be her grandmare. To her right Celestia spotted two foreign figures standing in the doorway. One of them appeared to be a dog with a military uniform and a weapon attached on his back. The other, Celestia recognized, was a human female with blue hair. She appeared to be staring at the scene.

Right in the middle of the room Celestia spotted Pinkie Pie being nothing but a screaming heap of pink coat over Starlight Glimmer. Behind the pink pony was Fluttershy and Rarity sobbing in each other’s hooves. Rainbow Dash was just starring with pupils small like breadcrumbs at the whole scene. Apple Jack was halfway to Starlight but was hindered by her hoof being wounded. It was now that Celestia’s eyes meet Twilight Sparkle.

Blood was pouring down over the left side of her lavender face. Twilight’s purple eyes looked into Celestia’s, guilt swimming inside of them. They waited for Celestia to say something. Celestia usually had so much to say, but now, for the first time in a millennium, Princess Celestia was trying to chase the time passed instead of the time chasing her, she had no idea what to say. Once Twilight realized this she felt like she needed to ask a friend.

Maybe she could ask Starlight Glimmer for advice? Yes, she could ask her. Why wouldn’t she? If Twilight had been able to always ask her before then why wouldn’t she be able to do it now?

Twilight looked down at her former student. She folded her hooves around Pinkie Pie and let her own tears fall.