At the barracks, I sit on the chair in depressed for fifteen minutes. Twilight is gone, her friends are gone, the staff is gone, and soon, humanity and the rest of ponykind... are gone.

The door opens, and Lauren walks in.

“Hey.” I say,

“I’m sorry about Twilight.” Lauren says,

“I know she’s still alive, but there is no way to stop Chrysalis.” I say, “They’re winning, and it’s all my fault.”

“Brandon, this isn’t your fault.”

“Lauren, I started the war after I changed Chrysalis.” I stand up, “And now they’re killing my people!” I kick the chair in anger, and I grab the glass, and throw it against the wall. “We’ve got to burn the rain forest, dump the toxic waste, pollute the air, and rip the ozone lair!” I grab the baseball bat, I rush to the bar, and I smash every drink shattering them into pieces. “Let’s see if they like it!” I then fall into the floor on my butt.

Lauren runs over me. “Brandon, you need let it go.”

“Do you think a good person like me be so useless?” I cry, “I guess Chrysalis is right, every good person is useless.”

“Brandon, don’t be hard on yourself.” Lauren says, “Everyone makes mistakes, and I make mistakes too. This isn’t your fault that you started the invasion; it’s just that we didn’t see that coming.”

“They abducted Twilight and her friends for the second time.”

“But this time, we could rescue them, right?”

“What’s the use? I’ll never bee a good leader.”

“Brandon, during the attack on Canterlot you’ve baited the aliens, and--”

Whatever she says that surprises me. “What did you said?”

“Something about baited Chrysalis?”

I stand up. “Lauren, I think I have an idea.”

Lauren smiles.

“Tell Thomas to gather everyone with the Enterprise. I’ll round up the others.” I run out of the barracks,

About thirty minutes later, everyone inside the Enterprise hangar gathers around me and my team (except the Mane 6) plus Thorax, Starlight, Discord and Trixie.

“So, what’s the situation here?” Thomas asks,

I turn to Faust. “Madam president, was the staff designed as like a computer?”

“The staff had a fail-safe. We’ve operated a decoy transmitter right here.” Faust points at a devise on the table. “The staff is designed to turn on and off, and when it turns off, Chrysalis will not be able to detect it. The decoy transmitter designs to scan the turned on staff, and when the scan is complete, it will duplicate the staff’s signature even the staff is turned off after scanning.”

“I didn’t know the staff was designed technologically.” Discord says,

“And does anyone have antimatter bombs?” I ask,

“We’ve only use antimatter bombs against alien motherships. We’ve tried out last time to kill the queen, but they defuse it before detonation. We’ve got the last one here.” Thomas says as four men with a rack with a nuclear warhead to the drop ship. “Careful there.”

“We all know that Chrysalis is heading for Abbas’s location so if we fly our alien craft through the star gate leads to Equestria, and we enter the queen’s mothership.” I say, “As we docked inside her ship, we can sneak inside, rescue the pony captives, retrieve the staff, and once we have a chance to escape out of her ship, one of the volunteers will fly in one of our drop ships filed with antimatter bombs, we bring the decoy transmitter inside the drop ship on board, and as we escape unharmed, the drop ship will fly into the queen’s chamber, and then blow Chrysalis to kingdom come.”

“We don’t know where her ship is located as she moves towards Hell Creek.”

“Actually, her ship’s path will be over the pacific ocean of Equis.” the officer says,

“So, no volunteers?”

But shockingly, my grandpas steps forward. “I’ll do it.”

Thomas, Faust and the staff salute follow by grandpa.

I walk over him. “Grandpa, what’re you doing?”

“B, you’ve helped saved the world. I was risking my life destroying Chrysalis in 1962.” grandpa says, “This is my destiny.”

“But--”

“Brandon, I know that you’re my grandson. But I’m doing this for you... and for Celestia.” he pauses, and he steps back.

I sigh. “Alright. Let’s do it.”

Everyone gathers out into their stations to get ready for the final battle.

Lauren puts her hand on my shoulder. “This is what grandpa wants to save the world.”

“Yeah. He saved the world fifty years ago, and he’s saving the world right now.”

“Don’t worry, Brandon.” Starlight says, “We’ll go with you. We’ve saved them last time, and now we’re saving them again.”

“And get some payback.” Thorax says,

“I’m doing this for Fluttershy.” Discord says,

“And for the Great and Powerful TRRRRIXIE, I will come with you.” Trixie says,

“But we don’t have any weapons and armor.” Kelly says,

“Not if we had them.” the man says with a kart with ten armor stands with five different types of body armor, and four large crates with plasma weapons and items. “We only have two Ghost Armors, three Skeleton Suits, a Archangel Armor, and four Carapace Armors, and each have personal shields. Ghost Armors make it extremely difficult for the wearer to be detected in the field, and it should be noted, the stealth system is only effective when used by a soldier in cover. Skeleton suits are our first attempt at combining medium-weight armor with an integrated grappling hook for scaling objects in the field. Archangel Armors combine heavy armor with a small propulsion system that allows for limited flight capabilities. Carapace Armors are designed to offer substantially better protection against the alien plasma weaponry through the use of their alloys, and tests indicate a substantial survivability increase relative to conventional body armor. Inside the crates are eight plasma rifles, one alloy cannon, one heavy plasma, one plasma sniper rifle, nine plasma pistols, a blaster launcher, ten plasma grenades, two arc throwers, two chitin platings, three medkits, three S.C.O.P.E.s, two ghost grenades, and four respirator implants.”

“Thank you, sir.” I say,

“Just doing my job. And you also going to need helmets because inside the mothership, its life support system has low oxygen levels. No pressure.” He walks away,

We grab plasma weapons, items and amour, and equip them. I’m equipped with a plasma rifle, an alloy cannon, a plasma pistol, a S.C.O.P.E., and a chitin plating, and I was wearing a Ghost Armor; Lauren is equipped with a plasma sniper rifle, a plasma pistol, a S.C.O.P.E. and a respirator implant, and she was wearing an Archangel Armor; Kelly is equipped with a plasma rifle, a plasma pistol, a S.C.O.P.E. and a respirator implant, and she is wearing a Skeleton Suit; Nick is equipped with a plasma rifle, a plasma pistol, an arc thrower and three medkit, and he is wearing a Skeleton Suit; James is equipped with a plasma rifle, a plasma pistol, an arc thrower and two ghost grenades, and he is wearing a Ghost Armor; Rebecca is equipped with a heavy plasma, a blaster launcher, a chitin plating and a respirator implant; and Discord, Starlight, Thorax and Trixie are equipped with plasma rifles, plasma pistols and two plasma grenades, and they’re wearing Carapace Armour.

We put on our life support helmets. “Alien technology is awesome!” I exclaim,

“Better than the ones from Star Wars.” James says,

Discord, Thorax, Trixe and Starlight look at James in confusion. “What’s Star Wars?” Starlight asks,

“Never mind.”

At noon as we’re ready to get inside the Enterprise, Faust climbs on top of the large crate with a megaphone.

Everyone gather around Faust to listen her presidential battle speech.

Faust turns on the megaphone. “Good afternoon, my fellow American and the citizens of planet Earth and Equis. Listen up, as we all know that our enemy is destroying our world and Equis. And we will be launching the biggest war in the history of mankind. And it’s not just mankind that are fighting; it’s everypony left in Equestria. We can’t consume by our anarchy and chaos anymore; we will be united as ‘Friendship’ and ‘Harmony’, and one day, the United Nations and Equestria will coexist for our freedom against tyranny, depression, anarchy and annihilation. And we can share our resources to each other, and help grow each our’s civilization in two different worlds. As the enemy gets stronger and stronger, we will not surrender, and we will not vanish without a fight! Today, we will show the forces of evil that ‘Friendship’ will not be stopped!”

We all cheer and applause for about twenty seconds.

“Let’s do this!” Faust jumps off the crate.

I turn to the others, and I smile. “Ready to kick Chrysalis’s ovipositor?”

“That’s what I’m talking about!” Kelly exclaims,

Grandpa walks over me, and he hands me a envelope. “Here. I want you to give it to Celestia.”

I read the envelop that says ‘To Celestia’. I smile at him as I shove the envelope into my pocket. “Don’t worry, Grandpa. I’ll help her for you.”

Grandpa smiles. “I’m very proud of you.” He walks away.

“Hey, Brandon.” Thomas says,

I turn to Thomas,

“Good luck... all of you.” Thomas then leaves,

“Let’s go save the others.” I say,

After we rise our personal shields, we walk up to the platform that leads inside the Enterprise.

Author's Note

Now that our heroes are getting ready for our final battle, what will they do next?

I know that there’s an XCOM reference, but that’s what the aliens are developing, and so does ETCI.