Intermixture

"Imperial Admiral Kerzon Xytranai, this is the bridge to all decks, please respond." General Velska Afrocov said from the bridge. He became concerned due to all the ship malfunctions so he assembled a team and made his way to the bridge to find a series of dead Sangheili and no Imperial Admiral or Supreme Commander.

"General, I just scanned the entire ship, I cannot find the Admirals indicator anywhere." An officer said.

"He must have left the ship to find answers on the surface." Velska mumbled to himself. "Either that or he's dead."

"General, I'm picking up an energy build-up."

"Location."

"Here, on the bridge. General-"

A bright flash lit up the bridge and an elegant creature with a white coat and flowing sparkly hair appeared. It wore gold on some parts of its body and had a large pointy horn and a set of wings.

"What are you doing in my land?" She demanded, her voice obviously female.

A series of growls and snarls could be heard along with the drawing of several energy swords as the Sangheili on the bridge started circling around the creature defensively. Her horn began to glow in retaliation.

"Stand down, incompetents!" Velska ordered loudly.

The Sangheili backed away and withdrew their swords, though still cautious.

"I am Velska Afrocov. General of the Blades of Transcendence Fleet." He said boldly, slowly walking towards her.

"I am Princess Celestia." She said.

"To answer your in-querry, we do not know how we got here, and we are capable and completely willing to leave, however our leader is missing and we must find him." Velska said calmly. Celestia started to relax.

"Your machine is terrifying my people and bringing chaos to my land. I am afraid you will have to leave now."

"We wish you no harm."

"That does not matter. You machine has brought disharmony, which is very dangerous to my people. You must leave now."

"That is unacceptable. We must find our Imperial Admiral and complete our mission."

"I am sorry, but it is how it must be. I cannot allow you to stay here."

"You cannot allow us to stay here?" Velska started. "I do not appreciate your choice of words-Princess Celestia, was it? We must find our Admiral. Exit this ship immediately so we may continue."

"No."

"That was not a suggestion, Celestia." Velska scanned the princess. She was large and looked like she could be very dangerous, but Velska and his men were much taller, larger, and probably had more knowledge of personal combat. Velska drew his energy sword threateningly, challenging her if she dared. Her horn started to glow and he took this as acceptance of his challenge.

He charged at her with his energy sword and swung. She dodged it easily and shot a beam of magic at Velska's feet, causing him to loose his balance. Celestia charged for the engineering station where she pierced her horn into it and started manipulating it with her magic. Velska took notice of this and went in for the kill, however, as he swung, Princess Celestia disappeared into a flash of light. Velska looked around in confusion and took in what he just saw.

"General, slipspace drive is spinning up!" One of his officers said.

"What? I didn't order a jump!" Velska yelled.

"It is a system malfunction, sir. Whatever that creature did has caused our systems to malfunction."

"Doesn't she know anything about slipspace physics? If we were to jump in the atmosphere it would cause a rupture in normal space. She has not only killed the Admiral, but she's killed herself!"

"Actually General, the external inertial dampeners have been activated, there is no telling what could happen to the ship or surrounding area."

"Power up weapons and fire at the nearest populated body!"

"I'm trying. Weapons systems are offline, General."

Velska snarled and roared in anger.

Tucker looked up at the ship. "Wait a second, can't we use the ship to get the fuck out of here and go home?"

"Remember? We're in the Epsilon unit dumbass. Even if we did escape in a ship there is no home here." Church added.

"He does have a point." Simmons added.

"Actually-" Tivos started. "We were in slipspace when we emerged here. Which means we are in normal space, as there has been no recorded history of vessels of any kind emerging in different realities, universes, or dimensions threw slipspace. It is most likely that the only way for you to return home completely would be to take Kerzon's ship to the Epsilon unit and disconnect yourselves from it."

"Thanks, smart-ass." Chruch said.

"Wait, how exactly would we account for the fact that we're horses, exactly?" Grif asked.

"You would only be horses until you disconnected yourselves from the Epsilon unit. You would be human again once you got out."

"Well then what are we waiting for? Let's get the fuck out of here!" Tucker said enthusiastically.

"If you want to leave, your going to have to ride in our phantom so we can get to our ship." Eyha said.

Kerzon coughed. "Ride in my phantom so we can get to my ship."

Everybody paused and there was a long silence. "Well, we should get going if we are going to leave." Tivos said threw his English accent, breaking the silence.

"Yeah, I guess we should get going than." Church said sadly. "Goodbye Twilight, thanks for letting me stay at your place while we stayed here. I appreciate it a lot. I had a great time."

"Sure." She said sadly.

"Guess we won't be able to finish our competition." Sarge looked at Applejack's eyes. "I'll miss ya." She said, smiling but visible tears beginning to form in her eyes. "You too, AJ." He said as he hugged her.

"Uuuuh, yeah. I know we didn't really do much, but it was nice I guess." Grif told Fluttershy. She nodded her head and looked down.

"I don't want to leave." Caboose said sadly.

"We have to, Caboose. We don't belong here. We need to go and finish the mission with Carolina. Besides, you didn't expect to be able to stay here forever, right?" Church told him.

Caboose let out a sad sigh and looked at Pinkie, who was beginning to tear up. her mane didn't look as puffy as usual.

"Wrinkly Tie-" Caboose started

"Pinkie Pie." She corrected.

"Pinkie Pie. I am going to miss you." He said, and started to sniffle. "I will always remember the times we spent ironing ties together. It was the funnest I've ever had.

"Ironing ties?" Pinkie started.

"It's futile." Church said.

They shared a hug and said goodbye one last time.

Tucker looked at Rainbow Dash. "Goodbye, I guess." He said flatly.

"Hey, It'll be good to sleep without having you toss and turn all night." She said.

Tucker let out a weak laugh. "Yeah."

"Um. I'm not too good with goodbyes." Simmons said to Rarity.

"Its okay." She said. "Goodbye Simmons." She smiled, but she was still saddened.

"Bye." Simmons said.

"Jesus Murphy. Let's go." Kerzon said impatiently.

They all started to walk away from the girls and towards the phantom when Tucker looked back. All of the girls had lost their sincere smiles and turned to sad expressions. What especially caught his eye was Rainbow Dash. She was looking down at the ground, lightly kicking around dirt with her front hoof. He stopped walking with the others and stared for a moment. She looked up at him and a tear ran down her cheek. All of a sudden Tucker felt a jolt of something he had never experienced before. It was attachment. He broke eye contact and looked down at the ground.

"No." He said. The reds, blues, and the rest stopped and looked at him. He raised his head and made eye contact with them.

"Tucker, let's go. We knew we wouldn't be able to stay here forever." Church said.

"Yeah? And I suppose we're going so we can kill the director?"

"Yes, that's the mission."

"No. What do we have for ourselves if we go back? Sure, we can help Agent Bitch kill the director, but what's in it for us? We're outlaws. We betrayed our own government, our own people to help her. You know what? I don't even like her. So if we go back, we are not only helping some bitch we all hate, but we are technically helping you kill yourself, Church. Which I don't mind, but once we are finished, what the fuck are we going to do? Move into human civilization? Sure, let's just get arrested by the UNSC and get put in prison for treason. Go back to some dirty ass canyon and fight the reds again? Fuck that. I had nothing to live for then and I have nothing to live for if we go back. But here, I have something to live for." Tucker looked back at Rainbow Dash, who smiled. He walked over to her and stood beside her. "You can go if you want, but I'm staying. You can tell Agent Bitch that I have more important things to attend to."

They all paused for a moment until Sarge looked at Church and spoke. "I hate to say it, but he's right. We've got nothin' good waiting for us if we go back." He went and stood beside Applejack.

"Fuck this shit, I ain't bustin' my ass for some hard-ass." Grif said as he walked over to Fluttershy.

"I want to stay with Kinky Lie." Caboose said as he walked to Pinkie. "Pinkie Pie." She said.

"He has a point." Simmons said as he walked to Rarity.

"Well I'm glad we agree than." Church said as he walked over to Twilight.

"You've got to be kidding me." Tody said.

Kerzon shrugged. "Well, have fun here than." He made his way towards his phantom when they all heard a noise.

It was the similar sound they heard when the BTS Promethean Equilibrium had arrived. They all looked over to where the sound was. The lights on the Promethean Equilibrium began to glow brighter, and a blue field shot across the hull. The field began at the stern of the ship and shot up to the bow. When it reached the bow, sparks of blue energy sparked as the ship began to punch into slipspace.

"What the fuck are they doing!" Kerzon exclaimed. "Disloyal idiots! We were coming back you dicks! Do you have any idea what you've done!?"

"Oh bloody hell." Tivos said as he looked at the ship in shock.

"What's wrong?" Fluttershy asked.

"My men must have figured I was killed in the slipspace accident. They've decided to leave without me!"

"Well that sucks." Grif said.

"You don't understand how serious this is." Kerzon said.

"How is it serious? They left you behind. Yay, now if you don't mind, I haven't slept in a while."

"Do you like being alive?" Kerzon asked.

"Well, I was always comforted by the prospect of getting to practically sleep for all of eternity when I die, but yeah. I like living."

Tivos spoke before Kerzon could respond. "When starships enter slipstream, it creates small amounts of anti-matter when the slipstream portal closes behind it. If a ship engages it's quantum slipstream drive in a planetary atmosphere, the anti-matter particles annihilate the particles in the atmosphere, causing an anti-matter explosion called a Slipspace Rupture."

"Exactly!" Kerzon said. " We are all going to be atomized in a giant fucking explosion!"

The girls gasped quietly and whispered things to each other.

Everybody watched as the ship cut open a portal into slipspace and accelerated into it using it's sub-light engines. Once the massive supercarrier had fully entered the dark blue orb, the portal imploded, and than exploded outward in an explosion.

"Fuck!" Kerzon yelled, only to be surprised by the fact that the explosion was only about the size of small bomb. A few seconds passed and a weak air blast swept threw Ponyville, slightly messing up Rarity's mine.

"Oh, drat, My mane!" She said warily.

"I.... Don't understand." Kerzon said to himself. "Why didn't it rupture?"

"If the external inertial dampeners were online it could have pulled most of the anti-matter threw." Tivos said a-matter-of-factly.

"Well, that's great. I'm not dead, but now I'm stuck here without my ship, without my infantry, and without my fleet. All I have is an Ascetic, an Honour Guard Ultra, an Imperial Zealot, a Supreme Commander, and a human idiot with a strange urge to fuck tactical consoles." Kerzon sighed. "Well, at least I still have my sword." He pulled out his sword and drew it, he watched the plasma spill out of the handle into a mess of superheated energy until it quickly materialized into a solid looking blade.

"Where the fuck did you get that?" Tucker said in surprise.

"It's a ritualistic weapon to my people."

"Hm." Tucker murmured to himself in interest, obviously intrigued by the fact that this alien had the same weapon that Tucker did before he came to Equestria.