Chapters Season 1—Chapter 1--Show-n-Tell
Author's Note
Oh um... hi well, this is my first story and well, i may or may not like typing the story out
Ok, came back to this story, and man was i new at this, didn't try to fit the pieces of paper that I was copying this story off of,(Which I wrote), and not at least try to make this chapter 1000 words. Ok well, lets revise this chapter and deleted the second one to try and fix this mess that i made.
Also, Rhyming with Zecora is not fun.
Season 1—Chapter 1--Show-n-Tell
Today is Show-n-Tell day at school. For this Show-n-Tell we needed to bring something from home from one of your favorite video game. I spent 2 years getting it done. Now I know what you're wandering, how did you spend 2 years getting it done when Show-n-Tell is today, and what is it? Well... my creation is all three ACUs from Supreme Commander (U.E.F., Aeon Illuminate,and Cybrans).
I started working on it 2 years ago, just because I wanted to, I built them small, but still big enough for me to get in and to push all the buttons. I built them using rare metals that are almost impossible to break.
Now, I am the last person to go . "Ok Mark, its your turn,"my teacher said, "'Show' us what you brought 'N' 'Tell' us about it." Now.. i know what you're thinking, how, the hell, did i hide 3 ACUs in a small room? Well... the Cybran ACU has the ability to cloak and it was active (don't ask).
I reached into my pocket to fish out a button to press and all three ACUs appeared seemingly out of nowhere. "Ok Mark, 'Tell' us about them."
-----Ok I'm gonna skip this part because i'm lazy. Basically, I 'Tell' the other students about them, like whats its made of and what it can do----
After Answering all question, I entered the Cybran ACU and that's when things went wrong. When i got in, the screen was glitching out and on the screen, i saw that the Aeon ACU was glowing/shining. It flashed and all went black .
When I came to, I noticed that I was no longer in the class room. I was now in a forest so dense that I couldn't see the tree behind the one in front of me. Looking to my right, I saw the ACUs, "Meh" I said, and got into the Cybran one and it powered on. ACU ONLINE. ... What? Is that the little voice thing? Hello Commander. My name is QVI And I'm Here To Help You Operate Your Armored Command Unit, Or ACU. How on earth did you get here? I didn't program you! I don't even know how to! "Ok well," I started, "umm give me the statistics!" Everything Besides, Cannon And Builder Operational. POWER IS CRITICALLY LOW. MASS IS CRITICALLY LOW That's not good. "How do I obtain Mass and Power here?" I asked. SCANNING I heard a beeping sound. Scan Complete. ERROR. No Mass Deposits Found, I Suggest Building A Tech 1 Power Generator, Then To Build, A Mass Fabricator. "Yeah but, isn't the builder down?" I asked. Wait For Approximately FIVE Minuets For Mass And Power To Build Up. Your Amount Of Power And Mass Should Be At Top Right Of The Interface Along With The View From The Onboard Radar, Sonar. and Normal Veiw. Looking at the screen, I saw nothing but trees. Trees, and even more trees, I zoomed out to Strategic View and saw nothing but a grey area, which means the onboard radar instillation does not cover that area.
After waiting for seven and a half minuets, I was finally able to build the power generator. To Select The Build Radical, Press The Big Green Button On Your Left Side. Pressing said button, I saw the build thing, show up on the interface, moving to the power generator it was selected and a hologram of it showed up in front of me in the interface. I Suggest Placing Power Generator By That Building To The Right. Building? I didn't see a building. Zooming into the right, I actually saw the building in question. Oh ok, there is a building to the right. Moving the hologram behind the building and placing it there, the ACU began to automatically move there to build the generator. And when I got far enough from the other two ACUs, they began to follow me. ACU 1 & 2 Will Now Follow ACU 3 For Convenience. Yeah, for convenience.
Nearing the placed hologram, red flying things came out of the building cannon, and began to shoot red lasers, same with the main build cannon, but a bigger laser. When it was completed, I saw that the power level bar was no longer at critical. "Who goes making noise behind my hut that i don't know?" A voice? What on earth, is a person doing here, in a dense ass forest like this? On the View, I saw something that looked like a zebra, The Zebra Behind You Is Apparently The Owner Of This House, And Even Speaks English. Try To Communicate. Communicate... got it. Turning around, I saw that the zebra flinched, Probably not expecting me to even understand. "Hello." I said to the talking zebra. "My name is..." Hmmm maybe I should get a name for when I'm being a commander. The name I like from the game was 'TheContact' so I'll use that. "...TheContact. And I didn't mean to disturb you."
"Well hello TheContact, My name is Zecora,"She said, "I would welcome you inside and sip tea together, but I don't see anything for the tea to make 'contact' with. And your skin will make you hard to lift." She said, gesturing to the ACU.
"Oh this isn't my skin, It's just a suit." I explained. Don't Explain The Mechanisms Of The ACUs, Or How They Work. For Safety Reasons. Sounds reasonable. "Oh I'm sorry," Zecora said, "but this thing right here," she pointed to the power generator, "Is a disturbance, for me and the wildlife near."
"Oh sorry, but this is the best place for it for it will be out of sight, and where i'll remember its location." I explained. Even though that's a lie, for when it was done, the blip for it appeared on screen. "And I still need to build something else." Zecora began to think, then finally said, "Well fine, for the noise it make is not all that rine."
I whispered to QVI, "Is it ok if she sees the building Process?" It is ok. Good. Bringing back up the build wheel, I hovered over the Mass Fabricator, and a hologram appeared, moving the hologram beside the power generator, it was placed, and the same thing happened with the generator, the things came out of the builder. "Wow," Zecora said, "I didn't expect, for this, it was, not expected."
"Uhhh," I said, "How about you say QVI?" "The TECH 1 Power Generator Produces About 47 Kilotons Of Power Per Second," Zecora nearly fell on her face,"About 47 kilotons?!" She yelled, "Thats 100 times the amount needed to give the power usage of Manehatten the shuns!" "But," QVI continued, "For The Operations That ACUs Go On, They Need An Estimate Of About 20-37 Power Generators." I widen my eyes, as Zecora falls over. "About 20-37?! What in Celestia do you do that uses that much power or given?"
"Thanks Zecora, but their is no need for protecting them," I said, "For they are made of metals, unbreakable for anything here."
"That may be true, but I will call that a rue." She said. "Now you begone, for I must prepare for the higone of the creatures anyway."
"Bye Zecora."
"Bye Contact."
Commander, There Is A Strange Energy Source At The Edge Of The Radar Range. Looking at the screen, I saw a white dot at the top left corner of the interface, "Ok." I said, "What are we gonna do about it?" You Are Gonna Approach It With Caution For There Are Other Unkowns Around It. Looking back, yeah there were. I Recommend Heading There Now For More Power Is Good. "Yeah ok." I replied. "let's go." Heading in the direction of the dot, along with the other two ACUs I knew, I will have fun!
Chapter 2--- The Strange Energy Source
Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter. "Twilight! What was that?!" Rainbow asked.
"I don't know Rainbow!" I yelled. "How could I know? I don't even know what happened." What was that thing and where did it go? "Graaa! I don't like it when I don't know something!"
"Calm down Sugarcube." Applejack said nervously.
"How could I?!" I yelled at her. "That....thing ...might be dangerous! And I need to get it to the lab to determined what it is!" And to see if I can replicate it. "I just need to know where it went."
"I believe it went into the Everfree." Pinkie pointed out. What? "How do you know? The thing went invisible and we were distracted be the thing firing something!" I replied.
"Well Twilight," Pinkie bounced once, "the thing was headed that way when you first revealed it, so it might have went back there when it went invisible again."
"Yes yes. Ok!" I said, turning to the forest, "We now know where it went, but the Everfree is expansive."
"How about Zecora darling?" Rarity said, coming up beside me, "She specializes in the creature of the Everfree. We might want to ask her if she knows anything." Zecora? "Yes! Her, perfect!" I turned to the rest, "Ok girls, let's go. We are gonna pay a trip to Zecora's hut!"
Looking at the View, I saw the hut two sectors infront of me. "Where should I put the ACUs when i get there?" I asked. I Suggest Upgrading The Cybran ACU To Get The Cloaking Feature So That It And The UEF and Aeon ACUs Will Also Not Be Visible. "Yeah but, in order to upgrade, you need a lot of power and mass. We only got one Tech one power gen and only one Tech one mass fabricator , and with those alone, it will take at least a few days for it to be installed, and not to mention the power required to keep the cloaking active." Build A Base To Get The Power Required. Command All Three ACUs And Build A Base Of Operations. I glare, but then shrugged, "Ok fine." We were at Zecora's hut, I ejected from the ACU, I stumbled but quickly got under control, and knocked on the door. "Who knocks on my door from the outside floor?" I heard from inside. "Its me Zecora." I said.
"Ahh TheContact, I hope your contact with the ponies were not contradicting?" When she opened the door she stumbled back. "*cough cough*. So this is what you actually look like." She pointed out. I nod. "So what is it that you want that I couldn't give not?"
"Well... I need a place to stay for the night." She blinked. "You what?"
"I said I need a place to stay for the night,."
"You made contact with the ponies right? Which means you met Twilight. Why can't you stay with her? I'm sure she would love you to stay."
"Well, I have made contact with them, but I'm not sure its a good idea to stay with them for Twilight wants to take an ACU apart. Which I can not allow." She sighs. "Yeah, she would do that. Ok fine, come on in." I smile as i walked past her. "Thank you." I said as she nods. The Cybran suit follow me in while the UEF and Aeon suits stayed outside. I whisper to QVI, "Hey, why is the UEF and Aeon suits still outside?" Protocol 1-47B Has Been Activated. "And what is this protocal?" Protocal 1-47B, --Build A Simple, Functioning Base When There Is No Existing Base And When Resources Are Low, and when Commander Is Asleep. The Suit Will Find A Proper Place To Construct The Base, First Building The Defenses, Then The Resource Collectors, Then The Factories. "So tell me, TheContact, what are these, ACUs?" Zecora asked.
"Well ACU, or Armored Command Unit, are suits made by highly skilled people to wage war on other factions. The factions were the Cybrans, the Aeon Illuminate, and the UEF, or the United Earth Federation." I explained. "The ACUs are 100% war machines, built for base building and destruction." Zecora looked shocked. "Why would these...people, want a war machine?" She asked.
"Well, there was a war that lasted one thousand years, and there was no signs of stopping."
"Was was there a war at all?" She asked. I shrug, "Their Ideals. Look I will tell more but, *yawn* I need to get some sleep." Zecora nods. "Ok but one more question," I look at her, "can these ACUs be destroyed?" I nod. "Yeah, but it is almost impossible to accomplish it."
"What happens if one is able to destroy one?"
Hmmm, "Well to be short, The Commander, the one who destroyed the ACU, buildings, the wild life, everything will be destroyed in a massive nuclear blast." Her eyes widen even more. "And uhh, Ho-how big is this blast?" She asked nervous to get an answer.
"Well, While at the tree line, I saw a mountain with a hanging city on it, and I am certain that it will reach that city, and that distance will also go in all directins, up, down, left, right, everywhere." I heard a thump. Looking down, I saw that Zecora had past out. "Well." Ok then. "QVI!" Hows the process of the base?"
"Twi, do ya even think that Zecora wil know anythin' about that thin'?" Applejack asked.
"I'm not sure Applejack," I replied, "but its worth trying." We were almost to Zecora's and didn't get lost once. "Yeah! We didn't get lost once, we got lost five times!" Pinkie yelled. I decided to ingore it. "AHAH! There it is!" I yelled in victory. Approaching the door I heard this loud sound coming from the other side. "Twilight? What's going on?" Rainbow asked.
"I don't know Rainbow, but I don't like it." Lighting up my horn in case, "Girls, get ready because I don't know what will happen when I open this door." They all nod and I opened the door.
I woke up to the sound of alarms. "Huh? QVI, whats going on?" I asked the A.I.
The Ponies From Earlier Are Outside. Get In Quickly So We Can Head To The Newly Completed Base. Getting up off the floor, I quickly rushed to get in the suit. "Ok, take me to the base" Command Acknowledged. Walking to the nearby wall, the ACU walked right through it. "Do you think the ponies will question that?" Most Probably. But No Time To Fix That. "Correct."
There was nothing. the sounds have stopped. "What?" I said confused. "Zecora? Where are you?"
"Don't Worry Mrs. Sparkle, though I might, have had a markle."
"What why?" Rainbow asked. "Was it with that sound we heard?"
"Sound?" Zecora asked, tilting her head, "I think you must be mistaken, I heard no sounds. Though my breathe has been taken." She added with a whisper. Looking around the place, I gasped has I saw a gaping hole in the wall. "Whats wrong Sugar-" Applejack stopped as she also saw the hole. "What in Equestria made this here hole?!" She yelled, pointing to the wall.
"I don't know Applejack, but I'm about 99% sure it was also what caused the noise we were hearing." I explained.
"YAY!" Pinkie yelled. "More getting lost in the forest!" I blushed. "Ok. Come on girls," I said, then turning to Zecora, "Sorry Zecora, but we must follow."
"That's ok Mrs. Sparkle, I'll stay here and try and return the wall to its natural state." She said, waving goodbye. I nodded and turned to the girls. "Alright, let's go!"
After seven-teen minuets, I saw, a building, it was an UEF Air factory. Ok Commander, We Have Arrived At The Temporary Base. Walking into the base, the Aeon and UEF ACUs. Looking around, I saw that the base was a combination of UEF and Aeon construction. It was a nice idea, buildings from both factions. Commander, This ACU Needs To Add Its Constructions To The Base So I Suggest Getting Out Of This ACU And Into Another One./i] Getting out of the Cybran ACU, I walked to the others, thinking for a while, I decided to get in the Aeon ACU. Hello Commander The Aeon Suit Is Different From The Cybran Suit, Same With The A.I Names. I Am Called QVW, Here To Assist You. Looking at the controls, I saw that, despite the different faction, I saw that the buttons were different also. I'm gonna have to learn the buttons again apparently.
After a tour of the buttons, besides the big red one, because I don't want the sound the sound that it produces while charging up to attract any attention, I moved the ACU to the center of the base and saw, a giant building (Not any tech 3s, all the base is tech 1 as of now.) It was completely blue with some green and white in it. "What is this building?" I asked. This Building Is The Sleeping Quarters. This Is Where You Will Sleep And Where The ACUs Will Rest Unless On High Alert. That sounds comforting. Since You Wasn't Able To Completely Sleep, You Are Able To Sleep There With Me There With You Tonight. "What about the other two?" I asked. They Will Patrol The Base During The Night. "Ok." I said. *yawn* "Ok well, let's go to bed."
"Twilight darling, are you sure your horn is pointing us in the right direction?" Rarity asked. I groan. "Yes of course Rarity, having a cutie mark for magic gives me a pretty good reason that my horn is pointing us in the right direction."
"Oh of course deary, I'm just wondering if there was a different way through the Everfree." Rarity said.
"Now there wasn't." I said to her, "Now come on! We are getting close."
I woke up, not because of an alarm, but for what, I don't know. "QVW." I said to the Aeon ACU, "Let's go." Of Course Commander. Climbed into the suit, and went on our way.
"Hmmm..." I said to myself, "I just noticed that everything here is mostly Tech 1. Why is that?" Well Commander, It Was To Save On Time, The Purpose Of Protocol 1-47B Was To Build A Simple, Defend Able, And Functional. Some Things Were Made Into Tech 2 For Either Defending Purposes, Or Economy Purposes. So There Are Some Shields, Tech 2 And 1 Land And Air Defenses, With Some Torpedoes In The Nearby Pond. "How come no Tech 3's?" I asked. Simply, Because Of Time. Looking around, I saw units of all types, Mini Titans, Tanks, Anti Air, Amphibious Tanks, Motors, and more, wandering around. "What if someone actually comes close?" I asked nervous, "What will happen to them?" If Someone Actually Comes Close, We Will Identify Them With Vision, And If They Are Not Poines, We Will Open Fire On Them. Ponies As Of Now Are Considered Neutral. But We Will Fire Close To Them To Try And Scare Them Off, If You Give Us Permission. If They Retaliate, We Will Open Fire On Them Too, Unless We Can Make out On Some Form Of Agreement. "That's good to know." I said. Looking at the Strategic View I saw six white dots approaching. Opening up the commands, I said "Alright, we have visitors, do NOT open fire unless they fire first. Got it?" AFFIRMATIVE COMMANDER The ACUs all said. Just then, I activated the alarms.
"Uhhg!" Rainbow said, with dissatisfaction, "Are we almost there?" She landed besides me. I rolled my eyes, then looked at my horn, "Yes Rainbow, we are almost there."
"Hey ya Twilight," Applejack said coming to a complete stop then pointing ahead of her, "What are those things?" Looking to where she was pointing, I gasped. There was these building, with little defects on the front which made it look like they were pointing at something. There was also a kind of barrier surrounding those buildings and it looked like it was being projected from a much larger building behind them. "I don't know AJ." I said, actually scared. "How should I know? I don't even know if they will attack!"
"Well if they do..." Rainbow said flying with her front hooves out ready to hit something, "they won't here the end of it."
"Calm down Rainbow." I started, "It doesn't appear that they are..." I heard a loud alarm sound. Just then, the buildiings all snapped up to then point at all of us, except for two that are pointing to the sky. "...hostile..." I finished, focusing my horn to ready a shield. "Ok everyone." I heard, "Let's not get over ourselves right now." Coming up from behind the buildings was not one, but three ...things, one was mostly blue, another was mostly green, and the last was mostly red, the things had both of their front, thingies pointing forwards." Just then, the alarm stopped, but the other buildings were still pointing at us. "Let's try and talk before my defenses kill all six of you." The voice came from the green one. Looking at the thing's left leg, I saw that it was glowing. I quickly put up my shield around me and the girls.
Author's Note
Ok well for the different A.Is I decided to have different names for simplicity, Cybran is QVI, Aeon is QVW, and UEF will be QVA.
I know that its not what they are called. its just what im calling them, for now.
Also The 'Sleeping Quarters' Is not in the actual game. Its just something I thought of, originally, I planned to have me sleep in a Land Factory, now I see that that would have been a bad idea.
hmmm i have apparently forgotten about the scout. Well lets just say that the scout went with the ACUs to find a place to build the base.
"Uhh Twi?" I heard from Applejack, "What do you call that thing?" Looking at the creature infront of me, it had no face, well, it did, but it showed no emotion. It didn't even moved when it talked! Its arms had holes in the middle. Looking at arm, I saw that the left one was doing something. Not wanting to find out what, I charged my horn to put a shield over us. What happened next, made it a mistake.
In the build wheel, I looked through 'Extras' finding table, I selected it. Apparently, the builder lit up, and Twilight took that as an act of aggression and put a shield over her and her friends.
I saw a shot. Looking at the point defenses, I saw them all pointing at them and all shooting at once. "HOLD FIRE!" I yelled. When the fire stopped, I saw that Twilight's shield had popped from all the gun fire at once. "Sorry about that." I said to the ponies, "They don't like it when something that looked like an act of aggression is aimed towards me." Looking at the interface, I saw that the unknown bar was back, though it was not as filled as before, then it disappeared. Still placing the table,when the table was being built, I saw that Twilight, the orange one and Skittles was looking for a fight, at the same time, Twilight looked very interested. "Come," I said, "sit." We all walked to the table, including the other two ACUs. When they sat down and me standing still, (I couldn't, I'm in an ACU) Twilight sprang back up, "Who are you!? And how were they," she pointed to the defenses, "able to pop my shield so quickly? How are you able to make something like a table out of nothing?!"
I blinked. I didn't expect that from a pony that almost got killed. "What should I say?" I whispered. Be Friendly "My name is Commander 'TheContact', call me TheContact. What almost killed all six of you are the defenses for my temporary base. Right now, you are considered neutral, which means if you do something that counts as an act of aggression between either me, or the base, they will not hesitate to turn you into a crater." As if the defenses liked that, I heard the audible click of the land defenses. I chuckle at that. "Umm... if-if you d-d-don't mmmind me asking, wh-why do you need a b-base? I heard from the yellow one. Though hard to hear, the sensors from the Aeon ACU allowed me to catch it. "Well," I replied, "all Commanders require a Base of Operations, I did not have one here, until now."
"Umm if you don't mind me asking," I heard from Twilight, "what is a Base of Operations for?"
"QVW," I whispered, "give the command to not give fire unless ordered." Acknowledged Commander "Come," I said to the ponies walking into the base. They of course followed. "A Commander's base," I started, "has all the basic requirements for a Commander to begin their missions. Basic bases requires a factory of any kind, but a land factory is recommended, a base also requires power generators and and mass fabricators, an advance base requires a lot of mega Jules of power to function and a lot, but not as much, mass to keep things steady in building. All bases requires a defense, you already saw them, bases uses factories to produce units, you already saw a unit with that scout you saw back in the field, units are for..."
"Hold on," Twilight interrupted, "I know that you decided for the Everfree, for anything in it is hidden from sight, but, you said, 'all commanders require bases for their missions.' You have a base, so what is your mission as of now?"
"Right now..." I said, she nodded, I whispered, "What is our current mission QVW?" Our Current Mission Is To Scan The Area For Whenever We Get Back Home And To Survive. "My mission as of now is to scan the area," I answered Twilight.
"What are you scanning for," She asked while her horn lit up and paper and quill appeared, I saw that the bar reappeared, "QVW," I whispered, "Is that bar supposed to be for like magic?" All Signs Point To That Conclusion. "Well Twilight, I am only just scanning the area as of now." She scribbled something down. "I need to ask you some more questions," she began, "is there a place we can go?"
"Uhh yeah," I answered, "What about the others?" Looking at her friends ,Twilight said to me, "I need to talk to you and only you without interruptions."
"Ok well, they can explore, but only if they Do Not Touch Anything! Got it?!"
"YES SIR." they all said, except for the rainbow one, who just nodded. "Come on Twilight, I know the perfect place." Walking to the sleeping quarters, while the others went in another direction. Use Your View To Keep An Eye On Them. Inside the quarters, I took a right to the cafeteria and stood in front of a table while twilight sat down.
With her taking her quill and paper out again,
First question
My name is Commander TheContact, but call me Cody
I don't really even know how I got here
Skin? Oh this is not my skin, its just a suit called an ACU.
ACUs were made for a war between three factions, the Aeon Illuminate, the Cybran nation, and the United Earth Federation, or UEF for short.
Tell me about this war and the three factions
I produced a hologram and showed
"Ok," she said putting her thing away,"that's all for now." She nods, "Thank you for these answers."
*BLARE BLARE BRRING*
"Oh course" I sighed. This is not because of the other five ponies or that zebra. 'Its not?!' "Come on Twilight! Let's see whats going on.
We both ran out of the building and saw, a standoff between my defenses and these creatures. there was some made of wood. a cockatrice. And a freaking Hydra! They looked ready to bite. No chances are to be taken. "Open Fire!" I commanded. And my defense fired upon these creatures. The wooden one were easy to take down, but reformed after a while. The Cockatrice, I heard is able to turn creatures to stone, good thing that is not possible here. and the Hydra was actually able to destroy some of my defenses. Even managing that through the shield. After a minuet of focusing the Hydra and some shifting focus to the reformed wood creatures, they were taken down, with the wood retreating.
The ponies were all slack-jawed at the ability of destroying that many so easily.
"Ummm what the hay?!"
Author's Note
Ok, here's the basic info on Supreme Commander, with the basic video included.
Also, sorry for not updating this story in a while, i don''t really like the making of this story as much as the other one, so expect not a lot of updates for this story.
