Soldiers: Skyfall

"The time is now Midnight, August 10th, 1666 Celestial Calander.
The temperature is 53 degrees.
The planned weather for the day is Sunny with a slight rain in the afternoon in the southern parts of Equestria.
The Cloudsdale Weather Factory reports [SYSTEM ERROR]
Thank you for listening to your friendly Equestrian Automated Cloudsdale Report."
--Automated Message, Central Equestria.

Date: August 10th, 1666 CC
Time: 00:58
Name: Light Hooves
Location: Equestrian Military Science Division Facility Command Center

Light Hooves stood watching the screens before him as reports came in from security stations trying to defend the facility from the enemy forces. They had hit them hard and fast though they had been ready. Even with that preparedness the enemy had still been able to breach the facility and now the fighting was in the halls.

As Light watched the cameras he saw a group of the enemy breach a lab and take an energy bolt to the chest powerful enough to burn through its armor like theirs did to Equestrias and cause the pegasus to blink. He tapped a command and the camera changed to the one inside the lab and he saw a group of researchers behind an overturned table, one of them holding a large shoulder mounted…something attached to wires, computers and 4 power sources.

Three of the researchers were typing away on their computers as the other lifted the device again as another enemy tried to enter and a powerful energy bolt shot from the device burning through like the first one.

Light checked the lab's information and was answered that the lab was working on developing a sort of energy weapon but hadn't gotten far into the prototype phase due to major flaws with the system. Well…..looked like their research was being put through field testing as the researchers fought to stay alive with the only weapon they had.

He sighed as he wanted to send security to help them but right now they had their hooves full so for now they were on their own.

He changed the cameras to a nearby hall where he saw 2 researchers and a guard galloping down it having escaped from who knows where.

Every camera was the same, the facility despite his best efforts was slowly being overrun and even those in secure shelters were being forced to flee as they were breached.

Suddenly the lights and screens in the command center went out as there was a distinct sound of power loss from the center's dedicated power source shutting off.

“What…report!” Light looked around and drew his side arm concerned the enemy had breached further than he had realized and reached them here.

“Unknown, nothing is working.” One of his officers reported trying to get their computer to work.

Suddenly all the screen turned on with scrolling data, wait are they being hacked? That wasn't possible, it was a closed system.

The data scrolled rapidly till it was off the screen and was replaced by 5 words.

[LEVEL THREE SECURITY RESPONSE INITIATED]

And with that Light Hooves lost control of defense of the Facility.

Date: August 10th, 1666 CC
Time: 01:08
Name: [CRUSADER MAINFRAME BRAVO]
Location: Equestrian Military Science Division Facility

Bravo had sat silently watching through her numerous cameras that acted as her eyes as the enemy forces had slowly been overwhelming the organic security forces and endangering the researcher she was charged with both assisting and protecting as the Facility’s supercomputer.

She was the first successful one brought online, Alpha had unfortunately suffered catastrophic failure due to a programming error deep within the millions lines of code that made up the Crusader Mainframes and allowed them to function resulting in her effectively losing her mind and eventually self-deactivating permanently.

Bravo was lucky in that they had found the issues and been able to fix them before she was brought online and she had been functioning at peak efficiency for 3 decades now only needing updates as technology advanced. And she had been the closest to happy something like her could achieve.

She wasn't exactly a she, it was just that her avatar used through the system to represent her as she did things was modeled after a mare and so the organics referred to her as a “she” and “her” in that weird way organics do with things they interact with.

It made no sense to Bravo as it was outside of her duties and so was deemed irrelevant and seemed to increase efficiency and so she saw no reason to pursue that line of inquiry.

And now she had watched for the last hour as those who were her responsibility had been attacked by unidentified organics that had been attacking the rest of the nation.

Her and her sister Mainframes Echo in EDF High Command and Foxtrot in Castle Friendship had been monitoring things as they were meant too, Foxtrot was the first to see direct action as Castle Friendship was breached and the other two had more or less left her alone to focus on her responses.

Echo was safe deep within a mountain which left Bravo as the only other one left exposed to the threat, and it had finally reached her forcing her to take an active role rather than the passive one she had been.

This meant a class three security response, full automated response. As the organic commander would say, the gloves came off and she had near total authorization to defend this facility by any means necessary as safety overrides were now disengaged so she had access to the full array of features in the facility.

Her first act was to spot a decent sized group of the unknowns moving through the central hub area of the biological research wing and after she confirmed no friendlies were within the main hub she sealed the doors and engaged the sprinkler system which began spraying a fine mist into the room.

The Unknowns of course noticed this and took defensive stances expecting an attack. When none seemed to come they relaxed and began looking at the mist that surrounded them.

What they didn't see was one of the sensors on the ceiling lowered down to reveal what looked like the end of a taser.

A single spark and the flammable chemical in the air ignited, chemical that burned at a temperature around the temperature of reentry. In other words, hot enough to completely and utterly destroy any biological material caught within the sanitation event. By the time her cameras dropped back into the room there was only some warped and partly melted armor and weapons where the Unknowns had been.

At the same time her turrets dropped from the ceiling of a hallway and unleashed a hail of .50 cal rounds upon the Unknowns and would not let up till she was sure their biological function had ceased.

As this happened a group of them were using a large equipment lift to move up into the facility and they got to experience what happens when the lift drops without any brakes and crashes into the lowest point of the shaft.

Two of them were caught between a set of blast doors and the sprinkler system was slowly filling the sealed hall with water, a slow method of elimination but it would work as even if their armor had air tanks they would run out at some point.

All throughout the facility Bravo unleashed anything and everything she could to repel and eliminate the Unknowns as the PA system spoke in her artificial voice looping direction for all personnel to report to shelters and she watched as researchers and guards alike made their way there.

With the halls and labs clear it would allow Bravo to go all out without fear of friendly casualties.

The Unknowns were no longer fighting the facility's defenders, they were now fighting The Facility itself and it had many ways to fight back.