Soldiers: Skyfall
Chapter 44: First Mission
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Making this before our assualt on the Dawsian command facility. This is me and Queenie's....sorry professional. Me and Major Chrysalis' last chance to stop what those bastards have planned for Equestria after their prob found it. If they reach Equestria i dont think they will be able to stop them even if they throw everythingthey have at them.....and i know the lads would do everything and i have faith in them to do everything they could but....realistically i know they would be too out matched.
We have to stop the bastards here, to save everyone.
Twilight Sparkle signing off."
--Princess Twilight Sparkle's personal log 2 months before invasion of Equestria.
Date: June 17th, 1666 CC
Time: 14:29 [Local Time]
Name: Twilight Sparkle
Location: Dawsian Fleet Command Headquarters
An explosion rocked part of the base sending equipment and debris skyward as the alarms sounded alerting the Dawsian soldiers to the intruders on site. There was a clear path of destruction left in those intruders' wake as they were making their way to central command.
A squad of their soldiers engaged them and a small dark green wearing one returned fire as a shiny black one seemed to appear out of nowhere on their flanks and between the two of them another group was lost as the intruders continued on with their objective.
“Keep moving, we are almost there!” Twilight yelled to Chrysalis as the changeling became a small insect to avoid notice and continue working to flank enemies as the two sentries bots watched their back, their weapons were not very effective against the armored enemies but they could warn the two.
It had been nearly 2 months since the two found themselves thrown far from home and in the middle of a vast network of multiple galactic empires made up of all manner of different species.
It had taken them sometime to adjust but they had eventually managed to do so as they worked to try and get home. It was these efforts they had learned of the Dawsian’s plan to invade their newly discovered home world and set out to stop them.
It was this mission they were on now, fighting to expose the truth about the Dawsian Coalition to the rest of the galactic community.
It had taken weeks of planning as their target was deep within The Coalition's fleet command.
They reached another key area and Twilight planted some enhanced plastic explosion and they ran for it before it detonated and destroyed a key power system.
This weakened the field preventing teleportation and this allowed them to teleport past much of the enemy defenses and into the central command building.
This teleport caught many of the soldiers inside off guard and allowed the group to cut through them rapidly till they reached one of the rooms before the central database.
It was here they were met with one of the Dawsian’s that was larger than the others waiting for them.
“That explains it….” He said. “Cybernetic augmentations, primitive as they are.”
Twilight raised her rifle, her instincts telling her something about this one was off, not just being larger. ”Major, take the alternate route.” Twilight ordered.
“Commander?” The Major asked quietly as an insect.
A shot missed her by inches from the Dawsian’s weapon causing her to yelp and fly back.
“So that's how that things been appearing and disappearing, a shapeshifter, an advanced species at that, never seen one that far along.” The Dawsian said.
The fact he heard and almost perfectly pinpointed where Chrysalis was made Twilight's concern grow.
“Move, I'll follow as soon as I deal with this asshole.” Twilight said with a smirk.
“...Alright…..hurry up.” The Major said knowing there was no point in arguing , she had learned long ago to ignore those occasional twinges of fear in Twilight save as warning she was taking this seriously.
The Sentries moved and followed Chrysalis as part of the backup plan in case they ran into major issues.
“Aww sending away your little squad augmented thing?” The Dawsian said.
“Oh, I just don’t want them getting in the way when I beat your ass into the ground.” Twilight shot back and cracked her neck as she readied the pulse rifle she was using.
“Very cute but you've overlooked something very key.” The Dawsian said and he was suddenly across the room, grabbing the barrel of Twilight’s rifle and then slamming it into the mare's face causing her to stumble back. “You're not the only one augmented and mine are a lot better than your primitive junk.”
Twilight got her hooves under her and fired a magic blast from her horn and the Dawsian dodged it and casually snapped the pulse rifle in half like it was nothing.
Twilight growled, she liked that gun!
She teleported behind him and lunged with one of her hoof blades only to have his booted foot connect with the side of her head and send her flying landing hard.
“Cute trick, but you're not the first one that can teleport naturally, you also aren't the first to think just because you're the best on your planet that you can handle anything in the galaxy.” He said mockingly. “I always enjoy breaking primitives like you.” This was said with sadistic enjoyment.
Twilight got to her hooves and took the air flying and firing another magic blast that was dodged exactly as expected as a laser pistol held in her magic where she had been laying fired and scored a hit on the alien male causing him to grunt in pain before he stomped the pistol.
“Clever but it will take more than stupid tricks to take me out.” he said looking back in time to have both of Twilight front hooves collide with his face at full speed causing him to slide back but keep his balance….and grab her arms as he looked down at her with a bloodied nose. “You cheeky little primitive, a double fake out….too bad it didn't work.” He said before slamming Twilight down onto the ground hard enough to drive all the air from her lung and crack a few ribs before he picked her up again and threw her across the room so she slammed into the wall hard enough to break those cracked ribs sending pain through Twilight’s body.
She took a few deep painful breaths moving to get up.
She spread her wings and took to the air only to have the Dawsian jump into the air and brought his elbow down right on the middle of her back driving her into the ground before grabbing her wings and twisting them hard as sickening pops sound through the room and Twilight screamed in pain.
Through the pains she was able to teleport a short distance away and pulled out all of her newly acquired energy weapons and took aim in his generation direction as he wings lay uselessly at her side.
He was right in front of her grabbing her horn and kneeing her hard in the face sending her head back as he held her horn in place, another deeper scream escaped her lips as her horn snapped off and she went crashing to the ground a few feet away, all of her weapons dropping to the ground.
The Dawsian casually tossed the horn in his hand. “I’m guessing this is the focus point of your little ticks and I'm guessing you can't use them without it." he smiled before tossing it behind him.
Twilight was struggling to get to her hooves head pounding from the pain and felt him grab her, lift her and deliver a powerful knee into her stomach. She felt the content forced up her throat by the pain and the blow and it let forth from her mouth as he dodged it.
“Come now, weren't you going to beat my ass into the ground?” The Dawsian mocked her as he approached.
Twilight dug deep and managed to force herself up, throwing a wide punch blade out and he caught her arm. “Now let's see how you do without one of your augments.” he said before putting his boot to her chest and pulling.
She screamed…..did she ever scream as the cybernetic limb was torn from its socket in a spray of sparks and blood.
Alerts and warnings were at the side of her vision she barely had time to register before her severed leg was swung into her face sending her flying into the wall behind her. “Come on, don’t tell me that's all you got.” He said as he brought her metal leg down on her head.
He then slammed the side of her head hard enough her helmet straps broke and it went tumbling away exposing her head to the next blow that jerked her head to the other side.
Blow after blow rained down as the Dawsian used her own augments to beat her. Her right eyes started to see static as its system was failing and more and more errors danced before her eyes along with spots. The only reason she wasn't dead already was her alicorn endurance but that was also prolonging the beating as the Dawnsian smiled down at her with sadistic glee, like a foal burning ants with a magnifying glass.
“Get away from her!” Celestiabot yelled a moment before the sound of her Gatling gun echoed through the room.
“Bah, blasted machines!” The Dawsian yelled as Twilight collapsed against the wall, one eye offline while the other had glitches in its visual input.
She heard the sound of shearing metal.
“SISTER!” Lunabot screamed. “You bitch!” More gunfire as Twilight heard the pop of a teleport next to her.
“Twilight. Twilight I got you.” Chrysalis said as the sound of Lunabot being destroyed echoed through the room.
Chrysalis grabbed Twilight, and risked the second to grab the core’s of the Sentries and teleported just before the Dawsian grabbed her.
There was a series of pops through the base as Chrysalis retreated with her barely alive mate on her back till she managed to escape back to their ship and from there retreat.
They had lost their battle and Chrysalis feared they failed to prevent the invasion of their home.
Author's Note
And what caused the [ERRORS] in this fic has been revealed.
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