"Hello? Please can anyone hear this? Please me and my 2 foals are hiding in the attict of our home at 1342 Strawberry Drive. Please, i think they are outside."

Sound of splintering wood and breaking glass followed by heavy footsteps on wood.

gasp and quiet sobbing." oh gods.....one of them is in the house.....please....I...only have one of the knives from the kitchen.....please anyone....."

"'iishrak aleudu!"
gunfire, followed by a loud thud.

Saddle Arabian accented voice."Pony mare, this is Captian Al'Sharian, 21st Saddle Arabian Paratroop Regiment, we heard your distrsss call and came, its dead now, you can come out.

Date: August 10th, 1666 CC
Time: 07:34
Name: Swiftwing
Location: Unnamed Forest, Southeast Equestria

The 5 ponies moved slowly through the thick forest lead by a Keeper who had his side arm drawn and a shotgun on his back. They were far from home based on the Keeper patches being marked for a city far from this forest. It was clear they had been through much to reach this point.

Unknown to the small band of ponies they had walked into the path of a squad of the Invaders who were searching the forest for such groups as they were.

The Invaders had spotted the brightly colored ponies through the trees easily and were taking aim to cut them down like they had with many other such groups who sought safety in the forest.

Black clad figures dropped from the trees above, larger than the ponies and physically stronger they were able to force the Invader's weapons away before they could fire and there were flashes of steel as the Invaders exposed necks were cut.

The Invaders silently dropped before they ever had a chance to really react.

Swiftwing stood over his team's second kill in this forest and he knew there most likely would be more, they had been deployed here specifically to clear the area of all hostile forces and determine if there was any refugee presence.

Needless to say that was confirmed. Swiftwing clicked his radio and spoke quietly so as not to frighten the ponies who had no clue just how close they came to death. “This is Feldwebel Swiftwing, we have confirmed the presence of 5 refugees located 2 miles into the forest as well as enemy forces, continuing our hunt.” He reported.

“Confirmed.” The Oberst replied quietly as well as She was deployed elsewhere on a similar mission as Swiftwing.

With that the Griffin Commando team disappeared into the forest.

Date: August 10th, 1666 CC
Time: 07:42
Name: Tower Shield
Location: Postal Processing Plant 4, Fillydelphia

Tower fired his rifle at the enemy soldier as soon as he saw it. The Keeper was behind a makeshift barricades acting as cover made up of random furniture from nearby buildings.

All throughout the area were other such barricades as Troopers, Keepers and armed civilians fought a desperate battle to defend their position, not that they had much choice as they were surrounded and this was quickly turning into a final stand.

This was insanity as ponies from all walks of life were here of all ages. Not far from Tower’s position he could see three foals wearing school uniforms operating a heavy machine gun they had somehow gotten into a shopping cart to make it mobile, taking all three of them to fire and reload it.

Between all the groups multiple other foals, their flanks blanks due to their young age ran between groups to deliver messages as not everyone had a radio so it created a need for fast runners to keep coordination. Only the injured weren't doing something to try and keep the defenses going no matter the age.

Behind The Keeper stood the postal processing plant, how that became the place they sought refuge was beyond him, it just sort of happened. Unknown to the Keeper, Postal Processing Plant 4 was the last government controlled facility for 100s of miles as all others had been lost.

Keeper Tower reloaded his rifle and came back up to fire on the encroaching enemy only to find one right at his barricade. He had enough time to register this before the enemy soldier backhanded him, sending him tumbling away dropping his rifle.

He landed hard and frantically started trying to draw his side arm as the soldier came over the barricade to finish him off.

“Oi back the fuck off!!” Someone yelled a moment before another pony jumped on the back of the enemy soldier and started stabbing rapidly with some sort of makeshift knife. The pony didn't let up till the enemy soldier dropped dead and the pony got off them panting and Tower saw them wearing an orange jumpsuit with numbers and the name of the nearby prison. The Keeper of Law just got saved by a convicted criminal.

“Oi you alive Screw?” The convict asked, holding a hoof out. Slowly Tower took it and the convict pulled him back to his hooves and grabbed his rifle, hoofing it back to Tower. “You dropped this."

Tower took it. “Uh…thanks.” He said.

The convict shrugged and pulled a large caliber rifle from his back and moved to Tower’s barricade to take up a position with him.

The entire world had gone mad as he took his position beside the convict and the two of them started to fire on the enemy soldiers.

Suddenly there was red smoke around the two of them and Tower looked around concerned that the enemy had done something as he heard a roaring sound rapidly getting louder.

A moment later the entire street before him exploded into massive fireballs as the roaring went overhead and was now rapidly retreating.

Moments later it returned and the street on the other side of the processing plant exploded as well.

“What…what the hell was that?” Tower asked.

“It looked like jets….thought ours were destroyed.” The convict said.

A few minutes later one of the foal runners ran by. “The Zebra’s are here! The Zebra’s are Here!” he shouted as he ran by to the next barricade.

Keeper Tower Shield blinked confused at this news and finding it hard to believe, had the Zebras really come?

Far from where Keeper Tower could seejust outside of the bay the Zebracan Navy’s 3rd and 5th fleets had taken up positions. With partial communication with remaining military forces the Zebras were launching bombing runs throughout the city, launched from their carriers at the same time dozens of landing craft sped towards shore, each one loaded down with Grand Zebracan Army soldiers and vehicles.

The first forces to receive relief and much needed supplies were those closest to the bay as the Zebra army stormed the city, fresh and at full strength and ready to help the desperate Equestrian military forces.

Date: August 10th, 1666 CC
Time: 08:02
Name: Bullet
Location: Evac Site Gamma-Bravo-4-3-9, Garrington Resort Beach.

“Watch the left side! Left side!” Captain Bullet yelled into his radio as the Invaders were making a push. He was behind one of the artificial dunes the beach had dotting around the it as a way to make it look more interesting than other beaches, these dunes were some of the only cover he and his Troopers had to defend the site.

All around him was the continuous sound of gunfire as what remained of his unit was trying to hold back the enemy that had pushed them out of the resort and onto the beach, behind their makeshift defensive line were dozens of unarmed civilians caught between the invader and the surf with his unit the thin line between them and the massacre that would take place.

“Last mag!” Someone yelled over the radio.

Dammit they had to do something or they were going to die on this beach.

Captain Bullet looked through his binoculars just over the dune to try and see something, a way to punch through the enemy line and get to safety, or at least where they could have a continuous retreat, anything was better then trapped on a beach.

Suddenly a bright green and blue helicopter was overhead looking like something from some sort of party. The doors opened and Bullet watched as a smoke trail launched from the brightly colored helicopter and exploded in a large group of the enemy soldiers as a hail of bullets came from the helicopter as it started strafing the enemy.

A thick accented voice started coming from speakers mounted on it. “To Equestrian pony, remain calm, rescue is coming ashore."

Bullet’s head whipped around to see dozens of small boats making their way to the shore and beyond them multiple civilian ships and boats flying Saddle Arabian flags.

The boats reached shore and armed civilians armed with whatever weapons they had stormed the beach joining his troopers on the dunes and some even carried duffle bags filled with magazines of desperately needed ammo as others started grabbing ponies and practically throwing them onto the boats packing them as tightly as they can before departing to be replaced by others.

The helicopter continued its strafing runs as a Saddle Arabian joined Bullet on his dune shoving several mags at him speaking Saddlian at him. Bullet didn’t speak it but he got the idea as he took the mags and reloaded, the Arabian unslung a cheaply made rifle and joined him in covering the evacuation, it was clear by how he held the rifle this was quite possible the first time the horse ever held a weapon and yet he was doing what he could to help.

Bullet didn't care as any help was welcome to take the pressure off them.

As they fought he saw another Arabian running down the sand dunes burying something in the sand.

Within minutes the civilians were off the beach and all that was left was Bullet’s Troopers who were being partly dragged to the last boats as the armed civilians helped cover them.

Bullet was partly dragged through the surf to one of the boats worried what was going to happen now that nowone was covering them and his fears were realized as the boat pulled away the Invaders came surging over the Dunes.

He heard something yelled form one of the other boats that sounded very insulting weather you understood the language or not followed by mad chackling as the beach exploded with enough explosives Bullet felt the heat all the way on the water as the boats retreated back towards the civilian ships the helicopters also retreating towards a very expensive looking yacht if the size and helipad on it was anything to go by.

Bullet had no real idea who the hell had organized these crazies into this rescue team but whoever they were he owed them all the drinks in the world.

Date: August 10th, 1666 CC
Time: 08:22
Name: Dancer
Location: Northern Border of Equestria

Dancer felt the heat of one of the alien weapon’s bolt pass inches from her head forcing her to duck down behind the cover of a burned out truck. Her and her squad were the only troopers in this area as far as she knew, least they hadn’t heard anyone despite numerous calls over the radio, for all they knew they and the refugees with them were all that was left.

They had been tasked with covering a highway that headed straight to the Frozen North and was being used as an evacuation route for people from….well…anywhere really. They had been told a group was on the way and that was the last contact they had with anyone from the EDF.

The steam of civilians hadn't slowed much and so her squad held the line as they had been ordered to.

They didn't know if the Crystal Empire was even a safe place at this point but they had to assume it was better than here.

Things had gone alright till the enemy had followed the trail of refugees and now they were in a firefight as the last of the Civilians crossed the border and hopefully could lose them though Dancer doubted it as they would have to stick to the roads else the constant storm would kill them as it was easy to get lost.

Still they had to buy them as much time as they could.

“YAKS SMASH!” a very loud and very gruff voice yelled and Dancer watched as dozens of small rockets sailed overhead and tore through the Invaders.

She looked back and was both shocked and relieved to see Yak Light Infantry charging down the road, their rocket packs strapped to their sides and their 20mm cannons on their backs already taking aim.

The Yaks formed a wall of armor and the sound of their cannons going off was almost deafening as they unleashed the full might of the YLI on the Invaders forcing them back.

And if the YLI was here that meant their heavy units were in route as the YLI always spear headed any operations the Yaks took.

Within seconds of the YLI appearance the Invaders were either dead or on the run as the leader of the unit snorted and turned to look at Dancer. “Tiny pony unhurt? Good Yaks take from here and show these weaklings Yak Perfection!” With that the YLI unit charged down the road to chase down the Invaders.

Dancer couldn't help admitting she took a bit of pleasure at the Invaders being chased down like they had chased down countless others.

Date: August 10th, 1666 CC
Time: 08:26
Name: Dawsian Starship Waninial
Location: Las Pegasus

A massive ship hovered high over the city of Las Pegasus as columns of smoke rose from the city. It was one of the largest cities in Equestria do to it being the entertainment capital of the nation which left many many places for people to hide so fighting was still fierce though it was waning as ammo and needed supplies ran low while the Invaders can easily get what they need from the massive ship overhead that none of those in the city could ever hope to evens scratch. It was just delaying the inevitable.

Those aboard the ship knew this, while they were outnumbered by those on this continent it was just a matter of time before they dealt with the resistance.

It was an inevitability like it had been many times before.

As they coordinated their forces on the ground their sensors detected several large objects moving towards them at speed.

They quickly directed their focus to see what they could only assume were massive ships heading straight for them; they assumed they were ships as these things were almost the size of small mountains.

This made no sense as all scans showed the technology of this world was far below such ships.

They directed their weapons and fired and watched them impact the lead target and….do very little but slow it down.

They began firing more and only slowed the advance.

A moment later the 6 dragons slammed into the ship at full speed and actually pushed it a decent distance before it stabilized.

The dragons began tearing at the ship's shields with their claws and biting at it with teeth that can chew through precious gems like fruit.

The ship's weapons fired desperately at the creatures who swam in lava for fun and their weapons did little but anger them further.

In minutes the shields failed and now those claws tore into the hull as easily as one tears paper.

The ship began to take off to try and escape the onslaught and the response was for two of the dragons to breathe their fire at full force burning through the hull with temperatures far beyond that of the sun on the horizon and in seconds those flames erupted on the far sides of the ship.

The Waninial began to lose power as the dragons continued to tear into it and escape pods began launching as the untouchable ship plummeted to the ground below, the dragons never letting up their attack till the ship was torn to pieces.

Those who escaped the ship and within the city did not get a reprieve as 100s of smaller young dragons, small enough to enter the city swarmed over it and the Invaders found their weapons were just as useless against them as the ships had been against the full grown dragons, only serving to anger the dragons even further.

The tide in Las Pegasus had shifted drastically.

Date: August 10th, 1666 CC
Time: 08:57
Name: Equestria
Location: Equestrian Continent

All across the nation fighting raged between the Dawsian Invaders and the people of Equestria who refused to surrender despite the overwhelming odds.

Across the nation resistance continued.

In one area the remains of an Equestrian Xerndu Main Battle Tank, its turret blown off rammed through an enemy supply camp, inside a lone Tanker yelling in defiance as enemy soldiers vanished below the treads of the burning tank.

Elsewhere a group of invaders marched the streets only to have a car speed into the middle of them from a side street and explode as a makeshift bomb while ponies hidden in surrounding buildings opened fire with what weapons they could scrounge together.

Another area was having a massive tornado tear through the enemy lines as survivors from the Weather Factory put all of their experience in manufacturing weather to good use and unleashed the most extreme weather they could upon those who had destroyed their great city.

In another part of the nation three pegasi flew fast and low over a small encampment dropping pipe bombs and hurling flaming bottles of fuel down upon the invaders while under fire. One of them would not survive this run as he would take a direct hit from one of the invader rifles but the other two would meet up with another group who had done the same and together they would fly high into the sky.

Breaking through the clouds they found themselves amid a dogfight as Saddle Arabian fighter engaged the alien air force to defend multiple transports as paratroopers hurled themselves towards the hostile land below, their chutes dotting the sky.

Griffin Commando units hunted in the southeastern part of the nation as their regular military made landfall in The Baltimare area as the Zebra’s launched a full counter offensive in Fillydelphia and rescued what remained of the cities defenders.

In the west the dragons who had liberated Las Pegasus arrived in the skies above Vanhooves and the ship that had prevented all but the luckiest of few to escape the city was brought down despite its best efforts while a grew and while stallion wearing a radio pack watched from the roof of an apartment building as an alabaster alicorn observed from the sanctuary she had set up and help defend.

In the flooded city of Manehatten, what few ponies that survived an unfortunately timed natural disaster received reinforcements from the very sea that had nearly destroyed the city as Hippogriffs launched a surprise attack on the invaders from below the water.

In the town of Ponyville the sky was blackened with 10s of thousands changeling soldiers who had watched from the shadows aiding their ally and now unleashed the full might of the shapeshifting army overwhelming the invader with sheer numbers as far to the north the Yaks surged south like an unstoppable waves of heavy armor and heavier ordinance.

Across the nation Equestria’s allies, cultivated over decades of agreements, treaties and meetings brought everything they could muster in such a short time to bear to defend the besieged nation.

The Invaders were being pushed back from nearly every side.

It was at this time an energy pulse like the one that had announced the arrival of the Invaders was detected and a single ship appeared in orbit of the planet and entered the atmosphere.

Those who saw it feared it was reinforcements for the invaders and that the reinforcements from their allies were about to be smashed.

Only to catch the small ship open fire on the largest of the Invader’s ships as it used speed to maneuver faster than the ship.

As it flew over various areas where the fighting had increased thanks to the allies something was dropped from the ship.

A group of Zebrecian soldier were engaging the invaders only for something small, black and fast to speed past them and launch itself into the enemy with what some would report was laughter as it used two small energy pistols to attack the enemies weak points and then seem to vanish and reappear elsewhere do to its speed.

In another such area a group of Troopers were ordered to duck and when they did so a steady stream of rapid energy shots was unleashed by a completely dark green and thick armored entity that hurled just as many expletives at the enemy as it did weapons fire.

Another city a group of civilians fled from an invader only to watch a powerful precise energy bolt cut through the closest one. The other barely had time to react as more shots came from the roof of a far off building saving the civilians.

A group of pegasi on a run to cause damage suddenly found themselves joined by another who moved faster than them all and flew circles around the enemy while raining down bolts of energy.

In a makeshift field hospital where the staff was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of injured something that looked almost like a pony but clearly wasn't entered speaking softly and offering no resistances as it asked to help using advanced medical tech to treat those it could.

In the thickest part of the fighting where soldiers were going to be overrun watched as two large metallic figures walked through the battlefield unleashing advanced weapons fire upon the enemy as they bickered like one would assume siblings to do.

Slowly, bit by bit, second by second, step by step, bullet by bullet the Invaders were pushed further and further back eventually reaching full retreat back to their ships.

Some stayed to try and unleash their powerful weapons but this was shown to be a tactical error as the Dragons descended upon these ships tearing through them like that had proven capable of.

Those who did not try to burn the planet fled back to space and eventually vanished as they engaged their FTL systems leaving behind some of their force who had not been able to reach the ships. These forces attempted to counter attack but with the loss of support and the sheer number of reinforcements at 11:57 Equestria declared victory over the Invaders from Beyond the Stars.

Author's Note

And we see the end of the war.