Rising Tensions, Shifting Powers (version 0)
Chapter 3: we'll protect you, I promise
Previous ChapterNext ChapterLocation: Equestria, Changeling hive
Time: 2 days 3 hours after first contact
Perspective: Lt. Tristan Summers, Gunnery sergeant Nathan Reeds, WHA-91 pilot Nicholas Diaz, queen Chrysalis, changeling guard Zulu, 3rd person
The WHA-91 hung in the air over the cave that held the Changeling Hive, Diez slowly set the WHA-91 down in the open dirt, and with its lack of a tail rotor, that made it easier to do so. The changeling guard's watched in fear and awe at the stealth helicopter, it's size, lack of wings, and odd shape being the main reasons.
But when Queen Chrysalis arrived, the stealth helicopter already two-thirds of the way down, letting it landing gear pop out and settle on the ground, making its size more apparent to Chrysalis and her guard's, especially her sergeant first class Zulu, who was ready to strike the beast with his crystal sword at any second.
But both Chrysalis and Zulu were surprised to see a door on the side slide open, only to reveal Chrysalis's beloved daughter Marcela hop out and run towards them, when Marcela approached her mother, she was caught in a loving embrace, after the 10+ second hug, Marcela pointed at the stealth helicopter. Chrysalis looked towards the chopper, only to spot 6 figures holding strange black sticks with small things attached to them, the 6 figuers stepped out showing their full height, they were atleast 2 feet larger than her, they also wore a black, white, dark blue, and grey clothes in a pixel formation, they also seemed to wear exo-skeletal armor. As Chrysalis thought it was only those six, two more walked out, but in light tan, dark tan mixer with the same pattern.
Marcela than run up to the two tan ones too Chrysalis's dismay, Marcela screamed, "these are my friend's, this is *motions to let* gunnery sergeant Nathan Reeds, and this *motions to right* is Lt. Tristan Summers. They work for the U.S. Marines" she said, with a hint of triumph at being able to say the whole discripton in one take.
Chrysalis than slowly started walking towards the creatures as the large dark beast started to ascend. She felt nervous, she knew these creatures were ready to fight, but she didn't know their capabilities or tactics, leaving her vulnerable, but she trusted her daughter's word's, especially since she ran towards them without the slightest bit of hesitation.
Before she got 1 meter (5 feet) to them, she saw their strange beasts doing continuous circles around the cave, and before she knew it another appeared, Both circling the hive. Nonetheless, Chrysalis continued her trek towards the creatures, when she got a sufficient distance near them, she spoke, "he-hello, I-I-I'm qu-queen-
"Chrysalis, it's nice to meet you" said the Nathan Reeds, and to Chrysalis's surprise, he took off his helmet, he had gorgeous gold eyes with brown skin with small smudges of a lighter brown, his hair was all black and has multiple small pig tails with red ribbons at each end. To her Guard's, his appearance was Godlike. Than Tristan Summers began taking off his helmet, and to the surprise of none of the changeling, he was godlike as well, he had blonde hair like blueblood, but was black at the start of each strand of hair, and was slicked back, he also had beautiful light blue eyes, his skin was a light peach with pink freckles dotted all over his skin. He than greeted Chrysalis in a southern accent, "it's nice to make your acquaintance Queen Chrysalis"
Queen Chrysalis smiled and greeted then both, "it's nice to meet you too Gunnery Sergeant Nathan Reeds, and you as well Lt. Tristan Summers."
Tristan extended his hand, Chrysalis at first didn't know what to make of it, but than internally face hooved, realising he wanted to shake her hoove. She obliged do to curiosity. She wanted to know the texture of their claw like appendages, they felt like gloves, but unlike ones from Ponyville and Canterlot, these felt worm and grippy, like they where made to handle things.
Nathan stepped forward and said something that shocked Chrysalis, "so, would it be alright if we discuss diplomatic relations between our two nations?"
Chrysalis couldn't believe it, these creatures wanted to form relations with her and her changeling, especially in their time of need, when they where captured by the dozens and thrown in dungeons by the Equestrian Empire.
"Umm, Ms. Chrysalis, are you alright?" Said one of thd blue soldiers.
"Y-yes, I'm fine" she said this trying to suppress tears.
Nathan Reeds than spoke up, "may we enter your hive so we could speak about this. we've heard of the hardships you've had to endure from your daughter, so we've come to help"
20 minutes later
"Wh-why would you be so keen on helping me and my changelings? I would think you would find my actions deplorable" chrysalis exclaims.
Tristan looks at her with a fatherly demeanor, "well Ms. Chrysalis, my country in its more than 300 years of cruel existence has learned little thing called 'forgiving and forgetting,' so you could say that's why we're so keen on helping you"
"But why would a strong empire such as yours, that has fought more battles in 300 years, than the royal sisters and every other kingdom has in 1,000 years b-be...so forgiving?" Chrysalis argued.
"Well, time has its benefits, especially since war is common in my species" Tristan said, with a rather calm demeanor.
Than one of the pilots, Nicholas Diaz walked in the room, "and our species has been doing this for over 6,000,000 years, we've practically perfected it, but doesn't mean we've lost our ability to care and feel for others" he said, the right side of his body leaning on a wall, showing his body quite elegantly to everyone in the room.
His slight blue hair glistening from the green glow the crystals emitted, he's orange eyes were hypnotizing, they even complemented his tan skin along with his alluring body shape.
To the changeling's it seemed like every person in this new species was a sight for sore eyes, she began to wonder if they thought the same about them?
"Um, Ms. Chrysalis...are you okay?"
Chrysalis soon noticed she was staring for far too long, than went back to the original topic, "how do you plan on helping us changeling's with our Equestrian predicament?"
Nathan Reeds than answered this question, "easy, we'll take you to the United States, and considering its several times larger than this land, it shouldn't be hard to find you a cave to settle in, human made, or nature made."
Than one of the blue soldiers spoke up, "and if this Equestria ever tries to retrieve your people to lock them up in cages, you can bet we'll be there to intercept them." He finished this line by cocking his rifle to feed a round in the feeding chamber, which made the changeling step back at the unfamiliar noise.
Nathan chucked at this, "I'm glad to say this, you'll be protected by the U.S. government, you'll be protected by more than 8,000,000 soldiers who are trained and ready for battle at anytime, and when the population worms up to you, you'll also be protected by more than 25,000,000 plus people including law enforcement, which boosts those numbers to 28,000,000 plus."
Chrysalis couldn't believe it, their military was not only 10 times larger and more advanced than any in Equestria, and so was their police force, this was a nation to be reckoned with, they seemed to be able to fight any of the terrifying monster in Tartarus with no problem, and they wanted to protect her and her changeling's.
Tristan than broke the silence, "we'll protect you, I promise"
Location: Equestria, Canterlot
Time: 3 days after first contact
Perspective: princess Luna, Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack, Twilight Sparkle, 3rd person
Luna was dawning a suit of dark blue armor with a light blue crescent Moon one the chest, she also had a light blue battle axe. Rainbows dash had light blue armor with hints of gold on it, her cutie mark was also on the chest plate in gold ans silver, she also sported a light blue bow staff. Apple jack had full black armor with bright orange lines that followed the ends of the armor, her cutie mark was on the chest plate and was in Orange and silver, she sported an axe with a long handle and a spear point at the end. Twilight had dark purple armor with teal lines following the edges of the armor, she also sported a purple crystal long sward that ended in an axe.
Her Lunar Guard's wore dark blue armor, the earth pony guard's sported crystal swords, her unicorn guard's sported spears, and her Pegasus had bows and arrows.
Over 3,000 Guard's marching towards Baltimare unaware of the new species that is harbored on its beach, and unaware of the 10,000 more that will make landfall at under the light of the moon, coming to help their enemies escape their grasp.
That would be if a scout didn't come to tell them about the strange creatures helping the changeling's, which means Luna has a new goal, which was to capture the changeling's and their allies.
Luna would arrive in 3 days ready for battle, but unaware of the consequences if she proceeds to do so.
"Princess Luna, what do we do when we arrive on the beach and confront the creatures?" Asked a rather curious twilight.
"We shall confront them about their helping of the changeling's, and we shall tell them to give us the changeling's or we'll Smite them with our magic!" Said a rather angry Luna.
Her anger was fueled by the 350 ponies who died in the changeling siage of Canterlot, and now they are being helped by strange creatures. In her mind, this was unforgivable for the creatures to do, why would they help such a vile race of scum?
No matter, she will destroy them, and put the servivers in chains and march them around Canterlot either way, she would not show mercy to them, whether or not there new to this world.
"So uhh, Ms. Luna, what are we gonna do when we meet these large flying creatures?"
Asked Apple jack with a somewhat worried tone.
"Well Apple Jack, we will capture it. Study it."
"But what's the plan? Did you see how fast it is!? Ah' heard it's way faster than rainbow dash." Rainbow Dash unfortunately heard this.
"Hey, I'm definitely faster, you ponies were only seeing things!" Said a already frustrated rainbow dash, she heard almost everypony talk about how much faster this creatures was when compared to her, especially for its size. To say she was furious at this was an understatement.
"Rainbow dash, the creature was so fast it blew you and Soarin out of the sky...without even doing a sonic rainboom!" Said an irritated lavender alicorn.
"Whatever, I'm still faster."
"Now, now everypony, we mustn't fight at this hour. I need you all at your best for this mission" said Luna, with a motherly bored tone.
She than followed up with, "now we march towards the Baltimare forests beach to confront these creatures. Now march!"
Location: U.S. CVX-100 super carrier "smaller world"
Time: 3 days after first contact
Perspective: navy drone operator Edwin Sharp, Vice Admiral Maxwell Archer, 3rd person
The three masters of the seas where 200 miles from the Equestrian coast line, and when they were to arrive, they would be under the cover of night. Though out of curiosity and necessity, one sent a multi-purpose attack drone traveling 3,299 kilometers an hour (2,050 miles an hour) and gaining speed at the height of 4,267 meters (14,000 feet) in the air. It's quiet-stealthy design would help on keeping it undetected, helping it pick up any voices in the castle.
The Boeing F/A-60 "cutlass" 2 UCAV picked up on the chatter of four ponies, and what one was saying wasn't very inviting.
"We shall confront them about there helping of the changeling's, and we shall tell them to give us the changeling's or we shall smite them!"
Edwin shuddered at the idea of them trying to capture the refugees, weather they were human or not, they needed help, and the U.S. couldn't repeat the 2073 Shanghai incident once again, especially since 88% of the refugees died, women and children alike.
"Sir, it seems like the Equestrian military is marching towards the changeling Evac site with atleast 3,000 armed troops ready for combat"
Maxwell Archer asked a simple question, "okay, what kind of weaponry are they using?"
"It seems they're using Renaissance era weaponry, though I'm not spotting any crossbow's sir. Their also levitating them in mid-air, the weapons engulfed in bright auras of color sir."
"Well, I'm as of right now convinced that we don't have anything to worry about"
"But Maxwe-, sorry Vice Admiral...Maxwell"
"It's alright, just bring the F/A-60 back and I'll tell the Marines on the shore what's coming for them"
"Understo-, *3 squares appear on drone control screen* um...sir, I'm picking up 3 target's coming straight for the F/A-60 at 592 kilometers an hour (368 miles an hour), what's my course of action?"
Maxwell looks at the thermal imaging screen and spots the targets, all of which are pegasus.
"Fire some warning shots from the main gun."
"Yes sir."
The gun cover opens on the right side of the aircrafts body with a high pitched whine, the main gun, a 25 mm GUA-22 Equalizer began spinning at an incredible rate, than fires 5 rounds at their 3 o'clock, but they didn't budge. The F/A-60 was about to engage in a dogfight with three pegasuses, and the merger was coming fast, the F/A-60 pasted over their heads at 3,299 kilometers an hour (2,050 miles an hour), startling them but not getting them to back of, the F/A-60 began to slow to a slower speed, 1,802 kilometers an hour (1,123 miles an hour) and started turning to its 9 o'clock.
It completed the turn 12 seconds faster than the 3 pegasus, giving it the edge in this dog fight, it's left side missile compartments opened, releasing an AIM-165 Excalibur at the closest Pegasus, the missile passed him at his right side and blew up at his 5 o'clock, the resulting shockwave killing him before the heat did. Though as the missile fired, the F/A-60 spun to its left and dived to its 8 o'clock, it's belly in clear view to the pegasus.
The Pegasus gave chase to the F/A-60 with rage in their eyes for killing their friend, the pegasus and the F/A-60 broke the cloud layer at 3,048 meters (10,000 feet) in the sky, they continued heading towards the ground for 914 meters (3,000 feet), the F/A-60 slowed it's speed and started banking upwards towards Canterlot with the pegasus 617 meters (2,025 feet) behind it, it started picking up speed towards Canterlot.
More than 304 meters (997 feet) from the castle, the F/A-60 deployed its air brakes 8/10 of their full spread for 3 seconds, slowing it's speed to 1,598 kilometers an hour (993 miles an hour), giving it enough time Dodge and weave in between the towers, shattering glass as it did so. Almost all of Canterlot was woken up by glass shattering.
The 2 pegasus followed the F/A-60 through the towers at their full speed to try and catch up with the F/A-60. Though this came at a price, their maneuverability, they tried tried weaving through the towers like the F/A-60. Unfortunately, one pegasus hit one of the towers head first going his full speed, dying on empact.
The last Pegasus made it out of Canterlot along with F/A-60, but quickly noticed the aircrafts gain speed faster than he could, soon they where once again 617 meters (2,025 feet) away from each other, the F/A-60 than started turning at its 3 o'clock, taking less than 3 seconds to do so, than one of its left belly
Missile compartments opened, releasing a Raytheon MIM-23 Hawk missile, the missile only took 2 seconds to reach its target, when it did, it passed his left side and blew up at his 8 o'clock, killing him.
The entire dog fight lasted a minute and a half, but the victor was decided before the air battle began, the F/A-60 rained king in this battle, and still had enough fual to get back to the CVX-100.
Author's Note
If you couldn't already tell, I love using bagera3005 (deviant art) concept aircraft for this story, I feel like they just complement it so well.
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