Location: Equestria, Baltimare forests
Time: 1 hour after beach massacre
Perspective: princess Luna, Twilight Sparkle, 3rd person

"What happened out there Luna, why didn't our magic work on them!?" Said Twilight as she ran along side 900 or so guard's who survived the massacre.

"I don't know Twilight, our magic seemed to just dissipate when touching them" said a scared and confused Luna, "but all we have to do now is get to Canterlot and make a plan, we either declare war on these creatures, or try to make peace."

"They did try to get us to leave, though their methods seemed to be based off intimidation rather than talking it through. Though they didn't seem of this world, but if they did come from another world, than what kind?"

"They did say their kingd-...country was a world power, and they were dominators in many fields, the ones I remembered where medical science, military research and technology, and Refugee support and protection" said Luna

They continued running towards Canterlot before realising something, "where's Rainbow Dash?" Both said in unison.

They than both realized they left her at the beach, along with many others, but continued running.

23 minutes later

"Ugh, how could I have been so careless, I literally walked in on a new species trying to help another in need!" Screamed Luna.

Twilight than asks a quistion that Luna can't answer, "you think they may accept an offer of peace?"

"I-I don't know"

Location: Equestria, Ponyville, Twilight's castle
Time: 2 days after beach massacre
Perspective: princess Luna, princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle, Apple Jack, 3rd

"Hmm, well Luna maybe we can talk to them?" Said Celestia in a worried tone.

"Let's not forget that word about them has gotten to the streets of Ponyville, Baltimare, Manehatten, and Canterlot" said Twilight.

Celestia than frowned, "we can't keep this a secret I see, and considering theirs still changeling's in our custody, they'll most likely try and retrieve them."

"than peaceful negotiations are the only option" Luna said.

"Yes sister, but I did send a thunderbolt squadron of 10 to retrieve Rainbow Dash. They should be more capable to deal with these creatures flying beasts" said Celestia.

Location: Equestria, skies above Apple Loosa
Time: 2 hours after beach massacre
Perspective: thunder bolts, AF-21C black Tiger squadron "gray ghosts" pilots, Warren Steel, Justin Barrett, 3rd person

"Justin, what are we looking for again?"

"We're looking for 10 pegasus in a V formation" said Justin as he scanned the sky's with his ladar heart beat monitors.

"So we were pulled from the Blue Angels to monitor sky's miles from the encampment, for ponies?" Said a genuinely confused Warren, he received no response.

Soon minutes passed with no signs of life, so Warren tried to lighten up the mood with a quistion, "so, what did they pack these baby's with?"

"Hmm, Well our main guns are packed with 30mm armor piercing-incendiary-tracer rounds, in terms of armorments we have 2 Lockheed Martin AIM-200 Ares, and 4 Lockheed Martin AGM-100 Rattlers" said Justin, following up with a "why"

"Because I fell asleep during the briefing"

"You always do, and you do know that's going to be your downfall right?"

"And yet nothing's happened to me"

"Yet, nothing's happened to you...ye-"

Their radars pick up 10 objects to there 7 o'clock, approximately 1,306 kilometers (812 miles) away, seemingly unaware of the two 6th gen fighter jets presence, in all their dominance.

"Warren, I'm picking up 10 boogies on our 7 o'clock, approximately 1,306 kilometers (812 miles) away, their traveling 217 knots (312 miles an hour, 401 kilometers an hour), their 12,496 meters (41,000 feet) high."

"Where are they heading?"

"Towards the encampment, let's intercept them!"

Both AF-21C's start banking right, doing so faster than the F/A-60 due to their 2D thrust vectoring nozzles, once their fighters are pointed towards the boogies, they pushed their fighters to 1,985 kilometers an hour (1,234 miles an hour) to intercept the boogies, who they soon realized were pegasus.

Pegasus perspective

"Whoa, are you guys seeing this!"

"Yay, those things are huge, and their fast!"

As the thunderbolt said this, the two AF-21C's flew past them at a speed they couldn't believe was possible to achieve, the two aircraft than started banking in different directions opposite of each other.

Then both regrouped while flying away from the pegasus much like predators sizing up their pray, after the jet fighters regrouped, they started banking left slowly, as if checking if the thunderbolt where still there, and surprisingly the thunderbolt's were still there, though only because they were too scared to move. Soon after, blue streaks of fire whizzed past the ponys faster than any bolt of magic could reach.

Though instead of getting the message to flee, they instead scattered and picked defensive positions, which the pilots of the AF-21C's didn't immediately notice.

Warren Steel, Justin Berratt perspective

"Well Warren, looks like we did our job, they seemed to back off" said Justin, who was glad he didn't have to waste ammunition on something so insignificant to him as a pony.

"Yay, seems like they got the messa-"

Soon after an arrow hit his right wing, seven more whizzed past the AF-21C's 6 o'clock, than 6 whizzed past the Justin's AF-21C's 12 o'clock, both AF-21C'S both took different paths to avoid the thunderbolt's. Justin tilted his aircraft 130 degrees than started banking towards the ground while accelerating to 2,808 kilometers an hour (1,745 miles an hour), while Warren banked straight up letting out chaff and flares, accelerating to 3,123 kilometers an hour (1,941 miles an hour). Both aircraft left the thunderbolt's in the dust, who split in teams of 5 in the dust, though the pegasus did accomplish one thing, they separated the two pilots from each other.

Justin flew towards the ground at 2,808 kilometers an hour (1,744 miles an hour), at 10,668 meters (35,000 feet) Justin's AF-21C broke the cloud layer with 5 thunderbolt's 819 meters (2,687 feet) behind him. After he passed 6,400 meters (21,000 feet) he pulled the AF-21C up slowly, once he passed 3,048 meters (10,000 feet), he pulled up allowing the 2D thrust vectoring nozzles to do their job and point him in a straight line towards Apple Loosa. Justin was able to make 1 thunderbolt break his right wing trying to mimic his maneuver while traveling his top speed, making him fall towards the ground at his top speed.

Once Justin straightened his AF-21C, he looked towards his radar that was tracking his 4 pursuers behind him, he than activated one AIM-200 Ares missiles, launching it towards the far left thunderbolt in the group.

The missile fell from the missile housing bay's doors and to the Thunderbolt's dismay, the missile launched towards Apple Loosa at incredible speed, faster than that of the AF-21C, soon it started banking left passing the AF-21C and aiming towards the left thunderbolt, the thunderbolt only had milliseconds to react before the missile passed the their comrade, exploding on his 7 o'clock, killing him and another pony by accident with its shock wave.

Thunderbolt's perspective

The last 2 remaining thunderbolt's looked back at the fireball that engulfed their friends, when they look back at the AF-21C, it was already finished doing a right turn and now was speeding towards the thunderbolt's with its main gun pointed in their direction, the GAU-22 barrels started rotating at a hellish rate, soon the Blue lights the thunderbolt's saw whizze past them where coming straight for them. One thunderbolt was hit by one of the rounds, killing him immediately. The other thunderbolt watched as in a matter of seconds, his friend was obliterated in front of his eyes in a thick red mist that engulfed his upper body, making his front legs and wings eject from the body.

The last thunderbolt stopped to look towards the beast, he looked at the shinny bulge on the front, than he saw it, he saw something staring back at him. It had no discernable facials features. It's body covered with what looked to be armor, only more advanced, it followed every move his body made with procession unlike most Equestrian armor that was uncomfortable when performing fast motions.

The thunderbolt than dropped his bow and arrow and shot his hooves up, when looking at the creature in the beast, he saw it nod. The beast then pulled away faster than anything in Equestria.

"Those things aren't from our world" he said as he flew back to Canterlot.

Meanwhile with Warren

Warren started pulling his AF-21C up while shooting chaff and flares, scarring the thunderbolt's slightly, he than turned on after burners to accelerate his ascent so he wouldn't stall, after breaching 15,240 meters (50,000 feet) high he activated his air-brakes, allowing them to extend 100%. The aircraft traveled 53 meters (173 feet) into the air before plummeting towards the ground, towards the thunderbolt's. The pegasus saw the AF-21C that was 5 times larger than them fall towards them, once the aircraft's came upon them, the right wing struck two thunderbolt's along with a lone thunderbolt who was hit by the engines thrust pillar, all three thunderbolt's died, leaving only two.

Warren allowed the aircraft's to fall 1,524 meters (5,000 feet) before aiming it down to allow the wings to create lift, and it didn't take long for the AF-21C to create it, the engines created 27,000 pounds of thrust for a 15 U.S. ton aircraft. The AF-21C than accelerated to 2,414 kilometers an hour (1,500 miles an hour) in 9.6 seconds, leaving the last two thunderbolt's to ponder weather of not to engage aircraft again.

The pegasus stood looking at the air superiority fighter circle them at speeds not even Rainbow Dash doing a sonic rainboom could achieve, than both made an executive decision to drop their bow and arrows and high tale it to Canterlot to tell the princesses what happened.

To their surprise, they saw the AF-21C fly away at its incredible speed.

Author's Note

The AF-21C belongs to bagera3005 on deveintart.

Three questions.

Questions 1: whose your favorite human character in the story so far?

Question 2: which friendships (Warren/Justin, Tristan/Nathan/Nicholas, Melvin/Marco, and Joshua/Jeremy) would you like to see built upon more?

Questions 3: have you seen some of bagera3005 or afterskies concepts?