Rising Tensions, Shifting Powers (version 0)

by I Stand To Be Stealthy

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Death, Alternate Universe, Human, Other, Princess Luna, Drama, Changelings, Science Fiction, Profanity, Adventure, Violence, Princess Celestia, Main 6
Length: 64292

Everything under U.S. occupation, whether it be vehicles, soldiers, or entire battle groups deployed overseas are transported to the planet of Equus.

Year: 2086
Country: United States
Population: 25,000,000+ (not including military personnel or first responders)
First responders: 5,000,000+
Active troops: 8,100,269
Reserve soldiers: 1,000,000+
Planet: unknown

Discripton: after a white light engulfed the advanced nation of the United States, the country is left in shock when everything under U.S. occupation, whether it be vehicles, soldiers, or entire battle groups deployed overseas are transported to the planet Equus. Power will now shift for every kingdom in Equestria, because a United States that has learned and grown from its mistakes has arrived, but they didn't come by choice.

(P.S slight human/pony romance)
(P.P.S this is a test story, so writing advice and constructive criticism is great. Thank you)

Published 2019-10-15 01:00:01 UTC
Last updated 2020-02-24 03:55:00 UTC

Chapter 2: Land fall!

Location: U.S., the Pentagon
Time: 1 day after first contact
Perspective: researcher, TR6 Omar pilot Jasper Rhodes, 3rd person

"Okay, as far as we can tell, the footage along with audio is authentic" said a young female researcher blowing strands of hair from her face so they won't ubstruct her vision.

"But what do you think?" She asked, her curiosity reaching it's peek.

"Well, they seemed to be mesmerized by the TR6, so I'm gonna go on a wimb and say they're hundreds of years behind us in technology" he said with a Small smirk.

"I feel like you're insinuating something. So if you are, please tell me" she asked politely.

"Okay, what I mean is, they wouldn't pose a significant threat. They don't seem to have any advanced technology to speak of, so the threat part is already out of the window" he said with a devious smile.

"So, you're saying that all that 'possible threat' stuff the NASA scientists are saying is wrong?" She asked with her eyebrow raised.

"Yeah, basically"

"Well I guess we have no need to worry about the locals"

Location: U.S. tactical space attack satillite "Tungsten Fury"
Time: 1 day 3 hours after first contact
Perspective: Jerry Springsteen, James Vayron

The 27 meters (89 feet) wide, 20 meter (60 feet) long ground attack satellite loomed over the land mass in the upper atmosphere like a hawk watching it's pray, and it had lots of pray, because if the crew wanted to, they could level every city in an hour.

The satellite was holding 24 tungsten rods that where 30 feet long and 5 inches wide, and when launched towards earth would create an explosion 5 times the size of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

But they were told only to survey with its on board cameras, that could see everything on the ground clearly even with clouds blocking its view, it did this with the help of the newest in ladar technology, so the United States now had entire maps, and 3D Renditions of the landmass.

"So James, what do you think about the pony civilization 60 plus miles below us?"

"Jerry, you should be asking me what I think about the ponies technological prowess, they seemed rather primitive compared to us" Jerry said with a bored attitude.

"Well, I think it's pretty cool they can create structures and speak English, no matter how primitive they may be" he said smiling while looking at the survey camera screen.

"I'm just waiting for first contact, wether military or not" Jerry said with a sigh, he than frowned and said "god help them if they approach with hostility"

Location: U.S. Eagle claw class light assault ship "smoky"
Time: 2 day after first contact
Perspective: none, 3rd person

The 10 light assault ships accompanied by 5 BB-76 arsenal ships where appearing over the horizon, they then came to a halt 32 kilometers (20 miles) away from the shore, and they were more than 123 kilometers (80 miles) from the city closest to the U.S. (baltimare).

After 20 or so minutes, 6 mobile infantry boats came out of the back of the light assault ships, along with 5 F/A-70 "panther" multi-purpose attack aircraft flew off the ship, while 3 F-35D's took off to survey the area, while 2 WHA-91 "screech owl" stealth observations helicopters took off carrying 1 squad of 6 navy seals each.

The mobile infantry boats carried 40 marines each, each boat also carried 2 M1A2 sep v4 Abrams with tusk 2 armor, the strongest and most resistant armor in the United States inventory. They were also joined by 2 M3A3 Bradley IFV's with temper armor, aslo being the strongest and resistant armor for the vehicle.

The expeditionary Force was so large it looks like an invasion Force, though that wasn't the mission, the mission was to survey and make contact with any locals to show good intentions and destroy any fear the locals would have.

20 minutes later

The boats made landfall, their front cargo doors opened, letting the 12 Abrams, along with the 12 Bradley's come on the beach and form a perimeter, the beach was plane and spanned for a mile and a half, until it reached the tree line, giving both the Marines and their vehicles a clear view of anything that came from the forest.

Location: Equestria, Baltimare beach
Time: 2 days 1 hour after first contact
Perspective: none, 3rd person

"Okay, making land fall in 3. 2. 1... *lights flash and doors open* *tanks roll out and form perimeter* Go, Go, Go!"

The Marines run out of the Infantry boat's and formed a position that allowed them to see the whole of the beach. In their positions nothing would sneak up on them.

They stayed monitoring the beach for five minutes, now 40 of the Marines and 2 M3A3's made their way towards the tree line leaving 200 marines and 4 M3A3's to set up camp along with the 12 abrams. In about 15 meters (50 feet), they stopped their trek towards the forest and allowed 2 M3A3's to survey the tree line with they're thermals and heartbeat sensors, the only thing they picked up was a wolf pack, containing about 5 wolves, nothing serious.

The Marines ascended into the forest, they split into teams of 10 to spread out to cover more ground, but they still followed the M3A3's in a straight line, checking their 6 o'clock with their heartbeat sensors several times each minute to make sure nothing was following them, and low and behold the wolf pack was following them. So to make sure the wolves wouldn't get any funny ideas, one Marine pointed their LMG, an M60E6 with black paint scheme with light brown Picatinny rails adorning the top of the guns feeding mechanism, as well as the side, top and bottom of the barrel covers. The bottom of the barrel cover had a fore grip, while the left side had a laser-flashlight combo, the feeding mechanism had a Red Dot sight while the barrel had a suppressor. The Marine lined up a shot on a tree 3 meters (9 feet) to the right of the wolves, he fired, obliterating the trees where the Bullet hit, causing it to fall forward scaring the wolves away.

They continued their trek for 11 kilometers (7 miles) until they reached a train track that lead away towards the town (Baltimare), they determined they where a safe distance away from the town, so they headed back to base to plan the the way they'll make contact.

Location: Equestria, Canterlot castle
Time: 2 days 1 hour after contact
Perspective: Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Twilight Sparkle, 3rd person

"Art thou telling the truth?" Luna asks with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.

Celeste responds with "yes sister, you know I would never lie to you!"

"Mmm...thou seems to be telling the truth, but I would like to see the creatures myself" Luna says with a smirk.

Twilight tells Luna "the creatures went past baltimare into the unknown seas, disappearing over the horizon faster than anything in Equestrian history."

"Well than, there seems to be nothing else to do, but follow their trail" Celestia said with a blank expression.

"B-but princess, those things could be dangerous! Who knows what magic they possess, especially since it just materialized out of thin air!" twilight says trying to persuade Celestia not to do so.

To this Luna gave a suggestion, "me and 3,000 lunar guards will travel to the unknown and see if we can find their nest."

"But princess Luna, who knows what lay beyond the horizon, you may get injured!"

"thou thinks a creature can defeat I, the ruler of the night?" Luna says this with the up most confidence in her ability, while also not believing there descriptions of the creature.

" I shall see thee in 18 moons, and expect me to have the creature in chains"

She left the room, both celestia and twilight wanted to stop her, though it wasn't possible, she was determined to find and capture the creatures, and when she was determined to do something, she did it.

Location: Equestria, changeling hive
Time: 2 days 2 hours after contact
Perspective: changeling princess Marcela, gunnery sergeant Nathan Reeds, Lt. Tristan Summers, Bradley driver Melvin Lara, Bradley turret operator Marco Stain, 3rd person

Chrysalis's only daughter, princess Marcela was out for a walk by herself after she sneaked out of the hive. So far she was enjoying herself, though she smelled something she thoroughly enjoyed, chocolate. She than followed the sent to 10 bipedal creatures walking next to a large metal creature, these bipedal creatures where wearing strange clothes under these metal skeletons, so she started approaching the creatures, but was startled to find out they could speak, one said "what's that" while another said "stop where you are, now!"

She did so unintentionally because of fear, they than started approaching her, pointing large and bulky metal sticks with red dots coming out landing on Marcela heads. They stood 6 feet or more, taller than her mom, and even the princess of night and day, soon they stood not even a foot away from her, still pointing the sticks at her.

Than one said from behind the first two "leave it alone, new world, new animals!"

Marcela than shouted "I'm no-not an i-it, or a-an an-ani-animal, I'm a pr-prin-princess, prin-princess of t-the cha-cha-changeling empire!" She said, failing to sound intimidating, actually sounding more adorable to the Marines.

"Wow, did sh-she just talk?" Said one of the creatures pointing the stick at her.

After he said that, the one in the back repeated his last quote with only minor changes, "like I said, new world, new species of...sentient life" he than moved the other two aside and started kneeling down and taking something out of his pocket and said "hey little fella, you don't need to be scared. Do you like chocolate?"

Marcela than slowly smiled, she shook her head up and down. He pulled a Hershey's bar out of his pocket and handed it to her, she than sat down, and slowly extended her front hooves and took the chocolate, she examined it before taking a bite out of it, her eyes widened as she thought 'this is the best chocolate I've ever had!'

She swallowed it, than looked at the person who gave it to her and asked "who are you?"

Her eyes widened as the front of the creatures face seemed to open, it showed her a light skinned man with bright blue eyes and freckles, he than told her his name, and who he was, "I'm a human, my name is Tristan Summers of the United States Marine Corps, I'm a lieutenant princess"

She than extended her left front hoove to shake his hand, he grasped it gently and shook.

"So, does your mom know you're here with us?" He asked her in a fatherly tone.

After finishing another bite, Marcela shook her head and said "no, I snuck out of the hive to go on a walk, than I smelled chocolate, than I found you hoo-mans"

This made the two other marine squeal on the inside at how cute she said humans.

Lt. Tristan than asked "do you want to come to our base, you'll be able to ride the Bradley and meet more humans"

"Who's Bradley?" She asked tilting her head while Lt. Tristan eternally facepalm, he remembered there current technological state.

He than point at the M3A3 behind him, she looked at it and smiled, while waving her left hoove, "hello mister Bradley"

This made the Marines giggle slightly, Lt. Tristan than picked her up, and to his surprise, she didn't struggle against him. So he took her to the Bradley and set her next to the turret and climbed the Bradley, knocking on the drivers hatch, and to Marcela's surprise it opened showing another human, only this time with different helmets showing his face until it reached his eyes, to her, they looked like glasses. She than she thought 'this was Bradley.'

She waved a second time, and said "hello Bradley." He smiled and pushed his viser into his helmet than said, "my name isn't Bradley, it's the vehicles name. My name is Melvin Lara."

"Oh, hi Melvin!"

"Hello miss uhh-"

"Princess Marcela"

"Oh, hello princess"

He than motioned her to come closer, than picked her up and pulled her in, at first she felt scared, but after a few seconds she felt...safe?

13 minutes later

Marcela sat on Melvin's lap while the second man in the M3A3, who she now knows is named Marco Stain petted her Softly on the head.

She than felt the Bradley stop as Melvin picked her up and exited the Bradley, she than saw several more Bradley's, and a few bigger vehicles with larger sticks than Bradley extending from the front. She than saw a hundred or so hoo-mans carrying boxes, talking, or setting up large tents, but the most marvelous sight to her was two black objects shaped oddly with five oddly shaped wings on the top, all pointing in different directions.

She asked Melvin what it was, he said "that's the WHA-91 stealth helicopter, it's almost undetectable by most radar, and it's fast."

"How fast?" She asked, her head tilting

"From a full stop, it can accelerate to 257 kilometers (160 miles) in 12 seconds flast, full speed is 473 kilometers an hour (294 miles an hour)"

She than looked at the helicopters in awe, knowing it was faster than every changeling, including her mother, and was 3 times their size.

She than felt a burst of happiness knowing these hoo-mans where nice and wanted to be her friend's.

She than was approached by a man who wore the same clothes as the rest, but wasn't wearing his helmet, he asked her to follow him, she obliged. She followed the man to a tent, he motioned her to go inside, she did so, and was greeted by another man, less bulky than the other, he was sitting down reading a book, not even noticing her arrival.

She than quickly asked what he was reading, he looked up and smiled and said "oh, just a history book, but that's not important right now"

She tilted her head and said "what do you mean, are there more important matters at hand?"

"Yes actually, there are. come and sit down and I'll explain"

She trotted towards him and sat next to him, he than asked "you're princess Marcela correct?" She shook her head up and down and asked "what's your name?"

"My name is Nathan Reeds, I'm a gunnery sergeant for the U.S. Marines. Is it okay if I ask you some questions?"

"Yay, it's okay"

"Cool, what species are you from?"

"The Changeling's"

"Oh, do you have any special abilities other than your bug like look"

"Yay, we can change our appearances to other ponies at will"

"Oh, that's cool. Next question, do you know of a large castle on the side of a mountain looking over a small town?"

"Hmm, yay that's Canterlot, that's the capital of the Equestrian empire"

"Does it have ponies?"

"Yay, my momma went their a week ago with a lot of other changeling's, but only half came back, she says there in a better place" she said with a large smile, though Nathan knew what her mother meant by "in a better place."

"Okay, last question, do you know where your home is?"

"Yay, do you have a map so I could show you?"

"Yes, I do"

Nathan than got up and went to backpack, pulling a tablet out and coming back to sit down next to Marcela.

He turned it on and showed her the map, which was a bird's eye view of the Baltimare and the forest near it.

Marcela was mesmerized once again at the humans "magic," she looked at the tablet than looked at Nathan.

"What kind lf magic are you using?"

This threw Nathan off a little bet, but soon he thought nothing of it and said "no magic, just electricity and engineering, and for a matter a fact, we don't use magic"

Marcela looked dumbfounded, she couldn't believe they didn't use magic, how could they have survived without it?

"B-but how did you hoo-mans survive without it"

Thoroughly confused, Nathan asked "why, are you capable of using magic?"

Marcela nods.

"Uhh, can you demonstrate?"

Marcela nods once again, and to Nathan's amazement, her little horn starts to glow, and than slowly, the book he had on his lap begins too float in mid-air, with a blue aura surrounding it.

"Wow, that's freaky"

It than falls back down on his lap, and Marcela asks again out of breath, "how did you hoo-mans survive without magic?"

"Well, us humans got smarter and smarter that we started creating technology, than it got so advanced that we were able to travel space and cure extremely deadly diseases, This took place for over 6,000,000 years"

Marcela couldn't believe what she was hearing, the hoo-mans species were older than Equestria itself, and lasted all that time without magic, that would explain all their metal beasts.

Nathan than broke the silence with his last question, "so, can you show me where your home is?"

Marcela than snapped out of her silence and answered the question, "y-yes."

She than pointed towards clearing that seemed to go into a cave.

"That's where my home is"

"Oh... Would you like us to take you there? Maybe we could meet your mom"

Marcela eyes seemed to shine at the question, these hoo-mans wanted to be friends with here mom as well, which made her 10 times more happy.

"Yes! That would be amazing!"

Chapter 3: we'll protect you, I promise

Location: 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.

Chapter 4: peace is now compromised

Location: Equestria, Canterlot
Time: 3 days 2 hours after first contact
Perspective: Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Twilight Sparkle, 3rd person

"So...sister, thou postponed my expedition and my confrontation with this knew species to tell I about another flying creature capable of speed's faster than anything in Equestria?" Said Luna with a bored tone.

"Yes, and it went towards the same direction that large creature fled to, and the new creatures where sighted!" Celestia said, with an obvious hint of worry in her own voice.

"Sister, I'm the ruler of the night, and have the capability to raise the moon, I'll do fine on my own. Thee need not worry, I can handle myself"

"Sister, You don't know their capabilities and magic advancements, for all we know, they might have the ability to raise the sun and the moon as well!"

Luna ponders this for a moment, though she doesn't want to admit it, her sisters right.

"Fine, my guard's and i will approach them with caution, but I will still confront them about their helping of the changeling's"

Celestia let a sigh of relief, than stared at her sister and nodded. Luna than repeated what she told her sister a day before, though a bit different.

"I shall see you in 18 moons, with these creatures in chains. Though I will arrive in Baltimare forests coast in 2 moons and will write to you about the new creatures there."

Location: Equestria, baltimare forest coast
Time: 5 days after first contact
Perspective: princess Luna, Queen Chrysalis, Princess Marcela, Lt. Tristan Summers, Gunnery Sergeant Nathan Reeds, WHA-91 pilot Nicholas Diaz, Jeremy Manowar, Joshua Richardson, 3rd person

Nicholas was reading the "red fish, blue fish" dr. Seuss book to Marcela, she's listening intently as he does so. Her mother Chrysalis on the other hand is reading a book called "heroes of world war 2" book detailing the sacrifices made by allied soldiers for the great or good of the world at the time.

After reading several books about the 1st and 2nd world wars, she became more accepting and realized her actions were wrong and unjust. The most interesting story to her was the battle between the Axis super battleship the Bismarck and the allied battleships that sank it, the book provided pictures of the Bismarck, which she especially liked because of the resemblance the Bismarck had to the ones residing 700 meters (2,296 feet) of shore, even though she knew they were newer and more advanced.

Three classes of ship in question where the 2 Shogun-class superdreadnought named "sweetie-pie", and "beware." The 3 Legion-class battleships named "Mad max", "Katobar", and "Steamroller." 1 Centurion-class battlecruiser named "sad song."

These ships accompanied 3 Siege-class Amphibious Assault megacarriers, 2 new and empty Cymrea-class fleet-drone carriers that would take all 5000 changeling's to the United States, and 1 Oceana-class stealth battlecarrier.

All these ships came to accompany the 5 Eagle-class carrier's and 3 CVX-100 super carrier's when the United States government heard of the 3,000 strong pony military force coming to their position. Each carrier has a multitude of different aircraft built for different purposes, such as the Oceana-class and its 55 Northrop Grumman A-11 Ghosts anti infentry aircraft, as well as each CVX-100 and their 30 boeing F/A-60 cutlass 2 UCAV's, and the 3 Siege-class Amphibious assault megacarriers and their 5 (each) Athlit beachstorm connector amphibious assault transport boat, which where already deployed, and each one carried different armored vehicles, from the M7A1 inquisitors missile artillery system to the M12A1 Goliath.

Each one of these weapons, 100 border patrol agent's and the 10,000 Marines had one purpose, and it was to protect the 5 Nimbus Transport zeppelin's as they transport the changeling's to the 2 Cymrea-class fleet-drone carrier. If all goes right, all 5,000 changeling's will be U.S. citizens within the next week

Though nothing can be easily completed, which they would find out soon.

20 minutes later

Jeremy and Joshua were sitting on the back of the M1A2 sep V4 that lay guard with it's gun facing the forest like the many M3A3 IFV's, M6A1 crusader main battle tanks, M9A1 APC's Mobile gun system, and M12A1 Goliath heavy tanks that formed a defensive around the changeling's EVAC site. As Jeremy and Joshua sat, they talked about the ridiculous sounding briefing they had to endure for 2 hours back in the United States.

Though this was quickly interrupted by the sounds of sirens and marine's running to form up next to the tanks with weapons drawn towards the tree line pointed towards a sea of ponies wearing armor and brandishing Renaissance Era weapons.

"Wow, what a force to be reckoned with, Huh Joshua"

"Yay, we better give them whatever they want"

Jeremy and Joshua than continued watching as the ponies got into a battle position themselves, though it was one that was rather outdated.

Soon Jeremy and Joshua started walking towards the two men running the operation, Lt. Tristan Summers and Gunnery Sergeant Nathan Reeds.

"Excuse me Lt, is that the fighting force you warned us about?" Asked Joshua.

Tristan smile and answered the question, "yes actually, though we don't know their capabilities, though the tests with defensive and offensive magic and our immunity could be the same."

Jeremy than looked towards the group of ponies, "how do we know weather we're immune to their magic?"

"I guess we'll find out soon, because I don't think their here for diplomatic relations" said Nathan looking towards the group as well.

Nicholas, Queen Chrysalis, Princess Marcela perspective

After reading several dr. Seuss book to Marcela, the some of which where the "Cat in the hat," "red fish blue fish," and "green eggs and ham." Though when Luna and her guard forces arrived Nicholas was reading an "I servived" book to her when the sirens started, he immediately knew what they meant.

"What's wrong?" Chrysalis exclaimed.

"Their here, the guard force we spotted 2 days ago just arrived, so we need to take you to the Nimbus, come on" said Nicholas as he took Marcela to the zeppelin with chrysalis close behind.

Once they got to the Nimbus, he went to one of the flight engineers, "hey, how long until these things takeoff?" Asked a worried Nicholas.

"We'll take off once the Lt. gives the order, and since all the changeling are on, we should be in the air in atleast 20 minutes" said the flight engineer.

"Okay got it, just try and keep them safe" said Nicholas.

"That's our job sir, we'd probably die for these guys" the engineer said as he knelt down to pet a changeling, it let out a purr as he did so. Nicholas smiled knowing the statement was true without fault.

"all pilots, get to your helicopters, you'll need to provide cover to all Nimbus cargo zeppelin's" said a voice on the radio.

"Guess that's our cue"

Princess Luna, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash perspective

Rainbow Dash couldn't believe what she was seeing, these flying creatures were most definitely faster than her and anything flying in Equestrian sky's. They didn't even flap their wings, they seemed to glide with with plumes of fire coming from their rear, and their maneuverability was unmatched at their speed, it was incredibly difficult for her to bank at high speeds, and she could only travel 643 kilometers an hour (400 miles an hour before doing a sonic boom, and that only propelled her to 823 kilometers an hour (512 miles an hour).

Rainbow didn't just meet her match, she met something better than her in almost every way. They where faster than her, more maneuverable than her, and from what she heard 2 days ago, they could fight better than her.

When looking towards them, she felt something she hasn't felt for a while, intimidation.

Luna could see that her forces were scared, she could feel the fear emanating off of them, especially since only one killed 3 of some of the most well trained pegasus guard's without trouble, and it did it in Canterlot for everypony to see.

Now there where dozens of them flying over and circling all at once.

"Why art thou helping thy changeling's?" Luna asked in her royal Canterlot voice.

"We are not obligated to tell you why?"
Said a creature holding a strange device to his head.

"How dare you speak in such a way to royalty!" Luna retorted.

"Because we're not you subjects, or soldiers, and definitely not native to this planet, which means we don't need to answer to you" said the voice, which made Luna furious.

"And yet you're on my kingdom's land!"

"Are we your subject's!?"

"That is besides the poi-"

"Answer the question. Are we your subject's?"

"N-no"

"Exactly, we're citizens of the United States of America, or soon to be citizens of the United States under the military citizenship act of 2079. The United States is a power on the global scale, the United States is one of the dominaters in medical science, military research and technology, space exploration, anti terrorism, and the care and protection of refugees! These changeling's are under our protection, and will continue to be under our protection!"

"Those changeling's have committed a crime against their homeland!" Screamed Luna.

"Hasn't every kindom done so, Ms. Nightmare moon?"

"How dare you, I wi-"

"Don't all deserve redemption, shouldn't we all forgive and forget? So this is your first and final warning, stay and continue forward and be dealt with, or leave and our country's will remain in peace, and your so called harmony"

"You dare threaten the princess of the night, I command the power moon itself!"

"No, no you don't. You and your sister rotate the earth, witch is why it seems the moon and the sun move, when in reality your magic wouldn't be able to move them, since the force of gravity on them is so strong."

"Are you denouncing my abilities!?"

"Yes"

"Who do you think you are!?"

"Lt. Tristan Summers of the United States Marine core, now please leave and let us do our job"

"No, I've had enough! Guards, seize them all!"

A 1,000 Royal guards started moving forward while under the cover of their magic shields, but have more than 300 meters (984 feet) of clear beach to cover. The Marines fire warning shots at the lowest part of the shield, breaking it instantly.

This made the guard jump back, knowing their shield's didn't seem to affect whatever projectiles they were using.

"If you pass 200 meters (656 feet), we will engage you in armed combat, I repeat do not go beyond that point!"

Twilight watch in suspense, she and everypony only saw and heard bits and pieces of their capabilities, some thought they had an advanced form of chaos magic, while others believed they didn't use magic at all.

She soon heard Luna tell the guard's to fire magic bolts at the creatures.

Tristan Summers, Nathan Reeds perspective

"Are the Nimbus transport zeppelin's at the carriers?" Asked Nathan watching the ineffective forward charge the ponies were commencing.

"Yay, we'll see you back home"

Nathan than walked up to Tristan and asked, "So how's their charge Lt. Tristan Summers?"

"Well, we're firing warning shots, though it seemed to only fuel their march" said an irritated Lt. Tristan Summers, he than followed up by saying,

"I'm considering marching to meet them in the middle" Tristan said as an arrow flew past both of them, than after gunshots could be heard. Soon after Pegasus started dropping like flies, they couldn't hit a single Marine, border patrol agent, or vehicle. They either struck the sand or water, though this is because the arrows would either bounce of their armor or vehicles.

Than soon after, 5,000 Marines and half of every armored vehicle start engaging the 1,000 pony guard's that passed the 200 meters (656 feet) limit.

The other 2,000 guards entered the battle, only to be intercepted by the other 5,000 with the rest of the armored vehicles. Soon the beach was engulfed by the sounds no pony has heard for thousands of years.

The true sounds of war, the sounds the Marines where all to familiar with.

Apple Jack, Rainbow Dash, Jeremy Manowar, Joshua Richardson perspective

Jeremy and Joshua where picking off pegasus with their VHS-2's as they ran across the battlefield at sprinting speed with the help of their exo-suit's. U.S. Marines jumped 11 feet, ran full sprint, and fired their rifled and made it look easy all around the 2 border patrol agent's.

Joshua and Jeremy than saw a light blue pegasus and a orange pony running towards them full speed with anger in their eyes.

The two looked at each other and with a hand motion alone, they understand the tactic they were going to deploy, they both sprinted towards them, interlocked in a crash course with the ponies. Jeremy than sleed towards the orange one, while Joshua jumped towards the light blue pegasus. Once Jeremy came within range of the orange pony, he lifted both of his legs to plant them in the orange ponies muzzle, and in seconds his leg made contact with her muzzle. She toppled over before getting up once again and charging at him with an axe sporting a long handle, hitting his leg, though duo to the his exo-suit armors aluminium plating and the strength difference between the two, it didn't make contact with his skin.

Jeremy than lunged at her at a speed she wasn't expecting, once he reached her he sleed to her 8 o'clock and kicked her hind leg with 40% of the exo-suit's power, knocking her down immediately. Soon after he grabbed the back of her neck, he grabbed his tazer putting it to her chest, pulled the trigger sending 150 bolts of electricity into her, knocking her out cold.

While Jeremy and Apple Jack fought, Joshua fought Rainbow Dash. Joshua fell to the ground with Rainbow Dash flying towards him with determination in her eyes, once they met Rainbow used all her strength to knock him towards the ground faster, and surprisingly it worked, though not in the way she would've wanted because as soon as he was going towards the ground he broke her hold and flew towards the area of ground behind her without warning. Not to long after she got distracted by the sight of the battlefield, these creatures seemed to duck, dodge, jump, and slide while in the air or ground without any trouble, doing so as if it where second nature to them.

After staring at the creatures unstable movements, she felt a small pain in her wing, and than another, and another, than she looked towards her left wing to only find it blooded with holes, it than stopped flapping, sending her towards the ground. Once she hit the ground, she noticed what cuased her to lose her ability to fly, it was the same creature that she fought not to long ago, and he was pointing the long black stick he and his friend were using to kill pegasus before her and Apple Jack fought them.

"Freeze, don't move!"

princess Luna, Twilight Sparkle, Lt. Tristan Summers, Gunnery sergeant Nathan Reeds, 3rd person

"Nathan, take the large blue one and I'll take the purple one"

"So you're going to make me deal with the bigger fish huh?" Nathan said as he unholstered his M5 Cobra while Tristan took out his M-41A2CAR while he ran m towards the two alicorns, once they came into range, Nathan screamed as he rammed into Luna's right side, knocking her to her side.

Luna was caught off guard by the sudden attack, she than looked at her attacker, once she saw her attacker she swelled up with rage.

"How dare you attack a princess!"

"Because you ordered you're guard's to attack the 10,000 marines under Tristans command, so you're under arrest"

"No, thee will be smited with the Devine power of our magic!" Luna than fires a magic bolt at him, only for it to dissipate upon contact. Upon realizing her bolts where useless, she tried casting a spell of exhaustion, only for it to dissipate as well.

She than realized that she was fighting a losing against an enemy immune to her attacks, so she kicked him with all her might, she was able to knock him back 3 feet away from her, she took this time to scream in her royal Canterlot voice.

"Retreat!"

She than turned to Twilight, who seemed to be fighting another creature, though she looked far worse than Luna, but still stood tall.

Until she was pulled away towards a running Luna, who pulled an unconscious Apple Jack as well. Twilight than started looking around, only to spot injured guards, only to realize that it's not even half of their fighting force running away from the creatures and their beasts, who were either picking them off from fix position, or running after them...

Author's Note

The shogun-class superdreadnought, Legion-class battleship, Centurion-class battlecruiser, Siege-class Amphibious Assault megacarrier, Cymrea-class fleet drone carrier, Oceana-class stealth battlecarrier, M7A1 inquisitor, M12A1 Goliath, Athlit beachstorm connector, Nimbus transport Zeppelin, M5 Cobra, M-41A2CAR, and M6A1 Crusader belong to Afterskies on deveintart.

The Eagle-class carrier, CVX-100, A-11 Ghost, and F/A-60 cutlass 2 UCAV belong to bagera3005 on deveintart.

(Remember, constructive criticism is accepted :D)

Chapter 5: you shouldn't dog fight the iron wings that rule the sky's

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?

Chapter 6: you should be more cautious of what you speak princess

Location: Equestria, exiting baltimare forest
Time: 2 days after beach massacre
Perspective: Bradley driver Melvin Lara, Bradley turret operator Marco stain, armored platoon commander Roman Hahn, Colonial army ranger Frederick Bowman, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Twilight Sparkle, 3rd person

"Melvin, how big is this forest?" Asked Marco while looking through his turrets sight.

"Well, the briefing did state that it was 34 miles from end-to-end, and we've crossed approximately 30 miles. So technically you'll only have to look at tree's falling down in front of you for 4 more miles" said Melvin with a slight smirk.

"*sigh* finally, we've been in this god forsaken forests for 4 hours now, and my trigger fingers is starting to itch!"

*in spongebob voice* 4 miles later

"all units, we're exiting the forest, watch yourselves" said commander Roman Hahn.

Melvin than looked towards Marco with a smug look, than said, "so are you going to stop complaining?"

Marco than glared at Melvin, "cállate la boca, perra."

After a few seconds, Melvin and Marco started laughing, soon after the laughing died down, they broke the tree line with the rest of the platoon, which consisted of 3 other M3A3's, and 5 M1A2 Sep V4's.

All 9 armored vehicles broke the tree line, figuratively and literally. They soon noticed nothing but green open field's for miles, noticing this Marco and Melvin looked towards the satillite map, noticing that 30 miles to their 11 o'clock was a railway, so with their new leg room, Melvin informed the rest of the armored platoon about the railway, and suggested they should follow it.

After a minute of silence, platoon commander Hahn agreed, so they all angled themselves towards the railway to see where it would take them.

3 hours later

Night had already fallen, and the armored platoon wound up staring at what the TR6 TELOS's saw when first contact was made, a large mountain with large castle on its peak. Though, they weren't as awestruck as the TELOS pilots were, mainly because those guys where hug fantasy buff, but due to certain building projects the U.S. has undertaken or has already finished, so it wasn't that awe inspiring. Though that wasn't to say it wasn't nice to look at, it was just stuff in the U.S. was just more grand and spectacular.

Than the armored platoon noticed the small town the castle looked over, it looked small and simple, until it reached the edge, the edge of the town the housed a crystal castle that was held up by a tree.

But they ignored the eye sore while they stayed on the cliff they're vehicles rested on, watching the small town with the on board cameras, they than started recording because of the tactical information this town could provide. They stayed on the cliff under the cover of night for what seemed hours, but was only 40 minutes.

*spongebob voice* 1 hour later

Marco was asleep, enjoying whatever dream he was having. That was until the armored platoon commander screamed through his radio, "we've got tango's approaching our armor, their coming from our 5 o'clock, 55 meters (180 feet) enclosing!"

Marco woke up immediately and turned the turret, looking through his thermal sight he saw 94 ponies approaching at walking speed, now only 53 meters (173 feet). "Commander, where do we go!? There blocking our only exit!" The commander looked frantically for a quick exit, only to see that the best one was through the town.

"We're going to have to go through town, follow me!" His M1A2 sep V4's tracks started to accelerate in opposite directions, rotating the tank, once in the proper positions the armored platoon started driving to the side of the cliff, until they reached a path that led straight into Ponyville. The roar of the 8 vehicles engines alerted the town of their presence, the 8 Vehicles were pummeled by arrows, speirs, and magic bolts, all of which where unaffective against the M3A3's and M1A2's armor. The vehicles came upon a dirt path that led straight to Ponyville, they took it and where visible to all of Ponyville's residents.

The armored vehicles made their way into Ponyville with pegasus close behind, they passed wave and wave of terrified ponies who were barely starting there day, only to be met with terrifying sounds unfamiliar to this world. The armored platoon made their way towards the center of town, which they would then follow the back roads to the exit, than they would leave the town and head towards the encampment. Atleast that's what they would do if their weren't a large barricade blocking their path, forcing the platoon to stop.

"Shit, all units take up defensive positions!" Said commander Hahn.

Soon, all of the vehicles took defensive positions, while the 3 teams of 5 in the M3A3's took their defensive positions next to the armored vehicles. The ponies who gave chase now stood in battle formations of old times past, which made the Marines question wither they should take them seriously. Nevertheless, the Marines stood tall, weapons drawn, ready for any incoming spears or arrows, but for minutes, nothing came. The Marines and royal guard's stood in a standstill, unmoved, though only one side was filled with fear.

Both stood in their position, until the Marines lowered their weapons and went to take out their tents and sleeping bags, they knew it was going to be long day.

*in spongebob voice* 1 hour later

After an hour the Marines started to loosen up, they started talking to each other and were less tense, though they still had their weapons ready in case of an attack. While on the other hand, the Royal guards were terrified, unable to take their eyes off of the beasts these creatures poses, to the guards, they seemed lifeless.

"Commander, what's the plan? How do we get out of here?" Asked Melvin, looking at thw M3A3 Marco was currently in.

"Well, I did radio in to the encampment, but there still trying to figure out what to do. Though, we could always just ram into them and run, but that would just add fuel to the flame" said commander Roman, who was as of right now, pretty annoyed about the situation.

Princess Celestia, Princess Luna's perspective

"What!?" Screamed Luna, who now just heard the news about the creatures in the towns square.

"Creatures who look much like the creatures you fought on the Baltimare forests beach...are in Ponyville square"

"Oh no, oh no. Why are they here?" Luna asks.

The guard answered the quistion, "well, a royal guard platoon coming from a training run found them watching the town from a hill. Than they ran away towards the town, now the guard's are in a standstill with 8 of their beasts, as well as many smaller creatures who came out of said beasts." The guard than followed up with his own question, "What should we do princess Luna?"

Luna looked towards her sister, who appeared to be calm and collected, though was panicking slightly about the idea of beings capable of killing 2/3 of her and Luna's mightiest royal guard's within 2 minutes, inside a town full of innocent ponies, so she made a decision.

"Luna, lift yourself off the floor, we must confront these creatures now" said Celestia as she held out a hoove at her sister.

"But why?" Luna asks in a shaken voice as she fell to the floor, covering her face with her hooves.

"Because, if we don't, who will?" Celestia said with a smile.

*spongebob voice* 20 minutes later

Luna and celestia walked towards the guards barricade, once there the guard's let them through. Soon they were at the front, Luna and Celestia saw what the guard was talking about, they saw the beasts with the smaller creatures around them, seemingly cleaning, checking their own armor, or talking amongst themselves. Though the guard's discripton of the smaller creatures didn't do there size a justice, the smaller creatures were still taller than Celestia by 2 feet, and there muscular stature seemed to be greater than most stallions, and there were apparently thousands of them on the Baltimare forests coast.

Celestia stood in place, watching the creatures and their movements, they seemed to be holding black or gray sticks with weird protrusion, they had on what seemed to be armored metal skeletons that followed there movements seamlessly, and their large beasts seemed to have long sticks, though longer and with less protrusions.

Celestia soon noticed something, one of the beasts with the long sticks, was pointing towards her sister, seemingly remembering who wanted to capture the changeling's. Not so long after, one of the beasts with a larger stick was pointing towards Luna as well, than one of the bipedal creatures where pointing a long gray stick a long telescope on the top at luna, they all seemed lifeless, though celestia could feel the anger emanating from them.

It was like they knew she was the one who wanted the changeling's in chains, this made Luna feel guilty, she than hung her head low because of the guilt. The sight of her sister made Celestia swell with rage at the creatures, though at the same time she felt understanding as to why they had such a distrust and hatred towards Luna.

So she stepped up, puffed her chest up, and spoke in her royal Canterlot voice.

armored platoon perspective

The armored platoon was looking towards their 12 o'clock, staring towards what seemed to be two larger ponies. Not a moment later, they remembered both of them, though there was only one they seemed to remember in full detail.

"Sir, the large dark blue pony with wings and a horn is here, what's your course of action?" Asked an M1A2 turret operator. Commander Roman looked towards the barricade, only to spot the same unicorn-pegasus hybrid that Lt. Tristan spoke to before it tried to storm the changeling's evac site.

"Okay, I want some units watching that area, I'm not going to risk an attack because of that blue freak of nature" said commander Hahn before making his way to his M1A2 sep V4 to radio into the encampment, "you guys need to get here fast, the dark blue unicorn-pegasus hybrid is here, and I don't know what she's planning."

"The Oceana-class stealth battlecarrier is sending 3 WHA-7 Uhlwa owl's along with 2 FB-23 Condors to your location, try and buy yourself some time" said the radio operator.

Not too long after, Hahn heard a loud voice, not an ear defining voice thanks to the help of his Comtacks, though it was still quite loud. It seemed to speaking to his men, so he put the radio down, grabbed a megaphone and walked towards the area the voice was pointing towards, with said megaphone.

The voice said, "may I ask why you are in the town of Ponyville?" The voice seemed to be coming from the taller what pony with a rainbow main.

She than followed up with, "and why are you aiming those strange sticks towards my sister?"

Roman felt pretty mad at that particular question, mainly because she should know of the genocide she was going to start, or has already started because of the changeling's still in Equestrian custody. Nevertheless, He came upon the barricade, the ponies were 10 meters (32 feet) away in all directions, he started adjusting the setting on the megaphone, than he spoke.

both ponies and armored platoon perspective

"Umm, well for your first question. We were...running away because, we were suspecting they were going to try and capture us..."

Celestia stared at the creature, who's face she still couldn't see clearly because of his skeleton like armor. "But why were you watching us?"

"Uhh, well...we umm, where given orders to scout out possible threats, than we followed a railroad that led here" said Roman.

"Hmm, so who gave you these orders?"

"I unfortunately can't tell yo-"

"Why?" Screamed Luna, who finally picked her head up, "are your leaders to cowardly to have their names to-"

"You better watch your fucking mouth you fucking freak of nature!" Screamed the Colonial army ranger Frederick Bowman who didn't take well to her words, especially since his father was a politician who served several tours against insurrectionist in Europe during the 2060's, and implemented the military citizenship act of 2079, which allows emigrants of other countries to gain citizenship for themselves or their families, as long as they serve 4 years of service in any military branch they choose.

Luna was surprised by the insult, she didn't think a comment like that would make one of them angry. He sounded quite young aswell, much like someone in their early 20's, though before Luna could respond he spoke once again.

"You're lucky the president or politicians of the United States didn't hear you, because their anything but cowards, and I'll have you know that they didn't give us our orders you circus fre-"

"Enough Frederick, they didn't know. Their system of military is a primitive version of ours. Their still in what seems to be the Renaissance." Said Melvin, who put a reassuring hand on Frederick's shoulder.

Celestia heard what the Marine and Army ranger said, though instead of feeling rage she felt a surge of curiosity fill her body. 'Who where these politicians? Who was this president? Why was that one creature so mad? How different are these creatures history from our own? What was the Renaissance, and what did it have to do with us?' Thought celestia.

She than had an idea, she would ask the creatures to follow her to Twilight's castle, and speak to them and strive for a peace agreement. Celestia looked towards the creatures with a smirk than spoke, "excuse me strange creatures, but may I come towards you to give you a proposition?"

The Marines and Army soldiers looked at each other, than at Roman who (deadass) didn't know how to respond.

"Umm sure, you may come forward..."

"Thank yo-" Celestia said as she started walking towards the creatures with 3 guard, only to be interrupted.

"Alone!"

"Oh,...why?"

"Because we don't trust your guard's to keep their han-hooves to themselves"

"Understood, guards, stay here" Celestia said as she spread her wings while walking, standing tall while puffing to look at least somewhat threatening.

Once she was in front of the Marines and Army soldiers, she noticed the finer details of their equipment. She saw the large combat knifes they had, which where as large as the swords the Royal guard's possessed, she also saw the fire arms in better detail, she saw the varying sizes of each gun. Than looking at their armor, she saw the tucked wires, bolts, gears, and pistons. All of which where small, though capable of lifting 250 pound person in the air with ease.

Soon she snapped out of her trance and started speaking, "so, may I ask you and your companions to join me at Twilight castle?"

"Uhh, Twilight what now?"

"Twilight's castle, the large castle on the edge of the tow-"

"Oh, you mean that giant eye sore?" Said Marco as his head popped out of one of the M3A3 hatches, he didn't have his bradley location turret helmet on, so he gave Celestia a good look of what humans really look like.

He looked rather dashing, his eyes were a pretty beige that complemented his light brown skin that was dotted with dark brown dots, his hair was black with a slight gray hugh. She stared at him for a good 30 seconds, until she realized she was staring for too long so she looked back at Roman, who still had his helmet on.

"So, may we go towards the castle?"

"Yay sure. Okay men, we're going to follow...."

"Celestia"

"Yay Celestia, we're going to follow her to that giant eye sore"

Celestia watched the men climb on the beasts and open up the hatches and doors, than proceed to inter them. Upon seeing this, she realized that they weren't beasts but where machines, lifeless machines. Celestia than saw Roman's head pop out of his M1A2, than the rest of his body, than hefjumped off the tank in front of Celestia and said "Celestia, do you want to ride on the abrams?"

"What's an abrams?"

"Oh..right, technology differences, I keep forgetting that" Roman said as he hit his helmet with his hand, much like you would do when face palming.

"Technology? What do you mean?"

"I'll see if I can explain later"

"Oh, okay" celestia said, quite disappointed by his response, especially with how vague each answer was. She didn't know who this president was, or these politicians, or what they mean by "Technology differences."

"So...Celestia, do you wish to ride on the M1A2 sep V4 Abrams...or?" Asked Roman, who pointed at the abrams with his thumb.

"Oh, are you su-sure"

"Yay, why not, you can't really damage the abrams" Roman said, holding out a hand.

Celestia walked forward, though was surprised when Roman picked her up much like you would a dog, he placed his hands under Celestia's front shoulders, and lifted her. He put her on the tanks main body, she sat down with a heavy blush as Roman climbed the tank and climbed into the turret, once inside he stood up in the turret and held his hand out towards Celestia. She took his hand, he helped her up the turret, once on the turret Celestia sat next to Romans commanders hatch, still blushing.

Soon, the armored platoon made their way towards the castle.

*spongebob voice* 20 minutes later

Once arriving at the castle, Roman ordered the armored platoon to stop, once all the vehicles came to a halt, he pulled out his radio to communicate with the encampment.

"This is the expeditionary platoon, do you copy?"

Celestia stayed starring at the commander, who she now new was named Roman Hahn with the curiosity of a filly. 'Why is he talking into that strangely shaped box?' Celestia thought to herself, though was immediately stunned when a voice came from the radio.

"Expeditionary platoon what is your status, over?"

"Our status is excellent, we've successfully made contact with one of the leaders of Equestrian, over"

"Understood, the 3 WHA-7's and 2 FB-23 Condors are still on their way to provide overwatch, they'll be there within the hour, over"

"Copy that, we'll be waiting"

Celestia's curiosity was at its peak, she had so many questions about their technology, magic, kingdom, people, and customs.

"So Mr. Roman, may I ask you and someone of your choosing to join me? my sister and I would like to ask you some questions"

"Okay, but remember, we're not your subjects. So we're not obligated to answer your question. We're citizens of the United States, a world megapower that works different from your land, understood?"

"Understood" Celestia said, sounding quite sad.

Though was suprised when Roman called the soldier that insulted Luna when she herself insulted U.S. leaders.

Colonial Army ranger Frederick Bowman, princess Luna, princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle perspective

Frederick walked alongside Roman, both holding their firearms close to be prepared if anything happens Frederick had his dark gray 5.56 SD-P90 PDW with 30 round magazine's, suppressor, and acog/red dot sight combo. While on the other hand Roman had his 6.8 spc HK G56 kriss vector assualt rifle, the rifle had a forward grip, an EOTech red dot sight, as well as a laser sight. Both were prepared for the worst as they followed the 3 alicorn princesses through the castle.

After about 20 minutes or so of walking in the maze like corridors of the castle, the princesses stopped at a door about a foot taller than both Frederick and Roman. Twilight motioned them to inter, still quite hurt from her last encounter with the U.S. armed forces. Frederick and Roman walked into the room, but once the princesses looked at the them, they saw them walking towards the table backwards, making their distrust of the 3 pony princesses all too apparent.

Soon they all sat down, with the princesses on the opposite side from the Marine and Army ranger, both sides sat silently until Frederick broke silence.

"Okay, what kind of stupid question do you freaks of nature have, and we'll answer anything we're allowed too" said Frederick, with an annoyed tone that was all too apparent.

"Well, may we see your faces?" Asked Twilight.

"Are you going to try anything funny? Because I don't want another beach massacre, and we definitely don't want anymore prisoners" asked Roman, who racked the charging handle on his rifle, which scared the guard's, and the princesses because of the unfamiliarity of the sound it produced.

"I promise we won't, I've seen your superiority on the battlefield" said luna.

"Good" said Frederick as he took of his helmet, showing his messy red hair, showing his teal eye's along with his light colored skin. To the princesses he was gorgeous, or for better words, godlike.

"Well, I guess it's my turn" said Hahn as he took off his own helmet, showing his light brown hair, purple eyes and slightly dark skin, though because of his age he had gray strands of hair. Though that didn't seem to persuade the ponies thought about them.

Both men appearances garnered the same reactions the changeling's had when first contact was made, for them every color that adorned their body seemed to be perfectly fit and flush with every other color. Though in the ponies astonishment, they stared for quite long, which made the two men slightly uncomfortable, so Hahn decided to get on with the question.

"So, tell us what you want to know? Though like Frederick said, we'll only answer what we're allowed to" said Hahn.

"Why are you only able to answer certain questions?" Asked Luna.

"Because of national security, which would hold classified intelligence about the United States technological secrets, the United States is one of the most technologically advanced nations, which is why we're a megapower" said Hahn.

"Was that huge triangular beast we saw over the town from this United States?" Asked Celestia.

Frederick answered this question, "yes, that was the TR6 TELOS anti gravity multiple porpoise attack-surveillance aircraft"

Celestia's eyes widened at his words, "ho-how many of th-these TELOS's do-does the United States have?"

"As of right now, we only have 40, but by the end of the year we should have a 100, along with significant armor, speed, and engine upgrades" said Frederick.

"How fast and powerful are these TELOS's Mr?" Asked a royal guard with obvious fear in his eyes.

"Well my darling, the actual top speed is classified, much like many of the black diamond projects of the United States. But it has been clocked in at over 8046 kilometers an hour (5,000 miles an hour). As for power, the TELOS has only been used 3 times in combat, and that was against H.A.T terrorist group, and from what I've heard the things absolutely incinerated the insurgents, but their weapons are classified" said Frederick, looking quite disappointed about the lack of information about the aircraft.

"Ho-how many o-of the-these H.A.T insurgents ha-has the TELOS killed?" Asked a shaking Twilight, who was holding a pen and paper in her grasp.

"Well, from the 3 times it has been used in action combat, it scored atleast 507 confirmed kills in total"

"How many other TELOS like machines have been produced from this black diamond project" asked Luna in a serious tone.

"Well, other than the TELOS, the HTV-3X blackswift, Lockheed Martine SR-21, Pacific Aerospace SR-102A electric eye, Lockheed Martin X-68 Peregrine Falcon, Lockheed Martin CHS-12 Black knight, Lockheed Martin F-19 stealth Fighter, and Northrop Grumman A-18 Poltergeist have been made in the black diamond project program. All of which have been extremely successful in combat" said Frederick, feeling proud to brag about his country's achievements.

"How fast are all of these flying machines?" Asked Celestia.

Roman answered the question, "all of them can break the sound barrier"

Everypony in the room was left wide eyed at the calm response, nothing in Equestria could break the sound barrier, not even Rainbow Dash and these creatures act like it's normal.

"how can you be so calm when describing machines with such speed and power?" Asked Luna.

"Well, our species has been developing machines like this you more than a century and a half, and we've only gotten to this point because of our technological prowess" answered Roman.

"Okay, but how many of these flying machines does the United States have?" Asked Twilight.

"Well, in total, the United States has over 50,000 advanced air superiority, multi-purpose, bombers, surveillance, cargo, and troop transport aircraft" answered Roman, he than responded with "but I'm not an expert in aircraft, that's Fredericks job. So any aeronautical questions you have, he's your guy" said Roman, who messed with Frederick's hair as a father would.

"Okay than Mr. Frederick, Why does the United States need so many powerful flying weapons?" Asked Luna, who was narrowing her eyelids.

Frederick was now smirking a devious smirk while moving closer to the table, "there's many reasons, all of which are valid. We need them to protect our people, to protect ourselves, to intimidate any radical military getting frisky, or protect innocent refugees who are being imprisoned by the thousands only because of the actions of a few, like the changeling's." Frederick finished this sentence while looking at Luna with a taunting smile.

"I feel like you're insinuating something Mr. Frederick, so if you are, please tell me" said Luna.

"Oh, I'm not insinuating anything, just stating reasons and examples"

"I'll have you know, we don't take kindly to creatures lying to princesses" said Luna.

"No, I'm not lying. Even if I was, I wouldn't care because to me you're not royalty, you're a pony with a fucking horn and wings, or in other words...a freak of nature who couldn't forgive and forget" answered Frederick, who seemed more serious.

Luna was furious at his lack of respect for her, especially since this was the second time she was being disrespected by these new creatures.

"How dare you speak to me in Such a manner, I've led more battles than your entire species have in its entire existence!" Luna screamed.

After seconds past with no response, Celestia thought her sister was able to silence the creatures, only for her to hear Frederick speak.

"Okay, I'm going to have to call bullshit on that, none of what you said is true"

"Yes, yes it is true. Every battle your pathetic little species has ever had will never compare to us ponies. Every sacrifice your soldiers made was most likely in vain, you soldiers most likely have no idea what real warfare looks like" Luna said.

After hearing that, Frederick leaned forward, and sigh, "you should be more cautious of what you speak princess, you have no idea what you're talking about when in terms of my brothers sacrifices"

"Sacrifices, ha! You know not of sacrifice, much like your leaders, you're all cowa-"

Luna was than interrupted by Frederick lunging at her, planting his fist in her muzzle.

"Frederick!" Screamed Roman as Frederick jumped on Luna, he soon after picked her up by her chest plate and pushing her towards the table.

"How about you repeat that for me, I couldn't hear you!" Screamed Frederick.

"Wh-what?" Luna said, still in a daze from the punch she received. Though, she soon regained her bearings and realized the situation she was in. "Wha-what are you doi-"

Before she could finish the sentence, she was backhanded by Frederick, "I said repeat what you just said about my fellow soldiers, and my country's leaders! This shouldn't be that hard!"

"I-I'm"

"You're what" Frederick growled.

"I-I'm sorry"

Frederick stared at Luna with fury in his eyes, fury that rivaled that of any minotaur, dragon, or Griffin. Though when Luna stared deeply into his eyes, she could see a person who's hurting, who's felt pain and has suffered, which only made her feel worse when she reflects upon her words. Though soon enough, she heard Frederick speak.

"my country has only existed for 300 years, yet has fought more wars than every kingdom in these pathetic excuse of continent combined, every battle my country fought has been far larger and deadly, thousands of millions of innocent soldiers have sacrificed themselves for the great or good, and your telling me they don't know sacrifice? My species invented war, than we perfected it over the course 6,000,000 years, as well as separating ourselves into groups and countries. All of which that still exist can obliterate you, and your kingdom, I guarantee it!" Screamed Frederick, who stared Luna in the eye with eyes full of tears.

"I didn't kno-" Luna said before she was interrupted by her sister.

"What do you mean by 'still' Mr. Frederick?" Asked Celestia, she than saw Roman give a slow sigh as he got up.

"Because our place of origin isn't very forgiving like yours is, our species has been through figurative hell for the last 180 years. Mass famine's, world wars, terrorism, global warming, genocide, and many more. All such tragedies were caused by our species, and we've only now have started to learn from our mistakes, and even now there are people who still try to hurt other without reason" Said Roman.

"Wo-world wars, terr-terrorism...?" Asked Twilight

"Yay" said Frederick as he set down Luna, he than proceeded to wipe tears from his eyes. "I've lost so much too terrorists who only wish to hurt, destroy, and manipulate others for no reason what so ever" said Frederick, as he sat down on the floor, while taking off his patch, a U.S. flag, too look at it.

"My father once had the same job I do now, though because of a severe accident, he can no longer walk, or stand for that matter. He's permanently stuck to a wheelchair, not even exo-suit technology could help him..." Frederick stated as he looked at the flag.

Roman sat next to him, place his SD-P90 PDW on his leg, "we've sacrificed so much to protect our country, and every other countries that still remains."

"How many countries are their still?" Asked Celestia, who was checking her sisters black eye.

"60 years ago, their used over 120 countries, all housing more than 7 billion people, now their only 36 countries including our own, all housing 113 million people" said Roman, who was putting a comforting arm over Frederick.

"How did your population decrease so drastically?" Asked Twilight, who herself was approaching the two.

"It was a mixture of multiple things, from global warming, none nuclear world war 3, and famines, though we've started to fix ourselves slowly. Now the only threats are from terrorism" said Roman, who followed up with "though, I feel like we've overstayed out visit"

Author's Note

The HK G56 belongs to AlexJJessup on deviantart.

The SD-P90 PDW belongs to hughesdm on deviantart.

The SR-21, SR-102A, X-68, CHS-21, F-19, and A-18 belong to bagera3005 on deveintart.

(P.S. if you find any mistakes, please inform me)

Chapter 7: arks of metal that rule the sea

Location: Questria, Ponyville
Time: 2 days 4 hours after beach massacre
Perspective: Bradley driver Melvin Lara, Bradley operator Marco Stain, platoon commander Roman Hahn, Colonial Army ranger Frederick Bowman, princess Celestia, princess Luna, Twilight Sparkle

"Come on Frederick, get your helmet, you don't want the guys down their to see you like this" said Roman, who gave Frederick his helmet. Frederick took the helmet, putting it on.

"Mr. Frederick and Mr. Roman, I assure that you haven't overstayed your visit. I apologize for my sister's actions, you and your country deserve much more than what you have reacived" said Celestia.

"It's fine princess, it's time we leave anyway, the air escort is here. We've been here to long now" said Frederick.

outside the castle

Both Marco and Melvin layed on the left side of the Bradley, backs perched on it in comfortable positions. They were amused by some of the looks they got from the colorful locals, some stared at them and their armored vehicles with curiosity and wonderful, while others looked at them with disdain, and hatred. It really didn't bother either of them.

"Marco, how do you think princess Marcela is doing right now? I hope she's okay" said Melvin, who looked towards the town.

"Well, she on one of the Cymrea-class drone carrier's, so she should be fine. She's probably talking to one of the maintenance crewman" answered Marco, who as well was staring at the town.

"True, she should be safe, the carriers are being escorted by 2 Oceana-class stealth battlecarrier's" said Melvin when the realization of the carriers came to him, they a second question did come to mind, "And aren't 3 Phalanx-class battlecruiser's with them as well?"

Marco sat thinking, because he really didn't know if it was true, "I don't know, but if their is 3 battlecruiser's, the more the merrier."

"True, and I do really miss the changeling's. Especially Zulu, the little guy hated when I called him cute" said Marco.

"Yay, especially Marcela and Chrysalis, they were like little adorable puppies" responded Melvin.

There conversation got attention some attention from royal guard's who strayed to close, "did you just refer to the changeling's...as cute?" Asked a guard.

"Yay, why you ask?" Asked Melvin, who got up to his feet to show the guards

"Because, their a vile race of evil bug ponies that only wish to feast upon the innocent!" The guard screamed.

"That's not what they showed us when we were helping them escape Equestria" said Marco, getting up as well.

After the guards set their eyes on the two, they finally got a good sense of how tall they were, both Marco and Melvin dwarf the pony guards by more than 3 feet.

"So Yo-you were th-the ones who helped the changeling's es-escape?"

"Yes" said Marco.

"Wh-why...?"

"Because they needed help, and my country found them in their time of need. So it was only right for my government to help"

"Bu-but there evil, they attacked Canterlot"

"If they were evil, they would've attacked us on the spot without a second thought. To be frank, they only attacked your capital out of desperation, they were starving!" Screamed Melvin.

"But they killed innocent ponies!"

"One of your leaders is trying to cause a genocide, so you're in no position to criticize!" Yelled Marco.

Soon enough, the captain heard the argument, and decided to ask the big question, "who do you think you are!"

"I'm Melvin Lara of the United States Marine Corps, a megapower with one of the largest military capabilities on the power! Now who are you!?" Screamed Lara.

"I'm Storming Light, commander of over 30 royal guard's!"

"Ha, you're nothing compared to Lt. Tristan Summers or Gunnery Sergeant Nathan Reeds, those two as of right now command 10,000 soldiers armored with the most advanced weapons in this world!" Said Melvin.

"And to make it worse for you, we're immune to your magic attacks, so you're royaly fucked!" Added Marco.

"Th-that's no-not true, you're blu-bluffing" said the commander.

"Are we really, commander Storming Light?" Marco said, putting his hands on his hips.

The pony guards stood in position, awaiting an impeding attack that wouldn't come. Though the only thing that would come where the sounds of 3 WHA-7's along with 2 FB-23 Condors that circled the town like vultures. The citizens and guard's watched the sky in terror, knowing not what these large, fast, agile creatures where, if they were living.

"Okay guys, let's pack up and get out of here, we've got to get back fo the encampment" said Roman, who walked alongside Frederick before getting into his M1A2 sep V4. Soon after, everyone got into their respective armored vehicles.

Not to long after each vehicles started up their engine's, angeling themselves towards the path that leads out of town, a few minutes after, they exited the town, unknowing of what might happen.

Location: Equestria, 50 miles out in the Manehatten coast line
Time: 3 days after beach massacre
Perspective: Princess Marcela, Queen Chrysalis, changeling guard Zulu, Cymrea-class maintenance officers second class Tobias Pierce, Oceana-class admiral Hugo Olson, 3rd person

Marcela walked across the flight deck of the Cymrea-class Fleet-Drone carrier, looking at the few drones that where on the carrier, she passed by a Lockheed Martin sabre warrior UCAV, Boeing X-45A UCAV, X-45B UCAV, and a lone Lockheed Martin X-68 Peregrine Falcon. All these aircraft left her with a profound sense of curiosity, and safety, though she didn't know why she felt safe near these metal beasts, maybe an answer will come later.

As Marcela walked around the carrier, she spotted a hoo-man with a M14 rogus, who had a check board with a pin, who seemed to be checking the X-45A UCAV, Marcela approached the man.

"hello mister, what's your name?" Asked Marcela, looking up at the man who dwarf her by several feet.

"Umm, hello? Where are you?" Asked the man, who looked in several directions but down.

"*giggle* I'm down here mister"

The man looks down, only to spot the princess, who was smiling widely. "Oh, sorry little one, I didn't see you there."

"It's okay" Marcela replied, "she than followed up with her same question, "what's your name?"

"Oh, Tobias Pierce, a Cymrea-class maintenance officer second class" he said with a smile. "What's your name?"

"I'm princess Marcela of the changeling empire" Marcela said with a enthusiastic demeanor.

"Well, it's nice to meet you princess" said Tobias, putting his arm forward to shake her hand.

Marcela took his hand in her hooves, and shook gentle. "Mr. Tobias, what is that large arrow head machine?" Asked Marcela, who starred at the X-45A with an obvious curiosity in her eyes.

"Oh this, this is the X-45A attack reconnaissance drone" said tobias, who put his hand on the aircraft side.

"Oh, but where's the room the hoo-mans go inside so it can fly?" Asked Marcela, tilting her head while looking towards the front of the aircraft.

Tobias chuckled, "this doesn't need a human to fly it, it can do that all by itself."

"Is this alive!?" Asked Marcela.

"Well, not exactly. Here, I'll show" he said, as he picked up Marcela to set her on the aircraft.

When he picked her up, she realized how tall they and their machines were, which she never noticed before. For a seconds, it actually terrified her, these hoo-mans didn't use magic and weren't affected by it, and yet still were able to create such large, powerful machines that flew faster than anything in Equestria. Though she soon remembered they were trying to help them escape Equestria, which she was grateful for, though the reason for escaping was unknown to her.

Moments after, she felt her hooves touch a smooth, metal surface. Once she looked at her surrounding, she saw herself on the aircraft. "Can you walk forward for me?" Asked Tobias, who was now walking towards the front of the drone. She obliged and walked towards the front of the aircraft, once at the front of the aircraft, a large point hold went into the aircraft.

On first sight, Marcela suspected this was the entrance to the aircraft controls, only to find a empty hole that only led further into the aircraft. "See, no one controls it, it's all computers" said Tobias, who smiled while staring at the shocked changeling filly.

"Ho-how is it able to fly without a hoo-man, does it use hoo-mans magic?" Asked Marcela, looking towards Tobias.

"No, no magic. It uses high-tech computers attached to tracking, mapping, targeting, and flight control systems to fly" said Tobias.

"Woah, you hoo-mans make some pretty neat stuff!" Said Marcela.

"Yay, we do make alot of cool stuff" Tobias said with a smile, his blonde-brown hair flowing as a small wind current came over the drone carriers, not really effecting the them. Tobias extended his arms to help Marcela get off the X-45A, she jump with a resounding "weee" as she came into Tobias's arms.

"So princess, were is your mom?" Asked Tobias.

"I think she's in the floor below this one" answered Marcela.

"Okay, let's take you their" said Tobias as he walked towards the stairs that led to the lower decks.

5 minutes later

"Okay Marcela, we're here, the holding deck of the Cymrea-class" said Tobias as he looked towards the small sea of changeling's that conversed with either each other or the U.S. Army soldiers dispatched to guard the changeling's in the carriers. Tobias slowly ascended into the crowd, making sure not to accidentally step on any changeling's as he moved towards chrysalis with Marcela snug in his arms.

Chrysalis saw Tobias slowly come into view with Marcela comfortably in his arms, "hello Ms. Chrysalis, but I've came to bring a gift to solidify the peace between arw two nations" Tobias said as Marcela giggled, Chrysalis smiled.

"Yes, this gift is truly one to solidify the peace, may we prosper" chrysalis said, trying to suppress laughter.

The changeling's and U.S. army troops stood watching the little charade with little smiles, chrysalis approached second class maintenance officer, taking the changeling filly. Once Marcela was in Chrysalis's arms, Chrysalis lifted Marcela into the sky and announced a truly inspiring sentence.

"For glory of the United States, the victorious, the greatest, with an honor code that cannot be broken, may your truly magnificent nation prosper!"

Everyone cheered at Chrysalis's words, until a voice blared from the intercom.

"[Intercom] All personnel on both Cymrea-class drone carrier's, theirs 30 wooden ships approaching you on your port side, their 17 nautical miles out (20 miles or 32 kilometers), they're approaching at a speed of 15 knots (18 miles an hour or 28 kilometers an hour). The Oceana-class and Phalanx-class ships will intercept them, but keep your eyes out and keep your distance, we can't and won't risk any changeling being captured"

Oceana-class Admiral Hugo Olson, changeling guard Zulu

Zulu was having a great time on the Oceana-class, despite the occasional head pat, and face squish from the crew. Zulu always hated being called cut, ever since fillyhood, he never knew why that was, to him it was just always something he hated.

"So Mr. Zulu, how are you liking the Oceana-class?" Asked admiral Hugo Olson, who was at one of the mamy control consoles on the battlecarrier.

"It's quite magnificent, she's quite the vessel. Though I must ask, how much did she cost your nation?" Asked Zulu.

"More than 500,000,000$ each" said Hugo, which left Zulu in shock at the cost of the ship, especially since their where two of these ships.

"How much are the Phalanx-class battlecruiser's?" Asked Zulu.

"They themselves are in between 200,000,000$ and 300,000,000$ each" answered hugo.

"And the Cymrea-class?"

"150,000,000$, it is undoubtedly the cheapest out of the bunch in this fleet" said hugo.

"Only one of these ships cast more than the whole of the Equestrian naval fleet, and than some. Why do they cost so much?" Asked Zulu, who starred at the second Oceana-class from the control rooms windows.

"Well, these ships are made out of metals far more durable than any metals in this world, and then theirs the advanced technology. Such as the radar/ladar systems, railgun, engines, the three different VLS systems along with everything else" answered Hugo, who looked at the 3 Phalanx-class ships.

"What's a radar Admiral Hugo?" Asked Zulu.

"Come with me, I'll show you" said hugo, who walked towards one of the many radar screens on the battlecarrier. Zulu followed Hugo intently, they than came upon a lone Petty Officer of the First Class who was manning the battlecarrier's radar system.

"Hey Benjamin, can you show Zulu here what the radar exactly does?"

"Yay, sure" said the First Class Petty Officer, Zulu hovered next to the Petty Officer contentedly as he explained what the radar did.

"Think of radar like soundwaves, soundwaves bounce off solid serfaces and come back to their original position." Said the Petty officer.

"Yes, continue please" said Zulu respectively.

"But instead of soundwave, radars send out wide radio signals, and depending on the time between the signal and it's return, which is based on the speed of the signals which is the speed of light, allows us to determine the distance of an object" said the Petty Officer.

"Wow, you can technically track other ships with this technology, not even the Griffin naval fleets have this, this gives your nation a massive edge in naval warfare considering only your nation possesses it" said Zulu.

"Yay, you're rig-" Before the Petty officer could finish his sentence, a fleet of 30 ships that they've been tracking for 700 nautical miles (805 miles or 1,296 kilometers) was now only 17 nautical miles (18 miles or 32 kilometers) away from the fleet, and heading towards the Cymrea-class's. Which was way to close for comfort, though considering they couldn't communicate with the ship, all they could do was wait until they got in sufficient distance to scare the fleet of 30 to with small fleet size and superior firepower.

"Sir, the fleet of 30 ships has gotten closer, and it's heading towards the Cymrea-class's" said the Petty Officer.

"Understood said another crewman in charge of radio communications.

"[From the Oceana-class] All personal on both Cymrea-class drone carrier's, theirs 30 wooden ships approaching you on your port side, their 17 nautical miles (20 miles or 32 kilometers), their approaching at a speed of 15 knots (18 miles an hour or 28 kilometers an hour). The Oceana-class and Phalanx-class ships will intercept, but keep your eyes out and keep your distance, we can't and won't risk any changeling being captured."

After several minutes, the 3 Phalanx-class and 2 Oceana-class overtook the Cymrea-class's and started turning portside, while the Cymrea-class's started turning starboard while the 5 naval vessels blocked them from sight.

"Zulu, do you want to see what these ships can do?" Said Hugo with a devious smile.

"yes, I would love to see your nations vessels true capabilities" answered Zulu.

"Okay men, contact all ships to converge into swerve line attack formation, we've got to scare these little shits out of here" commanded Hugo.

Seconds past as the ships got into formation, the 2 Oceana-class sailed next to each side of one Phalanx-class, while the other 2 Phalanx-class ships sailed in front of the 3 other vessels in a line, until the two started slowly swerving in opposite directions, still in front of the 3 ships that stayed in their positions.

"I need the far front Phalanx-class to get me a reading on who's manning those ships, whoever's manning those ships will determine our course of action" commanded Hugo.

Once the Phalanx-class received the orders, they used their far reaching cameras to assess who the ships crew is, and low and behold it was nothing but ponies on those 30 ships, ships that looked like toys when compared modern naval vessels.

"Sir, we've got a discripton, their Equestrian vessels, though it is unknown wither war vessels" said a communications officer.

"Do they have gold armor?" Asked Zulu.

"Yay, it's filled to the brim with ponies donning golden Roman helmets with golden chest plates. But what does that mean?" Asked the communications officer.

"Their the Equestrian navy, no normal transport vessels are filled with royal guard's" exclaimed Zulu.

"Understood. *turns on radio communications device* All ships, these vessels could be hostile, watch those vessels" said admiral Hugo Olson.

Once both Cymrea-class fleet-drone carriers where a sufficient distance away from both naval fleets, The 2 Oceana-class and 3 Phalanx-class ships started circling the 30 ship strong Equestrian naval fleet like sharks, metal sharks.

"This is so primeval admiral Hugo sir, they look like British naval vessels of ." Said one of the crewman upon looking at the images of the wooden fleet.

"Sir, their changing course, we're facing their portside, they seem to readying their cannons. Your orders sir" said a seaman.

"If their using old British cannons, theirs no way they'll breach the ships armor, and I don't even know wither or not they're able to even reach us with the cannons. But just to be sure, fire warning shot, get a man on one of the side 50-CAL posts" said Hugo.

"Understood, lets scare some ponies"

Equestrian fleet perspective

"Those ships are massive!" Said an Equestrian pegasus guard.

"Their traveling fast, and making it look easy!" Said a female unicorn Guard.

"Maybe we can convince commander frisk to rethink her decision, these new allies the changeling's have acquired outnumbered Luna's expeditionary fighting force!" Said the pegasus guard.

"I've also heard rumors these creatures are immune to magic" said the unicorn.

Both guards starred at the Oceana-class with binoculars, noticing the carrier half of the vessel, "are those the flying beasts the princess was talking about? Their massive!" Said the guard who stared at the aircraft.

(You can skip this paragraph is if you want) The some of which where Boeing FA-55 Acender 2's, FA-70 panther 2's, Sikorsky MH-65 Blackfoot's, Northrop Grumman F-24 tomcat 2's, Northrop Grumman FA-24A tigercat's, Lockheed Martin F-35D's, FB-22C's, F-35E's, and FB-35's.

"Okay ladies and gentlecolts, we're going to show these creatures that Equestria is the dominant naval force on these seas, we'll be written down in the history books at the ones who defeated a hostile alien naval fleet! Now ready the cannons!" Exclaimed captain Frisk Fireflight, who was the sole commander of all 30 Equestrian naval vessels.

They started readying the cannons for battle, steering all the ships so that the starboard side would face the 5 U.S. Navy vessels, they prepared their cannons, loading gun powder, than the cannon ball, and aimed the cannons towards the U.S. Navy vessels.

The air started to crack and whistle, though no pony was whistling at the time, than large splashes of water seemed to come out of nowhere, and they came in quick succession while coming from the same direction the U.S. Navy vessels where.

"What magic is this" screamed caption frisk as she watched the 50-cal rounds repeatedly hit the water in front of her naval vessels.

"I don't know ma'am, they might be firing upon us" said a royal guard.

"Very well, open fire!" Screamed the captain.

U.S. Navy perspective

"Sir, they fired their cannons, the scare tactic didn't work!" Screamed a Navy officer as cannon balls repeatedly hit the Oceana-class's and Phalanx-class's full force, though unable to penetrate the naval vessels armored hulls.

"What do we do sir, they're just going to keep hitting us until they damage something or hurt someone!" Screamed a naval officer.

"Hit those 3 ships in a line with the Dual-420mm Rail Gun at 50% power, that should get them to back off" said admiral Hugo.

"Understood Sir, right away Sir!" Screamed the Navy officer.

The Rail Gun on the Oceana-class lit up with a vibrant blue arua before expelling 420mm projectile at the 30 wooden Equestrian Navy vessels at 3 times the speed of sound, it did so with a even more vibrant color as streams of electricity left the berral of the gun.

Equestrian fleet perspective

"Ma'am, the cannon balls aren't breaching their hulls, their just bouncing of like basketballs!" Said a royal guard who was watching the Oceana-class take the cannon ball shots as if their nothing.

"That's impossible, nothing in Equestria can take an enchanted cannon ball hit!" Screamed the commander.

"Well,...th-they might not be of this world caption" said the guard, a little shaken at the idea.

Soon after their exchange of words, they saw that the front of the Oceana-class was lighting up with a bright blue aura, like that of a lighting bolt, only more suppressed and contained. Soon after the light got brighter, like lighting breaching the cloud layer during a thunderstorm.

Not long after, three Equestrian naval vessels exploded in a bright ball of electrified fire, that came from the Oceana-class.

"Ho-how, no cannon can blast through 3 ships at once!" Screamed the captain.

"Wh-what do we do captain? Everyone on those 3 ships were obliterated" asked a scared royal guard.

"All ships, fire cannons!" Screamed the captain, not to long after the bangs and booms could be heard from each cannon as they fired on the hulls of the U.S. Navy ships.

U.S. Navy perspective

"Sir, they just fired another volley of cannon balls! The attack only seemed to only piss them off!" Screamed a naval officer.

"Get the middle Phalanx-class to fire a few rounds from its 305mm advanced gun system to by us some time to deploy an FB-35 to obliterate those ships!" Commanded admiral Hugo.

"Mr. Hugo, you seem worried about something" said Zulu.

"Yay, I'm worried about the already increasing tensions between the United States and Equestria. We first came to make peace with the locals, only to have it backfire not even a week after" said Hugo as his hands locked on to the edge of the control table.

"I'm sure the Equestrian empire will come to a compromise, their not stupid" said Zulu while hovering.

"Let's hope so" said hugo as he watched the Phalanx-class fire it's 305mm guns in repeated succession, obliterating 15 wooden ships within the span of 23 seconds.

Not to long after, Zulu saw the FB-35 pass the Oceana-class by its starboard side at a blistering speed, though he's come to expect this from what he's seen from other U.S. aircraft, though what happened next left him in shock. The FB-35's lower missile bay opened, though instead of releasing missiles, it let out a swarm of what seemed to be small, harmless suns, that was until they made contact with the ships and water.

When they made contact with either the water or a ship, they exploded with a force to rival the elements of harmony, they obliterated ships they didn't even make contact with, launching them 30 feet in the air like they where toys.

"Sir, their are still two ships left, both are in critical condition. What's your call?"

"Let them go, theirs no reason to engage now. Let's go back and protect those carriers" said Hugo, who followed up with "how was the show zulu?"

"It was truly something admiral, let's hope no other nation in Equestria decides to try and challenge your nation" said zulu.

Location: Equestria, Twilight's castle
Time: 2 days after Naval battle
Perspective: princess Luna, princess Celestia, Royal guard

"Luna, I've been meaning to tell you something" said Celestia.

"Yes sister?" Said Luna, who was still recovering from being punched in the face.

"I think I should handle the situation with the new creatures. I'm sorry to say this, but you've truly failed in terms of diplomacy" said Celestia with hed eyes closed.

"Bu-but sister, I-" before Luna could even think about finishing her sentence, she was interrupted by her sister.

"Luna, I'm sorry but their isn't any negotiating. Who've seen first hand what these creatures were capable of, and you decide to insulted one of their nobles father, who sustained injuries that left him crippled" said Celestia, who looked at her sister with a serious look.

"Yes sist-" again, before Luna could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by a royal guard who ran into the room.

"Princesses, a rogue fleet of 30 Equestrian battle ships tried to intercept the creatures ships in the Celestial sea!" Said the guard.

"Who was commanding the ships?" Asked Celestia.

"Captain Frisk Fireflight princess" answered the guard.

"Very well, I must see her at once to determine her punishment" said Celestia.

"I don't think that will possible princess" said the guard.

"Why would that be?" Asked Luna.

"Because, only two ships came back, both with only a quarter of their crew and heavily damaged. One to the point that it was partially underwater, and from what we've heard, these creatures are much more powerful than their leading us to believe" said the guard.

Both princesses could only look at each other, because the pot was stirring fast.

Author's Note

The Lockheed Martin Sabre warrior UCAV, Boeing X-45A UCAV, X-45B UCAV, Lockheed Martine X-68 Peregrine Falcon, FA-55 Acender 2, FA-70 panther 2, MH-65, F-24 tomcat 2, FA-24A tigercat, F-35D belong to bagera3005 on deveintart

The Cymrea-class Fleet-drone carrier, Oceana-class stealth battlecarrier, Phalanx-class battlecruiser belong to afterskies on deveintart

(P.S. if their are any errors in the story writing, please notify me)

Chapter 8: couldn't forgive and forget

Location: Equestria, Baltimare forest coast
Time: 2 days 2 hours after Naval battle
Perspective: Lt. Tristan Summers, gunnery sergeant Nathan Reeds, WHA-91 pilot Nicholas Diaz, Joshua Richardson, Jeremy Manowar, Rainbow Dash, 3rd person

Rainbow Dash was in an interrogation room, though instead of an actual interrogation room, it was a hastily built tent that only took the whole of 10 minutes to construct. Nevertheless, gunnery sergeant Nathan Reeds, Lt. Tristan Summers, and Nicholas Diaz along with 5 others walked into the tent, all of them wearing full gear.

"Okay *looks at tablet and pauses* Rainbow Dash, let's make this quick and easy" said Tristan, who looked towards Rainbow Dash.

"How did you know my name?" Asked Rainbow Dash with slit eyelids.

"We got it from the surviving guards after the battle" said Nathan, not long after Tristan said "now, can you tell us what your kingdom was going to do with the changeling's?"

"None of your business" said Rainbow Dash.

"Actually, it is our business, the changeling's are under our country's protection" said Tristan, who said it not a second after her statement.

Rainbow Dash was caught off guard by his statement, "why would you protect the changeling's? They literally attacked Canterlot and crashed the Royal wedding."

For every Marine in the room,this was hundredth time they'd heard this question and statement.

"I'm going to ask again, what your kingdom going to do to the changeling's if you captured them!?" Screamed Nathan as he stared at Rainbow Dash.

"Why should I tell you?" Said Rainbow Dash in a taunting way.

"Because, your leader seemed to be very keen on capturing them, so much so that she would put her entire fighting force on the line to get them back" screamed Tristan who slammed the table making Rainbow Dash jump as high as the restraints would let her.

"Now. Tell. Us" said Nathan, who was gritting his teeth.

"Wh-what are yo-you g-g-going to do, i-if I tell you? Are yo-you goi-going to hu-hurt "my fr-friends?" Asked Rainbow Dash.

After hearing the obvious fear in her voice, every Marine in the room felt like monsters, like they were interrogating a child, and not an actual adult. especially since they where wearing their full gear and helmets, which made them look like robots instead of actual humans.

"N-no, we might different, but we're not monsters" said Nicholas.

"Than why did you kill all those guards!?" Asked Rainbow Dash, with a furious expression.

"Because they where going to capture the changeling's if we didn't engage, which falls under probable cause" said Tristan.

"We also gave specific warnings not to step above 200 meters (656 feet), or we would engage in armed combat. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes" said Nathan, who stared at Rainbow dash with a bored expression.

"Come on boss, that was pretty harsh, didn't have to go for the throat" said one of the 5 marines in the tent.

"*sigh* I guess you're right, but that doesn't dispel any truth from my statement" responded Nathan.

"Again, can you tell us what you where going to do with the changeling's?" Said Tristan.

"Again, why would you like to know!?" Screamed Rainbow Dash, which made Nathan and Tristan go back slightly, while the 5 others Marines to raise their weapons slightly.

"Because, your leaders where trying to start a genocide, and we don't want that to happen" screamed Nathan.

"Genocide, that isn't even a word!" Said Rainbow Dash.

"Wh-what?" Said Tristan.

"Genocide isn't a word in the Equestrian dictionary! So whatever your accusing the princess of doesn't exist!" Screamed Rainbow Dash.

"Yup, their species is stupid, it really is" said Nicholas.

"Well, I guess 1000 years of peace can really blind you to the terror of the universe" said Tristan.

"I could only imagine what they would do if they saw a nuke, or rods from god, or blackswift" said one of the 5 Marines.

"Yay, this place just keeps getting more, and more annoying by the minute, it really.seems like every historical events for us just never happened to them, both in terms of technology and history it seems" said Nathan.

"What the hay are you creatures talking about?" Said Rainbow Dash.

"Nothing, atleast nothing you would understand. Guys, take her back to her cell carefully, her wings are still in bad condition" said Tristan.

2 of the 5 Marines in the tent went to Rainbow Dash, one picked her up as carefully as they could, though he still got a yelp from her when he picked her up. The 2 Marines brought here to her cell, which was a small metal container built for two human, the container was somehow constructed in the span of 8 minutes.

Joshua Richardson and Jeremy Manowar perspective

Joshua and Jeremy sat near the M3A3 that came back from Canterlot a day ago to get some shade, they were bored and had nothing to do, it seemed like being in a new world wasn't as cool as they thought it would be. The magic in the land didn't even work on humans, no spell, bolt, telekinesis, or curse seemed to have any effect, which made the situation more annoying.

They both sat and starred at one of the new helicopters that came after the beach massacre, the helicopter itself was an AH-24B Fennechawk attack helicopter, it came to support troops if the ponies began bringing ballista's, catapults, or any weapon of that type.

Not long after, they decided to get up and take a walk around the outskirts of the encampment to waist some time. They walked around the outskirts of the encampment, they talked about people, places, machines, what they planned to do later in life, so on and so fourth. As they did this, they saw several bell 360- Invictus attack helicopters patrolling the woods around the encampment.

"Hey Joshua, what do you think would happen if Equestria declared war on tye United States?" Asked Jeremy.

"I honestly don't know, and from what the changeling's say, we've got an edge over every kingdom in...everything" answered Joshua.

"I guess all our technology takes away from the splendor of battle" said Jeremy.

"Yay, I guess that's the downside to the military industrial complex, everything just keeps better, to the point where it's boring" commented Joshua.

Location: Equestria, Twilight's castle
Time: 2 days 2 hours after Naval battle
Perspective: princess Luna, princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle, Apple, Rarity, Fluttershy princess Cadence, Shining Armor

Princess Celestia and princess Luna, along with 4 of the main 6 was waiting for Shining Armor and Cadance, reason being a meeting to discuss a suitable course of action in dealing with Equus's new residents. To say Celestia and Luna where nervous was an understatement, the idea of being watched at all times, without even knowing was an unsettling thought, especially since the TR6 TELOS was that thought.

It could be right over Celestia's head right at this very moment, listening to her dialogue, and she wouldn't know it. So right now, she could only hope that these creatures wouldn't hold a grudge against her sister for insulting one of their nobles fathers.

"Princess, you seem quite bothered, what seems to be the problem?" Asked Rarity.

"It's about the creatures I told you all about, they've seen to deviate from any normal kingdom, atleast different from the ones I've seen" answered Celestia.

"The-they couldn't b-be that pr-princess" said Fluttershy.

"They aren't bad, I can see they are truly good, but have been through extreme hardships the likes of which most ponies have never seen, which makes them extremely cautious and suspicious of others" Celestia said.

"Which can lead to violent altercation, especially if hostages are involved, because as of right now, the changeling's are under their protection" said Twilight.

"They can't be that powerful" said Rarity.

"But they are, from what we've seen, all forms of magic is useless against them, and let's not forget the capabilities of their technology. Which exceeds that of any powerful magic" answered Luna.

"Well, all I'm hoping for is a safe way to solve this problem" said Apple Jack

After the conversation, they stood and waited for the carriage carrying princess Cadance and Shining Armor to arrive, which after several minutes arrived from its several hour journey.

Both princess Cadance and Shining Armor stepped out of the carriage , started walking towards the 6 ponies who stood only 15 feet away to greet them.

"Hello Celestia, Luna, Twilight, Apple Jack, Rarity, and Fluttershy. I've come for the meeting you told me abo-" said Cadance before noticing the obvious cuts and bruises on Luna, Twilight, and Apple Jack.

"What happened to all of you!?" Said Shining Armor.

"All will be explained in due time, but for now let us walk towards the castle's meeting room, we have much to discuss" proclaimed Celestia.

Not long after, they all entered the castle and made their way through the maze like corridors of the castle, and much like Celestia, Twilight was wondering weather the TELOS was listening in on their meetings. Though also much like Celestia, she just hopped it wasn't.

"So, are you going to tell me what happened?" Asked Shining Armor, who was looking towards Twilight with a worried expression.

"Well, it's a long story, and it involve the new creatures on the Baltimare forests coast" answered Twilight.

"So, the rumors are true, these new creatures do exist, at first I only thought it was just parents trying to scare their filly's" said Cadance.

"What do you mean by new creatures?" Asked Shining Armor.

"Their are the-these new cr-creatures in the Baltimare forests, and me, Luna, Apple Jack, and Rain-Rainbow went to confront them, be-because.... they're helping the changeling's le-leave Equestria" answered Twilight, which left Cadance and Shining Armor wide eyed and confused.

They both starred at Twilight confused, thinking about how anyone could help the changeling's, the same race that kidnapped Cadance and ruined her wedding.

"W-why would they help the changeling's?" Asked Cadance.

"We still don't know, but we're hoping we can get a meeting with them" answered Twilight.

"Okay, but that still doesn't answer why you, Apple Jack, and Luna are filled with cuts and bruises" said Shining Armor.

"That also includes the creatures, because we were going to confront them about the helping the changeling's, but they didn't want us to interfere, so they told us to leave or we would be dealt with" said twilight.

"Than what happened?" Asked Cadance.

"One thing led to another and both Luna's forces and their forces engaged in combat, though all our attempts to push their forces back failed due to their weaponry and immunity to magic" answered Twilight.

"Why are you being so vague?" Asked Shining Armor.

"Wh-what do you mean?" Asked Twilight.

"You're not answering my question clearly, what happened on tha-" Before shining armor finished his sentence, he was interrupted by Celestia.

"We will explain the situation about the creatures in due time, but for now we walk" Celestia said.

20 minutes later

"They did what!?" Screamed Shining Armor.

"They killed more than 2000 Royal guards in under 3 minutes" said Luna.

"Ho-how?" Asked Cadance.

"Because, their technology out matches any magic in Equestria, and their flying machines give Rainbow Dash a run for her bits, despite being larger" said Twilight.

"What are these flying machines capable of?" Asked Shining Armor with slit eyelids.

Not long after Celestia spoke up, "they can break the sound barrier with relative ease, and have the ability of traveling over a thousand miles an hour" said Celestia, which made Cadance and Shining Armor eyes widen.

"Nothing in Equestria can break the sound barrier, not even the most powerful magic could allow a pony to do so" said Shining Armor.

"And yet they've done it, I've seen one of their machines travel to such a speed and faster without any sort of struggle" said twilight.

"And what about their naval capabilities?" Asked Shining, crossing his hooves and raising one of his eyebrows.

"Though I haven't seen their naval capabilities, they've easily obliterated a rogue Equestrian fleet of 30, reducing the ships and their crews to ashes" said Celestia.

"How are they able to achieve this, they must have some sort of magic" said Cadance.

"Unfortunately, they do not use magic of any sort, their species has survived without magic for over 6,000,000 years" said Luna.

"But, how have they servived that long without magic?" Asked Rarity.

"We do not know" said Twilight.

Celestia could see now that the whole meeting was getting sidetracked, and was diverting away from the initial for being requested, "right now we're not trying to explain why they have these capabilities, or why they don't use magic, we're trying to find a way to have peaceful relations with them" said Celestia, she than continued with "that is why I've taken full responsibility when concerning these creatures" said Celestia.

"Wh-why i-is that Ce-Celestia?" Asked Fluttershy.

"We-well, their whe-" Before Celestia could finish, she was interrupted by Luna.

"Because I couldn't forgive and forget!" Screamed Luna, who followed up with "I created this problem, the only reasons that we lost so many lives wss because of me!" Screamed Luna.

"I-is th-this tru-true?" Asked Cadance.

"Unfortunately, yes, yes it is" answered Celestia.

"Luna couldn't have possibly caused all this" said Shining Armor.

"I d-did cause this, I'm the reason those rogue ships tried to intercept them, because they wanted revenge for those who've fallen on that beach" said Luna.

"Well, th-than what c-can we d-do to h-help?" Asked Fluttershy.

"Well, I'm unsure how you can help, because as of right now, theirs still many ponies still in those creatures cus-" Before Celestia could finish, Fluttershy said, "why don't we just try and talk to them?"

"Well darling, I highly doubt they would want to talk to us considering our recent hiccups" said Rarity.

"Oh, I-I guess y-your right" responded Fluttershy.

"Than what else can we do?" Asked Shining Armor.

"I guess for now we make sure no royal guard's go rogue and try to engage the creatures" said Cadance.

"While me, Luna, and Twilight find a way to create a plan to approach this peacefully" said Celestia.

"What about us?" Asked Apple Jack while she pointed to Rarity and Fluttershy.

"I believe you can could try and keep the ponies calm and worry free, while we do what we can to divert tensions" said Twilight.

"We'll try our best" said Fluttershy, while trying to do a salute but failing measurably.

"Well, I guess we'll rally up the guards and tell them the news" said Cadance, unaware of a rogue company of royal guard's closing in on the encampment.

Location: Equestria, Baltimare forest coast
Time: 2 days 4 hours after naval battle
Perspective: commander Honey Bun, AF-21C black Tiger pilots Warren Steel and Justin Berratt, U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Owen Cooper, U.S. Army major Christopher Lara, 3rd person

"Whiskey 1-2, this is Gray Ghost 1, I'm tracking more than 100 tango's coming towards the encampment from the northeast, approximately 30 meters (98 feet) from your position, over" said Justin, who was looking at the 134 ponies that walked through the pitch black forest with his thermal tracking system.

"Gray Ghost 1, understood, we have visuals on all tango's. We're going to see if we can M5 Ripsaw unmanned system to scare em' off, over" responded colonial owen Cooper, who was hunkered down in a 3 foot tall trench with 5 U.S. Army soldiers, 5 M5 Ripsaw's accompanyed by 2 Centaur 3 main battle tanks.

"Whiskey 1-2, understood, we'll be here to provide overwatch, out" said Justin, who started to slowly bank to his 9 o'clock while descending 200 meters (656 feet).

The turret of 2 M5 Ripsaw's started pointing northeast, centering on a tree 28 meters (91 feet) away, which was 9 meters (31 feet) tall, the 134 Ponies where 2 meters (6 feet) away from the tree and in closing while the M5's where reading their aim for said tree, then they fired.

commander Honey Bun and pony guards perspective

Commander Honey Bun was leading her troops towards the U.S. encampment with the intent to save one of the element barriers, along with the rest of the ponies the Marines and Army troops captured.

Though at first glance her intentions seemed admirable, they where all just a ploy so she could seem heroic in front of the princesses. She could really care less about the wellbeing of the hostages and guard's she brought, Honey Bon only wanted recognition, nothing more. Honey Bun was also ready to sacrifice anyone to achieve this goal, which is why she convinced 134 Royal guards to join her. In reality, she was quite ignorant on the whole situation, and any information she was able to acquire she dismissed as false and merely fairy tales.

When told about the fleet of 30 strong Equestrian ships being obliterated by only 4 ships, she dismissed those as well, when told about Luna's defeat Honey Buns said it was it was impossible, when told about the superior speed and maneuverability of their flying machines, she proclaimed it as nonsense.

Overall, she was as arrogant as one could be, which is why she didn't expect the massive tree right behind her to explode.

"What was that!?" Honey bun screamed while looking every way her head would let her.

"I-I don't know M-Ms. Honey Bon" said the Royal guard that was next to her.

Not a 3 seconds later, another tree exploded into pieces, than another, than another. None of the ponies had any idea what was happening, they could only guess what was causing the tree's to combust.

"Continue forward guard's, this won't stop us!" Screamed Honey Bun.

They group continued forward while glowing red rods streaked past them as speeds no magic bolt could reach, and they came at a rate no unicorn could match, not even StarSwirl himself.

The cracks and whizzing was something unfamiliar, so terrifyingly different that it shouldn't even exist, though that was nothing could compare to what came next.

U.S. Marines and Army perspective

"Sir, the ponies are continuing towards forward towards are position, what's your order?" Asked Major Christopher Lara.

"Start picking of some of the ponies, I'll try and get the 360-Invictus's or the AF-21C's to scare them off" said Owen as he picked up his radio, he then began to speak, "this is whiskey 1-2 to gray ghost 1 and Spector actual, I need a strafing run 13 meters (42 feet) away from the tango's on their 9 o'clock, over."

30 seconds later

"This is gray ghost 1 to whiskey 1-2 one, I'm approaching the strafing area. Run will begin in 3...2...1" said Justin.

Royal Guard's perspective

The guards continued forward, following the orders of commander Honey Bun. Though, after several moments of continuous motion several royal guard's started dropping to the floor, having their heads completely ripped off their bodies.

The sight was especially gruesome because of how cleanly they where cut, the only thing remaining was the spine, jetting out where the neck should have been.

"Wh-what's happening!?" Screamed Honey bun as one of the royal guard's besides her head exploded, sending a stream of blood in all directions.

BRRRRRT

Not long after a strange sounds could be heard, the sound was loud and monstrous, much like the roar of a dragon, though the thick forest blocked any sight of what ever was creating the noise.

Than soon after, 13 meters (42 feet) to their 9 o'clock the ground seemed to explode in a vibrant red light that only seemed to stay for several seconds, and it seemed like everything in the area the lights where got obliterated.

Honey Bun could wonder wither it was magic, or the beings she sought to destroy creating this destructive light show, though as soon as they appeared, they vanished as if they never came at all.

"Wh-what should w-we do commander?"

"We continue forward, let nothing block ou-" Before she could finish, she saw a large, gray box that with a large stick at the front with a metal guardrail at the front that read M5.

When looking more to it left and right, she saw several bipedal creatures laying on their stomachs as they used large strange looking sticks to fire the smaller rods of red light towards the group's of royal guard's. She felt an ocean of rage consume her, these creatures where trying to take away her chance of fame and glory, so she decided on the only logical course of action.

"All ponies, forward charge!" Screamed Honey Bun.

ponies and U.S. Marines and Army perspective

"Shit, sir their charging at us, what's your order!?" Screamed Christopher.

"Open fire and make sure they don't get past this defensive, do it for as long as possible. Get the M5's to start pushing forward, I'll try and get either the 360-Invictus or FA-21C to do another strafing run!" Said Owen.

Less than a second later, every gun in the trench started firing their munitions which made the forest light up in a vibrant light show, much like the Fourth of July

The 5 M5 Ripsaw's started moving, slowly exiting the trench with Marines and Army troops using them as cover, while the 2 Centuar 3 tanks took positions on both on the left and right of the mechanized infentry vehicles, both tanks than started using the guns mounted on the top of the cannons to mow down any ponies that tried to flank the platoon.

The Marines and Army troops picked off targets in quick succession, either aiming for the bright eyes that where clearly visible through the dark forest, or the brightly colored golden armor that covered the ponies vital organs. The M5 Ripsaw's used their turrets 50. Caliber main gun to pick off any pegasus that tried dive bombing the infantry, the pegasus dropped like flies due to the M5's thermal cameras, or their brightly colored armor that made them stand out like a sore thumb.

Honey Bun couldn't believe what was happening, the once powerful army of 134 was now cut down to 72 in a mere 30 seconds, if she didn't do something now, her entire chance of fame would be lost, so she came up with a great idea when she looked to the back of the mechanized infentry, their was a lone creature who was speaking into a strange box, she actually saw lieutenant colonel Owen Cooper, who she determined him to be the leader.

Honey Bun sprung into action, she thought that if she would take out the Marines and Army troops leaders, they would fall into disarray and she and her troops would pick them off one by one. Honey Bun took the farthest root around so she wouldn't be located by the M5's or Centuar 3's and they would just focus on the other ponies.

Owen was speaking through his radio to get either one of thel FA-21C pilots to do an air strike to clear the forest line for the 360-Invictus's to pick of the ponies.

"Gray Ghost 2, this is whiskey 1-2, requesting air strike on enemy position so the 360-Invictus's can pick em' off with their main guns, over" said Owen.

"Whiskey 1-2, this is gray ghost 2, I'm on my way to the enemy position, proceeding with air stri-" though before Warren could finish his sentence, Owen could feel something jump on him, knocking him and his radio to the ground.

Honey Bun looked at the creature (Owen Cooper) and raised her sword towards its head, than swang, only for the sword to bounce off the creatures helmet. Her eyes widened when the sword only bounced off the helmet, the sword itself was hoove-made with the strongest steel in Equestria, and yet it bounced off this creatures helmet like the sword was a toy.

When Owen looked back, he saw the lights brown pony on his back with a sword in its hooves, he than brought his arm towards his face, bent his elbow then dug it into Honey Buns face, hitting her right eye.

Honey Bun flew off of Owen, landing 3 feet to his 5 o'clock, she would get up shakily still recovering from the blow that she just received, not long after she heard a voice say "freeze, don't move," though due to her muffled hearing she couldn't hear the voice clearly.

Once she came back to her senses, she would see the creature (Owen Cooper) pointing a strange small objects and saying "if you move, I'll drop you." She couldn't make out what he meant by "I'll drop you," though she didn't care, all she wanted was him dead, so she started to slowly reach for the dagger strapped to her flank.

"Don't you touch that, I will kill you" said Owen, though she continued her trek for the dagger, looking at him with slit eyelids.

Her hoove continued towards the dagger, until she finally felt her hooves touch the grip, though before she could bring it out, she heard a loud bang come from the creatures (Owen Cooper) direction.

Owen sent 6 shots towards Honey Bun torso with his glock 19, all 6 rounds of 9mm hollow point made it to her body, 2 going directly through her. The hollow points entered Honey Buns body at the speed of 1500ft/s (682 miles an hour), once inside their shape distorted, turning her organs into Jelly as they went through her body.

Owen starred at her, ready to fire 6 more shots into her if needed, though instead of another attempt at an attack Honey bun only starred back at Owen, while a stream of blood came out of her mouth and torso, she than fell over in a pool of her own blood.

Though, while all this was happening, the air strike Owen had requested had hit ground near the remaining ponies, giving the arriving 360-Invictus's and mechanized infentry a clearsight of the 72 ponies who tried to run, only to be intercepted by rounds ranging from 20mm to 5.56.

When the rounds made contact, they sliced through ths golden armor like butter, their was zero resistance from the armor, giving the automated bullets free range to shred the royal guard's like paper.

In the end, only 3 guard's made it out of the forest, partly alive.

Author's Note

The AH-24B belongs to afterskies ob deveintart.

The Centaur 3 main battle tank belongs to TheoComm on DeviantArt.

The AF-21C belongs to Bagera3005 on DeviantArt.

The bell 360-Invictus and M5- Ripsaw are real military platforms, look it up.

Fact: technology superior, magic inferior.

(P.S. please tell me if their are any mistakes in the story writing)

Chapter 10: stronger than they're leading us to believe (2/2)

Location: Equestria, Baltimare forest coast
Time: 10 days after Naval battle
Perspective: gunnery sergeant Nathan Reeds, Lt. Tristan Summers, WHA-91 pilot Nicholas Diaz, Joshua Richardson, Jeremy Manowar, Flash Sentry, queen Chrysalis

Nathan and Tristan climbed on the roof of an M7A1 inquisitor multiple missile launcher system, the vehicle being tall enough for all 10,000 Marines and army troops, along with the 100 border patrol agents to see both of them. They both had mega phones, both intending to use the device to speak to the small ocean of combat ready U.S. Marines and Army troops.

"Okay everyone, in a few hours we're going to raid an Equestrian supermax prison, but that's on hold because we still need the go around from a spy we have on the inside, along with an ariel diversion over Equestria's capital, Canterlot" said Tristan through his megaphone.

"And how long is it going to take the spy to get here" asked a young Marine who was at the very front.

"Well, he should be on his way to the transport vehicle we told him about, it should be atleast 20 or so minutes until he arrives, so everyone ready your equipment" answered Nathan.

Not long after everyone scrambled to ready their equipment for they're impending use in the United States offensive against Equestria, all 10,000 troops along with every ground and air vehicles will attack the Baltimare prison on its western side.

Flash Sentry, Joshua Richardson, Jeremy Manowar perspective

Flash found himself again walking through the forest where the creatures were, though now instead of calling them creatures, he now knew they were called humans, which was a more pleasant way of addressing them. Though, the difference about walking through the forest this time, was that he didn't feel scared of losing his life to the humans, in fact, they where inspecting him, which made him feel wanted and cared about. He felt safe and secure for some reason, he knew the creatures had good intentions, and from what he read about their history, they had it extremely rough. So much so, that they're species where almost wiped out by themselves several times.

Flash continued walking, he was told in his last visit with the humans to look for a vehicle with four wheels, containing a rubber covering around an inner metal core. The two who where going to pick him up where two humans he got to know very well, both being fairly young much like Flash himself.

One being named Joshua Richardson and the other Jeremy Manowar, both being apart of a law enforcement division called border Patrol, which regularly patrols their countries borders for those coming in illegally without any identification.

Flash continued walking through the forest, searching for the Rendezvous point the humans told him about, desperately hoping he hadn't passed it without knowing, but as he was starting to lose hope, he saw it. He saw a vehicle with 4 wheels that had a camouflaged color patterns containing several shades of dark green that made it difficult to spot, along that two humans where standing next to it in full armor, though he really couldn't tell who they were due to the distance and darkness that separated himself and them. The distance that separated Flash and the humans was about 13 meters (43 feet) long the darkness and visual obstacles obstructing a clear visual of the creatures, causing Flash to have second thoughts about approaching the humans.

So instinctively Flash stood still, allowing his eyes to adjust to the lighting and distance, though he was unknowingly standing in the open giving away his position. Not long after, the humans looked directly towards Flash's direction, than started waving their hands in his direction in a friendly manner while walking towards him.

"Hey Flash, we've been waiting for you" said one of the humans with a semi robotic tone, and for some reason Flash recognized the voice under the helmet, but not a second later they both took of their helmets to reveal who they where.

And to Flash's surprise it was Jeremy, this was the transport vehicle Flash was told about, so he trotted towards the two with a smile, suspecting the other human to be Joshua. He was.

"Hey guys, how's it been?" Asked Flash, who stopped his trotting a meter (4 feet) away from Joshua and Jeremy.

"I'm doing good" answered Jeremy, not long after Joshua replied with "never better." Both kneeled down to greet Flash, considering Jeremy and Joshua were taller than Flash by a good 3 feet.

Flash got closer, being met with a pet on the head by Joshua, and a scratch on the his upper neck that was below his chin by Jeremy, which made Flash "hmm" with satisfaction.

Not long after Jeremy and Joshua got to their feet, motioning Flash to follow them towards the their vehicle. Which was a 2019 Ram 1500 with several shades of dark green camouflage that formed a glitch pattern, the truck also had its cab covered with a armored top that was made out of steel reinforced aluminium to prevent any passengers from being hit with any stray bullets or shrapnel, the main body of the truck was also covered with armor, though in the form of steel slabs sandwiched between an outer layer of bullet proof fiber glass and an inner layer of shrapnel absorbent carbon fiber. To substitute the weight that truck had, the engine made a whopping 1,235 horsepower and 1,035 foot pounds of torque through a souped up military spec Mopar performance 515 supercharged V8, and surprisingly it was quite reliable, at least up to par with the Humvees 656 horsepower V6 in terms of reliability.

Flash followed the two towards the truck, trotting in front of them with a smile and body language that screamed "I'm challenging you to something."

"Hey Flash, are you trying to challenging me to something?" Asked Joshua, looking at Flash with a raised eyebrow.

"Nah, it wouldn't be fair for you since I have the ideal stallions body" Flash said with a tone that screamed "I'm better than you."

"you've got to be kidding me, you really think you could take us?" Said Joshua.

"I don't think so, I know so" responded Flash, who said it with a flamboyant demeanor.

"Oh you're on!" Screamed Joshua and Jeremy, running towards the truck with Flash running with them.

23 minutes later, everyone's perspective

Tristan and Nathan where outside their tent, watching the 200 changeling along with Chrysalis herself come out of a single Nimbus transport zeppelin. While this was happening, all the prisoners from the beach massacre were being loaded onto another Nimbus transport zeppelin, one of 9 that where coming from the United States to aid in the safe retrieval of the changeling in Baltimare prison.

Not a second later, every one heard the roar of a very familiar vehicles, one with an abundance of power that two border Patrol agents where using to pick up high value personal, actually just one high value person. Or pony.

Tristan and Nathan looked towards the direction of the sound, waiting for an armored Ram 1500 to burst out of the tree line full speed. They weren't disappointed.

Chrysalis was walking towards Tristan and Nathan, 2 humans that made up the many humans she's gotten to know, but there where those who were special to her, such as Tristan and Nathan along with several others. Though, she stopped as she heard a loud roar coming from the tree line, she than saw the Ram 1500 burst out of the tree line and into air going 152 kilometers an hour (95 miles an hour), the truck went 2 meters (8 feet) into the air. The truck hit the ground with a noticeable whining sound from the military spec coilover suspension and a screech from the lower body hitting the ground, the force of the truck hitting the ground at such a high velocity caused the military spec coilover suspension to descend into itself, only to push itself back up causing the truck to bounce back up 0.6 meters (2 feet) into the air and hit the ground with so much force that it sent wall of sand that reached 3 meters (12 feet) into the air, flying in every direction around the vehicle.

For everyone who had the blessing of seeing the truck, human and or changeling, it was an amazing sight to behold, the way the suspension caved into itself only to extend to their default height in matter of seconds was a magical sight, minus the magic.

Chrysalis finished walking towards Nathan and Tristan, "hello boys, did you miss me?" Asked chrysalis, in her usual seductive tone.

"Hi Chrysalis" responded both Nathan and Tristan, waving their hands towards Chrysalis's direction.

Chrysalis stood near Nathan and Tristan as the truck barrels towards them doing 120 kilometers an hour (75 miles an hour), once the truck was 12 meters (39 feet) away from them it gunned the brakes full force, the brake hose applying pressure ot the calipers, making the brakes pads grind against the rotor causing the wheels to cease their forward motion and completely stop, grinding on the sand. The truck started to swerve right, giving full view of the driver side window, which was 50 millimeters (2 inches) thick, one way black tinted clear aluminum that was 3 times lighter, and 10 times stronger glass, so much so that it could take a 50. Cal and stay fully intact.

The truck came to a full stop a meter (4 feet) away from Nathan and Tristan, giving a slight scare. Though, as for Chrysalis, she didn't really anticipate that the truck was as big as it was, it was two feet taller than Nathan and Tristan, and was quite long, it made dragon emperor Harrikor and prince Hendershu look small, and weak. The sheer bulk of the vehicle gave off an intimidating presence, despite the fact Chrysalis knew that it wasn't alive and breathing, she knew the vehicle was armored and ready to fight against a compendium of threats.

'It seems like every vehicle in this kingdom's position is built for battle' Chrysalis thought, she shivered at the thought of the United States most powerful weapons capabilities, she imagined entire civilization being wiped of the face of the earth in vivid detail, though before she could imagine what would happen to said residents of the kingdom's the door to the truck opened to reveal two border Patrol agents she became rather fond of...and a royal guard.

"Umm...who's that?" Asked Chrysalis, pointing her left hoove at Flash Sentry.

"That's Flash, he's our guy on the inside, he's been giving us intelligence on the state of the changeling in the prison, the layout of said prison, and the weapons the guards are using" answered Nathan, looking at Chrysalis with an innocent smile, his golden eyes glistening in the sunlight.

"In other words, he's a good guy" commented Tristan, looking in the direction of the truck Jeremy, Joshua, and Flash exited from, they than made they're way towards the group.

23 minutes later

"So Mr. Flash, you seem to be all too willing to show the me, and the United States every single prison of Equestrian occupation" said Chrysalis, looking at Flash with a suspicious demeanor.

"Well Ms. Chrysalis, the changeling's who didn't join Thorax after your fall were rounded up and put in prisons against their will, and they're being treated like they not sentient beings" answered Flash.

"But, why isn't Celestia doing anything?" Asked Tristan.

"I-I...don't know" answered Flash.

"I have an idea" said Nicholas, walking into the tent with everyone looking into his direction.

"What is it?" Asked Flash, who was putting on a worried expression.

"Celestia doesn't seem to like the idea of other kingdoms changing the fung shway, especially kingdom's with power to challenge Equestria's military presence" answered Nicholas.

"What makes you come to this solution?" Asked Tristan.

"Well, considering how Celestia seemed to really want to talk and make peace with the U.S. makes me think, would she do the same if we were not as powerful as we are. Would she just steamroll over us and be done with it?" Nicholas Nicholas.

"Well, how many kingdoms hold the power equal to that of Equestria Flash?" Asked Nathan.

"As of right now, only yours has the power to challenge Equestria" answered Flash.

"Well, their could still be another answe-" before Tristan could finish his sentence, his radio started to beep, signaling that he was receiving a transmission.

[radio] "This is areal diversion group 'Wet Division' to the encampment, we're closing in on Equestrian airspace, give us the word and operation 'burning desire' will be a go"

Tristan looked towards Flash and Chrysalis and sighed, "are you guys sure you want us to proceed with this operation?"

Chrysalis and Flash looked at each other, than back at Tristan, and nodded.

This made him smile slightly, he than held the radio closer to his face and said "wet division, you're clear to proceed, let's send these ponies a message they'll never forget."

Location: Equestria, approaching Canterlot and Ponyville
Time: 10 days after Naval battle
Perspective: princess Celestia, princess Luna, princess Cadance, Apple Jack, areal squadron wet division

[radio] "wet division, you're clear to proceed, let's send these ponies a message they'll never forget"

"Okay guys, let's not fuck this up" said the squadron commander, who was in 1 of the 3 Lockheed Martin FB-90 Hustler 2's in his command, he was the Observer for his aircraft, along side the defense system operator and pilot. The squadron itself was in a V formation, the commanders (FB-90) aircraft being in the middle while the other 2 were on his 9 and 3 o'clock, all 3 aircraft were traveling 3,482 kilometers an hour (2,164 miles an hour, or mach 2) at an altitude of 442 meters (1,453 feet).

To the FB-90 squadrons 5 o'clock, 14 meters (45 feet) away, traveling the same speed as the FB-90's were 2 McDonald Douglas F-15U Plus delta winged escort fighters, both tasked with seeking out and determining possible hostile threats coming towards the many beta squadrons that made up this 21 aircraft strong multi task squadron, wether it be pony or something else considering the abundance of kingdom's that make up this land.

To these 2 squadrons 7 o'clock, 24 meters (82 feet) away was a squadron made up of 5 FA-24A tigercat air superiority fighters. The 5 aircraft were also tasked with protecting the squadron, they relied on their far reaching 1,356 kilometers (843 miles) multi function radar, as well as the F-15U's 2,521 kilometer (1,567 miles) reaching multi vision radar to see targets in all directions from as far as possible with a precise and swift response.

The FA-24A was once the United States Premier stealth superiority fighter, until the Raptor program was commissioned after the fifteen program was temporarily suspended in 2002. Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman were both commissioned for the project, which led to the creation of the F-22 raptor which evolved into the F/A-22 velociraptor, FB-22-1 King Raptor, FB-22C, FB-22-4 FB-22-5, F-24 tomcat 2, and X-44 manta.

To the 3 squadrons 1 o'clock was a squadron of 8 Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman F-35X Hellcat's, they were 34 meters (102 feet) ahead of the 3 squadrons, giving them the first heads up if somethings coming towards them. The F-35X was part of the stacked odds project that both Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin were commissioned for, which led first to the creation of the A, B, and C variants of the F-35, but further down the line newer and more advanced models of the F-35 platform came. Such as the F-35M, F-35U, FB-35, F/A-35E Death Adder, F-35 UCAV variants of the A, B, and C, X-35B, F-35D, and of course the F-35X.

To the 3 squadrons 6 o'clock was 3 F/A-37 Talon stealth fighter, the newest aircraft out of all of them, being the only fighter out of several secretive fighter jets declassified only a week before the United States was transported to Equestria, the rest being classified until the whole dark sparrow air superiority program is finished. The United States Air Force saw the new stealth fighter as a great contender to join wet division in this operation for its alien look. It's forward swept wings were like the F-14 tomcats, being able to retract its wings towards it body when going supersonic, spreading them and using its 2D thrust vectoring nozzles when performing complex maneuvers.

All 4 squadrons made up the 21 aircraft strong multi mission squadron named wet division, every pilot in this squadron was extremely well trained and experienced to deal with and carry out complex missions with deadly accuracy, and in 20 minutes they would be closing in on the Equestrian capital, Canterlot to create the biggest diversion this world has ever seen.

1 minute before arrival, everyone's perspective

"Approaching Canterlot and Ponyville, ETA 1 minute" said one of the F-15U Plus pilots, looking at his onboard mapping system that projected his exact location on earth as long as there were satellite pictures of said place.

"Okay everyone, weapons hot!" Announced The squadron commander.

The squadron continued traveling towards Canterlot and Ponyville, rapidly lowering their altitude to 112 meters (369 feet), in hopes exposing their aircraft and themselves to the whole of Canterlot and Ponyville. Not long after they broke the cloud layer and slowed their speed to 2,018 kilometers an hour (1,254 miles an hour), which is still several times faster than any flying creature in Equestria's sky's.

Apple Jack was walking towards a few tree's with apple's still on them when she heard what seemed to be thunderbolt's, or maybe Rainbow Dash flying overhead. She looked up towards the sky, only to spot the 21 U.S. aircraft barreling toward Canterlot, not long after she started running towards Twilight's castle to tell Celestia and everypony about them, fully aware of their capabilities, but before she could get a significant distance towards the castle, the aircraft already closed the distance between them and Canterlot and were circling both Canterlot and Ponyville. Despite the fact the aircraft beat her to her destination without really trying, she continued towards Twilight's castle with the determination of a crackhead trying to break into a 7/11 at 3:49 AM on a Tuesday.

Once Apple Jack made it into Ponyville, she saw the town was in disarray, everypony was running around either screaming or seeking shelter away from the aircraft. Though, all of that was in vain because of the technology the aircraft had, considering they have heartbeat sensers, infrared cameras, and brainwave detectors.

"Sir, they're panicking and we haven't even let out our munitions yet" said one of the F/A-37 pilots.

"Everyone get into positions, let's worsen their day more than we've already have!" Said the squadron commander.

Apple jack continued running through the town, ducking and dodging through the hoards of ponies panicking throughout the town. As Apple Jack was running towards the castle she fought the ever-growing urge to look up towards sky to look at the aircraft. She succumb to this urge.

She looked up, as she did so her eyes widened when she saw one of the aircraft (F-35X) rapidly lower it's altitude to 17 meters (56 feet) faster than any airborne creature she's ever seen, the sight of it left her with a sense of shock and awe. Especially with how the wings were formed, she's never seen anything flying with wings swept forward, unless the wings of said thing was broken, which left her questioning why it was flying with relative ease, seemingly unaffected by its alien wing shape.

Though not a second after, she pushed these thoughts to the back of her mind and continued to Twilight's castle, fearing what would happen if she doesn't tell the princesses of the aircraft.

"Sir, when are we going to start the blaze? We've already made ourselves known" asked one of the FB-90 pilots.

"We've got to wait till the princesses come out. we're trying to make ourselves known to the entire kingdom, we don't want any kingdom getting any ideas about trying to invade" responded the commander looking out the left side of the canopy.

Not long after one of the pilots of one of the FA-24A pilots said "the princesses must think they can stand toe to toe with the United States, so today we show them how powerful we are."

"Damn straight, and we aren't even flying the best aircraft the United States can offer, and we aren't even their most elite Squadron" responded another FA-24A pilots.

Apple Jack was finally closing in on the castle, only having to turn a corner and she would only have to travel 16 meters (54 feet) more to get to the castle doors. But once she rounded the corner, she was met with the royal sisters, Cadance, Twilight, and Shining Armor already outside the doors and watching the carnage, which made Apple Jack stop running and slow her pace significantly.

Apple Jack closed the distance between her and the group of 5 and asked "e-excuse me pr-princess, b-but do you know what's happening?"

Celestia looked up at one of the aircraft (FB-90) and sighed, she than looked back at Apple jack and said "I don't know, but I think it might have to do with the rogue guard's attacking them."

Not long after Luna asked "is this retaliation?"

"It could be, they most likely don't know that those guards were rogue. They most likely think we sent them" answered Cadance, spreading her wings and walking forward.

"where are you going Cadance?" Asked Celestia and Luna.

"To get a better look, this day may provide great intelligence for Equestria" responded Cadance.

Cadance jetted into the sky, climbing 14 meters (47 feet) into the air to meet face-to-face with the aircraft (F-35X) and get a better, closer look at it, because she knew it wasn't a living being, but rather a machine with a creature to control it.

The F-35X pilot noticed Cadance and slowed his speed rapidly from 1,643 kilometers an hour (1,021 miles an hour) to a much slower, calmer 1,049 kilometers an hour (652 miles an hour) in the span of 9.5 seconds, which left Cadance awestruck. She had never seen something decrease from such a high speed with what seemed to be little to no stress, she's seen many pegasus decelerate from high speeds, but their wings would stiffen and it would be harder to move their limbs when performing such tasks.

Yet, this machine that was 5 times the size of a pony and was traveling faster, maneuvering better, and dealing with the forces of drag and gravity better than any flying creature in Equestria.

'Is it immune to magic like it's creators?' Questioned Cadance in her mind, her horn being engulfed by a teal aura that glowed brighter each second. "Time for a little experiment than" said Cadance lightly with a devious smile, readying the most powerful projectile spell she knows, known as the energy spear, which was a spell that shot a projectile of pure energy that was as long as a spear at the speed of an arrow. Truly devastating, but would it be devastating enough?

When Cadance fired her projectile, her horn lit up in an extremely bright flash of blue light that engulfed the entirety of her horn for several seconds. The projectile left her horn traveling 324 feet per second (220 miles an hour, or 355 kilometers an hour) and came towards the aircrafts (F-35X) canopy, causing the pilot to flinch and push the throttle to flee the attack. The projectile came straight for the middle of the aircraft's body, though instead of hitting the aircraft or dissipating off the surface of the aircraft, it stopped 3 inches above its body in a flash of bright light, and seemingly bounced off The aircraft and hit the house of an earth pony, setting it ablaze.

"What in the ever loving cockbiscuits just happened!? What the fuck was that!?" Screamed the F-35X pilot, who finally opened his eyes and tilted his head to look towards Cadance, which she had noticed through the slightly orange colored transparent titanium that enclosed the canopy.

"I have no idea, but we've got their attention, so operation 'burning desire' is a go boys, get into positions" ordered the squadron commander.

"Understood!" Screamed each pilot as they started getting into their positions.

Cadance hovered in the air, keeping continues watch of the aircrafts canopy to catch another glimpse of the creature controlling the flying machine. Not long after, Cadance saw her two aunts join by her side with stern expressions on their faces.

"Cadance! What was the meaning of...that!?" Screamed Celestia.

"Yes, thou must have a great reason for attacking the creatures flying machine!" Screamed Luna.

"Auntie I was merely experimenting! I only wanted to know wether or not the creatures machines were immune to magic as well!" responded Cadance, keeping her eyes locked on 3 odd looking aircraft (F/A-37) in particular. To Cadance, the 3 F/A-37's didn't look like the rest of the other 18 aircraft that were alongside it, instead of having either 4 or 2 wings like the rest, it seemed to just glide through the air, tucking their wings in like hawk's and eagles do when they're on the ground, but this machine was flying through the air at incredible speeds as if it possessed an advanced form of magic, which Cadance knew wasn't the case.

"Isn't our word evidence enough!?" Screamed Celestia, who followed up with "do you want them to retaliate and do to Ponyville what they did to commander Honey Bun and captain Frisk Fireflight!?"

After Celestia finished her sentence, Luna said "yes, what you did was most unwise Cadance. These creatures do not take too kindly to being attac-"

BOOM

Luna's, Celestia's, and Cadance's eyes shot open, they looked towards the sea of tree's that was the Everfree, and saw a large bright orange ball that soon showed itself to be fire, not long after they noticed 2 F-15U's flying away from the blaze.

30 seconds before diversion begins

"Okay, I need both F-15U's to ready their napalm charges and drop them on the Everfree Forests, but they need to be 104 meters (342 feet) away from the town so no damage is caused" ordered the squadron commander.

11 seconds later both F-15U's separated from the rest of the 19 other aircraft that made up the rest of the squadron, they armed their munitions while doing so, insuring they would be prepared to carry out the diversion effectively. They soon were upon the Everfree, dropping their munitions on the expansive forest.

BOOM

Once the napalm charges reached the ground, they exploded and set the Everfree ablaze, turning anything living that wasn't 15 meters (50 feet) away into a charred corpse that wouldn't be recognised to have once been a living thing.

Luna stared into the bright orange, red, and yellow mesh that was engulfing the Everfree Forest at an incredible rate, turning once flourishing tree's that stood tall and touched the sky into burning husks of their former selves. She didn't know wether to have expected this response after the rogue groups and Cadance attacked them, or to be furious they would do this.

"Sir, we've dropped our napalm charges! The diversion has officially kicked off!" Said one of the F-15U pilots.

"Okay than, let's contact the encampment so they can start the siege of that prison in Baltimare" responded the commander.

"I'm already on it, you can continue the diversion, I'll be with you in no time" said one of the F/A-37 pilots, who than got on his radio and contacted the encampment and said "this is 'wet division' to encampment over."

[radio] "this is the encampment to 'wet division,' are we clear to move, over?"

"Affirmative, you're clear to raid the prison, we've got the princesses and their subordinates covered here. Godspeed guys" responded the F/A-37 pilot.

[radio] "Understood, and Godspeed to you as well"

After the pilot got off his radio, he started banking his aircraft to his 5 o'clock with its 2D thrust vectoring system, wings still tucked in. joining back into the diversion effort, he positioned the aircraft to face the town so he could enact any orders given to him with the up most speed and precision.

"Okay sir, I've gotten the message out. What are my orders?" Said the F/A-37 pilot.

"I need your squadron to start launching PAC-3's at the opposite side of Canterlot. rain hell!" responded the commander.

"Understood. Okay guys, follow my leed" said the F/A-37 pilots, who's 2 wingman responded with "got it."

He than started banking his aircraft (F/A-37) to his 9 o'clock so he could start flying in Canterlots direction, passing the castle and the mountain it rested on. He accomplished this maneuver in the span of 11 seconds, his wingman joining him 9 seconds after said maneuver was made, they than positioned their aircraft in a V formation as they flew in the opposite direction of Canterlot.

The 3 aircraft continued in the opposite direction of Canterlot traveling 3,244 kilometers an hour (2,016 miles an hour, or mach 2) and flying at a height 64 meters (213 feet) above the 162 meter (534 feet) tall mountain Canterlot rested on. They soon spread their wings to their full length and started banking their aircraft to their 9 o'clock while still being in formation, each aircraft being 2.7 meters (9 feet) away from each other.

It took a total of 7 seconds for the squadron to complete the maneuver, after they completed said maneuver they armed their Lockheed Martin PAC-3 missiles and accelerated to 4,132 kilometers an hour (2,568 miles an hour, or mach 3) towards Canterlot, when they were 4 kilometers (4 miles) away from Canterlot they all opened their missile bay doors and Unleashed half of their munitions in the span of 3 seconds.

Each F/A-37 was able to hold 7 missiles in each rotary missile deployment system, and it had 2 rotary systems for both of its missile bays, and dependent on the rotary cartridge along with the munitions they were using they could hold 28 missiles and deploy half of these missiles (14 missiles) in 3 seconds flat. Which is what they did.

All 14 PAC-3 came straight for the back of the mountain, it took them a total of 5 seconds to reach the hard rock that was on the opposite side of the mountain Canterlot rested on. Once the missiles made contact, they tour chunks off the mountain and sent tree's flying in every possible direction, including Canterlot.

Celestia was the first to notice the massive fireball that engulfed the backside of the mountain, she saw the burning chunks of rock that flew through the air, along with the 3 aircraft that flew through the fireball as well. She soon took notice that those aircraft were the ones that looked like hawk's with their wings tucked in, only now they had their wings spread out too their full length.

This would normally be an absolutely beautiful sight for Celestia to behold, if it weren't for her thinking about how to stop the current chaos and destruction these aircraft were causing, instead of the beauty they possessed. Unfortunately, Celestia couldn't think of any way of solving this problem, wether it be through peaceful negotiations or trying to battle the aircraft, which would both fail miserably. So what could she do?

"you guys in the FA-24A's, I'm going to need you guys to start popping off AIM-80's missiles on the southwestern side of the town, about 50 meters (164 feet) away from those train tracks. Got it?" Said the squadron commander.

The squadron of 5 responded to their commander with either "Understood, right away" or "got it" as they banked their aircraft to their 9 o'clock, arming their AIM-80 ravens as they did so. They approached their targets at the height of 95 meters (314 feet) while going 1,467 kilometers an hour (912 miles an hour). Each aircraft (FA-24A) released 2 missiles from their missile bays, which was able to carry 8 missiles. The 10 missiles jetted towards the right side of the railroad tracks, catching the attention of any ponies inside and outside the train station that was 90 meters (295 feet) away from where the missiles would land.

The ponies could hear the infamous whistle the missile produced, but they couldn't see where said missiles was or where it was headed, that was until they hit the ground on the right side of the railroad. 10 dark clouds rows into the sky, many of them meshing together to make singular clouds of smoke and ash that rose from ever-growing fires that formed near the railroad, aside from the fires the were caused the missiles produced a shockwave powerful enough to knock over some of the train car that housed ponies inside of them, shatter windows on almost every structure in Ponyville, and knock ponies of their hooves. Luckily no pony was seriously hurt or injured, but the memories would most likely stay forever.

The terrified screams and shrieks of ponies all around Ponyville could be heard, though to the princesses dismay this would go on for 5 more agonizing minutes, and they were powerless to stop it, so they would have to wait for all 21 aircraft to exhaust their munitions.

Location: Equestria, approaching baltimare prison
Time: 10 days later
Perspective: Flash Sentry, queen Chrysalis, gunnery sergeant Nathan Reeds, Lt Tristan Summers, WHA-91 pilot Nicholas Diaz, many more

[radio] "Affirmative, you're clear to raid the prison, we've got the princesses and their subordinates covered here. Godspeed guys."

"Understood, and Godspeed to you as well" responded Nathan, who than turned to Tristan and nodded his head in an approving manner.

Tristan nodded back, than walked into Nicholas's WHA-91 screech owl and entered the helicopter, approaching a little green box that contained a powerful computer that had the ability to accurately locate, communicate, and inform entire army's about an area that spans 1,333 square kilometers (515 square miles) through their headsets and HUD's. the computer becomes more powerful and accurate when connected to an entire network of aircraft, armoured vehicles, and ground troops with equipment that had the ability to transmit exact data about the specific area they were in, which gave an entire U.S. fighting force an upper hand on the battlefield. It was some pretty fancy stuff.

Though Tristan was only going to use it to communicate with the 10,000 U.S. troops in the area, "all personal, armoured vehicles, and aircraft pilots the second part of operation 'burning desire' has got the green light from diversion group 'wet division.' We need to move now before the diversion ends, so move, move, move!"

Seconds later Marines and Army troops quickly dawned various R-class, X-class, and V-class exo-suit's and started running to either Humvees, Strykers, Mantis HPTV-HC's, Ford F150's, Ram 1500's, Terrier Heavy Armoured personal carrairs, and many other light armoured troop transport vehicles.

As the troops readied themselves, every MBT (main battle tank) and KFV (Infentry fighting vehicle) positioned themselves in front of the light armoured troop transport vehicles, those MBT's being the M1A2 sep V4's, M6A1 Crusaders, M12A1 Goliath heavy tanks, Centaur 3's, and M5 Ripsaw's along with the various CFV's, the some of which were the M3A3 Bradley CFV's, ACT MPAV's and M150 Zealot's.

But these weren't the only vehicles they would be using, they would be using a mixture of helicopters as well, such as the WHA-91's, 360-Invictus's, AH-24B Fennechawk's, MH-65 Black Foots, XHR-265 Ghosts, and XHR-276's to provide cover from anything that try's to attack from the skies. This was a true force to be reckoned with, having the ability to takeover a large town back on earth, and they were all interconnected via computer, meaning they would be informed about the entire battlefield from various other platforms.

3 minutes of preparation later, everyone's perspective

"Okay everyone, let's move" commanded Nathan as the helicopters (WHA-91) rotor blades started spinning, lifting the stealth helicopter off the ground in approximately 30 seconds along with the other 200 or so rotor aircraft that are participating in the raid.

Chrysalis and Flash watched the armoured vehicles in awe as they departed into the forest, knowing full well how dangerous they can be, even the smallest of armoured vehicles were able to knock over tree's as they moved. They somewhat reminded chrysalis of her changeling guard's marching forward, the only difference being the capabilities these vehicles had, and their ability too change the tide of battle. Though for Flash, they signified the change and shift of power on Equus, and not just for the Equestrian empire, but for every empire on the planet.

For 20 or so minutes the helicopters, tanks, IFV's, and light armoured vehicles continued towards the prison, crossing mile after mile in quick succession to get the jump on the prison guards, especially since the diversion ended more than 14 minutes ago.

"Hey Flash, you want too stay in here? Shits about to get real" said Nicholas while piloting the helicopter, who had Flash on the seat next to him.

"Please, I know how brutal your tactics can be" answered Flash, drooping his ears and putting his head down in what seemed like shame. Nicholas took notice of this, he than started petting Flash on the head with his right arm gently and said "hey man, it's okay to be scared, to be scared is the ultimate sign of bravery."

"Ho-how?" Asked Flash, his ears jetting back into their normal position.

"Well, because you're aware of the dangers coming, and yet you still stand tall no matter what comes your way. You know what here's an example, when we first met you, you came walking through the forest, you were obviously scared right?" Said Nicholas.

"Yeah" answered Flash, sheepishly.

"And yet, you still came to tell us about the injustices despite the dangers we pose, along with the princesses possibly finding out. That's pretty brave" said Nicholas, giving Flash a look that only a loving father could give, which made Flash smile.

[radio] "be advised, we're approaching the prison, ETA 1 minutes for ground and air forces"

Nicholas and Flash than looked at each other, than back at the helicopters cockpit windows, only to spot the prison with guard's on the walls of the prison either staring in awe and amazement, readying their spears and bow and arrows, or running to man ballista's or catapults.

Nathan took notice of this and went to their computerized radio, "be advised their are several anti-personal weapons on the walls of the prison, I'm going to need some attack choppers to take those guys out now."

5 seconds later 2 360-Invictus's started accelerating faster and broke away from the main group, they flew towards the prison with their heartbeat sensers tracking anything with a pulse. Surprisingly the guard's that inhabited the prison had such a thing, at least for now.

"I'm tracking more than 40 hostiles, do I engage?" Asked the 360-Invictus pilot.

"You have permission to engage, take em out" responded Nathan.

Not a second passed as the Invictus's 3 barrel 20mm main gun started to spool, increasing the turn rate of the gun until it was ready to put armor piercing high explosive bullets down range. The rounds exited the barrel at a speed of 3,380 feet per second (2,304 miles an hour, 3,708 kilometers an hour), either turning royal guard's into red mist, or ripping them apart and scattering their body parts around a 10 foot radius because of the explosive filling, the bullets hit the stone and of the walls and instantly plowed through them as if it was heated butter ,laying waist to anything that was inside.

Several bat-pony guard's caught wind of what was happening and lifted into the sky, when they were at a sufficient height they saw the 2 attack helicopters firing upon royal solar and lunar guards, as Well as the ballistic weapons that were set atop the prison walls, wasting no time those guards jetted towards the 2 helicopters only to see several other helicopters (MH-65's) show their left side, doors sliding open to show either marines or army troops manning mounted weapons, to be specific the six-barreled M123 GAU-17 Gatling gun that fires armor piercing incendiary 7.62x51mm NATO rounds at a speed of 2,000 rounds a minute. Truly devastating, very devastating actually.

The bat-pony guard's didn't have enough time to react to the onslaught of bullets coming towards them, and to be frank they didn't even see it coming until it was to late. One guard was hit by 3 bullets, one piercing his right wing, ripping it completely off, while the other two went through his chest like a crackhead jumping through a thin window on a Saturday night at 3:36AM. As one of the bullets went through the guard's chest it bored through and ripped a peace of his left lung off and carried it through his body until it reached the small intestine, where the bullet made a sudden change of course and jetted straight up and exited through his back, but much like the bullet that ripped his wing off it didn't ignite, the same couldn't be said for the last one which went straight through his right lung, coming in contact with his ribs and ignited, practically turning the guard into a firework. If you consider a fire ball to be a firework...

One by one each guard that took to the skies was taken out, either being pummeled by 7.62x51mm NATO from the helicopters, or being obliterated by M5 Ripsaw's firing their 30mm armor piercing incendiary tracers from their MK44 Bushmaster II main cannons as Marine and Army troops stormed the prison.

The raid on the prison would last 34 minutes, and lead to the loss of 941 guard's, and the rescuing of 1,503 changeling's, which were subsequently loaded on Nimbus Transport Zeppelin's and taken to the United States. For the Equestrian empire on this day, the world stood still.

Author's Note

the FB-90, FA-24A, F/A-22, F-24, X-44, F-35X, F/A-37, X-35B, F-35D, PAC-3, AIM-80, and MH-65 belong to bagera3005 on DeviantArt.

The Mantis HPTV-HC, M6A1, AH-24B, and M12A1 belong to afterskies on DeviantArt

The Terrier, Centaur 3, and M150 belong to TheoComm on DeviantArt.

The XHR-275, and XHR-265 belong to theXHS on DeviantArt.

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Chapter 11: operation 'burning desire' garners attention, but is it the good kind?

Location: Equestria, Ponyville
Time: 2 days after operation burning desire
Perspective: princess Celestia, princess luna, princess Cadance, Shining Armor, Twilight Sparkle, Spike

Twilight looked towards the Everfree from one of her castles many balconies, the fire that the creatures dispelled from their flying machines still raging on without mercy or remorse, devouring all that stood in its path. It took over 40 minutes for pegasus from Cloudsdale to bring rain clouds to try and calm the blaze, which of course failed due to the vast size of the fire, and by then the fire had spread over 3/5 of the Everfree, destroying the homes of several deer tribes that inhabited the forest, luckily nopony or deer was hurt during the attack.

Not long after, Twilight set her gaze upon where some of the machines projectiles hit Canterlot mountain, pieces seemingly still falling off the mountain while small fires still raged on. Though, there was a single thought lingering in Twilight's mind, how could machines that possessed such beauty be so destructive?

Twilight knew the creatures had very powerful weaponry, but she couldn't grasp the reasoning for giving them such alluring body shapes with such eye catching colors, when she stared at one of the machines (FA-24A) she was mesmerized by the colors it wore, having a gorgeous mixture of fuchia and indigo in a camouflage pattern that glistened in Celestia's sun, it's beauty almost hypnotizing.

"What's wrong Twilight?" Asked Spike, who was walking towards Twilight to join her on the balcony.

"Nothing Spike, just thinking about what occurred 2 days ago" answered Twilight.

Spike sighed and smiled lightly, "me too Twilight, me too" Spike stated slowly, sitting next too Twilight.

Spike and Twilight sat next to each other, both thinking about which of the 21 flying machines were the most beautiful. For spike that would be one (FB-90 hustler 2) that didn't have a tail, and only two wings that formed a triangle, colors including babyblue with what seemed to be ultramarine swirls that started from a glass like bulge (canopy) that than flowed down its body towards two gray metal squares (jet engines) with plumes of fire coming out.

"Hey Twilight" said Spike, looking towards Twilight.

"Yeah Spike" responded Twilight, looking back at Spike.

"Which one of the machines were your favorite?" Asked Spike, which made Twilight stare at him with a dumbfounded look, than ask "what do you mean Spike?"

"Which one of those flying machines was your favorite? What else would my question be Twilight" said spike, out stretching his arms a manner that says "are you stupid."

Twilight face hooved with the sudden realization of the obviousness of the question Spike had asked her, so she responded with "my favorite was the one with the fachia and indigo camouflage."

"Oh, I think I know which one your talking about! Isn't that the one with 6 wings, 3 on each side with 2 next to the glass bulge?" Said Spike.

"Yeah, that one!" Said Twilight, pointing her right hoove at Spike while smiling. Both stayed there talking more about the flying machines beautiful designs for several minutes, ignoring the destructive capabilities the machines possessed.

"Twilight, do you think we'll ever be able to make peace with these new creatures?" Asked Spike.

"Well Spike, this is just a military force, like the royal guard" answered Twilight.

"Those creatures have a whole kingdom!?" Responded Spike, widening his eyes.

"Yeah, it's called the United States, and apparently it's a megapower, whatever that means" answered Twilight.

"Oh, so is that their entire military?" Asked Spike.

"I don't know Spike, I don't know" answered Twilight, looking back at the orange glow over the horizon and saying "I'm just hoping this doesn't escalate further than this."

Celestia, Luna, Cadance, Shining Armor perspective

"What!" Celestia screamed for what seemed to be the billionth time since these new creatures arrival.

"Yes princess, Baltimare was raided by the new creatures on the Baltimore forest coast" said the royal guard.

"But...why?" Asked Cadance.

"they took all the changeling's that were being held in the prison, and killed any guard that tried to stop them" responded the guard.

"How many were lost?" Asked Luna.

"941 lunar and solar guard's were lost, and over 400 were injured" responded the guard, drooping his ears.

"*sigh* why does this situation seem to keep getting worse and worse" said Celestia, putting a hoove on her face in a frustrated manner.

"Why don't we just talk to them?" Asked Cadance.

Celestia looked towards Cadance, than sighed again and said "Well Cadance, we did...and we failed due to our inability to understand the struggles they've overcame."

"What do you mean Celestia? That answer is so vag-" though before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Luna.

"She means I failed in being excepting of them, I insulted them and said they didn't know sacrifice when I didn't know what they've been through and what tragedies they've endured!" Screamed Luna, still plagued with the shame of what she told Frederick on that fateful day. Luna sat down, wiping tears from her eyes while pondering the thought of weather Frederick has forgiven her.

"Bu-but why?" Asked Cadance.

"I don't know why I told them the things I did...I was just filled with rage and hatred for what they on the cursed beach" answered Luna, who than followed up with "I just hope Frederick has forgiven me for what I've said."

"Who's Frederick?" Asked Cadance.

"He was the recipient of Luna's blind hatred and rage, and he didn't take to Kindly to it either" answered Celestia, who than followed up with "and that's why we need another way to approach this cluster-fuck efficiently, which is why I called for a meeting tomorrow at Canterlot" said Celestia, who was receiving looks of confusion from everypony in the room.

"What does cluster-fuck mean sister?" Asked Luna.

"Oh I have no idea, but I heard one of the creatures use it and I personally liked the phrase" answered Celestia.

Location: Equestria, Sovereign state of dragons, city of Rhaelcox
Time: 3 days after operation burning desire
Perspective: emperor Harrikor, empress Elliriona, prince Hendershu, princess Salazapuff

Prince Hendershu was walking down the palace halls with a news paper from the Equestrian Times, admiring the paintings of past rulers that were strung up on the walls. The contents of the paper itself had the story of an attack on Equestrian territory by a new, unknown species that possess some sort of advanced technology and a legitimate immunity to magic.

As Hendershu continued through the halls, towards the meeting room his father, mother, sister, and several high ranking Generals were in. After several minutes of manoeuvring through the castle's halls, he finally came to the meetings room and entered said room.

"Hello everyone, I can see you've gotten the message for a meeting" said Hendershu, looking around the room at his family, and the 3 generals.

"Yes m'lord, we did receive the message. We are all here to hear the news you've been waiting to tell us" said commander of the royal dragon navy, general Marsmoke.

"Okay than, son what was this news you've been meaning to tell us?" Asked emperor Harrikor, rather curiously.

"I'm glad you asked, because it's quite interesting" said Hendershu, putting up a devious smile and saying "the Equestrians have recently been attacked by a new bipedal species that is in possession of advanced technologies, and hear this, they're immune to magic."

"Well, that's very interesting" said the commander of the royal dragon air force, her name being general Coophira. "So, what are there aerial capabilities?"

"Apparently very powerful, having the ability to outrun pegasus and break the sound barrier" responded Hendershu, making Coophira eye's widen.

"But son, how are they able to break the sound barrier?" Asked empress Elliriona.

"I don't know mother, but there are many theories pertaining to how they can accomplish such speeds. One being the possession of advanced magic, though considering their immunity to magic this is most likely false" answered Hendershu.

"But of course, there's a difference between speed and power. So, what capabilities do they possess aside from extreme speed?" Asked commander of the royal dragon army, general Mursmoke.

"Well, they've killed thunderbolt's in seconds, doing so like it weren't a challenge for them. 2 of their flying machines have killed 10 thunderbolt's in the span of less than 3 minutes, and that's not all they're capable of according to the Equestrian Times" answered Hendershu.

"What else have these...machines done?" Asked emperor Harrikor.

"3 days ago, 21 of these machines attacked Ponyville and Canterlot, though instead of attacking the town and city they only attack the outer region's. Many are speculating why they were doing this, though many now believe that they did it to send a message" answered Hendershu.

"What was the extent of the damages?" Asked Coophira.

Hendershu sighed, unknowingly sending an uneasiness through the room before saying "their weaponry was able to burn down 3/5 of the Everfree Forest, as well taking a large chunk out of Canterlot mountain."

"What are their Ground Forces capable of?" Asked Morsmoke, fidgeting with his thumbs.

"Well, considering the outcome of one of there more recent battles with the Equestrian empire, they've shown great fighting prowess" answered Hendershu, rolling his eyes at the thought of a bipedal creature besting him in armed combat.

"Son, may we have a better description that is less vague please" said Harrikor.

"*sigh* 9 days ago, a group of 134 rogue royal guard's engaged a group of 30 of these creatures, 20 being ground soldiers, 7 being some kind of armoured carriages, and 3 being the flying machines. Who won?" Response Hendershu with a frustrated demeanor.

"The Royal guards, duh" said Princess Salazapuff, giving her brother a cocky smile.

"Ha! wrong again sister, every single royal guard was brutally slaughtered, except for 3 that barely escaped with their lives" responded Hendershu, giving his sister an even cockier smile, which she responded with sticking her tongue out at him.

"Well son, I'm not understanding how that's possible" said Harrikor.

"Exactly! Despite being outnumbered they still somehow prevailed without any losses according to the survivors" said Hendershu, who than continued with "and let's not forget their Naval capability."

Marsmoke heard this and became rather curious, "ah yes, what are their Naval capabilities?"

"Well, their has only been one battle between Equestria and these creatures naval vessels, but it did give some very...interesting results" said Hendershu, putting forth a devious grin.

"Such as?" Said Princess Salazapuff with an irritated tone.

"30 rogue Equestrian naval ships tried to intercept 7 of these creatures naval vessels, 2 of the creatures vessels broke away from the group leaving the other 5 to deal with the threat. Who won?" Asked Hendershu.

"I'm guessing the creatures 5 naval vessels?" Answered Marsmoke.

"Correct, despite being outnumbered 10 to 1 they somehow still came out on top, meaning their Navy is a force to be reckoned with. Especially since they have the capability to deploy the same flying machines that were able to destroy the thunderbolt's, and create wild fires" responded Hendershu, following up with "this new kingdom poses a threat to the dominance of the Sovereign State of Dragons currently holds, we need to find a way to destroy this kingdom. Any ideas?"

Location: Equestria, Unified district of Seaponies, capital city Lynnken
Time: 3 days after operation burning desire
Perspective: Tsarina Cadazzle, others

"As you all know now, one of our allies was attacked by another very powerful kingdom of unknown origin" said Tsarina Cadazzle, the ruler of the Unified district of Seaponies.

"Excuse me princess, but which of our allies is this? As well as what kingdom attacked our allie?" Asked one of the many high ranking nobles in the room.

"The allie in question is the Equestrian empire, and the attackers are an unknown species of bipedal creatures" answered Cadazzle, who than followed up with "but there's something about the bipedal creatures that is quite strange."

"And what may that be empress?" Asked one of the nobles.

"These creatures are unaffected by magic, and rumors are pointing to them never coming in contact with magic for millions of years" answered Cadazzle.

"I'm sorry your highness, but that can't be true, every sapient species in Equestria has a connection to a magic current" said another noble, setting off the room and making it flood with nobles chatting among themselves about the possibility of it being true.

"Okay everypony, calm down. I know this seems very difficult to believe but Luna admits herself that they are immune to magic" said Cadazzle, trying to calm the crowd of nobles.

"How does she know this?" Asked another noble.

At that moment Cadazzle's eyes widened, remembering the letter Luna sent, the letter itself detailing the terrifying events that transpired on that beach. She soon responded with "well, she herself used the sleeping spell Somnus Oblivionis on one of the creatures, and it was...unaffective."

"What, How that even possible!? The Somnus Oblivionis is one of her most powerful sleep spells!" Screamed one of the nobles.

"As of right now, I do not know how it didn't work" answered Cadazzle, putting her head down slightly.

The room went silent to her answer, none of the seapony nobles knowing what to say or what to think about the situation as a whole, knowing there most valuable source of protection and defense was useless against this new species.

"If they do not possess magic, how were they able to attack the Equestrian empire?" Asked another noble.

"Well that's the problem, this not being able to use magic rumor is just that, a rumor! Their are many theories pertaining to these new species, such as advanced magic, advanced technology, or use of advanced chaos magic" said Cadazzle.

"What do you mean by advanced technology empress?" Asked a noble.

"Well, this story is the most prevalent because of our current habitat, but I digress. 13 days ago, more than a 100 miles of the coast of Manehatten, 30 rogue Equestrian ships intercepted fleet of 7 ships, 2 of which were carrying changeling's under Chrysalis's command. Who won?" Asked Cadazzle.

"Obviously the 30 Equestrian ships....right?" Said one of the nobles.

"No, only 2 equestrian ships survived the carnage, well partially escaped. The rest were obliterated by the creatures unknown weaponry" answered Cadazzle.

"What do you mean by 'partially,' empress?" Asked a noble.

"Well, only half of the crews for both ships survived, while still being heavily injured, the ships themselves were almost underwater" answered Cadazzle.

Not long after another noble asked "what weapons did they use?"

"From what the survivors say, they used cannons that could rotate in any direction, and shoot projectiles made entirely out of fire and lightning" answered Cadazzle.

Every seapony noble in the room gasped, because the only magic using being in Equestria that had the ability to shoot projectiles made of pure fire was Celestia herself, and now creatures that may not have the ability to use magic can use it. Not long after everyone in the room, including the empress mind came too one question, how do we deal with this?

Location: Equestria, Democratic Imperium of Zebras (DIZ), capital city Bilnal
Time: 3 days after operation burning desire
Perspective: sultan Azte, sultana Griheart, others

"Everyone, the sultan Azte and sultana Griheart have arrived" Said a royal zebra guard.

Not long after Azte and Griheart entered the room, every noble and general in the room got off their chairs too bow. The room itself was in the center of the palace, located 6 feet under the throne room and is normally used in times of war, or if war is eminent.

Azte and Griheart continued their march until they reached their designated chairs and sat down, once they sat it set of a wave of nobles and generals taking their designated places around the table. Not long after Azte spoke.

"I'm sure you all know why we're all here, correct?" Asked Azte, which was followed be everyone in the room responding with "yes sire."

"Than you all know the details about each event?" Asked Griheart, in what seemed like seven everyone in the room responded with "yes sire."

"remember everyone, we're not here talk about how to fight them, but about how they got in position of such powerful magic, and how they tamed such ferocious beasts" Asked Azte, who got the same response as before.

"Sire, I'm not sure you've heard this but these creatures may not possess magic" said one of the nobles in the room.

"What do mean good sir?" Asked Azte, raising his brow.

"Well sire, there's been a statement by Luna herself that these creatures are immune to magic, and use advanced technology instead of magic" answered the noble.

"if this is true, than it changes everything" said Griheart.

"Why would that be empress?" Asked a general who was currently in command of the royal zebra army.

"Because this may lead to a new wave of scientific, social, and societal studies. Imagine what a species that has never come in contact with magic would be like, it's people, government, and society must be like" said Griheart.

Location: Equestria, Republic of Griffonea (GRG), Winsford capital city
Time: 3 days after operation burning desire
Perspective: emperor Mayanka, others

"So M'lord, how do you plan to approach the situation the Equestrian empire has with this new, unknown empire" asked a royal butler, who was standing next to emperor Mayanka on a balcony that overlooked the city of Winsford.

"Well, with the Equestrian empire on what seems to be the brink of war, I plan viewing which side will be the most profitable for the Griffin Republic to join" answered Mayanka.

"Remember to approach with caution M'lord, you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of those new creatures weapons" said the Butler.

"Ah yes, speaking of those weapons, we need to find a way to acquire such advanced weaponry" said Mayanka.

Author's Note

Tsarina is an empress of Russia before 1917, but as you all know Russia doesn't exist in Equestria, so Tsarina is going to translate into Empress.

1k views, you know what that means!

(P.S tell me if there are any grammatical errors)
(P.P.S. this chapter mainly focuses on empires that will end up meeting the United States very soon)

Chapter 12: royal meetings, and unexpected events

Author's Note

Announcement: you'll be able to click on underlined names of vehicles to see what they look like from here on out. But only vehicles, otherwise everything else stays the same.

P.S. ignore the obvious name changes between the story and the art provided for the equipment and vehicles.

Chapter 12: royal meetings, and unexpected events

Location: Equestria, approaching Canterlot

Time: 3 days after operation burning desire

Perspective: princess Celestia, princess Luna, Twilight Sparkle, prince Shining Armor, princess Cadance, Thorax, B-5 pilots, many others

Twilight sat staring at Ponyville through a window on the train car, the aftermath of the fire still very much visible, and why wouldn't it be, the place where the Everfree once stood was not just a sea of ash and tree corpses. Though, in the back of Twilight's mind, she felt like this was karma for ignoring Chrysalis's pleas for help for all those years, she knew that if they would have helped her in someway the attack on Canterlot and Thorax's rebellion most likely wouldn't have happened. Things would be more peaceful.

Now, the changeling's that are still loyal to Chrysalis that aren't in any prison in Equestria, are now under the protection of what seems to be an unstoppable new kingdom. 'In name of Celestia, we really bucked up this one' thought Twilight.

"Twilight, is something bothering you?" Asked Celestia, who was looking at Twilight with a worried expression.

"oh...nothing princess, I'm just thinking about the events that led to this...attack" said Twilight, still looking towards the charred and burnt remains of the Everfree.

After hearing Twilight's statement, Celestia gave a slight smile and said "well, I hope you and I could find a way to solve this problem when we arrive at Canterlot, because word of this attack has already gotten out to every kingdom in Equestria."

"So we can't keep this within the empire anymore?" Asked Twilight, giving Celestia a worried look.

"I'm afraid we can't anymore Twilight, isn't that correct Cadance" answered Celestia looking while shifting her head towards Cadance's direction, Cadance noticed this rather quickly.

"Y-yes auntie, it would be rather foolish to think we could keep the existence of an entirely new species under closed doors, especially since this species actions...have been rather extre-" though before Cadance could finish her sentence, Luna interrupted her by saying "their actions have been ones in response of injustice, if we only helped the changeling's when they first asked for it, none of this would have happened."

"What are you saying sister?" Asked Celestia.

"What I'm saying is...this situation with the changeling's still under Chrysalis command being protected by the United States, could have been avoided or lessened...if you answered Chrysalis's pleas for help" answered Luna, which made Celestia's eyes widen.

"Oh no" whispered Shining, being grateful that they requested a private train car.

"Are you saying that I had a role in creating this problem, sister" asked Celestia in a displeased tone.

"Yes sister, I see now that you have just as much blame as I do, considering you ignored a cry for help from another pony" answered Luna.

"I'm failing to see how this has anything to do with the United States?" Said Celestia with a slight growl.

"Because the attack on Canterlot, the raid of the Baltimare prison, and the burning of the Everfree Forest most likely wouldn't have happened if you answered their call for help" said Luna with a growl of her own.

"And you're actions didn't play a part in those tragedies, the deaths sustained weren't a cause of your actions as well?" Asked Celestia.

"I am well aware of my actions sister, and I see the error of my ways with my treatment of Chrysalis and her changeling's, as well as how I approached the new creatures and their kingdom. Though, as of right I'm questioning the reasoning you had to ignore the pleas for help from Chrysalis when she called for it" exclaimed Luna, raising her voice.

Celestia looked at Luna with a look of pure shock, which than morphed into an offended expression once she was able to recover from her shock induced trance, she than said "how dare you."

Arriving at Canterlot, 23 minutes later

"Are you two done yet? Because you two are acting like little filly's!" screamed a rather annoyed Cadance.

"But she started it!" Screamed both Celestia and Luna.

"Well I don't care, now stop arguing because we have a meeting to attend!" answered Cadance, trying to keep her calm.

"Fine than" answered Luna and Celestia, getting up from their seats.

Not long after the five royals exited the train car, upon exiting they were met with more than 40 royal guards standing at attention. The reasoning for such a high number of royal guard was because of recent events that unfolded at Ponyville and Baltimare, as well as the high number of changeling's at the palace.

Celestia herself noticed the abundance of royal guard's and asked "Excuse me, but what is the meaning of having so many royal guard's be our escort?"

In response to her question, a slightly taller royal guards who wore dark red armor that had light red lines highlight the edges of the armor, Celestia than recognized him as a general. "Hello princess, I'm sorry for such a large escort but the recent events have put many ponies on edge, so Canterlot has had an increase in royal guard security over the past 3 days" said the general.

"I see, let us carry on towards the palace than" said Celestia, who to a certain extent didn't like the idea of having a larger royal guard presence in Canterlot, though she couldn't argue with the reasoning behind doing so, 'not like it would make a difference' she thought.

Soon the five royals and 40 guard escort started walking towards Canterlot at a brisk pace, as they continued Luna noticed many noble look towards her direction with worried expressions before going on with their daily business, but she couldn't look at any of them without thinking about what she said too Frederick about his father and his nations leaders. She knew that everypony heard about what happened during the meeting with the new creatures, they knew about how she insulted them and their leaders, they even knew about how Frederick reacted towards Luna's insults and how he planted his fist in her muzzle, as well as giving her the worst black eye of her life so far, though the by now it has already wore off and she was back to her normal physical self.

After Celestia released every single peace of information she had, or what little information she had on the creatures, everypony in Equestria and the crystal empire was on edge due to the capabilities these new creatures had, having the ability to break the sound barrier and travel 25 times the speed of sound was unbelievable to them, especially since nothing in Equestria could do such a thing, even with the most powerful magic available. What also startled everypony was the immunity to all magic, even alicorn magic was ineffective against these creatures which only made the fear of everypony worse.

As they continued walking towards the castle, Twilight saw a small group of extremely colourful ponies, though as she got closer and closer the identities of the colourful ponies became apparent, because they weren't ponies at all, they were changeling's. Not long after Twilight spotted Thorax on the outskirts of the group, so she darted towards him at the speed of a crackhead who just spotted a person on the side of the street with gray hoodie.

"Hey Thorax, how's it been!" said Twilight, hugging Thorax vigorously.

"oh hi Twilight...h-h-how ha-have you be-been? Please le-le-let me go, I ca-can't breathe" said Thorax while being suffocated by Twilight's hug.

"Oh, I'm sorry Thorax, please forgive me" said Twilight, realizing the extreme power of the hug she gave him.

"it's..*breathing*..fine Twilight,..*breathing*..you were only trying..*breathing*..to be nice" said Thorax, recovering from Twilight's hug.

Not long after Celestia, Luna, Cadance, and Shining Armor closed the distance between themselves and the small ocean of reformed changeling's. Once in sufficient talking distance, Celestia addresses Thorax in her normal princess like tone, "hello Thorax, how has life treated you?"

"well, she just tried to suffocate me not to long ago" said Thorax, making Twilight blush slightly. Though not long after Twilight remembered a certain somepony she met at her coronation a year and a half ago, walking up to Celestia Twilight asked "excuse me Celestia, but is lieutenant Flash Sentry here as well?" Asked Twilight with a slight smile, and slightly brighter blush.

Celestia could see the reasoning for Twilight question from a million miles away, so she decided to play into Twilight's game, "well Twilight, I think he may be in Baltimare tending to the injured guard's, but he might be called to come and protect Canterlot soon."

"Who's this Flash Sentry you speak of Twilight?" Asked Thorax.

"Oh just a stallion Twilight became fond of when she met him at her coronation" said Celestia, nudging Twilight ever so subtly making her blush harder.

"Can we just get to the meetings already?" said Twilight, still heavily blushing.

"Yes sister, we have much to talk about today, so stop pestering Twilight about her colt-friend" said Luna, walking past Celestia with a proud expression.

Canterlot war room, 36 minutes later

"But why would they protect Chrysalis?" Asked a very confused Thorax.

"Well this kingdom considers Chrysalis and any changeling's under her command to be refugees" answered Luna.

"But...why, don't they know they she invaded Canterlot and ruined Cadance and Shining Armor's wedding?" Asked Thorax.

"Yes they are aware, but don't seem too care. According to a royal guard who spoke with one of the United State's soldiers, they apparently pass the attack of as one of desperation" answered Luna.

"well, since you're now filled in with all the information we have available, we're now going to discuss how we can deal with this problem, because they still have hundreds of guard's ponies in their custody" said Celestia, her face dawning a more serious look.

"But how princess? We have no viable way of fighting them. They're immune to magic, have advanced technology, and better tactics" said Thorax.

"Who says we're going to fight them. I'm well aware that Equestria is outmatched and out numbered, so I've been thinking of ways to deal with this problem peacefully so we can get our ponies out of their custody" said Celestia.

"how do you plan on doing that princess?" Asked Thorax.

"Easy, gold. The empire with the highest abundance of gold is Equestria, and no kingdom can resist it alluring value. I'm going to use it to bargain for the ponies, as well as a way of persuading them in giving us some of their technology" answered Celestia.

B-5 pilots perspective

Unbeknownst to Celestia and the rest of Canterlot, a speeding shadow watching over them at the height of 14.5 miles (23,335 meters, or 76,560 feet) in the sky while circling at Mach 5 (3,836 miles an hour, or 6,174 kilometers an hour), holding the power to obliterate Canterlot with the single press of a button. This shadow being the Lockheed Martin's B-5 Black Wraith supersonic heavy bomber, the B-5 being one of the the most used bombers against H.A.T (humans against technology) terrorist group, being second only to Russia's very own supersonic fighter bomber, the Sukhoi Su-54-4 pencil being the most used against H.A.T, though both Su-54-4 and B-5 were both used in joint operation against H.A.T with amazing results.

"Michael, I'm picking up a conversation between one of the princesses and her subordinates!" said the co-pilot, who was currently listening in on the meeting in the palaces war room.

"wait, really Trevor? Did you press record already?" Asked Michael, who was currently piloting the aircraft.

"It's been on record you nitwit!" said Trevor, who followed up with "now quiet, I'm listening."

[long range recorder] "Who says we're going to fight them. I'm well aware that Equestria is outmatched and outnumbered, so I've been thinking of ways to deal with this problem peacefully so we can get our ponies out of their custody"

[long range recorder] "how do you plan on doing that princess?"

[long range recorder] "Easy, gold. The empire with the highest abundance of gold is Equestria, and no kingdom can resist it's alluring value. I'm going to use it to bargain for the ponies, as well as a way of persuading them in giving us some their technology"

"Well, well, well, looks like the princess thinks she can bargain gold for our tech and prisoners, ha! She must take us for some kind of gullible fucks!" said Trevor.

"Hey, aren't the guys at the encampment releasing the prisoners today? What's going to happen when she finds them?" Asked Michael.

"I have no idea, she's going to lose her mind when she finds out about Fort Knox" said Trevor, who followed up with "now let's get back home, we've got all the Intel we need."

Location: Equestria, Baltimare forest coast

Time: 3 days after operation burning desire

Perspective: gunnery sergeant Nathan Reeds, lieutenant Tristan Summers, Rainbow Dash, many others

Nathan was walking out of his command tent holding a clipboard with the names of everypony in his custody, though he didn't plan on keeping said ponies in his custody for long.

"Hey Tristan, do we have permission from the Pentagon to release the prisoners yet?" Asked Nathan who was currently walking towards Tristan, waving his clipboard at some large cages that were holding the prisoners from the beach massacre.

"well you know how those guys are, they have the best communication technology yet can't give a simple 'yes or no' to a question within 15 minutes" answered Tristan sitting in a chair that had its back perched up against one of the many Terrier Heavy Armoured Personnel Carriers, he was using one of the more sophisticated Communications devices to keep in touch with the Pentagon, the device itself was one you'd find in attack satellites like "Stellar legends" or "Tungsten Fury."

"so, we're going to have to wait another 15 minutes for an answer to question my 5 year old nephew can answer in 15 seconds?" said Nathan in the most unamused tone an 22 year old could make.

"Yay, basical-" though before Tristan could even think about finishing his sentence, a sudden beeping came from the device Tristan was using to communicate with the Pentagon signaling there was an incoming transmission, soon he started walking towards it and said "huh, guess I was wrong." Once Tristan was was upon the device, he pressed the button allowing the transmission to play.

[communications device] "You're clear to initiate order '3XR prisoner no more', the prisoners aren't of any use, so you're clear to release them back into the wild. God speed."

Not long after, Tristan pressed the button a second time because their usually isn't a response to these kinds of orders, you usually just commence with doing said orders.

Tristan than looked towards Nathan and said "well you heard em Nathan, let's get this show on the road." Tristan than started walking towards the command tent, once inside he darted towards a table that had his and Nathan's fire arms, as well as mega phone perched on its side, the fire arms themselves were Tristans H&K XM9 battle rifle and Nathan's HC-BAR36c battle rifle. Once Tristan picked up all 3 objects, he inspected them and cleaned any dust or dirt of them, despite the fact there was almost nothing on them.

As Tristan was getting whatever he needed from the command tent, Nathan grabbed his radio and spoke through it, "I need any available personal to start rounding up the ponies and bring them to the front of the encampment, over." After giving the orders, Nathan started walking towards the train car sized cages and saw Marine and Army troops rounding up the ponies like he ordered.

As Nathan continued walking he felt a familiar hand grab his right shoulder, turning around he saw it was Tristan with two rifles slung around himself while holding up a mega phone toward Nathan saying "hey man, I think you've forgotten something, wouldn't want you loosen your voice now." Sometimes when Nathan would look at his best friend, he would sometimes notice how truly gorgeous Tristan was, his blonde hair with black strands at the start, light blue eyes, and freckles fit totally well with his light colored skin seemed to complement each other extremely well.

"oh, thanks man" said Nathan with a genuinely happy demeanor, which confused Tristan slightly, though he didn't think much of it. Nathan and Tristan continued too watch as the Marine and Army troops rounded up ponies and gathered them in a large circle in front of the encampment. The ponies themselves still wore their armor, though for the very few Pegasus that had survived the massacre wings were tied down with with anything the troops could find, so it would be duct tape.

But there was one Pegasus that was a tad bit difficult to deal with, that one would be a light blue colored Peguses with a rainbow main, that one in particular kept trying to hit the Marines that held her in the stomach, chest, and face but kept failing due to the body armor they wore.

"hey, stop that! Let me go! You'll pay for this!" Screamed the Peguses, getting more agitated as the Marines continued carrying her to her destination. The Marines holding her were themselves becoming more and more agitated, so much so one said in frustration "ahhh, stop fucking fighting me or I'll cut your fucking wings off and hang them on my wall!"

Upon hearing this the Peguses with the rainbow main stopped fighting the Marine, though her eyes started watering as if she was going to start crying, the Marine noticed this and his heart sunk, feeling a tinge of guilt he said "hey now, I didn't mean that, I only said it to get you too stop, I'm not going to hurt you." The Marines words seemed to calm her down and make her stop struggling, which made it much easier to do his job and put with the group of ponies.

Rainbow Dash/ponies perspective

Not long after all the ponies were in a group surrounded by Marines and Army troops, wondering what atrocities would meet them, though instead of a firing team they saw two men they recognized walk towards them, one brandishing a mega phone. After a couple moments the ponies saw one of the two men make a hand gesture to several other man who just seemed to nod in agreement, though to the ponies dismay the men pulled out large knifes half the size of the spears the royal guard use.

After seeing this, several mares started screaming at the thought of being killed, though the first ponies too be approached by the men were all Peguses.

"Okay little guy, don't move I'm not going to hurt you" said a Marine holding a knife while slowly approaching the Peguses, to which the Peguses responds by slowly stepping backwards and saying "bu-but your going hurt me with that small sword." As the Peguses continued backwards, she fell over and ended up on her back, giving the Marine time too hold her down and bring his knife towards her wings, as she saw this she screamed "no, no please don't cut off my wings!"

Though as she continued screaming and struggling she didn't feel any type of pain, instead feeling her wings become less restrained, "okay, the deed is done, you can start spreading your wings" said the Marine, petting the Peguses on the head.

Rainbow Dash and everypony were in udder shock, they thought they were about to bare witness to the creatures cutting of the wings of an innocent mare, instead they cut the restraints that kept her wings unable to spread. Not long after Rainbow approach the man who still had the knife in his hand, he than took notice of this and said "hello little one, would you like me to take of those restraints?"

"ye-yes please" said Rainbow Dash, who was still slowly approaching the Marine. Not long after Rainbow Dash felt herself being picked up, but instead of struggling she let herself and before she knew it, her wings were free from their restraints.

As more and more Peguses saw what the Marines and Army troops were doing, they allowed themselves to be approached and carried by them, and in 20 or so minutes all the Peguses were free from their restraints. Though none of them dared to try and fly away, due to fear of being killed, though that wouldn't last for long.

"Okay, listen up" said Nathan through the mega phone, looking over the large crowd of ponies looking in his direction with fear in their eyes, he than said "you can leave now."

"What?" said a pony in crowd.

"You're allowed to go home now, you're no longer our prisoners anymore" said Nathan.

"wait, really?" said another pony.

"basically" answered Nathan.

After the ponies realized the genuineness of Nathan's words, their faces started to light up with almost cartoonish smiles, though instead of looking creepy, they instead looked rather adorable. Like puppies. Not long after ponies started walking away into the forest towards Baltimare, Ponyville, or Appleloosa.

Though there was plethora was ponies still on the beach, one of them being Rainbow Dash herself. Those who stayed had suspicious looks plastered all over their faces, all of them being royal guard's who were of a high ranking.

"Is there a catch?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"no you can go home, we won't hurt you unless you try and hurt us" answered Nathan.

Those ponies who decided to not leave now started slowly backing into the woods while staring straight at the encampment, making their distrust of the Marines very clear. At least that would be the case if those same ponies booked it when they reached the treeline.

United States military perspective

"Well, I guess that's the end of that. What now?" asked one of the Army troops.

"Well, we're going to pack up and get back to the carriers" answered Nathan, which made many of the troops around him stare in confusion.

"we're leaving? Aren't their still changeling's in Equestrian custody?" asked a rather confused Marine.

"Who says we're leaving...we're just relocating" said Tristan.

"Where?" Asked another Marine.

"You'll see" said Nathan devious smile.

2 hours and 43 minutes later

It's been 43 minutes since the last BSC Athlit dropped of the last lf the Marines and Army troops on the various carriers in the area. The some of which were the 5 Eagle Claw-class carriers which were the first to arrive, 3 CVX-100 super carriers, 3 Siege-class amphibious assault carriers, 2 Cymrea-class Fleet-drone carriers which were now holding all the Army troops and their equipment, and last but not least the 1 Oceana-class battlecarrier, both the Cymrea-class and Oceana-class came back from dropping off the changeling's in the United States the first day after operation 'burning desire.'

Assigned to protect the carriers were the 2 Shogun-class superdreadnoughts, 3 Legion-class battleships, 1 Centurion-class battlecruiser, and the 2 Phalanx-class battlecruiser's that came back from escorting the Oceana and Cymrea class ships.

"So we're literally going to anchoring our fleet in the in front of a whole city?" Asked Tristan.

"yep, that's basically it" answered Nathan.

"sir, I'm not understanding the reasoning for anchoring our fleet in front of a major populated area" asked a Ghost special operations field operator holding a VHS-2 battle rifle. The Ghosts special operations unit are themselves heavily shrouded in mystery in terms of information, other than the look of the their exo-suit's a large portion of the federal government along with the general public have no idea what technology they possess, not even the United States most valuable allies know about their technology.

"Well it's simple, there's two reasons for us too anchor our fleet in front of a highly populated area. The first one being intimidation, imagine their reactions when they view naval ships 5 times the size of theirs, the second reason for us to anchor our fleet is to distract the ponies from the troops secretly deploying all over Equestria" answered Nathan, who pulled out his radio and said "now let's move."

Chapter 13: creatures on the coast, with intentions unknown (1/3)

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Chapter 14: creatures on the coast, with intentions unknown(2/3)

"I was in the right place at the right time"
-Mel Allen

Location: Equestria, above the Unified District of Seaponies capital city

Time: 2 hours after sunrise

Perspectives: Fleet commander Pearl Gibbs, Tsarina Cadazzle, many others

"Sir, the satellite 'Dolor Resonare' has already taken several pictures and scans of the city" said a communications officer, though before Gibbs could even think of a response the communications officer said "and I must inform you that the U.S. Navy and Pentagon have decided to give you full rain over contacting this new species, considering you have gotten this far without much issue....but no pressure of course, hehe."

After hearing the communications officers tell him the news, Gibbs eyes immediately widened in shock, "wait what! I'm in charge of making first contact with an entirely new species I know nothing about? Are-are you serious!?"

"Ye-yes sir, you're being trusted with making first contact with this new species sir" answered the communications officer, continuing with "we're all awaiting your orders...sir."

Not long after everyone in the room started looking at Gibbs, all waiting for the next order to be given, but only silence followed. Gibbs felt every eye on him in that one moment, each with its own piercing gaze that tore through his very being. At this point Gibbs beyond nervous at this point, especially since he still hadn't gotten used to being the rank of Fleet commander, despite being in command of the fleet for 3 months already.

Gibbs set his head down, unable to think of a how to contact and communicate with this new species he knew nothing about, starting too lose the hope and will to even try and make contact, an idea sprung into his head. "Does anyone know wether the creatures are wearing clothing or anything else? It's important."

"Umm, may I ask why....that's important?" Asked a global GPS operator.

"Because it might give us an insight on their culture as a whole, but that's if they're capable of complex thought" answered Gibbs, continuing this explanation with "and if we're able to properly understand a smidge of their culture, than we can properly make peaceful contact with them. So move, move, move!"

No long after the command deck was filled with crewman saying "yes sir," "right away sir," and "yes fleet admiral sir." Each communications officer went to their designated control panels, getting ready to order the other ships and submarines to use their aquatic multi vision camera systems, being able pair through solid sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock without any kind of trouble, making them the ideal tool for deep sea tunnel exploration. So looking down upon an exposed city wouldn't be a problem, obviously.

After the transmissions went out, the 3 Halcyon-Class submarines readied their cameras and looked down on the city of unsuspecting Seaponies that were out in the open, once the cameras acquired several pictures of the citizens they sent them to the 2 Mombasa carriers for examination. Once several Mombasa crewman and the fleet admiral himself examined the pictures, they noticed a plethora of different Seaponies wearing a plethora of very expensive jewelry ranging from what was necklaces and rings, but the strange thing was that it seemed like many of these creatures just have the jewels by themselves, no metal casing or holding. This detail alone means jewelry has a large hold on a part of their culture, now the next thing to do was determine male and female, this can usually be done by examining differences between certain individuals. These differences can be height, body structure, hair length, voice pitch, and last but not least, genitalia, but normally the first ones would be enough to determine their gender accurately.

"Okay, I've concluded that they have the capabilities for complex thought" said Gibbs, dropping a few papers on a table.

"What's made you come to this conclusion sir?" Asked a GPS operator.

"Because the content certain pictures contain show them doing or, having things only creatures in possession of a complex mind could do and have, the pictures depict them building structures, talking amongst each other, selling items, and sporting very flamboyant clothing, but the clothing seems to only come in the form of jewelry" answered Gibbs, sliding several pictures into the center of the table so they can be seen. "But what did you guys uncover?"

"Well, we've been able to tell the differences between male and females. These differences include but aren't limited to, eyelash length, eye shape, body structure, and hair length. Over all, the differences are pretty noticeable" answered one of the other people in the room.

"Good, that gets us 2 steps closer to understanding their culture. Now let's get to step 3, does anyone know what system of government they're under?"

"Unfortunately sir, that's still unknown, we haven't gotten enough data to accurately conclude what system of government system they live under. Best guess now could be...any guess."

3 days later

"Sir, we've found out what social system they live under, and luckily it seems to have complete control over their government as well" said a transmissions officer who ran into the main deck with several pictures and papers in his hands, said papers were in a neat little stack.

"Okay than, may I see what your team has uncovered?" Asked Gibbs, Taking the papers and examining them. On the papers were several conversations between sea ponies, preferably conversation between male and female sea ponies in a high position of power, the initial reason for this was to study the social ability of those in the state of great influence and power, instead that lead to an interesting discovery.

"It seems that this species lives in a matriarchal society, one that seems to be the polar opposite of a patriarchal one. The females in this society seem to run everything from politics to the economy, and males in these fields were very rare, this is duo to the fact that for every 1 male, there's 14 females. At least that's the theory."

"So it's not that they see male's as lower life forms as the reason for not having them in higher positions of power, but out of necessity considering they're so little of them around, at least that's what the theory says. I'm gonna go on a whim and guess that females have higher chances of being born than males do?"

"Yes, you would be right."

"Okay than, how will this affect our first contact plans?"

"I don't know sir, I don't know."

Seaponies and U.S. Navy perspective

4 days 1 hour after sunrise

"Your highness, we've kept watch over the large vessels for several days, they haven't moved an inch from their current position ever since they arrived there. They could be planning something your highness" said a female Seapony guard holding a magically infused krimseyon sword between his fins.

"My dear servant, I highly doubt they'll be planning anything against our great empire. We may be passive, but we're anything but weak, we were able to fend off the Storm Kings army for a total of 5 days. We wouldn't have any problem with fending of-" before Cadazzle could finish her sentence, another female Seapony guard bursts through the doors and yelled "your highness, there are several beings coming from the large vessels and descending upon the city!"

As Cadazzle heard this her eyes widened in shock at the thought of an invasion, but she soon went back to a usual calm demeanor, thinking of any other reason as to why they could be descending upon her capital city. "In what direction are these being descending too?"

"Straight towards the castle your highness."

"Than we shall met them face-to-face, they have no reason to attack so we have nothing to worry about. I'm not going to break our passive nature because a few unknown beings have come down from their vessels with unknown intention. Now, let us go."

*spongebob narrator voice* 15 minutes later

The Seapony guards stared at the 37 beings in strange suit's of armor with strang sticks descend upon their city, many of them thought about approaching the group but decided against it because of the unseen dangers this new species might present, so they decided to wait for the Tsarina to make her orders. Nevertheless Tsarina Cadazzle herself did appear, but instead of giving out orders to her guard's she waved at the beings to come closer, and surprisingly the beings heeded her call and started heading towards her direction.

Now that the beings were heading towards Cadazzle and her guard, they were able to see their suits and what seemed to be weapons in clearer detail, the suit's themselves seem to be a metallic in nature, but able to bend and stretch like an expensive fabric that was made for deep sea diving would. The stick like weapons themselves looked rather odd to the Seapony guard's, looking at their own weapons the Seapony guard's saw the extreme differences between their weapons and the creatures weapons, seeing the many bolts, screws, holes, and what seemed to be metal plates screwed or bolted on to said weapons.

After 15 minutes of watching the beings intentionally swim at a slow pace while turning their heads at any given moment to admire the sprawling city, they finally reached the elevated platform Cadazzle and her subjects were on. The beings than set their feet on the balcony, crouching slightly in front of the Tsarina and asked "Are you able to speak?"

"Yes, I can speak, and surprisingly we speak the same language" answered Cadazzle.

"Thank whatever all seeing power up above for that."

"Well, since you're here, may I ask one question?"

After Cadazzle asked this question, Gibbs and the rest of the sea platoon went quiet, at least until one of them said "Yeah, sure, why not."

"Okay than, why did you stop and perch you large vessels in the middle of my capital city?"

"Well, it's a long story. But we'll only answer those questions if you answer some of ours, you know, like a deal per se."

Hearing this, Cadazzle felt a deal of frustration at the strange creatures words, especially since she knew that they were apart of the same species as the ones in Equestria at this very moment. Nevertheless the less, she would have to keep her cool, because who knew what these creatures were capable of. "*sigh* Okay then, may you follow me and my guard's to a private location so you and I can discuss this information deal?"

After several seconds of silence, Cadazzle saw Gibbs raise his right hand and form weird symbols and motions with his arm and fingers, not long after the rest of the 36 creatures pressed some kind of buttons on their helmet. To Cadazzle they seemed to be talking, except there was no noise, just silent head bobbing and hand gestures, at least until they pressed the same button a second time.

"Fine, we may follow you to this...more secure location."

"Very well, Please follow me-" though before Cadazzle could finish her sentence, Gibbs interrupted her by saying "Under one condition, that you understand that my compatriots, me, and those vessels up there are apart of the sovereign nation known as the United States, and we're not obligated to answer any question that either threatens the security of our nation, or questions we're not comfortable answering. Understood?"

Once again Cadazzle felt a great deal of frustration swell up inside her, but soon the frustration was replaced by a large dose of curiosity about the nation known as the "United States" these new creatures were from, and what role they played in its society. Cadazzle begrudgingly agreed to the terms, being overwhelmed with the idea of cross interviewing a totally new species. Cadazzle normally thought stuff like this would be conducted by Celestia's prized pupil, Twilight, but of course she wasn't here to conduct an interview so the Tsarina would have to make due with what she had at the moment.

"Okay, I agree with your terms-" but once again Cadazzle was interrupted, but this time is wasn't one of Gibbs men, it was one of Cadazzle's very own guard's. "Your highness, there weapons, they shouldn't be able to bring them into the palace!"

After hearing the guard's words, Cadazzle looked at the weapons, or what she assumed were their weapons from what the guards were insinuating, each of these assumed weapons were incredibly different from each other and seemed to be suited to the individual user, but of course she knew how deadly they were, especially to living things. Remembering the statement made by Gibbs and the agreement they had, but still remembered the extreme danger these weapons posed.

"I'll allow them to have their weapons in the castle they'll only hurt us if we hurt them. Now, let us continue into the castle" said Cadazzle, which made her guard's eyes widen. On the other side of the spectrum, Gibbs and his men were relieved with knowing that their energy weapons secretive technology was not under risk of being breached.

As the group continued into the castle, it became rather apparent to Cadazzle and her guard's what gender the strange creatures were, all male, there didn't seem to be one female in their entire team. The way Cadazzle and her guards found out the entirety of the group were males was how their voices sounded, the small talk they were having allowed the Seaponies to hair their voices in full detail, every joke, conversation, and order came in the form of a male voice.

"Excuse me sir, but may I know your name?" Asked Cadazzle, looking at Gibbs while he turned his head towards her, after this she started panicking on wether or not this question crossed their agreement. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mea-"

"Gibbs, Fleet commander Pearl Gibbs of the United States Navy" he answered, making Cadazzle smile in the processes. Unfortunately Cadazzle's guard's didn't feel the same way about the sudden interruption, but before they could actually say something Gibbs continued by saying "and by the way, your highness, you don't have to worry about asking us our names, we're no special operations team-"

"Hey, we're not that bad!"

"...like I was saying, I'm-we're okay with telling you our names, and to be frank it's actually protocol for us to tell our names too foreign people's."

"Why would that be?" Asked Cadazzle, her curiosity peaking, but instead of getting an answer from Gibbs, she got an answer from one of the other naval crewman. "Because the United States usually tries to keep good relations with foreigners, this is so they don't feel provoked to attack us. But of course, we failed at doing that with the Equestrians."

"The United States doesn't exist to command and conquer...at least not anymore, the United States exist to help and defend those who can't defend themselves... Oh, and how could I forget the everlasting pursuit of freedom and prosperity for all."

After Gibbs said this, it caused another Seapony guard's curiosity too peak, so to satiate this curiosity she asked "Excuse me Mr. Gibbs, but how old is this "United States" you speak of?"

"Just a little over 300 years old" answered Gibbs, sending the Seaponies into a gasping session, which confused Gibbs and his men.

"Your nation is so young, yet has the same morals of nations several times older than yours! I must ask, has your nation gone through great turmoi-" though before Cadazzle could finish her sentence, one of her guard's said "your highness, we've arrived at the war room."

"War room? Why bring us to the war room for a cross questioning session?" Asked Gibbs in a confused tone, tilting his head towards Cadazzle. "We-well, because i-it was the closest r-room that could fit a large amount of ponies."

"Hmm...Okay, sounds plausible. I guess..." Said Gibbs, reluctantly entering the room, his men following suit, after all of Gibbs men were in the room, the Seaponies entered the room. Not long after all the Crewman sat down individual chairs, the Seapony guard's got into their guard posts while Cadazzle took her seat at the table. Everything's quite, and only the sounds of breathing could be heard.

"Now, what questions may you have?"

"Oh, well first, has your nation gone through great turmoil in its 300 years of existence?" Asked Cadazzle as her first question.

"Well, I'm going to give you a major rundown of every major event that has occurred in the last 60 years. So, every...pony needs too pay close attention, and don't be afraid to ask questions." After Gibbs said this, the guards broke their positions and came closer to the table, much like children during story time.

"Okay then, where should I start?"

"World war 3 sir?"

"*snaps* Oh yeah, that's a good place to start! Okay everypony, listen it's story tim-"

"World war? Your nation has fought in 3 wars that spanned the globe?"

"Yeah, we did" said another crewman while Gibbs said "The last 2 were more than a hundreds years ago, while the 3rd was less than 70 years ago, and it was when the United States started to develop and stick by its morals. The war by itself took the lives of 194 million people around the globe, the vast majority of which were Chinese, European, American, Russian, and middle Eastern civilians."

"How did such a bloody conflict start? And who was your nation fighting in this conflict?" Asked Cadazzle, her curiosity peaking once more.

"Well let's clear some stuff up, the United States wasn't fighting alone in this conflict, we had several allies with, the sum of which were South Korea, United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, and Japan. The opposition was North Korea, Palestinian Rebels, Syria, Turkey, China, and Russia. Let's also not forget a large portion of the war was fought in the Middle East, and the reason the war was fought is still unknown, but theories range from oil, land disputes, U.S. hostility, Russian hostility, and to North Korean hostility, but everyone has a different opinion on the matter."

"What's your opinion Mr. Gibbs?" Asked a Seaponies guard.

"Well, I personally think it was a mix of oil and land disputes, but of course I could be wrong since information about how world war 3 started is shaky at best" answered Gibbs, trying to be as explanatory as possible with the little information at his disposal.

"But, we do know the date the war started and ended, along with the places most fought for" said another one of Gibbs men.

"Oh yeah, forgot about those pieces of information. Thanks Jay."

"No problem."

"Now back to answering your question, world war 3 first started in 2029, and lasted 5 years until 2034, where it ended in a joint Russian/American pact to end the war"

"Oh, well I'm glad your nation was able to solve the problem before it got any worse."

"Yeah, you can say that again. But, of course that wasn't the worst to come" responded Gibbs, sending Cadazzle into another fit of curiosity and questions, 'There's worse?' thought Cadazzle. Though before Cadazzle could physically react, Gibbs said "but you guys don't have to worry about that now, because those peaces of history weren't the definitive reasons for the United States too change course, they only helped solidify the idea."

"So, that answers your question. May you please answer ours?"

"To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do"
-John Addams

Location: Equestria, approaching Baltimare city

Time: 2 days after sunrise

Perspectives: Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Cadance, Prince Shining Armor, Element Bearers, Spike, Royal guard's, F/A-60 cutless 2 UCAV operator Edwin Sharp, Vice admiral Maxwell Archer

Celestia's carriage raced through the air at the blistering speed of 177 kilometers an hour (110 miles an hour) towards Baltimare, inside the carriage was Celestia, Luna, Princess Cadance, Prince Shining Armor, Twilight, Rarity, Pinky Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack, and Spike. It's a big carriage. To the carriages 8 and 4 o'clock was an assortment of 5 same sized carriages following closely in a Vic formation, Celestia's carriage being at the apex of the formation. Inside the carriages was 8 of the most elite teams of Lunar and Solar guard's, all of which were unicorns, while in front of the carriages 17 squadrons of 10 Thunderbolt's in either Echelon or Fingertip formations.

Continuing through the clouds towards Baltimare, the carriages and their escort were currently 246 kilometers (153 miles) away from baltimare, giving the the Royal family enough time to mentally prepare for whatever awaits them. "Aunties, what are we going to do when we get to Baltimare? What do the creatures Naval vessels look like?"

"Yeah, what do they look like Princess Luna?" Asked Shining, his curiosity peaking alongside his wife's. Luna on the other hand had no idea how to answer the sudden questions, especially since during her first encounter with the new creatures she wasn't really paying attention to what the everlasting sea held. "Well, I'm afraid I'm unable to answer that question becausssse...I wasn't really paying attention paying attention to the ocean when I and my army first met the new creatures, hehe" said Luna, hoping Cadance wouldn't continue the conversation further.

"What do you mean?!" Screamed Cadance and Shining, unable to believe Luna's answer. "Weren't you the first to confront them about the Changeling's?! Weren't you the first too view their capabilities?! How did you not see their vessels on the coast?!"

"Excuse me and my wife's questioning Princess, but how weren't you able to view their vessels? From what the survivers of the naval disaster say, the vessels were extremely massi-" though before Shining could finish, Twilight interrupted and said "Because their were several massive airships blocking their naval vessels from view, and the ensuing battle only made it harder to properly identity what technology they used."

Hearing this Shining and Cadance immediately realized their mistake and apologized, unknowingly making Luna remember the the first time she encountered the creatures, the hatred and anger she felt towards so many beings she knew nothing about, such seething hatred. During that small amount of time Luna was on that beach, she wondered if she hated them just because they were different from her and her ponies, she wondered if they felt the same way. She than set that last thought aside, remembering what their leader said, "hasn't every Kingdom done so Ms. Nightmare moon?" The creatures obviously already knew about her past, most likely getting that information from the changeling's, setting their hatred for to its maximum, especially since Luna herself called for the imprisonment of the Changeling's. 'At least their hatred was justified, at least...' thought Luna.

'I wish there was a word for how I felt that day, if there was, maybe then I would be able to understand why I treated them so unfairly. Maybe I'll be able to fix the situation' thought Luna once more, setting her head down in shame for what seemed the hundredth time. But that self hatred would have to wait, because something was about to happen, and it would demand not only her attention, but the attention of the entire royal family, and elements bearers.

"Excuse me princesses, but the Thunderbolt's have cought wind of several large unknown creatures approaching the escort" said one of the 4 royal guard's currently pulling the carriage.

"Where are these objects approaching from?" Asked Celestia. The guard said the creatures were approaching the escort from the rear, and getting closer. Not long after everyone in the carriage looked to the rear, and low and behold 5 flying "creatures" in a vic formation were heading straight for the escort, pecking up speed while doing so.

Once Celestia saw them, she immediately recognized 4 of the flying creatures in the outer parts of the formation, all of them resembling the one that attacked Canterlot and killed 3 royal guard's. But in the apex of the formation, a fifth creature that retained all the familiar treats its brethren had, but had one difference that set it apart from the rest, a weirdly shaped bulge on the front of its body that had a level of transparency with that of glass. Celestia quickly concluded that this one was the alpha of the group, though that still didn't explain why they were following her escort.

"Oh my, what kind of creature is that? Are they dangerous?" Asked Fluttershy, starring at the 5 large flying objects as they got closer to the escort effortlessly. As Fluttershy continued to view the creatures she noticed how smoothly they seemed to cut through the air, unlike the Thunderbolt's that just broke through and scattered the clouds these creatures merely cut through them without as much as a glance.

"What was that Shy?" Asked Rainbow Dash, looking at the creatures.

"What kind of creature is that?" Asked Fluttershy once more, though instead of receiving answer from Rainbow or her other friends, but from Celestia herself. "They're not any kind of creatures that are native to Equestria, in fact, they aren't even living creatures at all."

"They aren't alive? How is that so?"

"Because they're machines, machines being controlled by an intelligent operator. Those machines are easily capable of ending the lives of royal guard's, I should know, I watch one do such a thing" said Celestia, recalling the events that first introduced her to U.S. firepower.

Celestia's flashback, several weeks earlier

Celestia stood on the balcony of one of the largest towers in Canterlot, she stared at the everlasting sun in the sky and wondered how high, how far, and how long she'd have to fly to reach it. Sometimes Celestia wondered what it was truly like in space, being that far up must be truly amazing, having the ability too look down upon Equestria in all its glory.

At times Celestia would ask Luna what space was like, though of course Luna was unable to answer such questions because she was locked inside the moon, and couldn't exactly roam freely via her own militia. Luna was merely stuck for a thousand years by herself with her thoughts, all alone, unable to feel the gentle touch of nothing that space produced.

Though as Celestia continued in silence with her thoughts, she heard what seemed to be the deafening roar of an ancient beast from Tartarus, and it was continually getting louder. But as it continued, she was unable to locate exactly where the sound was emanating from, At least until...

BOOM

Celestia knew what that sound was, it was clear as day to her, an explosion, and a powerful one at that. Now the only thing to do was locate where the sounds were emanating from, looking up Celestia could see what seemed to be a black ball partially blocked by the clouds that normally inhabited the sky.

Celestia continued to stare at the sky where the black ball was, at least until the same deafening roar began once again, only now Celestia could hear it coming from her right, and it was getting louder, meaning it was getting closer.

Celestia looked to her right, not long after she caught sight of a large object travelling at an impossibly fast speed. As she continued to view the object, it seemed to partially resemble the impossibly large creature that lingered over Ponyville not a week earlier, the smooth and streamlined body shape, no flapping wings, and incredible speed made Celestia wonder if they were apart of the same species. Though that didn't distract Celestia from the fact that the creature was closing the distance between Canterlot and itself incredibly fast. Unfortunately, Celestia wasn't fast enough too put up a magic barrier for the city, because before she knew it the creature was weaving through the towers that littered Canterlot.

As Celestia watched the creature enter the city, it immediately started causing mayhem by shattering windows and scaring ponies. Not long after Celestia became flooded with sudden fear, as the fear reached its peak Celestia thought about what the creature might be planning, though as she continued watching she saw two solar pegasus guards chasing the creature. Celestia's sudden fear soon dwindled knowing that the guard's were aware of the threat and working to detour any danger it might have posed, but that didn't last long.

As Celestia continued to watch the Royal guards chase the creature, she noticed them struggle to dodge and weave through the towers because of how fast they had to fly just to slightly catch up with the creature. As they continued Celestia saw one of the Royal guards smash into one of the towers going full speed, she immediately squinted as to not catch a glimpse of the inevitable splatter of mashed up body parts. though that didn't stop her from imaging the events, when the guard hit the tower she could practically hear the guard's bones breaking, each crunch and snape, the audible "squishing" sound that would be made once the skull caved in on itself, practically turning the brain into a crimson sludge.

Once Celestia opened her eyes, which were now flooding with tears, she turned her head to the left and away from where the guard's crashed, immediately she noticed the creature turning around while a royal guard hovered in the air watching the creatures. Celestia knew the guard was planning something, though Celestia wondered what tactic that creature may employ, 'maybe it'll charge at him? No, no it looks too smart to employ such a yak-like tactic. What tactic will it employ than?" Wondered Celestia, looking back at the creature.

WHINNE

Celestia heard what seemed to be a heavy whining emanating from where the creature lay turning, now only 3/4 of the way down. Though it still did this much faster than any pegases could. But merely a second after the whining sounds, Celestia saw it, a long dark colored rod with a literal beam of fire darting from behind it, and it was heading for the guard.

Celestia mind went frantic for merely another second, until...

BOOM

"WATCH OUT!" screamed Celestia, her eyes drowning themselves in tears. Giving in too her own will, Celestia wiped her eyes and stared at where the guard hovered, or were he was.

Where the guard once was, was now just a ball of dropping flames and a cloud of smoke that hovered in air, as clouds do. Celestia didn't want to believe what had happened, but all the evidence of the guard's death lay in front of her, almost taunting her. Not long after the same beast that killed her pegasus flew over her a head in a powerful display of sheer power and speed, leaving her to ask "why, why would you do such a thing?"

Present time, U.S. Navy perspective

"Edwin, how are you doing up there? This being your first time piloting an aircraft from the inside, and not from a computer desk" said Maxwell Archer, who was ironically sitting in a desk himself.

"Ha, ha, haha, ha. Real funny, I'm dying of laughter, as you can obviously tell" said Edwin Sharp in a sarcastic manner, currently piloting the manned version of the FA-60, which had an onboard neuralink making it easier for pilots to effectively control several combat drones all at once, being able to do so with merely a single thought. This being Edwin's first time flying an aircraft capable of flying over Mach 4 (3,069 miles per hour, 4,939 kilometers an hour) in an environment that wasn't either a simulation, or a training environment, though flying the 11,339 kilogram (25,000 pound) aircraft became like a sixth sense to the 23 year old naval men. "Besides, you've got no reason to worry, I'm a good pilot."

"Well, I've got a reason to be worried, we almost got thrown into a disciplinary barracks because of it, the only thing saving us from that fate was the little information we possessed on their capabilities" responded Archer, reminiscing about the dog fight between their combat drone and several pegasus that happened several weeks earlier.

"You make a solid point, but still, you need not worry."

"I damn well hope so, I don't feel like staying at a disciplinary barracks because of you."

"haha, last time I checked you told me to engage them when the scare tactics didn't work, haha-"

BEEP...BEEP...BEEP

Interrupting Edwin's laughter was an annoying "beeping" noise that repeated in a rhythm so it could catch a person's attention the quickest way possible, the beeping itself was a signal from the "hostile range detector" that could combine the radar strength of multiple aircraft, and had too be built in the radar system separately, detailing a possible hostile aircraft presence in the formations current vicinity. The beeping noise only comes on when an unknown aircraft the radar has been tracking enters what's called the "No Zone" by pilots that used the system, the No Zone spanned 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) around the aircraft, and the system could only be installed on aircraft who's radar tracking capability spanned 1,500 miles (2,414 kilometers) or more.

As Edwin stared at the dark green radar screen, seeing 3 large dots pearing themselves in bright green dots once the turning line came upon them. Continuing too look at the screen, Edwin realized they were at his 5 o'clock and currently closing in on Baltimare, most likely being pegasus regiments from the Equestrian royal guard setting their sites on attacking the Navy ships.

"Uhh, Edwin are you okay, is anything wrong?" Asked Archer, currently wondering why his apprentice suddenly went quiet.

"Uhh, Sir, are you seeing what's on the screen right now?"

After hearing Edwin's question, Archer swiveled his swivel chair to the left, first looking at the lidar screen than setting his eyes radar screen that combined the radar system of all 4 drones along with Edwin's aircraft. Seeing the 3 massive dots Archer asked "what are they? Where are they heading?"

"They could be Equestrian pegasus legions heading straight for Baltimare, they might be planning too attack our ships. I'm planning on intercepting them and seeing if I can divert their path."

"Understood, I'll be here every step of the way to help you any way I can. Oh, and please, please don't do anything stupid, okay."

"Don't count on it" answered Edwin, pushing his aircraft to 1,610 kilometers an hour (1,001 miles an hour) while tilting it too the right along with the drones, in total the 5 aircraft took 13 seconds to complete a full U turn. The squadron was currently in disarray and wasn't in any clear formation, Edwin sought to change this bitter actuality by setting each aircraft in one of the most famous aircraft formations of all time, the Vic formation or, the flying V.

Commanding the drones to get into formation via the neuralink, Edwin made the 4 drones get on the left and right of the formations (the echelons), 2 per side while his aircraft could be at the front of the V (the apex) formation. Each aircraft had a total of 4.5 meters (15 feet) of space between all of them so the onboard flight computers for the drones can get used to flying in close formation, because once Edwin and the rest of the aircraft get behind the unknown flyers they'll have to slowdown and get into a much tighter formation.

Once the formation was closing in on the pegasus regiments, being only 990 miles (1,593 kilometers) behind it, Edwin noticed that they weren't actually pegasus, but 9 flying carriages who themselves were in a Vic formation, throwing the biggest "fuck you" to the law of physics ever known to man. Seeing the carriages fly was a rather odd sight for sure, but considering they were transported to a land with species capable of using magic, it shouldn't be surprising. "Hey admiral, you seeing this?"

"Yeah, it's some pretty trippy shit."

"Yeah" responded Edwin, still looking at the carriages, mainly the one at the apex of the formation, the crosshairs for his 4-barreled GUA-22 Equalizer coming down upon the carriage at the apex of the formation.

"Edwin, what are you doing?" Asked Archer, worrying about his apprentice's next action.

"Just checking, just checking. Computer, scan the carriage at the very front of that formation, I want to know who, or what's in it" commanded Edwin, crosshairs still locked on the middle carriage. As the computer scanned, it deduced that within the carriage was 10 ponies, the sum of which being 2 unicorns, 2 regulars, 2 pegasus, and 4 unicorn-pegasus hybrid ponies, as well as one small unidentified creature that had wings as well. Now that the computer knew how many living organisms were in the carriage, it now had to find out who was in said carriage.

Peering through the window on the back of the carriage, the computer noticed several familiar figures the U.S. forces ran into only a few days after they made land fall. Princess Luna and Celestia, the sisters of the night and day currently travelling 110 miles an hour (177 kilometers an hour) straight towards several U.S. Naval vessels, meaning this could get bad if not handled properly.

"Admiral Sir, are you seeing thi-....HOLY SHIT!" Said Edwin as he and the rest of his squadron escaped a cloud wall, along with the Equestrian carriages that were carrying Celestia and Luna. As Edwin continued to look at the carriage formation, he noticed that 170 pegasus flying in echelon and fingertip formations, all wearing blue and yellow jump suits comparable to the Blue Angels paint scheme they put on fighter jets belonging to the squadron.

Not long after one of them saw Edwin's formation and told the rest of the pegasus, Edwin noticed all their jaws drop the second each laid their eyes on his aircraft and drones, most likely at awe by the sheer size of the aircraft and it's ability to keep up with them and the carriage.

"Admiral Sir, Luna and Celestia are in the carriage at the apex of the formation, what should we do?" Asked Edwin as his formation slowly creeped up towards the carriage formation.

"I'm going to inform the rest of the fleet about this, just hang tight and continue following them."

"Got it."

Oceana-class Admiral Hugo Olson and changeling guard Zulu perspectives, 13 minutes later

"Okay, understood I'll start scrambling fighters alongside the rest of the fleet" said Hugo, setting the phone down and looking towards the crew, who were all looking at him. "Okay people, I've just caught wind that the Royal sisters are approaching the city, so just in case of an attack all ships capable of fighting are going to be readying their weapons, while all carriers will be scrambling fighters, and as you know we're part of both worlds because, you know, battlecarrier. So I need 7 F-35D's, 3 F-22B's, and 1 F-117N in the air, because I'll be damned if they think they can get anywhere close to this fleet."

"Excuse me Mr. Hugo, but what seems to be the problem?" Asked Zulu, who only walked in after admiral Hugo ordered the scrambling of the fighter jets.

"Well, the royal sisters are approaching the city with 9 large carriages and 170 pegasus, it's supposed that they're coming straight for the fleet" Answered Hugo, kneeling down so he could face Zulu better.

"How do you know this?"

"One of our aircraft spotted and scanned the carriages, the scan revealed the identities of the ponies in the carriage and it showed them to be the princesses, so we're preparing for a possible attack" answered Hugo.

"Are we in danger?" Asked Zulu, worrying about what the future may hold for him and his fellow changeling's, at least the ones who didn't join Thorax's rebellion.

"No, you guys are fine, this one ship has enough firepower to level the whole city of Baltimare. Isn't that right Hannah."

"Absolutely sir, this battlecarrier is equipped with one Dual-420mm Rail Gun that has the power to blow a large hold through 3 large building, and turn other ships into steaming piles of scrap! But that ain't the only trick up this ships sleeve, because she's also equipped with 4 Dual 76mm multi-purpose Rail Guns with the power too turn any ship within its sights into a burning pulp."

"What about our offensive?"

"This ships equipped with 10 ten-megawatt lasers, 9 30mm CIWS, along with 18 Automated .50 Caliber machine gun, and that ain't even the only defensive countermeasures we have, those are just the coolest ones we have. So it's safe to say no Equestrian guard is getting anywhere near this ship, and if they do, there's 17 Ship defense teams armed with MP5 A3's, KSG tactical's, and CX4's ready to absolutely obliterate any threat that gets on this ship. It's safe to say that no one is getting on these ships."

After hearing these things, Zulu felt a safer than he had already, despite the fact he didn't know anything about the weapons named, and to be truthful, he didn't want to see what they were capable of because he's seen snippets of what certain weapons were capable of when used against Equestrian forces. But there was still one question Zulu had to ask, "are all of your ships preparing for Celestia's arrival?"

This question was unexpected for Hugo, but overall it was easy to answer, "Yup, every ship is in battle preparation mode right now, especially the aircrafts carriers of the fleet. They're, as of right now, deploying a plethora of aircraft."

"May I ask which aircraft they'll be deploying?"

"Absolutely, Abdullah may you show our friend here what aircraft will be in the sky's within the next hour?"

"Absolutely sir. Zulu, may you come here so I can show you?"

"Sure" responded Zulu, walking towards Abdullah desk, which had a large screen on it, once at the desk Zulu saw pictures of several aircraft.

"Right now several F-35 variants are being scrambled alongside several other aircraft, these variants are the F-35E, F-35U, FB-35, and F-35D. Though those aren't the only aircraft going out, we also have the F-22B's, F-24's, F/A-70's, FA-55's, and X-68's being deployed as well." As Abdullah said the name of each aircraft, the computer display a picture of it. As Zulu looked at each aircraft, he formed a particular liking towards the X-68 because of its unique look when compared to the rest of the aircraft.

Pointing at the picture of the X-68, Zulu asked "Excuse me, but what are the capabilities of the X-68?"

"The X-68? Well that's a heard one because there's alot still classified about the aircraft, this would mainly include the technological components that makes it tick, these would be the stealth components. Though I can tell you that very basics, would that be okay?" Asked Abdullah, Zulu shook his head enthusiastically as the question.

"Okay than, first let's start with the speed, at least what we know about its speed. The X-68 has been recorded traveling a little above Mach 3.6, which is 2,762 miles per hour or 4,445 kilometers an hour, but when the large group of citizens in the United States bugged Lockheed Martin about its actual speed, they commented that is was capable of going faster than Mach 4 (3,069 miles an hour or 4,939 kilometers an hour) and beyond."

"Why does this Lockheed Martin keep the speed unknown?"

"Well, it's not them specifically keeping it a secret, it's the U.S. government keeping it secret. They do this so the enemy has less of a chance at being able too fighting affectively. You understand?"

Shaking his head up and down, Zulu asked "is it very maneuverable?"

"Probably, but that's also classified as well. But I have no idea why, it doesn't have any guns."

Ponies perspective

"Why is it just flying there, doing nothing. That's so boring" said Pinkie, slouching into the carriages seats.

"let's Just be happy that it's not attacking, because from Celestia's said in her story, it doesn't sound like anything too be played with. Like dark magic" commented Cadance, not really enjoying Pinkies need to galvanize the situation pertaining to the flying machine currently following them.

"Cadance is right you know, who's ever is controlling those machines can be extremely aggressive, so let's stay calm and be happy it's being passive" said Luna, staring at the aircraft behind the escort as it was currently struggling to maintain the slow speed it was traveling at.

"But why does it look like it's struggling to not pass us, li-like it just, just supposed to go fast" said Rainbow Dash, looking at the wings of the aircraft, than back at her own. Much like Fluttershy, Rainbow noticed how instead of punching the clouds and dispersing them, the clouds just glide over and under the wings and main body like hot butter on a hot pan. It was a rather unusual sight to behold, because unlike every other flying creature in Equestria, these machines merely glide over the clouds and air.

"Hmm, well Rainbow Dash your last statement could be true, this creatures may not be well suited for speeds slower than the speed of sound. That may be why they have such a smooth and streamlined body shape" Celestia added, standing next to rainbow dash.

"You might be right princess, their bodies heavily resemble eagle body."

After hearing Celestia and Rainbow Dash's conversation, Rarity lifted her head from her fashion magazine and looked out the rear window, immediately her eyes widened. Though not because of fear, but out of amazement, Rarity hadn't seen anything so streamlined and smooth before, not even the rare gems she found around and about seemed to compete. The dark gray of the body, and the light gray peaces that seemed randomly spread around made for a very eye catching look, mix that up with its overall exotic figure and in Rarities opinion, it looked perfect. "Oh my, that is a very alluring peace of machinery, the creators must have put hours upon hours of design research into it. They must be creative geniuses!"

"Yeah, geniuses in making killing machines that only specialize in destruction. In my opinion this is why machines are so darn dangerous, in the wrong hooves they can cause allot of destruction" commented Apple Jack, to which Rarity responded with "oh darling, nopony cares about your opinion, and besides it's not doing anything to warrant any worry. So calm down and bask in its profound beauty."

As the princesses continued too listen in on the element bearers discussions, they were quite amazed at how all of their opinions differed from each other. The princesses thought they would all come to agreement that such machines shouldn't be allowed to exist, but instead half of the group liked and enjoyed the presence of the machine.

Though, as the group continued their discussion, the machines seemed to pull away abrupt without any reasoning, at least until one guard spoke up and said "Excuse me princess, but we've arrived at Baltimare, a-and I think you should take a look at this."

As Celestia and the rest of carriages occupants outside the left window, their eyes widened in pure amazement because of the large size of the ships that resided on the coast. "I guess we're going to be here a while."

Author's Note

Also, if you spot any spelling or grammatical errors, please tell me.

P.S. the spongebob musical has some bangers, take a listen

Chapter 15: creatures on the coast, with intentions unknown (3/3)

"Capitalism keeps ammunition from my hands!"
- Black ops 1 Fidel Castro

Location: United States, California, classified DARPA mountain research facility

Time: 2 days after sunrise

Equestrian Perspectives: none

U.S. Perspectives: head CIA agent Lukas Daugherty, DARPA researcher Tony Fulton

"Alright Dr. Fulton, how far has the research gone?" Asked Head CIA agent Lukas Daugherty, who was sent to the research facility to check upon the progress on the scientific studies of magic.

"Well, research has been rather...difficult, and grisly. Every time we try too dissect the deceased bodies of the ponies, the magic seems to just dissipate and avoid contact, like there's a layer of incompatibility between us and the magic. So we've resorted to mechanical means of dissection, but that's only been a little improvement, because when the robotic arm reaches the body the magic seems to weaken, most likely because of the contact we've had with it." Answered Fulton, taking a sip of his 4th cup of coffee so he could stay awake a while longer.

Daugherty on the other hand looked at the researcher with eyes of understanding, sighing he pulled up a chair and positioned it near Fulton. "Hey look, Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither was the first Anti matter engine. Don't push yourself overboard, you have more than enough time to do this, so get some sleep my guy."

"But we had help from the United Nations and the funding of an entire planet to complete that project, right now we're on our own, by ourselves on an unfamiliar planet in what is most likely another dimension, and the guys making the anti matter engine didn't have the CIA breathing down their necks. My guy."

"Hey, national security is no joke, and the reason the CIA was established was for the protection of the United State's population from foreign threats, and the Equestrians have the possibility of becoming a major threat. So, we need to learn as much as possible because if they become more hostile than they've already been, we'll know how to combat and cripple them effectively."

"You do know there's the possibility of other kingdom's littering that land mass, right? Look at the GPO platoon in the snow regions who ran into talking yak that said, and I quote, 'you're trespassing on yakistani land,' and don't forget the underwater city that was discovered by the Navy fleet 'Overweight Hamsters!' I mean, at least do the same thing to every kingdom on that land."

"Ah, but here's the problem, all those other kingdom's haven't shown any kind of hostility, and the 'Overweight Hamsters' fleet; God what a great fucking name, are currently working towards diplomatic affairs with this underwater kingdom. So there is, for now, no need." Daugherty than had a thought pass through his mind, "And are those kingdom's capable of magic?"

"Well, I guess you got me there, it is still unknown wether these 'other' kingdom's are of capable magic." Agreeing Fulton yawned and repeated "You got me there." rubbing his eyes the researcher tried to fight the overwhelming tiredness that was currently capturing him, causing Daugherty to take notice.

"Will, keep us informed of how things are going, and again, don't force yourself. Take it slow, get some sleep." Said Daugherty, to which the researcher responded by waving his hand and groaning what seemed to be a good bye. It got a chuckle out of Daugherty.

Walking out of the room and into the hall, Daugherty thought about all the projects and initiatives that the CIA, Air Force, Marines, Army, and Navy would have to declassify because of the sudden change in scenery. So many vehicles were left in the open because of the change, left for all to set their eyes upon. A big paradigm was the CIA's "Dextre Occultare Conatus initiative," which was a project undertaken by the CIA for the requirement of cheaper, better, and more reliable spy aircraft, especially since their baby, the TR6, was repurposed by order of Congress for the Air Force, effectively taking away the CIA's best spy plane. It needed a replacement, which was how the "Dextre Occultare Conatus initiative" was formed.

So a variety of aircraft were designed in secret, and away from the eye of Congress to insure that the CIA wouldn't get its toys taken away. Each aircraft was made to fill a considerable amount of rolls, such as strike, Air Superiority, attack, and of course, aerial reconnaissance. The first aircraft commissioned and declassified were the XSR-9999 "Fazlion," XF-83 "Nerasvindavar," SR-85 and SR-85A "Black Knights." All four aircraft were primarily designed for reconnaissance missions, and took heavy inspiration from the SR-71 Blackbird that was commissioned in the 1960's, which was more than a hundred years ago.

Not long after the SR inspired aircraft were declassified, another batch of aircraft were made public, though the rolls they inhabited were different from the normal reconnaissance missions the CIA took part in, meaning they were capable of allot more. A couple of great examples would be the B-3B "Nightshade," V/A-32 "Dark Hammer," RAH-180 "Libri Sole," F/XPI-91 "Storm Squad," and UCAV-XFP "Dead Strip," though of course there were still aircraft to be declassified, but for now that was it. Each one of those aircraft were different from one another in design philosophy, performance, and intention, though the fact still remained, they were all capable of deploying from airbases anywhere in the United States, and seriously fucking up the day of anyone who's a significant threat to either the United States populace, or the world at large. At least when the United States was still on earth, where it was accompanied by its sister and brother countries.

Though, all the declassified projects that were shown to the public were distractions for them to gawk at and think that was all, but unbeknownst to them another, far more secretive project known to the CIA higher-ups as the "Sundown initiative" was taking place. The project itself was created for the research and use of new stealth and engine technology for covert operations use in air, sea, and space vehicles. Currently the engines undergoing research are Dark Matter engines, EmDrives, Pulse jets, and Ion engines. Two of the vehicles enjoying relative success was the Lockheed Martin RQ-6 "Knight Wing" and AAF "Cariburn," which use a modified Ion engines using modern engineering, and design styling, except design styling because that hasn't changed since the 2010's.

Though of course, the CIA wasn't the only defense agency currently facing a declassification order by Congress, because the Air Force, much like the CIA, was ordered to declassify any black project belonging, or in the same project as the aircraft accidentally seen by the public the day the white light engulfed the United States. The reason for this was because so many aircraft that were being secretly tested in secure locations out of the country were teleported back to the United States, most being transported above the skys of highly populated areas, like Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Washington.

One of the projects that has garnered the most attention was the "Teal Hurricane initiative," which is basically like the ATF program but with a cooler name, there were more or less 5 aircraft under development. The first aircraft declassified was the F/A-322 "Lightning Raptor," the F/A-322 was a hybrid aircraft, mixed race if you will, that combined the best attributes of the F-22 and F-35 fighters, such as the F-35's stellar lifting body and computers, and the F-22's amazing maneuverability and avionics. The reason the F/A-322 was created was because the F/A-22 "spiral 5" needed a high fighter counterpart to protect it while it was doing its air-to-ground operations, especially since the F/A-22 Spiral 5 was mainly designed to assist special forces on the ground, meaning it's hands were full with other tasks and needed a body guard, which is where the F/A-322 comes in.

As Daugherty continued through the hallway, he thought about the possibility of war with the Equestrians, because right now the U.S. populace still had no idea the Equestrian empire and its population existed, and that goes for the rest of the supposed kingdoms that covered that land mass. A war would surely bring their existence into the fold, and that would mean the most recent actions the Equestrians have taken against the Changeling's would be uncovered as well, meaning an obvious uproar against the Equestrians would take place in the United States, because genocide isn't something a countries people ignore, and that's something that the "Zimlip Daseeta Kingdom (ZDK)" would know rather well.

The year was 2071, and the ZDK's government and its people united and tried to start an active genocide against its Islamic population only 4 years after its official recognition as a sovereign nation, the U.N. commissioned the United States, Iran, Germany, and the Zercaen Commonwealth to stop them. Though due to the location of the Zercaen Commonwealth, right next to the ZDK, it was rather easy for the ZDK to invade the country before they actually had time to react, during the invasion the ZDK captured a large amount of civilians and purposely searched for one's that were of Islamic descent and used them for slave labor, and when the slave up and died, the ZDK sent a picture of the dead body to the U.N. Head Quarters. But time catched up with the "Zimlip Daseeta Kingdom," because when the United States, Germany, and Iran arrived only 2 weeks after, they weren't happy, no, they were furious because each country had a large Islamic population (especially Iran), so much so that a good portion of the federal government for each nation was Islamic.

The ensuing war lasted 3 months in total, and the casualties for the ZDK soon scored higher than that of the Zercaenian's for both civilian and military, this was mainly because during the war civilian militia groups who claimed to be "cleansing humanity" when they brutally beat and murdered Islamic civilians and attacked U.S., Iranian, German, and Zercaenian forces got annihilated. Though, considering the technological differences between coalition and ZDK militia forces, especially since the coalition forces had better technology, and the militia only had semi automatic weapons with 2010 era plate carriers, a good ass kicking was to be expected.

With the ZDK's building desperation for victory, their leader, King Quintus Donne V, threatened to launch nuclear warheads at Iran, Zercaen, and Germany, though considering they were in possession of technologically inferior rockets they wouldn't hit either way. But unfortunately that wasn't the case, because 2 months and a week after the conflict started, the ZDK launched 7 nuclear warheads towards Iran, Germany, and Zercaen, 6 were shot down before they could reach their targets, but the 7th hit its mark. The 7th warhead hit one of Zercaens most popular cities, Chilannemoore, and incinerated anything and everything within a 3 mile radius, making that the 8th time a nuclear weapon was used since World War 2.

But that wouldn't be the only superweapon used in that three month period, because a mere 3 weeks later the United States used its Orbital Strike Satellite "Calor Ortu" on the capital of the ZDK, Settven, which housed the Royal Palace that itself held the Royal family. The United States literally offed the king and his family, along with every millionaire, politician, and high ranking general in the city because the king decided to nuke a major city in a neighboring country, and no one knew the United States even had this weapon. Overkill at its finest, but for some foreign reason from beyond the galaxy, the civilian populace for the United States, and many other nations agreed and praised the actions as "heroic, and just."

Though that wasn't the same feeling their governments had, especially since before that event, the United States wasn't seen as powerful as it was like in the 1980's to 2030's and didn't possess the influence and power as its precursor, so the use of a powerful weapon such as the Orbital Strike Satellite was one hell of a surprise. Not long after the United States was ordered by the U.N. to declassify it's military space program, which included the 4 classes of attack satellites. The United States did as told and released all the information for its military space program "Forward Forever," which was aptly named after the Space research and communication base "Forward Forever" that was built in the year 2035, a whole year after World War 3 ended.

After releasing the information to the public, the overall shock by world leaders from other nations was great, no one could think that the United States was able to create these things, let alone do it secretly. But now that didn't matter, because the world was able to set their eyes upon the superweapon that took the life of King Quintus Donne V, along with its counterparts. The first Attack Satellite built was the "Dark Twilight-Class" Particle Beam Satellite, which was purposed for use against nuclear weapon silos, the second satellite built was the "Lunam Fractura-Class" and its older sister the "Sol Ursus-Class" that used light poll size tungsten rods as munitions, the third and final satellite built were the "Aggressus-Class" Heavy particle beam Satellite, which were purposed for destroying entire military installations. Along with the satellites, several other projects were flourishing and being created under the "Forward Forever" program, projects such as the first out of atmosphere fighter aircraft, the "SP-51 "Dark Stallion."

The Dark Stallion was the first of its kind, the first all space based fighter in human history, and it was a great in atmosphere fighter as well, being able to take on and out class any jet fighter the "Tiusmo Dominion" and "United Arus Seyre Empire" could offer. But that wasn't the only project, joining the satellites and fighter jets were the "Kennedy-Class" asteroid mining ships that were equipped with Two Dual-500mm Rail Guns made for orbital bombardment or asteroid crater mining, these ships, much like the TR6 used Antigravity technology. The second ship planned for creation was the "Antagonist-Class" mobile military moon base, which was designed to drill for Helium-3 on the surface of the moon, but for defense measures it was equipped with enough lasers and coil guns to take down entire airplane squadrons from space, which was its intended second purpose. With the declassification of the "Forward Forever" program, every nation that considered itself enemies with the United States realized that that country was no pushover, they realized that the United States was capable of defending itself, and, if the situation called for it, form offensive attacks.

The "So-called" U.S. enemies, which consisted of the "Zimlip Daseeta Kingdom," "Tuismo Dominion," and "United Arus Seyre Empire," went to the U.N. to have the United States weapons confiscated and possibly, destroyed, but it was obvious that these 3 nations wanted these weapons for themselves. Very obvious. But unfortunately, or fortunately, it would be extremely difficult for the U.N. to do such a thing, because the backlash from the public of several countries would be great. So after more than 3 months of thinking later, the U.N. made the decision to allow the United States to have their advanced weapons, but under the condition of only using them when truly needed, and just like when the United States was told to declassify it's projects, they did as told.

Though, that wasn't the only project that the United States had in the works, because there was an assortment of projects for the improvement of existing battle platforms, as well as the creation of new battle platforms and field equipment. Because the United States had a goal, and it was to become the strongest, if not the strongest nation on the face of the earth.

"Hmm, may god help them if they approach with hostility." Said Daugherty to no one in particular, still walking through the halls and closing in on the exit of the facility. Walking out of the facility, he set his eyes upon his transport helicopter, the older brother to the WHA-91 "Screech Owl," the UHA-7 "Uhlwa Owl." the UHA-7 was built and commissioned by the CIA and U.S. Army in a joint project pact in 2081, while the Marines acquired the WHA-91 for its amphibious assault missions in 2083. Despite being relatively new vehicle platforms, it immediately proved itself in the heat of combat as a fast and reliable helicopters for emergency evacuations for wounded civilians and military personnel battling the H.A.T terrorist organization.

Climbing into the helicopter and sitting down, Daugherty thought about the possibility of war with the Equestrians and how it would look like, what weapons would be used, and wether or not research into magic is worth it. "So many questions, so little answers."

"There's probably a place in paradise for people who really tried hard, but what really matters is succeeding. If that requires you to change, than that's your mission"
-Stanley McChrystal

Location: Equestria, Baltimare City coast

Time: 2 days after sunrise

Equestrian Perspectives: Discord, Flash Sentry, princess Celestia and Luna, Spike, element bearers, princess Cadance, prince Shining Armor, queen Chrysalis, princess Marcela, Changeling guard Zulu

U.S. Perspectives: Gunnery sergeant Nathan Reeds, Lt. Tristan Summers, WHA-91 pilot Nicholas Diaz, Joshua Richardson, Jeremy Manowar, Army major Christopher Lara, Army lieutenant colonel Owen Cooper

It has been 30 minutes since Celestia and her escort arrived and landed on the beaches of Baltimare, and stared straight into the everlasting sea that was blocked by the United State's massive naval ships. Celestia stood wondering which of the great ships were the ones that overpowered the mighty naval fleet of Frisk Fireflight. Despite her obvious downfalls, Fireflight was still a very capable naval captain, capable of taking on fleets of enemy ships much larger than her own. But her arrogance must have gotten the best of her, because she went head first into a fight against an "enemy" she knew nothing about, only to be bested at her own game.

Before her unfortunate demise, Fireflight was essential in stopping the Griffonians from capturing the small beach town of "North Freyass" that bordered between the Equestrian empire and the Republic of Griffonea. During the 5 day siege, the Griffonians repeatedly pummeled Equestrian guard forces on the ground with massive ballista and catapult fire, which were placed on their equally massive assault ships. 41 guard's lost their lives in the bombardment, but soon after that, the number was raised up to 87 when the Griffin's commenced their land attack and pushed back Equestrian forces, experiencing 0 casualties in the process. When the Royal Guard were fully pushed out of the town, the Griffin's set up defensive positions through the building of barricades, trenches, camouflaged spike pits, and explosive barricades that could be hit with flaming arrows to be ignited and used against incoming forces.

After the 5 days of siege, and 3 days of preparations, the Griffin's turned the once peaceful town of "North Freyass" into a military stronghold to possibly be used as a starting point for an invasion against Equestria. At least that would be the case, if Fireflight and her fleet of 30 strong Equestrian Assault Ships hadn't changed the tide of battle within the span of 2 days. Fireflight accomplished this by first attacking Griffin naval fleets in the dead of night while using the night vision spell "Seralson," which was named after the unicorn who founded the spell. Once the naval side of the Griffin's forces were taken care of, Frisk took to clearing the town of its Griffin occupants, which she accomplished in a matter of hours with the help of approaching Royal guard forces. A month after the ordeal Frisk Fireflight received the medal of appraisal from the Royal sisters,

The entire ordeal took place a year ago, and came as an unfortunate surprise for the Equestrian Empire, because that was something they'd never expected, or thought would happen. Which is what most likely led to the attack. The battle broke the Equestrian Empire's 1,045 years of nonviolent liaison with abutting kingdom's, and showed every other kingdom on Equus the vulnerability of the Equestrian Empire. The Royal sisters were so worried about other threats within the kingdom, that they forgot about the foreign threats that laid dormant outside their borders.

Despite the Republic of Griffonea's defeat at North Freyass, they still continue to try and threaten and intimidate the Equestrians with no end, as well as continue to strengthen military power on the border between Equestria and Griffonea. Only furthering tensions, and limiting the possibility of peaceful resolution.

The situation with the Griffin's reminded Celestia allot about what was currently happening with these new creatures and Luna, Luna deterring 2 attempts from the creatures for peaceful resolution, the first being the battle at the beach, and the second being when the creatures were chased into Ponyville. Now, they're at Equestria's doorstep with there most powerful warships, at least from what Celestia has heard, and nopony knew what their intentions were.

"Excuse me for bothering you princess, but are you okay? You seem rather...worried." Said a fairly familiar voice to Celestia's ears, sifting through her memory she compared it to one she heard at Twilight's coronation, one that belonged to a certain stallion Twilight had been asking for. Looking behind herself, Celestia finally realised who the voice belonged to. Flash Sentry, the fairly tall solar guard stallion, he was smiling while holding a bag of gummy worms snugly in between his wings, from what she's heard, they were his favorite candy. Slowly, Flash's head started to tilt to the right, fusing into an expression of confusion and worry. "Princess?"

After Flash said that, Celestia realised she was staring at him for too long with no definite reason as for why. "Oh sorry Flash, I've just been on edge because of...well, I think you know." Responded Celestia, looking towards the coast.

"Oh, I understand princess, things have been rather hectic since their arrival here at Baltimare." Said Flash, taking a seat next to Celestia while looking at the coast himself. Sitting next to Celestia, Flash remembered what Nicholas told him before he left with the rest of his group, Flash remembered the sincerity in his voice like he truly didn't know what the future had in store for the both of them. But that wasn't something that got Flash's attention the most, what got his attention was what they gave him.

Flash Sentry's flashback, 2 days ago

"Remember sentry, when we appear on that coast, keep your cool. We won't be there to invade, at least...I hope." Said Nicholas, walking towards his helicopter while talking to Flash Sentry.

"You don't really know don't you?" Asked Flash, who was currently following Nicholas to his WHA-91. "But I still don't understand why I still have to stay here, shouldn't I be at the prison by now? The commanders are going to be expecting me soon."

"Well...yes, but first, we have something for you." Responded Nicholas, opening the right side door of his helicopter, he pulled out a small box with a small U.S. flag on it, Nicholas than turned around and showed Flash the box.

Flash looked at the box with confusion, not knowing the significance of its contents. "What is it?"

"This is the Medal of Commendation, given to you by order of Aaron Bowman, one of the United States most prized and respected political leaders. You, Flash Sentry, have been given this medal because of your acts of heroism and bravery, you were essential in the rescue of the Changeling prisoners that were unjustly held captive under the Equestrian empire. The United States thanks you for your contribution to the everlasting dream of freedom that pushes us forward, and motivates us everyday."

Nicholas than opened the box, within the box lay a medal with a green colored cross with an eagle holding 3 arrows, a shield blocking it's torso. Along with that the medal had 14 stars with a ribbon sporting a light blue, green, and white color scheme. Overall the medal was an eye catcher for sure, the Emerald-like ascents, along with the bronze colored holding were very well done, the medal itself demanded attention, and it easily received it.

"Oh, you guys didn't need to do thi-"

"You're right, we had to. There was no other option, your a hero, and everyone in Washington, and everyone here thinks the same, and once the general public finally find out about Equestria, they'll think the same as well."

Flash Sentry looked at Nicholas, mouth a gape, "I-I didn't know you all regarded me this highly, surely there's somepony else more deserving than I."

"Can you name another pony so willing to help us?" Responded Nicholas, booping Flash's noise once he finished his sentence.

"Thank you."

Current time, Equestrian Perspectives

Flash Sentry opened the bag of gummy worms, looking away from the ships and towards Celestia, Flash Sentry asked "Would you like some gummy worms Princess?" Still looking towards Celestia, he held the bag closer to her and gave an endearing smile.

Princess Celestia stared at Flash Sentry, then smiled, "Sure." Getting closer to Flash, Celestia used her magic to lift the bag firmly in between the both of them, once done with that, she then used her magic to get one singular gummy worm. Putting the gummy worm in her mouth, Celestia stared at one of the ships in particular, as she continued to stare Celestia realized how menacing the creatures ships could be, despite the fact they weren't doing anything besides having smaller machines flying around, and landing on them. As she continued to watch the ships, she noticed that they didn't adhere to the directions the waves hit them in, it was the exact opposite, the ships themselves made the waves. Each massive ship dominated the water it was located in, destroying waves while creating their own, they made Celestia rather self aware about the size and power of her own naval fleet, especially since no matter how strong the magic, the sea always dictates wether the ship can sail safely.

"Which one is your favorite princess?" Asked Flash, which sent Celestia off a little bit.

"What was that Flash?" Asked Celestia, trying to understand what Flash said fully.

"Which one of the creatures ships is your favorite? Mine is the one with the 3 large spikes at the front." Answered Flash Sentry, pointing at one of the 3 CVX-100's that were lined up next to each other. Looking at where Flash was pointing, Celestia caught wind of 3 large ships she hadn't took notice of when she arrived. Noticing the various aircraft that were on the main deck, Celestia realised that some of the vessels were capable of carrying the flying machines the creatures used so often. Which meant the machines didn't deploy from there nation as many of Celestia's military advisors had theorized, they instead deployed from ships that stayed in secure, safe, and guarded locations protected by ground, air, and sea forces. Realizing this, Celestia thought about why the creatures would take such a large risk, one such as placing their most powerful naval vessels at the coast of a heavily populated city such as Baltimare. 'Wouldn't keeping them in more safe location have less of a risk? Do they not fear attack?' Celestia thought, wondering about wether the creatures vessels had any defensive measures that could be used against pegasus. Defensive measures they could use that weren't their flying machines.

Putting another gummy worm in her mouth, Celestia continued to view the 3 ships and their fleet of aircraft, doing so Celestia caught sight of the objects she'd never forget. She was staring at the very machines that cohered themselves into her mind. She was staring at the aircraft that were responsible for attacking Canterlot and Ponyville, which were only a few hundred meters away from her. Only now they were in the dozens. Celestia saw them all, The F/A-37 "Talon fighter," FB-90 "Hustler," F-15U "Plus," FA-24A "TIGERCAT," and F-35X "HELLCAT" were all there doing, nothing. Continuing too view the aircraft, Celestia felt a type of uneasiness about the fact they weren't doing anything, especially since she's gotten so used to the fast and nimble ducts, dives, and tight turns that have become synonymous with them. Looking at the aircraft, Celestia remembered how desperately her royal guards tried to stop the machines, only to be out maneuvered and out paced by said machines. She remembered the hopelessness the guards felt when ever the machines slowed down, only to accelerate to the ludicrous speeds they were capable of when the guard's got within 15 feet (4.5 meters) away from them, the biggest offender of this were the 3 diamond shaped craft with the babyblue and ultramarine color schemes. Whenever the guards closed in on the craft, it would always just pull up above the guards extremely quickly, and roll 180 degrees while decelerating comparably fast, after completing those two maneuvers the craft would spin another 180 degrees and accelerate slowly, giving off the impression that it was chasing the guards, only to overtake them after.

The 3 aircraft would do this continuously while the rest lay waste to any tree's still left in the Everfree, it took the royal guard, along with Celestia and Luna an exponentially long amount of time to realise that it was a diversion for the rest to continue the chaos and destruction they were causing. But when they finally realised the 3 aircraft were merely a diversion for the rest, it was too late, because the Everfree was already set ablaze, and the aircraft squadrons were already leaving. On that arguably terrifying day, Celestia watched the aircraft leave and fade over the distance, once they were out of sight she felt a plethora of emotions. Anger, sadness, despair, fear, awe, and shame were among the emotions, but shame was the strongest she was feeling. This was because of her inability to defend herself, and her ponies from the onslaught that came not 50 minutes ago. But still, many, many questions still remained, would things be different if Celestia helped the Changeling's when they called for it? Would things be different if Luna hadn't began arresting Changeling's that refused to join Thorax's rebellion?

Celestia has been asking herself these two questions ever since the attack on Canterlot and Ponyville, and she hasn't gotten any sleep because of them. At times, Celestia wondered if Luna felt the same guilt as well. "Whoa!" Said Flash, breaking Celestia from her thought trance, his head locked onto the sky. At first Celestia didn't realise what he was looking up at, at least until...

Looking up, Celestia spotted multiple aircraft in a Vic Formation flying over the city, they looked just like the other aircraft that aided in the assail on Canterlot and Ponyville, only with some significant differences separating the two. The differences being the wing shape, along with the size, and length of the shiny bulge that protruded from the front. This got Celestia thinking, this could possibly be a subspecies of the one seen in Canterlot and Ponyville, and if that was the case, that would mean the creatures lied about their machines actually being...machines. That would mean they were alive, and most likely domesticated, which would mean at some point, the creatures conquered and enslaved the them, that could come in handy if Equestria and the United States went to war. If Equestria could find a way to make the flying creatures turn on their masters, than Equestria could have more than a chance at defeating the United States, especially since Fluttershy has the ability to fluently speak with all types of animals, so these large flying creatures shouldn't be any different.

Not long after, Celestia was thrown out of her thoughts once again by another aircraft flying over. Than another, than another, than another, soon enough the sky was filled with different aircraft variants. 43 of the creatures supposed machines were circling the skies high above Baltimare, except for 8 others, which stayed 200 feet (60 meters) above the ground, circling the city as well. Continuing to watch the 8 machines, Celestia saw 5 aircraft that looked very much like the ones she viewed during the attack on Canterlot and Ponyville, and the one her and Flash saw moments ago, the only difference being that it had only 2 rear wings instead of the normal 4, this, at least for Celestia, solidified the idea of the machines actually being conquered flying creatures.

"Did you see that princess?" Asked Flash putting a gummy worm in his mouth, still looking up at the sky. He said this with a suspiciously calm demeanor, throwing Celestia off a tad bit. Looking down at Flash, Celestia inched her head closer to his, Celestia raised her left eyebrow and asked, "Why are you so calm, Lieutenant Flash Sentry? Wouldn't a sight such as this be rather...scary? Especially for a royal guard such as yourself, since many guards have fallen to their 'Advanced weaponry.'"

"We-well, they haven't done anything to warrant any type of worry, a-at least not yet." Answered Flash, forming a nervous smile.

Staring at Flash, Celestia furrowed her brow, slowly getting closer and closer to him, so much so that their noses touched. Soon enough Celestia calmed herself and allowed Flash some ample breathing room, "Sorry Lieutenant, I didn't mean to be so overbearing. Forgive me."

"Don't worry princess, I understand." Responded Flash, glad Celestia wasn't able to see through the lies he told her. Flash knew the United States wasn't going to attack unless provoked, and right now, the Equestrian royal guard haven't done anything to provoke any action. At least for now.

Looking down at the floor, Flash saw his bag of gummy worms on the sand, obviously there because of Celestia's sudden suspicion, luckily none of the gummy worms hit the ground. Walking over to the bag, Flash picked it up with his hooves and looked up at Celestia and asked, "Would you like some more gummy worms, princess?"

Looking at Flash, Celestia saw a boundless amount of loyalty in his eyes, like he would do anything in his power to protect her and the rest of the royal family in any way he could. Though, it wasn't long after that Celestia remembered all the letters Flash had sent her, and she read all of them, down too the signature. Celestia remembered how they detailed the suffering the Changeling's endured during their time there, along with how the guards emotionally, physically, and mentally abused them. Celestia would receive two to three letters each day from Flash because of it, and she selfishly ignored his call for help, which reminded Celestia of how she ignored the Changeling's countless cries for help.

Spreading her wings, Celestia trapped Flash Sentry in a hug and said, "I-I'm sorry...Flash, I should've listened to you when I had the chance, and if I did, than maybe things could have been different. Maybe, none of the guards at the prison would've died."

Getting dragged into the hug, Flash didn't realise what was going on until Celestia said her apology to him. At first, Flash didn't realise why she was hugging him, and for a good second, he thought he was going to die. Looking around, Flash could see everypony staring at him and Celestia, which included Luna, Shining Armor, Cadance, and 5 of the element barers were All staring with confused expressions, except for...Discord? Discord was wearing his normal sly grin, and from the few times him and Discord have met, Flash knew he was planning something, he didn't know what, but it was definitely something. Though, as Flash continued to look at Discord, he saw him point his left arm the right, following it Flash saw the one mare he didn't want to see at the moment, Twilight. Twilight was staring in his direction, and Flash had noticed that by every passing second, Twilight seemed to grow more and more agitated, so if he didn't want to meet the wrath of an alicorn princess, he would need to find a way to get Celestia to stop hugging him, and fast.

"Well, there could still be hope for peace with the new creatures, and maybe even the Changeling's."

"Y-you really think so?"

"Anything's possible right? So, there could still be hope." Responded Flash, regretting it soon after, mainly because of the immediate bear hug Celestia put him in. Feeling his lungs traveling to his throat, Flash tried his last attempt at getting Celestia to stop hugging him, "Ce-Celestia, I-I can't breathe, p-please stop hugging me."

Hearing Flash's sudden cries for help, Celestia let him go and watch him fall to the ground and gasp for air, which left Celestia wondering about how much force she had put into her hug. "Umm, Flash are you okay?"

Watching Flash struggle to get back on his hooves, Celestia could hear the audible shuffle of sand under the hooves of a somewhat disgruntled pony. Namely female. Looking behind herself, Celestia spotted Twilight doing a light gallop towards Flash's general direction, which seemed to scare him just a tiny bit, as well as confuse Celestia just as much. Nearing Flash, Twilight circled him with a blank expression, like she was inspecting him for whatever reason she had.

Feeling Twilight's eyes search every part of his body for Celestia knows what, Flash in that moment, had felt the most self conscious he had ever been in his 23 years of living, and he knew damn well why. In his mind, Flash didn't think he was anything special, at least not in the same category as prince Shining Armor, prince Blue Blood, General Honey Bun, General Sapphire Twister, and Captain Frisk Fireflight. Who were either of noble status, or decorated war heroes who've fought for Celestia. All in all, Flash believes he shouldn't have attracted the attention of the literal princess of magic! Yet here he was...

"Princess, I don't think strangling your royal guard-ponies is the best idea, especially since we don't have many on standby like we used to. Though, that raises a question. Why were you hugging Flash Sentry?" Asked Twilight, staring at Celestia with a confused face that was obviously fake.

Looking back at Twilight, Celestia at first couldn't understand why Twilight was asking such an obvious question, the only way she would've asked such a question was if she really didn't know why Celestia hugged Flash, or she was just trying to get under her skin by asking something so embarrassing. But why would Twilight want to embarrass Celestia?

"Well, I-I wa-"

Before Celestia could muster a coherent sentence she heard, once again another pair of the "Machines" fly by, except now there weren't any machines blazing through the air at a thousand miles an hour. Instead it was 14 Thunderbolt's, along with 7 royal Pegasus guard's currently chasing 2 of the many creatures flying machines.

"Oh no." said Twilight, Flash, and Celestia unanimously, knowing full well what dire consequences the Pegasus's mistake will have...for everypony.

Pegasus and fighter pilots perspective

"Are you sure about this? Princess Celestia said not to attack the machines, she also said they wouldn't attack if not provoked. Remember what happened to the 3 royal guard's and 10 Thunderbolt's that tried to fight them!" said a worried Royal guard pegasus, who was currently watching the mass amounts of aircraft that were circling the city from above.

"Those stories are nothing but fairy tale, none of them are true. They were just stories fabricated by princess Celestia to make sure we wouldn't absolutely obliterate these foul creatures along with the Changeling's." Responded a Thunderbolt named Stewarical, who was extremely agitated at the moment. The reason for his agitation was because of the sudden appearance of the creature's massive vessels, along with the constant bombardment of protests from a certain Royal guard. Too add to this, he knew that the creature that assaulted princess Luna was on one of those vessels, and he wanted to teach who ever it was a lesson they'll never forget.

"Bu-but what if Celestia is right, you'll be practically killing yourself if you decide to engage tho-those...things?" Responded the Royal guard, hoping Stewarical would change his mind for the better.

Instead Stewarical reached his boiling point, and lashed out at the Royal guard. "I don't care, I know she's lying! Celestia is weak, and unfit to rule a kingdom like the Equestrian empire. But that doesn't matter now, all I need to know is wether your with me or not. Me and 225 other pegasus are planning to meet at the edge of the city and start our attack, so make up your mind!"

At first the Royal guard was surprised at the hostility in the Thunderbolt's voice, he didn't really think that pegasus was actually serious about attacking the new creatures. Should he just leave it and hope he doesn't try it, or tell the princesses about his plan. "Of course I'm not. I'm not going to risk my life based on what some lousy Thunderbolt believes, if you want to go and get killed that's fine, but not me."

"Fine, I along with the many other pegasus never needed you in the first place!"

3 minutes later

Meanwhile above the middle of the city, a squadron of 3 Northrop Grumman F-24 Tomcat 2's named "The Mysterious Ones" were flying in a Vic formation 121 meters (400 feet) above the city alongside another squadron of 5 Lockheed Martin F-35E Death Adder's named "The Alphas." The reason for the 2 squadrons to fly at such a high altitude in a city with buildings only reaching 30 meters (100 feet) into the sky was because of the possible threat of an aircraft-to-building collision, despite how unlikely it is. The reason for this was because during the year 2079 an American B-1r Lancer was doing close flybys around several 800 foot (243 meter) high sky scrapers in the Russian city of Vladivostok as part of a very prestigious air show that the Russian government ran, planned, and hosted. The Russian government of course invited numerous countries to participate in the air show, these countries consisted of the New British Empire's (NBE) FA-47 "Bristol Blenheim 2," the Republic Of China's J-21 "Black Dragon," the Tuismo Dominion's DF-32 "Mix Master," and of course, the United States and her B-1r. Though, during the final minutes of the air show the pilots of the B-1 decided to do an unauthorized maneuvers through two massive buildings, tilting the aircraft 90 degrees the pilots tried to slide the aircraft between the two buildings, but unfortunately that wasn't going to happen, because the pilots overestimated the power the engines were putting out, and in turn they rammed the underside of they're aircraft into the building at 524 miles an hour (843 kilometers an hour). Effectively killing themselves, and everyone in the crash zone, the building proceeded to collapse 3 hours later.

The crash killed 6000 people, and costed the United States 1.3 billion dollars in damages and in building repairs, funerals for the deceased, and medical expenses for the critically injured. To add salt to the wound the United States wasn't invited to any other Russian air show until 2083, and by then the stunts the aircraft did were rather...reserved and uneventful when compared to previous demonstrations, this was because the U.S. Air Force put restrictions in place so the same accident wouldn't happen again. These restrictions slowly made their way out of the air show and made their way to the battlefield, where aircraft couldn't be within 229 feet (69 meters) of a building unless given explicit orders to do so.

[2nd Siege-class carrier]"This is the 2nd Siege-class amphibious assault carrier "Chicago" to F-35E squadron the "Alphas," I repeat this is 2nd Siege-class assault carrier Chicago to F-35E squadron the Alphas. What's your status, over."

"This is Alphas squadron commander "Chaospyre," our status is excellent, over." Responded the squadron commander, knowing full well the carriers were contacting his squadron for a reason other than a status check.

[2nd Siege-class carrier] "Understood, ou-...what? Understood sir... Okay, as of right now you're receiving orders to patrol the perimeter around the fleet. I've gotten information from several scout planes that an assortment of pegasus squadrons are getting brave and starting to get closer to the fleet, so we need some fighters to scare them from getting closer."

"Understood Chicago, we'll be there to provide areal patrol in 2 mikes, Alphas squadron out."

Tilting to the right and slowly descending, the 5 aircraft made their way to protect the fleet, leaving the city airspace surveillance to the 3 F-24's still circling the city. Though, unbeknownst to the eight low flying fighters and 25 high flying fighters, there was 226 angry pegasus currently barreling toward them at 502 kilometers an hour (312 miles an hour), and closing in fast. But that their surprise tactics didn't last long because...you know, radar.

"Holy shit! Guys, there's a large mass of pegasus 14 miles to the North, they're currently travelling 312 miles an hour (501 kilometers an hour) and should literally be flying right next to us in 5 minutes time. What do we do!?" Screamed an F-117N pilot currently tracking the 110 pegasus on his aircraft's radar, soon after the pegasus appeared on the radar screen of every U.S. aircraft and ship within a 7,000 mile (11,265 kilometer) radius.

With the sudden appearance of this new information, the pilots made a unanimous decision to relay the information back to the fleet and hope for a clear response on how to deal with this problem. A response never came in time.

The pegasus were 1 minute from reaching the fighters, and there was still no order from the fleet on what to do. So now there is 46 or so angry fighter pilots about to be intercepted by 110 angry pegasus who want revenge for what Frederick did to Luna. Too add to the pilots ever increasing anger, they thought Luna and Celestia had sent the pegasus as well, not knowing the pegasus were going rogue and making it seem like the princesses weren't willing to try a diplomatic way to peace.

"You know what, fuck this shit! How about we give these bastards what they want, a fucking fight!" Screamed one of the two pilots in one of the several F/A-70's currently flying in the air.

"Bu-but, they literally outnumber us. We stand no chance, especially if we're going to engage them at the merge, let's also not forget that many of us here don't have main guns." Said the F-117N pilot, watching as the swarm of pegasus slowly come into view.

For 30 more seconds the pilots proceeded to form a plan to deal with the incoming threat, hoping the fleet would respond and give a direct order on how to deal with the incoming threat. But as they would solemnly find out, it wouldn't come in time. Finishing their loosely drawn out plans, the 46 aircraft got into their positions and waited.

The pilots planned for any aircraft without a main gun, like the F-35D, F-35U, F-117N, and X-68 would avoid contact with the pegasus and fire their munitions from a safe distance while every other aircraft with a main gun, like the F-22B, FA-55, F-24, and F/A-70 would fight the pegasus at the merge and show the princesses the full might of U.S. air superiority. This battle plan was of course excluding the F-35E's currently performing areal overwatch above and around the fleet, because they would only engage the pegasus if they got to close to any of the ships.

"Okay, is everyone ready?" Asked an F/A-70 pilot, receiving words such as "yes," "definitely," and "always" from his colleagues.

Soon enough every aircraft with a main gun started flying towards the pegasus, readying themselves for the merge. The pilots who were in these aircraft promptly named themselves "Honey Badgers" because, and I quote, "it sounds cool." On the other hand, every other aircraft without a main gun started flying the opposite direction of the honey badgers, they would correct their flight patterns towards the aircraft when the honey badgers engaged the pegasus.

Barreling toward the pegasus, the pilots of the F/A-70 and F-24's set their afterburners to 3% power to get an added edge over the pegasus in the merge, on the other hand the pilots in the FA-55 and F-22B's decided to start tracking as many pegasus as they could at once. Doing this, the aircraft were able to relay the location of the pegasus to every aircraft and ship in the area, making it easier to target, lock on, and track the pegasus with air-to-air, and ground-to-air missiles. It only took a minimum of 1.3 seconds for them to do.

23 seconds past since the fighters changed their direction to fight the pegasus, and now they had just reached the point where they'd merge and pass the pegasus, once that time came, it didn't have the usual gracefulness jet fighters had when engaging each other in a dog fight. This was because some pegasus were struck by the wings or body of the fighters, either getting flattened or sliced. A notable example of this was a 20 year old Thunderbolt who decided to try and ram one of the F-22B's, it didn't turn out well for him because once he made contact with the clear aluminium, he literally exploded and splattered his insides on the canopy of the aircraft.

While the two F-22B pilots were getting a face full of blood and guts, several of the F/A-70's broke the sound barrier around several pegasus, killing several pegasus with the immense pressure the sound waves produced. Soon after the F/A-70's started banking upwards and went vertical while setting their afterburners to 0% while adding more normal power to the engines, travelling 91 meters (300 feet) straight up into the sky they started banking downwards and spun their bodies 190 degrees. The F/A-70's did this at such a fast rate that they didn't give the pegasus any time to react, giving them an optimal opportunity for maximum areal carnage.

Locking on to, and tracking pegasus surrounded on all sides by their fellow thunderbolt's or guard's the F/A-70 pilots took the opportunity to launch their AIM-200's and cause maximum carnage. Watching the missiles race towards its target at Mach 5.7 (4,373 mph, 7,038 kph), the missile broke the sound barrier within the span of 1.2 seconds. Once the first missile was racing towards its targets it rammed through 2 Thunderbolt's that unfortunately got in its way. It punched a hole straight through the first ponies stomach, and fully decapitated the second.

Finally reaching its targets the missile exploded on the pegasus's 1 o'clock, killing everypony within a 30 foot (9 meter) radius with only the shock wave, moving up to a 40 foot (12 meters) radius and everypony is knocked out of the sky and subsequently killed by the expanding heat. Not long after the same thing happened to another large group of pegasus, than another, than another...

On the other hand, the F-24 pilots decided not to attack and instead lead pursuing pegasus into something called a "kill zones," which was set up and monitored by the aircraft that fell back to kill the pegasus from a farther distance. Getting closer and closer to hitting the merge, the F-24's continued marking and tracking targets until the radar reached its limit, now the only thing for them to do was ad more power to the engines and go head first into the merge.

Finally entering the merge while traveling 1,808 kilometers an hour (1,123 miles an hour), the F-24 pilots proceeded to continue flying in a straight line until as many of the pegasus their radars were already tracking took pursuit. 15 seconds after the merge began, the 6 fighter jets had a good number of pegasus following each of them, so in response each of the fighters scattered and flew into different directions so they could scatter the pegasus, then lead them into the "kill zones."

Banking to the right and purposely doing a wide turn, one F-24 pilot managed to get 21 pegasus chasing on his tail, and luckily they were all bunched up together, making for a great target. As the fighter jet continued flying, eventually increasing its speed to 2,970 kilometers an hour (1,846 miles an hour), it eased out of the banking turn and slowly started flying in a straight line towards the beach. Though, as it continued flying straight the pilot noticed how close the pegasus flew in formation, which wasn't a very smart thing to do when engaging enemy aircraft. Close in formations seemed more suited for demonstration teams showing off the latest and greatest tech and training, so that means either the pegasus weren't properly trained in areal warfare, or they're just demonstration teams posing as dog fighters. Either way they're going to be made an example of.

Less than a minute later the fighter jet was at the beach with the pegasus 206 meters (675 feet) behind it, slowing it's pace to a more reasonable 1,058 miles an hour (1,702 kilometers an hour) so the pegasus could catch up an. Making his way over where the sea and land meet, the pilot checked the back of his aircraft to make sure each of the 21 pegasus were still there. They were, still trying to land a hit on his aircraft with their bow and arrows just like they did when the pilots first intercepted them. So now the only thing to do was relay their location to one of the many F-35D's, and ask for an air-to-air strikes.

"This is 'Therapist 3' to 'Centaur 7,' are you there 'Centaur 7?' Over."

"I'm here 'Therapist 3,' is there something I could do for you? Over"

"Are you carrying any external weapons? Because I couldn't get a good look when you and the rest took your positions, Over."

"Yeah, on the wings I've got 6 PAC 4's, 3 on both, and 2 MIM-50's, 1 on both. In the internal bays I've got 4 AIM 164's, and 2 GBU-15's. Overall I'm pretty well armed, so if you need me to kill someone, or something, just ask."

"Good, because I need you to obliterate the pegasus behind me..."

"Oh...that makes sense."

Ponies perspective

Watching her pegasus chase the creatures mighty flying beasts, Celestia was given another display of the sheer speed the flying beasts were capable of. But as it continued to fly it seemed to slow down a considerable amount for no discernible reason, that was until 30 seconds later when something else caught her attention. Hearing an audible whine coming from the East, Celestia looked in the direction of the noise and saw one of the sub species of the flying beasts she saw at Ponyville. Looking further in front of the beast, Celestia saw a large metal rod that vaguely resembled the ones that were used against Canterlot and Ponyville.

Looking at where the object was pointing, Celestia realized what events were about to unfold in a matter of seconds. A matter of seconds that were far too late, because before her, or anypony could react, several of the pegasus that were following the flying beasts were killed in an explosion powerful enough to rival the elements of harmony. The shock wave itself was powerful enough to shatter windows and crack the foundation of buildings, as well as knock ponies straight off their hooves and throw them several meters away from the place they were standing. This proved true for everypony standing on the beach, especially for Celestia.

Getting hit with the full brunt of the shock wave, Celestia, along with every other pony that was in a 29 meter (95 feet) radius of the blast were thrown like ragdolls, hitting anything that was behind the now airborne ponies. Celestia herself was launched into a bakery along with Flash Sentry, Luna, Twilight, and a plethora of other ponies. Hitting and knocking over several tables, Celestia somehow sustained minimal damage to her body, unfortunately, or fortunately depending on what kind of sick freak you are (yeah, I know you're reading this), Flash and Twilight weren't lucky enough to have had the same outcome. Twilight herself suffered lesser injuries when compared to Flash, who, because of his quick thinking, wrapped Twilight within his wings before Twilight and him went airborne; effectively saving Twilight from an even worse world of hurt, or maybe even death.

Slowly getting up, Celestia could hear the screams and cries of scared and injured ponies outside the bakery, so much so that it sounded like a war had just broken out, which could've been true. But that would have to wait, because Celestia needed to make sure the ponies she cared about were okay. walking towards her unconscious sister, Celestia saw the severity of the injuries Luna had sustained from the blast. Celestia couldn't tell wether it was the blast that injured her like this, or being launched into a literal building that did it. Looking at Luna's wounds Celestia could see all the small cuts that had reopened from being under the high stress by the shock wave, along with the new ones that had formed, 5 hours of healing magic turned useless by 2 seconds of airtime. Looking at Luna's wings Celestia could see all the damage they sustained, both wings were slightly bent at the patagium and burnt at the tip, overall it seemed to be a very bad day for Luna.

After looking over Luna's body and determining she was able to hold out for medical help to arrive, Celestia decided to move on and check Twilight and Flash for any life threatening injuries. Until she heard an audible moan of pain from behind her. Upon first instinct, Celestia turned around and looked in Luna's direction and saw her struggling to stand, toppling over upon the first second of getting back on her hooves.

Running over to her sister, Celestia said "Lulu, you're awake! How are you feeling? can you see clearly? Do you know were you are-"

"Ye-yes sister, I-I'm fine, I assure you. Now let's make sure our subjects are okay."

"That's preposterous, I'll go and make sure our subjects are okay while you stay here and rest. You're too severely injured to take on such a task, so for now you must rest."

"No! I'm fine, I have a duty to my subjects and I shall fulfill it."

"No luna! I won't allow it, and this isn't going to be an argument, you're far to injured to be taking on such a task. So as your older sister, I order you to stay here!"

Staring at her sister in overall shock, Luna couldn't believe that Celestia was speaking to her in such an aggressive tone. She didn't do it when Luna attacked the creatures on the beach, or when Luna insulted one of their nobles, so why was she doing it now when Luna was needed most?

"Bu-but sisters I-"

"Luna, I don't care, you need to rest, now stay here. I'll deal with this problem...alone!"

"Si-sister I-"

"Luna!"

Walking towards Twilight and Flash, Celestia couldn't help but feel bad for treating her own sister like a wayward filly, but something needed to be done to convince Luna that this situation isn't in her control anymore, never was. If Celestia was honest with herself, peace could've been acquired already if Luna hadn't insulted the United State's leaders, especially since it was unknown the Frederick was a noble who was related to one of said leaders. Getting back to the task at hoof, Celestia stood above both Flash Sentry and Twilight Sparkle as they too lay unconscious from the blast, surprisingly still asleep despite the yelling that Celestia had done not a moment ago.

Staring at the two unconscious ponies, Celestia inspected their bodies for any severe injuries, and there wasn't a short supply of them. Almost every part of Flash's body was covered in some kind of cut or bruise, his wings on the other hand were another story. Both were heavily damaged and burned, having large chunks of feathers falling off of them as well as having been pierced with copious amounts of debris thrown up from the blast; but he'll survive. 'It'll only take a few months for him to heal his wounds anyways, and after that he'll have his very own parade for saving princess Twilight,' thought Celestia, moving her attention to Twilight herself, who was in much better condition than Flash.

Twilight herself didn't seem to have a scratch on her, except for the one that Celestia saw on her left cheek, but that was really it. Aside from a couple of bruises here and there, overall Flash did a great job at protecting Twilight.

Hearing several explosions in the distance, Celestia's eyes left the bodies of her loved ones and went towards the outside once more to try and get a small glimpse at what might be happening; and nothing, nothing seemed to be happening with the ships on the coast. So that would only point towards the creatures flying beasts still battling the pegasus that were chasing them, which is still better than them and their Naval fleet turning their eyes towards the city and attacking it deliberately. Better to have the creatures kill a small amount of rogue royal guard-ponies and make an example of their power, than have them release their forces upon the whole of the Equestrian Empire, especially since Celestia was sure this wasn't a large percentage of their nations military forces.

"Admiring the sweet, sweet sounds of chaos are you? Celestia."

Hearing the other worldly voice speak behind, Celestia could already piece together who the voice belonged to before it spoke a second time.

"Ahh, Discord! What are you doing here!?"

Author's Note

Actual publishing date: Saturday, February 22, 2020

What is your opinion of the "Zimlip Daseeta Kingdom," "Tuismo Dominion," and "United Arus Seyre Empire?"

Holy shit... 100+ likes on my humble little story, I can't even believe it, thanks guys...

Chapter 1: New world with new questions

Location: U.S., Mexico border, Texas Laredo
Time: 23 hours after bright flash
Perspective: Joshua Richardson and Jeremy Manowar, 3rd person

"Okay Joshua,....are we seeing this?"

Asked a 22 year old border patrol agent in a exo-suit staring into an everlasting ocean where the country of Mexico once was before the blinding flash engulfed the U.S. about 23 hours earlier.

"Jeremy, if I could tell you...I would, but unfortunately I can't"

Jeremy, an older man, about 4 years older than Joshua, who was also wearing an exo-suit, his blonde hair blowing in unison with his black haired latino counterpart, staring into the void of blue water and sky.

"Jeremy, do you think we're on another planet?"

Joshua said with a hint of distress in his voice, Jeremy put his hand on joshua's shoulder and said "if we are truly in another world, we have our entire country to back us up." These words comforted Joshua as Jeremy pointed towards their patrol vehicle, a 2020 Chevy Tahoe with light bars on the front and back of the roof, along with black paint with a yellow line going across the side of the vehicle that spelled "Border Patrol" on top of the line.

But before they could get to their patrol vehicles, they saw what seemed to be a wall of dust being kicked up by something, they than saw 14 M3A3 Bradley IFV's accompanyed by 8 M1A2 Sep V4 abrams in desert camo, which meant they were supposed to be in the middle east fighting H.A.T. (humans against technology) anarchist group, which doesn't answer the question, why would they be here?

As the vehicles came to a halt, the Border Patrol agents slowly approached the Large company of armored fighting vehicles. A lone army tanker in the front of the company than popped his head out of the commanders hatch and said "hey, can you tell us wh-where we are?" He said this in a somewhat worried tone.

Before Joshua could say anything, Jeremy said they were in Texas, about 20 or so miles away from Lerado, these words made the tank commander breath a sigh of relief at the news. Not long after Joshua than came up with a question of his own.

"Why do you seem so worried?"

The commander took of his helmet and gave a smile only a loving father could give, and explained that a bright flash of light engulfed their platoon, than they woke up 21 hours after and upon climbing out of their armored vehicles to find every single soldier, Marine, aircraft and vehicle splayed across the desert in a 100 mile radius.

After the explanation, Joshua pulled out his radio and informed dispatch of their current situation, this put a smile on all of the army tanker/soldiers faces that were already out of their armored vehicles.

Because now, they're safe and sound, in the wonderful embrace of their home.

Location: Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama
Time: 35 hours after bright flash
Perspective: satellite controllers, 3rd person

Several NASA satellite controllers were looking at the onboard camera on the Defense satellite "Stellar Legend" as it took crystal clear pictures while traveling through space at 41,843 kilometers an hour (26,000 miles an hour) through the upper atmosphere, they saw nothing but ocean for miles, at least until they came across a land mass no larger than Australia. Though they only got a few pictures of the land mass, so they opted to go around the planet another time and slow the satellite to a halt.

Upon examining the land mass, they see several of what seemed to be city's scattered throughout the land mass. The closest one near the United States is 482 Kilometers (300 miles) away, and seems to be a Forest line near a city that looks strangely like Baltimore.

"Okay, Mendoza I'm going to need you to send all these pictures to the Pentagon, CIA, and FBI! We're not on earth anymore, we-we're...so-somewhere else... So let's get some intelligence on the locals before we make contact!"

"Ye-yes sir"

Mendoza runs off to send the message/picture as quickly as possible,...because right now, the United States may be in danger of starting a war with the locals.

Location: U.S. VTOL mobile military moon base/helium-3 mining base "dark tower omega"
Time: 40 hour after bright flash
Perspective: Lt. Michael Hammond, 3rd person

Lt. Michael Hammond looks at the United States Through his energy scope as the planet makes its 8th rotation, and as far as Hammond can tell, each day and night last 5 hours, which to him is strange but not impossible.

But ignoring the obvious time difference, Michael looks at the landmass 482 kilometers away (300 miles) from the U.S., Canada border, or at least were it should be. He chuckles to himself as he remembers the transmission his commander got 4 hours earlier from the space research and communications base "Forward Forever."

4 hours earlier

"Dark tower omega, what is your status, over?"

"This is dark tower omega to Forward Forever, our status is excellent, over."

"Have you spotted any mining vessels in your vicinity, over?"

"Yes, all 17 asteroid mining ships, and all three helium-3 bases including ours are here. We're awaiting your orders on wether to stay here, or go back to earth, over."

"You're going to have to stay at your current location for the time being. You're also tasked with looking at the new land mass 482 kilometers away from the United States near the U.S., Canadian border, over."

"Understood, will commence that order swiftly and precisely."

Current time (in the story)

Hammond laid back in his chair and signed before looking back into the energy scope and continued to watch the new land masses version of Manhattan, there seemed to be colorful beings in the city, but he would have to hold his breath and wait for the 519 ft wide Antigravity T.E.L.O.S. to do its job and watch the creatures from the sky, without being detected.

Location: U.S. McConnell Air Force base
Time: 5 days after bright flash
Perspective: TELOS Omar and Vector

The 2 TR6 "TELOS" observation attack platforms going to be sent to this new land are taxing the runway of McConnell Air Force base.

One's call sign is Omar, while the other's call sign is vector, and this being a top secret mission, it's going to be done at night, and in the day both aircraft will activate their active cloaks, making them invisible to the naked eye.

4 hours later

They finally arrived at their destination, a large castle hanging on top a mountain overlooking a smaller town. The sight was amazing for all four pilots, and the 30 observation cameras on the aircraft giving those on the screens a perfect look at the castle.

The 2 TR6's hanged in the air, hovering over this small town roughly 182 meters (600 feet) above the ground, and over a 30 meters (100 feet) higher than the castle, while also being 2 miles away from the castle, which didn't give the high powered multivision cameras any trouble, considering they could see roughly 500 miles in all directions from below the aircraft.

Though that didn't hold a candle to the SR-102A "Electric eye" multi purpose space attack vehicle, or the HTV-3X "blackswift" which is faster than both the SR-102A and TR6, being able to travel at Mach 29+ (22,250 mph or 35,809 kmh). Though, all of them had something in common, they all incorporated stealth, and where extremely difficult to find on radars in earth.

So, spying on these guys shouldn't be a problem... Right?

Location: Equestria, Canterlot castle
Time: 5 days after bright flash
Perspective: Celestia, and TELOS pilots, 3rd person

Celestia finished raising the sun about 44 minutes ago, and was making her way towards the balcony of her bedroom to watch the annual Ponyville air show, being told that Rainbow Dash was going to perform a sonic rainboom in front of the whole of Ponyville and Canterlot.

This made celestia happy because it would take mind off the recent attack that took place only 6 days ago at Cadance and Shining Armors wedding. The entire attack was planned by Chrysalis and her army of Changeling's, but of course they were defeated by the elements of harmony and were forced to retreat.

But that's not why celestia is stressed, she's stressed because of rumors of chrysalis planning a second invasion on Canterlot, and the invasion was going to be bigger and more deadly than ever before according to those who heard the rumors.

Which is why Luna sent multiple teams of 500 Luner guards to find and capture her wether or not she's planning another attack, and according to Luna Chrysalis was to dangerous to be allowed to roam free.

But for now, that would have to wait, because celestia needed to enjoy an air show soon to be full of every color of the rainbow.

"*giggle* I can't wait" said Celestia unknowing of the marvel of human technology watching her, and her ponies.

TR6 TELOS perspective

"Hey, are you guys seeing this" said one of the pilots in the Omar as he looked through the multivision cameras at one of the large balconies of the castle, and what he saw and picked up on the voice monitors was nothing they'd expected.

They expected humans, but instead found...horses? "I'm picking up something on the large balcony where one of the horses are." He was immediately corrected by one of the pilots in the Vector, "Ponies, to small to be horses man."

The Omar pilot shrugged as he listened in to what they thought to would be pony noises, but instead they heard crystal clear English.

"*Giggle* I'm so excited"

as they heard this, all the pilots along with those near the radios back at McConnell Air Force base eyes widened.
"Di-did that po-pon-pony just talk?" One of the Vector Pilots said with a stutter.

"Hay man. *giggle* new land, new species, and considering that *giggle* thing has a horn and wings, I'm decently convinced we're in another world" the Omar pilot said trying to suppress the urge to laugh.

But before he could laugh, they heard a large boom coming from their 3 o'clock, but before the Omar and Vector pilots could maneuver out of harms way, a large rainbow shockwave hit them, causing their cloaks to shut down temporarily, being visible and allowing Ponyville and Canterlot to see both 500 ft wide aircraft, and in unison, the pilots said "oh shit."

Celestia's perspective

Celestia's eyes widened as she saw two massive flying beasts materialize over Ponyville in front of her eyes.

She couldn't believe it, these creatures were massive, and high in the air without flapping wings.

But before she could make any discernible assumption, they began to turn around, still hovering, and than at an alarming rate they accelerated to an extreme speed, so much so that they were in a class of their own, and before she knew it, they were gone.

Location: Equestria, Ponyville
Time: 5 days after bright flash
Perspective: Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Soarin, and TELOS pilots, 3rd person

Twilight couldn't believe what she was looking up at, she saw two massive creatures hovering above Ponyville. They were so big in fact, that they were probably larger than the town itself, considering they were so high up.

"What are they?" She said to no one in particular.

But before she could attempt to fly up, they started turning, and as they finished doing a full 180 degree turn, they accelerated at a speed to give Rainbow Dash a run for her bits.

Rainbow Dash and Soarin's perspective

Soarin and Rainbow dash were right under the beasts belly, about 19 meters (65 feet) under it to be exact, and they couldn't believe it.

"That. Thing. Is. Huge!" Soarin said aloud, both of them were frozen with amazement, only their wings moving.

It than started turning, but it didn't flap it's wings, and to be frank it looked like one large wing.

After doing a full 180, it accelerated extremely quickly, so much so it knocked
Rainbow Dash and Soarin out of the sky, sending them hurtling towards the ground.

Soarin blacked out immediately because of the hit, while Rainbow Dash had to stabilize herself, it didn't take her long, which made her feel triumphant, but that faded as soon as Rainbow saw Soarin fall out of the sky.

She raced after him, catching him before he could hit the ground, though a single thought was in her head.

'What were those things?'

TELOS pilots perspective

"Let's get the fuck out of here, now!" Said a worried Vector pilots.

"I'm already on it"

Both their aircraft started to do a 180 mid-air, as they fully turned around, they gunned it back to the United States.

Reaching 1,931 kpm (1200 mph) in under 3 seconds flat, and gaining more speed, fast.

"Well, that...was something"

"Yeah it was"

Author's Note

If you have any questions about the aircraft, characters (pony and human), and technology, just ask.

Because theirs no such thing as a stupid question :)

(P.S. I also take constructive criticism, it's well appreciated)

Chapter 9: stronger than they're leading us to believe (1/2)

Location: Equestria, Ponyville, Twilight's castle
Time: 4 days after Naval battle
Perspective: Twilight Sparkle, princess celestia, princess Luna, princess cadence, shining armor, Royal guard

"What do you mean a rogue company of royal guard's engaged the creatures in combat!?" Screamed Luna.

"Yes, a rogue group of 134 Royal guards went into the Baltimare forests, they were led by commander Honey Bun" said the guard.

"I always knew she was a loose cannon, I should've had her expelled from the lunar guard years ago!" Exclaimed Luna, who faced hooved.

Celestia looked towards Luna, than back at the guard and said "how many survived?"

"About 3 princess, all of which were heavily injured" said the guard.

"How badly?" Asked Twilight.

"Theirs 2 pegasus, and 1 unicorn. The unicorn guard's horn was severaly cracked, having little peaces fall of at every touch, while both pegasus guard's wings had several holes in them, one guard had their entire wing ripped off" said the guard with solemn look of sadness.

"How many of the creatures did they engage?" Asked Celestia.

"From what the guards say, they only engaged 20 of the bipedal creatures, the creatures where accompanied by 7 large armored machines with 3 large flying machines" said the guard.

"They seem stronger than their leading us to believe" said shining armor.

"Like that wasn't already blatantly obvious" said Luna.

"Luna!" Said Celestia.

"What, I've seen first hand what these creatures could do, it shouldn't be surprising that a group was able to slaughter 134 well trained Guard's with a force of only 30!" Screamed Luna.

Celestia could only stare at her sister, she knew full well that her sister was right, these creatures were immune to magic, and had technology that out matched any magic she had. Not to mention that she only knew the capability of their airforce, which could crush the pegasi without even trying. Celestia only heard about what their ground forces where capable of, she didn't know their full capabilities.

"What should we do Celestia?" Asked Cadance.

Celestia didn't know how to answer the question, she only starred at Cadance. Though that was until shining spoke up, "why don't we try to scare them with the elements of harmony?" Shining said.

"That couldn't work, their immune to magic" said Twilight.

"We could always show them the destructive side of the elements" commented Shining Armor.

"That could possibly work, though what if they perceive it as an act of war?" Asked Luna.

"That is true, and we don't have all the element bearers either. Rainbow Dash is still in their custody" said Shining Armor.

Again, all Celestia could do was stare, though this time she wasn't alone, Cadance was doing the same. Both starred at the three, unable to believe that they where scheming to scare a nation with flying machines that had the ability to break the sound barrier, a feat none of the fastest pegasus could achieve, not even Rainbow Dash. Yet here they where, Luna, Twilight, and Shining Armor had no idea what this new nations true capabilities where, yet where trying to come up with a way to scare the nation into obeying Equestrian rule.

"Enough, this nation doesn't deserve your scare tactics, and let us not forget how they react when threatened. Right Luna?" Said Celestia, which garnered Luna to lower her head and respown with "yes sister".

"We need to come up with a reasonable way of creating peace with this nation" said Celestia.

"Than what should we do?" Asked Twilight.

After the question, the room went quiet, until the guard spoke up, "excuse me...?princess" the guard said, raising his hoove slowly.

"Yes, my loyal guard" responded Celestia.

"Why not go question the survivers of both the naval battle, and forest battle" exclaimed the guard, rather proudly.

Celestia could only face hoove, not because that it was bad idea, but because she's never thought of that.

"Why didn't I think of that...! Okay, everypony get some sleep we leave tomorrow, and you my loyal guard" said Celestia.

"Yes princess celestia?" Asked the guard.

"I need you to rally up all the survivers of both the naval and forest battles" Celestia ordered.

"Yes princess" said the guard.

2 days later

Celestia, Luna, Twilight, Shining Armor, and Cadance walked down a hospital hallway towards a room containing what was 35 occupants, though now is only housing 19 occupants because the other 16 occupants succumb to their injuries. To add to the already worsening state they where in, they would get sickening nightmares of what they've seen, which Luna's had the displeasure of seeing.

"Luna, how do you think their going to react to the questions?" Asked Twilight.

"To be truly honest, I don't know, their dreams have been so unpredictable and...gruesome" said Luna.

Cadence heard Luna's and Twilight's conversation about the survivers who tried to battle the new creatures, and started becoming more and more curious about these new creatures and their nation, especially since Celestia was making such a fuss about it.

"Celestia, why is everypony so overworked by this new nation?"

"Well Cadance, it's because of the overwhelmingly mysterious power they possess" said Celestia.

"Power of what sort? I've only heard snippets of information about these creatures" said Cadance.

"Well, from what we know now, their air capabilities are out match any airborne Equestrian species by atleast a 1,000 years. Their flying machines have proven superior in air-to-air combat, speed, maneuverability, survivability, and stealth" said Celestia.

"How many of these flying machines do they have?" Asked Cadance.

"From what I've heard, they have over 50,000 of these machines, all of which of varying sizes at their disposal" answered Celestia.

"That shouldn't be that bad of a problem than" commented Cadance.

"Well, that would be true if they weren't able to obliterate a squadron of 10 thunderbolt's with only two of these machines" said Celestia.

"That can't be true!" said Cadance.

"Well, it is, I sent the squadron to rescue rainbow dash, and they where intercepted by only two of their machines. Only 3 came back" said Celestia.

Not long after the 5 royals fell into silence, continuing there trek towards the room that housed the few survivors of both the naval and forest battles. Once they came upon the door, they stopped, unable to continue, they all began to rethink their initial idea of questioning the guards.

These guard's have went through something literally no pony has been through before, so how would they react when reminded of the horrors they had to go through? They where about to find out.

The 5 royals saw a nurse and therapist open the door and walk out shaking their heads, not long after they saw Celestia, Luna, Twilight, Cadance, and Shining Armor, which stopped them in their tracks.

"How are they doing?" Asked Luna.

"Their in bad conditions, mentally and physically" said the nurse.

Soon after the therapist commented, "whatever those creatures did, it's going to stick with those 19 stallions for the rest of their lives. There's nothing I could do, atleast with the current techniques I have to deal with PTSD" he finished.

PTSD, that was a term both princesses haven't heard for over a thousand years, now it's a rare condition that only a select few get, making it on of the hardest mental problems to deal with.

"PTSD, what is that?" Asked Twilight.

"It's a condition that those who've experienced extremely tragic events have" answered Celestia.

"Such as?" Asked Cadance.

"Extremely gruesome deaths of either loved ones, strangers, and friends are among the few who have this condition" answered Luna.

All 7 ponies went silent, unable to respond to the sudden realization of 19 royal guards having a condition almost impossible to treat with current methods, and again, how would the guards react? Well, they're now going truly find out.

Celestia broke the silence by walking forward, past the nurse and therapist and towards the door, and with a deep breath she opened the door. Upon going inside, Celestia saw the full extent of the injuries they received.

She saw the missing limbs, broken limbs, gashes, bruises, ect. All she could really do was stare at them, she hadn't seen such brutal injuries at all in her more than 1,000 years of life. Now, all she could feel was rage at the creatures she dared not aggravate, and to add to the already mounting frustration, she knew the creatures had full right to do so, especially since the guards had full intent on hurting the creatures.

Celestia had nothing to vent her rage on, and everypony in that vicinity could see it, because on one hand these were her ponies they where hurting, though at the same time her ponies where trying to hurt the creatures all the same. It wasn't their falt for being prepared, especially since from the little information Celestia has heard, they've had it worse.

Celestia started breathing through her nose rather loudly, though it was helping her to calm down, after a while her nose became scrunched, her wings less tens, and her main didn't seem to want to burst to flames.

Celestia walked further into the room, getting the attention of 3 guard's that were able to move their heads without feeling excruciating pain.

"Pr-princess?" Said one of the guards, before looking towards the door and seeing the rest of the royal family.

"W-why are al-all of you here?" Asked the guard.

"Well, we're here to ask a few questions" answered Celestia.

The guards ears dropped down, showing full well that he didn't want to recall the event he had to live through, though he knew that they needed the information for whatever they where going to do.

"Ask away,...princesses" said the guard, making the royal 5 hearts ach.

Luna was the first to ask a question, "What battle did you participate in?" Luna asked.

"I was apart of the naval failure" answered the guard, which made Celestia ears droop.

Cadance than stepped forward and asked a question, "what weapons did their vessels use?"

"Well, they weren't like any other cannons in Equestria" answered the guard.

"Why?" Asked Shining Armor.

"They where better, after one shot from their cannon destroyed 3 ships in the span of several milliseconds" said the guard.

"How?" Asked Twilight.

"I don't know" answered the guard, after the guard said that, the room fell silent once again.

"What other weapons did they possess?" Asked Twilight, who was now holding a pen and paper.

"Wel after they fired their better cannon, we fired a second volley of enchanted cannon balls that didn't even scratch their armor, they tha-" Before he could finish, he was interrupted by Celestia.

"You mean, the enchanted cannon balls didn't penetrate at all?" She asked.

"None, none of our cannon where able to even scratch them. Though, their response to our volley was swift and ruthless" said the guard.

"How ruthless?" Asked Luna.

"One of their ships shot out impossibly fast projectiles at our fleet, destroying 15 of our vessels in under 25 seconds, and that wasn't even the end of it" answered the guard.

"Wh-what else happened?" Asked Cadance.

"*sigh* They released one of their impossibly fast flying creatures to attack us" answered the guard.

"What did it do?" Asked Celestia.

"Well, it came straight for what little fleet their was, but once in close enough proximity, it let out these tiny suns. At first they where beautiful, though that ended when they touched the ground and sea" said the guard.

"Why would that be?" Asked Celestia.

"Once they touched ground, they exploded with such force and fury that seem to rival the elements of harmony" said the guard.

The 5 royals stood in place, trying to imagine the great suffering he want through.

Celestia than said, "I'm sorry," putting her head down while walking towards on of the pegasus that fought in the forest battle, he had his eye closed and head down most likely dealing with extreme pain from the wounds he received.

"Excuse me my loyal guard, but may I ask you some question?" Asked Celestia.

He looked up thinking it was the therapist, though was surprised to see the princess of the sun slowly approaching him.

"Pri-princess?" Said the guard.

"Yes, it is I" said Celestia, calmly spreading her wings.

"Wh-why are you here princess?" Asked the guard.

"Well, I've come to ask some question about the forest battle" answered Celestia.

"Oh, ask away princess" responded the guard.

Cadance asked the first question, "what's weapons did they use?" Cadance asked.

"Well, they used large armoured beasts, like metal yaks, only immune to any magical attacks the unicorns throw at it, not even the arrows the pegasus shot at it broke through what seemed to be metal armor, they also had skinny cannons protruding from the front" answered the guard.

"How powerful where these cannons? Where they as large as Equestrian cannons?" Asked Twilight.

"Yes, they where just as powerful if not more powerful, while being much smaller than any cannon in Equestria" said the guard.

"*sigh* why was I expecting anything else" said Luna while she face hooved.

Than Shining Armor came up with a question, "How big where these armoured beasts" he asked.

"Massive, the 5 small ones where atleast 4 feet taller than the bipedal creatures, the largest was 6 feet larger with a much larger and more powerful cannon" said the guard.

"How fast where the projectiles they fired?" Asked Celestia.

"Extremely fast, so much so that we where never able to see them when they where launched" answered the guard.

"H-how?" Asked Shining Armor.

"As of right now, we have no idea" answered the guard, solemnly. He than continued, "though, I can understand why they attacked us" he said.

"Why would that be?" Asked Luna.

"Well, we haven't been the most excepting towards them, our first encounter with them was us trying to capture them and the changeling's. Especially with how we've been treating the changeling's, it's only obvious that they would find it to be wrong and unjust" commented the guard. So Luna

Luna hated it, but he was (spitting straight fax) telling the truth, she wasn't really thinking like a leader should when meeting a new species that was of mysterious origins. Lowering her head, Luna remembered every poor soul that was lost on that beach, every single one could have bee saved, if only she was more cautious and didn't let the emotions about the changeling's cloud her judgment.

"I understand your reasoning" said Luna, still with her head down.

Not long after, the guard realised the weight his words had on Luna, "oh, I'm sorry princess, I didn't mea-" though before he could finish, Luna interrupted him.

"No, your reasoning was sound and just, I'm not immune to criticism" said Luna.

"Oh, okay" responded the guard.

Not long after shining asked a second question, "what weapons did the smaller bipedal creatures use?" Asked Shining.

"Well from the little I saw, they used smaller version of the cannons their beasts used, though they still packed quite the punch" answered the guard.

"How much" asked Twilight.

"Well, when the projectiles their little cannons unleashed hit us, they caused damage that I doubt any pony can fully recover from, as you can tell" answered the guard, raising his left wing up at full view.

Upon looking at the wing, they saw the full extent of the damage, his left wing was almost ripped apart, half only hanging on by a few strands of skin and muscle, along with the bandages that where wrapped around it

"Oh my, why would they do such a thing!?" Screamed Cadance, spreading her wings in anger.

"We did have it coming" responded the guard, giving a slight shoulder shrug while looking towards his right wing. He than continued with, "besides, it could always be worse, I could be dead."

Cadance started to feel less anger, folding back her wings, "I'm sorry for my outburst."

"It fine, I could understand why you would be atleast a little angry, but do you guys have any other questions?" Asked the guard.

"No, we've heard all we've needed to hear" answered Luna, and not long after they left the hospital, pondering on what to do next.

Location: Equestria, Baltimare forest coast
Time: 6 days after Naval battle
Perspective: Lt Tristan Summers, gunnery sergeant Nathan Reeds, WHA-91 pilot Nicholas Diaz, colonial army ranger Frederick Bowman, armoured platoon commander Roman Hahn, Bradley driver Melvin Lara, Bradley turret operator Marco stain, Lt. Flash Sentry

Flash Sentry was walking through the already terrifying forest, knowing full well that he might get himself killed here. Though, their where more important matters at hand, and they needed to be addressed, the only thing in Equestria that could help him with it were these creatures.

He continued through the forest, waiting and looking for any signs of the creatures he wanted to see, and not long after, the tree next to him exploded into a storm of bits of wood. Though instead of running away, he stood tall, legs admittedly shaking.

"I know you're out their, I only wish to talk" announced Flash Sentry, not long after another tree exploded next to him.

"Please, I only wish to talk, I know my kingdom hasn't been quite accepting towards you, but all I ask is to talk" said Flash Sentry.

Not long after, Flash Sentry heard the creatures murmuring among themselves, though he knew they were talking about weather or not to address the obviously bright orange colored pegasus standing in the woods with a sattle bag.

Several creatures pop out if the bushes slowly, brandishing the strange sticks-like weapons Flash Sentry came to be all to familiar with at the prison he was stationed at in Baltimare.

Flash Sentry smiled when he saw the creatures brandishing their infamous weapons and downing their impenetrable armor, not caring that they could splatter him across every inch of this forest.

"Check the settle bags" (Roman Hahn) commended one of the creatures.

Not long after 2 of the creatures started to slowly approach Flash (Army rangers), still pointing their weapons at him to make sure he doesn't get any ideas. Once a sufficient distance, one (Frederick Bowman) bent down to look through the saddle bags, while the other stood tall, still pointing his weapon at Flash.

Though Flash only heard little details about their weaponry and it's destructive power, and every new piece of news, every rumor only made him more, and more curious. Now he was here, in front of the very creatures Equestria understood little about, and it didn't disappoint what so ever.

"Sir, theirs nothing in here besides a photo book, a box of gummies, and a map of the city we're close too. He's not a threat" said (Frederick Bowman) the creature.

"Okay than, what's your reasoning for being in this part of the forest?" Asked the creature, Flash determined him to be the leader.

"I'm here to report an injustice" announced Flash.

"And why report it to us?" Asked the creature.

"Don't you protect changeling's" Flash retorted.

"touche" said one of the creatures (a U.S. Marine) besides what Flash determined to be their leader.

"Okay than, what is your name?" Asked their leader.

"Lieutenant Flash Sentry of the Royal Equestrian Guard sir" said Flash Sentry, giving a salute that only made him look adorable in the eyes of the (Marines and Army troops) creatures.

After a little while, Flash started to wonder if they had names, "so, what's your names?" Asked flash sentry.

"Well for some of us here it's confidential, but I'm armoured platoon commander Roman Hahn, U.S. Marines Mr. Flash Sentry" said Roman, putting his hand forward for flash to shake.

"So, what do you want to tell us?" Asked one of Roman's men (Frederick Bowman).

"Well, I was stationed at a prison after Luna decided to...well, confront you, and what I've witnessed their is unbelievably cruel. I was hoping you could help" said Flash.

"I feel like this is something you should talk to Tristan and Nathan about" said Roman.

"Nathan? Tristan?" Asked Flash, tilting his head.

"Well, come with us, we'll introduce you to them" said Roman, gesturing for Flash to follow him.

Unsurprisingly Flash followed, trotting with small smile, receiving pets on the head from several Marines and Army troops, and surprisingly these creatures were quite nice, considering that all he heard that these creatures were emotionless with zero traces of a soul. Though he never really pay attention, until they talked about the creatures protecting the changeling's, which gained Flash's interest, considering how the changeling's have been getting treated in the prison.

Flash continued following Roman, wondering where he was leading him, not long after they arrived at their destination, which was 3 Bradley M3A3 IFV's (infentry fighting vehicles), and 5 M1A2 sep V4 abrams main battle tanks parked in a diamond formation.

"Wh-what are tho-those things? Are they monsters?" Asked Flash as he was slowly backing away, bumping into one of the Marines that followed behind him and Roman.

The Marine he bumped into noticed how distressed Flash was, so he tried comforting him to the best of his ability, "no, their not monsters, there machines we use to protect ourselves and the M3A3's" said the Marine, petting Flash on the head. Flash would be lying if he said that it didn't make him feel better, somehow these creatures made him feel safer despite the fact they where able to kill Celestia's and Luna's best guard's without much effort.

Not long after, Flash slowly approached one of the M1A2's Abrams tanks with the help of the same Marine he bumped into, once Flash was close enough to the tank, the Marine slowly picked up Flash's left hoove and allowed it to touch the lower frontal armor, insuring flash had no reason to fear the tank.

"See, you've got nothing to fear, it won't hurt you. The only way it would hurt you is if you're a threat, and you're not a threat" said the Marine, petting Flash once again. Not long after the Marines said, "you should go with Roman now, I've got to drive my tank."

"You control...this!?" Asked Flash, pointing towards Abrams

"Yay, it's a machine, it needs someone to control it" said the Marine.

"Cool" Flash said while walking towards Romans, who was performing a maintenance check on his tank.

Once Flash got to Romans tank, Roman picked up Flash like you would a dog, putting him on the front left side of the tank protruding armor plating, he than climbed on the main body, than the turret opening the commanders hatch.

"He Sentry, get up here we're about to go to the encampment" said Roman.

Flash did what he was told, clumsily climbing on to the tanks turret, sitting next to Roman who was currently standing in the commanders apartment.

Every one got in their appropriate vehicles, and not long after the armoured platoon was on its way towards the encampment. Along with their new guest.

Melvin Lara and Marco Stain perspective

"Hay Melvin, I heard your little brother Christopher had his first fire fight 2 days ago, you think he's okay?" Asked Marco, trying to start a conversation.

"He fought ponys, it's nothing to be worried about" answered Melvin, in an tone that made Marco shutter.

"Damn bro, and I thought I was cold blooded" responded Marco with a worried look.

"I mean really, there his ponies, and it's not like theirs a mental burden either" responded Melvin, which put off Marco.

"But they're still sentient, they still have feelings like us, they can cry, smile, hurt, and feel empathy much like we can. I thought that would be apparent for a species that can create structures and speak a discernable language" said Melvin, in a scolding manner.

"Yet, the same species that can feel 'empathy' wants another species either in cages for the rest of their lives, or dead. I don't know about you, but that sounds like genocide" responded Melvin.

"Not all of them think like that, I mean look at the German populist during World War II, not all of them thought the same way about Jewish people!" Said Marco.

"And yet a good portion of the population did agree with Hitler about the Jews, and a good portion still do now, so you make your guess" responded Melvin.

"But look at who just came, a literal pony came from that is most likely apart of the Equestrian kingdom came for, what seems to atleast help us with the changeling's, so stop with this senseless xenophobia!" said Marco.

For some unknown reason, Marco's words hit Melvin like a bus, Melvin felt slightly ashamed about the comments he made about the ponies, and his little brother. Though he wanted to end the conversation, because he could see he wouldn't see the end of it.

"*sigh* Okay, I see where your coming from now, and I'm sorry, I just didn't think they were all that great because of how they've been coming at us constantly" said Melvin.

"It's fine, we all have those moments, and I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fully justified" responded Marco, and not long after the 2 in tbe Bradley went quiet, neither knowing what to say next.

20 minutes later, everyone's perspective

Nathan and Tristan were in their command tent, going over possible defensive tactics encase Equestria declares war on the United States, they did this while a U.S.A.F Northrop Grumman SR-78 Aurora high-speed reconnaissance aircraft flew overhead, approximately 13 miles (68,640 feet ,or 20,915, or 20 kilometers) in the sky, casting a view that reached Canterlot, and it was doing this in all direction with its powerful 360 degree all weather multi-purpose cameras, relaying the feed back to the command tent in real time.

While doing this, the aircraft (Northrop Grumman SR-78 Aurora high-speed reconnaissance aircraft) was traveling 15,217 kilometers an hour (9,456 miles an hour) in 838 kilometer (521 mile) radius, using a mixture of different cameras as the name "multi-purpose cameras" states, the aircraft used thermal cameras, heart beat detecting cameras, heat detecting cameras, and brainwave detecting cameras, though greenwave detecting cameras couldn't read minds, only detect the electric frequencies they emitted. Each camera was connected to a number of frequencies that would feed information to vehicles, other aircraft, ground troops, and even naval ships while anything those platforms saw would relay the same information back to the aircraft (SR-78) and other platforms, nothing would be able hide.

As Nathan and Tristan discussed the tactics that would be most affective to use in a conflict against the Equestrian empire, a familiar person entered the tent with a small light orange colored pony with a blue main.

"Hey guys, we've got a guest who wants to speak to you" said Nicholas, with his normal slightly deep, seductive, semisexual, and assertive voice.

As Flash heard this, he became quite confused, he knew that Nicholas was male, but couldn't understand how he had such a feminine charm to him. Though for now, that would have to wait because there are more important things at hand.

As Flash entered the tent, he was met with two men who toward over him, both with confused expressions.

"He-hello?" Flash said, giving a nervous smile to add to the awkwardness.

Nathan and Tristan looked at each other with confused looks, than they looked back at Flash.

Tristan was the first to grow some balls and speak, "h-hi, I'm Lt. Tristan Summers, and this is gunnery sergeant Nathan Reeds, we both work for the U.S. Marine Corps. What's your name?"

"It's nice to meet you, my name is Lt. Flash Sentry of the Equestrian Royal guard" answered Flash, walking towards the two Marines.

"Ah, I ses you're a fellow lieutenant" responded Tristan, who bent down on his knees to properly greet Flash.

Flash and Tristan shook hands and hoove, both ignoring the fact they're both of rival kingdoms.

Not long after, Nathan bent down to his knees to greet Flash and ask the big question, "hello little guy, what would you like to speak to us about?" Asked Nathan, shaking Flash's hoove.

"Well, I've come to report an injustice in the royal guard" responded Flash.

"What would you report that to us? We don't have any control over the royal guard" said Tristan.

"Well, it's not about the guard, but the changeling prisoners that Equestria has acquired" answered Flash.

"Yes?" Asked Nathan.

"Their being mistreated, they're being beaten, physically and emotionally abused. That's what I came to report, and I was hoping you could help?" Asked Flash, nervously.

"I see, but how would you like us to deal with such a problem?" Asked Nathan.

"The way you dealt with Luna, the Equestrian naval fleet, and commander Honey Bun, and every pegasus you've blown out of the sky, you do this with superior technologies and tactics. You've shown what you're capabilities are capable of, and they outmatch any that Equestria has seen before, you have the capabilities to take on Tirek, King sombra, and even the elements of harmony themselves, and yet you continue to use your capabilities with noble intentions, and the changeling's in that prison need your help" responded Flash.

"Well, you make a valid case, though that would create more tensions between Equestria and the United States" commented Tristan.

"What are tensions to lives, Mr. Tristan" said Flash

"He does make a good point" commented Nathan.

"*sigh* Okay than, do you have any maps of the facility their being held in?" Asked Tristan.

"Actually, I do" answered Flash, digging through he's saddle bags.

"Here it is" said Flash, who raised the papers to Nathan and Tristan.

They grabbed the papers, examining all of them for important details.

"well, I guess this is going to be our first offensive against Equestria" commented Nathan.

Author's Note

Sorry for prematurely uploading this chapter a total of 4 times, writing on a cellphone can be a pain.

The SR-78 belongs to bagera3005 on deveintart.

(P.S. if you spot any grammatical errors, please notify me)