The Insignium

Chapters

Prologue
Chapter 1: The Insignium and her Crew
Chapter 2: Emergency Call
Chapter 3: Project Liberty Class
Chapter 4: Battle for Equestria
Chapter 5: The Moon Prison Part 1
Chapter 5: The Moon Prison Part 2
Chapter 6: Ponynapped
Chapter 7: The first Offensive

Prologue

The Insignium

Once upon a Time in the magical land of Equestria, after Twilight Sparkle took over the Throne a new age of inventions started. 2 Millenia after she took over the Kingdom she transformed Equestria into more of a Democracy in which the princess herself is supported by a council of 5 other ponies, her ministers,

the Minister of Technology currently Applejack, the Minister of Agriculture, who currently is Pinkie because she is related to the biggest Apple provider in all of Equestria , the Minister of Healthcare and of course that title is owned by Fluttershy, the Minister of Education, as surreal as this sounds that position is owned by Rainbow Dash, who went out of her way as Boss of the EEA, a job that goes hand in hand with the title of Minister of Education, to make lessons in every school how they are handled in the school of friendship and that with success, the ditching numbers went down to nearly zero and last but not least Rarity is appointed as the Minister of Defense which overall is because of her taking threads to Equestria very seriously and nearly begging Twilight for the job so she could once and forever make Equestria save for her little sister and all the other ponies

and after some time the ponies of Equestria cried out for a law to make it legal to be made immortal by the princess which was passed in the council and with that the roads were lined for something Rarity always planned in the back: She let herself be made immortal and soon the others followed her to be able to help the ponies forever.

Soon Equestria made peace treaties with all the other creature nations and had a lot of technological inventions, the most important: The Battleships. After sometime the ministry of Technology and the Ministry of Defense unveiled their newest project:

The Battleships are 3 Classes of Spaceships:

The first ones are the Intimidator class Frigates which have about the size of Ponyville and are equipped with laser canons and Plasma rockets, which essentially lock on their target, impact and about 5 seconds after that they explode in a burst of fire to destroy the compartment it hits, a Mark-I-Shield generator which can holdout laser fire for quite a while but is weak against the rockets and a small Warp drive,

then the Valorant class Carriers which are about 3 Frigates big and have laser canons, a Mark-II-Shield generator to better protect them from rockets and a standard sized Warp drive several drone bays, the drones having the size of about 5 ponies and are equipped with small plasma canons to destroy shields but on their own not too effective against the armor of other starships, 5 drones are controlled by a pilot in front of a computer on the Carrier to ensure as less deaths as possible and a carrier is equipped with 25-50 drones

and last but not least the big boys: The Imperator Class Warships who have the size of about 3 Carriers and have two docking stations, one on each side, to attach two Intimidators and is equipped with three rows of laser canons on the sides countless amounts of rocket launchers and up to 25 drones and the standard Warp drive,

but then there’s the Insignium the main Flagship of the 1. Equestrian Space Fleet and with that the Flagship of the whole space division of the Military, so of course it has some special modifications, it is a beast, it has the size of 2 Imperators and only one docking station on the bottom for any ship to dock if needed or to dock onto the space station that hovers over Equestria and it has 4 rows of laser canons and more rocket launchers than should be possible, a special big warp drive and a Mark-III-Shield generator which is nearly undestroyable and can survive a direct hit from a nuclear missile and has several hangars with a combined storage of 100 drones.

Years after the battleships were build a strange unknown Battleship approached the Space station and after hours of trying to contact the ship the comms were flooded with the message:

“FOR CHRYSALIS!” and the ship opened fire on one of the Frigates.

The Captain of said Frigate barked: “RETURN FIRE!” and after a short battle he rushed to the Station and went straight to Canterlot.

“I got your message Captain what happened in the Orbit?”, Twilight questioned after he entered the Throne room which now has thrones for the ministers too.

“Somehow the changelings made it to another planet and build Battleships themselves and one tried to attack the Swordfish”, he answered.

And from there on Equestria was at war.

Chapter 1: The Insignium and her Crew

It´s now about a month after the first contact with a Changeling Battleship and the captain has once more been called to the Chamber of the council, as the throne room is called now, to talk with the Princess and her ministers.

” I have traveled here as fast as possible as I received your message, something new about the Changelings I presume.”, he asked as he entered the room,

“More or less.”, Twilight answered,

“Do you remember the Insignium Project?”, Rarity asked with a strict voice,

“Of course Ma’am”, the captain answered quickly,

“The General and I discussed for hours and came to the conclusion that you are the perfect fit as captain for the Insignium. ” She explained,

“I’m not sure if I’m really the pony for this, shouldn’t a unicorn who can control a lot on his own command such a big ship?”, the captain replied humbly.

“I think you are the perfect pony for the job”, said the immortal mare who just entered the chamber,

“Oh…Hello General Spitfire”, the captain exclaimed raising his hoof to salute her,

“Put your hoof down captain”, she said hating the whole military respect that her rank gets her. “By now you are officially captain of the Insignium”, Spitfire explained to him, “now follow me to the Spaceport your crew is waiting for you”. As they walk out the captain whispered to the general,

“I’m sorry ma’am I have to ask: Is it true what ponies say about your immortality?”, General Spitfire well knowing that by now it is common knowledge that her immortality wasn’t granted by the princess but is due to an incident that occurred while testing the first healing station , an overload of said healing station to be precise which caused nanobots to be a permanent part of her answered:

“Yes what they say is true”. After that nothing wanted to be said anymore and the two trotted to the shuttle and after they entered the Space station, they part ways, the general went to her office and the captain to airlock 3 to enter his ship. At the door he was immediately greeted by a unicorn sergeant:

“Hey pal you got assigned to the Insignium too?”, the captain was surprised by the mares tone but quickly realized that she didn’t know that he’s the captain so he answered:

“Yeah but not as voluntarily as I wanted, did you meet the captain yet?”,

“No”, she answered simply, “but I heard he is a combat expert and a star graduate of the Royal Starship School”,

”Oh do they talk so good about me?”, he asked teasingly,

“Oh I’m sorry sir I didn’t-”, the unicorn mare started,

“Expect an earth pony neither did I!”, he said with a snicker in his voice, “And put your hoof down that isn’t needed”, he added.

“So, I’m here to take you to the bridge Captain”, the unicorn said motioning him to follow her, “this way please.”. He followed her through what felt like a thousand lifts and triple the number of hallways they stood in front of a huge open doorway which leads to the bridge. “Captain on deck lads!”, the sergeant barked across the big room only now showing her slight Scottish accent, the captain trotted to this seat which surprisingly matched his cutie mark perfectly and with that showed that his special talent is not just being a captain but commanding the Insignium.

Four ponies lined up in front of him, the first one, Citrus, a yellow coated Pegasus mare with a joystick as cutie mark was the lead helm and essentially commands every thrust of the engines, the second one, Bullet, a brown coated Pegasus stallion with a bullet as a cutie mark and surprisingly of all things that make one special he wears a black fedora with his standard black uniform was the tactical officer which meant he commanded every shot erupting from the canons and launchers, the third one, Gearhead, a red earth pony stallion with a gear as his cutie mark was the technical officer whose job it is to keep everything running,Midnight Flyer, a white coated unicorn with helmet as her cutie mark was the drone commander commanding the drone pilots over a special intercom, the grey coated unicorn sergeant with the brown mane was the second in command and according to her red cross cutie mark the lead doctor on the ship.

Each of those five ponies had their own little spot on the bridge with their own terminals which connected them to their designated soldiers on the ship, all that was centered around the captains chair which was surprisingly empty except for a few buttons:

The Battle mode alert which would sound a siren through the ship and set the weapons and the medical section to immediate full attention, a button to activate a microphone integrated into the chair to communicate over the loudspeakers all around the ship, then two buttons next to each other, one activating a virtual interface to make/receive calls over the holocom in front of him and one to send an emergency broadcast, both blink if they register a broadcast directed to the ship, every other broadcast is handled by the Communication Officers.

And with that he opened the holocom and contacted the stations docking office,

“Space station Celestia this is the Insignium requesting permission to start.”,

“Permission granted captain good flight”, a robotic male voice replied. And with that the Insignium detached from the station fully loaded up on fuel and drones to join her fleet.

Chapter 2: Emergency Call

After the Insignium detached and the Thrusters started pushing her away from the Station the Emergency Frequency light started blinking,

“Someone one the emergency frequency Captain!”, a mare said from her communication terminal,

“I see it pull it on the main speakers of the bridge”, the captain said.

“This is [static….] Captain Strong- [static…] from the [static...] were under attack in Sector 3-0-5 request immed-”, sounded from the speakers,

“Broadcast is dead Sir”, the comm-mare said.

“Set a Warp course to the sector, Communications send a message to our fleet, our rendezvous-point has a new location, Officer Gearhead set maximal Energy to the Warp core we need it charged 5 minutes ago and prepare to give the weapons all you´ve got”, the Captain barked,

“Affirmative, Sir core fully charged in 10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1, Warp core fully charged Sir!”, Gearhead answered,

„Get us there NOW”, The Stallion who hadn´t even had enough time to switch into his captains jacket shouted to the lead helm. The Insignium turned and within the blink of an eye she was gone having transitioned into hyperdrive. With a mighty flash the Insignium appeared near the ongoing battle of a single frigate against what looks like 3 Changeling warships. The Captain slammed the battle mode button and shouted:

“Put the shields up and full energy to the canons and Bullet get those missile racks full!”,

“Affirmative”, the Stallion with hat replied and pushed his own broadcast button and barked into his microphone:

“Fill the missile racks and ready the canons”.

” Get us closer to the fight!”, the captain ordered and with that the huge thrusters hummed back to life and sent the huge ship straight towards the battle.

„Canons and missiles ready sir!”, Bullet said with his head still deep in his terminal,

“Good! Citrus fly us between the first two ships! Bullet be ready to start firing at my command!”, ordered the Captain,

“Affirmative!”, both replied, the yellow coated lead helm turned to her helms who command every single move of the ship and relays the order to them, Bullet shouts into his mic to ready to fire. The Insignium now flew between the two ships and the Captain commanded:

“Wait……wait…FIRE!”, everyone turned around to their terminals, the helms making ready to turn to enable better firing at the third ship, Bullet slams his broadcast button and shouted:

“FIRE!” within a second every single canon started shooting lasers at the shields of the Warships who returned fire onto the Insignium and the missiles steered towards the third one and all three stopped to fire at the other ship, the captain saw this and immediately commanded:

“Com officer send a message to the unknown friendly vessel to get the fuck out of here immediately!”, ”

Yes Sir!”, the Mare replied,

“We got the Shield of one of those fuckers the other one is nearly down!”, Officer Gearhead shouted,

“Good how are our Shields?”, the Captain asked,

“Not a scratch Sir, those cunts don’t have nearly enough firepower to do anything!”, the tech pony replied. Suddenly something exploded and the whole bridge shook.

“Holy fuck what just happened?!”, the captain shouted,

“I’m not sure”, Gearhead replied, “But whatever it was it just put our shield down to 75%!”,

“Sir there’s something on the radar!”, one helm shouted,

“Another ship?”, came the question,

“Seems like it but nothing we know, according to the energy readings I get from it, it only has one large Energy Railgun!”, the mare answered,

“Okay new enemy ! Bullet send a wave of missiles to destroy it´s shield!”, the captain shouted to the Tactical officer who is putting his hat back on,

“Affirmative!”, he replied and turns to his terminal, “Missile racks redirect one blast to the new ship at 7-3-8-9!” The next missiles left the racks towards the new ship under them and within half a minute they ate themselves through the shield.

“Captain our new friend just lost his shield!”, Gearhead shouted,

“Good, Bullet finish him with another wave of missiles!”, the Captain barked,

“Affirmative”, The Stallion replied from his terminal, “Fellas send another Wave of missiles to our new friend!”. The Missiles shot out of the racks and flew towards the ship, after only a few seconds the hull was filled with missiles and after the first exploded a chain reaction of missile explosions tore the ship apart in a huge ball of fire.

“Sir we got two of the ships and our new friend”, Gearhead said but before the captain could answer one helm shouted:

“Sir, six new contacts om 7-0-1-6, more of those railgun ships!”,

“Affirmative, Gearhead how are the shields of the third Warship looking?”, the Captain replied,

“Down to about 1% Sir!”, The Tech pony answered,

“Good, helms turn the ship so we can give the last warship full broadside and Bullet redirect every missile to the new ships and give the other one the rest!”,the captain ordered,

“Affirmative, everypony ready the left barrage and redirect all missiles to 7-0-1-6!”, the tactical officer shouted into his microphone. The Insignium slowly turned redirecting all the missiles to the new ships and after an excruciating 3 minutes the left cannons erupted in laser fire and slowly after tore apart the third and last warship.

“Sir the enemy’s Railguns are powering up if they all fire we´re done!”, a helm shouted.

“Midnight how fast can you deploy your drones?”, the captain asked,

“Two minutes”, the unicorn mare answered, “One if we are lucky.”,

“Ok get them ready!”, the captain replied, the unicorn nodded and turned to her station and barked into the microphone:

“Everypony to your computers get your squads ready!”.

“Sir I get some readings something is warping to us!”, yet another helm shouted, “it’s enemy reinforcements I think!”,

“They want to get us no matter how many ships they need to throw at us, Bullet how long can the canons fire?”, the captain asked,

“It´s looking bad sir half of the upper line are burnt out and we only have about 20% of our missiles left!”, the stallion with hat shouted back. Then a flash and the new ships immediately opened fire.

“It’s the fleet, Sir!”, the lead helm shouted happily. The Railgun ships are bamboozled by the spontaneous multiplying of the enemy forces and redirect their shots losing any shield penetration potential in the process.

“Sir drones are ready!”, Midnight suddenly shouted,

“Perfect send them out there to help our boys!”, the captain cheered knowing well that the advantage is once more on their side. With that an army of drones rolled out towards the enemy and them not having planned to stand alone against a whole fleet try to warp away but not before one gets destroyed.

“Ok send Probes to scan the remains of the one we destroyed”, the captain ordering releasing a breath he didn’t know he held. After everything was scanned the captain opened the holocom to communicate with his fleet:

“Ok hello everypony you came right at the best point but we need to wait with the whole getting to know each other I need to get these scans to princess Twilight and the council immediately!”. And with that the whole fleet vanished in a flash on their way back to Equestria.

Chapter 3: Project Liberty Class

With a quick flash the 1. Equestrian Space fleet appeared in the orbit over Equestria and the Insignium neared the station and her Captain opened the Holocom interface and said:

“Space station Celestia this is the Insignium request permission to dock.”,

“Affirmative Captain please dock at Airlock 2!”, the husky voice of a worker sounded through the speakers,

“Citrus get us docked”, the Captain ordered. The Insignium slowly docked and a helm went up to the Captain and explained:

“Captain this is the data pad you wanted with the scans.”,

“Good, thank you princess Twilight will be very interested in what these scans say!”, he answered. And with that he trotted towards the airlock and into the station,

“Bring me to Canterlot, NOW!”, he ordered the shuttle pilot with anger in his voice. After the shuttle landed, he trotted to a taxi station and said

“Bring me to the castle please”, so he gave the driver his money and the taxi brought him through the skyscrapers of the capital straight towards Canterlot Castle. He walked nearly raced trough the hallways and into the chamber not even giving the guards enough time to open the big old doors, looked the princess directly in the eyes and shouted angrily:

“WHEN DID YOU WANT TO TELL US!”,

“Whatever do you mean?”, Applejack asked,

“We nearly got killed out there by this new type of Changeling ship and look what these scans say!”, he said his voice still full of anger and threw the data pad over to them nearly not giving the princess a chance to catch it with her magic,

“Project Liberty Class…. Assigned by Princess Twilight Sparkle and Minister of Defense Rarity.”, she mumbled and then asked, “Where did you find this?”,

“My helms extracted it from the System data this is part of the original Data pack all their ships are made with!”, the Captain answered with still a bit of anger in his voice.

“We should tell him, Girls, don’t you think?”, Twilight asked around and her friends nodded,

“Tell me what?”, the captain asked,

“Sometime ago we started a secret project called Project Liberty Class, it was intended to be a long range Railgun ship to destroy any shield and enable us to better fight the changelings.”, Rarity explained but before she could continue the captain cut her off his voice once more filled with rage:

“So let me get this straight: You build a ship strong enough to destroy the Insigniums shield and didn’t think of telling anyone about it?!”,

“Essentially yes and about a week ago the newest prototype who didn’t have enough power yet has been stolen.”, Rarity continued,

“Oh let me tell you it had power alright one shot brought our shields down 25%, and we had six more lined up to shoot without the rest of the fleet we would be toast now!”, the Stallion explained. Suddenly the sound of a yellow Pegasus mare sounded in the earpiece of the captain:

“Captain I’m getting strange Energy readings here.”, the captain immediately snapped out of his anger and asked: “What do you mean Citrus?”, “It looks like a shitload of warships……. Holy fuck Sir an army of about a dozen enemy ships just warped into the system this is an invasion!”, she shouted.

“Princess my lead helm just said the changelings just launched an attack on Equestria! We-”,he started but was cut off by another scream,

“Anti magic grenade!”, a guard shouted as something rolled into the chamber. A shockwave went through the chambers and Twilight dropped the data pad as the little ball detonated and the non-unicorn guard transformed showing what he truly is and raised a rifle at the princess

”All hooves up you don’t have your magic your defenseless!”, the changeling hissed,

“Didn’t you forget something!”, a voice sounded from next to the changeling, he turned to stare right down the barrel of a Colt M1911 the pistol of choice of the captain,

“I don’t need to be a unicorn for this!” he said with the gun in his mouth.

BLAM.

The shot echoed through the chamber as the changeling collapsed with a hole between his eyes.

” Captain you need to fight them off!”, Rainbow Dash shouted,

“I will!”, the captain replied while charging out of the chamber. The captain raised through the hallways to the taxi station

“Bring me to the Space port”, he ordered the driver

“I’m sorry dude but I’m gonna get out of here”, the stallion replied, the captain not having time to search for another taxi just lifts his gun and shouts:

“SPACE PORT NOW!”,

“Ok dude chill I’m getting you there!”, he replied taking off towards the port, the captain tapped his earpiece and explained:

“Citrus detach the Insignium immediately launch the drones and ready the weapons, I’m coming through Hangar 3!”,

“Affirmative, Sir!”, sounded the shocked voice of the mare from his earpiece. The captain raced into the next best shuttle and commanded:

“Pilot fly towards the Insignium and land in Hangar 3”, the Pegasus took a quick look at his radar to identify the Insignium and lifted off flooring the gas.

Chapter 4: Battle for Equestria

The Captain trotted trough the hangar, with an uncomparable urgency in his step he walked to the lift and slammed the button to take him to the bridge but in the middle of the ride the voice of Citrus once more sounded in his earpiece:

“Sir we have another problem!”,

“What can be a problem when we battle against a superior force with shield crashing ships which essentially makes us rely on the reinforcements?”, the captain replied with worry in his voice,

“That’s the problem sir I tried to send an emergency call to the other fleets but something is jamming the broadcast on every emergency channel the only thing broadcasted is static”,

“Fuck…. Ok open communications to the rest of the fleet I want it running as soon as I arrive on the bridge!”, the captain answered with determination in his voice, he is not going to go quietly into the night. As soon as the captain arrived on the bridge he barked:

“Bullet fire canons and rockets, everything you got, try to keep most of the bastards under fire, comms start the broadcast with the rest, Citrus turn us with the side towards the enemy, Gearhead give the Weapons everything you got but keep up the maximal shield power!”,

“Affirmative!”, it sounded out of every corner of the ship,

“Where the fuck is my second in command?”, the captain shouted realizing the grey mare isn’t at her post,

“No idea she left a while ago.”, Gearhead shouted over the others barking commands at their respective soldiers.

“Sir, comms are open!”, came from another mare,

“Ok listen up this is Captain Spearhead from the Insignium this is the plan: The two carriers will line up at the back guiding their drones through the battles the 5 frigates will form a defense circle around the carriers and Equestria, the two warships will position outside this circle one at 7-5-0-1 and the other one at 5-9-8-1, the Insignium will position at 9-2-3-7 open fire on the enemy’s ships, FOR EQUESTRIA!”, Spearhead shouted into the integrated mic of his chair and with that he turned towards his soldiers: “Citrus you got the coordinates move us there as fast as possible”,

“Affirmative Sir”, Citrus answered and the Captain turned towards his tactical officer: “Bullet how are the canons and the missiles looking?”,

“Good the whole left side is firing away and the missiles are locking onto the enemy ships, Gearhead can you get the power from the right rows to the left ones?”,he answered turning to the red stallion,

“Yes but I gotta keep a bit of rest energy in there to prevent a shutdown ….. here … it… comes!”, the stallion answered.

“Sir we have another 20 or so enemy ships that just warped into the system!”, Citrus suddenly shouted,

“Crap! Let me guess we just got to know their flagship with escorts?”, the captain replied but the answer was replaced by the shout of a comm mare:

“Sir one of the enemy’s ships tries the make contact over the holocom!”, the captain didn’t need to think twice,

“Put them through!”, he ordered and the holocom showed the projection of a changeling in special armor,

“Ponies this is General Deadhit of the changeling vessel Interceptor surrender immediately or we will exterminate you”,

“Shove your surrender up your ass!”, the captain shot back and killed the broadcast. “Bullet redirect all your missiles towards the Interceptor!”, he ordered,

“Affirmative”,the Pegasus answered turning to his terminal, “Soldiers redirect every missile to 9-5-7-9!”, with that an army of missiles soared towards the Interceptor and started battling it´s shield. The battle raged on everywhere in Equestria´s orbit the ponies desperately trying to fight of the changeling invaders, canons on both sides blow against shields but not a single shield is down yet, but The Insignium and her fleet are helplessly outnumbered but still keeping up the fight for the future of Equestria.

“Sir we got the first enemy’s shield and about three other ones are very low but the shields of our guys are all down to under 50%”,

“That’s bad Comms what is with the emergency broadcast channels?”, the captain asked,

“Still only static but we have concluded that one of the enemy’s ships is carrying the disrupter most likely it´s on board of the Interceptor.”, one off the com stallions replied.

“Bullet aim 90% of the canons on the interceptor we have to get it down!”,

“Ok I´ll get right to it”, he answered turning back to his terminal.

” Sir….”, a stallion said,

“What is it……”, he started turning his eyes to where the stallion pointed and his anger erupted, “WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN YOU ARE MY BLOODY SECOND IN COMMAND YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE IN MY EARPIECE TELLING ME ABOUT THE CELESTIA DAMNED INVASION NOT CITRUS BUT SHE HAD ENOUGH FUCKING BRAIN LEFT TO TELL ME, WHAT WERE YOU DOING ALL THIS TIME?!”, only then he noticed the four other soldiers accompanying her and she said:

“Sir some of the soldiers, me included, found your overly aggressive behavior to be a problem for the wellbeing of the crew”,

“AND THAT’S WHY YOU LEAVE YOUR POST AND DISREGARD YOUR POSITION?!”; the captain shot back still furious,

“No but this is why you are being removed from your post”, she said pulling out a pistol with her magic and lifting it between the eyes of Spearhead,the bridge froze all starring at the gun, Spearhead didn’t flinch he thought a second then punched the mare with a hoof causing her to go unconcise, dropping the weapon which he catched with his mouth pointing it at the other ponies who had been part of this attempted mutiny, they threw their hooves up surrendering and Spearhead dropped the weapon to say:

“Put those traitors in the cells we´re dropping them off at the Station after this all is finished.”,

“Sir about that three of our ships have lost their shield and ours is at only 10%”, Gearhead interjected,

“We need to finish this quickly three canons are already dead 4 more nearly are”, The tactical officer with hat added ,

” Ok, I only see one possibility, Bullet is Project X ready?”, Spearhead asked,

“Yes but we still can’t control it remotely.”, the stallion answered,

“That’s good enough, Citrus you are the new second in command! Bullet keep the fire on the Interceptor up and destroy that shield, I’m going to deliver the package”, the captain explained,

“With all due respect Captain”, Citrus started, “have you gone mad?!You want to try to steer a drone loaded with a nuclear missile through this battlefield fire it at the enemy and get out again, I beg your pardon sir you can’t be serious that’s suicide!”,

“It´s our only option we can’t survive without the other fleets”, the captain simply replied, “Midnight send me some escort drones, Bullet get that shield down before I arrive, Gearhead what is the status of our fleet?”,

“2 frigates down all three battleships are down to 50% hull integrity and I just got in a destroyed carrier.”, the technician replied. With that the captain walked towards the lift and citrus took over and started barking: “Bullet keep up firing replace any canon that can’t shoot at the interceptor with one that fired on something else, Gearhead send one of your teams to the canons they have to try to get some firing again, Midnight send 3 squadrons to assist the captain!”,

“Yes, Sir!”,came back, the ponies planning to make their captains sacrifice count. The captain exited the lift and ran towards the drone known as Project X,

“Sir”, a surprised repair technician approached him, “shouldn’t you be on the bridge?”,

“I am where I should be, prepare Project X”, the captain answered full of determination, the other stallion just nodded. Few ponies know about the past of the captain one of the more commonly known facts is that he started out as a drone pilot back in the days when drones had to be flown manually and couldn’t be remote controlled and he was good at it.

The captain entered the cockpit of the drone and sat down starting it up, meanwhile the battle was full in favor of the changelings and general Deadhit was proud of his soldiers completely ignoring the blinking light indicating a low shield. The captain flew out of the hangar immediately getting escorted by no less than 15 drones, all remotely controlled,

“Captain can you hear me?”, the familiar voice of his new second in command sounded from his earpiece,

“Yes I can Citrus.”, he answered back,

“We got some drones accompanying you and Bullet nearly got the Interceptor´s shield down.”, the mare explained. The drone loaded with the missile raced through the battle guarded by first 15 then 12 then 10 and now only 5 other drones but the target is near, after they pass another warship firing at the 1. Equestrian Space Fleet they would be lined up with the Interceptor. The last 5 drones took all the fire directed towards Project X and as the last of them exploded Midnight shouted:

“Citrus the last escort drone exploded the captain is on his own!”. Spearhead lined up the missile to fire at the enemy’s flagship but quickly realized that the shield was still up and shouted into his earpiece:

“Bullet get that shield down know we only have one chance!”, his voice echoed out of the speakers on the bridge and the stallion with hat replied:

“Working on it, Sir but most of the canons are down!”. Then the next batch of missiles started towards the Interceptor. The captain now was about a kilometer way from the ship closing distance, he mumbled:

“1000, 900, 800, 700, 600”, suddenly a batch of missiles flew past him digging into the shield and at 500 meters distance the captain was met by the familiar look of a collapsing shield,

“Shield down captain, shoot and get clear!”, the voice of gearhead sounded from the captains earpiece, the captain slammed the red button on his console and the missile shot to it´s target, the drone turned racing back towards the Insignium as the missile hit and immediately the Interceptor erupted in a ball of radioactive fire.

“Helms, where is he?”, Citrus shouted at her soldiers,

“We are not sure ma’am we lost his radar contact as he got consumed by the Smoke of the explosion.”, a stallion answered, “It´s likely that he didn’t make It, Captain”.

Citrus flinched at the notion of her being the captain now and trotted towards the chair that is only used by the captain but refused to sit on it instead she stood infront of it and said full of sorrow:

“Today soldiers we have lost a captain not just any one he was a fighter and never hesitated to jump to the defense of those in need he-”, she was cut off by a voice sounding from the speakers:

“Seriously that’s the best you got for my funeral? Open up hangar 3 for me and get the guns back running it´s not over yet, comms send an emergency call to the other fleets!”. The bridge erupted in cheers and a huge smile formed on Citrus´ face as she announced:

“You heard the captain guys, get back to your jobs!”,

“Affirmative!”, the whole bridge cheered.

Citrus immediately left the bridge racing to meet Spearhead. As he stepped out of his drone he was met by the most breathtaking hug from Citrus and even if he had to shout at the mare for leaving her post he didn’t he enjoyed the embrace of the yellow mare, he had to admit that little notions of feeling for the mare he had were founded by something, she was sweet and caring and friendly and always with a smile on her face so he returned the hug both just sitting there hugging each other both unaware of what the other one thought about them but they didn’t care. Even as Bullet´s voice in his earpiece exclaimed gleefully:

“They are here, Sir the nineth the third and the tenth!”.

The captain just enjoyed the hug wishing it could last forever.

Chapter 5: The Moon Prison Part 1

After Citrus finally let him go, the captain trotted to the bridge with the mare still close to him. As he arrived, he was greeted by Bullet gleefully exclaiming:

“Captain on deck!”,

“Captain I’ve got the Station on the Holocom.”, a comm mare added,

“Put them through.”, the Captain said as he sat down in his chair. The whole bridge was surprised as not the image of a worker lit up but the image of Spitfire herself,

“Thanks for saving our flanks out there Captain.”, she said,

“You…’re … welcome”, the Captain stuttered back still confused about why the General herself is in the line,

“But I fear this still isn’t quite over yet, the Princess wants to see you seems to be something urgent.”, she continues. The Captain takes a second to regain his composure and answered,

“Then I won’t let her wait. Citrus you take over again.”. As he said that he stood up and trotted back to hangar 3 to take a shuttle, but this time due to the urgency of whatever the princess wants him for, and it has to be something very important if the general herself delivers the message, directly to the castle. As he arrived a royal guard approached him,

“Sir this way please!”, he said in a nearly commanding voice and as the stallion led him through a secret entrance, he realized that whatever this is all about it is something secret. They exited the secret path right in front of the huge doors to the Chamber of the council, as they entered the princess immediately turned to him and started:

“Captain good that you are here we have an urgent and top secret problem we need your help with!”,

“Then what is it?”, the captain asked,

“As we made peace treaties with the other creature nations a lot of ponies and other creatures didn’t like that and tried to start brutal revolutions or to assassinate their current leaders to elect one that ends the treaties”, Twilight started to explain, “But those failed leaving groups of creatures and ponies who were a danger to everybody else”,

“So we sent them to the moon”, Rarity continued, “but since neither of us have the power to banish someone there we built a prison there”,

“but”, Rainbow Dash chimed in, “while the changelings attacked Equestria one ship deployed landers on the moon and they took over the prison.”,

“And you want the Insignium to destroy the facility”, the captain concluded,

“NO”, Fluttershy answered strictly, “We can’t do this we still may have ponies there and that would potentially give those dangerous people in there a chance to escape”,

“So a Black Ops mission?”, the captain asked,

“Yes”, Twilight answered, “You and three other ponies you trust have to go in there, kill the intruders and give it back to us.”.

The Captain returned to his bridge and exclaimed: “Citrus, Bullet and Gearhead, to my office we need to talk.”, the three ponies followed hesitantly wondering what’s going on. As the captain explained everything the eyes of his team widened for different reasons, Citrus´ out of pure horror, Bullet´s as he realized that after years of sitting on a bridge shouting orders he can do something else again and Gearhead was already mentally loading his old minigun but that thought was quickly dispatched as Spearhead said:

“But it has to be a stealth mission so only silenced smgs!”,

“But what about me you know that I can give support with my Sniper”, Bullet interjected and it was true Bullet was more than able to wield an MP5 but his cutie mark wasn’t a sniper bullet for no reason, so the Captain thought quickly and said:

“Can you mount a Silencer on your Caliber 50?”,

“Sure I can I think I even have one still in the gun case.”, The Pegasus happily answered. So, there it was, the captain ordered the Insignium to patrol the orbit while they wait for other ships to complete the fleet and made Midnight Flyer the Substitute Captain and so the four ponies trotted to the armory to gear up.

“I’m not sure if I’m the right pony for the job…”, Citrus questioned Spearhead as he fitted the special stealth saddle that includes a Invisibility mode, night vision goggles and a weapon mechanism that had a silenced MP5 and a silenced USP mounted with a quick rotation switch as a pressable pedal for the right back hoof for fast switch between both guns, a reload pedal for the right forehoof and a trigger in front of the mouth to bite on to shoot,

“No I’m sure you can help us.”, the captain answered as he fitted his own saddle with only one little change from the standard one: instead of a USP this has the captains pistol of choice the M1911 mounted,

“No”, Citrus explained, “I mean I never really killed a pony myself or any creature for that matter, I don’t know if I could bite the trigger when push comes to shove.”,

“In that case I take over the kill”, Bullet said as he trotted in with his special saddle; the MP5 was replaced by a silenced Barret Caliber 50, and a silenced SMG11 instead of the pistol. The crew, fully loaded and geared up, walked towards the special Black Ops shuttle which of course has an Invisibility generator, sadly ,Spearhead thought, this special generator never could be fitted for the battleships or for drones but it can be put on a shuttle.

“So”, the captain started explaining, “we still have to wait a little bit until the moon side the prison is on is turned away from the sun”, that was because of the princess who in her fear of not being able to handle both sun and moon transformed the whole solar System so Equestria and all the other Planets circle around the sun and the moon circles around Equestria which essentially now does the job only with a small interference every one thousand years or so in which the moon goes in front of the sun for about 15 minutes the other time the moon does get shined on by the sun but doesn’t go in front of it.

As they entered the shuttle it went completely invisible and as it started flying the bridge could only locate it over the ping on the radar. The shuttle landed and as Bullet made his way to a mountain he located on a map while preparing for the mission and the other ones walked towards the prison putting on the night vision.

“I can see the main switch for the lighting from here I can turn it off as soon as you need it as soon as you need it”, Bullet said through the earpieces,

”Wait just a bit more we aren’t there yet”, Spearhead answered as they walked to the south wall.

“Ok here’s the plan”, he explained, “we climb over the wall and as soon as everybody is on the other side we use the grappling hooks to get to the roof, we enter though a skylight and clear it from top to bottom and then we send a message to Equestria and they come pick us up. Understood?”,

“Yes.”, the other three whispered in unison,

“And I spot and if needed shot enemies with my thermal scope”, Bullet added. They made their way to the wall and the captain gave the ok to their sniper and with a not audible Pfft the main switch was destroyed and all lights went out,

“What was that?”, a changeling hissed,

“Maybe just another power shortage”, another one answered,

“Two on the other side of the wall”, the captain whispered,

“I can get one but you’ll have to get the other one yourself.”, Bullet answered the unasked question,

”I´ll get the other one when I’m going down the other side”, the captain answered back as he threw the grappling hook on the wall, ”Wait for my ok.”, as he climbed up he could hear the two changeling say something about if the project is still safe, “3…2…1…Now!”, the captain whispered into his earpiece, with more not audible Pffts the two changelings collapsed with bullets in their heads. The three made their way towards the main building, arriving there they threw the grappling hooks up, even Citrus getting the difficult throw on her first try, they climbed up and trotted to the skylight. Looking through it, Gearhead said:

“Two below the skylight any more Bullet?”,

“Nope the top floor is surprisingly empty”, the Pegasus sniper answered. As they descended the two changelings where eliminate by Bullet.

“Somethings wrong I can feel it”, Spearhead said mentally kicking himself as 6 changelings appeared and he damned himself for always being right with those feelings. 3 threw Gearhead to the ground but after easily killing the first one the other two attacked him with their fangs so he had to struggle against them with his hooves, another two fought with Spearhead one getting Bullets through his head the other one charging at him, both ending up rolling around fighting each other the,

“Bullet we need your help NOW”, he shouted into his earpiece but from the sound of struggling and the words:

"Gruzifix kimm hea i zoag da woas a kampf is!" from the other end he knew that Bullet, who tended to switch to his native language when cussing, too was in a hoof fight with changelings, the sixth in the room went for Citrus, she hesitated to shoot and the attacker saw his opportunity and charged at her throwing her to the floor and pinning her with his hooves and to the surprise of everypony in the room he started ripping apart her amour but not on any vital point so he could finish her of, he ripped apart the amor right where her private parts are!

She let out a terrified squeak knowing well that she was about to be raped by the changeling but her squeak made Spearhead look up for just a second enough to see what the changeling was planning to do. Filled with rage, forgetting every concern, he headbutted the changeling knocking the attacker off of him and finished him of with a quick burst from his rifle, then he turned towards Citrus who nearly had the changeling in her and he screamed out:

“No you are not!”, and stormed towards the changeling and threw himself against the rapist tackling him away from Citrus and fighting him on the ground but the changeling rolled them so he was on top and started trying to dig his fangs into the stallion who was holding his attacker back with his hooves.

Pfft.

The changeling fell to the ground, “Good to see you back Bullet”, Spearhead exclaimed happily but from the struggling on the other end and still continuing bavarian cussing he knew that wasn’t Bullet, as he looked around he spotted a shacking Citrus with her pistol, she ripped out of her damaged saddle, in her mouth. She was devastated, she never killed before and even if it was a changeling she had just killed a living breathing creature and Spearhead immediately rushed to her and she jumped to him embracing him once more in a tight hug,

than starting to weep as gearhead threw of the last changeling and finished him off and according to the sounds and the words: "Ha you bunch of useless specimen of cunts should think twice next time!" in the earpiece Bullet just finished of the changeling he was fighting with his SMG11, they just sat there Citrus crying about what she just did and after what could be 5 minutes but could have also been 5 hours Citrus stopped crying not having any tears left and as Bullet saw that it was time to mention it he said:

“Someone told them they were prepared!”,

“And I know who.”, the captain explained, “But for now we have to clear the building and according to the two we killed there’s something important in the basement, we have to find whatever it is and neutralize it!”.

And so the ponies collected everything they could carry and Gearhead did his best to fix Citrus´ saddle but still could only get it running so far that she could use her pistol but she wasn’t planning to shoot anymore not after what she did minutes ago. They were ready to continue their journey through the building and Spearhead already knew what to do when this all was finished or rather the two things he had to do.

Chapter 5: The Moon Prison Part 2

The three started walking down the stairs to the third floor and Bullet said:

“They didn’t just have invisibility they somehow even tricked my thermal scope!”,

“Yes we need to notify the princess, this is a serious thread!”, the captain whispered back,

“Stop!”, Gearhead whispered loudly and added: “I can hear something around the corner!”,

“Bullet how many can you see?”, the captain asked,

“5”, he answered, “but I can’t be sure if there aren’t any with that invisibility thing.”,

“That’s enough we swing around the corner and you get whatever we miss!”, the captain commanded and with a quick wave of his hoof he motioned for the attack. Spearhead and Gearhead jumped around the corner firing targeted burst at three of them and Bullet gets the other two with quick headshots, Citrus waited behind the corner avoiding any gunfire or reason to shoot.

” Luckily, they gave all the offices glass walls for some reason, otherwise supporting you would be very difficult!”, Bullet snickered through the comms ,

“Yes but the other two floors are mostly cellblocks so you really need to aim precisely”, the captain pointed out sternly,

”He said to the pony with a literal sniper bullet as cutie mark!”, the Pegasus with hat teased and he was right he didn’t earn his mark for nothing, stories say he can shoot a coin at a distance of a thousand meters and others say he could shoot the pilot out of a drone flying at full speed at a thousand meters distance. As the ponies continued walking down the stairs Bullet explained:

“I can see 5 changelings, three of them are talking to at least one other changeling but since the walls block a good bit of my sight I would guess at least 15, I can get said 5 but the rest is up to you.”,

“Copy that.”, the captain answered and added: “Gearhead you get the left side of the room I get the right.”,

“Affirmative.”, the red stallion answered. They once more jumped around the corner, Bullet kills his 5 in no time and both the captain and Gearhead get 3 leaving 5 of the originally not 15 but 16 Changelings who hid behind barricades they prepared as soon as they got told about the incoming assault. Bullets flew through the room but not a single one hit as both factions took cover, the ponies leaping back around the corner,

“Grenade!”, Gearhead shouted and Spearhead didn’t think twice he just pulled it off the ground with a forehoof, turned around and bucked it away throwing it back behind a changeling barricade killing one of them as it exploded,

“Move just a bit!”, Bullet mumbled into his earpiece and as if he heard him a changeling moved behind the barricade being greeted by a sniper bullet to the head.

“Three left!”, the sniper announced over the earpiece. As he heard that Spearhead pulled the pin of his last grenade but didn’t throw it instantly instead, he waited a few seconds before throwing it making it explode as soon as it flew behind the barricades eliminating the last three.

“After this is over you have to tell me where you learned all of that”, Gearhead said surprised about all the knowledge about combat his friend had,

“Ok it seems like we have 5 more on the bottom floor all guarding a stairway in the center that leads towards the basement.”, Bullet told his friends as he scouted out the last floor he could see,

“I have an idea”, the captain explained, “Citrus give us your grenades, Gearhead we need yours too!”,

“What are you planning?”, Gearhead asked not knowing what to expect,

“It´s simple”, Spearhead started, “This brake between the crosswalks over there”, he pointed to a gap in the middle of the room, “Is directly over the enemies and since they all centered around there we pull out all the pins of the grenades and throw them down and because it´s still dark they won’t see them in time.”,

“You´re a genius!”, Gearhead whispered surprised by the plan and so that’s what they did and as the grenades dropped the Changelings went into battle stances but they were too late. With a mighty BOOM the grenades all exploded leaving only blood and gore.

“Descending now”, Spearhead said as he put the grappling hook around the railing and climbed down the rope, once more Gearhead and Citrus were surprised by the idea none of them would have even thought about and did the same. The ponies lined up in front of the stairs looking at each other if someone starts and after sometime the captain started trotting down the stairs the others following him and said:

“Bullet watch our flanks and be ready to transmit the pick up signal!”,

“Copy that.”, came back from a already bored sniper. As they trotted down Spearhead again had this bad feeling and said:

“Wait! More of those invisible changelings are down here!”,

“But how can we fight them when we can’t even see them?”, Gearhead answered, the captain thought for a bit and then said,

“According to the Plans the princess gave us this basement stretches out behind the north wall where a lake is located it´s surface is frozen but the Bottom should still be liquid, so if we somehow destroy the celling water will flow in and disable the invisibility since it´s most likely caused by some kind of electronic device.”,

“Maybe this will help”, Gearhead said as he lifted two grenades that likely belonged to the changelings they killed on the second floor,

“O yes it does!”, the captain happily said and took one of them and added, “As soon as I say remove the pin and as soon as say so throw it towards the celling but not earlier!”,

“Ok I see let´s hope this works”, Gearhead said with a bit of worry as he looked at the grenade still in his hoof,

“Pull the pin!”, the captain commanded and after a few seconds he added: “Throw it now!”. The Grenades flew into the big room and as soon as they hit the celling they explode and leave the celling with a lot of cracks, Gearhead already let his head hag down reloading his weapons but the captain said:

“Wait for it…...”, and as if he pressed a button water dropped down from the cracks raising the heads of the invisible changelings and the water started flowing through the cracks and with a thud the fist celling part fell down, followed by another one and another one and in the end a big wave descended into the open room and quickly the pieces floated up wrapped in green magic and the celling mended itself but too late, the room was already filled to the ankle deactivating all the stealth machines and the changelings looked at each other trying to comprehend that they can see each other and while they were still lost in thoughts the ponies used that element of surprise and killed the first 6 of the originally 10 changeling but the rest didn’t have any weapons maybe they thought they could sneak up close enough and so they were eliminated as they tried to charge towards the two ponies who killed the others.

As they trotted forward, they found what was so important behind a metal door was what could only be described as a mission base they made out of the CCTV room.

“Our soldiers will kill them with the new stealth devices General.”, a changeling who judging by his armor had to be some kind of special forces captain, explained to a changeling with armor similar to that from General Deadhit,

“Are you sure about that”, Spearhead said as he dashed into the room filling first the captain then the general with bullets while Gearhead killed the few remaining changelings sitting in front of the computers.

“Clear.”, He simply said as he exited the room with his friends in tow, as they walked back up the stairs Spearhead said into his earpiece:

“Bullet the compound is clear send the signal!”,

“Affirmative, Sir!”, Bullet said as he hit the transmit button on his rucksack and antennas extended beginning to send the signal and soon a lander touched down in front of the prison building and soldiers trotted out and the pilot said:

“Hop in fellas I’m gonna bring you to Canterlot!”, the ponies walked into the shuttle and it took of towards the capital of Equestria. As they arrived Spearhead said:

“You go back to the Insignium I have to go to the council.”,

“Ok see you soon.”, Citrus said with her happy smile, turning back towards the shuttle and Spearhead walked towards the castle feeling the rage he held back for so long finally surface. He once again raced through the halls and busted through the door to the council’s chamber and the princess raised her head and happily said:

“Captain congratulations on freeing the prison!”,

“Yes”, he said still walking towards the mares, “I learned something very interesting there…”, he said and he stood right in front of Applejack and said.

“But you already know that don´t you.”, he said and raised his gun right between her eyes and with a gasp the guards raised the rifles,

“Whatever do you mean sugarcube?”, Applejack asked,

“Oh shove it you forgot the scarf!”, and he turned the gun to her forehoof and shot, the guards were about to shoot him as to their surprise Applejack was wrapped into green magic and turned into a changeling,

“How did you know!”, the changeling gasped,

“Simple,”, Spearhead explained with his weapon still on the changeling, “First somepony rattled us out but it couldn’t have been the guard who guided me through the secret tunnel because I’m friends with him and his personality is to special to be imitable and you forgot the scarf she always wears, that she inherited from her Grandmother!”, he once more lifted the gun between the eyes of the changeling and said:

“You nearly got my marefriend raped and I don’t take lightly to that!”, he pressed the trigger and the changeling who already was down fell to the ground with a bullet hole in the head.

Chapter 6: Ponynapped

“How?”, Fluttershy asked scared, “How were they able to Ponynap AJ?”,

“I have no idea!”, Rainbow Dash asked letting her head hang down,

“Neither do I is there something that was wrong with her in the last days?”, Spearhead asked,

“Sir!”, a guard said tapping the captains shoulder, “I’m not sure if this is of any importance but Miss Applejack didn’t allow guards in her chambers since the day of the attack.”,

“That is helpful soldier, good idea we should search her chambers, soldiers come with me!”, the captain said and Twilight just gave them a nod and they left the throne room.

“Soldier lead the way!”, Spearhead ordered the mare who pointed the fact out. The ponies went up an endless number of stairs to the chambers of Applejack, as they entered nothing seemed suspicious and the captain ordered:

“Search the room leave no stone unturned there has to be something here!”, the ponies opened every drawer most of them being filled with hats and in one was a safe and a stallion took a crowbar and started trying to open it as Spearhead shouted:

“PUT THAT CROWBAR DOWN RIGHT THIS INSTANT YOU DISRESPECTFUL IDIOT, WE WILL NOT OPEN THIS SAVE WITH FORCE, IF YOU THINK THERE IS SOMETHING INTERESTING IN THE PRIVATE SAVE OF A COUNCIL MEMBER MOVE YOUR USELESS ASS DOWN TO THE THRONE ROOM AND ASK ONE OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO OPEN IT!”, the stallion taken aback by the response he earned hung his head down and walked out of the room. The captain continued to search through the room until he looked at the edge of the carpet Applejack had in the middle of her room and saw something that made a shiver go down his spine:

Blood! He had just found blood!

“Sir…. You might wanna take a look at this!”, a stallion said as he came out of the bathroom attached to the chambers, the captain walked into the bathroom expecting to see more blood or in the worst case something he didn’t want to think about.

“She killed two.”, the captain noted as he looked at the two changelings one with a smashed skull the other one filled with six bullets.

“Good day ma´am”, sounded from the chamber and the captain turned around and as he walked out, he was face to face with a very annoyed Rarity.

” Captain is there a reason why this soldier was down in the throne room begging us to open Applejacks personal safe?”, she asked, the captain didn’t believe what he just heared and said to the soldier that walked in with her:

“How could there be something of any importance in a safe THAT THE CHANGELINGS COULDN’T EVEN OPEN BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW THE CODE FOR IT?”,

“I thought something hinting at her position might be in there.”, the soldier answered timidly,

“Do you want to know what´s in there?”, Rarity said with anger and even a bit of sorrow in her voice,
“In this safe Applejack keeps the bow of her sister she wore as she passed away.”, with that the mare walked out trying to hide the tears forming as she thought about her sister.

Spearhead waited some time before he and the other soldiers left the chambers and walked towards the council. The two guards at the door let him in and as he walked inside, he saw that Rarity crying was in the arms of Fluttershy and as they realized that he had entered the princess asked:

“Did you find anything?”,

“More or less”, the captain explained, “She killed two but we didn’t find any evidence of where she could be now.”. The Mares were visibly clueless on how to continue but everyone’s train of thought was interrupted as the doors swung open once more and a messenger flew in and said:

“Princess one of our Explorers has found a Space station in the orbit of Mars and according to the scans they have a prisoner!”,

“AJ!”, Rainbow exclaimed gleefully, “Captain go to this Space station rescue Applejack and destroy it!”,

“Affirmative Ma’am!”, he answered and stormed out of the room and towards the taxi Station. The captain trotted into the bridge and opened his holocom interface to contact the rest of the fleet and as the other captains lit up he explained:

“Ok everypony lets keep this short we have information about a Changeling Space station with a hostage, this hostage is our HVT (HVT = High Value Target) there will be no direct shots at the Station as long as HVT is not secured! Be ready to warp to sector 1-2-0-1 on my command! Gearhead ready our Warp!”, Spearhead ordered,

“Affirmative!”, said the red stallion as he turned and started barking orders at his technicians. “Warp is ready, Sir!”, Gearhead said after a few minutes,

“Ok Gentlestallions”, the captain started telling the other captains over the holocom, “As soon as you arrive open fire on every ship defending the station, the Insignium will send a team to rescue HVT and only then I will give the order to destroy the station. Anypony trying to shoot it earlier is to be treated as a danger to the mission and to HVT and has to be put in immediate custody of the security of the respective ship.”, With that he gave a nod to Citrus and the fleet once more vanished in a flash.

A huge flash appeared not more than 100 kilometers away from the station and as if Celestia herself had blessed the ponies they found most of the ships in repair but far away enough from the station to enable firing at them. Before the Changelings were able to pull up their shields five of the originally eight ships had been destroyed and the remaining three were still loading their weapons.

“Bullet, Citrus, Gearhead!”, the captain shouted jumping up from his chair, “Come with me!”, the four ponies once more found themselves on the way to the armory to gear up for a mission but this time stealth was not needed so Gearhead could this time really use his old minigun. As Bullet and gearhead mounted their weapons on the saddles Spearhead was in the other part of the armory with Citrus helping her put on her saddle which was a medic saddle, she wasn’t really a medic but she knew how to inject painkillers and bandage a wound.

“Why do you take me on this mission you know I can’t kill any more Changelings?”, Citrus asked the stallion who has now started to put his own saddle on,

“Because we need a medic.”, he explained but that was a lie, they didn’t need a medic they didn’t need a fourth pony at all but after what happened on the moon he didn’t want the mare he had called his marefriend to leave his sight. They trotted once more to hangar three and entered the stealth shuttle. As they landed they would have been greeted by machine gun fire but bullet takes to sniping like a Yak to smashing and before they even landed he had pulled out his sniper and shot the three changelings he saw through the front window of the shuttle. As they trotted out Gearhead teasingly said:

“Couldn’t you have left me some?”,

“If you want some be faster next time old man.”, Bullet shot back using the one thing that Gearhead gave to tease him with, he would normally have retired three years ago but as the Insignium Project started they wanted the best of the best to form the bridge crew and he was without a doubt the best head technician there is. The Station to the surprise of everypony was empty only as they reached the cell block Spearhead stopped the group and said:

“Wait! Two around the corner!”, with that he took out a grenade and removed the pin waited a second but did not jump around the corner to throw it, he threw it against the wall and it bounced towards the changelings, eliminating both of them. They continued and as they entered the cell block or rather the small room with 5 cells at the other end. They were immediately met by five changelings opening fire and Gearhead didn’t need a second invitation to start his minigun and killed two as he let his weapon cool down the remaining three saw there chance and attacked again leaving the ponies in a bad spot having all just entered through the door and as they started shooting Bullet and Spearhead were returning fire as best as they could but the captains concentration was broke by a squeak that overpowered all gunfire in the room.

He turned around and saw Citrus collapsing to the floor and once more he felt the rage he felt when she nearly got raped on the moon and ignored every bit of gunfire soaring towards him, he just stood up and jumped one of the changelings. As the second one turned around and aimed for the earth pony’s head but he had already pulled his pistol out of the saddle and while he held his hooves around the first changeling he shot the second one. He dropped the pistol and kept chocking the last one until he stopped struggling and just for good measure put a bullet into his head.

They were all now centered around Citrus and the captain did not take long to just rip open her bag, take out a painkiller syringe and injecting it into the mare. As she woke up again she mumbled:

“My wing…”, Spearhead didn’t even let her finish he pulled out bandages and lifted her left wing and saw a bullet had jammed itself into the main bone, he just pulled it out earning another painful squeak from the Pegasus and bandaged it with what can only be described as excessive amounts of bandages and injected another dose of painkillers now that they all looked up again Spearhead still holding up Citrus they saw that the fifth one after struggling with the lock had pulled out Applejack but she waited for exactly this.

“Big mistake…”, she whispered into the changeling’s ear as she kicked herself free and within seconds pulled out a revolver from her scarf and filled him with six bullets. The revolver, Spearhead realized, was custom made with a special grip to hold it in her mouth and shoot it without the need of either a saddle or the need to nearly swallow the whole grip and a metal rod that connected the trigger with a little bite platform like the saddles had and four symbols engraved in the handle. The first one was known by everyone, the tricolored shield of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, an ancient organization created by three little fillies and since then continued by whoever had this shield in their cutie mark, in the shield was an apple with a heart in it, this could only be the cutie mark of her sister Apple Bloom one of the three original crusaders,

another one was the half of an apple which after some thought he could connect to Big MacIntosh, Applejacks older brother and the first pony to develop space flight even if it was just on a small scale, the third one was an apple pie and after he dug deep into his knowledge he remembered this was the symbol of Granny Smith´s Pie world the first store to enable delivery over all of Equestria some people said this store was the one which led to the massive growth of Equestria others say it was Sweetie Belle´s Boutiques which had only three locations but also were one of the first to enable delivery all over Equestria and the first ones to use delivery drones and Applejacks cutie mark.

The three stallions just looked at the bruised mare in surprise, trying to process what just happened.

“Didn’t think a mare can shoot this well?”, Applejack snickered,

“They´re just used to being the knights in shining armor and saving the damsel in distress.”, Citrus answered too snickering and trotting next to Applejack with bandages already in her mouth, this answer caused Applejack to just continue snickering as Citrus bandaged her braced body. After Spearhead regained his composure, he shook his head and said:

“Ok Citrus hurry up we have to get out of here!”. They raced back to the shuttle and Spearhead jumped into the driver’s seat and they flew of. As Spearhead entered his bridge and shouted:

“Blast this thing to Celestia!”, and the Insignium slightly turned and fired every canon on the left side and before the other ships could even react the Space station blew up in a ball of fire and the Ships warped back towards Equestria and as they arrived the Insignium docked onto the space station. Spearhead left the space station with the minister and they walked towards the shuttle which then brought them to the castle and as they walked through the endless hallways all the soldiers immediately snapped to attention as Applejack walked by.

They opened the main door into the throne room they heard a gleeful,

“AJ!”, coming from Rainbow Dash as the blue mare jumped her friend and the other did the same. Rarity, with tears of joy, said:

“Thank you so much, Captain!”, but the captain just left with a smile on his face, he had something else to do. Spearhead walked towards Citrus who was still giggling about Applejacks comment and he said:

“Citrus could you please meet me in my office!”, the mare was surprised by this but nodded. They both walked into the office and Spearhead closed the door and turned towards the yellow mare:

“Ok you might have realized that I lied to you, we didn’t really need a medic on this mission I just wanted to have you near me because…. Because..”,

“You like me,” the Pegasus finished his sentence, “Did you think I wouldn’t notice that you look at me this certain way?”, The captain just stuttered,

“And if your eyes are only half as good as you look you might have realized that I did too”, Citrus answered and kissed Spearhead and he just returned the kiss and before they knew they were rolling on the ground having their little private fun time.

Author's Note

First thank you so much for reading this far, this fic has now more than 12k words and I still can´t believe that I wrote this much. If you liked it so far please give me a follow because this fic will still get some more chapters even if it takes some time.

Chapter 7: The first Offensive

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