Two dozen MKB55 tactical nuclear warheads struck several Unity starships without mercy, the explosive power of their payloads causing massive balls of radioactive plasma which expanded and engulfed several smaller starships, the result of this was the starships within the radius of the energy ball where vaporized or heavily damaged to the point they where unusable. Fifty-seven Starships destroyed within a fraction of a second. The United Nations Defense Force gave the invaders no room to breathe and their small shuttles began to fire their railguns, several bolts of automatic plasma fire destroyed dozens of the small slow and, primitive craft. Broadcasting continued. "You cannot prevent the inevitable, your resistance is futile." Over the cybernetic hivemind of Unity panic was beginning to flare in the lower class drones, messages where being sent back and forth as fast as digital wireless data could be sent, until the Hivelord silenced it with one command, 'cease', and so cease they did for the Hivelord was all.

On the base named Luna key personal where being evacuated through the portal gate, while soldiers at their command stations fired up their weapon systems for the first time in decades, and activated newer ones that had been recent installments. A very new weapon at their disposal activated, the United Nations Defense Force Cyber Command, which began transmitting microwaves and electromagnetic pulses in an attempt to halt communication between enemy starships. Railgun batteries fired their 150 millimeter tungsten shells upwards into the bellies of several starships, which confused some since from the shuttles trying to fire their plasma cannons these things had shields or should have anyways, and yet the railgun rounds tore through the bottom of the starships they struck as if the shields that many had seen flare up to deflect the plasma hadn't even existed.

Luna took minor damage to its structure, but it did take enough to force its occupants to the poral gate to evacuate since their had been a breach and now the atmosphere within was being leaked out into space, and Earth's minor space fleet was destroyed rapidly. The next weapon that took the invaders by surprise where the Russian chemical laser stations, and the US orbital nuclear launch platforms, outdated in technology since after the Cold War but no less deadly than any other weapon. The lasers didn't do much beyond shift the starships that they struck to aim at them, giving time for the orbital nuclear launcher to release its deadly payload.

Much as the last time balls of plasma struck and gave no mercy to those within their range, ruined starships and human made satellites and craft floated dead in the void, while others went past them screaming into Earths atmosphere. Anti-air defenses began screeching as missiles shot into the skies by the hundreds, naval ships launched anti-satellite missiles in an attempt to strike starships as they began to enter the atmosphere taking several more out. Those starships still managed to do damage by crashing into civilian centers after their controls where destroyed, a biter victory for both parties in that regard.

The Hivelord was taken by surprise at the violent power of these pre-ftl primitives weaponry, ballistics where thought of almost as primitive as spears from times long forgotten, most species developed energy weapons leaving ballistics behind, focusing on harnessing nuclear energy for fuels and sources of power rather than destruction these came as massive surprises to the Hive, but it mattered not as their clumsy and primitive starcraft where shattered like glass upon their chitin. His own personal shuttle made landfall with dozens of others, the information floating within the air wirelessly was delectable. Primitive human soldiers with strange exoskeletons made of metal hefted large blocky and ugly rifles up before firing. Railgun rounds shattered several of his drones before the return of automatic plasma weaponry silenced them, their ugly screams as they died where delightful to hear. Metal melted and fused to flesh as their Exo-skeletal armor failed to stop the onslaught of red hot plasma. Unity moved forward as one shattering several enemy positions before a tank managed to crush a few dozen with its main gun firing into a massive herd of them.

When one of the drones made a direct connection to the human information network, all hell broke loose. Unity had been unified as one for millennia, taking world after world, network after network of information, and each one had been about where humanity had been in the 1980's, to 1990's. Primitive and underdeveloped by galactic standards, this network was almost more advanced than their own, they had never encountered a species with an information network so ripe with viruses and other nasty surprises since most sentient species had the sense to keep their networks clean. As such they where not prepared for the malicious codes and viruses that began to implant themselves within the digital hivemind rapidly shutting down their cybernetic systems and even their own starships weaponry. Then the Hivelord was no longer Hivelord, control had been pulled from beneath him without warning leaving a twitching husk.

Meanwhile in the US Cyber Command one woman was staring at her computer screen, which showed the words 'New Hivelord Authorized' In English, she turned to one of her superiors. "Um....sir? I think I just took control of the enemy computer systems...." Which came as a surprise considering she was trying to hack into their networks to decode their language, and spoof their communications.

Across the landing sights Unity stopped attacking human soldiers, and civilians alike, skittering around in a blind panic as various viruses attacked their cybernetic systems, some of which where hooked directly into several vital organs and their brains, then after an hour it suddenly stopped, the Hivemind went silent as a new Hivelord was declared, having ripped power from the older one whom had taken control of it from the one before them. Throughout the Hivemind a new message was declared. "We Serve." Displayed on the screen in US Cyber Command, where Alex Harvey sat, her smartwatch lit up as well with the same message as did her phone with yet another message. "Input Orders."

Her superior, Glen Johnson looked at her computer screen in pure shock, before looking at her. "Type something, and don't be stupid about it, I think you know what to type."

Alex nodded and carefully typed into the Command Line Interface that had replaced her computers normal screen. Cease all hostilities and surrender to the countries you are within. The response only took a second to come in. "As the Hivelord Commands."

The invasion had lasted less than five hours and ended up with the destruction of almost every space asset shot into orbit on Earth, but now they had control over what was apparently a digital hivemind species, or at least one person did, nothing was stopping her from just having them do what she wanted other than her own morals and loyalty to her country. Reports came in within the next few days as news channels flooded with crackpot theories, and nutjobs claiming to have been abducted by these aliens before they arrived. The UNDF and the nations of Earth as a whole had their work cut out for them for the foreseeable future. Hundreds of thousand has died, billions worth of property and structural damage had occurred, along with the damage done to civilian power stations and travel networks such as highways and roads littered by massive melted holes of cement.

-----------------------Crystal Empire, Crystal Palace---------------

Celestia looked at the recording that had been made, nodding in satisfaction as a smile graced her snout. "Yes Lorenzo, I think this will do nicely. The message is kind, and I think it'll get through to them well enough about what we all want." She grinned. "I have hope they will accept."

Nodding I spoke. "I agree, hopefully they do, if they don't however we are more than ready to retaliate, the ss'ket have sent us several of their smaller starships armed with plasmatic lances to turn the tide in our favor while bolstering their own numbers within their system."

Celestia chuckled. "I still think they look like gekos, their adorable, now let us send this message in a bottle, if it can be called that when the ocean it'll be tossed into is a sea of stars grander than any mere ocean on Equis as a whole."

"Damn mare, you gettin poetic on me?" That caused her snout to turn red before I laughed and activated the relay hooked into one of the many satellites around the Zetans homeworld that had been modified by one of my DIA implants and was forced to blink as the light of the teleportation blinded both me and Celestia for a brief moment. "Now, we wait."

--------------Zetan Homeworld--------------------

Across lightyears in an entirely different solar system a satellite network did pretty much the same job as any other, transmit information or help transmit information from below, stopped functioning properly and transmissions from all visual networks stopped as static overtook the many screens and holoprojectors for a moment before a new image was seen upon the screen, a human. Much to the horror of those who knew what Humanity was and had been, a minor species to learn about in school that had exterminated itself, not once, but TWICE. The Council of 5 was forced to watch as well from within their chamber as the human spoke in their language, much to everyone's own surprise.

Dressed in a suit with a purple colored tie, a primitive crown on it's head and dark glasses on, sunglasses if remembered correctly, the council watched it walk on screen. "Hello from the People of Equis, you remember it as Earth but it goes by Equis now, we know you exist, we know your homeworld, we've known for years," This horrified the council. "The Empires and Kingdoms of Equis have decided to extend their hands in friendship to your civilization in the hopes that we can peacefully coexist, now I'll pass this off to my dear friend, Princess Celestia." The male human walked offscreen and a four legged fluffy looking creature walked into the camera.

Celestia puffed her chestfluff and flared her wings. "As co ruler of Equestria, I Princess Celestia welcome friendship between our civilizations and offer friendship between the ponies of Equestria and those of the Zetans, may friendship expand beyond our systems and beyond." The transmission cut out almost as briefly as it came, and Soro looked to the others, agreement in all of their eyes as he spoke. "I'm authorizing a mothership be sent now, proper paperwork be damned! They need to be dealt with this instant." He got no disagreement and thus the order was sent out to halt preparing a starship to attack, and to commence with the attack immediately.
-------------------------Equis's Solar System------------------------------

A disk shaped starship 35 thousand miles size, a perfect disk appeared within an instant. Large rotary cannons turned on a dime and began to fire nuclear shells at the starship rapidly, their destructive power doing nothing against the starships shields, several dozen orbital deathray platforms both Equestrian and those of the Crystal Empire opened fire as well, while small Ss'ket starships opened up with their plasmatic lances. The only thing that managed to get through the starships massive shields where their plasmatic lances, but even then due to the sheer size of the starship, no the mothership for it was a mothership by all definition itself, only minor damage was caused. The massive motherships point defense deathrays marked those as priority targets and within moments each had been destroyed, leaving not even melted husks to float aimlessly in the void.

The small starship fleet of the UCSR fired hundreds of small agile missiles as the Abyssinian fleets fired their gauss cannons, Equestrian ones their deathrays and magical laser weaponry. None had any real effect and where swept aside, then the Crystal City fired it's plasmatic lance striking the side of the mothership, tearing the shields in that section away as if they didn't exist and continued onwards to vaporize a small section of the ship. Beings across the joint fleet cheered. Then the motherships main deathray powered itself up visibly and fired. Its long blast of death striking a chunk of Equis, the shockwave as a result was visible from high orbit.

News feeds began to rapidly come into any transmitter accepting signals, Celestia watched from one of the Crystal Palace's wall mounted holographic televisions, her tray of tea forgotten as an announcer went on. "Fillydelphia, Baltimare, and Manehatten have suffered complete and total destruction, nothing remains but ruble and glass as seen from these pictures taken by orbital satellites. The resulting shockwave from the weapon has caused widespread destruction as far as Griffonstone having windows shatter and trees blown apart by the fast winds, even the famous Mighty walls of the Crystal Empire have been seen to have collapsed in some places and damaged a few dozen buildings, the total death toll is estima-" She shut the television off, watching it melt into glowing slag before she realized what she had done, she'd have to apologize to Lorenzo later but right now more important things where on her mind.

She had sent out a message of peace, it had been her idea. And rather than even think of accepting these Zetans attacked without mercy, killing millions of her ponies and likely citizens of any kingdom near the blast, her citizens....dead, three cities and likely more just gone in an instant. Celestia's rage spilled over herself like a dam bursting and she teleported into the vacuum of space, something she hadn't done in eons. Her sun could feel her anger as well they where tied together as one and could feel what the other did, and it too was angry at the loss of so many lives, its power flowed throughout her causing her fur to turn black and cracked as molten plasma flowed through her like the star she so lovingly called her own. She screamed into the void with such energy that regardless of the lack of air her voice was heard throughout the solar system. "We offered you peace, and you refused resulting to attacking those who could not defend themselves, we will no longer allow you to harm those within our territory, BEGON WRETCHED FITLH!"

With almost no warning the Celestia Equis knew was gone, in her place stood a monster of black rock and solar plasma, her orange slit eyes narrowing upon the starship that dared to harm those who couldn't even have a chance to fight back. She took off at speeds that shouldn't have been possible for an organic being, within seconds she slammed into the shields protecting the massive ship, which began to flare. She glared at it, and her horn began to glow pure white as her magical grasp surrounded the ship, and she crushed it within her magical might, a ship with a diameter of 35 thousand miles and a thickness of ten thousand miles, began to buckle and groan in protest as the energy shields failed and her grasp finally surrounded the metal of the ship itself, she grit her teeth in fury as she screeched. The crushing happening faster and faster, before finally a ship which should have never been defeated was absolutely crushed into a ball of scrap metal miles in diameter, blowing up several times in the process as electrical generators and weapons tried to work or fire upon her. All failed and within moments all that was left of the starship was a perfect metal sphere one mile in diameter and one mile thick. And Celestia stood upon flames as her rage slowly cooled down, her fur returning to its normal pristine white and her eyes returning to normal with a blink as she looked at the damage she had caused.

------------------------------Crystal Palace Command Center, Lorenzo---------------------------

My eyes where wide as the video feed showed Celestia crushing a starship that outmatched even the Crystal City in sheer size alone into a perfect sphere a mile in diameter. Damage reports coming in as several sections of the wall had collapsed and shattered from the shockwave of the blast the Mothership had caused with it's deathray, I glared at the screen and swiped all the reports away, turning on a special com that was connected to my DIA agents on the Zetans homeworld. "Evacuate, cause as much damage as possible in doing so. Once your out I'm activating our backup."

"Yes Your Majesty." Came through, I only waited for five minutes before. "Clear." Came back, and I pressed a special little red button on my pipboy, sitting back with a sadistic grin, they wanted to fuck with Equis? See how they like it when it happens to them. "Your Majesty I have managed to take one of their motherships." That caused me to sit up as the DIA changeling continued. "I have been impersonating the commander of this starship for the past two weeks, and am awaiting your arrival at the Akun's home solar system having sent them a message ahead of time of my arrival. I vented the atmosphere killing most of the crew." At this point I was damn near frothing at the mouth.

My little message should be playing about now, if the calculations done beforehand where correct.

------------------------------------Zeshan--------------------------------------

Holoprojectors across the gigantic advanced and shining city flickered red before a human, the very same from the first message sent before stood on the screen, its small eyes ablaze with wrath unseen before during the entire existence of their civilization. "You have attacked my Home, my Empire, and my Allies, even after offering peace between our civilizations, you in your arrogance, refused. Your callousness to all intelligent life has left me and the people of Equis sickened, your blackened hearts know no bounds to their cruelty, millions if not more innocents died because of your foolish actions. Now our wrath shall come screaming from the void like a plague, one with which you will find no cure. So listen in despair to the melody of your destruction, for once it ends, your civilization shall fall to ash and ruin." The screens flickered again violently, before showing the void of space and the expanse of stars, as a distorted voice began to sing. Twinkle twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky. When the blazing sun is gone, when there nothing shines upon. Then you show your little light, twinkle twinkle all the night. Then the traveler in the dark, thanks you for your little spark. He could not see which way to go, if you did not twinkle so. When the blazing sun is gone, when there nothing shines upon. Though I know not what you are, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. When the song ended, the explosions began as the devices planted over the last few months went off.

Author's Note

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHZ_apAW-4c

This is the song that plays, I suggest you re read that small part while listening to this.

Hello all! The zetans have finally attacked and oh boy did they piss Celestia off big time. One does not casually piss a God or Goddess off after all lol, several cities are gone in an instant, damage across a good sizeable chunk of territory for anyone who has a kingdom near that blast as well, so Equestria wasn't the only ones to get hit. Tell me what ya think of the chapter! Comment, share, etc, really comment I enjoy seeing you guys like what I write, so always comment, even if it's just an emoji

To be clear, the zetans civilization did not in fact just instantly fall into ash and ruin, however several salted nukes, various gas and EMP devices as well as large scale fusion bombs did just go off on their homeworld and in their capital, so destruction is widespread on their homeworld cities