Distant Thunder

Princess Cadance POV

I was walking back to my office to finish up some paperwork when a defining boom sounded out and shock the whole castle, a loud pain-filled roar followed soon after. I quickly galloped down the hall to get to the main window overlooking the kingdom. I just started to turn the corner when I ran right into my teenage daughter falling into a twisted pile of limbs and wings, After recovering first I asked: "Flurry are you alright sweety are you hurt?"

I'm fine mom, but we have to get out to the edge of the city by lady Gems market. A YETI KNUCKLE DRAGGER IS ATTACKING!"Flurry finished loudly

My heart sank a pit of fear and terror rising. a knuckle dragger no pony has seen one of those since before the empire was banished, let alone a yite. Quickly regaining my composer I told Flurry Heart to find her father as quickly as possible. we untangled ourselves selfs ready to go where we needed to, Flurry turned a started to run the way I was coming from before she stoped a turned back.

"MOM!" she yelled I stopped and looked back at her over my shoulder.

"There was something else there as well I couldn't see it because it was behind some buildings...but there was a bright blue flash of light with what looked like tiny blue boxes then it disappeared, the yeti slammed its fist down where the light was and recoiled like it hit something hard, then there was this sound like thunder and fire and smoke came from the street and just after turned to get you and dad I heard the yeti roar in pain." she finished

"ok sweetheart, be sure to tell your father this as well ok, I'm sure he is already on his way there."

She nodded and ran off, I ran towards the main castle doors and out to the main street in front of the castle gathering every guard along the way. My mind raced I was worried about my subjects and just how many could be hurt or...NO don't think about right now I have to get there to protect my subjects. but how? knuckle draggers were all but immune to magic and then there was that light Flurry saw was it the thing that made the loud boom and hurt the monster? well, I won't find the answer here I need to get to the scene as fast as I can.

Missouri's POV

Dame this thing is tough two five-inch shells at point blake and another two right after, that would be enough to blow Purifier in half at that range. Using my mouth I picked up the Filly and brought her to the guards who were surprisingly still here, I looked at one guard a unicorn mare, and said:" you there focus on getting the civvy's out of here I'll handle the monster." she was just about to answer before a loud mouth pegasus stallion butted in.

" Why should we take orders from you we don't even know you!" he yelled

" Perhaps you would like to fight the giant monster and I get the civvy's out of here?" I said calmly while raising an eyebrow

The mare I was originally talking to jumped in before her partner could retort" Okay just keep that thing busy along as you can, reinforcements are already on their way."

I nodded before galloping back at the monster firing my 40 MM's at it to get its attention. I needed to get it out of here so I could use my main guns as it stands if I use them right now I'll collapse some of the building around me. then an idea popped into my head and I smiled almost wickedly " oh that's going to piss him off." I said to myself. I changed course and charged right at the beast some of the others around me looked on in shock, fear, and a little bit of amazement. it looked right at me and went to try and smash me again but I timed it beautifully and leaped onto its arm. I forgot one important detail I no longer walked on two legs and I still wasn't very quarantined with my new limbs, and he didn't just let me run up his arm without doing something about it. Suddenly and very violently I was set flying over the monster's right shoulder, I went so high I passed a bird and it looked me right in the eye and shook its head at me.

" OH, YOU LITTLE CUN...AHHHH"I yelled as I fell back toward the ground.

But as I fell I realized two things one, I was now just far enough to use my main guns without leveling half of the city, and two, It was going to hurt when I hit the ground. So while still falling I fired one salvo from my number two turret(i eyeballed it.) and just before hitting the ground, I saw the monster explode into an eruption of fire and gore. With a tremendous crash, I hit the ground hard though thankfully it did not hurt as bad as I thought it would. Deciding to just lay there I took a few seconds to assess the damage turret one was badly mangled because it hit the ground first, Four of my five inc gun mounts were damaged, CIC was offline, my left hind leg felt broken, I had trouble breathing and at least two cracked ribs and I was coughing up blood, so all and all I was relatively alright. Until I heard a roar behind me I strained to look behind me, another monster just like the one I turned into past but a little smaller was coming over the hill right at me.

"well shit." I said dully.

Here I was unable to move my weapons offline and all by myself, I honestly thought this was it again until I heard a low rumbling high above me it got louder and louder until I heard the sound of planes diving, looking up sure enough a large formation of Yokosuka D4Y or Judys were diving right at the monster. Dropping their bombs and pulling out of their dive there bombs turning the monster into a smoldering crater I caught a glimpse of their tails.

"Shinano!" I yelled while smiling like an idiot.

I started to cough up a lot of blood all of a sudden, my head started to feel light-headed my rigging faded away, and the last thing I saw before I passed was a large group of guards being led by what looked like two pink alicorns(huh they have those here to)and what looked like a high ranking member of there military wearing purple armor. Then I faceplanted into the ground and fell unconscious.