Draconian War: The Blitz

At midnight, everyone was fast asleep when Callie, Marie, Michael, and Andrew heard a loud sound outside over the strong wind in the snowstorm. After hearing it a second time, they realized it was the siren for an air-raid and they jumped out of bed. As they started running to the living room, the lights went out, indicating the storm had knocked out the electricity. After reaching the window and yanking back the curtains, they saw the faint outlines of aircrafts through the snow flying over the outskirts of Inkopolis and heard the sound of bombs going off. Gasping, they realized they were under attack. Without hesitating, they put on headlamps and their winter coats before rushing to wake their parents up. Their parents were sharing a room and were roused from their sleep upon hearing the door banging open.

"Girls, what's going on?", asked Sally in a startled voice as she rubbed her eyes.

"AIR-RAID!", screamed Callie and Marie in unison.

Their parents jumped up and started running to the back door. As everyone got outside and ran towards the shelter that Flurry Heart and the Young Six had built for them the year before, Michael realized someone was missing and he was horrified.

"WAIT, THE KIDS!", he shrieked.

"KEEP GOING, WE'LL GET THEM!", hollered Marie as she and Callie twirled around to run back inside.

As they ran towards the hallway, Callie heard the sound of another bomb falling. It sounded as if the bomb was going to strike across the road.

"MARIE! GET DOWN!", shrieked Callie as she grabbed Marie by the arm and pulled her to the floor.

The bomb landed hard and the light from the blast lit up the entire room. The shockwave from the blast cracked the window and caused the curtain rods to break loose from the wall and fall to the floor. After the explosion stopped, they stood back up and continued running to get their kids. In the nursery, Taylor and Lizzie were hearing the loud sounds of the bombs and they were horrified. Shaking, they hugged each other.

"MAMA!", cried Taylor.

"MOMMY! HELP!", screeched Lizzie.

Callie and Marie heard their kids' cries and threw the door open. After running into the nursery and grabbing blankets, they ran over to the crib and scooped their little angels up.

"We've got you, our angels.", they said quietly as they wrapped the kids snugly and rushed outside.

The Squid Sisters were halfway to the shelter when they suddenly tripped over the tips of their slippers. Taylor and Lizzie slipped out of their arms as they fell face-first into the snow. Since the snow was fairly deep, the kids landed softly only three feet away. As Callie and Marie started to get up, they heard their babies scream. Bolting upright, they looked in the direction where the screams were coming from and saw something running into the distance.

"TAYLOR! LIZZIE!", they shrieked as tears welled up in their eyes.

The snow was falling so heavily that they couldn't see very far, even with their headlamps. So they continued running to the shelter. When they got inside, they only saw Michael and Andrew. They looked petrified and dizzy.

"WHERE ARE OUR PARENTS?", asked Callie in a state of panic.

"They were taken by something. Our headlamp batteries were dying and we couldn't see too well. Suddenly we heard what sounded like a blast of energy and a light flashed behind us. Then we heard them cry out in pain as if they'd been hit by an electrical shock. We turned around to see them go limp and collapse into the snow. Before we could drag them inside, we saw what looked like an alien grab them and then kick us backwards. We fell through the door and hit our heads on the steps.", said Andrew shakily.

Callie and Marie burst into tears. After closing the door, they hugged their loves tightly and cried their eyes out. As their tears subsided, they waited in the shelter until morning. Exiting the shelter, they saw it was not snowing anymore and the aircrafts were long gone. They hurried inside and turned on the news.

"This is a major emergency. Both Splatsville and Inkopolis have been bombed by unidentified aircrafts. An earlier call from DJ Octavio says he and some of his soldiers tried to fight off the attackers, but they all got injured. What's worse is that our defense turrets got frozen up before last night's snowstorm. The perimeter defense was not finished defrosting them when the storm hit, so they couldn't shoot back.", said Shiver.

"That explains why we didn't see any blasts fly from the ground into the air.", said Andrew.

Marie knew that they had to tell everyone that their parents and kids were taken.

"Callie, we need to call the news station and tell them what happened to us.", she said.

Callie gave her a thumbs-up and ran to the phone. Seconds later, they could hear the phone ringing at the news station.

"Hang on one second, Shiver. We have a caller.", said Frye as she stepped off the camera to answer.

Moments later, Frye came running back to give the startling news she had just received.

"This just in. We have gotten a phone call from the Squid Sisters. Their parents and children were captured last night during the attack.", she shrieked.

"My goodness!", cried Shiver as she and Big Man jumped in shock.

"Until further notice, both cities must remain on high alert until this crisis is over. This is Deep Cut, signing off.", said Frye.

"What are we going to do? We can't just sit here.", said Andrew.

"You're right, Andrew. We need to assemble the Squidbeak Agents and track down the attackers.", replied Callie.

Two hours later, the agents were assembled along with Pearl, Marina, Octavio, and some of his troops. They spotted three of the aircrafts approaching and immediately opened fire. They splattered tons of ink onto the aircraft in the front, but the other two were further back and out of range. Callie managed to splash some ink from her roller into the front aircraft's engines. With the ink clogging the engines, the aircraft came crashing into the ocean. The other two aircrafts were not hit, but they realized the potential of getting brought down too. This led the pilots to make a drastic decision that they should flee.

"SERVES YOU RIGHT!", shouted Marie as the aircrafts left.

Callie and Agent 4 rode out to the crashed aircraft in a boat and towed it to land. Opening the cockpit, everyone saw that the crew had drowned after the crash. They could tell this because the window was broken and the cockpit was flooded. After pumping the water out, they started examining the crew members for any signs of who they were. The only insignia they found was a patch on the uniforms. They did not recognize this, but they knew how they could find out.

"We agreed to be possible allies with Equestria last year. One of their space stations is in orbit. Why don't we call them?", suggested Octavio.

"Good idea.", said Agent 3.

They quickly contacted the space station and explained everything to Daring Do. She was startled.

"We tried to take them down, but they avoided our shots. They soon got so close that they managed to hit us with an electromagnetic pulse and knock out our power. We finished getting our systems back online just twelve minutes before you called.", she replied.

"Can you contact Flurry Heart? We need to tell her we need help.", requested Marie.

"Stand by. I'll put you on hold.", said Daring Do as she prepared to call Equus.