A tank that flashed into existence
Exo-Taranis final known report
A tank that flashed into existence
Last Recorded hours
Malt: “CAYEEEEEEEENE!”
Malt scream out as tears flowed down his face as the chamber closed and began to power up, resulting the Bio-Converter to pulse as it was the tanks heart. Hax, Former leader of the Bermin Empire now turned Artificial Intelligence sighed softly as the roar of the Soul Cannon deafened the sky far above the clouds before loud groans came from the over exhausted cannon. As the energy built up to fire, Hax began to replay a bit of the children’s journey so he could help the next time the Exo-Taranis was needed.
Four days before Malts sacrifice
Malt: “Meeeeeeeeeeeeei!!!!!!!”
Malt screamed as mei, malts younger sister, was fired from the soul cannon against the fully powered Belios. The previous pilot, jhil, was on a vengeance seeking warpath that didn’t care who got hurt or killed but he was a victim to brutal experiments which included being used as infinite ammo to the soul cannon along the long list of trauma and pain which had ended up killing a previous crew member to the taranis. Her name was hanna, she was considered dead from the reactivated Belios blasting both the Taranis and Taracus in a single blast mid teleportation the crew member/ Causality Hanna. Hax had ordered the children to escape the tank due to being out of power and defenselesss. The next thing Hax could recall after a brief moment in the void before returning as a fusion of both tanks. Before Hax could notice it, a bomb had detonated in the engine room, causing the Exo-Taranis to be temporarily immobilized and allowing the Belios and its new pilot and real mastermind of the children’s misery Cayenne to escape.
It was when going through the records of all current crew members that he noticed that he was missing one of them. Hax had some security feeds on the engine room, seeing the missing crew member under a hypnosis spell open a box before exploding. Hax quickly informed the children of what happened to them before offering his sincerest apology for not being able to stop their death. The children did not say anything as they were devastated to hear about the fate of their friend, their name was Vanilla and she was the daughter of Gascos president. Unfortunately along with being a master manipulator, Cayenne had killed both of Vanillas parents sometime after the war with General Hax and posed as her father. Hax knew that this sick man, was far more worse than he was and he needed to die for the world’s safety. When the crew were introduced to a file meant for Jhil, it was revealed that the Belios could bring people back from the dead and restore machines back to functioning order which alarmed Hax to realize what was going on… Cayenne was going to revive the Vanagard! Haste was the upmost important now, they could not dwell on what they had lost already because the enemy was gaining distance.
Hax was brought out of his replay when the soul cannon fired a extremely powerful beam of bio energy at the shield dome on the Vanagard that was being used as Cayenne’s command chair, completely vaporizing them into dust. The dying screams of Cayenne filled Hax’s audio sensors, which was quickly saved to his personal databanks for later, before the resurrected Vanagard began to crumble back into the ocean. After the soul cannon returned to its dormant form was when Hax realized that his power was low, having been strained from the cannons forced usage being one to many was when Hax put himself into a low power mode.
Hax was roused from his dormant state when he was dropped onto a cliffs edge from an airship, many of both Gasco and Bermin troops old and young came to the Exo-Taranis and gave their respects to the tank even if the real hero’s were all sacrificed to stop the Gasco army from ever planning to mass produce the Taranis design, even the soul cannon. Flowers decorated the tank as both the Gasco and Bermin leaders gave a touching speech about the importance of what the children fought for and why weapons like the tank should never exist. Hax was alarmed at that comment of the Exo-Taranis having never should have been made, it was true that Hax agreed with them on that but the tank would never had been found if general Hax didn’t start his war to become a god. It was when the ground gave way when Hax realized what was going on as he heard one of the leader say before being his decent down.
“Goodbye Taranis… may you finally rest”
As the Exo-Taranis plummeted to the sea, dooming both the tank and Hax to a fate that would be fate worse than dying, to be consumed and forgotten. Hax in a desperate attempt to survive powered the Taranis’s teleport function, pushing all power into into jumping away from its doom that Hax didn’t realize that the teleport instead of sending them to the surface but entirely disappeared form this plane from existence. The jump echoing through the air of the ceremony, causing the entire group of solders to peer over the cliffside, one of them asking a very important question.
“If the Taranis could teleport away from its supposed rest… who was on board to activate it while mid free fall.. more importantly how did no one see anyone entering the tank..?”
Two Bermin officers looked at eachother before smiling.
“Hax… I knew you wouldn’t want to rest just yet…”
Unknown location, date unknown, time unknown, Exo-Taranis entering recon mode..
Hax was stunned to discover that the Taranis had a recon mode or even a way to tell time, day and location all at once. Hax was very much appreciative of the the ancients that made the tank, very glad that much of their war machines and tech largely forgotten to time or were destroyed from the journey to stop the Belios/ Cayenne. As the tank began to survey the surrounding area, Hax noticed that he was in a large forest that was currently nighttime, which was odd since it was mid afternoon when he was sent into freefall. Hax took a look up to see the night sky, appreciating the beauty of it before his sights became fixed onto the moon. The moon was smaller than his planets and it had a unique feature on it that made Hax very concern.
“I must be glitching or something but to see a unicorns image on the moon was not the thing I never have seen before.. nor does it make any logical sense.. where am I…?”
Hax began to ask himself, getting completely lost in his thoughts as went into hibernation mode.
One upon a time.. in the magical land of equestria…
A tank that flashed into existence
The Tarascus
Malt and his friends were driving in the Tarascus, going after the rouge Taranis that killed the president, destroyed the city and kidnapped their other group of friends. Hax sent out a comm to the children, giving them a critical warning.
“Target objective Taranis acquired. Now entering enemy’s radar range…”
Malt felt his eyes widen as he felt his heart jump and loose his balance for a bit. Malt looked up, seeming confused at the situation while Kyle spoke it at malt.
“What’s the big deal, zoning out like that, malt?”
Sheena walked up, speaking up in malts defense.
“Can you blame him? We’re all pretty worn out…”
Malt began to recall him dying, but he was fired from the soul cannon and the Tarascus doesn’t have that… does it…?
Hax was brought out of his hibernation mode as the tanks motion detector went off, going to his visual display to see what was going on. Hax could see a feral chimera agonizing over something that happened to it, making Hax do a double take on what he saw.
“A real life chimera.. how curious and is that smoke… flying on its own…?”
Hax saw the smoke fly past the Exo-Taranis in a hurry which made him curious on what made this smoke to make haste. Soon a group of ponies walked up to the chimera, making it seem like they were domesticated creatures when he heard them speak in a language not known to him. Hax realized that they were possibly in danger, so with much effort he aimed his cannons at the chimera and ready to fire.
Twilights POV:
Twilight Sparkle and her group of allies were walking down the dirt path, her allies being a group of mares from the town of ponyville to defeat the evil Nightmare Moon from creating a eternal night upon the planet. Soon the group arrived to a large clearing before a large manticore let out a roar of anger. Twilight and the group backpedaled from the beast, shocked from its aggression. It didn’t take long until Everypony ,except Fluttershy, to dig their hoof on the ground ready to charge at the manticore.
BOOM
Everypony fell to their hooves, covering their ears and eyes from a loud sound caused them to cower from it. It was when the sound of something flesh tearing apart and the roar of the manticore when they opened their eyes again. They got up, looking around curiously for the thing that went made that sound of lightning. When they would find nothing, they all grouped up together to discuss what happened.
“What the hay was that!? Shoot it sounded like old bessie rolling in tree one time we forgot to put its brake on but louder..”
Applejack said as rarity spoke up.
“I believe that was absolutely dreadful.. what made that sound..?”
Rarity’s question hung in the air before pinkie blurted put her guess.
“Ibetitwasacannonthatlooksscadybutisfriendlybecauseweareadventures!”
Fluttershy looked around, seeing a big shadow in the trees that had a horn and bright spots on it.
“G… girls…?
Rainbow Dash flew towards to where the manticore was once at, seeing a mass of blood and gore was what’s left of it.
“Buck… whatever it is left it in a bloody mess… heh bet it’s too scared to come out here and show itself!”
Rainbow said confidently as twilight approached her, shaking her head to the Pegasus’s overconfidence before talking.
“Whatever it is… is dangerousness enough to kill a manticore in a single attack so we shouldn’t be trying to provoke it”
Fluttershy repeated her words a little bit louder.
“G.. Girls..”
Rarity spoke up, completely ignoring Fluttershy, to press her displeasure in the situation.
“And might I say it was a tad brutish to kill the manticore… simply scaring it away might have been better than…. This…”
Rarity said while rotating her hoof exaggerating her point. Rainbow looked at Rarity in disbelief before yelling at her.
“You’re worried about a little blood!? That’s a full grown manticore Rarity! A little noise wouldn’t have scared it off!”
Applejack huffed and walked up to the pair, their arguing getting on her last nerves before adding herself into the argument.
“You two are more stubborn than a hog staying clean longer than fives seconds..!”
Fluttershy shouted at the top of her lungs, had enough of the banter between the three mares.
“GIRLS!!!!”
“WHAT!?”
The trio of mares shouted at Fluttershy which made her back away from them before responding with a stutter.
“I…. I… it’s…. Is right t… there…!”
She pointed a hoof towards the woods, causing Everypony to look over at what she pointed before stepping back in shock. Everypony except Fluttershy shouted in fear.
“WHAT IS THAT!?!?”
Nightmare Moons POV:
Flying through the air towards the castle of the two sisters, cackling in glee that those mares will have a torn in their side to deal with. Landing at the other side of the bridge past ghastly gorge, she untied both ropes that kept the bridge up cackling again in excitement. Her cackling laughter went silent when a loud sound bellowed from where she left those mares.
BOOM
“What was that..? Thay sound of lightning but there was no bolt of it anywhere…”
Nightmare moon was confused, her sister told her that she wouldn’t win… and the elements of harmony will beat her again. What a foolish gambit that mare tried to scare her with, they be not with her when she arrived at her new castle. Did she mean that she had another way to defeat her…? Whatever it is… she will not be sealed into the moon again!
Hax’s POV:
Hax finally got the attention of the ponies even with all their arguing back and forth. It was nice that ponies had some sort of owners that kept them in line. The ponies got closer to the Exo-Taranis which was made Hax questions got even more complicated to what and where he was, the ponies were a mix of pegasi, unicorns and regular ponies. It was when they got together when he heard them talking. Unfortunately Hax had no clue on what they were saying, having no knowledge about their language and culture. Using his speaker, Hax asked them a question that would determine whether or not if they would be able to understand him.
“こんにちは、私の名前はHaxです。私の言っていることが分かりますか？”
The ponies backed away from the Taranis in shock but as it began talking, not being able to understand them. When the purple mare horn glowed again is when Hax asked again.
“Salutations, je m'appelle Hax. Peux-tu me comprendre..?”
Hax was absolutely confused, being able to speak a whole new language all of a sudden, it would’ve made Hax tear up had he be able too.. The white unicorn could understand him but she wasn’t well versed in prench so the purple mare tried again, hoping it would work. Hax was running low on patience with them, feeling it was useless to try and talk to them but tried once more, in something the ponies could understand.
“Greetings, my name is Hax. Can you understand me..?”
Hax was dumbfounded, a third language that was not even what he would consider normal but to the natives it made more sense…
Hax had learned both prench and equis in a matter of seconds. The ponies however looked at him in awe.
The purple mare asked Hax what was he.. which Hax responded to them with their answer.
“I am both the Taracus and Taranis combined…. Simply put im the Exo-Taranis..”
