Terra: Battle for Equestria

"Sir?"

Hemmer walked over to the operator once again, expecting to hear some interesting news as he listened intently.

"Further scans show that the planetary cycle of Terra Prime is rather...abnormal to standard solar systems."

"Explain."

"Normal systems often have a host star surrounded by orbiting planetary bodies. This system is different. Instead of having a host star, it seems to have a host PLANET. Specifically Terra Prime."

A hologram appears, showing the Earth-like planet stay completely stationary as ball of flame circles the planet along with a barren rock. A dotted line connects the two bodies between the planet, showing that they are completely symmetrical to each other at all times as the revolve around the planet.

"What the hell...?"

"The sun that orbits the planet seems to be much smaller than our own sun, yet still manages to retain a yellow-orange color in the spectrum while being able to give off much less heat and radiation. It's orbit is exactly the same distance from the planet's core as it's moon, about zero point zero seven AU's. Atmospheric temperature averages around 76 degrees Fahrenheit, or 24.5 degrees Celsius."

"Anything else I need to hear?"

"There seems to be some form of strange exotic radiation readings around the planet , primarily in dense groups. We're still trying to find the cause of them, but the seem to be coming from...civilized settlements."

Hemmer didn't react at all, his face still retaining a stone hard look.

"There seems to be a leading dominant species. Considered highly intelligent. Settlements are located around the landscape, along with some urbanized cities. Evaluations estimate their technologies to be mixed around the 18th and 19th centuries of the human time period. We are still determining what species they are."

This was going to be a problem to him. He didn't like it one bit.

And it was a problem that was going to be dealt with.

It was a beautiful day in Ponyville. The skies were clear of any clouds, which Celestia took full advantage of, letting the glowing sun warm the lush, green landscape with it's rays of life. The birds chirped, the animals were lively, the ponies were greeting each other as they passed by, exchanging words of conversation as they went about doing their usual business. Everything was perfect...except for two ponies who were flying in the sky. Specifically a cyan pegasus along with a lavender unicorn.

Twilight didn't notice any of it. Had it not been for what just happened moments ago, she would spent the day doing everything she could under Celestia's sun. She hooves were still shaking slightly from shock, which didn't help the already unbalanced aircraft with a damaged fin. Her mind was still racing, yet there was so little to think of, which resulted in her staring into space.

Rainbow Dash saw this, looking at her with great concern. "Twilight, are you sure your alright?"

She didn't respond. "Twilight? Hey, Twi!" Rainbow Dash flew next to Twilight, and waved her hoof in front of her eyes.

Twilight jolted, and gave a yelp as she lost control for a moment, quickly recomposing herself from the surprise.

"Yeah, i'm fine Rainbow. Just a little...shaken up." Twilight feigned a smile, which didn't help convince Rainbow Dash a single bit.

"Once you land that thing, you need to take a long, nice nap like me. You're really gonna need it."

"That's sounds like a plan. Sad waste of a good day though..." Twilight said, and looked at the beautiful sun floating in the sky.

Suddenly, something dark seemed to have blurred her eye. She rubbed her eyes with her hoof, and squinted to make sure her mind wasn't fooling her. It's only the shock. My mind's not right as of now...

She looked at Rainbow Dash, who was also focusing hard on examining the sun. Twilight did the same, and sure enough, something dark was definitely moving. And it was BIG. So big in fact, it literally began to advance OVER the sun. It was like a bunch of giant serpents circling around the sun, attempting to block it out.

"What...IS that?" Twilight muttered to herself.

Twilight looked ahead, and saw a colossal shadow stretching from one horizon to the other, quickly rushing towards them and the town. The shadow first covered the mountain ranges of Canterlot, and within the span of a few seconds, blanketed Ponyville, then herself and Rainbow Dash.

"What the hay?!" Rainbow Dash yelled, craning her neck around to watch the shadow continue to spread across the landscape.

"C'mon, Twilight! Let's go find our friends and see whats up!" Rainbow Dash sped off towards the town, and Twilight followed in pursuit. She had a bad feeling of what was to come. And she had no idea what to do, which bugged her very much, because she always knew what to do, and how to handle something with her vast wealth of knowledge. It was one of her best and favorite traits. The fact that that trait was useless right now frustrated her.

She pronounced today to be the worst day ever. And it was a problem she was going to have to deal with.