ExtraEquestrial

ExtraEquestrial

The pilot of a Protoss fighter, named Torcannas, watched from his ship as their fleet flew among the stars in one huge golden mass. Their star ships was impressive, and clearly showed advanced technology. The sizes of the ships ranged from small fighters to massive crafts capable of destroying entire planets. Even more important that the ships was what they were protecting; In the very center, guarded by the whole fleet flew a true behemoth, the size of a small city. Capable of bending space and time to its will, it was one of the most powerful vessel ever created: the mothership. A giant disk-like spacecraft with a giant crystal at its center was one of the most ancient and powerful things ever made, and there were so few of them left.

Everything was going fine to protect the Mothership, it was only a few more days of travel to get to the destination

....and then they were attacked.

The attackers were strange, terrifying, insect-like monsters that swarmed the fleet in massive numbers. Even so, with their numbers in the thousands, the monsters were held at bay. Even though they had so many, they were no match for the Protoss and their advanced technology. However; the enemy just kept coming, It was becoming too much of a force to defend against.

The battle lasted for hours and it seemed to be leaning towards the enemy; the Protoss could not hold out mush longer. Torcannas could only continue to fight his hardest for his kind knowing that this could only end one way.

That was, until a face appeared on his ship's monitor, that he recognized it as commander Kannas of the fleet.

"En taro Tassadar, pilot Torcannas", said the commander.

"En taro Tassadar, commander Kannas", replied Torcannas. "Is there matter of great importance?" he asked "I am currently out of combat but i must return quickly."

"That is what I am trying to contact you about, Torcannas. You must prepare your ship for a wormhole jump."

"But that technology is highly unstable." Torcannas said with a sense of dread in him.

"Yes", replied the commander "but it is our only hope that we can get the mothership and the rest of the fleet out of this catastrophe."

Torcannas hesitated before replying: "....very well I shall start the procedures immediately."

"I shall notify you when we shall make the jump. Be ready", said Kannas, then, with a small flash, he disappeared from the small screen.

With the commander gone, Torcannas started to press small buttons and flip switches, readying his ship for the warp jump; a new and fairly unstable devise that would allow them to travel great distances in an instant.

Suddenly, the commander appeared on his screen again: "Are you prepared for the transit?", asked the commander

"Yes I am commander. Simply tell me when to initiate the system", was the reply.

After a few seconds a countdown commenced: "5....4....3...." counted a robotic voice from a speaker in his ship "2....1....0, prepare for jump...." Then a massive flash of light came from all around him.

Then darkness.

Then again there was a flash of light and suddenly, he was back in space.

It took him a while to adjust but once he did he realized a few things at once.

He was alone, no one from the fleet was around him.

His ship was out of control, he couldn't slow down.

And that he was heading straight for a planet at full speed.

He was going to die.

1 hour before, in Ponyvile..

Twilight couldn't be happier, she had become a princess! After her coronation, she decided she would stay in Ponyvile. Life after she had become a princess had been a bit hard to adjust but she had gotten used to it. It had been 3 weeks since then and life had almost returned to normal.

Today was the day they gave out the "Pony of Ponyvile" award and they were about to start declaring who got the award.

This years award was going to be given out after dark for some reason but Twilight couldn't wait to see who won. After about 5 minutes, the mayor got up onto the stage of town hall and said: "Citizens of Ponyvile, today we honor a pony who has truly deserved this award...."

Meanwhile in the upper atmosphere....

Torcannas knew that his ship wouldn't burn up as it entered the atmosphere, due to the shields that the ship had been built with, but he knew the impact would most likely kill him but he still had hope....his shields had continued to recharge and he might have a small chance of surviving if he didn't crash into something too hard but he saw, as he was falling, a town. So this planet had life? Even though he couldn't slow down, he overloaded the ships warp field through his inertia drive and encased himself in a small ball of light, slowing down the ship.....it wasn't enough. He was still going too fast.

Back in Ponyvile

The mayor was starting to get to the end of her speech: "...and so it is with great pleasure that i give this award to.....Princess Twilight Sparkle." Twilight was shocked, she hadn't imagined for herself to get the award. She walked up to the stage and took the trophy from the smiling mayor. "Thank you", said Twilight, as a picture was taken.

Almost as soon as the words had left her mouth, Twilight saw a bright flash in the sky. "A shooting star?" Twilight asked herself. It began to get brighter and brighter until everypony was looking up.Then Twilight realized: "That's not a shooting star-that's a meteor! Even though it wasn't looking like it was flying too fast (in fact it seemed to slow down somewhat) it was still heading straight towards them. It also was falling at a very flat angle.

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Torcannas had managed to slow down the ship even more, but he knew he couldn't do it again. He was going to crash. He reached down and checked on the small shield of energy that would protect his craft from any damage it was at 25%. He might just survive...He just wasn't so sure about whatever was on the ground. he was getting closer.....closer. He braced himself for impact. "Not the most noble of deaths", he thought to himself.

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Twilight watched with growing horror and fascination as the meteor slowed down yet again and deiced it probably wasn't just a rock. Finally after watching for 2 minutes the meteor smashed into the spire on the top of town hall and crashed into the open field next to it. There was a blue pulse that shimmed around the meteor as it crashed and a large amount of dust and dirt made a cloud around it. As it cleared Twilight was shocked, as were here other friends, that it wasn't a rock. It was a golden....machine of some sort.

"Well What is that?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I don't know" Twilight responded

She didn't know what it was it looked like some kind of gold and blue machine with wings that faced backwards and pulsed  blue lights, it also had a window in the front that was very dark and she couldn't see through it. It looked very advanced but what was it?

Suddenly there was a soft, hissing noise and the front of the strange thing began to move forward. Then one of the strangest creatures she had ever seen stepped, or rather limped out leaving a dark trail, when it fell to its knees and said in a voice that came from many places at once something unintelligible before it collapsed to the ground and lay still.