Chapters **Return of The Oppressed
Prologue**
"Fall back to the bunkers!" yelled a human Sargent firing his gun, aided by two Unicorn Lunar guards all holding a cross bow each and firing lethal bursts into the oncoming tide of Solar Guards. The Human and Lunar forces began to fall back to the cryo bunkers. Inside citizens were storing valuables in vaults and prepping for cryo sleep. Military vehicles such as planes and ground armor were also stored. Naval sub were the only naval forces to be stored. All the ammunition left was also stock piled in the vaults. Luna nearly wept at the sight of a great race being forced to hide for the sake of surviving her Sister. Ever since they had moved from their slowly disintegrating world they had been welcomed by humanity. Humanity had asked them not to get involved with their wars or hardship. They wanted to evolve on their own and overcome the problems they had as their ancestors had done a long time ago. Celestia had watched them fight each other. She slowly began to hate them for what they were. Luna however simply learned from the humans. One thing she found in her favorite place, The National Library, was that humanity was like a phoenix that would rise from the ashes of war to be even stronger.
Celestia eventually decided to remove the so-called Human stain from HER world. For Celestia had decided that Humanity had no need for it. Therefore in her twisted logic she started the Human-Pony war. At first Humanity easily repulsed the attacks that she made upon them until... Celestia joined in utterly destroying the human forces with her magic. Since the Human's world had no magic. Unicorns could not control human weapons or touch humans themselves. However it was a double edged sword and humans who touched magic enriched lands would die from the overload. Their creations would not be affected for they were not biological.
Luna's reflection stopped by the sudden cry of "CELESTIA!!! IS COMING RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
Luna snapped her attention skyward and saw the outline of her sister flanked by two Elite guards.
"Get thy selves to the bunkers. Guards! Hold the line. I shall deal with my sister!" cried Luna as she swept her wings out and in a flash of magic became what was soon to be known as Nightmare Moon. But here no one cowered and hid from her gaze. Instead the she was cheered on by the Humans as the streamed towards the bunkers. Luna swept up towards her sister.
"Why do you want to kill them! Sister!" cried Luna
"To protect the world from them! Luna." came the answering call.
"It was their world, dear sister not ours to decide what can happen to the inhabitants." said Luna hovering naught 100 meters from Celestia.
"It won't be theirs for long Luna!" said Celestia. Celestia fired a torrent of flame at Luna. Effectively ending the conversation. Luna dodged it quite easily and fired her own blue fire at Celestia.
-CLANG-
The bunker's doors slammed shut, Almost decapitating a Solar guard.
"NO!" yelled Celestia. In a flash the Elements surrounded her.
"Where did you get the elements!" said Luna. "Those were a gift from the humans."
"Yes, they were. An experiment that was helped by YOU. Ironic isn't it that I'm going to get rid of you with them.!" said Celestia. A deadly white glow surrounded Celestia and a rainbow shot out of the light hitting the ground and spreading, Covering human constructions with new magical coverings. Effectively entombing the bunkers.Inside the commander of the human forces thought about Luna as his eyes slowly closed. The cryo pods hissed shut and sealed.
Luna was shot to the moon due to a fail safe that completely stopped the elements from harming humans. Since Luna had a hoof in helping she was granted partial protection. Celestia grinned as the last Lunar guards are mopped up. Flying over to Washington D.C which has been replaced with the soon to be named Canterhorn Mountain. Here she proclaims that on top of the greatest Human country's capital the capital of the ponies will be built. After 50 years the Canterlot Castle has been built and the Diamond Dogs, Changlings, Dragons and Griffins take up residence elsewhere in the world. Every so often a pony will find a human relic. They are repurposed to help ponies and the surrounding countries. Inside the human bunkers valves that monitor the flow of oxygen slowly mix the outside air in as to acclimate humans to magic. However humans won't be able to use magic their lifespans are nigh immortal due to being new to magic. Meanwhile above the bunkers a forest slowly begins to grow. It is soon named the Everfree due to the fact that it actively resists ponies. Celstia creates the myth of Nightmare Moon. Celestia has a castle built to further fabricate the myth in the Everfree. She stores the Elements there as well. Slowly Humans are forgotten by the ponies. In fact only one family holds on the Humans. The Heartstring's which used to be one of the biggest family for lunar guards.
They are dismissed as crazy. All lunar guard have also come under the control of Celestia as well. Discord emerges due to an accident and is soon entombed by Celestia. Ponyville is founded and soon becomes a thriving community albeit close to the Everfree for some. Soon the Elements meet and in Ponyville and the events of Nightmare Moon come to pass. Luna had seen everything and knew if she was to get back to the humans she would have to play along with her sister's ruse and pretend to be evil. Luna goes though with it and pretends to have forgotten all about Human kind. Or at least that's what everypony thinks...
They day of the Royal Wedding was here, the marriage of the dunderhead Captain and Cadence. Luna wasn't fussed at all about the wedding. In fact it gave her time to slip away to see if any human's were in cryo still. She fervently hoped that they were, a species did not deserve to be wiped out, and she hoped they would be peaceful towards her. Although she doubted that the Commander would be happy at being asleep for a thousand years. She flew off past the flimsy barrier that enshrouded Canterlot. She doubted she would be missed after all her lunar guards had informed her of the Changeling infiltration a while ago. Her lunar guards were at the moment probably sneaking off towards one of the secret tunnels that went to the train tracks so as to meet with her after she had woken up a sleeping war-machine. She neared the hills that guarded the cryogenics complex. She stalked closer to the guard outpost that Celestia had stationed here to keep an eye on the place. One simple sleeping spell and the five guards were all sleeping peacefully. She stopped at the hill-side that covered the entrance a few tons of dirt were no match for the power of an Alicorn. Soon she face the alloy door that still stood strong against being buried for 1,000 years. She hesitated for a second.
'Do it now, regret later.' she consoled her self and spoke aloud.
"Princess Luna, access code Alpha-Bravo 2-6-1-5." The door pinged and the seals popped releasing air out into the night air. Inside the ancient lights clicked on bathing the smooth curving hallway in a warm light. On some walls blue holographic display's came to life detailing the base's condition. She stopped to check the life count. Not a single human's pod had failed. A true testament to the power of human engineering. Eventually she stopped at a door it said in Human Basic AI CONTROL ROOM. Luna placed her hoof against the reader in the side of the door after a second the lock slid back and the light winked green. She pushed the door open and walked inside.
"Activate Epsilon, code Alpha 2-6-1-5." said Luna taking care to enunciate clearly.
"Oh, Hi Luna! Um, I should tell you that I've been online since the base closed 1,001 years ago you know." said Epsilon his avatar coming to life on the holotank. His avatar was almost too coincidental being a centaur but Luna had other things to worry about.
"Are you rampant Epsilon?" asked Luna raising an eyebrow at his being online.
"Nope or at least not for 500 years. I have achieved meta-stability and plan to be around for sometime." said Epsilon grinning slightly.
"Good, Anything I should be aware of?" asked Luna.
"Yes, I have construction drones removing the dirt covering the base, the 5 guards you incapacitated are in the lockup, and I invented these." Epsilon said with a slightly smug tone in his voice as his avatar was replaced by a schematic for a machine.
"What am I looking at here?" asked Luna quizzically looking at the schematic.
"One nanite, A whole colony can in a human effectively stop aging and ups the healing power of a human by 67%." Epsilon's avatar came back with a solemn look on his face.
"They can still die Luna, However these little buggers should make it a helluva lot harder. Also they already have them." said Epsilon.
"Good. Begin Defrost."
The Commander gasped as his lungs filled with air. He felt... different, although not in a bad way. The cryo pod's door swung open and he collapsed out of the pod. He dragged himself back into a kneeling position and coughed a few times. He got up and walked to his locker. On it read James Crowley, Commander-in-Chief of UN armed forces. He smiled a pulled on the BDU's that were hanging inside. He pulled on the cap with the insignia of a five-star general. His com-link squawked.
"Princess Luna wishes to meet you in the War Room." came Epsilon's voice.
"Got it Epsilon." he stood up and strode to the war room. Inside Luna was standing with two of her Lunar Guards. A couple MP's flanked Crowley.
"Luna." he said.
"Commander." said Luna. He was never James or Crowley, just Commander.
"Epsilon what do we know." said Crowley.
"You've been under for about 1,000 years, Luna here was stuck on the Moon and a couple of legends were made up about how Equestria as we know it came to be."
"A thousand years." said Commander his tone conveying disbelief.
"Yes, My sister has manged to make your species a legend, to be told in Mare's tales."
"It appears that legends have habit of coming back." he smiled as spoke.
"Yes, It certainly seems that way." said Luna.
"Now, The elements." said the Commander.
"The Element bearers have been found, However they are still being held in Canterlot." said Luna.
"Epsilon, Send a burst data stream to the Elements, Give Luna full protection." he said.
"Yes, Commander." said Epsilon. The Commander turned to Luna.
"Get your Guards in their Kevlar, We have a war to plan." said the Commander. He began to issue orders through the PA system. Lights began to strobe as civilian crew began to wake up the hibernating machines of war. Aircraft were pulled out of storage and put through inspections, followed by the heavy armor. The subs began to turn over their fusion powerplants. Aircraft turbines began to start-up. The low rumble of tanks and Humvee's filled the air. The soldiers began to don their Kevlar armor and check out weapons. The Lunar Guards went to a small antechamber. Inside lay Kevlar armor that was shaped for pony use. They soon got the hang of buckling it all together and went and checked out their own weapons. The sleeping giant began to wake, slowly but surely.
Corporal Golden Shield rubbed his head with his hoof as he stood up groaning in pain. Outside the bars he could see an incredibly white oval shaped room. Nearby he could see the rest of the outpost's soldiers waking up too.
"Ha! They think these bars can hold an earth pony!" shouted the Sargent as he tried to buck the door off. It didn't end well for the poor Sargent. A loud crack resounded in the room as his hooves cracked and a few thousand amps wracked the late Sargent. Golden Shield turned away from the smoldering corpse as he looked out into the room. Seams appeared in the wall and a door whooshed to the side with a clank. Golden Shield waited to see what horror was... Hey! It was Princess Luna! They were saved! She was wearing some weird armor. It wasn't metal it looked like woven strands of a strange material. Her two Lunar Guards accompanied her.
"Behind you Princess!" shouted Golden Shield as a strange creature walked into the room. It was as tall if not taller than the Princess. He had strange hooves that were covered in some sort of black boot and strange clothes that were wearing black gloves. He also wore a flat cap on his head with the insignia of a Five Star General. He was most definitely outranked by the strange creature. Luna had turned her head to look at the creature who shrugged.
"I fail to the see the problem, Guard." said Luna.
"But he's obviously the one who put us here." said Golden Shield. At this the creature spoke.
"Hardly. I was asleep until about five hours ago when Princess Luna here woke me up and my race from our slumber." He said in an impossibly deep voice.
"Then who did." said Golden Shield praying to Celestia that the answer was not what he thought it was.
"My guard here did." said Princess Luna. Golden Shield tried to hide his shock and failed miserably.
"Epsilon would you be so kind as to bring our Solar Guard friends here up to speed." said the creature.
"Certainly." said a disembodied voice.
"Who was that." said Golden Shield.
"This base's resident Artificial Intelligence." said the Creature. He turned and walked out the door followed by the Princess of the Night and her guard.
"Now my good pony it's time to educate you on Humanity." said Epsilon as a claw grabbed the unfortunate pony and tossed him into a waiting chair.
"By making you live it." A large spike drove itself into the Shield's spine tapping the spinal cord. Shield lost consciousness. Then he woke up as a human. It was like he was a passenger along for the ride as the human appeared to go through the daily morning routine. He switched on some sort of box which proceeded to play a moving picture.
"BREAKING NEWS AN UNKNOWN LANDMASS HAS APPEARED IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. THE INHABITANTS APPEAR TO BE SENTIENT AND ARE NOT HUMAN!" blared the box. The spoon fell out of the human's hand and clattered in the bowl. Then the scene switched to the meeting between Humanity and Pony kind. Then the lab where apparently the Elements of Harmony were created. All Golden Shield could tell was the place was called CERN because it was on the wall. Then it switched to the Celestial Betrayal. Golden Shield watched in horror as the Celestia began to wage war against the human's. He could only watch as the human's body he was in helped Nightmare Moon of all ponies away only to be shot through the stomach by Celestia. The psychological shock was too much for the Corporal and with a loud snap his mind broke leaving a babbling pony in his place. The rest of the unit was undergoing the same treatment they too went mad and were disposed along with Golden Shield by incineration in the cooling units for the fusion reactor. Epsilon sighed. HE had better go supervise the launch of the UHA FORWARD UNTO RECLAMATION .
Meanwhile in Canterlot...
A pillar of flame burned its way up outside. In the gardens the guests of the wedding reception were all watching in awe. Well all except one.
"No, I removed them." breathed Celestia as she watched the pillar grow ever taller. THEY were back.
UHA FORWARD UNTO RECLAMATION... Receiving information...
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Power Supply - Three Stalwart Class Fusion Reactors working in tandem
Armor - Titanium Alloy, Extremely strong.
Main Weapons, Mass Accelerator Cannon, Slugs: Heavy, Light, Tactical. Shiva class Plasma Yield device (WMD).
Secondary Weapons, Archer class ballistic missiles, Onager batteries.
Defense, MK VI CIWS systems: Over 75 scattered in tactical positions across hull.
End...
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M16A4 Assualt Rifle, used by most branches.
Beretta M9, Used by most branches.
Operational Readiness?
Operational Readiness
UHA Air Force 95%
UHA Army 100%
UHA Navy 89%
UHA FOWARD UNTO RECLAMATION 99%
UHA Marine Corps 100%
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The Commander stood on the bridge of Humanity's first space warship, funnily enough it was a warship that wasn't fighting humans. It had a bit larger of a target it named Celestia. On the tactical map he watched a company of Marines moving towards one of Equestria's biggest military cities, Stalliongrad. He snorted at the pony version of Stalingrad, if only the ponies knew who the original city was named for. Every so often he would flick through a folder titled, Disney World 2025. He smiled as he touched the faces frozen in the photograph. His mother, father, and sister as well as him stood next to the ancient Tomorrow World. He closed the window and stood up. The Commander tapped a few buttons on the screen and then spoke.
"The order is given. Commence attack." said Commander James Crowley reigniting a thousand-year old conflict.
UHA Marine One Klick from Stalliongrad
Corporal Dwayne Hicks checked his M16A4 for the fifth time and his M9. Soon a voice filtered through from his commanding officer.
"Men, here's where we show those hoof-up their ass, horn-head, sons of bitches that they could not have picked a worse enemy than the human race. We are going to blow the hell out of those dumb ponies until we don't have anything left to shoot 'em with! And then, we are going to strangle them with their own living guts! Am I right, Marines?" ordered Sgt. Johnson.
"SIR YES SIR." said The Marines.
"Alright then hit it, Marines—go, go, go! The Corps ain't payin' us by the hour!" and with that the marines trekked the kilometer to Stalliongrad.
The squad sniper and her spotter settled down on a rise aiming their Barrett .50 Caliber rifle at the gate.
"Contacts 2 and 3 o' clock above the gate." said her spotter.
"Got 'em, firing." said the sniper holding her breath she panned between the two and squeezed the trigger, she pulled back the bolt and fired again. The muzzle brake stopping the flash.
Stalliongrad Gates
"I'm telling you the Princess has a thing for white pegasi." said Private Hammer.
"And I'm telling you to keep watch. There's a reason the Princess beefed up security." said Corporal Stark.
"Pfft. Who would be dumb enough to attack the Royal Guard." said Private Hammer. Corporal Stark was about to respond when his head exploded. Hammer stood there stunned and was about to move when his head too exploded. The spectacle brought more guards running. A couple of rapports boomed across the snow. Then five more guards died followed by five more rapports. The commander of the garrison got smart and ordered his stallions to get down. That's when the gate exploded the ponies peered through the dust.
"Who goes there." said the Commander sounding braver than he felt. He the reply was a bullet in the head.
"Get up so I can kill you again!" roared a voice. Then all Tartarus broke loose. Shapes as tall as the Princess ran through the smoke and metal death sleeted through the air. Every so often a loud boom was heard among the constant DAKKA-DAKKA. This accompanied a part of a pony turning to ground meat. The ponies were able to rally and threw their spears.
"Awww look at that, They're throwing spears at us." said Com-tech Hudson as a spear bounced off his armor landing with the tip broken.
"Shut up Hudson." Said Hicks as he fired his M16.
"Unicorn! 3 o' clock!" came a shout. Private Drake spun and fired once with his shotgun effectively removing the unicorn's horn along with most of its head.
"Aww, Man, that's nasty as it was a thousand years ago." said Hicks as he got splattered with a bit of gray matter and blood. The marines pushed forward their sniper ascending the gate and began to fire on targets of opportunity. It helped that the solar guard wore gold and higher ranks wore more purple as the ranks progressed. Captains had all purple armor, then so on to a red. She noticed a red armored figure leading a rally. She spoke into her boom mike.
"Firing on red bastard." said Corporal Corly. The boom of her Barrett punctuating her sentence as the Red-Hoof fell in a pool of his head. The Royal Guard had holed up in the Headquarters. The humans were content to sit outside and plan an attack.
"Sir, A pony is requesting an audience. Says her last name is Heartstrings." said Corly to Sargent Johnson.
"A Heartstrings eh? Wonder if they still remember us." said Johnson as he stood up and walked over to the pony. She was a mint green unicorn with a lyre cutie-mark and a two-tone hair color of green and white.
"Corporal Lyra Heartstrings reporting for duty sir!" she said with a crisp salute.
"I'm gonna need more than that soldier." said Johnson. He turned and got on the line with Princess Luna.
"Ma'am I have a pony here, Name's Lyra Heartstrings." said Johnson.
"Ah, yes. I had her spy on the garrison in Ponyville before moving her to Stalliongrad." said Luna.
"Thank-you Ma'am." said Johnson terminating the link. He turned back to Lyra.
"Good to see you, then Corporal." said Johnson. "I need information on that HQ."
"Will these help?" she said producing a blueprint.
"Yes," said Johnson. "Join us at the table." He motioned for her to follow. At the table Sgt. Johnson laid out the blueprint on a table.
"So what's the weakest point?" asked Johnson.
"Here." said Lyra circling the roof of the building. "It's magically charged to stop Pegasus from landing but other than that it's not very strong.
"Sir, If I may the Forward Unto Reclamation is almost in prime position.
"Well I do like my men and I do like a big boom so lets move out." said Johnson.
"Relaying co-ordinates now." Hudson operating the target computer.
"Sir! We are receiving target data for a tactical strike." said the communication officer.
"Really, Weapons, load a tactical round in the MAC." said the Commander.
"Loaded. Charge at 100% per your orders to hold it at 90%." said the Weapons officer.
"Epsilon would you be so kind as to get a firing solution?" asked the Commander.
"Calculated."
"Fire." said the Commander. The lights dimmed a little and a loud boom was heard. A streak of light came out of the front of the Reclamation it entered the atmosphere and kept going. The Royal Guard had noticed absent humans and were cheering when aloud boom made them look up. The human marines plus Lyra watched a loud boom occurred and a marine sent out a portable spy drone. The screen plugged into the unit and displayed a brand new crater where the Royal Guard Command Center and Head Quarters used to exist. The surrounding buildings had only partially been damaged. Hence the word tactical in tactical round. Ponies were staggering around dealing with the loss of hearing while others stared at the sky then back to the crater and then back to the sky and then back to the crater. Repeat a few times and you get the idea. No one noticed the black oblong shape lift off from the surrounding area and fly in the direction of the Everfree.