U.N.S. Drop ship
U.N.S. Carlston
Celestia sat on her throne reading over the message the Armada Sparkle sent before it's catastrophic end. Did these beings wish for war? Or was it an accident? Celestia thought to her self, before coming up with a final decision.
"Send word to princess Luna and princess Cadence. Tell them that we are on the verge of war." With that Celestia's guard nodded and headed his way out of the room to the communications center. A servant was next to take the place of the guard.
"What is it Olive?" Celestia asked trying to hide the strain behind her voice.
"Your majesty, colony twelve has just sent word that two unknown ships are in the planet Horizon's orbit, and have destroyed Commander Fleet Hoove's fleet."
"What are the names of the hostile ships?" Celestia asked anger slightly rising in her calm voice.
"U.N.S. Carlston and U.N.S. Meta." Celestia nodded and waved the servant off. She bowed and trotted out of the throne room.
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Admiral Yularren leaned over a console and kept pressing the replay button on the touch screen monitors.
"This is U.N.S. frigate Carlston to any friendly forces in the area. We have came under attack by unknown enemy ships. We are entering the planets atmosphere. We need assistance A.S.A.P. or we will be forced to crash land on unknown planet, Coordinates follow-" The sound of static filled the audio transmission.
"Would you like to play again sir?" The ships on board A.I. asked.
"No Vicky, I'd like for you to trace the signal of the Carlston."
"As you wish Admiral." A loading bar popped up on the monitor and labeled itself as tracing. Yularren stared at the loading bar as it hit the fifty percent mark. Yularren pressed the intercom button.
"Attention all crew, prepare for slip space jump." He looked back at the loading bar which was at nintynine percent loaded, then it jumped to one hundred. Vicky's voice came in through the Admiral's chair.
"Coordinates have been locked on sir, ready when you are."
"Do it." Yularren said. The ship shot a blue streak of light that grew outwards, making the slip space portal. The Meta made its way through and found a decent sized fleet made up of the ships the Meta had destroyed earlier. Yularren pressed the alarm system to notify all crew members to man battle stations. Once more the heavy main cannon came un-hooked and picked out it's nearest target.
"Hanger one and two, prepare drop ships for imeadient exvile, and load the package." Yularren said. Down in hanger one Anvil sqaud was preping for a search and rescue mission. Lead by Master Sergeant Burns, his sqaud was best in the fourth division. Their drop ship swung down and landed before them and opened it's back door. Before any one moved a box like object was loaded into the back.
"Ah shit, we get a fucking package this is rad." said Corporal jennings hopping up and down like bouncing ball. The others shook their heads and placed on they're helmets and activated motion sensor systems and comm-links. Straping them-selves in the back door closed and locked tight sealing in the air that was needed. The drop ship lurched forward making Anvil sqaud feel their inards move with the ship. Private Mattern pulled out a bag of M&M's and opened it, letting all it's conntents float around in the compartment.
"Never gets old." he stated.
"Yeah just make sure you pick them all up." Jennings teased. The pilot spoke next.
"I would appreciate that." They shared a laugh before it fll silent and a red light came on.
The Carlston could be seen in the planet's atmosphere burning up as it fell at a slow pace. The drop ships began their own entry and passed the Carlston at a faster but still slow speed. Five minutes later the drop ships seperated going their own ways to secure life boat crash sites. Anvil's bird banked hard left and shook so hard it undid the straps that held 'the package' in place.
"We're hit, brace for impact!" The pilot yelled as the drop ship went into a free fall. Spining out of control, the drop ship hit the side of a mountain. It knocked over a few trees and made a good sized crater. The drop ship lay still.
"Every one okay?" Master Sergeant Burns asked. The rest of his sqaud moaned in responce. Burns looked up into the cockpit, the pilot was dead. His head smashed into the control boards, and blood splattered all over it as well as the window. The drop ship shook again and the sensation of tipping over filled Anvil sqaud's body. The view out of the window showed light blue skies, but was replaced by veiw of the ground as the drop ship crashed onto a slope and began it's descent down the mountain side.
The drop ship hit a slanted rock and went up into air and then back down again and landed on the shore of a lake. The water splooshed on the space craft that had been thrown around to much. Burns was first to stand up. He limped his way over to the door. He placed his hand on a lever and pulled it down. There was a hiss and the door blew off it's hinges revealing the outside world. Burns stepped out and his clean black boots were now covered in sand. He turned back to the drop ship which was partially covered in water. He stepped back in and slipped on the back ramp. He helped himself up using the package as his support. What he didnt realize was that he accidentality activated it. The package transformed into a large walker and had to basicly hunch over. It's red eye came out and so did the two fifty caliber machine guns on it's back. It looked like a dog except the red eye was where the head would have been. It looked at Burns, it's red eye dialating and then going back to normal.
"Activate code charlie." The package buzzed and stepped out of the ship making it sway a bit. Burns followed it as it left behind what looked like chicken feet but had grips on the bottom making the sand imprints go in deeper. The package sat it's self down and transformed back into a cube, but it continued to humm.
Burns headed off into the edge of the forest getting a clear view of the sandy clearing. The package just sat there not moving. Not a moment to soon the rumble of a ship passed over him. The ship touched down on the beach about fifty five feet away from the package. What surprized Burns next was what came out of the ship. What appeared to be equine forms, wearing kevlar armor trotted out of the ship holding mysterious guns. They aproached the package, un-knowingly what would transpier next. One of the equines touched the package with its hoof. The package transformed while in the process flung the equine off into the forest and landed right beside Burns. Burns un-sheathed his combat knife and drove it into the neck of the pony.
Armor plating slid over the red eye of the package as it started prancing around just like a dog playing with a moving toy. The equines fired at the package with blue bolts coming out of the guns. The package took many hits but seemed unscathed. It fired the two fifty caliber guns on it's back in five round bursts, creating new holes in the enemy. The ponies bled out on the sandy ground. The ponies drop ship bagan to take off but was knocked back down to earth again as the package jumped on it's side and started pulling it apart, ripping shreds of metal off and throwing them in random directions. The ship crashed with a loud thud and the sounds of trees snapping in half. The package continued to rip apart the stealth black colored ship. The package broke the light blue tinted window revealing a pony in a olive drab jump suit and a brown helmet firing at the package with a side arm. The energy bolts faded off the surface of the package leaving only scorch marks where the bolts landed. The pony's gun fizzled signaling it was out of ammo. The pony let out a feminine scream as the package gave a mechanical roar. The package couldent reach the pony so it stuck it's steel claws in there instead and latched onto the pony. The pony struggled to break the clasp of the package. Soon the package dropped the pony pilot on the ground by her dead comrades and circled the pony as a carnivore would when intimidating its prey.
Burns came out of the tree line holstering his assault rifle and bearing his semi-auto pistol. He placed the barrel on the pilot's head. The pony quivered at the feeling of cold steel on her head.
"Oh please for the sweet mercy of Celestia don't kill me!" she pleaded. Burns looked up from the pony pilot and then to the package.
"Contact the Meta and any other friendly forces in the area to pick us up." The package acknowledged him with a mechanical whir.
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In Horizon's orbit the Meta had destroyed twelve of the twenty cruisers and had taken little significant damage. It continued to chew its way through the equestrian cruisers. Each cruiser that was destroyed exploded in a horrific end that sent it down into the planet's atmosphere. Two equestrian ships made their way on both star board and port sides of the Meta. The main cannon continued to chew out more ships infront and the one hundred and ten deck guns laid waste to the ships on both sides. They met the same fate as the others. Six ships were left after two solid hours of fighting continued. One by one each ship fell within another hour.
"Sir it would seem that the battle is over." Vicky said in high spirits.
"It would seem that way, I want expeditionary units planet side to see what it is exactly we're dealing with." Yularren said rubbing his temples.
"Understood Admiral, notififying expeditionary units now."