//------------------------------//
// Zurvan Amp Station 
// Story: My Little Planetside 
// by Alanox 
//------------------------------//

	Applejack destroyed another tank with her Shrike. The Prowlers kept coming, but the New Conglomareate would not falter. Along with freedom came the freedom to hold tiny outposts in the middle of nowhere, so that was what the forces there decided to do. Natural chokepoints funneled Prowlers and Sunderers into death traps watched by Heavy Assaults. Truly, Palos Solar Array was a fortress in disguise.
“Hoo-wee! Pinkie, how many Certs ya got?”
“Ohmigosh, we’re RICH! I already have, like, a kermillion Certs!”
“Uh… I’m no math wizard, but I don’t think that’s a real number…”
“Of course it is! It’s ten wazillions!”
Applejack took the smart way out and stopped questioning the pink pony. She checked her map for potential targets, focal points of enemy armor. Plenty to the East as usual. The proximity of Saurva Bio Lab made it easy for the Equestrian Republic to resupply, but no amount of tanks could pierce the stalwart defense of Auraxis’ freedom fighters.
Applejack looked up at the chat, and noticed as a peculiar player said something strange.
LetsDaringDoThis: Soldiers of the Equestrian Republic! Fear not! Today the skies rain death! Loyalty until Harmony! Attack!
Applejack wondered why such a person said something so strange. She then wondered what that windy noise was. She then wondered why the sun no longer touched the ground. She then wondered where all her health went. She then wondered why her screen filled with white and yellow explosions. She then wondered why nobody noticed the massive swarm of Liberators and Mosquitos flying towards them earlier. She then wondered where to spawn.
“Applejack… what just happened?”
“Ah think Rainbow Dash just called a fleet of planes to push us out.”
Pinkie didn’t say much after that. Or anything at all. Applejack decided to leave her be, but noticed Pinkie spawned at Tawrich Tech Plant. She decided to follow her to see if she could find what the confectioner was up to. Pinkie ran to the main facility and took a teleporter to the turret level, and spawned a Galaxy dropship.
“AJ, get in. We’re going flyswatting.”





As they neared a facility in the desert, Pinkie introduced the Galaxy to a swarm of Mosquitos in the most sensible way imaginable: By ramming full speed into three of them. Applejack hopped between turrets and opened fire, taking down two more before anything could react. Two mosquitos opened fire with rocket pods from both sides, forcing Pinkie Pie to drop down. Conveniently enough, the enemy pilots could not aim down fast enough and destroyed each other. A Burster Alicorn opened fire, pelting the belly of the plane with flak. Pinkie completely disabled the vertical thrust, sending the Galaxy falling downwards. The Alicorn realized too late what her plan was, before getting hit by the Galaxy’s armored hull and crushed into the ground. Before she could get airborne again, a Prowler opened fire on the temporarily landed Galaxy. Pinkie rose into the sky again and dived straight towards the tank, both Earth Ponies ejecting as the dropship collided straight into the tank and exploded, killing the Equestrian gunners inside. They ran for cover behind a coral formation and noticed a convoy of Sunderers coming up the road. C4 detonators emerged beneath wicked grins.





Rainbow Dash sat bored as the Sunderer she was sitting in slowly reached its destination.
“Fluttershy, can’t these things go any faster?”
“Dash, the drivers said they have full Racer Chassis…”
“Why didn’t we just fly there?”
“I heard there was too much anti-air…”
Rainbow groaned. It was going to be a boring-





Applejack and Pinkie Pie laughed their tails off at the burning wreckage formerly known as three full Sunderers. Among the flashing list of dead Equestrians was none other than LetsDaringDoThis and Butterfly120, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.
“Yee-haw! Today is a good day ta die!”
The Earth Ponies turned around to find the twin barrels of a Prowler staring them in the face.
“Ah guess ah spoke too soon…”




AJ and Pinkie emerged on opposite sides of the main spawn room. They returned to the Warpgate and found the NC amassing. Liberators hovered overhead as bored Reaver pilots did flips in the air and landed on each other.
Sailin’: Departing to engage ER Air Zerg in two minutes.
“Ya’ll wanna go with ‘em?”
Pinkie gasped audibly. “Ohmigosh, I thought you’d never ask!”
Applejack approached the Air Terminal and a 3D model of a Reaver appeared in the holographic display. She upgraded the Reload Speed of her Vortek Rotary before pushing her hoof through the green “Spawn” button. The nanites making up her character dissolved before reassembling inside the body of a Reaver halfway across the Warpgate. She checked all the systems within. Forward Thrusters active, Vertical Thrusters ready, Wing Flaps responding, Afterburner primed, Rotary cannon loaded, A2A missiles connected, and Fire Suppression available. On the other side of the Warpgate Pinkie’s Reaver assembled, and immediately started doing backflips.
“Weeeeeeeee!” she exclaimed.
The planes assembled began to lift off and move through the canyons. Applejack followed behind as they swerved in between the rocks. Far to the north a massive cloud of aircraft began rendering. One could describe the clump of Mosquitos as a swarm if they were feeling symbolic. Any NC in Zurvan Amp Station below were cowering in buildings as the ground outside was glassed by explosives raining from above. The NC Liberators raised out of the canyons as the Reavers below surged forward. AJ slammed her Afterburner and rapidly accelerated with them. The Mosquitos slowly turned and began engaging. Nose guns opened fire as the two fleets entered the dogfight of a lifetime. The farmpony banked hard to the right and started tailing a Mosquito. The distracted pilot stood no chance against a direct burst from her Reaver and exploded into pieces. Bullets zoomed over her cockpit as another Equestrian opened fire, and a few hit her rear. Applejack slammed her airbrakes and spun around, facing the other plane head on. She activated her vertical thrusters and flew over the other player as she rained Rotary rounds from above, quickly dispatching the Equestrian.
Pinkie was being chased by 5 different Mosquitos as her Flak Armor absorbed the few shots that actually landed. She had already made 4 pilots crash into each other in an attempt to follow the crazy mare. Pinkie turned off her thrusters and dropped rapidly as a Mosquito tried to ram her head on, only to miss completely and instead smash into another one behind her behind her. Make that 6 pilots.
Applejack pulled out of the intense dogfight and set her sights on an ER Liberator. Her Vortek rounds essentially pinged off its armor, barely making a scratch into the heavy plating. She swapped to her A2A Missiles and began locking onto the bomber, before releasing a guided missile in its direction. The rocket smashed into the hull and tore a fin off, forcing the Liberator to re-adjust. A second missile blew the whole wing off and sent the gunship spinning towards the ground. The Equestrians bailed in a desperate attempt to survive the crash, but impacted the ground and died immediately, giving Applejack two more kills.
Almost immediately, another Mosquito shot by her, placing some new bullet-holes in her cockpit windshield. AJ flipped and rotated to face her opponent who had done the same. She spotted the pilot, whose name appeared on her head’s up display. LetsDaringDoThis. Rainbow Dash. Immediately the two rivals opened fire, ascending and descending in an attempt to make their opponent miss. The farmpony rolled, banked, and dropped, but couldn’t shake the Pegasus. Rainbow proved to be the better pilot; she was nearly undamaged, while Applejack’s Reaver was smoking from the hits she’d taken. As her fuselage lit on fire, Applejack knew she had only one option left. She leveled out her thrusters and slammed on the Afterburners, shooting forward. Rainbow put in the last few shots and exploded the Reaver, realizing only too late what her plan was. Before she could dodge, the charred wreckage of Applejack’s fighter smashed into Rainbow’s, sending the remains of both planes hurtling towards Auraxis.





Applejack and Pinkie Pie logged off, laughing at the destruction they had caused to the Equestrian Republic.
“Ah wish Ah could’a seen the look on Dash’s face!”
“I bet she was as mad as a scientist! Which makes me wonder, why aren’t there ever any happy scientists? You know, maybe I should be Equestria’s first Happy Scientist!”
“Whatever you say, Pinkie.”
As the farmpony closed the game, a message appeared on her loading screen.
Game Update 1, coming soon! New weapons, balance passes, map updates, and an entire new vehicle! See you on Auraxis, soldier!