//------------------------------// // United Nations of Equis // Story: The battle for the key // by TheBritishBrony //------------------------------// 30th day of the second month S.L.R.---------Griffonia.(Griffin home land)------ "My lord." Lord Talonas raised his head and stared at the messenger Griffin through eyes that seemed much older than should be possible for his 30 year old self. "What is it Hilras?" Talonas asked the bowed griffin, taking note of the scroll he bore in his hand. "A message has arrived from the ruler of equestria." Talonas felt a smile grow on his face, remembering the fun times he had had with his Equestrian friend at the mere mention of her status in her culture. "What is it about?" He asked Hilras as he unfurled the scroll and began to scan it. "I am not sure my lord, we felt it would be better if you read it yourself." Talonas chuckled his nephew's formality, however he felt his smile drop a little more the further he read into the scroll. Dear lord Talonas, I wish that I as able to send this letter to you in order to invite you to tea like we used to but I am afraid that the reason I am sending this letter to you is to announce a gathering of the United Nations of Equis on the First day of the third month of 03 S.L.R in Canterlot castle. This is because recently my student has discovered an unidentified flying object hovering in a high orbit above the planet, we are worried about this because it was being pursued by another ship which disappeared after following it behind the moon, leading us to believe this U.F.O may pose a danger to our planet. I hope to see you soon. Celestia. "Hilras." Talonas barked. "Yes my lord." Hilras said, shaking at the sound of his uncles shout. "Have the maids pack my bags, I'm going to Canterlot." Hilras let out a shaky breath of relief that his uncles anger wasn't directed towards him but quickly regained his composure. "Yes my lord." He said, saluting his uncle. He turned around and walked out of the heavy oak wood doors. ---------Tauronas. (Home land of the Minatours and Centaurs.)--------- King Sanous laid his massive arms on the arm rests of his throne and shut his eyes to go to sleep when the doors to his throne room burst open hitting the walls as they flung around. "My king." Said the newly entered, red skinned Minotaur. Sanous growled at the disturbance to his sleep. "What do you want redling." He spat the words like they left a bad taste in his mouth, causing the red Minotaur to flinch at the term. "A letter has arrived for you from equestria." The red one said holding out a scroll in his palm. Sanous tore the letter from the redling's hand, smashing the back of his bony hand against the red Minatour's face as he pulled it back. "Next time you knock before entering you pitiful excuse for a Tauron." He unraveled the scroll to read what the pony had written to him but stopped after the first line witch stated, 'Summon king Firenze before continuing.' Sanous looked at the red minatour he had hit earlier preparing to give him an order but stopped when he saw that the creature was out of action from his earlier assault. He turned to a blue female Minotaur who was just passing outside of the door. "Servant." Sanous said loudly directing his attention to her, the sound of his voice causing her to bow her head, "Yes my king?" She asked keeping her eyes to the floor. "Summon king Firenze immediately." The female nodded her head and turned out of the door. He then turned back to his throne and slumped down. ***1 hour later*** "You called for me Sanous?" Sanous opened his large black eyes to see the king of centaurs standing in the doorway to his throne room. Sanuos stared at the brown furred centaur as he trotted into the room. "Yes, I recieved a letter from Celestia of equestria. It demands that you be present when we read it." Firenze nodded and stared at the minotaur waiting for him to read the letter. Sanous, Firenze You are summoned to a meeting of the UNE on the First day of the third month of 03 S.L.R. Celestia. Sanous looked to the centaur lord next to him with a questioning gaze which he returned with a simple, "We should get packing." Firenze walked out of the throne room leaving the doors to creak to a close behind him. --------The next day-------- The throne room of canterlot castle had been changed to suit the needs of a UNE meeting for the first time in years.. It now held a large round table sourounded by multiple seats. In four of these seats sat the princesses of equestria, Celestia,Luna,Cadence and Twilight. Lady Feather light of the Breezie kingdoms, Lord Talonas of Griffonia,King Sanous and King Firenze of Tauronas, (In a special glass tank) Prince Darkscales of the sea ponies and Prince Whitestipes of the Zebra kingdoms. Once every one was seated Celestia nodded to Twilight. with a flash of purple, curtains fell around all of the windows blackening the room completely. A light at the back of the room flashed on projecting a magnified image of the strange ship like object from earlier and the red and black ship with it. "Lords and ladies." Twilight started. "What you see on this image is what we belive to be a device of extra terestrial origins." Twilight looked out at the faces gathered around the table, many looking up at her in doubt. "I am not messing around. this is very real." Twilight's horn flashed again and the image zoomed in to strange markings on the hull of the ship, lights flashing on and off. She opened her mouth to speak when a cough intereupted her. Looking to the source she saw King Sanous standing up. "Princess, if i may ask, how are you getting that image to move." Twilight smiled and looked to the group in front of her. "This is not a picture." she smiled at the disbelif expressed by the group. "This is a live video feed from our most powerful observatory." Twilght carried on explaining how the telescope and video worked, completly unaware of the little device hidden under Sanous' cloak now flashing with a small count down pronouncing in bright red numbers 00:15. -----------Taronas----------- Deep underground in a bunker stood a series of large metalic collumns with rounded ends. Each holding a clock that was counting down from quickly from 10. -----------Canterlot castle------- Twilight had finally finished explaining the wonders of such technologies when she received a message from the observatory. She opened it with a smile witch quickly faded to be replaced with confusion. "Sanous." She looked up at the minator."Do you know anything about the ten large objects that have been tracked flying from Taronas?" Sanous just leant back in his magically enlarged chair and smirked to himself. Twilight's eyes widened in realisation and she turned to watch as the weapons headed towards the alien vessel. ---------Ark Royal---------- The klaxons once again brought me out of my sleep. "What now?" I asked ACCS, to be replied with a massive explosion rocking the ship. I was thrown forward, smacking my face off of the cold metal floor. I tried to stand but was dazed. An ear splitting screech tore through the ship causing me more pain. "ACCS, status report, NOW!" The small bleep of confirmation rang from the speakers signalling that she had heard me. "We have been hit with one of the ten incoming nuclear missiles launched from the north east of the second largest continent." She spoke in her regular calm voice. "The second nuclear device will make contact in approximately ten seconds followed by the remaining in twenty second intervals. Evasive manuvers are recommended." "Do It then." I told her. The boom of atmosphere being vented from the RCS thrusters rang through the ship spinning us 90 degrees. The ship groaned and creaked as the already fractured hull was forced to endure way more stress than it normally should be able too. The second missile zipped past the ship and further into space. "ACCS, what weapons are ready for fire?" There was a second of silence before she said: "Particle weapons are primed and ready." "Target all nuclear weapons and fire." I said. --------------- Canterlot castle ---------------- The dignitaries could only watch in horror as the one of the Minotaur's weapons struck the alien starship and watch as the explosion engulfed it. Sanous on the other hand let out a laugh. "That was easier than I thought it would be." Twilight turned to glare at him. she opened her mouth to speak but was cut off as lady Featherlight, who by now was the only person still watching the projection gave out a relived yell. "Everybody look!" All eyes in the room turned to look at the projection just in time to see a bright red beam of light fire from the smoke cloud and strike the missiles which the detonated as they were hit. As the final explosive detonated all of the dignitaries, bar one angry Minotaur, watched with a relived smile on their faces as the smoke cleared to reveal a highly damaged, but still functioning extra terrestrial star ship powering it way through space high above the atmosphere. Celestia turned to the equine guards and spoke to them. "Guards, please escort King Sanous to a jail cell." The Guards nodded and bowed to the princess. They then pulled out the pair of cuffs one of the pair was wearing and slammed them onto his wrists. "Why do you care if it was destroyed?" Sanous growled at Celestia. "You yourself saw the amount of fire power that ship has. what if you had destroyed it and the race that made it wanted payback? We would have no way of defending our selves from them and this entire planet will die. For all you know you could of just sent a signal for them to come and destroy us." Celestia looked to the guards on either side of the minotaur. "Take him." She said. "Yes Princess." They said with a bow and led Sanous away. Celestia turned to Twilight. "Now we wait for their reaction." --------------Ark Royal------------- "Is it over?" I asked , still dazed from my earlier face to floor contact. "Yes captain. There will be no more attacks from the natives for the foreseeable future." ACCS replied in the affirmative. "Good, status report." I said reclining in the soft velvet command chair. A cut away image of the Ark Royal appeared on the main view screen. A majority of the cut away image was green especially on top of the ship. However the bottom of the ship was nearly all lit up in red highlighting the stress that the ship had been put through. A third of the way along the vessel was a large fracture where the nuke had made contact nearly splitting her in two chunks. luckily the nanites had kicked in and just barely held the ship together. a lot of the lower plating was melted and warped fro the extreme heat the Hull was subjected too without any active shields. "Get the nanites up and running, I want this ship in tip top shape in the next four hours." I said not taking my eyes off of the screen. "Aye sir." ACCS replied. I yawned and stretched. It was going to be along day.