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// Chapter One: Dawn of the storm  
// Story: Intergalactic Intentions 
// by Starbright1996 
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One night, outside amongst the many sparkling and dazzling stars, princess twilight was star mapping the sky, her hopes where to find new and undiscovered stars that astronomists did not see. With a sigh she stopped looking through the telescope and rubbed her eyes, she looked to the clock to see it was around one o’clock in the morning.

With a yawn she says “how uneventful, no new stars, nebulas or anything out of the ordinary tonight.” She closed her astronomical book by her side as she stretches while she says “well one last sector for tonight and then off to bed.” She then began to re-position the large telescope to the most western part of the star filled night.

Tonight was weirdly enough quiet even though that somewhere west of the night sky is filled with the sound of metal against metal, the groans and moans of pain that strip soldiers from their sleep and their innocents, to also hear the loud crack of what would sound like thunder but is just the cannons loaded to the brim with grape shot and artillery shots. 

As she looked, however, she saw what looked like to be a really faint star that is not shown in most astronomical books or papers. Her heart jumped at the thought of a new star, but suddenly she began to see that the star was actually drifting through the night sky, and not only that it was heading straight for Equestria! With this sudden revelation she quickly yells “Spike!” From the yell she heard a loud thump on the floor from the sleeping dragon before he gave a loud a yawn. 

After the yawn, the young dragon in a whiny voice said “Twilight!! Its one in the morning, what’s the problem.” 

Twilight  without looking at him said “spike this is really important! there could be a meteoroid on its way to Equstria! if we do not act now it might crash into us and cause unimaginable damage.”

The young drake sighed from his just awoken state where he tiredly says “alright, guess you need me to send a letter to princess celestia?” 

The only response from the new princess was a nod before a long, drawn out yawn filled her mouth “yes spike I want you to take a letter, Princess Celestia trusts me and my judgement.”

Like usual spike nods and somehow takes out a piece a paper and a quill from thin air and waits for twilight to give him the dictation to write on the paper. which twilight only gives a slight cough to clear her throat before saying “ dear princess celestia, I am terribly sorry for waking you in your sleep, but a major problem that might threaten Equstria is on its way, and that is a meteoroid that looks like it could collide with my predictions into the war zone just west of Ponyvile, please send me your regards on the problem. Your friend, Twilight.” 

When the young drake finished, he wrapped the paper into a scroll and sent the letter   to celestia via his green flame, which now Spike looks up to Twilight with tired eyes and said again in a whiny voice “now can i please go back to bed?” 

Twilight only giggled and nods which she says “sure spike, go back to bed, I know how hard you worked today my number one assistant.” Spike only gave a nod before going back to his bed and lays back down to sleep. Twilight at that point looks to the clock to now see it was 2:30 as her eyes widen, knowing she was going to have to wake up at 8:00 in the morning to go to the battlefield to meet up with the generals of the royal guards to plan an offensive to hopefully retake part of the land that has fallen under the changeling war machine. 

She only sighed as she rubbed her eyes and crawled into her bed which had books stacked everywhere on her bed giving the impression that she is being cuddled to sleep by books as she said before falling into a peaceful sleep  “I wish this war would end soon.” 

it fades to black as it then goes back up to the vast nothingness of space, where Helmholtz's ship, where he is staring over the estimated time of arrival to the planet which is about to clock down to 6 days, on the table was a can of carbonated soda, where he takes a sip and slowly says “soon…. soon I will see if this planet is inhabited or uninhabited but until then I wait, and pray that if it is inhabited that they do not kill me instantly.” He then stands up and walks off to his bed where he lays in bed unrestful for what is to come and how he will handle it.