Dan Vs. The Magic of Friendship(Season 1)

by Barrobroadcaster

To Disown the Skies

Cloudsdale, midnight, twelve hours ago

Cloudsdale almost didn't look the same at night, especially not when seen through night vision goggles. It was a bit odd to Captain Springer even though she was used to night ops being run in pitch blackness. This wasn't even the first time she'd run nighttime ops with the Enclave in Cloudsdale but there was just something different about the city she was looking at now. Maybe it was the fact she knew almost everypony else was sleeping or that she hadn't seen it in a while. Or maybe it was the fact that she was approaching her home, the city of Cloudsdale, at an attack angle flanked by her wing mates.

And that before the sun rose, nopony would ever see Cloudsdale again.

She sighed and performed one last ready-check on her forces and wing ponies, the elite Hydra Squadron. Six green "Ready" lights winked back at her in her HUD. This was it. She held the ready signal for just one moment longer before giving the "Execute" order.

Opening her CLIPBuck, she popped in a holotape and pressed play, broadcasting it across the Enclave radio frequency and her force's comms. The pegasi, clad in black-painted Hailstorm armor, descended upon Cloudsdale. Music began to play inside their suits.

My Darling Dear,

Our time is at an end, I fear,

"Hey, Airlift? Airlift, you there?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you looking at your screen right now? I'm reading a bunch of inbounds coming in from the north-west."

"Probably just a flock of geese or something."

"I dunno but- hey, wait, are those Flutterbirds?"

"Huh… yeah, yeah those are Flutterbirds. What is the Enclave doing out-"

"OHMAIGAWD! OHMAIGAWD!!!"

And although I know it's not what you want to hear,

Please know, you are my Darling Dear

"Overwatch Station One, respond! This is Cloudsdale Control, does anypony copy?!"

"Control, this is Station Two! One is gone, repeat, One is gone! We've got fires all over the north side!"

"Sound the alarm! Scramble the emergency response team from the Enclave!"

"Control, it IS the Enclave! The Enclave is attacking Cloudsdale!!"

My Darling Dear,

I know not what will happen these coming years

"This is Station Five! We're losing structural integrity!"

"Diverting power now! Hang on, Five!"

"We've lost the stabilizer! We can't maintain- *KRRZZZZZSSH*"

Still, we have shared so many joys,

"The reactor is almost at critical! We're losing control!!"

So many cries

"I'M HIT!! I'M HIT- I'M GOING-"

And though we've both had our share of peers

"They're coming around again!! Brace for impa-"

Please know, you were always my Darling Dear

"Leader, this is Hydra Two. We've got ripple fire on all of the remaining spars."

Springer nodded. "Very good. We're clear to the reactor core?"

"Affirmative."

"Take it down."

"Acknowledged."

So, my Darling Dear

This one last time, please lend me your ear

And know that I am so sincere

"This is control to… to anyone…"

"*KZZZSSSHHH-KRRRZZSSHHH*"

"Evacuate… evacuate Cloudsdale now…"

"*Klrrsshhh-Klrrzzsshh*"

Though I go, my heart will be remaining near

"Get outta here while you… can… uhl-ahhhh…"

"*Krsshhtttt-cht*"

With you, and a love so very clear

Now please, don't shed a single tear

"The reactor has gone critical, ma'am."

"Confirmed. Cloudsdale is destroyed."

"All wings, fall back to base."

"Copy."

While I'm away, every single day, I'll still be wishing you were here

Because, always, you are my Darling Dear~

Comments

[Booster Spice]

"Get outta here while you… can… uhl-ahhhh…"

Abruptly, the sound ceased.

[The REAL Mister Pkmn]

NOOOO! This cannot be!

[Barrobroadcaster]

6939652 Captain Springer's always represented the Grand Pegasus Enclave in this story but technically, it doesn't exist yet. It's called the Storm Enclave and serves as an emergency aid and response organization, a militant paramilitary group that's part of Cloudsdale and serves as a form of civil defense in order to maintain pegasi's innate military discipline and the chain of command.

Essentially, Springer and her friends were a group of soldiers without a war to fight, dissatisfied with Celestia's rule, and were fans of Kkat's Fallout: Equestria. Vice Grip came along and gave them technology, told them what they want could become a reality and said they could fight for him.

So the Enclave in this story are like a bunch of power armored fangirls with plasma weapons and gunships. And they just blew up Cloudsdale.

[Warrior Kitten]

Oh snap, Lightning is gonna be piiiiiiiissed.

Is there no recovering from this? Is Cloudsdale gone forever?

[Barrobroadcaster]

6940147 Lightning's motivation has always been Cloudsdale, his home. He was just one pony disillusioned by the concept of harmony and tried to take matters into his own hooves. It didn't work out.

He's one of the very few ponies that slipped through the cracks and into Vice's grip. Now, he is being controlled by the evil scientist to destroy the concept he questioned.

There are pure and corrupted versions of a lot of concepts in the story. Mostly, Lightning represents corrupted support. What he wants is a better Cloudsdale, a better Equestria and wants to hold others up. He winds up bringing them down just as Cloudsdale was brought down. It's partially his fault because he's one of the few who could've stopped it.

[Warrior Kitten]

6940724
Yeouch, harsh reality much.

[Barrobroadcaster]

6939927 Yeah, power armored fangirls are kind of a fury like hell hath no. They're cute but they're also really obsessive and easily pissed off and they've got guns and grenades and their own attack helicopters. Our only hope is to throw fan art or shipping at them and hope they squee over it long enough for us to get away.

[Dustchu]

Awwww damn... man, I liked Cloudsdale... I had a summer home there damn it! Dx
Don't worry Springer, I still like you~ *chuckles darkly*

NIce going... nice going.

[LadyLeomon]

WHAT?! That two-blackbirds-short-of-a-pie Pegasus (and her cronies) did this?! But Dan beat her! Lesser bosses never come back after being beaten! Only big bosses are allowed extra lives, so not fair >:(

Dan! After you're done with Vice Grip clip that demented Pegasus' wings permanently!

[Razzy]

Welp, Springer is so going to get her wings torn off and stuffed down her throat.

[Ruthpern81]

7196901 And her liver and heart and lungs and spine and all 4 of her legs and what ever he finds to stuff down her throat and I give Dan full permission for him to do it. Oh and Vice Grips he needs to go away permanently by any and all means necessary.