Northern Equestria, Currently Contested Territory
Prosperity Mountain Range, Restricted Area
Prosperity Base Sublevel 2- Research and Design
Vice Grip very carefully tightened the screw on the reactor coupling. The laboratory table he stood at was covered in screws and parts, various pieces of technology he was using to build a new stabilizing system for his Cogsdale Carrier warships. Soon, Captain Springer would arrive with the Daedalus Reactor from Cloudsdale needed to power it and it would be ready for installation. He just needed to make sure that the couplings attached to the reactor were tight and could take the pressure and that meant precision when maintaining them. It was something he had to do himself.
The coupling itself was just a cylinder that connected the reactor to the housing and stabilized the various forms of energy within, keeping them at nice, safe levels using buffer elements. Effectively, it was the catalyst needed to bring the reactor online, keep the reactor running, prevent it from overloading and keep it attached to the housing. It was a very vital piece of machinery and so absolute precise calibrations were needed to make sure it did its job.
Calmly, Vice turned the coupling on its side in its stand. The last bolt that needed tightening was on the top so the seal would hold together over the sensitive mechanics. He carefully placed the wrench on the bolt and, very carefully, began to turn it.
That's when music began playing through the base's intercom system.
"GAHH!!"
*KRRRRRRNGG-KTCH*
"What? The squee?!!" He looked up, confused as to where the sound was coming from before he realized it was the speakers in the room. He looked down at the coupling. The wrench and bolt had both fallen off from the force he applied. No doubt, the bolt was stripped as well, rending the coupling useless.
Anger boiled inside of him. He looked up at the speakers, fuming. "The squee is that noise?!!" He immediately got up from his lab station, stormed down the hallway and was surprised to see that the main testing room had apparently been converted into an amphitheater.
"What the squee is this? Who built all this?!!" It was then Vice recognized what music was playing. "Wait… is that the Village People? Oh gawd, no…"
On the stage, an entire platoon of fully-armored Enclave pegasi marched to the beat. In the center, Captain Springer, helmet removed, began singing.
Where can you find glory?
Seize your own victory?
Subjugate the populace?
Where can you begin
To make your dreams all come true
If you want to conquer and oppress?
Where can you get perks?
Learn how power armor works?
Use missiles and plasma weapons?
Join now, protect our nation
From insubordination!
Even if we always lose to Dan and his friends
IN THE ENCLAVE
Yes, you can dominate the skies!
IN THE ENCLAVE
Rule the world from way up high!
IN THE ENCLAVE
Come join your fellow pegasi~
IN THE ENCLAVE
Come on, just please give it a try~
IN THE ENCLAVE
Cuz It's fun to be the bad guys!
IN THE ENCLAVE
In the Enclave!
IN THE ENCLAVE
In the Enclave!!
If you want to be a tyrant
Don't you wait to try it
Give the villain's side a chance!
As long as you are willing
To give up your freedom
There's always plenty of room to advance~
If you love weapon science
Have a thirst for violence
And think racial supremacy is fun~
You can come and sign up
Or you'll join the lineup
We're conscripting everyone!!
IN THE ENCLAVE
You can dominate the skies!
IN THE ENCLAVE
Rule the world from way up high!
IN THE ENCLAVE
Come join your fellow pegasi!
IN THE ENCLAVE
Even though we're all despised!
IN THE ENCLAVE
Cuz after all, we're the bad guys!
IN THE ENCLAVE
In the Enclave!
IN THE ENCLAVE
In the Enclave!!
They want YOU
They want YOU
They want YOU and your family TOO
Wait, me?
They want YOU
They want YOU
They want YOU and your family TOO
But…
But…
But I'm afraid of flying!!
They
Want
YOU
Hey man, I don't even look up stuff in the dictionary!
They
Want
YOU
Sweet Celestia, what am I gonna do in a gunship?!
They
Want
YOU
IN THE ENCLAVE!
*repeat chorus, fade out*
Lights immediately illuminated the stage. Seated in the front row, Gary Busey stood up and applauded.
"Bravo guys, real nice. Real nice. I remember they talked about doing a rendition of that song on the set of Under Siege but they never went through with it."
Vice was less than impressed. "What the squeeing squee is this?!!"
"It's a musical number," Gary said. "Kind of like, y'know, a catchy interlude to add a little-"
"WHY ARE YOU HERE?!!" Vice shouted at the actor. "Are you even IN this story or not? Is this guy canon? Can somepony answer me that- is this guy actually in this story or not?!"
Gary Busey shrugged. "I kinda just come and go."
"GET OUT!!"
"You're out of lunchables, by the way."
"OUT!!!" Vice pointed towards the door. Hands held up as not to offend, Gary Busey walked down the corridor to squee knows where.
Vice turned his attention to the stage. "Captain…"
"All right people, that's a wrap for the day. You're all dismissed."
The other Enclave ponies dispersed, marching off in different directions. Captain Springer remained, going over a list on her armor's integrated CLIPbuck. Vice approached her, boots clanging off the steps up to the stage. At first, his steps seemed like any other armored hoof steps but as they came closer, finally she noticed him.
"Oh, uh, sir," she saluted.
Vice smiled at her, a delightful, plucky grin to conceal his rage. "Good evening, captain."
"Yes, uh, good evening to you, too, sir. Did you come out to see the-"
"I have just one question for you, captain."
"Yes, sir?"
"WHY THE squeeING squee ARE YOU MAKING A squeeING MUSIC VIDEO IN THE MIDDLE OF MY squeeING BASE?!!!"
Captain Springer closed her eyes as if to avoid the close-range verbal assault. "Sir, we were-"
"Do you have ANY idea what we've lost recently?!" he yelled in her face. "In case it hasn't gotten through to you, the Crystal Empire was NOT a victory for us. We've lost over A THOUSAND Gears, A THOUSAND Swords, material, equipment and resources we CAN'T get back!" Vice vented. "We must now buy time in order to recover from this setback before we can set the next phase of the plan in motion. And that does NOT involve wasting energy and resources on a DISCO PARODY!!"
"I don't know," a voice said from behind them. "Maybe disco isn't as much of a waste as some of your other projects."
"I-" Vice stopped. Room temperature always seemed to drop when the Director was present, like the front door of a house being opened in the middle of a blizzard. A hazy mist seemed to follow her where she went and everything around her got just a little bit darker.
"Madam Director!" Springer saluted again.
The hooded creature smiled. "Good to see you, captain. Was the raid fun?"
"Uh… I, uh, um… fun, ma'am?" Captain Springer looked puzzled. "It… it was successful, if that's what you meant." Springer honestly hadn't thought much about her home since she'd destroyed it. While she had carried out the order alongside her fellow Enclave ponies and blown Cloudsdale and most of the pegasi there to bits, she certainly hadn't enjoyed it. She followed orders and understood that Cloudsdale represented a threat so it had to be removed. It wasn't like she was happy about it; she was just doing her job. Now that she had time to think about it, something approaching regret settled in her stomach.
The Director nodded. "Good. The Tears of Daedalus will be useful in the next phase of our operations."
"Were you the one who put them up to this?" Vice asked. "A music video? That was your idea, wasn't it? This is critical to our plans HOW?"
The Director turned to him and smiled. "Recruitment, of course. As you said, we lost a lot of resources in the Crystal Empire and we need to recoup our losses. One way is with more pegasus power."
"I was more referring to material resources rather than soldiers," Vice corrected her. "We have plenty of units to match what little defenses the royal guard has. Without enough Sword-equipped Magic Gears though, we've lost our trump card. We've got nothing to coerce them with or defend ourselves with if necessary until we build enough of them back."
"We've got bigger problems than your broken tinker toys at the moment," the Director said.
Vice's jaw dropped a little. "Tinker toys?"
"Derpy's been promoted to leader of the pegasi now that most of the other pegasi are MIA," the Director continued.
"The mail mare?" Vice asked. "Cute blonde obsessed with baked goods? How is she a threat to us?"
"She's called in Rogue Squadron," the Director stated.
"A rogue squadron?"
"THE Rogue Squadron. They're a group of pegasi that patrol Equestria's fringe territories and protect the borders from pirates, smugglers, criminal activity and rogue storms, dragons and other dangerous creatures."
Vice tapped his chin. "So, the postal service is teaming up with the border patrol. I don't see how that's a problem."
"They're not the border patrol."
"You do realize you just pretty much described what the border patrol is, right?"
"Yes, but-"
"You literally used the words "border" and "patrol" when talking about them."
The Director frowned, though it was hard for Vice to tell: her eyes didn't have irises or pupils. They were just silvery orbs that seemed to reflect more than perceive. Her brow furrowed though and her eyebrows lowered so it looked like she was frowning at him. "They're more than just the border patrol. They're the best fliers in Equestria."
Vice held up a hand. "I thought those were the Wonderbolts."
"The Wonderbolts are stunt fliers. Rogue Squadron are combat fliers. They're the first and last line of defense but how Derpy knew to mobilize them, I can't be sure," the Director said. "At any rate, Derpy's taken command of the sky. Shining Armor will soon rally troops on the ground, Twilight will convince the unicorns and magic-using community to lend support and Dan will organize them. Once their defenses are secure, they will attack us."
Vice nodded, pacing. "I see. So, the music video is your attempt to recruit potential allies away from them?''
The Director grinned and shrugged. "More or less."
"Blueblood can only stall them for so long. We need more time to get the Cogsdale Dreadnoughts operational."
"Speaking of allies, there's also the matter of the other groups you hired," the Director said, walking around him as he paced. "Marshal Grasp, Admiral Scope and General Zeal won't ignore an undefended Equestria. What little intel we have suggests that the griffons will arrive first from the west."
Vice grinned a toothy smirk. "Well… maybe we can give them a little help while they're on the way," he said, pulling out his cell phone. "I think I'll call the new prince and give him some new… decorating ideas."
Hell of a first season you got going here.
I thought the song was YMCA. Also, how are the pegasi summoned to the Enclave?
So cloudsdale WAS blown up.
Also, who's Daedalus? I feel like he's a Deity or Immortal of some sort.
Edit:
Nope. Daedalus is apparently just a Greek craftsman. Nice. He kinda looks to be similar to Hephaestus in a way, even has a reference to him in his wiki.
But if he's just a craftsman, why are the reactors named after him? There's nothing stating that he had anything to do with machinery of any sort.
Hahahahaha, ohohoho man... just... you make me happy with this story its so funny!
This is one awesome season, and I do hope it keeps going
Keep it up man, keep it up.
Oh crud. Vicegrips going for an electron beam inertial confinement pulse fusion reactor big enough to power a flying city, for a battleship.
Big Bada Boom
I see Murphy is already roaming the halls of Enclave, wonder how much more fun he can have before lunch.
Ah, cracked one of the big problems of ultimate shields, or how to have objects inside a stasis field not be affected by the stasis field. the object sits in the hole in the middle of a 4D stasis donut, which in 3D looks like they are within a double skin sphere. Also means they can have seperated items in 3D that are also shielded and connected inside.
Dan needs to get Vinyls and Twilight to work together. With enough shaking power you can treat spacetime like air, and abuse it with soundwaves. Which do all sorts of intresting things with very nasty side effects.
7003214 Thank you, only 11 episodes to go before the finale. It needs editing on every level and rewrites in a couple places and the Christmas episode should be about half as long but all in all, I'm happy with it. The story continues to develop in the way we want it to and I think everyone will be very happy with the ending. We came up with a very nice way to have things come full circle that may even make people tear up. Season 2 will have 20+ episodes like this one and season 0 will have 12. I'll be asking people which one they prefer first at some point.
7003360 Most of the pegasi were captured when Cloudsdale exploded along with pieces of the city itself. YMCA is another song by the Village People. We have no plans to make any other parodies involving that group at this time. Other pegasi can join the Enclave just as easily as signing up and getting free power armor. But the integrated CLIPbuck system kind of controls their minds so… hope they don't need their freedom!
7003386 Daedalus is the father of Icarus and crafted the wings on which they both flew. The Daedalus Reactor is the engine that powers Cloudsdale and allows the city to maintain its architecture using the Tears of Daedalus. Also DR is RD backwards. The Enclave destroyed Cloudsdale to capture the Tears of Daedalus and the DR for Vice Grip's plan, which involve something called Cogsdale Dreadnoughts. They will involve several characters currently missing in action….
Oh snap. The tension is building! Good job!
Clearly in this music video, Vice Grip plays the role of Kelsey Grammer.
7010926 And the Director is Rob Schneider.
7011193 .....Rated PG 13!
7011215 So we go from Down Periscope to South Park?
7011505 Rob Schneider always had his feet on the ground.... Until one day, he woke up as a Pegasus! Now he's going to have to stop 'horsing around' if he ever wants to be human again! Rated PG 13
Also, Adam Sandler falls in love with a Golden Retriever.
7011562 You didn't give it a title. So…
Rob Schneider is… Derpy!
Rated R by the Motion Picture Association
It's like every time I log on there's 10 new chapter out of nowhere. Good Job man, keep doing what your doing. Great story.
And now we have a Village People parody? I love it!
The bad guys had better be scared! General Derpy is gonna kick their sorry plots >:)
I love how everyone, literally everyone knows they are the bad guys, even the bad guys themselves, yet Vice clings to the delusion that he's doing it out of anything else but revenge and massive throbbing butthurt.