X-Com stands as the first and last line of defense against any and all extraterrestrial threats. The year is 2084, and after several months of fighting multiple races of aliens from an alternate dimension, the war has reached its peak. With X-Com forces stranded in another dimension, the aliens rolled in and obliterated Humanity from existence. Now, with a spaceship, 400 souls and 80 year old weaponry, the last remnants of the Human race are out for payback.
In the process, they manage to make a few new friends, as well as a worrying number of foes...
An X-Com/MLP crossover.
More character tags will be added as the story continues. As this is my first fic, criticism is greatly encouraged.
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12000 word's on the first chapter :OHGODWHY:
I will be back after I read it
It's good but, 'X-Com' should be 'XCOM'. It's spelled
like this in the game, so I believe this to be the proper term.
Thorn
1787885 I did wonder about that as I was writing, I eventually came to the conclusion that shortening Extraterrestrial Combat Unit down to XCOM seemed a little odd, and the all caps messes with my eyes, I thought that X-Com looked cosmetically better and made a little more sense. I'll probably change it to X-COM, I've seen it spelt like that too.
1787859 I can only hope you make it to the bottom!
Really god stuff, enjoying it so far. My only problem (if even that) is that at some sections it was slightly confusing; like when Fallow was watching the battle, it was a little hard to tell which was which. But otherwise I'm looking forward to the rest of it.
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1788956 Okay thanks for the feedback. I'll go over that scene again once I finish up the next chapter and try to update it if I can.
You have earned your promotion.
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Glad you think so!
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very well...
this Story you created here is really smooth. i mean; nice, native and realistic seeming Actions.
this Story have/get(?) a great Potential... and i mean REALLY great Potential.
humanity can find a new home in Equestria and you can writhe about the problems which will result out of this and ... and and and... sorry, get carried away...
(I for my side, have played, the new and old Xcom/UFO)
I'm looking forward to this ^^...
P.S. I'm offering the little of my help, i can offer... (hope this English was at least good enough to be understandable XP)
P.P.S. My English isn't the best and i would refuse to writhe in English an Story (or correct one) before at least my grammar and vocabulary at least be in the same ...magnitude... (see one new Word i learned ^^") like in my native language... but i can offer helping with storyline if you want to ask me about it...
oww... P.P.P.S. *Fave + Like*
1794372 As much as I appreciate the offer, I already have soooooooo much of this planned out in my head. Learning a new language is always a pain (I'm trying to teach myself Gaeilge) but you just have to keep at it until you're comfortable with it
See you in the next chapter!
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Thank you for your care ^^.
Gaeilge must be an nice language ^^.
I'm really happy to hear, that there will be more of it ^^.
lil question: is it an "shorter"-Story (not a Short story), "closed-arc"-,
"open-ending"-or "never-ending"-Story?"shorter": ends after an Part ending (like one Movie of the Star wars Movies).
"closed-Arc" like an common Movie in a cinema... or the whole Matrix Story (after 3. Movie the Story was official narrated and 'The End'...)
"open-ending" Like... well like MlP FiM... still ongoing and it's unknown where the Story will lead us all... no wait... MiP FiM seams to have never an End... hmpf... not-jet-defined-storyline... well open end or Sandbox principle... aw well forget "oeS"... in this case (FanFicStory) this principle makes no sense,,,"never-Ending" ... .well it explains it self... MiP FiM...
P.S. *gnarf*
1794882 *gnarf* right back at ya! I'm intending for this to be fairly closed, but there will be room for expansion afterwards, either by me or anyone who feels suitably inspired. I'm going to throw X-COM against lots of foes in Equestria before they can truly settle down, but I have nothing planned past that
1794986 well many Stories would end there, The evil enemy is defeated, the political World is at peace, the newcomers are now 'official' part of the world or country... time to end the Story line here... just to construct something more than planed will just destroy the harmony of the Storyline... if you start a new storyline based on it, it is important to leaf at least a larger idle time between them... normally it would just feel like "I tried... but i have failed and don't even realize it"
...)
please... PLEASE don't do this mistake even if you have the feeling it would be an good idea ^^" it would be such an sad thing... not that you misunderstand it; i don't mean, that i belief you would do this, but it is so... alluring(don't know if it is the right word here ^^""")
(I myself ones make this mistake and regretted it so extremely after i finitely realized it, i had to dump the most of the entire storyline
ow... P.S. may i ask you please, not to use BIG WRITTEN WORDS... wait... capitalization its called, or am i mistaken? it's a really bad habit with is often in the Internet in stories... first of all it clogs the read flow, and also if you don't know the word it's really difficult even to try to read the word.
... you would be fascinated how much better the quality of your stories will become. 
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no offense ^^" i don't remember if you have used it, but all other stories here, i have read until now, have to suffer under this really unpleasant habit...
"mares'n'stallions please try to avoid this
I feel almost relieved that this chapter is over, I can finnally start slowing down the scenes (not my writing, the scenes). I feel that this is still a little confusing to anyone that hasn't played X-COM Apocalypse or any of the others, but I shall be explaining things more carefully next chapter, as I no longer have the excuse of 'Imminent death by Brainsucker' hanging over the squad.
Those familiar with the lore of X-COM apocalypse may notice where I've changed some details, mainly to do with the AFV and its accompanying rumble cannon. The AFV's tracks are said to be mere decoration in the UFOPaedia, and that the AFV can only travel on the grav roads that lined the city. I felt this to be constricting and a ridiculous design flaw, so I
ignoredcleverly wrote away that detail. The rumble cannon is also described as firing shells, but considering the lack of ammo needed for it in the game, and the fact it's called a rumble cannon, I had thought for the longest time that it was a sonic weapon, and I shall write it as such.The Guild of Librarians is also something completely made up by me and has no origin in the already-set X-COM Apocalypse world; although something similar may have been planned to be in the game and world, but the game was much smaller than originally intended, and I'd like to use this opportunity to expand upon what the developers left us.
As before, criticism and feedback is encouraged.
*Bows to a writer with skill greater than my own.*
Also. *X-com writer Bro-hoof.*
1803451 woohoo!!! new Chapter!!!
*taking a seat directly behind you and starts to read it in a raw*
[ADD]
first ...ahm... recess(?): a t is missing... try to guess where... *cough* sun *cough*
priceless XD
1805744 /)*(\ Thanks for your support!
1805854 Oh good heavens no! A mistake that I missed! Thank you very much for pointing that out, I'll get right on it!
1805909 glad to help ^^
So... the Micronoids are gone, but so is Xander.
I do have more to come, so this isn't 'complete' yet, you may notice that there's an 'Unknown' in the title.
I'm afraid that as I posted this I was rather tired, so some of the formatting may not be up to scratch as I have to copy-paste everything from MSWord into the webpage. If you do see any errors, please point them out and I shall correct them in the morning. (European time)
(This was also my attempt at something 'feelsy', so excuse the crudeness, action scenes seem to flow better for me)
Damn.... Just Damn.
This is great, absolutely great.
I always did like Apocalypse the most out of the three.
1822203 nice work, you hit the Sad-button good ^^
*salutes one of humanity's bravest heroes and plays taps*
*Bursts out in tears as I finish reading the chapter.*
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Is terribly late.
Well, it took nearly a month; a month of losing my track, typing other stories, and re-writing this chapter far too many times. But it's finally here! And with dramatics! Aboard the MacArthur! In SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE! And, you know, back on Earth, in the past... but really, no one finds that cool.
This next act will have chapters back in the old frequency, and will serve as a buffer while I improve my writing and feel capable enough to write something with President Fitzpatrick and the Equestrian Council of Nobles.
Phew >_< that chapter was brutal.
*takes off hat for Jenkins*
Authordude! Hurry up! If that's okay with you.
2096873 I'm aiming to have a chapter up before the end of the month, February has been kind of brutal to me, with College and the like. That and I've only recently gotten around to watching the last five episodes of season three (recently as in: Monday morning (01:00)). So the next chapter will have the conclusions for Parasol and the MacArthur, as well as a few scenes to slot the story into an alternate universe timeline in keeping with season three.
In the meantime, have a Chryssalid!
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Awww look! He wants a hug!
2183408 NO, -Proceeds to order the whole bloody squad to shoot it, and all the other fucking chyssalids-
So this took far too long to get out. I went through so many rewrites before I finally settled on this, I actually had the chapter fully finished more than once before I decided I wasn't happy and binned it.
Google Chrome is a jackass and keeps putting everything in American (No Google, it's 'armoury', not 'armory'. Same thing with 'colourful', it's not 'colorful'. 'Kay Google?) so I typically ignore a lot of the auto-correct that Chrome puts on my work, I have gone over this chapter with the spell-checker in Microsoft Word but that has been known to fail occasionally.
Also, I'm concerned that some people might see the title as 'I unno at the moment' because I derped and published it like that for a few seconds before I realized my mistake and switched it back; you see, my naming method for titles revolves around the events of the chapter, and even though I have a story arc planned out, I don't really know what's going to happen in each chapter until it does.
I decided to experiment with some simple sentences in the action-heavy parts after showing a friend of mine a little short I cooked up in an hour (Not related to XCOM Equestria) and he said it was pretty good, but the action parts seemed a little slow, and he thought that could be improved by using a few more simple sentences.
One comment = One Brohoof! Feedback is good!
Brohoof
2193272 (\ As promised sir, one complimentary brohoof! Don't spend it all at once! Wait...
Glad to see you're still on this project. I had been wondering and all...
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Yeah I know, I've been pretty terrible... but! There is a short story behind it if you're willing to read
So way back when 'Spike at Your Service' came out I kinda ran out of free time, and only caught up with the season finale last monday; despite my best efforts to avoid spoilers, I did get wind of hte whole 'Alicorn Twilight' buisness and suddenly became scared of writing. I didn't want to go completely alternate universe so I looked like I was trying to deny the entire season ending, but I was worried that the changes would mess up my story.
Fortunately, as is so often does, the solution came to me when I couldn't sleep one night, and I now have a plot that will encompass the ending in a alternate universe style.
You made it through the dreaded wall of text! Here, have a Fluttershy!
The second half confused the hell out of me. Are we still in flashback, or...?
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Just curious if you're still working on this fic. Would like to see it updated. Also....you have AJ in the tags, but I haven't seen a lot of AJ at all. Mostly you have flashbacks on the X-COM team which include previous missions.
This is awesome. I always liked Apocalypse best out of the first three, and I love how you've mixed different things from the series (and in a way that makes sense). I'm definitely looking forward to more. Great work so far, and I can't really think of any complaints.
Hah. If GuavaMoment (The guy who created Otto Zander (Xander? Really? If you were trying to fool people you did a bad job.) and the XCOM Apocalypse Let's Play that is so popular his character was an easter egg in the new XCOM game) knew you put his character in a pony fanfic, he, and everyone else that frequents the Let's Play subforum on Something Awful would probably have an aneurism. Actually I think I'd like that, someone should go there and tell them.
THIS IS AWESOME I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SUCH A LONG TIME FOR SOME ON TO MAKE A X-COM/MLP STORY
4005431 Mate if you want xcom and mlp check out "project stardust". this is nice too though
7404424 buddy your a bit late ive already read that story about a month ago.XD
7404725 Ah well, early bird gets the worm.