Update: Before the Dawn · 4:56am Jan 13th, 2018
Hello all, Nightie here with an update! I have been writing quite a lot. (Really every night this week, and most of last week.) And we're making pretty good progress thus far. So as a teaser to get your attention, I figured I'd release a small snippet to you. Show some love and leave your comments!
“Chief shine, all available fighters have been launched!” The unicorn officer at the ops station calls out. A bone dragon crosses over the flight deck in view of the bridge, before shattering into pieces by a lucky shot of the deck gun. The unicorn lets out a shriek of fright, unable to maintain composure.
“Comm, get Canterlot and Ponyville on the line, tell them we need more air support at once! We are under attack, situation critical!” Dusty Shine shouts, her voice strained attempting to talk over the droning sound of the guns and fight taking place outside of the ship. “Helm, hard to port, we need to lend as much support as we can to the all mother! Target that thing she’s fighting with the break line canons, and open fire! Danger close, use only small caliber rounds for surgical strikes!”
The ship rocks hard, throwing everyone standing to the deck plating, the carrier beginning to list to the starboard side. The forward engine near the nose of the carrier explodes into a massive fireball of debris and twisted metal after an aircraft had been sent crashing into it by one of the many bone dragons and other airborne threats.
“Engine number three is out!” One of the bridge officers shouts. “We are on fire!”
“Fire teams to deck one and flight deck! Balance the power between the remaining three engines and pull back from the battle! Fighters, close the gap and provide close air support!” Another commanding officer shouts over the blaring alarms on the bridge.
A large wraith dragon formor barrels through the fray, swiping at one of the nearby F-18’s and clipping a horizontal stabilizer, the aircraft knocked into a spiral and narrowly missing the superstructure of the carrier. It continues its course, the foreboding glow of its demonic energy illuminating its path through its broken and hollow ribcage. Dusty punches in commands on the panel she’s working with, taking control of one of the grand canons on the rear of the flight deck, targeting and firing the weapon. The eardrum-shattering sound of the gum causes everyone’s teeth to rattle in their skulls, as the dragon explodes in a cloud of bone fragments and red mist, the round obliterating the threat in the blink of an eye. “You will not touch my husband's ship…” she whispers under her breath angrily. “Continue to engage! Comm, check on that fighters status, make sure it’s still ok to fight!”
“Senior chief!” The radar officer calls out, grinning from ear to ear upon her muzzle. “Fighters, and lots of them! We have incoming from Van Hoover, Canterlot and Ponyville! Massive waves of aircraft! Talon squadron is in-route at hypersonic!”
“Now we’re getting somewhere…” Dusty smiles wildly, trying not to laugh. The battle is about to turn in their favor, the full might of the military coming to bear down now on this threat. Ahead she sees more flashes of flames and golden ribbons, a hailstorm of firepower from the battleship below. The Iowa Class battleship unleashing hell upon the enemies, its massive 16-inch guns firing in a droning harmony of death. Dusty glances down at the screen at her station, seeing the transponder markers of several small destroyers approaching the combat zone. It won’t be long, the fleet coming to aid in its first real test. The paint hasn’t even dried on most of the ships, and already they will test their mettle in combat. Today, the world will know the true strength of Equestria.
OMG it isn’t dead :D
Very glad as this is a favourite of mine