Twilight
I'm floating near a large archangel similar to Serena's but this one is much larger and armed with many different weapons and has bigger wings, I can only deduce that it is an older modal but it must be pretty fast as well. Me and my friends are wearing a skin tight neuron suit like Nova to give us some level of protection as well as giving us the ability to not need to breath and pressurize our bodies as there is no air in hyperspace. These suits also drastically boast our magical power with an enchant that is well beyond my understanding of magic. We're also wearing headsets so we can communicate to each other.
"Alright ladies! This is it! The Innovation needs to conserve power to continuously accelerate so I can't give you fire support! All I can do however is block incoming massless projectiles and dodge enemy fire. Your job is to protect the innovation and kill any targets that come your way so we can make it to the Empire and stop Slayer form shutting off the Gateway before we get to the other side! Sound off your names so I know everyone is present!" says Nova over the coms.
"Twilight here!" I yell as I fallow Dash's archangel to the rapidly rotating pillars. These pillars are spinning around the center engine, my HUD says that it's generating an incalculably high gravitational felid in a controlled space around it. The entire area glows white as it gives off sparks of unknown black energy. Even from our distance we seem to be receiving a very high dose of radiation, clearly this device was not meant to function near life forms...or anything for that matter. I imagine if one were to enter this "storm" then you would age into oblivion as you get shredded by cosmic particles. This could prove useful against those robots...
"Rainbow Dash is ready to rock!" yells Dash as she locks onto enemy ships that just now enter her scanning range.
"Pinkie here and ready to have some FUN!" yells Pinkie as I notice her mane start to dim once more.
"Rarity." says Rarity in a graceful tone.
"Appkejack and ready for this hell of a rodeo! yeeehaw!" yells Applejack as she waves around her hat with glee, clearly wanting to buck some heads with her armored exo flight suit.
"Flutters-shy here..." says Fluttershy with a hint of panic in her voice.
"Necra here and ready for action!" yells Necra as she flies by us piloting a fighter class starship.
"Type Alpha Serena online and ready to kill." says Serena with a hint of rage.
"Epsilon here and ready to LOVE Slayer to BLOODY PEICES!!!" yells Epsilon over the comes as she laughs maniacally. I worry that she might betray us but Nova seems to be confident that she won't...and given what little she has revealed about herself I can deduce that she most likely knows what she is doing. My hud picks up enemy fights in bound.
Dash
I take aim at an enemy battleship armed with shield penetration turrets and my neutrino cannon. I charge it up for 30 seconds to wait for it to fly in front of a few of the enemy ships behind it. The battleship unwittingly moves into position. Those suckers! I release the neutrino beam for it to suddenly bust out of one of my cannons of it to take the form of a large black and violate beam to be shot directly through the battleship, making it erupt in radiation flames as the crew gets sucked into space by the multiple haul beaches. The beam also fires through other ships as it gets weaker after every impact, ultimately 5 ships are destroyed by this.
"Heads up guys I see angels coming in hot!" I warn as my scans pick up reprogrammed delta class angels. Applejack jumps off my haul and shoots an energy whip out of her exo suit to latch onto one of the delta angels. She suddenly gets yanks upward as she reels herself in quickly. Once she's close enough she bucks the angel so hard that she gets sent flying into the dimensional turbine to be shredded.
"Yeehaw!" she yells as she shoots another angel with her whip again. Rarity materializes a swarm of diamonds around her to deflect energy beams being shot at her instead of dodging them. Some of them however hit the delta angels and enemy fighters.
"You can't expect a lady to get her hooves dirty so easily can you darling?" she says with a passive tone as she makes her crystals grow. Pinkie Pie lunges at one of the angels to drag her against the wall, sending sparks in all directions and mutilating her insides and skin while keeping her haul in one pice. The delta's wings snap off due to massive internal damage. Pinkie grabs all 6 of them before they're shredded by the hyperspace walls and some how fuses them to her back. Giving her access to their abilities. Pinkie gives off a shockwave of red energy as her main deflates into straight locks as her pupils shrink to pin points and gives off a sadistic smile.
"It's baking time!" she yells over the coms on an open channel for every one to hear. Her left eye starts to glow bright blue as her right eye fades to the darkest blood red I've ever seen. Her face is covered in the bloody liquid magic that was once inside the delta angel. All the angels in the area stop to look at her for a moment before they lunge at her. Pinkie barrel rolls into the swarm of angels for her to be engulfed into enemy fire. We all hear laughing over the coms as she relentlessly slices her way through the angels.
Pinkamena Dian Pie
I punch a delta angel in the chest to send her flying into a group of angels who attempt to fire at me with their wing mounted weapons. These seem to be older models compared to the new ones in the sequel to this fan fiction...perhaps this will be easier then I thought! An ad appears on the bottom of this page depicting your favorite shopping site. I rip it out of the bottom of the page and throw it at an angel coming at me from my right. It explodes into a collection of random products that confuse the angels. A Honda Civic falls out of the explosion caused by the now destroyed ad. I fly up to it and buck it into another group of angels and shoot the gas tank as it hits them. The Honda explodes into a fireless explosion as the shrapnel is sent in all directions.
"Awww what's the matter? I thought you were killing machines!? SHOW ME WHAT YOU'VE GOT YOU USELESS BUCKET OF BOLTS!" I yell to the now enraged angels that surround me. The angels take aim, knowing I have no way out as they have me completely surrounded from all sides. They fire at me all at once to finally kill me. When the smoke clears they find that a cake is in my place that is completely filled with holes. Only this is no normal cake, the cake is filled with nano bots. They swiftly flow out of the holes in the cake and quickly make their way inside the angels that surrounded me by entering their bodies through their mouths and ears. They scream in pain as their insides get eaten. Twilight notices they're starting to glow violate and flies up to me to throw all the angel corpses back towards enemy starships shooting at Dash. They explode spectacularly that the space behind the innovation fluctuates, making a dimensional wave of distortion erupt from behind it.
Nova
"I'm detecting core detonations behind us!" yells V over the intercom.
"Time to surf some waves!" I yell with a smirk on my face over the coms for everyone to hear. The dimensional fluctuation caused by the core detentions starts to slowly destabilize hyperspace behind the Innovation. A shockwave suddenly erupts from behind the ship. The wave destroys all ships behind us as it catches up to the Elements.
"Team Harmony! Support Discord and get out of there!" I yell over the coms to see Dash's archangel fly past the right wing to plunge a huge energy blade into a battleship to throw it into a group of angels. Dash shoots a single missile into the engine causing it to go critical and explode. Discord guides the explosion shockwave into another battleship as the shrapnel shreds all of Slayer's proto angels. I bank left to dodge the now shredded remains of the dead ships and angels. The dimensional shockwave is coming up on my 6 fast. I pull a lever to my side to amp of the ultradrive's turbine to max power. The shockwave of destabilized hyperspace twists and turns around the turbine behind the ship, creating pitch black bolts of lighting while in reality they are flashes of cracks in the dimension, signaling the portal tunnel must be weakening. To my left I scroll down on a dial of songs to play a random song over the coms.
"Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me!" I yell in a vain tone, knowing I half to pay attention to the battle and unable to change the song. V however is too preoccupied with powering the engines and thrusters and does not have much power to do many complex things right now.
"What is this garbage!?" yells Rarity in disgust.
"I think it's cool!" shouts Pinkie with demented glee.
"Your opinion doesn't count right now Pinkie." says Discord calmly.
"Ignore it, we need to stay focused!" I say as another battleship explodes. I fly up and around it as Epsilon finally comes into view.
Epsilon
I fly past the bridge to collide with a delta angel, giving her a "lovely" smile as I stab her in the eye with my left energy spike I scanned from Nova's strange device from our battle. She screams in pain as my spike digs deep into her motherboard, causing her AI to fail due to hardware damage. Her scream only lasts for a moment before she shuts down. I yank her head to the side pulling her body with it, and kick her corpse in the torso to send her flying into the hyperspace wall. I detect more delta angels coming up on my 6 with my scanner. I stay in place but my wings lunge at them like rabid hypersonic tentacles to grab them by their wings and smash them all together in to a ball of paralyzed angels as I enchant my wings with a paralysis spell upon contact. I pull them towards me as I form a large hammer with my energy emitters in my hands. I collide with them with such force that their G force dampeners fail, making therm feel about 63% of the full impact force of 647,000 newtons. I feel their processors snap and break as I reduce them to dust inside their cute little heads. A missile locks on to Serena while she's distracted sniping distant battleships with her cannons and homing lasers. I quickly fly up to her and fire a kinetic beam at the missile to send it flying into the dimensional wall of hyperspace.
"Having fun spawn killing red team?" I playfully ask with a bubbly tone.
"I can see why would think of this like a video game, but this isn't Star Citizen or Halo." She says with a cautious tone, clearly still keeping most of her processors on targeting.
"You just keep on sniping, I'll watch your six." I say with a smirk. Serena fires a colossal beam of neutrinos into the infinitely blue shifted side of hyperspace as a small explosion erupts in the distance only for the remains to fall past the war happening around us behind the Innovation. I look at it in shock to see the display before me. Behind the Pure fire of Innovation is a vortex of dimensional energy redirecting a flow of distortion to give it more thrust, causing the entire ship to slowly rotate clockwise. The vortex rages on like a dim fire tornado as it falls apart once it gets too far away from the turbine and fade into the walls of hyperspace. I begin to notice the entire area is starting to drastically red shift as light gets stretched infinitely the closer you get to it in a way that is unnatural as the black color is more refined and featureless...like a void of some kind. This makes the entire process look unnerving with the deathly silence that surrounds it.
"Yeah..." I say as I look away and get back on track. A fighter comes into view and flies right at me but a laser shoots right through the center of it. My scans indicate the ignition coil was shot, making the fighter a sitting duck and unable to move as it drifts towards me. Necra's fighter flies up from behind it to finish the job with a direct hit to the engine before she shields could recharge.
Necra
I zoom past Epsilon and fly around Serena, being very cautious not to be anywhere near her line of fire. Enemy fighters come into view who fire at me with ballistic rounds. My shields become visible as bullets bounce off the weakening sheilding. I start to worry that my sheilding is about to fail only for me to look at the top of my HUD for it to read my sheilding is at 73% and decreasing slowly. I smirk at this as I suddenly flip around and fly right into their line of fire. My ship is constantly pelted with bullets as I seemingly enter a collision corse. I fire the G8 MM railgun and set the projectile to mini MAC type AAA. A large cylinder of depleted Uranium encased in a Tungsten shell laced with frozen napalm materializes inside the barrel of the gun to be launched out of it with magnetic forces at 98% the speed of light. The projectile blasts out of my ship like white arrow, hurtling straight through the ship effortlessly and hitting a battleship that Dash was about to shoot. Only for me to accidentally steal her kill as the projectile hits the ship with such force that it suddenly gets pushed out of her line of fire and busts into flames as the inside of the ship suffers major damage of almost all decks. The battleship's engine start to go critical but before it ignites the ship gets ripped to pieces by the hyperspace walls.
"Holy fuck..." I say in shock at the sheer destruction I just caused. A flash of red light snaps be back to reality as another fighter barrages me with cluster missiles. I fly down towards the Innovation right up against the upper starboard wing to gain some cover from enemy fire. My shield starts to recharge but only up to 89% until I receive more enemy fire. A rather fast fighter ship comes into view who fires at my engines with plasma weapons. Luckily my sheilding is still online so no damage is sustained. I jet away as my thrusters fire up to full power, making me almost collide with the wall but I manage to pull up in time and turn around. Before me I can almost see the entire battle. Over the bow of the Innovation I can see Dash mowing down entire fleets of fighters and the rest of the elements taking down angels in a spectacular display of power. Discord however is focusing on battleships and effortlessly dodging laser fire and turning into a formless gaseous blob of chaotic magic. Wisping by ship formations only to teleport some of the ships inside of the others, causing them to be heavily damaged on on the atomic level and ready to be picked off by Serena. Starlight fights furiously on the bow of the Innovation with her boasted magic and energy weapons, effectively taking down hoards of low level angels. Serena snipes 8 foes at a time with here neutrino cannons every 30 seconds as she relentlessly fires her homing lasers in calculated locations to hit enemy fighters in their weak points. Epsilon however is ripping apart anything that gets anywhere near her with her wings and swords. I can't even imagine how many angels and drones are being killed every second as more of them continuously pour through the blue shifted end of hyperspace.
"We can't keep this up forever Nova!" I yell over the coms with concern.
"You don't half to! Hyperspace is starting to collapse! *beep* Alright everyone! Get back to the ship! Here's where the fun begins!" she yells as I assume that beep was an indication that she switched to all friendly channels.
Nova
All around the Innovation I can see small cracks in hyperspace as the damage starts to accelerate. A sudden burst of dimensional energy starts to erupt form the walls, shredding anything that gets too close. Only these eruptions wisp by in an incalculably short amount of time as if they are stationary to the wall and not moving with the dimension itself.
"What's wrong!?" yells Twilight.
"Have you seen the hyperspace walls!? They must have found out how to destabilize it faster from when those cores exploded back there!" I yell as I can easily tell that she can put two and two together on what would happen if we fall out of hyperspace in a collapsing wormhole tunnel in the middle of nowhere. Dash falls back aiming for the cockpit with out turning around as her archangel deconstructs itself to be teleported shard by shard back into the storage facility. She does this for her to fly in through the shield and land behind me with the other elements. Starlight teleports in along with Discord with troubled expressions covered in ash and blood. Serena flies in through the back of the room with Epsilon. They all run up to me over the hard light bridge to get a better view of the outside. The once endless fleet before us is now getting slaughtered by stationary dimensional rifts forming in their paths. More of the these rifts are forming behind the ship as they start to creep up behind it.
"Can the ship take it?" asks Starlight with utter fear in her voice.
"Of corse she can! But that's not the problem, if we get hit by one of those rifts we'll be slowed down drastically and some of you will die! We won't be able to make it to the other side in time! Strap in girls it's about to get bumpy!" I say with a major sense of urgency in a commanding tone.
"L-LLLEets nnot forget we wold be suffer major structural damage a-and prrrOblebly be trapped out here." says V with distortion in her voice. I have no doubt it's caused by using so much of her own spiritual power to keep the ultradrive, hyperdrive, and the engines online to keep us going much faster then the ship was originally deigned for.
"Those BASTEREDS! How DARE they force me to put VALeRY through this hell! She better not die on me!...I have so much recalibrating to do after this..." I think to myself as I begin to sense the rifts are becoming more frequent.
"Sit...DOWN!" I say as I materialize chairs under their asses and cast a gravity spell on them to make them sit down as the chairs themselves are magically welded to the floor. I do all of this with out even taking my eyes off the chaos in front of me. The colorful walls of hyperspace start to fade in some areas as small rifts form. I release the gravity spell on them but make a seat belt buckle them in place for their own safety.
"Now PLEASE! Shut the fuck up so we all don't end up like the Titanic!" I say with a strangely serious tone but they can easily tell I'm being coy. I turn my attention to hyperspace as bigger rifts begin to form. I suddenly give off a shockwave of power but redirect the wave of kinetic energy into the tesla coil that hangs from the ceiling in the back of the room, giving the entire ship a small boast in power that is quickly used up by the engines. I've gone super once more but I know my increased reaction time and focus won't be enough to dodge these rifts. I enter hyperthought and make time slow down to 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999% the speed of infinite causality so time slows to a crawl and is almost motionless, but at these speeds can see a rift coming into view fast. I fly the ship under it but it starts to slowly do this as my mind if processing information so fast that nothing can keep up anymore. I manage to fly us under the rift but another one bursts out of the wall directly in my path. I pull up as hard as I can to fly over it, the rift nearly brushes up against the haul. A cluster of fighters coming into view, blocking my path. I rase my hand to summon a light ball of laser energy to mindlessly lay waste to anything that isn't the Innovation. I continue to summon them as I start to notice another rift exploding out of the wall dangerously close to me. I bank left to not get hit by it as I summon more living lasers. Now 134 living lasers are flying around the ship eating away at anything in their path as I pass the rift to see another one form in front of me.
"Fuck...I didn't want to do this...but they left me no choice!" I say out loud only for no sound to leave my lips. The air around me is at absolute zero because the vibrations in the air molecules don't vibrate when time is almost paused. The temperature does not bother me.
"Oh but Nova, why don't pause time with your magic...BECAUSE THOSE DON'T WORK IN HYPERSPACE! ALSO THE FACT THAT WE WOUND'T GO ANYWHERE!" I say to spite the readers in a very annoyed tone. As I say this I dodge another rift. I clearly become more angry by the bullshit that's happened on this crazy day as I leisurely dodge rifts. My focus increases as bigger rifts occur and become more frequent. I start to pay more attention to hyperspace and look in worry as a the tunnel almost cuts me off as the walls around me start to slowly collapse. The walls appear to be slowly destabilizing as this happens, making them look increasingly dull.
"Oh no...you are NOT beating me that easily!" I silently yell as I suddenly give off a bust of power out of my upper 2 wings to be fired into the the tesla coil. Strangely this magical energy moves much faster then light and is quickly absorbed into the ship's systems. I push through the collapsing in walls as they cave in around me. We begin to accelerate faster then the dimension can cave in. The dimension of hyperspace implodes behind the Innovation as it violently pushes through the ever increasing opening in the center of it all. The opening gets wider and wider until the dimension is almost as wide as it was earlier. All around the ship I see hyperspace start to slowly reform as stands of void become less and less apparent. In normal time about 4 minutes have past sense I've entered hyperthought but to me it's felt like hours with dodging countless rifts. More rifts rip open out of the walls but given my increased speed I have less time to dodge them. One bursts out on my port side, I narrowly escape it only for one to suddenly come into view once again. I turn away but once again more show up and I barely dodge them. More enemy ships come into view, my laser familiars were left behind and died from when I had to accelerate. I'm going too fast for them to be useful now so I'll half to dodge them all myself. A fleet of battleships controlled by flagships and sarounded by fighters come up fast and pass me in all directions as I fly around their formations to avoid hitting any of them. These ships are more advanced then the once the others fought earlier...we must be getting close. The ships fire at me, knowing that from their perspective I must appear to be a silver and blue blur with a red and black trail of distortion behind me and dimensional mutilation most undoubtedly caused by their master. Not surprisingly it does not take much to dodge their fire as I am mainly focused on dodging them and the rifts.
"You can't outsmart me forever Slayer!" I silently yell to no one in particular as the rifts begin to become less and less. I drop out of hyperthought.
"V! What's our ETA!?" I say with urgency.
"90 seconds! By this time Slayer has disabled more safety protocols and is beginning to shut down the portal generator as the power is absorbed!" Says V with surprisingly no distortion.
"That's a given V, but will we make it!?" I ask as I keep an eye on hyperspace for any abnormalities
"I-I don't know...F-fingers crossed! The ship can't take much more punishment though!" she says much to her dismay. Hyperspace starts to fall apart behind us as cracks in the dimension start to form on the once colorful walls. Rifts burst from the walls but a seemingly stretched out across the walls like smeared paint on a paper. More ships pour through but this time it's just a swarm of fighters. So many ships appear before us that the white blue shifted edge of hyperspace fades to black as they grow closer and closer.
"V! Divert 2% power to the shields and activate the atomic destabilization felid around them!" and with those words said the window flashes bright white for a moment for a hexagonal shield to appear to fade away. We make contact with the swarm of ships only for them to be shredded by the shields as countless explosions engulf the Innovation. We continue to push through this seemingly endless wave of ships but no end is in sight. Countless flashes of light cover the ship in a blanket of white hot flames as we violently force our way through the wall of fighters.
"60 seconds!" yells V with worry in her voice. The swarm of ships is still endlessly pelting the atomic destabilization felid their sparkling remains encase the ship.
"When we reach the other side we'll be going much faster then the speed of causality! The universe we're about to enter is a weak one so expect to see some crazy shit when we get there!" I yell as the turbulence finally starts to set in.
"Chaos is what I do best girly!" says Discord with a smirk on his face.
"Cram it Discord!" I yell as I overcharge the engines to make them fire as intensely as before. The swarm of ships starts to finally break up, leaving nothing in my path except for a few rifts. I bank left to dodge one that explodes to me right. Warning signs appear on my HUD indicating an engine failure is imminent, alarms start to go off as the lights fade to red.
"30 seconds! Final shut down sequence initiated!" says V with a grave panicked tone in her voice. The hard light floor flickers grows dim for a moment but quickly returns to normal. Fires erupt on multiple decks as multiple system failures occur. My HUD starts to distort slightly but regains visual. V puts the final count down on the HUD. As we fall through hyperspace less and less dimensional rifts occur, making me apply more and more power to the main engines. I sense the cosmic strings of a small artificial universe nearing me, I smirk at this.
"Time to let you ALL know why I am called the Incoming Fire..." I say in a deathly tone as my eyes start to glow dimly of every magic type imaginable deep inside my pin point sized pupils.