~Equestria, daytime 0600 hours~
The sun rose over the mountains as morning arrived at Ponyville, ponies eventually crowded the streets and the town was once again bustling like usual. At the Castle of Friendship, Twilight entered the conference room of her home and noticed Wyatt's away team up and about like she was. While Lon and Mioiil had just gotten their uniforms on, and Kapor, Nelen, and T'vrell were studying the evidence involving the portal, Wyatt himself was doing a usual routine of exercise as Twilight readied herself for the day. She had promised her friends and the Royal Sisters that she'd show them the starships that she and the Admiral flew in Starfleet, and there'd be not a minute to spare if she was to show them everything their ships had. The purple alicorn trotted over to Wyatt as he was finishing his exercises and asked him, "Are you coming to the ship, Admiral? I think my friends may want to know some facts about your ship."
Wyatt got up and answered her through his tired breathing. "Yes, I'll be right with you in a moment." He then went to his room to grab his belongings, leaving Twilight to continue getting ready. A knock at her door sounded and Spike went to answer it, and the door opened to reveal Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, and all of their friends they'd invited along. Dash saved Twilight's breath as she answered her now visible expression of curiosity.
"If you're wondering why everyone's here, we were thinking of coming here to transport up to the ship and get the job done quicker."
Derpy then added in, "It's a good thing we're going today too, we all have the day off on our jobs!" After looking to Celestia and Luna, she added, "Well, kind of." Twilight nodded and laughed with everyone before she went back to group everyone together when Wyatt's away team came back from their rooms with all of their equipment gathered together, with Mioiil in the front of the group as she spoke to them.
"The Admiral's almost ready, he just needs to get the last of his things real quick." The group nodded as they waited for a few seconds until Wyatt came into the room. He then asked them,
"Alright, this'll be a bit of a long tour with both ships being on the list, and if anyone has a problem during the trip, ask us, is everyone ready?" The group nodded as they waited for Wyatt to finish, "Alright, Twilight will be the lead for the tour, so I'll get my ship ready while you're all with her." Everyone nodded again and fell silent when Rarity's combadge chimed, she tapped it and answered.
"Yes, darling?" She said before a voice sounded.
Ah, Rarity, I'm on Admiral Wyatt's ship, I just wanted to inform you that the Converter device you asked about is finished and is ready, we tested it too, so if that'll settle any panic.
Rarity smiled and seemed to almost act a bit giddy as she replied, "Excellent darling, just in time for the tour! Wyatt will be aboard shortly."
Understood, I'll be on board the Equestria in a moment, Francisco out.
Rarity then deactivated the combadge as she awaited Wyatt's words. "And I'll be sure to give that a try too." He then tapped his combadge and spoke. "Stone to Chestnut, six to beam up." And with that, the six humans were surrounded by separate fields of energy for a few seconds before they disappeared, leaving nothing left.
Twilight then did the same as she tapped her combadge and said, "Sparkle to Equestria, 16 to beam up." In the span of a dozen seconds, the group was surrounded by similar fields of energy around each pony, the world around them soon faded into energy as they were transported to the ship Twilight commanded, many surprises waiting to be seen by her friends....
~U.S.S. Chestnut~
The room became visible to Wyatt's eyes as he and his away team were now standing on the transporter pads of Transporter room 1. Several officers stood near the operation console, as the six officers greeted them, one of the officers asked the Admiral, "How was the meeting, sir?"
"It went perfectly well, I think we can say the Equestrians are now a part of the Federation." The officers smiled as they returned to their duties. Wyatt then said to the chief, "Twilight and her group will be over here for a tour, when they're ready, beam them over." The officer nodded before returning to his station. Wyatt and his crewmates made their way to the turbolift and entered, the doors closing and the turbolift moving after.
When the doors opened, the crew entered the bridge of the ship and returned to their original stations, Wyatt then turned towards the crew and spoke to Mioiil. "I'll be in my ready room for a moment, I think there's something I need to see." She nodded and continued her task as Wyatt entered his ready room. he noticed a PADD on his desk next to some kind of remote-like device, activating the PADD, it was a not from Rarity saying her pleasures about the Converter through e-mail, to which he tapped a quick reply to her saying "Thanks, I owe you one." and sending it to her before setting the PADD down. He picked up the remote and pressed a button on it, and the wall opened up to reveal a large, cylinder-shaped device in the wall, the door on the cylinder chamber opening as well. Rarity and her team performed admirably on the device, he felt he'd have to repay them sometime for it. Feeling ready to test it, he stepped inside, pressed a button and shut the door and let the machine do its work.
On the bridge, Mioiil began discussing the talk they had about the disappearances on Equestria. "You know, Elisa, it seems Twilight isn't the only one that got taken from the anomalies."
Elisa raised an eyebrow. "Really? Who else had to deal with it?"
Mioiil explained to her. "A friend of Twilights, Starlight Glimmer, said she went to see her friend Trixie at the city of Canterlot, and later found that she was gone, and earlier last night, T'vrell, Lon, and her went to find energy readings on the portal, and sure enough, they found slight readings on it."
Elisa then frowned a bit, then spoke again. "Well, hopefully with our help we can find out where she we-"
They stopped when Wyatt's ready room doors opened to reveal him exiting out of the room, but he looked different. He looked like one of the ponies from Equestria and wore a light yellow fur coat, along with a mane and tail that looked similar in shape to Rainbow Dash's, it's colors being yellow, brown, and blue, seemingly blending in with his normal Starfleet uniform.
He stepped onto the bridge of the ship as the crew looked at his new form, Lon then spoke. "I assume the machine worked, eh?" giving a smirk.
Wyatt smiled and answered. "Yeah, and I think this fits perfectly, what do you think?"
The crew nodded with smiles on their faces, Mioiil then said to him, "With all due respect sir, I must say, you look a bit cute." Hearing that from her made him blush a little and laugh before he continued.
"Alright, with the talks done and the tour underway, we should try and find a way to make a gateway to ou-" He was cut off as he was surrounded by a field of energy, the field then vanished leaving nothing left.
The crew gasped in terror as their captain was now kidnapped by an unknown force, Lon then turned to Kapor and ordered, "Kapor, shields up, Red Alert!" The klaxon went off as the crew reported to their stations and alerted the ship of the captain's disappearance. Elisa tapped the ship-wide comms and spoke.
"Red Alert, Red Alert, this is not a drill, repeat, this is NOT a drill!"
For the next minute those words sounded through the comms onboard the Chestnut, the crew now set into action by the move taken by the enemy. This was apparently an attack, and the Admiral's kidnapping was the start of it. They would have to hurry if they were going to get him back...
~I.S.S. Sacramento~
The hallway was filled with tension as Captain Wyatt and his personal guards made their way to the transporter room, the lights, while usually bright, were quite dim in the halls of the ship, bringing an eerie feeling to most enemies that walked through it. When the doors to Transporter room 3 opened, they revealed the chief alongside two other guards, who had their weapons ready for their target, Admiral Wyatt was on the transporter pad when his counterpart's personal guards kept their weapons aimed at him in case he was to try something.
The Terran captain quietly chuckled in delight, to see his own nemesis trapped by his troops was a victorious feeling. He almost wished it'd lasted forever, but he had someone to deliver him to. He walked up to him and spoke mischievously. "Wow... what a sight I am seeing, how delightful it is to see my old friend in shackles after all this time." He grinned at him as his counterpart looked at him with angry eyes.
"Well, I almost thought I wouldn't see you until your next attack at DS9, I guess problems come earlier than you'd expect." He said as he smirked at his darker self, who frowned at him slightly before continuing.
"You know, you should be feeling lucky for your life, my friend, I rarely take prisoners on missions, but my superior has given me orders to take you to her in order for your forces to fall under our flag. In fact, you'll be one of the first to bear witness to the Empire's latest weapon recently built over the ruins of Iconia, but for now, you might as well be sitting when you are put behind my ships force fields. Trying to escape won't help for you, since our ship has an enhanced cloaking device active, preventing you from leaving the ship." His grin grew more sinister as he faced his counterpart face to face. He grew a frown on his face as he spoke to him.
"You may have me in your grasp, my friend, but you have no idea how skilled the Alliance is, even without me."
The Terran pony smiled as turned away and let the guards take him. They then waited for their captain speak. "Guards, take him to the brig, if he tries to escape, stun him, I want him alive. Is that clear?"
The guards nodded before the captain finished. "Good, now go." With that, the guards saluted and took the Admiral through the doors and to the brig, the captain then smiled with pleasure at the fact that his counterpart was now in their grasp. Without him, the Alliance would fall sooner than expected at the hands of their new weapon...
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The doors opened to reveal a set of prison cells along the room, the Admiral's escorts walked to the closest cell to them and tapped a few buttons, then put their prisoner into the cell and activated the force field that now trapped him inside the cell. The guards then turned to the officer monitoring the brig and spoke to him. "This prisoner is to be kept alive until further notice, if he tries to escape, stun him, you're a dead man if he is, is that clear?"
The officer nodded before they took one more look at the Admiral. The guard snickered before speaking. " You may have taken away our good troops and ships during the war, but now you're nothing but a weak little mule." The Admiral frowned at the guard's insult as he walked out the doors and was now left with the officer watching him.
Great, first it's diplomacy, and now the fighting's about to start. The Admiral sat in the brig for a bit as the ship sat in it's hidden orbit over the planet, waiting for the right time to end the lives onboard the two starships and finally win the war that was to last for as long as both sides existed.....