~Canterlot High, 1400 hours~
"So, let me get this straight, Twilight: you and her friends got pulled into another universe by some strange portal, rescued by a bunch of soldiers and left to serve in this government called the 'United Federation of Planets'. Soon enough, you and your teacher here, Wyatt, found this portal leading to your home after several months, and when you arrived, you all got attacked by some evil guys called the Terran Empire, then you got reinforcements to arrive before heading through another portal that appeared at the same time. You guys then found some kind of universal portal that led to other places in this 'mutliverse' we're all in, and then you had a huge battle with the Terrans again before they left for good. Then for the rest of the time you were gone, you are now involved in a war against some other aliens that want to change history and threaten to kill us all in the process?"
Twilight nodded before she replied. "Yep, that's about it."
While the two crews would've explained all of the things they'd told Sunset, they assumed they didn't have time for history lessons, only to explain their reasons for coming to their world. After they had went inside, Sunset managed to convince Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna to stay in order to warn them of what's happening, they'd spent almost half an hour telling them all about the incident that Twilight went through, along with the battle against the Terran Empire and the now occurring war with the TLF. About halfway through the discussions did the crews' ships arrive to keep them safe in orbit, keeping an eye out for temporal marauders as the talks went on. It was about 3:00 according to the school clock when they'd finished saying all that had to be said, Sunset standing up as she spoke again. "I apologize if I didn't come here by myself to tell you all this, but this is something we need to be ready for. Who knows whether or not an enemy ship is in orbit waiting to take us out? You all are in danger, and I want to keep you all safe as much as my friends do."
Principal Celestia nodded to her before turning to Wyatt and asking him, "So, how many of your ships have you brought here with you?"
"Only two for the moment," He answered before adding, "depending on what enemy vessel comes to attack us, I may have to order our ships to keep a distance if a enemy task force or fleet show up, but with the gear we have down here, we should be able to hold them off long enough for our ships to get reinforcements. If we lose our ground here, our ships can beam us all up and we can remain there until we get the area under control."
The Principal then nodded before Luna looked to Twilight before asking her, "So Twilight, Wyatt told us you've gained some knowledge about how to fight these 'marauders', what do we have to keep this place safe?"
"Our entire away team is fitted with several different beam weapons, phasers, polarons, disruptors, many different kinds of energy. We also come equipped with personal shields that should let us take a few shots before we can really get hurt, Some of us, including myself, come along with a few of these." She held out a small device that intrigued the Vice Principal before Twilight explained the device's capabilities. "Mobile emitters, they're able to generate security holograms that can provide support upon deployment, if heavy force comes, then these'll come in handy."
Twilight permitted Luna to examine the device before Dash's counterpart spoke up. "Okay, now that's really cool." Her counterpart smirked at her duplicate over her compliment before Applejack looked spoke up.
"Some of us also come armed with several deployable shields and turrets to help hold the line against them, it shouldn't be much of a problem for us."
Luna nodded before Wyatt stated, "As for orbital combat, our ships come equipped with shields, beam arrays, and torpedoes, as well as several pieces of gear that rarely comes with most starships, a console that can modify a torpedo to track down a cloaked ship, one that can emit an energy wave capable of disabling other ships, and many others, as well as enhanced hull strength on both of our ships. With that set in, we shouldn't have to worry about having to evacuate at this time, let's just hope that nothing happe-"
It seemed like a cue for trouble as a watch guard for the school could be heard running towards the Principal's office yelling to the group as he made his way to them. "Prinicpal Celestia!" He said several times in a frightened manner before he finally entered the room, gasping for breath as Wyatt stood and questioned him quickly.
"What's the problem, sir?" The Admiral asked before the guard looked up to him swiftly and answered.
"Two of our students seemed to have come back, and they were asking for someone named "Princess Twilight" and her friends, but as I was about to ask, they pulled out these weird looking guns and told me they didn't have time to waste and they would hurt me if I didn't listen!" The guard said in a panicked manner before Wyatt grew worried and spoke up.
"Speak of the devil!" He said in annoyance before the group quickly got up and attempted to make their way out, the guard went with them too, wanting to help them out to where the students were before Wyatt turned to Celestia and told her, "Prinicpal, as much as I understand you wanting to assist us, it'd be best if you and the Vice Principal were to remain in here just in case." The two women nodded before Wyatt then followed up with the others.
Upon reaching outside, they found their targets, and upon seeing the two, gasped when they saw the perpetrators. Snips and Snails were standing right near the statue in the middle of the school, holding small alien pistols as they stood. Upon the two noticing the group's arrival, they kept their weapons ready as Snails ordered. "There you are, don't move a muscle!"
The group would've had their weapons out, but they didn't know what setting the two weapons were on, and stood still before Sunset asked in fear, "Snips, Snails, what are you doing?! Put those guns down!"
"I'm sorry Mrs. Shimmer, but we can't do that, our boss wants you to hand your leading officers over." Snips said before the group heard another voice, one that forced Wyatt and his crewmembers' eyes to shrink upon hearing it.
"Yes, you heard the young man, everyone, now stand still." Noye's voice ordered to the group, forcing all of them to gasp when they heard it.
"Oh, you think you can make our friends hurt us?! I'll show you!" Dash's counterpart said angrily before jetting towards the two, but Dash managed to topple her as soon as she started and grunting, "Are you crazy?!" to her before the two fell down. At the same time, Snails fired his weapon out of panic, the purple beam struck the night guard who was standing in front of the group, the second he was hit, he screamed in pain as his body quickly turned to red energy before turning into nothing but vapor and smoke. Fluttershy's counterpart screamed at the top of her lungs as the group took a step back.
"Don't move another step!" Snails ordered as the group stood still from the horrifying act they just saw.
"Snails, is something wrong?" Noye asked impatiently.
"N-no sir, we're ready for your next said, sir." Snails said as he stuttered and slightly shook from the power of his weapon.
"I thought I told you loud and clear what you were to do, Snails. Point your weapons at Princess Twilight and Admiral Stone, and fire."
The group stood shocked and slightly gasped upon hearing Noye's order, even Snails and Snips' eyes shrunk at the order. They'd been ordered to kill a friend of theirs by some bloodthirsty maniac. Twilight and Wyatt slightly motioned to their friends, telling them to back away and waiting for Snails and Snips to do Noye's dirty work, but the two seemed to be having trouble cooperating.
"What are you standing around for? Shoot!" Snails shook even more but did not fire, he started to speak weakly.
"Sir, I... I can't, we just killed anoth-AAAAAHHHH!!!" Snails tried to say before he screamed in pain from an unknown source. He didn't fire his weapon, allowing Wyatt and Twilight to step closer, but Snails quickly pointed his gun and kept his aim, both friends stopping as he stood at the ready.
"Fire the gun, NOW!!" Snails gritted his teeth at the pitch of Noye's voice, he stood for a moment before he moved his mouth as he tried to mouth, 'I'm so sorry.' to the others.
He then slowly pointed his gun at his chest, Rarity's counterpart's eyes then shrunk to pinpricks as she started to scream, "Snails, NOOOO!!!" But her words were too late as he fired the weapon, screaming as his body then glowed red before turning to vapor, nothing left in the spot he once stood at.
Snips then groaned as he held his head and closed his eyes in pain, his groaning turning to screams before he fell to the ground, dropping his weapon before Fluttershy and T'Vrell quickly jogged over to the student and pulling their tricorders out.
Wyatt then pulled out his communicator while Twilight stood in shock and fear from the suicide she just witnessed. "Stone to Amarillo, medical emergency! Bring your shields and weapons up and get a team down here immediately!" He quickly put it away before he looked to Twilight, who snapped out of her frozen state before they both ran over to Snip's body.
"Is he going to make it?" Twilight asked Fluttershy with worry.
"I don't know Twilight, some kind of device has been put into his brain and damaged his nerves, if we can, we need to get him to the ship, now."
Twilight then tapped her combadge before noticing the medical team arriving the second she tapped it. "Sparkle to Equestria, we have an injured civilian we're sending to you right now, he needs treatment right away!"
"Got it Twi, Spike out." Her dragon friend said before the signal cut out and the group was left in silence save for Fluttershy's counterpart's crying over the horrific scene.
Principal Celestia and Luna came out of the building with worried looks on their faces as they walked over to Wyatt, who looked to them with a solemn face as they spoke. "What happened? We heard screaming coming from out here."
Wyatt hesitated before he replied. "Principal, your students....Snips and Snails killed the night guard, then Snails turned his weapon on himself and fired, he was vaporized.... I'm sorry."
The two women gave light gasps as they heard of the tragic event he and the others just witnessed. "That..... that is most unfortunate, were the temporal marauders behind it?"
Wyatt nodded before he replied. "Don't worry though, we heard who was the one pulling the strings, and he'll pay for what he's done, Principal. I swear it."
"As do I and my friends." Twilight said as he stood next to Wyatt, her friends, who being lead by Sunset, soon standing near her before Celestia spoke.
"....Thank you, thank you all for your offering of assistance." The group then saluted to the two sisters before Fluttershy's counterpart, who had finally stopped crying while still in panic mode spoke up.
"A-are we going to call the police to help us out?" She stuttered before Applejack spoke up.
"Yes, we'll also send some friends of ours to help out, by the way Principal, we wish to send Snips up to your ship so we can fix him up, if that's not a problem." Celestia nodded before Wyatt spoke.
"Alright, let's get this place fixed up and get some more of our friends up there, we need to be ready if Noye had just spoke to us."
Everyone nodded before they made their way towards the school, Twilight then tapped her combadge before saying, "Spike, get some reinforcements up there, I think we're gonna have trouble very soon. Also, get down here and send Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle down here along with you to help out, we need to get defenses up and ready for this place to be safe."
"Got it Twi, I'll get Minuette and the others to keep your seat warm for ya, Spike out." The signal cut again as Twilight and the others then made their way inside the school to begin setting up defenses, the medical team then stood next to Snips before one of the officers tapped her combadge.
"Holloway to Amarillo, five to beam up." She said before they were all surrounded by a blue field of energy before they disappeared along with the field. Trouble was coming to Canterlot High, and everyone had to get themselves ready if they were to succeed in stopping it.