//------------------------------//
// Chapter 4: Humanity's Attempts 
// Story: World War FIM: The Summer of Dejection 
// by IronCaptain19 
//------------------------------//


     May 28, 2017

 Washington, DC, United States

     The President sat at the desk in the Oval Office as he thought of a way to find out who committed this attack. As the President was thinking an advisor entered the room.
     "Mr. President, you're needed in the Emergency Operation Center right away." The advisor said.
     "Yes, right away." The President said as he stood up from his desk. Once the President arrived into the EOC the General informed him.
     "Mr. President we believe that the recent explosion in Orlando was not done by any normal terrorist group." The General said to the President.
     "What do you mean?" The President asked.
     "I'll have the director of the FBI and FBI Agent Douglas here to inform you, Sir." The General said while pointing to the Director and Agent.
     "Mr. President, Agent Douglas came to me with a report that a bend in space time occurred in Orlando one day before the attack." The Director said.
     "But how? I thought only planets and stars could do that." The President replied confused.
     "Well sir, the thing is, we're talking about a wormhole or a portal of some kind." The Director said.
     "Excuse me? I-I don't follow." The President said skeptical.
     "We're talking about extra terrestrials, sir." The Director said.
     "Huh? What, no that can't be possible." The President said.
     "Yes sir, it is and take a look at this." Agent Douglas said while opening his laptop. Agent Douglas transferred the image to the big screen on the wall showing a freeze frame of the video the student took.
     "What is this?" The President asked while looking at the photo.
     "The extra terrestrials I was talking about." Agent Douglas said.
     "I-I don't believe this, What is going on?!" The President shouted.
     "Mr. President please be assured that you can have faith in the FBI that they will find out what is going on. And if anything happens we'll call you first." The Director of the FBI said.
     "Ok." The President said before quickly leaving.
     "Mr. President, you need to be careful what decision you make to combat this." The President's chief of staff said to him as he returned to the Oval Office.
     "What do you mean?" The President asked.
     "Your presidency is still young, you only got sworn in 5 months ago, and with all the controversies going on involving you, you just need to let the American people know that they will be safe with you as Commander in Chief if this escalates." The Chief of Staff said.
     "I guess you're right. If this escalates I need to be the best President possible to protect my citizens-" The President said before being interrupted.
     "Sir, we have an update." An Advisor said.
     "Well, that was fast." The President said.

     Back in Orlando...
     "Oh come on guys, what now?" Sam said to the Mane 6.
     "I don't know Sam, no matter what we do Spiror learns from our fighting styles and uses it against us!" Twilight replied.
     "Well then what can you do?" Sam asked.
     "Once we retrieve that Magical Extractor we may finally be able to combat him. The thing is, how?" Twilight said. On the TV continues to report the attack.
     "Wall Street is reacting to the recent incident in Orlando, it appears that Dow Jones opened this morning at 21,043.67 and has dropped sharply to 20,573.89. Investors report that they are worried about what is to come." The reporter said before Sam turned off the TV.
     "Well, that's not good." Sam said.
     "Spiror wouldn't attack a random place for no reason, he wants to gain power and destroying stuff won't get him that power." Twilight said.
     "So what could it be?" Applejack asked.
Twilight patted her chin thinking, she opened her eyes and gasped.
     "Maybe this is to distract us!" Twilight said shocked.
     "What ever do you mean, Twilight?" Rarity asked.
     "Spiror knows what he's doing, he is trying to get everypony, or body focused on this one attack so they'll be distracted while he plans something even worse!" Twilight told them.
     "But where could he possibly be going?" Sam asked.


             Tampa, Florida, United States

     Spiror walked slowly through the shipyard trying not to be seen. Staff walk around holding cargo to bring on board a cargo ship.
     "Urgh, how am I supposed to board this ship without these creatures getting in the way." Spiror thought to himself. Spiror began digging through his bag.
     "Aha!" Spiror said as he pulled out his Magic Extractor.
     "I'll use the magic I extracted from those bugs." Spiror then used the magic he extracted from a changeling to disguise himself as a human captain.
     Spiror then walked across the dock to the gangway to board the ship.
     "Hey, how are you? Shouldn't you be in the bridge?" A crew member said.
     "Yeah, I'm good and I'm heading to the bridge now." Spiror replied.
     "Ok, we'll be ready."
     "Ok have a good day." Spiror said to the crew member before hurrying to the bridge.
     Once Spiror arrived at the bridge he slowly made his way inside and snuck up behind the captain. Spiror crouched behind the captain and placed his hands over him and began to strangle him. The Captain struggled before losing consciousness.
     "Night night." Spiror said with an evil grin as he hid the captain. Spiror then grabbed a microphone to do a PA announcement.
     "Attention Crew, we need to leave a bit earlier than usual because our shipping route changed. Please board and prepare the ship to leave the dock." Spiror said imitating the captain.
     The crew then started to remove the ropes from the dock and the engine crew started the engines.
     "Alright let's go." Spiror said while pulling away from the dock.


Washington, DC, United States

The President arrived in the Emergency Operation Center for an update.
     "Welcome back Mr. President." The FBI Director said.
     "What is the update?" The President asked.
     "We believe we may have a lead Sir."
     "What lead?"
     "We spotted a driver in the video who was parked behind the extra terrestrials and fled with them after the attack was done." The FBI Director explained.
     "So you think someone was in on it? Why would a human help extra terrestrials?" The President asked.
     "We are working on tracking down this person at the moment sir, and when we find him we'll question him. That's all Sir." The FBI Director said. The President then went to his Cheif of Staff.
     "Schedule a national address I want to address the nation on TV." The President said.
      "Yes, right away Mr. President." His Cheif of staff replied.


Meanwhile in Orlando
     "So what's the plan?" Sam asked.
     "I don't know but I'm sure I can come up with something. Do you know where a good place to build a large machine is?" Twilight asked.
     "Uh in Florida maybe not, it's too populated for anyone to pull it off here, and abandoned factories are always guarded with cops." Sam replied.
     "So then wha-" Twilight said as Sam's got a notification on his phone.
     "What is it?" She asked.
     "One sec..." Sam said as he quickly grabbed the remote and turned on the TV.
     "This is an NBC News Special Report."
     "The President is about to make a public announcement in a few moments here." The reporter said. The TV showed a podium with the Seal of the President of the United States in the press briefing room.
     "What president?" Twilight asked Sam.
     "The President of the United States, this country, he is going to talk about what happened at UCF." Sam answered. As the president was getting ready he talked with his Chief of Staff off-screen.
     "Ok, I'm ready." The President said.
     "Sir, the speech written is adjusted to not include any mention of extraterrestrials to avoid a panic. Your speech writer and I thought of a way to not panic the public." The Chief of Staff said.
     "Ok, got it. I can do this." He replied.
The President walked down the hallway to the podium as people began to applaud.
     "Good Evening." The President began.
     "I'd like to give a statement to the public, it is a shame I have to give this statement. We all just witnessed a horrible attack against our country, our freedom. The University of Central Florida is a great school and community, and we have our thoughts and prayers for the students and their families. But we will not back down, immediately we are trying to locate the offenders of this horrific attack, and when we find who's responsible we will take action. This has hurt us but we are strong, we will come back fighting as one nation under God." He said to the camera.
     "I will be taking a few questions." The President said as reporters rose their hands.
     "You" The President pointed. The reported stood up.
     "Hi, Mr. President I'm Kevin Corke from Fox News, my Question is: If this was done by a foreign country, would you go to war with them?" He asked.
     "I don't know about that, but if this was done by another country there will be consequences, Next." The President replied and pointed at another reporter.
     "Hi, Mr. President, do you think this could
be ISIS? Or any other middle eastern terrorist group?" The reporter asked.
     "I cannot say much about it but what I can say is that the incident remains under investigation, Next." He said pointing at another reporter.
     "Mr. President, how can you explain the strange occurrences in the parking lot of the University?" The reported asked. The President gave a nervous look but remained calm.
     "W-We are currently investigating and I cannot comment on that, that's enough questions." The President said as he stepped down from the podium.
     "That was the President giving an address about the attacks against UCF earlier." The news reporter said on TV. Sam the turned off the TV.
     "Ha, that was weird." Sam said.
     "What's wrong?" Twilight asked.
     "He got nervous when that last reporter asked him about you guys." Sam replied.


Jerusalem, Israel

     "Sir, you saw what happened in America earlier?" A man said.
     "Yes, I am aware." A second man sitting in a chair replied.
     "Do you think it could be a terrorist group?"
     "Nope"
     "Then what could it be?"
     "Something beyond our understandings, our, world." The second man replied.
     "You don't mean-"
     "Yes, it is time." The second man said as he stood up.
     "Contact SETI but don't go public, yet." He said.
     "Yes sir, right away." The First man said.