Twilight Sparkle
Basalt Beach, base of Mount Aris
October 15th, 007 SLR
Twilight heaved air into her lungs as the crew were washed ashore. The operation had been an absolute disaster. Queen Novo had shown she was unwilling to assist her own allies.
Applejack coughed as she came ashore. “What in tarnation was that about?”
Twilight looked at her. “That was the Japanese wrecking everything! They sailed in and created this mess!”
“The Queen was about to say yes!” Pinkie cried. “Unless you never wanted her help, and instead just used it as a smokescreen to seize the pearl!”
“Pinkie, are you stupid?” Twilight asked. “I didn’t plan for some subs to sail in and blow the place to pieces!”
Pinkie wasn’t buying it. “We’ve been dragged around by you the whole time, giving us orders and acting out of touch. Why wouldn’t you orchestrate such a thing to take a valuable artefact?”
“Uh...guys?” Rainbow asked.
Nobody payed any notice.
“We can’t just muck about!” Twilight thundered. “You guys seem more interested in repairing the coats of con-artists, smashing through ship hulls, dancing with fish and jumping on things than, you know, SAVING OUR COUNTRY!”
“So, you don’t trust us?” Pinkie asked. “is that what I’m hearing? Because that’s not how friends work.”
Twilight blew a fuse. Initiating the Royal Canterlot Voice, she roared, “WELL, CLEARLY I PICKED THE WRONG FRIENDS, DIDN’T I?!” She flew off, in a rage.
Rarity spoke up. “That went well,” she said.
Dash shouted over them. “The diver’s waking up!”
There was a cough and a splutter from the diver’s equipment, and they motioned upwards with both hands. Dash put her hooves on the gear, and lifted upward.
She gasped when she saw who was under it.
“Scootaloo?”
Richard O’Kane
Onboard USS Tang, Iron Ocean
“That’s right sir, Queen Novo assumed we were behind the attack.”
“She’s unbelievable. If we encounter her again, tell her we are cutting all diplomatic and economic ties. That should get her to co-operate.”
“Understood, Overlord. Out.”
O’Kane looked around the Command Deck. “I can’t believe she’d be so ungrateful!” he said. “We save them, and she responds by just chucking us out! It’s totally ridiculous!”
“Sir,” said his aide. “We have a ping on our diver. They’re on Basalt Beach.”
“Surface and proceed to pick them up.”
“Aye sir!”
Twilight Sparkle
Twilight sat on a rocky outcrop overlooking the beach, seeing her friends talking to the human.
“Twilight?” asked Spike. “Are you OK?”
“No,” Twilight sobbed. “I’ve failed Equestria. There’s no way to save the country now.”
Suddenly, a loud bang distracted her attention. “Twilight!” Spike called.
Spike was under attack from one of the monsters. Twilight charged up her horn...
...only for a man to drop down, punch her in the muzzle, and chain her foreleg to a rope. It was Rorke.
“You really make it too easy for me, Twilight!” he laughed. “When we’re done, there ain’t gonna be no Princesses...cause we’re gonna destroy them together.”
The winch started up. Twilight looked down in horror as Spike vanished into the distance, surrounded by more of those creatures.
Rainbow Dash
“Whoa!” exclaimed Rainbow. “So, there’s a double of me as well?”
“Yep!” Scootaloo replied. “There’s doubles of all of us, I think. We don’t have magic in our world, but technology and electricity double pretty well.”
“So, how’d you get here?” asked Applejack.
“My dad is a pilot in the Air Force, and they needed folk who had prior experience with magic. I was the perfect volunteer.”
“HELP!” shouted Spike, running down the hill. “Twilight’s been taken by Rorke!”
“How on Earth are we gonna get her back?” asked Fluttershy.
“There’s no way we can fight those things,” Applejack added.
“We have the entire might of the US Army,” Scootaloo mentioned.
“And,” said a familiar voice over a cliff, “a group of mighty heroes who could handle this easily!” Who should it be, but Capper!
“Look what the cat dragged in... himself.” Rarity was not pleased.
“These heroes have taken the toughest towns, beaten the fiercest soldiers and picked their way out of the toughest situations I have ever known!”
“Relax,” Applejack said coolly. “He’s talking about us.”
Suddenly, an airship flew in and touched down on the beach. Forward sprung Captain Calaeno and her crew, ready to do battle!
“We are ready to assist you,” she said. “The Storm King shall terrorise these lands no longer!”
Suddenly, light emerged below the waves. Out of the water flew Skystar, returned to her hippogriff form.
“I’m here!” she exclaimed, in her sing-song voice. “I’m so grounded, but I decided that we needed to do something. Problems won’t go away if you ignore them.”
Another loud whoosh emerged from the water, and there surfaced the USS Tang. O’Kane popped his head out of the hatch.
“Anybody-or pony-need a lift to Las Pegasus?”