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// Ambush (Part 2) 
// Story: Does it matter if I am a changeling or not? 
// by General Sparky 
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*Author's Note: Tripitz is an Equestrian Warship while Bismarck is a Singapore Cavalry Warship.




On the Celestial sea, things couldn't be worse for the Unicorn commanders. They have just lost communications with their  squad of Unicorns on the ground. Not long after, the commanders noticed the yellow flare that they have released in the air.

They rushed to arm the  Apache attack helicopter with hellfire rockets and 30mm rounds and conduct the final maintenance check on the Helicopter before take off. As they were preparing the Helicopter, Tripitz sailed closer towards Bismarck. 

When Tripitz was approaching, Bismarck's commander, Rachel saw it and examined her Equestrian counterpart with fascination. She have heard rumors about it in the past, but has never seen it with her own eyes. From afar, the two ships look exactly alike, both has the same number and placement of turrets, both has roughly the same outline and probably the same thickness of armour plates. The Equestrian version looks a bit outdated when compared to Singapore Cavalry's version. The Sinagapore Cavalry's version is designed to deal with a variety of threats while Equestrian version is designed to fight with WW2 battleships. Equipped with missiles, torpedoes, depth charges and massive artillery guns, Bismarck is able to fight off a small fleet who dares to cross her path. Tripitz, however, is more similar to WW2 battleships as it is  equipped with large artillery guns and several smaller secondary guns. It is nonetheless impressive for Equestria to have such ships.

What Rachel didn't know was that this was the ship that is sent to kill her. In a few moments, Tripitz's guns would be in range and all hell would broke loose. 

As Tripitz moved closer to it's target, the guns started to point towards it's target. Slowly its guns elevated to match the positioning of the Bismarck. The shells was loaded in the guns. 'Target sighted, permission to open fire.' 

'Tripitz, you clear to engage the target.'

Tripitz presented its board side at Bismarck and opened fire. Eight shells was sent flying towards Bismarck. Rachel taking note of Tripitz's change of behavior and quickly activated her Phalanx self-defense guns. Some of the shells approaching her exploded in mid air, while some hit her armour. One stray shell managed to hit the helipad, igniting the Hellfire missiles, creating an massive explosion on the helipad. The explosion created massive fires on her Helipad and was spreading towards her rear cannons. The fires were dealt with using the water cannons located around its bridge. With her the main cannons at the rear disabled, Rachel immediately dropped her anchor and loaded her operational cannons with live shells. She quickly started her engines. When her weapons were fully loaded, she fired a salvo using her 88mm secondary cannons and her operational 16 inch (406mm) main cannons. 

Tripitz was hit on multiple places in one salvo. Though it failed to damage key systems on the ship, the shells exploded on its AA guns, making it vulnerable to air attack. The ship responded swiftly with another salvo, but it was intercepted in mid air by missiles fired by Bismarck. The crews of Tripitz look in shock as the missiles intercepted every single shell with efficiency.  Bismarck has started its engines and is rapidly increasing its speed. In response, the crews loaded incendiary shells and fired them at the stern of the ship.

The fire on Bismarck's rear increased in intensity. The fire started to burn through its armour and is threatening to reach the ammunition magazines on the rear cannons. Bismarck launched four torpedoes in quick succession at Tripitz. The captain of the ship managed to maneuver the ship away from the torpedoes and continued to fire salvo after salvo at Bismarck. The continuous barrage of shells overwhelmed Bismarck's defense systems and managed to disable her port side 88mm cannons.

Rachel decided to fire her remaining Mistral Anti-air missiles at Tripitz, hoping to disable her main guns. However it honed in on the shells fired by Tripitz, creating massive mid air explosion in between the two ships. Rachel considered her options, she has spent all of her missiles on board and could only use her front cannons to fire back at Tripitz. She decided to fire another salvo to disable Tripitz's guns, but even before she fire the cannons, she heard the sounds of breaking glass before a loud 'kaboom' behind her. One of the incendiary rounds fired by Tripitz has managed to hit the bridge, causing fire to rage across the bridge. Rachel used her horn to teleport herself from the bridge to the deck of the ship.  She saw the entire ship on the deck and was horrified by the ship;s conditions. The guns barrels of the AA guns bent at odd angles, the phalanx gun was overheated due to the firing of too much bullets then the gun was designed for. The deck was covered with bullet shells and empty shell casings. Black markings were found at where the incendiary rounds landed. The gloom scene has lead Rachel to believe this fight wouldn't be won, at least under current circumstances. With a heavy heart, she jumped into the water and swam for the shores. She looked back once to see the ship engulfed in flames, with the fire spreading to the bow of the ship. She quickly swam towards the safety of land without looking back again.

But if she did, she would have saw a 350 meter (1050 feet) tall creature spit out large volumes of water on Bismarck, extinguishing the flames on the ship. Soon after, it dived back into the water, charging at Tripitz at full speed.



Meanwhile.......

A lone Light Fury soars through the night sky, looking for her mate. Her wings were starting to sore due to the long hours of flying. But she couldn't give up, she have to find him soon, who knows what could the hunter do to an ex-dragonlord if it found out his hidden past? Despite the soreness in her wings, she flew faster to locate her husband.




Eris enter Derpy's Bunker without much resistance. Upon reaching it, he used his horn to light up the area. Derpy's bunker is known to have many twists and turns, to make it a maze for trespassers so that they won't get what they want easily. Also to keep secret documents out of the reach of the trespassers. But not even a maze as complicated as this would stop him from reaching his goal: Uncovering the truth of the banishment of his best friend and his (lovely) monster, Little Spark.