//------------------------------// // Prologue // Story: Battlefield 2145: Strike on Equestria // by TheMossiah //------------------------------// "We have to go!" I yelled as explosions detonated around me. It was like fire just rained from the sky. Olive-green VTOL's flew overhead bombing and killing anything that moved. I watched in horror as one of our last Titan's shields gave out. PAC drop ships did not hesitate. They quickly flew over and released multiple drop pods before high tailing it back to wherever their base was. I continued to run through the burning city. I turned my head to see the Titan begin to explode in the reddened sky. Finally it began to dip forward. *BANG* It exploded causing a shockwave to throw me into the ground. I watched through blurry eyes as a PAC soldier looked me in the eye and slammed his boot in my face. "Wake up man! You've been tossing and turning all night. Had that dream again?" My eyes flew open and landed on Callaghan. Callaghan and I grew up together, we were basically brothers. When he learned I was joining the army he did not hesitated to enlist at my side. I rubbed my eyes. "Yeah, I will never forget that time in Berlin. It shows how inhuman PAC can get... I know I was only captured for 3 days, but those days were hell. They treated us like wild animals. I watched some of them force civilians to beat each other within an inch of their lives just to eat. They are savages and they deserve to die like savages." I said as I crawled out of my bunk. We were aboard 'Legacy' a MK.II Titan warship. The only differance between the MK.I's they used in 2142-2143 is that these Titans had four new guns. Two on each side of the Titan. They were used mainly for Titan vs Titan combat, which seemed to be an extremely common thing these days. "Its ok buddy, I wish I had of been there when they broke you out. I would have made ever single PAC soldier there begging to die after I was done with them. Comon we don't want to miss the arrival of 'Dawn Bringer'! Lets go!" He yelled as he left the room. "I'll be right out!" I threw back as I was equipping my gear. The rooms were very small. Just enough room to to store and put on the massive military armor suit. I put on a re purposed recon visor. Over the years of fighting I had received many cuts and bruises. I used the visor to cover these as they could frighten civilians. I grabbed my SCAR 11 and attached it to my magnetic holster and ran through the door. The halls were packed more than ever today. I continued down the hall in a speed walk. "Harrison! Wait up!" It was Nicholas and Ford. They pulled up beside me and matched their pace with mine. Ford slapped my armored shoulder plate. "Hey did you hear about the new Titan MK.III super cruiser? I have heard a lot about it but haven't seen a single thing! Dawn Bringer is one of the only ones built at the moment." Nicholas gave a light punch to Ford''s shoulder. "What is it with you and Titans! Titan this! Titan that! My god man just shut up!" I gave a little laugh and so did they. We finally pulled out of the hall and we now stepped into the docking bay. Callaghan spun around with a coffee in his hands. "So you guys finally made it! Here look on the radar and then look outside... Nothing right? Well guess again!" I saw Callaghan put his fingers to the side of his helmet were his intercom is located. "Captain sir! Prepare to power down noise suppression systems and stealth drives sir!" From here I could only hear audible noise come from the intercom with all the noise around here. Callaghan excitedly gave us a thumbs up and he removed his fingers from his intercom. "Ok look up there!" He pointed at the sky. For a moment nothing happened but out of nowhere I heard one of the loudest noises I have ever heard in my life! The sky began to shimmer. Moments later the ships stealth engines powered down. Everyone in the docking bay just looked at the monster of a ship with dropped jaws. "Holy shit" I said as I eye's over the massive Titan. It was about 15x the size of a normal Titan. On each side it had an extremely larger docking bay, probably able to hold 10 VTOL's on each side. It had 10 duel broadside 400mm anti-Titan cannons on each side of the beast. The thing that stuck out the most was a large dome on the top of the Titan. Ford began to speak his mind. "Holy fuck! Look at that thing! And is that what I think it is?" He was now staring at the large dome on top of the Titan flagship. "That is the new experimental Rail-gun firing dome! I thought they destroyed all of them after finding out how powerful they were and what we would do if PAC managed to copy it." He looked like a kid who had just eaten candy for the first time in his life. "Calm down Ford, you can look at it all you like because we were just assigned to Dawn Bringer's fleet."Ford turned to Callaghan with wide eyes. "Really? This is awesome! I can't wait to see it totally annihilate some PAC assholes!" He said in a light yell. I watched as a EU drop ship made its way to our Titan. It flew through the shields and set down inside the bay. Two elite soldiers stepped out and waited for someone to leave the ship. My jaw dropped as I saw Field Marshal Logan step out of the drop ship. We all went into a salute. "At ease soldiers." The Field Marshal barked as he moved towards us. "You are the last Titan to learn of this so I thought I would personally deliver the message. As you know we have perfected cross dimensional travel. So have PAC. The second I return to my ship, the dimensional portal will be opened. How we do this is classified. Prepare yourselves men." Everyone in the docking bay was stunned at what they just heard. The Marshal climbed back into his drop ship. "I hope to see your Titan on the other side!" he said as the doors closed to the ship. It took off and began to fly back to the Titan flagship. As is neared the flagship, about 50 other Titans dropped their stealth drives and sound suppression systems. I turned to my squad. "Well you heard the man! Get ready!" Everybody scrambled for their gear. So we finally get to leave this snowy wasteland. I'm all for it. I Continued to bark out orders as I saw the portal open. Ships began to move through. It seemed the flagship would enter last... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Thank you for coming Princess Celestia and Princess Luna! I knew you would enjoy watching this years meteor shower with us!" Twilight said excitedly. All her friends had also arrived in her library. They waited for the Meteor show to start. "Do you think a comet will fly by this meteor shower? They go so fast!" Rainbow Dash began to frantically search in the sky for the fast moving comets. Princess Celestia turned to Rainbow Dash. She had a warm smile on her face. "Now calm down Rainbow Dash, maybe one will come soon just wait." She said and continued to watch the night sky. Luna was enjoying party games with Pinkie Pie when they all heard a low rumble. They all jumped and searched for the source. It had come from deep in the Everfree. They looked towards the forest. In the Distance they could see a massive glowing thing fly through the sky. "What is that!" Twilight grabbed a telescope to see it better. She jumped back at the sight. It was a large machine. That seemed to glow a bright light blue. She watched as more and more just began to appear for out of no where. She looked at Princess Celestia. "What do you think they are?" Princess Celestia took a look into the telescope to get a better look. She just turned to Twilight with a face of confusion. "I- I don't know." She said calmly. Finally even without the telescope they saw a massive glowing object appear. Its size swamped the already massive things that flew near it. The things slowly continued forward. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dimension jump was a success captain!" The navigator yelled while typing in commands on his console. "Good, get coms back up with Dawn Bringer! We need new orders." The captain stabilized the ship and began to scan the air. "Lucky brake. The air seems breathable. It has about the same oxygen and nitrogen levels that Earth currently has." The navigator began to go ballistic. "Sir! There is an anomaly about 2.3 miles due north sir. I think its another portal opening!" The captain grabbed his intercom. "Field Marshal! Are you getting this?" For a moment the ship fell silent. Finally the entire ships coms sparked to life. The marshals voice echoed through the docking bay. "I'm getting it. We did not plan a second jump into this place. We can only assume PAC finished their portal device." With that said some of the crew worried. We all waited, I continued to be silent. Ford turned to me. "Do you think its PAC what do you think we will do to them-" Ford was cut off as 3 ships materialized 2 miles out from them. One large Titan about twice the size of ours came through, followed by 2 other normal Titans. The larger Titan, most likely the flagship brought its loud speakers to life. Dawn Bringers speakers also sparked to life. All of our Titans turned so they were side to side with the PAC threat. I knew this could only end badly. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Princess Celestia's horn began to glow. "I will cast a simple spell so we can all hear what they sound like." She said as her horn began to glow extremely brightly but quickly dimmed. All the ponies in the room could hear the deafening roar that was the glowing beasts. Rainbow Dash looked at Twilight with a confused look in her eyes. "Comon Twilight you have got to know what it is! You know about everything!" Twilight just shook her head and was about to speak when they heard a new noise. A voice. "We found this place first!" The voice boomed. Twilight was stunned. "They could speak Equestrian?" Once again the mysterious voice spoke again. "Therefore we claim this land. We claim this land in the name of the Pan Asian Coalition!" It boomed. Now a new voice spoke up after it gave a small laugh. "Ah ha ha! You can shove your coalition up your ass! Full broadside! Open fire!!!" The ponies turned to the window and peered at the glowing objects again. They watched in awe as hundreds of colorful lights soared across the sky. Twilight looked in horror. "Wait a second-" She watched as the first of the lights came in contact with the 3 olive-green ships. The lights exploded causing the 3 ships to shimmer a bright blue. They all now watched in horror as the largest olive-green ship stopped shimmering and began to become engulfed in fire. Finally after a small explosion it dipped and began to crash. Its crash was interrupted with a massive explosion that sent a massive shockwave in all directions. They watched the shockwave push over trees as it got closer and closer to them. "Everypony get down!" Princess Celestia said as she moved away from the windows. The other ponies complied and ran away from the windows. The windows all shattered and a deafening boom rang through the library. Everything went silent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I gave a cheer as I watched their flagships reactor exploded. The remaining two Titan's fell with ease. We were about to prepare to go ground side when the navigator received a warning on the monitor. "Captain! Multiple anomaly's are showing up on the radar sir. I estimated 30 PAC Titans are coming sir." This was met with the captains fist slamming on the console. "Damn it! Lt. Harrison! Get your team to that clearing! I want a sitrep upon arrival! Hurry launch the drop ship before their Titans are on top of us!" I threw a salute and gave a quick nod to my team and we boarded the drop ship. I checked the visor. Still snug as ever. I activated the thrusters and took off. I put us to max speed and we sped over the forest. I turned my head to see the PAC Titan's materializing in the distance. Multiple VTOL's took off from the Titan's. "Shit man hurry! I don't feel like getting shot down by those PAC fuckers today!" Too late, a PAC Doragon gunship sped towards us. My lock-on warning began to sound. The ship fired 5 of their 10 air to air missiles. I activated the defense shields. The gunship responded with 5 more missiles. "Damn it! Eject! Eject!" I yelled as I yanked the eject cord. I was slammed into the compact tube and was fired towards the ground. From the drop pods small window I watched three other pods fire out. As the last pod shot away the missiles hit the drop ship destroying it outright. I opened up squad coms. "Fuck that was a close one!" I was met with the nervous voice of Nicholas. "I don't like this! We are barreling down towards the ground of an unknown planet! In the middle of a fucking forest for fuck sakes!" Now Ford spoke up. "Hey maybe it could be okay." He had jinxed us. Our pods crashed down in the middle of a pack of wolves. We drew our weapons. Without hesitation we made quick work of the wolves. Upon closer inspection we noticed the wolves were... Wood. They were wooden wolves. "What the fuck? Is this even possible?" Ford said as he wiped the blood-like sap from his gloves. "Actually nevermind, different dimension yadda ya!" He quickly added. I gave a pat on his back. "Comon, stop inspecting the wolves we have a job to do. Lets get to the clearing." Ford gave a nod to me and the four of us paced ourselves at a light jog for the clearing. As we passed through a small rocky overhang I heard a loud roar. We all turned around to see a massive half lion half scorpion beast stand just meters away. "What the fuck are you waiting for? Kill it!" I brought my rifle up but was cut short from gun fire to my left. The beast grunted in pain and collapsed. I saw Callaghan holding his Bianchi LMG. The barrel had smoke billowing from the sides. "One step ahead of you sir." With a quick laugh I gave him a high five and we continued for the clearing. We moved for about 20 minutes. A hell of a jog through such rough terrain. "Damn that was hell, at least were almost here. I hope its smooth sailing for now on!" Ford said joyfully. Once again Ford had jinxed us as he has many times in the past. We heard a low rumble and watched with confusion as rocks began to fuse together. It seemed to resemble the form of a human. It pounded its fists together and gave a low roar. "Great another thing that wants to kill us." Callaghan said sarcastically. The rock creature turned to Callaghan and began to move towards him. I took aim and fired a burst into the creatures head. It acted as if nothing happened. With that I yelled... "Run!" We ran full speed for the clearing. The creature gave chase and surprisingly kept up with us. We jumped over a bush and had entered the clearing. "Think its still after us-" Callaghan was turning around and was cut off as the creature kicked him in the gut. He went flying about 10 meters in front of us. It began to move in for the killing blow. I could see some kind of colorful horse in the distance but shoved it out of my head for the time being. "Hey pebble dick! Come over here and pick on me instead!" The creature turned as if it understood my insult and began to charge me. "Hey Harrison? I got this." I turned to see Callaghan holding a fucking Pilum H-AVR anti-tank rifle. He went to a knee and the rifles bi-pod shot into the ground. Without hesitation he fired the rifle blowing the rock creature to a heap of gravel. He fell to the ground. I ran over to him. "Hey Nicholas! Help me with him! Grab my med kit for me!" I grabbed my portable x-ray scanner and found out he had multiple ribs broken. He was unconscious and was going to be fine with a few days of bed rest. I got up to confirm this with the rest of my team and noticed the 6 small horse like things and the 2 larger ones standing close by. Was another species trying to kill them now? Tell me what you guys/gals think about this fic in the comments. Any positive/negative feedback would be fine.