INTRO
One night, Commander Lightning Dawn was tucking his infant son, Shining Light into his crib, and pecked him softly on his little head. “There you go, Champ. You go night-night now.”
“Nigh… Nigh…” chirped Shining Lightning. The boy was a year and half old and he was already learning how to talk, and both his parents were so happy and proud of him…
…Only, General Starla Shine was rather busy at the time. She was up on the observatory, atop the house, where she could stargaze through her telescope for her findings and to assist with her star charting for galactic maps.
She sighed happily as she gazed at all the stunning beauty of the mighty universe through her lens.
She could see many constellations known, and a few she had discovered herself, like The Big Scoop, Giant Flipper, and Lion’s Sash.
“Hiya fellas, I see you…” she playfully called to them.
Suddenly, “…Hey, what’s that?” She spotted a most unusual object near a cluster of stars she knew well, but had never seen anything like it before. She zoomed in to get a better look at it, and swore it looked like a planet.
However, having observed the star clusters very closely countless times in her life and career, she knew there had never been a planet there before. Even when she zoomed in, she couldn’t make out the planet very well, only that it seemed rather dark and ominous.
“Strange…” she felt, and she stopped looking and then wrote down her calculations and location of the planet, but when she went back to look again, “…What the-- Where did it go?” the planet, or whatever it was she found was nowhere to be seen.
She knew she hadn’t moved the telescope; especially considering the stars she saw when discovering the object where still in their exact place… but where was the object itself.
Perhaps she only thought she had seen something-- a bug on the lens, or just a speck of dirt-- not likely. She knew what she had seen, and began to move the scope about trying to find it, but to no avail.
She was still looking for it when it got pretty late and her husband came up to the observatory.
“Starla…?” he called softly, causing his wife to scream and jump, and he stepped back in fright.
“Galloping Galaxies!” cried Lightning
Starla caught hold of herself, “Oh, sorry, honey… I was light-years away.”
“I’ll say you were. Are you onto something?”
“Yes… or, at least, I think I am.”
She told him about the planet-- if it was-- and showed him her calculations. Lightning looked through the telescopes at the exact location in his wife’s writing, but he was unable to find said object either.
Starla then let out a huge yawn, suggesting even more that maybe she was just seeing things in her sleepiness.
Lightning suggested, “Maybe you should come down to bed, and we’ll work this out in the morning.”
His wife agreed, but not before copying her findings and sending them off, by magic mail, to the royal observatories in New Canterlot to help confirm things, with a complete description of the object’s appearance.
Elsewhere, there was much more happening than they realized…!
Way, way out in dimensional space, that very planet Starla had seen was in fact an artificial world and was cloaked in shadows to prevent it from being seen.
This planet was inhabited and run by what had to be one of the largest armies of monsters and aliens anyone would ever dream of. Creatures of all shapes and sizes, from every corner of the galaxy, all gathered to this one place.
Some of the monsters were operators, and it was their job to make sure the planet was secured and well protected.
One monster scolded another one, “You know better than to drop the shadow-cover.”
“I’m sorry, I blew a fuse. I had to replace it.”
“Well you just be thankful the big boss doesn’t find out about this.”
All the operators shuddered at such a thought.
Meanwhile, another great gathering of monsters were all enjoying the feasts prepared, some were newcomers and wondering, “Why are we here again?”
“I got pulled off my planet to come to this fake world, and what for?”
This annoyed many of the senior members. “You’re here to be part of the United Alliance of Evil!”
“You’ll get it better when the master appears.”
The skies suddenly flashed with lightning and loud thunder crashes as all the monsters turned their attention upwards.
“He’s coming!!”
“The master is here!”
“This is the big moment!”
Up in the skies, loads of energy and lightning waves seem to gather and swirl together, forming a very large image of the master, whom was none other than Starfleet’s greatest and most recurring nemesis, Lord Titan!
“I am… Titan: Great Lord of Evil and Darkness!” he thundered “I welcome you all to The Shadow Planet, which I had created especially for my newest plans of conquest and domination.
…This is the United Alliance of Evil!”
The monsters and aliens all cheered and hollered, and Titan continued to explain, “Slowly I am regaining my life force thanks to the vast amounts of evil energy, but there is more to this than a simple revival…
I have spent my time creating the ultimate plan than will rid the universe of love, kindness, and so only evil and darkness will rule.
…I call it “Project Darkness!”
The monsters all looked up as Titan used his power to demonstrate the project and how it would work.
“You see…” he called “In order for my revival to succeed and for this project to work; we shall require much more than what we have obtained. You are my forces, the galaxy is our domain.
You will venture forth and carry out my will, and in the end, all the power and all the forces of the universe will pale in comparison to us! WE… SHALL… RULE…!!!”
The army hollered and cheered louder than ever, until someone spoke up, “But wait… what about, you know… the whatchamacallits.”
“Starfleet…!” Titan hissed. His red eyes flared up behind his monstrous hood. “I have already anticipated their interference, and have sent my personal protégé to deal with them.
At this very moment, she is on her way to United Equestria aboard her spider-base craft, and soon the games shall begin.”
Titan didn’t think it a problem to call on his apprentice and check on her stats.
Far out in space, a monstrous spacecraft bearing a cross-resemblance to a spider and a falcon was soaring through the cosmos, and onboard, Titan’s apprentice addressed him, via magical hologram.
“I understand perfectly, Lord Titan. I shall not disappoint you.”
“You had better not,” growled Titan “After everything I have trained you for, you cannot lose, and just to make certain of it I have provided you with your own crew to aid you.
Good luck Starlight Glimmer.” The image vanished.
Starlight Glimmer: She was a tall humanoid unicorn pony with a very long, pale heliotrope colored coat, and a rather long two-toned mane and tail-- the colors of dark purple with aquamarine streaks. She wore a dark suit with silver and red armored plating on her shoulders, arms, knees, and torso.
She turned to face her three minions-- three humanoid like creatures, two males, and one female-- who were hidden within the darkness of her ship.
“You all heard him…?” she asked.
“We heard, and we understand.” replied one of the men. He spoke in a very deep shadowy voice.
The second male spoke in a rather tough guy voice. “We’ve been waiting to back at Starfleet ourselves!”
Their female complaining flicked her long hair and scoffed, “When we’re through with them, they will be sorry for… well… I mean… they’ll just be sorry.”
Starlight agreed, and turned her attention look out into space, “Indeed they shall, including certain others whom I have a score to settle with!”
She flicked a switch and an image of Celestia appeared which seemed to anger her deeply. “Just you wait!”
Her evil eyes gave a nasty flash as she clenched her fists tightly, seething with revenge and hate on her mind.
MY BRAVE PONY: STARFLEET MAGIC
(Season X)