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// Yes Twilight, We Know 
// Story: My Little Space Empire: Mechs are Magic 
// by Wheezyandbreezy 
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Rainbow Dash stared in confusion at the mech standing in front of her. Rarity and S.P.I.K.E. had poured themselves into designing it since the order from Twilight had come in, and the fruit of their labours stood in front of Rainbow Dash. It stood a whole twelve feet tall in front of Rainbow Dash. 

It was tiny. 

Rainbow walked around the mech suit and saw it lacked both armor and weapons. "Umm Rare, not for nothing but uhh. . . It's not done yet."

Rarity harrumphed. "Well of course it's not combat ready, we're just testing a few systems today. We need to see how the new controls feel, how well the new shield generators hold up, and how the new boosters work. Besides I thought you of all people would be champing at the bit for a chance to get back in the void." 

Rainbow grabbed tightly onto Rarity's shoulders in desperation. "IAMIAMIV'EBEENSOFUCKINGBOREDSIN~" She cleared her throat and composed herself slightly. "Yeah. I could give it a whirl." The launch bay was cleared and the void shield faded. Rainbow allowed her arms, legs, waist and head to be locked into the new control systems. She idly wiggled her left leg and the mech mirrored the actions with silent silky smooth movements. "Ooh that feels nice." Rainbow purred. She wriggled her whole body and the suit moved as if it was weightless. "Holy fuck, leave it to a robot to build a robot!"

S.P.I.K.E. appeared in a window on her view screen and cheerily said, "Thaaank you." His holographic blush lit up. "Though most of it was Rarity."

"Oh hush now S.P.I.K.E.y wikey, your new hydraulic system was brilliant!" Rainbow gagged at the mutual feedback loop of praise the two were giving each other. She looked into the open void and got a mischievous idea. She jogged towards the opening but instead of boosting out she grabbed the edge of the floor and swung herself out onto the outside of the ship. She pushed herself off, sending the boosters to full throttle.

She immediately crashed into a ship a thousand miles away. She had boosted so hard it had launched the Damocles backwards. She had literally accelerated so hard that she'd cleared a thousand miles in less than half a second. She slowly pulled backwards and saw a long glowing diamond shaped dent in the ship she'd hit. Rarity shakily got to her feet and shouted into the screen, "DAMNIT ALL RAINBOW! DON'T YOU DARE BREAK MY S.P.I.K.E.Y WIKEY'S HARD WORK!"

S.P.I.K.E. appeared on Rainbow's dashboard. "Rainbow you need to be careful, your boosters can hit point nine nine nine light speed in less than point seven four one seconds.

Rainbow's face snapped to the little glowing dragon in shock. "I feel like that's something I should've been told before I got in the suit." She shook her head. "Anything else I should know?"

Rarity sighed hard. "Be careful with your shields, they're much harder than on the standard model."

Rainbow looked at the dent she'd just put into the ship. She looked at her mech's hand and saw it gave the faintest green glow. She unthinkingly pressed her arm towards the ship and a line began to burn on its surface as if it was being cut with a plasma cutter. Her eyes lit up and she cut several holes in the ship with her shields, giggling like a mischievous child until Rarity barked for her to stop. She shook herself out of her immature vandalism, and turned to an open section of the void.

"S.P.I.K.E. how fast can I stop?" Rainbow asked.

S.P.I.K.E. raised an eyebrow on his robotic face. "Ummm. . . I guess as fast as you can speed up?

Rainbow looked at the empty stretch of space before her. She hit the thrusters at full throttle and quickly found herself thousands of miles out into the void. She turned around and was astounded to see how far she'd gone. She turned back towards Terra and hit the thrusters again. She shrank back against her seat and stopped in a panic as the tiny blue speck of light on the horizon suddenly filled her entire view screen. 

"Rainbow my God!" Rarity whispered breathlessly.

Rainbow rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I know, I know. I'll be more careful and shit."

S.P.I.K.E. pulled up the video on Rainbow's screen. "Not that Rainbow, this!" Her eyes went wide when she saw a long streak that shined like a rainbow behind her. It started bright and wide behind her and became dimmer and thinner as it went. S.P.I.K.E. said, "I think you're accelerating so fast you're breaking the visible light spectrum Dash."

Rainbow sat there, eyes shining, mouth agape. She breathlessly whispered. "Blow him."

Rarity tilted her head. "I'm sorry, what was that darling? I couldn't hear you."

Rainbow looked at her communications screen with the biggest grin Rarity had ever seen on a human face. "YOU SUCK HIS DICK RARITY! YOU SUCK IT TILL IT FALLS OFF!!!"

Both Rarity and S.P.I.K.E. reeled with blushes glowing from the obscenity of the suggestion. Rarity screamed, "RAINBOW!" 

S.P.I.K.E. sheepishly rubbed a robotic foot on the deck of the Damocles. "I don't even have a umm. One of those."

"Well then build one and Rarity you thank him properly for me." Rainbow shouted as she hit the thrusters and took a victory lap around the planet hooting and cheering as she went. This was the most fun she'd had since the Horsehead Nebula. This mech was the single fastest single piloted craft in the galaxy, and she zipped around with reckless abandon seeing just how fast her reflexes were. She'd find a point just on the edge of visibility, and would see how close she could get without hitting it. Rainbow was astounded by the utter lack of g force she felt as she rocketed from one section of orbit to another. Meteorologists down on Terra were very concerned about the little Rainbow streaks observed all over the sky. 

Rainbow was just about to turn in and give it a rest when all of a sudden she hit a patch of empty space and suddenly went spinning off of it. Rarity lurched forward over the railing in shock. "Rainbow! Are you alright?" 

Rainbow growled, "Uhh what the fuck did I hit?" She managed after a while to regain control and examined the new suit, it wasn't damaged. She tested each of the systems on the new mech, it hadn't malfunctioned. She idly flew back to the section of space that she had smacked into, and saw a fizzing, sparking, section of space. Rainbow was confused and she decided to poke it, as one does.

Suddenly the small line of sparks turned into a full sized wrecked fighter ship. Rainbow floated idly in the void in shock. She looked and suddenly the empty patch of space she'd been tooling around in filled with an entire fleet of uncloaked warships. The universe went still for several seconds, neither Rainbow nor Rarity able to move from the shock.

Rarity snapped out of it first and screamed, "S.P.I.K.E.! GENERAL ALERT! ALL HANDS TO BATTLE STATIONS!" He sounded the alert, and across the fleet a whole division of soldiers collectively had the shit scared out of them simultaneously. 

In the med bay Dr. Sir Fluttershy had been explaining the evils of inserting things into the anus while under the influence of alcohol when the call to arms sounded off. She sprinted to the ship's teleporter and bodily removed a tech who was about to use it. She punched in the code for the mech storage bay and appeared there in a loud pop. She mounted up and blasted out into the void. Rarity barked at Rainbow Dash, "Dash! Get out of there!" 

Rainbow snapped out of her daze. "Oh uh right! She smashed the boosters to get free in a panic. Then the newly appeared fleet was a pin prick on the horizon. She blinked at the realization. "Oh yeah. . . Fastest thing under light speed. . . Huh." She wondered to herself if she should head back to the Damocles and suit up, or just board another ship further away from the new fleet that had appeared.

She looked and saw the invading fleet bearing down hard on the Imperial fleet, and realized Rarity wouldn't have enough time to respond before they were on her. ,"What do I do? WHAT DO I DO?!" Rainbow screamed to herself. This suit didn't have any weapons, or even any armor on it yet. She saw the ships take up firing positions. She bit her augmetic fingers in fear for her friends. What could she do? She then remembered cutting holes into a ship and the massive dent she'd left in it. This suit had some damned hard shields. The words of Pinkie Pie came to mind. "SHIELDS AND BOOSTERS."

The first wave of enemy battleships reached firing range, and their macrolasers began to glow, when suddenly the point ship's bridge began to rupture and break apart. All the enemy could see was a Rainbow streak across their lines. Rainbow grinned evilly as she held up a large mechanical hand. Her shields worked even better than a plasma cutter.She could keep them off of the fleet long enough for them to respond! She flew in and out amongst the ranks, slashing wildly as she went, wreaking havoc everywhere she could touch. S.P.I.K.E. was DEFINITELY getting that blowjob, even if Rainbow had to do it herself. She distracted the invasion fleet long enough for the Imperial fleet to get into firing positions.

Rarity saw what Rainbow was doing and felt a subtle giddiness at the sight, despite the gravity of the situation. "Good show Rainbow! Now clear out so we can end this!"

Rainbow poked a hole in the cockpit of a fighter, and boosted away. "On it!" She hit the boosters on her mech, but instead of being instantly at the fleet, she heard a loud pop and she only lazily drifted towards the fleet. She stared in horror at the dimly flashing screen. Powercore depleted. She pushed on the throttle several times but nothing happened. A chunk of debris drifted against her and thunked heavily against the mech's head. She had no boosters, she had no shields. She was dead in the void, halfway between the fleets. She for the third time in her life found herself in harm's way, in a dead mech, but this time Applejack was halfway across the galaxy.

The Imperial fleet sat ready to fire waiting for Rarity's command, but the Admiral wouldn't fire with her friend caught in the middle as she was. The invading fleet had no such qualms and they used the reprieve to form up into firing positions. Rainbow saw their macrolasers beginning to glow. Her eyes went wide as she saw they weren't aiming at the fleet, they were aiming at her specifically. They were going to kill this little nuisance that had caused them so much pain.

The entire invasion fleet loosed simultaneously and Rainbow saw a wave of light coming towards her. She slammed her eyes shut as she felt herself hit from behind. She opened her eyes and saw her tiny mech was being carried princess style by Fluttershy's Valkyrie class. She gave just a second to feel special. Rarity saw her opening and the fleet prepared loose a devastating broadside. Just before Rarity could give the order however, the invading fleet vanished as suddenly as it had appeared.

Fluttershy brought Rainbow onto the Damocles and they scrambled out. Rainbow wanted to thank her rescuer properly, but Fluttershy was still in combat mode. She stormed off towards the bridge and Rainbow followed sheepishly afterwards. Fluttershy growled, "Who the fuck was that Rarity? Where did they go?!"

Before Rarity could answer a deafening pop made their ears ring, and a bright light put spots into their eyes. Twilight called out, "Rarity! Full alert all hands! We're. . ." She looked about and saw the grim faces and heard the surface thoughts of all present. "Oh. . . Umm right. You already know that. . ."