//------------------------------// // A day with the Princesses. // Story: My Little Pony Destroyers are Magic. // by CommonDash //------------------------------// It’s the middle of the day. Taylor is doing what she often does. Something she was denied in her old world. With all the activities as a cape one could forget the love for sleeping. Though she’s seemed to have discovered it again. “Taylor, you need to wake up.” Twilight says “No…” Taylor mutters Twilight grabs the blanket with her magic ripping it off the sleeping filly. “We are going with Princess Celestia and Luna to see the launch of the new Ironclad.” Twilight says “Come get me when we launch a battleship or dreadnought.” Taylor says as a military surplus blanket suddenly covers her again. “I’m sorry what!” Twilight shouts ‘ what? What do you mean what? Ah? Right I didn’t give you any naval information beyond the Napoleonic wars. Then again would they need carriers? They’ve got Pegasi and they could carry bombs easy enough.’ Taylor thinks “Mom please I like to sleep.” Taylor murmurs. “Okay, I tried.” Twilight says charging her horn. Taylor’s body hits the ground with a solid thud. “Okay… that was rude. Where are we?” Taylor asks getting up. The nice and paved road along with the palm trees at the beach definitely said beach city. “Maretime Bay. To watch the launch of the brand new steam powered iron clad. You said it propelled itself with a propeller. Though I will say the naval architects management to change the name in the final paperwork. It is now called a screw.” Twilight says “… well they aren’t wrong? I’m surprised they knew that. Maybe Echo told her father… no wait did I even tell echo it was called a screw driven propeller?” Taylor says trying to piece together how it happened. ============== Celestia and Luna are sitting in the vip box waiting to watch the first of many iron clads launch. “Sister are Thou sure this is a good idea?” Luna asks “Prance says that the assasination of the Gryphish archduke by dragon sympathizers has set them into a war like mindset… I’m hoping a show of strength will be enough to deter the war.” Celestia says “I still don’t like it. We are building weapons of death sister.” Luna says “Si vis pacem, para bellum?” A voice asks from the entryway. The two goddesses turn towards the entrance in shock. “How do you know that saying?” Luna asks shocked “If you want peace prepare for war? It’s a common saying from my home. We perfected war for a reason. How is the gun development coming twilight?” Taylor asks looking at her adoptive mother. “Those things… I don’t like them.” Celestia says “If you have them. The price of a mile will cost a lot less.” Taylor says “I have trouble believing your a filly sometimes.” Celestia says “She is my student after all… I still can’t believe you turned in the design for this thing.” Luna says looking back out of the window. “Yeah, to be honest I wanted to give you something better but I’m not sure if that’s a good idea. I’m already starting an arms race please don’t ask for more yet.” Taylor says “Wait you said something about battleships and Dreadnoughts when I tried to wake you up?” Twilight says “Battleships?” Celestia asks wanting clarification. The Princess of the sun had read a report from ship writes earlier promising a better ship with more time for design and budget. Luck would have it however that Luna also asked a question allowing the little filly to divert her inquiry. “Dreadnought?” Luna asks “Of course they are called the Dreadnoughts because they dread nothing at all.” Taylor says with a smirk. As music starts to play. Twilight lightly hits Taylor on the head as the music stops. With a rather distinct record scratching sound. “How do you do that?” Celestia asks “Do what?” Taylor asks with a smirk “How doth Thou start a harmony song like that?” Luna asks “Determination! No wait that’s the wrong series. It’s actually escalation.” Taylor says with a smile. “Actually what is the name of this ship to be?” Twilight asks “Magnus.” Celestia says Luna nods satisfied with the name. “What about its identification number? Afterall if you are to have a lot of ships it would make it so you know for certain which ship is which.” Taylor says Twilight glances at her surrogate daughter. “I’ll write up the paperwork when we get home.” Taylor says with a sigh. There is a knock at the rooms door as a member of the solar guard opens it shortly afterwards. “Princesses it’s time to launch the ship.” They says ================== Celestia walks up to the hull of the ship. Right next to it is a table with a small cake on it. “My little ponies! Today in front of us you see the future of naval transportation and defense! It is the birth of a new class of ship! The birth of a new equestrian navy! May mother Faust bless her and all who sail on her!” Celestia announces as she picks up the cake and smashes it into the bow. There is a cheer from the crowd as the ship moves backwards rolling into the water creating waves and rocking before it settles down.