Morning came again to Equestria as Celestia raised the sun over the land, but all was no longer peaceful. Battle was coming, and it would be brutal. The Elements of Harmony all gathered around, making sure they all had their equipment ready to go.
"Every pony almost ready to go?" Twilight asked, triple checking her checklist to make sure she had everything ready and adjusting her Elemental tiara on her head.
"Just about dear, I managed to salvage my mane after what those hooligans did to it." Rarity said, walking out of the bathroom with a shorter, yet still curly and well-kept mane.
"I knew there was always something fishy about those guys." Rainbow Dash said, performing a quick workout to prepare for battle.
"I can't believe that they would do something like that, they seemed so nice!" Fluttershy said, with a Look of sadness on her face.
"They were just taking advantage of us Fluttershy" Dash replied, stretching.
Ember walked into the room, clad in her Battle armor from last night.
"So, you ponies about ready yet?"
"Yep!" Twilight said, crossing off the last thing on her checklist "let's report outside girls!"
"What about me Twilight?" Spike asked
"Oh Spike, you're too young to be going into a fight like this! I think it's best if you stay here."
"Come on, I can handle myself!"
"No, Spike, I know you can handle yourself, but I don't think you can handle them!"
"Let Spike come along" Ember said "he's a tough little guy, if he could make it through the Gauntlet of Fire, he can make it through whatever those machines can throw at him!"
Twilight knew she was right. She couldn't baby Spike forever, and he was tough when he needed to be.
"Alright." She sighed "you can come."
"Aw yeah!" He shouted, high-fiving Ember.
They were greeted by Celestia and Luna walking over to them, with Shining Armor by their side.
"Take care sis, we'll be right alongside you" Shining said, hugging Twilight
"The time for the battle nears." Celestia said "we will restore harmony to our land, utilizing the Elements of Harmony to bring down our foes. Remember what I have taught you all." she said, smiling and walking off with her sister.
"The time to act has come" she said.
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TJ-912 stood on the bridge of her Destroyer, ready for her orders to blast the Dragon's home to smithereens. It had been 4 hours, but Kraken had not given the order yet. Perhaps he wanted them to wait for the sun to rise, so that all could see it. He was smart and knew that morals played an important role in organic troops and viewing this destruction would surely diminish it.
Suddenly the message came to her via hologram from Kraken.
"TJ-912, TF-1726, the time for action has arrived" he began, speaking to both Tactical Droids at once via a 3-way transmission. "Initiate orbital bombardment."
"Yes Commander." She said walking forwards to the front of the bridge, standing beside a B1 gunner sitting in his chair.
"Open fire." she said coldly, sounding as though she would be smiling sinisterly if she could move her face, and pointing an arm at the planet below.
"Roger, Roger!"
There was the loud cry as the Recusant's and Munificent Turbolasers batteries opened fire, letting loose a rain of red lasers, unleashing on the planet below. TJ-912 simply stared at the magnificent sight as the lasers began to impact the planet surface below.
There was a huge, red glow coming from the sky in the Dragon lands, as thousands of dragons looked to the cloudy sky, trying to figure out what the bright lights origin was, before millions upon millions of red raindrops pelted the surface and dragons around them, killing some younger and weaker dragons, wounding others, and merely annoying the large ones. The ground shook as rockslides and earthquakes ravaged the ground, and volcanos erupted, filling the air with ash. Large Dragons who were not killed by the turbolasers were crushed beneath falling rocks or suffocated by ash. Doom had fallen upon most of the Dragon Population.
In Pony ville, the Princesses, Mane 6 and Ember all watched in horror as the bombardment came down on the dragon lands. Embers shock soon turned to pure anger and rage.
"Those cans will pay for this!" She roared
Twilight stepped up
"Wait! It's too dangerous!" She said as Ember took off towards the Dragon Lands.
Ember knew the likelihood of the Dragon population being unaffected was unlikely, but she had to be there for her people, even though caring wasn't a very Dragon-like thing. She'd make those droids pay for this destruction, if she had to tear every last one apart with her bare claws. As she neared the Dragon lands, the heat began to increase, and ash filled the air making breathing difficult, but she did not care. She was looking for one Dragon in particular: her father, Torch. Dead dragons were everywhere, with some managing to rise from the smoke battered but alive.
"Where's my father!" Ember demanded
"I don't know my lord!" Came an almost unanimous answer from the surviving dragons, who made their way past her to clean air.
Ember searched every chasm and cave through the Dragon lands, searching for her father. It was hours before she found him, crushed beneath a massive landslide. Ember got down on her knees and cried as she mourned her father…
On board the Providence Class Carrier 'Enforcement', Kraken gazed down at the destruction with his 3 yellow photoreceptors, pleased with the results. Large areas of what was the Dragon lands had been reduced to massive craters and glowing areas of melted rock, and that was all that could be seen through the ash from orbit. His scans confirmed there were survivors, but he had depleted enough of their numbers to make them a minor threat. He sat in his command chair and contacted his two Tactical Droids TF-1726 and TJ-912.
"Excellent work. Return your ships to their previous positions. We have won this round." He said, his voice having a notable sense of pride in it.
Today was a good day for the Confederacy.