//------------------------------// // Exodus part 2 // Story: Summoning Equestria: Arrival // by NicieLunar //------------------------------// =///Vanhoover, Northern Equestrians Merchant Shipping CO. almost at the same time\\\= Meanwhile, in the northern part of Equestria, there is the port city of Vancouver, a few days ago this city was the busiest and most prosperous port city in the northern part of Equestria because this city is a major hub for the shipping industry to import goods from Equestria to the continent of Zebrica in the west. But since the "Whiteouts" occurred, all economic activity in this city stopped almost overnight, this is because Princess Celestia issued a regulation that all civilian ships and airships are not allowed to sail as far as 10 kilometers from the coast because of their unfamiliarity in this new world. This leaves all shipping companies with no option to keep all their ships and Airships in port hangar until further notice. This policy of course caused many large shipping companies in Equestria to suffer drastic losses of income, even some small companies started to suffer bankruptcy because of this. This is what happened to Astral Whisker, his company was on the verge of bankruptcy and there's almost nothing he can do about it. As he slowly succumbed to his depression, he suddenly heard a knock on his office door. *Knock* *Knock* "Who is it?" Astrial asked "Errgh sir, there is someone here to meet you." "What? I don't invite anyone here." "We don't know sir, but they say they want to discuss your business offer, sir." Business offer? that sounded interesting to Astral, For almost two weeks not a single company or individual has tried to offer business or become a customer to his company due to shipping restriction policies enforced by the Royal government. "Alright, bring them in, I'm gonna talk to them." The door began to open but instead of revealing the typical business pony he usually encountered, he was greeted by a male Saddle Arabian Horse accompanied by a female Hippogriffs beside him. Astral could only sit there dumbfounded, the Saddle Arabian who came to his office was not an ordinary merchant, he was the high Sultan of the Saddle Arabian Royal Family, he was tall, muscular, and dressed in expensive traditional clothes made from the highest quality silk the world could make. "Greetings, my name is Sultane Muhoofmad bin Saltman, I'm the high sultan of the kingdom of Saddle Arabyia, are you the CEO of this company?" "Y-yes... I am the director of Astral Whisker, I am the leader and owner of the South Equestrian X-Press shipping company (S.E.X)." The Arabian Sultan and Hippogriff princess originally intended to simply laugh (and maybe beat him up) for such a shitty name for the company. But that would go against the mission and the reason why they were here, so the Sultan and the Hippogriff decided to suppress their urge to laugh and settled on their objective, the Hippogriff princess took the file document she was carrying and placed it on Astral's desk. "Après-midi sir, I am Princess Skystar from the Kingdom of Hippogrifia, I and Sultan Muhoofmad here would like to offer you an offer to purchase your company's assets, especially your commercial Airship." 'Airships?' Astral was a bit confused, in a time of crisis like this what they wanted to do with the Airship? all import and export operations between Equestria and the international world were at a complete stop. At first, he wanted to simply try asking why but decided against it because if years of experience had taught him anything trying asking customers about what they wanted to do with the products you sell to them will make it possible for them to decide to cancel the contact, no creature wants to waste time they try to explain what they are going to do with their personal purchases to other people because it is a waste of time. Moreover, from what is seen here, Astral can guess that the Saddle Arabyian Sultan and the Hippogriff princess might want to buy the Airship to be repurposed as a luxury private resort cruise liner for the typical Royal harem or something. (Flying version of Epstein island) "Of course, my employee can prepare one of the airships from our hangar to be ready for sale and-..." "Sorry désolé, we're not here to buy just one Airship, We intend to buy all airworthy Airships owned by this company, this also includes spare parts and infrastructure assets for operation and maintenance." "W-what?" Astrel was in shock, they wanted to buy his entire fleet of Airships. that's really propostorus! "Y-you can't... if I sell it my company will go bankrupt!" The Sultan then took a small brown cotton bag from his pocket and put it on his table, inside it was filled with gold coins and coins of various sizes that could buy someone a small mansion. Astral could only sit in his chair dumbfounded and in his eyes there was a money symbol like Mr Krabs, the Sultan and the Hippogrif Princess are not playing around and are serious about buying all of his company's Airships. Astral then straightens himself again, this is a one in life once in a lifetime offer that can provide him and his family wealth for several generations to come. "This is truly an extraordinary offer, your highness, but unfortunately it is still not enough to buy all the fleet and supporting assets that my company owns, there are more than hundreds of Airships and various different designs and specifications as well as thousands of types of various spare parts which make the price tag even exceed the monthly income of the entire province in the middle east of Equestria." "Oh don't worry about it, I have several more similar bags in there." The Sultan pointed his hoof at the left window of the room. "OH MY CELESTRIA!!" Outside the company building, Astral could see an iron cart and inside there were dozens of brown cotton bags piled up which was similar to the one Sultan Muhammad put on his table. Astral Whisker can't believe it, just a few minutes ago he was on the verge of bankruptcy and went broke but now he's only a few steps away from becoming the richest pony in Equestria. "Give me the contract paper, I will sign it now!" Skystar also opened a file document containing sales contract papers for all Airships and support infrastructure owned by South Equestrian X-Press and then placed it on the table for Astral to sign. Without a second tought, he immediately signed the contract and sold all the Airship and all its supporting assets owned by the company. After he finished signing the contract, Astral quickly took the bag of gold on the table and immediately went out of his office and then announced to all his employees that they were all released from their duty, permanently. "I have to say, the people of HIppogrifia and other species of the League of Nations are eternally indebted to you, Without your help we would not be able to move our people to the new continent safely, we are eternally grateful." "Oh don't worry about it, it's just a fraction of my family wealth that we keep in Equestria's Central Bank, besides, I already hired several Hitman to ambush (Kill) him on the way home, so I technically won't be spending any money at all on this operation." Muhoofmad then laughed Skystar was surprised by this, she was someone who could still be categorized as a teenager (she was 17) and never expected to be involved in a multi-national operation that involved killing and betraying her pony friends (especially Twilight), even so, she decided to continue her mission, the safety of her people is in danger and she is the only descendant of the Hippogrifa Royal Family, It was her duty to do what was necessary to ensure what was left of the people of Hippogrifia would be able to survive this interdimensional cataclysm. "Thank you Sir Sultane, but are you sure you and your people want to keep staying in Equestria rather than migrating to a new continent?" "Yes, The Equestrian Princess has a political agreement with my family and we have many assets that we can use to get ourselves a piece of territory within Equestria, and besides, the League of Nations needs eyes and ears to keep a permanent watch on what happens inside Equestria." Princess Skystar can only smile, because the influence of Arabians in the Equestrian economy is really big, the amount of debt that the government of Equestria owes the House of Arabyia is almost double their total annual GDP, this makes Princess Celestria basically not dare say "NO" to Muhoofmad and his people, he basically has total political and economic immunity. Skystar and the people of Hippogriffia get a golden opportunity to survive and thrive in this new and strange world, just not in the way Alfort and others in the League of Nations predicted. =///Two days later, Ancornage Bay, 1000 Horus, East Equestria \\\= After successfully acquiring all they needed, all members of the League of Nations began to execute the second step of Alfort's plan, Operation Exodus. All the remaining non-pony populations live in Equestria (Except Saddle Arabyians) ordered by their respective governments to pack all the belongings they could carry and go gather at the major Equestrian port city to prepare to be evacuated from this pastel hellhole. Meanwhile The Equestrian Government under the supreme leader Sunset Shimmer began to notice something was wrong after they lost contact with dozens of headquarters and military supply depots, Sunset then began to order the military to mobilize all active Leagon and Equestrian and Airfleet to search for the perpetrators. But unfortunately for Sunset and her comrades, Alfort had expected this and ordered all remaining international troops under the command of the League of Nations to launch mass bombing attacks across all parts of Equestria. Hundreds of government and civil buildings were bombed to the ground, major bridges were collapsed and dozens of infrastructure were critical to what was left of the economy of Equestria such as the Crystal Power Plant, dams, mines, train stations, and agricultural fields were sabotaged or completely destroyed. This caused great chaos throughout Equestria, thousands of ponies in various cities began to panic, they didn't know what really happened, some believed that this was a natural disaster and while others believed that this is an attack from Humans trying to invade Equestria to conquer them so they can turn the ponies into slaves or even livestock. These rumors made many Airship commanders order their Squadrons and Fleets to surround Manehattan and ordered the American troops there to surrender themselves and their weapons to the Equestrian military and become their prisoners of war, something that definitely won't end badly for all the Equestrian troops deployed there. =///Geneighva, Kingdom of Orlenia Embassy, 0010 Hours\\\= The new queen of Kingdom of Orlenia, Chi-Yeva Nirika I (Or simply Yeva 1st) was in her room searching for looking for something inside her cupboard and desk drawers to find her cosmetic items, the former Ambassador will not simply leave her rare beauty items in Equestria because this is a one of a kind product that is no longer in production. Meanwhile in the background, Secretary Blackthorn and several deer royal guards stood behind her, they were assigned to guard and assist in the evacuation of all embassy staff several hours ago, but their new queen destroy that plan because she spent more than two hours looking for her personal cosmetics. Some may be curious as to why this bitch were suddenly appointed as the new queen? well just like other governments trapped in Equestria, the Kingdom of Orlenia began to reform its country to adapt itself to the new world because the entire Orlenian Royal Family was still in Equus, the Embassy staff decided to appoint someone with the highest ranking position there to be their new leader, the same thing also happened in other countries, in the Griffonia Empire Embassy Ambassador Alfort was now coronated as Kaiser and Night Frost's representative was appointed as Empress Kiriya Matriarchy. "Ms. Amba-..your Excellency, I beg you to follow us to the evacuation Airship now, we are already several hours behind schedule," Blackthorn said while pleading with the new queen. "But I can't leave my precious cosmetics and my rare perfume! because we have lost contact with our homeland there will be no more supply of these products anymore! And also I don't believe that humans have the capability to make any decent perfume or even decent civilized cosmetic products with just how ugly they look." Secretary Blackthorn then facepalms (or facehoof) he can't believe that many of the embassies agreed to appoint her as the new queen. "Just please hurry, we can't stay in this building for any longer, the evacuation fleet will be leaving any minute now." "Oh Helvetti, just give me another minute!, I almost found it, I just need to check-.." *KABOOM* Suddenly several explosions shook the foundations of the embassy building which unceremoniously knocked the new queen of the Orlenians to the floor. "Holy Spirit!!! Your Majesty, are you okay?" Blackthorn asked while having a worried expression on his face. "Oh hyvännäköinen, don't worry I'm fine, anyway I need to check the last cupboard there, I'm sure my things will definitely be ther-.." "This is an emergency broadcast at CIC, to everyone in the building please leave immediately and evacuate to the nearest Airship, the Equestrian military has initiated aerial bombardment of the city of Geneighva and the surrounding area, all available air units were ordered to take to the air and engage the pegasi bombers now!" "VITTU!!! Everyone get the Queen to the Airship ASAP!" Blackthorn said loudly to all the troops in the room.. "B-but I've not yet found my perfume bottle and cosmetic box! These things are my entire life!" Yeva said while having a pleading expression on her face. "Then get yourself a new life!, You are our new queen and it is your duty to fulfill all her obligations! NOW get your hoof to the Airship now!" Blackthorn said harshly, Maybe it was too harsh for the queen because after that Yeva started crying full of tears as the Orlenian Royal guards began to drag him out of the room and into the Airship which was full of the remaining Orlenian civilians who found themselves trapped in Equestria, no one had ever shouted in front of her before (Except her father), this will likely be the biggest challenge to her life. Meanwhile, in the sky above the city of Geneva, Equestria's Pegasus squadron is having a fierce dogfight with the area defense troops of Griffons and Hippogriffs. The Equestrian Airship and the League of Nations Airship share fire between each other using their ballista launchers, there were heavy casualties between both sides however because they were outnumbered and outgunned they did not stop the Equestrian onslaught but they managed to give the civilian Airships the ability to fly away and escape from the city to the coast to rendezvous with other the Airships who managed to flee the country. =///Geneighva underground sewer system, 1100 Horus\\\= Inside one of the many underground sewer tunnels beneath the city of Geneighva is a Zebra monk named Ahzonthe from the Kingdom Of Azir who was sitting while finishing a bottle containing the traditional southern Zebrica alcoholic drink, he was not alone in the tunnel, he was accompanied by several other zebras who were also enjoying the last sip of their golden alcoholic liquid, they are here with a specific mission, they were ordered to initiate the third phase of operation Exodus, operation Scorched Earth. Alfort knows that Equestria troops will try to chase the evacuation fleet and possibly shoot it down, so he decided to devise a plan to directly destroy the huge chunk of Equestrian Airship fleet by using an ancient forbidden spell that only the most skilled Zebra monks ever could do, this spell is very destructive to the point where it is capable of destroying entire cities with just the blink of an eye, a spell that is kept secret in the deepest vaults that the Zebrakind can build, Core Magic Spell." "attaÃ, the League of Nations troops in the air and on the surface have been overrun by the Equestrian troops, the League of Nations gave us the green light to initiate the ritual." said by radiozebra on the edge of the wall. Ahzonthe also threw his alcohol bottle against the tunnel wall, the bottle shattered into pieces just as fate would soon meet the Equestria troops in a few minutes, this mission was a suicide mission, he wanted to make sure to go to the afterlife with style. "Huh zabi, it took them long enough, Hjzeo! Get me the Magic Crystal, I can't wait to send these ponies to kingdom come." The Radiozebra immediately took the wooden box that was next to him and opened it, Inside is a bright rainbow-colored crystal stone, the crystal is not too big, and its size almost resembled a football, however this crystal is not an ordinary crystal, this is a rare crystal stone called Chalcopyrite, despite its small size, this crystal is really energy dense, namely around 4.18 × 1015 Joules, almost the same energy as weapons-grade plutonium... (Source? My source is that I made it the fuck up!) "Are you sure you want to keep doing this Ahzon?, from what I remember, this city is still inhabited by more than one and a half million ponies, couldn't this be categorized as... Genocide?" "Meh, you say it like the ponies care about genocide, those pastel bastards would happily do the same thing to us if they had access to this spell, thank goodness our ancestors managed to hide it before it fell into the hoofs of the Alicorns." Ahzonthe grinned, wondering what the Equestrian princesses' faces would look like when they saw one of their historical cities turned into a giant crater and half of their Airfleet turned into atomic ash. "OK then, let's start the ritual." The zebra monks who were there began to chant their mantras which slowly began to make the magical crystals to vibrate, they happily continuously raised their voices and strengthened their mantra which made the crystal slowly float into the air, slowly, a crack began to appear on the surface of the crystal, emitting a dazzling light, the cracks began to spread across the surface of the crystal until finally with a sickening crack the crystal broke and released all the energy stored in the crystal. In a millisecond, a ball of plasma hotter than the Sun appears and grows in a fireball to more than 2 kilometers across. Within this ball, everything is just gone, similar to when a drop of water is dropped onto a very hot pan, a sizzle and then there's nothing. Most buildings, carts, trees, Alicorn sculptures, and ponies... All evaporated. First, the flash an intense tsunami of light washes over the city in an instant, anypony that happen to have their heads pointed in the direction of the explosion will suffer from permanent blindness. The heat of this light produces a thermal pulse, so energetic and hot that it just burns everything as far as 13 kilometers from the detonation site. this means that everything in an area of 500 square kilometers that can burn starts burning, plastic, wood, fabric, fur, and skin burn or even melts directly. or if you're unlucky, completely. If anypony happens to be in reach of thermal pulse, one moment they're on their way to work, the next moment, they're on fire. The heat and radiation of a fireball create a bubble of superheated and super-compressed air around it that's now expanding explosively. Faster than the speed of sound, creating winds stronger than hurricanes and tornadoes. pony infrastructure is no match for its power, all buildings within a kilometer of Fireball are just ground up down to their base. In the surrounding residential area where dozens of Equestrian troops patrolled and looked for any potential enemies, have their plumage blackened from the heat a second before their bodies snapped like toothpicks before getting tossed away like a grain of dust in a tornado. The shockwave weakens as it travels outwards. But still, about 175 square kilometers of houses collapse like they're made of cards, and destroying all Equestrian Airships that fly in the area. A mushroom cloud made from the remains of fireball, dust, and ash rises kilometers into the sky in the next few minutes and casts a dark shadow over the ruined city and the entire Equestrian continent. (Yes it's typically a fucking nuclear bomb, deal with it.) =///Few Hours laater\\\= In the North Luna Sea hundreds of Airships carrying hundreds of thousands of civilian passengers fly to rendezvous points in the Earth's Northern Hemisphere, when they got there the Airships authorities began to separate their Airships based on their respective races and nationalities. Why do they do this? Well, even though the League of Nations coalition forces managed to destroy almost half of Equestria's Airfleet, that doesn't mean the Equestrian Royal Navy won't try to catch them. So the best thing you do as a chased group is to split up and go in multiple directions to prevent the whole group from being caught, and also agreements between Alfort and other leaders in the League of Nations to agree to divide all human territories between each other based on their respective national needs. =///North Luna Sea, GEA Unstopable, 1400 Hours\\\= Inside one of the converted civil Airships of the newly crowned Kaizer of Griffonian Empire Alfort Hemmer I was sitting comfortably in his study chair, he was reviewing the report document which contains statistics on the total amount of building supplies and food in his fleet, he wanted to ensure that his people had everything they needed to rebuild the Griffonian Empire. While he was still in the middle of reading the document, he suddenly heard a knock on his office door. *Knock* *Knock* "Enter," Alfort said with authority. The door opened and behind it revealed a Griffon dressed in a luxurious uniform, from what he looks like, he was the captain of the Airship he was currently on. "Your Excellency, I would like to report that all our passenger and military Airships have completed mandatory checks and inspections before flights, What are your next orders, Your Excellency ?" "Hmm..." Alfort took the copy of this new world map that he got from GI'O and put it on the table, he spent several seconds watching it before finally pointing his finger at the northernmost building of the largest continent on the planet. "Order all the Airships captains in the fleets to start flying towards the Northwest, this part of the continent will be our new home." The Airship Captain looked at the map and estimated how far it would be to travel to the continent from their current position, from his calculations he predicted they would only need 6 days of direct travel. "Are you sure this is a wise decision, Your Excellency? Don't you want to try heading to another continent?." "Of course! I have spent hours negotiating with leaders of other countries in the League of Nations on how we will divide up the territory of this new world, I managed to secure a huge chunk of the northern region of the largest continent on the planet so we can have a very huge living spaces and full of untouched resources for our species. At the conference at the League of Nations headquarters, all countries agreed to share territory with each other, the Griffons will take the northern part of the largest continent (Siberia) The Kirin will take the eastern and central parts of the same continent (China and Central Asia) Hippogriffs will claim the southwestern part of the islands located in the southern part of the continent (Southeast Asia). Other species such as the Minotaur went to claim the continent to the northeast (North America) and meanwhile, Harpies and Capybaras will colonize the southern-eastern part (South America). Other minor and weak species such as Deers, Yaks, Zebras, Giraffes, Camels, Yeti, and others will claim the rest. "Very well, Your Excellency, forgive me for doubting you, I will convey the order to the captains of the other Airships immediately." The captain saluted and then left the room, leaving Alfort alone again. Alfort then nodded and then leaned back in his seat again, he couldn't restrain his patience when they finally arrived at their destination and began a military campaign to conquer the continent and rebuild the Griffonian Empire from scratch in his image. Alfort grinned, he could imagine the victory and glory he would gain when he succeeded in conquering the primitive natives of this world... Although Alfort's imagination and fantasy of thousand year empire will not come true, but his hope of making his people not just survive but also prosper in this strange new world will indeed come true, just not in the form he and others had predicted. =///San Franscisco, Presidio base, 300 Hours\\\= "...Say that again?" The General asked. "Mastariet, according to spy planes sent by our covert bases in Mexico, they're reporting a nuclear-like detonation on the mainland of Eskeuru," reported a Hegemony operator on the phone. "Hm... So not only their magic is bullshit, but now they have nuclear tech, wait a minute, when I converse with the president he told me firearms! What the hell is he giving to the dammed Equines!" "Sir he has not started the shipment yet or we would've informed you that we had begun sabotaging operations, however, we have other news I wish to speak with you about." The General rolled his eyes as he slouched back on his chair and looked at the sun behind him. "First tell me, how is the "incident" going." "It's on its way, the contacts had a bump in with positioning, but with the help from your CIA contact the men managed to slip by undetected from checkpoints, on your word they are ready." "I see, well do not start yet until I can clean up this situation myself, anything from D.C.?" "Yes General, we have confirmed that the personnel killed in Equestria from the Dragon attack were your's, they've kept the file hidden from you by the order of the FBI and the president." ... "Should, I be concerned?" ... "Sir?" The general leaned close to his desk and whispered calmly and aggressively. "... just have the men ready, and prepare for the October meeting, I expect- No! I want this to be worse than 9/11 the president will now know that he has fucked up, big time." "It shall be done Mastariet. Long live the Hegemony." "Long live the Hegemony." Angered at this sudden news that was kept from him, he could've smashed the desk, but then it would just give him a bigger mess to clean, but on the bright side, he let out a slight chuckle at the amount of things he may do when the incident starts. And oh the amount of plans he has prepped after. And when these things happen, people at first may call him a monster, a terrorist, or a fascist. But in the end, deep down, they'll thank him later. But first... "Sir!" Entered John Kay. "Ah, Lieutenant, what is it?" The general asked. "Sir! Early radar sensors are detecting slow low altitude flying objects heading for San Fransisco city!" "Really?" The general asked amused with laughter, as he assumed it was a joke. "Sir I'm not joking this is serious!" It was then that his point was proven to be exactly right as radar operators entered his office, and that was when it grabbed Howard's undivided attention, of course considering that he was going to listen afterward, this also brought a lot of questions, for one, did Equestria decided now it wanted to attack his homeland? Or was there... Something else afoot? Either way, whether it was a coincidence that a damn nuclear bomb blew up in the new continent and then they happen to send an army in retaliation, at least that's what he thinks in theory. But now he is pissed that Equestria may have probably killed more of his men than the dragons did by now so now this was personal! "How many are we speaking here!" He questioned aggressively "Hundreds sir! They're armed with weapons sir, they seem to possess the ability to wreak havoc on our city, on your orders Anti-Air armor vehicles will be deployed," the radar man said, as Howard got up from his seat, placed his cap on the coat hangar, grabbed his black cap, his bolt action rifle, and his devilish smile. "How long until the flying object arrives in the city?" "Proximally around 5 days 6 hours sir." "Alright then gents. Deploy the men, deploy the tanks, deploy the copters, and let's boogie!"