Chapter 8: Invasion and First Contact Part 2
"Today is a good day to die!"
Ta'lash charged toward the advancing borg invaders with Rainbow Dash and Applejack follow him. The former Tactical Drone and now ally charged his borg weapon but before he could use it a pink blur blocked his path and the following mares. The borg drones stopped and shifted their optics to a pink pony in the middle. Pinkie Pie, with a huge grin plastered on her face, looked at Ta'lash.
"Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie! I've never seen you before! Oh! That's must mean you're new!" Then she turned around to see the rest of the borg drones. "And you, you, you, you and..."
While she was counting the borg with her hoof, Ta'lash looked behind him to see the other two mares looking at Pinkie then at Ta'lash. Applejack and Rainbow Dash shrugged but Ta'lash was confused.
"What is she doing? She must get out of here!" Ta'lash was a little concerned for the pink pony's safety but Rainbow Dash and Applejack were not.
"Well, she's just being Pinkie."
Rainbow Dash's answer confused the former captain even more. Then something poked his head. He shifted his view only to see Pinkie Pie very close to his face, startling him a little. She still had that huge grin in her face but she have something on her head – a blue party hat. She placed one on Ta'lash's head then with an impossible speed, she gave one to each borg drone.
"Let me be the first pony to welcome you all to Ponyville!" She pull a wagon full of musical instruments and other party things from nowhere. "Let's get ready for a party!" She pull out another thing from nowhere, this time a blue cannon. She fired it and a cake came out of it. The cake impacted a borg tactical drone's plasma arm weapon. The borg pointed its weapon at Pinkie and fired but...
BOOM
...the weapon exploded, destroying other borg drones near the explosion of pure plasma but sparing Ta'lash and company.
"That's was... unexpected but acceptable." said Ta'lash. Before anyone could move, a drone beamed in next to him, only to be destroyed by his arm plasma cannon. The farm mare looked at him with horror and surprise,
"You killed him! It could've be saved just like you!" Applejack yelled, very indignant with his action. Rainbow crossed her arms (or forelegs) glaring at him. Ta'lash sighed, How they can be so naïve?
Before he could explain a borg drone shot at him and the mares. He blocked the plasma balls from impacting the two ponies with his body. He grunted, the feeling of pain was stronger now. Luckily, his carapace reacted and adapted the plasma of the borg drone. He rose up and shot an overcharged plasma ball, the impact making a huge explosion and destroying another borg group. The ambassadors, the princesses and the ponies looked at Ta'lash in surprise. It seemed that he knew how to defend himself with his new body. His new borg body was a weapon.
"I was lucky to be liberated,” Ta'lash said. “Only a very few borg can be liberated and these cannot. There is only one way to help them and that is to kill them all..." He proceed to engage more borg in close combat using his claw, cannon and sharp teeth.
Celestia moaned in pain. She tried to get up but fell. She had used all her power on that borg sphere and had lost a wing for that. Luna tried to keep Celestia calm but she still struggled to get up. Zalune intervened looking at Celestia with disapproval.
"You need rest. You used all your magic and your wing is no more," said Zalune, this time without rhymes. This was not a situation that you needed to rhyme anyway. Relikia examined the burn mark, her eyes widen upon seeing the loss of her wing. She used all her power in a attempt to destroy that thing. It did nothing to it, but a single ray simply defeated her?
"We are overwhelmed by these borg things. Ta'lash is giving them a fight but it is not enough. We need help from Canterlot!" she affirmed to Luna who was holding Celestia in her hooves. She nodded, her horn glowed and paper, quill and ink appeared in front of her. She wrote a message for help to the captain of the Royal Guard but something unexpected happened. A green energy ball destroyed the paper, Luna turned around in fear to see a borg drone standing behind her.
"Princess!"
Rarity used her magic to levitate the borg but it was too heavy. She levitated a few rocks and threw them at the drone. Twilight fired magic bullets at it but after a few impacts a green force shield covered the drone protecting from any other energy damage. The drone moved its arm to capture the princesses. Relikia thought of something and she fired her magic at the same style as Twilight's magic bullets but the drone still had its force shield. Zalune bucked it with all her strength but it did nothing. The borg kicked her aside and proceed with its assault.
"Resistance is-"
SLASH!
Before the drone could finish its sentence a sword with a long orange crystal on the back passed through its face, killing it immediately. The ponies looked for the source of the sword only to see a bipedal with black and red attire, a slender figure and a face resembling that of a feline. pulling the sword out of the drone's body, It was somewhat smaller than Ta'lash, whatever it was and it just saved the princesses. Relikia was confused. How... is this possible?! I can hear any thought while still using mind-magic! But this... I can't hear it at all! The black figure held a strange tool in its arms, a weapon that it fired at the borgs drones. Then it spoke.
"Subcommander C'Rewott to all squads, decloak and engage." Its voice was feminine but somewhat deep and she purred as she talked. The ponies assumed that it was female, but she was also a commander? In a few instants, others appeared in various sites around Ponyville with similar weapons of different shape and size but all having one purpose - to destroy. It was a good thing that these stranger bipeds were helping them! They took down any borg in sight but more beamed in. Ta'lash looked at the newcomers, recognizing them in an instant.
"Remans... with a few Starfleet and romulans... I feel bad for the borg now." he said softly as he resumed his killing spree. Rainbow Dash and Applejack were helping him, Rainbow hitting borg in their torso and heads while Applejack was using the same method she used to take down Ta'lash at the beginning, hitting them down in their knees and apple'bucked them in their faces. She frowned at the idea of kill them, that make her sick, so she kicked them with less strength in order to take them out without killing them.
The remans attacked the borg with both their weapons and their telekinetic abilities, The lunar princess and the changeling ambassador were impressed by their abilities and they weren't even using magic! Twilight, Rarity and Fluttershy looked at the borg groups, they were retreating as the new bipeds maintained their hold and punched them back. Two of them were approaching to the group of mares and the princesses only to be stopped by a very defensive Rainbow.
"Hey, don't move anymore or I will-" She was stopped by Applejack who was pulling on her tail, again.
"Rainbow! Stop now!"
"Hay no! They can't be any good! Look! They defeated these borg guys like nothing!"
"They are allies."
They looked at Ta'lash who was approaching the two individuals. He recognized them as a caitian commander and a female romulan Battle Medic. They didn't look very pleased but they were the only familiar faces he saw now. Their captain must be allied with the Federation...
"I am Captain Ta'lash of the Klingon Defense Force, Commander...?"
"C'Rewott... Subcommander of the R.R.W. Jolan Tru. We thought you were killed by the undine but this explain everything..." The female feline inspected the assimilated form of the gorn, shifted her gaze to the ponies then to the princesses that were looking at them with curious eyes.
"I need you to scan their bodies for borg nanites,” she said to the medic. “We need to avoid more assimilated ponies."
More assimilated ponies!? the mares thought simultaneously as they continued looking on them. The romulan nodded and started to 'scan' their bodies with a tool in her hands. She knelt down next to Applejack, pointing her tool at the orange farmpony. She did nothing but wait, then she rose up and pointed her tool at Rainbow Dash who looked a little distrustful of her. A few seconds later the medic looked at her tool's screen which was showing nothing.
"These two are all right. No nanites in their bodies," she affirmed. She then proceeded to do the same with each pony. Twilight and Rarity were more cooperative. Zalune and Relikia were suspicious of such an act but they did not complain. When she reached the princesses, Luna was more concerned for her sister than herself but she let her 'scan' them. A red light blinked on the tool of the female creature and she looked with horror at the screen of the tool.
"Subcommander, my tricorder doesn't pick up nanites in their bodies but the white one has a high quantity of plasma radiation in her body. Her internal organs are starting to shut down."
The mares gasped in horror. Luna was on the verge of a breakdown but before she could cry, she looked at the alien saviors with tears in her eyes while holding her sister who was crying for the unbearable pain in her body.
"She can be saved? Please tell me if she can be saved! Please!"
The ponies could not believe what she was doing, the princess of the night, begging for the life of her sister? The alien female looked at the 'tricorder' then at Celestia and smiled.
"We can save her, but we need to get her to our ship." The romulan looked to the caitian commander with a thoughtful look. She nodded and pressed a small icon on her chest.
"C'Rewottto to Jolan Tru. We have a situation..."
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Unknown location, R.R.W. Jolan Tru.
"... a white pony who looks to be the leader of the equestrians seems to be in critical condition from plasma radiation in the process of shutting down her internal organs. Requesting to beam her to Sickbay."
Hearing the commander who was his first officer Shenek, Reman captain of the R.R.W. Jolan Tru, had a tough decision to make. There was a full out war up in orbit. The borg maintained a strong position in space. He looked at the list sent by Obisek of each captain along with each of their ship's settings. The ships had good configurations plus one more vessel going up there would not make much of a difference. His original mission had been to protect these equines or 'ponies' as they call to themselves. Their leader was dying and beaming her up to the ship to have his medic to cure her might open up good relations for the rest of the captains.
It's not like like we have no more options. My mission is to protect them, but is this really necessary? If she dies, the borg have only one alicorn with that power to assimilate... but we are at a disadvantage there, meaning that we can't protect them openly if they react negatively to my option. Time was running out fast for Shenek. He sighed and opened a channel to his commander.
"Jolan Tru to C'Rewott. Give her a transporter beacon, we will treat her." He closed the channel and sat down, rubbing his forehead and sighing heavily. He looked at the main screen, having a very good sight of the borg sphere over the town. His ship was not far away. In a few minute he could get there and bring the sphere back into orbit, but at great cost to the ship's energy while doing so, meaning that the borg sphere could attack while the shields were weak.
I really don't have option, do I?
"Helm, get us near to the borg vessel. We'll bring it back to space."
There was an 'understood, captain' as the ship began to move towards the sphere.
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Canterlot, Palace, Embassy balcony
"I can't believe that it's happening!"
Razorclaw was astonished. His childhood prophecy is just floating over Ponyville. The black sphere that was destroying everything was right there firing its death ray over the town and beyond. Darkwing was next to him looking at the black sphere...
"I thought that was a-"
The drake was interrupted by the very excited and fearful gryphon flying around in panic. He found this a very funny and annoying sight at the same time. He went to his side of the table with a very hot tea heated by his own flames. He sipped a little and appreciated the delicious flavor of the tea. Then he look at Razorclaw, this time in annoyance.
"Hey! You need calm down. The princesses and two ambassadors are there. I also heard that the bearers of the Elements of Harmony live there."
This was not enough to calm him down but Razorclaw landed next to the dragon warrior-ambassador with a few tears running down his face. What was he so frightened of? It wasn't like the world might end just from a sphere. He sighed as he heard buzzing sounds all over the place. He gently left the tea on the table and went back to the balcony.
"Shhh! Can you hear that?" Razorclaw stopped for a moment then he heard the buzzing sound. The sound was getting weaker and weaker but was still there. Curious, he went to the balcony following the sound. The sound calmed him greatly, almost returning Razorclaw to his normal and hardened self. He looked at the dragon ambassador, embarrassed and ashamed. The dragon to resist laughing but failed.
"HAHAHA! I can't believe that you just freaked out over a stupid sphere! HAHAHA!"
"Shut up. We will not talk about this again."
He tried to sound as predatory as possible but the laughs of the dragon overwhelmed him greatly. In just a few seconds he calmed down and looked again at the town then to the sphere. He looked at the streets of Canterlot. The few ponies that had towers with balconies or windows could get a good view of the sphere. Pegasi could fly high to get a better view of the sphere floating over Ponyville and members of the press took their chances to take photos of the event.
"Maybe we should... alert the guards?" suggested the gryphon,
Darkwing thought for a moment. Suddenly the doors burst open revealing Shining Armor, a look of concerned on his face as he looked for Princess Celestia but there was only the two ambassadors looking together in the same direction. At him.
"Where is the Princess!?" he asked, very preoccupied.
The drake spoke. "She, along with Zalune, Relikia and her sister, Princess Luna, are in Ponyville right now." the ambassador said with a matter-of-fact voice.
Shining Armor looked beyond and behind them. The sphere was still shooting in Ponyville. He galloped to the barracks to alert the guards. The ambassadors traded looks, then they shifted back to the town and the sphere.
"Well, it's done, they're alerted now..." Darkwing said.
As they looked at the sphere, something appeared in front of it. It was big. Green with black lines, it barely looked like a metal bird floating over the town. It was roughly the size of the sphere, possibly bigger. Its wings spread down and the ends of each wing had green pods glowing with intensity. It was a rare sight...
"What is THAT?!" both ambassadors said in the same time.
"Is that... a bird? said the dragon.
"No, but it look like it.... is also made of metal!" Razorclaw had the advantage, his eagle eyes able to see farther than normal eyes. Dragons did not possess such biological features. Darkwing cared little of it.
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Ponyville, Near the library.
"What is THAT?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, pointing her hoof at the new vessel that had just appeared in front of the borg vessel. It looked HUGE, green and barely had the shape of a bird with those wide wings spread. She looked at the feline commander with fury in her eyes. More aliens were appearing!
"Explain, WHAT IS THAT!?" Applejack again pulled her back. She did not look very concerned with her friend's reaction. It was pretty obvious that the ship was there to help them but Rainbow? Always suspicious about everything. The caitian growled predatory in front of Rainbow then show her sharped teeth. This startled her and she yelped in surprise and landed abruptly. The caitian returned to her neutral gaze and looked to the romulan medic who was looking at her commander with disapproval. The caitian awkwardly smirked and nodded.
"Give her the transporter beacon. Our captain's approved."
The romulan opened her breast pocket. Taking one tiny circular devices from it she placed it in Celestia's necklace before she gave the confirmation. Luna intervened.
"I want to go too! I cannot leave her!"
"Me too!" Twilight also affirmed, looking at Celestia's weak form.
Luna, who was looking at Twilight with a 'I don't think so' face said "No, Twilight Sparkle, you belong here with your friends-"
"She is my princess! My teacher... my second mother..."
Twilight's eyes shone with tears. Seeing Celestia like that was killing her on the inside. She glared at Luna while holding back tears of sadness.
"There is no time! Get together, we have only a few seconds before you three beam up!"
The sudden outburst of the medical romulan startled the ponies. Twilight hurried up and hugged her teacher. Luna did the same before a green light engulfed them together and they vanished in front of the small crowd of ponies that were leaving their hiding places.
The rest of the Mane Six and the ambassadors looked at the place where the injured princess, her sister and her friend used to be before vanishing, hoping that everything would be all right for the three of then.
Rarity was the first to speak to the caitian commander.
"They will be all right? Can we trust you?" She was concerned for the hearth of their rulers and friend. The caitian smiled warmly to her before answering.
"You can trust us. This kind of radiation sickness is common while fighting plasma armed enemies." She pointed to the new ship. "That ship came to help you. We'll eliminate that sphere that is causing all of this." More ponies started to come out of their shelters and refuges, examining their alien saviors with curiosity and fear.
"Commander? I think that it's secure. I don't pick up any more borg signature on my... Hold on! Ma'am! More drones incoming!" a reman female said before everypony ran back to their havens in fear as new borg drones beamed in. The commander activated her combadge, alerting all the battle groups in the town.
This is an interesting day... thought C'Rewott before launching herself with Tal'lash into battle.
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Equis' Orbit, U.S.S. Carlin, Bridge
"Captain there are borg probes to our left. They are fire on us!"
"Then shoot them back with cannons volley!"
The battle in space is heated by dozens of starship clashing with the borg blockade. The Malditus, Wraithguard, Chakastra and Salvation took the initiative to go first and handle the cubes while the rest of the fleet engage the smaller vessels. They were very tough ships and with the help of the Inquisitor and Shangri-La supporting them with work bees and hazard emitters were striking down the smaller vessels of the borg fleet while the Peacekeeper and half of the romulan fleet attack from behind.
"Captain more borg vessels on our tail!" the first officer alerted.
More borg vessels composed of spheres and probes were attacking the Carlin from behind while being pursued. Dostya looked at these vessels on the main screen while she walked toward the tactical of ficer.
"Launch torpedoes, full spread!"
The tactical officer did so, the ship firing several photon torpedoes toward the leading borg vessels. These torpedoes impacted and with a chain reaction other borg spheres and probes were destroyed but not enough as more borg vessels approached them.
"Captain, more borg spheres on our tail. Crew reporting that they are charging more torpedoes. We are finished!"
Dostya looked with horror at the main screen as more borg vessels attacked the Carlin from behind. Their torpedoes were not enough? The Carlin's turrets might do something but not against an advancing group.
"No time! All hands, eva-"
Something happened. Various borg vessels behind the Carlin were destroyed by disruptor, anti-proton beams and cannons. Venus' ship, the War-Mistress and various klingon birds-of-prey continued their havoc not noticing that they had just saved a Federation vessel. The Infinity flew over the Carlin with various Peregrines and Stalkers from the Shangri-La.
"Dostya, Svensei here.” said the voice of Captain Svensei from the communicator in the captain's chair. “Ge'dan's has reported a warbird on the surface along with a borg sphere. She requested you to support that warbird and bring that borg vessel back into orbit."
Dostya opened a private communications channel. "Dostya here. I understand but my ship is not capable of maintaining atmospheric operations. None of the ships of our fleet are capable of doing that!"
"That's true, but yours or part of yours is able to do ground operations. Use the multi-vector and send Vector Alpha to support the warbird and bring the borg back to orbit!" Svensei closed the channel and his ship separated from the pseudo-formation with the Carlin. Dostya looked to her chief engineer, waiting for a proper response.
"Ma'am, it's true. The Vector Alpha is capable to hold gravitational pressure on the surface making it capable to fly freely in atmosphere," her chief engineer affirmed, entering codes into the console, ready to activate the multi-vector function. "At your order, Ma'am!"
"Yes but using it risks losing parts of the Carlin one by one. We need support first!" She was about to deny that request but then she noticed a warbird, a Valdore-class with Scorpions, Peregrines and To'Duj escorting it, flying in formation near the Carlin while hitting hard various probes and spheres.
"Open a channel to that warbird." Her officer obeyed, the main screen showing a romulan male, young by romulan, vulcan and reman standards. He wore the typical Republic outfit by the look of it and was a tactical captain.
"Commander Keidak here of the R.R.W. Vastara to the U.S.S. Carlin. How might I help you?"
"Captain Dostya here. I require support to protect the Vector Alpha of the Carlin while descending to the surface of the planet. Various borg vessels can destroy it easily."
"All right, we will escorting you."
The channel and main screen shut down and again reveal the battle. Dostya ordered the activation of the multi-vector. The engineering officer pressed the button to trigger the separation mode.
"Mode Separation in ten seconds. Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Separation sequence in progress."
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Skies of Ponyville, R.R.W. Jolan Tru, Sickbay.
"Wow..."
Twilight was amazed. Being in a space ship full of aliens is not something that happened every day but she wasn't here for knowledge, she was here to be alongside her teacher and princess. She and the princess of the night, Luna, were in a some kind of infirmary with four beds, three in three equally tiny rooms and one in the center of the 'sickbay'.
"Will she be okay?" Luna asked with worry in her voice. Celestia was in a horizontal capsule, the medical machinery were suctioning the plasma sickness from her body while a vulcan medic observed her in detail. The monitor of the main computer of the sickbay showed the percentage of plasma radiation in Celestia's body. She looked at the princess of the night.
"She will be okay. Normally, radiation sickness doesn't work in that way unless the subject's body is completely weakened internally. However, with the missing wing it was logical that most of the plasma radtiation entered her through that open wound." The vulcan proceeded, pressing more buttons to open a holographic window. The window said 'Purified' in Romulan. The capsule opened revealing a sleeping Celestia, her breathing long and calm. Twilight and Luna sighed in relief. The vulcan woman walked past the ponies and tried to carry her.
"W-what are you doing?" asked Luna.
"Carrying her to the bed, of course."
"I don't think that it's wise to carry an alicorn. Their body and mass are more dense and heavy than a standard pony so-" Twilight's lecture was cut short when she and Luna saw the impossible. The vulcan medic carrying Celestia like she were nothing with both her arms.
"Hmmm, she's light. I don't see why not. It is not logical." She walked with Celestia in her arms toward one of the beds of the sickbay, the amazed ponies following her. The medic left Celestia on the orange bed as she faced the duo.
"She is stable and her internal organs are in their normal status. She might wake up in few minutes. She can walk or trot normally but there is nothing we can do with that missing wing."
Twilight inspected her sleeping frame. She had a scar instead of her right wing, Luna walked next to her while looking at her peaceful sleeping sister. The vulcan went to her office to receive a communication from the bridge.
"Hmm, where I am?”
The voice of Celestia startled the duo as she wake up from her short slumber. She was surprised by the hug from her sister and student, screaming her name with happiness and tears of joy. She hugged them back while inspecting her surroundings, confused and curious.
"Luna, Twilight, how? ... Where we are we?" she asked. She felt weak yet good, refreshed but she couldn't feel her right wing. She inspected her back only to gasp in horror, looking at the big scar where her wing use to be. Then all the memories of the event returned to her head. She looked at Twilight and Luna.
"Where we are? Why are you here too? Most importantly, what happened to Ponyville and the aliens!?" she asked fast and worried. Before either of the two ponies could answer the vulcan walked in and answered her for them
"You're in a Ha'feh Advanced Warbird, the R.R.W Jolan Tru. In order to save you from a slow death we brought you here. Your sister and student wanted to come too. Ponyville and its inhabitants are protected by our trained away teams from the advancing borg drones."
Celestia sighed in relief but was not really calmed. She got up off her bed and inspected the vulcan medic. She wore a black and blue uniform. Her voice and face looked familiar, having an emotionless expression in her face.
"Thanks for telling me Ms...?
"Te'lan... Medical Officer Te'lan."
The name of the vulcan resonated in her head, remembering her short and yet horrible dream about an 'assimilated' Luna. Her eyes widened like plates at the grand revelation. She... she is from my vision!
"Is something the matter?" asked Te'lan, maintaining her emotionless face.
"N-no, nothing!" she lied.
"Good, we need to get you back to the town. There is a small misunderstanding between your military and our away teams."
The ponies were confused but rapidly understood. The Royal Guard might be in Ponyville harassing the alien away teams. If that was the case Celestia needed to depart immediately. Shining Armor was too prideful and very into his rank as captain to listen to the Elements and/or ambassadors and citizens. Celestia and Luna nodded and they walked out the sickbay, following Te'lan.
The small trek to the transporters was uneventful. The rulers and Element got a very good look at the interior of the warbird. The corridors were somewhat dark with green lights weakly illuminating the place. Most of the crew members ignored them while others watched them with curiosity. Some corridors had windows with view inside of others rooms. One in particular that caught the attention of Twilight was a room that had a small garden inside, probably to study the plants. As they reached a door it open automatically. This room it revealed was small and circular. What is the purpose of such small and empty room? thought Twilight.
"What's wrong?" asked Te'lan looking back at the ponies behind her.
"What is this room? It is small and empty," said Luna, curious yet grateful for the aliens that saved her sister but yet unsure about most of their intentions.
"This is a turbolift. It provides transportation to designated areas in a starship. We will go to Engineering for the transporter room and get you back down." The princesses looked each other then walked in, the doors shutting waiting for a command.
"Engineering," said the vulcan and the turbolift began to move. This startled the ponies slightly as the intelligent elevator moved one direction or another then stopped. The doors opened revealing another corridor, Te'lan and company resumed their small journey until they reached the transporter room.
"Whoa..." said Twilight. The transporter room was huge with two platforms with yellowish floors. There was a female reman, concerned as officers and crew beamed in injured or beaten. Then she noticed the medic vulcan standing there with her guests.
"Te'lan! Finally you're here with the pony leaders!" exclaimed the reman. The ponies took a good look at her. Her face was flat, eyes smaller like the rest of the aliens but bald and almost flat nosed. She looked worried.
"Can you tell me what is happening?" asked the vulcan medic.
"Since the time we got them here, everything has been messy down there. More borg drones began to strike but we deployed a dampening field to prevent more of them. But now there is another problem, look!"
The big screen at the center of the transporter room showed Ponyville from the sky. It zoomed in more to show only the library area. There was a purple dome, a shield not created by Shining Armor but by the remans of the away teams being surrounded by ponies of the Royal Guard led by Cadence and Shining Armor themselves.
"Shiny!"
"We need to get down there immediately!" exclaimed Luna.
"Agree, but how? There is nothing here," Celestia pointed out, inspecting the entire room then shifting her gaze to the vulcan and reman.
"This is the transporter room, get on the platform and the transporter officer will beam you off the ship and back to the town."
The princesses and unicorn nodded and went to one of the transporter pads. Before beaming out, they stared at Te'lan who was about to leave.
"You're no coming with us?" asked Twilight. This stopped the vulcan who turned around to see them before transport.
"No, my job is to provide medical assistance to the crew aboard the warbird. While I have combat training, the away teams have battle-medics and other medical officers. It would be illogical for me to leave the ship and provide medical support to groups that already have medics. Farewell ponies, live long and prosper."
The same green light as before engulfed the ponies and they vanished, transporting back to the town.
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Ponyville, inside the Library, a few minutes before
Shining Armor and Cadence arrived in Ponyville with a battalion of the Royal Guard. The first thing they did when they got there was to engage the aliens. Many of them did not express opposition. A few with black clothing or uniforms used some kind of magic to push Guard away but not killing them. Shining grew tired of this and used his magic to fire magic bullets, injuring a few aliens but green lights engulfed their bodies and they disappeared. The Guard easily captured one alien, a reptilian who was incredibly tired but had put up some resistance.
The rest of the aliens regrouped and formed some kind of purple force shield. His Guard surround it while some earth pony Guards tried to penetrate it. Some citizens left their refuges only to see the Guard harassing their saviors, many of them booing them when they were expecting cheers instead.
"Leave them alone!"
"They saved us, unlike you Guards!"
"They're saving the princess!"
But the Guards paid no heed and followed their orders. Shining Armor created a magic shield around the library, closing himself and a trapped Ta'lash in a chair off and began a dangerous interrogation. Cadence was talking with the rest of the Mane Six and the ambassadors. she was concerned but glad that everypony was okay.
"Where are the princesses, alien monster?!" shouted Shining Armor. After hearing the news that aliens has been invading Ponyville he was pretty sure that the princesses might been in trouble. He didn't expect less resistance but this alien in particular was more defiant and aggressive, saying nothing but something about 'petaQ'. The Guards talked with the locals about the aliens. Only Applejack and Rarity knew much about the gorn. They had tried to warn him about the reptilian, telling him to avoid an interrogation but he didn't listen.
"You have no right to question me, petaQ'!"
Shining Armor hit him right in the face. He had heard the same sentence again and again. From Rarity he had heard that the princesses were in the space ship with 'wings' getting healed but he didn't listen. He thought that is what the aliens wanted them to hear.
"What are your intentions here, alien?!"
This question was easier but the answer Shining Armor received was not really clear to him. Ta'lash said his intentions before being assimilated were to investigate then return back to base. He had done so he said but in the end he was assimilated by the queen. Yet again the unicorn stallion seems not to believe him. He huffed and conjured a forbidden torture spell. A magical collar appeared around Ta'lash throat and tightened.
He coughed. "Now you will tell me the truth if you value your life." Shining Armor smirked, hoping that the alien might tell everything. That hope was crushed when he saw the gorn borg begin chuckling, a chuckle tha t turned into a full out laughter. “He is laughing at his oncoming death?” he thought, looking dumbfounded at the laughing gorn.
"You think that I'll be intimidated by you? This is nothing compared to the interrogation and tortures of the Cardassians, Orions, Letheans and the Tal'Shiar! Do your worst if you can!" said Ta'lash with a smug grin. This indeed was nothing for him.
"You're a monster... even in your final hours, you laugh in the face of death like a joke?"
"What do you expect from a honorable warrior of the Klingon Empire? Cowardice? You better think several times about that, because cowards we are not! We face death in battle and every time, we laugh at it! When our enemies fall, we celebrate our deeds! When our battle brothers dies, we honor their death so they can be ascended to Sto-vo-kor, that's the way of the Klingon Empire!"
"Honor?! That's not honor! That's insanity! You and your kind are nothing but mo nsters, barbarians and demons! Your empire holds NO honor!"
"What did you say...?" Ta'lash was growling. He had never felt so insulted! He had never before felt a death wish for a single person or 'equine' in this case. He insulted his kind, his Empire, his... honor... He immediately liberated his claw and in a fast move he trapped the stallion by tightly grabbing his throat and began chocking him. Shining Armor used his magic to active the collar and chock him but instead, to his horror, the collar broke and fell.
Ta'lash liberated himself pretty easily from his bindings since his size, strength and weight were more than that of these puny ponies, plus his borg armor making him more heavy and dangerous. Insulting a Liberated Gorn Borg was perhaps the most foolish thing that Shining Armor had done in his entire life.
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Outside the library
More Guards were attempting to penetrate the purple alien force field, more shouts and yells of disapproval could be heard from the crowd. Commander Dreadnought, in charge of breaking the alien force shield, had attempted everything - bucking, ramming, even ramming while bucking it. The pegasus Guards were having no better luck, doing the same even deep strikes. The Wonderbolts too were doing everything to break the shield but nothing was working.
Cadence wanted a more political approach but his husband Shining Armor preferred direct force instead of talking. She had been talking to the rest of the Elements and ambassadors about this matter, her aunts, Twilight, everything that had happened in almost the last hour.
"So she has gone up there along with Luna and Twilight?" asked Cadence with a hint of fear and concern.
"Yes darling,” said Rarity. “I believe they have no deceitful intentions toward us. I mean, just look." She pointed to the force shield with the aliens inside. "They saved us from these mindless machines and yet they are not attacking us.".
"Ah'm with Rare this time Princess,” Applejack agreed with Rarity. “They told the truth. Ah' can see if someone tells a lie."
The princess looked at the aliens thoughtfully, then at the winged ship and the sphere.
"I think I will talk to Shining about-"
Before Cadence could finish, bright green light illuminated the entire area. The Guards blocked her, protecting 'probably the last princess of Equestria'. Various Guards surrounded the green lights in the library area waiting for worst things from the invaders however three familiar forms starting to appear in front of them. Their hardened stances started so soften and their faces showed surprised seeing their rulers Princess Celestia and Princess Luna with Twilight Sparkle next to them returned as the green light vanished from their forms.
"I am not used to these 'transporters', Celestia. I'm dizzy," said Luna while covering her mouth with her left hoof like she was about to be sick. Twilight was no better. She was dizzy and green like Luna but that 'transporter' had intrigued her. It used the same level of power as a unicorn's teleportation spell but at a slower pace.
"TWILIGHT!" The voices of her friends straight her up a little as they galloped to greet and hug her like a bear. She almost barfed
"Girls, please. I'm dizzy..." Twilight managed to say before being pulled out from Pinkie's tight hug. She took a deep breath, calming her dizziness, then she began to explain everything that happened inside the ship, nothing really serious. Celestia was once again lively and Luna... let's just say that one of the Guard was already cleaning off his armor.
"Aunty!" Cadence makes her way through the Guards to hug her aunt, relieved that she was healthy. Celestia received the hug and hug her back. She could hear a gasp sound behind her meaning that Cadenc e was now looking at her scar. She pulled back only to see her niece in tears.
"What happened to you?" Her voice was shaky and her tears were already trailing down her face. Celestia started to relate everything that happened to her, except for on the ship since it was Twilight and Luna who had looked out for her while she was unconscious. Her story were heard by everypony close to her. When she finished she looked to the purple shield and the aliens inside it. They were being assaulted by earth ponies and pegasi Guards along the Wonderbolts. She wanted them to stop the assault but she was still weak. She might not be able to reach the levels of the Royal Canterlot Voice, but Luna could. She looked to her sister and told her to make the Guard stop.
"ENOUGH!" said Luna with her Royal Canterlot Voice, stopping the earth ponies and pegasi. They retreated to their pre-assault positions. Celestia nodded to one of the aliens, the caitian commander. She nodded back. The shield dropped and the remans that sustained it fainted. The medical officers began their work on the overworked remans.
"Where is Shining Armor, niece?" Cadence didn't have time to say anything as a explosion of sound coming from the library caught the attention of everypony, especially Twilight who was concerned for her books (she own the library, we know that right?). The shield that surrounded the library cracked and broke, something coming out of the library at high speed and landing in front of the princesses.
"Shiny!" It was in fact Shining Armor but in very bad shape his body covered with bruises, his horn cracked, coughing blood and with an injured eye. This broke the heart of Cadence and Twilight. Shining Armor yelped as he look back at the library with fear. Coming out of the broken shield was a very pissed gorn with a overcharged arm plasma weapon, a very deadly green ball with electricity in it scaring the nearby Guards. Ta'lash was growling, with eyes locked on Shining Armor's.
Getting close, Cadence intervened along with Twilight, eyes narrowed and charging magic to defend him but Ta'lash stopped. He looked at Shining Armor then pointed his overcharged weapon at him ready to fire.
"Stop! What are you doing?! Please leave him alone!" plead Cadence, hoping that Ta'lash might find reason but it was in vain as the weapon glowed with more intensity.
"Stop? He insulted me, insulted my kin and insulted MY AND MY PEOPLES HONOR!"
"He was doing his job! Please, I beg you!" Cadence pleaded tearfully.
"Job?! Job insulting a gorn captain's honor?!" Ta'lash was completely pissed. Celestia wanted to intervene but her weak status prevented it. Luna just froze there like she didn't want to participate, looking at the deadly green orb in the gorn's weapon.
Great, now she has fear?! thought Celestia.
However something more happened. The aliens surrounded Ta'lash, pointing their own weapons at him. The gorn noticed this and retracted his weapon, the deadly orb slowly vanishing, still staring at Shining Armor with the same deadly glare.
"I'll be watching you, spineless worm!"
In a instant, he raised his weapon again, the plasma ball again overcharged. He fired his arm weapon at the borg sphere. Going at high speed it looked similar to a tiny plasma torpedo.
BOOM!
In an explosion of green lightning, the plasma ball impacted on the borg sphere. The green smoke disappeared immediately. Royal Guard, the princesses and probably the whole town went into a state of shock with jaws on the ground. The borg sphere had a tiny hole in the hull. While small, it was something that not even the princess of the sun could do. They all stared at Ta'lash who was sighing in relief.
"I needed that. Too much energy inside is dangerous."
"Interesting, you practically reached the parameters of a normal plasma torpedo," said one of the aliens, a reman science officer. A human engineer nodded in agreement.
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R.R.W Jolan Tru
"We have already waited enough! Engineering, activate the Tractor Beams Repulsors on my mark!"
The Jolan Tru began to move lower as it's presense whiped up wind from from it's movements as it positioned it's self on a lower plane then the Sphere.
"We are in position now sir!"
"Good! Tractor Beam Repulsors now!"
The Jolan Tru activated her tractor beam repulsors into the Sphere attempting to push the sphere up and away from the ground, but it wasn't enough as the sphere fired its plasma beams at the romulan Warbird. "Emergency power from weapons to auxiliary!" Commander Shenek ordered.
The sphere locked its gravity anchors which allowed it to remain in place despite the tearing and sheering of some of the hull. The borg inside the sphere began to formulate a way to disable the tractor beam when they came under attack from above.
"Sir, I'm picking up more ships incoming! Their weapons are locked on the sphere!" alerted one officer.
Two klingon Birds of Prey rained fire from their disruptor cannons down on the sphere, both of them escorting a Prometheus saucer section. The saucer fired her anti-proton cannons as the Jolan Tru opened fire, targeting the accessible gravity anchors. The explosions caused the sphere to shudder and rock.
The two birds of prey swung around unleashing a torrent of additional fire. The green energy bolts destroyed the last gravity anchor as the saucer section locked it's own tractor beam on the sphere pulling it as the Jolan Tru began to push the sphere up into the sky.
The two Birds of Prey approached locking their own tractor beams on the sphere and began to over power the sphere, pulling it up away from the ground back into the sky.
The sight was not lost on the ponies or Ta'lash. For the ponies it was as if three mighty birds had swooped down to attack an invader. Clawing, breathing fire and dragging the invader away from it's home or nest.
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Ponyville
The entire town went silence for a few seconds then everypony started to cheer and celebrate, thinking that their nightmare has ended but the away teams did not. Instead, the commander's tricoder detected a larger group of borg activity outside the town, starting to move towards the town's outskirt. This caught the attention of various ponies in particular who followed them.
"What's going on? The borg are gone!" say Rainbow Dash, confused.
"Not yet! There is a large group of borg activity outside the town!" affirmed one officer of the away team.
When they reached the outskirt of the town, the away teams and various ponies were staring into an army of borg drones outside the town, marching slowly toward them. The Royal Guard behind them stared at the incoming army of drones slowly marching with their arm weapons raised forward. The Main Six and the princesses stared in disbelief.
"I thought that this nightmare ended with the borg sphere going back into space!" whined Rarity. She could not believe what they were staring at. Even for the alien away teams this was truly unexpected. The caitian thought for a moment only to realize something. The turmoil and misunderstanding in the town was a distraction for the borg sphere to beam almost every borg to another place, unnoticed.
"The borg sphere must have used our little misunderstanding to beam every single borg out of the sphere, the Jolan Tru took an empty vessel!"
The oncoming horde was huge. The away teams were nothing compared to them but they waited with their weapons ready and locked onto the borg.
"You are all are planning to go out there? That's suicide!" said one the ponies of the Royal Guard.
"Yes. It is our duty no matter the odds," said one reman.
"Guards! Defensive position-" the princess of the sun began to say.
"NO! You can't send your own into this! Our mission is protect your kind from them! If you let any one of you in our battles, you're letting them win!" said C'Rewott, interrupting Celestia. All the ponies stared at her, even the Guard.
"Why? It's our home! We are no letting invaders take what is ours!" one of the Guard exclaimed. Some nodded in agreement while others just stared at the aliens with disapproval. Celestia and Luna however thought on this. They nodded to the aliens gaining shocked looks from the ponies.
"You're right, the borg want us. We are their actual objective, but we can't let ourselves be helpless in the face of our doom."
The Guard started an argument within themselves with this statement from the princess of the sun. The Mane Six stared at the aliens, then at the princesses. Twilight noticed something in the sky. Various dots approaching.. rapidly.
"Look!" say Twilight. Everypony went silent and looked where Twilight was pointing. The dots, no, strange metal birds were approaching with great speed. Some looked robust, silver in color with triangular shaped wings with bright horizontal pylons on them. Some were completely the opposite, slim with thin wings. Others didn't have wings at all and possessed a dark color with some teal details. The away teams recognized these vehicles: Peregrine, To'Duj and Scorpion fighters coming fast in group. They launched microphoton and plasma torpedoes at the borg drones.
BOOM!
The impact of the torpedoes caused devastating blows, disintegrating drones caught in the explosion. The away teams cheered, even the ponies cheered. The borg horde stopped and started to shoot at the fighters. With the borg distracted, the away teams moved in, engaging the horde while they lost focus.
With blast assaults, pulsewaves, rifles and miniguns the rampage began. Some drones regained focus on their ground attackers. Fortunately, the drones were slow but their adapting nature made the groups constantly remodulate their weapons. More and more drones regained their attention of the reman (and Starfleet) groups. The borg attempted to surround them but the fighters wouldn't let them, firing their cannons into them. The raw firepower of the fighters was too much for the borg to adapt to, making the job for the away teams a little easier but it wasn't enough.
"Ma'am! They are too many! We need to withdraw!" a tactical officer yelled to his commander.
"Negative! Keep firing!"
"But Ma'am!"
They continue firing and remodulating. The horde was too much and they resumed their advance toward the town but the intervention of two Scorpion fighters with plasma cannons stopped them. To the away teams down there it was a hell of fight. Explosions that could leave Michael Bay in shame were too much to bear for the borg drones...
... but that wasn't enough to stop them.
The ponies witnessed the aliens fighting a battle along with those things flying around that seemed to support them. But the forces of the borg were too big. The Guard wanted to go there and fight too but they had been ordered to hold their position and observe. The Mane Six wanted to help too but Celestia made her orders clear...
"Princess, they can't win! Let us go and help them!" Applejack stared at them, uneasy. She wanted to go out there and help them, Rainbow too.
"No! Commander Dreadnought! Tell the citizen to evacuate Ponyville, immediately!" she declared.
Celestia gained a chorus of 'WHAT?!'s. Behind her, the Mane Six were not expecting to hear an evacuation order from their ruler.
"You can't tell us to leave the town! This is our home!" Rainbow Dash complained.
"Yeah! Mah granny founded Ponyville!"
"Many of us have lived here since we were just foals! Please Princess!" Rarity whined.
"I'm sorry but I can't let-"
Before Celestia could continue red, green and blue light illuminated the area around the ponies and the whole town. More newcomers has arrived! The Guard entered defensive stances as more aliens materialized in front of them. Some with shoulder armor looked at the ponies and the battle in front of them.
One smirked, raising some sort of sword in his arms, shouting "Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!" in his native language, confusing the ponies. He charged forward into the battle along with those that were dressed like him. Some were yellow color and others... were gorn!
The Klingon Empire...? thought Celestia before looking at the other new aliens: Starfleet officers, romulans and remans, the lot of them charging and firing their weapons into the horde of drones.
"Ma'am, reinforcements have arrived!"
The caitian commander stopped and looked back to the point she had left. Klingons, Starfleeters and Romulan Republicans had started shooting the borg drones. The battle has shifted significantly. The battle continued with naussican Raiders and Marines delivering explosive disruptor fire, gorn Marines and Ra'wiq raging with ferocity, klingons doing what they almost always do in battle, fighting with valor, raw anger and honor with their bat'leth swinging, the blades meeting the assimilated flesh.
The romulans and remans were different from her units. The remans were straight from the Shadow Guard, veterans of the Dominion war like the captain and the reman resistance over the years against the oppressive Romulan Star Empire and now the Tal'shiar. The romulans were the elite, veterans of the Elachi-Romulan conflicts and hunters of Tal'shiar. Their uniform jacket had black as their main color with their career colors as secondary.
She is here? C'Rewott thought, thinking of Captain Shenek, until she looked at the Starfleet officers. They were mostly composed of specialized and elite officers, some of them with full M.A.C.O. and OMEGA equipment. They didn't need manual remodulation, their weapons remodulated with each shot. With these commandos in this operation, the borg on the ground were fucked.
With their number significantly reduced by the reinforcements and the constant aerial bombardment, the borg fled toward the nearby forest but they became trapped by a force shield of an alicorn and a changeling flying above them. The allied forces surrounded them and with the firepower of their weapons, they eliminated the rest.
With the job done the klingons cheered, raising their weapons in the air, shouting 'Qapla'!' (Success!) aloud. The Romulan Republicans and Starfleeters beamed out without celebration. The klingons were the last to beam out.
Relikia and Luna returned to Celestia and the ponies who were witnessing the outcome of the battle. That the entire horde of borg drones were dead and their saviors, who had appeared to save them had disappeared when the battle ended disturbingly surprised them all. Only the away team composed of the first aliens that had saved them in Ponyville had returned and was here with them.
"Disturbing... but necessary. They saved us all..." Relikia was the first pony (or changeling) to speak.
"While I loathe any kind of violence, I agree. Commander Dreadnought, belay the original order of evacuation and tell the Guard to return to Canterlot. Your presence is no longer necessary. But have them remain on guard."
The commander was about to start an argument but nothing came from his mouth. He closed it and bowed to his princess.
"Yes, your highness."
The Guard started to leave, leaving the princesses and the remaining ponies alone waiting for the first aliens that had come to their aid. When they came some beamed out, leaving only the feline commander and two reman escorts. A the Feline Subcommander approached the princesses, up in the sky was a large flash of green light, moment later a secondary flash erupted as a green ring spread out. from the source of the flash. A few moments later a second flash followed by a second ring, and then a third set.
As the light rings filled the sky and illuminated the ground, The Princesses swallowed hard as Luna asked, "What was that?"
Over the com of the Feline commander a voice spoke, "Subcommander C'Rewott, This is Commander Shenek, The Borg Cubes have been destroyed, the remaining Borg Fleet is withdrawing. I will be down shortly."
"Our job is done Pony Leader, or Princess Celestia should I say, am I correct?" Celestia nodded, confused. How she know her name? She never presented herself to her, only to Ta'lash who had disappeared along with the rest of the klingons.
"Surprised that I know your name? Captain Shenek of the R.R.W. Jolan Tru will be here shortly so I recommend returning to the library. I should be going now."
"Why?! You should stay for my 'We-are-saved-from-evil-aliens-by-good-aliens-party'!" protested Pinkie.
"Heehee. Sorry, but duty calls. Good bye and be careful!"
Like the rest of the aliens, she vanished while surrounded by green light along with the rest of her team. The princesses and the Mane Six made their way back to the town. Celestia noticed that most of the her ponies, her subjects were looking at her, murmuring and curious while bowing. Then she remembered her lost wing. It must have been quite a shock to see her being defeated. Pegasus photographers of the newspapers took pictures of her. Luna wanted to scare them away but her sister stopped her. She let them take pictures of her and her wound. After all, they would know eventually and she wouldn't fly again. No even with most of her magic could she restore her lost wing. She was pretty much grounded.
The moment they arrived at the library they found Cadence in worry. She said that Shining Armor hadn't severely injured but Ta'lash had beaten him up. After talking with her, Shining Armor had admitted that he had insulted the alien when he began to talk about honor and this had made him to act aggressively. Celestia thought for a moment. Insulting his honor could make a patient captain into a blood lusting beast? If the entire Klingon Empire was like that, then she might prefer not to touch such a delicate topic.
A few minutes passed and green light appeared in front of them. Another alien materialized, a reman male with a harderned face. He wore a tight black body suit with purple accents and a full cape with the Romulan Republic bird and reman 'X' symbol on it.
"Greetings ponies. I am Shenek, captain of the R.R.W. Jolan Tru."
He bowed slightly to make an impression. Celestia wasn't expecting formalities from him. He looked sinister and menacing. Fluttershy hid behind Applejack while Rarity was about to faint from seeing his "horrendous clothing".
"I am Princess Celestia, Co-Ruler of Equestria, Your crew was kind to treat my wounds and my 'sickness' and saved my subjects against these abominations. I am honored to meet the captain of such a valorous crew."
"We were just doing our duty, Princess, nothing more, nothing less. You all have gotten only an slight idea of what the borg can do. They assimilate everything that can be useful to them. If it cannot be assimilated, they will destroy it. You and your ponies are their prime objective. To use you to destroy us all."
"What?" All the ponies in the library asked at same time, confused by what he had said.
"The borg want your 'magic'. For them, it is a tool that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction for us all. If they assimilated you and your ponies all our homes, the galaxy even, would be part of the Collective."
No one dared to speak. The princesses traded looks before talking.
"Yes, we know that actually. We know that thanks to visions at night. Luna cannot enter the Dream Realm for these visions."
"Ahh, visions. You had seen how Luna was assimilated while my officer treats her, and her dream was inside of a borg vessel while the borg began another's assimilation, am I correct?"
The Royal Sisters' eyes become wider than plates, dishes or disks. He knows about our dreams? Before the princesses can object, they are interrupted once again.
"Yes I know about your dreams and visions. It was I who gave you a small idea of what are our enemies are like and what they want. In an attempt to prepare you for what may come to pass. Rest assure we will do all that we can to ensure it does not happen."
For the first time of their immortal lives, they were rendered speechless by the revelation. He...he gave us these visions?! How?!
"I am a reman. My species are telepaths. We are capable of mind reading from long distance and we can send messages to other minds as well."
"You're capable of reading minds?!" asked Relikia, almost yelling. She was shocked and trembling. He may know my secret?!
"Yes, I am." and he said telepathically and your secret is safe with me, Ambassador. Relikia yelped as she heard his voice in her head. She sighed in relief but was not calmed completely. The reman captain turned back to the shocked princesses and smirked.
"I have already talked with the captains in orbit. I stated that I and my crew had already made a first contact with you and your kind. Tomorrow they will come to this little town in shuttlecrafts. To give a less frightening impression, they are willing to talk with you three, princesses." The princesses of the sun and the moon, regained their regal postured but remained unsure. Cadence had also been mentioned and had yelped in surprise.
"So it is settled then. Tomorrow we'll be here to establish diplomatic relations with you... and thank you for saving us." Shenek nodded then bowed. He pressed a few buttos of his bracer and beamed out, leaving the ponies alone in the library. They started to talk about the aliens.
"Do you think that the other aliens are like him?” Luna began the topic. “He seemed kind in a strange way."
Relikia looked at her with an uneasy expression on her face.
"Agreed, but this was completely unexpected from him. He made us see these visions as a warning!" interjected Celestia.
"So? We should be thankful for that. What would have happened if we didn't know anything about them? You could have tried to talk to them only to get killed or be converted in the end." Luna objected.
"You're right... Well, this day was a.. very eventful and stressful one. We should be getting back to Canterlot. Luna? Could you get us there?" she asked. Luna nodded. Cadence and the ambassadors bid their farewells to the element bearers before teleporting back to Canterlot. The ponies, however, continued with the topic on their own, the sun started to set, marking the beginning of the night.
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Unknown place.
"ARGH!"
He was furious. His wounds were fresh but healing thanks to some treatment and hyposprays but he was foolish. He could have lived without injures but now he was about to die thanks to some intervention by traitors of the empire and dreaded blood enemies. He groaned in frustration, his pride wounded as well.
"I should have known that the lapdogs of the brutish klingons were sensitive on that topic," he groaned in pain. His fresh wound was still bleeding but his medical officers were treating him.
"You deserve it! You're nothing but a-"
"SHUT UP!"
He activated his electric leash, electrocuting his prisoner. The scream of agony and pain were a chorus to his ears. He deactivate it and his medics begin the blood transfusion. His prisoner was weak. Since the day he capture it, he had been constantly torturing him with electric shocks but not killing him. There were day that he did nothing to him, only leaving him in the brig of the ship. The injured figure looked at the screen in the sickbay, smirking at the fleet showing.
"Let's see how these traitors and interlopers handle the old ways..."