Star Wars: Battle for Equestria

by Creative_Spark


Chapter 13

Chapter 13
Visions

Screaming... Twilight Sparkle had never heard such a cacophonous combination of voices screaming, it sounded like ponies were... dying. Twilight found herself in a dark place, filled with smoke, ash falling from the sky. The screams continued, changing pitch, mare and stallion voices alike. Then a voice, began breaking through the screams.

"Twilight... Twilight... TWILIGHT!" the voice called.

Twilight wrenched herself upward swiftly, almost screaming. Rainbow Dash was hovering over her, her Z-6 blaster slung on her back.

"Twilight, how can you sleep at a time like this?!" Rainbow asked.

"What, huh, but I..." Twilight stammered.

"No time for explanations, Twilight. Just get up and be ready." Rainbow said swinging the Z-6 into her hooves.

Twilight wanted to protest, she didn't remember falling asleep, or even feeling tired, but she knew that it wouldn't help anything, "Right, sorry." she said, grabbing her own blaster from beside her, and turned over onto her stomach.

"I can see something coming towards us!" a pony standing in one of the lookout towers said.

A few moments later, Twilight saw it too. A large mass of glistening-white, was heading straight at Ponyville. Twilight pulled out a pair of binoculars, to get a better view. She could now tell that these new visitors wore armor similar to that of the clones, though there were distinct differences.

The commlink on Twilight's forehoof chirped, and she activated it, "This is Commander Maverick, keep your heads down, and hold your fire." the voice said.

Twilight heard Rainbow Dash grumble beside her. She put the binoculars away, and readied herself for the order to fire.

"Steady... steady." Maverick's voice said from the comlink.

The mass of white armored bodies was getting closer, they stopped right at the edge of Ponyville.

"By order of the Galactic Empire, you are to surrender immediately." a voice said from the crowd of white.

"I will not surrender to the Empire, nor will I allow the inhabitants of planet to be subjected to the Empire's tyranny." Kal's voice said from behind Twilight.

Twilight turned her head just in time to see Kal step out from behind a corner, hood over his head, lightsaber in his hand.

"It's a Jedi, BLAST HIM!" one of the armored figures said, pointing at him.

Immediately, red blaster fire streaked over the trench right at Kal, but he had already activated his lightsaber, and was deflecting the shot fired at him.

Commander Maverick's voice came through the comlink, "Fire!" he said.

Rainbow stood up on her hind legs, using her wings for balance, and began shooting, swiveling back and forth at the waist.

"Look out, they all have blasters." Twilight barely heard one of the enemy soldiers say.

Twilight raised her head over the edge of the trench and opened fire, she hit one soldier, then another.

"Another troop transport has entered the atmosphere." One of the clones said over the comlink.

"Berk, take a squad, with some rocket launchers and take that lander down." Maverick said.

"Right away, boss." Berk said in reply.

Twilight kept firing her blaster, one round after another. She wasn't about to lose this fight.

***

Izan Kerner watched the battle progress via the holopod projector on the bridge. He watched the little dots of blue and red dots, that represented the two opposing forces, as they moved. Sometimes a blue light would disappear, but never did he see a red light fade.

"Captain, our forces are requesting additional reinforcements." one of the bridge officers said.

"Very well, launch the second wave." Kerner said, waving his hand in dismissal.

"Captain, the Emperor requests an update on our progress." the comms officer said from the crew pit.

Kerner switched the holopod to receive the Emperor's communication.

A full-body image of the Emperor was displayed in front of Kerner, "My lord." he said, dropping respectfully to one knee.

"You may rise, Captain. What is the progress of your mission?" the Emperor asked.

"My lord, the indigenous lifeforms have engaged our forces, they appear to be very resourceful." Kerner said.

"Interesting, what can you tell me about these creatures?" the Emperor asked.

"Nothing yet sir, our troops are engaged in a battle with them as we speak, all we know is that they are armed and hostile, but, I'm sure we can take the fight out of them." Kerner said.

"You are doing well captain, proceed." the Emperor said, before his form disappeared.

***

"We're beating them, we're actually beating them!", Rose Luck said, then a blaster bolt struck the ground by her hooves, eliciting a yelp from her.

Time seemed to slow, as Twilight fired off each blaster round. She had read about this happening to the soldiers who fought in the wars long ago, but she never expected it to happen to herself, though she was technically a soldier now. Twilight tried to shake off the drowsy feeling, but it wouldn't go away. everything seemed to be moving at half speed. Her head began to ache, and she put one of her hooves to her forehead. Twilight felt feint, she could feel herself fall to the ground then all she could see was black.

***

She heard the screaming again. When Twilight opened her eyes the vision she had previously seen was back, but this time it wasn't just a black nothingness. She saw Ponyville burning, buildings on fire, or crumbled, blackened remains.

"You know that it can't be helped, don't you?" a distorted voice said, startling Twilight out of her thoughts.

Twilight looked all around, but didn't see anypony.

"Show yourself!" Twilight demanded.

The voice chuckled, "Very well." it said.

Twilight couldn't put her hoof on it, but something about the voice seemed familiar.

A dark figure began to form behind one of the walls of fire, parting the flames as it got closer. The being was a pony, it wore a black cloak, hood drawn up to cover it's face. The pony wore thick, grey armor over a black black bodysuit. It's chest armor had deep scars, and looked like it had been burnt, or scorched.

"Admiring my Battle scars?" The pony asked with the same distorted voice.

Twilight narrowed her eyes, "Who are you, what is his place?" she asked.

"You don't need to know who I am, and as for this place, it's what will be left of Equestria after we are finished with it." the pony said.

"We?" Twilight asked confused.

"My masters and I, we shall bring order to the galaxy through the might of the Empire." the pony answered.

"No! You won't succeed!" Twilight yelled angrily.

The pony chuckled again, "Good, your anger gives you strength, use it, strike me down with it." it said.

Twilight charged the pony, but it jumped out the way.

"Excellent, your anger gives you great focus." the pony said.

Twilight growled, teleporting herself close to pony to strike, but as soon as she came close a powerful blast of energy hit her square in the chest, sending her flying back, to hit the remains of a wall. She shouldn't have ruled out the possibility of her adversary being a unicorn, that was a stupid mistake.Twilight got back on her hooves, wiping a foreleg across her mouth, there was a little blood, but was nothing too serious.

"You have spirit, but that won't save you." the pony said, drawing a cylindrical object from behind it's cloak with the aid of magic.

Twilight immediately recognized it as a lightsaber, but this one did not look like a tool as Kal's did. Twilight could see every detail of the lightsaber, and it looked deadly.

A red blade shot out from one end of it, as the pony activated it.

"This hardly seems fair." Twilight said.

"Hmm, maybe you're right, here." the pony said, drawing another lightsaber from under it's cloak, and tossing it to Twilight.

Twilight caught the lightsaber with her magic, but nearly dropped it when she got a good look at it.

The lightsaber was Kal's.