-----------Ark Royal----------
"Attention captain." I awoke to ACCS calling me out of slumber. I groaned and rolled over,trying to block out the computers voice. When she hadn't called me for five minuets I smiled thinking that I had won, when the klaxons began blaring at full volume causing me to jump and fall out of the chair I had fallen asleep in.
"OK i'm up." I shouted as I pulled myself up off of the floor."What is it?" I asked as I dusted myself off, Not that I needed too I just did it for show.
"The Ark Royal is now in a high orbit, just like you requested." I sighed as I shook my head.
"Thanks for informing me ACCS but did you really need to wake me up for that?" I asked as I stood in front of the view screen, staring out at the green and blue planet bringing back flashes of familiarity.
"No sir." ACCS replied pulling me back out of my thoughts. "But the captain of the nanite repair team wishes to speak to you." You looked around puzzled before questioning her.
"I thought that the nanites were microscopic?"
"They are sir" She said as a door near the back of the room opened and a swarm of liquid like robots fell in. I hopped up onto to the chair to avoid getting any of them on me. Suddenly they began to gather and take a form. I watched on in fascination as they took on a human form. When the nanites had stopped they were in the form of what appeared to be a woman in her early twenties, she had shoulder length brown hair and magenta eyes. She was wearing an orange jumpsuit with strong brown boots and white gloves.
"So you the knew captain?" She asked me whilst glaring directly into my eyes, making me feel very very uncomfortable."Hey kid I asked you a question." She said forcefully. I could only nod as she rolled her eyes. "Hey ACCS Is he a mute or something?" Then ACCS replied in a tone I had never heard from her before.
"No he isn't Nancy, but it would probably help if you got out of his face and let him speak." ACCS said with a almost growl like tone in her voice.
"Ok ACCS cool ya' self." She then turned to glare at me again although not as strongly as before. "So captain, as you probably just heard my names Nancy, well it is when us lot are in this form. Any way i'm your chief engineer now due to that old wind bag of a human being incinerated." She stopped speaking to reach into her pocket and pulled out a sheet of paper and handed it to me.
"Whilst ACCS was hauling us over to this planet me and my crew took the liberty to fix the Ark Royal up to 100% efficiency." She said whilst holding a smug look on her face. I stared at the sheet in my hand to see a damage report.
I looked it over to see she was right about the fixed up ship.
"Well done Nancy." I said handing her back the paper.
"No problem cap'." she said as she began to dissolve back into the swarm. "See ya." She said as the swarm melted into the deck and dispersed.
"Is there anything else ACCS?" I asked.
"No captain, you can go back to sleep." She said and the lights lowered leaving the room bathed in the light being reflected from the planets surface. I yawned and lent back in the chair again.
" 'Night ACCS." I said as I fell asleep once again.
---------Canterlot--------
Princess Celestia was sitting on her throne with a smile on her face as she listened to the light red earth pony stallion who stood in front of her. He was asking if it would be possible to get the rights to sell his goods in Canterlot as it was the most likely place to want fresh ingredients because of the nobles fickleness with the freshness and quality of their food.
The stallion had just finished his petition when a letter from her student appeared in a flash of smoke next to her head.
"I'm sorry everypony but I am going to have to cut this session short." As Celestia turned to walk out the room she heard the sadness filled voice of the stallion.
"I understand princess thank you for your time." He turned to walk out of the room until Celestia called him back.
"Red Autumn." she said causing the rusty stallion to turn around.
"Yes princess?" He asked with hope in his dark brown eyes. The Princess smiled.
"You have my permission to sell your family's goods on the main street of Canterlot." the stallion's mouth hung open before he stammered out his words of thanks.
"Thank you so much your highness." He said bowing so low his dusty brown mane brushed the floor.
"It was nothing." Said Celestia with a smile. "Now if you will excuse me I am going to retire to my private chambers."
Red Autumn nodded again still thanking the princess for her generosity.
The princess entered her room greeting the guards with the formality that was expected of her in public.
As soon as her doors were closed she removed her regalia and put it on her bedside table before flopping onto the bed and rolling onto her side. She sighed and closed her eyes, It was a rare occasion that she called off the day court early but when she did she always savored the little bit of free time she had. She was about to doze off when she remembered the letter from her student. She looked at the letter again and saw that it had a purple seal on it. Celestia sat up when she remembered that Twilight only used that color when it was an emrgancy she cracked open the seal to read what could be so important.
Dear Princess Celestia
At around 01:30 this morning me and my friends were watching the meteor shower that you sister had put on when I decided to set up my telescope. Unfortunately I could not get a good view so I used my magic to expand the lens to get a better view when Pinkie mad me jump accidentally putting to much power into the lens.
After that I looked through it when I saw something strange. It appeared to be a ship of some sort being pursued by another, I followed them for about 20 minuets and lost sight of them after they went behind the moon, however I did see a flash of light afterwards.
I continued to search this morning to see if I could catch a sight of either of them but could only find the original one. I watched it approach the planet but stop at a high orbit just over the area between Canterlot and Ponyville.
If you or Luna know anything about this vessel could you please let me know.
Thank you.
Your Princess in arms.
Twilight Sparkle.
Celestia rolled up the scroll and stared out of her window, which over looked Ponyville, and stared up to the sky.
one of the many perks of being an alicorn that Celestia liked was being able to see much further than anypony else.
After half an hour of searching She spotted a grey speck in the sky. She concentrated on it trying to see it even clearer.
When she had achieved this she could see a grey-ish ship like vessel hanging upside down in the sky.
She stopped smiling and began frowning.She turned and galloped out of the room desperate to find her sister. After 10 minuets of running across the massive castle she ran straight into the navy blue alicorn.
"Luna!" Exclaimed Celestia. "I'm so sorry I didn't expect you to be awake."
"It's fine 'Tia." Said Luna shaking her head and pulling herself off of the ground, hissing in pain while she did so.
"It can't be if your in pain after that fall." Luna chuckled and shook her head.
"It's not because of the fall." Said Luna as she directed her sister's eyes to her bandaged torso. Celestia Looked at her sister in worry.
"How did that happen Luna?" asked the older alicorn, worry lacing her voice.
"Well you see when an asteroid hits the moon it gets damaged, therefore my natural affinity with the moon means it scales down the damage to my size. However something big hit it earlier on causing a massive scrape on my side that has yet to heal." She said. Suddenly Celestia's eyes widened as she realized something.
'Wait, two ship go behind the moon only one comes back around and this morning my sister, who gets hurt every time the moon gets damaged is hurt. That's where the other ship is!"
Celestia grabbed Luna in her magical grasp and picked her up before darting back towards her room.
"Tia, where are you taking me?" Shouted the younger alicorn who was struggling in her sister's grasp.
"Too my room." Celestia shouted back. "You have to see something."
Celestia burst into her room, shooting past he guards who didn't even bat an eyelid. She shoved her sister onto the balcony and directed her gaze to the still present starship.
"Can you see that?" she asked he younger sister. Luna shook her head in disbelief.
"What is it?" she asked when she looked at the alabaster mare again. Celestia picked up Twilight's letter and offered it to her sister.
"Read this." She stated simply. Celestia gauged Luna's reaction as she read the letter. when she finished she looked at her sister.
"A starship?" she asked and Celestia replied with a nod.
"what are we going to do?" Luna asked after several long moments of silence.
"Perhaps we should call the UNE together." Luna was silent as she considered her sisters opinion.
"That is probably a good idea." said Luna with a Nod.
"I'll send a letter to the members." Said Celestia pulling out a quill and parchment.
"Goodnight then sister, i'm off to bed." Said Luna as she walked out of the door.
"Ok." Celestia replied, already too busy preparing a letter for the members of the United Nations of Equis.