Watching the strange floating objects, Celestia watched in confusion as she saw some of the grey objects separate, then that confusion turned to horror as they grew larger through the microscope. ‘Whatever they are, they are going to be here soon.” Celestia thought.
-Omega 6 leader-
“All right boys, sit your asses in those chairs,” the Wing Captain for Omega 6, Tal Bhao, instructed. The room became quiet instantly, excluding the few coughs. Nodding, Tal takes a step back, towards the map that is currently up. “Today’s flight is nothing more than a simple escort run,” Motioning towards a woman, who in her regards is more masculine than most men in the room, to take the stage. “This is Lieutenant Commander Lana Fen. She will brief you all on what is expected, and what you are going to do.” Tal nods to Lana.
“Thank s, Tally,” That earned a few coughs. “What we are doing is, basically, getting information on this planet. We are going to start here,” motioning to a rather tall mountain standing alone, “ and get all the readings we need. You flyboys are going to escort us there, and if any of you messup..” She motions towards the gun at her side. “..You’ll be making a new toy for Burny here.”
“Boys, trust me you do not want to end up on the wrong side of that phaser,” Tal piped up from the side of the room. “Burned straight through a borg who had already adapted. Very nasty business.”
“Thank you, Tal but the next time I want you to intimidate the children, I’ll let you know.” Lana said, annoyance gracing her tone. “As I was saying…”
-45 minutes later-
“…Do I make myself clear. These patterns could possibly rip us apart if we don’t take caution.” Lana finished up. A hand in the background popped up. “Yes?”
“What about us who are more based around attacking others? I mean there are at least half of us that can do what you say but what about the rest?” Some smug lieutenant stated.
“Then you better start running cause I have Burny then ‘Cindy.” Lana said with probably the most demented smile someone could dredge up. The Lieutenant paled.
“C-Cindy?”
“Oh yes… you thought all I had was this phaser pistol? OOOHH how wrong you are…” Lana’s smile grew wider. “Cindy is my specially made and modified experimental minigun. Small enough to carry around, and light to boot.”
The lieutenant sat back down. Tal felt sorry for him, but seeing those two guns Lana carried always turned some fight in their favor. Shivering at a particular memory of a Klingon crew that had gotten aboard and found themselves against a few security officers and a Very pissed Lana.
-A year and a half ago-
“Sir, Klingons have boarded.” The chief security officer chimed in. The captain nodded and looked to Tal.
“Tal, go grab a detail, and stop them.” He said in a calm voice.
“Yes, Sir,” Tal, who was only one of the leaders of this captains security detail, said.
-Minutes later-
“Sir, they are not on this floor.” Tal said into his combadge.
“Sensors say otherwise. There was a large burst of phaser and disrupter fire then it stopped,” The captain said in a more irritated tone.
“There is noth…” Tal stopped cause he heard hurried foot steps behind him. Turning around and pointing his phaser out what he saw was probably the best and scariest sight ever.
10 Klingons were running, all pale as can be, and the person who rounded the corner was probably a demon from hell. The person stopped at the corner, and looked toward the Klingons who had stopped.
“NEXT TIME YOU THINK ABOUT BURSTING INTO MY LAB WHEN I AM WORKING, WAIT TILL I AM DRESSED!” the mysterious person, but telling form the voice was ‘Loony’ Lana. She stood there in her near naked glory. All she was wearing were black panties and a partially destroyed bra, one breast exposed, and her whole body was red. ‘Is…Is that blood?’ Tal thought before he realized that she was turning the weapons she had carried to bear on the Klingon intruders.
Then Lana raised her two weapons, one a pistol and another a…mini..gun. ‘SHIT’. Tal and his group of three got out of the way, barely, of the torrent of fire that then engulfed the main area of the passageway. Screams could be heard, then the thumps of bodies hitting the ground. Tal looked around the corner he was using for corner and saw a pile of only 4 dead Klingons, and a substantial amount of ashes.
“Lana…” Tal called out. “..Lana we are coming out now. Please, do not open fire.” As Tal walked around the corner, he saw a very irate but calmed Lana. Walking slowly towards her, Tal could see that her anger was lessening.
“Lana…?” Tal asked. “Lana.. Let me take you back to your room.” She only nodded.
-Present-
“Trust me guys you do not want to get on her real bad side,” Tal finally said.
-20 minutes later-
“Alright boys, stay with your groups. Anything that pops up is not to be shot on sight, got it.” Tal shot to all of his men through the comms.
“Yes, Sir.” Was the universal response.
“All righty then. Whisky leader you ready?” Tal asked.
“You know I am always ready to try and outfly you, Tally,” came Lana’s reply.
“You know you can try, but you can never know the true power of the fighter ace,” Tal said, mockingly.
“This is Captain Grey. I do not want any incidents. The Vermont is supplying ground crews for this operation so watch out for them,” Captain Grey spontaneously broke in.
“Roger that. Listen up men, who ever isn’t guarding an air survey shuttle will guard the ground crews,” Tal broke to his men again. Pings of confirmation coming from them as they were put into position to move out.
-External view-
The ships were breaking the atmosphere and things were heating up. The sun finally starting its rather hurried ascent sent bright, blinding light into the cockpits of all the fighters and shuttles. After a few minutes, the heat died down, fighters and shuttles were launched. The Tanner releasing its fighters as well. At that moment a strange glow grabbed one of the escorts and the ship started to list.
Then a large tearing noise and the right nacelle flew off. The Miranda escort then started its tumbling descent to the ground below. All other ships lost contact and sensor contact after the cloud wall. The people on the other ships fearing the worst but stayed their course.
-Celestia-
Trying to grab one of the objects with magic had led to a rather…bad result. Part of the thing had sheared off and then started tumbling, smoke billowing out of the ripped area, and random bursts of light erupted from various spots around the ship. Watching the ship and then looking at the ground, Celestia used her magic and grabbed the falling…thing and started bringing the thing towards Canterlot.
So as not to freak the populace out, she used a invisibility spell to hide the massive object. Then all of a sudden the thing broke free…and floated there, as if suspended in mid-air. Celestia tried all she could but she couldn’t nudge it out of place.
-U.S.S. Belmont-
“Sir, we have everything stable now,” The Chief science officer said. Everyone in the bridge were starting to get to their seats.
“Good. Now can anyone tell me WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED!” The Captain screamed.
“W-We don’t know. We were flying level and then out of nowhere we lost our right nacelle…” The Chief Science officer said, fearing what could possibly happen.
“Then what…MAGIC… We stopped falling and then we started drifting towards that fucking mountain?” The captain scoffed, visibly irritated.
“Captain, if you do not cal…” The First officer, Tom Deacon, said.
“What? If I don’t calm down, what are you going to do to me?” The captain asked loudly.
-Thwack-
“Alright as of now I am taking over command,” the Tom said, wiping off some Captain on to said captains uniform. “Helm?”
“Yes, Sir?” the relieved teenager said.
“Take us to the meet up spot and tell the rest of our little group that we are still okay, AND still flying.” The Tom said,relieved. “Oh and transfer all auxiliary power and the shields power to engines and anything that can keep us afloat.”
“Roger that, Sir” Everyone said.
-External view-
As the Belmont limped it’s way to the meet up spot, ponies who saw the thing ran, the guard called, and the Elements of Harmony gathered in case of this new strange thing was here on evil intentions. Even Celestia, who has probably never know true unadulterated fear, was experiencing fear as the strange vessel got closer.