Chapter 5: An old fight
Last chapter: He didn’t know but he knew it was bad, he runs for the nearest mech hanger just as some alarms start to blare across the whole of Alverton, a SEA ship’s armour flips as it comes out of cloak and proceeds towards the ships, it must have been stationed there to protect the city, then another ships comes out of cloak, it was the Malevolence, he watches at is fires at the rising ship a but the rounds bounce right off, it then fires more to concentrate fire, the rounds hit the ship and penetrate into slightly causing it to fall down and the impact against the ground causes it to erupt into flames.
Mathis then begins to talk over the speakers, “Warning, we have an unidentified invasion in progress, the units are highly advanced but lack shields, they aren’t of pony origin, they are much older, it’s the ancients, they’ve come to take their planet back, repeat the Viperox has risen.”
Kieron stays sat on the bed with his eyes closed while listening to his music which drowns out the noise of the alarms, Treacle and Moonshine and stopped, their ears both pricked right up to listen to the noise that fills the room, Moonshine rolls over and kicks at Kieron’s leg with her back legs, he quickly opens his eyes and pulls out the earphone to go and shout at her but stops as he hears the alarms, he listens for a bit before jumping off the bed and rushing over to the door to see SEA ships engaging other ships that he’d never seen before.
“Moonshine, take care and Treacle and look after the house....wait, no let Treacle do the looking after, I don’t trust you...I’ll be back before you know it.” He says as he runs over to his cupboard and pulls out the backpack, puts it on and presses a button to unfold it around him, he then grabs a sniper rifle from the cupboard, closes it and storms off out the house to Thomas’ house.
He runs across the edge of the floating part of the city to get a clean path to the house, as he runs at full speed a Viperox ship slowly raises up from under the floating platform, he turns his head to look at the large ship raise and turn to face him, he continues to run as if nothing was there, an unknown language emits from it, he shakes his head and ignores it, the main guns then lower and light can be seen coming from down the barrels, he turns his head once more to look down them, just as he goes to jump at the ship to dodge it suddenly moves down as something hits against it.
He stops and observes to see that three Havoc mechs had collided with it at orbital dropping speed; the three then start to engage in CQC and rip it apart with their energy blades. He looks over the edge to watch then raises a hand to his forehead then sharply pushes away before heading for the house once more.
He quickly gets to the house and barges in to see Thomas and Mathis stood looking at a hologram of the whole planet with multiple red dots marking the unknown ships, blue dots representing SEA ships and units, he slowly approaches them to look at the hologram, there were more blue dots then red, something like four blue dots per red dot but there was more and more red dots appearing per minute as they emerge from under the surface of the planet, “Grand Master, what is going on? Who are these unknown hostiles?” he question, Thomas turns and points at the hologram.
“I should really have told you about them before, years ago. They are the creators of this and the Elements...” he explains, raising his cane to show him, Kieron’s eyes grow large.
“You mean the ancients are...”
“Yes Kieron, they are real and now they are wanting their planet back, I don’t know much about them apart from that they created both objects, they are powerful but lack the defensive abilities that we possess, oh and the mechs we have.” He explains, he turns to face the hologram once more to see that a large increase in Viperox ships emerging in the Equestria area, suddenly a large amount of green dots appear on the hologram and surround the red dots, they came out of nowhere.
“Mathis, get us visuals...” he orders, Mathis puts a hand to his head before causing the hologram to turn from a globe to that of a camera screen, it was a satellite image coming from the Fenrir which was positioned over Equestria, the image zooms right in to see the Viperox ships engaging with some other ships that closely resemble IRIS, UEFDC and SEA ships, it took Thomas a while but then realises that it could only be ships created by the ponies, they must have scavenged the down and destroyed ships over the past wars and rebuilt them for their own use, but they look far more advanced as if they had been upgraded, no ponies could have done this, not without human help.
Again he suddenly realises that humans had trading with ponies for quite some time, they must have set up a black market and have had humans working for them, “Damn them, they will pose a great threat...” he comments just as the last Viperox ships is quickly decimated by the pony ships.
He strikes the hologram with his cane and sharply turns to face Kieron who salutes, “Get into you mech, get over there and kill them damn ponies...actually, better idea, kill the head of the snake and the body dies, understand?” he order, Kieron knods with a large grin on his face, he then turns and walks out of the room before pressing a button on the back of his shoulder and his helmet unfolding around his head, he then charges off towards the mech hanger as Viperox pass right over the city not noticing it as SEA ships pursue them.
He quickly reaches the nearest hanger where his mech, Ambush, is waiting along with Rylie who has just got his mech up and running and is stood at the hanger doors waiting for him as other mechs dash past him out of the hanger, “Hurry up mate, we ain’t got all night!” He shouts as Kieron quickly climbs up the frames of the gangway and dives into the open core of Ambush, he powers it up and the core closes, “Tonight would be good ya know, mate.” He calls as he gets a little impatient as the fight rages on, explosions going off in all directions, guns firing everywhere and shouting from soldiers along with boosters blaring and engines roaring.
Ambush powers up and he walks over to the doors, stops and then activates booster soon coming to full power and then jumps up allowing the boosters to erupt and the mech is shot forward, Rylie turns and quickly catches up to him, the both of them dodging any shots fired at them by the Viperox and avoiding any ships that get in the way, they ignore any chance to attack and leaves it for the SEA ships to deal with.
<Canterlot>
“Princesses, we have taken down all of the Viperox ships, we are now falling back to Canterlot to gather forces.” A female computer voice says to the two princesses that are sat in a large command room that is deep in the castle, “Wait, oh crap, we have more Viperox emerging, engaging all of them, total of 12 ships.” The voice says as Celestia looks at a radar screen on the dots suddenly coming up onto it. Luna stood watching a screen which is a camera view of the battle from their capital ship, a copy of the Fenrir, known as ‘Harmonious Wrath’.
A pony turns to face them, “Princesses, we have two small units incoming, they’re moving too fast to detect whether they are friend or foe, shall we engage?” it asks, Celestia shakes her head before ordering for some ships to manoeuvre round and flank the Viperox ships, “The units are moving in face princess, they’re heading right for us.” He calls out, Celestia ignore his last comment but Luna takes it into account before running out of the room to head for a small secret mech hanger they have inside the castle.
She quickly reaches it and jumps into the core, the mech already powered up, she closes the core and walks out of a passageway that ends up just outside the Canterlot gardens, she exits and stops to survey the sky to see the two units approaching, she activates booster and engages them, she soon comes head on with them, she opens fire on them as they dodge and quickly wiz past her at high speed, as she turns she can only see one now heading for the castle, one of the mechs was gone, she looks about only to be struck from behind as it exits cloaking and attacks her, stunning the mech for a bit then heading to join the other mech.
The two mechs quickly reach the castle and land down in front of the main doors, Ambush drops his guns and swings both arms out to the side as energy blade burst from them, Rylie looks at him then at the castle, “Orders are to kill the princesses, I say we kill them all, much more fun and more likely to confirm their deaths.” Kieron says before running at the castle and swings his arm to cut a large slice in the wall before punching with the other to knock the wall down, inside there are loads of ponies running about, some crushed by the rubble, others run off in fear while some stop and open fire on him, Rylie then opens fire them before being knocked to the side by a missile from Luna.
Kieron turns to face the mech as Rylie gets up and joins Kieron, soon another mech lands down next to Luna, he then comments to them as he points at them, “Ah, we found you, well....you found us actually but either way was fine, now princesses, you need to die.”