//------------------------------// // Incursion // Story: Shadow of Evil // by MoonShine //------------------------------// Chapter 9: Incursion Last chapter: As he swings round on his chair the doors to the bridge open to reveal Claire wearing a towel over her back and her mane and tail wet, “Oh Thomas, I’m all wet, I need help getting dried.” She says as she slowly walks over to him while dripping on the floor, he quickly swings back round to face away as he panics that she is hitting on him and now getting closer to him. He tries to think of what to do but blinks and wipes him face then looks up to see Claire looking down on him from behind the chair and dripping on him, “Would you mind helping me dry off, I can’t reach some places?” Thomas sits in his chair with eye wide as he starts to shake with panic, Claire now creeping her way round the chair to soon come in front of him, she raises up to come face to face with him, he closes his eye hoping it to be just a dream but he can feel the water dripping onto his trousers, he goes to push her away but she grabs both of his hands and pins them to the back of the chair with her hooves, she then looks at him before leaning forward and kissing him, he tries his best to move his head to get away but no matter how much he tries she keeps coming at him, the water dripping off her now soaking into his trousers and he can feel the dampness against his legs. Kieron somehow randomly is upon the ship and walks onto the bridge, “Hay Thomas, I’ve just caused some dama......” he stops mid-sentence as he can see the chair facing the other way but there is two pairs of legs, one human and one pony, he can also see water on the floor in a large puddle below the chair, he stands and watches to see Mathis walk up and turn the chair as the pony legs lift up onto it. As it turns he can see Thomas sat with his hands pinned to the chair and Claire sat on him while kissing him, he stares for a second as her flank is showing off in full view, “....didn’t mean to intrude.” He says before turning round calmly and walking out as if nothing was going on. Mathis stands back a little and watches them on the chair before walking out the room and catching up with Kieron who is already quite a way down the longest corridor on the ship. “Kieron, hold up!” he shouts as he runs down the corridor, he soon reaches him as Kieron stops to wait for him, “Since the Grand master is ‘busy’ as the moment, I will tell you what I would like you to do for us.” He says as they both continue down the corridor. As they walk they can hear a cry of help come from the bridge, they both look back but ignore as they hear another voice calling ‘come back’. Some of the guards that swarmed the area have captured Treacle under the suspicion that she was the one who caused the killing as she was the only one at the scene and walked out of it alive. She is currently in a high-security enchanted prison cell created by Celestia and is positioned in her study so that she can keep an eye on her at all times, the enchantment stopping her from being able to use any magic. Celestia isn’t in the room at the moment as Treacle sits in the slightly green tinted cage that has bright green bars running from the top to the bottom, she looks up as Luna walks into the room and looks over in her direction to see what she is doing, she looks back down then over to the table where her ingredients were put, a guard is searching through them for anything that might resemble a bomb or anything that could be a weapon. She rolls her eyes before turning to face the princess who is stood on the other side of the magic field, “Why must you check my food, I was only going to the annual bake-off, they are my ingredients, not some bloody bombs.” She says to the guard who looks up at her to see her walking up to the field and staring the princess in the eyes. “Careful your highness, she is very dangerous.” The guard warns her but she just orders him to be quiet and do what he is meant to do. Luna then looks back into the cage to see Treacle sat back down with her head low, ready to cry. She turns to walk over to the table and sits on a chair just as ‘Tia walks into the room and walks over to the cage and places her horn on the field, her horn glows as the green field grows bright as she strengthens it, it then fades a little as she finishes. “Princess Celestia, I demand that you release me, NOW!” she shouts at the princess who turns flank and ignores her, walks over to the table and sits to sort out some paper work with Luna. As they sort out some of them a loud bang can be heard outside, like a gunshot. They both rush over to the balcony and look about to see everything fine and peaceful, even the sky was clear of any SEA or Viperox ships in the area. Luna then points in the sky, ‘Tia looks up to see a shockwave push the clouds out of the way as a small flame rushes down and quickly hits the ground just outside of the room, pieces of tiles flung up into the air and a large crater formed as smoke rushes up into the air. They both look down to see nothing for the smoke, as it clears they can see a pod but it’s open and nothing is inside, “It’s him, y’know, he’s come to free me, father that is.” Treacle comments from in the cage. Celestia looks back then at Luna, “Father.....wait that’s....” she stops as she realises who Treacle is on about. Suddenly something rushes past them to fly up past the balcony but too fast for them to tell what it was. “’TIA, WHAT WAS THAT?!” Luna shouts out as she stands to attention and looks about cautiously, ‘Tia looks up and around the area above them to see nothing, as she searches the area a loud crash can be heard coming from inside the castle, they both rush in to see no such thing in the room but then a gust of dust rushes in from the corridor outside the room. Luna rushes and stands in front of the cage as her power armour folds around her, the eyes glowing dark purple, ‘Tia runs to next to the door with her power armour on, the eyes glowing bright white. The dust stays in the air, not settling or fading away causing them to was virtually no visibility, as they both look about cautiously Luna can see a silhouette dash past Celestia’s figure and head right for her. “’TIA!” she shouts and Celestia turns to face her only to be faced with a tall figure in full power armour charging right at her, she thinks quickly and lowers her head so that it runs right into her horn but it jumps up and lands against the wall behind her then jumps back to fly up and back towards Luna who doesn’t see it and looks about for the figure. It lands down on top of the cage and due to the enchantment is caused to fly up and hit the ceiling, Luna heard the noise and flies up to tackle it, now in clear sight she can tell that it is the one and only Overseer of SEA, “Your wings will be mine after we are done here...” he says to her in a gruff voice from behind the helmet, she punches him in the side a couple of times then in the face before dropping him onto the cage so that he hits it, bounces off and falls towards Celestia who has used a spell to disperse the dust and has her horn pointing up at him ready to stab him. As Kieron gets closer to Celestia, Luna flies down ready to kick him so that he will land on her horn much quicker and much more painfully, but as she gets close to kick him a huge robotic arm slams in through the balcony doors and grabs Kieron and hits the wall at the other end, the arm pulls out then another arm shoots in to grab the cage, crush it and Treacle walks out and over to the balcony for the hand to grab her, Kieron enters the core of the mech and Treacle climbs in to stand behind him. The mech hold on to the balcony with one hand as the core opens, Luna running to the core and jumps just in time so that she gets in before it closes, ‘Tia shouts her name knowing that is won’t be good what will happen in there, the mech jolts a couple of times as they knock the controls inside, a few rounds from the machine gun fire off down below and hit the ground next to some ponies who just miss them, this alerts the guards mechs which start to open fire on Ambush. The mechs jolts a few more time before the core opens suddenly and Luna if thrown out and lands on the balcony floor with a trail of blood smudge along it as she slides across it to a halt, ‘Tia runs over to her to see her power armour sparking and can see that her wings have been removed, the wounds rather clean for the type of injury. Blood runs from the wounds as she lays there, a pool starting to form around her and around Celestia’s hooves, Kieron sat in the seat of the mech holding one wing looking at it as blood drips from it, Treacle holding the other and using her mouth to pull the feathers out of it, blood dripping from it too. As they sit and look at the two princesses on the balcony as grey Pegasus crashes against Ambush causing to let go of the balcony and fall, Kieron grabs the controls and tries to correct it but can’t due to the core being open, he closes the core and tries again but is too late as Ambush crashes into the ground, guards mechs and pony Havoc mechs quickly rush over and surround them. Mathis walks onto the bridge to see Claire chasing down Thomas who is running about in fear and looking for his cane but can’t find it, Mathis walks up to Thomas who is cowering behind his chair, just as Claire goes to pounce at him Mathis backhands her on the face causing her to fall to the floor on her side with a bright red hand mark forming on her cheek. “I wish to speak to the Grand Master without interruption, now stay there and be quiet.” He orders in a bitchy tone. “But...” “STAY! Good girl. Thomas, I have bad news, Kieron went to try and save Treacle from pony entrapment, and he was able to get her out and severely hurt the princess of the night but somehow lost control of his mech and has been captured himself.” He explains as Thomas stops cowering and sits on the chair, looks to the side of it to see his cane in its holder on the side of the chair. “I see, he did good to weaken her, how did he do it?” he asks. “He was in his mech, Luna jumped in just as the core closed, after a few minutes she was thrown out with her wings removed. That is all I saw.” He replies. Thomas puts a hand to his chin and thinks while looking down at Claire then back at Mathis, “Send out a rescue squad, you and Claire can lead. I want him back as quickly as possible.” He orders, Mathis knods lightly then walks off after grabbing Claire by the mane and heading out of the room with her shouting in pain and being dragged behind him. Twilight and Applejack are walking past Sugarcube corner and are looking up towards Canterlot to see the mechs moving about quickly to surround Ambush, a small ploom of dust in the air, “Hay Twi, what do ya suppose is goin’ on up there then?” she asks as they both stop to watch it go on, as they do Pinkie Pie hops out of the shop to stand next to them and stare with them. “Hay Pinkie how’s business?” Twilight asks, Pinkie looks at her then back at Canterlot. “Fine, everything it going ooooooookay.” “Good to hear.” She says before turning round to see a flash in the sky, “Girls, what is that?” they both turn to look at the five flashes in the sky, one after the other. They quickly enter the planet’s atmosphere and descend quickly to come to the surface within seconds, all of them slamming into the ground and causing a ploom of dust to shoot into the air, Twilight turns round again to see Celestia, only just, stood looking over to the village and staring as some Havoc mechs begin to approach the village. As the mechs get closer, Twilight can see a shadow grow bigger from under her hooves as the other two back away and are in front of her, she turns to be faced by Mathis and three Talons along with a pony in full power armour with glowing green eyes, “Hail the Grand Master, leader of SEA. Shame you have to be the enemy Miss Sparkle, now all enemies must be taken care of.” Mathis says as he stares at her.