"Hey, love!" Rarity answered her cell phone frantically. She was still along the dock, the smoke still bellowing from the ruins of a once-great city. A mile to her right was one of the many bridges to the city. The people of Manehattan had it packed in their attempt to flee from the monster.
"Hey Rarity, where are you at?" Flash asked, his voice barely audible from a constant gust of wind.
"I'm at the dock waiting for Twilight’s friend… Why does it sound like you are in a wind tunnel, dear?" She asked.
"Twilight’s friend is gone, and I'm going to come pick you up… Right after I help destroy the monster!"
"WHAT?! No! Flash, you are crazy! No boyfriend of mine is going to die trying to be a hero! How are you going to fight against that thing!" She shouted, attracting the attention of some of the emergency responders who were busy trying to ferry people out of the city.
"Look up, babe."
When she did, she saw a streak of blue flash above her, followed by the painful scream of the hover jet.
***
"What the hell?" Rainbow's confusion could be heard at the command post. Soarin instantly perked up hearing his lover on the intercom. There was something going on and he had to know. He sprinted to the microphone that was used to communicate with the pilots
"Rainboom, what's going on?" He asked frantically.
"Something has entered our restricted airspace… It’s too small to be a plane, but it… Looks like a hoverbike!"
"Are you sure?"
"She is right!" Spitfire announced. Soarin looked at the television in front of him and saw that the media cameras had already picked up on the oddly-shaped object that was heading straight to the park.
"What the hell is that?" Soarin asked.
***
"Seriously, what the hell is it?!" One of the generals bellowed in front of Celestia's television screen. The room had become silent in the minutes leading up to the arrival of the mysterious blue object since they were still waiting for Twilight's 'secret weapon' to emerge from its deployment hangar.
Celestia had a smirk on her face as the hoverbike slowed to a halt once it was in the vicinity of the park.
"Twilight, you have made me proud since you were just a little girl. I just hope you got one more in the tank," she said in discreet glee.
***
Flash stopped the bike and put it on hover mode close to the creature, but high enough that it was out of the monster's reach. Even if it were to jump at them, it still wouldn’t get him.
"Are you seeing what I'm seeing, Twilight?" Flash asked, scanning the monster below him. The creature looked back up at him while it… squatted? It didn’t attempt to maneuver and attack since it was really threatened by the puny object floating above it.. Twilight had to zoom the camera in. What she saw what was coming out of the creature and dropping into the bowl were white, oval objects. Each of them were covered in a thin, clear mucus.
"It's worse than I expected... " Twilight announced, “It’s laying eggs.”
"Shit," Flash breathed. "So when will they hatch?"
"Well since I totally know what this thing is, I should know the answer to that, right?" Twilight rolled her eyes. "Anyway, we can't let them hatch. Start your job!"
"Right away!" Flash replied. He reached behind him and pulled out the carbon black crossbow from its holster. "I expected my name to be all over the place, but not like this… I’ll take it anyway," he said as he had the creature in his crosshairs.
"Oh right, the magazine," he said to himself as he reached back and pulled out a giant magazine. He snapped it in beneath the crossbow. Once he did, the first bolt sprung up, ready to fire. He fired the first shot, which whistled silently down to the monster. When the fine point broke the skin, the barbs sprung out, securing the arrow deep in the skin. Attached to the arrow was a transponder, which started blinking green when the barbs activated.
The monster must’ve not felt a thing, according to what Flash saw in its limited reaction. For all he knew, it could’ve been putting up a guise to try and lure him closer.. He pulled back the bow string and allowed the next bolt to pop up, ready for action. He fired a few more bolts into the same area before he moved his bike to the front of the monster as still continued laying its eggs. He continued to fire more beacon darts, nailing different locations for the transponders broadcast the target’s location to Twilight at the hanger. Flash aimed for the monster’s forehead with his last bolt and tacked it on flawlessly. The monster was too engrossed with laying its soon-to-be-born-hatchlings, so Flash used the opportunity to get the hell out of harm’s way.
"I think we’re good, Twilight!" He said as he landed on a nearby rooftop. He got off the bike and looked to the monster, which was still concentrated on laying its eggs.
***
Twilight smiled as she turned to Machinka, with Sunset inside the cockpit. Twilight strolled to the microphone that was used to communicate directly to the Machinka pilot. "Sunset, you're up."
Sunset was in the dark cockpit, waiting for her time to fight. It was like those cockpits she saw in almost every childhood cartoon. Her instruments, buttons, and levers were in front of her, all accessible from a big, comfortable seat. The only difference was her weapons system. Each of her weapons were controlled and activated by a series of gauntlets above her head. There were at least twelve fanning out on each side, each of them controlling an array of weaponry ranging from generic fists to miniguns, and flamethrowers to missile launchers. Sunset sunk her hands into the first set of gauntlets and pulled them to her in a fighting form.
"Bring it on, Twilight. Bring that bad boy on, Twi-Twi!" Sunset hollered.
"Hey kid," Twilight said.
"Yeah?!" Sunset bellowed over the intercom, the adrenaline finally kicking in.
"Don't get cocky," Twilight warned her as she continued to input data into the main computer. Next to her was a red button, which was covered by a see-through plastic case. As soon as she was finished with her last computer commands, the clear plastic box sprang open, revealing the red button.
"Please guide my friend to victory like you would have done tonight, Blossom," Twilight mumbled to herself as she pressed the button.