The Star Warrior of the Universe

by TheDisplacerOfEquestrias


The Discovery of the H.A.L.B.E.R.D...

Current time: 9 AM.

Year, month, and day: 2018, March 19th.

Location: The North Luna Ocean.

It was supposed to be a good day!

Things were not going well for Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship and one of the four Princesses of Equestria, as she was being taken to an overseas base where every species on the planet Equis was, from the Changelings and the Buffalo, to the Draconequus and the Dragons, and even to the Ponies, the Zebra, and the Griffins, there was not a single species that was not present...

She, along with her friends and the other Princesses, were being taken by chariot to the base, known as the "Overseas Global Source of Exploration", or "OGSE", for short, to find the crashed ship and see of there was any way to find information on it, or if there were any lifeforms on it...

They soon landed and got off, as they were then greeted by the Changeling Emperor of the Changeling Empire, Emperor Carapace, as he said "Ah, Princesses of Equestria. Glad you could come and join the rest of the council for our little... expedition, you could say..."

"Nice to meet you again, Carapace. I trust the problems with Queen Chrysalis has been... dealt with?" Princess Celestia says, smiling...

"Erm... yes and no." He said, gaining a raised eyebrow from Celestia...

"We came up with a punishment, but we have yet to come up with how long it is... that, and it's weird, even for our standards." He explained, before he pointed with his hoof towards the doorway, with Queen Chrysalis hanging from the top of the doorway, with a magic inhibitor ring on her horn and wing bindings on her wings, as she was tied by her waist by a rope, nailed to the top of the door...

... this gained deadpans from everypony present.

"Anyway... you are right on time. We were about to start the search up." Carapace explained, gaining a nod from Celestia...

"Follow me. The council is this way." Carapace added, as he led the group to the council room, where the other leaders were...

Soon enough, they reached the council room, where every world leader was...

There was Empress Victoria of Griffinheim...

There was also King Trotankhamun of Zebrica...

There was Emperor Golden Horn of Minos...

Then there was Queen Oceania, Queen of the Hippocampi and Queen of the Sea/Ocean...

There was also Empress Serva of the Deer...

King Faris and, surprisingly, King Faris's daughter, Princess Amira, of Saddle Arabia...

King Grimm Halfpaw, the King of the Diamond Dogs and the King under the mountain...

Chief Thunderhooves of Appleloosa and Chief of the Buffalo...

And finally, Princess Cadence of the Crystal Empire, and the Princess of Love...

Emperor Carapace, Twilight, Celestia, Luna, Spike, Starlight, and the others went to their seats, as the meeting began to take place...

"Good, now, everyone is here, correct?" Empress Victoria asked, gaining nods from everyone/everypony present...

"Excellent. Now, yesterday, at exactly 8:27 PM, a mysterious, giant object, looking like a battleship of sorts, fell from the stars and crashed into the North Luna Ocean. This object was spotted by Starlight Glimmer, student of Princess Twilight Sparkle of Ponyville, Equestria." Empress Victoria explained, before they all looked towards Starlight Glimmer and thanked her for spotting the object, making her smile and blush a bit...

"However, when it crashed, it began to sink to the ocean floor, going 200,000 feet deep before stopping, getting stuck between two ocean cliffs. We know this thanks to some Hippocampi Scouts, led by Queen Oceania..." Empress Victoria said, as Queen Oceania nodded...

"I sense a "but" coming..." King Faris said, as Empress Victoria nodded...

"... but, they could not find any signs of living beings on the battleship, meaning either A. The occupants on the battleship fled, or B. They managed to escape the battleship and are taking refuge on a nearby island. Whichever it is, we need to find a way to get the battleship back to the surface of the Ocean and look deeper into the battleship, if the Scouts missed anything of great importance. Then, if the occupants did in fact escape, we need to search the ocean for any sign of them, understood?" Empress Victoria explained, gaining nods from everyone/everypony present...

"Thank you. Now, does anyone have anything to add?" Empress Victoria asked, before Starlight raised her hoof, as Empress Victoria asked "Yes, Starlight Glimmer?"

"First, just call me Starlight. Second, when I spotted the "battleship," I noticed four wings on the back of it, along with a giant mask on the front of it, looking like it was a face of some sort. Then, I noticed the weapons on the back of it..." Starlight explained, before she made a projector appear with her magic, as she projected an image of the battleship of the projector's screen...

"The battleship is definitely not for sea, or land use, as I can tell. It must be for sky, but as of to why it had crashed was unknown to me, until I remembered this." Starlight explained, before she then had the image of the battleship zoom in on one of the wings...

The wing in question was smoking, as if it were hit by something, as she said "While it was crashing, smoke was coming from this wing. Since it would not have the aerodynamics to continue flying, if there was in fact a hole, or multiple holes, it would have to attempt a crash landing... in fact, think of it as a Pegasus. If one of the wings of a Pegasus is either shot, lit on fire, or has obtained a form of damage to the wing whilst airborne, a Pegasus would not be able to fly for much longer, resulting in a crash landing.", as they all nodded in understanding...

"But, how did it acquire this in the first place?" King Trotankhamun asked, as he added "It MUST have gotten the damage to the wing somewhere, correct?"

"Well, we do not know. It could have been an explosion or sabotage, but either way, it does not matter... what matters now is that we NEED to get the battleship off of the ocean floor, or else we won't know how it got this damage." Starlight explained...

They all nodded, before King Grimm Halfpaw said "Now, how shall we go about doing this? We let some of our more aquatic and seaworthy guards and soldiers go down and try to bring it back up?"

"No. This would require the Hippocampi to supply them with their air-bubbles for those only native to the surface, like you and me." Empress Serva explained...

"And we do not have enough for the guards or the soldiers. Only the Hippocampi, and perhaps some other ocean-native creatures, like a sea serpent or the like, would be able to lift the battleship." Queen Oceania explained...

"Twilight, don't you and your friends know a Sea Serpent from the Everfree?" Starlight asked, making everyone/everypony present turn to her and her friends...

"Yes, his name is Steven Magnet, but we haven't seen him in a while. That, and I don't know if he would be exactly open to it." Twilight explained...

"Well, no point in not asking if he wants to help out. Besides, we need all the help we can get." Carapace said, as the others nodded in agreement...

Twilight sighed and then said "Alright, I'll go and get him.", before she got out of her chair and flew out, with Rainbow Dash following her...

The council stayed silent at this, before Princess Amira spoke up, breaking the silence, "So, while we wait... shall we play Go Fish?"

The council thought about this for a moment, before they all nodded, shrugged, or muttered in agreement...

After an hour or two...

"Got any threes?" King Trotankhamun asked to Emperor Golden Horn, as the council played Go Fish...

"... Go Fish." Emperor Golden Horn said.

Suddenly, the sounds of wings flapping was heard, as Rainbow Dash and Twilight entered the room, with a Sea Serpent following them...

"... were you all seriously playing Go Fish while we were gone?" Twilight asked...

"Yes, and the ones in the lead just so happen to be Pinkie and King Trotankhamun..." Queen Oceania said in embarrassment, as Pinkie and King Trotankhamun high-hoofed, making everyone/everypony facepalm/facehoof...

"... Anyway, as you can see, Steven agreed to helping out, and, he's also brought along some of his family to help out." Twilight said, as Steven nodded in agreement...

"Great! Now, we may begin the search and retrieval of the battleship." Carapace said...

3 hours later...

"Ok, Steven, what do you see?" Twilight asked through a mind-share spell, allowing her to talk to Steven through his mind, as well as projecting what he sees to her...

"I see a giant battleship, about the length of the train in Ponyville, maybe longer." Steven said, as he went down to the battleship in question...

"Interesting... do you see anything else?" Twilight asked, as she shared what he was seeing to the others present...

"I see that it is also the width of a Dragon, but I can also see that it's banged up pretty bad, presumably from the crash and the sinking, or from whatever caused that tear in the smoking wing you were talking about." Steven replied, showing the mentioned things...

"Wait, Steven, go back to the side of it. I see something." Twilight said.

Steven did so and saw the word "H.A.L.B.E.R.D." on the side, along with a door, before Steven said "I found a way in, but it doesn't seem very sturdy and... useable."

"Can you see any other way in?" Twilight asked...

"Yeah, but it's near the weapons. It seems that the weapons entrances all lead to somewhere, I just can't see where. That, and I don't think I can fit." Steven said...

Suddenly, the sound of hanging was heard from the inside, as Twilight said "... Steven, what was that?"

"I don't know..." Steven said, before banging was heard near the mask of the ship...

He went over and saw a blue, puffball-like creature wearing a mask, IDENTICAL to the one on the ship, holding a golden sword with a ruby on the hilt, and wearing shoulder pads, with yellow, glowing eyes, standing there, banging from the inside...

The creature saw Steven and said, mumbled, but audible, and male, "HELP! WE'VE GOT WOUNDED AND WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF AIR! GET HELP!"

"Twilight, get the Hippocampi, NOW." Steven said...

"On it." Twilight responded...

"HELP!" The creature said, banging more...

"Help is on the way, sir!" Steven said...

"THANK YOU, FRIEND!" The creature said...

"What happened here!?" Steven asked...

"We were teleported away from our galaxy thanks to a highly advanced being! Our planets were teleported with us into your planet's galaxy! Unfortunately, we were hit by a beam of energy, destroying the wing! Until we can get it fixed, we can't go after the being that did all of this!" The creature explained...

Suddenly, Hippocampi came down and began to help out, as Steven said "Help is here, sir!"...

"Great! The door you saw from earlier is sturdy enough to open! Open it up, but don't worry about the water! We'll drain it out once we get out of here!" The creature said, as Steven nodded and swam over to the door, opening it, with Hippocampi following him...

They went around, as water began to flood the interior of the battleship, before the creature from earlier swam up to them and said "Finally! There's some wounded still at the front of the ship! Get them out of here! I'll try and get this thing running again!"...

"Wait!" A Hippocampi said, making the creature stop, before the Hippocampi asked "What's your name!?"

"My name... is Meta Knight, owner of this vessel and one of Planet Popstar's protectors!" The creature, Meta Knight, said, before swimming to the control room...

Soon after they got the wounded, the ship began to vibrate, as the engines came back to life...

The ship then began to rise up, as the Hippocampi swam out with the wounded and those unconscious, but not wounded...

The ship finally raised off the ocean floor, heading to the surface...

Meanwhile, above the ocean...

"Steven! Are you there!?" Twilight said, worried...

"What's going on!?" Carapace asked...

"Steven's stopped responding, but I can still hear something..." Twilight said...

Soon enough, the ocean began to ripple, as the ship surfaced, surprising everyone present...

Then, Steven and the Hippocampi surfaced as well, carrying those wounded and unconscious...

"We need paramedics! We've got wounded here!" A Hippocampi said...

Soon the paramedics arrived and then took the wounded and unconscious to the hospital wing of the overseas base...

Then, the door to the ship opened up, revealing a slowly bleeding, tired Meta Knight, standing up against the frame of the door, as he held the source of the bleeding with his free hand...

The paramedics then began to take him to safety, but, he stopped them and said "I'll be alright. Just make sure the others get out alive and safe..."

Suddenly, the sound of a machine could be heard, before a giant, pink and beige mech, with yellow, glowing headlights, walked up to Meta Knight and grabbed him, before it handed Meta Knight over to the paramedics...

Meta Knight growled and said "Damn you, Mech.", as he was taken to the hospital wing...

The mech then activated it's rocket boosters and flew over to the group...