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// Chapter 4 
// Story: Battle of Gods 
// by EmperorDalek 
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Suddenly, an alarm started bleeping; the crew all turned, looking towards the Officer in charge of that specific function, but the direction they were looking at was the radar Officer’s spot. A sweat ran down his face as he saw the information the screen was relaying to him.
‘’Uh, uhh…’’ He stuttered nervously.
Turning his head, a little to the side, looking it in direction of the source of the sound.
‘’Yes? Is there something to report?’’ He asked with an interest that they not know to be feigned.
The Pony turned his head, looking it back towards the Admiral, not in too big of a hurry to tell him what he was seeing.
‘’W-well, you see, Admiral…We are picking up an unidentified object speeding towards our position.’’
On a hidden face, he raised a confused brow, staring back out the glass in front of him with confusion.
‘’Is there any emblem to signify whose allegiance it is aligned with?’’
‘’Negative, Sir.’’ He answered back. ‘’It seems to resemble our V-Wing Fighters, but it is uncertain to say.’’
Out the view screen, a shape was becoming much more visible as it flew speed up towards the fleet. It was small, a single pilotable ship. It was a circular pod, with a red view screen, which seemed to have light providing the red glow from inside the cockpit, and rectangular wings on its sides. It did not seem to possess any weapons, but it was certainly fast.
Zooming through the air, it was but a few feet away from the Admiral’s Flagship. The ship’s scanners attempted to make a full search for any kind of weapons, but they either came up negative, or it was impossible to deduce that there was anything aboard it.
From the sides, several Fighters started to move into defensive positions around the Flagship, surrounding it.
Upon seeing this, the Admiral turned towards a nearby Communications Officer, extending his hoof, and holding it out towards the Mare.
‘’Order them to disengage, immediately.’’
The Mare, as well as several others of the crew turned towards the white dressed being, giving him confused looks.
‘’B-but, sir- ‘’
Outside, the Fighters were starting to fly out towards this new arrival to intercept it.
Both they and the approaching new arrival stopped in mid-air, hovering in the place, as the small squadron of ships surrounded the unrecognizable one. Producing neither a sound nor movement.
Then, over speakers, a voice spoke out towards the surrounded ship.
‘’New arrival, you will not be allowed permission to continue further on unless you provide us with the identity of who you are, and your intentions in coming here!’’
The ship was silent, only the hum of its engines being the thing to come from it.
When the radio chatter of the squadron’s captain caught the attentions of the beings on the Bridge of the Flagship, the Admiral’s face shot up, his face becoming pale with fright. His head then turned, looking back out the view screen towards the scene unfolding before him.
‘’New arrival, you will have fifteen seconds to provide an identity, and the intentions for what your intentions on coming here were, if you fail to meet with this demands then you will-‘’
Suddenly, a mighty hiss sounded from the surrounded ship, it’s top hatch started to lift upwards, pulling back as something was opened, the light inside changed into a green.
Illuminated by the green light, a figure was seen to be standing up. It clearly wore a robe, as when the pilot’s form was lifted up from its seat, hovering in the air, fabric, as well as something else was seen to fall down behind it.
‘’Wait, Command, something seems to be happening! I think the pilot will meet us face-to-face.’’ The Squad Captain spoke through its Communications Channel. The spectators on the Bridge observing with curious eyes.
Out the hatch a figure emerged, its body obstructed behind the cloak it wore, a hood concealing its face. From behind the hood, breaths could be seen.
‘’That is good…! Now let us have an identity to go along with-‘’
All of a sudden, the figure raised its fists, clenching them tightly as it hunched forward, its tail tensing up a little from doing…something.
‘’Eh, sir? The newcomer seems to be doing…something, but I cannot make out what it is.’’ The Captain’s voice sounded in the Communications Officer’s headset. 
‘’Wait, something seems to be happening…Though, I cannot explain in the world it is doing.’’ 
Out from behind the figure’s hood, several shapes resembling the bubble made when kids chewed bubblegum, but unlike those children’s bubblegum it disconnected from its mouth, moving through the air, and surrounding the figure.
The formless shapes started to change, arms growing out, though at this point they resembled featureless hooves, and at the top heads started taking shape. The figure’s face morphed into something that could only be described as belonging to a female, with neck-length hair, and a single shape protrusion atop it’s head which hung down behind it, the lower half of it’s body (below the arms) thinned out becoming a long tail.
‘’What the-!?!?’’ The Captain screamed through the headset, making the Officer flinch, throwing the headset off its head.
Before another second, the figure extended its arm out, holding out its fingers.
‘’Super Ghost Kamikaze, ATTACK!’’ A high-pitched voice shouted.
The figures surrounding the cloaked individual suddenly sprang to life, hurrying towards each of the surrounding ships around it.
‘’Oh no! They are heading right for us! He-!’’ The channel went dead, providing nothing but the sound of static as the voice ceased to speak.
‘’Come in, Captain! Come in!’’ The Officer shouted into its headset (having put it back on) as it tried to restore contact with the Captain’s vessel, but nothing the static was present in his ears.
(Seconds earlier)
Speeding towards the nearest ship, the manically giggling creatures reached out with their arms, touching them to the hull of the ships, they then started to glow, before finally exploding into an intense eruption that was a second later followed by the ship itself exploding in an even more violent explosion.
(Present)
Remains and debris rained down from above, creating large splashes as they hit the water.
When the smoke cleared, and everything became visible again, the only thing seen to be still intact was the new arrival’s ship, and the newcomer, whom now folded its arms as it glared back towards the Bridge, the crew onboard the Flagship looking back out with terrified stares…However, the Admiral was instead giving it a stern glare. Clearly not afraid of it.
Extending its arm, it pointed its finger out towards the Bridge view screen. Within a moment’s notice, it fired off a beam from its tip, shooting through the air towards him, to which his eyes widened in shock.
‘’Admiral, get down!’’ The Mare shouted as she leaped towards him, grabbing his shoulder, and pulling him along with her as she fell to the side. The beam pierced the glass, spreading glass down onto the floor, and continuing forward. Those that could leaped out of the way, avoiding the fatal consequences of being hit by that kind of a beam. Especially when it took out several Fighters in a matter of seconds, and without even moving from its suspended spot in the air. 
The beam cut through the steel of the ship’s walls, penetrating one right after another, until it finally came out the back, speeding off into the distance until it finally did hit something hard enough to trigger its explosion.
Coughing, he stood back up, allowing the Mare that helped save him from imminent death to return up onto his hooves.
His head turned, and he looked out towards the space where the figure, and it’s should be. To his great astonishment, the figure was still there, and its arms were folded once again, and presumably glaring back at him from behind the hood.
Suddenly, his ear twitched a little, and he acted surprised about something. His head turned, looking to the side, gazing up towards the darkened clouds above in the sky.
Random strikes of lighting of ferocious lighting struck down from the sky, affecting the water and causing massive eruptions of water to shoot up.
The Admiral’s crew, once they saw this, began backing away from the view screen, too terrified by what had, and was happening outside their ship.
Suddenly, the figure allowed its hands to fall down, hanging beside it. This action surprised the Flagship’s crew, but the Admiral only raised a surprised brow, while wearing a confused expression on his face.
‘’Huh?’’ Many of the crew reacted in confusion at this action.
Slowly, and gently the figure’s form descended downwards, disappearing down inside the hatch. It was obvious when it had returned to its cockpit. Its shadow could be seen silhouetted by the green light, even as it sat back down.
It reached up, grabbing hold of something. The green light vanished shortly after, returning to its original blackness with slight hints of red throughout.
Turning, it flew away, turning back the way it had come. Before long, it was nothing but a black splotch in the distance, and even then, it vanished completely.
Standing back up onto his hooves, he turned, looking back out the destroyed view screen, catching a big glimpse of the world outside.
As the others tried to regain themselves after the devastating attack, the Mare who had saved him from certain death brought a hoof up to the back of her head, rubbing it as it ached.
Directing her eyes’ sight back towards the Admiral, she raised her head back up, directing her sight back towards him.
‘’A-Admiral?’’ She took several steps closer towards him, nervously, watching him, as he seemed to be looking out the destroyed view screen.
‘’Hm?’’ His head turned, and he looked back at her.
‘’T-the aggressor has retreated, sir.’’
He turned back, looking out the window. True enough the ship, and its occupant were both gone, leaving nothing but a mostly empty visual out in front of them.
His blank look returned to settling on his face as he turned back towards her.
‘’It would seem so.’’
‘’Y-yes, sir.’’ She bowed her head. Craning it back up into its proper place. 
‘’D-do you it will return?’’
His eyes looked towards the Mare, scoffing, smiling as he meet her gaze with his own.
‘’We’re fighting a war…Give me your personal opinion to your own question, soldier.’’
She swallowed, sweating a little from being humiliated from what she is about to say.
‘’I-I think that it will come back, and when it does it will not be gentle in dealing out damage to us.’’
Turning himself around, he looked back out the giant crack in front of him.
‘’We could have all been destroyed in this very attack if it wanted to.’’
At hearing this, all the Ponies on the deck’s heads shot up, turning, and looking back towards the white caped figure.
‘’W-what do you mean, sir?’’
He smiled a wry smile, looking his pupils to the side.
‘’All in good time, soldier…I dare even to say that this war may soon be over.’’ He turned his head a little, looking it to the side.
‘’Now, send for a crew to come and clean up this mess. Having our Flagship’s Command Deck exposed is not something our enemies will hesitate to launch an assault upon.’’
Being snapped out of the next thing she was going to say, she acted as if coming out of a trance, then proceeded to bow her head.
‘’As you wish, Admiral.’’
Far away in the distance, a shape was moving towards them. A blue aura surrounded it, and it was moving at an intense speed towards them, the water underneath being blown up.