Chapter 1: Uchuu Senkan
Celestia’s warm sun shone down upon the quaint village of Ponyville. It was a Saturday, meaning that the town’s foals could run around happily enjoying themselves with games of tag and hoofball in the park.
Also enjoying the fine weather and peacefulness of the park were six mares and their pets catching up over their weekly picnic.
“These sandwiches are great Fluttershy!” Twilight exclaimed “What did you put in them?”
“Oh, um, just some seasoning.” Fluttershy replied with a soft smile.
“Well I think they’re divine. How’s yours, Rainbow?” Rarity asked, looking up to the tree where the blue pegasus had perched herself. She was met with a soft snore as response.
“Ah swear if that there girl spent half as much time flyin’ as she does snoozing, she’d be in the Wonderbolts already.” Applejack said with a smirk.
“I’m sure Dashie loved it!” Pinkie Pie called from somewhere behind them having momentarily suspended her tug-o-war with Winona to speak, before darting down and grabbing the old rope with her teeth and resuming their game.
“Uh, Pinkie don’t you think thats somewhat unhygen-” Rarity’s concern was cut short when a shout interrupted her.
“Twilight!” Spike called out as he crested the small hill they were sitting on, his claw clutching a scroll.
“This just came through,” he puffed, trying to recover his breath from the run all the way from the library to the park.
The purple unicorn immediately set down her sandwich and took the scroll from Spike in her magical grasp.
One look at the wax seal stamped on it made Twilight slightly worried. It bore the same crest that all letters from the princess had, but this one had the word ‘Urgent’ written around the seal’s edge.
She opened it quickly and began to scan the document, remaining deathly quiet while she read. All the others looked on, waiting for some kind of justification to the scroll’s apparent urgency. Even Pinkie stopped her games to come over.
“What’s up?” Rainbow Dash said as she gracefully floated down from the branch she had been napping on after being woken by Spike’s shouts. Twilight looked up from the scroll with a frown before reading aloud.
Dear Twilight Sparkle
I apologise for the inconvenience the request may bring, but please realize that this is of dire importance. I ask that you bring yourself and the other element bearers to Canterlot within the next twenty-four hours. Feel free to bring whatever you believe you will need for a prolonged stay. Do not concern yourself with train tickets as plans have already been made.
I’m also sorry to state that Spike and your pets will not be able to accompany you. I shall personally see to it that somepony is sent to take care of them.
Do not hesitate my dearest student. This is possibly the most important event in Equestrian history.
Signed Princess Celestia.
“The hay?” Dash started. “She wants us to just up and leave? What about our jobs and families?”
“I’m sure that the princess has a very good reason for summoning us on such short notice,” Twilight responded as she tucked the scroll into a pocket on her bags.
“Sorry girls, looks like we’re going to have to cut this one short,” she said as she turned to them. “Go home, get your things, and we’ll meet at the train station in two hours.”
Twilight began to walk back towards the library. The remaining five ponies let out a collective sigh. This summons was a massive inconvenience to them all but it was just that; a summons. It couldn’t be ignored and they all knew that Twilight wouldn’t rest until they were all standing before the Princess.
With that they all said their goodbyes to each other before collecting their pets and returning to their homes.
* * *
Rainbow Dash landed with a huff outside her cloud house hovering at the edge of Ponyville. She was surprised when she found a tan unicorn already waiting on the ground below to collect Tank and after giving her a lecture of the do’s and don’ts of tortoise care (and a sneaky goodbye kiss) Rainbow relinquished the green reptile to his new caretaker.
The athletic pegasus quickly mounted the stairs to her bedroom and made her way over to the closet. After shifting several scarves and rainbow colored socks out of the way she retrieved an old suitcase covered in Wonderbolt stickers and other such memorabilia from her childhood. Rainbow cracked the worn lid open and smiled as she remembered some of the vacations she had been on with this case at her side.
Rainbow paused as she thought. Maybe she could just consider this trip as a vacation. After grabbing the essentials and a few personal effects she gave her house one last goodbye before shooting out of her bedroom window towards the train station.
* * *
Twilight Sparkle danced nervously from hoof to hoof as she waited for the remainder of her friends to appear. Rainbow Dash had arrived fairly early, as had Applejack and Fluttershy. And now they were all waiting on Rarity and Pinkie.
“Where are they?” Twilight wondered aloud.
“Don’t fret, sugarcube,” Applejack smiled warmly. She drawled, “Ah don’t think that a few minutes is gonna worry the princess too much.”
“A few minutes!” Twilight screamed. “Did you know that every minute lightning strikes somewhere on the planet three hundred and sixty times! Every minute twenty-one thousand pizzas will be made! A minute can make all the diffe-”
“We’re here!” A upperclass voice called from behind her. The normally level-headed Twilight turned and immediately calmed upon seeing Rarity and Pinkie strolling leisurely up to them, the latter carrying the former’s mountain of luggage.
Twilight was about to explain the importance of punctuality when the shrill three chime whistle pierced the air and the colorful express train rolled into the station.
The six mares were suddenly engulfed in a cloud of steam as the engine drained the cylinders with a hiss. while it didn’t affect most of them, the modest dress Rarity had donned instantly became damp.
Twilight couldn’t help but giggle at the seemingly fitting punishment for her friend’s late arrival.
* * *
After being allowed free admittance onto the train by the conductor as he had been informed prior of Celestia’s requests the six friends were underway as the train came up to speed heading up the steep grade towards the Equestrian capital.
Even though the train ride was peaceful and uneventful Twilight couldn’t stop thinking about the letter.
‘Do not hesitate my dearest student. This is possibly the most important event in Equestrian history.’
Twilight simply couldn’t wrap her head around that last sentence. how could whatever they were going to find trump the things they had already seen? How could something be more important than the founding of Equestria? Or the return of princess Luna? Or even the rediscovery of the elements of Harmony?
If they were taking a leisurely train ride to Canterlot it obviously couldn’t be that important. Having decided that wasting anymore brain power over this wasn’t going to get her anywhere she decided to lean back in her sleeper car bunk and take a page out of Rainbow’s book.
* * *
The walk from the station to the castle was fairly uneventful after collecting their luggage a pair of guards had approached the six mares stating that they were to be their escorts. They made quick headway to the castle, with Pinkie Pie actively trying to squeeze information from the two guards but receiving only silence for her trouble.
Before long, the elements of harmony and their two escorts had arrived at the doors to the throne room. Needing no invitation and her curiosity getting the better of her Twilight entered swiftly followed by the others.
“Princess!” Twilight said with a happy shout quickly bowing before rising and bounding over to her mentor to embrace her in an affectionate nuzzle which the Sun goddess happily returned.
“It’s a pleasure to see you too, my student,” the princess replied with her warm voice “As well as all of you,” she continued, looking upon the rest of the bowing mares.
“Now I know you must have many questions as to why I’ve called you all here,” Celestia said knowingly and was met with furious nodding from the ponies before her. Even the guards seemed somewhat curious but retained their stoney exterior.
“Come, my little ponies. We have much to show and very little time.” Celestia turned towards the corridor where the elements were stored.
The walk to the door where the elements were locked up was performed in complete silence up until the point when Celestia inserted her horn into the ornate door.
“Uh Princess, why do we need these?” There was worry and concern deep within Rainbow’s voice as her element necklace was levitated over her head.
“Do not fret girls. Believe me when I say that neither you nor Equestria is in any danger.”
“So why do we need them?” Rainbow repeated.
The princess smirked as she looked towards the concerned pegasus. “All in due time.”
Celestia glaced quickly from left to right before dropping down to their height and whispering, all humour in her voice gone.
“What you six are going to see today is the single most heavily guarded secret in all of Equestria. I implore you that you must do exactly as I say. No one is to know of what may happen tonight.” She said with dead seriousness.
The six bearers were slightly taken aback by how serious their ruler had delivered her request but quickly responded
“You have our word princess.” Twilight answered speaking for all of them.
Celestia’s smile returned full force as she stood back up to her full height. “Thank you all. Now come along. I believe you’ve waited long enough.”
The six colorful mares now equipped with their respective elements fell into line behind their leader as she lead them through the maze of castle passageways, the silence only interrupted by the clip-clop of twenty-eight hooves against polished marble.
Their stroll through the grand castle slowed as they reached a new section, one that neither Twilight nor her friends had ever seen before. The light grey dim as the windows grew few and far apart until there were none at all.
They had walked deep into the castle to the point where they were starting to enter the actual mountain itself where windows would be useless.
The small herd continued until they had arrived in an astonishly different hallway. It was not polished white like the rest of the castle. Instead, much of it was still bare stone. Lanterns hung from strong hooks bored into the rock face.
A thick coat of powdery dust lay over everything and long wheel tracks in the dust of the floor crisscrossed from many hundred of carts being hauled to and from one door at the end of the room.
“P-princess what is the p-place?” Fluttershy asked in a voice barely audible over the sound of their hooves.
“Two hundred years ago I decided to expand the castle deeper into the mountain to make room for more suites intended for visiting ambassadors.” Celestia responded
“Some workforce. Two hundred years and they still aren’t done.” Rainbow scoffed
“Do not be so hasty in your assumptions Rainbow Dash.” The princess retorted.
“Not to be rude Princess, but Rainbow does have a point.” Rarity added.
“On the contrary, I personally requested they stop work,” Celestia remarked.
“Why?” All six mares questioned simultaneously.
“Because of what they discovered,” the princess answered cryptically
The small group quickly closed the distance to the door where all the cart tracks had originated from before stopping.
“Now Twilight, I know how you act around new things you haven’t seen before, but I ask you control yourself for the time being. You will have plenty of time to study everything later.”
“Don’t worry princess, I- we will all be on our best behaviour.” Twilight responded turning to face her friends with an Am-I-Right? look.
They all nodded frantically and looked to the princess with giant smiles that would have put the cutie mark crusaders to shame.
“Excellent,” the princess replied as her horn lit and the heavy stone door swung open revealing a naturally forming cave leading downwards and curving down to the left. Small lanterns hung from support beams spanning the ceiling.
Celestia had to crouch to fit through the narrow opening but an average pony could walk comfortably.
The seven equines walked for roughly fifteen minutes through the twisting passage, the only interesting features being the lanterns that hung at evenly spaced intervals. Rainbow Dash didn't know where they were going or what they would find but she knew one thing for certain.
She was bored.
Finally after what seemed to be an eternity to the fast-paced pegasus, the tunnel miraculously opened into a truly massive cavern. The seven ponies stood on a ledge that looked over it. The far wall was easily five hundred metres in front of them and stretched for nearly a kilometer from left to right. The roof of the cavern was high above them supporting many stalactites that hung menacingly above them. The floor, while closer, was still a fair drop below them and sported some nasty looking boulders scattered around it.
But that wasn't what caught their attention.
Embedded into the floor of the cavern was the strangest thing Rainbow Dash had ever seen.
The first thing she noticed that it was Big. Roughly three hundred meters in length and nearly forty wide. And that was just what she could see as most of its massive grey bulk was buried under the stony floor.
Secondly, she noticed that roughly in the middle of the thing there was a large grey what looked like a tower. Long, green, rectangular windows that were folded in the middle making a sideways V shape were mounted in two separate rooms above one another that stood high above the cavern floor.
Square braces protruded from high up on the tower out over the sides. Each brace filled with curved metal bars with a pole running horizontally through them resembling a kind of meshwork.
Lastly Rainbow took in the three large boxes on the long flat part in front of the odd tower. Each box was nearly the size of a house and had three long tubes extending from them that tapered slightly near the end.
The front and rear-most box were mostly covered in stone, but the middle one managed to avoid the same fate. The three large tubes on this one poked upwards and out of the stone at a strange angle towards the chamber ceiling.
They instantly reminded Rainbow of cannons on the royal Equestrian navy’s ships.
She remembered it vividly as her Uncle used to work on them and had once taken her aboard the R.E.N Cockatrice. In its time it was the greatest, and most powerful warship to grace the seas. But one look at this thing in the floor of the chamber confirmed that it was over twice as long and far larger.
Now that Rainbow had made the connection she started to notice more similarities between the Cockatrice and this object. Both had the same basic profile; narrow at the front, wide in the middle and short and stubby at the back. They both had a tower where the bridge would be so that the captain and crew could easily keep their eyes out for any hostiles and to look over their vessel.
Casting a glance over towards the front of the thing again she found the final piece of evidence to confirm her theory,
An Anchor. That, however, was where the similarities ended. Large fins poked out at weird angles all over the ship as if someone had glued gigantic sword blades all over it. And perhaps the strangest of all a large hole dominated the furthest most forward part of the hull which Rainbow could only imagine would be less than helpful on a craft that was supposed to be watertight.
Towards the back; instead of propellers and a rudder there was a giant cone with a large, open end which looked as if someone had attached a waste-paper basket to the rear of the vessel.
“Princess...” Twilight asked after everyone had the chance to take in the peculiar sight. “What is that?”
Celestia couldn’t help but allow a sly grin to cross her face. “That my little ponies...”
“...is the Yamato.”
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宇宙戦艦ヤマト
2486191 um what?
2486049 Uchuu senkan Yamato!
Awsome... question have you read UC77's "Hotblooded Pinkie" tumblr?
>> Jazzman just hyper today
2486729 i believe i know that specific comic your referring to :P
2488399
Now you have your benchmark. Go forth my friend and be epic!
Ponies on the Yamato?
FUCK YES!
We're getting 120% cooler now!
2488518 always nice to see another member of the star force!
2488533
Eh, my fan-boyism stems more from a history-buff perspective, rather than the anime series...
Still a great show regardless. I have faith you'll do it justice.
Holy shit. I thought there would never be a crossover between MLP and Star Blazers (or Space Battleship Yamato), but it seems like one of these came true.
2489062 i was thinking the exact same thing. So i remedied that
OMFG!!!!! I grew up watching Star Blazers!
Still wanna get a DVD copy of the Japanese live action version of Space Battleship Yamato
2489568 i've seen it its not that good the modern day reboot Yamato 2199 is much better
2489586 I want that as well... But I have seen the whole live action movie, and LOVED IT!
THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU
I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR SOMEONE TO WRITE THIS YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!
So much childhood nostalgia. But seriously though, this is awesome.
Also, if you need any help with proofreading or stuff, I'll offer my services for this. I'm well versed in Space Battleship Yamato as well so I know what's going on and stuff.
The Yamat...
HOW DOES CELESTIA KNOW THE NAME!?!!?
Well at least we know the basis of the Cockatrice then. But yikes. Okay, you have me hooked. you have me wanting more.
I am hereby watching and waiting for more chapters.
Frankly sir, as a self proclaimed Pacific War historian (ish) and knowledge of both the Yamato, and the Star Blazer's show. I am, I am very much interested in seeing how you proceed, you, I am, this is going to be awesome I think.
2499766 all in good time my friend
2499428 man i love that piece!
2498593 i could always do with some helping hands
2499880
One of the best things about the show was the awesome soundtrack. This one always stuck with me, specifically from 1:35 onwards:
Battleship Yamato! HAHAHAHA OMG YES.
Holy shit - Manly tears are already flowing... I was always a big Leiji Matsumoto fan (Notice the 999 in my username).
I wish I still had that Yamato kit model from back in the day.
Fun fact: In the Japanese dub of Star Trek TNG, the ship is called the Space Battleship Enterprise.
2501032 I loved galaxy express 999 and i was thinking of writing a fic about the Galaxy railways spinoff but then i discovered SBY and fell in love so here we are also about the star trek thing: interesting that makes me proud to be a Yamato fan
While needs to be capitalized.
...and I am a little disappointed. I saw "Yamato" and was thinking "Yamato Cannon" from SCII... soooooo you can see where MY mind was taking this story!
Asides from that though, I enjoyed it. 
.......wait wait wait... wait... no never mind I think my 1st thoughts were right. Especially based off your description of it. It was the picture (and the fact that it's half buried) that threw me off. But, really thinking about it I'm realizing I'm just a dunder head. xD
2501032
I had two of them. One tiny and one big.
2505460 So, is the GR x-over gonna happen? I'd be happy to help write the train parts!
Wait, what happened to the crew? They should have been able to reproduce because of the women that were part of the crew. So what happened?
2486211 Nagai uchūsenkan'yamato o ikiru!
This Pony asks for permission to come aboard the Space battleship Yamato . Royal Equestrian Lunar Night Guard Captain Midnight Youngest sister to Princess Luna and Princess Celestia . ( My Pony OC
)
( I am not feeling well . Oh what a Nightmare I am .[ I actually have been up all night like Princess Luna . ]
Fanboy tears here, OMFG yesyesyesyesyesyes. Whoooooooooooooooooooooooo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6LFkMniuTk
yeessssss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTY1i9F_7Yw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6LFkMniuTk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCZeem-Y2og
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSfBGuSmyRQ
I cant wipe this grin off my face when Celestia said "is the Yamato." *proceeds to hum the theme song*