Dan Vs. The Magic of Friendship(Season 1)

by Barrobroadcaster

Wrath: Babylautism 5

"Running? Really?" Barro asked his target. Whether Dan and company were listening or not, he didn't care any more. He did have to admit that Dan's plan was decent, and might've even worked if things were different. His luck had to run out sooner or later and finally, it did. Barro lined up his shot, the last shot.

"Yes! That's right, hahaha! You can't hit us here. Your little arcade game ship can't blow up more than one thing at a time! The space junk between us will absorb your shots, flyboy!"

Dan's ship plowed through said space junk even as Barro tracked it. The area was thick with hulls and hulks of ships Barro had already shot down, like a ring around the space Equestria used to occupy. Against anybody else, Dan's plan would've let them reach Snowdrop's comet with ease and even the moon.

Barro nodded, even though Dan couldn't see it. "Dan, my old friend... you're great at figuring things out. You would've made a good journalist. But you're wrong this time. This is no arcade game."

"But I-"

"End of transmission." Barro fired.

Dan had a brief moment to watch the shot as Barro fired. The tactical display showed him everything. One shot was all Barro needed to destroy them, but there was hope that it wouldn't hit. In that brief moment, Dan had been betting on Barro's shots to be harmlessly absorbed by the debris, but the red bolt of energy he fired just burned right through them. Dan had a chance to turn around and look at Twilight, something between a look of shock and apology in his eyes before the blast hit them.

This time, Dan was wrong. Hit them, it did.

The shot punched through shield, hull and ship pretty easily, as it had with all the others. It hit the modified Miranda-class vessel right in the bow. So powerful was the blast that it knocked the ship out of the debris field, tumbling it through space as it disintegrated armor.

"Guys?"
"Dan?"
"I'm sorry. Also, thanks."
"Yeah... me too."
"Me too."
"Me too."

The Danfiant's power failed, the artificial gravity failed, the life support systems failed. The ECH vanished. Dan and the gang all experienced a brief moment of weightlessness before it all went black. Then, Dan was in freefall again.

It was a lot like when he first arrived in Equestria. Falling, thinking he was going to die, wanting, hoping for some way of survival. Part of him was willing to accept his fate, part of him wasn't, part of him was still wanting someone to somehow rescue him, part of him was still clinging to survival. Some things can be bigger than all of us, there can be defining moments in our lives. But people, the world, life in general is too big to be defined by any one thing. So there were multiple emotions going through his mind at that moment.

It takes all parts to make a whole, even the parts that seem like they don't fit.

Dan hit the floor. And realized he wasn't dead.

"What?" Dan asked.
"What?" Twilight echoed.
"What?" went Phoenix Wright.

"WHAT?!?!" shouted Barro the Broadcaster, watching as the ship slowly righted itself. Although damaged, the Danfiant wasn't destroyed.

"We're still alive! We're still alive!" Dan exclaimed. He picked Twilight and Phoenix off the floor and hugged them both. He hugged them really tightly.

"*Ahem*" Khan interrupted, "So is Barro."

"How are we still alive?" Twilight asked. "Should I have said that out loud?"

Khan got up from his chair. "The ship was rebuilt with Equestrian timber. A small amount of the planet's own magical field still exists within the hull of this ship."

"Even in death, Equestria saved us," Phoenix remarked. (Is it possible for Maya to channel the spirit of a planet? Wait... it'd probably be Cleo if she did. Bad idea.)

"And we owe it all to the amazing savings and timely service at Pone Depot!" Dan proclaimed, beaming. Yes, the home construction store had been instrumental in Dan's repair of the Danfiant after it crashed. He had even been gifted with a free giant Toblerpone, but had not claimed it.

Another explosion rocked its way through the ship. All four of them were thrown to the deck by the blast.

"Your celebrations come prematurely, Dan! You didn't take the quick death, so now it'll be a slow one! In a thousand cuts if it has to be!!"

"Why does everything have to make the bridge shake?" Phoenix asked.

"Nicky! Get back to the helm, get us out of here!!"

"I'm trying!" They pulled themselves back to their positions.

"Um, hello? This is Colress, Rarity and I are in engineering. The holographic fellow is gone now... and I'm not sure how much more damage the vessel can take."

Dan gripped the arms of the captain's chair. "Uh... uh... Twilight!"

"What? I'm right here."

"Shield!"

"The shields are already up, though," Twilight said, regarding one of the displays.

Dan shook his head. "No! Magic one! Now!"

"Ah, right." A purple shield surrounded the vessel, but it didn't help. Barro's shots went right through it. One after the other, he punched holes in the Danfiant's hull, blowing apart deck after deck. The Equestrian construction held the ship together and prevented the blast from spreading, but it wouldn't last for long.

One of Barro's shots hit right near the bridge, a near miss.

"AAAAAAAAGGGH!!" Dan was thrown out of his chair again. The communications suite exploded, the primary navigation terminal right of Phoenix erupted into a shower of sparks. Even as Dan was trying to get up, another blast exploded through the ship. The ceiling above their heads exploded and a conduit fell to the ground.

Smoke, debris and sparks filled the bridge. The lights changed from yellow to red.

"Khan! Somebody... get the bald guy back here! We need help!!" Dan picked around the floor, squinting from the smoke. He felt something with his hand. "Rocks?"

"The shield's not working, Dan!" Twilight yelled.

"Dan! The warp core thingy is near breaking point! The ship can't take much more of this!"

"You SAID that already!" Dan said.

"Uh, Dan?"

"WHAT?!!"

"The engines are offline!" Phoenix said.

Dan looked around. Khan, thinking, got a fire extinguisher and put out the flames near the elevator and the two exploded consoles. Another shot ripped off the vessel's port nacelle. The only break the Danfiant got was when Barro stopped shooting the hull for a moment to rip off the vessel's warp nacelles.

"Twilight! Use your magic to make us go!"

"I'll try!" she said. Focusing her magical grip around the ship, she was able to pull it through space. It wasn't graceful, partly because of her inexperience and partly because she was exhausted, but she managed to move the ship. She had to be careful as squeezing too hard would rip it to pieces and holding it too softly while carrying it might cause pieces of the vessel to sheer off. Being an alicorn was not easy.

Another shot exploded through the ship. Dan, Twilight, Khan and Phoenix were thrown again. Once again, the vessel went dark.

"We need help! We need something! Can we teleport?"

"To where, Dan?!" Twilight yelled.

"Anywhere! We... we need to get out of here!!"

Phoenix pulled himself over to Dan. "Or... we could bring someone to us."

"What are you talking about?"

Phoenix held up his magatama.

"Barro says he's the greatest pilot? Well, we'll see if he's right," Phoenix said. The magatama glowed brightly in his hand. Equestria's magic was not the only magic that remained. As little as it was, would it be enough?

"Nicky, what are you-"

"I summon the greatest dogfighter pilot to us right here! Right now!"

But nothing happened.

"Nicky, what are you doing?!"

"He's using a summon spell! Quickly, join hands!" Twilight grabbed Phoenix's hand with her hoof.

"We're using magical ROCKS now?!"

"Dan, grab it!!" Dan did so, grasping Twilight's hoof and Phoenix's hand with both of his own. Khan joined in as well.

"We summon them! Now!!" The magatama glowed bright enough to illuminate the whole bridge yet again.

Comments

[Sigmacipher]

If he end's up summoning Fox McCloud I shall be amused.

[Barrobroadcaster]

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Oh, I think you'll be quite surprised. Been planning this battle for a while. Thanks for reading. You'll find out who it is next week when the fight's ready.

[Booster Spice]

Barrow definitely has got quite the cannon there. And given the multiple lives due to kill count? He aint there even when you manage to shove a warp core breach down his intakes.

As for summong the greatest Dog Fighter Pilot?

Theres a song about that.

Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Fourty, Fifty and More,
The Bloody Red Baron was running up the score...

[LadyLeomon]

A Happy Sunday to you Dear Author, I hope this week has been kind to you. A new chapter means it’s ~Sunday~ now let me see n’ere *dons reading glasses*

Nooo not Dan! Well Nicky and Twilight too but especially not Dan!!! ... No one went boom-boom?! ... Ah bless you Danfiant, fearsome to the end! (I’m putting my money on Nicky summoning Luke Skywalker!)

Thanks for another Dan-tastic instalment and I’ll eagerly await the next!

Awesome as always and I’ll see you ~next time~

Your Eternal Fan ^_^

[howard035]

Hopefully the scroll doesn't pull in Michael Vick with a pilot's license.

[Barrobroadcaster]

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I specifically did NOT go there for a reason.

[JakeAndDollars]

Was on the bridge of a starship while it was under attack once, got hit in the face with one of those things, darn space rocks are dangerous...

No worries though, the danfiant will hold together, so long as they didn't replace any of the major electronics with Apple products...

Good show Barro, and good shooting, heck of a shot taking out those spindly nacelle pylons.

~Dollars

P.S. and I'm not just trying to butter you up because I'm on board either...

[Barrobroadcaster]

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You and Jake have a part to play very, very soon, my friend.

[Razzy]

The Reliant just can't catch a break no later the universe, can it?