Story ideas and snippets

by blake0831

Macross: Equestria snippet 4

"What's this?"

Captain Edwards, along with the rest of his squadron, stood in the hanger where the L.A.I. Corporation R&D department had set up shop on the Equestrian NUNS airbase. In front of them, standing in GERWALK mode, was the captain's stock VF-25S fighter. At least, it used to be.

Now, it sported gold-trimmed, streamlined armor plates, it's arms practically covered with them and the wings tips now has an additional pair of engines, fixed on rotating swivel mounts. The perplexed captain asked again, "What on Earth is this?"

"Ah, captain!" The head scientist Lloyd cheerfully called out. "Nice of you to come by! How did you like the new gear? Me and my team dubs it the 'Wizard' pack."

Edwards took in the state of his fighter again, and cautiously inquired,"Okay. What is it, and why?"

The (resident mad) scientist enthusiastically answered, "Well, since the Princesses had asked to help them make their own variable fighters, me and my team had been researching Equestrian magic and ways to incorporate it ..."

"Yes. I know that. Along with the 'helping them to develop their own space-industry' bit." The captain interrupted. "I meant, what is this, specifically?"

"Ah, ah. Impatient aren't we? This here, " the blond man gestured to the fighter, "is our latest prototype. The 'wizard' pack is designed to channel the magic spells of the unicorn pony co-pilot through the armor plates on the arms, bypassing the obstruction issue, and-"

Jamil raised an eyebrow. "Obstruction issue?", the heavyset man rumbled.

"Well, yes. We found out that unicorn magic spells, with a few exceptions, required a direct and unobstructed line-of-sight between the caster and the target. A bit of annoyance, really, when one tries to protect the pony pilot with an armored canopy. So, we bypass the issue by channeling the spells from the pony through the special gold alloy embedded in the armor plates instead. The engines were taken from a future VF-25 'Tornado' pack to compensate for the weight."

"Okay..." Edwards began, "Is this... going to work? I mean, we've seen what happened in that test when you guys tried to channel the innate magic of a pegasus co-pilot to work on a fighter."

Kaede smirked,"Honestly, I've never thought that a multi-ton variable fighter could actually get stuck in a cloud."

Arthur chimed in, "At least the Princesses found it funny."

"I think we've set a record. No-one had actually made them laughed so hard they couldn't stand up straight. At least, not in recent memory."

"It was pretty funny, with the cursing and arguing coming over the comm-link from the pilots and the fighter's limbs flailing about."

"Especially when they tried to jet themselves out and only ended up flipping the fighter and the cloud upside down."

"Like a tortoise that's been put on it's back."

Jamil joined in, "Remember the time they tried the Earth pony co-pilot?"

Lloyd spoke up, looking a little annoyed, "For your information, that was because of a acorn that got wedged into the armor, not the armor itself. Variable fighter armor pieces do not just spontaneously sprout roots and leaves just because it's imbued with Earth pony magic!."

Edwards quickly cut in before the conversation can get even further derailed. "Anyway. Are you sure this will work?"

At the question, Lloyd's demeanor immediately brightened. "Yes, yes. Of course, it will work! The small scale testing proved that. Right now, we want to test it on an actual, full-sized fighter in combat situations. Besides, the risk of things going wrong is quite small."

There was a beat, before the captain cautiously asked, "Okay. What happens if something does go wrong?"

"Well, the unicorn would either get a head-splitting migraine the size of the planet, or the magic could build up inside the armor plates and cause the arms to explode. But don't worry! The risk of that happening is pretty small. Besides, I thought you pilots love a bit of risk, right?" Lloyd cheerfully answered.

There was a slight pause as the group digested this, then the captain, with one eyebrow now slightly twitching, asked, "Okay. Now on to my second question. Why my fighter? And how did you get permission for this?"

"Why not? Besides, I thought you'd appreciated the new toys you got now. What, with your combat record and all. So, me and my team just went ahead and install it onto your fighter." He grinned.

Edwards stared at the man in front of him, before sighing and began to massage his temples. "You never asked for permission, did you?"

The scientist laughed, waving the issue away. "Nope! It would taken too long to get through the red-tape anyway. Better get it done now and apologize for it later, as I always say!"

The captain groaned, trying to ease his growing headache.

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I would probably expand the Macross: Equestria snippets to a full blown story some time in the near future.

Comments

[CaptRicoSakara]

interesting concept. =3

[Oh hi there]

Please do, I quite like them.