Chapter Eighteen: Slaughterhouse
The Castle of Friendship
1:32 P.M.
“Princess Celestia! Oh, thank you!”
Celestia gazed over the heads of the stormtroopers to look at her distraught student. The fur on Twilight’s face was matted with tears, her right eye was blackening, and a small rivulet of blood flowed from her mouth. Celestia’s eyes narrowed, and she fixed a stare full of cold fury on the leader of the humans. “You hurt her. You’re going to regret that.”
He met her gaze, totally unafraid. “Yeah, we hurt her. And we’re going to do a lot worse to her. You too, if you interfere.”
Luna stepped forwards. Not as tall as her sister, her eyes were approximately level with the human’s nose, though her lack of even Celestia’s minimal attempt to hide her rage made her just as intimidating a figure. “Do you not realize with whom you deal? We are the Royal Sisters, rulers of all of Equestria, immortal sovereigns of the Sun and Moon, slayers of many beasts, overthrowers of tyrants, the most powerful –”
“Yes, yes, you’re incredibly strong Force-users who aren’t used to being defied. We’ve killed your kind before. You’re also outnumbered by more than a hundred to one, and that’s if you count our prisoners as assets for you.”
“That,” Celestia replied, “is where you’re wrong. Please, look out a window.”
The sea of troopers parted to let him do so. Gazing outside, he saw the sky crowded with Royal Guard pegasi, and a cloud of dust on the horizon indicated the approach of the land-bound guardsponies. He turned back from the window. “Certainly an impressively large force, but your ponies just aren’t psychologically cut out for warfare. Most of them are absolutely incapable of bringing themselves to kill, and they’re too cowardly to face an enemy willing to slaughter them en masse.”
“They don’t need to kill you in order to defeat you,” Celestia said. “And they aren’t cowards. They’re loyal, and they will fight you if you leave us no other choice.”
Finally, the commander’s expression changed from his unconcerned glare. But it didn’t become full of fear, like the Royal Sisters had expected. Instead, he adopted a look of resignation. “We knew we wouldn’t survive this. Even if you didn’t stop us, the general would probably have us executed for all the diplomatic trouble we caused. We all accepted that we would die when we chose to do this. We decided that getting justice for the victims of this murderer you’ve created was more important than our own lives. We will get that justice, no matter what.”
“‘Murderer’? What are you talking about?”
“Don’t act like you don’t know! There’s no way her massacre of the Pinkie Pie clones escaped your notice.”
Celestia was now even more confused. “That wasn’t murder. Those were duplicates, not actual ponies.”
The commander’s face twisted into a visage of hate. “So. It all flows down from the top. I should have known. You spent too long indoctrinating her for her to hold any morals you disagree with. Helmets on, brothers! It’s time for us to sell our lives dearly!”
The movement drew her attention to the members of the human force, and she realized with a start that it wasn’t only their helmets that were identical. “You –! You’re –?”
“For our fallen brethren!” The commander turned his blaster towards Twilight, but Celestia got off the first strike. Strangely, the humans’ armor seemed totally incapable of protecting them, and she felt sickened when her magical blast tore a large swath through their forces, totally disintegrating the commander and several others behind him and tearing large chunks out of any unfortunate enough to be partially caught in the beam. The other humans seemed frozen with shock for half a second, giving the Royal Sisters just enough time to reach Twilight, Starlight, and Spike and throw up a joint shield before they were engulfed in a storm of blasterfire. Less than two seconds later, the windows shattered and the intensity of fire directed towards the shield lessened as the pegasi guardsponies rushed in to defend the Princesses.
The sisters lashed out with their magic, tearing apart large groups of humans. The pegasi who had broken into the room were quickly gunned down, and stormtroopers started firing out the windows. Screams, smoke, and blood filled the air, soon joined by the thunder of thermal detonators thrown into the unicorns and Earth ponies that arrived and were forced into the bottleneck of the castle’s one entrance. Moments later, guardsponies who managed to slip by the plasma and explosions began trickling in though the room’s door. As stormtroopers fell, this trickle became a flood. Firepower was diverted from the windows to the door, and pegasi gained a hoofhold in the windows. The stormtroopers were forced into a ring around the Royal Sisters’ shield, firing both into and out of their formation. Finally, the last trooper fell, knocked down by a buck from an Earth pony and stomped on until he finally stopped struggling.
The whole affair took less than five minutes.
The First Battle of Ponyville
Belligerents:
Equestria:
Initial Strength: 1,778 E.U.P. Guards
Commanders: Princess Celestia, Princess Luna
The Galactic Empire:
Initial Strength: 596 Stormtroopers
Commander: Clone Commander CC-8156 †
Casualties:
Equestria:
WIA: 853
KIA: 487
MIA: 216
The Galactic Empire:
WIA: 74
KIA: 393
MIA: 129
Result: Equestrian Victory
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Honestly, the Stormies should've gotten a bunch of explosives and blew the entire place up. But they at least put up a fight.
Never forget the clones. :(
#CloneLivesMatter
Time to bring in an entire Imperial Fleet. Bring in an Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer.
7262286
Nah, the Eclipse would do.
please let it happen, please let it happen, please let it happen.
Why not bring the sith inquistors. Show them the piwer of the dark side
We need vader now
7264505
Since the beam from the box flowed through the Tree, I presume Rainbow Power is some sort of weirdly augmented form of the power of the Elements. A bit headcanony, I know, but unless there are two entirely separate "Magics of Friendship," I'm not sure what else it would be.
Wow, where'd all the extra clone troopers come from? Did they just call a bunch of their friends together and form a lynch mob? And there must be some serious degradation in the cloning process, because really? Going up in arms, defying orders, assaulting highly placed members of a nation they are currently in a tentative peace treaty with? All of this from what amounts to hearsay? Not even bothering to get any actual facts of the situation? I guess the best way to deal with clone troopers is to lead them all into a trap by insulting clones.
Also, do Celestia and Luna not actually control the sun and moon in this 'verse? Because at this point I'm pretty sure all bets are off and they should just go bowling in space, with the moon as the ball and the ships as the pins.
7264644
Considering how generally xenophobic the Empire is, and how much they looked down on ponies, it was simply surprising how they suddenly felt all this empathy for the Pinkies. And I guess I'm disappointed in Twilight because she's a scholar and an academic, and she's shown to stand up for her beliefs, even in the face of beings like Nightmare Moon and Discord. That she'd capitulate in the face of threats and allegations that are, from her viewpoint, wrong, just seemed wrong to me. Though I guess she's never had to deal with physical violence (aside from her fight with Tirek, but she was more or less on even footing up until the end).
7264636
For the first part: basically, yeah. The one trooper went back to base and told his friends that Twilight massacred a bunch of clones, they told their friends, etc., etc. until the entire battalion was up in arms. As shown by the Umbara arc in TCW, showing total disregard for the lives of clones is probably the best way to quickly get a whole lot of them to want to murder you.
As for the second: Luna definitely does control the moon, at least to some degree, though I haven't actually decided yet what Celestia's relationship with the sun is.
7264684
Aww, so no giant space flail, I suppose. I guess that does significantly balance out the two sides here, else the Empire would not logically be a threat to the ponies. So invasion is a significant threat.
Rip clones never forget
7262363 I love the Eclipse and Eclipse II, but they aren't going to be finished for close to two decades at this point in the timeline (7 BBY).
7262286
The Executor, which is the first of the line, won't be completed until after the Battle of Yavin, which is still 7 years in the future.
7266829 Yeah I forgot about that. Just send in an armada of Victory-Class.
7266829
Still, it would be awesome to see the Eclipse stroll in a level the planet.
7267368
Oh, come on. Think big! If we're going for absurdly over-the-top levels of destruction, why not go for the Sun Crusher? Imagine the look on Celestia's face as she realizes that her own Sun is what's going to kill all of her beloved ponies!
7267380
I honestly forgot about the Sun Crusher. Just imagine: the Sun being blotted out by a foreign object. In space, the Imperials are laughing their heads off as they charge the Crusher, back on the planet, it soon gets unbearably hot as the Crusher soon sends its beam towards Equistria millions of voices crying up to their leaders to stop the violence, only to be silenced as the Sun Crusher obliterates the planet.
0_0
I have a messed up imagination...
7267392
I think you might have gotten the Sun Crusher mixed up with Starkiller Base (or maybe some EU superweapon that I've forgotten about). The Sun Crusher isn't a massive object that fires a beam. It's far more OP than that (and horrific for Celestia). It's the starfighter with missiles that can make any star go supernova.
7267402
I think I got it confused with Starkiller or Star Forge. Because I know there was a weapon in the Old Republic that drained Suns. (Maybe, I might be confusing the canon, I don't catch up that quickly when it comes to EU)
Some of those guys better not be from the 501st because Vader will wreck them if he finds out
7476411 hope he finds out that some was part of the 501st.