Logic and Friendship. Roger! Roger!

by Anaylze

Chapter 17: Preparations

Celestia walked into the Castle of Friendship, and upstairs to the meeting room with the Mane 6, where they had the meeting before with the Droids. There were more dead guards, killed by the Droids.

"It's terrible, not only have they harmed so many of our ponies, but OOM-340 escaped as well." Twilight exclaimed sadly
"Yes, my dear, I know." Celestia replied "We tried to stop them, but they were very skilled and dodged all our magic"
"What can we do now?" Twilight asked, looking to her former mentor for guidance.

"We must learn from this attack and strengthen. Like my pet Phoenix, Philomena, we will rise from the ashes stronger and renewed." Celestia said

Twilight felt better, Celestia always had a way with words that made her feel better.

"What better way to rise from the ashes than with fire?" came a voice from the doorway.

They all turned to see Princess Ember, wearing her Battle armor, holding her staff.

"Princess Ember!" The Mane 6 exclaimed, swallowing her in a group hug

"Hey! Easy! I don't like hugs, remember?" Ember said, mildly annoyed

"Sorry…" Twilight said "it's just good to see a friend after today!"

"What all happened? I heard about the attack but what happened?" Ember asked

"The Droids launched an attack on Pony ville and managed to break out defenses until my sister and I joined the battle" Celestia said OOM-340 also escaped with help from some kind of elite force."

"Any idea yet on how these things work?" Ember asked

"Not yet, I have my best ponies working on the 2 from the fight earlier, trying to figure out their inner workings. They have a lot of circuitry and mechanical parts, one of the most intricate things I've ever seen." Celestia said.

"Well, are they fireproof?" Ember asked "because that's all I need to know for my plan to be successful" she said with a smug grin…

Kraken stood at the holo table, overlooking the acquired map of Equestria inquisitively, while TJ-912, TF-1726, who had been called over to aid in the analysis, did the same.

"I calculate that this location on the map is the capital of this planet." Kraken said, pointing a finger at the image of Canter lot.

"What makes you certain of this?" TJ-912 asked

"The location is situated in the center of the continent, which would make it safe from forces invading from the sea. The location also appears to have been built on a mountainside, with only 1 path leading to it, which would make it easier to defend and give a wide view of the surrounding land." Kraken explained

"Excellent analysis. What are your current orders, sir?"

"I want you two to prepare an orbital bombardment of this region with your ships." Kraken said, pointing a finger towards the Dragon Lands. "The dragon species poses a high threat to our forces, and it would be a wise strategic move to eliminate them swiftly."

"By your command." The two Tactical Droids said, departing to return to their assigned ships.
Kraken returned to analyzing the map.

"Plans to create. Wars to win." He said…

"Just what is your plan?" Twilight asked Ember.

"Well, I was planning on taking an army of my fiercest dragons to their base… except I don't know where it is."
"When the Droids began to retreat, they marched back into the Ever-free Forest, it's highly likely they have some kind of setup there." Celestia suggested

"I'll bet on that. If we worked together, we could take them out more easily with less losses. Isn't that what friends do?" Ember asked

"Wait! Now may not be the best time for attack! We know very little about its defenses, they could have many more troops there."

"Whatever those machines are packing, I'm sure they'll be crushed by my Dragons." Ember said confidently
"If you choose to attack them, I cannot stop you." Celestia said.

"Think about it, if we all work together, they'll be overwhelmed! Dragons and Ponies together would be unstoppable! Ember said, trying to convince Celestia to attack her.

"I think she has a point." Dash said "if we attack together, we can take them down faster than lighting! And believe me, I know all about speed." she said, smirking cockily and placing a hoof on her chest.

"Ah agree, if we don't deal with em' now, they could land something bigger, and then we'll have ah bigger problem."
Celestia thought for a moment. This was a large risk, and there was a large possibility of failure, and Ponies getting hurt, or worse.

We agree with them, sister." Luna said, walking into the room and standing next to her sister. "We believe 'tis wise to smite them together and quickly, like a fire that yearns to consume a forest."

Celestia looked up, and they all smiled, hoping she would help end the conflict quickly.

"Alright my ponies, I just hope that this is the right call. Now if you'll excuse me, I must retire for the night." With that, Celestia walked out of the room and towards a guest room, followed by 4 royal guards.

"I think we should all be getting to bed." Twilight said, following her out the room, towards her bedroom.

TJ-912's Recusant Class Destroyer angled itself into a bombardment position, along with TF-1726's Munificent Class Frigate as they moved towards the Dragon Lands from orbit, their cannons all swiveling downwards, prepared to rain down hell and fire upon the already volcanic landscape below.

TJ-912 stood on the bridge, walking around making sure all preparations were in place. This would be a fine example of the Confederacy's might and would crush the moral of their opponents.

Her communications panel chimed in, and he activated the display to be greeted with familiar sight of her superior, Kraken.

"Are the preparations finished?" Kraken asked

"Yes sir, our ships are nearly in position." She replied.

"Excellent. Begin charging your cannons to maximum capacity. I want that region of the planet to be nothing more than a blackened crater of ash and debris."

"Yes sir," she said, ordering her troops to begin charging their Turbolasers. "The wait for the Turbolasers to reach maximum bombardment efficiently will be about 1 hour. We will also need to devote power from shields to maintain firing."

"Acceptable. I will signal you when I wish for you to fire."

"I will wait for your order." She said, closing the transmission, and continued staring out the window.

Comments

[WhatAWonderfulUsername]

Those poor dragons are about to get glassed.

Good story so far!

[Skyblazer9]

Keep up the good work.

[Anaylze]

11260486
Why thanks :)

[Anaylze]

11260860
Thank you for the support :)

[SUPERETHAN2]

11260979
I get plot armor is inevitable or rather you cannot have it not be a thing, but with clever or decent writing it's not blatantly obvious, which is my issue. The fact that all of the well trained guards were easily killed when they didn't even put up one iota of a fight, yet the girls just seemed to magically get through it with only minor injuries at worse is too laughable for me to buy.

just remind you. 1. the Main six have fought others villain's stronger than Commando Droids and didn't get close to death. 2. if this was a real crossover IDW wouldn't kill off the main six this early or ever in the story.

Yeah, because of their deus ex machina and clever writing from the show that didn't make it obvious by having a group of well trained guards die in the same fight as them without putting up a fight, and yet they do. I get you can't have them die, but don't make it painfully obvious like you did here. You are better than that. Anyone is better than that. Have the guards put up an actual fight and only have a few die if you must have your tragedy. Also, when it happens don't ruin the mood by having Rarity bitch about her appearance when there are dead ponies in front of her that were protecting her ungrateful ass, or if you do have someone call her out instead of Fluttershy of all ponies cheering her up when there are again dead ponies in front of her. Like how only Celestia seems to care about that.

[Anaylze]

11260989
Oops. you make a good point. Apologies if it made the mane 6 sound like they didn't care about the dead guards. I'll see if I can fix it in the later chapters along with better combat for the guards and make less of them die.

[Fallingraptor19]

Sorry but magic and spears get beat by space artillery and the cis definitely don't care about civilian casualties as long as there primary objective can be obtained.

*commence orbital bombardments*

[RDDash]

Well Celestia could always brain fart the old CIS ship out of the sky. They are basically gods.

[Black--Soul]

The droid might destroy Canterlot partially or completely, but after that? Moon to the fleet...