The Ball

My name is Sarah Jeanette Hall, and this is my zoid adventure

My name is Sarah J. Hall, my parents are Lord Daniel Hall, and Lady Jessica Hall of the royal Guylos court, I am want to be a zoid pilot and join the 11th Panzer Division of the Guylos Empire's military, but my over protective father won't let me. The 11th Panzer Division was founded towards the end of the war between the Empire and the Republic, the 11th is the only division to only use the Red Horn zoid, and its variants which include the Dark Horn, and the Crimson Horn.

I sigh as i look at the promotional poster for the 11th's recruitment drive last year, the poster was of the three top ranking officers in the division, Lieutenant Grant Jefferson, Lieutenant Commander David South, and finally the leader of the 11th is known only as The Commander. My father had manged to get the poster signed by all three, he never told me how he got them to sign it. I crack a small smile and look at my collection of zoid models, all of them gifts from my parents; my parents even made sure that the Red Horn, Dark Horn, and Crimson Horn were the special 11th Panzer Division edition with the logo on the side of each model. I love my parents don't get me wrong, but they smoother me with love some times, they are extremely over protective of me, and me dweb of a little brother, Charles.

"Sarah! Mommy wants you to get ready for the ball!" As if on queue Charles runs into my room, almost knocking down my model the Ultrasauraus.

"Charles! get out of my room!" I scream at him causing him to tear up "Please no crying!"

Charles lets loose a torrent of tears, "Sarah yelled at me!" he wails causing our mother who was currently 8 months pregnant to enter my room

"Sarah Jeanette Hall! What did i say about yelling at your brother?!" My mom yells at me as my former nanny, and Charles' current nanny; Stacy walks in and picks Charles up and comforts her

"To not to.' I sigh sitting down on my queen sized bed and sighing

"Look at this room it is filthy, and you aren't even close to ready yet!" My mom starts going on a rant

"Whats with all the noise in here?" MY father walks in dressed in a suit and tie, for the ball my family was invited too

"Sarah yelled at Charles." My mother sighs,

"Not my fault, the little snot ran into my room, and almost knocked down my Ultrasauraus!" I say explaining myself, luckily Stacy had taken Charles to his playroom so he wouldn't cry more.

"Alright, Jess calm down okay." My father said massaging my mother's neck

"Sorry Danny, it's just so frustrating with the pregnancy and everything else." My mom said calming down

"Hey you've done it twice already, your a pro. Besides we gotta leave now. Rudolph is expecting us." My Father smiles.

Rudolph, also known as his majesty Emperor Rudolph Von Zeppelin the Third the ruler of the Guylos Empire, but my father and mother are on first name terms with him.

"Crap i forgot. Stacy help Sarah get dressed please!" My mother said following my father to the front door where a taxi waited for them.

"Yes ma'am." Stacy said entering my room as my parents entered the taxi, and it drove off "Alright, Sarah stand up."

I slowly stood up, "Stacy do I have to go?"

"Yes you do." Stacy said, 'Now all clothes off."

"Stacy!" I yell blushing

"Relax, i changed your diapers. It's nothing i haven't seen before. You need to put on the dress your mother had made for you."

I slowly strip, blushing the entire time. Soon i was stark naked, and Stacy was soon putting the dress on me. "Stacy how old are you?"

"32 dear.' She smiles

"Wait, i'm 16, and you were my nanny when i was a newborn."

"Correct." Stacy said tying the corset

"So you were 16 when my parents hired you as a live in nanny?"

"Yes." Stacy sighs "Your parents took me in, gave me a job, gave me a home. My parents were killed during the war."

"I-i'm sorry to hear that Stacy." I stutter, not knowing that my long time nanny, was an orphan.

"It's fine dear. Now bow, or no bow?" She smiles holding up a big red hair bow, "What am i thinking, no bow."

"You know me so well." I smile walking to the foyer of the house. Stacy heads to Charles' room to get him.

"Yay, party!" He similes as he is carried down the stairs to the foyer

"Look! Pteras!" I smile pointing to the sky as a formation of Republican Pteras fly overhead

"Alright, into the taxi, lets go." Stacy herds me into the second waiting taxi

"Well, i suppose this ball isn't that bad, I get to see Rudolph again." I smiles, Rudolph von Zeppelin the Fourth was a long time friend of mine, my best friend.

"Sarah has a crush on Rudolph!" Charles snickers

"At least I don't still wet the bed, and have to wear a pullup tonight!" I retort.

"Settle down both of you!" Stacy commands which brings order to the chaos

Danny

"Attention!" A voice says as i walk up to a line of saluting zoid pilots.

"At ease." I smile causing the pilots to relax, "Alright, gentlemen. This might seem like a simple guard job to some of you, but make no mistake this is big, we have not only his majesty and his family, but also the Republican President and his cabinet, so be on your guard gentlemen. Lieutenant Commander South, will brief you on the details." I say walking away from my troops and towards Jess, who looked rather funny in her formal maternity wear.

"Alright girls, LTC Jasmine will continue the brief." Jess says walking away from her pilots. Jess was in command of the 12th Panzer Division, her division was know as the Black Widows, as it was the only all female division in the Empire.

"Alright, Jess you ready?" I smile taking her hand

"Let's rock." She kisses me and takes my hand

"That's my line." I lead her into the main foyer of the palace

Dusk Sparkle

I sigh getting my math test back, a C+, my mom is gonna kill me. I Dusk Sparkle, son of the famous Twilight Sparkle, get a C+ on a math test, "Mr.Theron, this has to be a mistake, there is no way I got a C+."

"Sorry, Dusk. No mistake, you didn't show your work anywhere." Mr.Theron said passing out more tests with his magic.

I sigh using my magic to place the test in my test folder. I am supposed to be smart, my special talent is being the best at Quiz Bowl.

"Alright, class dismissed." Mr.Theron smiles as the school bell rings

"Ugh." I sigh placing the folder in my saddle bag, i pass by Mrs. Angle's classroom, where the Quiz Bowl team holds practice, which was not today, unfortunately that was not today. I sigh and walk out of Ponyville High School, and start waling towards the town library, which was also my house "Mom, i'm home."

"So, what did you get on your test?" My mom asks immediately as she walks out from behind the librarian's desk

"How do you know I got my test back?"

"You just told me." My mother, Twilight Sparkle smiles

"C+." I say silently

"WHAT?! A C+?" She screams "What did you do wrong?!"

I sigh, get out the test, and show my mother.

"You didn't show your work!" She screams "That is the number one rule of math, show your work!" My mother begins going on a rant so I drop my saddle bag and head out the door, and walk towards the forest. Normally when my mother goes on rants like this i head to the forest near Aunt Fluttershy's cottage to calm down, today was no exception. "Stupid, me! Why didn't I show my work!" I yell as i enter the forest and kick a rock, strangely the rock began to glow, "What the hell?" I ask as the ground around me gave way and i tumbled into a black pit of, um, blackness.

Sarah

I smile as we reach the royal palace, and when i notice the 11th Panzer Division guarding the front entrance, I admit I may have gone full fan girl.

"Oh my god! The 11th Panzer division!" I squeal and run out of taxi towards the Styracosaurus based zoids "Oh my Zi! Lieutenant Commander South! You. Are. My. hero!"

"Well, it's good to see kids taking an interest in zoids, these days." South smiles leaning against his Crimson Horn.

'I see Lieutenant Jefferson, but where is The Commander?" I ask

"The Commander is a very busy man, he could not be here at the moment." South says, "But, he knows that you would like nothing more then to be part of our unit, so here you go kid." South smiles and hands me a 11th Panzer Division Jacket "Now, this doesn't mean your in the unit, it just means that we are watching you."

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" I squeal hugging South tightly and refusing to let go, forcing Stacy to pull me off him.

"Let's go kiddo." Stacy smiles dragging me inside the palace as i put on the black jacket. "Alright Sarah, go have fun. Charles, you get to stay with me tonight."

I smile and scramble away from Stacy, only to run into Emperor Rudolph "Terribly sorry, your majesty." I bow

"It's fine Sarah." He smiles "You know my wife Marian?"

"Hello." Marian smiles extending her hand

"Hey." I blush shaking it, "Is your son gonna be here?"

"Yes, he should be here." Marian smiles young Rudolph walks up to me and covers my eyes instinctively i throw my head back in a backwards headbutt

"ow! my nose." Rudolph the 4th says in pain behind me

"Shit! Sorry Rudolph!" I blush deeply and try to help him, after a few minutes he was fine

"It's fine, it was an accident." Rudolph smiles and hugs me, "I missed you."

"I missed you too." I smile before noticing two familiar twin girls, 'Clover, Caitlyn!" I break off the hug and run towards my twin cousins

"Sarah!" They both smile and hugs me

"How have you two been?" I smile

"Great." They smile as they parents appear behind them, both of their parents were in full military uniform.

"Uncle Alex, Aunt Maya!" I smile hugging both of them. My Uncle Alex was a zoid commander for the Republic's zoid forces, while my Aunt Maya was an intelligence agency operative.

"Hey Sarah." my Aunt smiles and kisses my head.

"I don't know why, but tonight is gonna be a good night." I smile.

The Escape

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----Sarah----

I thought this ball would be fun and I would be able to talk to my friends, i was wrong. Rudolph was always talking to nobles and other people, so eventually i might have snapped.

"Hey! Asshole, i would like to talk to my friend!"I tap a guy on the shoulder only for him to turn around, revealing himself to be Colonel Schubaltz of the First Panzer Division

"My, my. You are you father's daughter.' The Colonel smiles, 'I will lets you two talk." He smiles and walks off

"Well he was mellow." I smile as Clover and Caitlyn come up behind me

"Hey Girls." Rudolph smiles

"Hey." They smile

"Hey guys." My father walks up to us and hugs the twins

"Uncle Danny! We haven't seen you in years!" They hug him tightly as they father and mother walk up

"Daniel." Their father says

"Alexander." My father replies

"It's been awhile."

"Quite. So, look at you big shot Zoids commander. I'm proud of you."

"Proud of me? Thanks Danny, that means a lot." He smiles

"Still using that old Command Wolf?"

"Yeah, the old girl is getting on in years, but she is still good to me."

"It's been way to long old friend."

----Dusk----

The dessert, i am in a bucking dessert. When i awoke from my fall into the massive pit, i found my self in a mother bucking dessert! Luckily my mother had taught me dessert survival techniques, don't ask. I soon set out walking though the dessert, soon i came across what looked like an archeological dig, except that there were no ponies, there were these weird pink monkey things that walked on their hind legs.

"Excuse me, but do you know where i am?" I shout

"A pony? Wait, they broke the contract! They are invading! Seize him!" An older one with long white hair orders. Soon many of the workers that looked like soldiers were chasing me, however, i tripped on a rock, not my best moment. They soon catch up to me, and tie me up before throwing me into a small metal box

----Danny----

"Excuse me sir, but there is a problem. His majesty requests you and your team in the command room." A servant whisperers into my ear.

"Very well. Alex, Maya, Jess. We are needed." I motion and follow the servant, with my former teammates close behind.

"SO whats the deal, Rudolph?" Alex smiles

"They're here." Rudolph says blankly

"Who?" I ask curious

"The ponies."

"WHAT!?" We all yell.

"I thought we had a contract!?" I yell

"Yes, yess we did. But, several minutes ago, Dr. D reported that he and his team found a pony at their archeological dig at site D-7V." Rudolph frowns

"I remember those ruins, we used to explore them when we were kids, they are not far from City of Wind." I sigh remembering my home town

"Yes, which is why i need you four to go interrogate him, and then deal with him." Rudolph sighs

Jess suddenly gasps

"Whats wrong dear?" I ask

"It's time.' Jess said taking long deep breaths

"You don't mean, the baby do you?!"

"No, its the zoid core. OF course its the baby!" She yells

"Alight just calm down. Rudolph there is a hospital next dorr correct?"

"Well, its really for royals only, but you are pretty much part of the family. I will arrange transport." Rudolph says

"Just breath slowly dear." I say leading her out to the ball room, and then to the front steps where an ambulance was waiting. With the help of the paramedics I slowly load her into the ambulance, and we take off towards the hospital.

----Sarah----

"And then Charles bursts into my room butt naked, with all my school friends in my room." I laugh recalling my first sleep over, as I see Stacy approach me, "Hey Stacy, whats up?"

"Your mother went into labor.' Stacy said bouncing Charles

"What?!"

"Relax dear, it's fine your mother made it to the hospital, she is going to be fine. Just enjoy the night." Stacy smiles and heads to talk to the other child watchers

"Great, anther little snot running around." I groan

"Hey, Sarah. I think i know something that will make you feel better." Rudolph smiles

"What?"

"Follow me." Rudolph smiles. So the twins and I follow Rudolph out of the ball room, and towards the guard quarters of the castle, luckily since Rudolph is crown prince, he has security clearance to almost everything. Soon we find ourselves taking an elevator underground. Rudolph soon leads us to a larger hanger, and in the hanger stood four, zoids fresh off the production line, a Gun Sniper LS, an Assault Mode Elephander, a Lightning Saix with the royal emblem on the side, and finally a Dark Horn. All four zoids were lined up with techs running tests on them

"Rudolph what is all of this?" I smiles barely able to contain my self

"These zoids, are fresh off the production line, they are intended to be assigned to new guards, when the current guard academy class graduates, but I know the times that the guards change shifts, and that the launch tunnel opens for guard changing." Rudolph smiles

"S-so we could in theory pilot those zoids?!" I smile wider then i ever smiled before,

"Yep, the tests should end in a minute, and the tunnel opens in ten." Rudolph smiles and leads us to a small maintenance tunnel, "inside girls." Rudolph smiles

"Don't look up our dresses." We all three say as we get in. Rudolph follows us and closes the tunnel behind us and takes the lead. When we reach the end of the tunnel, we wait a few minutes for the techs to clear out before exiting the tunnel

"Wow." I say as I admire the Dark Horn and its hybrid Vulcan cannon. I slowly walk up the metal stairs to the cockpit, the cockpit opens with a hiss, and i step in "This is awesome!" I squeal.

"keep your voice down.' Rudolph whispers to me before entering the Lightning Saix, Caitlyn smiles and jumps into the GUn Sniper LS' cockpit, leaving Clover with the Elephanter.

"Radio check." I smile as the canopy closes over my head, and seals with a hiss.

"This is Clover."

"This is Caitlyn."

"This is Rudolph. Alright, we need to move the zoids into the tunnel itself, before we can get outside the castle with these zoids. We radio our understanding and we slowly begin to pilot the zoids, very clumsily, though the tunnel towards the exit point. "And now we wait for the guards." Soon the guards from the night's first shift open the tunnel door, and didn't give us a second look as we piloted our zoids up the ramp and onto castle grounds.

Suddenly my heads up display begins to flash "Detecting DNA, of Guardian force Member. Scanning." A red scanning laser swept though the entire cockpit. "DNA scanned. 50% Commander Daniel Hall, Guylos Empire, Commander of 11th Panzer Division, Guardian Force. 50% Jessica Hall, Guylos Empire, Commander of 12th Panzer Division, Guardian force. Subject, is cleared for classified information, regarding incident 5-HF. Be advised, a pony has been found on Planet Zi, this is in violation of the Contract of Zebarion, in which the nation of Equestria agreed to not come into contact with Planet ZI, and vice versa. This pony presence indicates a possible invasion force." A mechanical voice says

"What the hell was all of that." I said trying to process everything that the voice said, my parents being in the guardian force, my father being The Commander. That can't be possible, this has to be one of those hidden camera shows.

"Guys we have a problem, Zoid command is wondering why we are not on our patrol route. They are sending a team, to check on us. What do we do?"

"Run!" I yell and gun the Dark Horn towards the castle gates

"What the fuck Sarah!" Rudolph yells following me, with the twins in tow. I mange to get the Dark Horn to the streets, and with the three other zoids behind me, we somehow mange to make it to the dense forests that surround Gygalos, the Empire's capital. "Guys, we have air contacts, we have Redalers. What do we do?"

"Run some more!" I order my Dark Horn to run west, and everyone followed my lead, and just like that we were wanted fugitives

----Danny----

"Just breath in and out dear, in and out." I smile trying to calm Jess down as a doctor examined her nether regions.

"Well, you are beginning to dilate Mrs.Hall." The Doctor says as the Guylos national anthem starts to play from my pocket.

"Sorry." I blush taking out my phone, it was Stacy. "Hey Stacy, whats up?"

"Hey Mr. Hall, listen i can't find Sarah, the twins, or Rudolph. Security is locking down the castle, something about rouge zoid pilots or something."

"Can you see Colonel Schubaltz, he is always at my Saturday night poker games. Always wins, but barely?"

"I see him." Stacy passes the phone to the Colonel

"Colonel, what the hell is going on there?!"

"I wish i knew, Commander. Its chaos here, the palace is on lock down, we are missing four zoids, that just arrived at the palace last week, and we are having reports of rouge pilots. We think they may have kidnapped, Sarah, the twins, and Rudolph."

"Shit, shit, shit!" I say as i leave the room "What the fuck!?"

"I know, i know. We have redalers trying to track them now, but as of right now Code Black is in effect, I want the 11th deployed ASAP. Schubaltz, out."

I sigh and dial my command team 'David, its Commander Hall speaking, Code Black, repeat, Code Black, repeat, CODE BLACK."

"Roger that sir, the 11th will be forming a perimeter around the city shortly

"" Roger." I sigh and hang up before going back to my wife's side

The Attack

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----Sarah----

I can't believe this, I am finally a zoid pilot, this is awesome, granted I am still running from Imperial redlars, but other wise this is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

"Why did I show you the zoids?" Rudolph sighs as the Lightning Saix comes up next to my Dark Horn

"Because you wanted to cheer me up." I smile

"Hey, guys! I manged to pick up Imperial radio chatter, patching you guys in." Clover smiles

"Base, base. This is Yellow 1 Actual, we are at bingo fuel, repeat bingo fuel, returning to base. Be advised we will lose sight of the zoids. How copy, over?" The Redlar wing leader radios command

"Solid copy, Yellow 1 Actual. We will send out the 11th and the 12th to track the zoids down, over." Colonel Schubaltz radios the squadron

"Now, you've done it Sarah. You have gotten two entire panzer divisions to chase us down." Caitlyn sighs her Gun Sniper LS, trailing behind her sister's Elephanter.

"Look! A cave, we can hide there." I smiles and bring the Dark Horn into the large cave, soon the rest of the zoids entered the cave, and we slowly made out way deep inside the cave

"It, had to be a cave, it just had to be a cave." Rudolph sighs as we go deep into the cave

"Still afraid of the dark Rudolph?" I smile

"Shut up!" He snaps

"Cool it, both of you." Clover orders "Jeez, these tunnels are massive."

"Yeah, these are likely old escape tunnels, from the war." Caitlyn says turning on the Gun Sniper LS' lights

"Well, they have to lead somewhere." I smile as we went deeper into the tunnels

----Danny----

"Congratulations, its a girl." The doctor smiles, as I cut the cord.

"What should we name her?" I smile

"I was thinking, Annabeth." She smiles, Annabeth was her mother's name.

"I like it." I smile as my phone rings again, 'One sec." I step out of the room "Hello?"

"Danny, its David. Schubaltz wants the 11th to fan out and search the woods surrounding the city, he wants us to start fanning out, now!" David tells me as Red Horns roar to life in the background

"Alright, alright. I will be there as soon as possible." I sigh and head back into the room

"Go on dear, its your job. I'll be fine." Jess smiles at me

"Alright, stay safe." I smile and run to the exit of the hospital and hail a taxi, and tell him my address, I had to visit an old friend.

----Dusk----

"For the last time, i don't know what your talking about!" I yell at the old man who was interrogating me, my hoofs were tied together, and weird metal ring was around my horn, preventing me from using my magic.

"Still won't talk huh? Well, for your sake I hope you change your mind, once The Commander arrives." The old man smiles as a soldier bursts in.

"Dr. D! We have a large bandit force approaching from the south!" He yells before there were several large explosions

"Shit, what about the security detail?" The old man yells

"All dead, they had Gun Snipers pick them off."

"Shit! Full scale evacuation! Forget the pony." The old man and the soldier run out of the room, and several larger explosions can be heard, before a large burly man enters

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?"

----Sarah----

"I see light!" Rudolph yells and guns his Lightning Saix towards the light causing the rest of us to chase after him, when we reached the light it turned out to be light pollution from a large city in the distance.

"Jeez, I didn't think we went that far." Clover says,

"Yeah, its massive. Guys what the heck are we gonna do now?" Rudolph sighs "Any ideas Sarah?"

"Hold one one second, take a loot at this data guys." I send copies of the classified information that had appeared on my heads up display earlier.

"Holy crap on a cracker, your dad is The Commander!" Clover yells, "He doesn't seem like the type."

"Yeah that is what i thought, but it all makes sense now, the signed posters, the special zoid models, the jacket. The Commander knew all of the things i wanted, because he was my father. He lied to me, him and my mother." I sigh and start crying.

Rudolph dismounts his zoid and climbs into the cockpit of mine and hugs me "shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, its okay." He smiles causing me to slowly calm down.

"Hey, guys. According to this information flash, the archeology site that the pony was captured at was attacked by bandits, the soldiers left the pony, and the pony is now likely in the hands of the bandits. Think we can go do that, maybe be like our parents?" Clover smiles

"Lets do it!" I smile 'I want to prove to my father, that he didn't have to lie to me, but first we need new clothes. You know what the means."

"Shopping!" Clover, Caitlyn, and I say at the same time.

"Wait, we don't have any money." Clover says

"Rudolph has his credit card." I smile.

"Its only for emergencies. But i know i am not gonna win this, lets leave the zoids in the cave, and head to the city." He sighs heading back to his zoid.

----Danny----

"Thank you." I pay the cabbie and walk into my house, i walk up the stair case and into my study, inside my study i press a button that was on the underside of my desk , causing my bookcase to swivel and turn revealing a stairwell leading down. I sigh and walk down the stairwell into a large empty room, I smile and turn on the lights causing the room to be engulfed in lights, revealing that the room is not a room, but in fact a large hanger, with two large scale zoids inside of it, my Red Horn, and Jess' Zaber Fang. "Hey old girl." I smile and enter the cockpit and activate my zoid causing it to roar to life. I press a button that causes the hanger roof which was covered by our backyard to split in half and the floor began to rise up, until the two zoids were at ground level. My next door neighbors had chosen to have a romantic evening in their backyard. "Evening neighbors."

They looked at my zoid in shock. I smile "Well, have a great time." I close the cockpit and i begin to move my zoid onto the main road, the floor of the hanger retracting, and being covered by the back yard again. "This is Horn Actual, i am en-route to the castle, ETA 4 minutes give or take with traffic.'

"Roger Horn Actual, be advised the pony is now in bandit hands, repeat the pony is now in bandit hands." Colonel Schubaltz radios me.

"Roger that command. I will be rendezvousing with my division and look for the prince.

"Negative Horn Actual, let the 12th handle that. I want you and the 11th to find that pony!" Schubaltz orders, 'I will be calling in the rest of the Guardian Force."

"Yes sir." I grumble. My daughter was missing, and he places me on pony recovery duty, god sometimes i wish i didnn't rig my poker games in favor of him.

----Sarah----

"Oh, this shirt is awesome!" Clover smiles holding up a long sleeve shirt with the Guardian Force logo on it, we had yet to change out of our formal wear, and i think we were starting to draw attention.

"Come on Clover. Let's go." I said having picked out several pairs of jeans, as well as some shirts, jackets, socks, and several changes of underwear.

"We are so gonna get caught." Rudolph sighs as we near the register and put all the clothes on the checkout counter

"Alright the total will be, 361 dollars." The cashier smiles

"Here you go." Rudolph hands her his credit card, and she hands us the clothes

"Have a good day." She hands the card back to him.

"I can't believe we didn't get caught.' I smile as we head back to the changing rooms to get out of our formal gear.

"Guys, we have company." Clover says as we leave the changing rooms. There were imperial soldiers entering the store.

"Shit." Rduolph curses

My Little Zi, Zoids are Magic: The Path of the Father

by superfunnelc

The Ball

The Escape

The Attack