> My little army > by Darth_Pinkie > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Senate (full of monkeys) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My Lord! If we do not have more credits within fifteen rotations we will lose the funding for weapons, clones, tanks and even supplies for the already existing clones!" Bail Organa expressed with his 'I'm not fucking with you' face. "I understand senator but we are already sending out our best clones to find new allies and arrange peace talks" Chancellor Palpatine said as calmly as he could as someone threw a tomato at his face. "Please everyone stay calm I, have already send out the clones!" he said as he retreated to his office. He cursed under his breath as he wiped the tomato of his face "how did he even sneak that in?" He asked to no one in particular.He immediately remembered his meeting with the three clone commanders, and by him remembering it I mean Fox reminded him. "Bring them in Fox" Palpatine ordered as Sergeant Fox went outside to see if the commanders were still waiting. After he found Commander Cody at the front door he asked him where the other two were "Commander? Where are the other two?" Fox said confused that it was only Cody. "They went to the vending machine downstairs to get a drink" Cody said as if the meeting wasn't as important as it was. Downstairs... Commander Apo and Gree were talking as they reached for there credits "Well I think we better get up there" said Gree. "Nah, the Chancellor probably called of the meeting!" Apo said as he got his drink from the machine, and began to walk downstairs. "Hey, brother where are you going?" Gree asked Apo as he chased after him. "Again I told you, He probably called of the meeting, now you wanna come with me to 79's and get some more drinks?" He said raising his eyebrows already knowing what Apo's answer was going to be. "Fierfek, I hate it when you right" said Apo as he joined Gree. Upstairs in the Chancellors private office.... Chancellor Palpatine realized that the other commanders weren't coming anytime soon so the Chancellor decided to get on with the meeting. "As you Commanders... Uh I mean Commander have been informed about the setback we have encountered in this war, you won't be going in with any of the admirals or Jedi generals" He said with regret and then with immediate relief as he saw that Cody knew he could handle it. Cody already knew his mission, he already knew that he was going without major support, he also knew that all he had was two Jedi cruisers (without the Jedi of course) and three Acclamators. He cursed his bad luck, coincidentally also the name of one of the Acclamator's name. He thought of the boring locals and the boring negotiations about to come. Little did he know that everything about to take place was anything but boring and nothing but excitement. "Well then men you all know our very important mission for the next um... Few rotations, we are to explore the Galaxy in hoping to find more stupid. I mean wealthy planets to assure our existence" Commander Cody said as he cursed under his breath why he was assigned to this very boring mission. He went all the way to the hangar of the acclamator so called 'Bad Luck'. His Nu-class gunship was waiting for him in the hangar along with Boiler and Waxer. "Hey Boil what does the Gungan say to the droid?" Waxer said trying to be funny. Boiler just ignored him since his character would usually mess up the joke. "Ten-hut! Officer on deck!" A random clone gunner who was checking the cannons pointed out luckily interrupting Waxer's joke. "As you were" Cody said to everyone as he approached the the shuttle "Alright boys maybe this one will be for the best, I mean maybe I could get my own little sister down there!" Commander Cody joked as Boiler giggled, but Waxer had only missed Numa even more since he had adorned a mural of her on his shoulder plate. Cody was wondering where the pilot was but his search was cut short when he saw the pilot snoozing of on a bunch crates. "Well?" Cody said to the half asleep pilot "Are you gonna fly us or not!" He screamed in the pilot's face as he returned to his no nonsense attitude. As the fleet of the 212th legion made its way out hyperspace in the uncharted sector of the Galaxy a serious problem arose "Sir we've run out of beer!" A worried clone said."Ghost company finished it all!" He continued as they walked down the docking ramp. And as they rounded of the corner he saw his company sprawled on the floor like a bunch of Jawas in the heat. "What!? You finished all in one jump!" Commander Cody said as he stared at the drunk platoon " if you do that again I might as well jettison you with all the empty bottles! You're all doing push-ups until we find a planet!" He screamed at them, unaware that more problems were to rise such as them using up more supplies, or them ending up inside a sun just in case the coordinates were pressed in wrong, or that drunk platoon might actually accidentally jettison themselves out. Actually that last one didn't seem to bad Cody himself. As he went up to the bridge to check on the naval officers' progress. They didn't have an admiral or a Jedi with them, the Chancellor had said that their sources were to 'stretched thin' Cody mocked under his breath. "Sir, I've got a bad feeling about this" one of the officers said to Commander Cody. Cody thought about it and agreed in his mind as he nodded back to the officer. As he went down the turbo lift into the middle of the neck of the ship, the crew quarters. Once he got into his room he removed his helmet then the rest of his phase two armor.He put all his armor in it's place; on his desk and as he was about to take a well needed nap inside of his itchy body glove suit, but after barely laying his head on the pillow an emergency siren stopped him from taking said nap. " Goddammit! What the hell did they do again!" He screamed as he put his armor back on and punched a wall making a dent as he ran out.While he was running towards the turbolift he spotted a clone trooper and grabbed the running clone "Soldier what's going on?" He asked "Sir we've just gotten out of hyper space!" The trooper said "But Isn't this five rotations too early to jump out!?" Cody said as both of them got into the turbolift already jam packed with clone troopers. After having not too much trouble squeezing in they continued to talk. "We ran into a system not logged on to the data banks." the clone said as he made his way through the armored bodies and grabbed a hold of Commander Cody. "So? What's wrong with that?" Cody asked already annoyed from the lack of straight answers. "We got out right infront of a star, as in 250 miles infront of it, we're burning up! He shouted trying to battle the siren's wails. "Shit" Cody whispered to himself as he jumped out with all the other troopers as the turbo lift had already reached its destination, but as he got out he was immediately blinded by the giant star right in front of them. "Reverse all thrusters put all shield to the front, we might still be able to pull these cruisers out before shit hits the fan!" He shouted at the officers as he watched as the entire venator next to him went up in flames. "Sir the cruiserHope just made impact... No one survived, sir!" An officer said grimly as Commander Cody watched with his own eyes as the venator class cruiser exploded into giant bits of fiery debris. > The court (still full of monkeys) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Your highness, we are running out of bits to defend us, we won't be able to pay our royal guard anymore!" The mayor of appleoosa said. "Yes, me and my sister here are very aware, there for we have already sent out scouts and I have arranged an alliance with Saddle Arabia" Princess Celestial said as the court would get even more louder as she tried to reassure them. "Aunt Tia? There are still rumors that Saddle Arabia is thinking about talking with the Griffs!" Prince Blueblood said not meaning to piss of his aunt or anger the court. "You are not helping" the princess said as she face hoofed due to the fact that the most of the supposedly municipality leaders were acting like idiots or foals."Oh my Faust, I can't take this anymore!" She thought as she repeatedly head banged on the podium, not like anyone would notice since they were to busy arguing rather than working together. "Uhhh, I still need to see the new recruits for the scouts!" Celestial groaned as she pulled a guard to take her place, again not as if anyone would notice. Princess Celestial was making her way to the defense room still worrying about the guard she had put in her place, and as she walked into the room she was surprised to see Rainbow Dash there. "Hi princess!" Rainbow Dash said, looking proud in her Wonderbolts uniform. "Um... Why are you here again?" Celestial said, confused that she was there. Little did she know that she was so good in the Wonderbolts academy that they suggested for her to be transferred to the scout program, and so she was! After Celestia calmed down, Rainbow Dash asked if she was accepted into the program. Celestia was worried "Um do your friends know about this?" She asked. "Nope, I wanna keep it a secret so I can surprise them" she said with pride. "Rainbow Dash, you know that ponies can die scouting right?" Celestia asked hoping to discourage her, especially since it was dangerous work and it's very hard to just replace the element of Loyalty. "Yes I do, but I won't because I'm to fast for there cannons, ballistas or arrows!" She said a little bit annoyed that the princess was stalling. Faust, curse her arrogance... Celestia thought as she gave her the job. Rainbow Dash was more than happy to be serving her country, but more importantly Scootaloo would probably tell more of her friends and she would have more fans she thought, But she didn't know that her friends wouldn't really be too fond of the idea. "Hey mares! I haven't seen you in such a long time" Twilight said as she got of the train and managed to reach her hoofs all around them to give them a big hug. "How's your brother doing?" Rarity asked as she continued to hug each of the girls. Failing to remember her reaction to the news. "Oh umm..." Twilight thought as she began to tear up, trying to remember the last time she saw her brother, or even heard from him. "Oh I'm so sorry dear, you don't have to tell us" Rarity apologized since she remembered how devastated she was when her brother part time prince was sent to the front lines to defend the northern towns and evacuate the said towns. "Nah it's fine, I think we all just miss him" she said as she hugged them for the third time. "So who wants to go to the shop, I've got new sweets!" Pinkie Pie said as she dragged all of them to the shop. Once all of them were in the shop eating chocolate cake they started talking about how things were after the Griffons declared war on the them. "Well Sweetie Belle moved to Canterlot due to the war" Rarity said with a hint of sadness, but she immediately helped herself to some more cake. "Same with Apple Bloom, but I'm pretty sure Scootaloo stayed with you right Dash? AppleJack said curiously. "Huh, oh yeah she lives in my apartment while I spend most of the day at the scout's barracks" she said cooly "Wow, you joined the scout program?" Twilight asked surprised that she would do something like that without her friends consent. "Yup, I was one of the fastest at the Wonderbolts Academy so they asked if I wanted to join the scout program and I said yes! That's about it I think" she said as if it were nothing. Fluttershy had began to cry with the possibility that Rainbow Dash might die on one of her scouting missions. "Hey, it's ok Shy we all know that Dashie can handle herself right" Pinkie asked her friends as she put her hoof on her sensitive friend's shoulder. 'Poof!' Went the air in front of Twilight as a letter took the green cloud's place with the Royal Emblem on it sadly interrupting there very short time together. "Oh my ... Mares I gotta go, sorry!" She said as she trotted out of the restaurant. "Well if she isn't gonna eat it, I am!" Rainbow dash said as she reached for Twilight's cake, but Applejack smacked her hoof before she could finish it. "If yer gonna scout ya gotta be light!" Applejack scolded as Rainbow Dash caressed her hoof in pain, but little did they know that an event would pressure them to a heavier decision was going to weigh on them, heavier than cake! > Sun Kissed Clones > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Uh... What happened?" Commander Cody said as he got up. He found himself standing in the bridge of the venator Challenger. He heard soft sobbing and then an immediate shriek. "Aaaaaah!" He looked around to see what had made the horrible ear piercing scream, as he turned around nothing prepared him for what he saw, not his combat training, not his medical training, not even his specialized commander training, a deck officer with half of his face severely burnt one of his eyes were reduced to nothing but soup and half his head looked like he took a bath in hot steaming lava from Mustafar. Cody immediately went over to him and tried to calm him down. As he was calming down he began to sob and more of the clones in the bridge started to wake up, and a team of medics came through the turbolift. "Sir, are you all right?" A medic asked Commander Cody, but as Cody began to see better he noticed that some of the men not wearing any armor weren't getting up. "Yeah I'm fine, but are they" Cody pointed one of the charred bodies out to the medic. "No sir, Once Hope had made impact, we were close as well, so most of the officers up front burnt to a crisp, leaving all the armored clones and the few lucky ones at the back alive." The medic said sternly. He surveyed the area and examined the bodies. The bodies theme selves were enough to make even Master Yoda flinch, they were black all over, there eyelids burnt leaving you only to stare at their half melted eyes. He cringed at the sight and felt sorry for his brothers, he knew that casualties were too happen but he never knew that some of his men would be baked alive by a sun and immediately got up and checked if the control panel was still working. He pressed a couple of buttons and the PA system turned on broadcasting to all the ships including his. "Alright, um how do I say this? We've been scorched pretty hard." He said as all the clone troopers removed there helmets to honor the dead. "We lost Hope, they crashed into the star. We will make landfall ETA in half a rotation so everyone gear up! We still gotta lot of dead to clean up and injured to tend to, so we do this for them! Am I clear?" The entire fleet, or what was left of them rang with the cries of the 212th Battalion "Sir, yes sir!". Commander Cody was proud and sad at the same time. He went down to the hangar and gathered the pilots. "Pilots, we are going into uncharted territory. You either expect heavy resistance from Chancellor knows what... Or we may have gotten a kind race out of this entire shit hole Galaxy, so you load up those gunships and tell the others to ready their ARC 170s. Understood?" He got the mandatory reply "Sir, yes sir!". As Cody walked towards an intelligence officer that wasn't injured he pulled him aside and asked what the least damaged ship was in the fleet. "Um, well sir ironically Bad Luck was at the back of the fleet so they sustained almost no damage sir!" He said checking his data pad. "Good, tell the hangar master to prep the pilots for Bad Luck" said Cody already jogging towards an empty gunship. The intelligence officer was making his way into the hangar control room. After opening the sliding doors with a restriction code he told the hangar master to announce the transference of troops to the Acclamator Bad Luck. As Cody was telling Ghost company to get on board the gunships he remembered that they were still in their hangover, but they were already in the gunships so why the hell not! Thought Cody as he heard the hangar master through the PA, after the announcement, the hangar doors opened and the gunships and fighters lined up convoy stile. The trip to the Acclamator wasn't that interesting, although he did see the extensive damage caused by the star that wasn't supposed to be there in the first place. He also saw the massive burning almost completely disintegrated frame of what once used to Hope. A chill went up his spine at the thought of all those clones dying a slow painful death, the clones that were at his command... "Ahem, ladies and clones we are nearing the cruiser now, thank you for flying Gunship Express!" The pilot said jokingly as if trying to cheer up Cody. It didn't work, but as they landed in the hangar, he saw Ghost company immediately jump out without the gunships even touching the deck! "Kriff's sake, I knew they where still drunk either that or they missed the AC that was apparently burnt on all the other cruisers" Cody thought as there gunship touched down and he got of along with Boiler and Waxer.Cody ran all the way up to the ship's bridge and talked with the officer in command."I want this ship in the atmosphere ready to make a quick getaway at a moments notice, understood?" Cody said to the officer. "Sir, yes sir!" The commanding officer said as he went on to tell the other naval officers in the bridge. "Everything was going to go smoothly, he was going to set up an FOB (Forward Operating Base) on the on the outskirts of that in between that forest and the mountains to the north" he thought to himself as he stared at the holo map already preparing his debriefing speech. He made his way down to the hangar and saw Boiler and Waxer engaging in a wrestling match on the floor. Cody made his way through the crowd of spectating clones and stared at the still wrestling brothers. "Ahem." Cody said hoping to catch there attention, but they still weren't listening "Ahem!" he said hoping to stop there wrestling, still didn't work, "Ahem!!!" he was practically shouting by then but they were still not minding him, so Cody grabbed a spare blaster from one of the crates nearby and when Boiler was pinned on the ground by Waxer, Cody shot directly next to his head, giving him the scare of his life that his beard would've jumped of his face if it had the chance. Waxer got up and helped Waxer as well after the traumatic experience. "I think I pissed my pants" Boiler thought as he was pulled up. "You're getting good brother." Waxer complemented as he helped Boiler up. "Nah, I was winning since the start!" Boiler joked as he turned around to be face to face with a very cross Commander Cody "oh shit" thought Boiler as a drop of sweat rolled down his cheek. Back at Coruscant... Commander Apo and Commander Gree were being scolded like younglings by the Chancellor himself "Since you two were so irresponsible, I am removing you two from this very important mission!" Palpatine scolded, but what he didn't know was that they actually didn't want to go on the mission and that they were just acting like it. "You Commander Gree, you will be put in the hands of master Yoda to reinforce kashyyyk!" Palpatine said hoping to disappoint him but instead he just smiled under his helmet "finally" he thought "I get to see some action!". Palpatine had moved to Commander Apo "And as for you, you will be assisting Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi on the planet of Mygeeto, both of you am I understood?" He said as he was preparing to dismiss them "Sir, yes sir!" The two commanders said in unison, both smiling under their helmets at the new missions that they were just given unbeknownst to Chancellor Palpatine. Oh if only Cody was having as much fun as the two. > Um princess? You've got a mole... > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Madam! A strange anomaly has surfaced, ponies are saying that the Griffons are moving their top squadron in! Said one of Celestia's most trusted commanders. "What's the name of this squadron Call Sign?" Asked Celestia's to one of her officers. We'll ma'am rumors spread around that the squadron is named the Eclipse, before they attack they block out the sun with their huge numbers to scare their enemies." Call Sign, one of the intelligence officers said. "What do you think about this commander?" Asked Celestia to her commander; Vision. "We'll the sun was blocked out, but strangely only a very small part of it. Princess have you been experiencing anything on the sun?" "We'll I felt something hit the sun yesterday." She said trying to put two and two together. She had finally realized what the General was thinking. "You don't think that the griffon's have mastered space travel yet have they?" She asked hoping that the crazy idea wouldn't be his. "It doesn't take an idiot to figure out that they have developed a weapon that they plan on placing on the sun and they hope to concentrate that weapon on one of the cities!" Vision said as everyone gasped at his horrible theory. Even Princess Celestia face hoofed out of embarrassment. Sometimes she didn't know whether he gets actually gets a vision or he's been drinking too much cider. In the Griffon control room... "Sir!" Shouted a Griffon officer. "Yes Gilda?" The Griffon General said. "Well sir, I think you should take a look at this." She said grimly. "At what?" He asked. "Well griffon spies have just filed a report of strange solar activity." Gilda said as she pulled out a report file from her standard griffon infantry pouch and gave it the general, waiting for a reaction from the silent general. "My... Celestia must be expirementing with her sun's capabilities!" He said in astonishment. Gilda face palmed erm... Face clawed at the general's comment to her newly acquired information. In the Bad Luck's hangar bay... "Sir! We have sixteen AT-TEs with a compliment of fifty four BARC speeders, A full platoon of AT-RTs and the 212th airborne corps are locked and loaded!" A loading master informed. Cody nodded then proceeded to walk in to a gunship and brief the airborne corps which included Boiler and Waxer, except they were outfitted with the signature airborne armor including a jet pack. "Pilot, signal the other drop ships for take off" Cody ordered the clone pilot as he did just that and not a second later all the gunships where of the plastoid deck and out into Equestria's atmosphere along with there Z-95 fighter escorts. Equestria's air space was filled with hundreds of gunships and star fighters as their Acclamator class cruiser followed sluggishly behind. Once they reached the oxygen rich environment known to the inhabiting Equestrians as sky they began to descend rapidly and then immediately pull up a dozen meters of the ground. Zooming through the grass fields Cody thought "Reminds me of Alderaan.... Coming up on a nearby town the gunships' doors suddenly opened with a whoosh and at least sixteen clones per gunship jumped out with no fear of dying. The residents of Ponyville were feeling the exact opposite as they silently observed the first hundreds of giant birds give birth to multiple creatures all at once, all the while heading to them. "Alright rocket jockies! Go light 'em up!" Cody said as he slapped each trooper on the back as they fell out of the gunship to only ignite their jet packs seconds from hitting the ground. As the gunships began to touchdown on the field of grass the airborne corps that were utilizing their newly retrofitted jet packs pushed on as they unholstered their DC-15S blaster pistols and came to a hovering stop surrounding the town making a perimeter. The gunships and drop ships however were unloading their cache of troops and hulking beasts of machinery and destruction. Twilight had noticed, unlike all the other unintelligible ponies they were nowhere fitting in the Equestian list of beasts and creatures for dummies book. She realized that either the griffons were far more capable of things they imagined or... They had an alien problem on their hands. "Oh no!" Thigh light gasped as the lumbering alien creatures that somewhat resembled beetles reached their town along with white aliens with yellow markings down their face all surrounded by what looked like very slender bikes, just without the wheels. A yellow and white figure that seemed to be physically different in form to the other identical aliens in front of her. That must be their leader or something. she thought as the alien pointed at her and did the unimaginable, It spoke! Not only did it speak it spoke clear Equestrian, except it didn't say the language was equestrian he said it was Basic or something, it had asked her a question! "You, do you speak Basic?" Cody asked the equine like creature in front of him whom he assumed he was their leader since it had a crown of some sorts and it also had wings and a horn unlike the others which either had one of the two or none at all. "Wow... Hi?" Twilight said to the alien as she fainted right in front of everyone. > What the buck?! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What the buck was the princess thinking. Going alone, meeting those weird ass aliens!" Private Iron Hilt cursed as he raced to catch up with his squad, the squad that was tasked with protecting Princess Twilight Sparkle (not that she needed protecting) in case of emergencies, which they were obviously failing at accomplishing their task. He wondered why the aliens, if they really were aliens would come here. They had enough problems already and now this! He ran towards the center of the town and saw the aliens in white and yellow, surrounding the town plaza. One of them appeared to be pointing one of his small appendages at the princess, thinking he was about to do harm he immediately ran towards them and tackled the alien saving the princess. The princess leaned over and looked at the two of them in shock as she dragged Iron Hilt by the ear and began scolding him like a foal. "Do you know what you've just done!?" "Um... saved your life?" he replied sheepishly as he tried to make the least contact with her eyes as possible. "You could have just brought down more hell on us, now that there here they could of helped us!" she whispered angrily oblivious to the fact that the alien himself was fine and he was already getting back up from the dirt with the help from his 'friends'.The alien readied himself once more for a feeble attack as he spoke. "You have just displayed aggressiveness on a clone trooper of Galactic Republic Army, specifically CC-2224 of the 7th Sky Corps and overall commander of the 212th Battalion!" Cody said as he continued reciting his protocol in which if a declaration of war was well, declared he had authorization to kill all foreign beings in the vicinity, which he often enjoyed doing. Both ponies ignore him as they argued about what they where going to do "See I told you he was important!" Twilight whispered, slugging Iron Hilt in the arm. "I didn't know, I thought he was going to E.T. you with his finger or something!" he replied. "Uggh... you're dumb." She moaned as she turned back to face the alien in question. The alien noticed her change of attention and immediately shifted into his diplomatic state. "We require a treaty from your most highest ranks, then we will decide." Cody said as he stared at Twilight intently. Cody didn't mean any insult, all he wanted to know was if he needed to shoot something and he would be done with this rotten planet he thought, but he remembered that his original mission and began to apply intimidation tactics on to her to make her speak up. he knew that she spoke Basic, he heard the pony who tackled him and the alleged 'princess' talk to each other. He had also heard the multiple quadrupeds surrounding him whisper about him as well. "I will ask this only once, Do you or do you not want peace?" Cody said, knowing that it would freak out the equines in front of him. "Yes! Yes, we do want peace... Just give us a moment." she said, reassuring Iron Hilt as he trembled at the towering sight of the alien, or CC-2224 as the alien called himself. 'Weird ass name'Iron Hilt thought as he got up from the dirt in which the princess had tackled him on, then he helped the princess herself get up. Twilight whispered to Iron Hilt to tell spike to send a message to Princess Celestia. Iron Hilt obeyed and trotted away towards her castle. "Hey Spike, wakeup there are a bunch of aliens outside. Twilight wants you to message Celestia now!" He said as he stared at his recently acquired friend. Ever since the griffons and Iron Hilt's assignment Ponyville, He and Spike have been friends. "Huh? Yeah, yeah sure." Spike said lazily "Wait, did you say aliens!?". "Yup, and we need that Sun Butt down here right now." he said jokingly as Spike prepared his quill and paper' "Um, okay what do you want me to say?" Spike asked more used to Twilight telling him what to wright. "Just put there what you want Celestia to hear". "Alrighty then" Spike said eagerly. Five hours later... "Finished!" Spike announced to the sleeping Iron Hilt, He decided that since he was sleeping, he would just send it anyway. So he did and the message went directly to Celestia in her war room. "Wa, what? Wait you sent it?" Iron Hilt asked in confusion as he saw the sun going down. "Uhuh." Spike replied "We better get back to Twilight" "Yeah" Said Iron Hilt as he and Spike walked down into the castles throne room, but Twilight was already having tea with the aliens on a table next to her throne like it was nothing. > Secure those walkers! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Wait, so you're telling me that you aren't capable of space travel or have made first contact yet!" Cody exclaimed as he face palmed then proceeded to force a cry from his unfortunateness. Twilight tried to calm him down, then she saw Iron Hilt and Spike gawking at the now sobbing alien. The commander had finished his obviously fake cry, and stared at the princess. "We will set up camp north-east by your standards in between the large mountain and this settlement." He said calmly as he stood up not bothering to finish his tea or say thank you for the tea. Cody left the throne room, then the castle and ordered his men back into the gunships and head for the destination he had announced to the princess. "Alright men, waste of time here!" He shouted as he and the small brigade he brought with him disappeared as soon as Celestia appeared just where Commander Cody was standing. She stared in awe as the alien vehicles flew away with a loud Vroom!. The clones reached their destination in a matter of minutes and immediately signaled their cruiser for a touch down. "Copy that." A voice crackled through Cody's built in comlink, a few moments later a massive Acclamator-class cruiser landed in the field in front of them. A giant ramp dropped from it's bow and began to spill out more troops. Cody grabbed a speeder bike and raced towards the cruiser that was a few kilometers away. He got off of the bike a few meters from the newly deployed troops, he briefed all of them via PA and told them about how technicolored ponies haven't had a spaceship yet, much less met an off worlder. All of them groaned, everyone hated first contact even though it happened rarely. They began to setup a perimeter, using their extra colonizing materials such as easy to use durasteel panels and such, they made a make shift vehicle bay, fighter bay and a barracks; complete with a med bay and mess hall. Cody positioned a dozen AT-TEs inside the vehicle bay, and four squadrons of ARC-170s, twelve gunships and thirty two bombers. Cody was satisfied, he took a squad, a gunship , and walker with it's accompanying dropship and headed back towards the town. "Hey do you think they'll come back?" Iron Hilt said as he walked towards Twilight who was still sipping her tea, wide eyed. "I... I don't kno-" Fwomp!... The two ponies looked to where the sound originated and saw the Goddess of the sun standing in front of them. "Where are they?- Did they hurt anyone?- Are they ugly?" Princess Celestia blurted as her bloodshot eyes scanned the room and saw nothing but... Nothing. "They left..." Twilight replied as she took another sip of her tea. "Where'd they go?" "A few kilometers between Canterlot and Ponyville" Fwomp!... Celestia had teleported to the place the aliens had 'setup', though she was only going towards the general location and didn't know what to expect. Fwomp!... Celestia looked around and saw nothing but fields and the occasional rabbit. Tink... Celestia looked around for the noise. Tuum! Celestia turned around and saw a giant 'claw' about to crush her until a white bipedal figure rushed towards her and tackled the sun goddess toward the ground. "What the kriff were you thinking?" The bipedal figure said. "Why'd you tackle me?" Celestia retaliated. "You were about to be crushed by ten ton metal foot, so yeah, I figured you might need some help!" The Strange white figure said as he pointed towards an 'All Terrain-Tactical Enforcer'. "Oh, well I apologize, and I notify your heroic acts alien!" She said thankful that he was not hostile. "Oh come on, You guys still use the 'A-word'!" He said "Cody said you peo- ponies where primitive, but you guys still use the A-word!" "Ahem but what's the A-word?" "Alien." He said plainly. "How is that offensive?" "It's racist!" He screamed catching the attention of the AT-TE behind him. "Oy, what's goin' on down there?" The main gunner of the AT-TE Asked staring at the white horse. "They still say alien!" The clone trooper on the ground replied. "What the hell is wrong with this planet?!" The gunner screamed in agony. "Okay, we got off on the wrong hoof." Celestia interrupted. " My name's Princess Celestia, co-ruler of Equestria, my other co-ruler is Princess Luna." "Jeez alright, My designation number is CT-3151512, but you can call me Kill-Joy" He said aiming a thumb at himself.