> Attack on Equestria > by Darth_Pinkie > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Empire's Search > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Oy, Goldie get over here! We got another case of projectile vomit, gonna need you to wash out his helmet." Dom said as he chuckled and gagged a little just from the sight of the trooper. The trooper himself was collapsed on the floor, smoke coming from his jump pack and vomit seeping through his helmet. His pack malfunctioned in midair and he vomited, thankfully shorting the jump pack out which led to his crash landing on landing pad forty-two which was surprising since he started out in landing pad six! The hangar bays themselves were dimly lit to simulate a night assault on Titans with only the troopers' reflectorized strips of plastic on their armor that made them glow softly so they wouldn't have mid-air collisions. Dom and Goldie were the only one's with night vision since they where the ones administering their drills, Goldie was their to clean up after the squad and Dom was their to get angry at his squad for making Goldie do anything. The jump packs were quite similar to jet packs except they lacked the power to hover, they were used to get them around quickly and they saved more gas. Pressurized air was squeezed through the small ports in the pack, giving the user large amounts of airlift but short amount of airtime. Both Dom and Goldie were Republic clone troopers, or they were... Not since Order 66, They were now storm troopers of the newly formed Empire, specifically the Titan Extermination Division or T.E.D. as they liked to mock it. Their squad however were just a little short of a swamp rat and especially since the Empire began training civilians, well calling it training wouldn't be exact, more like giving them plastic helmets, out of control blasters then slapping them on the ass saying "Good Luck!". Dom walked towards the next trainee who looked nervous even though he was wearing his helmet. Dom stood next to him and said some words of wisdom. "Hey, ya know what? You'll probably make it, if you at least out run that idiot then you'll be guaranteed not to be eaten first!" Dom said patting him on the back. The trooper nodded then activated his jet pack, he zoomed across the hangar expertly and swiftly. "Atta' girl!" Her teammates shouted, Dom realized he had been talking to a girl and immediately slapped himself on the side of his helmet for making that mistake. He remembered that the Empire was also recruiting females, his commanding officers told him that some females could do somethings better then males. "Ha!" He laughed internally at the remark "men will always be the perfect soldier no matter what species!" Dom thought as he watched the female trooper execute each 'Mock-Titan' with precision, she finished the last one with an accurate sniper shot to the nape. "Huh, she's a squad leader to." He said dumbfounded. All squad leaders were issued E-11s sniper rifles, mostly for rebels or insurgents trying to sneak a few kills in the commotion, but some of the more resourceful soldiers would use them to destroy Titans. Regular units were issued Vibro blades for destroying Titans with a T-6 Thunderer as a crowd control weapon, or a last stand weapon, though not that effective against Titans. All troopers were encouraged to customize their armor, making them lighter and definitely more bad ass. This squad leader, Tamaron Rill, she had zero friends and high marks in her T.E.D. assignment test. She was chosen for the squad leader personally by Commander Veers, who personally disliked females, so him doing that was a big surprise. The Star Destroyer they were on was none other then the Search, the main birth place and main home of the Titan Extermination Division, so to speak. The concept was born on that ship and it's biggest and baddest legion was stationed on it, The 254th Legion, actually used to be for spec ops, but was quickly changed after the Titan problem arose. We were all hardened soldiers, whether civilian rookies or clone veterans, all of us went through training that would of killed anyone. Which is actually why T.E.D. is always enlisting new recruits, only a fourth of all candidates make it out of training alive. 2 Weeks after training... Please excuse my handwriting, cause' I'm cold and shivering. We're in the unknown regions, The Chiss Embassy reported Titan sightings literally radiating from that area. We were deployed to a planet and we have already encountered multiple Titan groups traversing across the flat lands, our Platoon officer says that we're one step from solving were these Titans came from. The Chiss Embassy also reports a first contact situation on a nearby planet, we may be posted there next... Signing off once again, Rill Rill finished off with her signature as she put her journal into her Tactical backpack, or a TacPack. She recorded her experience only after and before the mission, in this case they were sitting in a cold trench waiting for a signal from their Platoon Officer (who is an extreme sexist) Dom, so you could say that she was writing before the encounter happened. Dom was looking out for Titans on top of a small hill with macrobinoculars attached to his helmet, so far he hadn't seen a single Titan, but he was currently checking out a group of female troopers changing into their tactical armor. "Yes, just one more strap!" Dom said as he watched the trooper begin to unclip her bra. "Sir?" "Huh? Oh Tamaraw, it's you" he said to the platoons lead engineer as he quickly switched his gaze from the women to a wide area of dead grass. "Our presence is requested in Sector 12, sir, they've been overrun" "Okay then, order the troops into the new walkers and roll out! Erm or walk out I guess..." Dom commanded as he used his jump pack to soar across the air, latching on to the side of his AT-AT, otherwise known as an All Terrain - Anti Titan walker. His AT-AT was retrofitted to have long range comms, long range scanners, thermal scanners, night vision, and extra space in the body for intelligence units. They marched for a few days until they reached Sector 12, they were too late. All the units originally positioned there were wiped out, all there bodies laid mangled and disfigured on the blood stained ground. "Oh Celestia!" Twilight screamed as she dropped the tea cup she was holding, she was staring outside of her library window when she saw a blue skinny minotaur with red eyes staring at her. It was dressed In a white suit with gold lining, it stared at her then walked away, as Twilight let her mouth hang open for a good twenty seconds. She snapped back into reality as she chased the strange creature down an alleyway, it then proceeded to walk into some invisible object, disappearing from Twilight's sight. Today would be a very weird day indeed... Twilight had heard about those sightings before, apparently the Minotaurs have nothing to do with it, although the sightings describe them as alien like Minotaurs. She had been reading the newspaper and sipping some freshly brewed warm, Chai tea. When she saw it just staring at her, it ran away and climbed into some invisible door. Most sightings were like this, though some have seen strange triangular 'boats in the sky lately, no doubt these were connected. "Hey Twi!" Twilight's dragon assistant said as he grabbed some bread and breathed on to it, instantly turning it into toast. He took a big bite out of it, crunching the hot breakfast food in between his sharp baby dragon teeth. "I saw one of them!" Twilight screamed. "Really Twilight, I thought you knew better than that" "No, I thought they were fake, but they are real!" "Suit yourself" he replied lazily as he walked out of the library to go meet Rarity, they had planned a lunch yesterday. He was a few blocks from Carousel Boutique until he bumped into a blue skinned humanoid, the humanoid looked down on him with his large red eyes. "Woah, you are real!" Spike said in amazement "Contact mobile station If'pa" the alien said as he walked away, as if nothing happened. "Well better go tell Twilight" he said not really surprised that Twilight was correct, this type of thing happened with her. > Empire's Find > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Goddammit, nothing's left!" Dom shouted angrily as he surveyed the wreck that used to be Platoon Bantha and Platoon Twi'lek "Not even their heavy armor units are left intact, this... -This shows something!" "What sir?" Tamaraw asked confused as to what his commander was thinking of. "They knew to take out the tanks, they knew that those tanks could vaporize one of them in one shot. Either they're learning or someone's leading them..." Dom continued as he pressed the buttons to open up the Star Destroyer's frequency channel. Chhhht... "This is Platoon Officer Dom, no ones here, they were completely obliterated, over... "Chhhht... he said into the comlink. "Chhhht... "Oh my God, finally! They're climbing up- Fucking hell, get to the turbo lasers now!" The voice panicked as audible 'thunks' were heard along with screaming and blaster fire "Ugh, send help now! Search is under attack by- "Boom!"Aaaaaaaagh! It's inside, kill it!-" the message ended with static and an ominous moan in the background of screaming. "Jeez sounds like they're in deep stuff commander" the trooper commented. "Yeah, no shit Sherlock" Dom said as he shut the comlink off and magnetically attached it to his utility belt. "Get to the walkers, we don't know what happened, but we are going to find out!" Tamaraw went of to his own squad to tell them, Dom however went to his command AT-AT and spoke to his second in command, which was actually Rill. He had wanted a male, but Rill was the only one who qualified for the job. "Well Rill, as much as I hate to say it your going to have to lead the ground troops" Dom said in a very gloomy tone. "Excellent sir, shall I and the troops mount up now?" "Yeah sure whatever" he grumbled as his well trained back turned into a painful slouch, he really hated her... She nodded as she took a speeder bike and rode until she reached Tamaraw. "Hey Tamy can you please get the troops ready to saddle up?" she asked. "Hmm? Yeah, yeah sure" He said as he went back to briefing his men "Hey and don't call me Tamy!" She giggled as she got onto her speeder and drove of meet her new squad issued by Dom. As she caught sight of them, she instantly smiled, she had been assigned to Squad-42, better known as the 'Universal Cavalrymen'. They rode on Empire commissioned swoops into battle, since the swoops were basically thrusters with a seat on them, they were known as suicide bikes, as hitting a Titan in the leg or foot would disable it for a good five minutes. "Captain Rill, we are ready to disembark!" A trooper with black stripes running down his helmet reported. "Hmmm, he promoted me to captain, how nice of Dom" she thought. "Ah yes, what's your name trooper?" She asked. "Arkelli, ma'am!" "Good, mount up and move out!" Rill ordered as her squad traversed across the mile-wide flatlands in minutes. As they neared the Search's coordinates, they couldn't help but notice the lack of, well, life in general. This was a sign to the more experienced members of the division, it meant Titans came through here. For some reason any creature, from the exotic fish of Mon Cal, to the dangerous Wampas of Hoth. All life forms seem to avoid Titans like the plague, as if they have it hard wired into their brains... "Fifteen-meter class, up ahead!" Arkelli alerted as he unsheathed his vibro-blade. "All troops, get ready to engage!" Rill added. "OAAGH!" the Titan moaned as it charged towards the oncoming group of swoop bikes. "Get ready!" Rill shouted struggling to compete with the engine's roar, "All troops, take flight!" Every single trooper in the group jumped off of there bikes and activated their jump packs, they zoomed towards the enemy. "Twenty meters and closing!" Arkelli shouted. "Fifteen meters!" "Ten meters!" "Five meters, engage now!" Thump!... "Woah, Spike did you feel that?" Twilight asked as she sipped the second freshly brewed Chai tea she had made today. "Hmm? Yeah whatever" Spike replied as he went back to eating his favorite cereal, Coco Crystals. Chocolate flavored gems, in a box! Twilight, feeling that something was wrong, went out of the library to check it out. When she got outside she saw, well nothing, no ponies, just buildings. "Well that's weird, it's the busiest time of the month, where is everypony? Twilight thought to herself. She immediately got this strange feeling, a primal urge to just seek shelter. It sent a chill up her spine as she heard another thump. "OAAGH!" "What the..." She said as her eyes widened and the same eerie moan filled the air once more. Standing right I front of her was a bold creature, no taller than her tree house. It had features similar to the "humans" she had found on earth, except that this one seemed to have no reproductive organs and a wide lipless grin stretched across its face. "Aaagh!" The creature moaned in delight as it stared at Twilight. It lifted one foot, then clumsily brought down the other one. Twilight stood there for a second, unsure of what to do, maybe it wanted to be friends? Its clumsy walk turned into a fast paced stroll, she stood there with a look of horror on her face, as a small black pony crawled onto its foot. Twilight immediately identified the black pony as a changeling... Wait, what!? She continued to watch in horror as the changeling was grabbed by the larger human-like creature and eaten! A small black cloud had been forming a short distance from ponyville, that back cloud was better known as a swarm. Thousands of changelings flew together to create one giant mass, and it was headed for the creature. "Celestia help us..." She muttered as the swarm engulfed the creature entirely, leaving nothing but blood stains on the ground and a very pleased changeling queen.. "Oh, hello Twilight" Chrysalis said" I see you've met Equestria's newest problem, besides me of course!" > Equestria's Problem > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Whaaaaaaaat???" Twilight asked, shocked. "Yes, it is I!" Chrysalis laughed "And I have saved you all from a creature, that I have dubbed, the Titan!" "It did nothing wrong to you!" Twilight retaliated. "Oh but you see, I had killed it just before it could!" "No, this is impossible!" Twilight screamed "There hasn't been a murder in Equestria for as long as the two ruling sisters have been here!" "Hmmp, I'd love to monologue but I need to save Equestria" She cooed, ending her sentence in a snicker. She turned away as her changeling swarm carried her to an unknown place, laughing all the way as Twilight stood there speechless. Spike walked up to her from nowhere eating an Emerald. "What does she want now?" He asked. "I-I don't know..." "She better not invade again, I lost my gem stash I brought along for the wedding that day" He shivered just thinking if he lost that many again. Twilight just stood there her mouth wide open and left eye twitching. "Hahahha, we have done it!" Chrysalis announced to a room not common for a changeling hive, it had multiple small stages, gridded with blue squares and floating blue shapes. "The ponies are allied with you?" A humanoid wearing a light brown flight jacket adorned with medals asked. "Not yet, but my advisors predict it!" The human scoffed as he twirled his white moustache "We will not continue with the deal, if you can not assure total confirmation from the two Princesses!" "Oh, General, why must you always be such a drag" Chrysalis made the cutest puppy eyes she do, which weren't very cute. "Eighteen rotations, only" "Yay!" She smiled as she trotted away into her hive. The human turned away and walked out of the view of the hologram and into a large hangar filled with T-65 X-wing fighters and BLT Y-wings. The hangar was inside a large mountain, there were construction workers in yellow vests welding away. Sparks flew everywhere onto the floor as a group of pilots walked up a ramp. A man in an orange jumpsuit walked up next to him holding a data pad. "How is the progress with the Changelings going?" "They will hold up their end of the deal, although they remind me of the Geonosians" The man nodded. "Just very childish". "Sir, we had encountered a Titan in the supposed perimeter of Search," Chhht... Rill said into her commlink. "So?" Dom replied lazily as he laid back in his La-Z-Boy, God knows how they got that chair into the AT-AT so quickly. "Arkelli tells me that a large group of- Oh my lanta!" "Rill? Rill!" Dom screamed frantically into the commlink "Rill status report now!" Dom cursed under his breath as he whipped out his blaster and shot it in the air, gathering the attention of his men. "Woah, calm down sir," Tamaraw said in the softest voice a thirty-year old war veteran could muster "What did Rill say?" "She didn't finish, ambushed" Dom said as he pulled off his helmet, showcasing his bloodshot eyes and trashed crew cut that was tended to for a few weeks by now. Everybody turned away in disgust. "Anyways, they just sent a distress signal, most probably Titans" "Crap, well what are we waiting for?!" "I dunno know!" He said "I haven't lost anyone since Felusia, and no one's dying unless I order them to!" "Alright, alright" Tamaraw said holding his hands up "Geez, lemme see if the speeders have enough Tibanna gas in 'em" Rill and Arkelli climbed from a large Star Destroyer wreckage. They flailed their arms in the air, signaling the rest of 42 to come with them. They had found the tilted mess of Search during her report to Dom, which she had to cut short. "Hope I didn't worry Dom" She though as she climbed through the debris. Something stuck out from all the grey and black rubble, a white shape. "Holy,- Arkelli get a medic!" She screamed as she rushed towards the shape. As she got closer it turned out to be a stormtrooper, well half of one. "Woah!" Arkelli exclaimed "You think it was a lightsaber or a vibro blade and someone sabotaged the Search?" "No, It was the Titans" She said tracing her finger along the teeth marks on the trooper. "The work of 15-Meter classes, they've been known to attack Imperial ships before, but never with such ferocity" "Troops, turn on your search lights" Arkelli said to the rest of the group that were just catching up to them. All of the nodded and fiddled with a small cylinder on the side of their helmets, after a few seconds they all had their lights on. Rill began to issue orders. "Ok, I want a small group to recon and try to make their way into the Bridge" A small squad stepped forward to volunteer " Good, your new callsign will be Rescue_1" They nodded. "Next up, we need all of you to pair yourselves, you will fan out and search all of this rubble" Arkelli says " So the rest of you will be Rescue_2-16, if everyone is indeed still here. Me and Rill will try to find security footage of what happened here." The first rescue squad were already making there way to the Bridge, and the rest were already following there orders. "Are you sure this ship won't move?" He asked looking around at the partially destroyed hangar that they were standing in. As they walked, their footsteps echoed across the barren and lifeless wreck. He was answered with a large groan, making a few metal girders fall from the ceiling. "Woah, this ship doesn't sound stable!" He said as he tried to get proper footing among the debris as metal pipes and scaffolding clanged onto the durasteel deck. "That wasn't the ship" She replied as she unsheathed her vibro blade." They're still here" And as if right on cue, a huge pile of rubble thought to be a destroyed gunship, crumbled as a huge 15-meter class Titan revealed itself. Already two pairs were crushed under the rubble and one more stepped on and eaten by the Titan. "Combat positions, try to get around it!" Rill barked. Within seconds a calm investigation escalated into a close-quarters combat situation. Everybody turned around to face it shining light onto the Titan. It looked at all of them surrounding him, it chose it's prey, and like a guided missile, it's grinning face turned into a gaping black hole of certain death, and charged towards the nearest target. "Princess Celestia, I'm glad you could make it on such short notice!" Twilight said, delighted that her mentor was here to help. "Hmm, oh yes Twilight, could you please move out of the way?" Celestia said in a monotone voice as she picked Twilight up with her magic and placed her on the sidewalk. Just then Twilight caught sight of the "backup" she was bringing. "Colonel Sparkle, the 3rd Royal Regiment of Canterlot is at your service!" A dark grey Pegasus in golden armour knelt down. "The regiment is composed of two thirds of Pegasus and one third of Unicorns, I am Captain Thunderlane, of the Pegasi Corps" "Umm, Princess?" "Yes my dear student?" Celestia turned to face Twilight with her classic mother-like smile. "I do realise that this situation requires is dire" Twilight cupped her hoof around her mouth and whispered to Celestia "Do you really think we need them? And if truly so, Equestria hasn't had a proper army since you were here. No offence" "None taken Twilight, but these are the very Royal guards that protected our borders, wether they failed or not it does not matter, at least they tried" She said as her smile widened. Twilight sighed and turned to face Captain Wonderpain was it? She didn't care she just wanted to go back to her library and read a good book. Meanwhile in Chrysalis' main hive... "My Queen!" A small drone bowed to her as he walked into her personal chambers. "What is it my Changeling?" She asked from her stone throne, which was very uncomfortable. "Our recent batch of Changeling have just hatched!" He said "We now have approximately over 106,040 Changelings ready for combat" "Excellent, bring me to them!" She commanded as the lone drone looked around "I'm talking to you idiot" "Oh a thousand apologies my Queen!" He said as he rushed over to pick Chrysalis up, and she was at least two times bigger and heavier than the drone. He picked her up with his hole filled hooves and placed her on his chitin covered back. His legs began to bend in awkward positions as he slowly crawled to the entrance with her on his back sitting there impatiently. A few more minutes later the drone was splat on the floor, green fluid rushing out from under his chitin and from his mouth. He had been crushed to death, Chrysalis walked off shaking some of the fluids off of her. She whistled to two guards as she walked out of the entrance which ultimately was only five meters away from the throne. She motioned to them to clean up the splattered corpse, they obeyed and began to scrape the poor drone off of the stone floor. Chrysalis walked over to a balcony and looked down, a hundred thousand changelings were in grid formation each an equal distance away from each other. They all stood silent as drones and guards buzzed around, wether delivering fresh hatchlings or patrolling the vast cavern they were in. A human stood next to her, he was wearing a brown vest, blue long-sleeved buttoned shirt and black pants with a pair of combat boots. He held a sleek black L-shaped contraption in his hand. He faced Chrysalis. "I see production is going well, when do you think you will meet our requirements?" He said. "Soon, you can not rush such a delicate process" She said staring at all of her children "All of them must be checked to see if they perform perfectly" "I know, but do you think it's enough for an invasion if things don't go as planned?" "It's more than enough, but we still need reserves" She imagined herself stepping over Celestia's cold dead body. "You know very well we can't interfere if it comes to that" He crossed his arms. "Can't or won't?" She looked at him, waiting for his reply. "Just make sure we don't have to use this army on them" He said as Chrysalis