Uni: Chapter 1
"Queen Arc!" Royal Arc looked away from her papers from the call, she looked up and saw one of her guards rushing over to her "Queen Arc I have a report for you." The guard said as she bowed.
"Speak." was the only reply from the Uni Queen as she looked back at her papers.
"The LE Scout has given a... Interesting report from his patrol-" The guard said as he handed Royal Arc a piece of paper with the report on it "apparently he saw a small Terra group in our lands, he assumes it is a Terra scouting party" The guard said, a ting of worry in his voice, regardless if it was from speaking to the Queen of the Uni or it was from the report Royal did pick up on it.
"Don't worry, i will send a group to go take it out and find out why its here. You may go..." The guard nodded and began to walk away "Oh and if you ever speak to me with fear in your voice again, it better have a much better reason. Your a guard not a foal." The guard nodded once more and started to walk away again, this time much faster. "Regal!" Royal Arc called out, soon a white unicorn with lots of gems and jewelry rushed over.
"You called for me my Queen?" the white unicorn mare said as she bowed, evidently named Regal.
"Go send a message to General Star that he needs to get a group to take out that Terra scouting party... Oh and tell him he can only send one pony and no more then five summons! The report clearly says it didn't look like a big group so i will not be willing to waste a lot of resources on something so small" Arc commanded as she topped it off with a wave of the hoof.
"General Star, Queen Arc has sent you a message" Regal said as she ran over through the barracks towards General Star, once she got to him she floated the message out of her saddle bag, once General Star took it Regal walked away.
General Star read through it, once down he tossed it and sighs "Ugh, one pony and five summons..." General walked over to his desk and checked the list of troops and there ranks "Hmm..." Once he decided on who will go and what summons he leaned over to a large horn looking opening in the wall and slide the lid off of it, he cleared his throat and then spoke loudly into the opening "Ruby Glimmer! Go to the armory, get your weapons, gear, a riding direwolf, a werewolf, a beta phoenix, and a ice spirit summoning crystals. Once done come to my office" The horn echoed his words through out the barracks, after about three minutes a dark red unicorn in a cloak with some armor underneath came up to General Star.
"You called for me sir?" She said in a quite creepily monotone voice.
"Yes I did, you have the summoning crystals i told you to get?" General Star replied as he looked up, Ruby didn't say anything back, she just floated four crystals onto the table, in each crystal there where summoning symbols carved into them. He looked over the four crystals making sure each symbol was correct before he spoke "Good" He floated the LE Scout report over to Ruby "Take out the Terra group but don't kill everything, 'kindly' ask one of those Terra scum what they where doing in this area before you kill him. Understood?" Ruby just nodded and took back the crystals and picked up the report "Dismissed" General Star said as he turned away.
Half a hour later Ruby was sitting on the saddle of the riding direwolf she summoned with one of the crystals, she looked down from a large hill at the Terra group. There was six units, two Terra ponies and the other four where bots, Ruby took out the beta phoenix summoning crystal and mumbles the inscription on the crystal. With a quick flash a large phoenix came out, it was not nearly as big or strong as a alpha phoenix but it was still quite big "Fly over them real quick and find out what robots they have, when done come back to me and report it... And don't be seen!" the beta phoenix nods and flew off, Ruby sat down and put her head on the direwolf as she waited.
One minute later the phoenix came back and started drawing in the dirt with its claws. The phoenix first drew a circle with spider like leg, Ruby knew what the first one was it was a scout bot, all it really has is a rifle built into it and the legs move quite fast making it a decent sniper, next the phoenix drew two circles that went up into a four armed ape like feature and Ruby also knew what those two where, they are normal warrior bots, the top two arms are blades, the bottom left arm is a crossbow for long ranged fighting, and the bottom right arm is a rapid reloading flint lock pistol for close range fighting, and the last thing the phoenix drew was something that she never seen before, it first drew a diamond shape with four beams in it going down to a rectangle with what looked like a cannon on the front and on the bottom of the rectangle was tracks.
Ruby stood up and got on the riding direwolf, she then summoned the werewolf and ice spirit quickly. She whispered to them "Stay here until you see me attack the group, then wait five seconds before leaping in." After Ruby said that she road the direwolf behind some rocks near the group, she listened in to the group.
"What? Nah it will be ok" One of the Terra ponies said to the other, Ruby unsheathed her sword and commanded the direwolf to leap at them with a whip of the reins, they leaped over the rock and landed behind the group. The group turned and looked at her "Oh god damn it! Kill her before she warns anyone about us!" Yelled one of the Terra ponies, both of the Terra ponies ran back behind the two warrior bots who started rolling towards Ruby which started firing and that's when Ruby saw it, there was a massive crystal with four beams keeping it up which went down into a metal rectangular box that had a cannon on it with two tracks on the bottom, it was like a tank. The crystal spun a bit until a small metal pole faced Ruby, the pole sparked up with magic and soon a beam was sent at Ruby. The direwolf reacted before Ruby did and lept our of the way of the beam but the crystal slowly turned keeping to beam going following the Ruby, to make matters worse bullets and crossbows flew around them as all the other bots moved towards Ruby.
A loud boom range out as the tank like bot fired a cannon towards the beta phoenix that swooped in the help, the cannon hit the phoenix directly and all the damage was to much for it, the phoenix shattered into a bunch of crystal shards like all summons do when they die. Ruby quickly got off the direwolf as she saw the werewolf and ice spirit attack the tank like bot. The crystal swiveled around trying to hit something with the beam "Direwolf! Go after the scout bot! Werewolf, attack the warrior bots! Ice spirit, keep attacking the tank... Thing! But keep moving as you do!" As soon as the commands where given the summons acted, sparks, bullets, claws, and magic where flying everywhere. As the fighting went on Ruby grabbed her sword with telekinesis and charged at the two Terra ponies who where trying to shoot the werewolf, as Ruby closed it she sent the sword forwards and slashed one of the ponies in the leg, it didn't last long as a bullet ripped into Ruby's shoulder, she cringed in pain and limped back a bit but didn't stop her attack, she made three balls of fire and sent them at the Terra ponies. The unhurt one managed to get out of the way from the large fiery explosion but the one who was crippled with the leg wound took the full force of the blast.
The werewolf was having not the easiest time given the fact that he was dealing with four blades, two sets of bullets flying around him all the time, and two crossbow bolts being shot out at him but he managed ti dodge most of it sense he has speed on his side, the werewolf jumped back a bit and tried to catch his breath but a crossbow bolt hit him in the chest as soon as he did, it didn't kill him but he fell down a bit and spat out some blood, as soon as the werewolf caught sight of the blood his eyes turned blood shot with blood lust, he got down on all fours and ran towards the warrior bots, bullets and crossbow bolts flew into him but it didn't slow him down, he was like a berserker taking all the hits but still moving. The werewolf pounced on the left warrior bot and proceed to rip it apart with his claws, once he finished taking apart the first one - and taking several more slash, bullets, and crossbow bolts - he ran towards the second warrior bot who was in the process of backing away as it fired but the werewolf had far more speed then the warrior bot and it caught up with the bot quite easily, there werewolf parried the bots blades with a wave of its claws and sank it's teeth into robot's metal chest, soon ripping off the chest plate showing all of the gears and engines inside it. As soon as the werewolf was about to start slashing into the exposed insides of the bot two blades stabbed into the werewolf's neck. No amount of bloodlust could save the werewolf from the blades that ripped open his neck, the blades almost decapitated werewolf but when the warrior bot was done killing the werewolf, all that was left of the werewolf's neck was a patch of skin keeping the neck and body together. Soon the werewolf shattered into a bunch of crystal peices.
Meanwhile the Direwolf just finished easily stomping the scout bot's sphere head, the direwolf only really took one bullet the leg which did slow it down a bit but was not nearly enough to stop it. The direwolf saw the last warrior bot closing in on Ruby who was blocking the Terra ponies blunderbuss with a force field, it was looking like Ruby was having a hard time closing the distance and if that warrior bot got to Ruby then she would be done for. The direwolf charged at the warrior bot ramming it's head into the bot's side sending them both tumbling, the dire wolf pinned down the warrior bot and bit into its left blade arm, attempting to rip the whole thing off, after a few attempts the direwolf figured out how pointless the attempts where and instead it pointed it's attention on biting into the exposed inner workings of the warrior bot, with a few bites into the gears and valves of the bot it stopped fully, but not before pulling its quite mangled blade arm out from under the direwolf and getting one good stab into the direwolf's side, the direwolf stumbled back and with it's mind clouded with pain and blood loss it looked for its next target, the only thing left was the tank like bot which the ice spirit was circling around and freezing the joints of it. The direwolf knew that it would not be able to do anything to the tank so instead it limped over to Ruby, letting out a weak whine. Once ruby saw this she reached into her bags with her mouth and took out the direwolf's summoning crystal. Almost instantly after she did Ruby returned the heavily injured direwolf to it.
Ruby looked back to the Terra pony when she was done returning the direwolf and saw that he just finished reloading another shot but this time he didn't fire right away, he instead took a few steps back and waited, Ruby took this opportunity to lower the shield and charge forward, though not straight at him, she was smart enough to charge more to the left of him to make sure she didn't take a blunderbuss shot to the face. Once Ruby closed the distance she slashed the blunderbuss on his saddle in a attempt to disarm him but she did take a gracing bullet to her side before the blunderbuss flew away the the Terra. The Terra pony quickly unsheathed a sword with his mouth and Ruby gladly took the challenge, they parried each others swords a few times, none of them leaving a big enough opening for a slash yet but Ruby knew she had the advantage of having more maneuverability with his sword. Ruby then had a idea, she locked blades with the Terra pony making it a struggle of strength which she knew she would lose given the fact that the Terra pony is a earth pony which meant he had the natural strength advantage, as soon as the Terra pony started to win the struggle she let go of the magical grip she had on the sword, jumped back, and pulled up a large rock with her magic. The Terra pony lost balance due to Ruby suddenly moving away giving Ruby plenty of room to bash the Terra in the head with a rock, the Terra pony fell down unconscious.
Now that the Terra was taken care of Ruby pointed her attention to the Tank thing, she had a idea about it which was to take it back to the kingdom as little hurt as possible, the ice spirit was slowing it down but not stopping it "Ice Spirit! Pour all your energy into one final freeze, stop its movement completely for as long as you can!" Ruby yelled and the ice spirit complied, it flew up and sent down two large beams of ice at the joints of the tanks which also game Ruby a decent amount of time to fully look at the tank and understand a bit of how it works. There where three parts of the tank that could move, the tracks which could move on there own and turn 180 degrees which allowed it for full movement, the cannon which could turn 180 degrees and the cannon could move also it's self allowing for it it aim any where it pleased on it it's on. and the crystal which could move like all the rest. Now that Ruby understood that she could guess where the engine is, she ran towards the tank like bot and stabbed into the metal shell near the cannon, it took a few stabs but after a while she was able to break through, she slowly carved a hole into the shell for Ruby to get in, once done she climbed through and saw that her suspicions where correct, the gears, valves, engines, everything was all here. She stabbed the engines once to break it, shutting down the bot with no further issue... Or so she thought, while the tracks, cannon, and everything stopped. the only thing that didn't was the crystal on top, while it could no longer move around it was still firing "God damn it..." Ruby mumbled to her self as she climbed out of the bot's inner, she made her way to the top where she crystal was and stabbed her sword into it, she carved out the metal pole that the beam was coming from and it finally stopped.
"Alright..." Ruby said as she caught her breath "Lets go back to the kingdom" She said, moving to the knocked out Terra pony. She picked him up tied him up with her cloak, once done she threw him into the hole she made in the bot "Ice spirit, drag the bot" Ruby commanded and stared moving.