A former fighter pilot gets thrown into another world.. As a fictional warplane from a popular game series he used to play.
Yo wassup peeps, I'm... Uh, what's my name again? Oh yeah, I'm Morgan, I'm not sure if that's my real name though... I'm a former homo sapien who got thrown into this shit for absolutely no fucking reason. Yeah, I know some of you who read fanfictions would know exactly the hell happened to me; I've been isekaied. You know what? That's not the worst part, at least they're humans and can interact with people NORMALLY.
So, apparently, I'm in this fantasy-based world called 'Equis', I found myself as a Belkan experimental combat aircraft, ADFX-02, AKA 'Morgan'. The only way I can 'talk' is through radio, yeah I know I sound like Larry Foulke, but I'm NOT him. Period.
Anyway, this 'Equis' isn't as peaceful as I'd expected it to be. Also, their technology was up to date as well, thank god, I don't wanna trash my radio. Anyway, I don't fight for anyone...
Unless I find them worth fighting for.
This Equestria got a hell of a lot of predators, hungry for some political crap. Ya' 'll expect to me go straight in and help the heck out of Equestria without any second thoughts eh?
SIIIIKE
You know how mercenary works. I'll clean their asses if they pay me well.
The sound of a wild whizzing airflow is all I can hear. I slowly opened my eyes... No, I don't feel my eyelids moving at all, my vision slowly regained as... Hold on... Where the hell are my limbs?! Why can't I feel my toes? Holy shit did I got blown apart by that gas tank I forgot to turn off in my kitchen?! Nah, I wouldn't be here if that happened...
You know what? I'll put that aside... Just...
WHERE THE FUCK AM I?!
In fact...
WHAT THE FUCK AM I?!?!?!?!?!
My POV can be described as in 3rd Person's View, like those in Ace Combat, hang on... This airframe... this shape... That flashlight-looking-ass Laser... red painted right-wing...
Holy fucking shit I'm Solo Wing Pixy?! No, there's no one inside the canopy... Okay this is creepy, Am I like some sort of transformer or shit like that? Alright... Let's come to the heck down... (Deep breath) So... I'm a former human, a former F-16 pilot, I just retired a week ago; I was cooking breakfast; but then I got distracted playing Ace Combat Zero... lastly... the gas tank went up, and I... got blown into another world as an ADFX-02 'Morgan'... Now I'm cruising at 30,000 feet in supersonic.
"All riiiight... So I'm a plane now heh... Thank god I'm not those crenchy looking-ass ones from that one 'Plane' movie..." I murmured through my radio. Huh, I got Larry Foulke's voice.
Anyway, back to the base question, where the hell am I? Hmm, looking down I saw... Mountains? Yeah, cliffs, boulders, snowy environment, everything looked white and brown from here... Hmm... Definitely not in the Himalayas.
I continued to wander around the surrounding until I heard an unusual chatter from my radio. I raised my eyebrows (Okay I don't have one) at that. I carefully switched my radio frequency to match the incoming radio chatters. Voices began to appear, and as they got clearer, my eyebrows (Again I don't have them) raised even higher.
"Lancer 3! Break off! I'll get behind him!"
"Lancer 2 I'm going after him! Suport Lancer 3!"
"There! Splash 1 bandit! Shit! I'm loc-"
"No! God damn it Lancer 6 lost!"
"Dangit! I'm hit! Bailing out-"
"Sharko 3! Hang in there! I'm after the good one!"
Heh, what am I hearing? Seems like I'm heading towards an active warzone, so... this world's technology caught up. That's good to hear, at least I get to chat with someone... Hold on, if this plane is from Ace Combat... Let's try the FCS.
In my mind (CPU?), I imagined a PlayStation switch in my imaginary hands, flicking left to the FCS screen. I heard that familiar noise as I selected the TLS, then the MSL, and lastly my gun. Hmm, I wonder if I could switch my special weapon for something else... Just as that thought popped up, two other options appeared next to the TLS; Nice, MPBM, and ECM. Right after I selected the MPBM, the TLS on top of me disappeared as two huge cone-shaped missiles appeared under my wings. I switched back and forth and almost had fun doing so.
Anyway...
"Well well, what do we see here?" I murmured as I intercepted their radio frequency, "Hmm, Griffonian Air Force? Equestrian Royal Air Force? Seems like we got some juicy targets here... You know what? I'll trust these fanfics this time." I thought about it, and since most of the time in those MLP fanfics the Griffons are the aggressors, I'll go with my gut.
I did mention clearly that I'm not a big fan of rushing in to save creatures I don't even know shit about. But thinking long term, it's impossible for me to keep going solo forever, I guess starting out nice and even with the friendliest nation of this world wouldn't hurt. Yeah, no second thought, just for my own benefit.
I switched my special weapon to ECM and activated it, then I switched back my MPBM.
"It's time."
Griffonian forces were marked green while the Equestrian forces were marked blue on my HUD, began to wait for that familiar whistle, a few moments later, all five green-labeled targets were marked red. I signaled the first MPBM off the wing.
The moment the MPBM broke off, it marked the new beginning of the legend of a demon ace...
Second Lieutendent Seadroy Mood of the ERAF Lancer Squadron gritted his tooth, it'd been fifteen minutes since he and his squadron encountered the interceptors; the Griffonian Flankers; the newest variants. Their old Hornets were carrying mostly air-to-surface weapons, their only air-to-air weapons were the two small Sidewinders. Plus the enemy Mig-29s has superior advantages over their modernized radars and combat systems. Five minutes into engagement, he has already lost two of his pilots.
"Celestia-damn it, I swear when I go back, these intelligence officers are gonna pay for this..." Lancer 2's sneered.
"Focus on staying alive Lancer 2, us, Lancer 3 and 5 are the only ones left." Seadroy sighed, however, his train of thought was cut short by another barrage of missiles from the Flankers on his six.
"Lancer 1 break!" Lancer 3 cried, his breathing relieved as Lancer 1 dove hard while dodging several Fox-2s with his flare barrage. However, he then found himself unable to think positively as his RWR screamed, "Damn it I'm all out of chaffs-" Then his entire lower airframe was blown apart, "I'm hit! Aircraft going down! Lancer 1, it's over for me! I'm bailing out!" He then pulled the handle between his legs, and he felt a huge force crushing him from the top as the canopy burst open, his seat bounced up before igniting the rocket boosters, unfortunately, one of the boosters malfunctioned. Lancer 3 was horrified, the malfunctioned rocket booster threw the helpless pilot into an endless spin.
"No! My chute!" Lancer 3, despite his desperate effort to open his main chute, his hope perished as he found out his chute malfunctioned as well. As the altitude continued to drop, memories flew into his mind, "I... I'm sorry Sofia... I'm sorry..." he closed his eyes as he impacted the ground. The only good thing is that he died painlessly...
"DAMNIT! Lancer 3! Fuck!" Seadroy held a tear back, he still remembered before this sortie, Lancer 3 would brag about proposing to his marefriend after this mission, Seadroy tried extremely hard not to bang his hoof against the canopy as Lancer 3's voice came into his mind, "Haha! Just wait till I get home later, Sofia's pregnant, I heard from her that it's a girl. Yo, I even got her name; it's either gonna be Blossom or Sakura... hehe, my Niponese blood is calling me..."
"Lancer 5 is down! Damnit he's our youngest colt!" Another devastating report struck Lancer 1 unprepared, "Damn it Lancer 1, another group of bandits approaching from11 o'clock fast!"
"Lancer 2..." Seadroy looked dead, "This is it..."
Suddenly, as if Faust herself decided to step in, their screaming RWR stopped instantly. Everything grew quiet afterward.
"Lancer 1! We're still alive?!" Came Lancer 2's surprised voice.
"What the hell? Their missiles just lost track! All of them at the same time!" Seadroy gulped.
Then it came.
A bright flash, as if there was a second sun, shined from 11 o'clock, the direction of the incoming bandits, Seadroy's visors were barely blocking the light, after a few seconds, a huge shockwave arrived, it shook their Hornets as if they were hit by another missile. Then the faint sound of an explosion came through; Seadroy's jaw dropped.
A HUGE fireball, as if a tanker exploded mid-air, by the time he checked his radar, all bandits were gone.
"H-Holy fucking bloody shit!!!" Lancer 2 stuttered, "That blast took them all out! I-I don't remember hearing anything about a new MDW being used!"
"Uh... All bandits splashed... RTB..." Seadroy sighed, too many things happened today. He paused slightly at the word 'RTB', there is nopony left to hear it except for Lancer 2 now...
Silence filled the cockpit as the two survivors flew side-by-side. Lancer 2 broke the silence first.
"Say... what's that big bang about?"
"Whatever that thing is, it's friendly, we wouldn't be alive if whoever fired them decided to take us out along with the Griffons..." Seadroy said, still shaken up by the massive destruction.
"W-What if he's on our back right now at this moment?" Lancer 2 asked quietly.
Seadroy felt a shiver running down his spine. As if answering his question, his data link bleeped, which successfully caused his heart to skip a few beats.
Seadroy was about to ask, but his words were stopped dead in his throat as a giant silhouette loomed over his canopy.
Its large engine nacelles, canards, and forward-swept wings... All of these characteristics were known existence yet in the Equestrian military. Seadroy had heard rumors about the Russianes' canceled project Su-47, however, it was not the right size to be a major Russian aircraft at that time, which were mostly Mig-29s. That Flanker squadron was an exception.
Suddenly, their radio stuttered, then a new voice popped in.
"Unknown rider! ID yourself!" Seadroy, despite being freaked out inside, remained calm on the outside and warned the bogey aircraft anyway. Lancer 2 slowly moved behind the bogey aircraft into an offensive position, Seadroy then switched his radio frequency to contacting Lancer 2, "Put your weapons in check, a Fox-2 shot from this distance will certainly kill him-" His sentence was cut short by a sudden statics followed by that voice again.
"Hey, I heard that."
Lancer 2 snapped, his shaking hoof took over as he pressed the pickle. The last remaining Sidewinder then sprints off the wingtip. However, just as the two Equestrian pilots thought they might've accidentally killed that bogey, the Sidewinder did a sudden negative dive a few yards from the bogey's engines, and went stupid.
"What the-" Lancer 2 gulped, his back hooves began to shake in fear, he might've pissed off the reaper itself.
The bogey aircraft then Aileron-rolled next to Seadroy's Hornet, shook its wings in a friendly term, a whistle blew through the radio, "Hey hey easy man, you should be thanking your god I have my weapon safety on at that time; reflexes can be a scary thing sometimes."
"Unknown rider, identify yourself!" Seadroy continued, he sighed internally, let's hope this guy ain't mental...
"Alright, alright, I'm not spilling the beans though.", the bogey aircraft began, "You can call me Pixy, I'm a mercenary from..." There was a slight pause.
"Belka."
"Cap, you heard of that?" Lancer 2 asked.
"Nah, throughout my career I've never heard that country before, not once." Seadroy hoofpalmed his face, and he then responded, "Never heard that before... Pixy... Is it? Might as well fly back to where you come from, don't wanna enter an active warzone next time without warning."
"That's the problem, captain." The bogey said, "My country is no longer available for my needs it doesn't even have a proper military anymore..."
"Uh... So..." Seadroy started.
"You guys have a base near right? Is it open for visitors?" The bogey immediately changed the topic, as if he avoided any mentions of this 'Belka'.
"Well... Under normal circumstances..." Lancer 2 began.
"What other choice do we have?" Seadroy sighed, it's better to get this demon on their side after witnessing his ability to wipe out an entire fleet of aircraft easily. "We can't risk letting the Griffons get their talons on Pixy."
"Unknown riders have been identified as Belkan Mercenary Pixy, following us to the base." Seadroy then led the formation toward HQ.
Meanwhile, Morgan himself was having a small headache, "Ugh... It's gonna take a while to digest these 'Larry Foulke' memory packs...". He then zoomed out on his radar map; Himself was indicated as a light blue cursor, while the others were smaller blue cursors; their general direction currently is about 3 degrees off the East, hmm... There's a small channel between the continent of Griffonia and Equestria in the Northern region of Griffonia; it's labeled Celestial Channel, down below is where the Celestial Sea opens.
"Lancer 2, what's your fuel status?" Seadroy asked, "Better keep that in check, we still got a twenty-minute flight till we get home."
"One eight-hundred." Lancer 2 replied.
"Good, I'm at One five hundred." Seadroy sighed in relief, "Just enough to make it back." He then switched to Pixy's channel, "Pixy, can your fuel make it in time?"
"Oh, I'm fine." Pixy responded in a cheerful tone, "In fact, I'm not even bothered to check my fuel cell for a while."
"Just what kind of monster are you..." Lancer 2 murmured. It was silent for a few seconds, he sighed, "Poor mare, how am I supposed to explain this whole shit to her... Celestia-damn it..."
"Learn to accept it, kid. This is war." Pixy said in a resigned tone, "There's no mercy in it."
"No shit pal... No shit..." Seadroy said as he lowered the altitude and speed, "Heads up, we're approaching the hen house." Just as he finished his sentence, the clouds in front of them were cleared up, revealing the island of Trottingham, at the end of the cliff was a runway, and several hangers and ammunition storage could be seen as they got closer.
"You guys got some balls exposing those oil tanks and ammo racks out in the open." Pixy ridiculed.
"The Trottingham Airbase is known for its dense AA network surrounding the island, especially after the Griffons bombed it 5 months ago." Seadroy replied, "But what you said is still the top concern of this base. However, we'll just have to live with it. This is the closest we could get to Griffonia outside their long-range cruise missile sites."
"Lancer Squadron, you're cleared to land..." Came the flight tower's voice, "I'm sorry for your losses... Captain."
Both Hornets made a smooth landing with their brakes out, ground maintenance crews immediately rushed up towards the aircraft once it was at the taxiway, however, that strange aircraft they brought with them stole the spotlight.
"Unknown aircraft, you're too fast! Lower your airspeed!" The tower called but was caught unprepared as the strange aircraft's landing gears survived the rough touchdown. The aircraft then went from 160 knots to zero in a matter of seconds, the maintenance group had their jaws dropped at the fact that the aircraft didn't flip over due to the sudden stop.
"Lancer 1, what the hell did you bring home?" After a long period of silence, the flight commander asked, with a slightly alert tone, "And how are you so sure this isn't some kind of Griffonian superweapon?"
"Commander, if you saw what happened earlier, then that'd be your answer." Seadroy sighed in relief.
The commander chuckled nervously, let's hope I don't lose my job for this. "Fine, but if anything goes wrong it's on you."
So, here I am. After the Equestrians led me into an empty hanger I couldn't stop starting to realize my memories are starting to fade away; and Larry Foulke's memories began to take over. Well, people tend to say you can't forget who you are no matter what condition you're in at this moment. So you'll see me writing this digital journal now and then...
Anyway...
I saw the looks on the Equestrian engineers' and maintenance crews' faces; both fear and admiration, also a bit of curiosity. Did I mention how innocent they looked when they were discussing what the Celestia-damn Tartarus am I made of? Heh, I'm not sure how long this Belkan witchcraft thingy's gonna lay down, but until then, I'm at risk of getting taken apart by those Equestrians. You know what, they probably don't have the balls to do so anymore, especially after Seadroy released the combat footage of me clapping those Griffonians.
Now every so often I hear them whispering some myths they made up based on me; something about a Crimson Solo Wing of Tartarus or some shit. Oh well, it's not doing me bad so, I'll let that slide.
Oh, about that Lancer 2's marefriend? Well, yeah, although I didn't see anything about her, I did hear some female sniffing and sobbing passing through my hanger. Nothing I can do about it, this is war at the end of the day.
Seadroy came in to visit; that's when I found out the history of this Equis... Well he wasn't much of a history guy, so I was only able to retrace back to a certain timeline, but it was enough for me to get a hold of this current situation...
Equestria, once upon a time, before they achieved such technologies, was a peaceful land full of friendship... It was a time when creatures from all over the planet, trusted each other... Their relationship was at the peak of its state, especially due to the wisest ruler of Equestria; Princess Celestia, the Equestrian Alicorn monarch of the nation at that time. The elements of Harmony were the key to the peace they'd experienced...
This... Was the world I was seeking for...
However, all goods come to an end.
And the peace for Equis ended violently. So violent, that a spark of war tore the entire continent inside out...
After Princess Celestia's retirement from her reign for thousands of moons, she passed her throne to Princess Twilight Sparkle, her student, and apprentice, as well as a member of the Elements of Harmony. During the beginning of her reign, the new Princess earned everypony and creatures' love and admiration, she helped ease up the tensions between rival tribes, small nations, and individuals. With the help of her students, Equestria, and its neighbors were about to share another thousand moons of peace...
Princess Twilight herself was at the Royal Observatory at Mt Canterlot, even as a monarch, Twilight continued to research the heavens above due to her curiosity and for the science of her nation. It was then that she spotted an unusual object fading in and out of the night sky. At first, the Princess thought it was just one of the planets or meteors.
She was wrong.
It was later proven to be an asteroid, about 1.6 km in diameter. The Equestrian National Aerospace Administration (ENASA) was in a panic, worried that this unwelcomed celestial body would be on a collision course with their planet. Luckily, it was later observed, that this asteroid was in its orbit around the sun perfectly, but with a few intersections with Equis's orbit. No collision risks yet. This asteroid was later named Twilight 1994EF04.
Although knowing the asteroid may not be a threat for a while, Princess Twilight grew concerned for the current technological level of Equis, this kind of luck wouldn't always be present. A month later, Princess Twilight announced the beginning of a huge revolutionary project that changed the fate of Equis forever...
Project Starchaser.
It was meant for the Equestrians and their neighbors to develop new advanced technology for their uses. Especially military/national defense technologies. Her concerns for celestial objects like Twilight 1994EF04 were widely understood and accepted by her allies. Within months, the world changed rapidly; with the help of several elite scientists gathered from around the world, Equestria became the first nation of Equis to acquire Electromagnetic technology. 3 moons after the announcement of Project Starchaser, the first bullet train entered service in Equestria, replacing the old steam train. A moon later, the first squadron propellor-powered aircraft were introduced to the Equestrian Royal Air Force and were quickly sold to the neighboring countries. Five moons later, the Maglev train was built and tested successfully. Several months later, The first missile destroyer and cruiser joined the Equestrian Navy. Jet aircraft were quickly introduced, and the world was quickly getting its new shape...
The world, on the surface, was getting better. Citizens were living their best lives, the economies of each nation were perfect, and international relationships were at their finest.
Then it went downhills.
ENASA brought a devastating report; the course of the seemly forgotten threat, the asteroid Twilight 1994EF04 changed. It was now on a Five Moons countdown collision course with Equis. As for the cause of its sudden change of trajectory, it dated back to the retirement of former Princess Celestia. Since she once had direct control of the sun, her retirement meant giving up that control key to the star itself. The star was still getting used to not having Alicorn magic locked on, the result was disastrous; the hyperactivity of the sun blew out waves of electromagnetic solar storms. Unfortunately, asteroid Twilight 1994EF04 is a metal asteroid, and due to this feature, this celestial MWD is extremely sensitive to any electromagnetic distractions. The solar storm impacted the asteroid and pushed it 7 degrees off its course, which dove into a trajectory towards the fourth planet in the star system.
In response, Princess Twilight gathered the world leaders into an emergency meeting, they brought up the SkyDome Project as their last line of defense against Twilight 1994EF04. It features a line of defense formed by six large-caliber automatic intercept space-defense railgun turrets. Its firepower at full charge is expected to completely shatter the core of Twilight 1994EF04. This project was put immediately into action as six major nations that were at the heads ceased other current projects and threw their economy, stallionpower, and time into the construction of the SkyDome railguns.
The nations' unity was at its peak and its downfall.
One moon before the predicted collision with Twilight 1994EF04, the constructions of five major railguns were complete and went through their final testing stages. The Griffons, one of the strongest nations at that time, suddenly announced themselves quitting Project SkyDome. When questioned by its fellow allies, Griffonia simply responded by having to resume its emergency operation for its economy, which malfunctioned due to its sudden cessation of trade globally. Their ambassador fled its allies nations 3 weeks later as well.
Although confused by the Griffonians' strange actions, their focuses were driven away by the incoming Twilight 1994EF04. Nocreature was aware of Griffonia's quietly fastened development for military technology and weaponry. Finally, the time came. Asteroid Twilight 1994EF04 fell straight toward Equis with its velocity reaching the terrifying speed of thirty kilometers per second. All six railguns were lined up aiming at the incoming celestial WMD. Each of them fired successfully, however, only three shots were able to land on Twilight 1994EF04. It did its job, the asteroid was shattered.
They made a deadly mistake by underestimating the kill radius of its scattered debris.
It was in the evening, and ALL creatures on the Equestrian hemisphere of the planet witnessed the largest meteor shower ever recorded. Unfortunately, they're each space-launched ICBM with the ability to wipe a small town and a portion of a city completely off the map.
Equestria was plunged into chaos.
The debris struck major cities in the inner-Equestrian continent, and Canterlot was struck by one as well. Princess Twilight was fortunately in the underground bunker at that time. After the end of this devasting raid from outer space, Equestria lost 80% of its military power; its cities lost electricity, water, and food supplies. Citizens drowned in the pool of destruction, ruins, and deaths. Millions lost their lives, and billions were homeless. The once Eden fell into Tartarus.
Just as Equestrian and its allies were busy rescuing themselves, the Girffonians made their move.
Equestrians were shocked to find themselves running into incoming armor forces of the Griffons, which ripped through their thin defense lines and quickly occupied their cities. Within 5 weeks, the South Eastern side of Equestria fell into the Griffonian talons. Friendship shattered. Boundaries were built. Hatred grew. And the worst of all, the Elements of Harmony went missing as well. Princess Twilight, during her flight to the Equestrian frontline for a personal visit to the wounded soldiers, was intercepted by the Girffonian Air Force. Despite the defenseless Equestrian plane's desperate call for a cease-fire, the Griffons opened fire and shot down the Equestrian plane. Two days later, Princess Twilight Sparkle was confirmed MIA.
Equestria is at the edge of falling apart. Things were slightly eased up as Princess Luster Dawn took the throne, however, her inexperience in military and leadership led to rebellions against her, but it quickly ceased as they all came to realize their biggest threat was the invading Griffonians.
However, peace tends to find its way around. Despite Griffonia gaining the uppertalon throughout the war, they seemed to have forgotten that they were alone. Griffons ran out of supplies, rebel fighters from occupied territories fought back, and the Allies were slowly outnumbering the Griffons. The once invincible Griffon military collapsed within a few years. The Allies captured and reverse-engineered the Griffonian technologies and formed their Air Forces; it was known that the Griffonian Air Force during this period was nearly invincible; Tartarus, even brought a super warplane at the end of the war attempting to reverse the tide.
They failed.
Griffonia surrendered after 4 years of war. They were forced to sign treaties, suffered severe punishments, and got their military forces taken apart by the victorious allies.
This marked the end of the first global warfare of Equis. It was later known as the Griffonian War. Sadly, once a fire began, it spread. The aftermath for Griffonia is tough, way too tough for its civilians and its economy; not only did they lose the trust and all trading partners, but their privileges were also stripped from them as well. Everycreature, survivors or not, grew hatred towards the Griffons.
Pretty ironic huh?
Equestria was greatly weakened after the Twilight 1994EF04 crisis and the Griffonian War, however, thanks to the help from its allies, Equestria was able to recover 10 moons earlier than the Griffonians. Princess Luster knew what was coming for her country and the world around her; she knew the fact that this world is no longer the friendly world she knew of like the ones during Twilight's reign. And that the nation needs to prepare itself physically and mentally for it.
While Equestria and its neighbors began their post-war recovery operation, the Dragonlands on the other side of the ocean had other plans. Empress Ember already made it clear that no aggression is to be made against the Griffonians due to the fear that another conflict may occur, the dragons have already lost so much in the war. However, this decision created tension and unwillingness among her subjects, especially the Anti-pony political parties. Ember has already secretly pissed off many of her underground rivals, by establishing long-lasting international relationships and friendships with the Equestrians, many rumored that the young Empress lost her will to fight due to the amount of time she spent with those weak-minded ponies.
The aggressiveness grew significant when a certain incident occurred; A Saddle Arabian Tornado suddenly trespassed the borders of the Leviathan Gulf heading straight towards the inland Dragonland. Dragon Air Defense Force immediately send two Su-27 to intercept. When they got to the Saddle Arabian Tornado, they signaled the reconnaissance aircraft to leave; and of course, instead of leaving, the Saddle Arabian aircraft decided to ignore the Dragons. As the dragons prepared for a warning shot, they suddenly found themselves on a collision course with the Tornado, which banked towards them without any warning signs. The result was; a midair collision occurred with a single Su-27 splashed, the Dragon pilot bailed out in time, however, the Tornado pilot was killed.
The Saddle Arabian ambassador came to a meeting with Ember demanding a reason for the dragons 'purposely' ramming down their Tornado when it was on its 'normal' training routine. Ember, instead of showing her 'aggressive dragon' side as the rest of her subjects wanted, Ember backed off with peace treaties and further investigations. The Saddle Arabians demanded a large amount of economic compensation and other bullshits. Well, of course, some dragons found out the real deal due to some political shifting. And yeah, they're not happy.
That's when the Empress's underground rivals decided it was their time. Rumors were spread all over Dragonland about Ember secretly contacting Saddle Arabian high military officials about exchanging highly classified intelligence for some 'advanced' military gear or some shit. And what's more bullshit? They believed in that crap. As tension continued to boost with more rumors and aggressiveness, active protests and attacks were starting to occur. Furthermore, an assassination plan was secretly operational against Ember by those rival parties.
Fortunately enough for Ember, she had Garble. Yeah, that hero of Dragonland. He joined the military later and worked his way to the top. Became an intelligence officer and secretly became a spy. He was later sent to Saddle Arabia after the Griffonian War; he returned 2 weeks ago and heard about the rumor. The man was in full try-hard mode diving into the core of the rival party, digging up some info, and was able to get out alive.
Ember was then escorted toward her safe house. However, on her way out, she was shot by a rival sniper. With this set of fire, tons of rival members stormed her palace and took over complete military control; including the nuclear-capable ICBM silos. The high ranks that were supportive of Ember were executed publicly, and the rival party named themselves 'Jormungandr'. A week later, the entire Dragonland was taken over by the Jormungandrs, with its leader Styx Grumbler being the dictator leader.
As for Ember? She survived, however, at the cost of an eye. Garble contacted the Equestrian Intelligence Agency secretly to accept Ember into Equestria undercover. She's traumatized though; both due to the betrayal of her subjects and the fact that she just whizzed by with the reaper itself.
Dragonland, no, that time it was called 'Slangerjord', and now owns the entire Dragon military. Equestrians and their allies were terrified, not only the fact that the Dragons had 3 nuclear-powered submarines capable of firing twelfth ICBMs all armed with nuclear warheads, but also that their ICBM silos are ranged to wipe out Manehattan and several other major cities. However, direct military actions were forbidden by Princess Luster to prevent another war; she looked to the other side of honor; the mercenaries.
The Hikiro Mercenary Corp; which was not world-wide known yet. This mercenary corp is a Kirinese military organization, they have the best Mercenary squadron, will at least until they disassembled a few moons later. Hikiro's Peril Squadron was the ones paid to wipe out the Jormungandrs; say, they did make the job easier; although did lose two pilots at the end of the showdown, did save the world though, blew up several silos and sunk their nuclear subs. Ember returned to her throne after this entire mess was completely over, she executed all of the surviving members of Jormungandrs and their families. That set off the alarm for her hidden rivals; Dragonland was finally at their peace.
For another 10 moons, Equis is seemingly at peace once again. There are Surprisingly hardly any huge conflicts around, however, the borders were planted. There's no turning back.
Saddle Arabia and Zebrica lately, are having unusual military actions again, much to the Equestrians' concern; the two conflicts decades ago must've planted PTSDs throughout the continent; Equestria and its allies all had their focused on the two countries which were now considered rogue nations. The Zerbican and Saddle Arabian ambassadors moved out of Equestria two weeks before it happened. They cut off economic trade with Equestria and their allies, now completely into aggressors. They left off the ultimatum for Equestria, their reason being: Equestrians interfere with their national political ideas and religions, and had too much of their military forces dispatched to their country. The part that pissed them off the most, well, massive casualties in the past decades done by the Equestrians on their 'Peace' expedition to clear out 'Terrorists' threats in the Saddle Arabian territory.
Their attack on the Dragon Fleet in the Leviathan Gulf triggered both sides; at least 3 'Gemstone' Class destroyers were sunk, only 1/4 of the crew made it back alive, and their flagship, DNS 'Ember' class heavy cruiser was severely damaged, it survived though, it's now under repair in a classified location. The Dragons weren't expecting such a fierce attack done by the Saddle Arabians, however, it was later known that the Griffons were secretly shipping weapons in support of their war partners. Did I mention the Griffonian politicians were easy to bear a grudge?
There it is.
Yet another war.
Equestrians and her allies; The Kingdom of Hippogriffia, Federation of Yayakstan, Republic of Kirina, Changeling Kingdom, and Chrystal Empire; though not being a big fan of making this even worst, tried their last afford to peacefully negotiate with the rogues. It failed, of course, their negotiator was shot down the moment he entered Saddle Arabian airspace.
Saddle Arabians and Zebricans expanded their territory, taking out every small nation on their way, the Griffonians used their landscape advantages to continuously fire off Long range cruise missiles in an attempt to drag the Equestrian Army down from intercepting their partners. This later became a stalemate for the Equestrians as the Griffonians destroyed their supply routes, the Saddle Arabians and the Zebricans were like flies; every now and then their troops launched small attacks on the Equestrians' outpost; by the end of the year, the Equestrians were down from 500,000 to 120,000 at most.
Seadroy's squadron was formed recently; about four months ago; their job is to locate and destroy Griffonian long-range weaponry launch sites.
Well, I was caught in one of their operations, however, due to intelligence failures, Seadroy's squadron suffered great losses. Then I showed up. You get the rest of the story.
Anyway, that's the current war effort.
Sucks for the Equestrians.
To be honest I'm still not sure whether I'll be with them until the end of the war; seemed like a long way off...
