Chapter 6: The Thursday war part 1

UNSC Infinity briefing room

August 7th 2728

"I thought you said that you came in peace?" Celestia said.

"Unlike you we are not united as a species. These are another faction; an evil faction that will most likely enslave you and your subjects and then go to war with us!" Hicks said. "We need your help!"

"We have never had to resort to war. The closest was the changeling incursion about a year ago."

"We'll supply you with some battle saddles that we originally designed for dogs but can be changed to use for your kind."

"Do we have to fight?"

"Samborn is ruthless. She wants vengeance against me and will enslave your kind and possibly destroy most of your planet."

"Dash."

"Yes?"

"I am putting you in charge of defense; you will work with Hicks to help defend our right to live!"

Dash did her signature salute and followed Hicks to the armory.

Fleet of the United Empire of planets

En route to Equestria

"The Infinity is not backing off." Foster reported.

"Good." Samborn replied.

"Good?"

"Good, Hicks won't know what hit him."

UNSC firebase (Ponyville Equestria)

The Infinity had sent down a firebase for most of the Equestrian cities. Fillydelphia, Manehattan, Stalliongrad, Canterlot, ect. Tom passed out battle saddles to each member of the royal guard. M6D pistols were passed out to every citizen of Equestria.

Midnight squad was stationed in Ponyville as well as purple team. Aqua and the freelancers were stationed in Canterlot and Azure ops in Manehattan.

"Hey baby." Tucker tried to hit on Nova.

"Shut the fuck up Tucker!"

"Come on don't you need a bit of loving?"

Nova kicks tucker in the nuts.

"Ugh!" Tucker said as he holds his balls and collapses to the ground.

UNSC Infinity

"They're here." Morgan said.

Dozens of Slipspace portals opened. Hundreds of ships exited. The Dashing Loyalty opened fire on the Infinity.

(Heaven and Hell- Black Sabbath)

The plasma torpedoes struck the Infinity's shield. The Infinity fired its PAC gun at the nearest Imperial frigate. The vessel disappeared.

"Weapons free!" Morgan ordered.

An array of Archer missiles, plasma, and nukes rang out from the ship. The Imperial fleet opened fire as well. 5 more human frigates exploded.

"Shields at 95% percent!" Logan reported.

"Launch seraphs!" Morgan ordered.

Hundreds of green seraph fighters flew out of the Infinity. The Imperials replied to that by sending landing parties to the surface and dispatching a super carrier.

"Fire plasma cannons!"

Plasma beams were projected out of the Infinity. A CCS battle cruiser was cut in half.

Dashing Loyalty replied to that by firing off her PAC gun.

"Outer shields at 80%!" Logan reported.

"Riester! Maneuver us into an orbit that matches that super carrier!"

"Maam?"

"Make sure that ship doesn't enter the atmosphere!"

The Infinity fired its engines and blocked the super carrier from following the landing parties to the surface. The super carrier collided with the Infinity and exploded.

(Song end)

"Outer shield at 20% Mid-shield at 90! Inner at 100%!"

"We've got work to do! Tom arm all archer missiles! Riester get us back into a farther orbit!"

Ponyville, Equestria

"Here they come!" Nova said.

Indeed, 5 pelican dropships were now dropping off 10 soldiers of all different species and array of weapons. Midnight and Purple team readied there weapons.

(This ain't a scene it's an arms race- Fallout boy)

Nova fired her rocket launcher at the 3 oncoming brute warriors. They exploded into crispy brute bits. Viper noticed some oncoming jackals inbound to his location so he fired his DMR and killed dem jackals.

Sarge shot a human soldier with his shotgun.

"You just got sarged!"

Tucker jumped onto a soldier and stabbed him in the chest. Caboose moved up and started throwing grenades at the enemy.

"Here take these grenades!"

Simmons fired his battle rifle and Grif fired his SMG. Church tried to snipe from up on top of the fire base but he couldn't hit anything.

"DAMMIT!"

Nova slammed into a soldier with a plasma repeater and grabbed the weapon from his cold dead fingers. She then blew a grunts head off with the energy weapon. Viper took up Churches sniping spot. He sniped the oncoming soldiers. Nova finished off the last few with her rocket launcher. The 3 bodies flew in random directions.

(Song end)

Orbit around Equestria

(You're gonna go far kid- Rainbow Dash version)

The Infinity smashed through the Super Carrier's debris and fired its pulse lasers at the oncoming frigate. The hull melted right off. Another one of the super carriers had unfortunately made it through and was currently above Canterlot. The Infinity fired plasma torpedoes at the Dashing Loyalty. The Dashing loyalty's shields absorbed the plasma.

"Fire again!"

This time with pulse lasers. The enemy destroyer's shields flickered but were restored.

The plasma cannons sliced one of the other super carriers in half. But the other one was above the Infinity it fired its plasma projector.

"BRASE FOR IMPACT!"

The plasma breached the outer and mid shields. The Inner shields were relatively weaker and didn't make it. The plasma cut right through the bio-sphere.

(Song end)

The Infinity returned fire with its plasma canon. But the damage had already been done. Fortunately the emergency shields kicked in and stopped the area from decompressing but everything was on fire.

Canterlot, Equestria

The super carrier was bombing the hell out of Canterlot. Most of the buildings were on fire.

(Halo wars theme)

Aqua team had protected the Princesses as much as they could.

"LUNA! CELESTIA! LET'S GO!" Hicks ordered.

Evacuation was all they could do. Canterlot was in ruins. Hicks got the princesses to the pelican right before the super carrier glassed the royal palace. The palace crumbled as the plasma burned through the city. Thousands of ponies were dying.

"There's only one thing we can do." Celestia said.

"What?"

"We need Twilight and her friends."

"They're all safe in the firebase in Ponyville."

Reports were coming in that 2 covenant carriers had breached the orbital perimeter and were glassing Fillydelphia and Manehattan. Ponyville was one of the only unoccupied cities. Appleoosa was also being spared by the empire.

"Azure and the freelancers are falling back to Ponyville. Manehattan and Filly are toast. Many ponies fled the cites but many were not spared the fire." Hicks explained.

(Song end)

"We need to get the elements of harmony." Celestia said.

"How will those work?"

"They might give that empress a change of heart."

"Well they're in the ruins of Canterlot."

The pelican continued to fly and then enter the air-space around Ponyville which it was now surrounded by hornets and shortsword fighters. The fire base was now upgraded to a fortress. The pelican landed at the air-base. Hicks, Aqua team and the princesses exited the pelican.

Well Samborn sure is evil! Well next chapter will be round 2! What will happen to Blu and Jewel in the bio-sphere? What will happen to Equestria? Find out next chapter!