10:39am…

Equestrian Shore…

The six elements stare out into the ocean at the giant metallic object that had appeared in the water. It was something they had never seen before. It was massive, bigger than any of the buildings back in ponyville, but not a big a the canterlot castle. They watch as it seems to float and rise and fall with the waves.

“That thing is massive! Twilight, what is that?” Rainbow Dash said as she hovered over her head.

“Uh, sugar cube, did ya’ll mean to do that? Cause, judging from it’s size, ya’ll didn’t mean to do that.” Applejack said as she gestured towards it. Twilight didn’t answer. She was too busy flashing through the pages of her spell book, looking for an answer.

“Nononononono, this isn’t happening what did I just do? I must have miscalculated or something?!” Twilight said frantically as page after page was flipped forward and backward. After a few minutes of flipping and re-reading over passages Twilight was ready to cast a counter spell that could send the enormous object back where it came. But by the time she was finished and had returned to her friends the object had moved.

“Twilight, that, thing is moving! It’s going towards Manehatten, we have to stop it.” Rainbow Dash said revving up her wings and darting out towards the mass in the waves. That was of course until a pink maned yellow furred pegasus grabbed her by lightning fast.

“Rainbow no you’re not doing that again! Remember the dragon?” She said as rainbow dash calmed down and stopped struggling against the force of her embrace.

“She right! Ya’ll never gonna be able to fight that thing! It’s just too big for you!” Applejack said as Fluttershy lowered embarrassed friend to the ground.

Rarity nearly jumped on to Twilight with full force grabbing her with her fore hooves.

“Twilight, darling, you must think of something quick, lives are at stake here, especially my business. Manehatten is home to some of my biggest customers, if they’re gone, i'll be out of a job! Plus thousands of ponies could get hurt by that, thing! What would princess do? This could be the,...” Rarity was cut off by everypony at the same time say her signature catch phrase out of annoyance of her ability to bend time and space to quickly pull a couch out of thin air and bawl on it. Rarity looked around out her friends, whom all had the same look on their face, the, ‘yes we knew it was coming face.’

“What? I really mean it! This is a serious matter!” She pleaded to her friends, who weren’t buying it.
“Well, Twilight, Rarity does have a point, what would the princess do? Maybe we could send a letter to her and tell her what happened, if you want to I mean…” Fluttershy said as she slowly approached the contemplating student.

“Good idea Fluttershy, er, Rarity. I’ll send a letter to Princess Celestia immediately, the rest of you have to tail that, thing, i’ll send the Princess looking for you.” The five element barrers got organized with their saddle bags and other things they brought with them, and soon after Twilight began writing to celestia with the help of spike, they were already tailing the grey beast.

“Dear Princess Celestia, Upon casting the spell you had given me earlier this week, something has come up that I did not intend to create. I am located at the casting area you marked on my map, but the rest of my friends have left me to pursue the object I have brought to this world for it has shown signs of life, because it is heading towards manehatten harbor. I request your appearance at once for we cannot contain it ourselves. Signed, Twilight Sparkle.”

With the letter on its way via spikes magical letter fire, twilight gave chase after her friends.

10:40am…

After catching up with her friends Twilight Received a letter back from the Princess, indicating that she was on her way with two armed guards. She relaied this info to her friends who were relieved, knowing that their leader was getting involved, but Rainbow Dash had other ideas.

“Twilight, do you really think princess celestia can take on that thing with only herself and two guards? I mean look at it, it’s huge, it looks tougher than anything I’ve ever seen!” She said with a worried expression while pointing at the monster that moved quickly through the water.

Twilight placed a hoof on her chin and contemplated the odds,while using her magic to whip out her spell book once again.

“Rainbow Dash, I really don’t think Twilight would contact the Princess and only tell her to bring two guards if she thought she couldn’t handle it.” Rarity said as she moved next to Dash and getting her attention.

“Well actually, rarity, I didn’t ask for any specific guards, I just asked for her to come and view the situation, before we made any choices.” Twilight said looking into the spell book while trying to piece together an answer to the problem.

“Yeah, sugar, Twilight has a point, we can’t be jumping the barrel on this one, we have to plan this out, make sure we can handle it before we tackle it.” Applejack said chiming in.
Twilight looked up from her book and put her hoofs on the ground while levitating the book back into the saddle bag. After the book slid inside the bag, she pulled out a pair of black binoculars and pointed them out towards the grey mass in the water. Twilight looked through them as she adjusted the resolution to get it just right.

“Your right Applejack, we do need to plan, so lets see what we are dealing with.” Twilight said as she began to look over the ship.

The mass looked as if it was made out of steel or iron, and its platforms were made of wood. Railings stretched the entire length, only stopping for what looked like entrances to the first deck. In the center of the mass was a huge amount decks and buildings with windows and doors. Two large poles extended from the mass that blinked at the top, along with two circular tubes that leaked a large trail of smoke that extended into the sky. On the front of the mass was two numbers. 69.

On top of the front section looked to have two massive boxes that had three poles extending out of them, with a smaller box behind them with two poles. As a matter of fact these smaller structures were tacked on all over the mass, the front, back, and the sides. Upon looking closer to the front of the first buildings with platforms, she saw a row of windows with a platform on the outside of it. With stair like structures leading from it.

Upon looking closer at these decks, Twilight spotted some sort of creatures moving about. They were bipedal creatures that wore blue clothing along with back shoes on their fore hoofs. But they didn’t have hoofs, instead they had talons, like a griffons claws, but they looked fleshy. They had little fur, the only fur she saw was a thin layer on their suspected heads. On the “heads” of the creatures wore helmet like casings, some with goggles, some with red crosses on them, and some with neither. They wore orange vests over the blue clothing. This vest seemed to puff out a lot. Some didn’t have helmets, some wore white caps instead, or nothing at all. After a while of looking, Twilight began to see a recurring theme with the creatures.

As they flooded out of the beasts insides via the doors, they all held the same wooden looking contraptions in their talons. They were long pointed sticks that had a grey barrels coming out from the tip. At the waist of the alien beings were a black belt that held a brown case that looked like a smaller version of the big one. She couldn’t see what it was until one of the beings whipped it open and pulled out a silver like contraption.

Twilight was at a loss of words. These were alien beings from an alien world, and they were heading towards one of their cities with unknow intents. She didn’t know where they came from, or who they were, the only thing she knew was that, the following days would be stressful.

It wasn’t until a few minutes later after princess celestia flew over head towards the ship that Twilight finally understood what they were. The matching uniforms, the sharp sticks, the cannons on the front and back of their ship, it all made sense.

“Sweet Celestia! That thing isn’t alive. It’s a ship! A giant ship!” Twilight said lowering the binoculars. She turned to her friends quickly as they turned to her, all with looks of shock and terror.

“But it’s not just a ship! It’s filled with aliens, and those aliens are armed, they’re soldiers! They have weapons on board that ship!” The whole group gasped. Rainbow Dash got up off the ground and hovered above the group looking out towards the princess.

“Oh no the Princess! She has no Idea, come on Fluttershy, we have to warn her!.” She said as she took off at lighting speeds towards the chariot. Fluttershy gasped and shivered as she took flight as well.

“Rainbow Dash! Oh, fiddlesticks.” She said as she gave haste towards her hot headed friend. Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Twilight watched as the two followed the doomed Princess.

“Please hurry…” Twilight said as she watched, powerless.