*POV 1st Person Nova*

I looked over the letter one last time and grinned, this was better news than I could have hoped for, not only had the rest of the alliance backed my decision to help Reptauria in their fight against the greyscales – the ruling power from a neighbouring country – they were going to actively assist us, and they were sending the best possible help, I shan't spoil the surprise, but needless to say, it would help turn the tide in our favour. I was interrupted from my musings by Mavumbi Tufani: a white and chalk-green Shedu mare and a member of Autumn’s honour guard, landing on the deck of the ship next to me, she barely reached my knees.

“The High King has been informed of the news” she said in a Zebrican-Equestrian accent.

“Excellent” I replied “hopefully, this should be over within a few weeks, months tops”

“How’s project hailstorm going?” she asked, I look down at her and raised an eyebrow.

“That’s classified and you know it” I said.

“What can I say?” she asked, scratching an ear like a cat “Shedu are naturally good at being not seen and not heard, whilst seeing and hearing everything, that’s why we are chosen as spies so often. We are like your hobbits of lore, we can make ourselves invisible if we desire”

“Still not happy that you found out” I said.

“My lips are sealed on the matter” she said, drawing her paw across her lips in a zipping motion. Suddenly Garnet ran outside.

“Dad! Come quick, we’ve got a situation” he said “the extra-terrestrial kind” I raised an eyebrow.

“Enemy?” I asked, he shook his head.

“Worse” he said “galactic lawmakers” I groaned, we had been preparing for a situation like this, an encounter with a pre-existing galactic alliance that worked to maintain order. This was going to be a hug setback.

“Lead the way” I said.

…

I walked along a lengthy bridge made of some unknown alloy, suspended over a seemingly endless pit. Beside me were Autumn, my mother, Eclipse, Teridax, Hecate, the Hellhound, and Osiris, my pet snake. Some distance away to either side of us were countless different species sat on massive grandstand like structures. We reached the end of the bridge, where there was a podium of some sort, presumable for speaking. In front of us was a second podium, raised up somewhat, two individuals stuck out in my mind, the first was humanoid…ish, presumably female, tall and slender, of a pale green colour and wearing ornate clothing. The second was large and bulky, and seemed vaguely reminiscent of a shark or whale.

“State your names, species’ and titles” the female alien stated, she was most likely advanced in years, going by her voice. I stepped forward and cleared my throat.

“I am Prince Nova Corona-Solaris Blast of the Draconic Alicorns, minor prince of the Royal Equestrian Diarchy and co-leader of the Galactic Democratic Republic” Autumn stepped forth.

“I am Princess Autumn Skies of the Pegasi, minor princess of the Royal Equestrian Diarchy and general of the High-Lady General of the Terran Union Army” she then stepped back and my mother took her place.

“I am Fantasia of the Alicorns, the overseer of Creation” she stepped back and Teridax took her place.

“I am Teridax of the Makuta, master of shadows and leader of the Brotherhood of Makuta” he stepped back and Eclipse took his place. When he spoke I could practically feel a shiver run through the entire assembly.

“My name is Lord Eclipse. Your only king, master, and Go…” I quickly put up a silencing spell around him.

“Please forgive my ‘father’” I said, gritting my teeth “he is incredibly ancient and has some…dated viewpoints, I hope you will accept my apology in his stead” I could practically feel Eclipse’s eyes boring into the back of my head the entire time.

“…Indeed” the female alien said “and what about the…serpent and canine?”

“Oh, Isiris?” I asked, as the rainbow cobra slithered over and loosely wrapped itself around me “he’s my pet, and an insurance policy against assassins. And Hecate is with Teridax” the bulky alien raised an eyebrow.

Very well” the female Alien said “read the charges”

“Prince Nova” the bulky alien said, reading off a comically small piece of paper “you and your company stand before this council accused of initiating an unauthorised hyper-jump in a class one war vessel, and then landing the vessel on a level three inhabited planet and initiating contact with the locals without prior authorisation, not only that, but two years ago, a temporal disturbance of trans dimensional proportions occurred, and all of your company test positive of the exact same energy as detected during the disturbance” a murmur ran through the council.

“How do you plead?” the female alien asked.

“Guilty” I said “however, you can’t possibly place charges upon us, for multiple reasons”

“Go on” the female alien said.

“Number one, in regards to the hyper jump and initiation of contact, we had no prior knowledge of this alliance’s existence, so how could we possibly gain authorisation”

“Hmm, true” the female alien concluded.

“Number two” I said “I’m not to blame for the disturbance…Teridax is” a murmur sprang up once more and the bulky alien leant against the railing of the platform.

“Then why did you bring an individual possessing such immense power before this council‽” he exclaimed, slamming a fist down.

“Calm yourself, Captain Gantu” the female alien said

“During that time he was an enemy of Equestria, with plans of galactic domination” I explained “however, he has since surrendered, been tried and is under reformation, with high prospects of success, I might add”

“No one that criminally insane can be reformed so quickly!” Captain Gantu protested

“Watch your tongue, mortal creature” Teridax growled, and the entire room grew darker.

“ENOUGH!” I boomed, before clearing my throat “The reason Teridax reformed so quickly is because we currently have much bigger problems to worry about, which brings me onto why we used a war vessel” I brought up a holo projector, I activated it and it displayed one of every type of major species in the conquest alliance. Autumn stepped forward.

“We are besieged on all sides by an alliance that wants nothing less than the total eradication of us and anyone that isn’t a part of their alliance, to them, an planet being destroyed is merely less enemies for them to fight, we are at war, and so we have no choice but to travel around in war vessels”

“But surely you could just reason with them” the female alien suggested.

“Not going to happen” I said, before activating a recording showing the Daleks laying waste to a city on one of the parallel Terras, their cries of ‘Exterminate’ sounding off for all to hear, the council began to murmur “This is race known as the Daleks” Eclipse stepped forward.

“Rudimentary creatures of blood, flesh and metal, they believe themselves to be the perfect lifeform in existence, and ultimately wish for the destruction of all life that is not ‘pure Dalek’, there are an affront to the nature of the universe, even by my standards”

“Yet they are part of an alliance of multiple species” the female alien said.

“they are under the same faction, but they are by no means allies” I said “with them it’s merely a case of, ‘I’ll kill you last’, in-fighting is common, but unless we can outnumber them, they are sure to overpower us and destroy everything in existence, I ask your council, no I beg of you, to consider helping us in our war, else we might all lose” the female alien thought for a moment.

“the council will discuss the matter” she said “but in the meantime, you are to be contained, rules are rules, and you still violated multiple laws” I sighed and nodded.

“As you wish, ma’am” I said, bowing my head ever so slightly before turning and walking back along the bridge.

…

We walked through the prison area, flanked by armed, saurian-esc guards, and Captain Gantu. As we walked, Teridax was almost seamlessly shifting into any inmate he saw, unnerving both the inmates and the guards.

“Will you stop that?” Gantu asked. Teridax shifted back to his true form and chuckled.

“You needn’t worry about me trying to escape” he said “else I would have already done it before you would have had time to comprehend what was happening. There are 1000 ways for me to destroy you, 941 of them hurt” Gantu bent down and whispered into my ear.

“Why exactly do you keep him around?” he asked.

“It keeps the enemy on their toes” I said “if we had more of his species still around we would have a decent chance of winning as is. It’s just a shame someone pulled a holocaust on his entire species” I shot a meaningful glare at Teridax, who hesitated.

“that was 400’000’000 years ago, things were very different” he said “you know the reasons why I did what I did, what matters is what we do now” We eventually reached our cells and  Autumn, Osiris and myself were locked inside the same cell, with Fantasia and Eclipse inside their own, and Teridax and Hecate inside their own cell.

“Well that went well” Autumn said, rolling her eyes as she punched the door with a forehoof, only to leap in to the air with a shriek as the door delivered an electric shock in retaliation, she promptly shook her hoof rapidly, trying to alleviate the pain “Ow! buck that hurt”

“Maybe you shouldn’t have punched the door” I sang.

“Maybe you shouldn’t have let us get arrested” she sang sarcastically in response as she rubbed her hoof, I noticed the tip of her hoof was singed slightly and stepped towards her, a worried expression on my face.

“Seriously, are you okay” I asked, gently taking her hoof in my own and examining it, a black scorch mark covered the hooftip “I thought Pegasi were resistant to electricity”

“Thunder clouds in Equestria are different to the ones on Earth” she said, wincing “for one, they use volts over amps, so if someone get’s shocked it isn’t dangerous, that door must use amps over volts” I cast a healing spell and she sighed in relief as the pain faded.

“Better?” I asked, she nodded and rested her head under my jaw, which we would often do when we were alone. After some sitting like that with our eyes closed we both heard the door opening and the grand council woman clearing her throat.

“I hope I’m not interrupting anything” she said, raising an eyebrow.

“No, ma’am” I said, standing up.

“Good, the council has reached a verdict” she said, smiling ever so slightly “and I must say you are rather lucky”

“Why?” I asked.

“Because it just so happens an ally of yours came to us two days previously looking to form an alliance” at that moment a familiar Sangheili stepped into view wearing extremely ornate gold armour.

“Greetings, Prince Nova” he said, nodding.

“Arbiter” I responded, nodding back “It is good to see you again”

“Same to you” he said. Suddenly an explosion rocked the entire ship and I had to steady myself before I ended up on the floor. An alarm began to wail through the entire prison complex.

“What the hell was that‽” I asked, suddenly I could hear gun fire and a very distinctive alien language.

"Jees tragu ouwooor!" I heard a heavily distorted, electronic voice shout, before a spat of gun fire went off, followed by severa screems.

“Your Magesty, Arbiter” I said, walking passed the Grand Council Woman and the Arbiter and out into the hallway “might I suggest you get yourselves to safety, These are Decepticon Cybertronians, and they’ll step on you as soon as look at you”

“What about you?” The Grand Councilwoman asked, I shifted into my Neu-Toa form and drew my swords.

“We can handle ourselves just fine” I said, glancing at Autumn as she stepped out of the cell in her Neu-Toa form, I levitated a Av-power blade out of my hammerspace and passed it to the Arbiter “Take this and escort the Grand Councilwoman to safety, the weapon fires concentrated light, just try not to point it at an ally, it’s one of the only types of weapon that can punch a hole clean through Protosteel” Thel Vadam nodded before leading the Grand Councilwoman in the opposite direction to the battle. I glanced toward the cells containing Teridax & Hecate and my Mother & Eclipse and ripped the doors off with a jerk of my head. Teridax immediately stepped out and drew his hammer, followed by his Hellhound.

“What are we up against this time?” he asked.

“Decepticons” I said, before pausing “from a different universe than the last lot by the sounds of it” A missile shot towards us and myself, Autumn and Teridax stepped out of the way before Teridax charged towards the smoke, hammer held in both hands.

“Wehi te ariki e o atarangi!” he boomed, before disappearing into the smoke, only to be sent flying backwards towards us, He stood up and dusted himself off “They have a driller” a massive worm-like creature burst out of the smoke and began making its way towards us.

“Uh, Nova, you know that theory you told me about?” Autumn asked, slowely backing away “the one about turning organics into techno-organics?”

“Yeah, why?” I asked.

“Now would probably be a good time to put that theory to the test” she said, I glanced down at Osiris and Hecate.

“I hope to God this works” I said, before putting my swords away and touching my fingers to the back of their skulls, Osiris’s appearance began to change, growing bigger and robotic in appearance, until he was on par with the driller in sheer and mass. Meanwhile Hecate merely grew a couple of feet taller and robotic in appearance. The greatly enlarged cobra looked at me and I jerked my head towards the Driller, which was still some distance away “Whakamatea te reira” Osiris nodded before slivering towards the driller with a hiss. Hecate took her own initiative and charged after him with a growl.

“Let’s help them out” I said, before drawing my swords and charging. As Osiris and Hecate reached the driller, it suddenly burrowed down into the ship. An eerie silence descended upon the massive cavern-like room we were in, the main battle having moved elsewhere.

“I hate to sound clique, but I have a really bad feeling about this” Teridax said, holding his hammer at the ready. Suddenly four of the driller’s tentacle-like appendages sprung up around Teridax before lifting him high into the air “Haere koutou kāwai paru atu o ahau, rahi” he began trying to rip them off but they began to bore through his armour. He groaned before trying to pull one out of his chest.

“Teridax!” I shouted, before running, and jumping up between the four tentacles, in a split second I drew my swords, energized them and sliced clean through all four tentacles, sending Teridax crashing to the floor. I then began to fire countless bolts of pure elemental energy into the floor, I heard a shriek and what remained of the tentacles quickly retreated. I ran over to Teridax, who was leaking Antidermis alarmingly “Shit, you're hurt”

“I’ll be fine if I can…absorb a Cybertronian” he said, straining as he stood up and leant on his hammer “their armour is self-regenerating” I nodded before turning to Autumn.

“Lead my mother and Eclipse to safety” I said, before walking down the hall after Teridax, Hecate and Osiris.

“What about you and Teridax” she asked. I energised my swords and glanced back at Autumn before answering her with a smirk.

“We're going hunting”

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