*POV 1st Person Prince Nova*

The moon rose behind a grassy hill as a Half-track big rig straight out of the apocalypse and armed to the teeth stopped on a grassy hill, overlooking a military base of some sort. I walked up alongside and patted it on the bonnet as Firestorm and my team climbed down from the cab.

“Alright, Teridax” I said “this is the place” I heard a growl as the entire rig disintegrated into millions of tiny particles and reformed as Teridax. He pulled a tarpaulin over his head, obscuring his glowing red eyes

“are you sure?” he asked. At that moment firestorm’s wyvern flew over from the military base and landed on her gauntlet, the Neu-Toa of fire stroked it’s chin and turned to Teridax.

“This is the place” she said “This is the Terra I arrived on five years ago”

“Vwell?” Scar asked, shifting from his timberwolf form into his Neu-Toa form and pulling out a bow-like blade “Vwhat ist zee plan?”

“Hit and run” I said “we storm the place, cause as much mayhem as possible, and then get the hell out of dodge before they have time to react”

“This isn’t typical Toa behaviour” Trigidax noted.

“They struck first, we’re simply retaliating” I said “Minion” he smirked and drew one of his swords before stabbing it into the ground and firing off an EMP burst. I saw the lights in the base go out and I turned to my fellow Neu-Toa “let’s show them what happens when they fuck with one of our own” We then charged down the hill, as we drew closer Teridax armed his cannon and fired, blowing a hole in the wall as I burst through and into a large hangar of some sort, before flinging a pony against the wall

“GET OUT!” I roared at the ponies milling about “all of you!” they promptly scattered. “Destroy every bit of military ordinance and hardware!”

“Gotcha” Scar said, before levelling his Gatling gun at a weapons shelf and firing, reducing it to molten slag, Teridax rounded on a line of military vehicles before firing a volley of missiles, destroying them.

“HEY!” I heard a familiar voice shout, I turned to see Autumn, in gold armour, walking towards us “who the buck do you think you are!? Storming into here and destroying everything”

“Who am I?” I asked, putting my weapons away before grabbing her with my magic “I am Prince Nova, Draconic Alicorn and Neu-Toa, and you slaughtered Firestorm’s entire family, so I’ll be asking the questions around here” The Pegasus smirked and glanced towards the female Neu-Toa of fire.

“I love what you’ve done with your helmet” she said, Firstorm lunged at her only to be held back by Trigidax. I snorted before pinning Autumn against a wall with enough force to

“Don’t you fucking dare speak to her” I said “give me one good reason not to kill you right now” she chuckled

“You’re married to me” she said.

“Get bucked!” my Autumn snarled, I pinned one of my swords against the other Autumn’s throat.

“Do it” she said “reveal your true colours to the entire sol system; someone who attacks defenceless ponies and employs terror tactics” I paused.

“Just give me the word” Vinyl said, pointing her bass cannon at Autumn, I slowly held up a hand to stop her. Before turning back to Autumn.

“You’re lucky I’m married to one of your parallels” I growled, before dropping her “Toa, we are done here”

“I’ve been itching to kill something lately” Minion grumbled, before pinning Autumn back against the wall with a flick of his wrist

“When we next meet, I won’t hesitate to kill you” I said, before firing a bolt of fire at her shoulder, causing her to cry out in pain

“When I had your family killed, I should have gone after your side as well!” she screamed

“Then you would have had the gods to worry about” I said, before stepping through the wall and out into the night.

*a few hours later*

I sat on the roof of a temporary building set up on the outskirts of the Reptaurian capital. With the permission of the High-King we had set up a military camp of sorts, and warriors and soldiers of many different species were working together in preparation for an upcoming battle; the enemy were slowly advancing towards the capital, we were here to make sure they didn’t take it. A major aspect of the TUA that set it apart from other armies was its use of rahi and animals as war steeds, for instance, dragoons often rode on large predators such a big cats, Rahi (ever see one of Brutaka’s kind riding a Troller worm into battle? Cybertronian drillers pale in comparison), Raptors, Phorusrhacidae and even large Therapods in the case of the higher-ranking soldiers and warriors, I’d need to consider entering training to handle a steed at some point. Another thing we used which no one else did; Bohrok, they make for fantastic shock troopers, usually launched via catapult into enemy lines.

Overhead countless T.U.A ships loomed above the camp, like silent sentinels watching day and night. After the situation here was done with, Vapaa’s team would be following us in the Jörmungandr as an escort to the Defiance, with her sister ship in the line, the Vánagandr-Fenris: The Great Wolf, completing the escort. The Titan class ships were so big that they were practically their own cities, and as such crew members and personnel were often referred to by the ship the served on, for instance those serving on the Jörmungandr were known as ‘Jörmunganduns’, and those serving on the Kelenken were known as ‘terror birds. I paused in my musings to lift a green gemstone, most likely an emerald, to my mouth and bite down, rather than shattering my teeth as I expected, it simply broke like a large chunk of hard-boiled candy and my eyes widened in surprise.

“It tastes like apple” I noted

“Nova!” I heard a familiar voice call, I looked around to see spike, now a young drake (equivalent to a teenager), flying over.

“Spike!?” I asked in surprise “what in my mother’s name are you doing here?” he chuckled as he landed next to me.

“heh, Twilight caught wind that you had found an alien plane with, so she sent me to report on it” he then laughed “she  quite the reaction”  

“I bet” I said “she could have just  asked me to send pictures”

“Yeah, but I also wanted to see what this place was like” he responded

“How’s things back home?” I asked.

“business as usual” he said.

“Uh oh” I chuckled “that bad?”

“ha ha” he deadpanned “no. Also, myself and Sweetie bell are kind of…” he trailed off and I gave a knowing smirk

“So, you got yourself a girl” I said. He blushed and glared at me “I’m just messing, I’ve been through exactly the same thing, so has Minion, and Garnet, and Ruby” suddenly I heard the sound of multiple old internal combustion engines, the sound gradually getting louder until a group of bi-planes flew overhead from behind us.

“What in the name of Celestia!” Spike exclaimed. I smiled, recognising the designs and markings instantly; they were just a few of many different types of sapient planes originating from the same world as the sapient tanks.

“Russian PO-2 biplanes, famously used by the ‘Nachthexen’” I said, noting Spike’s confused expression I added “The ‘Night Witches’; a nickname given by the Germans to Russian Night Bomber regiment 588, manned exclusively by Women and called the Night Witches beca…”

“Nova” Spike said, interrupting me “you’re starting to sound like Twilight” he then stood up “Been nice catching up, but I’m gonna go look around”

“Watch out for the dragoons’ steeds” I said as he took off “they can be quite vicious” at that moment I decided it was time to have a look around the dragoons’camp myself, so I slid down the roof of the building and landed on the ground crouching.

*POV 3rd person, Location; The Pit, Terra*

The door at the entrance to the pit blew off its hinges, and two 7 foot tall humanoid figures walked out, blood dripping off their weapons. One turned to the other..

“We need to find a way off this rock” he said “I doubt it will take very long for people to notice our little surprise”

“Yes, brother” the other said “but first, let’s pay the family of a certain human-turned-Alicorn a little visit”

*POV 1st Person Nova*

As I was walking through the Dragoons’ camp, used to stable all the war steeds in preparation for the upcoming battle, I noticed Firestorm in a pen…with multiple 6 foot tall raptors.

“Alright, girls” she said, holding her arms out and standing in a semi crouched position “eyes on me” the raptors slowly walked around her. “Nova, I know you’re there, whatever you do, do not enter this pen”

“What are you doing?” I asked, leaning against the railing “Deinonychus are extremely dangerous”

“They are also extremely intelligent” she retorted, still signalling to the raptors “they are one of the raptor species that didn’t grow sapient after the KT event. I’ve been tasked by the T.U.A. to train them to work like a K.9. Unit, I’ve got them to follow my commands, but they don’t trust me yet…except for one”

“What do you mean?” I asked, she clicked her right hand and all but one of raptors dispersed, said raptor walked up to Firestorm and she stroked it under the chin.

“Lucky for me it’s the alpha female” she said, walking over, the raptor followed, I tried to pet it, only for the raptor to snap at me “careful, she bites”

“No shit” I said “so you’re a raptor handler?”

“Among other things” she said “I also handle the Phorusrhacidae, Gastornithiformes and Pavorgigacidae, to name just one super-group”

“Terror Birds?” I asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Yep” she said, chuckling “therapods have got nothing on a full grown Kelenken”

“Don’t remind me” I said, remembering the time I went to the Zebrican plains for a weekend; you’d of thought I was one of the Doctor’s companions with all the running I did, I would have used my Neu-Toa or Alicorn powers but stupid me had locked my form to a human by mistake for an week, with no override. I guess that’s what I get for looking at my own genome to see what I could improve, needless to say, Fantasia gave me a bollocking for it and locked my powers away, something about ‘learning self-respect and appreciating myself as I was’.

I was brought out of my musings by a letter appearing in front of me, I looked at it and soon frowned.

“If you’ll excuse me, sister” I said, wrapping up the scroll “I’m going to go slap a mare before they start a second holocaust”

A watched a Unicorn mare run along a narrow mountain road, some distance behind her a group of ponies, including the former elements of Harmony ran after her. I was watching up from the air, hovering like a bird of prey.

“Alright” I said, angling my body “time to end this” I then pulled my wings close to my body, but not completely folded, and started to dive in a stoop. I used my momentum to push myself in front of the mare and impacted the ground in front of her, kicking up a cloud of dust and blocking her path. I stood up to my full height and stepped out of the crater.

“Surprise, Motherfucker” I said as the dust cleared, causing the chalked-purple unicorn to gasp and take a step back “now, ‘Starlight Glimmer’ what’s this I’ve heard about you starting shit with my niece and her friends?” Next Chapter: Chapter 16 Estimated time remaining: 41 Minutes