"My Queen, General Honor!" a changeling scout runner said kneeling before the Changeling queen and the former U.E.C General.

" What is it my child?" Chrysalis said looking at the nervous scout drone.

The drone presented a data pad as her chitinous hands shivered. " We........we .........we picked up an incoming emergency transmission that was transmitted in the clear. no encryption"

"Transmitted? from where? and by whom?" Honor Medal asked with concern.

"We don't know sir. all we know is that it was directed towards N.A.C space. And by the sound of the human female's voice........she was frightened, almost terrified. As if the gates of Tartarus opened up and all the demons escaped" the female drone explained.

“Is that it?” A human says from the corner of the room. The human wears white and red NAC battle armor without the shoulder pauldrons or helmet. Commander of the A.C.M’s spec-ops division and leader of best commando team the “Apex Predators” Blisk is also the third leader of the A.C.M as a hole.

“Well no.”

“Then what did it say?” Blisk asks clearly annoyed.

“Most of it was garbled, but here is what we were able to piece together.” the drone responds before walking forward and plugging a data cord from the data pad into the hologram emitter.

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(unknown)

The space around the camera is surrounded by wreckage. In the distance, a lone white star shines the light on a graveyard orbiting a moon of a red gas giant. The hulks of NAC, SRA, NE, AFC, and UEC ships drift silently in the void. In the corner of the video feed, the radiation counter spikes as far passed the red as it can go.

In the wreckage the bodies of humans and UEC personnel float in various forms of dismemberment do doubt having been sucked out of their respective ships, or simply float lifelessly in space. The hulks of three annihilator class siege breakers and their escorts float lifelessly. Their hulks still spewing crystallized O2 while the carriers are surrounded by a variable cloud of red matter.

[commencing scan. . . . . ]
[Lifesigns detected]

The camera pivots and the star field and wreckage pass by the camera as it swivels. The camera focusses on a lone NE fighter. The fighter is white in color and on its wings, a white heart rests inside of a red circle. On one of its wing-mounted hardpoints rests a Siafu auto cannon.

[incoming transmission detected]
[Nordic Empire Pilot: Mary “Love” Dorson.] [NES- Queen Marie: Ace pilot]
[Pilot heart rate elevated]
[radiation interference detected]

“They. . . . nowhere. . . . So many. . . .destroyed both fleets. . . . Siege Breakers. . . . . All hands. . . . will attempt. . . .node. . . . . hang on. . . .Ok. . . go!” The fighter rockets off deeper into the debris field.

[directive, maintain connection]
[transmission blocked]
[firing thrusters]

The fighter comes back into focus however now being followed by a trail of black missiles. Banking around the destroyed hulk of a dragonfly drop ship the fighter transforms into its Valkyrie Alt mode. Using its wrist mounted Gatling it begins deploying flares and shooting down the oncoming swarm of missiles while bursting from left to right causing most of them to streak passed. The fighter transforms once again into its Infantry mode as the swarm of missiles turn around violently.

Retrieving the autocannon from its hardpoint the fighter begins using the weapon in tandem with its wrist getting to shoot down the oncoming missiles. A slot opens on the sensor dome and the barrel of a gimballed machine gun appears before targeting the missiles as well. The Gungnir fires its thrusters and rockets in random directions to throw off the missile's tracking. As the fighter passes a fighter sized piece of debris detaches from the hull of and moves in pursuit.

The newcomer is jet black in color and vaguely trident shaped possessing a long center. And jutting roughly at a forty-five-degree angle on either side of its center are two forward facing blade like protrusions nearly as long as the central body. The interior connecting the center to the “blades” pulses anonymous red before it fires its engines and closes with the Gungnir.

The fighter responds by returning to Fighter mode where it manages to avoid being rammed by the oncoming unknown. The Gungnir flips into Valkyrie mode and avoids a strafing run and fires a missile at the unknown but pulls a bone shattering turn to avoid the missile. Soon three more of this strange craft follow the first and engage the pilot.

The Gungnir pilot succeeds in destroying two of these before she ends up leaving the debris field. As she is driven out into the open a dark shadow passes over her and her voice comes back over the net.

“. . . . Some. . . help me. . . . Its them.” she is cut off when something impacts her fighter rending it apart, and she dies alone.

[Warning platform targeted, transmitting] The camera is destroyed shortly after.

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“Damn, whatever that was we need to let the NAC know.” Blisk says resting his hands on the edge of the holo-emitter a look of consternation on his face.

“Hmm, I agree, Blisk how long until the Apex Predators will be ready to depart?” Honor Medal asks.

“We can leave immediately.” The mercenary says shoving his knife into his shoulder holster.

“What is the matter chrysalis?” the former general asked seeing the changeling queens troubled state.

“Whatever did that somehow managed to destroy both the UEC and Human fleets in their entirety. We need to know what's going on out there, I think we should deploy the prowlers General.”

“I agree.” Honor Medal nods his head in agreement.

“I’ll tell ‘em.” Blisk says before leaving.

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(UEC homeworld: Equis)

"Sister!" came the loud shout of Princess Luna, co-ruler of the Diarchy of Equestria alongside her elder sister Princess Celestia.

"What is the meaning of this?!" she said slamming down a piece of parchment before the solar alicorn as she stood before Celestia, a look of anger and confusion on her face. Celestia sat on her throne, a tired somberly looked was etched upon the mare of the sun's beautiful face.

" It's what it is" she answered in a somber tone. Gone was the happiness and mirth in her gentle motherly like voice now filled with only with cold malice.

"I am recalling the fourth fleet from the human colony of Acadia. The black ships have become a problem ever since they followed the humans into our space. Their ability to use our warp nodes is troubling and we have already lost contact with three our outlying colonies so far.”

“But the fourth fleet is scheduled to move to support Life Commander Rarity in her assault on this Helgan.”

“We will send the sixth instead. I have faith in Rarity's stratagem.”

“On that sister, we can agree.”

Author's Notes:

A bit of universe building for you while you wait.