High above the planet, Hosnian Prime a single Venator-class Star Destroyer moved forwards.

From above the Venator several squads of starfighters swooped down towards the large starship. They flew across the Venator’s right wing, before cutting across towards the middle of the Venator.

The fighters moved across the middle until they reached the edge of the Venator and then swooped downwards, igniting their boosters as they entered a warzone!

Hundreds of thousands of ships were engaged in combat with each other. Each blasted the other while starfighters zipped around them. The fighters were either engaged in dog-fights or attacking the larger starships.

Despite the Republic fleet consisting of wedge-shaped Venator-class Star Destroyers and several other support craft, the Pentastar Alignment fleet consisted of various wedge-shaped starships.

Aside from the large wedge-shaped Alignment 1-class Star Destroyer ships two separate fleets accompanied them, though the primary Alignment ships seemed to be a minority while these other fleets were the majority;

One fleet comprised of large silver ships; whose main slender body was surrounded by three rotating wheels. These standard ships were also supported by larger Dreadnought variants.

The second fleet was comprised of nothing but these long and slender starships, whose bulk was made up of these hexagonal cubes that were attached to each other. Larger command ships accompanied these smaller ships.

While the battle between Republic and Alignment raged on the squadrons flew over two hexagonal ships, evading the many volleys that it unloaded on the Venator they were attacking.

They then passed underneath one of the slender ships as its canons fired upon a Venator, all while another Venator fired at the back of the slender ship. One of the ship’s rear wheels exploded as a result, to which the squadron flew straight through the explosion and came out the other side, unscathed.

On the other side of the explosion a Venator fired a powerful blue beam from its ventral hangar at the right side of one of the hexagonal ships which caused an intense explosion that almost damaged the ship’s entire right side.

The squads navigated the warzone until they finally arrived at their target; one of the hexagonal ships.

At the head of the combined Z-95 Headhunter and BLT-B Y-wing force, Commander Poe looked out the canopy at the hexagonal ship ahead of them.

“Lock onto them, B8,” Poe said to which his onboard Astromech Droid, B8-B0 replied with several beeps.

“Now Black Squadron while our target is dead ahead, I want you to stick as close to the bombers as you can. Protect them from those starfighters,” Poe instructed to his squad (his squad of Z-95 Headhunter’s)

“Copy that Black Leader,” replied the rest of Black Squadron.

The Z-95s shifted their S-foils into attack positions.

Over at the hexagonal ship multiple enemy fighters noticed the incoming fighters and bombers and flew to intercept them, especially the Republic bombers.

Poe smirked to himself as he noticed the incoming fighters.

“This is when the fun begins,” Poe thought aloud to himself.

The swarm of enemy fighters then descended upon the Republic fighters.

Lasers shot across space and fighters exploded as they were hit.

Pilots screamed as their fighters exploded into a ball of fire, before leaving their lifeless bodies drifting through space as the battle raged on without them.

Poe and the other Z-95’s returned fire against the enemy fighters, firing volleys which struck the fighter’s vulnerable spots, destroying them.

One Z-95’s wing was shot. Sending it spiraling downwards towards a nearby cruiser, at which it exploded upon impact.

Another Z-95 was repeatedly hit by enemy fire, but while this didn’t destroy it outright it left the fighter plummeting downwards out of control.

However, despite the carnage that raged around them Poe and the rest maintained their line, denying the enemy fighter’s access to the bombers. Unfortunately, the enemy fighters were just too numerous, and Poe and the Headhunters had little to no wriggle room to fight properly…or did they?

Poe’s brows jumped as an idea came to him and he said, “Quickly, everyone, break off from the bombers. Draw as many of their fighters as you can,” to the other Pilots.

There was a brief period of silence before the other Pilots replied.

“Copy that Poe,” several Pilots said before they abruptly broke off, leaving the Y-wings undefended. Much to their Pilots shock and surprise.

“W-what are they doing!?” multiple Pilots exclaimed as they frantically looked out of their canopies, watching the Z-95 break off.

One Pilot, Norra Wexley looked out the viewport and watched the enemy fighters break off and follow the Headhunters.

“They’re leading the fighters away from us,” Norra responded to her comrades’ confusion, smiling at the Headhunter Pilots’ plan to divert the enemy fighters.

“Quickly, everyone make for the command ship! Let’s take advantage of the opportunity they’ve provided,” she shouted in a confident tone.

“But what about those fighters?” another Pilot asked.

“Look, they’ll keep the fighters busy while we deal with the battleship,” Norra replied.

“Y-yes mam,” replied the Pilot.

While the Headhunters kept the enemy fighters occupied, Norra and the other Y-wings sped forward as they proceeded towards the hexagonal starship.

-

Meanwhile, three enemy fighters pursued Poe. Each of them tried to hit him with their laser canons, but the equine evaded their attacks.

Eventually, though, the enemy fighters determined that regular firepower wasn’t getting the job done.

One of the enemy fighters then fired several missiles after Poe.

B8 beeped alarmed and swiveled his dome back in front.

“Alright, hang on buddy,” Poe replied.

Poe’s modified Z-95 ignited its boosters and shot forward, getting quite ahead of the missiles behind him yet they continued their pursuit.

He flew close to one of the hexagonal ship’s bridges and quickly pulled up as while the missile penetrated the bridge’s viewport. An explosion erupted from within the bridge, disabling the large ship as it slowly lost orbit and fell downwards.

The hexagonal ship slammed into the middle of one of the slender ships, causing a giant explosion to engulf both ships.

Unfortunately, two missiles continued to pursue him, having managed to swoop upwards and resume their pursuit as they missed the hexagonal ship’s bridge as it lost orbit.

While the missiles chased after him, Poe looked out of his canopy and down on his left where he saw the Y-wings draw closer to the slender ship.

“Alright, this has been fun B8, but I think its time to get back to work,” Poe said.

B8 bleeped back, confused about how they’d get rid of the last two missiles.

Poe just scoffed back.

“Stand by and reverse thrusters B8,” he instructed.

B8 beeped in compliance just before the ship started spinning around.

In response the missiles behind Poe started spinning as well. They spun around and around until they hit each other and exploded.

Poe chuckled to himself as he smiled victorious.

“We got’ em B8,” he said.

B8 beeped back.

-

“Fire!” Norra shouted once she and the other Y-wings were close enough to the slender ship, releasing their proton bombs.

However, the bombs’ engines only ignited for a brief second and pushed the bombs down towards the bridge at just slow enough speeds to penetrate the slender ship’s particle shields…

While Norra and the other Y-wings swooped upwards to avoid hitting the bridge, the slender ship’s bridge exploded behind them.

A chain of explosions soon followed, erupting all around the base of the slender ship’s tower.

“WHO-HOO!” Norra shouted excited as the slender ship exploded, leaving the doomed ship to explode while they turned around and flew away from it.

-

On the Venator, Ninka’s bridge Vice Admiral Amylin Holdo looked out the viewport and watched the slender ship’s destruction, smiling as she watched ever-more explosions continue to erupt throughout the hull. Fires soon sprung up all over the slender ship as it lost orbit and plummeted downwards.

Her smile vanished as she focused her attention back to the hexagonal ship firing on her, mercilessly pounding at the Ninka’s shields with its bombardment.

She turned her attention back towards the hexagonal ship as the battle continued.

Meanwhile elsewhere in Hosnian Prime’s orbit a Venator was in the process of launching its fighters – which had just been refueled – when several squads of enemy fighter’s speed towards the warship, taking the Republic fighters by surprise.

The enemy fighters swarmed and overwhelmed the Republic fighters, launching a devastating volley upon them. They didn’t allow a single Republic fighter to launch from the hanger.

Accompanying the fighters were multiple dropships, which due to their small and nimble stature managed to evade the Venator’s incoming laser fire. They swooped inside the hanger and quickly landed amidst the burning wreckages of destroyed Republic fighters.

Their ramps lowered, and hordes of battle droids rushed out of their ships and down them. Their blaster rifles raised, as they fired upon Republic pilots and soldiers, cutting them down before spreading to the rest of the Venator.

A black sphere hovered amidst the battle droids, leading them as they fought their way through the ship.

-

Sometime later the remaining survivors had barricaded themselves within the bridge when they heard a noise outside the door.

Curious, one officer went to investigate. He held his head against the door…where he heard a beeping noise on the other side.

His eyes widened, and his brows jumped as he quickly turned away from the door. However, the door exploded before he got very far, killing him instantly.

As smoke poured into the bridge officers and soldiers coughed, only for their attention to snap back towards the door as battle droids charged into the bridge.

With blasters at the ready the officers and soldiers opened fire on the battle droids, unleashing a volley of laser fire with their white armored enemies. Red and green blaster bolts shot back and forth between the Imperial and Republic forces.

Republic and Imperial forces fell to each other’s blaster fire as they withered down the other’s forces…but ultimately control of the bridge fell to the Imperials.

Once the fighting ceased a droid – in the form of a black orb with an antenna – hovered onboard the bridge and up to its mainframe. A light shined from the droid’s eye on the mainframe which caused the many monitors to flicker, including the lights. This culminated in the lights switching off and again, causing a symbol to appear on the monitors; a black sphere within a red frame, with a hexagonal symbol in the center. Down in the right side of the hexagon a small hexagon was connected to it.

“Control achieved,” an artificial voice said over the bridge’s speakers.

As full control was established over the Venator’s defenses and weapons, the battle droids took control of the ship’s point-defense and laser canons. The Alignment now had full control over the Venator’s light and heavy weapons.

The corrupted Venator didn’t long to unleash its new firepower as it fired upon a nearby Venator, one that was unaware that it had been corrupted by the Alignment.

In response to losing one of their Venators to the Alignment, the Republic sent bombers to destroy the bridge; thereby disabling whatever control the Alignment had over the Star Destroyer.

KA-KA-KA-BOOM!

Another slender ship’s bridge exploded as Poe and Norra’s squads worked together to take down a second slender ship.

This second slender ship lost orbit like the first one and plummeted downwards, where it slammed into the middle of one of the hexagonal ships; slamming right into the center of the hexagonal ship which exploded, leaving the left and right sides of the ship plummeting downwards.

From the Ninka’s bridge, Holdo smiled at the combined destruction of both a slender ship and one of the hexagonal ships.

Even at a distance, she spotted Poe, his Z-95 Headhunters and the BLT-B Y-wings make a U-turn and fly away from the doomed slender ship before it plummeted downwards.

“My my, it seems like you’re on quite the winning streak today Commander Dameron,” Holdo remarked over the coms channel.

Poe chuckled back over the channel.

“Keep providing targets and it’ll stay that way,” he said.

Holdo scoffed back, humored by his response.

“Well how about this then? A Recusant Destroyer?” asked Holdo.

There was a brief period of silence on Poe’s end, before he finally responded.

“Eh. I’ll leave the larger ships to you. I’m better at taking out simple fighters and escorting bombers,” Poe said.

Holdo smirked and chuckled softly at his reply.

“As you wish Commander, but don’t say I didn’t present you a target worthy of your and your squad’s abilities,” she said.

Outside in space Poe and the rest of the Black Squadron shot straight towards the Ninka.

Heading straight for the bridge, but just before they hit it the fighters broke off.

Some flew around the bridge, while a majority of the fighters turned themselves side-ways and flew between the main bridge and the starfighter control bridge.

Holdo just scoffed and shook her head at Poe and his squamates display, smirking to herself while she muttered, “Show-off” to herself.

“Captain we’ve detected a massive object emerging from hyperspace,” an officer spoke up from down in the crew pit.

Holdo turned her head and looked down into the pit at the officer, a confused expression on her face as she furrowed her brows at him.

She looked up and out the viewport and stepped forward, only to freeze as a large tall object jumped out of hyperspace from hyperspace.

At the edge of the warzone a large hybrid of a starship and space station appeared behind the Alignment ships. The stand-out feature of this ship was a massive dish in its “chest”.

“Holy mother of Celeste!” Holdo said. Her eyes widened, and jaw dropped at the sight of the massive ship, especially the dish.

She was so stunned that it didn’t dawn on her that the Alignment ships stopped attacking the Republic cruisers and pulled back, retreating towards the behemoth of a ship.

An officer ran up along the command walkway towards Holdo, stopping behind her.

“Admiral, we’re receiving reports that the Imperials have suddenly stopped fighting…but that they are not surrendering!” an officer spoke up behind her.

Holdo furrowed her brows, confused, and turned around to face the officer.

“What are you saying?” she asked, confused.

“That they’re just…giving up--?”

Holdo then suddenly froze. Her eyes widened, and her jaw hung slack as she slowly turned back around to look out at the Imperial fleet.

A horrified expression on her face as it dawned on her…

-

Minutes passed as the Alignment fleet pulled back to the newly arrived ship. Simultaneously, thousands of Y-85 Titan dropships flew up from the planet, returning to their respective carriers/cruisers.

On the newly arrived ship’s bridge, a humanoid figure looked across a room towards a wedge-shaped screen.

The humanoid had brown spiked hair and wore a black Imperial uniform with gold pads on the shoulders.

With his hands behind his back, Supreme Leader Gallius Rax silently stared at the screen in front of him. A screen that displayed Hosnian Prime; the Equestrian Republic’s home world and seat of government.

Two other humanoids walked up towards Rax and positioned themselves beside him;

One of them was an older man clad in navy-blue robes with silver symbols on them, wore a shiny chest plate with a light glowing in the center, and a large shoulder plate that curved in towards an open space in the center. Half of his face was covered in cybernetics, and he wore a shiny silver gauntlet on his left hand and a staff in his other hand.

The other was a young woman wore a black body glove, but over that she wore golden armor that was decorated in glowing blue lights. However, while she was humanoid the rest of her body beneath the waist disappeared into a large chariot-like chair. Along the side of her chair were multiple panels, and each panel sported a row of four hemispheres. Back up at the woman’s torso, she had a control panel at her fingertips, and her upper body was supported by a backrest. The entire chair was golden, but the hemispheres glowed blue, containing swirling energy within them.

Another human man accompanied the woman and wore an all-black military uniform. He had sharp facial features and short slicked-back hair.

This other man didn’t utter a word as he accompanied the woman humanoid, holding his arms behind his back as he stood beside her.

As they stopped behind Rax, he turned around and faced them. He silently stared at them; first the first man humanoid and then towards the woman humanoid, whom he glared disapprovingly at. He turned around and looked back at the screen.

The Supreme Leader then looked down at Brendol Hux and said, “Continue with the operation, you may fire when ready, General,” before looking back up at the screen.

“Yes, Supreme Leader,” Brendol nodded.

Brendol then turned around and stepped up towards one of the naval officers behind a desk.

“Commence firing, full reactor ignition.”

The naval officer nodded back and looked down at his console, before he pressed a button.

Deep within the Hand’s Hammer, the superweapon’s reactor hummed to life.

Pillars of vibrant energy formed in multiple shafts, rapidly building in intensity…

-

“Admiral, we’re detecting a mass build-up of energy originating from inside that massive ship-station-thing!” an officer spoke up.

Holdo’s head sharply spun her head around and looked down into the crew pit at the officer, her eyes wide in shock. Her head quickly snapped up back up as she looked out the viewport at the massive ship, then back down into the crew pit at the officer again.

“Quick, raise a fleet-wide channel. Order all ships to retreat to jump away to hyperspace, it doesn’t where, just anywhere but here…and recall our fighters!” she shouted at the communications officer. The officer frantically got to work informing the rest of the fleet.

-

Meanwhile in space, Poe looked out his viewport as the rest of their fleet turned away from the planet…and jumped away to lightspeed?

“Poe, what’s going on?!” Nora chimed in over the com.

“I have no idea, Wexley. Its like we’re retreating?” Poe replied in a confused voice. There was a brief moment of silence on Norra’s end, before she finally spoke up again.

“But…we’re leaving Hosnian Prime unguarded for the Alignment!” she almost shouted, enraged.

Before Poe could respond Holdo abruptly interrupted them.

“Poe, get your fighters onboard, NOW!” Holdo shouted at him.

“That ship’s readings are off the scale, so we need to leave now!” she instructed.

“But the Alignment-“ Poe tried to protest, but was interrupted by Holdo.

“NOW COMMANDER!” Holdo shouted.

Poe frowned, but reluctantly obeyed the Admiral’s command, and reached out to the other fighters in his squad.

“Black Squadron return to ship but be quick about it, by the sound of things they’re not going to wait around for us if we’re late,” Poe instructed to the rest of his squad.

He swiftly turned his Z-95 around, and then he and the rest of Black Squadron as well as Norra and the bombers flew straight for the Ninka.

It cut it close as Holdo was already closing the large hanger doors, but they just managed to get onboard before they closed.

The Ninka’s engines started glowing brighter until it and several other hundred ships shot forward, jumping away to lightspeed. However, a significant amount of Republic ships still remained at Hosnian Prime and were unable to jump away before the Hand’s Hammer fired its primary weapon…

Multiple beams of purple lighting-like energy then shot inwards above the Hand’s Hammer’s superlaser focus lens, before firing a single massive beam of crackling energy towards Hosnian Prime.

Onboard the remaining Venators, ponies watched as the beam of bright energy shot across space, following it with their heads as it reached Hosnian Prime.

The beam slammed against Hosnian Prime’s surface, triggering an intense explosion which created a blindingly bright light and a shockwave that rippled across Hosnian Prime’s surface.

It didn’t matter as large cracks tore through the planet’s crust and expelled incredible amount of energy. The cracks appeared all over the planet, destroying cities, boiled lakes and caused mountains to crumble…until finally the energy erupted all at once.

The fiery orb that was Hosnian Prime then exploded into thousands upon billions of pieces, transforming into a large ball of fire!

The flames from Hosnian Prime’s destruction reached out and engulfed the Republic fleet, enveloping the thousands of ships still in orbit around the planet. The Equestrians onboard screamed as their ships burned and ultimately exploded, killing not only the thousands of fleet personnel…but all of Hosnian Prime’s population!

In an instant billions of lives were extinguished.

-

On the bridge of the Hand’s Hammer, Gallius Rax smirked to himself as he and the other leaders beheld Hosnian Prime’s destruction.

While the screen behind him displayed the large ball of fire that was once Hosnian Prime it soon changed to show Rax and the humanoids.

“This is Supreme Leader Gallius Rax calling out to all the Alignment. Look outside into space and tell me what you see,” Rax said, briefly falling silent. He eventually smirked before he resumed speaking.

“Correct. The remains of Hosnian Prime, the home world of our great enemy; the Equestrian Republic…now nothing but dust and rock floating silently in space. A mark to commemorate our victory against those who defied us so long ago,” he continued, raising a balled fist into view.

“Today marks not only the beginning of a new era for the Pentastar Alignment but also the death of the Republic. Our worst enemy ever encountered,” Rax grimaced angrily as he nodded.

“Their home planet is destroyed, their cherished fleet exterminated, and their lies swept aside. Their like will never be seen again, and even if they do…we will defeat them again as we obliterated their home this day!” he shouted, thrusting his fist into the air.

Across the entire fleet thousands of voices cheered aloud.

A little while later the Ninka and several other Venators jumped out of hyperspace, arriving at their destination; Takodana.

On the Ninka’s bridge, Admiral Holdo looked out the viewport at the green forest planet with a sad look on her face. She and the rest of her crew were taken aback by the destruction of their home and their subsequent defeat by the Alignment; nothing but terrorists and insurgents…and yet they had managed to win the war in a single blow, costing Holdo and the others that had survived their home.

What remained of Hosnian Prime now was just rocks and dust floating in space.

Holdo heard her crew mutter amongst themselves about the destruction of Hosnian Prime, and the lives that had perished when that terrible weapon destroyed the planet;

Had they suffered for only a moment or had it been quick?

Had even the Alignment survived their own superweapon?

Could…could some Equestrians have survived the planet’s destruction and if so, how would they contact them?

What were they supposed to do? Fight back or run and hide like the Alignment had so long ago?

Amidst the crew muttering amidst themselves a double-door opened and Poe along with his squad mates and Norra Wexley trotted onto the bridge, drawing the crew’s attention as he approached Holdo.

“Admiral, do you mind explaining to me. WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED!?” Poe loudly shouted at the mare.

Holdo blankly stared out into space before she slowly turned around, facing Poe. The only look on his face was that of anger, while she was one of sadness.

“We lost, Commander Dameron. We lost, and they won,” she said in a sad and defeated tone.

Poe’s anger quickly turned into confusion. Shocked to even hear this.

“What do you mean we lost? We had their forces on the run!” he shouted back at her.

“No, they were pulling their forces back, so they could destroy the planet and everything living on it,” replied Holdo in a soft but sad tone. “There was nothing you could have done.”

“That’s not true!” Poe shouted, “We could’ve attacked that thing and stopped it from firing.”

Without uttering a word, Holdo shook her head in response.

“If you had attacked them you would be dead by now, along with the rest of your squad,” Holdo said, stating it as a matter of fact.

Poe frowned angrily at Holdo, but she just stared blankly at him.

“No, you couldn’t have solved this by getting into a Headhunter and attacked the enemy head-on.” Holdo shook her head at him.

“Four hundred and fourty-four thousand across six ships, we are all that remains of the Equestrian Republic…but we are not alone. Others may have survived Hosnian Prime’s destruction, and if they did then they will find us. We are the spark that burn the Pentastar Alignment down; and our mission now is to just survive. Survive that we might one day restore the Republic!” she said in a faintly courageous tone, though it was still filled with sadness.

Poe’s squad mates and the bridge’s entire crew were stunned by the Admiral’s speech, even Poe who silently stared at Holdo, shocked.

“Now, back to your stations. We’ll mourn the dead once we’ve reached safe space,” Holdo said. However, as she was about to turn around and look back out the viewport until she heard a voice speak up.

“’Safe space’?” Poe asked, confused. His reaction caused Holdo to freeze and look back at him, shooting him a blank stare.

“Yes. You think that just because the Alignment isn’t pursuing us that we’re safe?” she asked.

She shook her head at him and said, “We won’t be safe until we reach the edge of the galaxy. Only then will we be able to regroup while the Alignment keeps its busy,” she explained.

Poe opened his mouth as if to speak, but he almost knew what Holdo was going to say and thus stayed his tongue. In response to his silence, Holdo turned away from him and looked out the viewport towards Takodana. Poe turned around and just trotted back across the command walkway to leave the bridge.

Meanwhile the Doctor’s TARDIS spun as it travelled down the time vortex.

The TARDIS uttered a hoarse thrumming noise as it flew down the vortex, heading for its next destination…wherever or whenever that might be.

Inside the TARDIS’ console room the Doctor and Twilight Sparkle stood around the console unit, while the column in the center of the console moved up and down.

Soon, though the Doctor furrowed his brows in confusion as he noticed something odd.

He opened his mouth to speak, but before he could the TARDIS violently jerked to one side. It tilted to the side, almost causing the Doctor and Twilight to lose their footing if not for them clinging onto the console.

“Hhrrng—that’s strange,” he remarked while gripping the side of the console unit. “The TARDIS-hrrng—seems to have—nnngh—altered course,” he stated in a casual voice.

“Do you know where we’re going?” Twilight asked as she too tried to hold on to the console unit.

“No.” The Doctor shook his head, “I can’t see the screen.”

Out in the time vortex the TARDIS immediately halted its pace and turned around, flying back towards the time period it had detected but missed.

As the TARDIS headed straight for the time period the Doctor and Twilight managed to regain their footing, and as soon as they did the Doctor looked at the screen to see where they were going. However, before he could do anything the TARDIS had already begun to de-materialize in the desired time period.

Soon, the column in the console unit stopped moving and the hoarse thrumming noise stopped.

Stopping in his tracks, the Doctor craned his head and looked up at the column. He then raised his hoof and gently placed it atop the console, as he did Twilight turned her head and looked at the Doctor.

“Doctor, where has the TARDIS brought us?” she asked, but the Doctor didn’t respond.

Eventually, though the Doctor turned his head and looked right at Twilight. He silently stared at her until he turned back towards the screen and pressed a button on the console unit.

The screen showed the outside, revealing countless equine soldiers that ran back around a room the TARDIS had landed inside. However, the equines soon seemed to notice the TARDIS as a few of them pointed their hooves at it.

While the audio was muted, the screen showed the equine soldiers as shouting to their comrades. They waved their comrades over, who gathered in mass around the TARDIS and aimed their blaster rifles at the blue box.

The Doctor’s brows jumped, and he turned his head towards Twilight, wearing a look of surprise on his face.

“Someone seems touchy,” the Doctor remarked.

“Do you think its smart to go out there? I mean, they look a little…skittish,” Twilight asked.

The Doctor looked back at the screen and then back at Twilight, before he trotted around the console towards the rack beside the TARDIS’ entrance.

“For whatever reason the TARDIS brought us here, she clearly brought us here for a reason. Now, whatever that reason is we can only find out if we go outside,” he said as he swiped his trench coat off the rack and put it on.

While looking at Twilight, he didn’t notice an object being placed in his coat’ pocket.

As the Doctor eventually turned away from Twilight towards the door, she sighed and trotted up towards him. He extended a hoof, grabbed a door and pulled it open. He and Twilight stepped outside, where as soon as they exited the TARDIS, they heard the click of countless blasters.

The Doctor and Twilight quickly raised their hooves into the air as the group of equines pointed their blaster rifles at them.

“Intruders don’t move!” an equine from amidst the crowd shouted.

Several soldiers moved aside, allowing what looked to be an officer pass.

The officer wore brown leather boots, a tanned outfit that stopped at the shoulders, the sleeves were cyan, he had a belt tied around his waist, and wore a tan cap. Unlike the soldiers he was armed with a blaster pistol, specifically, a DL-44 heavy blaster pistol.

“My good equine, I can assure you that we mean you no ill will,” the Doctor said in an attempt to calm the officer and his soldiers. It didn’t seem to work based on how the officer scoffed at him.

“Is that so?” the officer said as he smirked confidently back at the Doctor.

“You see that’s funny, because not several hours ago did the Pentastar Alignment blow up our home with some kind of superweapon, and despite destroying the Republic’s capital they’d probably send out spies to track we few who survived down, so forgive me if I find your story a little too convenient,” said the officer as he grinned at the Doctor.

“Wait, your whole plan was destroyed?!” Twilight asked in a shocked voice.

The officer turned his head and looked towards her, frowning sad as he hung his head and nodded back.

“The Alignment and their allies took everything away from us in the blink of an eye,” the officer said.

Twilight exhaled sharply at being told this and staggered backwards by a few steps where she bumped against the TARDIS. However, as her backside impacted the TARDIS it suddenly uttered the wheezed thrumming.

The soldiers and officer immediately pulled their guns on the TARDIS, but the Doctor and Twilight just spun around and looked at the box.

“No!” the Doctor said as the TARDIS began to de-materialize, fading away as it left the room.

The officer gasped at the TARDIS’ disappearance, before jerking his head towards the Doctor. He raised and aimed his pistol at him, which signaled his soldiers to aim their weapons at the two intruders.

“Whoever you two are, and whatever that strange box was I’m placing you both under arrest,” the officer said.

The officer gestured towards the Doctor and Twilight, and two soldiers trotted up to them. They cuffed, and then led them off towards the brig to be detained.

As the soldiers escorted the Doctor and Twilight out of the room, the officer looked back into the room. Specifically, he stared at the spot the TARDIS where had previously stood. He eventually turned and left the room.

A little while later after navigating the ship’s many corridors the Doctor and Twilight were shoved into a cell by the soldiers.

Twilight glared back at the soldiers, but before she could say or do anything a force field activated, preventing her or the Doctor from escaping.

While she glared at the two soldiers the Doctor trotted towards a corner of the cell and sat down, hanging his head.

After glaring at the soldiers, that had now assumed positions in front of the cell door, Twilight turned back towards the Doctor. She trotted up to him and sat down in front of him.

“So, Doctor, what are we going to do to escape from this cell?” she asked.

Instead of responding right away the Doctor silently looked up at her, frowning distraught.

“What does it matter? The TARDIS is gone,” said the Doctor, defeated.

“Yeah about that; what just happened? Why did the TARDIS just vanish out of nowhere like that?” Twilight asked, confused.

“Hostile Action Displacement System. A defense mechanism that is activated if/when the TARDIS is threatened,” the Doctor explained.

“What, so the TARDIS just left us here because she was afraid of something in this time period?” Twilight asked, intrigued.

The Doctor silently nodded back.

“So, what do we do now? How do we find the TARDIS?” she asked.

The Doctor slowly raised his head and looked up at her.

“’Find the TARDIS’?” he asked.

Silent, the Doctor shook his head at her.

“She could be on the other side of the universe by now…not that we’d have a way to reach her, let alone find her,” he said before he hung his head.

As he looked down, though Twilight and the Doctor soon furrowed their brows as they heard a beeping noise coming from his coat pocket. Both she and the Doctor looked towards each other as they heard the noise.

They then looked down towards his coat pocket where the beeping was coming from.

“What is it?” Twilight asked.

The Doctor reached into his pocket…and pulled out a small disk-shaped object with three curved arms fitted to a grilled projector plate.

The disk-thing continued beeping until the Doctor finally pressed it, which immediately projected the holographic image of a humanoid woman. The woman was slender with short cut hair and had many circuit-like patterns running across her whole body. Down along these patterns pulsed golden energy. Twilight stared at the humanoid, confused, but also intrigued.

The humanoid silently stared at the Doctor, staring at his shocked expression until she finally smiled at him.

“Hello Doctor,” the humanoid said in a friendly voice.

Snapping the Doctor from his shock as he softly replied, “H-hi,” which she chuckled at.

The humanoid turned her head and looked at Twilight, to whom she also smiled.

“You must be Twilight Sparkle, aren’t you?” she asked.

Twilight’s brows jumped, and she looked at the Doctor, looking to him for answers before she turned back towards the humanoid.

“Y-yes I am,” Twilight replied in a soft but somewhat concerned tone which the humanoid picked up on. She chuckled back at the lavender mare.

“You need not worry, Twilight Sparkle for my intention is not to harm you or the Doctor. I am here to help you while my body is temporarily beyond your reach,” the humanoid said.

Twilight and the Doctor furrowed their brows and exchanged confused looks with each other before returning their attention to the humanoid.

“What do you mean ‘temporarily beyond our reach’?” the Doctor asked, intrigued.

“Well, you have probably already guessed that I just left you out of the blue. That was because I don’t want you to just leave like you always do after you’ve helped someone, too many lives are at stake, Doctor,” she said in a serious tone, “Thus, I arranged for you to be dropped off here before leaving you to carry out your mission,” she explained. The Doctor raised a brow at her.

“’My mission’?” he asked.

“Mh-hmm.” She nodded back.

“I know it’s a lot to ask, Doctor, but frankly; you and Twilight are my best hope right now. My only hope,” she said.

The Doctor turned his head and looked at Twilight, who looked back at him. After a few minutes, he looked back towards the humanoid.

“What would you have us do?” he asked. She smiled back at him.

“Help the Equestrians on this ship. Help them survive and help them fight back against the Pentastar Alignment that destroyed their home,” replied the humanoid.

“And how do we do that? We’re currently their prisoners,” Twilight asked. The humanoid and Doctor looked at her, with the humanoid smiling at Twilight.

“You’ll think of something,” the humanoid said.

“I’ll be here if there’s anything you need. Oh, and Doctor…” she said.

“Yes?” replied the Doctor.

“No matter how screwed you seem may seem, all it takes is the right screwdriver to get you out of it." The humanoid smiled before she vanished back into the holoprojector she had emerged from.

The first chapter of my newest Doctor Whooves story. I hope you all enjoy it.

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