Chapter 1: New Beginning
Twilight Sparkle was almost done with her book. She had just received it from Princess Celestia yesterday and she was excited about what was in it. The princess had said in her note that when she reached the end of the book, a great force would reveal itself. Too bad Spike had accidently burned the note so Twilight couldn't get a good look at it.
She turned the last page, and a pop-out toy snake launched out over her head. Twilight rolled her eyes.
"Spike!" She yelled. Her assistant, a purple baby dragon with green spikes on his head and back, popped up from behind the chair.
"Yes?" He said, trying not to laugh.
"That book wasn't from the princess, was it?" She asked.
"Nope, but you should have seen your face." He laughed.
"Whatever. I'm going to Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack needs help fixing their barn." Twilight said. She stopped at her mirror and fixed her mane. It was indigo with pink highlights, and her fur was purple. She walked out of the door, but stopped when she heard a loud explosion from the sky. She looked up and saw a large, flaming, metal object streaking across the sky.
"What's that." Spike asked, appearing next to her.
"I don't know, but its heading for the lake. We should check it out." She replied. And so they began the trek to wherever their destination.
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"We're going down!" The pilot yelled. The Dropship shook violently when it was hit by another piece of flak. Captian Josh Ramierez looked towards the cockpit and saw that it was covered in blood.
"He's dead, isn't he?" He asked. A round of nods from the other passengers comfirmed his suspicions. He then began to unbuckle his harness to get to the cockpit to land the ship.
He was about halfway there when another blast rocked the ship, causing him to lose his balance and fall out of the open door and into a freefall.
Josh saw a lake and aimed for it. It was his only chance for survival. As he approached it, he had the dumbest idea ever, of all time.
He did a cannonball.
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Josh woke up to the sound of a voice.
"What is it?" The strange voice asked. Josh opened his eyes and realized he was laying facedown on a sandy beach. He looked up a little and saw what looked like a set of purple hooves and a set of equally purple claws. He looked up farther and realized that a small purple horse and an even smaller lizard were looking at him curiously. He did the first thing that came into his head.
He jumped to his feet, stumbling back until he fell into the lake.
Again.
When he stood back up, the creatures were nowhere to be seen. That is, until he saw two tails sticking out from behind a rock. He almost laughed when he saw the smoke about half a mile down the shore. He started walking towards it.
After awhile, he realized that the pair he had seen were following him. He stopped and turned to them.
"Go on, get out of here. Shoo!" He said, trying to scare them off. When they just looked at him, he sighed and continued towards the smoke.
"What gives you the right to talk to us like that?" A voice said. Josh whirled aroud with his knife at ready. All he saw were the now slightly angry animals. He looked at them closer.
"Did you just-" He was interrupted by the lizard belching fire from its mouth. Josh then took off running down the beach, dropping his knife in the process.
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"Spike! You scared it!" Twilight scolded, watching the retreating figure.
"Sorry, but Celestia sent us a letter." Spike said.
"What does it say?"
"She wants us to check out a crash site close to the lake. She saw something land there, but she is busy at the moment." Twilight thought about this.
"Spike, take a note. Dear Princess Celestia, Spike and I are already at the lake and have seen a strange creature. It walks on two legs like Spike, but it has no tail. It seems to be wearing clothing over most of its body and, suprisingly, can speak Equestrian. Spike scared it off when we received your letter. It seems to not know about ponies or dragons, seeing as it was surprised when we spoke. I await your reply. Your Student, Twilight." She said.
"Got it!" Spike said. He then burned the letter with his breath.
"Maybe we should wait for Celestia to arrive before following that thing." Twilight said.
"Yeah. Hey, check this out." Spike said, picking up
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Josh approached the crash site. When he got to it, he saw that everyone had died on impact. There was blood across the passenger bay and bodies still in their harnesses. He sighed, retrieved an E-tool from the ship, and began to dig graves for his crew.
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A few hours later, he finshed burying the last body and began to look for anything useful. He was surprised when he found a partially disassembled X-43 VTOL in the cargo bay.
"We could use this to get a better view of the area." A cool voice said. Josh sighed in relief as his A.I. came back online.
"Good idea, Leonidas." He replied. He began to work on building the VTOL.
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Celestia flew above Ponyville's nearby lake in search of the object that fell into her land. Her sister was at the Castle in Canterlot resting after a hard night's work. Celestia had found her pupil, Twilight earlier and had talked to her about the creature she had seen. Unfortunately, she had nothing new to tell her.
Then, she spotted the object. It was a large metal box-like contraption. Then she saw the creature that Twilight had seen. Like she had said, it walked on two legs and used its front legs to manipulate objects. Whatever it was, it was building some sort of contraption next to the crash site.
That was when she spotted the graves. She realized that the ground close to the object was covered in blood. So this thing had killed someof her subjects. She would not stand for this. Anger boiled inside her and she wanted nothing more than to kill that thing where it stood. However, if what it was building was a weapon, she could be hurt while trying to attack.
She noticed that the creature had stopped working and was walking up a hill. Celestia smiled.
She would have her revenge.