Chapter 1 Old Friends Return
Hey I'm Adam , a human being from a planet called Earth . I have reddish orange hair , brown eyes and i'm … chubby . Anyway I lead the NLR Navy . I was brought here via letter thanks to Luna our leader , no she's not a tyrant like Celesita was .
But that doesn't mean she doesn't bring justice to those who deserve it and punish the wicked . You see we won our freedom through a war , one that was bound to happen and believe me when I say this . It had Celestia wasn't going to just give us our freedom nor independence easily . So now we get dragged into yet another war that only I have knowledge about I sure hope we can survive in a Galaxy Far Far Away from home .
Location : New Equiss , New Ponyville
I was sound asleep , when I heard the clip clop of small hooves headed up to my bedroom door . I then heard knocking , thankfully though I only keep my door closed at night . "Hey it's time to get up" said the voice . Scoots what's with you and waking me up THIS early I thought . I turned over to the other side , thus ignoring her calls to get me out of bed .
"Alright , I tried" said Scootaloo . She walked out of my room and closed my door , only seconds later in came a blur light blue and rainbows .
Yea , Captain Rainbow Dash of the shadowbolts fastest mare in all New Equestria and has an ego the size of a mountain . She plucked one of her feathers from her wing and used said feather to tickle me out of bed , this works with me grabbing her and throwing her into a headlock and finally getting the much desired sleep I get ,cause frankly though I don't want to getup at all .
"Adam let me go" protested Rainbow . Finally I wake up and saw that I had her in a headlock ,after finally opening one eye I saw rainbow snickering at my unkempt hair .
"yea laugh it up Rainbow" I grumbled . "Oh lighten up , I do have something to say" .
"Oh and what would that be ?" I asked . "That you among all the top military officials have been called to New Canterlot for some kind of meeting I think" said Rainbow . "Alright , thanks although now that your here I have been meaning to ask" I said getting her attention .
"Oh and what might that be?" asked Rainbow curiously . "have you once considered having foals?" I asked . This made her turn bright red , almost red as a tomato , that and she hid herself beneath the covers in attempt to hide her blushing . I decided to let her have her little moment , before getting out of bed .
Since I think today's a Monday , may as well shower and get dressed and see what in the world all this fuss is about . I grabbed my New Lunar Republic navy Uniform and stepped into the shower , allowing well after removing my undies and sweatpants and socks that is . Allowing the water to run over me .
Meanwhile
Rainbow Blitz , Scootaloo and Scootaroll along with Firefly and Spectrum Streak were all waiting to see there adopted human son off along with there other children .
Finally emerged a fully clothed and rather 'dashing' looking Adam as he was finished adjusting his uniform . "Good by sweetie , hopefully the meeting doesn't take too long" said Firefly . "Yea same here , whatever it maybe I hope I can get back here in time to enjoy your famous pancakes" I said .
"Yes , I look forward to making them" . With that myself , Rainbow Dash and Blitz along with the two youngest waited for the chariot to arrive . Sure enough we both saw the chariot land on the ground and out stepped Commander Fossil Hunter and Captain Magnus Ventus .
"Well good morning to all of you , if you'll all please climb aboard we can get to the castle " said Commander Fossil Hunter . Not wasting anytime we all climbed aboard I was never really one for heights. Once we were aboard , the pegasi flapped there wings and the chariot took off in the direction of New Canterlot .
"Now I'm sure most of you are aware that her Lunar Majesty as called a meeting of the utmost importance" said Fossil hunter . "Yea that's what I heard I have yet to hear what this meeting is all about" . Commander Fossil hunter glared at me and I glared right back at him . "Alright you two that's enough , I don't need a fight breaking out" said Captain Magnus Ventus .
"Sorry sir" said Fossil hunter . "Like wise" I said . "Much better , now I'm not sure as to why either . But from what Princess Nightmare Moon has told me though this meeting bringing back old friends from there days in the old Lunar Republic which is why she called the meeting" said Ventus . Well that would make sense I thought . "On the agenda today is just routine patrols both on the ground , in the air , on the ocean , and in space" added Fossil Hunter .
"Okay , I'm mostly going to be handling the patrols in space" I said . "I know that , which is why once we reach the castle though I'm quite sure Luna will divulge the details of the meeting to us" said Fossil hunter . "Makes sense to me" I said . Finally after hours of flying New Canterlot came into view .
The chariot touched on the ground , we all got out and headed into the castle and was met with Luna , Nightmare Moon and Starchaser . "Luna , how have you been it must have been a long time since we last spoke" I said hugging the stuffing out of her .
"It has been a long time since we last we spoke ,but i'm glad that your in good health" said Luna with a smile . "When am I not" I shot back with a knowing smile of my own . We all followed Luna and her two sisters towards the war room where we all picked out chairs to take a seat in .
"Now as you are all aware , mostly Adam and the military officials that came to visit me and hear the tale of how the lunar Republic there are some old friends that I would like to bring back" said Luna . "Okay , and your looking at me to lead this voyage" I said .
"That's correct , I know the locations of where they are and how to get to them" . "Fair enough". "Something that also you should be aware of is that first off our satellites have taken photos and first off the radiation seems low enough for us to enter and not be cooked from the inside out" said Nightmare .
I looked at the photos and sure enough I was right , the radiation levels were in the safe zone for atmospheric landing . "Alright , now then we should take my fleet for security reasons" I said .
"I was thinking the exact samething , by doing that we minimize our risk of coming under attack from any unknown ships" said Starchaser . "Good ,the more ships we have the more of a chance we have of surviving this mission" I said .
"The location of said mission is Old Equiss where the first and second Lunar Rebellion took place" said Luna . Sure enough I saw Applejack walking in here with a clueless look on her face , I didn't notice it but i'm sure she wanted to say something but decided to keep her mouth shut .
"Now that Applejack is here , I believe that we should also take down a transport pelican to get us to these locations" said Luna .
"Good idea , should we bring along any ground security?" I asked . "yes" . That and Luna noticed Applejack starting to dose off , thankfully she got some coffee in her and that woke her up . "Huh wha , what happened?" asked Applejack tiredly .
"You nearly dosed off during the meeting , thankfully some coffee was able to wake you up" I said . "Well thanks , ah don't know what in the hay made me so tired" said Applejack . She took a sip of her coffee , and already the caffeine was working it's magic .
"Now then , transports are being prepped to take the various captains to there ships , our transport is going to be a cargo pelican that I had personally converted myself and should hold out" said Luna .
"That's right , I will be going on this mission as will Starchaser" added Nightmare . "Since there's no trees or such cover we will go during the night and head towards the bunker to see who we can awake up or not and from there" . "Alright , when do we leave?" I asked .
"Very soon" said Luna . As we went over the various details it was time for us to leave . We got to the cargo pelican and sure enough , just as Luna said everything was there . We quickly climbed aboard , strapped ourselves in and waited for the door to close . Once we were all strapped in we heard a voice over the intercom system .
"Alright everypony , make sure that your all strapped in and knowing you captain you would head up towards the cockpit since it's a better view" said Dusk Shine . With that I made my way into the cockpit and took my seat in the co-pilots seat cause something told me that I should . We lifted off the ground and rose in a diagonal angle and were in outerspace something I wanted to see again .
We quickly set ourselves a new heading and flew towards the main ship , after docking inside the main landing bay I saw that some of the ponies here were mostly hanging around , not that I minded in the slightest .
I was able to make my way towards the bridge , and sure enough though I took my spot while the rest were shown to there quarters for the duration of this mission . "Status report" I said . "Everything is functioning normally sir , any and all weapons , shields and our cloaking device worked all systems are functioning within normal levels" said Silver Stream .
"Good , and status on the fleet?" I asked . "Fleet wide status is good captain , we are ready to depart" . "Helm take us out , ¼ burn" I said. With that the entire ship's engines were already firing on ¼ burn and slowly bur surely we had cleared dry dock . "we had cleared dry dock and are free to maneuver". "Alright lets link up with the fleet , lay in a course" I ordered .
We quickly caught up with the fleet that was waiting on us and were soon at the forefront of it all . "Helm lay in a course for old Equiss" . With a few buttons pressed everything was set to go. "Course laid in" . "Punch it" I ordered .
With that we jumped into slipspace, with all of that going on I headed off towards my ready room to chill for a while , maybe pick up a book or something of that nature .
While reading I thought back to a time when things were simple when I didn't have to worry all that much . Finally I got word that we had reached the planet old Equiss . Setting the book down on my desk I got up to leave , and headed towards the bridge . "Alright what do we have?" I asked taking a seat in the command chair .
"Well according to our sensors we are picking up a lot of settlements one settlement is in the ruins of Old Canterlot , another is where the crystal Empire was and the last one is where Ponyville stood" reported Lyra .
"Okay , lets take a team down there" I said . I headed back to my ready room to armor up , there was no way that I was going to go down to the planet without armor or something to protect me let alone any kind of weapon .
Finally I was ready , I walked towards the turbo lift and soon reached the hanger where I saw Luna , Nightmare Moon , Starchaser , Rainbow , and Applejack .
"Alright , here's the thing we head down there and locate the survivors of the old Lunar Republic , get them back to the ship for treatment and hopefully this time around we get back to the planet for our patrol" I said . "Are there any questions?" not a single pony spoke all was silent in the main hanger . "Good , get aboard it's time we bring these ponies out of stasis" I said .
With that we all took our seats strapped in , only I headed towards the cockpit and strapped in cause I'm pretty good when it comes to being a co-pilot on cargo pelicans .
Once the pelican door was secured , Dusk shine powered up the main systems and flew out of the hanger , we were followed by two other pelicans with two whole teams plus a warthog . Hours later , we landed at the town that was once Dodge Junction .
Breathing a sigh of relief that it was safe to take off our helmets we proceeded towards the what would have been the forest covering the entrance towards the underground old lunar outpost .
Luna opened the door and we all walked towards a rope elevator , that lowered us underground , and the sight of it all was to me breathtaking . "Now where's the room for these survivors?" I asked . "Should be right through here" said Luna . Opening the door , we found two dead guards along with a bunch of cryopods . I spotted some kind of control panel and quickly figured out the controls on how to operate it . According to the display lay out , it showed several life signs .
Life Signs :
Prince Silver Moon-Alive
Vegain Storm – Alive
Captain Stardust – Alive
Captain Star Stream – Alive
Night Star - Alive
Aquaflor - Alive
Coldheart - Alive
Starway Mirage - Alive
Cogs - Alive
Night Arrow – Alive
Ulfric Greymane - Alive
BlueBerry Blitz – Alive
Cobalt Eclipse – Alive
Iron Wing – Alive
Dark Roseo – Alive
Krash Storm – Alive
Star Dusk – Alive
Storm Chaser – Alive
Violet Crystal – Alive
War Drum – Alive
Dizzy Drops – Alive
Night Wish – Alive
Nebula Star – Alive
Peppermint Mocha – Alive
Alpha Wing – Alive
Hurricane – Alive
Melody Sketch – Alive
Vanilla Swirl – Alive
Rosy Mystique – Alive
Honolulu Sunset – Dead
Nebula Star – Dead
Transfern – Dead
Lancer – Dead
Strawberry – Dead
I tried looking for cause of death for the Nightmare Paladins but no such luck . It said 'Cause of Death unknown' . Somehow there was a crack in the glass and radiation was killing only the pilots of the original Nightmare Paladins .
"Princess Nightmare , you might wanna have a look at this" I called . Quickly she got to my location and turns out , she knew that we could revive most of the pilots and get them medical treatment .
Quickly entering the code to wake them up , already things were going our way , until I was informed that a squad of troops were headed our way . Grabbing my assault rifle , I made my way towards the surface and what I was met with was ponies wearing purple armor and …. Twilight ? Quite a surprise seeing her still alive .
"Adam , what brings you to old Equiss?" asked Twilight . "Lets just say we are here to get survivors from this underground old lunar outpost" I said . "I see , surprisingly I wansn't even aware of what was going on . I didn't know that there were lunar survivors here" said Twilight .
"Well there are , from 4,000 years ago long before the events of the second lunar rebellion" I said . "well anyway get your survivors and just go it's not that we don't want you all here , it just brings up bad memories" said Twilight . "Of course we will be on our way" I said .
With that Twilight and small battalion of troops left but little did I know , that she was planning something I just wasn't sure.
Ignoring that nagging feeling in the back of my neck . I headed back down the back way into the outpost and sure enough , there were some left over tanks and a few fighters that landed or were toppled over by the nuclear blast . I walked through the back door leading to the cryopod room .
"I was just informed by one Twilight Sparkle to just get the survivors and go turns out we are not welcome here much" I reported . "Very well then , Sargent get these ponies to a pelican and have them brought to medical ship on the double" ordered Luna .
Within minutes , they were gone leaving only myself Luna , Nightmare and Starchaser to deal with the dead bodies of the Original Nightmare Paladins. "What do we do with them?" I asked .
"The best thing we can do is send them off the correct way , already several medical pelicans are being called down to retrieve the dead bodies and offer them a funeral once cause of death has been figured out" said Luna . "Alright , we should get moving though" I said .
Once all the survivors were gone including the dead bodies we quickly made our exit and had cargo pelicans retrieve the fighters and tanks so far though , we should be able to restore them for display back home once a museum is built .
Eventually we boarded the same pelican and headed to Moon Town , Luna said there were some survivors mostly from the old lunar guard . And from what I can understand of it all turns out that there might be more cryopods in Lunar Star City .
"With the radiation at a safe level , we can operate with out having to put on our helmets and turns out that the planets atmosphere still has some kind of oxygen some kind of atmosphere even with the low levels of radiation" I said . "yea , and there still pretty low , but according to our sensors there is a radiation storm headed this way" said Dusk Shine .
"Right lets just get the survivors and get out of here" I said . Nodding in agreement , the flight wasn't too long and we soon saw the ruins of what I think is Lunar Star City . We soon landed in the centeral court yard , and it seems as if mother nature took over the last 5,000 years .
"Okay everyone spread out , we need to find survivors I'll check over by that apple farm" I announced . With that I took off in the direction , seems Applejack had the right idea and decided to tag along I didn't mind a bit . We soon got to the farm and it looked in worst shape than that barn .
"Land sakes , is this what happened?" asked a shocked Applejack . "I would guess so" I said in mild shock . We entered the farm and already I noticed irradiated apples , and dead trees . The trees themselves had no leaves on them and the soil wasn't faring any better . Finally we got to the cellar , it took a bit of muscle but we got it open finding three cryopods .
"Seville to Luna do you read me?" . "I read you loud and clear , did you find something?" . "yes , three cryopods all of them apple related" . "Very well , I'm on my way with a medical transport inbound remain where the both of you are , Luna out" .
I turned to Applejack and explained the situation at least at the current moment . "Alright , but lets see who we have that are related to the apples" I said . With that we walked up to the first one , sure enough this ponies name was Apple Cobbler , followed by Apple Fire , Apple Crumble , and Big Apple Twist .
"These ponies must have had cryopods in there cellar before and during the attack on Lunar Star City" I said surveying the room . "yea , no kidding and the soil is far too damaged to grow anything" said Applejack .
"yea and that's mostly due to the nuclear fallout that happened all over the world" I added . Which meant that afterwards we still needed to get to the castle .
Quickly we saw the medical team get each pony out , and onto stretchers I quickly made my way up the stairs after they were gone . We linked up with Luna and walked towards the castle , the walk wasn't long though but it did take a while .
Finally we were able to get inside the special room that Luna had dug out 5,000 years ago to store the various ponies most of them guards .
"Alright everypony start awakening the guards , I think I can deal with these" I pointed towards the other cryopods . "Those would be the griffin crew that the L.S.S. Stalker" said Luna . "I think you should deal with them" I said . "Right" .
Luna opened the 12 cryopods and not a single griffin lashed out but were unconscious . Eventually another transport came to pick them up and were gone same with the guards , thankfully though we quickly got out of here as quickly as we came here . Quickly we jumped into slipspace , on ourway back towards New Equiss .
It would take awhile for us to get back but well worth it . According to each ponies they had an excellent track in there branch of the military , we were able to find a dead body by the name of Shadow Night , Luna had an idea using a revival spell a dark sphere enveloped the dead body and began to shape him back into the pony that he once was .
Finally the black sphere was gone ,and stood before Princess Luna was none other than captain Night Shadow . "Ugh , what in the world happened to me?"he asked . "You've been dead for 5,000 years I brought you back because you maybe to help out" said Luna . "Luna is it really you?" . "Indeed it is , I am still the same Luna that you knew 5,000 years ago Shadow Night" .
Dead for 5,000 years ? , what in the world did I miss out on?" asked Shadow Night . "You missed on the rest of the war which in the old Lunar Republic's defeat , AND the Second Lunar Rebellion lead by me" I said . "so what year is this?" asked Shadow Night confused . "The date is November 24th , 50006ASF which means 'After Solar Flare'" I said .
"Ah that makes sense , still though did everyone make it?" asked Night shadow . "No , the pilots of the original Nightmare Paladins didn't make it" I said . "that's bad , still though everypony else is okay?" asked Night Shadow . "yes , yes they are there currently on the medical ship Lunar Healer" I said .
"Makes sense , but now that I think of it just what is going to happen with most of us?" . "Some of you will be re entering the New Lunar Republic , others I'm unsure of" I said . "and what of the shadowbolts did any of them make it?" .
"Yes , most of them did they too were sealed in special shadowbolt cryopods , that's why we brought along the current captain of the shadowbolts Rainbow Dash" . "Good , at least we now have a chance to survive and thrive" Said Night Shadow .
We had finally arrived back and most of the fleet remained right where they were while the medical ship docked to a station and began to unload it's patients .
Though for me I decided to remain on board the eclipse and over see everything. Making sure that this operation went as smoothly as it did . Night Shadow decided to remain on board as well .
Couldn't really blame him , though finally we got a transmission saying that the patients were offloaded to station Zeta . "Rodger that , glad we could help" I said . The transmission cut , and I got another one in my ready room .
This time it was from Luna who called a private meeting with the top military officials . Now I knew something was up, whatever it was I had to find out and fast. I was quickly transported to the planet it's self and was rushed off to New Canterlot , via train .
I wasn't the only one though , Rainbow Dash , Applejack and this was surprising Stardust along with Night Star and Star Stream . Ignoring that fact , we quickly were escorted towards the castle and into the wardroom .
We each took a seat as Luna had a grim looking expression , which meant one thing …. war . "I'm glad you all could make it on such short notice" said Luna . "Yea we came as soon as you called , so who's declared war on us?" I asked . "The Sith Empire" said Luna .
"Okay , I know a bit about them . Information is sketchy but I know that most of them use blasters ,much like the stormtroopers of the solar empire did , now they also have viberoblades but there's something else they also have lightsabers , there lead by Darth Malak , and his right hand man an admiral Saul Karath beyond that I don't know much else" I said .
"However though , one of our scout ships picked up a wormhole forming in Sector 1A I plan to check it out" .
"That's right , where ever this wormhole leads too be very careful , but at the sametime be very very vigilant" said Luna . "Which is why Princess Nightmare Moon is coming with you" said another voice . "Princess Starchaser , do you plan to come along?" asked Luna curiously .
"I do , are you coming?" asked Starchaser . Luna shook her head no , and went on to explain that she's needed here to help her old friends get settled in .
"Alright , so who's all coming with me on this venture?" I asked . I already knew Rainbow was coming with her shadowbolts , along with Captain Star Stream and Stardust since she's going to be working with Captain Applejack for ground tactics .
"Alright, I am going to need fighter squadrons for the fleet , cause we are going into space to fight the Sith Empire , so be prepared to trade in your jet fighter for a short sword fighter" I said .
"Another thing , is that the both of you Star Stream and Stardust , your going to be wearing power armor or what we all call 'Spartan' armor and the greatest of firearms that we can offer" .
"Sounds good , can't wait to see what these things do"said Stardust . With that the meeting was concluded , I was still in my armor with my assault rifle strapped to my back . I knew that this was going to be it out of the frying pan and into the fire .
Star Dust was escorted to the armory to pick out her Spartan armor , she chose the latest and greatest while Star stream was getting fitted for her flight suit . "Luna you sure that Star Stream and Rainbow Dash can work together ?" I asked . "I don't know , I just do not know" said Luna simply . Eventually she had her shadowbolts lined with her , alongside Rainbow's .
"Alright Shadowbolts listen up Rainbow's shadowbolts report to me Star Stream you and your shadowbolts also report to me" I said . Eventually everything was settled and we all reported to our shuttles .
Captain Stardust and Captain Applejack both walked to there shuttles , I could tell that old would clash with new . Then again they would be forced to work together if the situation forced ,them like say a war or something of that nature.
We arrived at the eclipse , our shuttles landed in hanger one . Getting out we headed towards the door that would take me into a hallway , that lead me straight down to an elevator . Getting inside , I knew that this was one of my regular patrols that I had to get done . "Report" I said taking my seat .
"All systems are nominal captain" reported my first officer . "Good , fleet wide report , any ships having trouble?" I asked . "Not a one captain , everything is running like clockwork" reported Bon Bon . "That's good , I'd prefer it be kept that way" .
"Helm lay in a course for Sector 1A , relay that to the fleet" I said . Nodding Bon Bon got right on it , seconds later the fleet captains reported that everything was set to go .
"Course laid in captain" reported one of our new helmsponies . "Good , punch it" . Nodding we all jumped to slip space in a bright blue flash .
Hours later
We soon reappeared in Sector 1A several scout ships were launched to scout the area for activity. And so far things were looking good . "Captain I'm picking up some kind of wormhole in the area it seems stable" said Lyra . "Alright lets check it out" I said .
I ordered the entire fleet to move and check out this wormhole , by the time we got close enough we began to take active scans of it determining that it could be safe to travel through .
"Alright lets check it out , full burn through" I said . Just like the eclipse and the entire fleet moved through the wormhole , so far no problems . But little did I know that , whatever was on the other side had to be friendly .
Location : Unknown
we soon exited the other side , only to find ourselves far from our home . "Where in the world are we?" I asked confused . "I'm not sure , these stars are all wrong" pointed out Lyra . "What do you mean?" I asked .
"According to what I'm seeing on my screen , the sensors are detecting unknown star clusters and other things that it can't identify" . "Okay , lets try and find some kind of way to update our star charts and figure out where in the world we all are" I said . From the looks of things , this wasn't Kansans anymore and we were no longer in our home galaxy , we are in a galaxy far far away .
TBC in Chapter 2 The Sith Empire