Here it is, another chapter of those no good Martians! Anyway, sorry about the wait there, had a lot of stuff from college getting in the way, plus I'm having to battle my permanent writer's block that seems to get in the way of any story I write. But I got this chapter up, so it's not all bad news right?

Now if you read the book, there is a battle when the fighting machines show their strength to the humans, so what chances do the Martians have here? Well, let's say you'll be in for a surprise...

Alright, let's go from here...


Chapter 7

The Battle Of Ponyville

Not far from where Twilight, Spike and Storm Speed where, two certain Martian spies looked on from their hiding place in a cramped alleyway. Of course, if you have been reading the story correctly, no need to introduce them, but if you haven't, you're an idiot.

The two Martians spies eyeballed the two ponies and dragon heading across town. "Wait a minute…that one in the armour looks like one of those soldiers." Torno noted.

"One of them survived!" cried Abaztard stunned at the thought of it, before placing a tentacle around his beak from his sudden outburst that could've quite easily blown their cover. "Why is there always one little bastard that slips through the net?"

His co-spy looked more conceited, it was only just another cliché that would happen in these situations, still, they knew that the surviving troop would be killed sooner or later, though they didn't know that this one troop had sent a report that would play a part later in this chapter, though I'm not telling any spoilers here yet!

It was also at this time they noticed that the sky was now turning from orange to blue, their hopefully quick night time operation was now, well, to put it nicely…was fucked. Soon enough they half expected these ponies to pour onto the street to begin the day's events as whatever it was they'd do.

"C'mon Wacko," Torno said to himself though his teeth. "Get your ass here soon, we smell like shit in this alleyway."

"For one of the few times like this, I agree with you," Abaztard replied, also looking annoyed at this waiting game. Then he looked up and down both ways of the alleyway. "Hey Torno, remember if one pony on their own walks by this alleyway, gr—"

"Grab it," Torno finished. "How can I forget that we are trying to catch a darn pony that is so colourful that it would die on a colour plate of grey?"

The other spy could only crack a small smile on his beak, but he was still feeling uncomfortable. They then looked over to see the three individuals heading over to a nearby house, the one in armour knocking on the door.

"They're up to something," Abaztard noted feeling smug to himself, though it made Torno face-tentacle.

"No shit smarty ass," Torno replied sarcastically rolling his black eyes. However, as they weren't too far away, they were just able to hear the ponies (and dragon) have the following conversation. Opening the door, a maroon coloured female pony with blue eyes and a yellow and black streaked mane and tail, which were all messy, no doubt a sign that she had just gotten out of bed.

"Hello, what'd you want?" A very tired looking female pony asked, angry at being waken up and surprised to see not only a solider standing there, but also of Twilight and Spike flanking him. "Wait...you're one of the troops who came by last night, aren't you?"

Storm looked at her with a stoned face. "Miss, I advise that you and everypony in the town must leave now and get far away as possible." He glanced over at the location where the fighting had taken place. "I regret to say that the rest of my platoon was destroyed by those unknown creatures. They are already heading this way to Ponyville!"

The mare stared at the stallion blankly, then looked out of the doorframe to the direction of the location where the creatures remained since their arrival. Thoughts flooded her head of whatever they were up to.

"Please we've got to follow the soldier's orders," Twilight piped in stepping forward.

While this was going on, Abaztard and Torno cursed under the breath's that the news of how the information of the Martians presence was now starting to catch attention. They could have done the quick thing of running out there and killing the four individuals there and make sure that they wouldn't spread the information out even more. Though with their being many windows on the buildings, and the big chance that ponies from the buildings would be watching their movements, they knew that it would give away their position.

"Oh fuck the luck," Torno sighed angrily as he watched the conversation unfold. "Can we just have a break?"

Abaztard looked over at his fellow spy and glared at him. "Easy? When did you hear about this job supposed to be easy at all?"

Torno tried to say something back, but he received a slap around his head from Abaztard. What a bastard that Martian is, or has that already been said?

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In short space of time Twilight, Spike and Storm had by now told almost a quarter of the town of the crisis that was literally on their door step. In the main centre of the town, nearly all of the residents had now appeared there. Some had were chatting among each other and asking what had been going on after all this time. One of the main things from all the ponies was that none had anything to bring like belongings or clothes, though this was due to the fact that everypony had been literally dragged out their homes before they had a chance to do anything else.

Somewhere in that large crowd, the six elements of harmony had met up with each other, much like they crowd, they had no idea what was going to happen.

"Ah knew somethin' like this would happen!" Applejack growled, who looked completely terrible from being pulled up from her golden slumbers.

Rarity felt almost ashamed to be out in public looking like this. Her once beautiful purple mane now was sticking out all over the place, another clear sign to show how early they had been dragged out of their beds. "Those wicked creatures…how dare they force me out in public with me looking like this!" Thankfully for her, nopony seemed to care about how she looked right now.

Poor old Fluttershy was feeling no better. With her living away from the town, Rainbow Dash had awoken her up and only briefly telling her the situation. What made her feel awful was that all her animals remained back at her home. Oh, the horrible thoughts of what might happen to them crossed her mind what seemed like a million times.

Meanwhile, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Spike and Pinkie Pie poked their heads over the sea of ponies looking out towards the hazy grey smoke that still came from the forest. Twilight had explained to the two of the giant fighting machines that Storm had mentioned who had caused the destruction yonder.

"Those big meanie pants doing stuff like that!" Pinkie exclaimed angry over the scarred destruction that had been done earlier that day.

"You think we can stop them, Twi?" Rainbow Dash asked the unicorn. "I mean, with us being the elements of harmony, do we have a chance at least holding them off?"

Twilight didn't say anything, only looking over to the cyan mare with a nervous look. Sure Nightmare Moon, Discord and the Changelings were one thing, but this new threat that seemed to be not of this world appeared to be a whole different kettle of fish for them.

"What worries me if Celestia doesn't know what to do against them, what happens then?" Spike asked who was sitting on Twilight's back looking out along with them.

"Well if I were Celestia, this'll be a great moment to use the Wonderbolts," Dash muttered to herself, turning round watching the podium where she could see the mayor talking to Storm about something. From what she could see, the conversation was quite a heated one with Storm looking quite flustered from telling the mayor the past events earlier in the day, though Dash and the others couldn't hear anything due to the loud chatting in the crowd.

From the roof of a nearby building, Abaztard and Torno watched the situation unfold. "How on Mars did the town come together so quickly?" Abaztard asked Torno, still eyeballing the site of a crowd of ponies.

"Plot convenience maybe?" Torno replied nervously, raising an eyebrow.

His fellow spy glared at him, shaking his head. "Just shut the fuck up would you please?"

Back on the ground, the conversation with the mayor and Storm had ended with the mayor saying something to the still worried looking solider before walking up to the podium. "May I have your attention please!" She called out into the podium's microphone to everypony in the centre of town, which they all stopped to look at her and listen to her.

"Thank you," She began before clearing her throat. "Greetings Mares and Gentlestallions of Ponyville, now as you are all aware, in the past few days, there has been a great deal of disturbance on the outskirts of the Everfree Forest."

She paused as she looked back at Storm. "And I do regret to say that…the 2nd division Ponyville platoon...was wiped out by unknown invaders." A few gasps could be heard, though from the roof of where the spies where, they were only enjoying the show before them.

"So what you scabby old bitch!" Cried out Abaztard jokily like a heckler, though Torno pulled him down quickly before anypony down below them would.

"The fuck you playing at?" Torno scolded him. "You could've gotten us into shit!" Almost suddenly, the two Martians started having a silent yet furious fight with their tentacles, couldn't really blame them really, they were about to crack anyway.

While the small brawl was taking place on the rooftop, the mayor was carrying on her speech to the crowd of ponies, all completely oblivious of the Martian's little…disagreement. "…However from these shocking events, we do have the great fortune of having a surviving troop from the battle before us…Private Storm Speed."

As she moved out of the way to let him stand at the podium, a surprising amount of boo's followed from some ponies in the crowd. Some even shouted abuse at him, though this was all over the fact of being wakened up early on a Sunday morning.

"Nutcase!"

"Why get us all up this early?"

"Better tell us what's going on!"

From their hiding spot, Torno and Abaztard continued to watch the events take place after finishing their fight, in which Abaztard won. "Isn't that funny?" Abaztard chuckled after rubbing the side of his face from the fight, "After what's happened, they hate him all over the fact he woke them up early!"

Torno just shook his head in disbelieve, still feeling a bit sore after the fight. "Not even if their lives are in danger from us? These ponies have spastic type thinking."

"Worse than humans if you ask me," Abaztard added. "Sooner we eradicate them all the better." He paused as he saw Storm clearing his throat before he was ready to say something. "…And please don't get me one as a pet, Torno" Abaztard said over to his fellow spy as he watched the display down bellow.

The solider looked around at the vast amount of ponies, some looking at him with annoyed faces. "…Uhm…I know this is kinda awkward having to drag each and one of you all out of bed for this—"

"What's going on!" Cried a mare from the front row, which escalated with others joining in.

"Mares and Gentlestallions please!" Storm ordered waving his fore hooves trying to calm down the situation. Thankfully the crowd went silent again. "Now out there I've lost many good fellow troops, I don't who's dead or has even survived, but I hereby call for everypony in town to leave Ponyville at once!"

At once the crowd argued at the solider, it was heard clearly that none of them wanted to leave town and some saying that the monsters looked to sluggish from what they saw from that first encounter, little did they know of what had been happening. "You've got to believe me now!" Storm shouted over the crowd of angry ponies.

However during all this, all had failed to notice the ground was shaking a times, almost like…giant hoofsteps. One by one, they all felt it and with it, the arguing died down. Now nopony knew what was happening, though the Martians spies knew perfectly well what was going on.

Storm step away from the podium and narrowed his eyes over at the horizon, which all ponies started to look in his direction.

"…No…"

A powerful beam of fiery orange suddenly fired its way in from the horizon, causing everypony to duck for cover as the beam struck a building, causing it to explode and catch fire. As Storm stood up from ducking, his eyes widened in horror of what he could just see from the thick smoke that was starting to appear. "LOOK!" He cried as he started running with a crowd of ponies. "THERE THEY ARE…WHAT'D I TELL YOU!"

"Where ya goin'?" Cried Applejack from the crowd to the now retreating solider.

Despite all the screaming, running and confusion, two voices could be heard celebrating...

"About fucking time too!"

In all the confusion, the elements of harmony hurriedly regrouped so they wouldn't get lost in the sea of panicking ponies "What the-?" Twilight gasped upon just barely seeing threw the thick smoke, with the small quakes getting more and more stronger.

"What in Celestia's name are THEY?" Rarity gawked.

The others could also just make out what Twilight and Rarity were seeing, all with eyes as wide as saucers and mouths hitting the ground. How where they suppose to describe what they were seeing? Four monstrous Tripods, all a hundred feet tall, went striding their way over some pine trees and crushing them. As the smoke cleared even more, they could see that the titans of steel had a rounded hulk at the top that connected with the three legs. What scared the ponies was what seemed like green bug like eyes on the hulk part, which almost seem to glow and make them look like living creatures.

As each leg rose up to take a step forward, the group of friends could also see that the feet had three toe like claws, almost like it was a dangerous animal itself. Each of the tripods carried a funnel on the hulk structure, one of them was steaming already and it became clear that this metal giant had been the one that fired that beam of fire.

A fifth machine appeared behind them, which the other tripods seemed to more out of the way to let this one in front for some reason. As the group of giants walked forward, Twilight and the gang should've made a run for their lives, but they couldn't help but remained glued to their spot, staring at these un-Equestrian type…things.

Then again, you can get very strange things in Equestria, so I really don't know why they should be like that, but the plot says so, so whooie-do.

When the that practical Tripod final walked out in front of the pack, it stamped it's back foot three times (creating a minor earthquake) and causing the other Tripods to stop. A long silence followed as all five machines stood motionless.

"There's never an easy moment when you really need the elements," Spike whispered to Twilight, who, like the others, could barely take their eyes of these strange metal monsters.

Just then, a loudspeaker type device emerged from the bottom of the tripod with the steaming funnel. "Erm…sorry 'bout that," said a rough voice from that Tripod. "My heat ray's faulty, that wasn't the main call of attack…sorry—"

"Tonker! Who said you were allowed to talk!" Boomed another voice from the leading Tripod, which the machine looked over at it's left to the Tripod that had talked. "I'm the captain, I'm suppose to be the one who tells them what!"

"Sorry, Wacko. Just had to say sorry for that mistake attack there, not my fault my heat ray's a bit shit," Boomed the other tripod looking over at its leader.

"What'd you mean you wanna say sorry to them?" 'Wacko' yelled back. "They're the fucking enemy num-nuts!" The leading Tripod paused to look at the town below.

"Now then…shit, forgot my ruddy speech for this part!" Wacko growled in annoyance.

The gang on the ground were beside themselves. Nopony knew if to feel scared by them, or to feel even amused at them. "Wacko? Tonker?" Rainbow Dash asked the group. "What kinda names are those?"

"I heard that, jackass!" Boomed Wacko's voice angrily, making the group have a fright of their lives. "And yes, we can hear every little thing from our sound tracking devices, so no need to shout." Now the gang felt like running for their lives, not that were scared for their life, but of a bright glow of white appearing in front of them, and it wasn't coming from the Tripods.

"What now?" Spike growled nervously, not wanting to look, fearing a heat ray was going to strike him and his friends down.

Even those in the metal titans didn't know what was happening. "Oh come on! It's been hell since we got here!" Wacko moaned angrily.

Finally the bright glow of white stopped and both sides looked on what had appeared before them. There before them was a certain ali—ok I'm too lazy to write details it's Celestia.

"Princess!" The girls and Spike bowed, but Celestia did not reply to them. Her icy gaze never leaving the Tripods.

"Who the hell are you?" Called out Wacko towards this strange character before him.

"…Invaders…" She said calmly but oozing with ice in her voice. "Leave this land now."

Wacko face-tentacle'd in his pilot's chair. "Listen lady, I, along with my troops, have a job to do here for the king of Mars, and this planet is become our new home for us Martians, which first we must eradicate you and your kind from the face of this planet Earth to become the dominant species."

"Equestria," Celestia corrected coolly.

"Whatever…" Wacko replied crossly.

The Princess walked forward about five hundreds yards forward, much to the amazement of Twilight and the gang, and even the Martians, though this was for thinking how stupid this tall pony was risking her life.

"Martians…" Celestia paused, trying to get over the word 'Martian' and what had been said from them. "Whatever your intentions are, this world will never be yours!" She continued to speak, but the Martians in the tripods weren't listening.

From switching from the loud speaker to radio the fellow tripods, Wacko had a plan to get on with the job. "C'mon guys, let's shut this bitch up…fire on my command on her." He winked over to his co-pilot and heat ray operator.

'Right away," Came the sound of Banjee's voice

"Gonna enjoy killing a royal," Ajax's voice followed, with some sniggering in it.

"Let's go and kill something!" Tonker yelled happily, making the other Martians cringed.

"Get on with it!" Denzil yelled crossly this time.

Wacko rubbed his tentacles together, a wicked grin appearing on his face. "Right, on my command, fire on the bitch."

Each heat ray operator all aimed at Celestia, which during all this, she was saying something to them, but they didn't care; they wanted her out of the way.

"Ok boys…" Wacko said as his aim was ready. "Aim…FIRE!"

At once, all five heat rays fired a powerful line of orange towards to alicorn. They all fired at her perfectly, right on target. For all the ponies watching the show, they could only watch in horror as the Princess was engulfed in a thick blanket of fire and grey smoke. Presumably destroying her in the process. Just as the ponies were about mourn over the death of their princess and the Martians were about to celebrate a job well done, both sides were in for a shock for what they saw next.

"Stupid bitch," Wacko smiled to himself. "That'll teach you to—The fuck!"

He (and possibly the other Martians) leaned forward to see what they were looking at was real. As the dust cleared, against all what had happened, was Celestia still standing in one piece, nothing different about her after that devastating attack, though a large black scorched mark surrounded her on the ground.

Both sides had to rub their eyes in disbelieve of how the hell Celestia survived, though their eyes all looked up at a giant sphere of fire above her head that seemed to be controlled by her magic. Her face now filled with total hatred towards the Martians, an expression that nopony would ever thought to see.

While the Ponies didn't know what it was, the Martians could only look on in horror as the realised of how that ball of fiery orange had been made.

"Look what she's done with our heat rays!" Cried a shocked Banjee.

"How the fuck's that possible?" Yelled Denzil. "You can't do that with weapons!"

Wacko was at a loss for words. On paper they should've sent her to oblivion, yet there she was. Now he had no idea what orders to give to his troops as now Celestia could do anything with that ball of fire. However for Tonker, he wanted to rush the operation and had an idea…

"Let me handle this!" He said on the radio to the other troops. But before the other Martians could say anything, Tonker had raised the right leg on his fighting machine and was leading it to crush Celestia with it.

Unfortunately for him, Celestia saw this.

Wacko's eyes widen as he saw the fire sphere glow ever brighter as the leg came down ever closer to Celestia. "Tonker! Don't!" But it was too late.

With the help of the sphere made of fire, Celestia fired a shot from it, right on target to hit Tonker's tripod. A massive explosion from that tripod caused the ground to violently shake as the hood of the fighting machine erupted into green and yellow explosions as the once proud machine of Martian metal became nothing more that various parts of metal as they went crashing all around the place.

Tonker, and his co-pilot, were incinerated from the explosion.

From Ponyville, the ponies couldn't help but cheer loudly and hug each other as only four giant fighting machines remained. And the Martians, a loud, brutal, thuggish race of creatures, had been reduced to a shocked silence.

In the midst of everypony celebrating, Torno and Abaztard were watching the battle take place from their rooftop. Nothing in their training ever told how to react if a strange pony destroyed a fighting machine, though the loss of Tonker did hit a note with them…

…Not really.

"Well…he was a jerk," Abaztard said to Torno, still watching the scene.

Torno looked over to his fellow spy. "Yeah, he never paid me back that bet he promised me a few months ago!" The Martian suddenly felt more angry than sad, all over that Tonker had died without giving him his bet…then again anyone would I guess, even if it was a hell of a lot of money, then again that is another story…

From the Tripods, Wacko just didn't know what to do. If he wasn't careful with his team, they all could be wiped out from a single pony…now how was he supposed to explain that to his king…oh wait, he would've been dead.

Suddenly, he could see a tripod on his left leaning forward slightly and charging up it's heat ray…Ajax's tripod! But it wasn't from Ajax that this was his idea to attack, but his co-pilot's. He'd been so shocked at Tonker's death that he wanted to avenge him…too bad that Tonker's death didn't give him that certain warning.

"Hold your fucking fire!" Yelled Wacko into his mouthpiece, his heart hammering in his body in fear for whatever might happen next.

Once again, Celestia noticed this and with quick thinking, fired another shot from her fireball at Ajax's tripod. Ajax could see the shot from the alicorn coming towards him, and in a desperate attempt to dodge the attack; he swung his Tripod round to get out of the way. But the heavy gravity on this world was far greater to that on Mars remember, and this proved to be a grave mistake.

As the fighting machine turned round towards it's right, the shot from Celestia struck the tripod on it's side and blasted it to kingdom come. The hood exploded again into a thousand pieces that went flying everywhere, some parts even hitting buildings in the town.

"Ajax!" Cried Torno running towards to edge of the rooftop as he could only watch helplessly as Ajax's fighting machine crashed down.

Wacko on the other hand (tentacle, hoof…whatever the hell it is!) couldn't take more of this. He only had one option, one that he knew that the king would be most pissed off at.

"Fall back! Retreat!" He cried out to the surviving tripods.

"S-sir?" Denzil asked in a panic tone. "We'd lose the battle then!"

"We already have lost it idiot, and four good Martians!" Wacko snapped.

Banjee seemed to get the idea quickly. He spun his Tripod round one hundred and eighty degrees and stomped back to base in his machine. The others followed suit, not wanted to look back. Abaztard and Torno had to rub their eyes to believe what they were seeing. A Martian would never retreat in battle, but this was almost like illegal in their culture.

"We gotta get back…Wacko's chickened out!" Torno cried as he started to climb down the building.

"Wait for me!" Abaztard replied as he followed the other spy. Actually, what have they done that is spy worthy towards this point reader? As they hit the ground, they went racing for their lives out of town and try and not get spotted from crazy alicorn we know as Celestia. For the sake of them being main characters of the story however, they escaped and were quickly hot on the tail of their fellow Martians.

In Ponyville, celebrations erupted from each pony. Strangers hugging each other and some even fainting that they had been saved. Like the rest, Twilight and the gang celebrated. "Get it up you, you bozos!" Rainbow Dash yelled at the retreating Martians, waving her hoof at them in a taunting manner.

"And don't come back!" Pinkie added loudly, who already was thinking of throwing a victory Party in Ponyville.

While this was going on, Twilight walked up to Celestia, who by now the ball of fire above her had dissipated, but still looking at the Martians in the distance. "Celestia," Twilight said in awe at what the Princess had done. "We're safe now—"

"It's not over, Twilight," Celestia interrupted coolly.

This startled Twilight, and the rest heard this too and stop celebrating. "What'd you mean not over?" Applejack asked with a slight tinge of worry in her voice.

The princess turned round to look at them. "This was only the start…I fear more destruction from these 'Martians' is to happen sooner or later."

The others gasped. "W-What should we do?" Asked a nervous Fluttershy (which she always is.)

Celestia paused to look at Ponyville before continuing. "We can't take a chance, they'll attack soon…we have to leave."

Just like what the solider, Storm Speed, said, they had to escape town.

It was all very true. Though the ponies had won this battle, the story is far from over, and more terribly cheesy written chapters to follow!


Ah, I just love writing bad stories! Though it is easy to write a good one, and hard to write a bad one! So the Martians got their asses handed to them by Celestia! What will they do now? Well, who knows really, I'm only making this up as i go along, that's probably the reason why it's so rubbish! So stay tuned for chapter 8!