If you guys asked, this is set somewhere around Season 3 in the MLP side.

Trouble in the Night Sky

The pegasi are in shock. They don't know what to do. The first thing in their minds before was business as usual: pounding clouds to make rain and stormy weathers. Then all of a sudden a green light appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the night sky over Ponyville. The Pegasi could do nothing but cover their eyes from the impending flash. By the time they opened their eyes, fear has gripped their minds. A red, winged, colossal structure has made its approach over the clouds.

"Move out of the way!" teams of pegasi would shout. It was the only thing they could say and do. That thing had an impeccable size and it's already piercing through the clouds. When it did, everypony down below can see clearly with Luna's moon shining as bright as Celestia's sun. The object was only seen by the Mane Six, their pets, and CMC as they were the only ones awake down below. The rest of Ponyville were either downright asleep or had trouble sleeping by the thundering approach of the structure and shrugged it off as some lightning storm; save for one certain magician who rented a room in a hotel.

"Will you guys keep it down up there?! Trixie here is trying to get her beauty sleep!" She was wearing her sleeping goggles, so she didn't bother to look at what's happening outside while yelling out the window.

Anywho...Each of the Mane Six had different interpretations on the object. Some weren't sure what to make of it. Is it a creature? Or is it an object? Fluttershy assumed by its large size, red exterior, wings, and roaring sounds that it's a dragon. One peek on the outside was enough to frighten her. Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie weren't sure what it was. From a distance, the object can look like a dragon in Fluttershy's perspective, but they could see that it is something else. Wings weren't flapping and fire isn't coming from its mouth as a dragon would but instead it's coming out of its… as Rarity would put it for the sake of appropriateness…out of its rump. Twilight from observing through her telescopes and Rainbow from her firsthand experience and delayed pursuit knew it was an airship. To Rainbow, it was strange. Most airships in Equestria usually require hot air balloons to stay afloat, but the one they saw had none. Instead it had a metallic exterior. How in Equestria can that thing fly while heavily armored? Maybe it's not from Equestria. Twilight and Rainbow listen attentively to Derpy's story while Spike is ready to write down all that's covered.

"I was doing messaging work at the time, "Derpy telling her side of the story. "With the demand to bring weather on Ponyville, I was needed to bring messages to the night shift workers. It was really rough. Making sure I'm not getting in the way of their work and not bumping into any of their clouds."

"So how did you know where it came from?" asked Rainbow.

"Umm..." Derpy stood there confused while trying to find a specific answer to the question. "Sorry. I just don't know."

"Maybe we'll get to that later," said Twilight. "So Derpy, let's continue where you left off. You were working at night giving messages. And then what happened?"

"Well it was as Rainbow Dash said. There was a green flash of light out of nowhere."

"Out of nowhere?" responded Rainbow as she arched a brow. "No pony's just flashing green lights out of lightning storms? Just out of thin air?"

"Well. Yeah. We all had to close our eyes though." Rainbow stops doubting the incredibility from Derpy's point of view. Covering your eyes is a natural response for sudden flashes. "While I was covering my eyes, the head manager shouted 'Look out Derpy!' The others were telling to me to move out of the way as well. When I opened my eyes, I could see it." Rainbow, Twilight, and Spike began to move in more closely. "A giant, red behemoth in metal coating was right in front of us. And it was heading towards me!" Derpy said as she tries to act frightened as she was before.

"A behemoth." Twilight said. "Derpy, it was an airship."

"I'm with Twilight here," agreed Rainbow. "Though it's weird. How can something surrounded in metal armor stay afloat without falling to the ground by its heavy weight?"

"Well it's actually possible," Twilight tries to explain. "It was due to its-

"Let's not get into all that eggheaded stuff." The pegasus shoving off the unicorn's explanation. "So Derpy, tell us. What did you do when it appeared?"

"I was thinking how to make sure not to get in its way. That thing was too wide, so I couldn't have the time to move left or right."

"Did you move over it or under it?" inquired Rainbow.

"I tried to fly over it. Afterwards I felt like I slam onto something."

"Slammed?"

"I don't know, but it felt like I've slammed onto a window."

"Ouch." Spike commented while still getting the picture as he writes.

"Are you alright," Twilight asked with worry.

Derpy rubs her nose. "Ow. It hurts, but I'm alright."

"A window."

"Yep."

"A glass window."

"Uh-huh."

"That must've been the captain's room of the airship. What did you see from the window?"

"That's the weird part. Everything inside it had a lot of flashy colors. I remember there were about five beings through the window. The two were in the front row and the three in the back. The two in the front were strange. They both had blue eyes, blue teeth, and a pair of arms. One was yellow and squared shape and the other red and circled shaped. Neither of them have legs."

"Blue eyes. Blue teeth. Hands. One yellow and squared? Spike asked Twilight.

"I believe she means cubed shape."

"Ah. And the circled?"

"Orbed shaped, Spike."

"Got it. One yellow and cubed shape. One red and orbed shape. And no legs?"

"I remember they were floating," answered Derpy.

"With wings?"

"I'm not sure."

"Okay." He looks down to write the letter. "Wings are unsure…how about the other three?" he later asks.

"The three in the back row were blurred, so I'm sorry I couldn't see much from them. I did remember that they each had a pair of arms and legs. One was large in red. Another was a bit smaller and white. I couldn't much see much on the last one, but I remember he was the smallest and I think that he was colored black."

"So what did you do then?"

"I apologized. I said 'Sorry. My bad.' After that, I tried to move out of the window. I had to do it by sliding to the side. Afterwards I saw that I was heading towards Rainbow's house and saw a bunch of books along the way. After that everything went black."

"After that thing wrecked my place," Rainbow explains, "I found Derpy around the bookshelves."

"Yeah, and that's all I can say for now."

Twilight begins to form the picture. "So here's what happens. You and pegasi were doing your jobs. While you were working, a green flash appeared out of nowhere. At the same, the red airship made its approach. Other pegasus manage to move out of the way, but you were the only one saw it from the inside." Derpy nodded. "And when you're trying to get out, the airship crashed through Rainbow's house at the same time. Thus causing you to land through her books of Daring Doo along the way."

"Hey, how did you know they were all on Daring Doo?" questioned Rainbow.

"Well, they were the only books you read."

"Yeah. They were." Rainbow blushed. "But still. Those guys are gonna pay for the damage!"

"Maybe it was an accident. Maybe Derpy was blocking their view of their piloting, so you couldn't blame them for that."

"So I should blame Derpy?"

"No. Just don't blame anyone!"

Rainbow scoffed as she crossed her forehoofs.

Twilight asks Rainbow in shifting the focus to the airship, "You said it was it headed over the Everfree Forest, right?"

"Well, yeah."

"We'll get to the bottom of this Rainbow. Right now it sounds pretty dangerous for us to venture over there at night." Twilight turns to her assistant. "Spike, you got everything down?"

"Yep. Ready when you are."

"Good. Send the letter." Spike breathes fire to the letter, sending it to Princess Celestia. "Maybe the princess will give us a mission by tomorrow when dealing with the airship. For now we need some rest."

"My house should be done with repairs by then," said Rainbow.

"Yeah. Goodnight Dash. Goodnight Derpy."

"Night."

Before heading back up to fix her house, Rainbow was looking over the horizon of the Everfree Forest.

"Dash? Are you alright?" asked Derpy.

"They'll pay. I swear once I've faced them," she pounded her forehoofs together, "I'm gonna show them what I'm made of."

This was originally going to be a part of the prologue, but the chapter before had about 3000+ words so I was like 'Ah screw it, just post it already so I can get some reception.' If they're positive, I'll continue; if negative, I'll discontinue.

The Eggheaded stuff. I could've gone to Google and search on how airplanes or other metallic objects fly or stay afloat, but I'm not a science guy. I'm very, very terrible when it comes to science other than evolution, psychology, and small bits of neurology.

It's obvious who the two in reds and one in yellow are, but who are the others? Stay tune.

Long Live the Eggman Empire.

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