Humans of Equestria

by Warden Hope Freeborn

This is a story about how lives of Twilight Sparkle's world and the lives of the humans changed is also tells how the people of both learned to live together but also the struggles that would come from the unexpected encounter. In this story the vast majority of Friendship is magic characters are included in this story.One day I plan to make this story into animation.

4. Chapter 5

Chapter 5 The Age Of Blood And Chaos

One year after the Arcanos Alliance founding and its southernmost boards a alliance patrol ship spotted some unknown creatures the officers on the ship recognized a symbol they bore which was the same symbol as the follower of Anton had, realizing that Anton had returned the crew of patrol ship notified alliance military command which then notified the Alliance council to which all council members agreed it was time to mobilize its military. This would mark the beginning of the age of blood and chaos. The Alliance forces led by Alexander to fortify all borders, the patrol ship was given orders to locate Anton's base then to report back to military command in person and was not to engage Anton's forces. Alexander gave the order to begin the assault on Antons stronghold which was the storm king's castle. During the battle of storm castle, Alexander managed to critically damage Anton's body and destroy a strange sword that Anton wielded, Anton managed to escape in a spaceship to the stone belt which is a ring of asteroids which lay beyond the though Anton and his army were now based in the asteroid belt the Alliance council agreeing with Alexander that Anton will always be a threat so they would keep fighting until Anton is dead. The next part of the Age of Blood and Chao would be called the stone belt first two weeks of the campaign were long and hard but since Alexander was leading the assault he made it mandatory for alliance soldiers to survive and come home, however things would turn because during a battle the ship that Alexander was on exploded destroying a big portion of Anton's fleet but at the cost of Alexander's or would it?One week later an alliance petrol ship spotted the remains of Alexander's ship and two volunteers would check if anything was salvageable, they would then find a huge surprise being Alexander's body. One of the volunteers noticed Alexander's helmet was getting fogged up and heard an unexpected noise, it being faint breathing, with this realization the volunteers reported back to the ship saying the ship could be salvaged but they had something more important to bring aboard as they entered the hangar bay the volunteer requested the petrol ship medical officer to report to the hangar bay to treat a potential petrol ship crew made a startling discovery as they transported Alexander's body to the med bay that being Alexander Sheridan was still alive and was put on life support immediately and try to revive him. The petrol ship returned to Alliance military base and requested to use the medical lab because they were about to bring a new patient in, as the patrol ship's crew were unloading the patient the deck officer was surprised to see the patient was Alexander Sheridan so the deck officer reported this to the base commander who was scorn of all people, after twenty years as a Jaeger he would join the alliance military and was given the rank of commander after transferring from the Jaegers. After finding out Alexander Sheridan he ordered his subordinates to verify if it is Alexander and to hold off from telling anyone on what they discovered until Alexander is no longer in critical Scorn made a report to the Alliance council which surprised everyone because the council debate was being broadcasted across the nation,Scorn then showed Michael a intact record of recording of a communication between Alexander and Anton, the recording showed Alexander saying if this war was what Anton wanted he would have executed Anton on election day himself to Anton replay how sweet you trying to protect your people and your son then saying Alexander was one who through his son out of his life Alexander then replied agreeing with Anton this one time also saying that he tried to plan out Micheals future but in the end he found his own path and Alexander will always be proud of him and saying that he will never let Anton harm his people or his family, recording ends with Alexander pressing the self destruct button and saying he will see Anton in and the rest of the council arrived at Alexander room wondering if he is awake to which Alexander answered their question happily surprising everyone. Michael then hugged his father to which Alexander said to be careful because he has not fully recovered and then Alexander said so I see you became the human representative on the council to which Michael said yes I did because someone had to which Alexander said to Michael do follow in my footsteps for his sake saying that Michael is needed on the frontline to which Michael asked the question then Alexander revealed that Michael had planning to submit an application for the Alliance Marines to which Michael state if Alexander found out he would have pull his application to which Alexander stated he would have approved it because Michael is a Sheridan. As Alexander, his son and the rest of the Alliance council returned to the meeting Michael was pushing his fathers wheelchair Alexander noticed the people he was passing by were saluting him to which he asked his son why they were saluting him to which Michael said it is a sign of respect because they all know what Alexander did for people of the Alliance, as the council meeting resumed Alexander then proposed a new way for new representatives for the council until the war ends, Alexander suggested to become a representative on the council one must earn the trust and respect of the people to the rest of the council agreed with support from the people. A week had passed since Alexander's return, Michael was now a commander in Alliance Navy, Michael was surprised of the rank his father gave him while other in the fleet and some of the crew on the ASS destroyer Valiant believed that Michael did not deserve such a high rank even if he is Alexander's son. The two weeks since the Stone Belt campaign began the Alliance had set up a new planetary defence grid to keep Anton's forces from invading the planet. Since Michael was assigned to the Valiant he spent his time analyzing the movement of supplies between the bases Anton's forces had set up in the stone belt, when Michael noticed a pattern he reported to his superior officer Caption Daneil Carter and propose a plan of attack with a small team to attack the supply base but Captain Carter denied his request because he was given orders not to engage until the fleet has been built up for an upcoming assault and Captain Carter was one of the people in the fleet who did like that Michael was made a commander so Michael left the Captain's office. Michael then went to the Valiant's hanger bay to take/borrow a stealth assault fighter to raid the supply base alone, Michael put the plan for raid the base into action, Michael jammed the bases communication then destroyed the bases defences then use knockout gas to subdue the base personal then downloaded the data on all of Anton's forces based through the whole stone belt then instal virus to infiltrate the systems of all bases controlled by Anton's forces. Michael returned to the Valiant's hangar bay and was caught and reported to Captain Carter for his action. Carter was about to explain commands plan for the fleet to which Michael all ready know about the he explain to the Captain why requested to approve his proposal so the complete the fleet mission and to have no casualties to which Carter state all military personal accepted the risk when they sign up to which Michael replied saying he does not accepted and neither does his father, Michael also stated that while his family is a military family they also make sure to bring everyone home. After their discussion Michael and Captain Carter were asked to come to hangerbay because they were getting a call from Alexander because he was informed on what Michael did, being Michael's father he gave him the chance to explain his actions and to choose his word carefully because what Michael will say will determine what Alexander will do. Alexander then explained what happened step by step he brought the proposal to Captain Carter who denied because it was too risky thus Michael went alone and planned for the supply base and also explained why Michael asked for a small team because while Michael was willing to risk his own life he was not willing to risk anyone else's life and Michael also stated the reason why Captain Carter did not grant his request. Alexander then states that if Michael does a stent like that again he will courant marshall him or he would prompt him and Alexander did agree with his son's actions because this is war and the Alliance can not take any chances with Anton. So Alexander promoted to commodore but was warned that if Michael makes an serious mistakes he will demote him to the lowest rank for a commissioned officer, after the transmission end Michael was leaving the debriefing room he was halt by the officers in the hangerbay and the majority saluted him as a sign of respect which Michael has now earned including Captain Carter. Michael then notified the fleet of his plan for the stone belt campaign to everyone's surprise to see it was a modified plan of the original plan for the fleet which surprised everyone listening. Michael then gave assignments to the officers of the fleet for operation chain breaker. Michael then explain the stages for the inner ring they would first jam all communications then drop two beast tanks on top of each base in the inner ring, the tanks targets were the defence turrets, once the turrets were destroyed a assault team would take out Anton's forces in each base, then once they had capture the inner ring they would fire EMP round from the tanks at all the bases in the mid ring and if the EMP rounds can not reach their targets the ships would fire at the round making them explode knocking out all power and making Anton's forces in the outer ring to panic which will make them pull out of the stone belt or to cause them to have large casualties if they fight. The Alliance put Michael's plan into action the people who were not fighting and the citizens of the Alliance were watching and thought the stone belt campaign was going to last months or even years but to everyone's surprise including the militaries of the Alliance and Anton's forces it lasted for only six hours. With the success of the stone belt campaign and the conclusion of operation chain breaker Michael was promoted to admiral but only if all officers involved with operation were promoted to an appropriate rank which the alliance council and Alexander found to be a reasonable request, later the crew of the Valiant called Michael down to the hanger bay because they had something to give him, Michael arrived to the hanger bay and found the crew with object Michael had never seen any of them having until now when Michael asked they answered the object were crafted by the crew themself to give as tribute to Michael who has earned the name Star Striker. Michael was called to the bridge of the Valiant because there was a transmission from the whole fleet for orders, Star Striker Sheridan arrived on the bridge in his new outfit complimentary of the crew. Star Striker Sheridan then created the Galaxy fleet admiralty or the nickname Michael gave the Galactic warriors, Michael gave the order retrofit the new captured stone belt bases and to scan for anything strange before they advance and chase down Anton and his forces but he order all galaxy fleet personal to not push themself and to live a little because no one know when they would another chance to live life to the fullest. Six months would pass since the end of the stone belt campaign the stone belt bases were fully retrofitted with the most advanced defence systems and weapons with six ships guarding each base. Six months after the end of the campaign the alliance would use the captured bases as support in the construction of more ships for the fleet and would use them as supply stations for the front. After six the outer ring defence command discovered a large mine field from the stone belt to the middle of space, Michael then realized the twenty years toward the building of the alliance Anton has been building his army of clone soldiers and creating weapons of war and as Michael was realizing this Michael made an emergency call to the Alliance council, Michael notify the council of his discovery and also remembered during the stone belt campaign Michael lead a raiding party on the main base in the outer ring Michael fought Anton and during the battle Michael destroyed two object a chest plat and a whip which seem to cause Anton some physical pain thus Michael asked his father when he face Anton before he fled to the stone belt to which Alexander said that when he destroyed a strange sword Anton did seem to be in physical pain just as Michael described then they realized Anton created seven objects to hold parts of his soul. Both Michael and his father realized that the only way to truly kill Anton was to destroy the seven objects holding parts of his soul. After some hard word the science officers at the out ring stones found a way to destroy the whole mine, Michael ordered the whole fleet to gather at the outer base to prepare for the beginning of what history would be the spacer skirmish. The Star Striker fleet was the first to arrive it was lead by Michael Sheridan with the ASS Defiant as flag of the Star Strikers, the dark comets the second to arrived the fleet was lead by Michael for commander Daniel Carter who was now called the dark comet, the Crimson Dwarf was the third fleet was admiral Sky Beck who nicknamed Crimson Dwarf, the Silver Giants was the fourth to arrive leading the fleet was guest admiral Torch who requested a field commission because he wanted to help to defeat Anton forces, the Golden Nova was fifth to arrive leading them was guest admiral Pharynx who also wanted to help fight Anton's forces, the six fleet to arrive was the flare rings lead by Thor the song of Taranis who join the Alliance military in fact he was one of the first to join the Alliance military, the void gates were the seventh to arrive leading them was guest admiral Lychnis the young son of king Scorpan who join the Alliance military around the same time as Thor and the last one was the Gamma Waves lead by admiral Freyja of the Avians who join the same time Lychnis and Thor. These eight admirals made up the leadships of the Alliance Navy also known as the Galactic Warriors.

Admiral Sheridan gave the order to destroy the mine field after giving the order the whole Alliance fleet witnessed the destruction of the whole minefield Michael gave order to advance. The first of Anton space stations was coming into view, Michael then gave the order to begin the assault, not leaving things to chance Michael ordered all fleets to open fire on Anton's warships and the space station ahead of them. The battle began to heat up while Anton's forces began to shrink, Michael gave the whole fleet specific instructions to follow so they would not have any casualties. The battle lasted for hours while Anton's were shrinking and they refused to back down. It looked like the battle was going to last longer than anyone expected but a ship from Michael's fleet the ASS Marathon was starting to take damage so Michael gave the order for Marathon to pull back then the ASS Dauntless and the ASS Prometheus came to the Marathon's aid so they could by the crew to get to the escape pods. As the escape pods ejected from the Marathon the Alliance fleet noticed it was head for the station thus Michael order communication line be open to the Marathon, Michael order Marathon to retreat by to everyone's surprise Garble was the one who pick up, Garble state that he was critically injured when the Marathon was taking damage and said if he was going to die he would make sure to complete the end the transmission saying if he is going to die he is going to take as many of these bastards with him as he can and also to tell his family that he loves them. The Marathon crashed into the space station which forced Anton to signal a retreat. The alliance manage to win the battle but soon word would spread that Garble sacrificed his life to win the battle for the Alliance, once the fleet was notified about Garbles death Michael orders a moment of silence for their fallen then opened a communication to his father requesting that he meet him at the newly constructed war memorial hope no names would be added but sadly that was an impossible wish. Michael then called Garbles family including his sister Smolder asked them to meet by the war memorial, when Smolder and her parents arrived he told them about Garbles death, the news devastated them then Michael told them he feels the burden of failing to bring Garble home, Michael then gave Smolder a record of Garbles last message to his family. Michael would make the announcement of the Alliance's first casualty of the war. Garble would go down in history as the first fallen hero of the Alliance which would inspire many people. Two months after the Spacer Skirmish began and the death of Garble, Michael and other naval officers who were friends of Garble were given time to grieve their fallen brother. The Spacer Skirmish was more blood than the Stone Belt campaign because Anton's forces had time to prepare counter attacks and fight so hard his force would go kamikaze with the Alliance fleet. The Alliance forces battle plan was to take as many stations they could, if not then they had to destroy them and if one ship went down then they would take at least ten of Anton's ships with them. The Spacer Skirmish was long and blood with each station the Alliance took they would lose many of their own troops life like the crew of the ASS Macedonia commanded by guest admiral Sky Beck, the ASS Thrace commanded by rear admiral Sea Spray,the ASS Winchester commanded by guest admiral Pharynx and the ASS Orion commanded by rear admiral Daniel Carter their sacrifice brought the Alliance closer to winning the Spacer Skirmish however it would take twenty years for the Alliance to begin it's assault on Anton's base of operation for the Spacer Skirmish Tartarus station and it would take another ten years for the Alliance to win the Spacer Skirmish. For the Alliance victory for the Spacer, Skirmish would take the sacrifice of guest admiral Torch to secure a victory for the Alliance. In the end, out of the eight Galactic Warriors four of them died on the battlefield, Thor and Lychnis survived but were scared but thanks to vow Michael made to not let any child die before their parents, Freyja and Michael got small scared. After the battle of Tartarus station the Alliance had taken the station however Michael had a feeling something was wrong he then ordered all troops to evacuate Tartarus station because Michael realizing Anton had set the station reactor to overload which would destroy the station with Alliance troops and the surrounding Alliance time running out before the station reactor explodes Michael orders of all soldiers to escape the any window or the nearest air lock they could find, after they escape the station a dropship would pick up all the soldiers who made it out before the explosion, Michael and Freyja were the last one to make it out and to be pick up by a drop ship, Michael then ordered all ships to get as far away from the Tartarus station as they station then exploded, the blast damaged a few ship and some the crews of those ship to sustain some injuries including Michael and Freyja. With the end of the Spacer Skirmish Michael would leave the military to be a full time human representative of the Alliance council because about twenty years earlier Michael's father became unable to handle his responsibilities on the council. One week would pass since the Spacer Skirmish had ended with both sides licking their wounds, as the council was having a meeting regarding Anton, end of the Spacer Skirmish and the future of the Alliance, as the discussion continue Michael called for a recess because a messenger entered the council room with a serious message to which Michael asked what the message was about to he learned that his father Alexander was on his deathbed and did not have much time left he requested to postpone the meeting until tomorrow which the council agreed but only if they could come with him to which Michael found to be a reasonable request. As they all arrive Alexander can barely greet them because that is how weak he has become. Alexander then says that despite the work he and his family has done there is still people who will not accept the ideals of the Alliance also state Anton came to see him last night, Alexander asked if Anton was going to kill him to which Anton said there was no point any more stating he want to kill Alexander thirty years age also stating that he will never stop until Anton has wiped out the whole Sheridan family. Michael then told his father to rest easy because the Sheridan family and their allies will never stop until Anton is defeated once and for all to which Alexander said he entrusts the future to his family, his friends and their descendants still to come, Alexander Sheridan dies after saying goodbye to everyone. Sometime would pass and we see Alexander's grandson Eric is now an old man on the council, at this point the only familiar faces are Ember as the dragons representatives on the council with Spike and Smoulder as her co-councils and Discord who is now chief of for the council and director of Alliance military intelligence. The Alliance council were departing about the war because they were all sick of this war. Eric agreed with them because they have been fighting this war for a hundred and twenty years though history states the war had lasted a hundred and fifty years. Eric then vows to end this war today, he would then make the announcement to the whole Alliance that he will be launching a full assault on Anton's primary base. The announcement shocked the whole Alliance also know that it was being broadcasted to Anton's forces which is what Eric wanted then order the frequencies to change so he can address the whole Alliance what his real plan was, Eric's real plan is to have the whole Alliance military, Eric's plan was to have the Alliance fleet distract Anton's forces a strike team would infiltrate Anton's base and kill Anton himself, after hear the plan to end the war Eric's grandson Camron volunteered to be on the strike team, at first Eric refused because thirty years ago he lost his son George at heaven fall an incident that cost many Alliance soldiers lives and dealt a crippling blow to Anton's forces who have barely recovered, but Cameron explain why he want to be part of the strike team because the day Eric lost his son Cameron lost his father and that the Sheridans vowed that they would be the ones to end Anton once and for all. Ember,Spike and Smoulder also volunteered to be on the strike team because they want to see this war come to an end and the return of the era of peace. The other members of the strike team were Carla an avian, Alfred a Dragonoid, Toris an oxen mammalian, Rose a Mermaid,Loki the grandson of Thor and Apatchy the granddaughter Lychnis. These ten soldiers would be the ones tasked with ending Anton once and for final battle of the war would be called the battle of Ragnarok final battle had begun with the Alliance striking against Anton's forces because they did not want to leave anything to chance which why Eric order Discord to scan battle so there were no surprises and to make sure that everything was going according to strategy for the fleet was for any ship with 50% of their shields gone to pull back to let the shield to recharge and let the ship behind them take their place on the strike team were launched in the new next generation stealth assault strike team landed without being noticed by the strike team enters the fortress neutralizing anyone that might raise the came across Anton's personal guard knowing they would have to lure away or take them out, Loki and Apatchy volunteer to distract Anton's guard while the others go kill Anton and end the war, four out of eight of Anton's guard were lured away, while the rest of the guard was ready to fight then Ember,Smoulder and Spike told the rest the strike team to go ahead and they will hold off any of Anton's troops that may tray to stop the mission. Both Loki and Apatchy managed to kill the guard that followed them but were injured to the point they might die if any of Anton's troops found them so they spent what they thought would be their last moments bonding, they both heard footsteps believing it to be their last moments the two kiss and both said they do not have any more regrets, turns out the footsteps they heard was the strike team's medic and Cameron's younger sister Sara, both Loki and Apatchy were shock to Sara because Cameron ordered her to stay on the ship but Sara just could not stand around and do nothing while her brother and the team could patching up Loki and Apatchy the three of them went after Cameron running into Ember,Smoulder and Spike who in just as much shape as Loki and Apatchy were in when Sara found them, after they all had a breather. The rest of the team enters Anton's throne room seeing the rest beaten up and getting tired from their fight with the whole team is in the same room Cameron tells the team a plan to kill Anton without him knowing, after some quite hints to his team they full understood the plan to kill Anton by destroying the final two items Anton put part of his soul into, as the fight continued Ember got critically injured protecting Sara but she still had the strength to help destroy Anton. Ember, Smoulder and Spike all breathed fire at the same time then Rose her ice magic to then freeze Anton's hand that had the final two items, with Anton's hand frozen Cameron severed it and then shot it destroying the last two soul items, finally after a hundred and fifty years of war Anton's ring would be destroyed, Anton congratulated them for deafening him and saying he had his Anton disappeared which was broadcasted on all frequencies, hear this Anton's surviving forces were about to do a suicide run but the Alliance fleet were order by Eric by Cameron's request to spare Anton's surviving troops because they never had a choose to fight this war but in the end even with their ship disabled Anton's troops commitied suicide because they did not have anything left to live for. The strike team turned to Ember who did not have much time left but said she had no regrets and that she was proud to fight because she chose to and return the Alliance to the era of peace which Spike said we did Ember we finally did it, then after Ember's last breath Cameron and the rest of the strike team then saw Alexander's spirit then spirits people of the past began to show like the mane six, the pillars, the two sisters. The strike were breathless at what they were seeing and asked command if they were seeing this because Anton's death was broadcasted a video to which command replied saying they are seeing what the strike team see then the spirits began appearing in front of the rest of the Alliance people, Cameron asked how are here to which Alexander explains it is thanks to the tree's of harmony, Alexander and the other spirits state how proud they are of all their descendants, Eric then state that he is ready to join his ancestors because he and Ember were people who should have die soon but because Anton was still alive they could not leave the world of the living. Alexander also states the second reason why he was here and that was to bestow new elements of harmony. The first of these new elements were the elements of diversity, these were bestowed onto six people one from a different race. The first was the element of hope which was given to a hippogriff named Nimue the great great great granddaughter, the second was gladius a griffin and Gallus's great great great grandson he would be given the element of humility, Yale yak the great great great grandson of Yawna who would be given the third element perseverance, Snarl dragon the grandson of Ember and was given the element of courage,Vatra the great great great granddaughter of Autumn Blaze who was given the element of discipline and the chrysa the great great great granddaughter of Ocellus who was given the the final element the element of redemption, these six elements made up the element of diversity. The Alexander would bestow onto the strike team the elements of humanity, Sara was given the element of compassion, Carla the element of integrity, Torrid the element of loyalty, Alfried the element of hope,Rose the element of Generosity and before he gave out the sixth element Alexander explain Cameron's request in sparing Anton's surviving troop he quoted Cameron that Anton's troops did not make the choice to fight for Anton's, that was the reason why Cameron was given the element of mercy. These elements were rewards from the tree's of harmony as gratitude for restoring peace to this world. That night a victory celebration was held to honor the people lost in the war and celebrate the end of the war. During the party Carmeron was asked what is he going to do now the war is over, people thought Cameron would be the human representative on the council but everyone was surprised to hear that Cameron is stay in the military, Cameron stated why his family became representatives on the council only to lead the fight against Anton now that Anton is dead the Sheridans are stepping aside to let someone new represent the humans but the would worry about tomorrow for tonight it is time to celebrate. As the party was on it's way Cameron spot his cousin Henry Lancer who consider not coming because he felt he didn't contribute to the war as much as the Sheridan family but Cameron said you may not have the name but you do have the Sheridans blood and that does make him family and being an Alliance engineer was just as important as being an Alliance soldier. As the party continued Cameron suggested that Henry should help with construction with the Sheridan's secret project they had been working on since Alexander Sheridan which was revealed to be the Alliance for exploratory star ship which was announced that night to the whole Alliance. The next day Cameron recommended his grandfather's aid Jessica Li to be the new human representative on the council and suggested that future new representatives should still earn the trust and respect of the Alliance's people plus having approval from the majority of the Alliance council to which the council found to be acceptable.