A/N. You know what? I didn't think so. Anyway, jokes aside, I have so many ideas and an end so all I'm missing is the middle. Lovely. Sometimes I hate writing, but most of the time I love it.

Chapter 6

Falfrea facehoofed. Something cracked. "I should really stop doing that with my left hoof," he muttered to himself whilst the nanomites fixed it up. The reason why Falfrea just fractured his skull was that when he said "Kill everything in your way," the robots took it literally. There was a group of robots with flamethrower attachments, a thing he had just invented a few hours ago using rain water's hydrogen to eject flames, stood at the front torching all the grass and mercilessly slaughtering all the animals that even flew over on their trajectory. As he watched, one of the machines overheated and produced a large amount of steam, rustling the leaves of the tree standing above it. This sparked an interest in Falfrea's organic brain that eventually led to the theoretical development of steam power, condensed and used for a military purpose. Another idea came to life in his brain. A new design that allows for better manoeuvrability of weapons, a design that has two feet but four limbs. He had no idea what to call this design but if felt more efficient. He ran the tests for exertion of force, agility, compression, structural integrity and most importantly, usage of weapons. All these tests ran positive to his standards. He recalled all robots and began his work.

At 8AM, all six ponies were up and getting ready to not see each other. They had all their most cherished items packed for transport. They had stayed the night in any one of many hotels in Canterlot; you have no idea of the tourism in that place! It's like Washington D.C for you Americans or London for us Britons. Anyway, back to the story, they all went to the square for 10 and as soon as the bells finished tolling, the Princesses stepped onto the balcony. "All of your forms have been evaluated and you have all been assigned stations. And without any further ado, the Research and Development section," Celestia casted before reading out a comparatively short list of names that seemed to go on forever. Twilight and Time Turner were the two most notable of these names to the now 5 ponies in the crowd. Amongst them were many a famous philosopher and magician. The next names were basically all the Pegasi for the air-force, led by the Wonderbolts. Rainbow Dash looked proud but the 4 friends could tell she was dejected. The next list was of officers for the foot army, none of the other 4 got into this section. The next was heavy weapons workers and amongst them was Pinkie, probably something to do with the Party Cannon. The next was material extraction or mining. Rarity was called up for this job and by the look on her face she was not only sad but also disgusted by the fact she was about to become a miner. This left 2 ponies in the crowd of interest to us. The next ones called up were the medics. This was obviously Fluttershy's field of specialty but she was nervous about leaving her friends. She eventually went up to be put at her stations. Next were the Special Forces and covert mission teams. This was quite a small proportion of the population. The leftover ponies, over three-quarters of the turnout for the distribution, were addressed by Princess Celestia "All you left over ponies have been allocated as front line infantry," she said, "you are now soldiers of Equestria."

When the distribution had finished, all the six friends were separated and taken to their stations, Applejack on the outer walls , Pinkie was waiting for some heavy weapons to be invented, Rainbow Dash was collecting things to drop on the incoming army (this had been spotted the day before), Rarity was being escorted to one of the mountains in Equestria, Fluttershy was waiting for the casualties to come in and Twilight was furiously inventing things like Bows and arrows, leading on to Crossbows, war hammers, battle-axes, maces, flails, tomahawks and throwing knives. Crossbows were the peak of invention at the time and so they were mass produced and distributed to all foot soldiers along with a pair of throwing knives and extras to the unicorns.

As the metal army approached the mountain, the first waves of pegusi were sent in an attempt to slow down their fateful advance, but to no avail. When the robots crested the hill, the new design had paid off; they all carried an enlarged weapon of some sort. Sword and spears were the most common with a few just holding very large rocks. By now, some heavy weapons had been invented and so the city fired off some trees in catapults. They all either missed or were blocked. "All air units launch," shouted Spitfire, before taking off herself. It was at this point that Falfrea decided to drop from the cloud bank in which he was hiding. He fell for a while before snapping out his wings to their full extent of twelve and a half meters and gliding to meet the incoming waves of pegusi. The air was probably the safest place to be at this time if only due to the numbers of flying opponents Falfrea had even though he went through them quickly. He went for broken wings because if he could ground them, the robots would do the rest. He occasionally chopped and hacked just for fun and he enjoyed it. Before long he came across a pony that stood out from the rest, seeing as she was bright blue and had a rainbow coloured mane. He laughed, "I'm gonna chop you up." He sped towards her and within seconds she noticed and tried to pull up, but Falfrea was upon her. They collided but no bones were broken, only speed and momentum. As they plummeted, his wing flew back to make the final blow, but it was stopped. Another Pegasus had taken the blow for her, and now she fell. "You were lucky this time," said Falfrea before he disconnected, leaving Rainbow Dash falling. When she managed to right herself she was nearly at the ground. She snapped out her wings and braced for the pain. It came quite soon after, a sharp pain in her legs and her wings and then a numbing pain all over her body. Her wings weren't too badly damaged but her back left leg was broken and the bone was extruding from the skin. She looked around to see who had taken her blow. It was Spitfire. Dash dragged herself over to where she lay on the floor. She regained consciousness almost as soon as the other Pegasus stood over her. She looked up and smiled, "I'll be fine," Before passing out again. She obviously would not be fine. One of her wings had been sheared off presumably by Falfrea's wing and the other lay at an awkward angle underneath her. He body was badly cut up and a deep gash now obscured her Cutie Mark. As Dash looked around, a field medic came up to her and with her help, put Spitfire onto a stretcher. "Get back in the air soldier," he said, "But don't land too hard on that leg." When the other pony had left, Rainbow Dash took off again and surveyed the scene. She saw where she was needed and went there. She was too late. By the time she had arrived, the gates had been breached.

A/N. The conclusion to this battle will be in the next chapter, after which I will do a chapter each on the lives of the Mane 6 in the war. This will take me up to 13 chapters and I intend to do something lie 18 chapters but I don' know whether this will become a reality. What I can tell you is that this is the first "Book" in a trilogy so if you like it there's more to come from Falfrea Crimson.