Dark Shine looked at the wormhole open up. "This is it men! Put shields to maximum power! After we have taken enough hits to take out one of our shields, we fire our weapons, showing NO mercy!" Dark Shine shouted. His soldiers knew what this meant. Dark Shine was usually pacifist, so for him to order an attack means serious buisness. At that command, the shileds burst into life as the Night Eternal was surrounded by a purple aura.
"We've got fighters all over the scanners!" A soldier called to Breeze. "Prepare the melta-guns and open fire!" He yelled! As he said that, the Victor began to pump heavy amounts of melta-rounds into the enemy fighters, effectively destroying them. "How are our Little Brothers doing?" Fire yelled out. "We still have a stable amount!" "Good!"
OPIAT watched as the fleets destroyed the fighters, but this was merely just a vanguard, just a little while longer, and the humans shall regret ever having creating him.
A small crackle and a large amount of static were the only things anyone could hear if they managed to pick up the signal that was hurtling through space. a feeble signal that wouldn't reach much further than the outer portion of the solar system before disintegrating into an incoherent stream of static. As the signal grew in strength, a video feed could be seen, along with the sound of muffled coughing. On the video, a pony in full engineering garb could be seen, the glow from his helmet the only lighting to the scene. Here "Hello? Is this thing working?" A trembling male voice came out through the speaker system on the suit, a metallic tone tinting the voice. "Okay, Okay... Encryption code Celestia 94A-1692. If anypony can pick up this message, This is Sojourner, head mechanical and electrical engineer of the Brotherhood. I was in the engineering ducts at the front of Brotherhood Prime when it took a heavy blow, and I was sucked out into space. I had to rocket my way to the nearest ship I could See before I ran out of air. Unfortunately, It's a human ship. From what little I've managed to get from their computer system without being detected, I may be on the Command ship. I'm hidden away in an air duct toward the aft of the ship, near the engines. I'll wait for four Standard hours for a reply message; if nothing comes, I'll do my best to sabotage their engines and communications. Hopefully, that'll give us a fighting chance. Sojourner out... Hopefully, for not the last time." the message crackles away, a simple [for eyes only] message quickly crossing the screen before fading to black.
Fire had watched as the video of the engineer faded away. "Try and get me a connection with that pony!" Fire called out, "He wont survive five minutes alone!"
Rashall's fleet was nearing the battlefield they could see shots being traded back and forth across the blackness of space. Rashall's fleet couldn't contact the allied vessels or even fire their weapons because of how close they were to the systems star one wrong move and it might go super nova on them.
OPIAT watched the Human Command ship slip out of a wormhole. Seconds later, over a hundred and fifty 100 ton shots were flying at the ship at over 100x the speed of sound. Merely half a minute afterwards, the shots ripped into the human ship, punching huge holes in it where ever they hit. That's when OPIAT recieved Sojourner's message.
Fire watched as the human command ship took a beating. Fire went to his communicator, "OPIAT! Hold your fire! We've got a friendly on that ship!"
"Yes, I know." OPIAT said forlornly. Midnight looked over his shoulder to see OPIAT's screen blank, he knew what he was doing, and more power to him. With OPIAT being able to aim every GSAS MA Cannon, all the better.
"Listen, I'm gonna go in there and get the friendly out of there as quickly as possible. Keep fire off the main ship! I'm bringing some explosives to do some internal damage while i'm there."
"No need, those MA rounds have thouroughly disabled that ship. If you were to board, it would be now." OPIAT said.
"Alright, i'm heading to the ship. I'm still bringing the explosives." Fire says as he hops out of his seat, grabs his rifle, and prepares some explosives. "Somepony, prepare my fighter!" He yelled, running to the ship's hanger.
The darkness of the vent seemed to consume him as Sojourner sat, shivering in the cold blasts of air that worked their way through the ventilation ducts, his breath coming as short gasps, crystallizing when it met the outside. It had been roughly an hour since his transmission, and Sojourner was beginning to panic. He knew the others would come to rescue him, he knew it. His comm unit had shorted out almost directly after his transmission, so unfortunately, he wouldn't know whether they received it or not. He would have to curse out his assistant technician when he returned to Brothaeria. He closed his eyes and tried to center himself. Happy thoughts, happy thoughts... Then the first explosions chained throughout the ship. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________- Alerts were sounding, loud and wailing, red lights flashing in an endless circle pattern, hurting Sojourner's eyes. He blearily got to his hooves, noting with some certainty that shards of his helmet were missing, specifically the eyepiece over his left eye. He had to take note of his surroundings, and what he saw was not good. He was standing in the middle of a long corridor, each end dark except for the constantly flashing red lights. the grated floor gave a view of the electronics hidden beneath, while the ceiling above had caved in, the vent in which he had been hiding having all but disintegrated. What kind of weaponry can do damage like that? he wondered for a moment, before another blast came from behind him. the entire corridor began to swirl, bits of metal and packages of goods that had been in storage flying out, sucked into the void of space through a hole at the far end of the hallway. No....no, no no nononononononono! He felt a sharp pain in his left eye as he desperately looked around for something, anything to hold onto. a lever caught his eyes, and without thinking, grabbed and pulled it down, holding on to it for dear life. A breach door slammed down next to him, and the swirling stopped. a robotic female voice said, in kind tones, "Breach door secure. Exterior hull damage estimated at 47%. Breach doors holding. Hallway re pressurized. awaiting further instruction." for the second time that day, Sojourner found himself struggling to his feet, only this time he had trouble seeing anything out of his left eye. "Celestia Damn!" he said, putting a hoof up to his eye to assess the damage. A fresh wave of pain and small hole were the only answered he needed. "*&^%," he whispered to himself. He had to think. He had to act. He needed to do something. anything. He couldn't just stand here, frozen in place, wondering what in the nine hells could have happened, whether or not his brethren had fired upon the command ship, whether they had received his communication... Communication... He immediately located the nearest intercom, and ripped it's cover off with his teeth. A small change here and there, a change in frequency gathering, a quick distress out call, and... A signal. [OC: Sojourner sent out a distress signal, so if anyone's attempting to contact him, they can get to him through the distress signal now.]
First fleet emerged from the star in a blaze of glory and light the multiple lance batteries searing the blackness of space and the contrails of missiles marking their way to their targets. The coms on all allied ships crackled to life, "All allied craft by the grace of the Pantheon we are here to assist you!" The Ragnarok, on Rashall's command, lurches forwards surrounded by a swarm of fighters and bombers their goal reach the human capital ship and board it. Rashall was down in the boarding area along with several squads, including the terminators of first company the Dragon Guard. "Right lets get this done swiftly and efficiently Angels of Armageddon. In the name of the Living and for Them above!" Yells Rashall, the call is taken up a hundred times over.
OPIAT finally relinqueshed control over the GSAS-MA Cannons back to their respective bases and thought over what he had just done. He had compleletely disabled the remaining Human fleet, almost destroying most of their ships with the GSAS-MA Cannons, and had done more damage to the human capital ship than they could have ever thought of doing to Brotherhood Prime. Now it was the fleets' turn to mop them up. He then recieved a signal from the Human ship, he suspicously awnsered it, "Hello, I am OPIAT. Who is this, if this is a human, expect to die, if you are the trapped one, help is on the way."
Firebreeze lead his fighter within a hole that was blasted in the human Capitol ship, near a recently found distress signal. He climbed out of the ship and onto the wreckage. He began to make his way to the distress signal.
"I want to thank you, OPIAT." Midnight said while pouring a glass of wine, after seeing the AI come back online. "It was very good of you to take your own initiative and take command of the GSAS-MA Cannons. I guess I should toast to you." he held the glass up with his magic. "Um, thank you sir?" OPIAT said confused. "You have stood, well figureatively, by my family's side since Tremalion first unearthed you back in Equestria. I must say, you are quite the personality." Midnight downed his glass of wine, "Well, I must be off." and Midnight left the room, leaving OPIAT confused.
Firebreeze was pinned behind some cover. Even though the ship was disabled, most of the humans were still alive. Although his heavy armor helped him brush off the bullets, there were just too many humans to handle. He went to his helmet communicator, "This is an open message to any who can assist me. This is Commander Firebreeze of the Flames of Trial, I am currently behind enemy lines are severly out numbered. I need help if I am to rescue the a friendly and finish off this ship!"
After his little moment with OPIAT, Midnight instantly went into soldier mode. He had to get back out there, but moblizing the whole fleet again would take to long, but like he always did, he had a special card up his sleeve. He burst into a barracks, "ATTENTION!" the soldiers almost fell from their bunks or almost hit the ceiling from jumping in shock of Midnight's sudden appearence, made even more threatening by the fact he was wearing his Night Armor. "Magnitium Legotiums, you are the most elite we have, and there is a disabled human Capital ship out there. Suit up, we're taking the Pony Express." To the Brotherhood, the Pony Express was essentially a GSAS-MA Cannon made to fire a pod able to carry about 50 ponies instead of the usual projectiles. As soon as the last M.L. was strapped down, the shock of the acceleration hit them, then after a very short trip, dispite the extremely long slow down down, they slammed into the Human Capital ship going pretty fast, almost crushing Firebreeze's ship in the process. Even inside the pod they could hear the fighting outside, and the soldiers secured their weapons and armor. The side of the pod popped open and the M.L.'s poured out, taking the humans by complete surprise, scaring them off for the time being. Midnight went up to Firebreeze, "Howdy do my friend." He said, "We best get this place on lockdown, they'll be back before we know it. And don't worry, more will be on their way, just not here, but probably all over the ship."
"I've gotta find the pony who sent that distress signal! Plus a brought a few presents for the human ship." Fire says, patting his explosives.
