I've been working off and on with this story along with two others and I would like some feedback. Please note there might be spelling mistakes and grammar errors. I'm am slowly going to release the chapters becuase they either need proof reading, editing, or finished. I'm a very busy person, so don't rush me. The story takes place on the moon two years before the events of episode one of MLP FIM.
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Background Information
History of Selene
Classified LSTS Mission Report: Operation Hoof down
A thousand years ago, Princess Luna refused to lower the night sky. A conflict arose between Celestia and Luna which ended with Celestia defeating and banishing Luna in the moon. A few years later, Luna supporters started to gather and thoughts of rebellion were in the air. Celestia quickly got wind of the seeds of rebellion and acted swiftly. Celestia ordered the capture of these Luna supporters. A large group of these Luna supporters lashed out and called to arms for the newly formed Lunar Republic.
After a few skirmishes, a large force of the republic moved towards the castle in the Everfree forest to free their captured comrades. Celestia anticipated this and had set a trap for the rebels. The Lunar Republic forces were shocked by Celestia being on the battlefield. Celestia let out a blinding light which blinded the Republics forces until they were surrounded by loyalists. After a short battle, the Republic was defeated by Celestia and her loyalists. Celestia give the captured forces a choice. Live under her rule peacefully or face the same fate as their princess. Most of the captured vowed never to live under her rule. Celestia banished the insolent ponies to moon. The defeated freedom fighters were banished to the far side of the moon.
The ponies found themselves trap in a barrier of magic. They explored their new home with mixed feelings. They found that most of the land was a barren dusty land with ice craters scattered about, expected for a small area around the center of the dome where a few odd looking bushes grew. The groups began to divide and started to fight over the limited supplies. A few brave ponies tried breaking through the barrier and manage to crack it. This action led to the deaths of six ponies and the beginning of dependence on Unicorns for magic barriers.
Nearly a century had past, the number of Unicorns that could use barriers was in high numbers and fear began to spread through the magic dome because they were living happy lives. The thought of Celestia raining down more curses and death upon them, give the push for most ponies in the dome to try an escape the watch fully eyes of the tyrant. These Unicorn lead groups were the founders for most of modern cities, but not all these groups were so lucky.
368 Lunar Year, the city states began to wage war on each other. It took decades of fighting to form two major factions. The City of Armstrong, which rekindled the Lunar Republic, and the Barton Empire, which was controlled by a Unicorn monarchy, constantly raged war with each other. After a long bloody war the Lunar Republic and the Barton Empire agreed a ceasefire. Thou the peace would not last long.
Nine hundred years after banishment to Selene, the Lunar Republic has made great advancements in technology, which far surpasses the Solar Empire. The Republic discovers Nightmare Moon. After a five year conflict, the Republic appoints her as ruler. With a rekindled anger, the Republic prepares for war against Celestia’s Equestria or as most Selene ponies call Equestria, the Solar Empire.
Prologue
Operation Pest Control 998
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LSTS < CETA {North, Starlight, Crater, and Cosmic}/META {Dutch, Rocky, South, and Temporary Replacement Nova [Gamma]} < Operation Pest Control< Lunar year 998 October 27< Location Kynareth, Hircine Hunting Grounds:
Mission Objective cut down increasing spider population to ensure there is no breach of the hunting grounds. Commanding Officer during the operation was Operative Northern Crescent squad leader of CETA. Primary Objective was a success, but the Secondary Objective failure.
Record of the event:
In the back of an Eagle drop ship, eight armor ponies sat in the back preparing for a mission. A pony in cyan armor with a shield and crescent moon on the chest plate stood up. “Ok a quick recap on the mission objective” she said to everypony in the back. “We have to cut down the spider population. We’re lucky, no civilians in the area. We also have to make sure none of these spiders breach the defense walls. We have a Skippy armor unit outside the wall if things get too rough. And most importantly, I’m taking charge of this mission. You understand that Major.” She turned her head to face the Major. He was in a dark blue armor. “No stepping on my hoofs like last mission, Dutchy” She said to him as both of them were looking at each other helmets. “Understood, Captain” the Major said. She turned to face everyone else in the drop ship and they all said “Understood ma’am”.
The drop ship started to rock a little before a sound of a thud. “We’ve landed, bailout now” the pilot said through the radio. The back hatch of the Eagle opened up and the eight armor ponies jumped out. North looked over towards the series of large buildings rising out of the craters. The odd mixture of colors greatly defined the city, though the city was tinted purple from a small purple glow.. Must be a hole in the dome, I hope those unicorns don’t have to hold a big barrier, North though looking up towards the dome’s skeleton of metal beams.
A trooper in gray armor walked over towards them. “Lieutenant Dust Storm Kynareth 10th Skippy Armor Division, we’d set up a perimeter around the hunting grounds, no breaches of the outer wall, and a large unknown amount of pissed spiders. That is the current situation. Now which one of you is in charge” Dust Storm said to the eight armor ponies.
Quick and to the point, I wonder if he is trying to impress, North though before saying “Captain Northern Crescent LSTS, I need your colts to be hold their positions, just in case we hit a shit storm.” North said to LT. Storm. “Understood ma’am” LT. Storm said as he saluted North. North saluted back and Storm walked over to a group of Republic Troopers standing in front of a Skippy. North looked at the large four legged armor vehicle. North looked at head section of the vehicle. It housed a large cockpit and a thirty millimeter Gatling gun where a mouth would be. The rotating MAC turret on the back of the Skippy caught North’s attention.
Starlight walked over towards North. “So who you checking out” Starlight said. North turned to face her friend. “The AV-3 Skippy”, North quickly replied. “Right” Starlight said sarcastically. “The AV-3 has a similar firing system to the AH-64 Sparrow hawk”, North explained. “Oh, still on that dream of yours of being a pilot in the Apache Wing[1]”, Starlight said. “The advanced targeting system of the four wing cannons, gauss cannon, and the Ballamander X-05 thrusters make the best attack hovercraft to fly,” said North. “You know the Apache only let in unicorn Levs[2] and Earthies,” Nova said. “Stow it Nova, you’re on point”, North ordered. Nova grunted and walked towards the entrance of the hunting grounds.
Dutch walked over towards North. “Hey go easy on my temporary replacement for East.” Dutch said. “If he wasn’t such an ass” North replied. “Try to be nice. He’s not good with talking with others. You know Gamma squad makes MAGPO[3] for the entire squad roster. So be nice or else”, Dutch said. North took off her helmet. “Or else what? You’ll give me a demerit” North said as Dutch took off his helmet. “No, I’ll spank that insolent flank” Dutch said. “You can try, but I’ll come out on top” North replied in an aroused voice. “Yuck. By Luna, both of you suck at flirting. Can we kill some spiders now? So I can forget what I just heard.” Starlight said.
“Fine Star, we’ll go kill some spiders” North said before she put on her helmet. North, Dutch, and Starlight walked towards the entrance to the hunting grounds. The group of three walked into a small hallway. The five other armor ponies were by the door to the grounds. “We’re ready to breach ma’am” Crater said. “Nova’s on point. Now let’s roll” North said. Crater opened the door revealing a large room with small pools of water. The ground had gray thin artificial grass. Nova walked forward with Cosmic and Crater on both sides of him.
A spider fell from the ceiling and landed on top of Nova. The spider was twice the size of a normal size colt and had brown stripes in its black fur. The arachnid’s large yellow fangs and big red eyes looked over towards the entrance. A loud hiss came from the spider. North, Crater, and Cosmic immediately opened fire on the spider. It collapsed to the ground.
North, Crater, Cosmic, and Dutch formed a defensive semi-circle around the fallen spider. “Can you get this thing off of me” Nova screeched as he tried getting the spider corpse off of him. Starlight and the others pushed the spider off him. “What the buck you could have hit me.” Nova said. Starlight looked him over. “You’re fine, there is no penetration and all that blood is from the spider.” Starlight casual said. “Look alive, we got more buggers” North yelled. Two spiders appeared from behind some rocks, while three more came out of a large hole in the ground.
“META secure the ground, CETA take the high ground” North ordered. As her armored wings spread open, two thrusters on each wing became visible. North propelled up towards the roof of the hunting grounds. Starlight, Crater, and Cosmic flew up to follow North. CETA squad started raining down bullets onto the three spiders that came from the hole. META squad fired on the two other spiders. All the spiders fell to the ground. All eight ponies formed up over by the large hole. “Ah do we have to go down there?” South asked as he threw a glow stick into the hole.
“No, you and the rest of META will hang here in case any of them sneak past us.” North said. “North, you can’t just go down there with a four horse squad.” Dutch detested. “Well, not to be a smartass, but you all aren’t pegasei. So you can’t get out fast if things go bad.” North said as she touched Dutch’s helmet. “Now, I do love it when you’re flustered. Come on CETA follow me.” North said before doing a backflip with the aid of her thrusters into the hole. Starlight, Cosmic, and Crater flew into the hole. “Show off” Dutch said as he looked down the hole.
North turned on her flashlights in her armor. The lights revealed tunnels in walls of the cave. Starlight and the others landed behind North. “So which way, ma’am” Cosmic asked. North threw a metal ball down the nearest tunnel. The ball hovered in the middle of the tunnel. A blue light appeared around the tunnel walls and floor. “See what the probes say” North replied. Crater threw a few more metal balls. A few minutes later, North looked at her wrist computer. “Looks like one of the balls found a web. This way” North said.
The four ponies walked down a tunnel. “Hey, you guys. Does these tunnels look a lot bigger than a spider would need” Cosmic asked. “Mostly the tunnels are big because of other troopers clearing out the spiders decades ago” Crater said. “Come on, think Crater. A queen spider, we’d be the first to see one over a hundred years” Cosmic said. “Oh you believe in that old mare’s tale. They proved all types of spiders lay eggs and there are no queen spiders” Crater said. “Queen Spiders do exist, Sarge, Cap, back me up on this.” Cosmic said. “Star you want to add anything to their conversation.” North said. “Nope” Starlight replied.
The noise of something scuttling echoed across the tunnel. A shadow ran across the tunnel in front of the four armored ponies. “Contact, twelve o’clock” North stated. The four ponies opened fire on where the shadow went. Cosmic pulled out his grenade launcher and fired one grenade off. The grenade went off and the tunnel shook. The ground fell from under the squad. They fell into a small ravine.
“Is everyone ok” Starlight said. “What the buck were you thinking; you could have caused a cave in. Give me that” North said as she took the launcher out of Cosmic’s hooves. “Hey North, I think I see something up ahead.” Starlight said pointing towards the end of a ravine. North looked over towards where Starlight pointed. The light of North’s flashlight showed several spider webs ahead of them. “What I don’t see anything” Cosmic said.
North walked over towards the webs. “Crater your plasma torch.” North said. Crater walked up behind her and hooved over the torch to North. She cut open the spider web. A helmet fell to the ground. “Cats eye, we must be close the nest.” North said as she picked up the helmet. “What’s the big deal with that helmet?” Cosmic asked. “LR troopers haven’t worn these in twenty years” North said as she put the helmet on her back and pulled out a flame thrower. North fired a burst of fire towards a large cluster of spider webs. The fire burnt away the webbing in a flare of red and orange.
North walked into a large cavern behind the remains of the webbing. “By Luna, we hit the jackpot. Start placing the charges” North said looking at a room filled with spider eggs. The group spread out across the cavern placing charges. North walked over to the other side of the cavern. She started to place a charge near a cluster of eggs, when a deafening hiss boomed across the egg cavern. The noise echoed in North’s ears.
She turned around to see a darkness heading towards her way. The wall of shadow became visible in the edges of North’s flashlight. North’s eyes widen. “Everypony, RUN!!” North yelled as she fired rounds into the creature. North turned around and started running. Starlight, Cosmic, and Crater were ahead of North in the ravine. “Find cover” North yelled as she pulled out Cosmic’s grenade launcher. North stretched her wings and barrel rolled to her back. She activated her thrusters and fired a grenade at the egg cavern. The explosion and North’s thrusters launched her into the end of the ravine.
“Captain” Cosmic said. “Out of the way, North, North, you ok” Starlight said worryingly. “My head’s killing me” North said as she slowly got up. “You might have a concussion, how many fingers am I holding up?” Starlight said. “You’re overly obsessed with that show” North said. “She’s mission acceptable” Starlight replied. “Any breaches in my armor?” North asked. “Not that I can see, but your armor is pretty banged up” Crater answered. “So Cap, What were you shooting at?” Cosmic asked. “Something big” North said as she walked towards the collapse part of the tunnel. “But it’s dead now” North added. The ground shook and a roar came from the collapsed tunnel.
“It’s still alive?” Starlight asked looking over to North. “That was six packs of C4 and a grenade” Cosmic said. “No time to chit chat, we heading back to the surface, a quarter thrust” North said. All four expanded their wings and activated their thrusters. They flew slowly up the hole they fell the hole they fell down. As they flew up, a giant spider came crashing through the rubble in the ravine.
“Holy shit” Cosmic yelled “What the buck is that” Starlight said “Full thrust back to the surface. Now!” North yelled to clear up the chatter from the others. The group activated their thrusters launching them forward. They flew past the flares at fast speeds racing towards the surface. North’s HUD (Heads Up Display) indicated where the exit was. “Get ready to do a ninety degree in five parsecs.” North said through the comms channel. “Wait what” Cosmic said confused what a parsec was. “Deploy reverse thrust in five, four, three, two, one, Now!” North said as her reverse thrusters slowed her down. Crater and Starlight followed suit, but it took Cosmic to activate his reverse thrusters.
“Cosmic, lock your armor” Crater said over comms. North pulled up at the reduce speed and when max thrust once she was in the vertical shaft. Cosmic was too close to the shafts edge and his armor scraped against the rock. “Owe, Ouch, Owe, ahhh” Cosmic said as he hit every rock jutting out of the wall on his way up. They flew out of the hole, one at a time and headed towards META squad.
“Back so soon Northie, you trying to make a record?” Dutch said after he saw them fly out of the hole and did a skid-ish landing. North’s wing thrusters were glowing molten red. “No time Dutch, we’ve” North was interrupted by a loud roar from the hole. “Pissed off a mythical creature, heading this way” Starlight finished North’s sentence after the roar. North blotted for the door. “Come back here you coward!” Nova yelled at North after she ran through the door. The seven ponies looked over towards the hole. The roar was getting louder and the ground began to shake. “How big is it?” Dutch asked. “We don’t know” Crater replied.
A gigantic spider crawled out of the hole and roared. “Well that answers your question Major” Rocky said. “Hold your fire, that thing took a few packs of C-4 and a grenade round” Crater said to Dutch. “What are we supposed to do then?” Dutch asked. The spider eyes blinked several times, as its eyes were not adjusted to the bright light of the surface. It roared as it sight returned and headed towards the group.
North ran outside and head towards the Skippy pilots. She jumped into the Skippy. “What the hell are you doing?” a pilot said. “I’m commandeering this Skippy to kill a mythical spider” North replied as she closed the hatch. “Can she do that?” the pilot asked Strom. “Haven’t a bucking clue, but best stay out of the LSTS’s way” he replied to the pilot. North turned on the Skippy’s systems. “It’s just like a Hawk” North said to herself as she piloted the Skippy.
The Skippy came bursting through the wall of the hunting grounds. North saw the spider and opened fire on it with the mouth mounted Gatling gun. Blood was flying off the spider. The spider charged the Skippy. “Oh no, you don’t.” North quickly said as she activated the Skippy’s MAC cannon. The metal slug of the cannon went through the spider, the hunting grounds wall, and the city’s protective dome.
{“Now sir, I didn’t know that the Skippy was only stocked with armor piercing round” North said to Chief of Staff Zoidberg interrupting him as he read her report out loud.
Twenty four hours after Operation Pest Control, in the Chief of Staff’s Office
“Captain, you caused several millions in damage, endangered the citizens of Kynareth to the vacuum of space and spiders. What possible reason shouldn’t I quart marshal you?” Zoidberg said. “Well sir, I did what I had to kill a mythical creature, that we had no by the book way to deal with that situation.” North replied. “Well Captain, count your blessings, because the Military Council agrees with that. But, you and your squad are being assigned to public relations and a few other tasks that will be listed in a future date.” Zoidberg stated. “What about Equestrian training?” North asked. “You’ll still continue with that, but the next six months you’ll be assigned to a special project. You will continue the training afterwards.” Zoidberg said.
“Special project” North asked? “You’ll be briefed in due time” Zoidberg said. North stood there for a few minutes before Zoidberg said “You’re dismissed”. “But Sir” North replied. “You’re dismissed Captain” Zoidberg said in a monotone voice. North walked out of the office. Colonel Tigh was waiting outside the door.
North and Colonel Tigh started walking down the hall. “Don’t worry kiddo; you and your squad have been assigned to some public disclosure on two popular social websites. I believe one of them is tumblers, but you’ll be briefed on it later.” Colonel Tigh said. “He mention that Colonel, but skipped out on some details like the ‘Special Project’.” North said. “Well North, you’ve assigned to be a military corresponded to some movie.” Colonel Tigh said. “Sounds like a cakewalk, why would I be assigned” North replied. “You have to babysit the director; he’s an important defense engineer. I think his name was Wheatley” Colonel Tigh added. “Great” North said sarcastically. “Don’t worry North, it will only push back the drop date. You’ll get your hooves on the Equestrian ground before the Princess leads the beachhead forces. But for now, head home and get some shut eye“ Colonel Tigh said. “See you at the brief tomorrow, Sir.” North replied to Colonel Tigh before going into a stairwell.
END PROLOGUE
[1] The Apache Wing is the elite fast attack hovercraft pilots of the Selene space cavalry. These pilots favor the best flying machines. The current hovercraft of the Apache Wing is the AH-64 Sparrow hawk.
[2] Unicorn Levs is a nickname for Unicorns that can use levitation. All business and government agencies use this and a few other terms to Classify a Unicorn by what magic they can perform.
[3] MAGPO or Magic Power is a magic infused power source which acts similar to batteries, but is much cheaper. Only Unicorns can produce MAGPO by using enchantments.
Chapter 1 (Coming Later)
Edited by Commander Nanook, 10 August 2013 - 02:43 PM.



