The Princess and The Doctor (A MLP/Doctor Who Can Fiction)

Chapter 7 - Battle Royals

The Princess and The Doctor Chapter 7
Battle Royals

As the Airship touches down in the Celeste's top hanger deck, Sunburst comes down the boarding ramp searching amongst the newly arrived Griffons. "Is Avery and Roaring here? Avery? Roaring?"

"Over here!" Avery calls out, waving Sunburst over to the hanger entrance, "Looks like our part of the fight is over with. Taking out the clones."

"Good thing our part wasn't the only part lest we would have been in trouble trying to fight the SkyCity itself." Roaring adds. "Where's every bird?"

"Bill is working on getting the ship back in the fight again with Rose. The Doctor and Gabby are trying to save Cadance who was taken by the one behind this scheme. This is here so Aurora is back... Now all we need is Princess Celestia to return..."

"Are you Sunburst?"

A female Averian approaches the group, Sunburst raises his hoof meekly in reply. "Come with me, they need you up on the bridge."

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"Dashie? Evasive Spiral, keep us ahead of the city's weapons. Red? Prepare another barrage of Mana Bursts for the minute we know where to shoot them. And would some bird get Skoffer on the WindPipes??"

The Celeste was amazing enough for Sunburst, but the sight of the bridge topped it all. The large high tech looking circular bridge manned by bipedal Averians, wolves and cats was just too much. Still Sunburst tried to focus as he was brought to the attention of the Captain. As he looks upon her a sense of familiarity overtakes him. "Captain Celaeno?"

"Celliani actually, but I take it you met my counterpart in this world... Or you just mash all bird types together in a single pile then your horrible for a kinda pastel colored pony."

"Sorry. Celliani... Captain Celliani! I mean ma'am... Sir. You need help with the SkyCity?" (Before she can answer he pulls his book out of his saddle bag and holds it up to her with his magic). "You need to shoot out these anti grav wheels, focusing on the connective arms attaching the wheels to the SkyCity." (lowers book) "You said the city was firing on us? How? Its defense cannons should be too decayed to fire."

A male cat, wearing the same uniforms as the Averians and wolves (with a suede jacket over on top for style points) steps up showing Sunburst a holoimage of the city from his crystal pad. "There seems to be defense turrents ringing the tower between the anti grav wheels that we are coming under attack from..."

"Energy mana bolts? But the SkyCity uses cannons that fire hard physical ammo... Can you zoom in on the defense cannons... Capper?"

"Cutter... I never thought of that..." (he flips the tablet over, fiddling with the holoimage until....) "Here. It seems to be generated from these long telescopic rods."

"Rods...?" (Sunburst flips the book around with his magic, his eyes scanning as the pages flip and flip, until he reverses the book again to show Celliani and Cutter) "These aren't defense cannons. They're supposed to be storm guards capable of protecting the cities from mana discharges during storms."

From his saddle bag another book is withdrawn, the first returning as he opens the new book to the right page. "When Pegasus ponies create stormy weather for the purpose of generating water creation sometimes too many clouds create static mana buildup. The buildup creates mana thunderstorms, and these rods are meant to protect the city from mana lightning discharges." (returns the book to his saddlebag) "Somehow the one behind this scheme has repurposed the discharge rods into an offensive weapon... That can't be though since it would require some sort of controller to trigger the discharge as they weren't made to do this."

Cutter holds up the tablet again, a new image displayed. "These boxes strewn between the towers?"

Retrieving the first book again Sunburst quickly checks, "Yeah. They aren't on the ancient designs so they must have been added to control the discharge rods. But as long as all the rods are fully functional we can't attack them with mana based attacks."

The open WindPipe comm quickly answers Celliani's unspoken question, Skoffer on the line. "Cause the discharge rods are still absorbing energy strikes. Just because they have been modified ta fire offensive bolts that doesn't mean they can't still absorb energy."

Sunburst - "That means the shots are weaker than they could be, since the city expends so much energy per shot, only to lose a bit each shot as its absorbed back into the engines as they fire."

Cutter - "Also that means we can't take them out unless we use hardshell ammo to take out the discharge rods."

"Don't look at me!" RapiDash chimes in from his helm post. "I can maintain evasives while flying sideways with the forward hull aimed at the City. But our speed will be greatly diminished doing that, and even with weaker shots the City's defenses can still damage us if we don't work fast enough... Something we won't be doing flying side--"

The male wolf gunner breaks in. "The city stopped firing! It might be charging up a stronger..."

"Pulse Torpedoes! Full spread!"

Celliani spins towards RapiDash yelling "Emergency ascent!! Full power to the lift foils!! Climb! Climb!!"

The floor tilts, the ship rapidly climbing upwards, "Torpedoes passing under us. Clean mi--"

The ship shudders, the bridge light flickers and comes back strong. "Tell me that wasn't..."

Dayle - "Electromagnetic Pulse. The hull shielding protected us from most of the effect but..."

Red - "The deck hull cannons are down. Unless we bring the recessed shielded forward guns to bear we won't be able to bring enough firepower on the anti grav wheels."

"We have that handled."

All eyes turn towards the bridge entrance. "Who are you?"

Sunburst - "Princess Celestia! Dragon Lord Ember!"

Celestia walks down to join RapiDash, smiling. "Continue evasive spirals. Out friends will handle the offense."

"Captain! Multiple targets landing on the top deck! They seem to be large Drakari!"

"Dragons!?" Celliani hissed, turning to look at Ember standing next to her. "I need to communicate with my fellow dragons up there. How...?"

Cutter - "Over here. This is set to communicate with the top deck."

Ember nods, taking Cutter's chair talking directly into his WindPipe comm. "Brethren! Assault the tower!"

Sunburst steps up, "Attack the connecting braces supporting the anti grav wheels, and the tower placements center mass!" (gulps) "If that's OK."

"You heard him brethren!" Ember commands, "Get to it!"

Dayle gets out of his chair, offering his seat to Princess Celestia (being the largest seat of the bridge) "I'm heading down to get as much Skiffs into the sky to help remove the defense rods."

Celliani - "See if you can recruit as much of the Griffons on board to help with that. Cutter help with that, and help lead the attack on the City. You too, Aerial. Recruit as much as you can and spread out securing all vital areas from attack." (Celliani turns and plops Sunburst into her chair) "Might as well make this complete. I'll take Aerial's post and coordinate from there."

"Captain? Something is happening... The towers..."

The holoscreen enhances, from the depths of the tower new clones began flooding out. Both normal and giant dragon sized Griffons.

Celliani - "You gotta be kidding me."