After the assault of Canterlot and the arrival of the Allies, the Moratin Empire fell back and set up heavily fortified positions all over Equestria, one of them is Ponyville.
Me and the girls, including Spike, are now under Red command to rescue the Element of Harmony.
We are assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, better to be known as the Screaming Eagles.
I always thought they are some form of a Pegasus unit.
Anyway as second in command, it my responsibility to keep our squad alive.
The Allied Command has ordered the 101st to go and take Ponyville and the EverFree Forest.
I hope we`ll make it out of this alive.
- Twilight Sparkle
Chapter 3
Operation Neptune
May 28
0945 hours
Somewhere ten miles north of Ponyville
After checking their gears and guns, Twilight and the other are ready to board the truck that are ready to take them to the north side of Ponyville.
The are located ten miles like it said above. The army trained them only for three days of learning how to fire and clean a gun and combat techniques.
Each pony receive a helmet [ If they want it], a combat gear, and two pair of robotic hands on which its allow them to fire a gun and do other actions.
The armory lets them choose whatever weapon they want so Twilight is equip with a M-14 rifle and a M9 pistol.
Both Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy have M16A2 Assault rifle and a M9 pistol.
Rarity have a M4 carbine and a M9 pistol.
Rainbow Dash [who have a natural sense of ability] is given a Barrett M82A1 Sniper rifle and a Desert Eagle.
Applejack [the strongest in the group] is given a L86A2 HK machine gun or known as a SAW.
What really ironic is that Applejack prefer to have a bigger pistol, on which she chose the Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver or known as the Dirty Harry.
Ace is equip with a L85A1 rifle, and Uzi and a double M1911 Colt .45
Red is equip with a Stoner 63 carbine and a M1A1 Thompson.
As it turn out, Red is the only one without a pistol. No one know why, it just that he just don`t want another one.
Every ponies have his/her own specialty.
Twilight, Rarity and Pinkie are Engineer, on which the carried explosives.
Rainbow is radioman, on which she call in airstrike or support from other unit.
Fluttershy is the medic, she care and treat wounded soldiers or civilians in combat.
Applejack is the support gunner. But she also need to have a LAAW rocket launcher in case they run into enemy armor.
Red and Ace are both officer.
Ace is a Captain while Red is a lieutenant.
For the helmet, there ponies that have a number 13 on the back of their helmet which mean there are 13 ponies in their squad. The ponies that have a number 13 are Ace, Red and Angel.
Twilight once asked Red why he and Ace are in the front line and not leading the company.
"Because," Red began, inserting a stick magazine into his Thompson, "We both ask to be in the frontline so we can be in combat a lot easily then being sent behind, working behind a desk and do nothing. You know it obvious on why there a princess in the frontline. You could get yourself killed, you know that right?"
Twilight nodded and said, "But I ask for it."
Red finished loading his gun and turned to face Twilight, "You`ve been reading that Soldier Manual I gives you, didn`t you?"
"Maybe. Hey, I`m trying to understand the army and going into combat. Of course I`ve been reading about it."
"Okay." Said Red.
Then, he went and jump on top on a jeep hood and said, "Alright everyone fall in on me!"
Every ponies gather around Red.
"There two things I want you all to know. One, I don`t do speeches so don`t ask me what I`m going to says before we head in to combat.
Two, there is good news and bad news, which one you want to hear first?"
Before anyone could says anything, Pinkie blurted out, "The bad news!"
"Okay the bad news is that the army got Ace out of a mental hospital and is assigned to us."
"Well, what the good news?" Applejack said.
Ace replied, "The good news is that with I`m here, we have better chance of then surviving. I have more combat experience Red do so if I tell you what to do, follow it. Alright guys, in the truck! We got to move out!"
Every ponies grabbed their things and began boarding trucks. It a World War II M1A1 truck and it capable of holding 10 passenger.
The other six will be boarding a jeep that will be in front of the truck.
Ace and three other soldier will be on the jeep while Red, Peter, Grim, Angel and the Equestria Girls board the truck.
Twilight sat in the back of the truck, next to Applejack.\
While they are boarding, Spike ran up and tried to board the truck, saying, " Hold up! I`m coming too."
"Spike!" said Twilight, looking through the opening, "What are you even doing here?"
"I want to be with you guys!" Spike replied.
Before anyone could do anything, Red held up his hooves and looked at Ace for answer, who said, "He a dragon. We can use his fire-breathing as a flamethrower. Someone, give him a gun."
"Here, use mine." Said Rarity, handing Spike her M9.
"Thank." Said Spike and Red help him up on to the truck.
[Author notes; I know it sound funny but who would gives a baby dragon a gun? I know he need something to protect himself but really?]
Red is the last one on the truck when Ace came up and looked at all the ponies, saying, "There two rules about being in my squad. Rule number 1, you all looked to me dead. Rule number 2,… aw heck refer to rule number 1, you all are going to die anyway." And he went to the jeep.
"What was that all about?" said Rainbow, scratching her head.
"You want to what its about, read a poem." Twilight answered her, smiling.
Then, the truck move and they are on their way to Ponyville.
On the road are other vehicle that are also heading toward Ponyville.
There are burned out vehicle on either side of the road that were destroyed while attempting to reach the village.
While on the road, Peter started acting like he is the leader of the squad, imitating Red voice by saying, " Alright squad, here is for today plan. We are on a secret mission to rescue some coffee and donut. But the problem is, the Moratins drink all the coffee and ate all the donuts. Now we have to go and kick their asses."
"No the Moratins blows up the Twinkies factory. That why we have to go and kick their asses." Said Red, matter-of-factly.
"Exactly." Said Peter, grinning.
Why these people are idiot? Twilight thought, rolling her eyes.
She looked and saw Fluttershy shivering.
"Hey, Fluttershy, are you okay?" Twilight asked her, lending over.
Fluttershy looked at Twilight in the eyes and replied, "Oh Twilight, What have I been thinking about coming into this mess. You know I don`t like violence."
Twilight thought for a minutes and said, "Yeah but we need you Fluttershy! You`re our medic."
She took her hooves into her.
"Tell you what, once we get up there, I will stand by you at all time."
"Oh thank you Twilight."
They hugged each other.
"Oh, and try not to kill them. Just wound them okay?"
Fluttershy nodded.
They both smiled when a stallion ran up behind the truck, yelling, "Hey! Wait up!"
" oh, boy! It old Jack!"Peter exclaimed, nudging Grim next to him.
"That not funny, Peter!" Jack yelled, running as everyone in the truck encourage him to get in the truck.
Red held out his robotic hand for Jack to grab on to.
They both was about to reach each other when a artillery round, an 88, came down and hit Jack on the spot.
Red fell backward at the truck floor as more shells came screaming by, hitting all around them.
Their truck rock left and right until its turn on its right two wheel and crash on its side.
Then a black out…
Twilight work up in time to see a F-22 Raptor fighter jet fly overhead.
She is lying on the ground in the middle of the road in front of an overturned truck.
She could see a giant hole on the caravan sheet.
Did I just went through that? She thought.
Then, Red and another stallion Twilight saw at Ace jeep, reaches her and pulled her toward a 10-foot wall gate where the other at.
They are taking fire from the other side of the wall.
A bullet came by and hit the stallion in the forehead, killing him instantly.
Red finally got Twilight behind the wall, and ran up to another stallion, another lieutenant, and said something Twilight couldn`t heard because of the gunfire.
[There is another song that need to be play for this scene, it called Over the Wall from Call of Duty 3.]
The lieutenant nodded and lined his back against the wall, hold his two robotic hand together and help boost Red up over the wall.
After that, it was Twilight turn.
She walked up and set one of her hooves on the lieutenant hand and was boosted up to the top.
Twilight looked over and saw ponies running and firing at the church where the Moratins is at.
Twilight jumped over and hide behind a tombstone.
They are in a graveyard.
A plane came by and crashes into a tower, creating smoke over the house.
Twilight spotted Red five yards in front of her and ran toward him.
A bullet nearly hit Twilight in the side of the head as she ducked behind a tombstone next to Red.
"They`re pinning us down, Red!" Twilight yelled.
"That why there a thing called 'Return Fire'!" Red yelled back.
He got up and opened fire with his Stoner at the house.
Twilight took a deep breath and also got up, firing her M14.
The rest of the squad catches up and began returning fire.
Red turned and face toward the group, "We need to get out of the graveyard! Follow me!"
Red ran toward the church house and jumped in a ditch next to it.
The other looked at each other and followed.
Once they are out of the graveyard, the ditch led them next to a road, litter with tanks, trucks, debris all over the place the Allies bombed before the assault.
They made it to a bomb-out house and Red ordered Twilight to take point and check the house.
"Wait a minute," says Applejack, pushing Twilight out of the way, "why do Twilight has to take point?"
"Because, Twilight here know Ponyville a lot more than I do. I need you guys to stay here and watch the road. Beside, it not like someone inside is waiting to kill her." Red replied.
Twilight turned to Applejack, saying, "It all right, I can handle this."
Twilight walked up to the house, stepping through the front door.
Right when she stepped into the living room, a Moratin came out of nowhere and hit Twilight in the face with the butt of his AK-47.
Twilight stumbled back, dropping her M-14.
The Moratin tried to aim his gun but Twilight quickly use her magic to take gun and hit the Moratin in the face. The Moratin grunted then grabbed Twilight by the hair and threw her again the ground. He took out his pistol and before he could pulled the trigger and shot repeatedly in the chest and stumble forward, landing on top of Twilight.
When she push him off, she saw Red pointed his Thompson, smoke coming out of the barrel.
"You`re alright?" he asked, walking over to her.
"Yeah, thank." She said and was helped up.
Then, the wall exploded. Red and Twilight isn`t hurt but they saw their tank outside the wall.
They got out of the house and hid behind the tank as bullets, mortar everything the Moratins are hitting around them.
The rest of the squad are there, firing at houses where the Moartins is at.
Ace jumped by and said to Red, "Red! You and Twilight go on the tank and direct their fire on to those houses!" he pointed at houses where the Moratins is at.
"What about you and the other?" Twilight asked.
"I`ll lead them through and take out the reminder of those asshole!" Ace replied and ran to where the squad is.
There are other Allies tanks and infantry on the street but no one is moving until those are out of the way.
Red got on top of the M1 Abram tank and help Twilight up.
"Twilight here the plan," Red began, " I will give the coordinate, you will tell them to the gunner on this tank, got it?"
"Got it." Twilight replied, looking at the other but keeping her head down.
Right when Red looked over, a bullet misses him, nearly in inches.
"I guess they`re shooting at officers now." Said Red, ducking next to Twilight.
It true, since he is the lieutenant, he have a gray bar painted in front of his helmet.
Red looked at Twilight, "Twilight, why don`t you give the coordinate and I`ll tell the gunner?"
Twilight nodded and looked over.
She saw a Moratin MG nest, raining fire down on them from a two-story house up ahead.
"There is a MG emplacement on a house up ahead!" Twilight yelled, ducking down.
"What story!"
"Uh… I think it second story, first window!"
Red nodded and take a phone that was on the side of the tank turret, began speaking into it to the gunner.
Twilight felt the tank rocked as its fire a round into the house up ahead.
That MG is put out of action.
"Now you`re getting it!" said Red, patting Twilight on the back.
The tank moved forward as it ran into another MG emplacement.
Twilight gives the coordinate, Red tell the coordinate to the tank while the tank fire.
After fighting through several blocks, they ran into the Moratins tank unit.
"Their tanks in front of us!" Twilight shouted, shaken.
"Is it our or their?" Red asked.
"Their!"
Red took a glance to the front of the tank and quickly said to the gunner, "We got Russian T-63s in front of us! About three of them."
The Abram fired on once, knocking out one of the T-63 tank, then back up and drive into another road.
Twilight looked at Red and said, "Whew! I thought we`re going to-," she never finish her sentence.
The tank under her exploded, sending her crashing through a cafe shop.
Red and the rest of the squad, came in as more artillery rounds exploding outside.
Twilight got up, and looked at the tank.
"What about the tankers?" she asked, still looking at the tank.
"There no helping now." Said Ace, walking to the back door of the café shop.
They all went through the back, ran across the street, and ran into a park in a middle of a firefight.
They got behind debris as a sergeant ran up to Red and Ace.
"Sir!" he began, "Those Moras are beating the hell of us!"
"What unit are you from?" Ace asked.
"4th Platoon, G Company." The sergeant replied.
Red looked at Ace saying, "G Company," like he never heard of it.
Ace turned to the sergeant, "What division?"
"17th Airborne Division sir, is that bad?"
Red and Ace looked at each other.
Red turned to the sergeant and said, "No, it fine. What your unit objective?"
"Try and take the town square."
Red and Ace looked at each other again with expression, with Ace saying, "Well that a problem."
Twilight and the other keep firing at the Moratins on the other side of the park as Peter ran up to her and said, "Red and Ace want all NCOs to them now."
"But I don`t even have a rank." Said Twilight.
"You do now." Peter answered and ran back.
Twilight followed him until they reaches their squad leader.
"Okay, there been a change of plan," Red began, taking out a map, "As it turn out, there are four airborne division all attacking at the same time and all four of them have a same objective. That why there guys all over the place with different patches. We got scramble up and could n`t find our unit so now, we have to work with another division."
"What the plan now?" Grim asked.
Red smiled.
Something wrong with that smile, Twilight thought as Red ordered the squad together.
He ordered Applejack and Rarity to pour down suppressive fire as Twilight, Pinkie and Fluttershy go and flank the left side of the Moratins position .
Red, Ace and Spike flank the right side.
Rainbow will shoot any Moratins officers that will most likely order a counter-attack.
The sergeant squad will do the same thing by attacking another position.
While flanking the Moratins on the left side, Twilight saw a Moratin preparing to fire at Red.
She aim her M-14 at him and try to hit him in the shoulder but, with so many gunfire and explosion around them, she fired and, in slow-motion, the bullet hit the Moratin square in the face, killing him.
Twilight watched in horror as the Moratin stumble backward and landed in the ground.
She just killed somebody. She didn`t to mean to do it.
She froze behind a bush as the rest of the fight continue on it pace.
"Keep up the firing!" Red yelled as they advance.
Twilight shook her hand and begin moving.
The rest of the Moratins, with so many firepower hitting them, retreat from the park,allowing the Allies to move forward.
When they got out of the park, Twilight saw her castle, not even touch by the bombing or anything else that is happening in Ponyville.
Twilight waved at Red and pointed at her castle, saying, "We need to get to the castle!"
Red nodded and ran over to the sergeant, asking him is he want to come with him and the squad to the castle.
The sergeant shook his head and said to Red, " No thank you, sir, I got report to head to the south side of the village. You be careful now."
He and Red shook their robotic hand together and when they`re about to depart, Red said to the sergeant, "Hey! I haven`t got your name!"
"It Risnerv, sir." He replied and they both went in opposite direction, heading to their own squad.
When Red got to his squad, he motioned toward the castle, saying, "Let`s move out."
When they reached to the castle, they walked in quietly and checked each room to make sure the enemy is not in there to ambush them.
Twilight walked into the throne room.
Good, at least they didn`t do anything harmful to the castle, Twilight thought, sitting down on her throne, well, except for that mortar on the ground that crashed through three days earlier.
She is tire from all the fighting they have a minute ago. Then she thought of that pony she just killed.
What have I done, she thought.
The rest of the squad came in an Red said, "Good job guys. You survive your first combat mission and whether or not, you are going to be a soldier for the rest of this war. The Moratins are falling back now and their chance for them to counter attac-,"
Before he could finish, the wall and window behind him explode.
Every ponies took cover as the castle shook side to side.
Twilight looked up in time to see two T-63, the same one they encounter on the street earlier, driving up toward to the front of the castle, firing alongside with Moratin Infantry on either side of the two tanks.
There must be fifty of them advancing .
"The Moras are attacking the castle!" Twilight yelled.
"we can see that Twilight!" said Rainbow, getting up.
Everyone took position near hole and broken windows and began returning fire.
The Moratin Infantry took cover while one of the T-63 fired and the round exploded on top of them but none of them is hurt.
"We need to take out those tank!" said Twilight, reloading her M-14.
Red thought for a moment and said, "I got it! Cover me!"
He ran through the hole and jump behind the debris.
When he tried to run to the tank, he was getting shot at by the Moratin Infantry.
Twilight was about to go through the hole but was stopped by Ace who said to her, "I`ll go down and help. You tell the rest to bring their fire at the ground troop." Then, he went through the hole.
Twilight turned and said, "Every ponies need to direct their at the Infantry!"
Everyone stopped firing at the tanks that they thought they could explode and began firing at the Infantry.
The Infantry took cover while Red and Ace went and ran toward the T-63s.
Red jumped on the first tank, open the hatch and sprayed his Stoner into it. Then, he took out a British made high-explosive Gamma grenade. He threw one in and jump off, leaving the tank that shoot out fireball from the turret.
Ace jumped on the second tank and, when he reaches the turret, the tank commander came out, pointing his Luger at him, but before he could pulled the trigger, Ace quickly took out his double Colt .45 and shot both of them at the same time in the commander face.
The rest of the Moras saw him and began shooting at him.
Ace grabbed the tank commander by the armpit, hauls him out of the turret and jumped in the tank and killed all the tank crew.
He made the tank to go forward, passing by the other burned out tank that Red destroyed and stop, turn its turret around, facing the Moratins then climb out of the turret and grabbed the 50. Cal machine gun on top of the turret, saying, "Say hello to my little friend!" and fire at the Moratins.
Half of the Moratins are killed from this while the other half fall back, only to be mowed down by another Allied squad.
Ace got off of the tank and joined Red as a squadron of F-22 pass overhead.
The other cheered and ran out to Red and Ace.
"You were both awesome!" squeal Rainbow.
"Well, it was nothing." Said Red.
"Hey, I get all the credit." Said Ace, matter-of-factly.
Twilight looked at the dead Moratins and said to Red, "I guess your plan worked."
Then, she noticed something.
"Uh… Applejack? Is that our rocket launcher?"
Applejack reaches back and grabbed the , LAAW off her back, saying, "Why yes, Yes it is."
Before Twilight could respond, Pinkie said, "Why didn`t you use it in the first place?"
"How the heck should I know," says Applejack, scratching her head, "I was too busy shooting my gun at those dirt eater that just destroyed my Sweet Apple Acres."
Before any of them could argue any more, Red spoke in, "Hey, it alright, Applejack forgot to use the launcher and didn`t take out those tanks. At least we hold back against the Moartins. We haven`t hold them off it it wasn`t for Twilight jabbering and actually pointed out that we need to go to the castle. If we hadn`t get to the castle before the Moratins did, they could`ve use this as their last stand to hold the village but we spoiled it."
Every ponies were congratulating Twilight who blushed and said, "Thank."
Then more Allied squad came by and the Equestria squad join them to finish the battle.
They survive their first contact and brought back Ponyville, but there more they are about to face and it a lot more deadly than fighting in one village.
[Well, there is goes the Battle of Ponyville. If there any mistake in this chapter or something you want to ask, send me a comment and I`ll fix it right up. Also, it you want to know what happen next, go on favorite and click on story so you`ll know when the next chapter is publish.]