Chapter 6: Shooting a way out

The mane six had learnt a lot about the human world from Metal 0-1, as they drove to their extraction point. They learnt that the planet is split up into different nations, each with it's own leader. They also learnt that ponies in this universe didn't speak, didn't have cutie marks, couldn't use magic and couldn't fly.

It was at this point that the van screeched to a halt. Sandman then climbed out and opened rear doors.

"Okay, everybody out." He ordered. "We're at the extraction point."

The mane six jumped out the back, whilst Grinch dragged Volk out by his collar.

As the mane six looked over, they saw an aircraft, a V-22 Osprey, hovering close to the ground. This was their extraction vehicle.

However, it was at this moment that a lone missile from a Russian soldier on the other side of a barricaded bridge struck the Osprey, causing it to spiral out of control and come crashing to the ground, smashing through the debris and almost hitting the group.

As they dodged out of the way, the Russian soldiers came charging across the bridge.

Sandman was soon on the radio.

"Overlord, primary LZ is compromised. Moving to alternate."

As the troops came swarming over the bridge, Pinkie Pie spotted something bright rain down from the sky and landing in the middle of the Russians, killing a large group of them.

The shot happened to have come from an AC130, which was providing support for the group.

The group then took off down a nearby street, taking out any Russian soldiers. All the while, the AC130 took out any large group of soldiers and any enemy vehicles. As RPG fire came out of the top floor of a nearby building, the AC130 was immediately on it, destroying the building with one single shot.

Just then, a lone Mig jet fighter flew overhead, launching missiles all over the place. The group decided to dive into a nearby hotel, where they were met by a hail of machine gun fire coming from the nearby US embassy. The AC130 soon cleared that signal up as well.

As they reached an intersection in the road, a group of Humvees, carrying friendly soldiers, arrived on the scene.

"Get Volk in the Humvee!" Yelled Sandman. "Let's go!"

Once the group had piled into the Humvees, they sped off down the road with the AC130 still providing air support and taking out enemy vehicles.

However, as they rounded a bend, they found that the bridge ahead of them was blocked by debris, enemy armour and troops.

The group then clambered out of the Humvee, ducked behind cover and began to shoot at the enemy. Frost, meanwhile was using a javelin missile launcher to take out some of the takns on the other side of the bridge.

Just then, a lone fighter jet flew past the bridge, launching one of it's missiles and taking out more of the enemy.

But still they came.

"Overlord, this is Metal 0-1." Sandman said over the radio. "Black LZ at grid 2775."

"Hold this position!" He yelled to the others. "We've got three minutes until CAS gets here!"

And so, the group fought on, cutting down wave after wave of Russian soldiers. It was absolute carnage at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.

Just as they were starting to run out of ammo, a voice came over the radio.

"0-1, Odin 6. Can't tell who's down there. Need you to mark the targets."

"Negative!" Replied Sandman. "Nothing left to use."

"We're dead centre on the bridge! Hit anything north of us with everything you've got!"

After a short while, the voice came back.

"Metal 0-1, this is Odin 6. Bombs away."

Then, one after another, a group of three A-10 warthogs flew over the north end of the bridge, dropping bombs on any enemy target, engulfing them in multiple large fireballs. The bombs were so much, it caused the already heavily damaged Eiffel Tower to collapse and fall into the river.

Then, a friendly helicopter landed next to them. Frost, Sandman, Twilight, Rarity and Truck all boarded the helicopter, with Grinch, Volk, Pinkie, and Applejack waiting for the next one. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash flew after the first helicopter.

It was a long flight back to the Delta Force base. However, they were happy to be anywhere than where they were before their flight.

As expected, the mane six got an awful lot of freaked out looks from the other soldiers, but Frost put down any suspicion that they were hostile.

"It's alright. They're with us." He told them.

Not too long after, the second helicopter landed. The rest of the group then got off the helicopter, with Pinkie Pie happily bouncing away. She got the most confused looks.

Very quickly, Volk was soon dragged into the interrogation room. The mane six wanted to help Grinch and Sandman with interrogating Volk, but Truck told them that they weren't allowed, so they had to wait outside.

They soon changed their minds about wanting to help with the interrogation, however. After a while of interrogation, sounds of yelling in both English and Russian greeted the group. They all put their ears to the door to hear things better. They were soon greeted with a loud crashing sound, followed by more yelling, this time in just Russian. Once the yelling had finally stopped, they heard the sound of footsteps. Grinch and Sandman then stepped out of the interrogation room.

"So, did he talk?" Asked Applejack.

Grinch nodded his head.

"He gave us everything. Names, dates places, even his own Fregata Industries." Grinch told them.

"We'd better get the information out to Price." Sandman added.

The mane six followed sandman as he walked off to find a telephone. As soon as he found one, he punched in a set of numbers and held the receiver up to his ear.

It didn't take long for Price to answer.

"Who is this?" Came the rough British accent of Price.

The faces of the mane six all lit up at the sound of Price's voice.

"Price. This is Sandman." Sandman replied.

"Did our man talk?"

"They always talk. We got names, dates, locations. Volk gave us everything. Even Fregata. It seems your hunch was right, Captain."

"Makarov's already making friends."

"He's meeting with his top advisors six hours from now. Location is the hotel Lustig. It's in the centre of the city, near the old square. We have tier one groups assigned to handle this, but I don't think they'll make it in time. You, however, are close."

"Very."

"I'll contact you when it's done."

Twilight then hopped up to Sandman. He looked over to her.

"Oh and one last thing, Price. There is someone here who wants to speak to you."

He put the phone receiver to Twilight's ear.

"Captain Price. It's an honour to be able to speak to you again."

The Captain gave out a small chuckle.

" I should've known you'd try to find a way into this world."

"Oh, it's not just me. The others are here as well."

The Captain gave out another small chuckle.

"I take it you were with Delta Force when they took down Volk."

"Oh yes. Definitely."

"Heh. Magic colourful ponies taking down a human terrorist. Now I've heard everything. Anyway, we'll contact you guys once the situation develops."

"Okay, bye Captain."

"Bye."

Sandman hung up the phone.

Twilight turned to her friends.

"Well, he's doing fine by the sounds of it."