My Little Pony: Soldier Side
Chapter 5: Aces High! (Part 1)
The war against the Griffon Kingdom was fought not only on the ground, but also in the air. The Queen's Royal Air Corps or 'Luftwaffe' clashed with the Equestrian Air Force for control of the skies. The Equestrian Air Force's B-17 bombers and P-51 Mustangs were bombing Griffon Kingdom 'Luftwaffe' bases since the war began with devastating results.
The 'Luftwaffe' was running out of aircraft. Those Focke-Wulf FW-190 DB 609 fighters and Heinkel HE-111E4 bombers that escaped the bombing raids were either destroyed on the ground, or in the air. The few that escaped to the Northern Griffon Kingdom of Orel were granted safety by Tsarina Guzel the First from attacks in order to rearm and refuel.
Queen Galiana decided it was time to take action, and ask for aid from the Tsarina. The two griffons are twin cousins, "I understand your great concern, it seems the war may come to the borders of the kingdom, I am not going to stand by, and watch as our species is being slaughtered by these greedy ponies, I will pledge my allegiance to your side,"
"Your Majesty, you do not know how much this means to all the griffons of the kingdom," said Galiana,
"I will send in the might of the air force, and the guns of the navy to this cause," vowed Guzel, the twins shared a hug,
Pilots that were in exile worked with Imperial pilots. The two mainstay fighter planes for the Tsardom are the MIG I-231 and Polikarpov ITP-M2. With two 20mm ShVAK cannons, and eight RS-82 rockets, and a top of 439mph, they rule the sky. Two pilots that are in exile in Orel are Gale and Geneviève. They are ready to bring the fight back to the ponies
"Let's get them," said Gale, ready to get back to the skies
Pilots like Geneviève and Gale were trained to operate the new fighters in the span of five months. Soon they were back in the air, and putting on their fight masks as they met up with a squadron of bombers coming out of an air base in the western region of Orel, "Alright Gale, our mission is to keep the heavies safe from the ponies," said Genevieve,
"Roger that" said Gale, and lowered her goggles over her eyes and the two fighters moved in, the Griffon Kingdom's bomber squadrons were completely annihilated in air attacks by the Equestrian Air Force. The 'Luftwaffe' got new mainstays with quality imported bombers from the Hippogriff Kingdom of Chefal in the form of the Bloch MB.131 and MB.162
"Looks like we're not alone on this bombing run," said the bomber pilot named Garrett, seeing Gale waving to him
"And look at those fighters, I don't know who's prettier, the plane or the pilot," replied his co-pilot named Gregory,
A squadron of six Focke-Wulf FW-190 fighters met with another squadron to be the escorts for a bombing mission on Equestria, "Bandits at 8'o clock, prepare to engage, stay close to the heavies," informed Genevieve seeing a squadron of ten P51 Mustangs looking to make some easy kills on the griffon pilots defending the medium bomber escort.
The Focke-Wulf FW-190 DB 609 is a beautiful beast armed with two 20mm cannon and two 7.92mm machine guns, "Roger!" replied the squadron of escort fighters as the Mustangs came in for the attack. The griffon fighter planes stayed close to the bombers. These were not to rip to shreds on the ground. The skies was soon filled with bullets.
Bullets pierced through both flesh and steel as pilots were going down in flames. The griffon pilots proved to be a match for some of Equestria's best flyers. A griffon pilot named Gina was being chased by a Mustang. She turned up and around, and unloaded a stream of 20mm cannon into the cockpit, "Save it for the air show, Gina!" radioed in Genevieve
Gale got behind a P51, and pressed down the guns and shot off the wing, "Yahoo!" she cheered,
Genevieve chased down her prey, and blew a P51 Mustang out of the sky, "My regards to Celestia!"
The griffons two out of ten planes in the escort, but the bombers made it to the target, a naval port in the Gritish Isles, "Okay target is on sight, dropping the payload," said Garrett, the bomb doors opened and down came the rain of bombs like the thunder of the war god. Ponies fled, and naval merchant ships sank in a harbor engulfed in flames.
The ponies retreated back, losing six out of ten fighters. Black smoke billowed into the sky as a sign of the first successful bombing raid against Equestria. Griffon fighter planes also attacked anti-aircraft gun installations meant to protect the harbor. The 1st Royal Griffon Fighter Squadron flew back to the bases in Orel to rearm and refuel their planes.
The bombers had bullet holes in their armored bodies, and streams of smoke coming from a few of the engines. A few gunners were lost in the raid on the port. While the air force was taking back the northern skies battle by battle, the battleship 'Tsar Gorlov the First' was going through sea trials in the Northern Sea. This ship is the pride of the fleet.
Modeled after the Sovetsky-Soyuz class battleship, she is as beautiful as she is powerful, "Good evening, Ma'am," said a saluting sailor,
"Is everything in order?" she asked the sailor, her name was Admiral Galenka. The sailor nodded to the officer. She lightly smiled, knowing there was one part of the old Griffon Kingdom Fleet in the south. The submarines of the Galiana's kingdom now run patrols in the Southern Sea, "it seems our brothers and sisters can contribute to the war effort,"