My Little Pony: Soldier Side
Chapter 7: Aces High! (Part 2)
Over the Sea of Orel, a lone bomber was making it's patrols to make sure on their aircraft is in good working order. The newest bomber for the Imperial Orel Air Force is the Arkhangelsky AR-2. A fast tactical medium bomber, it can dive-bomb, keep up with it's fighter escort, and do tactical bombing on targets such as ships and cities.
It's three ShKAS machine guns in the nose, ventral, and dorsal turrets keep any pesky fighters away from shooting it out of the sky. The two pilots in the cockpit were Gav and Grigor, and the gunners are Georgi, Goriain, and Gennadi. Imperial Orel Air Force have the symbol of the eagle and lion holding up the sun on the tails and wings.
Genevieve saw something at sea, "Bomber-1, this is Eagle-1, I don't recognize that ship, over," said Genevieve,
"10-4, this is Bomber-1, what flags is she flying? Over," asked Gav via radio to the escort of two Focke-Wulf FW-190 DB 609 fighters,
"Not ones I recognize, wait...," Upon a closer look with binoculars, Gale noticed the flag, "she's Equestrian, heavy cruiser,"
"It is not even Hearth's Warming Eve yet, but we have many presents in the payload," joked Grigor, "alright Eagle Squadron, you ladies go in and attack the anti-aircraft and secondary batteries with the rockets, we will come in right behind you," he instructed to the fighter escort, "you ladies will distract the ship, we will make the kill,"
"Roger!" said Gale and Genevieve in unison, and moved down into a dive toward the cruiser. The heavy cruiser answered the door with 40mm Bofors guns shooting back at the Imperial fighter plans. Gale and Genevieve headed straight for them, and pressed down the guns, killing sailors and causing small explosions in the battery.
Puffs of smoke and shrapnel filled the skies above as the sailors aboard the cruiser were doing what they can to defend themselves from the air raid. Gale and Geneviève went in for a second attack with Werfer-Granate 21 rockets. With the anti-aircraft batteries destroyed, the 'Unicorn' was now helpless against the coming attack from the AR-2.
"да здравствует царица!" said the crew of the AR-2 bomber as it flew over the heavy cruiser 'Unicorn', and dropped it's payload of bombs,
The payload of ten 100kg bombs hit the ship, and broke it's back detonating the magazine, "The Unicorn is 10-7, good work ladies," radioed Gav,
"You see, ladies, you have to ask permission if you want something, if not...you suffer the consequences so my mother says," said Grigor, ever the joker,
"A strong woman your mother must be," said Gale as the two fighters and the bomber flew back to the base with some damage from enemy anti-aircraft guns. Thankfully, no one was hurt or killed in the bomber or in the fighters. Gale noticed something in the floating wreckage and oil, "hey, I see some survivors," she said in observation.
"Leave them," said Gav, "the notice went to the Navy, a ship will come and retrieve them," within an hour, the Imperial Navy heavy cruiser Gromoboi arrived, and pulled the sailors to safety. A pony has a better chance of survival if captured by the Griffon Kingdom soldiers or Imperial Orel soldiers than a griffon does in Equestrian hooves.
'Oh Celestia, you know not of what you are facing, you have awoken a sleeping giant' Grigor thought as the AR-2 landed at an air base.
It was a breath of fresh air that the griffons were earning victories, "And a one, and a two," Gale cringed as she pulled out some shrapnel,
"Just a little damage, you will be up in the air in no time," said the mechanic with a ready wrench and tool set, fixing the warbird.
Over supper, Gale and Genevieve got distressing news from the front in the Griffon Kingdom, "Did you not hear?' asked a Griffon Kingdom exiled pilot at the table with a few of his gathered comrades, "these ponies will show no mercy, rumor has it they have what they call 'Cleansing Regiments'," murmuring began to fill around the table.
"I did not think ponies would do such a thing, these regiments attack villages while we go to fight, each victory we earn on the front maybe sweet, but there will be no home for us to return to," said another griffon, and sniffled thinking about his family, "thankfully, the queen is dispatching troops to defend all the villages outside Griffonstone,"
"Let's hope they hold the line, there are more ponies than there are griffons," said Genevieve, thinking of her family in Hawksbill,
"Numbers do not mean a thing, my dear," said Grigor, "these ponies not only have to face our guns, but the winter, no winter wrap-up for them,"
"I hope you're right," said the exiled griffon from Hawksbill. Meanwhile, a 'Cleansing Regiment' was marching in on a border town,
"Halt, we will rest here tonight, and attack at dawn," said the commander, while the soldiers were making tents and food and resting their weary hooves, they were being watched. The soldiers that were sent to defend the village sent scouts. A white stahlhelm peaked up from a tall snowbank at the soldiers making fires, and cooking supper,
The soldier made his way back to the village, "They'll be here by dawn tomorrow," he said to his commanding officer in the village. The soldiers moved into positions with a sniper position among hay bales in a nearby cart. Machine guns were hidden in windows, and on rooftops of buildings. This small band of soldiers was ready for an attack.
(The 'Unicorn' is modeled after the battlecruiser USS Alaska (CB-1) and the heavy cruiser Gromoboi is modeled after the 'Super Washington' Ansaldo cruisers)