My Little Pony: Soldier Side
Chapter 9: Uprising
Meanwhile in the small border village, soldiers instructed civilians to stay calm and hide in their basements while they resisted the ponies. Fresh snow began to fall from the grey skies as a Equestrian M9 Half-Track pulled into the village. From the side badges on the upper arms of their uniform of a dagger stabbing a heart. This is a Cleansing Regiment.
"Search the village, if you find any catbirds, bring them to me and we will deal with them accordingly," said the commanding officer armed with a Colt M1911. The soldier saluted his officer, and took a group of soldiers. The Griffons kept as quiet as mice as the soldiers moved through the village. Hiding civilian mothers and fathers calmed their children.
Their weapons were loaded, and they kept calm as the enemy moved through the village. The commanding officer of the village soldiers is a golden eagle-lion griffon with black talons named Gunner. A tactically savvy officer known for being handsome and clever, he is Princess Ghislaine's cousin, and he had a plan for these unprepared pony soldiers.
"There's nothing here, sir, the village is empty," reported a soldier to his commander,
"Keep searching, make no mistake, the enemy's in this village...somewhere," replied the commander,
The pony soldiers set up base at the fountain in the center of the village. There were thirty soldiers in this group that came into the village, and fewer than twenty stationed griffon soldiers laying in wait for Gunner's orders. A couple soldiers guarded the half-track at the war-damaged fountain, smoking their cigarettes and talking about their homes.
The walls in some parts of the village were decorated with graffiti with statements telling Celestia to get out of the kingdom, and praising Queen Galiana and Tsarina Guzel. One of the soldiers laying in wait was armed with a Panzerfaust 250M anti-tank rocket. The soldiers came back to base, and reported to their officer. This is Gunner's plan for them.
He waited for the square to fill up with soldiers from the regiment. As ordered by Gunner, she slowly emerged with her weapon from the broken window of a bakery unnoticed by the enemy, and fired her weapon at the half-track. It was a direct hit on the engine. The M9 half-track exploded killing ponies, and sending pieces of shrapnel in all directions.
"Get out of range!" called out the stallion commander, until he was shot in the head by a sniper,
"Where are they?!" yelled another solder before he too as picked off by the sniper.
The ponies scattered in all directions, and being picked off by rifle-griffons or were mowed down by hidden machine gun nests. The ponies were not prepared for this kind of resistance, but these tactics proved key in defending villages from these specialized killing regiments. The smoke from the wrecked half-track mixed with cries from the wounded
One soldier among the dead had his intestines spayed out of his chest, and resting in a pool of his blood. His head rested on the rubber tracks of the wreck, and blood dripped from his chin. His comrades were all dead now. He looked up at Gunner, and spat out blood uttering his final request to the enemy, "Shoot...me," he said as his vision blurred,
"Only to end your suffering," said Gunner, his voice reflecting his pity for the pony soldier, and shot the pony with his Walther Model 6 pistol. There is no saving the stallion in the condition he was in. His wounds were too great. The other griffon soldiers emerged from hidden positions in the village, "gather the dead, we will bury them away from here,"
"Yes, major!" said a griffon named Gloria whom fired the first shot to start the planned ambush,
The villagers were thankful for the soldiers stationed to defend them. These griffons did not ask for payment or special favors from the villagers. In fact, some of the village she-griffons have asked some of the tercel soldiers to marry them. The Major turned down any offers, "No, no, I am sorry, I am already married, I have a wife waiting for me,"
That is only a half-truth that he would tell the young griffons that offered themselves to him. Once upon a time, Gunner had a beautiful wife named Gina whom also served in the army. A beautiful golden saker-lioness griffon, she was the love of his life. That all changed when Equestria attacked the southern border. She was on the frontlines with him.
His life changed forever in an instant, Gina was moving soldiers from one side of the line to reinforce another. To his horror, Gina took a direct hit from an artillery shell. Fueled by sadness and rage, he picked up an MG39Rh machine gun and defended a section of the line by himself even though the ponies eventually broke through the border.
"Major, I have been meaning to ask you this...but do you hate ponies?" she asked like a young soldier would,
Gunner lightly shook his head 'no' to her, "I do not...hate the enemy, the one thing I want to see is Celestia see this war with her own eyes, and see the carnage that her forces have done to our kind, have her see that what she is doing is wrong, maybe then it will stop the bombs, and stop the shells raining from the sky," the Major said to the private,
Suddenly there came a distant rumble of engines from outside the village. A Panzer Division with Gilda and Greta at the helm of a GW Panther, "Major Gunner, good to see you," said Gilda, "I got news for you from the Northern Front, The Kingdom of Orel has joined the war on our side, the Tsarina will be sending troops and tanks in the coming months,"