My Little Pony: Soldier's Side
Chapter 14: Battle Cry
The enlisted griffons in the ground forces say, 'follow the tanks, they'll lead the way'. Princess Ghislaine and Gabby had made it to Gilda and Greta. Now it was time for the final push to get the ponies out of the Kingdom. With assistance on the ground from Imperial Armored Divisions from Orel, this final push would not be without it's consequences.
Moving from foxhole to foxhole to see to the griffons, she could see the fear in their eyes. No doubt, she was afraid too. She looked at her pocket watch to see the time, and put it back in her jacket pocket. The SU-152-44 self-propelled howitzers and GW Panther self-propelled guns and howitzers were loading as were the field artillery. The order came,
"Feuer!" blasted Gilda,
"Зададим им жару!" cried Giulia
Soldiers like Gretchen and Galena covered their ears under their helmets though they were a distance away from the battery. The shells hammered the ground and sent bits of earth and shrapnel into the air. Their job is to soften up the Equestrian Lines that were only nearly a hundred yards ahead. The griffons kept their heads down in their foxholes.
At 6:10 in the morning the next day, the dust had settled. Ponies still moved about from foxhole to foxhole having survived the shelling from the allied guns. The griffons from the Griffon Kingdom and Orel peeked up to see what was left of the ponies for them to fight. Princess Ghislaine knew this was it, and that the casualties will be high today.
"Bajonette fanz auf," she ordered to her soldiers,
"исправить штыки," translated Giulia to her comrades,
Bayonets were attached to the ends of the barrels of Luger Rifles and SVT-40s. With rifles pointed at the enemy from their foxholes, Ghislaine saw her first target peeking over a bush, with four shots from her MP she killed the stallion, and the one behind. The MG-39Rh and KB-P-180 machine guns rattled off and gave fire support to the attacking troops.
This was only one small area of the map they were attacking, but they were the first to start the push into the Equestrian Lines. Two more pony soldiers fell like fallen timbers to the supporting gunfire. The roars of hundreds of griffons echoes as they charged from their foxholes. Soon a 'Kampfpanzer Jaguar' tank and two T-44-100 tanks joined a charge
"They're-AUGH!" radioed a pony only to be killed by Gabby.
The tanks moved forward to spearhead the attack. Ghislaine killed two with her Walther MP while two of her comrades fell in the charge. Giulia also notched a couple kills with her Baltiets 1942 pistol, while one of her comrades was shot in the head by returning fire from the ponies. Gloria fired her Panzerfaust 250, sending a pony flying from the blast.
The pony in the way of the blast was sent flying over a boulder. The griffons ran their enemies through with bayonets, and smacked them aside with rifle stocks. The machine guns were moving in behind the infantry and armored divisions and providing the support they need moving on the battlefield. The word from the radio pony reached the lines.
"Hold the lines!" ordered an officer,
"Filthy catbirds!" blasted another,
The ponies dug in, and were ready for a fight. What the radio-pony did not tell them was what was leading the offensive on their lines, "Tanks!" cried out a pony soldier, but it was too late. Browning M2 .50 bullets bounced off the armor as the group of Orel and Royal Griffon Panzer Divisions bulldozed through the lines, firing shells into the foxholes.
The shells killed ponies with blasts and shrapnel, but an unfortunate one was completely vaporized. One poor soul tripped over a tree root, and was ran over by a T-44-100. A bazooka team armed with an M9A1 was looking to aim at the coming tanks, but Giulia picked them off with her pistol starting with the loader then the shooter with headshots.
Giulia heard a Browning M2, "Pillbox! Bring up the rocket!" she yelled,
"Roger!" said a griffon named Galya,
Galya was an Orel griffon armed with the infamous RPG-1M. The Browning M2 machine gun was cutting down griffon soldiers, laughing at the griffons and their futile attempt to take the slope with words made of hot lead. With a loaded rocket launcher, and aiming down the sight, Galya fired her weapon and the machine gun pillbox ceased it's cackling.
The griffons climbed on the tanks and self-propelled guns, cheering as the ponies retreated. The griffons took the slope. The sweetness of victory did not last long. The grounds leading to the pony fortifications were littered with the dead and wounded. One griffon had a fatal head wound from shrapnel, her splattered brains looked like the roe of a fish.
"Such is the price of war," said Gunner,
"Will ponies see the error of their ways? Only time will tell," said Giulia,
Meanwhile, Princess Ghislaine was helping the field nurses with the wounded, some were more severe than others. One soldier Princess Ghislaine was trying to hold down had the top of his beak shot off by a shell. His screams echoed through the camps as nurses were holding back the spurting blood. The bleeding stopped. He was soon under control.
There was a bloody stump where his beak once was. Ghislaine put a hand on his shoulder, and he looked into her eyes, "I am going to help you," she said quietly, she picked up the branch of a hardwood tree and began to carve. For hours, she worked carving and smoothening it out to shape for the soldier. Using old helmet straps, she put it on him.
It fit just right until he can get prosthetic one at a hospital, "There, all better,"