I hope you all like the first chapter and im bringing in hammer squadron from slice141's story this chapter so expect that
We woke up before anyone in the barracks I look at my watch. 6:00 AM, I look over to Victoria but she beats me to it.
"We over slept" we hurry quietly out of the barracks and our crew is already at the tank. I walk up to them turn towards the barracks and yell.
"WHAY ARE WE THE ONLYONES IN THE YARD AT 6 IN THE MORNING?" As soon as the words leave my mouth the sirens go off and almost every guard is standing in front of me.
"alright, today we will be putting you in teams of 5, each team will be a different tank, other teams might be infantry or scouts or something else depending on how fit you are" we go past the men putting them in there groups and the assemble by the tank in a line, the commander sits on top of the turret as I show him how to control the crew and show the crew how to operate there stations. After a few hours of doing this we move onto the recon and infantry.
"alright now that the tank crews have there jobs its time for our recon and infantry to learn theirs" We move over to the shooting range for this part of the trials, we show them how to hold, fire, reload, and clean a gun, for the ones who pass with the infantry regulations we move those 2 groups onto recon. I split the groups into groups of two and brought them over to the edge of the castle walls, I had Robert go out and set up some targets for this part of the training varying in distance and height from the position I chose, once again I showed them how to hold, fire, reload, and clean there rifles, after a few hours only 3 teams showed they had the skill to handle the sniper rifles. I bring the other groups back to the barracks to brief them over what they will be taught, long range artillery. I pull up a schematic from my neural communicator, of a old 307mm artillery from 2127, I pull it up on the holographic screen and place it on the wall. As im telling them what it does and how to work this model I see princess Celestia walk into the room.
"Hello Cordell, how are the soldiers coming along in there training?" I stop what I was saying and look up to her as everyone in the room bows, including me.
"They are learning fast Princess, these are going to be the artillery specialists" She look a little confused and I show her the schematic of the artillery I see her horn glow for a split second then I feel a slight thud on the ground.
"That should help them with the training" With that she turns around and walks out of the room. I slowly follow her and look around to look for the source of that sound, I look over to the empty field next to the tank and see a 307mm howitzer.
"Alright men looks like with the grace of Celestia we have some hands on practice to get to" we start by showing the crews how to load and unload the shells, then how to aim the piece, lastly how to fire it, shortly after firing I hear the scream of engines that only comes from one kind of plane.
"The barracuda's? But they were lost over Nevada, how could they be here" I cut practice for today cause its getting late and I see two VTOL landing near me at the castle. I see someone get out of one of the fighters I haven't seen in a long time.
"Luke! Man I thought you were dead, cause we tried to get you back and we sent a team to your last known location and they found nothing, so we assumed you were dead but here you are, alive and well" I see Mai getting out of the second plane and walks over towards me and Luke.
"So what rank are you now? last time I saw you you just got commander of your first tank" He has missed a lot.
"I am the commander of Wolf brigade, we have 3 experimental M5A7 tanks" they looked shocked that I went from commanding one tank to 3 experimentals in less than a year. I look over to the tank and I gesture to it.
"That's one of your tanks?" Luke walks over to it a walks around it examining it closely. then over at the artillery in the field.
"Yes, and im training some recruits here to use the artillery too" He look back at me once hes done with the piece and walks over to me.
"How much has she told you about the situation?"
"Everything" He looks away for a moment before looking back at me.
"ok, so you know, lets go meet our overlord here in Canterlot" im surprised by this.
"We have an overlord here?" He gestures for me to follow him, I wait for until I realize what he wants then I start to follow him to the castle, we walk along a corridor that seems to go the length of the castle, we walk until we get to one that say 'war room' we walk in and I see someone who I was sure was dead. Colonel Jake.
"Colonel Jake, I was sure you were dead when we didn't find you" This makes him turn around and look me square in the face.
"You think I would let myself be killed or captured, well son, your dead wrong" With that he smiles and walks over to me a shake his hand and he goes back to the war table and I overhear his conversazione with Celestia.
"Look the Gryphons will attack any day now, we need to send reinforcements to Manehatten right now or it may be lost" Jake looks back at Celestia after she says this and he gets a stern look on his face.
"Yes but, we don't have enough equipment to send out there we only have infantry" She smirks back at him and he gets a confused look as she gestures towards me.
"Well we have hammer squadron and wolf brigade and we have a few more tanks ready for deployment full crew compliment" Jake is shocked at this news.
"We have tanks ready for deployment?" All Celestia does is nod.
"Then send two platoons to Manehatten immediately" Shining Armor walks out of the room when he says this and then I hear the loud clanking which means the tanks are deploying to there destination. I look back at Luke because something has been nagging at me since I saw Luke and Mai.
"Hey Luke wheres Iceman did he die or something?" Funny how I say that with little emotion for his life, but Luke gets a stern look that still horrifies me to this day.
"Iceman went rouge about a month ago, he shot rainbow and took off, Mai tried to chase him down but lost him near the Gryphons border" I go from slightly shocked to full out pissed off. Then I say something that shocks me, as I said it without remorse.
"If I see Iceman im shooting him down, I will use my main guns if I have to, if I see him he will not fly another day" Everyone seems to be shocked by my answer, after a few moments of silence someone walks in that I will never forget, Luna.
"Doth thou know-est how thee will accomplish such a task?" I cant move or do anything for a few moments as I take in the beauty that stands just inside the door-frame.
"No I don't its just... I don't know, I need to go for a walk" I walk out of the room and start walking for the train station, once I get there I hear what sounds like the flapping of wings behind me.
"Whats ever the matter?" It was Luna again.
"I just can't believe Iceman would do something like shoot rainbow, is she alright?" All Luna does is nod in response seeing as how I just need to vent my anger a little.
"I just got out of a world war just to be pulled into another one, and its just... I cant explain it, its just that back home I always was alone, when I was 8 my mom died and when I was 16 my dad died and I joined the marines, ive just known nothing ever since, I never got to know anyone on a personal level since my parents passing" /i feel a single tear start to roll down my cheek as I recall the horrible, painful memories of my earth life I used to have. I look over to Luna and it looks like she is almost in tears.
"I know how you feel, being trapped on the moon for a millennium and being an alicorn making me immortal I never wanted to know anyone since I know im going to outlive them" A tear starts to roll down her cheek as I walk towards her, once im close enough I reach out a hand and wipe away the tear. Then it occurs to me.
"Hey don't you have some sort of immortality spell?" All she does is nod before saying.
"Yes but Tia is the only one who can cast it and she never wants to use it cause it drains almost all of her energy" I cant believe this how could she not want her sister to be happy with someone of her choosing?
"Well after the war ill talk to her and see if she will cast the spell on the person who is your special someone" All Luna does is smile as another tear rolls down her cheek, but this one is different, for it is a tear of joy.
"Thank you so much, im sure she will listen to you, I don't know how but im sure she will listen to your request" She gives me a slight kiss on the cheek before flying off, leaving me with dark blue lipstick on my cheek that is red as a rose.
Well everypony there's chapter 2 of armored Equestria, I know I haven't updated any stories in a few days but when school starts I will update both stories on Sunday. And im starting to lose inspiration to write, SO PLEASE REVIEW AND LEAVE AN OC OR SOMETHING! that is all, farewell to thee my brothers and sisters of the night this has been XshadowwriterzX with another chapter and goodnight.