The Way Back

by Whattheydonttellus

November 2nd, 1941 Equestria is licked in war. The mane 6 are sent to canterlot on a political mission to try and end the war. The enemy loyalist forces capture the six leaders from the seceded side of equestria. The six are taken to SAA labor camp, run and controlled by big macintosh. The six have to escape, but even if they can, they must cross 1300 miles of unforgiving terrain.

3. Chapter 2

Chapter 2: the loop, october 17th, 1942

Each day was the same at the camp, wake up, get breakfast, work for five hours, get lunch, work for seven more hours, get dinner, go to sleep. The cycle repeated for days, then weeks, then months, eventually the mane six had been imprisoned in a POW camp for almost a year. "To hell with this place. Im getting out." Rainbow dash had almost snapped.

"Are you crazy? They'll kill you before you make it to the fence." Pinky pie said. She stopped laughing at everything and finally got a taste of reality when the old stallion was executed and applejack was whipped on the first day.

"I don't care. I would rather die than spend one more night here."

"Rainbow dash, darling, don't you think others have tried? This place is sealed, there's no chance." Rarity spoke up.

"I don't care. If i have to break one more rock with that that pickaxe, i am going to lose it."

"She had a point. Yall haven't stood there for twelve hours straight chopping at a rock wall. There has been talk in the mines, we can use the picks as weapons to get into the guard armory. If we can get guns, we can overrun the camp."

"What makes you say that?"

"We outnumber the security force two to one. There aint nothing they can do to stop us." Applejack answered with the closest thing to enthusiasm she had felt in a year.

"There aren't many guards watching the mines, we could overpower them, once we do that, we would have to get out of the mines and take the armory." Rainbow dash said. "Give us three days to get the minors on board."

"Alright. On the twentieth of october, we strike." All six ponies agreed. It did not take much thinking to figure out why nopony had had tried to overpower the camp. Big macintosh used fear factor to keep the prisoners in line. Ponies were sent into solitary every hour, whippings and executions happened at least once or twice a day. Something was in the hearts of these six ponies that made them attempt what nopony had ever done, it may have been will power, strength, courage, or maybe just stupidity, but they knew they were going to escape, or die trying.