Chapter nine
to war

Author notes: I originally planned for this to be a Christmas gift to all of you but my mom wouldn't let me get on her computer so consider this a late present ;3

The Major General leaned against the side of a Abrams tank staring coldly at Luna who was hoof cuffed to two Legion soldiers, her cuts had dried out and had crusted blood around them. Her mane was dull and no longer flowing like it used to.

"Do you want to talk now?" The Major General asked.

Luna stared softly and silently back. Her silence told the Major General that she wasn't going to tell him anything for quite some time. Luna's silence earned her a hard and freezing glare from the Major General.

"Put her in my hummer, we leave in fifteen minutes." The Major General said walking back to the tent canopy and started to pack the maps that were laid out.

Luna was roughly escorted over to an armored hummer and was shoved in with her hoof cuffs still on. As the door locked from the outside Luna tried to sit up but was restrained from doing so thanks to the hoof cuffs so she decided to lie on the cold steel floor of the hummer.

As Luna laid in the Humvee she heard the loud clone of steel tracks from the Abram tanks as the moved into a line forming the front of a convoy. She heard multiple soldiers yell out orders.

"Thirteen minutes! Thirteen minutes until deployment!" A rough stallion yelled near the hummer Luna was in. Luna closed her eyes and tried to think of simpler times, back when there was no Legion and Celestia was a real sister who used to play games with her.

"All soldiers gear up and get to your vehicles!" Luna's memories were interrupted as the base's speakers blasted the order.

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Blaze sat bored out of his mind on a very uncomfortable wooden bench behind the steel bars of his cell. Luckily for him his cell was directly across from the medical room where Silent Wind was being held. Yeah, lucky him. They were operating on Wind without any anesthetic. Blaze was puzzled at the least, he could've sworn that Wind was done with surgery and was on the fast track to recovery. Blaze flinched as his thoughts stopped being derailed by a painful cry from Wind who was trying desperately to break out of the restraints and break every neck in the room.

Blaze tried to shut out the cries by looking around thinking to himself that this was one of the oldest standing buildings at Legion. He looked at the wall and saw writing, messages and short wills.

"You! Back against the wall!" A soldier yelled at Blaze through the bars.

Blaze slowly did as he was told and saw Wind being carried out on a stretcher, his chest was an array of bloody sewed up cuts and his head looked to have a pretty big lump. He was carried into the cell and somewhat roughly dropped and then they were alone again. Blaze looked down the hall seeing the guards and what passed for prison medics walk down the hall and into an office.

"Captain?" Blaze asked walking back over to Wind.

Blaze looked him over and shook his head softly he grabbed the pillow from the bunk bed in the cell and placed it under Winds head and then laid the two blankets over him.

The sound of engines roaring into life and steel clanking against steel brought Blaze's attention over to the barred window where he looked outside and saw trucks, hummers, tanks hauling artillery behind them, and APCs roll through the courtyard and out the gate forming a line down the road. Blaze sighed and sat down on the bare bunk bed.

His ears lost the sounds of the vehicles as the convoy drove out of the base leaving dust and tracks behind them. Blaze heard a new sound that was rather annoying. It was a soft beeping noise and some rustling from outside. Before Blaze could get back up to investigate the annoying sound the entire wall exploded sending chunks of concrete into the cell and throwing Blaze against the steel bars. Blaze felt something pop inside him and a sharp pain hit his lung. As the dust settled and Blaze fell to the ground holding his side Kill Streak and Vintage Scripture walked into the cell.

"I told you it was too much C4!" Streak yelled at Scripture who had a smug smile.

" Calm your ass down, we're in aren't we?"

" Are you crazy!?" Blaze yelled," You just attracted every soldier in the base!"

" Nothing we can't handle." Streak said brushing some of his mane out of his eyes," Most of the soldiers are with the convoy so we only have to deal with-"

" Freeze!" Three Legion soldiers ordered aiming their AK-47s at the cell.

"Those guys." Streak finished his sentence gestured to Scripture who took out a box from a harness and flipped it open to reveal the box was a FMG9 with a built in suppressor and filled the soldier's bodies full of lead. He fought the rise of the gun and emptied the entire clip smiling as he did so as saw that two of them were Pegasi and the third was a unicorn.

While Scripture busied himself with reloading and then stuffing the bodies into a closet Streak helped Blaze up and then inspected him for any injuries.

"Broken rib, that's about it. Sorry about it." Streak said.

"Its fine, how'd you know we were in here?" Blaze asked.

"Scripture saw you guys get hauled off, you know how he is. He was basically napping under a tree and woke from the commotion you guys made." Streak said," He followed you guys and then came and got me."

" You're lucky I was nearby otherwise I wouldn't have given a shit." Scripture said walking back into the cell through a pair bent bars," So what's the deal Captain Dickhead?"

Blaze glanced at Scripture and his look told Scripture to stop," Passed out from the pain I'm guessing. They were doing surgery on him without anesthetics."

" Well, let's get him out of here." Streak said as he peeked his head around the corner of the broken wall seeing the shadows of multiple soldiers running along the side of the building. He slid a grenade out of a pouch on his harness and pulled the pin. He held the grenade for a bit letting it cook before tossing it out the wall. There was a loud flash and body parts flew into the room along with splatters of blood. There was moaning and cries of pain from outside as Blaze helped lift Wind onto Scripture's back.

Scripture trotted out of the building looking around seeing Streak wrestling a soldier's gun away and then slammed the butt of it into the soldier's head. Streak then looted some hummer keys out of the soldier's field jacket and then stripped him of his body armor.

"Put the Captain in the back." Streak said walking over to a hummer and trying the keys he got on the door, luckily for them it was the right hummer and the door opened up with a soft creak. Scripture put Wind in the back of the hummer while Blaze climbed into the passenger seat and Streak climbed behind the wheel.

"Remind me again why we're bringing him into the battlefield." Scripture said gesturing to Wind as he climbed into the back seat.

"Because we can't leave him here and hopefully he'll wake up soon and help us." Streak said.

"Sounds like some stupid excuses." Scripture muttered as Streak made the engine roar into life and sped off through the courtyard and out of the gate receiving multiple bullet holes in the side of the hummer.

"You know where the mines are right!?" Blaze asked tossing an extra grenade out of the window as the hummer sped passed a sandbagged machine gun emplacement.

"Of course I do!" Streak yelled over the explosion caused by the mixture of the grenade and ammunition.

The hummer sped past the hidden mines only to be caught in the middle of an artillery barrage from the base's many howitzers and mortars. Plumes of dust, smoke, and rock flew up all around the hummer there was even plumes of fire as the base launched white phosphorus out of the mortars. The phosphorus ate through wood, rock and sizzled in the dirt. Luckily for the passengers in the hummer the base over shot the hummer.

"Shit! I can't see anything!" Streak yelled as another plume of smoke and dust was sent up next to the covering the windshield with a thick layer of dirt. Streak desperately tried to the windshield wipers on but the next thing they knew they were airborne and the right front side of the hummer was on fire. The hummer slammed down into the ground and rolled off the road taking its passengers with it. The hummer slid to a stop upside down, its tires were bent and mangled while its body was crushed in some place. The engine was sticking out of the hood and dangerously on fire.

"Ugh..." Scripture moaned as he rubbed his head from his hanging position, still strapped into his seat belt," You guys alright?"

" I'm good...I think." Blaze answered.

"I've been better." Streak said taking out a knife and cutting his seatbelt making him fall onto the roof of the hummer.

"What the hell happened? Cause if that was a howitzer round we would've been blown to pieces." Scripture said.

"Must've been one of the anti-personal mines. Thank goodness it wasn't the anti-vehicle ones." Streak said as he cut down Blaze.

"Hey um... where is the captain?" Scripture asked as he looked behind the battered hummer and saw that Silent Wind was missing.

"Did we lose him when the hummer rolled down here?" Blaze asked as he got up and cringed slightly from his broken rib.

Streak looked at the broken up at the small incline leading to the road," I don't see him."

"Maybe he was-" Scripture said before he fell silent.

"Scripture? Scripture what's the matter?" Streak asked walking around the hummer to where Scripture was. What Streak saw made him confused and shocked. Silent Wind was standing behind Scripture holding his knife to his throat.

"Captain?" Streak said taking a step towards him.

"Back off! Take one more step and I slice his throat open!" Wind yelled at Streak.

"Captain, it's us. Vintage Scripture and Kill Streak." Streak said taking another step.

"Back the fuck off!" Wind yelled but was suddenly tackled to the ground by Blaze. Streak rushed over to them and helped pin Wind to the ground.

"I'll kill every single one of you!" Wind yelled before he was gagged and hog tied by a very angry Vintage Scripture.

"You guys okay?" Blaze asked rubbing the area where his broken rib was and tensing a bit.

"Peachy, just fucking peachy!" Scripture yelled," And I am not carrying his worthless ass to the next point in our grand rebellion!" Scripture's last remark was dripping in sarcasm.

"Doesn't matter, we have to get out of here now! We've already wasted too much time." Blaze said as he glanced at the road as the very distinct sound of engines and the yelling or orders traveled through the air.

Kill Streak sighed as he picked up his Springfield rifle and made sure that the high powered scope was clean of any dirt, as he strapped his commando on he turned around to Blaze who was searching through the wreckage of the hummer frantically trying to find his beloved 500 magnum and when he did he carefully slid it into the holster slung across his chest. Blaze then picked up his M-16 which was lying near the magnum. Scripture was opted to drag Wind's weapons, ammo, and other survival gear behind him in a make shift sled since he clearly didn't want to carry a very angry and dangerous Captain. Streak managed to get Wind onto his back and looked at Blaze and Scripture who nodded and they resumed their approach to the very far ahead convoy.

"Let's go." Streak said as he began trotting away from the wreckage and the sound of engines.

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" Sir, we've found it."The radio crackled to life in Legion's field officer's bunker," There's no sign of any life except a few drag marks leading to the forest."

" Do not pursue." A red stallion spoke into the radio.

" Excuse me sir?"

" I said do not follow them! Stick to the road, remember that we haven't gone into the forest and still don't know what could be lurking in there."

" er...yes sir, I remember."

" Good, now return to base."

" Yes sir, patrol six out." The radio then fell silent as the soldier at the other end turned his radio off.

The red stallion sighed and slumped into a chair. It had been a good fifteen minutes until they found the wrecked hummer. Several other officers walked up to the stallion in the dim light of the bunker.

"What now?" One of them asked.

"We contact the Major General and alert him of the traitors." The stallion said and swung the chair around and tuned the radio to the proper channel.

"Base to eagle. Base to eagle come in, over."

" This eagle, what's the matter base?" The voice echoed through the room as it came out of the speakers.

" I need to speak with the Major General."

"This is him, over."

" I have some bad news sir."

Author notes: hope it was good and as always please leave a review. Until next time!