TW: Attempted rape does occur in this chapter, as well as quite a few references of rape happening.
The one attempted rape scene that directly appears, is only shown in one paragraph. The scene showing it is also very short, but it will still be triggering to some, just letting you all know. You may now read on.
24th December 1945 - 6:55 PM (UK time)
In the UK...
Catherine has prepared toad in the hole with some mashed potatoes, peas and gravy for ber husband. She has also made a nice cup of tea ready for him. Jack will be home soon after getting The Sun newspaper.
Catherine hears the unlocking of the door. Jack then enters the living room, holding the newspaper im his right hand. He is wearing a thick winter coat, trousers and gloves, partially covered in snow.
"The last up-to-date newspaper that the corner shop had love. The other newspapers there was just about the capture of this Klud town or whatever- Klugetown? Or however you say it," Jack stated as he stretches his arms and legs.
"The BBC said something about... Clue Town- I meant Klugetown- that- the radio said Klugetown had just been captured. By far the biggest and bloodiest battle in this war so far they say," Catherine stated in a sorrowful voice.
"Yeah well, the way things are going down, there's much more bloody battles waiting to happen," Jack groaned as he was about to chuck the newspaper on the table in front of the sofa, but he sees food, and most importantly, a cup of tea.
"Dinner already made, and tea? Cheers darling," Jack grunted as he slams himself onto the left side of the sofa and begins to unroll the newspaper.
"Can you cover me with your coat too?" Catherine requested. She is shivering, because it is cold outside, and the holes in the home due to damages from the German air raids, the cold easily gets into the home, rendering any insulation the house has, useless.
"Let me check the newspaper first- oh, blimey..." Jack muttered as he holds the newspaper with both hands and looks at the title on the front page.
RED ARMY TO CAPTURE PONYVILLE BY BOXING DAY
"Is something wrong?" Catherine asked. She could tell something was wrong.
"Those Russians are getting close to the Equestrian capital. They've got to secure their flanks up north and down south from the city first. They're about to encircle Appleloosa and take Sonab- Somnabula- nambula- I can't remember, but that place is about to be captured too," Jack explained.
"I suspect the reason the Russian progress is slow-going, because of the snow. As soon as the Russians took the air, winter's snow came pretty quickly as these pegasi can apparently control their weather you see. Without them, they can't control the weather," Jack added, explaining to his wife. Jack continues reading the page.
"Five thousand dead, from today's Soviet artillery bombardment on Ponyville... crikey. Didn't know a village could house dozens of thousands of citizens," Jack shook his head as he flips the page. Catherine quietly gasps while covering her mouth in horror. It had been only just been over 2 weeks, and already so many lives have been destroyed.
"Lord have mercy on everyone's soul..." Jack muttered. He is reading the contents of the next page. Beneath the image is a box with text:
Soviet brutality, documented by Flim and Flam
A pair of twin stallions, Flim and Flam, had been documenting Soviet atrocities and had been sharing evidence with the press in the west. The page had pictures of pits filled with mostly pony bodies, Royal Guard and civilian. The next page has pictures of dug up graves, which were looted by Soviet soilders. But the next page horrifies Jack the most.
"Equestrian prisoners in Red Army unleashes mass rape," Jack quietly said to himself as he read this part. He didn't want such foul topics reach his wife's ears.
But Jack's skin went pale, which Catherine notices. Jack reluctantly looks at the page next to the page he just read. He didn't want to, but something he can't explain forces him to read on.
On the next page is a poorly drawn scene with tears stains on it, made by a filly, describing an attack. The drawing horrifies Jack. Catherine tries to look, back Jack doesn't let her. Jack looks at the description underneath an image of a drawing which has tear-stains.
The drawing portrays a few Soviet soldiers came in with a group of 'red' pony, which were prisoners that were freed and conscripted into the Red Army. The soldiers shot the father dead in cold blood, because he was a formee Royal Guard. The Soviet soldiers began looting the house. Her mother tried to defend her, but the Soviet soldiers shot her mother dead, and they left with their loot. Then the 'red' ponies took turns in raping the filly, then fled and left her for dead.
Underneath the text, it has follow up description.
The filly was rescued by the Royal Guard a few days later. The Royal Guard managed to briefly liberate the small town the filly was from, and was taken to an orphanage somewhere in the north west of the country. The filly wanted to share her story so the atrocity won't be forgotten and hopes the attackers will one day find themselves in front of a tribunal.
Jack gets very angry when reading this. His face turns an angry red when reading the story. It is beginning to hit home to Jack as to how brutal the war is.
"Jack honey?" Catherine softly spoke as she gently nudges her husband.
"All that fighting... my mates had gave their lives to defeat the Jerries... for nothing... evil replaces each other..." Jack muttered as he screws the newspaper up.
"Jack," Catherine sternly spoke to get his attention.
Jack rips the newspaper up and throws the pieces all over the place.
"Jack!" Catherine shouted. Jack flinches from his wife raising her voice.
"You don't get it. The Russians are doing the same thing to Equestrians as the Jerries were doing to Jews- We fought for nothing Cath, I tell ya- The war was a bloody waste! We may as well be speaking German- we stopped none of this!" Jack furiously declared. Catherine gently touches Jack's right shoulder. Jack immediately begins to calm down a bit from his wife's gentle touch.
"Jack, I'm here, we're safe," Catherine softly reassured. Jack slowly nods as he grabs his knife and fork and begins eating the meal his wife prepared for him.
"But I do still worry. That damn war may be nearer to home than I first cared to give thought about. I also worry if it esculates, Parliament will send us all back to war," Jack shared in a much calmer manner as he finishes his supper and starts drinking his tea.
Jack originally didn't care too much about what was going on. Equestria is hundreds of miles from the UK. Jack wants to just move on from all the fighting, all the wars. But over the days, he began to feel some empathy for Equestria, but not a whole lot. But now, after reading that newspaper, he cares more.
25th December 1945 - 7:00 AM (Equestrian time)
Less than 10 kilometres from Ponyville...
Soviets, changelings and Storm Creatures of the Collective Storm alike, are about to begin the process of taking the main prize, Canterlot. But first, Ponyville must be captured and secure Canterlot's southern flank in favour of the coalition. Ponyville is surrounded, they're all confident that the Royal Guard won't come to reinforce Ponyville in time, or even bother. For the Soviets, unreformed changelings and the CS Storm Creatures, this point of the conflict is a huge milestone.
For the Soviets, it was an emotional and prideful achievement. They pushed the Naizs away from gates of Moscow and fought the Nazis all the way to the black heart of Berlin, and in their eyes, the fascist Equestrians will meet the same end as the Nazis did. For the people of the Soviet Union, the Patriotic War didn't end in Germany, it is still ongoing, they still have to destroy the Equestrian fascists. The war against Hitler was over, but the war against the fascist Equestrians is still to be won. The Soviets will stop at nothing to defeat the Equestrians just as they defeated the Germans. They will stop at nothing at destroying Equestria with their revolutionary wrath. They took Berlin, and now Canterlot must follow.
For the changelings and the CS Storm Creatures however, it is a matter of bitter past hostility. Both species had hostile relations with Equestria in the past. Both species had also came close to conquering Equestria before, but failed and were humiliated, all because of a group of just 6 ponies, the mane 6. They are determined to have a piece of revenge for their humiliation.
But in this war, most of the work was already done for them by the Soviets. The air raid had took Celestia and Luna out of the equation quickly, added with the swift Soviet seaborne invasion shortly after with no warning, Equestria couldn't really prepare, and in some aspects, Equestria still hasn't caught up. The Soviets had also massively mitigated and neutered the threat of the mane 6. The Soviets even undermined the legitimacy of the mane 6 as 'protectors of Equestria'. All the changelings and Storm Creatures must do now is assist the Soviets, in exchange for high rewards, grants, and most importantly, land.
Celestia and Luna, dead. The threat from the mane 6, neutralized. The capital Canterlot, soon to fall like Berlin. The Soviet-changeling-storm coalition are mere kilometres from Ponyville. The 3 parties have different backstories as to how they ended up where they are, together, fighting as one. The Soviet-led coalition know taking Ponyville won't be easy, especially as the village had grown 4 to 5 times in area size over the course of 4 years. However, the Soviets, changelings and CS Storm Creatures are equally emboldened with high spirit and morale. They are all patiently waiting east of Ponyvile for further instructions.
East of Ponyville...
(Inside the Tiger 2)
In the back of the turret are filled to the brim with tank shells. There are some shells on each side. The commander's seat is behind the gun breach, which is where Button Mash's sitting. This seat can be elevated up or lowered down, and Button Mash has it as high as it will go.
The gunner's seat is on the left side of the gun breach as well as a monocular sighting telescope, a wheel and a trigger bar. There's also pedals below the gunner's seat, which is where Sweetie Belle's sitting.
Apple Bloom, Silver Spoon and Tender Taps are sat on the floor on the right side of the gun breach, where there's the loader's periscope. There's also another wheel there. They are sitting down, all bunched up together.
At the front of the hull are 2 seats, with some engines and various dial indicators on them. By the seat on the left is the driver's periscope, a gearstick and steering controls, which is where Scootaloo's sitting. By the seat on the right is the radio operator's periscope and a fixed machine gun, which is where Rumble's sitting.
The CMC, as well as Stefan and his crew in the other Tiger 2, are parked behind a pile of dumped rubble, rubble that was cleared by ponies searching for survivors. The only part of their tanks that are visible are the turrets. The pile is on the left side of the main path that leads into Ponyville.
The CMC and the German crew had to get to Ponyville by driving through the Everfree Forest, as it was too dangerous to approach Ponyville by other routes, as they would be picked off by Soviet tanks or their tank destroyers. But they have arrived to a perfect position. They know the battle had already started, there is gunfire and tank shells firing in the background, as well as artillery fire.
"Tanks ahead, to our right. Roughly two hundred and fifty metres away," Stefan stated on the radio.
"There's a lot of them," Button Mash trembled. Along the paths and through the mostly flat field of snow, there's a herd of T-34-85's and ever more increasing numbers of T-44's, as well as some IS-2's and a few IS-3's. They're accompanied by a sea of Soviet infantry in their standard uniform, as well as several CS Storm Creatures. Flying close above them are a swarm of the evil changelings. They are no longer considered 'unreformed' as they can't be reformed, because of the side those individual changelings have so stubbornly chosen. There is no changing them.
"There's ten tanks that are driving on the path, directly towards us. That column doesn't have any IS-3's or any T-44's. The column now two hundred metres away, to our right," Stefan noted on the radio.
"Affirmative," Rumble responded to the radio, confirming that he and the other CMCs also notice the column Stefan is highlighting. As that column doesn't have any IS-3's, there is no target in that specific column that will be difficult to penetrate and destroy.
"Go for the tank at the back. We will go for the tank at the front. This will momentarily halt the tanks in between, giving us a small window of opportunity to pick some of them off. Wait for our shot," Stefan instructed on the radio to the CMC.
"AP shell please!" Sweetie Belle demanded while she uses the pedals with her rear hooves to rotate the turret while looking through the telescope. Silver Spoon, Apple Bloom and Tender Taps grabs an AP shell and they help each other to load it into the gun breach. They have gotten better and quicker at loading the shells with each other's help.
KAMBF!
Stefan's tank fires at the Soviet tank in front, which was an IS-2, but is now nothing more than burning scrap metal. The Soviet tanks behind break to a halt and they immediately begin locating where the shot came from.
Meanwhile, the Soviet crew of that tank are seen desperately climbing out of its hatch while burning alive. They fall into the snow, rolling in the snow to put the fire out, which they did. But it was too late for them, as their cloths are too burned as well as their skin, and their exposed flesh freezes in the snow, and quickly succumb to the cold.
KKAAMMBBFF- BANG!
Sweetie Belle pulls the trigger bar and fires the shell with her magic. The shell hits and destroys the Soviet tank at the rear of the target column of tanks, which was a T-34-85, which hits the ammorack and its turret is tossed a dozen metres into the air by a huge ball of fire. The crew inside of that T-34-85 tank are surely and instantly killed in that fireball, vaporized into nothing.
"Stefan's idea is working! Don't stop firing!" Button Mash exclaimed. The Soviet tanks in between the column are trying to reorganize. The 2 Soviet tanks closest to the destroyed IS-2 are also IS-2's. The rest of the undestroyed tanks are all T-34-85's. The Soviet soldiers and the CS Storm Creatures stay behind cover on the opposite side of their tanks. They know which side the shells had come from, but they don't know where on that side the shells had come from.
"Focus on the T-34-85's! We'll deal with the IS-2's!" Stefan bellowed out orders on the radio.
KAMBF! The Tiger 2 manned by the German crew, fires at the IS-2 that is slightly further away from the IS-2 and hits its engine deck, setting it on fire, and the flames grow.
The remaining IS-2 that isn't hit, stops moving. The Soviet crews of both IS-2's climb out, and they start running away from their tanks. There is now 'no immediate' need to shoot the IS-2, so now the German crew can now help the CMC with destroying the remaining tanks of that specific column.
Meanwhile, Silver Spoon, Apple Bloom and Tender Taps grabs another AP shell and loads it into the gun breach.
KAMBF! The other Tiger 2 fires again and hits one of the T-34-85's in the middle, which the tank stops moving and bursts into flames.
KKAAMMBBFF- BANG!
Sweetie Belle pulls the trigger bar with her magic and fires at the T-34-85 closest to the destroyed T-34-85. The shell hits the ammorack, and the turret gets flung off by a ball of fire. The Soviet tankers of that tank had been killed instantly, completely vaporized by the explosion.
The remaining tanks, all of which are T-34-85's, have reorganized themselves.
"Relocate. They've reorganized themselves. They also most likely know where we are. If we continue shooting here, they will definitely know where we are, and we will get mobbed," Stefan ordered and explained on the radio.
Both the CMC and the German crew begin to relocate their tanks before the Red Army gets too close. The CMC and the German crew drives into Ponyville itself, and they head westwards. They begin looking for escape routes, while also preparing thenselves for a direct tank duel in the village.
Somewhere in West Ponyville...
Derpy and Dinky (who earned her cutie mark a few years, which is a green cross inside a red heart) are in their destroyed home. There's several cracks and holes in walls, some of which is being covered by nailed-on planks. Dinky had drawn on the planks so it didn't feel so scary, because everything that's going on is scary. They haven't been able to get the emergency transport, and now they are stuck.
Dinky is downstairs in the living room, sitting on the sofa. The living room yellow-painted walls are heavily damaged, the planks are covering some of the cracks and holes. There is also a brown sofa with muffin-shaped hoof-rests with a rectangular wooden table in front, both of which are next to the door on the left. There is another rectangular wooden table on the opposite end of the room to a door that leads back into the hallway. There is the window to her left which is cracked, but is still standing. Then there is the wardrobe on the right.
Dinky was about to eat muffin-shaped cereal at the table in front of the sofa, but she thinks about her mother. From losing Doctor Whooves almost 4 years ago with still no clue what happened to him, to now this war knocking on Ponyville's doorstep. Despite all this, Derpy has been the best mother.
"Mummy! I got a present for you!" Dinky said aloud. There's hoof steps coming down the stairs. Moments later, a teary-faced Derpy walks into the living room. Derpy was asleep, hoping she fell into a peaceful dream, but in the opening days into the Soviet invasion, Derpy couldn't sleep, and is suffering from insomnia.
"I'm so sowry there's no pwresents for Hearth's Warming this year..." Derpy sobbed as she hugs Dinky.
"It's okay. I was about to have some cereal. But I wanted to give my cereal to you. Please take it, you haven't eaten in days!" Dinky exclaimed. Due to the war, Derpy had to go hungry a few times, so she could keep Dinky fed, as they had to start rationing.
Derpy feebly nods and starts eating the cereal, pulling Dinky close to her with the right wing. That was Dinky's present to her mother, the cereal. Derpy desperately needed something to eat, and she feels extremely gluttonous for eating Dinky's cereal, but Derpy just needs something to eat. Derpy had become very slim, and all of her ribs are showing. But the pain and hunger is worth it in the mother's eyes.
Derpy stops eating when she as well as Dinky hears the door open. Before they got up and confronted the intruder, Derpy feels forehooves and hears tears. She looks down and sees white forehooves, the right-sided one having a good wedding ring.
"I thought you were dead- but I saw your house still standing..." The white pegasus cried her eyes out. The white pegasus is definitely Adorabella.
"Just trwying to make do..." Derpy cried. She is relieved to see Adorabella alive too.
"Wh- what happened to your leg?" Derpy murmured her question as she wipes her eyes. She notices a deep and wide and long cut on Adorabella right rear leg. It is still partially bleeding, but nowhere near as bad as yesterday.
"I... I cut it on some glass- d- d- during th- the bombardment..." Adorabella trembled as she hugs Derpy as tight as she could and a few drops of tesrs come from her eyes. Seeing all those bloody mess yesterday was horrific. The sounds of the rockets landing near was terrifying, it made her jump.
Meanwhile...
Adorabella and Ralph had split off in 2 different directions to look for Derpy and Dinky. They are more likely to get results by splitting up, whether either of them finds good news or bad news. If they split off, they are more likely to find Derpy and possibly Dinky. Ralph understood Derpy had played a role in Adorabella's life. He knows Adorabella isn't going to leave Derpy behind.
Ralph doesn't see anything though. There is just decaying corpses, organs, and blood. A lot of buildings in this area is reduced to rubble, slowly being hidden under snow. So, Ralph turns around and tries to link back up with Adorabella. Ralph had only split apart for a brief moment, he wasn't going to venture further. He promised he'd be back in under 5 minutes tops.
Ralph ducks down and hides behind a nearby pile of snow-covered rubble at hearing planes roar above him. A minute passes, and Ralph nerve-wrackingly looks up, and sees several humans and ponies slowly coming down by parachute.
"Paratroopers..." Ralph's jaw trembled as he mutters. The paratroopers are Soviets, as well as ponies, probably those ponies from the 'liberated' prisons. All those paratroopers are wearing pale green coats and boots. The Soviet paratroopers are wearing gloves, and the pony paratroopers are wearing hoofdusters on their forehooves.
"No- no no no! Adorabella!" Ralph gasped in terror. The paratroopers are landing in the general area that Adorabella went to search. Ralph trots in that direction, desperately hoping to reach her before they do. But the hope is in vain, they are going to get to her first, and what the stallions serving under the Soviet hammer and sickle, terrifies Ralph. He screams as he trots to the house, and he can't fly, because of the planes in the sky, and if he is shot down, Adorabella definitely won't be saved. A late saving is way way way better than never being saved.
Meanwhile...
As Adorabella and Derpy hugged...
POW POW POW POW POW...
They as well as Dinky scream in shock and horror, letting go and scrambling in different directions, looking somewhere to hide. There is fighting going on outside, and some bullets shoot through the window, completely shattering it. Adorabella ducks down to the ground.
POW POW POW POW POW...
"AHHHHHHHH!" Screams from other ponies from the other houses are heard.
POW POW POW POW POW...
"ЗА РОДИНУ! ЗА СТАЛИНА!"
POW POW POW POW POW...
Adorabella stays silent in complete fear. The fear as well as the bullets flying through the window, makes her too weak to crawl to the door into the hallway. But once the bullets stop firing through, she gets up and is about to run, but then 3 stallions wearing a ushanka and coat jumps through the window and tackles her to the ground. Adorabella shrieks as the crushing weight keeps her down. She can't even wriggle.
Then 4 more stallions jump through the window. The whole scenario is even worse, they are stinking with alcohol. They are extremely drunk, and aggressive.
"NO! NO! NO!" Adorabella cried unlike before, screaming all her air out. Her cries are completely ignored. She covers her face and cries into her mane, knowing what is going to happen...
"KNYAAGH!" Derpy lunges with a large butcher's knife at the stallion pinning Adorabella to the ground, slitting his neck open. He falls to the ground, shouting, as neck spurts out his neck. Adorabella struggles to get up, the pin had hurt so much, it hurts to move, but she is able to crawl, and she crawls to the door.
Meanwhile, the 6 other stallions charge at Derpy, who goes to lunge again, but her energy was used up, and falls to the ground. Both of them are now at the mercy of the Red Army's stallions, which 2 of them each pins the mares to the ground.
"NO! DON'T- PLEASE- AHHHHH!"
As Adorabella and Derpy screams and pleads, the 6 stallions begin organizing who gets to go first. The 2 mares struggle to get free with all their might, but it was futile. The stallions began punching and beating them, until Adorabella and Derpy gave up, Adorabella giving up before Derpy did. Both mares scream and cry, bracing and tensing up, for what is going to come.
By the stairs...
While the screams got worse, a rageful Dinky had came downstairs, with a P-38 semi-automatic pistol. She is holding it in a magical aura with her magic. She hears Adorabella and Derpy screaming so loud, in a way nopony should scream, it is that bad.
"I'm coming-"
POW POW POW...
"Ahhh!" Dinky shrieked in shock is forced to trot back up a step and take cover behind the wall. Her heart is pounding from the close call.
There is a Soviet soldier, armed with a semi-automatic rifle. They are what stands in Dinky's way.
"Give me pistol and sluts will live when stallions finish!" The Soviet soldier shouted. He didn't speak perfect English, but Dinky immediately caught onto what is going on in the living room.
"Die! DIE!" Dinky angrily screamed as she leaps from cover, while firing the pistol.
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW...
Dinky riddles the Soviet soldier's body with bullets. The soldier falls to the ground on his back. Blood trickles out the bullet wounds, 4 in his chest area, 3 to the stomach, and one to the abdomen. His blood stains the floor he lays on, curling and shouting in immense pain.
"AGH- СУКА- СУКА!" He shouted in agony. Dinky reloads the pistol, and then charges into the living room.
One stallion is dead, their throat being slit wide open, staining the floor with his blood.
There's 4 stallions on top of and trying to force themselves inside of Adorabella and Derpy, as well as 2 other stallions helping in pinning them and keeping them in place. Adorabella and Derpy are whimpering aloud, bursting into frightful tears, screaming, pleading for the stallions to stop.
"HEY!" Dinky screamed with utmost rage.
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW...
Dinky fires at the heads of the stallions attempting to force themselves into the 2 mares. Blood, skin and brains fly and splatter on the wall. Their eyes pop out as they fall to the floor. The 2 stallions then slowly walk to Dinky, who's pupils shrink, terrified of what's to come next.
Then with miraculous timing, Ralph has arrived. He leaps through the broken window, and with a single left-forehoof punch, swipes one of the 'red' stallion's head clean off, getting his hoof covered in blood. Ralph extends his wings, protecting them as he attacks the other 'red' stallion with his strength and weight. The speed and weight of the attack stunned the drunk stallion. He turns around, wincing and shouting in pain.
"You do not mess with my mare you coward!" Ralph barrages the stallion and shoves him into the hallway and down to the ground, and starts beating him to a very bloody pulp, making him scream in agony. Dinky tries to look away while vomiting, as Ralph beats the stallion so much into a pulp, the stallion doesn't even look like a pony. The blood spits onto Ralph and the walls, with each punch he throws.
"They're going to suffer for a long time BECAUSE OF YOU GOONS OF BUCKING FILTH! But you have made the biggest mistake- TOUCHING MY ADORABELLA!" Ralph screamed in an apoplexy of rage as he uses his forehooves to also start ripping chucks of skin and flesh of the stallion who took part in the attempted rape. Ralph makes sure that the stallion understands the true definition of suffering. Ralph continues punching and mauling at the stallion. Ralph continues exacting the bloody violent demise with his hooves onto the stallion. But the screams of agony begins to get on Ralph's already rageful nerves.
"SHUT UP!"
Ralph lunges up and stomps his forehooves on the stallion's head, completely crushing his skull, making a loud crunching sound. Ralph squashes and splatters the stallion's blood and brains all over himself, as well as the floor, walls. So great was the force behind Ralph's rage, the sheer power turned the cracked parts of the skull into a powder-like state, which mixes in with the completely bloodily splattered brains and eyes. For a few seconds, Ralph breathes in and out deeply and slowly as he stares at the bloody mess he made of the stallion.
Dinky looks back at the bloody scene and is left frozen in shock and horror at the scene, but she also can't help but feel weak sense of happiness, because the stallion suffered for the act he tried to force on her mother. But she stops feeling any remote happiness she finds at knowing the stallion suffered, because the stallion's suffering had ended, he is now dead, he isn't suffering for his actions now. But Derpy Dinky's mother, as well as Adorabella, are still suffering, they are going to suffer for ages to come, and it will stick with them for life. Hearth's Warming is ruined for them.
"Get first aid kits or just something!" Ralph barked to Dinky as he trots back into the living room and immediately checks on Adorabella and Derpy, who are shaking and crying. They are badly bruised, especially on the neck, back and ankles from being grabbed and pinned. They are so bruised that some of their bruises are bleeding.
"No no no NO NO!" Ralph screamed as he sits down and picks up Adorabella, then hugs her so tight. He stains her with the blood as he hugs her.
Adorabella is shaking and crying, she is completely mortified, and traumatized. Ralph doesn't let go, and he covers her with both of his wings, while crying to her. Adorabella's can't speak due to the fearful tears. She can't respond out of complete and utter fear and scarring.
They only departed for 5 minutes to search, they both thought 5 minutes was not a lot. They thought 5 minutes was safe. Ralph felt he should've judged better. He should of, he tells himself. The Soviet attack on Ponyville was expected to happen at some point today, but they didn't expect it to commence anywhere near as early, or as quickly, as they did. The misjudgement had left the most important pony to him completely destroyed from the inside.
Seconds later, Dinky came into the room, holding a first aid kit with her magic. She immediately tries to administer first aid. She quickly checks on Derpy first, then Adorabella. Dinky begins unpacking both first aid kits with her magic, and administers first aid, prioritizing Derpy first, her mother.
"Dinky, help them... please... I don't want to scare them with my presence..." Ralph murmured as he wipes his eyes with his blood-covered hooves. He could see the fear in both mare's eyes. But by far, Adorabella's eyes, hurting eyes, are the hardest to see. He wants to hold Adorabella for longer, but at least for now, he must give her space, and he does so out of his love for her, he gets up with her and slowly lets go. Adorabella looks at the floor and hugs her own mane, crying into it.
While Dinky to the best of her abilties administers first aid to Adorabella and Derpy, Ralph walks outside. He has to keep his distance from Adorabella and Derpy for the moment. Ralph could read that from the eyes of Derpy and even Adorabella, that they are scared of him, even though they know him. But because of the 2 mare's processing just right after the inflicted trauma, they could only process that a huge scary stallion was in the room, they couldn't process it was only him, and Ralph realized and understood that, hence why he went outside. Adorabella and Derpy are trying to process and take in what happened, and Ralph hopes that he could check on them soon once they are able to process it is only Ralph and they can know they are now for sure safe with him.
Ralph sits down on the snow and cries into his forehooves. What would've happened if he was a minute too late? Or a few minutes too late? Had he of not swiftly got to the house, Adorabella, as well as Derpy and Dinky would've surely been raped to death with that many stallions storming into the house.
Ralph is so overwhelmed with self-frustration, he continously bashes his head against his blood-stained tear-damped forehooves. He saved them, but they still died, they died on the inside in a terrifyingly agonizing fashion. They are going to be suffering for life, especially Adorabella, who's ability to memorize everything she sees and experiences, makes it much worse for her.
KKAAMMBBFF! KKAAMMBBFF!
Ralph gasps and flinches, extending his wings, as well as extending and landing on all 4 hooves. He sees to the left of him is a burning IS-2 with 2 holes, one on its upper plate, and another on the left-side turret cheek. Ralph's eyes widen with fright, when he notices the IS-2's cannon was aiming at him and the house, just before it got destroyed.
Ralph sees what destroyed the Soviet tank. It was destroyed by 2 Tiger 2's approaching from the right. One is driving in front, and the other one follows it.
The hull of the Tiger 2 in front has 3 painted cutie marks with the same base, but different symbols. One has a music note, one has an apple, and the other has a wing. On the engine deck at the back, there is a white wooden box. On top of the turret, a pink flag with a purple tiara in the middle, flutters in the wind, and being hit by falling snowflakes. The 3 digit number on the tank had been painted over with a 3 coloured stripes, which consists of yellow, white and orange. The left side of its turrets had black writing painted on, which says 'This is for you Diamond'. Sticking out of the hatch is the head of a late-teens brown colt with a fluffy and messy orange mane.
Another Tiger 2 follows behind the one in front. The one behind doesn't have any decals, except for a black cross with white edges, the iron cross. The tank also had a flag that is a replica of the flag stuck on top of the turret of the tank in front. Sticking out of the hatch is the head of a white human with blonde hair.
Ralph runs back inside the house. Had it of not been for those Tiger 2's, he would be dead, as well as Adorabella, Derpy and Dinky. Ralph must get them out of the house, before it is too late.
(Inside the tank in front)
Meanwhile...
Coming around the left-side corner of the house is an IS-7, which breaks to a halt, skidding slightly in the snow. Scootaloo gasps as she pulls the gearstick back to stop the Tiger 2. The CMCs eyes widen in horror as they come face to face against the IS-7 again, and they know this time, they aren't going to win.
The Soviet behemoth begins to slowly rotate its turret to aim at the CMC's Tiger 2. The slow rotation suggests the turret ring is damaged, but the CMCs still can't get their tank back into cover in time.
"Out the tank! OUT THE TANK!" Button Mash bellowed in fright as he climbs down from his gunner's seat and begins to immediately help his fellow tank crew out, prioitizing Sweetie Belle first. But in a fit of panic, they barge each other to get out of the hatch.
Sweetie Belle, while in equally intense stress, her horn glows intensely as she tries to and barely manages to teleport herself and everypony out of the tank and behind it, just as...
KRAKOMBF!
The IS-7 fires a shell at and penetrates the Tiger 2's turret. A furious burst of flames screams out of every orifice the tank has. Meanwhile, Stefan's tank drives full speed ahead, in a vain attempt to get behind the IS-7.
KLOMBF- BANG!
An IS-3 appears from behind the IS-7, and while on the move, fires at Stefan's tank in the side under the turret. The shell hits and sets off the ammo stored in there, and their Tiger 2's turret gets pushed out of place by an extremely powerful burst of fire. The skin and hair of the man's head that was out of the hatch, gets messily sliced and shredded as he and his crew, including Stefan, are instantly killed, and charred into black corpses by flames.
"Stefan!" The CMC cried out his name.
Then roughly 20 Soviet soldiers storm around the destroyed Tiger 2's. A small handful of 6 stop and approach the CMC. The other 14 and more soldiers, as well as the IS-7 and IS-3, continue charging deeper into Ponyville.
Some of the Soviet soldiers took advantage of there being no Royal Guard forces in the immediate area, and began to break open the doors of some houses, to loot. In some of the houses...
POW POW POW! POW POW! POW POW! POW! POW! POW POW! POW POW! POW! POW POW! POW POW! POW POW POW...
... shots are fired. There's screaming and crying.
Meanwhile, the CMC trembles as they cower with dread as the 6 soldiers approach. They are wearing brownish green fabric and wooly uniform and black boots. The ushankas on their heads have a red star with the hammer and sickle on them. They are armed with semi-automatic rifles.
"No no- please! We surrender!" Sweetie Belle shrieked, as she and the CMC tremble backwards.
"Приготовьтесь испытать карму!" One of the soldiers shouted toward the CMC, as he and the other 5 soldiers draws up and aim their guns at the CMC.
"WE SURRENDER-" Before Sweetie Belle could continue pleading for the soldiers to accept her's and the CMC's surrender...
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW...
The soldiers open fire and sprays the CMC's bodies with a hail of bullets. The 4 fillies and 3 colts shriek in agony as they quiver in pain and fall to the ground, screaming and grunting and curling up in pain. Their crimson red blood comes out the bullet wounds and stains the snow.
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW...
The Soviet soldiers didn't stop shooting the CMC until the entire magazine of their guns were empty. Now empty, they begin to take the magazines out and replenish their guns with new magazines. Then 2 of them enter the house nearest to them while the other 4 soldiers continue to press forward with the rest of their comrades, all of them leaving the CMC for dead.
Everything for the CMC went fuzzy, and then, they lost consciousness, one by one.
(Inside the house)
A minute prior...
"We need to go- a tank tried to shoot into the house- we need to go!" Ralph exclaimed with panic as he rushes into the living room. Adorabella and Derpy briefly look at Ralph as he entered the room, then looks away and faceplants the floor. They can now process it is Ralph, they know they are safe.
KRAKOMBF! KLOMBF- BANG!
Dinky had packed the first aid kit away. She had wiped Adorabella's bruises and Derpy's bruises with cream, then put plasters over them. Dinky had also wrapped bandages around Adorabella's right rear leg, the one that has the really bad cut. Right now, Dinky is comforting her mother, who hasn't stopped crying. Adorabella has also not stopped crying from the terrifying ordeal, but she has also started crying of relief that Derpy and Dinky are alive.
"Adorabella?" Ralph tearfully murmured. Adorabella weakly crawls to him, and hugs his right foreleg with both ofnher forehooves. The blood on Ralph's forehooves didn't scare Adorabella, the blood makes her feel 'safe', as that blood is the blood of those stallions that stormed into the home, and they are now dead.
"I'm sorry... I should've not agreed with you to split... it's my fault..." Ralph struggles to find his words. It may of been Adorabella's idea, but Ralph agreed with the idea, and because he agreed with her, he got her seriously hurt, physically and mentally.
Ralph slowly lifts Adorabella by her chest until she is standing onto her forehooves. He pulls her close to his chest, and uses his large protective wings to shield her vulnerable state. Ralph hears Adorabella mumble something, but he didn't hear her, she was that quiet, all the while, her tears starts to slightly smear the blood stains.
"Hmm?" Ralph quiet hummed as he gently rocks her.
"It isn't," Adorabella spoke quickly as her head space is shattered all over the place, reflected by her tone and tears.
"We have to leave here... then I promise, we can be together, forever, and you'll be the safest mare in the universe..." Ralph cried as he made that vow.
Ralph feels something hugging his left forehoof. He looks down and sees Dinky.
"Thank you... for saving me and mummy... Uncle Ralph..." Dinky cried into Ralph's forehoof.
"Can I call you Uncle Ralph?" Dinky is grateful to Ralph. Raloh saved her and her mother from the Soviet-serving stallions.
"Sure niece," Ralph mumbled. He is also affected by what happened. Had he if not turned up until slightly later even, the disgusting things that almost happened, would've happened to Adorabella and Derpy.
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW...
"I know what happened is rough, but we need to go like right now!" Ralph urged.
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW...
The gunfire outside and the screaming of young ponies froze Adorabella, Ralph, Derpy and Dinky in place. The gunfire isn't what frozed them in place in fear though, it is the screaming that followed after.
"CMC!?" Adorabella cried as she knew the sounds of the screams. It is the CMC. Going from her memory, Adorabella knows the screams are coming from the CMC. Ralph feels Adorabella pulling from his embrace, but Ralph holds her tight making sure she goes nowhere. Ralph got concerned that Adorabella is trying to attempt to jump out the window and make a futile attempt to save the CMC. Ralph isn't letting Adorabella get herself killed.
"Quickly, out the back!" Dinky exclaimed as she struggles to help her very slim skeleton-skinny mother to gey up.
Before the 4 was able to turn around and get to the backdoor...
G'glock! G'glock!
Adorabella, Ralph, Derpy and Dinky hesitantly turns around to face the living room door, and sees 2 Soviet soldiers that are wearing brownish green fabric and wooly uniform and black boots, as well as wearing ushankas on their heads have a red star with the hammer and sickle on them. They are armed with semi-automatic rifles, and they are already aiming at the 4 ponies with them. The 4 knew there was no reasoning with the 2 Soviet soldiers. Adorabella, Derpy and Dinky trembles backwards, whimpering in fear.
Ralph immediately gets in front of Adorabella, Derpy and Dinky. Ralph closes his eyes as he expects his life to end right here, and in his last moments, he is going to try to protect Adorabella. When Adorabella dies, Ralph wants her to die peacefully in her sleep when she is at least around 90 years old. Adorabella was almost raped and killed today, and Ralph vows to not let anything else horrible happen to Adorabella. Ralph knows that they are all likely dying here.
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW...
The 2 Soviet soldiers scream as bullets rip through their body. Blood comes out with the bullets that manages pierce back outside the body, and they fall to the floor, shouting obscenities in Russian. Then...
POW! POW!
A bullet each to their heads silenced them. They now have a dark and red hole in their heads.
Ralph slowly opens his eyes and sees he and Adorabella as well as Derpy and Dinky are alive.
"Hello?" Ralph called out as he sighs with relief. He and the other 3 knew somebody else was here. Adorabella, Derpy and Dinky are terrified, while Ralph remains firm and strong for them.
They first see a semi-automatic gun being held with a magical aura, and then, a unicorn mare wearing a brown wooly fluffy coat steps forward. The unicorn is pink and has a poofy but very messy untidy magenta coloured mane and tail. The irises of the mare are purple and their cutie mark is a cupcake. The unicorn mare is also rather slim, slimmer than Adorabella, but nowhere near as slim as Derpy. But it isn't easy to tell, as the unicorn is wearing a wooly and fluffy coat.
"S- Sugar Belle?" Derpy stuttered to the unicorn as she looks at the unicorn, who drops the gun from her magical aura, and trots over to hug Derpy.
"Oh I missed you- let's get you and everypony out! Follow me, all of you!" Sugar Belle instructed aloud.
A human rushes the living room door, also armed with a semi-automatic gun. He is wearing a big wolly coat, as well as a ushanka, but without the emblem. He is also wearing the same trousers and boots as all the other soldiers were wearing. He has a scar across his left cheek. He also has black hair and a black beard.
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW...
The human fires bullets out of the front door. Then there is the sound of thuds, bodies falling down to the ground.
"Hurry! I can't hold them off for long! Get them to the wooden cart! Hurry!" The human bellowed to Sugar Belle, who trots out of the room, as well Ralph, who has Adorabella on his back. Dinky trots as well, but as soon as she lets go of Derpy, she fell to the ground. Dinky turns back around and tries to help Derpy up, but she's too weak to get up. But then Sugar Belle trots back into the living room, and grabs Derpy and places her on her back, then trots back out. Seeing her mother being rescued, Dinky follows Sugar Belle out of the living room, but she stops and looks at the human.
"There's ponies outside that need help too!" Dinky exclaimed.
"I see seven of them behind a destroyed tank," The human stated while he's reloading his semi-automatic rifle.
"Take this. Give me cover," The human instructed as he lends his semi-automatic rifle to Dinky, who takes and holds it with her magic. Dinky leaps over the unrecognizable bloody corpse of the stallion that Ralph mauled, and climbs over 2 dead soldiers to get to the man, then both of the man and Dinky walk out of the door. Dinky looks in all directions, aiming wherever she looks, while the human swiftly walks over to the destroyed tank that has more decals.
"Stay here and keep an eye on them. Keep my gun, protect yourself and them," The human instructed.
"Wh- who even are you?" Dinky stuttered slightly.
"Vasily. No time for full introductions," The human replied as he runs to the back of the house. Dinky's on-guard stance loosens, and she looks to see who the ponies that need help are. She gasps and cries, then looks away, and falls to the ground and plants her face in the snow.
(Behind the back of the house)
Vasily runs to the rear of the house, where there is the wooden cart that has 4 wheels. The wagon is made of rotten planks and wooden wheels, an abandoned cart. On the cart is Adorabella and Derpy, who are using their wings as blinds, covering their faces. Sugar Belle is sitting near them, trying to comfort them. Comforting and helping other ponies is helping Sugar Belle with her own trauma.
"You three, there's live teens over there at the front of the house and they've been shot. Get them over here," Vasily ordered, as he's looking at Ralph, as well as Big Mac and Feather Bangs, all 3 of them standing at the front of the wagon, who unattached the muzzles from their faces, and they trot to the front of the house.
"You, take my coat," Vasily said as he walks over to Adorabella and Derpy. Vasily takes off his coat, and gives it to Derpy, judging from her poor physical condition that he can see her in.
"Snuggle up to one another, and you may share the coat as well," Vasily suggested as he shivers, now having only the gulag prison clothes covering the upper half of his body. Adorabella and Derpy shuffle close to another, and they wear the coat together. Adorabella puts her right forehoof through the right-side sleeve, and Derpy puts her left forehoof through the left-side sleeve. Even after what they've been through, they are also relieved the other is alive, and with the relief, they fall asleep, with Adorabella's head under Derpy's. They will keep each other safe from any nightmares.
Ralph, Big Mac and Feather Bangs as well as Dinky, trots back with the 7 teenage foals, and places them onto the cart. Ralph was carrying the original 3 CMCs on his back. Big Mac was crying Button Mash and Rumble on his. Feather Bangs was carrying Tender Taps and Silver Spoon on his back. After they had been gently placed onto the cart, Ralph, Big Mac and Feather Bangs pick up the rope and attaches the muzzles back onto their faces, and cries, especially Big Mac.
Big Mac had not seen his little (not so little now) sister since he was conscripted around the middle of 1941. This is the first time seeing his sister since, on Hearth's Warming, and he sees his sister riddled with bloody holes from the bullets. Big Mac, as well as Feather Bangs, had longed for returning ti Equestria, but they didn't return to the Equestria they knew. They returned to a warzone, a warzone that was a place they once called home.
Meanwhile, Dinky is carrying a first aid kit with her mouth, as well as a white wooden box. She leeps onto the cart. Once she places the white wooden box down on the cart, she immediately unpacks the kit and begins administering first aid to the 7 teenagers. Sugar Belle helps her, by keeping the kit bag wide open.
Once Vasily climbed onto the wagon, Ralph, Big Mac and Feather Bangs began to trot slowly. Then, a dark blue pegasus mare with a messy frosty-white mane and tail lands on the cart. The irises in her eyes are ice blue. Her cutie mark is a crescent moon with 2 feathers. Seeing the pegasus is here, Ralph, Big Mac and Feather Bangs began to trot at full pelt. Soon, they have quickly left the massive village.
"There's nobody guarding a small area north west! We just need to get out of Ponyville and we can then get to Yakyakistan!" The dark blue pegasus exclaimed, huffing and puffing of exhaustion.
"Good work Night Glider. Good to see you flying properly now," Vasily nodded. The dark blue pegasus, Night Glider, looks away. When her wings were forcibly twisted and she couldn't feel them, she thought she would've never of been able to fly again. Being able to fly again feels amazing and relieving. Losing the ability to fly is one of her worst fears, just like it is a common worst fear of a lot of other pegasuses. She was extremely lucky that when her wings were twisted by the soldiers, they didn't completely and utterly bust her wings.
"What's in the white box?" Vasily wondered to himself. He leans forward, and notice small hoofwriting. He looks closer, and there is a word. Weapons.
"Brilliant. We could do with more. Running low on bullets as it is," Vasily nodded to himself.
"Tank!" Night Glider screamed aloud. Vasily looks to his right, as did Ralph, Big Mac and Feather Bangs. Adorabella and Derpy woke up instantly. Dinky as well as Sugar Belle also look in the direction everybody is looking in. Each of their eyes open wide in horror. Ralph, Big Mac and Feather Bangs trots more to the left, away from the tank.
A T-34-85 appears around one of the many piles of littered rubble. The tank had notice them, and they are roughly just 60 metres away. The tank isn't driving towards them, but they do start rotating its turret, and aims at the cart.
BWOMPF!
The shell lands near them. It blasts the 2 right-side wheels clean off, and flings snow up as well as flipping the cart left, flinging Vasily, Adorabella, Derpy, Night Glider, Sugar Belle, Dinky, and the CMC off the cart, screaming as they flew. They all make a rough landing so hard that not even the snow could cushion it. The flung cart yanks the string, which yanks at the muzzles, making Ralph, Big Mac and Feather Bangs trip and fall to the ground, faceplanting into the snow, grunting as they land at an awkward angle, severely twisting their hind legs.
Whoshweeeeee- BOOM! A bright blue-coloured beam of magical lightning hits and penetrates the side of the T-34-85's chassis, under the turret. The steel instantly blackens as the tank burns and flames burst out of its hatch.
Meanwhile...
Tempest trots past the T-34-85 she destroyed. Following close behind her is Celaeno and Capper, armed with StG 44 assault rifles. They are also with 2 Americans, Christopher and Daniel, also armed with StG 44's. The group of 5 are wearing thick snow-white winter clothing and black boots, and carrying a big rucksack on their backs. The group of 5 are part of a force of 30,000 other individuals (22.5k Equestrians plus 7.5k foreign volunteers) that are coming to defend Ponyville. They are equipped with a force of 800 tanks, 230 tank destroyers.
"It's a shame that Mad Jack guy isn't with us. I kinda liked him," Said Daniel.
"Apparently, he got injured in Klugetown, far worse than we have been injured. He's been sent back to Britain, from what I've heard," Chridtopher stated while jogging on the spot.
"Are you alright Christopher?" Capper asked, taking notice to Christopher constantly jogging on the spot.
"Still not used to the flipping damn cold. Fighting slopes in the jungles and greenery was easier than these damn slavic thieves in this weather," Christopher calmly replied. He is jogging on the spot to keep himself extra warm.
"Oh... I don't think that flag is supposed to be on the Town Hall," Capper spoke while gritting his teeth. The other 4 looks and sees the Town Hall in the distance has the Soviet flag planted on top.
"No, of course not," Tempest muttered.
"They took Ponyville quick didn't they?" Celaeno spoke in shock.
"Yeah... they sure did..." Capper slowly nodded.
"Ay purple, that tank you busted up- those bastards had shot at somebody!" Daniel yeld as he holds his gun with his right hand so he can point at a flipped wooden cart with his left hand, and there's ponies besides it.
The group of 5 then sees a Bogward B 3000 with a white circle and red cross on it, pull up near the flipped wagon. Tempest, Celaeno, Capper, Christopher and Daniel now don't have to worry about that. The field medics will take care of it all. The field medics are going to treat them.
"Next time, you will call me Tempest... human," Tempest demanded sternly as she stares at Daniel.
"Alright Fizzilepop Berrytwist," Christopher teased. As Tempest turns to face and stares at Christopher with a very scornful frown, he laughed.
"Blame that cat man, he told me your other name," Christopher stated as he points to Capper.
"I... absolutely did not," Capper huffed as he dismisses the accusation.
"Capper!" Tempest growled as she tried her absolute best to not smirk. When Capper smirked, Tempest couldn't hold her frown, and smirks also while looking away.
"We gotta keep a smile on ourselves somehow, y'know? It's how we get through hard times," Daniel stated as he smiles as well. It is very hard to smile during these times, and any opportunity to have any genuine smile must be taken.
"Tanks!" Celaeno yelled. There are 3 other T-34-85's in the area, and they are driving towards the group of 5. But there is a Panther tank nearby, and it is driving over to face the Soviet tanks.
"Quick! Take cover behind that tank!" Christopher yelled, as he and Daniel as well as Capper and Celaeno run to the Panther's rear and uses the tank for cover, while Tempest trots away, so she can gets some surprise shots.
Meanwhile, the Panther rotates its turret to aim its cannon left. It is aiming at another T-34-85 in the area, which is driving and aiming at the Panther. Daniel and Capper are on the right side behind the Panther. Christopher and Celaeno are on the left side behind the Panther.
BWOMPF- DING! The shell from the T-34-85 ricochets off of the Panther's hull armour.
BWMPH! The shell from the Panther penetrates and rips through the upper plate of the T-34-85.
"Soviets to our right!" Capper yelled. Christopher and Celaeno gets over to Daniel and Capper's side.
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW...
The 4 open fire upon a group of Soviet infrantry, who also return fire. Christopher and Celaeno jump back so Daniel and Capper can take cover behind the Panther. Other friendly infantry nearby are taking care of the Soviet infantry, and both sides continue taking bloody losses.
Meanwhile, the Panther begins rotating its turret, aiming at another T-34-85.
BWMPH- BANG!
The Panther fires and hits another T-34-85. The shell hits and detonates the ammorack.
Tempest comes back, and she zaps another T-34-85 with her magic, and the tank's engine catches on fire. The tank then stops moving, suggesting the electricity coursed through the tank and electrocuted the crew while also busting its gearbox. Tempest then zaps a group of airborne evil changelings. They're killed instantly, they fry and shrivel up upon being hit by her magical electrifying lightning.
A massive wave of evil changelings as well as a handful of CS Storm Creatures, charge forward. The CS Storm Creatures get close together, and hold up their shields, while the evil changelings and Soviet infantry charge forward, with several squads of T-34-85's, T-44's and IS-2's.
"Shit! It's a wave attack! Get behind the fucking tank!" Daniel yelled as he and Christopher didn't hesitate to get as centre as possible behind the Panther, which breaks to a stop.
"URRRAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Soviet infantry yell as they and their tanks as well as the evil changelings swarm forward together.
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW...
But the physiological effect of the comintern's swarm tactics no longer had an affect on the defenders.
Meanwhile, the Panther begins rotating, and aims for the CS Storm Creature that is in the centre of the Storm Creature formation.
BWMPH! The Panther fires and its shell pierces straight through the shield and bloodily rips and shreds apart one of the CS Storm Creatures.
KLOMBF!
In the distance from the left, an IS-2 fires and penetrates the Panther. The tank stops moving.
Christopher, Daniel, Celaeno and Capper can hear screaming from inside the now destroyed Panther. They see but pay little attention to the pony trying to get out of the Panther's harch while burning alive like a match. The pony that tried to get out quickly stops moving, while the flames continues to consume their fur, skin and flesh. The 4, Christopher and Daniel especially, know when it is impossible to save somebody.
Capper holds his StG 44 with just his right hand, so he can reach for a grenade. He pulls the pin with his bottom right fang, and lobs the grenade.
KBOOM!
A brief orange flash occurs as the grenade exploded, followed by a cloud and shrapnel. Several Soviet soldiers charging forward get pushed to the ground by the force of the grenade. Capper carries on lobbing grenade after grenade.
"This is for my fallen crew!" Celaeno screeched as she steps out of cover, to continue shooting.
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW...
Celaeno swings her aim from left to right, spraying down 7 Soviet soldiers, dumping her entire clip. When her magazine runs out, she goes back to taking cover behind the tank, holds her StG 44 with her right hand, discards the old magazine and grabs a new magazine with her left hand, and reloads her gun, and goes back to shooting. She continously repeats this.
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW...
Christopher and Daniel focus their fire at the evil changelings in the air. But when they see a large group of pegasuses and good changelings approaching, they stop firing at the evil changelings. Christopher and Daniel begins helping Celaeno and Capper with the Soviets that are on the ground.
Then, not far from the front lines, Equestrian mortar fire rains down on the advancing Soviet forces.
BOOM BOOM! BOOM! BOOM BOOM BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM BOOM! BOOM! BOOM BOOM! BOOM BOOM BOOM! BOOM...
... as well as pegasuses, hippogriffs and good changelings high up in the air dropping mines down on the Soviet infantry and CS Storm Creatures, blowing more of them into bloody pieces.
They then fly away from the frontlines, to grab more mines to drop, and specifically, anti-tank mines. When they returned, they specifically go for the tanks this time. As they drop their mines, some miss, but some hit, and they completely obliterate the hit Soviet tanks to pieces. Parts of the steel of those tanks fly off, or at least, bends and peels off. As for the crew of those hit tanks... they are nothing more than a bloody mushy mess.
The pegasuses, hippogriffs and good changelings are also equipped with hoofdusters (hippogriffs has knuckledusters), and they can defend themselves. The evil changelings that tried to attack the pegasuses hippogriffs and good changelings, get knocked out as well as a chunk of their face coming off. The evil changelings that got knocked out, fall to their deaths, going splat in a (green) bloody fashion as they hit the ground, because not even the snow could cushion their falls. But still, some of the evil changelings still succeed in stealing the love and energy of the pegasuses and good changelings as well as discarding them to the ground, making them go splat and stain more of the snow green and red.
Then, yaks charge deep into the Soviet infantry lines in a Banzai-like style, trampling over the Soviet infantry like ants. Soviet bullets had trouble penetrating the thick skin of a yak, but they weren't invincible, and a lot of yaks did fall to the ground. But the yaks that did manage to get past, began stomping up and down, making the Soviet soldiers begin to lose their balance. But then...
PPOOWW! PPOOWW! PPOOWW...
From Ponyville's houses, Soviet snipers began to pick off every yak that charged forward by going for their heads, one by one. The eyes of each yak shot in the head pops out while their brains are bloodily destroyed by the bullets bouncing around inside their skulls. The shot yaks fall to the ground with a heavy Earth-shaking thud, and their blood and brains fall out of the bullet wounds in their heads, staining even more of the snow red.
For the whole day, fierce and bloody fighting continues just outside North West Ponyville. But despite all of the blood shed, the Royal Guard as well as its supporters continues to edge their way forward. Then, the comintern forces began to very slowly pull back. By nightfall, the comintern forces had retreated back into Ponyville.
The Royal Guard prepares to enter into Ponyville's north west area. The comintern forces had swiftly captured Ponyville, and the Royal Guard will make sure to not let the Soviets have it for long. The forces prepare for the inevitable street-to-street fighting.
Estimated loses (Day 1 of fighting):
Equestria - 900 unicorns, 600 earth ponies, 1,950 pegasi, 1,350 changelings, 1,100 hippogriffs, 1,000 yaks, 900 human soldiers, 20 tanks.
USSR - 9,500 soldiers, 4,500 unreformed changelings, 100 CS Storm Creatures, 25 tanks.
The battlefield is a sombre reminder of what Ponyville will look like when taking it out of Soviet hands and bringing it back into Equestria's hooves. Dead bodies from both sides lay besides each other. Some bodies look somewhat recognizable, while some don't even look like bodies and just looks like a pile of dye sourced entirely of blood and flesh. The snow has been dyed red by the blood of the fallen from both sides. The snow has also been dyed green by the fallen changelings from both sides as well. Fillies and colts should be playing in the snow at this time of year, not armies fiercly duking it out over the snow, and especially should not be duking on Hearth's Warming.
30th December 1945 - 11:00 AM
Chrysalis is in her HQ in the badlands. The walls that are made of bland and messy bricks, have been painted black and green. The floor that is made of planks, uses the fur and skin of ponies as a carpet. The ceiling that is made of rock, uses the bones of ponies as chandeliers, and the skulls of 'abominable' changelings as candle holders for the chandeliers. She has been seething with anger for a week straight. Starlight, as well as Thorax and that Ocellus, had escaped.
In front of Chrysalis' chair is a wooden desk with 4 legs. On the wall facing her is the door, with a golden knob. On the wall behind her is a portrait of her next to a portrait of Stalin. The painting that was on the wall to the right, has been removed. With the CS Storm Creature's entry into the alliance, the painting had already became outdated.
"If Cozy ever comes into my clutches, I will tear her apart, limb by limb..." Chrysalis muttered.
"But... Starlight's suffering will be a liability for Twilight and her friends," Chrysalis sniggered as the thought of Starlight's suffering eases her anger down to an appropriate level. Starlight's trauma will be a good problem that will continue keeping the mane 6 out of the wider picture regarding this war. The mane 6 are still out there, and while they have been neutered as a threat, Chrysalis knows far too well that the mane 6 have their frustrating ways to throw her plans upside down. The mane 6 are still somehow a beacon of hope for the unoccupied areas of Equestria, to Chrysalis' frustration.
Chrysalis is sat in her chair waiting for someone. The door opens, and none other than Zhukov walks in.
"I've been summoned, if I'm not mistaken?" Zhukov checked as he stood before Chrysalis' desk. Zhukov stands at attention, feet together, arms straight and hands down touching his sides.
"Comrade Stalin has ordered, that an attack on Canterlot must be made before the end of this year," Chrysalis sternly stated.
"That won't be possible, because as of recent, the Royal Guard has been fiercely persistent on holding onto Ponyville. They now have half of the massive village under their control," Zhukov spoke sternly as he places his hands on the desk and stares into Chrysalis' eyes.
"Without securing complete control over Ponyville, attempting an attack on Canterlot would be strategic suicide. All flanks must be secured before any move is made on Canterlot," Zhukov sternly protested back.
"Spain has begun shipping weapons to those ponies. There has also been from the NKVD spy ring in Britain, that the British are considering sending weapons as well. If we don't have Ponyville and Canterlot under control, then this brilliant operation will go to waste. Then Twilight and her friends will become a problem again," Chrysalis scornfully spoke back. The threat of mane 6 may of been neutered, but their influence is still there, and if countries begin supporting Equestria, then the mane 6 will become a threat once again.
"Oh what a good joke. Twilight and her five other fuckers think they can take on the Red Army? I've fucked Germany, I think I can deal with six bright-coloured fucking horses," Zhukov scoffed at Chrysalis' warning of the mane 6.
"About the shipping of weapons... you will have to approach the navy. Yes, those shipments are a problem, but you're looking to the wrong man, I'm not an admiral. Until Stalin withdraws the order to not sink those ships, the navy can't do anything other than fire warning shots," Zhukov explained in a more calm and professional manner.
Then, Chrysalis' desk began to vibrate slightly. Chrysalis is getting a 'call' from Stalin.
Under the table is a draw with a gold handle, which she pulls open with her left forehoof, and levitates out the 4 hand-sized black objects with Y markings in them. Chrysalis organizes them into a square formation in the middle of the table. One of the objects flips open and glows green. Then a bright green beam shoots off into the other, and vice versa until theses different bright green beam forms a square. Then dark pale cyan webs form upwards as these objects start spinning around forming green, black and white hoops until they fully merge and form into a magical white circular screen with green fiery edges and a black smokey aura. On the screen she sees Stalin, and just by looking at his eyes alone, Zhukov could tell that Stalin is angry, as well as concerned. He even looks ever so slightly fearful.
"Is Zhukov with you?" Stalin demanded to know in a rigid-firm voice. The seriousness in the tone froze both Zhukov and Chrysalis. The no friendly or warm 'hello comrade' in Russian made the seriousness feel raw, especially to Chrysalis.
"Дерьмо..." Zhukov muttered to himself very quietly, but he isn't scared. He knows he's 'popular' enough, enough so that Stalin choosing to execute him would be extremely foolish.
"Да, товарищ Сталин," Chrysalis nodded. Zhukov walks over to behind the desk and stands next to Chrysalis' right and faces Stalin on the 'magical screen'.
"Вы будете менять позиции. Ты вернешься на пост в Центральной Европе," Stalin informed Zhukov.
"Оккупация Понивилля идет не по плану. Я нужен Красной Армии в Эквестрии, чтобы вернуть себе полный контроль над Понивиллем," Zhukov responded, his body composure looking like it's in a protesting composure. Stalin briefly smiled, because as much as he was suspicious of Zhukov's popularity, he also admired Zhukov's fearlessness to challenge him on decisions. However, Stalin feels he needs to completely override Zhukov regarding this particular decision.
"Слово истинное. Британия собирается отправить оружие. Вот-вот разразится война с Западом. Избежать войны с Западом сейчас невозможно. Нам придется с ними бороться. Очень скоро будет война с западом. Вопрос уже не в том, если, а в том, когда это произойдет," Stalin explained the full criticality of the situation to Zhukov, as well as Chrysalis. Zhukov eyes open wide in shock and concern, while Chrysalis fakes having a shocked concern look on her face.
"This is a chance to take more land for my subjects... land in Europe..." Chrysalis may be acting 'shocked', but the situation that is making Stalin and Zhukov concerned, Chrysalis more sees it as an opportunity.
(Few days later, on the BBC radio, 3rd January 1946)
"This is the 6:30 AM updates. We are coming up to the one month mark since the conflict between Equestria and the Soviet Union begun. How is Equestria managing, after a month of conflict? A lot of their land has been occupied. Appleloosa is completely encricled. Somnambula has been taken, and Las Pegasus is next. Rainbow Falls has been taken also, and the Red Army are closing in on the crystal city known as the Crystal Empire."
"But, Equestria has shown resilience against this merciless attack. There is heavy fighting going on in Ponyville. Ponyville is even referred to as 'Equestria's Stalingrad'.
"Yes, Equestria had its ties with Germany, but Celestia and Luna were manipulated. They were alien to this world, and we were alien to them. Equestria knew no better, as did many German civilians knew no better. Equestria should still certainly face some repercussions for its ties with Germany, but the savagery of the Soviet attack on Equestria has been very grossly disproportionate and wrong on so many levels."
"Soviet POWs in Equestria were treated very well during the war. Equestria's POW camps were arguably more luxurious than most homes inside Russia. There were even stories of friendships between Soviet POWs the guards of the POW camps. After Equestria's withdrawal from the war at the beginning of 1945, there was even many accounts of Soviet POWs not wanting to return back to the home they were fighting for in the first place. Even now, despite the Soviet savagery, Equestria still treats the POWs they have with upmost care."
"Including casualties on both sides, over four hundred thousand lives have been killed. Most of those killed are Equestrian lives. Over half of those loses were civilians. The Red Army has also freed several hundred thousands of Equestrian prisoners and conscripted them into the Red Army. As a result, over two hundred thousand females have been raped and at least over six hundred thousand have experienced sexual assault so far. Some of the victims of such crimes are as young as seven and eight! This is absolutely abhorrent and unacceptable conduct!"
"Humanity has been scared of an alien attack. But actually, here, it was us, man, that had attacked the aliens. This conflict must end with an Equestrian victory, hence why Labour and Conservatives alike, voted in favour of donating weapons to Equestria. Even Francoist Spain has donated weapons as well as vital resources to Equestria. We all must not idly stand by and appease the Soviets. Appeasement does not work. Appeasement didn't work with Hitler, neither will it work with Stalin."
"After the appalling atrocities carried out by the Russians as well as their allies, the Soviets can't be trusted. Nor can we call Russia an ally. Stalin is not a man to be trusted, and until this needless conflict ends and Stalin leaves office, the Russians are not a friend, but an enemy to the world's freedoms. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics can't be an ally of the west and a warmongering state at the same time."
"The conflict has also indeed esculated. Just today in the US, Truman has even announced Phase two of Operation Horseman, will be initiated. The US has still decided against sending weapons, but they are going to begin a mass evacuation. We will get more news on this later on today."
"As much as we don't want the conflict to escalate, war with Russia in the future is likely. We urge that both Equestria and the USSR to agree to a truce and negotiate peace before it gets to that point. Do not let the brave men who sacrificed themselves to defeat the Nazis, go to waste. It hasn't even been a year since that war ended, and yet we're already fighting again? This conflict is unnecessary, bloody, and cruel, and it needs to stop. Now."
""We will be back with the full news at 7:00 AM."
It is time, enough is enough. The west can't stand idly by anymore after making such bold statements against their former ally. The west has to begin getting more and more involved with the conflict, and that drags the west and the Soviet Union closer to all-out war.
Note:
Very sorry for the long delay on the chapter. Part of the reason for the delay is because of what I've put Adorabella through. But to give my OC 'plot protection' from the atrocities in the story felt disrespectful. I didn't want to completely 'personalize' the story to Adorabella. There are many characters in the story who had terrible things happen to them, and in this story, Adorabella isn't special.
I hope you all liked this chapter and continue to seeing more angsty events. It only goes downhill from here, extremely downhill (not writing wise, but the situation in the story wise). No spoilers to what's coming. If you wanna see what happens in the future, stick around for updates.
Also, look up ARandomCasualPerson on Wattpad. That is my account there. As I can post pictures, I'm also showing what the map looks like, and I can show what is clearly occupied and what isn't.