The peaceful silence of the night had been broken by the roar of cannons and rifles, machine guns and plane engines, cries of pain and anger, and of course the the giant monsters that were attacking Canterlot. The illumination came from the shining moon, muzzle flashes and explosions. The air riddled with planes, monsters and anti-aircraft fire.

The MGs place on the City and castle walls were spitting bullets non stop, trying to kill the fast and agile creatures that were terrorizing the city.

These monsters had two giant dark green serpent heads; the body of a lion with golden fur; pure white angel-like wings; a dark purple scorpion tail and black, large, sharp claws. They were three times of big as a human, could shoot fireballs from their mouths and were actually good dogfighters.

There were hundreds of this monsters, which were called Vellemons, some of them were dogfighting with the human planes, but others were fighting in land, though they were no match for the rifles and machineguns of the Valyrian army. However, outside the city there were 10000 goblins and orcs waiting for the gates to be opened.

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Focke Wulf pilot ace Erich Müller throttled up his plane to engage a small cluster of Vellemons ahead. The monsters tried to turn away and dodge, but Erich aimed ahead of one of them and fired a burst of his 20mm cannons and 13mm machineguns, the creature was torn to pieces.

Four fireballs from behind barely missed him. Müller looked back and saw he was being tailed by two Vellemons.

Erich pulled the flight stick up as hard as he could making a loop and getting on his opponent's tails. He quickly took aim and fired two bursts, killing one of the monsters while the other one at an incredible speed made a 360º turn on its own axis and as it spit two fireballs at Müller. One of the fire projectiles impacted on his left wing, almost ripping it off.
The flaps were barely working. Still, he gave chase to the Vellemon and after two minutes of dogfighting pirouettes around the air, he finally killed it.

Suddenly, there was a small explosion and the cockpit’s window was shattered. Flames burning the pilot’s face. Ahead, a badly injured Vellemon was heading right towards him. Erich’s left wing flaps gave away and as he pulled the trigger he realized he was out of ammunition.
The ace throttled up his plane at max speed. Two seconds later, plane and monster impacted, both turning to an unrecognizable gory goo of mashed flesh and aluminium.

As the battle was still raging on, a music was heard emanating from several of the city’s speakers that had been set up by the humans. The men recognized it as the national anthem of Valyria and started to sing together.

United forever in hardship and battle,
Our mighty empire will ever endure.
The Great Valyria will live through the ages.
The dream of her people their fortress secure.

Long live our elder Motherland,
Built by the people's blood and sweat.
Long live our people, united and free.
Strong in our courage tried by fire.
Long may our battle flag inspire,
Victoriously shining over scorched battlegrounds.

Through days dark and stormy where Great Rommel lead us
Our eyes saw the bright shine of Faust above
And Haldir our leader rallying the people,
Inspired us to fight for the land that we love.

Long live our elder Motherland,
Built by the people's blood and sweat.
Long live our people, united and free.
Strong in our courage tried by fire.
Long may our battle flag inspire,
Victoriously shining over scorched battlegrounds.

We fought for the future, destroyed the invaders,
And brought to our homeland the guns of her sons.
Our glory will live in the memory of nations
And all generations will answer the call.

Long live our elder Motherland,
Built by the people's blood and sweat.
Long live our people, united and free.
Strong in our courage tried by fire.
Long may our battle flag inspire,
Victoriously shining over scorched battlegrounds.

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“Reloading!” yelled the MG gunner as he reloaded the gun.

“Cover fire!” shouted the squad leader as the he and the rest of his ten men fired their rifles.

Eleven soldiers were dug in one of the streets of canterlot. Some were in buildings; others, like the two men of the MG crew, behind sandbags set in the street; others only used rubble and debris, which was scattered around, as cover.

The five Vellemons twenty metres away responded with ten fireballs which exploded on impact. Some fireballs hit the soldiers, carbonizing clothes and flesh alike.

“MG reloaded!”

“Fucking fire!”

The MG roared again, turning three Velemons to Swiss cheese. However, the soldiers then made a horrible discovery. Approaching down the road there were orcs, goblins and more Vellemons.

“Men!” the squad leader yelled “Plug bayonets!”

As they prepared to charge, they heard the sound of an engine. That characteristic sound was that of a Maybach T1M2 engine, the very same one used by the-

“TIGER!” someone behind them shouted as an giant tracked vehicle stopped alongside the soldiers and started firing its main gun and MGs.

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“...and the goblins have broken through the main gate of the city!” Sven yelled “How could they have taken us by surprise like this?! And where the fuck did this things come from?! Why didn’t our scouts report anything?!”

The elements, the princesses, Shining, Sven, Wenck, Archie and Jean were gathered in the throne room.
“Where did this...things even come from!” Wenck asked to no one in particular.

“Hans.” the Valyrian commander called the radio man near him “How is everyone holding up?”

Hans turned to him “Sir, the situation is bad. We’re barely holding them off. Unless we get reinfor-”

The soldier was cut off as the radio crackled to life “To all frequencies. This is Commander John LeMay of the 3rd Armoured Division, most of us are outside the city while some tanks are inside to mop the enemies up. I repeat. This is Commander John LeMay of the 3rd Armoured Division, Valyria’s pride of steel rolling in the battlefield.”

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As the tanks rolled forwards LeMay talked into his radio “Starzwick, where are you?”

“We are at the main gates sir.” a voice responded “We are holding them off for now, but the enemy has gotten stronger, it seems they have reinforcements. The tanks will not be able to hold for much longer sir.”

The tank shook from the force of the main gun being fired.

“Copied. Keep fighting, relief will be there soon. Out”

“Copied and out sir.”

LeMay switched the radio to the HQ frequency. “Sven, this is John LeMay. Do you copy?”

“I copy John. How are you lads holding up?”

“Bad. You need to launch those dive bombers and have them hammer the shit out of the hostiles out here. They’ve gotten stronger.”

“I’ve got everything out there trying to fight the Vellemons in the air.”

Once again the 88mm gun roared.

“Fuck! Then you ge-” he was cut off by a loud war horn. “What the fuck?” he asked to no one as he put the radio down and opened the hatch to take a peek outside.

He saw something he didn’t expect. From behind him an army of zebras, minotaurs, diamond dogs and griffons, though the latter were on the sky, were running past the tanks and soon clashed and engaged the xanthians.

LeMay smiled as he got back inside and picked up the radio, he switched it to his division’s frequency “All tanks, we got friendlies with us. Full speed ahead, run over this sorry sacks of shit!”

The armoured vehicles threaded forwards squashing all orcs and goblins that opposed them as the rest of the allied, or actually axis troops, killed the ones that survived.

The onslaught continued for a 30 more minutes until the xanthian army turned around and fled in panic. However, many of them did not get far as the Typhoons and SBD-5 dive-bombers killed a lot of them in a big barrages of bombs and machine gun fire in an amazing display of human firepower, if the tanks weren’t enough.

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As the sun came up in the sky, the damage of the battle could be seen. At least half of the buildings in the city were destroyed or damaged. Many were still on fire.

All the ponies had already been evacuated to the undermountain tunnels during the night. The humans had lost about 44 of their 200 planes and had one damaged tank tanks. However, they had at least 6000 dead soldiers and 458 dead pony civilians.

The silence of the morning was suddenly broken by a loud alarm coming from the deck of the VIA Odin. The crew quickly emptied the deck, got inside the ship and held on to something.

The speakers of the ship sparked to life “Attention, main gun being fired soon, clear deck now. I repeat. Attention, main gun being fired soon, clear deck now.”

“Aim the first turret towards Ponyville, time to give our friends a gift.” Fleet Commander Dimitri Petrenkov told the gunners through the radio. He watched from the cabin as the turret took aim at the target. He switched the radio frequency to the ship speakers and said “Attention, main gun will be fired in ten seconds, be ready. Main gun will be fired in ten seconds, be ready.”

He held onto some of the pipes on the wall of the cabin and counted down in his head.
‘Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.’

Suddenly, the three guns of the first turret fired at the same time, the sound of the explosions was so loud it could be heard kilometres away and it actually shook the city and castle below.

The ship itself was pushed back thirty metres. Some humans had lost grasp of what they were holding onto and were hurled towards the walls of the ship.

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“FUCK! Over four hundred dead civilians!” Sven cursed, the group had not left the throne room and stayed awake all night. “It would have been worse if you hadn't appeared LeMay.” Tank Commander LeMay was with them too.

“Sven, it is not your fa-” Celestia was cut off as the castle suddenly shook with an incredible forces and a deafening explosion was heard.

“WHAT IN BLOODY HELL WHAT THAT!” Archie yelled.

Sven smiled slightly. “A gift.”

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“...and many dead civilians” the goblin finished his report.

“Great!” Novenor said laughing. “You are dismissed.”

The Xanthian soldier left the command tent leaving Nevenor and Venotenko alone.

“You know, I still don’t get why you hate them.” Spaci asked.

“Why do you?”

“I don’t hate the, I just want power. You, on the other hand, really hate them.”

“They hated us first!” Novenor snapped. “Since the beginning, they didn’t even give us a chance, they judged us based on appearance. And then they started killing us, just like that, without a second thought. Heroes they call them, heh.”

“Then why are you killing innocent civilians? Isn’t that what you hate them for?”

Novenor actually looked guilty for a second. “Meh, what does it matter now? We’ve gone down this road, and there’s no turning back.”

Spaci grunted in agreement. “So what now?”

“Now...Now I’ll send as many monsters as I can. Until I can summon him.”

“Him?” Venotenko inquired with a confused look on his face.

“Runaan. The most horrible and powerful monster of all. Well, he is actually a demon. With him, Canterlot will fall in no time, and then, I can kill Celestia, Luna and every single being in this land.”

A distant explosion was heard.

“What was that? Are th-”

Suddenly, three deafening explosions were felt close to them. For a few second, everything was so bright you had to shield your eyes. Then, the pressure of the shockwave pushed them down.

A few moments later they got out the tent and saw three large shellholes that had scorched the earth nearby, not to mention they incinerated many xanthians and injured even more with shrapnel.

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Wenck sat in the bed in his room as he rubbed his temples. Silky Winds came up from behind, put her hooves around him and gave him a kiss on the cheeks.

‘Do I really have to do this?’ Steiner thought ‘It’ll make her suffer. But won't she suffer even more if I die?’ he sighed.

“Silky, I have something important to tell you.”

“What is it?” she asked in a concerned voice as he sat down next to him.

“I...I don’t love you, I never did.”

“W-what?”

“I am seeing another mare too.”

Her eyes began to water. “No, no this is not truth, you are joking.”

“I am sorry. I love another one, not you.”

Silky flew off a windows while crying, Wenck saw her disappear in behind a cloud in the sky.

He walked to the room’s mirror and punched it with enough strength to shatter it, a single tear rolling down his left cheek.“Es tut mir leid meine Liebe ... Es tut mir leid, aber ich kann nicht entblößen, um dich weinen über mich denken. (I am sorry my love...I am sorry, but I can't bare to think about you crying over me.)” he whispered.

Author's Note

I am extremely sorry for the delay and such short chapter. I just had a lot of problems and little time left.

I, however, promise the next chapter will be longer and better.

Also, I am looking for editors since I can't spare to re-re-re-re-re-re-re-read my chapter so much anymore.

I hope you enjoyed and until next time!