My Little Warzone: The Return of Nightmare Moon.
Chapter 5
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TIME: 0100 HOURS
A high pitched roar could be heard, half of the city came out to see what was going on. They saw a black jet, an F-34 Halberd designed for nighttime combat, it was carrying a varying armament from missiles to bombs. They also saw what looked like a pegasus, it was holding some kind of container, or at least what they thought. "Big Bird, this is Wolf 1-1, I have a lock on target, permission to engage." Recited the young pilot into his helmet, "1-1, this is Big Bird, request denied, we still need to find out what it's carrying", replied Davidson AFB Air Traffic Control, code-named "Big Bird", in case Nightmare Moon's soldiers were able to intercept radio transmissions. "Copy that, I'll fly under to see what it is," Said the new pilot, 'Damn,' he thought, 'and I thought I'd actually be able to score a kill this time', he inched the throttle a bit to see what it was, he looked up, and what he saw was horrifying. "Big Bird! Big Bird! Come in!" he was extremely worried, "This is Big Bird, what's the problem 1-1?", "The Pegasus, it's carrying...a...a, a bomb, a Union-owned bomb!", the controller was shocked, "1-1, do whatever you can to shoot that thing out of the sky, we can't risk d-", he was too late, the pony relinquished his grip, and the rookie pilot watched in horror as the bomb fell out of the sky, right towards city hall, "Shit! No!", he was too late, the bomb smashed into the roof, and detonated, anything within a half mile of the massive building was completely obliterated, at least 1,200 ponies had to be dead. The pilot was full of dread, "1-1, return back to base, there's nothing we can do now...", "Copy that", he banked around and flew back to base, realizing that he just let so many innocent lives to be lost.
THE CASTLE OF PRINCESS CELESTIA
TIME: 0900 HOURS
Gavarixus came back, there were several reporters outside the castle, waiting to see the Princess. He walked into her bed chambers, and what he thought had changed with her, didn't mean anything. He saw the same thing, no changes, empty bottles of liquor on the floor, a bed with 2 white silk pillows soaked in tears, on the ground was the scruffy-maned, depressed, drunken mess that Princess Celestia became, there was a small puddle in front of her face from all her crying, and she looked up. "I-I know, I tried to fix it, but I didn't change j-jack sh-shit!" She said, she had lost all hope, "I h-heard what happened, another o-one of her f-fucking soldiers just took o-out the goddamn center of M-Manhattan.", "Princess, it's not your fault, I take full responsibility for this, I should've let him take him out-" the commander tried saying before she interrupted, "Don't try to make me f-feel an f-fucking better! I've s-screwed up and now over 3,000 people are dead! I should j-just end it all.", She used her magic to grab Gavarixus' revolver from his holster, she put it up to her head, and she cocked it. "No!" he smacked it away, miraculously the gun didn't go off when it hit the ground. "Look, what just happened 8 hours ago was not your fault, alright? It was mine! There have been issues here and what has happened in the past is both our faults. The reason that they had a Union owned high-explosive non-nuclear weapon is not a mystery, when Fort Wilson was attacked, they must've stolen as much as they could from the armory, and that's how they developed a bomb, that's the Union's fault. You also need to take responsibility for your sister, drinking your problems away isn't going to help defend Equestria, and killing yourself won't either. So you need to sober up, and get ready, I'm about to launch a strike, and we need all that we can get. The Med. Corps said that the 5 ponies and the Elites will be out of the hospital in a week, but besides that, we need to get ready for war. I have an established firebase near her fortress, we can use that and maybe find out how she got all this equipment." He said, "R-right, we c-can do that. Oh God-" She got up and stumbled over to her bathroom and shut the door, Gavarixus could hear her vomiting. He sighed, picked up his revolver, put it back in his holster, and walked out of the building.
FIREBASE ROMEO
TIME: 0930 HOURS
The Brigadier General walked into the briefing room, "Atten-hut!" Barked Master Sergeant Verivisix. "At ease." said the general, the 15 soldiers sat down. "Men, we've received word from Union High Command that we need to send a group of soldiers to scout out the target's fortress. I picked you 15 because you're the damn-finest soldiers I've ever served with during my stay here at this base. We need to do this carefully because-", "Get down! Get down!" he could hear a voice outside of the small building, a massive explosion blew open a wall of the building, luckily, no one was harmed. "What the hell is going on?!" The Brig. General asked, "We're being bombarded by a mortar team" a scout said, "Friendly fire?", "No, Nightmare Moon, where the hell did she get mortars?", the General was dumbfounded, a high-pitched wail followed as another shell landed in the mess. "Men! Get readied up, we need to take out that mortar squad!", the soldiers grabbed their rifles, a sniper was in a tower, he shouted at them, "I see them, but they're in a makeshift shelter, we need a rocket-launcher.", "I got it! I got it!" A soldier came running out of the armory with an GGM-45 Phoenix Side-Loading Rocket Launcher, or SLRL. "I need a loader,", the general acknowledged, "Get this man a load-" "Shit, General, get out of the way!" screamed one of the riflemen, he was too late, a mortar landed only 8 feet away from the General, it launched him 20 feet before he smacked headfirst into one of the buildings, and cracked his skull. "He-he's dead...." a nearby medic said, after feeling for a pulse. The rocket-launcher and his loader wasted no time, they rushed to the tower where the sniper is, he pointed where the target was. The launcher looked into the digital scope on the side and read out: "Range: 80 meters, alright, load up a rocket." The loader hit a switch, a part of the rocket launcher popped out with a hollow tube in, he inserted the 2 foot long missile in, and closed the compartment. "Alright, let's watch some fireworks", a beeping noise told him he had a lock and he pressed the trigger, followed by a loud blast a missile shot out of one end, smoke out the other, it traveled 240 feet, landing right on target. "Got 'em." said the soldier cheerfully, but the base was still in ruins, a squadron of Med. Corps UH-15s saw them and landed to pick them up.
PONYVILLE HOSPITAL
TIME: 1000 HOURS
Axis woke up again, still everyone was asleep, except for Rarity, the purple-maned pony, she was sitting in her bed, reading a book, the title said something like "The Basics of Dress Designing"? He couldn't tell, she was on the other side of the room, Axis tried raising up and putting his back against the head of the bed, that's when he learned how sore he was, he wanted to say "Ow", but he didn't want to startle her, so he just winced in pain. He noticed an unloaded handgun at the bedside, as well as a screwdriver and allen wrench. There was a note on it, it said "From: Trixie, To: Captain Axisus Molokus.", 'The blue unicorn?', Axis thought, 'How did she know I liked doing that', one of Axis' favorite hobbies was disassembling and reassembling firearms, this particular pistol he's worked on a lot, he took a tray, and quietly laid the gun down on it, he then took the screwdriver and wrench and proceeded to take the gun apart, he did so in 2 minutes, when he started putting it together again, he accidentally dropped the spring for the firing pin, and said "Dammit!", under his breath, but he wasn't quiet enough. Rarity put the book down and looked up, "Oh, you're awake.", she asked, "Yeah, I guess the purple unicorn's sister gave me this gun, she somehow knew I had a hobby to take them apart and putting them back together." He said, "Yes, she's usually quite arrogant, but she can be friendly every once in a while, probably because you kept Twilight Sparkle from getting hit by that rotor blade.", he chuckled in agreement. He, with difficulty, looked over to Twilights bed, the heart rate monitor was low, but not too low. "So I suppose she's still out cold then?", "'Out Cold'?" she asked, "You know, when you get knocked out, or in her case, put in a coma." Axis answered, "Oh, yes, they said she'll wake up within the week. I wish I could do something but all the magic in the world couldn't wake her up.", she felt bad, but felt reassured that she would be up in no time. "I'm sure she'll wake up, I had a friend that was put in a coma for a month, but I was at his side when I could, and he woke up eventually." Axis said comfortingly. "You're very sweet, thank you." Rarity said nicely, they then continued to do what they were doing.
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