Harmony's Defeat: Restoration

*You may want to read the first story first before reading this Sequel*

Initializing...
Target Host: Courage Tyler
Identification: Cobra Alpha Two Niner
Operation: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Mission Time: Unknown
Transmission Begin...

“Move Move Move! Surround the vault! Don’t let them escape!”
Lots of soldiers surrounded the vault door, taking cover behind all the crates and vehicles in the warehouse. The commander stood in the open with a squad around him ready to fire. The commander had a cracked open head and it was bleeding pretty bad.
“Attention intruders! I’m giving you one minute for you fuck-tards to put down your weapons and exit the vault with your hands up!! You’re completely surrounded!!”

“Hay guys!” I shouted to the others as I peered round the side of the vault door. “The commander is back and he’s brought some friends”
“He’s probably still mad about you kicking his head in...” stated Liam.
“Hurry up and grab the objective!” I ordered, before looking back around the vault door to the enemies.
My back to the wall, wielding my assault rifle, heart racing.
“Thirty seconds assholes!” yelled the commander.
“Can we have some more time?” I asked hopefully.
“What?! I’m not fooling around jack ass!”
“Calm down Betty! Don’t get you knickers in a twist!” I replied recessively.
“You have fifteen seconds to get out here so I can kick your ass!!”
Liam and Russell then approached me.
“We have it” informed Liam.
“Alright... Now we just need to get through all them” I said tilting my head back to show I was talking about the enemy soldiers.
“How do we do that then?” asked Russell. “Without our suits, we are helpless against that kind of force”
“Well we would still have our suits if SOMEONE...” I looked at Liam with an evil glare. “...had been more careful back in Italy”
“What?! I thought that canister of highly concentrated hydrochloric acid was lemonade?!?” argued Liam.
“It said ‘Warning!! Highly Dangerous!! Corrosive Acid!! Do Not Touch!!’! I mean come on!!” I shouted.
“Time’s up ass holes!” shouted the commander.
“Can we not do this now!” complained Russell.
Me and Liam continued anyway.
“What?!? I thought the signs were talking about the lemonade! Have you ever drunk a whole bottle of lemonade at once?!? It feels corrosive! I just thought the Americans were being smart for once!”
“Why would the Americans keep a large tank of lemonade in a science lab?!?” I argued with reason.
“For when they get thirsty! Duh!” replied Liam.
I just face-palmed and shook my head.
“You’re an idiot Liam” I said with disappointment.
“Guys! They’re coming in!” warned Russell.
I peered round the door to see a team of marines slowly moving in on the vault. I lifted my rifle and prepared to open fire. Liam and Russell got ready also.
“Alright, we have the cover of the vault so we should be fine. We soften them up then while they recover, we charge through their lines and make for the pad”

The enemy marines started to advance up the ramp toward the vault door, the other marines covering them from behind the crates and humvees. Some of the soldiers mounted the turrets on the top of the humvees and a few marines took positions on the cat walks above.
“Fuck it... Now!” I ordered as I pulled my weapon around the corner and aimed for the marines. The marines reacted quickly and dived for the side for cover as we opened fire from the vault door. The enemies returned fire and I returned to cover. Liam had jumped across to the other side of the vault door to gain extra cover. Russell was still with me, arming his rocket launcher.
“Cover me! I’m going to take care of those humvees!” informed Russell.
“Alright! Liam!”
Liam nodded at me and reloaded his rifle. We reloaded and we all looked at each other. I nodded for us to go. Liam and I pulled around the corners and sprayed the enemy with bullets, Russell moving out of cover to fire a rocket at the closest humvee. The humvee exploded and the blast knocked down some of the marines. Me and Liam reloaded and returned fire again. Russell reloaded and fired another rocket at the next humvee. Russell began to take fire and jumped to the side for cover.
“Shit!” he yelled! “I’m hit!”
I looked back at him. He was holding his leg with both hands as he sat on the floor. I tuned back to the enemy and aimed down my sights.
Left, Bang! Right, bang! Up, Bang!
Three perfect head-shots, but they were followed by me being bombed with weapon fire. I took cover again.
“Hostiles on the cat walk!” I shouted.
“Here!” said Russell, tossing me his rocket launcher.
I caught the rocket launcher and turned the corner to fire. I aimed up for the cat walk and fired. The explosion caused it to collapse and fall. The soldiers and explosive barrels that were on it came tumbling down. Liam then took a shot at one of the barrels and set the whole warehouse a-light. We ducked our heads inside the vault to take cover from the explosion.We looked round the corner to find the whole warehouse floor covered with debris, wreckage and flames. The marines were either dead, wounded or just too stunned to get up.
“Lets go!!” I shouted as I moved to pick up Russell.

We walked out of the warehouse and immediately took cover behind some cover as we got sprayed with more bullets.
“Fuck! They’re everywhere!” I complained.
Enemy marines covered the roof tops and door ways as they fired on us. A few humvees had set up a blockade around the warehouse entrance.
“What now?!” asked Liam.
“Take Russell!” I ordered as I let go of Russell and drew a rocket from his rocket pack.
I loaded the rocket, Liam supported Russell back onto his feet.
“Follow me!”
I then jumped out of cover and fired a rocket at the humvees and blew them up. We then began to run down the base for the helipad, taking cover behind all the crates as we did. Bullets came from everywhere and I hopelessly tried to return fire.
“Exodia One! We need extraction! Now!” I yelled into my earpiece desperately.
I didn’t get a response but I continued for the pad anyway.

We made it to the base’s runway, the helipad was at the bottom end.
“There’s no cover!” Russell pointed out with concern.
“Fuck it! Make a run for it!”
We began to run down the runway. Liam helped Russell limp as fast as he could but it still wasn’t very quick.
I looked back to find a whole firing squad of marines taking position at the end of the runway, opening fire at us. We continued to run hopelessly towards the pad as bullets came at us like a blizzard. We made it half way down without getting hit, which must have been a miracle, but then some humvees began to drive down the side of the runway firing bullets at us, Cobras and Comanches coming in from above and firing even more bullets at us. We were getting close to the pad but all the extra fire from the humvees and choppers caught up with us. Russell took another hit to the back followed by Liam getting hit in the hip and arm. I stopped and turned to fire at a chopper with my assault rifle, Liam and Russell continuing to struggle to the pad.
My adrenaline kicked in and everything slowed down. I focused my aim down the sight as the chopper approached me. I moved my aim for the pilot, aiming for his left shoulder, the adrenaline helping me focus my aim. I then pulled the trigger and I watched as my bullet seemed to slowly hurl for the pilot. His shoulder was hit and his arm twitched to hit the flight stick. Everything seemed to speed up again as the chopper spun out, taking out another chopper with it’s tail. I smiled with glee as they came crashing towards me. I then returned to continue my run for the pad. Liam and Russell had made it and were taking cover behind some crates. I ran towards them to join them in the wait for extraction. I got pretty close to them but I was confused to see them panicking and pointing behind me. In confusion, I looked behind me. At that moment I saw a flash come from the control tower. Everything once again slowed down as I became overwhelmed by the horror of my imminent fate.
Bam!
I was hit by a sniper bullet in the chest.
My only thought was “Not again!”
I hit the floor like a brick and everything became darkened. I could barely see but the adrenaline kept me conscious. I bit down hard on my bottom lip as I tried to fight the pain.
I opened my eyes again and looked up to Liam and Russell fighting for their lives behind the crates. They needed me. I wasn’t about to give up now. This was too important. I rolled over onto my stomach and looked to my assault rifle that laid on the floor in front of me. I crawled to it and gripped the handle. Suddenly a massive chunk of concrete was ripped from the runway beside my weapon as a sniper bullet ricochet of the surface. My eyes widened with horror. I fought to get up quickly and made my way for cover. The humvees came round for another run and sprayed bullets at me. I just jumped for the boxes and landed behind them.
“Courage! You’re hit!” shouted Liam.
“No shit!” I said, wincing at the pain.
I pulled off my body armour and began to wrap my wounds with my field kit. Liam returned to firing at the enemy.
“Fuck! Where’s our ride?!”
I finished wrapping myself and grabbed my weapon to return fire.
“Exodia One! We have wounded! Where the fuck are you?!” I asked demandingly into the earpiece.
“Look up!” Replied a young female voice.
I looked up to find an advanced transport approaching the base.
“Fucking hurry up!!”
“I’m on it” she replied.
We waited for the transport to land on the pad. We were still under heavy fire: Enemy soldiers advancing towards us, humvees driving around us and a chopper spraying the area with it’s nose cannon. We only had a few crates for cover. We tried to return fire with the best of our ability but it wasn’t very effective. We were taking too much fire and we had taken too many hits. Russell was trying to patch himself up and Liam was ducked down behind a crate, taking heavy fire from the humvees.
The humvees stopped just a few metres from us and acted as cover for the marines who had made it close to us. We were now completely suppressed by bullet fire. The chopper then passed over head and started to aim it’s nose cannon at us.
“Rocket now!” I yelled as I picked up the rocket launcher.
“We’re out!!” shouted Russell in despair.
The chopper had finished aiming at us and started to fire. Suddenly the transport flew over us and blocked it’s shots. The transport lowered itself to hover close to the ground. The back door opened and Gavriil began to open fire on the humvees with the heavy turret.
“Lets move it!” I commanded.
We all got up and limped for the transport. Under heavy fire, we climbed in and we began to take off. Gavriil took a shot to the leg and fell to the floor. I slammed on the door control panel and the door began to close. We began to take off quickly, the heavy bullet fire bouncing off our hull. I quickly moved to the cockpit and sat down in the co-pilot seat.
“About time Exodia!” I groaned angrily.
“Ah well, better late than never...” she said calmly.

We were now flying quite high, towards the ruins of a city that was destroyed by Discord’s forces. The base we had left behind was located on the mountains that overlooked the city.
“Did you get the package?” asked the young pilot.
“Yeah. Liam has it... Now get us back quickly. Most of us need medical attention ASAP”
“Already on it” she replied.
Suddenly a rocket flew right past the cockpit from behind us.
“What the fuck was that?!?!” I panicked.
“Erm... I don’t know... My radar is clean” replied the pilot in confusion.
“Liam! Check our six!” I ordered.
We waited a few seconds for Liam to reply.
“American Stealth fighters! And lots of ‘em!”
“Shit! really?!?”
“Hang on!” warned the pilot. “I’m taking us down!” she informed.
Our transport then began to change course towards the city, the stealth fighters following behind. The city buildings would provide great cover from the rockets and machine gun fire. Despite what Discord did, many of the city’s skyscrapers still stood tall, though they were heavily damaged and very unstable. Regardless of their condition, they could still stop a rocket.
The stealth fighters began to fire machines guns at us, our transport swerving side to side to dodge as much of it as possible. We approached the city fast and low but no matter how fast we went, the American fighters would go faster. It didn’t help that we couldn’t see them on our radar because of their stealth systems. The dashboard began to flash red rapidly.
“They have missile lock!” I warned the pilot.
“I know...” she replied.
“Do something!”
“I’m trying...” she said with an agitated tone.
The stealth fighters released their missiles that were locked onto us. Exodia pulled violently on the stick and launched the ship towards the city and down a narrow street between many tall buildings. All the rockets followed suit, closing in fast. The first two hit the first building entering the street, the other three remaining airborne. The three rockets got close but Exodia began to take evasive maneuvers. She flipped the ship sideways as the first rocket flew past and missed. She then flipped us in the opposite direction to bring us upside-down to fly under a foot bridge, barely missing the burnt out vehicles that filled the road, the second rocket hitting the foot bridge. She then immediately flipped us back up and flew over another foot bridge, barely missing it, the third rocket hitting the foot bridge as it tried to hit us.
We left the street and we began flying over a large park in the middle of the city. Stealth fighters came down from the sky and pursued us. They fired their machine guns and locked on with their missiles.
“Another missile lock! Launching counter-measures!”
I deployed flares as the stealth fighters fired their missiles. The missiles missed us but the stealth fighters were locking on again.
“Hold on!” shouted Exodia.
She then flew the ship down another tight street as missiles and stealth fighters came soaring in behind us. The first few missiles hit the buildings to the side, the rest closing in fast and the stealth fighters firing their machine guns. Exodia flew side to side to dodge the first two incoming missiles, barrel rolled to dodge the next and then boosted forward to try and get away.
“Building ahead!” I shouted, pointing to the large shopping centre at the end of the street.
Exodia continued to fly forward. I thought she was crazy! There was barely enough room to fit a car, let alone a fucking transport ship. Even the stealth fighters agreed with me as they pulled up to fly over it. We crashed through the glass entrance and began to fly through the large halls of the shopping centre! The missiles were still hot on our tail. Exodia flipped sideways and flew between two large pillars, a missile hitting one of them as it tried to hit us. She then dropped us down, nearly hitting the ground, and flew under a walk way. One missile hit the walk way but another flew right under it in pursuit. Exodia flew up and over another walk way, two missiles hitting it but the last one still on us. Exodia then pulled up and barrel rolled as we crashed through the glass roof. We crashed through the roof and came out right between two stealth fighters, we flew between them and the missile hit one that was in it’s path.
“Sweet piloting Exodia!” I said with surprise.
“Ready to admit I’m better yet Liam?” asked the pilot smugly.
“Fuck you I’m better!” retorted Liam aggressively.
We took more machine gun fire as the fighters continued to pursue us. Exodia barrel rolled again then did a back flip so we could get behind the enemy. Exodia then tried to lock on to the enemy fighters with her own missiles.
“I can’t lock on!!”
“It’s because they have stealth systems! The missiles can’t pick them up!” I explained.
“Shit!” she cursed.
We took more machine gun fire from behind as more fighters joined the pursuit. Exodia then brought us back down into the city to use more buildings for cover. Two stealth fighters followed us in, spraying bullets everywhere in our direction.
“What are you doing Exodia?” I asked sceptically.
“These missiles are not completely useless...”
The enemy fired more missiles at us. Exodia dodged the first two then barrel rolled to dodge the third. She then locked onto something and fired four missiles. The missiles flew ahead and hit the base of a large skyscraper. The missiles caused the unstable tower to begin collapsing. The angle Exodia hit it from caused it to fall side ways onto the road. It was falling fast like a freshly cut tree and we were still far from passing it.
“Exodia!” I panicked.
She continued to flew down the street really low, the stealth fighters closing in and firing their machine guns. We were getting close to the falling tower now but it was going to be close. The gap between the tower and the road was slowly closing, becoming tighter and tighter.
“Exodia!!” I shouted again.
We were approaching the gap now, the space was very small now, I thought it was already too late.
“We’re not gonna make it!!” I yelled with overwhelming panic.
“We’ll make it...” she said calmly.
I winced as we approached the gap, preparing myself of the impact. We then flew through the gap, our ship scraping and sparking against the building and the road below as we passed through the tight gap. It only took a second to get through the gap. The stealth fighters tried to follow. The first made it through but lost his top half and couldn’t take flight again and the second almost made it through but the building collapsed on his back end and flipped him out, causing him to crash with the first.
“I told you we’d make it...”
“You’re fucking nuts!” I said, almost having a heart attack.
“I’ll take that as a compliment. Ready to admit I’m better yet Liam?”
“Pfft! I could do that easy!” he replied.

We were now flying away from the city, stealth fighters still hot on our tail. We were now flying through a mountainous region, covered in an half burnt out forest. We got another missile lock warning from the flashing red lights.
“Deploying counter-measures!” I informed.
The enemy fired their missiles and I deployed flares. Exodia then pulled sideways and flew between two mountains. Most of the missiles went for the flares and crashed into the mounting. The last of them that didn’t flew round for us but Exodia just flew to the side to let them past. The stealth fighters followed us and locked on again.
“Counter-measures depleted!”
We took more machine gun fire, damage warning lights began to flash as our hull slowly began to give in.
“You’ve got to lose them Exodia!”
“I’m trying!”
The enemy fighters released a large number of rockets at us. There were way to many to dodge at once. Exodia began to take evasive maneuvers. She tried to barrel roll and flip, the first few rockets did miss but we were hit by the rest. Our transport jolted violently and began to lurch side to side as we began to crash towards the ground.
I looked at my screen our thrusters had been hit and we had lost our stabilisers. Exodia was fighting with the flight stick, trying to get us to stop. I pushed a few buttons on my screen then looked back up.
“Pull up! Pull up!” I shouted.
Exodia pulled up and we were flying again. The stealth fighters were coming in from behind, getting one last missile lock on us. We were over a flat forest land now, with no cover to protect us.
“Hull is damaged. We’ve lost stabilisers! Exodia! If you have a plan I suggest you do it now!”
“I’m doing my best!” she replied, pushing many buttons on the dashboard.
The stealth fighters were getting close now, their missiles were fully locked on. Suddenly a massive blue laser came from above and obliterated two of the fighters!
“Woah!” jumped me and Exodia.
More smaller lasers came raining down from the sky into the last of the American fighters as they tried to retreat. A massive spaceship appeared from the cloud layer in the sky, firing it’s lasers at the enemy. A holo screen then appeared on my dashboard. It was Luna!
“Good day commander” she greeted with a smile.
“Damn Luna, aren't you a beautiful sight for sore eyes...” I replied gratefully with a sigh of relief.
“Why thank you Courage” she said with a giggle. “Our hangers are open to you. I have some ponies that want to see you”
“Have a medical team ready. We have heavy wounded on board...” I looked to my chest slowly then looked back at the screen. “...Including me”
“I’ll notify Fluttershy’s team” she said with another smile.
“Roger that Luna. Courage out”
Liam then limped into the cockpit silently. Me and Exodia also remained Silent as we prepared to board Luna’s ship. Liam then looked at us and tried to stand up straight.
“We wouldn’t need Luna if I had flown instead...”
Exodia just shook her head and made her approach to Luna’s ship.

We flew into the hanger and landed down on the floor. Twilight and Luna stood in front of the ship waiting for us.
“Well this thing wont be flying for a while...” stated the young Pilot as she switched off the dashboard.
“I’m sure Luna wont mind fixing her up for us”
“Well she better because this thing can’t leave until it has some work done”
“C’mon, lets go see Luna” I said as I got up from my seat.
“Alright, I’m coming” sighed the pilot.

“Welcome aboard Courage” greeted Luna.
A medical team of Ponies, Fluttershy included, rushed past us and tended to the other three.
“It’s good to see you again Luna. And you Twilight. That was great timing by the way”
“Glad to be of help to you but I must ask... What was all that about then? Human fighters trying to destroy a Human transport...” asked Luna with confusion and concern.
“This...” said Liam as he limped beside me, holding a round metal cylinder.
“What exactly is that?” asked Twilight.
I took hold of the object and lifted it over my shoulder with one hand...
“It’s the Americans new toy...”