Harmony's Defeat: Restoration

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Target Host: Courage Tyler
Identification: Cobra Alpha Two Niner
Operation: Breakthrough
Location: Moscow Outskirts
Mission Time: 00:33:54
Transmission Begin…

I slowly began to open my eyes. My body was hurting a little bit all over. All I could see was dust and smoke all around me. My body was wrapped around Fluttershy as I must have dived to cover her. Fortunately I had no serious injuries from the bombing, but my shoulder was still seeping out blood from the sniper shot. I could hear Fluttershy whimpering as she shook in fear, but she seemed to be unharmed. I slowly started to push myself up as the smoke started to clear, the soldiers around us doing the same. I looked to the tanks and they were covered in scratches, burns and dents, but the were actually in perfect fighting condition.
“Wow, those tanks are fucking invincible” I stated in a bit of shock.
I looked back down to Fluttershy and helped her up. I brushed her off then looked around at everyone.
“Everyone sound off!” shouted a pony marine.
Twilight then trotted beside me and patted me on the back.
“Everyone seems to be okay. The wounded are getting treated and the tanks are still in working order”
I sighed softly and looked to Russell as soldiers picked up his body.
“Not everyone…” I said in despair.
“I'm sorry about your friend Courage, but the Russians still need us” she said sadly, trying to get me to keep going.
Yeah, you’re right” I replied, pulling myself together. “I still have you ponies, and Liam”
“Its about time I got some fucking appreciation faggot!” yelled Liam down my ear piece.
Me and Twilight just stared at each other blankly.

After a short while, we were moving again. I was sitting on the tread of the tank while Fluttershy sat with me, stitching up my shoulder. Liam was in the area now and standing by at a safe distance with the UN survivors to provide air support and back up if they are ever needed. We only had a few more miles to go and we met no more resistance. Obviously these new tanks have given the Americans something to think about. To be honest with you, these tanks even scared me.
“I am getting really tired of having to patch you up Courage. You need to be more careful in the field” she said with concern, focusing on my wound.
“It wasn’t my fault this time! Twilight was the one who told me to run around for the sniper!” I replied defensively.
“Oooo one of these days you are going to get yourself killed!” pouted Fluttershy.
“I’ll be fine Fluttershy. The war is almost over now. Once Russia is safe we ca-”
I was suddenly interrupted by a loud thud on the tank’s turret. Me and the others turned our heads to see another one of those bloody super soldiers standing on our tank. He had a large Barret sniper on his back which would suggest he was the soldier I saw with the sniper earlier.
I stood up on the tank’s treads and aimed at the soldier. The tanks started to slow down and all the soldiers aimed at him as well but ahead a few Abrams tanks and a bunch of soldiers were setting up to fight us. Choppers started to close in on us and a few jets flew overhead. The Americans were focusing all their forces on our convoy.
“Well shit, what do we do now?” I asked helplessly.
Twilight stood beside me on the road, facing the hostile tanks with a frown.
“Surrender Ponies” said the Super soldier who was marked ‘Echo’, speaking in his deep dark tone.
“Twilight, get the infantry out of here!” I ordered as I climbed up onto the main hull of the tank, getting close to the super soldier. “Tankers! Move it and take the enemy head on!!”
“Quick ponies! This way!” Twilight yelled as she ran towards the nearby apartment building.
Everyone else quickly followed, firing at the hostiles as they quickly followed Twilight to cover and away from the battle. Fluttershy grabbed my shoulders and hid behind me as the super soldier drew his sniper and looked at me. The tanks began to fire their machine guns at the enemy as they drove down another road to get away from the hostile tanks and use the tall buildings for cover from the aircraft.

The tanks were now rolling down this tight street, firing at both sides of the street with their machine guns to keep the enemy soldiers suppressed. Me and the super soldier side stepped around in a circle on the tank turret as we prepared to face each other. He had his sniper and I had my assault rifle. Fluttershy stayed cowering behind me for cover as she didn’t want to get hurt again.
“Fluttershy, why didn’t you go with the others?” I said with a frown.
“I-I dunno… Please don’t let him hurt me!” she whimpered.
“Get inside the tank now!” I yelled as I jumped at the soldier.
He jumped back to dodge but it got him away from the hatch. Fluttershy jumped in and I fired on the soldier. The bullets bounced off his armour but to prevent me getting a good shot, he raised his sniper and blasted my gun in two. I threw the pieces at him quickly before he could blow my head off. He raised his arm to block the pieces and I moved in quickly, grabbing the weapon and aiming it down at the tank. The soldier fired and the bullet bounced off the armour of the tank. I try to pull it away from him but he had a strong grip. He then kicked me back and lifted his weapon up at me. Before he could fire, the hatch flung opened under him, causing him to fall back. A pony soldier popped out and aimed a pistol at the soldier but the soldier kicked the hatch closed again, the door slamming the pony back inside. The soldier started to get up but the hatch flew open again. The pony popped out once more and glared at the soldier.
“Hay, that wasn’t very nice” he said.
…
I pulled out my grenade while they stared each other down and armed it. I threw it at the Echo but he just calmly smacked it aside.
“Ah, well…”
The soldier pulled out two small SMGs and aimed at me and the pony.
“Die…” he said.
Suddenly, just as the soldier squeezed the triggers, the nose of a chopper smacked him off the tank and into the building beside us. The chopper blades started ripping the building apart as it tried to pull back.
“Oops! Sorry mate!” called out Liam as the chopper started to make the lorry reverse beeping.
“Um… Nice save Liam”
Suddenly the side cabin opened and a large net of bottles opened, raining down all over the street and smashing all over the road. I was confused on what he was trying to achieve at this point.
“Liam, what are you doing?”
“RECYCLING!!”
A few Abrams tanks ahead blocked the road and aimed towards our tanks and Liam's chopper.
I turned to look at them and then back up to Liam's chopper. Liam straightened up and aimed at the tanks. Our tanks got side by side and stopped under him, taking aim as well. The Abrams started to fire, but their first shots missed. Liam returned fire and took the first two out with a small missile barrage. The Echo then slammed back down on my tank and started to walk towards me. The pony gasped and hid back inside. I didn’t quite know what to do now since Liam was distracted by the hostile tanks. I took a few steps back as the soldier got closer. The tank beside us fired, which gave me an idea. I jumped forward and rolled between his legs, getting right in front of the tank’s gun. The soldier turned quickly and pulled out his knife. He obviously lost his SMGs when Liam crashed into him. He jumped down in front of me and tried to slash at me. I just stepped back before pushing him with both hands. He stumbled back very slightly and grunted softly. Before he could react, I jumped off the tank and the gunner yelled into our earpieces.
“Firing!!”
Suddenly the main gun fired, the Echo being right in front of it. The poor soul was blasted in half and his top half was hurled across the road and slammed into an hostile tank, along with the high explosive shell.
“Shieeeeeeeeett!!” said Liam through the choppers megaphone.
The last hostile tank started to reverse. After having their most powerful soldier’s torso being blowing against their armour had the scared.

Our tanks rolled out of the street but enemy choppers were still in the air.
“Liam!! Take out the choppers!” I requested as I watched three Comanches approach from across the nearby river.
“Actually Courage, I was just gonna let them fire. I thought that might be a fun thing to do… Your move Courage”
“....”
The Comanches started to slow down and began to lock onto Liam, not focusing on us at all.
“Aw hell naw” cursed Liam. “Is this a bad time to ask for a raise?”
“Liam, you don’t get paid anymore” I replied blankly as I watched the choppers prepare to blow him out the sky.
“What do you mean I don’t get paid?!” shouted Liam in shock.
A few jeeps started to drive down the road behind us, but the shattered glass bottles Liam dropped all over the road began to burst their tires. The first spun out and flipped over, rolling down the road, the two behind crashing into the back and causing the front one to explode. The two remaining jeeps skidded off and crashed into the rubble at the end, but the soldiers inside survived. Despite Liam’s success against the jeeps, the choppers were about to fire.
“So much for military strength tire” I said as I stared at the crashed Jeeps. I returned my attention to Liam and the hostile choppers. “Liam, you might wanna fight back! Like now!”
Our tanks took aim into the air and prepared to fire. The Comanches then all fired two rockets each at Liam. The choppers were close and the rockets closed in fast but Liam acted fast and fired his own rockets, taking out the enemy rockets just as they got close. The Comanches didn’t wait to admire his skill and began to fire their chain gun nose cannons at him, the explosive rounds quickly damaging Liam’s rotor and nose hull. Liam locked on to them with the last of his rockets as my tanks fired, two of the Comanches being taken out by the shells. Liam finished his lock on the final chopper.
“You’re fired…”
Liam then fired some rockets on the last and blasted it’s front end into pieces. Echo was slowly using his arms to crawl his severed body away from the fight. However, unfortunately for him, the tail rotor of the chopper Liam blew up impaled him through the back, finishing him off.
“Hay Echo! Do you get pa- oh he’s dead now…”
“Liam…” I said with disappointment. “Why are you such a bean?”
“Excuse me?! Im the one not getting paid! This is slavery! That’s illegal! I want my lawyer!” demanded Liam.
“Your Lawyer is dead…” I replied.
“Echo wasn’t my Lawyer!”
“No, I didn’t mean…”
“No! No no no! I think I deserve to get paid! I have to put up with Exodia! I mean she is just so shit!”
“She doesn’t get paid either”
“Yeah, but she’s shit! She doesn’t deserve it. I fly around saving your life and she… She just, flies around not saving your life! I’m not kidding you Courage, I’VE SEEN WOODEN SPOONS WITH MORE TALENT THAN HER! At the start, she was late! Everyone got injured because of her! I mean, look at what I did! I hit Echo and disarmed him! I-I-I set up my little roadblock with my bottles and I even impaled Echo after! I think- I think I did a way better job than her, she just, she is shit”
“You know what, fine, I’ll pay you, can we just go?!”
“Lets not forget! She needs a head start of the enemy! I just sat there and waited! I waited for them to fire, and I still won. I’m just way better”
I just glared at his chopper as the tanks started to roll out. Liam was being a real pain in the ass but I didn’t let it get to me. I had bigger things to worry about anyway. I jumped onto a tank as it drove past and we started to cross another bridge, almost to the Russian front line now. Our tanks were lightly damaged but still functional. Liam flew above us, spinning his chopper in circles round and round as he went, blurting out load music into the megaphone.
“You spin me right round baby right round, like a record baby...”
I just face-palmed as I listened, just thinking of what the enemies in the next city block other were thinking.
“Oh my god Liam, why?”

After another couple of minutes, we were approaching the Kremlin from the south. Since we were forced to detour the tanks, we were going to hit from the south across the Moskva river, instead of the west. Liam was at a higher altitude now and giving me a report of the battle ahead. The Americans had gone with our plan and cut off the Russian forces, just like we are doing to them now. This meant the Americans had the south, west and north sides covered. We were still a few blocks away and it seemed the Americans were unaware of our approach.
“Okay, deadly srs mode, You go ahead with the tanks to distract them, then I fly in from the east like pew pew pew and do a strafing run on them, then they be like oh man we totes didn’t see dat coming, and then you roll across the bridge when they die and kill the west peeps. Then bobs your uncle, sounds fun”
“Liam, despite the horrible terminology, that is actually a good plan” I replied with slight concern.
“Cheeky git, I used to do this for a living!” he replied smugly.
“Alright alright, we’ll do it your way”
Liam flew away from us to get in position and we continued rolling towards the American front-lines.

The Kremlin was surrounded on three sides and the Russians were doing their best to hold their position. The Kremlin had large brick walls all around so the Russians had a good defendable position. In front of the walls were the Large ZC62 Russian super tanks, keeping the enemy armour and air units at bay with their turret rocket launchers, dual cannons and many machine guns. A few of these tanks were just burning husks by now, but the rest were still functional and bombing the enemy positions. My two tanks drove out from the street. from the south, approaching the bridge. The Americans didn’t notice us coming behind them so we lined up on the side of the road and took aim at the closest Abrams tanks. The Americans and Russians were firing over the river at each other, completely focus on each other. My tanks double checked their aim before firing away and destroying the first two enemy tanks. At that moment, multiple American soldiers turned their heads to look what happened. All their rocket troopers panicked and aimed at us, no longer watching the skies. Liam then flew overhead from the opposite direction and began bombard the entire riverside with rockets, machinegun fire and glass bottles. The rocket troopers tried to turn back to him but as each one turned, they would get shot down by Liam’s dual barreled nose cannon.

Liam finished off the south river side quickly but we were not out of the woods yet. A few jets flew in low and began to lock onto Liam and our tanks. My tanks were already starting to fire across the river on the west side enemies. I saw the jets coming and quickly jumped on top of the tank.
“Enemy airstrike inbound!” I yelled after opening the hatch. “Bail now!!”
The tank crews quickly climbed out and got away from the tanks. The jets fired most of their rockets on both the tanks and Liam. Liam acted fast and fired some rockets back, taking out the rockets that were coming for him. I don’t know how someone can be so good as to shot rockets down like that. The tanks however just got blown to pieces by the special anti-armour missiles. Me and the pony soldiers moved towards the bridge checkpoint and took cover, holding position and firing across the river at the enemy soldiers who tried to advance on the Kremlin entrance. Liam decided to take out the jets so they couldn't take out any more tanks. The jets flew past him and started to circle around to try taking him out again. Liam didn’t hesitate to lock on and release the last of his missiles on them, saving one. They popped their flares as they started to curve around, the missiles missing them completely. Liam then started to bomb the first with his nose cannon. Instantly taking out the pilot. The second jet lined up on him and started to fire it’s machine guns. Liam fired another rocket as he pulled away to dodge the fire, the jet quickly pulling to the side to dodge it. The jet passed over Liam and passed over the Kremlin, trying to circle around again for a third pass. Liam quickly spun his chopper around and started to spray the nose cannon, getting some good hits inside the jets thruster, causing its engine to explode. The jet jolted back and fell with its nose pointed up, smashing into an enemy garrisoned building and collapsing it from the base, destroying the position entirely.

We were behind the sandbags that protected the bridge checkpoint, firing at the enemy across the river, taking little fire as they were focused on taking the Kremlin. I didn’t know why both sides were so focused on an obsolete government building. I suppose it would be good for one side’s morale if they took such an iconic building but to me, it seemed like a real waste of valuable resources. Both sides of this war had very little to fight with. The Russians didn’t even have any aircraft in the air.
“Alright, we need to get across that bridge and get a situation report!” I commanded.
I took point and started to cross the bridge, using the railing and supports as cover. My small group of pony soldiers followed behind, moving from cover to cover as we made our way across. The Americans still didn’t turn much focus on us and were getting close to the Kremlin gate.
“Quickly!” I shouted as we stepped onto the other side of the bridge, moving towards a few tank husks by the wall. We took cover behind the husks and started to suppress the enemy by the gate who were behind a few jeep and tank husks for cover. The Russians on the wall above us kept firing down on the enemy, taking most of the focus away from us so I figured we should move for the gate and get inside quickly.
“We need to get to the gate everypony!”
“There isn’t much cover to work with sir!” called back one of the pony soldiers.
I nodded in agreement and held fire, getting down behind the husk as I held my ear.
“Liam, we need a good distraction. We need to get inside the walls so we can regroup with the others”
“Why don’t I just pick you up and land you inside hurr durr!” questioned Liam.
“Just do as I say!” I snapped back harshly.
“Okay Okay! Moody! What do you want me to do with Kellion and his team?” asked Liam.
“Drop them inside once you distract the enemy”
Liam’s chopper flew over our heads and began to spray the enemy positions with his heavy nose cannon. He started to take some small arms fire but it was nothing to worry about. We quickly moved for the main gate while the enemy were distracted, some Russian soldiers rushing out to cover us as well as we got inside the safety of the Kremlin walls.

The American assault was calming down since Liam and the pony tanks took out most of the enemy tanks and heavy weapons. I wanted to take this short amount of time we had to find Gavriil and the ponies we sent with him. A Russian soldier was kind enough to take me straight up to the main HQ on the other side of the fort. I slammed the doors open and walked into the makeshift HQ the Russians had set up, computers and laptops everywhere on stacks of boxes and ammo crates, a large view screen and lots of communication equipment. They had set up a few servers as well for their battle net. A few soldiers were working and doing their thing, I didn’t pay attention, I was drawn to Rarity and Pinkie who were standing by the main table set up, having a drink and talking calmly. Gavriil, Exodia and Blades were not in the room so I figured they were off doing something important. I approached the two ponies to talk to them and see if they were okay.
“Pinkie! Rarity!” I called out to them in joy.
“Courage! Hay!” Replied Rarity as she approached me and hugged me softly.
“Hay Courage! That was such a fun adventure!” cheered Pinkie as she bounced around. “Fun Fun Fun!”
Me and Rarity looked at her for a few seconds before turning back to each other.
“So how is everypony? Are they okay?” she asked.
“They are okay. Luna is getting better and Fluttershy is downstairs. Twilight and the rest are in the city somewhere but I am sure they are fine” I assured her.
“I am glad to hear that” she sighed with relief.
“What about Gavriil and that lot?” I asked.
“They are out gathering equipment for their next mission. I think they want you to come along” she explained.
“I’m up for that. When will they return?”
“Comrade!!” yelled a friendly Russian bloke from behind me.
I turned to see Gavriil’s smiling friendly face as he approached me.
“Gavriil! It’s good to see you again in person!” I greeted with a smile. “I heard you were going on a new mission?”
“The American’s are bringing in a new toy. Apparently it’s a weapon that is going to clear the whole city without damaging our equipment”
“Chemical Blue!” I thought out loud. “They must have weaponized it already!”
“You mean that chemical you told us about, Courage?” Rarity asked as she stepped beside us.
“We need to stop that bomb!” I implied stressfully.
“Whatever it is, They are dropping it off at the Swissotel south of here”
I looked to the ponies and then to Gavriil, looking very on edge.
“You have HAZMAT suits, right?” I asked desperately.
Gavriil nodded at me and waved for us to follow. “This way Comrades, we must not waste time”

The Kremlin had it’s own research lab built under it’s foundations, built during world war three to help with testing chemical weapons and advanced firearms. This meant it had a lot of protective gear and most importantly, HAZMAT suits. It had been an hour since I met up with Gavriil and we were all armed up in HAZMAT suits, all covered with protective Kevlar over the top. We put on some modernized metal chest plates and shoulder pads as well as an extra precaution. We didn’t want to chance any bullets piecing the suit. The plates were heavier, didn’t cover much and were not completely bullet proof, but at least it was something. The ponies however were all suited up in their super suits which were based on my own designs back in the old Human-Discord war. They were the same, but with Luna’s colour scheme and a few extra upgrades. At least they were safe. Gavriil gave a few other Russian soldiers and the UN soldiers HAZMAT suits so they could join us on the mission. If the weapon leaked, or worse, exploded, we would all be protected. Twilight and her team still hadn’t reported in, not even Luna could contact them. I hoped they were okay, but if this weapon went off, they would not have the suits needed to protect them. It was the same with everyone in the city: The Civilians, the Russian troops, all of them would die if the weapon went off. I had to prioritize and focus on the weapon. We were getting loaded up onto the Kamaz Dozor trucks, all loaded with 50.Cal machine gun turrets on the top. Blades, Rarity, Pinkie and Fluttershy loaded up into the back of mine while I manned the gun, Gavriil being the driver and Kellion in the passenger seat. Kellion’s team was in the truck behind while a Russian team lead in the front one. Why was everyone important in one truck you ask? I like to keep my friends close. That’s all.
“Alright marines! Hustle up and get ready to move!” ordered Kellion as he chewed on his Cigar, getting into the truck.
The UN soldiers all boarded their truck and loaded the gun
“Ooh-rah! Lets do this thing!” shouted one of the marines.
One of them quickly used some blue paint to write the letters ‘UN’ down both sides before jumping in the back. The Russians in front loaded up in their truck in a more disciplined manner. Kellion chuckled and grinned as he watched his men in the side view mirror. Gavriil frowned at him before facing forward and starting the engine. I then jumped onto the front of the truck and climbed up to the top. I turned around and dropped into the gunner position. It was easier than having to push past the ponies in bulky armour sitting in the back. We were all armed and in our HAZMAT suits, ready to go now. A soldier quickly ran past the jeeps and approached the garage door before opening it up for us.
“The Americans are securing the area around the bomb site! We’ll be driving through heavy enemy resistance so be ready for anything!” informed Gavriil.
“Liam! You ready to provide air support? We’ll be moving fast” I said as I held my earpiece.
“Bitch please, you know I’m ready!” he replied confidently.
“Exodia! You ready?!”
The jeeps started to pull away and began to drive through the inside of the fort, making way for the west gate we entered from.
“Im ready Courage!” Exodia responded.
“Aw no! Not her again!!” complained Liam.
“Shut the fuck up Liam. I am going to prove I am better than you”
Liam was silent for a moment. We all waited suspensefully for his witty and cunning comeback that he would no doubt say. Liam then started to laugh loudly, after a short while, he took a deep breath and laughed a bit harder. We all remained silent and he soon prematurely stopped and went quiet again.
“You’re Serious?” he asked like as if he thought it was a joke.

We were now driving through the fort. Artillery shells exploded beside the road and many soldiers ran around looking for cover or trying to sort themselves out. We started to gain speed quickly as the Americans went all out on the fort. The gates opened up for us but we were met with a large force of hostiles that were attacking the west wall. A few tanks turned our way as we pulled out of the fort and fired. They missed us, barely, and we turned left to head south, back across the bridge I came from earlier with the ponies. The tanks tried to hit us again but missed once more. We quickly sped away, moving across the bridge quickly to get away. The other side was clear but in the distance were many hostile choppers. Two hinds flew in behind us and followed us across. The Russians gave Exodia and Liam their own choppers for them to use for this mission.
“Liam, I want you to remember, these are regular hinds. Just normal, Russian hinds. I don't want you trying to ram it into anything”
“I know what I am flying Courage!” he replied forcefully. “...and I will ram whatever the fuck I like with it!”
I growled but I remained focused on the mission.

I grabbed hold of the 50. Cal as we got to the other side of the bridge. A few choppers were moving in on our position. Liam and Exodia went ahead to take them out. We drove straight ahead into the streets of Moscow, hoping to get close to the objective before anyone noticed what we were up to. I could hear the choppers above attacking each other but I focused on the road ahead. The streets were tight and we had to make a turn every few seconds, so if we were attacked, we would get no warning. Me and the other gunners searched around, keeping our guard up high.
“It’s quiet…”
“Exactly, Too quiet…” replied one of the gunners.
“My radar is acting up” stated one of the passengers in concern.
“It’s this terrain!” His voice seemed to echo. “rain rain rain rain!”
We turned the next corner and a rocket flew from the roof of a building ahead, hitting in front of our patrol and causing the truck ahead to skid and crash into a burnt out car. We sped past, as did the truck behind us. started to fire on the roof but the soldier already got down. I snapped my head back to check on the Russian truck. They had reversed and followed behind the UN boys. I looked back forward as we turned the corner, soldiers taking cover ahead and firing on us.
“Open fire!!” I commanded as I started to fire my weapon at the enemy.
The other gunners joined me, suppressing the enemy soldiers. They were no small threat to us but I knew they had more cunning threats ahead of us.
“Tank!!!!”
I lifted my head up to see what they were yelling about. A tank took position ahead of us, blocking our path and aiming down the road with its main gun.
“I think it is safe to say they are on to us!” I pointed out.
The tank fired and Gavriil swerved out the way. The others did the same and the shell flew past us and blasted the road far behind us. We made a quick turn by the tank, moving down another road. The tank tried to fire at the last passing truck and only just missed, the shell hitting the building beside it instead. We were speeding down the new street now, the tank pulling forward to get another shot at us. It fired a shot and hit the ground right beside the truck behind. It swerved a little but it was not heavily damaged by the blast.
“We need to get off this street!” I shouted.
We slowed down and turned another sharp corner. The tank fired again and missed once again, but only just, hitting the ground by the turning.

We were not clear yet. A few humvees were up ahead waiting for us. They started to fire on us with their own 50. Cal turrets. We all got down as we passed, since we didn’t have huge cover plates on our guns like the Humvees did. We bolted past them and they started to accelerate, making chase to stop us from getting to our target. We were set of course and we were now going to make a huge detour. We got up and turned our turrets behind us. We couldn’t all shoot if we were in a straight line so the Russian truck over took us so the UN one could get beside us. We started to fire back on the humvees, their gunners firing back. I started to aim for the drivers, since the gunners were well protected. The UN gunner tried his best to keep the gunners distracted. After a few seconds of firing, I managed to take out the driver of the first Humvee, causing it to swerve out and drive over a pile of rubble. It took into the air as the next Humvee passed, flipping over and crashing into the next one. Both the Humvees crashed into the other side of the road and exploded, the last Humvee driving straight past them and keeping pursuit of us, it’s gunner firing back and forth between me and the UN gunner. We took cover for a little bit so we didn’t get our heads blown off. We started to turned the corner so I took this chance to pop my head back up and take aim once more. I grabbed the gun as we turned and stood up again, moving my aim for the driver while the gunner lost his aim from the turn. As I was about to fire, another one of those damn super soldiers landed right front of me and kicked the gun. I let go just in time so he didn’t break my hands. The gun started to spin around and around from the forceful kick. I quickly reached down for my pistol but it was too late for that. The soldier already had his gun aimed down at me. Pew Pew Pew! The soldier started to take fire from the truck in front, lifting his arms to cover his visor. The UN gunner started to fire on the enemy Humvee, keeping him distracted. The super soldier took a few steps back as he got sprayed, his armour taking some damage from the constant heavy fire. I looked back at the Russian truck, only to notice that another tank had blocked the road ahead.
“Watch out!!” I yelled as the tank fired.
The truck tried to swerve out the way, but the shell was way too fast and the street too narrow. The truck exploded violently and smashed into a near by flower shop, crashing through the glass and exploding inside the shop. We drove past and quickly turned to head down an alley to get away. Without air support, this was hopeless.
“We need to get onto a main road!!”
I looked back to the super soldier who started to walk towards me again. I got down inside so he couldn’t shoot me. I waited for him to get closer before popping back up and grabbing the gun. He aimed down and I flung the gun round to trip him up. I then quickly pulled myself out and took out my pistol, firing at him as he started to get up. The small rounds were useless against his armour and I failed to hit his visor, since the vehicle was moving and made it difficult to aim. He stood and smack the pistol from me. I noticed this soldier was marked ‘Bravo’.
“How many of you are there?!” I complained.
“Twenty Six” he replied as he lifted his weapon. “Too bad you won't be around to meet them all”
“Son of a bit-”
I was then interrupted by a sharp turn, the sudden change in direction causing us to fall from our feet. I quickly grabbed the gun and slammed down on my stomach. The soldier grabbed onto the edge of the truck, losing his assault rifle to the road behind us. More Humvees were getting closer, firing and forcing the other gunner down inside the truck. They didn’t dare shoot at my truck though, obviously so they didn’t hit their super soldier. Gavriil continued to swerve side to side to shake him off but it wasn’t working, the soldier had a tight grip. We were driving beside a highway now and approaching a junction we could use to get on it. The soldier slowly started to climb back up. He pulled out his knife and stabbed into the hull. He then took out his next knife and did the same. He was going to use his knives to climb towards me. He pulled out his first knife and pulled himself closer, planting it into the hull again. The UN truck then swooped in and rammed us in the side just as the soldier pulled out his second knife, causing him to lose his grip and drop it. I swear I heard him growl as he looked back at the other truck. He grabbed the pistol from his leg and started to aim for the other truck, firing a bullet every few seconds to try and hit the driver, but Gavriil was still swerving a little to put him off. I pulled myself closer and climb up the gun. Fluttershy, held up a shotgun for me and I grabbed it with one hand. I pulled myself as close as I could with one hand and lifted the shotgun closer to the soldier. As he fired his last bullet, he looked back to me and suddenly froze as he saw my shotgun barrel in his face.
“This is your stop, asshole”
I then pulled the trigger and the pellets blasted out my gun, smashing into his visor and tearing his head and helmet to pieces, his brain matter blasting out the back. He then fell off the side of the truck and onto the road. Two down, twenty four to go.

The Humvees started to fire on my truck again, bullets bouncing off the hull. I was still on top and completely exposed. The UN gunner tried to suppress them but it wasn’t enough. A Humvee got closer and rammed the back of our truck, the gunner lifting his weapon and getting a good aim on me. One bullet was all it would take to piece my suit. He pushed the button and it started to fire away, but just as he did, a garage door exploded open and hit the Humvee, causing it to be knocked out of the way and the gunner missed me completely. It was a pony jeep. It came out from the garage and followed in behind the Humvees. It was modified to have a huge chaingun on the passenger seat to fire forward and a large rotatable railgun on the back. Two large suited ponies manned the guns while Luna, in her own modified suit, was driving. The rail gun charged for a few seconds and fired, ripping through two Humvees in one shot. The Last Humvee pulled out of the way and went down the side of the UN truck, but the pony chaingunner took out the gunner so it could no longer fight.
“Courage, I see you need some help”
“Great timing! The enemy don’t want us reaching that bomb site!”
We started to head up the ramp to the highway so we could get air support and a straight path to the objective. We saw Humvees moving up the other ramp to try and cut us off. We flew up onto the highway and began to speed down it, the Humvees coming in from behind.
“I’ve seen this before, have we done this before?” I asked myself. “Liam! Exodia! We are moving along the highway to the objective and need cover fire!” I requested.
“Aw naw! You don’t want Exodia! She is doing a terrible job!”
“Shut the fuck up!”
“Would you two shut up and get here! We have hostiles on our six and many more on the way!”
I turned around and aimed my gun back at the enemy who were getting closer and closer. A few large black hawks flew in from the side. I looked up as the side door flew open, revealing another two of those super soldiers, Charlie and Delta. Charlie had a sniper and was aiming directly at me. Charlie stood behind him with his shotgun and watched. I gasped and quickly got down as Delta fired, the shot bouncing off my gun. I stayed down and held my ear again.
“Where are you Liam?!”
“Hue Hue Hue! Bye bye birdy!”
I started to hear rocket fire and a few explosions, followed by a lot of machine gun fire. I stood back up in the gunner seat and saw the black hawk lurching around and barely keeping flight. The two soldiers were fallen over in the back and trying to get up. Liam flew over them and started to spin back around. More rockets started to hit the Humvees and blew them all to pieces. Another hind flew from above and joined us as well. Liam fired another rocket into the cockpit of the black hawk and blew its entire front end up. The two super soldiers leaped from the back cabin as the entire thing exploded and crashed down on our trucks. I was faced with Charlie and his shotgun. I had to get the one with the shotgun didn’t I. He stood up and aimed it at me. I just ducked as he blasted a shell into my gun, ripping apart the main casing causing some of the ammo to explode, making the turret useless. I popped my head back up and lifted my own shotgun. I fired a shot but the pellets bounced off his armour, causing little damage. I just sighed and dropped my shotgun.
“You guys are the worst”
I saw more Humvees and attack trucks coming in from behind. The trucks were fast, heavily armoured with two mounted turrets on the front and a large anti-air cannon on the back. Charlie pumped his shotgun and aimed again with an evil chuckle. I thought this was it, until I saw a pony soldier climb up from the back door and grab Charlie’s leg. Charlie looked back and the pony pulled him down onto his stomach. The Charlie acted fast and stabbed his knife into the roof to secure himself, but like Bravo, his weapon went flying back onto the road. Charlie pulled his leg free and kicked the pony in the head. The pony’s helmet protected him so he wasn’t hurt. I quickly got up and jumped forward to grab the handle of the knife, thumping the wrist if Charlie to try and get him to let go. It was futile though as his armour protected him. We all struggled and we got no where. All we had to do was buy us some time.

After a short struggle, the enemy vehicles caught up and engaged Luna’s jeep, Liam and Exodia engaging them back aswell. I looked back to see tanks setting up further ahead along with some more choppers moving in. I didn’t know how close we were to the objective but I just hoped it wasn’t far. Suddenly a sniper shot ricochet right beside me on the trucks hull, barely missing my head. I looked to the side to see Delta standing on the UN truck with his sniper, the UN gunner laying on the gun, dead. Kellion quickly climbed out of the passenger seat as we got closer to the UN truck, jumping off and grabbing onto the side of it. The Delta got distracted by him, two UN soldiers climbing out the back as well. The three quickly moved to attack the Delta, Kellion grabbed the weapon while another soldier jumped on his back. The last soldier moved around to start hitting but my attention was drawn back to Charlie who reached for his pistol and tried to aim it at me. I grabbed it and held it away from me. He continued to kick back into the pony’s helmet, slowly starting to crack it. I needed to end this so I let go of the knife and grabbed the pistol with both hands, trying to pull it away. He let go of his knife as well and slowly started to stand, pulling the pistol from me. I stood up with him, fighting for the pistol. He overpowered me and ripped the pistol from my grasp. He then kicked me back and aimed forward. I acted fast as he aimed and pulled out my knife, throwing it at him. As he pulled the trigger, my knife deflected the bullet and bounced off his shoulder. I took this moment to run in at him and kick him in the chest. He was forced to step back as a result but took aim again. I punched the pistol up as he shot and kicked his side. He was barely affected and tried to shoot me again. I managed to knock the pistol to the side as he fired again, but he punched me down with his other hand. He then kicked me back as I tried to get back up, slamming me down on my back by the turret.
“Hay!” Pinkie called out as she stood behind the soldier.
The soldier turned and fired his pistol at her. He then felt a tap on his shoulder and turned back to see pinkie standing behind him, smiling through her visor. He try to elbow back into her but she appeared in front of him and giggled.
“Missed me!”
He swung back forward, only to find her gone again. She stood beside him and booped the side of his head.
“Oops! Missed me again!”
“Stand still!!” yelled the soldier as he turned and fired a few shots at her.
She then tapped his shoulder and frowned.
“You are not very good at this are you?”
“How are you doing that?!” he complained loudly as he turned around and pointed his weapon in her face.
“Oh silly you! I am the master of tag!” she said cheerfully.
He then turned his head and I smacked him with the butt of my weapon. He stumbled back and raised his weapon but Rarity ripped it from his grip with her magic and then threw an ammo box at him, causing him to fall off and land on an Enemy Humvee.
“Courage! We have taken a lot of damage and my main gunner is hurt, I have to pull out” informed Luna through my earpiece. I looked up to see Exodia and Liam firing rockets ahead at the hostile choppers, popping flares as rockets flew towards them. The rockets missed and rushed past, the enemy choppers exploding.
“Roger that Luna, you saved us back there” I responded calmly.
She pulled away but a truck and two Humvees were still on us. I then looked to the UN truck, three soldiers laid dead on top while the Delta held Kellion by the neck.
“I have him right where I want him!” cheered Kellion.
Me, Pinkie and Rarity raised our weapons and aimed for the Delta. He noticed us and dropped Kellion, jumping off the truck and onto the other Humvee as we fired on him. We then all fell down onto our sides as a Humvee rammed us from behind. We were about to pass the tanks and they fired on us. Gavriil swerved the truck to the side, the tank shell blasting past us and hitting the Humvee, blowing it up. Charlie was blown off the front and he crashed into the road. He was now out the fight so it was just a Humvee and truck, along with Delta. We sped past the tanks and they started to rotate their guns to shoot us as we drove away. Liam and Exodia turned to lock onto the tanks but a few jets flew in and fired rockets at their choppers. Liam reacted in time and pulled back, firing at the rockets to defend himself. Exodia tried the same but her tail was hit and she pulled back away from the fight as the jets passed.
“I'm hit! I'm hit!”
“Lawl! I told you she was shit!!” laughed Liam.
The jets circled around and came to target us. The tanks fired, drawing my attention. They missed us but Humvees flew past them at high speed. Three more came up on our right with two choppers following. Exodia was forced to pull away and Liam flew above us as we sped up more, firing at the two choppers and popping flares as they unloaded with their rockets. Liam did the same but they popped their flares too. The jets flew above the road bombing it with heavy machine gun fire. Me and the ponies got back inside as the Humvees joined in on the fire. I stayed in the gunner seat, firing my assault rifle back at the gunners. I got my head down as the jets flew over me, bombing both trucks with bullets. I got up as they passed and Two Humvees came either side. ramming us over and over. The UN truck having the same trouble. Liam flew in front of us and started to fire into the drivers seat, killing the driver and causing it to swerve out of control. He the refocused on the attacking choppers as they sprayed the road with chainguns. The Delta and two soldiers jumped onto the back of the truck from the Humvee. The enemy attack truck was coming in beside us as well, firing it’s anti-air cannon at Liam, slowly ripping his hull to pieces. He flew up and went above the hostile chopper, the auto aiming cannon taking it out in an attempt to take out Liam. Liam then spun around as the enemy chopper fell onto an enemy Humvee and crushed it. His tail then smacked into the enemy chopper, causing it to lose control and fall onto the back of the truck, smashing the AA gun and slowing the truck down greatly. The jets came back around so Liam pulled up and turned to face them, firing the last of his rockets and his chain guns at them, his chopper barely holding together. The Delta and the marines approached me and raised their weapons. Soon a large dragon drop ship flew up from behind the highway and flew over to me, dropping the two blood red elite warriors onto the front of my trucks hull.
“Get the Delta!” ordered one of them.
This was getting really intense now. I fired on one of the soldiers and killed him as the dragon warriors charged at the Delta and the other. The Delta ducked under the first swish of the blood red blade and kicked the dragon back, strafing to the side to kick and punch the other one to the side and moving to punch the first again. The first caught his fist and punched him back, swishing around with his sword to cut him. The Delta acted fast and jumped back quickly. The soldier tackled the second warrior and started to spray his SMG into his armour. The small bullets bounced off the elites armour and I blasted the soldier off with my shotgun. I was then distracted as two Humvees from the side started to spray at me. I got down and reloaded my weapon, slipping in new shells as Gavriil tried to pull away. The truck was coming at us from behind so I moved forward and kicked the back door open. Me and the ponies all aimed out and sprayed the shit out of the truck, causing it to burst into flames in seconds and fly off the road. A Humvee drove up behind us and started to spray, a few bullets bounced off the truck and pony armour but I had to act fast. I jumped out the back and grabbed onto the grill of the Humvee. The driver looked at me in surprise and sped up to try and crush me against the truck. I quickly pulled myself up and lifted my shotgun. The gunner quickly jumped down and kicked the gun from me. I then grabbed his other leg and pulled him down, taking out my knife and smashing it into the center cavity of his chest, killing him. He fell off and I looked back at the truck. I saw nothing that was going to help me so I looked back forward and climbed for the driver seat. The driver opened his door to try and throw me off but I held onto the roof tightly with my foot on the handle. A soldier tried to lean out the window with his assault rifle but the back was then sprayed by Liam’s nose cannon, killing everyone except the driver and front passenger. I pulled myself up and ripped a grenade off its belt, arming it and throwing it into the gunner seat. I quickly stood up and jumped for the truck again, a dragon warrior catching my hand as I slammed against the back door. He pulled me up and then moved in behind the Delta to take him down. The first dragon and the Delta were fighting hand to claw, punching and blocking over and over. The second came up behind Delta with his sword and tried to stab. The Delta jumped to the side and turned, grabbing the dragon’s wrist. The first dragon warrior then punched for the Delta’s back, a sudden energy claw, appeared on his wrist, stabbing right into the Delta’s back. The Delta elbowed back and then punched them both back. I then came in while he was weak, jumped up, planting both my feet onto his chest as I blasted a shell into his visor. He started to go down with my body weight and I blasted him again with a second shell. He was dead now. I jumped off him and the first dragon warrior kicked him off.

The Humvees were still on us and began firing again. The UN truck had no gunner and we had no gun. The dragon warriors crouched down and activated their energy shields. They were like riot shields so I got down behind them for cover, the bullets bouncing off the shields.
“Gavriil!!!” I yelled as loudly as I could.
“Less than a mile to go!!” he yelled back to me.
The Humvees started to ram us from behind and both sides, out truck starting to give out. I then looked back as I saw the huge hotel towering above a lot of the smaller buildings and highway. Liam flew in behind us and started to spray his chaingun at the enemy Humvees, forcing them to pull away from us. The dragon warriors quickly switched to their laser rifles and fired on the gunners while they turned back to focus on Liam, hitting them in the back.
“Punch it Gavriil!! No time to waste!!”
We all started to hear Jettisons voice in our earpieces.
“You are too late ponies. I can not be stopped”
I looked back at the warriors then forward again to the hotel. We then saw something explode near the top floor.
“You are so stupid! I count some humans, some dragons, a shit pilot called Exodia, ooooohhhh!! Ooooooohhh!!” yelled Liam.
“This isn’t like one of those movies where you stop it a second before detonation. Oh no, this is reality, this is the real world”
Suddenly a huge blue cloud came rushing towards us with force. My eyes widened and I held my breath as it came closer incredibly fast. We were too late. The cloud then flew at us like a powerful Blizzard, making it impossible to see with enough force to cause our vehicles to lose control. The truck started to swerve around and then hit an old burnt out car husk, causing us to be thrown ahead and the truck to tumble around and roll over. I was thrown towards another burnt out husk. I was going in head first and couldn’t stop myself. This was going to hurt.
Splat!

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