My Little Warzone: Betrayal Part 1

Chapter One: Invasion

3 YEARS AFTER THE DEFEAT OF NIGHTMARE MOON:

CANTERLOT PORT
TIME: 0900 HOURS

The ranging pegasi, unicorns, and earth ponies were at the port, doing their business. Several were stallions loading heavy boxes onto the large cargo ships, some of them originally old Union owned ships. Some ponies were just going around the seaside market. They all stopped as they heard the low rumble, they realized it was probably just a Union patrol flight, they heard them every day, passing over towns and such.

They had no idea of what was to happen merely 10 minutes later. The ponies continued what they were doing, then the roaring got suspiciously louder, usually it's just a quiet rumble due to the planes being at least 40,000 feet in the air. This sounded like it was coming from much lower, and didn't sound like a single Halberd or Seahawk, the norm for Navy or Air Force patrol flights. They then realized the second possibility, for safety's sake, the Union sometimes drills massive aircraft relocations to other airbases. All of the sudden, a young colt with his mother were at the market when he saw something.

"Look mommy! Over there!" said the young colt, the mother moved from other the covered stand and saw something ominous. At least 100 Gladiator, Goliath bombers, Halberds, and Silvertides, all heavily armed, flying towards the port. Several other ponies saw the mare stare into the sky, at the now extremely loud roar of jet engines, and saw it.

They didn't even have 5 seconds to react.

The Gladiators started dropping off rocket canisters, each hitting the massive port and covering sections of the port with fire, the Goliaths started releasing ludicrous amounts of bombs, destroying several buildings and sinking several ships. Then the squadron of Halberds entered a steep dive and started strafing the grounds of the port, their massive 20 millimeter miniguns ablaze.

The young colt heard a splurting noise and felt himself get covered in some warm fluid. He looked to his side and saw his mother, three half-inch thick holes in her midsection, before she fell down on her side. The young pony felt the fluid on his face, then looked at his hoof to see it was covered in his mothers blood.

He started screaming and crying before a hefty, clawed hand grabbed him by his mane, and dragged him, he noticed himself being thrown into a large, metal vehicle with several other of these tall, blue creatures with rifles, marked on the sides of the vehicle, a triangle with two crossed swords inside, the Union...the small, orange colt looked and saw a group of Silvertides swooping down to drop their bombs, as well as his mother's corpse, before the hind-door of the vehicle shut.

CANTERLOT CASTLE
TIME: 0945 HOURS

The streets of grounds of the castle and streets of Canterlot were flooded with raged filled ponies, yelling and protesting as a black limousine, followed by a Union marine corps APC, and an M-5 Dragonsbreath tank drove down the main street.

The tall, lean commander of the Union stepped out of the limo, following him were his two personal guards, and coming out of the APC were several Union marines with the AUG-esque rifles with the drum magazines, the ponies now knew them as the M-18, a 7.62 mm rifle, some of them had underslung grenade launchers, some had fore-grips, others had nothing at all, but they were all loaded. They walked to the front of the castle, several of the ponies started yelling louder, some threw rocks, Gavarixus just nodded as one of the marines behind him fired of 3 rounds from his rifle to silence the crowd.

The castle gates opened and out walked a beautiful white alicorn, a younger dark-blue one following. Princess Celestia and Luna walked up to the commander, normally, Gavarixus would have a friendly solute to be welcoming, but instead, he just stood their with a cold stare, his white, glaring eyes adding to the effect. The group of soldiers stood at attention, "At ease!", said the commander, they then dropped their uptight posture, but still stood very straight. The superior princess started, "300 citizens dead, twice as many injured. Can you explain to me why such a heinous assault has occurred?" tears began welling up in her eyes, she continued, "Why? Just...why? We've been at peace for three years now. Why have you attacked us on such a large scale".

Gavarixus, staring into the mare's eyes, responded, "Peace?! You attacked 4 military installments, and 6 ships, and you call that 'peace'?! Peace my ass!" the soldiers and ponies gasped at the commander's harsh words. "What are you talking about?" asked the Princess, "Oh, don't play stupid with me! In three years, we've lost over 8,000 men. Witnesses saw your soldiers destroy 4 bases and 6 ships! We've stricken back with this attack, and we've made a point. Unless you pay for the damages done, 3 of your citizens are going to die for every 1 that got killed!" he was enraged to the point of salivating, he decided to recompose himself, and finish. "You really think that I'm going to believe in anything you say. Guards! Relieve this-"

The princess was interrupted by Gavarixus, in the instant she said that he pulled out his .44 caliber revolver and cocked it. "Order your soldiers to stand down." He said coldly to her, she halted her guards, and spoke, "What do you want? I'll do anything.", the commander then spoke, "I want all damages to be paid off, all 10 billion bits of it.", 10 billion bits, something that they weren't able to afford. "I want the families of every soldier given a proper apology, and a proper burial, for the men who died because of you.".

"Hey! You can't tell the princess what to do!" screamed one of the stallions in the crowd, it was an elegant stallion with an English accent and a monocle. Gavarixus turned around, he faced the stallion dead in the eye, then brought up his revolver and shot him in the head. A trail of blood flowed from his face as he crumpled to the ground, a gasp from the dieing pony, then complete silence. "If you can't pay off the debt you owe us, then many more are going to pay in blood, and suffer the same fate he has." the commander said soullessly to the princess as he pointed to the dead stallion. He turned around, and ordered the men to go back, they got in the vehicles, and rolled out. The Princess just stared at the poor stallion's corpse, then sulked back to her bed-chambers with her sister.

CAROUSEL BOUTIQUE
TIME: 1015 HOURS

"Oh yes! Come in quickly!" said the purple-maned pony as one of the tall, blue figures walked into her home. Ever since their stay at the hospital, captain Molokus and Rarity had become very close friends, he did not know about the attack on the port, nor did he know about what had happened at Celestia's castle.

He had spent his time at a Union army base in Ponyville, along with other members of the Elite corps. She had poured him tea, and using her magic passed the teacup to him, with a quiet "Thanks.", he grabbed the ceramic cup and sipped from it. He than began talking to her, "Nice place, as usual" he said with a wink. "Why, thank you, it's been a tremendous effort to keep the place clean, especially with Opalescence starting to shed more." Axis did note some white hair on some of the furniture.

All of the sudden, there was a loud, repeating thump on the door, Axis quickly grabbed a revolver he had at his side, and cocked it, "Who is it?" he demanded. Without warning, the door was kicked down and several Union marines walked in, Rarity got frightened and hid under a table. "Where is she?" asked one of the soldiers. "Who?" replied Molokus, "The white mare! We need to speak to her!" he yelled, he pointed to under the table, standing with the soldiers was a chaplain, the old, taller Aerisan "Miss Rarity," he started, "I'm sorry to inform you...but...you're sister, Sweetie Belle, she's been mortally wounded, she can't be visited right now, but the hospital says that she's lost a lot of blood, and her chances of survival are extremely slim. They said she was with two others during the attack on Canterlot Port."

Rarity moved up to Axis before she broke down, clenching onto his leg, he dropped the white teacup, and dumbfounded said, "A-attacked?", the tall soldier said, while he was mostly rough, he did have a softer side, and it was revealed, "Yes, and Gavarixus is soon to declare war on Celestia's army, and anyone helping her will be charged with treason...and sentenced to death. He started with a massive air raid on Canterlot Port, 300 are dead, 600 injured, Rarity's sister, Sweetie Belle, unfortunately, was severely injured in the assault." finished the chaplain, "H-how did she get hurt?" sobbed Rarity, "A rocket fired from a Gladiator's rocket canister hit near her, they're treating her now for bruises, cuts, fractures, and burns, but she's in such a mortally poor state that they said she might...not make it..."

Rarity began crying once more. "We're going to have to see the commander about this." Stated Molokus, as he squatted down and put Rarity in a one armed hug, the chaplain and marines left into their APC, and went back to the base they left from.

UNION HIGH COMMAND CENTER
TIME: 1030 HOURS

Molokus arrived at the massive building via airlift, he spoke to his friend before leaving the Guardian, "Thanks again, Chonrovix,", the pilot responded, "Ah! It was nothing, really!", he patted him on the back, took his M-15 from the special holster inside the door, and waved back at the pilot as the helicopter took off towards Davidson air force base. He walked into the massive gray building, and walked to the control center on the top floor.

The tall, muscular captain stood at attention and saluted, Gavarixus saluted back and asked, "What's the issue, captain?", Molokus, slightly nervous, faced him in the eye and responded, "I've heard that there was an attack on Canterlot Port, as well as a shot stallion. Sir, excuse me, but what the hell is wrong with you?", the commander, coldly staring into Axisus' eyes, spoke, "Are you questioning my authority, Molokus?"

Molokus spoke back, "Yes sir. Its wrong that you need to murder these innocent creatures, what happened to the 5th destroyer fleet and Inspiration was not the princess' fault, nor was the base assaults, I know who did it, and I-" the commander cut him off and emotionless, spoke to him, "You do not question my authority. Your words are useless, I know who it is. Are you siding with the princess?!", Axis silently nodded, the commander, dumbfounded that one of his best soldiers could rebel like this, spoke, "I'm sorry...", Gavarixus started, two guards stood behind Molokus, "Captain Axisus Jerovix Molokus, you are under arrest for acts of treason. You will be moved to Crawson, and you will be sentenced to death by firing squad."

Axis was surprised, Gavarixus was nearly grinning from ear to ear, Axis simply spoke, "You wanted this?! Like hell I'm going to Crawson!" He quickly took the rifle that was clipped to his side, he caught the soldiers off guard by hitting one in the bottom of the jaw with the butt of his rifle. The other guard was about to grab him, but was too late as the captain jabbed him in the stomach with his M-15's muzzle. Suddenly, all the workers brought their sidearms up and pointed them at Molokus, "There's no use running now," Gavarixus said, "Give it up.". He ducked as several tried firing at him, he jumped back up, and with one hand holding onto the rifle shot a couple of workers, the 5.56 millimeter tracers hitting some of the men in the chest, singing a small amount of flesh around their wounds. Molokus then ran to the stairs, he stumbled and fell down the first flight, swore under his breath, but had no time as they started shooting at him.

He kept running down the stairs flight after flight, he reached the building lobby where two marines stood in the doorway, he shot them both in the legs. He quickly ran, he saw a red stallion towing a cart full of apples towards Ponyville. He jumped in the cart and yelled, "Go Big Mac! Go! We need to get the hell out of here.", the large stallion replied with his usual "Eeyup", and started into a full sprint, bullets flying all around him and Molokus. He managed to reach Ponyville, and thanked Big Macintosh for helping him, he nodded and continued his path to Sweet Apple Acres.