Pony Gustloff

by Photo Finish MLP

Rating: everyone
Tags: Tragedy
Length: 1112

The Pony Version of the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy.

Caesar wants to escape the changeling army wich is slowly taking over Germaneigh. But he's not the only one. Almost everypony else wants to, except some crazy ponies and the idiotic ones or the ones who are too old to move. Thier only chance is to escape by Ship to marelin, wich is too far away to fly to. Will he get there?

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-11-07 19:44:02 UTC

1 : The Changelings

Well, I know our army didn't do things good.

But.... Is this a reason to do this?

Sink a ship with 10,000 ponies on board? with 4,000 fillies?

Only 500 soldiers were on this ship. Against 4,000 fillies.

3 thousand young ponies die.

3 hundred soldier died.

and 9,600 grown ponies died.

Let me tell you this story.

Part one : Changelings

Let me tell you about these evil creatures of darkness. They're more than evil.

They are led by a still unknown pony, wich sure have power. And now, they're invading.

Us.

Chapter 2 : The Grand Escape.

When I arrived at the docks, I wasn't the only one. Thousand and thousand of ponies wanted to get on the Gustloff. But you needed to get a ticket, due to the status of "Important Military Docks." I  got a ticket (I was lucky!) Then I boarded the Gustloff. I needed to find a room, and quick, before they were all took. So I went to the pool. I saw there was at least 300 ponies. But I had no choice. I was going to sleep in the pool. (The pool is empty, by the way.) I installed my stuff ; radio, camera, soft bed, pillows, etc. then an hour later, it was time.

The Gustloff had took sail for the first time in 4 years.

Chapter 3 : The night aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff.

I was trying to sleep. But sleeping in a small pool with 372 people in it, thats quite hard. Even if you have everything to sleep. It was hot and disgusting, smells everywhere. So I descided to go up to the upper decks, realising that everything was covered with ice, even the anti-aircraft guns and the lifeboats. They were out of usage. Lifeboats cant be dropped, Anti-Aircraft guns cant be manned. So I took a walk. Then I visited the ship, then I went back to the pool. I finally got to sleep. "It will be a good night's sleep" I tought. then I got sleepy.

The Sinking

I woke up because of a strange sound, then I heard screams and water rushing into something. I instantlly knew the ship was sinking. then I got up and climbed up the pool's stairs. And when I was about to scream "Get up!, the ship is sinking!"............... The glass dome broke, letting water rush in, sharp ceramic and metal peices flying everywhere, then I saw Derpy Hooves running away from the pool. I did like her. Out of the 373 ponies in the pool, only 2 survived. Me and Derpy. While I was running in the corridor, I heard another boom, then I couldn't see anything.

Chapter 6 : The Unbeleivable Truth

When I woke up, I was in the lifeboat. Thousands of corpses were floating around it. I puked. I remembered the Wilhelm Gustloff and the Sinking. It was still night, and I did not saw any pony alive. I saw some red and green lights and an officer's corpse gripped to my lifeboat. I found a dry firework gun. I took it then shot in the sky. I heard a ship horn, then a not-that-large destroyer came. I recognized it. It was a little Germane M-Boot type 1940. I shouted "OVER HERE" and they threw me a rope. I got in the ship. I asked the ship's captain if I was the only survivor. He said no, that there was also 990 other lucky people who survived. I was like "Oh. Plenty." Then I remembered the number of people who boarded the ship.

10 000.

I said "Never mind" and went heat myself. I remembered how hungry I was. So I got to the dining room (not luxurious at all) and served myself a sausage with Frankfort. Yummy. I asked where we were going, the cap'n said ; Marelin.

Chapter 5 : The Final Stand of the Gustloff

...The third torpedo had hit the engine room. No more electricity. Complete darkness on a sinking ship. I stood straight here, without moving, like an idiot. then I felt some ice cold water going around my hooves. So I started walking slowly, trying to know where I was going. I bumped my head on 5 walls. My ear sense said to me that the ship was capsizing. No! It was just sinking by the side... By the side I was trapped in. I thought I was doomed. But then... the lights went on. I was like " huh? ". The rescue generator was on. So I managed to escape the ship maze. When I went to the upper decks, I saw that only one lifeboat  was dropped. Because I was the richest one on the ship, I had some rights that the other ones had not. So I asked an officer how many ponies was on the ship. He said that 7564 were registered. I told him that 10,000 people were counted in. He said to me "Oh really, Sherlock" and he slipped on the ice and fell in the water. I saw a completely filled lifeboat and said to myself "At least theres people who survived this." But then an Anti-Aircraft gun broke free of ice, slipped on the deck and fell on the lifeboat. The ship was really tilted now. I heard screams below me. I looked over the fence of the deck (The ship was tilted so I could see the side of the ship) and saw hundreds of ponies crying for help in the indoor promenade deck, trying to break the bullet-proof glass. I then turned my head and saw thousands of them trying to break free the lifeboats of the ice without a tool. I also saw lifeboats falling on ponies, Officers shooting their own families then shooting themselves, I saw the four captains---- on a capsized lifeboat, watching the ship sinking in horror, thousands of ponies who felt fear, desperation and helplessness as their only was question was "Will i live or die?" I saw fillies, babies, everyone was panicing, crying desperately for help. I then jumped in a lifeboat, the ice cracked, the lifeboat was not hanging on the falling side of the ship. I then started to chew the ropes, with no success. I stole an officer's Luger and shot the ropes. The ropes cracked and the lifeboat fell. I watched the boat sink in awe. the ship was completely on its side now. A captain and an officer tried to break the bulletproof indoor promenade deck glass. Then they got pushed off by wind. The ship completely disappeared, and I fell.

Just Darkness.