PONIES IN ARMS- WAR IN EQUESTRIA

by pvtread

Rating: mature
Tags: Gilda, Other, Adventure, Crossover, Sex, Tragedy, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Sad, Romance, Original Character, Trixie
Length: 13799

first hand account to the horrors that have befallen ponyville, and all of equestria

PLEASE READ

If you are reading this then one of 3 things has happened, 1- I have been killed in combat.
2- I am injured and, and am in a hospital in which case it’s ok to read this.
3- The war is won, and I am now a civilian, after a month this document can be unclassified.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Sex-m.

Pony type- unicorn.

Colors, body, mane, tail- tan, dirty blond for both.

Blood type- o+

Cutie mark- red crosshair.

Distinguishing marks other than cutie mark- large scar above right eye, mechanical right front leg.

If unicorn list abilities- telekinesis levitation of heavy objects mastery of weapons.

Basic weapon of choice, primary, and secondary- mp-5 smg, berretta 9-mm, combat knife.

medals/ribbons- equestrian national guard ribbon, equestrian war on outlanders medal/ribbon, Meritorious Unit Commendation, the equestrian princesses Unit Citation, the Superior Unit Award, Defense Superior Service Medal, x-3, Purple Heart Medal, Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Soldier's Medal, Commendation Medal, magic Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Defense Distinguished Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Silver Star Medal, EQUESTRIAN MEDAL OF HONOR.

Rank- private.

Name- Pvt read.

This story is told through the ponies that lived through the events through a personal journal, through the experiences of the main character, and his thoughts and feelings. Authorization has been given to the reader of these very graphic and sometimes mature thoughts and experiences. There is going to be a lot of jumping from a time to a time, and I hope you all can keep up.

*foot note*

The story begins where it should have ended, i.e it will be told backwards with the ending first and the present last. This is to confuse anypony who manages to get their hooves on this sensitive material. I have kept this in my satchel since this damned war started, keeping track of all the places I have been, and what I have seen in hopes that maybe one day the world as we once knew it would return to normal. However with each passing day I doubt that more and more.

THE JOURNAL OF PVT READ.
PROPERTY OF PVT READ.

Published 2012-03-16 23:34:03 UTC
Last updated 2012-12-05 22:32:46 UTC

Journal entry 3rd page from the back

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The shot had rang out so damned loud that I thought the very planet itself was going to explode. A loud yelp came from the light blue unicorn, my bullet had made contact. The only problem now was I was out of ammo, and bleeding from that fucking sniper, his round burying itself deep into my right flank just above my cutie mark. Seething mad I managed to squeeze off a 3 round burst in the direction of the shot, killing the sniper and in the process emptying my ammo for my mp-5. "Just fucking great" I thought to myself, blood dripping from my flank and pain starting to creep in. DAMN YOU TRIXIE SHOW YOURSELF! I yelled, but got no response. "I know I got her" I thought to myself, if not me then it had to have been Rainbow Dash, of course after the shot she had been severely wounded and fell from the sky, one wing almost completely gone and laying in a heap on the ground not 10 feet from me.

I dared not move in fear of more snipers; I had nothing to worry about though. If I had known just what lay ahead in that tiny town I would have just galloped in. When I finally got the guts to move out into the open my eyes fell upon a sight I will never in my life forget. It was Ponyville, at least what remained of it anyway the E.L.F had laid waste to any and everything standing; looting and burning just about everything. I went into what used to be town hall only to find, "could it actually be this easy" I thought to myself. It was Trixie, or as she now went by the great and powerful war pony Trixie. She had started this and I was the one assigned to end it. Without hesitation I used my magic to pull my 9mm out of its saddlebag and took close aim at the huddled and now frightened light blue unicorn. "BLAAAM" I flew backwards with a sudden burning in my chest, y,, YOU SHOT ME!!, I yelled at her. She looked at me and took aim again, this time I ducked the shot and took close aim, “BLAAAM BLAAM" I didn’t miss this time. I put 2 rounds from my 9mm through the light blue unicorns head ending her life in 2 muzzle flashes. Trixie was now dead and Gilda was now the leader of the E.L.F, I managed to make my way up to the balcony and waited for her to enter the city by air, Gilda instead entered on foot and quickly made it to the town hall. I waited for her to come up the stairs, and when I heard her coming unloaded the rest of my ammo through the wall. I heard the griffon scream in pain, and fall down the stairs; I quickly followed her down and promptly ended her life as well, and made my way back down stairs.

Tired, bleeding and angry at what it had all come down to I collapsed in a heap on the floor next to dash who was bleeding very badly, but had managed to say 2 words to me. "We did it", to which I responded "yes, yes we did".

*FOOT NOTE*

I woke up a few days later in the Ponyville hospital, no memory of anything that had taken place. I had to read this page to figure it all out.

Finding out that I had put an end to what could only be described by any pony that lived through it as hell at the hooves of Trixie and her army made me ecstatic and sad at the same time. The war had been going on for almost a full year before any pony did anything about it sure the royal guards tried to do their best against the E.L.F, but had failed miserably, forcing the 2 princesses Celestia, and Luna to lock themselves in Canterlot Castle for protection. They weren’t cowards by any meaning of the word rather they would send messages to Ponyville and all of Equestria using Celestia's phoenix Philomena, they would secure notes to her, and the pony folk would get daily updates that way as to what was happening around Equestria.

All the ponies of Ponyville had a role in the new combat zone, the Cakes along with Pinkie were in charge of gathering baked goods from the sugar cube corner to feed the massive army that now resided there, Rarity was in charge of making armor, not really much different from what she already did, and she got a fat government contract out of it as well, Fluttershy being the kindhearted pony she was, was put in charge of the medical team along with Nurse Red heart, and Zecora for her knowledge of potions and remedies, the Apple family was given the task of keeping all the ponies fed, and if needed giving every pony use of their apple cellars in the event of a bomb run by the enemy. The school was now a makeshift barracks housing the military, the fillies, and colts were still allowed to hold school there however, after all and education was a great thing to have in those days. Rainbow Dash had an important job as well, her job was not only to keep the weather clear for the equestrian air force, but to alert every pony to anything that was incoming, or possible threats on the ground, the military armed her with a wing mounted Barrett .50 Cal with a heads up display so she could use the sights in flight, this came in handy more than once, and she became quite adapted to using it. Granny Smith along with Apple Bloom when she wasn’t busy spying would make jam and other assorted goody’s for the troops to help them feel at home, Big Mac being one of the strongest ponies in Ponyville was given a rocket launcher to counter any armor the enemy may have tried to bring over the Ponyville bridge he too became quite a great shot and earned several medals for his duty.

SUBJECT, TWILIGHT SPARKLE
Main objective- keep her alive
Sex-f
Pony type- unicorn
Blood type- n/a
Cutie mark- red star inlayed with white surrounded by 5 smaller white stars
Distinguishing marks other than cutie mark- n/a
if unicorn what if any attributes does the subject possess- telekinesis, reading, vast knowledge of magic, levitation, teleportation, ELEMENT OF MAGIC.

MISSION FAIL- if subject is either killed, or taken hostage

My mission was not only to kill Trixie, but to keep Twilight Sparkle alive. That was what I was told when I got my orders. Under no circumstances are you to let her out of your sight my commander had drilled this into my head on several occasions.

Twilight was the prized student of Celestia herself with vast knowledge of just about anything in the field of magic. in order for her to get anything done now that she was a target on the E.L.F army's list she used her devoted friend and confidant Spike who was a dragon, and Owlowiscious an owl she had adopted as a pet, she would send messages to her friends through both of them, if the ground way was hostile she’d send Owlowiscious, with Dash by his side at all times, if the air was too crowded with Pegasi doing drills, or bombing runs then Spike would go. Infact pets played an important role throughout the war; Applejack on several occasions would be sent out to the rubble of a bombed out place with her faithful dog Wynona and find survivors, or in some cases bodies. It often was a grim task, and a lot of times would get to her but she knew she was doing a great service. The C.M.C also had a part to play in this war; seeing as they were fillies they made perfect spies, they would sneak around and gather Intel on enemy movements through the ever free forest and several other locations.

jounal page 3rd from the begining, how this all started

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How did this whole thing start you ask. About a couple of years back Trixie had come to Ponyville showing off her magic and being quite boastful about it. She had shown almost all of the main 6 up and humiliated them. All that was except for Twilight Sparkle; she had not wanted any part in Trixie’s boasting and was content to just let things work themselves out. That was until 2 young ponies got her involved in a not so good way. They had awoken a sleeping ursa minor thinking it was an ursa major, and led it into Ponyville where the 2 wanted to see if Trixie could defeat it. In the end Trixie ran in fright leaving Twilight to pacify the beast. In the process showing Trixie up and causing a hate to grow inside her. Anywhere she went after this incident she was continually reminded of the event and how powerful twilight was. This hate grew stronger and stronger until one day she couldn’t take it anymore, and started looking in every low place she could find for ponies that were willing to join her in a quest for power. Then it happened she met a griffon named Gilda in a bar one day who overheard her talking about how she had been run out of Ponyville with her tail between her legs. Gilda spoke up and said that she too had been run out of Ponyville by a former friend and how she had always wanted revenge.

The 2 quickly got a small army together Gilda was put in charge of the air wing, and Trixie was in charge of the ground troops. In no time at all they had a huge army of outcasts and low lives who were all looking for some sort of revenge on Ponyville, and quickly started a simple uprising in Equestria. This uprising quickly became a slaughter with the precision air strikes by the griffon air force followed by the almost calculated attacks by the ground forces. They were the mop up crews, they would go door to door in any place they were and either look for recruits, or fillies for deviant behavior and sexual pleasure.

The army had made it all the way to Canterlot in a flash and had in no real battle at all ended up subdueing the royal guards. It was the magic of the 2 princesses that saved them both by blocking any and all access to the castle and Canterlot. The army had an agenda and it was to take over all of Equestria saving Ponyville for very last. The ponies of Ponyville had no escape, and the only one who could do something about this was the mayor of Ponyville. That’s where I and my unit come into the picture.

I really hadn’t planned on seeing any combat in my service in the equestrian National Guard; In fact I was quite content on post in the state of Haywaii on the island of Oatwahu. I mean come on it was paradise. Sun, beaches, and plenty of fillies to romp with. After all I was in the equestrian army so why not take advantage of it all. It wasn’t like there had been a war in years, so why would there be one now? I had to ask that stupid question, I heard the announcement over the radio.

*WE INTERUPT YOUR BROADCAST TO BRING YOU A SPECIAL REPORT FROM THE EBN*

This is not a drill; all units of the equestrian military have hereby been activated and are scheduled for immediate deployment to the mainland. A conflict has broken out in the lands of Equestria. There have been several killings thus far, a group calling themselves the Equestrain Liberation Front has started a war on Equestria saying that it is run by an oppressive government and is not acting in the interests of everypony. They have set their sights now on the sleepy quiet town of Ponyville. The mayor of that town has declared a state of emergency and has asked for assistance from any unit of the EQNG TO HELP OUT. AGAIN THIS IS NOT A DRILL, ALL UNITS OF THE EQNG HAVE HEREBY BEEN ACTIVATED EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY THANK YOU. WE NOW RETURN YOU TO THE MUSIC HOUR WITH DJ PON-3 AND OCTAVIA.

I remember it like it was yesterday, being rushed about like a herd of cattle from one place to the next in preparation for the upcoming deployment. Getting issued armor, canteens, combat packs, holsters for my weapons, and ammunition for both my mp-5 and 9mm, along with everything else that comes along with a deployment.

It really didn’t sink in until we were on the transports heading for the mainland, the Equestrain Air Force overhead led by the Wonder Bolts commanded by both Spitfire, and Soarin. We had a sizeable military and thought we would be home in about a week; yeh right, the minute we hit land the attacks came fast and hard. Gilda’s air wing had advanced warning of our coming, and was ready for us. Within the first few minutes of our landing half the unit was gone, bombed by the unrelenting air wing. Those who managed to make it to land were cut down by a hail of fire from caves, and a mass of fortifications that we hadn’t been ready for, including 3 quad barrel .50cal anti air guns. The anti-air guns made short work of most of our air force killing almost half of them. Those that managed to land safely huddled with us and had to make the rest of the landing on hoof. I was not ready for this by any stretch of the word and vomited quite a bit at seeing all my friends being shot to hell, or blown up by mines; but I somehow gathered the strength to make it to our first objective with what little support I could gather from the beach.

The first objective was a small radar outpost the enemy was using to track us. If we took it out they would hopefully be blind and we could land what was left of our troops. However getting to it proved more difficult than the landing itself, it wasn’t guarded at all, or so we thought until one of my friends started up the hill only to be blown to kingdom come by a hidden mine. "DAMN IT ALL TO HELL, WHY THE FUCK ARE WE EVEN HERE!" I yelled, maybe I was just a tad upset at seeing one of my good friends now a puddle of goo; whatever it was I told one of the few Pegasi that were with me to see if they could fly up the hill just off the ground, and look for any mines that were exposed, and either 1- find a way around them, or 2- fly high enough with rocks and drop them on the mines to detonate them. To my utter shock he agreed, and we made it up the hill that way. He would spot them and we would either wait for detonation, or go around them. We made it to the radar outpost and made quick work of it, tossing a few grenades into it killing the occupants and disabling the radar. The place we had landed was in mid Caulifornia which meant we had a long hard fight just to get to Ponyville ahead of us.

Las Pegasus

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WELCOME TO LAS PEGASUS

WHERE ALL YOUR DREAMS COULD COME TRUE

I remember reading that sign like it was just yesterday, if they meant nightmares than yes they did come true. We fought our way out of Caulifornia and into hell, even though I was only a private I found myself in charge of a sizeable force consisting of 4 Pegasi, a sniper, 2 heavy weapons ponies, a mine clearing pony, and a machine gun pony with both a saw, and an m-240. I was quite happy with myself. These were the very same ponies that had been with me when we destroyed the small radar outpost. Tired weary and thirsty you could only imagine our thoughts of luck when we happened upon Las Pegasus. Our hopes were short lived though, the place had been burned, looted and raised to the ground bodies of ponies lay about the streets, and there was an uneasy feeling as though we were being watched. I ordered my sniper to take up a good position and look for any movement in the deserted city. Next I deployed the 2 heavy weapons ponies to a secure area overlooking the city to keep an eye on the air. The mine clearing pony was already at work clearing any mines that happened to be in our way as we slowly made our way through the city. The machine gun pony stuck with me along with the 4 Pegasi. It was a scary position to find myself in, and I didn’t like it one bit. "BLAMM BLAAMM", 2 shots rang out of nowhere, my sniper pony alerting me to the fact that indeed we weren’t alone. I quickly gathered everypony and we found a shelter from which to deploy the proper tactics in this situation.

I sent one of the Pegasus ponies into the air with cover fire from the machine gun pony to draw out the attacker. It worked like a charm, and my sniper pony was able to take out the enemy pony. If only it had ended there, I did the only thing I could think of at the moment and yelled into the destroyed city. “COME OUT AND SHOW YOURSELVES YOU COWERDS, WHO IS IN THERE?" I yelled, yeh in hindsight not the greatest of ideas, "pop,pop,pop pop,pop, pop" gunfire suddenly erupted all around us. We ducked and returned what fire we could, not knowing where the fire was coming from or from whom, until we heard a voice in the street say to us "WHO IN THE FUCK ARE YOU, AND WHY ARE YOU HERE?", to which I yelled back, "MY NAME IS PVTREAD OF THE EQUESTRIAN NATIONAL GAURD, YOU ARE SURROUNDED SHOW YOURSELVES AND YOU WILL NOT BE HURT". I had hoped that threat that had absolutely no merit would garner a response, and to my shock it did.

I suddenly found myself along with my small unit overwhelmed with not the enemy which I was certainly ready for. The ponies in the city actually turned out to be a rather sizeable resistance force who had driven out what was left of the enemy army using weapons and armor they had gotten off of the first wave that came through. I asked their leader if there were any supplies in the city, and a place for my small tired unit to sleep for the night and he said yes. Taking into consideration that my sniper had killed one of them, their leader surprisingly understood and agreed to us giving the fallen resistance pony a proper funeral, he even told us where we could find some water.

We were all on edge since the encounter, and everypony had a sickening feeling in their gut that something bad was about to happen. "THERE IN THE SKY ABOUT 4 OCLOCK" I heard one of my heavy weapons ponies say. "DAMN IT TO FUCKING HELL" I thought to myself. Great just fucking great my unit was in no shape for an air attack, we had barely any ammo for the rocket launcher, and the Gatling gun was out. You could only imagine my thoughts and the thoughts of everypony in the burned out city when 2 Pegasi landed in front of all of us. "Oh sorry everypony" the grey Pegasus pony wearing a mail satchel on her back said. "Allow me to introduce myself and my companion, I’m Derpy Hooves of the Equestrian Postal Service", "and I’m Rainbow Dash, her well for lack of a better word bodyguard". Everypony laughed at this when the one calling herself a bodyguard pulled and old rusty beat to shit .22cal out of a bag she had on her back. "Really,, really,,, you have got to be joking me" I told her. She looked at me cross and with a serious look on her face. "I have killed my fair share of the enemy with this here gun of mine". It was all I could do to not laugh my ass off at the serious looking Pegasus pony, "Your serious aren’t you?" I asked her. "Yes,, yes I am" she said. With that I called the 4 combat ready, tough, and tired air force ponies over to me to give her a once over. "Yup I think that’s an awesome idea" one said to the rest of them. With that Dash got a complete combat pack and a new weapon. They gave her an under wing Barrett .50 cal along with a small heads up display so she could use the sights on the rifle. I along with the rest of the greatly increased force I now had would teach Rainbow Dash all we knew about combat and tactics. It was then that she told us about the dire situation throughout Equestria, and how she and Derpy were the only ones who were brave enough to face the challenges of the situation so mail service would continue throughout Equestria.

Rainbow Dash told all of us about the day she had acquired the rusty .22cal rifle, and how it had almost cost her everything. She and Derpy were on a mail run when out of nowhere they were ambushed by a member of the griffon air wing and were forced to land. Surrounded and with really no escape they had to fight out of the situation, and fight they did. Bucking, biting, doing whatever it took to get away, in the process almost being shot by that very same gun. Dash had kicked the weapon out of the mouth of the earth pony in doing so made her very first kill ever, knocking out the teeth and breaking the jaw of the attacker, she took the gun. Not knowing how to use the damn thing and nearly shooting her own hoof off, but then taking a deep breath and aiming the weapon at the quivering pony blew her brain out with a loud pop. "Well Dash" I said "this weapon has a bit of a kick to it, but it’s a lot more powerful and accurate than that rusty thing, oh speaking of that here you go" I handed her weapon back to her cleaned and polished even with the letters RD etched in the handle along with plenty of ammo for both weapons. I talked to both Dash and Derpy for a long time, seeing as I had grown up in Ponyville and as it turns out had gone to school with the 2 of them "small world" I thought to myself. I asked them about the situation in Ponyville, and the news made my insides turn. Ponyville had become a refugee stop for all of Equestria, and a gathering place for spies, criminals, resistance fighters, mercenaries, and those running from the violence in Equestria. Great just what we need in this mercenaries, "FUCK" I thought that means one thing and one thing only, getting around is going to be a bitch.

Our time in Las Pegasus had come to an end, in all reality it actually hadn’t been hell it was actually almost the closest thing to a break in the fighting we had seen in quite some time, our hosts bid us a fond farewell. Rainbow Dash, and Derpy were now with us, "OH SHIT, DAMN IT HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID" that thought suddenly raced through my head. Pulling out my orders I read through them all and my eyes stopped on one right away, I ordered the unit back to Las Pegasus in a flash.

*THE FOLLOWING PONIES ARE ALL CONCIDERED MISSION SENCITIVE SUBJECTS*

Sex-f.

Pony type- Pegasus.

Blood type- n/a.

Colors, body, mane, tail- blue, rainbow for both.

Reason of importance- ELEMENT OF LOYALTY.

*mission fail- if subject is taken hostage, or killed*

Your unit has not only been tasked with taking out the 2 warmongers, but also if you come into contact with any of the following subjects keep them alive and well. This order has been handed down directly by the 2 princesses themselves, you will fail your mission if you allow any of these 6 ponies to be captured or killed.

*SUBJECTS IN QUESTION*

Earth pony- Applejack, ELEMENT, HONESTY.
Earth pony- Pinkie Pie, ELEMENT, LAUGHTER.
Unicorn- Rarity, ELEMENT, GENEROSITY.
Pegasus- Fluttershy, ELEMENT, KINDNESS.
Pegasus- Rainbow Dash, ELEMENT, LOYALTY.
UNICORN- TWILIGHT SPARKLE, ELEMENT, MAGIC.

Upon reading this I showed the orders to Rainbow Dash who was shocked and surprised, but was willing to stay with us. Derpy was more than welcome to join us as well and she did. She was armed and equipped with a combat pack, and an under wing rifle as well. This added 2 more air assets to my small outfit which was great for me. Dash proved to be quite a shot with the rifle she had been fitted with, and added a bit of extra air cover when needed. Derpy became the unofficial mail pony for the military, and was very happy to finally be serving her country in a way that didn’t often involve being chased by a dog, or yelled at for accidently delivering the wrong mail to some pony. She also became quite a shot and in no time flat I had 6 aces with me. They worked in teams and scored several kills this way, they would draw out the attackers and the rest of the unit would take action, the sniper keeping the enemy’s head down and unable to fire, while the air support would bomb the place they were hiding. The Pegasus ponies even became quite adapted to air combat as well each shooting down 13 enemy fighters.

the stone monument and the 6 ponies

IN HONOR OF PVTREAD AND HIS COURAGOUS ACTIONS IN DEFEATING THE 2 WARMONGERS WHO HAD EVERY INTENT ON DETROYING EVERYTHING THAT WE ALL LIVE AND STAND FOR.

It is on this very site that Pvt Read, along with his small unit made their last stand, and was finally able to free Ponyville, killing the remnants of the equestrian liberation front. The small unit of his not only killed Trixie, but also the newly elected leader of the force Gilda. In doing so Pvt Read lost almost his entire unit to being wounded or killed, in the process being severely wounded himself, being shot in the flank by an enemy sniper. Who subsequently was killed by rainbow dash, which herself being severely wounded, having most of her right wing shot off by a member of the E.L.F air wing, was able to pull Pvt Read to safety. We as equestrians and fellow ponies in arms dedicate this statue and monument to the thoughtless, brave, and heroic acts of all who suffered and died in this war that has changed all of our lives forever.

KILLED IN ACTION IN PONYVILLE

NAME- SPIKE, DRAGON- KIA DEFENDING THE DOORS TO THE LIBRARY TO PROTECT TWILIGHT SPARKLE

NAME- BIGMACINTOSH, EARTH PONY- KIA DEFENDING THE PONYVILLE BRIDGE DURING THE THE BEGINING OF THE BATTLE FOR PONYVILLE

NAME- ZECORA, ZEBRA- KIA TRYING TO GATHER THE INGREDIENTS FOR A POTION TO HELP BIGMACINTOSH SURVIVE HIS WOUNDS SUSTAINED ON THE PONYVILLE BRIDGE, IN THE EVERFREE FOREST BY SNIPER

NAME- APPLE BLOOM, EARTH PONY- KIA GATHERING INTEL ON ENEMY POSITIONS AND SPYING ON TROOP MOVEMENTS

NAME- WYNONNA, COLLIE- KIA WHILE SHE AND APPLEJACK WERE LOOKING FOR SURVIVORS IN A BOMBED OUT BUILDING WHEN THE BUILDING COLLAPSED

NAME- THUNDERBOLT, PEGASUS- KIA IN THE DEFENCE OF THE PONYVILLE TOWNHALL AFTER BEING SHOT DOWN BY SNIPER

NAME- TURBO, EARTH PONY- KIA CLEARING MINES AFTER BEING SHOT BY SNIPER

NAME- GLORY, UNICORN- KIA GIVEING COVERFIRE TO TURBO BY SNIPER

NAME- DERPY HOOVES, PEGASUS- KIA TRYING TO GATHER LETTERS FROM DEAD AND DIENG PONYS TO GET THEM TO THE PONYVILLE POST OFFICE BY ANTI AIR GUN

NAME- TOP SHOT, UNICORN- KIA WHEN HIS SNIPER POSITION WAS GIVEN AWAY

NAME- ACE, PEGASUS- KIA WHEN SHOT DOWN BY ANTI AIR TRYING TO PROTECT DERPY HOOVES

The purple unicorn had her hoof on the small etched stone, tears streaming down her face. "I, I can’t believe this happened to our quiet peaceful town". The tears were flowing fast and hard when she looked over to Applejack who was inconsolable at the loss of almost her entire family in Ponyville. Applejack was hugging Rainbow Dash who had a mechanical wing with a blue paint job and a permanent under wing .50cal. Pinkie was just beside herself and in no mood to party, laugh, or have any fun at the moment. She had a deep wound in her flank from a small fire arm of some sort, and was busy hugging Applejack with Dash. Twilight had so much on her mind it was driving her to the point of insanity, she was thinking of Pvt Read, and all they had been through both war wise and relationship wise. That’s right relationship; she and he had gotten caught in the library unable to go anywhere else until that stupid sniper pony had left the town in the morning. It started innocently enough with twilight being scared for her life after finding out that she had a bounty on her head, along with the rest of the 6 ponies representing the elements of harmony. Pvt Read had told her of his orders and even showed them to her so she would get it that it was a bad idea to venture outside the library, since spike had been killed. Twilight with no other choice reluctantly agreed to have Pvt Read stay with her in the library, and to let him protect her. Besides how much trouble could an actively serving member of the equestrian army be for me? She thought. She was in for a shock, and she just didn’t know it yet. It started when a bombing run by the E.L.F left Ponyville without power. Pvt Read had to go check on the generators to see how bad off they were. Twilight asked him to stay and send another pony to check on them telling him she was scared. Ok Pvt Read said to her I will stay here with you, you wouldn’t happen to have anything strong to drink,,, before he could finish his words she was in the room with a bottle of apple whisky. Finest in Equestria she said to him, home grown apples by our very own Apple family. Now Pvt Read wasn’t stupid by any stretch of the word and knew just where this was leading. They started by gently nuzzling each other and pecking at each other’s lips until they kissed, Pvt Read knowing full well what he was doing and not caring one bit. Twilight was sweet and if a bit nerdy, but she had something about her that he just couldn’t resist, and wasn’t going to even if he could. Twilight knowing exactly what she was doing also had not a care in the world either, so they ended up in that inevitable of circumstances and rutted all night long into the morning. Twilight had only her thoughts now, thoughts of a wildly passionate night and what could have come from it. Sadly nothing would come of it, I too was remembering that night and how I had actually fallen for Twilight and actually had thoughts of staying behind when my unit left. It wasn’t meant to be though. I along with the 6 ponies we had kept alive had changed, not just physical appearance but emotional as well. Applejack now had to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, and take up the responsibilities of both Apple Bloom, and Big Mac. She now had to get along also without the company of her beloved dog. Dash had to get along knowing that one of her best friends was now gone forever, and not coming back along with having to get used to the new mechanical wing of hers. Pinkie had lost some feeling in her flank due to the bullet wound. That was nothing compared to the constant nightmares, sleepless nights, and having to console Applejack for months to come. Rarity's boutique had suffered major damage, and she was a wreck financially after the war ended. Fluttershy yeeeeesh, let’s just say flutter bitch was around for a good long time, following all she had seen being a member of the medical team. It wasn’t her fault though, it was the only way she could cope with all she had seen and been through. The war against the E.L.F had changed us all, some for the better and some for the worst. The estimated cost of it all was staggering, the loss of life even more, and the toll on every pony’s nerves uncountable. Me, heck I stayed in the army and went active, my acts in combat earning me the equestrian Medal of Honor, and my very own unit to lead which consisted of the remainder of the unit I had since landing in Caulifornia along with replacements for the fallen. I refused a massive advance in rank because to me the ground was where I was meant to be, not behind a desk in the rear. I did however request a change in post and got it. I knocked on the library door early in the evening and waited for it to open so I could surprise her. "Just a minute" I heard that sweet voice say, she opened the door and was immediately in my hooves at first she kicked and bit me, needless to say she had remembered the basic anti attacker training I had given her, but when she realized just who it was that was holding her the kicking and biting stopped, and the kissing started I was finally home.

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WELCOME TO PONY HELL.

I had to read the sign twice; yup that’s what it now said. No longer the welcoming cheerful sign to my old hometown but a grim and dark message, me and my unit made it to the Ponyville bridge just after sunrise, and were greeted by a rather large and well-built pony asking who we were and why we were in their town. I showed the stallion my id, and told him we were under orders to hold Ponyville at all costs. The stallion calling himself big Macintosh had no real weapon other than a shovel he had sharpened to a razors edge. We all showed our id’s and were permitted to cross the bridge, having heard what I had from Dash, and Derpy I really was expecting hell. What I got was actually quite a shock instead, yes Ponyville had become a stop for refugees, and some low lives but in all honesty it wasn’t all that bad. A lot of the stores were open for business the Sugar Cube Corner was busy as usual, and no pony seemed to even have a clue as to what was going on around the rest of Equestria, or if they did they just didn’t seem that worried. I flagged a pony down and asked her who was in charge and was directed to the town hall. I along with my unit was escorted there and had a face to face meeting with the mayor of Ponyville. I asked her if they were aware of the carnage and war that was going on around them, and she took me for a walk, one I’ll never forget. Yes we know about it she said showing me a small steadily growing graveyard with fresh graves being dug, "bombing raid" one of several in the last few days". Turned out that the inner part of Ponyville was not being targeted, rather the raids were targeting the outlying areas making Ponyville a perfect target for a massive strike when the time was right, one that could have wiped the entire population off the maps for good, "we had a small band of mercenaries come through saying that they could protect us for the right price. We had no choice but to accept the offer, they didn’t even last a night, turns out they were so strung out and drunk that a group of 3 E.L.F ponies took out a squad of 6 mercenaries ". "Pathetic mercenaries ", I said "when will they ever learn that yes they often provide a good service, but they just don’t have the combat skills to deal with hardly anything even remotely close to real combat". I told the mayor that we were in Ponyville for the long haul and were ordered to hold the town at all cost.

My first act as new acting commander of Ponyville was to get the town as ready for attack as possible. This was easier said than done. Rainbow Dash and Derpy already knew about all the new ways of doing business in Ponyville, and how to avoid getting into trouble with any outsiders. They both became quite valuable assets to me, seeing as I didn’t know how to deal with the outsiders who now took up residence in Ponyville, I would use them to gather any Intel they could get from them and in return, either Derpy would offer to send their family a message, or dash would offer them whatever she could spare at the time. Seeing as Ponyville was rather spread out and I now had a role to play in the town’s defenses, I would have the Pegasus ponies become their very own unit, kind of a town air force. Dash proved time and time again in her time with my unit that she was capable of being a leader, so I put her in charge of the new Ponyville air force. She would be in charge of recruiting, and training new recruits. She did an outstanding job and in no time flat had a sizeable air wing all her own, not including the 4 I had as my personal air cover. Next was gathering Intel on enemy activity in the area, yes I could gather Intel from outsiders, but I wanted to have up to date Intel. This came in 3 ready for anything fillies who all lived in Ponyville, and often would take adventures into the ever free forest where the E.L.F had set up a small base of operations. The 3 fillies called themselves the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and were very adept at gathering Intel. At first I was against the idea, but then they proved to me just what they had been doing this whole time, and showed me their clubhouse with maps, names, security codes, you name it these fillies could get it needless to say I now had spies. Next was armor something that we found in a very unlikely place, a dress shop. "Hello there I’m Rarity" a fancy if not alluring voice said to me, shaking off the thoughts I had of being a naughty colt I regained my composure and extended my hoof "I’m Pvt Read" I said with a firm hoof shake. "Nice to meet you" rarity said, "Anyways the reason I’m here" I said quickly changing the subject "oh yeh you need armor don’t you for your unit". "Yes,, yes I do and I was told that you could make it for us", she looked at me and gave me a smile "sure I can do that for you". With that the meeting was over, I turned to trot away when I heard her laughing when she entered her boutique. I looked into the window seeing her with a member of my unit, I was going to say something but thought better and said to myself "they deserve it" besides had I known the outcome of the impending attack I would have wished they could get married and get out of the military.

The next pony I met was named Applejack. I met her in a bombed out outlying area sifting through the rubble of a former home with her dog who was barking wildly at something in the rubble. I trotted over to the scene and helped Applejack move stuff, and to my surprise there was a small huddled filly in a corner alive and well just a bit thirsty. I opened my canteen and gave the tiny scared filly a sip out of it. "Yup" I heard Applejack say to me "this here rubble is clear on to the next", as we walked down what used to be the road we got to talking. As it turned out the Apple family’s property hadn’t been hit yet, despite being on the outskirts of Ponyville and a perfect target for attack. "Nope we aint been hit yet in fact when we have advanced warning of an incoming attack we let the pony folk hunker down in our apple cellars their nice and deep and provide great cover". The tiny filly we had just rescued spoke up and said "thank you Miss Applejack you saved my family on several occasions, but this time they came from nowhere and it was over in a flash". "Awwwh shucks little filly aint nothin at all, glad I can at least do something to make things somewhat better for the pony folk". I spent the rest of my day with Applejack learning new things that would be useful later on when we turned for Ponyville hospital.

"Awwwwww you poor filly" I heard the most delicate voice I had ever heard in my life say, as the pink maned yellow Pegasus took the filly into a room and started gathering information on what had happened. I was in love or at least I thought I was that voice, oh my stars it had melted me from the inside and I could have sworn I was leaking love. I took a minute to regain my composure and went into the room with the pink maned Pegasus and asked her name, oh Celestia I could have just turned to a puddle of goo at her words. In the softest most adorable voice I had ever heard in my life I heard these words, "I’m Fluttershy" no words none I had to leave the room to stop my heart from jumping out of my chest. She had followed me and had a confused look on her face "did I say something wrong?" "uhh no, no you didn’t" I gathered my wits and tried to hold a conversation with her without bursting out and saying I wanted to marry her. She told me that since the war had started, she being the one with a kind heart and ability to help and communicate with the animals, along with being a somewhat medically inclined pony she had joined the hospital staff as a calming and healing care provider. "I try to gather any information I can on what happened, and if need be I console them in times of loss" she told me. "Me being so in tuned with the animals, I use them to gather useful information as to bombed out houses, along with stuck or trapped ponies and pass the information on to Applejack so she can rescue them with her dog sniffing them out they have rescued quite a few ponies since all of this started."

The next pony I was introduced to was none other than Pinkie Pie needless to say my unit got an immediate party welcome, and we partied into the night with her and the rest of the remainder of Ponyville. Sadly this would be one of the very last party’s she would throw in quite some time, for the time being we had a blast at the party. The next day Pinkie introduced me to the Cakes the owners of the Sugar Cube bakery, a place I knew all too well when I was young. The smell of the place made me think of happier days, and when I was a young colt. The Cakes agreed to help in feeding my unit and told us everything would be on the house. We make plenty of cash selling to refugees and outsiders so it’s not a big deal they said.

The last of the 6 ponies representing the elements of harmony I met was Twilight Sparkle, a purple unicorn that represented the element of magic. She lived in a tree err library whatever it was it was her house. She was a very smart and adapt pony at magic, and had several books on subjects that would eventually help us in the upcoming battle for Ponyville. The Elements of Harmony were all here with me, and it was up to me and my unit to protect them "oh goody what fun" I thought. Here I am in a small town that I was once a colt in, now it’s being bombed and is on a collision course with the war that surrounds us all. Sure there were other places in Equestria that needed as much help as they could get, but our orders were to hold Ponyville, so that’s what I set to work on doing. To my surprise a lot of the population were actually members of the resistance and helped us a lot in getting the town ready for the upcoming attack. I placed my sniper pony in the tower on town hall, the 2 heavy weapons ponies joined Big Mac on the Ponyville Bridge he was armed with a rocket launcher mounted in a combat pack. The mine clearing pony became a mine laying pony he placed them on the opposite side of the bridge and around the outskirts of the ever free forest. My machine gun pony was placed inside the library on the balcony facing the forest. The town was as secure as we could make it, and there were a few anti air guns around the city we had plenty of ammo and a decent fighting force the only thing to do now was wait.

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We were attacked a bit here and there for a few days. Those were simply poking attacks looking for any weakness in our defenses needless to say there were none; we were very well protected and were able to defeat all the attackers. If only I knew what they were really doing, I would have had some pony collect all the fallen ammo, and armor but I didn’t think of that until I saw the enemy doing that very same thing. "DAMN IT, FUCK GRAB WHAT YOU CAN OFF OF THE ENEMY THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE US RUN OUT OF AMMO" I yelled to my unit. They all went out to collect the ammo, armor, and whatever else they could collect. Shots rang out all over the place and suddenly I heard the one thing I never wanted to hear. INCOMEING AIR UNITS 2, 3, 4, AND 5 OCLOCK" my machine gun pony on the balcony of the library yelled to me this chilling report. "Don’t worry they aren’t coming this way, they are on the outskirts of town" he told me. "Where are they?" I asked, he told me that they were on the outskirts of town and I just ran. I got to the hospital and found Applejack who was already getting ready to run outside and into the barrage. I pulled her tail with my entire mite and stopped her from going out and getting herself killed. "Look Applejack" I said, "you going out and getting yourself killed will never accomplish anything, just wait for the bombing to stop and then we’ll all go out and check on what has happened ok". She looked at me with tears in her eyes and agreed "ok I’ll wait" she said. Another night and more attacks, this time the ever free forest was lit up by a flair, and there was a pop in the forest. As it turned out, that that pop was one of my spy fillies’ being shot and killed. Well she hadn’t been instantly killed, and was trying to make it to the bridge and her older brother. She made it to the center of the bridge and was instantly scooped up by BigMac, and rushed to the Ponyville hospital. Fluttershy was already at work helping the panting and bleeding filly stay calm. Applejack rushed past me followed by Rarity who had a shotgun in tow levitated by her magic. I yelled for the 2 ponies to stop, but they said nothing and kept running "TOPSHOT COVER THOSE 2 PONIES DAMN IT!!!!" with that the sniper pony of mine was off in a flash and ran into the forest to climb a tree. The gunfire in the forest went on all night long; no griffon air wing came in to see what was happening and instead let the E.L.F ponies fight it out on their own. The next day Applejack and Rarity came out of the forest rarity levitating several weapons and other supplies.

That night had done something to Applejack and made her become a killing machine. I sent a cleanup crew into the forest and was stopped by what I saw. Ponies, piles and piles of dead ponies most with kicked in heads and broken ribs, the rest just shot to hell with the shotgun. All I could do was stare and clear the bodies out of the forest, that day every pony went to see Apple Bloom and wish her well. The yellow filly was on life support and gave a weak smile to me, and said these words to me. "They are planning something big I, I tried to get in close but I broke a twig, next thing I knew I felt a sting in my side, and just started to crawl to the Ponyville bridge". Apple Bloom died that night and was buried in the Ponyville cemetery; acting under my own accord I placed a medal on her grave. I then thought back to the message she had given me, I stopped all spy activity to spare the lives of the remaining 2 CMC. "They are planning something big huh" I thought, another night another small battle. This time the bombing was closer, and a sniper pony had managed to get into Ponyville shooting several ponies and staying the whole night long not allowing any movement in the town. The bombing was close and knocked out one of our generators, I was going to try to fix it but Twilight was scared, so I had to send another pony to fix it. This just happened to be the night that I and twilight ended up rutting. I have a tendency of losing time and I know I have put that it was the final night of the attack on Ponyville in another journal entry, and would just like to correct this mistake. The final fight for Ponyville would begin about 4 days after the night we rutted.

It all started with the bridge coming under attack. The fight was brutal and in the end the defenses fell leaving the guards to abandon the bridge, and allow the E.L.F to cross. in fear of being killed the guards jumped off the bridge and into the water below, BigMac stayed behind to allow the 2 other ponies he was with to escape, in the process he was severely wounded. BigMac stood his ground until he was told by the other 2 ponies he was with to just abandon the bridge. Having been severely wounded the big red stallion was able to make it to the hospital. Zecora knowing just what to do went out into the forest and started collecting plants, and other things she needed for a pain reliever, when she was shot by a sniper, she fell where she was. Derpy was at work collecting letters and notes from ponies wanting to get messages to their families, and was in mid-flight over the forest, when a burst of anti-air broke out. Derpy ducked this and returned to Ponyville "DAMN YOU DERPY DONT GO GETTING YOURSELF KILLED" I yelled but she didn’t listen and was cut down trying to collect a letter from a member of my unit the scream of pain was disheartening and one of my Pegasus ponies went immediately to her aid only to also be cut down also.

This time the entire griffon air wing came in along with none other than Trixie. They meant business and quickly over ran the town guns blazing and ponies falling left and right. I gathered whatever ponies remained from my unit and told them to hold the town hall and protect the mayor and her family. It was no use though and the E.L.F quickly surrounded the town hall. My sniper pony was a great shot and he made quick work of quite a few of the enemy until his position was given away by a flair, he was quickly executed and that put an end to me having sniper capabilities. In all of the confusion my mine clearing pony was caught in the open and taken out by a sniper who had taken top shot’s spot, and was already proving to be a problem taking out any pony that came near town hall where Trixie had the mayor hostage. I ordered what little troops I had into the ever free forest to clear it out and went with them to do so. The bridge having been bombed from the air was a treacherous crossing now and threatened to collapse under us. We made it to the edge of the forest and set up our position with whatever weapons we had on us, all the time Ponyville was being bombed. Dash and the rest of the air wing that she had created were proving their worth in spades, knocking the enemy from the air as they came in. After clearing the forest we turned back to Ponyville and across the now weakened bridge, where we saw a sight that none of us would ever forget. Ponyville was in ruins, and worst still Trixie was holed up in town hall. Dash was flying above the destruction and taking out several enemies along with what remained of the air wing of ours. It was a disaster "war in Ponyville death, destruction, and so much damage" I thought to myself. "FOR WHAT AND WHAT IS THIS ACCOMPLISHING TRIXIE" I yelled into the now empty town. Trixie actually answered and yelled back, "BECAUSE I WANT ALL THE POWER THERE IS TO HAVE. I AM NOW A POWERFUL WARPONY AND I WILL RULE OVER THIS LAND." She had exposed herself just a bit when a shot rang out; I wasn’t sure if it was from me or Dash because she was right above me. Either way I heard a loud yelp come from the light blue unicorn, and thought it was a good time to enter town hall when out of nowhere that dammed sniper got me, the bullet lodging into my flank just above my cutie mark. Not 2 seconds later Dash fell out of the sky 10 feet from me, she had gotten the sniper to expose himself for a brief instant, enough for me to squeeze off a 3 round burst killing him. I made it into the town hall and found my target hiding under a desk. "GOT YOU NOW BITCH" I yelled at her and took aim, a shot rang out and I was sent flying backwards, a massive pain in my chest. "Y,, YOU FUCKING SHOT ME" I screamed at her in pain. Gathering what little strength I could and levitating my 9mm, I aimed at her head and pulled the trigger Trixie had been neutralized now came Gilda. I climbed to the top of the town hall tower and waited for her, holding that sniper rifle and plenty of ammo. Gilda was smart though and came in on foot, she had entered town hall and was on her way up to the tower where I was. She had just seen me take out Trixie and was laughing loud and almost evil. "FINALY THAT DUMB TRIXIE IS DEAD, I WILL TAKE OVER AND DESTROY THIS PATHETIC TOWN AND ALL OF EQUESTRIA WILL BE MINE." At that thought I was enraged and went to confront her. Bleeding and half-conscious I managed to hide behind the tower door, the shots rang out as she opened the door, and I heard her scream and start to fall down the stairs. I followed her down the stairs and put one round right in her forehead ending her life as well. I went outside and in my weak state gave the all clear, and collapsed in a heap near Rainbow Dash who was bleeding profusely but smiling at me. "WE DID IT" she managed to say to me smiling "YES WE DID" I weakly said back to her.

The battle for Ponyville had cost the lives of ten ponies and Applejack's beloved dog. I personally lost 4 out of my small unit. Thunderbolt had been killed during the final battle for Ponyville giving air support to town hall. Turbo was caught out in the open trying to find cover from the sniper when he was taken out by him. Glory was killed giving turbo covering fire and was cut down by the sniper as well. Top shot my friend and close buddy was killed when his sniper position was lit up by a flair, and Ace was killed trying to give Derpy support in her efforts to collect the last words of several ponies that night. Derpy Hooves was a real hero to me; still doing her duty to the ponies of Equestria in the face of a war and was subsequently awarded the equestrian Medal of Honor for her service. Applejack's beloved dog had been killed as they were searching a bombed out building when the structure collapsed on her. BigMac survived his wounds for a couple of days following the attack on the bridge but lost the battle for life due to the severity of his wounds. Zecora was found in the forest with a satchel containing the pain medication meant for BigMac with a bullet through her neck. Spike the dragon had been killed while protecting the doors to the library from attack, and finally Apple Bloom who was killed while trying to spy on the enemy.

The war had cost every pony that lived through it something. Pinkie had been shot in the flank by a low Caliber gun and lost some feeling. Dash now had a mechanical right wing, Applejack was now beside herself in despair, and Rarity was a financial wreck now due to extreme damage to her boutique. Town hall was in shambles and worst still, missing a lot of important ponies for the government who had fled before the attack. I was in Ponyville hospital for almost a full month with 2 bullet wounds, one to the flank and one to the chest along with now having a mechanical right front leg, and hoof due to not even knowing that I had stepped out of the town hall and on to a mine, which in return had nearly blown my leg off. I was already in so much pain and losing so much blood that I didn’t even feel any of this.

It was about a week later that the 2 princesses came to Ponyville to survey the damage and to assess the situation. Those who remained in the town gathered and greeted them both. I along with the few that were left in my unit was awarded medals and other things. The citizens of Ponyville also were awarded as well for defending the town. To me it was all a waste, both of money and life. "Why did it have to come to this" I thought to myself, as the princesses talked to Applejack and the rest of who remained of her family. Watching the tears just stream for her eyes along with the 2 alicorns and hugging each other.

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I and the little that remained of my unit stayed in Ponyville for about a week after I finally got out of Ponyville hospital. There were a few small bands of enemy hiding in the forest and we would put an end to them all. The next task was rebuilding Ponyville and the info structure of the town, keeping the government running and making sure that the government could accomplish their duties in filling paperwork and other things that needed to be done. The 2 princesses would stay the whole week in Ponyville with us helping to rebuild the shattered town along with Canterlot. If I thought that Ponyville was a slaughter, Canterlot would make it look like a sunny day the place literally was smoldering. There was no sign of life anywhere to be seen, other than a few ponies in bright yellow jackets and doing work. The castle hadn’t faired too well and was about to have half of it fall from the cliff it was sitting on. A lot of the gardens that once were so beautiful were now gone, replaced by black burned plants and gnarled fences poking out of the ground.

My commander would come into Ponyville surveying the damage and destruction around us. "Damn kid you sure redecorated the place didn’t you?" he said, "no not me sir it was the E.L.F" I laughed lightly almost sick to my stomach. He looked at me and gave me a reassuring pat on my shoulder and told me I had done a damn fine job on not only holding the town, but protecting the 6 ponies I was charged with keeping alive and was anxious to meet them all. I told him that it probably wasn’t the greatest of ideas since Applejack was still in no mood to meet any pony, and basically told him to buck off slamming the door to her farmhouse. He went around and met all the others and gave them all a hoof shake and a salute. "You smug bastard, you did nothing and you act as though you’re the greatest thing in Equestria" I thought to myself. I wanted to shoot the son of a bitch so bad it hurt; he was going around making himself look so big and important all the time hiding in an office in Haywaii, if only I had known all he had actually seen and the choice he had to make in Manehattan, leaving it no longer on the map of Equestria. It had been nuked into submission and it was my commander who had to make that choice. He had no real choice; the city had become a hub for the E.L.F and a corrupt place. He told me about this when he saw how disgusted I was with him and his attitude, to which I could only say I was sorry.

I really had no response to any of this, suddenly realized I had tears in my eyes. He saw this and gave me a hoof salute and simply told me this, "YOU DID YOUR JOB SON, JUST AS I HAD TO, THIS WAR HAS MADE HEROS AND VILLIANS ALIKE. YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THAT YOU DID YOUR BEST TO KEEP ALL YOUR TROOPS ALIVE. FOR THAT YOU ARE A HERO EVEN TO ME." At this I could only look at him and cry, thinking about all that had happened in this war. The battle for Ponyville actually wasn’t all that big and bad as I thought. "HELL AT LEAST PONYVILLE DIDNT HAVE TO BE NUKED" I thought to myself, all of the ponies that remained in the shattered town all gathered for a ceremony to remember all the fallen throughout the land and to lay a flower on all the graves in Ponyville. Giving each of them a salute and placing medals on the ones who deserved them, when we got to Apple Bloom's grave I couldn’t take it and started to cry she was the youngest of the dead in the war. To me it was all a waste of good and friendly ponies, when we first entered Ponyville it was the Apple family that were the first to greet us. Big Mac, Applejack's beloved dog, and Apple Bloom were all in graves next to each other. They all received medals for their part in the defense of the town, "why had it all come to this, why did the E.L.F take such pleasure in the destruction of Equestria the death?" Ponies across the land were doing the very same thing we were in their own ways and traditions. The head of the equestrian mail service had come to Ponyville to pay his respects to Derpy Hooves and her courageous service to Ponyville and her thoughtless actions in gathering the letters from the fallen. My commander, the 2 princesses along with all of Ponyville saluted her as she was buried and the equestrian Medal of Honor placed on her tombstone.

After a week of helping clean up and fix the government, along with me spending a lot of time with Twilight it was time for us all to go back to our base on the island of Oatwahu and to our lives, at least what remained of them. For me it was a bittersweet withdraw. I shed several tears over it, holding Twilight and telling her I would one day return, to which she basically told me I had better. Before leaving I along with my commander and the 2 princesses opened a new air base outside of Ponyville and put Rainbow Dash in charge of it. All of us, my commander, Ponyville, and the 2 princesses along with the newly formed Ponyville defense air wing, all agreed on the new name for it. It was called Mare Memorial Airbase, with a few more hoof shakes and tears we all departed and went back to our lives, as if nothing had happened to any of us. I refused a rank advance and massive pay raise telling my commander that if it ever had to happen again I’d like to be on the ground with my troops and not in a F.O.B looking at it all through a screen. I was given a choice in a new base in which to now call home, needless to say I asked for Mare Mar and for the remainder of my surviving unit to accompany me there. To which the base commander agreed and told me I would be the new commander of the base. Not 2 weeks after leaving Ponyville we were all back in the town. In 2 weeks a lot had been done Rarity had finally gotten the government money she was promised and was back in business making dresses and other clothing, the Sugar Cube Corner was busy making treats, Rainbow Dash was getting used to being a commander of a military all her own, and was being helped by the Wonder Bolts a lot in recruiting and training. Applejack though still sad over the losses was trying to get her life back on track and had the support of the rest of her family to keep the farm running along with all her friends. Twilight had been going back and forth a lot from Canterlot to places all across Equestria, and checking on things throughout the land for the 2 princesses. Pinkie was though not all herself doing her best to become the same pony she was before the war, greeting new pony’s to Ponyville and basically becoming the welcoming face to Ponyville. Fluttershy was busy helping all the animals that had been misplaced throughout the land and was gone quite a bit, also helping out in hospitals here and there where her having been in a basic military hospital and dealing with the wounds of war came in handy. All in all every pony was dealing and surviving with all they had been through in their own way, doing all they could to forget about it all. I along with my unit got to Ponyville and the newly erected gate outside the bridge at about noon, on a hot clear and beautiful day. We showed our id’s and were basically told we didn’t have to do that, and that Rainbow Dash had gotten the call in advance that we were coming.

Well if Pinkie hadn’t thrown a party since the war ended, she sure out did herself that night. Turns out every pony had gotten word that we were coming, "Rainbow Dash told them all" I thought to myself laughing. Dash could see what I was thinking and before I could say a word she burst out and said that it had been Pinkie that got the letter and opened it. I was going to say something but thought better in seeing Rarity with a member of my unit, surprisingly it was the very same pony as before, they were acting like foals kissing and talking. It was actually quite cute to be honest, and it brought a tear to my eye.

I had managed to sneak away from the party for a bit and was on my way to the library and the new love of my life. I made it to the door without being seen by any pony from the party, and knocked on the door "coming" I heard that beautiful voice say. She opened the door to me instantly hugging her, and me being kicked and bitten. "Well at least she still remembers the basic combat training I gave her" I thought with a chuckle. When the purple unicorn finally saw who it was that had ambushed her she just was silent and looked at me as if I were a stranger. I was going to say something when she kissed me and slapped me which I deserved for surprising her the way I had. "You didn’t know I was coming back did you?" I asked her "no,, no I didn’t" she said back to me, "the ponies around here have been acting kind of funny as if something was happening, but never said a thing to me" she went on to say. "Well we wanted it to be a surprise Twi" I heard Rainbow Dash say, to which she simply said well I am surprised. Turned out every pony knew about the way me and Twilight had been after the war. They had seen us together, and wanted to do something special for Twilight. "You really don’t think the reason this base in Ponyville was built was for another war do you silly colt?" Dash said to me "yes it is a massive help and boost to the economy, but we all saw how you and Twilight were getting along and how much you both cared for each other, heck even your commander saw it". "Why do you think he gave you a choice in what base you wanted to go to next? Look I’m no expert on love but I know it when I see it" she went on to continue. "We didn’t say anything to Twilight because we wanted to see whether or not you really did care for her, or if you were just simply being a soldier. We wanted to see if you would actually take your time to look for her, and well tell her how you feel about her." Twilight was blushing at this, and I could tell she was a bit confused at the whole thing as was I to be honest. "NOW LOOK HERE YOU PONIES, YES I DO CARE FOR HER ALOT AND I WAS GOING TO TELL HER, BUT THIS WAS JUST WRONG. IF YOU KNEW I WAS COMEING YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD HER", with that every pony apologized for their roles in all of this.

The party went into the night, and as some ponies went off to bed still others would join. Rarity would go home with the newly found love of her life, as would I. All in all the war had brought some outcomes that none of us would have ever thought would ever happen. Fluttershy would end up meeting her new love in Baltimare in an army hospital, a colt with the very same love for life and animals as she had. Applejack would end up falling in love with one of the ponies that had guarded the bridge with Big Mac. Pinkie well let’s just say she would hold several upcoming parties including her very own engagement party, she had found love in a recruit of Rainbow Dash's air wing. Dash would stay single and happy for about another month until a fateful day, when she met a colt Pegasus with the same passion she had for flying. He would later go on to co command the airbase with her. Last but not least me and Twilight are now expecting our first foal in the spring, we have been together for about a year and a half. Ponyville has changed a lot and we are glad to call it home. Yes the 6 best friends in the world still go on adventures and are still in charge of the Elements of Harmony, and have had to use them a couple of times. Me heck I’m still in the military and am in my almost 8th year. My wife well she is right here with me pregnant and happy. I was in my 5th year in the EQNG when the war broke out, it seems so long ago. I often go to Sweet Apple Acres to help Applejack out on the farm. Her husband and I are best friends and combat buddies, so we get along great, we often have apple bucking contests during harvest. Rarity and her husband couldn’t be happier in life and are also expecting their first foal. The dress business is booming and her husband is a guard at the Ponyville Bridge where he and Big Mac had fought so hard alongside Applejack's husband who btw is also expecting. What can we say, we were young and in love, so the expected outcome would be that wouldn’t it. Pinkie is the only one who isn’t pregnant and she is happy for now just throwing parties and being Pinkie, her husband is a highly trained member of top wing, a new program developed by dash herself to take the top members of her class to the next level. She commands the new classes herself along with her husband, and the Wonder Bolts run the base now. Fluttershy is expecting her first foal as well; she and her husband now work at the Ponyville hospital/vet office. Yes war is bad and we all wish at had never happened, but had it not happened none of this would ever happen. This journal is a reminder of just how we all met our loves, and went through losses so great we all thought we would never get over them. It’s how we deal with the tough times in life that truly makes us all who we are. I thank any pony who reads this and wish you long lives, and happy times ahead.

THANK YOU ALL FOR READING THIS, PVTREAD.

the war as told through an E.L.F member

NOTE, I TOOK THIS PAGE FROM A DEAD MEMBER OF THE E.L.F I THOUGHT THAT IF IT EVER HAD TO COME DOWN TO IT THAT THE READERS OF MY JOURNAL SHOULD GET A VIEW OF THE WAY THINGS WENT FOR THE E.L.F. SO AFTER THE BATTLE FOR PONYVILLE I TOOK THIS SINGLE PAGE FROM A MEMBER.

Sweet Celestia I am a new member of the newly formed E.L.F our leaders’ Trixie, and Gilda have called us into a meeting where we will learn exactly why the E.L.F was formed. I have a brand new uniform and finally some purpose in my life whereas before I had absolutely none. Trixie is actually quite a beautiful pony light blue and very outspoken where as I am completely shy and really just joined because of a friend of mine who told me that a new branch of the Equestrian military was looking for new recruits. I have just graduated my basic training and can’t wait to serve my beloved Equestria.

Great just fucking wonderful, I have joined a militant group bent on the overthrowing of Equestria not fighting for it but rather against it. Oh well win some lose some I always say, the great and powerful war pony Trixie as she calls herself also introduced us all to her co leader a griffon named Gilda, I know right a griffon. I had never seen one myself but there she was up there with Trixie. I got a sick feeling in my gut when they explained their plans to us all. Not only do they want to overthrow the 2 mighty and regal princesses, but they want to wipe Ponyville off the maps, idk something about the town throwing them out and their hate for all the pony’s who live there.

I can’t actually keep a journal due to the 2 warmongers whose military I am now a part of, so I will just write all my thoughts and feelings down on this one piece of paper it’ll do for now until I am able to sneak a journal into my combat pack. Anyway we just had our first combat experience and needless to say I am sick to my stomach, I watched several of my fellow fighters fall to machinegun fire, mines, and other means of war. I don’t think I’m prepared for this I am a simple pony and we have just almost wiped out an entire seaside village full of innocent ponies who did nothing wrong except for be in the 2 warmongers way. I am sad at this turn of events but Trixie always tells us that it will all be worth it when we are all the new masters of Equestria.

Another day another battle this time Gilda’s air wing made short work of Fillydelphia turning the once proud city to smoldering ruins with us following behind to clean up after them. I made my first kill on my own today idk weather to feel happy or sick, I mean the pony was trying to kill me and I did what came natural and I broke her neck, it felt strange, and somehow satisfying at the same time watching the pony’s eyes roll into the back of her head as I snapped her neck. After the kill I found it a lot easier to kill and spent my day in Fillydelphia on a rampage with my fellow E.L.F members.

Las Pegasus was interesting we met our first real opposition in the form of resistance fighters who made fast work of the first wave of E.L.F that went into the city. We lost almost half my unit and still weren’t done with the city, I went up to Trixie and asked her if she wanted me in a tower with my sniper rifle, and she told me to do whatever I had to do. I climbed a tower and went to work picking off any resistance fighters who got in my teams way chalking up over 20 kills. Trixie has told us that we are saving Ponyville for our very last operation and has now ordered us all to Manehattan where we have plenty of support.

That damned blinding light and the noise, sweet fucking Celestia Manehattan is gone. The commander of the EQNG authorized a tactical nuke strike on the city that had become our national hub of operations, I lost many good friends today and I felt something snap inside me I am no longer the shy timid pony that entered the E.L.F rather I am now a killing machine with one purpose in life, to kill. I now have almost 300 kills to my name at the moment and am the official sniper pony for the E.L.F being sent on several recon missions throughout Equestria including being one of the very first pony’s near Ponyville. I have been ordered to hold the ever free forest for my unit to take command of it.

This will more than likely be my last entry in this makeshift journal seeing as the E.L.F is on the verge of taking Ponyville, the signal is a flair if I am able to ill write more when we are done with Ponyville. Until then I would like to write my last will and testament for any pony that cares anyway.

NAME- SURESHOT
PONY TYPE- UNICORN
CUTIEMARK- BLACK CROSSHAIR
WEAPON OF CHOICE- REMINGTON 700 LONG RANGE SINGLE SHOT SNIPER RIFLE
BLOOD TYPE- 0-

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

I sure shot of Appleloosa in my last will and testament hereby would like to say to my family that I have become something far better than I could have ever imagined I could be. I am a highly trained member of a military and damned proud of my service to the E.L.F if there is anything I regret it is simply this, I was never able to find love. I had a lot of time to try in my life and it is just now that I find myself without some pony to care about me and love me. I write this to my parents in closing, I love you both mom and dad and hope that in my life any times I have let you down that I can make up for those when I return home I love and miss you both and hope to see you soon your loving son sure shot.