World War Equestria
a Tale of war by Cobrawolf_Meiji2012 (Clint H. Hoyt.)
Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic it is the property of Hasbro.
Prologue:
From the History of Epona written in the fortieth year of the Fourth Age by Princess Twilight Nova, Daughter of Queen Twilight Sparkle.
It is said that in the latter years of the Third Age of Equestria, peace and harmony were the rule. It was the time when two princesses moved the sun and moon, when Friendship WAS magic, when Equestria was a power in this world. In the Third Age, no one dared to attacked the realm. It was a time of peace in the land, broken only for a while by the Return of Nightmare Moon and later, Discord. Because of the peace, Equestria never changed in culture and technology much. It had been the way it was for over 2,000 years, with only the introduction of Steam Power and the Locomotive as an advancement for the land.
But outside Equestria, nations had moved with the times, nations like Prance, the Griffin Kingdom of Eagle-land, Slegh-beria, Minos, Saddle Arabia, Neighpon, The Changeling Empire, Lipizzaner, The Ottomare Empire, The United Flocks and the Germare Empire. These nations advanced more in industrial and technological might then Equestria. In fact they had grown in Military power also. The fact that we were unprepared for the rest of the world was shown in the Changeling Invasion. It was thought that the Changeling Army flew across Equestria. But soon, a odd looking airship had been discovered, one that did not use a balloon and made of iron. It could also be cloaked with Magic. This was the ship that Queen Chrysalis had used to invade Canterlot and without anyone seeing it. Soon Equestria discovered that other nations had even more powerful weapons. Guns that could fire more them one bullet, heaver then air machines that could out fly a Pegasus, carts that moved with out being pulled, watercraft that could go UNDER the water, even wires that could send messages faster then any dragon!
But The Diarchs had decided to ignore that facts, that Equestria was backwards, old and starting to show signs of weakness, decay and death. Princess Cadence was the first to see that the realm her aunts ruled was starting to show the signs of it's downfall. Prince Blueblood, duke of Canterlot, lead a bloc in the Royal Court to block reforms, to keep the status pro que while my own mother, Princess Twilight Sparkle, Grand Duchess of Ponyville and the Ever-free, led her smaller Reform Party. Divided politically, Equestria was blind to the growing crisis around the world of Epona.
Eagle-land and The Germare Empire had entered into an arms race for more powerful airships and water ships. Prance, defeated by the Germares 50 years before, wanted to take revenge on the newest of the Great Powers. In the Far East, Slegh-beria was defeated by Neighpon.The first time a Non-Pony Nation defeated a Pony ruled nation! All in all, things were not in harmony as was thought by the Two Princesses, Celestia and Luna.
The Crystal Empire decided to start it's own reforms in defense, economics and technology. Seeing the rise of Germarea, Eagle-land, Prance and Slegh-beria soon decided to ally with each other to block The Germares own plans to start a global Empire. The Germares soon decided to fight fire with fire and allied with Lipizzaner, the oldest and weakest of the Great Powers, to keep a balance of power in the world. They were later joined by The Changeling Empire and The Ottomare Empire. The world was now a powder keg and all that was needed was a fuse.
Lipizzaner annexed the nation of Bos-nia, a nation of minotaurs, in The year 7908 of the Third Age, this in it self was not a reason for problems if not for Blueblood and his Traditionalists. They saw the Annexation as a threat to Equestria as Bos-nia was very close to the boarder it self, putting Equestria in the path of The Lipizzaner Imperial Army and new ideas from the world beyond Equestria. In Secret, Blueblood formed The Order of the Black Hoof, which sought to Bring Bos-nia into Equestria's fold. This was the fuse that was ready for a spark to light it and make the powder keg explode into all-out war!
What started in 7914 was the Great World War, a War that killed over 400 million souls, brought suffering to billions and destroyed many nations, overthrew old governments and ended empires.....
The Equestrian Diarchy was once of them.
The War was a tale of Assassins, armies, bloodshed, rape, murder, love, honer and the will to go on. It was a War that brought Poison Gas, Genocide and Mechanized Warfare to Epona and would bring out the best and the worse in the hearts of Pony, Dragon, Griffin, Changeling and many other races.
It was to be a war fought on land air and sea, from the fields of Prance to the streets of Canterlot, from the Deserts of Saddle Arabia to the Snowy tundra of the Crystal Empire, from the Great Western Plains to the Ever-free Forest, From the Skies over Ponyville to the Sea of Storms. a War unlike any seen since the end of the First Age, barbaric in it's ways, large in its size and scope it was thought to the the War to end all Wars.
This is written for all to know of the events of the Great World War, so that we will never repeat the mistakes that started it, and to never forget of those that died in what has been called the greatest Disaster since Tirek's Return, greater then even that of the windigos many thousands of years before, even greater then Discord's rule!
The was the time of the Graveyard of Nations......
And It would start on a Lovey June day, before the event that would change the world forever......
Author's Note
Author’s Note: First of all this is my first MLP fanfic ever. Yep, I am working on a My Little Pony Fanfiction and it is the very first one I have made. Second this fanfic is NOT based on 'World War Z' and it will not have any Zombies or Vampires attacking. This fic is based on the First World War (1914-1918) and will be done to remember those that died in that war. Thank you.
Edited with a lot of changes, such as changing the name to Ottomare Empire to the Ottoman Ponies.
Author's Note
Updated this chapter to make it a bit better.
Eve of the War (edited)
Chapter One: Eve of War
Canterlot, Capital of Equestria, June 27th 7914 of The Third Age.
It was the tenth time in a month that she had the nightmare, which was more of a daymare as Luna was more of a Nocturnal pony. Luna was somewhere, she did not know where, but it looked like the fields outside the small town of Ponyville. But it had a smell, a smell of death, of rotting flesh, of gunpowder. Something is wrong. Luna thought. The field was covered in a odd fog, greyish looking and menacing like a dragon's teeth.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The sound of blasts came from across from the mists, the thud of something hitting the ground. Luna looked around, but could only see fog. The only things not blocked by the fog was a hill and the moon it self, showing brightly through the misty sky. The sounds of the blasts continued as Luna kept searching for their source. Luna soon decided to go up the hill and try to find out where the sounds came from.
Flying to the top, Luna looked down and still saw fog, but it was starting to clear. Luna could hear the 'boom' sound more and more. It was also joined by another sound, a sound that Luna never heard before.
Rata-Tat-Tat
Luna never heard such a sound like it in her very long life. But it filled her with dread and terror, something she never felt since her return, after she was changed back from Nightmare Moon. Something felt very wrong, something was not right. Looking out, she soon saw far off Canterlot, but it seemed to be glowing, not with the lights of city life, but with the red-orange glow of a out of control fire.
Canterlot was burning!
Luna had a look of horror in her face, one which grew as the fog cleared totally.
Ponyville was in utter ruin, great trenches, barbed wire and craters littered the landscape, along the the burnt bodies of thousands of ponies. The smell of death was everywhere. The Blast sounds Luna heard was the sound of artillery shells striking the ground, destroying anything it hit. Luna's eyes went wide, looking on the scene in pure terror and unbelief, this was unreal! Luna continued to look down on the town, watching as three ponies ran out of a ruined building (which looked to be Sugar-cube Corner) and tried to get away from the destruction and death. Suddenly a whistling sound came and then came the blast, the strike of an artillery shell right on the fleeing ponies. A cloud of dirt and fire went up along with parts of the ponies. Luna soon screamed when half of the head of on pony landed right in front of her, it's dead eye looking up at her, like it was accusing her for what was happening. Luna then did what anypony would do if they saw something like this....
She Screamed.
She bolted straight up, no longer in the ruins of Ponyville, but in her own room. Luna looked around, her eyes wide with fear and terror as someone was knocking on the door hard. “Princess Luna! Are you alright!?” said one of the guard. “I am fine.” she said through the door, “Just a bad dream.”
But Was it a nightmare or a vision of things to come? Luna did not know. She had had the feeling of something bad coming to Equestria. The only times she had that feeling was before she became Nightmare Moon thousands of years ago and before Tirek's return. Those two events were bad enough but what she felt coming felt worse then any disaster Equestria had faced, not even The Changeling invasion or Discords rule felt this bad.
Something was starting and it was coming fast.
Sugar Cube Corner, Ponyville
“What in Tartaus is that idiot think he is doing?” Twilight yelled, making heads turn towards her direction. Twilight looked around sheepishly, ducking her head behind the paper that she was reading. It was a copy of the Canterlot Times, one of the largest newspapers in Equestria. After making sure that she was not being stared at anymore, she soon continued reading the article that had caused her to do that outburst.
“Prince Blueblood, Prince of Canterlot, today called for action against the Empire of Lipizzaner for the annexing of Bos-nia calling it 'a great threat to our nation.'”
Twilight gritted her teeth. She had a dislike for the Canterlotian Prince as he had been blocking reforms that she was trying to help get in place. Yet it was also something of a family trait; The House of Blueblood and the House of Sparkle had been rivals. The rivalry dated back to the time of the Kin-Slayer Wars. Both Houses fought against each other in the Third Kin-Slayer War and had been fighting in the others, until the last one, the eighteenth one, which ended when Discord came. It was well known that Blueblood hated the Sparkles and had made that public. He decried that fact that a Sparkle, Shining Armor, had not only married a Princess, but was co-ruler of the Crystal Empire. he was also very vocal about the fact that It was a Sparkle that was the Fourth Princess of Equestria, Twilight had heard it all from him, from claims that Twilight had somehow manipulated his aunts to even the idea that she was sleeping with Celestia and was her secret lover! It was enough to frustrate her enough that she had sometimes dreamed of sending Blueblood and her supporters into the very sun it self!
Calming down a bit, She continued reading on.
“Many in The Celestial Court view this as war mongering. 'What Blueblood is calling for it starting a war with Lipizzaner.' Duke Fancy Pants, leader of the 'Modernize Equestria Party' said today, 'He thinks that we can win a war not only against Lipizzaner, but against the Germares! It is madness!' many view the idea of war as the worse idea since Baked Bads andI for one think Blueblood is trying to compensate for the lack of size of his you-know-whats.”
She giggled at that part. Fancy Pants, leader of the Reformists and head of the House of Khaki was one of her biggest supporters. Both were members of families that had a bad history with the House of Blueblood and both had dreams of reforming the way of life in Equestria. She sighed to her self.
Equestria had been split into two political fractions, The Conservatives of Blueblood and the Reformists. She had heard of another group, a small radical group of Earth Pony workers and farms that called themselves 'Communards', yet they were just a small radical group. But it was still the other two's fighting that had been the talk of the court in Canterlot.
Twilight soon looked up from her paper and saw hat it was almost time for a picnic that she and the others were going to have. She soon dropped her paper on a table and headed off, not reading the other headline.
'ARCHDUKE OF LIPIZZANER TO VISIT BOS-NIA'
Sow-ejavo, Bos-nia. June 28th.
The crowds of Ponies, Minotaurs and Pigs were watching as a Automobile passed by, being escorted by a company of pegasi armed with rifles. In the car, two ponies waved to the people. Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were in the city to view the troops who were doing war games nearby.
Sow-ejavo was a city built by the Porcine Tribes seven Centuries ago. It was the capital of Bos-nia and was the seat of the kings of Bos-nia, before the coming of the Ottomare Empire. It was now the seat of power for the Imperial Governor.
While the Archduke waved to the crowd and was cheered, no one saw the lone Unicorn who was not cheering. He looked at the car was was nearing him and knew that it was almost time for it, time to strike a blow against the enemies of Equestria. The Unicorn powered up his horn a bit, then he rushed into the street and in front of the car.
The Driver stopped in shock, but soon everypony saw what happened next, something that would start a coming war.
The Unicorn glared at the Car, even as the Pegasi rushed to grab him, He Powered up and shouted “LONG LIVE EQUESTRIA!!!” and fired two Spell blasts at the Archduke and his wife. Hitting them hard even as he was pinned by the Pegasi Guards.
But it was too late. The Archduke and his wife were both dead. Killed at the horns of a Equestrian Assassin.
