PONIES IN ARMS-2. NUCLEAR WINTER

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I was a bit taken aback at the way Luna had taken charge and how she was so willing to go to war but I also had to think back to the first war. Both Luna and Celestia had been locked in the castle during it all, and had no real chance to take part in the fight. I did however find it odd that when I put both Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo in charge of the counter Intel sector to decode any messages from the E.L.F radio station Luna also put some ponies of her own in place. That’s not what bothered me though. What bothered me was the fact that even though both of my counter inlet ponies were captains, Luna placed 2 lieutenants in charge of her very own counter Intel group. One thing that struck both Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo as odd also was the fact that they had to answer to the 2 lieutenants even though they were both captains and the other2 were of lower rank.

As time went on there would be several communications that were decoded by my 2 ponies in Intel with the 3 same letters always coming up at random times but always in capital letters or bold print. Anytime one of these would come in to the office the 2 lieutenants would take the communication and go into a separate room where they would have meetings with other ponies who were now coming on to the base almost every day.

Both Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo came to me on a few occasions as we were trying to still figure out our best option of attacking the E.L.F. I would simply dismiss the communications as something that was not that important. In a way I was letting my rank go to my head and it was a bad thing. If only I had known what was really going on I would have been on alert for something massive to happen at any time.

Both Luna and Celestia had gone off to other cities after our meeting the other day and Luna was on her way to a tiny town on the foothills of a place called Shattered Hoof Ridge and had taken the Wonder Bolts, Dash, and Top Wing with her along with a force all her own of her newly created special pony forces. In the meantime I along with my unit had been ordered to stay on post until needed; the order had been handed down by Luna. I had a sickening feeling in my gut that something was about to happen and that we being the best fighters in Equestria were being left out on purpose. we were in fact told to stay behind and to hold the base at all costs.

"FUCK THIS SHIT I HAVE HAD IT WHY THE HELL ARE WE BEING LEFT OUT OF A FIGHT THAT ALL OF US HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE IN DAMN IT!!!" I yelled at no pony in particular I was just upset. At that I took it upon myself to deploy every pony at the base to places all across Equestria. I had a small air force that was just waiting around for orders so I ordered them to fly Intel gathering missions to see what the E.L.F was up to and to report their findings only to Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo and to no pony else.

Next I told Rarity, Applejack and Pinkie to take shelter with the mayor and to protect her at all costs I knew something was up but I just couldn’t prove it yet. Applejack was put in charge of clearing any and all rubble from attacks that may have come. Rarity was now the mayor’s bodyguard fulltime where she went Rarity would go combat shotgun in tow at all-time locked and loaded.

I managed to get a hold of Fluttershy who was in a small town outside Fillydelphia helping ponies in a medical tent and told her to stay there with her husband. There were still a few stable tech ponies in Ponyville who had been spending a lot of time at Sweet Apple Acres so I asked them why they were even in Ponyville and who they really worked for. They simply told me that they were in charge of building bomb shelters and that the apple cellars at the farm were being expanded to house any pony in the event of a bombing run. I went to go see Pinkie after this, and told her to take every pony she was watching to Sweet Apple Acres and to keep every pony in the new shelter until I got back. I was going to take my unit to Shattered Hoof Ridge even if it was going against Luna’s orders I couldn’t just sit back and do nothing. After all I had lost some close friends in the first war to the E.L.F and I wanted payback.

Before leaving the base I went to a place I had not been in quite some time. The CMC club house where they had kept all the Intel they gathered on the E.L.F. Upon opening the door my eyes were greeted by a poster on a back wall that had a picture of Luna on it with the letters in bold type N.L.R on it. I went through everything in the clubhouse from names, dates, times, passwords, you name it the CMC had gotten it and it was all pointing to something I could have never imagined the fall of Princess Luna at the hooves of some group calling itself the N.L.R. There was no hint that the CMC were involved in it and I really hoped that they didn’t have any part of it but that they had gathered all of this Intel on their missions. I collected what I could before shutting the door and making my way back to the base. I said nothing to any pony especially my wife who was now going into a combat situation for her very first time ever. I gave her what training I could along with my unit and then we were off. Crossing the bridge made me cringe a bit at what I had discovered in the clubhouse and the fact that this was more than likely the last time any of us would ever cross that bridge.

We made it to Canterlot by the end of the day, along the way being passed by several ponies fleeing what I could only imagine as hell at the hooves of the E.L.F. There were several mercenary groups going about Equestria also. Anytime we would run into one I gathered any Intel I could from them and tell them to stay safe. I hated mercenaries, but at this point in time they were all doing exactly what we were doing, trying to make since of everything that was now happening.

The E.L.F weren’t attacking unless they had to instead they were establishing a government all their own. This was an odd move for an army that had been so hell-bent on the destruction of Equestria 2 years before. We stayed in Canterlot for 2 days to rest up for the upcoming major move we were going to make to Shattered Hoof Ridge and gathered supplies for the march there.