PONIES IN ARMS-2. NUCLEAR WINTER

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Kill Shot’s words made me go weak at the knees. I thought back to the night I killed Trixie in the Ponyville town hall along with what she had yelled to me from there. “I WANT ALL THE POWER THERE IS TO HAVE. I AM NOW A POWERFUL WAR PONY AND I WILL RULE OVER THIS LAND” I thought long and hard on those words and the thought that came to my head made me want to throw up. "Could it be? Was Trixie actually looking for my help in Ponyville? If she was why did she take the mayor hostage and shoot me? Was Luna actually there watching this all take place? Was I a target that Luna wanted out of the way? Was Trixie actually trying to save her own life that night by shooting me?"

The thought made my head spin; she was following an order from the very one who sent her to her death. "CURSE YOU LUNA, YOU MANIPULATIVE BITCH. YOU HAD ME TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN LOOSE END WHEN ALL SHE REALY WANTED WAS MY HELP!" I yelled into the night hoping in some small way Luna would hear it. Trixie was just a pawn in Luna’s ultimate goal. When she became no longer useful Luna cast her aside as a piece of trash along a road, the thoughts of that night along with Trixie's face of terror that night would creep into my dreams that whole night. One thought in particular would haunt me most though. The fact that as I had my 9mm aimed at her head she kept looking out the window as if looking for some shred of salvation from a trusted pony that never came to her aid in her time of need.

Gilda was in my opinion a pawn as well but Kill Shot told me after I woke up that Gilda had no clue as to Luna’s dealings with Trixie. This confused me, “why wouldn’t Trixie tell her second in command about her dealing with Luna?” The whole first war now made absolutely no since to me, was it all an Equestrian government conspiracy and if so how in Equestria did Celestia not sees it happening right under her own nose?

Kill Shot could see me thinking and he simply said this to me. "Look major, it makes no since to any of us. What makes since to any pony right now is that Celestia is in trouble. Shattered Hoof Ridge is in the middle of Neighvada. It is a secret installation built by Stable Tech for the N.L.R and we have to take it out. I’ll follow you anywhere you go; you proved your worth to me back in Las Pegasus during the first war so to me and my group you are like family, all of you. Now get some sleep we have a long march ahead of us and several other stops to make along the way"

We all woke up early in the morning. I having gone to bed just a few hours before thanks to the nightmares I was having woke up a bit on the crabby side. "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE WAKEING ME UP AT THIS TIME YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!” I yelled at Kill Shot who simply looked at me and gave me a cup of coffee and a smoke. "Shut up and wake up major" he wasn’t rude, but laughing at me and my mane it was a mess and full of twigs and other things. "OH HA, HA", I laughed back at him; I got out of my makeshift bed and started to wake up my unit. We did a bit of pt with the resistance ponies to wake up a bit more and then were once again on our way.

Kill Shot told me we were a couple of days from the border of Manetana and a place he knew would supply us all with anything we would need to cross a now nuclear winterized desert. We had all but forgotten that we were indeed walking through a nuclear winter; it had become almost a constant thing with the exception of maybe one blue sky day since we had left Ponyville.

I thought back to the days before any of this was even an issue. Back to the days when I was at my base in Oatwahu, and soaking up the sun on an almost constant basis. I actually kind of missed the sun to be honest and wanted it to shine on me just once to see how it felt again.

My mind had plenty of time to race and wonder as we trotted along the roads when we could and the brush when needed. The new laws made it near impossible to move freely throughout the land and we would often find ourselves avoiding units of the N.L.R moving about from place to place throughout the land. "So this is what we have been reduced to huh? Having to keep to the side roads and ditches in our own land huh" I commented to Kill Shot who was obviously thinking the same thing. He simply looked at me and shrugged. "It beats the alternative major. Having to prove who we are and what we are really doing looking like a band of mercenaries and asking questions about things that could get a pony killed these days" At that thought I had to agree with him and simply lit a cigarette. "You want one Kill Shot?” I asked him. "Sure why not what don’t kill a pony makes him stronger isn’t that the saying" he said chuckling to himself.

We made it to the border of Manetana at about 1700; we thought it would be an easy crossing seeing as Manetana was in fact controlled by the resistance. However when we got to the actual border we got our first taste of combat. The battle was already going on in the distance and we could hear gunfire up ahead so I ordered my 4 Pegasus ponies into the air to fly over the fight. Next I told my mine clearing pony to clear any mines that may be along our path into Manetana. The resistance ponies went ahead to flank any pony escaping the fight to question them as they tried to escape. I took the rest of my unit into the thick of it guns blazing and my machine gun pony using the cover of the guard shack to lay down suppressive fire on the N.L.R unit. I told my heavy weapons ponies to hold back a bit so I could make sure they didn’t have to use rockets seeing as we had only enough for a couple of real fights. I instead told them to draw their m-4 rifles and follow me. I made my way around to the backs of the N.L.R ponies that were so focused on the resistance ponies that they didn’t even see me coming. Two shots rang out of nowhere, and 2 of the N.L.R ponies fell dead with holes in their heads. My sniper had found a great vantage point and was already at work. The resistance ponies of the nearby town were a bit surprised when they were joined by Kill Shot and his ponies who quickly made short work of the N.L.R unit.

"LEAVE HIM FOR ME!!" I heard Kill Shot yell. The N.L.R pony was cowering on the ground and frightened beyond all hell at what had just happened. He turned out to be the leader of the small unit and became our prisoner. I told my sniper to take up a position along with my machine gun pony; I wasn’t going to let this border fall, not on my watch.

The resistance ponies quickly gathered everything they could from the bodies of the N.L.R ponies then set to work on burning them. "WHEN YOU GET TO THE TOWN JUST DOWN THE ROAD YOU’LL UNDERSTAND WHY WE ARE BURNING THEM" The leader of the gate guard told me in a chilling voice that made my skin crawl. We made it to the town in about an hour. (WELCOME TO BITTER CREEK RANCH) The sign read in bold lettering. It was really more of a couple of burned out box cars from a long gone train and the burned out remains of what looked to me as if it was a once proud town in the middle of a giant field. I quickly understood just what Ruby, the resistance pony at the gate had told me.

We quickly were greeted by a sheriff who grabbed for the N.L.R pony; I quickly grabbed his hoof and told him that I had wanted to be there for his interrogation. The sheriff agreed. "After all major what you just did back there has made you some valuable friends" He extended a hoof and I gave him a hoof shake. We went to the Sherriff’s office where we put the N.L.R pony in a chair with a light on his face. "OK YOU, YOU’RE GOING TO TELL US EVERYTHING WE WANT TO KNOW OR WE WILL START TO BLOW OFF A LIMB FOR EVERY LIE." The pony was frightened beyond all hell and was crying like a foal. We removed the pony’s armor and to our shock and surprise she was just a filly, well a teenaged pony but a filly none the less. She didn’t even have a cutie mark. At this our approach to the situation changed. "Ok young filly, first and foremost what are you doing this young and in a terror group?” Her answer scared the fuck out of me. "THEY HAVE MY FAMILY; I HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO JOIN THEM. WHEN THEY ENTERD MY TOWN THEY RAPED, AND KILLED EVERYPONY THAT STEPPED IN THEIR WAY. THEY WENT FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE LOOKING FOR INTEL ON THE MOVEMENTS OF CELESTIA'S FORCES. IF THEY GOT A LIE THEY WOULD KILL THEM. HOWEVER WITH THE TRUTH CAME INDUCTION INTO THE N.L.R. I HAD NO CHOICE. THEY THREATEND MY FAMILY; I TOOK THE ONLY PATH I COULD TO SAVE THEM. IN ALL REALITY I WISHED TO CELESTIA THAT I COULD FIGHT ALONG SIDE YOU AND YOUR UNIT” I was in shock as was every pony in the room. She quickly gave us all the Intel that she had and pleaded with me to allow her to fight alongside me and my unit. I sat wide eyed and in shock looking at the sheriff as if he somehow had an answer. "You may join us" Having an N.L.R uniform in our group would come in handy down the line and I knew it. The sheriff looked at me in disbelief and almost fell out of his chair. "YOU’RE GOING TO TRUST HER? WOW THAT’S BRAVE. YOU KNOW THIS COULD BE A TRICK RIG,,," I cut him off. "IF THIS IS INDEED A TRAP WE WILL SOON FIND OUT. IF NOT THEN WE HAVE JUST GAINED A VALUEABLE ASSET” With that the sheriff had no more to say to me and just left the office.

The town of Bitter Creek was not actually all that small as I had first thought. The reason being was simple. The town was backed into the side of a hill and they had dug in making use of the hill, they built a town inside it. I was in awe at the fact that the town itself took up most if not all of the hill. There was a back door at the back of the hill and there were huge steel doors that would close in the event of any type of bombing attack. "STABLE TECH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. IT WAS THE TOWNS PONIES WHO WANTED TO AVOID THE RELENTLES BOMBING RUNS OF THE E.L.F IN THE FIRST WAR" The pony calling himself the mayor of bitter creek told me. "ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF. MY NAME IS DEAD EYE" "Hmmm, these resistance ponies have some scary names which are nothing like names in Ponyville" I thought to myself. Dead Eye took me on a tour through the town showing me just how amazing this place really was. "WE HAVE IT ALL HERE, A GENERAL STORE, A WEAPONS STORE, FOOD, ALONG WITH EVERYTHING A PONY IN THIS WASTELAND COULD EVER NEED" I looked around; my unit was already at work trading and buying goods for our next move.

Ruby the pony I had met at the gate after the gun fight was walking along side me by now. "So how long have you been in the military?" She asked me. "10 years, the first 7 of them were not that bad at all; I was stationed at Oatwahu and enjoyed every minute of it. Then came the 8th year the year of the first war I had ever seen and also the year I met my wife" "Oh your married, hmmm" Her once friendly attitude fading away she just walked by my side wanting to say something but not doing so. We simply walked along the road in the middle of the town. I had a feeling growing inside me and I just kept trying to fight it.

The town as it turned out had a saloon and I could really use a drink at the moment. Ruby seeing this took my hoof and led me into the bar. I didn’t even shake my hoof away from hers; instead I took her hoof and went in. Yes I was married but I still was a colt after all. Ruby could see my attitude changing and was talking to the bar pony. "HEY JOE, ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MY SAVIOR SO TO SPEAK. HIS NAME IS MAJOR READ AND HE SAVED THE GATE UNITS BACON IN A SMALL FIRE FIGHT THAT COULD HAVE KILLED US ALL" The bar pony looked at me and gave me a confident glance. "WELL THEN MAJOR, THE DRINKS ARE ON BITTER CREEK THEN ANY FRIEND AND SAVIOR OF RUBY IS A FRIEND IN MY BOOK” At that the whole bar ordered me a drink.

My unit was being led to the bar as well and the bar erupted in a roar of hoof stomps in celebration. Me and Ruby were starting to dance on the dance floor and we were just enjoying our time. It was almost like a party held by Pinkie Pie, but a bit more mature.

The night went on into early morning and the inevitable outcome of a drunken night with a filly and a colt. Ruby was a fun filly I had to admit, her for lack of a better word enthusiasm was astounding and she was actually a bit younger than I thought she really was. The night had been fun and enjoyable for the 2 of us and we had gone like 4 or 5 rounds. What could I say she was one of the most beautiful filly’s I had ever met and her eyes gave good reason for her name. I got a really close look at them during the night, they were crimson red.

I woke up next to her the next morning; she was already awake giving me a hoof job. "What a way to wake up" I thought to myself. I looked at her surveying every move she made her body was very fit and she seemed to be in really great shape. I startled her by moving in pleasure but she just kept going. I managed to get a hoof loose from her sitting on it and went to work on her clit. She moaned with delight and went faster on the hoof job.

A couple of hours later we both emerged from her house and were on our way to breakfast. What could I say? I was only a colt and she was gorgeous. I kissed her and we went on our way. The members of my unit already at breakfast all hooted and whooped when we trotted in holding hooves. Slightly embarrassed we both blushed a bit. "YEH, YEH YOU PONIES, LIKE YOU HAVENT HAD A GOOD NIGHT YOURSELVES" I mockingly scoffed at them. The colts in my unit were all toasting each other and the fillies were on their way to the little filly’s room, they quickly grabbed Ruby from my side I kissed her and she was gone.

I went to the table where my unit was eating and ordered some food. "TRY THE BACON YOUR GOING TO LOVE IT" so I did. I sat down at the table and our conversation quickly turned to our next move. "WELL WE CAN’T JUST SIT HERE IN BITTER CREEK AND ENJOY OURSELVES. SURE IT’S FUN BUT COME ON YOU PONIES WE HAVE A MISSION TO ACCOMPLISH” I said in a rather loud voice to cut the arguing. At that every pony in the bar looked at our table and started to move our way. "Great just how I want to spend my morning, in a fight" I thought to myself but to my surprise the ponies that were coming to our table were coming to offer their weapons and themselves. I now had more ponies at my side and it was an amazing feeling. We quickly got done eating our breakfast and were on our way through the town to gather supplies.

My mine clearing pony had learned that the town had some new tools to disable mines and he was on his way to gather them.

My sniper pony was on his way to the ammo shop to pick up some new armor piercing rounds and an all new ghillie suit seeing as his was starting to fall apart.

The other members of my unit were gathering other things including but not limited to food, healing potions, new chem. suits, and other essentials.

Dead Eye was walking by my side and he wished me good luck on our next move. He also being a snide asshole told me that his daughter had a great night last night. I wanted to vomit but he said that I had given his daughter a gift she desperately needed. Ruby cantered up to me and threw her hooves around me whispering in my ear. "Do you have time for a quick romp you sexy stud you?" I took her hoof and told my unit to just keep doing what they were doing and took ruby to her house.

Three hours later we both emerged hugging, and kissing. With that I had to give her one last kiss and quick clit rub, her eyes rolling back in her head. I now had a sizeable force consisting of several resistance ponies, the former N.L.R pony, and my unit. It looked impressive to every pony as we left the town of bitter creek in our dust, Ruby trotting along my side. Seeing as she was in fact a resistance pony she was permitted by her father to come with us. Besides it wasn’t as if she had any intent on leaving my side and she made that quite clear. She knew I was a married pony as did I and we both agreed that our time together would remain a secret. Having her beside me also made me feel like a school colt. She could see this and just kept looking at me with those amazing eyes, to which I could just chuckle and tell her to stop and that I had to keep my senses clear.

We marched all day and into the night but eventually we had to take a break. The young filly that was now with us wasn’t quite up to the way we were moving and she had fallen back a bit. "OK EVERY PONY WE ARE GOING TO BED DOWN FOR THE NIGHT. I WANT A PERIMITOR SET UP AROUND THE CAMP. GUARD SHIFTS WILL BE TAKEN THROUGH THE NIGHT. ANY PONY IN NEED OF MEDICAL ATTENTION GO SEE RED HOOVES HE'L FIX YOU RIGHT UP"