A Tiger in Equestria

After having a nice meal of meat from... Whatever that was, cooking it with some spare wood we found around the town and telling them to take a break. They sort of wandered around in a circular radius around the tank, I would've done the same. Bernhard appeared, carrying the shell on his shoulder.

"Okay, here's the shell, now where's the food?" I decided to have a joke with him

"We ate it all." His eyes popped out and he nearly tripped.

"You what?!" His eyes narrowed. He did not look happy.

"Oh you should see your face right now! Priceless!" He growled at me.

"Where's the food then?"

"On the turret, near the engine."

"Oh. Well then." He proceeded to use his strength to lob the shell as far away from me as possible. It went over the crest of a small bump in the road so I couldn't see it. My jaw dropped. You seriously didn't do that?

"Oh you're right, your face is priceless!" He clutched his sides laughing, tears coming out of his eyes. I guess I deserved that.

I walked down to the other side of the town to see where the shell I fired earlier went. When you want to do something, you do it yourself. No use letting them get the shell and carry it off to study. Being a APCR shell, that thing would've been made out of some expensive material Bernhard would be able to tell me about. The shell went pretty far off before I managed to find it, noticing the fear in the ponies' eyes as they saw me coming. I can see the black suit being intimidating, but come on you idiots, we're not going to kill you. The shell looked pretty fine, only the tip was bent somewhat as it hit that shield from earlier. Eh, might be reusable, I don't know how, but it'll be used for something. I grabbed the shell and lifted it into my shoulder. This is quite heavy, I have no idea how Bernhard does this every day. I slowly lugged the shell back to the tank.

When I was walking back, I heard a familiar rumbling sound. Are you idiots trying to go for a joyride? Adjusting the shell on my shoulder, I ran towards the tank as fast as I could with the shell. I skidded to a stop and nearly dropped the shell from the sudden stop as I saw what was going on. All of my crew were on top of the tank, banging the turret as hard as possible, while a large crowd of ponies gathered around to see.Have they gone mad? I threw the shell at a nearby spot to the tank, and quickly ran up to them. They were screaming things in German.

"Get out of there!"

"Dumb ponies better get out before I shoot you!"

"Get out of our tank!"

"What's going on here?!" I said, while running full sprint at the tank.

"Sir, a bunch of smaller ponies ran up to the tank and screamed something like 'Cutey Mark Crusader Metal Monster Drivers!'"

"And you let them!?"

"No, they ran into the tank, and got into the hatch before we could stop them! Then they somehow managed to lock the hatch!"

"Then where were you?"

"In a circle around the tank." I can't leave you idiots alone for a single second,can't I?

Just then, I heard a really high pitched voice say,

"What does this do?" and the tank slowly began to move forward.

"Get out of the way!" Before jumping off to a side. The ponies immediately started backing away, probably afraid of what the tank will do.

The tank slowly began to pick up speed and started rolling down the road.

"Cutie Mark Crusader Metal Monster Drivers! Yay!"

Now I was extremely pissed. What kind of fucking idiotic pony jumps into a fucking tank, without knowing what the fuck every single of those fucking things do. They might accidentally fire a shell or something! Or worse, accidentally use one of the fucking machine guns, fucking kill someone, and probably these fucking paranoid ponies will blame us instead of them for some reason.

"Whoever is in my tank, get out now!" Ponies near me really started to back away, this time not from the slowly moving tank, but this time from my voice. Whoever was inside heard my voice, because I heard one of them say,

"Uh oh." And the tank stopped.

"You will get out of that tank, this instant!"

"I think it's one of those weird monsters that drives this thing! Oh no, they've found us!"

"You will get out before I fucking shoot you on the spot!" Ponies recoiled in horror at my words. And I couldn't give a damned fuck about them right now.

"Gah! We're going to die! Whatdowedo!?"

Then one of em screamed, "Help me Rainbow Dash!"

Which proceeded to set the rest of them off, screaming help from a certain pony

"Help me Rarity!"

"Help me Applejack!"

"Enough! You will get out of that tank, this instant!"

A whimper emerged from somewhere inside the tank.

"This is your final warning, get out or we will shoot you!" I barked out an order to the crew, "Weapons out and safeties off." The ponies now were seriously worried, but some looked at us in anger. Boo hoo, you're pissed because I'm threatening your young? Fuck off.

"I am giving you five seconds to get out and surrender!" I simultaneously ordered my crew. "Weapons aimed at the tank!"

Just then, those six ponies that we originally found ran out and stood in front of us.

"What do you think you're doing?!"said the purple one.

Upon hearing the pony's words, the ponies inside of the tank screamed, " Save us Twilight!"

"Getting some thick-headed children of yours out of our tank!"

"Wait, are those the Cutie Mark Crusaders?" This one came from the blue pony with a rainbow-colored mane.

"That means that my Sweetie Belle's in there!"

"And mah Applebloom!"

Five of them, except the Pink one who seemed content bouncing around the place, walked up towards us, all the while ponies were saying, "No! Don't go! It's dangerous!"

"I have to do it for my sister!"

Why in the fucking world does everyone think that we put them in there. What the fuck.

"Then give it to 'em!", said someone in the crowd, which prompted clapping and some "Yeah!"s from the crowd. That's it you, you fucking broke the line.

"ENOUGH!" This time, even my crew started to slowly back away from me. This was a new level of angry for me. The angriest they had seen was when someone had damaged the tank and I went ballistic on them.

"Those ponies inside the tank will come out right fucking now! Not later, right fucking now!"

"Hey, they're trapped in there you bozo!" The cyan pony immediately took to the air.

"They fucking locked the hatch themselves dumbfuck!" She looked surprised at my cursing, which again I couldn't give a flying fuck about, and looked towards the tank.

"Scootaloo, did you really lock the hatch?"

"It was to keep away the monsters!"

"I don't fucking care, unlock it right now!"

"We don't know how!"

"You knew how to lock it! Figure it out!"

After a lot of scrabbling within the tank, the ponies came out. There was a white one with a light purple mane and a horn, one who was orange and had wings, and the final one was yellow with red hair and a ribbon.

The ponies all looked relieved, and were until I raised my gun at them and pulled the bolt.

"You shitheads have fucking crossed the line!" My crew also pulled their bolts on their guns.

Seeing that, the three young ponies immediately ran behind whoever they had called out for while they were in the tank.

"Hey! What are you aiming that at them for!"

"They have, without our permission, entered the tank and started to move it!"

They all looked at the three young horses with a glare.

"They had permission from us to inspect the tank, but not to go in it." All of them glared at them again, while the young ponies began to huddle together in a circle.

"I don't fucking care if they have permission from fucking Celestia or otherwise, they have still entered my fucking tank without me or my crew's permission!"

"Why don't we settle this inside?" said the purple one, gesturing with one of her hooves towards the weird house made out of a tree, apparently called "Great Oaks Library"

Not wanting to piss off more of the locals, I agreed.

"Bernhard! Dietrich! With me! The rest of you, fucking get inside the tank and fucking guard it this time!"

After seeing Bernhard and Dietrich falling in next to me, I promptly walked straight into the library.