December 5th 2016, one month after the beginning of the war

Cold air blew through the compound, causing the falling flakes of pearly white snow to twirl and spin on their way to the ground. The military compound stank of smoke and engine oil, several litres of which were staining the compacted snow already on the ground. A small square shaped area of dismal land near the old city of London, grey-vale compound had been described as the back-end of the Humans unified task force. A grungy, old fort, resembling a grey box covered in damaged and half de-constructed turrets, encrusted with rust and dirt, no self-respecting soldier would ever want to be transferred to here. The barracks were crumbling apart, forcing the soldiers to pitch ragged tents in the courtyard and there was barely any space for the equipment and heavy weaponry that the taskforce had brought with them. Boxes of food and cases of bullets littered the ground in piles, joining engine parts and patches of ash that had stained the ground.

Since the gateway had opened, providing a path to another world, known as Equestria,with a whole new possibility of prosperity for earth, life had taken a massive dive for humanity. Since humans are naturally suspicious and even in some cases hateful of new species, the peaceful transition had been a simple pipe dream. First the disastrous peace talks with those...Princesses, Luna and Celestial. Then the deaths of their leaders caused by the trotters. Things had gone from bad to worse when they'd announced full scale war with the ponies. To use many of the generals most popular saying:

"Out of the crud, into the deeper bloody crud."

Well that's the polite way to say it. The cities of Earth had been taken by surprise and then swiftly pounded by the invaders. In spite of humanities supposed superior technology and military power, Equestria and it's inhabitants had magic on its side. Not to mention the scale of these spells. The Empire State Building had been demolished in exactly one hour. A simple hour! Pushed into a corner, humanity pushed back with an attack of surprisingly strong unity. Creating the Unified human task force in a space of three months had been an accomplishment all in it's own.

Plumes of black smoke rose into the night sky, covering the moon and the stars behind foul smelling clouds. Fighter Jets and Pegasus danced through the air, trading shots at each other, drawing burning lines across the inky backdrop. Occasionally a burning object would fall from the sky. Deep booms' sounded outside the walls, providing a barely satisfiable commentary for the battle outside. Cries of pain and anguish could be heard from the medical tent, which had was surrounded by crimson snow, tainted by the many battlefield operations that the company had tried to deal with. The war hadn't been a great start to the new year. The green eyed, grey haired 19 year old sitting in front of the interrogation rooms certainly wasn't very happy about it. He gave a groan of pain as he adjusted his peace maker AK-47 rifle slung across his lap. He'd been sitting on the ammo box for about three hours now and his ass felt like it was about to fall off. Being a guard in the unified human army, watching his allies getting the butts hammered trying to retake London from the equestrians wasn't a career highlight. The uniform he wore, comprised of a thick mesh shirt and a thick black combat jacket with long combat trouser, was stained with grime and blood and torn and lined with stitches from many field patches. Hey, Unicorn horns can rip you a new one if you're not careful. A book lay open next to him. the chapter heading read:Dealing with the stresses of life.the ironic tiltle was hidden as the guard closed the book and slung it into the small pack at his feet.

Instead the teenager picked out a small square slab of metal about the size of Nintendo 3DS, with a glass screen on the front. With a quick touch, the screen turned on, revealing a large, alabaster Alicorn, with a flowing mane, coloured to resembling a rainbow, violet eyes and a mark resembling the sun printed on her flanks. golden armour covered her barrel while a golden crown was perched atop her head. It clearly was female due to the eyelashes carefully primed to a curl. The flickering static across the view did nothing to interrupt the speech the creature was giving.

"Of course, I would be happy to pull back my troops from the battlefront," Princess Celestia of Equestria said, her voice magically magnified, "If only you humans would pull back and cease this foolish, pointless attack on our race, either through racist marks or..." but the princess's speech was cut short by a tumultuous wave of angry shouting. Clearly the humans in her audience didn't appreciate the message the princess was trying to convey.

"My little ponies suffer through your cruelty and negligence!" The Alicorn shouted loudly over the roar of the crowd, an outraged expression crossing her white muzzle. "Do you really think it's okay for humans to torture and damage innocent creatures with no justification what-so-ever! Clearly some-ponies really do need to be taught a lesson about Harmony!"

"Yet still," Shouted an unseen voice, "It's okay for your soldiers to chain up our people and keep them as servants, yeah I don't think so you stupid hor..." The guard shut off the machine with a groan, dropping the machine onto the bag. It hit something within the bag with a loud crash. The boy groaned again and bashed the back of his head repeatedly against the metal building.

Jay Hart growled angrily as another soldier appeared from around the side of the building. The silver line on the mans arm signified his status as a captain, though his fair blonde hair and fresh appearance, with a long nose like a knife blade and cold blue eyes, captain bark wasn't a man to take lightly.

"Jay!" He barked loudly, motioning with a large meaty hand. Jay gave a fairly audible groan then stood up and saluted.

"CAPTAIN." He groaned sarcastically barely mustering the energy to hold his hand up. "

Got another consignment of traitors to come through, lets give em' a right good hiding!" The grin that the captain gave him made jay sick. It was full of grim intent and evil malice. Jay could guess at what the deranged captain was thinking about. The pony army marching to their doorstep, with reinforcements from equestria arriving every single day. And the...other group they had to contend with.

BRONY. A supposed equestrian collaboration, terrorist organisation that had been causing trouble for the human resistance movement along the borders of human territory for a few weeks. The penalty for being with such an organisation was imprisonment, torture and in some of the worst cases, death. The captain slapped him on the shoulder with a laugh.

"Cheer up buddy soon we'll have won the war with equestria, then we'll exterminate the entire BRONY community!" he laughed loudly then tossed Jay a brownish envelope.

"And this is?" Jay asked coldly opening the envelope to reveal a picture. Captain Bark stopped on his way into the interrogation building.

"That's your new partner dumbass. apparently he's a friend of yours, though I highly doubt anybody could be friends with a grunt like you. But I digress. It's all in the documents."

Jay waited till the captain vanished into the building then spat onto the ground. "Yeah you just wait Bark," he growled sitting back down and taking out the recruitment document, "You just wait. You think taking down BRONY'll be easy. You think the Princeses will let us win. Well, we'll see who'll be laughing in the end." He gave a wry smile then looked up at the sky. The air battle had been decided. There wasn't a single human plane in the sky.

Author's Note

My next new story. Hope it reads okay for a prologue and if any of our readers are confused about what's going on with events, don't worry. All will be explained in the next few chapters. Also sorry if it's wierdly spaced out, apparently that's the way I need to do it.
cheers for reading
Jay