Chapter 1: This is just the Beginning?
0700 hours, 12 July, 2034.
It's been a long time since the Regular army had fought the Rebel army. The thing is Equestria doesn't know them or anything about the war because no wars had ever happened in Equestria. Only in other countries. The Regular army has a military base in Equestria, around the countryside and Manehattan can be seen from the horizon around there. Michael, Kiara, and Marcus are having a chat on top floor or the base.
"So, we haven't had any fight against the Rebel Army ever since we won the last war a few years ago. Look, guys, it's the break we deserve, don't you think?" said Michael looking relaxed sitting down.
"I agree..." replied Kiara.
"Yeah, it's like been years man, I still practice my shooting skills." said Marcus.
"Those ponies in Equestria, I've visited ponyville once and my it's way primitive and old. Well that was before." said Kiara
"Well, equestria today is like the early 2000's and finally there are cars, and planes, and train powered by electricity and not coal. Equestria is still growing t..." replied Michael.
The alarm of the base went off as he was talking.
"Code red! Code red!" exclaimed a regular soldier.
All the regular soldiers heading to the barracks gearing up.
"Come on team, we got a mission to do." said Michael looking serious.
The three of them head to Marsares' office for mission briefing.
"Ah just the ponies I've been waiting for..." said Marsares looking prepared for a briefing.
"What's going on uncle?" asked Michael looking like he's really in to it.
"It's the Rebel army...Looks like they have returned once again..." Marsares answered. Looking calm, he took a sip of coffee from his mug.
"Not the Rebel army! They have returned?!" said Kiara looking surprised.
"That's right, the Rebel army." said Marsares.
"Tell us the mission uncle." said Michael.
Just as Marsares opened his mouth, Ryder entered his office. The temperature lowered as he closed the door.
"Just in time Ryder, Marsares is gonna brief us the mission now." said Michael.
"Why is it so cold... Ok team, the Rebel army has returned once again but this time they are gonna attack Paris and it's not going as expected. We've receive an urgent message calling for help from our soldiers in France. We have military bases around the world you know." said Marsares joyfully.
"How can you be so happy when there's an urgent message..." asked Ryder. The temperature of the room lowered even more as he speak.
"Well... Let's get to the point...They have a giant gorilla on the hanging on the Eiffel for no reason. It's on nopony's side. Probably an experiment that went wrong." Marsares replied and he turned off the air conditioner. "Ahh choo...! Why is it so cold?"
"Holy Moly!" exclaimed Marcus.
"Please save your questions and reactions after the briefing..." said Marsares as he wiped off his mucus with his handkerchief.
After wiping off the mucus, the others also began to sneeze except Ryder.
"Alright, P.F. Squad... Your mission is to stop the Rebel army from invading Paris and take out that over sized monkey! Questions? Reactions? No? Good. Now go to Paris, we got a Black Hawk ready for you team. And one more thing, Rarity and Applejack will assist you in your mission. You will meet them at a base camp outside Paris." said Marsares.
"Yes sir! We won't let you down." said Michael.
"Good. Now go, Paris needs you!" replied Marsares.
As they walked out of the office, the temperature raised back.
"Phew! Just now was so cold, now is getting hotter, strange..." Marsares wondered as he wiped off his sweat with his handkerchief which is full off mucus.
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0900 hours, 12 July, 2034
"30 seconds to LZ," said the Black Hawk's co-pilot.
"Roger that." Michael replied and turn his head towards the others. "Alright team, our mission is capture the train and ride it to Paris, and give the six fire support to get that King Kong down from Eiffel Tower, any questions?"
"No." Ryder replied coldly.
"Woah Ryder, that is too chill, we're getting a cold here." joked Marcus trying to ease the chilly atmosphere.
"Approaching LZ," the pilot landed the Black Hawk beside the railway. Michael got down, followed by Kiara, Marcus, then Ryder. The Black Hawk took off again and returned to base.
"Ryder, you take point, Marcus watch our six," command Michael. "Kiara, stay close."
The team followed the railway to the train station. When they almost reached the train station, 2 R-Shobu attack helicopters flies by, 2 Di-Cokka main battle tanks drove out of the woods, a group of rebel soldiers walked out of the station with rifles, grenades and bazookas.
"Get down." Ryder whispered and pulled out his Barrett J-1NX sniper rifle. He set up the bi-pod of the gun on the ground and load in armor piercing/explosive rounds. "When I fired the shot, you guys head towards the train in the tall grass."
"Understood, be careful Ryder, the R-Shobu might notice you and do a bombing run," noted Michael.
Ryder did not answered. He aimed down his sight at the helicopters and waited for them to passed by the rebel soldiers.
As one of the R-Shobu were almost above the soldiers, Ryder pulled the trigger twice. Two 12.7x99mm bullets fired from the gun. The first one went in to the helicopter's cockpit and hit the pilot's head. Immediately the cockpit's windshield was filled with blood and brain tissues. The second one hit the engine. The helicopter exploded in mid-air. It felled from the sky and crashed the rebel soldiers under it.
The explosion caught the another R-Shobu and the two Di-Cokkas attention. Michael and the others crawl in the tall grass towards the train while Ryder aimed his sight on the tanks. He fired two shots on each tank. The tanks were still moving but they were smoking badly. Both Di-Cokkas adjust their position and aimed their 155mm smoothbore cannons where Ryder's positioned at. They fired the cannons continuously.
"Oh shit!" several shots almost hit Ryder. Some of them missed above his head. Ryder picked up his sniper rifle and ran towards the train. He tossed some grenades at the smoking tanks. The tanks exploded with the grenades.
"Go go go!" yelled Marcus. They ran towards the train with the R-Shobu dropping bombs behind them.
Kiara turned around and fired a 25mm grenade with her XM25 CDTE bullpup grenade launcher at the helicopter. The grenade volleyed and detonated right under the helicopter's bomb hatch. The helicopter crashed into the train station and exploded.
"By Celestia that was intense!" said Michael excitedly.
“Let's...never...talked about this...again..." Kiara gasp for air and suggested.
"You are right, it is intense." replied Ryder with a grin.
"Oh my Celestia I can't believe it were you smiling?" Marcus was surprised.
"No!" Ryder replied angrily and gave him a stare. He got up the train and worked on the controls. "Hop on or find your way to Paris yourself."
The rest of the team get up the train and rode it to Paris. As Ryder sit on a chair reading a newspaper lying on the floor, the rest of the team went to checked out the rest of the cabin.
"Ahhhh!!!!" Kiara screamed as Ryder was drinking. He spilled his drink all over the place, gladly it did not spilled on the controls.
"What now!" scolded Ryder while he wiped off his spilled drink.
"Sorry," Kiara apologized.
"Why you were screaming?" asked Ryder as he walked to the cabin where Kiara at.
"That..." Kiara pointed at a opened suitcase with a silver cylinder tube.
Ryder lift the suitcase up with his magic and he examined it. His was surprised, but also relieved.
"Be careful Ryder." advised Kiara.
"What is it?" asked Michael.
"Is a..."
"Is a RA-115 Russian made suitcase bombs, also known as suitcase nukes, luckily it's not armed." Ryder interrupted Kiara and explained with serious tone. "Looks like the Rebel army is planning to bomb Paris."
"Make sense, they've tried take over the world, but why an old model suitcase nuke?" asked Marcus.
"Easy to use, much stable than plasma bombs." Ryder answered. He looked at the bomb and look at Michael with a smile. "You got a plan for killing that gorilla?"
Michael look at Ryder then at the bomb.
"You are thinking what I'm thinking?" asked Michael.
"Exactly." Ryder replied with another smile.
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The train arrived at the temporary base camp outside of Paris. Rarity and Applejack were standing at the train station platform.
"They're here early, where are ma bits Rarity?" asked Applejack stretching out her hoof for the money.
"10 bits, as promised..." Rarity who was in a bad mood after losing the bet gave the money to Applejack.
"Hey, let's bet who's the first come down the train?" asked Applejack again for another bet with Rarity.
"Okay AJ darling, 10 bits as usual. I bet the first one to come down is a handsome stallion." said Rarity full of confident in herself.
"Ah bet is a cute mare." Applejack also bet with full confident.
The train stopped. A grey coat unicorn wearing a pair of sunglasses got off the train, his back carried Jinx (Barrett J-1NX) and a sword with black sheath. It was Ryder. Rarity daze away when she saw Ryder.
"Oh my Celestia is hard to find a handsome fighter these day." Rarity thought and turn to Applejack. "AJ darling, I want my bits back please."
Applejack went silence and give Rarity back her money.
The rest of the team got off the train, Marcus was carrying the suitcase bomb.
"Hey girls, any intel on the rebels?" asked Michael.
"Yeah we got a very big problem..."Applejack face frowned when she reply Michael.
"What's wrong?" asked Kiara.
"About that..." Rarity forced a smile but then put it away. "Dash was captured by the gorilla."
"You can't be serious." Marcus joked again. But he stopped laughing when he saw everypony was staring at him."Wait, it is true?"
Applejack and Rarity nod their head. Ryder shook his head and knock Marcus's head softly.
"You better stop joking before you get a PhD." Ryder advice Marcus.
"Doctorate of Philosophy?" asked Michael.
"No, Permanent Head Damage." Ryder answered and grinned.
Marcus went silence. When he recovered from his day-dreaming, the rest of team already walked away and entered the command centre.
"Hey guys wait up!" Marcus shouted and followed.
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Inside the camp command centre, Michael analyzed the situation while Ryder armed the bomb. Kiara and the others were loading the humvees.
Suddenly, an explosion caught their attention. Ryder grabs his sword and his sniper rifle, and stormed out of the building. He stood at the entrance looking at a M-15A Bradley missile launcher. It turned and fired missiles at Ryder.
"Oh shit!" Ryder shouted and ran towards the missile launcher. The missiles hit the sandbags behind, causing the air filled with yellow sand.
The missile launcher reversed and fired more missiles at Ryder. This time Ryder stop and pulled his sword out of it's sheath. The blackish metal with sharp edges hummed, blood red aura flows through the blade.
The first missile was cut into half, exploded in mid-air. Then another, and another. When the M-15A Bradley was going to fire another patch of missiles, Ryder was sitting on it juggling 2 grenades. He popped the grenades into the launchers' barrel and ran back to the building. The M-15A exploded before the driver could get out.
"What happened out there?" asked Michael carrying his heavy machine gun. "We heard more explosions outside."
"Just some intruders with helluvalot fire powers, something I can handle myself." Ryder smiled and turned to the others. "How's the loading coming?"
Two MH-6J Masknell helicopter flies by, shooting them with cannons. Three Girida-O remote control tanks drove out from the building behind them, two more in front of them.
"We're trapped!" yelled Michael. He weld his heavy machine gun and shoots the helicopter above them. One of the helicopter got shot and crashed into a building beside them. Debris started to fall, crashing them below. Ryder deflected the debris using his shield spell.
More rebel soldiers charge from the front, throwing grenades and rockets at them. Kiara stood out and throws a high explosive grenade, the grenade exploded, blasting most of the rebel soldiers into bits. Blood, heads, intestines, hooves rain from the sky, the smell of blood filled the air.
"They just keep coming!" yelled Marcus while he blow one of the rebel soldier's head with his .44 magnum. Rebel paratroopers landed behind them, shooting their bazookas.
Just as another Girida-O got destroyed, the ground begin to trembled, a giant robot came out from a junction and crashed the Girida-Os and rebel paratroopers behind them.
"Oh not you again." said Ryder. He shoots another MH-6S down with his Barrett J-1NX multi-function sniper rifle. The helicopter lost it's hydraulics and crashed into the giant robot. "We have fight that thing again guys, or we will die!"
The giant robot fired laser beams from it's eye. But it missed to the right, making a fuel tank trailer exploded. The blast send the team flying, separated from each other.
"Ha ha ha! It looks like that our pathetic little P.F Squad is crashed beneath the Mighty, Allen O'Neil!" the voice of Allen O'Neil burst out from the robot's speaker.
"Not...not a chance, you bastard!" shouted Michael angrily. He tried to get up, but the explosion just now had crippled his hind legs.
"Ha ha ha! You can't even stand up, boy. Ha ha ha!" Allen O'Neil laugh crazily. "Ha ha ha! HA HA HA! HA HA...WHAT!"
Ryder stood up and pulled out his sword, the black metal with a glint of red glow softly. He adjust his position and thrust his sword into the robot's metal claw. Electric current flows through the sword then to his body, he started to slashing through the robot with great speed. As he thrust his sword into the metal claw again, he realized that it was a big mistake. The metal claw grab him and throw him on the ground. His sword flew away from his hoof and landed somewhere he can't reached.
"Oh my, I never seen someone who is so fast, and so ignorant, ha ha ha!" Allen O'Neil laugh again. The robot's metal claw hatch opened and a missile pointed at Ryder, the robot's eye glow as the laser beams charged. "Any last word, boy?"
