Clayton, Drake and Twilight were all peeking over a short stone wall as they recon the open field for them to be able to safely cross. The gunfire was coming from in a farm area since they first the heard the shots, and decided to investigate to know if they were friendly forces, and see if they can lend help.

From what Clayton's field of view can see and that it is still night time, it is still difficult to see through the dark. But can see the yellow flashes iluminating the buildings, as well with the tracer rounds to be shot off into the distance.

"Seems like they're in an intense firefight, but which side of fire is our boys?" Drake said as he watched the gunfire.

"We will find out when we get closer, the field looks clear to cross," Clayton said, putting a hand on top of wall, "I will lead, then Drake then Twilight, make sure you keep your heads down, stay alert and check your corners and surroundings, single line behind me, lets move." Clayton vaulted over the stone wall and started to quickly crouch walk to the far building, followed by Drake and Twilight.

As they enter the perimeter of the farm, the gunshots are still going on and the the paratroopers ready their weapons for a potential firefight if they fired upon or run into enemy forces.

Twilight kept as close as she can behind the two soldiers and as low she can walk fast enough to keep up with the soldiers. But she wondered what can she do in a fight like this. Would she use her spells to create a bubble shield, be put into a safe position and out of the crossfire, or would she be forced to kill if she had to. Twilight still didn't know what she would do, and maybe she can ask Clayton what she can do in this or these kind of situations, knowing that she had no Military or Combat experiance or teachings she learned from books or anypony. She just had to find out.

The three finally reached the wall that ran around the entire periemter of the farm, but Clayton could not spot any openings or entrances for a way inside, and climbing the wall will just be a death trap, no matter what side they land on, he can hear the gunfire just over the wall, they all might get shot or injured if they climb.

But Clayton figured their must be a main entrance to enter farm, and be able to ambush or give support to who ever side they come into.

He looks back to the other waiting beings behind him. "Hug the wall and follow me, their must be a entrance up front where the road is, and just be ready for contact." He finishes and begins to walk towards the road with both pony and soldier behind him, their weapons raised in the air.

Nearing the corner of the wall, Clayton slows their approach, holding his fist up in the air, with Clayton to stop and genture to Twilight to stop too.

Clayton stands up and puts his back against the wall, lowers his weapon to his body and leans past the wall.

Two grey german-signified trucks are parked near the front gate where Clayton could see both front views of the trucks, pointing towards him. And behind those trucks by acting as a wall of cover, were a few German Soldiers firing their rifles towards who ever they are shooting at, Clayton counting about six, and all in a perfect straight lines. Easy targets to eliminate.

Clayton leans back behind the corner and turns back to Drake and Twilight. "Six German soldiers behind two trucks, but their sides are exposed, lets take them out and move more into the compund," He whispered, "Drake, prone on this slanted hill, when I turn the corner, you begin firing," Then turns to Twilight, "Twilight, you sit out on this, stay behind this wall and watch our backs for anymore German reinforcements, when we clear it, just follow us and stay behind cover." For her to nod in confirmation.

Clayton gestures to Drake to get ready, for him to to crawl down the small slanted hill and to his position, while Twilight begins to survey dark roads and treeline.

Both in position and Twilight watching their six, Clayton turns the corner and pulls the trigger.

The unexpected volley of American Democracy catches the German soldiers off guard, causing them to turn and confront their new probelm, but already to late.

Twilight flinches at the sound of the paratroopers
weapons of destruction goes off, as this is the closet she ever been next to one of humanity's weapons, wondering to herself how the soldiers can deal with that much loud noise everyday, as it's just next to their ears.

Clayton and Drake fire their M1s with precision and accuracy to the point that their American-made rifles can give them. With both paratroopers being able to hit the German Soldiers with killing blows to their body or head, as they try to scramble and return fire to the well-covered Allied Troops.

Clayton fires his last at the head of the last standing German Soldier, hearing the 'Ding' as his bullet impacts the steel helmet, killing the soldier. 'Ding', the clip inside of Clayton's M1 Garand ejects out of the loader and falls on the ground.

After making sure the area was cleared, Clayton takes out another "en bloc" clip of his Garand Ammo from his pouch and loads it in his weapons, the same with Drake, putting in a fresh magazine. But Clayton could still gunfire over the wall. Must be more Germans inside.

"Entrance is clear, but their's more inside, Twilight stay and watch our backs." Clayton said, Drake getting uopfrom his dirt cover.

Twilight hears the paratrooper, and turns towards him, seeing smoke rise out of the Paratroopers rilfes. "What, its only been five seconds!?" She silently yells, shocked of the American's quick work.

"You'll see more, we're Airborne." Drake said looking at Twilight, smiling.

All three move around the corner and still hugging the wall, they walk towards the entrance of the compound. Twilight surveys the dead german soldiers on the ground, blooding coming out of the bullet holes in their head and uniforms, and thinking to herself.

'Someday...someday, for as long I am in this fight, I'm is going to have to do the same thing these soldiers are doing...to...kill.' Twilight whinces at the word 'Kill', she never wanted or even heard that word in Equestria, but she only heard it as a joking matter or just something not used in this way of life, not like this. 'But only to defend myself and my friends, and it will probably be my only way to survive through this until I get home.' And hope to not do it EVER again, here or in Equestria.

They reach the entrance of the compound and Clayton to once-again, to lean and recon the inside.

Inside, he sees more Germans in cover and shooting at the building across the open middle area at a long, short one-story building, where Clayton can see the shooters inside fire out the windows, then only seeing two flashes of fire, thinking that their are only two friendly forces. For the Germans, they don't seem to notice their dead friends at the trucks, giving them the element of surprise once-again.

"Drake, take the three krauts on the right behind that wagon, I will take out the three behind the pile of wood." Clayton said, "Twilight, same assignment.

The two Paratroopers count to three and begin firing upon the German soldiers. Again, they surprise the Germans with their backs exposed.

The German Soldiers turned from their cover and to fire at the flanking Paratroopers, but were surrounded and were being picked off one-by-one by both sides from the gate and the occupied house.

As quick as it started, Drake fires one last time at the last German, killing him with his helmet being flown off from the impact. Then silence from both sides.

The two paratroopers walk into the walled-off farm and search the area for clearance. After a few seconds of scanning, they lower their weapons.

"Drake, stick with-" A shot is fired off and the bullet impacts on the stack of woods beside, leaving behind a dust of wooden splinters into the air, nearly missing Clayton's body, causing him to flinch.

"Whoa, hey we're Airborne, Airborne!" Drake shouted to the house, where the two unknown shooters are still in.

"Then how would we know if your just Germans in disguise!?" Yelled back a voice from inside of the house.

"We just killed the Germans that were shooting at you, how would we not he German Spys!" Clayton shouted.

"Well, friendly fire happens often from you Germa-"

"We're speaking English!" Drake said.

Silence goes on for a few moments, but they could here mumbles from the house, Clayton thinking that their were two Paratroopers they have 'met'.

"...Um...okay...before we come out, what is the password if you are paratroopers!" Yelled another voice, making Clayton's guest to be true. But Drake stops and glances at the house.

"Wait, I know that voice," He mumbled, then began to call out the Paratrooper's names. "Anthony...Benjamin...is it you two shit-heads!"

"Drake?...hey man how is it going, man."

"Get the hell. out. here!" Drake yelled.

"Okay, jeez calm down man, you want more Germans to come by...we're coming out!"

Moments later, two paratroopers walk out of the front door of the house and towards the two other waiting paratroopers, till they finally come into view.

Clayton watches as the two soldiers walk towards them, both of them mostly wearing the same equipment and style in the same positions, plus both also carrying M1 Garands.

"Hey Drake, how was your night?" The new-founded Paratroopers to the right said to Drake, with a joking smile.

"You almost shot us!" Drake responded.

"Oh, yea, hey sorry for that." The Paratrooper to the left aplogized to Clayton. "Finger must of slipped." He chuckled.

"Its okay," Clayton accepted, "You know these too, Drake." Clayton looking at the now-looking annoyed Paratrooper.

"Yea, I know these to two assholes." Drake said. "They're brothers."

"And you still remembered," said one of the brothers to Drake.

"Are you okay Clayton?"

The group of Paratroopers turn towards the female voice, for it to be Twilight, stopping in her tracks when she notices the attention.

"..."

"Diiiid that pony just talk?" One brother spoke up.

"Yea, her names Twilight." Clayton introduced.

"Um...Hi?" Twilight said, raising a her hoof to nervously wave.

"Whoa, that actually pretty cool."

"And she has wings and a horn, hey, can you do fly with those thing-"

"Hey, we can ask more questions later, but only if she is okay with." Clayton cutting off the brother and looking at Twilight for confrimation.

"I'm alright with it, but I would like to ask questions about where I am too." She agreed as she walks up between Drake and Clayton.

"Before we have anymore questions to ask, who are you two?" Clayton said, just to get the introductions answered.

"Oh, right," One of the brothers clears his throat. "Private Anthony Taylor, 502nd, 101st, 3rd Battalion, Charile Company, 3rd Platoon." Anthony introduced himself.

"Private Benjamin Taylor, 502nd, 101st, 3rd Battalion, Charlie Company, 3rd Platoon." Benjamin introduced himself.

"Same Company?" Clayton said, pointing to the two brothers.

"Yup." Both brothers say in unison.

"And I'm the oldest." Benjamin said raising his hand.

"Yea, by five minutes." Anthiny said.

"These are almost inseperatable, we just can't get these two apart, and trust me," Drake said, "even our Company Leader tried getting rid of them both."

"How did that work out?" Twilight asked, curiously. The mention of the two brothers reminds her of two other ponies back in Ponyville.

"To only backfire on him when he got demoted and these two got promoted." He said.

"Then how are these two still privates?" Clayton asked.

"It involved giving the wrong coordinates to an Artililery Brigade...and the injury of our Company Leader...then these two being demoted." Drake explained.

"He was a asshole anyway." Anthony muttered.

"Well, anyway, lets get back on track and our mission, do you two have a map and compass?" Clayton said.

"Affirmative, but these Jerries came by before we can even look at it after we both toucheddown." Anthony said, "lets look over it on the pile of wood."

The group walked and circled around the pile of wood, for Benjmain to open a pouch on his chest and take out both a compass and a folded up map.

"Excuse me, sir." Anthony said throwing off the dead german soldier limped over the wood and to the ground. Then for Benjamin to completely lay out their map and put the conpass on top of it. Clayton, Benjamin, Anthony, Drake and Twilight to gather around the layed out.

When Twilight put her hooves to where she can see it be fully layed, she saw the map of its full coverage of a certain section of there world, where ever she landed in. But also wondering and noticing after all of what happened to her and the events that happened to her too, with hundreds to the thousands of questions she could think of to ask these new species she landed upon on. And asking a question that could sum it all up from the dozens of questions. 'Why was this all happening?'

But she will ask it later.

Refocusing on the map, Twilight could see it indicated drawn lines all over it, she thinked that represented Roads and streams that link up to a river that lead from what Twilight see on the map was a ocean, 'English Channel' written on the blue open ocean area, and the land near to sea were red dots and shapes, but she didn't know . Along with on the map, were shapes that probably represented towns and cities, and besides those towns were their names she assumed, but was she looked closer was in a different language than what she seen.

Looking at the biggest town shape on the map, read 'Carentan'. She sounded out the word in her head over and over, 'Care-in-tan, she said in her head, but it did sounded right to her.

The paratroopers however, they were all trying to figure out their position on the map, looking around their surroundings and match it up on the map.

"Where the hell are we?" Drake said.

"I have no idea, the map doesn't give enough detail for us to match it up with our surroundings..." Clayton said, but an idea coming to his mind.

"Anthony, take Twilight and see if you both can find any direction signs of towns on them, then report back here, but don't go past the treeline and stay alert." Clayton ordered.

"Yes sir, come on you little pony." Anthony said to Twilight.

"My name is Twilight." Twilight corrected.

"Of course Twibright, lets go." Anthony joked with a smile on his face, but Twilight to say nothing and hop off the wood and follow Anthony to the road outside.

"Where you find her?" Benjamin wondered loking at Clayton and Drake.

"After Drake saved me from a Patrol, we saw a C-47 go down in a field," Clayton started to explain, "When we got there to see if anyone survived that inferno, the Germans beat us to the punch and were trying to load her up into a truck and looked like they were taking her somewhere."

"Why were they trying to capture a innocent pony like her, yea she talks and has wings...or does that horn on her head really have magic?" Benjamin said quietly, like someone was listening to them and he had to be quiet.

"We haven't seen her do or cast any magic spells like that, but like I said, that horn isn't for show." Clayton said. "But if she does have magic, and can do stuff like a shield or levitation BS...some messed up people can somehow harness or use her to do their bidding, good or evil, our race isn't ready for that kind of power."

"And that is why we took her with us." Drake added in.

"Besides, she isn't from this world, how she reacted to the stuff that happened to her so far," Clayton began shaking his head, "She does not know all the what is going on, and this isn't her war and fight, we took her with us to hope she can home on her own, keep her safe, or we can get her home with our help, when ever we finish this war." Clayton finished. Benjamin to just nod slowly as he thinks over what Clayton has said.

"Yup, I agree with that." He said. "For lets just focus on our mission, but we will talk about this more later." Clayton and Drake nodding and look back at the map, and wait for Anthony and Twilight to return.

Outside of the compound, Anthony, alert and weapon at the ready for anthing, and Twilight, looking around in the dark out of the usual, walk down the dirt road just to the right of the compound.

"See any signs, I can't see shit in this darkness." The young soldier said squinting his eyes.

"No, nothing I can see too." Twilight said. Till they finally reach the treeline next to the road, both of them to stop.

"Lets go the other way, their has to be a sign here." Anthony and Twilight turn around and began walking the other direction. A silence to fall between the soldier and the pony princess, only hearing the crunching of dirt and gravel under their Feet and hooves, and the soundnof crickets in the distance.

Reaching the gate entrance, walking past the the trucks and dead germans again, Twilight to ignore it again, looking away.

Passing the graphic scene, Anthony spoke up, breaking the silence, noticing Twilight not looking at the bodies.

"Not use to the blood and guts, huh?" He said.

"...N-no...I'm not...use to it." Her voice lowering with each word. "How can your speices handle...all that?" Twilight looking up to the Soldier.

"Well...not all of the human race is use to this..." Anthony begun, "I'm mean that there are people out there who hasn't seen this much destruction, those people just seen it in newspapers and on T.V....or in stories, but us, we are soldiers, we get use to it that we see it everyday."

A lot of questions in what Anthony said popped up in her head in in that one saying, but again with her other interests and curiosity, she will ask later.

"Well, would you look at that."

Twilight raises her head and sees a post with a word on it. They both stop to read.

'Auduoville La-Hubert - 10'

"How do you say it." Twilight said.

"I have no fucking no idea...but if it's a town, then we can look for it on the map, lets head back before they start to worry."

Noting and remembering the word, Twilight turns and gallops after Anthony who has already running back to the compound.

Passing the gate and slowering their approach, Twilight hears the group discussing of where they are.

"...then we must be by Exit 4?"

"No, then we could of seen-"

All three paratroopers turn towards the sound of movement behind them, to be Anthony and Twilight.

"You find out where we are?" Clayton the first to ask.

"Yea, we did, but not exactly." Anthony turning to Twilight, her noticing.

"Oh, um..." The pony walked up to the map, put her hind hooves on the pile of wood and began to search the town's name on the map.

"The name I can't say or sound out, to...complicated." She said, giving a nervous smile and her ears flopping down, Clayton to just smile.

"It's okay, just show it where on the map then we will take it from there." Clayton said, giving a friendly smile, then for Twilight to start again.

As Twilight was looking for a the name of the town on the map, looking at each word and trying to match the town name to that town name.

'Ste. Mére Eglise...No.'

'Turqueville...No.'

'Ravenoville...No.'

'St. Côme du-Mont...No.'

'Carentan...No.'

'Why are these names so hard pronounce?'

'Vierville...No.'

'St. Marie du-Mont...No.'

'Audouville la-...there!'

"There!" She cheered, causing the Paratroopers jump at the unexpected loud accomplishment. "Oh, sorry." Blushing.

"It's okay, just point where." Clayton said, recovering from the yell.

"It's okay, just show us where on the map." Clayton said, rubbing his nearly blown out ear.

"Jeez, haven't heard a lady this loud since your ex, Benjamin." Anthony said to his brother, also rubbing his ear.

"Up yours too." He responded.

After a quick recovery, the Soldiers look at where Twilight's hoof is pointing at the map.

"It sign said we are...'10' miles, I think, from this town right here." Her hoof pointing at the town, "Aaaduuuville deee Mont, but I don't know what direction.

"And that where the compass comes in." Benjamin said, putting the compass near the town.

Clayton looked between both the compass and map, trying to get a clear image and thinking to come in his head to pinpoint of where they are.

The compass arrow was pointing north a little bit to the left of them of where they stand at, giving Clayton a clear idea.

If Auduoville de-Mont is South to their location, then they are North to it by 16 klicks. Then their objective is just North-East or exactly East of their position, towards Exit 3 on the map that a road will lead them to the Main Beachhead Defences at Utah Beach, where they will flank and clear out any Bunkers, Gun Batteries, and/or Defending Infantry and Tanks.

Hoping they will meet more Friendly Forces on the way.

"Okay, I figured where we are," Clayton said.

"Enlighten us." Anthony said. The Paratroopers and Twilight to stare at him.

"North is that way," Holding his hand to their left, "We are just North to Audouville de-Mont by sixteen klicks, so our main objective is just East of our position," Then pointing his hand just straight to their position
"That way, is Exit 3, which will lead us to the main beachheads defences at Utah Beach, there, we will clear out any bunkers and gun batteries to make the boys on the beach more easier to gain ground on the beach, and lessen anymore casulities." He said, looking at each of the soldiers, and Twilight, who had a confused look on her face. He'll have to explain all of this when this is over to her, she deserves it.

"Then we better start to double-time then, because the sun is about coming up, the invasion is about to start." Drake said, making the whole group to look up at the sky. The sky was now light blue and the sun's color of orange just in the distance behind them, it was about almost morning.

"What time is it-"

*Boom*

Just as Clayton said his question, their heads jerk up to the blue sky, hearing the sounds of cannon in the distance, but towards the Beachheads. One after another.

Twilight was confused and a bit scared of the unknown loud cannon shots in the distance, and of what Clayton explained to the other soldiers, she didn't understand a single word of his explanation.

"W-what is that sound." Twilight said, sinking to the ground after each explosion.

"The Invasion...it's starting." Clayton said staring blankly at the morning sky.

"Invasion, what do mean, what's going on you guys?!" She shouted, scaredness and fear in her voice, hoping for an answer.

"Lets go then." All the paratroopers began to jog out of the compound then, but for Clayton to kneel to Twilight's eye-level.

"Twilight please, just listen to us, we will all explain later of what is happening and why we are here." He said.

"But..."

"Twilight...please." Clayton said in desperation of her to calm down. Twilight was now beyond confused, breathing rapidly.

"Please..." Clayton said again.

"...okay...okay." she responded.

"Hey, come on, we got a mission to do!" Drake yelled back from the gate.

Both get up and run to catch up with the group, and onto towards the beachheads of Normandy, towards Utah Beach.

The sounds of rotors under the water, spun under the water, loud enough for the American Soldiers on the boats to hear it. Waves of the English Channel smash against their transporting Landing Craft, blowing up into the air and onto the wet and soaked Soldiers, even though they've been there for five minutes.

Each soldier on the boat was nervous, shaken, tired, or calm, but they were ready for what was about to come when that ramp dropped. They've all trained for this specific, yet very important operation that was about to be commenced and they had to succeed. The entire world, and the war, was about to be decided on this one day. And the soldiers felt the pressure on their shoulders. The 4th Infantry could feel it the most.

*Boom*

The powerful cannons of Battleships along the English Channel begin their scheduled barrage, the streams of the shells fly over the thousands of landing craft as they approach the beaches. The sound of explosions impacting the land, both the Navy and Army wish that it will destroy and/or soften the defences that await them. But they continue the barrage until they make sure of it.

And as they come closer to the beaches, they also come into range of the beached long-range gun batteries, who are now-alerted of the oncoming barrage of the U.S. Navy, and preping their guns for a counter-barrage, if they can manage.

This Atlantic Wall. The wall that was said to be unbreakable and unbeatable by the Germans. The wall that was built to keep any Invasion Force from the Western Allies and to fail if there was one. Thousand upon thousands of miles of Bunkers, Gun Emplacements, Barbwire, Tank Stoppers, Mines, and Divisions of Battle-Hardened Veteren German Soldiers to be guarding this said Atlantic Wall.

The Allied Expeditionary Force was about to now test this Defence of Hitler's Creation. And prove that theory wrong in a forceful way of Freedom and Democracy.

*Boom*

The German Gun Batteries begin their own barrage of destruction, as they spotted the approaching Landing Craft, the shells landing near or over.

"Thirty seconds!" One Transport Driver yells to the waiting soldiers.

Thirty more seconds left to invade, thirty final seconds that could be the end of hundreds American, British, and Canadian Soldiers of their lives.

The spinning of moving gears on the ramps begin to spin. The 4th Infantry Infantry begin reading themselves of the upcoming obstecles they might face.

The noise of Machine Gun fire bounce off the walls of the landing craft.

This was going to determine outcome of the war, this operation, Operation Overlord, and the Soldiers of the Allied Forces.

The ramps of thousands of Landing Craft drop to the water, the first foot out of the craft is the first of a journey.

Celestia gasps and drops her cup of tea onto the ground. The splash of broken glass is heard throughout the dining room. Grabbing the attention of the ponies in the room.

"Tia!" Princess Luna cried, noticing her older sister sudden instant blank stare and the dropping her cup onto the ground, her eyes widen.

"Princess Celestia, are you alright!" Yelled one of the Royal Guards in the room, for another group of Guards to rush into the room.

Celestia was breathing, sweat coming down her forehead of what she just felt.

She hasn't felt such a thing in her thousands of years of rule since King Sombra Reign.

It felt like thousands of heartbeats...just stopped. In one full second, the second that feeling came to her. But she didn't know where or what it was.

"Tia!"

Celestia was knocked out of her thought, and realized all the ponies in the roomwere looking at her, worried faces of their ruler.

"Yes...I...am alright." She said slowly.

"Are you sure, do we need to get the Royal Doctors?" A guard said.

"No, I'm fine...but get me another cup of tea, please."

Author's Note

Hello Readers of my story,

Sorry it took this so long for this chapter,

I was just doing my own stuff and reading other Fanfics...and they were worth it. ("Treating her Right, a AppleDash romantic, amd it was worth it.)

But I finally managed to get my head straight and type this, and hoped you like this Chapter, becuase I had to do skme research on the map of Normandy the 101st Division's objectives.

And I got a question for you WWII History people, or Bronies.

What is your Favorite American Weapon?

(Mine is the BAR...it feels so right.)

But that is all and here is the Chapter and the we enter the Battle of Normandy,

That means more research, more iconic events (hopefully), situations, and a look back at whats happening at Ponyville, but first, the Clearing of the Beach Defences at Utah Beach.

82nd outtttttttt.