The Second great war [Scrapped]by Col_R4inbow_D4shChaptersProlugeChapter ?Chapter ?Chapter ?Chapter ?Chapter ?Chapter ?Chapter ?ProlugeChapter 1 "Silver Shadow you're 18, shouldn't you rather look for mares then our stories?" Rainbow's husband answered "Come on grandpa, you said you'd told me the rest of the story. Besides this time I'm not the only one." His grandson answered and opened the door and several ponies in the age of their grandson (from the looks of it) waited behind the door. The veterans looked at each other "Fine." Rainbow said flatly and walked over to the couch followed by the rest "Before we start thought here are the things what you need to know about us. We met in training and have already fought in several battles, I'm good at planning air and ground battles... he is a bit better at planning ground battles though." She instructed "A bit?" Her husband asked, Rainbow just punched him "It was the 5th day of Janequary 1058, The war has already been going on for several moths, Big Macintosh has already died and the first megaspell has already been deployed. Ponykind had more applications for the military then before, even though since the Littlehorn Massacre, ponies where ready to go on an all-out war, most didn't have the courage but that changed with Big Macintosh's death." Rainbow began the story Several hours away from Reins "You know... sending troops against an enemy that has three times the units stationed there is a fucking dumb idea." Rainbow said looking ahead as she sat on the tank "Why's that?" Wild Strike asked as he looked out the tanks commanders hatch "Besides the obvious? It's a waste of time, we should just send an army over the ocean and fuck them straight" She answered, she heard a chuckle from Wild Strike and the rest of the squad behind her "...What?" She asked with an raised eyebrow not getting why they laughed, the squad just kept laughing and shook their heads "The Dead Colts Road!" Rainbow heard quietly in the background "Hey turn that up, I wan't to hear that!" She exclaimed and Thunder Spark turned up the volume of the radio "I hear You're out there, sayin': 'It won't happen to me'" the radio boomed out while the battalions made their way to Reins. Smoke poles rose there, we were told that the Crystal Empire had several battalions stationed there, they had very heavy loses the last days and from their 5 battalions only 2 under strengthened and under supplied battalions survived the onslaught on the city, they now have gotten a strong position a couple of miles away from the city. And with strong I mean a few makeshift bunkers and trenches plus a few fox holes... but it did the job, they were able to keep that position and hold the zebras back which of course wouldn't last forever, but they didn't because now we came, as soon we arrived there we hoofed out supplies in an effort to get the battalions to high strength again. "So how long till the Vertibucks come?" Rainbow asked Thunderhoof "Uh... I do believe a day or two, why?" He asked back "Just asking so I know when I get my new armor." Rainbow answered "Yeah... about that... why are you still runnin' around in that old armor? Why ain't you wearing the combat armor?" He asked scratching the back of his head and looked back at the clipboard he grasped with his magic "I like this armor, it looks good and has enough armor in my opinion." She answered and looked over to the tank she just sat on "Hey, Rainbow! Thunder Spark needs your help by the supply trucks!" Wild Strike shouted over to her, said mare just nodded and made her way over to the trucks, ponies already unloaded ammunition, food and medical supplies "Where to?" Rainbow asked as she tapped on an ammo crate "Into the biggest tent you can find." Thunder Wing answered, Rainbow nodded and grabbed the whole stack "Follow me" Spark answered and started to walk to a lead the way the crates firmly on top of her forelegs as she walked only on her back hoofs "Stop!" Spark shouted over the noise and Rainbow stopped dead in her tracks "Wait here." He said simply and just as he wanted to walk in he heard a loud thud behind him, he looked back to see that Rainbow just let go of the crates and they crashed to the ground, the one at the bottom nearly cracking apart, Thunder Spark just facehoofed. He walked inside and signed Rainbow to follow "Okay ma'am, you have to put the crate right here." The supply manager said pointing at some free space in the tents corner while looking at his clipboard, as he heard no affirmation from the mare he looked back. Rainbow was gone... A few seconds later she returned with the stack in tow, the manager looked at her with an raised eyebrow, and as Rainbow turned to leave "Ma'am would ya be so kind and put both these stacks over into that corner?" He asked, Rainbow nodded grabbed both stacks and moved them into the corner, "Could you do me another favor? Could you take another stack from the trucks and bring one crate to every trench and bunker?" The manager asked, Rainbow looked back at Thunder Spark who looked around uninterested but as he saw Rainbow looking at him "What?" He asked with an raised eyebrow "Crate to every trench and bunker..." The manager said simply "Oh yeah sure, Rainbow that's a job for you then." He answered and looked at Rainbow who just saluted and walked outside. Everypony looked as Rainbow Dash walked past them with a stack of ammo crates on her right hoof, every time she passed a trench or a bunker she just punched the left side of the bottom crate which literally just flew near the trench, she then stepped on the lock which held the crate locked and ripped it off. As she threw the last crate on the ground something went wrong... no pony knew what, but suddenly the crate exploded "Rainbow..." Her husband said as he rolled his eyes "What?" She asked with an raised eyebrow "Don't even start making things up, I know for a fact that day was boring as fuck." He answered "Ugh... fine... there you want it to sound 20 percent cooler and then ponies yell at ya..." She mumbled "Like your father said, the day was pretty boring... same as the day after, they were mostly us carrying something... and with us I mean me, while he sat on his lazy ass doing nothing." She said getting a chuckle out of her grandson "I wasn't 'doing nothing'" Rainbow's husband proclaimed "Oh? then tell me what did you do?" She asked curious "I watched you carrying stuff, and since I did watch you that's not doing nothing, but doing something." He answered with a smirk, Rainbow looked at him with an raised eyebrow, then looked at the ground, then the ceiling and then back to him "Stop giving me headaches." She said flatly "Fine, just continue your story." He replied "Vertibucks eta: 2 minutes." Wild Strike shouted, everywhere soldiers ran around trying to get ammo, food and medical supplies. Tank crews filled up their fuel and ammo, some even grabbed a few machine guns, for obvious reasons, which where. If only one shot penetrates the tank your out, those members who survive have got guns to defend themselves. "Incoming!" A soldier shouted, everypony looked up and saw how tons of Vertibucks came in fast and low and started to slow down and then hoover above them "Okay everypony, make so space so they can land!" Wild Strike shouted and only a few seconds later there was a field big enough for every single Vertibuck to land, as soon as that happened soldiers started to refuel them. Soldiers started to unload the rest supplies the Bucks carried "Private Rainbow Dash!" A soldier shouted, a few second later the said mare stood before the soldier and saluted "The MAS and MWT told me to bring ya this." The soldier shouted over the noise the Vertibucks made as some of them still landed. The soldier led Rainbow to the back of the Vertibuck and open it, to reveal the armor. Rainbow Dash squealed as she saw her armor and ran in only a second later "Ma'am, the head of the MWT also told me to give you this." He added as he hoofed the mare a visor, which she just grabbed and put on like she used to with her sunglasses, and a recording started "Hey Rainbow, AJ here, ah heard ya needed some modifications on the armor, all of 'em are on now. Ta open the armor ya just have ta say: Armor open up, it's only patched in for your voice alone, you can modify everything your liking... when it goes for the HUD and commands that is, also Guns have ta be mounted manually... ohh and ya got something like holsters on the armors flanks, those will hold the guns so ya can do... whatever ya do when not in combat. Like ya already know Twi put some spells on the armor to make it lighter and more sturdy, by the by, yer ammo bags got some sort of spell which makes them near infinite size and will do everything themselves, so don't worry about ammunition overload or sorting or anything like that." Applejack instructed "It's not infinite AJ, it's only far more bigger on the inside then the outside... just pretend you have like several thousand bags on your back." Twilight cut in "There ya have it Rainbow, we also have the instructions copied into the armors memory core, so ya know how ta use it... but since both of us know yer not goin' ta read it, Twi just titled the different things like weaponry and such... well that's it then. Good luck on the battlefield, and send me a letter or a message if ya got problems with the armor. Cya then. Before I forget theres now a shield around your head since you ddidn't wanted a helmet, the shield can take lot's and lot's of punishment, but once down it will need days to recharge and reform, so becareful ... yeah that all, cya then" Just before the recording ended "See you again Rainbow!" She heard Twilight shout. Rainbow gave a chuckle and then looked at the armor "Armor, open up." She said and a second later the armor opened on top, Rainbow flew up and looked inside and smiled, they really modified the inside, she jumped inside all her limps being pretty much guided to where they needed to be and as soon we was inside and ready the armor closed and she started to walk outside. With every step she took the Vertibuck shook and bounced a bit, as soon as she was outside she stood up on her hind legs "Now then, where are the guns?" She asked as she moved her fingers, much more smoothly that in the old armor "Right here ma'am" one of the MWT combat engineers said and pointed at the 3 guns. "Which one get's mounted first?" She asked "The sniper rifle, it's the hardest one." One of the combat engineer answered. The two engineers tried to move the weapon up to her shoulder but climbing a ladder und carrying about 60 kilo too, pretty much impossible. Rainbow grabbed the gun and held it to the top of the ladder "Just grab the weapon and move it to where you need it I hold the weight." She said and one of the engineers climbed the ladder and started to mount the gun, the second one gave him the tools "Alright, ya can let go of the gun, just need the ammo belt now." He said as he pointed at one of the the middle ammo belt "Why are they made out of metal?" Rainbow asked as she grabbed the belt "They'll keep and hold the bullets in order, so they don't just fly around freely." One of them answered "Ya ever shot a little MG with a lose ammo belt?" The other one asked, Rainbow nodded "You remember how the belt was flying around?" He asked, and once again Rainbow nodded "This thing is there to make that that won't happen." He answered "Ahh, makes sense." Rainbow said and gave one ending to the engineer on the ladder and she held the other end, as she heard a click "Okay gimme the other end." The one on the ladder said, Rainbow heard another click "Okay, this one is done." He said "Okay which gun next?" Rainbow asked "None, gonna need the belts first." The engineer on the ladder answered, She grabbed both belts and held them up to the earth pony on the ladder "Hold the belts where ya want the weapons ta be, the bigger belt is for the missile launcher." He explained, Rainbow nodded and moved the bigger belt to her left hoof and the smaller belt to her right hoof. The engineer grabbed the left one and hooked it into the ammo box on the lower left corner, he then grabbed the right belt and hooked that into the right lower corner of the box, he then got down from the ladder "Right, now grab the weapons and let us do the rest." He instructed. Rainbow nodded and grabbed the missile launcher with her left hoof and the minigun with her right hoof. both engineers moved the ammo belts into position and hooked them up, now she was near combat ready, only the ammo left. "Ma'am, we're gonna need ya help again, you need one hoof free for that though" One of the engineers shouted, Rainbow Dash holstered her guns and walked over to them "Yer gonna need to hold up the ammo crates." He said and pointed at several stacks of ammo crates, Rainbow chuckled and grabbed the first stack and held it up so they could put the ammo in the box on her back. It took them several minutes to put all the ammo into the box, but they finally managed it. "Okay, done. You have to use the minigun once, for bullets to get into the barrel." One of them shouted up. Rainbow nodded "I'm gonna get the chance as soon as I see enemies, don't worry... also you don't need to shout" she answered and walked out the tent she saw how the officers walked out of theirs, they seem to be set and ready to move out "Wow! Sir!" She heard a shout and hoofsteps closing in on her "Sir, I seriously need to photograph ya, would be good material to-" He said as he could himself off as the MARE looked at him, he gulped "Say again, I couldn't really hear you." Rainbow said "I said I need a photo for some material, you seem to be the best bet... ma'am" He replied looking a bit scared "Sure" She replied flatly "Great, just make an epic stance as if your ready to fuck some shit up and I'm gonna take it." He answered and made himself ready. As Rainbow was ready a flash blinded her "This is a great one thanks, ma'am." He said saluted and walked away and got into a jeep which drove off with most of the trucks in the direction of Canterlot "Okay, everypony. Let's move out and kick some Zebra ass!" One of the officers shouted and seconds later all engines started, Vertibucks got into the air, tanks went in formation and all soldiers where on the remaining trucks, and then we moved out. Rainbow sat in the same Vertibuck which brought in her armor, only 3 of these babies have been build, they are specifically designed for super heavy lifting. Chapter ?Chapter 2 "Okay ya'll know the plan, let's move out." The commanding officer said over the radio "Yes, sir." Every company replied. Rainbow Dash looked around the Vertibuck and scratched the back of her head "You do know the plan Rainbow, right?" Thunder Wing asked, said mare looked at him "Pff, of course I do... why wouldn't I?" Rainbow replied "You have no clue do ya." Thunder Wing said with a chuckle "No..." Rainbow confirmed looking at the ground, everypony chuckled "How is it you never listen when we talk about the plan?" He asked "I only remember someting like... 'okay everypony here's the plan'..." She answered, Thunder Wing looked at her in disbelieve "What? I get bored fast..." She said as she saw his look "Rainbow those were like the first few seconds... but nevermind that, you just need to know that we are on standby until the commander says else, and when we're deployed you don't need to worry about civilians, there are none." He answered while he face-hoofed a bit "Okay Hotel, bring 2 platoons to Bravo company, and one to Char-." The commander said but got cut off by another transmission "Affirmative, Alpha." Was all we heard "Okay change of plans, Alpha needs the heavy guns, I'm sending the rest over to Alpha and Charlie, I need a heavy Vertibuck attack platoon for Charlie. Out" The Commander ordered "Yes, Sir." Everypony answered, and the Vertibucks broke formation, most of them flew to the east and west, Rainbow's bird and a couple of others landed right where they were. "Okay, everypony, ya heard him. Alpha needs help, let's kick some ass!" The commanding officer of the platoon shouted, and the platoons moved out, we walked in a slow trot to get there as fast as we could without being exhausted when we get there. With every step we took the firefight got louder, as suddenly something hit the tree right besides one of the soldiers, and everypony ducked into cover "Okay we are very close, check your weapons and mags!" The CO shouted, right after nearly everypony looked their weapons over. "Okay, then let's roll!" He shouted as he started to charge, everypony following not even a second behind. As we ran in, we saw ponies running away from the battlefield "Where is everypony?!" The Echo CO shouted "They're all down there! And got many wounded soldiers, but we can't get there!" One pony shouted back as they grabbed several medic things from the supplies that laid around "Okay, we got the heavy weapons right here, we need to speak with your CO!" He shouted over the shooting and zipping by bullets "Ohh the CO? He's right there!" The pony shouted back and pointed at a pony without a head "Who's in charge then?" The Sierra CO asked "Dunno, somepony down there." The medic said with a shrug and walked over to one of the wounded and started to bandage him up "Okay here's what we're gonna do. Squad 1 and 2, you're gonna lay down cover fire while the rest charge forward on my mark. Squad 3 and 4 you're gonna spread to the left, while squad 5 and 6 go right. The rest are on me. Also squad 1 and 2, as soon you see me giving the mark you move up to us! Sierra 117 you hold fire until I give to order to open up, would hate to bring you out to early. Now get ready and on my mark we move. Ya'll ready?!" The CO said "Oorah!!!" They shouted in response "Okay, one, two, three, mark!" The Officer shouted and everypony took off. Rainbow Dash stood behind with Squad 1 who started to open fire on the city, trying to pin everypony or rather every Zebra inside. The pones charged across the field, bullets striking to the left and right to them a couple even getting hit and falling dead to the ground "Hey, there they are!" One of the soldiers exclaimed and pointed at their CO who signed them to move up "Then let's go!" Another soldier shouted and a second later they were on the move, right as they charged the Zebras seemed to intensify their fire as bullets started to fly everywhere. Rainbow took that as her sign and started to open up, her minigun spun up, the first barrel was empty which made sense, but right after the bullets started to fly. In an instant it seemed the fire of the Zebras stopped as the 50 caliber rounds ripped through the walls and exploded only a few millimeters behind them, sending shrapnel around everywhere. Rainbow in the meantime slowly started to move up, as she passed the squad which was pinned down only seconds before, they all stood up and followed in her wake, shooting occasionally. Suddenly something exploded on her stopping her in her tracks. That round was quiet big, which meant something more heavy was in there. "Rainbow, left side of the road, very close to the building!" Thunder Spark shouted, Rainbow focused there and found herself starring down a 30 milimeter auto-cannon. The tank shot again and again , but this time Rainbow took a step to the right, the first shell flew by her head so close she could fell the heat of it, she continued to walk to the right and the shells continued to miss. She in the meantime made her missile launcher ready. She pulled the trigger and in milliseconds the launcher let the rocket lose, used the recoil to eject the cartridge and load a new one, and since Rainbow still held the trigger let that missile lose too and the process started again. In the meantime the first missile hit the wall of the house blowing it to pieces, the second missile missed and hit the wall behind the tank, but the third and fourth rocket hit the tank right at the exact same spots, just to make sure that if the first one didn't wen't through the second one would. And in confirmation the tank blew up sending the turret flying several meters in the air and landed somewhere out of sight. "Big one!" She heard a shout, she looked around and saw the CO waving at her, she nodded in confirmation "Keep up the suppressing fire, we're gonna move up!" He shouted as he started to move forward in a ducked position, everypony following him. Slowly the Companies started to close in on the city from all sides, before we knew it we found ourselves in the cities center, they got ambushed a couple of times from some side ways or houses, they lost a couple of ponies but finally managed to push through everything and take out the surviving Zebras, they were resistant, you got to give them that, but it didn't take long for them to get overrun and slaughtered, as soon the center was clear the firefights stopped in an instant, we finally had the city. "Alpha and you move about half a click down the east, I want you guys to set up a perimeter there and then dig in. Echo I want that you send out a scout team about 2 till 3 clicks down the east, I want to be informed immediately when they spot enemies. Bravo and and the rest of Echo set up security and defenses around the city, and Charlie... you get the wounded into that big building to my right and then get to the north-east and close the gaps there. The armored units will be with, armored units are with Charlie." The CO ordered and everypony saluted and started to march to their positions, "Sierra 117." The Echo CO said and Rainbow holstered her weapons and walked over to him "Yes, sir?" She asked while she saluted "Nice shooting back there." He said with a small smile "You saw that?" Rainbow asked a bit surprised "Dumb question, of course I did, and I'm sure the rest of the companies did too." He said with a small chuckle "We were all like, the fuck now... we're pinned and suddenly all hell broke lose on those Zebras." He said once again with a small chuckle "Thanks, sir." She answered with a small smile "Now then, back to business. Dismissed." He answered and Rainbow saluted, as she turned she saw the aftermath of the battle for a first time in quiet some while, she saw how tons over tons of Zebra and pony bodies littered the streets, with the occasional hoof, horn or wing, while blood and brain parts hang on the walls and blood flows over the streets, bloody hoofprints leading to random directions, cartridges laying around everywhere, explosion holes and black circles everywhere, concrete and house parts laying around the streets and some parts on the dead bodies. Medics ran around trying to save wounded comrades. "Hey, Big one! I need your help here!" One of the medics shouted, as he pointed at a soldier under some bigger wall parts, Rainbow walked over grabbed the parts with both hands and pulled them off the wounded unicorn with ease, the medic nodded and laid the wounded soldier on a stretcher and the 2 ponies started to run to the biggest building in the city. Rainbow took one last look around the city and then started to make her way around the streets and the fields, everywhere she looked death and destruction has been caused... an for what she doesn't even know. Ponies said that silence is the soldiers best friends, but some knew better. Silence let's soldier think and question his or her orders. It's been hours since the attack and no counter-attack from the Zebras, which was strange since they normally would attack at best an hour or two later while the enemy is weakened. Hours wen't into a day and a day into two until finally "Okay everypony, Echo just transmitted that a Zebra battalion is on it's way here, 2 armored platoons, 5 infantry companies... grave news are they also got a couple of dragons. Now then, I'm sending Echo down to Alpha to support them. Bravo will remain back here with Charlie and secure the area. I'm also sending an element of attack Vertibucks with you, try to take the dragons out first and then call them in." The CO said looking around at the company officers around him, they all saluted and moved out. Chapter ?Chapter 3 "I've been here as a kid quiet often, normally this forest looks beautiful." One of the soldiers said as they patrolled through it "I tell ya, this forest is gonna be our doom." Thunder Spark said as he pushed as side some branches "What do you mean Spark?" The soldier asked looking around the forest "I swear I've seen this somewhere, just can't remember where, but whereever I've seen it, artillery fucked them up good." He answered and jumped over a hole "Let's just hope this ain't gonna happen here, right." Thunderhoof replied and looked back to see Thunder Spark nod "I just hope we ain't gonna see more fighting for today, I've had enough already." Another soldier said and suddenly heard a few explosions "*Sigh* You just had to say it." Thunder Spark said and they started to run "Yeah, that confirms it. The world hates me." The soldier said as they ran to their foxholes "If it would, you would blow up right now." Thunder Spark replied as suddenly artillery shells began to explode everywhere, sending dirt and, wood splinters and shrapnel everywhere. The soldiers jumped into their foxholes and held their heads as far underground as they could and seconds later everything was quiet. Everypony looked out their foxholes and out on the open field with their weapons ready, the only thing that one could hear was the breathing of the soldiers and the rustling of leaves as a small wind breeze came over the battlefield. Then there was a echo of an roar, and another, the ponies looked up in the sky and saw dragons approaching them. "Just a quick question, anypony knows if we have like triple A (Anti-Air)?" Thunder Spark exclaimed looking around and waiting for an answer "Except Vertibucks, no. I send most the Shadowbolts against the zebras up at Neigh Orleans and Fillydelphia, and even as far as Detrot!" Rainbow shouted, the dragons drew closer and closer with every passing second as suddenly one super loud shot rang out from behind them which ponies several miles away still heard, and another right after and another one after that, as the third round got shot off the first one hit his mark and a pained roar rang out from one of the dragons as he started to tumble to the ground. Thunder Spark grabbed his binoculars which he grabbed from a dead soldier before and looked at the dragons as suddenly more shots rang out and more frequently and small incendiary explosion where seen on the dragons, each shoot forcing a pained roar out of them, for every fifth shot that got fired one dragon fell out of the sky. Grins started to spread around by the ponies, while by the zebras everyone watched in disbelieve. As the last dragon started to fall out of the sky and everypony cheered they looked around to see who did that. Thunder Sparks saw Rainbow Dash aiming down her sniper rifles scope also the smoking end of the barrel and a light psychotic grin on her face. She started to laugh. "I ... I seriously ... love this gun!" She exclaimed as the scope started to move away the scope and retract the gun itself into it's former position. "Nice shooting!" Thunder Spark shouted with a loud ringing in his ears despite the sound protection in his ears "WHAT?" Rainbow shouted as she saw his lips move but heard nothing "I SAID... forget it." He replied and turned back to the field "WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" She shouted as she walked over to them, Thunder Spark just pointed at one of his eyes and then at the field and Rainbow nodded as she got ready for the surely oncoming Zebra force. It's been a couple of minutes since the dragons got shot down and still no zebras in sigh. The soldiers began to calm down, some of them thinking the killing of the dragons maybe scared them off. That was until somewhere from the left flank fire exchanges started and soon the whole company was engaged. Bullets rained in both direction, the ponies had the defensive cover advantage, but the Zebras had the numbers, they outnumbered them 2 to 1. Good odds for everypony that had at least a bit of guts. With every passing the second the bullet hail increased. For some reason the squad from Thunder Spark wasn't being directly shot at, as Thunderhoof looked around to see why, he heard dinging noise, the noise bullets make when hitting metal, he then looked at Rainbow saw how bullet after bullet flew against Rainbow's armor and either bounce or ricochet off. Even Rainbow was surprised, sure Twilight and Applejack told her how sturdy the armor was but this was insane. It seemed the bullets didn't even scratch the armors paint. Rainbow shot back at everything that moved on the other side of the field and everything that tried to cross it. Thunderhoof got ripped back to attention as a hoof tapped his right shoulder. Thunder Spark pointed at the left side of the foxhole, he then they got back to shooting Zebras. Bullet cartridges where falling to the ground like rain would, Zebras fell like apples on The Sweet Apple Acres nearly three decades ago, today everything is probably automatic, if they are even in business anymore, with Big Mac dead, and AJ leading the MWT they're surely not. Rainbow shook her head and got back to reality again and started to spray lead down range again. Suddenly something flew into the trench from Thunderhoof and Thunder Spark, they looked at each other and then threw the metal apple (grenade) back out, blowing the Zebra up with his own grenade. Minutes over minutes the firefight kept going over the whole line, no matter how harsh the fight became, both sides wouldn't give up, 2 minutes went to 5, 5 to 10 until finally after over 40 minutes the zebras finally had enough. They fell back, and we waited for our order to advance but it never came. It made no sense, "we pushed them back, why wait here?" This happened day after day after day, command didn't let us advance 'Not enough units' they said, whole lot of FUBAR, that's what it is. And finally after the 8th attack Rainbow Dash. She started to advance, no matter what command said "Heck, I'm Rainbow Dash I can tell them to get lost, I got speech in the military counsel too... at least when fighting on the battlefield with my units, with theirs I'm not so sure." Rainbow thought while they slowly pushed ahead, as the other squads saw this they too followed, some of them shouted to get back but tended to join the rest either way even the CO of the company shouted at them, but seeing how Rainbow didn't slow down and everypony followed her, he gave up and joined in too. The zebras tried to get some positions to ambush the ponies, but they are too slow, every time they got somewhere and where nearly ready shots flew by and soon they gave up on that plan and they just went full retreat. Until finally after several kilometers the assault was finally stopped by the next strong points of the Zebras. As we smashed into them, it only took a few seconds for us to see that we won't get through that one, so we fellback a bit and dug in again. A few hours after we pushed forward and got a little command post build up, the shit storm came. "What the hell where thinking?!" The CO shouted into Rainbow's face "I did my thing, if your company starts to follow me what can I do?!" She shouted back "'Did you own thing' are you fucking kidding me? This is my company, my battlefield! You are getting your orders from me!" He barked "I don't take orders from anypony else then Princess Luna herself, so either take it up to her or keep quiet!" She answered "Fine, then you deal with the shit storm from the generals. Dismissed" He answered and pointed to the wooden door "I will, just get me when they call and I'm here." She replied and walked out the makeshift CP (Command Post) and looked around the defenses waiting, her armor standing there waiting for her to get in again "So how did it go?" She heard a voice ask, she turned and saw Thunder Spark walk up to her "What do you mean?" Rainbow asked "Please, everypony of the whole company could hear the shouting. Well we couldn't really understand something but we could still hear it." He replied "Oh that, not bad actually." She answered flatly "Just so you know, you made the right choice." He replied "I don't know, I think I'm not fit to be an officer in this new fancy war" She sighed "I mean if it would be after my plan I'd just take tons of soldiers and lead them against the zebras." She answered and sighed again "You know, that's actually what's an army needs sometimes. An officer who rather has a half good plan now, then a good plan in several days or even weeks" Thunder Spark reassured "And even when your not the best at making plans,we got the... no offense, 'younger' officers for that." He added "What's that supposed to mean?" Rainbow asked with a raised eyebrow "Just stating facts ma'am, compared to you all in the military are 'young'." He answered "gee thanks, you really know how to flatter a mare." she mumbled "Anytime again, ma'am" He answered with a chuckle, Rainbow gave a small laugh "Say, you wouldn't by some coincidence have a map of the surroundings?" She asked, Thunder Spark flew a map in front of her face a second later "okay, so what do we know about their defenses?" Rainbow asked "We know they have artillery somewhere here or here" He replied and pointed at 2 points a few hundred meters behind the enemy lines "We also know they have light tanks every couple of hundred meters for heavy fire support and suppressive fire, and the trenches are pretty much 2 lines, every time a tank comes the trench stops and another is build either a couple meters in front or behind the other trench." He answered "Rainbow this is too much for us to handel alone. That's like nearly a half a battalion, if not even a full one. And we don't know what support they got." He added "I know, just wanted to know what we're up against, and our limits." She replied, moving a hoof to her chin "If they make a full scale attack, we won't hold at least not for long. Not without support." He figured "Of course we won't, not with supplies this short and only one company. When I charged forward I actually thought that we could push them back as far as Roan, and not just several miles." Rainbow replied she sighed "No mater, just gotta deal with how it is. I'll try to get some supplies and support up here, maybe even some Shadowbolts. Now what do we need the most..." Rainbow thought out loud "You should as the CO that, but in my opinion, food, water, ammo and ponypower (see what I did there, instead of Manpower... yeah I'm just gonna shut up) would be best, but I seriously suggest you ask the CO." He answered "I'm gonna give it a day rest and then call in for reinforcements, I'm sure for today the CO would skin me" She replied and hopped into the armor "I'm surprised your not a company leader yourself." She added and started to patrol along the borders, Spark walked besides her and inspected the defenses, a yawn escaped both soldiers. "Tired, sir. Ma'am." A soldier asked "A bit, was a busy day after all." Thunder Spark replied, Rainbow said nothing "Agreed, and that Rainbow over there is tired isn't surprising either." The soldier added "Why's that?" Rainbow asked "The whole time you've been here, I haven't seen ya sleep once, not even for a second. Only ready to help and ready for a fight." The soldier answered "I don't really have time for sleep, there's always something to do." She replied "Agreed, but till a tired soldier is a bigger burden then a wounded soldier." Thunder Spark answered "Still better then a sleeping soldier." Rainbow replied "No disrespect Rainbow, but I'm ordering you to get off patrol shift and get some sleep. You earned it 10 folds." Thunder Spark ordered "You are ordering me?" She asked a small chuckle escaped her mouth as she looked forward again "Rainbow just do what I say for once... that isn't about tactics, okay?" He asked, Rainbow sighed "Fine..." She answered with a yawn and started to walk to the bunks. The soldier looked after her, his moth open wide "Better close that up, before something flies in there." Thunder Spark said and continued his inspection. As soon as Rainbow got out her power armor and into the bunks, she slumped onto a random bed and dozed of a few seconds later Several hours later Ponies who walked into the bunk room where surprised to see the rainbow-maned mare sleeping. Suddenly a firefight started, everypony (except for the mare) in the bunks where awake and up instantly. Even after the firefight and when everything was quiet again, and ponies walked in again the mare still slept. Even on the day after the mare kept sleeping until noon "Rainbow Dash!" A pony shouted as he walked through the trenches "Hey, have you guys seen Rainbow?" The pony asked a few guarding soldiers "Yeah, she's back in the bunks. Still sleeping. Sir" One of them answered, Thunder Spark nodded and made his way to the bunks. As he opened the door he saw nearly every bed inside used by somepony, some even doing hoof business in the little privacy you can get on the front lines. He spotted some of the colorful mane from the mare, she laid on her stomach, face in the pillow and her left fore hoofs dangling of the side of the bed "hey Rainbow." Thunder Spark whispered, no reaction "Rainbow" He said this time a bit louder and her nudged too. "Mrmph? (What?)" She asked muffled "Command want's you at Reins." Spark replied "Mmph mmmpphr hmmp? (What do they want?)" Rainbow once again asked muffled "Don't know." Thunder Spark answered flatly "Now come on get up your Chopper starts in 10 minutes. Don't make me order you" He added and nudged her again, he heard a sigh and Rainbow slowly got up "Fine" She said with a yawn "I hate you." She added and threw the blanked off from her, armor plates clanking together as she stood up and walked out the room, she jumped into her power armor and made her way over to the Vertibuck. Chapter ?Chapter 4 "ETA: Now." The pilot of the Vertibuck said over the radio "Affirmative." The CO replied. The fly has been very quiet, the only time something was said was by a status update. As we finally landed and walked outside soldiers already stood outside at attention, ready to lead us to the makeshift court room. We entered the room and 4 ponies already waited, they weren't in the room though it was rather over a big screen. We saluted and then the others saluted "General, Colonels." Rainbow and the Major said "General, Major." They replied "Princess Luna should be here any second now." One of the Colonels added and not even a second later Luna too appeared on the screen, everypony saluted and she even saluted back "So how is it possible that our south_east front is now even more forward then before?" The General asked, the Major nudged Rainbow Dash who then cleared her throat "That would be my 'fault'" She answered "Explain why you pushed." One of the two Colonels replied "We have been attacked the 8th time then, artillery every time blowing some of us up, and every time the Zebras fellback we just had to sit there and watch them, instead of charging after them and getting back our land. Every day we pushed them back, we lost ponypower, ammo, and even a bit of morale, so I finally had enough and pushed." Rainbow explained, the 3 officers nodded and scribbled something on their papers "Then how did it happen that the whole battalion followed you instead of holding their positions?" The princess asked "I can explain that, ma'am. When I saw that she pushed forward I let everypony push too, I couldn't just let a symbolic and important mare die." The major cut in, once again the officers nodded and scribbled something down "Well, I think this is already enough." The general started and looked at the officers by his sides who nodded "Even though both of you disobeyed a direct, I'm going to look over it by all the ground we got again. If this should happen again though, I'm going to throw that ponies ass into jail, am I clear?" The general asked, as Rainbow and the major nodded he once again continued "Good, then I'd say we're done here. Dismi-" "General" Rainbow cut in, the officer looked at her confused "Since we're talking about the front here... we really need more ponies and supplies and equipment up there." she said "How bad is it?" The general asked "Well I've seen two ponies eat out of one MRE, we can't transmit beyond 200 miles, it's getting skatchy by 150 miles already. And someponies have to hold their fire until the enemy is right in their face so they won't miss... I've even seen some using Zebra weapons. So pretty bad I'd say." She answered "Fine, I'll get you some more troops, equipment and supplies together. Wait until tomorrow so I can tell you when they'll arrive, Dismissed." The general replied, everypony saluted and then silence "Hey radio operator." Rainbow said to a pony who started to change frequency "Yes, ma'am?" He asked holding the headset away from his ear with one hoof "Change the frequency to 300.60000." She answered as she slowly walked over to him "Copy, ma'am." The operator replied and started to switch and turn things, he nodded after a few seconds and hoofed Rainbow a headset "Lighting Dust, can you hear me? How copy? Over" Rainbow asked "Copy Rainbow Dash, reading you 5 by 5, go on. Over" she replied a second later "How long till the rookies are ready for war. Over" Rainbow explained "Soonest tomorrow. Over." Lighting Dust answered "Roger that, I want you to send them against the griffins. break, and I want one squadron of them to move to the south-east flank, break, also the elite shadowbolts need to re-supply at Ponyville, break, and then meet up with a supply convoy to the south-east flank. Over." Rainbow replied "10-4, I'll send the rookies against the griffins, break, send one squadron to the south-east flank, break, and let the elites re-supply at Ponyville, break, and then send them with a supply convoy to the south-east flank. Over" Lighting Dust confirmed "Copy that, Break, one last thing, break, We need a few Raptors over here, over." Rainbow replied "Copy that, I'll look what I can do, break, might take a day or two to get some Raptors together, over." Lighting Dust answered "Affirmative, over and out." Rainbow answered and gave the headset back to the radio operator, nodded and walked out the building. "So... what now?" She thought and a yawn seemed to answer her question and before she could do something, her eyes closed. The next day, Time: 0900 hours (9 a.m) "Rainbow." A voice said, the mares eyes slowly opened and simply answered with a yawn and looked at the source of the voice, it was the Major "Reinforcements are coming they will be here in a day, same as the Shadowbolt elite. They moved out together with the supply convoy 1 hour ago." He informed, Rainbow nodded "So we can get back to the front?" She asked, this time the Major nodded "Finally." She replied and made her way to the Vertibuck... and another 3 hour sleep, at least Rainbow hoped for, she was still pretty tired About one and a half hour later, Time: 1027 hours (10:27 a.m) Rainbow shot up as she heard a firefight "What's going on?" The mare asked over the vehicle radio "Seems like we got overrun at the front, it also seems like they've fallenback, from what little I could see they are now fighting back, but I don't think they will hold much longer" The Major answered "Pilot, bring me in." Rainbow ordered "Not possible, no place to land... and even if, it's too hot." He replied "Fine, fly over. I'm jumping." Rainbow replied "Roger, ma'am." The pilot answered and opened the hatch "Good thing you got them wings." The Major said "Yeah, even though they won't soften the fall in this armor." The mare replied and jumped, the fall was about 50 meters in which she grabbed her weapons from her holsters and made them ready. When she landed she threw dust, dirt and even wood splinters everywhere, a couple of seconds later she walked out the dust cloud and looked around the battlefield. Her drop in seemed to have stopped the battle in it's tracks, since there was no more shooting. Rainbow looked around the battlefield and as soon she spotted the Zebras she started to shred them apart. It felt like a deja vu... which didn't surprise her since she already fought over this land a couple of weeks back. Once again Rainbow started to advance on the Zebra who as soon they saw her focused fire on her, which was good because then her allies could take great aimed shots at them. Before they knew it they once again could see their own fortified trenches... which of course the Zebras used to their advantage. Bullets where flying everywhere, same as explosions... which weren't flying but you know what I mean... A grenade exploded in front of Rainbow, which wasn't anything new, but this grenade was different. As the grenade exploded it crashed some systems, and another and another. After the 3rd grenade many systems where offline but most such as E.F.S and, weapons and the magical shield same as for the weight reduction spell... thankfully or even with the strength Rainbow had, even she would get crushed under it. After the 5th grenade and another 15 dead Zebras the armor HUD gave out a warning that Rainbow should leave it immediately. So she opened the armor but kept firing until another of those strange grenades flew at her, then was the time she jumped out and as the grenade exploded the armor fell to the ground, energy mostly drained. She made a Dash for cover (no pun intended) and grabbed a gun off a dead soldier with her mouth and started to return fire, and since she's out the power armor now, she can push forward and relocate very quickly. "Where's Thunder Spark? I need to know what we're up against." Rainbow said to a soldier to her left "No idea ma'am, haven't seen him since the attack, ma'am." The soldier replied and started to return fire, Rainbow nodded and started to push forward until she finally was up by the trenches and started to kill the Zebras inside of them, but no matter how hard they pushed even with Rainbow inside the trenches, they zebras wouldn't give them up. The loses where high and finally after about half the pony attack force was taken out, they fellback. Rainbow stopped by her armor for a few seconds, which would just needed some energy and the Zebras then could use it against them... so she grabbed several grenades pulled the pins threw them inside the armor and ran. Behind several second later her armor blew up, shrapnel and several small armor parts flew past her... at least no worries that the zebras could use i now, but once again they had to build up a defensive line, while the Zebras where just laughing at them... once again beaten with their own defenses. Chapter ?Chapter 5 We where nearly done with digging the last trench and setting up the MGs "So they've been captured?" Rainbow asked Wild Strike, he nodded "Yes, only a few though, most have been killed in the assault. I don't know where they're being held you should ask the Major that." He answered, Rainbow nodded and Strike got back to work, while Rainbow walked to the Major who overlooked their new makeshift defense line "We're nearly done with the last trench, only a few more minutes and then done." Rainbow informed, the Major nodded "I also heard that some of our troops got captured, any idea where they're being held?" She added, the major once again nodded "We got two bets, when we're lucky and the reports are still correct, they're in Roan... if not then we are fucked and either they talked and are dead now or are already at Canternia." He answered "You got a plan to get them out?" Rainbow asked "Of course I do, no pony get's left behind after all. And with the reinforcements we're finally able to do more here, that's why only makeshift trenches, as soon the support is here we're going on the offensive. We'll take back our old defense line and then maybe a day later make a move against the strong point and finally win this flank any maybe finally push the zebras out of Equestrian main land. And then take back the island Canternia" The major answered "A fucking simple plan, which is not even 80 percent thought through... I love it, but it will be harder then it sounds... but when the support comes we can finally be far more aggressive and we can finally radio Canterlot from our old defense line." Rainbow replied with a small smile "This all sound to good to be true... something will go wrong, as always." The major answered with a sigh "I know, but until now we've pushed through everything. So no matter what, we're gonna continue like that. Even if the whole fucking Zebra army would stand before us. Oorah!" Rainbow replied with pride at what the ponies already survived until now "Oorah!" The Major exclaimed "Now we just need a plan at how we're gonna take back our old position." Rainbow thought out loud "I hope I get one together until tomorrow..." The Major replied sounding unsure "Major, we won't need a perfect plan which is laid out for every single thing that could go wrong. We better have a half good plan tomorrow, than a perfect plan in a week." Rainbow explained "Right. So most important will be the lay out of the companies, their missions and of course communication. Last part will be the hardest, we don't really have equipment that can transmit very far..."The Major pondered "There are two ways" Rainbow started "Either one platoon transmits to the next and then to the next and so on. Or they just send a mail pony over, like we used to in the old war" She finished "Hmm... I'm gonna keep that in mind" The major figured "Now if you'll excuse me, I got an attack to plan." He added and walked away, Rainbow on the other hoof walked to the trenches and grabbed the assault rifle inside she left inside. Knowing that tomorrows battle will be one of the hardest they had so far she started to change her armor. She dropped the 3 bag that were strapped to her armor and opened the leather straps that ran over her belly, and then the ones that where processed into her neck armor and hocked with the throat armor. She then laid them with big care on the ground. She then got her real combat armor out of the big bag with all her weapons and armors, that had been strapped on her right side. This armor was put on pretty much the same way her old armor was, put your head through the circle where your head is supposed to be... duh! Then hoof the armor around your back legs with a leather strip, both on the left and right. Then grab your leg armor, pull it up your leg and hook that one too into your body armor, last step. Grab your belly armor and hook that one too into the armor that rested on your back and done. Only the helmet on your head but that needs no explanation... And there was the problem for Rainbow, there was no helmet in the bag... which meant her head was completely free for any bullets or rockets. At least she had the Iridium bones to give her some protection. She then grabbed her old armor packed it into the big bag and threw all 3 bags over her back and secured them with leather straps around her belly. "We use far to many leather straps..." Rainbow thought as she once again grabbed her weapon and started the most boring job a pony could think of... except peeling potatoes that is. Ever tried peeling some with hoofs? yeah didn't think so, anyway. The duty was sentry duty. Sure in war time and at the front it's one of the most important things, in fact it saved my life once but I'll tell that another time. So yeah whatever, sentry duty it was luckily only a couple of hours, instead of like 6 hours or so. At least she could guard happily, with the thought that tomorrow one of the hardest fights fought on this flank will occur. Chapter ?Chapter 6 Chapter ?Rainbow's eyes slowly opened, what surprised her was that she had a headache, which didn't really happened before in her new form. As she focused on her surroundings she found herself looking at a Zebra, his face had scars everywhere. "Finally awake I see" The zebra said "Let's skip the formalities and get down to business. I want to know how many soldiers you have at Reins." The zebra added, Rainbow just looked at him "Shove it." She replied flatly "I heard your a tough one from my units. Not after this though." The Griffin answered and snipped his fingers, then stepped away from the chair. Suddenly Rainbow's vision darkened a bit as electricity was lead through her body, a couple of second later it stopped "How many?" The Zebra asked, Rainbow just spat in his face an once again it started, but this time Rainbow smirked and again a few seconds later they stopped "Why are you smiling?" The Zebra asked "D-do you know what you just did?" She asked, the Zebra looked confused "Do you know what happens when you electrocute a cyberpony? I give you a hint: It get's stronger." She whispered the last part and tipped herself free from the metal cuffs, grabbed the Zebra and crushed his throat, she then jumped off the chair grabbed the next closed Zebra and broke his spine, threw him across the room against another one. Suddenly heavy bullets flew past Rainbow, she looked at the source which was an heavy MG positioned on a upper level. Running at it in zig zag until finally she was at the point where the gun couldn't be depressed at her anymore, she jumped off the ground and flew straight at it, while still making sure the gun couldn't be pointed at her. As she slammed into the gun itself, she wrecked the whole thing the gun shield itself broke lose on one side and flew straight into the Zebra, killing him instantly. A penetrated her royal guards armored plate and buried itself in her flank, if it wouldn't have been for the to pings she never would've noticed, she grabbed the damaged MG and threw it at the Zebra. Both the force of the throw and the weight of the gun itself forced the Zebra to fly with the gun into the wall, burying him inside it. Finally a rocket flew past Rainbow and exploded on the wall a meter away from her sending concrete and a bit of shrapnel at her "Somepony got intelligent." She thought as she looked around and spotted the Zebra a floor lower, she jumped down and as she landed another rocket flew at her, this time (thanks to the overload) she grabbed the rocket mid-air and threw it back at the source, who just had a dumb-founded look on his face before he was no more than a few bloody pieces across the ground and walls. Finally the room was clean of enemies and flew back to the first Zebra she killed "You know, bringing the toughest and most feared solider of your enemy here and only position this many guards... you're a moron." She said to the dead zebra "And why are you guys never wear a helmet, that would help me right no- wait a minute... what did Twi say about my Guard armor..." She asked herself loudly and started to look her armor over and found something like pockets on the right side of her armor, and she pulled out her battleaxe "Huh... I already asked myself where I put you." She said, laid the axe on the ground and continued to dig around her pockets. The next thing she pulled out was the sword from Big Mac, she looked at it and then laid it on the ground too. She once again dug around and finally pulled her helmet with the neck armor out and sat it on top her head, securing it with the leather straps on the neck armor and the body armor. She then grabbed the two weapons before her and looked them over, she put the sword back into her pockets and made her way out the room with her battleaxe in hoof. Chapter ?Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
ProlugeChapter 1 "Silver Shadow you're 18, shouldn't you rather look for mares then our stories?" Rainbow's husband answered "Come on grandpa, you said you'd told me the rest of the story. Besides this time I'm not the only one." His grandson answered and opened the door and several ponies in the age of their grandson (from the looks of it) waited behind the door. The veterans looked at each other "Fine." Rainbow said flatly and walked over to the couch followed by the rest "Before we start thought here are the things what you need to know about us. We met in training and have already fought in several battles, I'm good at planning air and ground battles... he is a bit better at planning ground battles though." She instructed "A bit?" Her husband asked, Rainbow just punched him "It was the 5th day of Janequary 1058, The war has already been going on for several moths, Big Macintosh has already died and the first megaspell has already been deployed. Ponykind had more applications for the military then before, even though since the Littlehorn Massacre, ponies where ready to go on an all-out war, most didn't have the courage but that changed with Big Macintosh's death." Rainbow began the story Several hours away from Reins "You know... sending troops against an enemy that has three times the units stationed there is a fucking dumb idea." Rainbow said looking ahead as she sat on the tank "Why's that?" Wild Strike asked as he looked out the tanks commanders hatch "Besides the obvious? It's a waste of time, we should just send an army over the ocean and fuck them straight" She answered, she heard a chuckle from Wild Strike and the rest of the squad behind her "...What?" She asked with an raised eyebrow not getting why they laughed, the squad just kept laughing and shook their heads "The Dead Colts Road!" Rainbow heard quietly in the background "Hey turn that up, I wan't to hear that!" She exclaimed and Thunder Spark turned up the volume of the radio "I hear You're out there, sayin': 'It won't happen to me'" the radio boomed out while the battalions made their way to Reins. Smoke poles rose there, we were told that the Crystal Empire had several battalions stationed there, they had very heavy loses the last days and from their 5 battalions only 2 under strengthened and under supplied battalions survived the onslaught on the city, they now have gotten a strong position a couple of miles away from the city. And with strong I mean a few makeshift bunkers and trenches plus a few fox holes... but it did the job, they were able to keep that position and hold the zebras back which of course wouldn't last forever, but they didn't because now we came, as soon we arrived there we hoofed out supplies in an effort to get the battalions to high strength again. "So how long till the Vertibucks come?" Rainbow asked Thunderhoof "Uh... I do believe a day or two, why?" He asked back "Just asking so I know when I get my new armor." Rainbow answered "Yeah... about that... why are you still runnin' around in that old armor? Why ain't you wearing the combat armor?" He asked scratching the back of his head and looked back at the clipboard he grasped with his magic "I like this armor, it looks good and has enough armor in my opinion." She answered and looked over to the tank she just sat on "Hey, Rainbow! Thunder Spark needs your help by the supply trucks!" Wild Strike shouted over to her, said mare just nodded and made her way over to the trucks, ponies already unloaded ammunition, food and medical supplies "Where to?" Rainbow asked as she tapped on an ammo crate "Into the biggest tent you can find." Thunder Wing answered, Rainbow nodded and grabbed the whole stack "Follow me" Spark answered and started to walk to a lead the way the crates firmly on top of her forelegs as she walked only on her back hoofs "Stop!" Spark shouted over the noise and Rainbow stopped dead in her tracks "Wait here." He said simply and just as he wanted to walk in he heard a loud thud behind him, he looked back to see that Rainbow just let go of the crates and they crashed to the ground, the one at the bottom nearly cracking apart, Thunder Spark just facehoofed. He walked inside and signed Rainbow to follow "Okay ma'am, you have to put the crate right here." The supply manager said pointing at some free space in the tents corner while looking at his clipboard, as he heard no affirmation from the mare he looked back. Rainbow was gone... A few seconds later she returned with the stack in tow, the manager looked at her with an raised eyebrow, and as Rainbow turned to leave "Ma'am would ya be so kind and put both these stacks over into that corner?" He asked, Rainbow nodded grabbed both stacks and moved them into the corner, "Could you do me another favor? Could you take another stack from the trucks and bring one crate to every trench and bunker?" The manager asked, Rainbow looked back at Thunder Spark who looked around uninterested but as he saw Rainbow looking at him "What?" He asked with an raised eyebrow "Crate to every trench and bunker..." The manager said simply "Oh yeah sure, Rainbow that's a job for you then." He answered and looked at Rainbow who just saluted and walked outside. Everypony looked as Rainbow Dash walked past them with a stack of ammo crates on her right hoof, every time she passed a trench or a bunker she just punched the left side of the bottom crate which literally just flew near the trench, she then stepped on the lock which held the crate locked and ripped it off. As she threw the last crate on the ground something went wrong... no pony knew what, but suddenly the crate exploded "Rainbow..." Her husband said as he rolled his eyes "What?" She asked with an raised eyebrow "Don't even start making things up, I know for a fact that day was boring as fuck." He answered "Ugh... fine... there you want it to sound 20 percent cooler and then ponies yell at ya..." She mumbled "Like your father said, the day was pretty boring... same as the day after, they were mostly us carrying something... and with us I mean me, while he sat on his lazy ass doing nothing." She said getting a chuckle out of her grandson "I wasn't 'doing nothing'" Rainbow's husband proclaimed "Oh? then tell me what did you do?" She asked curious "I watched you carrying stuff, and since I did watch you that's not doing nothing, but doing something." He answered with a smirk, Rainbow looked at him with an raised eyebrow, then looked at the ground, then the ceiling and then back to him "Stop giving me headaches." She said flatly "Fine, just continue your story." He replied "Vertibucks eta: 2 minutes." Wild Strike shouted, everywhere soldiers ran around trying to get ammo, food and medical supplies. Tank crews filled up their fuel and ammo, some even grabbed a few machine guns, for obvious reasons, which where. If only one shot penetrates the tank your out, those members who survive have got guns to defend themselves. "Incoming!" A soldier shouted, everypony looked up and saw how tons of Vertibucks came in fast and low and started to slow down and then hoover above them "Okay everypony, make so space so they can land!" Wild Strike shouted and only a few seconds later there was a field big enough for every single Vertibuck to land, as soon as that happened soldiers started to refuel them. Soldiers started to unload the rest supplies the Bucks carried "Private Rainbow Dash!" A soldier shouted, a few second later the said mare stood before the soldier and saluted "The MAS and MWT told me to bring ya this." The soldier shouted over the noise the Vertibucks made as some of them still landed. The soldier led Rainbow to the back of the Vertibuck and open it, to reveal the armor. Rainbow Dash squealed as she saw her armor and ran in only a second later "Ma'am, the head of the MWT also told me to give you this." He added as he hoofed the mare a visor, which she just grabbed and put on like she used to with her sunglasses, and a recording started "Hey Rainbow, AJ here, ah heard ya needed some modifications on the armor, all of 'em are on now. Ta open the armor ya just have ta say: Armor open up, it's only patched in for your voice alone, you can modify everything your liking... when it goes for the HUD and commands that is, also Guns have ta be mounted manually... ohh and ya got something like holsters on the armors flanks, those will hold the guns so ya can do... whatever ya do when not in combat. Like ya already know Twi put some spells on the armor to make it lighter and more sturdy, by the by, yer ammo bags got some sort of spell which makes them near infinite size and will do everything themselves, so don't worry about ammunition overload or sorting or anything like that." Applejack instructed "It's not infinite AJ, it's only far more bigger on the inside then the outside... just pretend you have like several thousand bags on your back." Twilight cut in "There ya have it Rainbow, we also have the instructions copied into the armors memory core, so ya know how ta use it... but since both of us know yer not goin' ta read it, Twi just titled the different things like weaponry and such... well that's it then. Good luck on the battlefield, and send me a letter or a message if ya got problems with the armor. Cya then. Before I forget theres now a shield around your head since you ddidn't wanted a helmet, the shield can take lot's and lot's of punishment, but once down it will need days to recharge and reform, so becareful ... yeah that all, cya then" Just before the recording ended "See you again Rainbow!" She heard Twilight shout. Rainbow gave a chuckle and then looked at the armor "Armor, open up." She said and a second later the armor opened on top, Rainbow flew up and looked inside and smiled, they really modified the inside, she jumped inside all her limps being pretty much guided to where they needed to be and as soon we was inside and ready the armor closed and she started to walk outside. With every step she took the Vertibuck shook and bounced a bit, as soon as she was outside she stood up on her hind legs "Now then, where are the guns?" She asked as she moved her fingers, much more smoothly that in the old armor "Right here ma'am" one of the MWT combat engineers said and pointed at the 3 guns. "Which one get's mounted first?" She asked "The sniper rifle, it's the hardest one." One of the combat engineer answered. The two engineers tried to move the weapon up to her shoulder but climbing a ladder und carrying about 60 kilo too, pretty much impossible. Rainbow grabbed the gun and held it to the top of the ladder "Just grab the weapon and move it to where you need it I hold the weight." She said and one of the engineers climbed the ladder and started to mount the gun, the second one gave him the tools "Alright, ya can let go of the gun, just need the ammo belt now." He said as he pointed at one of the the middle ammo belt "Why are they made out of metal?" Rainbow asked as she grabbed the belt "They'll keep and hold the bullets in order, so they don't just fly around freely." One of them answered "Ya ever shot a little MG with a lose ammo belt?" The other one asked, Rainbow nodded "You remember how the belt was flying around?" He asked, and once again Rainbow nodded "This thing is there to make that that won't happen." He answered "Ahh, makes sense." Rainbow said and gave one ending to the engineer on the ladder and she held the other end, as she heard a click "Okay gimme the other end." The one on the ladder said, Rainbow heard another click "Okay, this one is done." He said "Okay which gun next?" Rainbow asked "None, gonna need the belts first." The engineer on the ladder answered, She grabbed both belts and held them up to the earth pony on the ladder "Hold the belts where ya want the weapons ta be, the bigger belt is for the missile launcher." He explained, Rainbow nodded and moved the bigger belt to her left hoof and the smaller belt to her right hoof. The engineer grabbed the left one and hooked it into the ammo box on the lower left corner, he then grabbed the right belt and hooked that into the right lower corner of the box, he then got down from the ladder "Right, now grab the weapons and let us do the rest." He instructed. Rainbow nodded and grabbed the missile launcher with her left hoof and the minigun with her right hoof. both engineers moved the ammo belts into position and hooked them up, now she was near combat ready, only the ammo left. "Ma'am, we're gonna need ya help again, you need one hoof free for that though" One of the engineers shouted, Rainbow Dash holstered her guns and walked over to them "Yer gonna need to hold up the ammo crates." He said and pointed at several stacks of ammo crates, Rainbow chuckled and grabbed the first stack and held it up so they could put the ammo in the box on her back. It took them several minutes to put all the ammo into the box, but they finally managed it. "Okay, done. You have to use the minigun once, for bullets to get into the barrel." One of them shouted up. Rainbow nodded "I'm gonna get the chance as soon as I see enemies, don't worry... also you don't need to shout" she answered and walked out the tent she saw how the officers walked out of theirs, they seem to be set and ready to move out "Wow! Sir!" She heard a shout and hoofsteps closing in on her "Sir, I seriously need to photograph ya, would be good material to-" He said as he could himself off as the MARE looked at him, he gulped "Say again, I couldn't really hear you." Rainbow said "I said I need a photo for some material, you seem to be the best bet... ma'am" He replied looking a bit scared "Sure" She replied flatly "Great, just make an epic stance as if your ready to fuck some shit up and I'm gonna take it." He answered and made himself ready. As Rainbow was ready a flash blinded her "This is a great one thanks, ma'am." He said saluted and walked away and got into a jeep which drove off with most of the trucks in the direction of Canterlot "Okay, everypony. Let's move out and kick some Zebra ass!" One of the officers shouted and seconds later all engines started, Vertibucks got into the air, tanks went in formation and all soldiers where on the remaining trucks, and then we moved out. Rainbow sat in the same Vertibuck which brought in her armor, only 3 of these babies have been build, they are specifically designed for super heavy lifting.
Chapter ?Chapter 2 "Okay ya'll know the plan, let's move out." The commanding officer said over the radio "Yes, sir." Every company replied. Rainbow Dash looked around the Vertibuck and scratched the back of her head "You do know the plan Rainbow, right?" Thunder Wing asked, said mare looked at him "Pff, of course I do... why wouldn't I?" Rainbow replied "You have no clue do ya." Thunder Wing said with a chuckle "No..." Rainbow confirmed looking at the ground, everypony chuckled "How is it you never listen when we talk about the plan?" He asked "I only remember someting like... 'okay everypony here's the plan'..." She answered, Thunder Wing looked at her in disbelieve "What? I get bored fast..." She said as she saw his look "Rainbow those were like the first few seconds... but nevermind that, you just need to know that we are on standby until the commander says else, and when we're deployed you don't need to worry about civilians, there are none." He answered while he face-hoofed a bit "Okay Hotel, bring 2 platoons to Bravo company, and one to Char-." The commander said but got cut off by another transmission "Affirmative, Alpha." Was all we heard "Okay change of plans, Alpha needs the heavy guns, I'm sending the rest over to Alpha and Charlie, I need a heavy Vertibuck attack platoon for Charlie. Out" The Commander ordered "Yes, Sir." Everypony answered, and the Vertibucks broke formation, most of them flew to the east and west, Rainbow's bird and a couple of others landed right where they were. "Okay, everypony, ya heard him. Alpha needs help, let's kick some ass!" The commanding officer of the platoon shouted, and the platoons moved out, we walked in a slow trot to get there as fast as we could without being exhausted when we get there. With every step we took the firefight got louder, as suddenly something hit the tree right besides one of the soldiers, and everypony ducked into cover "Okay we are very close, check your weapons and mags!" The CO shouted, right after nearly everypony looked their weapons over. "Okay, then let's roll!" He shouted as he started to charge, everypony following not even a second behind. As we ran in, we saw ponies running away from the battlefield "Where is everypony?!" The Echo CO shouted "They're all down there! And got many wounded soldiers, but we can't get there!" One pony shouted back as they grabbed several medic things from the supplies that laid around "Okay, we got the heavy weapons right here, we need to speak with your CO!" He shouted over the shooting and zipping by bullets "Ohh the CO? He's right there!" The pony shouted back and pointed at a pony without a head "Who's in charge then?" The Sierra CO asked "Dunno, somepony down there." The medic said with a shrug and walked over to one of the wounded and started to bandage him up "Okay here's what we're gonna do. Squad 1 and 2, you're gonna lay down cover fire while the rest charge forward on my mark. Squad 3 and 4 you're gonna spread to the left, while squad 5 and 6 go right. The rest are on me. Also squad 1 and 2, as soon you see me giving the mark you move up to us! Sierra 117 you hold fire until I give to order to open up, would hate to bring you out to early. Now get ready and on my mark we move. Ya'll ready?!" The CO said "Oorah!!!" They shouted in response "Okay, one, two, three, mark!" The Officer shouted and everypony took off. Rainbow Dash stood behind with Squad 1 who started to open fire on the city, trying to pin everypony or rather every Zebra inside. The pones charged across the field, bullets striking to the left and right to them a couple even getting hit and falling dead to the ground "Hey, there they are!" One of the soldiers exclaimed and pointed at their CO who signed them to move up "Then let's go!" Another soldier shouted and a second later they were on the move, right as they charged the Zebras seemed to intensify their fire as bullets started to fly everywhere. Rainbow took that as her sign and started to open up, her minigun spun up, the first barrel was empty which made sense, but right after the bullets started to fly. In an instant it seemed the fire of the Zebras stopped as the 50 caliber rounds ripped through the walls and exploded only a few millimeters behind them, sending shrapnel around everywhere. Rainbow in the meantime slowly started to move up, as she passed the squad which was pinned down only seconds before, they all stood up and followed in her wake, shooting occasionally. Suddenly something exploded on her stopping her in her tracks. That round was quiet big, which meant something more heavy was in there. "Rainbow, left side of the road, very close to the building!" Thunder Spark shouted, Rainbow focused there and found herself starring down a 30 milimeter auto-cannon. The tank shot again and again , but this time Rainbow took a step to the right, the first shell flew by her head so close she could fell the heat of it, she continued to walk to the right and the shells continued to miss. She in the meantime made her missile launcher ready. She pulled the trigger and in milliseconds the launcher let the rocket lose, used the recoil to eject the cartridge and load a new one, and since Rainbow still held the trigger let that missile lose too and the process started again. In the meantime the first missile hit the wall of the house blowing it to pieces, the second missile missed and hit the wall behind the tank, but the third and fourth rocket hit the tank right at the exact same spots, just to make sure that if the first one didn't wen't through the second one would. And in confirmation the tank blew up sending the turret flying several meters in the air and landed somewhere out of sight. "Big one!" She heard a shout, she looked around and saw the CO waving at her, she nodded in confirmation "Keep up the suppressing fire, we're gonna move up!" He shouted as he started to move forward in a ducked position, everypony following him. Slowly the Companies started to close in on the city from all sides, before we knew it we found ourselves in the cities center, they got ambushed a couple of times from some side ways or houses, they lost a couple of ponies but finally managed to push through everything and take out the surviving Zebras, they were resistant, you got to give them that, but it didn't take long for them to get overrun and slaughtered, as soon the center was clear the firefights stopped in an instant, we finally had the city. "Alpha and you move about half a click down the east, I want you guys to set up a perimeter there and then dig in. Echo I want that you send out a scout team about 2 till 3 clicks down the east, I want to be informed immediately when they spot enemies. Bravo and and the rest of Echo set up security and defenses around the city, and Charlie... you get the wounded into that big building to my right and then get to the north-east and close the gaps there. The armored units will be with, armored units are with Charlie." The CO ordered and everypony saluted and started to march to their positions, "Sierra 117." The Echo CO said and Rainbow holstered her weapons and walked over to him "Yes, sir?" She asked while she saluted "Nice shooting back there." He said with a small smile "You saw that?" Rainbow asked a bit surprised "Dumb question, of course I did, and I'm sure the rest of the companies did too." He said with a small chuckle "We were all like, the fuck now... we're pinned and suddenly all hell broke lose on those Zebras." He said once again with a small chuckle "Thanks, sir." She answered with a small smile "Now then, back to business. Dismissed." He answered and Rainbow saluted, as she turned she saw the aftermath of the battle for a first time in quiet some while, she saw how tons over tons of Zebra and pony bodies littered the streets, with the occasional hoof, horn or wing, while blood and brain parts hang on the walls and blood flows over the streets, bloody hoofprints leading to random directions, cartridges laying around everywhere, explosion holes and black circles everywhere, concrete and house parts laying around the streets and some parts on the dead bodies. Medics ran around trying to save wounded comrades. "Hey, Big one! I need your help here!" One of the medics shouted, as he pointed at a soldier under some bigger wall parts, Rainbow walked over grabbed the parts with both hands and pulled them off the wounded unicorn with ease, the medic nodded and laid the wounded soldier on a stretcher and the 2 ponies started to run to the biggest building in the city. Rainbow took one last look around the city and then started to make her way around the streets and the fields, everywhere she looked death and destruction has been caused... an for what she doesn't even know. Ponies said that silence is the soldiers best friends, but some knew better. Silence let's soldier think and question his or her orders. It's been hours since the attack and no counter-attack from the Zebras, which was strange since they normally would attack at best an hour or two later while the enemy is weakened. Hours wen't into a day and a day into two until finally "Okay everypony, Echo just transmitted that a Zebra battalion is on it's way here, 2 armored platoons, 5 infantry companies... grave news are they also got a couple of dragons. Now then, I'm sending Echo down to Alpha to support them. Bravo will remain back here with Charlie and secure the area. I'm also sending an element of attack Vertibucks with you, try to take the dragons out first and then call them in." The CO said looking around at the company officers around him, they all saluted and moved out.
Chapter ?Chapter 3 "I've been here as a kid quiet often, normally this forest looks beautiful." One of the soldiers said as they patrolled through it "I tell ya, this forest is gonna be our doom." Thunder Spark said as he pushed as side some branches "What do you mean Spark?" The soldier asked looking around the forest "I swear I've seen this somewhere, just can't remember where, but whereever I've seen it, artillery fucked them up good." He answered and jumped over a hole "Let's just hope this ain't gonna happen here, right." Thunderhoof replied and looked back to see Thunder Spark nod "I just hope we ain't gonna see more fighting for today, I've had enough already." Another soldier said and suddenly heard a few explosions "*Sigh* You just had to say it." Thunder Spark said and they started to run "Yeah, that confirms it. The world hates me." The soldier said as they ran to their foxholes "If it would, you would blow up right now." Thunder Spark replied as suddenly artillery shells began to explode everywhere, sending dirt and, wood splinters and shrapnel everywhere. The soldiers jumped into their foxholes and held their heads as far underground as they could and seconds later everything was quiet. Everypony looked out their foxholes and out on the open field with their weapons ready, the only thing that one could hear was the breathing of the soldiers and the rustling of leaves as a small wind breeze came over the battlefield. Then there was a echo of an roar, and another, the ponies looked up in the sky and saw dragons approaching them. "Just a quick question, anypony knows if we have like triple A (Anti-Air)?" Thunder Spark exclaimed looking around and waiting for an answer "Except Vertibucks, no. I send most the Shadowbolts against the zebras up at Neigh Orleans and Fillydelphia, and even as far as Detrot!" Rainbow shouted, the dragons drew closer and closer with every passing second as suddenly one super loud shot rang out from behind them which ponies several miles away still heard, and another right after and another one after that, as the third round got shot off the first one hit his mark and a pained roar rang out from one of the dragons as he started to tumble to the ground. Thunder Spark grabbed his binoculars which he grabbed from a dead soldier before and looked at the dragons as suddenly more shots rang out and more frequently and small incendiary explosion where seen on the dragons, each shoot forcing a pained roar out of them, for every fifth shot that got fired one dragon fell out of the sky. Grins started to spread around by the ponies, while by the zebras everyone watched in disbelieve. As the last dragon started to fall out of the sky and everypony cheered they looked around to see who did that. Thunder Sparks saw Rainbow Dash aiming down her sniper rifles scope also the smoking end of the barrel and a light psychotic grin on her face. She started to laugh. "I ... I seriously ... love this gun!" She exclaimed as the scope started to move away the scope and retract the gun itself into it's former position. "Nice shooting!" Thunder Spark shouted with a loud ringing in his ears despite the sound protection in his ears "WHAT?" Rainbow shouted as she saw his lips move but heard nothing "I SAID... forget it." He replied and turned back to the field "WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" She shouted as she walked over to them, Thunder Spark just pointed at one of his eyes and then at the field and Rainbow nodded as she got ready for the surely oncoming Zebra force. It's been a couple of minutes since the dragons got shot down and still no zebras in sigh. The soldiers began to calm down, some of them thinking the killing of the dragons maybe scared them off. That was until somewhere from the left flank fire exchanges started and soon the whole company was engaged. Bullets rained in both direction, the ponies had the defensive cover advantage, but the Zebras had the numbers, they outnumbered them 2 to 1. Good odds for everypony that had at least a bit of guts. With every passing the second the bullet hail increased. For some reason the squad from Thunder Spark wasn't being directly shot at, as Thunderhoof looked around to see why, he heard dinging noise, the noise bullets make when hitting metal, he then looked at Rainbow saw how bullet after bullet flew against Rainbow's armor and either bounce or ricochet off. Even Rainbow was surprised, sure Twilight and Applejack told her how sturdy the armor was but this was insane. It seemed the bullets didn't even scratch the armors paint. Rainbow shot back at everything that moved on the other side of the field and everything that tried to cross it. Thunderhoof got ripped back to attention as a hoof tapped his right shoulder. Thunder Spark pointed at the left side of the foxhole, he then they got back to shooting Zebras. Bullet cartridges where falling to the ground like rain would, Zebras fell like apples on The Sweet Apple Acres nearly three decades ago, today everything is probably automatic, if they are even in business anymore, with Big Mac dead, and AJ leading the MWT they're surely not. Rainbow shook her head and got back to reality again and started to spray lead down range again. Suddenly something flew into the trench from Thunderhoof and Thunder Spark, they looked at each other and then threw the metal apple (grenade) back out, blowing the Zebra up with his own grenade. Minutes over minutes the firefight kept going over the whole line, no matter how harsh the fight became, both sides wouldn't give up, 2 minutes went to 5, 5 to 10 until finally after over 40 minutes the zebras finally had enough. They fell back, and we waited for our order to advance but it never came. It made no sense, "we pushed them back, why wait here?" This happened day after day after day, command didn't let us advance 'Not enough units' they said, whole lot of FUBAR, that's what it is. And finally after the 8th attack Rainbow Dash. She started to advance, no matter what command said "Heck, I'm Rainbow Dash I can tell them to get lost, I got speech in the military counsel too... at least when fighting on the battlefield with my units, with theirs I'm not so sure." Rainbow thought while they slowly pushed ahead, as the other squads saw this they too followed, some of them shouted to get back but tended to join the rest either way even the CO of the company shouted at them, but seeing how Rainbow didn't slow down and everypony followed her, he gave up and joined in too. The zebras tried to get some positions to ambush the ponies, but they are too slow, every time they got somewhere and where nearly ready shots flew by and soon they gave up on that plan and they just went full retreat. Until finally after several kilometers the assault was finally stopped by the next strong points of the Zebras. As we smashed into them, it only took a few seconds for us to see that we won't get through that one, so we fellback a bit and dug in again. A few hours after we pushed forward and got a little command post build up, the shit storm came. "What the hell where thinking?!" The CO shouted into Rainbow's face "I did my thing, if your company starts to follow me what can I do?!" She shouted back "'Did you own thing' are you fucking kidding me? This is my company, my battlefield! You are getting your orders from me!" He barked "I don't take orders from anypony else then Princess Luna herself, so either take it up to her or keep quiet!" She answered "Fine, then you deal with the shit storm from the generals. Dismissed" He answered and pointed to the wooden door "I will, just get me when they call and I'm here." She replied and walked out the makeshift CP (Command Post) and looked around the defenses waiting, her armor standing there waiting for her to get in again "So how did it go?" She heard a voice ask, she turned and saw Thunder Spark walk up to her "What do you mean?" Rainbow asked "Please, everypony of the whole company could hear the shouting. Well we couldn't really understand something but we could still hear it." He replied "Oh that, not bad actually." She answered flatly "Just so you know, you made the right choice." He replied "I don't know, I think I'm not fit to be an officer in this new fancy war" She sighed "I mean if it would be after my plan I'd just take tons of soldiers and lead them against the zebras." She answered and sighed again "You know, that's actually what's an army needs sometimes. An officer who rather has a half good plan now, then a good plan in several days or even weeks" Thunder Spark reassured "And even when your not the best at making plans,we got the... no offense, 'younger' officers for that." He added "What's that supposed to mean?" Rainbow asked with a raised eyebrow "Just stating facts ma'am, compared to you all in the military are 'young'." He answered "gee thanks, you really know how to flatter a mare." she mumbled "Anytime again, ma'am" He answered with a chuckle, Rainbow gave a small laugh "Say, you wouldn't by some coincidence have a map of the surroundings?" She asked, Thunder Spark flew a map in front of her face a second later "okay, so what do we know about their defenses?" Rainbow asked "We know they have artillery somewhere here or here" He replied and pointed at 2 points a few hundred meters behind the enemy lines "We also know they have light tanks every couple of hundred meters for heavy fire support and suppressive fire, and the trenches are pretty much 2 lines, every time a tank comes the trench stops and another is build either a couple meters in front or behind the other trench." He answered "Rainbow this is too much for us to handel alone. That's like nearly a half a battalion, if not even a full one. And we don't know what support they got." He added "I know, just wanted to know what we're up against, and our limits." She replied, moving a hoof to her chin "If they make a full scale attack, we won't hold at least not for long. Not without support." He figured "Of course we won't, not with supplies this short and only one company. When I charged forward I actually thought that we could push them back as far as Roan, and not just several miles." Rainbow replied she sighed "No mater, just gotta deal with how it is. I'll try to get some supplies and support up here, maybe even some Shadowbolts. Now what do we need the most..." Rainbow thought out loud "You should as the CO that, but in my opinion, food, water, ammo and ponypower (see what I did there, instead of Manpower... yeah I'm just gonna shut up) would be best, but I seriously suggest you ask the CO." He answered "I'm gonna give it a day rest and then call in for reinforcements, I'm sure for today the CO would skin me" She replied and hopped into the armor "I'm surprised your not a company leader yourself." She added and started to patrol along the borders, Spark walked besides her and inspected the defenses, a yawn escaped both soldiers. "Tired, sir. Ma'am." A soldier asked "A bit, was a busy day after all." Thunder Spark replied, Rainbow said nothing "Agreed, and that Rainbow over there is tired isn't surprising either." The soldier added "Why's that?" Rainbow asked "The whole time you've been here, I haven't seen ya sleep once, not even for a second. Only ready to help and ready for a fight." The soldier answered "I don't really have time for sleep, there's always something to do." She replied "Agreed, but till a tired soldier is a bigger burden then a wounded soldier." Thunder Spark answered "Still better then a sleeping soldier." Rainbow replied "No disrespect Rainbow, but I'm ordering you to get off patrol shift and get some sleep. You earned it 10 folds." Thunder Spark ordered "You are ordering me?" She asked a small chuckle escaped her mouth as she looked forward again "Rainbow just do what I say for once... that isn't about tactics, okay?" He asked, Rainbow sighed "Fine..." She answered with a yawn and started to walk to the bunks. The soldier looked after her, his moth open wide "Better close that up, before something flies in there." Thunder Spark said and continued his inspection. As soon as Rainbow got out her power armor and into the bunks, she slumped onto a random bed and dozed of a few seconds later Several hours later Ponies who walked into the bunk room where surprised to see the rainbow-maned mare sleeping. Suddenly a firefight started, everypony (except for the mare) in the bunks where awake and up instantly. Even after the firefight and when everything was quiet again, and ponies walked in again the mare still slept. Even on the day after the mare kept sleeping until noon "Rainbow Dash!" A pony shouted as he walked through the trenches "Hey, have you guys seen Rainbow?" The pony asked a few guarding soldiers "Yeah, she's back in the bunks. Still sleeping. Sir" One of them answered, Thunder Spark nodded and made his way to the bunks. As he opened the door he saw nearly every bed inside used by somepony, some even doing hoof business in the little privacy you can get on the front lines. He spotted some of the colorful mane from the mare, she laid on her stomach, face in the pillow and her left fore hoofs dangling of the side of the bed "hey Rainbow." Thunder Spark whispered, no reaction "Rainbow" He said this time a bit louder and her nudged too. "Mrmph? (What?)" She asked muffled "Command want's you at Reins." Spark replied "Mmph mmmpphr hmmp? (What do they want?)" Rainbow once again asked muffled "Don't know." Thunder Spark answered flatly "Now come on get up your Chopper starts in 10 minutes. Don't make me order you" He added and nudged her again, he heard a sigh and Rainbow slowly got up "Fine" She said with a yawn "I hate you." She added and threw the blanked off from her, armor plates clanking together as she stood up and walked out the room, she jumped into her power armor and made her way over to the Vertibuck.
Chapter ?Chapter 4 "ETA: Now." The pilot of the Vertibuck said over the radio "Affirmative." The CO replied. The fly has been very quiet, the only time something was said was by a status update. As we finally landed and walked outside soldiers already stood outside at attention, ready to lead us to the makeshift court room. We entered the room and 4 ponies already waited, they weren't in the room though it was rather over a big screen. We saluted and then the others saluted "General, Colonels." Rainbow and the Major said "General, Major." They replied "Princess Luna should be here any second now." One of the Colonels added and not even a second later Luna too appeared on the screen, everypony saluted and she even saluted back "So how is it possible that our south_east front is now even more forward then before?" The General asked, the Major nudged Rainbow Dash who then cleared her throat "That would be my 'fault'" She answered "Explain why you pushed." One of the two Colonels replied "We have been attacked the 8th time then, artillery every time blowing some of us up, and every time the Zebras fellback we just had to sit there and watch them, instead of charging after them and getting back our land. Every day we pushed them back, we lost ponypower, ammo, and even a bit of morale, so I finally had enough and pushed." Rainbow explained, the 3 officers nodded and scribbled something on their papers "Then how did it happen that the whole battalion followed you instead of holding their positions?" The princess asked "I can explain that, ma'am. When I saw that she pushed forward I let everypony push too, I couldn't just let a symbolic and important mare die." The major cut in, once again the officers nodded and scribbled something down "Well, I think this is already enough." The general started and looked at the officers by his sides who nodded "Even though both of you disobeyed a direct, I'm going to look over it by all the ground we got again. If this should happen again though, I'm going to throw that ponies ass into jail, am I clear?" The general asked, as Rainbow and the major nodded he once again continued "Good, then I'd say we're done here. Dismi-" "General" Rainbow cut in, the officer looked at her confused "Since we're talking about the front here... we really need more ponies and supplies and equipment up there." she said "How bad is it?" The general asked "Well I've seen two ponies eat out of one MRE, we can't transmit beyond 200 miles, it's getting skatchy by 150 miles already. And someponies have to hold their fire until the enemy is right in their face so they won't miss... I've even seen some using Zebra weapons. So pretty bad I'd say." She answered "Fine, I'll get you some more troops, equipment and supplies together. Wait until tomorrow so I can tell you when they'll arrive, Dismissed." The general replied, everypony saluted and then silence "Hey radio operator." Rainbow said to a pony who started to change frequency "Yes, ma'am?" He asked holding the headset away from his ear with one hoof "Change the frequency to 300.60000." She answered as she slowly walked over to him "Copy, ma'am." The operator replied and started to switch and turn things, he nodded after a few seconds and hoofed Rainbow a headset "Lighting Dust, can you hear me? How copy? Over" Rainbow asked "Copy Rainbow Dash, reading you 5 by 5, go on. Over" she replied a second later "How long till the rookies are ready for war. Over" Rainbow explained "Soonest tomorrow. Over." Lighting Dust answered "Roger that, I want you to send them against the griffins. break, and I want one squadron of them to move to the south-east flank, break, also the elite shadowbolts need to re-supply at Ponyville, break, and then meet up with a supply convoy to the south-east flank. Over." Rainbow replied "10-4, I'll send the rookies against the griffins, break, send one squadron to the south-east flank, break, and let the elites re-supply at Ponyville, break, and then send them with a supply convoy to the south-east flank. Over" Lighting Dust confirmed "Copy that, Break, one last thing, break, We need a few Raptors over here, over." Rainbow replied "Copy that, I'll look what I can do, break, might take a day or two to get some Raptors together, over." Lighting Dust answered "Affirmative, over and out." Rainbow answered and gave the headset back to the radio operator, nodded and walked out the building. "So... what now?" She thought and a yawn seemed to answer her question and before she could do something, her eyes closed. The next day, Time: 0900 hours (9 a.m) "Rainbow." A voice said, the mares eyes slowly opened and simply answered with a yawn and looked at the source of the voice, it was the Major "Reinforcements are coming they will be here in a day, same as the Shadowbolt elite. They moved out together with the supply convoy 1 hour ago." He informed, Rainbow nodded "So we can get back to the front?" She asked, this time the Major nodded "Finally." She replied and made her way to the Vertibuck... and another 3 hour sleep, at least Rainbow hoped for, she was still pretty tired About one and a half hour later, Time: 1027 hours (10:27 a.m) Rainbow shot up as she heard a firefight "What's going on?" The mare asked over the vehicle radio "Seems like we got overrun at the front, it also seems like they've fallenback, from what little I could see they are now fighting back, but I don't think they will hold much longer" The Major answered "Pilot, bring me in." Rainbow ordered "Not possible, no place to land... and even if, it's too hot." He replied "Fine, fly over. I'm jumping." Rainbow replied "Roger, ma'am." The pilot answered and opened the hatch "Good thing you got them wings." The Major said "Yeah, even though they won't soften the fall in this armor." The mare replied and jumped, the fall was about 50 meters in which she grabbed her weapons from her holsters and made them ready. When she landed she threw dust, dirt and even wood splinters everywhere, a couple of seconds later she walked out the dust cloud and looked around the battlefield. Her drop in seemed to have stopped the battle in it's tracks, since there was no more shooting. Rainbow looked around the battlefield and as soon she spotted the Zebras she started to shred them apart. It felt like a deja vu... which didn't surprise her since she already fought over this land a couple of weeks back. Once again Rainbow started to advance on the Zebra who as soon they saw her focused fire on her, which was good because then her allies could take great aimed shots at them. Before they knew it they once again could see their own fortified trenches... which of course the Zebras used to their advantage. Bullets where flying everywhere, same as explosions... which weren't flying but you know what I mean... A grenade exploded in front of Rainbow, which wasn't anything new, but this grenade was different. As the grenade exploded it crashed some systems, and another and another. After the 3rd grenade many systems where offline but most such as E.F.S and, weapons and the magical shield same as for the weight reduction spell... thankfully or even with the strength Rainbow had, even she would get crushed under it. After the 5th grenade and another 15 dead Zebras the armor HUD gave out a warning that Rainbow should leave it immediately. So she opened the armor but kept firing until another of those strange grenades flew at her, then was the time she jumped out and as the grenade exploded the armor fell to the ground, energy mostly drained. She made a Dash for cover (no pun intended) and grabbed a gun off a dead soldier with her mouth and started to return fire, and since she's out the power armor now, she can push forward and relocate very quickly. "Where's Thunder Spark? I need to know what we're up against." Rainbow said to a soldier to her left "No idea ma'am, haven't seen him since the attack, ma'am." The soldier replied and started to return fire, Rainbow nodded and started to push forward until she finally was up by the trenches and started to kill the Zebras inside of them, but no matter how hard they pushed even with Rainbow inside the trenches, they zebras wouldn't give them up. The loses where high and finally after about half the pony attack force was taken out, they fellback. Rainbow stopped by her armor for a few seconds, which would just needed some energy and the Zebras then could use it against them... so she grabbed several grenades pulled the pins threw them inside the armor and ran. Behind several second later her armor blew up, shrapnel and several small armor parts flew past her... at least no worries that the zebras could use i now, but once again they had to build up a defensive line, while the Zebras where just laughing at them... once again beaten with their own defenses.
Chapter ?Chapter 5 We where nearly done with digging the last trench and setting up the MGs "So they've been captured?" Rainbow asked Wild Strike, he nodded "Yes, only a few though, most have been killed in the assault. I don't know where they're being held you should ask the Major that." He answered, Rainbow nodded and Strike got back to work, while Rainbow walked to the Major who overlooked their new makeshift defense line "We're nearly done with the last trench, only a few more minutes and then done." Rainbow informed, the Major nodded "I also heard that some of our troops got captured, any idea where they're being held?" She added, the major once again nodded "We got two bets, when we're lucky and the reports are still correct, they're in Roan... if not then we are fucked and either they talked and are dead now or are already at Canternia." He answered "You got a plan to get them out?" Rainbow asked "Of course I do, no pony get's left behind after all. And with the reinforcements we're finally able to do more here, that's why only makeshift trenches, as soon the support is here we're going on the offensive. We'll take back our old defense line and then maybe a day later make a move against the strong point and finally win this flank any maybe finally push the zebras out of Equestrian main land. And then take back the island Canternia" The major answered "A fucking simple plan, which is not even 80 percent thought through... I love it, but it will be harder then it sounds... but when the support comes we can finally be far more aggressive and we can finally radio Canterlot from our old defense line." Rainbow replied with a small smile "This all sound to good to be true... something will go wrong, as always." The major answered with a sigh "I know, but until now we've pushed through everything. So no matter what, we're gonna continue like that. Even if the whole fucking Zebra army would stand before us. Oorah!" Rainbow replied with pride at what the ponies already survived until now "Oorah!" The Major exclaimed "Now we just need a plan at how we're gonna take back our old position." Rainbow thought out loud "I hope I get one together until tomorrow..." The Major replied sounding unsure "Major, we won't need a perfect plan which is laid out for every single thing that could go wrong. We better have a half good plan tomorrow, than a perfect plan in a week." Rainbow explained "Right. So most important will be the lay out of the companies, their missions and of course communication. Last part will be the hardest, we don't really have equipment that can transmit very far..."The Major pondered "There are two ways" Rainbow started "Either one platoon transmits to the next and then to the next and so on. Or they just send a mail pony over, like we used to in the old war" She finished "Hmm... I'm gonna keep that in mind" The major figured "Now if you'll excuse me, I got an attack to plan." He added and walked away, Rainbow on the other hoof walked to the trenches and grabbed the assault rifle inside she left inside. Knowing that tomorrows battle will be one of the hardest they had so far she started to change her armor. She dropped the 3 bag that were strapped to her armor and opened the leather straps that ran over her belly, and then the ones that where processed into her neck armor and hocked with the throat armor. She then laid them with big care on the ground. She then got her real combat armor out of the big bag with all her weapons and armors, that had been strapped on her right side. This armor was put on pretty much the same way her old armor was, put your head through the circle where your head is supposed to be... duh! Then hoof the armor around your back legs with a leather strip, both on the left and right. Then grab your leg armor, pull it up your leg and hook that one too into your body armor, last step. Grab your belly armor and hook that one too into the armor that rested on your back and done. Only the helmet on your head but that needs no explanation... And there was the problem for Rainbow, there was no helmet in the bag... which meant her head was completely free for any bullets or rockets. At least she had the Iridium bones to give her some protection. She then grabbed her old armor packed it into the big bag and threw all 3 bags over her back and secured them with leather straps around her belly. "We use far to many leather straps..." Rainbow thought as she once again grabbed her weapon and started the most boring job a pony could think of... except peeling potatoes that is. Ever tried peeling some with hoofs? yeah didn't think so, anyway. The duty was sentry duty. Sure in war time and at the front it's one of the most important things, in fact it saved my life once but I'll tell that another time. So yeah whatever, sentry duty it was luckily only a couple of hours, instead of like 6 hours or so. At least she could guard happily, with the thought that tomorrow one of the hardest fights fought on this flank will occur.
Chapter ?Rainbow's eyes slowly opened, what surprised her was that she had a headache, which didn't really happened before in her new form. As she focused on her surroundings she found herself looking at a Zebra, his face had scars everywhere. "Finally awake I see" The zebra said "Let's skip the formalities and get down to business. I want to know how many soldiers you have at Reins." The zebra added, Rainbow just looked at him "Shove it." She replied flatly "I heard your a tough one from my units. Not after this though." The Griffin answered and snipped his fingers, then stepped away from the chair. Suddenly Rainbow's vision darkened a bit as electricity was lead through her body, a couple of second later it stopped "How many?" The Zebra asked, Rainbow just spat in his face an once again it started, but this time Rainbow smirked and again a few seconds later they stopped "Why are you smiling?" The Zebra asked "D-do you know what you just did?" She asked, the Zebra looked confused "Do you know what happens when you electrocute a cyberpony? I give you a hint: It get's stronger." She whispered the last part and tipped herself free from the metal cuffs, grabbed the Zebra and crushed his throat, she then jumped off the chair grabbed the next closed Zebra and broke his spine, threw him across the room against another one. Suddenly heavy bullets flew past Rainbow, she looked at the source which was an heavy MG positioned on a upper level. Running at it in zig zag until finally she was at the point where the gun couldn't be depressed at her anymore, she jumped off the ground and flew straight at it, while still making sure the gun couldn't be pointed at her. As she slammed into the gun itself, she wrecked the whole thing the gun shield itself broke lose on one side and flew straight into the Zebra, killing him instantly. A penetrated her royal guards armored plate and buried itself in her flank, if it wouldn't have been for the to pings she never would've noticed, she grabbed the damaged MG and threw it at the Zebra. Both the force of the throw and the weight of the gun itself forced the Zebra to fly with the gun into the wall, burying him inside it. Finally a rocket flew past Rainbow and exploded on the wall a meter away from her sending concrete and a bit of shrapnel at her "Somepony got intelligent." She thought as she looked around and spotted the Zebra a floor lower, she jumped down and as she landed another rocket flew at her, this time (thanks to the overload) she grabbed the rocket mid-air and threw it back at the source, who just had a dumb-founded look on his face before he was no more than a few bloody pieces across the ground and walls. Finally the room was clean of enemies and flew back to the first Zebra she killed "You know, bringing the toughest and most feared solider of your enemy here and only position this many guards... you're a moron." She said to the dead zebra "And why are you guys never wear a helmet, that would help me right no- wait a minute... what did Twi say about my Guard armor..." She asked herself loudly and started to look her armor over and found something like pockets on the right side of her armor, and she pulled out her battleaxe "Huh... I already asked myself where I put you." She said, laid the axe on the ground and continued to dig around her pockets. The next thing she pulled out was the sword from Big Mac, she looked at it and then laid it on the ground too. She once again dug around and finally pulled her helmet with the neck armor out and sat it on top her head, securing it with the leather straps on the neck armor and the body armor. She then grabbed the two weapons before her and looked them over, she put the sword back into her pockets and made her way out the room with her battleaxe in hoof.
