Chapter I - Unexpected Guests
November 1941, Battle of Moscow. Hall of Staff, Grand Kremlin Palace
"All right Comrades Commanders, as you see, the situation is critical. Germans are near the Moscow, their chance for the win is increasing with every day. Comrade Georgy Konstantinovich, explain me the current situation."
"Tak tochna Comrade Joseph Vissarionovich, the Wehrmacht are 15km from Moscow, but we are still able to win this battle. Panzerwaffe has worse tanks, Panzers despite their complexity aren't adapted to russian conditions, soldiers themselves suffer from insufficient delivery of food and from frostbite caused by inadequate clothes. Our scouts report, among them, the acts of cannibalism has appeared."
"I didn't expect such bestiality, even after them. Well, better for us. Comrades Zhukov and Rokossowski. You must stop the Wehrmacht and its allies at all costs. Moscow can not fail." I turned to Rokossowski. "By the way, Comrade Konstantin Konstantinovich, congratulations on success, while holding the command of the 16th Army. Your successes effectively prevented the conduct of enemy troops. Perhaps you are going to rank up, but now you have a duty to your homeland. General Zhukov brought new forces from the Urals. You divide them between yourself. If with the proper deployment of troops, you will effectively jam the Army Group, the victory should be within reach. Panimayet?"
"Tak tochna Comrade Generalissimus. Accordingly forged experience from previous battles, will allow for an effective counteroffensive. You can be sure we'll push the Germans down to Berlin." That was the kind of man which I needed, confident, successful. After establishing the strategy, all generals marched away, leaving me alone in the Hall of Staff of the Grand Palace.
For another 2 months, we fought at stretch of 100 kilometers, pushing von Bock, far from Moscow. Every next move was coordinated with the commanders of the sub-units, when it was necessary, I was going personally to consult the next moves. The line of fortifications was moving more and more to the west, more and more enemy soldiers were moving back. Finally, after long struggles, in January the Germans abandoned their offensive and started retreating. Talking to soldiers at January 7, Kaganovich ran to me.
"Comrade, we have an urgent situation. During your absence, the strange creatures appeared in the Kremlin. You have to go see it."
I didn't intend to underestimate his words, saying goodbye to the soldiers, I went with Kaganovich.
I walked with Kaganovich through the Red Square, talking with him.
"So what creatures are these?"
"They're ponies. Colorful ponies. "
"What?!" It was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. "You want to tell me, that you're interrupting my conversation with soldats, just because of some bloody little horses?!"
"B.... but comrade...."
"Shut up!!!! Do you want to be executed for insulting the head of the state?!"
"N... No..... But Stalin believes me, I'm telling the truth. I swear on Lenin, that in Grand Hall, ponies has appeared. Additionally, they're able to talk." He emphasized every last word.
I analyzed his world by a moment. Anyhow ridiculous that sounded, I was going to check it out.
"I will give you the last chance. Bring them to the Main Hall, but if it was only a misinformation, you will be executed." I threatened him. With obvious horror in his eyes, he ran toward the Kremlin.
I stayed at the moment, at Red Square, asking myself, why a bunch of horses could be the danger for the Soviet Union. I could understand the Romanov family, white movement, Nazis, even Trotzky, but ponies? That was preposterous. Wait.... Maybe there was another option. Maybe Kaganovich is preparing ruse, to take over the power in the Soviet Union. That's it! There are no ponies, only Kaganovich preparing overthrow. I assembled a group of Red Guards, a separate Moscow Militia, and I went with them to the Kremlin. I opened the door to the Main Hall with a kick. for the command, the Guardsmen aimed ahead.
"Comrade Lazarus Kaganovich, in the name of Soviet Union, you're arrested for the treason of state, give up for your own good or... What the actual fuck......"
He wasn't lying, I saw 7 colored horses surrounded by NKVD officers, aiming at them. 2 of them were a pegasus, 3 other were somewhat normal, 2 others were unicorns, no wait, there was the unicorn with wings. How do Latins call them? Alicorns? Probably yes. Whole analysis was interrupted by this one alicorn.
"Excuse me, sir? I guess you're in control here, could you explain why we were locked in the dungeon of this weird palace? Pretty please?" She smiled shyly.
"What..... Did that animal just said something to me?" I was total dismayed
"Yes, Comrade Stalin." He was as surprised as me. "We have 7 talking ponies, 6 mares and one stallion."
"Well, Lazarus, I turn honor. This is the most preposterous thing I have ever seen and I must admit, I live a little long." I turned to the commander of the NKVD. "Comrade Lieutenant, what procedure would you recommend for our guests?"
"Immediate execution Comrade President." He said, standing at attention.
"In the name of.... Seriously?! This bunch of colorful ponies doesn't pose any threat to the Soviet Union, shooting them would be just wasting ammunition. These are just ordinary animals. Lower your weapon!" Like one man, all the NKVD left the rifles by putting them at their feet.
"WE ARE NOT JUST ORDINARY ANIMALS!" The blue pegasus flew in front of my face. Lavender was frightened, did not know how to react. Pegasus began to wave his front hooves, just before my face. "Call us once more to kick you in the face. And stop using that language."
"What's up pony, are you trying to scare me?" I turned to her with contempt. After a moment my voice became cold. "You have no idea who you are dealing with. I am more powerful than you may think. I can order these people to pierce you like a sieve."
"I don't care." She wasn't so easy to scare. "I've seen more scary creatures in my life than people. Anyway, for friends, I will do everything."
"All right ... SOLDIERS! AIM....." They raised their rifles and aimed at the blue. Scared, she quickly returned to the group. The initiative has taken over the lavender.
"Rainbow let me talk to him." She wasn't pleased.
"I have to admit that you have a habit of naming each another. It's good to know that your "culture" has decided that you have to give it. I am waiting. Introduce yourself."
"I'm Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of friendship..."
"Blyad, another royal..." I groaned.
"... and these are my friends. Pegasus who flew to you is Rainbow Dash, this orange one standing on the hind legs and swinging the hooves, is Applejack, a mare with pinkish flattened hair is Pinkie Pie, a stallion is Flicker, and Rarity is hugging Fluttershy. I think is your turn, mister."
"I'm Joseph Stalin, President of Soviet Union, Secretary-General of Bolshevik Party, Chief of the State, Supreme Commander of Red Army People Commissar of Defense of USSR, and Supreme Bolshevik."
"So, you're some kind of king, pardner?" Applejack asked.
"Don't tell me about any representatives of the monarchy!" I strained.
"Whoa pardner, easy there."
"But why do you so hate them so much? What's wrong with them?" Twilight began to feel uncertain.
"They're feeding on work of the simple folks. They don't care about them, millions of them could die, but baron wouldn't even notice it. You know what happened to the last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II Romanov? I ordered to kill him, him and his family. In the time of Civil War, as general, I chased every duke, every noble, living on the russian soil. And guess what? I killed nearly all of them. Every man who supported the monarchy or the old order was executed by NKVD, Cheka or ended in labor camps dying from cold and grogginess."
"Why are you doing this? How can you be so ruthless? You have no conscience, no empathy..." That was the first time when I heard the Fluttershy's voice. Her tiny voice faltered, she was close to tears. I don't know why but I felt wrong. I was ruthless Bolshevik Bear, I shouldn't feel stings of remorse.
"I did everything for the good of the country," I explained.
"But killing your own nationals? Why deserve such a fate?" Fluttershy asked me again. She was already crying.
"They weren't my nationals, they were the tools of revolution. As Lenin."
"And what happened to Lenin?" Twilight tried don't cry.
"I killed him, he wasn't useful anymore. He was the only obstacle in the way to power. As the Romanov family."
After this words, all of these 6 mares, was clung to each other, scared and crying. The thought, they will be executed too, because I didn't need them. The were wrong. Only this mysterious stallion showed no dread, I would even say that he looked at everything with indifference. He looked at me with his amber eyes.
"Hello, Stalin. I see that you have changed a lot since our last meeting. As I presume, you don't remember me at all, do you?" He spoke in a quiet, deep baritone.
"Do you want to say that we met once?" I asked surprised.
"Of course, we met during the Battle of Tannenberg. Kaiser's army crushed you, you lost 125,000 people."
I wondered a moment, trying to pull out from my memory if really, such a meeting took place. After a moment it illuminated me. He was right!
"Yes, you are right! I was a lieutenant general, you saved my life, then, I later saved your life too. So this is how I survived..."
"Good to know that you remember all, comrade." He blinked to me. "You're not going to scare these mares anymore?"
"I'm not going to. Sorry for shouting at you, last days weren't easy for all of us. I swear ..." I spoke to the mares." ... that nothing will happen to you. But I have a warning for you, you should not use any noble titles. All the more talk."
"Okay, we will not use them." But why? Twilight wiped away tears.
"I'm not the only person who hates the aristocracy. In the days of the Great War, nobles were mostly officers, sitting safely in the bars when simple men fought and died in their trenches."
"I do not understand why you have such a bloody story." Twilight became confident. "Legends said you were a civilized race."
"Because we are," I replied. "The problem lies elsewhere. Homo sapiens, or man, is a predator."
"What?" She shook her head with a smile of disbelief. "How can you be predators without fangs or claws?"
"Evolutionally, we have never developed claws. We had fangs longer, but the real predator is here." I touched my temple. "Tell me Twilight. Do you know a species that has conquered the whole world?"
"No." She was thinking for a while. "The ponies occupied only two continents, but our states were quite small."
"You see we have succeeded. The whole planet belongs to us. Predators are very expansive, and as you can see we are fucking effective."
"Do you have to curse?" Twilight winced.
"Forgive me, old habits from the time of the service. Anyway." I pointed at my people. "It doesn't bother them"
"At the end, why are you running so many bloody wars?"
"The reasons are always the same, money, resources, territory and population. Propaganda takes care of the rest."
Pinkie added to the conversation three pennies.
"I feel, Lyra after seeing what's going on here, would lose all her love to people." She said with a sad smile.
"I don't doubt it Pinkie." Twilight hugged her friend.
"Wait a second. How many ponies are living in your states?" I was surprised. If a colorful wave of talking horses were to flood the Earth, I wanted to know how big that wave could be.
"About a hundred thousand. There are still zebras, donkeys, mules, dragons, griffins, and many creatures that you would consider mythical." Behind me, I felt a flash of light combined with a breeze, and the voice I heard was royal while at the same time was full of kindness and care. I turned my face away. When the portal closed, I saw a white alicorn with rainbow hair, tall as me. "Hello. I am Celestia Brightmist, Queen of United Equestrian, Mother of the Day and Sun Shield, also called Allmother."
"Your Highness!" There was joy in the ponies face, even Flick, not speaking at all, smiled to the new alicorn.
"Greetings my Subjects." She said as if she was seeing an old friend. She turned to me. "What is your name, sir?"
"Fucking hell, it's not really my day ...." At that moment I was able to say only those words. NKVD did not intend to wait. Quickly recovered from the shock and aimed at Celestia. This gesture surprised the queen, she retreated slightly.
"LOWER THE GUN!!!!" I shouted to them. "Did I say, aim at the white, weird, winged-unicorn horse?! NO! If you do that again, I will send you to Vorkutlag!!"
This worked, the NKVD lowered the gun, with same frighten faces as the ponies at the first time. What was Vorkuta? The worst Gulag camp in the Soviet Union. Hundreds of thousands of people die here, political prisoners, Whites, traitors, opponents of communist rule, and a lot of innocent people.
"Listen to me, idiots. You're useless now. I can handle them myself." I drawled out. "March off!"
"Yes, Generalissimus President!" After this words, they walked out as one man, in three.
"Blyad, this is the worst day of my life." Kaganovich stood by the wall, not knowing what to say. I let him know by hand that he would not say anything at all. Inside, I was boiling from anger.
"Maybe you should rest. This amount of anger isn't good for anyone." White alicorn leaned toward me, speaking with care in her voice."
"Close your mouth and don't say anything," I growled. Celestia withdrew again, but this time with anger on her face. The rest of the ponies were surprised at how I spoke to their ruler"
"Mr. Stalin, please remember, you are speaking to the queen." She answered with confidence.
"Exactly. You are one of those people, who doesn't care about simple folks. You drink the juices of their hard work, and when someone tries to change your world for the better, you're getting rid of him, so that he doesn't disturb the order you set."
"How dare you say that?! I would never lead a despotic rule over my subjects." She replied insulted, wanting to defend her subjects. "What is your right to tell such a things?"
"Don't you understand it, mare?" I answered with a sadistic smile. "We have just destroyed a whole group of German armies. And remember not to call me a mister, only a comrade, or Generalissimus." I ordered the rest to go to the side hall, there we sat around the table, Kaganovich sat on my right, Celestia on my left. I ordered to bring something to drink, I took whisky, Celestia asked for a glass of wine, rest asked for a water. Kaganovich was satisfied with polish rye, Flick preferred the same as me. After tasting I started. "If we are all here, I could finally hear why you are here?"
Celestia asked for a sip of whiskey. Lack of magic in our world surprised her very much, so I had to help her. It was clear that it was not the alcohol she used to drink, her face twisted in the grimace of disgust. She coughed several times.
"How can you drink this dross?" She drank two glasses of water, when it didn't help she threw her tongue, trying to get rid of the ugly taste.
"Nobody who I met didn't complain," I answered stunned. "I haven't seen a horse that has ever drunk alcohol. You aren't used to drinking stronger alcohols. In human culture alcohol consumption during festive occasions is a tradition. Do not complain, it's not so bad."
"I guess I'll stay by the wine." The Queen of Equestria bent her mouth. Taking a sip, her condition improved significantly. "Well, Comrade Stalin. As the head of state, you deserve for some explanations as to why we violate the order of your country. Well, our world is dying. Elements of Harmony, the only artifacts that have kept the world from extermination, disappeared, in your world. I won't present the details of its death without resentment now, but I can't trust you in your present behavior. The key is that Flicker assured me that, despite all of this, we can trust you in terms of providing safety to my people. Can I rely on you?"
The whole vision of the alliance with the ponies was really bizarre. But with some benefits, these little creatures possessed a powerful magic that would help us defeat the Axis. If I could actually fraternite Celestia, I would get a mighty ally.
"Celestia. You have my word that I will protect your people, and I will find Elements." I answered with a smile. "If I have to, I will bring your whole country to this land."
"Thank you." She answered with relief. Thanks to my assurances, she knew that she could count on me to save her world from extinction. It was clear that there was another question on her mind. I gave her a sign to ask without being embarrassed.
"You say that the first intelligent pony you've met in your life was Flick. Will not be a problem if I ask how this meeting happened?"
"U menya net nikakich problem. It all started near Tannenberg, a Polish countryside near Grunwald...."
Chapter II - The Tannenberg
Author's Note
Maybe first chapters aren't too good, but next episodes will be better.
Chapter II - The Tannenberg
I couldn't feel anything. Everything went terribly wrong, Germans launched an attack, Samsonov committed suicide, and Rennenkampf was taken into captivity. I was the last commander of the defense. We fought like bears, but it wasn't enough. Germans destroyed the whole front. We had to move back into Russia, but they were too fast. There wasn't any ideological fight, we fought only to survive. Germans were well prepared with a modern weapon. Our conservative General Staff didn't want change the army equipment or strategy. The were still using tactics from the time of Crimean War. All of us realized Ludendorff and Hindenburg duo were very effective. When Germans couldn't break our defense, the decided to use artillery. Artillery fire destroyed our lines, one missile exploded nearby, its shards paralyzed me. Because of pain, I lose my consciousness.
I woke up in a strange place. It was terribly hot and stuffy. The room where I was, was red, created from human organs, bones and flesh! I was hearing distance screams. It wasn't German's prison, even them wouldn't be so fucked up. At this point, I realized something. I was tied to chair. I've started asking myself. Where am I? Why I'm tied? Where is everybody? I decided to shout.
"HELLO?! ANYBODY THERE?!" The only answer was a silence. "RELEASE ME! WHAT AM I DOING HERE?! LET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!"
"Calm down, homo sapiens, you're going to hurt yourself......." The creature who spoke that words almost made me a heart-attack. It was a demon, 3 meters tall, wholly black, surrounded by black cold flame, with black, shadow tentacles, and sharp as knife teeth. Its eyes were amber and pure evil. She came out from nowhere.
"YA yebat'... What the fuck are you?"
"Your judge, and the demon as you can see. And my name is Hecate. Do you know where are you?" Her voice was cold as ice and hot as lava, at the same moment.
"In hell, yes? Am I right? I'm in the fucking mythical space or something, where the damned souls get? Which circle of hell it is?"
"What are you talking about? Do you even know, why are you here?"
"Nein, ich weiß nicht."
"Why are you using German?" She didn't give to move out of balance, but she began to be furious.
"Aaaah, so German isn't native language of hell? It makes a bloody difference. Also, it doesn't change a fact, that I'm an atheist. So could you explain me, why am I here?"
"I wanted to, but you began to interrupt me. You were always so impatient and undisciplined. I thought army is supposed to teach you some manners."
"Okay, last thing and you can continue. Am I dead?"
"It's complicated, but you should understand it. Your soul was ripped off your body. I ordered to bring your soul here. I'm going to judge you, by your sins."
"Okay lady, let's started it. I'm fucking ready." I didn't intend to show any sing of fear. She didn't like it, for demon like her, torturing
"Trust me, it won't be nice...." She lifted up her hand and put it on my head. Hand started to shine in dead blue, I felt weird cold, then my mind has shattered into millions of pieces. I saw my whole past, from the death of my parents, by Balkan Wars to present day. After this short display, I fell into darkness for a while. When I woke up, I saw Hecate writing something on the piece of leather, I pulled out the knife from my shoe, and cut off the ropes. I took out my colt, and as silent, as I could, I sneaked behind Hecate. He was too busy, writing something with blood, I lifted colt and shot her in her head. She turned around in one second with flames in her eyes. Hole after the bullet disappeared in one second, she has a weird ability of quick regeneration.
"Shit......" I though it will be my end. I hid my pistol, and I was waiting for her reaction.
"You really thought, your precious bullet can kill me?" She drawled.
"Always worth a try. Are you going to kill me?" I started to panic.
"I want to but, even if I am the ruler of Hell, there are creatures stronger than me. Your world is pure, there isn't and wasn't any demons, devils or gods. Your world was created in Big Bang by itself. You could ask how it was possible. Let me explain, there are a lot of parallel dimensions, your universe is one of the oldest, energy, which created it, came from another dying universe sucked into the giant black hole. But in space between the universes, a powerful entity lives, goddesses of fate, Moirai. If you red Greek Mythology, they're more powerful even than gods, and I'm powerful as your Christian God. I could kill you any moment, but Moira told me, your end didn't come yet."
"I must admit, this is really interesting." I was surprised, the ancient Hellenes were worshipping something that was real. When I was listening to her, explaining me the right, ruling the multiverse, gray pony came to the room. I was surprised by his presence, but one thing took my patience. It had unnatural big eyes and not horse mouth. Even his body was weird, he had a height of the typical pony, but I didn't saw his hoof box or pastern brushes. His not looking like a normal pony, was nothing comparing to his ability to speak.
"Good morning mister. Good morning mother." He spoke calmly.
"Good morning Flick" She talked to him kindly. "Homo sapiens. This is my son, Flicker. Flick, this is general Joseph Stalin."
"Chto? Is this loshad able to speak? How this is even possible?" I was baffled.
"Magic. Dark magic." He explained to me with a smile. "What are you doing here? I saw Caligula, Elagabalus, Cortés, Pizarro, all of the tyrants, dictators, debauchees, worst sinners from all realities, but you? What have you done?"
"Your "mother," told me that's kind of trial. A trial of my soul, because of my actions, in a time of military service and before, but I'm still thinking this is a hallucination caused by cerebral hypoxia. Wait for a second, Caligula is here?!"
"Believe me general". She looked at me. "This isn't cerebral hypoxia, nor clinic death. Your body is still alive and only your soul is ripped off from your body, that's all."
"So why aren't you torturing me or something?"
"You haven't done anything evil... I mean, you've done a lot of terrible things, but not as so bad, you should be condemned."
"So why I need any redemption?!"
"This is going to be your redemption for future sins!" She began to get impatient. "Are you understand it now?!"
"Quite enough."
"That's good. Flick, bring his soul back to his body and help him in his world."
"Okay, spasibo "lady"." I was happy that I finally was free. When I thought, my soul will be sent again to my body, Hecate stopped me.
"Wait a second. I have something special for you." She pulled her finger inside of my heart. I felt terrible cold and burst of energy. "Now go. How are you Russians saying? Vremya mat' rozhdayet, odnazhdy umeret'?"
"Exactly. Goodbye. See you next time. Ok, come on Flicker."
He started mumbling words in some weird language, Celtic I think. Then, I felt very light, and darkness fell. I woke up again in my body, covered by dead soldiers.
"You humans really love wars?" Flick stood next to me on the edge of the trench. He seemed to be inert, but the view of dead men filled him with sadness.
"This war was supposed to be the last. As you see, it wasn't. Hold on! I can feel my body again! That's bloody brilliant! Spasibo weird demon lady!" I clambered out the trench. "We lost 125.000 men only within a week."
"Do you fell sorry for your actions?"
"I was last Commander of defense. I hadn't any other choice...." I heard the German voices. "Get to the trench, now!"
"What is happening?" He was surprised.
"Germans are checking the bodies for values and jewelry. They can't find us."
"I could use magic to get rid of them."
"Magic doesn't work here. Your mother told me about this."
"Ok, this is bad. How many are they?"
"One company and platoon, 150 people."
"Do you have any plan? I'm half-demon, but if you're saying that magic doesn't work here, everything is more complicated, even for me. I didn't get used to fighting."
"Ok, first we must hide under the bodies."
"Don't you think it's some kind of prophanacy? I'm okay with that, but what about you?"
"Deads can't fell difference. Do you see this Mosin?"
Germans were coming closer. Fast answers and question were now necessary.
"Yes."
"Grab it."
I and Flick grabbed Mosin, and hide under the bodies. The Germans were above us. I order Flick, to be silent.
"Hans, what do you think? When the ar is going to end?"
"Soon, our soldiers are destroying the Tsar's army, on the west, we're near the Paris.
"I hope so... Herr Major. Where is this bastard Stalin?"
"I don't know, dead or he had escaped."
"These russian scums have no rights to live." From the chink, I saw the man who told that words. Young sergeant, nationalist.
"I agree, sergeant."
I whispered to Flick: "Are you ready?" "Yes". "Die german scum!" I jumped out of the heap of corpses with loaded Mosin. First, I killed Hans, then Schlager. Flick, I don't know how killed 2 other soldiers. They panicked, so initiative was on our side. Corner of my eye, I noticed heavy machine gun. At this moment the simple idea came to my mind.
"Flick, rush to this HMG!"
"What?! Have you lost your mind?!"
"If I had, both of us would be dead. I'm going to distract them! Go!"
The struggle was tough but I wasn't giving up. The one soldier charged at me with an axe, but I killed him with a bayonet. A trick proved to be effective. Flick approached the Maxim and, I didn't expect that he started to fire. He killed 50 soldiers. I was impressed, even flabbergasted. That was a mistake. 4 soldiers rushed at me with bayonets pierced my chest and pinned me to trench wall. For a moment, I was thinking it's the end for me, but abruptly Flick charged at them with a shovel. It didn't end well for him, Kaiserman shot him in the back of his head. I felt bad for him, but feeling the chance, I pulled out the bayonets and killed all of them with the shovel. Remain soldiers were terrified. I looked at my chest and realized what made them terrified. I was terribly shot, with a lot of wounds. When I made one step, they made 2 steps backward.
"Is this some kind of demon?" One of the soldiers asked their mayor.
"No, I'm just a man like you, but it doesn't change the fact, that you're done....." I saw this words with a creepiest smile which I would even made. "Better start running....."
Only 20 soldiers left, that wasn't even challenging. I throw Mosin, grabbed shovel and axe. While I was charging at them, they opened the fire, but I hadn't felt anything. I was on the rampage, they were begging for mercy, but I wasn't listening to them. I killed everyone. Until then I felt the pain in my chest. Don't care about it, I found Flick's body. He wasn't moving. He had wound in the back of his head, by the bullet. His mother wouldn't be happy about it.
"Sorry that this happened to you. I never expected this could even end like this." I felt guilty.
"Don't worry...... That's nothing......" He was still alive. I don't know how but I became curious.
"H.... How?! You got yourself shot in the back of your head. Your brain should be irreversibly damaged."
"Well, being the spawn of a demon gives you interesting abilities. I can heal myself. I see, my mother gave you some abilities too."
" What do you.... Oh, I get it. It's a strange feeling, being shot and stay alive."
"You are communist, right? How you became general-lieutenant without respecting your ruler?"
"After breaking out from the seminar, I joined the army at the time of Russo-Japanese War. For bravery in the fight, Kuropatkin promoted me to lieutenant rank. When in 1905, the revolution broke up, I was on the side of protesters. During this event, I've met the man, called Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, leader of RSDRP. Then I decided to join them. In a time of Balkan Wars, I've become mayor, and later colonel. Struggles war tough, but didn't give up."
"I was observing events in Europe. Just because of curiosity. It seems Balkan Wars was a prelude to present war?"
"Yes indeed. Interests of European powers clashed here."
"I don't want to interrupt you, but I've become a little hungry." He was looking for something.
"Sorry, I don't have anything to eat."
"That won't be a problem." When he spoke this words, he lifted a chopped leg of one of the Germans, and.... he was eating it! That was most fucked up view of my whole life. He looked at me with questioning expression on his face.
"What? What's the problem? "
"You.... You're eating human flesh!"
"So?" He didn't notice the problem.
"Are you serious?! You're a bloody pony, and you're eating flesh! Ponies are supposed to be herbivorous, not carnivorous."
"Listen up, Stalin. You should understand, I'm not actually a pony. It means, I'm a pony but only in the half. The second half of mine is a demon."
"How......"
"Okay, it doesn't matter now. Continue your story."
"All right. When Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, everyone realized war is only matter of time. The Europe has already participated into 2 alliances, Triple Alliance and Entente. Every country was declaring war on each other. I was promoted to General-lieutenant rank with the order of commanding the Second Army with Samsonov. Germans were very effective. We were losing battle after battle. Samsonov committed suicide, and after that, I've become the Supreme Commander of Second Army. We were fighting with Germans to this day, about 2 hours ago Germans made powerful offensive with massed artillery shelling. Then a piece of a bullet hit me and paralyzed. I lost consciousness, you know the rest of the story."
"Good, thanks for explaining me everything. I would stay a little longer, but, I need come back to my mother. She's waiting for me. I can feel it."
"I'm not going to stop you. Thanks for helping me. I appreciate it."
"No problem... No, wait. Actually, there is a problem."
"What do you mean?"
"You saw the hell, and you remember everything that my mother said, also you saw talking horse. I need to clean your memory."
"This won't change me a lot?"
"Of course not. You are going to remember this fight with Germans for example but without my assist. Are you ready?"
"Yes, let's do it."
He created a pentagram under my shoes. The golden glow covered me, ans again I felt myself light. He looked at me the last time
"Well Stalin, see you next time."
"I hope so. Goodbye Flick." The last thing I saw, was flash.
Darkness fell. When I woke up, the Russians were surrounding me. Lieutenant crouched next to me with a water bottle. I grabbed it instantly, I wasn't stopping drinking until the bottle was empty.
"General, are you allright?" He asked me.
"Yes. I'm fine." One of the soldiers was bandaging me.
"It doesn't look like that. You're terribly shot. Also we saw a lot of dead people around you. Is that your work?"
"Yes, it's impossible, but yes."
"You remember anything'?"
I've started thinking, but nothing came to my mind. I couldn't remember anything. "No, the last thing I remember, was , I killed a whole company alone. Also, why are you here?"
""The Emperor wants to talk with you personally, he has some special plans for you. We pushed the Germans 2 km away, the road to the capital is clear."
"We should let the Autocrat wait for us, let's go to Petrograd." I went with the lieutenant, to the nearest train station. When we came to Warsaw, I was the witness of polish reluctance. Poles were divided into 3 empires, they had to kill each other, I was one of those, who ordered them to do that. I felt it, they wished me death. We went to Vienna Station and entered the train, going to the Petersburg.
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End of Chapter II.
