The Melding of Two Worlds Pt. 1: The Battle for Ponyville

11/17/2120 Ponyville, Equestria

NYC Militia Bt. 3, 54th Infantry

Dear O'Brian,

You wanted to know what it's like here? Well, to tell you the truth, it kinda sucks right now. We arrived in a town called Ponyville (and no, I'm not joking) by parachute. The ride wasn't too bad, except we had our packs tied to our ankles, which dislocated them when our chutes opened up. I ended up getting stuck on a tower, and broke my arm when I freed myself and fell. I had to get my ankle put back in place twice. Thankfully, the doctors here have a very quick solution for broken bones. Magic. And no I'm not kidding you. They call it magic, and it really exists with some of them. The same doctor that healed my arm actually healed my brother Zlat's eyes, so he can see.

Day after, we start digging trenches to defend the town. Two days of hard labor, and we learn that we have to build concrete pillboxes and bunkers. Imagine 650 guys complaining would ya? We get this done just in time for one of their princesses (one of three I guess) to look at our work. Her name is Celestia, apparently. She's got a set of wings and a horn, which I've been told is called an Alicorn. She seemed both pleased and displeased at us and our defenses, if that's possible.

The enemy (whoever it was) seemed to take this exact time to bomb us. We managed to get to our trenches safely enough, but they still scared the crap out of everyone, and drop a mustard gas canister. This got me a fair bit of pain and wounded. I ended up giving the princess my gas mask, and pulled the damn thing out of range of the gas. Died for a little bit until they restarted my heart. I at least got a few medals out of it. One from Equestria (a pink heart with wings on it) and two from our own military (Purple Heart and Medal of Valor).

We got hit with some artillery when we got back, and an entire army showed up and dug themselves in. Now, it's so cold that I can't believe I haven't frozen my fingers off writing this. Still waiting for the stove to be installed in my dug out.

The people (or should I say ponies?) are pretty nice. While we were digging, some of them got us some apple cider. They were all from the same family, but they still made a good impression.

However, they haven't seen war in a very long time. In fact, their entire culture seems to reflect that violence is almost unheard of. Not even boxing or wrestling, which I can't really see them doing with their being four legged an' all. I'm worried how they'll cope with so much bloodshed and death, that I can't help but be glad that the 19 volunteers from town haven't all broken apart at the few skirmishes we've gotten into. So far, only one of them has come down with terror, which isn't as bad a number it could, and honestly should've been. This brings me to another topic. Canterlot, Equestria's capitol.

Canterlot is East of here, which means that the Feds (the army that's here), must've surrounded, or worse, taken it. We haven't gotten any news on how the war is going, so we can only hope for the best that Canterlot and the other Eastern cities are holding their own. Sure hope they didn't get their hands on one of the princesses here. That would make the war end quickly. The only good news we've heard, is that the Yaks from Yakyakistan (again, no, I'm being serious... stop laughing) and the Griffonia have entered the war. So, we have some more troops to even out the fight. The yaks don't have hands, so they need this sort of "enchanted" necklace that changes the wearer into a human. The guys in the cities had enough time (hopefully) to adequately arm and train local civilians into decent militia to help fight. The largest groups will be from Manehatten (play on words, only serious) and Cloudsdale. Forget about Canterlot, the Royal Guard and our formal military had to guard that place. Those ~~people~~ ponies are so pompous and weak that they wouldn't last long with even the best of training.

Cloudsdale. The city quite literally built in the clouds. Did you know that Pegasi can walk on clouds? I didn't until one of 'em, Rainbow Dash (a pegasus herself) told me, and then showed me when I laughed at the notion. So what I hear that they do is grab bombs, and bomb enemy troops, or strafe them with special harness mounts so when they bite down on this stick or something, the gun attached to the harness will fire the gun. Pretty cool if you ask me. It's like we have our own fleet of airborn infantry. We've already seen some action from them. About 50 or so pegasi bombed and strafed those asshats, and came away scott-free.

Well, now it's just freeze our fingers off and wait for spring, when we know that they'll try to attack again. I don't know whether or not you're an anthropomorph or not, but I envy those guys and their natural fur coats, cuz the trench coats and Ushanka's we got issued don't really help much. You think I'm kidding? We found ourselves a thermometer, and guess what? -2o F! I don't know the conversion to Celsius, but just know that it's really cold! If we can get the firewood, me and my unit all huddle around this stove we have. It helps tremendously, but we can rarely get enough wood to make it worthwhile. Still, our dugouts are still much warmer than going outside.

Hope this get's to you,
Wolfgang Piatek