Everyone looked around, waiting to see what would happen. Everyone grabbed their weapons and began to set up cover.

Twilight turned around, and the ground began to rumble. The Churchill tanks began to swivel around in alarm.

"Excuse me, but do you know what that is?", the Churchill commander Twilight was talking to asked. Twilight just shook her head. She was just as worried as he was.

"What in Tartarus...", Twilight muttered.

A loud explosion caught the attention of everyone in Ponyville, as a massive plume of shadows shot into the sky.

Twilight gasped, as the Churchill tanks quickly drove to the town. The BT-7 tanks were immediately moving to engage the plumes, several Russian infantry on the backs of the tanks.

More shadow clones were galloping to Ponyville, roaring with ferocity.

Lena flew out of the tree she was hiding behind, with a shadow clone chasing her, its black horn glowing with dark aura.

"We're under attack!!", a Churchill commander said. His tank fired its 75mm gun. BREN fire filled the air, as Twilight panicked and backed away.

"Fire!", the British tank company commander yelled. Two Churchill Mk.VII A22F, a Churchill Mk.VII CS, and three Churchill Mk.XI CS tanks fired their pounder cannons with HE shells, the explosions ripping through the invasion. One Churchill AVRE was armed with a 290mm Spigot mortar. The siege tank fired, a large patch of ground exploding.

The wave of BT-7 tanks fired their 45mm guns, and both the Soviet and British tanks opened fire with their BREN and DP light machine guns. One of the tank crew members of the Churchill AVRE had the top of his body sticking out the turret to reload the 290mm barrel. The commander was firing the BREN to cover the reloading.

Twilight quickly galloped away as a Tiger rolled towards the battle. She stumbled and tripped when she felt the force of an 88 firing. A jeep pulled up to the alicorn, two soldiers inside. "Get in!", the soldier at the wheel said.

The other soldier jumped out and pulled Twilight into the vehicle before the jeep pulled away. Twilight watched as the line of tanks were backing away from the invasion.

A Crocodile Churchill and several Soviet tanks armed with turret mounted ROKS fired bursts of liquid flame through the clone army. Lena was facing off against the shadow clone that ambushed her, when a Churchill unknowingly flattened the shadow pony.

"Fall back!", the Churchill commander yelled. At once, all the tanks backed away at full speed, guns still blazing.

The soldiers in Ponyville saw the armies charging, and they immediately fell into an organized panic. The engineers started filling up sandbags, and the light machine guns were set up. Lines of riflemen fell into position, guns aimed and waiting to be fired.

"Wait!!", Edward said, as the rifles were aimed at the enemy.

The tanks fell back down the hill, and immediately scattered, pulling into large alleys and behind buildings. A Churchill fired its Spigot and fell back again. Once that tank was out of the way, all the waiting infantry had a clear line of sight.

"Now!", Edward said. Gunfire ripped through waves and waves of shadow ponies, each body evaporating once dead.

The jeep pulled up behind the firing lines, Mosin Nagants, Gewehrs, and Garands blazing. The King Tiger fired an AP round, blowing out a column of enemy ponies.

Twilight jumped off, and hid in an empty space at the sandbags, between an MG-42 and a soldier with a Thompson. She quickly looked at the scene, to see endless waves of ponies behind the hill. "Not again...", she said.

Celestia watched the horror, as Ponyville was forced into battle once again. "If I don't tell them...it'll never stop.", she thought.

She let out a shaky sigh. "This has to stop.", she said. She closed her eyes and her horn glowed, to open a massive portal that was five meters tall and four meters wide.

"Hold the line!", Edward said. He reloaded his BAR for the third time and fired a three round burst that put down another pony.

Twilight fired a burst of wave magic that pushed back a big group of ponies. She turned and saw the rest of her friends hiding behind a Sherman. Jones had a Grease Gun, protecting them.

Twilight got up and galloped over to her friends, when she felt something.

"What the...", she said.

Then a loud boom filled the air. Everyone froze, and jumped when the back of the hill exploded violently.

A massive shockwave blasted the shadow ponies away, killing them all. The wave sent everyone flying, the tanks crashing back, and the soldiers landing on buildings and walls. The screeching of the manipulated wind ripped through the town.

Soon, all the sound was gone. And all that was there was a huge cloud of smoke that blanketed the sun. Bits of dust fell from the sky, and soon, everyone's uniforms were covered in powdery ash.

The sky was dark, and everything was cold. Everyone slowly got up, looking around. "What the hell was that?", Edward asked. He coughed as the ash rained down on his helmet. He picked up his BAR and blew on it, the ash flying off with a slightly audible *poof*.

"Sir!", a soldier said, pointing to the back. Edward and everyone turned to see something they never thought they'd see.

A Karl-Gerät was sitting in the back of Ponyville, its large 600mm barrel smoking. Its rear mechanism was winding back, enveloped in a golden aura.

Celestia sighed as she released the Karl-Gerät from her magic. She hoped with all her might she'd never have to fire that thing again. The soldiers walked over to the giant siege engine, and the pile of 600mm explosive mortar shells next to it.

"Where...did...that...", a soldier muttered.

They reached the siege mortar, its grooved barrel glaring up at the sky. Celestia sighed and walked up to the soldiers.

"What...the...hell?", Edward said, clearly angry at what just happened. "We could've been killed!!"

"They were going to overrun you. I did what I had to do.", Celestia said. She looked up, and sighed.

She fired a beam from her horn towards the cloud of ash. Within seconds, rays of sunlight shot through the ash, until the sun shot through. The brightness of day shone on the dark town, causing everyone to cover their eyes briefly.

"I'm sorry.", Celestia said.

"Hey...don't endanger us again.", Edward said, more softly again.

Celestia looked up at the massive self-propelled artillery machine, which there were Americans now boarding. Edward walked over to the Churchill company commander, who was talking to the commander of the Spigot Churchill.

"Hey, I'm Edward, US Army Lieutenant.", Edward said, holding out a hand.

The commander turned to Edward and shook his hand. "Commander Nalton, 3rd Royal Armored Regiment.", he said. He looked to the town, or what was left of it. "You might have some explaining to do, friend.", Nalton said.

Twilight and Spike watched as the battle turned into a cleanup, soldiers and vehicles moving about like this place was a military base.

Then Spike choked and breathed out a letter, which bounced off of Twilight's head.

"Oh...sorry.", Spike said, pounding his chest to control his breathing.

"It's fine.", Twilight said, as she picked up the letter and unfolded it, reading it.

"Dear Twily,

I've been thinking of visiting, but I'm not sure if you have the time. I'd love to see you and your friends again. Cadence and Flurry Heart are coming too. What do you say?

Sincerely, your BBBFF

P.S. Cadence and Flurry Heart say hi!"

Twilight almost jumped off the ground in joy, as she excitedly thought of seeing her brother and sister-in-law again, before a Tiger rolled by, shaking her back into reality.

Twilight put down the letter, now in deep thought. "I do want to see Shining Armor again, but with all this going on...", she thought. "I don't know if this is the best idea to invite him over at a time like this."

"Twilight? What's going on? What'd the letter say?", Spike asked.

"Shining Armor asked if he could come over and visit. But I'm not sure if he knows what's going on.", Twilight said. "And I don't want Cadence or Flurry Heart to get hurt."

"But if you leave them out, they'll get mad. And besides, Celestia most likely warned them. I think it's safe for them to come over.", Spike said.

"...OK. I trust you, Spike.", Twilight said, as she began to reply on the back of the letter.

"Dear BBBFF

There's something big going on, and I'm not sure if you'll like it, but I'd be grateful if you visited, bro. We could catch up, and we definitely could use some help here.

Thank you, your little sister"

Twilight gave the letter to Spike, who sent it immediately. Twilight groaned as she sat down. "What have I done...", she muttered.

"What? I thought you just said-", Spike said.

"Yeah, not that. I was just thinking about how all of this could've been avoided...", Twilight said. "Ponies and humans are dead because of me."

"No, the Pony Of Shadows got them killed.", Spike said. "Remember, you only brought those two boats here. There's no way you could've teleported the others."

Before Twilight could reply, the rumbling of a vehicle filled the air.

Several A7V Sturmpanzerwagens rolled in(yes, I'm surprised by the name too)

On the back of the leading A7V, Lena was tied up to the rear vent behind the hatch, with a soldier armed with a Gewehr, watching her under his cap.

The commander held his hand up, and all the tanks stopped, as they saw Edward and Otto walking towards them.

"Halt.", the commander said, as he hopped of the tank, stumbling from the tall vehicle. Otto and the commander spoke some German for a brief moment, before introducing the commander to Edward.

"First Lieutenant Auftragsmörder of the Obsolete Division.", Otto said. "Name of his division explains a lot, ja?"

Edward chuckled, as he shook hands with Auftragsmörder. "Nice to meet you.", he said.

"Likewise. Our A7Vs look old, but we've made it 3 years.", Auftragsmörder said. "Just a few months into 1921."

Edward blinked. "What? No, it's 1944.", he said.

Otto shook his head. "You're both wrong. It's 1943.", he said.

The three stared at each other in disbelief. "You know...I think we're all drunk right now.", Auftragsmörder said. He pulled Lena off his tank, whom the soldier watching her had rudely tossed down.

"Wow...", Lena mumbled. "Completely polite.", she said.

"Isn't she adorable?", Auftragsmörder said. Lena squirmed her tied up body in his arms, trying to get free.

"Anyway, how'd you get here?", Otto asked.

"I don't know...", Auftragsmörder said. "We saw a light and the next thing we know, we're fighting off black glowing horses."

Edward nodded. "You too?", he said. "We were attacking you guys at Normandy and..."

Twilight watched as Edward conversed with the newcomers, with a less than pleased Lena in the new German's grasp.

"My dear ex-student."

Celestia trotted up to Twilight, a look of somberness in her features. Twilight looked up at the sun princess.

"What's wrong, princess?", Twilight said.

"I have a confession...", Celestia said. "It's my fault all of this happened."

Edward, who was still talking to Auftragsmörder and Otto, turned around.

"I too wanted to explore the dimensions and spread peace and friendship around, all for the sake of happiness.", Celestia said.

Flashback: a couple weeks ago.

Celestia entered the portal to the empty town around her. She was invisible to anyone inside, choosing to come in for a little reconnaissance. She stared up at the wrecked buildings, and smoking objects in the village. The tower up above was shattered around the building it once stood proudly upon.

She trotted around town, and strolled throughout the fields. Only, they weren't fields anymore.

The grass was gone, and there were downed trees. burning carts, bits of wood everywhere. She wandered for hours through the fields, before a bang filled the air.

Another bang, then another. There was a cry, then a scream, then a roar. An explosion ripped through the muddy puddle in front of her, drenching her in water. Luckily for Celestia, her invisibility spell held.

There was a scream. Then another. Then another. Then thousands of roars deafened the fields. Celestia hid behind a cart, and looked behind her.

Then came the charge.

Celestia gasped as hundreds of human soldiers wearing strange helmets and muddy coats charged past her, screaming and attacking with those strange weapons with knives attached.

It went well at first, before a loud rat-tat-tat-tat-tat filled the air. Then they started dropping like flies. Blood and flesh splattered everywhere, falling on the ground, in the water, against the barbed wire.

Celestia stayed silent in horror, as the last of the charge dwindled away. "What world have I stumbled upon?", she muttered.

Then screams were heard again. The second wave climbed out from the ground behind her, and continued to charge. then more explosions ripped the field apart once again. Hundreds died, but this charge was well into the thousands.

Numbers didn't matter to Celestia. Death was death. In her thousand years of ruling Equetsria, never had she seen so much death in a period of five minutes.

Celestia crept her way backwards, until she crashed down a pit, bouncing off a ladder, and hitting a wooden ground. She quickly recovered and looked around, before seeing she was in a trench, where a young soldier was just climbing up the ladder.

She herself climbed up the ladder, only to see what the boy was running into. Barbed wire everywhere strained under the weight of bloody corpses. Screaming wounded crawled back to the trenches, some dying before reaching safety.

Celestia choked on the horrible sights, and with a frightened state of mind, retreated as fast as she could to the portal.

(0:00-0:30) Edward blinked. "Why the fuck would you do that?", he said.

Celestia sighed. "I was naive. I was the first to do this, and I thought that would be the last I would've seen of...of...that.", she said. "I guess I was wrong."

"So what do we do now?", Twilight said. "You unintentionally brought a whole war to Equestria, as did I, so what can we do to stop this?"

Edward stepped up. "I have a plan.", the lieutenant said.

(00:30-1:00)

"This is Jones of the 3rd Armored Division, does anyone..."

"Komm rein, komm rein, ist da jemand?"

"Sergeant Jackson of the 2nd Infantry Machine Gun Battalion..."

"Commander Nalton, 3rd Royal Armored Regiment, is anyone here?"

"If there's anyone on this frequency, please respond."

Edward looked to the soldiers on the radios, portable and tank radios. "We're hailing every frequency in the book. If there's anyone here, they'll answer.", he said.

"I see. You're calling for reinforcements?", Twilight asked.

"We don't have a choice. It's work together, or die alone.", Edward said.

"Sir, we got something!", Jones said. Edward ran over and grabbed the transmission.

"Dies ist die deutsche Testgruppe des Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus. Ist jemand da?"

(1:00-1:30)

A Panzerkampfwagen Maus and two Panzer IV Ausf. J types rolled in the middle of nowhere. The commander was on the radio.

"Wir hören Ihre Anfrage und sind bereit zu helfen. Wir sind unterwegs, während wir sprechen.", the commander said.

As he spoke, two ME BF 109s and a Focke Wulfe 190 flew overhead.

Celestia smiled. "Enemies, coming together. I never thought I'd see this happen.", she said.

"Yeah, really makes you think, doesn't it?", Edward said. Just then, a noise came in from the left.

A whole blitzkrieg of Panzers rolled in, at least thirty Panzer IVs and forty Panzer IIIs.

On the other side of town, two Sturmtigers and a contingent of Panzer IIs rolled up, with a group of M3 Lees.

(2:00-2:03)

Celestia looked out above Ponyville, as a group of B-17s and P-47s flew overhead.

"Look out, because the shadows will be brought to the light.", she thought.

(2:03-2:40)

The view zoomed out of Ponyville, to show thousands of vehicles and infantry making their way to the wrecked little town, as well as hundreds of planes flying towards Ponyville. The zooming out of the view of all of Equestria reached the Crystal Empire, where Jack, Ahti, Thorax, the contingent of Nazi flame specialists, Shining Armor, Cadence, and Flurry Heart stood before a massive shadowy creature.

The creature cackled, before pupils of pure white were cast down against the leader of the Germans. "Lucky me.", the monster growled.

Jack smirked, his cigarette burning out. "Wollen wir wetten?", he snarled. His Flammenwerfer growled.

(2:40-2:48)

TO BE CONTINUED

Somewhere else(completely somewhere else, different dimension)

Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash sat in Canterlot Castle, when a young Pegasus with a rainbow mane and a nun-chuck cutie mark galloped in.

"Mom!", the Pegasus said. "Look who I found!"

"What is it, Rainbow Light...", Twilight said, before a figure walked in behind her daughter.

A human wearing green fatigues and a green helmet walked up, a sawed-off shotgun on his back.

"Evening, ma'am.", the man said, a Southern drawl in his voice.

Author's Note

That's it for Season One!!

To be honest, the finale was the hardest I had to write yet. Then I found the song.

Thanks for reading, and I guarantee there will be a Season 2 soon!

Shout-out to all the readers and commenters for your feedback.