A different war to fight

It has been nearly 6 month since the men arrived in equstria, and for what it was worth, the two troopers were settling in nicely, Raptor set up his house within a matter of days, his house was pretty normal when you looked at the second floor, but he had converted the first floor into a workshop, in this workshop he worked on ponyville's electrical elements and the local farmers ploughs and carts, Wolf on the other hand set up his den on the edge of the everfree forest. Wolf's den included a hole leading into a small bedroom, a set of logs forming a perimeter around the small encampment a small fire pit in the centre acted as the main light source for the area.

Doing the occasional wonder into Ponyville gave Wolf enough jobs, bits, and materials for the den. Everytime he entered the town he felt like he was being watched, whenever he got this feeling his recon skills kicked in causing whoever was watching him to quickly loose him. Little did he know that it was pinkie pie hoping to set up a surprise party for the newcomer. Everytime this happened pinkie became really upset, thinking the man was trying to avoid her. When Wolf entered the town he had five goals, check on Raptor, turn in any jobs he had finished, start new jobs, return and collect book about equstria from Twilight and collect fabrics from rarity. Almost everything was normal, except the fabrics, no one knew what they were for except for Wolf.

We he got back to his den, he would collect his equipment and start working on the jobs he had collected. Once he was finished with these tasks he used the fabrics from rarity to create a ghilli suit. This would make some of his jobs, especially pest control, easier to complete. The days he didn't spend working he started working for the princesses, informing celestia of any threats, on the other hand Luna sent group after group of fresh soldiers to help train, with Luna only recently coming back to the throne she had little to no skilled scouts other than Wolf, so every night when he had fresh trainees, he would take them deeper into the forest training them to use their survival instincts to avoid any threats and to find their own way back out of the everfree forest.

During the time that the marines were settling down they fell into a weekly routine, same thing different day, it was an odd fee but they liked it, they no longer needed to worry about being reassigned to a different base. This routine was rarely broken until everything changed for the worst.

For Wolf it started like an average day, run into town and turning in any jobs he had finished, it was when he went back into the woods that he made a startling discovery, at first he only heard voices.the creatures In question were Griffons, they were still speaking English luckily so Wolf could understand what they were saying.

"when are we going to start this attack?" Asked one of the Griffons

"Yea we could have destroyed those puny ponys by now" said another.

By this time the leader of the group piped up "we were ordered to attack at nightfall so that's what were going to do."

Wolf had heard enough and started sprinting back to town.

Without thinking twice he ran straight to Twilight's library and started pounding on the door.

"TWILIGHT, I NEED YOUR HELP!" The man bellowed.

Seconds later she opened the door.

"Wolf, what is it?" She asked in a confused tone.

"I need to get a message to the princesses, something dangerous is coming this way." He replied.

Upon hearing this she shouted for spike to come downstairs with some parchment.

"What do you need to write."

He asked looking at Twilight.

"Dear princess celestia, I am writing to you today to inform you of some bad news, a griffon attack force is headed towards Ponyville to destroy it, we require assistance to help protect the town, yours faithfully Wolf." He said to spike so that he could write it down.

Upon hearing this a seance of dread came across the room, but spike wrote down the message and sent it. Within a matter of seconds a reply came back.

It read "dear Wolf, thank you for informing us of this situation, we will be sending our best guards to help you, however, although I know that you are not afraid of a fight I must ask you and Lewis to protect the ponys as they evacuate to Canterlot, as much as we want to protect Ponyville we cannot risk your lives there, we hope that you will leave for Canterlot soon, yours faithfully princess Celestia."

"So what does it say" Twilight asked out of fear.

"Gather everypony in town, were evacuating to Canterlot." He replied before leaving.

But Wolf didn't intend to leave ponyville for it to be destroyed by the Griffons. As he ran back to his camp he decided to stop at Raptor's workshop to see if he would evacuate or if he would stand beside him in the fight for their home.

"Raptor, you in" Wolf asked as he knocked on the door.

Raptor quickly answered and said " hey man, what brings you to town, want to come in"

"Yea thanks, but I come with some dire news" Wolf said as he entered the workshop.

"So what's wrong" Raptor asked

"Ponyville is evacuating to Canterlot" Wolf replied

Annoyed Raptor asked "why, what is going on"

Wolf replies with a grim look on his face "A Griffon attack force is coming at dusk to destroy ponyville"

"So we're just going to evacuate" Raptor asked getting angrier by the second

"Well that's what the princesses want" Wolf replied "but that's not what I'm going to do, I'm going fight those fucks, and I'm hoping I could get your help"

"So, what's your plan" Raptor asked

"I need you to go to the crash site and grab everyone's equipment, Weapons, ammo and equipment" Wolf said as a smile appeared on his face

Raptor looked confused "So, what are you going to do"

"I'm going to try and find Rhino's equipment, hopefully that Hydra didn't eat them" he stated his smile fading

"Well then, let's get started" Raptor stated, already excited to get back into the fight

The two men ran into the everfree heading in separate ways to gather what they needed.

After 2 hours they returned and regrouped at the workshop

"So, what did you get" Wolf asked

"Well I got all their equipment and I added the weapons and ammo to the equipment list that we made when we first settled down" Raptor replied handing Wolf the equipment list

The list read

"Wolf
M98B (20X Scope, Straight pull bolt, Slanted iron sights) [Ammo=11/66]
M9 beretta (Suppressor, flashlight) [Ammo=16/90]
Radio relay [Amount=1]
PLD [Amount=1]
Flare [Amount=3]
Raptor
P90 (Suppressor, 1X holographic sight, laser sight) [Ammo=51/204]
CZ-75 (Suppressor, Ghost ring sight) [Ammo=12/60]
FIM-92 Stinger [Ammo=1/4]
Repair tool [Amount=1+4 gas tanks]
M34 Incendiary [Amount=1]
Rhino
U-100 MK5 (Heavy barrel, bipod) [Ammo=46/138]
Compact 45 (Heavy barrel, laser sight) [Ammo=14/48]
Ammo box [Amount=3]
Ballistic shield [Amount=1]
M37 Fragmentation [Amount=1]
Squid
G36C (Muzzle brake, flashlight 4X ACOG) [Ammo= 31/186]
Mare's leg (Heavy barrel) [Ammo= 6/60]
MK153 SMAW [Ammo=1/4]
M15 AT Mine [Amount=3]
RGO Impact [Amount=1]
Rabbit
M416 (Reflex sight, Heavy barrel, Laser sight) [Ammo=31/186]
44 magnum (Heavy barrel, laser sight) [Ammo=6/60]
M320
HE [Ammo=4]
Smoke [Ammo=4]
FB [Ammo=4]
M18 Smoke [Amount=1] "

"Wait, ammo boxes" Wolf asked

"Yea, didn't you go through his pack before you got back" Raptor replied

Wolf just shook his head.

"Before we go any further let's go see if the ponies are ready to evacuate" Wolf said turning towards the door

The sun had started to lower in the distant as the to men walked towards town hall. When they entered they were surrounded by scared ponies. They went up to Twilight who was getting asked question after question, each one getting harder to answer without causing panic.

"Twilight, I want to make an announcement, it should calm them down" Raptor stated

Twilight just nodded and got her friends to help quiet everypony down

Raptor started the announcement "you may not want to here what I have to say, bit every word of it is true, you are to evacuate to Canterlot, this is by the order of the princesses, I'm sorry if you dont want to leave you're home but me and Wolf have a plan"

Wolf continued "Me and Raptor are going to stay in ponyville to fend off the oncoming attackers so that everypony still has a home to come back to, we are only staying because we are trained in combat, we will not be accompanying to Canterlot but the princesses are sending the royal guards to make sur that you get there safe, you should leave before dusk so that you are not ambushed by the attackers, good luck to you all"

Before Wolf could turn around one of the ponys shouted to Wolf

They said "can we stay here?"

Wolf responded "we are not forcing you to leave but it would be safer for you all"

Another pony shouted "I am not leaving my home because some bully wants to destroy our town"

Wolf responded "if you want to stay here go and return to your homes, if you want to leave stay in here and listen to Twilight and follow here and her friends to Canterlot"

Upon hearing this everypony left the town hall to return home

Twilight turned to the men and asked "what are you doing, if you're disobeying the princesses orders you will get everypony in trouble."

Wolf turned back to Twilight and said "if something happens I will take the fall for it, but right now we are on the verge of war with the Griffons"

Hearing this Twilight left with her friends to make sure everypony made it home safely. At this point the two men were preparing their weapons for what could be a long fight. Instead of taking his rifle Wolf grabbed the M416 and the ballistic shield, Raptor on the other hand grabbed his P90 and the .44 magnum. After loading their weapons it was nearly dusk. They headed towards the front of the town so that they could easily see the oncoming Griffons.

Moments later a loud horn filled the valley, the noise echoed of the trees and houses, if the ponies weren't scared before they were now. Seconds after the horn was sounded the Griffons started their assault, the first ones to appear were met with swift deaths as the men opened fire. Although the men had underestimated how fast the Griffons would reach the town they weren't unprepared, Wolf stowed his rifle and drew his kukri and shield. Raptor stuck with his P90 as he knew it was much more effective at closer ranges.

As soon as they got in range one of the Griffons flew into the air and attempted to dive bomb Wolf only to be met by a blade in the throat. As Wolf fought off the Griffons one at a time Raptor turned groups of them into swiss cheese, ridling them with bullets without a second thought. Upon seeing this the leader of the Attackers screeched for the remaining Griffons to retreat, as they were retreating Wolf drew his rifle and fired at them taking down one more and wounding another.

"I killed more than you" Raptor said mockingly

"Well, next time you have a pile of Griffons on top of you I'll remember that" Wolf replied with a more upbeat tone

The men had won the battle but decided to move the bodies before anyone came out of their house to see who had won the brawl.

Raptor feeling cocky decided to attempt to pick up one of the Griffon corpses, but once he managed to pick up one of the opponent's corpses his legs gave in under the sheer weight of all of his equipment plus a large birdlike creature. This caused Wolf to burst out laughing, watching his best friend struggle to crawl out of the situation he had put himself in.