Fallout Equestria: Wasteland Guardian

At the campfire, all of them were sitting around and Rocky asked Purple if he had a story to tell.

Purple looked at his Pipbuck that illegally downloaded some files from a Stable computer.

"Yeah I got one from my Great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother, Sapphire Love," said Purple. "This was back when aviation started to come into the war. Yeah, Pegasi were pissed but also saw it as a blessing as well."

***

Two hundred years ago.

In Canterlot in a boardroom.

In the room Princess Luna and a few military higher-ups who were planning a retaliatory strike after a group of Zebra's sunk or badly damaged sixteen ships in the Equestrian Lunar Fleet.

"How bad is the damage?" asked Princess Luna, "I want a total estimate."

A Unicorn in a dark navy blue Navy service uniform asked permission to speak and it was granted. "Your highness, in the surprise attack. We lost eight battleships which were BB-36 Neighvada, BB-37 Dodge Junction, BB-38 Fillydelphia, BB-39 Airhoofia, BB-43 Canterlot, BB-44 Calihoofnia, and BB-46 Mareland. Four cruisers, CL-50 Halter, CL-7 Rainrot, and CL-48 Horolulu. And we also lost four destroyers, DD-375 Luna, DD-324 Celestia, DD-454 Blueblood, and DD-575 Amore.

"But we lost one hundred and eighty planes mostly the Rainbow fighters and B-55 'Lunar' bombers and some TB-32 Torpedo bombers. On the surface so far we've recovered three thousand and twelve bodies of earth, pegasi, and unicorns. The ones still in the sixteen ships sunk are unknown. But BB-17 Mare Island was badly damaged but is currently in San Franciscolt and is expected to return to service within seventeen weeks."

Princess Luna replied, "How are we going to retaliate?"

A Pegasi in a high-ranking air force uniform replied, "Your highness, we can't. Our aircraft are outside of their operational range to bomb the Zebra's and us Pegasi can get shot down easily and we don't have no power armor, unlike the blasted Steel Rangers."

A high-ranking officer in the army replied, "Your highness, with all due respect, ma'am… What you're asking can't be done."

There was a knock on the door and between two Royal Guards was an attractive blue unicorn with black hair wearing a white collared shirt with a black full Windsor tie, and a dark olive green army service jacket.

"Who are you?" asked Princess Luna.

The mare replied, "Lieutenant... Lieutenant Sapphire Heart Love. Lieutenant Sapphire Love at your service your majesty."

Lieutenant Sapphire Love came in and sat down.

"So where are all of you were at in a conversation?" asked Lt Sapphire Love.

The Army Officer replied, "Planning on a retaliatory strike. But Lieutenant and your highness, it cannot be done."

Somepony a hit the table, all of them looked and it was Lieutenant Sapphire who got up and replied, "Do not tell ME it can't be done. It will be done. We are at war and always going to be at risk. I'd say we use our new carriers and launch planes close enough and hit them where it hurts."

The Navy pony replied, "But that puts our carriers and remaining ships in harm's way and if we lose them we'll be opened to a surprise naval invasion from the Lunar Ocean, and our Celestial Ocean Fleet won't intercept them in time. What you're asking for can't be done. If we lose our carriers and the rest of the Lunar Fleet, the Zebra's could and probably penetrate as far as Chicoltgo if not Manehattan or Ponyville before we could put up an effective resistance or have a way to stop them."

Lieutenant Sapphire Love replied, "It's either we do something or by sometime, next week or next month we can kiss our pony life goodbye, and all of you can be cucks or something as the Zebra's fuck your wives a million way before tomorrow. So either grow a pair of balls and do something or we might as well just put up the white flag and let them steamroll us. I'm a mare, just a simple nineteen-year-old mare from the farm who got bigger balls than you Admiral, Airforce Marshal, General of the Army. If I was a stallion my balls would be so huge it would take up this whole room. I'm willing to take a damn risk to strike back at the Zebras while the rest of you just want to act like nothing is happening!"

***

A couple of days later at an undisclosed military base.

"Alright mares and gentle stallions," said Lt Sapphire Love. "You've been selected for a top-secret mission. A mission which will involve the B-55s."

An Earth Pony replied, "What's the mission, Ma'am?"

Lt Sapphire Love said, "Top Secret. You won't know until it's happening. But the B-55s need a minimum range of six hundred feet but we're going to do it from four hundred and fifty feet."

A Unicorn stallion replied, "That can't be done. That's physically impossible! Only Pegasi can do that and they don't need a runway."

Lt Sapphire Love said, "Yeah but Pegasi can't carry sixteen tons worth of high explosive bombs. Now, can they? Can Pegasi carry two hundred and fifty-pound bombs or five hundred pound bombs? And fly for miles for several hundred miles?"

None of them responded.

"If any of you want to back out now," said Lt Sapphire Love. "Now is the chance. If not, step forward."

The Earth Ponies, Unicorns, even some Pegasi came forward for the special mission that they don't know about. That's because they fall in the category of not needing to know.

"Also one more thing," said Lt Sapphire Love. "Don't ask questions about it. If you ask about it I'll tell you to mind your only damn business and if any of you keep asking I'll turn you over to the authorities who'll question you. Alright, fillies and gentlecolts get to the planes and try to take off before you'll reach the four hundred and forty or four hundred and fifty feet."

Lieutenant Sapphire Love went to a watch out tower at the red line; they need to have the wheel up or it'll be considered 'fallen overboard.

But none of them got airborne so they would go park the planes and would remove some things to make them lighter. It felt like everything they removed wouldn't make a difference so they kept rolling past the line with the front wheel still on the ground.

***

Five thirty PM.

"Maybe they're still too heavy?" asked Aurora Surge, "Maybe this is a bad idea."

Lieutenant Sapphire Love replied, "No. Put everypony on the line!"

Aurora Surge did as his girlfriend said and got everypony he could round up and sent them to the airfield. Including Pegasi who are pissed off that ponies saying they're being replaced by flying machines who can do their job. They fear they're going to replace them one day.

Every time they kept going none of them got the wheel up. They had to keep them light to get at least the front wheel up. But they kept on going past the line until it became dark and they had to suspend the training until sunrise.

***

In a building.

Lieutenant Sapphire Love was planning an attack when they got the training done. Her plan is to use an aircraft carrier to launch the B-55's over the Zebra homeland because they want to strike fear in them.

Aroura Spring was reading a book but he had been thinking about 'eating out Sapphire Love' not adding the night before they signed up they had sex by her giving him a blowjob and him performing cunnilingus on her. That was because they prefer to have safe sex than her getting pregnant. She wanted to do more than be home having a foal while her boyfriend is fighting.

But she already made plans for when she and Aurora Spring got home when the war ended to have tons of foals. They have to wait for the war to end before they do their part of doing honest hard farm work and help to regrow the Equestrian population. Not adding there's a fifty-fifty chance she'll get a disease that's passed down through the mare side of her family the mares get a rare disease that'll make them sterile when they reach thirty-five. They don't know how long the war is going to be.

***

In the morning.

Lieutenant Sapphire Love ordered them to throw out anything not important. She even had them remove some of the anti-air defense and the machine guns were removed.

When they did the training again all of them got the front wheel up each time.

***

Two weeks later.

Onboard the CV-1 Luna, Lieutenant Sapphire Love was on the bridge of the carrier talking to a pegasus.

"You damn well know us Pegasuses can do the job!" said a Pegasus officer, "We're lighter, smaller, and faster than these planes!"

Lieutenant Sapphire Love replied, "Yeah I know that. But just one pegasus can carry a single 250lbs or a single 500lbs bomb. Can eighteen pegasus carry sixteen tons worth of high explosive and incendiary bombs?"

The Pegasus said, "No. But there's something we can do more than nothing."

Lieutenant Sapphire Love replied, "Don't worry. You and your six pegasi squadrons will be used."

Down the hall was an earth pony mare who was the occupation to listen to a radio to monitor for anything. She heard some voices over her headphones.

"Zebra's transmitting," urgently said the mare, "Zebra's transmitting!"

The mare came out of the room.

"Admiral," said the mare, "Zebra patrol boats several miles out are reporting."

"I'm going to tell her the truth," said the ship's admiral. "Lieutenant Love. I'm not going to risk the rest of the fleet for something stupid."

The Admiral went to tell Lieutenant Sapphire Love on what to do asap.

The Fleet admiral picked up a phone and said, "All Cruisers and Battlecruisers open fire! Sink those patrol boats!"

Lieutenant Sapphire Love got in the front of the frontest B-55 medium bomber to start it up. She calmed her breathing as her boyfriend pushed the machine to give the plane maximum power.

They waited for the ship to go down so that when the ship came back up to give them a better chance to fly and not end up in the ocean. But their plane dived over the flight deck only for it to dive right back up and fly off. Everypony on the ships cheered and had the other ones do the same and the sailor ponies ran out onto the flight deck cheering.

***

In the plane.

Lieutenant Sapphire Love stuck her left frontal leg out and let the wind hit it and it was nice and peaceful but a long flight. But Aurora Spring's face looks like he saw a ghost until he decided to go back and ask the navigator where they were at.

The Navigator more or less gave him the middle feather because he has to calculate where they're at with the maps he has shown. They were launched off by thirty-seven miles west, and one hundred and sixty-nine miles north than they actually launched. It was a failsafe in case if they were shot down and captured the Zebra's wouldn't exactly know where the Equestrian Pacific fleet was.

Damn them, the Navigator thought, It's a wonderful failsafe but it's a pain in the ass. I don't even know where we are.

Each map had different places, even some that were four times away and outside of their range or too close.

"I see land," said Lieutenant Sapphire Heart. "We're approaching the enemy's backyard! Remember everypony we're here to damage their war industry and don't go target anything that won't do anything."

The other fifteen pilots radioed Lt Sapphire Heart telling her that they understand because they don't want to be painted as monsters.

All of them went back, maintaining radio silence so the Zebra air patrols couldn't hone in on their position.

Aurora had a pair of binoculars and saw three Zebra bi-plane fighters. They quickly got taken out even though none of them were instructed to engage any Zebra aircraft unless they were under attack. Even though the bottom side is exposed because there's no gunner down there.

"How's your sister?" asked Aurora Spring, "Or any of your sisters or brothers?"

Lieutenant Sapphire Heart deadpanned, "They're all dead. In that surprise raid last week two days ago early morning. Some drowned, some burnt alive, some shot up. None of them made it."

Aurora Spring replied, "You don't sound sad that they died."

Lieutenant Sapphire Heart replied, "They pissed me off a lot. Where I come from you have to keep an eye on your food or beverage. My mother made wonderful food. But one time I went to use the bathroom before eating and I didn't get anything to eat. I made a sandwich and when I turned my head once to get a bag of chips my sandwich was stolen. I was pissed off that night I broke the yellow ceramic plate and stormed out and didn't come back for a week. In my family it was first come first serve so if you got out of bed somepony else would've taken it screwing you over. Oh sit down at the table but get up to use the bathroom or get something to drink well guess what they'll take it and eat what you had. Trying to do a school project? Not a chance that would happen if you start but leave for anything they would've taken your project and change it for their project."

The two kept going and flying until they saw an industrial complex with Zebra flags proudly flying in the springtime wind.

Aroura Spring climbed under the pilot area, laid on his stomach and opened the plane's bomb bay.

"We have moderate turbulence and a strong wind from the south, south-west. Aurora you have the controls. You're flying this baby." said Lt Sapphire Love.

They only had twelve 250-pound bombs and had to spare them. But the fifteen did their job but Aroura kept two and saw a trio of fuel silos which are full of alchemy for their war machine until a 250-pound bombs blew the three sky-high. But the final one went through a concrete building destroying it.

"Alright we're going home," said Lieutenant Sapphire Love. "All planes turn and head to grid A7 and fly west. Shit that was close."

The sky started to be filled with anti-air rounds.

"Alright fly higher," said Lieutenant Sapphire Love. "Go high and get out of their range. Climb every pony climb higher!"

Aurora Spring got out of the nose gunner and went to the dorsal turret with the dual .30 cal machine gun.

Somepony replied over the radio, "Mayday mayday mayday. This is the Red Diamond we're going down."

Lieutenant Sapphire Love, Aurora Spring, and their Navigator saw the rear B-55 go down with the right-wing breaking off and spinning out of control.

The Navigator kept calculating and told them the nearest airbase was several hundred miles away and by 'several hundred miles' he meant eighteen hundred miles about twelve miles east of Shattered Hoof Ridge.

"Damn we won't have the fuel to reach it," Lieutenant Sapphire Love realized. "How much fuel do we have remaining?"

The Navigator replied, "Just one ten-gallon can ma'am! Enough kerosene to get us about a hundred miles more or less give or take."

"Fuck, fuck, fuck," said Lieutenant Sapphire Love. "Fuck! Ok, we'll go as far as we can before we bail or crash. So we're down now to fifteen bombers, not a full sixteen."

The Navigator replied, "Ma'am we actually lost "The Mighty Lunar Storm" during take-off. It couldn't pick up enough speed by the look of it or the ship was moving too slow. But when the carrier started to turn to the starboard well the ship brought it under, killing the pilot, co-pilot/bombardier, and navigator. I knew the pilot and he'll never meet his unborn foal. I should know because my sister is his wife."

Lieutenant Sapphire Love replied, "Sorry for your loss of your friend and brother-in-law."

***
Two hours later

They kept going until after a couple of hours it was becoming dark and they heard the engines shutting down.

"This is Lieutenant Sapphire Love and the crew of The 'Solar Blister Flare' and we're out of fuel," said Lieutenant Sapphire Love. "We're going to bail and may Luna have mercy on your souls."

They bailed out from the underside of the bomber and deployed their parachutes even the Navigator even though he's a pegasus his left wing was cut off during a battle. But the only reason he was a Navigator was because of his pre-war occupation as a cartographer for the military. When he signed up he was an RTO in the Shadowbolts until an explosive bullet round blew his left-wing off. Not adding he slept with several Shadowbolt mares and under Rainbow Dash's orders, he was 'kicked out' for a few months which she only temporarily reassigned to the regular Equestrian army until the 'investigation' was over.

Unknown to them they're still in the Undiscovered West in Zebra-occupied territory. But they still headed east.

***

Near a building, after a few minutes of walking, they approached their crashed bomber and Aroura Spring removed the right side .30 Caliber Aircooled Machine Gun. They also bought ammo with Aurora Spring having 125 rounds in the gun and in the belt and with
five hundred in reserve and the other two have five hundred rounds on them.

They kept on going until they saw some sandbags next to a bombed-out building and saw two captured Equestrian soldiers sitting down with two Zebra's talking about what they should do to them but wish they were mares. Lieutenant Sapphire drew her .45 Auto Pistol and killed the two and freed the captured Equestrians who they took the Zebra Assault Submachine Guns. There was also a crate that Lt Sapphire Love opened and it was full of Zebra Stealth cloaks.

They both knew that the Zebra's favored stealth tactics while the Equestrians preferred to blow stuff up in their way and move fast. Besides out in the Northern Lunar Ocean & Southern Lunar Ocean the Equestrian Marine Corps they favored Airland Battle, and Shock and Awe battles.

The Zebra's favored infiltration, and night assault tactics with their cloaks but a lot of Zebra's favored mobile warfare and usually attacked Equestrian lines it was the weakest or strongest at night.

Zebra Assault Submachine Gun, Lieutenant Sapphire Heart thought, Just a submachine gun version of the Zebra Assault Carbines. But the Zebra Assault Shotgun? That'll incinerate us and blow our asses goodbye. But the Zebra Assault Pistol is neat and a war trophy for us.

They avoided Zebra patrols but would engage some when they saw captured Equestrian soldiers. The Zebra's would've been looted for ammo and weapons like the Zebra Assault Carbines, Zebra Assault Submachine guns, Zebra Assault Shotguns, and a Zebra Assault Designated Markspony Rifle.

Before an hour passed they rescued twenty-seven enlisted Equestrian soldiers with ranks ranging from Private, Private First Class, Technician Fifth Grades, Corporals, Technician Fourth Grades, Sergeants, Technician Third Grades, Staff Sergeants, Technical Sergeants, Sergeant First Classes, Master Sergeants, First Sergeants, Sergeant Majors, Command Sergeant Major, Sergeant Major of the Army and a Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairpony.

They didn't know why a Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairpony was out there but couldn't ask him due to the Zebra's cut his tongue out and his vocal cords.

After a few minutes of walking, Lieutenant Sapphire Heart started to think about how all of her siblings died and the last thing she told them was, "Go to Tartarus and all of you can drop dead!" She's regrets saying that now.

***

Two weeks and two days ago. At Margarita Harbor.

There was a unicorn stallion named Marbled Lotus and he has a broken horn from roughhousing with Sapphire Love, his cutie mark is around roses. He got out of Navy training and was assigned to The Neighvada, an old Dreadnought armed with two fourteen-inch/45 caliber artillery gun turrets upfront and back for a total of ten cannons, and twelve 1.5 inch anti-air guns.

Marbled Lotus was assigned to an Anti-Air position on the frontest bow on a 1.5 Inch Anti-air gun. He was walking down a road at an angle where the sun was hitting him in his eye.

Their sister, a Unicorn mare named Coconut Salt was on board the Light Cruiser Horolulu was sleeping in. Their other sister Cobalt Jubilee, a unicorn mare, was on board Battleship Mareland, their brother Heart Ore was on BB-43 Canterlot. Their other brother Corn Smoke was on BB-38 Fillydelphia, and their youngest sister Azure Sugar was on DD-375 Luna.

All but Marbled Lotus were sleeping in. But they heard a mechanized sound and soon heard rapid gunfire and explosions.

***

Onboard BB-46 Mareland. Cobalt Jubilee was awakened by the sound of the explosions and somepony above yelled, "GET UP! GET UP! WE'RE BEING BOMBED!" The pony let out a very painful scream as a round tore his leg off.

There were a few more explosions on board the ship or underwater and the ship started to lean a little. What scared her the most was an earth pony stallion banging on a steel door she saw fire ranging and it started to flood.

"Please don't leave me!" said the earth pony sailor, "Please don't go!"

Cobalt Jubilee tried to open it but she saw the water got too high and the earth pony stallion sailor drowned to his death in front of her. What was heartbreaking to her was a photograph that floated out of his shirt pocket revealing he had a wife, four daughters, and a newborn son. Not adding the photograph was dated only four days ago.

Another explosion scared her and soon there was fire rushing out of the door behind her which was the sleeping beds on the ship and she knew she couldn't go back now.

Cobalt Jubilee ran into the other room and went up to the deck and manned a 1.5-inch anti-air gun and shot at the attacking Zebra aircraft. It only lasted for a few minutes when an officer told her to get to the other ship by climbing across a rope.

The ship moved slightly and soon there was an explosion. There was a huge gash in the ship with some part of the armored deck missing and a part of the side missing with fire rushing. She heard somepony screaming and saw a mare sailor on fire fall over into the lower end of HMS Mareland which has water with kerosene which is on fire.

My Luna, Cobalt Jubilee thought, What have we gotten ourselves into!

Cobalt Jubilee climbed the rope across the rope to HMS Calihoofnia the rope snapped and the sailor next to her hit HMS Calihoofnia hard enough it made him fall off the rope and into the fiery water below. She was pulled up and she watched the HMS Mareland sink and she could hear the screams of the sailors on board as they were being baked or burned alive.

The HMS Calihoofnia started to set sail to escape the harbor and with the excess amount of sailors coming from HMS Mareland or from HMS Dodge Junction with the latter snapping in half.

"The Airhoofia is capsizing!" said a unicorn sailor, "My Luna, those poor souls!"

There was a huge explosion and they looked at it's HMS Blueblood with the magazine being blown sky high and tearing the bow off of the ship and sinking.

Cobalt tried to shoot down a Zebra plane but there were a few explosions and the ship. HMS Calihoofnia started to lean and Cobalt Jubilee fell overboard into the fiery water below.

***

Coconut Salt was manning an Equestrian duel .50 Caliber air-cooled machine gun on the HMS Horolulu and noticed HMS BB-43 Canterlot sailing right by them. She saw her brother Heart Ore having a .45 Auto Submachine gun with a thirty-round stick magazine shooting at the Zebra planes only for a Zebra fighter plane to strafe the battleship killing other Equestrian sailors armed with Rifles, .30-06 Bolt-action rifles, .45 Auto Submachine Guns, .30-06 Balk Automatic Rifles, and other types of weapons they could have.

To make it worse as she was trying to shoot at the attacking Zebra's she saw the Pegasi get airborne in their prototype pegasus power armor and with their battle saddles and would dogfight with the Zebra fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers. But the Zebra's expected this as well and most had their fighters to go against them. Their high-powered rounds would pierce the pegasi power armor.

A bomb fell but didn't detonate and it landed next to Coconut Salt.

"It's a dud!" exclaimed Coconut Salt, "IT'S A DUD!"

There was a huge explosion which tore through Coconut Salt and covered the gun she was on in her blood but her death was painless, but there were no remains for her to be sent home for a funeral.

Corn Smoke and Azure Sugar were considered somewhat lucky as they were untouched until both the Fillydelphia and the Luna were bombed like no tomorrow. Mostly the Luna receiving thirty-six torpedo hit on the bow, starboard, port, and stern and sixty-four high explosive and armored piercing bombs.

The Luna's Damage Control was overwhelmed with them trying to stop the flooding and stop the fires in the magazine and fuel compartment. But it wasn't long until the ship captain said, "All hooves abandon ship"

They did abandon the ship but out of the three hundred and twenty-nine sailors and officers, only thirty-two abandoned the ship while the remaining two hundred and ninety-seven sailors and few officers stayed on board to try to save the ship even knowing it was a lost cause. But when the magazine went the ship was more or less dead and the fire reached the engine room from the magazine and fuel compartment and that was the final blow to the Luna.

The thirty-two were saved by the Fillydelphia and they had to join their damage control to keep the ship afloat but a few bombs hit the Fillydelphia in the center a few times and knocked out the engine room making them dead in the water and easily hit by the Zebra torpedos.

When Azure Sugar was below deck fighting the fire she started to feel hot water. The burning water was leaking so she had to get out of there. But when she came to the bulkhead door it was jammed. She saw her brother Corn Smoke who ran over to the door and tried to get it open.

Azure Sugar saw the water approaching and fire coming. She looked down and shed a tear.

"Go brother," said Azure Sugar. "Go finish the fight. Go live your life. Go be happy."

Corn Smoke replied, "No. You may be my older sister but family doesn't leave family behind. Oh, My Luna! We've done the same to Sapphire and left her behind when she needed us. I'm not going to leave you."

There was a cabinet that had a welder and Corn Smoke started to cut through the steel. He started to hear screaming and he was too late to save Azure Sugar and he saw her lifeless corpse floating on the kerosene covered water and fire. Corn Smoke thought about leaving but he stayed on the ship and accepted his fate and thinks it was fate for how they treated Sapphire Love as a filly and teenager.

I wish I would go back in time and spend time with her, Corn Smoke thought, I wish we treated Sapphire better than kept driving her away. When she needed us we pushed her away and I wish we got to spend more time with her.

It didn't take long for the water covered in kerosene to reach him and burn him alive. He did his best not to scream thinking it would be better as payback for how they treated Sapphire Love only now they feel remorseful for how they treated her.

Only Marbled Lotus was alive not knowing what happened to his siblings besides Sapphire Love but to him, it was heartbreaking to see HMS Airhoofia, Calihoofia, Mareland, Dodge Junction, Canterlot, Halter, Rainrot, Horsolulu, Luna, Blueblood, Amore, Celestia sunk. Only HMS Neighvada escaped with a lot of damage until it got stuck on the beach still in the harbor and HMS Mare Island escaped badly to San Franciscolt.

Marbled Lotus did his best to help the injured air ponies, pegasi, and sailors out of harm's way and even took a rowboat to help the sailors get out of the water until a Zebra fighter plane strafed the water with him getting several shots and falling over into the water dead.

The Zebra's headed away after damaging the Equestrian Lunar Fleet very badly with the Naval yard now being out of commission. All of the combat ships both capital ships which were the Battleships and the screen ships, were the Light Cruisers and Destroyers. All of the aircraft were destroyed and the pegasi were either dead or badly injured and couldn't keep up the fight anymore.

***

Over on CV-3 Manehattan, their sister Laffy Taffy walked into a room and saw ponies hard at work. And Somepony was typing on a typewriter.

"Ma'am!" said a Unicorn sailor, "Here!"

The sailor gave her a piece of paper and it said,

"AIR RAID, MARGARITE HARBOR, NOT A DRILL! REPEAT NOT A DRILL! THREE BATTLESHIPS, ONE CRUISER, AND ONE DESTROYER DESTROYED, NEED IMMEDIATE HELP!"

"Mother of Luna," said Laffy Taffy. "Going to get this to the Fleet Admiral"

Laffy Taffy ran up to the bridge and gave it to an Earth Pony mare who's the Fleet Admiral. The Fleet Admiral sent eighteen pegasi in their prototype power armor and battle saddles to help. But by the time they got there, it was too late, and they couldn't provide any help.

When night came HMS Manehattan with HMS Luna and HMS Celestia they're two Canterlot class battleships and three Heavy Cruisers, HMS Twilight Sparkle, HMS Rainbow Dash, and HMS Applejack sailed into Margarite Harbor. The sailors were sick to their stomachs. But they did aid in firefighting and rescue but they were twelve hours too late.

When the Equestrians listened over their radios they heard that the Zebra's were waiting for them to surrender or sue for peace but it had the opposite effect. Equestria was divided over the war now 98% back the war with 2% still opposing the war.

Now Equestrian Morale dropped but enlistment and production skyrocketed as once weapons were only having two thousand and thirty-seven were being made now it's ten thousand five hundred and sixty-nine being made per day. Or with aircraft it once took a month to make a squadron of planes now twenty squadrons of planes are being made per day or power armor once took two weeks to make one suit now fifteen hundred were being made in a single day for both the Steel Rangers and the Pegasi.

Tanks, Half-tracks, Armored Personnel Carriers, and anything mechanized once took three days to a week to build now took a day with ten or twenty being made a week, forty were being made per day. Not adding Equestrian strength were only seven million soldiers now it doubled to fourteen million with another two million joining shortly after.

After two weeks passed Lt Sapphire Love's secret mission was a success. Equestrian Morale skyrocketed and hurt the Zebra's morale so badly some would surrender to the Equestrians in combat than fighting. Also the Equestrian Colony state named "New Mareland" was brought into the war as an ally to the Equestrians giving them access to their ten factories and small navy of five destroyers, one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers, one dreadnought, and one escort carrier.

In the following month, half of the Undiscovered West/Unknown West became an Equestrian State named 'West Equestria.' It struck fear into the Zebra's knowing that
there's only so much left of the Undiscovered West they could freely roam and fight the war in until the Equestrians break through the front lines and commit acts of who knows what to the Zebra population such as rape and murder on the defenseless civilians.

The only reason the Zebra's feared that sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, and other types of family are signing up to avenge their mothers, fathers, nephews, nieces, sons, daughters, cousins, husbands, wives, aunt's or uncles deaths.

***

Present Day Equestrian Wasteland.

"Interesting story," said Rocky. "Interesting to hear about the days during the war and how one attack led to a greater one."

Purple replied, "Yeah the Zebra leadership taught us Equestrian we were a nation of Playcolts and weaklings who hired Griffon, Dragon, or Stalliongradians who fight wars for them."

Starry replied, "Playcolt? What's that?"

Purple replied, "A pre-war and wartime magazine of mares. A pornographic one."

Flared Blizzard asked, "How do you know that?"

Purple said, "In Stable 190 when we turned seventeen or eighteen we had to look at one so we could get a boner or something so we could donate our sperm. Not adding my older brother in the Stable had a collection of them and still has them."

Paladin Sapphire replied, "Interesting story but I'm going to bed."

Paladin Sapphire went to sleep with her adopted daughter. She kept her left frontal leg around her to keep a sense of safety to her and when Purple went to bed he did the same but with his left wing.

They had a guard watch with the last pony awake and had to stand guard for two hours with the last one to go to bed which was Starry, Rocky, Critical, Purple, Paladin Sapphire in that order with the last one getting up to stand guard when the first one goes back to sleep.

Flared Blizzard was lucky that his helmet is special, it had built-in night vision and highlights friends and foes which was a game-changer for stealth Zebra's. It highlighted anything wearing Stealth Cloaks or Stealth bucks as orange while allies are highlighted in green and hostiles are red.

When it was Paladin Sapphire's turn to stand guard it was almost sunrise and she had Purple stay up with her. The two made out because she wanted to. But when the sun rose they stopped and Purple got them up.

After a while, Rocky Road asked how many people died in both attacks of both the surprise airstrike and Lt Sapphire Love's secret mission.

Purple replied, "For the Equestrian Navy and Airforce including Pegasus were four thousand and nine hundred and thirty. For the Zebra's they lost forty planes, twenty pilots, and nineteen tail gunners. In the Secret mission forty-two pilots and navigators with one hundred and twelve Zebra factory workers. A total for us Equestrians was four thousand nine hundred seventy-two and the Zebra's lost one hundred and fifty-one"

They kept on going until they saw a Raider by herself and Purple bravely walked up to her.

"Are you ok?" asked Purple, "Do you want something to eat? Something to drink?"

Raider mare replied, "No. A group of ponies in black balaclavas, gray or black ballistic goggles, tan or Khaki vests, and black uniforms and coyote brown body armor. They murdered my raider gang and my foals they made me watch and one of them said, 'That's what you get for raiding a Grand Pony Enclave supply line."

Purple replied, "I'm sorry for your loss. Want to come with us and get payback?"

The raider replied, "Why do you feel sorry for a Raider?"

Purple said, "Raider or not. You are still a pony. And I despise ponies who do that?"

She put her left frontal hoof onto Purple's right frontal hoof and he helped the light umber brown mare with dark chocolate mane and tail mare up.

Flared Blizzard stared at her cutie mark it's pentagon shape with two .30-06/7.62x63mm rounds right left from the right and the two bullets are dark yellow or gold color and the pentagon shape is the same color.

"The name is 'Double Tap.' That's my name," said Double Tap. "And what's the word... What's the word for being polite?"

Purple replied, "Thank you. That's the word."

Double Tap an earth pony mare joined them and due to her being with them some raider groups will leave them alone now due to the 'Double Tap' raider gang being the most feared so feared not even Alicorns or Steel Rangers wouldn't and didn't fight them. But now 'somepony' and his army annihilated them.