Battle For Washington D.C: Aftermath
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Into a civil war

Battle For Washington D.C: Aftermath

Washington D.C, Maryland.

After the defeat of Federalist US forces back in 1937, Washington D.C fell into the hands of the Combined Syndicates of America (CSA). Then a battle between CSA and American Union state (AUS) troops erupted resulting in a CSA victory and AUS forces retreating back towards Richmond. That changed when AUS forces launched yet another attack on D.C but this time they managed to push Syndicates out of the city, Washington had fallen and Union State president Howard Langdon had declared this a successful Union victory.

1941, the aftermath of the "Battle for Washington"

Outside of the Lincoln Memorial.

Richard Smith, a 23-year-old Sergeant in the 5th South Carolina regiment, sat on an ammunition box and sipped down from his canteen. No doubt the battle he endured had left him a bit thirsty but it was all worth it when they "liberated" D.C from those syndicalist scum, he watched as soldiers and vehicles go to-and-from places. Some carry supplies while others carry injured comrades on stretchers, he looked up and saw the Union State flag being raised up near the Washington Monument in the distance. He smiled at the effort he and his brothers in arms had accomplished.

He was about to take another swig when he notice soldiers running in a certain direction, curious, he asked one of them "Hey, where is everybody going?"

The soldier, a private who looked to be 18, had a big smile on his face and replied "Haven't ya heard? the president is here!"

Richard looked at the young man in shock "Really? here?"

"Yeah! he's gathering us all near the capital! are you coming?" he asked.

"I mean, I dont have much to do so...yeah, alright," he said as the young soldier took off with others, all of whom were smiling and looked excited 'its the president, why not?' he thought as he put his canteen away before following behind with them.

9 minutes later...

Outside the destroyed capital building.

"__This election was a fraud! History calls upon us today to right the failures of the Democratic and the Republican parties. In the ashes of this second American civil war, our Union States and its people will rise!"

The crowd erupted into cheering and applauding, Howard Langdon (president of the American Union States) looked down into the crowd with a smile. Once they calmed down, he spoke into the mic again with his classic southern politician voice "As of now, I congratulate and give many thanks to the brave men and women for fighting tooth and nail to free this city from syndicalist oppression. you have made our people, and personally me, very happy. You'll be remembered in the history books for what you have done for years to come, and hopefully, bring a swift stop to this civil war and unite our country! Every man a king!"

The crowd again erupted into cheering, chanting the president's motto "Every man a king!" loudly. Among them is Richard who didn't bother stopping himself from chanting with everyone else, he was very patriotic and loyal to his people and government.

After president Langdon finished up, every person who was in the military was all gathered up and did a victory march in the streets of D.C, some walked while others rode cars and trucks and even tanks with a smile on their faces.

It was a great day for the people of the Union States, but for the syndicalists in the north...not so much. To them, this Union victory was like a punch in the stomach. But it can't be worse than what it was like for what remains of the old US government, they were being attacked from both East and West...and they were losing.

'Things are tuning in our favor, maybe we might finally end this war before Christmas!' Richard thought as he continued marching with his brothers 'Maybe...maybe I would finally be able to see my family down south, I hope they ain't too worried about me'

Equestria
Somewhere deep within the Everfree...

Three weeks. It has been three weeks since the canterlot royal wedding attack, Proxilia, a changeling scout under the leadership of Queen chrysalis, ever since then she has been trying to find a way out from this blasted forest while also avoiding the beasts that have been roaming around here. So far...not much progress has been made.

For her, it's been hard trying to survive and it won't be too long until she sub comes to hunger. She had tried to eat stuff like berries but that could only do so little (it only resulted in her getting a bit sick), the cons of being a changeling is living off of love energy which is very hard to come by.

She's currently wandering through the forest, hopefully, she might find an unfortunate pony from the nearby town she saw though the chances of that are low.

"So...hungry..." Proxilia said quietly, her stomach growling for the 10th time as she sighed in frustration "can somepony please just come here already so I could feed off of them!?"

She was too weak to fly and the energy from the shockwave back in canterlot caused her to land hard on her right front hoof, leaving her to limp a bit whenever she walks. Luckily, it doesn't hurt as much as it used to.

"I'm so grateful they taught me how to make a splint, otherwise I wouldn't be walking..."

Compared to other changelings, she was born smaller than the average height (the size of a small dog). She also had a curly red mane which lead her to get bullied by her peers when she was younger and she had yet to find out why she was the only one with a mane, at least the bullying didn't stop her from achieving the top score in her classes and landed her a position in the 5th changeling recon division as a scout. Thinking back to the look on her bullies' faces put a smile on hers.

'Heheheh...the look on their faces__'

The little changeling suddenly stopped, her training kicking in as she quickly surveyed her surrounding. The cause of this is the sudden change of atmosphere; everything had gone quiet, the cool breeze had halted, and the blue sky was replaced by dark grey clouds followed by thunder. All of this made her feel uneasy.

Now, since this is the everfree forest stuff like this is normal and expected right? Well, not this time. This time...it seems...different somehow.

All of a sudden, a strong wind kicked into high gear as the trees started swaying and the leaves on the ground started to move and form a cycle on the ground around her. She then started to feel electric static around her and a strange metallic taste in her mouth, her mane was also standing on ends.

"Huh...strange, you'd usually feel that when...oh no! buck!" the small changeling immediately ran for cover, jumping over a fallen tree and hiding behind it just in time as a lightning bolt struck the ground where she was standing at. This was also followed by a loud, deafening boom.

"Ahhh! buck, my ears!" Proxilia said as she covered her ears, the loudness of the boom left her a bit disoriented and in pain.

It took a minute before the pain subsided and she regained composure, she waited behind the log to make sure no other lighting bolts are coming before she stood up and looked over. Expecting to see a mark or something but what she saw left her jaw hanging, right there where the lighting bolt struck was a blue swirling vortex.

"...what the...?" She hopped over the tree and cautiously made her way toward it, she could feel a slight pull the closer she came to it. Tilting her head, she walked around it. Examining it.

This...vortex, whatever it is, was floating a few inches off the ground. The texture of it appeared to be watery though she wasn't sure, Proxilia then suddenly got an idea.

'What if I touched it? on one hoof it could be dangerous, I dont even know what it is! but then on the other, __' she was cut off as the gravitation pull from earlier got stronger 'What...w-what's happening?'

Just then, leaves and other foliage started to get immediately sucked into the thing which was also growing in size, fearing that she may get sucked in too she tried to walk backward away from it though that was proving hard since the force of the pull started to get stronger and stronger.

"N-No! H-Help! Somepony please help me!" Proxilia shouted, her hooves digging into the dirt as her mane was blowing towards the direction of this strange vortex "Help!"

Proxilia then lost her footing, screaming in fear as she too was sucked into the vortex. The world around her goes dark for a moment, the last thing she remembers is falling down from the sky before losing consciousness.

"Sir? you called?" Richard asked as he approached his CO, said CO was talking to other officers near a jeep, a map spread over the hood of the car.

"Richard, right?" Lieutenant Colonial Philip Brown asked to which Richard replied with a nod "Good, I need you for something"

"Uh, what do you need me for sir?"

"I'm sending you on a mission along with the rest of 5th up north, you'll be joining up with some of the 7th and 8th Louisiana. Just because we finished here in D.C doesn't give yall an excuse to celebrate, the fighting ain't over, as for the mission you're going to be attacking the remainder of the retreating Syndicate forces. Surround them and finished them once and for all!"

Richard quickly snapped to attention and saluted "Yes sir!"

Philip saluted back "Good, now get out of my sight and relay the message to the rest"

"Will do, sir"

Author's Note

The art that I use doesn't belong to me, it belongs to the amazing people of kaiser cat cinema though I might make my own in the future (maybe when my skills improve lol)