Tiberian Maelstrom

The trio watched as the humongous tank maneuvered its large barrels away from the building slowly. Fullerton then noticed some ponies sticking their heads out of their windows, only to retreat into their solace and close their blinds in fear.

“…Are we goin’ to take it out…?”

“I think we… should not.”

“Wait, what? What do you mean by that? It just fuckin’ demolished a building in the fuckin’ town full of innocent talkin' ponies!”

“Be practical, we don’t even have anti tank weapons!” Fullerton groaned as his carbine was raised towards the tank. They had detpacks that can blow up and entire apartment block in less than a second!

“Detpacks! We have ‘em for a reason!”

“Can we even go near that thing? Those cannons are going to gut us before we even touch it!”

“That’s why I have a jetpack!” Fullerton said as he stepped up onto a ridge on the roof. He was going to activate his jetpack when the tank suddenly started to move.

And it’s missile pods aimed for him.

“Get down! It’s targeting you!”  The rocket pods fired in an array of fireworks and sailed straight for him. He grunted and rolled away from the storm of missiles. They all slammed into the spot he stood, destroying both the house and the neighboring residences. The tank backed away, leveling it’s twin barrels for a sprinting Fullerton who aimed for another bunch of rooftops.

“I can’t shake it off!”

“…I think I can take it out with my own explosives, try to stay alive!” Norma said as she crept closer to the tank, its guns flaring at the shadowy blur of the GDI commando. The spot where Fullerton was turned into a blazing mess as the Apocalypse reloaded, unaware of the Nod commando.

Meanwhile, Kravchenko was busy tracking the armored soldier that nimbly dodged their barrage of lethal projectiles.

“Damn! He’s fast!”

“I’m moving! Make sure you hit or we’re goners!” Petrenko said as he pulled a level back and reached out for the wheel as the tank rumbled in response. The sounds of shells reloading finished as Kravchenko leveled the guns towards the figure who had ascended into the air with the help of a jetpack. The missiles loaded and soon were sent screeching for the figure.

“If Romanov was so smart in building tanks, why didn’t he add machine guns?!”

“I don’t fucking know! Missiles hitting in three!”

The missiles struck more of the buildings, completely eradicating them. Ponies thru and fro were now screaming in terror and fleeing from the Apocalypse as it continued it’s rampage. The buildings that were struck by the missiles of the heavy tank were now aflame, the town choked in thick smoke.

This was one hell of a morning.

Chrysalis had slunk closer to the town when she saw the source of devastation, a large threaded vehicle with two long barrels sticking out of it’s front and two rectangular objects that fired screaming explosives into the air.

Then she saw a shimmer in the air next to it, and immediately hissed.

One of the damned humans, and another running for his life on the rooftops of the town. Now she had the perfect opportunity to slay them in revenge for her hive. Disguising herself as a pony in order to avert attention, she slowly made her way towards the shimmer as it pulled out a cylinder object and planted it onto the surface of the flaring vehicle.

After a minute, she was right next to the shimmer and that was when it turned its head in response. It lunged for her and she swiped it off its aim, sending it tumbling towards the ground and uncloaking itself.

“So my time has finally paid off… “ Chrysalis snarled as she revealed her true form. “I can take my time to kill you slowly- In a flash, she was struck in the snout by a fast fist and one of her wings clipped by a streaking red blur. She cried in pain before the human kicked her in the stomach.

“…So it seems you have returned to kill us?” The same voice that spoke to her minutes before the slaughter sounded in her head as she stood her ground against the human who held aloft an intricate device. Meanwhile, the tank was busy firing away at the streaking commando as he approached it from above.

“Kravchenko! Two contacts beside us!”

“Damn! Can this can of junk fire without me?”

“It can, but less accurate!” Petrenko replied as he switched the firing mode of the Apocalypse into automatic, the barrels now aiming through the use of an AI in the tank. The missiles locked into place and soon shrieked into the air as Kravchenko grabbed his AK to fight off the intruders on the side. Clambering up, he saw another figure garbed in red holding a pistol and another pony like thing, except that it was more insect looking than anything he had seen.

He grunted in frustration and aimed the AK for the first target, the human. He clicked the trigger, sending three bullets sailing for the target who looked behind to face him. She dodged them and send a line of deadly light towards him. He moved himself back and almost got gutted by it had he not reacted.

“Pigs!” The AK flared again as he clambered out of the tank and jumped down onto the ground to take cover behind the tank.

Chrysalis now had two problems, a human armed with a fully automatic weapon and one that wielded an intricate weapon that shot lasers.

She chose to face the one that had helped to defile her hive, and immediately slammed her into the ground with all her might. She hissed and as a response she was jabbed in the face with another fist.

“The Queen of a hive? Pathetic…” The human spat out, to her disgust.

“Be silence! I will end you once and for all- The rattling of the other human’s weapon caught both of them off guard and as the result, Chrysalis was knocked off her hooves by the garbed human.

“For the Motherland-A quick shot from the garbed human was all it took to eliminate the other human, scorching his chest and dropping dead onto the ground.

“Soviet scum!” The human had quickly got up and aimed her pistol for where she assumed Chrysalis was, but she had vanished and taken cover.

Chrysalis was now in a tight spot, the human had just killed the other in cold blood and proved to be superior in close quarters then she was. Her only option was to die fighting, or…

She looked at the tank, in the background the houses of Ponyville aflame. The tank rumbled as it’s twin barrels flared and it’s pods lit up like fireworks from Canterlot as they hit their marks on a nearby coffee shop, turning it into a ball of roiling flames.

That’s it, the key to winning.

She immediately turned invisible and slunk up to the tank, cautious of the human who also could use invisibility. The tank rolled backwards into a building, near Sugarcube Corner and fired again in succession. The armored human on top was now jumping down onto the ground, it’s rifle firing at the hull of the tank uselessly.

“This thing is unshakeable! Fuckin’ bastard annihilated every house I’ve stepped on! How long before it goes down?!”

“I don’t know! For all anyone cares, I’ve just shot a Soviet soldier and got fucked up by that insectious bastard!” Chrysalis cursed at this, insults.

“…Chrysalis… She’s here alright, and she’s still near your location. I think she’s going to- The hatch on the tank opened up suddenly, and Norma turned to look at what opened it only to find Chrysalis jumping inside and the screaming of another soldier inside. The tank stopped in response before a snarl was heard and the aforementioned soldier was thrown out of the tank, flailing. He crashed onto the ground and scuttled for cover with a measly pistol then the tank was finally silenced.

Fullerton stopped and investigated the sudden ceasefire. The roaring of flames were the only thing that sounded, and the occasional cries of terror from the bewildered ponies who were fleeing from the carnage.

Meanwhile, Vinyl watched the spectacle from her window, having taken off her goggles to believe what she had just witnessed. Her armored friend had long disappeared from the rooftops and the others also gone ahead to face the source. She hoped that he would be okay, but he was a soldier.

And this was what soldiers do.

Octavia was watching from the other room, constantly rubbing her eyes in dismay at the chaos she saw.

Somewhere else, Discord laughed heartily at the amount of chaos he had created. So who cared about ponies or humans dying? Chaos was he wanted, and he got it. Chrysalis was however, planning to get revenge on the humans with the very thing he had summoned.

Oh well, that means double the fun. Right?

“Careful, that thing just jumped into the tank and threw the driver out. He’s secondary, the tank’s primary.” Fullerton edged closer to the still Apocalypse, wary of any reactions from it.

“Don’t worry, if the trained guys are outta the tank then it shouldn’t be a problem-The tank started up again as the loudspeaker blared out again. But it wasn’t the voice of the Russians as he saw the barrels aim down for him.

It was the voice of Chrysalis, in a goddamned tank.

“HAHA! NOW YOU SHALL SEE THE TRUE MIGHT OF QUEEN CHRYSALIS!”