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// First Combat 
// Story: The Tank Hunter 
// by Lone Maus 
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	Jack stepped outside the door and looked at the city that surrounded him it was full of five to six story buildings, then followed the pony up to a group of ponies standing next to a truck.
           "Well who do we have joining us this time." A pony with a jet black mane and red coat said turning to them as they walked up.
           The pony Jack was following smiled and said "I don't know was is your name?"
   Jack responded with "Jack or Reed whatever you want."
   "Whatever we want?" A pony with a gold coat and light blue mane asked with a smile, Jack already didn't like where this was going. "Well we will have to see what comes up." The pony finished.
   "Well what about all you, I don't know your names." Jack responded.
   A mare with a steel gray coat and a faded blue mane stepped forward and said, "We have call signs or nicknames if you want to call it that. Me I'm called Fang." The mare gave Jack a toothy smile showing clearly her long fangs then she continued, "This is Camouflage." She said as she pointed at a huge stallion with a earth green coat and dirt brown mane and the stallion smiled. The mare pointed then at the gold and light blue stallion and said, "This here is Glint and the red and black one next to him is Raz." Fang smiled and her fangs showed just a bit then she asked, "Why you dressed up like a sniper?"
   Jack answered with, "I'm a anti-tank marksman or heavy sniper."
   "Well a heavy sniper?" Jack turned and seen the pony he followed was gone and a pony dressed in a full ghillie suit was standing in his place. The pony laughed then continued, "Your big gun doesn't have a scope so, aren't you limited aren't you."
   "I don't need a scope to be effective." Jack responded.
   "We will see but my name is Clip and I lead this squad and I'm pleased to have a new member." The pony said.
   Just then another pony walked and said, "I'm your guy's driver so if you would get in we can be on our way to fort Vine." Then they all got into the truck with Glint in the cab with the driver. The truck was covered in the back.
   Jack was sleeping when the truck hit a landmine and tipped over. Jack slowly got up and ran to a pile of rubble were the rest of the squad was as a machine gun opened.
   As Jack got behind the pile Clip said, "The gun is armored so I can't do much to it."
   Jack smiled and said, "I can get this one." And he lied down, pulled his .55 Boys off his back and crawled out from behind the cover and got ready to shoot. Jack lined his sights up for the machine gun. The gun let out another burst then Jack pulled the trigger, the Boys barked with a loud report. The round hit its mark as a large red mist came up from behind the shield and the gun fell silent, Jack found a new target, one of the zebras who was still shooting and pulled the trigger leaving a red mist in the air.
   After the second shot Clip yelled, "Everypony fight!" And they grabbed their guns and started shooting back at the zebras.
   Jack had killed four zebras within six minutes when a tank pulled out of a side alley, it was the size of a PzII but it was sloped on all sides of the hull and the turret was a dome, Jack changed targets to the tank and looked for a weak spot and found a spot to shoot it on its side, as he got ready the tank fired at his squad mates with a auto cannon. He fired the round hit right between the start of the sloping and the tracks going through and killing the gunner, he quickly lined up another shot and took it, killing the driver. Just after the tank was knocked out it fell silent as the ambush had failed and the zebras ran.
   They looked around taking in what just happened and Clip walked over to Jack and put his hoof on Jack's shoulder and said, "Maybe we should call you Tank Hunter."
   Jack turned and looked at Clip and the rest of the squad and said, "Sure I don't see why not." And they continued to check the area when the sound of tanks tracks drew their attention to the street just in front of the building the MG was in, they got to the corner, the noise was coming from the left. 
   They waited a moment then Camouflage looked around the corner then turned around with a smile and said, "It's Derpy we can go out." They nodded and followed him without weapons out. Sure enough Jack seen the gray mare sticking out of the tank turret as they walked up. They were led to a halftrack as Derpy and her ponies move to the where the battle happened.
   "So how many did you lose?" A pony with a green coat and a two tone gray and white mane asked.
   "Just one the transport driver." Clip responded with.
   "Well I find that hard to believe but we will see any how this halftrack will take you the rest of the way." The pony said and then walked towards Derpy's tank. They loaded up and the halftrack got moving.
   "Hey Tank Hunter if you want you can take a nap I'll wake you just before we get there." Fang said.
   "Ok." Was Jack's answer and he fell into a shallow sleep.