//------------------------------// // First Battle of Singapore (part 5)-Dreams or Memory? // Story: Ponies in war // by General Sparky //------------------------------// Perpective: Rain, in the dream world I suddenly woke up and see that I am chained to a metal surface. Beside me was Derpy, who was also chained to a metal surface. "Where are we?" I asked, turning my head to face Derpy. "I think we are in a cell or something." Derpy said, turning to face me. "Finally, both of you are awake." Somebody that sounded like a male sinisterly said. "What do you want with us, whoever you are?!" I said in a mixture of anger and curiousity. "You don't need to know who I am, you just need to know that I am a scientist." The scientist responded sinisterly. "Let us go, you scientist!" I yelled at the top of my voice. "Why would I let you go? You are my test subjects, I will never let you go." The scientist repiled with a sly smile on his face. "What do you want with us?" I asked again, with the question still staying in my head. "Nothing..., except for the horns and wings that you two have." The scientist repiled. What? Both of us? But I thought Derpy does not have horns and I was still in my earth pony disguise. As these questions played in my mind, the Scientist grabbed a chainsaw from a nearby table. I tried my best to get out of there and Derpy did the same, but the chains was just too hard. As the Scientist approached me, he pointed the chainsaw directly in front of my wings and slice them. I yelled in pain and that was when I woke up from the dream. I still felt the pain on my wings after the dogfight. I opened my eyes slightly and saw that Derpy was also awake amd is trying to get up too. Both of us was lying on a pool of blood. I tried to get up but felt something heavy on my back, as if it was telling me to stay down. I gave up after a couple of seconds and I my eyes slowly close itself. Perpective: Derpy Strange enough, I shared the same cream as Rain. After Rain has her wings sliced off, the scientist sliced mine next. Next thing I know, I woke up from my dream and tried to get up from my lying down position. But I felt that there was something heavy on my back and was keeping me from getting up. After a few seconds I have no more strength to get get up and I collapse back into the pool of blood. Perpective: Narrator They entered into another dream and the mood of this dream was more optimistic than the previous one. In this dream, Derpy and Rain was standing on top of an Ironclad. Note: An ironclad looks something like this: But there was some physical difference bewteen them. Derpy has a horn and wings and Rain looked like a changeling stallion rather than a mare. "What happened to me?" Both of them asked in unison. They looked at each other and said, "You look...different." Derpy repiled, "Rain? Is that really you? You don't look like you." Rain said, "I could say the same about you." Perpective: Derpy Wow, I never thought that Rain would be a stallion, I always thought that he was a mare. He looked so cute though... Perpective: Rain I never thought that you were an alicorn, Derpy. You look so beautiful in this form though... Perpective: Narrator Derpy and Rain continued to stare at each other and blushed. Out of the blue, huge fireballs pluged into the sea around the Ironclad. The two ponies stop their staring and immediately went into full 'battle' mode. Perpective: Derpy "Who is attacking us?" I asked, accidently letting out what I thought into spoken words. "I have no idea." Rain repiled. As massive fireballs exploded around the ship, I took a look at our surroundings. We were obviously onboard an Ironclad. There was metal all around us and there were two 6-inch cannons on its port and starboard side. Also, there were one 6-inch cannons on the ship's front and back. Around us was scattered items which includes: Two telescopes, Two swords, Cannonballs, Powder bags and Two crossbows. "Wow, I never thought there was so much stuff scattered around us." I said. "Neither did I" Rain repiled as he was picking up the items on the ground. As he was doing that, I picked up a telescope and look through a small lid on the Ironclad. "You can't be serious!" I said, as I saw five galleons, with flags that is clearly not Equestrian, firing its boardside on this Ironclad. Note: The Galleon I am refering to is this: "What happened?" Rain asked. "There are Galleons fire its boardside on us, we need to get out of here, NOW!" I repiled, signaling for Rain to get to the engines. "I will see what I can do, no promises." Rain repiled, as he went to handled the engines. While Rain was manning the engines, I took it to myself to fire those 6-inch guns. This Ironclad only has its front cannon facing the enemy. I went to get some powder bags to load the cannon, as I was doing that, shells was hitting the ship everywhere and the sound the shell reflected off the ship was bringing fear to me as, at anytime, the enemy ships could penertrate the armor at anytime and this ship will be sunk. In the distance, I could see some smaller ships, with flags that states that they are Equestrian, approaching the Galleons from its bow (front) side, which the Galleons didn't seem to see them. The Ironclad that I and Rain is in is still not moving. The amount of shells hitting the belt armor is getting unbearable. The constant sound of shells hitting the armor is causing me not to think straight. Without thinking, I yelled, "Rain, let's attack thier command ship!" "What, are you serious?" Rain repiled. "Yes!" I repiled, as I picked up two swords nearby. "Okay, If you say so." Rain repiled, with uncertainty in his voice. We abandon the ship through a lid at the top of the ship. As we were prepared to fly away, I gave a sword to Rain and said, "Let's bring this fight to them." "Agreed." Rain repiled. I probably wasn't in a clear mind then and flew upwards, drawing attension from our enemy. Arrows started to flew past me and Rain and some griffins started to come up to engage us as well. Rain and I started to use our wings to grip our swords, prepared for an airel melee battle. Around 20-30 griffins was scrambled to engage us in the air. As both sides went closer to each other, both Rain and I took a dive towards one of their Galleons. Maybe we dived too much and nearly hit the water, we quickly climb and I heard some cannonballs go past me as Rain and I was doing our maneuvers. As we did our maneuvers, the griffins stayed in the air, watching our every move and preparing to engage in the air once we completed our climb. We did not finish our climb and instead landed on the enemy's command ship. The griffins saw this and dived down, towards thier command ship. Onboard their enemy's command ship, there was around 50 ponies(that defected from the Equestria) and griffins on deck and probably another 50-100 below deck loading the cannons. Rain and I immediately shift to a defensive stance, seeing pretty much everybody armed with swords and is trying to kill us. Their commander is a griffin, he or she was wearing nothing and was only carrying a sword. "Nice to meet you again, Princess." The commander said, in a creepy voice. Wait, what? I am not a princess, am I? "What are you talking about? I am not a Princess." I said with my mind bringing more questions than I could answer them. "Don't try to fool me. I know you are, isn't that right Princess Ditzy?" The commander asked with a sly smile. "What? No. Am I?" I repiled, putting down my guard for a moment to think. "Wait, if you are you and I am me then who is who?" Rain asked, also confused by the turn of events. "Don't act innocent on me, Prince Shimmer." The commander said. "What? I can't be....can I?" Rain asked, looking down on his sword for his reflection. "No matter, soldiers attack!" the commander said, pointing his front right hoof at us. "What?!" Rain and I asked as a conbination of ponies and giffins armed with swords came towards us from both the deck and the air. We got into defensive stance, wielding the swords with our wings. Perpective: Narrator Both ponies and Griffins charged towards Derpy and Rain from the deck and from the air. The fighting turned choatic as swords clashed with each other in point blank range. Despite this, the commander himself stayed at his spot, watching the battle happening right in front of him. Perpective: Rain I saw so many ponies with griffins pointing their weapon forward, all attempting to kill me. My mind changed from confusion to trying to survive this battle. Instincts quickly took over my mind. I leaned against Derpy and yelled, "There is too much enemies, what do we do?" "A....a.... throw our swords at them?" Derpy repiled with much hesitation. "What? Are you crazy?" I said, as the enemy surrounded us, all pointing their swords towards us but not attacking, as if they are waiting for something. There is no way out of here. We are trapped on deck and the enemies' air force has cut out our last escape route. "I know a way, but it's suicidal." I said. "What is it?" Derpy asked. "We charge towards our right flank." I said, blinking one eye. "Ok, let's go." Derpy said, as we moved towards our left flank. Swords clashed between us and the enemy. It seems like there was an endless stream of enemy troops. We use our wings to slap our enemy in the face, while we use our hooves to kick our enemy. Since our swords is on our left wing, we use our right wing to slap the enemy before using our left wing to kill the enemy. I managed to kill around 10 enemy troops while Derpy managed to kill around 15 enemy troops. The screams coming from those who are seriously injured in battle is unbearable. Their groans and their yelling made us heartbroken and so we decided to end their lives with a slice through their necks. It was choatic so we didn't give it a second thought about it. All in all, we killed around 40 enemy troops and injured 20 others. The injured troops withdrew from the fight and some flew to other ships while some took the decision to end the suffering themselves-by throwing themselve overboard to the water below. During the fight, my front right hoof was sliced off and Derpy's neck was sliced but thankfully the sword did not went all the way through, and she lived the first engagement. As the casualties rose, more enemy troops appeared on deck, some armed with crossbows and some armed with long swords. Due to the injuries we suffered from the eariler fight, dealing with their reinforcements is getting harder and harder. "Give up, you fools!" Their commander demanded. "We will *Cough* not!" Derpy and I repiled in unison. "Then face your defeat!" their commander said, charging at us with a sword on his right and left wing. I couldn't get up in time but Derpy could. Derpy got up and charged at the commander. As they were getting closer, I noticed that Derpy was not carrying a sword. I wanted to tell her but my strength was not enough. "Derpy, come....back.." I said, as my mouth started to spill out blood. Perpective: Derpy I charged at this commander with all my remaining strength. I tried to grab my sword to only realise it wasn't there. No matter, I will fight him hoof to hoof then. I was charging at him from his left and so I prepared to spread out my right wing to slap him and engage him at close quaters. As we got to point blank range, he drew out his left wing which has a sword pointing straight ahead. Instincts took over and I titled my head towards my right. I felt my horn touched his body but didn't care much about it. When I went out of my blind charge, I realised what has happened. As the commander and I met from opposite ends, I pointed my horn to his neck but I didn't realised my horn was that sharp or that long to slice his entire neck off and he stopped his charge and fall forwards. As the commander laid there, dead, his troops started to charge at me, trying to avenge for their fallen commander. I thought I was going to die and I ran towards rain to pick up my sword to fight them. And that was when I heard a massive expolsion. That explosion drew the attension of the enemy troops and that was when I picked up Rain's body and flew away from thier command ship. I took a sneak peak behind to see what has happened. The explosion was cause by a magazine detonation and it cause a massive explosion that sank one of the enemy's Galleons. Then, a second ship started to suffer the same fate as the first. The other two Galleons that remained caught on fire and the ship started to burn. The command ship suffered a head on collision by one of the small naval boats of the Equestrian Navy. The collision caused the command ship to have a whole in its port side. The hole caused the crew to abandon ship as the ship was filling with water. As I reached the stationary Ironclad, I put Rain's body down and looked at the carnage that the Equestrian Navy has caused. It was a beautiful sight. I also managed to see four of the Equestrian small boats returned with the ponies inside cheering as they were victorious. Rain started to wake up and stood beside me. "It is beautiful, isn't it?" rain asked. "Yes, It is." I repiled. We would later have to ask the Equestrian small boats to pull the Ironclad back to port. I thought. As Rain and I looked at the carnage, Rain said, "We won." "Ya, we won, but at what cost?" I asked and sat down,thinking about the enemy. Rain did not reply but sat down beside me and gave frown and we sat there, looking at the destruction we caused. Soon, the sky darkens and we slept on the Ironclad due to battle fatigue. And that was where that 'dream' ended. Alexandra Hospital, 7 February 1942, 6.30 p.m. I woke up to see that my wings was covered in bandages. I looked around to see that I am in some sort of hospital and that Rain was right beside me, also covered with bandages on his wing area and that Spitfire and Soarin was inside the room, sleeping. "What happened?" I asked no pony in particular. Spitfire and Soarin imeediately woke up and said," Oh, *yawns* you are finally awake, Derpy." "Wait, how long was I asleep for?" I asked. "Around two hours. Why?" Spitfire asked, while Soarin went out to get the nurse. "Could you tell me what happened, because I can't remember a single thing." I said, looking confused. "Well, we found you and Rain lying on a pool of blood inside a warehouse and we sent you to hospital." Spitfire explained. "Oh, anything that you found there?" I asked, thinking about my secret cloak. "Yes, we found a cloak and some weapons, the cloak is with me but the weapons is with the British." Spitfire said. "Thanks for telling me that. Could you get me my cloak, it is really important to me." I said, smiling adorably. "Sure, just give me a couple of minutes." Spitfire said, smiling back at me. "Ok, thanks." I said, smiling at her. "You are welcome, now get some rest, I heard that Percival maybe coming to see Rain, just make sure he is awake then." "Ok." I said, almost forgetting about Rain. As Spitfire leave the room, I saw Rain taking a peak before opening his eyes and said, "Finally she is gone, I thought she never leave." "The feeling is mutual." I said. "You look different." Rain and I said in unison. I looked at myself again, it was the strangest feeeling ever. I felt like a horn should be at the top of my head, and I use my front hooves to touch the area. I felt it was there and yet it was invisible. Perpective: Rain Strange, I felt like I am a stallion and yet my body reaveals that I am a mare. What is going on? Perpective: Derpy "Wait, weren't we at the Battle of Griffish isles?" I asked. Map for reference: "But it was fought in 100 ANM(After Nightmare Moon's banishment), and it was fought and won by Princess Ditzy and Prince Shimmer." Rain paused for a second before saying, "Oh." "But I am not Princess Ditzy and you are not Prince Shimmer, are we?" I said, still not believing in what I dreamed. "I don't know." Rain repiled. "What if we are, Rain? What if that Dream was a part of our lost memory?" I asked. "But they die at 900 ANM, we couldn't be them." Rain reasoned. Perpective: Narrator The room filled with silence, each pony thinking hard on this subject: Was that a dream or a lost Memory? -----------------------------------------------------------------End of Battle of Singapore (part 5)-Dreams or Memory?------------------------------