I have reached and shattered my goal but I am not done. This is part one. Enjoy cause this took long enough to type. Just to help organize I have added rough locations and time. I hope it isn't too annoying.
The Battle of Ponyville
Into the Fray
Ponyville Park, 10:19 hours
"RUN!" shouted a human just before taking a bullet to chest. Lyra watched in horror as the human fell to the ground in a bloody heap. Lyra then noticed a green rock being thrown at the group of ponies and humans land just at her hooves.
"GRENADE!" another human shouted diving for the rock, picking it up and tossing it. The rock then exploded not far from them sending Lyra to the ground. She got up and looked to see the world was a silent and blurry mess. Bullets whizzed past her head and she watched emotionless as a humans head was reduced to a blob of pulverized flesh and bone as he fell to the ground with blood squirting from his neck.
Lyra looked into the face of a Royal Guard yelling at her but she couldn't make out what he was saying. "..." he yelled but no sound escaping his lips. She looked at him blankly earning her a hoof to the jaw. The world immediately registered to Lyra as the deafening noise of gunfire came back to her. She noticed she had been dragged behind the vehicle the friendly humans had arrived in. The two remaining humans were firing from behind the vehicle as well as some of the unicorn guards that had just gotten to the scene. "YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW! TAKE THIS FOAL AND RUN!" he yelled shaking her still trying to get her to listen.
She looked at the colt at her side who was holding on to her for dear life and looked back at the Guard. "Ok." she said. She scooped up the colt and ran into Ponyville. She turned back in time to see one of the hostile humans pull out a tube like weapon and put it over his shoulder. The weapon fired at the vehicle and it exploded turning it into scrap metal. Anything alive next to it was incinerated. She turned away in fear of what she would see when the smoke cleared.
Ponyville Markets, 10:23 hours
Tyler and Jake had went into Ponyville for a bite to eat that wasn't an apple related meal. They were in the markets when they heard gunfire coming from down the street. The two ran as fast as their feet could carry them but stopped momentarily as an explosion rocked the city. Ponies screamed and had began to scatter. Tyler noticed Lyra in the crowd, her coat was stained with blood. "Lyra, whats happening?"
"More humans just appeared in the park and the started firing their weapons after shouting at his colt in some random language." she yelled. Tyler looked at the colt who was holding on to her like his life depended on it.
"Jake, lets go." Tyler told him and the she was was left Lyra where she stood. Tyler immediately stopped when he saw a tank and looked to the nearest buildings and kicked in the door. A male and female pony as well as foals were just behind the door and stared at the humans who just kicked down their door. The stallion was a yellow earth pony with a brown mane. The mare who stood in front of her foals was a pink pegasus with a yellow and green mane. Both foals were pegasi. The colt had taken after his father and was grey with a brown mane. The filly had a pink and white mane and her coat was a cream color. Tyler looked into to the faces of each of them. He only saw fear in their eyes.
The stallion charged at Tyler. "Whoa hold on now, were here to help." he yelled at the oncoming stallion.
The stallion stopped and looked up. "Huh, likely story." he said preparing to charge again.
"Look, we don't have time for this. You need to take your family out the back door of this place because there is a tank outside. If you don't, you and your family will die."
"Tyler we need to go! Russians are starting to check the houses!" Jake yelled. He pushed Tyler aside and walked past the family of ponies. "Let me say it like this. I'm going to walk out and leave you to do what ever you want. You go ahead and walk out of that door and get pumped full of led and die in front of your family if you feel like it because I don't care. Otherwise listen to Tyler and go out the back." he said kicking down the back door and walking out. Tyler followed suit and walked out as well. Looking back he saw the family was following them out into the ally.
A Russian soldier flew out the back door and Tyler instinctively squeezed the trigger of his AR and put three bullets into his chest over the heads of the ponies he was escorting. They ducked ducked and turned around to realize the human had just saved their lives. "Thank you." said the mare who was cradling a her two foals.
"Don't mention it. We need to keep moving though." he said getting up and continuing through the ally.
Jake had stopped at the end of the ally and was peering around the corner. "Ok, the coast is clear you all make your way out and I'll cover you." The ponies and Tyler did as they were told and made their way out into the open and started down the street keeping close to the buildings. They made their way up the street for the better half of ten minutes without running into any pony. Tyler tilted his head up to the air as he heard sirens much like the siren that sounded in the episode of MLP when spike is consumed by greed and grew. This siren only added to the scene making it resemble earth. He checked his watch to see the time. 10:57
The group looked up to see pegasi guards flying overhead and one of them swooping down in front of him. Tyler recognized this guard as Swift Wing. Tyler had struck a conversation with this one about various things back on the farm and before he knew it they were talking like they'd known each other for years. "Swift Wing, good to see you! Glad to see you've joined the fray as well." he said.
"Hold on to your friendliness now my friend. There is no time for that. I'm supposed to tell you that all forces, including humans, are to assist in the evacuation of Ponyville. We've been ordered to give up Ponyville for now. We're out matched."
"Why are we giving Ponyville to these damn Russians? Whose orders are these anyways?" Jake yelled catching Swift Wing off guard.
"It was made put to a mutual agreement that Captain Shining Armor would be in charge but the leadership would be split between him, Sergeant Richardson, and for some reason, Tyrin. They all agreed the it would be best to evacuate the civilian population and the have all forces regroup so we can mount a successful counter attack."
"I see... So I want to know, How does Ponyville look? How many casualties?" he said not sure if he wanted an answer.
"South Ponyville is has been set ablaze and we aren't sure on any specific number but the number isn't too high." he looked to the sky at the smoke billowing into the sky. "I'd head over Town Hall if I were you. It would be best to get your orders from the Captain himself. You can also get rid of these civilians."
"Yeah I guess that would be for the best." Tyler agreed. He turned his head at the sound of gunfire not far behind them. "I think we should get out of here before more fight comes our way.
"Well then stop talking and go." Swift Wing said looking up to see he was left behind. "I'll see you in tartarus!" he said flying away.
Ponyville Town Hall/FOB, 11:43
Tyler, Jake and the family of ponies had finally made it to friendly lines. It had taken them a sizable amount of time to get there due and engagement near Carousel Boutique. Town hall had a dense concentration of Royal Guard. Humans were scattered in the mix here and there but Tyler guessed most of them were helping with the evacuation. Civilians were being directed to some location unbeknownst to the group. The American tank was there and he saw the Sergeant standing atop the machine. "Hey Sergeant!"
Daniel turned towards them and motioned for them to come over. "So kid, it looks like you know what to do already." Dainel motioned toward the family he was escorting. "So I'm not going to brief you. We are going to give up Ponyville because we are outgunned in every way. We are facing a total of at least five to six-hundred men. They have the support of five T-90's so we can't just use the Abrams here as we please." he said looking at the crowd of ponies. "I'd like to say that its kind of nice to have something else from back home. But it had to be in the form of a hostile force."
"Hey man, at least we got something to do. Am I right?" Tyler said trying to lighten the mood.
"I guess your right. But look here, We can't be wasting our time here. We have a job to do." Daniel looked to the pony family and back at the two teenagers turned soldier. "Those civilians can go with the rest of the crowd back to Sweet Apple Acres to be evacuated by chariot. Jake I want you in the upper floor of town hall. We need a sniper here just in case the Russians decide to attack our lines. Tyler I'm going to put you with a squad helping with evac as soon as one returns until then wait here." he told them.
Tyler turned to walk to Town Hall but was stopped by the Stallion he had save. "Thank you for saving my family. Really, thank you."
"No problem. Hey I never caught your name."
"Its Iron Bar."
"Well Iron, I look forward to seeing you after all this is over. If I were a pony I'd think we'd make great friends."
"Well after saving my family, friendship is the least I can do."
"See you around then." he said turning around and heading to Town Hall. Iron went to gather his family and started to head to Sweet Apple Acres with the rest of the panicked masses. Tyler walked in side Town Hall and saw that it had been turned into a war room. There were Royal Guards and human soldiers moving to and from and maps scattered about with marking tracking troop movement. The was a large radio on a table with Mayor Mare and Captain Armor standing next to it. The captain acknowledged his presence and went back to listening to the chatter over the radio. Tyler scanned the room for any sign of Tyrin and saw him standing over a map with members of the Royal Guard watching him and nodding in agreement. "Hey Tyrin, What going on?"
"I'm planning. We need to contact Princess Celestia but apparently spike is still trapped in the Library which is behind enemy lines. Without him, getting a message to the Princess would take a four days give or take."
"I can help if you need any volunteers."
"Actually I want you to go help with the evacuation... but if you want to go so be it."
"Hey I forgot to ask, how were you put in a position of leadership."
"I honestly don't know. They both said that they valued my input and that was that. Now I'm here organizing troops to do a rescue mission." he said looking down at the map and nodding. "Steel Cloud, I think were ready. I will be accompanying you during this. Tell the team to be ready to head out in two minutes."
"Yes, sir!" Cloud said and dashed out to fulfill his orders.
"Sir... I could get used to this." he said chuckling but then returning his focus to the map.
"So fill me in who all is going?"
"We get ten American soldiers, ten pegasi guards, and thirty unicorn guards."
"What are pegasi going to do... No offense to the pegasi or anything but they can only use spears and swords."
"Well that is a good question. As you know the pegasi control the weather. Do I really need to explain the rest?"
Tyler's eyes went wide in amazement. He knew that Tyrin was a good strategist but this was clever. Weaponized weather may prove to be a great asset. "No you don't. You surprise me sometimes."
"Don't you remember our gaming days? I was always squad leader and we kicked ass."
"Yeah that was always fun."
"So..." he said getting up. "Why don't we get this show on the road." Tyrin grabbed his SCAR rifle and walked out the door with Tyler trailing him.
"Lets do this."
Ponyville Markets, 12:17 hours
The road was littered with bullet holes. There were dead ponies strung on the ground here and their laying in pools of blood. Twilight's tree could be seen over the roof tops of the various houses we passed on foot. I had sent a pegasus scouting ahead and I was waiting for his return. He flew down in a hurry and saluted me. I swear I can really get used to this position. "Sir, there are humans advancing towards the library as we speak. They have a tank and if we hurry we can beat them there."
"Alright everyone you heard him, double time!" I yell as I start running forward. The pegasi take to the sky and move to gather clouds. The unicorns were much faster than us having four legs versus our two. I took a right at a street corner and see the library just a head of us. The unicorn guard had already arrived and bucked the door down and moved into the house. I ran in the door to see a groggy looking spike being carried out by a unicorn guard.
"Tyrin... wait what's going on?" he asked apparently clueless to what has been happening.
I facepalmed. "Spike, don't tell me you've been sleeping through the entire battle."
"Battle? What do you mean by battle?"
"Ponyville is under attack and you apparently have been sleeping through it."
"What?! Who is attacking Ponyville?!" Spike asked genuinely surprised.
"A group of humans called Russians. I would like to explain but we don't have time. There is a tank heading this way and I don't want good ponies dying fighting it off. Spike you are needed at Sweet Apple Acres. It is a safe zone and Twilight is there waiting to send a letter to the Princess. You are the only one that can do it quick enough." I tell Spike.
"Tyrin we need to go I can see the tank!" Private Smith calls from upstairs. Then the side of the tree exploded. I looked out and saw the tank. I had at least fifty to sixty Russian soldiers on following it.
"CONTACT!! EVERYPONY GET DOWN!" I yell diving behind a couch to dodge a volley of bullets. I look up to see that the unicorn standing next to me had a hole in his head and he slumped down to the floor. I look back at my self to see I was covered in his blood. "Everypony, return fire!" I ordered the group. Magic bolts and bullets flew through the air. The tank fired again taking out the supportive fire from the second floor. I look up to see clouds zipping to and from being centralized at a spot ahead of the tank. "Come on, come on." I say waiting for the tank to get under the clouds. A unicorn down the street waved signaling me that they were in place. A pegasus on the cloud did the same. "Come on."
The tank crept forward and was exactly where I wanted it. I tossed a grenade in front of the and it exploded causing the tank to stop. That was the signal for the twenty unicorns lying in wait to jump out horns glowing. They were straining themselves trying to lift the heavy tank. The Russians turned to fire at the ponies but were stopped by lightning raining down from the clouds above them. The pegasi were doing their job perfectly jumping up and down on the clouds causing lightning to rain down on the Russian soldiers below either killing or disorienting them. By that time the the humans and the rest of the unicorns fire at the surviving Russians. By the time the firing cease, there was a cheer to be heard. The ponies and humans cheered for there victory over the Russians.
I stood up and got a couple of pats on my helmet. The human soldiers were not happy about being led by a sixteen year old but they definably were now. I stepped out of the hole in the library to look at my handy work. The tank crew was could be heard pounding on the in side of the tank screaming to be let out. I looked over at spike. The poor thing was shaking like a leaf. I pumped my fist and getting a laugh or two out of the soldiers and then picked up spike and threw him over my shoulders. "We got to get you to Sweet Apple Acres." I tell him beginning my journey to Town Hall. I walked and I realized something Tyler wasn't with us.
Ponyville, Town Hall/FOB, 13:25 hours
We arrived at Town Hall where Captain Armor was waiting for us. The evacuation was nearing completion with the exception of a few ponies caught behind Russian lines. Shining Armor motioned me to come over to him so I did so. "I see your mission was successful. Before you head out I have some information for you."
"Oh what would that be?"
"One of your men, Tyler I believe, was injured while rescuing Derpy Hooves and Dinky Hooves. He is currently at the our field hospital Sweet Apple Acres."
"Hmmm... I was wondering where he went. I'm guessing it isn't a serious wound is it?"
"From what the doctors told me no it is not."
"Well thats good to know. I should really stop wasting time and get Spike over to Sweet Apple Acres." I said looking behind me noticing Spike had fallen asleep on my back.
I nudged the baby dragon awake. "Huh, what, I'm awake!" he stammered. He looked out to the sky seeing it was filled with smoke. He looked to the ponies walking, some covered in ash or blood. Some limping or carrying the dead or wounded. He looked back at Tyrin. "It wasn't a dream was it?" he asked solemnly.
"No, no it wasn't I'm afraid. It is real. And you my friend have a duty to perform. We need to get you to Sweet Apple Acres now. Celestia needs to know what happened here. She needs to know what happened to her ponies."
"You're right. Let's go."
Ponyville Outskirts, Sweet Apple Acres, 13:45 hours
I arrived at Sweet Apple Acres and it was hell. There were medical tents set up and it looked like trees were cut down to make room. Humvees were coming to and from town hall with the seriously wounded, ferrying them to field hospital. The view of Ponyville was spotless. The smoke rising and the siren still sounding in the burning town reminded me of earth. I looked for Twilight all around the farm. I couldn't find her but I was then flagged down by Applejack.
"Its good to see you Applejack."
Applejack looked at me with a fearful expression. "Tyrin... yer covered in blood."
"Oh thats ok. Its not my blood." I say then realizing that it wouldn't make her feel any better. "Anyways... where's Twilight? We need to let Celestia know whats happening."
"She's on her way. Her and Fluttershy were helpin' with the wounded." she said. Twilight rushed over. I half expected her to be covered in blood to but I forgot she has magic. Fluttershy walked over. I was disheartened to see the shy pegasus covered in the blood of others. She looked at me no longer scared or shy. There was no emotion. Damn this battle, I looked into her eyes and saw something I that made me mental cry. She no longer had her innocence. She had seen death first hand. This damn battle took it away from her. It made me angry.
"Girls... I'm sorry you had to see all this." I say not knowing what else to.
"Don't be... I'm just glad your safe. Spike send the letter now please." Fluttershy said without flinching or shying away. Son of a bitch... I was right. Why? Why Fluttershy?
"Ok..." Spike said. I could tell he wasn't used to Fluttershy being assertive. He walked away with Twilight to some unknown location.
"Tyrin... Lyra needs you right now. Something happened."
My heart skipped a beat. "What? What happened to her? Is she alright?"
"She's fine. Bon Bon didn't make it. She watched her die and she is was devastated. She could really use a friend right now." she told me. "She is that way."
I immediately went the direction she pointed and looked into each room until I found her. What I saw was depressing to say the least. Lyra was crying on Bon Bon's body. The body had a sheet draped over its head. I took off my helmet and set down my rifle. Lyra looked up and saw me there and dashed over and jumped into my arms crying into my vest. I held her close as she openly sobbed. "I'm here Lyra, I'm here."
"Hey Tyrin I'm heading out and..." I glared at Tyler and he promptly left the room.
"Lyra, its going to be ok." I tell her gently stroking her head. "You have to be strong for her now. You need to be strong for her now more than ever." This only made her cry harder. I was holding back tears of my own. I couldn't help but feel a pang of guilt. 'If only I was there for her before this happened.' I felt it was my duty now to be here for her. She needs a shoulder to lean on and mine has plenty of space.
I sat and held her tight as she cried in grief. I hope Celestia makes the Russians pay for what they've done. They do not deserve mercy of any kind. Not after what they've done to Lyra.
Ponyville Square, 14:27 hours
Tyler was with a squad of soldiers moving from house to house in the combat zone looking for anypony left behind in this mess. They were almost done searching our sector and the only place left to search was sugarcube corner. They walked from house to house not wanting to use the streets in fear of snipers. The group made it to a house on the edge of the clearing between all other buildings and the home of the pink party mare. The front of the building was blown out and there were dead ponies scattered around this clearing. Mostly Royal Guard but there were still some civilians in the mix. It was a horrible sight that left him wondering what could have caused this much death to be concentrated in this area. He looked to a second story window to find my answer. A well placed machine gun nest was perched in the window. Tyler look back to the building and notice movement. There were Russians posted here and they were defending something. I then see a tank roll by and stop in front effectively ruining any kind of attack plan as we used all of the explosives we had on the first tank we encountered. And to our luck another tank rolled in and stopped outside of Sugarcube Corner. 'Just our luck.' he thought to himself.
The squad leader motioned for us to spread out we did so distributing ourselves evenly amongst the row of buildings that separated us from the clearing. Tyler was with Corporal Smith and First Sargent McClendon. He poked his head out again but unfortunately was spotted. The machine gun turret opened fire. 'We're fucked' he thought.
Tyler returned fire for a couple of seconds before losing his jaw on the floor. Princess Celestia walked through the back door of the house we were occupying and walked out the front in what seemed like battle armor. 'No, I can't be seeing this. Celestia just walked through in battle armor... that can't be right.' He looked out the window to see that the machine gun was now trained on her and was still firing. The bullets simply hit a shield and were deflected away some random direction. The armor must have been enchanted. She was walking forward nonchalantly but also wore a face that had an unbridled rage on it. She glared death at them... but with a smile. It was a sickening thing really.
A grenade was tossed her way and she looked at it and laughed and then stomped on it and it exploded. After in the cloud of dust and debris was an alicorn shaped silhouette. I was dumbstruck. Celestia was just toying with them. They had stopped firing at the Princess and were starring at her. Then one of the two tanks trained its turret on the Princess and fired. The shell made contact with the shield with sparks of electricity shooting out as the shield and the force behind the shell did battle. However the heavy shell soon stopped trying to move into the shield and feel to the ground with a metallic thud. She was laughing again but soon stopped and adopted a serious expression on her face.
Her horn began to glow and she looked at the tank that fired at her and it was enveloped in a bright light and melted. The tank had literally been melted into molten metal. She looked to the other tank and used her magic to open the hatch and drag the tank crew out and throw them into the sky. Their screams were only heard for three seconds, I don't doubt they achieved orbit. She looked to the soldiers who all wore the same horrified expression on their face which only fed Celestia's dark laughter. Was this really Celestia? She then used her magic to levitate a Russian soldier under her hoof. This one screamed as she brought a hoof to his skull swiftly ending his existence.
At this point, most of the men had turned and started to run but Celestia held them in place with her magic. Out of the men she had already killed there were thirty-four of them remaining alive. The sun goddess flared her nostrils and reduced five of them to a pile of ash. She then threw another into the wall of Sugarcube Corner. She slammed this human into the wall again and again tainting the wall of the pastry shop with the red bodily fluid of the wad of flesh and bone that used to be a person. She laughed again doing this to another human and another . She continued doing this to another five humans and then stopped. "I'm not usually the kind of pony who would torture but I have to admit this is quite the stress reliever!" she said and began to laugh manically again.
She then looked at a human who was glaring death at her. She took notice of the bravery of this man for doing so but decided to punish this one for staring. She did so by crushing this human to the ground with a sickening crunch. His insides lay strung across the street and she laughed at the thought of the poor pony that was to be tasked with cleaning the mess up. She had had enough torture... for now. She stopped laughing and she then turned dragged another Russian to herself. He flinched as she brought her glowing horn to his forehead. She had stayed like this for a minute before lowered the human. She then ripped his leg off his body and threw it and him into another soldier. Using the Royal Canterlot Voice she looked at the soldiers and yelled making sure her voice was loud enough for all of Ponyville to hear. Вы сдаться, либо столкнуться с последствиями! Это ваш единственный шанс сдаться. Любое сопротивление будет подавлено быстро. Любой, что выбрать, чтобы скрыть будут найдены и казнены.