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// Tactical Retreat 
// Story: Ghost Recon Future Soldier: Equestrian Mission 
// by Kozak 
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 Ch. 2 Tactical Retreat

Hunter Squad aimed their weapons at the door and came face to face with a big white horse and its contingent of what seemed to be pony guardsmen. Seeing they were outnumbered and had no idea if they could get access to a resupply point to get more ammunition for their weapons, they came up with a plan that was unanimously agreed upon. Make a tactical retreat so they could be more prepared if these 'ponies' were more advanced than these guardsmen let on.
When all of a sudden the horse spoke, "My name is Princess Celestia. I am the diarch of Equestria and I command you to stand down because of what I have just seen you all are under arrest."

Ghost Lead whispered to Pepper, "Get a breaching charge set up on the wall now!"

"Yes, sir."

As Pepper moved to one of the only open walls in the building, Ghost Lead responded to the 'Princess's' command by saying, "I am truly sorry your 'Highness', but my friends and I have a rather pressing matter to attend to," Pepper walked up and tapped Ghost Lead on the shoulder, "and we need to be leaving right now."

"BREACHING!"

After Pepper said this all of Hunter squad moved out of the way of the blast of the charge. *BOOOOOOOM!* The loud explosion disoriented all of the ponies in the room and left a large hole in the wall. Seeing their way was clear Hunter squad moved out of the building they were in. After exiting the building Hunter squad made a mad dash to a forest they could see at the edge of town. By this time the ponies in the building they just left were becoming reoriented and began to chase them. Kozak noticed that the ponies were slightly faster than them so he looked to Ghost Lead to warn him the ponies were catching up to them when he felt the similar sensation of being wieghtless again. He turned around to see the 'Princess' landing with her horn glowing with a golden light. She looked at the squad and said, "Now that this chase is over, you are coming with me to Canterlot for your sentence."

The other ponies arrived shortly after she had said this. Kozak noticed all the other ponies involved arrived and started to laugh much to the ponies confusion. The 'Princess' looked at him with a perplexed look, and Kozak managed calm down to the point where he could say one word, "Catch." Then, he threw a flashbang grenade to the group of ponies and the 'Princess' caught the grenade believing it was his sign of coming with her peacefully when she noticed the squad looking away. All of a sudden the flashbang went off blinding her and all of the ponies around her. This in turn caused her to lose focus allowing Hunter the chance to escape. As soon as the magic field dissapated Hunter squad ran to the nearby forest.

From the things Hunter squad heard behind them, they were able to tell that the princess and her guards were the first to recover from the disorentation. Upon hearing the increasing volume of hoof steps upon the ground and the beating of wings in the sky, Hnter squad increased the pace of their running to an all out mad dash to the forest. From their heads up display they could tell they were 10 m from the forest when the sound of the pursuit ceased. When they reached the forest they noticed that all of the ponies including their 'Princess'. Seeing they were home free and able to escape from a hostile forc they decided to countinue into the forest to look for an area to set up their camp.



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Hunter squad had been walking thourgh the forest for ten minutes before the noticed the first sign of something stalking them. The hint they got to the stalking predator was subtle, but it still alerted the Ghosts to the offending creature. Kozak was put as rear-guard while 30k was on point. The growling came back a few minutes after the first bout, but it was much louder this time and it came from multiple sides.

"Well boys we are surrounded by what sounds like wolves," said Ghost Lead," and I say we take the lesser of the two evils and deal with those equines because at least they aren't looking at us as if we were the main course to a feast."

There was a murmur of agreement among the Ghosts as they decided they were just going to have to head back to the town they had just left. Taking the intiative to get out of the forest Kozak was the first to begin to clear a path as he activated his magnetic-vision googles and locate targets to engage. He notice they were surrounded by wolves, and he picked the largest one he saw which he decided was their alpha and put a round through its skull which popped like a morbid water balloon. Following his shot the rest of the team opened up with their weapons cutting down the wolves like a chainsaw would a tree. The Ghosts seemed to have control over the situation when one wolves jumped on to Pepper and bit into his shooting arm when 30k was finally able to get the wolf off of his friend.

"The way back to the town is clear I don't have anymore hostiles," stated Kozak.

With their route to the town clear Ghost Lead ordered Kozak to assist Pepper on the way back to the town. Kozak did the best he could do with their current first aid supplies, but he was going to need to get to a hospital or something similar to retrieve a better anti-septic and more bandages to redress Pepper's wound. After Kozak informed Ghost Lead of this predicament they came up with a plan to get to the hospital.

The plan was to infiltrate the town without alerting any guards and the guards they couldn't avoid were to be removed as stealthily as possible and by any means necessary, anything deemed hostile or a hinderance was to be removed and no civilians are to be killed in this operation.