A clink was heard followed by laughter and chatter. The six ponies were sitting in their bunks in the barracks, enjoying soda before the next day where they will be assigned to their first real battle. They spent the last few days learning how to use their tank, and are confident to use it in battle.
“Alright girls, ah wanna call a toast, to our first battle!” Applejack raised her bottle of soda and so did the rest repeating simultaneously “our first battle.” The girls enjoyed the rest of the night with the sodas and went to bed.
-KERWHUM-
The sound of a very large cannon was the first thing each six ponies heard, jolting up in bed and scrambling around, searching for a source of danger, until they discover it’s only Shining Armor in a tank many sizes larger than the six. Twilight is the first to step forward and lets out a snarky remark, “Hey brother, compensating for something?” Shining’s face scrunches up blushing furiously.
“N-no, you are lucky you are my sister or else I wouldn’t have let that slide. Now I have your assignment girls. Ready up and I will assign it to you.” The six girls run around quickly, trying to quickly get ready until they are lined up, in uniform and helmets.
“Alright girls,” Shining hops down from his tank, “You will be heading to a place called mines……”
Twilight took point, her tank in the lead while the other two side by side behind her, forming a sort of triangle. Based off her HUD and calculations, they should be close to the place called, “Mines.” They come over a hill and Twilight stops.
“Pinkie flag the others to stop, I think this is it”
“Okie Doki Loki,” Pinkie says playfully before popping out of the commander’s hatch, making different signals with the flags. Twilight sighs, “I’ll be glad when we get radios.” The other two tanks come to a stop beside her. Every pony opened up their hatch and poked their head out, looking around. Twilight initiated the plan, “Ok girls, there should be a scouting patrol coming around here, three tanks only, so long as we stay together and attack them at once, we all should be fine. Everpony got that?”
Many “Affirmatives” were heard and a very distinct and upbeat “Yup, I sure do!” Twilight nodded and closed her hatch, as did the other girls.
“Ok Pinkie, now is serious time, no playing around or we and the other girls may get hurt, ok?”
“Got it!”
“Good, now let’s head forward,” the engine roars from idle as they move forward.
The Area was a pretty small space. From where they were, there was a small village to the right. Towards the center was a hill, where it seemed to lead to a platform where a vantage point could be taken. The left had a beach like area, and a side route towards the same place the other two ways led. The left included a lighthouse which doesn’t seem to be in use. Twilight thinks for a second before heading straight for the center, deciding the vantage point will help them spot the scouts.
The only sound heard was the sound of the three tanks, moving together towards the center. As they started climbing the hill, they noticed a lack of speed, moving along slowly. Pinkie suddenly got a twitch.
“TWILIGHT, LEFT NOW!” Twilight moved to the left just in time to dodge a shot coming from an unknown source. A few seconds later, Pinkie spots the tank, identifying it as a lone MS-1. She pokes her head out of the Commanders port, then starts quickly swinging flags, alerting the others of the tank. As she’s making her last moves, another shot sounds out, this time, missing Pinkie barely, ripping a hole in one of the flags. She yelped and ducked back under cover inside the tank.
“Pinkie are you ok?” Twilight glances back but keeps her attention on the tank ahead.
“Y-yeah, I think so, nearly got me.” She focuses on her task, aiming her gun before another shot sounds out, this time from behind us. It hits the tank and it explodes gloriously. A southern yell is heard from inside the other tank as it is now known Applejack fired the shot. The celebration is ended prematurely as a shot pierces Applejack’s tank from the side. A flag is suddenly visible, a green one, signaling they are good.
All three tanks turn towards the source of the shot, finding a T1 Cunningham in the bushes hiding. Pinkie aims the gun before shouting, “BOOM!”
-POW-
The shot rocks the tank, not much, but enough for pinkie to have to reset the aim once she reloads. Before she can, another shot is sounded, from Rarity’s tank. This shot sends the tank up into flames as the gas tank of the enemy seemingly erupted. After a few seconds, the tank explodes similar to the other one, being put out of use.
Numerous shouts were heard from each tank, but Twilight still remembered the third one they needed to face, not sure to where it was. They make it up to the vantage point and settle down. Pinkie pops up from the commander’s hatch, only a bit to look around. From Applejack’s tank behind them, a yell was heard to catch the other tanks’ attention. Pinkie turned and looked, to see Applejack waving flags, signaling a Medium tank. Twilight turned quickly turned the tank, facing the direction of the third tank. Upon getting closer, they find the tank. It is weirdly angled, facing its front armor 45 degrees to the side, exposing half front half side armor. Applejack is the first to shoot, from her angle, it bounced off the armor. Pinkie took the next shot, less of an angle from her position.
“We didn’t penetrate their armor!”
“What? How can we not?”
“The way they are angling their armor makes it harder to penetr-“
-POOM-
A shot hits their tank, the shell pierces the front and hits twilight in the shoulder, leaving a deep gash, any more damage could mean a lost limb. She lets out a loud pained yell, before she casts a spell, a painkilling spell.
Pinkie sticks her head out of the hatch and yells while waving a yellow flag, “Twilight’s injured, we won’t be moving as fast!” The other two retreated, and so did Twilight, still in pain, grunting below Pinkie. Twilight yelled to Pinkie to signal the others. Pinkie popped out of the hatch, waving the flags. The other two tanks move towards the enemy Medium. Twilight slowly heads forward, their plan coming into motion.
Rainbow Dash with her need for speed comes out fast. She quickly dodged one shot, then turned so she started to circle the tank, but before she could, the Medium takes a shot. Luckily it did no actual damage to the hull, but it de-tracked the, leaving them vulnerable. A shot penetrates the Medium from the side as Rarity’s tank charges towards the tank, managing to take a shot. She can’t out run the Medium’s turn and turret as they turn to target Applejack, one or less shots from being destroyed themselves.
The sound of a shell being reloaded is heard.
-POW-
The Medium tank blows up in a glorious fire, Pinkie looks away from the view scope, aiming at a weak spot in the armor, “Boom.”
As the garage door opened, ponies rushed to the tanks, doing checks. Pinkie popped out of the drivers hatch. “WE NEED A MEDIC HERE!”
At the call, a cart arrives with a red cross on it. As twilight’s tank comes to a stop inside the garage, the medic ponies comes and pulls Twilight out of the Tank. She is barely conscious, lost a lot of blood. She hangs limply as the unicorns levitate her onto a stretcher gently. Once on the stretcher, they place her on the cart and head off towards the infirmary. Pinkie bows her head and exits the tank herself, hoping joining the other five ponies as they embrace. Each one of them hugging, happy to have survived, but scared to lose a friend.
FOOTNOTE: 2x XP per day, XP Earned: 2,230, Credits Earned: 3,643, Awards earned: Sisters in Arms, Master Rank: 3, Tanks Destroyed: 3, Modules destroyed: 1, Modules damaged: 2