“We will defeat the aliens, bring them to their knees! For this new planet shall be the next Gaia of humanity and the restoration of the Empire!”
Unknown Russian Soldier
Operation Nightfall: 2000 AD
The starry night sky fell on Canterlot. The capitol city lay resting, its habitants lay sleeping. The bustling city stays silent ‘till morning.
However, the night is still young. Unaware of the enemy that creeps into the city, the guards continue their mundane patrol: Their unwavering eyes looking carefully, but unable to see the invisible enemy hiding behind the forest.
“This is Sickle 1, Hammer Command over?”
“Da, I hear you comrade. Operation Nightfall is a go,”
Several guards are posted around the walls with another four guarding the main gate, their gold colored armor sticking out in the night. Suddenly, the guards were simultaneously killed, their heads exploding like a watermelon.
“Sickle team here, infiltrating the city,” said the leader of the twelve-man squad as they enter the city by climbing the walls
In the city, the guards were isolated; many of the patrols have only one pony, making it easier to take them out one by one.
“Its only midnight,” said one of the guards walking through an alley, “I wonder-“
One of the black ops soldiers grab the pony from behind, covering his mouth and then immediately slitting the throat with care, the ‘Royal Guard’ bleeding to death within seconds. The sounds of projectiles fired from silenced guns could be heard throughout the southeastern portion of the city.
Throughout the ordeal, the team was wary dealing with the Pegasi guards flying through the skies. Fortunately, the complacency of the city guards became their advantages as most of the guards on the ground do not used lanterns, making it easy to eliminate them without the Pegasi noticing. Any Pegasi stupid enough to land meets the same fate as their land counterparts.
After killing of over a hundred guards, and painting a-fifth of the city red, the Spec Ops team finally made it to the castle. They barely spend half of their ammunition.
The Black Ops team entered the castle and continued silencing the guards with machine-like efficiency. Every shot hits point blank in the head, every knife strike hitting a critical part of the pony anatomy and every guard eliminated with such speed and precision that none of the sleeping ponies in Canterlot are aware of the regime change going on this very night!
Twilight Sparkle slept comfortably in one of the castle’s guest rooms. She and her friends are sleeping in Canterlot castle for the night.
The unicorn woke up and step out into the hallway… (Yawns)
…and immediately felt blow to the back of her head, knocking her unconscious.
“Target C is captured,” said the Squad leader
“Roger that, all targets have been captured. Return to base, Mother Russia is proud of you. Your team has secure a brighter future for the Motherland,” said Command
As the team rendezvous and prepares to leave the castle, one last message comes from Central Command.
“Oh, you can loot the castle all you want. Our great leader, insist that you all be righteously rewarded!”
The black ops team leaves the city, with their ’prizes’ in tow. Artifacts of extreme importance are stolen as well. Their destination is Earth, the Russian spec ops arrive in Equuis using unknown ways.
Twilight wakes up, sitting in a chair, all four hooves tied up. Her blurry vision starts recovering allowing her to see the terrible situation occurring in front of her. The room was dark, aside from a single light in the center. In front of her lay a table and on the other side is a foreign bipedal creature standing up, both hands resting upon the object.
“Finally you’re awake,” said the Russian as Twilight tried getting out of the ropes that bind her
“Don’t think of using your pathetic magic,” the Russian said, “You’re in our world now. Plus, you don’t want to put your friends in any danger,”
The thought of her friends took out all her will to fight. Twilight simply sat and stared at her interrogator whom raises his hands in the air as the room began to be filled with light.
“Welcome to Russia. Welcome you’re new Overlords!”
"What!?!"
Twilight finally was able to see the creatures face, the most notable aspect is his cold and calculative eyes.
"My name is Vladimir Putin, leader of the glourious country of Russia. If you want to save your friends you will do as I ordered,"
"Never! When Celestia hears about..."
"Did you honestly think we wouldn't take care of your pathetic princesses as well!"
Putin puts his hands on the remote and points at the right side, turning on several TVs.
"Oh CELESTIA!" screamed Twilight
There were seven TVs on total, showing her friends, Celestia and Luna in similar situations to her:
-Fluttershy has tears in her eyes, from the continous screaming from her interrogator
-RD is being beaten to a pulp, multiple bruises could be seen in her face and chest. To make things more horrific, both Princesses are forced to witnessed the brutality.
-Pinkie Pie and Rarity are behind bars, both having a gloomy face.
-Applejack is being tortured, she is set on her while water is pouring through her face which is covered in a white cloth.
"No please Stop! I'll do anything pleases!" Twilight is reduced to a crying slob
"Good," he speaks through the communicator in his ear, "That is enough,"
The 'interragations' ended.
"See, it isn't that hard. As long as you follow my orders your friends will live free lives under my country's.... protection,"
"Okay," said by Twilight unable to stop crying
"Good, first order of business is to remaned planet Equuis...
Putin raises his hands again
"To the name of GRAND MUSCOVIA!!!"
Ponies vs humans? Thats like fighting people from the dark ages with machine guns. Let the massacre commence!
5731309 I hate TCB and other stories in which Ponies actual defeat FUCKING humans!?! COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLSHIT!
5731427 Yeah, its kinda stupid that the ponies would win. In literature doing this would require so many Dues ex machina's that the story would just end up having too many plot holes to actually make sense. In the actual sense of the show though, where friendship prevails no matter what, it sort of makes sense.
Practically there is no way the ponies would win. Ever.
5731474 Maybe if they outnumber the humans 175-1 and not only have allies such as the Dragons but the humans are ancient/medieval that they would win... at a heavy cost.
Is this yet another story depicting human as greedy murderous assholes? Who's writing this? Chatoyance?
5731528 Mostly. But this is based on militaristic contact between Humans and the Equestrians which in latter stories would include the other species as well.
There are more stories of Ponies BEATING HUMANS than the other way around!
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This is a pony site where the pony proponents hang out.
I have to admit I find the question of which side would win not terribly interesting. Stories are about people and sides aren't people. People have stuff they need or want to even if the side they are theoretically attached to collapses.
So now you've got a story where Equestrians are waking up to Russian occupation (of Canterlot, at least). Now what? The ponies still have to put food on the table. A good chunk of the people (like any people anywhere) are just going to roll with it and let someone else sort out the possibly-not-that-important-to-me question of who gets to be in charge. Farmers still need to get their crops to market disirregardless of the political situation.
Perhaps more interestingly from the perspective of this fic, those who do want to do something about the Russians taking over are going to have to do a lot of learning in a hurry. They're going to have find ways to steal and use Russian tech (occupiers tend towards laxity), learn the strengths and weaknesses of military power and psychology, and figure out how to stretch their magic to give themselves a fighting chance. Alongside that, there's bound to be other human nations that would be massively upset at Russia taking over a whole other planet. If they don't already have the technology to pass to Equestria as the Russians do and/or know about the invasion, it's going to be the resistors' number one priority to find a way to get it to them so that they, in return, can get support from them. That'd be quite a story in itself.
I can't tell if this is an intentional trollfic or if you're trying to be serious with it. A coup de`tat is when power is illegally taken from a government, like a secret police force or a country's military taking over a government, coercing cooperation from a ruler is just war. There's also the small detail of Russia not really gaining anything of any value from taking of an entirely different planet, its not like equestrian has any oil deposits or that Russia needs more land, they can barely supply the outskirts of what they have now I doubt they could afford to supply the occupation of another planet.
5731681 Hint, Who is Russia's biggest ally? The planet has oil, gold, diamond AND A SHIT TON OF RESOURCES AND SLAVES!!!
5731602 There won't be a happy ending for the first story. Was there a happy ending for the Indians or Africans?
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The Indians chased out the Europeans after World War II and went on to develop nuclear weapons. Now they're working on a second aircraft carrier.
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They're doing alright by HaS measurements.
The Africans did eventually achieve independence after eighty-ish years and two world wars. Many of their countries have troubles up the wazoo.
I guess it's a mixed bag. And in any case, the stories didn't "end". Stuff is still happening right up to the present day.
Which their "ally" will happily take from them at the earliest convenience. What does a rising superpower need with an anemic has-been?
5731936 I meant the Native Americans. Anyway economics and technology will play a factor
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Oh, those Indians. You ought to be more specific. Their key weakness was not having any immunity to a zillion European diseases. So long as the ponies aren't ludicrously susceptible to the many diseases every Russian is infected with, they'll be fine. Demographically, at least. Provided the Russians aren't downright genocidal. They might even have a population boom after being conquered the way the (subcontinent) Indians and Africans did.
Technology-wise, they'll have innumerable opportunities to pick it up. Once the occupiers start settling in, the black market will take care of everything. So long as individual ponies can get ahold of things of worth on Earth, enterprising Russians (and their "allies") will find ways to get things they want back from Earth. Digital entertainment, strange foods, technological manuals, weaponry, etc.
The Russians will also be wanting to set up factories, mines, etc. in Equestria. Slave (if that's what we're going for....) workers work cheaper, after all, so there's a financial incentive to moving/creating as much industry in Equestria as possible. Unless they want to bring the slaves to Russia (or unnamed "ally" country) to work, in which the ponies are likely to become even more acquainted with technology. And the internet. And politics. And the various ways subjugated groups have found to bedevil their oppressors throughout human history.
5731809 This is starting to read like 80's anti-soviet propaganda, Russia may be powerhungry but they're not some kind of comic book villain who attacks just because the opportunity is there. I'll admit I forgot how abundantly jewl rich equestria is but resources will mean very little when no one will trade with you. With this story taking place in 2000 that means it will be extremely close to the second Chechen War, and if you don't know what that was then long story short Russia did some bad stuff that got them the wrong kind of international attention. If they followed that up or preceded it with the subjugation of an entire race that might have pushed some heavy duty sanctions into place, again, resources are good as long as someone can buy them and your country doesn't have sanctions forced on it, look at what's happening to them right now.
Is this one of those stories where humans are walking anti-magic?
5732416 Russia under Putin is very scary. The guy is more intelligent and intimidating than most world leaders.
5732479 Magic would be like the TV version. I don't see much application of magic in combat aside from a few main characters. However, what bites the ponies and pretty much all of Equestria the most is that they lack experience in warfare and lack the insane will of humanity to fight on.
5732002 Problem with Equestria is that it is more like a poor Second-world country. It would take at least a decade and a half to catch up with humanity provided they can plan accordingly. The Equestrian races aren't like Japan, those people are very intelligent, going from third-world to first in twenty or so decades.
China and Russia have very good relations, when compared to their relations to America.
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Fifteen years? You're more optimistic than I am.
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He's got a black belt in karate, flies his own fighter jet, has a mysterious secret organization history, and runs his very own evil empire. He's like something from James Bond or pulp fiction. He may not be all that he claims to be, but he's got a heck of a lot more claim on playing tough guy cowboy than Bush ever did.
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The gems will be worthless in a hurry even if they can trade them (and they can; they've got a border with China). Their value is in their rarity. In abundance, they're no more than shiny rocks with some industrial properties. Who spends millions on Moissanite or Cubic Zirconiums?
whoa a lot of dislikes. Lots of bronies hating this fic much? I LOVE IT!!
Cliched Russia... Cliched Putin.... Again. Plus, talking about "exploding heads". If they are a Russian spec ops soldiers (either Alpha, or Vympel, or GRU, or GUSP) - in general, they use only 2 silenced weapons, except pistols. Either sniper assault rifle "Val", or sniper rifle VSS. And both of them are not high-calibre guns. Talking about high-calibre, it must be either T-5000, or OC-44, or "Vyhlop" sniper rifles (the only silenced one here is "Vyhlop", but it is used only by FSB, and they don't act outside the country).
Anyway, if you right about a real people and real countries - you should first learn more about them and only after that - start writing.