Chapter 17: Retaliation
The War Machine
Chapter 17: Retaliation
The gryphon I recovered in Appleloosa didn't give us any new information, so he's just sitting in the castle dungeon for now as a prisoner of war.
It took us four days to reach the outpost on foot and it seems the gryphons knew we were coming.
They have soldiers on the walls with those swivel cannon artillery guns pointing at us, twenty tanks lining up in front of the wooden gates and about two hundred foot soldiers armed with different looking rifles and what appears to be some kind of rocket launcher.
Processing... It would appear they have upgraded their arsenal. "Be careful, it appears they now have rocket launchers as well as a new kind of firearm," I tell the Princesses.
"You mean they have explosive weapons like the ones on your shoulders?" Luna asks worried.
"Possibly, how large their yield is I can only guess until I see them in action," I reply.
I can hear chatter over the gryphon radio channel. 'The scouts were right... they do have more tankers,' one of them says. So they call their tank a tanker.
'Doesn't matter, with our new weapons I'm sure we can take them down,' another replies.
'Why are we even fighting the Equestrians? Wasn't the King on friendly terms with them? And I don’t like those creatures walking around the castle,' another gryphon asks. The sound of metal hitting metal is in the background.
'That's for the higher ups to decide, we just get paid to shoot what we're told to, so shut your beaks and get ready to attack!' a deep gruff voice tells the others.
'Yes sir!' the others reply.
"That's strange, the soldiers think they're taking orders from their old King. There are also strange creatures walking throughout their King’s Castle," I tell the Princesses.
"What? So Jackaal is pulling the strings from the shadows and manipulating the soldiers..." Celestia says. She then looks back out to the outpost.
"That is the most logical theory, he most likely has a double sitting in the King's place and is giving the orders from behind closed doors," I reply.
"That is certainly a possibility..." Luna remarks, her face hidden behind her visor.
I look at the outpost and watch as the gryphons run about. I then connect to their channel in attempt to get them to surrender peacefully. "To whomever is in command, I am Adam, the A.I allied with the Equestrian forces just outside your outpost. We believe forces from this location invaded Equestria and attacked my workshop in an attempt to kidnap Luna. You will surrender peacefully and no gryphon shall be harmed, any resistance will be met with lethal force," I tell them.
"What? So you're the quag dung that's been interfering with our operations," the gryphon who told the others to shut up earlier replies.
"You are being fooled by Jackaal who has killed your King and has taken over. He just want's my technology for himself and he's willing to start a war and get his own people killed in his attempt to take it. I will tell you now, I haven't even used the most powerful and most lethal of the weapons I can make. You are fighting a losing battle and more gryphons will die for his greed unless Jackaal is stopped," I tell him.
"Lies, the King is alive and well, I received my orders from him personally," he replies angrily.
"Then how do you explain the sudden hostilities with Equestria? The King was on friendly terms with Princess Celestia and this all began when Jackaal demanded that I surrender myself to Gryphonia at the gathering months back," I inform him.
There's only silence for a few seconds. "I... the King has been acting cold lately..." he mumbles quietly before he then growls. "No, the King wouldn't lead us astray, if he says this is for the best of Gryphonia then it is so, we will not let you Insult King Thorian any longer. Prepare yourself machine, you shall be destroyed this day," he tells me and closes the connection.
If I could sigh, I would. "Asking them to surrender has failed, our only option is to eliminate their heavy artillery and overwhelm them," I tell the alicorns sisters.
"I see... then so be it. The guards will attack from the front while our tanks attack from the sides. Adam, I want you to remove the artillery on the walls and then help focus on their tan-" Celestia says but is cut off by a loud gunshot.
"Ahhh!" Luna yelps in surprise as a bullet ricochets off her helmet.
I zoom in on the wall with my Titan's main gun camera and see a gryphon holding a rifle with a scope on it and smoke coming out of the barrel.
I aim the the left barrel at him and fire.
The top of the wall splinters as the thick logs shatter under the force of the shell's detonation. The gryphon that shot at Luna is blown to pieces of charred remains, the wall itself is now on fire and the gryphons start to charge at us.
First, they attack Equestria just to get my technology. Second, they attack a town with a large force. Third, they slaughter a tribe of buffalo for an artefact. Fourth, they try to abduct Luna and in the process endanger Eve and killed the guards protecting them, and lastly they just tried to kill Luna in a surprise attack in front of me.
The time for negotiations is over, now I will retaliate.
Calculating... I make the left Titan aim its rocket pods to the left of the wall and target six points to the middle gate, I repeat the process for the right Titan from right to left. I then fire twelve of the Hellfire Rockets at the outpost.
The rockets soar with a trail of smoke behind them, the approaching gryphons stop and stare as the rockets fly over them and impact the outpost walls.
With multiple explosions, the whole front of the wall is blown to bits as burning debris falls onto the gryphons hitting a few of them.
I aim the remaining twelve rockets and launch them into the outpost proper, once again the sound of rockets howling through the air over the gryphons impact the buildings reducing them to nothing more than firewood.
"Outpost destroyed, commencing assault on gryphon troops," I say aloud and make my Titan's advance on the stunned gryphons. I then start jogging beside my Titans with my Assault Rifle and Missile Pods ready to fire.
"Errrr..." Celestia mumbles as she just stares at the devastation.
"Wow..." Luna says in awe.
Celestia then shakes her head and yells out. "Advance!"
The guards start marching towards the gryphons who look back at us with mixed expressions.
"Open fire!" both Celestia and a gryphon yell out.
Bullets and magic bolts start flying at each other, bullets ricochet off my plating as their tanks begin firing at us. Two shells hit my Titans leaving dents in the titanium plating, one heads towards me and I use my left forearm plate to deflect it over me.
"Pegasi bombers, commence bombing run!" Celestia orders the camouflaged pegasi flying overhead.
Crystals then start dropping out of the sky and landing on groups of gryphons before detonating like fragmentation grenades. The shards pierce the Gryphons while the magic energy engulfs the area and burns them as well.
Crude looking rockets are launched at Celestia's tanks and one hits the main gun which bends it at an odd angle from the explosion making it useless.
The other five tanks fire off their shells into the Gryphon tanks destroying or crippling a few of them with each shell.
I fire off two shells into the gryphon tanks destroying two of them as well.
The earth ponies with the heavy shields are leaning against them to keep them upright and to counter any heavy impact on them. unicorns are using them for cover while taking shots with the new Arcana Rifles, any direct hits on bare flesh instantly burns holes into them, the ones to the face are the most gruesome as they leave two inch deep holes in their eyes and vaporise their beaks off.
I open fire with the Minigun Turrets at full auto and just rip into the gryphon forces, a rocket then hits me in the side of my head and sends me onto the ground. After a few seconds to clear the static in my vision I get back up and watch as Luna runs over to the gryphon who shot me and pounces on him, she then puts both Pistols to his head and fires both of them point blank blowing both his eyes out.
"Adam, are you okay?" she asks me with worry through the headset in her helmet.
"I am fine, Luna. Just concentrate on the battle," I reply and open fire with my Assault Rifle into a group of gryphons who are falling back.
Luna gets her Chakrams out and spins them like saw blades and hurls them at the closest gryphons near her while firing the Pistols at those further away. A gryphon sneaks up behind her with a rocket launcher ready to shoot her in the back, but I shoot him in the head making him drop the weapon and slump to the ground.
One of Celestia's tanks gets hit by two shells and stops moving while the others and mine return fire on the remaining tanks.
The fire fight continues for a good ten minutes as another of Celestia's tanks gets destroyed and mine take a lot of dents, some of the titanium plating has even started to crack or peel off as a few bolts holding them on have been knocked loose, but the gryphon tanks are all dealt with now.
We’ve lost nearly half of our ground troops due to their new rocket launchers hitting the earth pony shield bearers killing them and the unicorns behind them.
Celestia dives into a group of gryphons and tucks her wings back behind thick plates to protect them and then uses her magic to control her chakrams, she swings them around herself like a tornado shredding the gryphons around her while bullets are ricocheting off her armour. Her horn glows and she teleports to safety as a rocket impacts just where she was.
I observe the battlefield and notice the gryphons falling back in the direction of Gryphonstone.
The ponies begin to cheer their victory as the gryphons start to flee.
"Fallback! That metal monster is too much! We need to inform the King that the Equestrians are invading!" a gryphon says over their channels.
Invading? I suppose we are invading them now after their failed attempt.
"Huzzah! We have claimed victory!" Luna yells out.
Celestia walks over to me with a grim look. "Those weapons look similar to yours," she tells me.
I walk over to one of the gryphon corpses and pick up one of their new rifles, it's similar in shape as mine but only has one barrel and the magazine only contains ten shots with very crude looking bullet casings. I rip it open and examine the chamber, it seems the next bullet is loaded by pulling back the charging handle which ejects the spent casing and then loads in a new one.
"These are similar to mine but bolt action designed and with a magazine built in, they're advancing quickly," I reply and then pick up one of the rocket launchers.
I aim it at the remains of the outpost and pull the trigger.
A rocket flies out and it veers to the left by two metres and detonates on a ruined building, the explosion seems to have half the force of my micro missiles.
I pick up one of the rockets and examine it, the tip seems to press inward which I believe triggers the detonation, I'll have to take some of these back to the workshop to see how these function.
"What do you wish to do now?" I ask Celestia.
"We will return to Equestria to bury the fallen and tend to the wounded, we may have won, but we suffered too much damage to continue. We also need to build up our forces and ask the other nations for troop support as well," she replies.
"Very well, I'll get Twilight to examine these new weapons so she can get started on the next version of her rifle," I tell her and start gathering some of the weapons and their ammunition, I place them into the hatches of the Titans which need repairs to their plating.
Once we've recovered most of the weapons and ammunition that we can carry, we then load the wounded onto stretchers and the dead onto some makeshift sleds before returning back to Equestria.
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Dang, that was intense!
Looking good. :)
Yeah I like this version a lot more than the old one. Having other people in the equestria really alienated me from the story.
So... no giant robot fight like the old chapter?
7021263
Ditto~
Hmm... now if this "titan" plate armour is so strong... then how can it get dented and peel off from a 40mm? an abrams tank or a challenger tank use composite armour and a 40mm would not even scratch it let alone dent it. So... im confused
7021266 THats a good thing! if you want a Giant robot fight, take it back to Earth. Otherwise Add in Foe's Megaspells, as a direct counter to Terran Nuclear Devices.
7021279 It's only titanium and it took multiple hits from the Gryphon tanks and rockets.
7021266 That'll have to be later now...
7021285 ...Oooooh. *Grins evilly while tapping my finger tips together.*
Much better.
7021297 Think Magically amplified Zombies that literally cannot die even if you shoot them in the head, you have to vaporize them. and some of them are able to keep their intelligence even after multiple regeneration periods. ... Stupid unkillable Canterlot Ghouls. Also turning radio's and Audio devices into lethal head exploding area denial devices. Also Power armor strong enough to counter the anti take weapons used by humans and other groups. Think Adam except with less information tech and as armor for Equine infantry(Similar to luna's suit except it covers the whole body and provides better Damage resistance due to magical Amplification of the Base materials tensile strength.).
This comment is written before reading the first chapter, but I want to say it anyways.
Because the Equestria of the show is ooooh so advanced in the technologically department.
On that note:
technologically
As much as I'd love to see how Adam would do against a war ready mech with a directive to conquer and the arsenal to do such I prefer this over it due to the fact that it would bring far too many confusing elements into this story and possibly force our favorite bot to give his offensive tech to equestria just to contend/survive the gryphon's 'ally'
Much better.
As much as I loved the old chapter this one seems to fit a lot better.
This fits better. I don't have a feeling Discord is trying to screw the whole world anymore.
Gryphons need M109 howitzer and F-35 Lightning II. or battleship yamato.
Holy tartarus
This is better, it feels less random and in your face.
The use of onomatopoeia feels a little childish but I've seen worse. Instead of " pssh pssh pssh pssh pssh" why not write something like " a dozen Hellfire Missles launched from their racks with a roar of fire, speeding through the air towards their targets." I think it would sound better and would make your readers use their imaginations.
All in all this chapter revision feels much better thanks for changing it.
7021345 careful you don't delve too deeply into Fallout Equestria's story. We're not aiming for a prequel to Pip's journey.
That was fun, may I have another? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
I like this one better I didn't like the big robot
7021798 Besides the Equestrians can do a machines worse nightmare in their sleep. EMP or(Electro Magnetic Pulse). So as soon as adam was able to explain what the attack was the Equestrians would have the Field advantage against any us incursion because they can completely nullify our more modern computer aided and run advantages.
I won't nuuuuuuke!!!!!
7021290 Yeesss, I like this revision much better, it's not quite so, "Wait, how'd THAT get there? Because the Gen. would have to: (1)recover; (2)recreate an AI from notes stashed somewhere; (3) Build the AI; (4) Build a combat-worthy Bipedal AI housing; (5) get to Equestria; (6)establish relations; (7) Build relations; (8)'leak' tech for griffon R & D; (9) wait for production..... all in 2.5 years? Hmmm, som-ting not rite hear.."
7021675 True, but if you give the audience a sound and a basic area layout, they can build on the idea; making it more immersive in some cases, instead of going from scratch.
From imitating the sound, 'Pun-shhhh' and matching that sound to other things I know, I used my imagination to design and launch a two stage, high arcing, plunging rocket; with the 'Pun-' being the initial stage to get the munition clear of the user before the rocket motor engaged, the '-shhhh'; the effect being similar to the Javelin shoulder fired weapon used by the U.S. Military.
I have the feeling that there are humans with the gryphons. Just a bit
7023054 Well, before the revision, that was directly and unabashedly shown by another, military-controlled AI fighting Adam at the end; however, that ending has now since been changed out.
Look, don't change your overall storyline for us. I admit the last ending didn't really make sense, there was no buildup, no intruige leading up to the final payoff,
But that doesn't mean it can't be fixed. Know I'm not telling you to change your story again, but in future let the story run its course and let us readers and commenters merry steer the next chapter, not change the river we're in. Use our feedback to better the future of the story rather than change the past.
This ending is a lot better and makes much more sense.
I don't care either way tbh.
How are they not reacting to how fast the gryphons are advancing their weapons? It's a bit suspicious, no?
Hmmm, starting to think Jackaal has Changeling assistance to pull this off, a Changeling could easily take the emperor's place and keep things going the way Jackaal wants. Still, I think Adam needs to give Equestria some Kevlar or other bullet proof material for Guard armor... the ponies are dying pretty quick and that's very depressing.
Also, I apparently missed the first version of this chapter, what happened in that????
Grate the evil general is alive a turn into a robot but why is he here and why is he working with the brid people
7027507 AU tag at its finest.
The gryphons never stood a chance.
So an imposter instead of the real king. I guess we now know what the changeling communication going on in the previous chapter was, huh?
Unless it's something completely different.
Time to retreat and honor the fallen. And then to crush the gryphon command to bits.
7022403 That implies that we don't harden our equipment against a valid military weapon that hasn't been used since the early 1950's. When we used it twice as a weapon. Yeah, this comment feels half thought out. After all, Adam has one built in, effectively.
7043773 Do you know how an EMP fries machinery? Have you ever read a report involving an accident involving an EMP?
{(Here are a few links to studies on Electromagnetic Pulses)
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just because the wiring is hardened and is water proof, does not mean that the data or even the device itself will survive the ravages of an EMP wave. Also the Military typically does not attempt to shield devices that are already committed to the field.
THe Containment for his core must act as a Faraday Cage, in that it separates the core from the rest of him and ensures that it is Isolated from the Electromagnetic pulse, that is also not counting the other critical systems that must be Isolated from the rest of his body in the event of an Emp, just to avoid being permanently shut down by the frying of critical systems in the mind and body. As for humans coming across, they'd need the foreknowledge that their enemy has the capability of wiping out their electronics in one fell swoop, in essence silencing their communication and shutting down any vehicles and batteries they'd brought along, not to mention their computers would be out of commission until someone brought more through the portal.
If informed of human involvement, the AI that is ADAM has an end Game solution if he cannot convince the humans to return and that is to just shut them down and revert their tech back to before Electricity and Electronic devices. And don't tell me the ponies cannot, they can easily attach spells to objects(smarty pants incident) And they can use electricity, (Lightning from a cloud via Rainbow Dash, and the Equipment Twilight used to study Pinkie Pie.)
Adam, has a backup method that can lower the humans and their equipment down to the same level as the Equestrians and Griffons.
'http://www.empauthority.com/what-is-emp/'
Just, don't underestimate the threat that an EMP can impose on a battlefield, especially a modern one(Especially since we'd loose any and all air support from our fighter jets and hellicopters).
7044148 The most advanced equipment is last to get EMP protection. Guess what Adam is. Also, considering this is so far as we know, just a military group with an attached diplomat, and they are still using radio waves, the likelihood of them bringing over anything more complicated than an old model of Gatling gun just to stack the deck in their favor if the Griffins do decide to betray them... Yeah, the only thing that will be effected by an EMP would radios, the apaches once their built, the Titan tanks, and Adam with his untouched magic pool except for experiments a few chapters back and nothing really to show for it. This is assuming they don't direct the electrical discharge, which we haven't managed.
7044176 Not just major machines, other devices would also be effected, Night vision scopes, modern Long range vision equipment, Lazer pointers, IF IF, the metal is heated enough, Gunpowder filled bullets, Electric Lighters, Night Vision Goggles, defibrillators, medical Equipment. Anything that is sensitive and is used to aid troops in combat would be jeopardized. even any equipment they've brought across to use in the stabilization of the portal to earth. Yea I don't think the General would survive without access to any of his critical medical systems either.
They brought over a mech suit, I imagine they brought more than that. Also The equestrians would definitely be able to direct their anti Tech devices.
7044188 Anti tech is such a broad term. A heavy enough sand storm is anti tech. Also, there was a modification to the chapter, instead of the general and a mech, just mention of something other than Griffins in the capital city giving troops a weird feeling.
7044205 Doesn't mean he changed what was brought over.
Unicorns could also do the sand storm if they had a specialization in the subject.
7044522 Fair enough. Or just use pegasi. Because it is a type of weather. The only requirement is they have the pegasi gather up or bust every single cloud in Griffonstone, then tornado. Of course, making a contained super storm is easier said than done I imagine.
Okay, so pretty much the griffins are really being mindfucked here.
7045634 indeed, it took a lot of pegasi just to make a waterspout strong enough to take the water straight to the weather factory.
... Oh great, now I have the movie Sharknado stuck in my head.
7046572 I am sorry for that.
this is better......I didn't like the last where the generalmcdouchenbaggin was still alive, I like this better! sorry if I seem rude.........but yah.........ded ppl need to stay ded
7052396 or both i mean i think a tank shot him
7057902 yes at the end of the first chapter end gets shot with multiple tank shells ripping of his arm and leg.
7058388 oh.. it riped his leg off.. oh well well it at least did not explode some how
7060415 Yes, he and the humans shooting him are lucky his core didn't detonate.