> Ponies in war > by General Sparky > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Equestrian Military > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equestria has a big army prepared for war with humans. The Equestrian Navy(EQN) consists of mainly battleships and 4 aircraft carriers. Most of the ships in Equestria's navy is based on WW2 designs. The EQN Battleships fleet are centered on Yamamoto, Iowa, Bismarck and King George V-class battleships, all battleships are equipped with 20 inch main guns and heavy anti-air weapons- at least ten 20mm Oerlikon cannon on battleships. The EQN Aircraft Carrier fleet is centered on Yorktown and Shokaku class carriers, these carriers are equiped with 10 inch main guns, a flight deck of 300 metres and heavy anti-air weapons- at least 15 20mm oerlikon cannon on carriers. The EQN has smaller, more modern ships but is only restricted to patrol. These ships has a 76mm Oto Melara main gun and 2 CIWS (Close in weapons systems) 20mm gatling gun and has Surface to Surface missiles(SSM) and Surface to Air surface missiles(SAM). These ships are restricted to patroling as Equestria's High Command think that these ships look weak with a small main gun. The EQN has NO submarine fleets because they don't need one. The EQN high command is more focused on building ships with BIG main guns to intimidate the enemy and for range purposes as well. The EQN usually do not conduct naval exercises as the battleships main guns could reach as far as the Dragons Lair when fired at maximium range and from port. The Equestrain Ground Forces(EGF) consists of a total of 20 tanks, 10 artilery pieces, 40 8.8cm flak anti-air gun scattered around Equestria as GBAD(Ground Based Air Defence), 15 military installation scattered around Equestria and around 10000 ponies strong. It is the most neglected force among the three armed services(Land, Sea, Air). EGF's tanks are based on tanks designs like the Mark 4 and A7V tank(ww1). Among these, there is only 5 Leopard2SG tanks. The rest A7Vs tanks have one 120mm main gun on the front and the sides are filled with smaller 50mm guns. The Mark 4 is equiped with 4 120mm guns on its sides and one front 60mm gun. EGF's artillery has the 155mm gun. EAF artillery group has no MLRS(Multiple Rocket Launch Systems). Equestria Air Force(EAF) is made up of Spitfire, Zeros, BF109, Mustang-class fighters. These planes are redisigned to make sure that any pony could fly them. EAF is made up of B-29, DO 217, Lancaster-class bomber planes. Though all of the EAF's planes are based on WW2, the EAF has some ME 262-class jet fighters and some Arado Ar 234-class jet bomber. EAF also has 40 attack helicopters, namely the Apache-class attack helicopters and has 100 multi purpose helicopters based on the Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk-class, these multi pupose helicopters are mainly put on battleships flight/rear deck for scouting and if necessary, landing troops. > What is that Ship?! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new ship has been produced and is ready for comissioning. This new ship is designed by Princess Twilight. When asked about why she wanted to design a new ship, her only reply was that the navy needed a new ship, capable of firing big guns and launch much more aircraft. This new ship was nothing anypony thought was possible. The ship has a flight deck of 500m in length, has a width of 150m, capable of carrying 150 aircraft, with 25 inch gun on its sides, has two 8.8cm flak on its front and back( directly below flight deck), capable of carrying 6000 ponies onboard, launching four aircrafts at once. The command post on the carrier is 60m high and 5m in width and 50m in length. The ship is equiped with 2 CWIS gun on deck, several heavy machine gun beside the 25 inch gun(for anti- aircraft purposes). It is the largest ship built in the EQN. Manehatten Harbour, Commissioning hour. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna was the Guest of Honor for the event. Princess Cadance could not make it as she has to deal with Princess Flurry Heart. Prince Shining Armor was able to make and was there just to witness the begining of a new age in naval surface warfare. Everypony in Equestria has heard of this commisioning. Lots of ponies attended the event, including the mane 6. Shortly after everypony has settled down, Celestis standed at a make shift stand and started to deliver her speech. "It is the largest ship ever built for its purpose. This maybe only a ship, but who knows what new doors in naval warfare will this ship open. This shall be the begining of a new stage in Equestria naval deterence." Princess Celestia stopped for a moment and got her serious tone and complete the speech," I, Princess Celestia, hereby commission ESS Independence into the Equestrian Navy." As she said that, a bottle of champange slammed into somewhere near the ship's front but below deck. Everypony started to clap at Celestia's speech. Although it was a short one, it was still recorded and filmed. There was a huge party at the dock, near where ESS Independence was commission. This was the best day in my life, Twilight thought. Twilight was the captain of Independence and was granted permission to bring her friends along for Independence's 'main voyage'. Independence's main voyage was to sail out the Celestial Sea and out into the unknown. During Independence's 'main voyage', it will be escorted by two, later increased to four, battleships. Namely 2 Iwoa-class, one Yamamotto-class and one Bismarck-class Battleship. When Twilight was informed that the escort was increased to four battleship, instead of the original two, she asked High Command about the arrangement. She recieved a letter about the issue a few days later. It was written as follows: Dear Princess Twilight, In regards to the extra battleships arrangement, the extra Battleships will ensure the Carrier and those ponies onboard safety out in the open. It will also give more concealment of the carrier's presence. The large Carrier will definatley draw much attension from neighbouring countries, so having more battleships will help prevent any suprise attack the carrier might have. P.S I personally think the carrier is too big a target, having more battleships will ensure that the carrier is not sunk. Yours Truly, High Command Twilight cried while reading the message. She thought that her masterpiece was supposed to be a form of deterence, same with the battleships she had designed based on what she has been through in ww2 but she never thought that the High Command cared more about concealment and firepower the carier possesed, rather than using it for peace keeping operations. While she was crying silently, she did not realise that her coltfriend has arrived. Seeing Twilight crying, Sparky walked over and said," Twilight, why are you crying?" Twilight, instead of saying something, ran into Sparky and used her fore hooves to hug him. As Sparky was hugging Twilight, Twilight said something but it was quite not understandable from her crying. Twilight said something like, "They....they....only....want....the....pendence....for....firepower....they...they....don't....dence." Suprisingly, Twilight said the last few words of the sentence cleary, "They want war, not Independence." Sparked with sudden realisation, Sparky suddenly started crying too. They will spend the night crying to sleep in Twilight's Castle. > A carrier's voyage- what could go wrong? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight's castle, the next day "Twilight, are you there?" asked Spike. "I'm in the planning room, don't come down, go prepare breakfast and get me a book about Aircraft Carriers!" yelled Twilight. "Why would you need a book about Aircraft Cariers?" Sparky asked. "Just a distraction." "I almost forgot, HQ(Head Quatters) wants 5 tanks and a couple of attack helicopters in the carrier for the voyage. HQ originally wanted more but I convince them to reduce the number of EGF onboard the carrier." "****, of all the things they want me to carry onboard MY ship, they want me to put ground troops and AH(attack helicopters)in it. Why did HQ say that?" "HQ says it is to test the carrier, they want to make sure that the carrier is capable of carrying lots of troops across the sea." "Fine, at least it couldn't get any worse, right?" Twilight and Sparky went back up to the dining room to have Breakfast. Manehatten habour, on the command post of the ESS Independence "Are you ready, Admiral Twilight?" Sparky asked. "Stop calling me that! By the way, you look different, Field Marshall Sparky." Twilight repiled with a grin. "I can say the same about you." Sparky said, pointing at Twilight's Navy uniform. As they were enjoying teasing about their new uniforms, a voice came out from the radio, "Independence is leaving habour, raise anchor, I repeat, Independence is leaving habour, raise anchor." Twilight sighed as she went to the control pannels and pushed the button "Recover Anchor". The anchor slowly came up and tugboats nearby started 'pulling' the carrier out of habour. The 4 battleships escort was already out at sea. The Battleships were equiped with two helicopters-one multi purpose and one attack helicopter and a scouting plane for this mission. ESS Independence has 10 helicopters onboard- five multi purpose and five attack helicopter, 5 tanks- 2 mark 4, 2 A7Vs and one Leopard2SG, 50 aircrafts- 10 Mustang, 20 zeros, 10 spitfires and 10 BF109s. Soon, Independence was out at sea. The Battlegroup soon headed south, towards Dragon Liar. Celestial sea ,river in between Dragon liar and Griffonstone, 1 hour later Map used for reference: Suddenly, the sky turned dark and harsh winds started to appear out of nowhere. Radar and sonar onboard the battlegroup started to malfunction, everything onboard started to to not make sense. "Of all days for a storm, it has to be this day!" Twilight started to wine about the weather to Sparky. "Twilight, what should we do?" A sailor asked via radio. "Keep sailing forward, going back will be harder in this storm." "Yes ma'am!" Sparky, just to play safe, comanded via radio., "Keep those big guns at the ready, be prepared to fire!" "Yes, Sir!" 30 minutes later The storm started to clear away, but their surroundings is different. Instead of seeing dragons or Griffons, they only saw sea and the time on Twilight computer states that the date is 1st September 1939. She thought for a while and told Sparky, "****, we went back in time to the begining of the battle of Poland. Sparky heard what Twilight said and look at the Equestrain positioning system [later changed to the global positoning system(GPS)], Sparky was a bit shock at what he sees. "I don't belive it, we are in the north seas, heading south, towards Nazi Germany." "What?! Are you serious, we have just been there 50 years ago." "Whatever, tell the convoy to be prepared to face British or German naval patrol." Twilight rushed to the radio set. Via the radio set, Twilight told the conyvoy, "We are approaching Germany at our current course and that we are in the north seas. Everypony to battlestations, keep a lookout for British or German naval patrol. No guns to be fired unless I say so." "Yes ma'am!" echoed through the radio. As everypony started to man their guns on the battleships, aircrafts and helicoptors were being placed on the flight deck, ready to take off at Twilight or Sparky's command. Map for reference: German navy's perpective "Sir, unknown convoy has been spotted around 60 miles off the coast via radar" "Send one destroyer to investigate." The officer said. "Yes, Sir!" Z23, A Type 1936A class destroyer was out at sea when the order came. The crew of Z23 scramble to their guns and everyone was on high alert. The Commanding Officer (CO) of Z23 was Lieutentant Jacky. When Jacky heard the order, he has mixed reactions. On one hand, it is good that the German navy saw some action. On the other hand, it could result in the inofficial declaration of war by the British. Equestrain Battlegroup, 50 miles off the German coast, 10 miles from the destroyer Sparky and Twilight was planning their next move when the radar showed up with a new target. "Sir, a German Destroyer is approaching, should we fire?" "No! I want somepony to establish radio contact with that destroyer." Sparky said in a rush. "Yes, Sir!" Sparky and Twilight was practically think about the same thing: Make peace with the German navy at all costs Z23, 9 miles to battlegroup "Sir, we recieved a message from the convoy." "What does it says?" It says that they want to make radio contact with us. "Fine, put them through the radio." Jacky responded with a irritated tone. "This is the Equestrian Navy, this is the equestrain navy, do you read?" "Read you loud and clearly." Jacky responded. "Good, I am Twilight and I am the CO of this fleet." "Nice to meet, you. But can you tell me why your fleet is heading towards Germany?" "We got lost in a storm, Sir." "How many ships are with you?" "1 Aircraft Carrier and 4 Battleships." Jacky was stunned by that statement. They were supposed to 'intercept' and if necessary, sink this fleet, with that amount of firepower, they could easily sink Z23 first. "Wait a minute, what navy are you from again?" "We are from the Equestrain navy. Why?" "I have never heard of that country before." "That I can understand." Jacky, surprised and dumbfounded, stared at his ship. "Are you allied with Britain or France?" "No, why you ask?" "It is to make sure that you are not our enemys." "Oh, I see." "Ok, Come follow us, we will lead you to Germany for repairs and refuel." "Ok, Thx, I guess...." With that the conversation between the COs ended. Jacky is only allowing them to go to Germany is that they are not allied with any countries, but he will soon discover the harsh realities of what they are. > Secrets in the chain of command > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Princess Celestia, Luna and Cadance usually was absent during High Command's meetings as they need to be doing some Princess stuff. The Princesses will only join the meeting if there is a big military exercise or if the country is on the state of war. The head of these meetings is usually Sparky or Twilight, they are usually the ponies that decide things in the Equestrian military. But within the High Command, there are commanders that is always pushing for more advanced military equipment, like more leopard2SG Main Battle Tanks(MBT), or build some of the newer F-16SG fighter jets. These were usually not approved by Sparky and Twilight. But this does not mean that they did not amass these military equipments secretly. One of these commander is Brigadier General Rainy Shimmer, more commonly known as Rain, Rain wanted more of these military equipment so as to out produce any nation, including the United states of America(USA), so that Equestria would win in any war with any nation. (which he expects to happen sometime soon) Rain has managed to convince several commanders to join her campaign in the name of 'protecting Equestria'. These commanders managed to convince their armies to start to produce these weapons of morden war. Many of these weapons are amassed in secret. Some of these weapons includes T-14 Armata and M1A3 Abrames MBT, F-16 fighter jets and Chinhook Helicoptors. These weapons were all bulit underground, but effective should they be needed. Due to the fact that these were ammased in secret means that Sparky, Twilight and the princesses do not know about the event. By the time the carrier was comissoned, every commander but Sparky and Twilight in High Command was in Rain's group. Due to the amount of commanders under Rain's control, Sparky and Twilight tried their best to mantain balance of power in High Command. Rain's group which was known as Delta force by Sparky and Twilight, has switched thier groups objective. Due to their massive build up of arms, Delta Force became more aggressive. With this new agressive stance, more commanders started wanting war with the USA. Once this superpower was taken care of, they could start to take over other nations on Earth. Sparky and Twilight stopped Delta Force every time they tried to delcare war on USA. Which make Delta Force change tatics. Delta Force will wait for the right moment to strike. High Command HQ, a few days before the carrier's voyage "Rain, the portal reopened." a Colonel reported. "Just on time, get me the commanders of the 4 battleships escort." "Yes, ma'am!" The commanders of the 4 battleships are: Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer, Sunburst and Twinkle Rosemary. They came soon after they recieved the order. "Rain, they are here." "Good, tell them to wait in the planing room." "Yes, ma'am!" Planing room "Why do you want us here,Rain? I thought we have done everything that you ordered us to do." Starlight asked. "I asked you to come here is to tell you ponies a change of plans." There was no response from the battleship commanders ao Rain continued. "The portal has opened. I want you ponies to lead Independence throught the portal, make sure that they reach the other side and join Germany's war effort." She paused, as if she just realises something. "No, make them join Japan's instead." "What are you talking about Rain? Germany is not at war and neither is Japan currently." "The portal will lead you ponies into WW2, which means that Germany and Japan is at war. I want Independence to join Japan's war effort, or even better, join the srike in Pearl Habour." "Is that all?" Starlight asked nervously. "No. All of your battleships should participate in Japan/ Germany/ Italy's war effort in the Battle of the Atlantic or in the Mediterianean sea." "Yes, ma'am!" echoed across the room. "Good, all of you may leave now." Rain is planing something that will change WW2 forever but that depends on whether Sparky and Twilight will let her do it. > Equestrian-German alliance > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Perpective: Z23, 5 miles from battlegroup "Sir, we have have visuals on the convoy!" "Good, tell the crew to fire a flare." Jackey commanded. "Yes, Sir!" A flare was fired not soon after. "Sir, the convoy is a bit wierd to say the least." "What do you mean?" "There is some weird flying object on the carrier and the carrier has a lot of ponies on deck." "What?!" Jackey quickly took out his binoculars and look at the carrier. Jackey, with other crew on deck looking at the carrier, was shocked. The only thing that Jackey could say was, "That is impossible! Unless..., No it couldn't be. It's them." Jackey, with the crew of Z23, stood there for a couple of minutes watching as the carrier and the escort battleships came closer. A crew, with sudden relisation, yelled, "Turn this ship 180 and quickly!" The sailor, which was in the command post, turn the steering wheel 180 degrees which made the ship turned from Port(left) to Starboard(right). Jackey, with sudden relisation, blew out a sigh of relief and commanded the crew to stay on high alert for British patrol ships and,if necessary, sink them. Perpective: Sparky The carrier flight deck was filled with Helicopters, Planes ready for takeoff and some ponies on the deck rearanging the planes and helicopters. A flare came out of the Z23. 'Alright, Germany, proof me wrong' I thought. "Sparky, are you ready to face them sgain?" Twilight asked, through a spell that I thought her during WW2, where we need personal communication. "Ready or not, I just want to keep those guns from firing at anything." "Agreed. So, how do we do that exactly?" "We go to Japan, take part in the battle for Pearl Habour and hope for a peace deal." "I hope so, what if they refuse the peace deal?" "We will go and take a couple of coastal cities from USA and cause high casualties on thier side and try to get another peace deal then. If that dosen't work, we will capture thier nukes and threaten peace. I hope neither of those would ever be needed for peace." "But how do we get the German navy to allow us to go to Japan to begin with?" "We will join the Axis Powers and then just say that we go to Japan in support of their war effort." "Good plan." "Thanks, let's focus on getting to Germany then." "Agreed." With that Twilight ended the spell. As if on cue, A crewman radioed in, "We are following Z23, and is closing in on Germany." "Great, prepare to launch recon planes," I radioed back. "Yes, Sir!" Perpective: Jackey "Sir, they are launching planes!" "What?!" I ran back to the command post and started to grt the radio. "Attension, this is Z23, why are you launching your planes?" "Don't worry, this 'plane' will land on your deck to answer some of your 'questions'." "What?! No plane could do that and fruthermore or deck is too small to land a plane." "Don't worry, this 'plane' will hover over your deck and send in my ponies via roping descend." "What? I never heard of a plane that could do that and I also do not heard of a phrase called 'roping descend.' " I thought that the CO on that carrier was carzy as he or she must be joking. I was proven wrong when a plane was hovering above my ship and ponies started to rope down from it. Thats impossible, nopony and no plane could do that, I thought. My mind keep telling me that this is not real. But what I saw compleltely changed my mind. The ponies which just roped downed was the 2 COs that I just talked to and two guards. I started coming out of the command post to join my crew on deck. From what I heard from the crew, the two COs is a mare and a stallion. The mare was called Twilight and the stallion was called Sparky. What was weird was that they has wavy hair, have wings and a horn, which I have never seen before. I walked with cation as I approach them. A crew, which somehow spotted me in the crowd, said loudly, "Hey, everyone, Jackey is here!" I am pretty sure I would give him a smack after this, but with everyone on deck, inculding the 4 ponies, looking at me, I just couldn't bare to do it. I will do it later, I thought. "Hi, Twilight and Sparky, Welcome onboard Z23." "Thanks, you are Jackey right? The CO of this ship." I was surprised at how he knew my name and so I asked him, "How do you know my name and rank?" Sparky repiled with a cheecky smile and said," It was simple, your voice betrayed you. Do you really think I do not recognise the voice that has been talking to me on radio sice we got here?" I was astouded by what Sparky said, He could easily be an Itelligence Officer just by what he has said. I started to look at the pony standing beside him, and smiled. From thier stance, I could tell that they were couples or boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. "Twilight, I suppose, could I ask you a question?" "You just asked one and yes you could." I stared dumfoundedly at what this mare said, she just outright burned me. But nonetheless I asked, "Are you guys in a love relationship?" Both ponies blushed and answered in unison, "Yes, we are." Everyone that was there was shocked at the response. I never saw such a couple that could so admittedly declare thier love for one another in front of a strager like myself. Sadly the moment couldn't last. Soon, they flew away back to their ship. I looked at them, admiring them for having wings, flying fredomly throught the air. I wished that moment could have lasted longer, even if they are strangers to me, it feels like they are like one of us one way or another. I mentally wanted to say this to them: I wish you ponies good luck in your love relationship, you ponies thought me something I will never forget. Thank you. As if they could read my mind, I heard them say you are welcome in my mind. I tell myself to never forget this moment. Soon, we have escorted them to a port in Germany I said my last goodbyes and they were gone, of to probably see Admiral Doneitz, head of German navy. German port A lot of bystanders and working in the port started to stare into the new ships that has just called to port. The ponies, acting like nothing, started climbing down the stairs. What the bystanders were looking at was not the ponies, but the ships. For them, they never thought that a carrier or a battleships could have such big guns. During the era, the largest guns were 18 inches, but the ponies' battleships and carrier has bigger guns, 25 inches. Some sailors on the port started to question if such a ship was even possible. Sparky and Twilight has already flew away to somewhere deep in Germany, the ponies did not question thier COs and carried on with what they were doing. The mane 6 started to alight from the carrier they have been in for so long. They were told to get supplies as the crew was busy cleaning the ships. "Finally, some fresh air. Being on that ship was the WORST. POSSIBLE. THING." Rarity said. "Cheer up, Rarity, have a cupcake." Pinkie said as she gave Rarity a cupcake from nowhere. "Thanks, Pinkie, that certantly brighthen up my mood." "You are welcome." "Can we get back on track?" Spike asked. "Oh, I just forgottened why are we here. What are are we supposed to do again?" Fluttershy asked. "To get some suppiles for those ships." Spike said with a sigh. "Thanks for reminder, Spike." "Sure, anytime." Spike said with a smile appearing on his face. The mane 6 started walking in the port, looking around for a suppiles store. "Do you know where we could get supplies?" Rainbow Dash asked a random bystander. The bystander responded by pointing to the right, where there is a a couple of soildiers and some suppiles there. "Thanks!" With that the mane 6 are off, only to be stopped by the soildiers. The soildiers were polite enough to give some suppiles to them under the condition that the mane 6 paid for it that is. Applejack took out a wallets that Sparky has gave them and managed to purchase the suppiles. The Mane 6 returned to the ship shortly after they purchased the suppiles. German navy's headquatters, Perpective: Twilight and/or Sparky We walked into the naval base located at near the port. We walked in the base with everybody staring at us. They tried to appear friendly and not hostile. We asked for Admiral Donetiz from everyone that we pass by. But they appear to know where he is and not tell us anything about him. No matter, we just used the mind reading spell and found him. He was in the planning room with a couple of guards but the guards refused our entry. So, we knocked them unconcious and entered the room. Admiral Donetiz appeared to be planning a huge naval operation when we entered. "Who let them in here?" Donetiz asked angrily. Sparky repiled," No one let us in here, we let oursevles in peacefully and forcefully." "How dare you." Donetiz said with a murderous stare. "I was planning something important when you guys entered." "What you are planning is for the battle of the Altantic, aren't you?" Twilight asked. "How did you guys know?" We repiled in unison, "It was simple, the ship pieces on your map are all focus in the Altantic Sea." "Fine, you ponies win, what do you want?" "I want to join the Axis powers' navy." "Tell that to the fuhrer." "Our counterparts already did that." "What do you mean?" "You see, we already met the fuhrer before this by teleportation. He has accepted us to the navy and you have 3 battleships at your command. Our carrier and one battleships will be off to somewhere esle. You can check with the fuhrer later. For now, we will be leaving." As the ponies left, Donetiz stared at his battleplans and smiled. Spoilers alert and explaination for why no one was shocked when the ponies appeared. The ponies was not an common sight in Germany but Equestria has already made contact with Germany during WW1 by the Princesses as a hope to take back thier personal students. It ultimately failed. The fact that Sparky and Twilight was a brilliant commander in WW1( despite this Germany still lost the war) made Germany's High Command to keep them in Germany at all costs. Germany tried to warn its citizens that a war with talking ponies maybe inevitable. This made Germany's citizens knew that there were talking ponies. The Princesses, who saw that Germany is more advanced than Equestria, eventually withdrew their case and let Sparky and Twilight stay in Germany. Admiral Twilight and Sparky will NOT meet their past selves in this story. This story will be focused on Naval Battles in the Pacific while the original series will be focused on the Land/ Air Battles in Europe. There may be some of these Battles reference on one another. > Preleud to the Battle of Pearl Habour > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update on situation: The carrier and a Yamamoto-class battleship left Germany's port on 5 September 1939. The British and French Army declared war three days prior. The three remaining battleships will later take part in the Battle of the Altantic. English Channel, 6 September 1939, Perpective: Twilight Our fleet has been separated, the original convoy has just lost three battleships to the German Navy, Sparky thought. We are on our way to Japan, having to cross the Suez canal and pass through th port city of Singapore, but is currently in the English channel. Everypony was put on high alert as we could be intercepted by the French or British Navy. We had some encounters with both the British and French Navy but managed to outrun their ships. The carrier and the Battleship was able to travel faster than even the fastest destroyer in this era. Luckily or not luckily, we had to engage some destroyers during our journey. We managed to sink some of these ships due to our 25-inch guns and probably scared of the rest. Later, we managed to enter the Mediterean Sea and no much happened there as the sea was controlled by Axis nations. Our ships could stay afloat without resupply for about 40 days without engagement. After coming out of the Suez cannal, we went into the Indian Ocean. The experience was terrible as we had to put up a smoke screen almost our entire journey just to make the ships was hidden. Straits of Malacca, 3 days to reaching Singapore. The entire straits was guarded with British warships. So, as to ensure that we have no need to engage them, we lied to them that we are part of the British Expeditionary Force(BEF) and they took the bait. We later call at the port of Singapore, so that the crew could rest. When we are in Singapore, we took a little siteseeing, It has little landmarks at the time, so there wasn't much to see. But we get to see some of the British defences when we were there. It was an Imprenable Fortress, there was a lot of Guns installation towards the south of the city and has airfields which could launch WW1 planes and the British has a sizeable amount of men here but no tanks. Honestly, Sparky and I feel pity for these men, knowing what will happen during the Battle of Singapore. My mind keep telling me to tell these Soildiers what would happen but we has already changed History so much that I can't bring myself to tell these guys thier flaws. After all, we are techincally siding with the Axis, if we tell them their flaws, they will improve thier defences and probably defeat Yamashita's forces before they reached the Causeway. I sighed. But since we are planning to help Japan in Pearl Habour, we couldn't bring ourselves to tell the BEF that. I was informed that the ponies had a good time here, some even hang out with the troops during this time. I kind of feel pity for these men, these men look more suited for WW1 than WW2, and that they will die/ be captured for 'defending Singapore'. A few days later, we found ourselves back on the Pacific Ocean, restocked with suppiles. We head northwest, towards Japan. Fort canning HQ, the day after the ponies left "Those ponies look so cute, honestly, I can't belive they are capable in building Massive ships." a Colonel said. "Only if the carrier could stay here longer. I miss those ponies, even if it was only a few days meeting them." A Navy commander said. "Stop your bewilderment!" ordered Lieutenant General Aruther.E. Percival. "Come'on Percival, Stop being so manly." the Colonel teased. "Look, I would have ordered them to stay for military reasons but they disagreed ok?" Percival responded with a irritated tone. A moment of silence filled the room. "The carrier is the only carrier the Britain has gave us for the defence for Singapore, I can't stand losing another one." "Another one, Sir?" the navy commander asked. "Look, High Command said that I will get a carrier and it has still not arrived!" Percival said it angrily. "Calm down, Percival, at least there is two battleships." Percival walked out of the room immediately, due to the fact that they do not see the full picture. The truth? Big battleships are useless with no air cover and that a carrier would boost morale among British troops and deter the Japanese from attacking. "Oh, let that old man be." With that, the meeting ended. Japan, perpective: Sparky A pony on the flight deck just radioed in that we are nearing Japan. I have spent 2 months in the open seas and finally we are here. I thought. Japan's navy was quick in intercepting the carrier and battleship. We merely told them that Germany sent us and Japan's coastal guard started to escort the two ships to Tokyo Habour. Our response to the British? I told them we were intercepted by Japan's Navy and cut the Radio. Hopefully the British don't send in a rescue fleet. Being in Japan two months after the battle of Poland bring back some memories as... Never mind, I don't want to spoil the main series. I turned to face the 'audience'. We were welcomed by Admiral Yamamoto himself. Just before we got of the carrier, He said, "follow me, we have a lot of things to discuss." Twilight and I followed him to his planning room while the troops have some Shore leave. Yamamoto's planning room, Perpective: Twilight "Please, take a sit" Yamamotto said, with his hands guesturing at a soft cushion. After we took our seat, Yamamoto said in a serious tone, " I have heard that your carrier and battleship wants to join the Imperial Japanese Navy(IJN)." "That would be correct." Sparky repiled. "Fine, but I need you and that mare to take a oath of alligence to our Emperor." Sparky and I rose up from our seats and raise my right front hooves and said, "I, Twilight Sparkle, woul swear alligence to the Empire of Japan and to its Emperor." Yamamoto, which looks satisefied, smiled and take a map and put it on the table and said, "Since you have swore alligence, I ask you, would your carrier take part in the strike at Pearl Habour?" Sparky and I answered in unison, "Yes!" "Good, for now we will discuss about what your carrier will do in this battle. First, what is your carrier's capablity?" I anwered, "Our carrier is capable of carrying over 150 aircrafts, Main guns maxinum range is more than 60000 yards or around 55km." Yamamoto looked shock and repiled, "You are kidding, right? No carrier has 'main guns' and could carry 150 over aircrafts. The Yamamoto-class battleships could only reach a maxinum range of 42km and our most advanced shokaku-class carrier could only carry up to around 100 aircrafts at most." Sparky took out a photo of the carrier that was placed side by side the Yamamoto-class battleship. Admiral Yamamoto was shocked, he stare at the picture for around five minutes, probably examining the ship from front to back. He admitted defeat and said, " I am quite impressed, can I take a look about this carrier?" Sparky and I has some hesitation but we finally agreed to let him see the carrier for himself. Tokyo's dock Admiral Yamamoto was excited to see this carrier. He himself actually want to ask more questions about the carrier but was told by Sparky and Twilight that the imformation was Condfidential. Despite this, Yamamoto boarded the ship. There was pretty much no pony in the ship, all gone to do some siteseeing in Tokyo. The three of them boarded the carrier, they went into the hanger, into the main gun itself and the command deck. When Twilight asked Yamamoto what does he think of the ship, his reply was, "this ship is interesting, if I am not wrong, this ship is from the future, isn't it?" Twilight repiled," It is from the future, how did you know that?" "Simple, if I am not wrong, the planes of the future will be faster than our current planes and needs a longer flight deck to land." "Just don't tell anyone, please?" "I won't, but that dosen't mean USA won't." "Don't worry, this ship is capable of anti- intelligence, so long as USA tries to find out more about this ship, USA will recieve false imformation. Don't ask how, it is just there." Yamamoto took some time to process the Information he has been told and said, "Since your carrier can carry more troops and planes, I suggest your troops capture Pearl Habour." "What?!" Sparky and Twilight responded. "Your carrier is the only carrier that has the capability to capture Pearl Habour. That was my original plan but even our most advanced ships dosen't has the ability to do that." Sparky, surprisingly showed no hesitation, repiled, "Don't worry, Yamamoto, We will do it." "Good." Trailer for next Chapter: "The stage has been set, the battle of Pearl habour will mark the begining of a new age in Naval Warfare" -Sparky "A day the USA will live in infamy." -Twilight > Battle of Pearl Harbour > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 November 1941, Northen Japan, Perpective: Yamamoto Everything was ready for the for the assault, with the addition of a carrier and a new battleship, Twilight said that the Yamamoto-class Battleship from Equestria was called ESS Harmony for some reason. With their addition to the fight, we could capture Pearl Habour, but this means that the bombers must sink ALL ships there. I can't even imagine how would Sparky capture Pearl Habour with these ships around. I was in one of the Yamamoto-class battleship escorting this fleet. My only hope is that this attack would suceed, nothing more, nothing less. Perpective: Twilight Thankfully or not thankfully, the Japanese Air Force gave us 100 planes to carry- 40 torpedo bombers, 50 dive bombers and 10 fighters. To be honest, the carrier could not handle such a large force, we already had 60 aircrafts onboard(including helicopters), which resulted in attack helicopters being place on deck first. Our carrier was somewhat of a flagship for this Operation due to its size. Sparky and I will be part of our first move, Capture USS Enterprise, which was out at sea at this time. Then all hell will go loose. The first wave will be making their move at around 8 a.m. We will start landing troops via air and sea at our 9 a.m. They would reach Pearl Harbour at around 10 a.m. Sparky and I will join the troops at around 10 a.m. I started that Personal Communication spell again and told Sparky, "Are you sure what we are doing is right?" Sparky responded, "I don't know, I hope it is. I don't want to change History again like last time. But it is what I feel I should do until the Portal opened up again. I mean, no matter where we go, we can't hide this ship, right?" "Right. What do you think about getting married?" Sparky blushed and repiled, "I will marry you," he paused before continuing, "Hopefully. Once this war is over, I will not hesitate to marry you. I mean, everytime I tried, there is always something up." "Yeah. Everytime we thought we were free of the war, it just keeps coming back to hunt us." Both of us looked at the sea. Remembering the countless soildiers that died and some, we killed. We have been wanting to marry for quite some time now, but this happened so it has to be postponed, again. Deep in our minds, we couldn't wait for the day we put down our weapons and to see peace and no more bloodshed. 6 December 1941, nearing Pearl Harbour We stood in front of the helicopters ready to take off. Soon, the order was given and the Apaches, along with us, started to fly towards USS Enterprise. Perpective: USS Enterprise "Sir! Unidentified flyings object coming towards us!" a soildier yelled. The CO of this carrier was Captain George D. Murray. "Get me radio contact with those flying objects!" Murray shouted. "Yes, Sir!" A few moments later https://static.fimfiction.net/images/interactive_pony/dash/fly_rainbow_left.gif "Sir, it has refused radio contact!" "Never mind then, get those planes in the air!" "Yes, Sir!" Planes were loaded on the deck in a hurry. When the first plane tried to get off the deck, it exploded, along with the other aircraft on deck The enemy 'planes' are starting to get closer. In a deperation attempt, Murray ordered, "Get those Anti-Air(craft) guns firing!" Soon the Anti-Air guns started filling the sky with explodsion and bullets. But non of the enemy planes were shot down, and started to fire its weapons too. The enemy 'planes' started to take out flak and Anti-Air guns on the carrier but not sinking it. Soon, there was two Mustangs started to approach the carrier. The carrier was under threat and so no one was on deck. In what was thought impossible, the Mustangs changed into two ponies upon landing on deck and has started to enter the command deck. The Apaches, for their part, started to land on the carrier. Sparky and Twilight managed to incapacitate everyone on board using a spell and put them in the hanger, with the planes flown away by the Apaches' pilots. USS Enterprise was captured within 30 minutes. Pearl Habour, 8 a.m Japanese Dive bombers and Torpedo bombers made their move. Bombs were being dropped to the unsupecting ships below. A couple of Anti Aircraft lit the sky and managed to shot down or damaged some aircrafts. The military personel started to scrammble to their ships or aircrafts or Anti-air guns. Chaos was all over the place. Some battleships were sunk while the others damaged. Those planes that could get off the ground was shot down immediately. The ground troops started to try to save those in the sunken battleships or those afloat on the sea. Not long after the first wave was over, the second wave made thier move. This results in all battleships being sunk or so damaged that it could barely retaliate. Despite the fact that some ships was not sunk, on 9 a.m, landing troops was being put into landing crafts, prepared to storm the beaches of Pearl Harbour. A third wave was ordered, but not to destroy suppiles or anything like that, but was ordered to bomb any ground defenses that could interfere with the landing. In what only added to the horror of Americian troops, wierd flying objects started flying overhead and started to rope down ponies armed with SAR 21 and MG 42. The ponies, which landed towards the south of the Harbour, was ordered to kill off any resistence but was also secretly ordered to save any person, still alive after the airiel bombardment. Most of the Americian troops, demoralised and shocked by the speed of the attack, refused to fight. They surrendered almost immediately when they saw the ponies. The ponies, in response, told them to save anyone still alive, be it in battleships or out at sea. While the ponies are kinder, the Japanese are not. In the landing Crafts, they kill any Americian that was floating or trying to swim to shore. Within 1 hour, Pearl Habour was captured at the cost of a couple of planes that was shot down or damaged. Whereas, the Americian casualties rose up to 8000 men, with the remaining 2000,some injured, surrending to the invading force. On 10 a.m, Sparky and Twilight arrived in Pearl Harbour. Seeing no flag being placed on Pearl Habour, they magically teleported two flags, one is Equestria and the other one is Japan. It was planted on the Ground, near an airfield, signaling that thier Forward Operating Base(FOB) should be made there. The ponies, went to the rallying point, and started to get new orders:Prepare to defend this Harbour. The Strike group has retreated and ESS Harmony would be deployed to fight in the Philippines, the only navy appoarching the Harbour was ESS Independence and USS Enterprise. Both of these ships would carry suppiles to build up their defensive positions. The Assault was over, but the Defence for Pearl Habour is just begining. Perpective: USA The Battle of Pearl Habour shocked the Americian public. The Japanese managed to not only surprise and destroy so much ships but also managed to capture Pearl Habour. This made the Americian public a bit indecisive about war with Japan. But the thought of so many Americian killed managed to gather the public to demand war with Japan. The Americian Congress, which still did not know that USS Enterprise was captured and the fact that it was actually done by Equestrian troops, voted for war with Japan. Despite the fact that Pearl Harbour has been captured, the Americian Navy could always rebuild. They have thirty three (now reduced to thrity-two) Aircraft carriers/ Escort Carriers in thier Navy. They have more Aircraft carriers than the Japanese. The declaration of war only met with 55% approval from Congress, which was a bad sign. The US high command started to invest more in the Pacific and the Atlantic. The US high command was also ordered to plan the taking back of Pearl Harbour, hoping to reduce Japan's sphere of Influence. What the Americian don't know is that ESS Independence and the Equestrians will be the first trouble that they have to deal with, and not the Axis powers or the 'Vengeance for Pearl Harbour' Trailer for next Chapter: The US fleet strike back, but will it suceed depends on whether Sparky and Twilight wants them to suceed. > Second Battle of Pearl Harbour and whatever is going on in WW2 during this time > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Western Front: Between 1st September 1939 to 15th February 1942, The German Army has managed to defeat all countries in western Europe except the British. The German Air Force would lose the battle of Britain and the German Navy was 'winning' the Battle of the Atlantic. (Same as our timeline) Eastern Front: Operation Barbarossa took place on 22 June 1941 and was over before the Japanese strike Pearl Harbour. Operation Typhoon has met with little sucess, with the onset of winter. But, with the help of Sparky and Twilight(their past selves), the Germans captured Moscow at a huge price on 20 December 1941 but by February 1942, was now under siege by Soviet Artilery. The Germans are now starting to prepare for another offensive to take Stalingrad and the oil fields of Baku. Note: the attack will happen at the same time as the First battle of El Alamein. Africa front: 1941- 1942: (Map used for reference) Note: this will be the same as in our timeline, for now) Pacific Front: By February 1942, the Philipines and Hong kong was captured. the only obstacle in Japanese's Advance is the battle of Singapore. The Dutch East Indies(now known as Indonesia) was not captured due to what is happening in Singapore. The Japanese has, however, captured Borneo and the surrounding region and halt all advance due to what is happening in Singapore. Map used as reference(Note: this is what really happened in our timeline) By now, Yamamoto has sent a peace treaty to the US at not harsh terms but was rejected by US high Command. In response, Sparky and Twilight planned an Amphibious invasion to take Seattle, hopefully to force the US High command to accept the Peace treaty. (Map used for reference) This Amphibious assault, codenamed Operation Starlight, was to take place around 20th of February 1942. This was supposed to take place after the supposed Fall of Singapore so as to add on to the string of defeats that the Allied has suffered in the Pacific. This will in turn cause a fall in Allied forces' morale, which may lead to them pulling out of the Pacific war for good. 20 December 1941, 60 miles off the coast of Pearl Harbour, Perpective: Americians We are approaching Pearl Harbour. Soon, we will take back what the Japanese took from us. Our Commanders told us that Pearl Habour should be captured before Christmas, hopefully. Pearl Harbour, Perpective: Twilight As I am about to go to sleep, our Early Warning Radar started to sound off the alarm. Sparky has been keeping watch for the Night. As the alarms sound off, everypony started to run out of thier bunk and ran to coastal artilery and bunkers. I ran to the watch tower, where Sparky is, I saw Sparky llooking at the radar, as if planning something. Somehow, he noticed I have arrived and said, "Hey Twilight, so em, if you don't mind, tell the troops to gear up. We are taking their two carriers." "What?" I exclaimed as this was not how I thought I would wake up in. "Prepare Independence, we are capturing the two US carriers." "How? It's the middle of the night and that..." I trailed off as I saw what was on the radar. Two Americian carrier fleets are approaching Pearl Harbour. Lexington and Saratoga are the two carriers. they are surrounded by one North-Carolina class Battleships, 5 cruisers and 8 destroyers. In total, the Fleet consists of 2 carriers, 2 battleships, 10 cruisers and 16 destroyers. I honestly did not think that US troops would respone so quickly. I stared into space until Sparky took me out of it. "Twilight, hello, you there?" Sparky said that as he waved his hoof in front of my eyes. I shook my head before replying, "Yeah, I am here. ... But how are you going to capture two carriers with so many ships protecting it?" "I have my methods." Sparky said with a sly smile on his face. They went outside, looking at the darkness around them. There was confusion and chaos all over the base. Luckily the Japanese was sleeping, or else this plan would not work, I thought. Sparky went to the nearest radio ststion located at the Base and said in a commanding tone, "Everypony to Independence now! I repeat, Everypony to Independence now!" Soon, suppiles and ponies started boarding Independence. Ponies were getting their firearms, Planes and Helicopers refuled and restocked with Ammunition(Ammo) in the carrier. I went up to the command deck to meet with Sparky and a couple of COs. As I entered the command deck, Sparky said, "Good, you are here." and the COs strted looking at me. "Why and what are you ponies doing here?" I asked in a frightened tone. "We are planning to intercept this strike force and we are waiting for you so that we can come up with a plan to capture the two carriers." I walked closer to the planning table. There was an exact repilca of the strike force on the table. These small boats looked something like toys but I know better. These 'toys' are to assist in our planning. "So, how do you plan to capture Saratoga and Lexington?" I asked pointing to the two carriers in the replica. "We will sink ALL ships except the carriers with our planes. Then, Independence will sail near one of the carriers and board it from there. For the other carrier, we will send our airbrone forces to capture it." Sparked said, moving the pieces on the planning table as he said it. "Won't that cause more casualties?" an pegasus asked with concern. "I say, we should sink those two carriers." Aniq, who is an earth pony, said. "I agree with Aniq." an Unicorn said. "I know, but this is for the 'greater good'. This will make US high command think twice about sending carriers to battle and hopefully stop the Battle of Midway from happening." "I agree with Sparky, the will create fear in the US army. Even with such a fleet, the fact that two carriers can be captured that easily will force US high command to rethink their plans and course of action." I said, hoping to persuade the other commander to agree to Sparky's plan. "Fine, what do you want us to do?" the other commanders said. "I need the pegasus to take Saratoga. the rest will focus on capturing Lexington." Sparky said before walking away to look at the flight deck, looking as if he is reflecting about something. The commanders started to take thier leave to prepare the ponies for battle. I started to walk to Sparky's location and stared at the flight deck too. I started to use that Personal communication spell again to talk with Sparky. "So, what are you thinking?" "Thinking about the battle," he sighed before continuing "Those commanders are right, Twily, it will cause high casualties for the sake of capturing two carriers." "Look at me, Sparky." I ordered. Sparked turned his head 90 degrees and looked at me. I gave him a smile. Soon, he smiled too. "Thanks Twily." He said in a low voice and turn back to face the flight deck. "You know, you don't have to bear the responsibility alone." "I know, Twily, but how can I not face them?" "Just look to the stars and hope for the best, I guess." Sparky start to look above at the sky. I don't know what he is thinking but he will be fine, hopefully. I look at the sky and let the night's cool wind blow over my mane. Soon, Preparations were finished and Independence was sailing on the high seas, ready to conclude this battle once and for all. 50 miles to target, 9p.m. Perpective: Americians The fleet is so close and yet so far. Most of the troops are sleeping to prepare themselves for the battle of Pearl Harbour the next day. Admiral Nitmitz was heading this landing operation personally. He was at the watch tower, looking at the peaceful Ocean the fleet was sailing through. ESS Independence, 40 miles to US battle group, 9p.m Perpective: Sparky We are reaching the strike group and the fleet will probably realised that we are intercepting them when we are about 20 miles to target. So, It's better to get ready than wait for contact. "Prepare to launch bombers and fighters into the air!" I ordered through the radio set. "Almost forgot, prepare the planes at the middle of the flight deck, set the planes to fly in opposite directions." "What?!" "Just do it commander and while we are at it, line the 4 planes vertically facing East and another 4 planes vertically facing West. "Hold on, you want me to do what now?" "Just do what I say, I know what I am doing." "If you say so, Sparky" the Pegasus said. 15 minutes later I was staring at the radar when something came through the radio, "The planes are ready to be launch at your command, Sir." "Good, I want them to take off now." "Yes, Sir?" "I mean it, get those planes in the air now!" "Yes, Sir, right away, Sir!" Ponies on the flight deck look with curiousity as the 4 planes started to start their engines and starting moving on the flight deck. When the planes are nearing the end of the flight deck, the nose of the planes rise up, completing the take off. Planes on the opposite side do the same thing as well. Ponies on the Flight deck looked dumbfounded. The ponies were quite surprised at the fact that this carier could launch 8 planes in one go. I smiled from the command post, knowing that this will help reduce aircraft launching time in battle. The planes started moving to the battle group. I looked at my radar and started saying through the radio, "Prepare Starboard Main battle guns, elevation 30 degrees and fire on my command!" The 25 inch guns on the starboard side started to elevate to 30 degrees. Now, we are waiting for the planes to report, the 25 inch guns will fire when the planes start their preparatory bombardment on the battlegroup. 10 minutes later "Sir, come in, we have reach our target. Fire the 25 inches. I repeat, we have reach the battlegroup, fire the 25 inch main battle guns." "Starboard guns fire!" I commanded. The guns started to fire and create a lot of smoke on the flight deck abd is very loud. I could see Twily covering her ears when the guns went off. Perpective: Admiral Nitmitz Planes started to appear out of nowhere. I tried making radio contact but it was met with no reply. And then, all hell broke loose. The planes started to dive and dropped bombs on the cruisers and suddenly two battleships were hit and sunk. 2 battleships and 5 cruisers were sunk within 1 minute. Soon, Anti-aircraft guns went off. I ordered a nearby destroyer to fire star shells via radio. Only to find out the radio did not work. The only thing that lit the sky was the anti aircraft tracers rounds. My mind started to think of the worst, we were radio silenced, far from home and under attack. I was surprised that the Japanese got this technology but cleared my mind of it, we got a mission and we will do it, even if it means we all end up dead. ESS Independence, Perpective: Sparky "Battle report: 2 battleships and 5 cruisers were sunk. The remaining ships started to fire their anti- air weapons on us. What should we do now?" "Return to carrier now!" I said to their leader. "Yes, Sir!" While I was controlling the air force, Twilight was controlling the firing of the 25 inches. Twilight commanded, "Prepare to fire another salvo, all guns, 35 degrees, target: Remaining cruisers." "Yes, ma'am!" As the Guns started to elevate slightly, ponies started to place helicopters on deck. "Launch Apaches! Target: destroyers" "Yes, Sir!" The Apaches started to take off the flight deck as quick as the pilots can, trying to lauch all Apaches before the return of the planes that are part of the first wave. As Apaches are taking off, the 25 inches started firing again. A loud boom was heard and Twilight ordered a reload of the guns, preparing a third salvo. Perpective: Admiral Nitmitz Soon, another 5 cruisers were sunk at the same time. By now, those on the destroyers started to move away from other ships, hoping to confuse the opponent or reduce the chances of being sunk. Everybody, including me, do not even know what cause the sinking of the ships. My guess is that the Japanese has Advanced radar and a has a ship capable of firing huge shells at long ranges. What is more surprising is that the ship, no matter what it is, only had one explosion and the ship is sunk. As if it cannot get any worse, weird flying objects started shooting something at the remaining destroyers. Despite anti-aircraft, these flying objects seem strong enough to stand the Anti-air fire. Soon, the destroyers under attack started to sink. More destroyers started to sink from unknown fire. Within ten minutes since the start of the attack, all ships, except Lexington and Saratoga was sunk. Just like that, more than 20000 US troops were killed in 10 minutes. So much dead in such short time. Our carier starting turning 180, hoping to get back to US soil before more lives were lost. As we started turning back, we became more alert, with men that was sleeping now awake prepared to defend the carrier with thier lives. ESS Independence, Perpective: Sparky Within 10 minutes, we had destroyed the entire enemy fleet(except the carriers). It was time at last, to launch paratroopers into the carriers. "Captain, increase speed!" "Yes, Sir!" Independence was now moving at the fastest speed and the Apaches had return. The peguses were launching themsevles into the air. I will lead them to capture Saratoga while Twilight will lead the capture of Lexington. Everything was going as planned. Both carriers were radio silenced thanks to Independence's electronic jamming capablities, the enemy fleet was sunk to the bottom of the Ocean and that the enemy fleets was retreating. I was about to go when Twilight stopped me. "Sparky, take care." Twilight said in a depressing tone. "I will, take care too." I said with a similar tone and gave Twilight a hug. "See you soon." we said unanimously I walked down to the flight deck to fly away with the Pegasus, heading into battle. Perpective: Twilight I ordered troops and Armor to be placed on the flight deck. The plan was for the tanks to moved on the 25 inch barrel to get to Lexington once Independence is close enough to Lexington. I looked up the night sky, hoping for this battle to end soon. I paid no attension to time as I stared at the night sky, thoughts overunning my mind. "Ma'am, Ma'am, wake up!" I looked back, surprised to see Aniq behind me. "What do you want?" "I want to tell you that Lexington is in sight." "Good, prepare to land." "Yes, ma'am!" As we are nearing Lexington, Lexington's anti- aircraft guns started to elevate downwards and fire at Independence. I would have ordered return fire but that would mean that Lexington would be sunk. "Fire back with Machines guns!" "Yes, Ma'am!" Soon, both carriers started a close up fire fight. Lead was flying around both carriers. It was a intense fire fight with my troops taking cover behind the tanks. Come on, come on, just a litte closer. Perpective: Nitmitz A carrier started appearing out of nowhere and is getting closer. My soldiers saw this and started to use the anti-air guns to fight them. Surprising, this carrier has big guns sticking out of the Port and Starboard side respectively. I was stupid, I did not thought that launching Aircrafts would be necessary as the enemy stooped their airiel assault. Now, there was no chance of launching aircrafts due to the fire fight. I hope that the enemy would just sink Lexington with its 25 inch guns but that wasn't the case. The carrier grew closer and closer. The Carrier was so close that Lexington boardside met with the enemy carrier's boardside. I saw tanks and ponies on the enemy's flight deck and my men stopped firing. Probably because of the ponies. It was a mistake as ponies started running on top of the 25 inch barrel towards Lexington. As if it wasn't enough, tanks started rolling of the 25 inch barrel towards Lexington. The captain tried to increase the speed of Lexington but the ponies' carrier was fater and the fire fight resumed. But it was too late, the ponies boarded the carrier and entered the command post. They came upwards and demand our surrender. I pretended to surrender to buy time for the marines to put enough explosive to scuttle Lexington. US marines tried to plant explosives in the carrier to scuttle it but the Marines was discovered by the ponies and was shot dead on the spot. After that incident, no one even dared tried to scuttle the ship. I tried to get myself killed by running towards their Commanding officer, which has boarded the ship by this time. Surprisingly, instead of killing me, she shot me a spell and I was knocked out of the battle. When I woke up, all of my men was tied up in the hangar, with ponies guarding it. This is it, the battle is lost, I thought. Perpective: Sparky We were flying towards Saratoga, when anti air guns started to lit the night sky. I Ordered the pegasus army to land on the carrier as quickly as they can. We were lightly armed, many of us are carrying a sub machine gun or a light machine gun. When we started to land on the carrier, the Anti-aircraft guns stopped firing. With the Anti-aircraft guns stopped firing, pegasus after pegasus started to land on the carrier. No one moved at first until I tell the pegasus to move in that is. As pegasus army started to enter the carrier, we were met with a lot of opposition. We had to clear the carrier level by level. The more we advanced, the thougher the resistence. We started to clear the command deck first, and move downwards. Due to the constant fire fight in the carrier, no one had the time to plant explosives to scuttle the carrier. By the time we reached the lowest level, we had taken 80% casualties, 65% killed in action, 15% wounded. Saratoga was ours, nut with high casualties. The control system were largely still intact so we can still 'drive' the carrier. We would be out at sea till dawn. Saratoga and Lexington was captured but at a 40% casualty rate-37% dead, 3%wounded. On our way back to Pearl Harbour, we saw some sailors still alive from the assault. We offer to take them in, some accepted and some refused. Pearl Harbour, 7a.m During the trip, I was just thinking about Twilight and reflecting about the battle. These thoughts ruled my mind for the entire trip. When Saratoga was placed in port, I ran down from the command post towards Lexington, hoping to see Twilight. What I didn't know was that that Twilight was doing the same thing. We met each other when running. We skid to a stop not long after. I walked towards her and she walked towards me and we hugged each other. As we were hugging each other, we said unanimously, "I miss you" We stopped hugging and started to hold each other hooves and walked back to the Barracks. Barracks, 7.30a.m We entered the Barracks, tired from the battle fought yesterday. We were entering the Barracks and started to take off our battle gear and uniform. Twilight and I started to lie in bed when Pinkie Pie came in and yell in a high pitched voice, "Good Morning, Twilight and Sparky!" Twilight and I said in a tired voice, "This is going to be a long day." Trailer for next chapter: A new battle is fought at the same time as Pearl Harbour, what is this battle? Stay tuned to find out > Battle of Moscow > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: This is past selves Sparky, Twilight, Pinkie and Derpy. It bears no relation to the current main characters at Pearl Harbour Historical Facts: The Germans never actually reached Moscow. Due to Winter, the Germans faced casualties due to the snow and not combat, logistical problems caused suppiles shortage and the snow forced the German Air force to be grounded, not able to provide air support during the battle. The Russians managed to launch a counter offensive on the 5th of December, which the Germans were unprepared for. This forced the Germans to withdraw along the entire line. This caused the German line to fall back and temporary stalled the German Advance. The German Army never moved closer to Moscow after that battle. For this chapter, the Conditions will be the same, but with ponies like Sparky and Twilight, the Offensive will continue as the Germans have Air Support and suppiles delivered from the Air. Before the Battle of Moscow, 20 November 1941, Perpective: Twilight's past self After just arriving from the Battle of Britian, the German High Command sent us to fight the Russians. Our job was to provide air support to German forces invading Russia. Seems eazy enough. 'Provide air support' suddenly turned into a whole new level when the winter started arriving. The German Air force was grounded by the thick snow. We had a sudden increase in missions. Due to the fact that we are the only flyable objects during winter, we are now trying to maintain air supremacy with three pegasus and to deliver suppiles to the front lines is no eazy feat. Derpy started to become the pony to deliver messages from the front lines to behind the front lines and vice versa. Sparky and I became versatile aircrafts. We would do an array of missions, like dropping suppiles for the German Army, fighthing the Soviet Air Force, Bombing cities and provide close in air support. I have no idea why would we be the only ones doing these missions because of the grounded planes but orders are orders. We would usually run missions after missions without sleep. We got used to this and we literally did not slept for 10 days straight just to support the German Ground Force. No matter how tired all of us are, Pinkie would always try different ways to keep our morale and tireness up. Derpy somehow managed to keep herself awake during delivery and recieved little rest in between breaks. But to continue the war effort, We don't mind. Somehow, we got ourselves each a nickname: Derpy- Mail Mare, Sparky- Thunderbolt, Twilight- Lightningbolt and Pinkie- Confetti Queen. Little did I know that the names were codewords to cover our true identity. Perpective: German General Guderian In a letter that was sent to German High Command, he wrote: Dear Führer, I want to report that the ponies are very helpful, our troops are getting resuppiled faster via Air than via Land. My troops have captured Vyazma and Bryansk and is moving in on Moscow. Thunderbolt and Lightningbolt are fulfilling missions at a speed faster than any pilot in the Luftwaffe. I have heard that these two pilots have not slept for 2 days straight, which no one could accomplish. Their help has greatly increase the speed of the Advance. The Mail Mare has contributed significantly too towards the war effort, delivering Mail faster than the Enigma chiper code. This group of ponies managed to work in the harsh Winter storm has earned my respect and admiration. In conclusion, I am convinced that Operation Typhoon would be a success for the German Army. Yours truly, General Heinz Guderian Map used for reference: Despite gaining ground, the winter still cause casualties and terrible conditions for my troops to advance, I fear that even if Operation Typhoon is a success, the victory would not have the intended effect. I thought. 30 November 1941, Perpective: Twilight's past self We have just flown another mission and the sleepless days are starting to take a toll. Some many missions has been done and the fact that we have been awake for so long means that we need rest. A voice inside me keeps telling me to take a break and just rest but I just keep running mission after mission, even Pinkie admitted that this was something she couldn't do no matter how hard she tried. The amount of flight have perhaps led our mind to fly too. Thanks to Sparky, I managed to keep myself awake. I was just loaded with another baggage of suppiles and then it hit me and I just collaspe on the runway. These collapse usually comes when we are on the Runway. We need just 1 hour of sleep and we are awake for some reason. Probably our survival instinct is kicking into high gear, I think. 4 December 1941, Battle of Moscow The Ground Force has been moving so fast that they reached the Outskirts of Moscow by 4 December 1941. Then everything started to change, We are now running Bombing mission after Bombing mission. We have been bombing Moscow since 1st December 1941. We moved so fast that the Anti-aircraft guns could not reach us. Moscow was heavily defended, with hastely built trenches, and anti- tank barrier and Anti-aircraft guns all over the city. Our Bombing runs has weaken the defences even further. We could only carry small bombs on our wings so we used the MG42s installed in our wings to do more damage. 7 December 1941, Battle of Moscow They did it, they finally did it. On the morning of December 7, The Japanese bombed and captured Pearl Harbour. To German forces, It gave a rise in Morale as the Japanese has finally joined the war effort, or so they think. The truth is that the Japanese only declared war with the Americians and not on Russia, so that quickly lowered the German morale effectively, but not as much since their 'Victory' in Operation Typhoon still cause a morale boost. There was no ending the Battle of Moscow, the Germans has just entered the Outskirts of the city, which is good progress but Moscow was still effectively in Russians' hands. We were give new orders: to bombard convoys delivering suppiles to Moscow. Orders after Orders, when will this end, I thought. 1 week later With destroyed supply lines, lack of tanks and armored vehicles and the battle was now fought building by building. The Russians, not giving up till the end, was now trying to regroup and fight a guerilla war against the Germans. The Kremlin had been taken forcefully by the Germans on 12 December, and Joseph Stalin, who refuse to leave the city and was in the Kremlin when it fell, was killed in the midst of the battle. No one knew who killed him, but I know better. On 11 December, Sparky and I killed the original guards and disguised as his guards using Changeling Magic. We fooled Stalin and he bought it, it was only a matter of time since the German's arrival. When the Germans' arrived, we went into his room and killed him at point black range with our MG42s. Then we change into plants using Changeling magic and waited for the Germans to go away and that was the time we fled the scene via flying out of the Kremlin. It was done so subtly that we make sure that no one could trace it back to us. I mean we are using Changeling magic after all. On 20 December 1941, General Guderian declared the Battle of Moscow won. This caused the Bombing runs to stop and the suppiles run to continue. It was a hard fought battle, at least from what I have heard from German troops. The battle took around 1,000,000 Russians and 400,000 Germans Casualties. This the cost to pay for Operation Typhoon to succeed. > Christmas in Pearl Harbour > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 December 1941, Pearl Harbour, Perpective: Sparky Just one day after the second battle of Pearl Harbour comes Hearth's Warming Eve, what a strange coincidence, I thought. The morning started out Perfectly, Pinkie woke Twilight and me up just when we just entered our Baracks from Night Watch. We had been awake for three days straight now. I will get Pinkie for that later. For now, it's Hearth's Warming Eve. Twilight and I agreed to let US 'prisoners' and our troops to take 10 days off duty. Luckily for us, the Japanese troops are on guard and that they do not celebrate this holiday. Background Info on treatment of captured US troops: Most of the troops spent time with their US counterparts. Both sides were unarmed for the holiday as the defeat at the second battle of Peral Harbour and that they seemed to get along well. Originally, the planwas for US troops to be treated as prisoners but with some intervention, the Japanese agreed to let US troops off. But the US troops must be unarmed. Sadly, we must disarm all captured US troops thanks to that agreement. So long as US troops are not in Japanese hands, they will be treated fairly. The captured US troops appears to be in good shape after two weeks under captivity. Our troops even secretly date some of these US soldiers. No disciplinary actions were taken as Twilight and I do not want to. Our ponies have their own lives so let them be. As the saying goes, "In the Army, you can do whatever you want, just don't get caught." Since Equestrian and US troops are getting along so well together, Twilight and I agreed to let them go for their Hearth's Warming break. Pearl Harbour, 7a.m "Wake up, wake up, it's Hearth's Warming Eve!" Pinkie said in a high pitched voice as she is entering the Barracks. "So soon?" I said, just coming back from night watch. "Yes, sleepy head." Pinkie said, hopping on her position. "W..ha...t?" Twilight said, just getting up from bed. "Come on you two, It's Hearth's Warming Eve! You two should come out and see my 'Hearth's warming Eve party'." "Look, unless you drag us out, we going back to sleep." I said, in a tried tone. "Fine." Pinkie said, as she came closer to mine bed. Pinkie then literally drag us out of bed and made our body touch the cool snow. "I regret what I said earlier." I said, still getting up. "I hate you Pinkie, now I can't go back to sleep." Twilight said, rubbing her eyes. "Come on, you two should thank me for waking you guys up!" Pinkie said. "I will get you back later for this Pinkie." Twilight and I said at the same time. "Woah, and I thought I Derpy was weird, do you guys have telepathy or something?" Pinkie questioned. "No!" Twilight and I answered. "You two have some kind of Telepathy alright." Pinkie said, swaying her hoof at Twilight and me. "What?" Twilight and I repiled, there was a pause before we started ponting our hoof at each other, "Stop saying what I am saying!" "I am going to walk away now." Pinkie said, before hopping away from our sight. Twilight and I blushed at each other. We later went back to the barracks to put on our Uniform. After that, we quietly made our way to Independence to commence the firing of the 25 inch guns on port. This is done so as to remember our ponies and US troops alike who died during the second battle of Pearl Harbour. ESS Independence, 8a.m The flight deck was covered in snow, denying any aircraft from flying. Someponies have also started to play in the snow covered flight deck for some reason. We didn't scold them for it of course. I mean, ponies need to have their fun, right? When we entered the command post, we were quite suprised that there was nopony there. Twilight and I looked at each other and blushed again. Suddenly, the door closed and the room went dark. I yelled "Who did this?" There was no reply. "Come out, come out wherever you are." Twilight said. There was no movement and all was quiet. "You know we could fly out, right?" I said, to nopony is particular. Twilight and I started to spread our wings, preparing to fly out of the room. We accidently made our hidden guns in our wings appear in doing so. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" said in a high pitched voice by somepony. "Who is there? We got guns and we are not afaird to use it." I yelled out frantically. Suddenly the door opened and there a grey pegusus with a blode mane entered the room. "Oh, it's just you, Derpy." "Oops, sorry for that." Derpy said. "Never mind, so why are you here, Derpy?" "....." "No, not that..""Yes, that one, I am here to tell you guys that the firing has been delayed. The guns are covered in snow and the troops are trying to clear it. Estimated delayed time: 1hour." "Great, thanks Derpy, you may go now." I said in a clam voice. "As Derpy was wlking out of the room, she suddenly turned around and asked, "Almost forgot, where did you guys get your guns installed?" "What guns?" Twilight asked. "The guns on your wings, silly." We turned and look at our wings and saw there was indeed two guns on our wings. "Derpy, you must not to tell anyone what you have seen. Do you understand?" "Yes, Sir!" With that, Derpy saluted and went out of the room. After the firing of the 25 inch guns, the rest of the day went smoothly. Twilight and I met up with her friends at the dock a while later. "So, how have you been?" Applejack asked. "I am fine, just suffering from the lack of sleep, but other than that I am fine." Twilight repiled. "Wait, what? How could you of all ponies suffer a lack of sleep?" Rainbow Dash asked, looking at Twilight and I. "Come on, it's just one day of lack of sleep, how can that be bad?" Pinkie asked in a cheery manner. "It is three full days of lack of sleep and not to mention, fighthing a battle out at sea during one of those days." I repiled, saying it in a cranky tone. "Never mind that, you two will get enough sleep for Hearth's Warming Day." Pinkie said. "Come on, now let's make pony angles in the snow." Pinkie said, trying to change the subject. "Fine, I can at least deal with that." Twilight and I repiled at the same time. "Just stop doing that, please? It is making me freak out." Applejack said. "Doing what?" Twilight and I replied. "That, stop doing that." "Sure thing, Applejack." Twilight and I repiled. Everypony but the two of us started to back away. There was an awkward silence. "Come on, let's go to play in the snow." Twilight said frantically. "We would, and Twilight, never do that again." "Understood." "Good, so who is up for a little snow fun?" Perpective: Narrator Everypony and US troops started to have a bit fun in the snow. They made pranks, played snowball fights and so paintball fights. Sparky and Twilight scolded the pony for the paintball fight, because it cause a lot of panic on the Japanese side. At least, everypony and US troops had fun celebrating Christmas Eve/Hearth's Warming Eve. 25 December 1941, Pearl Harbour, Perpective: Twilight The day I would have been grateful for if it wasn't for Pinkie waking us up again so early. Honestly, I would rather want to go back to sleep and be in the dream world than come out of it. Sparky also got waken up because of this. Pinkie Pie, you are really going to get it, I thought. Sparky started to walk towards me and said, "Come on, Twily, get up, we have a long day in front of us." "Yeah." I started to climd out of bed, look towards SParky and asked, "I've been thinking, Sparky, do you really think that we have a telepathy with each other?" "I hope not." Sparky said with a depressing voice. "What do you mean by 'I hope not'?" "I mean, I been thinking about the same thing yesterday and I just hope that what Pinkie say is not true." We both looked at each other, neither of us saying a word. We started to put on our Uniform and started to walk out of the Barracks. We saw Derpy along our way and she started saying, "Hi, Twilight and Sparky, so here is you presents." Derpy handed us two present boxes and walked away. We started walking, taking the box to the command deck of ESS Independence. When we walked into the Command deck, we were welcomed by Pinkie Pie and confetti from her Party cannon. "Welcome to your Hearth's Warming Party, Twilight and Sparky!" Pinkie said, in a high pitched voice. "Thanks, Pinkie." I said sacastically. "Why, do you not like it?" "No, it's just that you shouldn't bring your Party cannon here." "Why?" There was a sudden drop in Pinkie's voice. "Why? Why not?" Sparky said. There was a silence and then Pinkie started laughing. Good old Pinkie, I thought. "So, Pinkie, where are the gals?" I asked. "They are back there." Pinkie said, pointing at the back of the room. "Thanks!" I said, as I begin running towards them. As I approached them, They started to come towards me and started to give a group hug. Sparky came later. We exchanged our presents with each other. Sparky gave each of the gals a ship in a bottle, each ship in the bottle is different from each other. I gave the gals a small wooden badge that I made in my free time. Spike gave me a nice Christmas card, Applejack gave me two apple ciders, Fluttershy gave me a toy Battleship that she made, Rainbow Dash gave me a book on Tanks, Rarity gave me a new military uniform, Pinkie pie gave me a toy tank that she made as a Hearth's Warming Day Presents. Applejack gave Sparky one apple cider, Fluttershy gave him a toy carrier that she made, Rainbow Dash gave him a book on Battleships, Rarity gave him a new Military clothing as well, Spike gave him a toy gun and Pinkie Pie gave him toy aircraft she made as Hearth's Warming presents. After the exchanging of Presents, we went outside and played some games outside. It was fun to say the least. We snowfight each other, snowfight with US troops and build snow pony on the flight deck. It was a memorable event. After all the fun, the gals, Sparky and I went back to the Command Deck to get our presents and to put them back in the Barracks. After that, we went back out for more fun, shot fire works from the flight Deck, play capture the star with Ponies vs US troops and even put a christmas tree on the flight deck. It was so much fun that we didn't take notice the time. It was noight time when we finished all the festivities. Sparky and I said our goodbyes to the gals and went back to the Barracks. "Sparky, you know, you haven't gave me a present yet, right?" I questioned. "I will, you will see." As we entered the baracks, there was a box on my bed and a box on his bed. "Did you...?" I and Sparky asked at the same time. We gave each other a nod and started to open the boxes. When I open my box, there was cloak with a sun and stars as the chest plate and the entire cloak was a mixture of yellow sun and the night sky colour. When I put it on, it turns invisible, when I remove it, it return to its original colour. This cloak also manages to cover my wings when spread and folded. When Sparky opened his box, there was a cloak with the moon and stars as the chest plate and the entire cloak was the same colour as mine. It also had the same capability as mine. Sparky and I turned to look at each other and walked towards each other and gave each other a hug. "Thank you." We said together. "Happy Hearth's Warming, Twily." Sparky said. "Happy Hearth's Warming, Sparky." I said, tightening the hug. We release each other from the Hug and sat down, facing each other. "So..., now that nopony is here..." I said, with a sly smile growing on my face and my front hooves bumping each other. "No, Twily, I won't allow that." Sparky said, with a firm voice. "Why?" I asked, with a frown growing on my face. "Just no. And that we haven't even opened Derpy's present yet." Sparky said, with a smile. "Oh, but could we do it after that?" "Sure, why not." Sparky and I started to open the box Derpy gave us. When Sparky and I finished opening both our boxes, we were shocked at what it is. "It couldn't be.." We said, looking at our present. Our present? A picture of us overlooking the ruins at the Battle of Moscow. Trailer for Next Chapter: "Modern War never stops, holidays are only for Peace time, not War time."- General Sparky (Main character not Author) > Christmas in Moscow > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: This was written in the Perpective of their past selves and is in no relation to the current one at Pearl Harbour The Battle of Moscow may have ended but the Soviets refused to surrender. The Soviets are planning a Counter Offensive along the whole line which will take place on 5 January 1942. For now, the Soviets started Artillery bombardment along the entire line, softing up the German lines for the Counter offensive. The Germans ,on the other hand, has stopped all offensive operations to dig in defensive structures in prepararation for the Soviets' Counter offensive Moscow, 24 December 1941, Perpective: Twilight Artillery shell has been Bombarding the city since 21st. Good thing is that Sparky, Pinkie, Derpy and myself have been relieved from duty for these two days. We decided to celebrate Hearth's Warming Eve in Moscow because why not. The Germans has been reinforcing their defensive perimeter for Moscow and sadly, only German Officers has been given a 'Christmas Break' while the German troops has been digging up trenches, putting up anti-tank barriers and setting up MG nests in the city. I kind of feel bad for the German troops as they have to spent the holiday digging defensive structures. So, to help to the German troops, we dig the snow with the Germans. I mean, what is Christmas for? It is to share the experience with German troops is sort of a way to say Merry Christmas to them. Digging snow is harder than digging in mud, the snow has managed to soilfy and become Ice, which only increase the difficulty in digging the trenches. While digging, Pinkie even used her Party cannon to fire into the ground, an effort that proves to be fertile, but it is her effort anyways. For Sparky and I, we dig the snow with our MG42s, by firing bullets into the ground to melt the snow and dig from there. For Derpy, she did not do any digging, but she made Muffins for the troops digging. I swear that Derpy is crazy as Pinkie Pie, I honestly have no idea where she got the suppiles to bake so many muffins to supply so many troops. 25 December 1941, Moscow For the 25th, Pinkie and Derpy was recalled for duty and Sparky and I decided to go on a date for the Hearth's Warming day. We didn't prepare any presents for each other because of the Battle of Moscow. But, honestly, having each other is enough for a Christmas present. We went around the city, looking at some of the destroyed buildings during the Battle. Many German troops seemed to be happy even though many of them are digging. We even went to talk with some of these German Troops. During the conversation, Many has voiced 'corncerns' about my relationship with Sparky. Even though we didn't show it, we had kind of liked each other's company. We chose to ignore those claims but the truth was staring at us right in the face. After talking with those soldiers, Sparky and I fly above the clouds to have some personal time with Sparky. When we were flying, I asked, "Do you think those troops are saying the truths?" "No. Why you ask." Sparky repiled. "Out of curiosity." I repiled and we both blushed at each other. "So..., what do you think about Derpy?" Sparky asked. "She cute and can be a bit like Pinkie Pie on several Ocassions." "Tell me about it." I said, intriged by the topic. "There was this one occasion, where she knocked herself into a brick wall and came out of it like it was nothing." "Yeah, there was also one ocassion, where she mistakenly fired a gun at her face, but somehow take no damage." "Yeah, that Mare is full of Mystery all right." "Yeah. But at least she is better than Pinkie Pie, right?" "I guess so." "What do you mean you guess so?" "I mean, on the level of insanity, Pinkie wins, but on foolishness, Derpy wins." "I guess that is true." Sparky nodded and started to dive. I did the same. What I saw shocked me to the core. There was a christmas tree in the middle of nowhere. "Sparky, did you plant this?" "No, it is planted by the soviets." "What?" "Judging by where we are, I say we are behind the front lines of the Soviet Army." "Why did you bring me here?" "Because it is peaceful here." "Fine." Sparky then handed me a gift box and told me to open it. After opening it, I find a toy pony made of bullet shells. "Oh, you didn't have to." "I made this myself, did you like it?" Sparky asked, with a face facing downwards. "Like it? I absolutely love it, Thank you." I looked at the gift and said, "Follow me, I know where I can get you a gift." I said, before flying upwards. Sparky fly too and followed me back to Moscow. I landed on top of a roof top of a house. "Where bring me back here?" Sparky asked, just as he was landing. "I learned something from Princess Luna. I want to show it to you." I said, pointing my hoof to Sparky's chest. "Thanks, I guess." "For this Present, I need to wait till night time." I paused, and started to go nearer to SParky. "You know, I wanted to ask you something since the battle of britian." Sparky said. "What is it?" I asked, going closer to him. "Would you be my Marefriend?" Sparky asked and started blushing like crazy. I blushed too, before I replied, "Sure." We sat there in silence and Sparky started to hug me. "Oh thank you, thank you." Sparked said, with a high pitched voice. "Sure, anything for you, Sparky." Just as I said that, the Sun started to set. We got out of the hug and looked at the sunset. It was wonderful, I thought. As the sun fully set, my eyes turned to face Sparky. As I face him, he asked, "Don't you think it's beautiful?" "Yes." I said, as I moved my hooves to his neck and puled him closer. He said nothing, his eyes focusing on the developing night sky. "You know, Twily, I hope that soon we will be able to go back home. Back to Equestria, away from this snow filled warzone." "Yeah, hopefully anyway." We stared at the night sky, not saying a word. "You know, I wanted to show you something." I said, drifting Sparky's attension to me. I lit up my horn and fired a ray of Magic into the night sky. "What was that?" "You'll see, you'll see." I reply, with a sly smile growing on my fsce. Soon the beam reached the intended target and stars started to appear from out of nowhere. Sparky stared at the sky, his eyes filled with wonder and surprised. "Impressive, huh?" I asked. "Yeah, pretty impressive." "I will teach you the spell when we have time, for now, enjoy your present." I said. Sparky started to sit on all fours and I did the same, both us us staring at the night sky. What I didn't know was that Derpy was behind us and she silently took a picture of us. We sat there, looking at the night sky, until we fell asleep at some point. This was the best Hearth's Warming Day ever, I thought. > New year celebration > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: We have returned to the current time at Pearl Harbour 25 December 1941, Pearl Harbour, Perpective: Twilight Sparky and I was Looking at the picture that Derpy has sent us. A lot of thoughts ran through my mind. For it changes everything we thought we knew about her. Although we did a Memory wipe spell on Derpy since our return to Equestria, it seems that Derpy stills remembers the incident that happened when we were first here. The thought alone was overwhelming. To think that Derpy is the most innocent soldier is an understatement. Derpy has went through hard times during our first visit. For one, she was captured by the Americians when we went through the portal back home. We have no idea how she came back years later and she requested us to wipe her memory about the event. Though it is unclear what she went through, we do know that she had been in constant combat during her time there. When this picture showed up, it kind of mean that she either still remembers the event somehow or the spell didn't work. I got a feeling that Derpy is more Scretive than Pinkie Pie, whatever the case, we will have a talk with her, soon. 31 December 1941 All our troops have been waiting for this event. The begining of a new year. So much has happened but it is time. For the Countdown, Independence's flight deck has been filled with launching Fireworks equipment. A couple of Party cannons has been place around the base, ready to fire right after the countdown. Pinkie Pie has set up a party at the base to celebrate the Countdown. Both US and Equestrain troops were still unarmed so there will be no accident miss fire or anything like that. All of the troops has been relieved of duty for this event. Even the Japanese has thier own celebration plan but they restrict it to their area only, presumbly not wanting to be accused being a Americian supporter. It was indeed a thing to celebrate. 31 December 1941, 11.30 p.m The day went by without anything major happening. Sparky and I were busy loading the 25 inches with confetti. Unknown to anybody, we plan to fire the 25 inches directly after the countdown. This was not planned with Pinkie mind you. Loading the 25 inches was not eazy. We had to clean the barrel, load in gunpowder bags and load our own confetti shells. THe fact that the carrier has 20 25 inch gun(each has 3 barrels) in total -10 starboard and 10 port side didn't make the loading easier. We finished loading all the guns at around 10 p.m. It was kind of a last minute thing but for lighting up the base, we don't mind. We spent the rest of the night at the command deck, talking about Derpy. "So, what do you think about the pictures?" I asked. "I think that Derpy has been hiding something from us, but no what, we must not tell her. This secret is restricted to us three only." Sparky said, pulling out that photo. "Three?" "Yes three, because I know you are here, Pinkie." Sparky said, Pinkie starting to come out of hiding. "How did you know I was here?" Pinkie asked. "It was simple, by experience." "Oh. That explains so much," Pinkie said sacastically. "Anyways, let's get back to the topic at hoof here." I said, trying to get their attension. Sparky nodded and signalled for Pinky and me to get closer. We formed a small circle and I started to put up a spell, this spell will only let us hear what we said and no one from outside the spell bubble will hear what we say. "So, Pinkie, I assume you have seen this photo before." I asked, handing Pinkie the photo. "Yeah, Derpy sent me one during Hearth's Warming Day." "Good." Sparky said, as he is taking out a folder that has a 'Top Secret' stamp on the cover page. "This is the case file that I have prepared in case that this happens." Sparky said with a depressing voice. Pinkie and I was a bit surprised and gasped. "If it was true, Derpy would have recover her memory in one way or another." Sparky said. "But that is impossible, is it?" Pinkie asked. "Speaking from a pony that breaks the fourth wall, than yes it is possible." I said, looking at Pinkie. "We must ask Derpy if she knows what has happened, if not we will never find out how she remembers it." Sparky said. "Ok, but first, let's celebrate the New Year and leave this all behind us." I said, somewhat conculding the meeting. "Agreed." Sparky and Pinkie said at the same time. With that I removed the spell. Pinkie started to go back to man her Party cannons. 11.50 p.m "Time to elevate the guns." I said, reminding Sparky our original purpose. "Yeah." The 25 inch guns, Starboard and Port side, started to slowly elevate the 90 degrees. We were using our magic to do it, but, given combat conditions, the 25 inch guns is able to elevate 90 degrees, if need be. The troops were having so much fun downstairs that they did not notice the guns elevating. The guns finished elevating at around 11.59 p.m. We looked at each other smiling as the seconds went by. Soon, the 10 second countdown began. Sparky and I counted with the troops, "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1" 1 January 1942, 12 a.m. Perpective: Narrator Party cannons, 25 inch guns and fireworks all went off. Creating a loud 'boom' as everything lit up. Almost every soldier on Pearl Habour strted taking cover, fearing it was a bombing run. But it wasn't. Soon, the ground was covered with confetti as the fireworks continued light up the night sky. Every soldier started to get up from their cover, realising what was actually going on. Celebrations continued till the next morning. Sparky, Twilight and Pinkie will join their troops and friends in the celebrations, doing things like congratulating everyone a Happy New Year, lighting up some firecrackers and eating some New Year's snacks. Everyone except Derpy. For Derpy, she has retreated to her bunk, crying. Perpective: Derpy I went to the carrier to find Sparky and Twilight for the countdown and yet when I went there, she was talking to Pinkie about me. Twilight may have put up a spell bubble but I have hread everything they have said. I went back to my bunk and started crying. I started to take out my diary and wrote: Dear Diary, Twilight, Sparky and Pinkie have suspected me of remembering what happened during their first visit. Sadly, they are true. I have remembered everything. But I must not tell them about what I have seen and I have heard. I tell them eventually, but now is not the time. Hope you will understand. Yours truly, General Derpy . > Threat on the horizon > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The festivities are over, the battles have resumed. On the Eastern front, the Soviets launched their counter offensive. On the North Africa front, the front line was at El Agheila. On the Pacific front, Kong Kong was captures and the Japanese continued their offensives in Malaya and in the Philippines. On the Western front, things have come to a stalemate. ESS Independence,on route to Singapore, 5 February 1942, Perpective: Sparky The Japanese Admiral, Yamamoto, says that there is a new British Carrier in Singapore. He says that there is ponies onboard and want us to 'investigate'. We agreed and Independence started to sail from Pearl Harbour to Singapore. I suspected that this new british carrier is capturing magical ponies for their war effort and that we must intervene to stop it. We never really thought about sinking or capturing this carrier because we had enough of capturing carriers. I was overlooking the flight deck when Twilight approach me. "So, how have you been?" "Ok, I guess." I repiled, not looking back at Twilight. "Sparky, I know you better. What is bothering you?" Twilight asked in a concerned voice. "It is just that, historically, no British Carrier has made it to Singapore during the battle." I said, staring into space. "Oh, I see." Twilight said, moving closer to me. "So, if you have to make a choice about capturing or sinking this carrier, what will you choose?" Twilight asked, looking at the flight deck. "I would choose to sink it." I repiled, releasing a sigh. "I agree." "What?!" "I agree?" Twilight asked wearily. "Why?" "Because capturing ships cause heavy casualties, so it is better to sink it." "Yeah." I said, letting thoughts enter my mind. Twilight was about to say something, but didn't and stare into space, both of us enjoying the silence. Perpective: Narrator ESS shining is a Aircraft Carrier based on the Nitmitz class Carrier. It has been commissioned 1 year before ESS Independence. Carriers like ESS Shining is actually part of Delta Force. These Carriers are amassed in secret and offically, ESS shining is the only Nitmitz class carrier built for the Equestrian Navy. In Delta Force, there is actually 5 Nitmitz class carriers built, excluding ESS Shining, these carriers are Operationally Ready, but not revealed to the Public. Delta Force's leader, Rain, has made up a plan to destroy the United States(US) when ESS Independence's Convoy went through the Portal. The plan, called Operation Midnight, was for the ESS Shining to bring Changelings to WW2 to Infiltrate the Allied High Command. But first, they would have to get the Allied Forces' trust to begin the Infiltration. This will lead to ESS Shining appearing in the Battle of Singapore. Equestria, Celestial Sea, ESS shining, Perpective: Rain Map for Reference: "Sir, we are approaching the Portal." a private reported. "Good, make sure that the Changelings are ready." Rain said, looking at a map. "Yes, Sir!" the private said, going back to report the information to the Changelings. It is now or never, make it count, Rain thought, looking at the map. Hopefully, Sparky and Twilight will not disturb my plans. Rain thought, as the carrier is moving through the portal. > First Battle of Singapore (part 1)-The Begining > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The assault on Malaya(now know as Malaysia), Hong Kong and the Philippines was coordinated with Pearl Harbour. This will focus on the battle of Malaya and Singapore. 7 December 1941, Malayan coast Historical Facts: Planes started started bombing coatal defences in North Malaya. Long Range Bombers were also sent to bomb Singapore. The British had only old planes for air defense and most could not even be launched due to the speed of the Japanese Bombers. The Japanese bombers managed to bomb the most of the aircrafts on the ground and only a few British fighthers took off. This proved useless as the Japanese has much more better fighters than the British. The Japanese managed to get Air Superiority over the British. The landing crafts were launched to northern Malaya as a follow up to the air strike. The British Defenders were suprised and unprepared for this attack. Despite desperate resistance along the landing site, the Japanese managed to secure a beachead after fighthing. The British HQ in Singapore decided to send HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of wales to the northern coast of malaya to stop the landing. But was sunk two days later by Japanese Bombers. These two battleships formed the bulk of Singapore's naval defence. With them sunk, Japanese had naval superiority over the British. Despite the British having the 'strongest navy' in the world, most was spent in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the course of two months of fighting, the British was forced to withdrew to Singapore. The captital city, Kular Lumper, was captured on the 17th of December. The reason for such a loss was that the British has no tanks while the Japanese has light tanks. The British also has untrained soldiers that wore brown uniforms, meaning that soldiers has no experience in battle, some even couldn't load a rifle and was sent to battle and the Brown uniforms make them obvious in the jungle, and was an eazy target for the Japanese. The Japanese, on the other hand, has experienced soldiers, camoflauged, and used bicycles to advance. Whereas, the British had to run to battle or retreat, meaning the Japanese could advance quicker than the British. Air superiority also meant that the British has no air cover and meant that British soldiers could be killed from the air. By 31 January 1942, the last of the British soldiers retreated to Singapore, and the British blew up the Causeway, in a desperate attempt to slow down Japanese advance. But by now, the British has around 90,000 troops in Singapore, the Japanese only had 30,000. To make matters worse, the Japanese was low in suppiles from all of that advance. Yamashita has two choices: Advance and hope the British will surrender or wait for resupply and reinforcements. Yamashita chose to advance while the British is weak. Yamashita managed to fool Percival that the attack would come from the north-east but actually, the attack would be from the North-west. From 7 to 15th of February, Both sides fought. By the 15th, Percival was so low on suppiles that the fighting could only carry on for one day and that the fighting would take place in Singapore city, where the local population is. Wiston Churchill sent a letter to Percival on the 13th, It was writtened as follows: There must be no thoughts on saving the troops or the civilian population. The battle must be fought to the bitter end at all costs. Commanders and senior officers should die with their troops. The honor of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake. -Winston Churchill Yamashita, despite winning the battle, fears a street by street fight and maybe will run out of ammunition. It is now who will give up first. Surprisingly, the British, despite having more men, surrendered to Yamashita on the 15th of February 1942. The surrender costs the British 80,000 men captured and 5000 men dead or wounded. The Japanese won the battle at the cost of 5000 men dead or wounded. (Casualties for the Battle of singapore only) Winston Churchill called the battle the 'worst disater' and the 'largest capitulation' in British History. The British lose around 120,000 troops in total for the Malayan Campaign and the battle for Singapore. British HQ, Singapore 1st February 1942, Perpective: Percival My men has blown up the Causeway and is now just waiting for the Japanese to strike. How foolish was I? The Japanese will now advance from the north and those guns in the south could do nothing! Nothing! Percival thought. I could only hope for a miracle to happen to win this battle. Off the coast of Singapore, 1st February 1942, Perpective: Rain Finally, after two years, this carrier was completed. Now, I just need to find where and when are we at. This carrier was based on the Nitmitz-class carrier. "Now, where are we?" I ask one of my crew. "Based on this GPS and radar, I say we are near Singapore, around the time of early February 1942 where the battle has not happen yet." "How many contacts?" "Around two destroyers patroling the coast of Singapore, Sir." "Excellent. Prepare to fire defensive missiles." "Yes, Sir!" The destroyers, which spotted us started to communicate via radio. (Translated) "Weird looking carrier, where are you from?" I replied, "We are from the Equestrian Navy." "Never heard of it." I stared at the radar, don't know what to reply. If I said I was with the IJN, these two destroyers would leave us alone. But if I say we are from the Royal British Navy, they would open fire. To make things exciting, I repiled, "We are here to help to British. Let us enter, if not..." I could here some laughther on the radio before their guns started to fire. Luckily, those shells missed. I ordered, "Fire missiles!" After two missiles were launched, the two destroyers sunk. "Full speed ahead! Make sure we reach Singapore ASAP!" "Yes, Sir!" We reach the Harbour within one hour. I told my men to prepare launching F-16s on the Flight Deck. I was surprised by the coastal defences. Their guns were pointing North and not towards the sea. Must be in perparation for the coming battle. I ordered a British Flag to be Raised so that the British would not fire at us. We were cleared for entrance and was allowed to dock in Habourfront. When the carrier was docked, a lot of British troops was moving around, trying to see the carrier. All was peaceful until the radar sensed a bomber squadron was coming and alarms atarted ringing and everypony rushed to battlestations. Despite the fact that this carrier was at port, the carrier could still launch Aircrafts. "Orders, Sir?" "Launch Fighters and prepare Surface to Air Missiles!(SAMs)" "Yes, Sir!" F-16 Fighter jets soon took off from the diagonal flight deck, not the usual pratice of that time but who cares. Perpective: Spitfire (a F-16 pilot) Anti-air crafts guns started to fill the sky with explosions and gunfire. Honestly, I wonder how do aircraft pilots of this time managed to fly through thier own Ground Based Air Defence(GBAD). Dodging these were eazy, soon we spotted the Bomber squadron. We were very far from each other, the Bomber squadron was slower than ours, I would laugh at them later. I fire a couple of missiles and those planes disappered from the radar. I am 100% sure that they don't know what hit them. Planes of this era would fight at close ranges with thier front cannon or machine gun but for us, we could shot them down without them even knowing. The planes exploded in the Air above Malaya I think. These planes did not even cross the Strait and was downed. I kind of feel pity for them but Orders are Orders. I was about to fly back to the Carier when I recieved a new one: bomb the Palace of Johor, something like that. When I was nearing the target, I fired any missiles I had left in my F-16. I wanted to question the Order but Orders are Orders. Only later did I realised that the Japanese Commander, Yamashita, was in the Palace, spying on British Troops. British HQ, Singapore Perpective: Percival, 2nd February 1942 My men told me that a British carrier has arrived in Singapore. I at first thought it was a joke, but when I went to Harbour Front to see it for myself, I was surprised and shocked but nonetheless happy. I heard that the Commander of this ship is a pony called Rain. I would give him a good scolding later, for his plane just bombed the palace of Johor, disregarding British Foreign Policy. I was told later that Yamashita was killed in the bombing which gave my troops a morale boost after the string of defeats in Malaya. I went up to this weird looking carrier, usually, carriers are rectangular like ESS Independence, but this carrier has a diagonal flight deck and a rectangular flight deck, though the rectangular one was rarely used. I went to see this Rain pony, and I was in for a big shock. Rain was a Mare and usually COs of carriers are male. What she told me was more shocking. She says she is from the future, and the carier was also from the future. She told me that she came from Equestria, which I have honestly no idea where that is and she says this battle will be of great significance for the British Military. During the meeting, She said, "Singapore will be attacked from the North-west. You will surrender this garrision of 90,000 troops to the Japanese within 8 days of battle. And... be remembered for surrending this city not for trying to defend this city." I do not know how to react to that and my only defence is "Do you have any proof?" She then lead me down the carrier and took a book titled: The battle of Singapore. In it, it shows where exactly where the troops advance and retreat, the deception plan that Yamashita has used and the reason why I surrendered Singapore I stared at the book, angry at the fact that my senior commanders did not tell me this when they know this. Rain later said, "Take the book, you will need it and if you need any help, all you need to do is ask." "I will" With that I walked away, going back to Fort Canning HQ, trying to plan from there. The Next Day After serious planning, I ordered most of the troops defending the North-east to be moved to the North-west. And started building last ditch fortification in the North-east and North-west. I later went back the carrier to ask Rain something. "Are you willing to help me?" "Yes, but that depends on what help you need." "I need you aircrafts to defend the sky and the sea. My troops will defend the North." "That can be done, but what about your suppiles?" "I don't know..." I replied as I looked on the floor. "Don't worry, you can always request help from the Austrailians." "What do you mean?" "Look, you are not getting any help from Britain anytime soon. Australia is your next closest bet." "That might work, thanks Rain." I don't know why, but I could have sworn I sounded like girl when I said that last sentence. Perpective: Japanese 25th Army With the loss of Yamashita, the Japanese morale quickly fell. With Air and Naval superiority returning to the British, troops moving to the north-west of Singapore and suppiles are running low in terms of Ammunition, Japanese Commanders must wait for resupply and plan a new battle plan. This will take up a lot of time. The only way is to wear the British down with artilery bombarment in the north-east and then launch an assault there. But this would mean moving troops from the west to east and by then the British would have realised this. The only thing to do now is to take a defensive stance. To prevent the British from crossing the Strait and to starve out the British Defenders. > First Battle of Singapore (part 2)-Naval Engagement > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 February 1942, 9 a.m, ESS Independence, Approaching Singapore, Perpective: Sparky It was suppose to be uneventful ride to Singapore. But suddenly, a target appeared on the radar. The target was a Aircraft carrier, but it is not British, it was Equestrian. "Twilight, you might wanna see this." I said, signaling for Twilight to come over. "What?" Twilight trailed off as she saw ESS shining on the radar. "It can't be..." Twilight said. "Yep, it is ESS Shining." I said. Twilight started to mumble something out but I can't hear it. "So..., what do you suggest we do?" I asked, still confused over the matter. "I suggest we talk with the Commander in charge (OC) of that Carrier." "I agree." Singapore, 9 a.m, ESS Shining, Perpective: Rain "Ma'am, we just unloaded all your Land Armored Vehicles, and we are expecting Australian Infantry to arrive soon." A British private reported. "Good, tell Percival that we will out at sea, to protect the incoming convoy." I said. "Yes Ma'am!" the British private said, before going off in the distance. I went back to the Command and ordered my troops to prepare to recieve the convoy. The Carrier was being refueled and Planes were being reloaded. Sadly, we aren't getting resupply anytime soon from Equestria. Hopefully, the battle will be won soon enough. 1 hour later, ESS Shining was out at sea. The only ship out at sea for the moment. I heard that the Austrailain navy are rushing ships to aid the British, but who knows if that is true. We are suppose to escort this convoy and head back to Singapore, nothing more, nothing less. We met with the convoy at around 11 a.m. and started to turn back to Singapore. Suddenly, the radar spotted another carrier near our position. "Scramble Fighters!" I ordered. Within 15 minutes, F-16s were loaded on deck and some started to take off. The first wave of fighters were suppose to take down enemy fighters and the second wave will be to sink this carrier. When I least expected it, the Carrier started making radio contact with us. "This is ESS independence to ESS Shining, do you copy? I repeat, this is ESS Independence to ESS Shining, do you read?" My mind was filled with thoughts. How? Did they really join the Axis? No, It's unlike Sparky to do this.. In the middle of my thoughts, I saw Lyra went to the radio set and repiled, "This is ESS Shining to ESS independence, we copy, I repeat, we copy." A voice that sounded like Sparky started saying things into the radio. "So, it really is you, may I speak with the commanding Officer?" I stared into space, dumbfounded. I did not expect Sparky to join the Axis, it is not part of the plan. Lyra then handed over the radio set to me. I was so deep in my thoughts that I didn't notice that Lyra handed the radio set to me. "Ma'am, the carier is Equestrian, should we still make the bombing run?" Spitfire asked through the comms. "No! Head back to Carrier imediately." I said, snapping out of my thoughts. "Yes Ma'am!" Spitfire replied. "Hello? Is anypony there?" Sparky asked with concern. "I am here! I am here!" I repiled frantically. "Sorry for the delay, my mind was occupied with thoughts." I said. "Oh, I see. Anyways, what are you doing here?" Sparky asked. "Escorting British troops, Why?" "Have you gone mad?" "Hey, look, if you can alter history, why can't I?" "Look, I don't care who you are but tell me that you didn't join the Allies." "We did it a few days ago, and we also put some ponies in Singapore." "What?" "Hey, to be fair, I didn't anticipate that you will join the Axis either. So we are technically even." "Alright, that's it." Sparky said, cutting off the radio. I smiled, knowing that I have angered Sparky. I turned on the comms again and ordered, "Spitfire, continue the Bombing run." "Yes Ma'am!" Spitfire replied. 11.30 a.m, ESS shining, Perpective: Sparky As I cut off Radio contact with ESS shining, F-16s started to appear in mass, targetting ESS Independence. "Prepare Electronic jamming and get those flaks firing!" I ordered. "Electronic jamming?" Twilight asked. "Yes, electronic jamming." I said, trying to hide my true emotions. "Ok then..." Twilight said, getting the instruments for it. F-16s started to fire rockets on the flight deck which caused some damage but not enough to destroy it. The flight deck is the biggest part of the carrier and it is usually heavily armored. This carrier was meant for to fight off with a fleet of Zumwalt-class destroyers and I am throughlt surprised that fighters would target the flight deck, rather than the belt armor. The belt armor is thinner than the deck armor which is the most vulnerable part of the carrier. The flaks started to fire to put explosives and bullets into the air but the F-16s are far away from the flaks firing range. "Sir, the flaks aren't doing anything to stop those missiles!" Derpy said through the comms. "Fine, then get those 25 inches to do Anti- aircraft!" I said, looking at the radar. "Yes, Sir!" Derpy said. Soon, 25 inches were raised to 40 degrees and started firing in all directions. "Sparky, why don't you want to launch figthers?" Twilight asked. "Because Rain have the Air supremercy. We must make their air support gone so that our figthers could take off without Rain's air forces taking out our figther on the flight deck." "Ok, that seemed reasonable." Twilight said, still meddling with the Instruments. The F-16s started to launch a second volley of rockets at the carrier. Again, the rockets hit the flight deck. "Sir, we have taken another hit!" Derpy said. "Somepony get me damage report!" "Yes, Sir!" "Sparky, we got thier signal!" Twilight said. "Good, start to hack their targetting system and radar." "On it." Twilight said, returning to meddle with the instruments. Perpective: Spitfire "Sir, our targetting system are offline!" Daring Do said. "What? That shouldn't be happening." I said, looking at my instruments. "Never mind, Squadron 145, we launch our rockets witout our targetting system." "But how?" Daring Do asked. "We will apporoach the carrier and dive and release our rockets. Is that clear?" I said. "Yes, Ma'am!" Squadron 145 replied "Good, we will apporoach and dive on multiple sides. Daring do will take North-east, Easter will take east, and the rest will be with me. we will take South." "Yes, Ma'am." Perpective: Twilight "Sparky, targets approaching carrier from multiple sides." I said, looking at the radar. "Great, get those 25 inches to fire smoke rounds and prepare flaks to fire is multiple direction." Sparky ordered through the comms. Smoke soon surounded the carrier and the flak cannons are turning to the anticipated direction of where the squadron will fly in from. "Twilight, turn this ship 20 degree starboard." "Yes, Sir!" I said, turning the steering wheel 20 degrees starboard. Out of the blue, darkstorm clouds started to form. "Sparky, it is getting dark." "Good, all guns stop firing." Sparky ordered through the comms. "What? Are you mad?" I said, turning to look at him. "No, I am not mad, stopping all guns from firing will not reveal our location." Sparky said, looking at the dark storm clouds. "Yes, Sir!" troops repiled through the comms. "Now, what do we do?" I asked in a corncern voice. "We wait for the figthers to get close and start an anti-aircraft barrage." Sparky said, turning to face me. Perpective: Spitfire "Ma'am, dark storm clouds are forming, should we head back?" Daring Do asked. "No, we continue our dive bombing run before we head back." I reply confidently. "Yes, Ma'am!" Weird, there is no anti-aircraft fire. Probably because they need to reload or something or scare us so that we won't do the bombing run, I thought. Soon, we are near our target. "Everypony, get into positions!" I ordered. Some F-16s started to turn right or left, separating them from the main fighter group. As we started to dive, the anti-aircraft guns started to fire. Some fighters were immediately shot down and crashed on to the carriers' flight deck, some were lucky to drop the rockets and fly away. I was one of the lucky ones. But the anti-aircraft fire didn't stop there. The 25 inches tried to take us down even when we are far from the carrier. Later, when we landed on ESS shining, some planes exploded as they are trying to land. The thought alone could scare anypony. The 25 inches are doing a darn good job of downing planes. I was lucky, but not my pals. Out of the original 25 F-16s, only 3 came back not seiously damaged and another 4 came back with their F-16s seriously damaged. The rest was downed in the engagement. As if things couldn't be bad enough, more F-16s was sent for a second wave. I wish them the best of luck in my mind, because I realised that they are going in for a suicide mission. Perpective: Rain So many fighters downed in such a short time, that carrier has some serious firepower. Hopefully, the second wave would do a better job. "Prepare to separate with the convoy." I ordered. "Yes, ma'am!" I must bring this fight away from the convoy, I thought. I stared at the flight deck, looking at the F-16 that just landed. I smiled thinking about Twilight and Sparky. As the Carrier started to appear out of sight of the convoy, I heard a soldier reporting, "Ma'am, the second wave failed, they were all shot down by the enemy carrier." I tried my best not to smile at the report, thinking about all the the changeling pilots dying in the midst of battle. "Turn this ship 30 degrees port, face boardside with the enemy carrier." I ordered. "Yes, Ma'am!" "Fire the self-defense missiles!" I ordered. Due to the targetting system not working, the missiles that were fired dive down towards the sea and exploded. Not bad, Sparky and Twilight, I thought. Perpective: Twilight So many good pony pilots, dead and it is all because of Rain, I thought, looking at the wreckage that the F-16s has produced during the battle. "Twilight, look," Sparky said, pointing his hoof to the window. "No, it can't be." I said, looking at ESS Shining turning boardside. You got to be kidding me, I thought. "Since he is turning boardside, should we too?" Sparky asked, turning his face to look at me. "Sure." I replied, going back to the steering wheel and steer the Carrier 20 degrees port, facing boardside with the enemy carrier. "Prepare Starboard guns!" Sparky ordered throught the comms. Soon, the guns were loaded and facing the enemy carrier. "Hold Fire!" Sparky ordered. "Yes, Sir!" "Why?" I asked, facing Sparky. "Look." Sparky said, pointing to the back of ESS Shining. "I can't beleive this." I said, looking at Rain's crew abandoning the ship. "What do you think is his game now?" I asked, looking back at Sparky. "I think he is abandoning ship because he knows he can't beat us or he is just using it as a distraction." Sparky said, still looking at ESS Shining. "Sparky, do you think he will really stop fighthing us?" I asked. "No, I don't." Sparky paused before continuing, "But I don't want his crew to die for him. So, unless he tries something funny, I will not allow the firing of the 25 inches." I stood there, speechless. To know that Sparky is still Sparky is so touching. He turned and looked at me with a smile. "So, what is that mind of yours thinking now?" Sparky said, before he broke out laughing. "What are you laughing about?" I asked, embarrassed. "That look, it is funny to know that you are still you, Twily." Sparky said, smiling at me. "Yeah. I feel the same way about you too." I said, before we both looked at each other, blushing. We stood there, not realising that Derpy has been hollering for us. "Hey are you guys listening?!" Derpy shouted frantically. "Thats it!" Derpy shouted, pulling out a MG42 out from nowhere and pulled the trigger. The bullets coming out of th MG42 was blanks but the sound broke us apart. We were shocked at the sound that we immediately ducked for cover before we realised that it is just Derpy. "What do you want now, Derpy?" Derpy started to pull up her hooves, as if counting something and said, "The enemy carrier is heading right for us!" "What?!" Sparky and I said in unison. Sparky and I looked out of the window and saw the flight deck of ESS Shining apporaching our carrier. "That Bucking pony!" Sparky and I shouted. "You know what? Fine, if you want us to sink your ship, we will." Sparky said angerily. "Fire those cannons!" I ordered throught the comms. Without a reply, the 25 inches fire their shells at ESS Shining. It sank within 15 minutes. But, there was no pony in there, all the ponies have abandoned ship before Rain sent ESS Shining at us. Perpective: Rain I smiled as the ESS Shining sank. I didn't tell my crew that this was part of helping Sparky with the capture of Singapore, if he wants to. So much innocent ponies dead, just to win a battle that they are not suppose to fight for, I thought. I cried on my way back to Singapore. So many thoughts overwhelming my mind. What will I tell Percival? That a Equestrian carrier got sunk by another Equestrian carrier? The thought of Percival and the British troops dying in the incoming battle is too much. So I alter history to keep them from suffering? Funny story, but it is what I must do., I thought. I let out a sigh and asked myself, "Is this worth it?" "Yes, it is." A familar voice answered. It stopped and continued, "If you belive that you are doing the right thing, than do it. It is not worth it to stop halfway for so many ponies killed." I looked around and found nopony talking to me. It must be me imagining things. I replied, "Thanks for supporting me." "You are welcome." I smiled, letting myself sleep on the boat that I was on. Perpective: Sparky After the battle, I turned and look at Derpy, "Thanks for alerting me about it." "You are welcome. If you don't mind, I will be returning to my duties now." "Sure." Derpy walked away, heading downstairs. I turned and look at Twilight. "Soooo, where do you think we should go?" I randomly asked. "I think we should go in and invade Singapore." Twilight said in a serious tone. "Say What?" "Nah, I'm kidding. Let's head back to Pearl Habour." Twilight said jokingly. "For a moment there, I thought you were serious." I said. "Of course I am not serious, I mean, we don't even have the troops for it." Twilight said, smiling at me. "You're right, let's head back to Pearl Habour." I said, moving closer to Twilight. Twilight moved towards the steering wheel and steer the carrier 30 degrees starboard. "You know, now that we are alone..." I said, moving towards Twilight. "Sure, why not?" Twilight and I sat close together and we both took out a diary and start to write our experience of the battle in it. This was done usually privately because we didn't want our troops to read our private thoghts and use it aganist us. Perpective: Narrator Battle Report: The Battle took 80 ponies' lives. 50 from Rain's forces and 30 from Sparky's forces. The casualties are quite small as both sides tried their best to reduce the casualties count. Rain evacuating ESS Shining before sending it to crash with ESS Independence minimise further casualties. And, Sparky and Twilight not pursuing Rain's fleeing crew also helped to minimise Casualties even further. The engagement lasted for only 1 hour as Sparky managed to limit the choices Rain has. This lead to Rain stopping further airstrikes to reduce the casualties' count. This battle will mark the first time two carriers go head to head without much air support on both sides. This will change the mindset of Naval commanders. This will make Carrier commanders think that a carrier's self defense is as important as the abilty to launch planes. The British, thinking that ESS Independence victory is a Japanese victory, will cause a decrease in British morale as it means that the 'Japanese' has Naval Supremacy. This misunderstanding will turn the situation in the Battle of Singapore. This Battle/Engagement will be one of the defining moments in WW2. For it cause a change in Carrier tactics on both sides of the Pacific war. > First Battle of Singapore (part 3)-Self reflections > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 February 1942, Fort Canning HQ, Perpective: Percival Looking at the report given by Rain, I don't know how I should feel. The report goes as follows: Dear Percival, I regret to inform you that the carrier is sunk. Suprisingly, the enemy carrier is Equestrain. We thought it will let us have our way, but we were wrong. I never should have engage the Equestrian Carrier, but what is done is done. The Equestrian carrier is called ESS Independence. If I am not wrong, ESS Independence has no plans to do Singapore any harm. Last I saw it, It was sailing back to Pearl Habour Base. I suggest the British Army stationed in Singapore to hold all offensive operation. Given current situation, it will cause a serious decrease in morale within British troops. Should the offensive be lauched, losing men in the offensive may cause the men to lose hope altogether and the may cause the troops to give up fighthing. P.S I will be coming to Fort Canning HQ at 2p.m to meet you. Yours sincerely, Rain I stood there, looking at the clock. It was 8a.m. I still had some things to do, which included *gulp* telling the troops the sinking of a future class British Carrier. Perpective: Rain I had just came back from shore from a make shift boat when I wrote that letter. When I got back to the shore, I told the Bristish troops about the sinking of the carrier. The troops appears to sympathise with my ponies and some of the British troops also went to comfort some of my ponies. Most of my troops has went back to the barracks after landing back in Singapore. For me, I decided to take a walk through the city and meet Percival later. As I was walking through the city, I saw many civilians just looking at me, they look scared and terrified, it is probably the results of the Japanese artillery bombardment. Seeing these civilians makes me cry for what I am doing. My 'job' requires me to kill these innocent lives if need be. These innocent civilians makes me remember how it was like, before I met Sparky or Twilight. To remember those days of pure naivety somehow made me to sing this song while I was walking throught the city. To think that being third in command of all Equestrian Armed forces and somewhat second in command of all Changelings armed forces. What am I doing? I continued walking through the town, still deep in thoughts. I didn't even notice that a mare was hovering above me. I keep walking until she said, "Em..., How far are you going to go?" I stopped walking suddenly and look around me and asked franctically, "Who's there, I got em, nothing but I not afraid of you whoever you are." "Are you alright, Rainy?" Derpy asked, flying down towards the pavement. "Oh, it's just you." I paused, when a thought entered my mind, "Aren't you supposed to be back at ESS Independence?" "Well, I have my methods and it's not like I've never done this before." Derpy said, smiling at me. "But won't your dissapearence raise suspicions?" I asked. "They won't suspect a thing because I am weird in my own special way, I guess.." Derpy started out confidently and lower her voice towards the end. "Ok, so why would you risk that just to see me?" I asked. "Because you need help." Derpy replied. "I don't need your help!" I yelled, trying to hide my true emotions. "Oh, yes you do." Derpy said, moving closer to me. "Fine, you got me, now how are you going to help me?" I asked. Derpy tilted her head and said, "I know, get on my back." Derpy said, pointing her hoof towards her back, signaling me to get on it. "You want me to do that." I said, moving backwards as I said that. "Oh no you don't." Derpy said, before I felt her hooves grip me and put me on her back. "How did you do that?" I asked, still shocked at what she just do. "You don't need to know how, you just need to know that I have done it." Derpy said. "What?! How does that make any sense?" I asked. "It wasn't meant to make sense anyway." Derpy said, before she started laughing. "Thanks, I guess..." I said, wondering why is she laughing. She stopped laughing and started to spread her wings out. "Woah, what are you doing?" I asked. "Preparing for flight, why?" "Wait, you are telling me you are flying, but aren't you worried that the British or the Japanese will shoot you down?" I asked, worried for Derpy. "See if those bullets or shells can hit me first." Derpy said confidently. Derpy then took off before I could say anything esle. "Enjoying the tatse of flight?" Derpy asked. "Yes, I guess?" I said, amazed by the time she took to get off from the ground to the air. "Good, tell me what is troubling you? Derpy asked, as she is flying freely with no British anti-air shooting. "It's just that I don't know what to do." I said, as tears started to appear on my cheek. "I see." Derpy paused, thinking about what to say next. "Tell me, rain, What is your rank in the military?" Derpy asked. "I am Third in command of all Equestrian Armed forces, why?" I said, not knowing what this has to do with 'helping me'. "That is not your only rank. Now, tell me who are you really working for." I sighed before saying, "I am second in command of all changeling forces." "Good, now tell me who are you really." Derpy said, flying past the Singapore-Malaya Airspace. "I am Rainy Shimmer, an earth pony working in the military and staying in Ponyville." "Not bad, but tell me why do you want to work in the military." Derpy said, as she is flying over Japanese controlled Malaya. "Because..because..." I stammered, not knowing what to say. "Take your time dear." Derpy said. "It is because I want to be stand beside Twilight and Sparky when Equestria went into a state of war since I was a little filly." I said. "If that is your filly's dream, then why do you work for the changelings?" Derpy asked, turning her body to turn back to Singapore. "It is because to protect Twilight and Sparky." I said, as Anti-aircraft guns lit up the bright morning sky. Derpy started to do some weird maneuvers. She dive down real fast till she was within gun range of the troops below before rising back up to hide behind the thick cloud cove before repeating the maneuver again and again. "What are you doing?" I asked, wondering why she is doing such a maneuver. "Trust me, this will make ground troops confused about where I am, reducing our chances of getting hit by GBAD(Ground based Air Defence)." Derpy repiled. Out of the bule, two Zero-class fighters were behind us and started firing their front Machine-guns (MGs). "Hang on." Derpy said, before tilting her body towards the left to move her body towards the left. The two fighters were hot on our tail, and were behind us pretty quickly. "What do we do now, Derpy?" I asked panickally. "Man my tail gun!" Derpy ordered. "There is no tail gun!" I said, searching for a tail gun. "There is now!" Derpy said, as a Heavy Machine gun (HMG) suddenly appeared in front of me. I waste no time in pulling the trigger. I managed to down the two fighters by aiming and firing the HMG at one fighter first and then the next. The two fighters were downed rather quickly. After the engagement, Derpy increased her speed and went straight back for Singapore island. I was somewhat happy that we shot down the two fighters but Derpy was weeping softly for some reason. Concerned about Derpy, I asked, "Are you alright, Derpy?" "No!" She repiled still crying. "Why are you crying?" I asked. She stop crying temporarily and repiled, "I don't know, I just feel like it." "You never change Derpy." I said, trying to cheer her up. "Thanks, Rainy." She let out her final tears and started to smile. "Feeling better?" I asked. "Yeah." She said softly. "That's good enough." I said. "Stop talking about me, let's talk about you." Derpy said, trying to change the topic. "What is there to talk about me?" I asked. "Are you feeling better?" Derpy asked concernily. "I am." I said. "Than that's good to hear." Derpy said. "If you don't mind me asking, how do you get your tail gun?" I asked. "It was installed by the Germans, why you ask?" Derpy repiled softly. "I'm sorry." I said, regretting that I have asked that question. "It's ok, just don't tell anyone, please?" Derpy said, in a high pitched voice and started to hide her tail gun. "Sure, and thank you Derpy," I paused and continued, "for everything." "You are welcomed." Derpy said as she landed right outside Fort Canning HQ. "Bye, Derpy." I said. "Bye." Derpy said, before flying away till she is out of sight. When she is out of sight, I saw a group of British troops staring at me. "Nice Mare you got there," one of the British corporal joked. I blushed, I tried to get out of sight before Percival came. "Where do you think you're going?" Percival asked. "Oh, is it 2 o'clock already?" I asked and looked around to find a clock or something like that. "Yes, you called me to see you here in your report." "Oh, I forgot the time, so let go back in to talk about some confidential things." "Yeah, let's go in." Percival said, before moving back inside the underground Bunker. I followed him down the stairs and almost trip on them, and then we passed through a series of doors that lead to the planning room. Planning room Percival and some other senior officers were in the planning room. When Percival and I entered, all the other officers keeps staring at me, and not at Percival. Weird Soon, Percival and myself took our seats and started the meeting. "I belive you guys know the current situation, based on what Rain has told me, some of you guys has not been telling me things truthfully." Percival said. Some commanders started to fidgit in their seats while some looked clam and not worried. "But I will let that matter slide for this once, so as to not lower the morale of troops." Percival said in a serious voice. "Then why do you call us here?" a senior officer asked. "I called you guys here because of what the Japanese are doing." Percival paused to make sure he has the attension of all the officers present. "US high command has told me that this Japanese carrier has captured 3 carriers in its name. Not only that, this carrier has sunken a future class British Carrier." Conversations started in between the officers present. I didn't really care about them, all I did was look at the picture of ESS Independence that Percival has put on the blackboard. My mind started to tell me that this isn't right, ESS Independence's Commanding Officers would have never leak the information, I have not leak it either, so who did? "Silence!" Percival shouted, which caused all converstions in the room to end. "Good, now that I have your attension, I gotten a report from High Command that the US fleet has planned an offensive in a place called Guadalcanal, this operation, called Operation WatchTower would begin this year, in early august and High Command wanted some of the stationed garrision at Singapore to participate Operation WatchTower." Percival said. Map used for reference: "I have made my decision, one of Major-General Gordon Bennett's brigades from the Australian 8th division and part of Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith's British 18th Infantry division will leave Singapore on the 10th for training in Australia in preparation for Operation WatchTower, do you guys understand?" "Yes, Sir!" echoed from the officers. "But, if those frontline troops are leaving, who will take up the frontline positions?" I asked. "Good question, the 1st Malaya Infantry Brigade from the south east will take over Bennett's positions and the Indian 12th Infantry Brigade will cover for Smith's troops." Percival said. "Meeting adjourned, except for Bennett and Rain, all are dismissed." Percival said in a commanding tone. "Yes, Sir!" With that, the officers emptied the room, leaving Percival, Bennett and myself in the room. "Bennett, come with me, Rain, stay here for a while." Percival said. I gave a salute and let them be. While they are gone, I went up to the black board, looking at ESS Independence. I went back to the table, and discretly looked at the report provided by High Command. The report was written as follows: Dear Percival, Allied High Command believed that the Japanese managed to create a super weapon, our spies has learned that this super weapon is none other than the carrier shown in the picture provided. It was last seen approaching your sector. Send the 'future class' British carrier to engage this ship. Ask its crew what is this ship capable of. Keep this top secret, we don't want Axis High Command know that we are trying to recreate their Super weapon to use it against them. Signed, Admiral Fletcher The report shock me, to think that we were not supposed to join this war in the first place. Oh, Sparky, what have you done? was the first thought that came to my mind. I closed the report and leave it as it is. Thoughts started to form in my head. I must tell Sparky about this, but how? They don't trust you. They don't trust me, but they trust Derpy. You are mad to trust a wall-eyed pegasus Well, as if you have any better ideas Fine, do as you please. Just as it finish, I saw Bennett angrily storm out of the room. I was about to ask him what happened but he walked by so fast that I coudn't even ask. Then, Percival came back and said, "Let him be." "Do you mind telling me what is going on?" I asked cautiously. "He has been transferred with his division for Operation WatchTower, so that is why he is so upset." Percival explained. "Anyways, let's get back to you." Percival said, trying to change the subject. "Sure." I said, trying to smile. "So, how was the carrier sunk?" I thought for a moment and repiled, "It was sunk by those 18 inch shells that this carrier has." I know I lied, but if they knew the actual length of those guns are 25 inches, soon, battleships will have 25 inches turrents. "I see. So, you said this carrier was Equestrian, mind explaining why." He said. "You see, this carrier has ponies onboard so I know it's Equestrian." I replied nervously. "I see." Percival took in a moment to take in the information and asked, "If I am not wrong, you are 'Equestrian', aren't you?" "Yes." I said softly. "Good, that's all I need to know. You may leave now." He said in a commanding tone. "Yes, Sir!" I said, saluted him before walking out of the bunker. Outside the Bunker/ Fort Canning HQ, As I walked outside, some of the British Guards started staring at me. It is almost like they are saying, "Look at you, you don't belong here." My only thought was to fly out of the area as soon as possible but then I remembered I am an Earth pony, I don't have wings. I sighed and continued walking until I hit something. "Ouch!" I said, examining what I've knocked into. "You must really look where are you going," A familar voice said. "Oh, it's just you, Derpy. Shouldn't you have been back at Independence already?" I asked. "Oh please, I'm Derpy, they won't suspect a thing." Derpy said confidently. "But how did you manage to hide from british troops for around 1 hour?" I asked. "I used a cloak that I made, so I am techincally invisible to anyone unless they get close enough." Derpy explained, pulling out the cloak. I stood there speechless. Until I remembered something. "Derpy, could you give me a lift back to Habourfront?" I asked. "Sure!" Derpy repiled in a high pitched voice. Derpy started to bow down in front of me and said, "Get on." I started to sit on Derpy and she took off. Soon, we reached HabourFront. I started to get off her before remembering something. "Oh, Before I forgot, Derpy I need you to tell Sparky something." I said, signaling Derpy to get closer. "What is it?" Derpy asked. "The Allied forces are trying to build a replica of Twilight's Battleship and Carrier hybrid, tell them to watch their moves, for the Allied powers are actively trying to get more information about its designs." I said, seriously and softly, so that nopony except Derpy could hear the message. "Got it. Anything else?" Derpy asked. "Nothing esle." I replied. "Good, see you soon, Rain." She said, before flying upwards till she is out of sight. "Bye, Derpy." I said, before going back to my barracks. Perpective: Japanese "Sir! We got a report from our pilots that a pegasus and an earth pony has shot down two Zero-class fighters." A private reported. "Oh really?" the Japanese commanding officer asked. "Yes, Sir, the pilots reported that the earth pony used the pegasi's tail Heavy Machine Gun to shoot them down." The private reported. "It does seem suspicious, I will tell Admiral Yamamoto about it. But for now, tell the pilots to keep it a secret, if they refuse, consider it an act of treason." the Japanese commander said in a commanding voice. "Yes, Sir!" With that, the private went back to his post. ----------------------------------------------------------------------End of Battle of Singapore (Part 3)--------------------------------------------------------- Historical Facts: Bennett's 8th Australian Division was responsible for the defense of the North-Western part of Singapore. His division was the only line of defense against the first wave of Japanese troops when the Japanese landed on the 7th of February. Due to lack of reinforcements and thinly spread defensive lines, the Japanese managed to secure the area within the second day of the battle. Smith's 18th Infantry division was defending the North-Eastern part of Singapore. This division will later be transferred to fight the main Japanese invasion in the NorthWest of Singapore island. Both of these divisions would fall to the Japanese when Percival agreed to surrender all Allied forces in Singapore. The Battle may have not been a turning point in the war, but it will be the largest surrender of British-led forces in British military history. Around 120,000 Allied troops will fall to the Japanese Imperial Army due to Percival's decision. Bennett and Percival techincally hate each other, so when Bennett was sent away to fight in Operation WatchTower, Bennett gotten upset. The Battle of Guadalcanal took place on 8th August 1942 to 9 February 1943. It was a turning point in the Pacific war. It was code-named Operation WatchTower. The battle of Guadalcanal was a attack led by US troops but consisted some British and Australian troops. Though I have no Idea when they actually planned the Assault, I included some British troops from Singapore because, why not? > First Battle of Singapore (part 4)-Dogfight > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 February 1942, ESS Independence, en route to Pearl Habour, Perpective: Sparky Sailing back to Pearl Harbour, it was uneventful. Most of the events are normal. It was uneventful until Derpy appeared out of nowhere and requested to land on the flight deck. i agreed to her landing and she landed on the flight deck not soon after. I was about to go down to the flight deck to ask her what has happened when Derpy came in to the command post. Her body was full of sweat and her face was full of panic. She asked frantically, "Where's Sparky?" "I'm here. why do you need to see me for?" I asked with concern. Derpy started to hyperventilate and stood there for awhile to rest (I presume). After she was done 'resting', she spoke panickedly, "The Allied forces has started to build a repilca of this ship." "Are you sure?" I asked, not believing what Derpy has said. "I think so." Derpy repiled and a low voice. I decided to take a moment to process what she said. She just said that Allied forces are building a repilca of this ship, why are you suspecting her? She is Derpy and I have no idea where she got that info. Probably from a nightmare of sorts. Good point, then ask her where she got the info then. "So em, Derpy, where did you get this info?" I asked. "I got this info from em, em..." Derpy said, before she trailed off. "From what?" I asked again in a loud voice. "From, em, maybe it is better to not say where it came from." Derpy repiled, showing much hesitation. "Ok, you are expecting me to believe that the allied forces are building a repilca of a battleship and carrier hybrid where they should be trying to rebuild their own fleets, good one Derpy." I said sacastically. Derpy raised her voice and tried to position both of her derped eyes to face mine, "I am not Joking! They really are trying to recreate this ship!" I started laughing immediately. Derpy started to reposition her eyes to its previous position and started to scratch her head and asked, "Why are you laughing?" "Its just, it's just.... that you look so Derpy and I have never seen somepony that has done that for a very long time." I repiled, before I continued laughing. Everypony else in the room started to laugh as well. Derpy still stood there, trying to process what I just said. When she understood what I meant, she started to bow her head, and started to sadly say, "Yeah, I'm that Derpy." With that, she turn around and walked out of the command post. We continued laughing, not realising that Derpy has gone away. When we finally stop laughing, only then we realise that Derpy is gone. Perpective: Derpy I started to cry softly as I went down the stairs. Which, by the way, has no reason of being there. There was an elevator right besides the stairs. Maybe I had become used to walking up and down the stairs. Ponies usually don't use stairs, most of the troops usually take the elevator to report things to Sparky or Twilight, unless it was during battle conditions. During battle conditions, most ponies use the comms to report things to Sparky or Twilight. I was the only pony to use the stairs often. Strange world huh?My mind asked no pony in particular. As I slowly went down the stairs, I started to remember those 'fun' times I had with Sparky and Twilight. While I was stuck in my thoughts, I continued walking down the stairs till I reached the flight deck. I continued to walk through the flight deck while staying in my thoughts. "Hey, Derpy!" a voice called. It made me came out of my thought bubble and surprised me. I instantly crossed my front and back hooves and slipped forward. "Oops, sorry if I startled you, Derpy." A female voice said. "It's ok, so why are you here?" I said, still trying to get up. "Just here to see you, why you ask?" "Nothing in particular." I said, finalling facing the mare. As I face the mare, I noticed something weird about her. So I asked her, "If I want you to go on flight with me would you do it?" "Sure." She said happily. "Good, let's go. Now." I said, emphasing on the last word. "Wait what? Now? But I am not ready..." "You are, just trust me and you will be fine," I said, trying to calm this mare. "But won't they realise that you are suddenly gone? and..and," She asked concernly. "Don't worry, they probably won't realise I'm gone." I said confidently. "But..but..but how?" "I'll be right back." I said, before running off towards the 8.8cm flak gun located near the command building. "Hey Derpy, what brings you here?" Bon Bon asked. "I just need you gals to cover for me while I'm gone." "Wait what? Where are you going?" Bon Bon asked concernly. "I will be going somewhere top secret, if anypony asks for me, tell them I am on a recon mission. You got it?" I asked. "Sure, will you be back by sunset?" Bon Bon asked. "I will." I answered confidently. "Good, see you later." "Yah, see you later." I said, before running off to that mare. "Ok, that is settled, is there anything esle?" I asked. "But I am an earth pony, I can't fly." She said, pointing her right front hoof to her back, showing me that she has no wings. "It's alright, you can use mine. Just hop on my back." I said, while pointing my front right hoof to my back. "But..but.." She repiled, at a lost for words. I sighed and started to get closer to her. I continued to walk closer to her until I am directly in front of her. I bowed down, and said," Sit on my back and I promise you I won't let go, unless you let go of me." "Well, here goes nothing." She said, walking to my right and then climbing on my back. She use her front hooves to grab my neck and put her back hooves just right in front of my wings. "Prepare yourself." I said, before expanding my wings and started to fly upwards. The Mare sitting on my back was clinging to me for her life. She almost kill me when she use more force to grab my neck, making me almost choke and become out of breath. I managed to use my front hooves to make her release her holding on me and it almost cause me to drop her in mid flight. Luckily, she instead grab my front hooves in time, before anything esle could happen. I stop flying upward when I was around 400 metres above above the carrier. I started to flying horizontaly towards Singapore island. "You can stop acting now." I said, tilting that my head to face her. "What do you mean I'm acting? I ensure you that I'm not acting anything." She said, trying to deny the truth. "You are of course not acting, because you are Rain, aren't you?" I asked, raising my volume and turning away from her. "What do you mean I am rain? I have no idea what you are talking about." She said, still in denial of her true identity. "But you do and you are 'thrid in command of all Equestrian forces' and 'second in command of all changelings forces'." I said, forcing Rain to reveal herself. "Fine, you got me." Rain said. In a flash of green light light, she revealed her black colour body with wings and a horn. Her wings, horn and her hooves were filled with holes. She was wearing no armor. I smiled. "So, how did you know I was that Mare?" Rain asked curiously. "It was simple, I have never seen that mare before on the carrier, it was pretty eazy to work from there." I answered. "Ok, but back to serious business, have you told Sparky or Twilight about it?" "I have told Sparky, but he not only not believed me, he made fun of me." I said, starting to have tears in my eyes. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have counted on you for this job." Rain said, starting to lower her head in sadness. I have no idea what got over me and I started to cry softly, not wanting Rain to hear. "Maybe they need evidence to believe that the Allied forces is building such a weapon." Rain said, thinking hard on the subject. I heard Rain and nodded and not uttering a word. "Derpy, are you crying?" Rain asked concernly. I gave Rain a quick nod turn slightly to face rain and nodded. "Why are you crying? You did nothing wrong." Rain said, in a attempt to lift my sprits. "I am Derpy, don't you get it, I am the most idiotic pony in the military." I repiled in a mixture of anger and sadness. "No you are not. You follows orders and that is what makes a good soldier, isn't it?" Rain asked. "I am a good solidier, but that dosen't mean I am a good military pony." I said, thinking about how I managed to enter the military. "What do you mean?" Rain asked curiously. "I mean would you accept a soldier who shoots badly, performs badly in hoof to hoof combat, not knowing how to lead troops in battle, fails in first-aid, fails in technical handling and only knows how to follow orders!" I said, in the mixture of sadness and anger. Rain sat there and stared into space, not believing a word that I just said. "But you are a good pony, you helped deliver messages in times of battle." Rain said, trying to change my mood. "And that is all I can do, anything esle I can't." I said sadly. Rain sat there, processing what I just said. I turn and look at Rain before I continued, "I am not worth the guns the Germans installed on me." I said, revealing a HMG near my tail and two MG42s on my wings. Rain sat there, surprised that I have three guns on myself. "So, you can control those guns right?" Rain asked curiously. "Yes, but I don't want to use or show my friends that I am armed." I said sadly, turn my head and looking downwards to the open sea. Rain smiled and asked, "Can you fire a few rounds, please?" "Sure." I said in a high pitch voice. I started to dive down to around 100 metres from sea level and open fire. The fast rate of fire of the MG42s meant that ammo was emptied quickly. I got out 500 rounds from the MG42s before the ammo belt was emptied. I restarted my climb until I was 400 meters from sea level. "Wow! That was amazing." Rain said, amazed by my action. "You really think so?" I asked timidly. "Really, I can't think of ponies back in Equestria doing that." Rain repiled. "Oh, but I'm not the only pony that could do that, Sparky, Twilight and Pinkie Pie can do what I did just now." I said. "Really? Sparky and Twilight never told me that." Rain said. "Maybe that is for the best, I mean, you don't want ponies to know that your commander can do that." I said. "Yeah." Rain said, imagining about what ponies/changelings would react if she could do it as well. I smiled, thinking how would ponies react if they knew a derped mare has a gun that only she could control. We were so involved in our thoughts that we didn't realise that we were over Malaya's airspace. The Japanese Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) started to spew shells and bullets into the air around us. Rain was the first one to get out of her thoughts and started to realise what was happening. Rain started to try to snap me out of my thoughts . Rain grab my neck and squeeze it enough so that I will feel hard to breathe but not enough to kill me. I immediately snapped out of my thoughts. I started to dive straight down to the forest but did not climb up. I stayed there and started to take out my cloak. "Why did you land?" Rain asked. "To put on this cloak, this way the Japanese will not shoot me down when I go back up into the air." I paused as I remembered I have a passenger. "But you, they will see you on my back. I don't have two cloaks, do you have any ideas?" I said. "No." Rain said sadly. "Never mind, I want you to wear the cloak. I will try to evade those Anti-air fires." I said confidently. "But you need it more than I do." Rain said. "No, Wait, change back to an Earth pony first, then wear the cloak." I said, thinking about Rain's safety over mine. "Fine." Rain said defiantly. With a flash of green light, Rain change from a changeling to a Earth pony. Rain started to put on the cloak and turned invisible. Due to the fact that it was done myself, I could kind of control it. I can determine who get to see me while wearing it and also who can wear it and manage to stay invisible. I also know where the pony wearing it is, despite the pony being invisible to everyone esle. I started to bow down, signalling for Rain to get on me. I felt her sat on me and I started to take off. Before I even hit 300 meters above sea level, shells started to explode to light up the air behind me. Perpective: Japanese, when Derpy just entered Malaya's airspace "Sir, we got an aircraft incoming from our northwest sector!" A Japanese radar operator reported. Before his Commanding Officer said his orders, the radar operator said, "Sir, it is the same pony that shot down our two zeros yesterday!" "Good, launch all fighters available to intercept them and get all GBAD firing!" His commanding officer ordered. "Yes, Sir!" the radio operator repiled, before moving back to the communication set and relayed the command to all Japanese forces in Malaya. When the Japanese Air force recieved the order, 10 Zero-class figthers were scrambled and launched into the air. The GBAD team were alerted and started to fill the sky with lead and shells. Ground forces were also issued with the order to shoot down the incoming pony by any means. This meant that Japanese artilery and armor would try to elevate thier barrel to the highest elevation possible and try to shoot down the incoming pony. After some time, the pony was seen flying upwards towards cloud cover, anti air guns quickly loaded in shells in an attempt to shoot down the pony, but failed and the pony managed to hide behind cloud cover. Figthers in the air was ordered to enter cloud cover to shoot the pony down. Perpective: Derpy As I went into cloud cover, Rain yelled, "Fighters incoming!" "What? Are you sure?" I asked, surprised at the fact that there was fighters in the air. "Yes, and there is about ten of them!" Rain yelled panickally. "Damn it, we can't survive a head to head dogfight, I try to shake them." I said, analyzing the situation that we are in. "Hang on," I said, as I started to dive down towards sea level. I stop my dive when I was around two or three meters from the sea. But the Japanese pilots did not give up, they also dive down and started to fire their nose gun. I heard the the firing of those guns but I tried to keep my mind out of it and instead pay attension to my speed and to maintain the distance from sea level. Due to the fact that my position was close to the shore, coastal artilery started to fire at me. Those shells made a huge impact on the water and the splash coming from a shell enough to disrupt my vision and probably made me lose my ability of flight by wetting my wings. "What are you doing? Aren't we suppose to be trying to shake them off? We are not only not shaking them off, but you made us close to sea level. How are we going to survive this?" Rain said, questioning every move I made. "Look, so long as those figthers is on me, I could maybe make them crash into the water when I climb back up to cloud cover." I yelled, as bullets and shells was getting closer to hit me. Despite the fact that the fighters are gaining on me, I still did not climb back to cloud cover. I took as gamble and took a slow dive so that I was around 1 meter above sea level. "Why are we getting closer to sea level?" Rain asked. "We are at torpedo bombing level, so long as we don't get hit by those anti-air fire, we will be fine." I repiled. Just as I finished my sentence, the fighters pulled out from their dive as they are getting too close to sea level. "I got an idea, why not we capture one of those Zeros fighters in mid-air." Rain suggested. "What do you mean?" I asked, not understanding what Rain is suggesting. "I am saying that you fly close to a Zero fighter and I will jump on the fighter wings, make my way to the cockpit, eliminate the pilot and take control of the Zero fighter." Rain explained. "Won't that increase the risk of me getting shot?" I asked, analyzing the battle plan. "It's a risk that we must take to win this dogfight, unless you have a better idea." Rain said. "Fine, I will take this risk, if you fail, just jump off the wing, I will catch you." I said, fearing that the plan won't work. With that, I started my climb towards the closest figther to us. I managed to get myself towards the right side of the fighter and Rain got off me and boarded the fighter. Rain, still invisible, started to slowly make her way toward the pilot seat. But due to the sound she created when she boarded the fighter, the pilot mistook it as the fighter was being shot and started to do maneuver to 'dodge' the 'bullets' that I was 'firing'. The pilot was so concentrated on his controls that he did not see me flying right beside the fighters wings. As the fighter started to do maneuver, I started my dive back down towards the sea. Perpective: Rain As the fighter started maneuvering, other fighters in the air started to quit thier climb and force their fighters to do a quick dive and fired a second burst of MG fire on Derpy. I hope she is ok. While the other fighters turn their attension towards Derpy, I started my move towards the cockpit. As I got closer, the fighter suddenly turn around and started to dive down to engage Derpy. I searched the cloak that I'm wearing to see if Derpy mistakely put a weapon in it. To my complete surprise, the cloak stores 1 MG42, 1 MP40(a german sub machine gun used in WW2) and belts of ammo- supposely for the guns attached to Derpy. I took the MP40 with my front hooves and fired into the cockpit. By shooting the cockpit, the pilot in the cockpit was dead and the fighter plane started to go out of control. I could either try my luck and enter the cockpit and use it against other Japanese fighters or I could abandon my position and freefall towards the sea and hope Derpy will catch me. I chose to abandon the plane and jump out of my position. As I was free falling, I saw Derpy, coming out of nowhere, rushing into position to catch me. I a blink of an eye, I manage to land safely on Derpy's back. Derpy will have to answer a lot of questions later, I thought. Perpective: Derpy, when she just left the fighter Rain was on My actions have lead a couple of Zero fighters to do a quick dive to engage me. MG bullets started to appear surprisingly behind me. I started to do a rapid climb to distract the Zero fighters. I zoomed past the Zero fighters quickly. The Zero fighters were stunned at my rapid climb and started to do thier own climb. I was still in the middle of my climb before I somehow sensed that Rain was falling off from an aircraft. I turned my body to do a dive. The fighters saw this and follow suit. As I did my dive, I saw Rain free falling to her death. I folded my wings slowly to increase speed. As I dive downwards, I caught Rain in mid flight and almost crashed into the water below. In a blink of an eye, anti-air shells started to lit the sky. I started to do a quick climb to distract Japanese Anti-air guns, or so I thought. Several Zero fighters that was on my tail started to explod due to Anti-air fire. I looked downwards while climbing and saw that we were above Singapore island. I made a smile on my face and yelled in excitement, "We are here, Rain, we are finally here!" "Yay..." Rain said, before lying on my body, sleeping. I looked at the condition of Rain and started to dive down. As I started to do my slow dive, I saw a couple of Japanese Zeroes turning tail and went back into Malaya's airspace. I gave a sigh of relieved as the Anti-air barrage come to a stop. With no Anti-air barrage, I continued my descend. Despite trying my best not to wake up rain, she woke up in mid air. "Derpy, where am I?" Rain asked. "You are approaching Habourfront, my dear." I repiled in a soft and gentle voice. "Can you land there?" Rain asked, pointing his front right hoof at a wooden warhouse on Habourfront and starting to take of the cloak I gave her just now. "Sure." I repiled. As I come down to land, I saw a crowd gathering around me. The crowd has a mixture of ponies and some British troops. "Could you put me down please?" Rain asked. "Sure." I repiled, lowering my body to let Rain get off me. "Thanks." she said, smiling at me. "You're welcome." I repiled. "What a nice mare you have there." A British Private in the crowd said. Rain and I blushed and stood there for a moment, until I remembered something. "Rain, can I speak to you in private?" I asked, still blushing from the British Private's comment. "Sure." Rain repiled, who is also still blushing. Rain and I had to force our way out of the crowd and started to hear some murmers from the crowd but I ignored them. Rain and I make our way into the empty and dark warehouse. Inside the empty and dark warehouse, I started to reveal what I wanted to say. We looked around to make sure no one was around. We stopped our blushing and started to get serious. To be extra safe, Rain used her changeling magic to build a sound proof bubble. "Is this about stealing the report from the British?" Rain asked. "Yes, if you do not mind, could you steal it for me, please?" I asked, as I gave Rain huge puppy eyes from my Derped eyes. Despite I made puppy eyes with derped eyes, they were still pretty adorable. Rain gave a smile. But that smile suddenly turned into one of corncern. "Are you okay Derpy?" Rain asked concernly. I cut my puppy eyes and asked, "What do you mean?" "I mean, look at your back, it's stained with blood!" Rain shouted with a mixture of concern and surprised. I turned my head and looked at my wings. I was horrified at the sight I saw. I was also surprised. Up until now, those blood stains weren't there. I stared at my wings as I tried to remember how did I got hit. Despite my best efforts, i just couldn't remember. I was still stuck in my thoughts until I started to feel pain in my wing area. Rain was looking at me with concern, but did not say a word as he watches me. I started to feel the pain of around 2-3 shells and 40-70 bullets hitting my wings. The amount of pain overwhelms me and I started to feel dissy. I started to watch from the left to the right before I fell into the ground and my eyes closed as I feel my life going away from me. The last thing I remember was seeing Rain approaching me with a concerned look. Perpective: Rain I saw Derpy walking left and right and putting one of her hooves on her head before she fell down towards the floor. I rushed towards her immediately. Derpy, you must not die here. I used my horn to light up the warehouse. I dropped my shield and looked around for a first aid kit. I sarted to panick and started to run around the empty warehouse. Suddenly, I feel pain in my wings as well. Though the pain is much lesser as compared to Derpy's, I feel like I have been hit by 30-40 bullets and 1-2 shells. I started to feel dizzy and the warehouse started to turn dark. In a instance, my eyes closed and I fell to the floor too. IAs my eyes closed, I also started to feel that my life was slowly going away from me. --------------------------------------------------------End of Battle of Singapore (Part 4)--------------------------------------------------------------------- > First Battle of Singapore (part 5)-Dreams or Memory? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Perpective: Rain, in the dream world I suddenly woke up and see that I am chained to a metal surface. Beside me was Derpy, who was also chained to a metal surface. "Where are we?" I asked, turning my head to face Derpy. "I think we are in a cell or something." Derpy said, turning to face me. "Finally, both of you are awake." Somebody that sounded like a male sinisterly said. "What do you want with us, whoever you are?!" I said in a mixture of anger and curiousity. "You don't need to know who I am, you just need to know that I am a scientist." The scientist responded sinisterly. "Let us go, you scientist!" I yelled at the top of my voice. "Why would I let you go? You are my test subjects, I will never let you go." The scientist repiled with a sly smile on his face. "What do you want with us?" I asked again, with the question still staying in my head. "Nothing..., except for the horns and wings that you two have." The scientist repiled. What? Both of us? But I thought Derpy does not have horns and I was still in my earth pony disguise. As these questions played in my mind, the Scientist grabbed a chainsaw from a nearby table. I tried my best to get out of there and Derpy did the same, but the chains was just too hard. As the Scientist approached me, he pointed the chainsaw directly in front of my wings and slice them. I yelled in pain and that was when I woke up from the dream. I still felt the pain on my wings after the dogfight. I opened my eyes slightly and saw that Derpy was also awake amd is trying to get up too. Both of us was lying on a pool of blood. I tried to get up but felt something heavy on my back, as if it was telling me to stay down. I gave up after a couple of seconds and I my eyes slowly close itself. Perpective: Derpy Strange enough, I shared the same cream as Rain. After Rain has her wings sliced off, the scientist sliced mine next. Next thing I know, I woke up from my dream and tried to get up from my lying down position. But I felt that there was something heavy on my back and was keeping me from getting up. After a few seconds I have no more strength to get get up and I collapse back into the pool of blood. Perpective: Narrator They entered into another dream and the mood of this dream was more optimistic than the previous one. In this dream, Derpy and Rain was standing on top of an Ironclad. Note: An ironclad looks something like this: But there was some physical difference bewteen them. Derpy has a horn and wings and Rain looked like a changeling stallion rather than a mare. "What happened to me?" Both of them asked in unison. They looked at each other and said, "You look...different." Derpy repiled, "Rain? Is that really you? You don't look like you." Rain said, "I could say the same about you." Perpective: Derpy Wow, I never thought that Rain would be a stallion, I always thought that he was a mare. He looked so cute though... Perpective: Rain I never thought that you were an alicorn, Derpy. You look so beautiful in this form though... Perpective: Narrator Derpy and Rain continued to stare at each other and blushed. Out of the blue, huge fireballs pluged into the sea around the Ironclad. The two ponies stop their staring and immediately went into full 'battle' mode. Perpective: Derpy "Who is attacking us?" I asked, accidently letting out what I thought into spoken words. "I have no idea." Rain repiled. As massive fireballs exploded around the ship, I took a look at our surroundings. We were obviously onboard an Ironclad. There was metal all around us and there were two 6-inch cannons on its port and starboard side. Also, there were one 6-inch cannons on the ship's front and back. Around us was scattered items which includes: Two telescopes, Two swords, Cannonballs, Powder bags and Two crossbows. "Wow, I never thought there was so much stuff scattered around us." I said. "Neither did I" Rain repiled as he was picking up the items on the ground. As he was doing that, I picked up a telescope and look through a small lid on the Ironclad. "You can't be serious!" I said, as I saw five galleons, with flags that is clearly not Equestrian, firing its boardside on this Ironclad. Note: The Galleon I am refering to is this: "What happened?" Rain asked. "There are Galleons fire its boardside on us, we need to get out of here, NOW!" I repiled, signaling for Rain to get to the engines. "I will see what I can do, no promises." Rain repiled, as he went to handled the engines. While Rain was manning the engines, I took it to myself to fire those 6-inch guns. This Ironclad only has its front cannon facing the enemy. I went to get some powder bags to load the cannon, as I was doing that, shells was hitting the ship everywhere and the sound the shell reflected off the ship was bringing fear to me as, at anytime, the enemy ships could penertrate the armor at anytime and this ship will be sunk. In the distance, I could see some smaller ships, with flags that states that they are Equestrian, approaching the Galleons from its bow (front) side, which the Galleons didn't seem to see them. The Ironclad that I and Rain is in is still not moving. The amount of shells hitting the belt armor is getting unbearable. The constant sound of shells hitting the armor is causing me not to think straight. Without thinking, I yelled, "Rain, let's attack thier command ship!" "What, are you serious?" Rain repiled. "Yes!" I repiled, as I picked up two swords nearby. "Okay, If you say so." Rain repiled, with uncertainty in his voice. We abandon the ship through a lid at the top of the ship. As we were prepared to fly away, I gave a sword to Rain and said, "Let's bring this fight to them." "Agreed." Rain repiled. I probably wasn't in a clear mind then and flew upwards, drawing attension from our enemy. Arrows started to flew past me and Rain and some griffins started to come up to engage us as well. Rain and I started to use our wings to grip our swords, prepared for an airel melee battle. Around 20-30 griffins was scrambled to engage us in the air. As both sides went closer to each other, both Rain and I took a dive towards one of their Galleons. Maybe we dived too much and nearly hit the water, we quickly climb and I heard some cannonballs go past me as Rain and I was doing our maneuvers. As we did our maneuvers, the griffins stayed in the air, watching our every move and preparing to engage in the air once we completed our climb. We did not finish our climb and instead landed on the enemy's command ship. The griffins saw this and dived down, towards thier command ship. Onboard their enemy's command ship, there was around 50 ponies(that defected from the Equestria) and griffins on deck and probably another 50-100 below deck loading the cannons. Rain and I immediately shift to a defensive stance, seeing pretty much everybody armed with swords and is trying to kill us. Their commander is a griffin, he or she was wearing nothing and was only carrying a sword. "Nice to meet you again, Princess." The commander said, in a creepy voice. Wait, what? I am not a princess, am I? "What are you talking about? I am not a Princess." I said with my mind bringing more questions than I could answer them. "Don't try to fool me. I know you are, isn't that right Princess Ditzy?" The commander asked with a sly smile. "What? No. Am I?" I repiled, putting down my guard for a moment to think. "Wait, if you are you and I am me then who is who?" Rain asked, also confused by the turn of events. "Don't act innocent on me, Prince Shimmer." The commander said. "What? I can't be....can I?" Rain asked, looking down on his sword for his reflection. "No matter, soldiers attack!" the commander said, pointing his front right hoof at us. "What?!" Rain and I asked as a conbination of ponies and giffins armed with swords came towards us from both the deck and the air. We got into defensive stance, wielding the swords with our wings. Perpective: Narrator Both ponies and Griffins charged towards Derpy and Rain from the deck and from the air. The fighting turned choatic as swords clashed with each other in point blank range. Despite this, the commander himself stayed at his spot, watching the battle happening right in front of him. Perpective: Rain I saw so many ponies with griffins pointing their weapon forward, all attempting to kill me. My mind changed from confusion to trying to survive this battle. Instincts quickly took over my mind. I leaned against Derpy and yelled, "There is too much enemies, what do we do?" "A....a.... throw our swords at them?" Derpy repiled with much hesitation. "What? Are you crazy?" I said, as the enemy surrounded us, all pointing their swords towards us but not attacking, as if they are waiting for something. There is no way out of here. We are trapped on deck and the enemies' air force has cut out our last escape route. "I know a way, but it's suicidal." I said. "What is it?" Derpy asked. "We charge towards our right flank." I said, blinking one eye. "Ok, let's go." Derpy said, as we moved towards our left flank. Swords clashed between us and the enemy. It seems like there was an endless stream of enemy troops. We use our wings to slap our enemy in the face, while we use our hooves to kick our enemy. Since our swords is on our left wing, we use our right wing to slap the enemy before using our left wing to kill the enemy. I managed to kill around 10 enemy troops while Derpy managed to kill around 15 enemy troops. The screams coming from those who are seriously injured in battle is unbearable. Their groans and their yelling made us heartbroken and so we decided to end their lives with a slice through their necks. It was choatic so we didn't give it a second thought about it. All in all, we killed around 40 enemy troops and injured 20 others. The injured troops withdrew from the fight and some flew to other ships while some took the decision to end the suffering themselves-by throwing themselve overboard to the water below. During the fight, my front right hoof was sliced off and Derpy's neck was sliced but thankfully the sword did not went all the way through, and she lived the first engagement. As the casualties rose, more enemy troops appeared on deck, some armed with crossbows and some armed with long swords. Due to the injuries we suffered from the eariler fight, dealing with their reinforcements is getting harder and harder. "Give up, you fools!" Their commander demanded. "We will *Cough* not!" Derpy and I repiled in unison. "Then face your defeat!" their commander said, charging at us with a sword on his right and left wing. I couldn't get up in time but Derpy could. Derpy got up and charged at the commander. As they were getting closer, I noticed that Derpy was not carrying a sword. I wanted to tell her but my strength was not enough. "Derpy, come....back.." I said, as my mouth started to spill out blood. Perpective: Derpy I charged at this commander with all my remaining strength. I tried to grab my sword to only realise it wasn't there. No matter, I will fight him hoof to hoof then. I was charging at him from his left and so I prepared to spread out my right wing to slap him and engage him at close quaters. As we got to point blank range, he drew out his left wing which has a sword pointing straight ahead. Instincts took over and I titled my head towards my right. I felt my horn touched his body but didn't care much about it. When I went out of my blind charge, I realised what has happened. As the commander and I met from opposite ends, I pointed my horn to his neck but I didn't realised my horn was that sharp or that long to slice his entire neck off and he stopped his charge and fall forwards. As the commander laid there, dead, his troops started to charge at me, trying to avenge for their fallen commander. I thought I was going to die and I ran towards rain to pick up my sword to fight them. And that was when I heard a massive expolsion. That explosion drew the attension of the enemy troops and that was when I picked up Rain's body and flew away from thier command ship. I took a sneak peak behind to see what has happened. The explosion was cause by a magazine detonation and it cause a massive explosion that sank one of the enemy's Galleons. Then, a second ship started to suffer the same fate as the first. The other two Galleons that remained caught on fire and the ship started to burn. The command ship suffered a head on collision by one of the small naval boats of the Equestrian Navy. The collision caused the command ship to have a whole in its port side. The hole caused the crew to abandon ship as the ship was filling with water. As I reached the stationary Ironclad, I put Rain's body down and looked at the carnage that the Equestrian Navy has caused. It was a beautiful sight. I also managed to see four of the Equestrian small boats returned with the ponies inside cheering as they were victorious. Rain started to wake up and stood beside me. "It is beautiful, isn't it?" rain asked. "Yes, It is." I repiled. We would later have to ask the Equestrian small boats to pull the Ironclad back to port. I thought. As Rain and I looked at the carnage, Rain said, "We won." "Ya, we won, but at what cost?" I asked and sat down,thinking about the enemy. Rain did not reply but sat down beside me and gave frown and we sat there, looking at the destruction we caused. Soon, the sky darkens and we slept on the Ironclad due to battle fatigue. And that was where that 'dream' ended. Alexandra Hospital, 7 February 1942, 6.30 p.m. I woke up to see that my wings was covered in bandages. I looked around to see that I am in some sort of hospital and that Rain was right beside me, also covered with bandages on his wing area and that Spitfire and Soarin was inside the room, sleeping. "What happened?" I asked no pony in particular. Spitfire and Soarin imeediately woke up and said," Oh, *yawns* you are finally awake, Derpy." "Wait, how long was I asleep for?" I asked. "Around two hours. Why?" Spitfire asked, while Soarin went out to get the nurse. "Could you tell me what happened, because I can't remember a single thing." I said, looking confused. "Well, we found you and Rain lying on a pool of blood inside a warehouse and we sent you to hospital." Spitfire explained. "Oh, anything that you found there?" I asked, thinking about my secret cloak. "Yes, we found a cloak and some weapons, the cloak is with me but the weapons is with the British." Spitfire said. "Thanks for telling me that. Could you get me my cloak, it is really important to me." I said, smiling adorably. "Sure, just give me a couple of minutes." Spitfire said, smiling back at me. "Ok, thanks." I said, smiling at her. "You are welcome, now get some rest, I heard that Percival maybe coming to see Rain, just make sure he is awake then." "Ok." I said, almost forgetting about Rain. As Spitfire leave the room, I saw Rain taking a peak before opening his eyes and said, "Finally she is gone, I thought she never leave." "The feeling is mutual." I said. "You look different." Rain and I said in unison. I looked at myself again, it was the strangest feeeling ever. I felt like a horn should be at the top of my head, and I use my front hooves to touch the area. I felt it was there and yet it was invisible. Perpective: Rain Strange, I felt like I am a stallion and yet my body reaveals that I am a mare. What is going on? Perpective: Derpy "Wait, weren't we at the Battle of Griffish isles?" I asked. Map for reference: "But it was fought in 100 ANM(After Nightmare Moon's banishment), and it was fought and won by Princess Ditzy and Prince Shimmer." Rain paused for a second before saying, "Oh." "But I am not Princess Ditzy and you are not Prince Shimmer, are we?" I said, still not believing in what I dreamed. "I don't know." Rain repiled. "What if we are, Rain? What if that Dream was a part of our lost memory?" I asked. "But they die at 900 ANM, we couldn't be them." Rain reasoned. Perpective: Narrator The room filled with silence, each pony thinking hard on this subject: Was that a dream or a lost Memory? -----------------------------------------------------------------End of Battle of Singapore (part 5)-Dreams or Memory?------------------------------ > Revelations part 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fort Canning HQ, 7 p.m, Perpective: Percival "Sir, A message from Allied High Command." A private said as he entered the room. "Show it to me." I repiled in a low voice. "Yes, Sir!" The Private repiled. The Private put a document in front of me before leaving. What do you want now? I sighed. Usually reports coming from High Command won't be good, especially when Singapore could be attacked at any moment. I stared at the document in front of me. I looked at the cover page, It says: Top Secret! Only to be read by authorised personel. I flipped open the cover page to find that there was a picture of a prototype of a aircraft carrier attached. The entire document was talking about this carrier, which I have no interest in. For simplicity, I highlighted the part where it was related to either the British Army stationed here or anything related to this island. The entire document was confusing, with parts of infomation scattered around the entire report. After looking through the entire document thrice, I only take out the important infomation and summarise this infomation in a piece of paper, should there be the need of future references. The entire document summarised: The Allied Forces are building a new type of ship based on the Japanese 'super carrier'. This carrier is expected to be completed by April 1942, and that it should be operational by June 1942. If this battle is won, the carrier would make its way here, to use it as a offensive wepon in the Pacific War. So, it is important to hold Singapore at all costs. Though other locations were considered, but it is most effective when it arrived in Singapore. Should the Allied Forces have a chance,, the Allied Forces in the Pacific would send more troops to Singapore. As it was a critical base for power projection in the Pacific. Ironically, Singapore is a island. The Allied High Command can't bear to lose this tiny island to the Japanese, for it was an impregnable fortress that has been built up with lots of time and resources and it was 'eazy' to defend it. There was some naval nonsense in that report in which I do not understand so it didn't go into the summarised version. I was about to call it a day when a Private just came in to my office and gave me another report. "Sir, a new report just came in!" He said with a salute. "At ease, soldier, What is this report about?" "It's about an incident that happened near Harbourfront, the rest I'm not so sure." The Private reported. "Good, give me the report and you may leave now." I ordered. "Yes, Sir!" He replied. He put the report on my desk and left my office. Let's see what is it this time. I thought as I was tried from my duties in the day. I open the report and read through it. As I was reading the entire report, I was a bit surprised. The report was about Rain and another mare doing weird stuff and ended up in Alexandra hospital. Apparently the other mare was armed. She has a MP40 and a light machine gun that was unidentified. It was light but was hard to identify as it was never seen before by British troops. Both of these guns were stored in a British controlled warehouse near Fort Canning. At least they were not killed in battle I thought as I regarded Rain as a friend. I would maybe visit them later. Wait, isn't Rain is a naval commander? Maybe he would understand some of those naval nonsense. 'I would visit them later with the report then,' I told myself mentally . I would also need to question that mare too. "*sigh* Why is my job so hard?" I asked nobody in particular. 7.30 p.m I was finally done with my duties for the day and I could finally go to visit Rain and that other Mare. As I left my office, I brought the 'confidential' report and a book that Rain gave me not long ago. It was about the legend of Princess Ditzy and Prince Shimmer. I haven't read it yet, maybe I get some time to read it today. I left the underground HQ and started to walk towards the hospital. Luckily, the Hospital was within walking distance from the HQ. I reached the Hospital at around 8 p.m and enter it. I walked towards the front counter and a medical personel at the front counter asked, "May I help you?" "Yes, I want to know where is General Rain and the mare that came in with her." "You mean the two horses that came in the evening?" She asked. "Err...Yes?" I hesitatedly replied. "They are in room 307, Just go up that staircase to the third floor and turn right. You won't miss them, General." She said, pointing to a staircase to my left. "Thanks!" I repiled excitedly as I make my way to room 307. As I entered the room, I saw two ponies talking to Rain and the other mare. "Look at who has arrived." A pegasus with yellow coat and orange mane said. "Err..Hi?" I repiled. "Oh, you came." Rain said, tilting his head to look at me. I am not sure hoe to respond to that so i just give a nod to what Rain has just said. I walked slowly towards Rain and asked, "Who are these ponies?" "Oh, Let me intoduce Spitfire, Soarin and the one other injured mare is Ditzy, but you can call her Derpy." Rain said, pointing her hooves to the respective ponies when mentioned. The supicious mare, is called Derpy, really? What has this world turn to? I just stared into space, not believing what I had been told. Perpective: Rain I waved my hooves in front of Percival but he just stood there, as if he is overtaken by his thoughts. "Sir Percival, are you there?" Soarin asked concernly. "Emm.. I am back, I am so back." Percival repiled, shaking his head, as if clearing his thoughts. "So, why did you come to see me, Percival?" I asked curiously. Percival took a seat beside me and said, "I wouldn't be a good friend if I didn't visit you, right?" Percival then took out a document and said, "I kinda need your help to. This was sent by." He looked around first before whispering, "Allied High Command." He increases his voice so that everypony in the room could hear. "I need you help to dechipher this naval nonsense." "Naval nonsense, you say." I said, developing a small smile in my face. "Give it to me." I said, as I pointed my front right hoof to Percival, signalling him to give the document. "Hold on, promise me that none of this info gets out of this room first. Is that ok with everypony in this room?" Percival asked. "Yes, Sir!" The four of us replied. "Good." Percival said, handing over the Document to me. I did a quick run through of the document. I filled opened the cover and saw something that shook me to the core. You got to be kidding me! Is Allied commanders mad?! I thought. As I read the entire document, everyponies, including Percival,' eyes were looking at me. As I read through the entire document, I put gave Percival back the document and signaled for Derpy to come closer. She walked towards my bed and sat on the floor. I went out of my bed and sat right next to Derpy. "Give us a few minutes." I said to everypony in the room. "It's ok, I understand." Percival responded. She asked in a soft voice, "What is it about?" *The rest of these conversions are said softly to avoid it from being heard by Spitfire, Soarin and Percival.* "It is about that Allied Battle Carrier." I repiled. "What about it?" Derpy asked softly. "The Allies is using the steel meant for 4 Iwoa class battleships to build this thing." I said with concern. "But I never thought the Allies would go to such lengths to build one." Derpy said. "Well they did, and according to the document, this weapon is supposed to be produced in April this year." "Ok, but what do we do now?" Derpy asked. "We must steal the plan and show it to Sparky or Twilight." I said with confidence. "When do we steal?" Derpy asked. "I don't know, maybe tonight?" I repiled. "Agreed. We will do it tonight." Derpy said with a serious tone. I gave a nod and returned to my bed and Derpy returned to hers. *After this, all voices returned back to their normal voice* Percival looked at me and asked, "Well, what did the document say?" "Nothing specific really. Just some naval talk bewteen Allied commanders." I lied. "Ok, thanks!" He said and was about to leave the room. "Percival, please don't go now, could you stay here for the night, please?" I said, as I gave him cute puppy eyes. "But..but, alright fine. Just tonight, for you." Percival said. He returned to his seat and and took out a book. "I was attempting to read this at home, but since I will be staying overnight, I will read this now." He said, as he filpped the cover. "What is that book?" Spitfire randomly asked. "Oh, it's about Princess Ditzy and Prince Shimmer, I haven't read did yet, have you ponies read it yet?" Percival repiled. "Nope" Spitfire and Soarin repiled. "I have read it before, but that was so long ago." I repiled. "Me too." Derpy said with a high pitched voice. "Ok, let's read this story together." Percival said. Percival filpped open to the first chapter and started reading. Chapter 1:The Beginning Long ago, In the magical lands of Equestria, there lived two very special ponies. These two ponies were special, one was named Ditzy Doo and one was named Rainy Shimmer. After the banishment of Princess Luna/ Nightmare Moon, Princess Celestia very heartboken by the event. She would still rule Equestria, but not with the same grace and kindness like she had before. That was until she met her love, Nova shine. Nova Shine was an ordinary unicorn and a soldier in the the newly formed EUP guard. Nova Shine was given the most important role in the Guard due to his performance during Basic Military Training(BMT). His role was to be Princess Celestia's bodyguard. When he was first posted there, he was the only pony guarding the ruler of the country as the newly formed EUP guard has little recuits at the time. At his time bodyguarding the ruler of Equestria, he saw many dark secrets that Celestia has kept secret from the public. Princess Celestia was very lonely at this point of time. Princess Celestia would therefore spend a lot of time talking to her bodyguard. Through these minor interactions, they slowly develop a bond bewteen themselves. As time passes on, this bond only grew. After two years, Nova Shine and Princess Celestia had develop a special couple relationship. This relationship eventually causes Princess Celestia pregnant. After 10 months of Celestia being pregnant, she gave birth to a alicorn. The alicorn that she gave birth to has a grey body, grey wings and horn and a flowing golden mane and tail. And she has derped eyes. Meanwhile, in a far away land, the changeling kingdom, Princess Chrysalis had been pregnant with a child for ten months. This changeling was a product of Princess Chrysalis and General Mantis. Princess Chrysalis gave birth to another changeling prince ten months later. This changeling has black body with holes in his hooves, a long sharp horn (which looked liked Celestia's horn but a lot shorter), a pair of wings that has no holes, a flowing green mane and tail. Both of these new born ponies are rather small for their age. With both ponies having a height of 10cm and a length of 5cm. Whereas, Princess celesia is 2.5m high and 2m long. Both kingdoms hold massive celebrations for the birth of thier new heirs to the throne. Little did their parents know that this will be a start to a healthy relationship between two states and a relationship between these two ponies. ---------------------------------------------------------------End of Chapter 1: The Beginning------------------------------------------------------------- Perpective: Narrator, 9p.m, Room 307, After reading Chapter 1 of the book, all the ponies including Percival in the room 307 had fallen asleep, too tired by today's events. -----------------------------------------------------------End of First Battle of Singapore(Part 6)-Revelations part 1-------------------------------- > Revelations (part 2)- Battle of Indentities > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: This is a continuation of the dream Derpy and Rain had in Battle of Singapore(part 5)-Dreams or Memory? Perspective: Narrator, in the dream world They were on a Ironclad, with 4 privateers and was sailing back to Equestria after the engagement with the griffon navy. However, unknown to the Equestrain Fleet, the griffon navy has requested assistance from their allies, the dragons. The dragon king accepted the request and sent his finest troops to sink the Equestrain Fleet once and for all. The approaching battle was about to begin. Perpective: Dragon troops, Militilary Outpost near the Celestial Sea “Sir, our allies were engaged by enemy vessels in the celestial sea, should we move to intercept?” “Move the 2nd dragon squadron to destroy the enemy fleet.” “Yes, Sir.” Perspective: Equestrian Fleet, 30 minutes later.... The 2nd dragon squadron consisted of 40 dragons, each dragon wore armor around their massive bodies to protect themselves from whatever the Equestrian fleet could throw at them. "Sir, we are spotting an dragon squadron heading towards us!" "All ships, release smoke!" Rain shouted. As the dragons moved closer to the fleet, they were somewhat surprised that the fleet started to be covered in smoke. "No matter, they can hide in that smoke for as long as they w..." The dragon squadron leader, Snoke , said as shells nearly hit him and caused him to take evasive measures. "That's it. All Dragon ATTACK!" At their commanders command, the dragons started to dive into the smoke and head for their primary target: The Ironclad. Derpy was busy loading shells into the 6 inch gun while Rain was firing bolts at a rate of 1 bolt per second. However, the bolts were not doing much damage to the dragon's armor. "Derpy, kill the dragon commander with your horn!" Rain yelled. "What? My horn? Are you crazy? My horn is not sharp enough to pierce their armor." Derpy yelled, as she is trying to put in the shell in the barrel of the 6 inch cannon. "Yes. If your horn could cut an entire neck of a griffon, I am pretty sure it can pierce through their armor." Rain explained. "Fine!" Derpy said as she flew outside and the fight the battle going on outside. "This is Rainy to all ponies. Do not Shoot at the Dragons. Wait for them to get closer to Us before unleashing our AA(anti-air) Barrage!" Rain shouted to the nearby ponies. As Dragons enter the smokescreen, multiple projectiles went straight for the Dragons. Spells were fire and arrows were launched. Many Dragons fall due to the AA barrage. The amount of fire that the ponies put on them was too much for the Dragons' armor to take. This resulted in many dragons falling into the sea, reducing the number of Dragons in the air, which makes Derpy's job easier. Meanwhile...... Arrows, spells were fired in all directions while the dragons moved in for the kill. One dragon saw Derpy through the chaos of battle and signaled some dragon to kill her just because what she was: an Alicorn. Dragons started to close in for the kill when Derpy suddenly flew upwards. "Let's take to the skies!" Derpy shouted with glee. "All dragons, get her!" Snoke yelled as he also moved in for the kill. All the dragons somehow heard Snoke's order and all flew out of the smoke screen. Derpy was started to looked around her as all 40 dragons threatened to take her life if she did not move. 'Shoot, where is the commander? is it him? NO? who is it?' Derpy thought as she flew aimlessly around the battlefield. "Got you!" Snoke said as he grabbed Derpy in the midst of her thoughts. Derpy struggled against his hold, but she could not break free. She took a bet and used her horn and poke Snoke. Her horn, once she started poking, went all the way in Snoke's claws. "Ahhh! Stupid pony poke me. No matter, let's see how you like this." Snoke said. Snoke placed Derpy within range of his mouth. He immediately sprayed dragon flames on Derpy. Derpy in return poke his armor in return, hoping against hope that her horn would at least make him stop his flames. It worked. But instead of just touching the armor plates, her horn went all the way in. "Ahhhhhhh!" Snoke yelled in pain as he released Derpy from his grasp and noticed that blood was spilling through his armor. As Derpy flew, she immediately return and asked, "Do you want more? cause I got more of those where that came from." "No! NO! Get away from me. AAAHHHH!" Snoke yelled as Derpy stabbed Snoke. Multiple times. She watched as Snoke dive into the water and saw that her horn was stained red from the blood of Snoke. She then looked to the other dragons who survived the battle below, who was starring at her with only one thing on their face: fear. Taking advantage of the situation, She turned to make sure she looked at the dragons and said loudly, "Does any dragon want to be my next victim? If not, I suggest you fly away while I still have the Mercy to." The dragons took the cue and flew away as quick as they can. Whereas Derpy only looked at herself and thought 'I am a monster. How could my horn be that sharp? I just killed them with my horn. And that I am supposed not to do that.' She started to flew near the water and stared at her reflection. The only thing she saw was the blood on her hooves and horn. 'I am a monster... May celestia forgive my actions in this battle.' Battle Report: The battle was concluded and it was the turning point of the war. Never could the griffons rebuild a navy of such size and the dragons suffered a psychological blow as, for the first time, suffered numerous casualties by ground fire. Out of the 40 that went, 20 died while trying to get close to the ships, another 15 severely injured due to spell or arrows. This makes the Dragons weary of the war and pull out all their fighting units immediately. This was due to an effective AA defense around the fleet. With so much losses for the griffons in that battle, they started to lose ground in the ground battle with Equestrian Forces. As the Griffons lose ground, the griffons finally surrendered on 800 BTS(before Twilight Sparkle was born) and a peace treaty was signed. The Treaty made sure that Griffons would never attack Equestria or any other nations for their own purpose, at the same time, the Equestrian armed forces would not increase their research of weapons and would reduce their army size. This will later be known as the Great stand down by Historians. The research of weapons will only be kick started by Sparky and Twilight after their first visit to WW1 and WW2. Back to the present, Perspective: Derpy, the dreamscape Derpy entered the dreamscape soon after that dream. Derpy was breathing heavily, 'It was only a dream. Thank celestia I did not kill any dragons.' "Or did you?" Another creature asked. "Who's there?" Derpy asked in shock. "Don't worry, I bring no harm. You are currently in the dreamscape." The Creature said, walking slowly towards Derpy to reveal itself. The Creature looked like this: It was a draconequus. The draconequus body was mostly purple, with its neck and body fur being in different hues. The head was pony shaped but its ears were big and floppy and two small stubs protruded from behind its head. Its mane was messy and colored dark blue with stripes of magenta and lavender streaking through it. Its eyes were similar to Discord's, with a yellow sclera and no iris, but it had a violet pupil instead of red. Its forelegs were that of an eagle, colored in darker shade of purple than its body fur. Its hind legs were that of some big cat in the same shade of purple as its forelegs. It had hot pink serpent's tail with a tuft of hair, the same coloration as its mane, at the end of it. On its back were two small pegasus wings. Taking a closer look at the draconequus, Derpy were able to identify it as a female. "You are a draconequus!" Derpy shouted with excitement. Several Questions ran through Derpy's mind 'I didn't recall seeing a draconequus in the dreamscape before, what is she doing here? Is she like my guardian of sleep or something?' "Yes, I am a Draconequus. Please call me clover to avoid confusions." The draconequus said. 'Clover? Where have I heard that before? Wait.....No! she can't be, it's impossible. She is a unicorn not a Draconequus.' Derpy thought. "Clover? as in Clover the clever?" Derpy asked. "Yes?" Clover timidly replied. "But how is that possible? Clover the clever is a unicorn, she isn't a draconequus!" Derpy qusetioned. "I know! It is just a name. I am not clover the clever, but I am still part of you." "What do you mean part of me?" "You are part draconequus and part alicorn. I am the draconequus and you are the alicorn." "Are you saying we are the same creature but with two forms?" "Something like that." "But it is impossible! I am not an alicorn. I am only a pegasus." Derpy said, while pointing to her wings. "Look what is on top of your head." Derpy did as instructed and touch her head. In the middle of her mane, there was a horn. "What? Why do I have a horn? Is this a Prank? If it is, change me back!" "I can't. You are born an alicorn. I can't change it even though I am a draconequus." "I can't be.....This is not real.." "This is real! *sigh* I will tell you how you were born an alicorn before you start going into panic mode." "It started out as a relationship between Celsetia and Discord......." --------------------End of Relevations (part 2)------ > Interlude 1: Equestria's navy song > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st stanza From a humble beginning the day we were born, Onward and upwards we moved on and on, Never looking back we'll always grow, Onwards and upwards the best we'll show Chorus: We are the ones the ponies of the sea, Sailors of the Equestrian Navy, We will stand for the right, We will fight till the end, We will always be true to Equestria 2nd stanza: Our waters to guard to ensure they are safe, It's a great task only meant for the brave, It does make us proud to know that we, all play a part to protect our seas. Chorus: We are the ones the ponies of the sea Sailors of the Equestrian Navy We will stand for the right We will fight till the end We will always be true to Equestria 3rd stanza: With our comrades in arms from the land and the air, To-gether we stand in defence of our land, Never flagging in adversity, Foward we'll march on to Victory. Chorus: We are the ones the ponies of the sea, Sailors of the Equestrian Navy, We will stand for the right, We will fight till the end, We will always be true to Equestria We will stand for the right, We will fight to the end, We will always be true to Equestria