I never expeted this to happen but can't say it wasn't agaisest this my will but still... never thought I will fight a war for freedom. Ah hell let's do it and kick some ass.
I never thought I would run into the Merchant here. Still can't say I didn't go up to him and speak to him before telling I know him and what he does and I what to have it done to me. Boy was he surprised. Told him of the Fimfics and there will be more like me for sure. Now I'm here and I have to say... I'm glad I choose to be someone who can bring an army... for I'll need on here. Fucking Caribou and their ideas are going to get one hell of a surprise that will send them to hell.
Ash was walking around looking to see if he could get a Shotgun from Halo at a good price when he saw a person disappear into the air in a tent as he walked by the entrance. He froze for that tells me one thing that is the Merchant's tent and he is here. Ash is a fan of the Displaced fics after he read one online a year ago. Being sent to Equestria knowingly or not sounded a lot better than staying here to him.
'Good bye fuckers.' He thought as he thought of his family for he hates them because they complain about him just because of his games, movies, and books saying he should only work or do things that will make him a productive member of the public even breaking or ruining his things even after he left the house and the restraining orders on them. He doesn't have many things to keep him here, and what few he does have are not what he would need to stay for. He enter the tent and looked around and saw some Halo weapons so he moved over to them.
"Hey." he asked as he looked them over. "Have you even heard of the Displaced Fanfics?" He asked and saw the Merchant freeze for a few seconds.
"No I can't say I had." He replied to Ash.
"Well I believe you are the Merchant that Displaces people. Saw you do that to a pair a few minutes ago as I walked by." The Merchant looked around for something till Ash told him he wasn't going to rat him out. He explained the Fimfiction and said he wouldn't mind it happening to him and told a bit about his life to explain why he is willing and there will be others with the same or different reasons to be Displaced as well.
"I see. Then that case pick what you what and when you are done I send you off with a few other items to help you out for you are going to need them few where you are going Sergeant Forge." He called Ash in who he choose to be. Ash grabbed a shotgun, DMR, and pistol along with a few clips of ammo for each and a Marine helmet. Ash give him his wallet and then everything disappeared as he was sent to Equestria.
... Equestria: location Unknown
Forge woke up and saw he is in an tent. He looked at himself and found he looked different than he did before.
"Sir! Your wake!" He heard as he got off the cot and saw a robot corpsman moving to him.
"What's going on soldier." Forge asked him going along with what's going on and getting into his new personal.
"We have crashed landed on a unknown planet a week ago sir. Most of the human crew is dead. You are the only living human alive that survived the crash sir and you had been given command of the forces due to protocol." He was told by the corpsman.
'So this is what he meant by a few things.' He thought to himself as he learned about the amount of units left and went through his new memories. The UNSC used robots with humans in command of them as the main stay of their ground forces. People can become apart of the lower ranks if they wish to as well. He has 21 Marines, 4 Warthogs, and 20 corpsmen along with 18 builders left of what was apart of the forces on the ship to command, their bases are called Firebases, Stations and Fortress by the number of buildings built in the base which is more than the number given to you to use in the Halo wars game. he was also given the rank of Captain as well due to being the only human part of the crew alive. He got out of the tent and saw The Command Building with a Barrack and a small Vehicle Depot nearby and a sandbag wall around it with a pair of wolf spider turrets watching the gap in the wall. The ship is behind the base on a mountion broken into several parts but not far from each other.
Forge ordered the base have another Barrack added with a Air Pad, a Reactor, and a Field Armory to be built with three base turrets and a wall to be built along with orders for more units to be built. He had units sent to find if their are any drones left in the ship and if not built them so we can send up into orbit of the planet to get a idea of what is going on and when in the timeline we are at after seeing which kind of Equestria we are in. I looked at the moon as it came up and didn't see the mare on the moon meaning it's after Nightmare Moon had got out and stopped or we are in the past before Nightmare Moon was made/formed or banished to the moon.
One week later...
Forge now has 280 Marines, 40 ODSTs, and five Elite( Spartan units) with 80 Corpsmen and 60 Builders each built or (for most of them) recovered from the ship. 12 Cyclops, 10 Scorpions, 14 troop transport Warthogs along with nine Machine gun, Gauss cannon, and five Rocket combat versions, five Gremlins, one Rhino, seven Wolverines, four Cobras, and one Elephant for ground forces were made/recovered. 12 Pelicans, six Hornets, seven Falcons (Reach) and two Vultures along with three Abacross drop ships. He also have the cut content units as well, five Cougars, five Fox Cannons, and three Falcons (renamed Vultures). The Firebase was turned into a Station with a larger area encircled by another wall and additional buildings with a few Barracks for humans added for anyone who will be staying in the base. Forge had learned from the drones and sats he sent that he is in a anthro Fall of Equestria verse.
"Ah hell no. Fucking great, oh well lets deal with the damn Caribou." Forge cursed as he thought aloud as he viewed the income info from the drones. He made a VIP list and placed the Mane six along with Luna, Celestia, and Cadence knowing the Ponies will need more than him to rally around and placed it along with the MLP show in a black box file for the units with the order for the units not to tell anyone from this world about the info and act as all of this isn't known to them and this is a new world for them. He had the drones immanently alert him of any groups of ponies fleeing or hiding from the Caribou. One of the drones sent a alert to him with a image of a group of Ponies fleeing from Everfree forest with a fair sized group of Caribou behind them.
"Get four squads and two Pelicans there now! Send one of the Abacross with some Corpsmen and med supplies as well to treat the wounded." He ordered. The Pelicans left as the Abacross was loaded up and left a few minutes later. 'Well time for the Caribou to learn they are fucked.' He thought to himself as he watched them leave before returning to the table and gets a bird's eye view on what's going on as the drone followed the two groups.
We looked around as the Caribou we had been running from for the past few days slowly stepped up to us laughing at us due to us being trapped in a dead end valley we ran into as they moved to block anyway to get past them to run again.
"Give up you sluts. There's no way out aside from becoming slaves again and getting punishment for trying to leave your masters." The leader of the group said as they stepped closer to us.
'Please somepony help us.' We thought hoping something will happen. A Few minutes later as we were just about give up hope when we hear a roaring sound that was getting louder as the seconds when by. We and the Caribou looked around when two flying creatures of metal appeared from the skies and flew above us a few feet away in between us and the Caribou. Smaller metal creatures that looked like ponies with a few differences fell out of them and stood in front of us as they hold black-gray items in their arms that barely look like muskets and pointed one end of them at the Caribou.
'Are those things here to help us?' We thought with hope growing in our chest as a voice came out of one of the flying metal creatures.
A few minutes earlier... UNSC base Charlie
Forge watched as the ponies were trapped in a valley they ran into. Now he had a better view of the group he counted 37 ponies in the group. He saw the Caribou were walking up to the ponies as they spoke to demoralized them to capture and enslave them when the pelicans arrived a few minutes later and flew in front of the ponies. The marine units jumped put of the Pelicans and aimed at the Caribou.
"Caribou forces leave now. This will be your only chance." The unit flying the left Pelican ordered them.
The Caribou just laugh and mock him and the other units as I shook my head at them for being so full of themselves . 'Morons.' He thought as the Marine units and Pelicans fired their weapons a minute later. The Caribou were caught off guard and most of them were cut down like grass. A few of them tried to run but were picked off as the rest tried to get close with their swords and spears or aim muskets but were unable to and soon none of them were left. The Pelicans landed as the Abacross appeared a couple of minutes later and landed as well. The corpsmen moved the to the infirmary bringing the Ponies with them to have them checked on as one of the marines asked for and spoke to the leader who I learned was Princess Luna when it sent a notice to me a second later. The Ponies were loaded on the Abacross drop ship and the three drop ships made their way back to base as the drone moved on.
A few minutes later had Forge waited on the air pad with a squad of ODSTs and a few additional corpsmen with him as he saw the drop ships coming in for landing. He walked up to the Abacross as the ramp came down and the corpsmen moved to the med building.
"Are you Princess Luna?" He spoke as he walked up to her.
"Yes. How do you know us?" She asked me. "I'll explain later. Come with me, Your people will be fine and you can check on them later after you are done." He told her. She followed him as the two entered the command building. We enter the CIC and sat down.
"I'm Captain Forge of the UNSC. It is a pleasure to meet you. And as how I know of you the marine you spoke to told me as he spoke to you" Forge told her with a nod.
"We are Princess Luna and we thank you for helping us." She told him.
"You are welcome." He replied to her.
"Who and what are you?" She asked him.
"My people call ourselves humans." He said to her and told her about humanity, what the units are, and of the Human Covenant War deciding to tell the truth of himself later.
"The ship I was on which you may had seen on the mountain behind the base was fleeing from a Covenant fleet when we did a random Slipspace Jump to throw them off our tail. I have no idea what happened afterwards and the ships logs are damaged from the jump so I have no way of knowing what happened after we jumped. I also don't know if my people had won or I'm the last of my people for who knows how long it has been since due to Slipspace being unpredictable when you don't jump correctly." He told Luna.
"We see. We are sorry for what happened to your people and hope they have won." Luna told me. She thought about something for a bit and was about to speak when Forge spoke to her guessing what she was about to say.
"If you are going to ask me to help fight the Caribou then yes I will. When I learned about what is happening from the drones I sent I decided to fight the Caribou. My people had outlawed Slavery centuries ago and anyone found doing so are punished harshly for doing so." Forge told her. Luna thanked him and the two left the CIC to the infirmary. They enter the infirmary and Luna checked on her people as Forge spoke to one of the corpsmen.
"How are they?" Forge asked him.
"They are fine and none of the Ponies were wounded seriously." The corpsman told him.
"Good. If they are healed with no risk of the injures reopening take them to the Barracks we have set up for them." Forge ordered.
"Yes sir." Forge told Luna of the Barracks he set up for them after he learned of what was going on.
"You have our thanks again for healing our people." She told him. He nodded and then left to return to the CIC.
2 weeks later...
Forge has been getting things ready to start free Equestria from the hands of the Caribou. He built up his forces and is now ready to begin the war. He sent 4 groups of 4 Pelicans and a Abacross at dusk to four different slaver caravans to free slaves from them as they are setting up camp for the night in the badlands as Sand storms are building up.
'War, war never changes only the reasons why and the means to wage it.' Forge thought to himself as He watched the drop ships fly to their targets. Each Pelican carried three squads each while the Abacrosses have two squads to keep hostiles out of the Abacross and 25 corpsmen to help the wounded if there is any. It took ten minutes for the first group to land near the caravan they are to attack. The snipers took out the guards as the rest of the squads got close to the camp. Most of the Caribou were asleep while a few were about to have their way with the slaves. In 25 minutes all of the Caribou were killed and the pelicans and abacross landed around the camp as the marines freed the slaves, removing the collars and helped those who couldn't move to the abacross where the corpsmen treated their wounds. In all 45 slaves were freed from the Caribou at this camp.
The Night went on as the other three camps were attacked and the slaves freed from the Caribou with only one marine unit 'killed' by a Caribou as it protected a filly from harm. The remains were brought back to keep the Caribou from getting anything useful from it and make things harder for the UNSC to put a end to them. In all counting those freed from the first camp 187 ponies were freed from the Caribou, all of them mares. A low number but to Forge, it was only the beginning for you have to start small or get crushed by your enemy trying to rush things. 'Well I never thought I would end up doing something like this but hell if I'm going to let things stay as they are.' He thought as the first group of units he sent returned and the corpsmen on the air pad moved to help move the wounded to the infirmary.
Luna Pov:
We watched as the groups Forge sent out returned with freed slaves and they were taken to the infirmary to heal their wounds and be checked up on for anything that may be harmful to them.
'Not more than 200 but still, better some than none. Forge did say he would start small to help weaken Dainn's forces slowly and with the removal of the caravans and their 'cargo' their economy will slowly crumble apart as more slaves and any items that are taken from the caravans. If there is one thing to say about him is he knows how to plan ahead and weaken the enemy.' We thought to ourselves as we enter the infirmary. The sight of us being free brought some cheers from the ponies and the story of our group being saved made them more trusting of Forge's machines. We headed to the barracks we choose to rest and and entered our room before going to sleep.
It has been two months after the first attack Forge lunched on the Caribou slave trains. He had done another 6 raids hitting multiple Caravans at the same time at different locations in the badlands using the sandstorms as cover for the noise of the pelicans as they got near. This tactic as let them rescue a total of 1976 slaves from the Caribou most of them black collared with a few reds owned by the slavers. While Forge as been launching raids he as also been looking for the resistance for he was told of them three weeks ago by some of the slaves rescued and that the Caribou know were they are at and plan to attack to put a end to them and enslave the females. He had also made three outposts on the mountain range built in a manner hard to be seen on the ground or air.
"Sir!" One of the CIC controllers called out to him. "You need to see this." He told Forge. Forge moved to the controller and saw four Caribou armies marching to a mountain in the badlands surrounding it. Forge had the drones scan the armies and learned there is only Caribou in the armies and no slaves in them. The number of Caribou in each army was found to be 5,000 in each one, 20,000 Caribou total.
"Get the Longswords ready along with some drop ships. They must be heading to the resistance base which must be in that mountain." Forge ordered as he moved to the tactical table as the feed is moved to it.
"Yes Sir!" He was told as he looked over the mountain noting ponies and to his surprise changelings coming out of the mountain. A few minutes after the Longswords are lunch as the drop ships being to lunch Luna came in the CIC room.
"We had seen your Longswords lunch and the drop ship at are just lunching now. May we what is going on?" Luna asked Forge. He waved her over and showed her the soon to be battlefield is on the tactical table.
"We found the resistance base, however so had the Caribou. I would had like to keep up the raids for another couple of weeks but this has forced my hand." Forge explained to her. "It's not something at will damage my plans but it has pushed them forward ahead of time." He told her as he put lines for where the Longswords are to drop their bombs as they got close to the area.
"We see and what was your plan to do next?" Luna asked him. Forge brought out a data pad with the plan translated to and handed it to her.
"I was planning to have my forces attack Appleloosa and Dodge Junction. Not only will it reclaim two towns from the Caribou but hit them hard as both places is were a good amount of food is grown and taking both will hit them hard and cut into their economy harder than the caravan attacks." Forge explained to her as she read the data pad. "This will force them to try to retake the towns. I have no doubt they will send a large force to retake the towns but my forces will take them out easily which will make things easier for when I launch a all out attack." Forge told Luna who had to agree because the UNSC outclasses the Caribou in firepower and can easily replace their forces due to them being machines.
Forge looked at the units being sent to the battle field. 40 Pelicans and 8 Albatross carrying a total of 640 marines. (12 in each Pelican and 20 in each Albatross) with 32 Warthogs, 12 Scorpions, 8 Wolverines, and 8 Grizzlys. The Longswords soon flew over the battlefield and drop their payloads. The bombs landed in the armies crushing several Caribou as the Longswords flew around and return to base. A minute later they went off causing Luna to jump as she was about to ask about the bombs. The Caribou armies were torn apart as the bombs blew.
The drop ships formed into 4 groups and flew to the remains of each army and landed 2 thousand feet away from them. The Warthogs drove towards the Caribou as the rest of the UNSC forces move to attack the Caribou who are now running to attack. The machine guns fired at the Caribou as they got in range. Caribou were killed as the Warthogs got close and then started running them over. With the Warthogs out of the way the Tanks begin to fire blowing Caribou to bits while the Wolverines stayed to the rear in case of airships. The Caribou tried to fight back but were able to do very little as they were taken out by the handful by each tank round or cut down like grass by the guns of the Marines and Warthogs, or run over by the said Warthogs.
Meanwhile a group of 12 Airships shaped like ships of the sea was seen coming from the east causing the Wolverines to group up and head to the airships after a scan shown no ponies in all but one were three Pelicans start picking up units to drop off on the ship. When they came in range the Wolverines fired two missiles each one targeting one airship which are blown apart and come crashing down to the ground. The Pelicans drop the units off on the ship with the slaves as the other three ships are destroyed.
Forge watches as the survivors are taken prisoner before turning to a live feed of one of the Marine units on the airship. Soon the ship as taken and landed on the ground. Most of the Caribou had been killed or captured while a few managed to get away by teleporting to safely. The battle ended with no losses for the resistance forces and 23 Marine units taken out by the Caribou along with one Warthog by a spell.
"We are going to teleport to the area to calm them down and show that your forces are not going to harm them." Luna told Forge.
"I would like to come along as well." Forge told her. She nodded and Forge grabbed his shotgun before the two teleported to the battlefield. Forge took a couple of steps back but was fine aside from that and the two headed to the resistance base as a few Marines joined them for their protection. When they got close cheers begin to be called out at the sight of Luna walking to them. Soon the crowd moved as Twilight and Chrysalis came up to them. Luna and Twilight hugged as the two spoke for a minute before.
"It's good and all to see you are free from the Caribou Princess Luna, but what the heck is he and those metal creatures." Chrysalis said as she inclined her head at Forge.
"I'm Captain Forge of the United Nations Space Command. Those are machines my people use in combat and in other jobs." Forge explained himself and the Marine units. "We crashed landed on your planet with me as the only living survivor of the crash. When I learned of what as been going on I decided to aid your peoples in removing the Caribou from power and put a stop to this." Forge told them.
"We can tell you that he is tell the truth for he has been lunching raids on the slave caravans for the past two months and plans to taken Appleloosa and Dodge Junction from the Caribou soon." Luna told them. Ponies and Changelings begin speaking to each other with hope.
Twilight stepped up to Forge and spoke to him. "If you are able to do that with the forces you have here then we can restore Equestria to what it was before." She said with happiness.
Forge grinned as he spoke. "This is only a small part of my forces lady. I got over 6 thousand Marines units and that's not counting my other two groups of units that are made for combat and the vehicles." He told them. This made their mouths drop open in surprise. "I can say this: the Caribou are for a rude awaking." Forge said with a light laugh as he saw hope growing in the Resistance forces.
Canterlot
Daiinn is sitting on his throne made for him as he watch his fellow Caribou speak to each other and fuck their slaves. He looked at Celestia and was thinking about having some fun with her when suddenly one of the soldiers ran into the room.
"My-my lord! The armies we sent to end the resistance as been destroyed!" He said as he panted to recover his breath.
"How could had this happen!?!" Daiinn demanded.
"From what the survivors who managed to get away said that fast metal airships flew over them dropping bombs into the armies and flew away as more of another two kinds appeared and dropped off metal creatures that look different compared to us with some slight similarities and large machines which went through their forces using muskets that can fire more than one shot at a time and metal carts with cannon or larger muskets on them that shot them or ran them over. The Air fleet was taken down as well. 11 of the ships were wiped out very quickly as the last was boarded by the metal creatures. Our Muskets were the only weapon that can take them down as far as we know for none were about to get close and one of the smaller carts was blown up by a explosive spell by luck." The solder explained to the king.
Meanwhile Celestia was filled with hope as she listened to what happened. 'Please.' She thought. 'Whoever you are. Put a end to this.' She thought as she watched Daiinn order his men to ready the rest of his forces in hope of stopping this new threat.
It had been three weeks after the battle where Forge made himself and his forces known to the Caribou and met the Resistance. The Resistance had joined them at the main base with the Changelings making tunnels for them to live in and for if the base needed to be abandoned however unlikely that is. He had saved 2,368 ponies and 2,016 Changelings from the Caribou He had 5 Firebases set up around the badlands with one in between Applesoola and Dodge Junction. Forge knows reclaiming the towns from the Caribou is the first step to ending the reign of the Caribou.
He looked over his forces as he planned the attack. He knew no plan lasts contact for more than a few minutes but at least having a idea of what to do will make things easier for them. He was about to head over to his room for a quick nap when his com unit beeped.
"Sir." One of the Marine units contacted him. "Princesses Luna and Twilight along with Queen Chrysalis would like to speak with you, Sir." It told him.
"Understood. Where are they?" Forge asked. After being told they want to meet him in the CIC room he made his way to the command building. He passed by a few ponies and changelings who he give nods to as they did the same or smiled. A couple came up to him to give thanks for reunited them with family or friends as they did before. He just smiled with a shake of his head in amusement along with telling them there is no need for them to keep this up. Soon he entered the building and made his way to the CIC. He looked at them in a manner which Luna understood to be him asking what's up.
"We are wondering when you plan to attack Appleloosa and Dodge Junction." She told him as the other two nodded. "I plan to launch the attack in two days. I have drones in sub-orbit watching the towns and the surrounding areas." Forge told him as he begin to explain his plan as he brought up Appleloosa and Dodge Junction. "I'll have my forces hit both towns at dawn. Doing so will allow my forces to take out the Caribou quickly for they won't be expecting it." He told them as he showed his units dropping into the towns from a high height as the landed inside the town. "They have thrusters on them to move in the air if needed so they won't crash into the buildings unless they are to." He told them when he saw the question on Twilight's face.
"But why in two days?" Chrysalis asks him as the other two look at him agreeing with the question.
"That is because a high ranking Caribou will be in Appleloosa by then and also he has someone I believe you will like to see again." Forge told them as he brought up a cam feed from a drone and showed a group of Caribou with a carriage in the group and a orange colored anthro earth Pony with a black collar tied to the front of it along with another three earth ponies each pulling it by a harness.
"That's AppleJack!" Twilight said as they watched the screen. Forge cut the feed.
"I would had done the attack yesterday but if I did they would had turned around." Forge explained to them. "I also plan to join the attack." He told them causing them to widen their eyes in shock.
"Why? You are doing good even if you aren't fight them directly." Luna told him as they looked at him.
"I'm more of a man who fights in the front lines not one who stays in the back, hell I kept myself as a Sargent for that reason." Forge told them. "Besides this is someone important to you people and will rise moral for your people." He told Luna and Twilight. They looked at each other before Twilight ran over to me and give me a hug in thanks. "Your Welcome." He told her. The three left the CIC a couple of minutes later as Forge looked over his plan making slight adjustments before heading to his room for the nap he had planned.
Two days later, 10 minutes before dawn, 6,000 feet above Appleloosa
Forge look out of the bay of the Pelican as he looked over the town. The Pelican was one of 12 flying over the town along with another 12 at Dodge Junction. He noted were Applejack and the other three was in a pony sized dog houses next to the carriage chained to it. 'Well time for that to end.' Forge thought as he entered the modified ODST Drop Pod attached to the Pelican with modifications to hold it. "Operation is a go." He ordered.
The drop pod was released from the Pelican as the ODST units jumped out of the drop ships. The fall lasted for several seconds as the pod landed with a bang as the ODSTs landed. The door opened as Forge jumped out of the pod and moved to Applejack. She was panicking some as he moved close.
"Easy now! We're here to help." He told her as he knelt beside her and checked the chain. His HUD scanned it and picked up magic in the chain. From what he knew of Earth Ponies strength is very strong so it is likely unbreakable. The question is if it's only to pony magic or everything. He aimed at the chain connected to the carriage and fired a shot at it. It was blasted apart by the shotgun shells giving him a answer. He did the same for the rest and was about to figure out how to get the harnesses off them when.
"NO! I'm not letting you take my slaves!" Forge heard from behind him and turned around to find the Caribou 'noble' and another running towards them pulling out their swords. He quickly aimed and fired his weapon at the Caribou noble who's chest suddenly gained a hole in it as the other one lost his head to the next shot as it disappeared into a red mist of blood. He looked at the pony next to him as she looked at the bodies in shock as he checked and grabbed the key and unlocked the harnesses from the ponies before removing them.
"Stay down and don't leave this spot and till things calm down, we'll check you four over off we finish off the Caribou." He told her as he placed them under the carriage. He swapped his shotgun with a battle rifle and joined his forces as they cleared out the Caribou from the town. He had headshoted one when he was alerted of a Caribou who was holding a filly hostage with a blade to her neck. He moved to the location and saw the caribou hadn't noticed a alley behind him and moved down the street and entered another one to the other street and entered the alley. He placed his rifle on his back and pulled out his combat knife. He slowly moved behind the Caribou before grabbing the arm with the blade and pushed it outwards as he stabbed into it. The Caribou dropped the filly as Forge grabbed her and pulled her away as several shots ring out as he got out of the way. He look back to the body before checking on the filly finding no injuries.
"Sir! That was the last one in the town and the units from Dodge Junction reports they had just cleared the town as well. Several Male ponies fought us and we knocked them out and binded them. No loses from both forces sir." One of the units reported.
"Good to hear. Call in the next wave and get both towns ready to be defended." Forge ordered as he put down the filly who ran to another pony. He smiled at the sight before heading to the town hall. He saw Twilight, Luna, and Chrysalis appear with some ponies and changelings along with some of the corpsmen.
"Twilight!" He heard a voice cry out as Applejack ran to her friend and hugged her. The two spoke as Luna and Chrysalis walked up to him.
"You had done something we had not hoped to be able to do for a long while if the Caribou hadn't found us." Chrysalis told him. "Now we can start hitting them harder." She said with a nod from Luna.
"True. However first we must fortify the towns and move the former slaves to the base. If you wish you can place some of your people to help keep them out of the Caribou's hands or at least check on the defenses and keep a eye out for anything they may had missed while we deal with the Caribou." Forge told them as more drop ships came in and started dropping off units, corpsmen, and builders along with supplies. Twilight and Applejack joined them.
"You have my thanks for freeing me and killing those bastards." Applejack told him. "Once you reclaim ma farm and free ma family I'll send you some of our apple cinder for free whenever you want some." She told him.
Forge chucked as he spoke. "No need to do that but if I do I pay for it." He told her causing her to shake her head.
"Ah insist if you are going to pay for the cinder then it'll be half the price," She told him as she give him a stern stare.
"Very well." Forge replied to her seeing she won't change her mind. "Now then lets get everyone out of here for now and get this place ready for the Caribou." Forge told them as ponies were being moved to the Abacross drop ships.
Two weeks later, Appleloosa
Forge watched from a tower built near the sand bag wall as he watches a army of 25,000 thousand Caribou marches towards them. "Ready the cannons." He speaks into his com unit. The sub-orbital drones again picked up no slaves as apart of the army headed to them but there was some in the camp they left behind which he sent some of his units to get to save from the Caribou.
One of the Caribou stepped forward and. "Give up! Return the slaves and tell us how to use those machine and you may be spared." He shouted. "What is your answer?!" He shouted again.
Forge shakes his head and aims the sniper rifle at the Caribou messenger before firing. The Caribou's head disappeared in a red mist. "How is that for a answer." He spoke to himself. The Caribou army was in shock before one of them yelled in anger and the rest joined a minute later as they charged. Forge watched before saying one thing. "Fire."
The Fox cannons fired and a minute later the front lines of the army was covered in fire and smoke. "Again." He ordered as the cannons fired again, this time slamming into the middle of the army. The smoke cleared up and most of the Caribou can be seen as bits, pieces, and blood with a fair mount injured to different degrees. The few able to move started to run or limp away from the town and carnage hopping to not suffer their friend's fates.
Forge sighed as he got a report from the forces at Dodge Junction of the fight ending in a similar manner. 'Hell when I did this I thought it would be different.' He thought to himself. 'Oh well, just have to deal with the hand I was given.' He continued his line of thought as he climbed down the latter.
Alpha base
Luna, Twilight, Chrysalis, and AppleJack watched as the Caribou ran. "Horseapples you weren't kidding about that. Those Caribou are go as gone." AppleJack said as they looked at the remains of the two armies. "Still if they have this much power and are losing I hate to run into this Covenant." She thought aloud.
"Indeed. I hope they don't come here." Luna agreed as she remembered one night when she entered one of Forge's dreams and saw him at a battlefield in a city. The sights she saw made her quickly remove the dream. "I won't tell but from what little I saw before I ended the nightmare if they do come, I don't think my sister or I can stop them." She admitted. They watched as Forge make his way to a drop ship before leaving the room each with their own thoughts about him and how things will end.
It has been a couple of weeks after the defense of Appleloosa and Dodge Junction. Forge has been readying his forces for a attack on Las Pegasus. It will be the first major battle for a city and Forge knows that to won't be as simple to take the city from the Caribou compared to Appleloosa and Dodge Junction where he caught them off guard. He has also been looking for the buffalo tribe who lived in the plains. The Caribou had managed to capture a few of them but most of them had kept themselves out of the Caribou hands and freed a few slaves of other species as well.
He as also been sending a few scout and strike teams into Caribou territory. Most of the scout teams are sent to Las Pegasus to get a better on the defenses of the city with a few going deeper into Caribou territory far as Ponyville and Baltimare. The rest of the scout teams were sent to the areas south of the city location Caribou held villages and towns not seen on the major maps, this is were the strike teams came into play. The Strike teams go after the Caribou taking them out and bringing the freed slaves to the UNSC Bases and refuge camps. Two fire bases had been set up in the area along with 3 refuge camps and another 2 refuge camps a few miles from Appleloosa and Dodge Junction. The refuge camps are 2 sq miles large and have 25 foot walls set up around the camp itself. The freed slaves are allowed to leave the camps and go to the bases in the area or the badlands. They had also been freeing a few non pony slaves like griffins and buffalo including a few female Caribou to his surprise. A number of male ponies had been captured and after some study they learned they are influenced by dark magic. It wasn't total mind control but more long the lines of reducing their morals and increasing there darker sides in terms of how they view females. They don't have anything on hand to deal with the new information for now but later on after getting more information they will try to remove it, and till then they are held in other camps.
Forge was in the CIC room looking over the latest reports from Las Pegasus. The Caribou has been reinforcing the city, They had put up a wall facing the south by using the Unicorn and Earth pony slaves to build it and placed several cannons on top of it. They had also sent a fleet of 30 Airships most of them are slope class airships but six of them are galleon class airships and 100,000 Caribou solders not counting the 25,000 solders stationed in the city and those that are likely to join in the fight to keep their slaves. However the wall as made in a hurry and the Caribou only took five days to build it leaving a few weak points at the base of the walls were the soil isn't packed as well as it should be and they left themselves open to the sea. Forge's plan is to have about 7,500 marine units attack the walls and keep the Caribou focused on them while 5000 ODST units with 300 Elite units are sent underwater and attack from the sea. Once the sea attack happens another 5,000 marine units are brought in by drop ships with Hornets and Vultures to deal with the Airships unless there are slaves on them then the marine units from the drop ships will board them.
The Elite units will be sent in first in the dead of the night before the day of the attack to join the scout teams which number 750 in the city. The scouts will had place explosives at several locations where the Caribou will be able to mount a effective defense and by luck a few slopes. Some of the Elite units will go for the Caribou commanders of the Caribou forces and take them out while the rest will keep them away from the slave pens or armories. Without their commanders they will lose morale and won't be able to effectively react to his forces.
Forge was finishing the reports when Princesses Luna and Twilight and Queen Chrysalis came into the room. "Hello what brings you three here?" He asks them as he sets the report to the side. He was about to pick up the next one when.
"We wish to help you in the fight against the Caribou." Twilight tells him. Causing Forge to look up at them. "Some of the ponies you freed want to as well." She continued.
"I see. How do you all wish to help?" He asks them.
"We want to fight along side your forces. Some of those who were slaves were apart of the Royal Guard just give us some weapons and time to train and we can fight, there is also the Resistance. We had fought the Caribou several times cut down there numbers and freed some slaves." Twilight told him.
Chrysalis spoke next. "You know what my people can do. While the ponies help on the front lines we can going behind them and not only give you better reports on enemy forces but we can set the caribou against each other or poison/destroy their supplies. We can also open the gates of the walls around the cities and let your forces in that way or guide them to secret pathways/entrances." She tells him her point. Forge thought about what they said. On one hand it will allow him to reduce the needed the production of units for his forces to fight on the front lines without being spread thin and with the Changelings make things worse for the Caribou and weaken them at the same time.
"Very well. I will allow this but they must going through the training I will have set up for them and if they can't pass it then they won't be able to join the fight, that will include the former guards and the Resistance members who join. They can help defend the camps but not fight in the front lines" He told them thinking of using simulations that are realistic to show them how bad the battlefield can get. "And Chrysalis? Have the your Changelings check the supplies and who they are for before poisoning or destroying them, we don't want to harm the slaves." He tells her. She give him a nod and the three left the room to spread the news.
A couple of days later:
Forge looks over the training course for the Ponies and Changelings to go through. They will have to run the course in groups of 20 and will be judge on how long it takes for them to complete it and how the deal with the course. A track with bars to jump over or crawl under, a set of three foot deep six feet long pits one without a set of ropes, monkey bars to cross, a 20 feet wall to climb and a two mile track to run to the finish for earth ponies, unicorns, and changelings who will fight on the ground. Pegasuses are to do the course as well without flying in the event they have to fight on the ground. 1,755 Ponies had decided to join and Forge knew there will be more from the other bases and the refuge camps.
Forge watched along with Twilight, Luna, and Chrysalis as each group went through the course. "Well most are easily getting through the course and the few who failed so far can still join after sometime improving themselves if they still wish to." Forge tells the other three as they watched. Soon all 1,755 had gone through the course and 1,152 of them passed it. Forge had them sent to another area of the base were he had several barracks built for them. He stepped up to them and spoke to them. "You had all passed the course but that doesn't mean you are done. You all will be trained for the next eight weeks to learn how to fight like a UNSC marine and use the weapons you will be given. Anyone who doesn't follow the orders of the trainers and doesn't have a good reason for it will be kicked out. Welcome to boot camp." He tells them. "Your training will start tomorrow, pick a bunk and get to know each other." He says before leaving them.
Forge was headed to the CIC when Chrysalis came to him. "My people has sent reports of the Caribou setting up a weapon we hadn't seen before. It's like a cannon but with multiple barrels in a circle and a hand crank with a tall thin box in a slot. They counted eight of them and that's the ones they saw." She told Forge.
"Ah hell, that's going to make things harder for us to deal with." He said as he shook his head at the fact the Caribou has managed to make Gatling guns. When he saw Chrysalis looking worried he spoke to her. "It's not that much of a problem if dealt with correctly but those guns will have to be checked for or we will end up with a lot of losses with those who join us to fight the Caribou and my forces." I told her. She nodded and left as Forge continued to the CIC to get things ready for the attack.
Two days later.
Forge stood holding on to a handle as the pelicans and their escorts flew over the mountains as he listens to the reports from his forces. So far the marines facing the walls have been testing the wall not going for the weak points yet. The wall is holding but is slowly being worn down as it gets hit after hit. "ETA 2 minutes." One of the pilots called out.
A minute later. "Hold on! Incoming!" The Pilot called out as they heard booms. The drop ship started shaking as it dodged the cannon balls and a few exploded or hit the drop ship. Meanwhile the ODSTs came out of the ocean and the walls fell at several locations when the weak points on there foundations were hit and a the trapped slopes blew up in mid air along with a few armories. "Landing in 30 seconds!" The pilot called out. Forge pulled off his rifle as the door opened. Soon it landed and he and the marines got off. Forge fired at the Caribou as he ducked behind a stall noting they are in a market. He saw the door to the stall and opened it taking a look inside and saw no one in it and entered it taking cover behind the counter. He popped up and fired a couple of bursts before going back behind cover. He did it a couple of times before hopping over the counter and moving up.
A few minute of fighting ends with the market area under UNSC control as He regrouped with a few of the marines and they made there way deeper into the city. He got reports from units and changelings in the city as they hit Caribou trying to make choke points but failing to do so in time. They hadn't put any checkpoints in the city aside from making the city hall a fortress with walls. His group ran into several groups of Caribou running from the battlefield and killed or knocked them out. Soon they came upon a group of caribou with several slaves on the ground and muskets pointed to there heads. "Let us go or they will die!" One of the Caribou calls out as they saw him. Forge noticed a simmer in the air and grinned as the elites uncloaked between the muskets and the ponies. They grabbed the muskets and broke them before laying into the Caribou knocking them out and giving them a few broken bones.
Forge moved with his forces listening to the reports. The air units were having some trouble before they knocked out a half of the Galleons in the formation causing the caribou to try and focus on getting the rest out of the city as they lost more airships. They did lose a few Hornets and Falcons along with one Pelican by a lucky shot to a wing. UNSC ground forces had taken a few loses as well, a couple hundred at least. Soon the City hall was the only major holdout for the Caribou aside from a few groups still running around. Forge walked up to a Elite unit. "The Caribou has closed the gate and scans show at least 450 inside along with about 100 ponies being held inside." It reported.
"Do we have any units inside?" Forge asked.
"Two squads of elites. One is in the gate house. The other is moving to where the ponies are being held. The Caribou has placed them in a group of rooms in a dead end hallway. Once the guards are removed the gates will be opened." It told him. Forge nodded as he looked around. He saw a Grizzly nearby.
"Send in that Grizzly first. It will allow us to take out groups of Caribou. Plus they are likely to do volley fire at our units." He ordered.
"Yes sir!" It told him. The Grizzly was moved in front of the gate as Forge and a few marines were behind it to use it as cover. Several minutes pasted before the gates started opening. The Grizzly moved forward they followed it as it did. Suddenly it was hit with many rounds and it wasn't stopping till the Grizzly fired off a round. Forge looked over the armored track pod and saw the remains of two Gatling guns. Warthogs moved in after the Grizzly got out of the way with units moving in. Forge and the marines with him moved to a door and set a breaching charge on it. It when off and they moved in taking out Caribou. 15 minutes later had the last of the Caribou captured or killed.
Forge sat in the town hall as a medic bandaged a wound on his left arm. He read the reports of the battle and the results. His forces lost 13 Hornets, five Falcons, and one Pelican for air forces. Ground forces loses are 970 marines, 102 ODSTs, two elites, 21 Warthogs, a one Scorpion. 'A fair number of loses but not too bad.' Forge thought to himself. The Caribou lost most of their air fleet with only three Slopes getting away and almost of their ground forces dead or captured. Only a couple thousand managed to get away. Forge figured to would be a few months before the war with the Caribou is over as long as there is no surprises that will cause trouble.
At Canterlot two days later:
King Dainn looked on in anger as he heard the report of what happened to his forces at Las Pegasus. "Are you all a group of fools? The fact you didn't set any checkpoints to use as choke points to stop a much smaller enemy force is not something I want to hear. You had them out numbered at least 50 to 1 and still lost!" He raged at his generals. He left the war room dragging Celestia behind him. Celestia smiled slightly to herself at what she heard.
Forge walked through the city his forces had freed a couple of hours ago. Currently they are cleaning up the mess from the battle as well has saving the lives of those who are trapped under rubble. Thankfully due to his orders to keep the damage to buildings where there are slaves minimal there wasn't a lot of them trapped under the rubble, they mostly found Caribou males who give up but a few did try to fight. Still they have freed many slaves and not just ponies. They found female diamond dogs, griffins, buffalo, and surprisingly the Caribou's own females. Forge would had thought it would be different but as he thought about it only males were the masters which raised some questions about the spell found on the stallions they captured.
'Hell from what I learned from the few we captured, they started with their own women and after a couple of years they decided to go for Equestria. The thing is while they attacked both the Crystal Empire and Equestria at the same time but the Crystal Empire had many more sent to fight them, and they just attacked enmasse with no plan but taking the city. This raise another question, why send so many of their forces to capture the Crystal Empire?' Forge has been making plans to send some of his forces for two reasons. One to get a foothold in the north and put more pressure on the Caribou by forcing them to focus on two fronts. The other is to find out what was so damn important to the Caribou to send so many men like they had when they attacked. Forge thought as he moved to a park where drop ships were coming in deciding to ask one of the Princesses if they have any ideas about that.
He was about to head over to a drop ship and head back to base to prepare a force of 1,000 to send to the Crystal Empire as a vanguard when he noticed Princess Luna get off one and quickly turned to her. "Princess Luna, coming her wasn't the best of ideas for my forces had yet to insure there isn't any Caribou that is likely to take a pot shot at you." Forge told her.
Luna turned to look at him. "We understand but we thought it would be best if those you freed knew that at least we are freed and safe from the Caribou. Your actions in freeing them helps but if we told them that you decided to help out of your free will and that we support your actions then they are not very likely to give you much trouble." Luna explained to him.
"Very well." Forge told her with a shake of his head. "But that least have two Elites with you to keep you safe in the event something happens." He told her waving over a pair if them from nearby and telling them to keep the Princess safe. She give him a nod of understanding and walked off to look around the city and speak to the freed slaves. Forge thought about what to do and in the end sent orders for the force to be readied and then ran to catch up with the Princess.
Two weeks later.
Forge was in the CIC reading the report sent by the force he sent to the Crystal Empire. It's heavy defended and it's capital has a mostly Caribou population aside from some slaves. One thing for sure it's going to be hell of a fight if he wants to see what's inside that they don't want anyone else to get their hands on. Plus the spell on a large number of the stallions the stallions is detected coming from the palace. 'What the hell is in this place that's so important for this kind of protection?' Forge thought to himself.
The door to the room opened as the two princesses came in along with the changeling queen. Forge looked to them and decided to ask the question in his mind. "Was there anything important in the Crystal Empire? Because what ever it is the Caribou have it defended it high hell." He told them showing them the report on the defenses. Luna looked thoughtful at the information.
"The only thing that would be considered very important would be the Crystal Heart but why would the Caribou consider that so important? It just keeps the weather from becoming too cold to for ponies to survive in the Crystal Empire." She tells him explaining how it works.
A idea came to Forge. "Is it it possible to change or add new functions to it? If so it may explain why they attacked with more forces and the higher amount of Caribou soldiers and spell on the stallions that we have been it finding on." He asked the three. The two princesses thought about it as the changeling queen looked at them. "It's possible but to do that must had been difficult, you can't just cause a change in the way of think for many ponies if it was just ponies the spell is affecting." Twilight thought out a loud.
Chrysalis spoke up. "It may not be mind control but the increase of their darker sides influence on them. After all we all have a dark side to each of us, some more than others, no offense." She told the three looking at Luna as she said the last part. "None taken. But she does have a point plus to would be easier than full mind control." She agreed with Chrysalis as Twilight nodding in agreement as she thought about it.
"Still that leaves us with the problem with getting in. They got a barrier around the city that looks to be a difficult one to breach." Forge told them. "That's likely my brother's shield spell." Twilight explained to Forge. "He was the best in using defensive spells out of all of us and is likely being affected by the spell for what had happened to us isn't something he would had agreed with what the Caribou think." She continued.
Forge decided to remind her. "I know you don't want to think of it but your brother could be working for the Caribou in his own free will." He said to her thinking on the 13 stallions found to not be under the influence of the spell that was found on so many others. They are currently being held by the changelings.
They would had spoken longer but one of the CIC units sounded out a alarm. "Covenant Forces detected! drop ships only and not from orbit. Ocean and airships of unknown make with Covenant and a unknown race coming up behind them." Forge cursed loudly at them information.
"Where are they headed to!? And what are their numbers?" He asks as he sent out orders for a large amount of his forces to be combat ready. "31 drop ships, 36 airships, and 52 ocean ships. Numbers are likely to be in the 100,000s at the least. Covenant forces number at 25,000-30,000 while the rest of the incoming are the unknowns." Was what he was given. "We had done a search in orbit and found remains of a Covenant Destroyer on a fair sized Island. The scans show it's been their for a year however it seems to be built differently and not as well as normal Covenant warships. We may be dealing with a different group." The unit tells Forge.
Forge turns to the three in the CIC. "I'll be turning over command of the forces that I don't take with me over to you." He tells them. "This is in the event I die from fighting the Covenant. If that happens then at the very least you will be able to continue the fight with UNSC forces." He explains to them.
Twilight was going to protest will Luna spoke up. "Very well, but please do come back. We find you to be a dear friend." She tells him. Forge smiled at her for the two had been getting along very well. "I'll try but no promises." He tells her. He left the CIC to ready himself for war.
Chrysalis left as Twilight looked at Luna. "Why let him go off and fight those things?" She asked her follow princess. "We can tell he won't listen to us but that doesn't mean we can't help him." Luna tells Twilight explaining her plan to help.
At Manehattan
Dainn walked along the streets as the defenses for the city are put up pulling his slave behind him. He made it so that what happened wouldn't happen again or is at the very least would be costly to those metal ponies. He wanted this war to turn around and not end with the lost of his new kingdom. He'll be damned if his dream of the world being under his control and all females being slaves under the boot of males is lost to him. He wouldn't mind getting his hands on those things and use them, if he is able to have them under his command the world will be his for the taking.
"My king!" Was hear as a Caribou ran up to him. "Unknown airships and sea ships are sighted coming from the ocean! They don't match anything of the ones we know of plus flying machines similar yet different from the metal ponies are sighted as well! You may want to leave now my King." The Caribou captain tells Dainn.
"No. I won't leave unless we'll losing the city." Dainn tells him before pulling Celestia with him as he heads to the Northern base in the city in the event he has to flee.