a few months later.
Operation Trident
0600 hours
Pvt. Blue Fang
It’s been like five or so months since the whole “Thorax Incident.” I was also lucky enough to be deployed, finally. However, after reading briefing, I have my doubts.
Blue Fang stared at the wall of the boat, knowing this was going to be a suicide mission. They were going to try and take a beach that had some good supplies. Blue Fang reflected on what had happened over the past few months, Twilight became an Alicorn, Flurry Heart was born, and Thorax made friends. The only problem being the friends he made were Twilight, Spike, pretty much the entire Crystal Empire, including the Royal Family and another Pony named Starlight Glimmer.
He turned attention to the front of the boat and stood in formation. He focused on what he was probably going to do at the beach, run and gun, or stay behind cover the entire time.
“Get ready, we’re landing in 30 seconds!” Mantis yelled.
“I’ll see you on the beach, may Chrysalis be with you,” Pharynx added.
Blue Fang looked over the side of the boat, just to see more boats and water.
“Hey Blue, got a bite?” One of the drivers asked.
“Sure thing,” Blue Fang said grabbing an apple he’d saved. He gave it to the drivers.
The driver was about to eat the apple when a bolt of magic struck him in the abdomen.
“Everyone down!” Mitchell yelled. Eventually explosive spells rained down and exploded near the boats.
“Get down!” Brokenwing yell as one of the spells just glanced the side of the boat.
Blue Fang looked over the side of the boat. “Incoming!” Someone yelled from the boat on their right before it was hit by an explosive spell.
“Hold tight!” Brokenwing said.
Another ES exploded right in front of their boat.
“Ahh darn it!” Blue Fang yelled.
As the boat got to the shoreline, the boat that got hit slammed into them, knocking them to the ground. A wave of magic bolts flew into the boat, striking and knocking out anyone who was hit in the right place.
Blue Fang got up just as an ES hit the boat, sending him into the water. He looked around and saw Dagger was drowning. He was caught on a typewriter that Changelings brought with them so they could make notes on new areas, file reports, or for personal logs and or diaries. Blue Fang swam towards Dagger and cut the typewriter lose. He grabbed Dagger and swam to shore.
“Thanks Blue,” Dagger said.
“No problem Dagger,” Blue Fang replied.
The two got up and ran for cover as what seemed like an endless load of magic bolts flew past them. Blue Fang ran and took cover with Mitchell.
“Sir, what’s our rallying point?!” Blue Fang asked.
“Anywhere but here!” He replied.
Blue Fang got up and ran towards Brokenwing and a group of other Changelings.
“Sir, where are we going?” Blue Fang asked.
“Seawall, move up to the Seawall!” Brokenwing replied.
“Sir, I’m staying,” Cobshot said.
“Clear this beach, make way for the others!” Brokenwing replied.
“This is all we have between us and the Capture Point!” Mantis said referring to the beachhead, which surprised Blue Fang, not that Mantis said that, but because he thought Mantis was unconscious on the boat after the ES hit it, but he didn’t question it.
“Look, every inch of this beach has been pre sighted, you stay here, you’re a dead bug!” Brokenwing yelled.
Blue Fang got up to move when he heard a familiar scream. He looked around until he saw the Changeling.
“Kydra!” He yelled running towards her. He picked her up as soon as he got to her.
“I’m hit low, gosh!” She yelled
Blue Fang called for a medic when cut off by another Changeling. “Navy Beach Battalion kid, I gotta clear these obstacles, make holes for the CT’s”
Blue Fang looked at him, before saying: “all of the Changeling Tanks are foundering in the channel!”
“Orders kid, you go somewhere else, I’m clearing this one!”
“Come on Ky!” Blue Fang yelled dragging her to safety. He got closer to the sea wall and laid her where the RFM fire wouldn’t hit her. A medic, Stinger, quickly came running.
“I’ve got this, go!” He said.
Blue Fang ran to the wall and dived into cover announcing his presence.
“Blue Fang here sir!”
“See any of our comrades out there?” Mitchell asked.
“Dagger, Kydra, and Stinger,” Blue Fang replied.
“Corporal Pharynx here!” Pharynx yelled jumping behind Blue Fang.
“Who’s in command here?” Mitchell asked.
“Until Brokenwing gets here, You are Sergeant,” Pharynx replied.
“Alright, Shore Party, Shore Party,” Mitchell grabbed him only to see he had taken a Magic Bolt to the back of his head. Mitchell linked with the Shore Parties signal, “Homeland, Homeland, Homela—,” Mitchell cut the signal.
“Brokenwing here!” Brokenwing yelled.
“See anyone else out there Captain?” Blue Fang asked.
“Mantis, but that’s about it!” Brokenwing replied.
“We got Stinger back there with Cobshot, he’s hurt so bad he’s got a hundred burns, Stinger says he’s all used up,” Pharynx said.
Kydra came running into cover with Mantis and Dagger behind her.
“Great to see you made it through, Ky,” Pharynx said.
“Just about to say the same to you Pharynx.”
Blue Fang looked up to see Stinger, who was tending to Cobshots burns. “Get his attention,” Mitchell said.
“Stinger!”
“Yo, Doc!”
Everyone started calling Stinger by either real name or nickname. Eventually, Mitchell told Blue Fang to get him off the beach. He ran towards him.
“I stopped the burning, I stopped the burning,” Stinger said. A stray magic bolt hit his patient. “Buck!” Blue Fang ran up to grab him. “Just give me a bucking chance you son of a mare!”
Blue Fang had never heard Stinger say things like that. He was on Thorax’s level of calm most of the time. “Come on, it’s Blue Fang!” Blue Fang started dragging him back, although Stinger made it hard with all his tussling. Eventually, they got back to the Seawall.
“This is all, this is all that made it?” Brokenwing asked.
“We’re scattered pretty bad, so there’s bound to be more of us,” Mitchell replied.
A random Changeling jumped up a yelled: “they’re hittin’ us, and we don’t have a buckin’ chance and that ain’t fair!”
“Gather potions and medkits!” Pharynx yelled.
The group did they’re best gathering potions and medkits from downed Changelings.
“Dagger, hey Dagger, Dagger, where’s the typewriter?” Pharynx asked.
“Bottom of the channel sir, the thing tried to drown me,” He replied.
“Find a replacement.”
Dagger ran out to find another typewriter. When more soldiers got back they still had another problem, the Seawall.
“Bring out the dynamite!” Mitchell yelled.
“What, no explosion spell?” Kydra asked.
“What, you want to risk it?” Pharynx asked. Kydra just shrugged.
Mitchell gave the dynamite to Blue Fang and a couple more Changelings just as Dagger made it back. One of them was about to light theirs when a bolt of magic hit the dynamite, stopping the bolt from hitting him.
“Chrysalis!” Mitchell said.
“Lucky bugger,” Pharynx said.
The Changeling moved the dynamite to see the hole, and then got blasted right in the same spot.
“Fire in the hole!” Blue Fang yelled.
Mitchell, Pharynx, and Brokenwing repeated the words. Blue Fang through the dynamite onto the wall and blew it up.
“We’re in business!” Pharynx yelled. The Changelings charged into battle, they split into separate teams to take out the bunkers.
Blue Fangs group consisted of Mitchell, Brokenwing, Pharynx, Mantis, Kydra, Dagger, Stinger, and two more Changelings named Flint and Bugbite.
The group got behind a small wall to get to one of the bunkers. The bunker was being guarded by Royal Guards using rapid fire spells. Pharynx used a mirror he brought to see the Royal Guards position.
“We got three RG’s up there, two using rapid fire, one guarding them,” Pharynx said.
“Ironic,” Mantis commented.
“Alright Kydra, Dagger, Bugbite, Stinger, Flint, we’ll give you some cover, you all make a run for it,” Mitchell said. The group nodded.
“Alright, covering fire!” Brokenwing said. All the Changelings shot magic after magic to distract the Guards, while Kydra and the group moved up. This continued until it was just Mantis, Pharynx, and Blue Fang.
“Hey Mantis, do you see that impact crater by Mitchell?” Pharynx asked.
“Yeah, I see it,” He replied.
“Get over there and try hitting them from their flanks,” Pharynx said. Mantis got ready to run. “Covering fire!” Pharynx yelled. All the Changelings started firing, although the Guards almost hit Mantis.
“Pharynx, if your brother saw you doing that he’d be real upset,” Blue Fang joked.
“I thought you were my brother,” Pharynx replied with a small laugh.
Eventually Mantis took the Guards out so Pharynx and Blue Fang could cross
“Alright, We’ll spilt up,” Brokenwing said, “Kydra, Dagger, Bugbite, Stinger, and Flint, you’ll be one group, the rest of us will be another group.”
Kydra nodded. The two groups went in different directions. Blue Fang and his squad went into one of the bunkers.
The two opposing sides were so compacted being in a small space that some shots were harder to make then others. Eventually all of the Guards were knocked unconscious.
“Alright, Pharynx, Blue Fang, capture the last bunker,” Mitchell said, “rally at the checkpoint we’ll be setting up, And for bucks sake don’t get yourselves killed!”
Blue Fang opened the door. “Alright Pharynx, one more.”
“We got this Blue Fang!” Pharynx replied.
The two fought the five Royal Guards outside of the bunker. “Blue Fang, you go inside, I’ll cover you,” Pharynx said.
“Alright, here I go!”
Blue Fang walked into the bunker when all of a sudden a Royal Guard came from behind the wall of the bunker door. Blue Fang and the Guard wrestled until Pharynx came running in yelling. Pharynx knocked the Guard to the ground and proceeded to punch him. The Guard then shot a beam into Pharynx’s side.
“Gah!”
“Pharynx!” Blue Fang yelled, “oh, shoot, oh shoot, oh shoot, oh shoot!”
The Guard then turns to Blue Fang and the two yet again engage in physical combat. The Guard got on top of Blue Fang, then Blue Fang got on top of the Guard. He reached for the Guards helmet that fell off of the Guard when Pharynx tackled him. He grabbed it and than smashed it on the Guards head, not strong enough to kill him, but strong enough to give him a bad bruise and to swiftly knock him out.
“12’oclock!” Pharynx yelled. Blue Fang shot the Guard three times, once in an unprotected foreleg, twice in his armor.
“Come Here Pharynx!” Blue Fang yelled running towards Pharynx.
“I can’t move,” Pharynx said.
“Oh shoot,” Blue Fang replied.
“Get me the buck outta here!”
More bolts of magic, some enemy some friendly, flew into the bunker door.
“I’m gonna get you outta here, stay with me!” Blue Fang said dragging Pharynx. He dragged him out of the bunker.
“We gotta get over to the checkpoint!” Blue Fang yelled pointing at the place that had medical symbols on it.
“On your left!” Pharynx said. Blue Fang and Pharynx took cover. Blue Fang shot at the three Guards rushing him. After they were taken care of, Blue Fang began dragging Pharynx again.
Blue Fang came up to a small mound and climbed over it saying: “We gotta take cover!” While dragging Pharynx.
“How many?” Pharynx asked.
“Too many!” Blue Fang said holding the Guards off, “we’re clear, come on!”
“You call that bucking clear?” Pharynx replied.
“I’m trying the best that I can!”
Blue Fang continued to drag Pharynx when he saw a couple of Changelings and Royal Guards fighting over a bunker. He dragged Pharynx behind some sandbags. A smoke spell had been activated.
“Keep your head down!” Blue Fang said shooting at the Royal Guards.
“Did you get’em?” Pharynx asked.
“They keep coming!” Blue Fang replied. After he finished, a Royal Guard tried rushing them.
“Watch out!” Pharynx said blasting the Guard.
“He’s down, lets move!” Blue Fang said. He started dragging Pharynx again.
“We gotta move!” Pharynx said.
“I gotcha,” Blue Fang replied, just as a stray stick of dynamite landed near them.
“Buck!” Blue Fang yelled grabbing the dynamite and throwing it away. He noticed a small trench, “we can get down here!”
He jumped into the trench and grabbed Pharynx. “I gotcha!” He said shooting more Guards. He looked over and saw more Guards rushing them.
“Stay down!” Blue Fang yelled. When the last wave was finished he continued to drag his brother to safety.
“Oh Chrysalis, my visions fading,” Pharynx said weakly.
“Just hang in there!” Blue Fang said coming to the checkpoint, “almost there!”
“Come on up here, move move!” Mantis yelled. Blue Fang dragged Pharynx up the stairs just as Mantis shot two more Guards.
“Stay with me Pharynx,” Blue Fang said, “medic!”
“I need morphine!” Pharynx said.
Blue Fang reached over to a nearby medkit. He rummaged through it until he got the morphine. He stuck it into Pharynx’s leg, which calmed Pharynx down.
“You gotta hold on, you know your brother would be waiting for you!” Blue Fang said.
“Really?”
“Of course he’d be!”
“I... I thought... I thought you were my brother, ha ha,” Pharynx said.
“You kiddin’ Me?” Blue Fang replied.
“It’s okay, I can’t... I can’t see crap, I’m just gonna rest right, right here...” Pharynx looked like he was gonna faint.
“No no no, you gotta stay awake!” Blue Fang said, Pharynx closed his eyes all the way, “Hey!”
“Blue Fang,” Pharynx said in a raspy voice.
“I’m here!”
“... Help me...”
“I need a medic gosh darn it!”
A medic came running.
“I’ve got this, go!” The medic said.
Blue Fang felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to see who it was. It was Mitchell.
“Hey, I gotta show you something,” He said. Blue Fang nodded getting up to follow him. The two walked over to a small farmhouse where a bunch of Changelings were planting seeds for edible berries, some teleporting Guards back to their leader, knowing that the Guards served no purpose to them, some moving back and forth with supplies or other orders, and some remodeling the farmhouse.
“Welcome to Fort Firestorm,” Mitchell said. The two walked inside the fort to see how construction was going. Blue Fang looked around to see what staying here would feel like.
They walked over to Brokenwing, who was talking to another Changeling.
“Hey Blue Fang, let me introduce you to someone,” Brokenwing said, “this is Clover.”
“Pleased to make your acquaintance,” Clover said.
“Nice to meet you too,” Blue Fang replied shaking Clovers hoof.
“He’ll be working engineering and communications,” Brokenwing said.
“If you don’t mind sir, I can show Blue Fang where he’ll be staying,” Mitchell said.
“Alright.”
Blue Fang followed Mitchell to a lower level of the base, it was probably a basement until the Changelings turned it into a barracks.
“This is where we’ll sleep, upstairs you have a cafeteria, over there is a small living area,” Mitchell said.
Blue nodded looking around the place. He went to his room to look around and see what he had to work with.
Typewriter, bed, table, light source, strong signal, so far so good Blue Fang told himself in thought. Brokenwing walked in.
“Hey Blue,” Brokenwing said.
“Captain,” Blue Fang said.
“You don’t have to be so formal, little brother,” Brokenwing replied, “anyway I wanted to tell you something.”
“What?” Blue Fang replied.
Brokenwing walked over to Blue Fang got in front of him and said, “Blue Fang, for your heroic actions, you are hereby promoted to the Rank of Private First Class.”
“Really?” Blue Fang asked. Brokenwing nodded. “Thank you, brother.”
“No problem, Blue Fang.”
Blue Fang still couldn’t believe it, he had been promoted. Thorax, would’ve been proud.
Blues Log
Mission Status: Successful
Current Rank: Private First Class
Cpt. Brokenwing: Alive
Sgt. Mitchell: Alive
Pvt. Dagger: Alive
Cpl. Pharynx: Alive (W.I.A)
Spc. Kydra: Alive
Pvt. Mantis: Alive
Pfc. Stinger: Alive
I’m not sure why Chrysalis decided this would be the best way to get a hoof-hold into Equestria, but I guarantee one thing, she wasn’t on those boats with us this morning.
—Pfc. Blue Fang