5 Months Later.
Spearhead walked towards the Mail Center, holding a letter to his parents in his hoof. He went to the counter to pick up an envelope. He got the envelope and went to sit down and read the letter.
Dear Mom and Dad,
It’s been 5 months since I’ve seen you, I wanna tell you I’m still kicking. I want to tell you about the creatures in my platoon. First there’s my Captain, Shining Armor. He uses an M1 Carbine and Thompson M1A1. We’ve developed a great bond together. Me and him have exchanged some of our secrets. Although I have to admit, him failing almost every test he took in school was pretty funny.
Then there’s obviously Boltaction, who’s developed a crush for our shotgunner, Rainbow Dash. The two both like using the Winchester 1897, and they like looking for trouble, heck, if there wasn’t a war on right now, they’d probably be off trying to start one.
Next is our two medics, Rarity and Fluttershy. Rarity apparently owned the boutique mom got dresses from and also uses a Springfield M1903. Fluttershy took care of injured animals, and also doesn’t like using her weapon, the M1 Carbine. Not sure how any of Rarity’s talents translate to medical, but I hear she’s got a good record.
Next up is two Dragons, Ember and Scorch. These two are Heavy Machine Gunners, both using the BAR M1919. Ember also uses a M1 Flamethrower , and Scorch uses a M1 Rifle with Rifle Grenades.
Then there’s Flash Sentry. He was once a Crystal Guard, then he was transferred to the NEA. He uses the standard issue BAR. Me and him have gotten along a bit.
That’s all I have for now, I just wanted to tell you I was doing fine,
From, Spearhead.
Spearhead slipped the letter and a photo of himself into the envelope and closed it. He put the letter into a box where a Pegasus would fly it to Ponyville. He walked to the mess hall, where he said he was going to meet with Boltaction and Flash.
He opened the door to the mess hall and walked towards Boltaction and Flash. Boltaction immediately turned his head towards Spearhead. “Hey, Spear,” Boltaction said.
“Hey Bolt, hey Flash,” he greeted getting a seat. He looked at Boltaction, who was setting up a board game.
“Up for a game of War?” Flash asked.
“Sure.”
The three sat down and started playing. “Alright,” Boltaction said, “the rules are very simple, each player will start in their respective base. Then they pick a team Ponies, Changelings, Hippogriffs, Dragons, Yaks, or Griffons. Then each player rolls a dice. The number you get is the amount of spaces you move. If you come into contact with another player, a battle begins. The player who gets attacked flips the Battle Coin. which says Fight or Flee. If you flee, you head back to base, if you fight, both players roll the dice, biggest number wins. If you attack a base same rules with Battling, biggest number wins. You win by A: eliminating all opponents, or B: Taking over all bases. Got it? Good.”
The three started playing. Spearhead reached over for the changeling team, Boltaction went for hippogriffs, and Flash got ponies. Boltaction started. He rolled the dice and landed 3. Then Flash went, landing a 6. Then Spearhead landed 4. The game continued until Flash had 3 ponies left. Spearhead had 2 changelings left, and Boltaction had 1 hippogriff left. Spearhead rolled the dice when alarms started going off.
“What’s going on?” Spearhead asked.
Rarity appeared from around the corner. “You three, Captain needs you!”
“Alright,” Flash replied.
The three ran towards the control bay, where Shining Armor had been waiting.
“Captain!” Spearhead said.
“I’ve been expecting you three,” Shining said, “come here.” The three ponies walked towards him. Shining showed them a radar. “You see these blimps? The big green one is our ship. The small red ones are griffons.” The radar was beeping every meter the griffons moved.
“Sir, what do we do?” Spearhead asked.
“Go get your weapons, and defend our boat.”
“Alright, come on!” The group ran down the hallway and into their quarters. Spearhead grabbed his rifle and the hammer-action revolver he took from home. He slid it into his holster and left. He ran out to the deck.
“They’re boarding!” Somepony yelled.
Spearhead whipped around and ran towards the griffon boarding party. Metal hooks latched onto the railings, allowing griffons to climb up. Spearhead threw two the hooks off, causing the griffons to fall into the water. He turned around and shot a griffon of the side of the ship. A griffon rushed his left flank. He turned to shoot, but the griffon knocked the gun away from him. The griffon dug his claws into Spearheads chest. “Help! Anypony!” The griffons claw went deeper, almost piercing threw the flesh. A shotgun blast hit the griffon in the back. Standing behind him was Rainbow Dash.
“You okay?” She asked
“Yeah, thanks Rainbow.” He replied getting up. The two ran to the front of the ship to help Boltaction. He grabbed his rifle and turned the corner to help his friends... when he saw a dead pony laying on the ground. “Sh*t.” He searched the body for anything. He found bullets, grenades, a flamethrower, and a fuel tank.
“That was Fireshot...” Rainbow said, “he was a flame unit.”
The two walked away from the dead pony and ran to the front of the ship. Boltaction and Flash were fighting back-to-back, shooting as many griffons as they could. Spearhead shot two of the griffons with his rifle, then turned and emptied it on a griffon coming up from behind them, the empty clip flying out with a satisfying Ping!
Rainbow shot one griffon with her shotgun, then used her standard issue M1911 Pistol to take out two more griffons.
Spearhead used the flamethrower to burn three more griffons, the heat from the flames were unbearable. How could any creature deal with this? He stopped shooting it and checked the area.
“Are we clear?” Bolt asked.
“Yeah, we’re clear,” Spearhead said with a sigh of relief. He checked the motion tracker on the flamethrower. It showed the position of the griffons and the position of ponies. “Captain and the rest of our crew’s in the Mess Hall.”
The group ran to the Mess Hall and found the griffons trying to get in. Spearhead lit up the flamethrower and pointed it at the griffon. One of the griffons turned around and saw him, but didn’t have his gun. Spearhead used this time to say a terrible one-liner.
“Guess you’ll need a firemacy.” He lit the griffon up, causing them to stumble around yelling. The group knocked on the door. “It’s us.” Spearhead said.
While waiting, Boltaction walked over to Spearhead. “That was a terrible line. Those books you read have a lot to answer for.”
“Yeah I know I still hate myself.” By this time the door opened and the Ponies let the group in. They went to the Captain. “Captain!”
“Great to see you three made it through,” Shining said.
“We can’t hold out much longer!” Rarity said. Rainbow Dash cocked her shotgun. Spearhead check his motion tracker. There was a big signal surrounding the boat. The squad ran out to the deck of the boat and looked over the sides. They looked at the boats that were surrounding them. The motion tracker showed another circle coming from behind the griffons.
“Fuck me,” Boltaction said, “they got reinforcements coming?”
“It appears so,” Shining said. The new boats appeared in sight. A transmission came on over the radio.
“This is Captain Seaspray of the 14th Tidal Wave Battalion.”
Shining replied with “This is Captain Armor of the 13th Equestrian Battalion, great to see you, Captain.”
“Don’t worry, we’ll take care of the griffons.” A lot of gun shots rang as they heard the sounds of yelling. “You’re clear, give us authorization to board,” Seaspray said.
“Alright, hop on.”
More metal hooks latched on the sides, allowing hippogriffs to climb over the the railing. A purple hippogriff came over to talk with Shining. Another hippogriff followed behind him. “I’m guessing you’re Captain Armor?”
“Yes sir, Captain Seaspray.”
The two shook hooves/talons. Shining looked at the other hippogriff. “Who is she?”
The hippogriff looked up. “I’m Lieutenant Silverstream,” she said picking up her gun. A griffon appeared from behind her. Shining pointed his gun at the griffon. “No no no no no! Don’t shoot him! He’s a defector!” Silverstream said pointing Shinings gun away from the griffon. “This is Private Gallus,” she said. Gallus didn’t say anything thing. He gripped his gun, staring at Spearhead. The group just stared for awhile.
“So, what now?” Spearhead asked.
“Now, we land on the beaches,” Shining said. Spearhead looked over the side of the ship. He looked at the beaches. He was ready for this, at least, he hoped.
Not sure why the griffons tried landing on our ship, but whatever they wanted to do, they wouldn’t be able to do it.