Noise complaints... He was kicked out because of noise complaints. With everything he had been through in his life, he knew part of that was mostly bullshit. Sure he tinkered around a bit whenever he could with a motorcycle, but he never did it excessively.
And now here he was, running away from some sort of devilish figure that had sent horses chasing after him. It almost felt like the Great War again! Minus the constant artillery barrage and endless corpses or snow capped mountain peaks (when he was in Italy).
He wasn't alone, he had the ever loyal Bayerlein and Gause with him, running along through the hallways and dodging threats like it was North Africa all over again. Von Rundstedt was too old and frankly too tired and annoyed to even run so he opted to stay with the allied officers to go talk with whatever hellish deity was after them and find out why the hell the Desert Fox was being chased.
It seemed like they were running for hours but the endless hallways and corridors did not seem to help stem the feeling of an infinite amount of directions to go with no escape near in sight. That was, until they rushed into the middle of a beautiful courtyard. For a moment, all sense of urgency seemed to had left the 3 officers.
They stood there, their mouths nearly wide open as they took in the beauty of their surroundings. It was something truly marvelous when the beautifully carved stone and murals surrounding a large and fountain that had so many carvings within in it that it had become an eyesore the longer one stared at it.
"I am surprised Herr Feldmarshall..." Bayerlein said, earning the attention of Rommel.
"Why is that Bayerlein?" He asked, quite curious as to what the Bavarian had to say.
"Well, Lucie told us that you were never into such hings. She even showed me one of your letters of when you had gone to watch some ballet." He stated, earning a stern look from Rommel.
"What else did my darling wife have to say on the subject?" Rommel pressed, eager to know what his wife had told others while he was awaiting her own arrival up above. But before that, Gause cut in between the two.
"As much as I would like to hear some old stories... can we at least go find some water to drink? I am personally thirsty and I do not want another Afrika experience." He stated, shuddering to the thought of the days with little to no water during the North Africa Campaign.
"Well, there is a fountain right here. I don't think anyone is going to make a fuss out of us drinking out of it for the sake of not dying of dehydration." Rommel said. With that, the other two German officers nodded and they walked over to take a drink of water from the fountain.
When they got up close, Rommel was amazed to see that the water was not only clear, but also sparkling somewhat. He probably would've definitely questioned it if it were back on Earth but given their current circumstances, he opted to put the thought in the back of his mind as he cupped his hands and began to drink the water.
The water clearly was untainted as no sort of foul taste or grainy feeling was present so the 3 old generals had decided to take quite a large amount of handfuls of the water. All 3 of them having served in Africa never really took it for granted as they understood how scarce water could be in the worst situations so it was a while before they did eventually stop drinking the water.
What did actually cause them to stop was the sound of horseshoes clopping from a nearby hallway towards the courtyard that they were in and as if immediately regaining the sense that they were in the field again, they got up and hid behind one of the massive arrays of bushes to evade detection.
"Do you see who is there?" Bayerlein whispered to Gause who was trying to get a good look.
"Ja, it looks like another one of those horses in armor." Gause answered.
"What is he doing?" Rommel asked.
"It is hard to tell... his face certainly looks anxious though." Gause observed, discreetly pointing towards the pony's face. Indeed, it did look like the pony was anxious as he was nearly sweating as he searched the courtyard.
"Shhh.... look, he is moving towards the fountain." Gause said.
"Why would be move there? There are many other places he could search." Rommel inquired, clearly puzzled to this pony's actions.
"Wait a minute... what... what is he doing now?" Gause asked as he watched the anxious guard get up on top of the fountain after looking around to see if anyone was watching him.
"Mein gott... is he actually about to..." Bayerlein began before he lost the words to continue as the pony continued his routine...
"I... I actually think I am going to be sick." Rommel said, disgusted by the sight and the thought that they just drank water that somepony could've pissed in. Before the feeling of throwing up overcame him, Gause had already begun belching in another bush behind them.
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"God fucking dammit Luna, for the last fucking time.... Chuck did this shit!" Patton yelled, clearly annoyed that the present conversation he was having was getting no where.
"Then who is this Erwin Rommel and why is his junk in the throne room? How do you explain that?" Luna asked. Patton probably would've pulled out one of his revolvers and shot Luna if it hadn't been for Eisenhower placing his hand over Patton's gun holster.
"Princess Luna... for the last time, we have already explained this. Chuck had came in and brought the 4 Germans with him and then teleported out along with teleporting all of this shit here. I have explained this for far too god damn long. Do you understand?" Eisenhower stated, nearly annoyed as Patton.
"Then why do I only see 1 German officer here?" Luna inquired. Deep inside, Eisenhower almost died inside with the amount of stupidity that the seemingly intelligent Princess was showing presently.
"Simple, we told him to run after you nearly blew our eardrums out. The other two followed him considering they used to be his subordinates." Bradley simply stated, his face calm and collected.
"So you mean to tell me that this was all a mistake?" Luna asked.
"YES." The 5 generals said in unison.
"Oh dear..." Was Luna's only reply.
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"I'm done... I have gone through numerous wars and battles but never have I been so disgusted in my entire life." Rommel said as the 3 Germans made their way through another hallway within the massive castle.
"You can say that again." Gause said as he was struggling to get the taste of bile out of his mouth.
"I think we have all seen worse." Bayerlein said.
"I have never drank water that has been pissed in by some sentient rainbow colored horse in shining armor and I do not intend to do so ever again Bayerlein." Gause said with a hint of disgust still within his voice.
"That, I must agree with." Bayerlein admitted.
"Shhh... be quiet you two. I think I hear something." Rommel ordered. Immediately, both of them had shut up as they tried to listen to whatever their superior was hearing.
Indeed, they did hear something as at first, it sounded like a faint thumping noise but it turned into the sound of horseshoes marching along the marble floors.
"Shit... we need to move, now." Rommel said, looking around the hallway for any doors.
"Herr Feldmarshall, over here!" Gause quietly called out as he had his hand on a door handle for a rather large looking door on the side of the hallway.
"Is there anyone in there?" Bayerlein asked.
"Better to deal with it in there than in here!" Gause anxiously replied.
With little to no time to reply with that comment, Rommel and Bayerlein followed Gause's lead and entered the dark room, shutting the doors behind them as quietly as possible.
The room was rather dark so nothing could be seen only for a few feet so the 3 Germans decided to keep close together in order to not be lost within the vast space of the room. In their focus of trying not lose each other within the darkness, they did not notice that they were being watched by whatever occupied the room.
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"Pardon me but how do you know that they have gone this way?" Montgomery asked, clearly curious as to where they were going.
"A guard discovered a rather large amount of bile hidden behind a few bushes within the eastern courtyard. Most likely, it came from one of the 3 generals you have mentioned." Luna replied, her stupidity and bullheadedness from earlier seemingly gone after her realization of her mistake.
"That actually makes sense to be honest. All three of them served in Afrika and I do know that they had gotten illnesses from there so it would not surprise me if their stomachs are not exactly as strong as they used to be." Rundstedt chirped in.
"Jaundice... a disease I never wish to encounter again." Montgomery said, disgusted by the thought of it all.
"Well... lets just find those 3 before any other stupid shit happens." Patton dryly added in, clearly wishing to go to sleep after dealing with the night's nonsense.
Almost as if on cue, a large explosion rocked the hallway and nearly everyone ducked behind cover for debris that never came. Recomposing themselves, they made their way through the hallway to find a large door blown open with 3 German generals piled up on it (still smoking mind you), and a very shocked looking Celestia standing before them, her hoof over her mouth signalling that she was shocked at what happened.