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// The Crossroads 
// Story: Commando Artist 
// by PurpleArtist 
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On a bending road there's two Equestrian medium tanks with Purple Artist, Mythic Strike, Orchid Fire, Onyx Armor, and Hazelblossom. There's also five other commandos in Purple's squad.

They came to a barbed wire with tank traps blocking the road.  There two medium tanks engaged the heavy tank sitting at a t-intersection. Their medium tanks were blown up but the ten commandos went into somepony's backyard and into a house.

They went and secured the house but had a firefight with a house occupied by the enemy.  Purple threw a grenade-like a baseball but used his magic to pull the pin and he chucked it. 

Purple cleared out a room of enemies but he, and Mythic Strike went downstairs and ran across the street. They did a flash and clear where Mythic Strike bucked open the door and Purple threw a fragmentation grenade into a room. 

They cleared the house. They had four objectives of clearing out the mail office, the three houses around the crossroads, the crossroads and clear the town. 

At a house, the mail office was down the street so they followed Purple and stormed the place. The house-to-house fighting was intense but the commandos have superior training over there enemies.

Purple still can't believe that he's still killing his extended family members that he never met. They never met him doesn't help that two of his extended mares that "interrogated" him ended up pregnant with his foal and doesn't help that he doesn't know it.

Mythic Strike bucked open a door. Purple dived down the stairs hurting himself where when he before he did dive out of the way he seen a fireball incinerate Mythic Star like nothing. 

The purple unicorn looked down for a few seconds then looked back up on the room where the fireball came from. He also saw where Mythic Strike was. 

"Wasn't expecting that." said Purple "HEY WATCH THE DOORS TO SEE IF THERE BOOBY TRAPPED OR NOT!"

Purple Artist then held the two story mail office by himself and his commando friends and teammates went to clear the other three buildings at the Crossroads. 

Purple Artist then heard several loud bangs and he looked where the other three buildings needed to be captured were traps. 

While walking throughout the mail office Purple Artist found a note where the mission there on is a ambush and were told of that they would becoming since now Purple knows why there's a heavy tank. Recon earlier before the mission says there's no enemy armor and it's lightly defended.

That was a half a hour before the mission began of aerial photo-reconnaissance. That showed them the town was more like a ghost town no wagons, no tank and not enough enemy soldiers to fill up two companies worth.

Purple then did a ammo check. His M1A1 Thompson-styled SMG has thirty rounds left in the magazine and three in reserve making 120 rounds in total and with his .45 pistol has 7 rounds in the current magazine and another 7 magazines in reserve making 56 rounds in total. 

"I'm going to die here." said Purple Artist, "If I don't die then I got a lucky horseshoe up my plot. If this is my end I always imagine having my and my wife's adult foals and my grand foals surrounding me and telling them that I love them."

Some bad ponies came in which Purple used his magic and shot them. He was there for a while. He couldn't use the walkie talkie to radio for help which Mythic Strike had and that got destroyed in the fireball. 

Once his Submachine-gun was out of ammo he placed it onto the hardwood floor and switched to his pistol. In the distance there were gunshots far off and exploding artillery rounds.

By the time reinforcements got there, Purple Artist was completely out of ammo just down to his combat knife having blood on his face and dark olive green uniform not adding that his knife is all bloody.