Survival of The Free World

by BiasedAmerican


The Wedding Incursion

With the secrecy of Humanity still being kept, Celestia decided to prove that Humanity is ready in being in this world. So she requested that Humanity would attend or at least provide some security to the event. Reagan accepted the request by sending a few soldiers. No one besides the higherups knew of Humanity's existence, but with only a limited force being present and a bigger event happening, no one would usually focus on the Human soldiers too often because there is a wedding going on. Celestia also informed Reagan that Canterlot received a message making the sender a threat, possibly aiming to cause disruption the wedding.

A week before, a German and Spanish scouts have found a hidden hole under Canterlot and explored the cave. It seemed to be crystalized and reported it to command. With it being under Canterlot, it was considered a strategic position in case any military operations were needed near the area. They set up a research base to learn about the cave itself.

One of the infantrymen struck up a conversation with another soldier in his squad, "So, who do you think is getting married?" he said. The other soldier didn't know much, but just a few details. "A captain from the Royal guard and a princess from somewhere." he replied. "Huh, and we're supposed to be guarding an event we don't know much about?" He scoffed. The attendees were still preparing and rehearsing the wedding while the US Soldiers watched in the corners as only a few people cared to look at them. They thought that they were just a weird color scheme armor on a mannequin, although it is strange for them since no one could fit the clothing. But they did not know that those were filled with creatures they have never seen before. The Soldiers also thought of this too, so they tried their best not to move.

During Rehearsal they noticed a Purple pony who they were informed was the diplomat Twilight Sparkle. She was the diplomat between Equestria and the United States, barged into the rehearsal to yell at Princess Cadence. "You are not Cadence! You zapped Shining Armor with a green ray! You did something to Cadence and I know your planning to do something evil with Shining Armor!" She yelled while making the bride walk backwards into a corner. She started to cry and screamed, "Why are you doing this?! This was supposed to be my special day!" She ran out of the room while crying. The people in the rehearsal looked at Twilight with a disappointed face and a shocked face. What seemed to be the groom walked up to her saying, "That 'green ray' was a spell to calm my headaches for keeping the only shield protecting Canterlot up! Now if you'll excuse me, I have a run away bride to catch. And forget being my best mane." He paced out of the room to chase after the Bride. Celestia walked up to Twilight and said in a disappointed tone, "You have a lot of re-thinking to do.", she then walked out of the building. After everyone left because of the interruption, Twilight walked up to one of the Soldiers, crying, she asked. "What have I done?" The Soldiers looked around the room to see if anyone was still there and he told Twilight to try and calm her down. "We'll keep an eye out if she isn't the bride, but for now. You need to stay clear and say sorry to the bride to see if she is the bride or not." She nodded and decided to go find and apologize to her.

The Human squad leader ordered his squad to go follow and watch over Twilight as she ran. A few minutes later, they were scattered around the building that they thought Twilight was entering. But they didn't know that Twilight went another way and headed to another building, so they were looking in the wrong direction.

Twilight ran up to Cadence to apologize, "Cadence! I'm so sorry for what happened, I was being too overprotective over my brother! I hope you can forgive me after for what I've done..." Cadence laughed maniacally and walked over to a confused Twilight Sparkle. "So you think O was actually Cadence, do you? Hah, I'm using Shining Armor just to control his shield!" What was probably Cadence, answered. "So you're not Princess Cadence?" Twilight asked with a shocked face. "Haha, no! I'm Queen Chrysalis! Leader of the Changelings, and I'm feeding off your brother's love for Cadence!" She laughed out loud. She then made a green orb trap Twilight in and began going down through the floor.

The Human infantry began trying to find Twilight and Cadence because they both were missing. Cadence arrived to the actual wedding with no sign of Twilight. The person in command of the Squad reported Twilight going missing and the message was relayed to HQ. High Command was in high alert on what was happening and were too also confused on why or how Twilight went missing and still no sight. The infantry guarding the wedding were put on high alert.

Meanwhile in the caves...

"Come on Cadance! We can get out of here! Just a few more steps!" Twilight yelled. As they ran, they started to see other figures of ponies, and they soon found out that they were possessed by the Bug Queen. "You three.." Cadence muttered. The three spoke in synchronous, "You will not escape, you will-" they were cut off. Twilight saw the research team's Guards knock out the three with the backs of their M16's. "WHO ARE YOU?!" Cadence yelled, surprised that she never knew what these creatures were. Twilight explained to her, "These are humans, Celestia and Luna tried keeping them a secret. They made themselves public before by showing themselves at the Gala before, but their leader decided to keep them a secret, so we erased a lot of ponies minds of the event to keep them a secret. They're our allies." Cadence was still shocked that these creatures were kept a secret. "Ms. Twilight, we heard of your disappearance and we have a transport ready for you in case we found you. Follow me." A soldier spoke out to Twilight.

Twilight and Cadence were escorted through the research Facility, they were surprised that they knew a lot on what and how the Cave was formed. "Are you sure we can trust them?" Cadence asked Twilight as they walked. They finally reached outside of the cave and got into a Humvee, they were put in the back because the soldiers didn't know how they would sit or at least fit. Some soldiers were also put in the back to safeguard them.

(Research base in the Caves)

As the bride and groom were about to be officially married, a purple pony bursts through the door and yelled, "That's not Cadence! It's a fake!" As the Soldiers were confused, everyone else who were attending the wedding knew that she was just being overprotective and payed no mind except the fact that she was ruining the wedding. Then an exact copy of Princess Cadence entered the room and confirmed the fact that the one near the Royal Guard's Captain was indeed a copy. "Someone stop her! This was supposed to be my day, but I was put into a crystal mine!" Everyone gasped because they were all fooled by the fake. "How did you escape the crystal mines?!" Chrysalis yelled. Twilight knew that Humanity's secret couldn't be exposed, so she said. "I've been through worse." She replied. Cadence was confused why she didn't tell everyone about the humans, and she then remembered that it was per Humanity's request to keep them a secret.

Chrysalis stunned everyone with them being completely fooled, and with Shining Armor under her control, her ego was expanded. She then walked in confidently to the building doors and laughed maniacally while also scoffing at whoever told her that she couldn't possibly get away with this. She then mentioned that her army is outside of Canterlot's shields with them just about to break in. "Ha, Canterlot will fall with me, Queen Chrysalis ruling all of Equestri-" she felt a sharp pain at the back of her head. While her head was falling downwards, she noticed that the suits of green armor were missing from the corners, she noticed that they were looking down at her with weird iron spears pointed at her. She was confused that suit of armors with no creature being able to fit in them were moving smoothly and independently as if they weren't armor at all. One of them yelled at her dizzy head, "STAY THE FUCK DOWN OR WE'LL BREAK YOUR LEG!" She couldn't think straight so she didn't hear much. She tried getting up and felt a loud crack and a sharp pain in her hoof. The soldier broke her leg with the back of his M16. She let out a sharp scream. Celestia's face was in complete and utter shock because she hasn't seen this amount of torture for such a little action. She kept her cool and began to speak, "My subjects, we are under attack. Remain calm, these soldiers may seem weird but they are here to help protect us." She said, trying to gather as much strength to speak or even stand up at the sight of a broken hoof with the bone sticking out and a lot of blood coming out. She gulped because she is disgusted from the sight.

Celestia overheard one of the soldiers,"Possible enemy troops outside of the shield. We need confirmation." She began to have a crippling wave of fear.

A few minutes earlier...

A certain Leopard 1A5 tank squadron were noticing a large amounts of thermal readings around the shield protecting Canterlot. The squadron commander yelled on the intercom, "Gunther! Alert Command! We have possible hostiles surrounding the city!" Gunther then relayed his message back to HQ on the intercoms.

Present...

Command replied on the radio, "Hostiles confirmed. Prepare for combat, weapons free. Description of the hostiles, black-ish grey with blue elements around their bodies." The Corporal was given his orders to relay the message to his Squad leader, he nodded to his squad lead. The Sergeant knew what it meant so he cocked his rifle and ordered his men to get ready for combat. The Corporal told the squad of the description of the hostiles to prepare for them. The Sergeant walked up to Celestia and asked her about what creatures were that the men were described about. She replied, "Changelings, they have the power to change into anypony." The Sergeant wondered if it could do the same thing to humans. But when he turned around, he noticed an entirely spooked and horrified crowd looking at him and his men, wondering what they were. "What are these things?!" one shouted, "I've never seen them before!" another shouted.

Twilight then ran up to her group of friends and during her explaining things, "Okay guys, don't panic. These guys are with us." "Well, their fashion choice isn't that special, or fashionable!" Rarity stated. "Well, they aren't really for fashion, Rarity. They use it as camouflage, and we've met them before." Twilight Responded. "What do you mean we've met them before?! If I did, then I'm darn sure I would've remembered them!" AppleJack yelled. "Well...." Twilight said awkwardly, "Well what dear?" Rarity said. "We kinda.... uhm..... erased your memories of them when we met them at the Gala!" Twilight said in a quick voice. "How could you? We're your friends!" Rainbow-Dash said. "It was their request and since we don't know what they could do, we listened to them. They wanted to keep themselves a secret." Twilight answered. "Why in the world would they want to keep themselves a secre-" Rarity interrupted herself after realizing the fact that they might be "ALIENS!" Pinkie Pie yelled. Pinkie Pie rose up and noticed something. She pointed out one of the Soldiers and yelled, "Hey I know you!" Twilight sighed and told her, "Pinkie, don't disturb them. They're going to protect us." Pinkie Pie didn't listen and AppleJack then replied with, "Protect us? Look at what they did! They broke Chryslis's hoof!" Twilight explained how she was leading an invasion of Canterlot and it was somewhat justified "Look, they did help us in stopping her, did they not?" Fluttershy acknowledged and said to Twilight, "Well yes. But-" She was cut off by Princess Luna. "Neither you or my sister knows what they are here for after they lost their world. For now, I think they're here to help us. I'm starting to feel that my sister is starting to feel sympathetic over them. They might use her to their advantage but I think she knows what she's doing." After that she then tried to tend to her confused brother with the help of Princess Cadence.

Pinkie Pie ran up to the Soldier she pointed out and yelled, "Hey I remember you! You were at the sugar corner!" That soldier she pointed out to was the one and only, Captain Rogers. Captain Rogers was part of Delta Force and was the person responsible of retrieving Pinkie Pie to interrogate her with Dr. Schmidt. But with Pinkie Pie's memory being erased, he was confused on how she could possibly remember him. But sadly, they forgot to get rid of that memory and people kept telling her that she just had a nightmare during that night. "Oh shit, not you again!" He yelled while running away. "Ummm.... the hell was that all about?" Roger's squadmates said to each other after he ran away to stay away from Pinkie Pie.

The Corporal’s radio suddenly exploded to life with the German accented voice of the Tank Squadron leader. "Scheisse! They broke through the shield! Units within Canterlot, prepare for an attack!" Luna overheard and looked towards Celestia. They both nodded to each other, Luna ran to one of the Generals to alert the Equestrian Royal Guard.

The Infantry squads decide to go next to the walls and hide to ambush the Changelings when they break into the wedding room. 2 Medics decide to patch up Chrysalis to stop the bleeding, "You two, patch duct tape to shut her up." A sergeant told the Medics. "HMFMFMMHFHH!" said Chrysalis while getting her mouth taped. Several soldiers start to use whatever is in the room as cover to hide themselves, as they do. They make space to aim their weapons to possible entry points, and every entry point that can either be broken or opened are now secretly aimed by Rifles and Machine guns. In the back round, the Sergeant was telling his squads where to position themselves and where to aim. "You there, get your men towards that corner and watch this column of windows. Lieutenant Backer, I need you to bring your squad over there," He pointed to a area covered in props, "And watch the main door."

A few seconds later, the squads were in position and the Sergeant yelled on the Radio, "Radio silence until my command. We'll strike these bastards and tear a new asshole in their attack once they breach. Once the first shot fires, you all would continue firing. Keep your trigger fingers at bay, we need to conserve our ammunition." His radio awakened with several soldiers saying, "Yes sir." or "In Position, Sarge."

"You good there, Micheal?" A soldier from the squad said to the MG Gunner, "Yeah, just waiting for them to burst through the window. You think these guys have more modern weaponry?" He asked in a German accent, "I don't know.... but stay frosty." John replied. Another soldier overheard them and muttered to himself, "Of course, let the German handle the Machine gun."

(The Sergeant and a rifleman aiming their weapons.)

Chrysalis, and the Princess's are hidden behind the soldiers, and Celestia overhears them talking about when they are supposed to hide and aid their weapons. She muttered to herself, "Why are they aiming their spears from a distance? Do they know how to use their own weapons?!" She gets a wave of fear from the fact that these creatures might now know how their own weapons work. After a while, she hears nothing but silence from the soldiers and a few seconds later, she hears a sound of a window breaking. After that, multiple similar sounds were heard and screams from the attendees that weren't hidden but put into cover. Because all they know is that weird creatures have kidnapped the VIP's and ran away. "Where are they?" Twilight asked herself.

The Changelings were charging through the main door and breaking through the windows. The first few that broke through were in a stalemate because the Mane 6 were in a defense stance and didn't expect those weird creatures weren't here to save them anymore. "I bet that I'll go after them creatures for taking our Princess without any consequence!" AppleJack yelled. Meanwhile in the hiding spot, Celestia began to feel pride because her subjects truly cared about her. "They're surrounded! Aren't you going to do anything?!" Luna asked the Sergeant. The Sergeant didn't respond and stayed focus on when to strike. "You expect us to stay here and do nothin-" She was cut off by Celestia whispering to her, "They're staying focused, if they don't do anything... then we'll handle it ourselves, my dear sister."

The Sergeant silently signaled to ask the other squads if they're ready. Luna and Cadence gave a confused face behind them and were wondering what they were doing. "Sister, any idea on what they're doing?" Luna asked to Celestia. Celestia retorted with, "I don't know, but they are preparing for something." Everyone had their weapons aimed and ready, so the Sergeant moved down one finger down by another on one hand. The finger reached to zero, and a soldier motioned his hand signaling to keep the VIP's heads down. The Sergeant tapped the shoulder of one soldier and he fired.

Everyone heard a loud bang and everyone stopped after hearing the loud bang. A Changeling dropped to the floor with a hole on both sides of his head with blood spurring out. Everyone was panic-stricken and the Mane 6 backed away from their defense circle. "W-what happened?" Rainbow-Dash asked. "T-twilight? Is this some sort of spell?!" AppleJack asked. "I-I I didn't do this! He's dead!" Twilight yelled. They then heard a yell, "OPEN FIRE!" Other loud bangs of various sounds. Everyone was shrieking in fear with chaos going around the entire room. "EVERYONE RUN!" Rainbow-Dash yelled.

(Infantry gunner firing at the Changlings flooding through the main doors)

"What is this magic they're using?! They can emit fire from their iron rods!" Luna yelled at Celestia. "Sister?" Luna asked, but Celestia wouldn't respond because she was in awestruck in the amount of destruction they were causing against their foe. One by one fell in the dozens as the Changelings tried to run away. "Sarge! They're running away, should we pursue?" A soldier asked the Sergeant. "Princess Celestia, where is your royal guard?" He wouldn't get a response because she was still shocked, "Princess Luna, where is your Royal guard?" "They-they're occupied with holding back the changelings." Luna responded. "Well, that makes things harder....." He looked at his Corporal, "Corporal, get HQ on the line, we need air support and reinforcements. And all squads, you're clear to get back up. It's clear." He said to his men.

They all got up and stretched, while also checking their weapons to reload their ammunition. As the few remaining Changelings that raided the wedding building were fleeing, the Soldiers opened fire upon them, killing them all in an instant. But inside the building, everyone was shell shocked from the firefight that they never expected. The Sergeant walked up to the Bug Queen and asked, "So you have 2 seconds to answer our questions or you'll have the same treatment as your friends, understood?" He said in a smug voice. Chrysalis nodded. "You, take off the tape, we're giving her to the Diplomat." said the Sergeant ordering a medic. The medic dragged Chrysalis to Twilight, "Ms. Sparkle, are you willing to use their Queen to call off the attack?" Twilight nodded, the Medic left to regroup with his Squad.

"What happened?!" Pinkie Pie asked, "I don't know... but I thought they left." Twilight responded. "They're monsters! They killed them all! They didn't even give them a chance to talk!" Rarity yelled. Twilight gulped and said, "They said they were in a war making them flee to us..... but I never thought their wars would be fought like this..." Twilight said in a sad tone. Twilight gathered enough strength to speak, "But nonetheless they helped us keep everyone safe from those bugs. We need to use Chrysalis as a bargaining tool, I know its not right, but it must be done to protect Canterlot." The others nodded and Twilight lifted Chrysalis with magic. As they walked through the dead bodies of her fallen troops, Chrysalis spoke while bursting tears, "How could they do such a thing?! We didn't do anything this harmful to them... Where did they come from anyways? This can't be! There wasn't any magic from them, they don't even show a bit of mercy!" she yelled while crying. As they walked out of the building, the convoy that dropped off Cadence and Twilight were still outside and were firing at the incoming Changelings. "Move it! We have to get to clear ground to start announcing for them to call off the attack or we'll handle it ourselves!" The commanding officer of the convoy yelled. The Mane 6 rushed to the back of the humvee with Chrysalis injured with them too.

The C.O. of the convoy banged on the top of his humvee as he got in. Every soldier's radio blared, "We have to get our guests to the LZ to call off the attack. Watch out for friendly ground units and native infantry on the way, I'll be headed to Fort Providence to lead our reinforcements. Godspeed." After this announcement, his humvee began going another direction, breaking off of the convoy. Another transmission came from the Radio, "All units, be advised. Friendly armored and infantry units are in Canterlot. Watch your fire." HQ commanded. AppleJack faced towards one of the Soldiers, "What is Fort Providence?" She asked. The Soldier told her while still aiming his M16 and firing, "It's our Forward Operation Base, or a Base of Operations." He said while still gunning down Changelings. The ponies were trying to grab onto something because they weren't used to being on a engine based vehicle before.

Meanwhile at the LZ...

"On your right!", "SHIT THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!" two soldiers were yelling to each other while picking their targets and shooting their weapons.
"Get that Heli out of here! It's going to be overrun!" the Captain yelled. "Sir! Look! The convoy arrived!" A soldier yelled. "Then make space for them! Move it Marines!" The Captain ordered.