“Here they come! Get ready, my soldiers!”
Swift Bolt exclaimed softly. The Reformisten were taking the bait. Several of them had spotted the flag planted on their side of the river and had sent a couple of their soldiers out to capture the banner. They had no idea there was an entire squad of the Vaideva’s finest right below them, waiting for them to take the bait.
“NOW!”
Instantly, a number of pegasi and knights flew up high and opened up with their tommy guns on the Reformisten positions. The soldiers who had left their position to grab the flag were riddled with bullets and point-blank range, and dropped instantly. Pretty Pond immediately began hurling magic bolts at their fortifications, destroying them methodically.
She then scrambled up the banks of the river, at one point asking for a lift from some of the pegasi, who happily obliged. After she was lifted to the top, she could see a firefight had erupted between the two sides, and that there was an entire platoon of Reformisten arrayed against them! Pond had no choice but to dive onto the earth immediately and empty her magazine in the direction of the enemy.
“Constant suppression! Knights, advance!”
Swift Bolt had to shout over it all for his command to be communicated effectively. The griffons in the unit hesitated at first, but they eventually stood up and began slowly and methodically moving forward. Pond was about to put up a magical barrier when the enchanted knightly armor of the griffs effectively did her job for her. The griffons were sprayed with bullets from several different angles, and nothing came of it besides so much sparks. It was honestly quite uplifting to see large, powerful griffons absorbing bullets on behalf of their equine comrades!
This morale boost quickly dissipated however, when one of the Reformisten officers raised an odd-looking weapon, and fired a bolt of what Pond could only know was pure magical energy at one of her knightly brothers, the blast piercing through the enchantment and felling the knight!
“NO! Pegasi! ATTACK!”
Upon Swift Bolt’s command, the pegasi warriors rose up from cover and sprayed the hillside with bullets! Pond raised her own submachine gun and dropped the officer who was wielding the sorcerous gun. Her anger had finally gotten the better of her, and she stood up out of cover and rushed forward. She was practically screaming praise to the Vaideva at the top of her lungs when she took a bullet to her stomach, and keeled over in pain. The last thing Pond’s vision started to go black, the last thing she saw being a couple pegasi standing over her.