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// Hill 30 
// Story: Bronies in Arms: Road to Hill 30 
// by BlazingAngel 
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Hill 30


Southwest of Carentan, France


D+7 1445 hours


 June 13



Baker-"My dad said something to me after the divorce. He said every soldier has two families. Those you raise, and those you raise hell with. I've spent eight days here. Eight days commanding a squad I wasn't ready to lead. Eight days watching my men, my family, kill and be killed. Eight days wishing it would stop."




Raindrops splashes on Baker face as he regain consciousness after he got hit by a mortar round. As far as he concerned, he`s lying in a ditch but doesn`t know where exactly.

He started slowly gaining momentum and began to get back on his hooves when he heard gunfire all around him. 

Then a stallion wearing a specs ran over to where Baker is and shouted, "Baker! Baker are you okay?"

Before Baker has time to answer, another stallion, Mac, who is Baker`s platoon leader, answered for Baker, "He`s fine. Just get him up!"

As soon as the stallion helped Baker up to his feet, someone yelled, "INCOMING!" and mortars rounds exploded all around them. 

Baker and the stallion with the specs dashes forward to avoid getting hit and took cover behind a raised up trench. 

Out in the field in front of them, are Germane Infantry shooting at them and taking covered behind hedgerows.

"Shit!" Mac cried out as he returned fire and yelled out at the stallion next to Baker, "I need you to call in some support now!"

The stallion nodded then set down hit SCR-563 radio on the ground and speak into the mouthpiece, "Fox six, can you hear me? Can you fucking hear me? Fox six this is Fox three. Answer me, dammit."

After hearing static, the stallion turned to Mac, " Sarge, I can`t get anyone!"

Mac cried back when he took cover, "Keep trying! We need armor now."

The stallion tried again by talking into the radio, "Hello? Hello? Shit! Is anyone there? I need armor support now. I mean right now!"

An explosion erupted behind them, sending most of them to the ground.

After Baker regained on his feet, he heard Mac yelling at his teammates, "Keep shooting. Keep shooting! No one breaks through. We're not gonna live long enough to run out of ammo so keep up the fire!" 

Down the trench, a stallion screamed as he took a hit in the chest and fell to the ground, his buddy next to him noticed and try to get him up, 

"York! York! Get up man. Get up."

"He`s dead! Keep firing!" another stallion yelled, ducking behind cover to reload.

The stallion with a specs went down the trench to help the stallion that got hit. He reaches him and began to cover up the wound with his hooves to keep the blood in.

"Come on man, don't die. Hang in there." said the stallion as his search around his musette bag for some bandages. 

Mac run over to where the stallion is, grabbed his shoulder and shouted at him, "Where is that goddamn armor! You should be radioing for help!" 

The stallion cried back, " He`s gonna die! He`s need help!"

Mac only shook his help and replied, "We`re all gonna die if you don`t get on that fucking radio!"

Then, an explosion happen, killing a couple of ponies next to the stallion with a spec.

"Ahhh! Dammit! Fucking kraut bastards!" he screamed, jumping up to fire his M-1 at the mass of advancing Germane soldiers. 

As soon as he said this, Mark IV Panzer tank appeared in front of them, firing but also spreading fear to those in the ditch. The chances for them for hold off this counterattack is very slim and they are in grave danger.

""Oh shit, they got tanks! We got to get the hell out of here!" said one of the paratroopers as soon as he saw the tanks and was beginning to retreat but was stop but Mac who said to him, "We're not falling back! Keep firing! Don't stop firing!"

One of the tank got in as close to them and stopped right in front of them about a couple feet away, it main gun raising to get a better shot at them.

Mac saw this and scream, " Get down, this is gonna be bad!" and dove to the ground.

Unfortunately, Baker did not hear the warning in time because as soon as he got up to fire, the tank fire first and it shell exploded dangerously too close to him, sending him backward to the ground.
Baker felt his whole body is on fire as he was peppered with shrapnel.  
As the smoke clear from the explosion, the next thing Baker saw as he look to his right is the stallion with the specs looking at him, his eyes filled with fury and hate. 

Thinking that Baker is killed by the tank, the stallion took out a Colt .45, jumped on top of the ditch face first toward the tank and began to fire at it, screaming, "You want me? Fucking take me. TAKE ME!"

He raised his arm high in the air as to offer himself as the target to the tank.

The tank didn`t hesitate. 

It fire in front of the stallion, sending him back to the ground next to Baker, but unlike Baker, the stallion is dead. His bloody face and his intestine spewing out from his stomach is enough for Baker to turn back to the gray sky.

"Baker!" Mac appeared on top of him, unconcerned that Baker has been hit.  

Darkness began to set in around Baker as Mac said it again one final time, "Baker?"

Then, everything went black out...