"If ya knew what's best for ya, you'd leave this here country! You understand!" Applejack yelled at a zebra warlord as she pinned him to the ground, knife drawn. "We can't! The griffons have taken over our country and are forcing us to fight!" he whimpered. "Likely story!" she yelled at him as she plunged the knife into his mouth and out the back of his head. "Holy shit AJ! Maybe you went a little far on that one." I said walking into the warlord's tent. Then the camp siren went off and the zebras were running out of their tents. Most of them were unarmed, but a few had AK-47s and Makarov PM pistols. We started firing at them in no particular order. All of them were all charging us, armed or not. We dropped about thirty of them before retreating the warlord's tent and running to the LZ, where one of the new Blackhawks would pick us up. We made a dash to the LZ to find a horde of zebras waiting for us. We were surrounded by enemies we started shooting them, but there were too many of them! We started getting hit. I was the first, getting shot in the chest with a Makarov. My vest stopped it, but it knocked me on my ass. Then Twilight got hit with a burst of fire for an Ak-47. Then the chopper flew overhead and tore the hostiles apart with the miniguns as AJ and Rainbow Dash hit the ground. One of the zebras fired a burst from his PKM before losing his head in a shower of bullets. That burst hit my stomach, tearing three decent sized holes in my vest, ripping my abdominal area. Blood was spilling all over the ground where I was. I was fading from consciousness when Applejack and Rainbow Dash picked me up and Twilight limped to the helicopter. We took off, then the worst possible thing happened, we were hit with an RPG. The pilot held control of the chopper long enough to send a mayday message to the base. We then impacted in one of the pits of barbed wire. The fort replied they were sending a relief battalion to our position.
Gatling's POV
We hit the ground, hard. I felt my rear right leg snap from the force of the impact. I felt no pain in my leg, however. I assumed it was because of adrenaline. I squeezed the trigger on the minigun to find it still functioned. I looked back to see two of the members of the commander's squad hand me a pair of FLIR goggles. I had night vision, but a dust storm was incoming, so I tossed the night vision goggles aside and attached the infrared goggles to my helmet. "They're comin'." the yellow mare said shouldering a SAW.
"I see them, twelve hundred meters and closing fast said the cyan mare as she took aim with her M14. She fired three shots and I saw as two of them dropped down to the ground.
"Hold your fire," I told them, "I'll take care of them at the longer distances, you shoot em' in close."
"Alright. I'll watch our backs, just in case they try and flank us." said the cyan one as she turned around and went to check on Lance.
"Got a group of about twenty, dead ahead! Engaging!" I said as I flipped the power switch on the minigun. The gun let out a ferocious roar as I started firing at the incoming hostiles. I watched through the thermal goggles as body parts flew everywhere and blood sprayed over the hot area.
I then heard the minigun behind us come to life as I looked back at Lance, who was engaging targets that had gotten behind us. The two pilots were in the crew compartment with their MP5s, waiting to use them on anyone who got too close. There were two wounded with us, one was the commander, who was unconscious, and the other was a unicorn medic. She was trying to stop the commanders bleeding abdomen.
I turned back and looked at the zebras, who were crawling, hoping to avoid detection. I immediately started firing at them, killing most of them. My gun suddenly stopped firing. I looked at the feeding belt to see it was empty. "I'm empty!" I yelled at the yellow mare. "Here ya go! Yer' locked n' loaded!" she yelled at me, throwing me a G36C.
"Got any extra mags?" I asked.
"Here! I've got eight! Fire in bursts, we can't us all of it now!" she yelled at me while handing me a vest. I put on the vest, not having one of my own. I started firing at the zebras. I then noticed the rifle had an underslung 40mm grenade launcher. I moved my hand to the grenade launchers grip and pulled the trigger. The grenade exploded in the middle of a crowd of enemies, sending them flying in multiple directions. I continued firing precisely aiming each shot. I was down to three mags and the yellow mare had two belts remaining for the SAW.
"Rainbow! How ya'll doing over there?" she yelled to the other mare, whose name was Rainbow Dash.
"Crew chief's dead, I'm almost out of ammo!" she yelled back.
"How long until backup is here Applejack!?" the medic asked, "Frost won't last much longer in his condition!"
"Ah don't know Twi!" shouted Applejack.
"Does you radio work!?" asked the medic.
"Ah don't know! Take it and try!" Applejack screamed at me.
"I've got signal!" she yelled, "This is Twilight Sparkle, do you read me!?"
"Twilight, this is sentry 1-1! We are looking for you! Do you know where you are!?" Jaze yelled through the radio.
"Jaze, we crashed in the sector three barbed wire pit!" she yelled, "I'm hit, one of the crew chiefs are dead and Frost is in critical condition!"
"Roger we are inbound! ETA three minutes!" the voice said through the radio. Twilight tore off the radio and threw it aside.
"Applejack! Jaze will be here in three minutes!"
"He better be here! Ah've only got thirty rounds left in my handgun!" Applejack said.
"I'm dry!" I yelled.
"Here you go! Don't lose it!" Twilight said as she handed me the commander's Desert Eagle.
"I won't!" I said, chambering a round.
"Watching out, it kicks!" she warned me.
"Don't worry!" I said. I fired the gun, it kicked me in the face. "Ow! Fuck!" I yelled, rubbing my snout. I then started firing again, this time controlling the weapon while I shot the oncoming zebras.
The zebras were starting to get in the chopper. One tackled me, and I shot it off of me. Then watched as the rest of them were gunned down from behind. I looked over to see a pitch black unicorn followed by about twenty other ponies.
"Boy am I glad to see you!" I said to the unicorn, who appeared to be the leader.
"You hurt buddy?" he asked me.
"Yeah. My right hind leg is broken." I told him.
"Brink! Get over here with the stretchers!" the unicorn yelled. An orange earth pony walked up with four stretchers. They put Frost and me on them first then they put Twilight on one before picking us up and moving us back to the fort. "Thank you lieutenant." I said.
"You're welcome, and my name is Jaze, Midnight Jaze." he said.
Frost's POV
I woke up in the fort's hospital ward. "Ughh. Where am I?" I asked.
"You are in the hospital." a familiar voice said to me.
"Spitfire? Is that you?" I asked, looking at the mysterious figure.
"You know it is baby." she said.
"I've missed you I said, still not able to see more than her shadow. "how did you get here?" I asked.
One long explanation later...
"After that day, I requested a transfer here to be with the only pony I have left." she said, finishing her story.
I was shocked. All of her friend were killed? "I'm sorry Spitfire." I said.
"Don't be," she said, "that's just part of war."
I pulled her into a deep, loving kiss. "You think you can stay here tonight?" I asked.
"You know it." she said.
I didn't mean to rip off Black Hawk Down, it just happened. I named it after the movie because it seemed appropriate.[Also, new OC.../b]